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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31
The most unfortunate fashion Of all is
that Of ignoring tradesmen's bills.
In olden Times

People overlooked the Importance OF,
permanently beneficial effects and were,
satisfied with transient action; but now
that it is generally known that Syrupo of
Figs will permanently cure habitual con-
stipation, w~ell-informed people will notbny
other laxatives, which act for q time, but
finally injure the system. NJ
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

Sunday night sacred concerts are not eff
cacious means to salvation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

How's Thisi 3
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls ratarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known =.
]. Cheney for the last is years, and be-
lteve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, and financially,
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm. I
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
~, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Testi-
monials sent free. Price. Csc per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills, CSC.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

THROAT TROUBLES. To allay the irrita-
tion that induces coughing use browns
BRONCHIAL T%RocHEs." A simple and safe
remedy.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31
se~hastapol was Not Impregnable,

For it was taken by assault, but q physique
built II, . constitution fortified by Hostel
ter's Stomach Ritters. may bid defiance to the
assaults Of malariops disease. even in localities
where it Is most prevalent and malignant.
Emigrants to the ague-breeding sections OF
the West should bear. this in mind, and start
with q supply. The Bitters promptly sub
plants nervousness, constipation and bilious
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

The slightest material these days makes
f~ashiOnable scandal of longest duration.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31
How,s Thisi

One thing money cannot buy, and every
body admires, is q sunshiny disposition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

IT the Baby 1s Cutting Teeth.
Be- sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, MRS
WnlsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children Teethine-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

Men with presidential bees in their hats
are a source of anxiety to their friends.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31


The Veronica plant 81 Great Britain
.ds~so4cslled becanseaits Mowers aresnp.s
posedgto bears picture simitar % that
which miracnlously appeared upon
Veronsca's handkerchief. Hooker'A
British Flora" says: ssObviously the
name Of the plant is derived from :
Latin word signifying sacred pic
ture' Those acquainted with the
plant say that the picture onsits fow-
ers is q striking iikenesstof our Savior.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

The increasing elegance of hotels has t.
be paid for by those who p%atronize them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

An air of secret sorrow is very becoming
to a girl as long as she has osecret sorrow.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

Many of the best social positions are filed
by underbred people.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-31

The worst examples in high life are set by
those who know better.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
NATURE AND ART.

Art is the expression of beauty, and
beauty enshrined in art, is the one i'm
perishable thing on earth. Before books,
pictures or statues were dreamed of,
before aesthetic laws were formulated,
mankind recognized the law of beauty.
Before science had fixed the rules gov
erning the heavenly bodies or defined
their orbits, bards taught alone of ma
ture, had sung of their grandeur and
beauty and had given them names of
poetic significance.
'Life is short, but art is long," None
can fix the date of the mound builders,
but still the mounds exist. None can
say who built the pyramids but they
stand today fixed and imperishable, the
wonder of the world. AS today this
old earth of ours is giving up it's Sc,
crets, secrets engraved on rocks long
buried beneath the mould of ages, OF
hidden in crypts, caves and mountain
Businesses, none can tell from whose
hands came these revelations of pre-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

mand for the machines which deprive
them of work gives employment to
others, and that they must seek their
livelihood in some other calling. They
have no other calling, and if they had,
it would probably be found already
overcrowded. Besides, men refuse to
be machined out of their usual occu-
pations without some sort of protest,
especially when they know that those
who control the machines make larger
profits, often with much smaller capi-
tai. 1t is not in human nature for
mechanic or skilled artisan to see
machine introduced to do his work,
satirically, not to say brutally, desig-
mated a "strike queller' or ''striker's
checkmater,' and then enthuse over
the glories of civilization and scientific
inventions. So far as he is concerned,
man is of more Importance than a
mere machine, and, though he is not,
the laborer should be as good as his
master. TO him labor saving ma
chine is almost as murderOuS weapon,
industrially speaking, as gatling or
maxim is in military warfare. He con-
cludes under the pressure of dire ne
cessity that no individual should be
allowed to use such cruel weapons
against his fellows, and if they must
exist and be used, then they ought to
be controlled by the state, and used fol
the benefit of the masses, and not the
classes. L. f.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

role, providing his conduct is exem-
plary, and after five minutes hard study
on the matter, if he be sensible man,
he will come to the conclusion that he
has something to gain by strict adher-
ance to the rules. This fact will appeal
to his better nature, will cause him to
school himself in the matter of selfdis-
cipline, because he knows if he violates
a rule he will be the loser by it. If
there is spark of manhood left in him
such inducements will tend to bring
it to the surface. When he has served
half Of his time, if his conduct has been
such as to merit it, a position is found
for him, and he is given chance to
show whether or not he is worthy of
the consideration. Again he is taught
self-reliance and independence. He
knows that he must depend entirely on
himself; he must curb his propensities
for wrong doing, attend strictly to duty,
and be ever on the alert lest he violates
the conditions under which he was re-
leased; which would result in his i'm
mediate return to prison to serve out
the rest of his time. A man going out
of prison with the intention of leading
an honest life, will find no difficulty in
doing so under those conditions.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
Trome. Slope year. in advance
'eHmo: Six Months 50 cents.

poison speedily exhibits all the symp-
toms of extreme relaxation and ex-
haustion. In the same way the evil
emotions and especially anger, produce
substances which are poisonous, and if
generated in quantities large enough
they might destroy life. Even in ordi-
nary quantities they lower the vital
tone, and waste life's forces most ex-
travagantly. Hate and jealousy are
also most dangerous emotions to en-
courage, and there is no knowing how
much ill health has its chief cause in
slow chronic fear which silently cor
rodes the nervous system, and not only
shortens life, but renders it less effect
i've. DR.. Holbrook, while admitting
the difficulty of finding general rem
edy, insists that the only true cure for
the disease of evil emotions is to prac-
tice self-control and substitute the bet
ter emotions-faith, hope and love.
These all conserve health; they are to
the mind what air, light, exercise and
temperance are to the body.-St Paul
Pioneer Press.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20

historic world, who carved these sculp-
lures, who moulded these urns and
vases, who traced these hieroglyphics,
that exhumed by the archaeological or
artistic explorer, come to us from
Troy, Mycenae, from ancient Babylon
and Mount Ararat, with their mes
sage from ages and peoples for count
less centuries vanished from the earth.
The seven prehistoric cities that are
said to have fought for the honor OF
having given Homer birth, have per-
ished; their very names are forgotten;
but Homer's wondrous song survives
and through it live the mighty deeds
and heroes, the life and customs OF an
age that had else passed into oblivion,
while the Greece of later day through
it's arts of poetry, sculpture, architec-
ture, oratory and history is made as
real to us as the present time.
OF the many great nations and peo-
pies of the past, it might be said:
"They had no poet, and they died.
died also because they had none to
record their history on the eternal
rocks or in imperishable works of art
and literature.
The artist, who is alike the prophet,
the poet and the historian of his time,
is also it's apostle of beauty. AS vines
and MOSES with their delicate tracer
les. transform the unsightly volcanic
boulder into an object fair to look up
on: as the path scathed by lightnings
or uptorn by earthquakes, may be
made bright with flowers; as the harsh
outline and the ugly reality may be
idealized on the painters canvass; as
the sculptor may find forms of angelic
beauty waiting his touch to evolve
them from the rugged stone; as the
common, realistic story told in poetic
language, becomes a thing of beaut!
and delight; as the barest theme
clothed in the glowing words and the
winning accents of eloquence, may en-
chant and electrify the audience; 81
truth which in its stern. unadOrne(
aspect, displease and repe)s, may b'
made alluring when presented in tn
guise of fbeauty.-Minneapolis Tribune
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
ECONOMY is WEALTH.

l dare say that among the five hun
dred readers of this paper, within these
walls, there are not ten who made
frugality virtue. This is pretty
broad assertion but just take your own
case, and then cease to wonder. For
we are all alike in this; and yet, if there
is one thing that we can do, and may
do if we will, it is to save. Deep down
at the root of all our troubles is the
inability to retain part of what we
earn. Prodigality and waste is natural
to all, and the cause of many men
and women starving by hundreds and
thousands, not because they never had
ANYTHING, but because they could not
keep what they once had. TO teach
people to acquire is easy, but to hold
on IS wholly different.
The ''sporty boy is his own enemy.
There is no rainy day in his calendar,
when his purse is we'll lined; but what
an egregious fool he is to imagine that
he can dodge the sickness, trouble,
changes and chances that come to
every life, especially such lives as his.
The nightly orgies, the reckless waste
of his hard-earned coin, and the fiat
terers who follow in his train, and
fatten on his substance, deplete both
his purse and his health. We all know
this. We all know how hard it is tC
borrow dollar when in difficulty, even
when one has the reputation of being
a "producer." And yet we drift on
and on until the time comes, in the
midst of our troubles, when the want
of few dollars lands us Oftentimes ii
this or a similar place. AS JOSH
Billings said, "Iint your own moral
MEMO.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
THE DISCHARGED CONVICT.

A question that is now agitating the
minds of those charitably inclined, is
what to do with the discharged pris
oner. Some are discussing the advis-
ability of building "convicts' home.
where he may be taken in and provid-
ed for until employment is found for
him. Others advance different theories
as to the best way of assisting him to
regain his former position in society.
The penal institutions of America
claim to lead the world in the matter
of reforming criminals. With the
amount of labor expended in this line,
the result is hardly satisfactory, as
statistics tell us that crime is on the
increase. Why is this thus? is ques-
tion which is puzzling some of our
wisest heads at present. A circum-
stance which goes long way in send
ing a man back to prison, is the GUS
tom some of our prisons have in
releasing men in state of pauperism.
When man labOrs for the state a
number of years, and then released to
battle with the world for a livelihood,
it is not very encouraging to recall the
fact that he has only suit of shOddy
clothes and five dollars in his pocket
with which to begin life anew. If he
is good "hustler,' and work is plenty,
he may find employment before his
money is gone; if work is scarce he
will find himself "broke" in two or
three days, and unless he meets some
"good samaritan" who will assist him
he must either beg or steal If he re-
sorts to the one he is arrested and
sent to the workhouse for vagrancy; il
the other he is returned to prison anC
treated as an habitual criminal, be-
cause of his second offense This may
be prevented by allowing him daily
stipend while he is serving his sen
tence. After release he would fee
that he is not an object of charity, bu
can hold up his head and look his fellow
man squarely in the face. Money ma.
be the "root Of all evil" but it certain
ly is the best friend prisoner ha
when leaving the door of prison.
In bringing about reform, wei
, regulated parole system is, withou
doubt, the best medium through whic
to accomplish this end. When a ma
is assigned to a cell in this institution
about the first thing he does is to ''siz
up" his room. In looking around his ey
falls on library catalogue and boo
t of rules; he takes it up and reads tn
requirements of the parole law, where
in he learns that after serving half 6
his sentence he will be eligible for ps
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
THE HYGIENE OF THE EMOTIONS.

One of the new discoveries of hygl-
enc is the fact that in the emotions we
have within ourselves an effective
means of suicide. If the emotions are
not properly restrained and regulated
the body may be slowly but surely
worn out, even without the sufferer
himself suspecting what the secret
canker is. DR.. NJ. l.. Holbrook shows
the Importance of keeping our bodily
expenses at or near our physiological
resources. Many persons whose habits
of eating, drinking, dressing, bathing,
etc.. are uneXceptiOnable, are so ex-
travagant in their expenditures of vi
tai force that they are always below
par IN health. This is characterized as
physiological extravaganza, immoral
bodily conduct. There are times when
the bodily resources must be freely
spent for others, as in emergencies,
sickness, etc., but after the strain is
over the powers may be recruited by
rest, sleep, recreation and food, and no
special harm ensues. If this is not
done there may be danger of perma'
nent breakdown. The nervous forces
are spent most rapidly through the
emotional nature. The pleasurable
emotions are love, hope, JOY and peace
These are health-giving, and if not il
excess, not exhausting. The painful
emotions are fear, hate, anger and jeal
ousy. These exhaust the vital forces
in two ways. They diminish the gen
Grafton of energy in the body by inter
fering with digestion and assimilation
of food, and they also consume rapid!
and to little purpose what energy il
produced. There is much i'll healtl
which cannot be traced to its tru
cause unless attention is turned to thes
. painful emotions. 1t has of late beel
found that fatigue caused temporar
change in the blood, and healthy pei
son who is inoculated with the fatigu
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
MAN VS., MACHINE.

Whatever may be thought of the
wonders of labor-saving machinery, it
must be confessed that the displace-
ment of human toilers by mechanical
inventions has progressed at such
rate in recent years as to be absolutely
alarming to those effected by it. The
civilization which ruthlessly crushes
under the wheels of it's progress men,
women and children struggling for
bare subsistence is not precisely of the
kind to be appreciated by those who
are sacrificed at the shrine OF its
glories. In the modern race of life,
men and women, as rule, have only
time and opportunity to learn or &C.
quire one trade or calling, and ii ell
bowed aside in the struggle for exist
ence, scarcely ever recover the lost
ground. Competition is so keen, and
usually there is so little to earn, and so
many to support, that whatever tends
to increase the number of unemployed
must be regarded as social evil. Side
pliances, have come the marvellous dis
coveres in chemistry and electricity,
which have at once reduced the earning
power of labor and cheapened produc-
ton. Have all these wonderful changes
conduced to the welfare of the COM
munity, or only to that of class? 1t
is to be feared that the few rather than
the many have been benefited. Much
has been said and written about all
these changes and inventions in pro-
duction, not absolutely dispensing with
labor, but merely removing it to more
profitable fields of action. This is a
favorite argument among that sort OF
philosophers who preach the survival
of the fttest as the only true social
law. Men and women who work fol
the bread they eat must exist, whether
those for whom they work recognize
the necessity of their existence or not
It is quite certain, however, that II
human workers are to be displaced by
machines, and driven to intensity tht
struggle for existence Dy competing
for scarce employment in an alread.
overcrowded market, their existence il
a curse rather than a blessing. Ye
this is precisely what modern scienc
is doing today, and to an extent no
anticipated even ten years ago, so rapi'
has been the change. When we Sc
compositors who have given sever
years to learn trade, dispensed wit
by hundreds in order to make way TO
machines that a child can utiliz
after practice, and shoemakers an
workers in scores of other callings sim
ilarly crushed out, it is apparent tha
men are in a manner being scienti1
ically civilized off the face of the eartf
1t is useless to tell them that the de
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
THE MODERN BOHEMIAN.

When the Philistine is asked to de-
fine bohemian" he turns to his lexl-
con. He regards the derivation but
ignores the development. He forgets
that there is such thing as evolution.
AS we'll look for manhOods type in
the primeval ape.
What is Bohemianism? 1t is but
the best in life and thought, shorn OF
sham and divested of the shackles OF
artiticiality that bind orthodox society
today. 1t is nothing more than hu-
manity in its highest expression, its
loftiest Interpretation. 1t is the fell
lowship of spirit, the kinship of souls;
that something which has led men to
grope toward the light through the
darkness of all the ages. 1t is being
true to nature, true to self and true to
ones fellows. Bohemia is condition,
an atmosphere, spirit which appeals
to the holiest impulses that are en-
shrined within the souls salvatory.
Out upon the writer who prates OF
Bohemia in conventional phase. Out
upon the pretender who would drag
Bohemia's s banner through the mlre OF
the beer cellar, or t1aunt its colors
amid the foul smoke of cheap tobacco!
Shame to him who would place an in
decent word or blasphemous oath
upon the lips of the true Bohemian!
But there are greater dangers which
the tribe must strive to avert. Bo-
hemia is likely to become convention
allied. ParadoXical as it may seem,
Bohemia is becoming conventional in
it's unconventionality. 1t is like unto
the man who prides in his humility.
There are two kinds of convention
natural and artificial. Natural con-
vention, which includes true politeness
and honest morals, is the insignia OF
the genuine Bohemian; but upon the
cowardly customs which curse modern
society he wages warfare ceaseless
and unrelenting.
In Bohemia woman may be natural
and still be chaste. Her virtue is not
so fraiI thing that it must needs be
surrounded with all the artificial safe
guards which convention has devised.
She is not so possessed of the spirit OF
Jezebel that she may not be trusted
without chaperon. There, if no.
where else, man is pure in thought,
with exalted ideals, and cherishing a
! reverence for womanhood that is near
ly Godlike. Then who doubts that in
Bohemia there is place for woman?
AS the chief characteristic of the Old
Bohemia was indirection, so is "Pur-
, pose" the watchword of the New Bo'
hemia. In action our Bohemian finds
8 his highest pleasure. Without his
: aims and aspirations he would find life
uncomfortable. TO strive, to achieve, tC
e uplift is his constant thought. That
g his endeavors may be crowned with
credit is least in his mind. The eter
= nal consequence of life and its deeds il
y ever before him. Earnestness and sin
: cerity mark his way through life.-
e The New Bohemian.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-20
Vol. X.-No. 3.
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WHO CAN TELL?

WHO CAN TELL?
Who can tell of the battles fought,
How many successes have been wrought.
And feeble struggles that came to naught
Within prison cell?
Who can tell how fierce was the strife
Between the evil spirits rife,
And those begotten of new life.
And which combatants fell?
Who can tell how oft in vain
Evil rebelled with might and main,
To be only subdued again and again,
OF the power it took to quell?
Who can tell of the joys within
When Good Overcame the power of Sin,
And bade new life in the heart to din,
Its funeral knell?
Who can tell how sweet was the sound?
Instead of a sadness deep, profound.
A rescued soul its music had found,
Prisoner-alOne can tell.
FRANK NEAL.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-09-26
ARYAN COWBOYS.
A Race Composed Almost Entirely Of
Herdsmcn.


Herdsmcn.
The study of domestic cattle should
le of especial interest to us because
tney have undoubtedly occupied a mo-e
important place in our own ancestral
history than any other species of ami
NAL. the Aryan tribesmen from whom
nearly all western civilization folk are
descended were cowboys almost to I
man. Like the Kaflirs of South Africa
to-day. all their thoughts were abou,
:heir herds. This is shown in a curious
way by the study of the early develop
ment of our language. The Sanskrit
word for king meant originally 81
chief herdsman." The word for an as
sembly. or the meeting place of con-
yard. 4 soldier was 'one who fights
about cows" 1t would seem as if they
regarded nothing else as worth ruling
over or talking about or fighting for.
Prof. Max Mueller traces the word
daughter" to the ancient term for a
milkmaid. In the good old times they
plainly did not take any account of
aoung ladies who were not accom-
plished performers in the cow pen.
The COW or the OK was for long ages
tine chief standard Of value. Everything
from q new cent to a new wife was
priced at so many cows. Many of our
words which refer 10 money bear traces
Of this. such as 'sfee" and "pecuniary.- =
which are directly derived from the old
English and Latin words for cattle.
Doubtless there were currency disputes
when other materials began to Be used
for coinage, and difficulties arose about
the adjustment of relative values. Cow
metallism" might well have been an
important plank in some Of the Aryaa
political platforms.-North American
Review.