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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06
Dedicated to A. J. Mccain

The sun.came out on Calamas day,
Bringing the ground-hogs out to play,
While running friskily to and fro,
Strutted among them Old Black Joe.
Tel years ago this bright, sunny morning,
Says he-Jhere was a wonderful boruing,
Three hundred in county warrants, the dc.
couchment cost!
But mind you chuckies, there was moth
ing lost.
So scratch up the dirt in a jubilee,
For that wonderful thing that came was NE
SO he pulled and blowed in search OF a scrap
n at last he thought he had set a trap,
To catch an old haysaed, grim and spare,
Who had ~traspassed quite hard on 10
seph's lair.
But old hayseed, didn't scare worth a cent,
Just msnded his quill and after him went,
And the old grounding did wlggle and flop,
To get to mis- hole when chased by the pop
Into the dirt like a long nosed mole,
Went Ground HogJoe and pulled IN his hole.
-[SHAKEsPEAR.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06

against
THEODORE REDER, ELIZABETH
REDER and the BAILEY LOAN
COMPANY.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06

The Old Man Of the Keystone
Miner ground up his broad-ax last
week and proceeded to hew out an
opening between the Journal and
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06

We Temple is delivering a course OF
lectures at the School OF Mines. The
school this year is in better condition
than ever before, every Chair Is filled by
competant men and thatit is apprecia-
ted is evidenced by the number Of stu
dents in attendance.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06
JOS. HARTEF

JOS. HARTER,
against
THEODORE REDER, ELIZABETH
REDER and the BAILEY LOAN
COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue Of a
Judgment Of foreclosure and ale in the above
day OF January. 1896 and m execution issued
upon said judgment. the subscriber John T.. In
gersol. sheriff OF Pennington county, South
DAKOTA. TOR that purpose appointed will sell at
public auction at the front door of the court
Pennington, state Of South Dakota, on satur-
day., the 28th day OF March, 1896 at two
O'Clock in the afternOon OF that day the real es-
tate and mortgassd premises situated in the
city 81 Rapid City. Pennington and state Of
and execution to DO sold and therein described
as follows. to-wit:
All the right, title and interest OF the said de-
PENDANTS, Theodore Reder and Elizabeth Reder
in and to the following described tracts or par
csls Of land, to.wit: lot thirty-one (:sl) and
and twenty-one gid in tho original townsite
(now city, of Rapid City as shown by the re-
corded plat thereof on file in the office Of the
register OF deeds of said Pennington county,
South Dakota, with oil the he~riditaments and
app~urtenances thereon belonging or in any way
appertalnlng or so much thereof as may be suf-
ficient to satisfy said judgment and costs
amounting in all to the sum of seven hundred
and ninety-three dollars and ninety eight cents
(3793. 9Sl with interest thereon from the date
Dated at Rapid City. 8. d., this 9Th day Of
February, 1895.
JOHN T. INGERsOL,
Sheriff of Pennington county, S. ID.
A.. w. BANGS, Plaintiffs Attorney.
(2.7-3-27-'06)
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06
Notice Of sherif's Sale.

In the circuit court Of tho Seventh Judicial cir
cult OF the state OF South Dakota, in and for
Pennington county.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-06

Everything fresh, bright and clean. Our prices are as low
as the lowest, and the beneficial part of the scheme is you
geJ your money back, as all profits above ten per cent are
divided among purchasers.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
HORTICULTURE.

Keeping the roots of the trees cool in
the spring by mulching and other meth
DDS has no effect whatever in retarding
the growth. This has been proved by
careful experiment, and establishes the
theory that heat above ground deter
mines the matter. Keeping the top cool
will retard growth.
To procure early blossoms from our
early Towering bulbs, the middle of
August is none too soon to give them
their new quarters. Place them in good
garden soil, with little sand at the
bottom of the crock. supply little
warm water, and put them in the dark
until leaves begin to show good growth.
If the runners upon the strawberry
they appeared, every such runner will
have produced a new crown, and the
plants will have formed large bushes or
stools. upon which the finest of large,
highly favored berries may be looked
for in the spring.
1t is an easy way of raising lilacs to
SOW the seed. The pods are gathered in
the fall and sown in the spring. They
soon sprout. but make only two or three
inches of growth the first year. 1t g
these seedlings which give the new
sorts, and to them we are indebted for
the many shades of color, running from
white to purple.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
STOCK

If you have ewes which have proved
good mothers, especially il they have
been breeders of twins, or if you find a
SOW which produces large litter. gives
plenty of milk and takes good care of
her young, keep them for breeders as
long as they are profitable. This quail
ity of being good mother is an import
ant thing with all sorts of stock.
Breechy cattle can often be restrained
by putting single strand of barbed
wire along the top of the fence. After
getting few scratches they will keep
carefully away from it. Even the bull
may be kept in by this means, for he
does not like to get hurt.
Oats are an expensive grain to use,
aud about the only way farmer can
afford to employ them is in feeding
horses. For every other purpose for
which grain is needed it will pay better
to sell the oats and buy something else.
Feeding in the sheaf is the only econom-
ical way, that good use may be made of
the straw.
1t is said that sheaf oats sailed in
layers are not likely to be troubled by
the mice. This also makes the horse
relish them the more. The salt gathers
moisture from the atmosphere and
makes the ripe straw more palatable.
Very few now follow the old time prac-
tice of sailing the hay.
Politics and legislation are poor
things for farmer to build his hopes
upon. The sheep raiser who puts his
trust in the best breed rather than in
the tariff, and goes ahead to produce
valuable mutton carcass and good fleece
of wool is pretty sure to come out all
right in the end.
AS the age of any animal increases the
gain il will make from a certain amount
of food decreases. Unless one practices
the methods to which this fact points
he can hardly hope to make success of
stock raising. Every farmer should
have this lesson pat, for it is valuable
truth.
Do not imagine that you can not grow
stock because you can not do it on a
large scale. Small farmers and feeders
excel in producing the very best, for,
having but few head, each individual
receives that personal care which is so
important an element, and which large
operators cannot give.
In feeding and fattening cattle grow
the crops needed for that pu rpose on the
farm, feed them on the farm. and return
the manurial product to the farm. This
means a constantly increasing ability
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
DAER Y.

great point of value in a COW is to
have the milking habit firmly estab
lished, so that she does not dry off soon
after calving and indulge in long spell
OF unremunerative idleness. Such
COW, in such intervals, will eat up all the
profit which has accrued while she was
being MIXED.
Dairymen who follow the plan of
keeping their cows ready for the butcher
at all times and selling them for beef as
soon as they become shippers avoid
loss from an idle COW, but they loose the
chance to build up milking strain. and
must depend upon chance for new sup
plies; and good dairy COW is not to be
bought every day.
DO we not all know good dairymen.
who understand how to make the best
use OF their milk barely making living
because the poorer half of their herd is
continually eating up the profits from
the better? 1t would be far better if
such man were to give away the poorer
half of his herd. 1t is Pharoah's dream
over again.
The poorest type of COW eats raven
ously without yielding either milk or
beef in return, and though practically
eating up the best COW remains "as ill
favored as at the beginning Blindness
upon this point leads to debt, and ends
in selling the better COW, for the poorer
will bring nothing.
1t will pay any man who has dozen
good COWS to own and use hand sep
arator, and thus be able to feed the
ekim milk to the calves and pigs while
it is yet warm. Sometimes expensive
things are an economical necessity, and
really essential to the highest success.
Brewers grains make cheap food for
the dairy, but they should not be relied
upon exclusively. They promote the
flow of milk, but do this somewhat to
the detriment of the quality of the pro-
duct For butter making, therefore,
they are not to be recommended.
If one intends to establish dairy
which shall grow better and better con.
stantly. the only way to proceed is 10
breed and raise his own animals. The
model dairy COW today is largely the
product of the breeders art, and the es-
pecial qualities for which she is wanted
may be still further developed and in
tensified by the same means.
The dairyman who depends upon re-
plenishing his herd by buying when nec-
essary, and turning off his stock to the
butcher when it's usefulness has passed,
can never hope for anything better than
fair average Of mixers, and instead of
progressing steadily, his dairy produc-
tions will be subject to sharp and sud-
den fluctuations.
g. the continual use of bulls of the
best dairy families. and by the careful
selection and feeding of calves, the pro-
ductive capacity of the milk herd may
be improved from year to year, and
there is practically no limit to what
may be accomplished. Let the new
blood always be little better than the
old.
The markets of the butter eating
world are ours, free from the cheap COM
petition of Russia, India and Argentine
grain growers, as we can make butter
with less expense. 1t costs no more to
ship $40 worth of butter to Europe than
it does dollars worth of grain; and as
we improve our herds and our facili-
ties the interest in our products will
grow.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUB
Lie.

There's a voice across the nation like mighty
ocean hall,
Borne up from out the Sou.hward, as the seas
before the gale;
Its breath Is in the streaming flag and in the
flying sail
As we go sailing on.
IT'S voice that we remember-ere its summons
sooihed as now
When it rang in battle challenge. and we an
swered vow with vow.
With roar of gun, and hiss of sword, and crash
of PROV and prov,
AS we go sailing on.
Our hope sank even as we saw the sun sink
faint and far
The ship of State went cropping through the
binding smoke of war
Through blacklist midnight lurching, all I'M
cheered of moon or star,
Yet sailing-sailing on.
AS one who spake the dead awake, with life
blood leaplng warm
Who walked the troubled waters all unscathed,
in mortal form
Wefelt our Pilots presence with his hand upon
the s.orm,
AS we went sailing on.
Oh, Voice of Passion, lulled to sace. this dawn
ing of to-day
fears away;
as glad as they
He sends us sailing on.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

to produce; but if sufficient diversity
of feeding stuffs are not grown, it is
wiser to buy them than not to feed we'll.
We are willing to accept without
question that there lis ibut small profit
in cultivating poor land, but why is it
that most men are so reluctant to admit
that the same rule. applies to stock? 1t
is, indeed. very bad economy to feed and
care for poor stock, because good stock
will give much better return.
1t is very difficult matter to breed
successfully for two qualities in the
same animal. Ii COW of the best beef
type turns out to be an exceptional
mixer, it is more often accident than in
tention. One should have single and
definite aim. Be slow to buy of a man
who advertises to breed equally for beef
and dairy.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

So fer as the grain is concerned the
corn crop permits US more leisure in
harvesting than does any other crop
which we grow; but if we intend to save
the fodder we must cut it when it is
just right, and that is when the leaves
are neither green nor brown.
Stacking hay out of door is not good
economy in any conditions, as more or
less of it is always damaged by exposure,
and the amount lost in this way would
more than repay the interest upon the
cost of NOW room required to store it.
Even temporary board roof will pay.
There is not much margin in wheat at
II bushels to the acre, nor in potatoes
at rs bushels, nor in cotton at third of
a bale. If the man who grows average
crops will tell the truth he will say
that farming does not pay; but why
grow average crops?
II you want the smaller children to
have crop of their own to look after,
in which they will be sure to take an
interest, and which usually pays good
profit let them plant some pop corn.
Tell them beforehand that it cannot be
sold for year, as dealers will not buy
it until it has time to thoroughly dry.
Let the tiller of the soil visit some
prosperous manufacturing establish
ment and learn that success comes be-
cause there is clock like regularity-no
hardness, no idling, no waste of mater
ial, and advantage taken of every new
improvement and method No leaks,
no waste of power, no waste of floor
room.
The profit from land is more than
doubled by doubling the product. The
fixed charge for use of land and large
part of the charge for labor lie equally
against the larger or the smaller crop.
Moreover, poor husbandry is waste of
ones investments in implements.
Instead of endeavoring to suit a crop
to the soil. it is better farming and bet
ter economy to suit the soil to the crop.
You are then more independent and
have wider range from which to
choose. Lacking elements can be put
in the soil. or. perhaps. they but need
development.
Clover roots furnish some fertilizer
for the soil, but the greatest good is pro-
cured only by pasturing off the first
crop and blowing the second under
when at its full growth. Its mechani-
cal action in loosening, draining and
aerating the ground is hardly less in
value than the direct benefit of the fer
tilizing properties.
Does it cost too much? Thoroughly
tile drain the wettest and heaviest acre
on the farm; grow crop of clover and
follow with wheat; then decide il the
increased yield does not pay back an
astonishingly large interest on the cost.
Oftentimes the outlay will be all return
ed in two or three years.
OF all the staples produced upon the
farm there are none perhaps which can
be used in so many ways, nor are of 30
much value when it is all used properly.
as the corn crop; but it is not used
properly when the fodder is allowed to
go to waste.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

The st. James Gazette says that
the gold plate of Windsor Castle consists
of about 10000 pieces. 1t is kept in the
gold pantry, which is an iron room stu
ated on the ground floor under the royal
apartments. The clerk of the pantry
gives it out in iron boxes and receives a
receipt for it. 1t is carried by special
train. under escort of a guard of soldiers
aud delivered to the butler at Bucking-
ham Palace. He gives receipt for it,
and is responsible for it while it remains
at that palace.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
Selected Story.
THE VIOLIN-CASE.
OOME in," said Mr.. Judson
BY MARGARET SUTTON BRIsCoE.

HNOME in," said Mr. Judson,
~ testify, turning his half
shaver face from his mirror to the
door of his hotel bedroom. "Come
in, 1 say. Confound you, couldn't
you open the door for yourself?
What! Mel Antoine, is it you?
Come in, come in. I thought it was
my stupid bell-boy. From what clear
sky have you fallen? Been peddling
flowers and violins, Ell? And you
won't trust that monstrous box of
blossoms to my sacrilegious hands?
Then we'll do know where both they
and you are bound. You're too faith
full for Frenchman, my boy. Pray
has she asked you to play two violins
tonight"
Mel Antoine made no reply. He
stood in the centre of the room, gaz
ing at his friend with the look of a
haunted soul in his large and child
like eyes. The day was warm, but
not sultry enough to account for the
beads of sweat which stood on his
brow. His breast was heaving as
if from recent exertion. He held
clasped in his arms a long flower box,
an uncased violin, and a large ma
hogany violin case, very old, and very
heavy.
"Allow me, then, to remove your
hat" said Judson. "and wipe that
fevered brow. Mel, can't you speak?
Have you had a sunstroke? Dump
those things on the bed. Oh, you
needn't defend the violin-case from
me; 1 wouldn't touch your pet violin
any more than l would a woman's
baby. You carry it with the same
maternal air. What is the matter with
you, Antoine"
"Judson," said Mel Antoine, faint
"Judson, lock the door, my
friend. 1t is one"
Zone what?"
"Hush, hush!-a little baby! Yes,
that's right; bolt the door, Judson.
DON'T talk so terrifcallyl You'll
wake it. l suppose may lay it on
your bed with the other things?
Lord Lord! what are we to do with
it?"
"Wew cried Mr.. Judson.
"Yes, we. Judson, you are my
most intimate friend. You must help
me to get rid of it,"
Grid of dead baby?" stammered
Mr.. Judson.
"It's not dead, said Mel.
Mr.. Judson walked to his rack of
towels, and carefully wiped away the
lather which still chung to his face.
Antoine" he said, when | feel my
self turning CHASTITY white l prefer
that you should see it. Do l actually
understand you to say that you have
a live baby shut up in that violin
casep
"You do" said Mel, gloomily. He
spoke free American vernacular, his
foreign birth only betrayed by an oc-
casional shifting of the accent from
the proper syllable.
"Herep reared Judson, "open that
case this moment! Do you expect to
make me party to an infanticide?
You're smothering the thing before
my eyes,"
81 am not. Here is large air slit,
which my brother made years ago by
dropping the case. l scolded him
abominably at the time" He bent his
head over the case. Il told you SO;
it's breathing nicely; asleep, think"
Judson advanced to the bedside
and peered over the lid which Mel
had flung back. "Um" he said,
"genuine article" He Strengthened
his back stiffly, looked from the case
to Mel, and thrust his hands deep
into his pockets, as if he meant they |
should stay there. "Quite a fine
child, Antoine. Congratulate you'll !
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-02
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT.

oINITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRIcULr
sTURE. w EATHER BUREAU. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec
l, 1855 PsM-Weather conditions and general
forecsst@s
The following are the seasonal rainfalls to dste
as compared with those of same date last season:
Eureka 1925 inches, last season 1855 inches;
RED BlnH 5.21 inches, last season 1882 inches:
San Francisco 676 inches, last season 2 81 inches;
Fresno BOP inches, last season Al of an inch;
san Luis Obispo 4. SO inches, last season ). 81
inches; Los Angeles 3 SO inches last season LOB
inches: San Diego POT inches, last season 1.S1
inches; Yuma Ito of inch. last season 80
inches
San Francisco data-Maximurn temperature Sc.
mipim UNI A, so.
A storm of considerable energy is present to-
night OF the w ashington and Oregon coasts The
pressure has fallen slowly along the entire Pacific
seaboard. Rain has fallen at Eureka and at Port
land, Fort Candy and Seattle. The temperature
has risen the entire country west Of the Rocky
Mountains. Throughout Utah and Nevada there
has been rise of at least II degrees in the past
twenty-four hours.
a maximum wind velocity of SO miles per hour
from the southeast is reported at Fort Candy.
Conditions are favorable for rainy weather along
the Pacific Coast Wednesday and Wednesday
night from san Francisco mort inward.
Forces made at San Francisco for 80 hours
ending midnight Decembe 2, 1896:
4 Northern Califor nia-Rain Wednesday in north
ern portion fair in southern portion; fresh south
easterly winds
southern California in northern por-
tion fair elsewhere; light westerly winds
Nevada-Coudy and probably rain in north
western portion ednesday.
Utah-CIoudy Wednesday with rain snow.
Arizona-Fair Wednesday; warmer nor.h b.
San Francisco and vicinity-Unsettled wealth 7
Wednesday and probably ram; fresh Goutheasterly
wind. ALEXANDER q. MICA DIE,
Local Forecast Official.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-02
NEW YORK MARKETS.
Financial.

NEW DIRK. n. Y, Dec. 1.-Stocks early In
the day were weaker on further selling by profess
sional operators. who have been working TO bring
about lquldatons for over a week. The decline
Insignificant, except in the of a few
specialt es such as Illinois Steel, Denver and Rio
Grande and Big -Four The tactics of the bears
and sold bulls failed to dislodge long STOCK and
shortly after the opening the amarket drifted into
dizziness. In the last hour. the bears, recognizin g
their inability depress prices started in
The result was an advance all along the line. IN
the case OF Jersey Central, Consolidated Gas,
Omaha and Chicago Gas the rise extended from
21z TO 312 per cent
Omaha sold up 31a to 4734, preferred to 1873;
CHICAGO Gas, 25s to 741s Consolfdated Cas- 21a
to 2512 and Jersey Central, s 20 1O4. The other
prominent Issues moved up IL to per cent
Manhattan, Sugar, the CHANGERS, Tennessee Coal.
Louisville aud Nashville, Residing, he south
and Pacific Nail all being in good request
The change for the better during the afternoon
session was due main 70 an impression that the
Presidents message wi be of a pacific cliaracter
The President 1t is understood, viii MOI take a
decided stand on the Cuban question, and will
leave the matter Tor the incoming administration.
The rise in Omaha common was due to runors
that the directors intended to declare a dividend
on the stock in the near fu ure. The story on the
board is that the dividend will be al the rate OF
per cent per annum. Speculation closed strong
with an advanced tendency. Net changes show
gains of 16D3 per cent. TOTAL sales were 295, BOA
shares including 81 100 sugar. 20 200 Burlington
and Quincy, 500 st Paul and l6,40U Readng.
The bond market was strong to-day. The to al