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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
The Englishman in Amorica.

An English.nan, just over, was
breakfasting in New York with an
American friend when he stated that
he would run out and see his brother
Harry who lived in San Francisco.
"Will you be back for dinner?" asked
the American quizzically. "Of
COURSE" answered the Englishman,
eff not for lunch" The American &C.
companied him to the station and the
Englishman asked for a return ticket
to San Francisco with a ''stop over''
at Chicago, and asked the ticket
agent 'How much?" 'One hundred
and thiSty-eight dollars and a half
was the reply. WHAT" gasped the
Englishnan. slow far is it?''
''Three thousand miles," was the
reply. The American friend stood
behind the En- glishman to catch him
when he fell as he exclaimed, ''Grea1
H~a what a countrvl'
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
At The Schools.

This afternoon proved a very I'M
favorable time for school visiting at
the First Ward School, yet several
ladies braved the storm and visited
the schools taught by Miss Bangs
and Miss Richards. The regular
school work was presented by these
teachers in a creditable manner. To-
morrow afternoon will be visiting
day at the Third Ward schools. The
children have prepared written in
vitations and a large number of the
parents will probably be present ii
| the weather permits.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
VERY SENSITIVE.
BE- tAs spiok and span Young Ma
Made . Mistake.

8Oo Sho SptCk Ind 6pAa Yoon8 h0o
Made . Mistake.
A man l know is telling with =
great deal of delight a story which he
declared actually happened in his
presence, on a train between Chicago
and Kansas City recently. A young
nan and q young woman entered the
day coach at Chicago. They were
both very spick and span, and the
young mans spick and spanness was
Of the sort than cannot be over
looked. He had a new silk hat, q
new top coat, a chrysanthemum in his
buttonhole. and the air of n who
knows it all. He had been in the car
only a short time when his sensitive
nostrils began to dilate with disgust
He looked about him suspiciously and
he called the conductor.
CONDUCTOR, conductor" he said
languidly, there's a person in this
car smoking a cigar. It is a horrid
cigar, one Of the sort, I fancy, you
can buy five for a cent. 1t is very Of
fensive to me and l must ask you to
have the person removed"
The conductor looked all around.
but no cigar was to be seen. The
smell was unmistakable. just then a
man in the next seat reached up and
took the dapper young mans silk hat
down from the hat rack. There on
the curling brim was a spark from
some stray cinder which had burned
a track nearly half way round the hat.
Nobody said a word, but when the
young woman in~nocently remarked:
1T wasn't such a bad cigar after all,
was it?" everybody within hearing
felt hat the first GOODNESS of the
honeymoon had been inaugurated.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
An

DR.. Marsh Petit. the specialist, left
for a short business trip to the Northern
Hills. The doctor when interviewed by
a reporter, stated his reasons for COM
ing to Rapid CITY. He is trying to build
up a practice in the Hills in his special
ties, which are the Diseases OF Women
and all Chrome and Nervous Diseases.
He has made his headquarters in Dead
wood since his coming, and treats his
patients by correspondence from that
place. Since May 1st he has treated
and is now treating IN the Hills over 1O5
patients with very satisfactory results.
lie makes no pretense Of superior
knowledge, ONLY, that in special study
of special diseases, more minute
knowledge for successful treatment can
be acquired.
During the past week DR.. Petit has
delivered a highly instructive curse of
scientific lectures at Library hall,
The object Of these lectures were the
moral and mental good they would do,
and was also a very nice means Of COM
ming before this people. We can say
candidly. without fear OF contradiction
that the lecture course recently
livcred was the best that has been IN
the city for years. They would speak
we'll for the gentleman who delivered
them il he had no other means OF rocco
mendGtion.
Doctor PetItt stated that his feet
would be within the reach OF all; he hat
decided to charge ten dollars per month
for treatment and he furnishes all medi
misunderstanding with his patients
every Friday Of each week. AS the ease
which he accepts are all chronic cases
that talks time to remedy, we think thu
u very good system of procedure. O
course after a proper diagnosis the pa
tent can be treated by letter as we'll a
not.
This public has been imposed upon i
the past by travelling specialists SO tina
many Of our cltlZeDs here lack eontidenc
to a great extent. Yet we are candid l
saying that we believe Doctor Petit ha
merit and ability and should be patrc
nized. The doctor will only remain
limited time and those desiring his Sc
vices should call early.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
A Scottish Besgar In the Olden Tim

A Scottish Beggar In the Olden Time.
This man, who fourished in tho
west of Scntland, was known under
the famXar cognomen of Cabbage
CharliSE;: He was a mendicant on a
whole <e plan of operation. Not
conte Jed with his own simple exer-
tions he kept a band Of
beggars in pay, who went abroad at
his servants throughout the country,
and who, coming back to the ap-
pointed rendezvous at the end of the
week, gave up all the proceeds Of
their industry to him, and received q
certain allowance, previously agreed
upon, amounting to from ten to fifteen
shillings per week. BY a talent that
might not have disgraced more ce!e,
DRAFTED names, he contrived 20 organ,
lie and reduce to a perfect system
what would appear almost imprac~
ticable considering the habits OF
those with whom he had to deal
He ven found mean of detecting
saA smallest dishonesty on the part
Il his me-a ss>a be acquired such a
strange influence over them that they
burst make no remonstrance agains,
che severity of his rules nor complain
Of the penalties and taxes to which
| be sometimes subjected them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
A M"lLLloNAlRE's CHECK.

Written on 4 Piece of Board About
Eighteen Inches Square.
They were talking about queer
checks, drafts, ETC., in the bank, and
, gentleman from Kansas City. Mo-.
finally told the following:
st was once employed" he said.
''to collect a balance Of $40 which
was due q well-known building firm
of Kansas City from an ecce nitric old
millionaire. How he made his money
Idon't know, for it is said he could
all the same.
"Well, I found the old boy down in
his cellar, and was gratided to hear
him say that he could pay the bill at
once. L haven't that much cash with
me- he said, but just wait a minute
He felt around as if looking for a
piece of paper, and I was just about
to offer him some when his eyes lit
on a piece of board about eighteen
inches square.
":Just the thing he said, and with
that he picked it up and made a lot Of
queer-looking marks on it.
"'There,' he said, take that to my
bankers and it'll be all right
81 protested, but he insisted, and
finally did as he said. handed the
piece of plank, obviously enough
tell you, to the paying teller, bu'
what was my relief when he merely
smiled, studied the hieroglyphics a
moment, and handed me $40. Their
he laid the board up on a shelf, and
that was all there was to it.
1T transpired that the old man had
a system of signs all his own, which
his bankers had agreed to respect
All the same the plank check seemed
curious even to them, and it is hang
lug up in the Office of tleir establish
ment now"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
One Leg in the Grave.

This is the condition OF many a good
woman, who might be healthy and
strong. She contracts a weakness
rather than go to her physician. She
let's it run along; in a short time her
complaint becomes chronic, then incur,
able; then il her physician cannot cure
her IN a week, he is a quack and fraud.
DR.. Pet1tt is q specialist in the diseases
OF women. For ten years be has treated
nothing else. Ii you are weakly he can
cure you II you are not beyond human
aid. Consult him. Address, DIR. MARSH
PERTH, Lock Box 300, Deadwood, S. ID.
I'll treatments by correspondence.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-11-06
RAT- O-CAT BATTLE.
A Remarkable l:ngns"nent. With tn
Laws of Nature Reversed.

A Remarkable Engns"nent With the
Laws Of Nature Reversed.
when the cats are away the mice
will play" is an old saying, as every
body knows. The little blue.coats at
the Western Union telegraph Office.
in the Board of Trade building, have
changed this to make it read, when
the rats arc away the cats will play
They claim shat the largest and oldest
rodents in Louisville are in their
office, and they ought to know, for
they 60 every day into every quarter
Of the city. The Wesver1 Uricn rata
are enormous. says the Courier
Journal. Even Manager Smith does
not deny that
One day Mr.. Smith dropped a sug
gestion before a group of his mes.
senger boys that a few oats might dc
away with the nuisance. These little
fellows told al! the other boys in the
office, and the next day cats lounged
upon all the desks. in the
behind doors and all over operators
tables. A lot OF food was brought
down from the Calf house, and the
cats thought they had been brought
to An institution for poor and
aged felines to spend the clos
ing days of their lives. All went
we'll for a few hours, and then the
/ FUN began. An old rat, weighing
some two Or three pounds, walked
into the middle of Manager Smiths
office with his customary i%mpudenct
and was soon the discoverer of tn.
fact that there were a great many
strange ANIMALS around. At first be
sould not imagine what they could
be, but after pushing his nose agains,
the soft hair of one of them he re
membered that they were cats. Ir
us youth he had heard about them
ASstantly the old rat went into hi
hole, but he was soon marching back
At the head of q brigade of veterans
full of fight. Then how the fur dit
fly! Out OF every door the cat:
rushed pell NELL, the army of rat
after them. In a few minutes tn,
rats returned from the chase am
took possession of the Calf hous
meat that had been served to thei
enemies. That was several month
ago, and since then a cat, large o
small, has never darkenod the doc,
way of the Western Union. The rat
hold the fort. Manager Smith say
he has submitted, and thinks nothin
of seeing a big rodent sitting on hi
desk playing with the red-ink bottle
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
A Precocious Pullet.

For the last four years 1 have kept
poultry as a business. 1 have had
White Leghorns, Light Brahmas and
White Plymouth Rocks. For a general
business fowl l like the White Ply
mouth Rock best: 1 have one house,
10x30 feet and feet high. It is
double boarded, with tarred paper be-
tween the layers of boards. 1 have
two other houses 10x10 feet. In the
winter l feed hot mash in the morn
ing, wheat at noon and corn at night.
The markets here are the best fer
dressed poultry between April and Sep
TENDER, and for eggs the best from
October to April. l did not get many
eggs in December, but quite a large
number between January 1 and March
1. 1 have lost no fowls from lice, but
quite a number from crop bound and
skunks. The best medicine l have for
sick fowls is the axe. AS to good egg
producers, will say that had a puIlet
that was Matched in February, laid in
July and set and Matched her own eggs
in August.-Roy r. Tenant in Elk.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Artichokes for Hogs.

Time and again we see articles GO
ing the rounds of the press declaring
great things for the artichoke as a
food for hogs. We realize that many
of these are on the boom order. The
question, however, is one worthy dis
cussion. Are artichokes a profitable
food for hogs? Doubtless some of the
readers of the Farmers Review have
had extensive experience feeding
them. We wish that such ones would
report the results of their experience.
We know, of course, that to a GER
tain extent the artichoke Is valuable,
but the great question is, will 1t pay
20 grow it when the same work put
into some other crop would give a
larger amount of feed? Doubtless
there are other considerations than
the ones that appear on the surface for
the growing of artichokes, such as to
how great an extent they are exempt
from the effects of drouth and insects.
We would like to have general re-
Spouse.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Superior Plymouth Rocks.

For 20 years l have been engaged in
keeping fowls. 1 have raised the
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Buff Cochins,
Dark Brahmas, Light Brahams, Hou-
dahs, Single and Rose Comb Brown
Leghorns, Black Breasted Red Game
Bantams, Booted White Bantams and
Pekin Ducks. I like the Barred Ply
mouth Rocks best.
My hens have the very best house
that can be built; it never freezes in
winter. In the morning 1 feed a warm
mash, with corn at night in winter.
In summer give them plenty of green
stuff. In the winter we fed lots of po-
tatoes. AS consequence of this
treatment and feed we got about as
many eggs in winter as in summer.
l sometimes lose fowls from disease.
We doctor fowls successfully. The
Barred Plymouth Rocks are the best
fowls we ever had. We now have
hens that are seven years old, have
never wanted to sit and are laying at
the present time. We think that the
Barred Plymouth Rock, If rightly
handled, is the best fowl for the mar
ket. The Leghorns will lay more eggs
from March to September than any
other fowl, but will not lay so we'll in
winter. We have had Plymouth Rock
pullets lay at four months and eight
days old.-C. L. Hoyne in Farmers Re-
view.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
POLITICAL-NEWS.

Convention of Democratic clubs will
be held in St Louis September 80.
Twelfth Illinois Republicans re-
nominated Joseph G. Cannon for Con-
gress and named Mckinley delegates
There is a Republican split in the
Fourth California. The boilers are
Tor Mckinley and the regulars for
Allison.
Nebraska Populists, after the con-
terence at Omaha, formed an organ
cation to boom Senator Allen for the
Presidential nomination.
OF the twenty-five district delegates
from Kentucky Mckinley has ten,
Bradley twelve, with two of the latter
instructed for Mckinley as second
choice.
Nebraska and North Dakota Repub-
lean conventions instructed their
delegates for Mckinley for president,
and declared for sound money.
Cullom refuses to withdraw from
the presidential race.
Ex-Governor Russell of Massachu-
sets is Logging for the Democratic
nomination for president
Foraker of Ohio will present Nc
Kinlcy's name to the st. Louis con-
vention ana Thurston of Nebraska
will second the nomination.
Aldrich of Illinois gives out the fol-
lowing summary of Republican dele
gates: Reed, Ill, Mckinley 1859, the
field leo. doubtful AS; total 494.
Chairman Breidenthal has engaged
4 large lodge room at st. Louis for
the accommodation of the delegates
to the National Populist convention.
He says hotel accommodations were
too steep in price.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Poultry Notes.

Selling eggs direct to consumers is
one of the best ways of disposing of
them. The consumers are then salts
fed with fresh eggs and the producers
get better prices for them. But it
takes little work Ii, i.nt producers
and consumers together.
If you can, select old birds to breed
from. The eggs of the old lens will, it
is believed, give more vigorous chicks
than the younger hens. There is dan
ger that the incesSant breeding from
one-year-old birds will cause a deteri-
grafton of the vitality of the flock.
Is there not some old plaster lying
around unused? If so. pound it UP and
give it to the hens. They will need it
for shell making. Now that the hatch
ing time is near, the eggs should have
shells strong enough to prevent them
breaking under the weight of the
heavy hens.
We are told that at this time of year
hens will sometimes eat straw and hay
in such quantities as to form a great
wad in the crop; but we have found that
it sometimes happens that lis eating
straw is occasioned by the hen eating
eggs and then devouring all the straw
covered with any OF the broken egg
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
What Al. NV chicken. !,

This is a most common question.
1t is asked especially at this time Of
year. The men that ask it are those
that have been feeding too condensed
and heating ration for long months.
The following letter is to the point:
What kind Of disease is 1t that will
kill off chickens inside of half an hour?
They never looked better and never
laid better, but just die after being
sick a short time. c. G. G.
Valverde, Colorado.
The above description of the disease
Is altogether too scant. We might
think 1t cholera II the writer had
given more information. but as he says
the birds never looked better we are
forced to believe that indigestion alone
is the cause of the losses. We have
Tor years noticed the great losses that
occur every winter from this cause
alone. There are two phases of in
u1gest1on, one in which the birds are
constipated. This precedes the other
stage, IN which the fowls are mani
festly affected by diarrhoea. Cne lat
Ter stage is not hard to determine, and
go AAA~i y lAclt ScC lu6H lOWiS get clSh
and die from this stage of indigestion
at once report that they are dying of
cholera. The former state. that of in
digestion. is quite often fatal, but Is
not noticed. The farmer does not see
them get sick, and so when they fall
over he thinks they have died of old
age or of some insidious disease. The
whole is the result of feed. Grain is
fed to very great extent and no bran
mashes are given. Oil meal should be
fed at stated intervals the year round,
except when the fowls have access to
green food Of some kind. In that case
there is seldom any occasion for using
oil meal.
To avoid these losses the poultry
man or farmer should establish a ra-
ton that he should insist on being
fed, and that should contain some ele-
ments that will give the digestive or
gans the desired looseness.-Farmers
Review.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22

By local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When the tube is in
famed you have a rumbling sound or
Imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed Deafness is the result and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tune restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by Ca
tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
T. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists; 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Csc.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22

The bridge to be built over the Ten
nessee River at Knoxville, is to be a
remarkable structure in many respects.
1t is to be built entirely of pink mar
bic from near quarries. 1t will be
1000 feet long, with one arch of a4O
feet. 20 feet longer than any other
arch in the world. At its highest
point it is to be $50 feet above the
water, and it is to have roadway SO
feet wide.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Purify
Your Blood

Now, as when warmer weather comes and
the tonic effect of cold bracing air is
gone, your weak, thin, impure blood
will not furnish necessary strength.
That tired feeling, loss Of appetite, will
open the way for serious disease, ruined
health, or breaking out of humors and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hoods Sarsaparilla stands I'M
equalled. Thousands ts~tify to its
merits. Millions take it as their
Spring Medicine. Get Hoods, because
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
wichita Saloon Demo,,shsa

WICHITA, Kan. April 16.-Last night
the chief of police took five men armed
with axes and entered the saloon Of
John Virgins of this city They re-
NAMED there about ten minutes. and
when they got through there was not
scrap of anything left bigger than
mans hand
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Behrlng Sea Treaty Ratified.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-The Senate,
in executive session, ratified the
Behring sea arbitration treaty The
treaty provides for a commission to
arbltrate the claims made by citizens
of England against the United States
for seizure of vessels engaged in the
capture of fur seals prior TO the Paris
award.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22

Roman catholics are scarcer in Swed-
en- than in anv other country. Out of
total population of 4,744, 400, only
$40 are of that faith.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22

The family of James B. McTaggart,
IF Brooks, Me-, is a remarkable one, in
the fact that the father and seven sons
are all railroad men.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Fair and Fruitful

As the West is, it is often malarious But
1t IS pleasant to know that a competent
safeguard in the shape of Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters exists, which absolutely multi
ties the poison of miasma. Western bound
emigrants should bear this in mind. Nor
should it be forgotten, the Bitters is ster-
ling remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness,
plants and rheumatism.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
CALIFORNIA; output of wheat last yea

California's output of wheat last year
was one-siXteenth of the entire crop
of the United States. Her orange crop
will be immense this year; so that
there will be three distinct returns of
golden wealth to the country from the
State where the grizzly bear and the
yellow poppy are alternates as from
tispieces for its magazines.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
A Kansas state senator Resiens.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 15.-State SEN
ator Harry Landis of Medicine Lodge
has resigned. Mr.. Lands is a Popu-
list. and it is said that he gave up his
present position in order to enter the
race for lieutenant governor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
Meade Must Serve His Term.

Topeka, Kan, April 13.-The Su.
preme court rendered decision to.
day in the case of the State against
Richard c. Meade, affirming the judg-
ment of the District court of Atchison
county, which had sentenced him to
term of five years at hard la Dor in the
penitentiary for ENLIGHTENMENT.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22

The telephone line recently stretch
ed from New York to Chicago is twice
as long as the longest line known.
Nearly a million tons of copper wire
were used in LAYING it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
summer weather In BOSTON.

BosToN, April 1.-THE Thermometer
registered 81 degrees above zero at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. April
IL, 1872, is the only day in April in
twenty-five years which has equaled
this high mark