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prices in the United States and in
France, and finds that the average
price of goods consumed by workmen
IS but very little higher in the United
States than in France Rent is higher
in America, and the American requires
better accommodations than the French
worker. The American, he says, has
a larger house, more comforts and
greater convenienees than the workers
of France. He concludes his paper.
which is an exhaustive one and ap-
pears to be the result of serious study
and much personal Investigation, as
follows:
Wages are net, as many seem to
think, something arbitrary, TO be fixed
according to the needs of the workers
or the demands of trades unions. They
depend on several causes, of which the
principal is the total amount of wealth
previously existing or produced at any
given time by labor, and the average
quantity of wealth produced by the
individual worker. The wealth pro-
duced is divided between the three fac
tors of production: capital, the man
ayers of industry and the workers.
There is always a question as to the
rate in which this distribution shall be
made, particularly as TO the respective
shares of the managers and their en-
ploycs, but the wages can in no case,
under penalty of ruin for the industry
equal the total value of the product.
We must admit, therefore, that the
productivity of labor is one of the prfn-
cipal causes which regulate wages.
Now, in the first place, the American
worker is equipped with the machinery
which can make his labor most pro-
ductive, and employers are always dis
posed to perfect this machinery, since,
though paying higher wages, they real
iZe larger profits than from handwork.
In the second place, the workers are
accustomed to work very rapidly, and
their democratic and individualistic ed
ucation gives them an energy which is
a characteristic of the American work.
man.
And. finally, there. is a constant de-
mand in America for a very large pro-
duetion of wealth to satisfy the needs
of a population of more than 10000,
0O0, which consumes each year an
enormous quantity of goods of all
kinds.
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How Fast.

This sounds as if it came from the
variety stage. But as a matter of fact,
is is history, for occasionally funny
things do happen in the courts besides
the lawyers.
1t was in negligence case recently,
and a good humored Irishman was a
witness.
The Judge, lawyers and everybody
else were trying their best to extract
from the Irishman something about the
speed of train.
WAS it going fast?" asked the Judge.
"Aw, yis, it were," answered the wit
ness.
How fast?'
"Oh, purity fasht, yer honor"
We'll, how fast?'
"Aw, purity fasht."
WAS it as fast as a man can rum"
"Aw. yis," said the Irishman, glad
that the basis for an analogy was sup
piled. CAS- fasht as two min kin rum"
Buffalo Enquirer.
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A TRYING SITUATION.

They are ill-informed, indeed, who
have not heard Of that ravenous insect
the New Jersey mosquito. Not long
ago a swarm of these pests stung a
baby to death. Now comes an account
of one of these borers getting away
with stalwart United States soldier
At Governors Island the other day the
troops were out for dress parade. Pri-
vate Flynn was in the ranks. No soon
er had attention" been called and the
men brought to that rgor of precision
that in military regulation forbids a
head to be moved, or a hand raised
from the piece carried, than one of
Jerseys greatest and boldest mos
quitos sailed across the bay, aHghted on
Flynn's neck and roceeded-evidently
aware of the helpless condition of the
man-to insert his sbill just behind
Flynn's right ear and get to work.
Flynn f1inched but dared not lift a
hand to smash his enemy. Nor could
he take the risk of punishment by so
much as wagging his head. though it
would have mattered little for the gen.
uine Jersey insect leaves his victim for
no such small thing as that. The dress
parade was long and the mosquito was
industrious. At last when parade
rest" was given, Flynn fell down in his
tracks limp and insensible. In the hos
pital the surgeons found the mans
clothing literally saturated with blood.
They calculated he had lost all a strong
man could afford to, and something
more The Jersey drill had managed to
bore into and sever a small artery, and
the surgeons say that had a large ar
terry been penetrated, the mans life
could not have been saved. So, while
the Jersey breed of mosquitoes has
heretofore, when on death intent, taken
those somewhat beneath it's size, as
when it killed the Jersey baby, it has
now grown so bold that it lays low the
flower of the United States army.
Which recalls the fact that, in all seri-
business, State scientific officials are
now studying ways and means of kill
ing off the mosquito in New Jersey. At
present their advice is that the breed
ing places Of these pests be sprayed
with coal oil They say that the oil
spreads over the water whence the in
sect comes, and kills the beginning of
mosquito life. If this is true, then a
simple and effective. and a compare
lively cheap specific has been found.
But up on the KIondyke, toward which
a goodly number of Californians are
now headed, they have mosquitoes beside
which thoseof Jersey breed are pig
mics, and the viciousness of which is so
much greater than that of the Jersey
insect that the latter is not TO be men
toned in the same day The Klondyke
mosquito. it is asserted by returned
miners, thinks nothing of boring
through buck glove, while a felt hat
is no barrier to his industry whatever.
These pests flourish with the thermom-
eter away down to zero. and they come
up out of moss-covered lands beneath
the green cover of which there is eter-
nal ice The naturalists will explain
this, of course, and satisfy a curious
world how it can be that mosquitoes
and snow and ice are in such accord.
Coal oil in that region, evidently. viii
not serve the purpose to which We are
assured it may be successfully applied
In the low lands and temperate climes.
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Our esteemed contemporary, the San
Francisco Chronicle" inclines to
humor now and then. but it really owes
Mary Ellen an apology. when it says that
her campaign for Governess of Kansas
is looking up along with other things
that are fat on their backs. Why, Mary $
campaign is on its feet, good square
toed and long-heeled feet. good square
nothing under the blessed sun that can
defeat Mary, but an insufficiency of votes
in the convention. All creation ought to
wish Mary success; just that one folly
is needed to round out Kansas as an
awful example.
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An Intelligent Listener.

A professor of mechanics at an Eng
lish college records that he once gave
a lecture upon the locomotive and was
particularly struck by the absorption
of one juvenile listener. He spoke to
this student after the lecture and
asked:
We'll, l suppose you understand all
about the locomotive now?''
Yes" was the reply; all but one
thing
And what is that?" said the profes-
sor, kindly.
Il can't make out what makes the
locomotive move without horses. It'd
Bits.
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The Escape of Kansas.

Bingham-Did you notice that those
immense hailstones which fell in Kan
sas the other day, knocked out the
brains of many animals?
Francis-Yes. Terrible, wasn't it?
Bingham-It was indeed. 1 suppose,
if the storm had occurred in any other
State but Kansas the brains of many
people, also, would have been knocked
ont
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The State Department has at last re-
piled to the voluble Professor Elliott.
The response is a crusher. 1t shows
that Elliott is not now, and has not
been for years, connected with the
Smithsonian Institution or any Govern
mental department; that when he was
employed ne made reports so inaccu-
rate, absurd and disrespectful, that
date this bitterly prejudiced man has
had no connection with any depart
ment of the Federal Government. In
other words, the State Department po
liteIy dubs Elliott a fraud and a nui-
sance
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fact that he had stood in the halls Of
the Montezumas, in the halls of Con-
gress and in other historic places in
America and other countries, but none
of these had stirred his emotions as
much as when once again standing in
the old cabin in which he was born
Nashville Banner
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FASHIONS DEGREES.

My lady garbed in such wise
j can but wonder whence the dyes
Are drawn which help her to display.
These colors weird as in Cathay
Are darped about the dusky forms
OF maids with eyes as dark as storms
That is, / used to wonder some,
But since a later date, I've come
Bewildered by their wful names
To lose my wonder at their flames.
Detroit News
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CAPITAL HOTEL FOE SALE. SACRAMENTO CITY.

THE OLD TABLISHED AND POPU-
lar Capital Hotel Sacramento City, will
positively be sold a administrator sale,
under an order Of the Superior Court, Sep
tember IS 1887
This sale must be made to close up the
estate OF 4. CT. Blessing, deceased. Ad-
dress, a. j. BRUNER, ESQ,
Attorney for the Estate, Sacramento
CITY Cal au7-6tSa
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A SAD SACRIFICE.
He Never Could Love Another as
He Had Her.

He gaZed upon her motfonleSS form.
He was rich, but he remembered that
in his days of poverty she had ever
been true and faithful, even by his side,
with never a word of complaint.
But riches had flowed in on him. and
he had determined to get rid of her and
put another in the place she had so
long held in his affection.
Still, in spite of his determination.
there was a look of sadness in his face
as he murmured: Yes, we must part.
Years and years and years we have
been together in sunshine and in rain
She made no reply.
"Ah! 1 remember" he continued,
''how proud l felt the day I called you
mine, when I felt that I was earning
enough to possess you as my own. You
have watched my business grow from
nothing to its present great proportions,
and you helped me make the fortune I
now possess; but to-day we separate.
never, never to meet again.
She gave no indication that she had
heard him, and her face still retained
its fixed, mute look.
I'm the old days" he went on II
would never have thought Of such an
act, but time and customs change. and
while I admit that 1 can never love the
one who win succeed you as / have and
do you, still my position in life demands
that you must be sacrificed
Still not a word-not even a sob.
Yes, all is at an end at last We
shall never see each other again. but
ever shall / think Of"
At this point a wagon drove ZIP in
front of the door, and the wealthy to-
bacconist helped the driver off With 4
wooden figure of an up-to-date bicycle
girl, who was placed in the spot occu-
pied for years by the figure of an In
dian maiden, who had grown old and
whose nose had been Clipped off, and
who the same night was made into
kindling wood.-St Louis Post-Dis-
patch
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Cuba Libre.

Honestly, now, General" asked the
impudent American, don't you think
that Cuba is destined to be free?"
'It," said the noble Spanish General,
'is. I am freeing it of Cubans myself
at pretty good rate. te."-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
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The Vallejo Chronicle" is making it
very lively these days for Messrs. Alden.
McCudden and Wilson, owners Of valu-
able franchises on the water front of
that city The Chronicle" is deter
mined that these parties shall pay the
city for the exclusive privileges they en-
iOy
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Here we 60 down and lower still. y
silver dollar in bullion value is to-day
worth 43 cents. minus. while August
wheat touches size a bushel. How
about that Bryanic maxim with which
the air was resonant last summer, that
anywhere at any time an ounce of silver
will buy a bushel of wheat?
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Wife-How people gaze ait my new
dress! I presume they wonder if I've
been shopping in Paris.
Husband - More likely they wonder
if I've been robbing a bank.-Tit- Bits.
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The story comes for the twentieth
time that Weyler is about to be re-
moved" Let US hope, for humanity's
sake, that it is this time verify. If
not Weyler will have to fence Havana
to keep the insurgents out. He appears
TO be unable to check them with his
sugar cane and barbed-wire trochas.
The record-union., 1897-08-14

Childe Harold-Father, what is the
difference between jackpots and lob
ster pots?
Parent-There is no difference, my
son; they are both used to catch the
same article-New oYrk World.
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In the recent report of the Chief En-
gineer, the recommendation was made
that chemical engine be added to the
Sacramento Fire Department. This ad
vice has the virtue of age. 1t has been
repeated year after year with uniform
gravity and unvarying emphasis. But
this persistence appears to have little
effect upon the city legislature. OF
course the excuse is made every year
that economy is necessary and the
chemical engine proposition can wait.
That is error; it cannot afford to wait
without the danger to householders
being augmented. For as the city grows
fires become more frequent and the de-
mands upon the Fire Department more
exacting Now as a chemical engine is
lighter than any other it can reach the
scene of a fire more easily and speedily,
as much damage is done to goods, as
rule. by water as by fire, but the chemic-
al engine uses no water to speak of. The
actual economy is therefore in procuring
the needed fire extinguisher. Instead of
figuring upon schemes to buy more
pumps for the Water Works and to
throw away money in experiments with
filter beds, let there be steps taken to
procure a frst-class chemical engine for
the city Fire Department.
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Unsettled; prob
ably showers along the coast; variable
winds in the valleys; southwesterly winds
on the coast
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hlIs KOacnes, q Teas, MlEHs alIII 5VuDH-s EVII-
poisonous: wont stain. Large bottles, al druggists
and groceFs. 25 cents lyZl-ow
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California, County of Sacramento. In
the matter Of the estate of A. D. OAK
LEY, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY,
O'Clock D. m of said day, and the court
room of said court, at the Courthouse,
in the City of Sacramento, county Of
Sacramento. and State of California, has
been appointed as the time and place
for proving the viii of said A. d. Oak
ley. deceased. and for hearing the ap-
plication of Henry L. Oakley for the is
suance to him of letters testamentary
thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal Of said
court this 18th day of August. 1897.
(SeaD w. b. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. S. Wachhorst, Deputy Clerk.
James 3. Devine, Attorney for Peti-
toner. aul3-l0t
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NOTICE TO HUNTERS.

NO SHOOTING OR HUNTING WILL
be allowed on the Rancho Del Paso. Any
violation of this order viii lead to arrest.
JOHN MACKEY. Superintendent,
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These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All POST
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast
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Save money by buying your tea and
coffee Of J. McMorry. 531 III.
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Coronado water. Stockton sarsaparil-
la and iron, champagne cider, ginger
ale. orange cider. ]. McMorry, agent
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as second-class matter.
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Long 1 unused in the evening at home
On the spirit that was and that vanished
Frank Putnam in Chicago Times Herald
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/ Was Dreaming of Man.

! was dreaming of man and his mission;
His emergence from shadow, his too;
OF his love and the meaning behind it
The divinely directed renewing
OF the diggers and reaperS of earth.
I observed him., through childhood and
youth,
Taking note of his splendid unfolding
IN the period of wooing and mating.
Through the years of his prime and de-
cadence
He and l were as intimate brothers.
Standing holding his hand on his deathbed,
When his lips that were speechless moved
dumbly,
And his eyes sought the eyes of his idols
With message of agoniZed yearning,
question:
But prayed to the God of my boyhood-
The approachable, loVable Father
For the peace of the soul OF the dying.
In the chancel paused, looking long
On the clay so composed and fair-Seeming
And | studied the words of the preacher,
Lest the key be unconsciously spoken.
1t is true of the word that is spoken
That it carries to each who may hear it
suggestion unknown to the speaker.
But the preacher, despite of his wrestling
In the closet with powers supernal,
Made it plain through his eloquent phrases
He was walking blind-eyed in the dark
ness.
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That Secretary Bliss should have
deemed it wise to issue a warning
against the rush of foolhardy gold
seekers to the Yukon section so late in
the season, justifies the protest of the
Record Union" put into print two
weeks ago, warning the prospectors
against attempting to cross the passes
above Dyea, before next June. The
fear the other day expressed that there
will be terrible suffering in these passes
intensifies. Aleardy there are numbers
turning back, but there are hundreds
so far over now, that to go ahead will
be less perilous than to retreat, and
these, we very much fear. will suffer
terribly. and many among them will
be emblamed by death in the snow and
ice of the upper Yukon.
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SACRAMENTO BANK.

THE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN
the city, corner Fifth and streets, Sac.
rarnento Guaranteed capital, $500, 900:
paid up capital. gold COIN. 100000; re-
posits, So 224, ,931 80; loans on real estate
January T. 1897, s.. .635, ,T61 rs. Terms and
ordinary deposits received. Dividends paid
in January and July. Money loaned upon
real estate only. Information furnished
upon application to
W. p. COLEMAN, President.
Ed. &. Hamilton. Cashier
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/ was close to the grave when the sexton,
Unobserving the sobs of the children
Or the heart-broken cry of the mother,
With his spade threw the dirt on the cof-
fin
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THE WEEKLY UNION.

TWELVE PAGES.
Is the cheapest and most desirable Home
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast.
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RECORD-UNION TELEPHONE.
Editorial Rooms Red 131
Business Office. Black 131
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DEAD STUCK FOR BUGS

Kills Reaches, Fleas Moths and Bedbugs. Nom
poisonous: won't saili Large bottles al druggists
and groceTs. 25 cents lyZl-5w
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DOLLAR WHEAT.

San Bernardino Sun: IN heavens
name, has anybody heard anything OF
William Jennings Bryan and his re-
marks about dollar wheat of late. He
is rapidly becoming the great IN
known E"
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BANKING HOUSES.
U. 8. Bonds Bought and Sold.
CALIFORNIA STATE BANK,
SACRAMENTO.
Does a General Banking Business.
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oFFICERS:
FREDERICK COX-.................. President
GEORGE w. PELTER. Vice-President
W. E. Cashicr
G. E. BURNHAM Assistant Cashie.
DIRECTORS:
C. w. CLARK. GEO. w. PELTIER,
FREDERICK Cox, JOSEPH STEFFENs,
PETER BoHL. ADOLPH HEILBRoN,
w f (3ERRER
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-01-22

votes will elect. Kyle leads today
as the following result of the two
caucuses will show: Kyle 28;Loucks
"A; Plowman 10; Goodykoontz and
2 scattering. Second ballot: Kyle
27; Loucks 16; Plowman II and
Goodykoontz 8. On the third and
fourth ballots Kyle lost strength,
Loucks held even and Plowman and
Goodykoontz gained. Fifth ballot:
Kyle 20; Loucks II; Plowman II
and Goody koontz 8.
The democrats held caucus and
nominated /. A. Weeks of Kimball.
AS your correspondent writes this
the impression seems prevalent that
Kyle will not get the big senatorial
plum. This will leave it between
Loucks and Plowman, with chances
in favor of the Black Hills man on
the grand finale
The new office Of insurance COM
missioner is to be created. It will
make no additional cost to the state
and will take ali insurance business
out OF the hands of the state auditor.
The commissioner will be appointed
by Gov. Lee. J. HI. Kirp. the de-
feated candidate for auditor and one
OF the brightest men in eastern Da-
kota, is favorably mentioned in con
nection with the new office.
The resolution relating to the re.
moval of the state capital was lost
in the senate by a vote of "a to 16.
Fairbank's S great speech was in
strumental in causing the defeat.
Pierre people jubilant.
Judge McGee and Fred Brown of
Rapid, and Bobby Woods, of Custer,
have just issued circular state
ment showing the great resources
of the Black Hill. The circular also
calls attention to the enormous ma.
jorities shown up by the Hills in
the recent election. They present
some convincing facts to clinch their
argument why the Hills should have
the senatorship. Their worl- is
having great effect.
LATER ON TOP.
Thirty ballots taken in caucas fol
senator give Kyle from II to 35, the
last being 33. Plowman's highest
II and Z on last ballot. Plowmar
stands no show, and Kyle is on top
Necessary to choice in caucas AZ.
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VOLUME VIII.


push only one knob, met with no per-
;xity whatever They could march
and out with
and out at the rate of from two to
lr a minute. Those voters that voted
split ticket required little more
ne. They had to push a knob for
ch candidate they voted for. Still
ey voted with surprising rapidity.
metimes the votes were at the aver
rate of two minute. But sixty and
venty votes an hour was the average.
ad the polling clerks been able to
rify names more rapidly the average
ould have been somewhat higher. 1t
as they and not the voters that caused
most delay. One of the most salts
ctory features Of the machine was the
pidity and accuracy with which it
,rmitted the result of the election to
known. Within twenty minutes
ter the closing Of the polls the COM
lny's central office was in possession
the result of the voting for presiden-
al and gubernatorial candidates in all
le districts except half a dozen. These
ere obtained by o'clock. BY 9 O'Clock
le results of the election in all dis
'icts on all candidates were known &C.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-01-22
Restaurant end Confectionery.

Restaurant and Confectionery.
Mrs. Howard Gillette wishes to in
form the general public thah she
has opened restaurant, fruit, and
confectionery stand one door east Of
the postoffice on St Joe street in
Rapid City GOOD board by the day
or week. Also full line of candies,
fruits and cigars, at the lowest pos
sible prices. Give her call when
in Rapid City.