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The sun., 1897-10-31
X. Ofp. Invest mentS Safe.

CHICAGO H., Oct. 3O-A circular
letter bearing even date Oct. 2S. has been
issued by President J. A. Kinsey Of the
Board of Control of the Endowment rank
Of the Knights Of Pythias, as follows:
During the past few days there has
been published in the daily papers
throughout the country, articles varying
in detail, calculated to involve the En-
dowmcnt Rank, Knights Of Py'hias, in
what has been termed the Lexington
Hotel failure. Sensational reports have
appeared alleging that ''the investment
of the Endowment Rank aggregated
5000. $780, which might prove to be Il total
loss.'
''Thc investment referred to represents
first mortgage & per cent gold bonds OF Il
par value Of Slo2, 800, issued by the Lex
ington Hotel Building Company, Of Chi
cago, and is an unqualified first lien ON /;
building known as the Lexington Hotel
erected in 1893 at a cost of over $500, 600,
said first mortgage bond issue being in
the sum of S35OOOO.
notwithstanding the fact that the
president Of the Lexington Hotel Com
pany has become involved in difficulties
prccipitating the hotel as well as the
building into litigation, the Board OF
Control desire to rrassure the member
ship that the security is absolutely un-
impaired, and that the bonds are as
good as ever and will yield the rank full
face valur.'
The sun., 1897-10-31
NOTED CARLlST ARRIVES.
Count Penaloza Says the Movement IA
World Wide.

:JNEw YORK, Oct. 3O.-Count Henry
de Penaloza, one of the leaders in
Paris Of the. Carlist movement was a
passenger in the White Star steamship
iermanic, which arrived here from Liv-
erpool Thursday. Count Penaloza is one OF
the most enthusiastic supporters OF the
prtensions Of Don Carlos. While he
would not admit it, the Count gave de-
cided impression that his visit here has
some connection with an attempt to be
made to put Don Carlos Oh the throne Of
Spain. Count Penaloza said he would
visit several cities in the United States
and then 60 to Chill. He admitted being
on special mission but would not di-
vulge what it was.
He was asked whether there was anv
immediate project OF Carlist uprising.
He replied he did not think there would
be any for several months.
''The Carlist movement he added, sis
perfectly organized on an almost world
wide scale. There are Carists here and
in South and Central America who will
be with us when the time comcs.'
Count Penaloza would not acknowl-
edge that his object in coming here was
to visit these Carlist agents. but he con-
tinucd: "When the time is ripe, | shall
60 back to fight for the cause. | have
ever been a Carlist, and will remain so.
When was an infant my family fought
in the last Carist war, and my brother
was killed in one of it, battles. Carlos
is the rightful King Of spain. Those in
power now are there only by virtue of
force.
!" "Whilc a Spaniard. do not live in
Spain. | make my home in Paris. |
have not been exiled. but the Spanish
Government makes it very uncomforta-
bic for Carists who live in Spain"
The sun., 1897-10-31

Job printing at "The Sun" Office.
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or the course Of the Mississippi. BGt
hndlnS that it was goir~ n me wrong
direction, the river mus haye broken
& new path through it's soft banks and
lett the curve to one side. Besides
these "cut-offs,' as they are called a
great number of peculiar mounds. such
as form the banks of the stream. are
scattered through the territory ad-
Jacent to the river, showing that the
Mississippi must have passed over a
good part of the valley at different
times in the past while on it's way 10
the sea.
This fact explains the remarkable
fertility of the land near the lower
Mississippi. A great part Of it has
been built entirely of this rich river de-
post, as the delta is being built at
present, while the rest has been thick
ly coated with it during the various
times that 1t formed a part of the river
bed. This part Of the valley is ac-
knowledged to be the most productive
land in the world. 1t is comnosed
largely of mineral substances, but con
tains also considerable vegetable mat
ter, making it the richest fertilizer
known. It grows wheat. corn. cotton
sugar, rice and all manner Of vegetables
in wonderful %profusion and in a very
short time. One acre produces
seventy bushels Of wheat in a single
crop, whereas thirty bushels is con-
sidered good in other places.
No one can find any fault with the
conduct of the Mississippi in former.
times, for it has made the country
through which it flows worthy Of its
title, "The Garden of the World But
now things are different. The land
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enters into 1t easily, undermlnes and
eats it away until suddenly the bank,
island or bar gives way and in a few
moments the course of the river under
goes a great change.
1t is this uncertain habit the river
has of suddenly shifting it's course or
changing it's appearance that adds an
element OF danger to life in its vicinity
and makes it so difficult to navigate.
Sometimes a steamboat in coming up
the stream will pass directly over the
spot where stood al island when it
passed down a few days before. Or
perhaps it will find a new island or bar
where the water was formerly clear,
or have to sail over what was before
a farm or plantation, and leave the
previous course some distance to n
side. This has frequently led to dis
putes and law suits between farmers
whose lands had been seized by the
river and those on the other side who
suddenly found large tracts Of rich, fer
tile soil added to their domains.
TO this habit the river has of deposit
ing sediment along it's banks must also
be ascribed the numerous twistings and
turnings in the channel which follow
one another so closely. A small bar or
other obstruction starting out from the
shore catches the silt as it comes down
and soon builds up a curving bank that
turns the course of the stream. Still
the water keeps adding more matter to
it and extending it further and further
around until the river is flowing in an
opposite direction to that it ought to
follow. Sometimes it almost describes
again in the right direction. The
whole curse of the Mississippi, from
the mouth of the Missouri down, is a
series of large, graceful bends, one after
another. The distance from St. Louis
to the sea as the river makes the jour
ney is 1900 miles, but in a straight
line it is not quite 700 miles. Thus,
because of the distractions which the
river is constantly carrying down and
placing in its own path, it is obliged
to travel nearly twice as far as is neces-
sary between these two points.
Look on any large map of the Mis-
sissippi valley south of Mason and
Dixon's line, you will see on either
side of the river, and quite distinct
from it, a large number of small, cir
cular lakes. Some of these have mere
iy a slight bend, while others have the
shape of horseshoes. These crescent
shaped lakes indicate the fact that at
sometime in the past they formed part
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
LITERATURE,
The Diseases of Modern and the Health
OF Classic Styles.

The Diseases of Modern and the Health
OF Classic Styles.
Modern literature has been more or
less sentimental since Petrarch. a NOR
bidly subjective strain has existed in
1t since Rousseau, while of late a quail
ity is beginning to appear which we
cannot better describe than as neurotic.
says the Atlantic. We simply say. TO
paraphrase an utterance Of Chamfort's,
that the success Of some contemporarv
books is due to the correspondence that
exists between the state of the anth0r,s
nerves and the state of the nerves
of the public. Spiritual dependency,
which, under the name of acedia. was
accounted one of the seven deadly sins
during the middle ages, has come in
these later days to be one OF the main
of literature. Life itself has
recently been defined by one Of the
lighls of the French delionesrent
school as IAN epileptic fit betwee, two
nothings."
1t is no small r%esourc to be able to
escape from these miasmatic exha,a-
tons OF contemporary literature into
the bracing atmosphere Of the classics
for of him who has caught the pro-
founder teachings Of Greek Literature.
we may say, in the words OF tie "imi-
t%ation," that he is released from = mil
titude of opinions. We may applv to
authors like Sophocles and Plato. and
to those who have penetrated their
deeper meaning the language the Bud
hists used to describe their nerfect
sage-language which will at once re-
mind the scholar of the beginning Of
the second book of Lucretius: when
the learned man has driven away van
ity by earnestness, he, the wise, climb
ing the terraced heights of wisdom
looks down upon the fools. Seren, he
looks upon the toiling crowd. as ono
that stands on a mountain looks dow,
On them that stand upon the plain"
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appear enormous. It is stated by ex-
perts who have made long and careful
observations that the matter thus car
ried down by the Mississippi in a single
year amounts to a solid mass one mile
square and 1853 feet deep. This sedi-
ment is being constantly deposited
along the shores and upon the bars
and islands that abound in this re-
markable stream. Most of it, however,
is carried down to the gulf, where it is
added to that already there, forming
the delta. This process has been go
ing on for such a long time that the
delta, which at some former age was
located in the vincinity of the Red
river, has been moved into the Gulf
more. All the country on both sides
of the river for this 800 miles has been
built up in this way. The land upon
which the city of New Orleans is stu
ated is part Of this territory which
the river has made.
Along the lower course of the Mis-
sissippi the natural banks of the river
are in many cases in the nature of
levees, having been added to by the
stream until they are higher than the
surrounding country. The strange
phenomenon of having to walk up"
to the shore of the river, instead of
down." is frequently met with in this
part of the country. But the very
nature of the soil with which the bars,
islands and banks of the Mississippi
have been built make them of very
uncertain length Of life. Being COM
posed in the first place of SO much
water and being deposited in or near
the river, it is very soluble. The water
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

former course This yearly action of
the Nile in flooding the adjacent coun-
try and leaving it covered, when it
withdrew, with a surface of rich, fer
tile mud, made a deep impression upon
the ancient Egyptians and they wor-
SHIPPED the river as a great god. The
Mississippi acts in the same way, with
the exception that it is as irregular and
uncertain as the Nile is regular and
certain. 1t is also, in conjunction with
the Missouri, the longest stream in the
world, having a total length of 1920
miles.
While the Nile has been rolling along
for ages in the same channel, the Mis-
sissippi has been roaming all over it's
valley, twisting hither and thither,
building up banks and then cutting
through them and suddenly abandon
ing the old channel for a new one. 1t
is doing the same thing today, and for
the last thirty years the government
and it's ablest engineers have been
studying the difficult problem of how
to make the Mississippi river stay
where it is and keep within it's banks.
The cause of the trouble lies in the
large amount of silt, a fine earthly sedi-
ment, or slime, which the Mississippi
is constantly carrying down and
emptying into the sea. The vast
length of the Mississippi and it's tribu-
taries, measuring 5000 miles of navi-
gable waters and draining an area of
l,244, 900 square miles, must account in
a large part for the great quantity OF
this matter, but even when these facts
are considered the estimate must still
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

has all been occupied, the people are
engaged in tilling the soil and they
want the river to leave them alone.
They would like it to forego the wan
dcring habits of it's youth and settle
down into one certain course. But this
the river is loath to do. Many schemea
have been suggested for compelling it
to stay where it is, but the levee and
jetty system seems to be the only
feasible one.
The first levee was built as long age
as I'LL. In that year De la Tour, a
French engineer, constructed one about
a mile long for the protection OF the
infant city of New Orleans. From that
small beginning they have been gradu-
ally added to until now they extend up
the east bank almost to Memphis, and
up the west bank to a point opposite
the mouth of the Ohio. But although
they are being strengthened each year,
they are still far from perfect. They
have to stand an enormous pressure,
especially in flood time, and as the
only earth available for their con-
y uSlloA Is VIC SUI sui ILoC Ii AouAl
in the vicinity of the river, they are
easily acted upon by the water.
The clearing away of instructions in
the rivers all over the northern part
of the country and the destruction Of
the forests are supposed to contribute
largely to the severity of the floods of
late years. The spring rains that
formerly took months to reach the
main river are now precipitated al
most at once upon the lower MISSISSIPPI
pi, causing great destruction of life
n property. If all this extra water
could be carried off as fast as it az
rives. there would be no danger, but
channel and the distractions of the
delta, this is impossible.
In 1875 congress authorized Capt.
Eads to begin the construction of jet
ties in the branches of the delta. When
the river reaches the delta it divides
and flows into the sea through five diff
ferent outlets, called passes. In these
passes Capt. Eads built long walls of
masonry, combining the stream To a
narrow channel. This had the effect
OF q~uickening the current, which
secured out the bottom of the channel,
deepening it and carrying off all OBJ
structions. Extensive dredging opera
tons were also begun for clearing the
passes and allowing the water to reach
the gulf more quickly.
These are the plans upon which the
work of combining the Mississippi to it's
present channel is being carried on.
But it will probably be some time be-
fore the levees and %jetties are of sufi-
Gent strength and extent to remove all
danger of floods. Whether the current
can lie %quickened enough to carry off
all the sediment and thus remove the
possibility of shifting oars and chang
ing the channel is a doubtful question.
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Try Graln-O.

Ask your grocer today to show you
a package Of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place Of coffee.
The children may drink it without
injury as we'll as the adult. All who
try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich
seal Blown Of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains, and the most
delicate stomach receives it without
distress. "A the price Of coffee.
Is cents and Is cents per package.
Sold by all grocers. Tastes like cot
fee. Looks like coffee.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
Shake Into Your Shoes.

Shake Into Your Shoes.
Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder for the
feet. 1t cures painful, swollen, smart
ing feet and instantly takes the sting
out of corns and bunions. 1t Is the
greatest comfort discovery of the age.
Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight-ftting
or new shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot,
tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores. BY
mail for csc in stamps. Trial package
FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE
Roy, N. Y.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

The development of a school from small beginnings
into a great educational institution, is directly trace
able to . careful selection Of the best ability and
minute attention to the details Of administration. No
Institution is so f%avorably known in this respect as the
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF Music in BosroS.
With nearly a million dollars invested in its magni6-
cent buildings, and With courses in music and elocu.
ton and practical instruction In plano and organ
tuning, the advantages offered ore unparalleled. and
prove beyond question that the student can make no
mistake who selects this school in preference to any
other, at home or abroad.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
An Inquiry.

Inventor-This is a new gas meter
While the gas is burning the meter ac-
quires such a momentum that it keeps
going after the gas has been turned
off. Gas Ofhcial-I understand Rut
in what respect does it differ from the
meters now in use?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
Information and Adv.~.

Jones-l think o are carrying too
heavy an account i'll your bank. I've,
heard some unfavoraDle rumors as to
it's solvency. Smith-Nonsense! / am
a director of the bank. Jones-I know.
That's why I thought I'd give you a
tip.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
A Changed Man.

A Changed Man.
Maude-You wouldn't know my beau
now, If you met him.
Nell-Why, has he changed so much
as that?
Maude-That isn't it exactly. I've
changed him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump
ton cured me Of a bad lung trouble.-Mrs
j. Nichols, Princeton, Ind, Mar. 26, 1895.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

DRorsY treated free by DIR. H. H. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Re ad their adver-
tisen.ent in another column of this paper.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

1t is a wonder that in her zeal to start a
new style, no woman ever joined two
churches.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
OUR MIGHTY RIVER.
ITS MAD CAREER HAS MADE
MANY CHANGES.
The Mississippi Easily the Most Unruly
Stream in the World-Efforts of the
Government to Keep 1t Within Its
Bounds.
@% HE Mississippi is

HE Mississippi is
probably the most
remarkable v in
the world. The
Nile, which it re-
sembles more near
ly thar any other
stream, is noted for
the regularity with
which it overhows
it's banks and re-
11l@- D-~;~ 70 stc
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

The further a man gets away from his
youth, the smarter he believes himself to
have been.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Every person ought to have an old pair
of shoes to rest up in.
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Little Choice Loft Him.

Little Choice Loft Him.
"Sir," said the indignant constitu-
emit, II am compelled to say that
you have acted the part Of q knave."
Great Jonah!' replied the as
tonished congressman, would you
have me be q fOol"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

After a mans daughter becomes an ole
woman, he calls her his little girl.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Hens that are laying regularly should
awe a little extra food.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

The less energy a man has the easier he
drifts into matrimony.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
10 quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor. take No-To-
BAG, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Al druggists, SOC or 81: Cure guaran-
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Strive with all your might to come up to
your own standard.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take ascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c
If c. C. C. fail to cure. druggists refund money
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
For children tcetllinR,~ softenS the gumS, reduces innam.
nation, alIay s pain. cures wind collie. 25 cents a bottle,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

NO-TO-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tocacco habit cure. makes weak
men strong, blood pure. soc, 81. All druggists
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Coal oil applied to the chicken roosts will
kill all kinds of parasites.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Dry-picked poultry generally brings the
best price.
Evening star., 1897-01-07
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