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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-30
Bringing Good Prices.

Spud Murphy yesterday SOLD a
nmbrr of co" ponies for $25 per
'';uI IT, eastern buyers. Ranchmen
I port the prices of horses contin-
n,iv getting belt +. Our western
>r,k lmrse> and driving animals are
.~urlrulurly in demand. This fact
Hn~ tvs'iti"d 80 day by Mr.. D. Lind
",,.t OF Nj dlciae Bow, VINO has
~, returned from Boston, where
ne ,>pusri of d number of horses at
.~1. satisfactory prices. The gen
s tn SAYS There is no trouble at
i n~ui>,m>r of good work horses ut
a'- prices $. and driving horses are
Il a., d. valuable aud as much
to LIler. Mr.. Lindscott says
e Verge ruuye horse is worth
IT,, :iynu here than anywhere else,
IL IS mvessary to have good
-, the East, but d well broken
v"ru-e driving horse of which
Ii Hr>I Is tail, brings a handsome
II Lln' East, and the industry
promising at the present
t nn for years past.-Cheyenne
, Il Lutr.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-30
MacCorkIe's
Endorsement.

Hon. W.. A. MacCorkle, Ex-Gov. Of West
Virginia, adds his name to tho long list
of Statesmen benefited by Pe-ru-na-He
heartily recommends Pe-ru.na as q ca
tarrh remedy and tonic.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-30
Summons.

State of South Dakota, County of PEN
nington, in Ci.cuit Court Seventh
Judicial Circuit.
Mary A. Horton
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-30

nrst string of westerns to ar
rom Belle Fourche country
season vas d twcnty-six-car
.ucnt OF r. L. Cnu~iny and J. E.
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Cheap Foods and Variety.

Clover hay is a cheap winter food for
laying hens, and by its use the great
difficulty of procuring green food is
overcome. In fact, the essential want
of the hens in winter is not so much
that of green food as of bulky food of
a heterogeneous character. For many
years breeders have made spe-
cialty of recommending all kinds of
grain for poultry, the only variation
being that at a certain time some of it
was to be whole grains, and at other
times soft food was to be given. 1t
did not occur to them that the effect
of long-continued diet of grain was
as injurious to fowls as to cattle, and
that the concentrated grain food gave
the best results when diluted if we
may use the expression) with some
Kind of bulky material, which not
only promoted digestion, but also
largely assisted in supplying the ele-
ments necessary for the albumen of
the eggs, which was lacking in the car
bonaceous food of the grains.-Farm
and Firesitle.
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KNOWLEDGE ENOUGH.
Although Shc Was from Boston She
Cared Not for q Higher Sub
1ect Than Beans.

Notwithstanding her nose turned up, there
were specs on it, and she was from Boston,
which may be considered to be competent
testimony that heredity isn't everything.
She was visiting in Brooklyn before the hot
spell and the frs; young man she met was
ote who prides himself on his intellectuals.
Whether anyone else does or not is another
story. As it happened, the young man had
to talk with the young woman alone, and he
"Ah, Miss Sophia he said, with a soulful
yearn in his gentle voice, Il presume you at
tend several of the numerous schools Of phil
osophy in which Boston is SO rich and Brook
lyn is so poor?"
II am sorry" she hesitated, ..but really,
Mr.. Blank, do net attend any"
Indeed, and do you feel no interest in
any of the concepts of modern philosopEic
thought?'
None whatever, I fear" and she really
seemed to be sorry to have been 80 careless
of her golden, glorious opportunities.
And does not the subjective idealsm of
existence in delightful Boston profoundly
affect the reality of your Ego?"
so far have not observed that it did, +"
she said, apologetically.
"How can it be possible?" he exclaimed
The sphere of your knowledge must be far
wider than it is with us"
No. she answered, measuring her words
carefully. Il should say it was not. Don't
you know as long as we Bostonians know
beans when the bags open we don't worry
overmuch about the rest of it. Why should
we! Isn't that enough for us tp know"
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THE COTTON BALE.
Ine March or Progress Will Do Away will,
tho wasteful and Unsightly
Cotton Package.

For years and years that wasteful
and unsightly package of ofmerchandise
the American cotton bale, has been.
first, source of complaint from con-
sumers: next, source of serious loss
to producers. The congresses turned
deaf ear not only to complaints of
consumers. but when these complaints
took the shape of various claims
against the badly compressed and
wrapped bale, these claims were sim
ply charged to the producer, and the
slashing of the bagging and the
charges for the privilege of having it
done in the way of charges for >%eigh-
ing and sampling merrily went tn.
Harken, though! All at once a
mighty compress wall goes through
the land. Conventions arc held. reso-
lutions are passed, a so-called uniform
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bale 24x54 is wanted, and quick, too.

All ginners are requested, sitotpresto,
to change their presses for the coming
season so as to make uniform bales
24x54. Mind you, nothing is said of a
uniform weight for these bales Gf it
has been spoken of have not heard of
it, the weight being not the least
factor entering to the making of uni
form bale.
Nor is there a word said about re-
ducing the various charges, now eat
ing the profits of the producer. Vague
hints are thrown out that savings will
be affected in freight, but no COM
press or buyer has as yet offered to
the producer.
But what is it that made these slow
going lording-it-all-overth whole
south monopolies wake up and jump
like a horse spurrcd an inch deep on
both sides by its rider. | hear some
body say the appearances of the round
bale struck the congresses in the side.
No, sir; that isn't it. The round bale
itself is an effect of the cause that
made the congresses stir.
What is it then?
1t is the same cause that displaced
the tallow dip with the electric light;
the stage coach with the express train:
the messenger boy with the telephone.
1t is progress, in its irresistible,
triumphant march, noticing poor,
deeply-forsaken cotton. 1t is prog
ress, pointing out that of all things
having been improved upon and cheap
ened, the manner of handling cotton
alone has neither been improved nor
cheapened.
The congresses are trying to catch
on to that triumphant wagon. but III
doing so they uncover-they glaringly
expose their complete, their utter use
lessness.
The admission is made that by re-
ducing the gin boxes, a bale can be
compressed better-to a larger densi-
ty. Nothing is said, though, that il
box 24N54 will necessarily contain less
cotton than a box 2sx56. Thus, while
it is not said, the congresses are sim
ply maneuvering for smaller bales.
This being the ease, why not re-
duce the bales still a little more;
and compress them at the gin. This
would be true, genuine progress, and
sure enough saving to the farmer.
1t should be found out which balu
thespinner likes best; whether it is
the square bale, the round bale Will.
horizontal layers, or the round bale
with spiral layers. They should then
go to work on the information re-,
ceived, and put in such presses as will
produce bales favored by the majority
of the spinners.
In five years the greater part of t:,s
cotton will be put in good shipping
shape at the gin, thereby saving at
least fifty cents per bale to the pre-
ducer, to say nothing of the saving in
sampling and weighing charges, lea;s-
ages, country damage, and so forth,
amounting in all to $20OO0.OOO per
year. .'-R. Derdeyn, in Vicksburg Dis
| patch.
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THE APPARENT REASON.
She Readily Accounted for the Con.
slant Wearing of the
Halos,

Dotty sat on stool beside her mother
looking at the pictures in an old church
book: There were, angels and cherubim
and harplsts galore, and in them the child
found much to interest her. The last pic
ture in the book was of dozen or more
angels floating on the clouds. Above the
head of each shone the symbolic halo. Those
halos bothered Dotty. She had never seen
such head dress and she was perplexed
After minutes thought she held the book
up to her mother and said: ''See, mamma,
the ladies what's got wings and funny things
on their heads.''
dcIh The mo %otheF her looked rhose are angels,
and what's the funny rings on their
heads, mammal" the child asked.
Those are halos, Dotty."
Does they wear them always, mamma
Does all angels wear them?"
Eyes, Dotty. All angels wear them and
they wear them all the time"
When they's in the house?"
"Yes, Dotty.'
"When they's asleep:"
Eyes"
81 guess they wears their halos all the
time, mamma, cause they're afraid if they
took 'em off and hung EN- on the hat rack
they'd get broke, don't they? ?"-Detroit Free
Press.
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HERE AND THERE

That man has the best prospect
for successful season ON the farm
who has his work we'll in hand, and
has no inclination to overreach him.
self in his desire to cover too much
ground.
There was recently shippe d in
four days from Fruithurst, Ala. to
Boston refrigerator car loaded with
grapes. The fruit was in excellent
marketable condition, and found a
ready sale.
The cost of draining is perma-
nent investments; the first expense is
all the expense. A well laid stone
drain may last half a century, and one
| of good tile even longer. Even one OF
brush has done service for ten years.
Domestic fowls date back to pre-
historic times, for the oldest peoples
OF which we have any written account
already had fowls, much the same rs
those we see to-day. The game fowl
is supposed to be the oldest of all
breeds.
NAo>SIS pay HIOle dHu COMMISSION
dealers obtain better prices for uni
form lots of clean, bright-looking
fowls than for uneven lots averaging
greater weight. For this reason pure
breeds are most profitable to raise, if
they are to be sold ION the hoof."
1T is stated that the farmers near
Wallace, in the Mississippi delta, have
shipped to northern markets this sea.
son 100 carloads of Irish potatoes,
which netted them about $4,000 in
cash. This should encourage divesifi-
cation in that portion of the south.
In single county in eastern Vir-
ginia the Irish potato crop dug in
June and July sold for s25o,Ooo The
sweet potato crop is fully as large. In
March last a firm near Norfolk planted
800 barrels of seed potatoes on 200
acres of land. Up to July they had
shipped $3.50 barrels, and estimated
that the sales from the 200 acres will
reach nearly $4,000.
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Proposed Alliance with England.

If the United States and England should
form an alliance, the combined strength
would be so great that there would be little
chance for enemies to overcome US. In like
manner, when men and women keep up their
bodily strength with Hostetter's Stomach
Rltters, there is little chance for attack from
disease. The old time remedy enriches the
blood, builds up the muscles, steades the
nerves and increases the appetite. Try it.
'Did he tell his love by word of mouth ?"
"Well, not exactly by word. Town Topics.
The Bossier banner., 1898-11-10

be came back ghost of the self that an
swered to President Llncoln's call for "3OO,'
600 more"
To-day he is an alert, active man and tells
the story of his recovery as follows:
II was great sufferer from sciatica rheu-
matism almost from the time of my dis
charge from the army. Most of the time
was untitled for manual labor of any kind,
and my spferings were at all times intense.
At times | was bent almost double, and got
around only with the greatest difficulty.
Nothing \ seemed to give me permanent re-
tion was called to some Of the wonderful
cures effected by. DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. | had not taken more than
half box when I noticed an improvement
in my, condition, and kept on improving
steadily: / took three boxes of the pills,
and at the end of that time was in better con.
dition than at any time since the close of my
army service; Since then have never been
bothered with rheumatism DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People is the only rem
eedy that ever did me any good, and to them
! owe my restoration to comparative health
They are grand remedy"
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Pure Blood
Good Digestion

These are the essentials of health. Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier and
stomach tonic. 1t promptly expels the
impurities which cause pimples. sores and
ernptions and by giving healthy action
to the stomach and digestive organs it keeps
the system in perfect order.
The Bossier banner., 1898-11-10

A lawyer trying to serve his client BY
throwing suspicion on witness in the case,
in the course of his cross-examination, said:
"You have admitted that you were at the
prisoners house every evening during all
this time?"
eyes, sir" replied the witness.
"Were you and he interested in any busi-
ness together?"
eyes, sir" answered the man, unhesitat.
ingly.
''Ah! Now, will you be good enough to tell
us how and to what extent and what the
nature of this business was in which you
and he were interestedF
wa. courting his daughter st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
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in tatters and rags,
broken in body but
of dauntless spirit,
swung into line for
the last grand re-
view and then
quietly ma rched
away to begin life's
fray anew amid the
hills and valleys of
the keystone State.
Among the number
Asa Robinson came
back to the old homo
in Mt. Sterling, H.,
back to the freside
that he had left at
the call to arms four
years previous. He
went away a happy,
healthy farmer boy
in the first flush of
vigorous manhood;
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No medicine ever introduced to the Pro-
LESSON and Public has given such universal
o.. Motsfts TEETnINA (7ecthtn0 Po,Uders>.
Druggists tell us that the rapid increase in
its sales is marvellous TEETHINA Aids Diges-
hon, Regulates the Bowels and makes teeth.
ing easy
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A SOLDIERS ESCAPE.

From the Democrat-Message. Mt. sterl-
ing. Ill.
When Richmond had fallen and the great
commanders had met beneath the historic
apple tree at Appomattox, the s3d Penn
sylvania Volunteers, prematurey aged, clad
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INVITATION.
Women suffering fe weakness
Outof the
possible gained that
nothing goodwill and her advice relieved thousands
this Pnkham Medicine
q
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"a thing Of beauty" said the Cornfcd
Philosopher. "'s a Joy until the fashion
changes. .'-1ndanapolis Journal.
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Cure your cough with Hale's Honey of
Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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Mrs. Banks-"Why did you let your cook
go?" Mrs. Brooks--"She said one of us
would lave to leave"-Truth.
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A Family Affair.

Rich Uncle-You might as we'll stop
incoming about Miss Beauty. She hasn't
been in love with you, after all. She's been
after the money she thought you would in
hert from me.
Nephew-Impossible! Why do you think
10?
II have proposed to her myself and been
accepted."-N. Y Weekly.
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His Answer.-Little Ikey-"Fader, vot
ish 'untoldt vealth?'" Old Swindlebaum-
''Dot vich der tax assessor dond't findt oudt
aboudt, mein sohn.'-Puck.
There's something crooked about the busi.
less of corkscrew manufacturer.-Chicago
Daily News.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.
When sheep are sheared do they 20 to 4
@baa-baa" shop?-L. A. w. Bulletin.
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O~ y lilo with Hood Sarsaparilla
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To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure Csc.
1t is more fattering to have people won
der why we are not famous than why we
are.-Town Topics.
For Whooping Cough Piso's Cure is 4
successful remedy:-M P. Dieter, 67'Throop
Ave-, Brooklyn, n. Y, Nov. IA, '94.
A great deal of ability is necessary to
properly manage $40 biIl.-Atchison Globe.
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Hoods SarsapariIla

Is Americas Greatest Medicine. 81; six for a.
Prepared olly by C. L Hood & Co. Lowell Mass
, 1898-08-09
EXPLANATION FROM SHAFTER.
Little Danger in Sending New Men to
Santiago.

Washington. Aug. S.-General
Shafter has telegraphed the president
regarding the publication of the
"Round-robin." signed by the general
officers of his command. as follows:
81 can very readily see what intense
excitement the publication must have
o~ccaSioned; a great deal more than the
situation warranted Situation is
any of the men were taken ill, they
were thoroughly exhausted. At least
10 per cent of the command had been
down with malarial fever. from which
they recover very slowly. and are in no
condition to stand an attack of yellow
fever or dysentry. Placed here now in
the condition in which they were when
they came here. | do not believe there
would be any particular danger. The
regiment of immunes that recently ar
nived is not suffering at all, and | do
not believe they will. They can keep
out of the sun; are well clothed and
well fed. What put my command in its
present condition was the twenty days
of the campaign when they had MOTH
ing but meat. bread and coffee, without
change of clothes. without any shelter
whatever and during the period twice
as stormy as it has been since the sur
render. Fresh troops reaching here in
the middle Of August. with good camps,
good water. abundance of tentage~
which they will find here-need not app
prehend serious danger. | thank you
for the high regard in which you hold
my command and the value of the SER
vices they have rendered. 1t pays for
all the suffering we have endured. |
have referred to Generals Wheeler,
Lawton, Bates and Kent. who concur
with me- in the view expressed above
The issuance of the statement from
General Shafter was the sequence of a
conference held at the White House
this afternoon between the president,
Secretary Alger and Secretary Long,
1t is felt that the statements made as
to the condition of the trops at Santia>
go might create a grave impression
abroad. While the statement. as is
sued, was brief, it occupied almost an
in its consideration. it being felt
that the utmost ]precaution was essen.
tlal at the present stage of the nego-
tiations between this country and
Spain, which had at first been felt to at
least be impeded by the knowledge OF
the serious condition revealed in the
appeal signed by the officers there. The
issuance Of the statement was the re-
suit, and it speaks for itself.
, 1898-08-09
Hoods
Should be in every family -.Ona
medicine chest and every
travellers grip. They are
Invaluable when the stomach =
is out of order; cure headache. biliousness, and
all liver troubles. Mild an ct, "ient. . cents
FITZ. AND
Pugs Likely to Have 1t Out In a Street
Fight at Any Time.

Asbury Park, Aug. S.-Trouble is
brewing between Bob Fitzsimmons
and James J. Corbett. When Fitz. and
his wife passed Corbett's place yester-
day, Corbett claims, Mrs. Fitzsimmons
shook her fist at him and said: Sore
head"
Fitz. says the Corbett crowd raised
an uproar and all began laughing as
he drove by. Corbett called to Mrs.
Fitzsimmons to send her monkey hus-
band back to him. Corbett feels high
ly insulted. Fitz. said today that he
would kill Corbett on the spot if he
ever insulted his wife. He also said he
would have the third-rate fighter put
out of the park and put him out him
self.
There Is every possibility that the
two pugs will meet face to face on the
street and have it out.
, 1898-08-09
DIRECT FROM MANILA.

Manila, Aug. 6.-(Special.)-The first
land battle in the Philippines has been
fought and won. The American loss
will reach thirteen killed. The SPAN
iards descended upon the right Of the
Americans during a furious typhoon.
Their advance was discovered by Pick
ct Brown of the Tenth Pennsylvania.
who gave the alarm, and who was the
first man killed. The first advance was
made at midnight. when the storm was
fiercest. The Spaniards were repulsed,
being moved down like grass. After
wards the Spaniards renewed the at
tack, throwing a force of four thousand
regulars on the trenches. The Cali
fornia volunteers reinforced the Quak-
ers in the trenches with a rush and
drove the enemy off only after a ter
rife hand to hand struggle. The
Americans kept up a steady firing,
causing the Spaniards to withdraw.
They retired, but came at the thin
American line again, but the apillery
and the Colorado troops had a crew up
and after a fierce combat compelled the
Spaniards to retire to the city, leaving
three hundred dead, and a hundred
wounded.
The Americans did not make an adj
vance.
The insurgents were celebrating a
feast day and had withdrawn, which
weakened our right line.
, 1898-08-09
FIGHT NEAR MANILA
SPANIARDS ATTACKED AMERI-
CAN FORCES BUT WE'RE
REPULSED.
Nine Americans Killed and Forty-Four
Wounded, While the Spaniards
Lost Two Hundred Killed and
Three Hundred WOunded-Volun>
teers Attacked by Over Three
Thousand Dons.

New York, Aug. Especial 1.-THE
Journal has received the following:
A heavy engagement took place to-
night between the American and Span,
ish forces at Malate. The Spanish
made the attack. attempting to turn
our right, but after three hours fight
ing they were repulsed. The troops n
gagged were the Tenth Pennsylvania.
First battalion, battalion of First Cali
~fornia, Third artillery regulars and
Battery A, Utah. The American loss is
nine killed and forty-four wounded.
The Spanish loss is upward of two hum
dred killed and three hundred wound
ed. Our volunteers made a glorious
defense against over eighty thousand
of the attacking force.
, 1898-08-09
MERRITT IT.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 9.-(Spe-
cial.)-The wal department has just
received a dispatch from General Mer-
rift, dated Cavite, stating he had an
engagement with the Spaniards Sun
day night. July 81. Merritt reports his
losses light, but Spanish losses heavy.
Merritt reports the safe arrival OF
McArthur's troops on the 31st, and it
was in their landing hat the fight oc-
Cured. The enemy outnumbered our
forces five to one, but our small force
fought so CALAMITY that it was
sary to call out the brigade. The
Spanish loss was very heavy.
Among the killed was Fred SPRING
First Colorado. Seriously
wounded, Sergeant Alva Walters, Pri-
Yates Lee, Snyder, Victor Holmes, S.
Carter. Arthur Johnson, First Colora-
do volunteers. Thirty-eight were seri-
ously wounded.
, 1898-08-09
NOTHING DEFINITE
SPANS ANSWER HAS NOT YET
BEEN GIVEN TO THE
PRESIDENT.
The French Ambassador Announced
That He Would Call at the White
House This Afternoon-Believed
That the Answer Is Not SatiSfac-
tory to the ~Frenchman.

Washington, d. c., 9.-The cabi-
net assembled at II O'Clock this morn
ing. No communication had then been
received at the White House from the
French ambassador. nor any message,
verbal or otherwise. as to when he
would visit the executive mansion.
The cabinet remained in session only
half an hour. ~transacting routine bust
ness and INDUCING in an informal dis
cussion of thepeace question and Philip
pine affairs. Secretary Alger said he
thought General Merritt had enough
troops to meet almost any emergency.
and as Dewey's squadron has been
strengthened he Will be able to render
any assistance necessary.