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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

According to government reports the
mortality of farm animals, both from
exposure and from other causes, has
been below that of the preceding win
ter; of horses 2 per cent are reported
as having died from disease, against
81 per cent the previous year; of cat
tie, a mortality of 1.3 per cent from
winter exposure, and of 3.3 per cent
from all auses is reported, as against
1.6 per cent from exposure and 3.5 per
cent from all causes the preceding win
ter; of sheep the deaths from exposure
amounted to ~ per cent, against 80
per cent the previous year and to 5.3
pc cent from all causes, against SIS
per cent the previous year. While hog
cholera has been more or less destruc-
tive, the total losses of swine have
amounted only to 9.3 per cent, against
l4.4 per cent the preceding year. With
regard to farm animals in general the
department correspondents report them
in good condition as the result of the
generally mild and dry winter and the
abundance Of feed. In California the
winter has been a rel one, and it's
effect is shown just as markedly in the
mortality Of farm animals as in the
moor condition of winter wheat.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
Birds Cnn Sew.

Sewing seems 80 ingenious an art
that it must be reserved for the hui
man species alone. Yet the tailor
bird, the Orthotomus l~ongicauda,
and other species possess the ele-
ments Of it. They place their nests
in a large leaf which they prepare to
this end. With their beaks they
pierce two rows of holes along the
two edges of the leaf; they then pass
a stout thread from one side to the
other alternately. With this leaf,
at first fat, they form a horn in
which they their nest with
cotton or hair. These labors of
weaving and sewing are preceded
by the spinning of the thread. The
bird makes it itself by twisting in its
beak spiders webs, bits Of cotton,
and little ends of wool. Sykes found
that the threads used for sewing
were knotted at the ends. Popular
Science Monthly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
A British Breach OF Promise Case.

A British nobleman who was sued
for breach Of promise is reported to
have declared that it was impossible
for him to contradict a lady and
that, therefore. he would not deny
that he had made the promise; but
he insisted that the lady had
exaggerated the value of his af-
fections and that value was a fair
question for q jury. The lady re-
covered n per cent or so Of her
original claim and the mulcted noble
man declared that the cross-exanin-
alton of her by her counsel was amp
ly worth the money.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Tht Smiths, man and wife, discussed
an armistice, and the man began me-.
The wife, however, demurred with a
loud voice and arms akimbo, as if she
were a persistent rebel in Cuba;
whereupon the man said, in a state Of
disgust, well if that's an armistice
we had better for the sake of peace
go to wal again." Some people think
it takes both sides to create an a1mis-
tice. What if Lincoln had proclaimed
one and Jefferson Davis had said he
wouldn't have it?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Count Goluchowsky, Austria's prime
minister, who some months ago pro-
posed a European alliance against
America on trade lines, has been heard
from again. The count has recently
learned that it is not an easy thing
to combine Europe against America
for any purpose, more especially when
there is fighting to be done in conse-
Quence
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

James MadisOn's remark to Harriet
Martineau that the United States had
been useful in proving things before
held impossible" Is especially appli-
European countries can scarcely un-
derstand that the United States has
no selfish objects in view in expelling
Spain from Cuba, but their inability
fact.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
Scattered by Bces.

At an auction near Restraining
Falls, Pa, among numerous other
articles put under the hammer, were
twenty-five hives of bees A boy &C
cldentally disturbed one Of the hives
and about 5000 angry bees at once
rushed out and caused 200 people to
scatter in all directions.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

The thirty-one women who want tc
marry General Cassius M. Clay have
no respect for the divorce laws and are
Indifferent to the terrors of old age.
One can have no respect for the thou
sands of women who want to go to
val on horseback, though they are
tough enough. But as to the courage
of the sex there can be no doubt. There
is nothing they do not dare to do un-
til they are generously given the op.
portunity.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
Beauty Ia Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty
without it. Cascarets. Candy Catl artic cleans
your blood and keeps it clean, by stirring up
the lazy LIVER and driving all impurities from
the body. Begin today to Danish piluples
boils, blotches, blackheads. and that sickly
bilious complexion b. taking Cascarets-
beauty for ten cents. All druggists, ~satisfac-
ton guaranteed. 1Oc, 2oc SOC.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
An Ancient University.

One Of the oldest seats of learning
In Europe, the university of Val
ladolid, celebrated recently it's sixth
centennial as an established uni
versity. In 1898 King Sancho ". OF
CASTLE and Leon gave charter to this
school. But it had been in ex-
istence long before the Christian era
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
An Eve Opener.

The war is a good thing if it sim
ply serves to break the governmental
influence of such men as Mark Hanna.
There can be nothing worse for a
country than to have its governmental
institutions under the control Of men
Of his brand.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
A Genuine lingo,

Glow in the world did you get elect
ed probate Judge, Sickler?" "It was
easy. l just took the stump, made
var speeches and said that this coun-
try could whip anything under the
blue dome of heaven. The other fell
low talked good government and 1T
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Sagasta says it would cast a stain on
Spain's honor to sell Cuba. Dear sir,
there are 10 many stains on the thing
mentioned that an additional one
couldn't be recognized with the aid of
a microscope.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

tions, and thus make Its credl. strong
er. why should the governments credit
suffer by the issue of 5000 900 900 in
misunderstanding treasury notes7
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Judging from the number of sur
geons and nurses who have volunteer
ed a very doleful view must be taken
of the probable effects Of a Cuban cam
paign.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Spain must fight to prevent revolu-
ton and save the government at home.
She is between the devil and the deep
sea.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

The fact that Bismarck smokes ten
or twelve pipes a day is not evidence
that the old mar is in bad health; but
it is going to be.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

There is a rumOr that the United
States is getting ready to quote prices
on Canaries.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

A Woman'S idea of a personal devil
is a ~neighboring woman who talks
about her.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

It's a good deal of satisfaction, al
any rate, to know that Columbus
wasn't a Spaniard.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

buckwheat cakes usually depends upon
the batter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Think of a father talking religion tc
his son on Sunday, and going to the
store to do business with a short yard.
stick on MondaY.-EX.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

AS a pugilist would say, it is easy
to land on" Spain in Cuba.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

TEe Spanish ~tlag-Skull anc cross
bones.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

And ever if the Spaniards did dis
cover us, didn't we find Out Spain?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Manila straw hats will be the cor
States.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

week by Mr.. Ridgely OF Kansas would
grant to an Industrial colony some Of
the advantages allowed by law to the
national banks. 1t is very certain to
never become a law, while congress is
composed Of bankers and lawyers
Chicago Express.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

The bankers recently assembled
made this glazing statement: In this
country there is 81, 600, 000, 900 and that
they have loaned to the people $5,00O.-
0OO,OO or, in other words, have loan
ed and are collecting interest on So
100000 900 which they do not possess,
-PleasantOn >kan.) Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

n bankers recently assembled
country there is 81 600, 900 900 and that
they have loaned to the people $5,0OO.-
DOC, 900, or, in other words, have loan
ed and are collecting interest on 3d.
4O0, 1000, 900 which they do not possess
-Pleasanton ,kan.) Herald.
A Dill introduced in congress last
week by Mr.. Ridgely OF Kansas would
grant to an Industrial colony some of
the advantages allowed by law to the
national banks. 1t is very certain to
never become a law. while congress is
composed Of bankers and lawyers
Chicago Express.
If the Cubans are free and %independ-
ent, as the resolutions of congress de-
clare, they are in a far better condi-
ton than the people Of the United
States.-San Francisco Star.
There is no denying the fact that the
single tax scheme is gaining wide
favor with the people. The plan might
not drive all poverty from the world,
but it would put it in the power of
the masses to avoid most of it. The
man who has access to the land need
not go hungry. The monopoly Of
and and the attendant extortions Of
the landlords are no doubt doing much
to keep the multitude poor.-Sacra'
mento News.
The South has everything to be
proud of as an agricultural center; as
an Industrial and manufacturing mart
We work white children longer hours
than we did negroes before the war.
The white wage slave in the cotton
district of the South to-day is worked
longer hours, has less comforts, fewer
necessaries. inferior medical attention,
and is compelled to work oftener I'M
der physical disability than the negro
was before the war.-Augusta {Ga.)
Round Table.
1t costs 5000, 900 a yea to run Kan
sas City. That is just about the profit
of the Metropolitan Street railroad. II
the city owned and operated the street
car system as 1t should. the property
OF the city would be free Of taxation,
or the rates could be reduced to one
or two cents. But the very wise peo-
pie up there prefer to elect servants
of the Metropolitan and other corpora
tons and pay extra for it.-Appeal to
Reason.
Reader, have you ever stopped to
consider the fact that. while it is daily
becoming easier to produce the neces-
saries of life, it is becoming more and
more difficult for the workingmen to
secure them?-New York Common
wealth.
The Republicans in congress had
better do all their talking now, as
there will not be enough of them in
the next congress to demand the aye
and nay vOte.-Phoenix Gazette.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
TREASON OR LOYALTY
rHR PATRIOTISM" OF THE
BONDMONCERS.

The Anti-Cuban AntI-War Politicastros
Are All for Bond Issues-Does This
Enslave Cuba.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03
POINTS r Q THE PRESS,

Representative Loud says he regrets
war. He does not regret it half as
much as California regrets Loud
Sacramento Bee.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

If the Cubans are free and %independ-
ent, as the resolutions of congress de-
clare, they are in a far better condi-
ton than the people Of the United
States.-San Francisco Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

The Republicans in congress had
better do all their talking now, as
there will not be enough of them in
the next congress to demand the aye
and nay vote.-Phoenix Gazette.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-06-03

Reader, have you ever stopped to
consider the fact that. while it is daily
becoming easier to produce the neces-
saries of life, it is becoming more and
more difficult for the workingmen to
secure them?-New York Common
wealth.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-12-22

enough during the early twilight OF
Christmas eve, but as night came on
and there were only shadows and
stiffness in the great house where lights
had cleaned and children)s merry
laughter had filled their halls, the de-
nression became so overpowerlng that
T began to feel as if a crisis were APP
preaching and that something was 60
ing to happen to make great change,
either for the better or for the worse,
and end the painful chapter. Once
or twice as the evening dragged slowly
along and the streets became still, l
started nervously and gazed anxiously
at the chimney place, feeling sure that
Santa Claus would come down that
way. or if he did not I would very
soon go off in fit of Mysteries. Ii you
have never had such an experience,
you should pray that you never do.
About midnight, and just minute or
two before the bells Of the city rang out
their Christmas welcome to the day,
I ventured to suggest that probably
they would find some forgetfulness in
sleep, and as did so I arose and with me
the mother stood up, leaving her hus-
band sitting with bowed head. She
stepped forward TO touch him and,
as her hand was laid upon his shoul-
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cry whose gladness cannot be de-
scrlbed, heran to me and, snatching the
baby from its covering, he kissed it
and laid it down on the bosom of his
wife with it's fat little fists digging
into her cheeks and neck. l don't
know, nor does anything human, what
the baby's power is, but in a minute
the woman began to stir uneasily, and
to move her hands about as if search
ing for something, and then, with a
cry like her husbands for gladness,
she opened her eyes and her arms, and
the baby, with satisfied coo, cuddled
close to the mothers breast.
"That was the crisis, and as the
father dropped beside the side of his
wife with the child in his arms, and
prayed fervently, I broke down COM
plctcly and cried as if all the sorrow
in the world instead of all it's gladness
had come into that lonely house this
Christmas eve. So they called the
baby Santa Claus, and as she grew up
she became indeed, as you say, veri-
table Santa, bringing only good things
to all the world that lay about her"
'And do they know nothing of her?''
I asked
''Everything," she answered. "Her
mother was widowed relative of the
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-12-22
Growth of the Soul.

Though times and seasons are. not
as important as many would have us
think, still nearly every thoughtful
person at the coming of a new year
remembers how old he is and wishes
he were not quite so old. Let us turn
our minds away from the tabernacle
of flesh, the least real thing in our
lives, and think a little of the inward
growing old. For the body every add
ed period is loss; for the soul every
added growth is almost incaleulable
gain. How old are we? How much
older than a year, two years, ten years
ago? How much quicker to recognize
the Divine voice? How much stronger
our hand and clearer our voice against
evil? How much swifter our feet to
bear the message of good will to men?
How much gain has there been in pow
er and willingness to serve? How much
more faithful are we in the chaos of
small and common duties and cares
How much truer are we in friendship,
warmer in the home loves, more pa
tient with the mistaken and the bad ?
Round our tree of life, as it has strug-
gled up toward the sky, whether
it bear the spring buds or the sum-
mer green, or the dead russell of the
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der, there came a ring at the door
bell so sudden, so powerful and SO in
sistent that. the woman screamed and
fell to the floor in a faint. Instantly
her husband was bending over her,
and telling me to go at once for doc
tor who lived directly opposite. I ran
away in obedience, quite forgetting
the cause of all the disturbance jerk
ing open the front door, I almost STUN
bled over basket sitting there, and
then l nearly tainted, too. You men
never know why women do such things
as they do, but they do them just the
same, and the minute I saw that bas-
ket | knew what was in it, and I knew
that there wasn't any need Of going
after the doctor then. And I'didn't.
I simply picked up the basket and car
ried it back to where the stricken
mother lay, with her husband over her,
chatting her hands and kissing her
white face as his tears fell upon it.
"Without z word to him, I opened
the white silken flannel which was
folded thiclSly all over the precious
package within, and as l dug down
into the soft folds I found something
warm, and then [ came to'a bit OF
filmy lace, and under that the sleeping
face Of baby, six or seven months
old. I turned up the light and the
baby opened it's big blue eyes won
deringly and, with chubby fist held
up at the light, it crowed as only a
baby can crow. The man leaning over
the woman had not even noticed my
return, but this baby's crow was to
him like call from some other land,
and he turned toward me-, With a
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ther and mother layished all their love

ther and mother lavished all their love
and their generosity upon this one eve
lamb of theirs I can remember what
a scene Of faryland their house was
at Christmas for the little girl and
for her troops of friends, for all that
love could suggest and wealth could
secure was brought and laid at the
feet of their darling.
'*And what a dreadful change when
the fifth Christmas came. In the Sep
TENDER before, the little girl, bright
and beautiful child, suddenly sickened,
and within week she slept on the
sunshiny slope of gentle knoll lock-
ing out over the beautiful blue river
sweeping by with a murmur as OF
angels wings. For weeks the father
and mother refused to be comforted'
nor would they go away to other
scenes. There the little one had
filled their hearts and lives and there,
thew insisted, should the empty shell
remain Elsewhere in the world there
was nothing; in that spot were, at
least the memories of their idolized
one I was with them great deal,
and as often as I could sent my own
children to visit them, and from these
and other playmates of their lost one
they derived much comfort. Eut [
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autumn leaves or the boughs OF Win
ter, these things are marking their
line, and how old we are is being
written day by day so clearly that he
who runs may read. God gives us
eternal youth in the vigor with which
we press upward, and in all best
things gives US such rapid growth that
we may soon gain eternal years.
1--WE live in thought, not breaths, in
deeds, not years,
In feelings, not in figures on the dial;
We should count time by heart throbs
he most lives
Who thinks most. feels the noblest
acts the best
Washington Home Magazine.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-12-22
Christmas in New York.

Jacob \. Riis, in an article in the
Century Magazine on "Me1ry Christ
mas in the Tenements," says:
In hundred places all over the city,
when Christmas comes, as many open
air fairs spring suddenly into life. A
kind of Gentle Feast of the Taber
nacles possesses the tenement districts
especially. Green-embowered booths
stand in rows at the curb, and the
voice of the tin trumpet is heard in
the land. The common source of all
the show is down by the North river,
in the district known as ''the Farm. "
Down there Santa Claus establishes
headquarters early in December and
until past New Year. The broad
quay looks then more like clearing in
pine forest than busy section Of
the metropolis. The steamers dis
charge their loads of fir trees at the
piers until they stand stacked noun
tain high with foothills Of holly and
ground-ivy trailing off towards the
land side. An army-train of wagons
is engaged in carting them away from
early morning till late at night; but the
green forest grows, in spite of it all,
until in places it shuts the shipping
out of sight altogether. The air is
redolent with the smell Of balsam and
pine. After nightfail, when the lights
are burning in the busy market, and
the homeward- bound crowds with
baskets and heavy burdens of Christ
mas greens jostle each other with
good-natured banter-nobody is ever
cross down here in the holiday season
lit is good to Aal1e a stroll through
"the Farm" if one has spot in his
heart faithful yet to the hills and the
woods in spite of the latter-day city.
But it is when the moonlight is upon
the water and upon the dark phantom
forest, when the heavy breathing of
some passing steamer is the only
sound that breaks the stiffness of the
night, and the Waterman smokes his
lonely pipe upon the bulwark, that
"the Farm" has a mood and an at
mosphere all it's own, full of poetry,
which some day a painters brush will
catch and hold.
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family who died only few weeks pre-
viously, leaving two or three children,
and this little girl was sent to the
stricken parents as Christmas gift
in this way with the hope that has
been so happily fulfilled. Nv. j.
Lampton, in Detroit Free Press.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-12-22
Johnny's Suggestion.

Johnny ION Christmas eve)-"Mam-
ma, can't you give the baby something
to make him sleep tonight" Mamma
-"Why, Johnny?' Johnny - BE
cause if Santa Claus hears him yelling,
he might think we're all just as bad"
Current Literature.
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and spend two or three days, but they
would not hear to leaving, and, fear
ing something, I knew not what, I
determined to slip away from the
brightness and cheer. Of my own home
and go into the dreary darkness Of
this one of my friends. It was sad