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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

Muzaffer-ed-Din Mira, the Shahin-
Ihah (King of Kings who reigns YER
the Kingdom of Persia, owns the most
expensive pipe in the world. The Kali
Ian, or Pipe OF State. which he owns
and smokes on high imperial occa-
sions, is valued at $4O0,O 900 and is set
with diamonds, rubies and emeralds Of
the costliest kind. Not only are the
%mouthpiece and the upper and lower
portions Of the snake-like shank Of
pure gold, enameled and set with the
finest gems, but the water bowl and
pipe bowls are equally splendid and
rich with lavish jewel work. The
Prince of Wales visited the Sultan OF
Turkey in 1862, and was invited by the
Sultan to smoke a narghile which was
inlaii with diamonds valued at
e15,0 0G), and which a given to the
Prince as a souvenir Of his visit. A
pipe made wholly of meerschaum and
amber for Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia cost $4,000.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
MOCK HANGING IN a CHURCH.
A Gruesome Performances Entertains .
Colored Co~ngregation.

A Gruesome Performance EntertSAns .
Colored ConErexation.
Kansas City Journal: A most start
ling and unique entertainment. IN
which the principal feature was a
gruesomely realistic imitation OF an
execution by hanging, was given IN the
colored Baptist church in Carthage the
other night, and attracted q crowd
which packed the big building to 1ts
utmost. An interesting account, gwen
in the Press of the tragic" anair Is
as follows: 1.-THE audience assembled
in the basement of the church, where
the gallows was erected, reaching up.
ward about five or six feet. The drop
was only a short one, but every other
detail was carefully copied from a
sure enough hanging scene. About 3
o'clock Peter Gibson and Sporting
Willie Hancock came in, leading Art
Irwin, the boy condemned to the gal
lows. A suppressed murmur ran e
the audience, which waited with bated
breath the finale of this strange scene
The lamps about the walls cast a shud-
dering gloomy light about the room,
and a superstitious horror could be
traced on many a face. But Negro
good humor can mo- long be sup
pressed, and scarcely had the first feel
ing of awe passed away when some
lusty voice broken out in a hearty
laugh. This soon spread, and the
scene lost a large share of its grue-
someness. The convicted murderer
was led up the steps of the improvised
gallows, his arms and legs were tied
and a rope was fastened to his neck,
a black cap was adjusted, the trap
sprung and the body dropped. So far
as actual appearance went he might
have been hanged by the neck. The
body turned and twisted as the rope
dropped. seemingly limp and l%ifeless,
and was carried out on a stretcher
amid a deathly silence. The affair.
however, was not so realistic as it
appeared. for before entering the o
another rope had been carefully har-
messed around Twins body, with a
loop coming under his collar. This
last rope was concealed by the boys
clothing, and although the rope ap-
peared to e~ncircle hls neck, 1t was In
reality fastened to the loop under his
collar, After a few minutes in which
to remove ropes, stG,, Irwin returned
to receive the congratulations OF his
lady admirers, who gathered aroVad
the little hero in groups"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
TOUCH"
The New Rule In Regard to Bronzes in
Berlin University.

The New Rule In Regard to Bronzes in
Berlin University.
Until a very short time ago the
bronze statuary In some of the Berlin
museums was most carefully labeled,
please Do Not Touch" as it is in our
own public museums. What happened
in Berlin, however, may cause the
guardians Of some OF u museums t
leave out the word mot" 1t was OBJ
served In Berlin that those parts OF the
bronze statues which were s%urrepti-
tiously handled by the public retained
a good surface. This led to the conclu-
sion that the fat exuding from the hand
had something to do with it.. An ex-
pertinent vas therefore tried for some
years with four b%ronzes. One was
coated every day with oil and wiped
with a cloth; another was washed ev-
cry day with water; the third was SIM
ilarly washed, but was oiled twice a
year, and the fourth was left untouch-
I'd. At the end OF that period the first
looked beautiful; the third, which had
been oiled twice a year, was passable;
the second looked dead, and the fourth
was dull and black. 1t is probably a
fact not generally known that the an
Gent Greeks polished their statues by
constant hand rubbing.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
LUTHER'S RING DISCOVERED.
Engagement Band OF the Great Reform.
er Found In Norway,

er Found In Norway.
Martin Luther's historical engage.
ment ring has been found, and in the
possession Of a Norwegian peasant
woman. Sigrid Hansen, Aim, in Sender
hordland, in Norway. How it came
to Norway and when is unknown, as
centuries the ring has been an
heirloom in the family of all the
having the name of Sigrid.
Two years ago the German State His
torical Museum had advertisements in
serted In continental newspapers.
Slowly the news found it's way to Nor
way and was read by the Norwegian
peasant woman The description of
the ring Tailed exactly with the ring
in possession Of the young woman.
Consul Jens Gran, in Bergner, was
notified, and at once offered the wom-
an 500 kroner for the ring, which was
refused. This is the description given
in Norwegian newspapers Of the ring
found: 1T is Of silver, considerably
worn and badly scratched. Set in the
ring is a red pearl, to represent a drop
of the blood of Christ. On the outside
of the ring is engraved Christ on the
cross, and several of the subjects OF
the crncifixion rs the ladder, the lance,
etc, and the letters L. N. r. ]. Jesus
Rex Juderoum). On the in
side Of the ring Is engraved MARITIME
Luther-Catharina Won Boren-13-
1885 and the faint outlines OF two
hearts," Through the German min
lister to Sweden and Norway every eff
fort will be made to induce its present
owner to permit it to become tn.
property of the German Historical
Museum. ..sr
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

If the government owned the rail-
way our people would not have to he
running around seeing shop girls and
laborers to raise a fund to bring the
soldiers home. Think of that colossal
old pirate, G.. p. Huntington, who has
p~rofited more by the Filipino troubles
than any man in the United States. re-
fusing to make proper concessions to
send the boys home. If he had a spark
of gratitude in him he would send all
the boys home free, for they have been
instrumental in putting millions Of
dollars into his greedy, bullying pock-
ets.-George's Weekly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
Cost OF "Criminal Aggression"

Now we begin to have definite data
as to the cost of the Filipino illegal
war S63 900, 900, 664 men killed, and
$500 wounded and invalided. The first
shot was fired in February last, and We
presume the sea, 600, 900 Is what has
been expended in about four months.
Just before that outbreak Of massacre
the cost of subjugation was estimated
at $3.50. 000, 600 a year, and it is GER
tain to be in the future far more han
in the past. A World special gives
the estimate Of an officer recently re-
turned that so per cent of the army
now there will receive pensions for
bowel complaints, and that when the
entire $4,000 men arrive the expense
will be $500, 600 a day, it being now
$500 600. At $500, 900 a day it will be
$l09, 500 900 a year, but as triple that
number OF men will be required the
cost will be nearly 5000. OOO, 900 a year
for the next ten years. or more.
And what is it all for? Simply to
further enrich American trusts, Office
holders, spectators and franchis,
grabbers.-San Francisco Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
The Two Iowa Candida a..

From the Omaha World-Herald: By
the way, speaking of defending the
country's honor, Fred White, demo-
cratic nominee for governor of Iowa,
was wearing the uniform of a soldier
Of Uncle Sam and fighting his country's
battles while Leslie M. Shaw, Repub-
lican candidate for governor of Iowa,
was laying the foundations of his for
tune by loaning money at a healthy
rate of interest and living in security
far from the din Of martial strife,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

From the Denver Post: Imperialism
is unpopular among the American peo-
pie, and militarism has not yet gained
a foothold. When men like ex-senator
Edmunds and Senator Hoar definitely
take up the cudgel against the admins
tration's policy it may be too much to
say they will win. but it is only natural
to expect that the fur will fly if the
exigencies Of an approaching national
campaign do not render them speech
less,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

life and preserving more novelties. The
natural result, Of course, would be to
lessen the number OF gloves worn in
any community in a given length OF
time. All along. from the manufacturer
to the consumer, there would be leth-
argy in the glove business. Then it
would be learned anew that COMPETE
ton is the life of trade.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
POLITICS AND PROSPERITY.

Here is what the Paints, Oils and
Drug Review has to say about pros
perity:
In the minds of not a few people
their particular brand of politics and
business prosperity are connected with
an indissoluble link. 1t cannot be sue
cessfully maintained hat sound states
manship ~crystallized into wise legisla-
tive measures is not conducive of bust
ness activity and Industrial growth
from which springs a diffused and
widespread prosperity. On the other
hand, there are economic conditions
and processes that eventuate in alter
nate periods Of commercial depression
and business prosperity. these periods
not being the product OF special legis-
lation to which such results may be
directly traced.
The prosperity we are now enjoying
is not national, but worldwide in its
scope, and, as was pointed out in a
Review editorial in the early part of
1896, would come about-and did-as
the inevitable sequence of the mer-
chandise and industrial situation then
extant. Wise craftsmanship has had
nothing to do with it, because no par
ticularly effective legislation has been
enacted by which the hard times" Of
1886 could have been, or was, meta
m%orphosed into the prosperity of
1879. Overproduction-a popular
word in the vernacular of commerce,
but rejected a a misnomer by stu
dents of social science-brought an ac-
emulation of supplies, suspended pro-
duction and a period of waiting for
consumption to catch up.
The merchandise surplus was later
cleared away, productive activity re-
turned, the employment of labor be-
came general, prices and wage began
to rise; in short, the w~hite-winged
dove of industrial peace and exhuber-
ant prosperity stretched it's feathery
arms of protection over much of the
earth-and America and Europe has
since smiled the smile of contentment.
The Review cannot trace the marvel
GUS change that has come about dur
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
His Right

Puck: The beautiful girl turned up
on her father almost savagely. "By
what right" she Kissed, do you de-
mand a share Of my alimony?"
You got the disposition you were
divorced for from me-" exclaimed the
old man, with feeling. Everybody
So
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
Cutting.

Sandy Pikes-"How yer like De
Man wild de Hoe Billy?"
Billy Coalgate-"De last time 1 met
de man wild de hoe he made a very
deep impression on me, an l kin feel
de impression yit."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

She-Why is it, I wonder, that little
men so often marry big women? He
l don't know, unless it is that the
little fellows are afraid to back out of
the Observation-Disclosures Tid-Bits
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

Fifty years ago Americas greatest
philosopher wrote: THE young man
on entering life finds the way to lucra-
tive employment blocked with abuses.
The ways of trade have grown selfish
to the borders of theft, and subtle to
the borders (f not beyond the borders)
of fraud" What would he have
thought and how written if he had
lived into this age of monopoly?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
IT HAS &C mi E.

The following is an extract from
n of the Omaha churches. Such pro-
found wisdom could have emanated
from no other source except from a
preacher of the Republican persuasion.
Just listen to him:
Nest Of the worlds calamities have
been caused by the ~perversion OF the
truth. In our own country the late
financial panic that crushed thousands
and thousands Of truthful men and
women was caused by a lack Of conf
dence. This lack OF confidence was
nothing more than the discovery that
in the business world corruption had
run riot and that the truth did not pre-
vail. Since that panic our business
methods have been more truthful and
our national honesty more brightly
shown. AS in business, SO in all other
things. Truth is mighty and will pre-
vail. To pervert is ruin. 1t may be
delayed, but it must inevitably come"
1t was corruption in the business
world that shattered confidence and
started the panic, says the Noncon-
formist. Grover Cleveland had moth
ing to do with it.. The New York
bankers who engineered a squeeze to
affect congressional legislation had
nothing to do with it. 1t was all be
cause men weren't as honest as they
might awe been. The grocer sanded
his sugar too much; the butcher sold
porterhouse steaks from the neck Of the
beef: the Saloon-keeper watered his
whisky. and the honest editor told a
lie occasionally. But things are bet
ter now. The preacher brings to us
sweet consolation. Since that panic is
over business methods have been more
truthful and III national honesty more
brightly shown
Yes, indeed; everybody is honest
since Mckinley has been running the
machine. Upright business men. with
the aid of the administration. have fur
nished our soldiers With choice beef
deliciously embalmed; a horse doctor
has kindly administered to Jul volun-
.sels; the brother OF the president has
bought our transports, 81 that inc gov
eminent should not be cheated; we
have rid the world Of many wicked bar
barians; Captain Carter and General
Eagan have been tenderly treated; the
trusts are sacrificing themselves tc
keep business methods pure, and pre-.
serve the people from the exactions OF
the little manufacturer and small
store-keeper; thousands OF travelling
men have been stopped from going
about the country %corrupting the PEG,
pie; honest ringers" have been
brought into the coal regions of Hi,
nois, Iowa and Kansas because white
miners were overcharging the poor
Woodworking coal barons; the prisons
of Idaho are full OF wicked laborinz
men who had the audacity to strike FOL
higher wages. AS the preacher so elo'
quentiy says, Truth is mighty ant
will prevail. To prevent it Is ruin. II
may be delayed. but it must inevitably
come" 1t has come.-Nonconformist
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

A man can get ready for a journey
in five minutes, but a woman is never
really prepared for it, ever after she
has started on it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

An honest man has very little to say
about his honesty. The sun has no
need to boast Of its brightness.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

BY meditating on our own tendencies
VIC think we get the key to universal
conduct:
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

ing the past two years to any legis-
lative specific prepared by the Ameri-
can congress or the administration at
Washington, nor to any legislative
magic exerted by ministerial manipu-
lators of government machinery in
England, France. Germany or other
commercial countries. The measure Of
prosperity which now pervades the
business world exists doubtless in spite
of legislative handicaps, class laws, a
lax enforcement Of wise statutes and
some measure of governmental OK
travagance.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

In the present heyday of our pros
perity a wore of warning may reach
ears attuned to sweeter music, but the
warning is nevertheless opportune and
needful. In times of prosperity pre-
pare for adversity-i. e., in our pres
perity We should discover the defects
in u commercial system and remedy
them, thus removing the causes of
periodical adversely and depression.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

All this goes to show that the Re-
views classification of our prosperity
is correct, that it is not due to tariff
tlnkering, to monetary legislation, or
to anything logically traceable to poll
tics. Improved confidence" is much
talked of, but this will-o'-the-wisp is
a camp-follower of better business con-
ditions and not the %procurator of them.
Any rational improvement of conf
dence is based on a change of facts
related to or constituting the business
situation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

Iook at free-silver Mexico. too.
There is twice as much activity there
to population as there is IN any other
country. Had Bryan been elected we
would be just twice as we'll off as we
are now.-Ed.)
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

This is an age Of research and of
deep thinking, out of which will come
a coordination of principles and facts,
and the science Of industry.
and human relations in every phase OF
existence will thus be discerned ana
formulated. The worlds current pros
perity is built upon the sands of in
congruity n unwisdom, to be swept
away by the momentum of its own
almost il'imitable productive power
and richness.
Iook at free-silver Mexico. too.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22

A demand for merchandise and con-
fidence as cause and effect are insep-
arabic; destroy the former and the
latter disappears. When there is lit
tie or no demand for the products of
labor and capital, there is little conf
dence, and this little is misplaced.
There is such a thing as too much
contradiction confederation of this
statement consult the longs in the
stock and grain market who perchancc
have been caught in a squeeze.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-30
A SORTIE FROM KIMBERLEY.
Artillery and Infantry Firing-Nine
Beers Killed, Seventeen Wounded,

Artillery and Infantry Firing-Nine
Beers Killed, Seventeen Wounded.
Pretoria, Monday, Nov. 27.-Gen Du-
tort reports that the British made a
sortie from Kimberley early on Satur-
day morning and fired on the Beers
with artillery and infantry in the dark
ness. The sortie was In the direction
where the Bloemhof Boer force was
stationed. On the Boer side there were
300 men. Gen. Dutort. who was nine
miles off, fastened to the assistance of
the Bloemhof contingent with a hum
bred men. Nine Burghers were killed,
seventeen wounded, and there were
some missing. The British left on the
field a private and a sergeant.
1t is reported that the British at
tempted to leave Kimberley on the east
to assist the troops from Belmont. Com
mandant Lubbe was slightly wounded.
The British have repaired the damage
to the railroad.
The Free Skaters engaged with the
British were overwhelmed by numbers,
and, after a brave stand until the af-
ternoon, We're compelled to take up an
other position on the other side of the
railroad. 1t Is impossible to give the
numbers of killed and wounded Beers,
but the loss was not great.
The Beers had four guns to the
British twenty-four. The general says
that the Free Skaters are full of cour-
axe.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-30

YALE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.
President Hadey Announces Member
shin of Professors.

| President Hadley Announces Member
ship of Professors.
President A. T. Hadley of Yale has
announced the membership of the new
ly constituted university council. For
the academic department, the represent
tatives will be Dean Henry P. Wright
Professor Bernadotte Perrin and Pro-
fessor w. G. Sumner. The Sheffield
scientific school will be represented by
Dean Russell H. Chittenden, Professor
Thomas r. Lounsbury and Professor
Louis " Prison Dean Andrew w.
Phillips of the graduate school will
represent that department. Dean Fran
els Wayland and Professor Simeon Il.
Baldwin will be the law members. For
the medical school Dean Herbert Il.
Smith and Professor William H. Car
malt, and for the divinity school Dean
George P. Fisher and Professor Lewis
O. Brastow are appointed, and Profess
sor John N. Weir for the art SCHOOL,
either Professor Samuel Sanford or
Professor Horato w. Parker for the
school of music.
The functions of the new council will
be divided into three distinct parts.
First, the council will represent the
university in intercourse with other in
stitutons Of learning and with the
outside world In matters not belonging
distinctly to the domain of any special
faculty This will include responses to
invitations Of ceremony, discussing the
methods Of representing Yale at exhibit
tons or public gatherings and the ap
pointment of official Yale delegates.
Second, the new council will deliber-
ate upon new questions of university
policy, as they are suggested from the
outside, so far as they affect more than
one department. Action by the council
will determine which departments of
the university may be most properly
consulted with the various parties in
terested.
Third, the council will discuss, prior
to reference to the corporation, all acts
of any one faculty of Yale which affect
the workings of one department under
the control of another. Thus delay and
friction will be saved.
In matters of this nature the univers-
ity council will possess deliberative
intended to facilitate proceed
ure rather than to make direct recon-
lions.
The duties of the council will make it
Of assistance to the corporation rather
than drawing from it's powers. In gen
sral the work of the council will treat |
with subjects which will relieve the |
of the consideration of rout-
ne questions.