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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
on my lips. He shook hands, certainly,

on my lips. He shook hands, certainly
but constrainedly.
Il have sent for you" he said, to
to-dash it! l don't know how to put
wha l am got-s 10 say. 1t Isl most
"onfouraedly awkward. The fact is.
had no right to ask you to be my
wife last night. for l cannot marry if
I would"
"Why DIG you, then?" I asked,
coldly.
We'll. to tell you the truth. It vas
that deuced wine at supper that did it.
1t went to my head at once, and the
waltz afterward finished the business.
| am come to throw myself on your
generosity. My income dies with me
II : marry, n as l have no profession
must keep SINGLE"
"Go!" exclaimed I, with a whitening
look, and pointing to the door.
He obeyed me and went, and left the
most miserable being behind him.
After the first paroxysm of outraged
nature was owe I crawled to the cell
lar, and I did not leave hat place
TIL every bottle OF g~ooseberry wine
lay at my feet in shivered atoms.
Exchange.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Couldn't BE Divided.

In Felix Moscheles' fragments OF
an Autobiography" occurs the follow
ing: Madame Schumann was wanted
to play at a little musical reunion, but
she did not respond. Mr.. Moscheles
was deputed to approach her. Was
she inclined to play?" Particularly
disinclined," was the discourag!ng re-
spouse. The envoy mentioned her hus-
bands's Carnival "One part / par
ticularly love, the March Of the Da-
vidsbundler.' If l could only hear you
play just that page OF two!" This
reused her. Page or two. indeednH'
she cried. "Wenn man den Carnival
spielt. spielt man Inn GAM" when
one plays the "Carnaval' one must
play it alb And she played the whole
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borhood. Others, more maliciously
disposed. averred that he was a first
class burglar.
My sisters and I believed in the
aforementioned version of the mystery,
perhaps because it vas romantic and
suited to our girlish imaginations.
He was invited to our village
soirees once or twice a week. and as
he always sought me out the moment
he entered the room l was a target for
all the envenomed darts from the bows
of the other girls.
Meanwhile the gooseberry wine had
been bottled and pronounced excellent
by the select few who tasted it. all
the bottles were sealed until the fol-
lowing winter.
The festivities of the dark season
were ushered in by a small dance,
given by the elderly lady with a hus-
band. Everyone vas invited, even the
unknown, although our hostess looked
on him with anything but favor.
The entertainment seemed meant TO
inaugurate the ~gooseberry wine rather
than anything else, for instead of
champagne u glasses were frequently
filled with this home production.
: Our hostess, with a beaming coun-
%tenance, told us that she wished the
rising generation to p~atronize this
harmless beverage rather than its moro
potent reality.
The unknown and I, after one waltz,
strolled away to the conservatory
When we were alone he looked at me
with sparkling yes and flushed cheeks
gently pressing my hand within his
arm at the same time,
Dearest he whispered, NAV I
hope that some day you will allow me
to claim this dear hand in miner"
l blushed as became a surprised
maiden, although the only wonder I
felt was that he had not asked me he
fore.
l murmured Eyes" in my most dulcet
accents, and Immediately received his
reward for my acquiescence.
My heart bounded in response to a
knock at the front door, soon after
breakfast the next morning. / knew
1t was the unknown's hand that had
! welded the ponderous bronze ring ::
heard In my distant dormitory the door
opened and closed, and then there was
a pause. Next a quick step on the
stair, a gentle tap on my own door.
and the entrance of the housemaid
bearing a card.
The piece OF pasteboard bore nv
ives name, and at the back, in pen
clied letters, this short sentence. will
you spare me a few minutes?"
Not loverlike, certainly; but / clothed
IT In loves W language. When
entered the d~rawing-room 1 found the
unknown impatiently drumming his
fingers on the window. The face he
turned toward me was grave, not to
cay gloomy; but, still unsuspicious, l
went toward him with a gay welcome
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
SPECIMEN RAILROAD CHARGES.
As They Are in Minnesota So They Are
NerYMhere

AS Ihey Are IN minnesota So Iney Are
Everywhere.
Farm, Stock and Home, Of Minneap-
oils, relates the following facts: B. f.
Partridge, a manufacturer Of Fergus
Falls, Mimi, recently received a car
load OF iron from Chicago. The freight
from Chicago to St. Paul, distance 400
miles, was SAG; from ST. Paul to Fer
gus Falls, distance 81 miles. the freight
was S121! Distance considered, the
rate in Minnesota, over the Great
Northern road, was almost five times
higher than outside of Minnesota. Yet
every line of road running from Chi
cage into Minnesota is confessed by
It's officers to be doing a fine business
and paying satisfactory dividends.
Several years ago Otter Tail county,
or which Fergus is the chief and cap
ltal city, bonded itself for $200, 900,
which may cost two or three times that
before they are paid. to get a branch
OF the Northern Pacific road through
the county so as to have competition
~ in rail rates. The value Of that
KIND of Competition is revealed by
the fact that the rate on both roads
is the same from St. Paul to Fergus
rails and to all other points in the
state! This incident proves two very
important points: One is that railroads
discourage manufacturing at interior
points; their interest is to keep field
and factory as far apart as possible,
n that being in their interest. they
Will, of course, do everything they can
TO accomplish it, and discriminative
freight rates is the tool they do 1t
with. The other point Is, that the late
legislature Of the state deserves the
eternal execration Of its citizens for
refusing to make the taxes on railroad
property somewhere nearly as high as
those on other property in the state.
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SOUNDS OF STRUGGLING"
thrust-bearings were cobble0 up so
that the engine was able to work at
about a third of a half head. Thus the
little ship again made progress toward
the mouth of the Mississippi, though
the progress vas very slight. 1t was
exasperating alike to master and his
company. Finally the big jetty light
was raised, a short time after sunset
of the ninth day out from Bluefields.
We had thus taken these days to
run a course ordinarily made in four
and a half. The bananas were now
mostly yellow.
1t was a black, gloomy night when
we approached the %jetties. It must
have been IL or l o'clock when shoal
soundings were reached. We were all
in our berths, some sleeping and all
happy over the prospective safe ter
mination of a most unpleasant ex-
perience aloat. For five days before
sighting land the young invalid had
kept to his cabin and we had seen
nothing of him, and as the prospect
of ending so unpropitious a VOYAGE
grew brighter with our progress shore
ward, u minds were filled anew with
our plans for the immediate future.
Indeed, the sick man had quite passed
from our thoughts, especially as a
bustling activity about the ship, which
denoted preparations for her hominp
and unloading, was a diversion of no
little interest, after the dreary monot-
ony of inactivity in the Channel of
Yucatan. We went to our berths that
last night, knowing that the sunrise
would find the ship in the Mississippi,
and this was the happy content upon
which we slept. Markham's berth was
the third from the companionway, on
the starboard side. The governor was
two doors from him; mine was across
the cabin. Some time in the early
hours, as the governor afterward re-
called, there was a series of suppressed
sounds OF violence, as a struggle be-
tween. men, from somewhere in the
cabin followed presently by a dead ST.
lence; but at the time he thought lit
tie of it, for the ship had been a very
noisy theater the preceding few hours,
n this incident was put down as
part of the reigning confusion. We
o at Z next morning, took coffee
and ships bread to break our drowsi-
ness. then went to the deck. The yes
sell was at anchor near Cubit's gap. op-
posite the Louisiana quarantine sta
ton, and the quarantine officer was
Just going v e the ships side. after
having made a hasty examination of
the ships condition. He seemed to
have given our master pratique. for the
winches we're already %squeaking and
clinking in the process Of hosting
ground tackle. All We're exceedingly
happy that the ship should once more
be under way. The 100-mile run up the
Mississippi was ~uneventful and New
Orleans was reached at dark the same
day-ten days out from the Mosquito
coast. Four OF five days later. in New
York, a paper came into the governors
hands, with news OF the disappearance
Of u fellow-passenger Markham. His
friends knew he was coming by the
Mary and were alarmed a; his non-ap-
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p%earance. The police Of New Orleans
were unable to obtain any trace OF
him. His lame did not appear on the
ships records, so it va reported, and
doubt was entertained that there had
been such a passenger aboard. 1t was
then that the governor. recalled the
peculiar scene in the ships cabin the
last night of the voyage. The mem
DRY of that impressed him deeply, and
black suspicion entered his mind. "un-
der the law" said he, "the ship should
have been held nine days at quaran-
tine. This would surely have been the
case had the quarantine doctor found
a fever CASE aboard. Is it possible, do
you think, that when he boarded the
ship, the sick man was not on board?"
Nine days delay at quarantine would
have meant a total loss of the cargo OF
fruit, worth probably $4,000. The
American has never been heard OF
since.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
WORDS OF THE WISE.

In his recent message to the Michi-
gan legislature Gov. Pingree declares
that If the present tendency toward
the concentration of industrial estab-
lishments continues there will soon
n longer be men in this country;
there will be only on one side corpora
ton managers and on the other 4
mass Of servile and dependent slaves"
The free and self-reliant American 10
becoming more and more rare. We
are becoming a nation Of corporate
masters who lack the natural human
ity Of individual employers and of
helplessly dependent servants,
Every man speaks well Of the bridge
that carries him e Those who
have made fortunes by the present
industrial system are apt to speak we'll
OF it.-Charles Kingsley.
Fight On. thou brave. true hearts,
and falter not. through dark fortune
and through bright. The cause thou
highest for, SO far as it is true, no
farther. yet precisely so far, is very
sure OF victory. The falsehood alone
of it will be conquered, will be abol-
ished, as 1t ought to be, but the truth
of 1t is part Of Natures own laws, CO.
operates with the worlds eternal ten
denotes. and cannot be conquered
Carlyle.
So long as all the increased wealth
which modern progress brings goes
but to build up great fortunes, to in
crease luxury and make sharper the
contrast between the house of Have
n the house of Want, progress is
not real and cannot be permanent
Henry George.
Humanity has not a minute to lose,
Quick! Quick! Let us hasten, The
wretched have their feed on red-hot
iron. They hunger, they thirst, they
sufter.-Victor Hugo.
The use Of the law as the jnstru-
ment of social injustice and industrial
laWlessness is a form of anarchy from
which our nation urgently needs re.
demption.-Herron.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
"WJNE rs A MOCKER.'

1t must have been about two years
and a half ago that the elderl. lady
with a husband, residing in our viii
lage, conceived the grand idea Of max
ing Gooseberry wine. She communi-
Gated it to the elderly lady without a
husband, who again impaired it to the
lawyers wife, a happy mother, with
four unmarried daughters, of whom
| was, and, alas! still am, the young
est.
The elderly lady with a husband
prevailed upon that appehdage to
gather the fruit; and such was his
good will that he arose at 6 o'clock
in the morning from his comfortable
couch to obey her behest. He ap-
peared at breakfast with lacerated
hands and a perspiring frame; but
his zeal sem him back to the garden
the moment he had satisfied his APP
petite.
The elderly lady without a husband.
having lost what the elderly lady with
a husband possessed, was fain to help
her cook with her own fair fingers.
The lawyers wife's four daughters
were pressed into their mothers SER
vice, and most unwillingly plunged
their fingers into the torturing bushes.
After the picking was over the three
ladies We're divided in opinion as to
whether the berries should be crushed
halved, or left whole, each n fol-
lowing her W conviction. The writer
OF this has an unpleasant recollection
or standing for four hours while she
cut every gooseberry clean through
the middle, according to her mothers
directions.
In due time the wine was put into
the casks, and the casks were rendered
alright until the following spring,
when the sparkling contents were bot
tied and slowed in their different Gel
lars.
My mother, I remember. was the
happy possessor Of six dozen; the
elderly lady without a husband had
two dozen less; but the elderly lady
with a husband carried of the palm
Of quantity, no less than twelve dozen
Of this homely liquor.
But while the wine was yet In the
casks there came to our village a
young man with an unmistakable air
Of gentility about him. He had no
occupation, yet his attire was good
In quality n faultless in cut. His
purse appeared we'll lined and quickly
emptied.
1t was whispered by some that he
was an eccentric member Of a high
family. and had quarreled with his
relations all round. so that was how
he came to settle In our quiet neigh
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
MYSTERY OF THE SEA
WHAT WAS THE FATE OF
YOUNG MARKHAM?
Cupidity Pitched Against Honor
Traveller Relates a Tale of Southern
Waters that Carries Its Own Conn
ment.

A most dolorous episode was that.
on a plack night, with heaving sea and
scuddlng cloud, in the Gulf of Mexico,
NOW these ten years gone. 1t was
ABOARD the little fruit packet Mary,
Mailing from and bound for the port Of
Ne" orleans with a cargo of 20, 900
ouncnes of bananas, some thousands
OF pines and c%ocoanuts. The vessel
was owned in New Orleans by a firm
o1 Italian fruit dealers. The cargo was
consigned to this firm. Instead of
oolorous, perhaps the epithet should
De written Infamous, but in the alb
sence of such knowledge as might
have been acquired by the evidence Of
the eye the harsher description may
fairly be left to find it's justification
in the commentary which the single
recital of the facts will make. 1t is
now n of the mysteries of the sea
which may never be %unraveled. HUI
man life was played against human
avarice-and the life was plotted out!
That is reasonably sure. There were
about a dom passengers. Among the
lot was a young American named
Markham. He had been ill some
months with a tropic liver and was
going North to convalesce. The gov
ernor remarked n evening, the Sec
ond night after the vessel sailed, that
Markham seemed to be a very sick
man, who was keeping up on his
nerve. This must have been SO, for
Markham showed his affection sadly,
in both face and manner We had
proceeded to somewhere about mid
way Of the channel OF Yucatan, separ-
ating Cuba from the isthmus, when of
q sudden the engine stopped churning
its wabbling propeller and a deathly
stiffness fell upon the ship. 1t proved
to be a nasty business, because the en-
gineer and his force seemed unable to
repair the disabled parts. The vessel
had but little canvas, and that little,
in the partial Gains then prevalent,
served but to give her the merest
s~teerageway. For four days thus we
lay, drifting northward in the gulf
stream and moving in addition prob
ably a mile an hour by the draft Of
the two poor, dirty sails. On board
was a perishable cargo. The bananas
were fast ripening. Their brilliant
green was turning into yellow wher-
ever the air struck them. The master,
a swarthy, vicious-looking Italian
with a ragged beard and an enormous
pair Of ~mustachios, was becoming
fairly frantic over the vessels delay.
Finally, at the end of the fourth day
of drifting, the crippled crank and
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
MlxED PICKLES.

An "old maids convention, was
held at Elkhart, ILL.,, recently.
OF every hundred Portuguese peas
ants only twenty can read and write
Copenhagen has the largest zoologi-
cal garden in Europe. 1t embraces
1920 acres.
Three oil wells at bi-Eibat, in the
Baku district, produced over 5000, 0OG
barrels last year.
Several soldiers who went through
the fight at Santiago tainted at Co
lumbus, O., the other day when they
were being vaccinated.
Berlin is to have a special insti-
tute for the study OF hygiene as ap.
piled to the tropics. Professor Koch
has drawn up a plan for it.
did you say l lied deliberately"
We'll. not exactly. My remark was
that you couldn't tell a deliberate
ruth."-Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
Sir Walter Besant says no man has
fewer amusements than himself. He
is too short-sighted for billiards or
tennis, and has ven dropped the ccca-
| sional game Of whist.
A French pathological journal esti-
mates that of the $50 different lan~
guages spoken on the globe, SO are in
use in Europe, IA in Africa, 1913 in
Asia, AT in America and lit in,
Oceanica.
A months supplies for the South
Carolina dispensaries. recently sur
chased, included 915 barrels of whis-
ky, thirty barrels of gin, ten barrels of
rum, 420 cases of whisky, 100 cases OF
wine, four carloads of beer, five bar
rels Of ale and five barrels of porter.
Uncle Joshua-We's got ter have
come more coaling stations. Uncle
Jedediah-What do we need 'em fer?
Uncle Jcshua-Why, ter accommodate
our navy, We know. Uncle Jeded:ah-
A bigger navy? We don't need that,
either. Uncle Joshua-We don't!
How'd we defend our new eoalins
stations, then?-Judge.
LHI. So 49,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Killed q Cray Man.

Coroner Sparkling of Seattle, Wash,
received a telephone message to the
effect that a crazy man had been killed
in s~elf-defense by a constable at Sun
nydale, twelve miles distant. No
names were given and no further in
formation could be obtained. 1t is
thought that the crazy man alluded to
is Michael Hamil, and that his slayer
is Constable barrow, who went out to
arrest him. Hamil is known as the
Sunnyside maniac, and has been con-
sidered a dangerous man for a long
time. He lived in a cabin in the woods,
and was always on the watch for
imaginary enemies. He is said to have
always been heavily armed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Fetch WOrsbin

Frank Stratton has sold his famous
Cripple Creek (Colo.) gold mines to an
English syndicate for $40, 0CO, 900 spot
cash. This fortune and all that is
yearly produced by it is tribute a fool
ish world pays to these few for the
convenience Of using "hones." money
in trading. A paper money that would
cost almost nothing would be safer
and more convenient and would do the
work better. Our ancestors wor-
shipped fetiches and we should not ex-
pect to get it out of the blood entire
ly.-Appeal to Reason.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

The American banker is very much
exercised over the fact that the con-
solidation of small concerns into trusts
is working a hardship on the banks
in the way of curtailing the amount
of commercial paper used. and suggests
the organization of a bank trust TO
overcome it. The complaint is made
upon the grounds that large banks that
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26

The New York Journal, in a leading
editorial, says the trusts will inev-
itably compel labor unions to become
political unions" that "the trusts will
render the strike laughablo and use
less" and that bigger work must be
done by American workmen than chat
tering about their little local salary
regulations or quarreling about hours
or overtime"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
WORSE THAN A DENTIST.

Some n is responsible for the
patent of a self-recoiling stringholder
which rolls the slack up out of the way
after use, and this inventor is also re-
sponsible for the wrath of a west side
grocery clerk. The young man says
he has always been a grocery clerk,
and early in his experience he con-
tractcd the habit of biting the string
after tying bundles, instead of break
ing it. Having teeth naturally poor,
this practice gradually destroyed them
until he finally was forced to replace
them with a false outfit. About the
same time the self-recoiling string
holder was established in the store
and on the following day caused the
catastrophe.
A young lady customer-whom he
secretly admired-came into the store
and wanted five pounds of sugar. With
the activity of love he made the bundle
and tied it. Bending down, according
to his custom, he severed the string
with his teeth, but forgot the recoiling
attachment of the holder. The end of
the cord wedged itself in the crevice
between two Of his teeth and when the
spring rolled up the slack his plate
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Signs of PrOsperftx.

There are many protests at New
York at the spectacle Of numerous dis
charged volunteers who enlisted for
val service now sweeping the streets,
begging and loa1ng in many parts of
the city while wearing their uniforms.
When they were discharged the men
found themselves without employment
and without resources. Their uniforms
were their only possession; and are Sc
still.