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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
DON'T Wear Linen collars, Girls.

For wear at school and at home in
the mornings young women use In
stead of linen collars a broad band OF
white ribbon, satin or t~affeta, pinned
in front with two little stickpins. This
was resorted to as a relief from the
constant pressure of linen collars. The
latter worn daily leave an ugly mark
upon the throat which is not easily
rubbed of, and which is most unbe.
comingly in evidence where the throat
Is oven slightly open for evening dress.
For the same reason those who have
put a linen collar beneath the lisse and
chiffon ties hat wind twice around
the throat are substituting now q band
Of white ribbon. A bit of economy,
contided by n young woman, is that
she puts to this use white ribbons that
have been washcd.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Dercnses of Havana.

= In the defenses of Havana the ideo
OF fighting from concealed trenches
rather than behind entertainments.
which we saw so much Of at Santiago,
has been developed very fully. The
rock is a coral limestone easily exca-
waited, and the trenches cut in it are
well masked. Whether such i%ntrench.
ments are better suited to the use OF
emokeless powder than the old form
which left the heads Of the men re.
lieved against the sky line Is for ou1
officers to decide, but their uniform use
In Cuba indicates that they represent
the deliberate conclusion Of Spanish
military judgment. The Notifications
are said to contain forty-three new
guns Of the Hontoria and Ordone7
types.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
RISE OF a

A new man has come out Of the West
into the railroad world, a star Of the
first magnitude, increasing in bril-
liancy every day. Ten years ago he
was a life insurance solicitor In Chi
cago, and a poor one at that. Seven
years ago all he knew of a railroad
was that 1t consisted Of two tracks
Oh which trains ran. Today lie han
dies scores Of millions Of American
and European money and controls and
operates over 1900 miles of trunk line
railroad, created by himself, and is
adding to it every day. He has linked
Kansas City with the Gulf of Mexico
by a railroad as near an air line as 1t
can be, has turned north and reached
Omaha on his way to Manitoba, east
ward and reached Quincy en- route to
Chicago. He has built towns, founded
new industries, reclaimed tent Of
thousands Of acres of land to agricul-
ture, opened mines, established lines Of
steamers, and is digging a ship canal
seven miles long, wide and deep
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
LONDON EAT RATE.
1reat Improvements In Sanitary Condi-
tions Still to BE Made.

t1reat improvements In Sanitary Condi-
lions Still to he Made.
Pure water, unlimited in quantity,
accessible to all; fresh air, spacious
highways, ample recreation grounds
.hese things are a necessity to health,
and the health OF the citizens is a
primary public concern, SAYS the Con-
temporary Review. 1t has been the
bride Of the last h~alf-century that vast
sanitary reform has been accomplish
ed. And the proof of it Is found in
the diminishing death rate OF most
great cities, and in the highest degree
" London. There are cities in Europe
.oday where the death rate is double
hat ct London-nay, where it is three
las been for whole months within the
asst year. The normal death rate Of
Cairo is nearly three times that OF
London; $4,000 lives per annrm at least
are saved in London which would be
sacrificed but for the advance of san
Itary science and municipal reform.
But we are only at the beginning of
our task. The rate in London may now
De said to be brought we'll below TWEEN
(y per 1000. In the good time to come
1t will be brought down to ten. At
his moment there are squares and ter
aces in the west end where the rate
Is not SO high as this. The death ate
II Derby this very week is under ten.
And to this ideal limit it must be
Drought before sanitary reform has
De said until every sewer is as free
from poisonous gas and deadly fer
ments as a scullery sink in a we'll
found house; until the suspicion Of
p~reventable infection and %ccntagion Is
entirely removed, until the infants of
The poor are no more destroyed by IN
intentional infanticide ton are the
infants Of the rich; until birth, measles,
W~hcoping cough and scarlatina have
leased to decimate the homes Of the
careless. the ignorant and the INDECENT.
AS it is, at least a quarter Of our pres
ent death rate is due to conditions
which if those responsible were not SO
oelpless and SO ignorant would mount
manslaughter and even murder. And
perh S a fifth Of the death rate over
and above this Is due to conditions
which are distinctly ~preventable by
science and by organization. In the
good time to come the 50, 900 Or 10000
lives we SLAUGHTER annually in London
alone by u stupidity and Eismanage-
ment will be told by u descendants
as ar abnormal barbarism such as
caused the plague and the black death
Of old.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

upon Africa and with about parallel
results. His friends and his family
now believed him lost indeed, but he
soon emerged from the struggle with
new trophies in the shape Of offices
and political p~referment. His family
and his friends became reconciled to
this newest departure Of a young man
who need never have distressed him
self with anything more important
than the fit Of his coat or the color
OF his tie. Then the war with Spain
became the vital Issue of the hour, and
Mr.. Chanler, like the leaders of his
party, rose to the opportunity as a
trout to a well-baited hook. He was
one Of the first to offer his services to
the country. AS soon as it seemed
likely that government would issue a
call for troops he set about recruiting
a regiment Of volunteers which he pro-
posed to equip and arm at his own ex-
pense. Nothing daunted when Gov.
Black declined to accept his regiment,
Mr.. Chanler quilted New York with a
few friends and went to Tampa, In
W jim lAl SeoA VI LSSASt, lAo
Cuban general. He was delayed long
enough to receive q commission from
the president, which conferred upon
him the duties OF assistant adjutant-
general, with the rank of captain. He
was assigned to Gen. Wheeler's staff.
Capt. Chanler served through the San
tlago campaign, being several times
under fire and receiving mention for
gallant conduct in action in General
Wheeler's dispatches to the war de-
partment. He was honorably dis.
charged from thearmy on Oct. 5.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

enough to accommodate the largest
vessel af1oat. He has been from the
beginning a towering figure in the ne
gotiations for the Alton road. He has
just begun buying railroads in Ohio.
lie has aroused the railroad world OF
America and the financial worlds of
America and Europe, for he has done
all this In less than six years, and
his ambition is to push his lines north,
east and west. He is less than 40
years OF age, the keenest of financiers,
the boldest of projectors. He has rails
ed over $50, 1000, 900 in the face of pam
les and every opposition imaginable,
and spent it in his own enterprises,
and he is said to be by no means rich.
He was called a dreamer up to a year
or two ago; today he is admitted to be
a towering figure, whose plans aim at
the diversion Of the products Of the
West toward new outlets to Europe,
and the wrestling Of vast traffic from
railroad lines which regard it as theirs
by right. This is Arthur q. Stillwell.
president Of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf railroad, and about fifty of its
allied enterprises.
How has a nan designated as i'm
practicable a few brief years ago made
so immense a leap?
Railroad people, while freely admit
ting he is a factor that must be reckon
ed with, say they don't know and
let it go at that. Some of Stillwelrs
friends say they don't know, either.
Others a by having propositions to
offer that talked for themselves. Still
we'll himself says by striking the word
cant" out Of his vocabulary.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Tramp In q Royal Bedchnmhor.

A curious incident has Just thrown
the palace Of the king CT Wurtelnburg
at Stuttgart into a state Of excitement.
During the absence Of the king a
tramP1sh individual gained access to
the palace by way OF the gardens and
reached the first floor, where he in
stalled himself in an apartment be-
longing to one Of the princes. Here
he made himself quite at home, taking
on his boots and placing them outside
the door. He tnen smoked a cigar,
wrote several letters on the royal note
paper and finally went comfortably and
unconcernedly to bed in the princes
sleeping chamber.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
CHAMBERS LIFE
STORY OF FEW YEARS, BUT
BRlSTLES WITH EVENTS.
An Explorer and Politlclan-His Services
to Science and observation-disclosures
Conduct During the War With spain
-On Gen. Wheeler's STAFF.

William Aston Chanler, the newly
elected member of congress from the
Fourteenth district of New York, is
one OF the most interesting men whom
recent elections have brought con-
sp1cuously before the people Of the
country. Although Mr.. Chanler is
only 81 years of age he is already we'll
known as an explorer, as a soldier
n as a politician. His father was
the late ]. w. Chanler, three times
elected to congress by the votes of
the citizens Of New York. John Jacob
Astor was his neutrality-suspicious.,
and he therefore belongs to one of the
most aristocratic and socially impor-
tan families in America.
Young Chanler graduated from Har-
yard in 1887. receiving from the uni
verslty the honorary degree of A. M.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Working on Tea aad Cotfoe.

Early railway builders in New Eng
land discontinued the ancient system
Of serving alcoholic stimulants to their
men and substituted for such drinks
tea and coffee. Newly arrived Irish
immigrants we're the navvies of those
days, and the contractors who adopted
tho total abstinence system found that
their men were vastly more %peaceablc
and effective than those supplied with
strong drink. So striking vera the
results that some railway companies,
in making construction contracts, stip-
ulated that the contractors should not
serve strong drink to the navvics, and
In the end the best workmen sought
employment Of contractors working
under this stipulation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Deserted In Vain.

The bluejackets aboard the other
warships at the Brooklyn navy yard
enjoyed a good laugh recently at the
expense Of eight unhappy members of
the Buffalo's crew. The eight men in
question were among the eighteen sail
escape going to Manila. They waited
until the ship was well out to sea and
then returned to the Brooklyn navy
yard and surrendered themselves.
When the Buffalo put back they were
ordered to return to her, and will be
court-martialed while the cruiser is
out at sea.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06


known to white men. For a long time
no news of the daring adventures
reached the outside world, and when
rumors did come to the ears Of the
traders along the coast they only con-
firmed the fears Of Mr.. Chambers
friends. It was reported in London
that the expedition had stranded at
Daitcho. The Geographical Society of
London confirmed the report. Grave
fears were entertained that Mr.. Chan
Ter would never reach the coast. But
in February of the following year., aft
er sustaining many h%ardships and be-
Ing deserted by many Of his followers,
the explorer succeeded in reaching the
coast.
The expedition was not without re-
suits. Much valuable information was
added to the sum Of knowledge of the
interior of Africa. Mr.. Chanler had
discovered and mapped a region. hith-
erto unknown, equal in area to that of
Portugal. Mr.. Chanler was made a
fellow Of the Royal Geographical So
ciety of England and a member of the
Imperial and Royal Institute Of Vienna
as a recognition Of his services to
science and geography. Returning to
America he wrote an exceedingly in
%teresting account Of his adventures
in a book, which be entitled
Through Jungle and Desert"
This was no small achievement for a
young man just out Of college, but Mr..
Chanler did not rest on his laurels.
About two years ago he Joined Tam
many Hall as a Bryan Democrat. He
invaded politics with the same vigor
which had characterized his movement
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

Ask your grocer today to show you q
package Of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee.
The children may drink it without in
jury as well as the adult. All who try
1t, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal
brown Of Mocha or Java, but it is made
from pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress.
One-fourth the price Of coffee. 15c.
and 25c. per package. Sold By all
grOcerS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
More Equipment for Baltimore e. Ohlo

More Equipment for Baltimore e. Ohio.
The improvements that have been
made OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road during the past two years have
rendered it possible to operate cars Of
a heavier capacity than have been in
use in the past and the receivers have
Just ordered from the Schoen Pressed
Steel Company of P%ittsburg 1000 steel
coal cars of a capacity of 100,Oo
pounds each. These cars will be used
for the seaboard trade and are ex-
pected to be in service during the early
part Of 1899. In addition to these cars
the receivers have also ordered from
the Pittsburg Locomotive Works SO
more Of the consolidated locomotives
with 22x2S inch cylinders.
The best women friends one has hate
the others
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Mckinley by Telenhone.

The Commercial Club of Kansas City
Installed a long-distance telephone in
its clubhouse recently, and celebrated
the event by calling up the White
House at Washington and asking for
President Mckinley. The president
was busy with affairs Of state, but con-
veyed through Secretary ]. Addison
Porter, who answered the phone, his
congratulations and best wishes to all
who were assembled at the club,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
WILLIAM ASTOR CHAMBER.

ASIUR CHAMBER.
when he came OF age he undertook
a hunting trip to Africa, where he
remained for nearly a year. In Sep
TENDER, 1892, he Joined Chevalier Won
Hohnel, a lieutenant in the Austrian
navy, and together they set out with
their caravan from Zanzibar to pene-
trate into the interior Of Africa. 1t
was the intention Of the young x
plorers to reach Mount Kenia, near
Da1tcho, which lies 4 few miles south
of the equator in a region almost un-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Baked Beef and Potatoes.

Select whatever cheap piece Of meat
you may desire, sprinkle it with salt,
pepper and -four and place it upon a
small iron trivet in a baking pan with
peeled potatoes and about half a pint
Of water. It must be turned owe on
the trivet every twenty minutes and
basted thoroughly with the fat which
runs into the dish.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

Our soldiers in Hawaii may contract
teprosy and bring it to this country.
While leprosy is to be dreaded, there
are a thousand times rs many victims
to stomach disorders. but there is q
cure in Elostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Other ailments that the Bitters are a
specific for are malaria, fever and ague.
Sold at all drug stores.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Inopportune Commissioners.

Bessie-"I thought Nellie Sanderson
was to have been married last week"
Jessie-"So she was, but Charles rich
aunt, who had been given up, is get"
ting we'll again. "-Harlem Life.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Wouldn't bo Safe.

She-1 don't see why they cant let
the women vote. He-Because, nv
dear, they are trying to keep it a Sc
cret ballot.-Cleveland Leader.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
On the Safe Sfdo.

do you talk back to your cooke"
Certainly. Goodness! You don't think
I'd dare say 1t to her facc?"-Chicago
Record,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Criminals.

Among every 1000 bachelors there
are thirty-eight criminals; among mar
ried men the ratio is only eighteen pei
1000.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

Mrs. N'insloT.'s Soothing Syrup.
for children ~tecthing. softens the guns. reduces IN.
Illumination, al!ays pain, cures wind collie. CSC & bottle
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best
OF all cough cures.-George W. Lott,
Fabucher, La, August 26, 1895.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

A good sized dining room is found in
an empty stomach.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

~ Iowa F arsaS- Cor aaio. SO per acre cssh II, ia !IItz
"a crorartli psid.. j. Mriha!i, SioaASi.y, Esss%*
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
Furnishing Opium Users In China.

Furnishing Opium Users In China.
The Chinese government does ali
IN Its power to check the opium habit.
the punishments common in the Chin
csc army for this habit being extreme.
For the first offense a man may have
his upper lip cut; for the second, he
may be decapitated. For the last sixty
years on an average Of a half-ton Of
opium has been sent to China froR
India every hour.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

Ii she is sure sic has got you She
isn't sure 81 wants you.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
The Prologue.

smith-You are not superstitious. are
you? Jones-I should say not. But
why do you ask7 Smith-Because I
wanted you t. lend me SIS until next
week.-ChicaSo News.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

In politics and courtship a third
party is usually undesirable.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative BTo,no Quiuine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money If it fails to cure.
E5c. The genuine has l.. B G. on each ia blet
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06
SATAN DYED
A Telegraph Polo That Iecams : rroa.
and u Peculiar Sign.

IA AeAesrApn ioio mat leca ms Free
and u Peculiar Sign.
"There were two features Of Tone.
ka fifteen years ago that always par
ticularly interested me, said a for
merly Of Kansas man to q New York
Sun writer. Zone was the great cot
tonwood tree that stood within the
sidewalk line in Kansas avenue. be-
twoen Fifth ana Sixth streets, one of
inc most active business quarters OF
tho city. Its history, confirmed by
all old residents, was that it had or
iginally been a telegraph pole, set
there whom the wires first came to the
city, and ignoring the porpose the line
men had in view, and feeling itself
planted in fertile Kansas soil, took
root, put forth branches, and, liks
Topsy, "growed." It's foliage dark.
ened several Office and store fronts,
and it's branches in their exuberant
growth were constantly threatening to
break window glass and push down
walls, but the sentiment in favor of
its preservation was so strong that It
was protected until through decay il.
became necessary to cut it down.
1.-The other thing which struck my
fancy was a sign on Kansas avenue, in
front Of an establishment for cleaning
and dyeing clothes, which read:
s SATAN DYED:
"Whether or not the writer of tho
sign had mado an photographed mis-
shot at satin must be left to coniect-
ure, but, read literally, it would seem
to DO an original way Of saying that
the devil is not as black as he il
painted"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-06

The best women friends one has hate
the others
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1899-01-07

be discharged as soon as peace is
declared, and | mean to look around
a little then. | understand there
are rich gold mines in the mount
aims back of Manila, and / may
do little prospecting. Well, y is
dinner time, and / will draw this
to a close. Our rations are good
here. We have Australian beef,
frozen, and prenty of rice and hsm-
my. We have hog and hominy for
breakfast regularly. Will write
again soon. HI. f. HANSON.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1899-01-07
Late Literary News.

To have the men who have dem
onstrated their organizing ability by
great business successes tell their
secrets of organization, is the object
of the editor of The Cosmopolitan.
This he is succeeding, is proved in
the January issue by the article
from Charles R. Flint, who is re-
garded in New York as one of the
three or four ablest organizers in
America. He is President of the
Rubber Trust and the head of the
great mercantile house of Flint,
Eddy q Co., which has its ramifica-
tons in almost every port of the
world. Mr.. Flint tells very openly
what makes for success in the or
ganization of business. His article
may be read with interest by the
Rockefellers, the Armours, and the
Wanamakers as well as by the
humblest clerk seeking to fathom
the secret of business success.
In the same line is an article,
also in the January Cosmopolitan,
telling how Mr.. Platt organized and
conducted the campaign for the
election of Roosevelt. 1t is by a
gentleman who was actively en-
gagged at the Republican headquar-
ters during the campaign, and who
gives vivid picture of the perfect
ion to which political organization
has been carried in New York State
by the most astute of managers.
The wary old Senator who has been
a lifetime in politics and the young
est political aspirant will alike find
food for reflection in Mr.. Blythe's
article.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1899-01-07

Mr.. A. C. Thomas, of MarysviIle,
Tex, has found a more valuable
discovery than has yet been made
in the Klondike. For years he
suffered untold agony from con-
sumption, accompanied by hem
orrhages; and was absolutely cured
by DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
He declares that gold is of little
value in comparison with this mar
velous cure; would have it, even if
it cost hundred dollars a bottle.
Asthma, Bronchitis and all throat
and lung affections are positively
cured by DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. Trial bottles free
at T. ]. A. Flaws. Regular size SO
cts. and 500. Guaranteed to cure
or price refunded.