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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24

ing to the description given, had called
IN their services during the past TWEEN
ty-four hours for a dislocated should
er blade and had he called upon them
at . O'Clock a. m. today; the hour at
which Stanton, in telephoning, men
toned that he had seen the doctor?
They both stated, most positively,
that no young man had called upon
them at that hour; nor had they been
asked to set a shoulder blade.
Saturday morning came, and Stan
ton came, too, carrying his arm in a
sling. They solemnly informed him
that his story from beginning to end,
was false. n a fabrication.
He vainly endeavored to wriggle out
OF it-by telling Mr.. P that he
must have made inquiries OF the wrong
doctor, as there We're two by that
name, living very near together.
Mr. P was quite prepared, he W
ever, for this remark, and promptly
Informed him that he had communi-
Gated with both.
With a few words Of salutary advice
and counsel, from his erstwhile m
ployer, Sidney Stanton. with detected
countenance, sad heart and slow step
walked out into the street.
Where is he today? He, the bright,
promising young man; with culture
and grace Of name anyone might al
most envy?
Walking the streets without a char
acter.
That is what a "lie" cost him.
In conversation upon the street
with II who knew under what pc
culiar circumstance he had left Mr..
P--'s employ. Stanton. said: II have
lost n of the best situations l ever
had, and all through a lie!' God help
ing ME, l will, never. never tell an
other"
Would you give him another trial,
and his position back again if you
were in need OF a clerk?" asked a
friend. interested in Stanton.
That Is no easy question to give
an immediate answer to-" said Mr..
P. If 1t was only a slip from
sobriety which he had made, l would
have no hesitation in receiving him
back again, for he was, 1 think, the
smartest young man behind the count
err that I have ever met during a bust
ness career Of more than thirty years;
and that is saying a great deal. But
he Is a liar. l would never know
where he was spending the time after
the way he has deceived me-" and
Judging by Mr.. P--'s facial express
sion and voice, he uttered the words
with a sad heart-a fair prospect and
success, which seemed SO we'll assured,
suddenly extinguished by a falsehood.
Wherefore, putting away lying,
speak every nan truth with his neigh
Dor, for we are members of one an
other" Eph. 1925.
II Sidney Stanton had done this,
what humiliation and disgrace, what
loss of character and unhappiness he
would have spared himself.-Ram's
Horn.
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tor, and that the injury he had re-
celVed was a dislocation of the Shout
der blade and the doctors orders were
that he must rest himself for some
days"
Mr.. p. could not forget altogether
what had been told him about his
drinking habits. and wondered if, after
all, Sidney Stanton could possibly be
playing a trick on'him. In order to
confirm the truth or otherwise of his
story, Mr.. P. the same evening dis
patched a junior clerk to the house in
which Stanton boarded, giving him
particular instructions not to allow the
message with which he was entrusted
to be delivered secondhand, but to see
Stanton and deliver it himself
And so he did. AS he was ushered
into his room he was amazed to see
Stanton reclining upon his bed, with
both arms thrown UP, resting on the
pillow, his fingers locked within each
other, resting across his head.
1t was nearing the end Of the week,
and a part Of the message the Junior
clerk was given to deliver was for him
to make every effort to be at business
on Saturday. If you cannot use your
arm for taking orders Or for parceling,
you can take the Office and act as
cashier, and the cashier will assist us
at the counter"
A question which Mr.. P. had in
structed his messenger to put to Stan
ton was: TO what doctor did you go?"
His reply to hat question was re-
ported to be prompt and positive, as if
it had the ring Of truth in it.; but
unfortunately it had not-rather was it
the deathknell Of disappointed hopes.
Between then and Saturday morning
there was ample time for making full
inquiries as to the truth of Stanton's
statement. He had given the name Of
DR.. M, but as there we're two doc
tors whose names were SO nearly alike
as to be somewhat confusing unless
very distinctly pronounced, and as they
resided in very close proximity to each
ntker, Mr.. P t%elephoned to each,
in tE5n asking if a young mar answer
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24
WHAT A LIE COST.
By Sidney Stanton


copyrighted. 1899, by f. L. Chapman.)
1t was into a large and handsomely
fitted retail grocery establishment, re-
%splendent with mirrors, which re-
Elected the dazzling brightness shining
from many suspended bulbs OF light
mat a young man, some Is years of
age, entered in reply to an advertise
ment for a "frst-class clerk"
The store was situate in the aristo-
cratic quarter Of a metropolitan city,
n as the proprietor was we'll known
as a man of answering integrity, ac-
tuated in his dealings always by Chris
tan principle, and withal having a
thirty years experience, gathered from
both sides of the Atlantic, behind him,
it was considered no mean privilege
for any young man to be in his employ.
Standing near the door as the young
man entered, Mr.. P. bowed slightly,
asking what he could have the pleasure
OF doing for him, when the young mar
removed his hat and with a radiant
smile which seemed to suit him we'll,
and in tone Of voice which gave good
evidence of refinement, said: II have
called, sir, In reply to your advertise
ment for a 'first-class clerk"
Being questioned as to whom he had
served, or was serving, and replying
satisfactorily, Mr.. p. was so %favorably
impressed by the young mans bearing
n manner that. without demanding
references as to character or ability
or both. he at once engaged him to
enter upon his new service at the be-
ginning Of the following week.
Promptly at the hour appointed Sid
sprang into favor with Mr.. p, who
warmly congratulated himself that at
last he had found what he had so long
been s%eeking-a young man who was
quick In his every movement, a thor
ough salesman and with an address"
as natural as it was pleasant. He was,
indeed, his beau ideal of a counter
hand.
1t was not long, however before a
kind CO friend whispered to Mr.. P.
that Stanton was addicted to drinking,
and that he had lost more than one
situation by it. But it made no differ
ence to Mr.. P. His only reply was
that he had found in him a young man
Of superior ability, and that so far he
was we'll satisfied with him, and that
even II the story were true, he should
here have another chance given him
to retrieve his character.
Nothing was said to Stanton about
this, and he had probably hoped and
persuaded himself to believe that MI.
p. knew absolutely nothing.
He had held his position for about
six months, to the most perfect salts
faction of his employer, when one
morning a telephone message come to
Mr.. P, stating that Sidney Stanton
was unable to come to business on ac-
count Of an injury sustained by falling
from the street car in going home last
night; the roads were in a slippery
condition after the rain, and in alight-
Ing he had fallen"
About two hours later Stanton him
self %telephoned, stating that he had
Just returned from a visit to the doc
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24
HER BONNET.
Caught AHre While tho Speaker Wa,
Addressfnr nm Audlanea.

caught AHre While the SpeAke Wal
Addressing an Audience.
New York Sun: At a meeting of tho
Society for Political Study yesterday
the bonnet worn by the speaker Of the
day, Mrs. Belle Gray Taylor. caught
fire from a drop-light on the speakers
desk, and had it not been for the pres
ence of mind and feet-foOtedness Of
Mrs. Almon Hensley would have been
totally destroyed. Mrs. Taylor said
afterward that there was no insurance
on the bonnet, although there were
several other things, including gold
braid, blue velvet and black ostrich
tips. When the accident happened tue
speaker was p%refacing her talk, which
was on woman's intuition, with a few
remarks about fve-minute papers. she
having been asked to prepare one OF
that length.
"A long, dull paper is intolerable In
this rapid history-making age she
was saying, while a long, good paper
has so much in 1t that you wish to
consume'-
VII. ou. GrdClOuS lac.
Fire!' cried feminine voices from ev-
cry part of the room, and the one man
present looked at Mrs. Taylor's fam
ing headgear %helplessly. He said aft
erwards that he might have known
what to do II q woman had been In
danger In a burning building, but that
he was absolutely paralyzed at sight
of a burning bonnet. But no one bst-
ter knows the value OF a fine bonnet
than Mrs. Hensley, and before the lone
nan had recovered sufficiently to opea
his mouth she rushed to the platform
and smothered the flames.
What is it?" asked the speaker,
calmly, when the danger was passed.
Your best bonnet on fire." exclaim-
ed many voices.
We'll, for once I've created a sen
sation,'' retorted Mrs. Taylor. FOR
ace I've been actually brilliant. La
dies, the last word l uttered was con-
sume,' and then she went on with the
remarks that had been interrupted ny
the threatened con1agration.
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The Age OF Wind.

Mars, l watch affairs on earth close
~" began the exalted Pluto, as he
famed himself with a section Of halo
in the midst of the great hereafter.
and I have become Of the opinion that
you are losing vigor. Everything war
like, from pugilism and the Spanish
wars up to the general warcloud tina.
you have had hanging over Europe for
the last forty years, ends about the
same way" THAT is true" replied the
illustrious god OF wal, "but, the fact is.
I have sold out my whole business IL
Aeolus.'
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ravorite pastime Of chudron

The fish may be represented by OBJ,
long pieces of cardboard Gf mamma
has time, pictures of fish may be past.
ed on these), the under side of eacf
having a number to tell the child the
weight Of the fish he has caught. on
the upper side place small double.
pointed tacks, into which the hook i,
caught. The fishing hook may b.
made of a bent pin, and for the pole
a long pencil will answer. On a rainy
or snowy day the little ones will en-.
joy this sport hugely, and there will b,
no catching cold.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24
CLEVER LITTLE STORIES.

Judge Wheaton A. Gray, recently ele-
sion, was hearing a criminal case in
Fresno, and On a warm day, at the
end Of a long harangue by the prose-
cutting counsel, he noticed of the
jurymen asleep. AS soon as h argu-
ment was completed, the judge address
ed the jury in this peculiar manner:
Gentlemen of the jury, the prosecut-
ing attorney has completed his argu-
ment; wake up and listen to tho in
structions of the COURT"
Since Joseph Choate's appointment
as ambassador to England one of his
wittiest sayings is being retold. 1t was
made over a private dinner table at
which he and Mrs. Choate were guests.
Someone inquired of him who he would
like to be IL he could not be himself.
He paused a few seconds, as II think
ing over the list of world celebrities.
and then his eye rested upon his wife.
"If," he answered, II could not be my
self, l should like to be Mrs. Choate's
second husband"
Senator Caffery's constitutional ar
gument was listened to at one time by
six senators. One of these was Mr..
Spooner Of Wisconsin. Senator CAT
ferry read an extract in the course Of
his remarks, which attracted Mr..
Spooner's attention. Perhaps it Lad a
familiar sound. At any rate he began to
manifest some curiosity. From what
is the senator reading?" he asked Mr..
Caffery. The Louisiana senator turned
around with a surprised, not to say an
injured, air. II am reading" he said,
with crushing emphasis, from the con.
stitution of the United States"
Nine. MOdjeska and her
were playing one winter in the extreme
north, much to the discomfort of Count
Bozenta, the Polish stars husband,
who hates the chilly northern climate.
But at that time the show business
was at a very low ebb in the south.
One particular cold day Nine. Modjeska
found the count shivering from head
to foot, in spite of the steam heat in
the hotel. ooh, my dear, my dear!"
he implored, "let us go south for the
rest of the season. This climate will
kill us But, my DEAR replied
Madame, "the south is dead Eyes"
said the count, but she is such =
beautiful corpse.
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You are a physiognomist," 1 sus

You are a physiognomist," sus
gested.
Don't know what kind Of a mis-.
that may be, Master Rodney; but .hls
l k~now-there is always something
cunning and dangerous in a fellow who
looks over your shoulder, as that Span
lard does, when he should look at your
eyes"
Antonio had an excessive dislike for
deck duty by night. He exhibited q
strange dread Of being left alone, and
could scarcely be prevailed upon to
look over the vessels side, always
shrinking back as II he expected to see
something hideous rise out OF the sea.
Weston suggested that perhaps his re-
cent suffering had unnamed and rem
dered him nervous, but the crew
thought otherwise.
In his sleep Antonio frequently dis
turbed the men in the forecastle hunks
by his mutterings, his wild dreams,
outcries, and sonorous Spanish male
dictions.
was at the wheel on a calm and
lovely night cit was the 18th OF Jan
uary), when we were off the beautiful
shore Of Hispaniola. l remember we'll
that Cape SAVANNA bore west by
south, and Cape Cabron west by north.
for my task Of steering was new to
me, and Weston's orders were "to keep
her full and by"-that is, as close to
the wind as possible without making
the canvas SILVER.
l could see the lights that glittered
in the distant villages that studded the
low but fertile peninsula Of SAVANNA.
All was still and quiet in the ship and
around it. Soothed by the solemnity of
the hour and the vast solitude Of the
sea, my heart was full, and busy mem
DRY brought before me loved faces and
voices, places and scenes, that were
far away, in dear old England.
The brig was gliding through the
water rapidly, but im~perceptibly, and
almost without a sound; the men Of
the watch were leaning over the bull
wark to leeward, and the air, the sea
and all aloft and below seemed to
sleep in the moonlight; not a reef
point battered on the taut canvas, and
scarce a wavelet rippled save in the
dead water astern that marked the
white wake Of the Eugene.
Suddenly a shrill and piercing cry
rang out upon the night, and Antonio
the Cuban rushed out from the fore
castle with the widest terror ex-
pressed in his black eyes; his visage
was pale and CHASTITY, and the perspira-
ton glittered like bead drops on his
clammy brow. With his bare feet he
stumbled over the chain cable, which
lay coiled up on the deck, for on that
afternoon we had hauled it up and
bent it to the working anchor.
He came running aft in his shirt,
brandishing a knife in his hand, and
eXclaiming in fierce and then implor-
ing accents:
WHO says I did it? Who dares to
say 500"
Then, letting his arms drop as he
skunk back to his bunk, we heard him
groan out:
Eel cuchillo-el cuchillo!" Uhe knife
the knife.)
Hence, under such circumstances, it
may easily be supposed that among
the crew there floated strange INC
dark surmises as to the past life OF
Antonio ell Cubano.
Ito be continually
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-24
DICK RODNEY;
Or. The Adventures of
An Eton Boy.
BY JAMES RAN

by JAMES Ran
CHATTER XIII.-(Continued.)

CHATTER XIII.-(Continued.)
What are you about?" asked Yves
ton, angrily.
"Greasing the sling of the f%ore-yard,
sir"
"Oh-1 thought you were making
hay, you are SO slow about it. You
have been staring ahead for the last
twenty minutes, at least"
Because l think l see something
said the seaman, annoyed by the nau-
teal taunt.
"Something?" reiterated Weston.
What is it? A church or a windmill
going before the wind?"
Neither, sir-but a boat adrift.'
"How does it bear, Ned?' asked
T1is!op, starting into the rigging.
ION the s%tarboard bow, about two
miles Off"
On hearing this the telescope was
resorted to, and We could plainly
enough see a white object. which the
intervening waves, as they rose and
fell. hid from us at times; and there
was a great diversity of opinion. for
enc Of the crew maintained that it was
a harbor buoy adrift.
1T must have drifted a long way to
have come here" retorted Carlton,
"and if you have your grandmother's
spectacles about you, wipe them clean,
put them on, and look again-for 1 "a
see plainly enough that it is a boat"
"Then we shall overhaul it," said
Weston: "Hislop, prepare to lower
ours, and to lay the f%ore-yard aback."
The Eugenie's course was shaped to-
ward it, and when within a quarter Of
a mile the foresail was laid to the
mast, the brig hove in the wind, and
the stern boat lowered; Hislop, Tom
Lambourne, two other hands and I
manned her and put off to inspect
and report upon what we could dis
cover. And so, with many surmises as
to wrecks, boats getting adrift or be-
ing washed away from their davits,
and so forth, we pulled swiftly toward
her, all stripped to our shirt sleeves,
for a hot West Indian sun was blazing
in a %cloudless sky, and the air seemed
still and GREATNESS.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Antonio ell CubanO.

~ ooA4o
AS the strange boat pitched about on
the waves some of u men asserted
that at times they could see a mans
head above the gunwale. Others ex-
pressed their doubts OF this, and in
the midst Of such discussions we
sheered alongside. Hislop caught the
bow by the boat-hook, and while re-
tanning his hold, Tended off, to pre-
vent her being dashed against ours.
In the bottom Of the boat, which
was evidently the clinker-built skiff
of a merchant vessel, and was all
painted yellow, as a presel walton from
the sun in a warm climate, there lay
. under the thwarts a man, either asleep,
in a stupor, or dead-at first we knew
not which; but he was pale enough to
have passed for the last.
BY his tawny visage and coal-black
beard, his long scarlet cap and sash.
in which a sheathed knife was stuck
and also by the rings in his ears, we
recognized him to be a Spanish sea-
man. He was a man naturally Of a
tall and powerful frame, but Of for
bidding aspect-of great personal
strength, but wasted apparently bv
toll, by exposure and famine.
A dark and coagulated crust of some
thing like blood appeared on his baked
lips and thick mustaches, On the black
ness of which the saline particles of
the sea foam, dried by the tropical sun
glittered white as boar frost on a h,,sh
III winter.
AS we reused him he grasped his
knife instintively and repulsiye]v. but
relinquished it, and then stared wildly
at us, muttering in imploring tones:
Aqua, aqua, por amor de Dios,"-
(water, water, for the love of Cod.
"Misericordia! o senores-O Ave
Maria, misericordia!!'
Here, Jack Spaniard, ship a drop of
this; it is real Jamaiky," said Tattooed
Tom, pouring between the parched Inns
of the Spaniard some rum, which likely
had been put In the boat by the fore
sight of Hislop.
The black eye Of the castaWay d.
lated and flashed as the spirit rev,ved
him, restoring his wasted enerrios
and bringing a hectic color to his
cheeks.
Delay now" said Tom; "vou m,,st
get some Thames water from the brig
before o take more Of this"
'Muchos gracias-many, MANY
thanks" said the Spaniard, in tomas NJ
thankfulness.
Enough O. that-stow your slack
and come on board if you can" said
Tom, testify, as he had sulky recol-
)ections of our adventures at the
Grand Canary.
Restored by the m%outhful of alco-
hol, the Spaniard staggered up, but
with difficulty; and then we perceived
that gouts Of blood, dried and encrust-
ed by the sun, were on his person and
on the inside of the boat, especially on
one of the thwarts.
What is this-blood?" asked His
Top, with an imperceptible shudder.
The Spaniard started and became, if
possible, paler at the question, as he
nervously clutched the gunwale of his
boat with both hands, and said, in
broken accents:
my dog, senores; I killed a dog that
was with me, because it went mad in
the hot sunshine, and being without
water"
"Why did you not throw it into the
sea-"
'It would have bitten me, enor, and
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EiSY to Prove.

MARY, is your master at homer"
mo, sir. he's QUIT don't believe it,
well then, he'll come down and tell
you SO himself. Perhaps you'll believe
him"
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Who Pays 1t?

Interviewer-Do you feel the effects
of the war tax? Druggist-My custom
ers do.-Tit-Bit!
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Why the job Suited.

Merchant-What arc your qualffca-:
tons for this business? Applicant
can't get anything else to do.-Puck-
Evening journal., 1899-02-14
WELL-KHOEH MAN DEAD

IAlMES REESE FAILS DEAD
WHILE STRUGGLING THROUGH
THE SNOW.
James Reese, of the wel-kmown
hrm Of Reese & Bro, stove dealers OF
No. 412 King Street, dropped dead OF
near disease at Seventh and West
.reess carly last evening.
Mr.. Reese was en- his way to his
lome, No. us Adams street, and was
truggling through the heavy snow
drills on West Seventh street, when
Death overcome him. Dr. NJ. j. Hughes
saw Mr.. Reese fail and, at once rush
ing to his assistance, carried him into
Ills office!where an examination proved
.he man to be dead The body was
taken to ]. B. Martins undertaking
Establishment and later removed to
the home Of the deceased.
Mr.. Reese was 55 years OF age and
well-kncwn in business ciHcles in th'
city, having lzept stove store at Al.
King street for a number Of years. H'
leaves a widow and four chidren. De
ceased was a member of Washingtor
Lodge, No. 1, A. F. A. NJ, and 81
Johns Commandery Knight Tenn
plars.
Evening journal., 1899-02-14

Margaret Sweeney, of Londonderry,
who accompanied him to this country.
HIS wife died about six years ago. and
three children survive him. Daniel a
morocco worker. VINO resided with his
father and was for eighteen years con-
nected with the Capitol police. in
Washington, ID. c.; James, living on
West street, night fireman at the po-
lice station, and Jane, who
acted as housekeeper for her father
The flag on the City Hall has been
placed at half-mast out Of respect for
the dead councilman, and Council will
pass appropriate resolutions upon Mr..
O'Neill's death tomorrow night. The
funeral Will take place Friday morn
ing, with services at st. Pc
ters Church, and interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery. George O'Nein's
death is a public loss, ard he viii be
mourned by all VINO knew him. His
term Of office in Council expired in
July next, and ii is probable that a
Democrat win be named and endorsed
by Council to fiji Mr.. O'Neilrs unex-
pired term, as the city charter author
ICES Council to appoint in cases Of
death, resignation, ETC.. persons to fill
vacancies occurring in such a manner
to hold Office until the next regular
election As Council now stands there
are six Democrats and six Republi-
cans, including President Leitch, who
has the deciding vote. BY refusing to
sanction the appointment Of a Demo-
crat, however, and inaugurating a
deadlock until after election, might ef-
feet several present officeholders. The
term Of Waiter McEviliy, milk inspec-
tor, expires in May next prior to cleo
tiOn. and his place win have to be
filled by appointment, and Council also
mas in its power to appoint a meat in
spector in the pace Of George Abele,
whose term expired some time ago,
but who is still holding over on ac-
count OF Councils failure to elect his
successor. These are the only two
officials effected.