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does not belong to them. and these lays
of trouble will never cease until one coun-
try gains the upper hand or all withdraw
from the scene, leaving the islanders to
govern themselves, the condition of at
fairs that, to my mind, Is most to be de-
sired.
TO this great Germany company, how
ever, nearly all the discreditable acts
that have blackened the pages of Samoan
history may be traced. Long & Steven
son, who knew Samoa as few men have
known it. charged this company with
gross criminality and the Indictment has
never been disproved. He wrote:
Seven or eight hundred men and wo-
men have been imported to toll for the
company on contracts of three or five
years, and at hypothetical wages for a
few dollars in the month. 1t is
said that the whip is very busy on some
of the plantations; it is said that punt
tive extra labor, by which the thralls
term of service is extended, has grown 20
be an abuse; and it is complained that,
even when that term is out. much irregu-
larity occurs in the repatriation of the
discharged" 1t is this firm, accused of
practical slavery. that is mainly respon-
sible for the death and mutilation of the
gallant American and English soldiers
| who were killed here a few months ago.
To &C into detail in regard to the trou-
DieS Ol Tic past, Or ~ uIlitt upon lut us
cords of the present would be as super
! fluous as it would be difficult to describe
the many charms of the islands. Seen
from the ocean the full beauty Of the
scenery, the mountains covered with YER
dure, the glens and ravines made darker
by the shadows, the vari-tinted foliage
tina marks each line of vegetation, each
Of a different colored green, may be
grasped a. a glance. But beautiful as this
first glimpse may be the attractiveness of
the islands is not limited to this view
from the seas, for the longer one remains
in this chimes the more the charm of the
delightful land will grow upo him, and
at last he will cease to wonder that sail
ors of old have mutinied because their
captain has insisted that they should
leave this paradise of spots.
Apia is a picturesque little town To-
catedat the head of an excellent harbor.
1t is practically a town Of one street and
while the houses of the natives are gen
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LEI THEM ALONE.
plants.

"People over 80 would do well to give
up milk and Eggs in any form as a diet"
said a well-known physician. "These
are the notwithstanding food Of ami
mails which mature in a short time. and
when taken in quantities by human be-
ings, whose structures have already
formed they tend only to the hardening
and aging of the tissues. ! have seen
people who We're beginning to find stair
climbing difficult. and who were losing
their elasticity, much benefited by elm
mating these articles from their diet.
That there has been a great increase in
the duration OF life below the age of 80
statistics prove, but beyond that period
there has been no Improvement. In my
opinion, the person over 30 would have as
good a nance to preserve life as the child
just beginning it's struggle with exist
ence if he would only suit his diet to his
years"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05

Samoa, July 6.--While Tennyson told
his dream of a louisiana in verse as mel
low as the tropics he described, the pic
ture that he painted is an almost perfect
portrayal of life in Samoa. Here we find
the sunsets lingering low down sin the
red west" the dropping heavy blossomed
flowers, as rich in perfume as in beauty
of color: the heavy fruited trees hanging
low beneath their burden, n all the
characteristics of the poets
Summer isle Of Eden. lying in dark pur-
pie spheres of sea-"
Navigator's islands was the name that
was applied to this group in the old geo
graphies. Navigator's Paradise would
have been a more appropriate title, for
one may voyage from the far east to the
far west, and from the ice of the north
to the SHOWS of the south without being
able to find another spot where nature
has been so lavish with her gifts. When
Stevenson first dropped anchor before one
of these samoan villages he became "the
bond slave Of the islands," as he ex-
pressed the feeling of perfect peace that
took possession of his soul, and more than
one raveler who has come to this mid
ocean Paradise to stop for a day has
been overpowered by the army OF
charms by which he was and
has never returned to civilization. TO
the stranger tUlS Ildy oSl ny -
statement to be true, but to the mind of
one who knows the islands no assertion
of his nature could be an ex~aggeration'
I hope I shall not be misunderstood as
having advised the immigration of Amer
lean labor to Samoa, for that is about the
last thing that any sane man would sug-
gest. No one works in Samoa, and the
few exceptions who prove the rule. will
cease to labor as soon as they are thor
oughly acclimated. To toll in Samoa
would be a sacrilege, for why should one
spend his energies in b when nature
has provided all that is necessary for his
well being. That is the comfortable phil
osophy of the native, a philosophy &c
which most Europeans soon become con
verts, and the theory finds it's most strik-
ing proof in the natives themselves.
A more perfect type Of manhood and
womanhood, considered from the physl-
cal standpoint. of course. it would be
difficult to imagine, and yet work is some
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
SHAKEsPEARE'S LAMBS.

Shakespeare, among his many illusions
to the sweetness. the innocence and the
helplessness of the lamb. only once cites
it as an article Of food.
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gonum Convolvulus. dug up form the
bottom of a sandpit, where they were be-
lieved to have been buried for 1000 years,
were still vigorous and produced healthy
plants.
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turned, deeming it wise to wait until
things have quieted.-New York World.
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SPECIAL RoUND-THE-wORL CORRESPONDENT OF THIS
NEWSPAPER: WRITES THE BEST LETTER
EVER SENT FROM SAMOA,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
A Now Way Of Boiling Water.

1t is possible to make a pail of water
boil without putting it on the fire or
applying external heat to it in any
way. In fact, you can make a pail
of water boil by simply stirring it with
a big wooden spoon. All you have to
do is to place your water in a pail
it may be ice water if necessary-and
stir it with a wooden spoon. If you
keep at it long enough it will certain
ly boil. Five hours Of rapid and con
slant stirring are sufficient to perform
the feat successfully. The water will
after a time warm, and then it will
grow hot-so hot, in fact, that you can
not hold your hand in it, and finally it
will boil. The point which the in
ventor of this trick wishes to illustrate
is what is known as the mechanical
equivalent of heat. 1t requires so
many foot pounds of work to develop a
given quantity of heat. BY turning the
spoon in the water at a regular speed
it Is possible to find out/just how much
work is required to raise the temper
ature Of water to one degree. Heat
is developed in almost any substance
which is subjected to continuous or
violent action.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
An Argument PunctureJ.

A favorite gold argument is that
prices have fallen because production
and transportation have been cheap
ened. That is, to a great extent, put
ing the effect before the cause. When
there Is a general fall in the prices of
products, the cost Of production and
transportation will also decline as a
necessary result, because the product
in one line of industry becomes an in
strument of production of some others.
So the ch%eapening of certain products,
as coal and iron, will lower the cost of
transportation. The cheapenins of
production and transportation, so far
as there has been any, has been an eff
feet rather than a cause; or per-
haps 1T is better expressed by saying
that it is a part of the general fall Of
prices. But the contention fails for
another reason. No matter what new
facilities may have been employed in
production and transportation, there
by tending to lower prices, shutting off
a portion of the money supply would
operate in the same direction and in
crease the fall. If it were true that
better facilities for production had
lowered prices-say, 20 per cent-it
would furnish no sort of an excuse for
demonetizing silver, and thus lower
ing them 20 per cent more.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
Weapon and Lantern Combined.

A private policeman of Ludlow, KY,
William Fritz, has in actual use tho
very latest policeman's club, says the
Philadelphia Record. Astonishing al
it may seem, the club contains an cleo
trical apparatus which furnishes 2
powerful searchlight. 1t is a weapon
and lantern combined, and may be
used with equal effect in either ca
pacity. The construction is simple.
A storage battery within the club, a
push button at the handle end, where
the thumb naturally rests, and a small
but powerful electric lamp behind a
thick glass bulls eye at the tip of the
club, covers it all. The electric ap-
paratus is so ingeniously devised that
it Is not injured when a blow is struck
with the club.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
OUR STANDING ARMY.

The feyerish excitement over cues
lions OF expansion. imperialism or a
colonial policy should give way to a
CAIN n dispassionate consideration
or the first and most important matter
to be leglslated on as a result Of the
War-namely, the increase o. our
standing army. Says the Silver Knight
Waterman. The acquisition of new
territory in the East and West Indies
suggests many important considera-
ions of policy, which can at the pres
ent time only be discussed from the
standpoint Of theory. Admitting the
Importance of the fullest and freest
discussion OF all the questions involv-
ed, in order that the conscience and
Judgment OF the nation may be intelli-
gently exercised and the plumbers and
mistakes avoided, yet in the presence
or a practical question of such far
reaching consequences as the army bill
now before congress-, the Importance
OF considering other measures is de-
void of force until this question is dis
posed Of. We are now confronted with
the question whether or not the United
States shall rear a vast military estab-
lishment and thus take the first step
lay the corner stone upon which may
be erected militarism, imperialism or
despotism.
The corporations, trusts and the
money kings have long been clamoring
for an increase of the standing army.
IN their breasts the demand for a
large military establishment does not
rest upon the needs for any army of
occupation in Cuba, Porto Rico or the
Philippines. Neither does it rest upon
the idea that we need a vast armv for
the national defense, and this class has
yet never disclosed any desire to have
the United States enter the field of
conquest. They have been, and are
now, more solicitous for barracks and
environments in the vicinity Of the
great cities Of the country than on the
frontier or in our newly acquired pos
sessions. That II coast defenses
should be strengthened and our force
of artillerymen so increased as to fur
nlsh ample force to garrison our forts
n man the guns therein, is not only
a recognized necessity, but is a demand
in which all of the people unite. But
that a large force of infantry or av-
airy, aside from our needs on the from
tier to suppress any infraction of the
peace by the Indians is needed now, be-
yond what we have had in the past,
is strenuously objected to.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
Lot Us Consider.

The silver dollar used to be worth
more in it's bullion, or commercial
value, than the gold dollar, before the
characterization Of silver in the year
1873. and would be worth as much
now, had it not been reduced in bull
lion value by such demonstration. 1t
is, however, still a full legal tender.
the same as gold. for all debts, public
and private, including duties on i'm
ports and internal revenue taxes
made so by the action of congress,
which, under the National Constitu-
ton, has "the power to coin money.
and regulate the value thereof" and
though it's commercial or bullion value
may not be more than half of what it
formerly was, it is much more to the
dollar, thar that of the copper, nickel
same reasons that apply to them It IL
Sound and honest money!" and al
ways will be, until it's legal tender
quality is taken away by act of con-
gress, when it will cease to be ''hon-
est money" at its face value, and be
- az AhoAASJ 10 "a
commercial value. But it will be a
long time, as long as the life of the
republic, before the silver coinage of
the United States will be ~demonetized,
and debased below it's present stand
ard value and ratio Of 16 in weight to
! Of gold, and until that is done, the
silver dollars, no matter how many of
them may be annually coined, or UNI
der what act of congress-whether
from purchased bullion, or by virtue
Of a free silver coinage law-will al
ways be honest money" and as good
in all sections of the Union as gold
the same as they are now, and all the
power of Wall street can never de-
base them the one-hundredth fraction
of a penny, even though the senseless
gable of "debased, unsound and dis
honest money" should be continued
during the next hundred years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
Silver Night School Leaflets.

Campaign workers will find moth
ing better for explaining the 16 to 1
question that the silver night school
leaflets. The cause of low prices, the
misery n suffering which has fol-
lowed among workingmen, the fore
closures of houses and business fail
ures, all are shown, step by step, by
the familiar rules of the common
school arithmetics. The leaflets ara
published Dy Chas. H. Herr & Co.,
Chicago. No campaign worker should
be without a number of these leaflets
to be used in his meetings.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
Society Republication.

When Duke Cyril of Russia left this
country the other day, his path from
the carriage to the gang plank was
strewn with roses by twenty beauti-
full women" says the dispatch. That
IS how the American women, some of
them, love royalty and consequently
hate the land Of their birth. If the
boys want to win the admiration of the
beautiful women" they should strive
to make a monarchy like Russia and
then be Of the nobility.-Appeal 10
Reason.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
CHAPTER VII.
I Go Ashore

The wind lulled away into a gentle
breeze, reef after reef was shaken out
until a full spread of canvas once more
covered the spars of the Eugene; and
to repair some trifing damages of the
night we crept In shore.
AS day frightened through clouds
half rain. half mist, and wholly gray,
or obscure, we saw the land looming
high and dark. Beyond it in the dis
lance there was a space of vivid light:
in the foreground, surf white as snow
was breaking on the beach, and high
over all. in mid-air lowered the won
drous Peak of Adam, on the eastern
side of which the sun Gas yet unrisen
to us) was shining brightly when we
came to anchor in the harbor of Santa
Cruz.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
CURRENT

Judges Of the New York Supreme
Court have recently begun to be at
tired in gowns, which, says a daily
paper, will enable them to "be regard
ed as holding a position not only aloof
from the mass of the people, but above
them" Exactly-"aloof from" and
"above" the masses is the ideal of plu-
tocratic governmental the govern
ment which the American revolution
lists fought sever years to obliterate
in this country. Gowns" and injunc-
tons are natural conccmitants, "di-
vinity that doth hedge a king" in the
old times being transferred to the
courts, which five and ten centuries
ago were mere agencies Of the mon
arch. Now let's have a throne and a
crown in the white house, says the San
Francisco Star.
In all kinds of national policy Of
our time, when closely scanned, can
be seen some provision for taking care
of the rich and privileged classes. The
astute men Of wealth, or u aristoc-
racy, as they may be called, see in the
new idea OF colonial dependencies the
creation of thousands Of places for
their sons, who are already turning up
their noses at such plebeian pursuits
as trade, agriculture and manufactures.
No need OF saying So, however. There
is an easier way. The only thing re-
CURED to work up public sentiment in
favor of foreign dependencies is a
brass band and a few subsidized news
papers. Look at the proposed increase
Of the army to loo, 900 men, four OK
ira officers to each regiment, and a
provision for these offices to be filed
with unqualified civilians. Have the
industrial and %taxpaying classes in
this country ceased to think? II so
they must expect to be s%ubjugated and
enslaved. The rapport with England
is on both sides mainly a desire to in
stitute in this country an inequality Of
conditions, SO the none power will
not be restrained by our democratic
ideas. Our people are becoming as
little children led in any way that
the designing may require. The writer.
reared among the old Dutch farmers in
Pennsylvania, listened forty years ago
to dissertations on national policy
more learned and logical than he now
hears around Unconstitutional opinions
worked out in a logical way.
The corporations, trusts and monop-
olies see no danger to the liberties of
the American people in the establish
ment Of a military despotism in the
Philippines, says the Silver Knight
| Waterman. Neither do they fear that
any injury will be likely to accrue to
themselves or their interests through a
large increase of our standing army.
The New York Journal, in it's ex-
pansion Juror, actually advises work.
ing men to go to the Philippines and
take advantage Of the opportunities
there offered-of competing with ma
tives and Chinese, working for five
cents a day!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
BLESSINGS OF Civn,,.t,o,

Private ownership OF public monop-
olies, watered stocks and trusts are
some of the blessings of our institu-
tions" that we are going to compel
our new citizens in foreign parts to
enjoy-and pay 'Sr!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
How the Rich PAY Taxo..

Eight hundred and ffty-three mil
lions OF dollars deposits in the New
York banks do not pay any tax. Six
men n are credited as worth $780,
00O, 1000 are assessed on both real and
personal at only 5000, 900. The World
says that these mems ready bank ac-
counts are worth more than all their
returned assessments.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
Here is a list of trusts Incorporated
during last year:

during last year:
Name Of Trust
Am. Caramel Co.....,
Am. Fisheries Co...
Am. Hard Rubber Co
Am. Hay Co...........
Am. Lamp Chimney
Am. Linseed on CO..
Am. Pipe and Foun,
dry Co.
Am. Potteries Co..,
Am. Steel andWireCc
Am. Thread Co..,
Am. Tin Plate Co..,
Am. Wood Workins
Machinery Co. $3.50.
Atlantic Snuff Co...
Boston Fruit Co.,.
Bessemer Ore Assn.
Baltimore Elec. L.CC
Booth, A., & Co.,.
Boxmakers' Combine
(of Cal. and Ore.)..
Brass Foundry anC
Mach. Co. ..:,......
Broom. Manuf. Assn
Cambria Steel Co...
Cast Iron Pipe Trust
Cedar Shingles
Assn. 80. .........
Cent. Coal and COX
co. ......... .........
Cent. Elec. Ry. OF
K. G. ............,,,,
Cent. MattressManuf
Assn. ...... .........
Cent. UnionTelephone
Chicago City Ry. Co.
Chicago Edison Co...
Cleveland
ky Brewing Co.,.
Elec.
co. ........ .........
Cont. Tobacco Co...
Con. Gas of Pittsbure
Con. Gas Of N. ~.
Con. Traction of N. j.
Col. River Canneries
Co. ...... ............
Con. City Water CO..
Los Angeles, CAL.
Con. Cracker Co......
Copper Sheets and
Bolts Manuf. Assn.
Denver Tramway Co,
Federal Steel .......,.
Fire Clay Sewer Pipe
Trust 1000. ......,,
~Fireproofng .... 49,.
Globe Sewer Pipe CO.
Hawaiian Com. & Su-
gar Co.
Herkimer Co. 1t. &:
Power Co. ..........
Int. Heater Conn.,.
Int. Needle Co...
Int. Paper Comm.
Int. Silver Co..........
Kings Co.. N. Y. Elec-
trio Light and Pow
er Co. .........,..,..
Knickerbocker IceCo.
Chicago ...... $500.
Knit Goods Co......
Kodak Limited Co...
Kings Co. IN. VI
Traction CO.....,,,,.
Lumb'r Carriers'Assn
Maryland BrewingCo
Met. st. Ry. Co. New
York ........ ........
Mass. Con. Copper.
Elec. Ry.
& Light CON-.
Nat. Shear Conn.
New Amsterdam Gas
90. ....,,
N. Y. Gas and Elec.
It., HIT, and Proc.
Newark Con. Gas Co,
Nicholson Tile Co..
Nat. Starch Co...
Nat. Abrasive Manuf.
60. 49,. ............
Nat. Mirror Manuf.
Assn. .....
Otis Elevator Co...
Pac. StatesTelephone
P1ducah (Ky.) Ry. &,
Elec. 1t. CON-.
Penn. Man. 1t. and
Pr. Co., PhiI........
Peoples Gaslight &
Coke Co..of Chicago
Peoples Gaslight &
Coke Co., Buffalo.
Photographic Paper .
Print Cloth POOL.
River Coal Operat-
ors' Co.. .............
Rubber Goods Mani.
Co.. ...... ............
Sash and Door Com
bine w...... ........
Standard Distilling &
Distributing Co.. :.
Steel Tired CarWheel
Co.. ...... ............
Trenton Gaslight Co.
United Breweries Co.,
Chicago 80. ........
United Ice CreamCo.,
Chicago .... ........
U. 8. Biscuit Co...
U. s. Envelope Co...
". S. Sugar Ref. Co.
Union Carbide Co...
Union 1t. & Pr. Co..
Salt Lake and Og-
den ........
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17

Union Tobacco Co... S.00O. 900 .
nal Co .............. $1,000. 600
Writing Paper ....... 40. 00O, 900 ........
Totals ..............S 1857 1851 800 1884, 79l 900
'Estimated. The company or associa-
ton not being regularly Incorporated, the
amount Of capital involved can be esti-
mated only from the known or estimated
capital OF the combined companies.
Thus it appears that 1898 was a
good year for new trusts. Besides the
above, with a capital stock aggregat-
ing over $1,000, 900, 900, and bonded in
debtedness in addition. there is no
doubt that many new pools and COM
bines were formed and kept in the
dark.
An antitrust movement is evidently
necessary, but no volunteer leaders
from New York are wanted. Such peo-
pie as are ayerse to having their wages,
their chances in life and their political
policies controlled from the private Of
fees of such concerns as the above will
strike at the roots of the evil. Take
he control Of the money supply away
from the banks and usurers; give to
he people the control Of public high
ways, and the backbone Of trustism is
broken. PERCY PEPOON.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17
INDUSTRIAL DESPOTS.
THE NEW TRUSTS ESTAB-
LISHED IN 1895.
Progress OF Capitalization OF All Pro-
duction and Exchange for the Benefit
OF the Few Central Capitalists of the
Aggregation.

Railroad and banking corporations,
with some assistance from tariff bene-
hc1arles, have of late years been con
trolling legislation, constituting Of laws
by the courts, and the execution Of the
laws thus adopted and construed by
officials also selected by themselves.
Now the political and enonomic power
OF the banks and railroads is shared
by the trusts.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-17

There is an a<ti-trust law on the
federal, and most state, statute books,
but this does not indicate that n
laws are passed which the trusts dis
approve of, for the antitrust laws are
very useful to the trusts, never being
enforced against trusts, and always be-
ing used to crush labor unions when
they rebel against trust reduction Of
wages.