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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27
Mail Car Financierlnr.

The government pays for the build
ing of $50 postal cars every year, yet
it does not w one Of them. 1t not
each car for good measure. An or
binary postal car costs $1,000, and the
government pays to the railroad COM
pany $500 for the use of that car each
year, a y the Nonconformist. There
are $50 such cars in use for which the
railroads get about $3,600,00O annually.
One of those cars will last twenty years
and during that time the railroads
collect from Uncle Sam $72, OOO, 900, and
have a lot of old iron and kindling
wood left. The car cost the railroads
altogether only $780, 900, but in TWEEN
ty years they get from the United
States seventy-two millions. In ad-
dition to this we pay the railroads
100000, 900 a year for carrying the mail
in those cars that we buy every year,
but never own. How long would the
business OF a private individual last
if he would make this kind of trade?
The railroads carry the express cars
1o4 AuduJ I1ulCS icSS u1Oucy ludu they
charge for carrying the mails. Why
should the government be robbed any
more than an express company? There
is no use in getting mad over this out
rageous extortion, but we are much to
blame if we don't derive from it a.
useful lesson in politics. Public own
ership OF railways and mail cars will
settle this stupandons steal and settle it
forever. When that time comes. and
it is surely coming, the postal service,
instead of being a constant e
will be a source of prodigious profit.
When we build a mail car we will! build
it for ourselves and not for somebody
else, and we will transport the mails
for six million dollars, instead of
thirty millions. How soon will the
people quit their f%oolishness and profit
by the lessons of wisdom?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

forty million dollars evenue referred
to then has grown TO half a billion,
but the principle is the same. Why do
not the people of this nation cry with
one voice for the same relief? Be-
cause a great aristocratic power has
control of all the government and all
the business and sources of informa-
ton, and has covered with mockery
and scorn the very name Of treasury
note or ~greenback. Anything to avoid
b really true question, who is to
control the business of distribution and
exchange-the people. or the few, who
have usurped the whole?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

DICK RODNEY:
Or, The Adventures of ;
5 An Elton Boy. 5
BY JAMES RAN :
CHAPTER II.-(Continued.)
Or, The Adventures of
An Elton Boy.
BY JAMES GRANT.


CHAPTER u.-(Continued.)
o l began to be assailed by that
illness, Which terror and anxiety had
hitherto but partially repressed-a vio-
lent seasickness in all it's horror.
Afraid of being washed from the deck,
over which the waves were breaking
now, once more l crept in wretchedness
below.
Before descending, I cast a despair
ing glance at the loosening sail which
still caught the wind; it was a source
OF increasing danger which 1 dared not
attempt to remedy, even had l strength
to have done so, for the wet deck was
now sloping like the roof Of a house,
and I would assuredly have fallen into
the sea to leeward. After several feeble
efforts, I succeeded in partially closing
the companion hatch, for warmth and
security, and, descending, threw myself
on the cabin floor, sick and despairing.
The lurching of the vessel, the close
'odor Of the cabin, overpowered me at
last; I became fearfully i'll, and from
being so, lapsed into Inconsistencies,
after enduring all the w~retchedness in
duced by that ailment Of the ocean.
For the top OF my head seemed about
to fly off, it's sides to be crushed in;
there was a singing in my ears, an
ache in my %eyeballs; and then came
that awful sinking Of the pulses, OF the
body, of the soul itself which thou
sands have endured in cases of aggra-
waited sea-sickness, but none has been
able to depict.
In short, after a paroxysm of illness
and tears, 1 became totally unconscious
of the peril and horror of my situation,
and found a refuge in sleep.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27
DESFOTlSM OF INERTIA.

The old French revolution is a fear
full instance, showing how violent is
the revolt of a people against i%nstitu-
tons too long maintained by a govern
ment in spite of the demands of, time
for the change. The institutions were
old and at "a against all the new con
ditiOns that had arisen. Reforms that
ought to have been made sixty years
before We're sternly repressed by
despotism.
In the same way our own govern
ment, either by its want of power or
inertia, resisted the demands Of the
age for the abolition OF slavery. The
very stones were crying against human
slavery in 1900, yet we held to 1t for
sixty-eight years. Finally it was the
south herself that rose up against this
inertia and by its action put an end
to 1t, without intending it. But the
condition had grown intolerable to the
south. The rebellion was an involun-
tary struggle for existence by a perish
ing society maddened by its own in
tolerable situation.
And now again, our W inertia is
burdening us as though it were des-
potism. Conditions are growing in
tolerable. AS is always the case, a
small ~oligarchy and a few hundred
thousand dependents upon it and on
government offices, oppose all reform.
Inertia is as tyrannical as despotism.
CLARKE IRVINE.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27
As Old Socrates svad.

There are two things" said Soc
rates, (which the magistrates of Ath-
n will be careful to keep out Of our
city-opulence and poverty. Opulence.
because it engenders effeminancy: pow
erty, because it produces baseness:
both. because they lead to revolutions
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27
POINTS FROM THE PRESS,

Nature works wonders, and men en-
deavor to get them patented.-Justice.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

Education makes men disconnected,
but 1t also shows them how to over
come their discontent.-New Era.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

We must not have silver for money,
for that will give us too much money;
but even the prospect of turning the
oceans into gold does not arouse a
fear Of too much money. Can't there
be too much if it is only ~gold?-Farm,
Stock and Home.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

The people who long for reform, but
give no support to the papers which
advocate reform, are like a man who
wants a crop, but will not plant the
seed.-National New Era.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

The First Consideration.
Let us work hard to make the right
of opportunity as sacred as the right
of property.--San Francisco Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

1t is a mistake to say that people like
to be fooled. Perhaps some do, but the
majority are fooled because those who
are interested in the truth are less &C
tive than those who profit by error
New York Commonwealth.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

The money power refuses to allow
the Industries Of the people the relief
and stimulus that would be afforded
by the free coinage of silver, and in a
time when revenues are insufficient
the money power refuses to permit the
government to float its own credit un-
less tribute Is paid to usury.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

Incidentally, with the few bOssing
a more or less comical game of rob the
people, with a choice Of political evils
the perpetual lot of the so-called SOW
ereign citizens. w may need III thir-
ty-thousand-year-old fighting instinct
for business purposes at any time, and
it is as we'll not to get rid of 1t in too
great a hurry.-New York Journal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

or all despotisms that ever cursed
an otherwise free people the tyranny
of partisan politics is the worst. No
bibes his opinions from the edicts Of a
political party.-Think for yourself
The Eclipse.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-27

The man who spoke this was John
c. Calhoun-noted above all men Of
his age for wisdom and profundity on
all questions Of public economy. The
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Valuable Oil Property Bought,

Marion, Ind, Nov. 1S.-Slx million
dollars is the reported price that the
English syndicate paid for the hold
ings of the Indiana Pipe Line and Re-
fining Company, Cudahy Company and
the Manhattan Oil Company, in all the
producing fields. This will give new
impetus to the oil business and will
evidently advance the price of crude
product.
The Manhattan Oil Company has
large and extensive refinery at Welker,
O., and lines throughout Ohio, as well
as Indiana fields. The Indiana Pipe
Line and Refining COMPANY and the
Cudahy people have large oil holdings
in the Indiana field. They have pipe
line through the Indiana fields which
runs to Kanakee, ILL.,, where a large re-
finery is now under way.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
A Lady Astronomer.

Tonight Miss Klumpke, we'll
known American astronomer, attach
ed to the French Observatory, descend
ed in safety from a balloon ascension
at Coutances, in Normandy.
Miss Klumpke started in a balloon
shortly after o'clock this morning to
witness the flight of the scheduled
Leonids and meteors.
Her costume consisted of tight-fit-
ting bicycle suit. Around her neck
was strung series of electric lights in
tiny incandescant globes.
In the balloon basket was small
electric storage battery, which oper-
ated the astronomical apparatus, with
which Miss Klumpke made some val
liable observations.
A dispatch from Coutances states
that the ascension was a marked sue
cess.
MISS Klumpke is receiving lavish
compliments in scientific circles for
the pluck and perseverance she has
shown. Her purpose was to ascend
into an atmosphere in which the Wis
ion is not obscured by the low-hang-
ing clouds thatdarken the earth in the
early morning.
The danger that attends a nocturnal
balloon ascension was calculated to
unsteady the nerves of an amateur
aeronaut and thus render uncertain
the operations of the delicate mechan-
ism with which the astronomical
phenomena were observed.
BuC the fact that no accident occur
red either to Miss Klumke or her ap-
paratus, is proof of the GOODNESS with
which she accomplished her scientific
venture.-Paris Cor Chicago Tribune.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Additional Local.

-Harmar Lodge, No. 800. F. & A.
NJ, will have work in the Master Mas
on Degree this Tuesday evening.
Auditor Patterson expects to leave
this morning for Columbus to attend
the meeting of the Auditors Assocla-
ton.
Miss Clara Fuller, who visited her
brother, o. ]. Fuller, for three weeks,
left yesterday for Huntington, w. Va,
wher she will visit for a few days be-
fore returning to her home at Ports
mouth.
Mr.. Chas. Elston is moving from
Fairvlew Heights to 30 Wooster
street.
Il. T. Cisler is a business visitor in
Wheeling.
ID. F. Graham, of Bartlett, is in the
city on business.
Misses L. and K. Hannen moved
their household goods from 21S Fourth
20 $40 Hart street Monday.
The Otis Skinner Company arrlv-
ed yesterday afternoon over the T. G.
U. C. E. They travelled in a special
sleeper and had an extra baggage car
for their baggage. They came here
from Stanton, Va.
Joseph Duke and Walter Detries,
of Pittsburg, are visiting friends in the
city
Jack McNulty was locked up Sun
day afternoon on the same old charge,
drunk and disorderly. He plead not
guilty Monday morning and will be
given trial before the Mayor.
Anthony Thlebin, an cid man who
claimed every place as his home, was
locked up as a suspicious character
Sunday. He was ordered to leave town
yesterday morning by Mayor Richard
son.
The household goods of DR.. Kirt-
ley the new pastor of the Baptist
church, are being moved into Mrs.
Clerc's house, Fourth street. Mrs.
Clerc will spend the winter in the
East
The Ladies' Social Aid Of the
Presbyterian church will give an oys-
ter supper at the G. A. R. Hall, Barlow
Wednesday evening, Nov. 30. There
will also be an apron sale, All are
cordially invited
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Penalties of Fame.

1t is one of the penalties of fistic
fame that the victor in the encounter,
,4Ough he may have been battered
well nigh out of human shape, must
consider the invitations of other gen.
tlemen who wish to batter him some
more and would like to do it right
away. Mr. Jeffries, after having sue
cessfully maintained his claim of be-
ing the heavy weight champion of the
world as against Mr.. Sharkey, at the
cost of such physical inconvenience
that he will need to rest about year,
has already received FIVE invitations
for similar function as soon as he is
able to attend to business.
Mr.. S..arkey, not content with two
broken ribs and various disfigure-
ments, still feels he is the better man
of the two, and his manager thinks
that IN four months he ought to prove
it. Mr.. Fitszimmons, who has tried
conclusions with Mr.. Jeffries much to
his regret has discovered that he made
a few mistakes on that occasion which
he desires Ito correct. Mr.. Corbett has
led such a careful life for year or
two that he thinks he is better qualified
than any other pugilist to meet jeff
rles. Mr.. Maher, after he meets Mr..
Mccoy, will be ready to sign articles
with MIR. Jeffries and promises to
make MIN a better contest than Mr..
Sharkey did, while Mr.. Mccoy says if
he defeats Mr., Maher he will post a
forfeit and issue a challenge to Mr..
Jeffries.
The prize ring seems to have been
struck by the wave of prosperity, and
Mr.. Jeffrles, if he is to rest a year af-
ter each job, will have work to do for
several years to come. He will have
all he can do to fill his contracts If he
takes all that are offered. If he only
fl. one year and wins he is sure Of
an annual profit ranging anywhere be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, which is a
handsome return for about an hours
active work in year AS the other
parties to the contract, in the event
they lose, will probably clear about
half chat amount, prize fighting may
be hooked upon as an exceedingly re-
munerauve business.
The champions manager, however,
is looking for a higher stake than the
above named gentlemen can offer. He
is of opinion that Mr.. Jeffries will rest
until next August, at which time he
will be heard from in Paris. From
this It is to be inferred that Mr.. JEFF
ries will be a striking feature of the
Paris Exhibition and do his best to
contribute to ahe gayety of the nations
in a side show on the Partisan Midway
It is possible he will be able to meet
the Latin gentleman who the other
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21

day kicked the Saxon gentleman until
he was temporarily dead to earth. II
Ae should, Mr.. Jeffrles's foot may be
relied upon as absolutely as his fst.
Before the boiler maker gets through
with the Latin kicker the latter may
be in a condition to appreciate Cae-
sar's famous opening lines: "An
Gaul is divided into three parts" In
view Of Mr. Jeffries's forthcoming visit
to Paris the gentlemen who appear so
anxious to NEE him will have to be
content with meeting each other and
smaller profits.-Chicago Tribune
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
TUESDAY. NOV. 81, 1899.
Victoria's Headsman.

The ancient Office Of "Headsman and
Executloner to the Queen" has just
become vacant through the death at
the Tower of London of old Stephen
Sweeney, who, in addition to his other
titles, lore that of "Yoeman Galore to
- er Majesty" He was a very plctur-
esque figure in his costume of six
teenlh century consisting of long scar
let tunic, slashed with black velvet,
loose red knickerbockers, red stock
ings, with rosette of red, white and
blue ribbons at the knees and upon the
low shoes.
1t was only on grand state occasions
and at the official parade of the Yoe-
man of the Guard or Beef Eaters that
old Sweeney used to be seen with the
instrument of his office, namely, the
state ak of execution. 1t Is a wicked
looking implement, with broad, big
blade, and Sweeney was wont to bear
it over his shoulder with the edge
turned forward, so as to show all men
present that it was not destined upon
that particular day for use upon any
fellow creature.
In days gone by the public we're al
ways made aware by the manner in
which the "Headsman Of the Tower"
carried the AK whether the prisoner
who marched Immediately following
him in the procession to and from the
place of trial had been sentenced to
death or not, For, as long as the pris-
oner had not been convicted. or con-
demned to lose his life, the ak pointed
forward as it was borne before him by
the headsman. But from the very
moment that capital punishment had
been decreed against him the edge of
the AK pointed ominously his way.
Old Sweeney was the senior of all
tle old household servants of the
Queen, and had been footman in her
employ and in that of the Prince Con-
sort during the early years of her mar
riage. Each Christmas he used to re-
ceive a piece of solid silver as gift
from the Queen, with large black
bordered card, inscribed, with good
wishes from Her Majesty and the
Prince Consort," although the latter
has been dead since near two score
years.
There is at the present moment, of
course, keen competition for the com
Portable berth left vacant by Sweeney's
death among the old household SER
wants of the Queen, Tor the officec ar
ries with it, not only handsome pay,
but likewise plenty of allowances, a
furnished residence in the Tower OF
London, free lighting, heating, repairs
and heaven only knows what all be-
sides the prestige and the dignity of
the post.-GlCbe Democrat.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Musical Clubs in Small


There is no principle that must be
strictly adhered to in any successful
village musical society; there must be
no drones. The instant that any one
is admitted to membership on any 9TH
er grounds than ability the decline of
the society has begun. Regular at
tendance can be secured only by arous-
ing the enthusiasm of the members
The one word that expresses yhe pos
sibllties of concerted instrumental
music for the village is orchestra.
1 mis- word, while rather pretentious in
sound, may have an extremely humble
application. Orchestra is mentioned
as opposed to band; the orchestra be-
ing intended for indoor practice, is ca
pable OF exerting a most refining in
fluence.
1t is chorus work that The vocal
energies of the singers of the town
must be mainly devoted, and 1t is best
to assume a high stand from the out
set and establish an "oratorio soicety"
rather than a chorus" or "choral
club" For this purpose a well-bal-
anced group of thirty or forty voices
is suficitnet if it is composed of mem
bers who can really sing A small
chorus of unexpected volume of tone Is
much more effective than large one
with a disappointing volume.
1t may be just as well to call atten-
ton to the fact tnat the larger music
emporiums, especially those in Boston,
>ew York, Philadelphia and Chicago,
are always ready to give advice and
assistance in the selection of music
where the members of clubs, individ-
ually and collectively,d do not know just
what is best for their purpose.-Ladies
Home Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Freak of an Engine.

Piedmont, w. Va, Nov. 19.-The
Baltimore and Ohio train on the Rom
ney Branch struck a steer belonging to
A. B. Whiteacre, near ROmney, and
the jar threw the rear drivers of the
engine eff the track, running nearly
200 yards on the ties. When they
struck the crossing they mounted the
guard boards beside the track, sliding
o.. the boards and back on the track.
Ten feet farther they would have been
on a trestle and the engine would have
been dltched Such termination of
an accident is regarded as remarkable.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Big Oil Case Decided by the
u. S. Court Of Appeals.

A very important suit involving the
construction of an oil lease was de-
cided on Saturday by the Supreme
Court of Appeals.
An Oil lease was executed by Homer
L. Bowser and wife on March 8, 1897,
to w. j. Steele and John Mathews for
40 acres Of land in Tyler county. The
lease bore no date, but was acknowl-
edged on March 8, and delivered on
March TO-
The lease was also blank as to the
number of acres reserved around the
house on which no wells were to be
4. led
ne material issue involved, how
ever, grew out of the following clause
of the lease: Provided, however, that
this lease shall be come null and void,
and all rights hereunder shall cease
and determine unless a well shall be
completed on the said premises within
-- from the date thereof, or un-
less the lessee shall pay at the rate of
ten dollars $4,000 per month, in ad-
vance, for each additional month such
completion is delayed, from the time
above mentioned for the ccmpetion of
such well until a well Is completed.
Such payments may be made direct to
the lessor or deposited to his credit in
lyler County Bank at Sistersville.
A l..-.ure to operate said lease after
said well is completed or pay said
rentals for more than thirty days shall
render this lease null and void, and
all rights of the second party shall
cease"
On April 21, 1897, lessees paid first
renta. by depositing it in Tyler Coun-
ty Bank, and thereafter deposited rent
Of $40 monvnly. Bowser claimed
that the rental was payable in 80
days from denvery of lease, while
lessee claimed ninety days to De the
time agreed upon.
On October q, 1897, Bowser made a
second lease to Shay & MCMullen, who
undertook to erect derrick, but in the
meantime A. ]. Yoke had purchased
an interest and he with others brought
suit and enjoined Shay & McMullen
from operating under their lease.
Judge Freer rendered a decree sustain
ing ,Ae Steele & Mathews lease and
perpetuated an injunction against
Shay & McMullen.
From this decree Shay & McMullen
and Bowser appealed. The appellants
claimed that the lease of March was
forfeited for failure to pay rental
within thirty days. and further that
this lease was void for uncertainty, in
this, that it was not dated, was blank
as to the number of acres reserved
around the dwelling and also because
the lease was Olank as to time within
which a well was to be put down. The
appellees claimed that the date was
not material, in that the date of ac-
acknowledgement and delivery cured this
commission, and that the reservation
and time within which operations
SHOULD be commenced were void for
uncertainty, but that this did not rend-
er the lease valid. They also claimed
that the agreement gave lessees ninety
days within when to operate or pay
rentals.
The Court of Appeals upheld the
lease of March 9, and affirmed Judge
treer.-Sentinel
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Foot Mashed.

Sid Aslett who is an employe of the
Leidecker Tcol Company, had his foot
badly mashed while at work Monday
morning. He and fellow workman
were carrying two hundred pound
bit and by accident it slipped from his
hands and fell on his foot.
He was taken home in his injuries
received attention. He will be unable
to work for some time
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-21
Property Sold.

George B. Sunderland, agent, sold
the Catherine Weyrich property on
Fifth street, above Washington, to Dr.
NJ. L. williamson yesterday. Consid-
erauon $4,000. DR.. williamson intends
to erect handsome residence there
in the spring,