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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
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you know the risk. 1t may be death;
chances are against you." replied the fore
man.
No more was said and a party of four
went down the shaft on a mission fraught
! with clear and we'll defined danger. There
was q tunnel which If opened would al
| low the men to reach the shaft in safety.
but If the fire damp had spread to the
| passage leading into this tunnel then
| there would be no chance for the shut off
miners. To dig away the rock and force
the opening was the only hope of res
cue. The volunteers worked like men
possessed with the full realization of i'm
pending death. At last the opening was
made. The work that followed called for
the hardest moral courage, and it wan
Darrell who was the first hat volun-
teered. Crawling through the opening
and along a narrow ledge he worked HIS
way to a point communicating with the
passage in which the miners were shut
up like rabbits in a warren. Darrell had
been a good miner in his day and none
knew better how to reach and cover
ground than he. Cropping In the
black cavern he made his way slowly,
surely, to the point where he knew the
miners would be herded like terrified
sheep, fearful to move. He did not take
time to hope that they would still be
alive. He simply went about his work.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
Merely Symptoms.

Chicago Journal: Life Is failure,
said the tired looking passenger In q
grave and far-aWay voice. Man il q
fraud, woman bore, happiness a de-
5lusion. friendship ahumbug; love is a
disease, beauty deception, marriage
q mistakes@aWif q trial. q child a nuis-
ance; good isSnlerely hypocrisy. evil IS
detection. The whole system OF exist
ence-lise, morality, society. humanity,
ana all that's hollow sham. Our
boosted wisdom h egotjsnn: generosity
ts irnbecility. There is nothing of any
Importance but money. Money is eY-
erything, and, after all; what is every
thing Nothing. Ar-r-r-r-! ,,
Giad to meet you, sir, said the thin
little man with the gingerShued whis-
kars, extending his hand cordially to
4heMspeaker. have the dyspepsia
pretty bad at times myself.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
Lady Mary Has Nc Such Title.

Washington Post: Since landing in
America, I have managed to extract
some amusement out Of the way GER
tain of your papers allude to Lady
Curzon, wife of the viceroy of India,
Who, as a girl, was Mary Letter Of
Chicago" said w. Savage of Calcutta.
They speak of her as the vicereine,
doubtless thinking to honor their coun-
trywoman by giving her the proper
title. 1t is a mistake hat borders. on
the ludicrous, for Lady Curzon hasn't
such a title. There Is no vicereine Of
India, and it is rather surprising that
we'll informed writer's should have
fallen into such an error" y,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
Fawncyg
the din

Chicago Tribune: The time for the din
aer was at land. ..tEE5
The interior of the Upjohn mansion was
decked with roses, carnations nd lilies
for the feast. -"
But at the last moment a terrible cala1n-
ity happened.
The hired girl left. r~.
The mistress hurriedly engaged a sub;
stitute who had been waiting ION the table
at q boarding house. . u 4
The first course was served, and at the
proper time the new maid was directed to
remove the dishes.
With a tray held high in the air she ad-
vanced to the head of the table and called
out in a loud, high keyed voice;
stack yer plates!" r@e - n
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
Explained

Philadelphia Press: Vsafs ali THIS
$dash-dfngsd talk bout this we're pan
anna sraral. ana why's III goin tep take
millions % dolIars2 Thes,s
steep ZOE anal. said fheScrossTaads
fdebater.
Mebbe suggested another, they're
sgoin ter have the towpath asphalted.
Tibet runs inter money, re know.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19

#Isa1Nhtle the device shown in the illustra-
aStior for holding a milk pail may not be
wholly new to all readers, 1t is one that
AS easily made and Is a great improve
nilent over the old plan of clutching the
pailktightly between the knees. The Illus
tration needs little explanation; the frame
consists Of a fiat strip Of iron bent as
Y 5hoWn5 in the cut. to which two hoops are
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
OUT q Proport;on.

New#York Times: BenhanlI frv ~
believe the bible, but I find that story
Of the ten virgins, i've DC whom We're
wise ard five foolish. little perpiex-
Ing
with that? S
Bsnham+-Judging from the women i
lave known h proportion Of foolish
ones wa Saltogether too stnan.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19

Mrs. Wnslow,,s SOOTHING Strip FOR Children
teethlng; softens the gums, reduces inflammation. al
lays pain, cures wind colo. 25 cents q bottle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
Terrible,

New Ytrk Sun: First Microbe-Did yoaS
3n near3 , e. th s. aGeident that happened to
death. @aa HsssfIlSe. :.
ahappen2 So -
up when an awful man kissed her,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19

trouble to get breakfast#qulck Ii yoa
nave Mrs. Austin's Pancake four.
Bulletin: $50 Marie is m
TO an uildertaker??',a
Yes. Bit then. YOU NOV she's really
dead in love-
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

paper is to be pitied. How can its
members understand their religion if
they read nothing about it? They are
culpably ignorant of their faith if they
fail to read the Catholic press.
The Irish Standard, as it's name indi-
Gates, is published in the interests of
American citizens of Irish birth and
decent. In it's devotion to the race it
represents. The Irish Standard is not
inferior to any paper in the United
States. Though it is known as Irish
it is truly American, and never to it's
knowledge has it been false to true
principles of Americanism. In the
future. as in the past, it will be Ameri-
can, Irish, and Democratic. We ask
all our readers to assist us in the per-
Torrance of our work by prompt pay
ment of their subscriptions, and in
return we shall give them the worth of
their money during the coming year.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27
THE ANGLo-sAxoN PRESS.

Without doubt the .\nglo.Saxon
press is the most unreliable and most
Enthusiastically in the world. 1t has
all the characteristics of falschood. 1t
supprcsses truth and suggests untruth
in the news it gives to the English
reading public in both hemispheres.
What it gives as facts today it con-
t1dicts tomorrow; but frequently the
lies of yesterday are not contradictcd
today nor tomorrow, but are accepted
as truth and pass into history. This
is more often the case when there is
war or W hen rumors of war are atioat.
Everybody distinctly remembers
how the press of London and New
York hoodwinked the American peo-
pie into believing that during the
Spanish War the United
States had but one true friend in
Europe among all the great powers,
and Of course that was England.
BLOOD was thicker than water" vol,
know, and England. the "Mothel
Country" sympathized deeply with her
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

nothing, that they may bring their
scanty earnings to the loved ones at
home. OF such fiber is the Irish
peasantry in the agricultural slums
created by England's cruel system. 1t
is idle to say that such people would
not do any better if they We're given
fair chance. l was told by an Eng
lishman in London that these migra-
tory laborers We're lazy lot, after all;
that on returning from their trips to
England or Scotland they did nothing
but sit around and smoke. Probably
this Englishman had never visited the
.congested region. did visit it, and
saw the men and women working
hard, doing all that could possibly be
done to get something out of their
miserable little patches of mountain
bog"
And these are the people that
Horace Plunkett wants no aid for.
You must not give anything to al,
Irishman; you must not do anything
for an Irishman." The man who
speaks thus is wolf in sleeps cloth
ing. He came to this country to injure
the mission of Davitt, Dillon and
Devlin, the real representatives OF the
Irish victims of landlord apacity. He
is another Froude in his ISLANDERS of
the Irish peasantry who are to-day, as
in O'Connell's time, the finest peas
antry in Europe. Every friend of Ire
land in America should turn the cold
shoulder to Horace Plunlett
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27
could be found to challenge any prop.

could be found to challenge any prop
erty in the town."
Priests were the special object of
Puritanical fury, and Carlyle describes
| with much glee how his murderous
hero had "friars knocked on the head
i'll dozens" The soldiers of prey ragged
through the town, killing man, wo-
man and child, occasionally amusing
themselves by tossing babies from
spear point to spear point along their
lines. Two hundred women took ref
uge around the great cross in the
market place, but they were slain with
as little conjunction as if they had
been wild beasts. 'The hand of the
law was mighty in this,' wrote Col.
Thorpe, one of the murderers, "for we
killed many in the town, and as they
fled out of the town OH the west side
we made a great Slaughter
When the orgy of murder was con-
cluded the streets We're piled so high
with corpses as to be almost impas-
sable. OF this exploit Cromwell wrote
to Parliament as follows: ut was set
upon some of our hearts that Il great
thing should be done. not by our
power or might, but by the spirit of
God. That which caused your men to
storm so courag eously, it was the
Spirit of God. 1t was the Spirit of
God who gave your men courage, and
Herewith success, and therefore, it is
good that God alone should have all
the glory"
Most of the adult inhabitants of the
city had been slain and their property
plundcred by Croinwell's pious muir
derers, but barbarity had not vet
reached it's full course. The little
chldren-boys and girls of tender
years-were seized and sold as slaves
to West Indian planters, and it was
not an uncommon sight at that period
to see a group Of children, chained to-
gether, being driven along the road
toward some seaport by company Of
| Cromwell's troops. In four years no
less than five thousand youths and
maidens We're exiled in this fashion to
the Barbados.
Cromwell did not live long enough
to enjoy the fruits of this barbarity.
No man ever betrayed his own coun-
try OF prosecuted otherGSwith as small
reward. He set aside a whole Irish
county for himself, but neither he nor
any of his family ever possessed so
much Of it as to set his foot on. He
waded through slaughter, but never
reached a throne After few miser-
able years of pretended royalty, he
died of pure terror; and but little time
passed when his body was exhumed
and treated with every possible species
Of indignity.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

Spunky daughter, Columbia, who was
engaged in war with one of the weak
est nations on the earth. The Lon
don press spread the report that had it
not been for Englands navy the other
European powers would have COM
bined to crush the United States; and
every Anglo-American daily paper in
this country echoed and re-echoed the
lying report, despite the fact that the
representatives of France, Germany
and Russia at Washington had given
it their most emphatic denial.
1t was only when Prince Henry of
Germany was coming to the United
States that the American people first
knew they were imposed upon by Eng
lands protestation of friendship. In
stead Of trying to keep the European
powers from interfering in the Span
ish-American war, England proposed
to them to do so and her overtures
We're rejected. Her hypocrisy was eN-
posed by Germany in self-defense.
and another instance of English per-
tidy was given to the world.
One would suppose that England
would be slow to pose again as the
friend of the United States, but to-
day she is more ardent than ever in
her friendship for this country.
Though in alliance with Germany in
the Venezuelan affair she tries to
make the American people believe
through the Anglo-SaXon press that
Germany cannot be trusted. The ~
ing Associated Press sent out an in
terview the other day with one Colonel
Scruggs Of Georgia in which that in
dividual is reported as saying that II
think Britain is sincere in her desire
simply to collect debt, but there is
every evidence that Germany has
other important objects in view" OF
course, England has no design on
South American territory. She is no
landgrabber as is Germany.
The fact is, that Germany has no
disposition to cause any annoyance to
the United States. 1t was Emperor
William who suggested President
Roosevelt as the arbitra tor of the diff
ficulties between Venezuela and the
European powers. HID the emperor
been bent OH the acquisition of terri
tory in defiance of the Monroe Doc
trinc he would not have asked Pres
ident Roosevelt to act in that capacity.
AS between Germany and England in
regard to friendiness to the United
States, the former is more sincere than
the latter We have no reason to
doubt the honesty and sincerity of
Germany in her dealings with the
United States, but as for England she
must not be trusted either now OF here
after.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

The other day in New York wom-
an who was begging in the garb of
a Sister of Charity was arrested
through the shrewdness of little
Irish girl named Sadie Murty. When
the impostor called at the home of
little Sadie SHE represented herself as
being connected with st. Gabriel's
church. mo, you are not" said
Sadie. II know all the Sisters there,
and they keep their faces and hands
clean" A policeman was called and
the woman was taken to the lookup
where she gave her name as Emma
Meyer.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

AS Il political designation the word
Populist has passed out of use in
Congress. There will be no Populist
members of the next Senate and no
member Of the next House who is
either Il member of the Populist party
or who was elected by Populist votes
in opposition to the candidate or clndi-
dates of the regular parties. The
Silver Republicans, too, have ceased
as such to exist.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

When the late Thomas b. Reed was
offered $1,000 for an article on i'm
perialism in IL leading magazine he
said: II feel too deeply on the subject
to take money for expressing my opin-
ion about it, When Speaker of the
House he said: I'VE are buying
1O.OOO,OOO Malays at So a head, I'M
picked and nobody knows what it
will cost to pick them" He should
have followed Senator Hoar and other
statesmen in protesting against the
Philippine policy of his party.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27
HORACE pLUNKETT IN AMERICA.

In a speech before the Society for
Political Education in New York on
Dec. IS, Horace Plunkett, eX-member
OF the British parliament, and the
Tory candidate for Galway who was
defeated by Col. Arthur Lynch, who is
to be tried on Il charge OF high treason
on january 90, told his audience that
you must not give anything to an
Irishman; you must not do anything
for an Irishman." The reason why
he spoke thus is that if anything We're
done for or given to an lrishman it
would spoil lis own work. He be-
Iieves that what an Irishlnan wants
more than anything else is self-reli-
ance after he has been deprived OF
everything by alien rule. I'VE have
taken from the Irishman everything
that makes life worth living, but we
must not interfere or you will spoil orl
work. What work is he engaged in:
1t is needless to say that Horace
Plunkett is hot in favor of the scheme
of giving the land of Ireland to the
cultivators thereof. He is not i'll favor
of self government for the land OF his
birth, and that is why the voters of
Galway repudiatrd him. He is q
Sllaleu officer of tlc British govern
ment and ut present is the head OF
| ~ MI hA
function of which Is not to show the
Irish farmers how to make two blades
of grass grow where only one was
previously produced. He Is credited
with doing some good, but we cannot
for the life of us find out what it is.
He has actually convinced some Irish
Americans that what Ireland needs
more than anything else is scientific
farming and Il revival Of her indus
tries. But SO long as landlordism eX-
lists and while laws are made In Lon
don and not in Dublin for the develop
ment Of Irish Industries, agricultural
and otherwise, Horace Plunkett's work
will not amount to much. He knows
that Ireland is ovcrtaXcd. and that
the more Industrious the pea santry
are the more their rents will be i'll
creased. His sole oh Get. it appears to
us. is to divert the attention of the
farmers from Home Rule and the
ownership of the land, the two main
things the Irish Nationalist party is
lahoring to obtain.
In his address in New York he in
simulated that the Irish pcasantly are
ignorant and thriftless. Granting that
they are. who is responsible for it:
Had he gone into Mayo and Ros.
common and seen things there rs de,
scribcd by Walter Wellman and Guy
Cramer. the Chicago correspondents,
he would know that the infamous sys'
TEN of land tenure in vogue is re.
sponsible for the ignorance and thrift
lessness that prevail in the congested
districts of Connaught. Let us hear
Mr.. Wellman. In his letter to the
Chicago Record Herald of Dec. 10 he
says:
thousands of families in this region
would starve but for the remittances
which come regularly from relatives il
the United States. Many thousands
more would starve but for the heroic
efforts. the splendid self-denial and re
sistance to temptation, which the
young men and women show in theil
yearly trips to England or Scotland
working hard, living upon almost
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

Says the Commoner: An item orig
mating at Toronto, Canada, has been
going the rounds of the newspapers to
the effect that Mr.. Bryan was connect,
ed with the purchase of Il three million
dollar tract of Canadian land which
was to be thrown open to colonization.
There is no truth whatever in the
statement. Mr.. Bryan has no inter
est in Canadian lands and is not con-
nected with any colonization scheme
there or anywhere else.
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27
The Wexford Massacre.

The apologists of Oliver Cromwell
justify the massacres he committed,
on the grounds that they struck such
terror into the Irish people that they
at once abandoned resistance and thus
IL great amount of bloodshed was real
ly avoided.
The explanation would be more sat
isfactory il it's assumptions We're true.
AS Il matter of fact, instead of the
irish abandoning resistance, they re-
sisted Cronlwell's presence, as is mani
tested by the stoutest resistance just
prior to his withdrawal from Ireland,
when Hugh O'Neill hurled him back
from the walls of Clonmel and slew
TWO thousand Of his followers.
Flushed with his victory at Droghe
da, says the Irish World, Cromwell
.urncd his attention to Wexford, and
arriving before the town, demanded
Its immediate unconditional surrender.
Col. David Sinnott, who commanded
the forces of the town, replied to
Cromwell that, Il am resolved to die
honorably or make such conditions
as may secure my honor and life in
the eyes of my own countrymen." and
sent commissioners to treat with
Cromwell.
While the negotiations We're going
on, Cromwell, with that breach of
faith which stands out prominent in
his career, sent force to take Ross
lare Castle, which was situated at the
harbor mouth, and was point of
great strategic Importance. Unfortu-
nately, it was garrisoned by only a
few men, so that it was taken without
much difficulty. Cromwell next turn
ed his attention to the Castle, which
stood near the wallis of the town.
His batteries opened fire, but after
doing some slight damage, they We're
silenced i'll few hours by the Irish
sunners. Cromwell now thought it
prudent to propose another conference
and four agents were again dispatched
from the town to treat with him. I'm.
fortunately, one of the agents, Captain
james Stafford, the governor of the
Castle, instead OF safeguarding the in
tcrests of the town, made an agree
mcnt With Cromwell to hand over the
Castle to him.
That night, when the garrison We're
off their guard, Cronwells soldiers en-,
tered the Castle by secret passage
which Stafford had opened for them
and in short time they had complete
possession of the place. They then
had little difficulty in scaling the walls
of the town, into which they poured i'll
thousands, while hasty call rs.
sembled the Irish troops. There could
be but one ending to such conflict.
Surprised and outnumbered by three
to one, the Irish made Il desperate re-
sistance, but their valor was in vain
Out of the whole garrison of three
thousand, scarcely five hundred es
capped The unfortunate inhabitants
as they fled by every available passage
from the town. We're butchered ii
thousands. So sweeping was the
sanguinary determination that "of the
former inhabitants not one in twent!
The Irish standard., 1902-12-27

Mackay was still standing in the hail.
"'No Mr.. Mackay,' she SAID, 4
didn't find anything
Then she started to cry.
"'NIrs. Jenkins said Mackay.
there's your husbands old overcoat
hanging on the hat rack. Now, it
would he just like him-he's so blamed
careless and ornery-to leave that roll
of bills in the pocket of that old coat.
Suppose you go and look
"The minute that woman got her
fingers on the big bundle of money
Mackay had stuffed in the overcoat
pocket he took shoot out of the front
door.