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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-10-09
Rapid City Has

The largest smelter in the world, and
it's now turning out streams of gold for it's
owners.
New gas plant under construction.
Electric lights.
The finest department. stores in the
Black Hills.
Macademized streets.
Elegant hotels.
A fine public school system.
The State School of Mines.
Government Indian School.
Foundry and machine shops.
Steam Laundry.
The best water power in the Black
Hills and complete system OF water
works.
Work is sure to start on the Dakota
Pacific Railroad inside Of sixty days.
KEEP YOUR EYES ON RAPID
CITY.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-10-09
Summons.

State Of South Dakota, County OF Pennington,
So. In the Circuit Court, Seventh Judicial
Circuit.
Himan H. Marks,
Plaintiff,
George w Knetzinger and SITMMONS
George A. NOroross,
Defendants,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-10-09

rom heyStUnt .. D., one
light bay etallion, white face, three
white feet, four years old, branded Y
on left shoulder: 100 reward for in
formation leading to recovery.-Ben-
nett Bros, Pedro, s. D.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-10-09
| The American
| Girl Abroad
By Mrs. GEORGE
CORNWAlLIS-WEST
Formerly Jennie
Jerome)

4E CHIEF CHARACTERISTIC OF TIE AMERICAN Wo
MAN IS HER VERSATILITY THIS is FosTERED BY
AMBITION. HER ACTIVE MIND SEEMS TO OPEN ALL
PATHS TO HER.
Beauty and charm in woman and good fellowship in
man will take them into fastidous, refined circles in
phere dull and rich hores seek
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
GAMBLING AS A CRAZE.
Truth in Mrs. HoWe's Indictment Of
Fashionable Society.

There is nothing 81 the spirit of sen
sallonal Indictment in what Mrs julia
Ward Howe Las 10 say on the subjeG
OF gambling among fashionable girls
1t is calm and dispassionate anG
tOuilded, as seems clear, ON observa
lions which Mr. Howes social posi-
ton enables ber to make for herself
That she has abundant opportunity
1or seeing the extent to which play
may be carried every one knows, ant
thus, OF course, lends We. hit to what
80 says and secures attartion from j:
class which would treat with indiffer
p-~"a g c'a.s... G.. f~e-a an "out
siGer.o NO"r- tur,cs'v and very sweet
u Goes Mrs. howe base her plea foo
a change on the assum ton that few
persons really are willing to acquire
cruei sains through another's losses
When they do this Mrs Howe seem:
to imply, very diplCmatieally. it il.
through oughtlessness and all tha
such offenders against the law o.
beinS kind need is to realize tha
otiense there is. With just a few real
izatioEs of this generous faith, publ,
opinion will Go the reSt.-Eoatol
TyanscrirG.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
Portraits on Tombstones.

Philadelphia marble dealers are TAX
ing a keen interest in an enterprise,
which had its origin in Denmark, for
reproducing the pictures of dead per.
sons on their tombstones. They say
that it is very probable that the move.
ment will spread to America in a short
time. The picture on the tombstone
craze started among the Danes as a
result of the use of artificial marble.
A Danish master builder succeeded
in producing stone of such delicate
tints that it was impossible to distin-
guish it from the natural product The
imitation of the more expensive spe-
cies was found to cost far less than
the natural, and is made in any form
desired-columns. plain or fluted, and
capitals-as readily as fiat slabs The
durability is said to be as great as
that of the genuine marble. 1t was
also found that it was l>ssible to re-
produce, by carving, picture of the
deceased person, in the imitation mar
BILE, much easier and far cheaper than
the work could be done with the genu-
inc article.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
WOES OF THE CANDIDATE,
Next Time This Man Is Likely to
Take Good Advices.

The popular Jim Nolan of Read.
ing. is great storyteler, and has
an lneXhaustible ful d from which he
draws to illustrate every case in
point On being questioned one day
last fall whether he intended to ac,
cept the Democratic nomination for
secretary of internal affairs. he re.
piled with the following: There was
a prominent citizen in one of our up
state counties who was asked to run
for congress for the minority party of
his district. He asked the advice OF
an old political friend. who said.
Don't do it. You have reached a
time in life when your ease is of great
value to YOU. Hitherto you have had
spotless reputation, which will be
assailed bitterly il You consent tC run
for this Office which you cannot be
elected to anyhow You have moth
ing to gain. Better enjoy your latter
days in the comfort your fortune al
lows and leave politics alone
But what can t3.ey 81. about my
reputation? protested the embryo
statesman.
Well, for instance replied his
adviser, they'll say you are dishon.
est
"Undeterred by this sound advice
the respected citizen did run and was
badly beaten. Some time after he
met his political adviser, Who, wish
ing to rub it in on him, said:
We'll, didn't l tell you you would
be beaten?'
Yes quietly answered his friend.
And didn't they try to blacken
your reputation?'
should say So returned the de.
feated candidate for congressional
honors, beginning to get warm under
some of his campaign recollections
Did they say you were dishonest?
continued the interlocutor.
Did they say | was dishonest?'
hotly replied the ex-would-be states
man. Why, hang it all, they proved
1t. -Philadelphia edge.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
TO AWAKEN THE DEAF,
Alarm Clock With Attachments In
sures PunetuaIity


An alarm clock for deaf mutes is
the novel invention of Elisha CretZer
a deaf mute jn the employ of the
Vashce smelling plant, who resides at
10 Birch street How to awaken
at certain hour has long been
problem among these unfortunate peo-
pie, and in Mr. CretZers invention
the solution has beer found, says the
Anaconda Standard. OF course, the
Ordinary alarm clock has been useless.
Mr.. Cretzer, who is an ingenious fell
loW is water and fiume tender at
the Washoe smelter. His work neces-
states his rising at an early hour in
the morning, and as he has no means
OF awakening he has lost many days
Of work by being late. He accordingly
set about inventins an apparatus by
which he could always be on time
lac dropping of pillow on the
sleeping person is the awakening
agent. and it is operated so that the
pillow falls at the desired time. An
ordinary alarm clock is placed in
cigar box. which fits it closely. 1t is
the bed. A string connects the clap
per OF the alarm clock with an ordi-
nary spring mouse trap fastened to
the top OF the cigar box BY a sys-
tenn OF small pulleys and screweyes a
pillow is fastened to the end of
string and pulled to the ceiling direct
ly above the bed. An ingenious ar
ranSement connects the other end of
the string to the mouse trap. The
cock is set and when the alarm goes
on the string attached to the bell
clapper springs the mouse trap and
releases the pillow. which drops on
tie person sleeping in the bed be-
meath
When it does not hit me it hits my
wife Mr.. Cre,Zer wrote on a piece
OF paper, 'and SO | never miss day
any more
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
Two Sirius.

rhe birds there are that do love-.
The turkey and the eagle,
One walks the earth, one scars above
The clouds. supreme and regal.
The turkey, too. can fly, but he
Aims not at elevation;
Some safe limb of an apple tree
Sest suits his humble station.
BY hight there. from his willy foe,
The fox. he's safe. and s!um5ers
All undsturbed by any wee
That mortal dreaming cunl!.1rs;
BY day. in orchard WANDERING
He hunbly seeks his living;
Unconscious of the JOY he'll bring
To gourmands on THANKSGIVING
And While the eagle. pinion borne,
Doth cieave the vaultnd azure,
He gobbes up the golden corn
Ana golbles forth his pleasure,
And. daily adding to his girth,
For man his chief attraction,
SO fills. this bird Of solid worth.
His role with satisfactior.
Each in his sphere has rishtful fame;
The eagle first in favor
AS embl,,n of the nations aim,
The turkey for his 1iavar.
But While the eagles chief renOwn
Lies in his lie. winner
The turkeys still. when dead and brown.
ServeS for Thanksgiving dGnel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
AT THE SIGN OF THE BEAR.
Why the Fur Is the Nest Popular for
AdveriiSjna

The man who comes to New York
only once in ten years said he could
not understand Why the bears in Cen
tral Park seemed so much stuck up
than the rest Of the animals, but after
he had travelled about town for sew.
eral days he Saw through it. 1t was
because SO per cent of the furrers in
town have chosen big black bear
for an advertising sign. Why the
other animals in the Zoo should be so
disseminated against puzzled the
man not little. One day he asked a
furrier about it,
1T is because the bears last longer
than anything else said the furrier.
"Of all the animals in New York
don't know of any that have harGer
time than those tEat stand outside fur
rlers stores. win,e" and summer, and
try 70 druEl up trace for their employ.
ers. 1t doesn't maze any difference
what Kind OF weather comes along
whether it blows hot or cold, thosa
fellows have to stand at their pest
and sweiter or freeze. as the case may
be. Naturally. all those changes are
pretty hard on their hide, and none
but bears can stand the strain. Some
fcr1iers have tried the fox, lynx and
otler animals now and then at ven-
ture, but they have mostly come back
to the bear as the most satisfactory
OF the lot T4ey cost more, too. A
good stuffed bear comes as high as
SIo, but II he is treated we'll he will
last for twenty-five years, so that
brings him down to a comparatively
low price c::tnr all. New York Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
The Procreaa Ct Gas.

Notwithstanding the advance OF
electricity. tae consumption of gas
goes on increasing, thanks to cooking
stoves and y-1n-the-slot meters.
Statistics compiled for the Gas World
Year Book" show that in the United
Kingdom is manufactured yearly 1861
563,8S5 900 cubic feet in a single year.
The gas cooking stoves in use in
creased II per cent; the number now
in use is we'll over 100000 stoves.
Penny y-in-tae-slot consumers increased
IS per cent, and have also mounted
we'll above 1000, ,000.-London Mail.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
A READY-TO.WEAR CHARITY.
Generous Woman Had Hard Luck
With Her Present

0eHeTouS woman RAD fard LUCK
With Her Present.
A certain family is having consider.
able amusement at the expense Of one
Of its members The member in uues.
tlon rejolces in the nickname among
her folks" o. The Ready to-Wear-
Philanthropist.
This name was honorably earneo by
ner spontaneous generosity. The only
drawback was the liability of her best
laid plans to miscarry. A case ir point
will illustrate why mention of her
present giving, mania eXcites the ris-
Utilities of those who are acquainted
with the facts.
ping tour that she saw the hat for
which she afterward paid out six good
dollars. 1t was an outing hat, and, to
the enthusiastic buyer, seemed emf
nently suited to the bonnie face Of
younger sister. The firm, of course,
offered to send it. but the buyer was
hot to be denied prompt enjoyment
Of her generous impulse. She would
carry it. Her next mistake lay in
refusing a box. She took, instead.
one Of the familiar millinery bags.
Next she went home.
Arrived at that hallowed spot she
proceeded to give her present. FIRST
sic indulged in glowing paneg. ?c
as to the contents of the bag Next
she handed it over. 1t was empty.
The edges were series of serrated
marks where the rough edges Of the
straw had literally sawed way
thrCrsh.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06

sld Southern Pacific Except La
Fayette).
Oklahoma and Indian Teri tory
Al points
Dates of Sale-October 21st, Ne
vember A.. and 18th, December 2nG
and 10th, 1902; January 9Th and goth,
February ID and 18th and April Ith
and 21st. 1903.
Tickets are to be second class tick
cts, limited to continuous passage.
and plainly st"mped on each coupoa
"Colonist." These tickets will not bc
honored in standard sleeping cars.
e. W. LeBEAUME.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
On days mentioned below the sale

On days mentioned below the sale
of one-way Colonist tickets is author.
lied from st. Louis, Thebis, Cairo
nd Memphis, under the following
first class oneway rate, plus $500.
Missouri.-All points on St. L., s.
w. Ry. south of Delta, Mo.
Arkansas.-All points. except Lit.
tie Rock and points on Little Rock
Branch between Altheimer and Lit
tie Rock.
Texas.-All points,
Louisiana.-To all points on the Cot.
ton Belt, Kansas City Southern. T.
& P. Except New Orleans), H. & 8.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-06
Just COMPARISONS.

La Montt-A spider has eight eyes.
La Moyne-Whew! What could We
any worse that splde" with styes?
La Montt-Why, centipede with
chilblains, OF course.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
Speaking ana stoppinr.

The knowledge of when to sit down
is invaluable to public speakers and to
their audiences. Perhaps the best plan
is to secure q candid friend who will
pull you down by your coattails. A
man ION his legs" is one with whom
time gallops; he has spoken for half an
hour, and to him it seems but five min
utes. The excitement of the brain
suggests new and ever new ideals, and
the extemporary talker in the pulpit
or after public dinner founders in
pursuit of these will % the wisps
through swamps and thickets Of bad
grammar haunted by the anacolouthon
and other fearful wild fowl. In the
pulpit there is no man to pull the
preacher down, and many are his 'two
words more, my brethren After pub
lie dinners bored audience begins to
talk and laugh, but these symptoms Of
disapproval are not marked by the self
absorbed public speaker. In short, the
knowledge Of when to sit down is rare
and hard to acknowledgements
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
LETTER WRITING.
its Decline as nm Art Caused by the
Modern Newspaper


Modern Newspapers.
The wonderful development of the
newspaper may he looked upon as a
very rotent factor in the decline of let
ter writing as an art. The letter no
longer can, he regarded as primarily
the carrer of news. The expression OF
ones opinion about great contemporary
events il indeed still left to the letter,
but how much of an incentive to
friendly correspondence is lost by the
fact that every part of the world
knows of important happenings almost
simultaneously is not to be lightly es-
timated, says Gnnton's Magazine. The
stimulus to writing that comes from
having news" to impart is done away
with. and 1t is no; always that even
the gifted letter writer can afford to
lose that incitant. 1t is only the CORE
spondent par excellence who knows
how to attain the perfection of L., art
by writing delightfully."- of nothing, If
indeed that may be called nothing
which affords him n means for the en-
ployment of his delicate perceptions.
For the saving quality of the genuine
letter is in the ability of its author to
put himself into it. If he writes about
trivial things he does it with grace
Of interest that disguises the triviolity.
He must not make his little fishes talk
like whales, but he should. us Gold
smith himself knew how to do, make
his letters of perpetual interest be-
cause of the aptness of their style to
the simplicity of their thought.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
MEXICAN HOUSES.
Little Wood Used In Them, ana They
Arc Practically Fireproof.

Arc Hr1CtIc.lly t1reprOOf.
There is minimum of wood used
for house construction in the cities of
Mexico, and there Is absolutely nothing
to burn except what furMiehi:ags the
houses may contain. The walls are
solidly built of stone and Dr;c.s or in
the less costly structures Of adobcs,
which are thiclSly plastered inside and
out with mortar or stuccc 1l,, floors
are Of brick, stone or tiles. V lille the
roofs are of brick laid in nor. ar or IN
some cities of semicylindrical clay
tiles. Many roofs are arclled with
brick laid flat. not on edge, and it is
marvellous how slight curve some nj
these arches have. Yet they support
heavy weights and have Ias..d through
centuries.
Flat roofs are supported by by G
inch hewn pine ioists placed eight inch
es apart. These joists are often twen-
ty feet in length. The doors are heavy,
hanging upon ornamented wrought
strap hinges and secured by strong,
handmade locks, which have remark
ably large complicated keys. Practi-
cally the only wood used in construc-
tion is for the doors and joists which
support the roof. The church roofs are
invariably of brick arches. usually SOW
eral arches in each. There are no such
fire traps in Mexico as those mansard
roofs of French and Amerxnn-vities or
the frail dwellings of China or the uni
versal wooden structures which have
made fire insurance so great burden
in the United States and which cause
so great and continuous expenditures
for fire Observation-Disclosures.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
The War-Makinp Power

Among the powers which the con-
stitution reserves to congress alone
is the power to wage war in the
name and by the authority of the
nation. At this moment the govern
ment Of the United States is at war.
Congress has had no part in the
transaction eliminating in usurpa-
ton of the war-making power by the
executive.
Despite a general and generous
belief that Mr.. Roosevelt would sub
ordinate his conduct to the supreme
law Notwithstanding his tempera-
mental defects. it is no longer possi-
BILE to hold that the constitution re-
strains Mr.. Roosevelt's ambition to
be elected president.
1t would do him injustice to as
sumo that he was unaware that in
abrogating the treaty of 1916 with
Colombia he did not know that he
was running a war risk. 1t is due
to his intelligence to concede that lie
was conscious OF the risk and pre-
pared to take it. He has taken it.
Ihls country is now at war. It
has invaded another sovereignty
American marines are encamped
wlthm the poundaries OF Colombla
ana the administrator is preparing
to land troops as rapidly as clrcum.
stances VIII permit. That COLON
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30

In every bank in New York there is
rule against smoking, and it is doubt
full if any depositor or visitor ever saw
coil Of tobacco smoke sitting through
the atmosphere in the big counting
houses-that is, no visitor who is e1-
cluded from tile building promptly
when the bunk closes. But If the curl
GUS could squeeze their way through
those closed portals in the afternoon
they would be treated to very differ
ent sight.
The rules against smoking in all the
big banks of the city apply only dur
ing banking hours. After the doors are
closed and locked one can transform
himself into human volcano with
perfect freedom-and he does. And
"he' is leglon.-New York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
Susan and Sally.

When Susan sews the needle goes
So swift and sure and steady
That almost ere wee Sally knows
Her dolly's dress is ready,
With dainty bows of ribbon gay
Tied on In just the prettiest way.
For Susan went. with shears and spool
And squares Of silk and cotton,
For one long year to sewing school,
And she has not forgotten
The way the teacher counseled her
To neatly hem and smoothly shir.
When Sally sews the needle shows
A temper most unruly.
Gets stuck or lost and even grows
AT times quite spiteful, truly.
And pricks poor Sally's wee pink thumb
Until the glistening teardrops come
For Sally is but three. you see,
And still is quite baby,
So mother lifts her on her knee
And says. with kisses. maybe
She. too. some day to school shall go
And learn, like Susan. how to sew.
Rose Mills Powers in Youths Compan.
ION
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30

"A political party whose principal
stock in trade is the granting OF
special favors toa comparatively few
men in consideration of generous
donations to the campaign funds, is
not likely to be very greatly disturb
ed by qualms of conscience over the
astounding number of rascalities
now uppermost in the public mind.
The old party of high moral "ideas"
has among its leaders many impor-
tant ssIicawbersl who waive these
|-sprcufatiors-asftte- fHefess-tFa-
fles. And the Micawbers are in the
habit of having things very nearly
their own way. For instance, Uncle
Hanna told the Ohio voters at the
last election if they defeated him
prosperity would be at an end. And
the voters apparently believed if, for
they went to the polls like obedient
limbeciles and whooped it up for
Uncle Marcus in the most approved
Ohio fashion. Let not Mr.. Gorman
nor any other democrat, place too
great confidence in a repudiation OF
| the republican party on account Of
| its rascalities. A political party
which owes its continued existence
i tothe successful promuleation Of
huge public gratis is not likely to
suffer to any great extent from those
wholook upon things done by a
! government as proper, which if done
by an individual, in his individual
capacity, would be considered crimi.
nal. Barnum, the great Snowman
had the American people down
about right when he proceeded to
make fortune upon the theory that
they like to be humbugged an1
swindled. Marion Sentinel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
Dairy Notes.

If you are contemplating build
inga barn in the near future put in
swinging stanchions rather than old
time rigid stanchions. The COW
should be able to move her head
sufficiently to lick herself when
standing in the stall.
When hireing man who is ex-
pected 10 milk, the first question
that should be asked him, is wheth-
er he milks with dry hands or hot.
If he does not and is not willing to
learn don't hire him.
If you expect to raise good dairy
cows from your heifer calves, you
must be kind to them from the day
thoy are born. You cannot club a
COW into submission. She resists
it and she appreciates kindness.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
T,,o Wow. or the ncll..

A clergyman on his way to church
one Sunday morning pulled up to re-
buke an angler. Don't you hear the
bells summoning you to church?" he
asked. The fisherman put an inquiring
hand to his ear. Encouraged. the cler-
gyman repeated the question. But once
again the fisherman asked for repeti-
ton, and then again, and even yet
again. Flushing from overmuch bawl-
ing. the parson was about to proceed
on his way when the fisherman spoke.
very sorry, guv'nor," he said, "but
them bloomin' bells makes such an in
fernal clatter that can't hear word
you says."-London Globe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
pi.content WIN wor,.

That there is much discomfort with
work among the SO called middle class
ts,a No = =; J. y Il;
plying of their natural and artificial
wants and to the sentimental idea that
"their day Of toll will come soon
enough" In general, work is not a
curse, but blessing, positive means
of grace. One can hardly begin too
early to impress upon children lessons
of self help by tasks appropriate to
their age and forces and to beget in
them scorn Of idleness and of depend
ence on others. To do this is to make
them happy through the self respect
that comes with the realization Of
power and thus to approximate Tenny-
sons goal of man, "Self reverence, self
knowledge, self CONTROL Century.