The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-06
Hl10rG TIL BOYS.
Interesting News Notes
From Black Hills News
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The Lead Calls Saturday editions
are the best and most complete
from a mining standpoint that have
ever been issued by any Black Hills
newspaper, and they are bound to
do this region a world Of good.
The Mining Review of Deadwood
is treating the mining industry of
each Black Hills county separately
"a big improvement over the for
mel method Of running the matter
in a mixed-up fashion.
: The following marked "Stolen' is
published in q Missouri paper:
Chow dear to my hearts, the steady
subscriber, who pays in advance at
the birth of the year; who lays
down his money, and does it quite
gladly, and casts round the office a
halo of cheer. He never says
Stop it, l cannot afford it, nor I'm
getting more papers than now ] can
read but always says, Send IT,
the family likes it; in fact, we all
think it q real household need. How
welcome he is when he steps in the
sanctum, how he makes our hearts
throb, how he makes our hearts
dance. We oatwardly thank him,
we inwardly bless him, the steady
subscriber who pays in odvance.'
The Northwest Post at Belle
Fourche, and the Bee Of that place
are having-a wordy discussion over
the results of the last campaign,
which by the way. we're emirently
satisfactory to the Post. The. Bee
apparently feels sore toward it's new
competitor and predicted a short
life for it, but the Post holds to the
epitaph on the dead editors tomb
stone, "We are here to stay" and
refuses to be run out" The UNION
has been s'run out" and ''busted'
and "killed off" something like a
dozen times in the past few years.
but somehow it continues to worry
along and enlighten the good people
about once a week the same as oil
yore. 1t, like the Post, is "here tc
stay. Paste that in your sky
piecel
THE KALEIDOSCOPE.
What panoramic profession is
this editing business! How the
scene shifts!-now boquet of or.
ange blossoms tossed into the lap OF
a blushing bride, with its reward OF
radiant smiles and gentle s'thank
you;" now a trembling, fearful
tribute to a departed friend which
Knocks the editor like an echo; now
a glowing panegyric in honor OF
some distinguished parsonage; now
a caustic criticism of a derelict or
corrupt official; now a eulogium OF
some noble achievement; now a re-
luctant ~inyectiye hurled at some in
tolerable wrong. And how the shad-
ows and sunbeams Of fortune chase
each other along the editors path
wayl Today basking in the genial
warmth Of popular approyal-to-
morrow enshrouded in sober clouds
of public disfavor as a reward for
his untiring efforts to keep the town
from falling a decade behind the
times in improvement-perhaps ag-
itatingthe questionof paved streets
after the town has gone dry
But the sunbeams ostnumber the
shadows. For all the ills there is
ample compensation. Your paper
is like a letter from home, is like a
personal letter 70 me-; we look
eagerly for its coming lit is a
welcomeyisitor urhome-Words
like these come to every editor now
land then, and they doeth good like
I.medicine. They balm all his wounds
Eand buoy his spirits ike an elixir of
life.-Loyington lli9 Reporter.