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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
'VIEWFIELD NOTES.

While tho reporter was
touring tho Hills Mr.. G. P. Bald
ridge was called to Rapid to at
tend eoart aad they found out it
wasa's hiA they wanted &c they
tack him home and told him to
stay there there.
Tho dance was q grand success
at the Fred Oh place there was
,wenty-eight numbers out and all
had a grand time.
There is q big dance at Frank
Bills place Friday the eleventh
and oyster supper will be had and
everybody is iavited.
The reporter was informed tina,
Mrs. Trapil has a new son-in Law
Will Coskburner.
The reporter 10 informed tina
Mrs. E. Baidridge was ths one
they wanted instead OF Mr.. e
thay came after her.
Ties ia a big dance at the OLE
Geo. Cox ranch Christians night
Last Monday night it snowe'
about Ave inches on the level an
it is q big help to ahe stock on tn
range.
Ths mail carrier got lost goin
10 Vesta aad he get in at MI
Baldridees and his hair was a
turned white aad he told u tbs
he was chased by wolves and h
said Ms hair used 70 be red.
It locks a. though the mail cal
rier would do better service if h
would feed his horse grain sassea
wind and water,
Bic Foor.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
Notice of Publication.

Department OF the Interior, Land ofhce at
Rapid City. s. D., Nov. 81, 1903.
named settler has filed notice OF his intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim,
and that said proof will be made before Regis
ter and Receiver, at Rapid City S. D., on
Ian 20, 1904, viz.
John 4. Alexander, white Owl, 5. D.
Fl. E. No. lip, S. I. L., for the $ x NRx and
N, u Sc. x Sec. Z. T.. 8 N. R. 15 E., B. 81 N.
He names the following witnesses to prove
of said land, viz:
James H. Bulls. OF White Owl, 8 D.. John
Curry, OF White Owl, s. D.. Fraley II. Sprasue,
Of Bixby, S. u. Frank L.. Alderman, OF Rapid
City. s. d
GEO. P. BENNETT, Register.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
Hill CITY NOTES.

We are having pretty sRug winter
weather hsr the paat few Gays Is
degrees hs1ew sssns - be NE mark.
There has bees several Hunting
parties eat the pAat wesk ana the
meat OF then report ne dsst.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
John 1. Alexander, white Owl, S. D
NOTICE TO CREDIFORs.

I'm the matter OF tho Estate Of Hamilton
9eddes Deceased.
All persons having claims against said Ham.
ilton Geddes deceased, are required to exhibit
tho same, with the necessary vouchers. to the
undersigned, administrator OF said estate. At
tho Law Office OF Chauncy L. Wood, in tho
City OF Rapid City In tho County OF Pennington
State OF South Dakota, and that four months
have been limited as the time for creditors to
Dated tho goth day OF October 1908.
RoY D. FRANK Administrator.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18

Duff Quinn the hustliag merch-
ant OF Pedro went to Rapid City
last week after more goods.
Elmer Hawkins freight outfit
won't to Rapid also after goods.
Buy your Christmas caadies o.
Lake and Bump, Rapid City.
TENDER FOoT.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
WANT-STRAYED COLUMN

WyANTED-SEvERAL PERSONS OF
w character and good reputation In each
sent and advertise old established wealthy
buAinsss house OF solid financial standing Sal.
ary Sal 90 weekly with expenses additional,
from head Offices. Horse and carriage furnish
ed when necessary. References. Enclose seis-
addressed envelope. Colonial, 1872 Dearborn
St, Chicago.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18

XNTANTED-A Trustworthy gentleman orlady
w in each county to manage business for
an old established house OF solid financial
standing. A straight, bona hde weekly salary
Of $500 paid by cheek each Monday with all
expenses direct from headquarters. Money I'd
vanced for expenses. Enclose addressed envel.
ops. Manager, 800 Caxton Bldg, Chicago.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18

CAME to my ranch, about Sept, l red steer,
" brockey face, branded G p on right
side, low down.. Owner must pay for pasture
and Advertising. j. w. Waterson
Dakota City, 8. D..
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PEDRO.

Mr.. Editor szcass astsr. efitieis,
Jag ~ thsss nnsakts shat was
made rs eur 'itssAf essns ti~e
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
OUR WONDERFUL AGE.
Steam and Electricity Have Conn
bined to Turn Us Into Race of
GlObc-TrOtters.

The human race, they tell us, has
been on earth at least 100000 years.
Until within the last 100 practically
no gain was made as to the ease or
rapidity with which one might journey
from one place to another. Abraham
could travel as fast as Arthur Young.
Indeed, the mOdernness of our pres
ent methods comes over me with
great impressiveness when l recall the
fact that / can remember the days of
the Pony Express"
But steam and electricity have rev.
olutionized the world. Combined with
human curiosity and the love of ad-
venture, they have turned us into a
race of globe-trotters. 1t is interest
ing to notice how soon the most
startling changes and the most won.
derful inventions become common.
place to us. The son of the man VINO
contentedly took week to get from
Boston to Washington now finds him
self perhaps profanely impatient if i
train is an hour late, or he has to wait
FIVE minutes to get the use of tele-
phone.-From '"The Influence oi
Travel" by Minot J. Savage, in Four
Track News for November.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
OLD BABYLoNIAN SCHOOL.
Recently Unearthed by n German
Priest While Excavating-Let-
ters Made ON Bricks.

Rev. Vincent Scheil, German priest
making excavations in an ancient Baby
lonian city, has unearthed school just
as it was 1000 years ago in the time Of
King Hammurabi.
1t is small house of sunburnt brick
and stands in the midst of the most
populous district of the city OF Seapur,
just opposite the great temple. 1t has
many inscribed brick, from the cunei-
form inscriptions on which Father Scheil
has reconstructed the life of the ancient
Babylonian school. One brick says:
"He who learns to write we'll IL the
school will shine as the sum-"
There were seven small rooms in the
school, each with it's various kinds of
brick. In one room were found bricks
with grammatical exercises. The schol-
ars evidently sat on the ground in rows
with soft clay bricks in their hands.
painfully forming the hard cuneiform
letters. Father Scheil says the thumb
marks of the teacher are to be detected
where he smudged over the scholars
mistakes. There was room where ad-
vanced scholars learned to write the
elaborate and highly poetical forms OF
adulation often seen on BabyloniaE
monuments. Much importace was at
tached to learning weights and meas
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
WHEN HE STOPPED.

He sang a song Of sixpence.
A pocket full of rye;
Also of Johnnie Horner-
In the corner with his pie;
He yelled the Mother Hubbard tale
And rocked her as he bawled,
And still, the louder that he sang
The kicking baby squalled!
He sang the rhymes Of Mother Goose
And of the giants slain;
He sang them low, he sang them high.
He sang them oer again!
He sang of Mary's little lamb,
And as he sang he growied!
But louder far than he could sing
The baby howled- and howled!
He yelled "Hark! hark! the dogs do bark"'
And all the nursery rhymes;
He yelled until he grew quite hoarse.
A score or more of times
He sang the babies in the wood"
And of the death they died:
And still the baby in his arms
Just cried, and cried, and cried!
His spindle shanks grew weary and
He tottered to and fro,
And still he sang the hours away,
He sang both high and low!
And still the baby screamed and screamed
He sang till he could keep
The pace no more, thin stopped his noise,
And baby went to sleep.
j. NJ Lewis. in Houston Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
Habit OF Exaxxeration.

Exaggeration is one of the most seri-
GUS evils Of the day. 1t is common in
all the walks Of life. people not being
willing to see what is actually before
their eyes, but permitting their imagina-
tions to enlarge and extend their view
frequently to the limit of the mental
horizon. Few will deny Its deleterious
effect. Rumors on each side of the
ocean for which there is no reasonable
basis throw the country into a state OF
unhealthy anxiety and do positive
harm at times Of serious character.
Very recent events have strikingly il
lustrated this. 1t is the vogue, or 1t Is
temporary evil which has seized upon
the public, and there does not appear
to be any remedy except to let it run
its course like any other epidemic and
pass away.-Baltimore American.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24

ures, to arithmetic and geometry, but
the chief branches were grammar, writ
ing and the expression of adulatory
forms.
There is evidence that girls got pretty
much the same education as boys and
Father Scheil found contracts in which
the language and law had been revised
oy learned woman named Amat Baon.
There is evidence that pupil was oc-
cup1ed with learning to write from
seven to fourteen years.
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,ack to me. I am going away to-mor-

back to me. I am going away to-mor-
row morning."
He passed over the rose, with its wisp
Of white ribbon and dangling card, to
the ready black hand, and walked to the
window. The lights were beginning
to spring up along the streets which he
had paced SO vainly in search of peace.
"Oh, did you stay at the Hotel Cav
endish, in San Francisco?"
Austen found himself called on to
answer this question, month later,
when he was back in New York, chatting
with his sister, who had missed and
mourned him-rather she was chatting
to him-at the late breakfast hour.
He nodded acquiescence
We'll. yesterday, ! met Susie Craw-
ford's friend, Miss Darlington-and she
and her sister, Mrs. Keppler, were at the
Cavendish for two months. Perhaps
they were there when you were?"
Il left on the seventh of March Tor
Los Angeles" Austen said, after long
pause.
Then they were! Oh, I'm sure you
must have noticed her. They are both
lovely brunettes, two sisters. but Mar
guerite is slender, with such wonderful
coloring, and such dear, winsome
face"
Like a dark red rose. just newly
budded, and not very anxious to be
looked at-seemingly?"
Eyes, indeed-just!"
Well noticed her."
ANY one would! Oh, like her i'm
mensely. It just happened that we had
long talk by ourselves, and she told
me one such funny experience they had
at the Cavendish; your speaking OF the
hotel brought it to mind. 1t was really
her experience. and it did not strike her
as being SO very amusing, but l thought
it exceedingly amusing"
"You often find things exceedingly
amusing"
"Oh, but this was! You'll say SO, too.
1t seems lady, an old friend of hers
they had been estranged some little time
through Observation-Disclosures to
the Cavendish, not knowing they were
there, but Mrs. Keppler had seen her ar
rival, and glanced at the register to find
the number of the room assigned to her
-139. Meeting in this way, in strange
city, and far from home, the sisters felt
they ought to make some little overture
OF friendliness, SO they talked the mat
ter over. Miss Darlington did not feel
exactly free to call, informally, and well
come her friend, but toward evening she
concluded, as they would probably meet
later in the dining-room, to take her
card down with a rose"
'What?" Austen sat back and looked
fixedly at his sister. "Why?-why-
Millicent! Oh, go on-do-do!
"Austen:" She returned his look,
with mirthful eyes. well, wonder?
Could it be possible?"
"Millie, let me hear the rest. Yes!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
MISTAKEN GOLD HUNTERS.
Those Who Are So Intent Upon the
Quest That They y Lose Much of
Lffe's Beauty.

A few years ago there died in San
Francisco man who, after lifetime
of toll and danger, finally made his
fortune in the Alaska gold fields. His
story is told by Mr.. Jack London in
the Atlantic Monthly.
Born in Maine, he was only Is when
he began his wanderings, to Montana
first, then to the Alaskan Panhandle,
then--the north still calling him-over
the terrible Chilkoot and down into the
Mysterious Silent Land" That au-
tumn he returned over the pass in a
blizzard, with rag of shirt and a
handful of raw -four" But the next
spring he went back over the pass, and
the next; and the third he went to
stay. He was not going to return
again until he brought his gold with
him.
For eleven years, through almost in
credible hardships, he toiled on. Then
his long quest was ended; with the
gold for which he had spent his life
he went down to San Francisco. To
live? But he never learned how to live
with gold. To die, planning to the
very last return to the old trail.
A strange, wild, sad story it seems,
read by the fireside Yet are there not
other gold-hunters all about us? Men
.. who toll through years to 'lay by
enough to enable them to enjoy them
selves at last, only to find when the
task is accomplished that the unused
power of joy has atrophied; women
who deny themselves everything to
gain their children some special ad-
| vantage, only to realize in anguish
/ that in the crowded years they have
| lost the children themselves; young
people who, in the eager following of
their ambitions, neglect the small gifts
of the quiet ways-are not these all,
in their different ways, gold-hunters?
But the gold of life does not lie hid
| den in any mines-it sparkles in tiny
sands all along the common path OF
every day. He only who gathers 1t bill
i by bit from daily duties and pleasures
| and opportunities and friendships will
find himself the 'possessor Of the real
/ treasure at last.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
BRICK LAYING IN WINTER.
Method Has Been Devised by Which
Obstacles to the Work Are
Done Away With.

Frank w. Mahin, United States consul
at Nottingham, England, reports to the
department of commerce and labor of
new method of overcoming the obstacle
If building operations in winter due to
frost, states the Brooklyn Eagle. He
says: 1T is averred that in Sweden brick
laying is now carried on without inter-
ruption through the long and severe win
ters. 1t is probable that the method that
makes this possible may be an old story
in the United States, but submit a de-
scription of it for what it may be worth.
1T has been demonstrated that brick
laying can be carried on in a temperature
as low as 16 degrees Fahrenheit. For
lower temperatures it is necessary to
heat the sand and water used in making
the mortar. The heating of the water
is easily accomplished, and for the sand
the common arrangement consists Of
circular iron tube 18 to "a inches in diam
eter and from six to eight feet long. This
is closed at one end with bricks or an iron
plate. On the top of this end there is a
chimney eight to ten feet high and five
to six inches in diameter.
'sThe fuel, which is generally refuse
wood from the building under erection,
is fed in at the open or partly open end
of the cylinder. This cylinder is often
formed of an old boiler tube or of a
piece Of an old iron chimney. For burn
Ing coal special crate and chimney ar
rangements would be necessary, but in
no case need they be elaborate or ex-
pensive.
''After placing this cylinder on the
ground the sand is heaped on and around
it to a depth of IS to "a inches and al.
lowed to remain till it gets hot, when il
is taken away from where it is hottest
and replaced by fresh sand The mortar
should be made in a room where the
temperature is kept well above freezing
point and regulated according to the
frost to be counteracted. Generally this
room is made by roughly boarding part
of the scaffold, simplicity and cheapneB
being desirable.
In laying the bricks care should
be taken to avoid shifting them after
once being set in the mortar, and old
or stale mortar should never be used.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, where this
process is now employed. almest all
building was broken of for four or FIVE
months during the winter. To-day 1t is
an exception 10 find it hindered more
than a few days or a few weeks an
nually."
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Anything is possible in this ridiculous
world! Go on"


world! Go on"
"Well-Marguerite took the rose; but
meantime, Austen-and this is the funny
part-there was nice, melancholy
young man staying at the hotel, who
looked like doctor, and who seemed
to be. Marguerite said-a foreigner-he
was fair, with fair beard.'
Exactly" said Austen.
Both the sisters had noticed him, be-
cause he seemed SO solitary and-sad.
Marguerite, would say, had especially
borne him in mind. However, she took
the rose and the card downstairs, and
explored until she found 139, and tied
them to the doorknob, and was not
caught in the act, and came up, tri-
umpkant. Now, when they were ready
to 60 down to dinner. and opened the
door into the hall. what do you suppose,
Austen?"
"Ch, don't ask me, Millicent."
why, there was the rose she had
tied on ber friends doorhandle tied on
her own, the card with it. There it
hung: You can just picture how they
felt"
Eyes, oh, yes-I can picture it."
"Ah, but wait! They were dreadfully
wounded, and did not go down to dinner
at all, and when the waiter brought them
up something to eat they learned that
there had been mistake about the num-
ber of the room-that the new arrival
was in 1877, and he also told them that the
occupant of 139 was gentleman from
New York, tall man with a light
beard, who sat near them in the dining
room, and, of course, he was the nice
man they had noticed and liked! He had
found the rose at his door and carried it
back to theirs. What thing to do!''
"It was wrong, I suppose, but had
seen her tying it on the door-my door
the poor child"
"You were the nice, melancholy man .
OF course, you were! Oh, this is fine,
Austen, and so funny! Now you can't
say it isn't funny! OF course, the ladies
encountered their friend later, and all
| was explained in that direction, but poor
Marguerite was overwhelmed with
shame Why in the world did You take
the rose back to her door, if you thought
| it was meant for your"
! Because I concluded a girl like that
needed a lesson, Millicent."
"Oh-h-h, but, If she were a girl like
that, she would not take lesson, SO
where was the use? Never mind! She
| is coming to us to dinner on Tuesday.
You must be here-remember, now!
| Tuesday,
"Ill be here, Millicent, and there will
also be some dark red roses; when !
| used to meet her in the hotel corridors
| called her a dark red rose!'
! Millicent, fee. as if l ought to meet her
| on my knees"
THAT may be in order, later" said
Millicent.-Brooklyn Life
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
HOW SCALLOPS ARE TAKEN.
fish I'm the Market-0nsy tho
eye" Eaten.

Have you ever gone scalloping?"
asked the Rhode Islander, after he had
eaten clam chowder, some broiled blue
fish, half broiled live lobster, a half
dozen anchovies, and was helping him
self to liberal portion of scallops, re-
lates the New York Tribune.
by scalloping suppose you mean
fishing for scallops," replied the New
York drygoods merchant who had In
vited his old college chum from Prov.
idence to dine with him.
That's it, that's it. Only we sort OF
dig them up. Ever seen it done?'
The New Yorker only shook his head.
He was still wondering how his friend
could make whole meal on such q con-
glomerate assortment of sea food, and
not want to take to water himself, as his
natural element.
We'll, then, suppose you wonder
where this round. meaty, fishy scallop
comes from?" continued the Rhode Is.
lander. The scallop shell, as you know,
Is fiat. with as wavy an edge as that 0.
freshly futed petticoat. It's beauti-
fui shell. The Crusaders used to wear
them, when they came back from Pales-
tine, to show they had been there Lots
OF scallOps along the Syrian coast.
Well, I'll tell you. The scallop that you
eat is only what we call the eye of the
animal. But it isn't actually the eye
It's the big meaty muscle which holds
the two halves of the shell together,
and which opens and shuts them as the
scallop may desire. 1t fills up the round
socket near the hinge. So when a seal
lop man is preparing this food for the
market, he just scoops out the eye and
throws all the rest away. He doesn't
ship them in the she'll to the market,
the same as CLAIMS and oysters. Only
the eyes,
For that reason, should think,
they would be less expensive. Not so
much money for freight" remarked the
host
You might think so, but as matter
OF fact scallops are the most expensive
kind of shellfish we have. There is so
much waste. One bushel Of scallop
shells will only make about three
quarts or gallon of food. The scallop
digger gets as much as so cents quart
for his product, and here In New York
they cost two or three times as much
Il Shouldn't think there was much
money in digging them at that rate"
ventured the New Yorker
'You would think so. but in reality /.
Is just the opposite. A man can make
$40 day at least at the business, and II
he Is hustler he can earn four times
that much. OF course you cant dig them
out the year round, but they're good
thing while they last The scallop sea.
SON in Rhode Island just opened the
first of this month, and one minute past
midnight the men swooped down on the
scallop beach in the Narragansett river
like SO many Oklahoma squatters. A
man can catch only 20 bushels day, but
usually the scallop digger fools the fish
wardens by going from one bed to an
other. He'll dig up 20 bushels In one
place, go ashore and show what he has
to the warden, and then sail down the
bay five or ten miles to another bed, dig
up 20 more and land his cargo before the
first warden can communicate with the
second officer who inspects the second
CATCH
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
To study New Guinea.

One of the noteworthy features Of
modern scientific progress is the study,
by means of elaborately fitted out ex-
petitions, of the few remaining savage
peoples of the earth, as they live in theiy
native environment. The latest is the
Daniels ethnographical expedition,
which has started from England for
British New Guinea. Although the
land whose people this expedition is to
study is one Of the largest remaining
areas in which primitive state Of hui
man society still exists. 1t is urged that
haste is needed, because "even there
the remorseless activity Of the white
uan IL rapidly making itself felt"
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Too Cheap.

The other day, an Irishman bought q
copy Of Irish Melodies at second
hand London bookstore for a shilling.
The bookseller was surprised few
moments later, when the excited pur-
chaser returned and shaking his flst at
ing these immortal gems so cheap"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
Sumcient Cause.

Mary-But why do you think they
are SO certain to fall in love?
Amin the first place, their parents
hate each other; and, in the second
place, neither Of them has penny in
the World.-Smart Set.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
Uncanny Experienee.

There is something uncanny in trav-
cling at great speed in balloon. No
matter how violent the gale, the aero
uaut himself is in dead calm.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-24
Industrial schools in italy.

The Italian government has gradual
ly established system Of Industrial
schools SO that one is to be found In
every village which can boast of hay
ing an industry Of any kind.