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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
DENVER MINT LIKELY
TO Be CLOSED SOON

Denver, Nov. A. Information has
leaked out at Washington that gov
eminent officials are seriously con-
sidering the closing OF all of the
mints of the country, including the
Denver institution. Overcoinage is
given as the reason for the contem-
plated action. The treasury and sub
treasury vaults are filled to over
flowing, and treasury department
officers say that if any more currency
is made they will have to rent store
| rooms to put it in.
Officials of the Denver mint are
much disturbed over the reports en-
anating from Washington especially
on account of the authoritative source
from which they came and are fear
full lest they receive an order any
day ordering them to suspend oper-
ations entirely. They have known
that the country has plenty of cur
rency for ordinary purposes and
plenty to spare as well but had no
definite knowledge of how large an
over supply.
The mint in this city is doing it's
share to add to the large stock of
currency. and is turning out an av-
erage of $4,0OO,0OO each month in
$40 gold-pieces and quarters. Gold
bullion in large shipments continues
| to come in and this fact makes the
local officials hopeful that in case
the government considers closing any
of the minis that the Denver insti-
tuition will not be included.
1t is considered significant that the
: mint at New Orleans has not been
/, working for fifteen months. The
latter has been one of the busiest
mints in the country and has done
S its share to increase the vast supply
OF current metal coins
I or late the San Francisco and
r Denver minis have been the only
ones working on gold coins but
8 the Denver mint has been turning
S out the largest amount of the two
t The coast mint supply partly goes to
the Philippines and it is presumed
that the supply for the foreign coun-
8 try has also reached its limit.
r There are now 1Os employees in
the Denver mint, and the indefinite
d closing of the institution would re-
v suit in material loss to Denver.
t Recently eighteen employees lost
their places on account of the intro
t duction Of machines. Colorado con-
S gressmen were today asked to at
e once investigate the situation and
prevent the issuanc of such an order
il it is not too late They will send
kilograms to Washington asking for
complete details and the reason for
such contemplated action.
z eve have heard nothing official
y as yet, about the closing down OF
the mint, said Denver mint Off
n cial, But the general public would
know about it just as soon as we.
as the printed orders would be Civ
en- out at Washington and handed
# to the press at about the same time
e they were mailed to US. We are
e hopeful at least that the order will
g not be for another thirty days, AZ
n we have a large supply of bullion
r on hand. and would sooner see It
j. made into coins and our employees
It getting their months wages than to
- around here loose and the men not
4 working.
III THE fact that we have not re-
q ceived such order as yet makes us
/. almost certain that it will not be
k issued for at least thirty days.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
PANAMA OBSERVES IT'S
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY,

Panama, Nov. g. The ann1ver-
sary Of the independence of Panama
was observed today with the custom
airy festivities, which will be continu-
ed until the end of the week. Amer
leans and natives alike are looking
forward with much interest to the
coming visit Of President Taft.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
ENJOY LIFE NOW.

Cedar Rapids Republican: How
many men are working their heads"
off, as the vulgar saying has it, in
order that they may take their ease
after awhile. Every day you hear of
men who want to get far enough
ahead of the world to take their
ease; to retire from business or from
work. Nine tenths of these men
work hard and never reach the
dreamed of ease. They die in the
harness, or they die struggling to
get something for which they will
never have any use.
There are two observations that
may be made on these ambitions
men. The first is that there is moth
ing in what is called retirement. The
time ought never come in the life
OF man when he intends to sit
down and do nothing. That is death
NEWS ETAOINW
itself. There is no other word for
it. 1t is labor, interest in part in
the activities Of life, that makes liv-
ing. When man becomes a spec
tator by the roadside he is apt to be
of all men the most unhappy. A
given amount of work of things and
affairs to be interested in as an actor
is necessary for the mental and phys
ical health of every human being.
The change from activities to nom
activities is enough of a shock to
kill the average man. Life is activ-
ity.
The second observation is that
man who is wise will not set all his
enjoyments ahead, to some day when
he thinks he can retire and take his
ease. The time to enjoy life is right
now. 1t is every day little enjoy
ment, a little rest. He heard of one
man the other day who said that af-
ter while, when he got his business
in better shape, he was going in for
golf and other things of that kind.
When he gets his business in shane.
when he thinks he is rich enough!
But will such man ever think him
self rich enough, or if that time
should come, will he not be too old
by that time to enjoy himself, either
on the golf grounds or elsewhere?
He will be too old when he thinks
he will be ready.
The thing for every man to do is
to live in such a way that he gets
some enjoyment out of life as he
goes along. No man should make
himself slave to business. Every
day that he does that he shortens
his own life. Everyone should take
his pleasures as he goes along. 1t is
a mistake to pile all the work on
one end Of life, and expect to get
all the pleasure at the other end of
life, when he is old and decrepid and
has no longer that vital interest in
enjoyments. The best rule of life is
to count on doing some work, re-
naming Interested in some activities
as long as one lives, and taking some
of the enjcyments from day to day.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
TORPEDO BOAT
DESTROYER LAUNCHED

Quincy. Mass, Nov. g. The tor
pedo boat destroyer was launched to-
day at the yards of the Fore River
Shipbuilding Co. The vessel was
christened by little Miss Mildred
Wake Walter, of Providence, grand
daughter Of the late Rear Admiral
Henry Wake, in honor Of whom the
destroyer was named,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
ROOSEVELT REPLIES TO De.
|. MAND OF CONNECTICUT man

4 Syracuse, N. Y, Nov. 4.-Theo-
a ore Roosevelt recently has issued
l6am open letter to Simon Baldwin,
chief justice of Connecticut
IAN democratic candidate for COVER
asr of that state, in reply to Mr.. Bal
WINS demand for retraction OF
&Csl. Roosevelt, in his speech at Con-
$cord. N. H., on Saturday. Col. Roose.
welt in that speech said that Baldwin
stood In retrogressive attitude
towards workingmen's compensation
Flaws. Justice Baldwin, in his letter,
ksatd he never had held the view at
Rtributed to him.
Col. Roosevelt in his letter repeat
Eed what he said in the speech COM
planned of by Judge Baldwin to the
fleet that it was his opinion that
it was not competent for a workman
who may be driven by dire need, to
accept any employment and bind
fhinself not to be compensated if his
health is damaged or If he loses
life or limb in the occupation. The
S1etter continues:
You say in your letter as printed
that the view of which speak would
be opposed to the settled principles
of law and no competent lawyer
could or would take it, and that to
ascribe such position to you is cal
cuiated to >affect your standing as
lawyer. If you will turn to Mr.. AL
gers little volume called Moral
3verstraln,' and read the chapter IL
which he deals with the decisions of
the court upholding this so called
liberty Of the laboring man to make
a contract to his disadvantage you
whl see that very many judges have
taken the position to which / OBJ
ject.
EThese judges, I have no doubt,
we're honorable and conscientious
men of high standing as lawyers. but
I emphatically hold that the position
they took was retrogressive I have
not with me the printed manuscript
S.of one of your opinions which was
handed to me prior to making the
speech IN question, but if the news
paper account of your letter is cor
rect, you held therein that railroad
&employes who accept benefits from
the accident insurance which you
Say the railroads often style relief
departments, cannot look to the COM
pany in case of accidents. If you
are correctly reported by the press
in this matter, / hold that this posi-
ton is retrogressive and not progress
sive. I hold that the state has alb
solutely the right to enact laws re-
flsing to permit, and that existing
laws should in accordance with the
opinions of very many progressive
judges, be construed as not permit
ting any man, directly or indirectly.
by any action of his own to estop
himself from the right to have a
railroad or any other corporation
r forced to compensate him for any in
juries done to him in the perform
aace Of his duties. If your letter is
correctly quoted in the press in these
matters. you hold that the accept
aace of very small benefit from
the accident insurance company by
a railroad employe would estop him
from recovering the substantial
amount which he otherwise would
be entitled to recover for the injury
resolved. hold that such view is
nest emphatically not progressive" "
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

A second coating Of varnish will
not draw away from the first, which
1t Is very likely to do in cold wealth
er, II the first be coated with benzine
before the second is applied.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

Stag from iron works, with the adj
dition of sand, sulphate of soda and
lime, Is made into glass that is avail
able for states, paving blocks and tile
by Liverpool concern.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

'sThieves at work in the cloakroom
of the Denver university" The re-
cent cold spell evidently drove them
indoors for a change.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
MIKADo CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY

Toxic, Nov. 3.-The ffty-eighth
birthday of the Emperor Mutsuhito
was celebrated with great festivities
today througout China and Japan.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

The fact that girl wears a fussy
dress with lace about the neck Is no
proof that she hasn't got on darned
hosiery.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

Endurance is more valuable than
cleverness. 1t is the patient. steady
plodders who gain and keep fortunes.
to the cellar.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

The world admires those who
laugh in the face of difficulties. Yes,
but we can neither eat nor spend adj
miration.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

Worlds "air' trophy won by :
Briton. We presume that T. R. vas
not In the contest.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

Even the lowly dealer in old junk
is apt to be man of mettle.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

A lucky man is always harpinR on
his superior Judgment.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
Eoas Made to Order.

Among the means of protecting fruit
trees against frost practiced in Cali
forpia is the production of fog by
generator in the form of wagon The
wagon carries a sheetiron tank, the
upper part of which is filled with wet
straw or similar material. kept moist
by the automatic injection of water
from cask. while near the bottom is
CRATE upon which tar is burned, a
blast. operated by revolving fan,
serving to maintain the combustion.
All the heat is compelled to pass
through the wet straw before reaching
the air and in consequence the wagon
is buried in dense fog. and as 1t
passes between the rows of low trees
it envelopes them in mist so thick
that the driver is frequently comp
PEELED to lead the horses.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
Relaxation Needed.

The household cat is an excellent
model for the average woman to keep
before her eyes, says a writer Let
women learn her secret of relaxation
and they may keep the fiexibility and
grace Of youth almost indefinitely.
They can also keep their faces unlined
for years after the woman who is al
ways In state of tension has begun
to mourn over crows feet Pussy has
muscles Of iron and terrible claws,
which she can use to excellent effect
when she wants to. but when she does
not want to use them the muscles are
In state of absolute relaxation and
the claws are sheathed in softest vel
vet. The average woman never re-
lakes either her mind or her body.
and even in sleep she Is all tied up In
mental and physical knots. She be-
comes so accustomed to WEAKNESS
that she does not recognize It as such.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06

common allotment. but some have
been known to have IL. Sometimes it
happens that a mans wives quarrel.
Then he separates them, building for
each a hogan, separated. If possible,
by rock, hillock or a convenient
butte, which neither is supposed to
pass.
The mother-in-law joke of the news
paper paragraphers is as old as civili-
zation, but among the Navajos it Is
grim and ever-present tragedy. For a
man to look in the face of his mother
in-law is believed to be a certain pre-
cursor of long train of incalculable
evils. AS his wife's mother frequent
ly makes her home in his hogan (aft-
er the custom of mothers-in-law) it
requires some lively lodging to avert
a catastrophe. When he returns home,
after marketing his wool. or visiting
the nearest trading store for supply
Of tobacco, or giving chase to the
nimble jackrabbit. or sojourning for
time with another wife, he gives warn
ing Of his approach by loud "ki-yi."
and the old lady scurries to cover, re-
naming out Of sight as long as he is
in the neighborhood
Physically, morally and intellectual
ly the Navajo is superior to other no
madic tribes, such as the Utes,
Apaches, Comanches, Sioux and Chey-
ennes. He has always been self-sup-
porting, receiving no rations or other
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06

grudging assistance from the govern .
ment When there is work to be had.
within their capacity. the men labor
willingly and efficiently, grading on
the railroads, constructing irrigation
reservoirs and bitches and wedding or
harvesting sugar beets in the b,et
fields of Colorado. They cultivate
their scanty patches of corn and beans
on thousands of places In the desert.
having been real dry farmers" CEN
turtles before the Campbell system"
was born of the brain of the Nebras-
ka experimenter, or the "dry farming
congress" that meets in October In
Billings. Mont, conceived Of. They
build their humble hogans of stones
or of timber banked up with clay.
wherever there happens to be water
for their flocks and herds. They are
neither nomads, like the wandering
tribes of the plains, nor settled agri-
culturists, like the Pueblos, but rather
Bedouins of the American desert,
moving when necessary to secure bet
ter pasturage or more abundant sup
ply of water for their live stock Their
blankets, woven exclusively by their
sQuaws. have made their tribal name a
household word wherever barbaric
beauty or next to everlasting durabil-
ity is priced. In their own field they
stand alone-as far beyond the reach
of rivalry as are the silken rugs of
Bokhara in their sphere.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
A Comic Tragedy.

The people on Broadway, New York.
were startled one night recently by
hearing the screams of child coming
apparently from a dress-suit case
which a dark. smooth-shaven man was
carrying uptown. So piercing were
the cries that the man was watched
with increasing suspicion, and in time
a crowd surrounded him and insisted
on his opening the bag. He kept his
lips tight shut, and continued to walk
up Broadway. clinging to his dress
suit case. from which the screams
apparently continued to come. Event
ually a constable put him under ar
rest, and hurriedly opened the bag.
He expected to fnd baby doubled
up in it, but instead he found a grin
ming stone image called a manikin.
The prisoner proved to be ventrilo-
quist engaged in Broadway concert
hall, who had adopted this unique
method of cheap advertisement.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
Prank Had Tragic Ending.

An extraordinary affair is reported
from La Amora. Eighty fierce Spanish
bulls were penned in the station await
ing to be conveyed to various parts of
the country for bull-fighting purposes.
A party of carnival revelers bent on
mischievous fun threw some explosives
among the animals, causing them to
stampede. The infuriated beasts broke
down the frail wooden fence and bolt
ed out of the station, making for the
town, about mile distant The towns
folk heard the trampling of the ap-
preaching herd, and as many as could
made for shelter. The beasts rushed
through the town like a whirlwind,
knocking down and killing three per-
sons, and more or less seriously in
juring 1S others. A force of the civil
guard was sent out to scour the coun-
try with orders to shoot the bulls on
sight
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
WOMEN MAKE CLEVER SPIES
Are Regularly Employed by European
Countries to Secure Each 9th
er's Secrets.

1t may be remembered that short
time ago some valuable admiralty
plans disappeared from Chatham, says
London Tit-Bits. Mr.. McKenna. the
first lord of the admiralty, admitted
that they had been stolen, but a mys-
terry surrounded their disappearance
1t is now suggested that well-known
international woman spy, who Is ever
ready to sell her services to the high.
est bidder, be it the Russian, German
or French government, was RESPONSE
BILE for the disappearance of those
plans 1t is known that she was in
this country for some weeks prior to
the incident and 1t is supposed that
during that time she engineered the
plot which resulted in the vanishing
of the important papers.
Whatever truth there may be In the
story 1t is very feasible one, for IL
Is usually women who prove the most
successful spies. when it comes to
trickery and cunning" said we'll
known detective to the writer on one
occasion. there is no match for
clever woman. If she is pretty into
the bargain. l would back her to beat
the cleverest men at Scotland yard
nine times out of ten." And, Judging
from the success of women in secret
service work, it would seem that the
tribute is in no way exaggerated.
1t is only a short time ago that a
beautiful and fashionably dressed
teacher of languages, Fraulein Peter
son, about 25 years of age, was arrest
ed at Kiel, in Germany. on suspicion
of being French spy. She was said
to have entered into love affair de-
liberately with a noncommissioned
officer named Dietrich, of the explo-
sives department. for the purpose of
inducing him to divulge important
German naval secrets.
Dietrich, flattered by the attention
of such beautiful woman, could deny
her nothing. and at the time of the
arrest was said to have been supplying
her with the formula for the manu-
| facture of the German smokeless pow
der Zone of the most effective yet
| invented) and the situation of the
port mines. To disguise her true oc-
cupation she posed as a teacher of
languages. Suspicion was directed
against her on account of the ample
| funds with which she was always pro-
vided and of her fear of giving the po-
lice the customary notice of her fire.
quent changes of address.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
MAY pemolish tieliroland.

A strange proposal has been made in
Germany with regard to the island OF
Heligoland. which. despite vast ex-
penditure. still continues to crumble
away The proposal is-unless some
scheme of preserving it can be found
Ito blow up the entire island Ap-
parently the idea is. in the event OF
war. Heligoland would need to be-
very strongly defended. lest 1t should
,e seized and used as an advance base
II operations against Germany The
roubIe does not lie with the risk OF
Is being seized so much as with the
rtain OF having to defend it
Barbour County index., 1910-04-06
FOR HAPPY HOMES
A LITTLE ADVICE TO MOTHER
AND THE GIRLS.
Prudence Standish Points Out Some
Shortcomings Common to Her Sex
Proper Treatment of Father
and the Boys.

man who felt l had raped his
sex rather sharply on one occasion,
said recently:
Your talk for father and the boys
was all right. but why not a little eti-
quette for mother and the girls? I
go into homes" and then ensued a
chapter of the minor sins of my sex
which caused me to truly think.
remembered the homes / myself visit
my own shortcomings, the doings!
a every female in my family. Moth.
er and the girls" must be talked to
told how they must treat father. and
the boys in order to be popular at
home and abroad. / must carefully ex.
anime the notes in all the eyes |
know-my own included-and tell nv
women readers the little reasons for
many great cases of domestic infe-
icity.
Z. ID. Gibson has caricatured the
American mother and daughter, drawn
truly pitiful pattern of the American
papa. He is tiny, worried, sad old
man, burdened with the enormous re-
sponslb1lity of an extravagant family.
The wife and daughters, are Junos
and Venuses, always dressed in the
latest style, who may care for poor
pepper, but who certainly don't seem
to. They fly from dinner party to
ball, and sometimes drag the sad old
man, who would rather be at home
with them. They scheme for a great
English marriage for Lucy or Jane
and rejoice about the prospective cas-.
tie and coronet, when, doubtless. Door
Old pop would much rather have the
sensible young man from Chicago.
VINO Is bound to make his way, fol-
his son-in-law. They spoil the spend
thrift boys in the family and make
father, Al every domestic coup, unit
This overworked, unhappy, home
Dellttled father has his prototype In
many classes. Something of the moth
er may be found in every third wife
ana the qualities of the daughters are
found everywhere, in the girl of me
dunn means, in the bank clerks
daughter, the day laborer's. Extraya
gance, the madness to spend beyond
ones means, Is the American disease
OF the moment; the daughter of the
emigrant even grows up to despise
the ways of her father. We are E
swift and imperious race-the leas
little money and power, and we thinl
| ourselves 1T. We fancy we haven
time for the old-fashioned, worryins
folk who gave us the start, whose
hearts are often broken and who's,
,, means, big or little. as frequentl,
ruined by our follies. Mothers mus
have money to keep up with the pass
ing show, daughters fine raiment ant
amusement, whether school keeps o
not, for bread-winning pepper. Ant
the more money they spend the NOR,
Illogical they are concerning the eligi
bility of the young man who shall
marry into the family.
And here l come to the creates
danger that threatens both mothe
and the girls. Now, If you want t,
know what sort of stuff there Is in
man you must set man to watcl
him. Wise as they are, women don
know all the ins and outs of mascu