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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

through the leafy maze Of the way,
charming vistas were IN either hand,
and wherever there was a level spot
large enough to swing a hoe on it was
cultivated. There were many patches,
detached and away from any habita-
ton, that were certainly not ofthe area
of 100 square feet, under the highest
state of cultivation. Not a weed OF
blade of grass was to be seen tres
passing upon the spots. Yet We did
not see a single man at work in the
fields during u entire trip, covering
the entire day.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

eyes, and straight, black hair, and pow
erful physique, stamping him as a man
of dauntless courage and grim resolve.
"And," he continued, during thirty
years of duty-that is the time
Eve served on the rail may
naturally be supposed to have
adventures and peculiar experiences.
Such is the fact, Heron; and, the
experience that 1 shall now relate is
the most remarkable of all, and, as I
recall it to my mind l am, as ever im-
pressed with the truth of the old adage
that Truth is stranger than fiction
That my story is an illustration OF this
I am sure you will concede. But
enough Of prelude. Now to my mar
rative.
"In 1869, lack Sadler was employed
as engineer on the Pittsburgh. Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad. I was
his fireman at the time, and we had our
between Fort Wayne and Chicago.
lack vas regarded as one of the best
engine drivers in the West,
and I had been running with him q
little over fouy months, when one night
We left Fort Wayne in charge OF 10
connective No. 76, attached to the fast
mail for Chicago
"The weather was not conductive to c
happy frame of mind, for the rair
poured necessarily, which of course:
made the road-bed very soft, so that il
was necessary to proceed with the ut
most caution, and on this particular
night, lack, the engineer. though al
ways eccentric, seemed to suffer from
an unusual depression Of spirits-not
having spoken since we left Fort
Wayne.
1.-THE heavy train-five mail and ex'
press cars, two day coaches and foul
sleeping cars-rumbled on monoton
onsly behind the locomotive as it spec
on and on into the darkness at
steady pace of forty-fve miles an hour
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17
In His Fathers Footsteps.

NO n Gun say truly that the
United States has not a hereditary nc.
bility. An announcement was made at
the last anniversary of the Children's
Aid Society Of New York showing that
we have at least n noble line.
For thirty-six years the secretary
and manager of that organization was
the late Charles l.. Brace, to whose
fidelity and skill It's long-continued
prosperity is chiefly due. At the last
anniversary, quietly held in a bank par
Tor, Mr.. George S. Coe, the treasurer,
used the following language:
while sincerely %lamenting the death
of MI. Brace, it is at the same time my
grateful duty to introduce to the patrons
of the society Mr.. Charles Loring
Brace, son of our departed friend,
whose honorable name he bears and
whose benevolent spirit and charitable
devotion he earnestly desires to per-
petuate.
The trustees are not only unanimous
in their choice of him as o successor in
this important trust, but they cordially
congratulate the public that the gentle
man now elected willingly leaves an
honorable business career, at no small
financial sacrifice to himself, to enter
upon this good service"
The appointment has given great
pleasure to the people Of New York,
where the Children's Aid Society is one
Of the most favorite and popular
charities. Mr.. Coe might have added
that the G secretary is the third of
his name to acquire note as a philan-
thropist. The father of the late secre-
tary was John p. Brace, Of Litchfield,
Conn.,, where for fifty years he was es-
teemed as an educator, author, editor,
and philosophical citizen.
There were two William Pitts in
England, and here in America there is
a somewhat numerous natural nobility,
which for several successive generations
has given true noblemen to the public
service. In philanthropy, which some
times involves much painful and even
loathsome toll, the hereditary. line has
often been abruptly broken, the son re-
coiling from the fathers career of self
sacrifice. John Towards son, for
example, was q melancholy failure in
every respect.
During the thirty-seven years which
have elapsed since the late Mr.. Brace
founded the Children's Aid Society,
more than a hundred thousand news
boys have been inmates of the News
boys Lodging Houses under it's charge
YOUTHS Companion.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

Suddenly lack, who had been
watching the track ahead stead
lily, jumped up with a
fearful oath, and throwing
open the furnace door, stood m%otionless
for q moment or so glaring into the
fire, and as the flood of light from the
red hot Goals poured full on his face 1
noticed that it was horribly distorted,
his eyes bullying from their sockets.
Turning savagely upon me he cried:
"Oh, that's the way, Ell?
81 guess so, Tack, I replied, with a
smile. I thought that he was under
influence of too frequent rotations.
'"It is, Ell? I thought so! Make up
that fire. Heat it up-heat it up, and
be quick about it, do you hear, Thorpe?'
cried lack, as he himself commenced to
throw shovelful after shovelful of fuel
upon the mass of red-hot Goals beneath
the boiler.
almost instantly the steam gauge
indicated an increase of pressure, which
was noted complacently by lack, who
now resumed his seat by the lever.
II was at a loss for any explanation of
the strange conduct of my superior.
Presently he turned, end glancing
fercely at me. said:
'@Didn't I tell you to heat her up?
She is freezing to death, can't you see ?
Heat her up, or sure as heaven I'll toss
you in there to feed the fames!'
II threw in a shovelful. of coal and
attempted to shut the furnace door,
when lack sprang from his seat and
grasping the shovel from my hand he
threw in two or three bushels of fuel.
Then he took the sledge-hammer and
hung it on the s~afty-valve.
"My worst fears were now realized.
lack was a raving maniac, a crazy man
at the throttle, and over a hundred
precious lives on the train depended on
him to take them safely to their destina-
ton.
aThe situation was indeed horrible
one.
"a few miles ahead was a freight
and toward that with lightning speed
we were rushing ~ over bridges
tearing around corners. plunging dowr
grades, whizzing past stations
clashing g crossings and roads; or
and invent the train with the swiftness
Of q whirlwind.
Suddenly the thought Of the pre-,
ceding train camesupon me with an ap,
palling rush, and I reached out my
hand inyoluntarily to blow the whistle
for brakes; but my crazed superior q
once struck itdown. lack only laughed
and tearing down the bell, threw it GU
Of the window.
4 I see, I seer he cried warm her up,
I see what is robbing her of heat, but
Til fix thatP and he dashed from the
cab,
How he ever reached the headlight
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the specifications for them all, and will
call very soon iur contractors estimates.
Director Jeffery, who spent two months
in studying the buildings at the Paris
Exposition, says:
"The buildings at the Chicago EXPOSE
ton will be as much superior to those at
Paris as the latter were superior to those
ut the Philadelphia Centennial. There
Gun be no question that the effect at
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17
A Hairless Horse,

Now and then a very curious speci-
men is found among the desert horses
of Australia, writes a traveller. The
oldest of these that I ever saw was a
huge, ungainly beast, without a hair
upoa it. It was cut out of a wild herd
and roped in by a station hand, who
sold it for a drink and plug Of tobacco
to some man. The latter tanned the
hairless horse, taught it few common
place tricks and showed it all over tile
colonies. He was said to have taken
in 800, 600. The horse had no name,
but a high neck and crest. It's skin
was perfectly smooth and shiny, and a
dark notified Blown in color.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17
Blarla pills Clinton
UNION PUBLISHING oo,
WHAT WILL THE WORLD say
BIZ WILLIAM LYLE.
CITY. s 3,

Pshaw, don't be forever dreaming
About the old world outside,
So anxious how you r seeming
So watchful of wind and tide.
Why look 30 glum and despairing,
Ever heaping cares anew?
The load ls your own you're bearing
What cares the world for you2
Drop out of It ere sun setting,
And 1t will not sound q gong,
The worlds Al at forgetting
- have known it well and long.
Vhe cork that jolts In the river
Passes not swifter from view
Than you from its thought will sever
Twill never waste time on you.
What II a drop in the ocean
Grew vain when a storm was on,
And fancied all the commotion
Was due to itself aloneP
No. sir, it is not too lofty,
This smile, and, tits due,
The worlds the ocean, and, softly,
The vain little drop is-you.
Look at its statesmen and heroes,
No matter what they have done.
Time changes them to chimeras,
That's about all they have won.
The world is too busy striving
After the strange and the new
Too eager chasing and driving,
To care about yours or you.
Never dream that it feels lonely
For your approval ard seal,
Why, brother of mine. you're only
Tho tiny fly on the wheel.
Cease, then, such fancies pursuing,
To God and yourself be true,
Whatever the world is doing,
She is not thinking Of you.
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had decided to par
ticipate in the eX-
position. The for
IN al acc G ptance,
conveyed by the
French NJ tie +
Ribot TO Whitelaw
Reid, American
Minister to Paris,
and by him to Sec
rotary Blaine, has
been received, and
is expressed in terms
that leave no doubt
that France will be
most craditahlV ron
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

jackson Park will astonish the world.
We will have tho grandest buildings
ever dedicated to exposition pirboses. "
just as soon as the ground plans of the
buildings can be completed work upon
the foundations of the several structures
will be pushed rapidly.
A rough estimate of tho cost of the
chief buildings, etc, planned by the CON
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17
EVER since its in

EVER since its in
ception have the.
Prospects Of til q
Worlds COLUMBIAN
Exposition appear.
edas bright as they
now do, s,ys q Chs
cago letter. All
d i If ences be-
tween the National
Commission and
the Local Directo-
~ are harmonious
" adjusted. The
kiiancnS ARD in ny
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

struction department., together with the
number of acres they will cover, will be
found interesting. Some estimates make
the total cost more than $40, 600, 900.
Buildings, etc. Average. Cost.
Fish and fisheries % $3.50. 600
u. S. Government. SO 100000
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17
TERRIBLE RIDE!
BE A. n.

OW long I
will be permit
ted to live l
do not know,
fit should
be an hundred
years I shall
never for G e t
the adventure
befell me
in the year '69'
said Thorpe
Taylor, a typ
engineer,
swarthv face.
coal black
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17
WORLDS FAIR WORK.
+ is PROGRESSING WITH COM
MENDABLE ACTIVITY.

A Brief Outline of the l.abors and Plans
of the Observation-Disclosures Cost Of
Principal Buildings-A Word Coneern-
Ing TIM Site.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

Several weeks e a cablcgram brought
the gratifying information that FRANCE
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

there will be hcnceforward no hitch in
the rapid progress of preparation for the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

ton are completed, and have been finally
approved. The architects are now elab-
Grating them into working plans, and
the chief of construction is drawing up
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

Il quickly grasped q wrench and
stuck him on the breast; but it only
served to heighten his fury, and he made
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-04-17

The decks arc cleared Tor action. an
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
PROGRESS IN SCIENCE.

Cremation is increasing in Japan. In
some of the larger cities one-third of
the bodies are disposed of in this way.
The finest garnets and nearly all the
peridots found in the United States are
collected from ant hills and scorpion
nests in New Mexico and Arizona
Sir William Thomson condemns the
single-wire system of electric lighting
on shipboard, on the ground that, In
spite of every care. the compasses are
affected.
Attention has recently been called to
the singular fact that until half a CEN
fury ago the Inhabitants of the Philip
pine islands were a day behind those Of
neighboring countries in their reckon
ing.
Analysis Of individual beets indicates
that maturity, more than size, deter
mines the sugar contents of the beet. A
high weight of leaves as compared
with the roots was no evidence Of high
err sugar content. but rather the re-
verse.
Divers In the clear waters of the
tropical seas find that fish of different
color when frightened do not all dart In
the same direction, but that each differ
ent kind takes shelter in that portion Of
the submarine growth nearest in color
to that of the fish.
Two marked improvements have re-
Gently been made In the use Of gas for
lighthouse illumination. One Is a proc
ess of enriching gas made from ordl-
nary colring coal by the addition Of
hydrocarbons and heated air, the other
is the new dioptric lens.
The new equatorial telescope recent
ly mounted in Paris has its tube bent at
right angle and the image Of the sky
formed by the object glass IL reflected
to the eye Of the observer. It Is the
largest of its kind in the world, its
optical powers being very fine and the
images of the planets remarkably dis
A}nct
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
JOHN l. WILL FIGHT
But Not Until He Returns
from Australia.
sLAvIN ANXIOUS FOR A MATCH.
Sullivan's Backers Make Him a PROPOSE
ton This Morning.

Ready to Arrange q Ten-ROund Contest
for $40, OOO-sIavin Will Have to De-
eide Quickly, as He is Announced to
Sail for England To-iay-A New Orleans
Club Offers n @25, 900 Purse.
SAN Francisco, June 20.-Barnett, Sui
livan's trainer, is in Frisco. He said,
when seen, that there was nothing in
the dispatches regarding Sullivan's al.
legged challenge to Slavin. Barnett added:
Sullivan always consults me before
making a match, and it has ALWAYS been
Johns custom to refer all people looking
for a match to me.
"When Dougherty and Slavin called
upon Sullivan and me in st. Louis Sulli-
van told Slavin whatever said he would
agree to. accordingly told Slavin
John was under 10 months contract
with nae, but at the end of that time If
he, Slavin, was still in the ring and an
undefeated man, Sullivan would give
him a match. Slavin said he hewas sat-
isfied, and we parted good friends. This
is the understanding between Sullivan
and Slavin, and all these stories amount
tofnothing.
"You can, however, say that Sullivan
will make a reply to these challenges
rom the stage at Corbett's benefit next
Wednesday night"
The general opinion among sports here
II that Sullivan is talking fight with
Slavin solely as an advertising dodge
to help his Australian tour. Still a
majority of sports here would back Sui
livan against Slavin at Q to 1.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20

THE rain that has at last come in
June, If it has been deplorably delayed,
will be of much benefit to the country.
The hay crop is too far advanced to get
the desired effect from it, and the fruits
and early vegetables must suffer, but
the pastures will feel its good effects.
Not only have there been fewer severe
storms in New England than have been
known for years, but showers have been
almost altogether absent in this part of
the country. Showers are invaluable
for ripening the strawberry crop. Dis
tributed over intervals of two or three
days, they much increase the size of the
fruit, and save many of the buds and
blossoms which produce it from being
dried up by the hot suns.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20

THREE years ago Sam Welser, the
famous clown who travelled for many
seasons with Dan Rice, found himself
alone in the world with 100000. He
was 70 years old, but determined to
leave his money to woman, and that
woman his wife. He married pretty
Edith Pearl Wilson. aged Is, and at
once made his will in her favor. The
pathetic side of the clowns life was
shown when he buried his pretty wife
at Pittsburg Monday. He is now alone
with his 100000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
slavin,s View of the Matter.

NEW YoRK, June 2O-Slavin returns to
England to-day, and he says arrange
ments will have to be made quickly, ii
at all. PONY" Moore, Of the Slavin
party, said that it was his opinion that
Sullivan's challenge was o bluff, pure
and simple.
Slavin made another statement as fol.
lows: Sullivan wants to meet me when
he comes, back from Australia Pll tell you
what think would be the best idea.
think Australia can offer a sum as big as
any place in the world. will postpone
my trip to England if a match can be
made with Sullivan for $4,000 and the
biggest purse they can raise. I will meet
him with or without gloves to demon
strate who Is champion of the world.
Sullivan will be received much better in
Australia if he can make match to fight
ma thereN
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
HE MAY BE PUNISHED.
The Delaware Laws Provide FIAe and Inn
prisonm0nt for Reed.

The Delaware Laws Provide FIAe and Inn
prisonmOnt for Reed.
NEW CASTLE, Del, June 20.-Nothing
10 known Of the wherea bouts of John n
Reed, the 32-year-old grocer, who eloped
from here with Anna Bartlett, his clerk,
not yet Is years old.
Joseph Bartlett, the girls father, yes
terday went to Havro de Grace, Nd, in
search Of the couple, but was unsuccess-
full. He learned that Reed met the girl
at that place at p. m. on Monday, and
then went south. The irate father will
instruct the Baltimore and Philadelphia
police to search for the couple.
A vigilance committee of % has been
organized at this place, and should Reed
return he will be given o coat of tar and
feathers.
Under the law he may be punished for
marrying q girl under Is years, tho age
Of consent in Delaw are, and subjected to
81 600 fine and seven years. imprison-
ment. Reed leaves a wife and 9-ysar-
old girl.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
A Case OF CyolopIa.

At q recent meeting Of the Royal So
ciety Of Edinburgh. DR.. A7Bruce read
a paper on a case of cyclopia, or single
eye, which has come under his notice.
There was a single socket for the eye.
Of lozenge shape, and situated in the
middle Of the base Of the forehead The
socket was furnished with two pairs OF
eyelids, upper and lower. The nose
was represented by a short process OF
tissue and skin attached to the forehead
above the medal eye. A microscopic
section of the socket showed two rudi-
mentary eyes, with the two rudiment-
airy retinse apparently springing from a
single optic vesicle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20


THE Medical Record calls attention to
new morbid habit which of late years
has become enormously prevalent. 1t
is the inhalation of tobacco smoke
quite akin to the opium habit. 1.-THE
old cigarette smoker" says the Record,
"would not exchange few deep whiffs
of his cheap cigarette for the finest
Havana that could be bought with
gold" 1t should be borne in mind that
this habit, once established, becomes
practically incurable. Hitherto the
warfare against the cigarette has been
waged mainly in behalf of the boys,
under the impression that they were al
most the only ones addicted to the use
of them, because of their cheapness, and
the ones most injured because of the in
furious effects upon the mental and
physical system, but the startling fact is
beginning to force itself upon the gen.
eral mind that thousands of women
have fallen into the habit also, and have
become slaves of the cigarette. Unlike
ly as it may appear to some, it is never
theless true to the letter, and as lament
able as it is true. 1t begins to look as
though a law against selling cigarettes to
women as well as to boys were needed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
Have You $1OO2

If you have 500, 5000, $3.50, $500, 81 900
or any larger cum to invest, buy one or
more of the debenture bonds of the Mid
dlesex Banking Company, of Middletown,
Conn. We are the Waterbury agents OF
this strong and successful investment cor
poration. Its capital is $500, 900 and is
being increased to, 81, 100000. Like Conn
savings banks this company is under the
supervision of the bank commissioners.
The state legislature has recognized tn. Sc
debentures as legal for the investment of
trust funds. They are secured ly choice
first mortgages. The interest is per cent,
payable sem annually by coupons collect:
able at this Office or any bank.
A.F.AbbOtt 81 Son, Real Els. Agts.
Masonic Temple 1O2 Bank st.
Open Tuesday and saturday ev'gs. 7tos O'Clock
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
UONT MISS

when you have chance to make a strike,
and that's just the kind of chance we
are putting.in your way. Now let us be
frank with you. We know perfectly well
that it takes two to make a bargain, aud
we know you won't do anything without
an object. That's just where we come in, we
make it an object for you to deal with us.
Our goods will give more for your money
than you can get elsewhere and they'll do
more than that; they'll send you back to
us whenever you want anything in our
line. Everybody knows that the Sweet,
Orr g. Co overalls and Working Pants are
the best in the world. We are the only
house in the city where they can be found.
Large stock of clothing in every depart
ment at lowest price. Headquarters for
Outing Shirts and Summer Underwear.
All styles Straw Hats just opened.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
Good Values
IN YOUR
Summer Clothing

That is what you are look
ing for.
You will not be- disappointed
by trying our fine ready made
Clothing, it will surely please
you in every respect.
Our Mems Suits at O,4.5O,
500, $50, 600, $50, $50
1000 and $12 are going pretty
fast, as the low prices sell them.
Buy enc of them before they
are all gone, you will get your
full moneys worth, which you
could not get anywhereselse.
Our assortment of nice Sum-
mer Shirts aud Neckwear gives
you a choice selection. Prices
are very low.
Look for yourself and secure
your Summer Clothing and
Furnishing Goods at the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-20
What Sullivan Says.

SAN JOSE, June 20.-The only John L.
Sullivan was interviewed here regarding
the telegram sent to New York. He was
asked:
Did you authorize Wakely, of New
York, to make a matchp' asked the re.
porter.
''No," said Sullivan, 81 am in the show
business now, but on my return from
Australia next September will show in
San Francisco, and then my contract is
up will have three months to arrange
matters and will be prepared to talk Oh
fight anybody"
When asked his opinion about Slavin
he said
'1 think he is a very good man, his de-
feat of Kilrain proves it; but you can say
for me that If we ever meet in the ring
Sullivan thinks he will come out on top. "