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the outbreak of the war, and was then
not quite Thirteen years OF age. L met
him about thirteen months later. and
then. though only fourteen, ne had been
in sixteen battles, in all of which he at
tracted notice by his courage and good
conduct. He was then dark-haired
darl:eyed young fellow, OF ilne form ana
very intelligent features, and of so man
ly a bearing to most favorably impress
an utter stranger.
He had then recently won considerable
celebrity by his conduct at the first bat
tie of Murfreesborough July 8, 1861
where his regiment, together with the
Third Minnesota and several companies
of the Fourth Kentucky, and Seventh
tured by the Confederate general, For
rest. At this time he killed a Tennessee
colonel and this so incensed the Con-
federates that his life was put in jeop-
ardy; but he managed TO escape. and
made his way to our forces at Nash
vile in safety. He wrote for me soon
afterwards an account OF his exploit;
and it was so brief and modest and So s.
characteristic of the boy, that L VIII
copy a portion of it mere.
Roberts story.
az was a member" he wrote, "of one
and about o'clock in the morning
heard the rebels coming. We were quar-
tered in the court house, and sprlnglnS
up, 1 pulled the ffer out Of bed, and,
getting UOWH my vi UNI, D.dC INC 4Ob5
role to rouse the rest of the company
When they were thoroughly awake, |
threw away the drum, and Selling
musket, began to fire at the enemy out
of the window.
zone of the Confederate ofncers-a
Colonel Reeves, who lived in Murfrees-
borough-whiie I was firing, passed
along the street. and was about to enter
his dwelling I hailed him, ordering him
to halt, but he did not, and then L fired,
bringing him down to the ground. Colo
mel Reeves servant was in the room at
the time I shot his master, and, after
we had surrendered, told his mistress
that | had killed her husband. They put
me under guard, and for a while made
a great adoo about the matter; but soon
more of our troops were heard coming,
and the Confederatos double quicked' it
out of town, taking me and the other
prisoners with them. That night l man
aged to escape, and after various adven-
lures, got to Nashville. From there [
was sent to Camp Chase in Ohio. wheI e
I received my discharge.
there met one night at Barnuns muse
umt the widow OF the rebel officer | had
killed. She had married one Of our cap
tains and was still living at Murfrses-
borough She manifested no ill-feelinS
but warned me to keep out OF the nanis
of the rebels; for they would surely hang
me to the first lamp-post.
Later Experiences.
After this Robert enlisted rs a drum
mer bay in the Eighth Michigan in
fantry, and going with his regiment TO
the army of the Potomac, was present
at the battle of Fredericksbu burg. His ex.
plot in that battle gave him national
reputation. and 1 win repeat the ac-
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proper shape and polished. In the Brit
1sh museum the visitor can still see a
pair of these primitive instruments,
and the Workmen occasionally disinter
them about Mo0r1elds ard Finsbury.
How to Skate Fast.
The racing posture of all the skaters
is practically the same. The back is
kept straight and horizontal, the arms
fo.dGl across the back, except when
squirting; then they are swung from
side to side. keeping time to The stroke.
Thighs are flexed to a right angle,
while the knees are kept in half f1eXion
or almost straight.
In championship race last year five
of the best amateurs of the world were
strung out in line. and their rythmical
swing and stride were as Of if one
brain was moving the whole combina-
ton. The crouching position, while it
does not interfere with respiration, di-
minishes resistance to the wind-an i'm
portant advantage also gives the
best position for using the powerful
muscles of the loins and back.
The stroke of all the best men is
practically the same, and differs from
that of ordinary skating both in its di
rection and in the way it is taken.
It's direction is more forward and back
ward than one from the ordinary short
skate, and with the long. fiat blade the
stroke is given by the whole of the foot
fiat. Any lifting of the heel in s'trik
ing out is impossible on account of the
length of the skate blade.
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winter carnival committee The regu-
lar championship races will be one
quarter mile. one mile. five miles and
ten miles. and in addition there will
be a number of handicap races TO
give the second-raters chance
against the crack skaters.
The two great cracks who will meet
In these races are Olaf Rudd, the ten
mile champion. of Minneapolis, and
]. f. Donoghue. of Poughkeepsie. 1t
viii be the east against the west with
a vengeance, for when these two
cracks met last year the results were
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The skate itself-about eighteen inches
long-has a fiat blade, almost as thin
as a knife, set into light tube sup
porting two uprights, circular but
hollow. 1herei short upright tubes
fasten it to the boot by means of a
plate. the whote purpose ibeing to
combine the greatest strength and
lightness. The boot laces tightly, Civ
ing firm support to the ankle.
This form has evolved from the orig
inal skate made of the lower jaw bones
of horses and cattle carved to the
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A PERILOUS CROSSING.
OVER THE RIVER UNDER a RI,AZE
AND ROAR OF SHOT AND SHELL.
The Drummer Boy of the Rappahan-
mock and His Wonderful Deeds
of Patriotic Courage.
BY JAMES r. GILMORE

Copyrighted, 1885. by James R. Gilmore
Very many boys took part in our civil
war. and several of them performed
deeds that made them widely .distfn-
guished. but none showed greater BRAY
cry or attained wider celebrity than the
one who was known as the Drummer
Boy of the Rappahannock" His name
was Robert Henry Henderson,, and he
was born in the state of New York. but
was removed with his parents when
very young, to Michigan. There his ia
ther soon died, leaving his mother in des-
utute circumstances, and with four
young children tc support and educate.
A Young Patriot
Robert enlisted as a drummer boy in
the Ninth Michigan infantry, soon after
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strength are above the average. The
skater is slightly stronger in the back
than the cyclist, as his work brings
some of the back muscles into play.
The abdominal muscles of the skater
are also we'll developed and the leg
from the hip to the knee is wonderfully
strong.
Speel skating differs from ordinary
skating in several marked particulars
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shoe tops. Leggings are also worn.
for the New York girl. no matter how
advanced her ideas may be on the
dress question. viii never exhibit the
fraction of an inch of her stocking,
though she thinks nothing of showing
to a critical world considerable
length of logging.
Cat of the Skating Dress.
The skating dress is always cut
shorter in the back than in the front
This does away with the annoyance
of having me skate catch in the back
Of the skirt and perhaps cause the
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having Joined the dead pion GERS a year
or so ago. With the death CT Mr. Crate
there passed away one of the 'ery first
white men who made permanent settle
the Hudson Bay company, and when the
company retired from business here, Mr.
Crate remained and for many years Ii, ed
on farm at Crates point several miles
below The Dalles. Mr.. Denton is one of
the oldest surviving pioneers of this re-
CiOn-
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unfortunate an ugly fall. Besides, the
present mode demands that the edge
of the skatfng skirt be trimmed with
fur also the shoe tops, when the
dress is no short enough to demand
the use of leggings.
The Speed Skaters.
The speed skaters are now in active
training for the amateur champion
ship matches which will be held at
ST. Paul. Mimi. between Jan. % and
80, under the management of the
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Money refunded in all cases IL the
High Grade Three Crown BaIkfne
Powder is not Equal to the very
best baking powder made.
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Blue diamond Label ON all High
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LEADING BUSINESS FIRMS OF SALT LAKE CITY
BREWERS.

ANHEUSER-bCs CA skEWING CO.
Tel. Nos. 80 and 3Sa
FISCHER A. BREWING CO.
160 South Tenth West
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Lafer Experiences.

After this Robert enlisted rs drum
mer bay in the Eighth Michigan in
fantry, and going with his regiment TO
the army of the Potomac, was present
at the battle of Fredericks burg. His ex.
plot in that battle gave him a national
reputation, and l viii repeat the ac-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-09-27
"SUNDAY
will Be My First Day in ~E1eaven,"
Cried the Dying Girl.

will BE My First Day in Heaven"
Cried the Dying Girl.
Word has been received from Prince
ton, Mo-, of the sad death of Miss Angle
Bowsher, formerly of Upper Sandusky.
She had been with an outing party at
Mineral Springs, Mo-, and her chum,
Miss Allie Ballew, taking a repeating
rifle from the hands of one of the gen,
tlemen OF the party, attempted to fire
It, 1t discharged prematurely, the con-
tents striking Miss Bowsher in the back
and passing through her body. She
lived four days, and passed away while
sleeping, after one Of the grandest
death scenes ever witnessed. She had
survived an operation, which promised
recovery, and although suffering no
pain, she said she would die. She sane
familiar church hymns, and expressed
the deepest sympathy for Miss Ballew,
who accidentally shot her. Asking
what day it was, she was told that it
was Saturday, and replied, her face
cleaning with happiness: Tomorrow
is Sunday. First day in heaven will be
Sunday. Won't that be grand?" She
then asked Rev. O. S. Russell, whose
rifle it was that caused her fatal injury,
to read and pray. When he took the
Bible to read, she asked everyone to
listen. He read several verses from the
eighth chapter of Romans, after which
he offered prayer. After the prayer she
said. Let us sing" and then started the
song, Shall We Meet Beyond the
River? She then looked up and said,
Tell Allie goodbye" Calling her sis.
ter. she said: "Hortie, I am going to
heaven" Before falling asleep she ex-
claimed, with outstretched arms, ooh.
0 beautiful! Perfectly lovely! I see
Zoie, and there is Gennie, and there is
Mr.. Carl"
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TEMPORARY NlRvANA FOUND.
4 wanderer stayed by tho vast Calm

= Wanderer stayed by tho Vast Calm
Of Uncle Bily's Personality.
Strange" said Uncle Billy, host. CT
the old inn where the Boston coaches
used to stop, but that fellows been
pretty nigh everywhere in this country,
besides Europe and other foreign parts,
an I amt been anywhere except Ver-
mont, and that was when I was a boy
10 years Old" Uncle Billy was looking
toward the tall, spare, bronzed, tact
turn man in blue overalls and broad.
brimmed straw hat, who was doing
chores about the place with the method
ical steadiness Of an old hand. One
had but to compare the strangers spare
figure and straight lines with Uncle
Billy's m%ultitudinous rotunditfes AMI
vast bulk to realize that the inertia II
the latter could have small sympathy
with the nervous activity of the former.
1t was easy enough for Uncle Billy to
stay where put, with the force of grav-
ity ever present as a determining fa:-
tor In his personal states. Seems '.o
l4Aes to travel" continued Uncle Billy.
HI says he walked nigh a thousand
miles in a pair of secondhand shoes
he got somewhere out west. He walked
most of the way from California, and
he's lately been down to the Isthmus
of Panama. Well, I saw him one day
on the other side of the Bronx and
asked him if he didn't want work. He
said yes, for a day or two, but I said l
wanted a man for a month. Then he
said he'd try it a week. That was
four months ago, and he's been here
ever since"
And you were born here and always
found it easy enough to stay?" asked
the listener.
"Me?" rejoined Uncle Billy. "Yes, I
was born here, in that house which my
father built somewhere about 1900. He
drawed that ale here sixty years ago. I
found some brandy once that the old
man had put away forty years before"
Then Uncle Billy, leaning back in
dreamy ease beneath an apple tree in
the grassy triangle at the side of the
inn, told of his plan for a tent in the
triangle and a new veranda, unrealized
dreams OF a dozen years past. There
was a fog in his small hazel eyes as
the wanderer again came in sight, and
a pucker in the skin of his forehead,
as if he were vainly e%ndeavoring to
understand his hired mans point Of
view. Dramatically opposite instincts
were brought face to face in master
>.J 49, r.. "
months at least the static had exercised
a sort of spell over the active instinct.
The wanderer had met his temporary
Nirvana in the vast calm of Uncle
Billy's personality.
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The Conductor Was Polite.

A friend Of mine who has Just re-
turned from Italy, where he has been
wandering for several months, told me
an amusing story with regard to one
Of those railways that disfigure the high
places of that delightful country,
though doubtless to the lazy and the
invalid they are a blessing and a boon.
My friend was seated in one of the cars
near a stout English matron as they
made the ascent CT a certain mountain.
And Wtere should We 70, conductor,
if the bra G would rot worN?" asked the
fscut lady, III vile Italian. The conduc-
tor courteously explained that in such
circumstances there was a second
brake, a duplicate safeguard, which
might be relied upon in such an unlike
ly emergency.
"And where should we &C, conductor,
if this second brake would not work?'
repeated the persistent stout one.
"Ah, madame" replied the official,
with an inimitable shrug and smile,
that would depend on what our liyez
had BEEN"
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A New Explosive.

A Bridgeport inventor say he has
discovered an explosive which will blow
an invading army into cats meat as
soon as it is dropped among them. He
has gone to Cuba to try it upon Cen
eral Campos and his peninsular myr-
midons, and if news from that island
were not SO habitually untrustworthy
it would now be awaited with increased
interest. So many destructive agents
OF warfare are reported in this period
that it all their claims were realized
wal would become impossible, and an
other mode Of settling i%nternecine and
international difficulties would have to
be devised. But many Of them thun-
der in the index, exploding with more
smoke than carnage, and efecting no
re revolutionary change in military meth
DDS. The Bridgeport fulminant may be
in this category, but its pretensions re-
main to be tested.
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The Autocrat's jest.

Edward Everett Hale tells this: IA
few years ago, in a fit Of economy, our
famous Massachusetts historical So
ciety screwed up its library and other
Offices by some fifteen feet, built in
the space underneath, and rentedit to
the city of Boston. This was very well
for the treasurer, but for those Of us
who had passed sixty years, and had
to climb up some twenty more iron
stairs whenever we wanted to look at
an old pamphlet in the library, it was
not quite SO much a benefaction.
When Holmes went for the first time
to sec the new quarters of the society,
he left his card with the words, o.
w. Holmes, High-story-call society,""
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VICOMTE RENE DE CORNELY.

director of Foreign DEPARTMENT.
most liberal privileges. The real birth
of the exposition dates from the pas
SAGE of the following bill by the federal
congress of Mexico, Dec. Ii, 1894:
The president is authorized to con-
tract with Ignacio Bejarano, or with
the company he may organize, for hold
ing in the capital Of the republic a ma
tional exposition of industries and fine
arts, to be inaugurated on the second
day Of April, 1896, giving it all the
deem proper, but without any subsidy
from the national treasury.
In accordance with this act a con-
tract was drawn up by the secretary OF
state. By it's provisions all exhibits
will enter the republic without pay
ment of duties. but will be under bond
for payment in case they are not ex-
ported within two months after the ex-
position is officially closed. All ma
terials and machinery for the construc-
ton of buildings are exempt from i'm
port and interior duties. Vessels and
steamers with full cargoes for the ex-
position will be exempt from lighter and
tonnage dues. These and other liberal
concessions on the part of the govern
ment are expected to induce foreign ex-
hibitcrs to make large displays.
The main edifce of the exposition
| will be the Palace Of Food Products, 225
feet long by 100 feet wide, with a so
foot gallery. On the dome of this build
ing will be an electric globe of unusual
size. In this building exhibitors will be
allowed to sell food products, bever-
ages, smokers articles and similar mer-
chandise. BY thus allowing the I'M
limited sale of unta1ed goods on the
grounds of the exposition for a whole
year, President Diaz and the Mexican
congress show plainly that they are
anxious to promote commercial inter,
course with the United States.
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be traced by the lines i'll the won1an's face.
Dull eyes, the sallow or wrinkled face and
those feelings of weakness" have their
rise in the arrangements and irregularities
peculiar to women. The functional de-
engagements, painful disorders, and chronic
weaknesses of women, can be cured with
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. For the
young girl just entering ~womanhood, for
mothers, and later in ''tlle change of life,n
tue Prescription " is just what they need:
It aids nature in preparing the system for
these events. It's a medicine prescribed
for thirty years, by DR.. r. v. Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the Inyalidsi Hotel
and Surgical Institute, ut Buffalo, N. Y.
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Director General Mexican Fair.)
Young pronounced De Cornely without
a peer as a promoter and a man with
exposition ideas"
De Cornely has been busy for the past
four months organizing the United
States end of the Mexican exposition.
So successful have his efforts been that
already the governors Of more than half
the states have appointed state COM
missions for the purpose. Several legis-
latures have passed resolutions assur-
ing the Mexicans OF their friendly in
terest..
Offices have beer established in all
the larger cities, that in Chicago being
at 215 Madison street, and that in New
York being In the New York Times
Building. De Cornely declares himself
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SWEETNESS OF A PHRASE.

Familiar Use Robs 1t of Much OF Ita
Beauty.
There is a tender sweetness about
some of our common phrases Of afec-
tomato greeting, simple and unobtru-
sive as they are which falls like dew
upon the heart "Good night" The
little one lisps it as, gowned in white,
with shining face and hand, and pray
ers said, she toddles Off to bed. Sis
ters and mothers exchange the wish;
parents and children, friends and
friends.
Familiar use has robbed it of its sig
%nificance to some of us; we repeat it
automatically without much thought
But consider: We are as voyagers, put
ting off from time to time upon an IN
explored sea. Our barlks Of life set
sail and go onward into the darkness,
and we, asleep on our oars, take no
such care Is we do when awake and
j%ourneying by daylight. OF the perils
OF the night, whatever they may be,
we take no heed. An unsleeping
vigilance watches over us, but it is tho
vigilance of n stronger and wiser
than We, who is the Eternal Good.
Good and God spring from the same
root, are the same in meaning. Good
bye" is only "God be with YOU
Good night is really GOD night"
Or GOD guard the night"
1t would be a churlish household in
which these gentle forms Of speech
were ignored or did not exist. Alike
the happy and the sorrowful day by
dav may say Good night
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RSA "a OPSA y VIC puUlIC ADr1l
2 next.
The scheme has been under some
thing OF a cloud, from the time it re-
celved Endorsement from the Mexican
congress last December, until very re-
Gently, for the reason that the anage
ment was divided in factions. MANY
OF the same difficulties that confronted
the management of the Columbian Ex-
position have been experienced. But
all troubles are Cow happily passed.
President Diaz stepped into the breach
and insisted that small peccadillos
should be overlooked; that all hands
should rally to insure a grand and sue
cessful exposition, or that the whole
scheme should be abandoned.
This position Of President Diaz was
taken some months ago, and since then
rapid progress has been made by the
promoters. The fact that President
Diaz is back Of the enterprise insures its
solidity. It will be the first interna-
tional exposition that the southern re-
public has eve attempted.
The Foreign Bureau Of Promotion, OF
which James 3. Campbell is the head,
with headquarters in Chicago, is able
to make q showing Of accomplished
facts that places the Mexican exposj-
ton at a more advanced stage at this
time than the Columbian Exposition
was at a similarly early date. Camp
bells illustrated Monthly was the Off
cial organ of the Chicago fair and has
been made the official publication of the
Mexican exposition in this country.
The two chief figures in the enter
prise thus far are Ignacio Bejarano, d.
rector general of the exposition, and
Vicomte Rene de Cornely, director Of
the foreign department. The whole en-
terprise, outside of Mexico, is in the
hands OF De Cornely, who will be re-
menbered as the protector and later as
the director general of the exposition at
Brussels in 1883. Prior to his connec-
ton with the Brussels exposition De
Cornely had been the president of a
publishing house at Antwerp, which
had entire control Of the service of ad-
missions to the exposition Of 1885.
In conjunction with M. p. Mussely,
De Cornely wrote the illustrated vol
ume, Antwerp and the Exposition Of
1885" This volume was published un-
der the patronage Of the King Of Bel
GUM, and brought to the author a gold
medal from the Emperor Of Austria.
Later DE Cornely organized, on his w
account, the international Food Exhibit
in Cologne, in which Germany, Austria,
Italy and Belgium made more than
1890 exhibits. In 1889 he wrote an il
Illustrated work on the Bremen EXPOSE
ton. Two years later he wrote an IL
lnstrated work pom the German expo
sition in London. Becoming acquainted,
while in Chicago. with NJ. Ell. DeYoung,
De Cornely assumed with him the man
agement CT the midwinter fair in Cali
fornia and, sven amid the partial gloom
in which that exposition closed, Mr.. De