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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18

sight. Phyllis smiles no more and the
merry-go-round has gone to Kansas
City, the employees of all places scat
tering.
At the Old Plantation the last ecu
pie. an old uncle and auntie. left for
Cole county, Missouri, yesterday. All
the others had gon the day before to
Nashville. The buildings remain for
the present. Next door the ostriches
ara still eating with buzz-saw appetites
and the owners are entertaining propo-
sitions to locate elsewhere, and will
probably decide in a day or two.
The infant incubator plant is still
experimenting nature, while employees
and owners are litigating over salaries.
With Little Egypt, the Partisan
dancing girls, the Gaiety Theater and
the Dragons Head nothing is left but
empty buildings, the high klckers hav-
inG gone to gaze on new bald heads.
TIE Midway restaurants are disap-
pe2iing in proportion to their original
stability permits, a few not being
touched at all, while the roof and floor
structures, supplemented by muslin
walls the last month, have gone en-,
tireIy.
PICKUPS IN THE GROUNDS.
Fritz Mueller, msrager of the Schlitz
pavilion, like Benyaker, is working up
a reputation as a globe %trotter, he hay
ing gotten the concession to present an
A':erican village a. the coming Paris
~e-"osition.
hereafter the exposition executive
committee will meet daily at 1890 at
room 100, Willard hotel, instead Of at
tie Administration building, as during
the exposition.
William Alstadt, manager of the
Moorish Cafe, was %agreeably surprised
by his employees yesterday, who cap
tured him bodily and held him while
they presented him with two comfort
able reclining chairs. Tom Foley Their
presented him with an order for a fine
to recline in the chairs.
Forty-three years ago today the en-
peror of Japan was born, and the ami
versary of that aspicious occasion has
been ever since a national holiday. In
honor of the event the Japanese Viii
lage will be deserted today, and the
sever inhabitants will disport them
selves on a hunting expedition to KEEL
ly's lake.
Ponies for sale at what remains Of
the Indian congress was the exciting
event in that locality yesterday. There
is a bunch Of 100 little fellows, many
yet untamed, but nearly all wiry and
young, which was left by the Indians.
Captain Mercer is selling them at auc-
ton just west of the grounds at the
Twenty-fourth street gate at 1 O'Clock
each afternoon till all are sold. Forty
were disposed Of yesterday, several good
ones going for figures as low as IS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
HOW SICK OLDIERS DIE,
Commanding Officer at Santiago
Reports 1t.

Santiago de Cuba.-(Special 1.-THE
United States transport Victor was to
have left today at noon for the United
States with a number Of sick officers
and men. Fortunately, just before the
hour fixed for her departure, General
Wood, military governor of the depart
ment of Santiago, went on board. To
his amazement he found no provisions
specially suitable to sick persons, an
entire lack Of delicacies and IN insult
ficiency Of medical supplies
General Wood declares tkSl hereafter
he will pay a personal Visit to every
transport before it leaves the harbor.
He thinks it very strange that, after
all the experience a here in this line,
the medical department is not able to
manage it's affairs better, and that the
personal supervision of the command
ing general should be necessary.
Major Starr, inspector general of the
department, is on a furlough of thirty
days. Colonel Wiley, lieutenant gov
ernor, is sick with the malaria, but
General Wood was fully equal to the
emergency. He had the vessel supplied
and with an adequate amount Of Other
provisions, and the transport left the
harbor in time to pass Moro Castle be-.
fore shutdown.
The steamer Josefita, about which
some anxiety was felt, arrived here to.
day from Manzanillo, ffty-six hours
late. She encountered a hurricane an6
was obliged to cast anchor off Cap
Cruz.
General Wood is preparing a Thanks.
giving proclamation, being of the opin-
ion that the Cubans ought to give
thanks for the blessings they have re
ceived. The Americans want to keeI
the day in old-fashioned style, and ar
writing to their friends in the north t.
send turkeys.
tonight, will call at Santa Cruz del Su.
to embark the delegates of the Cuba
military assembly, who have decide
to hold subsequent sessions of tina
body at Marianoa, the Havana sub
urb. The military element in the as
sembly has completely overwhelme
the civil element, as it is now in con
troll of everything.
The United States transport Mortera
Captain F~aircloth, which left New Yor
on October %, arrived today with tn
United States mails, the first receive,
in two weeks. The vessel will now b
returned to her owners.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18

Few people get too miserly abou
up treasures in heaven.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
DEADLY BOOMERANG.
A NEW YORKER WHO MAKES
AND THROWS 1T.
Ne Learned the Secret from Natives Of
Austraila-How the AntipodeAn savages
Use This Strange Weapon-rhsy Are
Dtmeult to Make.

Civilized people, especially OF the
Engiish-speaking races, pride them
selves upon their discoveries in cleo
tricity with which they now operate
the guns OF the great ships Of war, and
they point with fear and trembling as
well as satisfaction to the perfection OF
all sorts of dynamite bombs and eX-
plosives which they may. on occasion,
use to kill people by the hundreds; but
with all their cleverness they have
never learned to make what a naked
savage can fashion out Of a crooked
stick. 1t has been stated that there is
nothing made Of wood which a Yankee
boy cannot copy with the aid OF his
tack-knife, but the man who said that
had probably never heard of a boom
erang. Horace Baker, who spent sew
eral years in, Australia, and went
boomerang crazy" is said to be the
first white man who ever made BOOM
erangs that would go" and he learned
to make them by almost living with
the savages and watching them as they
sat whiting away at a piece Of wood
with their crude stone hatchets and
sharp shells. He makes them now,
when he has a little leisure from his
regular occupation Of wood engraving,
but ordinarily he sits in his little New
York studio working over a microscope
as quietly as IL he had never whirled a
kangaroo into eternity with one Of
those bewitched pieces Of deformed
wood. Besides those which he has
made himself. Mr.. Baker has the larg-
est collection Of real Australian black
mans boomerangs in this country.
There are almost a hundred Of them,
and a queer lot they are! Some Of
them are haggled as II the savage had
used his teeth to make them. yet rs
true to the boomerang principle as the
perfectly carved specimens which dec
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
BAD ROADS ARE cosTLIEsr.
Good and WeII-Kept Highways Pay the
Farmers the Best.

Good and weII-Kept Highways Pay the
Farmers the Best.
philadelphia Inquirer: When once
the fact gets firmly established in the
minds OF the farmers Of the United
States that il is more expensive to
maintain bad roads than to make and
keep in condition good roads they will
take active interest in the question and
an era Of road building will begin
which will add TO their wealth. pros
perity and comfort, and benefit the
country at large as much as has the
laying Of railroad tracks and the ad-
vance of the steam locomotive. Let
those engaged in agriculture study
such figures as those recently issued by
New York, wherein he shows that it
costs half as much to haul produce
three miles by wagon as 1t costs To
haul it 500 miles on the railroad. The
supervisor figures out that with a sys-
TEN of good macadam roads the farm
ers would save an amount each year
equal to the interest on from $40 to $50
an acre. according to the crop raisel.
and would increase the value of their
land either to sell or hold by a like
amount.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
ThIck-skinned Animals.

The whale, which belongs to the
mammalia, has a skin nowhere less
than seven inches, and in many places
fully two feet in thickness. The skin
of the whale is the substance usually
known as blubber, and in a large spec-
linen will weigh altogether more than
thirty tons. The distinction of being
the thickest-skinned quadruped be-
longs to the Indian rhinoceros, whose
hide has knotty or granulated sur
face, and is SO impenetrable as to re-
sist the claws Of the lion or tiger. the
sword, or the balls Of the old-fashioned
musket. So stif and hard Is this skin.
that were 1t not divided by creases OF
folds the animal imprisoned in its ar
NOR could scarcely move. II Is manu-
featured into leather Of great strength
and durability, and targets and shields
are made Of 1t that are absolutely proof
against darts or sword-strokes. The
skin Of the hippopotamus runs that of
the rhinoceros very closely as regards
thickness. When dried 1t Is also used
for shields, which are highly priced by
the natives Of Africa.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

crate his walls. He keeps them hung
ND In clusters as some men have their
guns and pistols arranged with view
to proud display before their friends
A few OF these date away back to the
time when Capt. Cook landed on the
coast of Australia and took possession
Ia the name of King George, for the
sayages hand these things down as
heirIooms Just as our Revolutionary
heroes left us their muskets and mill
tary coats by which to prove military
family tree.
why is It so difficult to make a
boomerang?" said this connoisseur OF
the crooked stick. We'll, because 1t Is
SO delicately balanced that the least
divergence from the proper angle will
alter its course in the air and prevent
the perfect revolution which Is neces-
sary to its flight. When correctly
made. a boomerang should balance ex-
actly on a knife blade at its center. II
II doesn't balance, some more whiting
must be done on the heavy end. That
seems easy enough-to whittle a piece
of curved wood into fiat shape so that
the ends balance exactly-and II that
were all there Is to 1t, any boy could
make one. The hard part Of 1t Is to
cut the edges In such a way that they
will strike the air at a certain angle
in one part Of the curve and at another
In another part. and 50 on until every
line Of both. edges contributes TO the
perfect revolution Of the weapon Then,
when It Is whirled, 1t has two motions,
the rotary one. which Is q result Of its
shape, and the forward one. given it
in the throwing. It's pity that the
baseball players cannot get onto those
black fellows curves A pitcher who
could do II would make his fortune.
THE quality Of wood used has n
great deal to do with the excellence Of
q boomerang. The Australian brave
win tramp miles to ind branch Of the
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
Ga. from tn. cellns Of Coal.

In reviewing the different methods
cow in vogue for obtaining illuminat-
ing gas and manufacturing or fuel gas
the two kinds produced from coal
oy means Of the retort coke oven sys-
icm-Mr. w. @. Irwin remarks upon
the great extent attained by this in
eustry. II has been estimated. he says.
that for each ton Of coke produced up
ward Of 5000 cubic feet Of gas are
driven on, and the entire product
yielded annually "a the United States
BY the cosing Of coal, allowing one-half
to be consumed in the coking process,
is upward Of sixty billions Of cubic feet,
or but little less than one-fourth of
the natural gas production at the
height Of its most fourishing period.
The by-product oven tar is superior to
the tar which comes from the gas
vorks-it contains less pitch-the yield
-or each ton Of coke varying from forty
20 100 pounds. according to the
amount OF volatile matter contained in
the coaL-Cassier's Magazine.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

search, but also for the general read
ing public.
Prof. GayIey was horn SO years ago
in China, his father being a mission
airy and q Presbyterian clergyman.
His early boyhood was spent in Eng
land and Ireland, and later he entered
the University o, Michigan, from
which he graduated in the literary de-
partment. His fraternity at Ann ar
Dor was Psi Upsilcn. He soon after
became an instructor In the literary de-
partment, and succeeded In obtaining
leave of absence to study in the Ger
man universities. On his return TO
this country, he resumed his duties
st Ann Abor as assistant professor OF
English, till In 1855 he accepted an Of
fer of the chair Of English literature at
the University OF California, which DO
sition he cow holds. During his stay
in Ann Arbor he wrote the song "Yel-
low and Blue" which has become the
varsity song at Ann Arbor. Ever
since he has been at Berkeley he has
been closely identified with the uni
versity extension movement, having at
different times lectured ell over the
state. In 1891 he married Miss Sally
Pickett Harris, the daughter Of the
late Bishop Harris. The University Of
California granted him a years leave
CT absence to cover the ground for his
English book, which could be done
only in that country, and In such
places as the British museum and the
Bodleian a. Oxford The authorities OF
the latter recognized him officially.
and gave HIM the full privileges of
the library. When he left America he
carried letters from professors and
citizens here to many prominent men
of letters, and he was soon made well
come to English literary circles. Mr..
and Mrs. GayIey are at present travel
ing on the continent of Europe.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
Mountain Dust Storms.

Mr.. Fitzgerald, who led an expedi-
ton to the Andes in order to climb
the Hottest mountain in America.
Mount Aeoncagua, describes the Pc
culiar effect Of the wind on the upper
part Of the great peak. which he as
cended in January, 1897. The rock is
soft and rotten. and immense clouds
Of dust rise from II. at times COM
pletely obliterating the sky. Rain never
falls on the mountain, and the water
carried up by the climbers for drink
ing purposes was frozen, and had to
be thawed out when wanted. Yet two
hours were sometimes expended In
getting q IRE to burn
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
LAKE OF WINE.
Big Reservoir Rsesat,y censtrucsed IN
Callfornia-

8lg Reservoir booenrT Constructoo u
It recently took two powerful steam
pumps q week to Ill the largest wine
reservoir in the world. Properly
speaking, says the New York Herald.
It Is lake-a lake Of red wine 104 feet
long. "a feet wide and "a feet deep. or
course, II Is in California, that state
OF big things, that this wonder Is to be
seen-down at Asti by the Russian
River Valley. and the lake itself Is the
blending Of the juices OF grapes from
thousand vines. AS q system Of blend
ing wine 1t is in this respect as much
q wonder as In point of quantity and
place Of keeping. 1t is another proof
also that necessity is the mother OF in
Vention, for II 1t had not been that the
colonists could find no way to dispose
or their wine in a profitable manner,
owing to its abundance. 1t is probable
the lake would never have been created
and another wonder thus lost to the
world. The tun of Heidelberg, which
the last generation, and even some of
the present, learned to think Of with
wonder, Is but a child beside q full
grown man when compared to this
California creation. One could go boat
Ing In this lake very comfortably, al
though 1t would be but a short ride.
A steam launch would find room
enough to steam back and forth and
possibly turn around. This is how the
tank was really built: First, an exca-
walton was made in the rocky hillside.
Next a wall Of concrete two feet in
thickness was put in the floor and
sides Then came the laying and glaz-
Ing OF the cement This was not all.
Had the lake been left open at the top
Impurities must have found their way
into 1t, not to mention the deluge that
comes in what California knows as the
rainy season. All around the sides
big steel Orders were put In place, and
on these rests the sectional cover OF the
lake. This is so constructed that not
ray Of light can penetrate into this
vast quantity Of wine, and 1t mellows
and ripens just as II it were in the
most deep down vault that can be found
anywhere.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
Two warnings are wrapped up in tn,

Two warnings are wrapped up In the
sad case Of an Illinois farmer, who re-
Gently sold some land for 5000. says
Youths Companion. Distrustful Of
banks and safety vaults. he wrapped
his treasure In an old carriage curtain
and deposited II in an unused fiue. An
other member o. the family made q
fire In the stove, and the treasure was
reduced to ashes, which. in despair.
were dumped upon the ash-heap and
soon scattered to the winds. A proper
appreciation Of the superiority OF
banks over the best Of ehimneys, as q
depository Of money. would have pre-
vented the farmers loss; while. after
the catastrophe, the careful gathering
Of the eharred remains and their trans
mission to the treasury department
might have resulted in their partial.
II not entire, redemption
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

A young applicant for the naval aea-
deny was rejected last month by the
examiners because, while he passed q
good examination on the so-ealled
higher studies. he was lamentably de-
icient in plain arithmetic and spelling.
In school. as in politics and commerce.
it II the fundamental principles that
count. Master those, and the rest are
assured. Prof. William James Of Har-
ward, tells In the Boston Herald how he
passed an examination in anatomy be-
fore Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes The
frst question put 10 him was about the
nerves at the base of the brain. It 30
happened that Mr.. James was well up
in that subject. and he promptly gave
an exhaustive reply. ''0h. well. II you
know that. you know everything" said
Doctor Holmes. cheerfully. Let us
ralk about something else. How are
al your people at home"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

There are fashions in words IS well
as in frocks and flowers. as the col
umns Of a recent newspaper 60 to
prove. Among the book advertise
ments were the Passing Of Thomas"
and the Passing Of the Reds; an
editorial considered the passing OF a
famous baseball captain; an extract
from another newspaper noted tho
Passing Of Spain. while religious COM
municstion bemoaned the Passing Of
Calvinism. Stevenson's advice to avoid
the use of hackneyed phrases, however
clever, is in order: Find your own
expression for your own thought. Use
words; do not let them use you"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

mark Of distinction falls to the lot OF
an American, and Prof. Gayley feels
natural citation that 1t has come TO
him, and entirely without his own
seeking. II is customary In England,
and in this country also, to confer
honorary degrees on distinguished
men. and In the English universities
It IL said that one man is annually
chosen as the recipient Of this honor
by each college. a number OF colleges
forming the components parts OF
university. Oxford university. repre-
scented by Lincoln college. has confer
red on Prof Gayley the degree OF
honorary fellow. The work which led
to his association with Oxford was in
the service of the English publishing
firm Of Macmillan & Co., who appoint
cd him editor-in-chief Of the prepare
ton of pre-Shakspeare comedies, the
scope of the work being to collect and
edit these comedies so that they would
be available not only for literary re-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
sAoPrPE BOOM IN LONDON.
Players Who Learn the Art for tine
Money In It

Money In It
"The bagpipe boom has again reacn-
ed London. It takes two pipers 10 90
the thing properly" remarked Miller
Outcalt to his guests at his 57th oirtn-
day dinner recently, says the Clnein-
natl Enquirer. zone of these marenes
I'D and down, you know. playing the
instrument. while another accompanies
him, handling a sheathed sword. Inc
bearing Of both performers Is PROUD
and martial and Scotch. Anybody
could tell they were Scotch-eVen
Saxon infant in arms. An old gentle
man was recently so pleased oy the
aspect Of one Of these bagpipe couples
that he gave them each a shililng'
saying: Ell, man, do ye prefer playing
the music o. the bonny hame land IN
musty Lunnon streets to marching
across the heather wi the wind In your
teeth?' The first Scotchman looked al
him in surprise. The second said, dis
gustedly: Watcher talkin' abar%
guy'nor? Me an my mite buyed this
ere arm argin' down in Shoreditch
when the bagpipe boom came on. It's
a lot better'n shown bloomin' barrer
tryin' to sell oranges. oh, the business
amt so bad, 'cept for the chilblines we
gets on our bloomin' knees. Ne an
my mite do wish. though, when people
give us coin they wouldn't go jawin' OF
us in a furrin' langwidge.' But how
did you learn? asked the astonished
Scotchman. ''Ow? Easy enough.
Yer Just squeezes the old balloon an
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

right shape and q wood Of the proper
density. Gnarled trees are at pre-
MUM there. and the heaviest WOO -
the best. Our lignum vitae corresponds
the nearest to the tree they like pest
The piece for the boomerang Is usual
" cut where q branch curves out lrow
the tree trunk. for this is the most
natural crook in the trees formation.
As the branch is bent, so Is the boom
erang inclined, for its curve must Iol-
low the grain Of the wood One never
sees any cross-grains on any OF tneSo
weapons."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

The fact that a hereditary patriotic
society has just expended fifteen thou
sand dollars in the pageantry Of
crowning its queen marks the folly but
adds to the mirth of society. What
are you doing there?" the old play
wright asked Harlequin, sitting on his
paper throne. ''Oh, / am reigning."
Yet even Harlequin knew that visible
insignia are but spectral; that true
kingshfp and queenship are shown by
daily deeds and character.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
md refreshing to the taste. and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head.
lches and fevers and cures habitud
constipation. Syrup of Figs is The
only remedy of its kind ever pro
1uced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt n
its action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the moss
healthy and agreeable substances, Its
many excellent qualities commend It
to all and have made it the mos
popular remedy known
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 80
cent bottles by all leading drug.
gists-. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do mot accePtauJ
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SYRUP CO
san FRANCISCO. CAL
LOUISVILLE, ~. NEW TokG NJ
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

Hon. John L. Sullivan expresses 3
desire to go to Cuba and whip Spain.
II there is no objection from any
source-and we hear none-Mr. Sulli-
vans request will be granted by q
unanimous vote.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07
SHE WAS THE PRETTIEST.

A popular Irish journal has been Of
fering prizes lately for the prettiest
child under years. A second compe-
tition for the prettiest girl between
end IL years has Just been finished.
and was won by Sylvia NJ. Sheridan Of
Dublin. She has a singularly aristo-
cratic and lovely face, and gives prom
Use of being a beauty when she Is
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-05-07

It is not generally known that Law
ender water Is one Of the pleasantest of
disinfectants- It Is said that, sprayed
through the rooms Of house situated
in maiariai district. Il forms a very
efacient protection against the diserse.