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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14
HOW OUR PRESIDENTS LOOKED
All We're Not Models Of Manly Strength and
Beauty.
New York Sun.

Beauty.
New York Sun.
Washington's own description of
himself is accurate. When ordering a
suit of clothes OF a London tailor he
wrote that he was "a man 6 feet high
and proportionately made; if anything
rather slender for q person of that
height" In those times it was con-
venient thing to have friend with a
foot of the same size as your own, as
Washington had in Colonel Beiler,
when he availed himself in his direc-
tions across the water of that gentle
mans last, "only little wider over
the instep." When Washington was
in Barbados, West Indies, in 175I,
where he spent the winter with his in.
valid brother, Lawrence, he had small
pox, and his face always bore faint
traces of the disease.
John Adams was OF middle height,
vigorous, horid and somewhat corpu-
lent, quite like the typical John Bull.
Thomas Jefferson was very erect,
agile and strong. He had strong fea-
lures, with prominent chin and cheek
bones.
James Madison was small OF stature,
modest and quiet, neat and refined,
courteous and amiable. James Mon
roe was tall, we'll formed, with blue
eyes and light complexion. John
Quincy Adams was great student
and described by his friends as noble
fellow. He was cool, resolute and
good-humored, with a broad brow and
firm mouth.
Andrew Jackson stood 6 feet l inch
in his stockings, was far from hand
some. with long, thin, fair face, high
and narrow forehead, with abundant
reddish, sandy hair falling low over it,
and eyes deep blue and brilliant when
he was aroused. He had a slender,
graceful figure. He was a bold rider
and capital shot, the sort of hero,
when he became President, for whom
people threw up their caps and shout.
ed themselves hoarse.
Martin Van Buren, was q very pol-
ished gentleman, punctilious, polite,
always cheerful and self-possessed."
1t was charged against him by those
not friendly to him that he dined too
we'll, lived too we'll, kept too good
company, had tastes too refined and a
tone too elegant.
William Henry Harrison made few
enemies, though the subject of hos
tility. His most pronounced feature
was his nose of the Roman order. His
expression was always serious. John
Tyler was also gentleman of
solemn mien. James X. Polk was OF
middle weight, rather spare; he had
bright, expressive eyes and an ample,
angular forehead. He was generous,
benevolent and pious.
Zachary Taylor, old "Rough and
Ready" had the almost warlike ex-
preston of an Indian chief. He was
remarkable for the purity of his
character and his modesty.
Millard Fillmore was a cultivated,
agreeable man. franklin Pierce had
a frank, open face and was warm
hearted. James Buchanan was the
only bachelor President and one of the
most polished in manners and at
tractive in appearance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14

which will be moved into the rooms
before the next meeting.
The brewers and wholesale wine
men will be interviewed.
The next meeting will be hot one.
unless all signs fail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14
DECADENCE OF CANAL BOATS
A Change that is Regarded as Remarkable b,
the Passing Generation.

New York Sun
"Commonly speaking" said an
Erie canal boat captain, the old time
canal business is on its last legs. I've
been at 1T as owner and captain for
fifteen years, and am poorer to-day
than when l began. / owned three
boats of three mule-power each, and !
carried grain from Buffalo to New
York city over the Erie. l paid $2,-
500 for one boat thirteen years ago and
sold her last year for 5000. The one
| am captain of now cost me $4,000
twelve years ago, new, and 1 am offer
ing her now for 5000 and no takers.
There's loss in those two items alone
OF $4 400 in thirteen years, or a shade
over 1925 year. The capacity of my
present boat is 5000 bushels of wheat,
and carried the load from Buffalo to
New York. say 500 miles, at an aver
age OF two cents and half bushel
That would make 5000 for the load
and it took me ten days on the canal
and two down the river from Troy.
paid 81 for towage from Troy to
Albany and $25 from Albany to New
York, besides 5 per cent. commission
at Buffalo and eight or ten dollars
extra charges when I got to New York,
so that you see, with the regular ex.
penses, my own labor and time, and
the money l had invested, there wasn't
much OF margin. 1t took eight days
to get back to Buffalo, and it wasn't
often that l got enough merchandise
as freight to pay barely more than ex-
penses.
"There was shortage sometimes, too,
in the wheat, and / had to make that
good at the regular price the cargo
sold at. My last load got me for $29
on this account. However," and the
captain smiled, ait wasn't always
against me, and one time I was ahead
over three hundred bushels and / got
n check plump down for more than
$3.50. 1t WAS little funny about
that. / found out afterward that
when my boat was loaded a lump of
coal had some way got fastened in the
apron that ought to have closed the
chute from the elevator, but didn't,
and the wheat slipped through the
crack to the extent of over three hun.
dred bushels. 1t was only a case of
luck, for the next boat that came after
mine was twenty bushels short.
For the last three years l have
been lightering around New York har-
Dor from the elevators to ships or
wherever the grain was to be deliv-
cred, and that doesn't pay much bet
ter than canal work. All l got for
myself and boat is 50 a day, "a hours
long if necessary, and, except in sum-
mer when business is brisk, l only get
such jobs as can pick up. For the
month of March, for instance, I only
received sos, that is, fourteen days
work. l am getting pretty tired OF
the boat business, and if you know of
anybody that wants to buy my boat
and good will send him around with
$500 to give up, and I'll be glad to re-
tire from life on the ocean wave, so
to speak,"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14
Risen Rolls.

Sift quart of flour with half tea
spoonful of salt and teaspoonful OF
sugar, rub into it teaspoonful of
butter, add cup of warm milk and a
third of yeast cake that has been
dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of
warm water, and knead this dough for
20 minutes. Set to rise for six or
eight hours, make into rolls, put these
in a creased baking pan, and let them
rise for half an hour longer before
baking.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14
Prayers Stopped by Snakes.

Garfield Williams, white boy, was
arrested at his home near Elkton,
KY, recently, on the charge of turning
loose in Pea Ridge church during a
protracted meeting two live snakes.
He concealed the snakes in his hat
until he got into the church, and
when the space about the altar was
crowded with seekers he turned loose
his snakes. 1t created the greatest
commotion possible. The snakes were
killed. Williams was fined $50 and
given twenty days in Jail.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

New Years Eve, and at home. This
is coy little den of mine, just as it
looks now, quite eclipses anything
ever see at the club; books, pipes, easy
chairs. q cheerful fire in the CRATE;
pictures, 5busts, my well-beloved etch-
ings all about the walls.
What's the matter with you. old
man. tonight? Why are you taking an
inventory of these surroundings on
this last night Of the year? Everybody
thinks you are tired of them, don't you
know, for you spend very little time
In their midst, says some provoking
little voice. (Wonder If it's my con-
science.)
Dorothy is up stairs, the servants
are out; as soon as she finishes the
sewing Of q button on Johnnie's re-
fractory trousers she will come down.
she says, and watch the old year out,
being evidently well pleased over the
prospect Of club night Of our own,
a little Home, Sweet Home" sort of
an arrangement.
It seems that Johnnie is the only
member of our family not member Of
a club. Dorothy simply holds on to
the little shaver by the collar, tied to
her apron strings he is, and am glad
OF It.
Can ever forget the day when our
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
CHILDREN DROWN
unconfirmed Report Of Fearful
Disaster in Iowa.
(G on POND PROVES IRtAGfRous
Forty mine Children Lost--Only Meager
Details at Hand .nd Impossible to
verity-Accepted a True 1T Dss
Moines--O Other News.

: - E ! B ( .-a & IL . y . y (
A dispatch from Des Moines. Iowa,
says: A telephone message from Wash
ington, Ia, says that fifty-one school
children were skating on the river
near Foster, Ia, when the ice gave
way and forty nine were drowned. No
confirmation of the story or details can
be obtained from any other available
point tonight.
A telephone message from the OPP
orator at What Cheer at midnight to
the operator at Des Moines said that
forty school children had been drowned,
Immediately thereafter it became inn
possible to reach What Cheer by phone
the operator having evidently gone
home. No other information is obtain
able SO far.
Telephone messages by way of Oska-
loosa and Ottumwa say the report Of
the drowning Of forty-nine school
children at What Cheer is true. The
children were skating on d pond near
the fair ground and the accident oc .
CURED about . o'clock in the evening.
Direct communication with What
Cheer cannot be had at present.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
FATHER RECEIVERS HIS SON
Indianapolis Kidnapping Proves short
sensation.

Indianapolis Kidnapping Proves Short
Sensation.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: The
hackman who drove Mrs. Miller and
her son, Sydney, was located and In
formed the detectives that he had con-
veyed the woman and boy to Bright
wood, five miles east, where she
intended TO take the first train ON the
Big Four for New York.
Samuel Miller. the husband and
father, with corps Of newspaper men
and detectives, Immediately secured
carriages and the party were driven
rapidly to Brightwood.
On arriving there they were In
formed that Mrs. Miller and her boy
had been taken to Lawrence, Ind, the
next station north. The party pro.
ceeded to this place, found the woman
and child asleep in boarding house
and the father, with his son, started
on his way back to Indianapolis, leav-
ing Mrs Miller in Lawrence.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

such diet as slipping frappes, Russian
teas and chocolate to respectable.
coxy dinner with your George Angus
tus; and" (pausing for breath) don't
be angry; couldn't you leave out that
tiresome, quarrelsome card party and
await my return with unrufled nerves,
for instance. meet me at the door Just
as you used to do, little wife?" grow
ing little more tender).
why. whatever can be the matter
with you. George Augustus? It Is
only case Of too many clubs In the
family. that is all; easily remedied.
you know. II this is to be a Homo
club tonight, let US invoke the spirit
OF the New Year here, right under
this roof; let US stand here, and with
the right hand uplifted vow that
naught shall come between thee and
me. George Augustus and Dorothy;
we will reach that land OF trust and
confidence that requires no weapon,
not even club. to create or quell q
disturbance Dorothy is really elo-
quent
Bring down the tin box, Dorothy;
I'VE are the Ollapodrida club (the
tin box. Dorothy and y in memory
Of those boys who are trying another
sort of trapeze swinging high or low
with the wings Of ambition. up to
greater heights"
BY the way, Dorothy sketches and
paints. will give her subject.
earth, sky and water, the soft green
turf, the blue ethereal, the hazy noun
tain top, while the lazy tapping waves
touch the eager feet Of the climbers
yet In the valley as they stand
on the shore twixt earth and sea, grid
ed and armed for the steep ascent to
the shrine on the distant heights.
Send them wings. o guardian angels.
and give me sight,
I cannot read the all of their dear his
tory,
Vanish old year;
Forward, the new!
Detroit Free Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
Peet,s fs3isnntu,n.

The future historian will note:
as one Of the most conspicuous
features Of the close Of the nineteenth
century the innumerable projects OF re-
formers to expedite better cond .tions
among men. After examining the sys-
tems Of Marx. Most. Henry George and
Bellamy he will. perhaps, light upon
that just set forth by Mr.. Peck OF Lew.
iston, Me-, which is beginning to at
tract the attention Of those who are
engaged In the pleasant task Of hur-
rying up the millennium.
Mr.. Peck Is the owner Of large for
tune. His scheme is far-reachinMY
one; nothing less, in fact, than the
organization Of a huge trust which
will absorb the government Of tho
United States and administer 1t so as
to abolish vice, ignorance and poverty.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

Goodbye, old year!
We've journeyed on together many
days.
And now behold the parting Of our
ways
Is very near;
With thoughts Of mingled gladness
and Of dread.
l see the winding way that I must
tread
To Future Lands;
For thee awaits the realm Of shadows
deep
The Silent Land of years that lie
asleep
With folded hands.
Goodbye, old year!
A few more steps ere we forever part
A few more words that wake the
throbbing heart
To hope and fear;
A farewell smile, lingering clasp Of
hand.
Ere thou shalt lie within the shadow
All silently;
The whns haste glad new year to
greet.
The while / Journey on with memories
sweet. s3
Old year. Of thee.
Goodbye. old year!
Alas. not half felt or knew till nov
How kind and brave and true friend
Z vert thou:
For ali, twice dear
"A loved one seems when comes the
darkened day
When heart and lips al tremulous
must ray
A last good -bye:
Yet, though thy friendly face no more
The memories sweet my heart has kept
Of thee.
Alice Jean cleator. &
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
Ericsson to Join suuadron,

The United States torpedo boat Eric
son has sailed from Hampton Roads,
1t will be one of tile torpedo feet
which, accompanied by the battleship
Alabama, will shortly sail to join the
North Atlantic squadron on its ANIMAL
winter cruise in the tropics, The flag
ship Kearsarge and the Massachusetts
sailed from Hampton Roads Saturday
for Pensacola and the rendezvous will
be made somewhere in the gulf.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

lawyer Of uncommon ability and has
already served the United States in
that branch Of the department In
which he y now to be an important
functionary. Three years ago Mr.
Yerkes was made collector Of internal
revenue In Kentucky, and has since
occupied that position. He succeeded
William o. Bradley 40 member Of the
Republican national committee and
for many, years has been =. prominent
Republican. He is 46 years old.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

open the book "a little game Of
chance, you see), and on the page
where my finger rests will try II by
chance a word of comfort come to me,
that would hit my case.
/ seem to have case of the blues;
probably staying away from the club
on this convivial occasion is not agree
ing with me.
Shut your eyes. open the book"
says the little exhorter, that unseen
individual.
Presto-change-O, what meets my
eye? Will it be some dire prophecy
Or? Here 1t is under my forefinger:
"a Shadow" It reads:
said to myself II were dead,
What would befall these children?
What would be
Their fate, who are now looking up
to me
For help and furtherance? Their
lives,
/ said,
Would 1t be volume wherein have
read
But the first chapters. and no long
or see
To read the rest Of their dear history
So full Of beauty and so full Of dread.
Be comforted; the world is very old,
And generations pass, as they have
passed,
A troop Of shadows moving with the
sun:
Thousands Of times has the old tale
been told:
The world belongs to those who
come the last,
They will find hope and strength as
we have done.
Was ever answer sent to mortal
man more clearly?
think I'm sent for; there's some
thing besides old Father Time after
me, surely. Here is the very answer
to my dismals as to those boys and
their doings. But here comes Dorothy,
singing, apparently in a very cheerful
mood.
This is perfectly lovely, George
Augustus.
II q f r. y f Hl
Johnnie's trousers are all right for
tomorrow, and l have been looking
over my precious tin box, and find
such lovely bits Of literature and all
sorts; suppose we look them over to-
night"
Perhaps Dorothy noticed an unusual
expression on my manly countenance,
for she paused and said: What are
i you thinking about? What has this
old year been saying to you? Are you
having retrospective sort Of revival
meeting all by YOURSELF"
Only a few ideas have struck me,
| Dorothy. rather like this den of
mine. especially tonight, and one or
two articles in these books here seem
to have been written especially for me,
and an uncomfortable little voice
has been questioning me. A thought
strikes me that we, you and I, have
drifted apart rather more than / ever
dreamed we could. There has been
/ . sort Of We fellows at the club air
and manner about me, that / really
think now, as sit here, has been a
foolishness on my part that I shall
endeavor to discontinue; a sort of
desire to be Sin with the boys and
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

THIS IS A COZY LITTLE DEN.
neighborhood took ON a sudden quiet?
The question arose, where are those
boys? Dorothy and I knew all about it,
for were we not invited to become
honorary members Of their club, "The
Ollapodrida?" We helped to foot the
bills and evinced an interest in the
affairs Of the club; we lent them ten
cents to buy material to reseat an old
worn-out chair; there was another
item; twenty-five cents for lumber,
etc, and last, but not least, and that
which caused Dorothy much suffering,
were sundry pieces Of rope to be fur
nished with all the paraphernalia OF a
trapexe arrangement, preparatory to
meanderings aloft, all Of which caused
q rush Of blood to my head, as /
thought OF these venturesome boys,
three of them at work daily, expert
menting with the center Of gravity,
walking on their heads being the OBJ
jective point apparently. q. i{5
We are happily rejoicing these days.
however, in more recent occupant Of
the family cradle, who so far walks
feet downward after the fashion Of
mortals. sss II
As time goes on, the children's
youthful exploits. with the accom-
panying worries Of their elders, fade
into oblivion. as the more serious a.
pect confronts us. n
The Ollapodrida members Of my
family have taken unto themselves .
few extra years; two Of these STORE
said members are looking college
ward. and seem to worry about them
In : wonderful way quite unlike my
self. 35s
The bread and butter question con-
fronts me? What profession Will Is
theirs?i Arc they sufhciently strong IN
purpose to resist this or that?
8, 4, The day win come when Dorothy
1 md / cannot shield them Or stand be-
keath them and the cold world; we
wont b here to settle the little &c
counts Or enconnters, or Watch the mt
"a eotillions they are going 10 have
VIII III dwellers Of this mundane
I Then comes the question ovssasain:
VEL old fellow. what's the matter
howf Can't you let the boys alone.
ana 1t than fight It out just as you
did7r Some truth IN that, I answer.
II will wait until Dorothy comes Snd
lll ri her. Just for cnriosity. what
ahs thinks Of my past. and the general
outlcok.
u part ! am going to turn over !
new Leaf. &
: Here y q volume of Lonefellow BE-
side me on the taole; hesis 90 human.
you know, and Will close my eyes,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
Jessie arorrison Released.

A special from Eldorado. Kan, says
Jessie Morrison was released on ST, 900
bond. The woman's father accompa-
MED the sheriff to the jail and Jessie
was released from custody. The party
then quietly went to the Morrison
home. Miss Morrison has not yet made
known her plans for the immediate fu-
ture. II is thought. however, that she
will spend some time visiting her old
home in the east.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
Mother Dies Of shock.

While Wayne Crowell. aged twenty
four. and Chas. Canaan, aged twenty
one, were crossing the Wabash rail-
road tracks near Blakeslee, O., on
their way to Christmas festivity, they
were struck BY an express train and
instantly killed. Mrs. Canan was MOI
titled q the accident ana the shosk
was 90 severe that it caused her death.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
Aged Couple Tortured.

Abraham johnson and wife. both:
over eighty years old. were bound,
tortured and robbed at their home
near Marietta, Ohio, on the West
Virginia side. Their assailant. q
gigantic negro, left his victims bound
after securing all the valuables. Mrs
Johnson is almost totally paralyzed
from the shock and her husband is
badly injured.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
In the Public Gpe

NssD RsOsnus Cos,ssissionsr.
John w. Yerkes Of Kentucky, has
been nominated by the president to be
commissioner Of internal revenue. The
recent candidate for governor Of KEN,
lucky will at once assume the duties
Of his new post. He is considered .
capable man for the work he win have
to do in the revenue ONCE. He is q
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
] Efn1lse !

1raSsc.
Ishall5 not9seesy you till another year
Has dawned," he said.
Oh. tickle maid! she turned not pale
She laughed instead. +,
This seems . tragic lay, till We remem-
Der
Il occurred the thirty-hrst day Of De-
cember. y.
IN. Y. Truth.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
70 Increase C.ptl.i sock.

At Davenport, Ia, the stockholders
Of the Iowa Telephone company voted
to increase its capital stock from
q. ooo, 900 to ~ 900, 600 in order to raise
money for improvements in exchange
and toll all over the state.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05

Raissr tie balance Of Grade.
Edna May. the actress, has arrived
home from England with suhcient
gold to raise the. balance OF trade total
another hundred thousand. It IL said
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-05
None 70 earn Ox,sr.

y thought you were going to turn
over new Leaf, John. Z she said.
5y.sssI was" he replied. ..but / ind j
can't
Why not
There won't be any new leaves until
spring Chicago Post,