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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-02-21
IN AND AROUND THE Town.

/. II. Chase spent Monday In
Deaawood.
Miss Edna Alderman returned to
Lead Monday.
Steve Belson was up from Her
mosa Monday.
Frank Cottle was in from Smith
willie Saturday.
I. J. Shook was a passenger east
Monday evening.
G. W. Brown returned from Dead
wood Saturday evening.
Abe Workman spent Saturday
among friends at Lead.
The Modern Woodman grand ball
Is booked to occur this evening.
J. D. Croft of Piedmont spent
Tuesday in the city or business.
Mrs. A. J. Simmons was an arri-
val from Deadwood Monday even
ing.
Peter Sweeney is having some
substantial improvements made on
his residence.
Damp and foggy weather, though
warm, reminds one that spring is
approaching.
I. M. Humphrey was a Saturday
evening passenger for eastern and
southern points.
Taken up-Grey mare, weight about
140O, branded Sc right shoulder. En-
Quire at this Office.
John J. Reed, a nephew of James
Brennan, is in the city. Mr.. Reed
resides in Chicago.
Mrs. F. G. Foster was a Monday
evening passenger for Hot Springs
for several days stay.
Don't miss the Martha Washing
ton supper at G. A. R, hall tomor-
row-Saturday-night.
Charley Paxson came down from
Memo and oundayed with the folks
at home, returning Monday.
J. S, Gantz was a Sunday morn
ing arrival home from two or three
weeks stay at Beatrice, Nebr.
The marriage of Miss Florence
Bullock to Chambers Kellar took
place at Deadwood Wednesday.
James Hartgering came down
from Deadwood and spent Sunday
with his family, returning Monday.
Judge Levi McGee. Court Stenog-
rapher Sharp and wife we're arrivals
from Hot Springs Saturday norm
ing.
Rev. E. f. Walker, the evangelist,
left for Hot Springs Friday evening
where he is conducting revival SER
vices.
Miss George Douglass was a
Tuesday evening passenger for
Douglas, Wyo., for a visit with her
sister.
/ am here to stay and shall make
an earnest search for all Of my old
time customers.
MRS: Norr.
The Park Hotel is being put in
shape for use as soon as the new
smelter starts up. 1t will be put in
first class condition.
The First National Bank of this
city has been designated as a re.
pository Tor the safe keeping Of fed.
srai monies at this point.
After conducting services at The
Episcopal church insthe city Sunday
Rev, William Wylie was q Monday
passenger for his home in Sturgis.
Ishall make great effort to retail,
the confidence Of my old customer
and gain the the same with the new
MRS. NoTT.
Supt. @. W. Jones Of the publ,
schools spent Saturday in Deadwoot
liz conterence with others concern
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

ming upright on his hind legs for fifty
feet at a stretch. He has something
of the kangaroo construction and is a
native OF Australia.
To one unacquainted with the dainty.
well-bred, silky tamarin, that spider
like member of the monkey family is
&C 9able of inspiring the creeps'' in
even strong constitutions. 1t is a ma
tive of South America is long and
skinny. with spidery arms. enormous
eyes. prominent teeth. and covered
over all with soft. tousled hair. 1t
looks to be some monstrous insect. yet
1t is the best tempered cleanest, quick
monkey tribes.
As to insomnia, an imaginary wart-
hog, coming up to natures specifica-
tions should be unfailing recipe
The wart-hog seems to be that par
ticular branch of the family into which
the devil was conjured in scripture
times. Explorers in central Africa
who have had this creature charge
them from morasses. its bristles raised
its red eyes blazing, and its hideous
tusks flashing white and foam fiecked
declare that the conventional Satan
would be tame by comparison Its
tusks, in proportion to its body. are
larger than are those of the Asiatic
elephant, the warts which dot its head
are repulsive, and the wicked. blood
shot eyes of the creature. set almost
on top of the head. lend further vi
ciousness to its makeup
The Indian gavial. with its dlstend-
ed jaws and exaggerated nostrils, is
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Cremated in molten Gold.

At the recent disastrous train wreck
near Uplands, CAL, where two main
line trains attempted to pass on the
same track, and where five persons lost
their lives, a great mass of coin in the
express car was melted. Piles of $50
gold pieces came tumbling down on
the head of one of the messengers,
crushing and completely burying him.
Later the wrecked trains caught fire
and the money was melted into a solid
mass, in the midst of which the Gre
mated body of the messenger is sup
posed to lie. The gold was inextrica-
bly, twisted and melted and is to be
sent to the smelter to be melted down.
Had it been paper money not one yes
tige to show its value would have re-
manned, says Leslie's Weekly. This &C
cident at Uplands resulted from the
carelessness of an engineer who forgot
his orders and ran past the switch. His
excuse was that his engine was be-
having in a refractory manner, and all
his attention was given to that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

A recent bulletin of the United
States census compares the mortality
of 1890 and that of 1900. and shows
that there has been diminution of
something like 10 per cent in the death
rate. In 1890 the average longevity
in the United States was Bill years; in
1900 it is 35.2 years. The increase is
Is per cent. This is the conclusion, at
least, so far as cities of over 5000 in
habitants are concerned, and it repre-
sents the facts for the whole country
approximately In 1894 245 persons
died of consumption in every 10000;
in 1900 only $50. The case is similar,
though not so marked. for other dis
eases-diphtheria, bronchitis, typhoid,
cholera intantum and the like. The
main causes are perfected hygiene of
towns and the progress of medicine
Pneumonia, however. claimed 1872 vic
tins per 10 900 in 1900 and 1S7 in 1890.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

It Will be remembered by the mil
Mons who have read Uncle Tom s.
cabin" that Mrs. Stowe opens it with
the expression, I'm the quiet little
town of P This means Paint
LICK, village on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. in Garrard county.
Mrs. Stowe many times confessed that
the groundwork of the plot was laid
there, on the farm and among the ne
groes owned by Gen. Thomas Kennedy,
who was Garrard county's first repre-
sentative in the General Assembly of
Kentucky. Many friends of the Ken
lucky generations that have come into
prominence since that legislature at
the close of the eighteenth century feel
that Mrs. Stowe did Gen. Kennedy an
injustice in the way she mixed fiction
with fact, coupling his name to each.
Garrard county's wealthiest citizen and
largest dealer in race horses and
slaves, Gen. Kennedy, was not the per-
secutor of the black man that Mrs.
Stowe has led thousands to believe.
This is not hearsay evidence, as there
still lives at Paint Lick the link be-
tween the fading past and the feeting
present-a diminutive negro who was
one of Gen. Kennedy's slaves. and who
remembers him as a kind-hearted man.
When the traveller reaches Paint Lick
the first person he meets is this same
little creature, black as the proverbial
ace of spades, three feet nine of stat
ure, and sixty pounds of weight He
always meets all trains at the village
station
Use old Norman Kennedy Argo;
knowed Uncle Tom,'' is his invariable
introduction to a stranger, winding up
with. Whats yer name?"
He tells the stranger in the first
breath that he knew Uncle Tom, be-
cause he is justified by years of expert
ence in surmising that it will be the
next question he has to answer. His
life story is told by him in a darby
dialect peculiar to the ante-bellum
black man of the South. With the
dialect eliminated Argo said:
81 am the only survivor of the 1O1
slaves left by Gen. Kennedy. One hun
dred were willed 10 the old generals
son, Thomas Kennedy. Jr-, while 1.
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d9rE o GEL THOr145 KFfIrIFDY

still occupied as a residence. The cab
ms on the Kennedy place formed a lit
tie town where the premises were neat
1y kept and everything was convenient.
There was a front yard and small
garden attached to each cabin and
much was done to make the life of the
slaves pleasant. Many of Gen. Ken
nedy's slaves showed their attachment
for the place by wanting to stay with
his children when the war came and
set them free.
Poplar Hill'' was a typical Southern
home, with it's thousands of acres of
rich land, it's deer park, and its orch
ards. At the time young Tom Kennedy
came into possession of his portion of
the estate Clark was made almost a
free man. His young master provided
him with a horse and light wagon and
permitted him to go through the coun-
try trading. Clark was bright and in
telligent and did we'll as a trader. He
was often taken for white man.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

who was one of the generals house
boys. was given to Robert Argo. That's
where l get my last name. The gem
eral was always kind to us slaves, and
l used to ride his race horses. He
won the girl Eliza in a race / rode for
him."
Norman is now over 100 years old,
having been born in the eighteenth
century. He wildly recalls slave life
and the characters of Mrs. Stoves
novel Frequently he slept and worked
with Lewis George Clark the proto-
type of George Harris, the most -promi-
nent person in the novel. Clark was a
weaver, knitter and sewer, and cooked
well when he was young. While Gen.
Kennedy was alive the young slave was
not sent to the fields, and Norman be-
ing house boy, grew to know well the
hero of the novel. Young Tom Ken
nedy did not long survive his father,
and Clark thought he was about to be
put up for sale with the other negroes
when he determined to gain his liber-
ty- He confided his plans to Norman.
One detail was to bleach himself from
a mulatto to a fair-skinned white man.
He wore gloves and a big hat about
his work, Norman says, and in a few
months carried out his declaration
by stealing mule and going North
Margie, the Eliza of the story and
Ciark's wife was left behind, but she
soon ran off to Louisville
The story of the trip across the ice,
as told in the novel, is exploded by
Norman, who says Margie remained in
Louisville until her husband returned
for her from Ohio and the two went to
Cincinnati on a steamboat Eliza was
an octoroon. Clark met Mrs. Stowe in
the North and gave her the plot and
characters for her great work
Uncle Tom of the story, old Norman
says, was not a sensitive, prosecuted
darky, as pictured, but a worthless,
lazy. eno-'count niger" disliked even
by his own race. The Little Eva OF
the story did not die and go to heaven,
as indicated, but is still alive and now
grandmother.
Gen. Kennedy's home was known az
Poplar HILL" 1t still stands and is
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
Wyoming Has Found Two Bibles.

Two valua Bile bibles have been dis
covered in Wyoming among old papers
in the last week One was printed in
Germany in 1874, sent to John Vroom
of Rawlins with a box of heirlooms
from his family's former home in
Amsterdam.
The ether is copy of the celebrated
tBreeches Bible" found in a case OF
forgotten books by Judge Alfred Heath
of this town. This is an English Bible
printed in 1906. 1t is bound in oak
boards covered with leather and re-
inforced with heavy brass clamps The
leaves are yellow with age, but the
printing and numerous illustrations
are still perfectly legible. 1t contains
the old Testament, the Apocrypha, a
table of proper names, the Psalms, the
Lords prayer, the Commandments.
and the Canticles, all set to music. The
feature of the book that makes it val
liable is the following verse:
And they sewed fgge tree leaves to-
gether and made themselves breeches-"
Few copies of this edition are known
to be in existence.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

show to man how puny are his crea-
tons of indigestion and even of intoxi-
cation To-day an up-to-date mena-
gerie may have creatures to which de-
lirium tremens may not aspire.
For example, it is doubtful if any
dream of Indigestion could conjure up
the figure of an ursine bowler clam
bering over the footboard of the bed
without awaking the sleeper in a cold
sweat. Certainly, travellers in the ANA
zon country prefer any kind of night
mare to the long, wakeful nights which
this creature causes them. The bowler
IS of low intelligence, and difficult to
tame. 1t has enormous eyes, with an
ugly CLEAN in them teeth that protrude
with frightful significance, a low, re-
pulsive forehead, and a bristly beard.
Its night cries vary from sounds as
roll OF drum. some of these sounds
carrying full two miles through the
woods
Three or four bearded lizards in
ones bed, seen only in fancy, should
bring a man up standing on the dress
ing table in fifteen seconds after the
attack. His coloring, the hideous
pouch under his muzzle, the ridge of
spine down his back, and his colossal
proportions make it hard to believe
that he is quite innocent and harmless.
hideous beyond dreamland. often three
feet long. with an eighteen-inch frill
around his neck. and capable of run
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
Need of Rehear.a,..

Some recently published recol.ec-
tons of the coronation of Queen Vic
toria, have given occasion for a de-
mand in London that King Edwards
forthcoming coronation be prepared
for by ful1-dress rehearsals. Neither
the young queen. it seems, nor the
clergy. had been sufficiently coached
Pray tell me what i am to do, said
the queen at one solemn moment to
a lay official who stood near her, flor
they tthe clergy don't know" Again,
the orb which was Unexpectedly put
into her hand was too heavy for her
to hold. The ruby ring had been made
for her little finger. The archbishop
forced it on her fourth finger and the
queen nearly cried out with pain
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
Ancient German clock.

An interesting exhibit at the Smith
sonian institution is an old German
clock that was ticking about fifteen
years before the birth of the great
American republic 1t keeps good
time and is lao years old 1t is made
of hardwood and the work was an
done by hand Every piece of the
mechanism is highly polished and it is
put together with hand-wrought rivets
of brass The parts show very little
wear and the timepiece is SO carefully
constructed that it does not vary a
second in time during twenty-four
hours.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
KEPT TIME BY HIS BELT.
New York Workman Had Unfailing
Method of Measuring Hours

New York Workman Had Unfailing
Method of Measuring Hours
1--WE heard of many strange time
pieces said a buyer for New York
ice company, but / ran across some
thing entirely new in that line last
week. l went to lake back of New
burg to estimate the ice crop. Among
the men working there was a heavy set
fellow who was dressed in blanket
clothes. He kept his trousers in place
with a narrow leather belt, and several
times in course of the morning 1 no.
ticed him tighten it a hole at time.
What time is it2' asked him, for
my watch was not running
He glanced at his belt and an
swered promptly, IL: 80
Seeing that he had no watch
asked him how he knew, and he ex-
planned his system of telling the time
by his belt. After breakfast, which
was eaten at 6 O'Clock, the belt was set
at the last hole. Every hour during
the morning he was forced to take it
in a hole. He knew it was thirty min
utes after II because he had taken in
five holes and the belt was just begin
ming to slacken. After dinner he would
let it out again to the last hole and it
would mark off the hours during the
afternoon. He said it was as trust
worthy as the best watch he had ever
owned, and several tests proved that
he was right"
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incurred fatal results could the man
be held as an accessory to a homicidal
act2 And suppose man was IN
burning desert without a drop of mois-
ture within a days journey and he
wanted to hustle a letter away to a
scientific journal informing the editor
that he had discovered new order Of
sandfiies could he be charged with
criminal negligence by any weIl-regu-
lated lffe-fnsurance company
1t Is pity that the Lancet doesn't
make itself clearer. bus perheps the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

Of 1zV teetn- tt grows often TO a length
Of twenty-five feet
So far the snake has not been con-
sidered, and while there are links of
sinuOus beauty and colors that pale
those of the spectrum in these reptiles.
nature has made nothing that comes
more closely to inspiring the night
mare effect than do these cold-blooded.
creeping things of the earth
The gila monster of the arid west of
America is q hideous thing that would
Be avoided instinctively by both man
and beast A hundred other creatures
~ the globe are made In monstrous
S4apes. manifestly that things not of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

lot of trouble for the lickers. and In
cidentally proved a good thing for the
doctors This shows a commercially
unselfish spirit on the part of the edi-
tor. because he depends largely on the
medical men for his bread and butter,
to say nothing of jam
At the same time it would be crafty
ing to know how many stamps can be
licked with impunity- And does the
denomination have anything to do with
il. And il . man coaxed his mother
in-law ~ lick 1nt q stamps and she
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
object Lesson In Cruelty.

A novel yet vigorous war against the
docking of horses tails has been begun
in Baltimore by the Maryland Society
for the Protection of Animals, says the
Philadelphia North American, and the
methods used to educate the people re-
garding the enormity of the offence has
aroused the ire of every "chappy who
considers himself whip.
On sunny afternoons, when the shop
ping district is crowded with women.
an agent of the society leads a sorrel
horse up and down the streets. and lest
it shall fail to be remarked that the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

Among the anomalies which the pro-
hibition law has given rise to in Kan
sas Is a fervent desire on the part of
certain law breakers to pay the penalty
of their crime At Wellington the
temperance folk started to get out an
Injunction prohibiting the city treas
urer from acce<--ing the fines which
were imposed on Jointk eepers every
month And the jointkeepers beat this
game by rushing in and paying their
fines. $500 each. six months In adj
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
Consumption of Dutch cheese.

The Germans consume annually
about 12,O00,00 pounds of Dutch
cheese. The Dutch exporters of that
article are at present dreading the pro-
posed German tariff. If that measure
is passed they will have to pay an
additional import tax of $1.000,000-
The English are now buying lesi
Dutch cheese than ever and Germany
is the only good foreign market Tho
cheese manufacturers are therefore
petitioning the minister of foreign af-
fairs to do all he can to prevent the
passage of the German tariff bill.
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WONDERS OF NATURE.
Some Creatures OF The Lower World That
Are Marvellous in Their UaIiness.

While the devil may have made the
cooks and while a supper of cheese,
beer, and cold pie may be productive
of visionary creatures too horrible of
shape to be committed to canvas or to
verse, it is quite as certain that at
least one of natures moods was a
nightmare mood in which her visions
bec~me realities
Nothing in the dreams of man has
exceeded in responsiveness some of the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
KEEP YOUR TONGUE CLEAN.

OF Licking Postage Stamps
The London Lancet says that it isn't
safe to lick postage stamps with your
own tongue. The stamps in them
selves are not poisonous. but they may
pick up septic matter that Will work
considerable mischief in the interior
departments of those who do the lick
Ing. The Lancet says it knows Of
cases where the septic matter made =
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

one of the uglies
of the crocodile
family. The gavial
- all the member.
of the crocodile spe
cies. however. i:
the most dangerous
beyond all compar
ison, having thu
longest jaws of tn
crocodile famil
and the record c
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
Population of Kentucky.

Ten years ago the total population
of Kentucky was / 800 GOO; now it is
2 100, 600, gain of 30O.O 900 in ten years
or one-sixth. Ten years ago the col
ored population of Kentucky was 26S.-
900: now it is $4,000, a gain of only
$4,000 in ten years
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

creeping Things OF
the earth; things,
too. which seem to
have their being
and their enjoy
ment of life and
liberty and socia-
bility as if nature
had framed them
in asthetic mold,
instead of fashion
ing them as if to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

animal has been shorn of his tail, a
blanket is strapped about him, on
which is painted in big red and blue
letters this inscription:
Tail locked. Mutilated for life, for
fashions sake
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

In captivity, the fad of the famous
Apache chief. Geronimo is the culture
of watermelons.
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Unproduotlve Land In italy.

There are IS, 95S, 1922 acres of uncu1-
tivated land in Italy, which might be
developed and made productive by the
application of ordinary enterprise.
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their kind shall avoid them, becaus'
of envenomed bite or sting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

The story is told of French savant
returned from Egypt bringing a royal
mummy with him, and the case was
opened at Marseilies. Being told that
it contained a Pharaoh the officer
looked up Pharoah in the tariff, but
no mention could he find of such an
article Then it occurred to him that
nice, high duty was on dried fish. and
the savant had to pay as if for that
eoumodffy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

The recent remarkable advance In
the industries of Italy is owing large
1y 70 the development of electricity as
a motive power
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

uncertainty justifies US in depending
on the wet sponge or the office boys
tongue-until further particulars are
received--CleveIand Plain Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08

To-morrov Is the refuge Of the In
delent.