The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-08

voice; My sash ribbon! The dog has my
sash ribbon!"
The offceholder's face turned a dull red.
He cast a furtive glance at the man.,
dived into his pocket and hauled out a
bill.
Il guess the dog'H do" he said, quietly.
Don Carlos Arosemena, secretary of the
Panama legation at Washington, is of a
very jovial bent and trimming over with
good nature. While a student at the Troy
Polytechnic Institute, where he grad
uated in the class of 'e9a, he told some OF
his classmates that when he returned to
the isthmus he would go into the brewery
business as the one most suited to his
disposition. =
A few hours after his arrival here last
week with the special commission from
the new republic he received the follow
Ing telegram at the Fifth Avenue hotel:
Are you going to build that brewery
now? " McQuade."
McQuade was one Of his fellow gradu-
ates. The young diplomat sent him the
following reply:
mo. My ambitions run a little bit
igher now. Wine is more in my line, :
''Don Carlos" :
General Daniel E. Sickles tells this story
illustrative of the facility with which gov,
ernments are made and unmade in South
Africa. t
when 1 was on n diplomatic mission
from the United States to Colombia, just
after the civil war, I stopped on my way
1T the isthmus and there met General
Tomas C. Mosquera, who had just wound
up what is known In history as the Mos
luera revolution. During our CONVERSE
tion he asked fer a letter of introduction
to General Sherman, because, he said, he
had made a march equally as extraordi-
| n n wy SC C1,nrr,, nc n rnh to the GGn and
would like to compare notes With the
American general.
'I asked him about this march of his,
and he told me that, having been success
full in the Colombian civil war, he had
formed a congress and a government and
then asked 1t, in view of his services, to
send him as ambassador to France and
Russia for a term of four years, Sand;j in
order to insure him against any subse-
quent change of government, to give him
his pay in advance. This request was fiat
ly refused by the government.
"Feeling. himself capable of overthrow
ing the government he had created, he
started out to enforce his request. He
went to the province of Cauca on the
Pacific slope and hired fifty of the most
stalwart negroes he could find. With
these he began to canvass the country
and collect an army, threatening with
death any man who refused to join. In
this fashion he SOON had a force of 5000
men, and with it. started to cross the
mountains which lay between him and
Bogota, the, Colombian capitol. After
months of marching he arrived on the
plains before Bogotasand took that city.
The congress wasiitlE session. He rounded
up it's members, put them in jail, and told
them that when they were ready to vote
him his money and position he would it
them out. The congress had nothing else
to co and so gave him the money and Gre
~aentials and babe him .godspeed.
IT heard of a farmer in Pennsylvania
who lost his wife" said Secretary
/ Shaw, land who married another and
i took her to his, house within a week
after he had buried the first one.
'.The people in the neighborhood
thought he should have waited a little
longer and went around on his wedding
night to express their disapproval. They
had a.couple Of horse fiddles and a lot
of tin horns and made a frightful
racket.
when they were we'll under way the
farmer appeared on the porch of his
house with his new wife and shouted
angrily: Get away from here! You peo-
pie ought to be ashamed of yourselves
to make such a disturbance outside a
house where there has just been a fu-
neral. Have you no respect for the
dead?'"
New impressions Of America are being
borne in upon the Baron Cederstrom,
PATHS husband, daily. His latest
strengthens his belief that the Amer
can people are thoroughly accommodate
Ing.
The baron was walking up Broadway,
New York, with Mr.. Francke, treasurer
of PATHS company, when a number Of
pieces of the fire department apparatus
dashed by. The baron stopped short in
admiration.
"Wonderful!' he calculated, admir.ngly.
"Wondeful! What magnificent horses"
He watched the apparatus out of sight
and was greatly surprised when, a few
block farther up the street, he met 1t
coming back. He remarked to Mr..
Francke that he. thought it was a great
deal of fuss to make for what appeared
to be nothing, and Mr.. Francke replied,
carelessly:
ooh, didn't you understand, baron, 1
arranged that for you. I thought it
might please YOU"
The baron's gratitude almost caused
him to fall on Mr.. Francke's neck. "That
was more than kind of you, he ex-
claimed, and I appreciate it highly.
This is certainly a wonderful country, and
you Americans are wonderful people.
have never before seen any SO hospitable
l dlu accommodating, dilu 81 W1lIl0R TO Dut
themselves out to obllge strangers
When Nine. Patti heard Of the exhibit
ton arranged for the baron's benefit.
however, and heard his praises of Mr..
Francke's kindness, she had no comment
TO make. not eve thanks for the baron's
entertainer. She merely looked at her
husband. That was all.
Everybody was discussing the boil.
weevil, which is destroying the cotton
crop Of the south.
Mature should have a method of ex-
terminating the pest" declared Repre-
sentative Diversified. Usually you will
find that nature provides "a remedy 70,
pretty nearly all pests"
How about Grosvenor Of Ohio, and
Champ Clark Of Missouri ' inquired a
~bystander.
The Rev. Mr.. Cook, of concordia
Kan, has bought space In one of the
papers published there, making a years
contract at regular advertising rates