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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

mountains, an hauled hit down to de town. De last
night he camp in de woods an by sun-up he come out
on de hil-top-an' dar de town-de flist town
dat jimmy ever see! She stand top de hill an look
at hit She flop her years forth, an flop her years
back She look, an she flop; she flop, an she look
Speak up, say de Man. What you studyin' bout !?
How you likes de town an de looks O HIT Speak up
my jimmy. Amt nary soul bout 10 hyer We but dest
me-speak out yo mind my jinnyp
Den de jimmy find voice She say, dest like dis
America threw up her head, rolled her eyes and in
toned soemnly:
Good Lord, look at de hou-ou-ouses! Good Lord
look at de hou-ou-ouses Good Lord, look at de hou
ou-ouses! Look at de hou- u-ouses Look de hou-
ou-ouses! Look at de hou-ou-ouses! In town-in
town."
The little Randolphs shouted with laughter That's
what jimmy says, Isabel confirmed; for Americas
loud bawling tones had given very funny imitation
of donkey's bray the final an town--in town /" be-
ing gruned out exactly the donkey always closes
his speech.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

Patty, honey-dis what / want you to study bout.
One day dat peacock went to dat neigh
boris crost de hill once mo-. Hit wuz 4 fine day. an
he feel right good. When he de other peacocks,
he commence to spread he tail an strut dest like dey
was dom. Den dem other peacocks holler out to-
geher.. oh, amt he fine! Hyer come de king O pea
cocks to visit us
He wuz shore huff des de finest bird dat ever had
peared in dem parts TO long stretch Hit took
time to make him i'll all his glory-but no wuth while
peacock amt growed in minute nohow. Des memoir
ze dis sweetey-peacocks, ter BIS pufeck has des got
TO be patient and do des exackly dem things dat makes
theh feathers out de bestest'
Hit dest dater-way, little gal. Eff you leave off
thnkn bout yo looks in desc days an times. an goes
to work an does what yo' an Aunt Jinsey tells
you to do, wedder hits lessons in de book keepin
yo face an hands clean, day you gwine be dest
like dat young pcacoclyou wake up an find dat you
is de queen o beauty-dest like yo' ma shore wuz
when Jmsey pinned on her weddn' VEIL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27
Vain Little Patty
BY GRACE MAcGowAN Cooke.

Reminded of her promise in the carriage, Aunt jim
sey began Once pom time dey young pea
cock, an he went to neighbours house an seed
mighty hne oil birds spreadn dey tails struttin
up an down in de sunshine. He look at desc hyer
fine BIRDS he did, an he stretch round is he got
any tail-an he amt got much. Den he straight
home to he nanny, an boiler:
Make yo farewells to me- nanny; case gwne
up de big house tell de cook to wiring my neck
an put in de pot!
Nanny Peacock mighty put bout by dis. What
all dis fooishness? she say. Dat cook up dar likely
nough tcSkil you widout yo' akin her.
oh, nanny, an oh. mammyr say dat young pea
cock 4 been t'other side de hill. Oar done
peacocis wild great tails like fans. Dey spread
dem fans out in de sun, an every eye in de fodder
look at me. Den, nanny, try spread my tail
but l amt got tail to spread. Oh, Nanny Pea
cock-Mammy Peacock! wisht l dead. l don't
look speck better dan what you does-an' / wisht
/ wuz dead!
You knows, honey" explained the old woman, dat
de peahens amt so fine lookin' de peacocks. But
dis kind O talk make OF Nanny Peacock most mon
strous mad She give dat young peacock slap side
de jaw. You don't look better dan what does-hehr
say Nanny Peacock. Well she say, how much bet
ter does you to look dan yo' own Matched
n,aimmyF
Hits all right for you.' say de young peacock
sorter dodgin'. You dest hen, an has to be like
you is. But to look like dem big peacocks-
or wants to die. is try an is try, to look da-er
way IAN dest CANT. So now gwine up de hill an
tell de cook to kill me- ssSfA
NANNY Peacock give dat boy taste o her slipper
she donesseeSyoung birds ack dat erway before
You go to scratching up de ground for worms-dats
yo business in dis world You quit tryin' look like
anybody but yoself. Yo tail will come when hit come
she say.
well den dat young peacock tuck to scratc,in' for
worms an watn' his nanny, an he plumb fergit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

Oe~"~o1} KS. GAINES called her little daughter to
6 the dear little chickabiddies that
vi WI VI had Matched out during the night. Oracle
w AVA N out in the yard, glad of anything
o<,e0 play with while Hugh at school. For
the last years this brother and sister had studied
under their mother but this session Hugh going to
"sure-enough' school, Oracle would say. As they
lived on farm, with no other children near this left
Oracle very lonely.
And when Hugh at home he seemed
changed for he thought himself much wiser than his
sister now, and had heard the other boys say that it
wasn't nice to have a girl following fellow all the
time So while Oracle always looked forward eagerly
to Hughs return from school, she sometimes very
much disappointed Therefore, she welcomed these
fluffy little chickens with great pleasure. Mrs. Gaines
had basket into which she wished to put the four
little chicks that already TIE hen would
not trample them while the other eggs Matching
But neither the hen the chickens knew that Mrs
Gaines meant only kindness to them so the chicks hid
under the, mothers ru.ed feathers willie she fused
and pecked at great rate.
One by one however, Mrs. Gaines got them all in
the basket covered them with old shawl and then
took them into the kitchen, where it
"And now, Oracle, she said, I'VE mist pip them and
give them something to eat
Pip them? What is that Maula?"
"Iook here" answered Mrs. Gaines, holding up
little yellow fellow, don't you that rough place
the end of his bill? That is help him peck his way
out of the she'll, but if it stays there sometimes
grows SO large that the chicken can't we'll it is
better to pip them while they young-just this
way" she added she pulled the little hard tip off
with her hnger-nail
"Ah, Mama, please let do the others" begged
Oracle.
"All right but be very careful, for they tender
little things at first"
Oracle carefully pipped two yellow ones, but
the last dark gray.
THAT little fellow is pure Plymouth Rock, explained
Mrs. Gaines
Oracle spent the morning coddling them, moving
them farther from the according TO its
heat and covering them up again and again.
When Hugh came from school Oracle could hardly
wait for him finish his dinner before taking him out
to see her new companions. She explained the piping
process with great pride and picking up the dark one
said Just as her mother had: This is pure
Plymouth Rock" though she hadn't much idea what
that meant except that it nice
"You mean Puritan of Plymouth Rock corrected
Hugh who was anxious to show off his knowledge of
history.
ooh, yes, of course, l suppose meant that" con-
scented Oracle.
But their mother who had in just in time to
hear this last soon told them the difference between
the Pilgrims and breed OF fowls; still the dark
chicken was called Puritan Plymouth Rock which was
soon shortened to Puritan Plym.
"Have you looked under the hen TO ii she has
hatched any more?" asked Hugh, after his mother had
finished
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

she put him inside the oven which was just warm
enough. Puritan Plym snuggled in the shawl and
changed his trembling squeaks grateful murmurs
Oracle about to leave him when she noticed the
cat watching him hungriy, she closed the door,
leaving only crack for fresh air
She Just starting into the house tell her
mother all about it, when Hugh called her get up
behind him on the pony and go for ride She
afraid to keep Hugh waiting, she climbed up quickly
and they logged around until sunset They down
in the lot petting the pony after their return when
Oracle happened to notice smoke pouring OF the
kitchen chimney
"Oh, Hugh Puritan Plym!" she cried in dismay,
"do you think cook took him out ??
No shouted Hugh after Oracle; no, I'm sure
he's baked by this time"
But Oracle few and when she burst into the
kitchen too breathless ask, she opened the door
and out hoped Puritan Pym, who had just found out
that things nice, but hot things horrd.
Soon he safe and sound under his mothers wings
telling her how horrible it felt be bathed
and baked and promising he would do it again
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

all bout tails an
SIGH like foolish
ness. Course he
knowed dat h j $
feathers wuz grow
in long an bright;
but he put i'll his
time scratchin' for
worms, an tryin'
to git de corn way
from de 9th er
70 w Is, like his
NANNY told him
to do, an larnin'
all kinds O. good
peacock manners.
Nov mind dis
part de tale, Miss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

room to view, i'll the long mirror her stify starched
skirts and prinlly-ted blue sash.
you dest like desc hyer peacocks," the old
nurse gruinbled. you sint study bout nothn' but
spread out de tail o 20 an walk up an down"
Gentle little Patty was unused to reproof that
her lip trernbed she replied, well you said my
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

UNIT Jinsey was dressing the Randolph
children for Sunday school, and Aunt
Jinsey was in bad humor America,
the junior nurse girl, was off to-day,
and the old woman had the work of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-27

Dat dest what all iinnes been sayn' from dat time
on" America agreed but the Man amt like it. now
he got it. He dest like Marse Pate. He say he wusht
his jimmy hadn't found her voice An de Woman, she
say'I done told you sol! dest like she do desc days
an times"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1909-12-14
VIII Reside Here.

Friends in Elizabethtown have re.
ceived invitations to the wedding of
Miss Vera Irene Jones and Mr.. An
drew Whitley Bright, which will
take place at the brides home in
Hopkinsville, December 21st. After
the wedding they will come to Eliz.
abethtown to reside, and will board
at Mrs. Martins. Mr.. Bright is
a travelling man. whose home is at
Danville. He is known to a number
of Elizabethtown's society folks.
Miss Jones belongs to a leading
family in Christian county. Eliza
bethtown News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1909-12-14
A Movement Has Been Start
ed BY Women of
The City.
MOVE A POPULAR ONE
Committee of Ladies Already
Preparing to Ask Coun-
cil's Cooperation.

A popular movement has been
inaugurated for the purpose Of Sc
curing a Carnegie Library in the
city of Hopkinsville.
Mrs. Virginia Libscomb, Librarian
of the present Library, is at the
head of the movement and has re-
quested Mrs. T. C. Underwood, Mrs.
Ira L. Smith. Mrs. Chas. M. Meach-
am, Mrs. w. A. Radford and Mrs.
II. C. Locker to assist in the matter.
A number of leading citizens have
promised to cooperate with the
ladies. The city Council will be call
ed upon to do whatever is required
of the city to receive the benefits of
gift from Mr.. Carnegie. 1t is
likely that the entire plan can be
outlined in short while.
Hopkinsville now has more than
$1,000 population, as shown by the
latest school census and the register
ed vote of the city, which was 2,70C
this year.
The city expects to have in short
while some public parks admirably
suited for library purposes as well
as parks and the present is mos
auspicious time to put the move
ment on foot.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1909-12-14
CITY GROWING
MULE MARKET.
Thousands of Head Bought
And Sold Every
Year
FRlCEs ARE VERY HIGH
Several Firms are Making
Big Success of The
Business.

Hopkinsyile is becoming one of
the leading mule markets of the
Ohio Valley. Several firms do
large business in selling nd buying
mules. The market usu ly open up
about December 1st, but this season
the opening was good deal earlier
and one firm has already sold nine
carloads of mules at fancy prices.
A car holds from 20 to 2S mules,
so these sales already amount to
about ESQ head. In one lot were re-
ceived so head about three weeks
ago and they were all sold the next
day. Another sale was on yester-
day and 19.mules were sold soon at
ter daylight to parties who wanted
to leave on early trains. The sales
from now on will amount to so or
100 head q week and the demand
always exceeds the supply. The
curtomers are found through wide
section of country that looks to Hop
kinsville as the best mule market
in Western Kentucky or Tennessee.
They send in their orders and when
new shipment arrives, the buyers
come to Hopkinsville and make their
purchases. Others leave it to the
dealers to send mules of certain
classes at agreed prsces. never see-
ing them until the sales are made.
Other buyers send in a single
agent who sometimes buys 20 or &c
mules for his neighbors, who trust
to his judgment.
Prices are ranging very high this
season. An ordinary pair of good
mules sells for $40O, while fancy
teams run up to $500. Even low
grades sell at $500 pair. Among
the principal dealers are C.H. .Layne,
Howard Brame, L. L. Leavell, Rich
ard Leavell, M. A. Mason and others.
Layne & Mason and Leavell & Brame
are the two firms buying most ex-
tensively this season. The Leavell
brothers raise many mules and buy
all they can find and prepare them
for the market, on farms in the
country. Richard Leave'l is sad to
be the best judge of mules in a radi-
US of 100 miles of Hopkinsville. His
judgment is infallible. He has been
wonderfully successful in his busi-
ness as mule dealer and his repu-
tation is wide spread. Chas. H..
Layne is also a standard authority
on mules and runs sale stable and
has perhaps handled more mules
than any other dealer in the city.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1909-12-14
! LOCAL MERCHANT
A>Much Esteemed Citizen
Passes Away.

\ Jesse r. Russell died Saturday
morning at $50 o'clock at his home
'on South Walnut street, after an ill
ness Of about two weeks, of a com.
|plication Of diseases. He was 43
years old and is survived by his faith
Ter, MIR. Geo. r. Russell. a brother.
Mr.. c. B. Russell, of Pembroke, and
one sister, Miss Lula Russell. of this
city,
Mr.Mussell was a young man of
quiet and unassuming manners and
of gentle and courteous disposition.
He had few if any enemies and
many friends. He came here from
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1909-12-14

EIkton many years ago. He was
unmarried, but was the main sup
port of his father and sister to
whom he was greatly devoted. The
funeral services were held at the
residence Sunday afternoon by Rev.
M. L. Clemens, of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, Of which de-
ceased was a consistent and useful
member. The body was buried id
Riverside cemetery.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1909-12-14
Crump Memphis Mayor.

Knoxville. Tenn, Dec, 1.-THE
Supreme Court Of the State late to-
day decided the election contest Of
j. j. Williams agains E. H. Crump
for the office of Mayor of Memphis
in favor Mr., Crump, who was re-
Gently elected by a majority of sew
enty- eight votes over Mr.. Williams.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-22
We were hunting for specimens for

We were hunting for specimens for
q German museum. When we reached
a suitable hunting grounds we camped
and set out daily in different direc-
tions in small parties, German SCI
enlist accompanying each. One morn
ing a shikaree came in with the news
that the weld a little way to the north
was covered with game. The hunters
with their rifles and the scientists
with their notebooks and cameras, set
out, making a wide detour. We d.
vided into parties, shikaree at the
head of each, with the exception OF
those two which van Reenan and my
self commanded. We soon reached
the game. There seemed to be thou
sands of every variety on the weld.
Huge eland, beautifully striped zebras,
hartebeest, impala, koodoo, gemsDok,
springbok, in fact there seemed to be
a congress of all the antelope in Al
rica.
On the outskirts near clump OF trees
a number of giraffe lowered above the
rest of the animals. Van Reenan set
OUT Ill Iuclr ulTSCllOu duu lhO ASo@ Va
us waited till the other men started
shooting on the opposite side OF the
weld, thus driving the herds in our di-
rection.
After a long, firing wait of four
hours, the cracking of rifles in the
distance brought us to attention and
told us that the work of death had
commenced. Every head on the weld
was raised; every animal, for a Sec
ond, was still and silent as a statue.
Then, with one accord, they turned
and came galloping toward us, the
ground trembling under the thunder
of their hoofs.
With the magazines of our rifles full
we waited till the animals came into
| good range and then opened fire. The
din was frightful, the thunder of the
hoofs, the swirling dust, the rhythmic
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-22
FORCED TO GUARD BEEHIvES
In Search for the DeIicacy Bears In
Texas Destroy Apiaries by
Wholesale.

The beekeepers of the Wharton sec
ton in Texas frequently suffer losses
from the depredations of bears. Vart-
Gus kinds of devices are used to pro-
tect the apiaries from the invasion of
these animals.
Henry Carter, who has a large
apiary in the Boiling neighborhood, had
an exciting experience with two
honey-loving bears recently. He has a
pack of bear dogs which have been
used principally to guard his bees
against the attacks of bruin. The ken
mel of these dogs Is close to the hives,
and no bear cared to venture close to
the spot A neighbor borrowed the
pack to trail down some bears that
had been giving him trouble and failed
to return the dogs at night. Mr.. Car.
ter was awakened about midnight by
noise which came from his orchard,
where his bee colonies were located
He quickly OWNED that a bear raid
was on. He grabbed rife and hur-
ried out Of the house toward the
apiary.
He took sudden backward Jump
when big black bear rose upon its
hind feet from behind a beehive and
started toward him. Mr.. Carter fred
at the animal at close range. The
bullet wounded bruin and stopped his
progress temporarily. At this moment
Mr.. Carter noticed another bear rum
ming OF from another part of the
apiary. He took shot at it, but must
have missed, as no sign of blood was
found afterward. The first bear which
he had wounded soon regained its feet
and got 80 close to Mr.. Carter as to
strike at him vigorously with one of
its paws. Mr.. Carter bounded be-
hind an adjacent tree. where he got
in two more shots from his rife be-
fore the bear could reach him. These
bullets put an end to bruin. The bears
had completely destroyed his apiary
before he arrived on the scene.-Mem-
phis Commercial-Appeal.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-22

bang of the many rifles, and the
whfstling of stray bullets made veri
table battle scene. One after anoth-
er we picked out our living targets
and down they went, the stampeding
mass of life behind falling over them
in struggling confusion.
At last the tail end of the herds
galloped past, leaving a few wound
ed stragglers enveloped in the dust
burdened air. We gave our burning
rifles rest, wiped the CRIME from
our faces and surveyed the results of
our bloody attack.
The Cheetah and Van Keenan,.
The weld was spotted with car
casses, and here and there an animal
struggled in pain from a cruel, dis
abling wound. The hundreds Of ma
tives with the expedition poured over
the weld and commenced skinning.
The scientists took measurements and
photographs. and by night the hides
were all in camp.
When the bugle blew at meal time
van Reenan was missing. ques-
toned the natives, but none had any
news of him. We lit huge fires to
guide him to the camp. There was no
possibility Of his being lost, for he was
a Boer and knew the weld like KAT
FIR. All night we expected him to turn
up at the camp. The lions and leop-
ards roared, the hyenas laughed,
jackals snarled and a thousand dis
NAL howls made night fendish, as the
animals fought over the carcasses left
after our hunt.
Daylight broke on q disappointed
camp and at once searching parties
were formed to find the missing hun
ter. made for the spot where had
seen the giraffes before the hunt,
knowing that van Keenan, had gone
in that direction to get q shot at
them. After getting to the place and
searching little discovered the
body of my friend with a dead chez
tab across It. OF course, I can only
guess what happened.
l examined his rife and fsYpd only
one cartridge expended from the mag.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-22
What She Wanted.

She was newly married, and did not
know a little bit about housekeeping
or shopping. and she was giving her
first order. It was a crusher; but the
grocer was q clever man, and was
used to all kinds of orders, and could
interpret them easily.
81 want 10 pounds Of paralyzed su-
gar" she began, with businessliks
air
"Yes'm. Anything else?"
"Two cans Of condemned milk"
"Yes'm."
He set down pulverized sugar and
condensed milk.
Anything more, ma'am"
"A bag of fresh salt. Be sure 1t Is
fresh"
"Yes'm. What next"
"a pound Of desecrated goldfish
He wrote glibly. "desiccated cod"
Nothing more, ma'am? We nave
some nice horseradish just in"
"No," she said, ''it would be OF no
use to us; we don't keep horse"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-22

among them. The big-eyed, aristo-
cratic-looking pookoo rubbed horns
with the stately lechwe as they put
their clean, glistening noses into the
cool, inviting water. l was lost in ad-
miration. hated to disturb the beau
tiful scene by shot.
All at once, like an arrow from the
tree above shot the form of a leopard
onto the back Of buffalo calf. In
flash. there was wild stampede All
ran but the buffalo COW, the mother of
the calf. When the calf was struck it
fell either dead or unconscious, and
the snarling leopard stood over its
prey for a second. Then the COW
charged and hurled the marauder
from her prostrate young. A fight
commenced in earnest.
The leopard sprang to its feet and
in an instant was on the back Of the
cow. With the agility Of a wrestler
she fell and rolled over her aggressor,
arising to her feet again in a flash.
Before the leopard could spring she
rushed at him with below like a fog
horn, struck him full on and tossed
him into the water. In a moment the
leopard was on the bank again. It
sprang at the cows throat but missed
as she lodged aside Again the
leopard sprang The COW fell back,
lifted her head and caught 1t full un-
derneath. her horn penetrating the
leopard's body. The leopard roared
with pain as 1t fell to the ground,
bleeding freely from its double wound,
and the COW was covered with gashes
from its antagonists claws.
The leopard sprang again on the
back Of the cow, but she easily shook
him OF. He stood for moment and
then tried to stagger away. The buff
falo made rush, and, hurting him
to the ground. thrust her horns again
into his helpless body. He offered no
resistance. but rolled over on his side
and died.
A young friend Of mine, Jan van
Keenan,, was killed in German East
Africa under peculiar circumstances.
AS no one saw the happening it In
hard to say how it exactly occurred.