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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

D UFFA11O, N. Y.-Advocating fed.
- eral law which would compel ho-
tells to furnish nothing less than nine
foot blankets, son Of Anak at the
Statler hotel told his troubles to the
management in letter from which
this Is an extract:
Il stand six feet, four inches in my
stocking feet and am s feet. 6k
inches from my chin to the floor. Now
l have failed to find in this hotel a
blanket which Is over six feet, six
inches long. Unless have the blank
ct tucked in around my neck catch
cold: and ii do tuck these short
blankets around my neck, why. then
! have to pull them up from the bot.
tom and my feet get cold.
Il believe there is law in Texas
which compels hotel proprietors to
furnish nine-foot blankets. could dc
with q blanket seven feet, ten inches
long. However. I'd like to see fed
eral law passed fixing the nine-foot
limit"
Tho complaint was found in the
complaint and suggestion box OF the
hotel and afforded quite q bit Of
amusement to Mr.. Statler and his
manager, Mr.. Larabee. Some weeks
ago when the plan of asking guests te
make suggestions and criticisms was
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
Spook, in Hurry, Loses False Teeth

tant engagement on another planet.
until the spirits set of false teeth fell
to the floor.
simultaneously, five other detec-
tives had turned on the lights and the
illumination revealed woman Of mus
cular build struggling with Fftzsim-
mons, four other women vainly seek
ing egress at door guarded by q de-
tective. and other men and Vomen.
one Of. the former more than 70 years
(. old, covering In their chairs
Mrs. G. b. Green's naturalization
of those in the beyond had been emil
nently successful from the standpoint
Lof the detectives. resulting in the ar
rest OF Ave persons besides Mrs.
Green. who is SO years old. and who
had impersonated the detectives
grandfather,
At the Harrison street police sta
i ton one of the women Indignantly de-
MED that Ter name and initial werOas-
!, sumed aE descriptive Of the part she
had been playing at the seance.
The raid followedAthe issuance OF
warrants against Green and his wife
J taken out by Detective Fitzsimmons
as result Of complaints from per-
sons who alleged they had been de.
] frauded by the Greens.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

NEW YORK.-New York was shot
~ up" recently by bad man from
the wild and woolly west. Other folks
from the west have tried to "shoot up"
New York in the past, but without ex-
ception they have failed sadly and
miserably. This one didn't. He got
away with 1t and the police are still
looking for him.
1t happened in an uptown hotel. A
tall and angular stranger with fiaunt-
Ing black locks and an untamed look
in his eye-the kind of individual that
the gold brick salesman regards as
fresh meat"-drifted into the lobby
and let his gaze fall witheringly on a
group of soft and well-fed drummers
who lolled in the easy chairs.
Huh" he snorted. contemptuously.
"a bunch Of stalled steers"
Il beg your pardon" said a neatly
dressed youth. did you speak?'
The stranger took in the neat look.
ing young man with one piercing
glance. His wild eye travelled from
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
"Shoots Up" New York in Western Way

the top of that young mans head to
the toes of his shoes and there It
stopped. IN.
Il did," he vouchsafed. Il spoke,
and now I'm going to shoot"
Thereupon he drew a large blue pis-
tol from his hip pocket.
You internal yap." he inquired.
where did you get those shoes. Dance.
you tenderfoot, dance!"
1t il. perhaps. needless to add that
the neat young man danced. He
danced and he jigged! alas. he did q
buck and wing. not to speak Of q fan
dango and Cubanola glide
Faster" said the stranger. firing q
shot at the ceiling. Faster. you dude.
faster!"
The young man tried to dance fast
er and the. stranger accelerated tho
tersichorean movement by firing four
more shots at the electric lights. Then
the neat young man stopped from
sheer exhaustion.
(, One bullet remained In the bad
mans gun. and he fred that into the
neat young mans ankle, Then he
strolled out into the street. while .
crowd stood gaping at him, too terri
fled to raise OBTAINING hand. when
! the police arrived he had! disappeared
as completely as II he had been 8
SNOWFALL on a hot frying pan.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
POISON IN MIDDLE AGES.

In the middle ages so little was known of
toxicology that all sudden or mysterious
deaths were attributed to poison, but in the
light of modern knowledge many Of these are
now easily explained by such diseases as ap-
pendicitis or gastric ulcer Even the Borgias
can be absolved from many Of the poisonings
laid to their charge. Nevertheless, says the
British Medical Journal, from very early times
in Italy poison was favorite means of remov-
ing an enemy. In England, France and Ger
many cruder methods of vengeance prevailed
and 1t was not until the sixteenth century
that the Medici introduced poisoning into
France The fashion spread with terrible rap
idity and poison was employed in every rank
of society to get rid of inconvenient persons.
The art introduced into France by Catherine
de Medci and her followers took root so
deeply as to blossom later into the black
magic of Louis XIV's reign
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

it IS still true that Lincoln may have died at
the right time for his imperishable fame. He
had conducted an immense nation through the
most tremendous civil war ever waged and
never committed single serious mistake. He
did not possess Hamiltons brilliant genius.
but Hamilton never saw the future more sa.
gaciously. He made no pretensions to Daniel
Websters magnetic oratory, but Webster
never put more truth in oratorical form for
popular guidance. He possessed Benjamin
Franklin's immense common sense and that
twenty-five address on the battlefield Of Get
tysburg is the high-water mark OF American
sententious eloquence It is fitting that after
such career his OWE life should be the last
to be lost in that stupendous struggle. He had
called over 100000 heroes to lay down their
lives, and then his own life was laid down be-
side the humblest private soldier or drummer
boy of Gettysburg or Chickamauga."
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
Some Wants of a Big Hotels Guest.

inaugurated 1t was expected that the
guests would take kindly to the idea.
but nobody expected so many sugges-
lions would come in.
Bouquets and brickbats, little and
big suggestions, peculiar requests
all sorts of missives have been
dropped in the box One man wrote:
do not change thing. Your hotel
is the best anywhere for the money.
and there are few better at any price"
That same day this came:
II wish you would have kilograms
put in the, guests box. asked three
times for telegram to-day, and be-
cause it wasn't in my box lost q
bunch of money" He was from Co
bait. Ont.
Would 1t not be good idea"
wrote another, presumably woman,
Ito have, either free or at nominal
cost, rubber caps that may be put on
the head when getting under the
shower?" This suggestion probably
will be adopted.
One man wants the writing desks In
the addition made higher: another
| would like talculn powder and dental
cream in sample tubes furnished free
with the soap: another would appre-
ciate q little sponge in every room to
stick envelopes with, while still an.
other would find laundry slips In the
rooms convenience.
II would like hook put at the
head of my bed" wrote an idiosyn-
crous marvel. ito hang my vest ON.
so that when l wake up in the morn
ing l could reach out and get my
watch to see what time it L."
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
Eats Two Dozen Eggs to Win Wager

wagon to-day" said one Of the men.
land II anything had happened to them
1t. would have been me to the woods.
My next. months envelope wouldn't
have paid for them"
What's that?" demanded Fred
Parker, breaking into the converse
ton. why. eat dozen eggs be-
fore breakfast every morning, just to-
get my appetite up. could eat two
dozen In ten minutes now"
, We've got ten dollars that says
you cant" said one of the men.
You're. on" said Parker. and It was
then. agreed that he should have a
loaf Of bread, all the coffee he want
ed. and 15 minutes to .clean up the
repast. s s..
The first five minutes showed the.
other drivers that they were losers.
At. TAB, two minutes before his, time
was up. Parker had consumed the
eggs, the loaf Of bread and a bottle
of catsup. and had drunk two quarts
of coffee
Now" he remarked. as he pocket
ed the ten dollars. I'm going out and
get dinner
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

HHICAGO.-'Let me talk minute. |
- have an important engagement on
another planet, and must hasten" de.
manded in sepulchral tones the spirit
of Detective Philip Fitzsimmons' de.
parted grandfather at spiritualistic
seance at 1856 Indiana avenue few
nights ago.
Perhaps Fitzsimmons' departed
grandfather was unaware that since
his departure the grandson had Joined
the Chicago police force. At all events
neither the spirit" nor the "sitters'
were prepared for what ensued.
Fitzsimmons. cropping his way in the
darkened room to the cabinet, seized
a hand outstretched from, 1t and
dragged the spirit forth. struggling VIC
lently and emitting shrieks in a. fem
inine voice. strangely In contrast will
that which had announced the impor
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

CT. LOU1s.-with eggs 40 cents a
y dozen, Fred Parker ate two dozen
fried and asked for more.
/ Fred Parker is not the, j.. Pierpont
Morgan OF st. Louis, as might be
thought from his costly epicurean feat
He is not. even the. owner OF a paltry
million, and while he does not have
to walk or hang on street car straps In
his travels about the city. his riding
is done., not in an automobile ton
neau. but on the seat Of an express
wagon. ~ ......
He was turning in" at the head
quarters of his employers. at 1871 Del
mar boulevard, when he heard the
other drivers discussing the increase
In the price of food.
Il carried a crate OF eggs on my
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

linen Lincoln
onered the girl his heart and it eventually
was accepted But Lincolns happiness was
snoit'llVeo. Anne Rutledge sckened and died.
Lincoln was fnconsolable
Following this bereavement he plunged
into politics and statecraft and built the foun.
aatlon Tor his later life. During this period
ne met Mary S. Owens. He wrote love letters
10 her. but later on frankly told her that.
while he was willing to keep his engagement
with her. 1t were better for her own sake that
she should not hold him. She accepted his
honest explanation and his second romance
withered and died.
Still another woman who was instrument.
tai in framing Lincoln's strong and impress.
stonable character was Lucy Gilmer Speed.
Her husband owned the tavern at Springfield.
whittier Lincoln rode when the capital was
changed from New Salem. Lincoln became
their guest and throughout his remaining life
numbered them as his stanchest friends He
often descanted on the sound counsel and sis.
terly care bestowed upon him by Mrs. Speed
Although he became at this time one Of
the foremost statesmen Of Illinois, his pre-
vious experience caused him to doubt his
own heart. He became engaged to Mary Todd.
After brief period, doubling his love, he
broke the engagement. 1t even has been
charged that he deserted her when she was
attired for the wedding. To his bosom
friends, Joshua F. and Lucy Speed Lincoln
described the parting:
When l told Mary did not love her" he
said, "she burst into tears, and almost spring
ing from her chair and wringing her hands.
as if in agony, said something about the de-
ceiver being himself deceived. To tell you the
truth. it was too much for me. l found the
tears trickling down my own cheeks. l caught
her in my arms and kissed her."
So great was Lincoln's remorse that he
was watched by his friends lest he commit
suicide. Here again came in the sound infu.
ence Of Mrs Speed She and her husband
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

which calls for something more than
the mere art Of man; the graces of
the gods as well. What really takes
away the breath of the Japanese OBJ
server in America is not, as the Amer
lean thinks in his innocence, the
Grand Canyon Of Arizona or the auto
mobile rush of life down another
grand canyon of brick and stone in
lower Broadway. 1t Is the off-hand,
cheerful manner in which the Araeri-
cans try to make their babies good--
simply by needing, for example. a
Biblican suggestion made to the Jews
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

feel like running away from him In
the hour of his anger. And we take
the rearing of the child, the art of
making of man, very much more seri-
ously than the making of an athlete.
Only, IN the factory where man is
made, we take little more time than
you do. We begin much earlier than
you do. Having had the start Of four
or five generations of polite training,
1t would be strange indeed If our ba.
bies failed to come into life with de.
cided hereditary inclination for gent,
Ter manners. Blood will tell.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

of few thousand years ago (what a
beautiful comment on tho up-to-date
genius Of the American people!) about
sparing of the rod!
If the Japanese were to mother your
children, they would start-n they
only could-the good work in the days
Of your great-grandmothers Nobody
nobody in Japan. at least-ever
talks Of, much less attempts. making
first-rate acrobat in one genera
ton. When Mr.. Roosevelt takes up
jiu-jitsu at the tender age of AZ all of
us feel much fattered. but we do not
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
BEGIN NEEDED WORK EARLY

This. also, is true-that when you put
your American baby side by side with
ours, you will see a difference, Just
about such a difference as that be-
tween the city of Mukden which our
soldiers saw while fighting through 1t,
and the one seen by the newspaper
men a week later.
With us in Japan, the baby is (sup-
posed to be, at least) work Of art.
not manufacture; work OF art too.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
LITERARY DISCREPANCIES.

Where are the scribblers. the tireless
scribblers.
Who dealt in historical lore
And ended things right
With hair-raising fight,
In which villainy settled Its scorer
Where are the takers. the dear nature
takers.
Who turned out the animal dope7
We miss their weird tales,
OF wolves. badgers and whales.
And Will keep right on missing. We hope.
Where are the pIotters. the old-fash-
toned plotters. = 7t;t. II
Who cooked UP q hiEhly-spiced mess.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
In Japan the Training Of Children Is
STARTED with the Great-Grand-
- go . mothers.

Babies in Japan-you'ye heard this.
haven't you?-don't cry. A fairy tale,
Of course. Babies will be babies-even
in Japan. Only in Nippon. when a
baby does cry. nobody thinks that the
fbrld Is coming to an end. says
Adaehe Kinnosuke in the Delineator.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
EHEEARLZEJT ~
RR0TOGRHRH or L1YcoLN


tive cabin, set in the midst of a savage coun-
try, she created that noblest and best result OF
a. good woMan's heart. happy home.
The young Lincoln grew rapidly Always
an invidious reader, he ever found time for
reading. In this pursuit he appears to- have
been tireless, but it seems not to have caused
him to isolate himself from the social life of
his primitive reghborhood. BY II he was six
feet four inches tall. His legs and arms were
long, his hands and feet big and his skin dry
and yellow. His gaunt face and melancholy
gray eyes were set in cavernous sockets above
his prominent cheek bones. He was not, there
fore, a ladies man." but at the same time the
mysterious something that made him beloved
above the average of prominent Americans
stood him in stead He was always popular
with his fellows. even as spraddling boy.
A girl schoolmate has described him as he
appeared at this earlv time:
Ellis shoes, when he had any, were low
He wore buckskn breaches, linsey-woolsey
shirt and cap made of the skin Of a squirrel
or coon. His breeches were baggy and lacked
by several inches meeting the tops OF his
Shoes thereby exposing his shin bone. sharp.
blue and narrow"
But this girl cared for him, even as, much
later in life, she was proud to have known him.
Trivial as it may seem, the verse penned
by him when he was II, at the time of his
give some insight into his lifelong estimate
of the attitude Of man toward woman. These
are the concluding verses:
The woman not taken
From Adams feet we see:
So he must not abuse her
The meaning seems to be.
The woman was not taken
From Adams head we know
To show she should not rule him
IT'S evidently SO.
The woman she taken
From under. Adams arm.
= So she must be protected ~,
From INJURIES and harm.
It was after he had passed through many
Of his earlier vicissitudes that Lincoln encoun-
tered his first great romance The family had
moved from Indiana to Illinois, When they
migrated from New Salem Sangamon county.
Abraham. who has assisted his father. STEP
mother and the rest of the family. to passable
aft1uence remained behind He split rails. he
travelled down the Mississippi on house boat
and had his first calculation Of slavery in its
most hideous forms and of the uncertainty
and responsibility of the negro race.
He returned to New Salem and became
clerk. In drawing crowds Of villagers he
proved popular acquisition. The job pc
tered out" and he was elected captain in the
Black Hawk war. His was bloodlcss cam
paign. but he came out Of it with honors and
increased popularity. All the time he had been
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

made Lincoln one Of their own family. she
was sanity woman and through her ne
learned, even more l..al by his reading. the
story and the precepts of the Man Of Naza-
reth that in later years enriched his vocabu-
larry and did so much to guide his conduct.
In two years Mary Todd became his wife.
1t was a singular Jest OF fate that he should
have won her away from Stephen A. Douglas.
who was later to be his rival in the great anti
slavery struggle that was ended only by mil
lions of armed men and that almost stimuli
taneous with its ending left Mary Todd
widow.
OF the union were born the sons Robert t.
Willie" and Tad" Willie" died In the
White House February 20. 1862, and Tad,
or Thomas, died in Chicago July Is. 1871, at
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

With pirates galore
On lone island shore
After manner OF one r. I. s.
Where are the farmers. the boos-writins
farmers. u
Who Harumized early and late7
The bgosh tale Is dead.
With it's royalties fled,
And there's Grape on the old farmhons
gate.
A High Liver.
What did he die OFF,"
HE lived too high"
Regular glutton. eh!"
No. q struggling aviator. who didA't
hang on tight enough one day
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

reading every book he
could find. Later he en-.
gagged in bookkeeping
with a partner. but he
was not cast for a mcr-
camille career.
When he first was elect
ed to the Illinois state
legislature in 1894 he met
and fell in love with pref
ty, authenticated Anne
Rutledge, daughter of the
owner of the tavern in
which he lived. His pas
sion seemed hopeless. for
the maid of II was
pledge to a young man
from New York. Yet Lin.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

tho age OF IL years. ROUeIL IL tuo
eldest Of the three sons. lives In Chi
cago. He is president of the Pullman
company and has enjoyed a highly
successful business career.
OF Lincoln's attitude toward the es-
timabie woman who became his wife
perhaps as good an estimate as any
may be found in practically his last
words to her, spoken on the after
noon Of the day of his assassination.
as they rode through the streets OF
Washington.
He talked to her Of what they
would do when his term Of office was
over and they could take up a quiet
life again.
1--WE have saved some money" he
said, land ought to be able to save
some more. And with that and what
I can earn from my law practice we
can settle down in Springfield or Chi
cago and live cozily to green old
age"
But God had otherwise disposed.
Within "a hours the woman who, IN
the ultimate, had shared the tribula-
tons and the adulations of the great
emancipation was widowed and his
sons and the entire nation were or
phaned.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
LINCOLN MADE NO MISTAKES.

The Rev. DR.. 7. l.. Cuyler says in
the Homiletic Review: Terrible as
was the tragedy of that April night.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

on which they slept and
replaced it with a soft
feather tick. She loved
little abe" and the lonely
boy returned her kindness
and affection. In q primi-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
.saRAH hZkN LNc0ZN

IT is sober truth to say
that Abraham Lincoln
struck the noblest.
highest, hottest note in
the Utmost native soul
- A. A.:ao- ~oonlo
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25

nation from de-
struction.
She was good
to the Lincoln
orphans, whose
mother lay out
in the wild for
est grave. She
gave them warm
CT OF b,i g. She
threw away the
m a t of corn
huSks and leaves
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1910-08-16

kralu premOga nekako pogodbo
ail kompromis, ma podlagi kterega
naJ bl premogarji V Illinoisu kon-
cali Strajk; Ia kompromis ie dal
Lewis ma sploSno glasovanje, to-
da premogarji so velikansko
veclno glasovali proti. Illinoiski
premogarji - kalor smo rekli -
so skorio jednoglaSno IA peoriis
ko leStvico. Ako le dobe veGino
delegatov ma Svojo Stran ma kon-
vencin, bo to pomcnilo. ne le. ia
Je indianaFolski kompromis poko-
pan "a vSe vetne case. marvec da
Je tudi odklenkalo Lewisu. kaiti
llilnolSka organizaciia odprto "a
hteva, da Sc mu odvzamc prcdsed-
niStvo.
Lewis je zadnje ease res wee kot
prljatelj opcratorji. NavzoG ie
bll skoro na vSch niihovih seiah
V Chicagu, in njegov nacrt. pori-
nltl prcmogarJem indianapolski
mir je bill "navdahnien cd ope-
ratorjev. Kralii prcmoga 81 re ma
glaS Sepctajo: "Drzimo Levi
som, drugaGe DO Slabo "a mas" Nj
cuda potem, da ga Premogarii V
SvoJih reSolucijah imcnujeio H.
daJaIca organizaciic. Lewis ie "a
klet naSprotnil John Walkeru.
predsedniku illinoiSke organizaci-
j. in ostalim clanom illinoiSke elk
ScEutlvc. Trdi namreG. ia so Wal
ker. tajnik Ne Donnald in ostali
"prcvec socialisticni'. In TEN
Lewis ugaja kapitalistom.
Med delegati ma izvanredni
konvenciii je veliko Stevilo socia-
listov.
, Nekaj operatorjev Iinnoisu,
kteri so Sc ze naveliGali dolgega
Strajka, Sc je izneverilo svoiemu
trustu in podpisali SO peorijsko
lestvicO. ii so John Dickerson
Coal Co., Big Muddy Fuel Co. in
druge druzbe.
Po naJnovejsem poroGilu Sc je V
lllinoisu vrnilo ma dclo 26.OOO pre-
mogarjev, kterim so druzbe rod-
Pisale peorijsko pogodbo. Ma
strajku je pa Sc 10000 premogar-
jev.