Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — In Negro Graveyards. [ARTICLE]

In Negro Graveyards.

Negro graves in the far South are sometimes curiously garnished with the bottles of medicine used by the departed in their final Illness, and the duration of the malady is easily guessed by the number of bottles. Often these are the only things to mark the mound, and everything about the graveyard bears the marks of the haste characteristic of a superstitious people In all matters concerning the dead. A clerk in a bicycle store in Kansas City has designed and Is building a new buggy with pneumatio-tired bicycle wheels and a number of. improvements calculated to add strength, lightness and speed to the vehicle*: