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The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11
Take Care.
Jamestown Capital.

Tnc following extract from letter
ON o;e 1egiste: and receiver of the
Eisna OK land Office TO the clerk of
The dist let court, W ,itten conce mig
rejected final proof of Govern
ment land claim, may be of interest
TO the readers of the Capital: I'm
this connection we would suggest
with a view to saving claimants ex-
pense and trouble, that it is useless
for them to come before this Office to
make final proof ent y unleSs the
facts justify a showing of continuous
residence in their proofs. This Of
flee is now in po:ition to ascertain
the facts in each case, and while ex-
tensive breaking and costly buildings
are desirable, they cannot be accept
I'd in lieu of the actual, continuous
'esidence on the part of the claimants
themselves. Parties whose business
is such that they cannot live upon
their claims, must necessarily aban-
don them. Hardships may result in
some cases from an enforcement of
this rule, but the requiremt is one of
law and cannot be ignored by this
Office"
The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11
PROFITABLE FARMING In DAKOTA.

AS an illustration of the value of
farm property in Dakota, this is re.
lated:
J. A Teeple, of Aylmes, Ontario,
Sought 800 acres last July, paying
$500 TO-: the ia. m and the standing
c.op. He sod the cop TO. $3.50
Leaving the whole farm costing him,
ut the end Of the first season. only
$24l, besides the work of harvesting,
threshing and marketing. MI. Tee
pie also bought 100 acres FOR $2,O0Os
and the fist crop brought him $l,778
making the cost OF the farm all paid
for, at the end of the first season,
except $2l2. T. L. Fay came to
Dakota five years ago and took a
HON ostesd and timber claim, and at
the time had nothing but a span of
hoses and 1920 in each, and since
that time he has prospered, so that
to-day he is 9th $4,000, all of it
made off his farms, in addition to his
ca-:ent expenses of various sorts.
Thee is scarcely township in all
Dakota which does not affoid oppo.-
| tunit.es for succe 8 as ma ked as any
of thece cases, end it is the coa.nred
and widespread evidence of this fact
that is att.;.cting so many people
f:om the eastern Suites to this sec
t;ol. A home seeker can scarcely
make a mistake in locating in
Dakota, the only mistake he is like
ly to make is in feeling that, on ac-
cont Of her reputation, things grow
spontaneously ort here. 1t take
good, honest hard work to make
these successes, and drones needn t
hope to fad fortunes to lie picked up
without effort.
The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11
KNIFE River.

Blue joint grass 1OS inches high has
been found in the vicinity of Knife
River creek.
The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11

VIM. Fades has received new cush-
ions and cloth for his pool table.
The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11
County, NorthD
PIONEER LIFE IN DAKOTA.
Sioux City journal.

AS to the hardships to be feared,
they are at least insufficient to keep
back the setjllrs who are pouring in
from eastern and central Iowa,
northern Illinois and southern Wis
donsin. The fact that they are COM
ing in by thousands, that whole coun-
ties of prairie are settled in few
weeks, does much to take away what
ever hardship there is in pioneering.
The traditional pioneer settles far
away from civilization: and his neigh
bors are few and distant. The settler
in Dakota in 1883 goes ON to his
claim on the border of the Govern
meni land, and in few days the
Government lands beyond HIM for
miles are taken by settlers as hopeful.
as energetic and Industrious as him
self. He does not live on the
frontier, for before he can get up his
house the f:ontier has rolled away
beyond him into the next county,
and is still rolling. He is, almost in
a day, in a country as thickly settled,
perhaps, as the one he left. He has
ceased TO be pioneer before the
cream has risen on the fist milking.
The railroad was there before him.
The town at the station sp:inSs up
while he is unloading his car of i'm
migrant goods. The golden pine of
new houses dots the prairie all
around his claim, and he has title
from the Government to quarter
section of fertile land. What does
he lack of civilization? He does not
go to Dakota to hire out on a fam,
but to make a farm for himself.
If it is WAGES he wants he had better
stay at the old home. The conveli.
ences for making farm a'e at hand.
The railroad. built before settlement
came in, is there to cary off his sur
plus gain and cattle. That he
bcought in a carload of household
goods and farm tools ard stock indi.
Gates that he is able to live off his
means, at least until the first cop is
raised. On the whole, the Dakota
settler is likely to get along very well
with or without the commiseration
of The newspapers o. his old home.
He has sent OUT no appeal foc help
as yet. He is too busy fencing a PAS
tc-e. putting up house, b4eaking
prairie, and assisting to organize a
county or a school district, to appeal
io1 pity just now.
The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11
FOR SALE:

Lot is j1 ''!ock @; lots ~ ard 10 in
block IL lot l.; co ne,. in block 13 {;
'ols 1G 81 ard 23 in ,lock IS; lot in
block q. The whole WI be sold
10 ,e.aer or oners VIII oe received FOR
single lots subject to approval,
The Dickinson press., 1883-08-11

Steve Ryan went to Bismarck yes
terday to file on a claim.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17

It. Yet go common is it to-day that, as
Sir james Pagot tells us, a London ply
stefan has had no fewer than nine cases
under his care at one time Hence the
conclusion to which we seem to be
driven is simply that these diseases are
in process of development, and that,
like the forms of animals and plants,
thew have had beginning and an evo-
luton, which n the present case is of
very recent description.
A topic like that so lucidly opened up
by Sir James Paget carries its own
moral with it. The interest of the SUBJ
iect does not, however, rest with the
medical profession alone. The botanist
and the zoologist. and the non-technical
mind as well, may enlarge their ideas
of the nature of disease, and may come
TO recognize the wholesome fact that.
after all, diseases, like the subjects they
alict. live under a strict dispensation
of law and order. The closer we sean
the features of disease the more clearly
docs the fact appear to view that in all
their ways and relations our ailments
are simply pei, ersions and disturb
ances of the ordinary processes of life.
We see that they vary, like animals and
planUS, unuer new OF Cnangeu COnul-
tions. If what Sir James Paget urges
be correct, we see that now and then a
sport or hidden variation takes place
in disease, as in the hot house or on the
farm. The applications of such
thoughts to individual and national
welfare are discernible by the most cur
sorry of readers The healthy upbring-
ing of the young, careful marriages as
limiting the tendency to hereditary dis
ease and its transmission, the wise use
OF foods and drinks-these and similar
conclusions are indicated by science as
the saving clauses OF our physical we'll
being. The Lancet.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17
Rejoice, Rejoice, "IIeis Alive a GAIN |" Was
Lost. but Is Found"

UNDER date Of July q 1881, Mr. f. n. BnIaur. Of
Windsor Locks, Conn, writes plain modest nara.
tive, which, from Its very simplicity. has the true ring
Of fine gold He says;
MY father Is using Hunts Remedy and seems 10 be
improving in fact he Is very much better than he has
been for along time lie had been tapped three times
The first time they got from him sixteen quarts Of
ter the second time thirteen quarts, and fully a. much
more the third time, and he would constantly fll up
again every time after he had been tapped. until he
commenced using Hunts Remedy, which acted like
magic In hts case, as he begun to improve once and
bis watery accumulation passes away through tho
secretons naturally, and he has OF that swelling
lling up which frequent before the functions
OF the kidneys restored by the OF Hunts Rem
cdy. He Is n well known citizen OF this place and has
always been in business here"
Again he writes Nov. q. 1859;
~ bcgmost cheerfully and truthful, state in re-
gard to Hunts Remedy, that its the saving Of
my fathers life Ispoke you in my previous letter
in regard to his being tapped three times. Its the
remarkable that has been heard In this
section For of his age (sixty years. II
remarkable He had been unable to attend to hts
business more than a year, and given up by the
doctors.
1.-THE first bottle OF Hunts Remedy that he used
gave FMS tant relief. He has used in all bottles
and continues to Il whenever he feels drowsy
sluggish. and - affords instant relief He is now at
tending to his SECULAR business and has been several
months. am perfectly willing that you should pub
fish this letter, thoroughly believe that fathers
life was saved by using Hunts Remedy and these facts
given above may be benefit to Others suffering in like
manner from diseases or inaction of he kidneys and
liver
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17
Youths Department.
MY VALENTINE.

I'll tell you of little maid
I've chosen for my Valentine;
She is not very wise or staid,
And numbers years from seven to nine
But truth looks from her eyes OF blue,
And oh. her voice has music in IL:
I'm speaking only strictly true;
You'd surely think twas lark or linnet.
She always does just what she should,
Without fuss or bother;
So nice, so loving and so good,
You scarce could find another.
And so for my sweet Valentine
j choose this little darling maid
NV dearest daughter, seven to nine,
Who is not very wise or staid.
Elizabeth A Davis, IN Our Litte Ones.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17
Frightened.

The traveller Cotterill, in one of his
studies of African character, represents
the annoyance of being situated where
there is no ''.penny-po,t and no
people who dare carry one. The fol-
lowing is not the only testimony to the
negro barbarian's dread of a piece of
"paper that talks
| was in part of Central Africa
where no white man had been before,
and was separated from my companions,
who were hundred miles distant. War
was raging around me; the road was
difficult. | wished to communicate with
those whom had left behind.
"Who will return" | asked of the
savages, "to the white men and carry
them something from me?'
Numbers volunteered, glad to earn a
yard of cloth for the job. A letter was
written and offered to man, and he
was told that this piece of paper would
inform my friends what l wanted-that
it would speak to them. He dropped
the letter and ran away.
Other natives we're tried, but it was
useless. A great crowd assembled, and
at safe distance, gazed at the little bit
of paper tluttering on the ground.
lit is medicine they said. III Is
charmed.
In vain 1 tried to reason them out of
terror None would touch it.
"Will no one," | said, keep it and
give it to the white men as they pass
this way"
A yell of refusal and excited gesticu-
lations answered my request.
"Then | shall place it here in this
tree" l said, moving toward it, while
the crowd dispersed in flight, land you
can point it out to the white men when
they come.
Even this they refused to do. My
friends passed close under the tree, but
no one dared show them the charmed
thing; and there it is probably to this
day, fluttering on the branch of that
stunted fig tree, like an evil spirit, the
awe and terror of the tribe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17

didn't know that I was talking on,
loud. until be came up TO me and asked
"What is it YOU want so very much,
my little grip
THAT prettiest valentine, with the
lots of little angels"
"Ah, see," said he, smi ing. "you
want it for some little boy friend"
"No don't; l don't like little boys.
They make up faces and call names. l
want it for my darling Auntie May,
who hasn't anybody to love her but just
me-"
"What is your name. my dear?' said
he, putting his hand in his pocket l
knew that he was feeling for penny,
and I'd bout made up my mind not to
get the valentine but to buy turkey
instead, when he asked again:
els your name Nav, too?'
Yes, sir My name is Just like auntie's S,
but don't see how you could tell. Both
of our names are May Hitler"
He said something in II quick, sharp
way, and turned so white that | thought
he d cut his hand against his knife in
his pocket. A little boy that lived in
the house with us ways forgot TO shut
the blade of the knife into the handle.
But when he took his hand out OF his
pocket there wasn't any blood on it, nor
any pennies in it either. | was dread
fully disappointed, | was so sure of the
valentine or the turkey for auntie.
lis your Auntie May married." he
asked, bending over to look at me.
+" Auntie hasn't anybody but just me,
if that is what you mean,' said. "She
don't like men any more'n | like boys"
Little May" said he, as if he d Just
thought of it, "suppose you take
me home with you and give me to your
aunt for valentine y
"Oh, she'd rather have a turkey"
said |, ste ping back a little. He acted
so funny that | was almost afraid OF
HIM When said that he laughed as
though it would be so funny to take her
turkey, but then he wasn't hungry
and couldn't know just how nice it
would be.
"Well. we'll take the turkey, too,
and you shall have nice supper after
wards if you'll do as | want you to-" he
said.
was getting so hungry that I d have
done most ANYTHING for some supper, so
/ took him home with me, and up all
those lots of steps, straight to our room
| opened the door and called out:
"Aun lie May, I've brought you a
valentine and a turkey
Auntie turned around, and when she
saw the big man she put out her hands
and said:
"Oh, Robert"
Then he walked right over to her and
took her in his arms and kissed her lots
of times. 1t was so funny, but then he
was her valentine, and | suppose It was
all right. After while they called me
over to them, and auntie looked so
pretty with the sparkle in her eyes.
This is Mr.. Archer, May" she said;
but he took me upon his knee and
whispered in my ear:
"You are not to call me Mr. Archer,
but Uncle Robert"
"Well, here we are in a great house
forty times too Big for us, and Uncle
Robert is the splenddest man that ever
was. and Auntie May is the beautifulest
lady, and they is both going to give me
lots of money for my valentines next
year. HartOic6 Thorpe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Lake fell into intern
perate hab is in Providence, lost their
social position, and sank so low as to be
frequently arrested for drunkenness.
The man at length conquered his appe-
tte. and lived soberly for several
months. The woman determined to do
likewise, but one night she declared she
could stand total abstinence no longer,
and started off for spree, regardless
of her husbands protest. Next morn
ing she was found frozen to death in the
road, with an empty bottle in her grip
-Propidence lR. ~ Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15

at least one every inch, and ct first COW
cred with about an inch of soil. 1t Is
well to put about four inches of coarse
stable manure over the rows; this is to
be lert on in cold days, but when it is
sunny and warm, pull it off with the
rake. and let the sun strike the soil over
the peas, replacing it at night. When
the peas sprout. gradually cover them
with the fine warm soil, placing the
coarse manure over them as needed,
until the covering of soil reaches the
level of the surface. If a ridge of soil, a
few inches higher than the peas, be
drawn up on each side of the row, it
will greatly protect them from cold
winds. When the plants are few
inches high, draw some fine soil up to
them, and stick in the brush. When the
soil becomes dry and warm, the main
crop of wrinkled peas may be sown.-
IDr. Thurber. in American Agrlcultu-
rist for February.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15
ProIerbs for These DAYS.

Beware of false prophets and patent
toothache drops.
Look not upon the horse race and the
monkey with the poolseller, for it is not
wise to bet unless you can win.
Try not to guy the stranger who So
joarneth in thy land and seemeth SAD ;
for of such are the three card monte men
made.
A wise woman will not light the fire
with kerosene, but-will invite the ser
want girl to whom she owes three months
wages to do the same.
If man smites thee on the right
cheek, turn also to him thy left cheek,
and paradventure thea canst with great
ease plant kick that will cause him to
become discouraged and repent his fol-
ly.
The young man who drinketh too CO.
piously of firewater and trieth to run a
town." will surely come to grief. when
in the fullness of time he hath everlast-
ingly hammered the stubborn lime
stone.
Experience is a high grade school
course thorough, tuition free-but Incl
dental expenses enormous.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15
Spanish Philosophy.

The first word that a foreigner visiting
Spain learns is tfat one that means to
morrow-everything is to be done then
Our late Minister to the Spanish court
the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, tells story
which brings out use Of this word and
the Spanish way of looking at things
He says;
The day after my arrival at Vittoria
went to shoemaker's to get some re-
pairs done to my boots. There was no
body in the shop; the master was on the
opposite side of the street smoking his
cigarette. His shoulders were covered
with mantle full of holes, and he look
ed like a beggar, appearing rather proud
than ashamed of his poverty. He came
over to see me and | explained my bust
ness. -
wait moment" said he, and imme-
diately called his wife.
"How much money is there in the
purse?"
Twelve picettas," fourteen francs,
forty centimes).
Then | shan't work."
But" said |, twelve picettas will not
last forever.
"Who has seen Tomorrow said be,
turning his back to me.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15
An Early Crop of Peas.

There are two distinct classes of peas,
these with sn all, round seeds, and 9TH
ers with much larger, irregularly shaped
peas, the surface of which is wrinkled.
The wriukled seeded, or marrow peas,
are as much better than the others as
sweet corn is superior to field corn. The
round peas. while not so good, are much
harder and earlier than the others. I'm
less the soil is warm, and they germi-
nate quickly, wrinkled peas will decay
before they can come up. The round
peas are vastly better than no peas, and
are very acceptable until the others
come. fTe have early peas, they must
be sown, early-the earlier the better.
After the soil has thawed for the first
four inches, even if it is solid below,
sow peas If the ground was manured
and plowed last autumn, all the better;
if not, select the richest available spot.
and open drill four inches deep. Peas
should be covered deeper than most
other seeds. For varieties, the Early
Kent" is one of the best; it has almost
as many names as there are dealers.
Daniel O'Rourke" is one of the names
of good strain of this pea. "Carter's
First Crop" is another good variety, and
every spring new extra early sorts are
sent from England, which usually turn
ont to be the old early Kent with
new name. The peas should be sown in
the bottom Of the drill rather thickly,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15
Winter Flowing.

Periods of mild weather occasionally
occur during the winter, and where the
fall blowing has been omitted 1t may
profitably be done later. The agency of
frost is making the soil fine and Increas-
ing its fertility, is not sufficiently appre-
ciated. If the soil be trenched or plow-
ed after the crops are gathered and left
in deep furrow, nearly twice the surface
is exposed to the frost. The alternate
freezing and thawing breaks down the
coarse Jumps and makes the plant food
therein more available for the crop of
the coming season. Flowing at this sea-
son also disturbs the winter retreat of
many insects that will be destroyed by
exposure to frost. The advantage of
working the soil in late fall and winter
is seen in the cultivation of celery. The
stirring of the soil Fin blanching the
crop, and the rough shape in which the
trenches are left, give the frost and
rains fair opportunity to improve its
tilth. Frosts will fine the soil more
perfectly than any tools of the cultiva-
tor 1t not only releases the inert plant
food in the soil, but makes the manure
that is added more available for the
crops of the next season. American
Agriculturist.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15
FARM and GARDEN.
CLEFT GRATING.
Explicit Directions fer Success
fully Performing Ii.

Any boy that can make Eastwood,
willow OF chestnut whistle. can graft
fruit tree. | will tell the novice how it
is done, at risk of being laughed at by
those who are adopts in the business.
The cions may be cut at any time after
the leaves fall until the time for setting
arrives, but before the buds begin to
swell in the spring. II taken from trees
in the same neighbOrhood, they may lie
cut and inserted the same day, even
when the buds are somewhat swelled.
1t is better, however, to cut the cicns
beforehand, tie in punches, and Label.
One of the most satisfactory labels We
have ever used was made of acutely
triangular pieces of waste zine about
three quarters of an inch in width at
one end. three or four inches long, COM
ing to a fine point. The small joint is
bent around the cion or branch to mark
the variety.
The first step is to saw off the limb or
branch with fne-tooth saw, selecting
as near as possible branch an inch, or
thereabouts, in diameter. A strong
Knife or chisel may be used for this pur-
pose; leave the knife in the cleft and
prepare the cion, about four inches long,
with two buds. one near the bevel; !;
roisten little and set one on each side
of the cleft, inclining little from each
other 80 that the sap wood of the cicn
Of ~
the branch as possible, putting a wooden
wedge In the heart to keep the cleft open
after the knife is taken out. The bark
Of neither the tree nor ci0n should be
bruised in the operation.
After putting the cions in place and
knowing that the cleft presses equally
on each cion, besmear the ends of the
cion with grating wax to prevent evap-
oration of juices. and also cover the end
of the branch, carefully excluding all air
from the branch or cleft down as far Tor
even farther as the cleft extends. This
is absolutely essential to success in any
kind of grating. --...
ANY good, tenacious clay answers
quite as well as grating wax if put on
thick around the end of the branch, over
the clefts, and around the cions and
carefully bound on with strips of cloth
about an inch wide and of several thick
nesses. Ninety five per cent. of cions
will grow in thrifty trees when the VOL k
is we'll done and the cions are right, when
either kind of wrapping is used. l can
see no difference, though the clay makes
a little more work. This is called cleft
srafting,' and is used in all cases, where
a graft is inserted in large branch
fOhio Farmer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-15
Medical Properties Of Celery

An English writer proclaims cooked
celery as cure for rheumatism, which
it certainly will not harm if it fails to
cure. We read as follows: celery,
cooked, is a very fine dish, both as nu-
triment and purifier of the blood. l will
not enumerate tire marvellous cures
have made with celery, for fear the med
ical men should, like corn dealers, at
tempt to worry me. Let me fearlessly
say that rheumatism is impossible on
such diet. Plainly, let me say, cold or
damp never produces rheumatism, but
simply develops it. The acid blood is
the primary cause and the sustaining
power of the evil. While the blood is
alkaline there can be no rheumatism
and equally no gout. l must return to
cooked celery. Cut the celery into inch
pieces. and boil in water until soft. No
water must be poured away unless
drank by the invalid. Then take new
milk, slightly thicken with -four, and
flavor with nutmeg; warm with the
celery in the saucepan; serve up with
diamonds of toasted bread around the
dish, and eat with potatoes"