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ground OF artistic deXterity.
That the price OF success Is honest, daily,
mental and mechanical study Of those funda-
mental passages-chords aud scales-irom
which are developed the peculiar forms OF all
composers.
That good pupils never graduate, or see the
time there is nothing new To learn, but study
90, gaining familiarity with every composer OF
merit, cleaning therefrom sud appropriatlng TO
themselves the beauties aud gems from every
school OF composition.
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, 1884-07-15

Lots near the ground bought by the
Cheyenne, Black Hills & Montana rail
way company for depot purposes. Prices
low. BAIRD X CAMPBELL.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18

AT the coming election a question
upon which in q great measure, de-
ponds the future prosperity of Dick
inson, is to he settled. THE perman-
ent location of the county seat will
he voted on and in order that we NAV
secure it, united action is certainly
necessary. Every voter should be at
the polls. The interests of the bust.
ness men are at stake and also the i'm.
terests of every citizen in the town
and surrounding country. Dickinson
to-day is the best town in the county
and with the county seat and other
advantages she possesses is destined
to become Il good fading point. The
permanent location of the county
seat here is worth more to our bust
ness men and citizens than the sala.
ries of all the county offices would be
to any Of us. 1t means the building
up of Il town, increased business
for Il merchants, a market for our
farmers, plenty of work for the labor
ing man and general prosperity for
all. For these reasons it is necessary
that we all work together for the &C.
complishment of this one great end
the location of the county seat at
Dickinson. Should it be located at
Gladstone, Dickinson, Taylor and
Richardton will all be the losers.
Being nearer the last two named
towns it will naturally injure them
and forever settle the question Of
dividing the county which may be
done at some future time by taking
the western end of Morton county
and the eastern end of Stark county
for new county. The citizens of
Taylor and Richardton should consid-
er this matter. we'll before they cast
their votes, Gladstone would be the
sole gamer should she come out sue.
cessful in the contest. On the other
hand should Taylor be settled upon
as the town for the eastern end of the
county to support on the county seat
question, the Gladstone people could
hardly be so blind to their own in.
terest as to vote for Taylor when by
SO doing they would be voting to
build up that pat of the county to
the detriment of Gladstone and Dick
ilsoA. This would be the case if the
county seat is located at Taylor.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
An Town Letter.

We publish below a few extracts
from a letter written by a CORE.
spondent at Sheldon, Iowa, to the
Steele Herald:
Dakota will do. A trip of over FIVE
hundred miles through it's rich val
leys and over its prairies, constrains
me to say of it as a country as Beech.
er said of the strawberry-"the Lord
might have made a better, but evil
IDENTITY He never did"
1t is one vast garden of soil, and in
no state can one see so little poor or
unproductive country as in Dakota.
Of course, there are some parts bet
ter than others, as you we'll know
who live on the beautiful Missouri
slope along that great highway of
commerce from ocean to lake. And,
by the way. it is the route that Jules
Verne could shorten his "trip of
eighty days around the EARTH"
l heard a gentleman from near Mar
shalltown, Iowa. in that very garden
Of the best state in the Union (Dako-
ia is Il terrritory!) say that "when he
came into Iowa, about thirty years
ago, the outlook for the future was
not to be compared to North Dakota.
No railroads, no markets, poor crops
and what was worse, often poor
health. And he predicted that in
twenty-five years from now, it would
show a development equal to conn.
tries that are now more than fifty
year improved"
The settlement and improvement
OF Dakota is one of the wonders of
the age. What will be it's future
with the foundation for Il school fund
of over half a hundred millions of
dollars, and this with three hundred
thousand people to begin with, whose
intelligence and morality cannot he
eXcelled by any state, and will equal
the total vote of the parties of ali.
other, and yet, thanks to the Demo
cratic congress, we cannot make it
the banner Republican state in the
Union for Blaine and Logan. Blu!
the day of reckoning is coming.
"Dinna we hear the slogan
From the green mountain and tai
pines there has echoed all over the
nation Il voice that will speak Justice
to Dakota, and add one, if not two
stars to the Union of States.
1t is no wonder to any one who ha
travelled over Dakota and felt til,
political pulse, and whence the BLOOD
that beats with such unanimity. tina
Vermont, Maine. Michigan and Iowa
cannot roll up the old time Republi
can majorities. They have been colo
niZed, going to seed us it Were, in tn
prairie empire Of the west, and som
day they will not be a small intlu
ence in the councils of the nation
and all the great works for the goo
of humanity.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18

A REPUBLICAN, mass convention
was held at Beltiead last Saturday for
the purpose of ellecting delegates to
the Bismarck convention. At the
meeting the following resolution was
passed:
Resolved that the citizens here as.
sembled most earnestly desire a diyi-
sion of Billings county at some point
a few miles west of Fryberg, for the
reason that the eastern half of this
county is devoted to agriculture and
the western portion to cattle interests
and that this question he laid in
proper manner before the legislature
during the coming winter.
The citizens of the east end of Bill
jngs county are evidently preparing
to cut loose from the Bad Lands.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
Citizens County Convention.

The citizens county convention
will meet at Collister's hall in Dick
jnson OIL Tuesday, 2lst of October at
2 o'clock p. NJ, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for county
officers.
The primaries for electing delegates
to this convention will be held on
Saturday October 18th.
The primary in Dickinson town
ship will be held in Collister's hall at
2 o'clock p. NJ. and the polls will lie
open 2 hours.
The different townships will be Ell.
titled to the following representation:
Dickinson -; Gladstone 4; Taylor 81
Richardton 3.
II. l.. DICKINSON,
Chairman Co. Com'nrs.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18

A condensed report of the proceed
jngs of the district convention will be
found in another column. The con
vention did it's work well and placed
in nomination q strong ticket. DR..
Henry Coe, of Mandan, carried
off the honors for the West Missouri
country. He is a young physician
and will represent his constituents
with credit. The other nominees are
men of high standing in their respec.
tive communities and the ninth dis.
trict will be as ably represented in
the legislative halls rs any other dis
trict in the territory. N. G. Law
tence was appointed a member of the
central committee for Stark county
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
REGISTER OF f

To the electors of Stark county.
The undersigned hereby announces
himself a candidate for the Office of
Register of Deeds for Stark county
subject to the decision Of the electors
of said county.
JAMES CoLLIsTER.
lam a candidate for the Office of
Register of Deeds. subject to the de-
eision of the citizens county conven-
tiOn of Stark county.
r. e. LAMOREuX.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
FOP TREASURER.

am candidate for Treasurer sub
feet to the citizens county conven-
tion.
los II Sc0rn
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
A CARD.

The undersigned at the request of
many leading citizens residing in The
several districts of the county, an
pounces himself a candidate for the
office of Treasurer of Stark county,
subject to the vote of the electors of
the county.
T r McnOSAID.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18

TuE Supre ne Court has decided
that the law providing for the cleo
tion Of clerks of the district court is
unconstitutional. The decision was
made upon a test case before the
court at Yankton.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
Why He Stopped the Paner.

"Good morning. sir" said a.pale
young youth on entering the Beacon
office yesterday. els the editor in!''
Eyes sir, what can l do for yong
"Please discontinue the Beacon
that / ordered sent to Miss Jones at
Blankville."
certainly. Has the young lady
gone back on you!"
"Worse than that"
SLOW worse!"
"Why, 1-I-great heavens T! l mar
ried her."-Paris (Ky.) Beacon.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
OFFICIAL PAPER OF sTARK COUNTY
Saturday, October is, 1884.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SHERIFF.

I announce myself Il candidate for
the office of Sheriff of Stark county,
subject to the decision of the citizens
county convention and will if nomin-
ated and elected fill the office to the
best of my ability.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
M. A. SEBASTIAN.

The undersigned announces HIM
self as a candidate for the Office of
Sheriff of Stark county subject to the
vote of the electors at the coming
election.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
WM. CUsKELLY.

At the earnest solicitation of a
number of the citizens of the county
/ announce myself a candidate for the
office of Sheriff of Stark county sub
iect to the will of the citizens county
convention. If placed in nomination
and elected the duties of the office
will be faithfully performed.
JOHN ID, BARNES.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18

PRESIDENT ARTHUR on Tuesday
appointed Frank Hatton postmaster
general.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18

A gentleman who had l.een bitten
ny Il dog was asked: "Do you suppose
the animal was mad!" Mad. What
right had he to be mad! 1t was me
that was mad"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14

The process of making screws is q
very interesting one. The rough, large
wire in big coils is, by drawing through
hole of less diameter than ITSELF
made the needed size. Then it goes
into machine that at one motion cuts
it q proper length and makes q head
on it. Then it is put into sawdust and
''rattled, " and thus frightened. Then
tine head is shaved down smoothly to
the proper size and the nick put in at
the same time. After. ''rattling" again
in the sawdust, the thread is cut by
another machine, and after another
''rattling" and q thorough drying, the
screws are assorted by hand (the
fingers of those who do this move al
most like lightning), crossed by weight
and packed for shipment. That which
renders it possible for machines to do
all this is little continuance that looks
and opens like goose bill, which
picks up single screw at time, car
ries it where needed, holds it until
grasped by something else, and returns
for another. This is one Of the most
wonderful pieces Of automatic ma
chinery ever seen, and it does its dis
tiDctiye work ut the rate of thirty-one
screws q minute, although this rate is
only experimental as yet. Ninety
three gross Il day, however, has been
the regular work OF one machine.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
Hair Dressing in the Sou0an.

The B!sharCen are 4 fine, tall race
slender. but well proportional. They
take especial care of their teeth, which
are regular and of lustrous whiteness,
which IS in part due to their simple
diet, and in part due to root (taki-
wood which they chew perpetually.
Their dress is scanty but graceful. 1t
consists Of 4 piece of white linen wound
around the waist and thrown over the
shoulder Each man carries long,
straight sword and shield of small di-
mensionS. made of hippopotamus or
rhinoceros hide. A spear is carried in
the right hand The Bishareen, in
common with the rest of the Arab
tribes in the eastern Soudan, take great
personal pride in their hair. A consid-
cradle portion of their lives is spent in
It's adornment. [ doubt whether Pa
risian coitfeur would care to take les
sons in his meter from these children
of the desert, but he would be puzzled
to initiate them. The hair is Jet black,
coarse, why and abundant. 1t is part
ed in u horizontal line round the head,
the parting passing close to the ears;
the hair above this line is perpendicu-
plated and frizzed, and sticks out over
the neck and shoulders like the roof of
Il penthouse, doubtless affordin0 great
protection to the back of the neck from
the rays OF the sun. The whole is STIFF
cned with grease, and when the Bisha-
reen has newly performed his toilet
and grease is plentiful, his sable locks
assume the snowy whiteness of those of
Jcames. The sun melts the grease,
which drips on to the back and Shout
ders, forming Il deposit by no means
savory OF the conventional spicy odors
OF ''Araby the blest." A long skewer
or hairpin transtixes this wonderful
cotfeur, and serves the double purpose
OF u comb and = weapon used in the
chase Of the fer0g n0tarde. which abound
in lis immediate vicinity C0r7ahalI
MQgazi9c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
All Sorts of EIavoring.

'.N Q manufacture most of the flavor
inos you see here, . said n merchant TO %
reporter of the New York HGil and E:r-
press Some little is imported from
Italy, France and Germany, but the
duty is so heavy-$2.5 80 q pound-that
it does not pay"
What Kind of extracts do you use
principally, and who buys them?'
',Fruit-syrups, oils, perfumes. bottled
extracts. colorings and tobacco davors.
They are used by confectioners, soda
water bottlers. perfumers, druggists,
brewers, and cigar and tobacco manu-
facturers.
Can YOU explain the manufacture
and use?h
The manufacture is n secret, and it
would not DO to give it away. They
are principally extracts from pure fruit
bat ii some instances chemicals are
used, but never so rs to be injurious
The uses they arc applied to are many;
all the nice confectionery is favored
with some fruit syrup, extract of oil of
almonds being very popular, and cost
ING about 81 pint, free from prusslc
acid. You may be surprised to know
that as q rule the various brands of to-
bacco are formed through the use of
some flavor. See. here we have Hav-
ana cigar flavor. Santiago smoking to-
bacco flavor, and even cigar colorings;
here are the directions: Dissolve one
pint of this flavor in four gallons of
water, or in one gallon of alcohol and
three gallons of water"
care not some of these flavors very
expensivep"
They vary in price from 80 cents y
pound TO $3.50. Oil of altar of roses
is $12 an ounce. Oil of cinnamon,
used in confectionery is 50 an ounce
Root beer, sarsaparilla, lemon, straw
berry, and such like are worth $40 per
gallon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
o-ae~------
Jay Cookies Palace.

Ogontz, Jay Cookies Germantown
palace near Philadelphia, is another
great house on which the Northern Pa
cific brought calamity, though it was
not built out OF the profits of that fatal
enterprise actual OF prospective. 1t is
larger and grander than Wizards, and
when | visited it stood in the middle of
4 park of about 800 acres, with lawns
and groves and streamlets and lakelets
surrounding it, and an artificial ruin, q
musoleum and leagues of conserva-
tories among its appandages. 1t went
out of Mr.. Cookies possession after the
panic of 1873, but it is now restored to
him and is occupied | believe as a
young ladies' school. 1t was named
after an Indian chief of the Sandusky
tribe whom Mr.. Cooke knew in his
boyhood, and was one of the most spa
ciOus residences in America. | sup
pose the principality is now dismem-
bered; the park cut up in quarters and
sections, or building lots; the groves
violated and their dryads fled and the
artificial ruin, with its water fountains
and worn, winding stairway and broken
turrets, recast into some shape of
utility. 1t was q princely pleasure
house and it was built and inhabited
by man of princely dispositions.
With him boundless prosperity was
the precursor of overwhelming dis
aster, but neither changed the SIM
plicity and generosity of his spirit, and
he was mistaken by obloquy, as he
had been unspoiled by praise. | am
glad after the long sequestration of his
Temperatures they have finally been re-
stored to him, though | believe it is
not his intention ever to inhabit Ogontz
again. The twilter of sweet girl gradu-
ates will probably mingle with the
twitter of its blue birds and orioles for
u good while yet. 1t is too big for
private uses and too beautiful and
costly for common ones.--Cor B10okLg7s
EGJ[e.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14

manner. When you are ready TO de-
part do so at once, gracefully and po-
litely, and with no dallying. Don't
say: ''lt's about time | was going,
and settle back and talk on aimlessly
for another ten minutes. There is no
need of being extensively abrupt, but
when you are ready to GOO. -EUefy
Other Saturday.
Balaclaya, although its name will be
ever famous in history as associated
with the famous light cavalry charge,
has hitherto remained an unimportant
town. 1t is, however, now beginning
to develop resources, and bids fair to
become fashionable resort for inval-
ids. A medical commission visiting it
last summer has reported very favor
ably on its sheltered position and
climate.
There IS controversy rs to whether
an eagle will sit on q limb and let him.
self become incased in ice. Edward
L. Roe related an instance OF that
kind and his accuracy was questioned.
John Holder now tells how ut Bloom
ington, H., he had an eagle brought
to him covered by ice so completely
th''O - oou1i NO. IuofS 1cgS u wings,
fell from the tree on which it had
perched, and was captured by boy.
Japan has at present 155 miles of
railroad Yokohama to Toxic, Is
miles; Kobe TO Otsu, IS miles; Tsonga-
Ia, in the Province of Oomi, to Sekiga-
hara, in the Province of Mino, Al miles,
and Toxic to Koumagai, So miles. There
is besides in course of construction q
road to unite Maye-bashi to Toxic, q
distance of 81 miles. The first three
OF the lines named belong to the Japa-
nese Government; the others to the
Nippon. Tetsudo Kwaisha or Japan
Railroad Company
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
Health by Inheritance.

My father and mother were both of
perfect health and strength. They
never knew what it was to be sick, or
to be unable to do the days work
when the day came, or TO eat their
victuals at g. - and o'clock-four
meals day. When we were born, at
intervals of less than two years, my
mother always had q woman to see to
things about week; but the next week
she did all her own work just as usual.
A deep-chested, light-footed woman,
with rose bloom on her cheeks-a clear,
gray light in her eyes-a voice that
was music-shc possessed the greater
and finer nature; but my father was q
brown-eyed, sturdy little fellow as this
world ever held.
Then the second thing think of is
the way my mother managed us
through our childhood. She never
heard u lecture OF read book about
health in her life that | know of, but
she had code of traditions and in
stincts which she held always. She
whiteWashed her cottage from top to
bottom with quicklime twice o year,
and once 4 year painted all the wood
work.
We slept on chaff beds, but she al
ways cleared them out in the spring
and got new chaff; always had her
whole little stock of linen white and
pure to wear and to sleep in, and once
week while we were small put us
through untold torments with yellow
soap and the most intolerable towels.
''Who hath red eyes? Who hath con-
tention? Who hath strife?" The bows
who have to 90 into u tub, with Wo-
man like my mother to work it. Then
she gave us plenty to eat; oatmeal por-
ridge and blue milk in the morning,
oatmeal porridge and blue milk at
night, q very little piece of meat at
noon with plenty of soup and potatoes,
and on rare days dumplings, oat cake
to fill up the crevices-and wheat
bread about twice q week. Butter we
were supposed to have on Sundays,
but we all agreed that she scraped
more off than she put on. We knew
what tea and coffee were, but it never
injured our nerves or kept us awake
nights, and every spring she made .
wonderful specific OF birthstone, molas-
ses and cream of tartar-a kind of in
fernal SWeetmeat-Wh which with salt and
senna-When we were supposed to
need some-and q pleasant drink in
April made out of new nettles, no
doubt in her sure faith preserved our
precious lives. Good shoes, and stock
ings of her own knitting; two suits of
clothes, warm and stout, with a proph-
ecy in them of the growth we were to
attain before they were worn out-one
suit for Sunday, the other for week
days, with no distinction between sum-
mer and winter; and Hobson's choice
of the wholesome fare. That was the
way our wise, strong mother gathered
her brood under her wings, and bred
them into strudy chiefs and buirdly
hizzies.- R0bert CoIlyer IN Home SCI
C0ce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
The Kinds of Life Not Worth Living

A life of mere getting is al
ways failure, because you will never
get as much as you want. The poorest
people in this country are the million
aires, and next to them those who have
100000. There is not q scissors
grinder in New York or Brooklyn SO
anxious to make money as those men
who have piled up fortunes for years.
The disease of accumulation has eaten
into them. That is not life worth
living. There are too many earth
quakes in it, too many shipwrecks, too
many perditions. They build their
castles and open their pictures galleries
and make every inducement for
happiness to come, but she will not.
So also life that chiefly strives for
worldly approval is failure. The two
most unfortunate men in the United
States for the next six months will be
the two Presidential nominees. Two
great reservoirs of malediction have
been gradually filing up, and about
midsummer they will be trimming full,
and hose will be attached to them
and they will begin to play on the two
nominees, and they will have to stand
and take 1.-THE falsehood, the carica-
ture the venom, the filth, and they will
be rolled over in it and choked with it.
The same thing is seen on q smaller
scale in the strife for social position.
Good morals and intelligence are not
necessary; but wealth, or the show of
wealth, is absolutely Indispensable
1t don't make any difference how you
get your wealth, if you only get 1t.
PprharoS Won croft If nv failiDp four or
five times-tne most rapid way of
accumulation in this country. Ii a
man fails once he is not SO very well
off; but if he fails twice he is comfort
BILE, and by the time he fails three times
he is affiuent. But when you really
lose your money, how quick they will
drop you! High social life is constantly
in change-insecurity dominant,
wretchedness dominant and q life not
worth iiVing-Dr. Talnaagc.