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The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
A Lineman's Confession.
New York sun

An incident of the telegraph strike
well worthy of note is the remarkable
admission made in public speech by
Mr.. James Smith, the chief of the strik-
ing linemen.
After we have snesked on the roofs
of private dwellings says Mr.. Smith,
put fixtures up, driven spikes, stolen
rights of way, climbed walls and risked
our lives for the company, blufling the
property owners who attempt to inter
fere with us with some story or other,
and all the time stealing for the company
they have now no better use for us than
to turn us over to the police"
This is pretty picture of the methods
adopted by the telegraph companies to
secure points of support for their wires
on private property, and rights of way
where they have no right to go. We
have reason to believe that it is no ex-
aggeration. The linemeD are active and
shrewd in the interests of their employ
ers, and many a man in this city has
found his house or store used as a tele-
graph post before he knew it, and hold
ing up any number ofstelegraph wires
from two to twenty.
An illustration is furnished by the ex-
perience of a John street landlord, who
was informed in the spring by one of the
tenants of his store that the roof of the
building had suddenly become leaky.
The tenant added that good man tele-
graph men went up stairs through the
building every day, and that on one day
he had counted seventeen. The land-
lord at once visited the roof, and to his
amazement he found that it supported a
frame carrying twenty or thirty telegraph
wires, which had been placed there with
out his knowledge or consent, and that
the leak had been occasioned by the
damage done to the roof in putting il np,
Upon iRluiry be succeeded in ascertain
ing that three corporations were -respon-
sible Cor the injury, but each iHsisted that
he had, no proef that the linenens of the
company were chargeable with any par.
| ticular portion of the damage. All that
he could say in response was that the
three companies ought to unite in COM
pensating him for his loss in consequence
of the leak, and apportion the damages
| To 10. however Two OF thein paid one
third each, and the Other paid nothin
at ah fT-ce-a. ...s,1.--ll2194 \
Mrs. Summerbreeze's new girl was told
to watch the turnover for few minutes
when the lady returned the turnover
WAS burned to a crisp, and the girl re-
marked: "Sure, I've watched il mum
but it hasn't turned over yet."-Thc
Judge. Il nRESwa ULW W
A young man who wants 20 he an eH-
TOR and who has doubtless been iniu-
enced by humorous writers who rid;culc
classical education, writes: II wanter he
er newspaper man. / -ain't never went
TO college an don't kioN n,thin. What
is the chances of gittin' plaee?'' Good.
--Arkansaw Traveller.
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
Queer Suicides.

The wife of Rev. Mr.. Vetter, of Ober-
lin. Ohio. committed suicide by holding
her face in eighteen inches of water. She
was 60 years old.
In an effort to commit to memory the
entire Bible, Jarvis Fisher lost his reason
and took his life at the State asylum at
Harrisburg, Pa.
Frank Kuhn, a young man of Erie
Pa, hanged himself because his brother
accidentally killed Allie Steiner, 8 years
old by carelessly handling a revolver.
In delirium through a sunstroke,
Daniel B. Phillips of Boston, the evan
eelst. strangled himself on hM knees, at
King Oak Hill, in North Weymouth,
Mass, an isolated spot.
The merest trihe caused Miss Ida Bus
sells. aged Is years, Of Carter's Creek, Va,
TO quarrel with her lover one evening,
and after his departure she blew her
brains out with a revolver.
Remorse at being an accomplice in a
murder fc which he was arrested, but
cleared, ca ID a. l.. Stroble, of Lansing,
Kansas to nov himself into deep
we'll in viii he was drowned
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
Chemicals to Iight Eire.

The use of chemicals as an antidote to
fire is urged more strongly and seems ts
meet with more favor every day. The
latest application of the principle comes
in the form of recommendation by Q
Mr.. Schldmberger, that a bottle of am.
monia be placed in every barrel ofpetrole
um. On ignition, from any cause, the
bottle would break. and the ammoniacal
vapors would at once extinguish the fire
An Italian savant. NJ. Pietro Santo, pro.
poses to apply the same method tc
collieries liable to fire damp. Tanks
filed with ammonia and set IN convent
ent places would, il is claimed, stop the
combustion, which could not subsist in
an ammoniacal atmosphere. ...-
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
Rural Brevities.
Fall work soon in order. Ready?
Java fears a rice famine this year.

Fall work soon in order. Ready?
Java fears a rice famine this year.
Have you a drill for fall seeding?
= Give the boys a holiday after harvest.
Boys, helpthe girls about gardening.
Not too late for thorough cultivation.
Don't let up ON the thistles, bushes, etc
Good for hoed crops stirring the soil
Are your plans matured for fall work?
An unequal hay crop all over Iowa.
Now secure good grain for fall sowing
Making any permanent improve
ments? .....r sssstDE
Make note about planting shade
trees.
,...-- Do you really keep record of expen.
ses.
What progress in keeping farm jour
nal?
Cut and kill bushes in hot weather.
Now. T. .--CT - TIT
= q ,SArizona has 6OO0O,oO0 acres grazing
! Land AZ y - t.G@ IA y AtA
New Zealand reports very plentiful
harvests.
NIB poorfences don't protect good
crops.
. Promised "seed time and harvest,
after all.
A barrel of flour weighs 1856 pounds
pork 200.
Reapers in the valley Of the Uncom'
pahre, C,l.
II is early-cut clover that makes the
best second crop.
Deep, rich soils and top, dressing are
the r&nedies for drought. 0t
Sow supply of roots for winter it this
has not already been done.
Z A 4OO-pound Connecticut hog was late
iy killed by sunstroke.
The prospects are very favorable for a
ngar crop ia Louisiana.
- chicken feed and see If you
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
A Maidstone.
Brooklyn I ion

| have maidstone in my collection
would like to show yol. 1t is porous
IKE pumice stone, and ground To fiat
surfaces on three sides. II cures rattle.
snake and msd-dog bites. When Won
want to use it you dipit in milk or tepid
water to open the pores. Then You scar.
iiy the wound to make it bleed and an
ply the stone. 1t sticks like leecb for
perhaps an hour, absorbing the poison
all every pore is full, and then drops
OIL You clean it by dipping it in milk
again, and keep on applying Il until the
poison is under control, bat in case of ,
mad dog bite. it must ber,applied within
the first five days, before tie spasms cot in
because after that the blood is so vitiatad
that the stone can't absorb the poison
qulck enough to save life These mad.
stones are not believed in up here he.
cause people don't know anything abont
them. Down South, where they are
enown, they are greatly used.
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
Architectural Fictions.
London Atheuacum.


Viollet-le Due opposed those professors
of the fine arts who see in Greek tenn
pies the traditions of wooden construc-
ton, and he demonstrated the truth of
his statement with curious tlicity and
acumen. Temples are logically con-
structed according to the System Of the
INTEL" and not mockeries of the wood in
stone. "That such Limitations have oc-
Cured among the Hindoos, that they
have influenced the architecture of the
Assyrians and the inhabitants OF Asia
Minor, is impossible; but to suppose ii
among the Western Greeks is to misun-
derstand their genius altogether" He
compares the timber theory of the orig
in of Greek architecture with the equally
preposterous notion which attributes the
architecture of our Gothic churches tC
the forest avenues of Gaul and Germany
Both are fictions, well adapted to amuse
the fancy Of dreamers, but very hurtful
or at least useless, when we are called
upon to explain the derivations of an ar,
to those whose vocation it is to practice
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
THE SEA KING.

From out his castle on the sand ~
He led his tawney- bearded band
in stormy bark from land 70 land.
The red dawn was his goodiy sign;
He set his face 10 sleet and brine,
And ouafied the blast like ruddy wine.
And often felt the swirliBg gale
Beat. like some giant thresher's fail,
Upon his battered coat of mail,
or sacked, at times, some windy town
And from the pastures, parched and brown,
He drove the scurrying cattle down;
And kissed the maids, and stole the bell
From of the church below the fell,
And drowned the priest within the well.
And he had seen. on frosty nights.
Strange, whirling forms and elfn sighp,
In twilight land, by Northern Lights.
Or, sailing on by MINDLESS shoal,
Had heard, by night, the song Of troll
within some cavern.haunted knoll.
Of Iceland, too, the sudden rush
OF waters falling, in hush
He heard the icefelds grind and crush.
His PROV the sheeny south seas Glove;
Warm, spiced winds from lemon grove
And heated thicket round him drove
The storm-blsst was his deity;
His lover was the fitful sea;
The wailing winds his melody.
By rocky scaur and beachy head
He followed where his fancy led,
And down the brlny waters fed;
And left the psopled town behind,
And gave his days and nights TO find
What lay behind the western wind.
The Century.
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05

Tomato soup with beef stock instead
of milk is very appetizing TO one quar-
of stock allow one pint and half OF
stewed tomatoes which you have sweet
tened and salted to your taste add al
onion sliced, which may be removed be-
fore ->rving the soup. Let the soup
simmersently and not boil hard.
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05

when the world has decided that tho
less said the better, it always proceeds
directly to say everything in the ntter'
think of. possibly
The Osceola times., 1884-01-05
THE GARFIELD HOME.
How the Late Presidents Family spend
the Summer at Mentor.
Cleveland Herald

Cleveland Herald.
rTlesiarge, airy house is in splendid
condition and thesentire place e kept
up as well as any suburban home on the
Western Reserve. The spacious lawns
in front and at the sides of the house
are vekety ,neen and are kept cropped.
The drives and walks are beautifully
graveicd and not a spear of grass daree
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27
and his red-skinned brethren plotted evil

and his red-skinned brethren plotted evil
to the life and property of the pale-face.
The neat and comfortable house was
filled at an early hour with people from
all portions of the Williamsport neigh
borhood, and from the time of assembling
until the "streaks of dawn" came steal
ing DER the landscape not an incident oc.
CURED to mar the thorough enjoyment
and happiness Of the occasion. The
night was passed in dancing, singing and
various games, in which old and young
alike participated. Upstairs the tables,
loaded with refreshments, were set, and
full justice was done in this direction. An
adjournment would probably have been
sooner had but for the darkness of the
night and fear of losing the road if a
start was made before daylight.
Prof. ID. r. Rupert welded the bow,
and Mrs. w. B. Halstcd. Miss Bessie Nc
Mel and Miss Libbic Kurtz presided ut
the organ. In perfecting arrangements
for the party MIR. Campbell was assisted
by Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Halsted. and they
are to he congratulated on the success of
their efforts.
That much interest is being manifested
in social affairs is denoted by the fact
that, before the party ended, there were
expressions of hope by many present that
club would soon be formed for the pur-
pose of providing means to while away
all occasional autumn or winter evening.
The RECORD hopes the plan may be car
ried into effect, as nothing will more en-
able our citizens-coming as they do
from regions far apart-to become ac-
quainted with one another, and also tend to
keep alive those humanizing and kindly
influences which are so desirable and nee
essary to great and intelligent popula-
tion such as will soon inhabit this fair
land.
Those participating IN the festivities of
the occasion were Mr.. and Mrs. w. l..
Yeater. Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Brock, Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Halsted, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
M. Derr. Mr.. and Mrs Washington
Hawkes., Mr.. and Mrs. D. r. Streeter
the Misses McNiel. Sarah Thornton, Edna
F. Connor, Libbie Kurtz, Ida Kurtz, Alice
Carpenter, Ella Yeater, Stella Edick,
Bertha Packer, Bessie Halsted, and Lucy
Streeter Messrs. Elliott Campbell, Ed.
Campbell. H. A. Armstrong, r. S. Whit,
ney, 81. D. Connor, E. T. Herrick, Thos
Kelly, R. E. Brock, Mr.. Cochrane, A.
P. Edick, Ed. Hodgkinson, Fred. Hodg-
kinson, John Roop, A. Huffman, D. R.
Rupert, A. Croghan, and Master Johnnie
Edick
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27

stance daylight could be seen directly
through the center of the official stamp.
But the soul-harrowing and hair
stiffening outrage shall not be further
given mall its frightful details. Sufficient
it is to say that at the postoffice he shot
the stamps off score of letters, at the
RECORD Office he hit the diamond on the
editors shirt front, and at the Emmons
House he shot the kink from Dick Walk
er's (ths dogs tail. At this point he
was informed from window in the hotel
that a company of soldiers was on the
way from Fort Yates'to attempt his cap
ture. Putting spurs to his horse, he
dashed madly away on the Roop trail
and the last seen of him lie was going at
railroad speed across the prairie, with a
knife in each hand, which lie drove into
the horse's sides at every jump.
There was sudden rush through space,
and the cwriter awoke to find himself lying
on the floor, having fallen (or. been
pushed) out of bed. 1t had all been a
dream, caused by ''overfeeding" COM
plaint quite common with country pub
fishers.
Although in his old age cowboy,
Uncle Dan Long is one of the mild
hammered kind, and expends all his sur
plus energy, not in mad night-riding, but
in improving his fine farm and raising 80
bushels to the acre of No. 1 hard.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27
Il C0Wboy's Cruel Cnpe,'s.


Night before last, soon after the writer
had retired to rest and was sleeping the
sleep of the innocent and guileless, he
was aroused by terrible commotion and
a series of blood-curdling yells such as
are wont to emanate from the throat of a
Sioux warrior or the screech-pipe of a
calliope- Arraying himself in his habili-
ments, in haste he rushed to the door and
cautiously peercd out. Then it was that
the cause of the disturbance was made
known. A notorious and desperate cow
boy possessing the cognomen "Uncle
Dan Long" mounted on fiery, un-
tamed'' charger, was riding at break
neck pace up and down Broad street. In
either hand was self-cocking A Smith s.
Wesson revolver; from his right boot leg
or from his left protruded the handle of
bowie knife, and the blade of another
was visible between his clenched teeth.
AS this awe-inspiring spectacle burst upon
his vision, the writer - his discretion
knocking his valor out in one round
quickly closed the office door, and the
balance of the proceedings were viewed
from the key-hole.
Starting at the corner of Broad and
Race streets, rapidly firing as he rode, the
desperate commenced his demoniac dew
iltry by repeatedly pcrforating the window
glass and party colored lambrequins in
Judge Dougherty's office front; then,
veering to the right his next point of at
tack was Merchant Connor's store. Here
for moment he gratified his diabolical
thirst for blood by shooting the heads off
a number. of innocent flies and mosqui-
toes peacefully at rest on the merchants
windows. Next came the county build
ing. Documents bearing the great seal
of Emmons county could be seen sticking
from sundry pigeon-holes. Away the
unerring bullets sped, and in every in.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27
little TROUBLES IN BILL ARRO
FANILX,

, FAAlLY,
Carl has mashed the nail off Of his
big toe and it is Just awful, and the
girls have been gone three weeks and
Ralph is away with the travelling
thrasher and Jessie has lost her new
thimble and we are mighty lonesome
md the sun shines mighty hotand the
corn rs curling in the blades, but still
We are hopeful and trying to be calm
md serene. Jessie says it takes abou1
half her time to find her mothers spec
tscles. I shall have to get q new paiz!
I know, for when I was brushing down
the deMd flies off the wall yesteu1ay
Hrs. Arp went round after me and
thought the nail-heads were flies and
made me brush At 'em all again before
abe was satisfied You can't brush nsil-
heads off with broom, but it's a1waJs
best to Try to do % the second time.-
Hill Arp, IN the Atla1sta ConstittttievA
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27

Fame may allure with radiant blaze;
Wealth with It's glitter may charm the gaze;
Genius may ave within his gifted hand,
Ger Faney's world, Invention's plastic wand !;
Pleasure, the gentle, soft Circassian queen.
May guide her votaries through a fairy scene:
Unit is he to eepo with evil here
Who only in the good of life finds cheer.
God help the soul who o'er lite's boundiess deet
Lives but to wntch and watches but 10 weep:
Who, travelling DER life's desert to the Eonli,,
Finds naught to cheer him through this vale Q
gloom,
But yields his strensth-to sorrows power ,
slave.
Bids Joy. and hope and fortune find grnse
Living his life with nothing to impart
The softer pleasures of the social heart
Amid Contentsnent's fair Arcadian bowers
We fai,f would pass away life's lrcary hours.
Beneath its shade Afection's spell may pour
A light divine around the Indictment shore.
let us do for others all the good we may.
Aud cheer mankind along the cloudy way;
Gather the sunbeams from this life Of grief,
And lull Misfortune in the arms Of Peace
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27

A CERTAIN Continental Countess was
interrogating her sons tutor on the
progress the young hopeful was making
in his studies. @How gets on the Wis
countp" said she. Wonderfully we'll,
my Lady; we are working hard at the
sciences. The visoount is particularly
we'll up in his chemistry" Indeed, ah,
then Henri, my child, do you tell me
what is dynamite Pardon, madam"
interrupted the tutor, "but nowadays
dynamite does not belong to chemistry.
It ID considered as part and parcel Of
political economy"
SJyHSCRTRR for the RrCopn
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27
Early Pl0sVjs,g.

The american AgrIcslatsl,ist ssys:
The first object gained BY early plow-
ing is time for the proper preparation
Of the seed-bed. All possible fertility
should be made readily svailable. To
be so, it should be soluble, and division
aids solution. The ground becomes
hard in July and August, and, if plow-
ing is delayed too long, the soil breaks
up in hard Jumps. If plowed early, it
will turn up moist and fine. Rain and
air are natures two great disintegrating
forces.
Seeds germinate quickly and plants
grow rapidly in firm seed-bed. The
increase Of insect enemies of wheat
makes late sowing, coupled with rapid,
vigorous growth, desirable. Hence the
Importance Of a firm seed.bed, which
also prevents much freezing out of the
plants. To make the seed-bed firm, il
must first be fine. It Is not hard soil,
but compact, fine soil that is desired.
It may be compacted with the roller
and harrow; butif the farmer, by early
plowing, can gain the aid Of heavy
rain, it will save him mnch labor, and
it will do the work OF preparing the soil
far better than he can alone.
Another object gained by early
plowing is the destruction of weeds.
They are robbers of the wheat, and the
sooner their growth is stopped by plow-
ing, the less plant-food they will take
from the soil. Early plowing will de-
stroy them before they mature their
seeds, and thus prevent perpetuating
their kind. Late plowing permits of a
large growth, and when this is turned
under by the plow, it is impossible to
compact the seed-bed, and the green
manure affords harbor for enemies.
: Early plowing admits of better ap-
plication of manure. Manure is most
needed in autumn, and to be at once
available to the roots Of the young
plant, it must be fine and near the sur
face; not on top of the ground, but
thoroughly incorporated with the upper
layer of soil. If the ground is plowed
early, the manure can be applied to the
surface, and the work Of preparing the
seed-bed will fine it and mix it with the
soil. Commercial manures should be
sown with the grain.
Early plowing admits of atmospheric
fertilization. Whether it directly adds
the elements Of fertility to the soil or
only frees and unlocks that which it al
ready possesses is immaterial. Plow-
ing the land exposes greater surface
and permits Of the easy passage of the
| air into the interior of the soil.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27

IFS the RECORD cl1cNl0tes
in all sectioRs of Ensm 0ns
County, and as eDe1y d0ila7
expended for goods by her
people must of necessity go TO
Bismarck, tie columns of
thus paper are an excellent
channel through which the
merchants of that city may
reach our citizens.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27
.l,A EniOW0bze P0rtaf.

The RECORD is a prophet. Last week
it was forecast in this paper that the So
cial to be held at the residence of Mr. Ed
Campbell would prove in every respect a
success. That such was the case is shown
by the large attendance, and by favorable
comment since the occurrence of the
event.
: The party was announced for Thursday
evening, and at dusk on that day sun
dry teams and conyeyances were seen
driving from house to house gathering
together those who intended taking part
When the scribe arrived and beheld the
large number Of people there assembled
it seemed to him that he was in some old
neighborhood of the States, and not q
resident of section which until Z year
and half ago knew naught Of human
assemblages save those in which '.Lo"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27

have 455 papers-Dakota nearly one half.
Dakota has more papers than eight of the
thirteen original states. as follows Da-
kota. 2Os; Georgia. 201; Maryland, 1854 ,
North Carolina. 145; Connecticut, 14s !;
New Hampshire. 109 South Carolina,
80; Rhode Island, so; Delaware, 81.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-08-27

Judge Drake, of Aberdeen, has written
to Bismarck asking the cooperation OF
her citizens toward securing the con.
struction of the Rock Island to Bismarck
via Aberdeen. They are now at work in
Dakota, and will reach Watertown this
fall. Preliminary surveys are being mad e
for the extension to Bismarck That will
come next year.