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The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
superstitions on Change.

l do not believe that there is a man in
the world absolutely free of superstition,
and right here on Change there Is as
much of it as anywhere. If a pigeon
should fly into the hall it cannot get out,
n men here aver that the market will
go down until it is shot, and, being
bears" the execution of the unfortu-
nate bird is at once ordered. Others
aver that a break in the market always
follows spontaneous singing in the pit.
There are fifty men in the body who will
neither buy nor sell on Friday, and 9TH
ers that avoid number thirteen on a car
or invoice as they would a pestilencc. A
cross eyed man is bad luck; so is shaking
hands with a man wearing gloves. 4
hunchback is good luck if accidentally
thrown against you, but bad luck if YOU
purposely rub against him. Pick up a
handful of wheat and count the grains;
if an even number you will have good
luck. if odd you will lose on the day.
Never permit a man to present YOU with
a knife, but rather pay him a nickel for
it. Do not mistake a man and call him
by the wrong name, or the market will
go against you. These are a few of the
petty supcrstitions which men permit to
worry them.-Interview in st. Louis
Globe Denocrat,
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
uHny lIamlef.N

John Howard Payne enjoys the dis
t@inction of being the first American
Hamlet who WAS born in America, and
he had been born but seventeen. years
when he played "Hamlet" ut the Park
theatre in May, 1909. Io was the first
of the long line of infant phenomena in
this country, and the original boy
Hamlet" Fired by the marvellous
and ridiculous-success of Master Betty
in England, he went upon the stage with
little professional training, and with
barely sufficient intelligence to play the
parts of ~Iioscncrantz or Guildenstcrn,
but he drew enormous crowds, and put
money in his purse. Two years later,
on the 9Th of April, 1911, he introduced
the tragedy of "Hamlet" to Albany au-
dicnccs; but he is remembered by pos
tcrity as a playwright rather than as a
player, and rs the author of one immor-
tai song. His Hamlet naturally was as
immature and as amateur as it was pre-
acknowledgements Hutton in Harper's
Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
In u Kentucky Cave.

Provided with lanterns, several young
men started in the entrance known as
Coleman's Cave Spring, near Harrods-
burg, and went eastward three miles,
where they could distinctly hear the
trains on the Cincinnati Southern road
at Burgin, which is four and half miles
from this place. They found a stream
of water running the entire distance ex-
plored. In this stream they found fish
and frogs innumerable. Tho passage
vas from seven to fifteen feet wide and
about the same height, except OCCASION
ally narrowing down to a fat mans mis-
cry. Not far from the entrance the ex-
plorcrs found Il large room, twenty to
thirty feet, studded with stalactites. In
the center of the ave is Il circular
chamber thirty feet in diameter and no
less than fifty feet high. This is a veri-
table rotunda, covered, as it were, by a
high, we'll shaped dome. Over the en-
trance is a large curtain formed by tho
union of stalactites and stalagmites, fif-
teen feet wide and us many high.
The most unique thing found by the
explorers in the cave was the fac-simile
of q side saddle, all of solid sandstone,
opposite the doorway in this chamber.
The young men attempted to sing the
Star Spangled Banner" but were forced
to desist OH account of the terrible rever-
berating echo that filled every nook,
corner and recess of the cave. They
found a number of bones of small ami
mails, but aside from the fish and frogs
no living creature was found. They will
explore the cave in a few days, going a
different direction from the one taken by
them yesterday. Near the outer opening
of the cave, cut in stone, was found the
initials I'D. b." and numerous figures
and designs of animals and birds. The
initials were supposed to be for Daniel
Boone, and those who saw them say they
look to have been placed there years ago.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
Carlyle and the Ass.

One morning, q few minutes before the
school hour, when most of the pupils had
arrived and they had gone into the school,
a donkey was entering the playground.
Bill Hood and l were so far on our way,
rushed to mount the animal and began to
guide and force it into the school. With
desperate squirting the donkey was in
duccd to carry its rider over the thresh-
old, and what 4 reception both of them
got from the juvenile crowds! Bags of
books were at once fastened to the tail
and around the neck of the ass, and SO
busy were Bill and half n dozen compan-
ions in urging the brute to cantcr around
the school and to ascend the short stair
of the masters desk that they did not no
ticc how time was speeding, and before
they could cmovc the stranger Mr.. Car
lyle appeared. We expected a tremen-
dous explosion of wrath, but he burst into
a roar of laughtcr-such a oar, however,
as, instead of tempting us to join in it,
produced a sudden and complete hush,
and that roar was renewed again and
again, when the ass, withdrawing it's fore
feet from the first step of the desk stair
and turning round, took Il pace or two
slowly toward the master as if to salute
him.
That" exclaimed Carlyle, sis the
wisest and best scholar kircaldy has
yet sent me; he is fit to he your teacher"
He tapped the donkey's head, as he
was wont to do ours, and said: "There's
something here far more than in the
skulls of any of his brethren before me,
though these skulls arc pattcd in fond
admiration by papas and mammals, aud
though that far grander hcadpiccc meets
only with merciless blows"
lie then gave some hard taps on Bill
Hoods head, and would not allow him
to dismount, but for penalty ordered him
to ride up and down the school for au
hour, while the boys who had been most
active in helping Bill to go through the
farce had to march in pairs before and
behind the perplexcd-looking ass. lie did
not require the other scholars to attend
to their school lessons, but silently per-
mitted them to stand as spectators of the
grotcsque procession. Then he himself,
seated within the pulpit-like desk, sur
veyed Bill and his company with a
strange mixture of mirth, scorn and
fury.-Cor. Edinburgh Scotsman.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
Adulteratcd China Tea.

The heather Chinee, who is nothing if
not economical, has an ingeniously
simple method of eating his cake-or,
rather, in the celestial translation, drink
ing his tea-and having it also. He
makes the tea, drinks the first delicate
infusion and then dries the leaves again,
packs them in those mysteriously lettered
boxes we know and exports them to the
western barbarian. who, he has found
out, likes his tea strong and stewed. 1t
is true that the fannie acid apt to come
out of the leaf in tho second infusion
may injure tho British stomach. That's
not John Chinanan's business; he knows
the beauty and profit of adulteration.-
New York Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
A Sound Legal Opinion

p. cambridge Munday, Esq, County
Atty, Clay county, Tex, says: Have
used Electric Bitters with most happy
results. My brother also was very low
with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but
was cured by timely use of this medicine.
Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his
life"
Mr.. D. ]. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
n.y., adds a like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off, as
well as cure all Malarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney. Liver and Stomach
Disorders stands unequaled. Price soc.
and 81, at j. j. Freeman's.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
|LoST-A HEART.

So you're going up to the Highlands . .
Commissions for me? Well-no-
Yon might chance to hear of n tride
left there q year &
a tritic l don't feel tho want Of
Scarce needful for ladies' wear
But still it has often vcxcd mo
To think | should leave it there
lcannot tell where ! dropped 1t
Perhaps on the cliff that day.
When the hoarse Atlantic surges
Thundrrcd through clouds of spray
Or il might have been In the heather,
Or down by the amber burn,
Where the gray and lichenrd powders
Lie bcddc1 in golden fern
Or was 1t under Tn" starlight,
Down the path from Almulrcc,
When the pipes walled out their music
of weird and cliangcful gltc?
80. Perhaps when strolling idly
Beside the bitter brine,
You might find n blood-rcd pebble,
Jasper or Scrpcntine
The waves have flung it. and tossed it.
And polished it ~smooth-twill do
To set in Il brooch or locket
And wear the season through.
-Blackwood's Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
vALuABLEM

The edition for 1890 of the sterling Medical An
nual, known as Hostcttcrs Almanac, is now
gtsts and general country dealers in nll parts of
the United States. Mexico. and indeed in every
civilized portion of the Western Hemisphere.
This Almanac has been issued regularly ut the
commencement of every year for over one-fourth
of a century. 1t combines, with the soundcst
practical advice for the preservation and rcs'ora.
amusing light reading, and the calendar. astro.
nomical calculations, chronological items &C..
are prepared with great care and will be found
manac for 1890 will probably be the largest cdi.
ton of II medical work ever published in any
country. The proprietors, Mcssrs liostcttcr \ Co.,
Pit1sburgl, Pa. on receipt Of u two cent stamp:
cannot procure one in his ncighborhood.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
The Snow Flower.

Count AnthoskoF's curious discovery
of the snow flower is likely to interest
floriculturists for some time to come, as,
from the accounts given of it, it appears
to be not only a remarkable but a singu-
larly beautiful plant. 1t was discovered
on the perpctually frozen ground Of ST.
IBERIA, but Count Anthoskoff has succeed
ed in raising plants from seed placed in
a pot of 10Y at st. Petersburg. The
bloom lasts only for q single day, and
m once in two years. A French
contemporary thus describes it: The
leaves are three in number, and each
about three inches in diameter. They
are developed only on that side of the
stem toward the north, and each seems
covered with microscopic crystals of
snow. The flower when it opens is star
shaped, its petals are Of the same length
as the leaves, and about half on inch in
width,-London Globe.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28

The History of Butter.

Butter, which is almost indispensable
nowadays, was almost unknown to the
ancients. Hcrodotus is tho earliest writ
er to mention it. The Spartans used
butter, but as an ointment, and Plutarch
tells how tho wife of Deiotorous once re-
ceived a visit from a Spartan lady whose
presence was intolerable because she was
smeared with butter. The Greeks learn
ed of butter from the Scythians and the
Germans showed the Romans how it was
made. The Romans, however, did not
use it for food, but for amounting their
bodies.-EXchange.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
INCOMPLETE.


Think the words that arc sweetest,
Are the words that are never said;
And tho moments that pass tho fleetest
Are the last ones with the dead.
The thoughts that are truest and bravest,
Are the ones that arc never expressed;
And the tender love thou cravest
For fear Is never confessed.
know the friends that arc trucst
Are those We see In our dreams;
Though VIC feel the one that is newest
Is very near what he seems
The rose that is sweetest and fairest
Is the bud that is killed by the frost;
And the love that is dearest and rarest
Is tho true love we just have lost
-An0nrHaoaa
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28

Doctor Ito messenger boy)-so yo'
nanny say ez what de YARDS ain done
her no good? Wait or minnit. (Con-
suits book.) l-yi! l thought so. Ask
you nanny how she spec de YARDS to
ack when de bill ain paid.-Harper's
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
Proverbs About Rain.

When there is unusual clearness in the
atmosphere, and objects are seen very
distinctly, there will probably be rain.
When clouds are gathering toward the
sun at setting, with a rosy hue, they fore
tell rain,
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
IT It rains before seven,
It will clenr hnforn eleven

If it rains before sunrise, expect a fair
afternoon. If it rains when the sun
shines, it will rain the next day. If
clouds appear suddenly in the south, ex-
pect rain.
Rain from the south prevents the drouth,
But rain from the west is always best.
When rain comes from the west, it will
not continue long. If rain falls during
afeast wind, it will continue a full day.
If al a%ssemblage Of small clouds spread
out or become thicker or darker, expect
rain. Small inky clouds foretell rain.
Dark clouds in the west at sunrise indi-
cate rain on that day. If tho sky after
fine weather becomes heavy with small
clouds, expect rain.-Boston Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28

1fFI q ~ II q Jo7t ee1
If rain commences before day, it will
stop before 8 n. H.; if it begins about
noon, it will continue through the after
noon; if not till s p. H., it will rain
through the night; if it clears off in the
night, it will rain the next day.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
A 6 BY 9 RHYME.

A queer little boy who had been to school.
And was up to all sorts of tricks.
Discovered that 9, when upside down.
Would pass for tho 0gure6
So when asked his age by a good old dame.
The comical %youngster said,
I'm 0 when l stand on my feet like this
But 6 when ! stand on my head"
From Chatterbox
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
Artificial Coffee.

We have received a somewhat remark
able pamphlet On the production of arti-
fetal coffee, and also some equally re-
markable samples of the imitation art
icle. The pamphlet bears the name of
Mr.. Paul Gassen, Cologne, who describes
himself us a Specialist for alimentary
produce" This artificial coffeei is said to
be Gin imitation of the natural bean," but
after an examination of the samples, we
are bound to say that there is very little
resemblance, either in aroma or D
ance, between the product of Mr.. Gassen
and the original article. 1t is stated that
this article is Sin its composition free
from ingredients of a strong or dis
agreeable smell, or of a sticky nature;;'
and it is further advanced that ''an adj
dition of from 16 to 20 per cent. of our
artificial coffee to a good quality of gen.
uine coffee cannot be detected london
Grocer.
A Success of Failure.
Lucy (sobbing)-Papa, it's too dr-drcad-
full. Jack has failed and of course you
wo-wont let me marry him.
Pater Observation-Disclosures, Child.
He pays just fifty cents on the dollar.
Saves the other fifty cents. Next time
he'll pay only twenty-five cents and save
seventy-five. Take him and be happy
Pittsburg Bulletin.
Tho New Discovery.
You have heard your friends and
neighbors talking about it. You may
yourself be one of the many who know
from personal experience just how good
a thing it is. If you have over tried it,
you are one of its staunch friends. be-
cause the wonderful thing about it is,
that when ono given a trial, DIR. Kings
New Discovery ever after holds a place
in the house. If you have never used it
and should be afflicted with a cough,
cold Or any Throat, Lung or Chest
trouble. C a bottle at once and give
it a fair trial. 1t is guaranteed every
time, or money refunded. Trial Bottles
! free at j. j. Freeman's Drug Store.
The Dickinson press., 1889-12-28
STOCK BRANDS

ia. DUNLAP, Foreman, Dickinson, N. d.
Cattle branded as above. Horses with same
brand on left shoulder. Range, Kildecr Noun
.ains ana little Missouri river. July 1S-1y
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-10-11
His BlasphemOus Prayer Fulfilled,

Several days ago Patrick Gallagher
felt in his inside pocket for his pipe.
1t was not there, and it's absence
caused him to make u terrible wish.
His wife reproved him.
''Well, | dom care" hesaid: there.
with uplifted hand to Heaven | pray
that my Creator will paralyze the
man who has my pipe.
Before the utterance had died away
Gallagher felt n severe twitchinr of
the heart and complained OF feeling
unwell. a doctor was hastily dis.
patched for, and said that he received
stroke OF paralysis. AS Gallagher
was in straitened circumstances it
was deemed best to remove him for
treatment to the Home of the Aged
Poor, where death ensued in less
than twelve hours.
The grief-stricken family were at n
loss to understand his sudden death.
In looking recently through his
clothes, removed at the time of the,
paralytic stroke, they were filed with
superstitious horror, for in one of
his outside pockets was found the
pipe, which had worked its
way into the lining.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-10-11

NEW YORK; want to see the cotton
planters ''down" bagging trust and think
they will eventually succeed, but / want
TO call attention to one feature of the fight
that must be watched. The world is very
bare of cotton and wants it so badly that
the price of cotton on the spot in New
York and Liverpool is So TO 81 per blle
more than that for delivery during the
winter months All authorities concur in
saying that the demand in September and
October will be enormous at full prices;
and that after this demand is pretty we'll
supplied prices will go much lower. In
other words there will be a premium of IS
to ~ per bale on cotton marketed in Sep
TENDER and So to So per bale on that mar
keted in October.-Cor Dallas News
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-10-11
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
The Proper Way to Stack Hay and Grain to
Prevent Damage from Continuous Rain
and Snow Storms.
THE THOROUGHBRED DONOVAN


There is no reason why every farmer.
boy should not learn the art of properly
stacking grain and lay. Nearly every far.
mer can stack grain after fashion, but
not one out of fifty can build up a trim,
symmetrical, rain-proof stack. Select the
site OF the desired stack remote from the
shade of any building or grove. and ar
range the bottom so that there will be a
Tree circulation of air underneath The
plan of preparing concave bottom, to
give stability to the rick is not desirable,
on account of the natural tendency of the
layers of sheaves to settle into a concave
position also, and make a hollow in the
center OF the stack, the very thing most to
DE avoided. Fix firm, slightly convex
foundation out Of stout poles or scantlings,
ana lmhed in the ground short corner up
rights, to give rigidity to the bottom of the
stack. Put down first layer of straw
and then begin the stack. Put circle of
sheaves, with the butts out, around the
convex CENTER Crowd them tightly to-
Gle. Lay another circle around the first
III the same way. allowing the sheaves of
The second circle to lap half their length
on the first. Follow the same practice un-
I'll the limit of the bottom is reached, and
then begin at the center again. A stacker
should be on his knees all of the time. and
compress the bundles snugly as he follows
the circle around. Let the outside ring of
the second layer project very slightly over
the foundation layer, and repeat until the
middle of the desired stack height is
reached Then place each successive LAYER
little nearer the center, and gradually
brihg to tapering peak. 1t is of vital
Importance that the center of the stack
shall be kept more full and cone shaped
all OF the way up than is really wanted.
lt VIII hatten out greatly by settling. A
steep, smooth pitch is imperatlvely re-
CURED in the roof part of the stack.
straw should not be discolored by wet and
exposure more than few inches ON the
QUITS OF the outside sheaves. 1t is good
plan to cap the peak with a matching of
proad-leaf marsh grass, and hang rails over
the peak connected by hay rope, to hold
II on. Grain properly stacked in the man
her described will come through wet
weather without damage to kernel of its
growth if it is thoroughly dry when put
up. There is enough grain spoiled annu-
lily on farms by bad stacking to pay for
the erection of many commodious barn.
American AgrIcuturist
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-10-11
Sunday Farming.

Texas farmers who have violated the
decalogue this summer in harvesting grain
on Sunday may find some consolation in
the following religious philosophy from
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
In RoXbury, Mass, man has been
prosecuted for hauling in some bay on
Sunday to prevent it from beng spoiled,
There Is 10 greater shame attached to
American character than fear to use
Sunday for rational purposes. Millions of
tons OF hay have been allowed to spoil for
fear of Offending God by drawing them
under shelter ON Sunday. The result is
that amount of feed is subtracted from the
proyender of our domestic animals, and
poor people have thus lost large share of
Their income. In thousands cases il has
led TO suffering of animals and pinching
want OF their owners. Cows unfed have
failed of milk to the loss of their owners.
But the worst feature of the case is the
manufacture of piety out of foolishness.
When the Lord wishes men to neglect
crops ON Sunday he will stop their growth
on Sunday and Sunday rains. Two fanat-
les n Lancaster, Pa, have recently prose-
euted n farmer for getting in his hay on
Sunday ahead of thunder storm.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-10-11
Why the Doctor Moved.
From the Chicago Herald.

From the Chicago Herald
DIR. Potter, who lives out Mt tho
Oakland hotel, located in the south
when he first began the practice of
medicine. He made the great mis-
take, however, of locating in re-
markedly healthy neighborhood, land
he had more patience than patients,
as is witnessed by his unproductive
solourn OF Jour months there during
which time he did not have a single
call. But one summer afternoon MS
he sat in front ofhis home and brood
ed over his ill-luck there came over
the mountains-a backwoodsman.
with foot swathed in bandaces,
mounted on the back of a sturdy DO.
ny. He pulled up his steed at the
doctors gate and inquired: "Be you
n DOCTOR" DR.. Potter replied that
he was, and. to make it stronger.
yentured the opinion that he was n
good one, too. The backwoodsman
slowly dismounted, presented his
Dandnged foot to the doctor and
asked: whats that" The doctor
carefully removed the primitive
wrappings, closely inspected the af-
fllcted member, and said: CHATS
erysipelas." The backwoodsman
looked at him q moment and then
exclaimed; cry be- A bee stung
me!' Then he remounted his pony
and rode away. Before he had dis
appeared over the brow of the hill
DR.. Potter had packed his trunk and
decided to come north. He decided
that ii he could not tell the difference
between bee sting and erysipelas he
had better change his base of oper-
ations.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-10-11
To Keep Swine Healthy.

Keep large and small separate and not
more than ten in a lot.
Feed regularly and literally of whole
some food, always some bulky food, and
let each feed be eaten up clean before more
is given.
Give wallowing places ashes, charcoal
ana salt, and plenty exercise in timber
pastures, yield shade, roots, acorns, etc
Provide ventilated shelters from wind,
rain and snow, but no litter. Hogs with
litter get too warm. If you wish disease,
put your hogs in straw pile.
Maintain cleanliness in all things.
Breed only mature animals The off,
spring of immature or pampered animals
is predisposed to diseases
Give pure water, from pure wells, pro-
tected from surface water Water from
creeks (unless fed by springs. ponds or
pools is disease breeding.
Pigs should be farrowed in early spring
and kept only on growing foods-milk,
brans, Stops, oats, green rye, grasses,
clover. sweet corn--until late in the fall:
then fatten rapidly on corn mostly, but
also green rye, blue grass, pumpkins,
boiled potatoes and turnips, with bran.
steamed clover. hay, etc