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The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
ITEMS OF GENERAL lNFE REST.

Wool from North Dakota sheep brings
better price than any other from the
West.
North Dakota has 1875 newspapers, or
more than Vermont and Delaware COM
bined.
No section of the country can boast
better dirt roads the year round than
North Dakota.
No man should go to North Dakota or
anywhere else in the west with an idea
that a living can bo made without work.
The altitude of North Dakota above
sea level ranges from 800 feet in the Red
River Valley to 1900 on the high prair-
les or coteaus between the large rivers,
the average of the state being 1,5O0 feet.
North Dakota has all the advantages
of new country in the way of chea p
lands and rich soil and all the convent
ences of an old country in the shape Of
railroad and postal facilities, markets,
schools, etc.
1t is gratifying to know and to say
that no state ever ntered the Union
with a more deserved reputation for
,od order, with greater regard for the
ghts of persons and property, and for
general intelligence and morality in its
highest and purest sense than North Da-
kOta.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
A Lake of Pitch.

Near where we live," said William
Greig, of Trinidad, West Indies, sis a
pitch lake. It's at La Brea. 1t covers
about ninety acres, and it is soft enough
to take tho impression of your shoes as
you walk over it, but take up bit of it
and strike it sharply and it breaks off
with u conchoidal fracture like lump
of anthracite. l don't know where it
comes from, but do know that it's most
awfully hot there. The sun pelts down
like fun, and the black pitch absorbs all
the heat. All down to the coast and under
the sea and across in Venezuela there is
q streak of this same formation. The
British government owns the lake, and
a monopoly pays royalty of not less
than SEQ, 900 q year.-Chicago Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Saving Souls i'm Africa.

They tell of Il powerful Irishman out
in Africa who seized the wrctched Arab
who was padding him across a stream,
threw him overheard, and grabbing him
by tho back of tho neck as he rose to tho
surface of the water hisscd in his ear:
"Will You renounce the Prophet and
become IL Christian?'
"Allah forbid" sputtcred tho Arab.
"Down you go, then," said tho Irish
man, and he ducked the Arab under
again. In about minute he pulled him
up and shouted:
"Will you believe in tho Christians
God?"
'No," gasped the Arab feebly.
"Drown, then," yelled the Irishman,
us he ducked tho unfortunate Mussu1-
man again.
For tho third time he pulled the man
up and asked, "Will you believer"
The Arab, almost dead, was just able
to whisper eyes"
"Drown, then," yelled the man, "bc-
fore you lose your sowl by recanting!"
and lie put tho wretch under once moro
and held him there till life was extinct.
New York Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
SLIM CHANCE FOR DOCTORS.
A Place Whore Pills, Pads, and Patent
NTeilicinca Are Not in Demand.

Place Who're Pills, Pads, aud Patent
BIedicincs Are Not in Demand.
A correspondent Of The St. Louis
Globe-Democrat recently made q trin
over the Great Northern Railway in
North Dakota, and in a letter from
Devils Lake to his paper said: aThis is
a healthy country. The people look it
us we'll as talk it. The patent medicine
man has evidently discovered that the
pakotas are a discouraging field for
him. He has learned this lesson before
he wasted much of his artistic talent on
the fences and barns Of the new coun.
try. You will ride for days over the
prairies of North Dakota and never see
all advertisement of liver pill, a cough
syrup, or kidney cure. The drug store
is not the profitable business here that
it is where malaria abounds. How
about the doctors? Well, it must be
admitted that they are In sbout the
same small proportion to the population
that deaths are. The young man who
comes to either Dakota with diploma
and an assortment Of pills soon discov-
ers that the practice of medicine must
be supplemented with something else in
order to make both ends meet. He
goes into the land business or politics.
and his profession becomes side issue.
There is not a medical school in the
Dakotas, and yet there are nearly
twenty higher institutions in which
theology, law. mineralogy and every
thing but the healing art are taught"
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
5000 PER ANNUM
GIFTS FOR WOMEN.
What Men May Give to Their Fair Com.
panions for birthday Prcsents.

pah1OnS iOr birthday PrCsent9.
Tho platonically friendly man rarely
thinks of jewelry, and am glad Of
it, for even simple ornaments well
bred girl dislikes to accept or refuse, and
there are many other little eremembrances
she would more gladly welcome. For
instance, leather is an outlet for my
men friends generosity, and among
other things have collection of beau
tiful card cases various persons have
given mo.
They are made of the finest perfumed
and tinted skins, lined with silk, pro-
vided with silver screw pencils, some
times tiny watch, and besides pocket
for cards one for change and little slips
to pull out, on which are daintily etched
calendars for tfie year. MyIast acquisi-
tion camo from Paris. 1t is gray green
veincd leather, highly polished and dot
ted over with tiny bright silver feur-de-
lis. To match it was q scrap of purse
provided with many little hooks and
pockets, and decorated with tho silver
flowers.
Another good friend gavo mo what he
calls my set of books for daily business.
They arc thrco square, gilt edged vol
umes, bound in leather as fne and sweet
smelling rs roso leaves. On tho covers
my crest and monogram are deeply
stamped in gilt, and on tho title backs
aro written respectively accounts, en-
gagements and addresses Inside tho
one for accounts is comfortably ruled off
and noted, so that one knows where
those puzzling lists of figures should co.
Engagements" has stated pages OIL
which one jots down memoranda of
events to como, addresses" has the
leaves alphabetically arranged, and the
three books are held together by little
strap and catch button like those on
books of prayer and hymnals. A gift Of
that kind is in constant use, and one is
always reminded of and pleasantly grate-
ful to the giver.
Another pretty leather toy for wom-
an is travelling inkstand. They come
in numberlcss devices, and nothing is
more unique than a miniature Glad
stone bag, perfect in detail, even to
bit of u silver plate, on which ones
initials can be traced; and by pressing
knob it flies open to reveal the inside
glass bottle.
Then if you are going on journey he
can giyo You a lovely suede leather
writing portfolio or one for holding the
loose photographs to be picked up in
travelling. Some thoughtful souls give
girls leather bound books, on the backs.
stamped in black, the title diary and
her name. A screw pencil slips into
loops, and on the gilt edged leaves she
can jot down a Heterogeneous mass of
notes and reflections, for reference at
another day.
For a journey by rail he will perhaps
buy cut glass tumbler, glass being
cleaner than Il metal cup, set in q leath-
er case, and marked with her name and
address, and for a sea voyage it's no i'm
propriety for a friend to beg her ac-
ceptance of a flat glass leather covered
bottle filed with u clear golden fluid
that for conventionalty's sake let us cali
the travellers companion-lnterview in
New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
eRANARY OF THE CONTINENT.
It Has Moved From Now York West
ward to the Red River Valley.

1t Has Moved From Now York West
ward to tho Red River Valley.
During the last half century New
York, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and
Iowa have each successfully been claimed
as the great wheat producing region,
"the granary Of the continents" but in
each state the production has fallen off
after the first few years, and none Of
them has for several years produced
enough wheat for it's own consumption.
During all these years except the last
decade, the real wheat region of the
continent lay untouched save by the feet
of wild beasts and equally untamed saw
ages. If q line is drawn directly north
and another directly west of st. Paul,
Minn., these would define the eastern
and southern boundaries of region bet
ter adapted to the production of spring
wheat than any other part Of the North
American continent. This vast region
has been broken only in a compara-
lively limited portion of its southeast
ern corner, and at remote intervals to
the Peace river valley far up in British
America. The greatest development
has been made in that section of North
Dakota lying along the Red River of
the North. There wheat farming is
conducted on a scale commensurate
with the magnitude of the region of
which it forms portion. The largest
farm there is the Grandin, in Cass
county, north of Fargo on the
Great Northern railroad, contain
ing forty thousand acres, but many 9TH
ers range from that down to
three thousand acres. On these
great farms the system pursued
has for its object the production of
the largest amount Of wheat with the
smallest amount of manual labor. With
tho improved implements now in use,
ono man and four horses on an average
are employed for each one hundred and
sixty acres. The era of large farms,
however, is disappearing, and many of
them are being divided up, the owners
selling out on the crop plan.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
WANTED IN NORTH DAKOTA.

( To come and live in the most
healthful part Of America.
To come and get the cheapest
and most productive land in the
Union.
or considerable or large means
who are not prospecting in the
slow-plodding Eust, to comA
and try this country,
To come and till land that
will produce as much to the
acre as any in the North Tenn
perate zone.
Who want to escape con-
sumption-the most fatal dis.
ease in the Union-catarrh, and
other throat and lung diseases,
and get relief il already suffer-
ers.
Who have no homes Of their
own in the East, but have cour-
age and are willing to make
self denials until they get q
start.
Who are young and can't
make q start before old age
where they are, to come and
grow up with the country.
Growing up with the country
out here means wealth.
Who want to find q country
where horsas and cattle are not
troubled with fevers. hogs with
cholera, sheep with foot.rot and
scab-where all kinds Of ami
mails enjoy singular immunity
from disease.
Who make o scanty living on
rented farms back East to come
and get a farm of their own,
and by saving rent become in
dependent with half the labor
expended in making money for
landlords.
Who have much invested in
small but high priced farms,
in the East, but not large
enough to provide for a growing
family, to sell, and with the
proceeds establish themselves in
first-class style on the fertile
prairies of the bountiful valley
of the Red.
Of little or no means but will
ing to work. Any man with
energy, muscle, nerve and good
sense has the means. He can
make a living out of the ground
much easier than the man of
fifty years ago who packed corn
on his back miles away to mill
or beat it to meal with pestle
of stone.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
A FAR HAVEN.

Hoist the sail and bear awayi
of IN island lave heard,
Anchored in the star sown deep
Whittier Love las gone nstray.
Long ago he heard the roar
of breakers falling on the sand
of some unknown Samorcand,
And with no reluctant word
Sailed away.
In new meadows, by new seas,
Wc must seek him with the breezo
Blowing from tho gates Of sleep
Listen! wo may hear him call
Where goldenrod o'ertops the wall,
Or when tho moon across the night
Bends her steps
From that island in the sea
We arc told Of drcamily
By sccrs of tho Orient
hear him CALI
What powers have ye lent
To these poor ears.
Spirit Of love,
That in perpetual banishment
1.-Two my dark fears2-
And oft seem to rove
When shadows fall,
Toward the island, that far island of the sea,
Where I1ove doth dwell;
And over tho sea swell
Comes q glad vision to the inward sight
OF what heard, o Kappa, and told thec
Annie Fields in Harper's
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Proud of His Work,

There is story told Of French poet
who inquired Of friend and fatterer
what he thought of his last work. 81
have arrived at the fifteenth cauto," he
replied with enthusiasm, land think
there is nothing more beautiful and har-
monious in the language" Pardon
me, there is one thing" said the poet.
"Ah, perhaps you mean Chateaubriand's
'AtalaFs Certainly not. mean my
sixteenth canto."-San francisco Argo-
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Electric Lights on stree. Cars.

Some interesting experiments were
made recently in Bradford, England, OH
tho lighting Of street cars by electricity
A car was illuminated by three incan-
descent lamps Of five candle power each.
They were fed from three storage bat
terics placed beneath the seats, capable
of supplying current continuously for
six hours. The light obtained is de-
scribcd as being about equivalent to that
given under tho best conditions by the
oil lamps at present in use, with, of
course, the additional advantages of alb
sence of smell and necessity for trim
ming.-New York Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Foreigners Who Receive Pensions.

Ireland has $50 pensioners on the rolls,
who draw an average of S12 month.
and a single county in England-Lancas-
ter-has fifty pensioners. Thousands of
miles away in Australia are enough pen
sioners TO draw nearly $4,000 a year
The Dark Continent has round dozen
pensioners, living principally in Cape
Town, South Africa, while Liberia is
represented by one lone widow whose
husband was freed by the emancipation
proclamation, and who died of the inju-
ries he received in fighting the battles of
"Massa Linkum. Companion.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
The Bows Feet.

A small boy. apparently s or 6 years
old, pushed open the door of down
town shoe store the other day, and hesi-
tatingly asked, "Got any rubber bootsy'
A facetious clerk replied, "Yes, sonny;
what size do you want?" and was para
lyzed by the reply, Don't know, but l
brought my feet with met" Charley's
friends all smoke.-Spring6eld Home
stead.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
They Began in a Small Way.

There are hundreds of men now own.
ing good farms in both Dakotas free,
from membranes, who began with ab.
solutcly nothing and had to hire them
selves ont befire they could even pay
the land office fees for the claims they
took up. A man who wants work can
always find it at good pay, besides gain
ing some practical experience before
starting on his own account.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
In Stock.

Stranger (at great music box and Or
chestrion emporium)-I am dentist,
and it has occurred to me that music
box or orchestrion would be pleasant
addition to my parlors, to amuse my pa
tients, do you know. and
Realer-l see. You want something
to keep tho waiting patients interested
and sort O. help-er-drown any noises
in the operating room.
Stranger-That's the idea.
Dealer-Step right this way, sir, to
the steam calliope department!-Good
News,
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Avoiding Tnxes.

An amusing example of the expedients
resorted to by people to escape taxation
is afforded by a prominent farmer of
Lafayette, Ore. who claimed an offset
of $500 against his assessment on account
of indebtedness. Investigation of his
claim by the board Of equalization
showed that lie owed the $500 sure
enough. 1t was due the county for back
taxes, which he had refused to pay
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

In the year 1900 chimneys Were scarce
ly known in England. Only one was
allowed in a religious house, one in a
manor house and one in the great hall
of castle or lords house, but in other
houses the smoke found its way out as
it could.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

In Scotland it was formerly particu-
larly ominous to meet a funeral while
on the way to be joined in wedlock.
The bride or groom was certain to die
soon, as tho sex Of the person being
taken to the graveyard was male or
female.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Chinese Plays.

No manuscript is written Of the plays
produced at the Chinese theatre. A
synopsis of incident is prepared, and the
stage manager stands at tho entrance
and instructs the actors as they go upon
the stage in regard to what they are to
do, but leaves tho entire dialogue for
them to extemporize.-Boston Tran
ccr;pt "
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Antiquity of Pens.

The diamond pointed pen, although
usually classed among modern inyen-
tions seems to have been known as far
back as the very dawn of history. The
prophet jeremiah uses the expression,
"Written with a pen of iron with the
point of diamond" (See Jer. xviii, 1.)
ST. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
SCOTCH COLLIE

A good Scotch Collie dog in caring
for sheep or cattle is worth a couple Of
ordinary hired boys. The Collie is in
telligent, kind, faithful, and sagacious,
There are two breeds, the rough haired
and the smooth. They will not worry
nor kill sheep. They are not absolutely
necessary but they save man many
ofapo
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

Fleet street journalism has increased
by leaps and bounds in recent years. In
1916 there were thirty-fye newspapers
and periodicals published in Fleet street,
three of them dailies; in 1890 there were
more than 500, and eleven of them dai-
lioa
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
Keep them free from parasites; dip
made of tobacco stems is good, so too
are some of tho patent preparations.

They should become accustomed to
the shepherd, and never should be so
wild that they will not eat from his
hand. A sheep is not hero, and will
asily surrender to disease or attacks
.dtgs and other animals.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
An Absolute Sece.,ttv.

Mrs. Motherleigh-Dora, my love, was
it necessary to spend fifteen minutes in
bidding Harry goodnight?
Dora (furtively rearranging rumpled
collareYes, mother, it was clear case
of mussed.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
The buyer should be satisfied that
they are free from scab or foot rot.

For North Dakota a Merino-C Cotswold
or Shropshire cross, an animal Of fair
excellence both for wool and mutton,
seems to be The present favorite,
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

They should be yarded or guarded at
night and examined regularly. No farm
animal will consume and turn into use
as much "roughage;" but too much i'm
proper food is as bad as feeding INSULT
GENTLY; either method is certain to in
jure il it does not kill,
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

Heartburn may be relieved almost in
stantly if half teaspoonful Of table salt
be dissolved in wineglassful of cold
water and then drank.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

The observance of some general
rules or system is necessary to the
best success in establishing profitable
band of sheep.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
An Emp pire of Diversified Farming.

Everybody knows that the Red RiYcr
valley in Minnesota and North Dakota
raises more and better wheat than is
produced anywhere else, and this record
will be maintained. But wheat alone is
not the only crop raised. All the cereals
are successfully cultivated. Large
yields of vegetables and root crops are
gathered every year by the farmers.
Creameries flourish at many of the
cities along the lines Of the Great
Northern Railway. Sheep raising is
becoming an important industry. And,
on the whole, that is one of the best all
round farming regions have ever Wis
tied, and my travels have taken me into
twenty-one states and territories besides
Eastern and Western Canada.
an interview with j. s. Pinney, pub
Gshed in The leader. Eau Claire, Wis.
North Dakota's Activity Surprises Them.
Eastern people always eyince surprise
at the enterprise exhibited in the public
improvements enjoyed by naarly every
Dakotan town aud city. Electric lights,
telephone, water works, street railways,
artesian wells, daily papers. graded
streets. sidewalks, opera house,, etc., to
a degree not seen in the older places Of
many times the population in the East.
Grand Forks recently opened splendid
new opera house, with first nights
receipts amounting to $4,000. The aver
age Dakotan thinks there is nothing too
good for him. Everywhere, too, will be
found love for music, books, and those
social alnities which make life worth
living.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
THE RAISING OF SHEEP.
BY THO ROUGH VIGILANCE, INTELLl-
GENcE AND NECESSARY KINDNESS,

Together With the Favorable Climate,
Wedding Grounds and Means Of Shelter
Found in North Dakota, It Can BE
Made q Profitable and Pleasant Occu-
patton.
Sheep husbandry was one of the first
and favored occupations of civilized
man. Shepherds still tend their focks
on the hills of Bible lands as did the pa
triarchs of forty centuries ago. There
has Leen little change or improvement,
however, in the appearance, wool or
meat of these old time flocks, and for
that matter the shepherds have changed
but little themselves. No animal per-
haps is SO universally distributed over
the world, furnishing food and clothing
for mankind, as the sheep. The rear.
ing of sheep therefore is no new busi-
ness. For novices to engage in it for
temporary speculation, however. it is a
mattar nf risk
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

Keep salt in a dry form where they
can get at 1t all the time. Irregular
sailing is injurious, as ewes will fre.
quently abort their lambs from an over
dose of salt.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

Let them have access to pure water;
stagnant water is bad and its use results
in parasitic diseases. Do not let them
eat snow, which can be prevented by
supplying them with water.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

Only ewes of one and two years should
be bought.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
HERO PRINCE
This illustration is that Of o Mertpe
ram that sold for $500.

Superintendent o. G. Gregg, of the
Minnesota Farmers Institute, says that
Natures antelope country. which is the
prairie region Of Western Minnesota
and the Dakotas, is the sheep country of
civilization
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31
MODEL FEEDING RACK,

The feeding rack shown herewith is
from Stewards Shepherds Manual, a
most excellent work on the subject of
sheep husbandry. Portable feeding
racks, X-shaped, can be cheaply made.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

Marketable wool should be free from
burrs, chatf, and tags or skirt locks.
Wool is sold at the market price of
actual fibre. Dirt in no form pays in
wool.
The Dickinson press., 1891-01-31

The farmers of North Dakota are TAX
ing much i,:;arest in the industry, but
many of them lack the necessary knowl-
edge ard experience. The profit in
sheep husbaniiry depends upon the
proper selection of the stock and the at
tention given the focks. These require
ments met, combined with its favorable
climate and gr#sscs, will make North
Dakota as noted for Its wool and mutt
ton as it is now for its wheat.
The flesh and wool of the sheep are
the products of the soil; the best grass
for them is the low growing and cling
ing varieties common in the west,
which, combined with wild plants, make
excellent pas.urage. Success in the
sheen business in the Northwest has
passed beyond the experimental stage
with tic right kind of men. Profits de-
pend largely upon the individual. Tho
lazy, Indifferent man will usually fail:
Let no one engage in the business with
the idea that it is play. It does not re-
quire as much muscle as it does brains,
vigilance and kindness.
In a letter to The Northwestern
Farmer and Breeder. Of st. Paul, but
formerly located at Fargo-snd by the
way, every sheep raiser and farnes
should be a suEscriber-Hon. E. NJ.
Prouty, president of the North Dakota
state board of agriculture, says that he
knows, after years of experience, that
there is annual profit in sheep raising;
that along the line of the Great North
ern, west of the Red RIVER valley, there
are still innumerable places adapted to
the business.