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G. Il. MASON.
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The Old Wa!bTldgs Homestead,

Situated on tie maiu rc' d, sl5 miles from Ben
nington villvge, AMI ll6 lies rom Noith Zen
nington depot.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

A census bulletin just issued, which is
devoted to Michigan statistics, says that
the population of the state under the cen
sus taken as of June /, 1890, is 1908, $50,
while in 1880 the population was 1,636, 037,
an increase in ten years of 456, 952 or 81. go
per cent. In 1880 Montmorency and Oscoda
counties were unorganized and were at
tached as townships to Alpena and Altoona
counties, respectively. Since then, how
ever, they have been organized and appear
separate II distinct as counties. The fol-
lowing new counties have been organized
since 1880: Alger, in 1885, from %Schoolcraft;
Arenac, in 1883, from Bay; Gogebic, in 1887,
from Ontonagon; Iron, in 1885, from Mar
quette and Menominee, and Luce, in 1887,
from Chippewa and Mackinac. When
parts of counties have been taken to form
new counties the population according to
the census of 1880 Of the part taken is de-
Quoted from the population in 1880 of the
county from which it was taken, wherever
possible, and is set over against the popu-
lation of the new county for 1890, as in this
way comparison to show growth is more
accurately made. Fifteen counties in the
state show decreases, most of which are
small, while fourteen counties show in
creases of more than 100 per cent. Thirty
eight counties show increases of more than
so per cent.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
The Prediction Was Verified,

Many a true word, the saying goes, is
often spoken in jest, but no more striking
example is at hand than that furnished by
a recent news item from Connecticut. At
an excursion of New Britain people a few
days ago a jolly German, Christopher Dahl,
joked with MI. Curtin, to whom he had
been introduced that day.
care you Mr.. Curtin the grocer, or Mr..
Curtin the undertaken" asked Dahl jocu-
larly. "You know there are two Curtins
in New Britain"
Eyes, I know there are," replied Curtin;
"but Pm Curtin the undertaken"
every well" replied Dahl seriously, and
shaking hands with Mr.. Curtin, he added:
"Then o will be my undertaken very
soon."
His prediction was verified within three
hours. Dahl was instantly killed and hor-
ribly mutilated by the excursion train in
returning to New Britain. Curtin was his
undertaken.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
AMONG VERMONTS HILLS
THERE PRESIDENT HARRISON WILL
ENJOY THE AUGUST DAYS.

He Is to Be the Guest of Secretary Of
War Proctor, and Will Have Oppor-
tunity to Show What He Can Do as a
Fisherman.
Bird hill runs from Rutland, VT, north
ward eight miles to Pittsford valley. The
natives call it a queer hog back, and six
miles down Otter creek, that up to that
time dawdled quietly along except when
turned over a dam for power purposes,
cuts into a rocky gorge that gives it a fall
of 100 feet and tears it into a streak Of
foam. Here is Proctor, the home of the
secretary of war, and in the very prettiest
place in the whole town is situated his
house, where President Harrison will spend
several days in August, and various cabi-
net members will recreate during the latter
part of the month. The house, occupying
by itself a hill just fitting in between the
railroad and river, has the most beautiful
site there is for miles around, and by rea-
son of it's solitary position is a striking
feature in the scene. On a still higher hill
on the other side of the river is the home
of Fletcher Proctor, the secretary's son,
who, inheriting his fathers shrewd ability,
is associated with him very closely.
The secretary of war is the uncrowned
mountain monarch of Vermont, and if he
doesn't absolutely own the town himself,
the Vermont Marble company does, and
Proctor and his sons are the major portion
of the company. Yet it is a queer fact that
he does not own the house in which he
lives. 1t belongs to the marble company.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
The Unpopularity of the Army.

The parents, particularly the mothers, of
many youths dread their becoming soldiers.
Some look upon the army as the very last
resource of the penniless and the vicious.
They decline to believe the statements
blazoned forth in red and blue print on the
posters at railway stations and elsewhere.
If a youth does so far harden his heart as
to talk to the recruiting sergeant he has to
meet that functionary at some out-of-the-
way place where his female relations will
not be likely to see him. The sergeant him.
self has to keep out of their sight also.
And even when the youth has enlisted he
may have to remain for weeks or months
at the depot near his native town, subject
to the ~reproaches of his relatives and
friends. This is greatly objected to by the
majority of young soldiers.
A slight increase in the soldiers pay, or,
rather, decrease in his stoppages, would,
we believe, go a great way to run up the
number and raise the standard of recruits.
Other remedies may be quite unnecessary
if that were conceded; but until the SOL
der can be got to look upon dismissal
from the service as the greatest punish
ment that can be inflicted ON him for the
usual military o~ffenses there will be no
real progress toward the perfection all
must long to see in our army.-Army and
Navy Gazette.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

Every available foot on the Hudson river
front between Twentieth and Sixtieth
streets was covered with gazers, and so
were all the housetops and the points on
the Jersey shore, when at 9:15 p. m. the
flagship Chicago gave the signal and turned
on her two lights of %, ZOO candle power
each, and each set in the focus of the most
powerful reflector known. All the other
vessels set their lights in order, and then
the search light sweep" began, guided by
the Chicago's signals. Thirteen broad
bands or streams Of pure white light
spouted into the clouds from the anchored
fleet-a sight so awfully grand that not a
cheer arose from the 200, 600 or more people
who witnessed it, but a convulsive wavy
motion and a general a-h-h showed the ex-
element.
Then the streams of light began to turn
this way and that. One fell on a small
boat w miles away and every motion of
its occupants could be seen as plainly as at
noon. Another struck a group a mile and
a quarter away and they could read fine
print in the pure cold light. Far up the
river every outline of the rocks was shown
and the sails of yachts in the distant bay
were made luminous. The spray and
steam of ferryboats showed rainbows and
the expression on faces a mile distant was
discernible through the ships glasses. 1t
was a certain demonstration that no hos
tile vessel could get within shooting dis
tance unseen even in the darkest night.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

In Vermont the secretary OF war is best
known as the "Guv'nor," and that is what
he is called by all the men in the quarries.
There is only one thing lacking in Proc
tor. 1t might be said that there are are all
modern improvements, including tele-
graph, express Office and telephone, but
when the chief executive alights he will be
landed beside the road and find himself in
six inches of white marblelike dust. He
will look in vain for a station. There is
none. But the "Guv'nor's" house is right
at hand, only on the top of a cliff or hill
fully a hundred feet high. The approach
from the train is by a long flight of stairs.
1t is n brown house with side piazza, front
piazza, another side one and then a large
entrance piazza leading into the big hall.
The secretary and his family go there early
in the spring and leave only at the last call
Of autumn.
Mrs. Proctor is a careful housewife and
a thorough homebody, always to be found
in her own kingdom. She has quite enough
room to look after. From the hall on the
right opens IA large music room with a
couple of pianos. Behind is a smaller
room not unlike a private Office, and still
farther back is the sleeping room of the
secretary. On the left of the hall is the re-
ception room and connected with it is the
dining room. On the second floor the plan
is plain enough; plenty of sleeping rooms
and what was formerly the nursery and
school room of the children, which is used
this summer by a couple of the secretary's
little granddaughter, who are passing the
summe with their mother at the grand
parents. These two small ladies also come
in for a good share of Mrs. Proctor's time
and the stately controller of the war forces
of America is able to assume a very meek
attitude at their desire.
The room which President Harrison will
occupy is at the head of the stairs, directly
over the music room. There is a large COW
cred balcony, and when he looks from the
window it will be on a scene that will
probably gladden. his soul. There is hardly
space on the hill for spacious lawns, but
there are some flower beds, and from the
stables is the drive, just wide enough for
one carriage, which skirts the foot of the
hill, twisting about till it is on top at the
door. 1t becomes q natural terrace on the
east, and there it cuts through dark hem
locks that shut together overhead. The hill
n the house are on one side and the river
on the other. A climb up through the hem
locks and one reaches a frail looking sus
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

as will enable him to get views of all
worthy objects, but passports and letters
of introduction which will secure him the
aid of all regular governments. gv
He will sail around Africa, making fire.
quent journeys inland to places not hith-
erto visited or described, and will traverse
and describe the Congo Free State and the
eastern section, thence to the Cape of Good
Hope; also the island of Madagascar. He
will go through Media and Persia to Cen
trail Asia, the region lately opened by the
Russian Transcaspian railroad, and then
cross the Pacific and come home through
California and the west.
He thinks all this can be done in three
years. and he expects to make it the crown
ing work of his career. MI. Vincent is in
the prime Of life, 6 feet 2 inches high, and
in fine physical condition. He has an nm
usual faculty OF making friends with
strange races, and insists that he can travel
alone among the widest savages and be
safe.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
Women Not Angels.

It is evident that women as we now find
them are very far from being perfect and
angelic beings In the matter of pecun-
larry honesty, while they are far above
men, they have hitherto had far less of
temptation or opportunity than men. In
lawless races, as the English gypsies,
where m have great freedom, this
distinction does not exist. On the con-
trary, while the mems range of action in
this respect goes no farther than cheating
In a horse trade, to the women alone is in
trusted what is known as "the great trick,''
by which all the silver of an unsuspecting
family is appropriated under pretense of
changing It into gold. s:
There is nc reason to suppose that
women are not capable Of being dishonest,
and there is every reason to suppose that
whenever they become so the recognized
sharpness OF the feminine wit will place
them high up in their chosen vocation
7. w. Higginson in Harper's Bazaar.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
GLIMPSE OF THE TROUT POND.

1AAA1 . Z VI LIE lIpOUi FUND.
pension bridge that sways il the wind,
while above is the dam at the head of the
fall, and for several rods there is nothing
but rocks and swirling waters that, in the
spring storms, toss their. spray over the
swinging bridge.
The secretary is a lover of nature and is
proud of his beautiful home, and this bridge
over the falls is one of the points to which
he always takes his visitors. Down below
the falls is a power house from which the
water is conveyed to the marble mills.
There stands a wonderful wall, where a
gorge fully 100 yards across has been
banked across with marble, which forms
the foundation for the rear support of one
of the work shops.
There will be good fishing almost under
the presidents window, for there are both
perch and bass to be pulled out of Otter
creek, but morethan likely, instead of that,
Nj. Proctor will take Mr.. Harrison up to
his W pet fishing pond, a mile above
the quarries in the mountains.
Mrs. MCGUIRE.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
The Bear Crop in Maine.

A fur buyer Of Lewiston recently made
a statement of interest to people who like
to shoot big game. "On an average" he
remarked, $500 bears annually are killed
in Maine. l buy seventy-ive each twelve
month, and yet the trappers announce
every year that the bear in Maine is becom-
ing extinct. I have bought many bear
skins in the last four weeks, and am buy.
ing them every week. The bear is quite a
crop all in all. The trapper who gets a big
bear gets thirty dollars to thirty-fve dol
lars for the skin and five dollars bounty.
Five hundred q year averaging half as
much makes 10000 a year from our profits,
rom Names widest beast
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

C." - y" remarked the Argonaut;
IF the wheel amt off"
He was right. The wheel was off; very
much off.
I was not hurt, and l soon gathered my
self together sufficiently to help hunt the
NUT" that had caused the trouble. I was
not very enthusiastic about that nut at
first.
Lets not waste any more time over it,"
I said after a few minutes. "You can get
another when we get to town, and Pm
afraid III miss the other stage. Put on
the wheel and 90 on without it."
The Argonaut looked at me.
"We'll camp right here till tomorrow
night" he said grimly, "if we don't find
that nut"
began to hunt for it. The moon was
shining brilliantly, and I went back and
looked, while the Argonaut held the horse.
I found the missing nut glittering in the
but the Argonaut was.
Fools luck!" he exclaimed admiringly,
when l showed it to him.
Ididn't ask him what he meant by that.
I was in too much of a hurry to get on.
This little adventure seemed to work
havoc with the Argonaut.
He told no more stories, and he sat wrap
ped in deep thought.
Then he pulled out a black bottle and
took a deep draft.
hoped this would cheer him up, but it
admit.
He sighed from time to time, and then
frank again.
The road lay along the side of a preci-
pice. Below us, in a deep chasm, the river
lang. TIL signing of the pines about us
vas very soothing and I sat and dreamed
IDLY.
awoke with a start.
The horse was calmly trying to walk
down the precipice.
l grasped the Argonaut by the arm; he
was sound asleep. l pulled the horse pack
into the road and awoke the Argonaut.
He ~hiccoughed.
Then he laughed.
That Argonaut was disgracefully drunk.
Here was l, a lone woman going down a
mountain road at II O'Clock at night, with
out a human sou within miles and not
the faintest idea of the road, with a horse
which seemed perfectly Indifferent to fate,
and my only companion a drunken man.
When he ~hiccoughed he annoyed me;
when he laughed he frightened me. I
waited until he sank to sleep again, and
then l softly took the reins, kept the err
ratio steed in the road and went on. We
came to two roads. l did not know which
one to take. looked at the Argonaut.
He was asleep.
He stirred a little, and chuckled to him
self.
Ppm sick" he said.
He was wide awake, and he was very
white.
He looked SO CHASTITY that 1 was more
frightened than l was when he laughed.
I pulled the blankets around him and
whipped the horse.
He moaned now and then, and he was
very pale.
At last l spied a light glimmering ahead.
1t was in a cabin. I stopped and shouted
"Halloo!''
The door opened and Il tall, white beard
ed man stood holding a candle above his
head. His hair was long and white.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

HOLDING A CANDLE ABOVE HIS HEAD.
"This man is SICK" l said, "can you do
anything for him?"
The white haired mar did not speak. He
came up to the cart and bowed low. Then
he began to sing. His eyes were very bright
and his hands were long and thin.
Cray Pete" muttered the Argonaut,
and moaned in his pain.
We drove on about six miles, and l saw
a black shadow across the road. 1t was
the shadow of a cabin.
Once more we stopped.
Once more l called "Halloo!''
l was answered at once by a muffled
shout and in a momen a mar came to the
door.
tits me, Jake. Pm powerful SICK"
groaned the Argonaut. Jake helped him
into the cabin and we held a consulta-
ton. There was no hot water in the
place and no medicine of any kind. There
was salt and pepper, though, and whisky.
We made a cup of pepper tea that would
make an ostrich cough.
The Argonaut drank it without a MUIR
muir. Then he lay down on the floor. In
W minutes he was sound asleep. In
twenty minutes he was wide awake, sober,
and, as he said, Fright as a t~rivet."
We drove on for miles in the calm moon
light. A great weight was off my mind
and l was happy; for the Argonaut de-
clared that the drinks from the black
bottle had been the fell cause Of all his
woes, and he said he would not drink an
other drop.
We reached the tollgate at last. 1t was
very late, and the man who collected the
revenues of the state was in no good hui
NOR at being aroused at what he termed
an "inhuman hour" The Argonaut hand
ed him the black bottle. His protestations
were drowned in a cheerful gurgle, and
we drove on.
The Argonaut ~hiccoughed.
"Just seeing him drink has started me
again." he muttered, and he subsidized
once more.
The road ran very straight for the next
five miles, and the Argonaut slumbered
peacefully.
The stage left at 8 o'clock in the morn
ing, and we reached the village at exactly
guarter-past 8.
We met a numbering vehicle coming up
the street. It stopped and the driver
shouted:
"Say, be you the passenger Pm waitin'
for?"
II am" I replied.
"Wal, jump in. Ye're late, amt YEP"
Jumped in. That stage was a great top
heavy thing, that lurched and banged
about in a simply diabolical way. It was
old and creaky and frightfully uncomforta-
like a gilded chariot to me, and every time
the fat woman who wedged me in moved,
! 0lsa'nso : siisn' '~nana AFsnR LAunrr.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
Connecticut Doxomaniacs.

The big century plants that adorn the
south side of the capitol are being utilized
by persons who seek Immortality by chisel-
ing their initials on the leaves. One Of
these plants, known to be seventy-five
years old, has been badly mutilated in this
manner, but Superintendent Goebel and
the assistant superintendent are bound to
prevent further mischief of the kind. Peo-
pie who inscribe their initials on the CEN.
fury plants may be remembered by pos
terity for a decade or two, but the state
furnishes far more complete immortaliza-,
ton by providing a fine of fifty dollars for
this sort of doxomaniacs.-Hartford Times.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

and written vari-
JUS books, such as
"The Land of the
White Elephant"
"Norse, Lapp and
Finn" etc. He is
soon to start on
a tour of 10000
miles, under the
auspices of the
American Geo.
graphical society
and the Metropoli-
tan Museum of
Art, and will take
not only such sci
entihc rat,11a
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
ONE NIGHTS WILD D
CAMPING IN THE SIERRAS Is IN
DEED GREAT FUN.

Bat Sometimes the Return Home Is Not
So Pleasant-Annie Laurie Writes of
an Experience That Would Shake the
Nerves of Some Young m
Especial Correspondence
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2~2.-Camping in
The Sierras is fun. Great fun!
But there are drawbacks not to be fore
seen by even the most foreboding tempera-
nent. Here is one of them:
When l heard the glad tidings that the
lime had arrived for my vacation, l imme-
aiately bethought myself of some friends
who were camping in the vicinity Of that
noble river, of Bret Harte fame, the Stan
lslaus. I determined to join them, and I
started with a light heart and a heavy
valise.
After many long, weary miles of red
dust l came to the magnificent forests and
iplendid quiet of the mountains.
The picturesque names of the places
where the stage stopped made me feel as if
[ were some one in a book.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
Objections to a Bridge Over East River.

Objections to q Bridge Over East River.
When the plans for the Brooklyn bridge
were first presented to public consideration,
strong objections were made to their adop-
ton on the ground that better results
could be obtained from a tunnel built
under the East river. The opponents Of
air and sunshine had a good deal to say
concerning the advantages of subterranean
transit, but they were quickly overruled.y
1t was even said by some that the Brooklyn
bridge might fall down or blow over,
whereas a tunnel would be perfectly
secure.-New York Sun.