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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
STEELE MAcKAYE's TABLE.
He Had Some Difficulty in Getting the
Aged Carpenter to Make It.

He Had Some Difficulty in Getting the
Aged Carpenter to Make It.
Steele Mackaye, the dramatist, can tell a
good story as we'll as write a good play.
1t Wormley's he was relating some of his
experiences in the little village of Concord,
N. c., where he spent some time.
II wanted table made" he began, land
was directed to the village carpenter. He
was an aged man, and when I finally
found him he wa leisurely engaged in the
manufacture of a coffin. 1t looked as if he
had been at work upon the coffin for a
week. l asked him if he could make me a
table. He allowed that he could when he
got at it, And when will you get at itP'
l asked. Suddenly he parried my direct
question with another. What kind of a
table do you want?' he asked me, with the
air of a man who has got the enemy cor
nered.
II described the table, and the old man
again fell into deep thought. At last,
when I showed some impatience, be told
me to come again next week.
"A week later 1 reminded him about my
table. Yes, he remembered the CONVERSE
ton, but he really did not think he could
go to work upon it until he had seen some
of his relatives. He did not exactly know
whom he had to see, nor where they lived,
but he was positive that they had to be
seen before my table could be begun. Be-
sides this he hadn't any lumber.
"fWhere can I get the lumber?' I asked
in desperation. Well, he thought it could
be obtained at the mill. And where was
the mill3 Twelve miles away. Sol mount
ed my horse and started for the mill. I
found it after a long search. 1t was a
dilapidated affair, and the saw was half
way through a log. But the saw was
rusty, a sign that it had not been in use
for a week. A woman came out of house
nearby and answered my shouts. I told
her that I wanted to see the owner of the
mill.
"'What do you want to see him for?' she
drawled. I told her about the lumber
which l needed, and her husband came
out. He was a long, lean. lank fellow, and
he was sucking a yam. 1t was the funniest
sight you ever Jaw. All during his CONVEX
sation he sucked this yam and spoke in
slow, deliberate sentences. He finally con-
cluded that he did not care to take the
trouble to cut the lumber, and I rode
twelve miles back to town"
"And did you ever get the tablei' asked
the reporter, who listened to the story.
Down by the railroad was a factory"
said Mr.. Mackaye. Nobody in the town
had mentioned it, although fifty people
had told me of theaged and work deferriQg
carpenter. I found the factory by acct
dent, gave my order for the table, and had
it delivered to me within twenty-four
hours.-Washington Post.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
THE MAGNET OF THE CITY.
In England and America the Country ID
Losing Population.

In England and America the Country ID
Losing Population.
Both in Great Britain and America the
census returns are furnishing food fol
thought, comment, comparison and pre-.
sage. A London weekly OF the highest
standing declares that the English people
are DESERVING the country for the town, but
finds a grain of comfort in the observation
that the same thing is going on all over
the world, in countries as dissimilar in
their social and economic conditions as
they are different in latitude; in old Eu-
ropean% countries and in the young colonies
OF Australia, and within the United States
1t is noticeable alike in the Oldest states
and in the newest-in Minnesota and I'LL
nois, as we'll as in Maine and Massachu-
setts."
A survey of English statistics leads the
same publication to declare that the part
of the island south of Scotland is becoming
a nation of cities. The average increase in
the population of the twenty-seven largest
towns during the last decade-exclusive Of
Cardiff, which has increased at the enor-
nous rate of SIS per cent.-has been about
IA per cent. The rural districts, on the
other hand. have decreased at about the
same rate.
London now contains 4,211 ,O56 people,
having added 394,573 to its population in
ten years, and Greater London has in
creased by 866, 671, giving the first city in
the world a population of 5,639, 1892. Man
chester has increased 8 per cent; Leeds.
1879 per cent; Sheffield, IA per cent; New
castle, % per cent; Portsmouth, "a, and
several other large towns from 70 to l6 per
cent. Although the surplus populations
IN tho Ia roa NifSnc - 1or$y~y,olI las-.
drafted away to the colonies and new
countries, their places are taken by migra.
lions from the country. The large cities
act as magnets on the rural population,
and the larger the city the greater is its
power of attraction. The agricultural val
legs of Yorkshire have been drained for
the benefit of the manufacturing towns.
The shrinkage in the farming districts OF
Scotland and Ireland is also noted with
alarm.
In the United States the growth of the
cities has been less remarkable during the
last decade than the fall in agricultural
states. In the north Atlantic states, in
Guiding the New England states, New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, more
than half the population live in cities. The
town population has increased at the rate
OF 43 per cent. in ten years, while the total
population has only increased 20 per cent
In the north central states the urban Dor.
ulation has doubled in ten years, and the
total population increased at the rate of %
per cent. A similar movement has taken
place in the other states, including the new
western states.
A bulletin recently issued from the cen.
sus bureau at Washington says that there
are in the Union 44S cities having a D
lation of 5000 or upward. Figures re.
ceived from 100 of these cities show that
they have an annual expenditure of $685.
100000. St. Paul's outlay per capita
(s27.61) is the highest, while that of Little
Rock (s3. 10y is the lowest.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
OF Interest to Foreign Exhibitors,

United States Attorney General Miller
has rendered a decision that will be Of
great interest to foreign exhibitors at the
Worlds fair. It is to the effect that these
exhibitors can bring with them enough
employees to show the process of manufac.
turing the goods they display without be-
ing held for violation of the contract labor
law. The decision was rendered at the re.
quest of the French consul in Chicago, who
represented that many manufacturers in
France would not take part in the fair IN.
less they could bring a limited number Of
employees along.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17

One of the newest of the swell 'restaura-
tours in town has hit upon a novel way for
securing high class customers. His plan
dine at his place what dishes they are es-
pecially fond of and in what way they have
them prepared at home. He then has his
chef make the dishes, and he calls them
after the customers who recommend them,
as If, for the sake Of example. he should
stew crabs in cream and call the dish
should put a crushing of baked powdered
name it "caulifower a La Colonel Fellows"
It takes in nine cases out of ten. Men
who like good living nearly all have a
knowledge Of cooking and are proud to
have it recognized.-New York Sun.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
HOW TO RAISE WINTER LAMBS.

One Per Cent. Sometimes Real
lied on the Investment.
Many a farmer who can no longer
make money at grain farming will be
able to come out ven by rearing winter
lambs for market. In telling his readers
how to raise the lambs and prepare them
for market, Professor Stewart mentions
the case of n man who made almost
100 per cent. on his investment, besides
having left a large quantity of valuable
manure.
The ewes for this purpose must be got
with lamb in summer. The period of
CESSATION with the sheep is five months.
If, therefore, lambs are wanted for Jam
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
A Railway Mistake.


A man went to a certain railway sta
ton in New Jersey to buy a ticket for a
small village named Morrow, where a sta
ton had been opened only a few days pre-.
viously.
"Does this train go to Morrow" asked
the man, coming up to the Office in a great
hurry, and pointing to a train on the track
with steam up and every indication of q
speedy departure.
emo; it goes today" replied the ticket
agent, CURLY. He thought the man was
"trying to be funny" as the saying goes.
But" rejoined the man, who was in a
great hurry, "does it goto Morrow today"
"No, it goes yesterday, the week after
next" said the agent sarcastically, now
sure that the inquirer was trying to make
game of him.
"You don't understand me-" cried the
man, getting very much excited as the en-
Morrow"
well, then." said the agent sternly,
"why don't you go tomorrow, and not
com fooling around here today? Step
aside, please, and let that lady approach
the window"
But, my dear sir" exclaimed the be-
Wlluereu inquirer, IL Is Important that !
should be in Morrow today, and if the train
stops there, or if there is no train to Nor
row today"-
At this critical j%uncture, when there wal
some danger that the mutual misunder-
standing would drive both men frantic, an
old official happened along and straight
ened out matters in less than a minute.
The agent apologized, the man got his
ticket. and the train started for Morrow
today.-Youth's Companion.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
Blue Jays Dig Potatoes.

When Andrew Young went to his ranch
on Young's river, Oregon, to dig his pota-
toes he noticed several bushels already
gathered. He looked, around the patch,
but saw no sign of any one having dis
turbed the ground, and, to solve the mys-
terry, watched behind q tree. He was soon
rewarded by seeing a flock of blue jays
alight on the tree, and each bird had a po-
tato in its bill, which was dropped into an
opening in a limb and passed on down to
the ground. He procured sacks, and as
fast as one was filled another was put at
the place, and in this way the birds har-
vested fifty bushels of potatoes for him
from various patches around the country.
Bangor News.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
Ouida's Opinion of Kipling.

Ouida has but a scant welcome for Rud.
yard Kipling to the guild of authors.
Among other things she says of him: IA
young man has of late been hailed as a fine
writer, when he has neither knowledge Of
style nor common acquaintance with gram
mar, and should be whipped and put in a
corner like a naughty child for his impu.
dence in touching pen and ink without
knowing how to use them"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17

dictatorship of the
tycoon. The strug.
gle became very
earnest soon after
the tycoon made q
treaty with the
American, Com
modore Perry, in
1854. In 1893
Prince Sanjo was
n of the nego.
tiators b e t g n
mikado and the
tycoon, and when
t h e reactionary
party prevailed
the mikado was
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17

hold sixty-fve or seventy ewes. They are
put sixteen to eighteen in a bunch into
the pens (P), which are 16 feet square.
Feeding racks (R) are placed at the ends
of the pens, with troughs beneath, 10
inches from the ground. A pump bring
ing water from the we'll or tank should
be in the barn. Between the pens the
racks are double. An alley way GAY runs
the length of the barn. The alley is 4
feet wide and affords room for feeding
houghs for the lambs(D as well as a play
place. The pens are 8 feet high, and
must be well boarded or battened to keep
out the cold. An even temperature of so
dogs. is best.
The racks and fences between the pens
are made to slide up and down to admit
fresh bedding when necessary. In the
middle Of the ground plan view is
seen a square &C.. This is the bottom of
q chute that extends to the cupola of the
roof. It is 5 feet square at the bottom
and 4 feet at the top. Hay slides
down through it from the fodder floor,
and foul air escapes through it to the
top. The cupola is provided with a
Stating that is closed altogether by
means of a cord in extreme cold weather.
A stairway leads from the grain floor to
the basement.
Ewes that bring twin lambs are not
desirable for the mothers of market
lambs, as they cannot fatten the young
animal fast enough. Ewes 8 or 4 years
old should be selected. A month before
the time of shutting up the ewes in the
fold, begin to feed them a little grain.
When they are at length shut up alto
gether shear the wool off them at once,
This will prevent the accumulation Of
sheep ticks, which would be a great pest
in their confined situation.
Before the lambs are dropped do not
feed the ewes corn. You do not want to
fatten them. Give them other kinds of
grain, clover hay, fodder of corn and all
the roots, such as beets, carrots and
turnips, that they will eat. After the
lambs come change this diet to corn,
wheat bran and oil meal, with sweet
corn silage instead of the roots. Mix
the corn, oil meal and. bran in equal
weights.
II you get the color craze in shorthorn
breeding remember that roar is now
considered the true shorthorn color, and
that roans and yellow reds are believed
70 be the animate that are best both far
mil: sTd beef prcdus!ng.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
Selling for Future Trade.

"How can you afford to sell these little
tubular dime savings banks for almost
nothingi" asked the inquisitive man OF
the proprietor Of a big retail establishment.
I'VE do lose on the immediate SALE was
the reply, "but a few of those banks will
dull more pocketknives, twist more forks
out Of shape, break more hairpins, and do
larger amount Of general damage around
q house, han anything else I know 81. They
srn regular mascotssfor bustness.oo-WaShs
ipston Post. 50 &
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
Japan's Great Statesman.

Prince Sanjo was the Count Cavour Of
Japan, the statesman most to be credited
with the reorganization which has made
Japan a modern nation. He was born in
1887, and grew to manhood in the revolu.
ton gotten up by those who opposed the
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
A Rottomless Spring.

The great settler spring at Saratoga, n.
Y, has been sounded to the depth OF $500
feet without touching bottom or encopn-
sterfng any obstacle. This strengthens the,
belief that this great northern summer re,
sort sts built over q subterranean sea.t.
Louis Republic. 3
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17
A Despairing Cu

A Despstring Cry.
Anntie (sympathizingly)- What's the
matter, Bobby deari
Bobby (sobbing,>---Mamma whipped ma
! jus wishI'da sbeen born 3 orphinAKats
I5eId,s Washington.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-17

AaEAAmhNI OF dS
When Lobengula sent his mission to
England he selected rs emissaries one man
who was relied upon for his e~loquence, an
other who was remarkable for his powers
OF observation. In the language of the
country, one was the tongue, the other the
eyes and ears of the king. Their memories
were excellent, and they brought back
most picturesque descriptions OF the coun-
try they had seen. London was like the
ocean; a man might walk, and walk, and
walk, and yet never get to the end of the
houses.
If Englishmen were killed, they reported,
for every drop Of blood in their bodies, an
other would spring up to take their places;
but what most astonished them was the
telephone. They were placed a mile apart
and talked together. Afterward they de-
clared that they could imagine such q ma
chine might talk English, but how it could
be taught to speak the Kafir language
they could not understand.
Upon the return of the ambassadors the
king did not trAst them wholly, but had
each with him alone for q fortnight, and,
keeping them perpetually drunk, got from
them an account of all that they had seen
and heard. They brought back. as Is well
known, a gold chain, with q ~ive-sovereign
piece attached, for the king, and a bangle
apiece for themselves.
The chain and coin the king gave to biz
favorite wife, not caring to keep presents
from the white people; one bangle wa
givensssby the emissary who received it t.
Lobengula; the other was presented to MI.
Kenny Tailyour, who has great influences
in Matabeleland, for ths subjects followed
their monarch's example and would MOI
Keep English gtftsy-Lopdon Times.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27

Rev. 2. N. Shruut. past1f United State
Rreth-rn Church, B'us Mad. Kan-. s,y--"I
Eel it ny dlty - tel wtsi VI nj re DR.. KfH[-
New Discovery has done for me. My lungs
were badly diseased, and nv Parishiouers
thought would live only a few weeks.
took i've bottles Of DR.. Ki 90 New .Discoy-
cry and am nds and well, GO
~ weight"
Arthur Love, manager Loves Funny Folks
Com binatiOn, writes after a thOrOGg b
tri a aud convincing evidence, / am cont
dent DT. Kirg's New Discovery i,r Con
sump'ioa beats EN- ~, and cures when
everything else fails The creates KINDNESS
can do my IN any thousand friends l. to
urge them to try u Free trial Dol. lie st
Yof ge's Drug store. Regular sizes 50 cent
nd 81
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27
WATER RIGHTS.
What the Constitution Will
Saw on this Important
Question.

The committee on water rights to
which WAS referred the articles pro-
posed by the delegates 10 the constitu
tIonal convention, have evolved the
following as the..sense of the committee
on that all important subject. IL will
no doubt be adopted by the conven-
ton and become part of the organic
act TO be submitted to the people:
SECTION AL natural streams and
lakes within the boundaries of this
state, capable OF being used for tine
purposes of navigation or irrigation,
are hereby declared to be tie property
of the state.
SEC. 1.-The common law doctrine
Of riparian water rights shall never be
applied in this state, nor shall the
right to use water heretofore lawfully
appropriated 10 beneficial uses ever
be denied.
SEC. 3-The right Of the people 10
appropriate aud use the unappropria-
ted waters of this state for beneficial
purposes, shall never he denied; prior
" Of appropriation shall give the bet
ter title always.
SEC. THE right OF individuals or
corporations to construct reservoirs
and impound and appropriate the sur
plus and food waters in this state, for
sale, rental, stock, domestic, or any
beneficial purpose. shall never be de-
MED. The first locator Of reservoir
shall have the priority always.
SIC. 5-Every sppropriater Of water
shall use the came reasonably and
economically, and his rights shall be
measured by his appropriation and
limited to his necessities.
SEC 6-The mode and manner Of
acquiring and exercising all of said
rights shall be subject to legislative
control.
&c. THE legislature shall have
power to create irrigating districts and
provide for commissioners therein
Said districts shall consist of one or
more counties and power shall be
granted them for creating a debt for
the purpose Of building reservoirs, dams
canals and bitches, and other apph-
ances for the purpose OF irrigation +;
but no debt shall ever be created in
such district until the question had
been submitted to the legal voters and
two thirds Cd of such voters have
voted in favor of such 3 debt.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27
Advertised Letters.

The following is list of letters re-
manning in the general delivery at
the Tombstone postoffice for the week
ending Sep. 90, 1891:
Catlett, G c Hutchinson, JohL. c
Kirby, Frank Rankin. John
Zampedi. Clio
Parties calling for any Of the above
letters, will please say advertised
and give date.
w. A. HARDWOOD, ?. NJ.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27
Cure orspsnaI weakness.

Eff. Woolston, Yates, Orleans Co.
n. Y, writes:
"My wife, five years ago, was con-
fined TO her bed with infismmatory
rheumatism of the muscles of the
back. The doctors thought her case
hopeless and doomed her to be bed
ridden invalid. The violent pain kept
her awake almost every night She
lost over thirty pounds in weight. To
ease her pain thought / would put
on ALLcocK's PoRous PLAsTERs.
covered her back with item. To my
great delight she began to sleep we'll.
The pain very much sbsted in one
week. i then took the plastcrs off,
washed her back. and put on fresh
Dnes. At the end OF the second week
the insisted on getting up, and by the
third week was entirely we'll and able
70 attend to her household dGiies."
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27
woman Friends aad Foes.

The following was the vote ON the
woman suffrage question:
For Alexander, Cheyney, Dayis,
Gates, Hunter, Herring. Total 6.
AGAISsT-Anderson, Baily, Barnes,
Crawford, Dennis, HART, Hereford,
Jordan, Mcdonald, Norris, Patterson,
Smith, Williams, President Rowe. To-
tai 10.
The convention, however, author
lied the acknowledgements OF women By
any subsequent state Legislature, pro-
vided a majority OF the legal voters al
general election ratIfy and apProve
such extension Herald.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27

We advertise at present for a firm
who~e preparations have proven to be
all they claim in our own family. We
refer to Chamberlains Collie and Diarr-
hpa Remedy. We stand up for this
notice because we have tested 1t. This
is not an advertisement for the medi-
cine, il il simply our testimony re-
gsrding 1t after fair trial. Houts-
dale pa Observer. For sale by H.
J. PetO. Il
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27

Next Thursday the University will
Degih school work. What the atten-
dance will be, the Citizen says, is at
present impossible to ascertain but IL
IS known that q number Of students
from the surrounding towns will take
the higher branches In response 10
in the territorial pa
pers, very many applications for cata-
logues have been made Of Secretary
Ormsby, Of which undoubtedly many
are from intended students. Tucson
will be fairly represented.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1891-09-27
Ihe H-ndN AIIILng.

There are no new facts developed
in the case. The Tucson papers are
mum a. oysters and do nct contain AS
coMpletc an account as that published
in last nights PRosPECroR. From the
Citizen the following account of DIR.
Handy's last hours is clipped;
Last night DIR. Goodlellow OF Tomb
stone, Drs. Fenner, Spencer and Green
of this city held n consultation with
reference to the doctors condition,
and agreed that the inteslines were
perforated by the bullet. and that
there was hardly a ray of hope for his
recovery; that a surgical operation by
which the intestines could be sewed
WAS the only possible chance for his
life. Accordingly the patient WAS
placed under the influence OF chlorO-
form and the operation began at
1920.
An incision was made in the lett
side about seven inches long and the
entrsils taken out. which proved to be
perforated in more than a dozen
places. There was large amount Of
blood in the cavity OF the stomach.
caused by internal hemorrhage, which
was removed. Just as the operation
was completed and the last stitches
being taken. DR.. Handy expired with
out struggle, at o'clock this morn
ing.
The Citizen states that DIR. Handy
was armed. that there were two men
who witnessed the whole affair and
their testimony is substantially as
published in last nights PRosPEcTOR.
DR.. Handy's revolver was taken from
his pocket during the last part of the
struggle by young man named Roca
who handed it to deputy sheriff WeIgle.