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The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Negro Melodies.

Never having anything classical
about them, not suited to the fasti.
diuus e#rof the professional musician.
there IS Yet something umdctinahle in
the SO called ''plantation' melodies
which charms til" heart of the great
mas of common humanity the world
Yer. The immense success of the
two Mr thncc trusprs of genuine
'Jubilce Singers" that have made
%trilimr!Ell progresses through this
country AID Europe, attest the hold
their songs have on humanity. Tic
old plantation mcrrym#kimgs have
passed away with slavery, but now
and then on on Il journey in the
South will haye am opportunity to
hear something of the real sort.
Besides, TIL" Southern states arc de.
lightfui fog IL winter tour. The
magnificent service of 'E!he Burling
tom" reaching both Chicago and st.
Louis over it's oHa tracks. without
change uf cars. makes it the favoritt
of travellers hound south. Informa
ton us to rates. routes, etc, will bt
cheerfully furnished 10y agents, OF cal
hc had by writing to w. j. G. Ken,
yoI,, Gen. Pass. Agent. G. Il Il n. r.
r.. st. Paul, MINI.
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SPECIALISTS Increasing.

"People demand more from a doctor
nowadays" said a physician who is
thinking of retiring on his fortune,
ethan they did when I began to build
up my practice. That is, they demand
more in some ways and not so much in
others. Not many years ago it would
have been as much as a doctors reputa-
ton was worth to say to a patient: Now,
look here, my dear sir, 1 know what's the
matter with you, but I would rather not
treat You myself. There is DR.. B
across tho way, who makes a specially
of the disorder you have contracted, and
he can treat you better than l a for
that reason. He may not cure you, Of
course, but in any case you will then
feel that you have had the best advice
AVAILABLE Now, fortunately, 1 can give
such advice, and do every week of my
life, without being thought any less
skillful a physician by my patients. But
1T the same time the profession is rum
ming toward specialists, in the cities any
way, and for a doctor who began as !
mad to do to cover tho whole field of ills
that flesh is heir to, the amount of skill
and experience and special training that
people require from their physicians is
felt to be a trife burdensome. New
York Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
TIL. padrono system,

If there is any ono SO deluded as to
imagine that the padrone has nc exist
ence in New York he should note the
maneuvers of q big, burly, coarse feat
ured man who watches the '~'chesanutta"
and flower gang which pre-empts the
walks in West Fourteenth street. I
stood ut the corner Of that thoroughfare
and Sixth avenue II morning. 1t was
s o'clock, and the gang, numbering
twenty-onc men. came trooping up the
avenue. The padrone, or the padrone's
agent, was there in waiting. Each re-
ceived n small amount of money, and
started off for his accustomed place.
The padrone, or the agent, lowered in
the vicinity, and kept a close surveil-
lance over the men, and at the same
time was on the lookout for approaching
policemen.
Two precincts join on Fourteenth
street, so the padrone has no time to
shirk his duty. If a policeman passes
along the lower side tho signal is passed,
and the italians cross to the opposite
side. When u bluecoat disappears
around a corner they return. At Z
o'clock at night Fourteenth street i,
cleSr of these pests. They meet the pa
drono again and turn W to him the
receipts of the day. Then they drag
their bent figures down the avenue and
take IL short cut for some Mulberry street
attic. Seven days in the week this routine
is gone through with, cold or stormy
weather not interfering in the least
New York Star,
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Advice TO Mafhers.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, has
been used by mothers for children
teething for over fifty years with per-
feet success. 1t relieves the little
sufferer ut once, produces natural,
quiet sleep by freeing the child from
pain, and the little cl,.rub awahes as
Upright as button" 1t is very
pleasant to taste, sootlles the child,
softens the gums, aliays pain, relieves
wind, regulates the bowels and is the
best known remedy for liarrh0a.
whether arising from teetlling or
other causes. Twenty-Five cents a
bottle. apr. Idly.
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DIDN'T KEEP A DIRECTORY.
A Druggist, Whose Store Adjoins a Lare

A Druggist, Whose Store Adjoins a Large
Dry Goods House, Has No Picnic.
81 would like to look at your direct
DRY. please" said 1, the other day, on
entering a drug store on Sixth avenue,
neal Nineteenth street.
The man behind the counter looked up
with a weary expression and quietly
shook his head.
whats the matter" l asked. sDon't
you keep a directory herey
Again the head shake was repeated,
and then l sought for MI explanation.
you sec," said the druggist, Eve are
right in among all these large dry goods
stores, and as their customers are mostly
ladies of moro or less leisure, u plA
Nbuld be fairly overrun with women al
day long if we had a directory there il,
the window.
"Yes," he went on, 1--WE did keep y di-
rectory once, but it got to be such an in
tolcrable nuisance that we either had to
stop it OF close out u business. l be-
lieve," said tho druggist, chat some
women like to go into drug store and
look over the directory. Not, mind you,
because they really wish to find out any
addresses, but simply from pure cussod.
ness. Maybe they think it looks basi.
nesslikc. And then, you know, q drus
store is IL great place of rendezvous fol-
the ladies who do shopping, and study.
ing ovcr u directory helps them to kill
time if the other party is late.
"You have no idea," he went on, sol
the number of women who stop in hero
every day and ask foolish questions
Why, sometimes when l tell them WI
don't keep a directory they ask ms
whether l know where so-and-so lives,
and u thousand and questions be.
sides that might be answered i'll the di-
rectory, but which they never stop tc
consider. And then these women come
i'll here and want to leave their bundles
while they do their shopping elsewhere.
Theyhold regular conversation bees, and
interfere with customers passing in and
out, and fairly worry my life out with
their petty questions and annoyances.
Stamps, did you say, miss?' he add.
ed, turning to address n young lady who
had just entered. "No, miss; we do not
keep stamps.
I'D have to keep q branch postofice
up here" said the druggist as the young
lady went out, and then he turned te
some score or moro of ladies who were
waiting to receive attention.-Ncw York
Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
New Decorating Process

A new process by which artistic de-
signs can be photographed on paper, cot
ton cloth, velvet and other fabrics is be-
coming the "craze' in England, Is any
lady can by its means take any white
fabric and print upon it designs to suit
her own taste, and in which pressed
leaves will serve instead of a %transpar-
ency for the production of many effects.
At a recent meeting of the Photographic
society England) a well known pho:oy-
raphcr printed different leaf patterns
upon different parts of a piece of white
cotton cloth.
He then developed the different pat
terms with various developers by apply
ing each of the latter locally with i
brush. The result was IL pretty series OF
designs in variegated colors upon one
piece Of cloth. The colors at present OBJ
tainable by the use Of developers in tho
process Ire red, orange, purple and ma
room. By mixing the purple and orange
developers ar unsatisfactory kind of Il,
approach to green is said to have bee,
obtained. Developers to yield blues ant
green's with this process have yet to b.
discovered.-New York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Tic Vice of Idlcncss.

1t is exceedingly difficult to under
stand the cause of this vice, or of its re-
ported increase, but we incline to be-
lieve that while it is in Il few Il sort of
disease, it is in the majority nothing but
a low form of selfshness, durable only
by punishment, whether the natural
punishment of starvation or an artificial
one. The man hates the self suppression
involved in work just us Il savage does,
but he can suppress himself if lie chooses,
and invariably does choose, if for any
reason he passes under the terrible
though avoidable discipline of a convict
prison. The compulsion which usually
falls upon the idle takes the form of bad
food, bad lodging and want of tobacco,
and it is not sufficient.
Such wants are all horrible things, but
they are none of them so horrible as
steady work, which presses and fortunes
and almost madlens the really idle, just
as civilizations, which is it's essence, is a
multitude of small restraints, does the
savage. They will not put up with the
suffering for the time necessary to teach
them that it is cndurable, and will
rather break away into thedesert, often a
street, where there arc only bread to eat
and water to drink and no shelter, but
where there also is no work to do.-Lon-
don Spectator.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Tho Youths knowledge

Is it that the average youth of today
knows more geography in a minute than
his father, when he was q schoolboy,
knew in ten years, or is it that the father
forgot nearly all of his knowledge i'm
mediately after closing the cover of his
big geography? However that is, one
thing is certain-that nine youngsters
out of ten who can't count so many years
as they have fingers can floor their
whole grown up families on mountains,
lakes, rivers and streams, cities, towns
and villages and boundaries. They not
only do this persistently and uncompro-
misingly, but they take particular de-
light in making their sisters callers
flush to the roots of their hair with their
terribly erudite questions.-New York
Tribune,
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Curious Weather vanes.

There is u tiny village in New Hamp-
shire which takes special pride in its
weather vanes, and it certainly can boast
a great variety of i%ngeniously contrived
and weather and wind proof specimens
of these useful articles.
They We're evidently designed not only
for use, but for ornament, and there Is
scarcely a barn of any size which is not
decorated with q weather vane of a
more or less complicated workmanship.
Most of these al were made many
years ago by an old man who took
great delight in carving tho queer fig
ures and planning their arrangement so
they would so through various motions.
1t is said That he was in the habit of
trying a figure, when he had COM
pleted it, on his w barn, and then
when he became satisfied that it worked
properly he would carry it with great
pride to the farmer who had ordered it.
There is one which still stands guard
over Il barn that has long since been de-
serted by its owners, who have left the
lonely farm to seek their fortunes Mt the
west. 1t is the figure Ola soldier, whose
uniform is greatly faded from years Of
exposure, but whose gun still indicates
the quarter from which the wind is
blowing by its position. Its evolutions
when the wind is, as the w~eatherwise
farmers say, backing or hauling" are
quite interesting.
The are animals of different kinds,
such as COWS, horses, pigs and bears,
which are used as van figures, and
point with their heads, legs or tails, as
the case may be. One figure of q horse,
which has long since left its best days
behind it, presents astartling effect from
the fact that a horsehair tail has been
inserted in the place of the old wooden
one, and being Of length quite out of
proportion to the horses size, it some
times in q high wind lashes the poor ami
mails head in n most uncanny way
Youths Companion.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Letters AS Metaphors.

Some curious examples of the use of
letters as metaphors may be found in the
works of Lishtfoot and Wetstein. We
often hear of a person having a stigma
upon him." a stigma vas formerly the
branding iron used by the Greeks for
marking their criminals. 1t was in
shape not unlike Il small figure five (5l,
and was usually applied upon the fore
head, check OIL back of the hand, where
it would not fail to be noticed. The
Hebrews are said to have used their final
letter, tau, for a similar purpose (see
Ezek. ix, ~. In the Talmud it is IA
bled that the Book of Deuteronomy came
and Frustrated itself before God and
said:
80 Lord of the universe, thou hast
written in me thy law, but if a tesla
ment is defective in some parts it is de-
fectivo in all. Behold, Solomon endeav-
ors to root tho letter job out of me.
Neither shall he multiply wives (see
Talmud, Sanhed., xx, 9. Bible Deut.
xvii, 1O. 'Then," says tho Tai
mud, "the holy blessed God answered.
Solomon and Il Thousand such as lie
shall perish, but tho least letter shall not
perish out of thee."-St. Louis Republic.
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The First Stem.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat,
can't sleep, can't think, can't do anything
to your satisfaction, and you wonder
what ails you. You should heed the
warming, you are taking the first step in
nervous prostration. You need a
Nerve Tonic and in Electric Bitters YOU
will find the exact remedy for restoring
your nervous system to its normal,
healthy condition. Surprising results
follow the use of this great Nerve Tonic
and Alternative. Your appetite returns,
good digestion is restored, and the Liver
and Kidneys resume healthy action.
Try a bottle. Price 80 cents, ut J. J.
Freeman's drug store.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Cabbage Palm Trunks for Submarine Use.

Cabbage Palm Trunks for Submarine Use.
One hundred thousand running feet of
palmetto logs will be shipped right away
from Brunswick to Santiago, Cuba. This
is Il new article of export from this state,
and bids fair to become an important
factor in increasing Brunswick's already
enormous timber and lumber trade.
Mr.. w. T. Carnegie, the millionaire
iron man, is largely interested i'll an iron
mine near Santiago, and the order was
made by his company. A great part of
the timber is to be used in the construc-
ton of cribs to inclose a harbor near the
mines in which ships can load. The rest
will be converted into piles for building
a railroad across quite a large body of
water.
A gentleman we'll informed in such
matters said that this material would
last an indefinite length Of time under
water, but could not very well stand ex.
posure to the air. 1t is almost proof
against the attack of worms, and is Ell.
tirely free from barnacles. And while
it will no doubt finally succumb to these
two destroying agencies, yet there car
be nc doubt of its lasting at least twice
rs long under water as any other kind O
wood.-Brunswicll Times.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
New Use for Old Hose,

While dredging on the oyster beds
near New London, Conn.,, an oysterman
brought up something which at first
sight looked like a lifeless sea serpent
covered with immense scales, but on ex
animation it turned out to be a strip Of
hose seven feet long and three inches in
diameter, completely hidden by the BIZ
valves, which had become fastened to it.
By actual count there were over 1000
oysters on that piece of hose.-Philadel'
phia Ledger.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Chapman,s Pointer Cat.

Chapman Vanluvanee is fond of shoot
ing English sparrows with a small cal
iber rifle. He has a handsome gray cat
that always accompanies him in the ca
pacity of o retriever. When Mr.. Van
iuyanee halts beneath a tree and elevates
his rife, the cat always locates the game,
and generally nabs his sparrow the me
ment the bird touches the ground. An
sther peculiar trait in the animals nat
ure is that he will not touch any other
variety Of bird, having cultivated an ex-
aludve taste for English sparrows.-
Doylmtown Democrat.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
DISORDERS WHICH AFFECT TIE
KIDNEYS

Are among the most formidable known. Dia-
bctes, Bright's disease, gravel and other COM
plants of the urinary organs are not ordinarily
cured in severe cases, but they may be averted by
timely medication. A useful stimulant of the
urinary glands have ever been found i'll Hosiciter's
Stomach Bitters, a medicine which not only
affords the requisite stimulus when they become
inactive, but increases their vigor and secretive
and bladder, this medicine has the additional
effect Of cxpclling from the blood impurities
which it is the peculiar Office Of those organs to
| eliminate and pass off. The Bitters is also u
purifier and strcnghtcncr of the bowels, an invig-
GRANT of the stomach, and a matchlcss remedy
for biliousncss and fever and aguc. II counter
acts a tendency to premature decay. and sustains
! and comforts the aged and inirm.
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Safe lnvastnsnt

IL n which is guaranteed to briax
you satisfactory results, or in case a
failure q return of purchase price. On
this safe plan you can buy from our adj
vertised Druggist a bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. 1t is
guaranteed to bring relief in every case,
when used for any affection of Throat,
Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption,
Inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis,
Asthma, Whooping Cough, Group, etc.
taste, perfectly safe, and can always be
depended upon. Trial bottles free at ],
j. Freeman's drug store.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Sirius.

Sirius shining with far greater luster
than any other star, it was natural that
astronomers should have regarded this
as being the nearest of all the ''ixed"
stars, but recent investigation on the dis
tances of the stars has shown that the
nearest to us is Alpha Centauri, a star be-
longing to the southern latitude, though
it is probable that Sirius is about fourth
on the list in the order of distance.-E1-
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
The Navy of China,

So far as the power of the fleet is con-
cerned China is the eighth in rank. But
the lack Of proper organization, equip
ment and personnel renders her fine ves-
sells practically valueless for purposes of
war. It may be said that China has no
army, only collections of uniformed men,
and that she has no navy, but simply a
number of naval vessels, with some Of
the inhabitants on board.-New York
Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND
mn

The school board of Dickinson School District.
Stark County, North Dakota. will receive sailed
bids and proposals for the erection Of a school
house in said school district, until and Including
the End day of March. 1891.
The plans and spccitica items may BE- seen and
eXamiAed IT the office OF Frank Thnycr, Architect,
Mankaio. Minnesota. or at Fowirr's Hardware
store in Dickinson. Stark County, North Dakota.
Bids must be i'll accordance with said plans and
specifications.
reserved.
by. order of the School board of said district.
Address all bids to the undersigned.
Ell. r. BoNNEY,
Clerk of School board,
Dickinson,
jan. 81 N. Oak.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
NO BENNETT LAW.

The Wisconsin Legislature Repeats the
Famous Measure.
MADISON, Wis, Feb. 5.-The senate,
by a vote of u to 6, has concurred i'll the
bill repeating the Bennett law. The bill
now goes to the governor for his sigma
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07

1t Is claimed that the first silver mines
worked in the United States by Euro
peans are situated in the mountains near
Tucson, and although they are repre-
sented to have been so securely hidden
by the Jesuits ere they were driven from
the country that their location is now
unknown, tradition says that some Of
them were marvelously rich.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
Printing Office For Sale.

"A lirst-class seven column news,
paper outfit, hamd-prcss. good IS urw
for sale ut u bargain. Cost over S5"a
and will I've sold Cor 900 cash. 'l",
l;vrrcd on lunytl the ears ut NirI;,,
SON. Address ga" P,irs; Gllirr
Dickinson. Y. ~.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07
AUTOMATIC SEWING MACHINE!

Prices reduced. Every family no,y can
have the best Automatic Sewing Ma
chine in the market at reduced price,
For particulars send for our new Illus
trated Circular with samples of stitch
ing. Our Illustrated Circular shows
every pat of the Machine perfectly, anc
is worth sending for even if you haze {
Machine. kruse & Murphy Mfg. Co.
A55 and 457 West goth ST., N. Y. City.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07

Mr.. Kirk Munroe lives in an earthly
paradise which he discovered for himself
at the extremity of Florida. almost at
the very front gate of Cuba. and far
from the haunts of tourists and winter
settlers, who now threaten to follow him
over u new railroad and turn his soil
tude into q fashionable settlement. to his
great dismay.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07

Sidney Cooper, the famous British
painter, is now 81 years old. He still
possesses excellent health, and gives five
or six hours a day to painting. He sleeps
nine hours out of the twenty-four and
hveg abstemiously.