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The Lamar register., 1891-12-12

He who always respects himself, will al
ways be respected.
DR.. Foote's new pamphlet on VaricoceIe tells
all about it, and what all men ought u Sent
(sealed for 10 cents. Box ISS, New York.
Small things cease to be small when
their effects are mighty.
"Hansous 1Iuaic Corn SsIve."
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask
your druggist for 1t. Price l5 cents.
Taking bird's-eye view seems to be
great oversight.
Mrs. winslow's Soothing syrup, for Chill
dren teething, softens the gums, reduces innamma-
tion. allays pain cures wind conc. 25c. a bottle.
Advice to those using glasses-Don't mix
your drinks.
Though Cleveland and Hill were drifting apart,
Their friends are now quite serene,
For each has agreed to take a fresh start,
And for headache use naught but COALINF.
Woman conceals only what she does not
know.
QUEEN OF FASHION. Patterns Free. Send
q ct) stamps. 46 T. 18th St., N. Y. City.
The man at the masthead has a tip-top
berth.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
An Extraordinary Advertisement,

An EXTRAORDINARY Advertisements.
A few days since a man entered q
lawyers Office where I happened to be
for a moment, looked around in rather q
cautious and theatrical fashion and slow
ly opened q large leather valise which he
carried in n band. From this he ex-
tracted a small parcel done up in brown
paper and, laying it on a convenient
desk, said softlyto the clerk, "That's for
the boss" Then he tiptoed out of the
office. The parcel was at nee taken to
the lawyer, who tore off the wrappings
and discovered a small china breakfast
plate, upon which lay what looked ex-
actly like a fried egg. The egg was
squashed up q little bit on the plate ap-
parently and it was movable. The plate
was bona fide, but the alleged egg was
made Of papier mache. We all looked
at it carefully, and after a little prying
about it was found that the yolk of the
egg could be lifted.
Under it lay what was apparently a
peanut. This was opened, and within
it there was found a small sheet of white
tissue paper upon which a few letters
were family visible. The lawyer went
to the window, with everybody follow
ing at his heels, examined the paper
closely, and discovered upon it an adj
vertisement of a hair restorer and a pre-
ventive of badness. Then he threw the
whole outfit into the corner with a growl
and went back to his desk. It struck
me as being about the most complete adj
vertisement that I have seen of late. 1t
is an illustration of the extraordinary
length to which advertisers go in their
efforts to reach the public.-Blakely
Hall in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
limo for Early Garden Work.


Tree and vine pruning should be COM
pleted before growth commences. Peas
for an early crop need to be got in as
early as the ground can be worked. The
wrinkled, or sugar peas, should be held
until the ground warns q little. Those
intending to raise onions by the new
plan of starting the seeds in cold frames
should have everything in readiness and
get the seed in early, and have the young
plants in readiness to set out as soon as
the ground a be put in good order.
The advantages claimed by this method
are full rows, a longer season of growth
and less expense in cultivating and keep
ing clean, the expense saved in the last
item making up for the extra cost of
transplanting. A much greater yield is
claimed for the method. But no time is
to be lost in preparing the soil for onion
seed to be sowed in the rows where the
crop is to grow. The preparation and
sowing cannot be done too soon. The
seeds Of lettuce and early cabbage,
cauliaower, celery, tomatoes and radish
will need sowing at intervals as required,
and the hotbeds and the forcing pits
will command daily care.
Seeds of biennial and Parental flower
ing plants can be put in at once. Sweet
peas in the open ground should be plant
ed at the earliest opportunity; they
should make their best growth in the
cooler weather of the spring.
Lawns "a be seeded to grass as soon
as the ground can be properly put in
order.
All kinds of work that can be done in
the garden should be pushed along and
be out of the way when the hurrying
time comes later, as it surely will
Vick's Magazine,
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Students, Credit in Paris.

The Partisan tradespeople who havet to
do with the students are not lenient.
The lower French classes. every one
knows, are grasping. In Paris they are
spurred on by what Alphonse Daudet
so graphically calls 'la peur de ne pas
arriver"-the fear of not ''getting there
In the QUARTER a student is allowed $50
francs credit; in other words, thirty dol
lars. If any expenditure is run up above
beyond that sum, the hussier appears
and the student is literally turned out
Oh the pavement. I have recently heard
of several cases where this limit had
been reached within a franc or two, and
where the student, a man or woman,
had been reduced to keeping the vital
spark alive by one or two cups of coffee
a day.
In one instance the person was q New
England girl from a small village, who,
entirely without talent, had come over,
as I have described, with about 5000, out
of which, her passage being deducted,
she had been able to live, after a fashion,
for q time. The last cent was now gone;
she was friendless, without means to get
home, and probably too proud to make
her restitution and failure known to her
family, against whose instincts of com
non sense she had probably undertaken
this venture, lured by all manner of
wild and unfounded hopes. And this
case is really one of many.-Milwaukee
Wisconsin,
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Decline of Literary Receptions

The past winter has practically set
tied one thing in New York-that the
literary reception has had its day. Two
years ago Evenings" were held by all
the well known literary people, but the
practice was abused, and the following
year saw the beginning of the end. This
past season but a few literary cat homes"
have been given, and these lacked their
former interest-so much so that next
winter will see still a smaller number.
One cause of the unpopularity into which
the literary reception in New York has
fallen was its shameful abuse. A liter
airy woman would begin her cas- with
a small coterie of her select friends, and
so long as those same congenial spirits
came together all went delightfully."- well.
But one friend brought another, and
after two or three weeks he would in
turn bring a third, until at the close of
the season the hostess would find her
oo1ns overrun with lot of minor liter
airy lights whom she scarcely knew, and
the spell was broken. Then the deaths
of Miss Booth, Oliver Bell Bunce, the
removal of Marion Harland made a diff
ference, and so for more than one reason
the practice has died out. Perhaps the
change will be for the better, since privi-
legged friends will be more certain of
agreeable companionships upon special
evenings when the hostess signifies her
intention to be at home for these, and
these alone.-Edward w. Bok's Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Skin Grating by MACHINERY.

Saturday morning, at the Massachu-
sets General hospital, a little instru-
ment, invented by DR.. Mixter, wonder
full in its simplicity, constructed so as
to separate quite large portions of cpl
dermis from the simultaneous tissue,
was used for the first time.
The patient had been etherized, andhad
undergone an operation for the removal
of a cancerous growth from the left
breast, and the wound thus made was
quite an extensive one. The instrument
was applied to the anterior portion of
the right thigh, and three strips. about
an inch wide by six inches long, were
taken off and transplanted to the ex-
posed surface of the breast. The opera
ton of removing the skin and trans
planting it to its new quarters did not
occupy moro than about six minutes.
A very few days will suffice to restore
the denuded surface of the thigh to it's
normal condition, leaving few traces of
the r%eparative process to which it has
contributed, and, other things being
equal, the surface from which the can
cerous tumor has been excised will heal
over by first intention, thus saving the
patient from a prolonged and painful
period of convalescence. OF course, every
precaution is taken, by the use of steril-
izing processes and an%tiseptics solutions, to
render the operation thoroughly aseptic,
so that the chances of inhammatory dis
turbances from bacterial sources are re-
duced to the lowest minimum.
The thickness of these delicate human
plasters probably does not exceed one
sixtieth Of an inch, and the resulting
hemorrhage is not more than what one
sees on a slight abrasion of the skin, OF
it may be compared to the sanguineous
cozing one gets from too earnest t%onsorial
attention,-Boston Herald,
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
The Speed of That Yankee n1oteor.

ProfessorH II. A. Newton, of Yale, writes
the following letter with regard to the
great and wonderfully brilliant meteor
which was seen here i'll Hartford:
The brilliant meteor that you describe
in your issue of Feb. "a, and which was
heard to explode with tremendous noise
in many places in Maine, appears to have
been moving northward, nearly over
Portland, Me-, perhaps from as far south
as Boston, and to have disappeared some
miles above the surface of the earth over
the middle or northern parts of Franklin
county, Me. So far as known no stones
have been secured from the meteor. If
this is the true path, the body entered
the air with a tremendous velocity.
The earth was at that time moving
eighteen ,uiles q second directly toward
the point from which the meteor was
coming. According to accepted theories,
tho meteor was moving faster than the
earth, and the stone entered the air with
the sum Of the two velocities. This
makes q velocity of more than forty
miles a second. In most of the cases
where stones have been secured the We
locities have been not moro than twenty
miles q second. In one instance, how
ever, in Stanhem, Moravia, there were
secured a large number of stones from a
meteor whose velocity was as great as
that of the meteor of Feb. 23,-Hartford
Courant.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
A Church of Oranges.

The Palermo Mon.) Fruit Growers
association, which recently affiliated
with the California State Board Of
Trade, sent to San Francisco a large
model of the Union church, which is To-
Gated at Palermo colony in Butte. The
model has been erected in the board of
trade rooms, and is now on exhibition.
The miniature church is an exact model
in every detail of the original, and just
o~ne-seventh its size. 1t is 10 feet in
length, g. feet wide and lii feet in
height. The roof, gables and bell tower
are covered with oranges, some thou
sands of which are used, while in the
windows and around the pedestals are
arranged exhibits of nuts, dried and
fresh fruits and other products of the
colony. AS the oranges used in decorat-
ing the church wither they will be taken
away and fresh fruit substituted until
the orange season is over, when other
fruits, dried and fresh, will be used for
decorating, making it a standing unique
advertisement of the resources of Paler-
mo,-Omaha Bee.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Consumption curad.

An old physician, retired from prac-
hce, having had placed IN his hands by
an East India missionary the formula Of
q simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure Of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all
Throat and Lung Affections. also a posi-
tive and radical cure for Nervous De-
bility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt it
his d fa5}o to make Aet # k20T IN t. tb his suffer suffer,
and a desire to relieve human suffering,
I will send free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, in German: French
or English, with full directions fo- pre-
pairing and using. Sent by mail by adj
dressing with stamp, naming this paper.
ester n. Y.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Men Who Have Died This Year

The death roll of 1891 will be unprece-
denied should the rate of the first six
weeks be maintained to the end of the
year. Already the list of great names
includes Bancroft and Kinglake among
historians; Emma Abbott and Celine
M~ontaland among queens of the stage;
Meissonier, Won Marcke and Jervis Nc
Entee among painters; Secretary of the
Treasury Window, ~ex-Secretary of the
Interior Stuart and Charles Bradlaugh
among statesmen; General Sherman and
Admiral Porter among military leaders;
King Kalakaua of Hawaii, and Abdul
Rahman Khan, ameer of Afghanistan,
among rulers; Baron Hausmann, the re-
constructor of Paris; Leo Delibes, the
French composer, and numerous others
| of scarcely less fame.-Cincinnati Times
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

II is with 10 small degree of pride
that the PRESS speaks of the Dickin-
son Thespians, whose success on the
stage ut home and ncighboring towns
has won for them an enviable reputa-
ton. In the arrangement of the parts
for the two plays put on the boards,
good dramatic taste has been shown,
which compares favorably with that
of those who give their whole time to
theatrical work. But the Thespians
are not stage struck, and when they
produce a play it is purely for their
own amusement and to show that the
talent for Il really irst-class company
is to he found at home.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Landlords and the Measles.

Amos Bennett, adashing tenant farm
er, lives in Buckingham, about a furlong
above Pineville. He has lived for about
fifty years of Christian equanimity with
out ever having the measles. A week or
so ago they 'sstruck" him and he was
obliged to cancel his business arrange
ments and to go to his bed. He has had
for years to contend with exacting land
lords and endure the pains of ophthalmy.
The measles have now settled in his eyes
and he is nearly blind. He now says
''that of the two great calamities-the
landlords and ophthalmy-ophthalmy is
tho most calamitous." It is a sad case.
Philadelphia Times.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
A Flash from an Electric Car.

Richard 81. Earle, the insurance agent
who lives in Worthington street, had q
peculiar and rather startling experience
with electricity early n evening re-
Gently through the medium of the cleo
trio cars. He was crossing Main street
just below State street, where the Forest
park line ends, and happened to pass the
rear of an electric car just as it started
on it's southwark trip. He went very
close to the car, perhaps within a foot,
he thinks, and as he went by there came
from beneath the car a flash as of light
ming, which seemed to start from the
wheels and strike him on the left side
under the arm. No harm seemed to
have been done, and Mr.. Earle contin-
ued on his way.
Just as he turned down Howard street
to go to the house of an acquaintance,
Carl Wunsch, he felt q pain in his side
as if he was being roughly rubbed.
When he reached Mr.. Wunsch's house
the latter exclaimed that something was
burning, and on Mr.. Earle's unbutton-
ing his overcoat smoke and fame came
out, and it took lively work on the part
of MI. and Mrs. Wunsch and Mr.. Earle
to save the clothing. On examination it
was found that the overcoat and under
coat had been burned through from the
outside, and also the vest as far as the
lining. The hole in the overcoat is two
or three inches wide and four or five
inches long. A leather book in tho I'M
dercoat containing some papers was bad
ly burned on the lower end and the pa
pers therein were scorched.
Mr.. Earle thinks there is no doubt that
the mischief was caused by the spark
from the electric car, and no other solu-
ton of the matter seems possible, since
MI. Eafled does not smoke, and the burns
in the clothing ere not of the sort to be
started from such a source. The street
railway tracks were very wet that night,
and this of itself would tend to dissipate
the electric fluid as it entered the rails.
Taken altogether, Mr.. Earle's experience
was certainly a singular one.-Spring-
field Republican.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Tie Theatrical Season,

Thomas H. Davis, theatrical man
ager, says: "This season on the road has
been remarkable, in that the better class
of plays have received more encourage
ment than over before. On tho other
hand many of the cheap spectacular and
operate companies have lost money or
gone to pieces. The truth is that the
people outside of New York are becom-
ing quite sao@sood judges Of dramatic
performances az can be found in the
metropolis, and any effort on the part of
cunning managers to humbug them
stands a poor show Of success. In my
experience 1 find that New York is be-
coming less and less a factor in the sue
cess of any dramatic production. The
time was, a few years ago, when a sue
cessful run in New York decided the
fate of a piece. 1t is nov no longer the
case."-New York Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
The Old Home of Jesse James.

The Libby Prison war museum is soon
to have an acquisition of a curious char
acter. 1t is the identical frame house in
which Jesse James lived the last four
months of his life, and in which he was
killed by Bob Ford. Since 1882 this
house has stood unoccupied on a bluff
back of St. Joseph, Mo. The bullethole
in the wall is still to be seen and the
blood stains on the floor have never been
effaced. The house was sold to the
agent of the Chicago museum for the
sum of 81, 900, and it is to be taken down
in sections, removed hence and set up
again in the big building in Wabash
avenue.
An equally interesting relic would be,
We think, the old James house still stand
ing near Liberty, Clay county. And if
old Mother James is still living she
should be engaged to come. along and
serve as a "guide" or ILLUSTRATOR"
The old lady, when we last saw her,
nine years ago, was full of fight and en-
ergy, and it would be hard to find a
handsomer woman than she was.-Chi-
cagO News,
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

WITH a decrease of sheep within
the United States during the past
year of 9o4,9 $3.50 bead, we shall have a
decrease in the clip of 100000
pounds, if we allow five pounds of
wool to a sheep. Last year's clip was
276,000.00O pounds, according to the
estimate of the agricultural depart
ment. This years clip, therefore,
must be set down at 271, 500,0 600
pounds. Owing to the scarcity of
wool and the light stock in the prin.
cipal markets, the clip-especially
west of the Mississippi-is likely to
be shorn early.-EX.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Excitement in a BELGIAN Tovn.

It is promised that it will not be long
before a certain small town in Belgium
is lighted by electricity. 1t appears that
thirty years ago the municipality entered
into a contract with the local gas COM
pany for the public lighting of the town.
It was agreed that the price should be
fixed at $4,000 per annum, the contract
to exist for ffty-ive years. Thus the
agreement remains good for another
twenty-five years. The municipality,
seeing around cheaper gas and a more
desirable light in the form of the electric
light, have come to the conclusion that
they are decidedly at a disadvantage.
They say that the price which was con-
sidered just when the contract was made
should now be reduced, as it is excessive
when compared with other towns where
only $1,000 per annum is paid for the
same amount of light.
AS the gas company refuses to reduce
its price, complaints regarding defective
lighting, which had previously been per-
United to pass unnoticed, are now nu-
merous, the inhabitants entering hearth
ly into the spirit of the situation. Ac-
cording to the latest accounts the gas
company had fallen on troublous times.
The municipality had made up its mind
that if it could not get the gas at a rea-
sonable rate it would secure it at a low
one, and possibly make a profit on the
bargain.
The method adopted is decidedly rigor-
Gus. For every gas jet below the con-
tract candle power q fine of forty cents
is imposed; for each square Of glass not
properly cleaned, a fine of ton cents; a
broken glass, ten cents, and for a lamp
extinguished q caution first and a fine
afterward. The campaign is affording
immense qualification to the inhabitants
of that quiet little town, which has sell
dom fallen on such u bonanza in the way
of a sensation, and the gas company
seems destined either to make a speedy
change of front Or give up its contract.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
Got ~ 1915 Pearl will, His Dime,

Edward Malley was eating IL dinner at
Heublein's recently, and among the first
dishes served was oysters on the half
shell. He picked up one of the oysters
with his fork from the shell, and his eye
was attracted by a white substance which
had been concealed under the oyster. 1t
was a pearl of extraordinary size and ex-
ceptionally fine quality, although it was
entirely in the rough state. It was ex-
amined by several gentlemen who were
present, and it was universally conceded
to be a remarkable gem. Mr.. Malley
placed its value at $40, and this estimate
was accepted as being none too high.
He proposes to have it finished up and
mounted. The oyster in which the gem
was found came from one of the local
dealers and was taken from a bed in the
Sound.-New Haven Register.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09
General Bou,aneer in New York,

Don't be startled if I tell you a secret.
General Boulanger, the deposed head of
retrograde movement, is in New York.
So, at least, a Frenchman tells me who
claims to have called upon the general
at his secluded lodgings on the east side.
Ny informant asserts that Boulanger has
shaved his face clean and is DESTROYS of
remaining unknown in the metropolis
until his country calls him. In this case
his residence here is likely to be a long
one.
There is a strong probability that my
Gallo friend has given me "a straight
tip" in this matter. Boulanger took a
fancy to New York when he was here at
the time of the Yorktown celebration.
He likes the life of q large city, and has
been bored on the Isle Of Jersey. Lon
don did not treat him we'll and Paris is
denied him. What is more natural than
that he should come to New York-the
refuge Of SO many soiled foreigners
Cor. Chicago Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

AFTER all, whatever may be the
money. whether gold or silver OF both,
whether in large or small volume, the
man who has no money can only buy
it with his labor. In any event he
will get only as much money as his
labor will exchange for in the mar
ket. The main thing is to have a
safe money. The safest is the best
The safest is that which h~uctuates
least. The safest is that which those
who have money and property most
conlide in. The safest is that which
will be as good next week, next
month, next year, as at the present
moment.--Grand Forks Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

TIE school board of Dickinson
have been advised that the Dakota
Land & Colonization Co. will give
either block % or 90 for the school
site. This is a liberal proposition,
and it is understood that the board
looks with favor upon block %, which
brings the location centrally north
and south--three blocks due west of
the court house-and as neal the
center of the town as could be had
and give ample play grounds. These
grounds would be slightly, afford good
drainage, and so far as accommoda.
ting patrons of the school is concern.
ed, we don't believe a site could be
selected sc as to suit the convenience
of a greater number, and it comes at
a great saving of expense to the dis
trict, at a time when needed.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-09

In 1870 the total iron output Of the
United States was only 4,l63,S39 tons,
while i'll. 1890 the southern states
alone produced 2,9l7,529 tons. The
increase in the southern states has
been remarkable. Alabama ten years
ag%o-census Of 1SS0--produced only
I7I,l3O tons, while in 1890 the output
was 1%,585,321 tons. The development
of the latent resources of the southern
states is making Anew South that
promises in the near future to rival
the North. Old prejudices are wear.
ing away and the advent of northern
capital and northern enterprise is now
hailed with satisfaction throughout
the South.-[Bismarck Tribune.