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The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
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Shllful stone carvers-not sculptors,
but the men who actually cut the figures
and decorations on the facades on interi-
ors of buildings with mallet and chisel-
often receive from four to six dollars q
day in New York and Boston. Modelers
for jewelers. and makers of designs for
wall paper often receive more than that.
In Boston and New York good stone
carvers receive higher pay than report
ers on newspapers, clerks in business
houses or male school teachers of the
lower grades.
But who are these skilled stone carvers
and wood carvers, makers of designs for
wall paper, modelers in clay. brass fin
lshers and so on? They are, with some
exceptions, Europeans. They havelearn-
ed how to do their work in other coun-
tries, and come here to exercise their
crafts.
Formerly these more artistic trades
could not be learned in the United
States. This is no longer the case. The
industries have been established in this
country to such an extent that nearly
all of them may DO learned by theprecess
of apprenticeship and in the technical
schools scattered through the country
almost every branch of industrial art is
taught.
But when one day I asked a large EN-.
ployer of skilled stone carvers how many
of his men were American born he an
swered, "Not II in ten is American
born."-J. E. C%hamberlin in Youths
Companion.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Improved Enxclopc Foldinc aIachine.

Improved Envelope Folding Machine.
a new envelope folding machine pos
sesses several novel features, including
the use of boxed or inside cams, which
obviate the necessity for springs in pro-
ducing the different movements of the
mechanicism, and thus increase the
smoothness of working and durability of
the apparatus. Bymeans of an ingenious
adjustable appliance, the envelopes have
any desired amount of bulk or roundness
Of the edges impaired to them. This
operation makes the envelope moro con-
venient for use and also adds to its
strength by lessening the liability to split
at the edges.
After folding, the envelopes are trans
ferred to wired divisions on the peripll-
cry of a revolving wheel at the rear of
the machine, where they are dried by
currents of hot or cold air forced through
perforators in pipes coiled at the sides of
the wheel. The envelopes are afterward
dropped into a a C and gradually adj
vanced to a table where an attendant is
waiting to band them. All the opera
tions, from the placing of the blanks to
the receipt of the finished envelope, are
entirely automatic, and a single machine
iscapable of making from $4,000 to 40, 600
envelopes per day.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser,
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
A Treat for Dickinson People.

A lecture will be given ut the court
house next Wednesday evening by
Abraham Boyardus on the subject,
''Forty Years Behind the Camera"
The admission will be fifty cents, the
proceeds going to the builing fund
Of the Episcopal church society. MI.
Bogardus is the Oldest and best verscl
man in America on photography. His
lectures in Brooklyn and New York
have always taken we'll; his wide en-
perience with leading statesmen and
professional men of our country, gives
him an unlimited source from which
to draw, and he has the natural gift
for relating incidents which always
pleases.
We do not hesitate to assert that the
lecture will be instructive and pleas.
ing-a treat for the people of Dickin-
son.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23

there would have been lamentation as
over Keats, but Bailey has lived half a
century longer without producing a Sec
ond poem. Tasso, though he lived TWEEN
ty years after Jerusalem Delivered
never equaled that epic, written at 81.
Still there are men whose longevity
has certainly stood for much. Michael
Angelo showed astonishing precocity,
but he owe to his eighty-nine years his
great renown as painter, sculptor and
sonneteer. Voltaire's fame, again, rests
on the entirety of his writings, not on
any single work, and the literary dicta-
torship with which age invested him.
Cut off twenty years Of his life, and his
fame would perceptibly shrink. Goethe,
Emerson, Carlyle, Longfellow, Tenny-
son, Hugo, Dumas-all had the advan-
tage of ~fullness of years, so as to be
judged by bulk as we'll as quality. Hum
boldt, too, owed to his ninety years a
portion of his reputation.
The true comparison would obviously
be between works produced at the same
age, or between men dying at about the
same age, but it is much easier to test
achievement than capacity. Perhaps the
best books Gin posse) have v been
written, and we often feel that the men
We're greater than their works. Who
knows, moreover, what geniuses have
died in childhood?-Atlantic Monthly.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Deaf Mutea.

F. G.. Jefferson, of Toronto, Canada,
thus writes to The Mail of that city:
"The following case has come under my
notice: A farmer married his cousin, and
both possessed all their faculties, and
they have nine children, of whom five
daughters were born deaf mutes. Three
of these daughters married speaking and
hearing husbands. The first one has
three deaf mute children out of five, the
second one has two deaf mute children
out of three and the third has deaf
mute child out of two. This proves that
Professor Bell, of Washington, United
States, has made a mistake by publish
ing largely that the intermarriages of
deaf mutes bring a deaf mute race, when
the fact is that deaf mute children pro-
coed from married cousins possessing all
their faculties. In the Belleville deaf
mute school there are 240 pupils, and not
one of them has deaf mute parents.
There are many other similar cases in
England and the States"
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Old Butter,

1t is a matter of wondermentt to many
what becomes of the tons upon tons of
dairy butter piled up year after year in
the wholesale grocery stores and som,
mission houses of II cities, and which
the average American would not allow
on his table. 1.-The poorer the butter
the further it goes" said a large butter
dealer of this city, as he packed rolls and
prints of various colors and sizes in a
sugar barrel lined with butter cloths,
"That expresses it in more ways than
one. Good butter always finds a ready
market here at home; it never goes beg
ging for buyers at any time of the year,
but packing grade goes to the end of the
earth. The contents of this barrel will
go to South America"
"Not just as it ISL"
"No; it will undergo manipulation.
The firm to whom this is to be shipped
melt down this grade of butter and pack
it in glass Jars. By the time it reaches
South American port it is of about the
same consistency as olive oil. The South
Americans use it on their bread as we
use butter. A large proportion of pack,
ing stock shipped from the northwest
goes ultimately to European countries. .
North West Trade.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
NOTICE.

TIC WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 10, Chap
Ter 1872, of the Session Laws of 1890, the commits
will make their annual visit to the stations on
the line of the Northern Pacific railroad and
branches as follows, to-wit:
Davenport and Leonard, in the county of Cass;
Sheldon, Lisbon and Marshall, in The county
OF Banson; Oakcs in the county of Dickcy;
,yalleg junction Edgely, Lamoure Grand Rap
ads. Dickey and Adrian, in the county Of
Medora, in the county of Billings; Bcltield and
Dickinson, in the county of Stark; on the 4th
day of June.
Gladstone, Taylor and Rtchardton, in the coun.
" OF stark; Hebron, Glen Ullcn, Sims, New Sa-
lem and Mandan in the county of Morton and
Bismarck in the county of Burleigh on The 18th
day of June.
Menoken and Sterling in the county of Bur.
leigh; Steele, Dawson, vTappen and Crystal
sor, Eldridge, jamestown and Pingree in the
county OF Stutsman; Melville and Carringto
IN the county Of Foster; Sykeston in the counn
" OF Wells on the 9th day of June.
New Rockford in the county of Eddy: Obcron
and Leeds in the county of Ben
son; Spiritwood in the county of Stutsman:
E aSS e and Darcy in the coanty Of Barnes;
the 9TH day of June. -
sanborn, Valley City and Oriska, in the county
Ct Barnes; Tower City, Buffalo, Wheatlnnd,,
Of csss: and Grand dni Fo oaagG in II the 'e eeu Gfvn "
Grand Forks, on the 9Th day Of june. "
Mechinock, Gilby and Johnston, in the county OF
Grand Forks: Forest River and Grafton, in the
county OF Walsh, Drayton and Pembina, in tht
county OF Pembina, on the 9th day of June.
Minor, in the county of Sargent. and wyndmen
Moorstoxn. Pennington and Wahpeton, in tn,
county Of of Richland, on the 10th day Of june
1891.
GEO. II. WALSH,
Chairman Board Of Railrond Commissioner
n j. EDGERLEY,
Secretary. may 1874
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
, How Playing Marbles Are Made

Nearly all the common marbles which
drag down the pockets Of our boys are
made in Oberstein, Germany. They are
made from the refuse of the agate and
stone quarries in that neighborhood.
The stone is broken into small cubes by
blows Of a light hammer. These small
blocks Of stone are thrown by the shovel
full into the chopper" of a small mill,
formed Of a bed of stone, having its sur
face grooved with concentrated burrows;
above these is the runner" which is
made of hard wood having a level face
on it's lower surface. The upper block
is made to revolve rapidly, water being
delivered upon the grooves Of the bed
stone where the marbles are being
rounded, 1t takes about fifteen minutes
to finish a bushel of good marbles ready
for Swapping" One mill will turn out
10000 marbles per week. The very
hardest Crackers" as the boys call
them, are made by a slower process,
somewhat analogous, however, to the
other New York Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Questioned Her Motive.

The following fragment of a CONVERSE
ton caught on an elevated train seemed
to possess certain claims to c%onsidera-
ton: "And Miss L. is as good as she is
clever" commented one man to another;
GIVE known her more than once to
chokedown a bright speech which would
be at the expense of a companion"
GLOW did you know it was a bright
speech!" questioned the second man.
because she made it later, when the
companion could not overhear it."
"Humph," replied the other and elder
man, land when the companion could
not reply to it," After which a silence
fell.-Her Point of View in New York
Times.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
A HOLY PLACE is THE HEARrHsroNE

A holy place is the h~carthstone,
Where loved ones arc gathered round,
Where mothers, sircs and sisters dear
And brothers and friends are found.
A holy place is the hearthstonc,
Homes innermost shrine is there,
Laden with blessed benson
And hallowed by loving prayer.
A holy place is the hcarthstonc;
What clustering joys abide
Where tho cradle of our infancy
Was rocked by IL mothers side.
A holy place is the h~earthstone,
Where childhood's pattering feet
Go glancing in shade and sunshine
To tho music of pleasures beat.
A holy place is tho hcarthstonc.
Where the youth have woocd and won,
And we'd and gone to the battle
OF life with full armor on.
A holy place is the hcarthstone,
Where manhood has settled down
With blessings blossoming round him,
And love for n priceless crown.
a holy placeis the hearthstone,
Whence the old and young have gone
To rest from their weary labor
When tho battle of life was done.
And oh, from the holy h%carthstonc,
When parted from those we love,
May We go to meet by the h~carthstonc
OF our Fathers house above!
New York Ledger.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
CONSUMPTION Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
nce. having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula Of
a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure Of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and ali
Throat and Lung Affections, also a posi-
tive and radical cure for Nervous De-
biity and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative
his duty to make it known to his suffer
ing fellows. Actuated by this motive
and o 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 for pre-
pairing and using, Sent by mail by ad-
dressing with stamp, naming this paper,
w. A. MOVES, S2O Powers Block, Roch-
ester N. Y.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Prononounced Hopele.s. Yet Saved.

From a letter written by Mrs. Ada e.
Hurd, of Groton, S. D., we quote: WAS
taken with a bad cold, which settled on
my lungs, cough set in and finally ter
minated in consumption. -Four doctors
gave me up saying I could not live but
q short time. gave myself up to my
Saviour, determined if l could not stay
with my friends on earth, I would meet
my absent ones above. My husband
was advised to get DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. 1 gave it a trial, took in all
eight bottles; it has cured me and,
thank God, I am now q well and hearty
woman" Trial bottles free at J. j.
Freeman's drug store, regular size 80
cents and 81.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
The Barber Was Ready.

An old veteran told this as happening
at Savannah during the war:
A young officer, who was pretty much
of u bully, stopped in at IL tonsorial sa-
loon. Drawing his sword he ordered
the barber to shave him, at the same
time warming him that if he cut his face
OF drew a drop of blood he would kill
him when he got up. The operation was
went out, however, the bully asked the
artist if he was not very much fright.
ened while he was doing the work.
The barber smiled.
"Not in the slightest" he replied;
"for if 1 had accidentally drawn a droI
of blood 1 would have cut your throat
from ear to ear before you could have
moved."-Atlanta Constitution.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Weight of French Money.

A Frenchman, who evidently revels in
handling large sums of money, has COM
piled some entertaining statistics with
regard to the weight of a milliard of the
French coin Of the realm. According to
him amilliard in silver weighs 10, O00, 900
pounds; in gold, GAS, 100 pounds; in 1 1000
franc checks, 1850 pounds, and in 100
franc checks, $4,000 pounds. Assuming
that a carrier could carry two hundred
weight, IS men would be required to
carry a. milliard in 1000 franc checks,
115 men for the same sum in 100 franc
checks, 1925 men in gold and $4,000 in
silver. A milliard in 1000 franc checks
would make 1000 volumes of 500 pages
each.-Boston Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Maine No Longer the Pine Tree {

Maine No Longer the Pine Tree State.
One of the pioneer lumbermen on the
Penobscot was MI. John Trickey, still
living in Bangor, at the age of IS years.
He went there on foot with q pack on
his back and only $3.50 in his pocket in
1929. Today he is one of Bangor's
wealthy citizens. Chimes have changed
as they say, since Mr.. Tricl1ey began his
operations. Maine was really the "Pine
Tree State" then. In eight years Mr..
Trickey cut 33,o00,0 900 feet of pine on
land that o constitutes the towns of
Carmel, Kenduskeag and Levant. where
hardly a pine is to be seen. At that
time there were no roads, and all the
provisions were taken up the river in
boats, special crews being employed for
that representation Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
THROUGH THE WEARY HOURS

OF many night, made doubly long by it's pro-
tracted agony, the rheumatic sufferer losses to
and fro on his sleeplcss cough, vainly praying
for that rest which only comes by fits and starts.
His malndy is one which ordinary medicines to
often fail too relieve, but there is ample evidence
letters Stomach Bi,:ers, affords the rheumatic a
reliable means of relief. Check the malady in
It's incipient stagss, when the first premonitory
twlnses come on, with this agreeable medicine,
and avoid years of torture. Whatever be the
rationale OF the active influence of the Bitters
upon this malady, certain ii is that no evidence
relating TO its effect is more direct and positive
than that which relates TO its action in casep Of
rheumatism. Like all sterling romcdic., how.
ever, it deserves a protracted. Systematic tria,
and should not be abandoned because not nj
once remedial. 1t is equally cficacious in dvs
pepsia, indigestion and kindred diseases.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23

JAMES G. BLAINE, the greatest
statesman America ever knew. stands
our country. Reciprocity is talked OF
both sides Of the water: people of both
parties are being converted to it,
and no longer is the measure talked of
as limited free trade 10y the democrats.
1t is well styled the advanced step Of
protection. And Blaine's good States
manship does not stop here: the Behr-
ing sea correspondence and the Italian
matter are bright examples of his
adroitness; always abreast Of the times
is Blaine, whose chances for the next
presidential chair are becoming more
certain every day.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
niscouerx uf Mahoa..x

In the year 1897 one of Sir Walter Ra.
leigh's ships, in an expedition against the
Azores, put in at Trinidad for repairs.
The workmen used the first wood that
came to hand, and it happened to be the
now famous mahogany. By this accident
it was first introduced into England,
where it was much admired, but it did
not become an article of commerce until
a century later. Since then it has held
first rank as Il cabinet makers wood
Golden Days.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
LEAVING SICK BEHIND.
Stanley's Column Are Obliged to Des
Their Diving Comrades.

SANKEY'S Column Are Obliged to Desert
Their Dying Comrades.
EARLY next morning Stanley started of
with his company, promising to clear a
path as well as he could in order to en-
able us to carry the boatsectons through
the thick underground. Stairs, Parke
and I then made a careful examination
of the men and loads, and found that we
should be obliged to leave fifty-si4 men
and eighty-one loads behind. Many of
the men e socowed and hopeless that
they wished only to be left to die peace
fully where they were.
But any man who was at all able to
crawl along we passed as fit to travel,
and those Mty-six men we left were near.
ly all in the last stage of starvation and
sickness. At any rate, we thought that
their chances of getting food would be
better if they came with us, and nothing
could be gained by remaining where they
We're.
We had great difficulty in getting the
men off with the loads, and it was past
midday before the last Of the caravan
filed out of what is now known as Mel
sons starvation camp. I find the fol.
lowing words in my journal that morn.
ing:
"It is a truly terrible position for Mel
SOL to be left in; he has food only fol
three days, and will have to exist OF
what he can pick up in the shape Of
fungi or roots. Stairs has left him s
fish hook and. line, and it is possible he
may get a few small fish, but the river il
so rapid and full of bowlders that he has
but a slight chance of catching any
thing.
meantime we are going on with al
exhausted and starving column to try
and find food in a trackless wilderness
Nelson is now so crippled from ulcers
that he cannot creep far from camp, ant
will have to depend entirely upon wha
his two boys can manage to bring linn.
1--WE got off about two o'clock, ant
sadly said goodby to poor old Nelson
for his position is very precarious ant
our chances of relieving him small; b
has worked with us in good fellowship
all these months, and now we are prac
tically abandoning him."-A. j. Noun
teney Jephson in Scribner's.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Queer Face Recommendation.

AT any time from 16 to % years of age
the male Esquimaux have their lower
lips pierced under each corner of the
mouth for labrets. When the incision
is first made sharp pointed pieces of
ivory are put in.
After the wound heals the hole is grad
ually stretched to half an inch in dame
tel. Some of the poorer natives wear
labrets made from camel coal, ivory,
common gravel and glass shoppers OBJ
tanned from ships, which they shape for
the purpose. All who can obtain them
have agate ones.-Washington Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Dogs Histor


In all Jewish history there is not a
single allusion to hunting with dogs,
though mention is frequently found of
nets and snares. The Hindoos likewise
consider the animal unclean aud submit
to various publications if they acct
dentally come into contact with one,
believing that every dog is animated by
a wicked and malignant spirit con-
demned to do penance in that form for
crimes committed in a previous state of
existence. Even in Egypt dogs now are
as much avoided as they were once VEN
Grated. However, in Greece and Rome
the beast vas highly estimated. Alex
ander the Great built a city i'll honor of
q dog.-Interview in Washington Star.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Miraculous.

"Bre'er Johnsing, does yo' blieve in
miracles?"
"Does I b'lieve in miracles? Suttenly
I does. Didn't I jest have n Of 'em
down at my house,"
"You? A miracle down at your house?'
eyes, sab; OATS what I said. Dey was
jes' fouh chickens in my coop when I
went to bed las night, an when I woked
up dis mornin' -
"Dey was eighth"
"Eight7 No, yo' fool man! Dey wasn't
none. Done STOLE"
"Humph! Wha's de miracle?
ode coop was lef'."-Judge.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23

The Baptists have evidently pat
termed after Bishop Walker. y
church evangelical car has been dedi-
Gated for the use of the Baptist de-
nomination, Boston Smith in charge.
and its initial trip will be along the
main line of the n. p. Dickinson
may received visit in June.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Old and Young Great Men.

Great as have been some men who died
young, who knows how much greater
they would have been had their lives
been prolonged. Might not. Marlowe
have rivaled Shakespeare Yet possibly
Byron had already given us his best,
and Shelley and Keats might not have
surpassed their early efforts.
Had the author Of "tFestus" died at 2S
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
A Mad Race.

Mrs. Drubbins (who has been reading
Of the performances of a somnambulist)
The paper says that last night a mar
jumped out of q window to the roof of
another house, and ran along that till
he came to a church roof, when he leaped
to that and climbed up the steeple.
Mr.. Drubbins-How long had they
been married?-Good News.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23

IT has been suggested that the Da-
kota Land \ Colonization Co., lay out
public park south of the high school
grounds. \ park would add much to
the beauty of Dickinson and enhance
the value of property many times its
cost.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
How Mark Twain Seems.

The opinions Of our serving folks are
sometimes worth knowing. AT the Muir
ray Hill hotel the other day one of the
porters remarked: "There goes the SOL
emnest and dismalest gent as ever
stopped at this 'ouse. Idon't b1ieve he
ever knowed what it was to larf."
The subject of this depressing and
melancholy criticism was Samuel L.
Clemens, ESD, Of Hartford, Conn, not
unknown to admirers of serious and i'll
structive literature us Mark Twain
New York World.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
You Nav Be Lucky,

A New York statistician and fnancier
figures that out Of 100000 men only 5000
will die worth ove $4,000, and only
1900 who can be called rich. He says
that 5000 men lose $4,000 and upward
per year, and that 1000 men lose $40, 900
each where one makes 800, OoO.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23

THE authorities at Washington have
approved the contract between Sur
veyor-General Williams and Il. $.
Brooking to survey the following
townships west of the Missouri river:
l35, 1856. 49,, Ill. and l42. range 50.
lS6. 14l and li2, lange 30, and III
rannn nl
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23

Joseph Jefferson is not only an admir-
able actor, but lie is a painter of much
more than ordinary skill and power. The
work that he Inexperienced in either de-
partment would have been sufficient to
hxnesecured for him more than common
reputation.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-23
Needed an Airing.

Old Johnsing-When I wor a young
fellow like yo', Sam, I worn't so fond oh
ventilatin' my opinions as yo' are, sab!
Young Yallerby-Huh! Idon't Won
dab yon ventilates 'em now. Obey am
musty enough, suahl-gudge.