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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
In Mexico You Marry the Entire Family

One characteristic of the Mexican is
best exempliied by their proceedings in
the event of the marriage of one Of their
daughters to an American. The Mexi-
can, bear in mind, is possessed of the in.
eradicable idea that Americans are all
rolling in wealth. The idea is a source
of never-ceasing envy on the part of one
sex and satisfaction to the other. When
an American marries Mexican girl her
whole family, her sisters, cousins, aunts,
etc., and all their sisters, cousins, aunts,
etc., for hundred miles around are in
vited to the wedding. This includes
every blood relation to the very remot-
est. They not only come, which is bad,
but they stay, which is worse. There
they camp, and until every ounce of food
and every dollar in sight is gone there
they continue to camp, and should the
luckless bridegroom have employment
they stay still longer, encouraged in the
most natural and artless manner by their
very hospitable relative, the bride. The
feelings of the groom under such circum-
stances can be imagined, but a protest
OILY meets with tears from the bride and
indignant astonishment from the guests,
before which the bridegroom generally
succumbs. It is apparent that the Mexi-
can merely guages the hospitality and
charity of others by his own, aud wants
to be done by as he does to others. s. Chi
c0q2 Times.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
The Land of Pluck.

Far over the sea is a famous little
country generally known as Holland;
but that name, even if it meant Hollow
land, or How land2 does not describe it
half so we'll as this-The Funny Land OF
Pluck.
Verify, queerer bit of earth was ne7-
er shone upon by the sun nor washed by:
the tide. 1t is the oldest, funniest
country that ever raised its head
from the waves tand, between ourselves,
it does not quite do that, the most
topsy .turvy landscape, the most amphi-
bious spot in the universe,-as the Man
in the Moon can't deny.-the chosen butt
of the elements, and good'naturedly the
laughing stock of mankind. Its people
are the queerest and drollest of all the
nations; and yet so plucky, so wise and
aresolnte, andx.strong, that "beating the
Dutch" has become bye-word for ex-
pressing the limits of mortal performance.
As for the country, for centuries it
was not exactly anywhere; at least it
objected to staying long just the same,
in any one place. 1t may be said to have
lain around loose on the waters of GER
tain portion of Europe, playing peek-a-
boo with its inhabitants; now coming to-
the surface here and there to attend to
matters, then taking dive for change
Of scene and most disastrous dive it
often proved.
Rip Van Wrinkle himself changed less
between his great sleeping and waking
than Holland has altered many time,
between sunset and dawn. All its per-
manence and resoluteness seems to have
been soaked out of it, or rather to have
filtered from the land into the people.
Every field hesitates whether to turn into
pond or not, and the ponds are always
trying to leave the country by the short
est cut One would suppose that under
this condition of things the only un-
troubled creatures would be turtles and
ducks; but no, strangcst and most
mysterious of all, every living thing
in Holland appears to be throughly
placid and content. The Dutch mind,
so to speak, is at once anti.dry and
waterproof. Little children run about
in fields where once their grandfathers
sailed over the pillows; and youths and
maidens row their pleasure where
their ancestors played "tag" among the
haystacks. When the tide sweeps un-
tremendously over Mynheer's garden,
he lights his pipe. takes his fishing-rod,
and sits down on his back porch to try
his luck. Ii his pet pond breaks loose
and slips away, he whistles, puts up a
dam so that it cannot come back, and
decides what crop shall be raised in its
vacant place. None but the Dutch
could live so TRANQUILITY in Holland;
though, for that matter, if it had not
been for the Dutch, we may be suro
there would have been, by this time, no
Holland at all.
And yet this very Holland, besides
holding its own place, has managed to
gain foothold in almost every quarter
of the globe. An account of its colonies
is history in itself. In the East Indies
alone it commands twentyfour millions
| ,>f ,ooreone ct N;.boIyo
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
Emptying English Prisons.

The annual report Of the English
Commissioners of Prisons, recently pub
lished, shows that there has been large
decline since last year in the number OF
inmates of the local prisons of England
and Wales. A similar or even more
marked diminution OF the prison popllllaa:
,ion has been noted in preyieus years.
In spite of the increase in population,
theffss- fewer prisoners than at any
previous time iu forty years. The de-
crease since 1878 has been particularly
great. The number of prisoners in March,
1890, was 1887, which was SeI less
than in March, 1889; 1859 less than in
March, 1883; 595S less than in March,
1880, and 1856 less than 1878. The
prison population is only ee-quarters
of that OF twelve years ago, while the
population of the country has increased
one seventh. The Commissioners believe
that the dininution in the number of
prisoners is due entirely to decrease in
crime, and not to any laxity of the police
or of the public prosecutors. The con-:
trast of these figures with the statistics of
the ever-increasing prison population
of the United States will afford little
pleasure to the patriotic resident of this
country, but onesor two considerations
may give him some comfort. The in
crease of crime in this country is due in
some measure to the immigration, of men
VINO have led criminal lives iii other
countries, or who come here, with the,
idea of obtaining money by criminal
means if necessary. England itself has
sent us not few persons who have 2,at,
one time or another formed { Iiartiof its
prison populations. Another reason for.
the increase of the number oEIininae in:
this country is the restless and rapidly
moving manner of life in some .ssot the
communities, and the <roughness IN
separableS from life in. theatepote parts
of the country. When the United
States settles INTO the comparative re-,
pose of thea ancient civilization the;
prisons may be less crowded. .-Nsw lofe
Tribune. Sss -
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
Shooting Grouse, Z s.

When flushed the rnfled grouse
springs into the ar with. a whirr and
boom that make the dry fallen leaves
around dance under the swiftly beating
pinions, says the Philadelphia Press.
This is the birds chiefest characteristic,
suggestive of the power and speed of
which it is alone capable. The novice,
taken unawares, is often so startled at
the burst to wing that he stands in open
mouthed astonishment gazing after the
bird, or sometimes aimlessly lets his gun
90 off into the air, or as often into the
ground. The experienced hunter listens
for the welcome sound of the birds
wings with zest that is akin to crav-
ing.
The speed of grouse is truly phe-
nomenal. After the first beating of wings
that gives the momentum the bird sets
its pinlons and seems to glide through
air like a cannon ball. Unless the
sportsman be at considerable distance
in cross shooting there is no possible
chance of his being able to put his aim
"on' the bird at all. At a distance of
thirty yards or more, if the flush is ex-
pected and the woods comparatively
open, the chance is that a quick shot
will pull the trigger. AS to whether he
will kill or not, all may say is, try,
ambitious reader, you may. have seen
it done.
In some instances after flushing the
grouse will fly straight up to the tree
top, then away. This is the easiest
shot to many. Of the methods of shoot
ing the ruffled grouse I know of but two !;
they may be called the Legitimate and
illegitimate. The latter is that of tree
ing the birds with small dog that
! thrashes around like a fox and will then
bark at them, keeping their attention
while the pot-hunter sueaks up to with
in range and pops the bird over as any
boy of ten years might do. The other
method is with the bird-dog, and for its
merits boasts of shooting the bird only
while on the wing. The Pennsylvania
season is from October 1 to January 1.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
A Famous Oil Town.

The survivors of Pithole, the famous
oil town in Venango County, Penn, have
been holding reunion at Titusville. Mr..
Porter's count of the present Pithole will
show possibly population of five per.
sons, whereas in its palmy days it had a
population of 1000, and in point of
postal business transacted it was the third
city in the State, Philadelphia and Pitts
burg only exceeding it. The Holmden
farm at Pithole, which once was sold to
Chicago people for $500, 900, has
been sold at tax sale for $lU0.--Ds.
tyoit hrse piesss-
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08


But Of all the curious -eapers cut by
these colossal masses6f ice none is mere
singular, pct even their somerSaults, than
ops1 Saw being performed in the entrance
t. Hudson Strait. A furious gale was rag
ing that was driving drifting icepack
before it as if it were herd of fright
ened animals. The great fiat fields and
foes of ice were speeding eastward be-
fore the whistling wind almost as fast as
our snug little ship, for we were under
double reefed sails, so furious was tie
storm.
Looming up out of the drifting gusts
and whirling eddies of the snow, bearing
westward, came the pearly sails of an
Arctic ship-a mighty iceberg with a
superb serenity in the awful storm cut
its way directly through all the obstacles
that faced its front. 1t bore down in
the very teeth of the wind and barred its
boreal breast to the fields and foes,
crushing them as if they were so many
egg shells, and scattering the flying
glacial splinters port and starboard like a
swift rolling wagon wheel scatters tho
dust.
This mastless hyperborean hulk was
obeying the mandate of a marine current
down in the depths of the old oceans
bed. Six-se 7enths of the iceberg is SUBJ
merged, and the superficial current being
shallow in the strait discovered by old
Heinrich Hudson, while the air, being so
much lighter than water, that even gale
Gan form but small component OF the
forces that determine the track of these
Titans of the North, so we were greatly
awed and edited by the singular yet su-
perb spectacle of an iceberg sailing di-
lectly against the wind and forcing its
way through fields Of ice that would
have crushed and sunk the mighticst'
mailed man. of.war of modern times be-
fore it could have made half mile. 1t
will impress one for life If but once en-
countered, and is q curious scene that but
few have.ever witnessed.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
UNREST.

The farther yoa journey and wander
From the sweet, simple faith of .rour youth,
The more you peer into the yonde:.
And search foc the root OF all truth,
No matter what secrets uncover
Their vailed mystic brows in your quest,
Or close on your astral sight hover,
Still. still shall you walk with unrest.
If YOU seek for strange things you shall fn1
them,
But the finding shall bring you to grief;
The dead lock the portals behiud them,
And he who breaks through is a thief.
The soul with such il!-gottsn plum Ter
Wits its premature knowledge oppressed,
Shall grope in unsatisfei wonder
Always by the sho:r Of unrest. -
Though bold hands lift up the thin curtain
That hides the unknown from our sight;
Though a shadowy faith becomes certain
OF the newllght that follows deaths night;
Though miracles past,comprehending
Shall startle thu heart in your breast
Still still will your thirst be uueading,
And you: soul will be sad with unrest
There arc truths too sublime and too holy
Tograsp with a mortal minds touch.
We are happier far to be lowly;
Content means not knowing too much.
Peace dwells not with hearts that are yearn-
ing
10 fatho:n all labyriuths unguessel,
And the soul thu: is bent on vast learning
Shall find with its knowle lge-.u unrest.
--ElIc ". Wlcon, in the Weekly
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
A Remarkable Piece Of Bluestone.

Probably the most remarkable piece
of bluestone ever quarried in this couu-
try and brought safely to Underwater IS
now at Wilbur. 1t is twenty feet long
by twenty-four feet nine inches, ten
inches thick and weighs over twenty
tons. 1t was taken out OF quarry near
Kingston, and by its side the celebrated
slab in front of the Vanderbilt mansion
in New York, which is fifteen by twenty
feet and eight inches thick, is shorn of
much of its glory. This monster stone
is so large that it may have to be cut in
two for buyer, which will detract from
its actual value about twenty per cent.
In its present shape it is practically dead
money to its owners, as IL is larger and
wider either way than any sidewalk in
America Chicago News.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08
THE CLOUDS.

Suspended in the air 49,.
Like the mountain cliffs up there,
And wrapt in the softest roseate hue,
The clouds are heaped on high,
And streaked across the sky
With fire emblazoned on the view. :
How beautiful they sail,
Robed in morning veil,
Like vessels ON the placid blue,
Ten thousand sunbeams tint,
Ten thousand enblsms hint
The good, the noble and the true.
Now comes the blightsome breeze
With lulling sound Of ease,
And drives the saffron flames apart
As stealing winds have torn
And far away have borne =.
Some cherished idol Of my hart.
May trouble be as light
And virtue shine as bright
Within the Aeeting life Of all,
As clouds at airy rest
With lightsome, downy crest,
Or floating at the Makers call.
-R. Il. Hdpener. in Times-Democrat.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08

The past season was IN the main fav-
;wable for the hay crop.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08

will have to ask his permission. Mr..
Hadley, Professor Roberts" "--DetroI
Free Press.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1891-01-08

= A rapid penmau should write thirty
words minute.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
First publication Nov. IS, 1884,
Notice of Mortgage Sale.

Default having been made 10 payment of one
interest note for $40. payable August 6, 1891, and
described in the condition of a mortgage dated
and delivered August ., 1883, by Annie Reynolds,
mortgagor, to Paulina G.. Stetson, mortgage,
and duly recorded in the Office Of the register of
deeds Q, Burleigh county, N. D.. August 2, 1888,
in book go of mortgages, page 90. by which de-
come operative; and whereas it is provided in
said mortgage that if said interest note shall re-
main unpaid for ten days after maturity, said
mortgage may declare the whole sum secured by
said mortaage to be fully due and payable. and
said mortgage having declared and hereby de-
clarine the whole sum secured by said mortgage
to be fully due and payable, now claims due
proceedings at law or otherwise having been in
etituted to recover said debt or any part thereof:
Notice is hereby given that said MORTGAGE will be
foreclOsed and the premises described therein.
viz: The ca # half of the northwest quarter of
section numbered thirty-two 1927, in township
numbered one hundred and thirty-nine (139),
north of ranga numbered seventy-eight (7S) west
of the 5th principal meridian, containing eighty
acres, more or less. according to the United
Burleigh county, North Dakota, will he sold at
public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, to
pay said sum and interest and attorneys fee
stipulated in said mortgage. and the taxes due
on said property and the costs and charges al
lowed by law, which sale will be made by the
sheriff of snid Burleigh county, ut the front door
of the court house in said Burleigh county, on
the forenoon of said day. and subject to redemp-
ton as provided by law.
PAULINA G. sTETsON,
GEORGE W. NEWTON, Mortgage.
Attorney for MORTGAGE, Bismarck, Nd.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
First Publication November 6, 1891
Notice of MORTGAGE Sale.


Default nov existing in a mortgage duly exc
Webb, j., mortgages dated the 18th day of August
1889, and recorded on thef29th day of August, 1889,
at 1915 o'clock q. m. in book 81 Of mortgages on
page ISL in the Office of the register Of deeds of
Burleigh county, Dakota Territory, now'etate of
North Dakota. There is claimed to be due there
on in principal and interest at the date of this
notice the sum of two hundred and forty five
proceedings have been instituted to recover said
debt or any part thereof. e 9
Notice ID hereby given that by virtue of the
power of sale in said mortgage contained land
which is now operative because of default in
payment when due of said mortgage) and pursu-
ant to the statute in such case provided the said
mortgage wi! be flreclosed and the premises de-
seribed therein, viz: 4
The south half of the northeast quarter and
the south half of the northwest quarter of sec
ton eight (8) in township one hundred and
thirty. nine north 1S9n) of range sevlnty-eight
west (78wJ of he Fifth principal meridian, in
Burleigh county, state Of North Dakctt, except
so much thereof not exceeding two acres, as is
now used for school purposes, will be sold at
pay said debt and interest, and the taxes, II any,
on said premises. and q portion of the attorneys
fee stipulated n and by said mortgage in case of
foreclosure, and the disbursements all wed by
law; which sale will be , ade by The. sheriff of
said Burleigh county, at the front door of the
court house In the city OF Bisnarc in said
county and state, on the 18th d-S + December,
A. D. 1881, at II o'clock a. M. of that day, sub.
iect to redemption at any time within me yer
from the day of said sale.
Dated, November 4, A D. 1891
WILLIAM u. WEBB, JR, .
d. REoIsTER. ModgHgee
Attorney for Mortgages.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
First publication December 10. 1871
In Chancery,

80
Master in Chancery' g sale of City of Bismarck
bonds and city order.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
WINNEBAGo COUNTY, CIRCUIT COURT.
Lillian Jacoby vs.. Alexander Mckenzie and
Second National Bank of Rockford, Illinois. -
In pursuance of an order and decree of said
court, made and entered in said cause at the o.
tober term, A. D.. 1891, of said court, to-wit: On
the 4th day of November, A. ID. 1891, 1 shall on
Monday, the 18th day of January, A. D. 1892, at
the hour of 2 o'clock IN the afternoon, at the
front door of the court house in the city of
Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, sell at
public auction to the highest and best bidder
therefor. for cash in hand, one city order of the
city Of Bismarck, numbered /, 1856, dated October
q, 1881, being for the sum of $614, and drawn
payable to the order of Alexander Mckenzie,
sheriff. =
Also twenty-nine (29) bonds of said city of
Bismarck. dated May !, 1881. each for the sum of
one HUNDRED (10O( dollars, and numbered re-
spectiyely, one u to twenty. nine (2g. inclusive,
payable May 1, 1901, TO Alexander Mckenzie, OF
bearer, and bearing interest at the rate of eight
per cent. per annum, payable semi-aunually, as
evidenced by forty (4O) semi-annual interest cou-
pons accompanying each bond; or so much there.
OF as may be necessary to realize the moneys re.
quired by said decree.
Dated Rockford, Illinois, October Is, A. y.
1891.
HORACE W. TAYLOR,
Master in Chancery of Winnebago County, ILL.
nois. ',55 Vs.. =
A. TAaaART.
Solicitor for Complainant.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
Warm Barns for Fattening Stock.

In an experiment made in feeding two
lots Of pigs of equal age and weight, one
being In pens in a warm barn, and the
other in open pens out of doors, the fol-
lowing results were obtained: From Nov.
81 to Feb. s, in the warm barn one pound
of pork cost 4.78 pounds Of corn, and in
the outside pens n pound of pork cost
500 pounds of corn. a difference of about
25 per cent. But during the very sever
est weather for four weeks, in the warm
barn one pound of pork cost 5.7l pounds
of corn. and in the outside pens it cost
11.32 pounds of corn, or nearly double
the amount.
Experienced feeders say that the effect
of cold weather upon fattening stock is
more marked upon other animals than
it is upon swine, and if it takes twice as
many pounds of corr to make a pound
of pork out of doors as it does in the
barn, it will certainly require much
more, and perhaps twice as much, to
make a pound of beef in a stable where
water will freeze as it will in one where
there is a moderate temperature, not
lower than so degs., and also that the
same amount of feed given before the
weather is very cold will make much
more fat than it will later in the season.
American Cultivator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
Chester White Hors.

Among the breeds Of swine which may
be recommended to those who desire
early maturing animals we would give
the Chester Whites high rank. Origi-
nally these were large and rather coarse.
and if kept to a considerable age this
tendency to coarseness is still quite ap-
percent. and is by some urged as an OBJ
lection against them, but, having been
crossed with the Poland Chinas, a breed
has been produced that has a tendency
to lay on flesh from the first, and which,
with good feeding, will make well de-
veloped porkers in nine or ten months.
They are quiet in disposition and good
grazers. They will keep on growing
much beyond this, and, as we have said,
have then a tendency to coarseness, but
il fed we'll and taken to market at the
proper time this trait will not develop,
and they will be found very profitable
and satisfactory.-Dakota Farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
The New Cattle Disease.

In answer in general to many inqui-
ries on the subject of the new cattle dis
ease, permit me to say that recent in
vestigations have been made by the state
authorities and the Of the trouble
is attributed to some acrid substance on
the grass which irritates those parts
coming in contact with 1.-THE skin of
the legs, the tongue and mouth.
: The treatment recommended h the re-
moval of the cattle to comfortable, clean
stables. Open the bowels with one pint
doses of linseed oil twice daily, and
swab the mouth three times a day with
a solution of boracic acid, one ounce to
the quart of warm water. The animals
should be fed on cruel or sloppy food
until they are able to eat something
more solid. Green cut grass or vegeta-
bles, such as cabbage, may also be fed.
Joseph Hughes, V. S., in Breeders
Gazette.