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The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
I.ehi.h Coal Mining Co.

IL is safe to say THAT the magnitude
of our natural resources was not real
ized and appreciated two or three
years ago when the I.ehigh Coal Min
ing Co WAS Incorporated. We doubt
if the projectors of the company, even,
knew the value of what was locked
up III the fields of which they had
come into possession.
An estimate hy Il competent engi-
neer shows this mine to have 100000
600 tons of coal. The past fall 200
tons have been mined daily; and by
recent arrangements 800 tons will be
mined for the rest of the winter; which
will barely supply the regular trade.
The coal is sold ut dollar per ton,
F. q. b., l.ehish station, and when
laid down i'll Fargo, 800 miles distant,
it is worth 3.225; in Dickinson, four
miles away. +. pei ton, delivered in
ones shed. John f. B:odie has
charge of the l.ehigh mine. and en-
ploys sixty men, ut wages varying
from LIS to $50 per day. Right here
comes in an item important to the
town of Dickinson. The monthly
pay.rOll amounts to $500 which is
largely spent with our merchants.
Last year the output of the Lehigh
mine was 500 cars; this year it will a.
mount to ut least 1000 cars, or All in
crease of over loo per cent. And it
is not reasonable to suppose that the
ratio of increase will lie less for many
years to come. The chances are that
1T will become greater; for us fast as
new blocks are erected in the differ
ent towns of the state, furnaces are
placed in the easements and Ignite
coal is ordered, which is cheaper and
Il more satisfactory fuel in many re-
spects. In the same way, wherever
changes are made in cooking and
heating stoves, the new are bought
with Il view to burning the native
coal of North Dakota. Hence, it will
he seen to what proportions the in
lustry is destined eventually to at
tain. 1t is worth more to the state,
commercially speaking, than the $50
per acre Red River Valley land. 1t
furnishes employment, brings set.
tiers, builds up home industries and
furnishes traffic for the railroads
which is worth more than any one in
dustry in North Dakota. In the
spring the Lehish Coal Mining Co.
will he prepared to offer inducements
for woolen and Touring mills by Civ
ing free site, building stone, of
which this Co. has quarry equal to
any found in the Northwest and fuel
for Il term of years.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
How She Wr,te. stor,...

Perhaps some young writers would
like to know how make my stories,
so will tell them. First, l take a
few sheets of paper and write at the
head of one, Synopsis of novel;"
on another page, Characters, with
description of form and disposition
opposite each; on another page, "Act
l." which will contain at least two
scenes. I divide the entire synopsis
thus into about five acts, with at
least two scenes apiece. The whole
story will contain three situations, {"
as I call them, one to open, or rather
end the first scenes; one in the mid
die, one at the end.
All these describe accurately and
then fill in the whole. I have been
an amateur actress for years and
find this an easy way of writing. I
never introduce any character that
does not have something to do with
the plot, if but to make a background
for set scene. This plan will save
a waste of words and make more
readable article.-Kate Lee Ferguson
in Writer.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
The shill Of Roman Enx,n.,r,.


A Vienna savant, in an important
work just published, gives some strik-
Ing particulars of the labors of the
Romans at the Iron Gate on the Dan
ube. Herr Kanitz, who has devoted
his life to the study of the Roman re-
mains in the Balkan peninsula, and
who, 80 years ago, attracted public
attention by work on that subject,
in his new book, entitled "Roman
Studies In Servia," says that there
could scarcely be moro substantial
proof of the skill of the Roman en-.
gineers than the fact that after in
quiries extending over many years,
the most famous hydrotechnic au.
thorities of our time should hap-,
found no other method of overconj
ing the obstruction to navigation
caused by the Iron Gate than tn.
identical one adopted by the Romans.
Herr Kanitz gives detailed account
OF the dimensions and position of the
Roman canal which was broken
through by the barbarians. A con-
siderable part of the works still re-
mains in a fair state of preservation.
London Times Vienna Correspond
ent,
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
An Editors Awfu, nlunder.

The editor of a weekly journal late
ly lost two of his subscribers through
accidentally departing from the beat
en- tract: in his answers to correspon-
dents. Two of his subscribers wrote
to ask him his remedy for their re-
spective troubles. No. /, a happy
father of twins, wrote to inquire the
best way to get them safely over
their teething, and No. wanted to
know how to protect his orchards
from the myriads of grasshoppers.
The editor framed his answer upon
the orthodox lines, but unfortunate
ly transposed their two names, with
the result that No. 1, who was blessed
with the twins, read in reply to his
query, Cover them carefully with
straw and set fire to them, and the
little pests, after jumping about in
the flames few minutes, will speed
lily be settled" while No. 2, plagued
with grasshoppers, was told to "Give
little castor oil and rub their gums
gently with a bone Richmond Star.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
Tho shorte.. Play In tn. World.


A Tragedy In One Act. (The cur
tain rises on amorous couple billing
and cooling in a stylishly furnished
drawing room. To them enter first
lover, in travelling costume, return
ing from distant journey. They hear
him not. He throws down his bag
and umbrella, produces a revolver
and fires. Bang! The young lady
sinks dead to the ground. Booml
The young gent falls. First lover
steps nearer, adjusts his dyeglass
and looks more closely.)
First Lover-Merciful heavens I've
got to the wrong housed
Rapid fall Of curtain.)-Adapted
From the French.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
CAPRICE.

shs hung the cage At the window.
III he goes By" she said.
He win hear my robin singing.
And when he lifts his head
shall be sitting hero to sow,
And he will bow to me, know
Tho robin sang love sweet song:
The young man raised his head;
The maiden turned away and blushed.
Il am fool" she said
And went on broidering In silk
A pink eyed rabbit, white as milk.
Tho young man loitered slowly
By the house three times that day:
HE need not look this way"
She sat At her piano long,
And sighed and played death sad sons
But when the day WAS done she said:
Il wish that he would comei
Remember. Mary. II he calls
Tonight. I'm not at home.~
20 when he rang she went, tho eli
She went and let him In herself.
They sang full long together
Their songs love sweet. death sad;
Tho robin woke from his slumber
And rang out clear and glad.
Now go! she coldly said. "'Tis Late"
And followed him-to latch the gate,
He took the rosebud from her hair.
While "Tou shall not!" she said.
He closed her hand within his own.
And. while her tongue forbade.
Her will was darkened in tho eclipse
OF binding love upon his lips.
w. D. Howells In Kansas City Times
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
THE BOYS HAD SPOTTED HIM.
He Was Taken For = Railway Spy An

He Was Taken For Railway Spy and
Treated Like King.
Several months ago." said Max
Scheuer, New York commercial
traveller, II was in Chicago and had
to 60 to St. Louis. bought thou
sand mile ticket in my own name,
and when the conductor came
through he tore out the mileage and
asked me to sign my name. Just for
lark refused. He insisted. Why
should sign my namef' I inquired.
The ticket is mine. bought it and
paid for it. Besides I can't write.
If you must have my name, let the
porter there sign it for me-
"The conductor happened to see
symbolic fraternity badge on my
watch charm and Immediately gave
me the sign of recognition. See
here, old man. he remarked. I
know you don't want to get me into
trouble. My orders are to have all
mileage signed. Now, oblge me,
won't you7'
"Of course would and did. An
hour or so later he came back and
had a chat with me. You acted like
aspotter, he said. I imagined when
you made your kick" that you were
doing it simply to test me. That's
why I insisted on your strict compi-
ance with all our rules. I'll wager
anything that porter over there be-
ieves you are o railway detective
now.'
"For the next month following
this incident Travelled great deal
almost constantly-and was COM
pletely dumfounded by the remark
ably polite attentions showered upon
me by train hands everywhere. On
the road l could not indicate a wish
that was not instantly gratified if it
lay in the power of the train boys to
grant it. The sleeping car porters
danced attendance on me constantly
and fairly buzzed about me by day
and by night. I could not under
stand it.
Zone day I fell into conversation
with an old railroader on the train
near Nashville and CHANGED to men
ton the remarkable change in treat
ment I had recently experienced.
The boys have spotted you,' he
said positively.
elbows that7'
They take you for railroad spy
and have passed the word along the
Gne.'
"'But how in the world can they
do that7 How do they know where
I'm going7 I use two or three diff
ferent lines in a day sometimes
"For answer he stopped over and
took look at my shoes. Just as
imagined, he continued. You have
been spotted. If you will examine
your left shoe, in the hollow just be-
low the ball of the foot, you will no
tice three little crosses They wero
made by common lan scratch, and
every railway porter in America
knows just what they mean. Change
your shoes, and you will notice a
change in your treatment, guess
"Well, when I bought the next
pair of shoes, the first thing did aft
er paying for them was to put three
tiny crosses on the inside of the hol-
low of the left shoe. I've been treat
ed like king by the railway boys
everywhere. Chicago Dispatch.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
A Elowery Green Eyed monster.


Dawes was in the summer house
with Hawes. Their beloved wives
were behind a bush and were horri-
fed to hear the following converse
ton:
Dawes-1 think Mrs. Alpheus
Hardy lovely. I'm quite gone on her.
Hawes-Are you9 Well, Sarah
Owen is more my style. 1 saw her
at our flower show last year, and I
fell in love with her at once. So well
formed and snowy and
But the wives could contain them
selves no longer. They sprang at
their respective husbands; they
abused them; they became hyster-
ical, but it is difficult to say whether
pleasure or modification predomi-
mated when at last they allowed
their husbands to explain that the
harmless chrysanthemum was the
innocent cause of each ones jeal-
0usy.-London Tit-Bits.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
TWO MEETINGS WITH A sEeeAR:
Ono Was Surprising, and the Other More
SurDrisiar Still

Ono Wss Surprising, and the Other Moro
Surprising Still.
One Of the most peculiar beggars
In the city may be found almost any
evening parading up and down the
Bowery, with occasional wanderings
on the side streets. He is a very tall.
gaunt man with deep set eyes, sharp
features, a very gruff voice and a
manner which, to put it mildly, may
be called abrupt. Unlike the ordi-
nary beggar, he does not accost
every man who comes along, but
picks his men according to some proc
ess of selection, which is probably a
trade secret For Is or 20 minutes
he will saunter along speaking to no
one, then suddenly he will dart up
to a stranger, thrust his face down
close to the man and say something
in q low tone. The peculiar part of It
is that he rarely fails to get money.
A Sun reporter who had noticed
this peculiar mendicant a dozen
times, but had never been an.
preached by him before, met him on
the Bowery few nights ago. The
beggar was walking along with
contemplative air. When his eye
fell on the reporter, his air suddenly
became businesslike, and rushing up
to the reporter he said sharply:
How're y fixed fer cash, young
feller9"
Fairly well, replied the reporter,
taken off his guard. Then recover
ing himself he added, II don't see
that it's any of your business, how
ever"
"Oh, WE'LL" said the man, with a
nonchalant air, II didn't know but
what y might wanter lend feller o
quarter"
What do you want to do with the
quarteri"
Buy whisky. Do 1 look like a
mug who'd try to buy champagne
with quarteri"
There was something so attractive
and frank in the man, so much sa-
voir faire about this tramp of the
Bowery, that the reporter decided to
'lend" him the desired quarter.
Three nights later the reporter met
his man on Grand street, and ap.
preaching him said, when are you
going to pay me back that loan3"
The beggar looked around in as
tonishment. Then a grim smile re-
laxed his features.
You're the mug that Civ up a
quarter on the Bowery, amt your
he observed. II don't s'pose you'd
ask 1t back unless you wanted it."
And to the intense amazement of
the reporter the man, producing
tom a pocket OF his ragged clothes
q INST fuu OF small change. selected
two dimes and a nickel, put them in
the reporters hand and departed.
Whisting q cheerful ditty.-New
York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
Their Boat Nearly Wrecked bx . Bear.

AnoAr ooAe Nearly wrecked by Bear.
-Four men in boat had an excit-
ing scrimmage with an enormous
bear on Lake Whatcom. They were
on a fishing trip and were armed only
with an ak and a pistol. They saw
it swimming in the water and opened
fire. The bear made straight for the
bow of the boat, with its eyes like
small balls of fire dts mouth open
wide. 1t seized the boat, tearing a
piece of wood off the gunwale sew
eral inches in length; then, lodging
the blows of the ak that were d.
rected at him, Bruin gave the side
OF the boat a swipe with his paw,
nearly overturning it. But just then
the pistol and the ak got in their
work, and the bear gave up the fight
and the ghost. The carcass was
towed ashore and weighed nearly 300
unds.-Portland Oregonian.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
Tho Great Bed Of Ware.

The most gigantic as we'll as the
most valuable and elaborate article
of bedroom furniture in the world is
"the great bed of Ware" a relic Of
ancient times, recently sold to an an
tiquarian at Hertford, England. The
Book of Days" says that it is believed
to be not older than Elizabeth's g reign
Cborn 1888, died 1909, but another
valuable reference work, 1.-THE
Worlds Great Nations" says that
the bed bears the date of 1853. Be
this as it may, it is a curiosity as
well as relic. It is a square of 10
feet 9 inches and is feet 6 inches
high. It is very elegantly carved
and cost not less than 95OO Shake
speare mentions 1.-The bed of Ware"
See Twelfth Night" act 8, scene 2.
st. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
M.mmx,s YiexofIt

An old colored woman, who came
up from the south with her white
folks" to see the fair, was shown by
her young ''missus" the Intramural
railroad and told that it was run by
electricity. The colored nanny"
listened, and later in the day, when
she met some of her own race, she
surprised them by saying the fair
was the wickedest place she was ever
in. This was explained in the fol-
lowing remark, "Dey got in dar an
immoral railroad, and it am done
elected too."-Chicago Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
Army Punishments,

Crime in the army is punished on
a scale 10 times more severe than
anything known in civil life. The
most trumpery offenses against dis
cipline-a momentary ebullition Of
temper or casual indiscretion in the
matter of drink-are almost every
day involving men in loss of rank
and permanent disadvantage in their
profession, moro often than not &C.
companied by short terms of i'm
prisonment.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
Sock and Buskin.

The expression "sock and buskin,"
which literally means comedy and
tragedy, found its origin in the ''soc-
cus," the Latin name of the low
shoe worn by the ancient comic ac-
tors, and the busin, contraction of
the French word 'brossequin," re-
motely derived from the Greek
"bursa, a hide or high soled shoe
worn by the ancient tragedians to
increase their height. The soccus
reached to the ankle only, whereas
the buskin extended to the knee
Stageland.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16
st. PAul'a. London.

It is stated that in all 10000 people
attend the services at St. Paul's cathe-
dral, London, every Sunday, the
morning and afternoon services each
attracting $500 worshiperE, and the
evening service 5000. The fact that
the musical portion of the service is
said to be the most perfect of its kind
in Europe has no doubt a great deal
to do with its popularity.-London
I affer
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16

Sponges are being propagated in a
cheap way just now. About three
years ago cute German divided q
few healthy specimens of live
sponges into a goodly number Of
parts and placed them in deep water,
with the result that he now has a
crop of 1000 at the initial expendi-
ture Of go.
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16

The Camperdown, the vessel which
rammed the Victoria, is again cruis-
ing in the Mediterranean in company
with the ships Of the British squad
ron. Rear Admiral Markham is in
command
The Dickinson press., 1893-12-16

G. IL Pearl brought tour cars of
cattle Friday from Montana.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-29
PAYING INTEREST.
The Treasury Paying the July Interest in
Advance-No Pension Deficiency-Money
Sent to San Franc iscO.

The Treasury Paying the July Interest in
Advance-No Pension Defciency-Money
Sent to San Franc isco.
WASHINGTON, June %. - Secretary
Carlisle has modified the notice an
nouncing that the prepayment of in
terest would begin on Monday next
He has now decided that payment may
be made as fast as delivery of the
checks can be effected, and the treas
urer of the United States and the sew
eral assistant treasurers have been
notified accordingly. Holders of 4
per cent. coupons due July 1
may therefore now present them for
payment without rebate and owners OF
the checks for July interest may have
them cashed as soon as received. The
total interest on both sets of bonds ag-
gregate 81, $50, 900, of which 81, 900, 600
is for the railroad bonds and SIS, 634, O0O
on the per cent. bonds. This action
is taken to relieve the tightness in the
money centerS-
There will be no pension deficiency
for the current fiscal year which ends
June so next. That is assured by fig
ures obtained from the treasury de
partment to-day. They show that the
appropriations for pensions were: For
the fiscal year 1929. SAG, 49,, $50; def
cheney for the year 1898 and prior years,
s14,144, ss4: total, s160, So, 234. Expend-
ed for pensions: For eleven months
ended May 81, s147, 946, 36S; for June UP
to to-day, $40, $50, 600: estimate for next
eight days of June. 100000; total
$3.50. 1926, 366. This will leave a surplus
of about 81, 500, 900, which will be turned
into the treasury.
Extensive shipments of money from
New York to San Francisco. were made
yesterday by direction of United States
Treasurer Morgan. The bank failures or
the Pacific coast evidently spurred the
banks to increase their supply of ready
money to meet any emergency that may
arise
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-29
STORM VICTIMS.
A Party of Fishermen Overtaken-Dolngs
of the Storm Near MaryvtIle, Mo.

Party OF Fiskermen Overtaken-Dolng
of the Storm Near MaryvflIe, Mo.
MARYvILLE, Mo-, June 23.-Wednes-
day afternoon, between and o'clock.
the rain fell in sheets, the lightning
played and the thunder was almost as
deafening as heavy artillery. Mary
vile, however, escaped the severest of
the storm, but Wednesday forenoon a
number of citizens went down near the
old Bridgewater mill, south of Arkoe, to
fish. When the storm came up the
men sought refuge in the old mill,
which soon went to atoms George
Woodwork and Scott Snively were
quite badly hurt and ST Briggs was in
jured so that he died soon after the ar
rival of his family and physician from
this city, three hours after. Mr.. Briggs
right shoulder and breast were badly
crushed and the ribs torn loose from
the spine.
Peter Hami1 and son had left the
party and started to Maryville- On
reaching the Talbot farm, south of the
city, Mr.. Hamil was lifted out of the
buggy by the force of the wind, car
ried over the fence and into hog shed,
the vehicle being demolished and the
the team running away.
James Gage had a leg broken while
seeking shelter in the barn belonging
to Jim Davis, west of Arkoe. The
farms and buildings of John Kildow,
Frank Davis, Elihu Jones, George
Blackman, Curg Miller and many
others were badly damaged.
At Barnard, Mo-, the loss was great
to business houses and dwellings.
Mr.. James I. Hill. south Of Maryville.
was killed by lightning.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-29
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