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The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
ra.hions that Last

1t has been said that 1.-THE fashions
women love best die young" 1t was
a well-known writer on the perennial
subject of dress who expressed her
self thus, but we can hardly agree
with her when We see coats. skirts
and blouses running a steady course
of seven or eight seasons. This is a
sufficient proof ut least that all favor
ed fashions do not ode young" the
useful articles of dress particularly
such as may be called cosmopolitan:
The newest tailor-made coats n
skirts r very smart In appearance
the coat much shorter than we have
seen it for some time. with rampant
sleeves a 'world too wide" to be In
any sort of proportion tc the jacket
itself. Most of the models are round
ed Off in front and plain over the
hips, the fulness being kept strictly to
the center of the back, where the ma
trial is no spared, falling in plais that
| stand well away from the figure.
| Such a coat admits Of the display OF
a whole series of natty looking shirt
waists or shirt fronts only, these latter
needing special care in their adjust
ment. Safety pins, as well as a few
dainty lace pins, are requisite to keep
them strictly in position; indeed, the
utmost nicely is essential, for few
things Of the kind are more to be de
cried on the score of good taste thar
attempts to achieve smartness with
out corresponding neatness.-NeW
York Post.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18

There has recently been introduced
in one Of the mines of Montana q new
w~ater-raising or pumping system, the
remarkable efficiency of which has at
tracted general attention. The appa-
ratus consists of a 3-inch pipe located
in the pump shaft midway between
the 100 and 12OO-foot levels, and ex-
tending to the latter station; at the
12OO-foot level this pipe makes a re-
turn bend and follows up the shaft to
the 1000, where it is SO connected that
the water which passes through 1t
empties into a tank at that station,
this pipe thus forming a U, with one
leg so feet and the other 200 feet long.
A quarterback air pipe Is inserted at
the bottom of the long end or lift pipe,
and, when q certain pressure of air ts
turned on from the compressor, and
water is allowed to low through the
short leg, a constant flow of water is
maintained down the drive pipe, and
an intermittent flow of air and water
Is discharged through the lift pipe
into the tank at the 1OO0-foot level.
| This system Is known as one Of dis
| placement, the air %displacing the
water and causing it to rise until 1t
eventually forces it out ut the top-in
this q 8 q quarter-inch pipe through
| which air at the pressure Of %
pounds flowed actually forcing the
water through a 3-inch water column
to a height Of 2GO feet.-New York
! Sun.
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dered them. This occurred several
times. and then Senior Encinas let II
be known that lc would kill any SERBS
Indian on sight. This threat was car.
riel out With such effect that the
Serbs ceased their deprelations and
murderings. Seeing that they could
not kill Encinas or drive him out Of
the country. they ended by respecting
him, and lie is now the only man whu
a 60 into their country without fear
Of m%olestation. I prevailed upon the
senior to accompany me on this last
expedition, and 1t Is no doubt owing
to his good influence among the In.
dams that my mission was so success.
full from n personal as well as from Z
scientific point of VIEW"
Onc of Prof. McGee's objects was to
find out il possible something about
the men who had been murdered be-
fore his arrival. but for a long time
his inquiries in this direction were met
with a sturdy silence on the part Of
the Indians. Little by little he sue.
ceeded in finding out about the death
Of the newspaper men, Robinson and
lis companion. 1t was with tine great
est difficulty that Prof. MCGEE sue
ceeded in getting V e nieager details
of the killing and he could not find
| what they had done with the body.
1.-THE Seris.' continued the professor,
'are perhaps the most primitive people
in America, and it ran be said that
they have not passed the stone age,
Most of their life is out IN a desert,
and few of their settlements are IN
the shade Of trees. Their houses are
built Of brush to about the height OF
a mans head. So little contact have
they had with the outside world that
they have no useful arts at all. will
the exception of pottery and basket
making. The Serbs are a nation OF
runners, being built with long. thin
sinewy legs. and big chests like grey
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
Safes Made of Cement.

A safe constructed of cement with
steel wire netting placed in between
was .ested by order of the R~eichsbank
the German Governments banking es-
tablishment. The question to be de-
cided was whether it is practical to
build vaults of this material for safety
against fire. A safe was placed upon
q prye of logs drenched with erosene
which, after being set on fire, KEEP
the safe for half an hour exposed to q
heat Of about 1900 degrees Fahren.
heit; that is, a heat in which iron Will
melt. Two hours after the safe was
opened, and the contents-silk paper.
draft blanks and a maximum ther
mometer-were found to be absolutely
u%ninjured.. The maximu nm thermome'
ter showed that within the safe the
temperature ut no time during the test
rose above IS degrees. This seems to
Fax that cement safes within burg
lar proof steel vaults fill oil the re
ouirements that can be possibly ex
pected.-.Exchange.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
Drew the Line at Generals.

One summer, a few years after the
war, n gentleman was travelling in the
South, and lie got to talking with n
farmer in some little town who was
employing a considerable number Of
men at his haying. The farmer told
him that most of them were old Con-
federate soldiers.
.You see over there where those
four men are worliing?" asked lie.
SWELL, all Of 'em fought in the war.
One of 'em was q private, one of EN-
was u corporal, was a major, and
that maj way over in the corner vas
a colonel"
"Are they good men:" asked the
gentleman.
SWELL" said the farmer, that pri-
Yates a first-class man, and the cor
poral's a pretty good one, too"
"But now about the major and the
colopel?"
'sThe majors $685. said the farmer
"But the colonel?"
swell, l don't want to say nothing
against any man who was a colonel IL
the war" said the farmer, "but I've
made up my mind l won't hire nj
brigadier generals"
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
Young Warrior.

Mexicans, which information had no
scientific value at all, writes a Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Sun. Last autumn Prof. McGee of
the government bureau of e%thnology,
who probably knows more about
the ethnology of the American Indian
than any one else. made ar expedition
with a photographer into the very
heart Of the Scris' country, and
brought back Il valuable collection,
now in the National museum, together
with much information and several
hundred photographs which give an
idea of the mode Of life and charac-
teristics Of this remarkable tribe.
The real stronghold Of the Serbs Is
Tiburon island, in the gulf of Cali
fornia, but they. are also found on a
strip along the coast extending as far
north as the Papago country. Into
this strip Of land no expedition from
the cast has gone, except that OF
Prof. McGee. which has not been at
tended by some fatality. The Serbs
are held in such dread by the Mexican
Ga. q, ca the authorities OF
Sonoracounty, that unless a large
party is formed no white man ever
goes into that country. The Indians
are so primitive in their characteristics
that in their relations with the white
man and the nearby Papagos they
are as beasts. They look upon any
person who is not of their tribe as an
| enemy, and so cruel and vindictive,
SO cunning and %treacherous are they
that even the Papagos will not venture
into their country unless in sufficient
numbers to withstand an attack. An
| example of the terror which they In
spfre in the Mexican authorities Ia had
in the experience of an expedition
which was sent out against them af-
ter the killing Of two Americans, Rob-
inson and one of his companions of the
San Francisco Examiner, Il st year.
After the. murder it was thought by
the Mexican authorities that interna-
tional complications might arise I'M
less they made sorre attempt to pun
ish the tribe. The whole number OF
the Serbs Indians has been reduced
to about 300, only seventy-five OF
whom are warriors. The Mcxicans
sent out a greatly superior force with
the ayowed determination to wipe the
Serbs off the face of the earth. One
body of men was to go by land and
another by water and the two were to
cooperate. Whether the Mexican
courage oozed out at their finger tips
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
YOUNG ARTHUR A POPULAR MAN.
Son of a President Wins Friends b.
His Correct Conduct.

Son of a President Wins Friends by
His Correct Conduct.
A young man who attracts attention
when he appears on Fifth avenue is
Alan Arthur, son Of the late ex-Presi-
dent Arthur. The young man resem-
bles his father not a little. The latter,
If will be remembered. was n hand
some ran of fine stature n striking
figure. In these latter respects mis-
son il not q little like him. lie Is
considerably over six feet In height
erect and straight as an arrow. lie
ia slender as yet. but he gives promise
Of some day filling out. when his K
Moss to his father will be even more
striking. Young Arthur studied Inv
after he left Princeton college, but ne
does not seem to figure in the courts.
10 seems a young a OF quiet
+os+es. and one sees his name In print
h,,t seldom. He is very popular IN the
c,rc,es in which he moves, for he Is
modest and unassuming, while lie has
much Of the charm Of manner that
made his father popular with all
classes in both society and politics.
The friends of the young man look for
great things from him some day.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18

New Guinca Warriors.
New Guinea, is now visiting England
preparatory to starting on another tour
Of acknowledgements" he pre-
fers to call it.
Much Of the country of New Guinea,
it seems, Is mountainous, and most OF
Sir Williams explorations were car
ried on at a height of from 10000 to
1900 feet above the level.
Between the Cinalese and the Pa
puans-the least civilized to-day GER
tainly of South Sea natives-there
must naturally he a wide gulf fixed.
It has been thought a wise thing, IL
managing the Papuans, to investigate
and comprehend their traditions, GUS
toms and ways of life generally. A
general line of custom runs through
the people, but that line is subject to
all manner of variations. Polygamy is
common, and is based on the theory
that the more wives a man has the
more comfortable he will be. The des-
cription of the marriage customs ls
M division of the territory would
seem to indicate that the advanced
woman is not necessarily q produc,
of the highest civilization. In tina,
part Of the Papuan woman takes the
initiative, sending for the man of hel
choice, who and takes hel
away. Her relatives organize a de
m%onstration, and demand in return
sister of the bridegroom for a wife t.
a youth of their family. Thus it Is {
case of fair exchange; but it is surel!
| barter when, II there is no available
sister, a payment in currency-sharks
| teeth, say-is taken for substitute.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18

this gas is that it evaporates in an in
slant when given opportunity for an
expansion. The breaking apparatus
consists of n strong ring of filtered pa
per which keeps a spring intrusion.
AS soon as this paper becomes wet it
loses its firmness, the spring jerks a
little knife which cuts the neck of the
bottle. The gas Mt once fills the India
rubber sack. Three seconds after tia
shipwrecked person has jumped into
the water the apparatus Is transform
ell into a buoy which will keep him
a1oat. Special precautions are taken
in order to protect the apparatus when
not in use. against the humidity OF
misty and rainy weather.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18

"Jcrry'' Was Open.Heartcd.
geometrical problems upon the black
board before boys in hickory shirts
and girls in cowhide boots. They I'M
derstand Bacon and know Macaulay
and Charles Lamb and marvel at the
making of q daily newspaper. They
read Ouida and may v see an
opera cloak Or q decollete gown.
Anyway, Jerry was out Of such a
town; he had a degree Of r. A.; he
could make n rattling good speech; he
knew the biggest men In the state; lie
had taught school successfully; prac-
ticed law with distinctions; married
well; had beautiful babies, but withal
vas dissatisfied. The worm of dis
content gnawed ut his vitals. His &C.
cret ambition was to he Il great bust
ness man.
Kept away from the mysteries of
commerce and deals" and finance and
stocks he languished. When his towns
mcn applauded his political speeches
he felt wan and hopeless; when lie
vol Il decision at court it made him
tired. He kept his secret well for
years until the chance came. Then
he astonished every one by moving to
Boomopolis and becoming manager of
q jobbing house.
Jerry was u big, blonde. CHEEKY
voiced, open handed, warm hearted
man. Every II liked him. His clerks
swore by him. His ''drummers' sound
ed paeans Of praise to his name all
over the state. His customers said it
was a pleasure to trade with him.
The clerk who wanted a day loft"
always got it. The drummer who up
pealed for an advance Of money
appealed vainly. The hard-up custo-
MGR who came for an extension of
time met with kindness and gracious
ness. The poor and needy were never
turned from Jerry's door.
His business grew apace. But when
the first years balance was struck off
he saw with dismay that, while the
profits wereslarge, many, many assets
We're on paper, merely, and could
never be collected. When profit and
loss vas made up Jerry found himself
at the little end of the horn. 1t wor-
ried him. He sat meditating in his
office over it for hours at q time. FL
nally he struck it.
"How did Jay Gould make his pile?"
he demanded OF himself. by being
close.." he answered himself.
"How did Russell Sage make his
piley' he went on. "By squeezing peo-
pie" was his mental reply.
Thus he ran over the list Of multi
millionaires ana %millionaires and demi-
millionaires and the like, and each
time he decided that g%raspiness and
skinflintism and smallness and hard
heartedness was the proper way to
procure. hold and maintain riches.
II will no longer be Jerry Jotkinsw
he determined. II will hereafter be
Jeremiah Jotkins and God help the
man or oma who gets into my
%clu:ches!"
The first move jeremiah made was
to insure his old fathers life for q
large sum in Il wild cat insurance
company. He told every one of it
gloried in Unpublished it in Gath and
astonished ana panied his friends.
The Office boy broke a vase. al
found 8 cents deducted out of his pay
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18

The Man With the Aluminium Ear.
and a plaster of paris cast. was taken
of the left side of his head. Then an
artificial ear was built up in wax to
match the healthy n on the opposite
side. The bogus a was then made
in ~vulcanite and alumium tinted and
enamelled to harmonize with the CON-
plexion. No artificial continuance,
such as a spectacle frame. was made
use Of to support the aluminium ear,
and adhesion to the head was affected
by means of a saturated solution OF
mastic in absolute alcohol.
The mai now can hear as well as
eve but he takes care to sleep on
his right side Mt night so as not to
break off his new IA At the same
time lie has no fear of 1t being frost
bitten. and he is probably the only
man alive who could eve partly COM
ply with the request of Mare Antony:
''Lend me your ears"
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
The 1nxeniou. tricycle..

The Ingenious Tricycle..
miles with endless repetitions of short
sentences, calling attention to great
bargains offered by merchants, to pa.
tent medicines and the numerous
specialties which heretofore have been
posted on the perpendicular.
The invention consists of a plain tri.
cycle or bicycle the ruber tires Of
which form a sentence or two of rails
causes a flow Of copying ink from
sufficient quantity to keep them linked.
The lettering thus produced IL re.
markably clear and If permitted 1t
would make the cheapest of advertis-
ing schemes, as only the riders would
then need to be paid for his work.
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goods and they quit him in sorrow and

goods and they quit him in sorrow and
establishment.
Jerry used to wear fine linen and
rich raiment; jeremiah wore frayed
summer suits in winter and dirty Will
ter clothes in summer. He quit buy
ing hats. FIe smoked three for q dime
stogies and smelled like q swamp In
liam. His shoes were broken; he 1Out-
ed laundry bills and bought 81 cent
bargain counter shirts. He sent his
wife and babies to live at the expense
Of her father.
He worked like a mule all the time.
One beautiful idea buoyed him Up.
He was q prophet Of a prin .iple. He
would give half of his ill-gotten ,,ains
ut the cnd of the year for the cstab-
lisbment Of a home for broken down
business men and confound the whole
world.
The eventful eEd of the year came
and the second balance a struck
OF. Horrors the end Of the torn was
smaller than before. Rum stared him
in the face. But he went ahead. FL
nally a note came due and the bank
fOrecloscd. The papers said That the
creditors would get ahont for-y cents
OH the dollar.
Then Jeremiah was transit ,rmcd in
to Jerry again. He had his few 'hou'
sands laid by to fall back on. HI
brought them forth and paid every
cent and the people marvelcd. JUS
then his old father died and he 1ereiv
ed $3,NN insurance money. He eavt
every cent of 1t to the state home f"l
orphans and went back to teaching
school. He is teach ns school mw aD'
his wife Is very happy.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
rou.l auality Potato seed.

GAU8A
Everyone intending to plant pota-
toes ought to aim for the best e
that he ian obtain. 1t may cost more,
but this increase of cost is the best
investment that the potato grower
can make. The drouth last sumne:
ripeued prematurely the potato crop
in many of the best potato growing
localities. All potato growers know
that such seed cannot be kept with
out serious waste from sprouting
from the eyes. The only remedy for
this is to procure seed from the crops
grown so far north that the potatoes
barely rtpen before being ready to
dig, and can be kept until late IN
spring with their vitality unimpatred.
There is always an advantage In
northern grown seeds to be planted in
more southern localities. This sea-
on, owing to tile condition of the po-
tatoes at harvest time, most Of the
middle state crop will make poor seed
| and it needs to be changed for that
grown under more favorable condi-
tions.-Rural World.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
REASON to worry.

Henry, you look very pale, what's
the trouble!
II was stung to the quick by an ad-
der this afternoon"
Heavens: How did it happen?"
"Why, I dropped in at the bank this
afternoon and the bookkeeper told
me my account was overdrawn."-
Truth.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
De.,ta- ter the Hsrse.

DVA ASNA A"y ASNN ~ Os
Don't cut OF my tail and then. y.
pect me- to stand easy without . tiy
net.
Don't clip the hair on my ankles
aud legs.
Don't burn my feet when l am shod.
Don't yank the bit in my mouth.
Don't say "Backr' -shen you mean
"Stand still"
Don't expect me to eat when have
a bad tooth.
Don't hitch me out in the cold with
the wind blowing hard.
Don't leave q shoe on me more II
four weeks.
Don't trot me down hill.
Don't he afraid to water me when l
am warm. Do you e drink when
you are warmy
Don't whip me IL l am afraid.
Don't I'LL me full of useless medicine
when l am sick.
Don't blister me all over II l am
lame. Let me rest.
Don't let some one drive me II they
do not know as much about going as
I do, especially q man who Is trunk.
Don't forget to feed me three times
a day.
Don't call me IL years old when l
am %, and expect me to be as good
as ever.
Don't hit me over the head.
Don't put binders on me II l go we'll
without them.
Don't forget my salt.
Don't u me ii l have the collie.
How would you like that treatment
yourself?
Don't burn the bars u OF my
mouth and think that you are curing
the lampas.
Don't let some smart Aleck make a
trotter of me.
Don't work me all day without lift
ing my collar.
Don't put a mean nasty bit in my
mouth.
Don't leave me n fly time without
covering me with a light blanket.
Don't allow my stable to be toe
light in the summer time.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
No Difference.

Mrs. Bordroom-That boarder with
the musical taste is q nuisance. We
used to make him wake up in the
morning by dropping coal scuttles
downstairs.
Star Boarder-And now?
Mrs. Bordroom-And now he's tax
en- to attending Wagner opera aud
we can't wake him up at all.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
THE QUEER SERBS.
STR NGE ABORlGlNEs OF THE
ISLAND OF TIHURON.
Prof. MCGEE Teels of Them-They
Are the Mort Primitive Of Ameri-
can People md Are Very Fierce.

Many accounts have been published.
all more or less incorrect, in regard to
the life character of those little known
and much-dreaded Indians, the Serbs.
They have been described as canni-
balls, and it has been said that many
Of their customs We're as horrible as
eating human flesh. Until last year
nothing had been learned about them
except what could be obtained from
the confused reports of frightened
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
WEARS An ALUMINIUM EAR.

What Science Ha. Done for an Aged
Ens1ishman Whose Far Was Dis
eased.
We have had people with glass eyes,
porcelain teeth and artificial whiskers
and now along m a man with an
aluminium ear. He is sixty-threc years
OF age. and was admitted into the
Queens Hospital at Birmingham. Eng
land. in April 1893, with an epithe-
iona of the left auricle.
The greater part of the diseased a
was cut off by the attending surgeon
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
Fer Over Fifty Year,

AN OLD AND WELL TR1ED REMEDY.-Mr,
= inslow's soothtny syrup mas been used .for
Children while teethtng. with perfect succes,
It soothes the chtld, .soTtens the gums, allays 81
pain. CUES wind collie. and Is the best remedy for
Druggists In every part OF the World. Twenty
ave cents q bottle. Its value 1s IL siculahle. Be
sure aa0 ssk for Mrs. WinBl0 s's 80oShing Syrup
and take no other kln0.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
seris Child.

hounds. Instead of turning their at
tention toward the manufacture of
weapons. of the chase, they have given
1t more to the development of speed,
agility, and fleetncss of foot. When
they go out hunting they are so quick
that they can catch antelopes with
their hands.
In their manners and habits they are
as nearly like beasts as it is possible
for men built in human form to be.
They are filthy beyond description aGd
maintain an apparent Indifference to
everything and everybody about them.
1 could not ascertain the truth Of the
report ms to their cannibalism, but it
is my belief that it is incorrect.
So far as can be learned the Serbs
have no medicine man and no religion,
and if they fall i'll nothing is done for
them. With the children the condi-
tions are the same. Young children
are left lying around on the sand of
Of the desert, near the village. in the
broliing sui. uncared for. The cruelty
! of the mothers is remarkable. and
| son. etimes they throw their children
around like billets of wood.
The Dickinson press., 1895-05-18
TO SAVE HUMAN LIFE.

Baron Won der Ropp Has Invented .
New Safety Device.
Ralon Alexander Won der Ropp, OF
Berlin, has recently invented a life
saving apparatus which will greatly
reduce the danger of drowning IN case
Of shipwrecks and other maritime
catastrophes. Its essential parts con
sist of a strong India rubber sack, a
cylindrical metallic hull and a break
ing apparatus. The sack and h u
are connected on one end and within
the form is contained a small, long
necked vial filled with clloro-methy-
lie gas. a peculiar characteristic OF