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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1896-06-05
PEN AND INK DRAWING.
1EodaEa Imitation of the Anoients by
New Process.

kodaea Imitation Of the Anoients by
New Process.
: It II easy, Of course, to understand
how pen drawing should have come to
be 80 largely employed and elaborated.
It is matter of reproduction for illus
tration. An etching'will not print with
type, nor with steel engraving: This;
says the London Spectator, led in the
early part of the century to the imita:
ton of steel engravings by wood en-
kravers, who did the business most
skillfully with immense labor. The
drawings for them were mostly made
in pencil. But Photographic process
rendered the Intervention of the wood
engraver needless, if the artist made a
pen drawing that would photograph
and process well: A pure technical
difficulty can be overcome by large
numbers of craftsmen; large numbers,
accordingly, have learned to make pen
drawings to supplant wood engravings.
But it should be noted that to do this
is itself a kind of reproductive process
Few elaborate pen drawings are made
without studious foundation in some
other material. The pen line must fire.
quently be traced or drawn over the
pencil line, very much like the engrav-
er's tool.
81 The point about the naoderns and an
clients, then, resolves itself into the
imitation by the moderns in new
medium of thestechnique of an old. It
is certain that the ancients could have
performed this feat if they had chosen;
not altogether certain that they would
have chosen. For, to consider those
other points of reprodu ction and dis
semination, the modern master seems
to be in no greater hurry than the an
cient to make use of the new facilities:
When such master does take up the
pen, he handles it to much grander ef-
feet than do its devotees.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1896-06-05
WILLIAMS jCOUNTY.
A Brief Description Of It's Great
Inducements to Settlers.

WILLIAMS COUNTY is the extreme
Northwest county Of the State of North
Dakota, with the Missouri River forming
it's southern boundary, and it has river
frontage of about 250 miles. The County
covers an area of nearly 1850 square
miles, and embraces about 5000, 900
acres of excellent farming and grazing
lands. About one-half of the County is
underlaid with superior quality of
Ignite Coal, which is found in stratas
varying from three feet to twenty feet
in thickness. There are also numerous
beds of sulphur of extra fine quality.
The soil is rich and durable, and by req
son of the peculiar formation of the sur.
face of the country, irrigation is rendered
both practicable and cheap. Cereals of
all kinds and vegetables flourish here in
abundance, and always pay the producer
AS a stock-raising country Williams
County is equal to any other region in
the western states. Hay and shelter are
found in abundance along the Missouri
river and the small streams running
through the interior of the county.
Williams County offers the most adj
vantageous inducements to settlers by
its famous stock-raising ranges, and it's
own cheap fuel in wood and coal. The
winters are mild, and all classes of stock
Craze out on the ranges nearly the entire
season through, requiring but very little
extra feeding. All kinds of building
material and excellent clay for brick
making can be found in many localities
throughout the county.
Financially, Williams County is abso-
lutely out of debt, there being not a
dollar of bonded indebtedness, nor any
outstanding warrants, as shown by the
official statement of the County Auditor
and Treasurer on July LIST, 1895.
WILLISTON. the County Seat of Will
liams County, is beautifully located on
the Great Northern Railroad, with the
Missouri River washing its southern
limits, and situated only twenty miles
from Fort Buford.
Williston has two hotels, six stores, two
saw mills, frst-class blacksmith and
wagon shop, two meat markets, one
newspaper and job printing Office, four
restaurants, two dress-making shops, a
carpenters shop, two brick yards, bar
ber-shop; two churches, school house,
court house and Jail, two billiard halls,
and four sample rooms. It is the freight
division of the Great Northern Railroad, ,
with it's roundhouse and shops located
here. In fact, the volume of business
transacted here will compare favorably
with any town of its size in the northwest.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1896-06-05
Not : Good Likeness.

It is not always easy to recognize the
gentlemen and ladies OF sculpture. .
No wonder the old lady in the follow
ing story, taken from the Evangelist,
was somewhat in doubt: In the 'smonu-
ment room Of Trinity church is large
marble tablet put up in memory of the
late Bishop Hobart. It is bas-relief,
representing the bishop as dying, and
sinking into the arms of an al1egorical
female figure, probably intended for
the angel of death. Years ago an aged
couple from the country were shown
shout the church, and when they
reached the tablet they paused long
before it. At last the dear old lady
lpcke. That's . good likeness of the
bishOp, she said, 'but''-here she re.
|arded the angelic parsonage attentive
its poor one Of Mrs. Hobart.
1ew hsr well and she didn't look likS
49,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1896-06-05
BOY AND ROBIN.

frisaAahaD Of the Two Brought About ~
Cold Weather.
! During the extremely severe weather
6f February, 1895, myriads of birds
persisted from cold and starvation, both
In Europe and the United States. In
England this destruction was the more
lorrowful, perhaps, as the country
where the birds winter is more thickly
settled than with us, and there were
more to see their sufferings But occa-
sionally the British birds found friend
~ shelter.
The London Times published, during
tho cold weather, this note from Ro-
dolph Walther, boy Of twelve years,
who lives at Tunbridge Wells:
Il thought perhaps you would allow
schoolboy to tell you how very tame
and fearless the cold and hunger have
made the wild birds around our house.
'sOf course we feed them with bread
and all sorts Of odds and ends, and the
ground is simply black with our hungry
visitors. Even the suspicious rocks
come quite close to the house for their
share.
"A little blue-tit passes it's day in our
basement, needless Of sleepy pussy
baking herself before the stove.
Most of all / wish to tell you About
my strange bedroom companion, little
robin, which has taken up its residence
il my bedroom; and though leave the
window open, he never goes out except
t. take a short fly. We pass the night
together. and he makes his bed in one
OF my football boots.
The other morning he woke me up
by singing on a chair at the side of my
bed. I suppose he thought ought to
be at my lessons
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1896-06-05
WORK OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
livery Year the Father Of Waters Carries
Down : square MA OF Land. @

pvsry Year the Father Of Waters Carries
Down . square MAJ Of Land.
The Mississippi has in the course Of
ages transported from the mountains
and high land within it's drainage area
sufficient material to make 100000
square miles Of new land by filling up
IN estuary which extended from it's
original outfall to the Gulf of Mexico
for q length Of 500 miles, and in width
from 80 to 40 miles. This river, says
Longman's Magazine, is still pouring
solid matter into the gulf, where it is
spread out in fan-like shape over
coast line Of $50 miles, and is filing up
Ut the rate Of 362, 900, 900 tons year, or
six times as much soil as was removed
in the construction of the Manchester
ship canal, and sufficient to make a
square mile Of new land, allowing for
it having to all up the gulf to depth
Of so yards.
Some idea OF the vastness of this
operation may be conceived when the
fact is considered that some of this soil
has to be, transported more than 5000
miles; and that if the whole of it had
to be carried on boats at the lowest
rate at which heavy material is carried
on the inland waters of America, or,
say, for one.tenth of penny per ton
per mile over an average Of half the
total distance, the cost would be no less
sum than e23s, 900, 900 a year. Through
the vast delta thus formed the river
winds it's way, twisting and turning by
tnnumerable bends until it extends its
length to nearly 1900 miles, or more
than double the point-to-point length
Of the delta, continually eroding the
banks in one place and building up
land in another, occasionally breaking
its way across narrow neck which
lies between the two extremeties and
filing up the old channel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
TRICKS IN HIGH DIVING.
The Secret of Dropping Safely Into .
Shallow Tank of Water.

The Secret Of Dropping Safely Into
Shallow Tank of Water.
what bothers most people who think
anything about the subject, said Kear-
ney P. Speedy, high diver. who, says
the New York Herald, began his pub.
lie career by jumping head first from
the St. Louis bridge four or five years
years ago, sis how dive of so or 90 feet
cen bs made in a tank of 36 inches of
water. You see, they confuse diving
with bridge jumping different
thing. Bridge jumpers are neither
Jumpers or divers-they're troopers;
that is, they reach the lower rods of
the bridge truss and drop feet foremost
into the water. The trick is TO main
tain the perpendicular. They must
have plenty of water under them, too.
The high diver, as you have seen, makes
clear dive, head first, just as boy
does from a springboard in swimming.
do it in very shallow water. Iweigh,
stripped, $50 pounds, and never do any
training. / have been diving from the
top of a circus tent all summer into a
tank but seven feet wide, and into water
but three feet deep. The shallow dive
is possible from the same principle that
a cannon or rifle shot meets the most
resistance the more powerful the i'm
Iact. You see, give my body and head
a slight inclination upward at the in
slant strike the water, which causes
me to pop out as board would do or
an oar on the feather. L learned this
trick in the ST. Louis natatorium when
a boy, practicing in shallow water and
from a greater height. Then there is
a certain elasticity in the water known
to the high diver, but the trick is in the
strike and turn, for water will break
bones and crush chests, as many mar
knows"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

The position OF chief of fire depart
ment in big city like Minneapolis,
with its acres of valuable building pro
perty, crossed by numerous railroad
lines and dotted with factories where
the fires are never banked" is one Of
the utmost responsibility. and can be
entrusted only TO a man of unquesdOn-
ed character and ability.
August Fl, Runge. who has filled this
responsible posi- ton for several years
with so much credit 10 himself and 60
the city, was born in New York In 1852.
where he received a common school ed
ucation.
What such a man as this has 10 say
can scarcely fail TO carry weight with
1t:
with the hope that what say may
IN some way be brought to the atten-
ton of others who. like myself. have
suffered without any apparent cause.
feel constrained TO recite a brief tale
regarding an experience which 1 trust
may never be repeated in my case.
"A few months ago, owing doubtless
to the eXacting nature of my duties as
head Of the fire department, I began TO
feel a sort of languor and listlessness
to disguise which i was compelled 10
bring into play all the strength OF VIII
/ could command. The feeling grew
upon me. however. and in a short time
II took such possession of me that II
my appetite and caused insom-
MIA l approached my meals with a
feeling amounting almost to nausea,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
THE FAMOUS ALERT.
A Historic Ship That has just Been Sold
for Her Metal.

A Historic Ship That has just Been Sold
for Her Metal.
Beached upon the BEAUFORT shoals,
near Quebec, lies the old steamship
Alert, remarks the New York Sun, which
in 1855 was moored nearer to the
north pole than any other vessel has
ever been. She was the flag ship of the
Mares artic expedition and lay all win
ter at Floeburg, So degrees IA minutes
north latitude. In 1883 she was pre-
scented by the British government to our
government to take part in the Greedy
relief expedition, and after that sue
cessful enterprise she was returned with
thanks to the British. In 1885 she was
loaned to the Canadian government to
investigate the navigability of the Hud-
son strait, and to bring back the party
of explorers left upon it's banks in 1884
by the Neptune. On this trip the Alert
was commanded by Capt. Gordon, and
for three weeks was jammed in field
of ice. 1t was her last northern voyage.
The imperial authorities presented her
to the Canadian government, and the
latter, finding her at last unseaworthy,
after employing her for some time in
the buoy and lighthouse service, sold
her atauction several days ago. She was
bought for $4,000 by ship builder of
st. John for the sake of her old metal
and other materials.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
cALCUTTA's DOCKS
Tfhey are Numerous and Are Marvela Of
mechaai Skill

Taey are Numerous and Are Marvels OF
Mechanical Skill
Among the most notable systems %
dock construction achieved by modern
engineering science Calcutta may be
said to present a conspicuous exampl>
The entrance to these docks is through
a channel so feet wide and lock 60 feet
wide, terminating in basin measuring
eOox6S0 feet Two entrances, 60x30 feet
wide, lead from the basin to the dock
proper, which is $500 feet long, 60 feet
wide for the greater part of its length
and covers 34h acres, two dry docks
also leading of from the basin, one OF
them $40 feet long and the other 35C
feet. While the river is low these
waterways are supplied with fresh
water from the neighborhoOd, and elab-
crate provision is made to remove the
mud from this water before it is
pumped into the basin. The docks are
equipped with SO movable hydraulic
cranes, of which so are constructed to
lift as much as ~ tons, while the re-
mainder can handle weights of tons,
all of them overhanging the quay 20
feet and operated by water under pres
sure, as are also the lock gates, capstans
knd swing bridges about the docks. The
water is under pressure of 700 pounds
and is furnished by two pairs of n.y.
draulio engines, each of $50 horse power,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
HOUSEHOLD sRGvITIEs.

"A simple furniture polish for com,
mon use IS made by mixing two table,
spoonfuls Of sweet or hnseed oil with
tablespoonful OF trrpentine. Rub
on with 4 piece OF flannel and polish
with a dry piece.
Farmers Rice.-Three pints of
milk; let it come to boil. Rub two
eggs with -four until in little flakes or
grains; stir into the milk quickly and
cook for five minutes. Serve with
cream and sugar.-Farmers' Voice.
Fried Soft Clams.--Take three
dozen soft clans, remove the tough
muscle and drain on q cloth. Beat
two eggs, with an ounce CT melted but
ter, little milk, pinch OF red pepper
and handful of -four. Nix the CLANS
in this batter and drop. one by one, in
plenty of very hot clear fat. Fry
them pretty crisp and light brown,
drain on a cloth, salt, dish up on 4
folded napkin. surround with quartered
lemons and parsley and serye.-N. Y.
Ledger.
-Beafsteak Pudding.-Line the pud-
ding dish with crust made of chopped
suet and -four with wafer, simply rolled
out Cut up a pound of round steak
sprirkled with -four. pepper and salt.
chop small onion fine, put all into the
lined basin, add a cupful of water, cover
with the suet crust. and tie in a we'll
Toured cloth, put the basin lid down
wards in saucepan of boiling water.
leave lid off the saucepan, let il boil two
and half hours.-Boston Budget.
A Tasty Sauce.-Rub through fine
sieve three hard-boiled egg yoilSs, put
in deep bowl with two raw yolks. salt.
pepper and tablespoonful of prepared
mustard. Stir with a wooden spoon.
and mix with the yollts. slowly at first,
two gills of sweet oil and a little vine
gar, finishing with two tabIespoonfuls
of chopped-fine herbs. If the sauce is
acid and too thick, add a
little cold water.-N. Y. Ledger
Meat and poultry, to be served cold,
may be very much improved in appear
ance by being glazed. The process is
very simple. An excellent glaze may
De made OF half an ounce OF gelatine dis
solved in pint of water, end favored
as well as colored with extract of beef.
To be successful the meat must be pre-,
fectly cold before the glaze is put on,
and the first coating should be allowed
to dry before the second is applied. The
glaze must be well melted and warm
and applied with a brush.
Potato Cakes.-One and one-halt
cup of potatoes mashed fine; one cup
yeast and one cup sugar mixed together
and let stand until bed time; then add
cup of butter and lard,
one cup of sugar and two eggs with
four enough TO stiffen. Knead like |
bread and let rise over night In the !
put in pie pans. and when light |
coat the top with butter, sugar and I
Hour before baking.-Mrs. Frank Nagle, !
n Womankind.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
HAD TO RESURRECT HIM.
Novelist Du Terrsn Forgot That He Hao
Killed One O. His Characters


Killed One OF His Characters
A great master of the art of throwing
off stories by daily installments was
Ponson du Terrail. When he was at
the height of his vogue, says the Boston
Transcript, he kept three running al
the same time in different papers His
fertile imagination was never at loss,
but his memory frequently was. He
was apt TO forget to-day what he did
with hero or heroine yesterday. To
help his memory he at first noted down
briefly in copy books what happened 10
his men and women. but finding that
often he could not read his own writ
ing he invented new system He pro-
cured little leaden figures, on which he
Cumned the names of his characters as
they were born. SupPosing there were
three stories running. there were three
sets of figures in different drawers.
When a character was settled of the
little man or woman in lead was taken
away from its companion and laid
aside.
One day when Ponson du Terrail was
ell behind in his work he set himself 70
his task without examining the slain.
His bad memory led him into terrible
blunder- He had forgotten that he had
killed Rocam bole-tEe still famou
Rocambole-in the previous feuilleton
and TO the great surprise Of the reader
he made him talk again as II nothing
ont Of the common had befsllen him
This resuscitation Of Rocam bole il one
OF the most curious things in tie his
tory OF the romsns-feuilleton-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
A Gigantic Map.

The great ordnance survey map of
England, containing over los, 900 sheets
and costing, during the last 20 years.
about 100000 year, is nearly COM
pleted. The scales vary from 10 to feet
10 the mile for the towns, through %
inches, 6 inches, inch, one-quarter OF
an inch and one-tenth of an inch 10 the
mile. The details are so minute that
the 25 and 6-inch maps show every
hedge, fence. ditch. wall, building. and
even every isolated tree in the country
The 25-inch map shows in color the ma
terial OF which every part of building
Is constructed. The plans show not
only the exact shape of every building
but every porch, area, doorstep, lang
post, railway and fire plug"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
SCIENCE AND VOLCANOES
Causes of tho Eruptions Hove Not Ye.
Been Definitely AscertaIpcd

IL
Been Definitely Ascertained.
1t was formerly believed and taught
that a volcano is a mountain sending
forth fire, smoke and lava, this being
the sense of the definitions in geogra-
pixies which are by no means anti
quated. Modern Investigations have,
however, changed this definition, elm
mating the word mountain and adding
TO the list of substances elected the
very important one, steam, for steam
is an active worker and can by no
means be overlooked. There is an ap-
parent reason for assuming volcanoes
TO be mountains, since they generally
build up conical mounds of ashes and
lava, retaining central chimney for
the election of fresh volcanic material,
but such elevation is not essential A
volcano may be an orifice In the surface
of plain, like a geyser, although the
latter are not classed with true vol
canoes. They are comparatively local
in their nature, the water being heated
very near the point of election, while
the volcanoes have an origin for their
lava at very much greater depths be-
low the earth's surface.
Then, again, the word mountain has
itself received modified definition, and
even conical peak with steam issuing
from its apex may not be a mountain
in the strict sense of the word. Noun
tain, according 10 the latest authori-
ties, is dependent upon geological
structure, and not on height, and our
blue hills are as truly mountainous. al
though their SUBMITS are but 600 feet
above the sea, as the Himalavas or the
Andes, with 20 or so times the height.
A mountain is no longer simply an
elevation of land to 1000 feet or more,
as was formerly taught, but is the
record Of 3 certain geological process. /
In his STORY of Our Planet" Prof. T. G. |
Bonney devotes quite little space 10
the consideration of the volcano. THAT !
volcano is reared practically by one /
architect" he writes, chat the whole 1
cone and the mountain proper are /
formed by the elected material, is now 4
generally admitted. But this opinion I.
is not always favorably regarded. Be- /
fore the days of Scrope and Lyel the 4
elected materials were generally sup
posed TO play a subordinate part, and
8 volcanic mountain was held 10 be 4
largely due TO the upheaval of the
strata of the earth's crust in conical
form around the orifce. In this NV
pothesis obvious difficulties existed,
such as understanding how the beds
thus uplifted could maintain their po-
sition when the imprisoned vapors and
lava had escaped from beneath" Hap
Ply Thoughts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

Eooo QUAKER man or woman is made
to speak the plain language in way
that would certainly astonish such old
Quaker patrieIchs as Elias Hicks and
John 6. Whittier. Only the other day
| read story in which an old Quaker
woman was made to say in addressing
young man and a girl:
Thee are both very dear to me-
"The Quaker never used such bad
English as that, can assure you. and
yet read sentences fully as bad as that
frequently in our very best magazines.
And the pity is that this fact tells US
the old plain language will soon be
obsolete. Chicago Chronicle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

and my bed with horror at the restless
night which l was almost certain was
before me- Matters became so sers-
Gus with me that / could no longer keep
silent about myself. and speaking OF 1t
TO one OF my friends one day. he sug-
ges;ed that l Try Paine's celery COM
pound. / purchased a bottle and be-
fore l had taken dozen doses l knew
that the suggest ton was good one.
/ ft9t an Improvement. / continued 20
use IL. and felt restored. My Appetite
is good. and sleep well. and instead OF
an irksone grind my business Is again
a pleasure TO me. ] attribute this hap
by state OF affairs TO Paine's celery CON-
pound"
As in the case Of Fire Chief Runge.
the beginning of poor health Is very apt
10 rob one Of the will power 10 start
Immediately about getting out OF dan
ger II Is this inertia of poor health
shat makes an ordinary run down"
bodily condition so dangerous. and so
likely 10 go on TO something worse.
EveTy day IL Is clearly shown that Il
won't do 10 live tired-out. and on the
verge of breaking down. The ianguor
and the lack OF strength are sure 10
increase.
Now is the time 10 throw of disease.
As the new year begins there are fewest
hIndrances to getting back strength
and sturdy health. The bracing wealth
er arouses a longing FOR health. PaIne's
celery compound, taken now. does It's
best service toward driving out disease
and establishing firm health.