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LIFE LARGER is TO-DAY.

What marvels in these days have come to
pass;
Men gaze no longer through half opaque
glass,
But with great lenses, piercing fast and
far
Behold heavens spaces vast, each sun and
star.
Traversing miles by millions in one span;
The universe pays tribute unto man.
Men now see widely inxa day or year,
BY science and invention made most clear,
"A million things once hidden in the mists;
And now with sharpened hearing each man
lists
To secrets all made plain, mapped out, re-
vealed,
For ages from the wisest men concealed.
When grumblers loud bemoan the good
old days.
Consent thou not, for in a thousand ways
The good new days are broadcast. brightest,
best,
And in them life enlarged finds newer
zest
Than when men CROPPED half blind in foggy
chance,
Slaves unto narrow grooves and circum-
stance.
Mankind now moves with steadier, nobler
stride,
With knowledge lighting paths made
smooth and wide,
Keen-brained Invention and well-tested
skill
Producing powers obedient to his WILL
Each one a Well-trained giant, every wheel
Toi!ing with sinews made of steam and
steel
No more does superstition dim his mind,
No longer prejudice his vision blind:
His views Of God are kindlier than of
yore,
His days of mental slavery are Ger
The while from mountain peaks his thank
full soul
Sees prospects vast before it's sight unroll.
And in these better days each passing
hour
Enlarges with some new device his power,
Breaks from his limbs some fetter of the
past
Lights some dark cloud which once his
skies oercast.
They lack true wisdom who mourn times
OF old,
These times more glorious are thousand
fold.
l. EDGAR JONES.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
Information.

Newly arrived immigrants will receive 4
any Dominion Lands Office in Manitoba, 1hl
Northwest Territories or British ColumG1
information as to lands open for entry, and
from the officers in charge, free of expeuse
advice and assistance IN securing lands h
suit them; and full information respectins
the land, timber, coal, and mineral lawys
and copies of these regulations, as well a,
those respecting Dominion Lands in tbs
Railway Belt in British Columbia, may b
obtained upon application to the Secretar
of the Department of the Interior, OTTAWA
the Commissioner of Dominion Lands, Win
nipeg, Manitoba, Or to any Of the Domino1
Lands Agents in Manitoba or the North
west Territories. For pamphlets, ETC., al
dress Mr.. Ben Davis, Emigration Agent, Do
minion of Canada, 154 East Third Street, S,
Paul. MIMI; or, W. Richie. Grafton, n
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
Some Interesting Facts Regarding
the Output of Crescent Bicycles.

This article is intended to convey a con.
ception of the enormous amount OF raw ma
terial consumed during season in supply
ing the demand for one of the most popular
bicycles made. The Western Wheel Works,
Chicago, makers of the Crescent wheel, have
the largest, and without doubt the most
complete, bicycle factory in the world, and
can turn out, when running to fullest ca
pacity, 725 finished Crescents in twelve
hours, or a complete up to date bicycle
per minute.
They used during 1896 $50 miles of tub
cago to St. Paul if placed in straight line.
The spokes were made in their own fac.
tory. and required $50 miles of wire, or
enough to reach from Chicago to Lincoln,
Neb.; so miles of brass rod was required
for spoke nipples. If the spokcs, spoke nip.
line they would reach from Chicago to the
Rocky Mountains at Denver. The cranks,
IF placed end to end, would cover a distance
of % miles. They used IS miles of steel for
crank axles, wheel aXles and pedal axles,
and 10 miles of steel for seat posts. If the
Crescents in '96 were placed one upon the
other they would make a pile 1880 feet
high, 5000 feet higher than Pixies Peak
and about the height of Mount Elias in
Alaska, whose summit has never yet been
reached by man. 1t required 32,OS4 square
hollow tooth sprockets, and 2l,S76 square
feet for the steel stampings of the head and
seat post clamps, or in all enough fiat steel
to cover an area of II acres. There were
used 10 miles of cork grips, lOs miles of
finished hubs, and % miles Of steel wire to
pin frames together before brazing The
finished chains, end to end, would reach
10 miles, and the different pieces of which
they are composed would reach 237A miles,
or in all 3O74 miles, the distance from Chi
cago to Cincinnati. The bearings of 1896
Crescents required 1891, 300 steel balls,
which, if placed in straight line, side by
side, would reach distance of 453 miles
10 lace the chain and dress guards on the
ladies' Crescents manufactured in 1896 re-
quired 434, $50 yards of cord, or 2461 miles,
enough to allow a small boy to stand on
the top of the Auditorium tower in Chicago
and fly his kite where the people in Des
Nloines, Iowa, could see it. 10 supply
Crescents sold in 1896 required l,6O6, 742
bolts, and l,4s8,O75 nuts, having an agere-
gate weight of % tons. The total weight
of the complete bicycles was 1882, 842
pou nds, or l,l9l tons. 10 crate these BIZ
cycles required l,235, 74O square feet of lum-
Der made up in pieces; 72,7l8,66s separate
and distinct pieces entered into the con-
struction of '96 Crescents, and if all were
placed in a straight line, end to end, they
would reach from New York to some dis
lance in the Pacific ocean west of San Fran.
cisco.-Crescent Bulletin. July l, 1897.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
HER LIFELIKE STATUE,
Signalized Her Departure from the
World of Artists.

Before her marriage she had been a ia
nous sculptress She had made several por-
traits of well-known men, and everyone pre-
dicted for her a still more brilliant future,
when she suddenly set all predictions at
naught by marrying wealthy man who dis
approved of her keeping up her professional
work: She was very quiet under this re.
strlction, but was supposed to rebel inward
ly. Therefore when, at dinner party one
evening. she asked her old friend, Gen.
Bashar, to come and see her on the follow
ing evening and inspect her last piece of
work, which she thought the best and most
llfelike she had ever executed, he sup
posed he was to use his influence to prevail
upon the husband to permit her to resume
her place among the working fraternity of
artists.
Il am sure You will like it, general" she
said, with winning smile 1T fairly lives
and breathes. l confess l am in love with
it myself"
On the appointed evening the general.
with some misgivings over the delicacy OF
the task intrusted to him, presented him
self, Instead of inviting him to the studio.
his hostess, to his surprise, offered to bring
her last bit to him.
On, it's statuette, is it ?" he asked.
well, yes, you might call it so,' she an.
sWered, as she went out of the room. In a
few minutes she returned, bearing in her
arms-a baby!-Chicago Times Herald.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
a pianer fer our gals es they kin fer

pianer fer our gals es they KIN Ter
thern."
"Ycs, we could. but jest because AL
len an Smith want to go an waste
money in foolishness, it don't foller that
we have ter do it. n pianer don 90 no
work, an it dom draw no intrust, an
when a thing hain't no profit it is a
clear waste O. money ter buy it, an l
hain't goin' ter throw erway no money
in sech or manner"
'',rhe gals worked hard, Slime, an
denied themselves all along, an l feel
as if L orter do somethin' fer 'em. In
course, if we couldn't erford it, it
wouldn't be right; but we kin erford
a pianer an never miss Their money"
Yes, reckon we could erford, if we
WINS so mind; but 1 low we won't.
Money comes too hard to be given out
gals, it's all bosh. 1t 'ud jest be the
spilin' ov 'em for work. They don have
no need Nv no pianer, an they won't get
none"
Mrs. Shrimp saw that it was useless
to argue with Sine, so she refrained
from saying more, and the next morn
ing early he rode over to Bob Herring
tons to loan the money he received for
the hogs.
Simon Shrimp was well to do, and
every year he reaped rich harvests from
his many broad acres of productive
land. But so far as his family was con-
cerned he might as well have been the
poorest man in the settlement. lie
never had any money to spare for the
purchase of luxuries, and even the lit
tie that went for absolute necessarles
went so grudgingly as to make it pain
full His wife felt herself fortunate If
she possessed a print gown fit to wear
in church, and the boys and girls had
long since ceased to go out in COM
pany for want of decent apparel. All
Skrimp's money went for more land,
or into the hands of the Herringtons.
Six months had passed since Shrimp
sold his fatted hogs, when one day,
while he was engaged in re-rooting his
shackled old barn, Squire Beeson rode
up and said:
"Mornin, Sime!"
"How air We, squirrel"
''Hev We heerd the news, Sime?"
mo; what news?'
''Erbout them Herringtons.'
"No; hain't," Slime said, turning sud-
denly pale with an unconscious dread.
''What erbout emp"
''Wal, it's er bad piece NV business.
lemme tell We, an many err homes
mans a-goin' ter suffer from it, Then
the squire stopped, and, squirting one
eye, very deliberately chewed away on
his tobacco, while he left Shrimp agon-
ling on the rack of suspense.
"What is it, man p" Simon demanded.
''Speak out"
''Ther long an Their short NV it is.
them Herringtons is busted higher n
err kite"
Down went Skrimp's hammer, but in
his excitement he missed the nail and
hit his thumb squarely, MASKING it al
most into jelly.
''D'ye reckon it's 500" he gasped.
when he was little recovered from the
shock.
'Yas, reckon it air." the squire went
on, coolly. "Yistidy was down to the
county seat. an heern them a-talkin' Nv
it on every corner, an Their lawyers WIS
er flynn erbout like later bugs on err
hot skillet. Their hain't no doubt NV it..
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
His Afte--Dinncr Speech,

Around the table were gathered many
men. The dinner was almost over, and now
ton had ceased, and they We're all LOOKING
at him and waiting for him to speak. He
was handsome man; clean shavcn and
commanding looking, in irreproachaLle
evening dress. He stood, his left arm
hanging at his side, his right hand resting
him as he began to speak. And this is what
he said:
"Sorry, gents, but dc plum puddn' is all
out. Dere's rice an tapioca, an dere's
plumpeachanapple creamorrhubarb an
mincerlemon pie. Whachergo' nterhave -
n Y Journal
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
A Deep Impression,

Pat returned from London after holiday
and meeting his priest one day stopped
tell his adventures.
"Now, Of all the sights you saw, what Oh
ject struck you most-in fact, lett the deep
est impression on your" asked the priest
Faith, it was brick from scaffoMa
struck me most and left it's deep impression
on me-" said Pat, showing cut Oh his fors
hetd.-Spare Moments.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
Not Her Wont.

"Listen!" he Kissed.
NO." she answered, and turning upon
her heel brusquely, she left him there alone.
For she was telephone girl by profession,
and it was not her wont to listen to ANYTHING
unless she was sure it was none of her bust.
ness-Detroit Journal
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
Out(lOne.

Prof. Braintank-Newton was a great
philosopher. BY observing the mere fall ol
an apple he discovered the law of gravity.
Smithers - That's nothing. BY simpF
biting an apple Eve discovered the gravity
of law.-N. Y. Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
Wheel Academia.

"F7ora had dreadful time last evening.
She didn't come in town until after dark
"What was the matter?'
''She lost her powder-rag somewhere out
on the road, and couldn't fix up fit to be
seen."-Detroit Free Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23

Mrs. Isaacstein (engaging servant -
l hope you haven't a young man Bridge
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23

The Same Old Wail.--Said Eve-"What
a chooser of fg-leaves you are! IT'S the
worst one that ever carried" Said Adam
-'Your dresses are better by far than any
you had when we married. "-Harlem Life
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23

I can recommend Piso's Cure for Con
sumption to sufferers from Asthma.-t:., u
Townsend, Fl. Howard, Wis, May 4, H.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
"StIr Tobacco

As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best, but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23

An old pair of shoes spoils the appearanc
of any woman.-Atchison Globe.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23
BITS OF POETRY.
A. NiHht.

At Night.
They're all asleep tonight they're al
Those on the hillside, where the cypress
trees .
Where Love can still watch over them
and keep
Her anxious vigils. lest they wake ana
weep.
The coverlet stirs lightly here: Love
The grasses out there in the midnight
Stir softly; but their ward lies calm and
deep.
Hush! lest thou waken these; and hush:
tear
For those so cold and silent on the hill:
But whether these shall rise to laugh
or weep.
And whether those. without waking
May still dream on and on, through JOY
and i'll, .,
Safe in His arms tonight, they're all
asleep.
,-Washington Home Magazine.
Priscilln's Heart. ~--
Cupid one day. in idle quest,
Fitted a dainty dart.
And aimed 1t at Priscilla's breast,
To strike Priscilla's heart.
Clean through it went; no heart was there:
Said Cupid: II believe
Priscilla's just the girl to wear
Her heart upon her sleeve
But there, alack! it was not found;
"Aha!' cried Cupid, mote
Her frightened air: now I'll be bound:
Her heart is in her throat
Failure again. Oh slender chance,
He once more arrow shoots;
Assuming from her downcast glance
Her heart was In her boots.
Fooled, Cupid threw aside his bow; r!
'She has no heart" said he
Gle did not know that long ago
She gave her heart to me)
m Y. Telegram.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23

Untold wealth is thing well known 70
the tax assessor.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-07-23

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 1ot.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06
CHAPTER III.
A ROBBER IN CAMP.

The trumpet played the retreat, the
sunset gun tbundered its good night to
the god of day, the adjutant hurried
over and received the reports of the
companies, the staff and band, and then
messenger came running to them
"Mrs. Charlton wants you, Sergeant
Waller. Fred's all safe, but they had a
sharp fight.
The old man could not trust himself
to speak. Listen to this, sergeant, y
exclaimed Mrs. Charlton as she hurried
through the little group of ladies at her
doorway and looked up in his face with
tear dimmed eyes:
"Tell Waller that in running fight
of four miles Fred rode close at my
heels and no man could have shown
more spirit or less fear. I am sure it
was shot from his carbine that tum-
bled one war pony into the Laramie,
and every call be had to sound rang out
clear as bell. I'm proud Of the boy. "
Waller's face was twitching and
working. He cleared his throat and
tried to speak. He dashed his hand
across his eyes and ground his heels
into the gravel of the walk. He heard
the kind and gentle voices Of the ladies
joining in the chorus of congratulation,
but he could not see their faces A mist
had risen before his eyes. Even the old
formula, II thank the captains lady, "
had deserted him. He mumbled some
inartioulate words and then, in dread
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06

Fred and Ids stern, sud faced father aDere
noW alone IN the aUorld.
messages for Sergeant Waller, and soon,
to his unspeakable joy. letters all his
own, addressed in round, boyish hand
that grew firmer every week, began to
come az his share Of the welcome pack
age. Never would he presume to ask
for news, yet the captain was not slow
to notice how old Waller was sure to be
t2sy close at hand when the home let
ters came, and prompt to answer, and
with soldierly salute to stand erect be-
fore his young commander and strive
not to show the pride and delight that
tingled in every vein at the glowing
words in which Mrs. Charlton told of
his boys rapid progress and his devo-
tion to her and the children. His lips
would quiver uncontrollably and his
eyes fill, his hand might tremble as it
touched the brim of his scouting hat,
but the salute was precise as ever.
II thank the captain and beg to
thank the captains kind lady," was his
invariable formula on such occasions.
II hope the boy will always do his
duty"
And then he would face about and
stride away with his head very high in
the air and his eyes blinking hard, and
almost Immediately his voice would be
heard sternly berating some trooper
whose horse had tangled himself in his
lariat, or whose "kit" was not slowed
in proper shape about the saddle. It
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06

lect. sergeant Graham will bear me
out, sir, that Trumpeter Waller has
been allowed to lariat his horse close by
where he slept, and sometimes he'd loop
the lariat by light cord to his wrist.
The captain allowed it, sir, and / sup
posed that the lieutenant would not care
to change the captains orders. Last
night he slept, or rather made down his
blanket and drove his picket pin at the
lower edge of the bivouao, sir, down
there by that point, and Private Dono-
van tells me he moved still farther down
after dark. We could hear his horse
whinnying awhile-he didn't like be-
ing 80 far from the others. It's my be-
lief, sir, he waited until all was quiet
and took some time when I was out on
the prairie visiting the sentries to slip
up the bank to where Sergeant Graham
was sleeping, make his haul of the
money and then ride for all that he was
worth as soon as be had got beyond ear
shot. It was easy enough to slip away
through the stream without being
heard"
"He has left his saddlebags, blanket
and everything that was heavy, except
his arms, behind him." said Graham
moodily.
"And you really think that he has
stolen the money and is trying to es-
sapeP" questioned the lieutenant.
Indeed, SIR" answered Dawson al
most tearfully, 81 don't know what to
think. I hate to believe it of the boy
We were all so fond of, though / used
to plague him sometimes, just in fun.
But don't know what else to think.
The men say that he has been little
wild at times since he got from under
the old mans care. But don't know,
sir. I wouldn't be apt to know what
was going on in the barrack there at
Robinson"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06
THE AMERICAN COCKTAIL.

The origin of the American "cock-
tail" is admittedly obscure, and many
attempts have been made to trace it.
An ingenious but unconvincing expla-
nation, says The American Epicure,
that has lately been going the round
of the press gives its medical signif-
cance. The old doctors, they say, had
a practice of treating certain diseases
of the throat with pleasant liquor
applied with the tip. end of a long
feather plucked from a cocks tail.
They finally began to use this prepara-
ton as gargle, and the name cocktail
clung to it. The gargle gave way to
an appetizer-to a mixture OF bltters,
vermouth and liquor, that is still in
occasional demand.
According to a Mexican legend, the
original cocktail was made from pul.
que, an alcoholic beverage distilled
from the juice of the maguey, or agava.
The liquor, so it is said, was discovered
by a Toltec noble, who sent some of it
to the king by the hand of his daugh-
ter. The monarch drank the pulque,
and looked at the maiden. Whether
the lady's looks gave pleasanter flavor
to the liquor, or whether the taste of
the liquor made the lady seem the
fairer, is not cartain the king, at any
rate, fell in love with both, started
pulque plantation, and married the
girl, whose name, Xochitl, thus became
associated with the national intoxicant.
The rest is easy. When General
Scott's troops came to Mexico they
drank the liquor, liked it, with the
easy adaptability of the Saxon, simpli.
fed its Aztec name into cocktail"
which they carried back with them to
the states.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06

But Blunt preferred to hold to his
own views and his faith in the second
sergeant of the troop. And 40 it hap
pened that On this eventful morning he
i sent Sergeant Graham at once to inves-
tigate as to the amounts stolen during
the night and directed that Sergeant
Dawson, who was in command Of the
herd and picket guard, should come to
him Immediately.
! The sun was just rising above the
low, treeless ridges on the horizon as the
lieutenant stood erect and looked about
him. Close at hand the Niobrara-"the
Running Water"-was brawling over
Its stony shadows, and the smoke of
tiny cook fires was floating upward into
the keen, crisp morning air. Northward
the slopes were bare and treeless, too,
but closely oarpeted with the dense
growth Of buffalo grass. Only few
yards out from the bivouao, hoppled and
side lined, the troop horses were crop
ping the still juicy herbage, and three
or four soldiers, carbines in hand and
garbed in their light blue overcoats,
were posted we'll out beyond the herd on
every side, watching the valley far and
near for any signs Of Indian coming.
Below the bivouac and farther from the
Laramie road was an old log hut, once
used as ranch and "bar" for thirsty
souls traversing the we'll worn way to
the reservation, but the tide Of travel
had first shifted to the Sidney route and
then been stemmed entirely, 80 far as
the line to or near the agencies was
concerned, and the proprietor had taken
himself and his fiery poison to better
paying fields.
Far away to the southwest the blue
cone of Laramie peak stood boldly
against the sky. Nearer at hand, though
days ride away, old Rawhide Butte
rose sturdily from the midst Of sur
rounding prairie slopes. Up stream,
among some sparse cottonwood, bit OF
ruddy color among the branches caught
the lieutenant's quick eye. Some Indian
brave, wrapped In his blanket, had been
laid to rest there out of reach Of the
snarling coyotes, one Of whom could be
dimly discerned Sinking away under
the bank, just out of easy rife range.
Off to the south lay the same bold,
barren, desolate looking expanse Of roll
ing prairie. Blunt could not suppress a
shudder as he thought Of the terrible
risk the boy had run in his mad break
for the settlements beyond the Platte.
Of course he could 60 nowhere else.
North. east and west, all was Indian
land, and no lone white man could
live there. Or course he was making
for the cattle ranges and settlements in
Nebraska. Such, at least, was the lieu
tenants theory. He had spent only
one year on the frontier, but had been
there long enough to know that among
the cowboys, ranchmen and especial
Iy among the riffraff ever hanging
about the small towns and settlements
deserter from the army was apt to be
welcomed and protected If he had
money, arms or a good horse Once
plundered of all he possessed, the luck
less fellow might then be turned over
to the nearest post and the authorized
reward of $50 claimed for his appre-
hension, but if we'll armed and sober
the deserter had little trouble in max
ing his way through the toughest min
| ing CAMPS and settlements.