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The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Othello's OccupatIon Gone.

Jailer-Come, now! l want you all to
understand that there will be no in
subordination tolerated in this Jail
while l am in charge.
Convict-Get of your perch, old man!
We want you to understand that II you
don't treat us easy you'll find yourself
out of a job.
Jailer-What do you mean by talk
ing to me like that?
Convict mean just dis: Eff our class
of citizens takes it inter der heads to
respec' the law an jine the ranks err
morality. dere won't be no jails an
dere won't be no jailers, see? So yer
want 20 mend yer manners, old chap
pie, or We'll turn in an reform, an
den yer name is Dennis.-Boston Cour-
Ter.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06

The president has approved tile sen.
tence Of the court martial in the case
Of First Lieut.. Frank owen, -Four.
teenth infantry, stationed on the Pa
cihc coast, convicted of f%alsifying his
accounts, and he will be dismissed
from the army March 1.
Gov. Thornton has placed the local
company Of infantry on guard Mt the
penitentiary at Santa Fe, n. NJ. on &C
count Of the discovery of a plot to
blow up the building on the part OF
friends Of four members Of the Borrego
gang Of a%ssassins, who were con
demned to be hanged.
Ferdinand Ford, who was arrested at
New York on the charge Of defrauding
a bank at Strassburg, Germany, out Of
$22l,3iO. was set Mt liberty. Judge Pri-
or who issued the order Of arrest, also
directed that 1t be vacated. He said
that he had grave doubts as to its le-
gality, as it had been cOntended that
no fraud had been committed, but that
1t was O case of debt due by the de-
PENDANT and his partners.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
VIC Nauon,s Capital.

The appropriations committee Of the
senate has inserted in the sundry civil
bill IN amendment carrying $1,085,1 56
to pay additional sugar bounty claims.
Applications for pardons have been
denied in the cases of A. H. Haxley,
convicted in Illinois of counterfeiti:iS,
md Washington J. Amestein, cOnvi Il
ed in Wisconsin of embezzling.
A copy of the general arbitration
treaty and President Cleveland's mes
sage on the subject to the senate has
been issued from the house Of COM
mons
The president has named w. w. Fol
lette to be consulting engineer Of the
United States on the International iva
teri boundary commission provided for
in the convention with Mexico of
March /, 1889.
The president has issued a procla-
nation in the usual form calling a
session of the senate at noon on tile
4th of March, to receive communica-
tiOns from the executive. This is the
usual senate extra session to consider
nominations to important Offices.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Accidental aappe.,.xs.

BY IN explosion of powder and dyna-
mite in No. ~ mine at Tamaqna, Pa,
one man was injured fatally and eight
others seriously hurt.
John Reggs, an aged, prominent and
we'll known farmer residing near
Plainfield. Wis, was thrown from a
high load of hay and seriously in-
jured.
The county infirmary, located two
miles south Of Warsaw, Ind. was to-
tally destroyed by fire. The building
was just completed at a cost Of x4O,-
600.
At a circus neal Brownsville, Texas,
a section of the elevated seats collapsed,
precipitating 200 persons to the ground.
Six may die. Many were more or less
bruised.
Judge T.. a. Thomas. a prominent
lawyer Of Falls City, Neb., was run
over and killed last night while alight-
ing from a south-hoInd train. In
crossing n parallel track he was struck
by Il nortll-hound freight.
Lyman $. Burnham, n Of the
founders and the last surviving part
mel in the Brooklyn dry goods firm of
.Journay 4 Burnham, il dead at his
home in Brooklyn, aged eighty-one
years.
A disastrous flood occurred ut Mid
dlesborough, Ky. covering two-thirds
Of the town. sixty families were COM
PEELED to leave their homes. Cumber-
land avenue. the principal street, Is un.
der water. Most of the stores are flood
ed. Several hundred people have to DO
fed by citizens. ,
A snow slide occurred at the Cleopa-
ira tunnel, near Pitkin. Colo, owned
by John Cudahy of Chicago. by which
four men were buried in their cabin.
Jack Mccarthy succeeded in extricat-
ing himself from the wreck, and, with.
out a shred Of clothing, made his way
to the Tycoon mine. where he procured
assistance.
The eastbound Norfolk & Western
express ran into a washOut near Lowell.
ate, wrecking the engine, baggage car
and two coaches. Tie sleeper escaped,
Engineer Pennington and Fireman
Mayticld Gre both dangerously In
jured, and a brakeman, whose name
was not learned, was fatally injured
Several were slightly injured.
Michael Gleason, aged eighty-five, re
siding at Galena, Ind, was killed un'
der peculiar circumstances. EIe start
ed to transfer a flock Of forty sheer
from one lot to another. and was let
ting down the bars of a fence, when q
ram dashed Mt him and butted him te
the ground. While lying PROSTATE the
other sheep followed and trampled him
to death.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
BOOKS READ AT SING SING.
Charles Reade's Never Too Late to
Mend" Is MOsl Popular.

Charles Reade's Never Too Late to
Mend' Is Most Popular:
Many records have been made among
different people to obtain 1.-The favorite
author" None has revealed more as
tOnishing results than a two months
record kept by the librarian of Sing
Sing prison, says the New York World.
The most popular author in Sing Sing
year in and year out is Charles Reade
and the most popular book is Never
Too Late to Mend" There are about
1900 convicts in the prison, and in two
months 463 of them read this book,
which has been responsible for many
reforms in prisons. Next on the list
comes Put Yourself in His Place."
with 1876 readers. Charles Levers
Charles O'Malley" comes next in ia
vor, with the same authors Tom
Burke of Ours following, which is
pushed hard by Bulwer Lytton's Paul
Clifford" Samuel Lovers RORY
O'More" is next. Dumas Monte Girls
to" Is the most popular book. Dickens
ranks next. with David Copperfeld'
in the lead, and "The Tale of Two Cit
ies," with its wonderful convict pic
lures, third In favor. Conan Doyle,
with Sherlock Holmes, is the first mod
ern author who is at all in favor. Capt.
Kings "Deserter" comes next. Capt.
Marryatt's Mr.. Midshipman Easy
leads the sea tales. Wilkie Collins
"Moonstone" and Blacks "Shandon
Bells" are next in demand. Then come
Lorna Doone" and Vanity Fair" The
only woman's book that is popular is
Uncle Toms Cabin" Love stories
are not wanted.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
DOG TO BE PROUD OF.
Could Swim Under Water and Turn
'~Flip-FlaDs" in the Air.

'Flip-Flaps" in the Air.
It vas a way the trappers had to spin
a yarn or two and get old 81 Limick
started, for he was easily the most
fluent and Imaginative liar that v e
struck a trail, GAYS the Detroit Free
Press. "Speakin' bout dogs" broke
in 81 with his slow look and honest
drawl, Il owned the curi'stest canine
bout ten year back that ever wagged
a tail. He was . ugly little runt an
no good fer bars, but when 1t KUN
ter small game an fish he war p'isen."
What err yer given us bout a dog
fish, Sig"
Lots O. things in the worl you uns
never heerd or. That there dog ulster
run roun tn bottom o. a river same's
'twar dry Ian. l seed him swim fer
half mile onct un'er thssSstcs, an bring
out q fish biger'n hisself. tn critter
could do 'ithout breathin' frum hfteen
ter twenty minutes, 'cordin ter how
he war feelin'. I rugged up . regular
belgian with a blowed up bladder
'tached by a rope. That thar doggone
up lister git inter tn mersheen on his
own hook and go sailin."
But how would he sail lack ag'in
tn win. Si?"
He'd jist haul in tn bladder, jam It
atween his forrard legs fer a life per-
sarver an paddle In. He never turned
pup ulster git inter tn mersheen ON his
tn win war.
But what beat me- bout that dog
wal his 'gility. You uns orter seen
him workin a rabbit in a brush heap.
He'd be a yelpin M side, an the rab-
bit would start fer ter run Dutch 10th
er side. He'd make bout tn orfules'
jump you eve see. When. he'd be half
way over, the rabbit'd whirl. and right
thar in tn air that thar dog'd turn a
rare en- fip-flap an Ian whar he started
at time ter catch tn rabbit. Never
heard O. no other dog could do it."
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Crimes and Crimiaala

In a quarrel at Pinkerton, a village
near South Bend, Ind, Charles Pink
erton stabbed and killed his nephew
and namesake.
At Boston robbers robbed the jewel
ry store of Samuel Caro- of $3.50
worth of gold settings while. the pro-
prietOr was at dinner.
Reports have been received from
New Guinea saying that the natives Of
Manbare have murdered the governor
resident and a number of gold miners.
Sam B. Perryman. a prominent attor-
ney Of Houston, Tex, shot and killed
Archie Overton at Liberty, eight miles
from there. Perryman was seriously
wounded himself.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Black Cats.

Although black cats have come to be
regarded as mascots the, were not
many years ago looked upon witt hor-
o and distrust and Supposed to en-
shrine the forms az familiar demons
patronized by witches. Eveu now many
people find something uatanny about
black cats and refuse to own them.
"Who," 1t Is asked, would trust a
black beetle? Look at his fMrtive, MUIR
derous, round-shouldered deadliness of
shape-a masked, black-cla.l headsman
among insects. Doubly false even to
his own name. he is neither black nor
a beetle but a cockroach."
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
neat. s

.-4.1ying glass that l
aen a holding a proof
eld it up to the sun and
focused on a piece of pa
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
:JAPAN's NEW STAMPS
Arc Of Artistic Design and Beautifully
Engraved.

Are Of Artistic Design and Beautifully
Engraved.
However strongly the adherents OF
the Society for the Suppression OF
Speculative Stamps may feel on the
subject of stamps made for collectors
gum paps," the %out-and-out philatelist
calls them-they will be sorely tempt
ed to invest in the new commemorative
issue OF Japan, says London Sketch.
All the advance notices. of the new
stamps has spoken of item as war
stamps" but this they do not purport
to be. They are avoweily issued In
commenoretion of two p1incely Japs
who died heroic deaths in the fight with
China. To this extent they are wal
stamps and 1t is not improbable that
the Japanese, under the cloak Of
mourning. are INDUCING In a little
tubilation by postage stamps, in which
case the new issue has perhaps been
properly described. The issue consists
OF only tive. values-2 sen and 5 sen;
but of each value there are two types,
In order, We suppose, that the nations
grief shall be bestowed upon the late
Prince Arisugawa and the late Prince
kitashirikawa, with scrupulous i'm.
Partially. AS this is a special and.
strictly speaking, unnecessary issue Of
stamps, which will be on sale at all
Japanese postofices side by side with
the ordinary issue, it is safe to say that
there will be some tall kicking on the
part Of philatelists. If, however. 1t is
Japan's object to make money by the
issue. 1t must be allowed that Japan 10
not grasping. The total face value Of
the set Ia but I'd in English money.
The stamps, of artistic design and
beautifully engraved, form a vivid con-
trast to Japan's previous efforts In
postage-stamp production and afford
ample testimony to the rapid "occident-
alizing" Of the Jap. 1t is stated. by the
way, that the issue will aggregate a.
100000 stamps. which number should
be more than sufficient to go around.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
A Spell.Binder.

when that lawyer of yours cried
while he was talkin' to US we knowed
yer was inherent" said the foreman
of the jury to the man who had just
been acquitted.
Wonderful" said the latter. IF
he'd talked two minutes longer I'd
have offered to restore the stolen
money"
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Square.

you recall the trader with the chin
whiskers? Yes? Well, it turns out
that he was a %swindler."
The other benighted savage shrugged
his shoulders.
II imagined as MUCH" he rejoined.
Indeed, l remarked to my wife when
We had finished him that I didn't feel
as II l had eaten a square meal. There
are instincts that can't be deceived,
you know."-Omaha Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
TROUBLE WITH pApAcoEs.
American TrOOps Are Called Out t.
Assist the Mexicana,

American TrOOD. Are Called Out 1H
Assist the Mexicana.
Denver, March =. - The l'apagOcs
will not down since the killing of
Chief Pedro last week at I'll Plomo.
The Mexican troops have not been
able to do anything in the way of pro-
tecting life or property in the region,
which is Il of the most remote of the
northern part of the republic. AS
many Americans were said to be in
danger that the department of the
Colorado was called upon for help un-
der the treaty. There was 10 delay in
ordering troops across the border.
Since the killing at FL Plomo the Mex
leans tried to round up the Indians
with the result that they had a skirm-
ish wherein two Mexicans We're killed
and four wounded.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Miscellaneous.


Chicago retailers are trying to have
department stores taxed.
The tanners have probably won the
strike at Chicago.
The sale Of the natural gas plant Of
Columbus, Ohio, is off, owing to dis
ageement.
The Missouri legislature has passed
a law which prohibits any person from
so!emnizing marriages who Is not a
citizen Of the United States.
The earnings Of the Canadian ia.
ci1c railroad for the week ended Feb.
81 were $4,000 as against $A,S,OOO
for the same period last year.
The American Exchange National
Bank of New York has deposited
$250,O0O In gold in the subtreasury in
exchange for greenbacks.
Matte A. Stewart, a half-breed
Usage Indian, has filed suit for di-
vorce against James Stewart, an &C
tor, at Guthrie, Okla.
March IL bids will be opened ut the
Santee agency for furnishing and de-
livering large quantities Of seed wheat
oats and potatoes.
A London advice says the Anal
gamated society has ordered a gen.
eral strike on the Northwestern rail.
way system.
The Reading Iron company, which
employees 1900 hands, has posted no
tees notifying their men that they
would have to submit to q reduction in
wages.
The three days celebration Of the
competition Of the Pcarson's endOw-
ment fund of the Colorado college be-
gan at Colorado Springs, Colo, with
appropriate religious services.
At Montreal the court of appeals
has maintained the right of trades
%unionists to strike II the firm they
work for refused to discharge non
union men.
William J. Bryan, wife and daughter
spent Washington's birthday at Salem,
ILL.,, and paid 4 visit to the public
school, which the great free silver nd.
vocate attended In his youth. He nd.
dressed the pupils on Washington.
At a meeting of the trunk line rail
reads called to discuss the Norfolk &
Western rate cutting, 1t was unani.
mously agreed to maintain rates by
competing lines, pending further nego
| tiations.
Application was made at Atlanta
Ca, for a receiver for the Georgii
Security and Banking company, ant
a temporary restraining order to pre-
vent the company from encumberint
or disposing Of its property.
The steel canal boat company. which
was organized for trade between til.
lakes and the coast via the Fri.
canal, has decided to increase its flee
from six to nineteen boats this season
Last season the boats carried stec
rails exclusively, hut this season viii
60 into general traffic..
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Did His Hest.

at does prevent a mans having reg
ular hours to be away from home," re-
marked the prominent citizen. But I
did my best to eat as usual while l was
in New York. l managed to get along
with breakfast, lunch and a light sup
per-"
mo dinner?"
Young man, I read the papers. 1
nave a reputation to sustain and l con-
cluded that a stranger like myself had
better not take any chances on a din
ner."-Washington Star.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
WORK ON A FARM.
Every Department In the Cities 10 Over
nrn-Aod

Every department IN the cities IL Over-
crowded.
An American who had lived in
Mexico for twenty years came back to
this country a few months ago and Wis
tied the places and people that were
once familiar to him. His opinion of
his native land, as reported by the
Mexican correspondent OF the Boston
Herald, is by no mean flattering, says
the Youths Companion. There are
mice people, here yet, but he thinks
that the prevailing tendencies in
American life favor extravaganza, pre-
tension, hurry and worry; and along
with the overdriven man we have the
lazy man also. Just to test this labor
question:" the visitor told the corre-
spondent, II went to plantations in
Virginia and to farms in Ohio, dressed
in my old buds, and asked for work.
There was plenty Of it. The planters
and farmers were all willing to give
me $40 a month and good board and
a clean bed all the year round. I reck-
oned it up that l could saw 500 a year
at that rate and get fat, too. / have
worked hard in my time in rough en-
Payments and have no fear of sweat
ing.
well then, l met some young fell
lows in Washington, loafng about the
barrooms and in front of the hotels,
talking about hard times.
"'Boys,' I said, there is no need of
loaing and grumbling. I'll tell you
where you can get work; go over to
Alexandria, and there's Mr.. So-and-So
wants q man; another wants three, and
still another two. Wages SO a month,
bread, butter and meat. and peaches
and cream in season.
"'You can read Sundays and learn
something. and come out with money
in your pocket at the end of the year.
Why loaf on your friends and talk
politics? Better work.
my reception by these young men
al not enthusiastic. Some said they
had never worked at hard manual la
Dor; others hated farming, it was so
dull in the country. All sorts Of ex-
cuses were given, but not one prompt
ed by good sense and a willingness to
do honest, hard work.
"Now, that's a fine lot of young men
for you! You call them, I suppose, the
hope of America and all that"
The fact is our cities are crowded
with men so that there is a surplus in
every department of labor. The coun.
try has been emptied of the Drawn and
muscle that should be given to agri-
culture. On a farm a man can at least
raise food enough to avoid starvation;
and If he is not able to purchase land
and cannot find occupation in our cities
there are farmers in nearly all parts of
the country who will be glad to en-
ploy him.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
FoR OVER FIFTY YEARS

An OLD AND WELL.TRlED REM
EDY.-Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy-
rup has been used for over fifty years
by millions Of mothers for their
children while testhing, with perfect
success. 1t sooths the child, softens
the gums, alloys all pain, cures wind
collie, and is the best remedy for
DiarrhGa. Is pleasant to the taste.
Sold by Druggists in every part of
the world. Twenty-Five cents a bot
tie. Its value is incalculable. Be
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup, and take no other
kind.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06

tou%rist-printer in their midst who mad
v transgressed veracity! 1t almost
took their breath away.
Il have often been accused OF unre-
liable statements, and perhaps will be
again, but that cuts no ice with me.
This story is Just as true as the COS
pei book, and some Of you know 0
true that is. 1t happened back in 1883.
I was making my way from Denver to
Detroit. l guess You all know where
Detroit is. It's a square town. n
when a fellow drops in there he Is al
ways taken care of by the boys.
Some have been ION the hog" them
selves and know how it is. l guess
that's why they help out the tourists.
But to return to my story. / had
crossed the Mississippi and was doing
the Alton to Chicago when all Of a
sudden the train hands on the freight
gave me the marble heart. They actu-
ally Stacked up the train to throw me
of. When l landed on mother earth
wal many miles from any habitation
and as hungry as a wolf. 1t had just
come daylight and l was delighted to
find myself in close proximity to a
small lake.
II had heard that a bath would re-
lieve hunger. and l was quick to AFFORD
myself of the opportunity now present.
ed. While performing my ablution l
noticed that the lake was we'll stocked
with fish of various kinds. Under any
nkhnn sNvoator Inns tho HI0nNVArV
would have delighted me. Lord. but
the sight of them fish whetted my
hunger; my appetite suddenly in
creased about 100 per cent. AS I
dressed l sank under my own weight as
q result of weakness.
1.-THE first farm house was several
miles away, and l knew 1t was no use
trying to reach it. Besides the women
along that line were not too generous
with handouts. l felt myself growing
weaker and weaker. l knew that my
last hour had come. So I struggled
to my knees and raising my eyes up to
heaven I began to pr
What are you laughing at? Boys.
it's no lie that l am telling you.
"As told you l started to pray to
save my life. and If not that to save
my soul. My whole life came before
mt like a vision. 1t looked pretty
black for me on every side, and that's
no lie. Lord, but how l did pray.
"All of a sudden something hap
pened that almost took my breath
away. and I'll never forget 1t, no, never
till my dying day.
Il heard a splash in the water, six
feet from where I knelt. Something
jumped out of the lake and landed right
in front Of me on the ground. At
first l thought it was his royal nibs'
coming to take me alive. Closer OBJ
servation, however. told mi that 1t
was a member of the finny tribe-as
plump a pike as I yer saw, even in
my fishiest days. Lord, but how I did
make for it. l got it, too.
1t must have weighed at least
four pounds. I wouldn't have
traded it for its weight in gold, no
stree, and that's no lie."
BY this time the features of the lis
teners were pretty thoroughly distort-
ed. The narrator went on:
"Now for a match. / looked in every
pocket. but didn't have one. A baked
llh breakfast began to fade from my
gsassyand I took up the thread Of my
S"iii The III was now burn
My occurred to me
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
An Oleo Victim,

He was a member Of the theatrical
profession. The rich voice and studied
accents with which he addressed the
waiter showed this.
do you realize" he said. that we
are suffering from misplaced energy??"
"No. sir, I did not"
WELL, WI are" was the rejoinder,
with a sigh. "You may remove every
thing except the bread, the coffee aid
the steak. What we are suffering from
now is not enough art in the drama al
not enough realism in the butter.,e
Washington Star.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
HI. Invarla,,le Practice.

"Shall 1 stipulate in this mortgage
that the amount it secures is to be
paid in gold?" asked the clerk.
Certainly" responded the smooth
money lender. Il apply the golden
rule even in money matters"
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
His Pipe.

Miss Towney Tin search of the idyl-
lie, at last meets a real, live shepherd)
Pray, tell me, gentle shepherd, where
is thy pipe?
The Gentle Shepherd-I left it at
come, mum, cause l amt got no 'bac-
cy.--Chips.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
A Badge OF Pletx.

Tom-Is Miss Sanity really as pious
as people think she is?
Ethel-Oh, yes; I'm certain she is.
Tom-What makes you so sure?
Ethel-Why, her clothes fit her hor-
ribly.-New York Times.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Effective.

Maud-"What do you do when a man
persists in asking for a dance and you
don't care to dance with him."
Marie-"Tell him my card is full"
Maud-"But supposing it isn't and
he still persists?"
Marie-"Then I insist that it is and
let him see that it isn't."-Pearson's
Weekly.
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
Ont for Blood.

What in the world are you suing the
street railway company for, Slyly? You
weren't hurt in that smashup."
mo, but I was forced to get of at
the wrong street, wasn't l? I'll show
'em."
The Dickinson press., 1897-03-06
UphOlsterlng Pins.

To prevent upholstering Pins from
coming loose the shank is barbed near
the point and a metal plate is placed
on the under side of the cushion, which
receives the pin point and holds it fast,
he harts being so located as to hold
he curtain tight or loose. as desired.