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The times., 1898-08-11
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Rev DE Hoge,r Conaition

Richmond, Aug. 10.-The condition OF
Rev. DR.. Moses d. Hcge was not so IA
vorable yesterday, though he rallied
considerably later in the afternoon. He
is, as general thing, able 10 sit up for
little while during the day. but the
most hopeful can but admit that he is
very sick man And yet, despite his
years and recent decline in health
DR.. Hose proposes to go to Saratoga or
Bar Harbor this month.
The times., 1898-08-11
On Pa. Ave-, 9l6-9l3 NV

SPECIAL NOTICE|I will sell you life
insurance and guarantee the premiums
to be less every year. The policies will
contain guarantees for their sale FOR
cash. or their pledge for loans. after two
% years. i will negotiate a limited
amount OF insurance, up TO $1,000. on the
lives of persons who have made applica-
tiOn to other companies and been dec -ined.
T. D. HADDAWAY. 5is Fourteenth Street
northwest, or p D. Box 503- apI7-tf
The times., 1898-08-11
AUCTION SALES.
WALTER B. WILLIAMS & Co, Auctioneer,

WALTER B. WILLIAMS & Co, Auctioneers
TRUSTEES SALE of house No 3216 Il nw
Washington D. C.-By virtue cf a deed Of
trust, recorded in Liber 1874, fclio 45I OF the
land records of the District of Columbia We will
sell at public auction in front OF the preueisas
on SATURDAY. AUGUST 90 IssS Il 5 O'CLOCK
p NJ part of lot S.. in square No IZIs in that
part OF the city OF Washington formerly Known
as Georgetown. in the District Of Columbia the
same fronting 20 feet ! inch on the south side OF
n Street. BY a depth Of $50 feet and living next
east Of the east 80 feet II inches OF said lot 50
Terms Of Ssle-Cash- A deposit OF sIGO re-
quired at time Of sale. Conveyancing stamps
and recording at cost OF purchaser
The times., 1898-08-11
Fell to His Death

New York, Aug. 1O.-A careless step
caused the death today of Norris McIvan.
nine-year-old boy, of No. 500 East
Eighty-second Street. He was playing on
the roof of his home and tumbled down
the airshaft, falling five stories into the
basement He died instantly.
The times., 1898-08-11
BACK IN PORT.
Shafter's Cable Ship Is Now Mt Quar-
nntine

antine.
New York, Aug. 10.-The Norwegian
steamship Adria arrived at quarantine to-
day The Adria has been engaged in ca
bic work with Gen. Skaters army near
Santiago. Her force of men consisted of
two sergeants and ten men of the United
States Signal Corps. They also carried
large supplies for the signal corps-wire.
field outfits, telephones, etc
The Adria was sent north to be turned
over TO her agents, as her government
service has expired
The times., 1898-08-11

Your credit is good at Lansburgh's Furni.
ture House. 18th and sts. oc3-tf
The times., 1898-08-11
CHARGES MODERATE, MEDICINES INCLUDED

Daily Office Hours-10 a. m. to p. m. Mon-
day, Wednesday. Thursday, and Saturday, 10
5 p. M Sunday, 10 to IL m.
CONSULTATION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
The times., 1898-08-11

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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
The Oldest Patent.

The question as to the holder of the
oldest patent in this country has brought
out from the heirs of Joseph Jencks
some additional facts which tend to
show that he was the first inventor in
'thisecountry. Patents granted from the
sovereign power of England for land,
water and other privileges were not un-
common in early colonial times. Joseph
,Jencks of Lynn. Mass, a number Of
years previous to receiving patent for
AN invention of scythe had been
granted one for San application of Wa
ter ,power;to mills" Biographical notes
state that Mr.. Jencks introduced to the
Massachusetts colony the idea Of patent
ing inventions, and that he might pro-
teot and introduce his ideas seems to
haze sheen reason for coming to the
new country. The grass scythe patented
in 1863 Was perhaps the most valuable
Of his inventions. The Improvement
ovar the sold English scythe, with its
short, thick blade, like a bush scythe,
consisted in lengthening the blade,
making it thinner: and welding square
bar at ,the back and strengthening it.
Today this ssoythe, practically unchang-
ed, lie used in Europe and America. The
patent was withheld from Mr.. Jencks
for nine years, as it was thought to be
too valuable to be monopolized.- Hart
ford Courant.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28

A characteristic story of General Scott
is told in connection with the sword
presented to him by the state of Louis
lana, through the legislature, at the
close of the Mexican war. H.
He was aocosted one day by a man
who said: General Scott, I had the
honor Of doing most of the work on the
sword presented to you by the state of
Louisiana. should like to ask it. it
was just as you would have chosen"
''It's very fine sword, sir, very
fine sword indeed - said the general.
II am proud to have it. There is only
one thing I should have preferred differ
'ent. The inscription should have been
on the blade, sir. The scabbard may be
taken from us, but the sword, never -
= The sword cost about $500, the prin-
cipal expense being in the scabbard,
which was richly chased and ornament.
ed. -Exchange. ~4, .@a
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
.BURNE-J ZONES.

ROssett1's Influence In Causing the
Artist to Hyphenate His Name.
1t may or may not be true that it was
Rossetti who urged Burne-Jones, when
at the outset of his career, to connect
with a hyphen 'Burne'' and 'Jones, -
says William Sharp in The Atlantic.
Jones' is nobody" Rossetti would
declare, "only particle of vast null
tiple! But Burne-J ones-that is unmis-
takable!"
It was an amusing trait in Rossetti
that he was wont to designate the good
work of this or that friend as the work
.of-and he would mention the most
distinctive name or part name of the
person concerned. Thus he would say,
S'Yes, that is Burned ones, but this,
this here, you know, is only JONES'" or
""That now is the real Holman Hunt,
but this here is only Hunt" or, "You
can hear Tennyson in that, but Alfred
wrote the other lines''
I recall two amusing instances where
Burne-JOnes more or less unconsciously
adopted the same method. He was asked
once&if he thought William Bell Scott
more eminent as a poet or as an artist.
II never thought very highly Of Bell, y
he replied. Then, seeing look Of sur
prise, added, with a humorous twinkle,
81 liked, old Bell Scott-old Scotus, as
we always called immensely, and
I think William Bell Scott wrote some
very fine verse, but always thought it
was a pity that Bell took to painting!'
The other instance occurred when
some one remarked to him that ttPar-
nell was only an agitator. "Charles
Stewart Parnell,'' he replied with en-
phasis, twas one Of the greatest public
men of oursday and far and away the
ablest Irish leader" 'But Parnell, -
etc., resumed the objector, to be again
corrected by the other disputant,
"Charles Stewart Parnell,'' etc.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
MAKING WOOD. ALCOHOL.
The Deadly Substance That Thirsty
TOpers Sometimes Drink

The Deadly Substance That Thirsty
Topers Sometimes Drink.
It's necessary first to convert wood
into liquid. The strongest hydraulic
pressure would not squeeze one-haf Of
per cent Of the moisture from dry
wood, but by putting the same material
into an iron retort and converting it
into charcoal by means of heat the gases
and smoke, to the extent of fully IS per
cent Of the weight Of the wood, may be
condensed into pyroligneous acid, from
which are obtained wood alcohol, acetate
of lime and wood tars A cord Of wood
weighing 4, 900 pounds produces about
2, $50 pounds Of pyroligneous acid and
700 pounds Of charcoal. The pyroligne-
GUS acid from one cord of wood pro-
duces gallons of 80 per cent crude
wood alcohol, 200 pounds of. acetate Of
lime and about IS gallons Of tar, besides
95 bushels Of charcoal. After the pyro-
igneous acid is neutralized with lime
the wood alcohol is distilled off, the
lime holding the acetic acid in solution.
After the separation Of the wood spirit
the remaining liquid is boiled down in
pans to sugar, which is dried, and be-
comes the acetate of lime Of commerce.
Acetate of lime is used for making acetio
acid. S.> -,
Fully three-f1fths of all the wood al
cohol and acetate Of lime produced in
the world are made in the United States.
Over $4,000 acres of forest per year are
cleared in the United States Wood al
cohol affords a perfect substitute for
grain alcohol for manufacturing and
mechanical purposes, and at less than
one third the cost. It is used principally
as solvent in the making of shellac
varnish and in making celluloid and
Photographic paper. It makes beautiful
dye tints, is antiseptic and is used fo1
liniments and for skin rubbing in bath
houses. Wine and Spirit Gazette.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28

There are said to be fewer suicides
among miners than among any other
class Of Workmen.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
LOCATING A COUPLET,

A Familiar Quotation Ascribed to
Butler Is Placed.
Few popular quotations have more
engaged the pens Of critics than the fol
lowing:
For he that fights and runs away
Will live to fight another day.
These lines are almost universally
supposed to form part of ''Hudibras, -
and SO confident have even scholars been
on the subject that in 1884 wager was
made at Bootle of 30 to / that they
were to be found in that inimitable
poem. Dodsley was referred to as the
arbiter, when he ridiculed the idea oil
consulting him on the subject, saying,
EVERY fool knows they are in 'Hudi-
bras. >"
George Selwyn, who was present,
said to Dodsley, ''Pray, sir, will you be
good enough, then. to inform an old fool,
who is at the same time your wise
worship's very humble servant, in what
canto they are to be found?'
Dodsley took down the volume, but
he could not find the passage. The next
day came, with no better success, and
the sage bibliophile was obliged to con.
fess 'that man might be ignorant Of
the author of this we'll known couplet
without being absolutely FOOL But.
Ter has indeed two or three passages
somewhat similar. The one that comes
nearest is the following, in "Hudibras, u
book 8, canto 8, verse 243:
For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
The fact, however, is that the couplet,
thus enormously ascribed to the autho,
Of "Hudibras,' occurs in small vol
ume Of miscellaneous poems by Sir John
Mennes, written in the reign of Charles
u.-Exchange.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
a Popular DelusiOn.

Ibid you read this, dear?" said Mrs.
Grigsby to Orlando the other night.
cts strange case. A harmless lunatic
imagines that he's a grain of corn and
will not go into the yard lest chicken
eat him. Isn't it an odd delusion?'.
"Oh, the worlds full of such delu-
sions, dear!" said Grigsby. II know a
harmless lunatie who seems to imagine
chat she's a piece of cheese, and she
will fly FROM room when a mouse en-
tiers it for fear the little creature will
,devour her. '-London Tit-Bits.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
NATURES EPITAPH.

Who knows where the graveyard -
Where the fox and the eagle lief
Who has seen the obsequies &
OF the red deer when they die?
With death they steal away
Out of the sight of the sun, -
Out Of the sight of the living; they
Pay the debt and are done. l.: +
No marble marks the place; GA
The common forest brown
Covers them over with Quaker grace
Just where they laid them down.
But few years, if you see
= In summer a deeper green
Here and there, it is like to be
The spot where their bones have been.
Thus, not more, to the poor dead year.
No grave nor ghostly stone, 10
But greener life and a warmer cheer
Be the only sign that he's gone. IT..
,I@..rs Christian Register.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
=. Incident OF Trolley Travel.

Incident Of Trolley Travel.
-. ''What the dash are you here for?''
said an angry passenger, stepping down
slowly from the footboard Of trolley
car. He thought the conductor should
have looked out for him and stopped the
car where he wanted to get off, Q block
back. ., ~. *,sse s.
I'll show you what I'm here for, .
said the conductor, reaching for the
belloord Cling, tingD as he spoke, and
Zip, zip, zip, !" came the sound q
the motorman's lever turning In the
notches. and
.Bz-z-zz-zz-zz I" sang the trolley,
and before he knew il the passenger
found himself standing alone in thu
middle-of the road. New York Sun.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
Method.

:. 70, = said Senator Sorghum, with
emphasis, 81 can't talk for publ ation
today. =
But, senator, in all the years Of our
acquaintance this is the first time you
ever declined to let me quote you. = 81
II don't want you not to quote me.
/ want yon to say I.decline to be inter
viewed. This is confid Dental. We con.
cluded it's time for me TO act as if I'd
got to be so important that Idasn' talk
for. fear Of giving something bigaWay. z
flashing ton Star.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28

HeI was reading somewhere the
other day that no woman should ever
marry genius
Oh, vel dom let that worry
you. Even i the eiirls were disposed to
heed such advice the bars would still Be
down for you. C,hicago. News
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
New Characterization.

Some great man was taking a party
sof friends over his newly built house.
One of the party would not admire it
sand complained that there were too
many anaohronisms. "Oh," said a lady
who was noted for her toadyism and
who had been unstinted in her admira-
tiQn, ''don't you like anachronisms?
think they are such beautiful orna-
men@. "-Spectator. . :s5..:
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28

'Hhe Professors Connnllrum.
Professor, = they said, "giye as 9
deep metaphysical conundrum. "
- Well, = he said after moments
4hough, when is which 1what'?''
They gave it up.
When it is neither, y explained the
professor. ss.
And when they had studied it ont
they understood. ~ chicago Tribune.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-28
Painful Operation.

sssS ks9101ul Oper0t1OM.
Is that fellow really 9 painless dem
fist?
4t Almost. The only pain I suffered
was when he extracted his fees. In
dianapolis Journal
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
ChilcOttt's Founder.

Up in Williams county, between where
the Upper Knife aud White Earth rivers
join the Missouri, aourishing settlement
j now clusters around the village Chilcot.
The settlement was named after breezy
Ben Chilcot, woodward man who f1our-
ished there in the early seventies. ben
was good natured little fellow, and had
come up from the neighborhood around
the town of Vicksburg, lower Mississippi,
as some kind of a civil war victim. He
was prodigious builder of air castles
with vaporous surroundings. The pima
Gle Of his ambition WAS to run steam
boat up the river-.own it himseif-.buy
all the fuel wood hawk could draw to
bank; anticipate the London fur sales
and and give the trapper good margin
for his peltries and bring the fur manu-
factur to him. One day he announced to
his self-invited guests--who were nuIher-
Gus at all times within his stockade-that
he had just received letter from Mlssis-
sippi that he had been left fortune and
would go down the river at once and lay
claim to 1t. Said his first purchase would
be steamboat, aud then his first
thoughts-the Upper Missouri wood
hawk. But the woodmen's eyes became
dimmed and strained in deferred sights
and delayed hopes. The boat came not
NJ ither has Benjamin been heard from
byhis Upper Missouri friends.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Finds Bad Conditions.

Bismarck Tribune: DR.. A. A. Flatin of
State Board of Health has made trip
through Emmons, Mercer aud Logan
counties this winter with view of check
ing if possible, the ravages of scarlet
fever. diphthe-ia aud other contagious
diseases which have for long tine been
prevalent among the Russian settlers Of
those counties.
Since his first visit there is very little
improvement noticeable. The people
stlll continne to live in their adobe houses.
built of home made brick, plastered with
mixed mud and manure, and it is a great
wonder that any of the settlers are hardly
enough to live through the experiences to
which they subject themselves Their
living rooms in many casee, open directly
into adjoining stables which are under
the same roof. In the winter time the
door between the two is left open that the
family may get some of the surplus hea:
given off by the animals. The buildings
are very tight and the one or two small
windows are kept closely covered, that
no heat may be wasted. In this sort OF
building families of to-, or fifteen persons
frequently live and men women and child.
rem and cattle breathe the same air over
and over again until it becomes poisoned
with foul gases. Diphtherla, scarlet fever
measles and other contagious diseases are
fearfully prevalent, and death rate is enor
| nous.
The people absolutely refuse to employ
physicians or to use medicines. They are
blind fatalists, having brought with then
across the ocean the beliefs and superstl
tlous Of their race.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
At His Same Old Tricks.

Williams County Press, Jun. 18th. The
suit against F. W. Hannah to collect four
notes for J75 each given to j. 8. Murphy
in 1898, was dismissed on motion of the
plaintiff, the Racine Wagon Company.
who had receivsd them as collateral for Il
shipment of hnggies which that company
sold to Marphy several years ago. Not
having been paid for the buggies, the
Racine company enceavored to realize on
it's security. Mr.. Hannah produced re-
ceipts showing that the notes had been
paid in May. 1895, at the Murphy ranch
ON White Earth Mr.. Hannah alleged
that when he paid the notes Mr.. s,
Mnrdhy had said that the notes were in
Minot, tut he would Immediately send
them up. They we're never sent. 1t is
alledyed that in a tit of absent minded
ness Mr.. Murphy endorsed the notes and
turned them over to 9he Racine company
as colateral for shipment of buggies.
The Rscine company also has note of a
White Earth man named Williams, given
to j. S. Murphy for horses, which Williams
claims has been paid. 1t was received in
the same batch with the Hannah notes.
Not having been paid for the buggies
the wagon company is looking up the col
lateral received from the silver tounged
statesmen.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Complicated Case.

Dickinson Press: Justice Folsom had
a peculiar case for hearing this week,
that of Sam Payne VS.. Mrs. S. v, Smith.
The parties live in the northern part OF
Stark county, 100 miles from Dickinson.
Payne claims to have bought some five or
six head of cattle from Mrs. Smith
taking bill of sale. Mrs. Smith refused
to give possession of the stock to Payne,
claiming that he never gave her any
money and that the bill of sale was given
him with the distinct understanding that
he should never take tn stock from her,
but simply to keep her husband from dis
posing of the same and sqandering the
proceeds. After two dvys' session the
hearing was postponed until February 9TH,
pear.
After copying the above, the Williams
County Press adds the following:
The parties referred to in the above
paragraph are we'll known here. living on
on tho south side of the Missouri opposite
Grinnell. Payne is the partner of Sandy
Hart. The husband of Mrs. Smith re
ferred to, is James A. Smith, a small
ranchman who owned few cattle and
worked for others when opportunity pre-
sen ted itself. He bore the reputation Of
sober and industrious man. Last fall
he went to the eastern part of the State
to work during threshipg. the wife and
three children remaining. When he re-
turned he found that his wife he'd dis
posed of the cattle, which she had claimed
to own, and had moved into another cou-
lee, where she was keeping house for a
facinating sheep herder who had long
been "friend Of the family" MIR. Smith
took the two older girls, aged eleven and
seven years. aud went over to Dickinson
to live, leaving his wife, who is comely
young woman much admired by neigh
boring ranchers and cowboys.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Wells County Tax Case.

A Bismarck special to the Minneapolis
Journal of Jan, 3lst, says: Ths Supreme
court has handed down decision in the
Wells county vs.. the Northern Pacific
Railroad company for delinquent tuxes
on lands of the company amounting to
$4,000, and affirms the decision of the
lower courts, and the legality of taxes on
all the lands except place lands for the
years 1887 and 1888. The matter is of
great Importance. ma other counties will
bring suit under the decision. Attorney
j. E. Robinson, of Fargo, represents Wells
county, and by agreement with commits
sioners is to get half the total amount
collected, which will make his fee some
thing like $4,000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

j. j. Robinson's teams passed below
Tuesday with several loads of seed wheat
for the Bismarck penitentiary farm. Mr..
Robinson's Coal Harbor farm is one Of
the most justly celeb rated tracts of cult.
waited land on the Missouri slope. During
the past season Mr.. Robinson had several
hundred acres in wheat which averaged
over 20 bushels to the acre. Besides his
fields are famed as absolutely free of the
presence of yellow mustard or noxoue
weeds, and that is one of the reasons that
his wheat is in great demand for seed.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

The oft repeated saying that
"bad luck like crows never
comes singly" could hardly
have been brought more force
ably to mind than when Her
man Lund lay helplessly on his
cot at the Merchants hotel We'd
nesday night. Some eighteen
months ago the two families
of Lunds and Olsons' blood
relatives and near neighbors,
of Walworth county, S. d.,
who had been having many
backsets through drouth and
Russian cactus, concluded to
try their fortunes in the glass
lands of North Dakota. They
came up to Snake creek range
and located. They had a good
bunch of range stock, wagons
and teams. They pitched in
with will and builded houses
and stables and put up hun
dreds of tons of good hay. Then
some of the married members
went after their families. On
their return here to Washburn
with their wives and babes
they here learned that their
houses, barns and hay had all
been licked up by great prair-
lie fire-no homes for them
selves-1lo shelter,hay or range
feed for their stock and the
hardest of hard winters was
upon them. The elder Oleson
in returning southwark sick
end and died from exposure
One of the Lunds in attempt.
ing to join the brothers fell and
broke his arm and shoulder
blade. Only two weeks ago
the surviving Olsen suffered q
like mishap. And now the
fate the younger. Lund caps
the series Of these catastro.
phies.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

We are sorry that Mr.. Hauge
berg did not see fit to answer,
over his own signiture, the
charges against his official rec
ord as county treasurer, raised
by the Steele Ozone. AS he
has dragged two State officers
into the 1nux he should at least
be fair with them. The people
are anxious to hear from Theo-
dore.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

Williams County Press: The last issue
Of the Press went rs far rs Hufiund post
office last Saturday morning, but instead
of beng sent on with the rest of the mail
was held there until Thursday.
The cory of that issue of tho Press
did not reach the LaADER offics at all.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

The Merchants Hotel management, with
a force of men commenced putting up
the summer ice supply, Wednesday morn
ing. The Missouri's ice this season, il
clear of sand, no soft snow seams running
through it ard about 26 inches in thick.
ness. Eric Anderson is bossing she job.