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me. l had no reference to the Impact.
thought discerned in you The quail
ties I desired in my Heir. am now
convinced, my dear Percival, that my
Observation was correct"
Saying which the Benefcent Stranger
Clapped Percival upon the back in an
affectionate Manner and received with
smiling countenance the fervid Ex-
pressions of Gratitude to which the
Youth gave Utterance. AS they pro-
ceeded Master Stackedhand spoke with
Gravity concerning the Seductions of
the Town, and warmly denounced the
laxity of its Civic Officers, who, he said,
permitted the Promptings of Ambition
and Cupidity to stifle within their
Breasts the consciousness of their ga
cred Obligations to the Community. He
Counseled Percival how he should
avoid the Deceitful Practices of Evil
Minded Persons. ''And yet" he con-
tinued, II must warn you that being of
a trustful Disposition am impatient of
that Base Vice of Suspicion, which is
incompatible with either Generosity or
Benevolence. My experience of Man
kind has too often discovered an un-
worthy incredibly, arguing in those
who showed an inclination to withhold
Confidence consciousness of unworthy
Motives within themselves"
Conversing thus unpleasantly and in
structively Percival and Master Stacked
hand walked toward the lake front to
view the effects of an Explosion, which,
Master Stackedhand said, had lately &C.
Cured IN that vicinity, the coatempla-
ton of which could not fail to be Edi-
flying. On their way they stopped at
place of Public Entertainment for some
temperate Refreshment.
'Iobserve," said Stackedhand, smiling
with Approval, "that you are a Youth
of discrimination. Water is indeed an
Element indispensable to the refresh
ment of Humanity. Clear, sparkling
and innocuous, there is nothing that APP
proaches it's Excellence for sprinkling
the streets of this Town. myself use
it vigorously in my morning Bath, and
you shall presently see in how admir-
able Manner it supports the Argosies
" SS tAoI Ply OSlNSSA ASA 0AA>A
Buffalo and other Points. It is indeed
pleasing to philosophical Mind to
dwell upon the manifold purposes to
which it may be applied, but as sub
sequent inhibition to the distilled
juices of the graminaceous Product
which the Tapster has set before us, it
is, it must be confessed, Superfuous. l
beg that you will, at my Expense, allow
our Friend to refill your Glass;
1T is my Custom" said Percival, "but
I am assured that my Fathers Friend
would not counsel me to Excess, and in
truth the Beverage has an agreeable
Twang."
"And now," said Master Stackedhand,
laughing merrily, II greatly desire that
you should afford me proofs that you
credit my Protestations of Esteem.
IT'S indeed from no doubt that Enter
tain of your Reliance upon my Integ-
rity, but as a matter of Form and Cere-
mony, which have always purposed to
impose upon the person should select
as my Heir. have here, as you Per-
ceive, large sum of Money, and pro-
pose that you shall intrust me with
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more closely at you seem to recog-
nize the features of one for whom en-
tertained feeling of Great Regard
Can it be that you are the son of my
worthy old Friend and Benefactor?"
II am indeed the son of Josiah Bean
hill, of Daleville," the ingenious youth
replied.
At this disclosure the Citizen, who
said that he was called Samuel Stacked
hand, professed that he was transported
with Pleasure and informed Percival
that during his sojourn in the Town it
would afford him uncommon gratifica-
ton to be of service. Il am" he said,
"a man of Substance and my Wealth oc-
casions me much Uneasiness. 1 have
long sought some deserving person up
on whom I could bestow my riches, re-
serving only modest competence,
which with Frugality, might sustain
the Necessities Of my declining Years.
am assured that you are Temperate,
Prudent, Grateful and Confding, for
these virtues my old Friend Beanhill
possessed most notably. was struck
with you at the first
'sNay, dear sir" said Percival. "'Twas
pure accident, as have said"
II mear.," explained Master Stacked
hand, shat Jour Demeanor impressed
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fng is that of an Husbandman. am
enabled to predict this with the more
Assurance as you have neglected to re-
move from your hair the Seed, fallen
from the last wainload of Hay that you
Pitched. Is it not ungrateful in you to
Close the Eyes wherewith Heaven has
blessed you as you walk abroad? Con-
slider, I beg, whether the Corns of your
Fellow Beings are not worthy of your
b Respect and whether you do not merit
!. Chastisement at my Hands,
I This address the Citizen delivered
with every mark of the liveliest Dis
pleasure, but he appeared incapable of
prosecuting his implied threat of Vio-
lence, as hewas compelled to stand up
on one Foot, while henursed in his hands
the Other upon which Percival had
stepped.
"Sir," said Percival, II pray you to be-
ieve it was with no malicious Purpose
that trod upon your Toe, and it grieves
me out of measure that I Should have
caused you Pain. Being newly come
from an inconsiderable Hamlet, I was in
truth amazed at the tallness of the
structures which adorn this Thorough
fare and looked rather at their nine
tenth stories than upon my path, rot
considering those whom might mad
vertently Encounter
II am persuaded that you intended no
Incivility,'' said the Citizen, abatlng as
he spoke the Resentment expressed in
his countenance "And now that look
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Early Fro.ts XIII insects.

Early and late frosts are disliked by
farmers, but such frosts do more harm
to insects than the severe cold of win
ter, as they catch many insects out of
ground or just below the surface. 1t has
been noticed that when the winters are
severely cold, and the ground remains
frozen until well into spring, insects
are more numerous the following sum-
mer than when the winters are mild.
1t is the alternate freezing and thawing
that does the damage to insects, es-
pecially when there is a warm rain
followed by sudden freezing of the
ground below the surface.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Stomach Worms in Sheen,

Stomach worms in sheep have given
unusual trouble among the tiocks of
Ohio this year, says a bulletin of the
Ohio experiment station at Wooster.
The treatment advised is two teaspoon
fuls of common gasoline with four
ounces of sweet milk, well shaken to-
gether to form an emulsion. Mix the
dose for each lamb separately and give
three doses, each "a hours apart. These
worms may be found in the fourth
stomach in writhing mass. They are
white, taread like and three-fourths
inches long.-Farm and Home.
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GRADUAL PROGRESS.
The Boy Had Situation and the En-.
Their Was Going to Be an
Agriculturist.

Flows your boy doing,?" inquired the
man whose business takes him occasionally
to rural community where he knows all
the inhabitants.
Fine"
elias good job, has he?"
Gle amt got a job no more. He's got
situation. He started in with a job, where
he didn't get nothin' but wages-four dol
lars week. But he done SO good that they
boosted him right along, SO that now he's
gettin' ten dollars week. That there amt
wages. That's salary"
"How are your own affairs prospering"
"First rate"
'Still pursuing your old business?"
mo. I'm farmer now"
"Why, isn't that what you always were"
s'No, Stree. don't fool myself with no
aatterin' notions. Up to little while ago,
when the wave of prosperity struck, I
wasn't nothin' but common cracker. But
I've bought an extra piece of ground an
lifted couple of mortgages, an now I'm
farmer. Eff the luck holds out III have
some money in the bank in a few years.
Then I'm goin' to buy three-minute boss
and a blackboard and NOV the grass in front
Of the house and be an agriculturalist. -
WASHINGTON Star
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
THE ORIGINAL RIP HIMSELF.
One Of Joe Jefrerson's Stories of
His Experience i'm Cats
kill, N. Y.

There is junction near Bucyrus, O..
which is the worst in the country. At
least that is the verdict returned by
Joseph Jefferson, actor, and Gus Will
liams, entertainer, who happened to
meet there last season. And, in or
der to pass away the time between
trains, Mr. Jefferson told Mr.. Williams
a personal experience, which Gus re-
peats in his unctuous way.
Some time ago, it appears, Mr.. JET
ferson received large certainty" for
single performance of Grip Van
Wrinkle" at Catskill, N. Y, by the Wash
ington Irving society, then meeting
there. The idea was to have lrving's
Rip appear on his native heath on the
evening succeeding the business meet
ing of the society.
Well, the comedian arrived there
with the members of his company
about five o'clock in the afternoon of
the day and repaired to the hotel for
dinner. Seated in the crowded dining
room with the swell Knickerbockers, he
heard conversation between two of
the colored walters just behind his
chair.
'Wot's all dis crowd here foh?" one
asked of the other. optical meetin'?''
"Naw," was the reply, lit am meetia'
OBJ de Henry Irving sassicty."
"Who's Henry Irving?"
'De man who wrote rip Van
Winkle.'"
''An' who's Rip Van Winkle?"
"A man who lived in dis yere town
once"
II guess not. I've bin here Is yeahs
an I knew everyone in dis yere town.
Nevah knew no Rip Van Wrinkle"
cav, dis man lived heah befo' yo'
wuz born. He wuz Dutchman. One
night he went up in de mountains back
yondah an met some spooks. He got
drunk wild dem an fell asleep, an he
slep' fer 20 years. Den he woke up an
came right down here to dis village,
right where dis hotel am"
"Slep' for 20 yeahs!" exclaimed the
colored man. "You don't b'leeve dat
yarn, does yo'?"
"Hesh," whispered the second wait
er, jerking his thumb toward Mr.. JET
ferson. ''Dere's de man now, eatin' his
dinnah. "-Chicago Chronicle.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
A MONUMENT ON THE ALPS.
The Statue of the Madonna of the
Snow on the Lofty Summit
of ROcciamelOne.

On the very top of the eternally snow
covered Rocciamelone, peak of the
Alps 11,511 feet above the sea level, has
just been raised the highest monument
in the world. 1t is a colossal statue of
the Virgin-the Madonna of the Snow,
as it is called-cast in bronze, and
weighing about 1,5oo pounds. 1t was
cast in eight pieces, and there being no
road on the mountain, only paths and
gullies formed by running water, the
different parts were carried by 40 AL
pine soldiers and 20 sapeurs, who per-
formed miracles of strength. The
funds for the statue were raised by a
collection among the children of Italy,
the first to sign being those of the duke
of Genoa, brother of the queen, and the
young Count Salemi, stepbrother of the
much talked of duke of the Abruzzi
The subscribers amounted to over $780,
900, many of whom gave only a penny
Leo XIII. composed the Latin inscrip-
ton, which runs literally as follows:
Spirit Mother of God,
Purer than the snow, Mary,
Turn thy benevolent look on thy Susa,
Protect the Italian frontier,
Celestial Patron!
The Rocciamelone, which is also
called the Sentinel of Italy," stands
above the town of Susa, and from it's
summit one enjoys one of the finest
panoramas in the Alps. One sees below
the valley of the River Dora from the
Monginevra to the hills above Turin.
and on the left the Mont Gents and the
confines of France. The king and queen
have sent two large medallions with
their heads on them in relief, to orna-
ment the pedestal, and intended TO be
present at the unwilling of the really
beautiful statue, but We're prevented.
Any way, we have seen once more the
king of Italy, the ''usurper," and the
pope, the ''deposed," uniting in COM
mon cause.-Rome Cor. Pail Mall Ga
setts.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Wood Ashes for Apple Trees.

In some recent tests it was found
that the foliage was greatly improved
in sections of orchards treated with
wood ashes, and that the trees were
freer from disease. The color of the
fruit was also improved in some sea-
sons and with some varieties, but dur
ing the seasons which favored the per-
feet development of the fruit the color
was not heightened. Apparently the
use of ashes has tendency to hasten
the perfect development of the fruit.
Some seasons this ripening process was
carried so far where ashes were used
that the apples did not keep as well as
on portions untreated. - Prairie
Farmer.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
ELECTRICITY IN CAPSULES.
The Wonderful Power Is Now Done
Up In Small Parcels for
Various Uses.

Electricity in capsules is the latest
thing in New York. A company has
been formed with $4,000, 900 capital to
supply power in ten or twelve-grain
capsules, which can be bought by the
box and carried around in the vest
pocket. One of these capsules will fur
nish electricity enough to keep light
burning all night. The assertion is
made by representative of the COM
psny that the light can be furnished at
less than one-fifth of a mill per lamp
Per hour for each 16-candle incandes-
cent globe. The company intends to
sell power at ten cents an hour for one
full-horse power. The capsules can be
used for propelling automobiles, and it
is said that they will take up so little
room and weigh so little that the weight
of automobiles will be reduced mate
rally.
A battery of the new power, weigh
ing only 300 pounds, can run an automo-
bile four or five times as long and as
far as the largest batteries now in use,
which weigh 1900 or 5000 pounds. If
all this can really be done it will revo-
lutionize the automobile industry and
remove one of the strongest objections
to it's use-its great weight. Auto
mobiles as at present made weigh 1900
pounds and upward, the heavy burden
they are obliged to carry for propulsion
making it imperatively necessary to
construct the carriages on the strongest
and heaviest scale. When one can buy
electricity in the same shape as box
of quinine pills it will be possible to
use it for many purposes for which it
is unavailable at present. The presi-
dent of the company, John Post, who is
the discoverer of the new power, says
it can be used in the most remote and
isolated places as easily as in New York
city, and that farmer can employ it
to heat and light his house, to draw wa
ter, to make butter, saw wood, run a
threshing machine, drive fans and keep
out flies. If it can do all this men will
no more think of being without cap
sules than going downtown without
change in their pockets.-N. Y. Cor.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
HANDY CIDER PRESS.
To Make One Requires Neither Much
Money Nor an Abundance
of Ingenuity.

To make cider press take a plank 2
by IL inches by ~ feet; soft wood will
10, but hard is better. Saw two pieces
four feet long and two pieces two feet;
cut again in each of the long pieces,
four inches from the end and one-half
inch deep and as wide as the thickness
of the short pieces; Then spike the four
together as illustrated. Get carpen-
ter's iron bench screw at a cost of about
a dollar, which does for the screw. For
the cheese crib, get two hoops made of
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Lime, Salt and Plaster.

The principal materials used as slim
ulant fertilizers are lime, salt and plas-
ter. The real object in lining soils is
to correct some physical condition.
If land is too heavy, dose of about 40
bushels per acre of Stacked lime will
Tighten it. If too light, similar appii-
cation tends to make it more compact.
# sour, as result of turning under
green crops, or from other causes, the
action of the air Stacked lime will be
to sweeten the soil. A dose of lime
about once in every five or six years
will be sufficient.-Farmers' Review.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
NOVEL CATTLE CRIB.

greatly needed in many cases., while
the partition in front is hinged at the
bottom and falls out to give space for
hay, ensilage, etc., which is fed to the
stock. If feed boxes are required, they
can be made of a shape to set handily
in the space before the cattle. At night
the partition is shut up, forcing the cat
tie to step back to the rear of their
platform, which insures clean bed for
them for the night. In many old barns
that are crowded for room this device
will be found very advantageous, a
narrow "tie-up" being a source of
great inconvenience in doing the work,
and serious impeachment as well to
clearly carrying on of dairy operations,
as with the narrow tie-up it is very
difficult to keep the cows clean.-N. Y.
Tribune
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
ROpiness and It's Cause.

This peculiar condition of milk or
cream is due to number of micro or
ganisms which often come onto dairy
farm quite suddenly. We can assign
no plausible cause for their appearance,
and while ropy, stringy or Shiny milk
impresses us by its unwholesome ap-
pearance, it is perfectly harmless.-Ir.
F. E. Engelhardt
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Conventional Confusion.

1T is curious" remarked the Lay Fig.
ure, ''that people think the dumdum bullet
"Not at all,' rejoined the Unconscious
1mbecile. "You see, Immediately the dunn.
dunn bullet enters a body it mushrooms.
Now. most people don't know the differ.
and a toadstool is poisonous. Curious?
Why, it's the most natural thing in the
world for people to think that"
OF the others, not one forgot that he was
q gentleman.-Detroit Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
THE TEST THAT FAILED
Eeing q Modern Tale Retold in
Ancient Form.
By Kenneth F. Harris.
BY Kenneth F. Harris


TT CHANGED that Youth of Parts,
whose upbringing had been Remote
from Urban scenes, while walking along
State street and meditating upon the
prodigious size of the Edifices that met
his Eyes, ran into person whose brisk
and confident manner, no less than the
fashion of his vivacious Garments pro-
claimed him one well wonted to the
Town.
Being thus rudely Assailed, this per-
son swore roundly. II perceive" he
said to the Youth, who was named
Percival, shat you are one whose Call
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23

The cut shows small device for
economizing room in the cattle crib,
while still giving all the room needed
The stanchions are brought almost to
the edge of the feeding floor (giving
more width in the tie-up, which is
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Multiule Stars.

Multiple stars not distinguishable
through the telescope are found by the
spectrcscope through their motion to
and from the earth. 1t is explained
that: when one star begins to ap-
proach and the other to recede from US
the lines in the spectrum of the ap-
preaching star will be displaced toward
the violet end, while those of the reced-
ing star will be displaced toward the
red end" In addition to its discovery
that the north star is a triplet, the Lick
Observatory has found 10 other multiple
stars by means of spectroscope at
tached to its 36-inch refractor.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
The FREIGHT TRAIN OF LIFE.

Men are like train Of cars
That rumble on the track
With many curves and many jars,
And many drawing back.
Some are the engines that must pull
Upon the heavy grade,
And some are empty, some are full
Each for its uses made.
Some seem to slide along the way,
Withnever a squeak or jolt.
And some go creaking as If they
Were sore in every bolt
And some are billed to go through straight,
And one is here and there
To be left on some switch and wait
4 In gloomy days or fair.
Men are as cars that rumble past.
Each has it's place and use;
The engine at the head and last
The pitiful caboose
IS. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Plan a Brilliant sen.on.

Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley-Martin, it is
said, will entertain during the forth
coming London season more brilliant.
" than ever.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
Among the Breakers

Long-Family troubles, Ell? What rock
did your domestic ship split on?
Short-It was the absence of "rocks" that
caused the split.-Chicago Evening News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23
NEW CATTLE CRIB.

In Old Barns That Are Crowded for
Room This Device Will lie Found
Very Advantageous.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-23

Some one has made the startling dis
covery that drops of water falling con-
tinuously on a two-inch board will wear
Ia hole through it in IS years.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31
sold Good. ut wharton.

Wharton, Texas. December ~ That the
knights of the grip enjoy the home pleasl
ures of Christmas with the loved ones near
the freside ingle is very evident by thu
scarcity OF commercial visitors who have
passed The compliments OF the season in
Wharton this week
Registered at the Nation hotel were
found Ben G Neville of Goliad, e. A..
Meadows OF New Orleans and F'itz Roy
Smith of New York, all paying their in
tial visit to this city; O. l.. Brown, the
popular salesman of the one and OF
G. Gilmore of Dallas, representing fire in
sursuce, and w, G. Palmer OF Houston,
who was interviewing the hardware mer-
chants.
Autographed at the Drummcrs' Home
We're Wolf Bachrach OF st. Louis, w. L.
Pearson Of Galveston. j. Y Phillips of St
Louis. A. ". Waugh of Eagle Lake and B.
Frcluth OF New Orleans
Entertained at the Crissler were A. Rus
sci of Houston Building association and
Mr. Foster of Chicago, with Culpepper &
Co.
c. r. Southwell. general travelling rep
spending the holidays with his relatives,
Mr., and Mrs. w, +. Linn, in this city. Mr..
Southwell has been with the Statesman
for over year and has made record to
he proud of. Charlie is South Texas boy
and his many friends here watch his ca
reer with pride in his success.