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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-23

Pay your subscription to the Ana
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Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18
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dark corners of the closets an in the shtable; but all that 1 found was too shmall, for by the time ye wud take the legs off thim there wndn't be much left. At lasht after while, all at onst the missns kem into the kitchen, an whin she saw there Was no dinner cookin' she hared up, an give me sich look as if a clap O thunder was goin' to bursht an kill me flat, an seZ she, "Is it possible that ye hasn't got the chicken pie ready to bake yit? Really, can't put up wid sich slowness. V "Begorral mem," sez |, for was git the premises for spider big enoof to cook it in, an annyhow 1 ain't accush- toned to live wid paple who has sich a relish for venymous insex as ye has here. I've waishted me whole mornin' tryin' to fulfil the demands O yersilf an that haytheniSh cookin' book, not to mention the crickit ye wanted to crush under the two feet of ye. But ye may as we'll know crickits is shcarce around here, as ye can sse fur yersilf, bedad, how 1 tOor me driss, an shkin- ned the leg O me on the wood pile whin I was huntin' one." "Ye must be crazy. I don't kape me crickits in the wood house. Come into the parloor and I will show ye one," sez she. ''Thats what call crickit," sez she, wid a scornful shniff O her nose, pintin' wid her finger; an wud ye belave it, Ann Hooligan, it was only little wee shmall shtool to rest yer feet on when ye be tired "Begorra, that's a fearful onchrstian name to give to yer furny- toor," sez I, shtickin' up me nose as high as hers. "An' the spider, mem? Belike it's some haythenish title yez bin devisin' to toormint paple wid too" She tossed her head an lid the way to the pantry. "There, Bridget, ye mustn't be bind in both eyes if ye don't know what this thing is," sez she.
 "It.s skillit," sez I, shakin' me fist at her, "an' it's blaggard trick to be achristenin' it afther amy kind of a riptile that iver crawled. I'll shack the dust O ye Yankeys off me fate foriver. J'll not deny that in some ways yer shmart enoof, but as long as ye mixes up skillits an spiders, crickits an shtools, an porches ad' shtoops, bedad! yer not fit fur the society of amy in- tilligint personn'-Harper's Bazar.
Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18
''The Milwaukee"

A familiar name given to the Chicago. Milwaukee x St. Paul Rail- way, known all over the Union as the Great Rrailway running the " Pioneer Limited" trains every day and night be- tween St. Paul and Chicago, and Oma- ha and Chicago, "The only perfect trains in the world" Understand: Con- nections are made with ALL Trans continental Lines, assuring passengers the best service known. Luxurious coaches. electric lights, steam heat, of 8 verity equaled by no other line.
 See that your ticket reads via 1.-The Milwaukee, when going to any point in the United States or Canada. All ticket agents sell them.
 For rates, pamphlets or other infor- nation, address,
 J. w. CASEY. C. J. EDDY,
 Tray. Pass. Agt. General Agt.
 SEATTLE, Wash. PORTLAND, Or.
Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18
THE WOODBINE SAMPLE ROOM Is the Coziest Place in Town. The best brands of wet goods and cigars always on hand.
NOTICE.

To A. c. Bays and K. M Jackson:--
 You are hereby notified that have expend- Lode Claims, known as "The Brooks Quartz Claims No. and No. 9" as will appear by Ger tifcate filed December 24th 1898 in the office of the Recorder Of m the Wrangei Mining District in of Section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States, being the amount required to hold the % And if W within ninety (ao9 days sfter @ the T pub licaton of this Notice you fail or refuse to con- tribute your portion of said expenditure as 8 co-owner, your interest in sad claim will be, Section No. 2324.
 Dated at Wrangel Alaska, January 1st, 1899.
 F. A. BROOKS. Date of first publication, January 7th l89o
Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18

When you want to buy anything pat ronize the merchants who advertise in the Journal. As rule you will find that the men who help support the local paper are live, progressive and wide awake and accommodating to their custo- merS
Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18
Mcdonald Creek.

According to the daily Alaskan the Canadians who were so anxious to have Americans excluded from Atlin will have to have them for neighbors any how, as the following will show:
 The richest gold strike that has been made for months has just been reported from Mcdonald creek, Northwest terri tory. The new strike is located just over the boundary line between British Columbia and Northwest territory, and drains the natural basin that slopes toward Lake Marsh and the upper Yukon.
 Mcdonald creek is five miles long and this bc sin that it drains is practi- cally continuation of the same natural draw that is the main characteristic of the country throughout the Atlin dis trict.
 The general formation of the ground and the average quality of the pay dirt as far as prospected at the present time is identical with the same features presented by the creek claims on Pine and Spruce creeks in the Atlin gold fields.
 Americans will be interested to learn the claims are 25O feet square in- stead of 100 feet as it is in British Col umbia.
 The claims on Mcdonald creek are in the Northwest territory and therefore open to American prospectors and the rights of Americans there cannot be af- fected by the British Columbia alien law.
 Enr frot.o1aoo ahavo hoir, ont o,.
Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18

For first-class shave, hair cut or sNanpoo. patronize the O. K. Tonsor- ial parlors,
Stikeen River journal., 1899-02-18

virgin. what SntraEge notions these Yankeys has; Two varmints wanted, an don't know where to find aither O thim" I'd heerd O thim haythan Fhinessers, who supped on rats and birds nists, but, bedad. for an Amery- kan family that purtnded to be re- spictable to be afther wantin' thim dirty insex, faith. I didn't consider ii nather Christian nor daycrnt. But the missus was callin', and thinkin' the wood house wud be the likeliest place to get the baste she was inquirin' for, l wint in there, an tho 1 got a big shplinter under me nail, an toor me drees, an nearly broke me leg fallin' over the wood, divil crikit did find. The missus was gittin' impayshunt, an was schramin' to me to hurry an bring it. "I can't find one," sez I, "won't amy other kind of boog do as we'll? l cud easy git ye 8 grasshopper or a muskeety," sez I. Don't be impident, sez she, scowlin', "I'll wait on mesilf, so go back to yer york;" an she shut the door.
 By me sowl! Ann Hooligan, I was nearly druv wild intirely betwixt the crikit an thinkin' how was to git the pizen creepin' thing the risyicc r";"d for, an SO l sarched agin all over the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
This is About YOUR.Boy.

Have you got boy? Does he get uI
early, milk cows, feed the team, cattle
and pigs? Does he take the team and
pillow, or drag, or rake, or NOW all day!
What are you doing for him? Do you
give him anything at all except hi:
board and clothes, and a little schooling
in winter? What inducement do You
offer him to stay with you and help you
on the farm? Suppose that instead Of
enforcing your legal claim to his ser
vices until he is of age, and thus dis
gushing him with farm life, and paving
the way toward an unloved, neglected
old age for yourself, you do the fail
thing by this boy? Give him something
for his own, let him be earning and say
ing a little money. Don't deny him the
opportunity of an education il he desires
one, for an ignorant man is surely going
to be placed at fearful disadvantage in
the coming years; give him the best
team and the best tools to work with
and encourage him by kind appreciation
The reason SO many boys leave the farm
Disguised, is because they are treatee
like little slaves by selfish, avaricious
parents; you can treat boy like Q
horse, or an OK, but the horse or OK viii
not run off and the boys can and will,
and we don't blame them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
Making a Lawn.

The only kind of lawn which we have
found satisfactory is one made of blue
grass with just little white clover
mixed in. This is just the combination
which can be found in all our old pas
lures, growing naturally. Now people
spend lots of time and money every
spring trying to get lawn started, by
sowing seed, etc, when the easiest and
surest way is to go and pillow up lot of
this blue grass turf in the pasture, haul
the sods to your lawn, having the ground
well enriched and mellowed. Then
plant wads of this turf about sixteen
inches apart each way, just as you would
plant potatoes, planting deep enough SC
that the plat can be all raked over
smooth and rolled firm when finished.
Turn on your water and in sixty days
you will have as nice "a lawn as you
could ask for, the sections of turf all
running and growing together. We
have tried this method several times and
unless the lawn plat is very large one
it is the easiest and cheapest way to get
a lawn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
A Good Use for the Dead Clover Field.

We had fifteen acre clover field 60
back on us some years ago, Just as 80
many such fields have this spring. We
let the land lay until the first of June,
then plowed and planted to corn, plant
ing just twice as many hills as common,
the idea being to get big crop of fodder
and little corn as well. We cultivated
the crop twice. 1t was cut and bound
in the fall and we never yet could make
an unbeliever understand how much
good fodder we got off that piece Of
land. There were probably twenty-five
bushels of corn to the acre in the shape
of nubbins. If we were so fixed again
this spring, we would repeat this expert
ment in preference to sowing millet, for
the corn crop leaves the land in very
much better shape for another crop and
is better ration for the dairy herd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
Contentnent.

While the energy, enterprise, and
ambition of the average American has,
no doubt, been the main cause of the
wonderful Development of our country
during the past century, there is nothing
we now need so much as let up. Ii
has got SO We want the earth, and be-
cause of it. life is one perpetual strain.
Contented men and women are hard to
find; all are franticaly struggling to get
in the front of the procession, and a
failure to get an Office, or be talked
about, or pile up a fortune, or make a
mark in the world. or lead some reform
movement is looked upon as failure in
life. Now suppose you Just sit down and
own up and admit to yourself, that
honestly you are nothing more than just
a very common, every day sort Of a
person, and that any effort you may
make to climb very high is all folly and
vanity. This view of the case may not
be very pleasant one at first, but the
chances are it will be very correct one.
AS soon as you realize this as you should
you have laid the safe foundation for
contentment. Happiness can not be
realized in this world as men realize on
an endowment life insurance policy, get
ting it all in one lump twenty years
hence, as result Of constant and unre-
hitting contribution of premiums during
the twenty years. Happiness, after all,
consists very largely in not expecting too
much, and the intelligent and harmonious
adjustment of our lives to the sphere in
life allotted to us. OF one thing you may
be sure. happiness isl to be taken in daily
rations, as we take our daily food, and
the world harbors no greater fool
than he who lives cankering, restless
life OF inordinate ambition, in the hope
that bye arl bye, sos day, he viii lsi
up and er. ~ life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
The Sensible Thing to Do.

A man living ON small farm in west
ern New York, writes as follows to the
editor of an eastern paper:
My grandfather and my father made
a comfortable living on this same farm
reared large families, and educated theil
children. But although my family J.
not SO large as my fathers or my grand
fathers was, i have found it difficult tC
keep ont of debt, and l must say that
the future looks rather blue forbme
do not want to give up farming; in fact
| don't think could make living0 al
anything else, and now it begins to lock
as though ] shall not be able to make I
living much longer even at that. What
is man who is situated as am tosdo .
We know what ails yea and hundreds
just like you. In the first place you
can't live as cheaply as your father and
grandfather did. They did not have t,
buy organs and cook stoves. and encyc
iopedias, reapers, plug hats, and wash
ing machines; did not belo " to three OF
four mutual benefit assessment societies
they worked your mother apd grand
mother almost t. death with the knit
weaving, spinning, baking and reisil g
large families. AS consequence your
wife has l.ssened vigor and strength
and you have t, keep hired girl; that
costs. Society demands $40 OF you
where it did one Of YOUR grandfather,
and you are realizing some OF the
beauties OF our modern civilization.
Then again your NJ is worn out, and
good for nothing L. sss you invest two
thirds of the value of the crop raised, ir
manures; and again what little you dc
raise on your high priced land has the
profits all knocked out of it anyhow by
cheap transportation, and the splendid
crops of these western states. The edi'
tor you wrote to, don't know anything
about Iowa, or he would not tell you for
an answer Ito try and farm it bstter.
You can't. Listen to us: just sell the
old homestead for what 1t will bring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

Keeping the strawberry bed covered
will retard hlosso ming and is partial
safeguard against frost later. Keeping
trees mulched win not however retard
the baossommg. Lit is only when tops
and all are covered that grow both can
be held in check.-E' G. Bennett.
A Wealthy apple tree growing near a
hay stack got a two foot snow drift piled
round its roots during the winter. Later
the wind blew lot of hay from the
stack onto the snow. Other Wealthy
trees on the place bloomed early and
were strack by the frost Man thought
this tree by the stack was dead. Later,
by about II days, it bloomed full and
gave its owner the only apples he had
that year. You have nice theory, but
the fact cited upsets it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

little or much. Snel a tear il you feel
like it, on leaving the old home with all
is sacred associations, then pack up
your buds, 60 to the nearest rail road
station, and buy ticket for Iowa, and
come here, and ask for the editor of this
department, and in three days we will
put you on farm, where you will never
have to write such another pitiful letter
as long as you live. Do you hear and
understand? Well il you do, come
along.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

The spring crop OF Won cubs is now
being marketed. One honest wolf
hunter brought in the mother as well az
the cubs, telling the auditor of his
county, that as he was goingto move out
west and could not take the old wolf
with him, be thought that it was his
duty to kin her. We have known OF
severalcases where a bitch wolf properly
cared for has been worth from $40 to $50
each year to the chap who kept track of
her
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
Il have had about sasoo in mone,

II have had about $500 in money
loaned out on farm securities in Iowa,
for the past seventeen years. said a
friend to US lately AT first i got ~
per cent, then 10, then 8, then 6, and
now as the paper falls due / find it
difficult to place it OLE long time at Ave"
This change an the value of money is
reducing good many incomes these
days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

AS possible result of radical change
inthe channel of the Missouri river near
Sioux City there are a lot of people who
go'to bed at night who don't know in
which state they will wake up in the
morning, or where they will vote at the
next election.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

Ii you buy nursery stock to plant this
spring, try your knife on the RooTs be
fore planting. Look out for dead roots
and live tops. The past winter wrought
great havoc with nursery stock in ex-
posed nurseries.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

Dandelion green's are astandard spring
medicine. Some folks claim to like
them-we don't. Still it is good thing
to have 'em, for you can get the dande-
lion out of the lawn, be getting some
thing TO eat and spring physicing all
at one operation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

A threshing machine, threshing out
last years crop of oats, gang OF corn
huskers securing last years crop OF corn
and two men with seeders putting in
this years crop of wheat could have
been seen at one and the same place and
time in Hancock county the past week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

The imported draft horse of the right
make is again selling for $500 to Iowa
farmers and breeders. The club system
of purchase and ownership is quite pop
ular at the present time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

by allowing the accumulations In
the bowels to remain, the entire sys-
tenn Is poisoned. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers regulate the bowels. Try
them and you will always use them.
For sale by Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03
FARM, ORCHARD, z
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

April's last days have been very kind
to field workers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

Plant some sugar beets for table use
They are superior to any other beet
raised.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-03

There was only about one week in
which to SOW spring wheat this year.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-04-15

Some one said once that you could
get almost anything for nothing in New
York, This was brought practically to
my notice few days ago, says writer
IN the New York Herald, as / was 60
ing up town on Third avenue. I passed
barber shop which displayed this
strange sign:
Ladies' Hairdressing Done Free
Every Afternoon From l to O'clock. 4"
AS 1t was past 8 | was prompted by
curiosity to go in and investigate. /
found the "ladies " hairdressing par
lor neat cozy place, with a number
OF chairs standing in front of long
mirror. which covered one side of the
room.
Twas fortunate enough to find sub
Ject in the chair. who was having her
hair dressed. She was middled aged,
thick handed, respectable looking wom-
an, who was going to the inevitable
ball. Doing" her hair was nice look
ing little woman. the head of the hair
dressing establishment, and gathered
around the chair were half dozen
white coated young men, watching the
process of the work and occasionally
giving assistance And that is how the
apprentice or student in hairdressing
gains his experience, and the clever
women who are in touch with the trick
get their hair dressed for nothing.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-04-15
The Sensitive Porgx.

The porgy, common as it Is, is a
beautiful fish when seen in the water
in favorable light, and it is likewise
one Of the most sensitive of fishes. In
captivity it is easily frightened. It will
take alarm from something done by a
passing visitor, thoughtless touching
of glass, or something Of that sort, and
go rushing around until it is exhausted
Sometimes porgy in tank may,
when frightened, jump out of the water
and bump its nose against the wire
screen over the tank and be seemingly
paralyzed by the shock and rendered IN
able to swim. In such condition it
will lie upon its back, motionless, ex-
cept perhaps for futtering of its fms,
for an hour. and then it may come back
all right again and swim about SO lively
and in such good form that you can t
tell then which fish of the lot it was
that had bumped it's head.
A popularity Of the porgy is it's liza
bility to blindness. Blindness is not un-
common among fishes, but there are
perhaps more blind porgies than there
are fish of any other kind There's a
saying among fishermen, "As blind as a
porgy New York Sun.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-04-15

In the number of The Taller for Oct.
6, 1909, it is observed that ga cane is
part of the dress of prig" (this, by the
way, shows the erroneous notion prev
alent that "priggishness is modern
wordD "and always worn upon but
ton, for fear he should be thought to
have an occasion for it or be esteemed
really and not genteelly a cripple"
In the number Of Nov. 10 rural
squire in town is sketched who is the
prototype of one Of the pavement null
sances: His arms naturally swang at
an unreasonable distance from his sides,
which, with the advantage Of cane
that he brandished in great variety
of irregular motions, made it unsafe fol-
any one to walk within several years OF
him.
And under date of Dec. there is an
amusing sketch of "a lively, fresh col
ored young man" who was among the
applicants to Isaac Bickerstaff's court
Of censorship for license to use "canes,
perspective glasses, snuffboxes, orange
flower waters and the like ornaments of
life. This young man had his cane
hanging on his fifth button and was
"an Oxford scholar who was just en-
tered at the temple. "-Gentleman's
Magazine
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-04-15
OverdlplOnatfc.

Mr.. Meekton was gazing at his wife
with that inane and amiable fixety
which comes into mans face when he
has been mapping and is ashamed of
the fact.
"Leonidas," she said sternly.
"What is it. my dear2" he inquired
as he Strengthened himself up in his
sleepy hollow chair.
"What is the matter2"
"Nothing is the NATTER he said,
growing red in the face. 81 haven't in
timated that there was any thing wrong,
have p
mo. But you have been behaving
rather queerly. Just now you gave a
little start and exclaimed. Yes. Hen
rietta, agree with you perfectly. -
"Well, answered he, apprehensive.
ly, "there ism It anything in that to take
exception to, is there9'
"Are You sure you meant itf"
every word of it.
"Ycu had given the matter due con-
sideration before you spoken
Certainly Do you doubt me, Hen
rietta9 p
"Oh, no. But / can't help attaching
some significance to the fact that l
hadn't uttered word during the ten
minutes previous to your enthusiastic
Endorsement of my sentiments.
"Well, to tell the truth, Henrietta,
had been asleep, and something awoke
me, and l naturally upposed-that is to
say, took it for granted And then
he gave it Arlington Star.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-04-15
Petrifed Water.

That beautiful transparent stone call
ed Tabriz marble, much used in the
burial places of Persia and in their
grandest edifices, consists Of the petri-
fed water of ponds in certain parts of
the country. This petrifcation may be
traced from its commencement to it's
termination. In one part the water is
clear, in second it appears thicker and
stagnant, in third quite black, and in
its last stage it is white like frost.
When the operation is complete, a
stone thrown on its surface makes no
impression, and one may walk over it
without wetting ones shoes. The sub
stance thus produced is brittle and
transparent, and sometimes richly
striped with red, green and copper color
So much is this marble, which may be
cut into large slabs. looked upon as a
luxury that none but the king, his sons
and persons especially privileged are
permitted to take it.