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The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Refused to Take Moro Paw.

A writer in Ainslee's Magazine tells
how Irving NJ. Scott, the man who built
the Oregon, once refused a raise in his
salary. The firm was then building the
Saginaw for the government. Donahue
was at the legislature much of the time
soon after SCOTS arrival. and affairs al
the works were at skies and sevens.
Brodie, the foreman, threatened to leave
and did leave, and Scott. without au.
thority and although only engaged as g
craftsman, took entire charge and d.
rected things for two weeks until Dona-
hue s return. He introduced system in
to the methods and made affairs run
along go smoothly that Donahue was
pleased and made him permanent fore
About this time Donahue offered to
increase his wages, but Scott thought
over the matter and declined.
eff I break my years contract with
you, he said to Donahue, ''I'll have to
take what you give me. I prefer to keep
my contract, and when it's up you'll
have to pay me what I'm worth"
Donahue looked aghast. you're the
first MANI he said, ''that I've ever
known to refuse a raise of pay"
Results justified Scott s foresight. At
the end Of the year he was re-engaged:
and was paid just four times what Don
ahue had offered him.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
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but to the Little Gem Brand Book Company,
for they know where / belong best. Don't eat
me because | am fat. don't steal me because I
am good looking and away from home, for the
Little Gem Brand Book Company will pilot me
home again: We ar. coming. Oh, yes. we are
coming: Who? why. some Of the Little Gem
Brand Book people. They will surely cali on
you II you are at home during the spring or
summer some time, but If they should fail,
send your brands and money to the Secretary
OF the State of South Dakota. Remember. we
carry q *. 500 bond, filed with him.. to show that
Brand Book at the following prices: Is for the
brand on the cut, giving your P. o. address and
the range where the cattle belong; additional
brands are 81 cents where plain type is used,
Fl where it is slug work. and additional cuts Of
cattle are ~ apiece. Advertising space is 400 q
page, S2 for a half page and IS for q third.
Remember. we cover six states and will con-
dense this work so it can be carried in your in
side vest pocket, with a double index, bound in
full leather, and is made for roundup purposes
and stock yard work, and for locating stray
cattle generally. All patrons of this book get
n book free. Just think. II we save you o calf
in ten years, you are ahead Of this deal, and we
South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyo-
ming, Colorado and Nebraska We will COM
mence this work just where the Missouri river
comes into Nebraska and work north through
both Dalkotas and back through Montana and
Wyoming and leave Colorado and Nebraska
for the last OF the work. These books will be
delivered in plenty of time for the roundup
has not got o printed receipt. with my name to
it, for you. The Little Gem Brand Book will
be made just like the Big Brand Book is, and
is incorporated under the laws of South Dakota
c. Y. SHEPLER, President,
Pierre, South Dakota.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
G~raveyards In China.

The wife of an American naval officer
stationed at Tien-tsin writes thus to a
friend iq Baltimore: 1.-THE trip by train
from the landing 10 Tiep-tsin takes
about an hour and a half. The cars are
not palatial, but they are comfortable.
When you land, hundreds of coolies be-
siege you for your baggage. You won
der how it ver reaches its destination
in safety. The trip is somewhat inter.
esting, but rather desolate to take alone.
You pass through miles of g~raveyards.
There are thousands of mounds without
a sign of green grass or green leaf.
"China seems to be one vast grave,
yard, for they bury their dead anywhere
they wish. They bury in large collins
placed on the surface of the ground,
covered e with mud and earth. This
is blown and washed away, and then
the collins are exposed to view. A few
miles from the railroad station on the
river you come to trees and vegetation.
It reminds you Of some of the poor land
that some Of our railroads at home 90
through"
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Big Fees por Doctofs.

H" ia
Sixty. thousand dollars and a pension
Of %. 500a year was the Zee paid to DR..
Thomas Dimsdale, the Hertfordshire
physician who, in 1879, was summoned
to st. Petersburg to vaccinate the EN-
press Catherine II. DR.. Butler, who
had obtained q great reputation for ex-
t%raordinary skill in the operation for
lithotomy. received a lac of rupees
(then equivalent to $40, O00) from each
Of six Indian fajahs for the single oper-
alton.
The late czar Of Russia paid a fee Of
$75. 900 to Professor Zacherine of Mos
COW for two days attendance. A GER
tain DR.. Gale Of Bristol. who was blind.
for curing a gentleman of a seriously
diseased knee by some electric treatment
received a check fer $3.50. 600. DR.. Gale
Yowski, the famous oculist, who at
tended the son of the shah of Persia,
received $50, 600 in fees during the
three months of his residence in Tehe-
ran, while all his expenses of travelling
and maintenance were paid.
Sir William Jenner received for four
weeks attendance at Sandringham dur
ing the illness Of the Prince CT Wales q
baronetcy and a fec of $50, 900, while
Sir Morell Mackenzie is reported to
have received twice that amount for
attending the Emperor Frederick. His
royal highness the hawaii CT Ra1npur.
India. a few years since paid an Eng
lish army surgeon $50, 600 for an &C.
c%asional attendance in an ordinary at
tack of rheumatism.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
AN ARCHITECTURAL PUZZLE
Aenasteries Dailt In . windy Inaa.
,g ceSsiblO Locality.

AoAastertes Built In q wildly Inao.
csssiblo LEGALITY.
The famous monastefies Of Meteora
crown the submits of vast rock pinna-
cles rising from the plain OF Thessaly.
BY what strange means tho first Gun
ming architects Of these airy pesches
succeeded In reaching the scene Of their
labors Is q matter wreAthed in mystery.
The cliffs are far too smooth and per.
pendicular for any man to climb by
hand and foot, and history guards ieal-
ously the secret Of the monasteries. All
that is known about them is that the
monks and wandering ffiars of the mid.
die ages found sanctuary here when
first the crescent and ecimiter ran red
with Christian blood. Visitors to the
monks abode announce their presence
by shouting until some one far above
looks out and let's the net, which il
worked by a windlass, come down.
The sensation of the ascent is dis
tinctly novel. Seated on the ground in
the center of the net. the meshes are
n by n Topped on to a large iron
hood. As the rope becomes taut the
cords press uncomfortably hard upon
various points of ones body. and with
a strong wind blowing it swings to
and fro and bumps its human load
against the cliff. The rope. as it slowly
winds on the drum up in the monastery,
kinks occasionally. and the jerk gives
n the impression that the rickety con-
Germ is giving way.
The journey, however. ends safely
40 feet above the ground. where the
monks promptly extricate the visitor
and give him a pleasant welcome.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Some Queer Trees,

The b~readfruit tree of Ceylon is very
remarkable. Its fruit is baked and eaten
as we eat bread and is equally good and
nutritious. In Barbutu. South Amer.
lea, is a tree which, by piercing the
trunk, produces milk, with which the
inhabitants feed their children. In the
interior of Africa is a tree which pro-
duces excellent butter. 1t resembles the
American oak, and its fruit. from
which the butter is prepared, is not un-
like the olive. Park, the great traveller.
declared that the butter surpassed any
made in England from cows milk. At
Sierra Leone is the cream fruit tree, the
fruit of which is quite agreeable in
taste.
At Table Bay, near the Cape of Good
Hope, is a small tree the berries of
which make excellent candles. 1t is also
found in the Azores. The vegetable tai
low tree also grows in Sumatra, in AL
gerih and in China. In the island of
Chusan large quantities of oil and tai
low are extracted from it's fruit. which
is gathered in November or December.
when the tree has lost all its leaves.
The bark of a tree in China produces a
beautiful soap. Trees of the sapindus
or soap berry order also grow in the
north of Africa. They are amazingly
prolific, and their fruit contains about
80 per cent of saponin. Ladies' Home
journal.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03

A1c u0C1uHt1On Oh UOlU ttu11t1n8s
Once you have seen a "color' in the
bottom of a pan with the black sand
following it around like a faithful serv-
ant, you can neve again be deceived
by the false glitter Of any other parti-
cles. You would know it if you saw it
between cobblestones in Broadway or
if it were no larger than a pinhead at
the bottom of a trout pool.
For the moment the yellow pile makes
you feel like seeking a claim of your
own and harvesting it's treasure for
yourself. But when you look at the
miry path along the base of the noun
tain by the creek side and think of fol-
lowing it with a pack on your back I'M
til it is no more and a wilderness be-
gins; think Of passing on over the
mountains until you come to what you
consider a likely place and thawing
through 80 feet of earth at the rate Of
a foot a day in the haphazard possibili-
ty Of finding "pay dirt" you conclude
shat the poetry Of the thing can be bet
ter appreciated By sitting on some one
else's dump. = Frederick palmer in
Scrihner'a 90
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Religion. and 1rrelixiou. ri.he.

Religious and 1rreliKious Fishes.
Fishes are supposed to have no reli-
gion. Probably they are greatly malign-
ed in that as we'll as in other respects.
st. Anthony. as you know, used to
preach to them and make their eyes
glitter and their hearts beat by his elo-
quence., A Jewish story is told can.
not, unfortunately. lay my hands on the
passage just now-of a fish which leaves
the sea on Saturday and does not return
until Sunday, go as to be able to keep
the Sabbath.
Other fishes, unlike their puritanical
brother, do not ohssrve the sacred day.
The Koran gives a story of some very
naughty fishes in David's time. Know
ing that the Israelites were forbidden
to catch fish on the Sabbath, the wicked
creatures came out of the Red sea in
unusual numbers and kept in sight of
the people all through the day in order
to tempt them. On the approach of
night they returned to the sea again.
ma fatal moment some of the Israelites
yielded to the piscine Establishments,
caught several of them and had them
for dinner. Whereupon David cursed
the Sabbath breakers. and God, to show
his displeasure, changed them into apes
and pigs. For three days they remained
In this unpleasant condition, when a
violent storm arose and swept them
into the sea
The fish which brought the tribute
money to our Lord is supposed to have
been a paddock, which had strayed into
the lake of Gennesaret. There are sew
eral legends which tell Of miraculous
finds in fishes. Paris Messenger.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
The Caroline Islanders.

As a rule the Caroline islander ia
fairly honest. Once lay his suspicious
to rest and win his confidence, and he
will prove himself a faithful friend and
an excellent host. courteous and just in
all his dealings. as l have very good
cause to know. On the ether hand,
when dealing with his enemies. he calls
into play a talent for intrigue, lying
and chicanery that would delight q
Machiavelli.
In his private life he is unselfsh,
frugal and economical. a man of care
full. small habits. Like all folk of Mel
anesian admixture. he is Liable to fits
of dangerous sullenness wien he con-
siders himself slighted in any way. He
is inclined to be revengcful and will
bide his time patiently until his oppor-
tunity comes Yet he is not implacable
and counts reconciliation q noble and
princely thing. There is q form of Ell
quette to be observed on these occasions
"a present (katom) is made, an apology
offered, a piece of sugar cane accepted
by the aggrieved party, honor is salts
fed, and the matter ends.
The Ponapean lisa stout warrior, a
hardy and skillful navigator. fisherman,
carpenter and :boatbuilder. somewhat Of
an astronomer and herbalist. but a very
second class planter and GARDENER
Geographical Review.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Hunting Tiger. In Persia.


The people of different countries have
different ways? of hunting the tiger.
Traps, pitfalls. spring guns and nets
are called into play. The Chinese are
said to employ the mirror to lead the
animal into atrap. Thetiger'scuriosity
is excited when he sees hissimage$in
the glass, and he Immediately proceeds
to investigate the mystery. The Per-
sian manneriof conducting the hunt, as
this is described in Chambers Journal
is more sportsmanlike: 80
A spherical, strongly woven bamboo
cage, with intervals of a few inches be-
tween the bars, is erected in some spot
near the haunts Of the tiger. This cage
is firmly and securely picketed to the
ground. Inside, 2 man provided with
several sharp and powerful stabbing
spears, or with a keen and pointed
sword, takes his post at night, with a
dog or a goat as his companion. There
he wraps himself in his blanket and goes
to sleep.
In due time the tiger makes his ap-
pearance, the mar is walked by his four
footed companion. and after vainly
snufing and prowling round the cage to
find an entrance the tiger rears against
the walls.
The, nan instantly takes advantage
Of the brute's unprotected position, and
with q resolute stroke of the spear or
the sword puts him to death.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
"Chimney Climate"

CHIMNEY climate is the latest for
the climate that is to be found in all
large cities Its characteristics, says a
man of learning. are mildness. absence
of rain and frequency Of fog as COM
pared with surrounding rural districts.
And he gives a very clever explanation
of the presence of the fog. It is actually
manufactured right under our eyes.
You know if you look crosswise at a
sunbeam you see in it a myriad of very
small particles of dust, so densely crowd
ed together that some scientists even
attribute to them the color Of the sky
And there is also about us an invisible
vapor and this combines with the parti-
cles to give us fog It may be 60. Il
sounds reasonable enough when one
takes into consideration the fact that
fogs are more frequent in large manu-
featuring cities than elsewhere. But if
it be so, what are men Of science about
that they don't find an antidote for
the evil2-Boston Transcript.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Sample Carriers.

The Philadelphia Record says: IA Pc
culiar trade followed by a number of
men who haunt the big hotelsis that Of
sample carrier. The hatty drummers
who visit the. city are far above the
work of Juggling around their sometimes
heavy samples. and SO there has arisen
a class of men who make a living by
hanging around the hotels waiting an
opportunity to carry sample cases
Sometimes these cases are very valu-
able, as when they contain samples Of
jewelry. It is not an infrequent sight to
see a spruce young fellow. followed by
a shabby individual carrying two black
cases, enter the portals of one of the big
hostelries. If the couple were traced
farther it would be seen that the big
hotel safe was the objective point. Some
of these sample carriers have their reg
ular patrons. who look for them on ev-
cry visit"
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
A Walters

1t was in one of the large down town
restaurants that the short little woman
and her tall husband went for dinner
n night.
Evil you have oystersP' asked the
man, glancing over the bill of fare.
eyes" said the short little woman,
as she tried in vain to touch her toes to
the floor. "And, John, l want a has.
SOCK"
John nodded. and, as he handed his
order to the waiter, he said, eyes, and
bring a hassock for the lady"
"Qpe hassockr" asked the waiter,
with what John thought more than Or
binary interest, as he nodded in the
affirmative. Still the waiter did not 70,
but brushed the tablecloth with a towel
and rearranged the articles on it several
times, while his face got very red.
Then he came around to Johns side,
and, speaking soto voce, said: ''Say,
mister, I haven't been here ing, and
I'm not on to all these things. Will the
lady have the hassock breiled or friedP 2"
Chicago Chronicle.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
THE DYING SUN.
when It's Heat Becomes Extinct, the
Earth Will Freeze Solid. r.

vnen Atb meat becomes EXTINCT inc
Earth Will Freeze Solid.
Our sur is now a yellow star similar
to Capella. and henceit will eventually
become blush white like Sirius and
Vega, says Professor T. J. J. See In
The Atlantic. The secular shrinkage of
the SUMS radius will cause a steady rise
In Its temperature, and when the body
has reached the stage of Sirius, where
the temperature is perhaps doubled, the
light emitted will become intensely
blue. The temperature may be expected
to go on rising till a small radius is at
tanned, and finally, when the dense
mass, intensely hot, becomes incapable
of further shrinkage, on account of in
crease in the molecular forces resisting
condensation, a cooling will gradually
ensue, after which the body will liquefy
and then rapidly decline in splendor.
The SUI will thenceforth be wrapped in
everlasting darkness, and the chill Of
death will overtake the planetary sys-
TEN. A condition Of darkness thus fol-
laws close upon a period of intense bril-
liancy. and hence the %obscurity of such
bodies as the companions of Sirius.
Procyon and Algol. The most obscure
satellites are thus associated with some
Of the brightest and most intensely lu.
minous stars in our sky, and here the
smaller of the two masses, as in the case
of the planets of the solar system. have
developed most rapidly.
In view Of this approaching extinc-
ton of the SUMS activity it becomes
a matter of interest to inquire how long
its heat will sustain life upon the earth.
Though it is difficult to submit the sub.
ject to accurate computation, it il easy
to see that the exhaustion of the suns
light and heat certainly will not occur
for several hundred thousand. and per-
haps not for several million years. Thus
the ultimate doom Of system need
occasion no anxiety among those now
living, hut the result is philosophically
interesting to those who look several
million years into the future.
As experiment has shown that the
suns vertical rays falling continuously
upon terrestrial ice would melt a layer
three centimeters in thickness per day.
it follows that a similar shell of ice
would form over the earth in case the
suns light and heat were cut off. Thus
in a month the whole earth would be
frozen like the polar regions. and only
the deeper bodies of water, containing
a great amount of heat, would remain
in a liquid state. The oceans themselves
would freeze over within a few years
at the latest, and the winds and even
the tides would cease to agitate the ter
restrial globe, which would henceforth
spin in its orbit as a rigid, lifeless mass.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
THE SAD STORY IT TOLD.
Cuxzi's First Glance In n Looking
Glass L Fifteen Ycars.

Glass Ia Fifteen Years.
Shortly after Cuzzi's rescue by Gen.
eral Kitchener, when the latter entered
OmdurMan. she long suffering man said
During my Is years imprisonment
! never saw Il mirror. and gradually all
interest in my personal appearance
faded completely away. When it be-
am sure that an expedition was on
its way to Omdurman. l began to live
again When at last the cannon began
to thunder and the wild cries of the
battle penetrated the city. l laid my
sword ready. determined. should this
last hope be destroyed. to put an end
to my life When finally the noise of
the cannon ceased and the victor Kitch-
ener stood before me-, congratulatfng
me on my release. l thought should
suffocate with emotion.
1.-The next day l made my toilet in
an officers tent and held in my hand
the first looking glass l had seen for Is
years. looked curiousljKsS my reflec-
ton in it and started back. l had gone
out into the world Il young, active
strong man. and the image which now
stared at me was that of Il sick. hollow
eyed. wrinkled. broken man Never did
all that l had suffered enter my mind
with such strength as at this moment.
and l wept. wept like a child-the first
tears in Is years!
1.-The day after l was made a prisoner
l saw my wife die. but my grief was
too great for the relief of tears. My
child was torn from mo and died of
starvation far away. and l could not
weep suffered d%eprivations and i'll
treatment without a sign of weakness.
but now. before this small looking
glass. l was overwhelmed. The pain of
all that had lost seemed concentrated
in the grief stricken features reflected
in the mirrcr. At one glance I saw the
story of my sufferings."
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Laughs Better Than Tears.

bless all the apostolic college of
humorists. Tbs mar that makes me
laugh is my benefactor. I do not thank
anybody to make me cry. I can do that
without any assistance. We all cry
enough and have enough to cry about.
God bless all skillful punsters, all re-
parteeists, all propounders of ingenious
conundrums, all those who mirthfully
surprise us with unusual juxtaposition
Of words. Thomas Hood and Charles
Dickens and Sydney Smith had a divine
mission, and so have their successors in
these times. They stir into the acid
beverage of life the saccharine. They
make the cup Of earthly existence,
which is sometimes stale. effervesce and
bubble. They placate animosities. They
foster longevity. They slay follies and
absurdities which all the sermons Of
all the pulpits cannot reach.-T. De
Witt Talmage.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Coed Friday In England.

Many quaint and some g%rotesque OBJ
servances of Good Friday have prevail
ed in various localities. In Brighton
the custom of skipping the rope on that
day led to the use of the term ''Long
Rope day" Six or eight adults, with a
long rope, skipped at one time. In the
Sussex villages men and boys play mar
bles. At st. Bartholomew church,
London, 81 old women appear and be-
fore n crowd of curious onlookers bend
their sti1fened, aged knees to pick up al
sixpences.
This latter custom had its origin be-
fore the great fire, when an eccentric
woman left her property to have 81
sixpences laid upon her gravestonc in
st. Bartholomew's church, which were
annually to be picked up by aged wild
ows. -
At the Church of All Hallows the
youngest boys of the Blue Coat school
are enabled. by the will of Peter Sy-
monds. dated 1887, to divide so new
pennies and 60 packets of raisins among
them.
In London and all over England the
eating of shot cross buns is the special
feature of the day. The original home
of this English custom is said to be in
Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
There. wherever the old Roman roads
crossed, stood the altar of Diana of the
Crossways, to whom the Romans offer
ed their sacred cakes.
The Dickinson press., 1899-06-03
Editorial Comment
The Pioneer Limited.

Nothing richerhas ever been produced
by any railroad.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
"It's a world beater."-St. Paul Globe.
1.-THE best thing the railroad world
a produce.-St. Paul Dispatch.
"Prominent and discriminating people
marvel at the creation of elegance and
comfort wrought by modern car build
ers,"-Minneapol.s Tribune.
"The closest inspection bewilders and
takes the breath Away, '.for the magnif-
cence aid beauty Of t all is simply tre-
mendous." -Minneapolis Times.
1.-THE Pioneer Limited stands to-day
perfect in construction, gorgeous in finish
and the acme of luxury and comfort
Minneapolis Journal.
The Pioneer Limited leaves Minneapo-
lis at 7:3o and St. Paul at 8:Io every
evening in the year for Milwaukee and
Chicago, via Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railway. mo extra charge on
this train.)
For tickets, berths or information, ap-
ply to any ticket agent, or address,
]. T. CONLEY,
Asst Gen'l Pass. Agt.,
St. Paul, MINI.