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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
UNIQUE HORN OF THE UNICORN
An Animal That Became Extinct
About the End of the Severn
teenth Century.

The horn of unicorn was shown
at Windsor castle, and in 1898 was VAL
ued at over & 10000. Lewis Vertoman-
nus, a gentleman of Rome, saw with
his own eyes two unicorns presented
to the sultan of Mecca by a king of
Ethiopia. They were in park of the
Temple of Mecca, and were not much
unlike a colt of 80 months of age.
That was in 1903. The animal became
extinct about the end of the seven
tenth century, says the Boston Jour-
nal.
The unicorn is represented in the
ruins of Persepolis, and it was adopt
ed by the Persians as the emblem OF
speed and strength. In the middle
ages it was the emblem of purity. The
unicorn hated the elephant, and it
used to whet it's horn on stone be-
fore it struck the foe in the abdo-
men. No family, by the way, should
be without one of these horns, the
average length OF which is four feet.
They defend from witchcraft; thus
Torquemada had one always on his
writing table. Furthermore, a drink
ing cup made from one will be safe
guard against poison, as will the
ground powder put in drink, and, in
deed, the wells of the palace of st.
Mark could not be poisoned in the
good old days of adventure because
these beneficent horns had been
thrown into them. Unicorn's horn
was formerly sold by apothecaries at
S12O an ounce.
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SONG OF THE suRG'NG SEA.

There is deep soul-satisfaction IN Inc
singing of the sea
Huge tinted pillows as they run and gam
Dol wild and free; ;,
The flashing lights which glance ike Sill
yer arrows tipped with gold.
eye unrolled;
The frescoed sky's grand canopy so nobly
arched above,
With huges from bright f1amingo red TO
pearl tints of the dove,
The perfect picture proof and pledge OF
Gods unmeasured love.
Bright rainbow colors flashing out
through showers of jeweled spray
Translucent sea tints soft embossed Oh
shadows of cool gray,
Reflected skies which lend the lake heav-
ems glories mirrored deep \
To lave in emerald depths where water
elves their vigils keep;
And sometimes surface lines Wnlcn seem
naiad's streaming hair.
Sometimes the wavelets lispinS love Wheh
skies and seas are fair,
With changing marvels rich and strange
revealing beauties rare.
Then when the storm rings out full-
lunged its diapasons strong.
Where shout the maddened waves Wnlcn
dance in circling throb and throng'
The keen winds whistling choruses which
keep majestic time, :
While forest echoes make response anu
swaying branches chime,
There music makes its home amid the
voices of the waves.
Which sometimes grieve in monotone
above drowned sailors graves.
Or dance with demon laugh ana snrleh
Whenever the tempest raves.
The sea, the sea- how wide 1t is, now
mighty and sublime,
AS though within it's bosom beat the rest
less pulse of time.
AS though eternity were made Watery
eXpanse
Ger which roamed free the restless tides
of fate and circumstance;
A theater for dramas grand, where strong
life never sleeps,
Where God above a universe His cease
less vigil keeps, -.
And measureless infinity dwells In the
mighty deeps. 9.
Here is thing no common thought may
ever arch or span,
Yet one presenting wondrous thoughts
and secrets unto man,
Rebuking puny doubts which crawl like
insects on the sod
To challenge with small buzz and sting
the majesty of God;
Poor poor indeed. is he who stands
blind, deaf and unannealed
Before these lessons trimmed with truths
by Natures voices pealed,
Oblivious of great mysteries unveiled and
I. EDGAR JONES.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
beasts showing all signs of exhilara

beasts showing all signs of exhilara-
ton.
While the animals are having good
time the dark-skinned natives appear.
Some of the monkeys escape. but the
others are too joyful to mistrust
anything, and appear to take the ne
groes for larger species of their own
family. The negroes catch one or two
and begin to pet them and lead them
away. The monkeys take the hands
of other monkeys and form line of
ten or dozen monkeys, being led by
negro. They are led in this man
ner some distance away. where the
negroes have been hiding and have
cages awaiting them. always on the
outer edge Of negro village
For two or three days little of the
liquid is given the monkeys to recon-
cile them by degrees to their captiv-
ity. The men feed and tame them and
take them down into the city and to
the wharfs to sell them. and, as the
Brazilian lives in land where food
and drink are easily found, he lives
very cheaply, so by selling a monkey
for rs cents he makes handsome
profit. ~.
He has even less trouble catching
parrots in many traps and raising
them, so he can be said to live lazy
mans life.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREATY.
Agreement Between Ramcaes and thu
Hillites Was Humane for
That Age. -..,.

The walls of the great Hall of Kari
max are covered with important in
scriptions, which have thrown much
light upon the history of the Egyp-
tians. Among others the treaty Of
peace between Rameses and the Hit
tites of the Hebrew scriptures is
worthy of notice as the first recorded
agreement between nations. Our late
antagonist, the queen regent of
Spain, may we'll consider herself for
tunate that she was not called upon
to negotiate with this Pharaoh in
stead of Uncle Sam, for Rameses didn't
waste any time on protocols or COM
missions, or pay $2O.OO0.0OO after his
opponent had sued for peace. He evil
IDENTIFY dictated the treaty himself,
for it begins: "Rameses. chief Of
rulers, who fixes his frontiers where
he pleases," says the Chautauquan.
The last clause of this document is
the earliest extradition agreement be-
tween two countries calling for the
reciprocal delivery of political fugi-
tives, and it is remarkably humane
for that age. It provides that "who-
soever shall be delivered up, himself,
his wives, his children, let him not be
smitten to death: moreover, let him
not suffer in his eyes, his mouth, his
feet; moreover, let not any crime be
set up against him." And the whole
is witnessed by the great god of
Canaan, the great god of Egypt and
all the thousand gods, male and fe-
male, the gods of the hills, the rivers,
the great sea, the wind and the clouds
of both lands. .,
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week. Mr.. Rash, who had lost heavily

week. Mr.. Rash, who had lost heavily
by the collapse of the Comptoer d.
Escompte the last-such were bis gem
erHl thoughts. DR.. Divine's discourses
were remarkable efforts, no doubt, but
was he not merely earning his salary,
and pretty comfortable salary at
that? And SO Nathaniel Craft found
it to his interest to appear regularly
every Sunday in his pew-with GER
tain exceptions. Collections for the
poor and the missions, both home and
foreign-how he hated them! And
Christmas, too-fagh! ''To live in
hearts we leave behind is not to die"
For him those sculptured words
lived to-day. Like revelation the
barrneness of his life, past, present
and future, arose before him.
"While we have time let us do good
to all men,"
There was yet time for him. A week
ago ne had sneered at the thought Of
human affection. Even these with
cred roses which strewed the graves
he had deemed but vanity's offering.
To-day, with flush of shame, he
stopped and removed the card from
his own. Self was sinking from
sight. It was now a tribute, indeed,
to the dead, to the man who had lived
worthily of that inscription-not to
the living. John Morris could feel no
pride in either case.
Before leaving that grave, Nathan
iel Craft gathered a few of the with
cred leaves upon it. "The ashes Of
these, john" he said. aloud, shall
make my heart blossom anew. The
fruits ye will know when next we
meet; FAREWELL"
But the barriers of such a nature
were not to be broken down at once.
1t was months. indeed, ere he lived
with any higher object than by freely
giving of his boarded treasure to de-
serve that inscription upon his
friends tombstone. The overflow
came, however, in time, and one day
Mr.. Craft called his children - who
had long marveled and rejoiced at the
change in their father-into the room
which had once been their mothers
own. To each he handed slip of
paper.
"That you may not wish me dead"
he said, huskily, II shall hereafter
strive to make you happy. In return
I ask only for your love and respect"
And then he told them of those words
him which he had over
heard, words which he confessed had
stung and angered him; of the codicil
to his will he had in consequence de-
stroyed; a codicil, which in moment
of tenderness one day he had been in
duced to make in their favor, revok-
ing in measure the original instru-
ment. . -., ...,...
II thought should exult in my
grave over your disappointment" said
he, and then followed the history of
that memorable day in Greenwood.
ITO live in hearts we leave be-
hind is not to de-" he repeated, land
my desire henceforth is not only to
live in the hearts of my children, but
in the hearts of the suffering and un-
fortunate of mankind. Union Signal.
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INSECTS IN WINTER.
Many show Wonderful Instinct In
Caring for Their Eggs During
the Cold Months.

A little boy once asked his father
if the house flies went south for the
winter, like the birds; and then his
father told him long story about
different insects and what became OF
them during the cold months.
He told the boy that when the au-
tumn comes the death knell of mil
lions of flies has sounded. They do
not prepare for winter as many
other insects do. The majority die,
and their little bodies are blown away
by the passing breeze. A few hardy
flies will linger. in the cracks in the
walls, creep under the door frames or
into crevices in the woodwork, and
some naturalists believe that these
few lingering flies are the parents of
the multitude that appear in the
warm days of June, for they lay thou
sands of eggs.
Katydids, grasshoppers, crickets
and beetles are killed by the frost,
and the eggs which they hide in the
ground or conceal in the bark of
trees furnish the supply for the next
year. These hatch out in the warm
days of spring.
Beetles exhibit wonderful in
stinct in caring for their eggs during
winter. Among some species the eggs
are rolled in balls of material suit
able for food, and then the balls are
packed away in nest until the in
FAINT beetle wakes up and eats its way
out.
Then there are "sexton" beetles,
which deposit their eggs in the bodies
of dead birds or field mice, after
which they set to work and perform
the proper rites of burial, heaping
the earth upon the body of the dead.
The young beetle, when Matched from
the egg, finds store of food awaiting
it's arrival in the world.
1t is said that spiders store away nc
food supply in winter quarters. Guam
titles of eggs are laid and carefully
sheltered in velvety cobweb sacks that
defy the weather. These sacks may
be found swinging by silken robes
from the goldenrod and milkweed,
and hidden away in crevices and cor
ners of board fences and stone walls.
The little spiders creep from their
cozy sleeping bags which the wise
mother has provided for them, and if
they escape their cannibal brothers
and sisters they enter at once on CO.
reer of trapping and hunting.
Bees and wasps lay up stores for the
winter, the wasps not as carefully as
the bees, but in the center of the cone
shaped nest of the paper making
wasps may be found goodly stores of
honey. ......,
The thrifty ant deserves much SYM
pathy, in that it is dainty morsel for
spiders, beetles, crickets and other in
sect hunters. A few ants may survive
and feed ON accumulated stores dur
ing the winter, but it is chiefly the
eggs and cocoons hidden away in the
secure underground chambers of the
ant hill that furnish the ant popula-
ton of the following summer.
The ans care of it's young; the
of its slaves, and the
tiny insect cows which they capture
and from which the honeydew is
MIXED, all would furnish tale as in
teresting as the customs of any wan
dering tribes Of the desert or any lost
nation of darkest African. Y. Trib-
une.
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HIS Patience Wa. Exhausted.

Little four-year-old Willie had been
told repeatedly that he must never
ask for anything at the table, but
should wait patiently till he was
served. One day while dining at 9
neighbours with his mother the little
fellow was accidentally overlooked
Patience finally ceased to be virtue
and in an audible whisper he said:
Mamma, do little boys go to Heaven
when they starve to death"
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Comforting Poor Papa.

A well-known business man whose heac
10 bare, yet who wears lnxuriant growth
Of whiskers, was being rallied recently fol
being bald by some of his intimate friends
in the presence of his small daughter. Lit
in Jest, and crawling upon her parents lar
put her arms about his neck and turned
defiantly toward his tormentors: MY papa
w'ud ruvver hav' his top hair on his chin
w'udn't you, ?-Chicago Chronicle.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
Invention. wanted,

"'Over in Africa" said the armored-
train engineer, 1--WE need bomb-proo4
passenger trains" ....
"And over in America" spoke up
the trans-continent engineer, 1--WE
need bum-proof freight cars."-At-
lanta Constitution.
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: His Way.

"Twiggs is one of your old familiar
friends. isn't he?''
"Well, he isn't such an old friend,
but he's darned famllfar."-Chicago
Record.
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HhrenOlOE.y..

First Man-Do you think that yon
can tell mans character by the bumps
on his head?
Second Ditto-Well, think you can
tell more of his wife's character by
them!-N Y World. ......
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
An AccPeti0u.

'tWell, sir" said the slangy man, "he
made me look like 80 cents"
"You ought not to complain about that,
for it is an improvement"
What do you mean"
Ordinarily you look like a nickel.
Detroit Free Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
Her Other Glory.

"Woman's GROWING glory is her
hair"
'That may be; but it never lessons
her desire for q new hat."-Brooklyn
Life. .
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
Many Unin h a bited Islands.

Between Madagascar and the coast
of India there are about 16, 900 islands,
only 600 of which are inhabited, but
most of which are capable of support
ing Observation-Disclosures News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
FathOma DeeD.

"What are you nosing around that At
lantic cable for" said the lobster to the
bluefsh. .....-.
"Oh," said the latter, nonchallantly
"mereEy picking up few ocean currents. "
Detroit Free Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
Amended.

Friend-You don't believe in the rule
"Never prophesy unless you know?"
Fortune Teller-Oh, not Our rule is:
''Never prophesy unless you're paid for
it,"-Puck.
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SCHOOLBOY OF THE FUTURE.
After He Has Run the Gauntlet
Of Prescribed Interrogation
He May Begin to Learn.

Teacher Ito applicant for admission)-
Johnnie. have you got certificate of vac.
cination? a-E
eyes, sir" -....,.
"Have yoY been innoculated for Group"
bacilli?" ..., -.
eyes, sir"
'Have you a written guarantee that you
are proof against whoopins cough, measles,
humps and old age?"
eyes, sir"
"Have you your own private drinking
cup?," ,.+ II.
EDO you promise not to exchange sponges
with, the boy next to you, and never use
any but your own pencil?
eyes, sir"
sSWill you agree to have your books fumi-
gated with sulphur and sprinkle your clothes
with chloride of lime once week."
eyes, sir"
"Johnnie, you have met the first require
ments of the modern sanitarium, and NAV
now climb into a seat and forthwith begin
to learn IN. Y. World.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20
Usual Way.

Bobbs-Too bad about hobbs. Lost all of
his furniture because of q false alarm of
fire at his house.
Dobbs-But if there was no fire, how
could his furniture be destroyed?
"Well, you see, hobbs lives in suburban
town where they have volunteer fire de-
partment."- baltimore American.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20

Max O'Rell says Paris is 50 fast that they
: dizzy joker. but time flies all the same.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-12-20

headstone already! Well, l must say
I commend its simplicity. Suitable,
indeed, for man who left his all to
the poor" Q'm afraid Nathaniel Craft
sneered little just here.) HIN, let
me see,' reading easily the bold type
of name and dates, 81 must get out my
glasses for what follows. A silly verse
by some driveling idiot, I presume
ali! To live in hearts we leave behind
is not to die"
Twice, thrice, he repeated the
words, slowly, thoughtfully. The bell
had ceased tolling, and presently he
became aware of voice near by SOL
emily repeating the words: ..
81 am the Resurrection and the Life,
saith the Lord; he that believeth in
Me, though he die, yet shall he live
A singular trembling of the limbs
seized Nathaniel Craft, so that he was
fain to seat himself. Heavy dews
rested upon his brow. An unseen
hand was toying with his heart
strings. ITO live in hearts we leave
behind is not to die-here! To be-
lieve in Him is not to ole-there!'
And believing, he knew, meant some
thing more than faith. 'He that soweth
little shall reap little. :. While we
have time let US do good to all men!
-. Be not deceived; God is not
Knocked. Whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he reap"
Sabbath after Sabbath had he lis
tened to these words seated in his lux.
urious pew, but they had possessed nc
significance for him. Even there
stocks and bonds occupied hi:
thoughts most of the time Mr.. Gold
across the aisle. he felt, was institut
ing corner in coffee for the coming
, 1900-10-25
-Cruikshank.

James Forbes and Miss Jessie
C%ruikshank were united in marriage
at Hebron, Colo, on the 18th inst, by
Rev. Oliver of that place.
Mr.. Forbes is foreman of the Tay.
lor ranch, on Grizzley, and has been a
resident of the North Park country
for many years. He has many friends,
who will join in wishing him happi-
ness.
Miss Jessie is from Yonkers, n. Y,
and has resided in the Park but a
short time, but she has made a great
many warm friends during her stay
here, and is very well liked indeed.
She was dressed in cream colored
silk and made a lovely picture. Mrs.
Lew Moore was brides maid and was
becomingly attired. William Hill
vas best man.
A very pleasant time was had by
the assembled guests that night. The
bride and groom departed the next
morning for Denver, where they will
spend the first days of their newly
married life. The presents were quite
numerous and very handsome.
, 1900-10-25
M owry-B Brewer.

Hugh G.. Mowry and Miss Mabel
c. Brewer were married at high noon
yesterday, at the residence of the
brides parents, on Spring creek, by
Rev. Robinson, in the presence of the
relatives and a few invited friends.
MI. Mowry is a young man of good
character and excellent standing in
the community. Miss Mahel is the
eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
G. Brewer. She was born and raised
in the valley and has a host of friends
who will join in wishing her and her
husband "a happy welded life.
1t was "a very pretty wedding. The
house was decorated with evergreen
and chrysantheums. The bride
and groom stood under an arch of
evergreen. Miss Mamie, the brides
sister, and Otis, brother of the groom,
stood up with them. The bride and
her maid were dressed in white lawn
trimmed with lace and insertion,
and made a lovely picture. After the
marriage the assembled company sat
down to a fine dinner to which all did
Justice.
, 1900-10-25
Death of General Fisher.

The death of Judge Fisher in Chey.
enne last Friday removes one of the
the old land marks from the pioneers
of this state. The General came to
Wyoming in 1871 as associate Justice
and was shortly made chief Justice
of the state, a position he held for
nearly ten years. His army service,
of which he was very proud-and
justly so-was commenced as a pri-
vate. He rose to the rank of Captain
and then to Colonel and when the
war closed was a brigadier General.
He was a very upright man and
citizen and every n who knew him
will remember him with pleasure and
sympathize with the children he left
behind him. His death at the age of
81 years is not to be regarded with
sorrow or regret, for he had rounded
out a useful life in a peaceful death
"a natural as though he had fallen as
sleep.
, 1900-10-25
HE SUN SHINES FOR ALL"
Republican Speakers.

Next Monday evening General HUI
go Donzlemann will address the peo-
pie of Saratoga in the evening.
From here he goes to Riverside, where
he speaks at 2 p. M, at Encampment
at 8 o'clock in the evening. The next
day, Oct. 31st, he will speak in Osceola
and OF the LIST of November he will
address the citizens of Battle. No
one should fail to hear the General
for his talk will be illustrated with a
sterioptican giving some of the views
of working people of the old country
and comparing their condition with
the working men of this awfully down
trodden, imperialistic country.
On the evening of the 3rd of No
vember Senator Warren will be here
and address the citizens of this town,
and as this is the only place he will
speak in Carbon county everybody
from all over the valley should come
out and hear him. Senator Warren
is one of the most fluent speakers in
the entire state and there is no doubt
but there will be a large crowd out to
hear his address.
, 1900-10-25

Continuances have been granted
until the May term of the district
court in a number of important cattle
and horse stealing cases, among the
number being that of Sam Green.
The cas- of Tom Sun and others
against Willis George Emerson, b. j.
Mccartney of Denver and the Encamp-
ment Town company, asking hal a
receiver be appointed, will be taken
to Cheyenne on a change of venue.
The case of state against Frank
Keefe, charged with assaulting the
editor of the Rawlins Republican with
a rock with intent to commit murder,
was continued and Keefe was releas-
ed on $1,000 bonds.
Mrs. Laura c. Brewer was granted
"A divorce from Harlan W. Brewer last
week.
The estate of l.. Annette Northrup,
of which C. w. Maxfield was the adj
ministrator, was settled up last week
in the district court.
, 1900-10-25

The party of Burlington surveyors
which began work on the Negus sur.
vey between Wheatland and Rock
Creek, last week, are camped on the
Blue Grass, and are actively at work
running surveys through that section
of the hills. The only undesirable
part of the Negus servey, so the Bur.
lington engineers say, are three OF
four miles near the summit of the hills,
and to correct the route into a more
favorable grade out onto the Laramie
plains is the chief work before the
Burlington surveyors at this time.
The truth is, that events point more
strongly every day toward the Bur
lington building this way when it goes
ahead with its Ogden line.-Wheat-
land World.
, 1900-10-25
Republican Candidate for County Clerk

Harry B. Jennings, republican can
didate for county clerk, was in the
city Monday and Tuesday in the in
terest of his canvass. Mr.. Jennings
is a Wyoming boy, has been raised
and educated among us, is as straight
as a string and a very capable man in
every way and if he is elected clerk,
as we have every reason to believe he
will be, will make a most capable and
painstaking officer. He is well versed
in the duties of the office, having been
in the employ of j. W. Hugus &
Co. for the past six years as their
trusted clerk and employee and The
Sun takes great pleasure in fully and
unqualifedly endorsing Mr.. Jennings
for the place.