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contains the least unconverted starch and
little, If any, glucose.
The material used for the purpose of
making stamp gum looks very much like
flour except in color, and is perfectly clean
and wholly vegetable. When the postal
is delivered in bulk at the bureau by the
contractors ii is contained in double sacks
of 200 pounds each. Before using every
consignment is carefully inspected and is
subjected to a microscopic examination
and chemical analysis by the bureaus
chemist. This is to discover If the gum is
of the best quality and up to the standard
furnished by the successful bidders. 1t Is
next tested to see IL it meets the working
requirements of cumming stamps. The
qualities required by the government in
the gum are adhesiveness, luster, absence
of grit. fiexibilty. resistance to humidity
and color. II the gum does not meet all
these requirements ii is rejected. At the
present time about $50 pounds of dry gum
is used daily and the contractor for the
present fiscal year will be required to fur
nish about 100000 pounds. The average
cost of the dry postal gum Is about 8 cents
per pound, and thus the daily cost to the
SIS
;. Down IN the bxsement Of ~ kureau
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tion of gum and paper. Rigid and continu-
Gus inspection is made by Mr.. Fred J..
Croker, the expert head of this division
of the bureau of engraving and printing.
1t is Mr.. Crocker's scientific knowledge of
this work which insures such accuracy in
the preparation of stamps for public use.
The careful inspections. make it almost
impossible for sheets of stamps to be ne
elected in the process of cumming. One
employee is detailed whose duty it is to
keep the liquid gum at a temperature of
so degrees, with a spcific gravity Of % by
the Baume scale. 1t is also the duty of
this employee to furnish each machine
pressman with the required amount Of
liquid gum.
Affected by the Humidity.
The varying degrees of humidity in the
atmosphere present many difficulties to the
operatives in the cumming room. Expert
ments have shown that the Mississippi val
ley, south of St. Louis to New Orleans, is
the most trying part of the United States
to furnish gummed stamps to by reason of
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had delayed payment. Those who had
paid got no relief.
The kiowa reservation is opened with
the same provision that each homesteader
shall pay S1.23 per acre for his land, but
1t is now being freely promised by the
politician in that section that as soon as
Congress meets the free homes bill'' will
be so extended in its operations as to
throw the burden of the purchase of the
lands from the Indians upon the national
treasury. There will not be so much in
Justice in this case as there was in the
original workings of the measure as no
one who takes up land on the Kiowa re-
serve will make any effort to pay for the
same until all hope of government relief is
abandoned
These are but details, however of the
great lesson in land legislation which has
been taught by the operations of the home
stead law in Oklahoma. A great state has
been built from its foundation to compile
ton In a brief ten years by the simple
who was willing to- earn. the same by
for instance. prevailed in Oklahoma from
the time of the opening to settlement thou
sands of acres of land now contributing
their quota to the annual wheat yield of
2o,O0OO 600 bushels would be inclosed in some
cattlemans fence, where. twenty acres of
land are allowed as only sufficient for the
support of a single cow. Oklahoma, when
admitted to the Union, will possess the
proud distinction of being the only ..home-
stead state" and there can be no other
for the lesson has only been learned as the
last commonwealth was in the final stage
of its ripening. ]. d. WHELPLEY
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nally are not in many instances the same
who have secured the final deeds. On the
whole. the population of the territory may
be said to have changed several times dur
ing the past decade. However this may
be- the result has been the same in the
end. Actual residence and Improvement OF
the property was a, requisite to securing
title and if one settler relinquished his
rights another purchased or appropriated
them and SO carried out the contract with
the government, which contemplates re-
suits rather than individuals, being imper-
sonal.
Every man who takes up a homestead
and complies with the law builds house
of greater or less pretensions. To build
this house takes labor and material. A
sufficient amount of cultivation must then
be given the land to prove good intentions.
To cultivate land horses and implements
are necessary, these being barns, fences
and all the other appurtenances of a farm.
The result is home. 1t may be poor one
and generally is at first, but it is an i'm
portant unit in the community neverthe-
less. If there is no family in this home
at first one Is not long in coming, for of the
farm it was evidently written that it is
not good for man to dwell alone.
Room for Pent-Up Energies.
A few of the Oklahoma homesteads have
been held, and even title has been secured
without observing the spirit as well as the
letter of the homestead law, but in the
very fact that on these 5000 homestead
claims and in the towns dependent upon
them for business. now live 100000 people,
lies the proof that a great majority of
the settlements have been honest, have
been the making of the people who ac-
complished them, and that in Oklahoma
several hundred thousand people have
found an outlet for energies cramped In
older communities
Oklahoma, by virtue of the very manner
In which it has Deen settled, was refuge
for people of limited means. The rich had
no need to brave the hardships. of sod
farming. Those who were well enough or
where they were saw no inducement to
leave a sure thing for questionable ven
tures In an unknown land. which ten years
aro possessed not entirely enviable repu-
L. - Ear go
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Some Cuban English.

from the new YORK Herald.
Since the war with Spain and the occu-
patton of Cuba by the United States Ha-
vana merchants have almost completely
revolutionized their business methods Many
of them employed English-speaking clerks
and correspondents, but from the following
circular, which was widely distributed in
New York by mail yesterday, it is evident
that the writer might have been more
easily understood IL he had written in
Spanish:
Never before there was so good a
chanse to get the highest brands in ha-
vana cigars as we offer!
HAVANA, June %, 1901
Dear Sirs: We have the pleasure to par
take you we are just starting an special
mail order department which practically
renders the service of saving time and
money.
Having you to pay for Havana cigars
every where in the stats, besides expenses
and duties the profits of middemen surely
you can't get them but at too high a price,
while ordering from us we put you perhaps
to no other expenses than those of for
warding, and our reasonably profit viz:
Can quote you for any brand. Can ship
"a hours after receipt of order.
I'VE would send your by mail once a
week or several times to several addresses
one box containing 25 cigars of the brand
you chose in one package, which regis
tered as samples you get at your post
office probably without paving duties on
them.
1--WE charge you price-list price Postage
for registered box of % cigars is from 80
to 40 cents.
Add to both quantities 10 per cent ito
pay our expenses and get some profit and
you will know the cost of your cigars at
home.
Although you had to pay duties YOU
save 90 per cent, which is the profit of the
importer & retail.
Make a trial with us and you will in
crease your orders to mutual advantage.
Trusting to hear from you with an order
no matter how small it is, and assuring
you to do our best to deserve your pa
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Oh u RICH JUBILEE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF A GER
MAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Celebration at Trinity, Corner of 4th
aud E Streets NOrthwest-His-
tory of the Congregation.

The fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the German Evangelical Lutheran Trim
ity Church. corner of 4th and E streets
northwest, will be celebrated tomorrow by
a jubilee service. Two services will be
held during the day and evening. In the
morning Rev. P. Brand of Pittsburg will
deliver an address in German, and Rev. w.
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A Necessity.

Il NeceBsIty.
From the Philadelphia Press
Subbubs-'I expect to spend the summer
on houseboat."
Citiman-"I thought you were going to
build summer residence on that lot you
bought at Swamphurst.''
Enthusiastically. That's where ex-
pect to float the houseboat I've built
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His scheme.

From the Baltimore American.
Tigg-"Did you hear what Count Ded-
broke tried to do when he came over here
In search of an heiress?'
Nigg-"No. What was t?''
Tigg-"Wanted a position as tax asses.
sor. so he could get inside information"
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ThoushtfuI Of Hin.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Housekeep-'"rhat was very small
quart Of peaches you sent me. and be-
sides they were very green"
Dealer.--.sY es'm, I noticedth were green.
90 thought I'd better not send you enough
80 do You any hag1s"
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Phlebitis and Flea Bites.

From the New York Times
There are in the pension service some
medical officers described by pension Of
flee people as crooked stick" physicians
whose knowledge of anatomy, physiology
pathology and prescribing is painfully linn
tied. An applicant for pension increase has
asserted in his application that he was suf-
fering from phlebtis. A crooked stick
got hold of the applicant read his appli-
cation papers, made his, examination and
reported that the man was suffering from
flea bites from the hip down. Then he
recommended that the applicant should
De given an increase of pension for these
disabilities incurred in the service which
In pensionable degree deprived him of
the ability to earn a livelihood
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Evening Thinw. Up.

-AvCHHnB AH1BU W.
From the New York Times
she-'.They say Younsum's wife is much
older. than he II"
,He-"Yes? Well, at his rapid gait he'll
soon catoA - With hsss' =
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An Explanation.

An EXPIanaffOm.
From the Chicago News.
He-"What beautiful chestnut hair Miss
Yelicrton has,"
Slle--"No wonder. She uses the comic
DAperss 20 do her hair up 81. =.
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The Vaudeville Mn

From the Chicago Record Herald
Daughter, perhaps If you take more
time with your hair it wouldn't look SO
rough and baggy over your left eye"
Time? Why, pa, 1t took me two solid
hours to make II look that way"
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STOPPED THE TRAIN.
{ay President willing to Obligo
Bonner After q COnfesstOn
Was Made.

=, Charles p. Clark, formerly president
of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad, was a man with old
fashioned ideas about integrity. Aft
er Mr.. Robert Bonner had purchased
Maud S. and sent her to Charter Oak
park to be trained the writer met Mr..
Clark under peculiar circumstances.
The train we had taken from New
York did not stop at the track. and
Mr.. Bonner requested US to try di-
plomacy. The conductor was polite,
but could not 60 against orders. At
New Haven, where halt was made,
the engineer was approached. The
sight of ten-dollar bill had almost
persuaded him to slow up at Charter
Oak, when suddenly his manner
changed and there was a curt re-
fusal. We were informed that Mr..
Clark had boarded the train at New
Haven, and quickly went in search OF
him. We found him silent and in
clined to be gruff, but stated the
case plainly to him.
'Why don't you see the conductor?
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06
that the space pervading ether is &
form of electricity.

that the space pervading ether is y
form of electricity.
This theory strongly supports Mr..
Tesla's claim that intelligences in
widely separated planets can COM
municate with each other, and is in
line with the often expressed hypothe
sis that electrical energy playsa great
part in the motion of the spheres, and
may be the real cause of wha. We call
gravity
Even Newton said he doubted the
power of matter attracting matter
through vacuum, and intimated that
he believed there must be some moving
substance or energy forcing the bodies
together, and he found the law that
the force of attraction diminishes ac-
cording to the inverse square to be in
accord with the theory. Now, accord
ing to Prof. Pence, we may Snd that
electrical energy is forcing matter in
all directions, and is the cause of what
we term attraction of gravitation.
This electrical ether, if it exists, is
consistent with wel-known facts in
wireless telegraphy, and it's permeat-
ing the earth may, it is claimed, be the
real cause of the ground circuit.
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FOOD FOR ALLIGATORS.
Children Of the Natives Are Deyoured
BY the c.mitns Of Colom-
bin Rivers,

"The Magdalena river in Colombia"
said j. r. Macarthur, of Buffalo, re-
ports the New York Tribune, sis much
infested by alligators, or camians, as
the natives call them. They grow to
enormous size, and are odthirsty.
These alligators will kill child read
lily, and in consequence of the danger
from them the natives are accus-
toned to build in front of their vii
lagos protective breakwaters. This
is done by driving piles into the bed
Of the river, short distances apart.
The heads of the piles protrude
above the water and run in semi
circle from the bank out into the
stream and back again. The camians
cannot get into this space, and all
the washing and bathing Of the vii
lage is done therein with absolute
safety. Some years ago I was as
cending the Magdalena, when we
came to small village. Wanting
something, I landed, but could find
no one in the huts, save a solitary
native woman, who was weeping Bit
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06

he asked. II have, but he will not
disobey orders" "Why not, then, go
forward and bride the engineer" II
tried bribery at New Haven, but it
would not work" The absence OF
evasion was the best policy. Mr.. Clark
went to the drawing-room car with
us, was introduced to Mr.. Bonner,
spoke in admiration of Maud S. and
of the position of her owner in trot-
ting affairs and then ordered the
conductor to stop the train. He also
took card from his pocket and wrote
on it general order to conductors
to stop all trains at Charter Oak park
for Mr.. Bonner. Mr.. Clark had wit
messed the little attempt at bribery,
and frank confession of the offense
seemed to please him.
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Prairie Fire-Guards.

One of the methods of protecting
broad grass lands from fire is to burn
swath called ''freguard" around
the area to be protected. A Montana
stockman suggests that this offers a
good opportunity for inventors to de-
wise machine which, passing over the
ground like horserake, shall burn
the grass clean from a space about
eight or ten feet in width. Already
an apparatus of this kind has been
invented, using gasolene to set the
grass on fire and train of steel
brushes to extinguish it before it has
spread beyond the proper limits, but
the stockman thinks that cheaper
machine can be made. "Fireguards"
so miles, or more, in length are de-
sirable.-Youth's Companion.
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Il Who bides beneath q roatsto-day.
II he may set his foot abroad Is !
Along the woodsy outland way,
Is little better than q clod!
There II no. thing in all the land
That does not seem articulate;;
The grasses smile, and understand
The vireo calling to his mate.
K Tall pine-tops unto pine-tops breathe
In sighings murmurous as the sea;
And through the birchen copse beneath
There runs a fluting harmony.
In the half dusks Of tangled green
The pale wild-rose's censor burns,
And in each hollow may be seen
The fragile laceries Of the ferns.
While over all, for all to share,
Placid and pure and wide and high,
Mist-winnowed by the searching air,
Broods motherly Gods open sky.
Then grip the oak-staff, We who may,
And set the pilgrim foot abroad!
Who. willing, bides within to-day
Is little better than a clod!
Clinton Scollard. in Youths Companion.
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PRESENT RULERS OF WORLD.
Only One Woman Among the Number
Since the Death of Queen
Victoria.

The death Of Queen Victoria leaves
but one female ruler in the world,
Queen Wilhelmina, of the Netherlands.
This, makes the proportion Of sover-
eighty IS men to one woman. These
are the rulers ofsthe world: Twenty
two presidents, 16 kings, II dukes, 6
emperors, 5 princes, 5 sultans, 2 khans,
2 ameers, queen, 1,khedive, l shah,
hey, mikado, -maharajah, rajah.
Only 2 Of these rulers have mere than
! title, Sid Ali Pasha, hey of Tunis, is
the Oldest ruler, having been born in
1917. The youngest active ruler, ex-
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The Irish of 1t.

One Of the city physicians tells an amusing
story about charity patient, an old Irish
woman who sent him hurry-up call. He
found her suffering from nothing more Sc.
cordingiy. Two days later When he dropped
In to see how she was getting along the old
lady was sitting up in an easy chair, her
head wrapped in camphor-saturated cloth.
.'Well, how are you feeling to-day, moth.
err" he asked.
Much better, praise tn saints" was
the fervent reply. "Shure you're foine
docthor If I'd a-sint fer We beforehand
Old niver been sick at all, at all. Detroit
Free Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06

terly. Upon inquiring the reas on, she
said it was because the camians had
that afternoon destroyed a child of
hers. The village was without the
necessary protective breakwatrr, and
I therefore asked why they didn't
build one. We're thinking of IT, she
answered, 'as this is the second child
we have lost within three weeks
Children, it is perhaps needless to
explain. are cheaD in Colombia"
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q sufferer from ca.

D01AS1AA4 II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
catarrh. as my cure is complete"
Hon. B. B. Doyiner, Congressman
from West Virginia, in letter from
Washington, D. c., to The Peruna Med
icine Co., says the following of their
catarrh remedy, Peruna:
II join with my colleagues in the
House of Representatives in recon-
mending your excellent remedy,
Peruna, as a good tonic and also an
effective cure for catarrh."
Mrs. Mary C. Fentress writes from
Paradise, Tex, the following: II think
I can say that your good advice and
medicine has cured me of chronic ca
tarrh. I have had no pains in my head
since I have taken Peruna. I have been
in bad health ever since SO, and have
taken good many medicines which
were only of temporary relief. Peruna
is the catarrh cure. The Peruna
stopped my catarrh of the head SO
that it did not become chronic, and
am very thankful for DR.. Hartman's
advice and medicine"
Peruna is specific for all catarrhal
diseases. It acts quickly and bene-
fcially upon the infamed mucous
membrane thus removing the cause of
catarrh.
Catarrh is catarrh wherever located.
Catarrh is essentially the same every
where. The remedy that will cure
catarrh in one situa ton will cure it in
all situations.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Peru
ma, write at once to DR.. Hartman, Civ
ing a full statement of your case and
he will be pleased to give you his val
liable advice gratis. ...
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
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UNIVERSAL ENERGY.
influence May He 4 Moving
Force i'm the Motion OF the /.
Spheres.

This age is giving a dignity and place
to electricity that were not dreamed
of few years ago, and now comes NJ.
L. Pence; professor of physics in the
Kentucky college, at Lexington, claim
ing-and not without strong proof
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06
! Confidence between Members.

IT understand" said one member of the
legislature, "that the senator whom we re.
Gently elected was beset by footpads and
robbed in Paris"
"Dear me!' answered the other member
of the legislature. ''Those Frenchmen have
such brutal and direct method Of getting
a mans money away from him. Washing.
Ton Star
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Career and Character of Abraham
Lincoln,

An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassa::
dor to Great Britain, on the career and
life-his early struggles with the world
his character as developed in the later
years of his life and his administration,
which placed his name so high on the
worlds roll Of honor and fame, has been
published by the Chicago, Milwaukee l. St.
Paul Railway and may be had by sending
six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, Gen.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06
Sleep, Daby. sleep.

"See here" exclaimed Ms, Popleigh, ri
don. propose to have that burglar alarm
in our bedroom. Well put it downstairs
in the hail."
"Nonsense!" replied his wife. "Then we
won't hear it when it goes Off"
"Neither will the baby That's the main
point" -Philadelphia Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06

It remained for Love to laugh at lock-
smith and still keep a straight face in the
presence of q minister assisting" at a we'd
ding.-Detroit Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids l. North
ern Railway has gotten out neat booklet
descriptive Of the beautiful summer resorts
at Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in Northwest
ern Iowa. Free copies will be mailed upon
application to Jno. G.. Farmer, Assistant
Genl. Pass. Agt., Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06
1t Would Seem So,

Hix-Has your friend Wederly a hobby?
Dix-Well, I wouldn't call it hobby.
It's more like insanity.
Flows that"
"He's been married Ave times. Chicago
Daily News.
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Your neighbors abuse you for one of these
two things: you are silly about sending
for a doctor every time the baby sneezes,
are too miserly.--Atchison Globe.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06


of
Hazelhurst Miss,
~ happy that cured of catarrh and need no
satisfaction that able to
you all you claim.
that will need no more medcine" re-
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tn
IS Al N Y.
OF
a
practice n
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06

GLIDING the little Alfonso of Spain, is
the girl queen of Holland. A glance at
the incomes of European rulers shows
our own presidents salary in the light
of very small potatoes" For the
Russian emperor's income is $4,000
600, the sultan of Turkey draws $1O,-
100000 salary, the Austrian emperor
gets $3,775,000, the German emperor,
$3,752,Ooo; the king of Italy, sass, 900;
England's sovereign $1,92O,0OO. and the
kings of Bavaria and Spain somewhat
smaller sums.
The King Still q Club Member.
King Edward VII, contrary to wide
~ circulated reports, has not re-
signed from any of the London clubs
Of which, as prince of Wales, he was
. member. He has, however, retired
from the committees of the Marlbor.
ough on which he had been serving.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-06-06
Hard Bread.

Mr.: Newlywed-.Come, won't you break
bread with us to-day?
Jack Jester-No, thanks, old man; you
see, can't stand manual labor. By the
way, is it her first attempt?-Ohio State
journal.