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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
A BATTLE WITH BEES.
Attempt ut Plllaglng That Resulted
DlsastrOusly for Two
Individuals.

One day during the war a brigade
halted and stacked arms in a lane,
the Tenth Kentucky being directly i'll
front of a farm house, and the Four
teenth Ohio next down the road. The
soldiers were lolling around in the
fence corners, waiting for marching
orders. An old gentleman came out
of the house with every indication OF
being in an ill-humor, relates the
and excitedly, boosted that he had
fou: sons in the southern army, and
he wished to God he had 40 more, and
if he had he would send every one to
fight for the south. Now, was al
ways opposed to pilaging, but that
kind of argument gave me an appe-
tite for honey, and I saw a long row
of beehives in the back yard. With
out saying anything to my comrades
I stepped over where the hives were.
By humping on them with my finger
I discovered one that was filed with
honey. Just then a member of the
Fourteenth Ohio brass band, with q
large horn on his arm, happened to
be passing on the outside of the
fence opposite the hive. I spoke to
him: "Hello, partner, help me get
this hive over the fence, and we will
have some honey" He stopped and
lifted the hive and placed it on the
top rail of the fence. He took hold
to steady it until could get over, but
the bees stung his hands, and he let
it fail. 1t went on his side of the
fence, Earring out gallon or two OF
bees directly on his feet. They rose
in perfect cloud, completely COW
ering him. I lodged back in some
plum bushes where I was safe from
the bees, and where I could enjoy the
fun.
He started across a large wood pas
ture, swinging his horn in one hand,
and fighting the bees with the other,
and, as far as could see him, he was
running. But while was laughing at
him negro came around the corner
of the fence. do not know whether
he saw the bees or not, but he walked
up among them as deliberately as if
they were only so many gnats. In two
seconds there was at least quart of
bees in his wool, and then the perform
ance began. I can see it all as plain
as though it were but yesterday. Some
times even after 1 have gone to bed I
happen to think of it, and get to laugh
ing, and my wife wants to know if
an going crazy. Language fails me.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
NATIVE QUARTER OF COLON.
Many NAti0nAlitles Swarm On Tia
Tay Island and All Seem
to Be Happy.

Ihe portion of Colon known as the
"nAtive" quarters is most interesting
to travellers from the land of Uncle
Sam, says the Detroit Free Press.
Such heterogeneous collection of
nationalities as swarm there would
be hard to duplicate. It is estimated
that fully $4,000 people remain on the
tiny island, and large portion of them
are blacks from Jamaica and Santo
Domingo-tall, powerfully built men
and women, with the --LATEST noses,
thickest lips and wooliest wool that
ever grew on human craniums. The
circumscribed space wherein they
swarm and breed like feas bears no
comparison to any other of like dimen-
sions under the sun. The one street
and the narrow alleys that intersect
it are at all times crowded with ne
gresses-bo!d, Haunting creatures,
many Of thsm in bedraggled dresses
OF white lsss o. embroidery, with beau
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11

side of my right foot, and slapped both
feet from under me. Mike lifted me
up and said whatever it was that
slapped me never touched me. Then
he shouldered me off toward the rear.
ut was case of must, Mike said. 1
had to use my legs or be captured. At
first my feet were like wooden blocks,
but the further I walked the better
they felt, and finding a bright, clean
rifle on the field I became interested
in the shooting and forgot all about
slapping Mike or being slapped by
something that Mike said never
touched me. That night found two
bullet holes in my hat, three in my
overcoat, two flesh wounds on one leg
and three scratches on the other, and
I never thought of my foot. My right
boot was full of blood, but Mike saidit
came from a wound just above my
knee and let it go at that.
"But that blood came from my foot
and from that day to this have had
the jumping toothache in that foot,
whenever q storm is brewing. Rheu.
lnatism? No, sir, can stand in the
water or in the snow all day and have
no pain. But three or four hours be-
fore heavy rain or snow storm is due,
there is jumping, humping tootha CHI
~ pain in that foot and no questions
asked< That continues until the rain
or snow comes, and then the foot is as
easy and comforta bic as any foot in this
world. Mike told me later that the
thing that struck me seemed to fly up
from the ground, but the air was so
full of flying things that he thought I
was lucky to escape with bruise,
when q dozen OF the boys were shot
through and through. This was the
view / took of the matter then, and
never counted my lame foot as q
wounded foot, and yet it gives me more
trouble than all my other wounds put
together"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
Cleaning Oriental Rags.

If you have genuine oriental rug
YOU need not fear to wash it whenever
the surface becomes soiled, as the COL
ors are perfectly fast and the rugs
have been washed many times before
they are brought to this country.
Fasten it to a smooth, hard floor and
wash with strong soapsuds, then rinse
thoroughly with clear water to re-
move every trace of the soap. Squeeze
out what water you can by pressing
the rug while it lies on the floor and
let it dry before removing it. In this
way it will retain its shape. When
dry rub with soft brush to remove
any stiffness there may be. In the
summer the rug may be nailed to the
side of the barn and after it is washed
can be thoroughly rinsed by turning
water on it with . hose.-Chicago
News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
FAM1NE1N BRITTANY.
&ardine Fishers and Their IndustI1.
0us Wives and DaughteFs 81
Brink OF Starvation.

England has not forgotten the fish
ers of Brittany in the hour of their
need. Out of sympathy for . people
that can suffer uncomplainingly and
in recognition of the kindly and rever.
entail treatment they accorded the
English victims of the Drummond cas-
tie disaster, many Englishmen have
subscribed substantial sums toward
the relief of the distress brought about
by the failure of the sardine fishing.
Though the keen edge of the hunger
which scores of thousands of men,
women and children silently endured
for several months has happily been
removed, much want and misery still
exist. The people of a country of null.
tifarious industries, upon no single
one of which the workers as whole
are dependent, cannot appreciate the
abyss of despair into which the Bretons
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
FIGHTING THE BBES.

I cannot describe it, but it was the
funniest performance ever saw. That
negro got himself into more ridicu-
lous attitudes and changed from one
to anotherquickerth than ever saw any
one before. Although the poor devil
was nearly stung to death, laughed
until was actually sore, and concluded
that any man that could not laugh at
such a performance was jutifiable in
committing suicide. But the manwith
the bass horn, I have never seen yet
that know of. If he is living would
like to hear from him. I want to know
when he stopped running. He surely
cannot have forgottenit. think those
bees made lasting impression.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
T0OTHACHE IN HIS FOOr.
Pat Flanagan Contracted 1t During
the Civil War and 1t IL Still
with Him.

"Did you ever have the jumping
toothache in the foot of you?" asked
Pat Flanagan of the major, relates the
Chicago Inter Ocean. 1T was like
this" said Pat. II carried, at Stone
River, the cleanest and brightest rifle
in the company And all the boys
knew it. When the rebs shot that rifle
out of my hands couldn't bulge on
account of being stunned and boiling
over mad. Right at my side was Nike
Higgins, with as dirty a rife as ever a
good soldier carried, and he was fir
ing as fast as he could Load and pull
the trigger, and he was yelling at me
why in the devil didn't shoot, when
I decided to slap him once for luck.
Just then something slapped me on the
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11

tiful white silk shawls, bare feet thrust
into high-heeled French slippers and
kinky hair half covered with bright
handkerchiefs, coquettishly knotted
into double bow sort of turbans set far
back on the head so as not to inter-
fere with the exaggerated "bang" like
miniature brush heap which every
one OF them affects. There was a time
when the large negro element became
extremely dangerous, and that was i'm
mediately after the collapse of the
French canal scheme, when thousands
OF these people were suddenly thrown
out OF work and famine stared them
in the face. In spite of poverty these
happy-go-lucky children of Ham seem
perfectly contented, singing, laughing
and dancing the careless hours away.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11

days later, she was unaware of the
small figure which followed her like
q shadow. If she had turned and no.
ticed Mays afternoon outing would
have come to q sudden termination
or else continued under proper sur
vigilance.
However, she did not turn, and SO
it was that Mag finally arrived at the
square and looked around her to see
how the land lay. There were many
prettily-dressed children romping over
the grass, all of them happy and rich
Oh, yes! rich, of course; but for some
minutes it seemed that Mag was
doomed to disappointment.
Nov, Miss Madge-"
All, that was the name! Mag wheeled
around and saw beautiful little Rirl
who was walking with her nurse, but,
surely, there must be some mistake.
Aadge the Lady had hair just like
that, but she wore red coat, and this
Madge had a black coat. It must be
that Aadge the Lady had two coats.
She had heard once of girl who was
was said to have two coats, but one
of them was for Sunday wear.
Here was parsonage who wore two
different coats, both of them on week
days, and might even have still an
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11

were plunged in consequence of the de-
sertion of their coasts by the sardine.
Upon the catching, curing and pack
ing of sardines thousands of Bretons
exist. Fathers and sons engage in the
fishing, while mothers and daughters
work at the preparation of the "catch"
for export. The best of years produces
a total income upon which an artisans
family in London could not live for
more than four months; when The sea-
son proves an absolute blank, as did
the last one, starvation is the inevitable
result. For weeks the Bretons suffered
the pinch of want without murmur.
They made no parade of their poverty.
Then the truth leaked out, and Europe
was shocked to learn that loo, 900 peo-
pie were on the brink of starvation.
Fifteen thousand families owe their
livelihood to the sardine fishing, OF
boats and $4,000 work at the packing
houses or at home. For the first time
since 1881 the fishing last season was
practically nil. Four factories that in
the previous year packed $4,000 cases of
sardines sent out only 300. Another
firm which normally exports 10,000,O00
of fish yearly shipped no more than
their doors.
Each fisherman catches, in an aver.
age season, from 100000 to 100000
sardines; he did not net more than
1000 last season. In 1901 the men OF
Gulvine harvested 100000 sardines,
representing $4,000. No more than
100000 were taken in 1902, producing
1000, to be divided among the adult
male population. In other words, a
fisherman who earned $40 during 1901
received last season only $3.50. The fe-
male curers who earned $35 in 1901
could only contribute $3.50 toward
keeping their families during the late
season.
The wages of the fishing crews are
arranged on a sort of sliding scale. The
owner of the boat receives about $4.15
for 1000 sardines. He takes half and
the rest is divided among his men, who
usually number five.
In the best of times Breton family
of six or seven mouths has to live for
~ months on about $2s5, but it was
fortunate household whose income last
year totaled $6O-five dollars month
to keep a healthy, hungry family of
half dozen! The good folk are now
at the end of their resources.
The Bretons are picturesque race,
almost primitive in the simplicity of
their wants and aspirations. In the
matter of industrial developmtnt they
are, perhaps, half a century behind the
times; in the observance of certain Gus.
toms they live in an age long past and
unregarded in regions nearer the hub"
of modern enterprise and unitarian.
ism.-London Daily Mail.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
MADG E
THE ! ; MAG 4.
BY w. CALVER MOORE
Copyright, 1903, BY Daily Story Pub. Coz

Copyright, 100. BY Daily Story Pub. Co.,
kfY, AMT she regular swell!
- IN Look at them clothes"
shut up, you! Don't you know how
to behave?"
When Mrs. Davis reached her little
house in the narrow side street and
spread out for preliminary inspection
che clothes she had taken to wash,
thedaughter stood absently gazing out
of the window.
"What are you moonin' like that
for?"
II amt moonin'; I'm thinkin'."
swell, what are you thinkin' about?''
"Her."
"Her? Who's herr"
'"The girl We saw in the square,"
"You better think about these
clothes. She amt none of your kind"
Il wish she was; leastwise wish
was her kind and had such clothes"
"Shut up
Cant I think about her if want?'
Mag Davis, you get at these here
clothes"
Mag" worked for a few minutes
in silence, but to refrain long from
speech was not consistent with her
habit.
"Say, nom, who is she, anyhow"
"How do I know who she is?"
"You been gettin' wash from around
there for a year. Is she the presi-
dents daughter?"
mo. She amt the presidents daugh-
ter: She's Madge Kendall, that's who
she is, and her fathers a millionaire
"Madge, Madge-I wish my name
was Madge."
$50 it is; only she's lady and you
amt. She's Madge the Lady," Then,
as if in explanation: I'VE always
called you Mag cause it comes
handler
"she's Madge the Lady, and I'm
Say, what am I, Mom?"
"You amt nothin' but lazy, good.
for-nothin'
II guess I'm Madge the Mag, that's
what I am. She's Madge the Lady and
I'm just Madge the Mag"
When Mrs. Davis started out to de-
liver the snowy bundle of clothes, two
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
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THE BIRTHSTONE FAD.
After q Lapse Of Some Years 1t Has
Been Taken Up Once More b.
SOciety's Leaders.


percious stones with the signs of ma
tivity. According to the old astrol-
ogers the import of the different pre-
cious stones is altered somewhat when
they are considered with reference TO
the planets, and only certain of the
vast array of stones have potent in
fuences. Thus classified May, June
and December are the months most
lucky to be born in-lucky, that is, so
cred. But other months augur good
character Influences, and no month of
the twelve but offers home inducement
to the mortal born within its orbit.
Even October, with whose governing
influences the opal is interviewer, en-
dows her children with hope and
strong optimistic leanings.
January's child has the garnet for
. birthstone. With it go the attributes
of integrity, generosity and the pow
er to attract many friends
February's nestlings must wear
amethysts. The birth augury is q
mild, pacific disposition, refined tastes
and a smoothly uneventful course
through life.
The bloodstone is identified with
the career of the person born in
March. 1t signifies wisdom, courage;
self-control, all the dominating quail
tiles.
April's child has for birthstone the
diamond, typical of innocence and
highmindedness.
The emerald has to do with the child
born in May. 1t is a most favorable
natal stone, signifying future
Astounding in love and happiness.
June has the agate as keystone to
long life, wealth and felicity, with no
modifying auguries to cloud the horo-
scope.
July has for guiding star the ruby.
imparting good temper, calmness, pa
tience-the temperament that is con-
tent with small share of life's vani-
ties.
August is coupled with the sardonyx
and implies for that person born with
H. it's sphere strong love of family and
many of the domestic virtues. Pride
is indicated, but not arrogance.
The sapphire, for September, in
sures it's BARNS fine sense of justice
and philosophic temperament, favor
ing peace and ease of mind.
October has the opal for birthstone.
Its wards are born optimists, looking
ever on the bright side, and comfort
able companions to live with. It is be-
lieved that most of the indomitable en-
thusiasts and Missionaries come into the
world in October.
The child born in November is by ma
ture loyal. The topaz is his ruling in
Auence, signifying warm heartedness
and a proneness to put sentiment be-
fore business.
December has the turquoise for a
talisman. Children born within these
81 days are endowed with ability for
getting on in the world. Success is
their manifest destiny, not to be
avoided.
The old treatises on birthstones and
their meanings are set forth in the in
volved old-fashioned language that
has gathered ceremony as it has
changed tongues in many translations.
But the above represents the mean
ings which have come down to mod
ern times, and which the jewelers. take
for a standard in filling orders for
customers.-N. Y. Sun.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
The ObMxinr rr,.,s

"You know that Griggs and 1 both
love you. Can't you make a choice
to-day?'
"A choice, indeed! When I do make
choice you can rest assured that IL
will not interest you;"
Thanks. I'll tell Griggs."-Clsvs,
land Plain Dealer.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
strinRink q Bead Chain.

Bead chains are SO popular these
days that bright suggestion for keep
ing them will be welcomed by
many. String them on the finest fiddle
strings, instead of silk thread, and
they will stand an unusual amount of
wear and tear before breaking.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
To Keep q Carpet Bright.

One housewife says that wiping =
carpet with a cloth wrung out in warm
water and ammonia, in which tea
spoonful of kerosene has been mixed.
cleans and brightens the colors ven
deGfuily.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
UNIQUE LAUNDRY LIST.
It Makes u Pretty Little Present for
q Friend and Can He Put To-
9ether for = Few Cents.

To make this article requires piece
of cardboard seven inches long and AZ
inches wide. The "China boy" which
is figure adapted from a picture
found in a humorous journal, is done
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11

IN pen and ink work. India ink may
be had in various colors, and is best
for such work.
The pad may be purchased at any
stationery store for a very few cents,
aud if it cannot he had in the right
size, which is 2H by 3A inches, sharp
knife and a ruler will soon reduce it
to the proper proportions. One of the
small pencils, sold for use with dance
programmes, tied to the cald with
baby ribbon, adds to its convenience.
-American Agriculturist.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
Self.SacPi6clnR.


''In London during lent the hanson
cab trade is always bad" was state
ment made recently in Lambeth coun-
ty court. "People mortify themselves
by walling."-N. Y. Post.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
AMENITIES OF WAR.
Two Relatives on Opposite Sides
Brought Together in an
Odd Way.

To speak of the "amenities of war"
may seem to most persons like a con-
tradition in terms, yet during the civil
war there were many illustrations of
fraternal feeling between the combat
ants, such as has seldom existed be-
tween the soldiers of opposing armies
In any war in the history of the world.
In civil War Tines Mr.. D. w. Howe
tells of one occasion when the confed-
crate soldiers under command of Gen.
J. B. Gordon Indignantly insisted that
the laws of hospitality required the safe
return of q union soldier who had been
surprised while making them friendly
visit.
There were many similar courtesies
during the Atlanta campaign. A
striking exhibition of them was given
at Rocky Face Ridge. The Seventy
ninth Indiana was posted about half
way up the ridge, and at one time the
pickets had orders to keep up steady
fire all night against the confederetes.
One of the Seventy-ninth's pickets
learned in some way that Kentucky
confederate regiment, in which he had
brother or brother-in-law, was near
by. He communicated the fact to the
nearest confederate picket, who kindly
volunteered to find his relative and
bring him to the confederate picket.
line. This he did, and the Seventy
ninth Indiana man and his confederate
relative talked together for several
hours from behind their respective
trees, while each was keeping up a
steady fire, according to orders, against
the enemy's lines. 1t is to be presumed,
however, that they took care not to
aim at each other.
Self-Sacrtnclng.
Snively-1 pride myself on the fact
that l have not even tasted spurious
liquor for 30 years.
Observation-Disclosures that, I suppose,
you were fond of it?
"On the contrary, I always hated
it; never had any desire for it,
II see; that was the reason you BE-
came a teetotaler."-B Trans
cript.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
MOVING.

Let him who would move the world
get . move on himself frst.-Chicagu
Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-06-11
vvhe, rots Are Discolored.

II teapots Or coffeepots become dis
eolored on the inside, boil IN strong
nolusioa of borax for Is or 20 Ainutes.
Rorax is excellent for cleansing dis
eolorsd <.nware Of any kind.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-02-18
BETTER THAN GOLD,

81 was troubled for aeveral years
with chronic indigestion and nervous
debility" writes FL. Green of Lancas.
ter, N. Fl. "No remedy helped me un-
til L began using Electric Bitters, which
did me nor good than all the medi.
cines I ever used. They have also kept
my wife in excellent health for years
She says Electric Bitters are just sp!en'
did for female troubles; that they are
a grand tonic and invigorator for weak.
run down women. No other medi'
cine q take It's place in our
family" Try them. Only 80 cents
Satisfaction guaranteed by Laureni
Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-02-18
Letter to John I. darlington.

Laurens, .. c.
Dear Sir: Your business is, when o
house burns down to give the owner
some money to build a new one. 1t Is
a good business. Queer that the world
got on so long without it.
We paint the one that burnt down
and the new one too. What is better,
we paint the houses that don't burn
down.
You insure the houses that burn ;
we insure the houses that don't. You
have the ashes and smoke, all the
houses r ours.
We paint Lead and Zinc; Devoe. We
sell the paint to painters; we don't
paint.
Lead and oil is the old-fashioned paint
Devoe is zinc ground in with the lead
and lineeed Oil; the best paint In the
world; and the cheapest, because 1t
takes fewer gallons than mixed paints
and 1t wears twice as long as lead and
oil. Nobody wants poor paint; there's
lots of 1T, though, in the world.
A. NJ. G%riffep, Plainfeld, N. j.,
writes:
Mr.. Aaron Higgins, of Plainfeld, al.
ways used Is gallons of mixed paint for
nis house. Last Spring he bought IL
gallons of Devoe and had 4 gallons left
Yours truly,
E. w. DEvoE g. Co.,
New York.