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GOOD ROADS NEEDED.
Interest in the Subject Stimulated
by the Brownlow Bill.
atatesmen who Aid in Improving Oar
Highways Will Deserve and Re-
celve the Plaudtts Of the
People.

In the days of the old National
road. sometimes called the Cumber-
land road, and locally known as the
National pike, Henry Clay could ride
the whole length Of that thorough
fare and be entertained at all the
hotels on it's course without the cost
of a single cent to himself. This
honor was extended to him because
of his activity and influence in get
ting the road established and in con-
structing and extending other high
ways at the nations expense. Wal
ter p. Brownlow, one of Tennessee's
members of the popular branch OF
congress, stands some chance to link
his name also with the building and
improvement of highways through
the country, and several bodies OF
representative men are working for
the same object, and will deserve
some of the same praise.
Mr.. Brownlow's bill proposes to
enlist the general government, in CO.
operation with the states, in the
work of road construction, extension
and improvement. His measure is
entitled: "A bill to create in the de-
partment of agriculture bureau to
be known as the bureau of public
roads, and to provide for q system
of national, state and local coopera-
ton in the permanent improvement
of the public highways" 1t proposes
the appropriation of $2o,ooo,oOo by
the national government, to be used
in connection with sums set apart
by states, counties or towns for
building and maintaining public high
ways. State highway commission
ers in many parts of the country are
expressing their approval of the
project. Many of the congressman
favor it.
Nobody now alive remembers suck
interest in the country at large IN
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
EDISON AS A READER.
Rarely 'Takes Up q Book UnleEe It II
Recommended by His Wife 81
Some Friend.

The play Of Thomas A. Edison's
mind il as wonderful as the character
istic way in which he does his readizg.
Outside of his technical reading he il
said never to read book unless it 10
spoken of to him by his wife or some
friend. Then he sits down and reads
until he has finished it. One evening he
happened to be unusually engrossed
with some problem" and was nerv-
ously pacing: up and down his library
like Gagged lion.
To divert his thoughts, says the New
York Times, his wife came in and
picked up the first book she saw. Il
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
Sew Heart Between Beads.

A remarkable surgical operation
was performed at the City hospital
at ST. Louis, to save the life of Ed
ward spilker, aged 10, who had at
tempted suicide by shooting himself
in the left breast. An aperture was
made at the wound and between
pulsations the wound in the heart
was closed with three stitches. Tho
bullet had also perforated the apex
of the left lung. A portion an inch
and half was cut away, heavy silk
ligature tied about the lung, drain
ing tubes being established and tho
chest cavity closed. The patient
speedily rallied and It is believed hO
will recover.
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happened to be 1.-THE Count Of Monte
Cristo."
Have you ever read this story?"
said Mrs. Edison to her husband.
He stopped and looked at the title.
"No, 1 never have. Is it good?"
Mrs. Edison assured him that it was.
"All right. guess I'll read it now,
and within two minutes the problem, p"
whatever it was, had been forgotten,
and he was absorbed in Dumas great
story. AS he finished the book he no.
ticed the light of day peeping in, and
ON looking at his watch found it was
five o'clock in the morning.
No sooner had he laid down the book
than the forgotten problem" jumped
into his mind, and, putting on his hat,
he went to his laboratory and worked
increasingly, without food or sleep, for
So hours.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
FAN ON LOCOMOTIVE.
way Train Discovered by Al
EnGkish Inventor.

A novel way to get electricity for
lighting railway train is described
by Casters Magazine. The favorito
method nowadays is to provide each
car with small dynamo, which 10
driven by the axle. The current is first
led to a storage battery composed Of
only ten coils, SO as to have a supply
of electricity when the train is stand
ing still. A less satisfactory plan IL
to put the dynamo on the locomotive
and drive it with steam from the boil
er. The scheme which Casters re-
ports is a variation of this latter one.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
Balloon for ConsumDtives.

That there is benefit to be derived
from the rarefied air, as well as in
the climatic change, has prompted
DR.. Naugier, of Paris, to suggest, in
a recent paper before the Academic
de Medicine, the possibilities of hos
pital balloons. He asserted that a
two hours trip in the air causes an
increase of the red corpuscles, an
improvement that continues for sew.
eral days after an ascent. Two such
ascents in the course of six or seven
weeks he considers as more bene-
fetal to an anaemic than a sojourn
of three months in the mountains.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

the question of the construction and
improvement of the public highways
as now exists. When the first bill
making an appropriation for the Ma
tional road from Cumberland, on the
Potomac, in Maryland, to Wheeling,
on the Ohio, was passed by congress
in 1906, and when the first actual
work of construction began in 1911,
the matter of getting communication
between the Atlantic seaboard COM
munities and the Ohio and MISSISSIPPI
pi valleys was subject of vital con-
Germ to the people of the country.
The steamboat had not been invent
ed at the time when the first bill was
passed. In 1911, when the work Ok
building the road actually started,
the first steamboat west of the Al
leghenies went down the Ohio and
started on it's route between New Or
leans and Natchez. It was a dozen
years after that time, however, be-
fore steamboats, became in any way
numerous on eastern or western wa.
CcES. DuU CllC SCCd"OO0C ulu AOt
meet the need of opening commune.
cation between the east and west.
The mountains stood in the way, and
the railroads did not begin approach
ing the Alleghenies until about the
close of the first quarter of that
century. The National pike was ex-
tended to the Ohio river, as contem-
plated, and was then pushed across
Ohio and Indiana to the Illinois line,
with sections of it built farther west.
but in 1898, when railroad building
had proceeded far enough to absorb
the country's attention to the exclu-
sion of the construction of turn
pixies, the appropriations for the Ma
tional road stopped. The imperious
necessity of improving and extending
the present public highways and of
constructing others, as a matter of
national economy, is forcing itself on
the attention of the United States.
Those who aid in this work, saws the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, will de-
serve and receive the plaudits of the
American people.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

ship have made her one of the best
known huntresses in California.
Mrs. Duncan, says the New York
World, was chasing a cinnamon bear
over a spur of Mount Moses, so miles
south of the Sequoia national park.
She was alone, and the country was
an exceedingly rough one, but she
did not mind that. 1t was hard and
dangerous climb to follow the bear,
but she stuck to it for miles, some
times crawling on hands and knees,
sometimes letting herself down over
steep precipices and again climbing
almost hand over hand.
In this way the enthusiastic bear
hunter finally found herself in wilds
that appeared never to have been EN-
tered by man. In heavy fores:
growth many miles from any hu-
man habitation she found Methusa-
lem, and the bear was forgotten.
A few days later Mrs. Duncan re-
turned to her find accompanied by
her husband and her brother, S. c.
Edwards, an artist living at Fillmore,
and party of lumbermen. The big
seQuoia was christened, measured and
photographed. After brief little
christening ceremony, a hymn was
sung and card giving the name and
date of the discovery was tackled to
the trunk.
The region is known as the Tule
River basin, and is thickly timbered
with the same rare species as that
here Observation-Disclosures gigantea.
This and the Sequoia sempervirens
are the only survivors of genus
that is known to have flourished ages
ego in the interior of North America,
the arctic circle and Asia and Eu-
rope. To-day all that remain are
confined to the central portion of
the Golden state.
In the Tule river country several
large sawmills are converting the
mammoth logs into building material
and the industry is thriving. An ex-
pert has figured from it's dimensions
that Methusalem contains 100000
feet of inch lumber.
Around Dillonwood, on the north
fork of the Tule, are some remark
able trees. One is the Wishbone, a
living tree, through whose trunk
runs a wagon road. Another one is
the Hercules" 30 feet in diameter.
which is used as a residence and
store. It has two large rooms on the
ground.
The Eight Sisters, a handsome
group of eight trees, stand in per-
feet row and average IA feet in d.
ameter and $50 feet in height.
Among the logs that litter the
ground is one burned out at remote
time. It is SO feet long and the hol-
low throughout is % feet in diam
eter. In it is room for large camp
ing party in sumner. and in winter
# has sheltered dozens of men and
homes at time.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
PRIVATE OF ENGLAND.
DR.. DaNidsoa, bishop Of Winchester
Succeeds DR.. TeaDle ~ A1cAs
bishop OF Canterbury. j

Rt. Rev. DR.. Randall T. Davidson,
bishop of Winchester since 1895, has
been appointed archbishop of Canter-
bury, in succession to the Most Rev.
DR.. Temple, who died December q.
DR.. Davidson was offered the arch.
bishopric of Canterbury on the death.
in 1896, of Rev. DR.. Benson, the prede-
cessor of DR.. Temple, but he declined
the post, as his health then was pre-
carious. .-s. -. ..a.. .......-.
AS archbishop of Canterbury DR..
Davidson becomes also the primate Of
all England, as was DR.. Temple.
DR.. Davidson was one of the group
about the bedside Of Queen Victoria
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
No Privacy for Lovers.

Engaged lovers in the Canary is.
lands find it difficult to exchange
sweet condolences, as the young man
is not allowed to visit his fancee in
her home. He goes to her house.
and, finding her at the window, must
talk to her from the street. Some
times her window is perhaps ten or
IL feet above the road, therefore he
must talk loudly. and very often
members of the girls family are un-
seeu listeners.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
Here's 4 Wise Distinction. .

Chinese doctors are very partic-
ular about the distinction between
physicians and surgeons. A Chinese
gentleman was stl uck by an arrow,
which remained fast in his body. A
surgeon was sent for and, it is said,
broke off the protruding bit of the
arrow. leaving the point imbedd ed.
He refused to extract it, because The
case was clearly one for a physician.
the arrow being inside the body.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

0AOoA Anew OAs' IN AAoOA~s
(NoW Archbishop OF Canterbury and
Primate Of England.)
when she died. He was a great favorite
with her majesty, and used to be called
1.-THE Queens bishop" No member Of
the Episcopal bench, it is said, has
more friends among the common peo-
pie. Frank and democratic, he has won
his way to the hearts of many thou
sands. -s.@
DR.. Davidson began his career a.
Woodworking curate, became chaplain
and secretary to Archbishop TAFT,
married the daughter of the archbish-
op, and on his father-in-law's death
succeeded him as chaplain to the
queen. He next became dean of Wind
sor, was then made bishop Of Roches-
ter, and afterward went to Winchester,
one of the oldest and wealthiest bish.
oprics. y,
DR.. Davidson once confided to his
people that it did not pay to be bishop
Of Winchester, even at $32, 500 a year.
He is reckoned as one of the most
progressive of the Anglican clergy.
He is SO years old and was educated
at Harrow and Trinity, Oxford.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

northern part of the country, near
Cape Haytien, andisabout IS years old.
The dream of this old negro's life has
been to be president of the black re-
public, and in this ambition he has been
relentlessly spurred on by his wife, who
had declared that she would be the
mistress of the executive mansion, if
even for only a few months or days, be-
fore she died, determination in which
she has at last succeeded.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
THE GRANDMA GODDESS.
Grotexaue Carved Wooden Image
Which IL WOrAhiped by the
HuichOls of Mexico.

One of the interesting chronological
objects collected for the American
Museum of Natural History of New
York by Carl Lumholtz, from north
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

It includes a dynamo that is located
on the engine, perhaps under the pi-
lot, but the power for it is derived
from a rotary fan or windmill imme-
diately above, under the headlight.
AS the locomotive travels at the rate
of 20, 30, or even 40 miles an hour, q
breeze of corresponding velocity is de-
veloped. The current is conveyed to
small accumulators under each car OF
the train. 1t may be assumed that
when these are fully charged the cur
rent is automatically cut of. Tests
are said to have been made with an
outfit of this kind, and the results are
said also to have been encouraging,
contrary to what one might be led to
expect. =
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
Eata Hearty Breakfast.

Statistics show that the longest
lived people have generally been
those who made breakfast the prin-
cipal meal of the day.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05
III. Travels of Sound.

In drv air sound travels LAP feet
4 second, in water 1900 feet, anu In
ron 1880 feet.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

State Democrats.)
while visiting St. Louis. met several
prominent Missouri democrats. With
one accord they began to say nice
things about Judge Parker. They
thought Hill ought to nominate him
for governor, and were positive that
he would be elected. If this resulted
they did not think there was any doubt,
if he were nominated for president in
1904, that he would be elected.
Judge Parker declined to encourage
the movement to nominate him for
governor. Democrats now say it
makes no difference whether Mr..
Parker ran for governor or not, he
remains the ideal candidate for the
presidency, and energetic work is be-
ing done in his behalf in many states.
Friends of David Z. Hill are also at
work, but so far the Hill propaganda
has not met with the same success as
Judge Parker's.
Texas is the latest state to come to
the front in behalf of the New York
popular judge. There is no antipathy
to Bryan in that state, but leaders
there do not think Bryan can win.
They are looking for some one who
can carry the doubtful states, and
they regard Judge Parker as the man.
Democratic papers all over the state
are making favorable comments about
Judge Parker. Senators Bailey and
Culbertson, Thomas Ball, and many
politicians are of the opinion that
the party ought to take Parker.
1t is reported that the same thing is
true of Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Missouri, Indiana and Minnesota.
Much attention has lately been at
tached to Senator German, of Mary
land, and he has been repeatedly urged
to look favorably on the movement to
get southern and western delegates
for himself. Senator German has re-
fused to encourage this scheme, pre-
ferring to remain in the senate.
Bloomers Are Prohibited
Gov. Thompson B. Ferguson, of
Oklahoma, has forbidden all girls
who attend the territorial education
al institutions the privilege of wear
ing boomers while playing basket
ball. The reason for this, it is said,
is that a scandal was narrowly avert
ed recently because some young
women of a certain school played
game of basket ball in boomers.
The governor is emphatic in his de-
nunciation of the garb and says the
girls are subjected to ridicule on ac-
count of the bifurcated apparel. He
said he had notified the heads of all
territorial schools that there should
be no more basket ball playing by
Oklahoma girls in bloomoers.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

western Mexico, is a grotesque carved
wooden image, known as "Grand'
mother Growth, the mother of the
gods"
She is the principal goddess Of the
Huichol Indians, who have lived i'll
complete obscurity for thousands of
years in a narrow defile in the noun
tains of the state of Jalisco. They are
practically an unknown tribe, and Mr..
Lumholtz was the first white man to
visit them. They have innumerable
gods and goddesses, one OF the chie1
being "Grandmother Growth" who
has the power over all the growth OF
vegetation.
A special god house is dedicated to
her, inside of which are deposited
votive offerings. Sticks of grotesque
shape, with animal heads, which SYM
bolize the age and power of Grand.
mother Growth, are placed in the cave
as prayers for the health and long life
of the children.
Source of Human Stature.
A curious theory is being investi.
gated by the Paris Academy of Sci
ences. Human stature is supposed to
be controlled by the gland in the
throat under the larynx, and artifi-
cial stimulation of this gland is
claimed to cause any child to grow
to maximum height.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26
Tho nes. Remedy for Group.

From the Atchison. Kan. Daily Globo
This is the season when the woman
who knows the best remedies for Group
is in demand in every neighborhood.
One OF the most terrible things in the
world is to be awakened In the middle
of the night by a whoop from one Of
tho children. The Group remedies are
almost sure to be lost. in case OF Group,
as a revolver is sure to be lost in case
OF burglars. There used to be an old
fashioned remedy for Group, known as
hive syrup and tolu, but some modern
mothers say that Cham berlain's Cough
Remedy is better, and don't cost SO
much. II causes the patient to throw
up the phlegm" quicker, and gives re-
lie' in short time. Giye this remedy
as soon as the croupy cough appears
and it will prevent the attack. 1t ney.
er fails and is pleasant and safe to
take. For sale BY Il. j. Pier iruEsis
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26
great railroads.

great railroads.
For this reason. in striking an
average, one thousand dollars a
year is a very low estimate, in
deed, of the earnings of educated
labor. Forty years of educated
work represented, therefore, forty
thousand dollars as low average
while eighteen thousand dollars
for uneducated work is a high
average.
The difference between them
is a very fair representation of
the valve of an education TO the
worker, and that difference is just
twentv-two thousand dollars.
"The average school life of
every boy aud girl in Massachu-
setts," the calculation goes on,
''is seven years of two hundred
days each. let us say that it takes
four years more to get good
education. Eleven years of two
hundred days each amount to
twenty-five hundred days. A
simple division on the blackboard
will bring it home to the compre-
hension of every boy that, if the
whole value of these twenty-five
hundred days is twenty-five thous-
and dollars, every day at school
properly spent, must be worth
ten dollars"
One of the school commission
ers of Pennsylvania says he would
like to have this simple calcula-
ton carried into every school
room and put on every blackboard
so that pupils may learn it and
carry it home and discuss it with
their parents" 20 over it as much
as you please, boys; test it and
try it by your own calculation;
think about it. You will find il
a fair calculation, and it ought te
be an inspiring one to every lad
who intends to be an educated
worker in this land of education
and opportunity.
Ten dollars day! The boy Of
girls who realizes that will mo-
want 10 play truant. Sinking
ones lesson will be seen in it.
true light, not as cheating th,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26
tell is energetic and ambitious
and we look for him to maintain
the high standard reached by the
Chronicle.
TEN DOLLARS A DAY.
william Rittenhouse in Boys and Girls.>

William Rittenhouse in Boys and Girls.)
How much is day at school
worth to boy? Perhaps the boy
himself has never figured it up.
Often, indeed, he thinks it would
pay him better if he could quit
school and go to work. But lately
a West Virginia man has worked
out the matter on a cash basis
and given us this result, which
every boy in the United States
ought to know and think over If
he wants to be the most valuable
man possible.
The West Virginia man begins
by the fundamental axiom: "You
find the value of a boys time at
school by subtracting the earn.
Jugs Of life of uneducated labor
from the earnings Of a life of ed.
uCdLed ldDOl.
That's entirely clear and OBJ
viously true, isn't it, boys? Their
he goes on to calculate the earn
Jugs of uneducated labor at ont
| dollar and fifty cents a day fol
three hundred days in the year; :
liberal estimate, of course, be-
cause many laborers only earn
dollar a day. But at this higt
estimate, and supposing that thu
uneducated worker has stead,
employment for forty years, HI
will earn in that time one dolla
and half multiplied by three
hundred multiplied by forty o
| eighteen thousand dollars.
| So much for the uneducated la
| borer. The educated man is usu
| ally paid, not by the day, but b
the month or the year; and as th
| West Virglnian reminds us, al
| the large salaries and earning
belong in this class, from til
| president of the United States
with his fifty thousand year. t
the presidents of the insuranc
coapaniea aud the managers :
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26

The South Dakota Press asso-
citation will hold its annual mid
winter session at Sioux Falls, and
the date will probably be January
goth and 21st.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26

From announcements published
in lastsweek's Centerville Chron-
1cle it is learned that newspaper
property has changed hands and
the name of L. P. Bartell will
hereafter appear in place of Geo.
n. and 4. 3. Nichols. Mr.. Bar
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26

Orders have been issued from
the headquarters of the Northern
Pacific Railroad that after the
1st of next January any employee
of that company who is seen TAX
ing a drink of intoxicating liquor,
either on or off duty will be liable
to immediate discharge from ser
vice,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26

Capt. D. w. Marratta, at one
time a prominent Missouri river
steamboat mai, and U. S. mar
shall of Dakota during President
Cleveland's first administration,
died recently very suddenly al
Boston. Capt. Marratta was a
gentleman whom it was a pleas.
ure to know.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26
JUST WHAT you NEED

JUST WHAT YOU NEED
Cha NIB erlaln's Sto mach and Liver Tablets.
Whom you feel dull after eating.
Whom you have no appetite.
When you have bad taste in the
mouth.
Whom your liver is torpid.
When your bowels are constipated.
When your have headache.
When you feel bilious.
They will improve your appetite,
cleanse and inyigorate your stomach,
and regulate your liver and bowels.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
81. ]. Pier druggist.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-11-26

Senator Gamble has the thanks
of the editor of the Herald for
placing his name on the mailing
list of the Congressional Record.
If you want to know officially
what is going on in congress, call
in aud look over the Record.