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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10
SUMMER GIRLS FAILURE.
Rugged Herself Up to Make Hit,
But Her Finery All
Wilted.

Once upon a time there was gill
who decided that she would be the
real thing in the summer girl line,
relates a St. Paul Globe writer. Be-
fore the snow melted she was plan
ming a wardrobe t.ha:t would bring
down any summer youtk :-c.1 q mil
lionaire prospective to Dry 0rods
clerk. She embroidered all her Shirt
waists by hand, and made seven sets
of turn-overs before the summer
styles were settled, only to learn that
they were wearing 1880 Jokes. She
bought a white silk drop skirt for her
null dress, and then her poor old
mother had to 60 without new sum-
mer hat so that daughter could have
the real thing in lingerie hat to
20 with the silk drop skirt. Father
was driven to the verge of nervous
prostration by the domestic discussions
of skirt Jokes and the best thing in
color combinations, and brother Jimmy
lost his half-holiday chasing down
cerise near-silk when she wanted
cherry lining for her lawn dress.
The clerks at the stores all got to
know her-she had so many goods
exchanged-and when at last she pulled
out for a Jersey town with two trunks
and dress suit case her old father
said: "This is Heaven" and her
mother stopped taking 2crye cure.
But the girl found she was up
against it after all. Her dresses faded
and dropped in the sea air and so did
her hair. Sitting up nights sewing
had made her sallow, and she squinted
from doing fine embroidery. The girl
who made a hit with the few summer
boys in sight wore the same linen
dress three days running and had only
one party dress to her name. But she
had the real thing in eyes and dim
pies. So the girl who had meant to be
It said she hated the seashore4 and
packed back to town to see beauty
doctor. .m -
Moral: Fine feathers may MARE fine
birds, but all women are not birds.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10

engaged in cleaning operations one
waters and one feeds the birds. Car
bolic acid and coal oil are used for
spraying and these two agencies keep
the birds healthy.
About 500 squads are sold weekly,
the young birds finding ready mar
ket in New York at five dollars doz-
en-. The varieties raised here are
homers, dragons, runts and crosses.
Some of the runts measure 40 inches
from tip to tip of wings, while there
are many measuring IS inches.
The farm covers 16 acres and repre-
sents an investment Of $4,000.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10
TO Remove Dust from Ewes.

Any foreign substance In the eye is
very painful, but to remove 1t is, after
all, an easy matter. If the dust lodges
on the lower lid press the finger gently
but firmly against the lid, pulling it
down and telling the victim to look
up. This exposes the inner lid ana
the dust can be removed upon tooth
pick or q hairpin. about the end of
which a bit of cotton has been wound
to avoid scratch or bruise. II the
upper lid is affected take the eyelashes
firmly between the foreflaser and the
thumb, ask the patient to look down,
and with quick movement turn the
eyelid up over the point of stencil,
or, better still, the edge of card.
which should be pressed against the
eyelid, just above the stlff part. This
causes no pain and the dust can be
wiped of as from the lower lid. says
an exchange.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10
LEAVES LUXURY FOR cars.
Cincinnati Girl Forsakes Residence
Of Aunt and Rents Cottage
for Feline Pets. ~

Because Miss Mamie Foster Carroll
preferred the possession and company
Of her 10 cats to the home that had
been hers with her aunt, Mrs. Frances
A. Taylor, in Highland avenue, in the
pretty and aristocratic suburb of Col
lege Hill, Cincinnati, she has left that
home for one on the Groesbeck road.
The love of cats and kittens of Miss
Carroll was not shared by her aunt,
and the result was the declaration by the
latter that her niece must either dis
pense with the cats or take them with her
elsewhere. =
Unable to, part with her pets, Miss
Carroll accepted the alternative offered
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10

Cacarets Who Thousand Dollars Every Day ~
Newspaper Advertising.
breathing Illustration OF the
and judous invest
NoToB the original
building dollar mail order
and smoke
his advertising
first little advertisement his capital was less than
himself
the Candy Ca
including
pewners ten daily
counted OF tho
advertising
recently He said my boy we'll get rich when VIC make money
spend It for advertising
Mineral
Indiana Mineral
archaeological
Chicago ST. Louis
all
vitality
confidence 70
work will bring FORTH
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10


thise&way ayoua will always see which
way the wind blows and be able to
keep abreast of affairs, instead of be-
hind.
The descriptions of the two suits
here illustrated are also furnished by
Nine Baker. Fig. ! is a shirtwaist
suit ofsofancy checked wool in black,
red and white. 1t has black pipings
and belt, Irish lace yoke and red vel
vet embroidered outlines yoke and
forms cuffs. The second is "a shirt
waist suit of reseda cashmere; silk
of same shade tucked and arranged in
squares for vest, collar and cuffs; vel
vet of darker shade for collar, lacing
buttons and belt.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10
New, Kind Of Rubber.

During the past few months discov-
cry has been made that there are In
the interior of Brazil vast forests. OF
trees from which can be produced q
high grade of rubber known as man
icoba." The area is said to be very
large, but cannot be defined, as the re-
gion has not been fully explored. The
attention called to the first discovery
has led to further exploration, with the
result that from time to time comes
notice of other sections where like
trees occur In profusion. The output OF
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10
Two StvleR-

Mrs. Spenders-I wonder what will
be the popular styles in hats this sea-
son? T :
e. Mr.. Spenders-My dear, women's
hats will be divided into two styles this
season, as usual; the style you don't
like, and the style can't afford.-1l-
Illustrated Bits. F.. ne. =
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10

Even the wise man who thinks he
knows it all doesn't know why the siren
uous old hen lays al egg instead of
standing it on end.-Chicago Daily
News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10

manicoba rubber has rapidly increased
during the last few years and bids fair
to be . large item in the exports Of
Brazil.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-11-10
Hug Of the Russian Bear

Hug Of the Russian Bear.
Japan, says the Chicago Tribune, 10
finding out that there is something ter
rife in the hug of q wounded bear.
Human Nature.
: He-Thefe goes q man who hasn't Q
friend in the world. 49,
She-POor fellow. How did he lose
his money.-Cincinnau ENQUIRER. g..
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

ham, but he declined to exchange it
for anything except the mill. AS this
mill had stood on the corner for years
and had never done any good, they
were willing enough to make the ex-
change.
When he reached home he found his
wife and children awaiting him, but
great was their disappointment when
he informed them that he had sold
the ham. After the children had gone
to bed, he produced the mill, and
placing 1t upon the table, said:
Grind away, and let US have food
for dinner"
The mill began grinding and turned
out bread and tarts. turkey stuffed
with chestnuts, large pudding and a
barrel of cider. On the turning of an
other crank it ground out number of
toys.
"Oh. husband" said the wife, how
wonderful to have such a dinner and
how happy the children will bel'
ut will grind anything" said the
husband, "but be discreet, for 1 do not
wish our neighbors to know how it Is
managed.
Great was the Joy in the poor broth
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
HEATING AND LIGHTING
POWER OF FIREFLIES.

The Smithsonian Institute, while
making inquiries into the cheapest
forms Of producing light, experiment.
ed with Cuban firefies among other
things. The insects were placed in
the center of concave mirrors and the
most delicate instrument in the gov
eminent observatory was employed
to measure the amount OF heat radi-
ated by them
A sperm candle was used for COM
parison, and a fame spot from it
which was just as big as the freely
was thrown into the mirror.
The instrument recorded the heat
from the candle at once; but no move
ment was caused by the insect. al
though the instrument was so deli
cate that had the freely produced even
as little as one-elghty thousandth part
Of the heat produced by the tiny spot
from the candle, 1t would have shown
on the records.
II was different with light. Com
pairing the flame spot Of the candle
and the light from the insect, the in
strument showed that the freely gave
one-eighth as much light as the can
die, size for size. Compared with the
full flame, ii was found that the insect
gave light amounting TO one-sixteen
thousandth part of a candle.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
The Wonderful Mill

Once upon a time there lived two
brothers, one of whom was very rich
and the other very poor. The rich
brother had no children, but in the
family of the poor brother there were
many little mouths to feed. The rich
brother could have helped his rela-
tives, but he was mean and sordid
and loath to part with any of his
wealth. However. it was his wont to
give his brother a ham for his dinner
once a year.
One night the poor brother had
started home with his ham. but he
took the wrong road and had gone
some distance before he realized that
he was walking underground. When
he paused an old man with a long,
shaggy beard approached him.
You have lost your way. / per-
ceive,' he said. 'fbut your best course
is to keep straight on, for you will
forsook at the beginning Of your jour
ney. You may have to pass through
the village where the dwarfs, the Hill
People, live. They will be eager to
buy your ham, but do not part with it
for anything less than the little old
hand mill that stands around the cor
ner of the main street.
No sooner had the poor brother en-
tered the village than he was sur
rounded by imps clamoring for his
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
College Boy Franks
in Old England
They Are Even Worse Than in This Country. if
It's Possible.
BY BASsETT STAINES.

The American reads his newspaper
and is edited to learn about this time
that the Harvard boys have incarna-
dined the dull gray statue of some an
Gent worthy, or that the bright and
shining lights of Princeton have tried
IN break up Pawnee Bits circus and
been dragged along the streets at the
end of the cowboys lariats.
And as he reads of these strenuous
Soings, the true Americans bosom
swells with pride, and he says:
well, I guess our college boys can
lick creation when it comes to foolin'!"
But they can't. They are a sober and
serious crowd when compared with the
college bows of old England and Scot
land, to say nothing of those registering
blades whose alma mater is Dublin
University.
Who has not read Of bump suppers'
and wine parties and the screwing
az obnoxious dons in the pages of
Thackeray, Lever, and a host of lesser
British novelists? They wrote of spa
cious. full-bloodod days, when a gen.
tIenan simply had to be 'rusticated,"
and to ride his nag into hall" and to
he pinked through the shoulder for
maintaining that his Clorinda at the
NAV was fairer than some other gen.
flemans Araminta. 1.-THE past was
eoodly once but the present is a COL
orably good imitation.
The undergraduates of Oxford and
Cambridge have high standard to
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

soft soap formed a goodly portion of
the ammunition. The grocers made a
good profit that day!
Some time after noon Lord Kelvin
was officially declared elected, and the
Kelvinites were so jubilant that they
determined not to let the city forget
the event III a hurry. After dark
they started a torchlight procession.
Several hundreds of college boys pa
raded, dressed in all sorts of fantastic
costumes, but the medical students
far outdid the rest.
One man." with a mind for the
gruesome. purloined the bleached skull
of some terrible prehistoric animal
from the college museum, and, fasten-
ing it over his head and face. march
ed along in the procession, uttering
horrible yells that would have done
credit to a monster of the neolithic
age
Others wore their clothes inside out,
and had their faces blackened by
burned cork, relieved by dashes of
red paint, which looked like big, gap
ing wounds in their faces. Yet others
walked on crutches and kept their
arms in sings, now and then with
drawing them to fling rotten eggs at
some particularly dignifed or gorge
addressed person in the crowd-at
an old gentleman's plug hat, or at
some elderly matron's satin dress,
On they marched down from the
university through the principal
streets of the town, with a crowd OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

er's family next morning and the next,
and forever after. for the mill ground
out everything needed for their COM
fort. OF course. it's fame soon spread,
and It was not long before the rich
brother came to buy the mill to save
labor in his household.
After some bargaining the poor
brother let him have it for bushel of
gold and the rich man walked away
with his purchase.
When he reached home he announced
his intention of preparing dinner for
the men in the harvest fields, and bade
his wife go out and superintend the
workers in his stead.
1--WE shall have a fine dinner" he
said, such as you and the woman here
are incapable of cooking. Do you start
at once. for l am anxious to get 1t
ready"
When he was ready to fill the
dishes, he placed the mill on the table
and said: Grind away and let us have
some herrings and milk"
Immediately the mill began to grind
and the behring's and milk began to
flow until two big bowls were filed,
but when he tried to check the flow it
continued grinding.
He shouted Justify for more bowls,
and presently for kegs; and finally as
the floor was swimming. he gave the
mill a final wrench and rushed madly
out of the door. pursued by a torrent
of behring's and milk.
When he reached his brothers hum
BILE door, he cried:
For heavens sake. take back that
mill" he screamed.
But the poor brother would not con-
sent to do SO until he had received
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
STRANGE SUSPENSION
BRIDGE THAT IS
DISAPPEARING G,

With the building of railways and
wagon roads into the heart Of the
South American Andes there is gradu-
ally disappearing a type Of suspen-
sion bridge peculiar to that region of
which travellers used to speak with
horror.
These bridges are on the mountain
trails. Long ropes of twisted vines are
stretched from one side of a deep
gorge to the other and made fast to
trees on each side. Then a rude floor
ing is laid and other ropes of twisted
vines form handrails on either side of
the footway. The bridge is so loosely
hung that it sways frightfully under
foot. and roaring torrents dash over
rocks a thousand feet or more below.
Yet the Indians cross them without
fear or dizziness, carrying heavy
loads on their backs, and minding the
passage no more than If they were
walking across the Brooklyn bridge.
To others, however, they are dan
gerous places, for If a man loses his
nerve" or becomes dizzy, the chances
are that he will fall off and be DASH
ed to pieces, because the side ropes
are so loose that they offer little or no
protection, and the roaring Of the tor
rent, the swaying of the frail structure,
which hardly allows the traveller to
keep his feet, and the sense of being
suspended i'm nidair above immense
depths is enough to try the hardest
and most level-headed person.
When the Spaniards conquered Peru
these were the only sort of bridges
there; but the Inca kings had them
built on such grand scale that the
invaders were able to ride across them
on their horses clothed in full mail,
though they took the precaution to
bandage the eyes of their chargers
before they urged them on the sway
ing structures
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

an additional bushel of gold.
The poor brother built a beautiful
house upon the shore of the sea and
covered the roof with gold so that 1t
could be seen far away One day the
captain of merchant vessel on his
way for cargo OF salt stopped to see
the wonderful mill.
viii 1t grind salt?" he asked.
Certainly u will grind salt as well
as anything else"
The mill was brought out and test
ed, whereupon the captain purchased
It for an enormous price, glad to es-
cape the perils of a long voyage. But
he neglected TO find out how to stop It,
When the casks in the ship were fill
ed he tried in every way to check the
stream of salt, but IT was of no use.
The mill kept on grinding, the crew
were obliged to take to the lifeboats.
From these boats they saw the ship
slowly sink under her weight of salt
Down, down she went, until she reach
ed the bottom of the sea with the mill
still on board.
And there 1t is grinding to this very
day, and that is the reason sea water
is salt.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,
l am a most superior person"
Being such ardent politicians, it is
natural that the undergradua
should make the college elections.
which are fought on political lines.
exceedingly lively affairs. Some of
the leading universities return mem
bers of Parliament to represent them
in the House of Commons, but they
are elected by the dons and gradu-
ates without much fuss and excite
ment. The real fun is over the cleo
ton of the chancellor, the Lord Rec
tor, or whatever the honorary head
of the university may be called, for
in that election the undergraduates
take a hand.
This position is sought by the great
est men in the land-men of the cali
Der of Gladstone Salisbury, Morley
and Balfour. And they are willing to
go through most severe ordeal TO
win it.
A great statesman who SWANS the
House of Commons and helps to shape
the destinies of Europe goes election
eering among a mob of yelling college
boys, and they think nothing of pelt-
ing him with red ochre, washing blue
and rotten eggs if he happens to be
of the opposite political stripe Elec-
ton day is always a wild pandemo-
mum in a university town. Wise peo-
pie stay at home and put up the shut
tiers.
One summers day in 1897, Glasgow,
the rowdiest of all British college
towns, was in an uproar. 1t was cleo
ton day for the Lord Rector of Glas-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

onlookers and admirers following
them. The din was awful. Among the
hundred or so college songs that were
being shouted at the same time, the
mournful ballad of the medical stu
dents could be distinctly heard:
''The leg was cut off months ago,
But when twill be finished we do not
know;
Although for weeks past we have had
Hash for breakfast
Hash for dinner!
Hash for supper!
Hash! Hash! Hash!"
The medicos sang other songs, but
every now and then they simply had
to return to this old favorite.
At last they reached the Panorama.
The Panorama was an ice skating
rink of the most fashionable sort. The
entrance fee was high, and the price
of the refreshments within was still
higher But the college men did not
propose to throw away good money
paying for things on a night when the
whole town was supposed, by ancient
custom, to be wide open to them.
They marched up to the entrance
and, despite the protests of the door
in. Once inside, they helped themselves
to anything in the way of refreshments
that they could lay their hands on.
They sat in the reserved seats and
watched the circus performance that
was in progress ON a small stage in the
center of the rink and the skaters on
the ice beneath as if they owned the
whole show.
The manager, however, was new to
Glasgow, and did not know it was the
custom to tolerate any pranks of the
college boys on election day. He got
mad clean through" AS he saw no
other way of getting rid of the uproar-
ious crowd. he ordered the fire hose to
be played on them.
This insult the ctudents could not en-
dure They made rush for the near
est grocery store and seized whatever
they could lay their hands on-potatoes,
hams, bars of soap, bags of sugar, tins
of milk, and eggs. This ammunition
was taken to the field of battle and
used to vanouish the manager and his
staff, drive the circus into the street,
and then to smash the glass doors and
windows of the gorgeous Panorama.
When the fierce fight was over, the
students looked like drowned rats, and
the building was an utter wreck, as far
as glass and satin and plush were con-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

live UP to when they contemplate the
pranks of their predecessors, but they
DO their best.
1t was not so long ago that the
ions of Brasenose were Mortified,
when they took their morning walk,
10 observe that the statue of one of
the most revered luminaries of the
college had been painted a brilliant
pea green, "a battered plug hat stuck
upon its head, and pair of old trous-
ers draped upon it's outstretched arm,
as II 1t had gone into the old clothes
business and was offering stock for
sale. The leading spirit in this dia-
poiical outrage on the dignity of the
college was the eldest son of a duke.
lie was sent down" for term.
Last summer, for a wager, a fresh
man at Trinity College, Cambridge,
dressed in his sisters clothes and cali
ca on the head of the college to COM
plain that "her brother" was being
Drutally ill-treated by the college au-
'horlues. He was, so "she" asserted
hogged.
The benevolent old head-a man
much more sinned gainst than sin
nlng-listened to these charges in
helpless amazement.
exclaimed.a
Thereupon "she" burst into a storm
Of sobs, and would not be comforted.
MS protestations of innocence only
made 'her" weep the more copiously.
me dear old man never had a worse
quarter of an hour.
me following week he saw the
freshman play a woman's part in a
comedy given in the A. d. c. Theater,
ana ana the truth slowly dawned upor
MN. Meanwhile, the freshman had
eoilected the bet and spent the money
On wine party" which ended in
nat dozen students trying to fight
lhe police force OF Cambridge and
Spending the night In Jail.
ne old town and gown" riots,
which used 10 be such a strenuous
feature Of life IN English universities,
seIdom occur nowadays, but there was
one IN Oxford not many years ago
which ragged for three days and nights
uninterruptedly. over i've hundred
poilcemen were eventually required 10
.ettore the peace. Houses and shops
we're wrecked, and many "a townsman
ma Eownsman had 10 be- patched up
'n me local hospitals afterwards.
~ all the British universities the
tqents are ardent politicians. Their
y. hatlng societies are divided into LIB
Lal ana Conservative parties. and
Ialt ~ the most brilliant members
~ ne House ~ Commons have grad
Yaifq straight from them into pariia-
Nfhl Lord curz0n, f0r example was
s N ne finest iehlfefG fhn oxford
a., nlnn ever pQreenfed N Wna onn
10 fellow members Who Hfoff Soc
LlnE eQqFlet ihHf haf Stuck iQ him
~fsA&hqai ~ career.