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The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
Cooked Under water.

In 1905 one James Austin laid a
wager Of $500 that he would cook a
plum pudding ten feet beneath the sur
face Of the Thames near Rotherhithe.
The bet was readily accepted, and
many people locked to the appointed
locale to watch this strange exhibition
Of the culinary art. Inclosed in a tin
pan in the center Of a sack Of lime the
pudding was lowered beneath the wa
ter, where for two hours and a half 1t
remained. 1t was then taken up and
partaken Of by a committee, who de-
clared that Austin had won his wager,
the pudding being, If anything, over
done.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
An Attractive Publication.

"A Halt in the Desert" is the initial
story in the November Sports Afeld."
Horace Kephart continues his paper on
Wilderness Handicrafts," and Thanks
giving Turkeys in Arkansas" and Stan
ley Waterloo's article on the Passenger
Pigeon" are good while FIFTY Years of
Wood Life" is better than ever. Your
newsdealer can supply you; if not, send
to Sports Afeld. 358 Dearborn street,
Chicago, Ill.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT
Victim Well known to Dickinson Young
PeOD:e.

Allan FagIey and Louis Philip Dod-
son, son of Frank Dodson, were drowned
in Lake Elmo while hunting ducks Sat-
urday evening. No one saw the acct
dent, thougha farmer near bYhad heard
the cries for help.
The boys e to: the lake Saturday
morning. They had a horse and e.
canvas-covered boat which they had
made. The boat was made light, so
that it could be carried easily from
place to place. After spending the
greater part of the afternoon at Horse
shoe lake, they were on their return to
the Fagley cottage at Lake Elmo, and
evidently when approaching the lake
must have seen some ducks. They
hitched the horse to a tree at the road
side and took the boat from the wagon
to Lake Elmo.
They crossed the lower end of the
lake. A farmer on the opposite side
heard three shots in rapid succession
and Immediately after a call for. help.
He saw nothing and did not pay any
attention to the cries. The horse stood
hitched at the tree from Saturday TO
Sunday evening, when one of the farm
ers near by, knowing the horse had been
there all day, took him to his stable. He
knew nothing Of the owners of the horse
and suspected nothing.
When the boys did not return at d
o'clock Sunday afternoon as they should,
the parents became anxious and feared
they must have drowned, as they would
have sent word home if anything else
had happened. The parents could not
conceive of any accident by shooting
which would have killed them both.
MI. Fagley and Mr.. Dodson went out
to the lake and their worst fears were
verified. They found the horse which
the farmer had taken to his barn. The
canvas boat was found on the lake.
When they heard that the boys cries
for help had been heard they knew the
whole story.
Search was begun but the bodies were
not found for some time.
Louis P. Dodson was 10. He lived
with his parents at the Marlborough.
His parents have been in St. Paul about
a year, his father being the manager Of
the Dakota Manitoba Land company,
and Lewis spent his summer vacation in
Dickinson and assisted in the company's
Office. Both the boys were students in
St. Paul Seminary, preparatory to enter
ing the State University
The news Of the drowning was a
severe shock to the parents and other
relatives of the boys and the mothers
are Frustrated with grief.
Mr.. Dodson was en- route home from
Dickinson when the accident occurred.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
il astoria.
Interesting Data About the Magic
Star Gem Of CeylOn.

Star Gem of Ceylon.
lAmiliar to some of the ancient
writer's and credited with supernatural
powers, the astoria, Or star gem, was
highly valued for the benefits sup
posed to be conferred on the wearer.
Its bright, six rayed star, ever chang
ing and shifting with every play Of
light and especially shooting out it's
flames in the direct sunlight, would
seem to be something more than an
ordinary crystal, and to the supersti-
t1ous mind it could readily be believed
to embody some tutelar spirit. The
particular virtue attributed to this gem
was the comforting upon the wearer Of
'health and good fortune when worn
as an amulet, and to those fortunate
to be born in the month Of April, with
which the stone was associated or rep
resented, the carer was insured from
all evil. The star stone is found prin-
cipally in Ceylon, invariably in soil
peculiar toxrubies and sapphires. In.
deed it is composed Of the same CON
stituent "corundum, 2 its chatoyant, or.
star rays, being caused by the pres
sure of what the natives call silk
It is found in many different colors,
from pale blue, pink and white to deep
dark blue, ruby and purple. The blue
are termed sapphire stars, the red
ruby stars. It is always cue en-
cabochon, the star dividing into six
rays at the apex. 1t is next in hard
ness to the diamond.
The "Moorman" Of Colombo, with
tools as rude and simple as his fore
fathers used 1000 years before, with
no training or instruction except the
unwritten mysteries Of the craft hand
ed down from father to son, will pro-
duce the most wonderful results in
cutting and polishing gems and in
many instances rival the more edu-
Gated lapidary of Europe for judg-
ment in cutting gems to the greatest
neutrality-suspicious. Graphic.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
A Broad Hint.

Mamma" said a six-year-old girl,
entering the sitting room one morning
recently, don't you want some can-
dyT"
The mother was writing a letter.
why, yes, dear" she replied. "Give
me a piece"
Il amt dot any" came from the
child, ''an' I amt dot any nickel to
dit none.'
She got the nickel. Kansas City
Times
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
ADVERTISED IEIIERs.

List of unclaimed letters remaining in the :
ending Oct. 81, 1905
Caldwell, Clara, Jones. R. R.
Hany, hIss Mabel, johnson. George (2)
Wagboe. Mics Mae. R. bbins. George.
ColwelI, Peter Steichen, L. j..
nox, Emery, Anderson. G.. A.
Erlckson. G,R. Rickners. Papl,
Hammond: Mr.: U. NJ. Turner, Mr.. D..
Hevener, Floyd W.
Persons claiming the above will please say
advertised" and give date Of this .liat :
n. G; LAWRENCE, Pm.
Wanted-Cattie.
To winter-6o to IS head, plenty of :,
hay and good water.
G. Smith, Halliday, N. D. ,o-21-3p
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
81 A H LORD!n

cried Hannah Plant, of Little Rock,
Ark. "for the relief l got from Buck
lens Arnica Salye. It cured my fearful
running sores, which nothing else would
heal. and from which l had suffered for
5 years" It is a marvellous healer for
cuts, burns and wounds. Guaranteed at
T. j. Greene & Co.'S drug store; 25c.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
MoralIy ImprovinE HABIT.

The habit Of dressing well grows on
q man like the opium habit, but Its
consequences, Instead Of being disas-
trous. q delightful and socially as
well as morally improving.-sartorial
Art Review.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
Rams For Sale.

Two-hundred and fifty rams for sale
at my ranch near Taylor; high grade
and registered rams; see me before you
buy. A. B. Berry. 8Il-4-4t
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
so Cows and Calves for Sale.

will sell from 1 to 50 cows, with or
without calves by side; price, calf in
cluded, $50; we'll bred stock.
WIN. STARK
q-3o-6p Beaver, N. D.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
Shooting Match.

will have a turkey and duck shoot
on the base ball ground in Dickinson in
the afternoon of the I7th. Shoot will
start at ! o'clock. H. Froehlich. II-4-7t
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04
Sheep Wanted.

Would like to take 0 0 or 1900 ewes
on shares. Have good sheds, waite and
hay. No stock has been on ranch for
two wears.
1o-2I-3p JOHN KUDRNA, Dickinson.
The Dickinson press., 1905-11-04

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude
pleasure. but seldom opens any avenue
70 sorrow or remorse.-Johnson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
COmmissIon Hears Ar.ument..

Washington, May 26.-The Interstate Commerce Commission today heard ar- gument in the case of the Cattleraisers' Association of Texas against practi- cally all the railroads running south or from Chicago except the Great Northern and Union Pacific The charge against the roads includes the statement that freight rates on cattle from the cattle raising States to the cattle markets is unjust and excessive; that the terminal charge at Chicago is unjust and discriminates against ship pers who want to ship to that point as the charge is not made at other market cities; that the rate for feeding cattle en route is excessive to the ex- tent of 50 per cent of a reasonable cost; that the freight rates for the shipment of cattle has been raised from 6 to 9 per cent per 100 pounds since 1898, and that the present service is not as good as the former
 In answering these charges the rail- roads do not deny the increased rates but do deny that the higher rates arc unjust or excessive. To substantiate this review their increased expense, including labor. maintenance, feed and the larger number of claims for dam ages for cattle in transit They insist they lost money on the lower rates. An array of counsel was present on either side.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

tician Lorand Practically the s0O.Ooo square miles of Congo State are the kings personal property. It is true he has willed this royal domain to Belgium, but he Is not dead yet, and all that wealth of rubber and ivory, cotton and palms, gold and copper. are Leopolds.
 As for the rest of Europes rulers Germany, England. Italy, Austria, and even Spain may be said to support royal millionaires. Most of them live not much better than just within their incomes, but nonetheless are they to be counted when the thousands of the worlds richest" are reckoned up.
 Ten thousand and eighty-seven of them! Worth something like $24.O00,- 900, 900! But are all of them put to- gether, with their jewels and castles. lands and mines. factories and ranches, piled into one great heap. able to buy the heartdeep joy of one small, bare foot, country boy, who lets down his little hook and hoists up the first fish of the newborn spring?
 Copyright (1s05) by W. J. Price.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
A Russo-Jnpanese Contrast.

The opponents in the historic drama being played out in the Far East dif- fer In nothing more than In this matter of individual wealth. In Russia mill lionaires are not numerous, as Ameri- cans and Englishmen might regard 1t; but there are forty-nine in the broad empire of the Czar. They are lavishly elegant in their manner of living be- yond anything mere money has made possible in other lands. Not duke or prince of the blood but indulges in magnificent extravagances which make the Occidental gasp with amazement
 In little Japan there Is not one man of millions save only the Mikado him. self. The "Tiji Shimpo," Tokios lead- ing financial journal. estimates that the island holds Al fortunes of 500,00O yens each-$25O,0O0. These are Japan's richest.
 It would take four to make one Chi cago millionaire. The whole Al could but just buy out MT. Flagler or Sena- tor Clark But If the Flowery Empire knows not the money king, be 1t also recorded that 1t knows little of the pauper; 1t is land of wealth well dis tributed.
 So 1t Is with France. Ask Pari- sian how many millionaires there are in his country, and. if he be well in- formed he will answer "Thirty-five hundred, I believe" But he talks in francs, not dollars. Measured In dol- lars the millionaires of Loubets re- public are put down at 6SS. It is Taeh land, but the man of small means is the moving impulse in its enterprise. It is a land where money is worshipped far less than happy living. Maurice Berteaux, who has just gone into the cabinet as War Minister, is one of her millionaires-and Socialist!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
The Richest Man ip the World.

It Is an easy step from Gwalors and Maharattas to Shahs and Sultans, Kings and Kaisers. and 1t may well be taken since fourteen of the world rulers are millionaires in their indl- vidual as well as official rights.
 Two of them, indeed, the Emperor Autocrat of All the Russias and that Persian monarch who modestly styles himself The Magnetic Center of the Universe" are worth no one may say how much. though it is beyond Ill req sonable odubt that they are tho two richest men alive. One is apt to gauge man by his salary, and by that cri- terion Nicholas is worth considering; his pay" runs anywhere from S5,O0O,- 900 to $9,0O0,000 a year. Yet thls is the least part of an income which mounts up to what one British finan- cial f1gurer has placed at $91 a minute.
 As head of the House of Romanoff the Emperor owns 2O,0O0.0O0 acres of Siberian mineral and timber lands; block after block of property in the cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Odessa stand in his name; his (offlcial- ly) are the vast jewel treasures accu- mulated by a long line of saving fore- bears, and his, too is a per centage up- on every will probated in the empire, and on every beneraction made the church of which he is titular head.
 lie may or may not be the rlchest man in the world but his wealth is certainly conserNatively estimated at something more than a billion dollars.
 The rulers of Persia. Turkey, Bel gium, and China. have each, at one time or another, been named as the worlds most wealthy notable. but only Muzaffar, the Shah may justly dis pute the right which common consent has bestowed upon the Czar.
 In the little matter of salary" the Persian monarch gets anything one chooses to mention, for he is absolute and whatever he fancies Is his before he asks. If there is a treasurer in Per sia, that official is convenience rather than necessity; the Shah aimseh Is treasury as well as treasurer. What ever Persia Is worth the Shah IS worth; which makes his wealth bit difficult to measured Be 1t remembered, too. tAst this au5 5ocratic collector of preei~ds stones possesses as fine dia-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
The Hamburg Lending.

New York. May 2s.-The German rac- ing yacht Hamburg led the Endymon ana Ailsa by 136 miles in the trans-At- Iantic race for Emperor Williams cup on May 22. All three of the yachts xvs4e sighted by the steamer St. Louis eaohat day.
 schSAiIsa was leading the Endymion eaS 4yxpons -vo miles. light southeast s.. about rsS 'oed. The Hamburg had @ RI. S s si75 %ltslss: ts ts: 5s ai .,ctated Press st Louis ee~by a round- s:ss .: s::s ss;s E: s.; : $ $ she ss, ,,1osass. a,SSss < Dy the cam01 \
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
The Story Europe Tells.

German millionaires outnumber their French neighbors by more than 100. The Fatherland has S04. and 1t Is worth notice that all but thirteen are resi- dents of Wilhelm's ancestral kingdom of Prussia. Figures there compiled. with a thoroughness characteristically Germanic, tell of 622 fortunes ranging from $1 900, 900 to $2,400,000; 143 fall ing between that figure and $6,000, 900; 24 of at least $6,000.000, but under $24.O0O,OO0 and two that surpass the last total.
 Of the thirteen properties in other parts of the empire which top seven figures the two largest are those of Prince Pless, who has made untold money in his Silesian mines, and Herr von Bleichroder, the Berlin banker, whose name is written fin history as well as finance; 1t was he who stood so close to Bismarck as to make possible the Iron Chancellor's broadest reforms.
 England, Germany, France, Russia, these are the first of Europe's pow CTS as ranked through their million aires. The rest struggles along with few great fortunes to show.
 In Austria, to be sure, are such men as Archduke Frederick and Baron Rothschild, Prince Sehwartzburg and Archbishop Conn, Count Gutmann, the owner of coal mines, and Baron Leiten- berger. the cotton merchant, yet the imperial census claims only an even two dozen millionaires out of a popu- lation of 26,000, ,000-not one in a mill lion. Belgium. with a population short of 7,000,00O, does better than that, for Leopold's tiny kingdom claims seven men of millions in addition to the king himself.
 Fifteen more entries and the Conti- nent is accounted for. In Sweden and Turkey the millionaire Is literally unique-one of a kind. Norway and Italy are credited with two each; Por- tugal with three, while six are claimed by the sister Kingdom, Spain. So Eu- ropes total is reached-4,091.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
fContinued from Page Is.l

Conyngham's young Marquis comes into his estate next February. though his 173,314 acres, stretching across five of Ireland's green counties and rank ing second only to Lord Iveagh's vast holdings on the island. look "a bit smallish" alongside the 1.35S,942 acres which give the Duke of Sutherland the title of Britain's largest land owner. Norfolk's Income is put down at $7,500 a day--yet the Premier Duke of the kingdom has decided not to buy a motor car till he could buy a little cheaper.
 As unpretentious as Norfolk Is one of Americas richest sons, Thomas De- Ian of Philadelphia. The quiet folk of Penn's town ride in cars which he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
MEN AND WOMEN WE READ ABOUT

lately came across seass to Washington 10 represent his country. Curious, courteous. cosmopolitan. this six foot Tour diplomat Is an ideal instance Of what immense wealth brings one in the East.
 When India's soo.ooo. 900 people pass in review the fortunes of that fabulous ly treasured peninsula are found cen- tered In not more than 300 men. Such families as the Petits, the Camas. the Jee1eebhoys, the wadias. and (best name of alb the Readymonies. have built up from trade in jute, coal and cotton. fortunes which rival even those ancient ones based upon chests of Jewels whose descriptions read like fairy tales.
 Norwojee wadia, for example. is rated as worth s5.so0.00o, and Sir Jam
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

Marconi station at Spiasconset and thence to New York.
 On the following day May 23 the Ailsa and the Hamburg were sighted by the steamer Minnehaha. Both yachts had moderate southerly winds and smooth sea. The Ailsa was .061 miles due east of Sandy Hook light ship. The Hamburg when sighted by the Minnehaha was 1.107 miles due east of the lghtship. The time she was sighted is not given in the dis patch received from the Minnehaha by Marcont wireless, however, and the relative positions of the yachts cannot be determined.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

setjee Jeejeebhoy at rully three times that sum. This latter, now the recog- nized head of the Parsees. Is a present. day example of energy and enterprise, the representative of line of capable, stirring men who came into the coun- try a century ago. with no capital save the brains under their scarlet and vel low turbans. In those days India knew not competition. and lay virgin territory before such as the Wadias and Jeejeebhoys. They took the offered opportunity, and the ancientest of the ancient lands Maharajahs, with pre- cious stones and ores piled up for him by ancestor after ancestor, now ad- mits their financial equality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
Daily New|paperc.

There seems to be number of merchants who, for some reason or other, are always looking about for scheme which will tend to develop business. These merchants apparently want something besides daily newspaper adver- tising, with which they will not content them selves. They experiment with anything and everything and finally wind up by purchasing space in the local daily. The merchant who in- dulges himself in schemes loses prestige with each scheme and generally loses money. The schemer, if he gets any trade at all, gets the most undesirable kind, and not very much of that. The reputable merchant cannot find better medium than the reputable daily news paper, look as he may. The attractive adver- tisement in daily newspaper, stating honest facts and reasons is the best publicity any merchant can get, and the best business build CT that has been discovered to date.
 From '7Sewspaperdom," May IS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
ArohIn. Q, IndIa. boo.

Across the Urals investigation finds hard hunting SO far as figures as to in- 6ividual wealth are concerned. The Mikado's land has been summed up by its own papers, and the travellers tale is probably true that Siam Is like Ja- nan in that its sole millionaire is It's absolute king with the unpronounce- able name.
 In Arabia there are no nobles or merchants whose properties top SSOO.- 900, and in China (accepting thu state ment of Sir Robert Hart, the English man who has worked so long in the Yellow Mans postal and banking ser vicesl there are only eleven of all her AOO, ,000, ,000, who may be conside-ad mil Iionaires in the Occidental sense of the word.
 In Persia there are three; the Shah himself. Akman Strefiis Khan, tho banker, and Genera Morteza Khan hut
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
Millionaire MOnarcfa.

China's claim to great wealth, as voiced through her Emperor. is based. again, on the fact that he Is absolute. as are the monarchs of Abyssinia and Morocco. All three may well be mill linoaires, and in Menelik and Mulai- Abd-el-Aziz Africa will find the only two seven-figure individuals she may show, excepting her half dozen in Cape Colony, but none of these may prop erly be listed at more than a paltry $5,00O.0 .000.
 With Leopold of Belgium the case Is different. His annual stipend is only $700, 900; a salary" surpassed by a dozen of his dear Cousins" but be- hind Leopold is Congoland-and that makes all the difference between $70o,- 900 and $350, 900, at which he has been estimated by the French statis-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

owns. light their homes with gas of his manufacture, buy electricity of him in a hundred forms-yet not one in ten of them can tell where this hundred- million~man dwells. There Is no more simple house on Walnut Street than MT. Dolan's. where the 70-year- old owner cherishes library rivaling those of the great collectors in its treasures. His books and his business are all the world to him. No political honors, than kyou. No social shining. No yachts or marble country houses.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

monds as are in the world; has rubies which vie with even those of India, while. as for emeralds, his have for years been the envy of @ universe. When a gentleman wears in his turban a green stone valued at $4,o00,000, what Is he worth?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

Burlington. la. May 2s.-A report from Washington, Iowa, that the Uni ted Presbyterian general assembly had selected Des Moines as the 1906 meet ing place is an error. No action has been taken
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
FOR LACKsoNYILLE ExCrRsInN.

May 29th, A e. L. will sell tickets for $50 a. m. train and 7:45 p. n train. s4.50 round trip.
 J. A. Taylor, T. P. A. adv.--2t Montgomery, Ala
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
BLOOD p0IS0N(es (sssk4f;, Ma4s The disease ssssr that h has has done ;1 a ENEMY

life Sorrow suffering hand in hand with this hated other disease powerful posons; the blood be- when its circulation becomes poisoned and its chain of horrible begin show Uu
 
 b the blood being saturated with the deadly poison and the mouth throat breaks out the body
 
 the Not only the disease hereditary child in the weak puny coustitutons but highly been ruined by friendly hand shake using the toilet infected with the To this bighing deadly
 blood must be purified, and nothing will do 64 AQ M~ quickly and surely S. S. It > bottom of the trouble, drives particle n M A of the poison and the blood ands strong, It does not hide anything but from the first begins the build g. that it contains apac1e instructions charge THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, ATLANTA, GA.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

The orange crop in Italy. Spain and Southern France is reported to be al- most a complete failre
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

Very fine quality, worth 5Oc a yRrdl for Monday ... COG. ... .... ... 1OG
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

CHINA SILK-In all cOlOrs. extra fine
 quality. 2s inches wide, worth 65e a yard; for Monday ... ... ... |. .45C
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

WHITE LINEN SHIRT WAIST SUITS Strap and button trimmed and tucked, worth fully $5, for MOn- day .%<.Vc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

CHINA SILK wAISTs-Pure white
 and solid black, worth sS.5O; for