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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-12-14
TOTEM POLES.
How They Serve the Haida Indians
to Display the Crests Of the
Families.

The Haida Indians are divided into
two groups of families, the Raven
people and the Eagle people. It is
forbidden for q man of the Raven
group to marry a woman Of the same
group, and for a man of the Eagle
group to marry in his group. Each
Of these groups is subdivided into q
number of families. Most Of these
families bear the names of certain To-
calities, and were originally village
communities, but are considered as
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-12-14
TO BEGIN At THE BOTTOM
Pluck Of Railway Presidents Son
Who Is Determined to Make
His Own Way.

Benjamin L. Winchell, Jr., son Of
the president Of the Chicago, Rock Is
land & Pacific railroad, has gone to
the southwest to begin his career in
railroad service by going to work - .
rodman with surveying gang.
Mr.. Winchell was graduated from
the Shef1leld Scientific School at Yale
university last June. In telling of his
plans he said:
I'VE all have to go to work some
time. There is nothing remarkable In
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-12-14
A NEW SUN DIAL.
Device Which Will Indicate Standard
Time O. Local Time Of Any
Particular Place.

The ordinary sun-dial naturally ind3-
Gates sun-time, and the sun as a time
piece is not accurate, because its motion
is not uniform throughout the year. A
dial that will indicate standard time,
or the local time of any particular place,
If desired, has been patented by Albert
c. Crehore, of Yonkers, N. Y. The il
lustration represents one of Mr.. Gre
hore's dials made for Sir William
Preece and set up at his place at Carna-
Won, North Wales. Others are at the
University of Ohio, Northwestern uni
versity, and elsewhere. The Crehore
dial, as described in The Optical Instru-
ment Monthly (New York;, is one solid
piece of bronze, except the face, which
is an engraved bronze cylindrical sheet
whose axis is inclined to the horizontal
plane at an angle equal to the latitude
of the place and points directly north.
The shadow is cast by small bead held
by wire kept stretched by spring,
as shown in the picture. The scientific
principle on which the dial depends is
thus described by the inventor in COM
munication to the periodical above
named. He says:
"The relative motion of the sun and
earth is such that the suns apparent
path in the heavens, when mapped with
reference to the horizon plane of some
fixed locality, is only completed so that
the sun begins to describe approximate
~ the same path once every year. 1t
does not describe quite the same path
because of several component motions
of very long period, which are for the
present purposes of the second order of
magnitude and may be neglected. Con-
sidering the suns path results from two
component motions, the rotation Of the
earth on its axis once per day and TIE
revolution in it's orbit once per year, it
will be seen that this path is one con-
tiEuous curve which is approximately
completed only once q year, and will
be retraced each succeeding year. Eacn
day the path is almost a complete circle,
but the circle is not quite closed, as the
path the following day is similar circle
very near the preceding one, so that the
path resembles screw-thread except
that the pitch of the screw is not uniform
throughout the year, but changes from
its maximum at the time of the eQui-
noxes to zero at the solsticcs.
''For a sun-dial which is to indicate
time it is necessary to know more than
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-12-14

the table. This is really test of the
forearm as well as the wrist
Test No. 2 calls for much the same
position, except that the backs of the
hands are placed together, the fingers
on one hand reaching down to the
wrist of the other. Then each OPP
ponent tries to. bend inward the others
wrist. This is entirely a wrist test,
and the results will often surprise you.
A third test, suggested by the Chicago
inter Ocean, calls for the same posi-
ton, except that the fingers are closed
all but the first or index finger. The
first fingers are placed together back
to back, each fellows object being to
force his opponents finger to "shut,"
that is, to close in the palm of the
hand.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-12-14
Huge Cau1onball.

The biggest cannon ball ever made
weighed $500 pounds, and was manu-
featured at the Krupp works, Essen.
for the government of tbs car. The
gun from which the projectile was
fred is also the largest in the world,
and is placed in the fortifications Of
Crunstadt. This gun has a range of
" miles, and 1t has beeE estimated
that each shot costs $500.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-12-14
Solved at Last,

Teacher-All the meridians, you
must remember, converge at the poles.
Shaggy Haired Pupil - Then why
don't these people who want tn find
the north pole follow one of them
there m,ridians clear up to it
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
End Of Strenuous Discipline

me you look rather stout said he.
Executing a flank movement, he
caught me over his knee and stripped
down my trousers. Under the first
pair he found another. Under the sec
ond pair he found another. Under the
third pair he found another When
he got to the fourth pair he stopped
and said gravely:
How many pairs of pants did you
put on?'
"'I dunno; put on all of mine and
all of Jim's, said l weakly.
He burst out laughing, and from
that day on never got a licking. But
he used to talk to me when was bad.
and it wasn't long before would
have taken half a dozen lickings
thankfully rather than one of those
grave. earnest lectures that made me
feel ashamed of myself for hours and
hours afterward New York Press.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

my father changed his methods of
discipline instantly and radically when
was about half grown" said Martin
w Littleton. president of the Borough
of Brooklyn, the other day in telling
of his youth.
"He had always been noted as
hard hitter and severe disciplinarian,
and we boys had taken measures ac-
cordingly.
"One day misbehaved at the table
and he told me to go upstairs. | knew
what that meant. 1t meant that he
would be around after while with
a paddle. So I got busy as soon as
reached the bedroom.
when he came up he dumfounded
me by saying briefly: Take off your
pants.' hesitated and began to
whimper. 4 don't want to- Said l.
He inspected me narrowly, Strikes
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Airships Valuable for War

from above. Unquestionably the
cheaper form of attack in this instance
would have been by airships.
at will perhaps be urged that the
gasbag of large airship would o.>.r
comparatively easy target, but, at a
sufficient elevation, l think this is by
no means the case. During Me siege
of Ladysmith | myself saw our cap
tive balloon brought slowly to the
ground by Boer fire alone. but then It
must be borne in mind that the bal
loon was stationary and at a low ele-
vation. very little higher than the
hill from which the firing came. A
moving airship at considerable ele-
walton would form a very difficult tar
get, and If only slight damage were
inflicted. there would always be the
chance of being able to get away out
side the enemy's lines before having
to come to earth. Shrapnel fire will
probably be found the most effective
against such vessels, but there must
always he the difficulty of getting the
proper elevation for the guns, and
they could not be fired vertically
with out the chance of the projectiles
on their return doing more harm 10
the side that fired than they inflicted
on the enemy.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

From the moment that M. Santos
Dumont alighted softly on the sward
of the Bots de Boulogne. after encir-
cling the Eiffel tower. new era be-
gan in the man-conqucst of the atmos-
phere, says the Grand Magazine. The
aeronaut had succeeded in solving the
problem he had set himself and
thenceforward had merely to perfect
the details. Assuming, as we are
entitled to do. that M. Santos-Dumont's
rev ship proves success, and that,
in addition to carrying a crew OF eight
or ten, 1t will have lifting power for
small cargo. see what powerful
and novel weapon of offensive warfare
is at the disposal of the nations.
In the next continental war 1t is un-
conceivable that the effectiveness OF
such a mode of stack will not be
utilized. After the lessons of the re-
cent siege of Port Arthur any one can
realize the immense service a practi.
cable war airship Of sufficient size
would have been to the operations
IL, instead of the enormous labor OF
having to bring immense siege guns
from Japan in order to destroy the
ships in the harbor, lyddite could have
been dropped upon the vessels decks
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

must have given you when i offered
to become your fantor and adminicle
VIII not speak of the lippitude, the
oblepsy, you have shown in exacer-
batting me, one whose genius you
should have approached with mental
dlscalceation. So l tell you, without
supervacaneous words, nothing will
render ignoscible your conduct to me.
warn you that would vellicate your
nose If | thought that any moral
diarthrosis thereby could be perform
ed-n thought | should not i'm
pignorate my reputation. Go, tachy-
graphic scrogle, band with your Grass
inquinate fantors; draw objectations
from the thought. If you can, of hav-
ing synchronically lost the existiina-
ton of the greatest poet since Mil
tom And yet all these words are to
be found in the dictionary.-London
Tit-Bits.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Precise Moment Of Death

have lain in this state for six or more
minutes. If the dogs chest is opened
and artificial respiration begun, and
II the heart is taken in the hand snd
rhythmically squeezed, gradually it be-
gins to beat again, the dog begins to
breathe-in fact, he RECEIVERS normal
life. l believe the same experiment
has not been tried in men, for the rea-
son that in Illness the system is gen.
orally so poisoned by the toxins of
disease as to make 1t impossible
spontaneously to recover. even though
the heart should be kept beating. The
heart of a man may in some cases be
made to beat again outside the body
if defibrinated blood is circulated
through it.
We cannot, therefore, answer the
question. When does a man die? II
we mean by a man his body, this dies
piecemeal, one organ after another;
If we mean the mans personality, this
evidently disappears when he loses
consciousness; and from this point of
view he may be said to die when he
falls in deep slumber, certainly when
he is anesthetiZed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

in the first place, there is no definite
moment of death. We all are gradu-
ally dying for years, says the World
of To-Day. The moment which is or
dinarily ascribed to death is when the
breathing stops, but this is purely ar
bitrary and the survival of an old be-
lief that life was drawn in in the
breath and the soul passed out with
the breath. The heart may continue
to beat many minutes, and in ami
mails under experimental conditions
even for hours after respiration has
stopped, the muscles are still irrita-
BILE. the nerves are still able to carry
nerve impulses. But, while the ces-
sation of respiration cannot be called
the moment of death. it is the cause
of it, because the body cannot live
without air; the heart. accordingly,
stops and the tissues die of suffoca-
ton.
How arbitrary 1t is to call man
dead when the heart ceases to beat
and he no longer breathes will be ap-
parent when it is remembered that
dogs may easily be revived after they
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Voice from Arkansas.

Cleveland, Ark. July 31st.-(Spe.
ciaD-Nearly every newspaper tells
of some wonderful cure of some form
of Kidney Disease by the Great Amer.
lean Remedy. Dodd's Kidney Pills.
and this part of Arkansas is not with.
out its share of evidence that no case
is too deeply rooted for Dodds Kidney
Pills to cure.
Mr.. A. E. Carlile, we'll known and
highly respected here, tells of his cure
after nearly a quarter of a century's
suffering. Mr.. Carlile says:
Il want to let the public know what
think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1
think they are the best remedy for
sick kidneys ever made.
Il had Kidney Trouble for % years
and never found anything that did me
SO much good as Dodd's Kidney Pills.
l recommend them to all sufferers"
There is no uncertain sound about
Mr.. Carlile's statement. He knows
that Dodd's Kidney Pills rescued him
from life of suffering and he wants
the public to know it. Dodd's Kidney
Pills cure all Kidney ills from Back
ache to Bright's Disease.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Words That Are Obsolete

The number of obsolete words that
are to be found in Webster's Diction-
ary is considerably larger than people
have any idea of. The following let
ter. written by an alleged poet to an
editor who had treated his poetry with
derision, furnishes some idea of them:
"Sir-You have behaved like an i'm
petiginous scrogle. Like those who,
envious of any moral ceIsitude. carry
their ungicity to the height OF Great
ing symposicaMy the fecund words
which my pollymathic genius uses
with liberty to abligate the tongues of
the weetless, Sir. you have crassly
parodied my own pet words as though
they were trangrams. | will not Goa
scervate reproaches-I will oduce a
veil over the atramental ingratitude
which has chamfered even my indis-
cerptible heart. I am silent on the
focillation which my coadjuvancy
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
EVER TREAT YOU so?
Coffee Acts the Jonah and Will Come
Up

Coffee Acts the Jonah and Will Come
Up.
A clergyman who pursues his noble
calling in a country parish in Iowa.
tells of his coffee experience:
my wife and l used coffee regular
ly for breakfast, frequently for dinner
and occasionally for supper-always
the very best quality-package coffee
never could find a place on our table.
"In the spring of 1896 my wife was
taken with violent vomiting which we
had great difficulty in stopping.
''It seemed to come from coffee
drinking but we could not decide.
"In the following July, however.
she was attacked a second time by
the vomiting l was away from home
filing an appointment, at the time,
and on my return l found her very
low; she had literally vomited herself
almost to death, and it took some days
to quiet the trouble and restore her
stomach.
Il had also experienced the same
trouble. but not so violently. and had
relieved it, each time, by resort to
medicine.
But my wifes second attack salts
fed me that the use of coffee was at
the bottom of our troubles. and SO we
stopped it forthwith and took on
Postum Food Coffee. The old symp-
toms Of disease disappeared and dur
ing the years that we have been
using Postum instead of coffee we
have never had a recurrence Of the
vomiting. We never weary of Postum,
to which we know we owe our good
health. This is a simple statement
of facts" Name given by Postum
Company, Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book THE Road to
Wellville." In each pkg.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

The gloomy looking man walked
slowly up the dingy flight of stairs
that led TO the abode of the success
ors to the oracle at Delphos. He was
Immediately ushered into darkened
apartment fitted with Oriental draper
les and was greeted solemnly by
seeress in white samite.
What would you of the mystic be-
yond?" she asked.
We'll" said the man, "I'll give you
$40 If you call up the spirit of my
deceased wife. Maria"
Have you the money? Yes, thank
you, you may place it here. You
know" went on the medium apollo
getically, Il wish to have filthy lucre
and all sordld mundane things off my
mind before plunge into the world
of shades"
The medium mumbled with wide
staring eyes, while the two able-bod-
led stage assistants waved phosphor
escent draperies with telling effect.
"Ah," droned the medium. 81 see
Maria, beautiful and happy. She
points to you and smiles
"All right" said the business man
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Maria Used Dead Language

in a businesslike tone of voice. Now
ask Maria what is the combination of
the safe in my store. When she died
the secret numbers of the combina-
tion died with her, and | can't open
the blamed thing"
But" faltered the seress. per
haps she's forgotten the combination
in the abode of bliss"
Not on your life," said the man.
Maria had a good memory. and she'll
tell the combination all right. Just
ask her"
Maria will tell you the comblra-
tion-listen. She says: 'Hocus pocus
nil desperandum veni vidi vici sic
sempes tyrannis."
Hey, what's that?" asked the man.
81 can't make head or tail out of it.
It sounds like Latin"
"It is Latin" said the medium.
"Gimmr back my money, you fakei"
yelled the man, Maria never knew a
word of Latin in her life"
But she is dead, and Latin is one
of the dead languages, isn't 1t? Show
him out. lohn," And that was the
end of the Aeance and of his s10.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Coin That Named Portland.

Frank w. Pettygroye Of Seattle has
the penny that named the city of Port
land, Oregon. On the toss of this coin
depended the question whether the
Willamette metropolis should be
known as Portland or Boston. Twice
the coin turned tails" and the town
was named after Portland, Maine. the
former home of MIR. Pettygroye's
father.
A. L. Lovejoy of Massachusetts. a
member OF the party that laid out Port.
land, desired to name 1t Boston, after
the most important city in his state.
Pettygrove wanted to name It Port
land, after the most important city ia
Maine, lis native state. They agreed
to toss penny. heads to mean Boston.
tails to mean Portland, the best two in
three to be the choice. Pettygroye
won the first toss; Loveioy won the
second, and the third proved to be
tails, and Portland it was.
The younger Pettygrove still has the
identical penny. and would not take
any amount Of money for it. His father
kept 1t for pocket piece, and 1t has
been handed down to the son. who
bears his fathers name. 1t is dated
1885, and is one of those large coins
in vogue at that time. about the size of
the quarter of the present day.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
WELDING COPPER.
1t Is Matter of Personal Skill and
Cannot Be Taught.

A Los Angeles mechanic has redis-
covered the lost art, said to have been
possessed by the ancients, of welding
copper But from his own description
it would seem that the recovery is
not permanent, and that the secret
viii die with him, as his efforts to inn
part 1t to others are not attended with
success. When asked to explain the
manner in which he made the discov-
cry, says the Los Angeles Herald, he
said:
81 began five years ago to weld cop
per just as / weld iron. Copper weld
ing is an art, not science, and ev-
erything lies in the eye, in the ability
to take the metal from the fire at just
the proper moment.
Il have been experimenting in weld
ing processes for over twenty-five
years. and since l discovered the weld
ing color, l have tried to teach it to my
men, but without success.
"They are unable to distinguish color
variations under fire, which is the one
essential, and which is perfectly sim
pie and easy for me. In this lies the
great trouble in teaching the process,
and this trouble is increased by the
fact that copper is dead metal and
contains no carbon"
1t is very likely that the art among
the ancients was not general, and that
specimens which have been found in
the ruins of ancient cities were the
product of individual craftsmen, who
discovered and used it, and 1t died with
them, for the very reason set forth by
Mr.. Thos. A. McNeill, the Los Angeles
man using it, in his statement to the
Herald.-Nogales (Ariz.) Oasis.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
NO MORE HEADACHE
GENERAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER
DISAPPEAR TOO.
How n Woman wn- Freed from TroubIea
That Had sfndc Life wretehed for
Many Years.

How n Woman Was Freed from TroubIea
That Had 5fndc Life Wrstehed for
Many Years.
The immediate causes Of headaches
vary, but most of them come from pooi
or poisoned blood. III an@niia the blood
Is scanty or thin; the nerves are imper-
fectly nourished and pain is the way in
which they express their weakness. In
colds the blood absorbs poison from the
mucous surfaces, and the poison irritates
the nerves aud produces pain. In rheu-
matism. malaria and tho grip. the poison
In the blood produces like discomfort. In
indigestion the gases from the impure
matter kept in the system affect the
blood in the saine way.
The ordinary headnche-cures at best
give only temporary relief. They deaden
the pain but do not drive the poison out
of the blood. DIR. Williams Pink Pills
OH tho contrary thoroughly renew the
blood and the pain disappears perma-
nently. Women in particular have found
these pills an unfailing relief in head
aches caused by an9mia.
Miss Stella Blocker recently said: cdr.
williams Pink Pills did me a great deal
of good. / had headache nearly all the
time. After had taken three boxes Of
these pills became entirely we'll"
How long had you suffered ?" she
was asked.
For several years. / can't tell the
exact date when my illness began for it
came OH by slow degrees. 1 had been
going down hill for many years"
"Did you have any other ailments"
81 was very weak and sometimes Ihad
fever. My liver and kidneys were af-
fected as well as my head. !"
How did you come to take the rem
edy that cured you?''
81 saw in southern newspaper a
statement of some person who was cured
Of a like trouble by DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. My physician hadn't done me any
good, so | bought box of these pills.
After had taken one box felt so much
better that 1 kept on until became en-
tirely well.p
Miss Blocker's home is at Leander,
Louisiana. DIR. Williams Pink Pills are
sold by all druggists. Besides headache
they cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous
prostrntion, partial paralysis and rheu-
E1atisn.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Over one million acres of land

Over one million acres of land in the
Uintah Indian reservation viii be
thrown open for settlement August 2Sth.
Regis stration begins August 1st at Grand
Junction. Colorado, continuing TIL August
IL. From Denver. Colorado Springs or
Pueblo. the Colorado Midland is the short
est route to Grand Junction or reserva-
tion points. Write c. II. Speers, G. p.
A, Denver. for booklet. giving informa-
tion regarding land. rates. etc.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

100 not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds.-JoHS f.
BOYER, Trinity Springs. Ind. Feb. is, 1900.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

,FREE-5e-page copyright book. advice to
Victims Great White Plague Tuberculosis v
Drs Van Hummell. Ga l4th St, Denver colo
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

The few top leaves of the
bush and a knowing cook
made tea for the few; alas
for the manyl
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
More Flexible and LastIna.

won't shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch you obtain better re-
suits than possible with any other
brand and one-third more for same
money.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

Before a candidate places himself in
the hands of his political friends he
should sew up his pockets.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

Most men are willing to admit that
honesty Is the best policy-for others.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

When two Poles got married the re-
porter described the ceremony as a
wooden wedding.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

write for knowledge Book. A. schliiins &
Company. San Francisco
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

Occasionally a widow tries to make
hit by posing a miss.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
Insist on Getting II.

Some grocers say they don't keep
Defiance Starch. This is because they
have a stock on hand Of other brands
containing only IL OF In a package.
which they won't be able to sell first.
because Defiance contains 16 OF. for
the same money.
Do you want l6 OF. instead of IL OF.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03

cdr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
prompt and complete relief from and
liver deraI b. I. Irowbridge, Harlem Il r, NY