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at once. want you to take al the time
that you need in order that you may ar
rive at the favorable verdict SO necessary
to my happiness.
It is hardly necessary to say that shall
not call again before receiving your re.
ply: but when you say the word Gomez
1t will not take any great length of time
for me to accept the welcome invitation.
hope that You will be able to say that word.
Yours with love, FRANK.
Miriam's mingled feelings of misery
and JOY when she read the letter may
be imagined. "Why did write that
miserable letter? Why didn't give
him one more day. after all these
Yeas? Oh, why wasn't I too i'll to
get up this morning?' were some Of
the questions that the poor girl asked
herself, when the feelings of misery
were in control, as they were during:
nearly all the rest of the afternoon.
the happiness which she had felt tor
short time giving way under the in
huence Of the thought that she might
have been happy without the loss Of
her self-respect.
'But perhaps there is yet a chance
to save it," thought Miriam, as once
more came to her mind that friend
Of mankind and womankind, the much
abused and misunderstood telephone.
She would try to get Frank at his Of
flee, and If by any chance he had
not received the letter, or had not read
it, if he had received it, she would
make him promise to return it with
out reading. But she realized that the
hope was a faint one. as there Was
almost no chance that the letter had
not been received; and II he had re-
ceived it-well, she would like to see
him leave letter of hers unopened
for more than a minute! ..
And 80 this contradictory woman
went to the telephone with . weak
voice and a faint heart, hoping against
hope that Frank had been away from
the Office. and that the letter had ar.
rived in his absence. The reply TO
her inquiry for Mr.. Webster gave her
momentary comfort, as she was told
that he was out; but when she asked
further questions she learned that HI
had been in the Office until few min
utes before the time of her telephone
call. AS she hung up tho receiver,
Miriam said to herself, with sad
smile, that she wished she could hang
herself as easily.
The next half-hour was one of the
most miserable that the girl had ever
spent. She again read her lovers
letter; but instead of finding any COM
fort for her troubles, the reading onlv
added to her misery.
"He thought me so modest and WON.
anly, and contrasted my conduct with
that of others who were not so mod
est! But what does he think now
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02
Sarcasm on the Battle Front.

The late Gen. Fitzhugh Lee had a
large fund of wartime anecdotes. He
used to tell this one: ION account of
the shifting of officers to replace losses.
q young Irish captain was given CON-
mand of raw troop OF volunteers Who
were under fire for the first time. Their
baptism must have unnerved the re-
cruits, for they never budged at the COM
mand to charge. A second command
likewise being disobeyed, to their lead
er's stupefaction, he rode along the
line, glazing reproachfaHHy at his men,
and demanded, sarcastically: What
ais you fellows, anyhow: Dye want to
live forever?"
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4 POT OF POTATOES.
The Captain Tells the Big Price Ho
Paid for Them and How He
Got Them Cooked. -....

AT Milledgeville," said Capt
Fowler, ION the march to the sea,
paid $3.50 for peck Of potatoes.
That was pretty steep, but we were
all potato hungry, and the matter of
price cut small figure in the transac-
ton. But after I had secured the po-
tatoes circumstances were against me.
Milledgeville, where we could build
no fires and where every house had
a guard to prevent intrusion by sol
diers.
my cook was absent without leave,
and for the time being Aaron Catlin,
one Of the company, was looking after
me with, as he said, the honorable in
tention of not letting me starve. He
insisted that his oath and his consti-
tuition and all of his bylaws compelled
him to see that those potatoes were
cooked. He loaded camp kettle to
the muZzle with potatoes and wheedled
colored woman to take them over
her back fence and boil them.
"The boys were betting three to one
that Catlin would never see the pota-
toes again, when the colored woman
appeared with the kettle of steaming
potatoes, and Catlin received them
with enthusiastic expressions of
thanks. He was surprised and discon-
certed when the woman said: I
doesn't wuk for nuthin', sah.' Catlin
said, heartily: of course not. How
much for boiling the potatoes?' To
which the woman answered, without
hesitation: Three dollars, sah.'
This was a sumner, but Catlin was
equal to the occasion.
HE fished out of his pockets con-
federate postage stamp and ten-cent
note federal money!, and rendered
the collection to the boiler of potatoes.
Unexpectedly she accepted with eager
ness, and Catlir brought the boiled
potatoes to headquarters, where the
officers mess had a feast. I never had
been as potato hungry as I was on
that occasion, and I never tasted any,
thing quite as good as those boiled
potatoes, eaten with scant ration of
salt in the streets of Milledgeville.
Catlin insisted that the old colcred
woman gave him a nervous chill when
she demanded three dollars for boil
ing the potatoes, but he soon OWNED
that she spoke at random, scarcely
knowing the difference between dollars
and cents.
Before that campaign was over
Catlin and his chum were captured.
One wore pair of nearly new boots
and the other pair of nearly new
shoes. They knew that the rebs
would levy on the boots and shoes
as soon as an inventory was taken,
and during the night they concocted
a scheme. The next morning Catlin
wore one boot and one shoe, and his
comrade wore one shoe and one boot.
"The exchange gave them the APP
pearance Of Job lot, who, in ex.
tremity, had picked up minated foot.
gear, and neither was molested They
were exchanged a little later, and as
soon as released Catlin wore two boots
as good as new and his partner two
shoes. The rebel guards didn't know
what had happened to give their
prisoners more genteel appearance
until the matter was explained to
them, and then, with a look at their
own well-worn shoes, they failed to
express their appreciation Of tho
k."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Chicago possesses two of the great
men of letters of America. They are
Speropanagrotis Experimentation.
neutrality-suspicious. and James Pap.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s,
Of 4213 Halsted street. The first
named takes pride in the collection Of
81 letters in his full name, while his
fellow sufferer has only six less.
When they sign their names together
1t requires the formation of SO letters.
The men are Greek merchants.
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BIG CANNON FOR COLLEGE.
Presented to the Northwestern Uni
versity by Senior Glass in Mem
Org Of College War Heroes.

A cannon that saw service at Fort
Sumter during the civil war has been
presented to Northwestern university
at Evanston, ILL.,, and forms, with it's en-
placement, the most notable of the class
gifts upon the campus. The cannon is
the gift of the senior class, and the pres
entation address was made by Henry
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

The Vienna hospital for disabled
fishes Is surprising the doctors. The
patients have already included carp
having an Inflammation akin to ap-
pendicitis, ten others with smallpox,
Q porpoise from the Adriatic with in
1ammation Of the lungs, trout with
cataract in both eyes and another
with drOpsy.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

B. Reed, who was the pioneer shoe
drummer of the United States, is dead
at his home, Brooklyn, in his SD year:
His father was an eccentric resident
Of South Norwalk, c., named most
of his Is children after letters of the
alphabet, and the deceased is survived
by his brother D and sister c. Mr..
Reed was known In the shoe trade as
Benny" Reed, but his real name was
Diain B.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

Liquid air and the high absorptive
properties of charcoal are now used to
secure high vacua. It has long been
known that liquid air possesses the
property of absorbing gases. Prof.
Dewar, the English physicist, has late
ly demonstrated that this property is
increased many fold when the char
coal is cooled to the temperature Of
liquid air.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

At the recent Rontgen congress in
Berlin a special committee adopted
the following Technology for the new
science: Rontgenology is the study of
Rontgen rays. Rontgenoscopy is OBJ.
servation by Rontgen rays. Orthoront-
topography. rOntgenotherapy and the
verb to rontgenize are other words
which the congress desires to inflict
upon humanity.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

Australia has a Estate Journals"
A Sydney newspaper man, John Plum
mer, has been engaged at a salary Of
$4,000 q year to write articles in the
British. American and continental pa
pers in defense of the commonwealth,
it, legislation and it's administration.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

The California. orange crop; during
the past season, shipped to market.
filed $4,000 cars. in which were TO-.
$4,000 boxes, valued at $23.925, 900.
OF this sum the orange growers re-
cedved $14,500,O00, and the railroad
and refrigerator lines $9,425,000.
When to this is added the value of the
home consumption, it shows good re-
turn from q single fruit crop.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

Maly's government censors all press
kilograms to foreign countries. Re-
Gently the correspondent of the Lon
don Express handed in a dispatch re-
lating to the severe heat in Rome,
which the censor declined to allow to
pass.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

John D. Rockefeller regained his
health and appetite by drinking .
glassful Of hot water every morning
before breakfast II Richelieu had
taken the same does at night before
going to bed the whole history Of
France would have been changed.
There is much virtue in hot water. It
will cure nearly every i'll II properly
used. Because It IL 80 cheap, and
never Recommended by q physician, is
not q drug nor q patent medicine, the
general public overlook its me'it. In
side or outside. mineral or pure, salt
or 0voot. It IL natures own remedy.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

In many parts of the Australian con.
tinent bee farming has become
profitable and popular occupation.
There are at present over 250.000
hives in Australia.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

In China last year the British and
Foreign Bible society distributed over
100000 copies of the Scriptures.
During the same period $50 900 books
were given away among the soldiers
and sailors of Russia ard Japan.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02
Suspicious.

Friend-Don't you want your name
on history's page?
Millionaire-What will it cost and
what will she print about me II I doatI
IN. Y. Sun,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

The expenditures on our navy in
1886 was about $14,O00,000. In 1904
it was over 100000, an increase Of
700 per cent. in 10 years.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

The present cost of our navy per
year is more than six dollars per fam.
lily. In 1886 it was only about one dol.
lar and a quarter per family. Our war
with Spain and the Philippines in sew
en- years cost us about one thousand
million dollars. Our present naval
program, II carried out, will call for
the expenditure Of about two hundred
million dollars year for naval main.
tenance. Our total military expendi.
lures for the year 1904, including war.
navy and pension items, was over
$500, O00, 900, or over twothirds Of our
total national expenditures.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02
CANNON FROM FORT SUMTER.

CANNON FROM FORT SUMTER.
Allen Cooper, of Racine, Wis, class of
1875. The cannon stands on knoll just
west of Science hall. 1t is a six-inch
muzzle- loading converted rifle, is Is
feet long and weighs over eight tons. A
bronze tablet bears the inscription:
Erected by the class of 1905 in honor of
the students of Northwestern univer-
sity who served in the civil waS."
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02
FOR HER.

For her, what marvels he would do!
For her what dangerous path pursue!
What valorous ambitions stir
For her!
No worldly station il too proud
The echoing plaudits of the c~Swd
Are worth the pain-though sharp III
spur
For her!
And yet, remote from flames ur rest,
Love smiles and seems to thrive The hest,
And life IL sweet, she will aver,
For her! -.
Though fortunes gifts be Strangely ~
Her tender woman's heart ard true
Feels that he pIods without demur
For herI
-WaShiuRton Otae.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

1eVe0 10 DdIe Back 10 4oVV q. W
pecially upon it's face, Is an incrusta-
ton of saltpeter, common to objects
which have long been buried in the
soil of Babylonia; other parts of the
statue are as perfect as when it left,
the hands of its sculptor.
The statue is SO centimeters high
and 81 in the circumference of its
skirt. The head is bald, the face
beardless, the triangular eye sockets,
to which ivory eyeballs were once it,
bitumen, are now hollow. The shoul-
ders are broad and square, the body
thick and short, the we'll shaped arms
are free from the body and the hands,
according to the usual Babylonian GUS
tom, are clasped in front. The upper
half of the statue is nude, and from
the waist is suspended an embroidered
or plated skirt intended to represent
heavy wool or fur. To give support
to the statue, the bare feet are i'm
bedded in the pedestal. Upon the
right shoulder, the clearly cut inscrip-
tion of three lines in the old Sumerian
or pre-Babylonian language, reads as
follows:
(The Temple) Eshar,
King Daudu (Daud=David).
King (of) Udnunki.
The name of the king is entirely
new to psychologists. The names Of
the city and temple were first read
upon the great stone of Hammurabi,
recently discovered by the French in
Persia
The age of the statue Is beyond
doubt several centuries more than
5000 years; the approximate date Of
$500 B. C. is fixed in several different
ways.
First, the archaic character of the
writing is that employed only in the
inscriptions long antedating the early
Babylonian king, Sargon, of $500 B. c.
The characters of the inscription are
lineal and nearly hieroglyphic; the
wedge-shaped characters were not yet
developed.
lying beneath the platforms of several
reconstructed temples. The upper
most of the platforms contained bricks
inscribed with the name Of Dungi. of
275O B. c.; beneath it was a platform
constructed Of the bricks of Sargon.
$500 B. c.; still lower were traces Of
several other reconstructions. The
statue was beneath all of these, among
the ruins Of q temple built OF small
plano-convex bricks which all Assyri-
ologists assign to the middle Of the
fifth millennium B. c.
Third, the style of the art, the trian-
gular-shaped eyes, the nose forming q
straight line with the forehead. the
style of dress employed only at that
particular period, identify it as be-
longing to the same age as the famous
bas-relief in the Louvre and q statu-
cite in the British museum. The,
great Assyriologists of Europe assign
the figures possessing these peculiar
characteristics to about $500 B. c.. and
M Assyriologist of repute, and who ia
acquainted with the earliest Babylon-
i'm art, would question the date.
The statue, fully 1900 years earlier
than my other from Babylonia, not only
presents history With the name of a
forgotten king; it is q perfect speci-
men Of the most ancient art in the
world, and opens q new chapter In the
history of the earliest known people
az Nesopotamia.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02
Trouble.

Church-Half the trouble in this
world comes from men lying.
Gotham-Yes; and the other half
comes from them telling the truth.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

Thomas A. Edison is quoted as say
that he does not associate with men
whose lives are devoted to money get
ting.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

fore. opened the envelope, and read
as follows:
NV Dear Miriam: see you so often
that it seems cowardly to write what
might speak: but, although many times
when in your presence have tried to say
certain words, courage has always failed
me- Resolutions made when alone have
not been kept when I found myself by your
side.
I think you know what has been in my
heart for a long time, and I have occa-
sionally felt that you cared for me; but
If you have, you have never made the least
attempt to help me out. I should have
forgiven you II you had made it easier
for me- and should have blessed you for
having done 80, and yet, after all, dear.
1 love you all the more for your womanly
reserve, and have always contrasted 1t with
the actions Of some of your sex, who seem
ever ready to say: This is SO sudden!''
hope, dear, that you do care enough for
me, or feel that you can care enough some
day to make me the happiest man on
earth. I know they all say that; but for
give my lack Of originality, and remember
that there is something original about my
statement, AZ really mean on the day
you say you will be my wife shall be hap
pier than anybody in this OF any other
neighborhood.
Don't answer this letter in 4 hurry. un-
less you can at once reply to my question /:
''Wtl you be my Wife?' by saying Eyes. "
II you can send that answer I shall have
no cause to complain Of your haste. But
feel that must have the right anEwer
20 my question. md II you cannot give 1t
The Ordway new era., 1905-12-15

CT all the millions who waltz. who
can tell how this famous dance orig
mated? The story is curious one.
1t is wrongly supposed that France
received the waltz from Germany to-
ward the close OF the eighteenth cen
tury. The waltz did not emanate In
It's present form from the brain OF
dancing master. Long before 1850.
the time It is first mentioned under
this name. 1t was displayed on the
village greens. The waltz was first
danced In the church. and serves TO
trace the union between ancient CIV
ilization and that OF the Middle Ages.
The sacred dance of the pagans Is
preserved to certain extent In Chris
tian rites. 1t is transformed TO a SER
les OF revolutions made to the sound
of the tambourine. St. Isadore. Arch.
bishop of Seville. born about A. d.
$50. was intrusted by the Council Of
Toledo with the revision of the litur.
gy as II was then practiced in the
Roman church. in which there was n
tambourine dance. The Council de-
cided to adopt the lsadorian liturgy
In all Spain. and II differed but little
from that used In other countries at
that time.
The Ordway new era., 1905-12-15
PRIZE A8SENT-MINDED NAN

key. That Is to say that he had left
II in the house aad locked 1t in. the
door being one OF those self-fastening
ones.
I'VE live in twin houses. side by
side, exactly alike to the door jambs.
So he called up to my window and
begged me to contrive some way to
get into his house and admit him.
1t was raining hard. but I poked my
head out OF the window of my bed.
room. and we held q conference as to
ways and means. The conference re-.
suited in my climbing around on the
cornice of the second story in the
pouring rain, from my bathroom win.
dow to his. opening the window and
climbing in.
The rain came down in sheets
while was doing this. was in my
pajamas. When got In his bathroom
was wet to the skin. I went down.
stairs to the front door to let the alb.
sent-minded Individual and his family
into their house. When got there
l was the madest individual you ever
saw. The door was unlocked. The
! pnrson didn't try It before rummag
ing for his key"
The Ordway new era., 1905-12-15
Tennessee Praise.

Dayton. Tenn. Dec. llth (SpeciaD
Among many prominent residents
10 praise Dodd's Kidney Pills is Mr..
\. r. Roberts OF this place. He tells
OF what they have done for him. and
his words will 20 deep into the hearts
OF all who are suffering in the same
way. He says:
Il was a martyr TO Kidney Trouble,
but Dodd's Kidney Pills completely
cured me. | shall always keep them
on hand In case there should be any
return OF the old trouble. but l am
thankful to say they did their work
so well there has not been the slight.
est sign OF my old complaint coming
back. The pain In my back used to
be terrible. II | got down had a
hard job TO get straight again. But
my back Is like C new one now and I
can stoop as much as please. don't
believe there ever was any medicine
half so good as Dodd's Kidney pills"
The Ordway new era., 1905-12-15
WALTZ DANCE AN EVOL V7lOV

This rite. celebrated before the
eighth century. when the Moors hrst
invaded Spain. was still celebrated by
the Christians In the seven churches
OF Toledo, which the Moors aban'
doned after their capture Of the city.
and II was after that time called the
Moorish rite. This was known and
employed in Provence and Italy. The
tambourine in use In this religious
dance was called by st. lsadore
"molte de symphonic" and evidently
corresponded to the instrument which
in the ancient sacred dances accom-
panied the flute. sort OF bagpipe In
vented two centuries before Christ. As
the religious dance Of the Middle
Ages is allied to the ancient sacred
dance, so the waltz is an evolution OF
this religious dance. having passed
through many changes before arriving
in its present form. In the eleventh
century, when the Gregorian rite sup
planted the Moorish rite. the dance
disappeared from the church. It mp.
peared very quickly in society under
the name OF "carole." word derived
from the Latin "caroler. New York
Herald.
The Ordway new era., 1905-12-15

Speaking of absent-minded people,
said the man from the country. you
ought to live next door to my neighbor.
He is a clergyman. but I wonder he
remembered the hour set for his or
dination and got there in time-or Of
his marriage. or of anything. Prob
ably he paid somebody to remind him.
His wife starts him of for church
in time for the sermon. or he would
never get there till the congregation
was ready to break up. He forgets
to come to his meals on time. and you
know a man Is pretty forgetful when
1t comes Gown to that. At table he
often dips his fork into his coffee ano
begins to write on the tablecloth.
thinking he Ia at his desk, and there
are traditions to the effect that he
once stood on the street co.her and alb
sent-minded.y tore up $40 bill.
Last week he reached the limit.
With his wife and daughters he was
invited to dinner. They got home
about 10 o'clock and he stopped on the
veranda. rummaged through every
pocket and discovered. to his dismay
and theirs, that he had forgotten hii
The Ordway new era., 1905-12-15
They Came From Missouri.

Last week there was ut Nogales u
man from Missouri, with family con-
sisting OF n wife and six small chill.
dren, who surely belle the well known
idea that Missouri have to be shown .''
He had sold everything in his native
state and started for Sinaloa without
having ever seen or known anything
- the country, save that he had read
about cheap land and fertility OF the
soil. He didn't know where 1t was, or
where he was going. or what to do
when he got somewhere: and. more
over. could not speak word OF Span
lsh. Here they were dissuaded from
going and went to California instead.
Before launching out with family
into a foreign land one would think II
the part of wisdom to send someone
ahead to view the country and report.
-Nogales tArizona) Oasis.