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crate It by soaking 1t in the products of
pot STILL
Il
In Dublin all things are possible. We
have risen to the occasion and taken Lady
gestion that she would like to give a big
garden party early in the summer, and
wondered If It was possible that Ireland
could supply her for the occasion with
every article she WORE from the tip OF
her toe to the crown of her clever head, of
genuine home manufacture. Wait a min
ute. She also asked IL Dublin would I'M
dertake to dress every one of her guests.
men well as women And Dublin re-
piled. Rather" This garden party will
be the most original thing of its kind ever
held In Dublin, and It certainly should give
an extraordinary impetus to Irish trade.
Lady Aberdeen has laid 1t down that each
OF her guests must pledge his or her word
of honor that everything he or she wears
has not only been purchased here. but has
been made In the county by Irish hands.
Owing to tie fact of their being liberals
Lady Aberdeen herself Is a radical of the
radicals-the viceregal circle of the pres
ent regime is a much larger one than that
OF the Dudleys or any of the latters prede-
cessors, so IT goes without saying the gar
den party in question will be an immense
one.
On the momentous occasion the great la
dies will no doubt wear Irish lace or popln
gowns. For those who do. not care TO rush
TO this expense there will be the Irish linen
frocks, of which some Belfast firms are
just now making feature. II mere man
may express an opinion, these robes look
delightful In pure white and light colors
ana they are embeliished with hand
wrought embroideries. / may remark. In
passing, that number OF foreign royal
ties, including the Queen of Italy and the
Grand duchess cyril of Russia. have given
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bureaus new research observatory Oh 4,
Mount Weather, Virginia While these
Were by no means seismic or earthquake
waves, and while volcanoes are not bel
Heved to cause other than purely local |
earthquakes, this phenomenon of Vesuvius. b!
acting a wireless transmitter and Mount /
Weather's serving as a wireless receiver
leads us to another problem quite germane''
to theme
That volcanoes and earthquakes both
produce magnetic disturbances upon earth
is the opinion of many physicists who are
studying the problem. The Japanese seis- I
nologists are alleged to observe Indications
of the approach of earthquakes upon the
records of those complicated and ingeni-
ously harnessed magnetic needles now used
in various observatories of the world to
measure magnetic storms affecting tele-
graph lines well the mariners or sur
veyor's compass. Directly preceding dis
turbance of the seismograph there is al
legged by these Japanese to occur kindred
disturbance of their ''magnetographs In
other words, they claim to have discovered
magnetic warnings of earthquakes. While
Prof. Willis L. Moore, the chief of our
weather bureau, will not admit as much to
your correspondent, II is the suspicion of
the latter that this problem is being stud
led at the new Mount Weather observa-
tory. If Prof. Moore could have issued an
earthquake warning in San Francisco as
promptly he bulletined his famous tor
nado warning in ST. Louis he would have
saved many lives. But earthquake warn
ings as yet but dim possibility end
possible to predict the locality in which a
CONFUSION is to appear.
Valuable material for study of the re-
lation between earthquake and magnetic
phenomena is being collected by DR. L. A.
Bauer, in charge of all of the magnetic
and seismic observatories OF the coast and
geodetic survey. He says that numerous
earthquakes occurring in this country In
the past few years have left no record
upon his seismograrhs, but have been re-
corded his magnetographs. Many dig
tant earthquakes have also left records on
both instruments. By collecting reports
from twenty-six foreign observatories DIR.
Bauer has ascertained that simultaneous
with the eruption of Mont Pelee there oc.
Cured a magnetic disturbance affecting
magnetic needles over the whole earth.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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and cooperating with Prof Reid are OBJ
servatories established at Toronto, Ontario
Victoria, B. c.; Mexico City, Cordoba Ar
gentina, and Arequipa, Peru.
In fact, a great earthquake survey of the
entire world is being arranged by the Inter
national chronological Association, under
the leadership of Prof. Gerland, director of
the chronological observatory at Strasburg
Germany. Besides our own country, with
its seven stations, Japan will offer its 1000
observatories, Italy Is, England 3, Scotland
2, India 4, Canada 2, Australia ), Russia )
and Spain 2; also South Africa, Egypt, Cey-
Ion, Java, Mauritius, New Zealand, Syria
Trinidad Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Ger
many, each one. NO amount or argument
or eloquence could so well accentuate the
worlds sudden awakening to the impor-
lance of earthquake study as this list OF
widely scattered observatories, where in
struments similar to that of our weather
bureau are now continuously on duty, and
all of which probably felt the great San
Francisco shock within a few hours after
Its occurrence.
Very much in the limelight just at pres
ent is Italy's Royal Seismic Observatory,
situated about mile and half below the
cone of Vesuvius and near the foot of the
railway which before the present eruption
assembled that troubled apex. 1t is a hand
some edifice of white stone standing boldly
forth against the black lava on the side
toward Naples. 1t occupies conspicuous
ridge 1850 feet above sea level, imme-
diately between two great rivers of lava
which have been threatening to engulf it
during the present eruption. Undaunted
by his great peril, and in face of starva-
ton, Prof. Matteucci remained on duty at
this station during the entire outburst, and
in reward for his fidelity to science the
King of Italy has just decorated him with
the Order of the Crown.
While Prof. Matteucci was bending day
and night over his seismographs while they
recorded the local earthquakes caused by
Vesuvius, and while the ashes were knee
deep on his doorstep, the great crater above
him acting like great wireless telegraph
transmitter. was sending out electro-mag-
netic waves which. throughout the period
of eruption, were being recorded by deli
cate magnetic instruments at our weather
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orders for these gowns, which l am as
sured are particularly suitable for morning
wear.
X
For the first time In fifty years many
Of the migratory laborers who go to Scot
and and England for harvesting and other
agricultural work for about six months of
the year will return to their homes at the
end of this season with the feeling that
their little savings are their own to be APP
piled to the purchasing of the common
necessaries of life, instead of having to be
handed over to the landlord or his agent
Immediately they step from the train at
their respective destinations 1t is esti-
mated that these Industrious toilers bring
home annually about 81, 100000 every cent
or which used to go into the pockets of
some absentee landlords, many of whom
had never seen their estates nor their
wretched tenants. The plots of land upon
which these laborers lived when at home
were so unproductive that they could not
yield sufficient to pay rent and meet other
obligations, so the head of the family was
Obliged TO seek employment in Scotland or
England IL an eviction scene was to be
avoided The land act of 1902 is changing
all this, and now many of the laborers
are secure in their holdings so long as they
pay the reasonable installments that are
arranged by the land commissioners The
thousands of dollars that dutiful sons and
daughters send annually from America to
their parents will no longer be perquisite
of the landlord. but something to brighten
the lives of the old people in their declining
years.
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velocity is more rapid than that of sound
waves whose highest known velocity as
made through a special kind of glass, is
less than three and three-quarters miles
per second.
Four other seismograph stations have
lately been established by the government
These are at the new magnetic observa-
tories of the coast and geodetic survey at
Cheltenham Md; Vieques Island, Porto
Rico; Sitka Alaska. and Honolulu,
Hawaii. Al the first three stations are
employed the same new form of instrument
as used at the weather bureau, and which,
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twenty years ago, there was not
seismograph set up anywhere in the coun-
try. Indeed, knowledge of seismology has
been vastly increased since then. and every
enlightened country of the world is taking
1t up. In addition to the government obser-
vations we now have In this country and
its possessions seismic stations at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore Swathmore
College, Philadelphia, and the Manila OBJ
servatory Philippine Islands The Balti-
more station, in charge of Prof. H. F. Reid,
Is serving at present as the clearing house
for all American earthquake observations
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II should be added is a German-made mod
ihcation OF a recent invention by Prof.
Omori, secretary of the earthquake nves-
tigation committee of Japan. All of these
stations having doubtless observed the
San Francisco shock some facts of interest
concerning its source and distribution will
be given to the world as soon as the
figures are all in and have been thoroughly
assimilated. The Cheltenham station, near
Washington, recorded the shock at the
same time that the weather bureau sta
ton received it. At the time of our last
great earthquake, that of Charleston,
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1t was in the dungeon-grayness of the
weather bureaus seismic observatory where
your correspondent saw what he saw He
had fastened to the spot Immediately after
the first news Of the catastrophe had flash
ed In over the wires from the fevered fin
ger Of that plucky San Francisco operator
VINO, while the walls were crumbling about
him, had stuck 10 his post to give the
alarm wOrld-width. But an observer that
had been on duty all night In the dark
weather bureau vault had ''scooped'' the
telegraph Compauies-had gotten news of
the first tremor Of the shock six minutes
and twenty seconds after il had been felt
IN San FranCiSCO-indeed, had felt that first
tremor itself. Like the San Francisco teleg-
rapher who calmly licked away while the
building was falling from under him, this
observer was a creature of iron nerve-but
one without flesh or blood. Indeed the
seismograph is wonderful invention to
contemplate. But It Is so fearfully and
wonderfully made that IL is puzzling to
comprehend. It's inner workings cannot be
described without a column or two of ex-
PLANTATION as TO how the lever l." Is ac-
tuated BY the "coRwheel c." accelerated by
the limerick J. etc. The bare principle of
the thing Is that a weight is so suspended
that Il remains still when the earth quakes
beneath It. Attached to this weight is
little hand. resting against a revolving
cylinder covered with smoked paper and
resting upon the earth AS long as the
earth is st,li the little hand rules a straight
white line over the paper. but when the
earth quakes the line becomes proportion
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No Railway.
lie Philadelphia Press

From the Philadelphia Press.
Perhaps you had some experience In
the old country" said Mrs. Hiram Offen,
interviewing a greenhern girl Now, how
were you trained across the water?'
20! ma'am, tbs jokin' ye are giggled
the girl. There does be no trains / was
shipped across
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help its success. Although 1t has not yet
been officially announced that the king
and queen will come over for the exhibit.
ton, 1t is stated on the best authority
that it is their intention to do so.
F. X. CULLEN.
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explanation why he should, like his friend.
Andrew Carnegie, and other Scottish mil
lionaire magnates, install a Scotch piper
at his new residence at Ponders End, in
Middlesex. If Sir Thomas were true to his
nationality 1t is felt he would like the
Hon. William Gibson, have an Irish piper.
whom he might easily have secured
through the agency of the Gaelic League.
He need not have come to Ireland for one.
because there is a band of Irish pipers In
London from which the genial baronet
might have made selection. Although the
Irish are decidedly sore on the point, there
is no evidence that there is any desire to
boycott Sir Toms bacon or tea.
The Irish language is making such head
way and is universally employed IN
some of the districts throughput ireland
where the Upton stores are situated that
Sir Thomas has had to bow to the inev-
table and provide disappearing statesmen
where Scotch and English assistants were
hitherto employed. The next thing he win
be Obliged to do is to sell Irish products
II he is to keep pace with the competition
which is being set UP by the Irish indus
trial revival.
The prospectus for exhibitors at the Irish
international exhibition for 1907 has just
been published by the executive council.
and very interesting prospectus 1t IS
Although such short time has elapsed
since its publication, am told the council
are inundated with applications for space
in the various sections. The chief idea in
view is to bring together the largest coll
lection of Irish exhibits ever before dis
played, and 1t Is announced that the most
advantageous positions viii be granted to
those showing native products. For once
all creeds and classes are in perfect uni
son In regard to the enterprise and all are
putting their shoulders to the wheel to
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But this year started out with an unusual
record for seismic disturbances In one
week OF January the weather bureau in
strument recorded an earthquake for every
day. The great shock which occurred In
Ecuador. January 30-31, also proved too
great for the capacity Of the seismograph,
whose hand jumped the paper, as in the
case OF this San Francisco CONFUSION.
When the two records are carefully COM
pared 1t Will probably be discovered that
the two compare very favorably
The measurement of the velocity of
earthquake tremOrs is one of the most in
teresttng achievements of this new science
Thus from figures collected by various
seismOgraphs scattered over the earth II
has just been estimated that the tremors
of the recent Indian earthquake Travelled
SIX and tWo-hfths miles per second along
the surface of the earth, or five and a
half miles per second. If estimated as pass
ing directly through the earth This
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waves from the San Francisco
III earthquake as they came ebbing
and flowing past on their journey
from ocean to ocean was the odd fortune
of your correspondent upon the morning of
that horrible CONFUSION.
Transmitted over 900 miles. these undu-
latous beat against mass poised free
from their disturbing motions. Then they
passed on eastward beneath the Atlantic. to
be measured I'm turn by the delicate Austrian
Instruments at Laihach. by those Of the
Jesuit fathers al the Manila observatory,
and, on the home-stretch, by our observa-
tory in Honolulu, not 10 mention the scores
of other seismic stations scattered about
the globe. And, while these waves were
still hurrying eastward, there commenced
10 flow in counter fluctuations westward,
for the first vibrations projected out of the
Golden Gate and over the Pacific We're re-
turning homeward in the opposite direction.
Indeed. waves We're scurryiug from all
points OF the compass. for every square
inch OF the globe was feeling the shock
and transmitting it back. only to receive it
again and again as 1t circumnavigated the
sphere time upon time. Yet no one this
side Of the Rockies felt it. Indeed only a
chosen few who happened to be close to the
wonderful instruments which record such
distant disturbances could note the agita-
ton Of their palsied Mother Earth
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ately turned from the beaten path. By
complicated contrivance the hand exag-
gerates the earth's tremors tenfold.
So violent and unusual had been the San
Francisco shock that the recording hand
moved outward beyond the limits of the
smoked paper But, in spite of this it could
be estimated that the great shock which
had six minutes before caused the hundreds
of walls in San Francisco to topple over had
moved seven and one-half inches across the
paper Since this was ten times as great as
the actual wave, 1t was readily calculated
| that this greatest wave had slowly moved
the earth at Washington three quarters of
an inch from east to west Prof c. F
Marvin, who directs the weather bureaus
seismic work leaned over the instrument
while the waves gradually decreased and
your CORRESPONDENT eagerly shared his vigil
as the moving finger wrote and having
writ. moved on The first tremor had been
recorded at nineteen minutes and twenty
seconds after s o'clock am. Washington
time tand after am. San Francisco time)
ana the instrument was in agitation until
about 12:35 pm. Then Prof Marvin placed
fresh sheet of paper upon the cylinder
and after removing that which had re-
corded' doubtless. the most horrible catas-
trophe IN our history gave the latter bath
IN varnish Of banana oil, which made the
record permanent. Placing the long black
strip, with its white zigZag lines in a print
iliS diile ana over strip OF Photographic
paper. he made your correspondent the print
reproduced herewith. 1t shows the deveIon-
ment of the San Francisco eartbuuake from,
It's hrSt tTemors to the highest crest of the
wave where the recording hand jumped the
record paper.
Day in and day out, since It was Installed
few years ago, this seismograph has been
on the lookout for these commissions of
nature. Last year 1t recorded fifteen dis
unct shocks, none of them felt by the citi-
zens or Washington. These varied in dura-
ton from few seconds TO two hours and
tnlrty-hve minutes, the most noteworthy
having been the great earthquake OF India
on April ), 1905.
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Sir Thomas Upton has proclaimed more
than once that he was proud of his Irish
extraction, so Irishmen are demanding an
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y O sit snug and safe in Washing
ton and yet count the seismic
waves from the San Francisco
earthquake as they came ebbing
--L a-n-i-.. $3.50 ~. tL.lr. in-1r.n aN
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ately turned from the beaten path. By a
complicated contrivance the hand exag-
gerates the earth's tremors tenfold.
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Continued From Fifth Page1
The Dickinson press., 1906-10-13
Lend A Hand.

Realizing the need of repairing and
remodeling our church property, the
Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church
has decided to give a harvest home
festival in Christen's Hall, Oct. II 1906.
For this purpose the society makes
an appeal to anyone who is willing to
donate for the festival any farm pro-
ducts, such as garden vegetables, poult.
ry, meat, grain, flour, in fact anything
raised on a farm. If it is not convenient
for you to deliver your mite in Taylor
by the afternoon of Oct. 27th, please
notify the society, and they will gladly
come after it.
On the evening of the 9Th at 6
O'Clock, we will serve an old fashioned
supper, giving YOU all you van Il eat,
of ANYTHING you want, for 25c. After
supper, the donated articles will be
sold at auction to the highest bidder.
All Of this money is to be used in re-
pairing the church.
Thanking all for whatever you may
do, whether much or little, we are
Yours in a worthy cause,
MRS. L. c. Woman. Pres.
Mrs. John Courtney, Sec.
Taylor, N. D. 10 10 2,
The Dickinson press., 1906-10-13
With the Churches.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
"He knows how much l love him
He knows love him we'll,
But with what love He loveth me,
My tongue could never tell:
1t is an everlasting love
In every rich supply,
And so we love each other
My Lord and l."
Very few people comprehend the
meaning of the poet in the above words,
because there is no affection with which
to compare this love. Jesus makes a
contrast by referring to a fathers love,
but that can be told, while this is love
ineffable. 1t is love that was bestowed
upon those who deserved it not; who
we're in open rebellion against the one
giving it. More than that, a human
fathers love is limited and may turn tc
hate, but this love never! And, o wha,
blessed companionship with such q
Lord! 1t is for you, for the taking
will you take it? There will be ne
preaching on Oct. ID but the Sunday
school and Epworth League will have
their services at 1I:45 and 6:3o respec
lively.
F. w. Gress, Pastor.
The Dickinson press., 1906-10-13
Fine Crops.

A drive around Taylor reveals fine
farms and bumper crops.
Just south of town and in plain view,
Andrew Strohm has a farm of 800 acres
and two or three hundred fine trees, a
grove forming a shelter on the north
west.
Max Bloom has a large farm a little
farther out, where were threshed out this
year 5000 bushels of grain.
Pat McGraw, an old settler with some
thing like a section of land, had a yield
of 5000 bushels.
On the old Lyon farm, Mr.. Waters,
the new owner, has raised all kinds of
grain successfully, including barley and
buckwheat. His wheat field was a mile
long. A large corn field, yet unhar-
vested, gives promise of a good yield if
sample ears picked at random and now
on exhibition in the PsEss office, are any
criterion.
Mrs. Renie w. Fenno and Miss Hebe
are farming for themselves just west of
the Waters place. Their land was a
little too low for this wet season but they
are not discouraged and will try again.
w. L. Roger has just put in the third
livery barn equipment, a good one and
has promise OF all he can do in this line.
1t will be remembered that w. c.
Hecht moved in from the north during
the summer and also engaged in the
livery business, his stable being the and
in the village.
SPRING VALLEY AND CO..
The officers of the Spring Valley Land
Co. of Taylor are Herman Leutz, Julius
and Cornelius Williams. The company
is incorporated under the state laws and
is doing a fine real estate business this
season, owning and having the sale of
10000 acres of choice lands in Stark and
Dunn counties. The lands sell at from
$3.50 to $I4.5o per acre.
This company has a fine suite of rooms
in Taylor and the display of grains,
vegetables and ranch scenes are very
interesting.
The new postofice-Melby-half way
between Rock Springs and Bailey, in
Dunn county, will be quite a convenience
to the Spring Valley Land Co. when it is
opened.
L:Y. June at Hsrsenose butte, Dunn
Co., has $50 acres of good crops, and
only settled in the country last year.
Dick Dohrmann's yield of ~ bushels
of wheat per acre is also reported from
this county.
B. F. Deeken, in Stark, had n feld
that yielded at the rate of 80 bushels.
Sam Brands Bloody Butcher variety
| of corn is one of the finest samples from
| TAYLOR,
The Dickinson press., 1906-10-13

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Salary 81 .o72!oo per year and expenses;
salary paid weekly and expenses ad.
vanced. Address, with stamp, Jos. A.
Alexander, Dickinson, N. D. Up
Statesmen wanted to look after our
interest in Stark and adjacent counties.
Salary OF commission. Address The
Harvey Oil Co, cleveland, O. Up
For sale-A new six-room house, hot
water heat. Inquire OF c. I. Langley.
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