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The Dickinson press., 1907-12-28
LOCAL NEWS.

Skates hollow ground for CSC, at the
new garage. ii II-3o.tf
Skates sharpened while you wait at
the new garage @s II N il II.3o-tt
G. w. Mcclellan, agent for Zenith
coal. PhonefI3o. II-3o-tf
Try the Metropolitan cafe bread.
II will please5you. r2.I-tf
Dr. g. "a. Clarke, dentist. Office in
Mcdonald & Pomroy's block. 6-22-tf
Fresh rolls and bread every day a.
the Metropolitan bakery. II-23-tf
Walton & Davis, have slab wood
edgings and Hooking valley coal. II-z3tt
Finest line Of ladies' embroidered
handkerchiefs in the city at Reed Bros.
Fresh cream II p,u#ss Al the Metropolitan
bakery every Wednesday and Satur.
day. d 81 a & II-73:tf
Christmas trees, all sizes. at Drenkel's.
Order early and get your choice while
they last. i -@.s Il I2.7-tf
Everything in the line 81 threshears'
supplies and lubricating oils at Soules
& Buffers. o-7-tf
The Brown Dairy is nov prepared to
tUlS al V0ktOuo eWASu A4AAA 0AN IVAN
Phone I25 j.. ' $Ig I2-7.-tf
Better hurry if you wish to take ad.
vantage Of the bargains at the St. Paul
clothing store. }E \. s ,o.I6-tf
If you want good bread remember
that the Metropolitan cafe is head
quarters for the best. 8-3-tf
The finest line Of horse blankets in
the city and at prices that will please
you at H.R. Folscroft's. .1o-Io-tf
The Northwestern Building CO., Dick.
inson, .does general contracting. Have
them figure on your job. I-s-tf
Bread is the. staff of life.' and the
bread from the Metropolitan cafe makes
life worth living. Try it! 8-3-tf
If you. wish to borrow money to i'm.
prove your farm, call on Everett Real
Estate & Loan Company. 4-7oEti
w. Z. PERCY was In from Bowman the
FIRST of the week for freight and supplies.
Mr.. Pierce has opened a livery business
in Bowman and will be permanently To-
Gated there. f1isEfamily is still 10 this
city. &s5.st s35
The Dickinson press., 1907-12-28
SLEEP AND DEATH.
Neither Pain Nor consciousness at che
instant Of Either.

Neither Pain Nor consciousness at che
Instant Of Either.
The phenomenon called sleep may be
summed up In the following PROPOSE
lions, says il writer In the Cosmopoli-
tan:
First-Slecp Is temporary death Of
the functions of the sensitive system;
due to exhaustion by fatigue.
Secondly-This death is temporary
because the vital system continues to
perform its functions during sleep and
restores the sensitive organs to their
normal condition.
For our purpose death may be con
sidered under the three heads-natural
death, sudden death and death from
disease. Natural death il death from
old age. 1t differs from natural sleep
only In degree.
The gradual loss Of sensibility by the
sensitive organs which precedes sleep
now takes place in the vital system,
and all the organs pass into permanent
sleep together. There can be no pain
preceding or at the moment Of such a
death, any more than there is pain pre-
ceding or at the moment of passing
into temporary sleep.
Sudden death may be defined as
death due to a sudden injury from
without or within the body sufficient
to destroy at once all i%rritability of
both the sensitive and vital systems.
1t requires no argument to prove that
a person who is suddenly stricken dead
can suffer no pain. The element of
time must be present in order to suffer
physical pain, and In the sudden death
Of a person the element of time. Is alb
sent.
We come now to consider The third
and by far the most frequent form of
death-nameiy, death from disease.
As soon as disease is established dy-
ing begins, which is but Il more rapid
than natural ceasing of all sensibili-
ties, accompanied with more or less
suffering, according to the aus which
produces it. This dying and suffering,
called disease, must terminate either
in so called death, which is insensibil-
ity to it, or in recovery, which is re-
moval of the cause of it. But in any
event the, ~ssefering has been endured,
no matterWsEhether the final termina-
ton is death or recovery.
No one is conscious of or can recall
the moment he passes from waking in.
to natural or temporary sleep. Nor
shall we, by a supreme agony or in
any other way, be conscious Of passing
into permanent sleep.
Being born and dying are the two
most important physiological events in
the life history Of u bodies, and we
shall know no more about the latter
event at the time it occurs than we did
about the former.
The Dickinson press., 1907-12-28
.Miaers. Spring. News.

HNyIs8u s.at, --.E.Jh sfza FA-4 ra.Lt t-H.s LsfByAFsE
Victor Olson spent part of this week at
Bowman.
"A. L. Larson of Bowman called on
friends here last Sunday.
Mrs. M. E. Bulloch returned 4Wednes.
day from a short business trip to the
cities.
Chas. Larson and little son, George, OF
Buffalo Springs spent Sunday At the
Spring farm. 4
John H. Carrigan left Tuesday morn.
ing for an extended visit with relatives
and friends at Anoka, MINI.
Several of the young people from this
neighborhood attended the dance at Mid.
way Friday night and a very pleasant
time is reported.
Miss Emma Parkinson moved onto
her claim this week. Through the kind
efforts of her brother, Miss Parkinson
has n of the neatest little sod houses
in the country. ssia ~
The Dickinson press., 1907-12-28
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lnRipid Company.

Low spirits are my true and faith
full companions. They get up with me,
80 to bed with me, make journeys and
returns as I do; nay, and pay visits
and will even affect to be jocose and
force a feeble laugh with me, but most
commonly we sit alone together and
are the prettiest insipid company IN
the world.-Thomas Gray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
What Is a Watt?

From the New York World.
 James Watt, the Scottish inventor and engineer. was the man to whom we owe the idea of a horse power, and when the electric unit involving the idea of work came to be formulated the name of Watt was chosen to indi- cate this unit just a that of Volta has given us the term volt and Faraday the farad.
 Watt considered that taking the average, a London dray horse was capable of doing the work of lifting S3,000 pounds through one foot of dis tance in one minute of time against gravity. The introduction of this time limit, the minute. gave the unit of power or the rate of performing work. This or it's equivalent has ever since been called a horse power.
 The lectrical unit called the watt Is capable of being represented in terms of the rsepower, and in that form it is perhaps more intelligible to those who are familiar with mechanical. rather than with electrical express sions. The electrical watt is the pro- duet of volts multiplied by amperes where the volt is the unit of electrical pressure and the ampere is the unit measuring the intensity of an electric current.
 Careful experiments have demon- strated that TAG watts per second are equal to $50 footpounds per second. or to state the equation in it's usual form. 746 watts equal one horsepower. The form in which electrical power is generally sold is computed on the basis of kilowatt- -hours. The prefix kilo comes from the Greek Chilioi, one thousand. kilowatt. written also kw is therefore 1000 watts. The kilowatt -hour Is the performance of work at such a rate that 100 watts per second shall be delievered continuously for one hour.
 The kilowatt-hour, says the Scientific American, has a special interest for the man who has his office or house light ed by electric lamps, because the kilo- watt-hour is the unit upon which the power and light companies base their charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
Mr. poo1ey on Political Principles


"They have said this man is cold. It's false, Hinnissy. Tn story was started be a slanderer that used to owe money to him. No more hot an impulsive nature iver reorganized railroad. Look at his pictures an tell me that this is tn face iv col man. Is not that man who wud be moved and moved as fast as he cud go be human disthress? Ye bet 1t is. Ye can't fool th' people with this libel. They have but to see him but to love him. Anywhere he shows his face tn people demand that he shall seize tn reins iv office an jog along. It's characteristic iv tn man that he has already promised two thousand more postmastherships thin there are post omces. Not that he seeks tn office, mind ye. He has too much rayspict fir that lofty station where he explcts to be locked Up fir four years to so debase it. He believes that tn office shud seek tn man. but he won't hide. Whin tn prisidincy comes f'r him it won't have to light a candle an go down into tn cellar to look fir him. It won't have to dhrag him out iv a coal bin. It will find him settin on his front stoop perfectly dhressed fir tn part He'll on'y have to get his hat, an his hatll be undher his chair I'm f'r him. Speakin as a dimmycrat, if we must have republican prisi- dint, an judgin' firm past expeery- ance we must, I'd rather see Fair banks git it thin amy other man. He might be tn last.
 "Annyhow, no matther who gifts it, it won't be nanny months now befure tn air iv peace that hangs over polly
 ticks outside iv Indyanny will dis appear an we'll be callin' each other tn kind iv names tn lawyers in tn Haywood thrile used as argymints to convince tn jury. It doesn't seem so now, with tn gloryous sun beatin uown on me head as though it had T grudge again me fir looSin' somethin' Ike 1t. At this minyit fir two dollars I'd agree niver to vote again. But I know that in a few months time I'll be battlin' again fir tn right as though tn right had somethin to do with tn retail liquor business. I'll stand on tn sidewalk hoarsely cheerin' while ye march by in a blue oil-cloth cape an settin' fire to ye'er hair firm torch that Is smollin fir human rights. I'll argye till arly in tn mornin' with Larkin about some immortal princi- ples that have been dead fir four years an I'll fight me frind, tn letter carver. as tn riprisintative iv a cor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

rupt adpinisthration. Ten times I've done it. Ten times I've charged what hogan calls tn battlemints iv oppres- sion. Often sometimes twice yicthry has perched upon me banners. At other times it has set upon me head. But whether 1 marched to victhry or debate whether tn dimmycratic can dydate or some other republican was ilicted prisidint, when tn smoke iv battle an th' candydates' cigars died away, I always found mesilf in tn same place, with a bad headache, tn rent overdue an ye goin' by to ye'er wurruk with ye'er hair singed.
 An I'll do 1t again. In a short time tn parties will engage in wan iv their | gr-reat battles; but tn question is, what tn diyvle will they fight about? F'r a good nanny years We cud always get up a good hard fight about tn tariff
 Mention tn wurrud tariff to me, an 1 d take off me coat. Tn dimmycrats fought against th' tariff; tn raypubli- , cans fought fir it. No matther which slde won. tn tariff went on tariffing
 was thinkin tn other day abouI leadin' up some old pa-apers an tindin' out how tn ad valoriam jooty on osthrich feathers boosted me gas bill when Jawnny McKenna. a black republican, come in. Vel" says l, I suppose we're still in favor iv crushin' our infant industhries undher an iniquitous tariff that tn foreigner pays afther he comes to this counthry,' says l, fir it all came back to me like a flash. Oh. tn divvle take tn tariff,
 says Jawnny McKenna. I'm, q free trader now, an so is Rosenfelt, an so are all good republicans, on'y, he says. we don't know how to do it. ar we cudden't thrust tn likes iv ye' he says. Well, what on earth ar-re ye an me gon' to fight about next year?' says I. Here ar-re tn ilictions comin' on, says I, an I ain't able to think iv anything iv a naytional charackter that wud make me want to break ye'er smilin face. It's all wrong, an I'm gettin' nervous. We can't fight about silver this year. We've agreed with me that we need more money, an I've agreed with ye that we were led asthray be our peerless leader, who has be- come goold-bug. The income tax? can't go to tn flure with ye on that, fir it is wan iv tn things that we're prepared to lay down we're life fir this minyit. Tn on'y thing that stands in tn way iv it is tn Supreme Coort; but whin I, as dimmycrat, start off to desthroy tn Supreme Coort meet thim holdin up their skirts and tearin'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
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CTS there anything new in polly
 ticks?" asked MT. Hennessy.

<<TS there anything new in polly
 ticks?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 Haven't ye read tn papers?" MT. Dooley replied. Its all Fair banks There's nawthin else to it. That there gr-reat statesman has run off with tn prisidincy. It's about all settled. Tn cook iv tn White House has written him to get tn name iy his fay'rite breakfast food. He's been measured fir tn gaiters he's gon' to wear at tn inauguration. Can't ye see him in Wash'nton rayceivin' his de- lighted fellow-citizens in tn front par Tor? Ye move up in line with lump in. ye'er throat with tn thought that ye'er soon goin' to be face to face with tn man that no American is able 10 mintion without tears. Suddenly a hand graps ye'ers as firmly as though ye'd had recent bereavemint in tn family, another hand gently rubs ye'er back, ye look up an see q sad face, here an there furrowed with a smile, an kindly voice murmurs tn greetin' 80 glad to have met ye.' As ye leave tn scene so long to be raymimbered ye thry to recall where y6 nave St6l ludl ldCC btlulS ohitoo 1t was at funral It is tn manner, tn air, tn grace, tn sympathy that belongs to wan iv tn oldest an most nicissry profssyons in tn wurruld.
 An he'll make tn great prisidint. His administration will recall, as Ho- gan says, tn days iv tn Fathers iv tn, raypublic-such men as Fillard Millmore, James K Tyler an others who shall be nameless.
 Yes, sir, Fairbanks has thim all beat at tn start Anywhere he goes, an he goes ivrywhere, thousands iv people turn out to greet him an his candidacy with smile. In wan month he has shook tn hand an paved tn shoulder blade iv four hundred thous- and voters He has distributed prizes fir all tn three-legged races an greasy pig contests east iv tn Mississippi He has conferred tn bays on count less thousands iv charmin' matrons who have mannyfacthered tn best lookin' roll iv butther at tn county fair. If ye see a tall, dark, handsome sthranger chasin a perambylator down tn sthreet. don't call Polls an think he's kidnaper. It's Charles Fair banks thryin' to kiss another baby. His face is full iv milk most iv tn time. He's had a cocktail named afther him, an higher up tn ladder iv fame no mans gone durin' his life time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

German lines are making a specially of Egyptian passengers and freight and they are gradually capturing the bulk of the Mediterranean commerce.
 Alexandria has one of the best harbors on the Mediterranean. The port has been improved within the past few years until It's arrangements for loading and unload ing goods are unsurpassed. It has a hreakwater two miles in length and the biggest ocean steamers can come right ep 10 Il V quay. There are 2500 acras of water in which ships can have d saf3 anchorage, and many vessels come here to coal. The most of the coal is brought from England. and left until the sfips need it. Something like 100000 tons were thus handled last year, many of the steamers on their way into and out from the Suez canal stop at AleXand la for fuel
 I do not know how much the harbor has cost, save that it runs high into the mil lions of dollars. When Meamet Ali ma l. Alexandria his capital the place was only a village with no connection with the Nile. He Gug a canal fifty miles long 10 that great waterway, and there is now a stream of vessels going mp and down that canal carrying goods into the valley and bringing tho cotton, sugar, grain and otl, CT products out to the sea. Tine canal was constructed by forced labor. The fellehoen, to the number of a quarter Uf q million, StDO)PA lIle Safu out With tneD hands an1 carried it away in baskets l. took them q year to dig the fiftY-mile ditch. and they were so overworked that 5000 died on the job Mehamet Ali also spent an enormous amount on the h0cbor, and Ismau Pasha laid out more than s-e- 00O0O0 in the same way. Since the Eng fish took hold they have been steadily making other improvements, and they have works now under way which will cost millions more. The commerce of the port IS increasing enormously. and the city promises to become even greater than 1t has been in the past.
 Egypt In 1907.
 The conditions at Alexandria are typi- cal of the new Egypt Old Mother Nile has drawn on the seven-leagilc boots of modern progress and she Is growing in wealth like a jimson weed In an aspar- agus bed When I first visited her a quarter of 3 century ago, her country was a land If the dead with the obolsks and the Pyramids as it's chief landmarks. Then it's most interesting characters were the mummifed king of 2000 odd years ago and her chief visitors were antiquity hunters and one-lunged tourists, after a warm winter climate. These same char acters are here today, but in addition have come the capitalist, the syndicate and the ardent dollar chaser Egypt is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

By Frank G. Carpenter


first preached Christianity to the Egyp- tians and later on the city became one of the Christian centers of the world. It was there that Hypatia lived, and 1t was there that the Christian monks led by Peter the Reader tore her from her chariot as she was about to go into heather temple to worship and massacred her They scraped her flesh from her bones with oyster shells, and then tore her limb from limb.
 It was here in Alexandria that Cleo patra corrupted Caesar and later on brought Marc Antony to suicidal grave. There are carvings of Cleopatra still to be seen on some of the Egyptian temples lar up the Nile, and l have a photo- graph of one which is still in good preser- vauon in the Temple of Denderah. It's features are Greek rather than Egyptian and she was Greek by her ancestry rather than a Simon-pure daughter of the Nile. She was not noted for her beauty, but she had such a wonderful charm of manner, sweetness of voice and bril- liancy of intellect that she was able to fiirt with and captivate the greatest men of her time.
 Came to Caesar In Bed Tick.
 Cleopatra's first Roman love was Julius Caesar who had come to Alexandria to settle the claims of herself and brother to the throne of Egypt. Her father, who was one of the Ptolemies. had left his throne, at his death to herself and her younger brother and according to custom the two were to marry and reign to- gether. One of the brothers guardians, however, had dethroned Cleopatra he had banished her and she was not in Egypt when Caesar came. It is not known whether it was at Caesars request or not, but the story goes that she made her way back secretly to Alexandria, and was carried inside a bed tick on the back of a servant to Caesars apart menst and thus presented to the mighty Roman. She so delighted him that he put her back upon the throne, and when he left for Rome some time later, he took her along and kept her there for year or so When Caesar was murdered, Cleopatra, who had returned to Egypt, made a conquest of Marc Antony, and she remained his sweetheart from that time up to the day when he committed suicide upon the report that she had killed herself. This was after Antony had been conquered by Octavianus. his brother-in-law; and it is said that Cleo patra tried to capture the heart of De- tavianus. before she herself committed suicide by putting the poisonous asp to her breast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
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down tn sthreet, pursued be T1ddy Roseiifelt an ye'ersilf Dye raymim Der how ye stood up again me an in favor iy corporate wealth? Ain't ye ashamed iv yeersilf now? I thought 1 had a chance to rid mesilf iv yeer disagreeable comp'ny whin our peer less leader, Willum Jennings Bryan, come home an spoke out in thrumper tones, as ye might say. in favor iv tn governmint grabbin' tn railroads an runnin' thim. There's somethin' we can fight about says I. Jawnny McKenna will niver stand fir that I read our peerless leaders speech. It was gr-reat. On this I stand or fall. Tn etarnal principle iv governmint ownership must go on f'riyer. l can see in me minds eye gr-reat miles 1v governmint railways. with sojers goin' up an down collectin' passes an-.' At this minyit a gintleman with a souch hat an long raven hair rose, an says he: I wud wisht to ask be- lure I shoot whether on these here governmint cars naygurs wud be all lowed to ride with us,' says he Oh, says Willum Jennings Bryan, if that's Ut way Nt Itel dbOuN IL, iSt LII lHdlllltC dhrop. We shud not let amy etarnal principles interfere with tn councils iv tn party. 1 merely offered it f'r discussion. an tn noes have it almost unanimously I will make it unani- mous he says.
 80 says I to lawn, that ended me last hope iv a scrap with ye. I suppose we'll have to put in tn next year in peace, wondhrin as usual where tn rent money is comin firm F'r ye're too good a frind iy mine fir me to quarrel with ye about amy candydats. I'm against principles. not men, We've got to prove to me, lawn, that we're frind Fairbanks or Taft or Foraker or Knox is filled with fiendish plan iy forcing on this counthry some wicked principle that looks good to him befure I'll lay vilent hands on ye. I'll bet ye a good segar that if ye asked annywan iv thim to tell ye why ye shud lay off wurruk an lay in dhrink all iliction day to give him a job he'd blush. Tn fact is, lawn. there ar-re no political issues that ar-re worth pickin' up these days that don't look like a live wire. I suppose we'll have to be frinds, bitterly as hate it.
 An what did Jawn McKenna say?' asked MT. Hennessy.
 "Jawnny McKenna said" replied MT. Dooley, that if we didn't fight fir principles, we'd fight fir fun. He
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
How Real Estate is Going Up i'm the Valley of the Nile


rCopyrght 1907, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 ALEXANDRIA. Y AM again in the great seaport of the
 valley of the Nile My first visit 10 it X was twenty-five years ago, just be- fore Arabi Pasha started the rebellion which threw Egypt into the hands of the English. l saw it again seven years later on my way around the world and l find now a new city which has risen up and swallowed those of the past.
 The Alexandria of today stands upon the site of the greatest of the commercial oenters of antiquity. but it's present build ings are as young as those of New York, Chicago or Boston, It is one of the boom towns of the old world, and it has all grown up within 100 years. When George Washington was President it was little more than a village l. has now more than 400 GOO people, and 1t will soon reach a half million.
 Alexandria is a city with all modern im- provements. 1t has wide streets as well paved as those of Washington. It has public squares which will compare favor ably with many in Europe, and buildings which would be an ornament to any town on our continent It is now a city of street cars and automobiles. Its citizens walk or ride to it's theatres by the light of ele,- tricity, and it's rich men gamble by read ing the ticker in its stock exchange. Ii s a town of big hotels, gay cafes and pal aces galore. In addition to the 300 GOO Mo hammendans. there are more than 100000 Christian Europeans now living in it, and among them some of the smartest business men of the Mediterranean sea. The city has become commercial, money making and fortune hunting. The rise and fall of stocks, the boom in real estate and the modern methods of getting something for nothing are its chief subjects of con versation, and the whole population is after the elusive piastre and the Egyptian pound as earnestly as the American is chasing the nickel and the dollar
 AIexandra's New Harbor.
 It is easy to see where AleXandria's wealth comes from. It is growing fat from the trade of the Nile valley. It is the water gate to Egypt and the Soudan and every cents worth of goods that goes in and out has to pay toll. More than four thousand ships enter this port every year. and there are now vessels in the harbor from nearly every part of the world. I came to Egypt from Malta on a ship bound to India and Australia, and I can get a steamer any week which within fif- teen days will take me to New York. The