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Art Craft Chairs Library Tables Ladies' Desks Linoleum New Brass Beds Office Desks Parlor Furniture Varied Mental Diet. Monotony of thought is the destruc tion of the brain. Watch yourself and give your mind a varied diet. Force yourself to put away all thoughts of your life work for a few hours every day, and for a few weeks every year. Learn to be frivolous if you are engaged in serious work, and learn to be serious if your work is of a humorous or light character. The brain, like the body, needs more than ^one kind of food to keep in health. 'I Pen ppint Material. Iridium is a brittle, silver metallic eleni.eut jjtflpnging to .the platinum group, discoyerefl by Tennant in 1803. Sometimes foun4 native and nearly pure, but generally combined with psroium. It is, with the exception of osmium, the heaviest metal known, and is used for pen points, contact points in telegraphy and points of scientific instruments liable td Wear. Its specific gravity is 22.4 5-he "if": Ma]. Young went to sle*£ Sunday In church just befo** the hat wai passed. *aored for awhile la & lady-lilt* banner, but suddenly let Out I* tfif# links that sounded like a tfom fcone solo. At that point in the ipro* Cram his wife jabbed him one inJtte slats with her elbow which awakened him sufficiently to remark: "3et up and build the fire yourselfUiverton (Wyo.) News. Court Dress of Laureate. Tennyson's court dress, when he re ceived the laureateship, did not cost COIK^vV iff i£ iffe: I'' •Uhmmmv JUineJktowV ii li i' p: him much, for it was the same court dress worn by Wordsworth, who in turn had it from the old poet Rogers, a»d it is still in the Wordsworth fam ily, It is a wonder how Tennyson and Wordsworth got into it, for Rogers was a little fellow. Tennyson had no passion foT courts, and so he went in second-hand to save cost. Pneumonia Fatal Disease. Health Commissvoner Richie, of Bostoh, declares thav pneumonia is now the most fatal dise* se in A True Paint Story thai Traches Ytif Pocketbsok were built side by side in a little Michigan town. The owner of one bought MM paint. The other thought he had saved 30c a gallon by buying a mail order paint. The tPM man bought only 12 gallons. The mail order man had to send for (Two gallons morp At the end of three and a half years thelnail order man's house looked so^nTseraEle^it made every passerby feel sorry for him. And he had to paint again and yet again. It is now at theend of^fifteejn^e^^and the iPM man Jis just needing to repaint. The pocket books of the two men told the story this way: Original paint cost Labor Repainting end of "is 3ur" isdiction. According to Present figures of the board of fceaK^11' pneu monia comes first, heart (iisea^e sec ond and tuberculosis, wlupb wa# ^rst }n 1900. third. To Keep Lemons. Lemons may be kept a long time, even months, under glass. If you not going to use them iffimediately lay thero on & flat surface and invert ft goblet Over 6ach one. After six months' imprisonment in this way they will be found to tie fresh.— Woman's Life. Bad Taste, We have quit objecting td anything on the ground that it is wrong. When we wish to be particularly unpleasant we say in a sneering way that a cer tain action or thing is in very taste.—N. Y. Press. bad Poisoning by inhaling ahloroform or ether may be treated as for suffo cation and artificial respiration should be induced. The great thing in all cases of poisoning is to get rid of the poison by purging or vomiting. $18J0 48.00 18J0 ,51.00 3)i 122.00 45.00 years Labor Repainting end of 7th year (used good paint this time) Labor 22 J« 45.00 15 years, Total cost, $283.30 Paint cost per gallon $U5 Cost per year $3.59 ISNUSS&a* Best Prepared Rawson Hardware Co. $67.00 $1.85 $4.47 Mil kST Phone 246. Main St. Upp. ii. JN. Hotel The Rare Gift of Courtesy. Courtesy includes not merely social kindness, graces .of speech, absence of rudeness, but honorable treatment of all business associates, and of all the fellow citizens with whom a man of affairs may have business to transact. It is not American to keep one citizen w&iting all day at the door because he is poor, and to grant another citi zen an interview because it is be lieved he is rich. Wisdom is not con fined in a purse, and frequently much wisdom may be learned from a poor man. The Wisdom of the Serpent. The serpent tempted the woman not' because she was the weaker, but be-j pause she was the leader not because pi ffpj- subordination, lut on account Of superiority. S'ne was the ptronghol4 £t the fortress, and to win her was t» win Eating Oranges on Trains. If you take the children on the train and wish to feed them oranges, which tend to quench the thirst, pre pare the fruit at home and wrap the sections in waxed paper. It is tedious to pare them on the train, and one is liable to soil the clothes in doing so. To Add Interest. A little boy was killed on a viaduct In a certain Texas city. A father waa trying to describe him to his little son. The child tried to recall the dead child, and, failing, said sorrow fully to bis parent, "I wish it had been Patty O'Hagan—I know him."— Delineator. Life and Strife. The law of the worthy life is funda mentally the law of strife. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.— Theodore Roosevelt. Russian Mendacity. Russian ethnologist concludes that "the highest type of humanity in the new world existed In northwestern America." No consolation in this for New England. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Listen at Him." "Father's trip abroad did him so much good,' said the self-made man's daughter. "He look better, feels bet ter, and as for appetite—honestly, it would do your heart good to hear him eat!"—Everybody's. Uplift for Farmer's Daughter. Writing names and addresses on eggs is a great pastime with country girls and Just now Is leading to many marriages In rich families.—Buffalo fused In Calgary $50 mink, twenty Ushers, We are just unloading two cars of New Furniture from Chicago and Minneapolis. This, with our present large stock gives us the largest assortment of Furniture, Rugs, Linoleums, etc., ever shown in town. We are the sole representatives in Williston of some of the oldest and best known furniture factories and Carpet Mills in the United States. We take just pride in saying that a glance through our store will convince you that you have in your midst a housefurnishing establishment which would be a credit to any city. All Goods Sold on the Installment Plan if You Wish Golden Rule Furniture Store 35 East Broadway ROBT. SLATER, Prop. Phone 360 3110 ^he, key to the situation, & (U? TTRB iuS keeper of the castle. Where she l®$j Joj" jro?d or evil pian would follow!• 1 —From a Sermon by ftev. Hr, Kerrj of Chicago. Thirst for NoveltlfeS. The curse of modern life—'^e thirst for the new, the ragfe to et out Gf old skin—is the blight on our litera tre, our art, OW J*ania, our manners- even OUT it is passion with out alfiK tr Conviction, or feeling—a me/e 'restless itch to get free from old Wbits a.nd to get into something un common, it hardly matters what, if only It can announce itself as "uncon ventional." Spot for Lady Godiva. "Talk about vanity!" exclaimed the woman who keeps her eyes open. "I passed a big new building the other day—big enough to be a school or a theater—and what do you suppose it was to be devoted to? Hair—hair! Puffs and braids and swirls and switches and curls and rats and things for women to pin on* their heads and make believe belong to them. A build ing full of hair!" a skin, sixty live hundred The Diplomat. "And, oh, mother," said the little girl, "Lucy Jones had such an awful hat on. So Annie gave her an 'int: she said, '1 wouldn't wear a thing like that.' "—Manchester Guardian. The Two Classes. All the people are divided into two parts—those who wait for the mid season .bargain sales and those who can afford not to.—Life. A Great Truth. "Lots of men smoke the cigars their wives give them for Christmas," says the Philosopher of Folly, "and then laugh at the raefl who wear rubbers." Gives It Another Aspect. Enthusiasm often dwindles consider ably when we try {o convert ft iatd hard cash, A Way to You will the :ccess. .•eeed in life if you resist ngs you know you shouldn't Globe. doing *v' 1K-Atchinson. Love. Love is the art of hearts and the heart of arts.—From "Festus," by Phillip James Bailey. Law of Compensation. That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest.— Colton. Easy Information. If you would know just what people say of you behind your back, listen to what they say of others. The read meaning of tact is think ing about others. It means consider ing what others will think and feel, instead of considering only what we ourselves think and feel.—Home Chat. Still to Be Determined. The dealer was busy filling bottles from a hogshead of wine. "What kind of wine is that?" queried an innocent bystander. "Don't know." answered the dealer. "1 haven't labeled it yet." Unsanitary Headdress. In eighteenth century England the fashionable woman's headdress often had to be left untouched for weeks at a time. Seems a Law of Nature. Pauperism, destitution, ought to be come extinct. but the poor, the wretched, the bereaved, the mutilated, we shall always have. Self-Made. A large majority of the good and re spectable women in this world have succeeded in being so without the as sistance of chaperons. Quests Carved for Themselves. It was tee custom in medieval times to serve roast meat on a spit, and to pass it round the table for each guest to cut off what he liked. Compulsory Reading. Some of the ministers are asking again why the church attendance is small. Perhaps it is because the Sun day papers are so large. Italian Method of Taxation. Italy levies a graduated income tax as well as a direct tax on land and houses. Small incomes are exempt from taxation. The Philosopher of Polly. "The man who throws money to the birds," says the Philosopher of Folly, "has a lot of nerve to pose as a lover of dumb animals." Back on the Job. Where are the undesirable habits of the yesteryear?—Washington Her ald. H. of the policy of protection to which doctrine we affirm our steadfast *d- c. MCCARTNEY PnsiJent Buffets China Closets Hall Racks New Mission Rockers Bedroom Suits Rugs Kitchen Cabinets TAILOR tWerv ^annent please et us take your measure Over300 samples or fine Aoods from Harry, Mitchell now on display at our store. EverythiiA Guaranteed A. B. LONIEN, Williston, No. Dak. W. S. DAVIDSON Cashier GEO. C. SCHLENKER. Assistant Cashier Citizens National Bank Williston. North Dakota CAPITAL, $50,000. U. S. DEPOSITARY. Foreign and Domestic Exchange Bought and Sold. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. DIRECTORS: H. C. MCCARTNEY JAMES H. COOPER ,J. J. DKLANEY E. M. ATTERBERRY E. C. CARNEY having a bank account and issuing checks and making deposits, you are gradually building up the most val uable assett a man can have, namely a good credit at home, and through recommendations this credit will be extended to others •way from home with whom you might seek accomodations. Open a bank account now with the Williston S ate Bank WILLISTON, N. D. The Want Ad way is the quickest way, because busy "wanting people" read t'lein. »«d I with JAMES H. COOPER Vice President Mrs. Henry !•'-'r I- tieDtges, xnurs-