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f A MONSTER DUMPLING. It \V*£«li<*d a Pound For Flueli Vole Cnst at Dnniplingr Town. In Halifax county. N. C.. prior to 1840 there was a voting precinct known by the odd name of Dumpling Town. In 1840, when William Henry Harrison was elected president after a most exciting campaign, Dumpling Town had exactly 114 voters, and ev ery man of them cast his ballot for Harrison. The people of the small but prosper ous town of Scotland Neck, in that county, showed their appreciation of the unanimous vote of Dumpling Town by a generous and whimsical gift. Two days and a night were consumed in building a big dumpling, which was made of apples and flour and which iweighed 114 pounds, one pound for each vote cast at Dumpling Town. ,This monster of a dumpling was put In a sack supported by a tripod and lowered into an immense iron kettle. It required two days and a night to cook it properly. Then it was lifted out and placed in a specially made bowl cut from the trunk of an enor mous cypress tree, and round it were placed 114 dumplings of the usual size. A band of music and fifty wagons were ■ent to Dumpling Town, and in these wagons were taken to Scotland Neck the 114 true blue Harrison men and their families. There was great cheering when they arrived at Scotland Neck, and the guests cheered themselves when they aaw the feast prepared for them, for, {besides the dumplings, no end of good things filled many tables in the spa cious warehouse, and the feasting and fun lasted the rest of the day and near ly all night. A barrel of the best molasses was used as sauce for the big dumpling, and the hungry people ate it all.— Youth's Companion. PAYING IN CENTS. Creditors Mny Refuse Large Sums of Small Change. Ordinarily when a debtor appears be fore a long time creditor there is no questioning of the United States coin in which the debt is to be paid, but the wide possibilities possessed by an arbitrary creditor in stipulating Just What coins and in what amounts he will receive payment are enough al most to discourage borrowing. You can't force a mean creditor to take more than 25 cents' worth of nick els or 25 cents' worth of copper cents. If you could get as much as $5 worth of old silver three cent pieces of an other generation you could unload $5 Worth on him, just as he would have tc take $5 worth of the silver five cent pieces and $5 worth of the obsolete twenty cent pieces, which made so much trouble in the late seventies. But you can pay out $10 in silver dimes and silver quarters and silver half dol lars. The trade dollars, of which there are a few still coming into the treasury Of the United States for redemption, are worth nothing, while the standard dollar is an unlimited legal tender, as Is the old "dollar of our dads," the first of which was coined in 1794 and the last in 1873. Coins that virtually have disappear «d from circulation are gold three dol lar and one dollar pieces, the trade dol lar of silver, the nickel three cent Jfieee, the copper two cent piece, the copper half cent and silver three and five cent pieces—Omaha World-Her ald. German Paternalism. American tourists returning from Eu rope bring back stories of the paternal {Watch which is kept upon them in Ger many. One woman was requested by a policeman to hold up her gown, which was a trailing, elaborate affair of lace and chiffon. It was after din ner, and she was taking a stroll with her husband through a park whose im maculate walks seemed to offer no harm to its delicacy, so she let it hang. The policeman was polite enough. He informed her gravely that any dress that was allowed to trail was liable to collect undesirable matter and prove injurious to health, and he reminded her that one time a law was under consideration to make the wearing of Buch skirts a misdemeanor.—New York Tribune. The Weathercock. The effigy of the cock so often seen on church steeples is usually connected with a legend in connection with St. Peter. As a matter of fact, however, the figure of a cock used to be placed on the tops of sacred trees long be fore it was used on buildings. The movement of the bird in the breeze was supposed by the superstitious to ward off evil spirits. On a number of mod ern churches the familiar vane is miss ing, but in days gone by a church was hardly ever built without the weather cock on its steeple.—London Standard. Garden Lantern*. The noted Japanese gardens, famous for their beauty, owe much of their jcharm to the quaint lanterns which lare used in great profusion. The best Of their garden lanterns are made of bronze after quaint native designs. Some of them are richly carved and are of great intrinsic value. Many of these lanterns are of great antiquity, and the best examples are seen at Nik kho, famous for its exquisite bronzes. Poithamrai Edition*. "Did you ever see anything to equal the way some of these live young au thors turn out books?" "Well, they can't compete with some of the dead ones who keep on getting out new volumes every year."—New Orleans Picayune. When trouble goes hunting him a man may dodge it. but when a man goes hunting trouble it hasn't one •hence In e thousa n d of escaping him. THE HALL OF FAME. Ezekiel Hinds of Newport, Me., sev enty-eight years of age, has begun to smoke cigarettes. Secretary Morton is the crack tennis player of the cabinet and one of the best men with the racket in Washing ton. George B. Oortelyou is a devotee of physical culture and a great lover of outdoor sport. He is a good shot and fearless rider. Ali Kuli Khan, a Persian nobleman, who has given up lands, title, family and position to follow religious work, is living in Boston. Professor Willy Hess, leader of the Boston Symphony orchestra, began his musical studies at six and at ten was an infant prodigy touring Holland. Emperor William of Germany in fix ing the course of study for Princes Os car and Jouehim hus prescribed a study of railway progress and prob lems in the United States. Joseph Chamberlain is not a grad uate of^any university. At the age of sixteen he was a full fledged business man. At thirty-eight, so rapidly had his fortune grown, he was able to re tire from commercial life and devote himself to politics. A New Bedford man has an old pay roll of the Fairhaven branch railroad company which carries the name of Henry II. ltogers, the Standard Oil magnate, who worked as baggagemas ter in June, 1861, for twenty-one days and received $24.23 therefor, an aver age of about $1.10 per day. Charles Monchy invented the "mon key" wrench, which is so indispensable in mechanism. The name monkey is a corruption of the name Monchy, which is the proper name. Mr. Monchy sold his patent for $2,000 and built a two story brick house in Williamsburg, N. Y., near Brooklyn, where he lives at an advanced age. EDITORIAL FLINGS. The prices of the new winter hats al most make them deserve the name of mlllionery.—Ohio State Journal. And, speaking of the prevailing fash ions, there'll be no change in the Epis copal marriage tie.—Boston Herald. The man who rocked the boat last summer probably has accepted the po sition of chauffeur for the winter.—Bal timore Sun. It would be well for preparations for Christinas shopping to begin—that is, for paterfamilias to open a new check book.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A ten-year-old girl is charged with wrecking a train. If her mother hadn't been asleep at the switch so often the girl would have known better.—Des Moines Register. The Washington Star quotes a scien tist as saying that we shall some day be able to do without sleep. Newspa per men and restaurant waiters can do that already.—Jacksonville Times-Un ion. BRITISH BRIEFS. A student of medicine in London needs at least $500 a year for five or six years. Families occupying only one room each in Glasgow furnish three times as many deaths from tuberculosis as the average of other families. The public executioner in England as a rule receives £10 every time he exer cises his duties, and in the case of a reprieve he is given £5 provided that he has been retained. The vicar of Little Hutton, England, does not like makers of tombstones to cut their names on the stones, but al lows them to do so on stones placed in his graveyard if they pay $2.50 for the advertisement. A Loudon newsboy, twelve years old, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a pocketknife because he had sold only 4 cents' worth of papers and did not dare to go home to his father with less than 25 cents. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. There are 30,000 dry goods stores in the United States. Masons in the Eibenstock district of Germuuy receive from S to 9 cents an hour, carpenters from 7 to 8 cents an hour and day laborers from 45 to 60 cents a day at twolve hours. The first lead pipe ever made in Can ada from Canadian lead is now being produced at Trail by the Canadian Smelting works. Any dimensions re quired are made up to four inches in diameter. In 1898 the butter haul over the Min neapolis and St. Louis railroad was 400,000 pounds. Last year it was near ly 14,000,000, the gain coming wholly from developments of creameries along that railroad. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. Professor Bertram, a Yale scientist, declares that the health giving power in hot springs is their radio activity. Jupiter's enormous size, exceeding that of ail the other planets together and broad double bands girdling his huge frame, justly entitles him to the distinction of the "Belted Giant" of lour system. Medical opinion inclines to the view that a considerable proportion of the Ideaths from chloroform are the result lof the depression caused by the pa tient's fear and that deaths of children •re rare because such fear 1 b absent in their cases. TIMBER IN RIVER BEDS. Fortnne Anolts the Imeutor of a Method to Recover I«. "If some scheme could be devised," said a Stillwater Olinn.) man, "by which the sunken logs which fill the beds of rivers and creeks in the log ging sections of this country could only be recovered, immense fortunes would be made. Along the St. Croix waters it is estimated that logs enough are im bedded in the sand of river bottoms to keep mills running for years. Under present conditions the loss is total, for no successful method has ever been de vised to effect this saving. "Occasionally logs cut years ago are forced by the washings of floods from their sand beds and driven upon the shores, where the action of sun and wind dries them out sufficiently so that they will float down stream, but the percentage of logs recovered is small, and millions of dollars' worth of prop erty is lost beyond recovery until some enterprising genius invents a machine or process to recover the timber. "At Stillwater logs occasionally come to the sorting booms bearing marks in use half a century ago, and when they appear the old lumbermen grow remi niscent of men who have been long forgotten, but who were important operators in the pioneer logging days of Wisconsin and Minnesota. "No possible estimate can be made of the amount of timber thus lost, but lumbermen estimate that the rivers of Wisconsin, in the value of the logs buried in their sands, have fortunes of millions of dollars if the logs could be recovered. Wisconsin has been one of the big pine states, and your Chip pewa, Wisconsin, St. Croix and Me nominee rivers and their tributaries contain fortunes in sunken timber. "Strange as it may appear, the value of the timber is not lessened, even after it has been submerged for half or quarter of a century. Efforts have been occasionally made to recover sunken logs. At one time a company was or ganized at Stillwater to dredge streams and thus recover some of the timber, but the plan did not work with any great degree of success, this method being found too expensive. Some one will come along some day with a plan, and this immensely valuable product, now lost, will be recovered."—Milwau kee Sentinel. APHORISMS. Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.— Plutarch. To read without reflecting is like eat ing without digesting.—Burke. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.—Shakespeare. Repentance is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.—Milton. A straight line is the shortest in mor als as in mathematics.—Maria Edge worth. Think twice before you speak or act once, and you will speak or act the more wisely for it.—Franklin. There is no impossibility to him w stands prepared to conquer every b ard. The fearful are the failing.—f Hale. There never was a person wh anything worth doing that did r ceive more than he gave.—F Beecher. Refinement creates beauty where. It is the grossness of t tutor that discovers anythi grossness in the object.—Hazlii Brain. The brain is an important organ, serving as it does to keep the head from collapsing. Almost all styles of doing the hair call for a head of some sort. Again, there is nothing like a head to set off a fine neck. Finally, we should feel rather foolish without our heads. For a long time scientists were una ble to discover why it is that the brain is divided into white and gray matter. It remained for a clever French savant to solve the difficulty. "Quite likely," said he, "the loud col ors had not yet come in when man was created." Psychology deals with the organic aspect of thought To psychology we owe the knowledge that calf's brain makes good soup.—Puck. Sir Colin Campbell'* Commluloi, When the Duke of Wellington was in India lie "discovered" the soldier who afterward became Sir Colin Campbell. That dashing warrior was in the com missariat service and had volunteered for an assault on a hill fort. The duke saw a little round man run up a ladder and, receiving a pike thrust at the top, roll down like a ball to the bottom. He was, however, up again in an instant and, running up like a squirrel, was the first or among the first in the place. The duke laughed, inquired about him and procured him a commission. Whittier'* Safeguard. When an overtimid visitor from the city once commented to the poet Whit tier upon the insecurity that seemed inseparable from so many doors open ing out from all sides of the large old country home, the master of the house Btrove gently to restore confidence by pleading that most of them were lock ed at night. Not to Be Thonorht Of. Mrs. Newlywed—Yes, Harry has only one fault, dear fellow! He will smoke cigarettes. Mrs. Oldgirl—Why don't you break him off it? Mrs. Newlywed —And leave me nothing to scold him about? No, indeed!—Cincinnati Times Star. Laylas Down the Law. Lady (entertaining friend's little girl) —Do you take sugar, darling? The Dar ling-Yes. please. Lady—How many lamps? The Darling—Oh, about seven, and when I'm out to tea I start with cake.—Punch. LEWISTOWN FURNITURE CO. We Can Furnish Your House From Cellar to Garret W E can save you money on every thing in the Furniture line. Every few days we receive large In voices of Furniture and our stock is complete and up to date in every detail. The fact that we buy all goods in car load lots and direct from the manufacturers enables us to give our customers LotVer Prices and Better Goods than any other house in this sec tion of the state. By buying direct from the manufacturers we cut off the middleman's profit, which is no small item. We Incite Comparison In Price and Quality. It Pays to Investigate Notice of Annual Meeting of Stock holders. The first annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Lewistown, Montana, will be held in their banking rooms on Tues day, January 10, 1905, at 7:30 p. m., for the election of a board of directors, and the transaction of any other bus iness that may come before it. Geo. J. Bach, Cashier. Dec. 23, 1904. 2t County anil City . UNDERTAKER. EMBALMER, Ai\to FUNERAL DIRECTOR Full stock c! TRIMMINGS, C0F- » FINS anil CASKETS. Phone 142, Day cr Night. 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Stop-OVer Allotted at Chicago For rates and other information regarding World's Fair, address A. M. FENTON, General Agent, Helena, Mont. T. W. TEASDALE, Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. Montana Lumber Co W HEN you build use our Automatic Spring Sash Balance. Do away with the old fashioned box frame, pulleys, cord and cum bersome weights. Every set guaranteed. Easily adjusted and cheaper than the old way. Montana Lumber Co. Moore, - Montana E. L. PATTERSON, Manager Also Chopped Feed For Sale at the ...... Culver & Culver Photographers Sett Kodaks, Amateur Supplies, Etc. Milliners Up to Date Line of Fash ionable Wear. Fifth Avenue and Washington Street. Bring Your JOB PRINTING To the Fergus County Democrat