text: Kr5 &v<*' Vf i'"1 KJ £r.. :ll :m'yi'S' If" $ sK »u -^m &*'Y §iismarcfe SMtome. BY M. H. JEWELL. THE DAILY TRIBUNE, SUBBCBIPTION BATES: Daily one year, postage $100 8 00 5 00 10 00 Kld Qti-i-Zi- THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week, both foreign and local Friday, year $2 eek, both foreign and local published every year, sent postage paid, to any address, for one six months, $1 three months, 75 cents. The North perfect lation is larger both in the territory and the States. The DAILY TRIBUNE, like the weekly edition, containing the full Associated press dispatches, is a desirable advertising medium thrown which to reach all northwestern towns and military posts remote from railroad lines. The general eastern advertising agent of the TBIBUNE is A. P. Richardson, Room 65, Tribune Building, New York. All advertisements for the TBIBUNE from points east of Illinois should be sent to him. The DAILY TRIBUNE will be found on file at the Grand Pacific hotel, and Lord & Thomas, advertising agents, Chicago, and at reading rooms and news depots throughout the country. THE Aberdeen Republican takes issue with the Pioneer Press correspondent. It is Senator Harrison, Ingalls and Jones, of the senate special committee, appear to have talked very freely to a Pioneer Press correspondent while on their recent visit to Pierre, regarding the division and admission question. Either the distinguished senators expressed themselves in a very unstatesmanlike manner, or the Pioneer Press correspondent lied, deliberately and with malice aforethought. This latter supposition is altogether the more reasonable, and this view of the dilemma is strengthened by the fact that the correspondent was writing from Pierre, and for a paper which never publishes the truth when it can possibly help it. The correspondent reports Senator Harrison as saying that "there was nothing partisan about the question of southern Dakota's demand for admission, as she possessed every requirement as to population, property interests, area and resources, to entitle her to statehood." The distinguished Indiana senator argues from this that southern Dakota ought to be admitted. He forgets, possibly, that the same plausible arguments apply to the entire territory, and that the people would much prefer to gain admission that way. "Senator Ingalls," says the correspondent, "expressed the opinion that the division of the territory would be impossible as long as the democrats control either branch of congress." [And right we wish to remark that upon this point the senator's head is very level.] "Senator Jones, of Arkansas, the only democratic member of the committee, expressed himself as heartily in favor of division. He thought the entire territory large enough for two states, and regarded the southern half as in every way prepared and equipped for admission to the Union." We think we are justified in assuming that Senator Jones, of Arkansas, never expressed the sentiments attributed to him above. They were the sentiments that the Pierre correspondent and the people of Pierre wished him to express, and the wish was father to the thought. Senator Jones, as we have good reason to believe, is in accord with other democratic senators in wishing to allow the people of Dakota to settle this matter of division for themselves. If Dakotans do not desire division there is no power in Washington or elsewhere to force it upon them. The city of Pierre is not all of Dakota, and her citizens must not assume to speak the sentiments of the people of Dakota. Her insatiable desire for capital honors must not be permitted to defeat the wishes of the people of a territory of which she is but a small and unimportant fraction. THE Central Dakota Press association had a division of the house on the question of selecting a new name, the choice being between "Dakota Press association" and "South Dakota Press association." The former carried. Now, if these editors will advocate the calling of a convention of the whole territory hereafter when questions affecting the people of every section are to be considered, instead of shutting out a large portion, then something more may be accomplished then is expected of the Sioux Falls convention. UPON receipt of the intelligence of General Grant's death, President Cleveland telegraphed the following beautiful tribute to Mrs. Grant: "Accept this expression of my heartfelt sympathy in this hour of your great affliction. The people mourn with you, and would reach, if they could, with kindly comfort, the depths of the sorrow which is yours alone, and which only the pity of God can heal." A TELEGRAM conveys the intelligence that the Republican newspaper office, at Mitchell, was burned on Sunday. The building is a total loss, $5,000, insured for $3,500. The material was saved but is so badly "pied" that it is almost useless. The Republican will rise again, however, for Mitchell is a wide awake town, must have a daily paper and S. D. Cook is the popular editor. WHILE it is possible that Enumerator Simonson (late of Bismarck) did not enumerate enough people, his work is the subject for much praise on the part of the clerks now engaged in copying the reports, and it is said, were he Here, he would receive the first prize for completeness, neatness, and general good appearance of the report but no one seems anxious for the return. In speaking of the territorial militia, Sioux Falls Press says: It is wonderful how the territorial militia has grown and advanced in less than a year. The first of last winter not a company had been mustered into the service, and but three or four companies had been organized. Now there are two regiments of nine companies each, mustered, armed, and equipped, and several independent companies which the governor may call upon at any time to quell a disturbance or keep the peace. By the indefatigable efforts of a few interested in the organization of the militia, a bill was passed by the last legislature appropriating $15,000 a year to the building up of the militia. All general, field, line, and staff officers have been appointed and commissioned. All the different organizations have zealously carried out their part and are proficient in drill. Preparations are now being made for the annual encampment of the brigade. The encampment is to take place the last of August or first of September, at a place yet to be chosen. Fargo, Watertown, and Huron are bidding for it, and at one of these three places it will probably be held. Fargo can probably offer the best accommodation to the troops, and is more accessible to a majority of the companies than any of the other towns. Adjutant General Free is looking carefully into the matter, and will select the place he deems most suitable. The publication of the session laws has resulted, in some localities, in great apprehension as to the first article in the book, which specifies certain officials as empowered to take proofs of acknowledgments of conveyancing and other instruments. Among those enumerated there is no reference to notary publics, and the idea has gone out that therefore acknowledgments taken by notaries since the enactment of the statute are not valid, which would work great loss to parties who have taken mortgages or deeds, the acknowledgment of which was made before officials of this class. An investigation of the matter, however, shows that there is no cause for concern. The act of last winter, by its terms, merely amends section 656 of the civil code, and enlarges the number of officials of a certain class who may take acknowledgments of instruments. Section 655, which empowers notaries public to take such proofs, is not affected by the recent act. THE Mandan Pioneer speaks of Bismarck being jealous of Morton county's census returns. The Tribune knows of no one on this side of the river who is jealous. The people of Bismarck rejoice at the astounding figures of the enumerator for Mandan, and if it was made to appear that Mandan had more people than Bismarck even, still Bismarck would not kick. It is people in this country that Bismarck wants. They may settle at Mandan, Sims, Washburn, Winona, Williamsport, or where they will, so long as they settle at some point tributary to Bismarck. Arck. The only locality that seems justified in entering a protest against Mandan's growth is Jamestown. It would certainly seem to an observer that Jamestown was as wealthy and populous as Mandan. But the census says no. It is reported that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road has refused to contribute anything to the fund being raised for holding the military encampment at Fargo. Certainly the wrong parties must have been appealed to, for the Milwaukee system would receive more benefits from the encampment being held at Fargo than any other road, and it is understood that the Northern Pacific and the Manitoba have each agreed to put $250 cash in the fund. A glance at the map shows that all the companies from the south would be transported over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul lines, in the event of the encampment being held at Fargo, and the usual enterprise of this road would seem to conflict with the reported action of some of its officials in this matter. Out of respect for General Grant, Col. Mark W. Sheafe, commanding the second regiment, D. N. G., has issued the following to the company commanders from Watertown, known as general order No. 3: The sad intelligence having reached these headquarters announcing the death of one of the greatest soldiers of this age, it is but a soldier's duty to pay just tribute and respect to departed greatness, as represented in that eminent warrior and statesman, General Ulysses S. Grant. Therefore, all commanders of companies will cause their respective armories to be suitably draped in mourning, and all officers of this regiment will, when in uniform, wear the usual badges of mourning for a period of thirty days, as a mark of respect for the memory of the departed commander of the United States armies. JUST how Fargo is "getting snubbed by the present administration," as the Republican puts it, is not quite clear. The military encampment will be held at the point that will cost the territory the least money. Fargo may kick, Bismarck may kick, but it is clearly the duty of the governor to select the place that will be the most lenient on the territorial treasury, else the whole territory will have reason to kick. A CORRESPONDENT west of the river complains of the Sioux Falls insurance company being slow in settlement of its losses that other companies have settled on a loss at Square Butte, but the Sioux Falls company has not. The Sioux Falls may be a good company but somehow it never seemed to care enough about the people to say so, very emphatically, through the press of the territory. LAND COMMISSIONER LAXBORN and General Emigration Agent P. B. Great of the Northern Pacific, are doing all in their power to bring the beauties and advantages of this country prominently before the people of the land. A recent circular to the producers of Dakota and Montana reads as follows: This office desires to make a full collection of agricultural products from the harvests of Minnesota, Dakota and Montana for 1885, for exhibition here and in the eastern states. For this purpose, the request is made that specimens of grain in the sheaf and in the berry, native and cultivated grasses, and all sorts of vegetables, fruits and other products, be delivered at any railroad station throughout this region, addressed to "P. B." Great, General Emigration Agent N. P. R. R., St Paul, Minn., and they will be promptly forwarded by the agents of the Northern Pacific Express Company. Each article should be labeled, giving its name, yield per acre, weight per bushel, and other information, name and post office address of the producer, so that due credit can be given. JUDGE FRANCOS has dissolved the injunction instituted by the disappointed inhabitants of Dunseith, Rolette county, against St. John which outvoted, Dunseith in the recent election for county seat honors, by nearly 200 votes. Dunseith, of course, raised the cry of fraud, but the judge, after considering the case, sees no good ground for the injunction. Probably the same parties who contested St. John's representative at the Pierre convention, are now engaged in the contest against county seat honors. PETTIGREW'S attack upon Governor Pierce was to be expected. Since Pettigrew has been in Dakota it has been his custom to assail every governor who fails to jump when he snaps his finger. The people are well informed as to Mr. Pettigrew's motives, and South Dakota has passed that stage when Mr. Pettigrew's boast of "holding that section in the palm of his hand" shall apply. THE enterprise of the TRIBUNE in furnishing its readers the latest news is thus spoken of by the Dickinson Press. The Bismarck TRIBUNE showed commendable enterprise in furnishing its western readers the news of General Grant's death the morning it occurred, by an extra edition sent out on the Pacific express. The TRIBUNE scooped its competitors. THE Dakota penitentiary at Bismarck is now open as a temporary reform school for juvenile offenders, the governor having issued a proclamation to that effect to the various judges throughout the territory. A large room in the upper story of the main building has been fitted for the "young rascals," which Warden Williams facetiously calls a "bull pen." GENERAL GRANT'S remains ought to rest in Washington. It was kind of New York city to so promptly tender a resting place in that most beautiful of American resorts, Central Park, but it would have been more appropriate and would have met with universal approval, had the capital of the nation for which the dead hero did so much, been selected. MANDAN subscribers complain that they do not get their Bismarck papers regularly. The TRIBUNE is mailed every morning promptly, and there can be no excuse for delays. Some say they get two or three issues at a time. This should not be, and will not be if the Bismarck and Mandan postmasters can find where the difficulty is. THE Farmers' Alliance, which does not fill a long felt want at Valley City, resorts to bad cartoons and original poetry to slander Judge Francis, who is now holding. A term of court in that city. The Alliance likens the judge to Guiteau, and makes other foolish statesments that only a worse crank than Guiteau would be guilty of. PIERRE lots are now being advertised at "a great bargain" in the Chicago Inter Ocean. The party advertising says he has fifty lots, which he will sell cheap. This party is probably a member of the famous syndicate of which Councilman WeBtover was so proud during the last legislature. SMALLPOX is not raging in South Dakota says the Yankton Press, except in the minds of a few irresponsible newspaper correspondents. This is probably about the size of the "terrible distress" of the people of Highmore, reported by the Hon. John T. Blakemore. THE Woonsocket News says: "The tide of emigration that is flowing toward Dakota, seems to strike a countercurrent about 400 miles east of here, and the most of the emigrants land in North Dakota, or at least fail to materialize south of the 46th." JOHN T. BLAKEMORE, a citizen of Highmore, certifies that a large number of people are distressed because of a recent storm. Will someone certify for Mr. Blakemore? A SOUTH DAKOTA paper says that Hubert published her census returns a little too previous. Mitchell got hold of them and went several hundred better, viz: 3,044. MATOB HARBISON has purified the morals of Chicago to such an extent that the newsboys are arrested for selling Pall Mall Gazettes on the streets. ACCORDING to a Ft Benton paper, Capt Durage has launched the new government dredge boat, "City of Ft Benton," 33 feet. Two celebrated by the "W r" BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1885. Breaking of a bottle of wine on the bow of the boat, it is feared, however, the boat draws too much water to be of service at this season of the year. THE magnanimity of General Grant is shown by the following tribute from General Lee, commander of the Confederate forces at the Appomatox surrender: "I wish," said General Lee, "to do simple justice to General Grant, when I say that his action toward my army is without a parallel in the annals of nations. When my poor soldiers, with famished faces, having neither food nor raiment, hungry and footsore, came before him in the hour of surrender, it was then that General Grant immediately issued the humane order that 40,000 rations should be given to them. And that was not all. I was giving orders to some of my officers, who were making out a list of the things to be surrendered. I told him to include the horses. At that moment General Grant who seemed to be paying no attention to what was going on, quickly rose from the camp stool and said 'No, no, General Lee, no surrender of the horses. Not one, not one, keep them all. Your people will need them all for the spring crops,' It was a scene never to be forgotten. As Lee spoke he paced the room, and with tears streaming down his cheeks, repeated two or three times this incident of the surrender. A "TAXPAYER" writes to the Jamestown Capital as follows: There are a number of taxpayers in the city of Jamestown who would like to see a copy of the Bismarck charter and ordinances, which has just been printed by the Bismarck TRIBUNE at a cost of $184.04, or about $1.40 per page. McClure charged us $488.42, or $3.46 per page, to print our charter and ordinances, and some of the vulgar tax payers in Jamestown want to compare the two books. How can we get a copy of the Bismarck book? The TRIBUNE does not know much about the Jamestown job, but it must confess that the TRIBUNE's charges for printing the city charter of Bismarck can hardly be taken as a fair guide. Milwaukee and St. Paul printers charge from $1.70 to $1.80 per page for the same kind of work. It may be that the TRIBUNE's charge is as much too low as the Alert's is too high. If any locality has reason to complain of the governor's action in the removal of prisoners from Sioux Falls, it is Bismarck. The law under which they are removed, makes it the duty of the governor, when the institution at Bismarck shall have been completed, to order the removal of all prisoners who belong to the northern portion of the territory. If only thirty-five are removed then the remaining nineteen must have been left at Sioux Falls under that section which Mr. Pettigrew says the whole outfit was removed to Bismarck under, and done simply so as not to vitiate a contract made by the directors of the Sioux Falls concern with an eastern manufacturer. ACCORDING to the "Valley City Times," nothing short of the position of prime minister of Kalakua's domain would induce the Hon. Johnson Nickeus to become a Sandwich Islander. Although the beautiful Honolulu girls possess extraordinary charms, the conditions of soil and climate seem to be repugnant to the raising of No 1 hard, and Mr. Nickeus has returned to Dakota, the land made famous by the production of this cereal. HANSBOROUGH says he never charged but $5 for publishing land notices, and there does not seem to have been any evidence before the late grand jury that he charged more. It's the collusion with the land officers that Hansborough's enemies want to prove. WHILE the jobbers were in Mandan the other day ex-Mayor Bellows told them that Mandan was, or soon would be, ahead of Bismarck. The jobbers admitted it, of course, and a more tickled community does not now exist than Mandan. THE Estelline Bell says that the holding of the Sioux Falls convention is such an indefinite proposition that the delegates elected are in a quandary as to the advisability of hiring someone to write up some speeches for them. THE Devils Lake News-Democrat says Hansborough is not on the jury, but the jury is "onto Hansborough." The annual income of Vanderbilt is ten tons of gold. The annual income of a laborer is two pounds of gold. Warm Waves. Philadelphia, The torrid terror still tarries. Philadelphia, Cal. The latest warm spell—S-h-e-o-1.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegram. Honors are easy this summer. Few of us have taken less than 96 degrees. Louisville Courier-Journal. A court street restaurant hangs out at this juncture. At this juncture, it is worth remembering that the law compels the passenger railway companies to keep the streets clear of snow. —Philadelphia Press. It may be a "chestnut" but the best advice nowadays is: "Keep cool, and if you can't keep cool, keep as cool as you can." —Philadelphia Call. Hot as the weather is, the mercury never gets so high as a man can forget that his winter coal supply will wallop his wallet as flat as an alderman's promise. —Detroit Free Press. It has just been discovered that the legislature of Texas, repealed, without knowing it, the law against the employment of convicts on public works and in cities and towns. The bill was introduced and passed both houses unanimously as an important amendment. Sugar, Butter Milk vs. Ice Water. It has been discovered that butter milk is a remarkable degree satisfies the craving for strong drink and enables a man to endure fatigue in warm weather better than any other drink he can use. The proprietor of a bar who disposes of over a dozen pailfuls daily, says it is remarkable how quickly the appetite for it increases after the first glass. He thinks it is destined to destroy more drinking than St. John and his prohibitionists can ever do. "I have," said he, "studied chemistry since we took to selling buttermilk, and I know that lactic acid is one of the chief agents that gives acidity to the gastric juice of the stomach in health. This is the acid of sour milk, and, therefore, one of the best summer diet drinks that one can use is butter milk. It satisfies the craving for acids, by giving to the stomach a natural supply, and at the same time furnishing in its cheesy matter a good supply of wholesome nutrition. If housekeepers would get their milkman to serve them with a daily supply of butter milk, to be drunk occasionally as a substitute for ice water, they would find it highly beneficial for there is danger in drinking too much ice water. A Snake Story. Weldon, N.C. News: In the town of Halifax about a month ago, from a well on the premises of Capt. Carraway, was drawn up in the well bucket a live snake of the moccasin species, about a foot and a half long. By some means the life of the little snake was preserved, and it seemed well cared for and petted. It continues to thrive, and has developed wonderfully, physically and mentally. Its disposition is kind and tractable, readily taking its food (insects) from the willing hands of its benefactors and instructors, the little children. In all their plays and frolics his snakeship can be seen occupying a prominent and enviable position alongside the iron and steel. The Serpent's Worst. Enemy, Orange County Farmer: You have no idea of the number of snakes annually killed by the mowing machines until you talk with different farmers on the subject. The mowing machine is peculiarly fatal to them. In their accredited wisdom, they do not start to run away until the evidence of danger is upon them. Then they raise their heads just high enough to reach above the blades, when they are decapitated quicker than an active partisan under civil service nonsense, and the change is so sudden that the body of the snake doubtless springs high enough to again meet the blades ere the fatal knives pass completely over. Land Office Notes. [Compiled by O. F. Davis, land attorney.] The law gives a homestead for the purpose of a home, not for the purpose of enabling the entryman to acquire title without reference to its uses the principle being that the homestead is not merely the temporary residence of the head of the family, but the permanent residence of all.— Commissioner Sparks, June 4,1885. Occasional visits and staying a few nights on the land is not evidence of residence. Homestead entries cannot be maintained by merely perfunctory acts, nor by improvements alone. The law gives a homestead for the purpose of a home, not for the purpose of acquiring a title to the 160 acres of land without living on it.—Assistant Commissioner Harrison, June 5,1886. To sustain his settlement a pre-emption claimant must make some substantial improvement on the land at date of settlement, such as would be notice to all that he claims the land. A shanty 10x12 feet, one half on the land, is not sufficient.—Acting Secretary Muldrow, April 30,1885. The removal of improvements after final proof. Prima facie evidence of bad faith. Entries not made in good faith are liable to contest investigation and cancellation.— Acting Secretary Muldrow, May 6,1885. Affidavits accompanying homestead and timber culture entries should state whether the entryman is a naturalized or native born citizen. To be subject to timber culture entry, the section of land must be devoid of timber. The rule established by former decisions that to bar an entry, the section must contain at least ten acres of timber of at least 650 trees per acre, is held to be outside the law and not to be sustained.—Commissioner Sparks, May 27,1885. SHEAR SCOOPS. Young wife (reading)—A machine has been invented in Troy which makes 24,000 perfect matches in a minute, and 20,000,000 in a day of ten hours. Young husband—"But Chicago will be fully equal to the emergency, provided they run their mill on full time." I don't understand, dear." "The divorce mill, my love."—Harper's Bazar. The man who drives the sprinkling cart revives the ancient feud, turns on the water with a start and almost drowns the dude, the man who draws the lager beer awakens from his sloth, and does it so that very near all of it is froth the man who eats bananas drops the peelings on the street, the man who follows after flops along for twenty feet. And, so on, half a hundred things combine to make it clear the heated term, with all it brings of cussedness, is here. An old country gentleman returning home rather late discovered a yokel with a lantern under his kitchen window, who, when asked his business there, said he had a Mary. A ROAD enough Every dog is said to have his day, but we would advise the canine who owned yesterday to dispose Of it at any cost—Boston Post. You want a lantern for I never used one when I was a young man." No, sir," was the yokel's reply. "I didn't think you had, by the missis."—Indianapolis Session Laws of 1885. Session laws of '85 for sale by the Bismarck TRIBUNE at publisher's price, $3.25. A few ashes sprinkled upon the icy sidewalk are appreciated by pedestrians in these gruesome days.—Philadelphia Press. The July nights are so hot this year that only the most experienced policemen can get any sleep.—Courier-Journal. Applications of loans, statements of condition of school townships, etc., for sale by the Bismarck TRIBUNE. The reason why you can't quit sinning is because you won't—not because you can't—Sam Jones. Canned fruits date back to Pompeii. NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS. Judic leaves Hayre for New York this week. Ten thousand strangers enter London every day. Mrs. Frances Conant is assistant editor of the Chicago Advance. The Northern Pacific's dining car service has been extended to Tacoma. Enoch Pratt, the Baltimore millionaire, spends only $175 a week at Long Branch. Mary Anderson will make a private tour of the world after she fills her engagements in this country. About 3,000,000,000 cigars were made in America last year. Milwaukee contributed not far from 800,000,000 of these. Snow is 100 feet deep in Tuckerman's ravine, White mountains. There is also plenty of ice at the North pole. A farmer in Barnes county has a field of barley that grew thirty-eight inches in thirty-eight days, just an inch a day from sowing. To cure heartburn, simply apply the tongue to some of the ashes of the cigar you are smoking if the pain seizes you while smoking. It is reported that General Smiley, late adjutant general of Ohio, will succeed Mr. Harrison as assistant commissioner of the general land office. Fifty thousand cattle (Texans) will be driven to Montana this year and turned out between the Musselshell and opposite the mouth of Poplar river. The executors of Victor Hugo propose to erect a statue of the poet at Besançon, his birthplace, and in the Pantheon a tomb worthy of the illustrious dead. Bartley Campbell has become an earnest believer in spiritualism, and asserts that he receives regular communication from famous dead French dramatists. Mrs. Grant's income, including the $5,000 government pension and the prospective income from the proceeds of the general's book, will be about $20,000 a year. Idaho has 300,000 head of horses, valued at $15,000,000, and 465,000 cattle, valued at $14,250,000. Utah has 70,000 horses, worth $3,500,000, and 425,000 cattle, worth $12,750,000. A territorial journal has found that for several weeks during a Dakota summer each day has eighteen hours of daylight sufficient to enable one to read ordinary print. Within an hour of the marriage ceremony of Princess Beatrice, at London, a tumultuous crowd entered the church and stripped it of its decorations. The police were powerless. A party has arrived in Winona who claims to have footed it all the way from New York. Their only vehicle is a hand cart, drawn by hand. They were seven months on the road. Estelline Bell: There are now two women prisoners at the Sioux Falls penitentiary. As soon as there are three, so that when one is not present the other can talk about her, they will be happy. Major General Hancock hopes military organizations from every state will be able to attend the Grant obsequies, and will assign them a place in the line. It has also been suggested that the governors of the various states and territories take part in the ceremonies. An observer at Long Branch, describing a recent ball, said: "Mrs. Moses Fraley, of St. Louis, wore a rich, creamy silk, down which rolled billows of lace. She seemed to flash fire at every movement, so numerous were her diamonds." Moses had better make another assignment. Sioux City Journal: It is reported that while Judge Francis was holding a recent term of court at Mandan, he notified the county commissioners to carpet the courtroom. The commissioners have met and solemnly and unanimously resolved that Judge Francis and his court could go to hell. The Northwood Headlight, a rip-roaring paper published in Grand Forks county, has adopted the following motto: "To trust is to bust, to bust is hell, no trust, no bust, no bust, no bust, no bust." LaNouvelle Revue claims that all gladiators will disappear in 50,000 years, owing to the axis of the earth returning to the perpendicular. The days and nights will then be equal all over the entire globe and perpetual spring will reign. The same authority considers there is evidence of man's existence on earth for 3,000 years. Western Minnesota and other treeless sections of this country afflicted with hail, should take a lesson from a certain district in Saxony which had the reputation of being a good field for hail insurance—or, rather, a bad field, as losses from hail were numerous and annihilated crops. It was resolved by land owners to let trees sprout up and grow. As the trees grow older and taller, the storms become less frequent and to conclude from the arithmetical decrease, there is every prospect to believe that in a few years more the district will be free from hail. Walter Thome, whoever that may be, writes from Jamestown to the Fargo Argus as follows: "The new census gives Lisbon, Dakota, 1,700 population, but only gives Jamestown some 2,85. We think here that this is a blasted outrage, and what I write to you for is to ask if you think the Lisbon census folks are a set of liars or knaves. We think here in Jamestown that the Lisbon folks are the biggest liars in America. I am sorry to have to write this, but the Jamestown people feel outraged by the Lisbon count. Our town is five times larger than Lisbon, and we don't ten times the amount of business, though I must confess they can beat us lying. The Mandan folks are not a whit better than the Lisbonites—they all seem to be tarred with the same stick." 