NOBTHYFESTERN NXSW1 KOTOS.: nDIDDfO UPTIME. taename Chester Sylvanus Richard- ing the manuscript upon the desk, I 10MESOTA STATE H1W& SMUGGLERS' TRICKS. &K. son at the end. Who the dickens he began. I had devoted a little time to Iowa State Fair Premiums. A wee, brown maid on the doorstep sat,* was, was a mystery, and how I came by elocution, and had looked the man u- The State Agricultural societpwill come Her small face hid 'neath a wide-brimmed Some of the Wily Tricks of the 8mu his valise was still a greater problem. script over, in the cars, so that I was Nathan Myrfck has returned to St. Paul out with a small surplus, though they had hat, (Tiers on the St. Lawrence River. J* oneS to break duringtw up days weekshortd After more study over it, it flashed from Washington, and it is needless to say fairly familiar with it, and as I proceeded, but obli clear day the an A broken clock on her baby knee ._ A correspondent of the Chicagc he is dissatisfied with the award of the upon me that I must have gone into er I kept gaining additional courage, MS[ lihe wound with an ancient, rusty key. commission' which investigated the Northwestern Times writes from Thousand Islands, one of the other houses in the block. "What are you doing, my pretty one? *w3i? receipts, $26,010.66. All premium's and the lecture was delivered in a post-tradership losses by Indians. Playing with Time?" I asked in fun. Sfwill be paid in full. With good weather This eased my mind a little, though I N. Y.: "There was an old man here way that astonished myself and won He says the commission cut his claim Large and wise were the soft, dark eyes, Jhe receipts would noet havedbeenpremiumn less tha still felt anxious about my (papers. some years ago of the name of Gregg repeated plaudits. !*p$50,000. give th awar of worse than any othersfrom $40,000 Lifted to mine in grave surprise. There was nothing I could do but exercise down to $11,000. he's dead and gone now, and has lefc A. vote of thanks was unanimously "I'se winding him up to make him go, ^-Would require too much space. The grand patience, so I began reading the passed, the audience dispersed, and I no relatives, so it won't hit any one For he's so drefful pokey and slow. |%herd prizes were awarded to-wit: *j E. S. Blasdel, father of D. G. Blasdel of lecture. Although somewhat beyond Winding up Time? Ah, baby mine, was soon seated in the judge's pleasant I J. S. Brown, Gelena, 111., first prize, $500 St. Paul, died at Los Angeles, Cal. He was to let out on him.*' said a river boatman my acquirements, I found it interesting an old resident of St. Paul. How crawl these lengthened moments of parlor, where he poured out a Shorthorns. In this herd was Nelly Bly, recently. "But when you talk and instructive. probably the handsomest cow ever shown. thine! u^ t stream of congratulatory remarks. The question as to who shall lay the corner about genius ds a smuggler, he was T. "VV. Harvey, Tuslington, Neb., second Hovr sadly slow goes the staid old man! stone of the new court house at St. Miss Lilly was silent but I thought Toward 4 o'clock in the afternoon right there. He took to it from the prize, $20O Polled Angus. Iowa Hereford But he has not changed since the world began. Paul, is still being earnestly agitated, and her looks indorsed her father's speech. we arrived in the manufacturing to wn Company, Indianola, Iowa, third prize first. He was rocked in a smuggled becoming slightly serious. The courthouse I was much tired by my exertions, and of S whose inhabitants were of the He does not change "but in after years, i Hereford* W. S. White, Sabetha, Kans., commissioners invited the Masons toperform cradle, and dosed with smuggled medicine, gladly availed myself of that excuse wide awake, knowledge seeking class, When he mingles our cup of joy with tears fourth prize, $50 Shorthorns. the service, and they accepted the invitation, and so it grew into him. I'll give And duties are many and pleasures fleet, to retire. The points were best thoroughbred beef so often found in New England villages. but certain Catholic societies, you a sample. You know in the winter And the way grows rough 'neath our tired cattle of any age. In the diary test the Alone in my room, the possible consequences who oppose secret organizations, aroused As it was impossible to transact feet Holsteins took the cake, with Pocahontas, about here,the rivers freeze upsolid,so opposition to the Masonic ceremonies, and of that evening's performance my business in full without my papers, When the day is too short for its crowd of owned by J. W. Sherman of Chester Center, are working on the commissioners to have that teams can go all over from the troubled me. I was deeply impressed and I was weary with the slow caresr with a record du* ingthe fair of 57 5-7 pounds the lawyers conduct them. There is a lake to the rapids, and when the mercury by Miss Lily's beauty, culture progress we had made, I formed a sudden And night surprises us unawares, of milk per day percent, of cream, 14 butter, great deal of suppressed feeling about the and bewitching manner. But how gets down among the twenties resolution to stop over night in We do not wish to hurry his feet, 3 9-16 pounds per 100 pounds of milk. matter. could I continue the acquaintance? But find his going all too fleet. S, telegraph for my valise, and go to it makes things uncomfortable Another Holstein stood second. owned by F. Col. John Farrington received his creden" Ah, baby mine,, some future day, I could not long remain in tbe character M. Gilbert.Des Moines, Lakeside Maid, with New York some ti me the next da y, for green hands if they happen tials recently from Secretary of the Treasury You will throw that rusted key away a record of fifty pounds per day. A Jersey, of the professor, and an attempt when it arrived. of Manning, as custodian and collector to be revenue officers. But this And to Phoebus- car will madly cling, Albino, owned by Dr. Grimmell of Jefferson, to explain might complicate matters customs at St. I'tiul, vice Edward RichardsHe The snow about the town was fairly sort of winter weather was just As it whirs along like a winged thing, 'shoved the highest per cent of cream per hastened to the customs house and, worse. The only way to do was to beaten down, considering the fierceness And wonder how, years and years ago, the kind that old man Gregg liked, pound, and a Polled Angus, Thrift, stood taking the oath of office before Clerk Soencer, leave without explaining and contrive You cduld ever have thought that Time was of the storm and the short time since second, but the yield of milk was much less and it was a cold day when they nabbed of the United States district court, took slow some way in the future to atone for it had abated. than that of the Holsteins. Thus in three possession of the office. At one time it was him. You could make a sure my folly. So, after breakfast I took years the Dutch cows have come to the Chicago Current. After getting out of the cars I did not thought that Capt. J. Wood was to ha\ guess that every snow-storm would front as dairy cows, with the further advantage a long walk during which I considered hurry, but leisurely passed along the this place, but he was disappointed. see more or less brandy brought over, of good beei points. matter s, and at last stepped into a platform in the rear of the other passengers. IDENTICAL INITIALS. Hon. Warren Adley of Osakis died -very and the way he fixed it was this: telegraph office to send for my valise, suddenly of heart disease. Knowing that an ordinary team which had almost escaped my recollection. Louis Bengenheimer of West Bend, Wis., As I was about stepping off the platform Mrs. Anna Roch of Wadena, who has Was killed by a ruiiaway team recently. While standing in the office would be seen on the ice when a long to the sidewalk, to my surprise, I was certainly an odd adventure been demented since the death of her hus preparing my message, a man came in M. D. Carrington has presented the school way off, he always started out with a two gentlemen of nice appearance, band last spring, committed suicide bj and one in which I exhibited a degree board of Carrington, Dakota, with a fine hanging herself. She leaves one child. seemed about to accost me I, of course, and began chatting with the operator. white horse, a sleigh painted the same of audacity that I can scarcely credit school house. supposed myself mistaken and passed A farmer from Vermont, T\UO \a robbed The operator read the message, and color, and wearing a white rubber coat it now but it brought me such good John Chambers, of Sioux Gity, Iowa, of $112 by confidence men, became insane on. gave a cry of surprise. and hat, so that on the ice he looked stepped on a nail lock-jaw resulted, from on a Manitoba train, and caused "Look here, Bill," tothe other man, fortune that I have never regretted it, In a moment they were by my side, like a big snow heap, onlv for the motion. which he died. great excitement and terror among the passengers, didn't Prof. Richardson iecture here and one of them said, very politely: They say that the'officersoften especially with such a reputation for until turned over to the siientf at Gus Johnson of Poplar River, Wis., near last night?" "Excuse me, professor I thought it passed him so near that he could here Morris. dignity as I now enjoy. T^ is not a Superior,drew his gun through a brush heap Oh! what should I do if recognized as was you, but did not feel sure until I them breathing. muzzle first, and was fatally shot. The United States circuit court at Winona I very long story yet I thin^it will interest the imposter! saw your initials on your valise. lam "Once when the old man was taken has set aside the verdict in the case of Mis. A two-year-old child of Horace Gardner you. My wife says I have told sorry you have made such a rough Patrick English vs. The Chicago, Milw iukee I don't know was the answer. "I sick some one went to his place and in of Leraars, Iowa,was left alone in the house, journey, but I can assure you a good & St. Paul Railway Company, wherein it too many times but I believe it found matches and was fatally burned. heard he did, though." fooling around in the barn found four she was allowed $5,000 damages for the audience, despite the storm." or five thousand yards of rubber piping. Gus Sorle was killed at the Northwestern will bear one more repitition. It was "Wefl, here is a message to the judge, death of her husband. ,1 was so dumbfounded that I could Lumber company's mill at Heyward, Wis., One*line smelt of kerosene and from him, which says he couldn't come, in the year 1S50. I was in the employ Michael and William Wholley of Houston falling upon a saw and being cut to pieces. not resist his efforts as he and his the other of liquor. It was concluded on account of the storm. Something county are reported to have inherited o\ er of a large mercantile house in the friend escorted me to the carriage, In Jefferson township, Iowa, Dr. Gross that he had tried to force kerosene funny somewhere. I'd better get this 1,000,000 by the death of relative. shot a man named Goodwin for slandering city of Boston. I had begun with placed me in it, and then entered themselves. I into Canada through one pipe and to up to him as soon as possible." The body of H. E. Peterson, drowned in his wife, and the victim is expected to Before I had a chance to I draw Canadian brandy into the United them six years before, fresh from a Battle Lake, has been recovered by the use die. So off he started to find a boy to speak, the elder gentleman said States with the other! It was a big of dynamite. country town, and had gradually been carry the message. Whatever I did At Target Lake, near La Crosse, Wis., 'I trust, professor, you will at once I scheme, but I guess it didn't work. Rev. E. H. Sneath, who has been preaching must be done quickly. I found that a promoted until I was confidential clerk, Albert Mayor drew his gun out of a boat feel at home with us. You have many I One day the old man was seen haul* very acceptably in the First Congregational muzzle first, and his arm was blown to train left in 20 minutes. I rushed back and had charge ot the corps of bookkeepers warm friends in town, though personally ing ice on the river. He was coming church at Benson for the past two pieces. to the judge's house, got in without you are a stranger to us." up from Chimney Island. Up he goes months, has been elected to the chair of which the business demanded. Mrs. Lake, a lady of AppTetton, Wis., has being seen, grabbed my valise and was psychology and ethics in the Wesleyan university, "Yes," broke in the other man. I I to his ice house, unloads, and I was of a reserved disposition, of died from injuries which it is thought she soon on my way to New York from Middleton, Mass., and has gone am Mr. Ackerman, chairman of the I starts off for another load. received by being struck by a freight train studious habits, and was fast becoming which I telegraphed for my valise. My East to assnme the position. lecture committee, and my friend here I One of the officers thought it was at Appleton. heart smote me for treating my hospitable At Moorhead, the coroner's jury empanelled a confirmed bachelor, when the is Judge Lincoln, who would assist queer for him to go so far for ice when Thomas S. Stratton, a promient contractor host so. But I felt the worse to determine how J. S. Hughes came events I shall narrate occured, changing you should you make your headquarters I he had it right along his own doorI of Sioux Falls, died of brain fever. to his death, reported that they found the at not being able to bid adieu to Miss He was formerly from Minneapolis and had at his house." yard so he hopped on the sled and the tenor of my life. deceased was kicked and choked to death Lily. As soon as I arrived at my lived here about six years. they started off together. The old by James Irwin and another man to the I saw where the mistake was but hotel I sent the following note to the Nic Hoffman and H. Soutch were seriously, I was in the month of December I man gave him a ride down to Chippewa jury unknown, who have not been arrested. how to get out of the matter caused judge: if not fatally injured at Lemars, Iowa, remember the evening as distinctly as Bay, then over to the other side, me to fall into a reverie, during which The funeral of W. W. McNair took place by a dray tipping over on them and being though it were just passed. The snow Dear Sir: Unexpected circumstances covering about forty miles in all, with my companions politely ceased to talk at Minneapolis. At a largely attended dragged by the runaway horses. was several inches deep, and the sky forced me into assuming the character the thermometer down to ten degrees meeting of the bar association, prominent with me. A few minutes' thought, and At Eau Claire, Wis., Huebner Robinson was filled with the small, white messengers. of one far more Wise, but I trust, not below zero. When the officer got home members pay eloquent tributes to hie I determined to perform the part so and S. C. Lasser's hardware store was The gas light glimmered more deserving than myself. I shall memory. that night he was so stiff he nparly unexpectedly thrust upon me, and give robbed of $300 worth of firearms. The safe feebly the shop windows were obscured The following prisoners arrived at the renew our acquaintance "in propria broke in two when he tried to get ofl the lecture as best I could. Thanking and money drawer were left undisturbed. travel in the street had nearly State penitentiary: Charles G. Webber, obtaining persona" in a way that I hope will en the sled. He said that old Gregg was At Madison, Wis., Dennis Cronin, unmarried, the gentlemen, and fearing the conversation property and money by false pretense, cea^fd while the few who were out title me to your confidence, and excuse 30 years of age, by mistake drank the most particular man he ever saw. might drift into channels where one year and six months Joseph hurried as fast as possible to their respective nearly a pint of crude carbolic acid, thinking the deceptions I have practised. He'd taken a block here and there up I could not creditably sustain it, I Goodrich, larceny, two years and six it was liquor, and died in half an hour destinations. Important business With much esteem and respect, yours, and down the river. But there were begged permission to lemain quiet, as months, Daniel W. Kane, two years James in a stupor. demanded my attention in New Caleb S. Rochester. people that knew the old man'b dodge, Brenna, two years John Boyd, two jeais' my journejf had been very fatiguing. York, and I was to leave on the midnight Two men, giving the nam3 of Mike Dinger George Anderson, larceny, two indictments, I heard what excitement followed which was to have plugs of brandy Jl We speedily arrived at a handsome and William Riley, were arrested at Fargo train for that city. I had taken seven years. This is the second teim in the the delivery of the telegram and the frozen into snow and ice, and cut into residence, which I gladly entered. I charged with having robbed a man named Minnesota prison for Anderson. my supper, or more properly speaking, wras ushered into a warm, pleasant discovery of my absence. The judge blocks and piled so that no one would Harry Bowman, in a saloon an hour or so a light lunch near the store, where F. Roseman of Milford, Brown county, and his wife were furious, but Miss suspect it in the world. Some loads before. It is claimed they blew out the sitting room, and when left alone my I was employed, until ten o'elock, with has lost two children of diptheria, and the Lily was confident that it would come of ice would clear the old man $.30 or light and relieved their victim of $15. conscience began to smite me. I had third one is dying. Two more of his children the accounts and papers which were out all right. Somehow, when my 100 in brandy. not long to reproach myself when I Postoffice Inspector John T. Metcalf of are down with the disease. wras received, it tended somewhat necessary in the transaction of the note "In the old man's time, and not so Lansing, Iowa, who has been for sometime heard a lady's voice, and the judge's Near Moorhead J. S. Hewes is murdered business which called me away. in charge of theChicago inspection division, toward softening thejudge'sanger but many years ago," continued the wife entered and cordially bade me by James Irwin because he refused to take has been put permanently in charge of that for some time it was a mystery to speaker, "the boatmen had plenty of welcome. In conversing with her I a drink. 1 looked at my wateh, and found I division. His record in the department is a dodges to get ahead of the officers them all. The professor made a trip discovered that I was a very learned In a quarrel growing out of a game of had but scant time to go home and get fbst-class one, and it was this that secured with. One man used to come in with to the place to investigate the matter, and eloquent professor, and that the cards at Mankato, Anton Hastings, carpenter, my valise, which I had unfortunately him the assignment to Chicago. a big fat fish so often that one of the and was invited to lecture. I am seriously stabs Fied Kroger, blacksmith. public was very eager to hear me. I (as I blindly thought) forgotten to The total valuation of property for officers got after him. An officer came vain enough to be pleased with the fact trembled at my audacity but I could bring with me. As I left the warm store taxation, oi tha state of Iowa, is $489,660,- down one day, and, while looking at that the people declared the false professor J. D. Hunter, a blind man from Tipton, only carry out the character I had assumed. 08l, an increase of $25,835,615 since 1883, and stepped out into the wintry air, the fish, took up an oar and hit a big Ind., was robbed in St. Paul. was the more eloquent of the two. The lady informed me that or $18,886,123 less for the biennial period and breasted the storm, the sensation, muskallonge a crack. Then there was ending 1883. The indicates that the assessments Later, I called on the professor and James Fowler, the six-year-old son ci her son, who was very intimate with instead of being unpleasant, was have not been materially increased a crack, and the smell of smuggled Mr. and Mrs. James Fowler ot Minneapolis told him my story. He laughed heartily me, (then I shuddered) was aw ay (then rath er exhilarating. I found in a few during the past fonr years. was burned to death. brandy rose n the air. The chap had I breathed easier,) but I should meet at my adventure and proved to be minutes, however, that the storm was At attempt was made to outrage the nineyear-old had a bottle of good old brandy in the her daughter, Lily The lady left, and a whole souled man. Our acquaintance McLean Bros., grocers at Duluth, hnv more severe than I had imagined, and daughter of a farmer named Deering, fish. Talk about peach brandy that after a brief interval, which seemed assigned to Fred H. Russell. The firm has ripened fast, and it was not long my progress Avas very difficult. It a short distance northwest of Fargo. muskallonge brandy." been in business two years, and was not a hours to me, I heard voices in the hall. ^a before I was in S-again, with a cor- took much longer to get to street The child's underclothes were torn off, but large one. The assets are about $1,000 on There was evidently an intention to dial indorsement from him. Miss Lily than I anticipated, so I wa3 in a great the fiend did not accomplish his purpose. stock and book accounts, $5,000, liabilities speak in a low tone but nevertheless, herself answered my ring, and the look Sheriff Haggart was notified and his deputies hurr y. QUININE'S SLAVES. $2,500, owed to a large number of I distinctly heard all that was said, on the track of a man answering the of astonishment upon her countenance creditors, mostly in small amounts. I lived in a long block of houses, all discription. as the door was slightly ajar. I shall never forget. The professor's just alike, and knew nothing of those People1 How the Drug is Abused by Weak The postmaster general has appointed A halt was called at Helena, Mont., in the letter had made every thing satisfactory. "What is this wonderful prodigy of who lived upon either side for I was' the following fourth-class postmasters, the New York Sun. construction of the new court house by the The judge laughed long and learning like mamma? Is he a solemn away early in the morning, was gone Minnesota incumbents being removed unless discovery of a number of old mining drifts "Have you noticed the growing use loud as I told him how I left upon my faced man, with sleek hair and spectacles, otherwise stated: Waconia, George all day, and after returning at night I some sixteen feet beneath the walls, and in former visit. I called again and very Keighler, vice Mix Benson, John D. Lyons, and erudition written on every of quinine?" a druggist in the vicinity devoted myself to my pipe and books, such a position as to jeopardize the solidity often, and one night there was a wedding vice Winans, resigned Claremont, Henry feature? Have I drawn a correct picture, of the work should it be continued. Considerable very rarely going out again. of the Fifth Avenue Hotel asked reAt C. Rand, vice Doe, resigned Clearwater, in the quiet parlor, at which Miss anxiety was manifested by the mamma?" The storm seemed to have redoubled /'y the same moment he bowed Simon Stevens, vice Fuller Cannon River cem Lily became Mrs. Rochester. The citizens as to the extent of the cavities. "Oh, no indeed!" was the answer. its fury as I went up the steps, and Falls, S. S. Lewis, vice Schofield, Buffalo, The Congregational association at Huron, judge declares that our boys have and smiled to a tall, red-whiskered man "He is much unlike what Charlie's opened the door. I was blown into John C. Nugent, vice Taylor Bristol, Jonathan Dak., has closed its four days' session. Grecian countenances, and he calls one who strolled in. letters led me to suspect. is really Broadwater, vice Morris Beaver the hall, and the door swung violently Much important business has been transacted. Phides and the other Praxiteles, although Falls, J. Leon Wield, vice Gerald Cottage a fine looking man, very gentlemanly, behind me. All was dark, but I knew The resignation of Stewart Sheldon, "Just watch this customer, "he said. their names are George and Grove, H. C. Schranna, vice Furber Belle and very pleasing to converse with for sixteen years superintendent of home just where my valise was all ready, so The man was very thin and cadaverous Plaine, S. T. Hamilton, vice Trebly Avoca, Rufus.Independent. missions for South Dakota, was presented to but I mu st say I should never have I crept up-stairs, cautiously, found my John 0. Cochran, vice Young Delavan, looking. Without saying a word, the executive committe and was areepted, supposed he was such a learned man room door open, and right in the Michael Schied, vice Schlotf, Byron D. Maxfield, taking effect at the end of the present year. he walked up to the soda fountain, and as he undoubtedly is." corner, as I expected, my valise. vice Kendali Cordova, A. L. Sutton, Mr. Sheldon gave his farewell aedress. I began to feel doubly guilty, and vice Courtwright Barnesville, Austin J. Mrs. Vanderbilt. the boy drew out a pill-box, poured Without an instant's delay, I rushed Rev. Father Couppins, of the Catholic St. Fitzgerald, vice Thompson Winnebago had not recovered my composure when down-stairs and was soon out in the New York Letter. three pills into the palm of the cus-- Gall's church, was brutally assaulted at City, A. B. Davis, vice Winship Windoni, Miss Lily entered the room. She was blinding sleet. I was nearly exhausted I came across a Vanderbilt privilege tomer's hand, set a glass of mineral Milwaukee, while standing in the vestibule S. B. Steadman, vice Cone Dodge Center, such a vision of loveliness that my when I got to the station, and to add of the church during divine services. A M. R. Dresbaugh, vice Faucheo Wesleyan, of wealth unexpectedly in theestab-! waterin front of him, and turned to discomfiture was increased. I know I to my trials, I was just in time to see stranger crushed past the dense crowd and S. J. Stephan, vice Wozgska. must have seemed really stupid, but J. -l i the next customer. The tall man the train slowly moving off. After I struck a few fearful blows, with a heavy cane, Th Third Annual meeting of the Bicyclists hshment of a tailor for women. A girl my supposed wisdom doubtless encouraged at the priest, who fell down. The man then had run I got on the last car, r*coved the pais, drank the water, 8wa owe of the state was held at Minneapolis. made his escape. Nobody knew him, and her to overlook it, and the grace my breath as soon as I could, put stood in the center of a work-room turned on his heel, and stalked away There were 66 present. The Minneapolis no cause for his assault can be imagined. of her welcome completed the fascination my valise into a rack, gave the conductor while a male expert fitted a garment with another pleasant nocLto the pro- wheelmen naturally predominated, but KK B. T. Rogers, one of the prominent citizens her first appearance had created. my ticket, and settled myself there were a good many from abroadSt. iT to her upper figure. "That is Mrs. "hat costs him. $1.40 a week," said of Appleton, Wis., died after a sickness for a nap. Paul, Winona, Faribault. St. Cloud. St. We were soon talking so eagerly that the proprietor, and before long it of a few days. Mr. Rogers was the William K. Vanderbilt," said one. Charles, Austin, Henderson. Farmington, I forgot my embarrassment. I was When I awoke it was morning, and owner of the Waverly house, of Appleton, will kill him. He started to ta ke one Wadena. Van Sicklen's time in the mile "Nonsense," I ejaculated. "Willie delighted to find that her rarge of I found to my dismay, that we were and was largely interested in mines in Northern five grain pill every night abo ut six Vanderbilt's wife hasn't red hair, nor race, 2:57% is the best ever made on a Minnesota thought and reading were such+hf.t snow-bound, and had made but little Wisconsin and Michigan. He was also track. He ran a mile in practice in months ago henowtakesfifteengrains. a face at all like that." "What I could talk very intelligently tog' r. quite prominent in Wisconsin politics, and progress on our way. There was nothing 2:54. a night before he goes home, so that it was a Blaine delegate in the Chicago contention I pretended to be a great lover of mean," was the explanation, "is that to do, however, but to make the will brace him up for his dinner. Within Hamline university at St. Paul opened last year. He was fifty-five years music, and conversation turned upon most of it. I read a little while, smoked the girl is posing as Mrs. Vanderbilt. with a large attendance. Nearlj' one hundred a month he will be- taking otwentyr-four old. three that topic, so that, when her mother awhile, walked impatiently through wa students have already registered, and grains a night. Of course he takes it The two are exactly the same size and Bears have'greatly excited the residents came to call us to tea, we were singing ou the cars, and even lent th em a hand many more names will be added to the list. home besides at home besides what he gets here. in the town of Lanark, Wis. There were shape. This one is hired to serve in on 8 together and enjoying each others society Nearly one-half of those already entered at clearing the track after other devices eight in a drove that passed over the road in the are new students, manyl)f whom enter the as though we had been friends the place of the millionairess to kill time, I thought I would recently. Three in another drove passed times to explain to him that he had a college department. for years. look over my business matters. As I through Wallace Warner's field and went laborous matter of ha^ng costumes gr deal better drink rum. even if he- Treasurer Wilcox states that the total took down my valise it felt so light it ea into his hog pen and killed a fine hog, but ea was soon over, and the eventful receipts of the State Fair will figure up fitted. The garment now being trie'd is a deacon in a church,but his answer Wallace soon ended their career by killing attracted my attenti on at once, so moment was near. I overheard simple one he says quinine makes. about $48,000, although the exact amount a .one. He also killed one the next day near let out and generally adapted is i on that I involuntarily looked it all over Miss Lily saying to her mother in a is not yet known. J. Rassmason's. Out of the drove of ifc. him feel cheerful aud strong, and it attentively. I certainly appeared for Mrs. Vanderbilt, who is at her ease whisper "Mamma, he is splendid." j* j. eight E. Pulley shot one, S. Polley another, The marriage of Fred B. Snyder, of the has no ill effects. He tried to st op it right. There was my initials, C. S. R., in Newport, while the double endures This infused me with fresh courage for _y -and Maj. Holman also one, so there was law firm Snyder & Jamison, and Miss Sue once and caved in hence he wants toknow in the proper place. Something intuitively the ordeal. The judge and wife, Miss the ho ur or two of tiresome standing. fun for the boys awhile. M. Pillsbury, daughter of ex-Gov. and Mrs. why he should stop. You told me I had made a mistake, |f John S. Pillsbury was solpmnized at Minneapolis Lily and I, rode to the hall. The Pierre Free Press: It is rumored on the Mechanical forms are common for can't combat such reasoning as that/' and before opening it I tried to think streets and verified by arrivals from Fort at the residence of the bride's parents. sight of the brilliantly lighted ro om that purpose and mo st of our rich iUSully, that orders have been received at "Have you many such regular customers?" The wedding v\ as a quiet one', there how it had happened. Although I had and the expectant faces of the people customers keep th em with us, which ,4 the post to hold two companies in readiij^ to proceed to the Winnebag and bdng present only the relatives and near taken it in the dark, I recalled the 8 made my knees tremble and my heart 1168 friends of the bride and groom. can change position, walk about, sit "Well, to be accurate, we ha ve only stairway, the room at the end of the beat quickly but I left the judge and l^sCrow Creek reservations to eject the set- For the past twenty-five years C. W. down and in other ways demonstra te three men who come in every day an/ 1 upper hall, the position of thines as his family, and made my way to the *2$tler who still remain. The command has Baldwin of Rochester has been collecting pay at the end of the week,, but ther they appeared in what little light there perfectly the effect of the raiment under anteroom, where I found my friend, moved for the scene of action and is under stones from different sections, and he has are many others wh take their qninr ae was, and the valise in the corner command of Col. Dodge, the post commandent. process of making. Mrs. Vanderbilt the chairman. In a few moments I just completed a monument made from as regularly as most drinking folks whence I took it. There could be no Of coarse it will be but a mere ke was upon the platform, facing an intelligent will not endure the fatigue of the stones gathered from all parts of the United matter of form, as what settlers remain whisky. I is certainly a great .no- mistake, and yet the valise seemed only States. The monument is about six feet looking audience, apd conspicuous thing herself, even when in town, and trail Mill offer no resistance. tation to weakly organized and about half as heavy as it ought. I high, and at the base four feet in diameter. among them the bright eyes it was her own suggestion that adupli- .people. All they have to do is to swal It contains stones from nearly every county may appear strange that I had not and charming face of Miss Lily. I do A special to the Fargo, Dak., Argus from in this state, from nearly every state in the cate of herself be employed. On her low a pill or two, and they feel r/jbust noticed it before, but in my hurry to not know what it was the chairman Graceville says there is great excitement Union, and from the highest peak in the order we sought and found a perfect wideawake, and cheerful. *Thej,ractice the station, I doubt I should na ve twelve miles west of there, atBeardsley and said, I only know it was a panegyric Rocky mountains. counterparta girl who was working grows on them continually, and it noticed had it been empty. in the entire country around there, in consequence upon me, and that when he said, Adelia McDermott is killed by lightning in a cloak shop connected with ur seems to be spreading, for ou5t- of the discovery of slag about two sales of "Ladies and gentlemen, I now ha ve solve the mystery I opened it, in the town of Green Lake, Kandiyohi miles south of that place. Parties have business and she has served in lieu of quinine are constantly growing. A the honor and pleasure of presenting county. and the contents certainly were not dug'down and found a very fair specimen Mrs. Vanderbilt nearly a year. Not good proportion of the cus* om comes to you the eminent lecturer and scholar, of soft coal. Further investigations have mine. Perhaps some of the fellows in E. P. Faust of Chisago Lake, one of the only in dimensions is sne suited to the from women who grow 'fatigued or Prof. Richardson," I arose and been made ana there is every indication oldest settlers, died from the effects of a the house had played a trick on me. requirements, but in movement and weary while shopping, and' who, instead that the vein will prove a most paying one. fal' from his hay loft. stood before them, undecided whether I found some toilet articles, some apples, carriage she is wonderfully like her of buying nutritious luncheon or drink- If this fuel proves to be what the indications to speak or to turn and run. a book, and .at the bottom, a Frank Sackett of Chatfield took a dope are, the problem of cheap warming employer and so it is possible for the ing a wholesome bottle of porter or of carbolic acid by mistake, but his life was roll which appeared to be a lecture in latter to see herself as otherssee her ale, resort to the,_ in/idious_ quinine *-"N*3l*13 The applause which followed gave material is solved, ._2 saved by prompt attention. i manuscript upon "Grecian Art," -with in the. matter of dress." JJ pUl/'jU me,a little time to brace up. So, spread- ^&m MiMmmm :A