THE YOUNGER BROTHERS. there, as elsewhere,, we had' been published MINNESOTA HEWS. Good Deal of Useful Informal E OLD CAKTEE1T. The Origin of Salt. as worse than outlaws, and did not care to go tion for Every-Day Use.-£ where it might be said we had come4n order From the Cornbill Magazine. to escape justice. And so from pillar to post The Many and Queer Uses to fVniofc it From the Philadelphia North America^.. This world was once a haze of fluids .light, Jim and Cole Tell a Few New Things it went on from bad enough to worse—and Was at last Put..._,.. COMPARINC TW O YEARS.5 tf^Here are some figures and rules veryhandy as the poets and the men of sci-* ".' to this. John, Bob 'and Jim were accused About Their Early National Tribune. of the Gad's Hill robbery, and on account ence agree in iriforrning us. As soonr to know and have at hand, in Lives. of that charge John was killed Figures Showing the difference in as it began to cool down a little the_ When Josiah (called "Si," for short) in the mind or on paper. We advise in the road that day, as Jim tells. Passenger and Freight Traffic in heavier materials sank toward the cen^ *, John was not there at Gad's Hill Klegg, of the 200th Ind., drew his every young reader to learn most of Minnesota for 1886 and (887—Decrease ter, with the lighter, now represented^ and knew nothing of it At that time Bob They Claim That They Were Often More 1 lin«m \r canteen from the Quartermaster at in Net Earnings. these "by heart" so thoroughly as to and I were at WiJham Diekenson?s home in by the ocean and the atmosphere/'* if Sinned Against Than Sinning. Carroll parish. Louisiana. Mr. Dickerson Louisville, he did not have a very The following comparison of business always think of them in an instant. floated in a gaseous condition on the was a member of a Masonic lodge, and one transacted by the railroads in Minnesota high idea of its present or prospective out side. But the great envelope of Do it while your minds are young and niffht ac about the time of the Gad's Hill affair for the years ended June 30r 1886, and vapor thus produced did not consist went to attend lodge. Daily papers importance. In the twenty-two hot June 30, 1887, is interesting: impressible, and they will stay by were just received tellingabout the robbery, merely of the constituents of the air The editor of the Stillwater Messenger has The gross earning from" all sources of the summers he had lived through he had you like the marks made in the clay of and how we were connected with it. Some and water many other gasses and vaT. succeeded in getting Jim Younger to tell railroads from Minnesota business- for the one among his Masonic brethren was reading never found himself very far from a brick, or dough of bread or cake, before vear ending June 30, 1887, were $26,162,086.66 pors mingled with them, as they still Bomething about his early career, and since aloud in his presence that evening the for the same period of 1886 they It is claimed that neither of the Younger it is hardened by heat. Older well or spring when his thirst cried do to afar less extent in our existing atmosphere. account, rfnd Mr. Dickerson spoke up and were §25,102,319.34, an increase $1,059,767.32. brothers, since theycarce to Minnesota, have By and by, as the cooling said, as he told us when he came home: out to be slaked, and he did not suppose people who do not preserve their The onerating expenses for the S ever been detected in a falsehood, this story, "That can't be, because Coleman and Kobert and condensing process continued, the same period in" 1887 were $13,448,918.43 papers can cut this out and keep it it was much further between Younger of Missouri are right here now in as told to the Messenger, will be read with water settled down from the condition for 1886, §12,040,266.81, an increase Carroll at my house." handy for ready reference. wells down South. interest of §1,408,651.62. The net income in 1887 of steam into one of a liquid at a dull was 312,713,168.23 ia 1886, $13,063,052.53, A Eod is 16 1-2 feet, or 5 1-2 yards. "I don't see the use carrying two or red heat. As it condensed it carried JIM TOTJNGEH'S NABBATTVE. •I THE BATTUE FLAGS. a decrease of §349,884.30. The A Mile is 320 rods. After minor particulars of the murder of down with it a great many other substances, three pints o' water along all day right revenues received from freight traffic in the A Mile is 760 yards. hia father by a mob of highwaymen and the held in solution, whose component Secretary Endicott Furnishes the House an state for 1887 were §19,370,775.31, while past springs and over cricks," he remarked A Square foot is 144 square inches. destruction of their homestead, Jim Younger Exhaustive Keply to the Resolution Calling elements had previously existed the receipts in 1886 were $18,517,338.83, to his chum, as the two were A Square Yard contains 9 square 8aid: in the primitive gaseous atmosphere for Information. an increase of $853,436.48 but this increarfe feet. examining the queer, cloth-covered Thus the early ocean which covered WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The secretary of in freight receipts was not in proportion In February, 1866, we were run off by a A Square Rod is 272 1-4 square feet. mob, and I went to an uncle in Howard to the increase in tonnage, the increase war to-day returned to the house his answer the whole earth was in all probability cans." county. It was while I was there that the in tonnage having been about 21 An Acre contains 43,550 square feet. to the Boutelle resolution calling for imformation not only very salt, but also quite thick "We've got to take 'em anyway," Liberty bank robbery took place, though per cent., while the increase in freight earnings An Acre contains 5,840 square as to the flags captured by the United with other mineral matters close up to that affair was not laid to us until a long was only about 46 per cent. The yards. answered the chum, resignedly. "It's Statea The secretary says: 4 the point of saturation. It was full time afterward, or uutil after the celebrated average earnings on eaeh tor. of freight in Of the whole number captured and deposited An Acre contains 160 square reds. regulations." Iowa train robbery. I staid from home until of lkne and raw flint and sulphates 1887 were §1.64 and in 1886 §2.01, or 37 with the department. 236 were the fall of 1866, and on the day I returned A Section, or Square Mile, contains cents per ton more in 188^5. If the companies On his entry into service a boy accepted and many other miscellaneous United States flags originally captured by I was captured at the house by the same 640 acres. had earned as much per ton in 1887 everything without question bodies. Moreover, it was not only Confederates and recaptured from them, and supposed mob that murdered my father. I as thev did in 1886 they would have made A Quarter Section contains 160 544 were Confederate flags taken by the when assured it was "regulations." just as salt as at the present day.but escaped from those men within twenty minutes §4,125,641.34 more. acres. United States troops, making a total of 780 He would have charged bayonets on a after my captnre by leaping upon a even a great deal salter. For from in the custody of the denartment. When received The total numbnr of passengers carried An Acre is 8 rods wide by 20:- rods horse that stood near the door, and riding buzz-saw if authoritatively informed that time to this evaporation has they were deposited in a vacant attic for my life. In the spring of 1867 I went by the railroads in the state iu 1887 was long. it was required by the mysterious been constantly going on in certain room of a buildiner on Seventeenth street back to my mother and planted, cultivated 8,141,163 in 1SS6, 6,323,188. The average An Acre is 10 rods wide by 3& rods "regulations." shallow, isolated areas, laying down ,great occupied by the clerks of the adjutant general's and harvested a crop for her. But while distance traveled by each passenger in long. office. In 1807 the superintendent of The long march the 200th Ind. beds of gypsum and then of doing that I slept every night in the woods, 1887 was 26 miles in 1886 the distance the buildings, without instruction, so far as An Acre is about 208 3-4 feet square. going to the house after sunrise and leaving so traveled was 31 miles. The total number made after Bragg over the dusty turnpikes salt, which still remain in the can be ascertained, had them removed to his at sundown. I took that precaution to of passengers carried one mile in 1887 A Solid Foot contains 1,728 solid the first week in October, 1862, solid condition, while the water has office, where a few were placed upon the avoid being murdered. I was not, however, was 211,509,301 in 1886,196,499,789. inches. taught Si the value of a canteen. likewise happened in a slightly walls and the remainder upon shelves.or in afraid of meeting ordinary people and was The gross earnings on passenger business A Pint (of water) weighs 1 pound. pigeon holes. At this time an inventory of" After that it was rarely allowed to different way with the lime and flint glad to go often to Independence and mix in 1887 were $5,372,192.86 these flags was entered in a book in which A Solid Foot of water weighs 62 1-2 with the people there, most all of whom get empty. When it didn't have water which have been separated from the in 1886, §5,392,923.99 a' decrease was also entered a description and brief knew me well. In 1868 I went to Texas and pounds. in, it had milk, molasses, or even water chiefly by living animals, and oi §20,731.13. The average rate per passenger history of the capture of those that could be remained ther until 1870, when my mother A Gallon (of water) hoMs 231 solid per mile in 1887 was 2.48 cents in apple-jack, for Si then was not a member afterwards deposited on the bottom identified as belonging to particular organizations. sent me word asking that I should come and inches. 1886 it was 2.70 cents, or 22 hundredths Thev remained here until the latter of the Independent Order of Good of the ocean in immense layers as take her to Texas, but 6he died soon after of a cent leas per mile in 1S87 than in A Gallon of milk weighs 3 pounds part of 1874. my arrival home. Upon her death she gave Templars, of which society he is now limestone, chalk, sandstone and clay. 1886. If the rate per paaaenger per mile me a special charge, sister Betoie and the old and 10 ounces. ,|A It is stated that while some of the Confederate an honored officer. Nothing could be Thus it turns out that in the end all had been the same in 1887 aa it was in black woman, asking me to take them to flags have since been given the Pint (of water) holds 27 7-8 solid nicer, when he was on picket, to bring our sources of salt supply are alike 1886 the railroads in the state would have Texas. I obeyed, and remained Texas until companies or regiments capturing the m, no inches (28.875). made, 211,509.301 times 22 hundredths buttermilk in from the- neighboring ultimately derived from the briny the fall of'1872. During the time I lived flags have passed out of the custody of the A Barrel (311-2 gallons) holds 4 3-8 there I drove herds of horses to Louisiana of a cent or §465,320.46 more than they farm-house to his chum Steemy Johnson, ocean. Whether we digit out as solid department that were in such custody and cattle to Neosho, Kan., caring for nearly did. solid feet (4.211). when Secretary Endicott assumed charge of who stood post-while he was gone. rock salt from the open quarries of five hundred of the latter. That was in the the department. The order to return the A Solid Foot contains nearly 7 1-2 Later in the service Si learned the the Punjab, or pumped up from brine winter of '71-2. In the following winter I flags and the order revoking it are given and solid pints (7.48). The New Public Examiner of Minnesota, inestimable value of coffee to the'soldier wells sunk into the triassic rocks of took sister Bettie to Missouri, and was visiting the statement is made that no flags were A Bushel (struck) contains 2,150 on the march. Then he stript the Cheshire, or evaporate it direct in the there with friends when the Iowa train actually returned under the first order. robbery occurred, and ^we were accused solid inches. Deputy Auditor M. ~D. Kenyon was appointed cloth from his canteen, fastened the salt pans of England and the shallow ON EXHIBITION. of that act. At that time we were The secretary then says: by Gov. McGill to fill the position A Bushel (heaping) contains 11-4 straps on with bits of wire, and made salines of the Mediterranean shore, it prepared to return to Texas. I As to the law requiring the public exhibition of public examiner, recently vacated by struck bushels. a splendid coffee-pot of it. In the is still at bottom essentially sea salt. hardly know how to most forcibly or convincingly of capturing flags and trophies, it is assumed Henry M. Knox. The governor says of A Struck Bushel contains about 1 morning he would half fill it with the However distant the connection may put my words, but I can truthfully that the construction put upon it by Mr. Kenyon: I have conferred with leading 1-4 solid feet. eay that the accusation regarding the Iowa former secretaries of the war and navy was splendid coffee the Government furnished, seem, our salt is always in the last resort men in the party, with leading affair was a lie. If there is on the face of that the law applied to trophies taken from business men without regard fill it up with water and hang obtained from the material held in theeaith a man or woman whose word is a foreign enemy and not to those taken during to party, and without exception it from a bush or a stake over the solution in some ancient or modern good in the community where they are Th Vanderbil Skeleton. domestic hostilities. In the autumn they have finally recommended Kenyon. fire, while he went ahead with his other sea. Even the saline springs of Canada known, ana that man or woman will solemnly of 1874 a portion of the flags were removed In the first place he a thoroughly honest From New York Letter to Providence Star. &ay that we are guilty of any offense from the office of the superintendent culinary preparations. By the and the northern states of America, man, as well as being a man of ability, and There died the other day in the full except that committed at Northfield. then I of the war department buddings, time these were finished he would have where the wapita love to congregate, he has a familiarity with public accounts, will admit the truth of everything charged. it is presumed by the oral direction plenitude of alleged honors, a distinguished at least a quart of magnificent coffee and the noble hunter lurks in the such as state, county and state institution There has never been issued "even a writ in of the then secretary of war, to the lawyer named Scott Lord, who accounts, that no other man in the that the cook of the Fifth Avenue thicket to murder them unperceived, connection with any other alleged crime. ordnance museum in Winter's building and state possesses. He has been for many mode a busines of stirring up domestic After the Iowa robbery we were surrounded could not surpass, and which would derive their saltness, as an able there placed on exhibition, and others were years deputy state auditor, and in that by Pinkerton's defectives. One day brother sent to the same place in 1875. The larger strife of this kind for the sake of the last him until the regiment halted in Canadian geologist has shown, from capacity has gradually absorbed knowledge John and I were eating dinner ao old man part of the flags, however, still remain in the great reward there was in the contest of the afternoon. the thinly scattered salts still retained Snuffer's when a party of these men rode office of the superintendent Such was their in regard to the financial affairs of the rich men's wills. He stirred up the halfwitted The bully of the 200th took it into among the sediments of that very past. We mounted our horses and started custody and place of deposit until October, state that make« him a very valuable for the house of our aunt, and on the way son of old Commodore Vanderbilt his thick head one day to try to "run archaic sea whose precipitates form 1882, when all the flags, including those in man in the state government. The office met the detectives in the road. We said the museum, were by direction of the secretary of public examiner was created during to contest the will of his father, oyer" Si. The latter has just filled the earliest known life-bearing rocks. to them "Good day," whereupon a man of war boxed and stored in a room in Gov. Pillsbury's administration, and is his canteen, and the bully found that To the Homeric Greek, as to Mr. Dick and was prepared to flood the city whose name I now know is Lull pulled a the subbasement of the new state war and one of great importance. Swiveller, the ocean was always the the momentum of three pints of water papers with the most horrible details revolver, which he had kept concealed, and navy building then first occupied by the war Moses D. Kenyon was born in Washington shot my brother. John returned the fire and swung at arm's length by an angry briny to modern science, on the other department, where they remained until January, of that fathers life if it should become county, N. Y., in 1843, removing in Lull died from the effects of the shot, while 1887. They were quite inaccessible hand, (which neither of those worthies boy was about equal to a mule's kick. necessary. He forced a compromise John died within a few minutes. I soon went 1845 with his parents to Wisconsin. He in this place and difficult to find and identify After the company wagon had would probably have appreciated at by his threats, else he would certainly to Kentuck v. remainiusr there until the was primarily educated in the schools of when it became necessary to do so. It was run over and hopelessly ruined, the its own valuation) the briny is always spring of 1875, when I went to California, also found that they were decaying rapidly, Ripon, Wis., and afterwards went through have carried out his purpose. I notice little frying-pan which Si had brought the oceanic. The fossil food which we ranching. Then I came back and, in a way and by direction of the present adjutant the Lawrence university at Appleton, that some friend of Lord has denied not necessary to be explained, grot at once general they were taken from the boxes and Wis. In 1867 he entered a mercantile from Posey Co., he would despair find to-day on all our dinner tables that he instigna,ted young Cornelius, into the Northfield affair and into the state placed in a room in the upper story of the life at Rosendale, Wis., where he remained as to how he should fry date back its origin primarily to the to contest the will. I don't know prison After the murder of father, none of war department building, where they can be until April, 1872, when he came to his meat and cook his "lobscouse." first seas that ever covered the surface UB were given a moment of peace, yet I was easily visited and examined. It is how intimate this friend was with Minnesota. He went to Rochester and entered Necessity is the mother of invention. of our planet, and secondarily to never afraid of Che open day or of any except well known that in many cases a lumber office, and while there was Lord, but Lord himself told me that the secret assassins who murdered my United States troops with the implied, He melted in two a canteen he picked the great rock deposits of thedried-up appointed United States land clerk. but for his urging Corrielius, jr., to contest father for his money. At Dallas, Tex., I if not the express, consent of the war up, and found its halves made two triassic inland sea. And yet even our He entered the state auditor's office in moved in the best social circles, took the department, retained the flags taken from the will, his brother W. H. Vanderbilt, 1873 under Auditor Whitcomb, and deep tin pans, very light and very men of science habitually described school census, was deputy marshal for a the Confederates in battle, and during the would have given the weaker has since risen through chief clerk to deputy that ancient mineral as common salt. handy. A split stick made a handle, time, and when I left was deputy under war the secretary of war ordered several captured auditor, having been in the office for 15 brother nothing. And Cornelius, jr., Sheriff Jere Brown. All the leading men flags to 0e restored to the captors. During and he had as good a frying-pan as years. Mr. Kenyon was married in 1368, told me that if Lord had not urged knew me well, and no man there can truthfully the whole period*of their custody in this the one he had lost, and much more and at present, is living in St. Paul, his residence Scty aught against me. While I was department it has been the practice of the him to the contest he could have secured convenient, for when done using the being on Prairie street. He is ably quartered at Neosho, Kan., I went under my secretaries of war, from time to time, to deliver more money by the amount of handle was thrown away, and the qualified to fiil his new position, and apart Flemish Lace Makers rierhfc name and mingled freely with people, up recaptured Union flags on application Lord's fees,than he finally got from from his business and official ability is personally attending the balls and parties as a welcome pan slipt into the haversack, where it by governors of states whose troons The coarse but strong and useful lace one of the most pleasant and genial and respected guest. served in the armies of the United States, or his brother/'. And to think of the price lay snug and close, instead of clatter called Torchon is much made in Bruges, to organizations, or to distinguished soldiers gentlemen connected with any of the he paid in exposing the faults of his ing about as the frying-pan did when of the war on the Union side. Upon such application state deoartments. also thick Guipure and in some parts CONFIRMED BY COLEMAN. old father to all |&e w.orJd. I know the regiment moved at the double it was, prior to March, 1885, the The reporter afterward visited Coleman of the town at every door onemay see that hut lor "the retreat of the Woodhull quick. practice of the secretaries of war to make inquiry Younger, librarian of the prison, and having women and girls busy at their lace concerning the loss of the flag asksd James Carrington, aged twentyyeard, and Claflin women to England the The other half of the canteen was narrated the substance of his brothej-'s conversation oushions, throwing the bobbins about for. and if it occurred under circumstances was brought to Litchfield son's lawyer was prepared to reveal expressed a desire to add"thereto useful to brown coffee, bake hoe-cake, which did not reflecc discredit upon the fioldierly with the most wonderful rapidity,and under arrest and lodged in jail to anything- he desired in confirmation or explanation all the sickening details of their relations and serve for toilet purposes. and gallant conduct of the troops, it await the action of the grand jury. He is chanting in harsh, guttural voices, an that might occur to him. Whereupon was returned and in accordance with this to the old Comodore. When it One day on the Atlanta campaign charged with forging the name of John he said: anything but musical accompaniment rule such flags have been returned stnce came to this point William H. Vanderbilt moved up in line to the top of a bald Grant, a farmer living near Dassel, to Weil, it was that Iowa train robbery, and to their labors. The pattern is pricked March, 1875. Such applications havo at three orders for goods on J. Norgren &Co., hill. As it rose above the crest it was cried a halt and bought off the the fact that we were charged with the times been refused, and, in some cases, subsequently on a strip of green parchment or doing business in Litchfield. crime, of which we were wholly innocent scandal-mongering lawyer by paying saluted with a terrific volley, and saw granted. Nineteen Union flags stiff material, and given to the worker, and ignorant, that brought us into this have thus passed from the custody of the department that another crest across the narrow The people's church of St. Paul decides his brother a sum which enabled him who finds her own thread, and, when prison for lite. As Jim says, we were then by order from the secretary of wat, to build at the corner of Pleasant Avenue valley was occupied by at least a brigade to give Lord a big fee on which he virtually preparing to go to Texas and be rid of the and three have been delivered up on joint finished, returns it to her employer. and Chestnut Street. of rebels. hounding in Missouri of which he has spoken. retired. resolutions of congress. Not less than five aunes is bought by AtZumbrota, Daniel NcKay. aged fortyfour, Had we gone our lives would have run on "We'll stay right here, boys," said the shops, but lace can always be had peacefully and we would not have been died and was buried with Masonic the plucky little Colonel, who had only driven into straits and to this place. The honors. He was a native of Scotland. from the workers direct at a very A DETAILED LIST. worn Sergeant's stripes when the regiment When Boys Were Boys. Sunday before the Iowa robbery I was moderate price. Black Guipure and A full list of the same, giving a trieK The following persons lost their lives by crossed the Ohio River. "We've at Monfigraw Springs, Mo., and attended history and at whose request, and to whom a dynamite explosion at Duluth: Andrew Black Brussels lace are also made the Burlington Hawkeye. pre-empted this bit of real estate, and preaching there. At 4 o'clock in the delivered, and by whose authority, is annexed. Dahl, single, aged 25, Aaron Erickson, single, latter is very delicate and beautiful. afternoon I took supper with Helvm Fickle "Ah, well!" sighed grandfather, we'll hold it against the whole Southern Twenty-one Confederate flags wez* aged 23, buried under rocks Erick and Rev. Mr. Sutton, the preacher. Twothirds The cushion and bobbins in use now are also given up prior to May, 1867. A list ol "times ain't what they used to be. Confederacy. Break for that fence Matson, single, aged 23, Andrew Ecklund, of the people present at the preaching the same in form as those used in the these is annexed. Ten of those were taker*, single, aged 24, leg broken, head smashed, Boys were boys when I was a boy." there, boys, and every fellow come were originally from New York, Indiana and from the custody of the war department ane and back hurt, died. seventeenth century. The cushion ia And do you know we were glad to back with a couple of rails." Ohio, and were ex-Union soldiers and their delivered to individuals, associations 02 nearly square, and has two drawers, families most all of them knew me personally, Hon. A. D. Thurston of La Porte Ciry, hear him say so, because glancing at It seemed as if he hardly ceased speaking states upon the written order of Mr. Stanton:, oraslole or "Bud" Younger. At the one into which the piece of lace is put Iowa, and grand chief telegrapher of the two were given upon an order signed by a portrait of grandfather, painted when the boys came running back close of the service I helped many of the United States, was the guest of the raavor Assistant Adjutant General Nicholls, and nine as it is gradually worked off the cushion, when he was a boy, we weren't so allcertain with the rails which they lay down ladi who knew me to mount their horses. and common council of Pine Citv on "the were disposed of under instructions not now and. the other for spare bobbins sure of it, or at least we along the crest, and dropping flat behind I mc•. tion tnose facts to show how many ascertainable, but probably originating with occasion of the first annual ball of the and pins. A small soft cushion is fastened peo there are, Northern people, too, who wouldn't have been but for his positive them, began throwing the gravelly Mr. Stanton. Some of these were given up Order of Railway Telegraphers, Division know where I was on that day. After supper assertion. A round face, with at the top for pins, and a movable on promises that they would be returned, soil over them with their useful No. 10, of St. Paul and Duluth. brother John, who was with me, went to which appeared not to have been kept The piece fits in, which can be used to red lips, pink cheeks, and well-set eyes, half-canteens. In vain the showers of uncle Frank Younger's at Johnson City, It has been officially decided that the secretary concludes: with an expression far too good for lengthen the cushion as the worker may rebel bullets struck and sank about where Jim and Bob were. Ifc was right after femer custom of rounting the inmates of In January. 1887, a Confederate flag was require. Jim came back from Texas, as he has told this world and not happy enough for them. Not one could penetrate that the second hospital for the insane into the loaned bv Gen. Bennet, acting secretary of vou. I staid with friends in the vicinity of population of Rochester is illegal, and heaven long flaxen ringlets escaping little ridge of earth and rails which in war, to W. T. Clark, late brigadier general the Springs that night. The Iowa train robbery that city will hereafter beclassad among from a flat-topped cap with a long an hour grew into a strong rifle-pit United States volunteers, who had originally was committed at 8 o'clock the following The lace-workers complain sadly cities of less than 5,000 inhabitants. silken tassel, jacket of blue with ruffles against which the whole rebel brigade deposited it at the war department and who Monday morning at a point 300 that their industry is failing in value, promised in writing to return it, but has not The Polk County Bar association haa miles from Monegraw Springs. The at the neck and wrists, low-necked charged, only to sustain a bloody repulse. that little money can now be made at done so. Since the date last mentioned no adopted resolutions of respect to the late first I knew of the affair was shoes and wide, snowy white, wellstarched Confederate or recaptured Union flag has Hon. William Smith, register of the land it the markets are so flooded,by imitation %vhat I saw in a St. Louis paper, and the pantalettes—no.grandfather Later on in the campaign Si had the been issued or loaned by this department, names of Youngers led in the headlines, as office, calling upon the president to fill the machine made laces of great says they are pantaloons—before we and no Confederate flag has at anv time misfortune to be with a train that was the main perpetrators. The same accounts vacancy at the earliest practical moment, beauty, and the fashion as to the passed from the custody of the latter to any heard grandfather declare that that said the robbers had been in the vicinity of and endorsing the apnlication of Hon. captured by a dash of Wheeler's cavalry, make of lace to be worn each season of the states lately in rebellion. In April, the place where the robbery was committed James W. Keely of Crookston for the position. was his portrait, and that boys were and he was taken to Andorsonville. 1887, the adjutant general addressed a letter changes so continually, that people— for two or three days previous to the commission boys in those days, we thought it was He was stript there of everything to the secretary of war in which he suggested of the crime. Had I ever been except for very special occasions—prefer The first real fruit of leap year in Albert grandma when she was a little girl, the propriety of returning ail the which old Wirz thought was of brought into court charged with the Iowa Lea is alleged to have occurred a few days to purchase what is cheap and flags (Union and Confederate) to the authorities and had got on all her clothes except business scores of people who were at the any value or use, but the black and ago, wherein a young woman inveigled a fashionable rather than to spend large of the respective states in which the preaching at the Springs that Sunday evening her dress. Boys were boys then, eh? greasy piece of concave sheet-iron was trusting swain into the sanctity of her regiments which had these colors were organized would havesworn as to my whereabouts. sums of money on costly fabrics which, Then they should have been labelled. chamber, and the next morning had him contemptuously returned to him. It for such final disposition as they The newspaper went on, after the robbery in in a tew months, may be no longer in arrested upon a serious charge, having the may determine. This proposition was submitted had been of great value to him before—now Iowa, and charged us with serious offenses, vogue. It is to be hoped that good results alternative of marrying her or going to to the president and approved by many of which I had never even heard of, it was priceless. It was all jail. He chose the latter, and is now in him. Orders thereupon issued that letters Good-by Old School Slate. may follow the effort which has or, if had heard, the recollection of them that he had to receive his scanty rations be sent to governors of states whose durance vile. had passed from my mind. And since that been made to bring the beautiful Atlanta Journal. of coarse cornmeal in it was all troops carried the flags depositedin the war time books, made to sell, have been thrown Hasting's oldest inhabitant, John T. cushion and hand-made laces of Belgium that he had to carry water in, mix hia department, proposing to return the same. together detailing our thrilling so-called exploits. The use of slates in the public Smith, died in that city at the residence of into notice, as the industry is Such letters were sent to the governors of None of those accounts or pictures meal into bread or mush, and then schools seems to be a thing of the his daughter Mrs. F. B. Larpenteur, in states referred to in the order. But before one which deserves constant and substantial lit us any more than they do you cook it in. Next he and a little squad the ninety-fourth year of his age. past. They have been superseded by any of these flags were sent or delivered or vour best personal friend down support. The women earn of comrades dug with it a tunnel scratch pans, and there is not a little under the order thus issued the president, J. A. Miller, a brakeman on the Duluth town. Why. half of Bob's odium in their living in the shelter of home, the through the hard clay, and under the upon further consideration, determined "that & Iron Range road, was fatally injured 3ublie opinion conies from the fact that complaint from parents at the additional materials required are of small value, the return of these flags in the manner contemplated deep-set stockade for 100 feet or more, those so-called histories speak of "Cole and while making a flying switch in the yards cost that this entails in furnishina is not authorized by .existing law every spare moment is taken ad\ antage Bud." The readers of that sort of literature at Duluth. and made their escape from that their children with school paraphernalia. or justified as an executive act The order fall into the error of the author in thinking of, the gills and women are most charnel house. Hon. Henry M. Knox, public examiner But the slate had to go. of the department was at once revoked and that Cole and "Bud" are two different persons, industrious domestic servants frequently and superintendent of banks resigns. notice thereof duly issued. None of the The noi3emade with them by the children and that "Bud" is "Bob." It is a i're.quent have a lace-cushion upon flags were given up. No flags have been removed Mrs. Seaman and Miss Thoroton of Milwaukee, custom among Southerners to call a distracted the teachers, who are from the place where they were displayed which they make lace for sale, if they brother affectionately "Bud," a sort of short who were injured in the cable accident, In* Jackson township, near Burlington forced to give their nerves every possible and concealed from the public. Secretaries for brother. I am Bud, as well aa Cole, and are still at the Ryan Hotel, St. Iowa, Adam Wirt, between sixty and seventy have any time at their disposal. And chance and then by the use of Scanton, Belknap, McCrary, Kamsey Bob, the youngest, generally speaks of me Paul. The former has almost fully recovered, years old, has been living with his the making of the ordinary qualities and Lincoln and the present secretary delivered scratch pads pupils can preserve examples now, like he did at home, as Bud. You'll see but Miss Thorston can only move son William Wirt, but not in the most of Valenciennes and Torchon does not up altogether some nineteen recaptured how the word Bud is used ra Eggleston's about with assistance. for further reference. The happy manner. The old man attempted Union flags. "Hoosier Schoolmaster." Well, after the tumult seem to affect the eyesight injuriously, slate had to go—like other things to murder two granddaughters but they escaped. Col. John H. Stevens, the .first settler of of the Iowa affair our laudable plans Wirt then set fire to the house, in as one constantly sees very ancientlooking A full description of the flags remaining in which were when "we were boys Minneapolis, has concluded to surrender were destroyed. We were declared outlaws, which were two more of hia grandchildren, the department that can be identified accompanies crones throwing their bobbins his editorial position on the Farm, Stock it had to make room for new fangled but I never resisted a civil officer in my life. aged four weeks and two years, and the the report and Home, and will hereafter devote his about as quickly as the young maidens 3am an outlaw, 1 suppose, it Missouri mob innovations born with "other times, house and contents, including the two attention to hi3 history of thf Northwest law has any sanction or legal authority. We beside them. other men and no more will the children, were burned. Wirt proceeded to Thomas Byburn Buchanan, the Gladstonian dared not "go voluntarily to Iowa to answer and Minneapolis, beginning with his boy* I must here acknowledge, with small urchin make a toboggan slide the haymow and hung himself. candidate, \vaa re-elected to the the false charges, on account of the certainty hood at Galena, 111. thanks, my indebtedness to Mrs. for summer flies on his coat sleeves as house of commons for the west division of that we would be lynched nearly as soon as The governor of Illinois issues a quarantine The German American National bank of he removes the dampness from his Palliser's charming "History of Lace" we gave ourselves up. We were obliged to Edinburgh. He received 3,294 votes against nearly the whole Southwest, Sauk Rapids closed the purchase of the give up our plans of going to Texas, because against3,248 forhis opponent,Mr.Raleigh, for several of the facts I have men*, slato that was made with niether Benton County bank at Sauk Rapids, and owing to danger of Texas fever among cattle. a Liberal-Unionist. sponge nor water. tioned in this little sketch.—Cassell'S closed the doors. Family Magazine. l%k. WLK. £s&«?^^&^^jijjj^ ^M&mi^^i>^xtiM^4 S:'^ KU Jl 'i\ •$£' 5f«£ 2* '-V-