w*ii A Story of Possibilities. of mine. But ^Washburn lifted a DAKOTA JOTTINGS. buy out O'Eourke, up on the Hillside, silencing finger, and looked at the and to set up a grocery store ,w& clock. and a coffee house and eating-room 'So Ingersoll's turned up again!" "Your well-known views will be respectfully a right there, where firstrate hot tea r** The northwestern stages transported *'I didn't know he had ever turned listened to some other day, and coffee, baked beans and potatoes, sixty-eight peoplefrom Whitewood Builders and Contractors. down," said I, without looking up if you please," said he politely, "but soup, bread and butter and cheese to Deadwood in the last three from the newspaper in which I was just now Ingersoll's story has thecan be had at low prices in a quiet days. RkW ULM, MINN. W: floor." And I subsided into silence. tidy place, and where a man can carefully examining the column of I he total expense to Clay county "In an evil hour the serpent entered smoke his pipe and have a chance to Designs and plans made to order and |y, ""Wants"—an old weakness of mine, the paradise in the form of a or its clerk of the court during the read a newspaper, or have one read estimates on all work furnished and W for I can not rid myself of the idea fellow who opened a drinking hole in past two years has been $150, or contracts faithfully executed.**^ to him. "Oh, wouldn't that be just that I may some day find there that a cellar at the 'Centre, and by every lovely, Increase!" "You see, Molly, $75 per year. NIOPHOTELMI low art enticed the workingmen into eomebody somewhere has something we might get Finnegan and two of The inhabitants of Harrold are it. As they passed to their work in LATH, SHINGLES, DOQRS, his neighbors made special constables that I want, or wants something jubilant because the water is flowing the morning or back at noon* and in case of trouble from ill-disposed that I have. I didn't look up, be-night, from their artesian well. The well is one after another would drop EASH, BLINDS, fellows. The priest would certainly cause the speaker was only Washburn, now 1,435 feet deep. down these fatal steps. favor the enterprise. I think WENmSMZKO, Propriety my old college classmate. And "In less than a month the little it can be done, and I believe it would Anna Burke, of Warner, a young town could no longer boast of quiet prove a mighty influence for good— Washburn and I, having after our Mnru. lady about 19 years of age, has lost N E W ULM« Mnrff, ST.,.- Building Material. I evenings. At the 'Centre' the streets a lively piece of leaven in that lump.' graduation dropped into neighboring the use of her mental faculties, and often rang with profane words, with "They could still get their horrid in all probability will speedily be The only first class i11toecity,fire brick proof offices on Court street, had been constantly Hote angry cries and noisy, discordant whisky at the old places," faltered 5EW ULM, sent to the asylum. in each other's company for song. Later in the night the settlement the wife. 'Of course,'' said lngersoll, Citizens'Bank with large, airy rooms and an A years, and had long been in the on the hillside echoed with the "that can't be helped. But there Prairie fires destroyed considerable No. 1 table. |Oood large sampel uproar which was bred in that would be a rallying point for the opponents babit of taking our noonday meal hay and grain around Ypsilanti, ten wretched cellar and worked its way of liquor, and beside that instead rooms for the accomodation of commercial miles south, and Arrowwood twenty together at the same table in the up toward those once quiet homes of the drinking places being travelers. Passengers and miles north of Jamestown. The same corner of—but I will not give as the hours wore on past midnight. the only resorts, there would be a losses are numerous but small. baggage will be carried free from the name of the restaurant, it is not After many vain attempts, a case room far more attractive than any and to the depot. Rates reasonable. was made out against the keeper of of them, where hunger and thirst and By a unanimous vote the Hand a very good one, and I don't care to The finest wines, liquors and cigars the drinking hole he was sent to social instincts could ay be satisfied county commissioners ordered a vote NEW ULM, MINN. advertise it. at the bar. jail, and the den was closed. But the at a price unknown before for cheapness. on relocation of the county seat at So, as I said, I didn't look up, even mischief was already done. Habits of But, Molly dear, if we do that the annual election, a St. Lawrence drinking had grown upon many of the we must stay at home next summer, Bncklen Arnica Salve when Washburn addressed me, but M.Mullm, PresH. E. Vajen.Vtce-Pres'i project. The best salve in the world for CutB, workingmen, and into the minds of instead of going to Mt. Desert, and I only said, with a foolish play on J. C. Budolph, Cashier. Bruises Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, not a few bad crept the idea that far can't have my new barn, nor you The Howard Press says that an at words, which is an incurable trick of Fever Sores, Tetter, chapped Hands, more money could be made by liquorselling your new greenhouses, eh?' 'Pooh!" tempt was recently made by a wellknown Directors: mine, I didn't know he had ever Chilblains, Corns, and all skin Eruptions, than by day labor. The prohibitory quoth the little wife, "who wants to female of that city to blackmail and positively cures Piles, or no turned down. He has managed to law was in force, and the go to Mt Desert, and who can't get Werner Bassch, Chas. Wagner, Dr. a most virtuous old bachelor pay required. I is guaranteed to give majority of the voters of Sumner along without a greenhouse?" 'And keep himself well in sight. When he who resides in that city. Weschcke, O. M. Olsen, E. 6. Koch. perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. were in his favor. What of that? ifthere weretears in her eyes,they were couldn't be Governor, he would be Mayor Paulson, of MayvUle, disgusted Price 25 cents per box. Sold by 0 The places where liquor could be had happy tears.' That's Ingersoll's remark, Alderman, and if he failed to get the at the inefficiency of his police L. Boos. on the Hillside and elsewhere soon not mine, you know," added DRAFTS TO ALL PARTS force, raided a gambling den a few postoffice numbered more than a score, and the Washburn: M. GRATZ OF EUROPE, AND PASSAGE nights ago in person, and seized the men and women who kept them ''Oh, I don't mean David," interrupted "You've seenhim then?" said I. apparatus, including chips and the laughed at the law when they did not "Yes didn't I tell you? I was up TICKETS SOLD. Washburn," "I mean Increase, rake-off. swear at it. at hia place last week, and he took of our class. 'Injured Innocence,' DEALER IN "Selectmen, reform clubs. Good me to old Finnegan's eating-room, A young man, a Swede, at work on don't you know we used to call him, Templars, temperance men of every and wegot aright good enp of coffee Close Attention iven to Col. E ES and GLASSWARE the Syndicate block in Deadwood, is ^because of his unlucky alliterative strips united in efforts to break up for five cents, and a sausage and a the champion hodcarrier of the Hills. this state of things, but to no purpose. name and his somewhat aggressive piping hot potato for another five. looting. He carries at each load forty bricks, Minnesota Street opposite the A few seizures of a few gallons And we pretended to read our newspapers meekness of countenance?" which aggregate in weight 240 of bad liquor, a very few convictions (which we had brought with 1*3 Congregational Church. But before Washburn had half pounds. and fiDes, many failures to obtain us), while over the top of them we Two More NEW ULM, MINK. finished his explanation I had thrown sufficient testimony before the court watched the happy, sober faces It seems that western t)akota has —this was all The evil grew. People down my paper, and was all eager in the room. Always some HARVEST at least one prohibition county, it is settled down to the conviction one, sometimes a dozen, eating attention. Butte. The commissioners of the FRANK FRIEDMANN, that it was a hopeless case. Many and drinking at the bmall clean EXCURSIONS county, according to the Whitewood 'Inky Injins!' Why, I haven't said 'change the law'—some were for tables that filled the room. A good heard anything of him these twenty Sentinel, have decided to issue no stricter prohibition, some for a dealer in deal of loud talking, but no uproar years. So he has turned up at last! more liquor licenses. stringent license law others said all good-natured, all decent. lngersoll TO What have you heard? I thought Groceries, Crockery. Stoneware, 'Betterrepeal all liquor laws, and fall said that in the warm weather MINNESOTA, DAKOTA, A valuable house situated in the the sands of the desert or the waves back on the Nuisance Act.' many families went there for their southern section of Sioux Falls, was of the ocean had swallowed him long MONTANA. dinners, to save the heat and expense "lngersoll felt keenly the change in Glassware, Notions, Canned burned. The building was isolated, ago. A right good fellow he was, of a fire in their small houses, and the little town. He had become acquainted being half a mile from others. I is but he never accomplished anything, Tuesday, Oct. 9th & 23d. that it was quite the custom for men with many of the Irish, he was so restless and changeable." thought that it was set on fire as no Frnit, Flour, etc. at work in the neighboring factory whom he had employed upon his one was about the premises. "VTA TH E "Well, it seems his restlessness to go there for their meals instead of place, where he was doing all sorts of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry. worked itself off in those years of bringing them from home. We Great hopes of a boom have been work, and he felt great interest in All goods sold at bottom prices and wandering that we know of. He looked into another room, built within them and their fortunes, for you know inspired at Blunt on account of the delivered free of cost to any part of PKOM: travelled the earth over, pried into a year, where were books and 'Inky' had always plenty of the milk recent coal find. The last ten feet of ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS the city. every corner, learned the manners newspapers and games, and where of human kindness. And he couldn't the shaft was through slate, and owing N E W ULM, MINN and language of every nation, penetrated they have penny readings and singing bear to see these men and their wives A A E S to the presence of water above CHEAPER THAN every forest, sailed every sea, meetings and lectures in the evenings, and children go to the bad so fast. His the slate it has been impossible to explored every river, climbed every and sewing-school for girls and wife laid the trouble to heart even GEO. BENZ & SONS. determine the extent of the vein. mountain, till, when at last there women in the afternoon. I assure more than he. He says it became a EVER BEFORE! was no more to see and no more to you it was quite exciting to hear and Importers and Wholesale Dealers In nightmare to them it was the drop Andrew Fludstrom, an ex-saloonkeeper, WINES & do, and fortunately not till then, having see. lngersoll knew half the people of wormwood that imbittered all Less than One Cent per Mile at Fargo attempted suicide come home to take breath for a that came in and was evidently well their pleasures. They had talked it by cutting his throat. His little No routtd trip rate bems niore than TWENTY LIQUORS, few weeks till he could form new known and very popular." over and over till they were fairly DOLLARS, including GREAT FALLS, HELENA daughter, seeing him, raised an paths, he saw there a young girl and BUT IE, MONTANA, sick and tired of the subject, and at "How is all this paid for?" I asked. alarm, and he threw the knife away ersons uesiring so taae a trip mrousrn «ortu"rn who had grown up not five miles last they imposed a law of total abstinence Minnesota, Dakota or Montana for the purpose "Five-cent dinners can't go very far 217 & 219 E. 3rd Str. St. Paul, Minn without completing his work. He is from his father's farm, and found looting over the country, or with the from the tthole topic, and toward it, and though lngersoll may Idea o£ selectme anew home within the boundaries thought to be deranged. her the rest he had been for ten years agreed that a fine should be paid by be able to afford the luxury of supporting of tfe GRANDEST WHEAT BELT IN THEODOIj MUELLER, seeking the world over in vain. So any member of the household whb THE WORLD, and an agricultural country suitable such a place, it's of no value The Prohibitionists of Sioux Falls for diversihed farming, dairv and stock he married her, and settled down in broke the law. as an example if it's not somewhere purposes, will do WPII to take advantage of have renewed their war upon the saloans. a little village in some remote corner these rates near self-supporting. People can't "The laughs caused by this arrangement Over half of the liquor dealers For maps and information applv to your home of the State, and there for ten years stay at home always, and do without ticket agent, to any agent of the company, or were a decided improvement, of Sioux Falls were arrested under MANUFACTURER OF he has lived as unknown to the outer F. I. W I N E greenhouses and barns as a permanent lngersoll says, on the tears and the the local option law—some upon world as if he had joined a brotherhood Gen'l Pass, and Tkt, Agfc, thing—at least, they don't moodiness that such conversations of monks, but doing a work twenty counts. The balance will St Paul. Minn want to." had been wont to cause in Mrs. lngersoll i}hat the most famous philanthropist be waited upon later. Cheap Cash Store and in himself respectively. "Since the first year this concern might envy." AND DEALER IN has not only paid its own expenses, Nine of the heaviest creditors of 'Matters had stood thus in Sumner "How can that be, when his good but it has given Finnegan a good Tobacco andrSmokers' Articles, the defunct Bank of Hitchcock having for nearly two years,' said he, G$O. jSdoSft works have never been trumpeted living, and enabled him to make the 'when one night my wife met me at become wearied of waiting for abroad by the newspapers? I was addition I spoke of and to keep the the door with the fine (a five-cent something to turn up, have sworn not aware that the race ol philanthropists place repaired and refreshed and attractive. piece) in her outstretched palm, while out writs of attachment, and have had become careless of the Huemke's Building, New Dim, Minn You must get the figures in the other hand she held the New DEALER IN attached the whole property of the praise of men. Obscure success is not from lngersoll." York Evening Post. I laughed, and DRY GOODS, defunct firm, and will test the validity the object of their envy, as far as my "Well," I said, "all this sounds asked who had been talking liquor NOTIONS, of the assignment. observation goes very charming and delightful but shops. "I is I who propose to talk HATS, CAPS, "My story demands a genial listener, what has been the effect of it on the A party from Ortonville, Minn., is it now, Increase," said she, with an GROCERIES, CROCKERY sir, and shall not be unfolded to a drinking? That's the main point, eager flush, but no smile on her face at Aberdeen in search of a truant wife NEW ULM, MINN. "Cynic," answered Washburn, pursing and OILS. after all, you know, Washburn." and she could hardly wait till I got and a man with along list of aliases MANUFACTURER OP tip his mouth, frowning portentously, "I asked lngersoll that, and he referred into my slippers and my arm-chair with whom, she eloped. He traced Also Musical Instruments FINE CIGARS. and reaching out his hand for my me to one of the selectmen, for before she began to read to me an them to that city, but has lost all Jiewspaper. and WHEELER & WILSON'S my answer. That official assured account of the means taken by a track of them there. He has wisely Latest Improved "Nonsense' don't tease," said I, me that intemperance had been committee of citizens in a certain concluded to go to work on the sewer. stowing the paper away behind me. SEWING MACHINES. gradually diminishing till there is Swedish town to abate drunken- "You tee I am all curiosity, and ofness.5" not to-day one-quarter of what there «the most genial kind, too, to hear ill Goods Sold at Bottom Prices was before that room and shop were The Press says: "Sioux Falls has ISTSpecial brands made to order. "Oh, I remember the story," I interrupted Ingersoll's story, and if you're not taken by Finnegan and he said that invested about a million and a half Washburn. "The plan ^uick about it our time will be up before a fact of still greater importance is so far this year in improvements.and was to license certain men to sell you get through, and you know SEW ULM. MINN that there has grown up in that all this large sum was put up without W E FRANK. JOHN BENTZIN. at such a price that their profit was there'd be two of us disappointed neighborhood a strong public opinion bluster or brass band accompaniment Cottonwood Malls. A very small, while they were allowed then in favor of temperance, and that Empire Mill Co. The Queen city doesn't to make as much profit as they could "That's true," rejoined Washburn, false swearing on the witness stand make much noise in building, but she on the food and the wholesome drinks as we began on our modestmeal. "I during liquor trials, and refusals to plugs right along and lets the deeds which they were also required to do want to tell it to you, and to see testify to sales, have become the exception ROLLER MILL. furnish. Hence it was for their interest tell their own story. how pleased vou -will be. Well, it Custom grinding solicited. Will instead of being the rule, as to encourage the purchase of was in the town of Sumner that he they were five years ago." Five additional skeletons were unearthed grind wheat for I (one eigth) or exchange these latter articles, and to discourage settled with his 'dear girl,' and the We rose from the table at which, at Grand Forks by Prof. 84 fts. flour, 5 fts. shorts and 8 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs. tippling. At the same time pair identified themselves at once during this conversation, wehad been Montgomery. This makes a total of lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour there was no chance for unlicensed with the interests of the place in a engaged in reducing order to chaos, eleven skeletons dug out of this and feed sold at low rates and delivered liquor-sellers, as they couldn't undersell 'way that isn't common with people We take pleasure in informing the and as I got into my cont and took mound. The professor is sanguine of the others." a New Ulm free of expense. situated just as they were, more's the public that we are now ready for busness. up my hat, "Washburn," said I, "it unearthing more and is still excavating "Just about what lngersoll told .pity. A thrifty New England The best machinery and all the seems to me that lngersoll has turned with the aid of a couple of workmen. FRANK & BENTZINT me." said Washburn. village it was with some 2,000 inhabitants, latest improvements in the manufacture up trumps." The bones found were nearly with good railroad facilities, "But that couldn't be done in this of flour enable us to compete with AUG. QTOTSE, perfect and were those of mammoth with quite varied industrial interests, country," I continued. "I would the best mills in the country. As To Smoking, individuals. and not a barroom or saloon be scouted as government monopoly We are constantly buying Albany Journal: An Albany physician, within its borders. A drunken man and interference and what not, Wheat, The Spearfish Register comments who is something of an investigator, In its streets was a rarity, and wasin spite of its evident wisdom and Mye, on the marriage of George Ward and HARNESS MAKER says that smoking is not sure to have come from outside, and shrewdness." Corn, Mrs. Alice Dailey in that city recently good to relieve mental depression even in ths 'Centre' the streets were "Just about what lngersoll reported —and Dealer in— as follows: "The groom was, until Oat 8, that it does so simply by diverting fef, ti as quiet and peaceable alter dark as himself as replying to his enthusiastic Buckwheat, last July, champion sack racer of Whips, Collars, and all oth- A a man's mind from objects that a-country lane. But the most remarkable little wife," answered Washburn. &c, &c. this vicinity. The bride is a blushing er articles usually kept 3 worry him, "Nothing," said he," feature of theplacewas the "So the matter, to her great young widow who recently arrived requires more devotion to it for its in a first-lass har- ^.W"% At the Highest Market Pricei. character of the Irish population. disapointment, dropped for the under a sort of contract to enjoyment than a cigar. I is not They occupied a part of the town moment. But it had put an idea ness shop, **$£ marry another fellow, but not liking We sell all kinds of the taste oftobacco at one enjoys. rcalled the Hillside. Almost every into our friend's head which worked New harnesses made to order a&d re^**^ the appearance of her future home, It is looking at the smoke, inhaling .man owned a small house with a bit of and worked till it took a shape JFLOVR, pairing promptly attended to,, 'went back' on the arrangement." and smelling it, and knocking off the land and a garden, where the children suited not only to one New England SHOMTS, NEW MLM, I N N I ashes. All these things divert the 'Worked and played, with plenty of village, but to universal human A Yankton telegram says: N. E. BBAN, &c.t 1 f-M ff mind and so drive dull care away." vToom and sweet air, and sunshine nature. Old Increase hadn't travelled Gale has been obliterated as president AT LOW BATES, aS"** without stint, lngersoll waxed all over creation for nothing. H.FRENZEI5 of the the insane hospital board. •quite eloquent as he set loith to me He's a cosmopolite to some purpose. Significant. \*v* 5 The trustees met and surprised Gale Special Attention given to «fche satisfaction he used to take About a week later he too proffered Hartford Post: A Yale graduate, by electing Robert Cox of Yankton Oixstoro. "Worls. ttfcifl sGate of things. Industrious, the regulation half-dimeb buy thewho was a student about thirty president his stead. This result of Manufacturer of temperate, even neat and orderly (in right to open the tabooed sub-ject, 3& years ago, said, in speaking of a new combination in the board, SODA "WATER, Tfcheir fashion), these Irish families and thus he spake to his attentive ^|sAn extra stone for grinding feed. changes that have taken place since Trustee Quigley leaving Gale and stood, he thought tor good specimens wife- -4 %^1 his time: I never knew whether to andi W S Steam Cornsheller. %2r Peemiller and going to Cox S WATERS of what America can make of her Wood taken for cash or in exohange 'Molly, you know old Finnegan attach anv significance to it or not. Wooley. At the last previous meeting foreign born citizen if only he can be $mvtie Mill CaWSS and is a thorough-going temperance man but when I was there the law school of the board Quigley and Gale got out of the great towns, and have perfectly honest and trustworthy, adjoined the jail, the medical college had a serious difference. Smce then a chance to earn a bit of land and CAm PURCHASES Champagne Cider. and great authority among the Irish, was next the cemetery, and the they have not spoken and Quigley's make a homestead." into the bargain. What do you say divinityschoolwasonthe road to hostility culminated in the removal ^nd CHEAP SALES MjJSXefi" I began, for thiols" a "hobby to my furnishing him the moDey to thepoorhouse." of Gale from the presidency. Cenfcco Street* New TJhn,