iHfiir- THOMPSON'S DREAM. DAKOTA JOTTINGS. tried to speak, to say that he would "Oh, nothing, dear only I had the THE HOUSEHOLD.*- keeping, would be of inestimable value furnish them with shoes and stockings, nightmare, that was all. That mince «f¥ to her as the mistress of a house. ^t and warm clothes as well, upon pie I ate for supper pretty near gave Not only was she to have the entire Teas declares that the Yank the morrow, but somehow the words George Thompson, I suppose, is me the jim-jams." Hints for the Home. care of it, but she was to take it stuck in his throat. He tried to SK ton oil mill is not in the trust, but He walked over and kissed his one of the most kind-hearted men in Baked beets: Select large beets, every morning to the cellar, the move over to where he could get a astonished babies a half a dozen times profits by its operation. the land. But the other night he wash them well, but do not cut them kitchen and the stable, and to remain good look at the children's faces, but apiece, lit another cigar, and with a for bake in rather a moderate oven from with it in each place for three was in ill humor. Business had some invisible power seemed^to keep sigh of relief, sat down and smoked minutes|f After the lapse of three three to four hoursi- ,v him rooted to his seat.^vj| fi» 4 somehow gone wrong with him all and gazed into the fire. years the" father was to send the key A number of boys at Eden After she had seated the children day, and he felt irrated consequently, "By the way, Mary," he said at If you want poached eggs to look that the secret of the talisman might jus* -amusement rob chicken roosts and before the blazing -fire, where they last, turning to his wife, "have you particularly nice cook each egg in a when a friend accosted him with a be discovered. Directions were followed could warm their freezing little bodies iiv$ J° picnic dinners of roast fowl. anything particular to do tomorrow muffin ring placed in the bottom of a request to buy a ticket for the orphan's the key sent and the casket into at least some semblance of comfortable night?" S The Kural Voice says: "Some oi saucepan of boiling water. -, opened, when it was found to contain home ball, to be held next evening, warmth, the matron disappeared "No, dear," she answered "why" -our citizens in Menn are assuming an old parchment, upon which for a moment and then came For cleaning bra.°s use a thin paste he declined somewhat brusquely .,i "Oh, nothing only I forgot to tell III somewhat tony airs and putting was written, "The eye of the mistress back with a couple of bowls of hot, of plate powder, two tablespoonfuls you that I bought a couple and hurried on towards home. is worth a hundred pairs of servants' W$ telephonesfromtheir business houses steaming soup, that gave forth a of vinegar, four tablespoonfuls of of tickets for the orphan's ball tomorrow "Five dollars for a ball ticket," he hands." The wise father knew that ^M to their residences." •, delicious fragrance, which the little evening, and I want you to alcohol. Rub with a piece or flannel a practice of inspection, followed mused as he walked along, "that's folks attacked as if they had not seen %tfy' John Bippus, who has been a resiS go." polish with chamois. faithfully for a period of three years, a morsel to eat for a week, at least. «d"ent of Sioux Falls for more than altogether too steep. I suppose Which fib the recording angel undoubtedly with such results as we may reasonably Two large silver salt cellars are As they ate, the matron questioned «H twelve years, departed for Atlanta, they'll use the money well, but there forgave for the next believe followed, would be perpetuated—that them. _, now used, one at each end of the table. £V Oa., where he expects to make his morning he astonished the friend he are lots of people better able than I the casket and hidden "What is your name?" she asked These are to be passed to each home. had so curtly refused to buy a ticket am to give that amount, and then charms would have accomplished the little girl. guest, who will remove a littie salt to of the night before by saying: New Tear's day was celebrated at their mission. business has been so bad the last "May, and his is Johnnie," she answered. his empty individual salt-cellar. "Oh, by the way, Tom, I changed Wahpeton by a lawn party and baske a week that really I can't possibly afford my mind about going to the orphan's I I picnic in Island Park. In a game Corsages are extremely varied in "Strange, the same names as my A Sleeping Car Episode. ball to-night here's a 'twenty.' Give it." J. •of ball, Wahpeton downed Breekenridge style, and none are wholly plain in two darlings and so like them," he me two tickets, will yon? Change? And just at that juncture, happening BILL NYE. effect. The directorie and empire by a score of thr* to one. thought. Oh, that's all right, put it in the orphan's On board a sleeping-car at a late to pass a cigar store, he remembered "But what is your last name?" the effects and characteristics still prevail ^fit»» he Rapid City Republican re- fund." matron queried. He leaned eagerly very largely. hour the other evening going south that he had smoked up the last marks: "There have been 918 orMjj' Oh, you who have enough and to forward to catch the reply, but the from Washington, an odd thing occurred, cigar he had at home, and going in spare ofthis world's goods, as God ders for4removal of land offices, yet Jet. rich silk-cord passt menteries, girl spoke so low that he coiild not has prospered you, give of your as such things are apt to, one would suppose from the howling purchased a box of fragrant Havanas and gold and silver gimys and galloons make it out _£that such a thing had never been largness unto those on whom the especially on board a sleeping-car. for $7.50, and renewed his journey are as fashionable as if they "Where is your father?" asked the ytfi -contemplated before." heavy hand of want is laid. What is had never been seen before this season. Most of the berths were made up for homeward. matron. but a mite to you may mean great llM!fA The Chamberlain Democrat re•^/Vtoarks 'He's dead" answered fche little irl. the night and the berth marks attached Arriving at his home, he ate his happiness, yea, perchance, even life that the farmers o& Brule "We used to have lots of money once, to them bv the porter so that supper, and after lighting one of the itself, unto God's wards, the orphan A quick cure for burns is to apply «county are becoming better fixed as but he lost it all just before he died, poor. As thou oulds't have men do new cigars, lay down on the sofa for unscrupulous pei.plc would not get a layer of common salt and saturate the years roll by and are able to and now we're poor, and mamma's to those dear ones whose arms cling a quiet smoke, and after watching it Mith laudanum. Hold it in into the erroneous berth. A party been sick ever so long and can't work, take better care of their stock and to lovingly around thy neck, if thou his two fair-haired children, a girl of place an hour or so by a simple of us, however, sat in a section on and there won't anybody hire me, have more home comforts for their wert dead, in the name of Him who 10 and a boy of 5, playing before the bandage The smarting sensation 'cause they say I ain't big enough, one side of the car waiting for our said, "Suffer little children to come ^families. fire for a few moments, fell asleep and—and—" and here she broke out disappears rapidly, and the burn unto me, for of such is the kingdom turn to come when the porter would It is generally understood at When he regained consicousness, to crying. gets well. of heaven," do thou this unto those drive us out and make our beds. Brookings that an effort will be his astonishment, he found himself The matron soothed her, and after whose infant hearts are heavy with made this winter to have a law Kettle-holders made offelt, covered All at once, on the opposite side of standing in the hallway of a strange a little she dried her eyes, and saying the weight of want and woe one side with flannel, the other side ^passed by the legislature, requiring the car, a slender foot and ankle house. For a moment he rubbed his that they must be going home to For verily I say unto you, "Charity with brocade, are much better than clothed only in a lible thread stocking «hattle mortgages to be filed with eyes, to make sure that this was no their mother, took her brother by covereth a multitude of sins."— many more elaborate concoctions. and pink garter shot out from between town clerks instead of with the register hallucination of his vision, and then the hand, and the two passed out Detroit Echo. When tea is made at table they are the curtains as we rounded a finding it was not, pinched himself to of deeds at the county seat. again into the cold and snow. He, mm almost a necessity. curve. Fearing that another lurch make sure that he was awake and not to, went out, and as he brushed by D. G. Somarindick of Mitchell, formerly Brief Chapter on Relishes. might throw the proprietor of said dreaming. He felt the pinch as plain the matron, to his wonder, she did of Sioux City, has just been It is a good plan to keep a quantity as he ever did any touch in his life, limb clear out of the berth, I looked not appear to see him at all. He The relishes are of two classes of sifted flour in the pantry, ready notified that he is one of seventeen out of the window for some little time, and realizing that he was in a strange thought it was strange, and would First those which depend mainly on for the making of buscuits, cake or 3ieirs to the vast Vassar estate in but looked back again directly, hoping house, with no reasonable excuse for have given it more thought, but just one or more piquant substances, such pie, so as to be prepared if they are .New York State, and goes east in yet fearing. being there, like a sensible man he then he was too busy in trying to see as pepper, mustard, ginger, horseradish, wanted in a hurry, as in case of company February to establish his claims. He sat down on one of the chairs near by which way the children had gone in You cannot understand how the coming and remaining to a to consider what it was best for him the darkness. cinnamon and the various is now engaged in running a notion silence fell upon us. We broke off in to do. It was still night, the hall in meal. -and confectionary store. spices. These are combined with He followed just behind them as the middle of a story and no which he found himself was lighted by they plodded sturdily along through some one or more—generally with A very complete filling for open one spoke. The road was very Sheriff Huffman of Huron returned a single gas jet at the farther end, the stinging cold and cutting sleet, cracks in floors may be made by rough and we all waited for another 'from Iowa with Ole C. Olson in several of the following vegetables as and outside he could hear the wind but for some reason, he could not thoroughly soaking newspapers in a violent lurch of the train. Evidently .-charge. Olson was school treasurer a base: tomatoes, usually green howling dismally and driving the falling understand what, he could not overtake the owner of the limb was asleep, for paste made of one pound of flour, of Woolsey township and fled in sleety snow against the windows, onions, cabbage, cucumbers, pears, them. He tried to call out to we could hear a regular breathing in three quarts of water, a teaspoonful with a sound that made him shiver, October, it is charged, after appropriating them to stop, but again his tongue peaches, cui rants, berries, grapes. that berth which indicated slumber. of alum, thoroughly boiled and as he realized the wildness ofthe night several hundred dollars belonging refused to do its work, and no sound Secondly, those which depend It was a trying time. I claimed that outside. For quite a while he could mixed make the final mixture about to his township. issued from his lips. Soon the little something ought to be done, and mainly on sugar, combined with the not for the life of him imagine where as thick as putty, and it will harden boy began to whimper with the cold, The Press and Dakotaian rises to spoke to the conductor about it, but he was, but all of a sudden he recognized juices of various fruits, or with the like papier-mache. and his sister took the threadbare he said he didn't think it deserved remark that during these dull midwinter it as the hallway of the orphan's shawl from her own illy clad shoulders pulp, as in the case of marmalade. the large amount of attention it was Into the hands of every housewife days and nights the business home, where he had called and wrapping it around him kissed Now the question arises, are these receiving. is committed a casket far more men and property owners of Yankton on business a day or two him, and bade him to keep up good precious than the result of any But a middle-aged lady took the and similar relishes conducive to should meet in frequent conference before. He tried to think heart for they would soon be home. matter in hand on behalf of her sex. v*-# ewellers' skill. Unseen thieves are what particular business had called and put themselves in shape to do health? "Home?" he thought, "what kind Men in the car had quit reading and continually lurking about that him there upon such a stormy evening, •something: for themselves with the A normal, vigorous appetite needs of a home must it be that two such playing cards, and were more wakeful and what excuse he should make threaten its safety, never so numerous •opening of spring. no such aid. It is sufficient of itself. waifs as these call by that dear name? than they had been before. So if any one came before he discovered as in early inter. The casket is My God, what if my petted darlings The lower animals need nothing of she slipped across the aisle silently The Iroquois Herald alleges that a what he had come there for. While the health ofthe family the danger should ever come to this?" the kind. The cow's green grass, the and touched the extended foot very 'large share of the costs of the late in the midst of his cogitations, suddenly that threatens it, disease. Its preservation He thought of his refusal to give a horse's dry hay, and the dog's bone gently, but it didn'trecoil. Then she the door-bell rang, and a term of court in Clark county depends on watchfulness •5 paltry five dollars of his abundant with a little meat on it, are doubtless took hold of it with the idea of replacing woman whom he took to be the matron born of love has been saddled upon the county by store to aid in clothing such as these, eaten with a relish that our pampered it inside the curtains, I presume. came, and without apparently justices of the peace in issuing papers and then of the seven dollars and a stomachs know little of. Anyway at that moment the As a dressing for ladies' shoss seeing him, admitted two shivering half for the new box of cigars, and and binding persons over to court on car gave a wild twist, which jarred Unfortunately, all people bnrve not mites of humanity, a boy and a girl, nothing equals vaseline, making the cursed himself as a selfish brute. the teeth in my head and knocked rr^Xriminal charges where the evidence high health. Some are in a feeble of about the same age as his own leather soft and pliable without soiling "Never mind," he thought, "I'll everybody off his or her pins, as the would not sustain the complaint, condition, with little or no appetite. two darlings. He could not see their the garments in contract. Where make up to these two little ones tomorrow." case might be. It threw strangers qn. faces for they kept their backs towards A sensitive appetite the fset sweat, burnt alum and glycerine—one The Tribune says the report that together in a friendly way and mixed him, but he saw that the girl's and yet their recovery depends mainly of the former to two of the Just then the little fellow stumbled it is the intention' of some of the up people so that the porter had to golden locks were of the exact shade on the food they take. In such cases latter—rubbed on the feet at night, and fell in the snow, and crying bitterly come and indentify them by their prominent members of the legislature of those of his own May, and the some simple relish is not merely and a light or open sock worn, the declared that his feet hurt him berth checks and strawberry marks. which will meet in Bismarck in boy, too, strangely resembled his greately desirable it is necessary. feet washed in the morning with tepid so that he could go no futher. Whereat It was at this moment the middleaged Johnnie. The blast that swept Many persons in this driving aa er a few days to refuse to remain for the girl lifted him in her arms, water, will keep them during the day and kind-hearted old woman, through the open door as they entered cometo their meals with little appetite, the winter has knocked some of the chafed his feet with her equally freezing free from odor, so disagreeable to whose name I did not know, sat chilled him to the very marrow, quickens and inci-eases the gastic •enthusiasm out of the plan to tender hands for a moment,then wrapped those persons who are suffers. down in my lap, and in her hand she and the tears stood in his eyes as he secretions. In such cases, therefore, the lawmakers a reception intheeapitol ed them up in her apron and with held a beautiful cork leg, with the surveyed their shivering forms, and some piquant relish is really helpful. upon their arrival. his head upon her shoulders trudged straps of which she involuntarily In the Fashion. saw that the clothes of both were Probably even the strongest is not bravely on. He tried so get near to welted me over the head. S. W. Jacobs, cashier of the defunct threadbare that they were without White linen and not colored is now injurious, if used with moderation them so that he could take them National Bank of Madison, who was stockings, and that barely the semblance the style this season. Plush and but relishes are greately pernicious, in his arms—to cry out to them of shoes covered their halfnaked -arrested and brought to Sioux Falls velvet as table decorators have seen if used to encourage over-eating, or One of Sothern's Jokes. to stop so that he could overtake feet. -by United States Marshal Maratta, their day, and housekeepers are to cause one to eat when the stomache them, but again the same invisible London Life. Zt again delighting in the smooth satiny charged with making false entries in is already exhausted from previous The little girl, with the left hand of power prevented him. This is a story of Sothern which white linen of their mother's day, repletion.—Youths Companion, the books of the bank for the purpose the boy held tightly in her right, Up to this time he had been unable was told to Mr. Toole by Mrs John but art has come to stay but not in faced the matron bravely, but the of deceiving the government to catch sight of the face of either of Wood. One day the famous practical colors. The art table cloth of the The Scheme Didn't Work. boy, upon whose face could be seen examiner, had a hearing and was thorn, but all at once, he could not joker went with Mrs. Wood into an season although white and satiny the trace of recent tears, shrunk heldAxrthe United States grand iurv tell how, he found himself in iront of A Bru ssels lace merchants had re ironmonger's shop and asked for a has a Spanish or oriental design embroidered timidly behind her, and tried sur -~&rf1,500 an facing them. ceived from a Belgian, residing in copy of Macaulay's "History of England." in white silk floss orloseile reptitiously to dry his eyes upon the He gave one look into their faces, Paris, an order for a quantity of Yankton's central school building "We do not sell books, sir," in an art stitch all over the linen. corner of his sister's ragged apron and started back in horror. Great Malines lace. The goods were carefully ds completed and is as fine an educational Milk-white linen silver and crystal said the assistent. "This is an ironmonger's "Well, my little dears," said the God'he saw before him the darlings packed in a lead coffin,, which structure as can be found. It begins a new reign, and colored glass shop." "Well, I'm not matron kindly, "what can I do for of his heart—his May, his Johnnie— was dispatched to the Paris address 1,, cost $40,000 furnished and accommo,t you-to-night*?" is on the wane. Colored cloths, however, particular," said Sothern, pretending the two babes to save whom from as containing a corpse. The Paris dates eight departments. It is massive "Please ma'am," said" the little are as popular as ever for luncheon, to be deaf: "I don't care whether it even the slightest pain he would merchant had to wait so long for the girl, for she being the older of the and in fact the important linens brick structure, containing the is bound in calf or Russia." "But gladly have periled his life. He 3. two was by virtue of seniority leader, arrival of the "body" that he at for lunchs and teas are in every tint this is not a bookseller's," shouted most approved heating and ventilating sprang towards them to clasp them "a lady told me yesterday that you length complained to the manager of which modern art furnishes. Seagreen, in his arms, to gather them close the assistant. 'AH right," said apparatus, and is elaborately had shoes and stockings here to give buff and straw, however, are the Northern Railway, who informed and warm their frreezing frames if Sothern "wrap it up neatly. I want finished and furnished. away to poor little boys that hadn't more stylish than reds or blues. need be, in the very life blood of his him that the coffin had been detained to have it sent down to the hotel. The Redfield Journal says: It is got any, and we've come to see if you heart, which now throbbed and leapt at the frontier owing to the noncompliance It'sfor a present I wish to make to a a that Spink county is likely to wouldn't give us some, 'cause our within his bosom like a mad thing with certain pcescribed relative." "We don't keep it," 'stoop, stoop. feet 'smost froze." I* lose a citizen upon whom it has reIj^cently struggling to be free. He reached formalities relating to the- transmission shouted the assistant, getting red in Benjamin Franklin, when a lad of "I am very sorry," said the matron, conferred the honor of an them, he threw his arms around of corpses. The merchant at the face. "Do it up as if it were for m. eighteen, had a bit of advice literally "but we gave away the last r*£ election to the legislature. Burr F. them, but they did not appear to once took a train to Quievrain,. your own mother. I don't want anything "beat into his head." He went, at pair of shoes and stockings that we see him, for they passed through him Bixler, it is understood, has disposed dressed in solemn black and with a better than that," said Sothern. had this morning." one time, to call upon Bev. Cotton! as if he were but thin air, and again !j£ '"°f most of his property, and after mourning band round Ms hat, and "I would like to writ© my name Mather, who received him in lu^ "Haven't you even got a pair for he found himself behind them. He j,fv serving his term as Spink's represen$-*. omthe fly-leaf." "Sir" bawled' the wearing an expression of profounds Johnnie?" said the little girl, her lips library, but when his guest left turned and again tried to lift them ind. tative at Bismarck this winter will sadness. But in spite1 of Ms emphatic assistant at the top of his voice, beginning to quiver and the water to showed him a shorter way outrof up, but his arms again held nothing If? return to Iowa to reside. '"can't you see we do not keep.books?" ale* come into her eyes with dispppointment, protest against such an act of dtes*eeration the house through a narrow passage, but the air. Three times he vainly "Very well," said Sothern, quite "'cause,yousee, ma'am,it don't the officials insisted on opening W William Young procured a maririage tried to clasp them to his throbbing which was crossed by a beam overbead. make so much difference about me, undisturbed, "I will wait for it." license and was married to Lena breast, but still brave-hearted May the coffin, when the- truth eame They were busily engagedi im 'cause I'm big and can stand it but The man appealed to hismaster, and strode bravely on, as if unconscious fe Tangedahl on the 27th inst Judge to light and the ingenioias smuggler conversation, when the minister? suddenly Johnnie here, he's so little, and he said he thought the customer must of his presence. III John Lynch at Burlington. On his was taken into custody- «.* cried out, "Stoop, stoop!" Not, cries so much 'cause his feet's so Then all at once it flashed across be off his head. "What is, ifr, sir? 1§|,J return to town he was arrested at understanding" what was meant„ cold." And as she spoke she drew him that he was dead thatperbaps a ?*$ What do you desire" he« said! to 7r£ Franklin bumped his head against the instance of John Tangedahl, herself up to the full height ofher tiny Still a Point or Tuo Off. year had passed since he had died,, the beam. Mr. Mather never missed Sothern. "I want to buy a fife/' Ijm father of the bride, charging Young a figure as if to impress her auditor and he had but now come to life in In the primary department of one' a chance for moral instruction so he? replied the actor "A plain, file four I with abduction, claiming that his with the full extent of her highness, spirit form.f^And as the thought of the city schools the- other day at or five inches long." "Certainly," said to the boy, "You are youngs III daughter is only fourteen years oi and at the same time, with one of flashed through his mind with all patient teacher was eadeavoring t© and have the world before you said the master, casting, a mthermg III age. Young is still in custody. those motherly gestures which the the conviction of undeniable truth,, impress on the minds of the yojamg"sters go through it, and you will miss glance at his assistant. win-poor of her sex learn so early, placed and he realized that he was powerless ', gp -,[ The most charming day of the many hard thumps.." FranHm was the principal products of OMo. her arm around the form of the to help them, thore burst from his fter has been New 1'ear's. The sun often reminded, in after years, ofthe The teacher had in view the earn shrinking boy beside her, as if to lips a shriek of agony that sounded I .-shore from an unclouded sky, A Texas Editor Hejoices^ advice so forcibly given, and, said shield him from the eold. crop of the Buckeye state,, but the like theory of a lost soul, and the I the temperature was high, atmosI that it did him. good service.—-Congregationahst. Though the swine- "piarteth the "No, dear," said the matron, wiping little ones were rather duB of com* next instant he found himself still in sphere dry and balmy, and no snow hoofaadchewethino* the- end," yet a suspicious moisture from, her the flesh, in his own comfortable sitting prehension. W&en the question: I -on the ground. The streets are dusty, verily its backbones, aatl ribs are eyes with the corner of her apron room, with the cold sweat hanging "What do the Ohio farmers raise?" I .and sidewalks dry. These conditions ~*p "I am very sorry, but I haven't even splendid grub, Joe Sherman killed great beads upon his brow, his 'have made New Year's a day of outkm-door had been asked many times and in got a pair for Johnnie. But come up a hog. and knowing we did not be May and Johnniestaring at him with The utmost care on the part of the pleasures. Many callers were many ways, one of the brightest replied to the fire and warm yourselves before scared faces,'and his wife pale and long to the synagogue, and that our abroad wearing linen dusters, straw housewife is the price paid for the at a venture. "They raise you go." And as she led them wild-eyed clinging convulsively to his name was not Isaac, generously Jiats and carrying fans and umbrelas. health of the family. We have all to the fireplace she said, as if to herself: hogs.'^iV'Yes/N the patient pedagogue arm and asking him what was the divided the ribs with us and gave ua "The steamer Josie L. K. has been beard the story of the father of the "Oh, dear! if we had only sold matter. rejoined with an encouraging all of its backbone. If the swine is making regular trips from Yankton just one more ticket to that ball, German bride who gave his daughter I He rubbed,,his eyes a*d looked smile, "and what do they raise to unclean and don't chew tobacco like landing to Green Island picnic grove, than I could have given both of these a golden casket, with the injunction around him for a moment, drew a feed the hogs?" "Swill!" exclaimed an infidel Turk, still it is all right «,.carrying passengers back and forth poor children such a nice pair of long breath, stooped and kissed her, not to pass it to any other hands, one of the young Americans, whose when it is dead and in proper trim »oa New Year's day. warm shoes and stockings." Hs and answered: for it held a charm" which, in hfr ather keeps a pig.—Albany Journal. for digestion.—Crosby County News.