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I **S & i$V 8(ht gunton Advocate. CANTON,DAKOTA. J-J§| CABTEB BROS., How iff J. I I- SR. fit PUBLISH*AA. UKE HIS MOTHER USED TO HAKE. BY JAMES WHIT COMB BILET.: .. -a .-• I was corn In Indian?,* says a stranger. laid: anl slim, As »B fcl era the restaurant was kind o' pay in' him, And Uncle Jake was slldln' him another pun' kln pie And a' exira cup of coffee, with a twinkle in his eye— I was born in Indiany—more forty year* aiso-— And 1 hain't been back in twenty—and I'm workin* back'ards slow But I've et in every restaurant 'twixt here and Santv Fee, And 1 want to state this cofl:e tastes like get' tin' home to me! "Pour ns out another cup, daddy," says the teller, warmin" up, A-spcakm' 'crost a saucerfnl, as uncle tuck his cup— HWhon I ed your sign out yorder," he went 4 on, to Uncle Jake— Come in and Bit si coffee like your mother used to make'— I thought of my ad mother, and the Fosey County farm. And me a lir tie kid azin', a-hangln' onher arm. As she set the po5 a-bilin'—broke the eees an' and'em in"— And the feller kind o' halted, with a trimble in h)4 chin. A&dUncl Jake fetched the feller's coffee back, and sLotd As solemn, fer a minute, as an undertaker would Then be por o' torne and tiptoed to'ards the kitchen doo —and next. Here comes his old wife out with him, a-rub bin' of her specs— And she rushes lor ihe stranger, and she hol lers out "It's him! Thank JCJ, we've met him cmin'I Don't you know your mother, Jim?" And the teller, as he grabbed h.r, says: "You bef hain't forgot"— Bnti wipin" his eyes, says he: "Your col fee's mtahty liotl" —Philadelphia Call MR. NICHOLSON MISLAID THE BABY. CHAPTER I. Mrs. Nicholson was standing in a da bions attitude, with the study-door half open, and her eves turning from the quiet figure in the arm-chair by the ta ble to another open door in the passage beh.nd her, through which she could see a food of sunshine, and in the sun shine a cradle. "I don't feel quite easy," she said, "I am so afraid she should cry and no one hear her. I wish I had not let nurse go out but all you have to do," coming into the room and speaking impressive ly, "all you have to do is to ring the bell violently—violently, remem ber—for* cook. For heaven's sake, John," leaning on the table and stretch ing out a pretty hand to attract her husband's attention, "look up, or speak, or answer me, or you will drive me mad!" "What is it all about, Agatha?" The oalm, placid, intelligent face opposite was lifted gently, and the thin finger was slipped on to the page to mark a .pause. "It is baby, John," said Mrs. Nichol son, in a faltering voice, and with idle, angry tears rolling down her cheeks. "Here have I, for the last ten minutes, been begging and imploring of you to remember baby not to nurse her, I wouldn't trust you, but only to ring the bell if she cries." "Does that stop her? It seems sim •ple enough. I think even I can do that." But Mrs. Nicholson shook her •head, still weeping. "You may laugh at me or sneer if you like. If it were my own baby I would say nothing. I would bear it all but Emmy's!" "With a patient sigh the gentleman at the writing table pushed the book away and lost his place. He looked at her in a bewildered way. "What is it, Agatha? a baby! O, Emmy's baby, of course." "And not one-ha!f, one-hundredth part, one-thousandth part, as valuable in your eyes," broke in Agatha, with impetuosity, "as the smallest, the most -. unknown, the most undiscovered star! You need not tell me I know it" "Of course," frowning gently, "every one knows that a star, howeve? 'small— stars are not famous according to their size, my dear, is of infinitely more value than one half of a baby's head. I mean,"—hastily—"speaking from the entirely Scientific point of view but as you were saying—you were saying, were you not"—a little doubtfully— "something about that unfortunate babe of Emmy's? Mrs. Nicholson had dried her eyes, and was confronting him in all cool Bplendor of her pretty summer dress, and with all the calm determination of a woman who has made up her mind, "Yes, I wa3,'" she said "only, once for all, John, if you call it a babe I "will leave yqur house at once, and nev er come back and if you call it unfor tnnate I shall take that hateful manu script with me and burn it at the kitchen fire. If it were yours"—with impassioned irony—"it might indeed be described as unfortunate but Charles is the best of fathers, and he has al ways been the best of husbands." "Yes, yes, of course, my dear. I said nothing against Charles. I did not know we were talking about him. We \. can finish him up to-night," cheerfully. "If that is all, you had better feo out now, while it is fine," turning hi3 eyes to the dazzling sunlight for an instant •L and then back to his blotted page. "You can tell me about Charles, you know, when you come in. The best of husbands! I don't know much about them, I fear, but I know a little about the best of wive3." He rose and laid his hand on the -long, slender, soft gray glove that was leaning with determination on his neat manuscript. The gray glove closed .. round his hand gently and clung to him almost as if it were loath to leave the thin worn fingers but he patted it gent ly and laid it aside. Mrs. Nicholson gave a faint sigh, but when she spoke again she spoke with decision and more pleading. "It is not Charles, indeed it is not it is the baby. Nurse has gone out, and I have put her cradle in the morning room by the window. "John," sudden ly, "are you listening? What did I say last"" "The morning-room, Agatha." "Well," with a sigh of relief, '1 see you are taking itin and forgetting those horrible stars, and how you can com pare a star to a baby" parenthetically, "is past me." "I am sure I never did," he said gently. "Well, don't interrupt me, John, or I Bhall never get out. What was I say ing? Oh, baby is in the morning-room, ags- and if she cries—makes one sound—you Bftvre to ring your bell—this bell, John— for cook do you understand?" "Yes, I believe so. I am to ring the bell—this bell—for cook." "Oh, I hope you will," after a pause. 'Taney," her eyes filled with tears again, "if she cried, and no one heard her. O John, you will not deceive me? You will try—and—ring?" My dear," speaking with some dig .nity, "surely I am not utterly destitute fA^of common humanity or common sense. &.-•1 have interesting work here," pointing ffi to the manuscript and the books of ref erence heaped around him, "but I snp .pose, after all, I am human.'' hc' "Oh, I hope so, I think so," cried •r" Agatha, clasping her hands "only you might not hear her that is all I meant." "Then I think," he said, with a gen tie sarcastic smile, "that you may dis miss your fears they are quite ground less." "Very well," said Agatha, moving in & hesitating way to the door. "I am satisfied I am trying to be satisfied don't forget" "No," cheerfully, "I will take a leaf from Charles's boSk, the best of hus bands." "Oh"—the gray glove had closed on the handle of the door, but released it again—"Ihe Paynters are coming to night, so you must not gooui star gazing." "All rightJ' ohediontly "good-bye." "Good bye." The bright face, that I?*- -,'Iiad almost disappeared round the door, ^came back again, and leaned against the worn velveteen of the astronomer's coat for a minute the lips were •••:. passed to it, then lifted. "Kiss me, John you area dear old follow after ^11, aod I am a fien4»* The sunshine seemed to leave the room with the sweet, bright presence and hover over the pretty cradle, among the sounds and scents of the midsummer day. In the library there was only one shaft of light that came through the high windows and fell across the velveteen coat, and the tidy manuscripts, and the open books, and left the handsome, clever, ref aed face in shadow. CHAPTKB n. It might have been two hours after ward—painful after events created confusion in Mr. Nicholson's mind, and the two hours might have been two days —when he became aware of a "laugh ID the passage by the door. His hand had grown tired by writing, but the pen traveled Bteadily 'on his eyes had grown a little tired, and it was a relief to raise them for a minute to tho locked door, behind which he heard tho laugh. He rose, with a half smile on hi? grave face, and paused, struck by a sudden presentment. Something came back to him, as he stood in the dull light of the dull room: was it a dream or memory, or was it—the baby? He pushed his paper hurriedly away, and walked over to the door and unlocked it, throwing it wide open. There was nothing in the passage but the yellow sunlight now upon the walls and on tho old prints,and Mrs. Nicholson stand ing in her pretty gray dre s, with her slim hands stretched out and the laugh that had disturbed him still upon her lips. In the room beyond there was more sunlight and the cradle. "John," cried Mr3. Nicholson, laugh ing again as if she could not help it, "what have you done with her Give her to me. You are earning your title to the best of husbands!" He looked up in qu'ck perplexity. "What is it, Agatha? What do you want? I have nothing to give you." "Oh, don't, John!" she cried, impa tiently "don't tease! I want baby." "Well"—the bame perplexed look creeping over his face, and softening its sternness—"take her," stretching out his hand to tho cradle in the sunlight. Agatha's eyes were turned on him for a minute with a look of contempt before which he positively quailed. Then she swept over to the cra.ile, and tossed out the little pillow, and the sheets with their lace, edges, and the pale-blue satin coverlets onto the floor in a soft heap, and stood looking down upon the empty cradle as ir she would conjure up the pink face and the flaxen head into their accustomed place. Mr. Nicholson had followed her on tip-toe and was stirring the softly shin ing heap on the floor with his patent leather shoes, as if he half imagined that she had tossed the baby out among them. "Well said Agatha, sharply. "Well?" he echoed feebly. "Do yo mean to say," she said, put ting aside he? angry vehemence and speaking tearfully, with her gray eyes turned up to his—"Oh, John, do you mean to say that you have lo3t her "I never touched her," he cried has tily, "I never—" heard her, he would have added, but again that faint mem ory—that dream—stirred him. "Upon my honor, Agatha," ho said abruptly, leaning down into the cradle, and poking at the mattress with his thin fingers, "upon my honor I can't remem ber." "You don't remember," said Agatha, with slow scorn. "Why, John, she roared! Cook beard her in the kitchen. She came rushing up, and found the cradle empty and a baby gone. She thought you hail taken her into the study she told me so but oh, John, it was somebody else, and they have stol en her." My dear," he said, shaking himself together and speaking more lightly, "who would steal her?—a baby roar ing, as you say!" He shuddered. "Why, surely no one in his senses would do such a thing!" "Emmy's baby!" cried Agatha, tear fully, "and that is how you speak of her! O John, dear John, think attain didn't you.hear her? Perhaps you have put her somewhere and she has gone to sleep. Sit down, John, mid think— perhaps you have put ,her somewhere and forgotten." Mr. Nicholson sat down on the win dow-sill and covered his face with his hands. He tried to think, but when ever he concentrated his mind on the baby he was dimly conscious of that fading fancy that he could not grasp that dream of a cry. It had disturbed him, he remembered, that a loud, pain ful, jarring cry, but it had died away surely it had died into peace without his*interference. "Agatha," he said, lifting up hn face, sharpened with the effect of crying, "I do remember some thing—somebody crying it must have been the babe." "Yes," said Agatha, eagerly, "go on! You heard hex*, she roared so. Well, and then You—" "I—I can't remember, Agatha. I may have gone on writing, that seems the most likely, I think but I may have gone to the door. No," shaking hie head, "I can't get bey on. I the cry. I do remember that now distinctly." "Perhaps," said Agatha, hopefully, through her tears, "you have put her somewhere in the library. What have you been doing or using this after noon Mr. Nicholson followed humbly as she swept in before him, and flung open the great curtains, so that the light rushed in onto his table strewed with plans and manuscript. Even then he spread out his hands, almost uncon sciously, to defend his precious papers from her light scornful touch but she stood in the center of the room, looking into every corner with her quick, soft eyes. "What have you used, John—this chair? You have not been to the cup board No," peeping into the dark re cess, musty with papers. "What else?" "Nothing else, Agatha, here, except," with a quick smile, "the waste-paper basket, and that is empty. "You can see for yourself." "Ah," said Agatha, "here is cook," as a heavy breathing became audible in the passage. "Cook," her voice trem bling at sight of the sympathetic face, "your master has not seen the baby—at least, he thinks not He was very busy, but he heard her cry, and he may have taken her up and forgotten. We are looking for her." "Which you won't never find her, then," said cook, in a broken voice. "In my last place but one, where I was general cleaner in Mrs. 'All's family, thare WAS a child disappeared, as it might be this, and it was never found —gypsies or not, it was never come across again." "Oh don't cook!"cried Agatha,plain tively. "And Emmy coming this even ing Your master thinks ho may have put her somewhere and forgotten. He remembexs hearing her." "Which he might," said cook, "not being deaf. Which I don't mean no disrespect, sir, but she was roaring awful, and I says to Mary, says I, Mas ter'll never know *ow,to quiet that child, so I'll rnn up and bring her down a bit and I stops to change my apron, and I UJ^TIS it might be here, and the cradle, as itinight be there, and no sound, and the cradle as empty as it is this minute." Cook turned dramatically, and point ed one stout arm to the little oradle in the sunlight. Mrs. Nicholson's tearful eyes followed the hand, and her hus band stood uneasily in the center of the group with an anxious frown upon his face. 'Which," added cook scornfully, "I think a baby—and, such a one, bless her!—is of more "Wily than all th rubbish." She waved her hand over the table, on which lay the neat man uscript and the rows of mended pens and Mr. Nicholson moved instinctively a step backward, as if she had an evil eye and his writings would shrivel up at her scornful gesture. "Cook," said Mrs. Nicholson, with dignity marred a little by the quiver in her voieo, "you don't understand. Your master is very clever, and his writings are of great value. Of course," with a pleading look upward* "baby is our first thought just now,. There are no wild beasts here, flOr stle cannot be eaten. But she has' gone, and before Emmv comes this evening she must be found.' "Of course she must," said her hus band, plucking up courage from het exceeding gentleuess, "We will begin systematically, and go through ever/ room in the house." So the searoh began that ended an hour later in the grca". hall, with three perplexed faces meetin each other at the foot cf the stairs, in a si'ence that Mrs. Nicholson broke. "It's no use, John I cannot bear it any longer. She is lost!" She flung out her empty hands with a despairing gesture, but her husband caught and held them. "Don't give up, Agatha it will all come right. If I search the world throngh I will find her." "Or the body," said the cook. Mrs. Nicholson shuddered. The minute's silencn was broken by a sound of merry laughter and the tramp ing of feet. For a minute Agatha raised her head, listened intently and then she drooped it with a High. "It's only the rectory boys, John,'1 she said. "They have been in the liay fiekl nil day, and I asked them to tea. I can't speak to them I am to anxious." She would have moved away, but the noiso and laughter wero in the hall abready, and the boys were stumbling up toward her in the darkness, over rugs and skins. Something white was being shoved from one to the other, and was pushed into Agatha's arms at last, and held there by a pair of rough sunburned hands. "What is it? Oh, Jack, what is it?" she criod, bending down and kissing,' to their owner's great surprise, the boy's rough hands. "Don't I say," said Jack, drawing them away with a curious, shame-faced look. "It's only the baby, Mrs. Nich olson. She was crying in the cradle, so I just got into the room and bagged her. She's been playing in the hay she nearly got jabbed with a rake, but Jim got it instead. She's a jolly little thing. Did you miss her "Yes, I thought she was lost," said Agatha, gently. "Lost!" with a roar of laughter. "Well, that is good! Mty we wash our hands for tea? I'm not so dirty, I've been holding her but Jim's simply mud all over. Here, have you got her it's so dark I can't see." The turbulent tide swept away into the dim dist nee of stairs and passages, leaving a little group in the twilight of the hall a tall, dark figure, against which a golden head was leaning, and two arms with a white bundle folded in them. "Kiss her, John," came a soft voice out of the darkness. "I know you would rather not, she's only a baby, not a star but just as a punishment, becauso you were so stupid." The tall figure stood and laid a dark mustache against the little bundle. "She's very soft," said another voice "I don't think I ever knew so much about a baby before." There was, after a moment's silence, a movement on the man's part, as though he were drawing himself up to his full height with a view to reassert ing his dignity. He cleared his throat. "After all, Agatha," he said, stifly, "I did not lose the baby." "I never said you did," said Agatha "I only asked you, and you couldn't re member." "Another time," with an evident ef fort, "I suppose I shall be condemned unheard." "Another time," scornfully. "You may set your mind at rest. Neither I nor Emmy are in the leat likely to trust you again, at least not with any thing valuable." "Then, how about the baby," with a laugh. "That," said Agatha, firmly, "includes the baby."—London Society. Watch and the Minister. A student from Dartmouth spent the long winter vacation in teaching on Cape Cod. The minister kindly furn ished him with board, and as he had a charming wife and a cozy home, our sohool teacher declared that he had but one trial, and that wa? on the Sab bath. The minister's pew was a large square one, very near the pulpit, and exposed to a raking fire of eyes. Mr. Tyler, the minister, owned a large dog named Watch, and Watch was bent on going to church with Mrs? Tyler. She, in her turn, was very much opposed to his going, fearing that ho might excite the mirth of the chil dren. Every Sunday a series of maneuvers took place between the two, in which Watch often proved himself the keen est. Sometimes he slipped away very early, and Mrs. Tyler, after having searched for him, to shut him up, would go to clmrch and find Watch seated in tho family pew, lookii very grave and decorous, but evidently aware that it was too late now to turn him out. Sometimes he woul.l hide himself un til tli8 family had all started for church, and would then follow the footsteps of some tardy worshiper who tiptoed in during prayers with creak ing boots, and then didn't Watch know that MTS. Tyler would opoa the pew door in haste, to prevent his whining for admission When Sir. Tyler became earnest in his appeals, he often repeated the same word with a ringing emphasis and a blow on the desk-cushion that stai tied the sleepers in the pews. One day he thus shouted out, quot ing the well-known text, "Watch! Watch! Watch, I say III" When rustle, rustle, bounce!! came his big dog al most into his very arms. You may be sure tho boys all took oc casion to relieve their pent-up restless ness by one uproarious laugh, before their astonished parents had time to frown them into silence. Honest Watch had been s'fc'ing with his eji fixed, as usual, on the miiiister. At tho first mention of his me up went his cars, and his eyes kindled at the second he was still more deeply moved at the third he obeyed, and flow com pletely over pew rail and pulpit door, leaps that did equal honor to his mus cular powers and his desire to oboy. After such a strict interpretation of the letter, rather than the spirit, Watch was effectually forbidden church-going. —Youth's Companion. Saddles Nowadays. "Saddles are not what they were," an expert rider remarked in the course of a talk on the benefits and pleasure of excercise on horseback. "Enthus iasts have suggested valuable improve ments. Col. Amasa J. Parker, Jr., of Albany, and some other riders have had the theory that they should be brought so close to the horses as to make them sensible of every movement Saddle, for ladies as well as gentlemen, on plans worked out by them, are low in frcnt and rear, and are very light and graceful. When made of selected pig-skin, with silver-plated trimmings, steel spring bar, silver-plated rubber footed stirrups, and other appendages of extra quality, the cost is $75. Plain skirt saddles, without knee puffs or thigh puffs, of the ordinary patern, in imitation of hog-skin, russet leather, or black leather, can be bouglt for from $12 to $27. Park saddle in regular style in the trade run from $18 to $70. "I saw two saddles the other day for use on the plains and in the mountains of the far west One was a vaquero saddle for ranch use, and the other was for travelers, physicians, miners, and others. The first weighed, with its fixtures, about forty-five pounds. With it.) heavy straps, rire'ed leather, big rings, silver plating, and buckskin thongs it was an affair likely to touch the heart of the ambitious cowboy hav ing $65 in his pocket. "The styles of the saddle for the western and southern trade fill page after pago of an illustrated catalogue of one saddler down town, and I could not begin to describe them. They range from those with almost no seat for about $£ to those with seats, sweat leathers, leg guards, straps, and hooded stirrups, elaborately decorated with raised stamp work, and with long buck skin thongs hanging from many points, all for about $50. The varieties of pat terns were bewildering."—New York Sun. THE incandescent light will now have a boom. It has been discovered that tho immersion of one of these in a bar rel of whisky for a few minutes "ages" the liquor as effectually as would 't* storage for year* LEGISLATURE. The Bill Changing the Name of the Tillage of Ordway Vetoed. Indications that the Exemption Law Will bt Somewhat f" Modified. 4^ Th^ County Scat of Roberts County Lo cated at Traverse, Ending the "Late "War." t£- Both Branches of the Legislature Visit the Grand Forks University, and ari .... .. bojralljr Entertainedt PA--L •!&'* (Associated Pross.l BILLS IN THE COUNCIL. BISMARCK, Feb. 2.—In the Council the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Smedlev, abolishing the Reform School at Milbank. By Mr. Cameron, abolishing Independ ent School Districts Nos. 3 and 4, Lake County. By Mr. Twomey, authoriz:ng School District No. 8, Cass County, to issue bonds to build a school-house. By Mr. Flittie, dividing Traill County into commissioner districts. Also to fix the salary of the Superintendent Of Schools in Traill County. Also author lzing the Treasurer of Traill County to fund the county general fund. Also es tablishing civil townships in Traill County. By Mr. Westover, providing for build ing a court-house and jail in Hamlin County. By Mr. Gamble, providing for the or ganization of new counties. By Mr. Walsh, amending section 4 of the "charter of Grand Forks relating to ward funds. Also authorizing persons whose lands have been taken for railroad purposes to maintain actions to recover compensation therefor. Also amending section 67, Chapter 6, of the code of civil procedure. Also authorizing railroad companies to determine the validity of proceedings in condemning lands for railroad purposes and make coinpensa tion therefor. IN TOE nousE bills were introduced: By Mr. Van Osdel, providing for taxa tion of lands where certificates of title are issued making the lands taxable prior to the issuance of a patent. Also striking out the provision exempting from other license tnose who paid a liquor license in Yankton. By Mr. Ward, locating the county-seat of Turner County at Parker. Bv Mr. Dawson, amending the laws of 188$ in relation to county commissioners, and striking out the exception of Union and Dav Counties. By Mr. McCumbcr, making Richland and Sargent Counties a subdivision of the Third Judicial District. By Mr. Parshall, by request, authoriz ing towns and cities to loan credit to assist in building flouring mills. By Mr. Martin, amending the civil code in relation to corporations. By Mr. Smith, for an appropriation for the salaries of employes of the Council and House of Representatives. Bills passed by the Council: Providing $7o,000 for the permanent improvement of the North Dakota insane asylum at Jamestown. Amending the charter of Grand Forks. Bills passed in the House: Appropriating $5,000 to support the Spearfisn Normal School. An appropriation for printing the re ports of Auditor and Treasurer. The Council accepted an invitation to to visit the University of Grand Forks next Fridav. Messrs. Wells, Kennedy, Walsh, Petti grew and Gamble were announced as the special committee to whom the capital removal bill was referred last week. Five hundred copies of the memorial to congress for division were ordered printed. The House passed unanimously the joint resolution passed the Council Sat urday condemning citizens of Spink County for the treatment of Councilman Day and Representative Miller, and Rep resentative Miller, and expressed unquali fied approval of their course and confi dence in their integrity. LAW APPROVED. The Governor approved the law ex tending the time to June 1 for taxes to become delinquent. No action has been taken on the bill changing the name of Ordway to Independence. The Governor has received no intimation as to what the people of Ordway desire. The bill will become a law tomorrow without his signa ture unless returned. THE GOVERNOR'S FIRST VETO. BISMARCK, Feb. 8.—The Governor ve toed the bill changing the name of the town of Ordway to Independence because of a remonstrance of citizens there, and the Council failed to pass the bill over the veto, lacking the necessary two-thirds. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. The committee appointed to confer "with a similar committee from the Min nesota Legislature, reported by bill similar to the bill now pending in the Minnesota curtailing exemption on account of family expenses was defeated —yeas 22, nays 24. The bill adding the words "including work done through the aid of teams and farm machinery" to the statute in rela tion to liens, being a substitute for Mr. Dewoody's threshing lien-bill, passed. Also Council bills authorizing Grand Forks to offer a reward for the Snell mur derers authorizing the school district of Ordway to fund its indebtedness creating the County of Garfield and locating the county-seat of Spink County at Asnton. Also the House bill providing that license funds after July 1 shall go into the gen eral fund of the county. IN THE COUNCIL the rules were suspended and a bill intro duced and passed authorizing a reward of $1 ,000 for the arrest of the murderers of Mrs. Snell by the commissioners of Grand Forks. Those who voted to pass the bill chang ing the name of Ordway to Independence over the Governor's veto, were Messrs. Cameron, Duncan, Farmer, Flittie, Gam ble, Jones, Natwick, Pettigrew, Washa baugh and the President. A petition from Frank Wilson was pre sented, asking the Council to reopen the Wilcox-LaMoure contest, charging forg ery and fraud in taking testimony on behalf of the contestee. The petition was laid on the table with out reading until the return of LaMoure. Mr. Pettigrew's bill abolishing Tax Commissioner, Wheat Grading Commis sioner, Fish Commissioner, and mileage tax of telegraph and telephone compan ies, passed. The provision abolishing the office of Attorney General was stricken out. Also bills providing that a bill of excep tions in criminal cases may be settled in the same manner as in civil cases relat ing to the Wells County tier of townships added to Foster County two years ago authorizing Yankton County to remit the railroad taxes of 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875 providing for a county seat election in Bon Homme Countv in May next. The bill dividing McHenry County and creating the County of Foucher was de feated. A LARGE NUMBER OF BILLS WERE INTRO DUCED in both houses, among them in the Coun cil: By Mr. Twomey, giving the defense the closing argument. By Mr. Flettie, to encourage the plant ing of forest trees by giving a bounty. By Mr. Wells, establishing a Board of Health for the Territory. By Mr. Austin, creating Ransom and Sergeant Counties, and subdividing the judicicial districts. In the House: By Mr. Riddell, limiting the time of holding the offices of sheriff and county treasurer to two terms. By Mr. Ward, providing for a vote on the county-seat location of Brule county. By Mr. "Martin, making Levisee's code prima facie evidence of law. By Mr. Eldridge, establishing a Normal School at Big Stone. The House accepted the Grand Forks invitation, and both branches of the Leg islature will visit the University at Grand Forks, leaving on Friday. ORGANIZATION OF COUNTIES. A measure materially affecting the in terests of the Territory was brought to the attention of the Ccuncil yesterday in the form of a bill introduced by Mr. Gam ble providing fot the organization of new counties. The numerous county-seat wrangles, notably in Roberts and Spink Counties, are dirftctly traceable to the in sufficient provisions of the law as regards county organization. In framing the bill introduced yesterday Mr. Gamble has taken the precaution to throw all possible safeguards about its provisions, so that there is little if any opportunity for fraud and its subsequent troubles. Under the Sents resent law a petition signed by fifty resid is the only requisite for the forma tion of anew county. Following ar$ the provision of Mr. Gamble's bill: SSSwSti Th« Governor, upon leeetvtaff a pMWoi ftpm 150 legal voters of the oounty desiring organization, shall prooeed to call an elootion therein, flxinf the timeand plaM for holding the same and transmitting the notice to the Cleric of the District Court tho judicial sub division to Whidh the unorganized county is is attached. The vote to be taken is for county officers and location of the county seat. The Clerk of the Court, Register Of Deeds and Commissioners, appoint judges of Election in the usual manner, and divide the unorganised country into voting precinotA, posting live hotices of eloctloii in Said precincts aha pub lishing the same in the county where their office is located. The Governor appoints somo non-resident as Supervisor of Election in each precinct, furnishes ballot boxes and poll books and personally assists the Judges of Electiori in canvassing the votes. The ballots, after being counted, are to be strung on a bord, scaled in a package and placed iil the ballot box carefully scaled. It Is the duty of the Supervlsor in each precinct to return tho box to the District Clerk above named and the other poll book to the Begister Of Deeds, Clerk of Court, Probate Judge, and two mem bers of the Board of County Commissioners, all in the county in which tho notices are pub lished to constitute the canvassing board, who perform their duties in the same manner as at any ordinary election. Illegal voting or interfering with the ballot boxes or poll books is made a felony, with severe penalties at tached. The place receiving the highest number of votes is to be the temporary county, seat. It may afterward be changed in the man ner prescribed by the terms of a bill in troduced by Mr. Gamble several days ago. The two bills taken together provide for all emergencies, and if passed and ap proved will insure for the Territory an immunity from the troubles that have for some time been a blot upon her fair name. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. BISSIARCK, Feb. 4.—In the Council the following Council bills were passed: Requiring notices of pendency of ac tion. Repealing chapters 61 and 62 of the laws of 1838 relating to mortgage fore closures. Establishing Independent School Dis trict No. 2 in Lake County. Increasing the directors of the Sioux Falls Penitentiary to five, and creating the office Of Deputy Warden. Amending the laws creating tho Fargo Board of Education. House bills passed relative to Hyde County taxes and correcting verbal error in section 218 of the civil code. Also section 339 of the civil code. The Council passed its committee bill appropriating $2,600 from the Territorial Treasury to pay the expenses of the Redfield war, being a substitute for the bill requiring Redfield to pay. IN THE HOUSE the vote by which Mr. Rice's family ex pense bill was defeated yesterday was re considered and the bill passed. Those who voted nay yesterday and nay to-day were Messrs. Morgan, McHugh, Pugli, Roach, Strong and Williams, the latter to move reconsideration. The bill reduces the exemption on ac count of debts incurred for the education of children and for family expenses to $309, and makes the property of the wife subject to suit for debts of this character as well as the property of the husband. The Council bill passed locating the county-seat of Roberts County at Tra verse, and attaching part of three town ships to Richland County. This settled by Legislative enactment the county-seat difficulties of Roberts as well as Spink County, and rebukes those resorting to force. House bills passed: Striking out the provision of the Yank ton charter exempting those paying city liquor license from other licenses. Requiring counties instead of towns to build bridges if the cost exceeds $400. Authorizing Richland County to fund its court-house debt. Authorizing Clay and Lincoln Counties to elect five county commissioners. Adding County Treasurer to tho board to appoint offices in case the board cannot agree. Authorizing affidavits out of the Terri tory to be authenticated the same as depositions. The committee reported, with a recom mendation that it do pass, the female suffrage bill, which was made the special order for Tuesday at 3 p. m. THE ANDERSON-HUTCHINSON CONTEST coming up for consideration, on the com mittee^ report intimating that Anderson had been corruptly influenced to with draw, a lively discussion occurred, and the case was finally given back to the committee with instructions to send for persons and papers and investigate the cause of Anderson's withdrawal. It is alleged that Anderson, becoming dis couraged because of repeated delays, pro posed to withdraw from the contest if his expenses were paid by the contestee, and that the facts were stated by Anderson in a letter to the chairman of the committee, which the House refused to allow read. The apparent disposition of the House is to seat Anderson if he is entitled to the seat, and then deal with him if the charges of accepting a bribe are found to be true. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. BISMARCK. Feb. 5,—In the Council La Moure urged that the Wilson petition charging fraud in taking testimony in the late Wilson-LaMoure contest should be taken up. Mr. LaMoure said the object of the petition seemed to be to place odium upon the persons tSking testimony, and he desired to place the matter where it could be reached for future use. If the averments of the petitioner are true some body has committed a grave crime. If committed in his interest he wanted those responsible punished. If by other parties he would attend to them. The matter was finally referred to the Attorney Gen eral, and the District Attorney of Walsh County, for investigation The Ordway University bill being re ported adversely, Mr. Kennedy made a minority report, and the measure was made the special order for 3 p. m. to morrow, Resolutions were unanimously adopted thanking Senator Harrison for his inter est in Dakota and efforts in behalf of the admission and division of Dakota. Speaker Rice left the chair to move to amend the bill by striking out the pream ble, "the Legislature in session at Bis marck, the Capital," the word "Bis marck." This was agreed to without objection, and the point sought to be gained was lost. To-day when the bill came up in the Council Mr. Gamble moved to strike from the preamble the words, "at the Capital.'' The motion was lost—12 to 8, five mem bers from the South voting with the north, one northern member being ab sent. Council bills passed: Creating independent school district No. 4, Lake County. Amending the charter of Sioux Falls. Making Ransom and Sargent Counties a subdivided judicial district. House bills passed as follows: Making an. appropriation to pay per sons employed in and about the Capitol building. A memorial to Congress in behalf of Mexican war pensions. HOUSE. In the House the afternoon was con sumed principally on the proposition to divide Burleigh County, to adopt Mel ville's justice code and practice-and other unimport measures. House bills passed: Vacating thetownsite of Belmont. Adding a quarter, section to independ ent school district No. 1, Moody County. Council bills passed: Providing for the purchase of water for the Capitol Building. Requiring the construction of passage ways for fish in the James and other rivers. Mr. Myron's bill requiring pixty days' rcsidenc3 in tie county and twenty days in the precinct, instead of twenty in the county and tea in the precinct, as now, was passed by unanimous vote. BRIBERY CHARGED. BISMARCK, Feb. 6.—Mr. Pettigrew offered the. following resolutions in the Council to-day: WHEREAS, It having come to the knowledge of members of this body that certain mem bers of this Legislature hare be 3n approached by certain persons with threats and promtses, for tho purpose of Influencing the official action of ta'd members, in violation of the several codes o'-' t'^e Territory therefore belt Resolved, That a Joint Committee of ..five members, three of the Bouse and two of the Council, be appointed consider the Com plaints of attempts at bribery, and report what action is necessary to bring this class of offenders to Justice. Mr. Pettigrew read the law in relation to the bribery of mambers and the pen alties prescribed. He said the investiga tion propqsed wa3 not aimed at ahy par- non propqseu was not aimea at any ticular member or person. He shouli prefer charges against anyone upon rumor. It had men said this membei He should not mere Oils member and that member has been threatened that if they did not vote so and so their measures would ba defeated. If this resolution is put through—If it accomplishes no more than to inform men, whether members or otherwise, that thes3 practices are dan gerous aud that thera is a law upon the subject and a psnnlty prescribed—it will have accomplished much. Men must un derstand that they become liable to the penalties of 'the law 'if they approach members by threats or promises. It has been said that this resolution is intended to ifltipiiflate, If does intimidate and make men afraid to commit crime, then let us havo this class of intimidation. In the course of the discussion it was developed that Dewoody was the person at whom the resolution was aimed, and that the threats referred h&d remote rela tion to the Capital qualrrel, but direct rela tion to Pettigrew's adverse report tin the Ordway University bill, Mr. Dewoodjr having intimated that the Bduth Dakota membei's could not expect to have their measures rushed while those of Central Dakota were being antagonized because Central Dakota members were not anxious for Capital removal. The Dakota law in relation to, bribery or the trading of support among the mem bers is vefy stringent and the penalty may reach ten year's' imprisonment and $5,000 fine, and this penalty extends deep and reaches the lobby as well as the members. Consideration of the Ordway Univer sity location and appropriation was post poned until one week from Monday. Council bills passed: Authorizing Foster County to issue $5,000 in bonds to build a court-house. Authorizing Wells County to issue bonds to fund $2,000 debt. Repsaling chapter 37 of the laws of 1831 relation to Stut-man Count}'. Establishing the Dakota Hospital for the Insane and providing for its govern' tnent. The Council did not adjourn over until Monday, but, it is understood, a majority are going to Grand Forks, and that no business will be transacted to morrow. Among the bills introduced was one making Decoration Day a legal holiday, by Mr. Pettigrew. HOUSE. The House appointed itself, with the Speaker chairman, a special committee to investigate the Universityat Grand Forks, to report on Monday at 2 p. m. The com mittee will leave at 3:20 p. m. on a special train. The Council will probably take similar action. House bills passed: Appropriating $10,509 for the Spring field Normal School. Providing for the better education of dental surgeons. Establishing independent school dis trict No. 2, Kingsbury County. Providing that proof of the existence of corporaiions shall not be required un less named in the answer. Providing for additional legislative clerks. Providing for Territorial agricultural fairs. THE THIRD HOUSE AT WORK. BISMARCK, Feb. 7.—The two houses of the Legislature met at the usual hour, there.being no quorum in either. A mes sage from the Governor in relation to bills returned was received and both ad journed. The third house took possession and removed the absent Speaker, declared the seats vacant, relocated the capital, estab lished normal schools in every district, gave Ordway a full set of public institu tions, and elected Sitting Bull chairman of the Indian Committee in place of De woody, etc. AT GRAND FORKS. GRAND FORKS, Feb. 7.—The Legisla ture, numbering about sixty officers of both branches, and eight ladies from Bis marck, were given a reception and dinner at the University to-day. Dr. Blackborn delivered the address of welcome, declar ing the University in favor of law and order. He was responded to by Presi dent Westover, of the Council, and Speaker Rice, of the House. A large number of citizens were in attendance. President Collins, of the Regents, and Twomey and Steele, with the University faculty, made an effort to have a good impression of the value of the Univer sity, and th:s they accomplished. The citizens' reception was accorded in mag nificent style, the ladies of the city re ceiving at the Pioneers' Club House, and extending free hospitality. An elaborate The roller rink was brilliantly illumina ted for the ball and the hall magnificently decorated. The guests were highly pleased with the reception. Quite a num ber returned this evening. Representa tives of the press were here from all the adjacent towns. .TV OLLA FODRIDA. THE married woman's sphere a ball of darning cotton. AN ordinary train of passenger coaches is worth about $93,000. A WELL preserved 1804 cent recently sold in New York for $200., LAST year a family of four persons at Brockton, Mass., devoured 802 pies. IT is said that there are poems un written, but the average editor believes it not. WHEH a hen retires for the night it is quite proper to speak of her as a rooster. AN Eastern tobacconist recently re ceived tbree thousand pennies in pay ment of a debt. THE yearly mortality among sailors from shipwreck averages one in every four thousand. THE tonnage of the Great Eastern has been computed to be greater than that of Noah's Ark. THERE is $40,000,000 of unclaimed money now in the vaults of the United States Treasury. A NEW York firm last year manu factured 1,500,000 tons of chocolate, using over a ton of sugar a day. MYRA CLARK GAINES probably knew more about law than any woman in the world during the last decade. THERE is a big difference between pot luck and Jack pot luck. There is any amount of difference in the latter. OVER 1,500 roller skating rinks were built in 1884, and, on an average, one serious accident occurs in each of them every day. WASHINGTON, D. C., has a "teacher of memory," who claims that in a few lessons he will enable one to memorize the most difficult things without effort. PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR enjoys the remarkable distinction of being the first heir to the heir apparent to the British throne who grew to manhood. "Here, waiter, take away these fried oysters. They are bad." "I know it, sir but we have given you two more oysters than you called for, to make up for it." A ROCKVILLE, Ga., boy, in crossing a newly washed gully, discovered a dog's skull containing twenty one-dol lar gold pieces and some small pieces of of silver. BT a new system of telegraphic short-hand, developed by an Italian and called the "steno-telegraph," it is claimed that ten thousand words per hour can be transmitted. "HE tried to kiss me, and I just told him to behave," said an irate young OUR BISMARCK BUDBET. A'. J[ Dynamite Sensatiw—Status So* .. .. cleiy—The Weatfcer—Legte* lative Notes* tFrom Our Speclsl dorre«ponlnl.J BISMARCK, Feb. 2, 1883. The third week of the Sixteenth Legis lative Session Of Dakota Teifitory has now passed into history, and still the anxious member retires at night uttering his well committed prayer for his appro priation bill. Now he is up iti the garret —his spirit cbeered by some favorable combination which his vivid imagination pictures in plain relief before him now down into the cellaf Of disappointment by an unfavorable wind that blows across the plain of his operations, and he re-' treats to the'inmost closet of his feelings —shuts the door behind him in a scriptu ral way—and, in the language of Ireland immortal bard, agonizingly exclaims: ,a "O! ever thus from childhood's hour, .: I've seen my fondest hopes decay 1 never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away." And in this dread suspense he wears the days and nights away, "becoming all things to all men that he might save some" part of his appropriation bill and, thus it goes on till near the end of the session^ when he is relieved of the Immediate Weight Of his burden and an end is put to his prayerful life by a report from the committee on appropriations recommending "that the bill do not pass." Sensation is the regular diet at Bis marck nowadays. We have something new every day. If there is nothing real to base a sensation upon the quill-ariver of the morning paper is sure to furnish a foundation by the employment of cun ning invention. The other morning the Tribune man had discovered, hidden away somewhere—he wouldn't tell where —a dynamite machine, or some othei1 deadly engine, which Was to explode and raise "Ned" generally, but just what it was going to do he carefully refrained from telling. He warned the peo ple of the Capital City to beware of the shock. It was enough 1 Gossip im mediately captured the people and the town was electrified. "What is it?" "Where is it?" "Who is it pointed at?" were the oft-repeated questions of the day. We heard an old lady exclaim: "Mercy on us, Maria! What is going to happen?" But Maria had been to the postoffice and bethought herself to call upon fifteen or twenty of her neighbors on her way back, and she was able to re port that it was whispered about that somebody had said that the South Dakota members of the Legislature had enter tained thoughts of bringing up that capi tal removal bill again! (Sensation.) The old lady swooned and fell back into her easy chair, the camphor bottle was brought, and when she had sufficiently recovered from the hysterical shock to speak, sbe interrupted the process of re suscitation with the exclamation? "For mercy sakes! Don't tell me any morel What ever possessed those South Dakota members ,to come up here! We've had nothing but trouble ever since they camel" Society has assumed royal airs at Bij marck. McKenzie keeps open during the entire session. Every! concedes that Aleck is a good fellow^ and that he has made lots of money. On the inside of Bismarck society it is said that the expense of this royal style is onty an investment for expected returns. Of course we strangers are unable to say whether this be true or false but, the free carriages which go and come, and the numerous waiters who attend implic itly to the calls of the guests, and bring you Mumm's Extra Dry, or the finest old Otard or, who summon the carriages at your command and carry your swallow tail coat for you as you pass to the drawing room or to the carriage, are all evidences that "the Sheriff" has made money at feast warprepared* in Syndicate Hall. something, and that he is determined to This evening there was a banquet to 150 spend some of it during the present ses ladies and gentlemen and a magnificent sien. Major Edwards of the Fargo Argus feast. The Cadet Band furnished music. A welcome was extended on behalf of the city by Mayor McCormick. After supper toasts were happilv responded to: "The Territory," bv C. B. Pratt "The Coun cil," by J. H. Westover reply, A. W. Bangs "Assemblies," Geo. Rice reply, by JTH. Basard "Our Guests," District Attorney W. A. Selby "No. 1 Hard," J. M. Cochrane "The Press," by Lauren Dunlap, of the Chicago Inter Ocean reply, W. R. Bierly "Tne Ladies," Maj. Pickler. A letter was read from Gen. Bradley, and many happy responses. is also anchored in Bismarck during the winter, and keeps open house in another Erandies, art of the town, with a train of waiters, wines and hard cider. He is booming his Capital City property and claims to have handled real estate here in hundred thousand, dollar lots. This was when the boom was red hot and all of Bismarck constituted one vast insane asylum filled to overflowing. The Major weighs 840 pounds, has a face like the full moon in the almanacs, and as a corre spondent knows when and where to use taffy better than any other quill-driver in Bismarck. He is everywhere recognized as one of the charter members of the "capital ring," which the daily Blade of this city embraces a la grizzly bear at nearly every issue. The weather has continued intensely cold up to two or three days back, when a "chinook" struck us and the thermome ter ventured up to zero—to-day a little above it. By-the-way, what is a "Chi nook?" Well, in the western mountain ranges it is common for a warm Pacific Coast breeze to come pouriug through the mountain passes and to carry the snow entirely oft in a few hours. This is called a "chinook" wind. There is no perceptible difference in the weather here and in South Dakota, except that in this latitude it seems to range, on an average, about ten or fifteen degrees colder, and, as a consequence, the mer cury sometimes remains for weeks at a time below zero. If it chance to get warmer and the mercury creeps up to zero and vicinity, the people here Are in the habit of calling it a "chinook." It is a good joke upon the genuine chinook in his native mountain home, but afar bet ter joke upon that deluded stranjger who comes here impressed with the idea that he is going to be fanned by tropic breezes and sit, in winter time, under tne cooling shade of the lofty banana or spreading palm tree. There is some good society in Bis marck—some who have a desire to ele vate the standard above that level to which the little town is tending under capital influences. There is all the form and style here of a metropolitan city, though it is more narrowed iu its propor tions. Recently a Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized hero, and it is a fact that the little body of brave women who ventured upon this scheme have a thorny path to tread and small recognition from the body of the people, especially the well-to do class. Even the ministers of the Gospel are said to have kept themselves aloof from the movement, presumably upon the ground that a large portion of their support comes from the awful but generous liquor dealing clement. These are, at least 6ome of the charges made by members of tho W. C. T. U. Capital influences are, at all events, bad upon the morals of those who are by politics, elc., thrown for a time into such an atmosphcro. Even the good old Parson Brownlow, of Tennes see, used to say that, as he crossed the long bridge to enter the City of Washing ton, when he could smell the atmosphere of the Capital, he always began to feel as If he wanted to s'enl something. It is even hinted at that there are per sons now in Bismarck who feel as if theys would like to steal something, and it is even further hinted that the present Leg islature is looked to for an enabling act, that the stealing may be done under color of law. I wiil try to give something of a de scription of public and private buildings of note in my next. FEDKR. BENJAMIN WEST'S great picture, "Christ Healing the Sick," which was driginallypresented by him to the lady after a sleigh-ride down the road special structure erected on the hos the other day. "Well, did he kiss pital grounds for its public exhibition, you," asked her friend. "No, the idiot, he behaved." A CHICKEN with a clipped wing made several ineffectual attempts to A CHINESE orange, weighing 2§ pounds and measuring 19 inches in cir cumference lengthwise and 17 the shorter way, was taken a short time ago from a tree growing in,the yard of a Maysville, Cal., citizen. SITTING BULL has his photograph token three times a week. He can afford to. He can stand it. He just sits down, assumes his own position, lays one hand on his tomahawk, glares right into the camera, and there isat' a photographer in the land who dai-« ask him to look right .. up here at crack in the wall, or say to him, "Lo« pleasant, please." It is somethis siraet to be Injun.—JBob Bmiku*. Penn sylvania Hospital, in Philadelphia, has, after a number of removals, found its way back there agam,i and is now hung in the clinical lecture hall. When it was first received the trustees had a Uie fees being a considerable source of income. Then the painting was placed in the Academy of Fine Arts, and it was afterward removed to the insane de- fly over a fence. An Irishman who! P®'tment, in West Philadelphia. The renewed interest felt in the work of West aa a native of Philadelphia has led to its being honored with an appro priate location. witnessed the efforts of the "chick" laughingly exclaimed: "Begorra, she has a defective flew." "DID you ever execute a work of art?" asked a Boston girl of a young man from the country. "Oh, yest" was the cheerful reply. "We Scrubtown fellows hung Gov. St. John In effigy a couple of months ago." A VERY complete filling for open cracks in floors may be made by thor oughly soaking newspapers in paste made of one pound of flour, three quarts of water, and a table-spoonful of alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed. Make the flbtt.1 mixture about as thick as putty, and it.will harden like papier macbe. 11 TO UAES invisible ink, take linseed oil, one pprt water o£ ammonia, twenty parts pure water, 100 parts.. Mix thoroughly, and shake well before using. To .make the writing appear, dip tne paper in water. The charac ters fade as the paper dries. "Yov may speak," said a fond mother, "about people having strength of mind, but when it comes to strength of don't mind, my son tViyii body I evw knew.^. A Difficult Problem. Tn was in an Illinois town. The natters were out with a sensational arti cKarding the defalcation and flight of the town treasurer, and the Was the talk on ever^comer and in pverv store. ANew Yorker Who hap pened to be in the town was consider Sblv interested, and in conversation with a leading rBefchaftt he remarked, "I presume he gave a btradr #•*. "O, yes," ,„.i "And the bondsmen are good "That's tho deuce of it, mister, ex claimed the merchant. "I'm the only bondsman, and lie's plrtced me irt a mean position. I was preparing to fit and beat my Chicago creditors, but 111 be hanged if I see how I to beat Chi cago and the town too and get enough property in my wife's name to start a wholesale house in Dubuque. The Baby's Name. "And so you've named yoi^rb^by, have you?" *2 "Oh, yes." "What is it you call him?" "Thomas Muscovy Martin Luther Benson." The poor little toad! Why did you load it down with so much name?" "Well, it seemed as though I couldn't slight my own brother, and I insisted on Muscovy on his aefcount." "But how about Martin Lutherr You wasn't under any special obliga tions to him." "No, but my husband was deternlinea that he must be named after one of the apostles, and Martin was my choice of the lot." 'v An Insanity Plea. It was during a murder trial. A witness for the defence was on the stand. "What do you intend to prove by this witness?"' asked the Judge. "That the prisoner is insane," re plied the attorney. "Does the witness know anything about insanity? Is ho an expert?" "Expert?" repeated the lawyer. "Well, I should say he was. He knows all about insanity. Why, your honor, he has been as crazy as a loon for the past ten years." A Lucky Man. A gentleman bought a ticket in the lottery from an agent, who selected the number for him. The ticket Won the first prize of $150,000. Feeling under obligations to the agent, the winner told him:— "You can draw on me for $500 a year as loiig as you live." "I'd rather have $1,000 in cash," re plied the agent. "But man alive, you may live fifty years yet. Just see what you lose by taking a thousand down." "If I agree to take the yearly allow "l-* you have such good luck that I drop off next year." Don't Lead Fast Lives. "My lads," said a kind old gentleman to a number of youths who had just left a beer saloon with cigars in their mouths one Sunday afternoon, "you aro too young to indulge in smoking and drinking. .Sooner or later such habits will prove your ruin. Beware of leading a fast life, my boys." "We don't lead fast lives," one of them roplied. "We are all district messenger boys." Then and Now. TOM MATHEWS, a famous clown, is living at Brighton, England, 80 years old, hale and hearty. The jokes lie used to get off are also hale and hearty, and much older than eighty years. 2 A O A VIA THE GHiGlOyORTil-WESTEl DFl_£V.X2LiTCV"^Var. This great Railroad now offers travel ers their choice between Two First-claee Routes to and from the Famous Grclfc Regions of Central and KoutfcGaaterB Dakota. One via Madleon, Wla..\Vinona, Minn., and Tracy, Minn., aud the othoi via Clinton. Coaar Rapids, Tama, cnci 13.!.warden, Iowa. ThotoUowtafif BOOMING DAKOTA TOWNS ore amongr the Stations beat reached by this road: Aberdeen, Alcester, Altamoat, Athol, Aurora, Bsresford, Blunt, Eroadland, Brcokingi, Brno*, Canning, Canistota, Sanova, Carthage, Caatlewood, Oavoar, Qenterville, Creadon, Do Smot, Bolaad. Kiktoa, Eamoua, Esteline, Fairbanks. Frauk&rt, Gary, Oosdwin, Harrold. Hecry, Bighsiore, Hitchcock. Hurley. Huron, Iroqasig, ISLAND Miller,A HorberV Nordla-d, Kmhvillo, Pierre, Preston, Raymond, Eedfleld, Bee Heights, KudolpK Salon, St. LawreacB. Vllafe, Water town, Wellington, Wolscy. Clerk Center, Kraosbarg, Columbia, Manchester, If destined for or from any point tt Central or Southeastern Dakota, buy Four Tickets via the Chics £0 61 North western Railway, its train end trade squlpments are tho best in Idle woH-J, and by its various branches it reaches tercet in tbie itry. uearly" every point of interest sndorful section of count -nodations yOu will buy your Tickets bv this routs AND WILL TAKE KOU OTUEB. If you wish the Best TraveQngr Accom- For rates for siiifflo or round trip tickets anl for full Information .not ob tainable from Western All Coupon by this Lino, Acrertt, Chicago & North Railway, at Chicago, 111. poii Ticket Agentn sell Tickets MARVIN HUGHITT. £d Vice-Pre*, and Pen. lhiii^ir Chicago, 1 Milwaukee & St. Paul RAILWAY C0BJPA3T Owut and operate* no»rly S.OOJ inUM of tlnroaghly piulpi«d ro»i in IlllnoU, Wiacontla, Io wa, Ulnae ccta and Dakota. 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