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The Daily Grind. Vly son, when you .a) of the worlc vou do, there's sun:ct'.to keep In rnMirt NO iribttch h*W little It i!. isi.s \\u, don't call It "thi- dftlly ftiir.d." Jon't tell of the tarftiJ? that you dlullke. nor gi umblc at sorry tinc~ There never was woik sit 10 ol»f hands that we had a right to hate ?n.f. "'"I work It Isn't the hire ncff t(tiling from sun to sun hat counts, in the eyes of tl -ni who see—It'. "hoW I* the lulor ili.tR-?" (U soon as you *tv li a dally grind. that moment you Imto yniir woik, I hnt moment the Imp oj' indoluKv shows you how you \v, il niuv shirk: 'hat moment you lone all your good Vn• tent that moment you ought to quit, for the woik that you do is fiknd to you while you aie a t'rii-nil to It. \na once ynu have called It a slavish t»SK and mimed It "the dailv grind." lour tvorV is a snare that will catch vour feet and cA(i? you to fall behind. Uy son. when you PHI: you must finish your task you must Dnish that ta.-k alone. And work thfit is done with it friendly hand will change to stepping stone. t\ ill carry yon over the ban :i-g strvum or out of the clinging slough v.icl lift you to where you tnav put your hand on the work that you want to do. It will help you along to the heights you seek, will bring you unto your goal— Hut when you declare it's "the daily grind," it will grind you both heart and soul. W. D. X. in Chicago Tribune. That Ball Dress BY ROSE RQVANT GERRY Leoline Harper was just 21. a bright, imbitious, high-spirited girl, w\o earned her livelihood by teach ins in a grammar school. But her prosy pro fession left her plenty of time to {'ream of a larger and brighter future, and she erected some very stalely edi fices in Spain. "For I don't want to drudge all my life so," said I.eoline. "I am protty enough," with a conscious 'laughLug gianc at the mirror, "and clever enoug i, 1 hope, to make my own fu ture." "Yc (iear." said Aunt Josepha., who admired her niece exceedingly, "you are pretty enough, and I believe you are smart enough but still I don't un derstand how you are going to do it." "You'll see," paid Leoline. with a bright smile and a nod. And when Kitty Topplefleld, WHO taught in the primary department of the same school, told Aunt Josey about Mr. Maurice, the new trustee, who was so handsome, and wore such superb diamond studs, and admired Leoline's method of imparting instruction so en thusiastically, she began to compre hend what her ric-ce meant. "Leo," said she. when she had the rare chance of being alone with her niece, "do you like this Mr. Maurice?' The blood flushed into Leoline's face. "Of course I like him, Aunt Josey," said she. "Do you love him?" "I—I don't know whether I might of not," said I-eo, coloring still deeper. "That is, if I knew him better. He is a society man, and I have so few op portunities! If I was only in a fash ionable circle like Georgle Fitzalan!'" Now, Miss Georgie Fitzalan was a pretty, dashing young lady, the daugh ter of a rich importing merchant, who had been in the same class as Leoline Harper at school, and Leoline had al ways secretly envied her luxurious, butterfly sort of life that seemed to have so few of the elements of shadow about It. "And," added Leoline, "he is to be at Georgie's birthday party, and Georeie has asked me to come—and— and I can't, because I haven't any thing fit to wear. And I do believe, Aurt Josey, if I could only go"— "Yes, yes, I understand, my dear," said Aunt Josey, regretfully. But, really, I do not se how you can go." "Nor I, either," said I.eo. gulping down a little suffocating lump that somehow would keep rising in her throat. "So I must, just be contented to eive it up." But half an hour afterward she came ,0 "I—I den know whether I might cr not." to her aunt with depened color and eager, shining eyes, the newspaper in her hands. "Look, Aunt. Josey!" cried she. "La, child," said the old lady, "you know I can't see a thing without my spectacles." "Then 111 read it to you" and Leo line read as follows: 'For sale, at a bargain, two silk evening dresses, one a blue and the other canary color worn only one?, by a lady just returned from Europe, twenty-five dollars each. Apply 'tJ.. No. Rotherward street.' ^""What do you think of that, aunty? Blwis just my color. And silk, too! Why. I never had a real silk in my life'" "i don't like the idea of second hand finery," said Aunt Josepha. shak ing her head. "But when you ran afford anything else," pTaaded LeoHne. "Ob, Aunt Josey, I do so want to go!" "My dear, remember the old fable Of the daw with borrowed plume.?, warned Aunt Josephs. "If this man Is really a man of sense he will think as much of you in your cashmere dress as if you wore the queen's dia monds." But Leo, believing that her aunt #as hopelessly behind the age, persisted. "I wflf go to the number and ad dress. 1 wlJF jnst look at the silks of course I needn't buy unless I like them." The house was a magnificent brown sfotio establishment whose splendot rather abashed our little school teach er. "H. C." proved to be Mile. Hor tenso Chenier, the lady's maid, who occupied an airy fourth-story apart ment, to which the visitor was con ducted by a grumbling footman. Leo line felt altogether out of her element and almost sorry that she had come but when she saw the superb silks, scarcely worn, her heart leaped within her. The bkie one was trimmed witt deep, pointed white Spanish zlond, and Sr. "May I ask, Miss Harper, if you order your dresses from Worth?" proved to be the exact color to match Leo's bright beauty. "Madame bestows these upon us," said Hortense, grimacing and twisting herself after the manner of French maids. "Madame is all goodness." Leo bought the dress and it was sent home that night. "Yes, it is very pretty but all the same I don't like you to wear a second hand dress," said her aunt. "A great many ladies do the same thing, Aunt Jo." "A great many ladies do a sillj thing, then," retorted the old lady. But, notwithstanding Aunt Jo's dis approval, Leo felt very proud ami happy when she went off that evening dressed in the blue silk, which had required very little alteration to lit her supple figure. Miss Fitzalan's parlors were full and Leo's heart beat high with antic! patory triumph as she saw Mr. Mau rice among the crowd. The next mo ment sho pprrpivod thai Ho VAC net* alone. A tall and beautiful young lady leaned on his arm. With a pang of jealousy Leo would fain have shrunk away, but Mr. Maurice advanced to ward her. "Miss Harper, allow me to present to you my wife Mrs. Maurice, Miss Harper. Oh, 1 see you're surprised. So am I. She only arrived from Ext rope four days ago" this with a smile. Leo tried to mutter a few congratu latory words, but could hardly make herself audible. Mrs. Maurice put up her eyeglasses. "How very strange!" she cried. "My blue silk dress that 1 had made at Worth's. I should know the trim ming anywhere. May I ask, Miss Har per, if you order your dresses from Worth?" Leo turned scarlet, but she clung bravely to the anchor of truth. "No," she said, blushing with morti fication "i am only a school teacher, and can afford no such extravagance as that. I bought it second-hand of Mile. Hortense Chenier, No. Rother ward street." "My maid," cried Mrs. Maurice. "And she stole it from me—all the time pretending that the packing case that contained it was lost on the voyage, the hypocritical thing." Mr. Maurice laughed. "That comes from your foreign French maids," said he. Leoline Harper felt her face glow with burning scarlet. "I—I am very sorry. I hope you do not consider it my fault," she said. "Oh, not at all perhaps I shouldn't have spoken of it, but you see, I was so taken by surprise. Pray wear the dress: it is so charmingly becoming to you," said the lady. Leo did not stay long. Sho felt as if every one in the room must know that she was wearing a second-hand dress, stolen from its owner! And the fact, now for the first time ascertained, that Mr. Maurice was a married man seemed to take all the sparkle out of her life. She went home early and cried herself to sleep. The next morn ing she sent back the dress to Mrs. Maurice with a note of apology, and she has been a wiser girl ever since. "If my fortune comes to me, well and good," she said, "but I shall not go a step out of my way to seek It."— Chicago Journal. Peculiar Accident in Football. Capt. Stan gland of the Columbia football team, who was taken from the Yale game pract-cally unconscious because of a kick in the head, has lost all sense of taste and smell. Ph» nicians have not yet determined just what the exact trouble Is, but the} fear injury to the brain resulting from a blood clot. Mr. Stangland's men lal faculties are not deranged in any way except to the extent mentioned. TO KEEP PLOto FRESH. Will If Last Three (Four Week* Treated fcerly, "Cut flowers whiproperly treat ed," said a florist, kn be made to look fresh for thrnr four weeks. Every night take thj out of the wa ter and thoroughly tie the stalks un 4er a faucet, remoc with the An gers any decomposj matter. Then put them to bed fche night in a basin of strong scj suds, but be careful not to alloany water to touch the blossomsrThe soap suds supply a certain aijint of nourish ment. "In the morning rfe the stalks un der the water again fd as each blos som is arranged folhe day in the vase of fresh wateinip off a tiny portion of the stalk a pair of scis sors. Always carefuj trim away any faded part. "Food for the dais supplied by sulphate of ammonia few drops of which should be add to the water put in the vase. Tnight put the flowers into some tjk, cool placo— say a pantry—as it mot good either for the flowers or the household that they should reiin all the time in the living rooms. "To revive cut flows put them into warm salt water tophlch has been added a few drops opulphate of am monia. Cut flowers [ire constantly sent by express and tiough the mails, but seldom in such fashion as to preserve their bloomjtnd freshness. To effect this packiem in a light wooden box lined witj cotton or wad ding, laying over thija sheet of tis sue paper. Then layjhe flowers not on top of each other It in rows, side by side, the blossoms^f each row on the stems of their netibors. "Pack closely, oth^wise the flow ers will be displacedjand injured the Journey. Before! packing they should stand in wa|r for several hours in order to jsorb moisture enough to keep themrrom withering. It is not good to splnkle them too heavily after they arein the box, for without air this is liiely to produce mildew."—St. Louis Hpublic. It Puzzled the Expert. The customs official ?as greatly puz zled. He knit his brdv and frowned darkly. He even tappa his foot nerv ously on the polished ioor. "What seems to be the difflculty?" inquired a sympathetic Subordinate. The chief turned to am with a trou bled stare. "I'm bothered," he bowled. "I'm badly stumped. And bet I am the very man who classified frogs' legs as 'dressed poultry,' aid admitted a colt from Canada as 'household furni ture.' "And what's the question now?" the subordinate respectfully asked. The chief ran his hand through his matted hair. "I'm worried to death," he cried, "over a proper classification for a three-legged stool. It isn't a biped and it isn't a quadruped—and there you are!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. His Diplomacy. "How did you work father so beau tifully?" "With diplomacy, my dear, pure diplomacy. I told him I wanted to marry one of his daughters. He glared at me and asked me which one of the six. I said Myrtle." "You said Myrtle?" "Uh-huh, All diplomacy, my dear. Ho flew into an awful rage and said I couldn't have her. He said she was too good for me. I insisted. He grew madder. 1 still insisted. Then he roared out: 'You can't have Myrtle, you know nothing! Grace is plenty good enough for you!' "And that's the way I go you, Grace, dear. Wasn't it beautiful diplomacy?" Jack's Advice to His Friend. Why, Tom, thou'rt a seaman and may every wind That thy wishes can prosper and favor. Still sit in thy soul, that each port thou mayst find. While honor shall guide thy behavior: While good, true ana hearty, the staya of thy mind Are steadily braced by thy duty While to king, wife and friend, thou art constant and kind, And thou driest up the sorrows of beauty. But may all thy tackles, grown rotten, give way Thy vessel, may leaks fairly fill her: Thy timbers all gpllnter'd, no rope to belay. Broke thy compass, and hatter'd thy tiller. When shook in the winds are the sails of thy heart. And thou'rt false to thine honor and duty When from king, wife and friend thou wouldst basely depart. And thou moc-k'st at the sorrows of beauty. —Charles Dibdln. One Difference. "I'd like to know what's the differ ence between a guesser and a fore caster," said Mrs. Wonder, puzzling her mind over the ante-election fig ures in one of the papers. "A guesser," explained Mr. Wonder, "simply lumps his figures, and is either right or wrong at once while a forecaster arranges his figures in a table of statistics and makes you won der how on earth he could be any thing except right." Hard Work. "Back from your vacation, eh? I suppose you'll find your work harder than ever now." "That's what!" replied the clerk. "I've got ten fiancees to correspond with." Bicarbonate of Soda Mine. A deposit of millions of tons of bi carbonate of soda, 86 per cent par*, has been discovered in Lake Cariaaa, thirteen miles from Olig, Kern OOOE* tjr, California. A refinery will be tablfshed there. A first-claw* restaurant in the basement of the hotel will be open in a week. Soft drinks, cigars, in connection. Restaur ant open day and night. There is No That will please so well and give such Good Sorvice as some nice article in the Furniture Line. 1 have coining this week two caHoads of new goods, any piece of which would make a fine Christmas Present. I buy right and get small profits." You get Christmas prices here In the two cars there are a large assortment of DRESSERS, CHIFFONIERS, EXTENSION TABLE*, KITCHEN TABLES, LIBRARY TABLES, BUFFETS, BUREAUS. UNA CLOSETS, CUP BOARDS, COMBINATION CASES, LA DIES' TRUNKS, jvITCHEN CABINETS. WARDROBES, All kinds of beds, Springs, Mat tresses, Toilet Wash Stands. Commodes, and Bedroom Suites. I also have a large line of second-hand Goods, Stoves, Tables, Chairs and in fact anything you need for furnUning your home. Some of the goods are slightly marred, but are as good as new and will go for your own price. Jos. Rowan, New and Second Hand Store, Minot, INo. Dak* The Minot Grocery Co., has three hot cars going south on the Soo and the same number north during the week. This gives them excellent service.^ MOTHERS, BE CAREFUL of the health of your children. Look out for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. Stop them in time —One Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy. Harmless and pleasant. Sold by McCoy & Co. MINOT'S MAMMOTH HOTEL. The Minot Scandinavian Hotel is now one of the largest hotels in the city of Minot. With the new addition there is room for Over One Hundred Lodgers. POOL TABLES. STEPHEN GULSETH, Proprietor. With a monthly payment ot $5.00 to $10.00 will buy one of the best Residence Lots in the City. Prices reasonable and within reach of all. Call on us ami get a good selection. DEVINE, STENERSEN & CO. Over Blakey Block.—' •Phone 104, $ Ships Coal to Sveden. Two or three years ago the Domin ion Coal company of Sydney, Nova Scotia, shipped a cargo of coal to Sweden to be used as an experiment on government railways. The experi ment proved such a big success that the company now ships some 25,000 or 30,000 tons annually for general con sumption in Sweden. This year th* company is to make a further experi ment in the foreign market by send ing some of its product to Mexico to be tested on the government railway there. Kills Insects by Electricity. Recently in a paper rev] before a technical society at Odessa, Mr. Lo kuzejewski described a way of kill ing the young of insects in fields by electricity. A dynamo is carried on a wagon (horse or automcbile), and the current excites an induction coil, giv ing a high tension discharge. One pole of the coil is to the metal tires and the other to metal brushes pass ing over the ground. The discharge kills the grubs, etc., in the soil. The Voyage. I go not where I will, but must: This planet-ship on which I ride Is drawn by a resistless tide: I touch no pilot wheel, but trust That One who holds the chart ot stars. Whose fathom-lines touch lowest deeps, Whose eye the boundless spaces sweeps, Will guide the ship through cosmic bars. My soul goes not a chosen way A current underruns my life, That moves alike in peace or strife, And turns not for my yea or nay. Not on the bridge, but at the mast, I sail o'er this far-strenmlns sea I will arrive: enough for, me My Captain's smile and word at last. Suicide Statistics. An Austrian student, of the phenonc ena attending suicide says that ot those persons who try to take their life by shooting themselves only one third succeed in attaining their end at once. Another third died after a long period of suffering from the wound inflicted, while tbe remaining third survive. Lor Foil SALK—A very desir uble residence lot in thesonthern part of the city. Not on the bill. See J. L. Fsihe.v. 12-7-tf. The best $1.00 and $1.25 house in the Northwest. We al ways have a larji'f* patronage. We want you to call here uli'Mi in Minot. You will be made welcome. FOR A HAPPY SMOKE fi&r SMOKED BLUE RIBBON CIGARS $ Largs Size 10c Straight. Medium Size, 3 for 25c. $ BOARD OF TRADE, 5c Straight. SEARS & THOMPSON, Ma—.factureU b/ VjfcAKLS & IMWMJIN, /V1IINOT, IN. DAK. nP These Cigars are Union Made. See that the Label is on each Box. All of these Cigars are guaranteed to have the finest Havana Fillers put up by expert workmen. I $ Small Salary for High Office. It may be some comfort to laboring men to know that the salary of the poet laureate of England is $360 a year and a hogshead of wine thrown in. Of course, this represents only a fractional part of what Alfred Austin really earns still it is all that he gets for being poet laureate to the English speaking race. This salary is without any prospect a raise, although it was increased to its present munificent proportions when Lord Tennyson died. Some time before his death it was de cided to increase his salary to that amount, but the government did not decide till after his death. Thus the present poet laureate came in for the raise intended for Lord Tennyson. New Statue in the Vatican. The following story is told of tbe late Leo XIII.: A number of English women obtained an audience. When the Pope came into the room every one knelt down except an extremely tall young woman of pronounced Pro testant proclivities. The pontiff turn ed to his secretary and said: "It is only too true that my power is dimin ishing. There is a new statue In the Vatican, and no one has told me." Necessity for Learninig. "Now, you ought to be ashamed, James," said the teacher, after the children had been assigned to their classes, "to have your little sister to go into a class ahead of you. and you so much older than she is?" "No'm. Pa says girls has to be smarter 'n boys." "Well, they usually are. But why does your papa say so?" "Pa says like as not a girl '11 be a old maid an' then she'll have t' know enough to teach school." Point of View. Uarkinf—So you really Imagine that smoking benefits you, eh? Lark ins—I know it does. My moth er-in-law leaves the room the mlnato I iight my pipe. Political Education. It takes a campaign of education sometimes W tonch a candidate that he Isn't so'popular as he thought he was.