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BOOKS OF THE HOUR
CV WARMAN'S STORY OF THE
GREAT BURLINGTON
STRIKE
"SNOW ON THE HEADLIGHT"
Mr. Warman Attempts to Show That
the Blacklist and the Boycott Are
I ltra-Oniigerous Weapons to I st
. —Oscar .Phelps Austin, in "Uncle
Sam's Soldiers," Gives a Good
Deal ot Information.
"Snow on- the Headlight," a story of the
great Burlington strike, by Cy VV air
. man. D. Appleton & Co., New York
publishers. For sale by the St. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
In a style that is not too involved to
"be readily understood Mr. Warman
weaves a very clever romance about the
strike on the Burlington in 1888. In one
of the early chapters he endeavors to
■ show that two of the worst evils of
American life at this day are the black
list and the boycott— one made use
of by capitalists and the other by the
labor unions. Mr. Warman unhesitating
ly states that both are wrong, and that
it is little'short of criminal to bring such
weapons into use, even as a last resort.
He gives. a vivid description of some of
the hardships of the strikers during the
Burlington troubles, and points out some
of their fatal errors. George Cowels, the
mosi vehement of the railers against cor
porations, after keeping the men from
returning to their places half a dozen
times by his violent harangues, and al
most permitting his family to starve to
death, finally deserts himself, takes the
Denver flyer and dies in his engine on the
first trip out. Dan Moran, found with
dynamite on his person, is arrested and
tried for, presumably, preparing to dyna
mite a train, but is acquitted. He be
friends the wife of Cowels, marries her
and starts on a wedding trip to Denver.
The* train, with Guerln,.the man in charge
of the throttle, who was firing for Cowels
the night he made his fatal ride in mak
ing an effort to gain lost time, comes in
collision with a freighter and is wrecked.
The engineer is killed, but the passengers,
Including, of course, Moran and his wife,
are saved. The description of the wild
ride of Cowels to his death, with "snow
on the headlight," is effective to the point
of thrilling the reader, while that of Guer
•in over the same route, again with "snow,
on the headlight," is quite commonplace,
■ the peruser of the volume being forced to
the conclusion that Mr. Warman was in
a hurry to finish the volume because of
a. shrill cry for copy from his publisher.
This, pretty little ditty is put into the
n-icuth of Patsy Daly, the sunniest char
acter of the book:
' "Always together in sunshine and rain.
Facing the weather atop o* the train,
' Watching the meadows move under the
stars,
Always together atop o' the cars."
"Uncle Sam's Soldiers."
"Uncle Sam's Soldiers," a story of the
war with Spain, by Oscar Phelps Aus
tin. D. - Appleton & Co., New York,
publishers. For sale by the St. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
In this volume of 300-odd pages Mr.
Austin gives to the young American a
great deal of information in regard to
war and the preparation for war. It is a
splendid addition to Appleton's "home
reading books," and a volume which
should live from a purely educational
standpoint, If from no other. The- book
begins with the preliminary excitement of
the Spanish war, and Mr. Austin picks up
in West Virginia a couple of young pa
triots, Daniel Patterson and Henry Wil
kins, one of whom he sends to war in
the Antilles and the other to Manila, and
around them builds his educational story.
By text and illustration Mr. Austin
■weaves together the cost, the equipment,
the hardships and the horros of modern
warfare. Excellent pictures are given
of every kind of firearms from the old
flintlock muskets of 1776, through the
Springfield rifle to the Mausers and Krag-
Jorgensens of today, together with - the
'larger types of destroyers from the ordi
nary cannon to the thirteen-Inch guns of
the great battleships. The uniforms and
shoulder straps of all officers are given
from the general commanding to the
second lieutenant. In the last hundred
pages of the book are many Illustrations
of actual scenes around Santiago during
the fighting of June and July, 1898. Mr,
Austin writes in a terse and entertaining
style.
'«__■ Castle nnd Colony."
"In Castle and Colony," by Emma Ray
ner. Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago.
For sale by the St. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
< "In Castle and Colony" is a new novel
by the author of "Free to Serve." . The
plot is laid partly in the old and partly in
the new Sweden of the seventeenth cen
tury and is semi-historical in character.
The heroine, when the novel opens, is
a charming child of 5, betrothed to a
young man twenty years her senior. Her
father and stepfather are but lately dead,
and her mother, the lady of the castle, Is
fearful for the future of the little Agne
ta, the. more when she discovers that
the ancestral estates of the little lady
have passed into the . hands of her be
trothed, , a .man of brilliant personality
but doubtful reputation. Mme. Botorpa
refuses the hospitally proffered by Gus
tavus Pors and carries the little girl
away with ; her to the farm of Axel
Bonde, an old peasant, but the foster
brother of her own father. Dying, she
leaves the child to the care of Axel, who
carries her to the vicinity of Fort Chris
tiana, the stronghold of the Swedes in
the new world. The story takes up the
struggle for territory in America be
tween the Swedes and the Dutch. The
real hero of the tale is one Eric Helm, a
convict, innocently condemned, who
manages to carve out a place for himself
in the new world. The time comes when
Gustavus Pors, who succeeds in finding
her at last, and Erie Helm vie with each
other in heroic protection of Agneta, and
In deeds of heroism and generosity for
her dear sake.
The story is decidedly well done and is
readable and interesting from first to
last.
"The Kingdom of Hate."
The Kingdom of Hate," by T. Gallon.
Town and Country library. .D. Apple
ton & Co.. New York. For sale by the
St. Paul Book and Stationery company.
"The Kingdom of Hate" follows closely
"The Prisoner, of Zenda." The hero goes
by a different name and does not bear a
striking resemblance to the reigning
prince of the small German kingdom of
euphonious name, which is the scene of
many adventures, but he is a cool-head
ed, courageous Englishman, in conven
tional tweeds, whose hazardous fortunes
associate him with the princess of said
small kingdom". This princess in turn is
beautiful and sad-eyed and persecuted
by her cousin, whose energy is directed
to gaining the crown, either by marry
ing or destroying the rightful heir. '
The story is written in Mr. Gallon's
best manner and has some "go" to it.
The plot, while not departing far from
the general lines made popular by Mr.
Hope, has a* sufficient number of sur
prises to keep secure the reader's atten
tion to its very prosperous end.
"Letters of Capt. Dreyfus."
™, _.ett rs of Cant* Dreyfus to His
Wife. Translated by L. G. Moreau.
Harper & Brothers, New York For
sale by the St. Paul Book and Station
ery company.
Some writer has defined letters as
"pure soul-prints," and nothing in the
world is so surely a revelation of a man's
Inmost character as the letters he writes,
especially those which are written to an
intimate.
These letters by Dreyfus written from
the prison of Cherche-Midi to his, wife,
give us an. insight into the feelings and
temperament of the man which could be
revealed in no other way. Within these
simple missives now filled with despair
and keenest suffering, now with some
thing akin to hope, is read the whole
heart-life of a man, perhaps more sinned
against than any other of his time.
. Yet, in the epistles before us there are
no arguments tending to prove the inno
cence of the writer, for probably an at
tempted defense would not have been al
lowed to pass the censor. There is only
a persistent declaration of Innocence—
reiteration that is awful and tragic in its
very monotony. There is a sympathetic
and persuasive significance that is emi
nently human, and convinces one that
Dreyfus was incapable of treason.
To the letters there is a valuable in
troduction by Walter Littlefield, giving
in brief the history of the crime. It
concludes impressively: "When in ea-ly
autumn of 1898, he was believed to be
dying, this message was cabled from,
Paris to Cayenne: 'Embalm him if he
dies, and send us the corpse.' But he
lived. And he may still live to see in his
appalling experience the cause of social
revolution in France—a revolution that
shall-make the rights of the individual
paramount to the traditions of the army,
to the subtle cravings of the clericals, to
the fantastic schemes of he Faubourg' St.
Germain."
.In the Act d'Accusation, Dreyfus was
charged with being a gambler and liber
tine, as well as traitor,'unmindful of the
well-being of his family, faithless to his
wife. But the spirit of every one of his
letters is incompatible with such a char
acter. When he writes to his wife the
first time after his imprisonment, he says:
"I will not tell you all that I have suf
fered; there are not in the world words
strong enough to express.it.' Do you re
member when I used to tell you how
happy.we were? Everything in life smiled
on us. - Then all at once a fearful thunder
bolt; my brain still is reeling with the
shock. For me to be accused of the most
monstrous crime that a soldier can com
mit. Even today I feel that I must be
the victim of an awful nightmare."
The letter ends with affectionate terms
of endearment.
His great grief and anxiety is for his
wife and children, fearing that to the
latter may be left unjustily a tarnished
reputation.
"As for me, fear nothing," he says. "If
I have suffered, deeply, I have never
wavered nor bowed my head. The mo
ments of my deepest.anguish have been
those when I have thought of you, my
good darling, of all our family. Thank
every one for the admirable devotion
shown in my cause."
Again, he appeals to his wife and fam
ily to use evety means to'"vindicate him,
saying, "Our honor is all. Tell Mathew
Dreyfus that I count upon him for this
THE REASON WHY.
"Why do' they use Scotch dialect when the play golf?"
' So they can sweat-.. without being understood*. I reckon.'
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THE ST. PAUI, GLOBE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1899.
work. It is not beyond his power. He
must find the wretch who has dishonored
me, even though he should move Heaven
and Earth." '•'SMSffHW*''
His wife writes to suggest that she
leave home and come to be with him, to
comfort him in his prison. In answer,
he says: "I have wept many tears over
your letter. I cannot accept your sacri
fice. You must stay there; you must live
for the children. Think of them first, be
fore you think of me; it is the poor little
ones who absolutely need you. Yes; my
darling, you are sublime In your courage
and devotion. ..You are truly one of the
noblest women upon the earth. My ad
miration for you Is so great that if I
live to drink my cup to the dregs, it will
be because I have aspired" to be worthy
of your heroism. But it will be terrible
to submit to that shameful humiliation!
I should rather stand before an execu
tion squad. I do not fear death, but the
thought of contempt- is terrible."
And so the v letters go on, depicting
the fearful tragedy, lit up sometimes
with a faint gleam of hope, but oftener
dark with despair and pitiful appeal,
showing forth a depth of suffering of
which only such men are capable—and in
the Dreyfus case France has another
wonderful story added to her marvelous
history.
"Game and the Candle."
'The Game and the Candle," by Rhoda
Broughton. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. For sale by the St. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
This is a story of English life, pleasing,
interesting and realistic. The history of
a woman who sacrifices everything for
an ideal and in the end finds the ideal
but a myth, is not. so uncommon an oc
currence in real life as it is in fiction;
but it-is a phase of life which few writ
ers have the skill or the temerity to
picture.
In this story, a girl of sixteen marries
a man, and not for love, but her romance
comes when it seems too late, yet rhe
continues true to her lover, and after
six years', of waiting liar husband, op
portunely dies, but not before he tells
her of his knowledge of her secret. He
receives her assertion that she intends
to marry the man. she loves, and then
makes his will leaving all his wealth to
his sister, and, since he loves his wife in
his crabbed way, his last moments aro
made miserable by her declaration of her
intention to marry the man he hates.
This was rot the only sacrifice she gladly
makes for her idol. Upon the broken
heart of the desolate old sister-in-law,
she flings back the magnanimous offers
of help and kindness; she alienates and
insults a selfless devoted friend, insane
ly rejoices in the tarnish of a good name,
as bringing one more offering to her
god's piled alter; sacrifices the position
which would have given her weight and
authority among her fellows. All was
swept away before the huge egotism of
passion.
Then there are days of wonderful hap
piness, for which all other things seem
well lost—and suddenly, she sees her
deity as he is; a commonplace good fel
low-, with his cheap jests, his limited in
telligence, his promiscuous tenderness,
and she comes to the awful realization
that she has juggled away everything
which makes life preferable to death
for part ownership of nothing more than
six feet of stature, of a fine set of
muscles, and a pair of blue ©yes.
"Christ's Return.*''
A Dream of Christ's Return," by Rev.
David Moragn. Curts & Jennings, Chi
cago For sale by the St. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
The Rev. David Morgan is engaged in
social reform and temperance work . in
the city, and has for some years been
superintendent of the Bethel. He has a
constant association with the poorer
classes and a ready sympathy for the
misery and suffering which he dally sees
and has given much thought and study
to the conditions and causes which are re
sponsible for much of the suffering of
the poor. ..■ **,-. Z-. -.* ■}z Z"
The "Dream of Christ's Return' is writ
ten in a bright, entertaining style. The
wrongs of the underpaid working men and
women is the chief theme written of, and
the dream of Christ preaching in" one of
our churches, through a preacher; who
plead for sympathy and strength to enter
into the sorrows of his people, to rid the
world of its cruelty, and . wrong—a world
in which is the grandeur and stateliness
of our Christianity and the grinding mis
ery of the unrelieved poor in the very
shadow of the churches.
."Onr Navy in "War."
■hMJST? 'n Ti£? e .of War -" b *-' Frank
lin Matthews. D Appleton & Co., New
£__ *_ J- 0r sale by the St- PaUl Book
and Stationery company
This book Is timely and valu
able. _. It „ covers the deeds of the
United,- States' navy during the
period from ISCI to 1898. This 4> me in the
history of the navy has been s«S^ted not
because there was greater glory in the
deeds of the American navy in the Civil
war and in the war with.Spain than in
the earlier days of the service, but chief
ly because the types of vessels and of
guns now in general use throughout the
world were begun and developed in part
in the American Civil war.
The book will make an appreciable ad
dition to the supplementary reading in
schools, and will be read with pleasure
by all who take an interest in our navy.
LITERARY NOTES.
__. _h_l-«m_i
The growing success and the great lit-
erary value of "Tlie Heart of a Boy"
(Cuqre)—loved* and, admired the world
over—hare caused a general demand for
an exceptionally fine addition to be used
for holiday gifts, presentations, school
prizes, etc Laird & Lee, Chicago, now
offer to the public such, an Edition de
Luxe, the text of. which has been care
fully perfected, while there have been
added a large njomber 'of "the finest illus
trations by famous Italian artists—many
of them full-page "half-tone engravings.
They have aimed to make this the final
signature edition, o*y this admirable book
—a work of intense" feeling, captivating
from cover to Boy*_-, and well worthy a
place in every llbrain.. 4
Dr. Washington Gladden has written a
book to answer, thft query, "How much
is left of the ddddctrlnes?" Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. will publish it a few weeks
hence. _• '**"■ -.•*"' * - -
Rev. N. P. Oilman, author of "Profit
Sharing," has nearly ready a new book,
"A "Dividend, toy Labor." Mr. Gllman is a
remarkably clear and judicious writer on
topics.of thls.ljAnd^,
"The Americajj in Holland" is the title
of a book for early'publication by Hough
ton, Mifflin & Co. It is by Dr. W. E.
Griffls. who has made five visits to Hol
land, traversing alb of its eleven prov
inces, and 'completing his latest tour by
witnessing the corolation 'of Queen Wil
helmina.
Mr. Everett T. Tomllnson, who has
written so much and so well- of Revolu
tionary times and boys, has nearly ready
"A Jersey Boy in the Revolution."
"The Little Fig-Tree*.' Stories," is a
group of stories „ for young people by
Mary Hallock Foote.
A book of peculiar biographic,
political and social—is the "Reminiscences
of My Life," by Prince Kropotkin, the
famous Russian revolutionist. His is
emphatically one of those true stories
which are stranger than fiction. The
book will* have two portraits of Kropot
kin. - : - - r; .
OX OUR BOOK TABLE.
From Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago
and New York—'.'.The Bushwhackers and
Other Stories," by Charles Egbert Crad
dock; "Doc Home," by. George Adex.
From F. Tennyson Neely, New York
and London—"Looking'Ahead: Twentieth
Century Happenings," by Percira Mendes.
Tornado Snakes'.
After a recent -tornado in Australia
thousands of water snakes were found on
the beach in one -place, while in another
the beach was entirely washed away,
leaving nothing but bare rocks.
World's Biases. House.
The Sultan of Turkey has just built at
Mecca the biggest house in the world, lt
is intended for 'the accommodation of pil
grims,- and is* capable of - sheltering 6,000
persons. The next biggest house in the
world is in a suburb of Vienna. It ac
commodates 2,112 tenants.
SHORT ~= Which ■Rel*"******'* Something About the Early
/ W DDHIVTIRD -t==. Courts of Minnesota, and Shows That
9 t\ rK"-^ 1 ICrK ■*■_=__ Praise Bestowed Upon Individuals Is
J \ STORY ... . . "=: Not Always Merited.
"** ***_* •=___. —By Judge Chas. E. Flandrau.
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■•,.-■ • • . -'T" i.' '.j - . ''* '■: **"•_"'
The first members of the judiciary of
the territory of Minnesota were Aaron
Goodrich, chief Justice; Bradley B. Meek
er, and David Copper/associates, who were
appointed in 1849. They were Whigs and
held their positions' until a change of
administration gave' the Democrats the
power, when William H. Welch became
chief justice, with Andrew G. Chatfield
and Moses Sherburne as associates. The
last named judges were in office when I
arrived in the territory in 1853. Judge
Chatfield presided mostly over the courts
held 2on the west: side, of the -"Mississippi.
I made my residence at Traverse dcs
Sioux.in Nicollet county, which was with-,
in the territory purchased, from the Sioux
Indians by the treaty of 1851, proclaimed
in 1853. : The fifth article of this treaty
kept in force, within the territory ceded,
all the laws of the United States prohibit
ing the introduction and sale of spirituous
Honors in" .the .Indian country, commonly
known as the trade fend intercourse laws.
Of course, this inhibition was intended to
prevent liquor getting to the Indians, but
as .the country; began to get inhabited
by whites many of the new comers re
garded it as infringing upon their rights
and privileges, and serious questions arose
as. to. whether the treaty-making power
had 7 any jurisdiction of such questions
after the country* was '. opened * to white
settlement. The courts, however, held the
exclusion valid, and indictments were oc
casionally found against the violators of
these laws. Traverse dcs Sioux was a
missionary center, and the feeling against
the liquor traffic was .very strong: but, as
it-always has been, and probably always
will be, men were found ready to invade
the sacred precincts for the expected prof
its, and a saloon Or -two were established
in defiance of law* and public sentiment.
The judges were empowered to appoint
the terms of cou^-t where and when there
was any probabft necessity for them, and
the sheriff would summon a grand or
petit jury as thft business seemed to re
quire. The United States marshal was
Col. Irwin, and the -Ignited States district
attorney was Col. . Dustin, both of whom
lived in St. Paul,., and as a general thing
there were no c_6unt_ attorneys in the
different counties. • When a term of court
was to be held in my county or any of
the adjacent ones, -'the marshal would
send me a deputation to represent him
and a bag of gold to pay the jurors and
witnesses; the y.ntt**ed States attorney
would empower me to appear for him,
and on the opening, of the court the judge
wculd enter an order appointing me prose
cuting attorney' Tor. the county, so the
judge and I would Constitute the entire
force, federal and territorial, judicial and
administrative. If. =1 .procured an indict
ment against a party at one term in my
capacity of prosecutor, and the regular
attorney should appear at the next term,
it was more than likely that I would be
retained to defend, which would took a
little irregular at the present time, but
as there were no other attorneys but my
self, as a usual thing, no questions were
asked. •*■....-.,. ._• ■»'?
At a very early day a party not having
the fear of the law or public opinion be
fore him opened a saloon at Traverse
dcs Sioux, much to the dismay and indig
nation of the religious element of the
community, and went to selling whisky
to the other element: The next grand
jury indicted him, but before a ccourt
convened which could- try him a squad
composed of the temperance people,
headed by the sheriff, attacked his place
and demolished his contraband stores.
Being determined to test the question
of his rights, he sued the attacking par
ty, and I was retained, to defend them.
I devised the plea that the country wa._
full of savage Indians, whose passions
became inflamed by whisky, which made
them dangerous to the lives of the
whites, and that the saloons were conse
quently a -nuisance which anyone had a
right to abate. Th. case was tried be
fore Judge ChatfieTd.'and my clients were
vindicated. ; Of course the suit created
a great sensation,! not only on account
of the feeling engendered, but because
of the novel _questions involved, and in
due course of time the temperance la
dles of the county' sent" to New York
and purchased a ha*ndsome combination
gold pen and pencil with a jeweled head
and had it inscribed /'Charles E. Flan
drau, defender of yhe right." They also
procured a handsome family Bible for
the sheriff. Wheh all was ready they
held a public meeting and made the pre
sentations, which were accompanied by
the usual speches. These ceremonies
occurred in the latter part of the year
1554, or early in 1855, and in the mean
time a small newspaper, called the St.
Peter Courier, had been established to
boom that new city, which contained an
elaborate account Of the proceedings, to
gether with all. the speeches, and dili
gently circulated • them throughout the
East, There they were caught up by
Horace Greeley in his Tribune and many
other papers and repeated under th©
head of "Moral Suasion in Minnesota,"
and came back: to us enlarged and im
proved. "~- ■i--y
Should I end th? story * here It would
leave me In the possession and enjoy
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ment of virtues which I cannot consci
entiously claim as my own, and would
deprive the tale of its best and only
amusing point, so as a faithful narrator
I feel in duty bound to tell the other side
of it.
In due course of events the trial of the
indictment against the saloonkeeper
came on to be heard and I was acting as
prosecuting. attorney. Of course I had
to prove that the prisoner had introduced
liquor into the Indian country, and to do
so I called a French half-breed, who I
knew frequented the place, and, after
the preliminary questions, the following
examination was had:
Q. Joe, were you ever in this saloon?
A. . Yes, many a time.
Q. Did you ever buy and drink any
liquor in there? ..
; A. Yes, many a time. •;**.. o
■ Q. Did you ever see any one else buy
and drink liquor in there?
A. Yes, many a time.
Q. Who was it?
A. I have seen you do it lots of times.
Of course the laugh was heavily against
me, but I sat as stoical as an Indian and ''
quietly asked him, "Any one else, Joe?"
I have forgotten whether the ..-"lit ter
minated in conviction or acquittal, "but I
never think of it without a good laugh at
the way the witness turned the tables on
me, and am also reminded of-what my
old friend Van Lowry, from the Winne
bago country, once said of me: 'That
Flandrau Is one of the most singular
men I ever saw. He invariably makes a
temperance speech over his whisky."
The gold pen with the jeweled head re
poses among my frontier treasures, care
fully wrapped up in several editorials
cut from Eastern papers, extolling my
virtues as an apostle of temperance.
Moral—Don't believe everything you
read in the papers.
—Charles E. 'Flandrau.
ROUGH RIDER'S SAD ROMANCE.
"Mary "Waited tor Dan, l»nt Died
Before He Came."
: Dan Seabright, a fearless cowboy, who
had ridden the plains for years, was one
of the bravest of Col. Roosevelt's Rough
Riders. When Troop L, of the gallant
regiment, was enlisted in Muscogee, In
dian Territory, he was among the first
to volunteer.
He had won the heart of Mary Sedwick
and they were to be married when Dan
returned from the war. Thus began a
sad romance which has just ended.
For the bravery he displayed during the
Cuban campaign, Seabright was promot
ed to lieutenant. His sweetheart's brother
Robert was In the regiment also, but he
and Dan lost sight of each other upon
landing in Cuba, Robert was killed in
battle. Before he died he received word
that a cousin of his, Agnes Sedwick, who
also lived in the Indian Territory, had
married a prominent cattleman.
Some time afterward Seabright heard
of this, but was* informed that it was
Mary Sedwick who had been married.
Overcome with grief the young soldier
lost all ambition and brooded over the
supposed unfaithfulness of the girl he
loved. After the war he went to Texas
and later further West, but he did not
have the heart to return to the com
munity where his sweetheart lived.
During the first annual reunion of the
Rough Riders held recently, Seabright
learned for the first time that Mary was
still true to him and was mourning be
cause her. soldier lover had not return
ed. Despondency had brought on nervous
prostration, and she was expected to die.
Seabright at once set out, with a com
panion, for his sweetheart's home, ten
miles away from**? the reunion camp.
Reaching the house the expectant lover
hurriedly dismounted. He knocked at the
door, the aged mother opened it and her
tear-stained eyes told him that sorrow
had come to the little household.
"Is Mary home?" inquired Dan eager
ly. The mother turned her eyes back into
the room and with difficulty said:
"Mary said to tell you Dan that she
had waited for you as long as she could.
She died a few hours ago."
There Are Many Cool Retreats
On the line or reached via the Union
Pacific, "The Overland Route." You will
find fishing in Rocky Mountain streams,
hunting in Wyoming, bathing In Great
Salt Lake, curative waters in Gu»yer and
Hailey Hot Springs, Utah Hot Springs
and Soda Springs, Idaho. If contemplat
ing a trip to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah.
Idaho, California or Oregon do not fall
to ask your agent about the magnificent
train service of the Union Pacific. There
are palace sleeping cars, buffet smoking
and library cars, dining cars with meals
served a-la-carte, and ordinary sleeping
cars, etc., etc., every day in the year.
For time tables, or any information,
apply to your local agent, who can sell
you a ticket via the Union Pacific, or
address H. F. Carter, T. P. A., 378 Rob
ert street.
HALF-RATE EXCURSIONS
Via St. Panl A Duluth Railroad.
On Saturdays and Sundays excursion
tickets at half-rates to Taylor's Falls
(Interstate Park), Lindstrom, Chisago
City, Rush . City, Pine City, etc Good
returning any train Monday. *-r7. ..:
ROMANCE IN POLITICS
MISSOURI REPRESENTATIVE MAR
RIEiS THE DAUGHTER OP
HIS OPPONENT
GOT THE GIRL A POSITION
As Stenographer at the Capitol, Pell
Head Over Heels In Love With
Her, Married Her and Burled the
Political Hatchet—Queer Story of
Cupid's' Work in "Old Mis
soury."
The marriage of J. Raleigh Nicholson,
representative from Harrisonville, Mo.,
to Miss Iva Dorsett, the daughter of his
former opponent, is a pretty political ro
mance that comes from Missouri. '•'•
J. Raleigh Nicholson is*' young, ambi
tious and clever. He knows what it
means to fight against odds. He was
determined to win success. Reared on
a farm he . became a country school
teacher. During his spare 7" hours he
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S. RALEIGH NICHOLSON.
studied law and was finally admitted to
the bar.
Then he decided to try for political
honors. His cause looked hopeless. Mr.
Jeremiah H. Dorsett, who had served
in the preceding general assembly, was
again seeking nomination. The young
lawyer ran against him, and to the sur
prise of every one was elected. Mr.
Dorsett was angry.
The victor was magnanimous. He
heard that Miss Iva Dorsett had con
templated going to Jefferson City with
her father and making the race for one
of the choice clerical positions of the
house of representatives.
In the flush of his triumph he wrote
her a little note offering to aid her if
she still wished the office.
There was bitterness in the Dorsett
family over the success of the almost
unknown young man who had won In
the race, but common sense prevailed
and Miss Dorsett wrote a coldly, polite
little letter accepting the proffered tis
sistance.
In the busy rush of his duties .upon
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reaching Jeffeison City Mr. Nicholson
promptly forgot all about the matter
Politics filled his soul and. his dreams
SUMS? nd hlB^ talk by day had as;
political tinge. On the last-day of the
old year a brown-haired, soft-eyed young
girl Cam up to him. She was Iva Dor
sett and she drove politics out of his
head with one glance from her reproach
ful eyes. From that time- Mr, -Nicholson
championed her cause with enthusiasm
It was very chivalrous, his devotion to
the daughter of his political foe; the old
members said. They forgot 'that Miss
Dorsett was young and beautiful
WESTERN CHIVALRY.
W hen the day cam's to ballot for chief
clerk, doorkeeper and other offices Mr
Nicholson sat quietly at his desk, but
When at last there was a lull he sDranjr
to his feet. The speech made then was
one of the most eloquent ever heard in
the Missouri house of representatives.
It told of Miss Dorsett's charms, of her
fitness for tho position she had come to
seek. She was elected almost unani
mously.
Miss Dorsett was assigned to a desk
in a room opening into the house. By
a queer prank of fate Mr. Nicholson's
desk was located in an aisle that led di
rectly to this door.
Apparently there was no other way for
the gallant young member from Cass to
enter or leave the building except
through that door. As he passed he al-
IVA DORSETT.
ways stopped for a few minutes* talk
with his fair young protege.
LOVE AND POLITICS.
Then it was that love crept into the
staid, gloomy old capitol and perched
saucily on a member's desk. Before the
session was over the news was wTHspered
through the long corridors that Raleigh
Nicholson was very much in love. Miss
Dcrsett only blushed and was silent when
his name was mentioned. Just what __•_•.
Dorsett would say about it was tha
question that haunted the young mem
ber. He remembered that Mr. Dorsett
had formerly expressed his opinion of
his youthful opponent in very uncompli
mentary language.
But when the assembly adjourned Mr.
Nicholson returned with his protegee and
pleaded his cause so successfully that
the house of Dorsett and Nicholson, once
separated by politics, were now reunited
by love. The happy wedding came off
last week.
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