The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-24

ing and grew moody.
Again fortune smiled upon him and
he amassed few dollars with which
to purchase his wife some Sunday
teeth and himself wooden hat for
winter. One lovely autumn eve, when
all nature seemed full of poetry and
all hands full of new cider, a young
man on whose cheek was the down
of adolescence and the brass of
early experience, came into the yard
where Arkwright was milking and
commemorate an easy conversation:
mice cows
Yes, tollable," said the farmer.
"Some unruly ones | see, with
boards on their horns"
Yes, said Arkwright, "the board
keeps EN- from hooking hard"
Mice thing. Have you a farm
right"
stranger" said he, make out
your bill. Abraham used that kind
of board on the bulls of Bashan,
but make out your bill Here is a
COW with her tail tied to her leg. How
much is that? Here is a COW with
aSpiked muzzle on. Put that in. The
hired man has got cows tail in his
teeth, draw it mild, put it all in. I'll
pay it," The young man seemed as
tOnished but filled out bill for hook
ing board, took $50 and went away.
Arkwright was a broken man. He
took no further delight in life. He
took the buttons off his cows horns.
He took the ring out of the bulls
nose He took therOpe and stone off
the front gate and fastened it with Il
cob. His friends had to watch him
whenever Il book agent or map ped
der came along or he would give
them his note for any amount and
tell them to go. Well, spring with
ripping step came down the vale and
made the snOW-drifts take in sail,
and flowers began to upward press to
meet the sunshines soft career 1--WE
can reel off this style when we want
toy. -Arkwright was basking in the
sunshine when he noticed a stranger
at the we'll peering down between the
planks. Then he tried the pump and
with smile and a whoop he arose
and ran toward Arkwright.
"That's four today" said he.
"Fourwhat," said Arkwright.
"FOur driven wells. lam the driven
we'll tiend of New York."
a CLEAN of intelligence sprang into
the eye of Arkwright. you are mis-
taken, said he, 1T is dug WE'LL but
| will take up the plank and show
you" Hurriedly the crazed farmer
took off the planking, and hurriedly
the stranger sprang forward. Did
some presentimentc cause him to look
at the sun and the sky for the last
time? think so. For moment he
stopped and then Arkwright hOwled
in tone of maniac glee: Tell your
master here is something he has no
patent on, " and he gave the fiend a
push that sent him 80 feet into the
earth. The water became famous for
a suggestion of whisky in it's flavor,
and was in great demand in the
manufacture of soap. Can it ethat
it was impregnated with lye. Per-
haps so. Enough for us to know that
the once stalWart but now democrat
lied and gibbering Arkwright was de-
stroyed by the patent laws of our
country. WillitcOme at last to shoot
ing every collector of royalties on
patents? | trust not unless there be
money enough in their pockets to
bury them in warm weather, for they
spoil quickly. But l must forbear
or | will eliminate myself We close
our sad story. We hear the sad wall
ing of the hired man $ accordion and
the sad whaling the woman next door
is giving her son for sliding on the eel
lar door. Already the aggressivec cat
with swollen tail is moving sidewise
along the deadly and imminent roof,
with fire in his eye and a wad of fur
in his mouth. Already the fute-like
notes of the farmers musical daugh-
ter may be heard floating on the air
in that thrilling song, "Bennies
Liver Pad Is Loose" and the clerk