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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
A Fascinating Game,

"There must be Il fascination about
smuggling that Idon't understand, -
remarked United States court Off
cial the other day, when smuggling
was the topic Of conversation. "Now,
am not n religious man, nor do
claim to beanv better than my neigh
bors, but it never entered my head
to try to smuggle anything. A few,
days ago, however, u lawyer who in
quite prominent in Detroit, does n
good deal of business in the United
States courts, not very heavy man,
but above the medium height, who il
n religious man and whose f;lther is
also religious; came into my office
and asked me to take Il walk. AS i
had nothing to do put on my hat
and started out with him, though he
did not say where he was going. He
led me down to the ferry and we
crossed to Windsor, where lie went
straight to II ciglrstore. He bought
a couple OF cigars, gave me one and
then held a. short whispered CONVEX.
sation with tho dealer, when the lat,
ter took down IL box of cigars and
both stepped into IL back room. NV
friend put half of the cigars in III
pockets and We came back. l sup
pose he went back in IL day or two
and got the other half of the box, >
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17

Occupying Il prominent position in
n ease in the center aisle is the model
of IL boat for lifting vessels over
shoals. 1t was patented to Abraham
Lincoln in 1919, when the future
president thought to make IL rpputa-
ton as an inventor rather than a
statesman. Lincoln is the only presi-
dent who ever secured Il patent.
The first shoe was patented in 1S1 1
10y two Massachusetts men. 1t is OF
undressed leather, and there is quite
Il difference between the workman.
ship Of that and the present machine
stitched shoe. So well was the work
done, however, that it was impossi.
Bile to tell whether it was ppggel or
sewed until some sacrilegious clerk
cut the sole and ascertained it was
pegged.
In the class of perpetual motion
machines the patent office IL deficient.
1t has no working model, but I'M i'll
ventor stepped in the other day to
say that he lladcompleted and tested
model which he would send shortly.
1t required some few alterations, he
said. such asa governor to keep it
from going too fast and running
down. When the machine arrives
it will b" given anentirccase by itself.
There are in the neighborllood OF
2OO.OOO models in the patent office,
and had it not been for two lestru
tive fires the number would be near
IL half million.-Washinton Post.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
Celebrating Ills Divorce,


as 1sAub SNctte.
A bridegroom is generally sup.
posed to be il: generous mood
upon his wedding day. and there
are II few charitable benefactions I'm
and down our land which date their
foundation from the ''happiest day.
in the founders life. The great
hotel-keeper, Frohler, OF iuda.
lesth, who has just been divorced
from his wife, is Of the quite con.
trnry opinion. 1t was not upon lis
wedding day, but upon his divorce
day, that he was inspired with an
enthusiasm of humanity. In graft.
tude for his divorce, and in perpeta.
nl memory of that 'Hhappiest day OF
his life" lie has founded three chart
tible institutions-first, q pension
fund for decayed Hungarian journal,
lists; secondly, an exhibition for
school boys of Austrian birth, who
can pass the best examination in
the Magyar language and literature;
and, thirdly, a village hospital in
his own native place. Inzerdorf.
Future generations are to be glad
and rejoice because II wealthy land
lord obtained a divorce. but
they will hardly be able to say
they owe the endowment to "the
pi0us ancestor"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17

Gardens IRE too small, or rather
they are too cramped, for profitable
use of horses in cultivation. 1t is bad
enough to pillow these square chunks,
but whom it comes to using the cult
vator in them, the turning around
destroys too large part of the crop.
Have the garden in II long strip, and
as far rs possible put the vegetables
in long rows, where the cultivator
can work among them. 1t cannot be
done in II single year, because manure
enough cannot be applied In one sea-
son without drying up the soil too
much. But begin this year by plant-
potatoes. Manure these as heavily
us they will bear. Next fall cover
this ground heavily with manure,
and it will make q good garden
patch the following season.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
Old l.acl,cl's Umbrella.
Pittsbnrg Dispatch.

lutsDHrS l'lspatch.
Have you ever seen one of the old
fashioned umbrellas of cotton that
our grandsires-or some of them
used to carry with immense pride?
An old character who was we'll
known in the sewickley Valley for
don't know how many years-shc
ism t dead or forgotten yet-hnd an
umbrella of this sort by which she
set great store. 1t was OF blue cot
ton, with broad, white, circular
stripes, and to what era it belonged
old Rachel did not know.
They say sh only lent it once.
One day, IL score of years ago, her
husband, who was a track.walker
OH the Fort Wayne Railway screwed
up his courage enough to ask her to
lend him the sacred umbrella. She
brought out the blue and white
treasure from a corner of the little
station house where they lived, and,
with many injuctions to be sure and
bring it back, gave it to him.
lie had to walk three miles into
the country that day, and when lie
had reached his destination it had
stopped raining. The sky was clear
when he started for home, and l sup
pose that was why he forgot tile
blue and white umbrella.
He never thought oft again till
he was Mt the threshold of his home,
and there his wife confronted him
with her 300 pounds of muscle and
bone.
"Where is it," she said in q low
and ominous tone.
"Wllere is what, Rachel?" was her
husbands meek reply.
"Where's that umbrel' ?''
"Sake's nlive! left it behind!'
"Before you git into this house
you'll fetch that umhrel'. {"
Jim that was her husbands
name-knew that Rachel would do
as she said every time, and he walk
ell buck three miles and then rutrac-
ed his steps, bearing the 'umhrcl'.'
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17

In 1873 l went with my family to
Europe as anattache fthc American
Commissioners to the Paris Exposi-
ton. travelled about a good deal
in France and England, and saw all
sides of life. In my earlier youth l
was thoroughly trained and indoc-
trinatcd in Bible truth, which now
comes back to me, and bring all the
balance of my knowledge to bear up
on the enforcement of the truth"
Sam is Il young convert, his con-
version dating back only a few years.
Sam Jones is his spiritual father, the
great change in Small's life dating
from impressions received, when lie
heard Jones preach ut Cartersville,
about fifty miles from Atlanta,
Georgia, the city of his residence,
where he made IL living bynewspapcr
work. Upon his return Sam Small
got drunk, hut could not drown con-
victiom, and IL few dayslatersurrend-
cred his life, ashe believes, into higher
Keeping than his own. He then an
nornced II service i'm Atlanta, with
himself as the preacher, and on the
very day of his conversion assumed
the office of Il religious teacher.
Small has been very busy preacher
since then.
lie had hardly begun when Jones
telegraphed for him, and the two
men have since worked together.
MIR. Small believes that since the
partnership was formed from
twenty thousand to thirty thousand
people have been religiously affected
in meetings conducted by the part
ners.
The evangelist has IL wife and FAM
lily. He speaks with great feeling
and admiration of his wife, who bore
patiently with him when seemingly
the ruin that overtakes the drunk
ards wife threatened her. She and
the children were with him when Sam
.Jone y sermon at the camp-meeting
in Cartersville brought him face to
face with the necessity CONFORMATION
to avoid certain and overwhelming
uisiStSi. AL WI uuNOulOHTilpll
sermon Small emphasizes the evils
of drunkenness as exhibited in his
own life.
Mr.. Joncs's helper is II bright man.
His practical advice is presented in
good English, and made plisllnble
by apt and sometimes witty refer
ence. He is in earnest. and his life is
true to his professions.
Ofcourse lie has his troubles in his
new sphere, but they seem to lie little
ones, and he charges both on the
devil as their author. The first of
them is anonymous letters, which he
does not take the trouble to read;
and the second gratuitous counsel
from people who want to stop him
smoking cigarettes. On this matter
he says: II nm satisfied, though,
that no cigarette is going to keep
me out Of heaven. Ii it is going to
keep them, the people who complain
OF my smoking cigarettes out. and
they will cone and tell me SO, then |
will consider the matter and quit:
but am sorry for II fellow that can
hc kept out ofllravcn by IL cigarette. :"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
ACostly Parisian Dinner.

Last evening four Americans went
to Bignon's and ordered IL carte
blanche dinner and were surprised
and indignant about the bill. 1t
amounted to 500. Upon inquiry
the hill of fare was found to include
only primeurs, duckling, asparagus,
strawberries of matchless beauty,
and nm unlimited quantity of tile
best wines. The usual dodge was
played, as all the world over, that
oftakins away n halt.empty bottle
and bringing ON u new one. Only
one man present knew the trick and
he did not dare to mention it..
The flowers were orchids. The con-
genial party of four used very un-
christianlike language and vowed
every Frenclmun u thief and u liar.
In theeXliibition proper all the res
turants are open and in good work
ing order and at less than the usual
prices, and these by authority cam
not he chunged.-Paris Correspond.
ence New York Times.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
An Oddly Matched Pair.

There passed throug III here the 9th
er day, says n New York correspond
ent, n curious couple, and ut the hotel
i'll which they staid the guests spccu-
lated with much interest ns to the
relation between the two. She was
Il sad-t,.ced woman of4O, witha tragi-
cal sort of countenance, dark hair
just touched with gray banded over
her wide, handsome brow, fine, clear
pallid skin, and n marvellous pair OF
eyes, such rs one sees sometimes in
the faces of people who are credited
with second sight and IL vision into
the hidden mysteries.
She appeared to he of nervous,
dclicnte temperament, and the hand
some. healthy young fellow of % or
20, dressed in Il clerical costume,
who accompanied her was most at.
tentive and solicitous of her comfort
and we'll being. They might have al.
most been motherund son, save that
there wasnot the f;lintcst trace OF
resemblance between them, and a
subtle something in their manner led
one to believe otherwise, and to re-
gard it as impossible that they
were mother and son, even of the
type that Amelia Rivcs has intro
duced into literature in her latest
novel. Neither We're they sister and
brother, and puzzledas they all were,
no one guessed that they were the
Rev. Herbert Ward and Ills wife, who
was born Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
on their way home from the south,
where they had passcda long honey
moon, extending over the entire win
ter, and where her health has been
restored, though she is still very deli
cate looking, as she probably always
will be.
lfone may Judge by appearances,
this curiouslynssortcd couple arr. en-
tirely content in their experiment.
The marriage was II nine DAYS Won
der in Andover, where Miss Phelps
lived, she having been considered for
years as certain never to marry. She
wasengaged toa man who was killed
in the civil war, and her Gates
Aiar' and other books of that sup
ernatural character, which made her
so famous, were written under the
influence of her loss.
After twenty years OF mourning
she found IL new interest in lie
through the handsome, rosy-cl,ceked
youngclergyman so much her Junior,
and now she seems quite well content
to remain for while longer Oh this
side the gates.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
FOR THE FARMER.


When they can be secured without
too much Inconvenience, leaves used
US litter increase the value ofmanure.
A SOW sucking q litter of young
pigs ia a vorncious eater. Feed her
aliberalquantity and good variety.
Must make dairying n speciality,
otherwise you emit make money.
It's a matter of education"
Always have before your fowls
plenty Of ground oyster shells, old
plaster and gravel.
There is no economy in turning
the stock into the pastures until tho
grass has made q sufficient growth
to give them u full feed.
The secret Of making good butter
from separator cream lies in cooling
cream to 55 degrees us soon us
received from the separator.
There is no reliable method in
breeding for producing sex ut will.
All theories 10 far advanced huve
proved futile.
Water under foot is n great detri-
ment to sheep growing, and hence in
in wet seasons the aocks have to he
watched closely. Foul foot is very
seldom known in n billy country.
Where poultry and pigs are kept
the milk is more valuable to feed to
them than to make into country
store butter during tho summer. The
fnult, however, il not in the milk
and cream so much as the manage
ment that is usually given.
Don't neglect getting in the supply
ofgravel until the heavy rains set in.
by and by the creeks will he full of
running water. Dry earth and fine
gravel are Indispensable to the health
of confined fowls through the winter
months.
Improper milking, lazy milking,
incomplete milking, one-handcd milk
ing, forcing dry II perpetual mixer,
or drying of too soon, or neglect
that causes garget, or too seldom re-
ceiving the udder, are frequentcauscs
of spelling goodcow. Indeed, milk
ing II cow is IL fine art when properly
conducted, and the most important
work in the whole dairy business, and
the most important element in tho
individual COW culture.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
Bad Rexvlt, f,om OLA Chvr,,.

There is one dairy implement that
is too ant to become an heirloom in
the family, and that is IL churn, We
have often seen those that looked us
though they had come down from tho
remote past. Drowned and weather.
beaten and worn to the bone, they
presented IL sorry appearance, and
when dry, the critical nose could
e,.sily detect the remains of ancient
grease about them. Nothing could
be more perilous to the quality of
butter made in them. Ten years is a
very loLg time SO keep u churn, even
ifit is cleaned with scrupulous care
after using. They do not cost much
in these days and no matter what
kind of wood they are made of, it be-
comes in time saturated with the oil
of the milk to that extent that no
amount of hot water can take it out.
Age makes this grease old and rank,
and the odor from it quickly contain.
mates the fresh cream, especially
while it is warm from churning.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
Thought They Were Bexitehed.

AT the village of Reinberg in Aus.
tria recently IL very religious family
became possessed with the idea that
they had been bewitched by an old
rrone in the village, and the men
with his three daughters and son
and IL young girl, who was in their
house at the time, locked themselves
in and began to pray and sing. They
remained without food or drink for
several days and fired Mt neighbors
who attempted to come near the
house. They threatened to kill the
girl when she wanted to go away.
Their cattle were left to starvc in
the barn. AT last the neighbors Sc.
cured warrants against them us in.
sane, and force of asylum officers,
insisted by the peasants, stormeL
the place. captured it, and took the
family prisoners after n hard fight.
One Doctors neck was grazed by IL
bullet, but there were no other cas-.
nalities. The girl was released and
the Others incarceratcd imam ASYLUM,
New York Sun.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
PEOPLE WE TALK OF.
SAM SMALL.

Something sbost the Associate Of Sam Jones.
The story of Sam Small's life is re-
markably interesting, especially as
he tells it.
~ am thirty.five years DID," he
said to reporter of the Chicago In.
tcr-Ocean recently, land was born in
Knoxville, Tenn, on the 3D. of July.
getting in one day before the celebra.
ton OF the Declaration of Indepcn.
dcnce. entered Emory and Henry
College, in Virginia, IL Methodist
College, in 1869, leaving college in
1871. l then went into newspaper
work, first in Nashville, being engag.
ed in various places, in New, Orleans,
and other points in the South.
was in all kinds of newspaper work,
running several papers Of my own,
sometimes into the ground, or get,
ting the Sheriff to run them for me.
l began the old ST. papers in 1876,
during the Presidential campaign.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17

Grease is destructive to all insect
Sermin which so much infest domest.
ic animals, and ut this season begin
to multiply with great rapidity. Ten
days only IRE sufficient to hatch n
brood, and millions may be producel
from one louise in the course of the
summer. Their destruction now will
save much annoyance in the future
Poultry may be freed from them by
thoroughly whitewaslling the house
with the hot lime wash, and well
greasing theroosts with n mixture q
nykind of grease and kerosene oil
in equal parts. This mixture, Will
II few drops Of creosote added, rub
bed on the backs, brisket, neck and
under the legs of calves, will quickl,
free them from the vermin.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17

Shakespeare MAKES Hamlet say:
"Thrift, thrift, Horatiol the funeral bukel
meats
Did coldly furnish forth hemarriage table.
But a good New England woman
lid u 'thriftier" thing than that
Her mother had a long sickness and
finally died, of infammatory rheu
matism, leaving several half.useG
bottles of medicine. which became Il
source of great concern to the
daughter, for "it ought not to BIZ
wasted" she sud. She offered to sell
it ut discount to a neighbor, but
finding it left ON her hands she took
it all herself for sore throat, colds,
gastric trouble, and whatever nil.
nlent she happened to have.
The same woman once told two
visitors whom she had invited to
ten, that she had been in u good
deal of trouble that day to calculate
upon just how many biscuits to make
for the meal. She always knew
about her own family; she 'allowe,l
one apiece, and an extra one in cnsc
of being extra hungry" but where
two new persons were concerned
whose appetitcs and habits were an
unknown quantity, she was in such
II state of mind that she was "fairly
upsot;" and at the table she wa tcllel
with keen eyes to see Whit was to bt.
the fate of the one extra" buscuit
which was oil she could bring herself
to prov: 10 beyond the regular tex
ira" of tho family.
A certain New England family will
never forget their inward amusc-
rnent ut the remark of n "nenr"
woman las righteousness and close
calculation IRE phrlsc,l), who had
come to see them in the beginning of
her annual round ofvisiting to "s,,ve
her boartl;" she remarked at the din
ner-table that the food "tastcd
good" for she had been keeping her.
self short" in expectation of shut
ting up her house.
She had been brought up in such u
small, narrow way that she "could
tell to pin" every paticle she had
with her. When u little girl she had
been sent from home to school, and
boarded with her aunt Esther, hav-
ing for roommate u girl named
Hannah. At the close of the ten
weeks term, when getting her things
together, she went to her relative
with these words:
"Aunt Esther, wouldn't do such
u thing as to say that Hannah
would steal, but when came here
had seven needles and four rows OF
pins. Now, Aunt Esther, five pins
are gone, and there is one of the
needles which can't find. Hannah
must have taken them!'
Once when she was going away for
two or three days she offered u
ncighbor the mornings fairgrounds
to steep over, and to saveit, u pump
kin pie which she was afraid wouldn't
keep till she got home. When she
returned sooner than she expected,
and went over and said if the pie had
not been eaten she would take it
back.-Wide Awake.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17
Co.oreratlre Breeding.

breeding horses, says the Orange
Judd Farmer, is attended with diff
culties $50 is every other business);
but the farmers of u neighborhood
have itin their power to- remove the
most serious ofthe Notwithstanding
good sires. BY forming q company
the owners of forty or fifty mares can
buy IL choice stallion and pay for him
in two years from the fees they would
otherwise puy for service. The mis-
take of making the company too
large must be avoided. Yet there is
nnadvantage all around in IL large
company when two or more breeding
stations can he kept, us different
types may he provided for the varied
needs Of the patrons.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-17

There is often IL possible great
economy from the study of tables OF
nutrition. Farmers cnnnot afford
to feed what comes handiest, in the
old haphazarl fashion. The COM
bination of some of the more concen-
trated forms of food with straw and
coarse fodder that they find it hard
to dispose Of may make IL much
cheaper ration, as well as n better
one, than what their stock has been
accustomed to eating. Oil meal and
cotton-seed meal rank 80 high in nu-
tritive value that they are really
cheap to all who have plenty OF
course, bulky food with little nutri.
ton to give them. Best of all il that
these concentrated forms of food, be.
cause of that fact, will bear trans.
portation long distances into the
country.