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my heart, for Heavens mercy. knew
you were there at the window kneao,
though my eyes were too dim to see;
and when signaled with my hand,
heard your voice answer: Leslie! Les
lie! l am comingy and l knew I was
saved.
''My Carmine,' he took her hand rev.
erently in his, chad your love for me
been less faithful, you would never
have bridged space with that yearning
prayer which brought our spirits into
communion, and / would have died
there, beside those demon-bells!''
Leslie Kenilworth lived to bless the
bells that had so nearly destroyed him.
The great ocean steamer that sailed
away without one newly-wedded pair
sank in the storm of that fourth of jan
uary, and all on board were lost. Had
the bells not startled the young man so
that he missed his footing and fell into
his horrible dungeon, he and his gentle
bride would have gone down with the
Inflated passengers of the Assyrian.-
Annie Ashmore, in Demorest's Maya
zine
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the head, relapsed again into his former
attitude.
He had sat thus for long time when
there was knock at the door.
''Come in" said the lawyer, without
looking up.
A servant girl entered, handed him a
note and withdrew.
Lawyer Flint opened the note, read it,
uttering an exclamation of impatience.
arose and paced up and down the room.
$50 Rolingold can't meet me to-mor-
row because it's Christmas he NUT
tered, as he stalked across the floor;
every day is important in this matter
and yet he, the one most interested. de-.
lays proceedings tyenty-four hours SIM
ply because it happens to be Christmas.
Cad! can't see how a business man like,
Rolingold can be so foolish. WE'LL" he
continued, sslet him take his holiday
and enjoy tiff he can. I couldn't. It's
many and many a long day since Christ.
mas interfered with my business. .
He returned to his chair, but the train.
Of his thought had been interrupted and
his face now wore cynical, hard look
as he gazed into the cracking fire.
Once, long ago, his Christmas days had.
been bright, too, but their brightness
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trousers pockets, and his head bent for
ward until his chin rested on his breast.
On the table beside him lay a couple of
newspapers and yellow-covered law
book, open at the page he had been con-
sulting.
Lawyer Flint was deep in perplexing
thought, to judge by the expression of
his face, for his brow was clouded and
his lips compressed; and occasionally
he turned his head toward the open
volume as if inclined to seek further
aid from it, but, with slight shake of
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hung in circle over a skele1on-like
bridge of planks, by which they might
be reached. As the door was opened,
the quarter after six set one bell swoop-
ing across the disk with stroke which
almost deafened Carmine, SO mighty
were the reverberations. At the same
moment scream broke from dark
heap under one of the window-loops, and
it seemed to cover closer to the wall. It
was Leslie Kenilworth, the missing
bridegroom, crazed, as the sexton had
said, by the torture of the bells.
IL we're useless to describe Mrs.
Haughton's stupefaction when this
wreck of humanity was brought to her
door. The explanation of his plight
was so simple and so natural that she
could not find word of blame for any
sbody, but just busted herself in doing
the best she could for the unfortunate
man. He was almost gone with hunger,
exhaustion and the pealing of the bells.
They had to be silenced while he lay
between life and death, so terrible was
their effect upon him.
"Maniac bells! be still! be still" he
would scream, striking fercely upward,
and then, when strength failed him,
covering into his pillows as though
from raining blows.
AS rest and nourishment restored the
wasted body, the frenzied mind gradual +
ly regained it's balance, until Leslie
learned to recognize his plain little
bride-elect, and grew visibly stronger
under her influence
It was fortnight after his rescue
that he told his story to Carmine and
her mother. It ran thus:
ssYou remember 1 left this house at
ten o'clock that night, and went to my
hotel to complete my preparations. I
worked for an hour, and then the beauty
of the night tempted me out for stroll
about the old place. often used to
climb up the stairs of st. Davids tower
when boy, and the fancy took me to
do it again; so, without word to any
one, assembled the parapet, and stood
there, not locking at the old familiar
scene, after all, but at my Carmine's
lighted windows"
He took her hand, and in defiance of
mamma, kissed it.
''You had told me to expect little
gorgon, and l had found, instead, so
sweet, so spirit-pure face.''
'sBut ugly" interposed Carmine, with
an unsteady laugh.
Beautiful with the beauty that is
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eternal!' said Leslie, stoutly; and tiny
thorn was plucked forever out of her
humble heart.
''Well," proceeded he, ST forgot where
was, So that when great clang of
bells rose just behind me, I started and
meant to hasten down the stairs out of
the din. Instead, stumbled headlong
into the open bell-tower. and lay, help
less on my back, under the swinging
bells, just in the center where they all
met to deliver their internal strokes"
''They had begun to ring in the New
Year" he continued, 'sand knew had
ten minutes of it to endure before I
dared move hand or foot: for as each
bell delivered it's stroke the brazen lip
would almost touch my face, and the
wind of it nearly took my breath away.
lay there staring up at my enemies.
with starting eyeballs, as they swooped
at me like hungry eagles, and snatched
at my tossing hair. How they roared at
me! How they hurled themselves like
barking dogs at me!
''When they began to ring in the New
Year was in the prime of youth and
vigor;. when they stopped, my warm
blood had become thin and cold, my
hair was gray. I was an octogenarian in
his senile childhood. I laughed and
cried for Joy when they were silent,
and then crept off the fearful network
and found the door. When / discovered
it was locked, suppose tainted; at all
events l remembered no more until
towards the evening. From that time
on-morning, noon, night, morning,
noon, night all seemed to me
troubled dream, cut into by lance points
of torture whenever the demon bells
gave tongue. Sometimes the fifteen
minutes seemed to me days and weeks
apart; at other times they hurried on
each other so that / elled at them to
wait and give me time to brace myself
for their crashing blows. All hunger
sor thirst was forgotten in the torture
of the bells: sleepI had none only In
sensibility.
On that fourth night of my imprison-
ment, the furious storm which rocked
the tower brought me strange relief,
although the frozen snow blew in upon
me, almost freezing me to death. Those
other sounds were healing to my deaf
ened ears; they diverted my mind from
the recurrent horror OF the bells. AS
the night wore on, I had a mysterious
feeling that you, Carmine, were near
me; that your spirit was calling upon
mine. I dragged myself to the loop
hole and waited for daylight, praying
all the time, with a newborn hope in
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MEvsN hAR. 1891 /.
Change, sir; thank you. Merry
Oh ri sim a G y,
Merry

Change, sir; thank you. Merry
Christmas!'
The exasperated lawyer grasped his
bundle and hurried after the boots,
which now seemed anxious to get away
from the store. When he struck the
cold air and again drew his coat around
him he seemed somehow to feel less an
noyance. The excitement of the chase
had warmed his blood. 1t was curious
feeling that began now to steal over
him, the like of which he had never ex-
perienced before, or at least not for
many years, he said to himself, as he
stopped before candy store and fol-
lowed the boots inside.
''Candy for Christmas?" He smiled
almost to think that he, Harders A. Flint,
should hear such a question addressed
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How the glad peal broke upon the
midnight silence and set the heart of
one happy girl thrilling with JOY al
most too keen for mortal to believe in
the joy of requited love! Ring out the
long years of patient waiting and meek
submission; ring in the coming bliss of
living for the noblest man on earth!
Carmine Haughton was to be married
to-day-this very New Years day-to
the lover who had been rejected by her
parents seven years ago. The Haugh-
tons were wealthy then, and she was the
eldest. the flower, the loveliest of the
four beautiful girls who went by the
names of Carrie, Ju, vi and Essie
Haughton. Leslie Kenilworth was one
of the richest physicians in Winnipeg
nor wealthy any more. A wasting ILL
ness had robbed her forever of her love-
Illness, and her fathers sudden death
had reduced the family to comparative
poverty.
Then, quite suddenly, Leslie Kenil-
worth had written to his old love, tell
ing her he had a home worthy of her at
last; that he had never forgotten her,
and believed she had been as true to
him, and that he would come and claim
her whenever she babe him. What day
of Joy and terrors that had been! Would
he care for her now she was oor-and
plain? For the first she feared not; but
the last? All! the image in his constant
heart was not that poor, scared face.
She wrote him the truth, inclosed her
photograph and waited mutely. But his
letters only breathed the tenderest con-
stancy. He urged her to be ready for
New-Year's day wedding, so that he
might take her with him to Europe for
winters sojourn before returning to
far-of Winnipeg, and her mother and
sisters gladly pushed on the prepara-
lions.
They had not met until last evening,
the very day before the wedding, and
when she beheld the tall, handsome
gentleman who had come to claim her
her courage altogether failed her and
she hid her ruined face in her hands,
weeping over its Disagreement. But he
raised it with tenderest reverence, and,
gazing into the fearful eyes, whispered:
''My Carmine's soul is lovelier than
overp'
And who could have doubted after
that?
Plenty of willing hands had decked
the church with flowers in honor of her
wedding day-the quaint old church
whose pealing bells had walked her to
the new year and the new life. It's
beautiful bell tower was but stones
throw from the brides chamber window,
and its chimes were familiar to her as
the voices of her friends. 1t struck the
quarter before e1evena bar of six
leenth century madrigal- as the bride
went up the aisle in her simple white
draperies.
There she stood under the golden
bell, with her gentle face seen, mist
like, through the vail, bending down
ward, and filled with holy serenity.
There she stood-but where was the
bridegroom? The marriage was fixed
for quarter before eleven, and the
steamer which was to bear them away
started at twelve o'clock. Not moment
could be spared for delay; why, then, was
not the bridegroom there to greet the
bride?
Mrs. Haugbton, in her marvellous tot
lette OF he!iotrope plush and lace, who
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was obscured by more vivid recollec-
tons Of other Christmas times in later
years, when ambition and disappoint-
ment and poverty and greed had steeled
his heart and left no room for Christmas
thoughts. Oh! the years that he had
worked and starved and boarded to reach
his present condition Of comfortable in
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A LIVELY OLD PAIR.
The Merry Christmas Caused by
Uncle Toms Old Boots. Fl
ARDER,S

A Il DERS A..
FLINT, ESQ.,,
l a W y g r, sat
alone in is
bachelors den
in a big easy
chair, his feet
encased in a
pair Of dilapi-
dated old slip
pers, resting on
the fender, his
hand thrust half
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W@A " * he sn round in the eT ~sat
-Mlsha Af!TNy S It was old-fash-
NH9MvW toned Christmas wealth
fMh||g I remember the fields we're
NlWN|lM white with snow
! AS we stood by the stile
together.
In the woods the berries grew thick and red;
Yet fingered and called it 'Folly!'
When you said with smile: LET US cross the
Stile
And gather some Christmas holly"
But over the fields by the frozen brook
We went where the boughs were sprinkled
With snow; and deep in q sheltered nook
The waterfall family tinkled
A brave little robin sang out in the cold:
1t was only young lovers folly.
But we listened so long to the redbreasts song
That we almost forgot the holly.
Then the light died out Of the golden day.
And the moon showed her silvery bow,
And we never knew if our homeward way
Lay through rose-leaves or drifted snow.
One bright star shone IN the pale clear sky;
And my mother said it was folly
To listen so long to a robins song
But we brought home the Christmas holly.
You stir not now from our ingle nook,
And my hair is white like the snow;
For the story you told mid the sunset gold
Is story of long ago.
AS hand clasps hand by the winter fire.
Do you deem it an old wife's folly
That my eyes grow wet with sweet regret
When look at the Christmas holly?
e. Matheson, in Chambers Journal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-12
BEEN BLEED ENOUGH.

The Pembina. N. d., PIONEER Elk.
PRESS complains because the Alinnea.
polls dallies ':dabLle in Dakota poll.
tics for business reasons" and especi.
ally resents the course of the Journal
in printing interviews with Senator
Fierce and Jud LaMoure, alleging that
tile journal doesn't like Pierce be.
cause lie was once OH tile Pioneer
Press force" and was attempting to
get upa quarrel between the North
DAKOTA statesmen. 1t the Pembin.
lioNEER EXPRESS has never heard of
That sovereign remedy called "bleed.
Ing for the simples," it has yet to apply
Tile cure, of which it seems to be sad.
~ in need.-Ntinneapolls Evening
Journal.
"Dleeling for the simples," we con.
Tess our ignorance of, unless in our
simplicity we mistake it for the
bleeding Of the simples," which lat.
ter process has been going OH in this
country for the last ten years-the
leeclles mostly coming from the head
offices at the twin cities. And rs the
lrlsh'nan said to his landlady, after a
Dad nights rest, "Faith ma am, 'tisn' t
tile biting Of the little b'astes care
Tor, but the fact is, haven't the blud
to slpare!' The fact is, Mr.. Journal,
North Dakota has been subject to the
bleeding process about as long us it
can afford to, and proposes to leave
your bed and board us soon as it cal,
engage other accommodations, unless
you clean up some of your dirty ways.
And for proof Of the fact, that there
are other places, we refer you to Du.
luth, West Superior and Chicago.
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and square miles around it, If there
was in that city, u WOODEN mill, EN-.
pl"ying a hundred men, than IL that
mill was being operated in France.
England or Germany. What boots
free or cheap wool, to the pioneer
wool growers Of North Dakota, If free
wool means the humiliation of their
own industry! What boots it to the
North Dakota wool grower. that wool.
Ell cloth is trine cheaper because of
free wool, If in exchange he is to he
deprived of the wherewitllal to buy!
What boots IL to the Mandan mer.
Chant that lie can buy wooden coat
a dollar cheaper because of free wool,
If in exchange lie is to lose fifty dol.
lars profit in trade on "a hundred Gus.
toners ruined because of free wooll
What boots it to the North Dakota
farmer if the dainty dudes regale
themselves with cheap mutton chops,
if they do thus regale at his expense!
Yet the democrats expect North Da.
kota to go democratic this fall on side
issues. The issue is protection. De.
eide your ballot OH that issue.
j. II. WHEELER.
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We would just like to call the attell.
ton of some democratic journals to the
fact that while NJ. N. johnson might
possibly suffer in contrast with some
republicans, there is no democrat to
whom lie is not superior. While this
paper and other republican papers,
honestly and openly criticised Mr..
johnson and some Of the influences
which led to his selection before the
convention. it recognizes the fact that
Mr.. Johnson was the choice of the
majority, that while he, like other
men, has failings, yet none of these
are yenial or vital. that in many res.
poets. lie is a brilliant man, and that
above all. he is a straight republican,
and will vote in congress with the
party, for its principles and for the
good Of the country. member of
congress, as it is now constituted, it
would indeed be a poor republican who
would not he superior to any democrat
for the interest Of the country and
particularly of the northwest.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-12
The Weather.

Synopsis of the weather in this vicini-
to during the month of August, 1880, as
furnished by Observer W. H. Andy, of
st. Vincent, MINI:
The month was especially Characters
tic for Its extreme fluctuations in baron.
etric pressure and temperatures, like
wise, high wind yelocities at short in.
tervals, which is due to these changes of
air pressure. Tie mean temperature
for the month was slightly cooler than
the average, the highest recorded was
92' on the 9th, the lowest, 800, on the
22nd. The greatest daily range of tenn
perature occurred on the 25th, 45o in less
than twelve hours. High winds pre-.
vailed on the LIST, End, 9th, 18th and 3lst.
The maximum velocity was IS miles
from northwest OH the End. The amount
Of psecipi3 alton, was slightly below the
average, the total amount being two and
four tenth inches; about one.tllird of this
amount fell on the 9th inst. and proved
at a very inopportune time to farmers
who we're about completing their liar.
vest. Reports from the central office at
st, Paul, show that very little damage
was done to crops throughout the state
by the early frosts, and a fair yield is
promised from all crops except potatoes,
which, in the southern portion of the
state, indicate total failure.
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SELF EXECUTING,

States Attorney Cochrane and Edit.
or Bierly are arguing over the right
Of women's vote at tho ensuing state
election. Mr.. Coclrane says while
the constitution undoubtedly gives
woman suffrage OH school questions,
yet rs the legislature made no prOvi.
sion for the method of voting, there.
fore they cannot vote.
MIR. Bierly says: "If section l2S,
twoman suffrage,) is not "self execrt.
ing" neither is any other section of
that article. and we have the nonsen.
steal predicament of u fundamental
law that needs either u prior, or sub.
sequent act of the legislature to give
it vitality. Such a position is too re.
diculous to he entertained for mo.
ment, by any lawyer who knows
enough to pass an examination
MIR. Bierly further claims, and rea.
sonably. that if separate ballot boxes
are provided, that it will not affect
the legality of the mems vote even if
the w"men's ballots are afterward de.
clared illegal, and to us. this seems to
be his strongest point.
But if "sec. 1884, of the constitu.
ton, is ''self executing what about
the sections in the same instrument
which positively prohibit the sale or
manufacture of liquors! Ii we re.
member right, our last legislature not
only declared them not "self execut.
ing" but actually made u law putting
of the "self executing" power for six
months.
The whole business involves u cur.
ious question, as to how far the legis.
lat''re can 60 in neglecting or evading
the clear terms of the constitution. 1t
is very certain that u law passed con.
trary to its provisions is null and void,
but suppose they refuse to pass any
law at all, OF snch IL law rs defeats the
purpose by evasion. or placing dill.
culties in the way, can the courts llelp
us! 1t the legislature, this winter,
sees lit to annul the penalties for sell.
ing liquor; If the present law is null
on account Of the supreme court deci.
sion, and the legislature refuses to
pass 1t over again; if the constitution
is not 'self executing" and the legis.
lature refuses to give women the
means to exercise their constitutional
right; what are we, what can we do
about it! a decision OH this point
would be interesting from either Mr..
CUcilrulle or Mr.. Riprly
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Alliance Convention.

AAllanc0 convention.
The following call llas been issued by
Hon. Walter Muir:
JAMESTOWN, N. d., Aug. 9th 1880.
Brethren:-By request and by authori.
ty of the state central committee Of the
farmers alliance and industrial union Of
North Dakota, it is hereby announced
that there will be delegated state con-
vention by the farmers alliance and in.
dustrial union held in the city of Grand
Forks, Thursday, Sept. 25th, 1890, Mt 2
o'clock p. M, to take the political situa-
ton under consideration and adopt a
definite plan of work, nominate candi.
dates for the federal and state officers. or
indorse candidates already nominated
by republican or democratic state con.
ventions as may be found necessary, and
also tranact such other business as may
be needed to the realization of our prin.
clples and in defence of our rights, as
farmers and producers. The knights of
labor and union labor societies in the
state are respectfully invited to send
delegates TO our meeting.
Let this convention show to the world
the farmers. prohlbitionists and friends
of reform generally, in North Dakota no
longer can be driven by political bosses
and ring-masters in the state.
signed, WALTER Muir, president, state
farmers alliance and industrial union.
NJ. d. WILLIAMS, secretary.
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psafnsss Can't ha c,r.d

by local applications as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi.
ton of the mucous lining of the Eustach.
ian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed
you have rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the in.
fianmation can he taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out Of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed con.
dition OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that we can not cure by taking Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
D@rSold by druggists, 75c.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-12
THE FIGURE Co.,.

IT, figure in our dates will make long stay
~ man or woman now living will ever date
document without using the figure 0. It stand
u the third place in 1890 where it will remain IT,.
cars and then move up to secopd place in l.tx,
there it will rest for one hundred years.
There is another 49, which has also come TO stay
is unlike the figure in our dates in the respect
nat it has already moved up to first place, wl,.rc
will permanently remain. 1t is called the ~ ,
: High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machin.
The mo. o" was endorsed for first place by Inc
xperts Of Europe ut the Paris Exposition OF lSa
here. after severe contest with the leading ,.,.
hines Of the world, it was awarded the only
rand Prize given TO family sewing machines. al
theirs on exhibit having received lower awards
u gold medals, etc. The French Government,
40 recognized its superiority by the decoration Of
Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler. President OF the company
nth the Cross Of the Legion Of Honor.
The mo. Q" is not an old machine improved
non. but Is IN entirely new machine, and tho
;rand Prize at Paris was awarded it us the grand
=, advance In sewing machine mechanism Of tn,
'gc. Those who buy It can rest assured, therr
ore. OF having the very latest and best.