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He vas pulling her teeth while She was

he was pulling her teeth while she was
under the influence of some of these drugs.
We should gradually, each and all, learn
from this little incident to mind our own
business, such as it is. Supposing it had
been as supposed it to be. A frenzied
man beating out ali the brains there were in
the house, viz, those of his wife. Would 1
have been safe even then in interfering? 1
wot not. That's wot wot. For the chances
are more than ever that when exclaimed
through my clenched teeth, "Villain,
aVauntT' instead of avaunting he would
have MANNED me the first shot and then
pblled me through the transom.
He would then have knocked out my
most desirable brains and with her dying
breath the wife would have encouraged him
and cheered him on, meantime denouncing
me as great big prying, meddlesome, nasty
thing.
Whom God hath Joined together, let no
ordinary amateur undertake to put asunder.
BILL NYE
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Riley says he would like to borrow it to
scour knives with. The voice of the tenor,
he claims, has a ferule on the end of it, and
when the rollicking sophomore strikes on
fourth added line above his mouth looks
like stab in the dark
The small boy in the back seat grows pale
as the song proceeds, totters to the icewater
tank and drinks it dry, draws his over
worked jacket sleeves across his dripping
mouth, and, going back to his seat, finishes
up the last round of candy ammunition
from glass revolver and red rolling pin.
We now pull up between two long lines
of cars loaded with hogs, and wait for orders.
The cracker man ahead of me starts violent
ly every time the other ones squeal. So he
is not entirely devoid of heart after all. He
certainly sympathizes with the lardy da
passengers in the other train, and blood,
after all, is thicker than water.
The peanutter now comes TO ask me If
would not like a pair of embroidered
moecasins with colored beads on them, or
some other literary work. He shows me
some nice gum arabic figs, while hold his
large basket for him. tell him I DO not
care for figs, especially the elastic or nom
corrosive fig made at the Pullman Car
Works. Then he tries to sell me the holi-
day number of the War Cru. say no, do
not need 1t. He then urges me to buy a
copy of a book entitled, "Hounded to the
Southwest Corner of Perdition and Back
by the author of Where is MY Girl To-
night?"
TIE PEAEUTTER'S METHODS.
1 tell him courteously that wouldn't
choose any. He seeks then to sell me
book containing 1000 words, and also some
tables, that he says are quite thrilling. 1
draw him out in regard to his books, He
is more interesting than his literature, He
finally admits, after I have told him how l
dislike these fashy books like Looking
Backward, {" that be has not read any of his
carefully selected library, although ever
ready and willing to enter into heated dis
cussion regarding these books. 1t seems
that he gets all his information from the
passengers. He does not read the books
himself. A man says: 81 do not want that
book OF Zola's; it is too prudish." Then,
of course, he remembers and treasures up
the remark so that the next time through
the car he can bring one that is not so
prudish. And so on.
Finally, the young man gives me his
promise that some day he will bathe his
hands and read some of his books. Then be
tries TO sell me fine watch charm with a
view Of Brooklyn bridge inside of it.
sneak out Of that, and after trying to swap
knives with me, he goes away, but comes
back again to say that If am through with
my DISPATCH he would like to see it. give
Il 70 him. After awhile Mr.. Riley comes in
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heltering rock There they come, a greats
flock of 30 or. more, bearing straight down
on him, a hundred yards of-80-60
now. Up goes the gun, but alas and alasl
they catch glimpse of the light glinting
on the barrels, and perhaps of the head be-
hind them, and in another second they have
broken and scattered this way and that
way, twisting of like a wisp of gigantic
snipe and vanishing with melancholy cries
into the depth of mist.
This is bad, but the ardent sportsman sits
down with groan and waits, listening to
the soft lap of the tide. And then at last
virtue is rewarded. First Of all two wild
ducks come over, cleaving the air like ar
rows. The mallard is missed, but the left
barrel reaches the duck, and down it comes
with full and satisfying thud. Hardly
have the cartridges been replaced when the
wild cry of the curlew is once more heard
quite close this time. There they are, loom
ing large against the fog. Bangl down goes
the first and lies tapping among the rocks.
Like fash the second is away to the left.
Bangi after him, and caught him, tool Hark
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to the splash as he falls into the deep watsr
30 yards away. And then the mist closes
in 50 denssly that the sport is done for the
day. Well, that right and left has been
worth three hours wait in the wet SeaWeed
and the violent cold that may follow-that
is, to any man who has q soul for true sport.
just such an experience as this had BE-
fallen Geoffrey Bingham. He had baqeed
his wild duck and his brace Of eurlsw-that
is, he had bagged one of them, for the other
was floating in the sea-when a sudden in
crease in the density of the mist put stop
to further operations. he shook the wet
sesweed of his rough clothes, and, having
lit short bFisr pipe, set to work to nunt for
the duck and the first curlew. He found
them easily enough, and then, walking to
the edge Of the rocks, up the sides Of which
the tide was gradually creeping, peered into
the mist to seesif he could find the other.
Presently the fog lifted a little, and he dis
covered the bird floating on the oily water
about so yards away. A little to the left
the rocks ran out in q peak. and he knew
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her paddle, staring into the dense surround-
ing mist and keeping her gray eyes IS wide
open as nature would allow, and that was
very WIDE, she heard the sound of a gun
behind her to the right. Arguing to herself
that some Wild-fowler on the water must
have fired it who would be able to direct
her, she turned the eanOe around and pad
died swiftly in the direction whence tha
sound came. Presently she heard the gun
again; both barrels were fired in there to
the right, but some way of. She padded
on vigorously, but now no more shots came
to guide her, therefore for q while her
search was iruitless. At last, however. she
saw something looming through the mist
ahead; it was the Red Rocks, though she
did not know it, and she drew near with
caution till GeOfrey's shout broke upon her
ears.
She picked up the dead bird and padded
toward the dim figure, who was evidently
wrestling with something, she could not see
what.
Here is the curlew, sir, (" she said.
''Ohs thank you" " answered the figure oR
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from the smoking car and says that by
good deal OF scheming he has bribed the boy
to get him DISPATCH. Would like to
look at it? The boy has sold him my DIS
PATCH.
There are good many tragedies going on
almost beneath our very eyes of which we
know little till the papers tell us the de-
nouement I think it is denouement, is 1t
not?
heard the sobs of 8 woman in the room
next to my own at hotel last week, and
was going to ring for boy and ask him to
find out about the cause of the trouble, but
just then 1 heard the low voice OF a man who
was evidently trying to hush her up. l
thought then, of course, If it resolved itself
into domestic spat or curtain lecture 1
would not interfere. 1 would also try not to
listen. So went on with my book, entitled
Light, More Light, There's Danger in the
Dark"
ECHOES OF A TRAGEDY.
Pretty soon the woman gave a little
smothered shrek. But the man tried to
quiet her, though could only get his tone
and not his words.
"You are drunk" she walled, "and you
are gong to kill me. Oh, have mercy!
Please do not kill me-"
He mumbled something or other and 1
could hear him step to the dresser, thought,
and open it.
Now she cried more pitifully, but not so
loudly. had my finger on the bell in my
room, but hesitated. Then she screamed
again, and L heard a chair fall over,
thought. expected to hear shot, but was
not sure that he would not stab her in his
drunken fury.
rang.
Two or three years afterward, it seemed to
me, the boy came, but by that time it was
all still in the next room, so 1 sent letter
down to mail by the boy and said nothing
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the press.
At West McGinty fat man with a box
of sample crackers in one hand and sand
bag in the other came into the car, and seeing
that had an air of comfort which sent the
hot blood mantling to his marble brow-his
marble mantling brow, as it were-he
Ehopped that front seat over in such way
as to fracture my leg little, but 1 did not
get mad. 1t does not pay for one to get mad,
or even two for that matter, so / went on
writing, though, of course, the incident gave
q tinge of sadness to nv work.
have a large, valuable, new fur top coat
which bought in Montreal in November.
got it in order to insure an open winter.
This coat hung against the window, and, as
the tram moved swiftly forward, sometimes
on the track and then again on the rough
and frozen prairie, this court would ever
and anon joyiully knock out the eve of this
great coarse man. 1t is doing SO yet And
am making a writing desk OF his back. A
friend of mine is thoughtlessly using his
overshoes as a receptacle tor his apple
cores, and the rest of the people are enjoy
ing it.
A MODEST FAMILY.
That is, everybody except family who
got on at Dead Mans Crossing. They con-
sist of a father, a mother and a grown
daughter. They have not been accustomed
very much to travel. as one can see at once,
for they evidently think they are only en-
titled to one seat among them, and the whole
three of them are sitting together in great
pain, for the mother is quite robust and the
father will do for market by February. So,
while the rest of us are trying to hold
whole section apiece, these gentle creatures
are scrouging and suffering.
In another part of the car some young
men, on their way home from college, are
singing. They do not sing we'll. They are
the kind of college boys who do the hazing
and hire their speeches written for them by
Door boy who wears paper collars. They
sing gaily the chaste and beautiful senti-
ments entitled ''Yonpiden die" song,
may truthiully say, which no man can
listen to in the right spirit and not go away
a better man.
One OF the voices is quite piercing. Mr..
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slowly darkening blue. The sea was per-
fectly and utterly still. 1t seemed to sleep,
but in its sleep it still waxed with the rising
tide. The eye could not mark its slow in
crease, but Beatrice, standing upon the
furthest point of the Dog Rocks, idly noted
that the long brown seaweeds which clung
about their sides began to lift as the water
took their weight, till at last the delicate
pattern foated out and lay like woman's
hair upon the green depth of sea. Mean
while mist was growing dense and soft
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LONDON ON PARADE.
Henry Hall Describes the Brilliant
Scenes in Rotten Row When
FASHIONS TIDE is AT ITS FLOOD.
Some of the People Who Help to Form the
Procession.
A TALK WITH ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED
WRITTEN FOR THE D1srArcH.I

ASHION'S tide is at
its food as we enter
the great stone gates
at Hyde Park Corner
and go down by the
"Drive" with the gay
throng that presses
along ION the proper
side, as the golden
sun|is setting"
1t is the height of the
London season. Rot
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SHORT time ago I
got in this car to use
it for riding pur-
poses. There were
only seven people in
ii, and SO L picked
the lock of the seat
ahead of me, thus
giving full scope to
my 1.-the and blithe
sweet of legs. 1t also
gave me a chance to
write a few lines for
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ten Row is crowded with horsemen and
horsewomen, the latter, fair haired, rosy
checked English girls, riding their long
necked, long legged, thin fanked steeds
with the grace of an Amazon, and appar-
emily enjoying the gallop to the full, while
their male escorts look the very incarnation
of solemnity.
Between Hyde Park Corner and the
Queens Gate, on both sides of the drive,
strolling along the board walks, or sitting
in the chairs that are placed five and six
rows deep, are thousands of people. the
women arrayed in garments that go far to
disprove the old assertion that all English
women are dowdies. The men in closely
buttoned frock coats and light trousers, or
those doubled-breasted sack coats with the
lower button fastened, with cane in one
hand and pair of yellow kids in the other,
while from the buttonhole blooms rose,
lily of the valley or the primrose which
proclaims the wearer's adherence to the
politics oil Disraeli-who ever thinks of him
as Beaconsfeld?
PARADE OF BEAUTY.
For the modest sum of a penny we secure
chairs in the front row, and sit down at ease
to watch, to use the language Of the country
fair bills relative to the grand procession of
prize horses and cattle which winds around
the race track on the last day, "Blooded
Beauty's Proud Parade"
1t is certainly there-both blood and
beauty. Along the drive pass four lines of
carriages, two going each way, at little
faster than a walk, and frequently coming
to a deadlock. Slowly, almost sadly, the
procession moves by, and the birth and rank
and wealth and fashion o: almost all Eng
land, for, as we have said, the London sea-
son is at its height, are on exhibition to all
who care to gaze. Barouches, landaus,
brOughams, dogcarts, every variety of fash
ionable carriage is there, drawn by one
horse, two abreast, or tandem, the mettle-
some steeds champing their bits and fret
ting at the slow pace, the gold and silver
mounted harness, and the crests and coats
of arms on the cleaning panels flashing in
the sun. And then the funkeys! Oh. the
funkeys! What gorgeous, awe-inspiring
sight they are! Clad in every style Of
livery, cut in every fashion, in colors
somber and gay, with wigs and powdered
hair, they are here, the coachman
holding the reins at the proper
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HEanniversary cele-
bration of Sorosis
called widespread
attention to that
company of New
York s brightwomen,
and it has since be-
come quite a fad
among the lesser
lights of feminine
metropolitans to af-
feet literary tastes
and habits. Little
clubs and cateries of
women have sprung
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CHAPTER II.
AT THE BELL RocK

A mile or more away from where Beatrice
stood and saw visions, and further up the
coast line, second group of rocks, known
from their color as the Red Rocks, or Some-
times, for another reason, as the Bell Rocks,
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types mentioned above. for, leaning grace
fully back in the cushioned seat bewitch-
ingly dressed, holding gay parssol between
the sun and her fair cheeks and yellow hair,
comes Alma Stanley, i'the handsomest
woman on the London stage" someone tells
us. Her admirers are on every side, and she
almost holds a levee from her carriage. She
is indeed beautiful, but her beauty IS soon
equaled, If not eclipsed, when IN dainty
little carriage comes Agnes Huntingdon, the
fair American who is charming all who hear
her in the opera of paul Jones, at the
Princess of Wales theater, and close behind
comes little Geraldine Ulmer, whom We
knew with the Boston Ideals, but who nov
sings in the "Yeomen Of the Guard" at the
Savoy, and who, someone else tells us, is the
worst little firt in London''-with an espe-
cial penchant for married men.
And SO the procession passes. Rank and
wealth are not all that we see, for in the
throng are men who bear honored namts
who have won renown in literature and art,
in the field and at the bar, and in both
Houses of Parliament. Bright fresh-faced
young girls as innocent as they are joyous,
tall, broad-shouldeted young men, their
manly faces aglow with health and vigor,
handsome mRtrons, who adorn and bless
happy homes. The phantoms of care and
ambition and greed and sin do not hover
over every carriage, nor have pride and
rank and wealth stifed the good in every
heart 1t is, indeed, panorama of life,
and shows all sorts-exoept the poor and
ignorant But under all the gayety and
glitter, beneath the veneering of rank and
wealth, are mere men and women as good
and as bad, as wise and as foolish, as grave
and as giddy, no better, no worse, than their
brothers and sisters in any other walk of
life.
SHABBY GENTEEL ORATOR.
By and by we tire little Of watching the
apparently endless procession, and we strike
up a conversation with a gentleman who has
just edged into the seat next US. He fairly
comes under the head of shabby genteel.
His clothing is suspiciously shiny, his linen
gives the impression that his laundress has
been off on an extended vacation, while his
hat looks as though COW had trodden on it.
When the foodgates of his eloquence are
once fairly opened. he deluges us with the
rankest kind of socialism, and his denuneia-
tions of the ruling classes and of the rich
are too lurid for reproduction here. Hi
ham one hof the hunhemployed, who ave
nowhere to co." he says, "hand Londoh's
full hof us. Hi ham a carpenter and joiner
by trade, but we're ground down huntil hi
can't get more nor four hand sixpence day,
hand, blow mel hafore hill work for that
hill starve."
The proVerbial f'halEloaf" remark would
have hardly been appreciated by this de
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HERE they come with umbrella and grip
sack; down goes the name on the register of
the Sturtevant House, corner Broadway and
Twenty-ninth st., N. Y, with zest, glad to get
under the roof Of 50 hospitable hotel,
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Buyit Try It, DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup for
cough, cold and iucipient consumption.
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BILL NYE'S TRAVELS.
he Utilizes a Cracker Mans Back for
Writing Purposes and
LIST TO THE SOPHOMORES' SONG.
William Would Fly to the Rescue Of q
Helpless Female.
BE REFRARS AND LEARNS A LESSON


WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l
ON THE ROAD, WITH MY SCRATCH BLOCK
RESTING ON THE BACK OF A CRACKER I
MAN FROM NEW YORK CITY. }
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BEAUTY'S BLUNDERS.
Some Of the Amusing Mistakes Made
by New York Society Women.
EXPLODING HYGIENIC THEORIES,
The Little Lunch DevOured by a Young and
Pretty Blonde.
PECULIAR HOBBIES OF A RICH BELLE

ICoRREsPoNDENCE OF THE DIsPAToH.I
NEW YORK, JaDuary4.
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HE autumn afternoon
was fading into evening.
1t had been cloudy wealth
er, but the clouds had
softened and broken up.
Now they were lost in
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s. MARATHON WELLS, DDS.

: Teeth Extracted Without Pain,
4: Laughing Gas, Ether, ::Cocoaine, Chloro-
f: form, etc, ETC., administered without risk
to either the patient or the operator. We
!: give either, eyether, ether or neyether.
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BEAUTIFUL ACTRESSES.
But all the faces we see are not Of the
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Live? Why, my missus takes hin wash
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17
Pleasant Memories.

On arriving at our sanctum few
mornings ago a sight met our eyes
that would have made the other city
editor turn green with envy. It was
nothing less than a magnificent
bouquet, which looked as if 1t had been
selected from the stock of a first
class florist, covered, up carefully in
a new basket, with d card attached
containing the following in a fine
ladies hand: ITO the handsome
editor Of The Bright SUM-" of
course our face was covered with a
profusion Of bushes, for our modesty
is poverbial. Our thoughts were
devided between the beauty of the
gift and the wonder who the fair
donor could be.
If we were permitted to guess we
would be tempted to say Mrs. Pimm;
but as guessing is unsafe work we
have concluded not to guess at all,
but to enjoy the gift which fills our
sanctum with rich fragrance,
thanking heartily the kindness of the
giVer, and hoping she may live long
to dispense her blessings on others,
who like us will appreciate the
pleasant memories that such favors
bring through life.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17

Is one which is guaranteed to bring
You satisfactory results, or in case of
failure a return of your purchased
price. On this safe plan you can buy
of our advertised druggist bottle of
DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption. It is guaranteed to bring
relief In every case, when used for
any affection of the throat, lungs or
chest, such as consumption, inflama.
tion etc. It is pleasant and agreeable
to taste, perfectly safe, and trial
bottles free at Fritz Buckentin's
drug store.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17

The unprecedented disasters of Sun
day evening are too appalling for de-
scription, that of lake Gervais with 7
deadand long list of wounded seemed
TO US terrible, but right on the heels
of that disaster comes the more terri.
BILE one on Lake Pepin with over 100
dead from the upsetting OF the excur-
sion boat in the storm. It was not
The same cyclone as the occurrences
wsge over three hours apart, and the
first. or lake Gervais one lasted only
Is minutes. This is the worst thing
ever struck Minnesota, and has sent
a wall of grief all over the state, and
the United States. A correct dis
cription of the misfortunes Is given
On the fEst page of THr ST.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17

During the storm on Thursday
evening last the lightning visited the
slaughter house of Christ Flatner,
prostrsting his two men who were
working in it,one of them, Ole Lystad
was thrown across the room;the knife
he held, passed through his hand
cutting the inside of the hand badly,
he is likely not to get over the
shock for come time. The other man
got bnt a slight shock.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17

The usual harvest of tramps is
coming around for the harvest season,
and the Marshal and Sheriff are
reaping a bountiful crop; on Saturday
night or 8 of them were gathered
in. and on Monday or 4 of them
gathered in four pairs of pants from
Wells Bros. & Hanson's store; the
Sheriff, with the assistance of some
citizens gathered them into the
cooler, recovering three pairs of
the pants, one fellow got off with a
pair. It's great pity there cant be a
chain gang established at this point
for the harvest season at least every
year. The pants thieves got from 10
90 Is days free board.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens,
that for years we have been selling
DIR. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, DIR. Kings New Life Pills.
Bucklin's Arnica Salve and Electric
Bitters, and have never handled rem,
edies that sell as well, or that have
given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price. if salts.
factory results do not follow their
use. These remedies have won their
great popularity on their merits.
Fritz Buckentin, druggist.