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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
The Villain Of Fiction.

Amid the universal grayness that
has settled misty down upon Eng
lish fiction, amid the delicate drab.
colored standings and halflights
which require, we are told, so fine a
skill in handling, the old-fashioned
reader misses, now and then, the WV
id coloring of his youth. He misses
the slow unfolding of quite impos-
sible plots, the thrilling incidents
that were wont pleasantly to arouse
his apprehension, and, most of all,
two characters once deemed essential
to every NOVELETTE, hero and the
villain.
The heroine is left us still, saws a
writer in the Atlantic, and her func-
tions are far more complicated than
in the simple days Of yore, when lit
tie was required of her save to be
beautiful as the stars. She faces
now the most intricate problems of
life; and she faces them with conscious
self-importance, dismal power of
analysis, and IL robust candor in dis
cussing their equivocal aspects that
would have sent her buried sister
Flushing to the wall. There was
sometimes u lamentable lack of solid
virtue in this fair dead sister, a pitt
full human weakness that led her to
undoing; but she never talked so
glibly about sin, As for the hero, he
owes his Punishment to the riotous
manner in which his masters handled
him. Bulwer strained ourendurance
and our credulity to the utmost; Dis
raeli took n step further, and Lothair,
the last of his race, persisted amid
the cruel laughter OF mankind.
But the villain! Remember what
We owe to him in the past. Think
how dear he has become to every
rightly constituted mind. And now
We IRE told, soberly and coldly, by
the thin-bloOded novelists OF the day,
that his absence IL one of the crown
ing triumphs of modern genius, that
We have all grown too dircriminat.
ing to tolerate in fiction IL character
whom we feel does not exist in life.
Man, we are reminded, is u complex,
subtle, unfathomable, made up Of
good and evil so dexterously inter-
mingled that no one element predomi-
mates coarsely over the rest. He is
to be studied warily and with misgiv-
iags, not classified with brutal ease
into the virtuous and bad.
1t lie useless to explain to these an
alysts that the pleasure we take in
meeting a character in book does
not always depend on our having
known him in the family circle or en-
countered him in our morning paper,
though, judged even by this stringent
law, the villain holds his own. Ac-
cept Balzac's rule and exclude from
fiction not only oil which might not
really happen, but all which has not
really happened in truth, and we
should still have studies enough in
total depravity to darken all the
novels in cllristendom.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
The Kiss Went Astrav.

From The New York Sun.
Ayoung, red-cheeked Irish girlland
ed at the barge Office. the other day,
and was sent to the information bu.
reau to await the arrival of her aunt
a resident ofthis city. just before
sailing from Ireland the niece had
sent to the aunt piece of the stuff
from which her dress had been made.
The aunt was to recognize her rela.
tive by matching the piece with the
dress.
The aunt turned up with the piece,
and, utter hearing her name called
out by Clerk Shoreman, went in to
welcome the young immigrant. The
aunt stopped before the girl, carefully
compared the dress with the piece,
found that they matched perfectly
and announced that she was satisfied
that the girl was her niece. The Girl
Immediately Rugged and kissed the
aunt.
Clerk Shoreman, who had looked
ut the queer Identification with much
interest, asked the aunt to let him
compare the piece with the dress, too.
He did so. nodded his head approx.
ingly, and was somewhat astonished
to find twosofta farms around his neck,
and a pair ofrosy Irish lips glued to
his own. Mr.. Shoremnn's fellow
clerks laughed immediately, and
the girl blushed, divining she had
made a mistake. She said she
thought Mr.. Shoreman was n reln.
tive, too, because he had compared
the piece with the dress.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
DISPATCH,

Affected dispatch is ono of the
most dangerous things to business
that can be. 1t is like that which,
the physicians call predigestion, or
hasty digestion, which is sure to fill
the body full OF crudities and secret
seeds Of disease. Therefore measure
not dispatch by time of sitting, but
by the advancement of the business.
and us in races it is not the large
stride or high lit that makes the
speed, SO in business the keeping
close to the matter, and not taking
oft too much at once, procures dis.
patch. 1t is the care of some only
to come off speedily for the time, or
to contrive some false periods of
business, because they may seem
men of dispatch; but it is one thing
to abbreviatc by contracting,
another by cutting off. and business
80 handled at several sittings or
meetings grows commonly back.
ward and forward in an unsteady
manner. We knew wise man that
had for n byword, when he saw men
hasten to q conclusions: "Stay lit
tie, that VIC may end the sooner. -
New York Ledger.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
A Degrading System.

The strike OF the Chicago walters
brought out the fact that their wages
have been reduced in adjustment to
the fee system, or the giving of tips"
asgrntuities. There is an admira BILE
opening hereford great reform. The
fee system is IL degradation of man.
hood. 1t leads directly to servility,
to IL fawning sense of inferiority in
the creation of u class dependent up
on favors. 1t saps manly qualities,
hurtling alike those who give as those
who take. Its teachings atlarge are
those of contempt for the class that
thus waits on favors, tending direct
" t0inculcate in the mind of the gen.
eral public n feeling that the whole
laboringclass is class of dependents.
An American citizen ought to be
ashamed to TAKE u fee. He should
demand q fixed services. Labor or.
CARNATIONS could not do q greater
general service to labor than by con.
demning the badge of inieriority
which the fee system is.-Indian.
apolis News.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
A Pair of Historic shackles.

~ all vi r1iSlOTIC 0ndCkl0S.
The finding of an old broken pair
of slave slacklcs in the rubbish
brought up from the bottom of the
river near West Troy. n. u, has re-
called II stirring incident of ante
bcllum times. The shacklcs were
broken from the wrists ofonc Charles
Nallie, fugitive slave, who had run
away from his master, Butcher w.
Hasbrough, of Culpepper, w., in
October, 1858. Nallie slowly worked
his way North, and finally reached
Troy, where he worked as a coach.
man for tri Gilbert. He had prior
to this worked for IL farmer in Sand
Lake, and while there foolishly told
his story to Il lawyer named Horace
+. Avcrill, This lawyer wrote to
Nallic's former master. informing
him of the fugitive's whereabouts,
and on Friday. April %. 1860, Nall
lie was arrested under the fugitive
slave law. The arrest caused great
cXcitment in Troy, where the aboli-
ton sentiment ran high. Martin l..
Townsen. who is to-day II member of
the constitutional commission, was
secured as counsel for the slave. and
IL writ of habcas corpus obtained
from Judge Gould. The fugitive was
taken from the hands of the agent,
and while in the hands of the police
officers was surrounded by u crowd
of citizens, who easily secured posses
sion OF him and hurried him toward
the river. Nallic. shacklcd as hew was,
sprang into the river and swan to
West Troy, where his friends broke
the irons and threw them into the
river. where they have eversince lain.
Subsequently, after being concealed
for a long time, he was taken to
Watervliet and mad"good his escape.
He was never recaptured.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
Starvation Camp.

After informing the unfortunate
cripples of our intention to proceed
forward until we could find food,
that We might not all he lost, and
send relief as quickly us it could be
obtained, l consigned the fifty-two
men, eighty-ons loads, and ten Gu.
noes in charge OF Capt. Nelson, bade
him he of good cheer, and, hosting
our loads and bout on our shoulders;
we marched away. Thus writes Hen
~ NJ. Stnnley OF the Emin Pasha re.
lief expedition in the June Scribner.
Nomore gloomy spot( hecontinues)
could have been selected for II camp
than that sandy terrace, encompass.
scd by rocks md hemmed in narrow.
" by those dark woods, which rose
from the rivers edge to the height OF
600 feet, and pent in the never-ceas-
ing uproar which was created by the
writhing and tortured stream, and
the thunder. The imagination shud-
ders mt the hnptwin cltaracts which
ever rivaled each other less position
OF those crippled men, WHO wero
doomed to remain inactive, to listen
every moment to the awful sound of
tllat irreconcilable fury of wrathful
waters and the monotonous and con-
tinuous roar ofplunging rivers: to
watch the leaping waves cOiling and
twisting into uprising columns as
they ever wrestled for mastery with
each other, and were dashed in white
fragments OF foam far apart by the
ceaseless force of driven currents; to
gaze at the dark. relentless woods
spreadingupwardand around, stand
ing perpetually fixed in dull green,
mourning over pastages, past times,
and past generations; then think of
the night with its palpable blnckness;
the dead. black shadows ofthe wood
ed hills; that eternal sound of fury,
that ceaseless boom OF the catnracts,
the indefinite forms born of nervous
ness and fcnrfulness; that misery en-
gendered by loneliness, and creeping
sense OF abandonment; then will he un-
derstood something of the true posi-
ton OF these poor men.
And what OF us. trudging up those
wooded slopes to gain the crest of
the forest upland, to tramp OH and
on, whittier We knew not, tor how
long IL time we dared not think, seek.
ing for food, with the double respon-
sibility weighing us down for these
trustful, brave fellows with lis, and
for those, no less brave and trustful,
whom we had left behind at the bot
tom of the horrible canyon?
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
A Greely Story.

Writer in Washington Post: 1t
occurred n good many years ago,
when the Tribune was a power in tho
land, rs was also it's able editor, it
being before lie committed the fatal
mistake Of his life in running as the
democratic nominee for the presi-
dency i'll 1872, the circumstances at
tending which unquestionably hast
ened, il they did not cause, his death.
In very elaborate article on a
vrey important subject. he took the
occasion to Use the words which the
great bard puts in the mouth of gar
rulous old Polonius, "'Tis true, tits
pity, and pity It's, It's true" where
upon the composition, doing his best
with the hieroglyplics, set it up.
CTS two, tits fifty, and tits fifty,
tifty-two," completely paralyzing tile
sense OF the whole paragraph.
Words are inadequate to express
the surprise, Indignation and rage
that took possession of the soul OF
the good old editor next morning on
reading his carefully prepared article
OF the day before. Summoning the
foreman he demanded that the fool
compositor should lie sent to him in
stanter, and was informed that he
wasa certain Irishman whom he had
taken a great fancy to some weeks
before and ordered his employment
in the office.
Upon his appearance. Mr.. Greedy
launched forth on him in full volume
the abuse, invcctive and expletives
which he was SO emincntly capable
OF when i'll n rage, and concluded by
saying that the fool who could not
see and understands familiar quo
tation Mt IL glance could quit his en-
ployment and go to school again.
Atterglaring at each other for about
q minute or more, the compositor
yelled at him: "To school again, is
it, to school again? Yes. and MIR.
Horace, the man who writes such IL
ID hand as YOU do, Il few weeks or
months at school again wouldn't
hurt him at all, at ALL"
The editor, as if struck with the re.
tort, apparently rclented, and still
glaring at him. said: "Well, go back
to your case. and when next YOU try
on II quotation make u ID fool of
yourselfand not Il fool of me-" Then
running his hands through the re-
naming taffy -colore,l locks that COW
cred his ears, lie fell into reverie, at
intervals muttering nudibly, "'Tis
two, tbs fifty, and tits fifty, fifty-two.
Oh, Shcol. Sheol."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
Disreputable Sunday School
Books.

"What shall We do" exclaimed q
wise and loving father, with the
Sunday school library books which
the children bring homer" 81 don't
know" replied the mother: "they
are terror to me-" Here is a book,
for instance, which, am confident,
will be found in many Sunday school
libraries, which is written n by woman
of fine character, but this book has
in it no less than six proposals of
marriage, five OF which are fully de-
tailed; it has shipwreck, u bank
ruptcy and two blighted hearts.
should like to go through the Sun
day school libraries of this country
and destroy about two books OF
every four in them.-A Clergyman in
the Chicago Advance.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
He Had EN- All.

1t is said that after the census
question: whether suffering from
acute or chronic diseases, with name
Of disease," sufferer wrote: Con
sumption: heart disease, pleurisy,
bronchitis, diabetes, soirening OF the
brain, Bright's disease, tuberculosis.
and thirty-seven other complaints. +"
He had been reading n patent-me,li-
cine almanac and thought he had 'em
ull.-Norristown Herald.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
A Relic of 1905.

Mrs. Alfred Robinson of Bath, Me-,
has in her possession IN interesting.
political relic in the shape Of a silk
handkerchief, upon which is printed
the inaugural address of President
Jefferson. delivered March 4, 1905.
These souvenirs were for sale mt
Washington during the inauguara-
ton period, and the one in question
was purchased by Mrs. Robinson's
father. The printing, although in
the old style, is clear and legible.-
New Orleans Picayune.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
Scotch soldiers bear arms. md legs. too.

A bomlshcll has just been thrown into the
camp of tho Twin Trust by the well known
house of Montgomery Ward 4 TO-, ofChirago.
in the way ola startling offer to sell hall
manila and half sisnl binder Irvine ut 10
cents per H., ncnrly five cents less than the
trust twinc con he sold Tor. Montgomery
Ward 4 Co., will Lore n fortune BY this move.
but they say that they hive resolved to
break the Irvine trust price il such IL thing is
with the farmers, and that they number their
customers by the million. makes their intiu.
encc very powerful. Ifthey should succeed!
in breaking the market, the saving to the
American farmers will amount to almos,
s;',OOO,0OO. proving conclusivrly that til.
farmers Inv" no better friends than the house
of Montgon err Ward & Co.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
NoRIh-pAkorA


The republican state convention will be
held at Grand Forks July %.
The Mandan city council has decided to
license original package houses. fixing the
Zee ut $500 II year.
The house committee on public buildings
and grounds agreed to report !avorally Mr..
llansbrough's bill .or building at Grand
Forks, " d.
The committee having in charge the sclec.
ton the location ior the Methodist col.
legc will meet at Grand Forks, August II.
when final action will he taken. The bid of
Larimoir Is the highest thus far.
The st. Anthony and Dakota elevator, ut
Everest, was struck by lightning. Fire fol.
lowed and the building WAS entirely con.
sumcd, together with nearly 5000 bushels
of wheat,
Gov. Miller, OF North Dakota. will not lie q
candidate for reelection. II pays him better
to net US manager nf the great Dwight farm
ut $4,000 year than to play governor at
$1,000
Says the Bismarck Tribune: "The show.
ing i'll North Dakota are so frequent and so
copous the press has ceased to mention
them, This means that the statements of
thirty bushels and over OF 30. ! hard wheat
tothe acre this fall will be numerous and
general"
Bayley, The Northern Pacific train robber
in jail ut Fargo. has been identified as the
horse thief who made daring escape from
the officers Who had captured him while
crossing the Sisseton reservation some wears
ago. His escape made quite IL stir ut the
time.
At Salem. Miss Mary Lyons was terribly
burned by the explosion Ola gasoline stove
which she was in the act of filling with the
liquid. Mrs. Lyons. the motlrr of the young
lady, in her efforts to save her daughter was
also badly burned, the flesh literally peelnc
from her hands and arms. Both will recover
The postofficc department has completed
the Adjustment OF salaries OF postmastcrs
of the second class. There are in all 5is OF.
fees Of this class. which is an increase of
thirty-one over last year. The new salaries
are for the fiscal year beginning July /, 1890.
North Dakota has hut one increuse-Grand
Forks-from $4,000 10 $4,000.
John G. Elmse, aged eighteen years, was
drowned in tile Red river while bathing Mt
Grand Forks. David Stewart, a compan.
ION WHO WNA WIFI HIu, Hau II narrow escape
from II like fate in trying to save him.
Young EImsie could not swim, aud was
carried beyond his depth by the current.
His parents live at Mount Forrest, Ont.
The south.bound Winnipeg express OH the
Great Northern rond ran over and fa-
tally injured Ed Darling. Darling was cross.
ing II coolie on the bridge and saw the train
coming. In attempting to get out OF the way
his foot caught in the cuivert. Before he
could get up again the locomotive struck
him. cutting of both legs just below the
thigh and frightiniy mungiing him. lie will
probably die.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
Human Hair Embedded in a
Tree.

While workmen were engaged in
telling huge old hickory tree on the
property of Mrs j. II. Ogden, in
Springfield, Pa, they came upon a
lock of hair deeply imbedded in its
trunk. An auger hole had been bor-
edinto the heart of the gigantic hick-
DRY and the curly lock placed there.
in. The hole had then been plugged
up. This strange find is considered
a relic of superstition. Old residents
take it to he the last remnant of one
of "Black Jake's spells, who employ
ed this curious remedy to cure fits.
The old negro lived in Darby about
seventy years ago, and his numerous
queer whims have been often told
A series of poems by Halliday Jack.
sonsome years ago pictured his mys.
terious Observation-Disclosures Star
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04

A MISSOURI youth whistled at n
prayer meeting, and when rebuked
lie claimed that he had been insultcd
and drew n knife to carve some one.
He was knocked down with q chair
and disarmed, but he and his four
brothers propose to see who runs the
prayer meetings in that neighbor-
hood.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
IOWA..

io"As
In the past six months the farmers in tho
vicinity of Morning Sun have shipped $685.
900 worth of horses, cattle and hogs
keokuk man got mixed in his packages
the Other night md drank the contents o
an nrnica bottle. No serious results areex.
pcrtcd.
{. A. Wicks is under arrest Mt Lamont for
holding revolver to his wite's hend and
compelling her to sign over her property to
him.
While thelittle daughter ofJ. T. Roop, liv.
ing near Ottumwn, was gathering q brood
OF chickens in out of ranstorm she was
struck hy lightning and instantly killed.
Farmers in thesourthorn part ofPottowat.
TAME county are losing their stock from
hydrophobia, and have declared war OF ex.
termination on all dogs running ut large.
Chas. A. Rebman, n Dubuque brick mason,
has been adjudged insane by the commission.
ers Of insanity. He imogines himself mil.
lionaire and INDUCES in all sorts OF vag,lries.
frankie shaftsf. q 0-ysar-old Eagle Grove
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04

OohSUTnPtIoh surely Cured.
To THE EDIToR:-plense in 'orm your rca,l,
ers that have positive remedy Tor tile
above nnm"'I disease by its timely use
thousands OF hopelcss eases have lren per-
mnnently cured. lshnll be glad to send two
bottles nj my remedy FREE to any of your
renders who have consumption If they will
send mecxprcss una post-ofiice address. Re.
specially. i. A. SLocUM, NJ. e.. ISL Pearl
street, New York.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
Threats of winona Servants.

The servantgirls ofWinona, MIMI,
are up in arms. The Maternal socie-
ty OF the y. NJ. G. A. started a series
ofyoung women meetings, and the
first paper read reflected upon the
GIRLS department and general taste.
The consequence was the girls arose
and notified the ladies through the
press that black list was made, and
it the maternal meetings were not
stopped a general strike of servant
girls would ensue.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
The Boy Had His Fun, Though


The Boy Had His Fun, Though.
AS millman was turning into an
alley off 2d avenue the other morn
ing boy who stood there said:
Say, mister; do you see that bar
rel down there?"
"Yes."
please run over it: l want to hear
it crash"
The driver gave his horse a lick to
get up steam, headed for the barrel,
and struck it with IL fore wheel. and
the next moment his wagon was ON
its beam-ends on the ground. He
supposed the barrel was empty, but
it was full of santl.-DetrOit Free
Press.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-04
WISCONSIN

Eighty thousand rainbow trout have been
distributed in Waupaca County.
James McLaren and wife we're badly injured,
ut Racine by being thrown from n buggy.
About 400 survivors OF the Twenty. first
Wisconsin Regiment visited the Wuupnca
Home, on the 10th, and took dinner.
John Phillips, of Greenville, O., n student
in GAINESVILLE school of telegraphy, drowned
while bathing in Rock River.
The body Of Joseph Servass. who was
drowned near Kaukana by the breaking
away of n dam ut the water.pO wer has been
found
Joseph Halt, II years old drowned mt
Chippewa Falls, while bathing in the river
lie was n son ofex-Deputy Sheriff Halt.
Irns P. Jensen, Is years old, suffered n
sunstroke while swimming and nearly
drowned. He was taken from the water but
died
AG. A. Il. picnic was held at Medcord,
which was attended by nearly all the veterans
in the county. An original poem was read b y
Judge Il. W. Iiubbell
Ina drunken row at Superior a man nam.
ed John Olsen was cut with an axe. Ole
Anderson and II Swede whose name is un-
known were arrested. Olson was badly in.
jurcd.
John Thompson for forty.six years resi-
dent OF Montfort, died on the 18th, aged 90.
He was the Oldest Free Mason in Wisconsin.
having been a member OF the order for
twenty-six years. He was buried with Ma
sonic honors.
Horatio c. Belt. Of Spokane Falls, WASH,
one Of the students who graduated from the
I'cloit College Academy, is but IA years old,
the youngest graduate ever known from Be-
lott Academy, and probably from any acad.
envy of such high rank in the country
Conrad Becker, Of Blue Mounds. who was
sent to Jail from he circuit court at Madison
for illicit liquor selling, has been pardoned
by Gov. Hoard and it is expected he will
graduate from tho university law school
with the senior class. having completed the
work OF the course in the jail limits. Becker
served five weeks.
While workmen were engaged digging on
the farm of Ole Hanson, in tho town of Nor.
way, Racine County, they discovered q skele.
ton. supposed to be that of an In dian. The
corpse had been buried in sitting position
The larger bones were intact and the skull
perfect. A large silver ring, supposed to
have been an ornament worn by the Indian.
! WnR MISC unpnrthed