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FARGO, N. D.. Sept. T.-At Cassslton laas
night twenty farm hands drank drugged
whiskey and when the train reached Dalym-
pie three masked men entered the car and
robbed the whole party,
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Another CITY lroaaurer 10 short
WHArcoM. Wash.. Sept. I.-Ex- City
Treasurer lsenoe. of Whatoon,, was arrested
tonight on the charge Of embezxlipg S47.-
QUO city money.
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The Pa,sin,n Con ferrrd,

DunuouE Iowa, Sept. H.-rhs pallium
was conferred upon Archbishop Hennessey
Al ST. Raphaers cathedral hero to-day.
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CnnadA's New Governor General.

QUEpEo, Sept. 17.--Lord Aberdeen, the
new governor-gsne,nl of Canads, landed
here to-day.
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AFFAIRS In HAW WAII.


Depositors in Montana National Bank
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they had progressed few feet deeper
they began TO be afraid of drowning.
Thoughts: they ought to 90 deeper. but
the well-diEger said that as they could
not dig without FIRST taking ont the
water. and that as the water came in
as fast as they bailet 1t, out he asked
me TO putsit to myself and 10 tell him
how they-could dig ii deeper. I put
the question TO myself but could find
no answer. ] also laid the matter be-
fore some specialists and II was gem
orally agreed that If water came in as
last as it was taken out nothing NOR,
could be desired The well was there
fore pronounced deep enough. 1t was
lined with great tiles nearly a yard in
diameter, and my well-digger, after
ccngratulating ME on finding water SO
easily, bade me rood-by end departed
with his men and his derrick.
On the other side Of the wall which
bounded my grounds. and near which
amy Wen had been dug, tnera ran =
country lane, leading nowhere IN mr.
ticuIar and which seemed 20 be tho,
Tor the purpose OF allowing pco3le -
pass my house who might otherwise
be obliged to stop
My ncighbors were all rural neonle
ana quite intelligent in regard 70
water supplies, One OF them. Phineas
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| this dreau1u1 litter cleared up, the
| ground smoothed and raked, the wall
mended and the roof put back on that
/ little house, and then, If we can make
anybody believe it is an ice-house, so
| much the better"
/ This was good advice. and sent for
! a man to put the vicinity of the well
/ in order and give it the air of neatDess
| which characterizea the rest of our
I home.
! The man who came was named Mr..
Barnet. He was a contemplative fell
low. with a pipe in his mouth. After
having worked at the place for half a
/ day he sent for me and said:
II will tell you what would do if I
was in your place. I'd put that little
house in order, and I'd put the engine
into ii, and the pump down into that
thirty-foot well you first dug, and I'd
pump water into ny house"
looked at him in anszemcnt
There's lots of water in the we'll"
he continued, land il there's that
much now in this drought, you viii
surely have ever so much more when
the weather isn't 50 dry. have meas
ured the water and know"
l could not understand him. II
seemed n ne that he was talking
wildly. He flied his pipe and lighted
it and sat upon the wall
Now" said he. after he had taken
/ few pufs, I'm tell you where the
trouble S been with your well. People
are always in TOO big hurry in this
world about ali sorts Of things as well
as wells ! am wei digger and know
all about then. We know II there "a
any water IN the ground IL vii al
ways find It's svay 20 the deepest hole
/ there Is. and we dig a well 80 as 20
give Il = deep hole ~ 20 in the place
where we want IL Bat you cant ex-
poet the water 20 come 70 the hole Just
the very day its finished OF course
you Will get some. because is
right there n the neigbi,or-
hood. bat there Is slwsys a lot more
that viii cone IL ron give IL time. rs
90; 20 make little channels and pzs-
sares for itself. and Of cou-se Il takes
time 80 DO that It's ike settling up
new country. Only a few pioneers
come a. frs, and you hare 20 wait for
the population TO sos~ Ia This being
8 dry season and the water in the
ground little slnggish. % thai sc-
couut :, Trss goo4 while fading OFT
where yoE- well wzs ]; had hap
pened along when y0u was talking
abc=s a well tbsnk sheuld have said
10 yoa that knew a vrowesb which
w,-ld as-eat e. yeur csSe, AID sA<s -.
.Ir. xrcss szoash sIo-A
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driven well. AS had already excavat-
ed about thirty feet, that was SO much
gain - me. and if 1 should have a six
inch pipe put into my present well and
driven down and down until it came to
a place where there was plenty OF
water.J would have all I wanted. How
far down the pipe would have to be
driven, of course. they did not know.
but they all agreed that il I drove deep
enough ! would get all the water
wanted. This was the only kind Of a
well, they said, which one could sink
as deep as he pleased without being in
terfered with by the water at the bot
tom.
My wife and I then considered the
matter and ultimately decided that it
WOULD be waste Of the money which
we had already spent upon the en-
CINE, the pipes and the little house,
and as there was nothing else to be
done but to drive WELL we would
have q well driven.
CT course we were both very sorry
that the work must be begun again.
but was especially dissatisfied, for
now it would be impossible for me to
make tho well Christmas present TO
nv wife. The weather was getting
cold, there was already snow upon the
ground, and was told that work could
not be carried on in winter weather.
lost no time, however, in making q
contract with a we'll driver who as
sured me that as soon as the season
should open, which might be very early
in the spring. he would como to my
place and begin to drive my well.
The season did open and SO did the
pea blossoms. and the pods actually
began to fill before 1 saw that we'll
driver again.
At last-it was early in the summer
he came with his derricks, steam
engine, trip hammer and a lot OF
men. They took OFF tho roof of my
house, removed the engine aud set to
work.
For many a long day, and. I am sorry
to say, for many a long night, that
trip-hammer hammered Gnd banged.
While this terrible pounding was get
ing on L heard various reports of it's Ell
feet upon my neighbors. Ons of them.
an agriculturist, with whom l had al!
ways been on the best Of terms, came
with a. clouded brow.
when first felt those shnkes," he
said, II thought they were the effects
of seismic disturbances and 1 did not
mind, but when 1 found it was your
well thought L ought to come over to
speak about it. do not object to the
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shaking Of my barn, because a man
tells me the continual iolting isthrash-
ing out the oats and wheat, but l do
not like to have my apples and pears
shaken off my trees. And then" said
he, Il have late brood of chickens,
and they cannot walk because every
time they go to mako step they are
jolted into the air about foot. And
again. we have had to give up having
soup. We like soup. but we do not care
to have it spout up ike a fountain
whenever that hammer comes down. +"
Mrs. Perch came to me with a face
like a squeezed lemon, and asked me if
I could lend her five nails what
scrt?" said |.
The kind you viii nail clapboards
on with" said she, "there is one Of
them been shook entirely OFF my house
by your we'll I am in hopes that be-
fore the rest are all shock off l shall
get in some money that is owing me
and can afford to buy nails for my
self"
] stopped the night work, but this
was all / could do for these neighbors.
Ny optimist friend was delighted
when he heard Of my driven well: he
lived SO far away that he and his
mother were not disturbed By the jar
ring OF the ground. Now he was sure
that some OF the internal secrets OF the
earth would be laid bare, as he rode or
drove over every day TO see what we
were getting out OF the well. ! know
that he was afraid we would soon get
water. but was too kind-heaEted 10
say 50.
Il suppose said my optimist 70 me
one morning. that you must soon come
to water. and il you do hope il viii be
hot water.
Hot water" / exclaimed, Il do not
want that
'>oh. yes. you would. If you had
thought abou. it as much IS have,
he replied. Il lay awake for hours
last night, thinking what would hap
pen If you struck hot water. Ia the
first place, Is would be absolutely pure.
because. even il it were possible tor
germs and hacilli 20 get down 50 deep
they would he boiled before you got
them. AID iaea Yoa coElG ccol tia.
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twenty feet high The whole affair
WAS made Of boards, covered with csa-
vas and painted TO resemble bricks
At last the snsYsrious evening cana
round and the church was crowded to
the doors with eager Bosnvirians OF
every age, denomination and hue
People were net going TO stay away be-
cause they belonged to other churches
Santa Claus wasn't billed - appear &C
any othsr ehurnh. and ali were wei.
colrIe-
The nuystertous-laciSiu Ing chimney was
the center Of observation, and IL was
hard work for the superintendent to
gain any attention at all when he pro-
eseded with the opening exercises.
He spoke briefly of the expected guest
Of the evening. and there was souE
or two, but his words were received
with manifest iurPsfieure and tho
songs were rushed thruuyh IN dsuhie>
quick time
At the appointed Innmepf for the ar
rival of Santa Claas there was a faina
jinglipg of bells. an II In the distance.
The merry jingle grew louder audi
louder. and stepped appas~naly iuss
overhead with final jngie accom-
panied by n siriny shouted: Whoa
Then there wRS eous1no.ion In ths
chimney aad suddenly = fuzzy whi,s
head popped up from the opening at
the top and gleetul "Ha. hap issued
from the make beEsvc Santa a. he held
aioft an arInfnl of tnys In another
moment he emerged FROM th@ hreplacs
below and went espertng abeu. iLe
Christmas tree, hanging the contents
o. his pack upon Its branches
The audience was IA tunult Every
neck was stretched and twisted Ia en-
able its owner TO observe every move
ment Of the wonderful appsrition be-
fore them The men and boys "IIaw-
hawed- and shouted xad tie women
and girls och, myedr' aud giggled de-
Nghtedly.
In few moments his pack was
emptied, snd with the sgueaky an
nouncement that hc had good many
more chimneys To climb that night 81.
Nick hade them good-by and disap-
peared in the fireplace.
The room became sudde My quiet AMI
every eye WAS raised 20 the chimney
top In the expectation of getting .
parting glimpse Of the jolly old saint.
but he did not show Up At ths, point.
he came 10 view ioycr down and In
anything but Jolly condition Juss
before reaching the TOP Que of tho
boards inside the chimney OF which he
stepped gave way and down came poo,
Santa Claus. chimney and all
IL was rather al unhappy win1-Gp 20
. very clever performance. but there
were no bon~s broken. and the bogrs
Santa Claus joiaed IN the laugh At his
own expense and jocossly remarked
that he newer could &c up fSrs very
gracefully anyhow"
FRANK Il. WHICH
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actly, but think that in this way your
engine would run for thirty years be.
fore the pipe became entirely filled
with cylinders. That would be prob.
ably as long as you would caro- to have
water forced into this house"
smiled and he turned sadly away to
his horse, but he had not ridden ten
yards before he came back and called
to me over the wall.
eli the earth at the bottom of your
pipe should ever yield to pressure and
give way and water or gas, or-any-
thing, should be squirted out of it.
beg you viii let me know as soon as
possible"
promised to do SO.
It was late in the summer when my
wife returned from a visit to my
brothers, and when she made her first
visit Of inspection to the grounds and
gardens, her eyes of course fell upon
the unfinished we'll. She was shocked
II never saw such scene of wreck
age" she said. ut looks like west
ern town after cyclone. l think
the best thing you can do is to have
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Colweu by name, took q more lively
interest in my operations than did any
one else. he was man of about fifty
years of age who had been soldier.
Phineas walked along our lane at
least once day, and whenever he saw
me he told me something about the
well. He did not approve Of the place
/ had selected for it. If he had been
digging well he would have put it in
very different place. When l had
talked with him for some time and ex-
planned why l had chosen this spot. he
would say that perhaps was right,
and begin to talk Of something else.
But the next time l saw him he would
again assert that if he had been dig
cling that well ne would not have put
it there.
About a quarter of milo from my
house, at turn of the lane, lived Mrs.
Betty Perch. She was q widow with
about twelve children. A few OF these
were her own. and the others she had
inherited from two sisters who had
married and died, and whose husbands,
having proved their disloyalty by mar
rying again, were not allowed by the
indignant Mrs. Perch to resume posses
sion of their offspring.
When Mira. Perch had time she sewed
for the neighbors, and whether she
had time or not she was always ready
to supply them with news. From the
moment she heard I was going to dig
well, she took vital interest in it.
Her own water supply was unsatisfac-
tory, as she depended upon little
spring which sometimes dried up IN
summer, and should my well turn ont
to be good one, she knew l would not
object to her sending the children for
pals Of water on occasions.
cit viii be fun for them" she said,
''and if your water really is good it
Will often come in very well for me.
Mr.. Colweu tells me" she continued,
''that you put your well in the wrong
place. He is practical man and knows
all about wells, and do hope that for
your sake he may be wrong
My neighbors were generally pessl-
mists. Country people are proverbial-
~ prudent, and pessimis1n is prudence.
We feel safe when we doubt the sue
cess of another because, if he should
succeed, we can say we were glad we
were mistaken, and SO step from a po-
sition of good Judgment to one of gem
erous disposition without feeling that
we have changed our plano of merit.
But whatever else he may be, a pes
simist is depressing, and it was, there
fore, great pleasure to me to have a
friend who was an out and out OPP
timist. In fact, he might be called a
working optimist. He lived about six
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water for drinking. When fresh it
would be already heated for cooking
and hot baths. And then. just think
of it,-you could introduce the hot
water system of heating into your
house, and there would be the hot
water always ready. But the great
thing would be your garden. Think
of the refuse hot water circulat-
ing in pipes up and down and under
all your beds. That garden would
bloom in the winter as others do in the
summer. At least, you could begin to
have lima beans and tomatoes as soon
as the frost was out of the air"
Phineas Colwell was by when this
was said. and he must have gone down
to Mrs Betty Perch's house and talked
it over with her, for in the afternoon
she came to see me.
ST understand" said she, ''that you
are trying to get hot water out OF your
well, and that there is likely to be lot
more than you need, SO that it will run
down by the side of the road. l just
wunt to say that If stream of hot
water comes down past my house some
of the children viii be bound to get into
it and be scalded to death, and came
to say that if that well is going to
squirt boiling water I'd Hike to have no
tice, SOS that can move, though where
a widow with so many orphans is going
to move to nobody knows. Mr.. Col
well says that il you had got him to tell
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WjlllIT|la :l,z;1lle
MY WIFES WE'LL.
BY FRANK r STOCRTON.
COPYRIGHT. 1888. |


Early in nv married life I bought a
small country estate which my wife
and looked upon as a paradise. After
enjoying its delights for little more
than year our souls were saddened
by the discovery that our Eden con-
tanned serpent. This was an INSULT
cient water supply.
1t had been rainy season when we
first went there and for a long time
our cisterns gave US full aqueous salts
faction, but early this year drought
had set IN and we were obliged to be
very careful of our water supply.
Itwas quite IA tural that the scarcity
of water for domestic purposes should
affect my wife much more than it did
me, and pcrceiving the discomfort
which was growing in her mind the
serpent came and whispered in her ear.
Very soon afterward she offered me an
apple; l took it and ate thereof, and
my eyes being thereby opened l de-
termined to dig well.
As this well was to be made entirely
for the sake of my wife it should be
called her well, it should really belong
TO her. Happy thought! would make
her a Christmas present of it! 1t was
true that it was then early in the au-
tamn, and the gift would be read ~ y
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sunday school
There was to be SANDY Claws" ~
the Boonville Baptist church for tho
Sunday school scholars. and elaborate
preparations had been made for tho
event There had been Christmas trces
at the church since time out os mind,
but there had never been = Santa
Clans. and old and young alike were
ali agog over the expected treat Tho
announcement had gone forth that St
Nick was to visit the church By way
of the chimney on Christmas Eve and
hang presents on the tres for the chil-
drcn. and as = consequence expectation
ran high among the small folk OF
Boonviile.
A certain young man who was some-
wha. popular on account of previous
performances was selected TO ripper
senate Santa Claus. For the purpose
he had provided himself with white
waiskers and wig and coat and can
trimmed with far. With these and
his face redeemed with carnine he
made a very presentable figure OF ;ha
Jolly old saint
In one corner of the Sardar school
room an imitation fireplace had heca
constructed. with chimney extending
nearly 10 the ceiling, which VAS aeou :
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lAsE Il. WHICH


Young Tntt>T-I Just dropped IA -
ssy tina, ssn getting up little straw
ride for Christmas. Msss Aisrsd. sne Z
thought perhaps yoa wori6 Hike 70 go-
Hiss NsDde Tvicxenhzm fdos bt<
fully Well. ! don't knox. Mother =
. LITTLE particular about ny going on
s,Ts v-r ide>. Mr. Tnt:sr- fon know,
abe has some very strange actions
presume REQ viii ersre-ss zsualT
Tutter-Yes- I expect 70.
Hiss Twickenhzfn (tsTsrhtiyt-Teil.
] guess perhaps ] can arrange 81 3
viii promise neither % sit On the sans
sat with The driver Life.
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institutions are prohibited from using
the title o. such bank, frn- or corpora
ton. and any violation Of this pToaiSi-
ton committed after September 2. 1873.
shall subject The offending Parfy 70 a
fine Of Afiy dollars day for each day
during which Il IS repeated"
The question has been referred -
the attorney general az the Tinted
States FOR an opinion II sustained the
decision viii affect . large percentage
o, the associations which operate or
the national plan.
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beautifully. You see the pump would
be arranged with cog wheels and all
that sort OF thing. and the powsr would
be supplied by a weight in u
cylinder of lead or iron. which would
be fastened to rope and run down in
side your pipe. Just think of it, It
would run down thousand feet. and
where is there anything worked by
weight that has such fall as that?"
laughed. 'iThat is all very we'll"
said 1, but how about the power re-
when it got to the bottom? i should
have to have an engine to do that"
''Oh. no." said he. Il have planned
the thing better th5n that. You see
the greater the weight the greater tho
power and the velocity. Now if you
take solid cylinder of lead about four
inches in. diameter. SO that il would
easily slip down your pipe-you might
grease it for that matter-and twenty
feet in length, it would be an enor-
nous weight, and in slowly descending
for about an hour day. for that would
be long enough for your pumping, and
going down Thousand feet. it would
run your engine for year. Now then.
az the end of the year you could not
expect to haul that weight UP again.
You would have L trigger arrangement
which would detach it from the rope
when it got 10 the bottom. Then you
would wind up your rope. man could
do that in a short time, and you would
attach another cylinder of lead and
that would run your engine for another
year minus a few days, because it
would only go down nine hundred and
eighty feet. The next year you would
put on another cylinder and so on.
have not worked out the figures ex'
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present some time before the holiday
season, but j knew my wifo would not
object to that. II would be such a rare
gift! / dad not believe that anybody
ever before gave his wife a Christmas
present of asveu.
The very next GsyaFter had eaten
of the apple begun toaoolk for a well
digger. Such al individual WAS not
easy to find. for in the region in which
1 lived wells bad become unfaShion-
able, butt determined to persevere in
nv search. and in a bout week found
well-diGgcr-
Re was man-of . somewhat rough
exterior, bus,cf an ingrs1ia ting turn
of mind Ii was easy 10 see that it
was his earnest desire to servo me.
And now them" said he, when we
had had a Gttle conversation about
terms. s'tae first thing TODD is to find
out where there is water. Have you a
peach tree onfho place." We walked
to such a tree and no cut fherefrom a
forzcd tsvig.
He took an end OF ~fhe 'tewig in each
hand and with the point projecting IN
front. of him, he slowly walked along
over the grass in my little orchard.
Presently the point Of the twig seemed
to bend itself downward toward the
ground.
There" said he, stopping, lyon viii
find water here"
81 do not want a well here said I;
"this is at the bottom Of a hill and my
barnyard is atthe tops besides, It is too
far fSom tho house"
he -tood ND and looked at me.
"Well, Sir, said he, will you tell me
where you would like to have a well?''
"Ycs," said /. al would like to have
Il over there in the cornerof the hedge.
1T would be near enough to the house.
IT would have a warm exposure, which
viii be desirable in winter, and the lit
lie house which L intend to build over
II would look better there than any
where else"
He took his divining rod and went to
the spot had indicated. sis this the
placer" he asked, wishingto be sure he
had understood me.
''Ycs." l replied, and he put his twig
in position, and in a few seconds it
turned in the direction of the ground
Then he drove down q stick, marked
ont circle and the next day he came
with two men and derrick and began
to dig my well.
When had gone ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
feetthcy had found water, and when
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