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Baited For Catfish and Caught nm owl.

A man of unquestioned veracity
vouches for the truth of this fish story:
His friend, who lives a few miles In the
country, set q line for catfish one day,
In the morning when he went after the
fish he found them in abundance. and
on one line he found a large owl that
must have been a terror to birds and
fishes when alive, The line was wound
around the body and the neck of the
owl. and the fish bore marks of the owls
talons, showing that the owl had caught
the fish after the hook had caught it.
and In it's efforts to fly away with the
fish it had been ensnared by the line
after which the fish had its inning by
drowning tae owl
At any rate the owl was dead, and the
fish, though distigured, was still in the
swim and playing the line with u vigol
that caused the line to bob up and dowr
with the irregularity Of the cotton mar
ket. The drowned owl is on exhibition
as a witness TO the truth Of the story
and the fish, though the finest of thu
catch. escaped the frying pam, and nov
has a steady job as an owl catcher. Th'
fisher set him for owls. -Valdosta Cor
Atlanta Constitution.
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Notice.


State of South Dakota, county of Lake. ss. In
circuit court. Second judicial circuit. Edward
Wells, plaintiff, w. Darius Hnbhell, The Ameri.
can Mortgage and Investment company OF Madi.
SON. Dakota; The Madison National Bank OF
Madison, Lake county. ID. t.; Matthew w. DAILY,
as assignee of the American Mortgage and In
vestment company of Madisoa, Dakota; Is. IA.
Jacobs, as trustee of the American Mortgage and
Investment company of Madison, Dakota, May
E. Merrill, Frank X. VanSlyke, X. b. Mills, Alton
A. Bartlett, H.. ". Luce, James Farmer, John
Acme Hay Harvester company, defendants.
Nouce is hereby given, that under and by virtne
of a Judgment and decree Of foreclosure and sale
rendered by said court in the above entitled ac-
ton ON the 9th day Of January, A. ID. 1888, and q
special execution thereon duly issued out OF said
court and this day placed in my handle. | will on
Friday the End day of June, A. ID. 1888, at ten
o'clock In the forenoon ofthat day at the trout
door of the court house In the city OF addison, In
kota, cell 1T public auction the real property re-
quirtd by said judgment to be sold or go much
thereof as may be necessary 10 raise the amount
required by said execution, towit: two thousand
seven hundred and thirty three dollars and 1--we
cents CO., 733. 05) besides interest and costs OF sale,
The said real property lie situate In the county OF
Lake and state of South Dakota. and described
az follows towit: The sou:h half OF the north
west quarter of section six (6l township one
hundred and six 1901 north OF Range fifty two
T52l. In Lake county, South Dakota, excepting
| therefrcm ten T10I acres in the southeast corner
of said south half OF the northwest quarter OF said
section six l6l. township and range aforesaid.
, Dated II at Madison, South DaKota, April %, 1888
N. A. FOX,
! Minsor q KittIedge, Sheriff OF Lake Go.
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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ties against great odds before the episode
at Fayal, and her Long Tom" was al
ready the mainstay of her armament.
Shortly before the Armstrong sailed for
the Azores she received a new command
er from the regular navy, Captain Sam
uel Chester Reid. He was 80 years of
age and had been a sailor since he was
IL years old. He fought several battles
IN his teens and was q prisoner of war
to the French in 1889.
The British squadron entered the har-
Dor of Fasal purposely to capture the
Yankee ~privateer, which the pilots told
them vas lying there to take ON water
and provisions. The harbor was neutral.
and the Armstrong could not withdraw
owing to q calm. The British officers
declared that they would have the priva-
teer and her crew if they had to knock
down the town to get them. Under
cover of night they sent four launches
filed with men to board the Yankee.
The attack was repulsed with muskets
and the Long Tom" Two volleys set
tied it, and the boats hauled off. A
second attack was made with IA launches
loaded with Britishers. That time the
"Long Tom" made fearful havoc firing
into the solid lines of boats. The attack
was repulsed, and there was a lull until
morning.
Then the whole British feet closed in
ON the ~privateer. The leading ship was
wounded several times by the "Long
Tom and dropped out Of the fight.
Reid saw that the British fire was en-
dangering the town in front of which
his vessel lay, SO he scuttled the schooner
and prepared to fight it out on land.
The British lost 800 sailors from the
boats, 100 of them killed or drowned.
Reid was showered with honors for
his exploit with the Armstrong and was
appointed to a position in the regular
navy. He was stationed in New York
harbor for a number of years and died
there in 1861. The arrangement Of ouI
national flag with q star for every state
and o stripe for each Of the original Il
was designed by Captain Reid. The Ne
turn of the Long Tom" to America wa
brought about by Colonel Samuel c.
Reid of Washington. who visited FayaI
recently to gather materials for memoirs
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Notice.

@# VIZ
State OF South Dakota, county of Lake. Sc. In
circnit court, Second judicial circuit. Edward
Wells, plaintiff, VS.. Darius Hubbell, The Amer
ison, Dakota; The Madison National Bank OF
Madison, Lake county, d. T.; Matthew w, Daily,
as assignee oil the American Mortgage and In
vestment company of Nadison, Dakota, i. ii.
j jacobs, as trustee of the American Mortgage and
Investment company of Madison, Dakota: May
E.. Merrill, Frank X. VanSlyke, r.. b. MILE, Al
ton A. Bartlett, II. N. Luce, James Farmer, John
Jones, X. Thompson. Ole t. Thompson, and the
| Acme Hav Harvester company, defendants.
VI q Judgment and decree of foreclosure and sale
rendered by said coert in the above entitled
action on me 9th day of January, A. d.. 1893, and
| q special execution thereon duly Issued out ii
said court and this day placed IN my hands, !
will on Friday the End day of jane. A. d. 1898,
AZ ten O'Clock IN the forenoon oil that day ~ the
front door OF the court hoEse in the city OF Madt
con, In the SAID county OF Lake and state Of
South Dakota. sell at public auction the real
so much thereof as may be necessary to raise the
amount required by said execution, towlt: Two
thousand seven hundred aud thirry.three dollars
and Ave cents, ($2, 733.05) besides interest and
costs OF sale. The said real property is situate
In the county of Lake and State of South Dakota
and described as follows, towit: The north hal
of the northwest quarter Of section six t6), town
ship one hundred and six t;06), north of rang,
ffty-two (52l, in Lake county, South Dakota ex
cepting therefrom the east half OF the northeas'
quarter OF said north west quarter OF section si,
(6t, township and range aforesaid.
Dated at Madison, Sonth Dakots, April %. 1893
N. A. FOX,
Winsor & Kittredge, Sheriff of Lake Co..
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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Mortgage Sale.

= Default having been made in the payment of
the principal and interest due November 25tn,
1892, on a certain note secured by mortgage dated
November 25th, 1887, given by Severt Nj. Neset.
q single man, to the Fidelity Loan and Trast
Company and duly recorded in the Office OF the
register Of deeds. OF Lake county, then territory
of Dakota, now state OF South Dakota, on the
18th day OF August, 1888, at 4 O'Clock p. m, In
Book U Of mortgages, on page 231.
The amount claimed to be due thereon nc the
date hereof IL $779.55. No action nor proceeding
at law or otherwise has been instituted TO re-
cover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any
part thereof. Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given that under and by virtne of the power oil
sale contained in said mortgage and the statute
in snch case made and provided, the said mort.
gage will be forecios~d by sale at public auction,
by the sheriff Of said Lake county, or his deputy,
on the 18th day OF June, 1893, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon OF that day, at the front door OF the
Court house In the city of Madison, In said
county and state, and substantially described In
said mortgage as follows, to-wit: The west hall
of the southwest quarter OF section twenty. three
(23) and the northwest quarter OF the norrhwest
quarter OF section twenty six (26) township one
hundred and eight 1853 north, range fty-one I5il
west OF the 5tb p. Nj.
Dated at sioux City, lows, May 1, 1893.
FIDELITY LOAF AND TgusT COMPANY,
s. E. HosTETTER, Mortgagee.
Attorney for Mortgage.
N. A.. Fox, Sheriff.
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they seriously interfered with her par
ticipation in the boyish sports of which
she was very fond. She kept on wearing
them and hating them, however, until
day she made a visit to Franklin, N.
H., and met several women wearing
boomers. They suited her, and she i'm
mediately became an enthusiast. She
has never since worn long skirts except
for an hour when on a visit to her sister,
when she donned a long dress to save her
costume while doing some kitchen work.
That hour, she declares, was the most
uncomfortable one she has spent in
many years.
Miss Prescott undoubtedly presents a
remarkable picture, and one that many
people find it difficult to become used to
no matter how frequently they see her.
One of her house costumes consists OF
trousers, skirt and jacket made of blue
checked bingham, but she has others in
great variety and all with trousers
house trousers and street trousers, sum
mer trousers and winter trousers, every.
day trousers and Sunday trousers-and
she makes them all herself. In the win
ter she wears a fur cap upon her head
and in summer a sailor hat of straw
trimmed with a band of ribbon. She is
gsDd looking and intelligent, and despite
the wonder and amusement her costume
creates she wins the respect of every ONT
and the esteem of many by her kindly
manner
Miss Prescott has had her romance il
her time, having been twice engaged tx
be married. Her first fance she did no
care for, and he went west and finally
married there They had been engaged
only to suit their families The mar
she loved and would have married dice
of consumption, and she has remained
single. She has a comfortable home
and has amassed a snug fortune selling
salve. She has published several poem
which are said to be very original ant
striking.
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renee, principal REV. WIN. LAWRENCE.
founder of the city of Lawrence and pro-
moter of it's industries, and his mother
was a daughter of the late William APP
pleton.
The new bishop was born near Boston
in 1850 and was graduated from Har-
ward in the class of 1871. On leaving
college Mr.. Lawrence prosecuted his
theological studies at the Episcopal
schools at Andoyer and Philadelphia.
His last year was taken at the Cambridge
Theological school. from which he was
graduated in 1875. He was appointed to
the rectorship of Grace church in Law
renee, which post he retained for several
years. He then took the post of vice
dean and the professorship of homilet-
les and pastoral care in his alma mater,
the Cambridge school. In 1889, on the
death Of Dean Gray, he became dean, re.
tanning the professorships also until
chosen bishop. His wife was Miss julia
Cunningham of Boston, granddaughter
of Bishop Parker, and they have three
daughters and one son.
Dean Lawrence represents the 'sbroad
church" party. Being in the very prime
of life and having had a great success in
other work, Bishop Lawrence will, the
Episcopalians believe, prove fully equa'
to II the requirements and a most
worthy successor of Phillips Brooks.
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A eLuERlRp,s SONG.

10 simple souls. ofttimes In simplest ways,
Come sweet surprises that-we scarce know
why
Make glad with sudden brightness dreary
days
Or Get . rainbow in . stormy sky.
A smile perhaps from some dear passerby
A word. unsought, of sympathy or praise.
A wayside flower, a flowerlike butterfly
The veriest trihe has it's spell to raise
Some dropping heart to whom God bids !.
speak.
And I-who heard but now all nnware
That bluebird's rapture thrilling on the air
know its meaning Is not far To- seek;
To me, faint hearted. fearful, once again
The Father sends a message-not In vain
Mary Bradley In Harper's Bazaar.
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IT SAVED THE SHIP.
THE DISTINGUISHES sERWcEsoF THE
LONG TONI in 1914.

The Famous Cannon Tina Repuised the
British and Saved the Good ship ARM
strong mt Tayai L. Now Exhibited Mt h
-cago-story OF The Conflict.
II was a far cry from Yankee priva-
feers to the magnificent steel cruisers
which fairly rival the finest men-of-war
afloat, but the .'sea devils" of long ago
with q handful of men and o couple of
guns somehow managed to cut notches
in history which times marvellous
changes cannot obliterate nor the world
forget, and which this country is proud to
have remembered. Among the relics
and mementos of bygone days and
STORED achievements which adorn Uncle
Sans wal museum in the Columbian
exposition is a piece of old fashioned long
barreled ordnance with a thrilling battle
record.
1t is the Long Tom" of the privateer
General Armstrong. The Armstrong
alone fought a British squadron mount
ing 136 guns in the harbor of Fayal in
the Azores, Sept. 26, 1914. The Arm
strong carried sever guns, six Of them
the usual 9-pounder boat howitzers and
a 24-pounder, such as were mounted ON a
swivel at the bow of the fleet sailers for
use in chasing the enemy. They were
long guns and acquired the general title
+Long Toms" The Long Tom" at Chi
cago is the particular Long Tom"
which made the General Armstrong a
terror of the sea throughout the war of
1912.
The Armstrong privateer was a
schooner fitted out and owned by Sam
mel Adams. She had fought many bat
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Relies Of

An exact reproduction of the room In
which L.uis XVI Of France received the
American delegates in 177S-in itself a
worthy teature-is the home of the La
fayette exhibit at the Worlds fair. The
very tapestries which covered the walls
Of the room at Versailles ON that occa-
sion and the same furniture are EN-.
r10yed. Glass cases contain interesting
Gticles that were onc the property OF
Lafayette. An unusually interesting
z61ici II the sword Of honor voted TO Ia.
1nystte BY congress h 1770.
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m eLooMER RIG.

Miss Prescott Has Worn Skirts Only nm
Hour In Twenty-Five Years.
That fortitude, individuality and ortgt-
nality should be marked characteristics
of q woman in bloomers does not seem
mt all strange when reflects upon the
qualities of temperament necessary for q
person to run. counter to the general
fashion in the matter OF dress. And
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Land Office at Mitchell, south Dakota, April
2S. 1893. Notice 10 hereby given that the fol-
loving named settler has died notice OF her In
~tention 70 make FINAL proof In support Of her
claim, and that said proof win be made before
the CLERK Of the court. at A Madison, 8. D., or j nne
10. 1893, viz :ChristieA McGii vray, &c. l4bN, for
the northwest quarter, section 81, township 100,
range 81 she names the following Witnesses 70
walton of, said land. viz: VI. I'll. Williams, OF Win
fred, d. DID, M. johnson, OF Wlnfred, y. d.; y.
d. Mcleod, OF Winfred, :. p; Dean Mchae. oil
Winfred, \. ID X N. aRATz, hegister
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these are very
prominent traits
in the character
Of Miss Emeline
Prescott Of Hal
lowell, Me-. who
adopted h
bloorner costume
o than 25
years ago and has
o it constant
ly and consist
entity ever since.
She declares that
she chung to the
pantalettes and
short skirts of her
childhood as long
as possible, and
that when she
was finally forced
to put on long
skirts she hated
Allow x%s1~y M
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The woman's Dormitory.

The Woman's dormitory at Chicago il
equipped to accommodate 1000 visitors
to the Worlds fair and had about SOC
guests on May /. The dormitory was
built by a stock company, which sold
shares at $40 each. The rate per day tc
stockholders is 40 cents and may be re
duced TO 50 cents. A generous break.
fast is served for 25 cents and a dinner
with courses of meat for 80 cents.
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Cambridge, who
has been elected
bishop of Massa-
chusetts to sue
coed the late
Phillips Brooks,
is truly an origi-
nal Bay State
man and comes
from one of the
very best fam
lilies. His father
was the famous
Amos A. Law
$1,000 ----f
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A Poor Excuse.

The icenien now complain that the ice
is too thick. and that the expense of Sc
curing it is unusually heavy. AS an IL
cuse for higher prices next summer that
will prove too thin.-Boston Traveller.
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the Enterprising Anrlo-saxon.

When Ii is known that during the last
30 years more than 9,00O, 900 people have
emigrated from England iof whom 10
per cent have returned, We are not sur.
prised to learn that one-fourth OF thf
land surface OF the globe Is occupied BY
English speaking people.
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1t is stated that since the second pie
nary council of Baltimore the archdiocese
of New York has contributed over $780,
600 to Peters pence.
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REID.

OF Captain Reid, his father. Since the
light the gun mas been in the custody of
the Portuguese and was returned to It's
original by the courtesy of the
KING of Portugal, Dom Carlos /.
JOHN F. WMLoUGHBY.
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The Career of William Lawrence, the New
Bishop of Massachusetts,.
Rev. William Lawrence, S. T. D., dean
of the Episcopal theological school of
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John NJ. Bruner Of Chicago has q
clock made In Bruatorp, Sweden, I'm
1928.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
slang.

We knew 1t! The best slang Is Amer
lean, western American at that, we are
told by Professor Brander Matthews in
Harper's Magazine. Professor Matthews
traces out forcefully how slang is first
colloquialism; then, IL it has staying
qualities, it is after awhile regularly
adopted into the language, and the next
new dictionary gives 1t place Of honor
alongside the verbal Four Hundred, so
to speak.
Professor Matthews divides slang into
four classes. of which we are only con-
rerned with the two that contribute
words permanently to a language. This
Is one of the ways In which language
Erows--by the adoption into it as classic
words and phrases of various utteranccs
that began as slang. One class includes
the wornout English words that have
had long rest-sometimes for centuries
and have walked up and come again.
The other class embraces the wholly
hew words and phrases.
Some of the western Americanisms
which the writer believes will stay and
become altogether proper are to Jump
on" or, more emphatic still, to Jump on
with both feet" To fire out" our au-
thor finds, is an old English expression
used with precisely Its present meaning.
But we are astonished that Mr.. Mat
thews appears not to know the origin and
meaning Of the phrase working the
growler," now so commonly heard in our
large cities. Originally tramps and beg
CARS carried an old tomato can for the
stale beer they got cheap. The sound Of
the beer gurgling out of the tin can down
the thirsty throat suggested a growl to
some imaginative rogue; hence the can
was christencd the growler. To catch
the poetic force of the phrase one has
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NIonstrous Amusements.

In the popular play called Pharaoh"
the kings jester is man who, when a
beautiful, healthy infant, was COM
pressed by bandages and iron instru-
ments to grow into the semblance of d
bat, as far as possible, with projecting
ears and deformed, winglike shoulders.
The character never fails to produce an
exclamation of horror on the part of the
audience that the tastes of antiquity
We're so depraved as to find pleasure in
deformities.
We congratulate ourselves, we do,
that we are more correct in our time.
Let us see. At this moment one of the
most drawing shows in all Paris is pair
of monsters who demonstrate to gazing
audiences nightly that they can eat and
drink twice as much as an ordinary ele-
plant ought to and live. One drinks III
presence of the spectators five gallons OF
beer nightly. The other monster eats
eight eggs, three or four loaves of bread
and several pounds of meat and raw cab.
bage, with a number of side dishes
thrown in. A London manager has been
trying for weeks to get this wonderful
rair away from Paris in vain. Thou
sands of people crowd the hall where
they show their piggish capacities, and
there is no diminution of the run.
Who fill those frightful museums
where broken necled men, skeleton
dudes, two headed boys and girls, 6G(
pound men and bearded women exhibit
their hideousness and make it pay richly
We, the people. But we are ever Sc
much more refined in our tastes anj
feelings than the old pagans were! Oh
yes!
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The Silver Coinage.

The United States government took
the money coinage of the country into
its own HANDS in 1899. From that year
till 1878 only &,0.i5,SSS silver dollars were
coined altogether. From 1878 to 1878
silver coinage was stopped. In 1878 it
was resumed. and from 1878 till 1890
$378, 1855. 1888 were coined in silver. In
1890 our coinage legislation was again
ovehauled, end what is called the Sher-
man act was passed in Difference to the
growing power Of the silver menin con-
gress.
The 1890 law required the secretary Of
the treasury to purchase every month
1850, GOO fine ounces Of silver bullion and
pay for it in the notes now known as sill
yer certificates. When these certificates
were presented for payment at the treas
ury, the secretary was to pay out gold
or silver for them, at his discretion, but
such has been the state of public senti-
ment that his discretion has always been
to pay in gold. In addition to the issu-
ance of the silver certificates the secre-
tary was required by law to coin g., 0OO,-
600 month from July 1, 1890, till July
1, 1891.
Since the resumption of silver coinage
in 1873 419, 294.S 1886 silver dollars have
been issued from the mint. Of this
number only s5S,O18,019 are in actual
circulation. OF outstanding silver GER
tificates there are 1890, 489, 1875.