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given her table linen and number Of
other lesser conveniences. And her ia
.ther had given her IL COW and some
chickens. Her husband had bought the
rest with the money he had received
when he came of age and the money he
had been enabled to earn since.
They We're very comfortably situated.
And the spring came with q blessing
OF green, with a heaven of fragrance
and a triumph Of colors. The soft airs
OF the south famed her fair brow as
she moved with full heart about the
duties of her household. The rain
brought benison in its fall from the
clouds had revived the pinks and for
get-me-nots in the dooryard. The
fruits of summer and the grains Of nut-
umn swelled the fortunes Of her hus.
band, and her wifcly nature rcjoiced
with the good fortune that came to
him.
And SO another winter advanced up
on them.
But the little cabin in which their
household goods had been set up was
US happy as home as the proudest
palace in the land could have been,
And the fame of her housekeeping
seemed to her husband a thing that
should have reached the ends Of tho
earth.
How welcome We're tho long even.
ings! How filled with delight the slow
hours when they two were alone in
the world! How full of cheer were the
clustering days. and how like IL better
beatitude We're the long, still Sundaysi
Christmas eve Frank Thompson drove
over and got mother-in-law Brice. She
saw him coming and hurried on with
her shawl and the warm hood she had
worn half dozen winters. She went
briskly up the path to the house and
opened the front door herself. She
went in and closed it and Frank drove
slowly to the barn. And his heart was
melted and full of wonder.
He tried to busy himself chopping
wood, and tried TO get interested in
making things tidy around the outer
shed.
And so, while his being was filled
with love of the life that had been In.
trusted to him, there came to his ears
the new cry of Il babc-the worlds
drst challenge from human life.
That night as he sat by the wide
fireplace holding the bundle Of warm
flannel and blinking eyes Mrs. Brice
came to him and laid two small socks
in his hand.
"There's something to hang in the
chimney-corller" she said
And this was their first true Christ.
mas.
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the men who worked there, and it was
less of cross to the women in the
house.
He advised Mr.. Boggs to sell the
wheat ut once, while the buyers were
offering 05 cents a bushel. And Farm
er Boggs did so. He was little doubt
full at first, but when he saw his neigh
bors hold theirs till Thanksgiving and
then sell for as and so lie was proud
as general who has won a battle.
Christmas came on Saturday that
year.
Everything on the Boggs place was in
proper shape for winter. The apples
were properly housed. There was
new shed for the farm machinery.
There were more root cops in the cell
lar, more young cattle in the yards,
more provender III the mows and more
corn in the cribs than there ever had
been before.
Frank took the bay horse and drove
10 the county seat. He went up to the
court house dressed in the best suit of
clothes worn by any hired man in the
county.
Milt Rees was the county clerk, but
Frank was afraid of him. He was a
married man.
"I'll go back after awhile when his
deputy is Alone" said Frank to himself,
for the first time in his life too timid
to speak up and tell what he wanted.
He ate part of dinner at a restaurant.
He had ordered osyters, thinking he
would have treat. But he did not
find himself in the usual appetite. The
coffee was far from good and he won
dered If Betty Brice ever made so bad
a cup in her life. He knew she could
make better coffee now, for he had
drank more than one cup Of her max"
ing and it was even better than his
mother had offered him.
He watched the courthouse door and
saw Joe Myers. the deputy clerk, 50
into the big building alone.
'Now is my time," he said, and hur-
ried over after him.
The sheriff was in the clerks office
and the two men were laughing over
some anticipated Christmas jollity.
They gave Frank a seat. They knew
who he was and they priced him as a
desirable voter. They gave him chair.
But they seemed never likely to get
through with their conversation. He
wished the sheriff would get through
and go back to his own place.
But he stayed until the deputy audi
tor came in to tell a long story about
his grandfather's big bee tree
Frank was very nervous, but he tried
to laugh whenever the others did.
When that tale was ended, n ner-
chant came in, and then a lawyer fol-
lowed, and between them an hour was
wasted. They used up another hour.
and all the time Frank sat there and
wished lie could get Il word with the
clerk alone.
Finally Mr.. Myers got up in a shout
of laughter, which signalizcs the con-
clusion of a story, and went into his
little room to proceed with some copy
ing.
AS soon as he dared Frank got up
and followed him. But another lawyer
came after him, and insisted on sitting
there at the copying desk and reading
the pleadings in a divorce case. He
and the deputy clerk seemed singular
ly amused at the dry and prolix pa
pers.
Presently he went out, and Frank
said: Il wante;. 10 see you min
ute"
And Mr.. Myers got up and closed the
door into the outy of'ce.
Then he came back and sat down.
But the young man could not easily
find the beginning of what he wanted to
| say.
"You make out marriage licenses,
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The n. P.Bab@ Shop
and Bath Rooms.
E. cnRlsTlANsoN, Proprietor.
All Work First Glass.
Hair Cutting a Specially.
DICKINSON, N. DAKOTA.
CONG RIlSs.
The Dill to Protect Forest Reserve-
tiOna Passes the House.

The Dill to Protect Forest Reserva.
tiOns Passes the HOuHc.
Washington, Dec ID. The bill to
protect forest reservations. Which wls
a bone Of contention during the last
session and which has twice been un-
der discussion during the present seS-
sion, was finally passed by the llOus,
undcr suspension of the rules. The
motion 20 suspend the rules rendered
the opposition helpless TO prevent Il
vote, and as the bill secured the nee
essary twO-thirds it passed. The bill
provides that no public forest r..serya.
tion shall be established except to i'm
prove and protect the forest within the
reserI alton nr for the purpO>" of So
curing favorable conditions Of water
flow. 1t gives the secretary Of the IN
terror authority to make regulations
for protection against fire and depre-
dation. 1t also gives him authority to
prescribe regulations under which
dead or matured trees may be removed
rs may he necessary to preserve the
remaining timber Under this au-
thority lie is empowered to sell such
timber in limited quantities to each
purchaser. He is also authorized to
make IL detail of troops for the protec
ton OF reservations. The bill further
provides for the restoration of agricul-
turc and mineral lands forest reserva
tions to the public domain. The re-
lnainder of the day was devoted to the
army appropriation bill.
More than three hours of the ses-
sion Of tue senate We're occupied in the
discussion of tic Nicara.,an canal
bill, and three senators made speeches.
Mr.. PETER of Kansas favored the
measure under certain conditions. but
was opposed to issuing bonds payable
in gold to raise the money required.
Mr.. Squire of Washington declared
unequivocally in favor of the construc-
tion OF the canal. while Mr.. Turpie
(Dem., Ind.) though approving a canal.
expressed his decided opposition to the
pending bill. During tho ,nol7ling
hour Mr.. Kyle of South Dakota sub
mitted some remarks in behalf Of the
bill establishing national university
at Washington.
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"What is the lady's name ?"

"What is the lady's name?'
And he grew still more confused, for
Betty's name had slipped his treacher-
GUS memory. Try as he would he could
not remember it. He got up in spasm
of embarrassment and went to the
window.
"Betty Bricc, isn't it," asked the
deputy clerk; for he had found time to
be merciful.
Eyes; Elizabeth Brice," replied the
young man.
After that 1t was easy enough. But
no hereto ever went out Of the cham.
ber Of torture as worn by the ordeal
as was he with the hour Of trouble
which had assailed him there.
Farmer Bricc's house was crowded
with guests that Christmas day. The
preacher was there, and not man In
the ncighborllood had been married by
a preacher since the old state road was
opened. Justices of the peace were
good enough for them.
What an excellent dinner the good
woman had prepared for them, and
how all the guests enjoyed 1t! They
were a very merry crowd. They really
priced and admired young Frank
InOmpSOL, anu LnclF WISH you uluCu
j0y!" was from the depths Of the heart
Even the other young men Of the neigh
bOrhood-thosc who had looked at Bet
ty and her good broad, though pros.
pective, acres--gavc genuine congratu.
lations.
1t seemed to Frank when they left
the house Mt dusk that he had laughed
50 much the muscles of his face fairly
ached.
Before the short gray afternoon was
ended Betty and her husband bade
good-by to mother and father, to the
relatives who had come to the wedding
ard to the few friends who remained
arter the crowd of visitors had left.
She went out TO the sleigh, and Franks
good, bay horse drew her and her hus-
band to the home he had prepared for
her.
y 1t was not a very big house. 1t was
not a new house. There We're many
things in her old home which added to
her comfort and which would be denied
to her here; but this was her home
the place where her husbands interests
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SETTLED AT LAST.
Y'Fc BlucHelds Incident IL Regarded
as Closed.

NS Closed.
Washington, Dec. 19-United States
Minister Baker today cabied Secre-
tary Gresham that the MOsuIitO In.
diaDS lad formally incorporated their
reservation with Nicaragua. This was
very welcome news to the state de-
partmcnt for it marks the end of tho
Hluriiells difficulties which have llar-
asscd llc department for nearly IL
year. In the treaty of ManaSua of
1850 the right was reserved to the In
dians at any time Voluntarily to take
this action, and, of course, this having
been done. there can bc no longer as
serted any claim to a protectorate by
Great Britain. Thus the correspond
ence hll the subject Of BIuriiclds Which
will 80 t. congress in answer to IL rcSo
luton will make what is known in
diplomacy as II complete incident
There may still remain some claims
Oil the part OF Gr"at Britain against
Nicaragua on the score of oppr lssive
treatment of British consular officers
and subiusating the turmoil attending
the upsetting of the Clarence regime
but these are matters to be arranged
directly between tl,se countries and
in which the United States has no di-
rect concern.
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Deed of Drute.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec 19.-Polly
Bradenbnrs. the thirteen-year-Old
daughter of Il respectable German res
ident OF Conway. was ravished three
miles from Fl,lmmerville Sunday even
ing about dark by n negro named
John Bowman. and died 1T 10 o'clock
Sunday night. The victim of the out
rage was very small of her age. The
ravisher used q knife to make it Dos
sible to accomplish his purpose. It is
believed the victim, if captured, wnl
be burned at the stake.
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Brice didn't care very much where his
daughter went with this young man.
And the mother taking her cue from
her husband. always left bit Of lunch
on the sitting-room table, and there
was less difficulty getting into the
house than there had been before the
Journey after the cattle.
In the spring Frank began work IN
oarnost on tho "'--- -.
what a field should look like, and 1t
seemed he was tireless in bringing this
big place into the more comely form.
Neighbors drove past and agreed among
themselves that old man Boggs had .
treasure in his new hired man.
The corn was. in tile ground by the
middle Of May. The fence rows were
clean of weeds and bushes. The farm
machinery, housed for the first time,
was FURNISHED and in order when the
time came for using. Nobody in the
neighborhool had such straight rows
or such an excellent prospect for oats.
He plowel UP stretch Of low land
and planted it in potatoes.
'1That ground is too wet. ain't lit"
asked the farmer.
mot this year, I think" said Frank
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TOo Nice for an Athlete.

A 'dude," who had never earned his
bread by the perspiration of his brow,
went into a shop in Detroit, according
to the Free Press, and stood wearily
before the counter
II want to purchase 4 persptrer,"
he said in ladylike voice, as the clerk
came up.
"a what:" asked the clerk.
"a perspirer," repeated the customer;
zone of those" he added, pointing to
what he wanted.
"Oh," said the clerk, you mean a
sweater" and he sold him one at The
regular price.
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on,LD's DRnA~ OF cunrsrnAs.

WltnOuC was darkness and silence
And fastly falling snow:
Within a child lay sleeping
In the firelight's ruddy glow.
He thought that beautiful angel
Just softly touched hrs eyes,
Then carried him OFF on her shining
wings
To what seemed IL paradise.
Where does it lie? you ask ME:
All! only the wild birds know
And they who journey thro' dreamland
With the angel of the snow.
The boy and the beautiful angel
Passed out into the night,
And. climbing a stairway of snowhakes
They came to II palace bright.
All crystal clear were the ice>l,locks
Which formed each turrct,and wall:
All crystal clear wer. The windows
Flashing from easement and hall.
This" She said. lis the home Of King
Winter
And of those who do his will:
sometimes in broadest daylight.
Ofttimcs when it's dark and still.
Here Jack Frost has his studio,
And a cunning artist is he;
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Excellent Snarf.

Georgetown, S. c.. Dec. 19.-Presi-
dent Clet Gland, Capt. Evans. Mrs. JEFF
ferson and DR.. O'I.eilly arrived here
from Lancs,. S. c.. early this morn-
ing aud took the steamer which
awaited to convtb them to South
islands. twelve miles from here. the
winter home OF Gen Alexander. whose
guests the party will be. The oppor-
tunities for shooting and other sports
are excellent. The weather is very
warm and pleasant. and there is every
prospect OF a week of splendid recre-
alton and enjoyment.
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A SugxestiOn.

Head of Firm-You had better give
The Office boy a couple of dollars. Mr..
oenwiper, for Christmas.
Mr.. Penwiper (the bookkeeper)-I
.hink we had better make it Il New
fears gift, sir. have just sent him
ut with a telegram, andT don't think
.e will get back by Christmas.
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The Ru..ian Thistle Pest.

Morris. Minn., Dec. 10. - An ad-
journed meeting of Stevens county cit
izens was held here to take steps to
extinguish the Russian thistle which
is getting foothold in this country.
1t was voted to petition the Legislature
to enact laws making it compulsory
on land owners to destroy all such
weeds on their lands. The aid of the
county commissioners has also been
asked in this connection.
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HIS CHRISTMAS BRIDE

"Well, now that you are q, where
are you going?"
Down into Fulton county,"
'What are you going to do there"
'Oh, guess I'll get along" .
And that was the way Frank Thomp-
son left home.
According to the rule in all good In
diana families. he had lived in his fa-
ther's house, working on the farm and
subjecting himself in all ways to the
dominion of his father, the same rs IL
he had been hired man. And he had
been good deal cheaper than any man
his father could have hired. For he
was better than the most Of them at
the regular discharge Of work. and he
took some sort Of interest in the con-
duct of the farm. That was more than
could have been expected of man
working for wages alone.
And in accordance with the. same
good rule, now that he had attained his
majority, he was given 500 Il new
suit Of clothes. and was permitted to
consider himself from this time for.
ward q free man.
The work of the fall was entirely
done. Frank took his few personal be-
longings in a valisc that WAS mt us
new or as trim as it should haE> cen
for a man just starting out in the world,
And with this small addition to his for
tunes he mounted the colt that had
been his by courtesy Of really good
father and rode away to the south.
Some Of the old farmers in the
Thompson neighborhood doubted if
Frank would ever do better than he
had while under his fathers roof 9th,
ers doubted If his father would ever
get man ut any price who would be
SO valuable as Frank had becl.
But all united in believing Frank
would do we'll wherever he went.
He had rarely been away from home.
This was the first time he had ever
been out Of the county. And the hills
and woods seemed to him as the lands
beyond the sea do to the more travelled
tourist.
He looked on the Tippccanoc river as
stream Of tremendous size, and
Mount Nebo lifted it's summit into
what to him seemed tho impenetrable
clouds.
He scanned the farming, and did not
approve Of it.
Here, twenty miles from his fathers
place was farm with big buildings,
excellent land. and lots Of cattle; but
the corn was still standing in the field,
some in shocks and some on the stalk.
And this was the day before Christmas.
He went in and applied for work
That night he went to the "cXhibi.
ton" at the schoolhouse, and for the
first time found himself the center of
interest in strange collection of c0un-
try people. He wondered if all tho
strangers he had seen at the school.
house in his own neighborhood liked
the situation as little us he now liked
this.
And he wondered IL that handsome
young woman who played the organ
was laughing at him.
But he got acquainted with the people
hero with very much less difficulty
than he had expected. Hc found that
1t was good thing to be known as a
young man just come Of age, footloose,
and the posscssor of a horse.
BY the middle of January the corn
was all in from the field. 1t had been
trying task for the young man. But
he was too good a farmer to veil his
displeasure at such slovenly ways.
"Stay with ME this winter, and I'll
give you $1S month from the 1st Of
March," said rich but careless Farmer
Boggs.
So he stayed.
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w..hburn COMING Home.

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Wash
burn will leave for home Friday and
remain until after the senatorial cleo.
ticn. He says all the measures lie has
pending here will be held up until
he returns. This will be thH case with
his proposed bill for the establishment
Of national branch of the soldiers
home in Minnesota.
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Here too. he keeps an endless store
OF silver tiligree:
with which he draws the pictures
lou see on your window pane.
or churches and castles and pine
woods.
Which in sunshine vanish again.
Then she showed him Father Christ
mas.
Who clleerily to and fro
Was passing and giving orders
To his servants high and low.
Then with finger on lip she led him
Where without the slightest noise
Old Santa Claus was making
His wonderful Christmas toys.
And the boy looked on in wonder
At thousands of wagons and sleds,
At multitudcs Of doll lables
And hundreds of dollics' beds.
There We're armies Of handsome SOL
diers
With swords and guns and drums,
There We're tops for spinning and whip
ping
And the wonderful kind that huns.
There were marbles and balls aud puz.
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When the days begin to lengthen
Then the cold begins to strengthen.

That was the old almanac rhyme
and it was true in this case. The win
ter was very severe. January was fair
" frigid. But the sleighing was good.
And Frank Thompson was by this time
very necessary adjunct in every pleas.
ure party Of the neighborhood.
And Betty Brice, the handsome young
woman who played the organ, was
glad to be his companion He took
Farmer Boggs' cutter, hitched up his
horse to it and took her many a ride.
Spelling schools 1T the Oliver school
house, debates at Collins Corners, even
the protractcd meeting, commonly
known as & ''rcvival." over at the neigh
borhood called Scotland was not too
far for the bay colt and happy Frank
Thompson.
Betty's father went up into Marshall
county after some cattle, and when he
came back he told Frank he had called
on the elder Thompson.
The grim old farmer made the state.
ment in a very stern tone. His wife
and daughter looked ut the young man
in some fright. They were afraid the
elder Brice had learned something to
Franks disadvantage.
But when they saw his eyes light
with pleasure and when they heard
him ask after the people in the old
neighborhood they knew there was not
a blot on his reputation.
After that it was noticed the old man
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don't you?" he asked presently, and ne
tried to salve his embarrassment with

don't you?" he asked presently, and nc
tried to salve his embarrassment with
laugh.
Yes. certainly" said Myers. But he
stopped there.
Then they waited awhile and pres.
,ntly Mr.. Myers remarked on the ex>
.eeding depth Of the snow.
''PeOple generally come in here for
their own licenses?" asked Frank pres.
emily.
"Oh, not always. Sometimes they
get some one to get them for them
You mean marriage licenses, don't
you?"
"Yes."
"Of course it is different with saloon
licenses"
Frank flinched.
"What is the fee for issuing mar
rage llcense?" asked the young man.
"Two dollars" replied the deputI
clerk, and there he stopped again.
"DOes Il man have to have any wit
nesses with himy'
ooh, no; not If we know he is nj:
right
And then there was another awk
ward pause.
"Wcll. am l all rtght?" asked Franz
Thompson. He was very desperate
He could feel the red glow spread to
every part Of his BODY.
"Yes; certainly you are all right"
"Well, then, make out 4 marriage
license for me and take your two dol.
lars"
"Oh, you want a license, do you?"
eyes, II can get it,
"Well, you can get 1t. wish I
had known that was what you wanted.
You might have had 1t an hour ago"
II was in hopes that you would be
able to guess that much"
He was very much confused.
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Thompson. .'This will he dry year.
more than likely, and that land will
turn out II big crop of potatoes
BY the beginning Of July it began tc
look like Il dry season. The potatoes
were looking splendid.
Harvest on the Boggs farm was an
easier thing than it had ever been be.
tore. Something in the management
something in the luck. one or two
neighbors declared-made things seem
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Comparative Worth.

"What are you crying for, my daugh-
ter!''
''That Jones girl next door got fan
for her Christmas present.
''But didn't we present you with a
new piano:"
"Yes; but her gift came straight from
Paris. Judge.
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Christmas Eve | hung up. by the fire
places side.
A stocking capacious. besrcchng and
wide
Never doubling the miracle. old with
rHnown,
Which made Santa Claus drop the long
chimney down,
To fill that receiver with cOmlits and
tOWS
Expected by all little girls and good
boys.
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delight.
l bring at your summons. for it thrills
me tonight;
Its tine favor drifts down from the
doorway of life
When to live was ccslatic where troll
bic and strife
Were unknown; and each day glid.sl 81
lcntly by
Meath the clearcSt. mncloud, ,d. ,arulcan
sky.
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Duputy Clerk.
to work out just us the young man
wanted them. Not shock of wheat
was spoiled in the rain which came
the evening the harvest was finished.
And the next day, when half the 9TH
er hired men in the neighborhood went
to town, Frank stayed at home and
fixed up the bins in the granary.
Thrashing was a time of laughter for
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! Y

There were candies and jewsharps,
tops, jacls-knivcs and balls;
But the fruitfullest present my fancy
recalls
Better far than these trinkets piled up
SO prOfllse,
Better far than the quarto size book,
Mother GOOse'')
Was the swift. steel shod sled. on which
Mabel and
Coasted down the long hill as a swal-
low might fly.
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4 Gliastly Pun.

watch me sobble." remarked the
at turkey cock. as he strutted by the
small boy.
''That's all right replied the boy:
but wait till after Christmas Day.
ind feel me gobblc.'
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How He Gauged 1t.

'Did you have good Christmas din.
ner, Jimmy:'
'You bet. did! had to take four
kinds of medicine after it,"