New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-03-11

counted thsn eeg %, Is inasket one
81 one into the boy arms. Ten dozen
leggs e = heap yon kin imae zine, maybe,
how that boy looked with his arms sull
ny eggs When The Dock had got about
nine dozen counted out he stopped all
my asuddint md said, WALL, come to
think on't, reckon dom want no eggs
today, but j I'm jest as much obleeged to
lyou fur yer trouble And so he jumped
back into the buggy nd drove 81.
Now, maybe that fool boy Wuzn't in =
peck Nv trubble? There he stood in the
middle Nv that hot that ALFRED hot
peraroor with his arms full nv eggs.
! What wuz there fur him to do? He wuz
afraid to move, lest he should break
them eggs yet the longer he stood there
the less chance there wuz Of the warm
weather improvin' the eggs.
Along in the summer Of rs the fever
broke out down South, nd one day Dock
made up his mind that as bizness wuzn't
none too good at home he'd 60 down
South md see whathe could do there.
That wuz jest like one Of Docks fool
notions, we all said. But be went. In
about six weeks along come telegraph
sayin that Dock Wuz dead,-he'd died
Nv the fever. The minister went up to
the homestead nd broke the news GEN
tie like to Docks mother; but. bless you,
she didn't believe it-she wouldn't be-
lieve it. She said it was one Nv Docks
jokes; she didn't blame him, nuther-it
wuz her fault, she allowed, that Dock
wuz allus that way about maxim fun NV
life md death. No, sir; she never be-
licved that Dock wuz dead, but she allus
talke like he might come in any nlinnit !;
and there wuz allus his old place set fur
him at the table md nuthin' was dis
turbed in his little room upstairs. And
SO five years slipped by md no Dock
come back, md there wuz no tidin's NV
him, Wv course, the rest nv US knew:
but bis mother-oh, no, she never would
believe it.
At last the old lady fell sick, and the
doctor said she couldn't hold out long.
she WIZ so old md feeble. The minis
ter who wuz there said that she seemed
to sleep from the evenin' of this life in
to the mornin' NV the next. Jest atore
the last she kind Nv raised up in bed and
cried out like she saw sumthin' that she
loved, and she held out her arms like
there wuZ some one standin' in the door.
way. Then they asked her what the mat
ter wuz, and she says, joyful like: "He's
come back, and there he STAINS jest as he
use ter. I knew he wuz only jokin'!'
They looked, but they saw nuthin' :;
md when they went to her she wuz dead.
Domelly's Representative: Knute Nell
son is an anomaly. He is smarter than
chain lightning and more cunning than
an Arctic fox; but he hasn't enough
honesty to butter 1O-cent piece with.
Now the true Northman is an earnest,
sincere, honest man: to this day the houses
of Scandinavia are kept unlocked ;crimi-
nails are few and the people trust each
other. But Kuute's traits are Mediterra-
mean. Some one got off the story that
he was descended from Spanial d who
was shipwrecked on thecoa of Norway
at the time the Spanish Armada went to
pieces, 800 years ago, and the result is a
politician that could give that Maine
Yankee, Bill Washburn, odds and cheat
him out of his front teeth. Bill is now
trying to bite Dave Clough in revenge
but Knuteh has got his teeth in his breaches
pocket,and Bill IS mumbling his wrath
through his dilapidated jaws But
Knute is an chronological curiosity, in.
vented 10y the devil for the distraction
of this unhappy Northwest. "
Luverne Herald: There are no better
men than Bob Evans, and he is loveo
and honored athome and abroad because
like him whose name led all the rest, he
is one of those who gloves his fellow
men, because he is known to be every
inch a mana man of character and the
soul Of honor. Too generous and kind.
hearted to cherish an injury, he never
forgets and never fails to reciprocate an
act of kindness. No man in the state
has labored more zealously or disinter.
estedly in behalf Of the republican par
ty; no one has given to the support vi
its cause more effective service, and no
one ismole deserving ofthe honors which
the party may have to bestow. To his
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