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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
WHERE DRINKING PREVAILS.
Patrons o. Fine Saloons Take Iittls
Liquor st q lime.

Patrons o. Fine Saloons Take I.ittls
Liquor st Time.
How can the elegant bars of tho city
afford to place before their patrons a
better grade Of liquor while charging
the same price as the saloons in the
poorer districts? is question frequent
~ asked. The answer is simple enough.
In the former drinkers never ''take a
BATH" as the saying is, but merely
cover the bottoms of their glasses with
liquor, while in the latter the glasses
are none too large to contain the
amount the patrons require. IF you
can tell me how many drinks a bar
gets out of a gallon Of whisky" said a
veteran of the white apron the other
day, Il will tell you relatively where
his saloon is located and what kind of
trade 1t enjoys. The average for a
business in the commercial and Office
center is from sixty to sixty-five. II
1T is patronized to any extent by the
upper working classes, skilled mechan-
les, and so on, the percentage runs
down to fifty. A fellow who wasn't
posted might suppose that indicated
workingmen were heavy drinkers, but
it's just the reverse. The average up
per class mechanic drinks very sell
dom, but when he does he generally
takes good one. The heavy tipplers
are the chaps who take small drinks
and lots of them, and house that
has very swell custom will get from
eighty to eighty-five out of a gallon.
In the tough places and dives forty
would be about the figure, which rep
resents an average of exactly four
fifths Of gill to each customer. In
such establishments the glasses are
often very thick and the inside is round
on the bottom. They are deceptive
and even if filled to the brim will not
hold over one-half of a gill, which
would make sixty-four drinks to the
gallon. At only five cents apiece that
would mean $500, and as the stuff they
serve does not cost more than 81 the
profit is a shade over 200 per cent,
which ought to satisfy even a dive.
keeper. If a five-cent house set out
thin glasses with the black bottle it
would be bankrupt in less than =
week."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
THE STORY OF A PEARL.
Interesting History of One Exhibited
in Cincinnati.

A pearl valued at $4,000 is on ex-
hibition in a jewelry store window
in Vine street. Nor is the pearl with
out history. Mr.. Smith purchased
it from Julius Pedrazolli, a descend
ant OF the royal house of Italy. The
pearl is over 100 years old and it's
story is an interesting one. A party
of pearl divers were plying their trade
liz the waters of the East Indian seas.
A sudden commotion among the work.
'ers told of the presence of their dead
1y enemy, man-eating shark. All but
one escaped, and his companions were
>-,rrified as they watched the poor
fellow struggling in the water, unable
to render him assistance. By great eff
fort they succeeded in rescuing the
upper part of the body from the vo-
racious fish and bore the mangled re-
mains to the house of the grief-strick-
en- parents. The day before the bur-
ial this almost priceless pearl was
found in the mouth Of the dead man.
The pearl was sold to Koloko, a ma
tive chief, andNfor many years remain
ed in the royal family of the tribe.
In 1880 Julius Pedrazolli, an Italian
traveller, saw the pearl, and, attracted
by its perfect shape and beauty, he
bought it from the tribe, together with
the crude gold setting and ring made
by the native jewelers.. Mr.. Smith
purchased it from Pedrazolli and
claims that the pearl has no equal in
the United States The pearl weighs
46 grains, and in daylight its beauti-
full hues are dazzling.-Cincinnati
Commercial-Tr
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

Marie by the shoulder and led him out
into the inn garden where there was
convenient bench beside the river. Here
he sat him down and made the boy
place himself on his left.
"Jean-Marie," he said, very gravely,
"this world is exceedingly vast; and
even France, which is only small
corner of it, is great place for a
little lad like you. Unfortunately IL is
full of eager, shouldering people NOV
ing on: and there are very few bakers
shops for so many eaters. Your master
is dead: you are not fit to gain living
by yourself; you 90 not wish 20 1tsal2
No. Your situation then is undesfr-
able; it is, for the moment. critical.
On the other hand, you behold in me
man not old, though elderly. still en-
joying the youth of the heart and the
intelligence; man of instruction;
easily situated in this worlds affairs;
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
CHAPTER m.-(CoNr1Nu.n.,

Truly replied the Doctor with a
shrug. you have your finger on the
hitch. He will be strikingly antipa-
thetic to my beautiful Anastasie. She
will never understand him; he will
never understand her. You married the
animal side Of my nature, dear; and it
Is on the spiritual side that find my
affinity in Jean-Marie. So much so,
that, to be perfectly frank, stand in
some awe of him myself. You will
easily perceive that I am announcing
a calamity for you. Do not" he broke
out in tones of real solicitude-"do not
give way to tears after a meal, Anas-
TASTE. You will certainly give yourself
a false digestion"
Anastasie controlled herself. "You
know how willing am to humor you, !"
she said. Gin all reasonable matters.
But on this point"
"My dear love-" interrupted the Doc
tor, eager to prevent refusal, "who
wished to leave Paris? who made me
give up cards, and the opera, and the
boulevard, and my social relations, and
all that was my life before knew you?
Have been faithful? Have I been
obedient? Have not borne my doom
with cheecfuloess? In all honesty,
Anastasie, have net Z right to q st;sa.
lation on my side? I have, and you
know it. I stipulate my son."
Anastasie was aware of defeat! she
struck her colors instantly. "You will
break my heart" she sighed.
''Not in the least" said he. "You
will feel a trifling inconvenience for a
month just as I did when I was first
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
THE CYNIC AS HE Is.
HE SEES NOTHING GOOD IN
ANY CAUSE.
As Especially Malignant Against Sa-
cred and Holy Things-A Good Per.
,son for All Men and Women to Shun
Is Past Redemption.

The cynic Is one who never sees a
good quality in a man, and never fails
to see bad one He is the human owl,
vigilant in darkness, and blind to
light; housing for vermin, and never
seeing noble game. The cynic puts all
human actions into only two classes
openly bad, and secretly bad.
All virtue and generosity and disin-
terestedness are merely the appearance
of good, but selfish at the bottom. He
holds that no man does a good thing,
except for profit. The effect of his con-
versation upon your feelings is to chill
and scar them; to send you away sour
and morose. His criticisms and in
nuendoes fall Unfortunately upon
every lovely thing, like frost upon
flowers.
MIR. A." says some one, sis relig-
ious man." He will answer: Yes; on
Sundays" "Mr. B has just Joined the
church" Certainly; the elections are
coming on" The minister of the gos-
pei is called an example of diligence:
LIT is his trade" Such man is gen.
erous-"of other mems money" This
man is obliging-"to lull suspicion and
cheat you" That man is upright-"be-
cause he is green"
Thus, his eye strains out every good
quality, and takes in only the bad. To
him, religion is hypocrisy, honesty a
preparation for fraud, virtue only want
of opportunity, and undeniably pur-
ity asceticism. The live-long day he
Will sit with sneering lip, uttering
sharp speeches in the quietest manner,
every character which is presented
His words are softer than oil, yet are
they drawn swords
All this, to the young seems Won
i'erful knowledge of human nature;
they honor man who appears to have
found out mankind. They begin to in
Gulgc themselves in tlippant sneers;
md with supercilious brow, and i'm
pUdent tongue, wagging to an empty
brain, call to naught the wise, the
iong-tried and the venerable.
| DO believe, that man is corrupt
enough: but something of good has
survived his wreck; something Of evil,
religion has restrained, and something
partially restored; yet, 1 look upon the
human heart as mountain of fire. l
dread its crater. l tremble when l
see its lava roll the fiery stream
Therefore, I am the more glad, if
upon the old crust of past eruptions,
can find single flower springing up.
So far from rejecting appearances of
virtue in the corrupt heart ii a de-
PRAYED race, am eager to see their
light, as ever mariner was to see a
star in stormy night, wrote Henry
Ward Beecher.
Moss will grow upon gravestones;
the ivy will cling to the moldering
pile; the mistletoe springs from the
dying branch; and, God be praised,
something green, something fair to the
sight and grateful to the heart, will
get twine around and grow out of the
seams and cracks of the desolate tenn
PIE Of the human heart!
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

keeping good table-a man, neither
as friend nor host, to be despised. I
offer you your food and clothes, and to
teach you lessons in the evening, which
will be infinitely more to the purpose
for lad Of your stamp than those of
all the priests in Europe. I propose no
wages. but II ever you take a thought
to leave me, the door shall be open. and
will give you a hundred francs to
start the world upon. In return, I have
an old horse and chaise, which you
would very speedily learn to clean and
keep in order. Dol not hurry yourself
to answer, and take 1t or leave 1t as
you Judge Alright. Only remember this,
that am no sentimentalist or char
liable person, but man who lives
vigorously to himself, and that II
make the proposal. It is for my own
ends-it is because I perceive clearly
an advantage to myself. And now. re-
feet"
II shall be very glad. lido not see
what else can do. I thank you, sir,
most kindly. and ! will try to be USE
ful.'' said the boy. sl 4. 3
Thank you" said the Doctor warm
", rising at the Same time and wipine
his brow, for he had suffered agoniss
while the thing hung n the wind. a
refusal. after the sscene at noon. would
have placed him Il : ridiculous Light
before Anastaste, "HoW'hot and heavy
Is the evening. to 30 sure! have Al
ways hal o fancy 70 ~ Ash IN sum
msr. Jsan-Mazi6. hers 81 tho L,oina
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

brought to this vile hamlet; then your
admirable sense and temper will pre-
vail. and I see you already as content
as ever, and making your husband the
happiest of men,"
you know I can refuse you nothing"
she said, with a last flicker of resist
ance.
II think not" replied the Doctor.
"But do not suppose me SO unwary as
to adopt him out of hand. I am, I
flatter myself, a finished man Of the
world; have had all possibilities in
view; my plan is contrived to meet
them all. I take the lad as stable boy.
If he pilfer, grumble, If he desire to
change, shall see was mistaken: I
shall recognize him for no son Of mine.
and send him .tramping."
"You will never do so when the time
comes" said his wife; II know your
good heart"
She reached out her hand to him,
with sigh; the Doctor smiled as he
took it and carried It to his lips; he
had gained his point with greater ease
than he had dared TO hope; for per-
haps the twentieth time he had proved
the efficacy Of ais trusty argument, his
Excaltbun tho hint Of return ia
Paris. Six months In the capital. for q
man Of the doctoria antecedents and
relations, implied no less q calamity
than total ruin. Ahastasie had saved
the romaindee o4 his Iortuno ~ keopins
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
tTo D ooNTrxu1D.i

Coleridge. the post, was an awkward
horseman. Once riding along the turn.
pike road In the county Of Durham -
was accosted By . man who had been
watching the rider. Il say, young
man, did you meet q tailor on thu
road n Eyes," replied the poet, WHOSE
middle name was Taylor: II did; ana
he told me II went Z little farther ]
should meet goose ~ 81
Tns Austrians were originally the
Oester-Reichers or Inhabitants o. the
Eastern Empire.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
true womanly heroism in little affaira
Not only did she refrain from the

true womanly heroism in little aftairA
Not only did she refrain from the
cheap revenge of exposing the Doctors
errors to himself, but she did her best
to remove their ill-effect on Jean-Ma-
RE. When Desprez went out for hii
last breath Of air before retiring fo1
the night, she came over to the boys
side and took his hand.
He held up his face, and she tool
him in her arms and then began ii
cry. The woman had spoken in com.
plaisance; but she had warmed to hea
own words. and tenderness followed
The Doctor. entering, found them en-
laced; he concluded that his wife VA,
IN fault; and he was Just beginning. II
an awful voice, "Anastasie Vhez
she looked up at him, smiling. with al
appraised finger; and he held his peace
wondering, while she LED the boy b
his attic.
e4n m ooHrrHnun.1
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
40 ~ I 2 'Fs1''fYf5 m, 777lI7f
! Our LlVo 0tonlk

r -
i Il 10 doubtful just what position the
American stock interests will hold at
the Paris exposition next year. as
there is manifest desire among
Americans to keep their high-priced
breeding stock at home. They are
IN favor Of sending fat cattle that may
be killed at the end Of their time Of
exhibition, but they are too fearful Of
scontagious diseases to risk animals
that must be returned to this country.
It is said to be a fact that stock dis
eases are far more prevalent in Europe
tnan In this country. America has. at
great expense and after years Of war
rare. exterminated some Of the worst
diseases, and it is not probable that
either the Secretary Of Agriculture or
the leading stockmen of the country
want to give the said diseases chance
to re-establish themselves on our soil.
Inc possibility of contagion at Paris
Is very great. Animals will be brought
from all parts Of Europe, and 1t is pos
sible that more or less disease
will be brought with them.
The government is making slow but
sure progress in its Investigations Of
hog cholera and swine plague. Since
1891 this work has been going steadily
forward. Progress has been impeded
by the fact that one serum could not
be produced that would be equally eff
cacious as against hog cholera and
swine plague. Nevertheless 1t was
found that by injecting animals with
both kinds Of serums or the products
OF hog cholera and swine plague, a
very large percentage of the animals
was saved. A report on the tests made
IN Page County, Iowa, says: ITO give
the general results with the work car
ried out under the direction of DR..
Dorset, it may be stated that out Of 1876
animals treated with the mixed serums
l6l We're saved, or about 81 per cent.
The disease existed on all of the farms
where treatment was carried out, a
number Of animals had already died,
and about so per cent of the animals
treated were i'll at the time Of injection
with the serum. In the check herds
there were originally 429 animals, end
the disease had begun both in thsse
check herds and in the treated herds
about the same time In the herds
which were not treated, only about is
per cent of the animals recovered.
Comparing these two sets it would ap-
pear that the serum had reduced the
mortality about 67 per cent. 1t is I'M
derstood, of course, that all of the ami
mails were under the same conditions
after treatment as before. AS rule.
the animals appeared to begin to i'm
prove very shortly after the injection
Of the serum. One herd was treated
with culture alone without serum.
Only 40 per cent of the herd so treated
was saved. In another case herd
which was in very poor condition at
the time of incubation was treated
with mixed swine plague serum and
dead culture. Eighty per cent of
these animals was saved. while in a
third similar case where the condition
Of the animals was very poor, only 30
per cent was saved"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
His Subject

First Pugilist-You amt going on
the stage, are you?
Second Pugilist-No: the stage IL
.overcrowded. I'm going to lecture.
First Pugilist-On what?
Second Pugilist-What Know About
Mixed Drinks.-Puck. -, go
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
An Interesting Feat in Ene,neer,,.

An interesting feat in engineering
was performed recently in Milwaukee.
when a bridge was foated bodily down
stream and deposited on new foun-
dation made for it. So carefully had
the calculations been made that when
the bridge settled on the piers the
structure was within a quarter of an
inch Of where it was intended to 20.
and the whole operation took less than
two hours.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
- Heavy Shower.

Denny tn ither club found
rhey were losing they got out in. TIL
field and prayed fer a hwy. shower,
iLarry-"An' were thor prayers an
;swered :" Denny-sYi s; thor came TIL
$i1iviest koird of shower Of bottles an
bricks
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

and she would have allowed her hus.
band to keep a menagerie in the back
garden, let alone adopting a stable
boy, rather than permit the question Of
return to be discussed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
CHAPTER Nv.

BOUT four OF the
a f t e r n % n, the
mountebank rem
dered up his ghost;
he had never been
conscious since his
s e / z u r e. Doctor
Desprez was pres
ent at his last pas
sage, and declared
the farce over.
Then he took lean.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
A Reduction.

she-"You are too corpulent ia
marry you II You were reduced" He
DO you take me for bargain-coun-
tA- article?" .
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

Do not aerate the milk in the stable,
or In the lee Of the stable. The all
in which the milk is aerated must be
pure. else the milk in being aeratdd
will suffer more harm than the aera-
tion will do good. !.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22
wood Floors in Poultry Houses.


We notice that a contemporary OBJ
jects to board floors in poultry houses,
because they get wet and soaked with
filth from the poultry droppings.
Whenever that condition arises, it Isl
q positive proof that the poultry house
Is overcrowded, or lacks light and ven
ilation, or is not cleaned out as often
as it should be. The writer of this
has a poultry house that has been in
use for some years, but in 1t no such
condition has arisen as Is described In
The said journal as necessary conse-
quence of having board floor. The
building is 12x20 feet and is we'll light
ed on the east, south and west. In
summer two of the sashes are taken
out and wire screens put in. In this
house not to exceed fifty fowls are
kept at any one time, and generally
the number does not exceed twenty
five. The light and ventilation keep
the floor dry in all seasons. The drop
pings become soon dry and the house
is cleaned out in large part by sweep
ing, the shovel being used only imme-
diately under the roosts. It is better
to have the floor of matched lumber.
as there are then no cracks to annoy
in cleaning out the house. AS to rats.
there is no danger at all If the floor
is so built that it will be foot or two
above the ground. There is no point
Of support at which a rat could begin
operations to gnaw his way into the
,o,l1trv house
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

Horse "Beef."-A large plant for the
slaughter Of horses for "beef" is go-
ing up at Medora, N. D. The object
Of this concern is to supply the meat
hungry people of Europe with horse
3 flesh and our own city people with
canned horse. to be labeled .beef."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-22

Economical Feeding-An economi-
cal food is early-cut hay, silage from
mature corn, oats and peas. An I'M.
economical way is to give the herd lats
cut hay, silage from immature corn,
roots, new and untried crops. The
reason for the early cutting of hay is
because you get more digestible pro-
tein or milk forming food than in
late cut. Mature corn only should go
into the silo; otherwise it causes an
expensive watering Of stock. Corn has
proven to be more digestible when it
is cut just as the kernel begins to
glaze. Experiments have proven that
the silage Of everything is the most
economical way Of handling the grain
crop. owing to the amount of milk
given and the amount of butter pro-
duced being more on the food from the
silo than in other ways Of harvesting
it.-Prof. J. L. Hill.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-04-27

When they don't your whole body
must suffer.
If you are sick, doctor your kidneys,
because as soon as they are we'll they
will help all the other organs to health.
The mild and extraordinary effect of
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases and
is sold by druggists in fifty-cent and
one-dollar bottles. Make note of the
name. sWAMP-ROOT, DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root.
You may have sample bottle of this
famous kidney remedy sent free by
mail. postpaid, by which you may test
its virtues for such disorders as kidney,
bladder and uric acid diseases, and uri-
nary troubles, obliged to pass water
frequently night and day, smarting or
irritation in passing, brickdust or sedi-
ment in the urine, constant headache,
backache, lame back, dizziness, Sleep
lessness, indigestion, nervousness, skin
trouble, anaemia, Bright's disease, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, bloating, irrita-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-04-27

bility, WORKOUT feeling, lack of ambi-
ton, loss of flesh, sallow complexion.
If your water when allowed to re-
main undisturbed in glass or bottle
for twenty-four hours, forms a sedi-
ment or settling or has cloudy ap-
pearance, it is evidence that your kid
neys and bladder need immediate atten-
tion -aE W. -
The great discovery, Swamp-Root,
has been tested in so many ways, in
hospital work, in private practice.
among the helpless too poor to, pur-
chase relief, and has proved so sue
cessful in every case, that a special
arrangement has been made by which
all the readers of this paper who have
not already tried it, may have sample
bottle sent absolutely. free by mail.
Also book telling more about Swamp
Root and containing some of the
thousands upon thousands of testimoni-
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hamtOn N v .'.