Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-07-10

groups came with their bundles and
greetings. The old man listened keen
~ with head bent, identifying step or
voice and giving a jolly comment or
grunt all to himself as they passed
on to their game.
'Dat ar stumble b'long ter Marse
Joe; never could lift his feet, dat
boy"
| ''Marse Barnes? aim like hisself.
Mighty down in de mouf fer Marse
Barnes"
''Dar's de lii wilder. I'm; step like
a cat. Um."
"Miss Louise, bossin' de earth. La,
dom I know Miss Louise!"
EN- Miss Sue, trottin' long blind,
totin' de left-overs."
"Whar's Miss Mae?" suddenly loud
er. us I gwine miss dat chile?
Whar's iii Miss Mae?"
Here, Unc' Shucks."
"Somebody throwing bricks at yo',
honey? You walk like yo' steppin' on
yo' heart"
''She is quite happy, Shucks," said
~
afraid of hurting some one if she
shows it,
Shucks turned his sightless eyes
anxiously from one to the other.
"De truf bes', chile; better hurt
'em den fash 'em. What yo' happy
bout, honey?'
81 don't know" faltered Mae.
"Um. What she happy bout, Marse
Barnes?"
'It is her secret-and Joe's.''
The old man leaned eagerly to catch
her reply, but Macs pretty head was
tilted in indignant silence.
"Marse Barnes" turning broad
smile on him, "if yo' an Miss Mae
was to go ter de spring an fetch
me a drink I'd be mighty thankful;
dat I would"
81 must speak to you," Barnes said
as the girl would have turned away
from him. 'Let me at least have
your forgiveness" So they went to-
gether down the pretty hill path, un-
der the elm and hawthorn and wind
ing through witch hazel to the old
spring.
"Um," grunted shucks, and filed
his pipe, the smile still broad on his
face.
Presently the pretty widow came to
him.
slave you seen," she began, anx-
iously. II mean heard, anything Of
Mr.. Barnes?"
"Marse Barnes gone on ter de
Inks" shamelessly, ovid Miss Sue,
marin. Yes, marm."
But he shook his grizzled head as
she hurried away. 'Dat how de cat
Jump" he mumbled. "Um. Old
Shucks gwine feel pain in his con-
science bout dat falsifyin' an dat
barrel O. fine -four, -uh-who dar?
Marse Joe? Yo' late at de links,
sar."
II am not going to the links, Unc'
Shucks. I am hanging about with my
gun. Miss Mae is anxious about your
chickens; she says screech owl gets
one every night"
dat he does, dat he does," indig-
nantly; ''an' I makes no doubt he's
nappin' up one OBJ dem trees dis min
ute, dreamin' bout supper time, but, -
soto voce, "yo wastin' shot firm fer
Miss Mae, chile, yo' shorely isl
Joe, all unconscious of this, went
peering keenly along the edge of the
wood, and the old man listened, his
mind divided between chuckles for
the spring and conscience-stricken
grunts for the wood.
"Ah! here he isl" came triumphant-
~ at last.
"Hit i'm fore he boiler; Marse
Joel" shucks advised, eagerly. de
amt no luck in his screech."
SO Joe took the owl silent and Sc
cured happy fortune to the donation
party; at least that was the old mans
verdict, but he shook his head du-
biously when he considered Joe's
share of it.
"But de biggest sort er luck" he
grunted, philospohically, "'bleeged
ter end somewhat" -Springfeld Re-
=
Tons of Dynamite to be Exp1ode ed.
Three and one-half tons of dyna.
mite are to be exploded under the
narrows between Fort Hamilton and
Fort Wadsworth. The dynamite was
used in torpedoessduring the Spanish
war as a defense to the harbor. Aft.
Ter the war Maj. q. n. Adams, of the
engineer corps, instead Of exploding
the torpedoes extracted the charges
and stored the dynamite. Maj. w. L
Marshall has advertised it for sale
but there have been no bids for it..
Maj. Marshall has therefore decid:
ed to sink the dynamite in casks OF
500 pounds each into the waters OF
1 the Narrows, Electric connections are
to be made with the forts and the
dynamite will be- exploded by the
touch of key. When Maj. Marshal.
sets off his 1900 pounds Of dynamite
Staten island fishermen expect to ge1
a wonderful catch. f. ii
In !. New Reril Faces France.
| The ( growing awkwardness q.
French duelistss in seriously wound
! ing each. other during their contest:
\ IS q matter deserving earnest ,consid
4 GRAFTON. France needs all its adul
! blood, says the Chica go Tribune
4 There is 50 little new blood COMING
on to take its place.