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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23
CUSTER COUNTY SHEEP
$4,000 Worth Destroyed by Wolves and
Coyotes in 1902. '-AE. =.

MILES CITY. MoNT.-1Tthle. report ,of
Frank D. ONeill, sheep commissioner for
Custer county, shows the number of sheep
in this county to be $4,000, which is only
5000 more than was reported at the close
of 1901. There was marketed during the
year total Of $4,000. Two hundred tons
Of pelts were sold at the average price
of IN cents pound.
The wool crop of 1902 aggregated 1885,
900 pounds, which sold at an average Of
13k cents; 100000 pounds were consigned
to commission men in Boston and Phila-
delphia, with good results. = ill., y.
Wolves and coyotes destroyed 1920
sheep and lambs, representing $4,000
worth Of property, in this county alone.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

%MARoUETTE, MIcH.-The expensive
dam on Dead river. which provides power
for the municipal electric lighting plant,
is tn danger Of destruction because OF a
big log jam. Back Of the logs is a 10-foot
head of water which has been backed up
for several miles.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

IsHPEMINe, MIcH.-A deposit Of peat
that would furnish enough fuel to last the
city for years lies within the city limits,
and there is prospect it will be utilized.
The bog is several hundred acres in ex-
IS to have a modern
theater. Frederick Braastad has do
mated a site and subscribed for a block Of
the stock and the Elks have undertaken to
raise the additional funds needed. It is
purposed to erect a building that will cost
at least $50, 900. ,.. ~.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

ALDEN, loWA-Several weeks ago
several hogs owned by Judson Barrite
were bitten by dog. About twenty Of the
hogs have developed symptoms OF hydro
phobia.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

GRAND RAPIDS, MtcH.-The worden
Lumber company has purchased the town
Of Jeffries, Wis, and II, 900 acres Of sur
timber lands, and will conduct
numbering operations on large scale.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

PIERRE, S. D.--Dr. Mayo Of Rochester.
Mimi, and DR.. Foxton Of Huron, assisted
by DR. Robinson of this city, performed
an operation for appendicitis upon Roscoe.
son Of Governor Hereid. The boy is do
ing we'll.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

GARNER, ioWA.-H. E. Baumsartner
of the Garner house has sold to c. Ahalt
Of Klemme. Iowa.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

SPENCER, IoWA-This town Is to have
a Carnegie library to cost $4,000.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

young man from Hutchinson. Kan. COM
rnitted suicide, his body being found III
his room at hotel. He took large
quantity of morphine. He fell violently in
love with woman of the town and
few days ago quarreled with her and had
since been on a spree. -..,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23
NORTHWEST WEDDINGS

TRACY, MINN.-George w. Adams and
Miss Alice F. Donaldson were married at
the home Of the brides parents by Rev.
G. William Hickman. They will make
remarkable in the fact that there were
four generations present. The guest Of
honor was Mrs. Mary Williams Hoag,
grandmother Of the bride. She was born
May 8, 1904, in Rhode Island, came to
Highforest. Mimi, with her family in
1857, and later to Tracy. She will reach
the age of 80 years if she lives until
May 8.
EAU CLAIRE, WIs.-sumner Gilbert
Moon and Miss Catherine Chamberlain
were married last evening at the home
Of Clarence Chamberlain, the brides
uncle. Friends expected the marriage
would take place in the summer time and
the affair is a surprise. Only few rela-
tives were present. Mr.. Moon Is heavy
stockholder in the Northwestern Lumber
company and I'm several realty corpora
tions. They left for New Orleans and
will remain some time in California.
WINONA. MINN.-The marriage of
Walter D. Bently Of Dover and Miss Ora
e. Titcomb Of st. Charles was celebrated
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. john
son in this city. Rev. e. w. Jenney Of the
Second Congregational church officiated.
BUTTE, MONT. - Frederick Manuel
and Miss Ada Louise Thayer, recently Of
Minneapolis, were married here last
night.
HIBBING, MINN.-Frank Ansley, pro.
prietor Of the Superior Hotel, and Miss
Vera Golka, were united in marriage In
the Church Of the Blessed Sacrament.
Rev. Father Gamache officiating
NEW PAYNESVILLE. MINN.-G. q.
voss and Miss Amelia Nehring were mar
ried at the home OF the brides mother
in this place.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

iNDiANoLA, IoWA.-Word was re-
ceived yesterday that Andrew Carnegie
had responded to the request of the library
trustees of Indiano1a with an offer OF $10,-
600, IL the. town would provide a site and
81, ,000 a year to maintain the library.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23
MASTER PLUMBERS ADJOURN
Mcoutllan Of st. Paul Elected President
!. Of State Association.

~. Of State Association.
WINONA, MINN.-The ninth annual
convention df tho master plumbers of
Minnesota came to close last evening
after q two days session. with ban
quet at the New Jewell hotel rendered
by the local plumbers to the visitors. All
of the sessions Of the convention were
executive.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, John Nc
Quillan, st. Paul; first vice president, j.
l.. Hague, Minneapolis; second vice presi-
dent, w. A. Cunningham. Winona; secre-
tary, Thomas McMann. st. Paul; treas
urer, W. c. Hobart Minneapolis; execu'
tive committee, John McQuillan Of st.
Paul. j. l.. Hague Of Minneapolis, w. A.
Cunningham Of Winona, Charles F. Doyle
Of St. Paul and J. NJ. jacobson of Mime
apolis; delegate to the interstate league,
W. A. Scott, Minneapolis; delegates to
national convention, w. p. Wlcks OF Du-
luth, and J. M. Jacobson Of Minneapolis;
alternates, John Holt and J. r. Mckee OF
st. Paul.
ALBERT, LEA, MlNN.-A committee
Of the Commercial Club Is considering the
advisability of extending an invitation to
the United Lutheran Church OF the
United States to hold its annual confer
snce here in June. At the annual meet
1AAS
Insurs~ company, the dividend was
passed and a large sum added to the sur
plus. The company has over $6,0O0.000
in risks.-The annual meeting Of Skinner,
Chamberlain & Co.. a corporation, resulted
in the choice of the following officers:
Bert Skinner, president and manager; W..
G. Chamberlain, vice president; Clint l..
Luce, secretary; F. E. Skinner, treasurer.
FARIBAUCT, MlNN.-Kneeland Roll
Inns. a former Faribault boy, died at
Denver OF consumption.-Owners of fast
horses in this city and at Northfield will
have a matinee on the mill pond next
Thursday.-The first lecture Of the Uni
versity extension course by Professor Ira
w. Howard Of the University Of Chicago
will be delivered next Wednesday eve-
ming. The subject will be Modern Social
Questions"
&ExCELSloR, MINN.-The Ladies Eu.
chre club met at the parlors Of Hotel La
Paul. The ladies were served with deli,
cate refreshments by their hostess, Mrs
La Pau1,--SeveraI people from Minneap.
oils and St Paul have been here looking
for suitable homes for the summer sea,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

Z WEsTovER, s. D.-Petitions are being
circulated asking the postoffice depart
rnent to establish a mail route between
this place and Midland.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23
diers' home several months ago, was
caught "bootlegging' and has been sum.
marily disn issed.
HoRTlcULTuRIsTs
Annual Meeting at Woonsocket Rather
Shiny Attended.

Annual Meeting at Woonsocket Rather
SIimIy Attended.
WOONsOCKET. s.. D.-The State Hor-
ticultural society met here this week with
a light attendance. committee was ap-
pointed to ask an appropriation of $1,000
by the legislature for printing the re-
ports Of the meetings Of the association
ana to pay premiums on fruit exhibits.
A paper, written by c. c. Bailey Of
Sioux Falls on "The Best Lawn Shrubs
was read. He recommended the Spires,
Mock Orange, Snow Ball and Bush
Honeysuckle. A. Noroy Of Madison read
a paper on the 'Best Evergreens for
South Dakota H. L. Kinds of Huron
read an essay on Native Fruits. Trees
and Shrubs" William Prosser Of Hur
ley spoke on "Orchard Management.
1t has been customary to elect officers
on the last day. but on the first day and
before many were present except the old
officers, they reelected themselves. The
officers are: P. J. Bentz Of Woonsocket
president; N. e. Hanson of Brookings
secretary; A. Norby Of Madison, vice
president; M. J. De Wolf of Letcher.
treasurer. The next meeting will be held
at Madison in January, 1904. .
HURON, S. D.-The Central South Da-
kota Fair association held its annual
meeting and planned for an exhibition
here next fall. The associa ton is in fine
financial condition and has the best
grounds and speeding track ir: the state.
The new officers Milo Booth, presi-
dent; John H. King, vice president; e. NJ
Thomas, secretary; J. w. Campbell.
treasurer; Charles May. general superin.
tendent; James Stewart, marshall; plans
for several new buildings are being con-
sidered $3.50
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

BUTTE, MoNT.--Willian Horgan, ono
Of the most prominent business men and
president Of NJ. J. Connells store. is dead.
He had been i'll about a week, but his
death was surprise. '- .rc
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

BoNESTEEL, s. D.--Jewell & Buttrick
of Milbank have opened general store In
the Coyle building. They will carry q
$4,000 stock.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

LIE MARS, IoWA.--John Williams. a
farmer. went suddenly insane and jumped
into we'll twenty -four feet deep. When
he struck the water his desire to kill him
self changed, and he clung to the rope /
His wife summoned help to haul him out
but the rope broke. Another effort was
successful.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

CLINTON, IOWA. MFR. and Mrs.
Charles Mumby celebrated the fftieth an
niversary of their marriage. They were
married in Lincolnshire, Eng, and three
days later sailed for America. They land
ed at New Orleans, and soon after came
to Camancfe, this county, arriving there
with single gold dollar, their entire
earthly possession. .--.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

IOWA FALLS, tcWA--A special train
on the Chicago & North Western will
this evening convey a delegation Of fifty
Knights Of Pythias to Eldora to meet
with the lodge there. The rank Of knight
will be conferred on two esquires.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23
HOTEL AND LIBRARY
Wlllmar Is Moving for Both with Good
Prospects for Success


+ WILLMAR, MINN.--A new $40, 900 hotel
is assured. Not long ago active steps
were taken, with the result that over $40
900 was subscribed, and this amount will
be largely increased. The chief promoter
is President D. N. Tallu1an Of the Mime
sofa Central Telephone company. At a
meeting for the purpose Of organizing a
elected: D. N. Tallman, president; j. s.
Robbins. vice president: W. J. Pinney
secretSS:y; L. 0. Thorpe, treasurer. These,
with Andrew Larson, w. F. Gratz and Dr.
c. Johnson. constitute board of directors
Messrs. Shattuck 6 zonne, Of Hotel
Nicollet In Minneapolis, are negotiatin
for the lease Of the new hotel. They
agree to rent the hotel for term OF ten
years at rental amounting to per cent
on the cost -..s
Wilmar can have Carnegie library if
it chooses. In answer to a letter ad-
dressed to Andrew Carnegie by a promi-
nent citizen, soliciting his interest, he has
maintain free public library at q cost Of
not less than $1,000 a year and provide
suitable site, lie will furnish $4,000 with
which to erect it. The city council will
submit the question to popular vote.
HleRlNG, MlNN.-Golden Rule coun-
Gil installed the following officers: Good
]. d. Jewett; past good samaritan, A.. P.
Silliman; high priest, Malcolm Agnew;
financial scribe, M. J. Somers; treasurer,
J. ]. Cox; messenger, B. 8. Eddy; lev1te,
J. Lang; innkeeper, Neil McEachrin.-
James Carlson, an old resident and dry
goods merchant; died yesterday after an
illness of only few days.-W. e. Wes-
senger has resigned as assistant supern-
tendent Of the Minnesota Iron company's
group of mines in the Hibbing district.
ROCHESTER,, MiNN.-The Woman's 8
club has organized an art class OF nine
teen members. Lectures will be delivered
by Mrs. II. c. Burbank, formerly Of Min
apolis.-Company F will be officially
inspected on Feb. 4 by Major George
Whitney Of Faribault.--The German Lii
brary association elected these officers:
President, Joseph Aberwald; vice prest-
dent, Frank Martin; secretary, Eugene
Schwartz; treasurer, M. Fakler; librarian,
Paul Priebe; trustees Robert Reibe and
Herman Bentlege. The association Is II,
| the best Of conditions financially.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-23

HAWARoEN, IoWA.-Hawarden has a
business mems league, and 1t has gone to
work to raise $4,000 to procure g large
canning factory. The officers are F. x.
Beck, president; Charles w. Remission,
vice president; A. C. Schoeneman, sec
retary; Andrew Ring, treasurer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-11
THE POETS WORK.

In his new book W. B. Yeats de-
scribes the difficulty of the poets
work In a few lines which prove that
he takes his work seriously. It was
Kipling who said on this point that II
we make light of our work our work
rakes light Of US. and as we are the
weaker we suffer. The Celtic poet puts
II in this way:
l said. line will take us hours, maybe
Yet, II il does not seem a moment s
thought.
Our stitching and unstitching have been
naught.
Better go down upon your marrow
bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break
stones
Like an old pauper in all kinds o.
weather;
For TO articulate sweet sounds to-
gcther
Is TO work harder than all these, and
yet
Be thought an idIer by the noisy set
OF bankers, schoolmasters, and clergy
men
The martyrs call the world
The peculiar labor OF the artist IN
words has not been better defined.
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an attractive heroine. The touch OF
pathos in her longing for a home and
her content with simple things. saves
her from the reproach Of being too su-
perior to live The sketches Of society
in Windybank, the little town In which
the house OF her legacy is situated, are
all done delicately and well.
Reuben Holiday, the hero, is also
success-more OF a success than the
heroes OF distinctly feminine novels are
wont 10 be. The atmosphere of news
paperdom is also reproduced with more
success than in some OF the garish city
room sketches of the period.
OF the plot very little can be said.
There is one, it Is true. but 1t is so OBJ
vious and so transparent as to seem =
trivial device. However. the story Is so
canniiy managed that il does not mat
ter much If one does see the end from
the beginning. One reads for the style
rather than for the denouement. (BOs-
ton: Houghton. Mif1in & Coz
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which comes nearer to pathos than any
thing else which Mr.. Conrad has yet
done. 1t is the pitiful. sympathetic rec
ord OF the life of a Carpathian noun
taineer cast ashore by the wreck of an
emigrant ship on the coast OF England.
and forced TO live out his existence un-
der those alien skies The contrast be-
tween the castaway and the stodgy
peasants of his adopted home is one of
the most vivid in recent literature. Amy
Foster. the girl whom ne marries. I'M
derstands him scarcely better than her
neighbors, and of them we are told:
The Strange Castaway.
cat last people became used to seeing
him. But they never became used to
him. His rapid, skimmIng walk; his
swarthy complexion; his hat cooked on
the left ear; his habit, on warm even
ings, of wearing his coat over one
shoulder like a Hussar's dolman; his
manner of leaping over the stiles, not
as feat Of agility but in the ordinary
course of PROFESSIONAL these pecu-
liarities were. as one may say, so many
causes of scorn and offense to the in
habitants of the village. They wouldn't
In their dinner hour lie fiat on their
backs on the grass to stare at the sky.
Neither did they go about the fields
screaming dismal tunes Many times
Il ord
from behind the ridge of some sloping
sheep walk, voice light and soaring,
like lark's. but with a melancholy
human note, over our fields that hear
only the songs Of birds
Hostility Of the Villagers.
"And I should very likely be startled
myself. All He was different; innocent
Of heart. and full of good will, which
nobody wanted. this castaway that. like
man transpianted into another
planet, was separated by an immense
space from his past and by an immense
Ignorance from his future His quick,
fervent utterance positively shocked
everybody. An excitable devil they
called him. One evening, in the tap
room OF the Coach and Horses Chaving
drunk some whisky, he upset them all
by singing love song of his country.
They hooted him down. and he was
panied; but Preble. the lame wheel
wright, and Vincent. the fat blacksmith,
the other notables. too. wanted to drink
their evening beer in peace"
True 1t is that the relations between
men are mainly matters of custom and
clothes. The story of Yanko, the noun
taineer. is Of the barest simplicity of
conception; but therein lies its charm.
It is wonderfully well told The last
story. Tomorrow is well worth read
ing, though not remarkable. New York:
Mcclure, Phillips G. Coz
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seem to draw men together, in spite of
madness, suffering. and despair. But
there was a ship-safe, convenient,
roomy; a ship with beds. bedding,
knives, forks. comfortable cabins. glass
and china, and a complete cooks gall
ley, Pervaded. ruled, and possessed by
the pitiless specter of starvation.
The Pursuit of Death.
The lamp oil had been drunk, the
wicks cut up for food. the candles eaten.
At night she fioated dark in all her re-
cesses, and full of fears. One day Falk
came upon man gnawing a splinter of
pine wood. Suddenly he threw the piece
OF wood away. tottered TO the rail and
fell over. Falk, too late to prevent the
act, saw him claw the ships side des-
perately before he went down. Next
day another man did the same thing,
after uttering horrible imprecations.
But this one somehow managed to get
hold of the broken rudder chains and
hung on there silently. Falk set about
trying to save him. and all the time the
man, holding with both hands, looked
at him anxiously with his sunken eyes.
Then, just as Falk was ready to put his
hand on him, the man let go his hold
and sank like stone. Falk reflected on
these sights. His heart revolted against
the horror of death. and he said to him
self that he would struggle for every
precious minute OF his life."
Cannibalism of the Sea.
And that was only the beginning of
the horror. It takes a strong man TO
bring out the details OF a story OF sea-
cannibalism without making the actors
utterly revolving, but IL appears that
Joseph Conrad is that man. One feels.
at the end. as Falk himself does when
crew:
They all died. These three.
too. afterward. But I would not die.
All died. all! under this terrible misfor-
tune. But was /, too, to throw away my
life? Could I? Tell me, captain7
was alone there. quite alone. just like
the others. Each man was alone. Was
to give UP my revolver? Who 20? Or
was l to throw 1t into the sea? What
would have been the good? Only the
best man would survive. 1t was great.
terrible, and cruel misfortune"
The Wolfish Instinct.
But for all ones pity for the unfor-
tunate man. one feels. as the story teller
expresses It, that he is IAN appalling
navigator" and one would not like to
come between him and anything which
he desired. He is an embodied ele-
mental appetite.
In Amy Foster we have story
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A THACKERAY ANECDOTE.

TN her introduction to q new edition
of Maria Edgeworth's THE Pa
1 rents Assistant" Mrs. Anne Thaek-
cray Richie says:
-'Once when the present writer was
very little girl she suffered for a short
time from some Inflammation of the
eyes, which prevented her from reading
or amusing herself In any way. Her ia
Their, who had just then returned from
the East, in order to help pass the
weary hours. began telling her the story
OF the Forty Thieves and when he had
finished and had boiled down the wicked
thieves In oil. and when she asked him
to tell IL all over again, he said that he
would try to find something else to
amuse her, and looking about the room
he took up a volume Of The Parents
Assistant which was lying on the ia
Bile. and began to read aloud the story
of the Little Merchants The story
lasted two mornings. and an odd, con-
fused Impression remains in the listen
er's mind to this day Of Naples, Vesu-
vius. pink and white sugar plums-of a
darkened room, OF a lonely country
house In Belgium, of a sloping garden
full of flowers outside the shutters, Of
the back OF a big sofa covered with yell
low velvet and of her fathers voice
reading aloud to her. When she visited
Naples in after years she found herself
looking about unconsciously for her car
ly playfellow.'
The stories in 1.-The Parents Assist
anti (what a titled were written when
battle was in the air. says Mrs. Richie.
and she adds. These quiet scenes OF
village life were devised to the sound Of
clarions."
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SEVEN YEARS OF KIPLING.

American publishers of Rudyard Kip
ling's new books say that at no time
has the prospect for sales been SO large,
and the publishers believe the import
ance Of ''The Five Nstions' will this
fall stimulate the sale OF his books.
This seems not unreasonable. The Five
Nations" Will be the first volume con-
tanning many entirely new poems by Mr..
Kipling since the publication and the re-
markable success OF THE Seven Seas"
in 1896. and seven years of the poeticaI
work of Rudyard Kipling may be con-
sidered q period in the history OF Eng
lish literature.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Edited by W
J. Rolfe. New York: American Book Com
MONEY. BANKING. AND FINANCE Albert S.
BoIles. New York: American Book Com
GERMIN COMPOSITION. B. Mack Dresden
New York: American Book Company
AUS DEN DEUTSCHES DfCHTERWALD. J.
H. billiard. New York; American Book
Company.
ETRY. Alan Sanders New York: Amer
LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION. Henry Cam
Pearson. New York: American Book Com
THE PHILIPPINES. Samuel McClintock. New
York: American Book Company:
PHYSICAL LABORATORY MANUAL s z
Coleman New York: American Book Com
THE BALDWIN sPELLER s r Shear and
Margaret 7. Lynch New York: American
Book Company.
IRVING'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH; SPENSER'S
FAERIE QUEEN, Book /; MACAULAf'S
Macmillan Company.
RONANCES OF COLONIAL DAYS Geraldine
Brooks New York: Thomas Y CrOwel
90.
THE PARLIAMENTARY PATHFINDER VII
liam II. Bartlett New York; Thomas j.
THE YOUNG NAN ENTERING BUSINESS
orison SWEET Marden- New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co.
THE MODERN SPEECH NEW TESTAMENT.
Richard Francis Weymouth New York;
The Baker Taylor Co
Compiled BY Harriet Blackstone. New York:
Kinds & Noble.
THE KNOCKER. Frank G. Yoorhies. Boston;
Mutual Book Company.
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The Walk.

We left the house-for we were sd
To talk Of all the griefs we had.
And little did we talk at first.
Leaving to silence all the worst.
The rain It rained, and star was none,
The wet made two lights out Of one;
And broken paths Of shining yet
Made on before US through the wet
The more we walked, and still would walk,
The less did seem the need Of talk.
The more we walked from light to light,
The wiser grew the troubled night.
The tacft lamps proved something clear
As often as you stayed TO hear
And better days and endless clues
Dawned with the frightening avenues:
Till where the street-ends met the square,
We saw a thousand tulips there
Sleeping as flowers do, O. nights,
Bereath a thousand city lights.
And then the bridge, from shore to shore,
Solved everything. 'orevermore.
SO clearly. one could leave the Why,
Contented. for some by-and-by.
And 80 the hours were worn away
Till there was nothing left to say.
Josephine Preston Peabody. in The Reader.