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bright and early helping wash down. and
coil up the ropes. ~,
He showed himself so handy and active that
Doctor Breen was heard to remark to MIR.
Palmer:
"Lt would not be bad for the youngstcr to
stay with us-eh, John"
doubt if he would, though" John replied,
as he put the wheel up spoke or two. These
boys are most always homesick."
Fred was just then, aloft, sending down
the maingaff topsail sheet, in readiness for
setting, it having been taken in during the
"Sail, ho!' he suddenly cried, from his ele-
yated position in the crosstrees. "a bark,
standing about nor -norwest!"
"That boy has pain. of good eyes of his
own," said Captain Briggs, pointing his bi-
nocular glasses in the direction indicated, as
Fred slid rapidly down the topmast backstay.
"Well, Mr.. Brown" observed Mr., Palmer, as
that gentleman came yawning aft, "unless you
and your young friend there really want to
Join this mutinous crew, think We'll have to
bid you goodbye pretty soon,, for the bark
yonder' pointing ahead, as he spoke-"is
bound for some Northern port, and | propose
speaking to her in a few moments"
"Not any more sea for me, if you please"
was Mr. Browns answer, as he gazed eagerly
toward the oncoming bark. Pm going to do
my travelling entirely by rail, after this sailing
is too risky, not to say expensive!" he added,
as he remembered that he had yet to account
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into the boat and was quickly transferred to
the Adrian's deck.
Ten. minutes more, and, with her boat
swinging at the davits, the Borden had iilied
away and the receding bark became mere
speck upon the oceans blue.
!, Little did they think that they had clasped
Yet SO it was; for, on on the night following,
th the e., Adrian went ashore, on Cape Cod, in
thicK sontheaster and all hands were lost; and
not until months after did poor Mrs. Brown
know 0 OF her husbands sad fate. :.
30 Thomas Ashurst failed to receive ms
nepeew's letter, and he was nearly crazed with
grlei; Tor ne had learned by fisherman now
FRED mad gone into Mt Desert in the Cimbria,
and having. at once proceeded thither, was told
Oh OIL ms having embarked in the White wing
with MT. Brown, just before the gale in which
lost.
Fred,s dory was found bottom up week or
Two atterward and brought into Seaville by
hshlng schooner, and after that Mr.. AshuTst
gave up all hope, and the year after erected
tablet tab IN the little cemetery, by the side OF
fred's mother, on which was inscribed bis
name, age and the words:
Lost at Sea, September 5, 1877"
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boy, for whom he had taken great fancy.
CLOTHES enough in the slop chest to supply
regiment" the photographer chimed in, as
he looked complacently at new blue flannel
shirt, with buttons as big as a small cheese
plate, which he had donned that very morn
ing. =,
"I'l stay" declared Fred, ''for know that
Uncle Tom will be glad that I've got such a
chance as this, when he comes to find out all
about it,"
And he dove below, where he scribbled a
hasty message of farewell to inclose in the
letter which Mr.. Earle was writing in his
state room.
"And you'll see Uncle Tom yourself, Mr.;
Brown, won't you% he said, as they stood
together on deck, watching the bark, which
was rapidly nearing them.
81 will, most certainly, Fred" was the
hearty promise.
In reply to the Borden's signaling, the bark
threw her main yard aback, and the schooner
rounded to under her lee.
"What bark is that, where from, and whith-
er bound?" hailed Captain Briggs.
Ozark Adrian, from Cadiz, with salt for
Gloucester" came echoing across the waves in
answer.
"Will you take a shipwrecked passenger?''
again hailed Captain Nathan.
eyes; send him along!" was the welcome
reply.
With warm shake of the hand all round,
Mr.. Brown said his hurried good-byes, jumped
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Continued From Last Sunday
CHAPTER VI.

7 REDS theory that the Borden was IN
| the hands of mutinous crew seem
! ed to Mr.. Brown, as he Thought OIL
II it. a not unreasonable euppositaloon.
y "Threw the captain and othcers
ororboard eh?" he suggested, drum
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CHAPTER VII.

A IND now began the sea life for which
Al Fred had longed so much, and of
-. which he had dreamed. But like
5s@l everything else for which one has a
strong desire, he found that the an
ticinatinn WAS more nleasant than
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AN important individual around i
logging company. and one person
scarcely ever hears of in accounts of
life in the big woods, is the horse buy
en-" said 7. ]. Baxter of Cass Lake.
MINI. ITO him falls the duty of pur-
chasing the teams \ for the winters
work, and the success OF the seasons
work often depends upon the manner
In which he performs his work, for
not much hauling can be done unless
the horses are in good condition.
with the larger firms there Is
often more than one bueyr. Along
about this time of the year they visit
the horse markets and begin picking
out the animals they desire. Buying
continues until well along in the win
ter. Heavy demands are made upon
logging teams. and the horses have 20
be perfectly sound when they go into
the woods. in order to last through
the winter. Where the purchases are
SO large, it means there will be a con-
siderable amount of money wasted II
the buyer doesn't know his business.
SO he may be able to get bottom prices
on everything secured.
Few companies keep their horses
from year TO year. They get all the
use they can cut of a team one win
ter. and in the spring sell the horses
for whatever they can get. This
spring price is greatly reduced from
what was paid in the fall, for the
animals are jaded and worn. There
are men who make it business of
buying these horses. When summer
comes they turn them loose in a pas
ture and allow them to rest up for a
few weeks. Gradually the animals get
back into their original condition, and
again they are worth top-notch price,
leaving the man with the pasture a
comfortable margin of profit.
Logging operations through North
ern Minnesota will this year be quite
extensive, although l do not believe
as much timber will be cut as last
year. Some summer logging has been
going on. The winter fellows are get
ting in readiness for the seasons
work. roads are being mapped out and
camps built"
"lf vote on the question were
taken. 1t would be found that the East
and the West have different ideas on
the immigration question: said w. !.
singer OF Fargo, N. ID. The East
would be found in favor of more
stringent immigration laws, and the
West would want them to remain as
they are. The East has too many O,
the newcomers from the old country
and out here there are not enough OF
them at times.
Certain classes of the immigrants
are not the kind that take kindly to
farming as soon as they they get here,
or at any time thereafter, for that
matter. They prefer to huddle to-
gether in some big city, and are more
of detriment than anything else.
Some of the cities of the East are fair
~ crowded with these ignorant and
almost worthless immigrants, and a
person can readily see why the people
along the Atlantic coast favor more
stringent laws.
Here in the West it is different.
The majority of the foreigners who
get this far from the coast come with
the avowed intention Of working on
the railroads, at the mines, in the
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be able to preserve such a staple gov
eminent within itself that further in
PREVENTION will not be necessary.
KEEPING THE WORK At HOME.

\ large portion of the country press
of the state is agitating the matter OF
printing the county election supplies
at home rather than sending to out
side houses for the same. The press
in many instances has we'll founded
protest. 4 few years ago when the
Cry of North Dakota for North Da-
kotans was the legislative slogan the
law requiring all public printing to be
done in the state was enacted. The
spirit of the law was admirable. II
was intended to give the men who
paid taxes and contributed to the pros
perity of the state, an opportunity to
do the work which must be paid oul
of the public treasury.
The law requires the advertisement
for furnishing all supplies in excess
OF a certain amount to be made for
certain time in the official newspapers
of the country, and then requires that
the supplies shall be lie, to the lowest
responsible bidder In some instances
in this state during the last few weeks
this provision of the law has been al
together ignored, and the local print
ing Offices. even where they have
offered to give bond for the completion
OF the work as required by law, have
not been permitted to sit on the fence
and see the procession go by.
1t seems that in many instances
county auditors who could not tell an
army press from a clothes wringer
have taken upon themselves the power
of deciding whether or not the work
can be done in the local Offices and in
the majority of cases have decided
that it cannot be, when as a matter of
fact, there is hardly an Office in the
county seat towns of the state and at
many other towns, which does not
turn out every month much more diff
cult and much bigger jobs than the
printing of the election supplies.
They can do the county printing on
them just as we'll as the printing
houses outside the counties and at
just as low prices and in many in
stances much lower, thus saving the
tax payers considerable money.
Just what the reasons for this
course are the Evening Times does not
know. The local papers can possibly
figure out the cause and they will not
be true to their interests and the in
terests Of the tax payers of their
counties if they do not ascertain the
cause, and especially if they do not
see that the outside firms are not al
lowed extortionate prices for the work,
as has been true in many cases.
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the fireplace, the whole family either
stayed In bed or walked around hump
ed up like line back steers at a Janu-
AIRY straw stack.
At night we would sink shudleringly
into bed whose springs were burgla.
alarms in disguise. They fired an
admfrals salute of twenty-one guns
every time We turned over or took
long breath. Whenever this artillery
practice began. one Of us would have
to arise and pat the baby back to
sleep again. After it had crooned
itself to slumber under the soothing
spat. spat of Il patient hand, the par
ent would sneak back to bed. where
the springs would hail him joyfully
and vOciferously and wake the baby.
Yes. it was the camp that was COM
Portable.
One night the wind came up and
started a bambardment OF acOrns OF
the thin roof. and it was like try
ing to sleep in shot tower when
they We're sugaring off on a tin pan.
But 1t was the burglar scare that
took charge OF our remaining feeble
prospects for comfort and did things
to them.
There had been a strike of the ltal-
ians at the neighborins railroad work.
a walking delegate had objected to
the way one of the firm parted his
hair and had told the men not to work
till he changed his barber or cOmbed
his hair differently. So the woods
were supposed to be filled with
leisurely gentlemen from sunny
Italy.
One morning Il ladder that had lean
ed against our kitchen was gone. and
mischief was afoot. That settled 1t.
Burglars We're abroad. That night
we carried in the oars: the next night
the oars and the hammock: next the
oars. the hammock. the porch rockers.
the settee and the go-cart: next the
aforesaid articles together with the
boat. 1t got so that our rooms at nigh.
looked like the inside of moving
van. and we had to crawl over in
verified chair legs and beat keels to
get to bed.
1t was on the morning of the day
whose evening | would have witnessed
the bringing in OF the wharf and the
rural delivery mail box that the man
casually mentioned to the tentant
lady from whom We got our milk that
our ladder had been taken.
Yes" she said MIR. BUM told
Try he'd better take it and put it in
the big barn"
The man glad. Of course. he re-
GREETED the hard work of moving in
and out of that front room every day
we used to begin it about 4 o'clock
in the afternoon and begin again at
4 o'clock in the morning. But he is
glad there was no real danger.
The man is not much of a burglar
hunter. having never lost any burg
lars whatever. And the number of
midnight marauders that he has kill
ed are very few, comparatiYely.
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Man About To,On

During the month of July, 1906 the
Man About Town with several others
sought rest and retirement at little
lake near Mentor, MINI.
Yes, the camp was very comfortable.
We used to sit around and envy the
camp its comfortableness. II we could
have been for even moment as COM
Portable as that camp was all the time
We would have felt repaid for our out
ing. The house never complained or
seemed to suffer; the weeds surround
ing us appeared in good health; the
trees sighed only occasionally, and
the signs may have been of satisfac-
ton of evidences that they, especially
the shagbarks were little nutty;
the dock never even sneezed, though
standing knee-deep in lake water all
the time, and as for the malaria mi
crobes The Man About Town has
never seen happier ones. All day and
all night they sang gayly at heir
work. entering into everything-and
everybody-with a zest.
Yes. it was comfortable camp. We
were the only uncomfortable things
ON the place, and as we were there
but temporarily we didn't count. We
could not, with our shiverings and
repinings, interfere seriously or per-
manently with the camps personal
and profound comfort.
1t was joy the Man never had
VOTED of since he was barefoot
boy from April till November, going
after the cows before sunrise in
white frost, leaping from stone to
stone and worming his bare tootsies
in the places where the cows had last
lain-it was such Joy as he had not
since known, to start out with the
first bird song and seek driftwood
along the shores of the winding river.
At such times the future scribe was
clad in negligee and attenuated over
alls, through which the dank morn
ing breezes sighed uninterruptedly
and improved his complexion in places
where improvement would never be
Of any possible value. Until the
| driftWood was gathered and ignited in
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woods and on the farms. Nearly a.
ways there Is shortage of this kind
OF labor in the Northwest and South
west, and so the employers are glad
to see the new people coming in, and
are strongly opposed to any legisla-
ton which would tend to lessen the
tide of immigration. They are too
badly In need of additional help to
consider the desires of the East"
1.-THE American Mining congress IL
very much opposed to the mining ia
KRIS and promoters of illegitimate
mining enterprises, and when the con-
gress meets in annual session at Den
YER next month bill provided for the
punishment OF these people will be
drafted" said George Baker of Globe,
Ariz., at the Dacotah. California al
ready has adopted law which has
worked an almost complete radiance
from that state of spurious mining
stock and the fake promoter.
ut Is probable that the proposed
legislation which will be submitted
to the state legislatures this winter,
will be fashioned after the California
law. which provides that any person
who shall attempt to sell or assent
to the publications. privately or pub
licity. of fraudently exaggerated re-
port, will be considered guilty of a
felony. and will be subject to a $4,000
fine and two years in prison. The step
for such legislation is one which
should be commended by everyone.
More fakirs are engaged in the mining
business than anything else, and most
OF them are so clever it is difficult
{ni fnt@
clutches"
In one of the churches of the city
last Sunday evening, the lady organist
was just about to play the. closing
hymn OF the servire. She adjusted
the stops and commenced to finger
the keys, but no sound came forth.
She looked a trifle puzzled and made
another adjustment of the stops, but
still the organ refused to give forth
music.
The congregation noticed that some
thing was wrong and began to take an
interest in the organ and it's refusal
to play. The Organist rose and walk
ed around behind the instrument.
where she discovered the small boy
who did the pumping, fast asleep and
entirely oblivious to his charge. Walk
ing him gently, she returned to the
front of the organ. The small boy
got busy, and while the congregation
suppressed its smiles, the prelude of
the hymn sounded forth from the Or
gan, which had entirely recovered it's
wind.
A Grand Forks young woman
glided into the Office and quietly ap-
preached the EDITORS desk. II have
poem," she began.
'Well?" exclaimed the editor with a
look and tone intended to annihilate
her, but she calmly resumed:
Il have written poem on r.. B.
Grifith's mammoth store'"
"Oh!"s interrupted the editor with
extraordinary suavity. you don't
know how relieved am. A poem
written on r. B. Grifith's store Ell?
was afraid it was written on paper
and that you wanted me to publish
1t. When l happen to drive past the
store Ill stop and read that poem"
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OUR CUBAN POLICY.

Whether the world recognizes it or
not. new page has been written in
the history of Cuba and our relations
to that island during the last few DAYS.
When this country found it necessary
to intervene to stop a political nuis-
anee in that new republic it did so not
at the request of Cuba or of Cubans.
but in response 10 the wishes and for
the welfare of this nation. We are no
longer the indulgent parent seeking
to correct the faults of early training
in the child, but the firm and vigorous
dictator Of the conduct of the child
largely grown to manhood.
The Cubans have been tried in the
matter of self government and un-
fortunately have been found wanting
as a nation. Some of her people have
realized the responsibility OF the sit
uation and have striven manfully to
establish a government which would
be permanent. That they have failed
only proves that the task was greater
than has generally been supposed.
The government which practically
went out of power when the United
States took possession did many
things which would have made the ma
ton great. The revenues have been
applied to the establishment of public
schools and the building of publ,
Improvements. There has been no
charge of graft and public plundering
by those in power.
Whatever may have been the mo-
tives of those who sought to over
throw the Palma government, it looks
as though the reason lay in the fact
that they had not been permitted to
feed at the public trough. They hal
appealed to the people in an election
and had lost, and the spirit of politi-
cal anarchy which is so prevalent in
the Latin-American states was arous-
ed and they sought to accomplish by
revolution what they could not accom-
plish by ballots. The truth of the
matter is that Palma was too much
American for the turbulent crowd who
considered the gift of freedom merely
an opportunity to hold office
1t is absurd to believe that this
country will permit itself to be made
cats paw merely to pull Cuban polit-
ical chestnuts from the fire. Whether
annexation will be considered serious
ly by the American congress cannot be
told. But whether that or some other
course is pursued it is certain that the
United States will not relinquish its
restraining hand upon Cuba until
there is abundant evidence that it will
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ments are not associated with rowdy-
ism and coarseness. The stranger in
this city would not be able to tell
from the conduct of the students at
the university that he was in Il COL
lege town unless he could determine
it from the manly conduct and gentle
manly bearing of the students. AS a
student body they are credit to the
state, the institution and themselves.
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COLLEGE ROwDYISN.

1t is matter of which every North
Dakotan should be proud that with all
the stories of college rushes and other
general ruffianism which still mark
few of the unprogressive higher in
situations of learning, not word can
be said against the university of our
own state.
Only a few days ago sophomore at
Columbia was seriously injured in
senseless collision between the two
lower classes OF that institution. And
the same evening the same classes
created riot at Fort Lee Similar
occurrences are SO common in a few
of the colleges that they excite no
comment.
Such performances in ruder day
were part of the traditions of student
life. But they have long been abol-
ished in the better American colleges,
and the students who indulge in them
and the institutions which tolerate
them, instead of giving evidence of
the manly college spirit, merely re-
cord themselves as still afflicted with
childishness.
Real up-to-date college men do not
do such things: only overgrown and
underlined boys. The wise college
presidents in both large and small
institutions have effectually stopped
the practices without the sacrifice Of
the manliness of their students or any
interference with the flow of animal
spirits. They have simply created a
standard of gentlemanliness and civ
ilization which does not permit self
respecting young men to initiate the
example of rowdies.
Grand Forks welcomes to it's hest
society and to its homes the young
men and women who attend the uni
versity. That they are the peers of
the students of any other college both
in their intellectual attachments and
the athletic training goes without say
ing. But they have that higher con.
ception of education which enables
them to see that these accomplish
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The Evening Press objects to hav-
ing the history of the country under
the only democratic administration in
nearly half century repeated. That
party prefers to have itself judged by
unknown rather than known ele-
ments. The disastrous conditions
which marked it's few years of power
are among the things it most earnestly
desires that the public shall forget.
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FARMERS SPECIAL.

fernando. Miss. Oct. 2.-Following
the example set by the railroads in
the Middle West and Northwest. the
Illinois Central railroad has equipped
a special train to give the farmers of
this section the benefit of lectures on
methods of increasing and diversity
ing their crops. The train started
from here today and will terminate at
Memphis ten days hence. The route
extends through Mississippi and
Louisiana via Jackson to point near
New Orleans, thence northward over
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
line. The train will be stopped and
lectures delivered at nearly one hun
dred stations. The lectureres include
representatives of the United States
department of agriculture, the depart
ments of agriculture and immigration
of Mississippi and Louisiana and pro-
fessors of the agricultural and me-
chanical colleges of the two states.
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Sentiment to be Inculcated.

Let reverence Of law be breathed by
prattles in her lap; let it be taught in
the schools. .seminaries and colleges:
let it be written in primers. spelling
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis-
lative halls and enforced in courts Of
justice. in. short, let it become the
political religion of the nation
Abraham Lincoln.
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The reason why the democrats of
the state were SO anxious for joint
debates with the republican candi-
dates is now apparent They can get
nobody out to listen to their speak,
ers and tried to use the republican
enthusiasm to get out a crowd.