Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-08-23

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Refuse the alcoholic substitutes.
received his, he turned it over, and
said:
What am 7 to do with this?"
That is the ticket you are to vote"
| was the answer.
In our social life there was often a
weird mingling of civilization and bar
barlSm. Upon one occasion, con
cert was given, in which the audience
| were in full dress, and all evening in
the principal streets of St. Cloud lot
OF Chippewas played football with the
heads of some Sioux, with whom thew
had been at war that day.
! In those days, brains and culture
were found in shanties. The leaders
Of progress did not shrink from asso-
citation with the rude forces of say
ages and mother nature.
| st. Cloud was the advance post of
that march of civilization by which
the Northern Pacific railroad has since
sought to reach the Saskatchewan, a
territory yet to be made into five
wheat-growing States as large as Hi
nois. All the Hudson Bay goods from
Europe passed out doors, in wagons
or on sleds, under the care of the
Burbanks, the great mail carriers and
express men of Minnesota, and once
they brought a young lady who had
come by express from Glasgow, Scot
land, and been placed under the
charge of their agent at New York,
and whom they handed over to the
officer she had come to marry on the
shores of Hudson Bay. But their
teams usually came east with little
freight, as the furs sent to Europe
came down in carts, not one of which
had SO much iron as a nail in them,
and which came in long, creaking
trains, drawn by oxen or Indian pom
! les.
In each train there was generally
one gorgeous equipage-a cart paint
ed blue, with a canvass cover drawn
by one large white OK in raw-hide
harness. In this coach of state rode
the lady Of the train-Who was gen.
orally a half-breed-on her way to
do her shopping in St. Paul. Once
the lady was full-blooded Indian, and
had her baby with her, neatly dressed
and strapped to board. A bandage
across the forehead held the head in
place, and every portion of the body
was as secure as board and bandages
could make them, except the arms
from the elbow down, but no danger
Of the little fellow sucking his thumb.
His lady mamma did not have to hold
him, for he was stood up in corner
like a cane or umbrella, and seemed
quite comfortable as we'll as content.
She had travelled seven weeks, had
come seventeen hundred miles to pur-
chase some dresses and trinkets, and
would no doubt be a profitable Gus.
toner to St. Paul merchants, for the
lady of the train was a person OF
wealth and authority, always the wife
of the commander-in-chief, and her
sentence of death might have been
fatal to any man in it.
In these trains were always found
Indians filling positions as useful lab
| orers, for the English government
never gave premiums for idleness and
vagabondism among Indians, by feed
ing and clothing them without effort
on their own part. Their deXterity
in turning griddle cakes, by shaking
the pan and giving it a jerk which
sent the cake up into the air and
brought it down square into the pan
other side up, would have made Bid,
dy's head whirl to see.
The "Gov. Ramsey was the first
steamboat which ran above the falls
Of st. Anthony, and in the spring OF
SO she was steamed and hawsered up
the Sank Rapids, and ran two hundred
miles, until the falls Of Pokegamy of
fered insurmOuntable barriers to fur
Their progress. It was thought impos.
sible to get her down again, there
was no business for her, and she lay
useless until, the next winter, Arson
Northup took out her machinery and
drew it across on sleds to the Red
River of the North, where it was built
into the first steamboat which ever
ran on that river.
Before starting on his expedition
Mr.. Northup came to the Democrat
office to leave an advertisement anC
ask me to appeal to the public for aid
in provisions and feed to be furnished
along the route. He was in BuffalC
suit. from his ears to his feet, and
looked like a bale Of furs. On his
head he wore a fox skin cap with the
nose lying on the two paws Of the an
imal just between his eyes, the tail
hanging down between his shoulders
He was a brave, strong man, and car
ried out his project, which to most
!, people was wild.
Nothing seemed more important
than the cultivation of health for the
people, and to this gave much earn
; est attention., often expressed in the
/ form of badinage. There were sc
many young housekeepers that there
was much need Of teachers. l trieC
to get the New England women tc
stop feeding their families on dough-
especially hot soda dough-and tc
substitute well-baked bread as q
steady article of diet. In trying tc
wean them from cake, told of a time
when chaos reigned on earth, long be
, fore the days of the mastodons, but
,, even then, New England women were
IN making cake, and would certainly
. be found at that business when the
last trump sounded. But they bore
with my crochets" very patiently
and even seemed to enjoy them.
LitchfieId Gets Cannon.
CONGRESSMAN VOlstead on the eleV