The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-09-15
offered to huy ar issue OF bonds or

offered to buy nj issue OF bonds OF
the amount OF fifteen dollars"
I'm glad to hear you declare in
favor Of external improvements" sad
Kelso. We've all been too much sb-
sorbed by internal improvements.
You're on the right trail, Abe. You've
been thinking Of the pEbIic ear and
too little Of the public eye. We must
show some respect for both"
Sometimes l think that cOmeIy
dress ought to 20 with comely die
tion,'' said Abe. "But that's a thing
you can't learn in books. There's no
grammarian OF the language ct dress.
Then Tn SO big and awkward. It's
a rather hopeless problem"
You're In good company" Kelso
assured him. Mature guards her best
men with some sort Of singnlarity,
not attractive to others. Often she
makes them odious with conceit or
deformity or dumbness or g%arrulity.
Dante was such a poor talker that
no n would " ask him to dinner.
If It had not been 10 I presume his
muse would have been sadly crippled
by Indigestion. If you had been a
good dancer and a lady's favorite. I
wonder if you would have studied
Kirkham and Burns and Shakespeare
and Blackstone and Starkie, and the
science of surveying and been elected
to the legislature. wonder If you
could even have whipped Jack Arm
strong"
"Or have enjoyed the Friendship Of
Bill Berry and acquired & 1atlo1Hl
debt, or have saved ny irararle.
country in the war with R!acE. HswA.'
Abe laughed.
In the matter Of dress the pest:Ers-
ter had great confidence in the taste
and knowledge of his your.g friend,
Harry Needles, whose neat appear
ance Abe regarded with serious aG-
miration. So he asked Harry to go
with him on his new mission and help
to choose the goods and direct trn
tailoring, for it seemed to him a high
~ important enterprise.
"Our appropriation is only fifteen
dollars" said Abe as they came IN
sight of 1.-The big village on a ar
bright d:y late In October. "Of corr~.
I can't expect to make ~"""s:,' ~
like the President CT n" V'E:+'t
States with such y sum. tHt I wan IL
took like Il respectable citizen IF :! q
united States, if that is possible. I'll
give the Old Abe and fifteen dollars
to boot for a new n and We'll see
what come OF it,"
Springfield had been rapidly chang
ing. 1t was still small and crude, but
some of the best standards of civilian
ton had been set up in that commun-
ity. Families of wealth and culture
in the East had ent their sons and
a share of their capital to this little
metropolis of the land Of plenty to go
into business. Handsome, well-groomed
horses, in silver-mounted harness,
drawing carriages that shone $50 you
could see your face in them" to'quote
from Abe again, were on it's streets.
The two New Salem men stopped
and studied a big sign in front OF a
large store on which this announce
ment had been lettered:
"Cloths, c~assinettes, cassimeres, vel
vet silks, satins, Marseilles waistcoat-
ing, fine, calf boots, seal and morocco
pumps for gentlemen, crepe lisse, lace
wells. Thibet shawls, fine prunella
Shoes"
Reads like a foreign language to
me-" said Abe. "How would you like
q little Marseilles waistcoating?"
Suddenly a man touched his shout.
der with a hearty "Howdy, Abel"
1t was Eli, "the Wandering Jew"
as he had been wont to call himself
In the days when he carried a pack
on the road through Peters Bluff and
Clary's Grove and New Salem to
BeardstOwn and back. 'e
dis is my store" said ELL
"Your store !" Abe exclaimed.
IVA, look at de sign"
The Jew pointed to his sign-board,
some fifty feet long under the ~cornice,
on which they read the legend:
ELI ~Fredenberg's Emporium"
Abe looked him Over from head to
foot and exclaimed:
my conscience! You look as If you
had been fixed up to be sold to the
highest bidder"
The hairy, dusty, bow-legged, thread.
bare peddler had been touched by
some miraculous hand. The lavish