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liE ar,,gea\et'j HISTORICAL1 GIETY, VOL. 'L. -._NO, 38. HASTINGS. MINN.. -SATI tDAY. JUNE 13 1908. Si per tear i■ Advance. Lamson Pride By CLARISSA MACKIE. Copyrighted. 1905, by Associated Literary Press. Seymour frowned savagely into the fire and rumpled his hair with impa- tient fingers. "If you would listen to reason," be- gan Pauline argumentatively, but her fiance Interrupted her. "Reason!" he snorted contemptuous- ly. "There is no such word as reason in a woman's vocabulary." Miss Lamson arose from her seat and surveyed him with cool hauteur. "You forget yourself, Mr. Seymour. Remember, please, that you have not now and never will have the right to address me in that manner. I beg you will excuse me, sir. Good night." She swept from the room while Seymour stared miserably after her. Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed, and Pauline did not return. Then Seymour got upon his feet and, taking his hat and stick, left the house with a sense of deep injury, somewhat tempered by the knowledge that he was entirely in the wrong. If Polly wanted the dining room on the south side of the new house they were building, what mat- ter? His own wishes were for a cool, shady dining room on the north side of the house, while the library occupied the sunny southern exposure, where Pauline could _have blooming plants in the windows and where be could see her bright head bending over her sew- ing when he looked up from his work. What evil spirit had tempted him to • argue the question with her and to act . like an unmannerly brute? Now there • would be no home at all. He turned in at the club and spent the evening in solitary wretchedness. Miss Lamson made dignified haste to -her-own room, where she locked the door and confided to her pillow that Bob Seymour was a sour, cross, crab- bed old thing and that she was glad they would never be married. Upon this reflection she sobbed more bitterly. Finally, when the fury of her brief mental storm had subsided, she heard the closing of the front door and the echo of familiar footsteps on the pave- ment dying into silence. She sat up energetically, "Pauline Lamson, you are a little tools' she soliloquized. "If Bob waste the library on the south side of the house, what difference does It make to you? He has to work in there Most of the day, while the dining room is only used at mealtimes, and it doesn't mat- ter where It is. Now there won't be any library, north or south, nor any dining room nor anything, for I cannot go back on my word. A Lamson never does that!" She sobbed herself into a most un- pleasant slumber, which was broken by frequent lapses into wakefulness, and at last a gray morning dawned. And all the mornings and afternoons ti were gray after that, for Bob Seymour did not come to sue for pardon, and neither did Pauline send the little note which would have brought him repent- ant to her feet. It was Seymour pride against Lam- son pride, and so Love drew his rosy mantle about him and spread his wings to be about other and more profitable business. • • • • • • • "I came by the new house today. Pauline, and it is a dear!" Emilie Raymond helped herself to another bonbon from the dish on Pauline's tea table and nibbled it appreciatively. "Yes?' Pauline's voice was faint, and there was a pink flash in either cheek. "Yes!" mimicked Miss Raymond pet- ulantly. "Your indifference is well as- sumed, Polly, dear, but" - "Emilie," said Pauline, with sadden decision, "I must tell you -I haven't told another soul -that Bob Seymour and I are not going to be married!" Miss Raymond uttered a surprised shriek. "Polly Lamson, what do yon mean? Why, I was talking with Bob not five minutes ago -he was standing on the steps of the new -house-and from what he said"- She paused with em- barrassment and busied herself with the bonbon dish. "What did he say?" Pauline's tone was icily cold. "Why -now, dear, of course I don't understand anything about the matter, but he said when I hinted that I would like to go over the house, 'Mrs. Sey- mour will have that pleasure in the spring,' and he smiled so naturally that I supposed"- She looked ex- pressively at her friend. "It is probably some one else -some other girl," smiled Pauline stiffly. "It might be," was the disconcerting reply. "I did see him talking to Linda Burton the other day, and just as I passed them Linda was saying, 'I much prefer the library in green too.' I didn't think anything about it at the time, but -Linda Is certainly attrac- tive." "Linda is a dear," gushed Pauline, pouring herself another cup of tea. "Well," remarked Emilie practically, "of course I'm surprised to hear that your engagement is broken, but I must say that Linda Burton can cer- tainly make that house look like a dream. She is an artist." "That is so," said Pauline soberly. "Linda's gowns are lovely." After Emilie Raymond had fluttered away to another tea table and proba- bly to other confidences Pauline fled to her own room, where she spent a very quiet hour. Then just as the dusk was falling she donned her wraps and crept out of the house and along the avenue to that pleasant cross street whereon stood the house of dis- sension, the house that had been built with love as adviser and architect. Pauline approached it timidly from the opposite side of the street. She would rather die than meet Bob Sey- mour in that vicinity. She could dimly see that the house was quite complet- ed, a lawn graded and turfed with green, and -strange to relate -it was illuminated from top to bottom, and there were people moving about in- side. She slipped across the street and entered the yard. Along the north wall of the house ran a flagged path to the rear, and when she had walked along this path she found herself directly beneath a brightly lighted bow win- dow. Some one was speaking. "ThLs is to be the library, Linda," said Bob Seymour's voice, "and it will be green, of course." "You are making a mistake, Bob, in using this room for the library. The south room is much more suitable." "Polly planned it this way, and I want it to be exactly as she wishes." There was au obstinate note In Bob's voice that Pauline knew well. She ut- tered n bewildered little gasp at the complications of the situation. "Very well," said Linda cheerfully. "I onlrwtah Polly were here to give her opinion about that shade of green. But I am very grateful to you, BQb, for giving me au opportunity to display my talents as a professional decorator. I shall hope for an avalanche of orders after this. Why don't you ran up and get Polly? We could decide all these puzzling matters at once." "I don't believe she could come down this evening," came Bob's voice eva- sively and rather despondently. Pan - line choked. He was clinging to a last hope that she would relent before it was too late. He was comforting him- self with the hope that their engage- ment was not formally broken. A moment later she found herself speeding through the wide hall into the library. She slipped her hand through Bob's arm, and she felt his start of sur- prise and then the warm, firm pressure of his hand upon her own. "I came down to help choose the dec- orations, Bob;" she said breathlessly. "Good! Now everything will be all right!" exclaimed Linda gayly. And so it was. A Rule For Dramatists. A dramatist must never keep a se- cret from hie audience, although this is one of the favorite devices of the novelist. Let us suppose for a moment that the spectators were not let -into the secret of Hero's pretty plot in "Much Ado," to bring Beatrice and Benedlck together. Suppose that, like the heroine and the hero, they were led to believe that each was truly in love with the other. The inevitable reVela- tion of this error would produce a shock of surprise that would utterly scatter their attention, and while they were busy making over their former conception of the situation they would have no eyes nor ears for what was going on upon the stage. In a hovel the true character of a hypocrite is often hidden until the book is nearly through; then when the revelation comes the reader has plenty of time to think back and see how deftly he has been deceived. But in a play a rogue must be known to be a rogue at his first entrance. The other characters th the play may be kept in the dark until the last act, but the audience must know the secret all the time. In fact, any situation which shows a character waffering from a lack of such knowl- edge as the audience holds secure al- ways produces a telling effect upon the stage. The spectators are aware of Ittgo's villainy and know of Desde- mona's innocence. The play would not be nearly so strong if, like Othello, they were kept ignorant of the trutb.- North American Review. Apostrophe to • Champion Cow. Hail, 0 champion nurser of the 1111. man race! Hail, 0 quiet chewer of nutritious cud! Blessed be peace and open air, beasts and sunlight, and espe- cially blessed be this cow; of her we sing. Hall, Pauline; number 48,426 -If that name you love, 0 batter champion a the world! Think of giving 104.4 pounds of milk in a single day imd also at a high average of fat! I think I could turn and live with ani- mals, they are so placid and self I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their They do not Ile awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is de- mented with the mania of owning Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Would the pen of Homer were our own, for we have no taste to celebrate the feats of admirals and presidents, prizefighters and millionaires and would fain do justice to the cow, for she by her own unaided miglit can support thirty babies on this earth.-Oollier's Weekly. The Hard Knocks. "This old world at best Is only an anvil and life a sort of Plutonian blacksmith, that, with varying blows, strikes us into form. The blow that hurts us most may shape us best" Deeply Affecting. "And when," said Mrs. Nuvoreesh, "those French pheasants came by sing- ing the Mayonnaise it was too deeply touching for words." -Success Maga- A BAD PLAN OF TRAVEL- Lamson RAVEL.- The Scheme That Worried One Woman on Har Trip Abroad. "When I hear of people joyfully mak. lug plans for their first trip abroad," said a man who has made many a transatlantic voyage, "I am tempted to give them a little bit of advice, based, of course, on my own observations, but particularly upon a remark made to me by a middle aged woman whose seat in the saloon was next to mine on my return trip last summer. This wo- man had a husband, and it was to him that she referred in answering my question one day. I asked her what she had been doing on the other side. She looked halt quizzically, half re- proachfully, at her spouse and said. 'Well, my principal occupation was trying to keep track of John.' "It developed that her concern was not over what John might do in Euro- pean capitals, but simply related to the difficulty each had in meeting the other after ,pursuing their several ways in a strange city, she to browse among the shops and he, an Inveterate sightseer, to visit this, that and the other spot of interest. Their general scheme, as I was informed, was to di- verge, say, in the morning, following their respective bents and arranging to meet at a certain place at a certain time. The plan sounds feasible, but it is experimental, and, as both of them found, It was an experiment that didn't work well. First one would be delayed and then the other, and if you have ever waited for a person in a foreign city you can appreciate the particular variety of anxiety 'that comes in about ten minutes. There's a feeling. that something has happened to the missing person, for one thing, and, for another, there's an increasing realization. that you yourself are wasting time. If you start out to look up the delinquent, the case becomes practically hopeless. The needle 1n the haystack is easy com- pared to that search. When the re- union does come at dinner time 1n the hotel or pension, explanations are re- ceived with tears or haughty disdain. Oh, I know; I've been through it." - New York Press. A Kaleidoscope of Fashions. For my part I commend a quick changing fashion and could I have chosen my period would have fixed on the fickle years of the first empire, when fashions shifted from week to week, and that, too, with such fine shades of difference that only the most frivolous could follow them. Then the great conqueror brought to Pub -Um from the ends of the earth, muslina from India, garlands of roses from Bengal, stuffs shining with 'gold and silver from Cairo; from Turkey, of course, turbans, and from the far east shawls -shawls from Kashmir, from Persia and from the Levant; shawls particolored, blue -bright blue -and red and green and black and the clear yellow of the sun; shawls patterned with all the interlacings of Asian ca- price and fit not only to hang from the shoulders of the fair, but to give a coquette of eastern fancy day loug visions of the orient From the past for all time as well u all the earth was then Napoleon's, came the fashiou of the troubadours -chapeaux a Cre a l'enfant, lending to a very modem period who can say what charmine Gothic airs? How do not inic.h revolu lions of fashion* enlarge the feminine heart and teach it to live In all age, and all climatesi-Lucy M. Donnelly h. Atlantic. • The Adored One. He is a confirmed bachelor. In fact his attitude toward women is almost bete noire is a new acquaintance of hie sister, Miss Blank. He met her In the street the other day and, seeing no way out of it. stop- ped and spoke to her. She saw how he was fidgeting to get away and said: "You seem very preoccupied. Ab, I knowl You are thinking of the one you adore " "I adore no one," was his stiff re - "You can't deceive me. I know you are deeply In love. Besides, your sis- ter showed me a photo of the object of your devotion only last night It isn't a type I admire. But, there, every one to his taste. I won't tell any one. And before he could reply she was When be reached home he said to his "What girl's photo did you show Miss Blank last night?" "Not any. The only photo I showed ber was one of yourself." Then it dawned upon him what bibs Blank was driving at -London Scraps. A "Washing" Mission. The visiting housekeeper recently de- scribed in the New York Sun must be a stout armed angel or she would never have lived io write the entry in her daybook quoted below: "Washed the sick woman in bed. washed and dressed four children, did the washing, scrubbed two floors, washed the dishes. wasbed the win- dows." A discriminating glance at this en- try will disclou the fact that she washed about everything In tbe house. How the head of the family escaped the wash rag is not stated. Perhaps there was no head. Wrong Way Around. "Mr. Purslington says be believes a man ebould pay as he goes." Great soulaare not those who Ian "Judging from the way be gets in fewer passions and more virtues than debt, he must be accustomed to travel - time common, but those only wbo bays Very Patient. A doctor, now eaninent, wu at one time serving as luterne in one of the Philadelphia hospitals as well as hold- ing his own with a coterie of rather gay Mends. On a certain morning the physician awoke to and that be had sadly overslept. Sleepily donning his attire, be hastened to the hospital and soon a stalwart young Irishman claim- ed his attention. "Well, my man, what seems to be your trouble this morning?" inquired the doctor, concealing a yawn and tak- ing the patient by the hand to examine his pulse. "Faith, sor, it's all in me breathln', doctor. I can't git mo breath at all, at all." "Tbe pulse is normal, Pat, but let me examine the lung action a ma meat," replied the doctor, kneeling be- side the cot and laying his bead on the Irishman's chest. "Now let mo bear you talk," he continued, closing his eyes and listening attentively for sounds of pulmonary congestion. A moment of silence. "What will 1 be sayin', doctor?" finally asued the patient. "Oh, say anything. Count. Count one, two, three and up, that way," murmured the physician drowsily, "Wan, two, three, fure, five, six." When the young doctor, with a start, opened his eyes, Pat was continuing weakly, "Tiu hundred an' sixty-nine, tin hundred an' sivinty, Un hundred an' sivinty-wan"--Success. Taken Unawares. It is likely that the most embarrass- ed man to New York could be found last Monday In a Sixth avenue store. He was a mild, inoffensive looking man. He stood leaning over the bal- cony that surrounds the first floor of the store, looking with interest at the crowd below. Presently his eye alight- ed on a small boy who was being rush- ed tress- annum- <e-eeenter -M wet a very large woman. Just as he look- ed down at the boy the boy looked up at him. Instinctively perceiving, with diabolic instinct, what would be his own youthful propensity If he occu- pled a similar point of vantage, the boy struck a beseeching attitude and called out in imploring accents: "Oh, mister; please, mister, don't spit on me!" For a man with no Intention of spit- ting on that particular boy or any one else the situation was certainly awk- wark, and the man retired in red faced confusion. -New York Times, Queer, but True. "For this hero splurge," said the ca- terer, "do the guests know one another well or are they jest passin' acquaint, "Oh, they are intimate friends, life- long friends." "Then," said the caterer, "I'll add 20 per cent to that estimate if you don't 'Twenty per cent more for lifelong friends," the caterer insisted. "I'd be out of pocket otherwitie. A bunch of friends at a eplurge always eat a fifth more than a bunch of pulite acquaint- ances or strangers. Didn't you never notice that?" he concluded as he recte led the bill. "You might have noticed it from your own experience. Among strangers you're 111 at ease, nervous; that takes your appetite away. But with friends you're quite at home, and you eat like a horse." -New Orleans Moving Pletures. Moving picture cameras are remark- able pieces of mechanism. The films are on.ly three-quarters of an inch wide. These are in rolls, sometimes 800 feet long. When taking pictures the camera man reels off these rolls just u rapidly u they are =reeled wben thrown upon the canval for the epee- tator, at a rate of ten or twelve films a second. Moving pictures are simply a number of views throvrn upon a white sheet one after another 110 rapid- ly that the eye cannot detect the Inter - An Author Who Haled Water. d'Arblay, better known as Miss Fanny Burney, who tee* such an important place in the literatare of the eighteenth century, had an extraordi- nary and most undesirable peculiarity. She had the greatest aversion to wash- ing and water. Sir Henry Rolland was the physician who attended the gifted authoress during the last year of her life, and she confided ta him that she had not washed for fifteen yea Origin of Yankee Pronunciation. It was these historic Suffolk families who in the seventeenth century took over with them to America the pecul- iar Suffolk pronunciation out of which has developed elle modern seminasal Yankee twang. -London Spectator. A Blind Man's Nuse. "My great-uncle, who was blind," said a Frenchman, "once awned 14,000 In gold louts under a pear tree In his garden. His neighbor saw him do It and in the dead of night came and stole the money, replacing the earth care- fully. "Some days later my uncle brought fifty more louts down to the pear tree for burial. He soon discovered his loss, and, silently weeping, he, too, re- placed the earth. "He knew whom to suspect, and that night he called on his neighbor. He seemed thoughtful and dutralt, and the neighbor asked him what oppressed his mind. "'Well, 1'U tell you,' said my great- uncle frankly, 'I have 1.000 louts had away in a safe place-, and today a ten- ant paid off a mortgage. and I have another 1.000 louts In cash on my hands. I don't know whether to seek out another biding place for this mon- ey or put it where the other is. What do you advise?' "'Why,' said the neighbor eagerly, 'if your first biding place is safe --and you declare it to be so -I should cer- tainly put this money there too.' "My great-uncle said firmly that that was what he would do. It was the wisest course. Then he took his leave. "And when next day he went to the pear tree again there, sure enough, was his lost 1,000 louts, all put back again." -Exchange. Ingersoll on Clover. In declining an invitation to a Clover club dinner once Colonel Robert Inger- soll wrote: "A wouderful thing is 'clover.' It means honey and cream -that 1s to say, industry and contentment -that is to say, the happy bees In perfumed fields and at the cottage gate 'Old Boss,' the bountiful, serenely chewing satisfac- tion's cud in that blessed twilight pause that, like a benediction, falls be- tween all toll and sleep. This clover makes me dream of happy hours, of childhood's rosy cheek*, of dimpled babes, of wholesome, loving wives, of honest men, of springs and brookur and violets and all there is of stainless joy in peaceful human life. "A wonderful word is clover! Drop the 'c,' and you have the happiest of mankind. Take away the 'c' and `r,' and you have left the only thing that makes a heaven of this dull and bar- ren earth. Cut off the 'r alone, and there remains a very deceitful bud that sweetens the breath and keeps peace in countless homes whose masters fre- quent clubs. After all, Bottom wu right, 'Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.' " "A curious' et at," said an eminent botanist, "Is tc..,./ild tamarind or Juba plant of the riv.7. Ide and waste places of tropical Amt. end very strange are its effects upon tbe nonruminant animals that feed upon its young shoots, leaves, pods and seeds. It causes horses to lose the hair from their manes and tails, has a similar ef- fe-ct upon mules and donkeys and re- duces pigs to complete nakedness. Horses are said to recover when fed exclusively on corn and grass, but the new hair is of different color and tex- ture from the old, so that the animal is never quite the same as It was. One animal of which I personally knew after feeding on the plant lost its hoofs and had to be kept in slings until they grew and hardened again. Rumi- nant animals are not thus affected, and the growth of the plant is &chiefly en- couraged in the Bahamas as a fodder plant for cattle, sheep and goats. The difference is probably due to changes effected upon it in the chewing of the An East Indian paper prints tbe fol - nate In his diary while In a very try- ing poeition: "Up a tree where I adhere with much pain and discomposure while big tiger roaring in a very awful manner on the ere line. This is very inconsiderate tiger and caulks me great griefs, as I have before reported to your honor. Tbis is two times Ise spoiled my worn, coming and shouting like thunder and putting me up a tree and making me behave like an insert It Is a vary awk- ward fate to me, and tbe tiger la most The Widow's Dower. It is certain that "dower." tbe estate tor life whkh the widow acquires at her husband's death, was not known among the early Saxons. In the laws of King Edmund the widow is directed to be supported wholly out a the per- sonal estate. Dower is generally as- cribed to the Normans, but it was first introduced into tits feudal system by Emperor Frederick II., who was con- temportry with the English Healy about 1250. The Word "Hews." On tbe derfvetior. of the word "news," which has been a puzzle to many learned philologists. there ts the The word explains itself without • muse. And the four littera speak from whew* comes "newer Prom north, east. noel and scuth-41* solution's made. Each qusurter elves aoeount ot war and -MiuneseetIll Journal. It Couldn't Se. Denham -I wisb you would talk ling - nab to tbe baby. Mrs. Denham -Do you think my baby English is MY worse than your bluebell linglisht- Tears la m&rtel Wearies are vela.— No Wonder He Fled. some Famous Fans. A tall, solemn looking young man Napoleon, with a faee as if it had entered the restaurant with a mild,° modeled from a Greek cameo, apologetic alt and Beate¢ himself ata was never, in Tallevrand's judgment vacant table near the middle of the at all events, quite a gentleman. He room. It was evident that be dreaded gesticulated too much and was alto - to intrude. He wanted to get as far away trom other people as possible. He even blushed painfully when he gave his order, and the most casual observer could have told that he was bashful. Just as his dinner was brought to him a buxom looking wo- man with seven small children entered the place. The bead waiter swept the field with his eye, pounced down upon the table where the young man had sought solitude, motioned to the moth- er, who clucked to the chickens, and is moment later they were all around that one table. That young man's ince wu a serial story. Other people entered the restaurant, glanced at the group, wailed signifi- cantly and seated themselves. "He doesn't look it, does he?" queried The Cure. a pleasant faced old lady in an audible "In love with that penniless young whisper. scamp, are you?" said old Roxley. "She looks at least ten years older "Well, I propose to cure you of that." than he," murmured a girl at the next "You can't," retorted the willful young table. girl. "I'm determined to marry him." He flew to the hatrack, tossed a half "That's it exactly. I propose to let crown to the waiter and tried to go you do it "-Exchange. through the door without opening it,- London Telegraph. gather too violent for the correct taste of the gteat uoble trained under the old regime. Perfection of body is not necessary, either, for many misshaped men have been dignified even when they were not, like the Due de Ven- dome, princes of the lilies in days when that distinction meant so much. Little men and wizened men haul both inspired awe, for great soldiers trembled. if Louis XIY. frowned, and no man received without weakened knees a rebuke from William III. The protruding underlip of the Hapsburgs has never detracted from their majes- ty, and Victor Emmanuel, who, for ail his good manners, always suggested to tbo onlooker a bull face to face with the matadore, was for all that every inch a king -London Spectator. A Wasted Opporunity. "Ole Bill" Foote and "Ole Bill" Eng- lish were political traveling compan- lona, and many stories were told of their joint Journeying. The two hardy Democratic campaign- ers were doing southern California one election time and got into the country at the back door of Los Angeles. One night they reached a farmhouse where they had expected to find lodgings. The farmer bad nothing but two arm- chairs. Foote and English pleaded for beds -cots, trundle beds, anything that looked like a bed. Nothing doing. The campaigners, like Napoleon or Grant or like Washington at Valley Forge, slept In their chairs. When the first advance agents of dawn scudded out of the west, the poii- ticians laboriously got out of their chairs and went out for fresh air. They met the old farmer milking the cow with the crumpled horn. "Do you know, gentlemen," he said blandly and without contrition, "you could have had a bed, after all? I was expecting two Democratic orators here last night and saved the beds for them, but somehow or other they never ahow- ed up, dang 'em." -San Francisco Call. The King Had Rights. Once when Macready was perform- ing at the theater at Mobile, Ma, his manner at rehearsal displeased one of the actors, a native dmerictui of pure western type. This Claudius in "Ham- let" resolved to "get even" with the star for many supposed offenses, and in this way he carried out his purpose. When in the last scene Hamlet stab- bed the usurper he reeled forward and after a most spasmodic finish stretch- ed himself out precisely in the place Hamlet required for his own death. Macready, much annoyed, whispered fiercely: "Die farther up the stage, sir." The monarch lay insensible, Upon which in a still louder voice the Ham- let growled: "Die farther up the stage, air." Hereupon the Claudius, sitting up, "I believe I'm ling bere, and I'll die where I please." The tragedy concluded without more Broke Up His Speech. Judge Norton was solemn, 'tern and dignified to excess. He was also ego- tistical and sensitive to ridicule. Judge Nelson was a wit and careless of de- conun. He did not like Judge Norton. At a bar supper Judge Norton in AM elaborate speech, referring to the early days a Wisconsin, described with trag- ic manner a thundentorm which once overtook him in riding the circuit The scene was awful, "and." Raid the judge, "I expected every moment the light- ning would strike the tree under which I had taken shelter." "Than," interrupted Nelson, "why In thunder didn't you get under another beer -Philadelphia Ledger. The buten, or snow hurricane a the Pamirs, is a meteorological phenome- non a great interest Even in mid- summer the temperature during a snow buran frequently falls to 14 de - glen F., while in one winter it dropped to 45 degrees below zero at the end of January. The buran comes with star tling suddenneu, the atmosphere grow- ing dark with whirling snowflakes where scarcely a minute before the sky was perfectly clear. One of Life's Liftle Tragedies. He seized her, drew her to iihn and deliberately struck her. She made no mind. Again and yet again the brute repeated the blow, and still else gave no sign of suffering, but when. with rapidly growing anger, he struck her for the fourth time she shrieked aloud, and ber bead fiew off. She was only a match.-Boberntan Magazine. What is instinct? It is th' nachral tendency Iv wan wtdn !Wed With, die - may to turn to his wife. -Mr. Dooley. Brost Success. "Were the amateur theatricals good r "Splendid! I never law anything He doubles lib troubles who bot. rows tomorrowla.—IIpaaish Proverb. - MOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF redemption. - No. ge OMoo of oo0aty auditor, oouty of Dakota, state of Minnesota, To O. P. Clifford:You are herebynotified iece or pares of land,sitt ated inthe coup that the following of Dakota, state of Minnesota, and known and described as follows, to -wit: Lot twentv•iwo (88), blook eleven (11), Hepburn Park addition to the City of St. Paul, is now assessed in your same. y sato of hat indbpursuantatotheareal estate tax judgment duly given and made In and by the h tract court in and for said county of Dakota, en the .1st day of March. a. d.1894, in,rooeed- ings to enforce the payment of tax. delinquent e.'uoi of Dakota. the te for above described piece ofor r parcel of land was duly offered for sale, and no one bidding upon said offer an amount equal to that for which nand piece or parcel was aabjeot to be sold, to•wit: the sum of two and 9.100 dollars, the same was duly bid in for the state of Minnesota for said sum. That thereafter, and on the twelfth day of ?november, a. d. 1906„ the said piece or parcel of land, not then having been redeemed from said safe, and having then become the *Imitate property of the state of Minnesota, was sold and conveyed at public sale by the county auditor of said county pursuant to the order and direction of the state auditor of the state of Minnesota, and do accordance with* the pro- visions of the statute In such case made and provided, for the sum of thirty-six and 86-100 dollars duly paid to the county treasurer of said county. parcel` of la certificate ed and elivseted by oald gouty auditor upon said sale last eb ove men• cloned has been presented to me at my oMoe by the holder thereof for the purpose of having notice of expiration of time for redemption from said tax sale of said property given and served. and that the amount requtred to redeem Bald plem or parcel of land from said tax sale. at tits date of this notice,_exclusive of the poste to stat Clean- said noires; 1* elle-Verneet forty- three and 02-100 defiers. That or parcelto tltr the lend from id las sale will expire sixty (60) days after the serytoe of this notice and the filing of proof of such service 1u my OBoe. Witness my hand and seal of olflee this nineteenth day of May, a. d. 1908. 39-3w Auditor, Dakota County MinnNta. SALE OF DITCHING JOBS. July, 1908, aioe Is hereby one d'elock that ato my oltloe at ilastings Inneaota, I will sell the jobs of digging pad constructing the Ditch No. One of Dakota aemmistestablished of�Dakot. County, the board state sof Minnesota, by their order bearing date June 9th. 1008, Vin: For the work as one job, and also for one or more sections of 100 feet each. and also tor one or more of the conetructtoa jobs, each of said sections to be known and numbered by stakes as shown by the report of the engineer In said matter, corn mencingat the cue Including the outlet, and from thence, successively, up stream to the one including the source following the beg of a small stream known as -Mud Creek" to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, and that bids are Invited for said work; said work to be completed within the time required, and in the manner specified in said engineer's report. And no (Id will be entertained which exceeds more than thirty (90) per oent over and above the estiunate ooat of the nonetrnctlon, In any nese as stated In the Bald order; and the euc- taful bidder will be reeulred to glye s salla factory said county, with ttwo o be freehold sureties, proved by the audit rorthe faithful performance and fulfillment of his contreot, and to pay all damages that may accrue by reason of his failure to complete the job within the time required in the contract. The said order and estimates and profile are on Ole. and may be seen at my office, The ap rdxlmate of work to be done la the construction of such ditch Is as follows: 96,761 cubic yards. open ditch, 8 feet wide at bottom and average width on top about 10 feet, and length about 390 stations. The estimated total cost of the work is three thousand, two hundred, ninety-two and 60.100 dollars. All bide must be accompanied by a cerUSed check payable to the auditor of said county, for not less than ten per cent of the amount of each bid. The right to reject any and all bids is hereby rewerved. Dated June 10th, 1909. ISzsi-j P. A. IIOFFMAN, County Auditor Dakota County, 98-3w State of Minnesota. ESTATE OF DECEDENT, state of Minnesota, county of Dakota. -ss. In probate wurl. In the matter of the estate of Charles Sebas- tian, decedent. The state of Minnesota to Emma Sebastian (widow), Emma Sebeetien, Cecelia Sebastian, Minnie Sebastian, Hose Sebastian, Hazel Seheetlnu, end all persons interested In the granting of administration of the estate cif eald decedent: The petition of Emma Sebastian haeinngg been filed la this court, representiug Oust Chitties Sebastian, then a resident of the county of Dakota, state of Minnesota, died intestate on the lith day of July, 1904, and praying that letters of adminis• tratloa of his estate be granted to mud Emma Se- bastian, widow of said deceased; and the court haylag fixed the time and place for hearing said petition. Theretore, you. and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, If any you have, before this court at the probate court room la the courthouse, in the city of Hastings, In the county of Dakota, state of Minnesota, on the 8th dap of July, 1908. et 10M o'clock a. m., why saidpetitionshould not be granted. Wttneaa the judge of said court. and seal of said court this 1914 day of June 1908. iCoear oourt, THOS. 4'. MORAN, l83w Probate Judge. F. M. CATLni, Attorney for Petitioner. ESTATE OF DECEDENT. State of Minnesota, county of Dakota. -ss. In probate ooere la the matter of the estate of David L. Bust, decedent. Lettere of administration this day having bees granted to Edwin 8. Fitch. It le ordered that the time within which all Oreditors of the above named deoedent may pro- sest claims aaggainst bit estate In this court be, and Owning Mreby is, limited to six months from and after the date hereof, and that Thursday, the 14th day of January, 1909, at ten o'clock a. m., la the probate oourt room at the courthouse, at Hest!nge, In said county, be, end the same hereby Is, teed and appointed as the tlme and place .or hearts upon, and the examination, adjustment, and allowance of such claims at shall be preseated wlthia the time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by tire publication of tale order is Tbe Hastings Gazette, as pro. vided by law. Dated June I lth, 1901 By the mart. THOS. P. MORAN, lr •I 1663* Judge Of Probate. MN,