A Dakota Granger's Experience

"I snppose you fellars ain't gol no ptper yon want me to sign au' leit me out o' gome money?" suld a Dakota farmer near whose house we camped one n'ght. 'No," I replied. "I told the oíd woman that you didn't hardly look sharp enoimh to be in tliat atyle o' business," replied tlie observln? agrlcultnrist. ''llave yon been troubled tnuch by tliat kind of shaipera?" I asked. Well, 'peur tn be 'doin my aliare 'o s'portin' 'em. There's a oliurn over in the córner tlmt cost me $50 - they got me to order k dozen of 'em when I thouglit I was siiíiiin' a 'greemeut to teil the neijfhbortt whtit a comí churn it was. 1 got a $100 hay rake out in the barn on the sime plan. Then 1 had to pay tor elght lightnln rods on my house, wlien 1 tlionght I onty signed lor one. 'Notlier min t dinner liere, rave me a quarter tor it, n' I signad a receipt tUat turned out to be check tor $30 on my bank arciiiiit. 'Xolher gooil lookln' feller aaid he wn collecting autogmph o' prom'nent men, and I sh'ived mine on to ii blank piecu of paper, wbicii lie went an' filled out as a bilí o' sale for my b-pt bos, and led the crilter oft" Tlit n I mude a thiee-hosc ev'ner. tht I thought up all myself one nlfiht, un' "botit a nionth afteibad to give a íeller $1.' ciuse he snld he got a putent on it ten ye;irs ano. I fot a drive we'l in the back yard tliat Tve bern payin' $25 on 'bout twic't a year. There are two notes at the bank for me to piy now that I signed when I slapped my name onto soine reckermendatious of a mowin'm:tchiue, an' whieh tire feller cut in two aiul niMile notes of. Then yesterday anotlier cusa oanie 'long witli a petltlon to the LesM.itur' agin high laxe?, an' I socked my mime onto it. an' now l'in wnitiu' to see whether It '11 turn out a raorttrage on the fsrm or only a comnion note. I'm mightv (rfcid ym fellers ai'nt got no scheme, 'cause I'd be sure to go Into it." - S iu Francisco Eveninsr Post. A toe discovers our raults and prefits by them; a friend assist us to flnd thum out ind destroy them. St. Louis glrls claim tlmt tlicy are not as bd as they are painted.- 'IVxns Sitiios. Disttirbed napa- Scventeenlh of MhiiIi liih liaU.