Hans Thorpe, who is now confined in the Minot jail on the charge of wife-murder, sends us the following poetic gem, with request to publish:

Oh! Many a shaft at random sent
Finds a mark the archer little meant;
And many a word at random spoken
May soothe or wound the heart that's broken."

Williston Graphic, 2/8/1900

The poem quoted was written by Sir Walter Scott.