sorts of conveyances,
and held meetings in country stores and school houses; ate and slept in
the lowly cabins of the farmers, but everywhere Mr. Windom felt at home,
and made every body else feel at ease also. I was afterward with him
often and in many places,--from the executive mansion in Washington to
the frontier cabin in the west,--and for the last time in New York city,
when he went there in August, 1890, to save the nation from a financial
crisis, but never did I notice any difference in his conduct toward the
humblest laborer or the highest in power. In sorrow and adversity he was
a tender friend; in manners he was a Chesterfield; in the senate a
Roman, and in the treasury department a Hamilton. By his death the
nation, the state of Minnesota, and his numerous friends, among whom for
many years I had the honor to be counted, sustained a heavy loss.

Soon after the close of the campaign I commenced to publish a Swedish
weekly newspaper called _Minnesota Stats Tidning_, in Minneapolis, to
which place I had just removed with my family, and continued as its
chief editor until the summer of 1881.

In 1877 friends in Chicago and myself started another Swedish weekly,
called _Svenska Tribunen_, in that city, and for some time I had the
actual management of both papers, dividing my time between Minneapolis
and Chicago. My aim in this journalistic work was mainly to instruct and
educate my countrymen in such matters as might promote their well-being
and make them good American citizens. The _Stats Tidning_, or at least a
part of it, gradually became a kind of catechism on law and political
economy, containing information under the heading "Questions and
Answers." This was intended especially for the Swedish farmers in the
state. If a farmer was in doubt as to his legal rights in the case of a
road, a fence, the draining of a marsh, or wished to know how to cure a
sick horse or other animal, or how he could get money sent from Sweden,
or if he wished advice or information on any other question relating to
everyday life, especially if he got into trouble of some kind, he would
write to the _Stats Tidning_ for the desired information. Such letters
were then printed in condensed form and followed by short, clear,
pointed answers, and, so far, I have not heard of a single person being
misled by those answers. On the other hand, I know that the public, and
more especially the newcomers, reaped very great benefits from them.