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New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892

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am i mtm I^*-|4 craned toward him, while the military Major remarked that wonders would then, by an adroit inovement transferred ENSIGN RANSON. Whack! bang! crasht cllnkf Vs servants had thronged the door in rapt never cease. the wing of a ohicken from my Tho bringing up was awfully sudden attention, the simple question was 1 SCARCELY remember the starting plate to the paper, and thence smn*glod "There was nothing- more to be and uncertain. Sanscript ana the sled asked, ittomy pocket' point of our conversation, though its said. It was discovered that Ensign disappeared at abruptly as a shootingstar. ?-?& scene rises up before me vividly as "'Where is the General's jeweled was not only invitedtothe Castle with "The listening guests began to look Appointed to carry the Royal Belgian and U. S. Mails, sailing between The latter lay shiveredtoatoms box?' memory touches those magic plates the other officers, bnt was alio asked at each other with enlightened eyes. ^ANTWERP against a lamp-post and Sanscript lay TRAVELER'S GUIDE. which she keeps stored upin her mysterious "Nobody knew everybodysaidthathe there by himself and actually was believedtohave The spiteful old Major felt that a very l*\ shivering inthegrocery cellar opposite. chamber.^ had silently passed it ontohis fellow. taken tea with the General full explanation was being givenand When the off-runner of the sled collided Sleepy Eye Station. "The General rummaged his own There were several young people and Lady Elisabeth in their deepest he Was glad he was deaf, that he need with the lamp-post and stopped pockets, lest it had found its way back gathered in Mrs. Martin's parlor," a not hear it! retirement For the General's sake AND the vehicle, Sanscript rose like a circus-leaper to him and he had half consciously put room on the topmost story of a grand rather than his own, bis brother officers Gentlemen, yon can all imagine and went right on turning PHILADELPHIA Winona & Saint Peter Railway. it away. No, it was not there, and the old house in an old city square. In continued on courteous terms my feelings when such unlooked-for twenty somersaults to the second. He brave old fighting face looked a little that house Mrs. Martin had spent the with him and he had always been so circumstances threatened to expose my went through the grocery window as Eastern Die, Arrive, Depart. blank, and he murmured an excuse last happy married days of her early shy, and held himself so aloof, that poor little plan. Gentlemen, there are AlfD the circus-leaper goes through a paper about' how its loss would vex Lady Day Passenger *8,00[p.m. *5,25 a-m womanhood, and there it was her wish perhaps he did not discover there was i some of yon who were, like myself, NEW YORK. hoop. All the gingerbread horses and Elizabeth.' Night Pass'ger... 19,00 a.m. f3,30 p.m to remain till she died. The house was but little cordiality in their courtesy. young thenwhom it would hare been candy apples and other Christmas luxuries far too large and too costly for a widowed But it cannot be lost, General,* Freight *3,30 p.m. *6,25 a.m And presently ho exchanged into another as hard to meet after such a discovery were disarranged, of course. ALTERNATELY EVERY TWELVE DAYS. cried the officer in command of the woman's sole occupatfen, and so regiment, which went on foreign Freight *1,45 a.m. *5,15 p.m as it would have been had I really Sanscript's body struck a Western Reserve fort. In this room it was a few minutes she had retreated, up and up, until she service. __/ stolen the jewels.' The following Now and Strictly First -Class IronSt eamships sail in th Western Div. Arrive. Depart. cheese on the counter, scattering ago, and in this room it must be reached a solitude and a silence which "He was away for several years, Heaven forgive.us, Ranson, bnt I Accom.#3,15 p,m. *9,20 a.m line, viz: the skippers in consternation. The Watertown still. No gentleman, to his knowledge, the occupant of many a country Highstreet and in the fortunes of war he got rapidly can't say you are wrong,' said one VADERLAND, NEDERLAND, RHYLAND SWITZERLAND, WESTER i old skipper bounded five feet at an obtuse has it in his possession. Let the servants might have envied. The old promoted so that when he returned brave gentleman, who had been a Minnesota Valley Railway. LAND, BELGENLAND. angle, touching again for a second at the door come in, though, to lady herself rarely went out now, but home, though he was still fashionable dandy in those days, bnt The Steamers of this Line are of 3,5C0 tons burden, have been specially at the top step of the cellar stairs Arrive. Depart. the best of my belief, not one of them she did not lack visitors. There were young, he was no longer a poor nobody. who had a wife and sixchildren now. constructed for the trade, with double bottoms and sides, and for the in the rear of the store, and then, continuing Redwood Accora. *5,15 a.m. *8,05 p.m has approached the table since the box some with great names and great powers When he landed in his own Gentlemen, 1 did not fear the old STRENGTH, SAFETY, SPEED and COMFORT are unsurpassed, and in their like a diver into the Plutonic was brought out. Let the door be made I3T* Except Sunday, Except Monday, who, in the world of fashion, found country he found a letter awaiting him, man, honored and enriched by a grateful appointments and accommodations are not excelled by any Steamers afloat. depths below, he went feet foremost fast, and let our search be thorough.' Except Satmday. Freight arriving no temptation to forget their old friend written by one who bad sat near him country. The men whohave fought Antwerp forms the shoitest and most direct route to BELGIUM, SOUTHERN through the head of a hogshead, filled here from the East ,at 1,45 a. and there were many more, bright, The candles were brandished to and at that memorable dinner party, and the best battles of life have ever a pitiful GERMANY, the NETHERLANDS,AUSTRIA. SWITZERLAND and ITALY with something soft At first he was fro, under the tables, under the chairs, saucy lads, and sweet, enthusiastic m. canies passengers fiom Kasota. who was now residing in the old Castle respect for the poor and the friendless. uncertain whether the contents were PETER WRIGHT $ SONS, Gen'l Agents, 307 Walnut str., Philadelphia round the table drapery. But from no girls, who found with her a refuge and where the General and Lady Elizabeth To him I could lay bare my poor Freight going East at 5,15 p. m. cariies Orleans molasses or melted glucose. W. E. LAWRENCE, Manager, 119 East Randolph'str., Chicago, 111. point flashed out the brdliant beauty of a rest, where they could flutter their had then been guests. This letter little secret But my place then was passengeis on Saturdays only. Before he had time to investigate, the Tickets for all classes to and from all points in Europe, via^tlie Red Star and the little box. incipient wings safely and happily. pressed him in the warmest terms to among the youngthe young, who, JOHN A. WHITE, Agent. grocer and the two policemen came American Line, may be had of Still it must be here,' insisted the spend some of his earliest days in England I can only remember that, at that having never conquered, always despise down. The unhappy old boy was lifted lime, some great trial was running its Commandant, 'and surely no gentleman "yOSrBOBLETER. Sew Ulm, Minn. at this very Castle, and so give the defeatedthe vain, giddy youths, out of his sweet pickle and hauled off St. Paul & Sioux City R. R. course, and all England was eager for will think his honor infringed if many old friends who were in theextravagant with their fathers' money, to the station-house on a charge of Sioux City & St. Paul R. R. the sight of the evening papers, which each in turn is asked to empty the contents neighborhood an opportunity of meeting and' A VALUABL E INVENTION. malicious destruction of property. The one of us had brought in, and the contents of his pockets upon the tabic. I and congratulating him. Ensign Worthington & Sioux Falls R.R. 'Oh, come, Ranson,' cried one officer, grocer appeared soon after, and compromised of which we had been all eagerly myself will be the first to do so And Ranson, now Col. Ranson, smiled a it is your turn now with a vengeance. by John paying the following last.1 discussing, rashly giving our decided the sen ants slull be the little strangely when he read this invitation, Please to remember that tonight THEIOLD RELIABLE judgments on points over which the sMwMslJMl THE WORLD RENOWW ED but he wrote a very polite reply "Nobody could Jje expected to demur we are the abject and the defeatedand SIOUX CITY ROUTE Window sash flOOO jury of twelve "good men and true" and accepted it. at so simple and sensible a proposal, be merciful.' WILSON SEWING MACHINE Crushed cheese 1309 would have to spend many an hour of Hogshead molasses backed as it was by the honest "The Colonel laughed. And they Once mere he sat in the statelv old 48 2D Christmas goods weary consideration. 116 old officer instantly rattling out some could not tell whether it was with good banqueting-room of the fort 'This The People's Favorite Line, crown pieces and a tobacco pouch, faith or subtle irony that he rejoined, time he had not walked in from the One witness came in for our special Total S71 36 Then the boy came in with a bill of half-pence, and an old pipe. One aftei 'You are right,' and then went on: bleak east end of the town, but had animadversion. In her cross-examination In workmanship Is equal to a Chronometer Watch, and $6 for his sled, to say nothing of the the other, tbe gentlemen on either In that little room yonder, I told been driven from the Castle in the some question had been put to her as elegantly finished as a first-class Piano. It received BETVt EEN loss of a suit of clothes, a surgeon's side of the table followed his example, my sad storytothat good, great man chanot of the Castle's owner. But as which she had declined to answer, -and MINN ESOTA the highest awards at the Vienna and Centennial Expo- bill for plastering sundry skinned surfaces, while sharp but not unfriendly eyes who is gone. And I folded up my he took his seat in the chair of honor, on appealing to the Judge whether she sitions. I SEWS ONE-FOURTH FASTER than other and the bill of a hackman who took eager note of strange pieces of queer treasure again for I could not he notit id that every face at the table was compelled to do so, had received an AND machines. Its capacity is unlimited. There are more conveyed the fainting wife home. In personal property, and of dainty threecornered leave it behind to bear witness and, was, in all its changes, familiartohim. answer in the negative. NEBRASKA, COLORADO, the cooler moments of afterthought, notes, which might serve in beside, having paid such a terrible All of the guests at the former dinner WILSON MACHINES sold In the United States than "We all*-know what that means," Sanscript reckoned it up and discovered CALIFORNIA, the future as material for badinage and price for it, I did not see why my aunt were not there. Many of those, indeed, the combined sales of all the others. The WILSON was the dictum of our juvenile leader, that it had cost him 9109.78tore- quizzing. should not have it And she ate it for he well knew, were steeping on in uhich we all heartily concurred. Missouri, Kansas and Texas. MENDING ATTACHMENT for doingall kinds of repairing. call recollections of fifty years ago, and her supper that night, and next morning, battle-fields far awa But nobody was But one drew back when the Commandant If what she must have answered WITHOUT PATCHING, given FREE with each machine. required but one minute and five seconds almost as soon as it was light at this dinner who had not been at that made his proposal. That FirsUOlass in all its {AppointmentsElegant would have been to her credit, she of old Father Time in which to SSI WILSON SEWING MACHINE CO. Sleeping Coaches, Millei Platfoims, Westinghonse there was the General hammering at other one. young man who had walked in from would not have hesitated, whethe the Automatic Air Brake*, anil all the approved appliaact do the recollecting.Cincinnati Enquirer. the cottage door, with a basket of "Once more the dishes were removed, Wethe eastern end of the town dropped question was justifiable or not. for fowls and fruit, carried in his own and the servants withdrawn. suddenly into his seat, whence ho had SPEED, SAFETY, and COMFORT. maj be sure that her answer would hand. And, then and there, I took s) 829 Broadway, New York New Orleans, La. The guest of this evening was no wonderful risen in thefirsteagernessof the search. piobably have evoked some further this little chicken-bone, and vowed Keeping Farm Accounts. story-teller, like the good old He passed his hand once or twice, question, with results still more discreditable Cor. Stite& Madiso Sts., Chicago, Ills. and San Francisco, Cal. ^VICTOIt% Ten Hours Time .and Hundreds of that I would keep it till the snuff-box General, who had now passedtohis nervously, through his hair, leaving it to her." Probably there is no class of men Miles Distance Saved, by was found, and I myself was such a rest. Col. Ranson was taciturn as Ensign wild and straggling. And then he There was quite a little chorus of assent doing business, whoneglect to tbte same man among such men that none would taking this Route. Ranson had been shy, and he even watched blankly, as the fruitless search on this point only Mrs. Martin extent that our farmers do the investigating smile at my poverty, or even despise let the conversation flag, and never drew nearer to himself. Within five as quite silent, and gave her knittingneedle For Through Tivkets, Time Tibles, or other information, of the operations ot each year. my weakness.' applv to your Local Agent, or to the seemed to notice it minutes later, one or two of the officers a peculiar shift, which we had The merchant keeps his cash account, Genaial Ticket Agent St Paul "That is my story," said good Mrs. Colonel," said the eldest gentleman were whispering to each other that any long learned to recognize as what which shows what moneys have passed Tiama pins Kasota Station as follow* Martin, deftly folding up the stocking of the party, speaking with visible simpleton might have seen he did not would be described in parliamentary through his hands during the year. Cioingr East. which she had finished off while she effort, and giving a slight cough to e\pect it could be found. language as "murmurs of dissent." He also keeps his expense account, 8t Paul Express 7 10 a in StPaolaccom 12.45 related it That is my story, as told veil his embarrassment 'Colonel, I His turn was the very last. 'En- "Pon'tjou think so, too?" asked which shows what it has cost him to Ooing West. me by my own uncle, who was at both titest think we all remember another time sign Hanson,' said the Commandant, one* oi us, turning to the old lady with Omaha Kxpress 7 07 St Jnmes a ccommodation ug run his store, and in this account is those dinner-parties. And it has always when we dined together here.' steadily. Ensign Hanson was certainly 12 27 that deference which wc always felt to oharged clerk hire, rent insurance, taught me not to be too sure that the iirst who had required to be called Certainly, I remember it answered J. W. Bishop, J. F. Lincoln, he due to her, even when her wisdom taxes, etc., etc. Then at the end of the there can be but one sort of reason for upon by name. tbe Colonel, lifting his gray Gen. Manager, Supt. Jear diftei ed from that of oui contemporary he takes an inventory of goods on secrecy! My dears, we should never eyes, with a cool light in them. W. II. Dixon, General Ticket Agent. The youth arose. And though the Solomon. and, and is able to strike a balance think evil when it is possible for us to 'Colonel, we fancy you think some rest of his face was of a deadly whiteness, My dear, it may be sobut it may and see what the result of the year's imagine good. I believe that it is because THE of us did you ill-justice then. At least, there was a spot of burning red not," she answered. "I know a little business has been. If he finds that it God knows of so much goodness CHICAGO, a lady saysyou felt so Lady Elizabeth, on each cheek. stoi on thisvery point I knew agentlcman is unfavorable, he has before him the which we never hear about that He the good old General's widow. If what I don'tthink anyhe gentleman*should, who was present when the incident data from which he can make calculations said. I will has patience with the world."The Milwaukee I St. Paul this,1 we are goingtodo is in any way painfultoyou be asked to do happened." for the future. He perhaps finds Argosy. I hope you will pardon us, give my word of honor that the box is We were all attention. A story was that he has overstocked with certain for we are only following her counsel. not upon my person. I did not even not to be slighted, even when told to Railway, kinds of goods which soon become unsalable, TEN TEARS AFTER. Colonel, there was a box tost that evening. keep it in my hands for a moment I prove ourselves in the wrong. or he discovers that there is no Here it is.' merely took it and passed it on.* Well," said Mrs. Martin, many demand in the market for some articles It THE VERY BEST LINE TEH yeara ago. when she waa ton, Where was it found?' years back, long before I was born, Too high-minded even to look at which he has supposed were necessary roit I wed to tease and scold her "His composure was exceedingly to keep in stock. Or he may find it and that is nearly sixty years ago, a such gew-gaws,' sneered a spiteful old I liked her, and the lored me tben, disconcerting. Another gentleman, WINONA, LV CROSSE, SPARTA, A boy some five yean older. necessary to reduce the number of his joung man came out of a little house Major, under his breath. feeling that the first had done his part OWATONNA, PRAIRIE clerks. The point we wishtomake is at the eastern end of a town by the sea What men high in the service and I liked her, she would fetch my book now took up the parable. CTIIEN, MCGREGOR, thisthat a merchant who is worthy of Bnns lunchtostream or thicket There was plenty of life and gayety at old enough to be his father have already SAVE 25 DOLLARS It was found in the very chair on Wonldoil my son or bait my hook. MADIfeON, 4 the name, keens such an account of his the other end of the town, which was done, Ensign Hanson may safely And field for hours at cricket. MILWADKEE, CHICABO, business as to be able to tell just where which you are seated, Colonel,' he enlivened by one or two barracks, a do also,' said the Commandant, with a She'd mend my cap, or find my whip, the loss has been, if there has been any. said. You will remember that the fort and a castle. But the eastern end severity that was not unkindly, for Ah! bnt boys' hearts are atonyt The merchant does this at a heavy expense, General sat thereon that night. It was very poor, and would have been young Ranson looked such a boy and more, by buying a machine that will last you a life time, and that has all the And all Intel mediate Points in JUked her rather less than "Gyp,** because he finds it absolutely must have found its way back into the quite lonely but for thefishermenand And far less than my pony. among the crowd of men, mostly stout Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northern Iowa, latest improvements necessarytothe success of his business. General's own hand, and in the interest their boats. The house from which and middle-aged and the very suspicion t VICTOR BEWING MACHINE CO., Bhe loved me then, tho' Heavenknows why, Now the object of this article istourge and excitement of his own storytelling, the young man came was beyond even suddenly lowering over him made NEW YORK, Small wonder had she hated. (Literal Terms to Agents.] 199 AND 201 WABASH AVE upon farmers the importance of keeping Adam St Chicago, Il. For scores of dolls she'd had to cry he must have intended to slip this homely bustle, and was little more the old officer think of his own lads, Co Whom I decapitated. PHILADELPHIA, Send for Circular. accounts with their business in it back into his pocket which, if you than a wooden hut, tarred to defend it growing up, and not quite sureto do I tore her frocks. I pulled her hair, order that they may know where their recollect, was the first place where he from wind and weather. Its only near well for themselves after all. BALTIMORE, {Jailed red" tbe sheen upon it losses occurif there are suchand Out fishing I would even dare sought it. Instead of that it evidently neighbor was a windmill, whose j*aunt I would ne\er have asked it for WASHINGTON, J. ESTEY & COMPANY, Catch tadpoles in her bonnet. that they may intelligently plan for the escaped theproperorifice, and dropped arms were almost over its humble roof the sake of my bo\,' observed the General, New England, the Canadas, and all future. into the covering of the chair that and, though its windows and doorstep Well, now I expiate my crime, leaning back in his chair, and inwardly The Nemesis of fables EASTERN and SOUTHERN POINTS. covering was very thick and heavy, Even if tbe farmer keeps only a cash were clean and its curtains white, ft wondering what Lady Elizabeth Game after yean. To-day old Time and hung in lappets about his legs. account he can look it over and see was clearly a poor place, where none would say of his carelessness. On mo has turned the tables. Fart of it was unsewn, and this box how much has been paid out for labor, but very poor people would live. But we ask it for the sake of our 2 Hotxt I'm twenty-five, she's twenty now, dropped between the damask and the how much for stock, seed and implements, Unrk-cyed, pink-cheeked and bonny honor, General,' said the Commandant, But the young man who came out Ihe curls are golden round her brow. and what the gross receipts of lining, and remained there safely and testily. was in the full dress of a military officer, "Johnny.4 She smiles and calls me the farm are. Strangetosay, the majority unseen, ti the chair was recovered AND 'And we do not seem tohave asked though that was screened from Of yore I used A#r Christian name. 3 DAILYBetween TRAINSJ of farmers do not even do this, last year. it needlessly,' whispered the spiteful fii st view by the long gray cloak which But now, through fate or malice. and at the end of the year, if they find Major. When she is by my lips can't frame Gentlemen,' said the Colonel, the wild March wind made so necessary. they are coming out behindhand, it is Five letter* to make Alice." Between with his accustomed calmness, though St. Paul and Minneapolis and Chicago, "1 will not do this thing!' cried the He looked back and waved his impossible for them to tell what has his lip trembled a little. 'Icannot young Ensign, passionately, and he hand toward the little house, as if he I, who could Joke with her aad tease. eaused the loss. The keeping of a Stand nlent now before her wonder if some of you thought my conduct looked wildly round the group as if he knew that somebody there was watching cash account will occupy but a few Dumb through tbe very wish to please, The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Is suspicious. I thank you heartily sought for one face that would: comprehend him, though, certainly, nobody A speechless, shy adorer. the only Northwestern Line connecting in same depot minutes each day, and, with a little in Chicago with any of the Great Kastern and for showing me your brotherly delight and compassionate his misery. could be seen from the outside. And practice, will become easy. If you Or. if she turnstometospeak. Southern Hallways, and is the most comeniently that those suspicions were unfounded.' The face which looked the kindest was thcu he turned and struggled against I'm dazzled by her graces would be accurate, it will be necessary located with refeience to reaching an) depot, Hotel At the bottom of the table sat the that of the old General himself, partly the strong gale which blew in from the The hot blood rushestomy cheek, orpine* of business in that City to carry a pocket memorandum and 1 babble commonplaces. Through Tickets and Through Baggage Checks to spiteful old Major (he was on half pay because it was not his hospitality sea put down every penny received or paid all Principal Cities now, and more spiteful than ever), and which was outraged, partly because ont, at the time, and then copy into He was quite young, and his face Steel Hail Track, thoroughly ballasted, free from I wish she blushed and faltered he thought within himself that there his genial nature was terribly shocked dust Westinghonse Improved Automatic Air your book in the evening or, if you WT? finely cut, and would have been Bhe likes me and I love her now Brake, Miller's Safety Platform and Coupling on all was no knowing whether Ensign Ranson at finding anything of his the cause of are tired and busy, it can be postponed pit tsant but for a look of stern and Dear, dear! how things have altered! Passenger Cai had not taken some subsequent opportunity such a wretched act of dishonor. -London Graphic. till a rainy day. Jt is best, however, The Finest Day Coaches and Palace Sleeping Cars painful sorrow, not unmixed with bitterness, of getting rid of his dangerous This Road Connects inoreBusinessCentres.Henlth that it should be done every day. 'If the General will come with me which seemed strangely incongruous and Pleasure Resorts, and passes through a finer booty into the hole in the damask, AN Irish agent, having been instructedtoraise to the ante-room,' said the youngeman, with his years and his dress. country, with grander scenery, than any other 1 will convince him that I hav not Keeping accounts with any particular and thatthe mystery could not be called rents, called a meeting of 4 Northwestern Line "He walked on quite through the field or crop is a very simple matter. J.ieo.-rrontVIew cleared up unless the Colonel had explained CARPENTER, the tenants and apprised them of the touched his box. But this public exposure Wo. leo.-BackVlew. tow n. There were few people taking Gen Pass and Ticket Ag't. Indoing this you should charge a why he had demurredtothe intention. "You can afford it he I will not submit to our consent ex* i ise for pleasure in that rough S MERRILL, JNO CAULT, fair rent per acreforthe land, then all search. And this spiteful old Major said see how prices have risen." A General Manager. Asa't Gen'IM'ger was not asked, and wt her, and the crowd of shipping in BRATTLEB0R0. VT. labor, seed, etc., and credit the field would have said as much to his next silence was broken by an old farmer, Certainly not!t" Out upon youP the i own made the seaward view alless THE with grain produced at market value. General, you mus not think of in neighbor, if he himself had not been so who said: "Yes, there's no denying on 4 lonely than the shore. It was The account with a ten-acre wheat terribly deaf that he could not regulate that It used to cost only a pound to dulging his insolent request,' were the ft* simple little town, with redtil' field would be something like this: CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN his own voice between a confidential get an agent shot and now, be jabers, only sentences audiblo in the general decent dwelling-houses, crowded I gentif**per acre $ 00 whisper and a mighty shout it can't be done under two." The rents Our new Organ, expressly designed for Sunday Schools, hubbub that arose on every side. foi rdtowardthe sea, as if their inmaics BreaUiw.SclayLat.flB0 3D 00 have not yet been raised. Chapels, etc., is proving a "But the General rose. 'Gentlemen,'he The Colonel sat in silence for some wantedtowatch the boatmen and Harrowingand rolling 15 00 said quietly, 'I have never minutes, and toyed with his wine-glass, fisln rs from as near a point as they IS THE Oldest, yet refused to listen to anenemy's petition. as if he quite forgot where he was. MlOttnahebaMtf! WOO nnit Wherever the houses broke Hew Sanscript Recalled Recollections Best Constiucted, If you can satisfy me, sir, perhaps Then he recalled himself with a start, sure to send for full descriptive Catalogue before apart, one caught glimpses of a wild, Drilling, at00o peracre 600 ef fifty Years Ago. Most Piogressive, purchasing any other. your comrades will take my word and, drawing something from his own fiat country, dotted here andthere with Barrestug,ate) peracre 20 00 Haulin and thrashing could be ba Rest Equipped, for you.' pocket, said quietly: weird trees in Indian file and the The boys were coasting down Sycamoip ance against the straw. Whefn the Total THE LARGEST WORKS (OF THE KIND) ON THE GLOBE 120 00 Ablest Managed, jouth looked wistfully toward these "There was a murmur of very reluctant Gentlemen, 1, too, have something street Hill, last evening, when wheat is thrashed, credit the field with HFNfE THE to show you.' desert fields, as if he would fain have acquiescence, as the Ensign John Sanscript and his wife came it at the market price, and find what MOST struck away across them, instead of bowed and waited respectfully to follow JREXJXAJBXJE All pressed forward as he carefully along. They had been up on Baltimore the cost per bushel was and the profit Illustrated Catalogue sent free. going on, as he did, toward the grim the General to the ante-chamber. unfolded the soft paper packet and laid street visiting, and were on their Railway Corporation of the entire or loss per acre or per bushel. A similar old fort They had not disappeared behind the something on the table. What was it? WEST AND NORTH-WEST way home. account could be kept with a cornfield, PATENTS heavy curtains before all sorts of surmises What could it be? 'let there, it was clear, fe-4hity "Just see them boys," said John, as which would enable the farmer and by its accelerated growth hasextended itsvarious weie whispered round the table, Ayer's "It was the bleached skeleton of a as going forward, and 1 i. ty OK es he braced up at the intersectionof Mulberry to answer intelligently the question, Unas and branches to such proportions and by guesses and hints so wild and so sinister chicken's wing. .reeted him as he pissed ihe graj eld street It really reminds me of iti extreme liberality has acquired that Coveted What does it costtoraise a bushel of as to do credit neithertothe heads Popularity that makes it really what it claims to portal. And then, over his stern. *ad the days when I was a lad. Do you wheat or corn?" while at present there 'Gentlemen,' he said, in that same Sarsaparilla be, the Leading Railway of the West obtained for Invetors, in the United Stitts, Can nor the hearts which originated them. face he dropped a mask cf g-n ctj, and know, Jane, that I usedtocoast down arc few who can give an intelligent answer. aad Nortn-West Embracing under one quiet voice, which no longer sounded da, and Europe, at reduced rates W ith our princl The General and the Ensign staid a Management 8,15 8 Mile* of Read and pal Office located in Washington, directly opposite though he relapsed into silence at hill on a sled that wayP' More than this, it couldnotfail cold andstern, butratherfull of strength United States Patent Oftrc, \te are able to attend to longer lime in the ante-room than forming the following Trunk Lines: times, he was as polite and con\ersible "Did you, John?" to make better farmers of them, for andsweetness, when I was herebefore, lal Patent Business with greater promptness and would bfcvc sufficed to search the Ensign's Chicago, Council Bluffs & California Line, as the best of them. "Wny, yes but that's fifty years dispatch and less cost, than other patent attorneys, they would soon learn that the profit I was a poor fatherless lad, owning Chicago, Sioux Citj ft Yankton Line, pockets twice and thrice over. fjfe For Scrofula, and all ago!" j*ho areata distance from Washington, and who There was preparation for a dm in farming comes from good crops, nothing in the world but my poor little Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque La Crosse Line, have, therefore, to employ "associate ittorneys Not a sound could be heard. If any scrofulous diseases, Erysipelas, ner-party in the fine stiff old hall, with Sanscript scratched bis head contemplatively, aud that poor crops Were ofte produced Chicago, Freeport 8c Dubuque Line, pittance of pay. 1 fear 1 was an eyesoretosome We make preliminary examinations and furnish conversation was going forward, it Rose, or St. Anthony's Chicago, La Crosse, Winona Minnesota Line, opinions as to patentability free of charge, and all and then muttered, sottovoce."Dura its rows of military portraits, and its at an actual loss. For instance, of you. I think you felt Chicago, St Paul & Minneapolis Line, who are interested in new in niion* and Patents must ha\e been in a very low voice. Fire, Eruptions and my grand-daddy's buttons, if I dingy, blood-stained banners. The castle, the wheat crop alone, if it produced 19 that my appearance did not do justice are invited to send for a copy of our "Guide for obtaining Chicago, Milwaukee & Lake Superior Line, The two gentlemen were away for nearly Eruptive diseases of the don't try itP' the barracks and the fort itself had Patents," which is sent free to any address, bushels to the acre, would cost $1 a Chicago, Green Bay & Lake Superior Line to the dignity of our regiment I believe half an hour. All the military servants and contains complete instructions how to obtain skin, Ulcerations of the The advantages of these Lines are eagerly furnished guests to welcome "Try what dearP" anxiously asked bushel if only 10 bushels per acre, it I often looked rather shabby, bnt Patents, and other aluablc matter We refer to had been subjected to the Commandant's 1. If the passenger is going to or from any point Mrs. S. Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, the visitor of the day, a grand old General would cost 91.20 per bushel, while if it really I could not help it the German-American National Bank, W tshington, in the entire West and North-West, he can buy his rigid scrutiny, andthendismi?sed DC the Koyal Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Lungs, Pimples, Pustules, recently returned from honorable I'm going to coast just once,torevive yielded 25 bushels per acre, the cost tickets ii some one of this Company's lines and "I had only one relative in the It gentlemebe might as well regimente that non Legations, at Washington, Hon Joseph Casey, late be sure of reaching his destination it or Its connections recollections offiftyyears ago." victories in the south of Europe. Boils, Blotches, Tumors, would be but 48 cents per bushel. of the world, ana that was my mother's sister. Chief Justice 8 Court of Claims, to the Officials 4 but the "Kow, John, if I were you" Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald The farmer who, by a system of accounts, of the S Patent Office, and to Senators and "To our ideas of to-day," said Mrs. After my mother died she had 2 The greater part of its lines are laid with Steel should know exactly what the end was. Members of Congress from every State Butyou are not me, so don't interfere. _--- Head, Ringworm, Ulcers, is able thustostrike a balance Martin, shaking her dear, whitecapped Rails, the road bed is perfect No road has a better been as a mothertome, but when our The delay grew first awkward and then or smoother track 3 It is the short line between Here, sonny (to a lad just puffed with his fields and ascertain the cost of head, there was perhaps bores, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in Address: LOUIS BAGGER dc Co., Solid, home was finally broken up, there was ail important points 4 Its trains are all equipped awful. Even the whispers and rumors up the hill with his sled) here, sonny, orgidPatents and Attornejs at Liw Le Droit production, is not likely to continue to great deal in that dinner-table con the Bones, Side and Head, Female with the Westinghonse Air Brake, Miller's Platform nothing for it but she must be a governess (lagged into an intent and excited Building, WASHINGTON, I'll give you a quarter to let me slide and Couplers and the latest improvements for comfort, produce crops at a loss, for he is acting versation which ought not to have Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhcea, arising in a stranger's house. Andshe watching. safety and convenience 5 It is the only Road down on your sled once." intelligently. If he has been producing been. We have left off openly despising from internal ulceration, and Uterine did her work courageously and cheerfully in the West running the Pullman Palace Sleeping The bargain was eagerly nailed and "At last the General and the Ensign twenty acres each of corn and our then enemies, the French, Cars either way between disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial diseases, enough till her health failed, and WEED Dyspepsia,Purifying for Emaciation,eth clinched. came out The Ensign's face was still wheat and from the small yield getting or speaking of any foreign allies much Chicago and St. Paul, Dropsy, nobody wanted the service of a sick md y' "Bekeerful, oldman," urged theboy, very pale, what flush remained upon the bare cost of cultivation, his account as if they were vermin, whom it was Chicago and Green Bay, Del)lht woman. BlS as Sanscript squatted rather awkwardly SEWING MACHINES it had now mountedtothe eyes. The book will show him that half our good pleasure for the time being to Chicago and Freeport, She had always been goodtome. on the sled "be keerfnl, I say, and Ensig Ranson has histhoroughly beold General was blowing nose. this land in grass and the other half support and protect. Let us not This Sarsaparilla is a combination of Chicago and La Crosse, 4 And we two had only each other in the 4 don't let her flunk one way or 'tother better manured and cultivated, might afraid to condemn our honorable vegetable alterativesStillmgia, Mandrake Chicago and Winona, 4 world. I could not help her as she till shebringsup, oryou'llgit mashed." give him a profit We know from experience i grandfathers in that wherein Ave think Yellow Dockwit8kiMllIodidesyethh"tmosethsidan,eraIron Chicago and Dubuque, com ought to have been helped, but my pay satisfied me,' he said, in his most genial NEW MODEL "Never mind, younker," assured that keeping farm accounts they were wrong. Only let us humbly of Potassium and Chicago and McGregor, would at least provide her such a home voice. Never mind my box. "It John "I've been here aforesome will make one a more careful farmer, remember that, strive as we may, we medicintee efficacious yet known for Chicago and Milwaukee. and such maintenance as a poor working has vanished by one of those mysterious -HA-5- years afore, but" and feel that we can give no better advicetoour ourselves shall still say and do many itdis the diseaseg, i intended to cure." man can give to a poor working accidents which will happen 7 It is the only road passing along the shores of AUTOMATIC TENSIONS, jI^Jl! But what will never be known, for readers than that they at things which, as we believe in God and Lake Michigan between Chirago and Milwaukee. woman. sometimes It will be found some just then the sled, of its own accord, once begin to practice it Practical progress, our still more fortunate descendants The only road running Four Express Trains a day. And, now, gentlemen, perhaps, I took my aunt to lodge with the bined, that the full alterative effect of ELEGANT WOODWORK, diiyvia its lines between Chicago and points in started down hill, and even John himself Farmer. will characterize as 111-as we have been thus broken up, we Minnesota 9 No road offers equal facilities in each is assured, and while it is so mildastobe wife of the miller's man, in the little has not since been able to recall AND RUNS LIKE A TOP. indged and perhaps wicked. We can number of through trains, equipped with Pullman shall not settle down again very comfortably harmless even to children, it isstill black cottage beside the mill. She what he was about to observe. The Palace Sleeping Cars 10. It runs Two Express but do our very best according to the to-night. I hope we shall see so effectual asto purge out from the was a kind, cleanly woman, though Trains Daily each way on all its lines and four WHILE Eastern oysters planted in surprise at the sled's unexpectedmovement 50 CAMS, NO GEAfcS, NO SPRINGS, light which is vouchsafed to the world you all at the Castle before Lady Elizabeth trains each way between Chicago and Milwaukee. system those impurities and corruption* rough and plain in her ways, and my California waters have grown faster was general. in ourday. 11 It makes connections with all lines crossing at and 1 leave for London.' AND NO NOISE. which develop into loathsome disease. poor aunt used to call herself very and larger, they have not been known intermediate points Look out" yelled the boy. "After dinner, when ceremony was happy there. Bat she could not eat General,' said the Commandant, Ihe reputation it enjoys is derived The popularity of these lines is steadily Inereas. to increase in numbers, but the San "Oh, John," screamed Mrs. Sanscript This BEST Machine fairly thawed, the old General, in the inp and passengers should consult their interest by the simple food my scaniymeans could from its cures, and the conidence wWch drawing him a little to one side, 'may Francisco AUa says that recently on purchasing tickets via this line kindliness and pride of his heart, displayed procure. And the good landlady used 1 say that I sincerely trust your great the Alameda shore, up in a creek, For information, Folders, Maps, &c, not obtain- Whoa, there!" yelled John. Can be sold at Hard Times Prices. ^experience- a little box which had been ableCompanyeoTicket at Hom Office, address any agent or to break my heart by suggesting that W generosity has not led you to' where the spat had been carried for the But the sled wouldn't whoa. It ro o7ul^ 1 Siven to him by some Grandee of her appetite mightbe tempted by chickens 'Sir.' cried the old General, 'can miles on the tide, has been found abed seemed to have set off down that bill INSIST UPON SEEING I pain. I think it must have been too or game, or such otherluxuries beyond W H. 8TENNETT, MARVIN HUGHITT, you imagine that any mistaken idea of Eastern oysters as large as those Certificates attesting its virW, h*. to beat its best time. John had chance small for a snuff-box, and was probably Gen. Pass- Ag't, Chicago Gen. Blang'r, Chicago. my utmost reach. of kindness would cause me to make temptingly displayed in the markets accumulated, and arf conU^?bw Circulars and Price-Lists on application to only to clutch hold of both sides and one of those tiny trifles in which fashionable you a companion of thieves? Gentle- and at the saloons. Thediscovery was "All the day of that memorable dinner-party received, and as many of Sets case??rf S WEE 8. Co., nold his breath for fear the wind would folk used to carry comfits and CHICAGO III men,' he went on, seeing that the comEany made while diggingforclams, and: the my aunt hadbeenvery feeble Dlow off thetopof his head. The only lozenges. At any rate, this box was were not unaware of his little find caused great rejoioing. andfailing. When I left her I really evidence of the superiority of this Sarov thought he had time to foster wae that FOR SALE Petersoai," *.,^^V~ set with diamonds and colored gems of ^ery otlir aUektiva^ S. y-play, I pledge vontoyword that I wondered whether she would be alivo the boy must have greased the sled's DAVIS & DODGE, PROPRIETORS. A* Albany man is reported to have rare value, and it passed from hand to m. am satisfied of Ensign Hanson's honor, when I saw her again. Mysoulrevolted runners as a practical Joke. And if medicine. So generally is its suneri-^ built op an extensive business, within hand, flashing brightly in the lamplight, Comfortable Rigs, SpeedyJHoises, and whoever darestodoubt him makes Hew Uta, Mill. at the sight of dainties which were this was coasting, he had never coasted, A- a few yean, onasimplesmall ironcastingforstiffening J^Si while the old warrior told dread metobe his accomplice.' no goodtome, and which I could not j&i2" find- ,f3#? if his recollection served him right the heels of boots aad & we need do no more than to assure tiJa^ stories of his campaigns, and of the "And the old General seised the convey to her who seemed dying for &fV*V Prompt Atteatloii^ '& shoes. About three tons of these castings Two-thirds the way down the hilTthe daring and honor of his men. v^ Ffarms, young Ensign's arm and marched him want of them. Suddenlv, a brightidea are made every month. Travelers carried to any point at RKASOVABLK sled struck anteehummock, and immediately P'weaBea are strictly maintained. OR SALEFour or five improved "But, suddenly, at the end of a story RATXS. Given*.a call, Stable on Main St., Weet I from the banqueting-room, while every seised me. I took letter fromm his course was changed to a tuning SS' toidTtad bSS aSSTOSr^SS in this and Nicollet oountv. of Revert House, SLEEPY EYR, MINN. *BBPAKBDBT pocket and spread it on my parabolic curve, mlfM. For particulars inquire ot jTnso, CBOXE. 4