t^ mm*mmmmmmmi \imm.\mnmm*mm 'j^n^^^i,1^1 ',"'J "T7" S*-J.^-A 1 MINNESOTA HEWS. tempting- to furap on a moving train, "IT SIGHT HATE BIE3." ought to make a better match. Moore days, or you can buy outright. I Frank thrust a bank book in the reached the lower step, but did not gain is a very nice young fellow, I ownjl'd should recommend the latter. You old man's hand. Mr Duke opened it their balance, and the shock of jumpingtogether find it hard to replace him in the iactoiy. A word unspoken, a hand unpressed, see your margin will be ten per cent, and looked up in astonishment. from the stone step threw them to STATJE INSTRUCTION. "But I don't want him for a the platform. Miller rolled directly un- look unseen, or a thoucht unguessed, on the par value, which is 100, and "Nassau bank! a hundred ande eigh- WThy, wher did And souls that were kind red may live apart, son-in-law. You ought to look for not on the selling price which is 9. der the wheels of the baggage car. while ty odd thousand! Never to meet or know the truth. some one higher." Rudy rolled away from them, calling to Now, if you buy at ten days, you can you get it?" iteresting Statistics from the Report of tlio Never to- know how heart beat with heart the engineer as he fell to stop the cars. "Higher, papa. Do you want me to only get, say about twenty-two shares, "Soaght B., S. andW. buyer 10, State Superintendent of SchoolsDaily Attendance In the dim past days of wasted youth. The train was ptopped within a car length, be married by a son of Anak. Frank's for you must keep some back to nil ana so on." and Per Capita TaxRecommendations but not before Mr. Miller had been horribly She shall not know how his pulses leapt six foot and an inch," your margin in case it falls." "Gambling in stocks, and the firm's MadeComparatire Statements. crushed and was dead. James G- Miller When over his temples her tresses swept "Stuff! you know what I mean. "Fill up my margin?" was about thirty years of age and unmarried. money going throug your hands." The fourth bienniel report of Superintendent &Ve As she leaned to give him the jasmine wreath Don't talk that way to me. There is He was a native of Pennsylvania, "Yes I have explained that on the "I beg your pardon, Mr. Duke, but of Instruction Kiehle was made She felt his breath, and her laceflushedred but for a number of years has lived at Van Stopel, who is half crazy after paper. But if you buy outright you I used my own money. I never was pubic recently. The report is quite-voluminous. With the passionate love that choked her Champaign, 111. For six years he was you. Do you mean to give up millions will get twenty-seven shares, for you in the street before, and I shan't breath, casheir of the Champaign National bank. for nothing?" will have no margin to fill, and your And saddens-herlifenowher youth is dead. go again." He went to Minneapolis last July to take It shows that the number of pupils enTolled "Not quite nothing, papa. Frank profits will be more. If you were And then he told the story of his charge of the North Minneapolis bank, of in the public schools during A faded woman who waites for death, has over twenty-two thousand to put ten thousand dollars or more which institution he has-been cashier. venture, and the great stroke of the 1885 entitled to appointment was And murmurs a name beneath her breath dollars." into the transaction, it would be different. great operator. 325,215 in 1886, 243,059, not entitled At a dance at Montgomery,. Le Sueur A cynieal man who scoffs and jeers Then a responsible broker, able "But how did you know? Did he to apportionment in 1885, county, a fight took place between Bohe- At woman ght-timelove and in, the open day, "Twenty-two thousand fiddlesticks! kisses with bitter tears, to carry the amount, either by his own And at 8,506 in 1886, 8,994. The average dailyS^ians and Irish, in which clubs, knives, take you in?" Why! Van Stopel could settle a hundred attendance in 1885 was 118,697 in 1886, A faded fragment of jasmine spray. revolvers and other weapons were freely means or through credit, would treat "No, but"he was going to say thousand dollars on you for pin 126,893. The number of persons in the used. the stock, which has kept uniform "Milly took him in," but he didn't. money, and never miss it. You must state between the ages of five and twentyone A committee of the Minneapolis council price so lon, as favorably as "he would TURNING A COENEE. He merely added, "I had a hint from send Moore about his business." years, in 1885, was 387,402 in 1886, decides to recommend an ordinance compelling a dividend-paying stock, and give you Milly." Millicent shook her head. estimated, 405,805. The number of electric wires to be placed underground. a contract *at five, and possibly at Duke whistled and then he laughed. teachers employed in 1885 was: Males, "What! You wouldn't be married Peter Duke, of the firm of Duke & three per cent. With your small 790 females, 5,023 in 1886, males, 2,- [Gentle reader, sir or madam, do n't without my consent!" The attorney general of the state states ,6 females, 5,030. The average monthOF amount, buy the stock outright. I'll interrupt me by asserting that Milly's Co. (his only son, Philip, was the company), "Oh, no, papa! I never will but that the health officer of every city is wages of men in 1885 was recommend you to a responsible broker trick was bad and the whole set were when I am married, I intend to have clearly entitled to compensation, but that was a busy and prosperous 9, in 1886, $40, the average but he is one I never do business plunderers. I am telling a story, not the members of the board are not, no matter my own consent. I have to live with man. The firm was making money ^-or women was $30 in each year. how arduous their labors or how much witha good and honorable man, discussing a question of morals.] the man, you know, and you don't. As Se\enty-six counties are provided with a very fa3t in the soap line, and desired time is spent in the work. The question though but you must promise that "You'll keep your promise?"inquired for Van Stopelwell, a 'woman may superintendence' of schools and only one is touched upon in section 4, chapter 132 to make more. He was a plain, honest you won't tell him nor any one else Moore, anxiously. county is not. During 1885 there were not marry with her grandfather!" of the laws of 1883, as amended in 188 that I sent you." 253 hrst grade, 3,610 second grade and and hard-working man, apt to "My daughter shall never marry a "Grandfather! What are you talking by chapter 4. If the law casts a duty on a 2,512 third giade certificates granted, in "I promise that I won't breath it manager of a soap works." about? Van is only forty. Younger public officer and it is not specified that boast that he had started business n^J.886, 298 first grade, 3,817 second grade, not even to father." he shall receive a salary he is not entitled "But you said /'exclaimed the than I am and I am in the prime with only a hundred dollars in cash, ,364 tnird grade. In 1885, 1,755 certifiicates to any. The fact that the law specifies a Millicent played the piano for him couple. of life." were refused in 1886, 1,943. Under and now. had multiplied the original salary for a health officer is proof of it. she played fairly and sang for him "Of course, I said, and say now, you "Excuse me, but he is too old for *h head of state high schools it is shown Any member of a board may receive a capital by thousands. He spent little she sang well. Van Stopel was in the -tha 1885 55 were under thesupervision are discharged as manager." me." salary if the city ordinance provides for it. J[ pf the state high school board in 1886.59. seventh heaven, and was on the verge time in boasting, however, being Frank's countenance fell and Milly "You are an ungrateful, disobedient Miss Mamie Magrath, aged twentv-one, In 1885 2,760 pupils were enrolled, in 1886, of proposing right then and there, but looked reproach. too bifey in his efforts to make the of th town of Warsaw, Rice county, committed 3,195. There are thirty-one special districts he lacked courage. He left, however, "I can't get along very well without "No, indeed, I'm not, papa. I shall whole world wash itself clean with suicide by poisoning. No cause is and seventy thiee independent districts, in an ecstacy of delight, but it did not you, and I'll compromise," said Duke, not wed with any one against your known except despondency, occasions by the average attendance being 46,176. The Duke's Kimolia, as he called his soap, last long. He was meditating one of ill health. Before dying she confessed to with a twinkle in his eye. Philip has willnot even Frank. So don't scold, total number of common school districts and to force every laundress to useyou his'great strokes of finance, and that her father that she had poisoned herself. at present is 5,130, an increase of 1,155 one-fourth interest in the concern. dear old bear. Just consider A stabbing affair occurred at Shakopee over 1885. In 1885 305 school houses soon resumed possession of him to the his Konia, a powder whose detergent "I'll let you have another fouith the Mrs. Livingston, 'she gives a treat'a at which Albert Hachtshiem received a were built at a cost of $405,080 in 1886, exclusion of everything else. day you settle a hundred thousand on qualities were well known. Peter grand party next month, and I have bad knife cut in the thigh at the hands of 346, at a cost of $500,614. The total value The next day, while the elder Duke Milly. She shan't marry a mere manager to go. And I declare I haven't a dress did not know the meaning of these George W. Schmitt, a farmer living south of all school houses in the state is was at the factory, Frank was at the but I have no objection to a that I haven'tworn half a dozen times of town in Scott county. Schmitt was $6,9o6,166, school apparatus. $97,243, words, but they sounded well. He house, a note having been brought held in $1,000 to the grand jury. partner in the firm as a son-in law." i school libraries, $31,706. At the Winona almost." had paid a literary Bohemian ten him. Milly met him, beaming. normal school there are 576 enrolled, an Thomas Dunn English in the New "That means you want a check. A seventeen-year-old wife traveling from iucrease of sixty over last year at the dollars to invent him something "Frank," she cried, "do you want York Star, Youngst wn, Pa., to Dakota.jn charge of a How much is it now?" Mankatn normal, an enrollment of 614 $100,000?" portly colored nurse, was one of the occupants sonorous. The latter had turned "Oh! I'll be so economical, papa. .against 577 last year at the St.Cloudnormal. of the sleeping car Vancouver, which "Do I, Milly? Don,t 1, the worst Two hundred-aud fifty will do." to a Greek-English dictionary, and 375 now enrolled against342inl885 Kept Sclllngr the Darky. reached Hartland, a starion thirteen miles kind." And he told her what her "Two hundred-and fifty! That's at the university 406 against 310 last year. found these under the head "soap." north of Albert Lea, about ten miles before father had said. "There were many ways to make The revenue from the state school economy, is it? Well, you shall have midnight. A few minutes later the cry Peter was pleased, and so was the fund in 1885, was $350,787 in 1886, $333,. "He said the same to me, Frank. the money. I'll send Moore with it. money in the old time that can't be of a child was heard, and investigation I 618 re\enue from special and 1 mill tax in Bohemianwith the ten dollars and Can you realize on tnat mortgage of developed the fact that the young wife had No, I won't he must keep away. You worked now," said Col. Bill as he sat in J. 1885, $1,999,862,in 1886,$2,066,774. In given birth to a twelve pound boy. The yours?" a dozen cakes of the soap thrown in. shall have the money, but not Moore. 1885, $1,413,474 was paid out for teachers' the corridor of the Grand Hotel Cincintalking passengers requested that it be named Albert 0 "No, I can't, because I have. It When he can settle a hundred thousand The soap itself was good. The aim wages, $1,641,807 in 1886. Theamount Lea. I'mnati to a friend. "Backin 1847 was all paid up last week, and on you I'll give my consent, and f. of the permanent fund is now $7,311.- of an expert soap-boiler is to reconcile At Jordan, Scott County, Bragg & looking around for anew investment 89. A table is given showing that in 1862 Iwas steward of the Golden Age,as good not before and I mean to tell him so. solidity of structure with a large volume Co.'s refrigerator, containing 30,000 dozen the assesbed valuation of the state wai in one lump if I can." I'll have a serious talk with that a craft as ever sailed between here cgqs, -vae burned. Insurance on eggs $5,- I $29,832,719, amount raised for education, of enclosed water. Some otthem A long conversation ensued, and young man." 000 on building, $3,500. $90,225.27 in 1886 the assessed valuation and Orleans. One day a colored man Milly gave her views with great energy increase the weight of the compound "You're not angry with him, papa, is $470,000,000 the amount raised The following pensions have just been allowed with a good deal of white blood in and decision. because he has fallen in love with me?" by the addition of extraneous matter, for education, $3,309,915.95. Uninterrupted to people of Minnesota: Louise, "Has any one given you any information his veins came to me and said: 'Say, prosperity is reported in all departments. "No, that shows good taste but he widow of Gustave Lene, St. Paul Jerome but Peter was honest and left out the that makes you so confi- Considerable Bpace is given B. Hatch, Litchfield L. A. Colson, Beaver must have that hundred thouand massa, you want to make some mon- dirt. His sale of Kimolia was great, to the matter of classification of schools dent?" Falls Lewis Bates, Marshall Joseph Cobb, dollars." ey?' merely explanatcry of the system. The and so was the profit. Owatonna, 0. A. Blethen, North Minneapolis "I promised not to tell." "I think, papa, I would like that report says under the head of obstacles to Charles A. Horn, Minneapolis Horace 'Yes, I do,' I answered. "May be old Van Stopel" hundred thousanddollars and Moore," progress. G. Bennett, Minneapolis Daniel H. "Ask me no more questions." 'Well, you can take me down to she added archly. Freeman, Delano Elijah Biddle, Benson. Besides a son,Peter had a fair daughter, "The defects of our common school "Um! it is a great risk, after all. Pensions increasedMack J. Kennedy, "Ffph!" said her father, explosively, Orleans and sell me for $1,400. Ise .system, comprehensively stated, are a and, next to his soap factory and Suppose it were to keep going down?" Fair Haven Samuel Taylor, Preston and wended his way out to" the office. a likely nigger, and worth dat.' lack of thorough organization, by which Abram Plumer, Winnebago John Kerr, "I've written on this paper what his shekels, he loved her. And Millicenther When Moore came in with a glowing the influence and intelligence of the whole 'But do you want to go into slav- Anoka James Cramp, Spring Valley you are to do thf n. In fact, here are mother, now dead and gone, account of a large sale of Konia he are brought to bear upon each part, by ery?' George L. Bartholomew, Blue Earth City your whole directions." which the wise may direct the ignorant, cut him short. had picked up the name from an English Edward Stevens, Fountain. Pension reis- "Not much. You sell me. I can escape the rich help the poor, and the energetic "But how do you knowhow did "Never mind this," he said, I have suedJoseph 0. Mold, Fairbank. society novelwas quite a lovable come back we divide the money and progressive urge forward the more you learn?" something to say to you." then. You can sell me again.' sluggish." person. She was good-looking, A man has been giving shows in southern "Ask me no more questions." And he said it in a way so decided "It was not without some misgivings The law of 1885, requiring children between Minnesota lately, and calling himself San tee fairly educated and put on good style. "Well but that Frank trembled in his boots. the ages of eight and sixteen years that I accepted the novel proposition, Bill, and claiming that he was one of Custer's "Don't 'but' me, Frank. We're not Through her school acquaintance and Then he wound up with: to attend school not less than three scouts. As he was about to give an but I took him along with me, married, and I'm your master now. months in the year, has not, according to "You're very useful here, and I entertainment at Hammond, in Wabasha her father's money she went into a and as soon as the Golden Age reached putTake two hundred and fifty from me, this report, accomplished much in securing county, a rough who was refused admittance don't care to lose you. I'll very respectable set, and as she looked Orleans I led him to the slave market. the attendance of those who are growing up and put it in the pool." without paying, drew a knife and twenty-five per cent, on your salary The auctioneers dressed him up well, dressed well and talked well, in ignorance. The superintendent says he dangerously stabbed Santee Bill in the The Barfield, St. Barnaby and but I won't have you turning Milly's he is not able to report any substantial in anew suit, put a smart cap on his neck. had plenty of pocket-money and a Waukeeshaw was one of those railroads head. She has promised not to aid gained from the law. In St. head and the sale commenced. He begun when everything was at a prospective portion of some size, and At the prize declamation of thePillsbury have you unless I consent, and I have Paul the amount expended per scholar was a likely nigger, 6ure enough, and paper value, that ran from Barfield, Academy at Owatonna, the committee on is $14, in Minneapolis $9. The told her that I never will consent until a present tongue of her own, if needed, sold for $1,400. I got $1,000 in cash award of prizes after paying a high compliment plan has been adopted in some districts which was next to nowhere, to Waukeeshaw, you are able to settle a hundred they forbore to turn up their noses at and a mortgage for $400. Well, I came to the excellence of the speakers of allowing the district or township to which was about the same thousand dollars on her. And I'll keep back to Cincinnati, and in about three soap. Atfirstthose who were poor and supply free text books, and the plan is said awarded the first prize to Lester Sunderland kind of a place, with a branch my word. That's all there is about it. to work admirably where thoroughly tried. of Minneapolis second, Edward weeks back came the coon. Next trip proudand proud poverty is frequently to St. Barnaby, an-out-of-the- I'll drop the subject, and do you drop The superintendent reccommends the pas* Chambers of Berlin, and third, BertGlasby I sold him at Natchez for $1,200. It way spot. It was a hundred insolentundertook to snub sage of a law authorizing school districts her." of Claremont. was against the law to sell the same miles long, with its branch. Other to purchase such text books and supplies her a little but she gave snub for snub, Poor Frank went out with different niggar twice after he had escaped, but The Northwestern Miller of Minneapolis as are necessary for the instructions of railways fought it, and refused connection spirits than he had when he came in. and then, leaning against the valuable says the project for combining the entire every three or four weeks I'd have their pupils. A change in the law regarding it was heavily mortgaged its milling interests of Minneapolis is one vast A hundred thousand dollars! that coon on my hand? again. I sold pile of soap bars, defied them. Whether the election of teachers is suggested, expenses a little overbalanced its receipts company, which has been talked about in Van Stopel called that evening, and the proposed alteration reading: him at Baton Rogue, Vicksburg, because of her manners, or her at times, and it stood at 9, a desultory way in times past, is now receiving to his great delight, found not only Memphis, and at nearly every port on "But no contrart shall be made with any more serious consideration. Several father's money, she had many masculine nominal at that, for two years. Nobody that Millicent was at home, but was teacher who is related by blood or marriage the river. plans have been presented in relation to wanted it, in fact, at any price. admirers. Chief among these was disposed to be gracious. In general to any member of the school board, without the matter, but the one which seems the At last I traded him off for a terriblelooking That it would ever rise seemed improbable, the concurrence o! all the members not Myndert Van Stopel, the great operain she avoided him on some pretext, most acceptable to the majority of the nigger and got $800 to boot. if not impossible, and two "days related." millers contemplates a union of all thetor or was freezingly polite, but Wall street," whose huge fortune Then Isold" the nigger Iliad traded for after Moore had secured a contract at Appended to thesuperintendant's report milling firms under the management and now she was pleasant and chatty. was built up of the wrecks of railway for aright smart sum. This time Fields, is the report of the president of the state with a single official head. The Miller five per cent, and bought at 9, buyer They were alone together, the university, showing that 243 have graduated that was his name, did not turn up thinks that the effect of such a combination and other corporations. He had met ten days, the stock figured at 8. Some father having gone to what he from this institution, seventy two of in the trade would be enormous, and for six months, and I thought he was one had found out the purchase and her at Long Branch the summer before, termed the "library," but which was, who? werje women. The number in attendance that the economy of manufacture would done for sure, but he came round one was bearing. He had to fill up, and in 1885-86 was nparly one hundred and thought, to use his ownin be very considerable. fact, his smoking-room for having day and we divided up. Then the he grew frightened. He couldn't sleep greater than the preceding year. quite mastered the article "soap" in words, that she had "a heap of go in mortgages came due, and I collected well. Milly, whose little balance of Caroline Pogreba, of Dayton's Bluff, the encyclcepedia, he never troubled her." Myndert, though he prided them, every bu}'er sayin'the coonhad died from a bullet wound, and the case is fifty was drawn on, as she insisted it the dust-covered books. After the escaped. Weli, it's the honest truth. thought to be one of suicide. The examination of Charles Gravius for himself on his noble Dutch ancestry should be, was sanguine. She did not weather and such customary topics illicit intercourse with Mrs. Overton in the I sold that nigger fourteen times. Then believe in Van Stopel as a lover, but the first of his forefathers was Emma C. Sandell of Minneapolis, sues had been discussed, Millicent suddenly St. Paul police court results in holding the came the telegraph, and we had to she had great confidence in him as an John A. Nordeen and gets a verdict for Cornelius Pietersie with no Van at all broke out with defendant to the grand jury. stop it, but you can't imagine how $5,000 for breach of promise. operator in stocks. thought more of slaughtering the "Oh! Mr. Stopel, I was reading much money we coined. These days At Stillwater the jury in the Kerr case If leaked out that all of the leading Thel,750,000-bushel elevator at West hadabout stocks in the paper to-day. Do brings in a verdict for the defendant insurance bears in "the street." And he are not like the old ones for making Superior formerly known as the Hill elevator brokers had contracts on hand to deliver company. explain to me what they do in Wall money." slaughtered them to some purpose. has passed in the hands of a syndicate large amounts of stock, and the street, and how they make and lose The rock at Granite Falls is said to be so composed of Messrs. C. A. Pillsbury & Co., Where is the colored man now?" He was forty years old, short, stout bears went to work. But suddenly it so much money. I do not understand richly impregnated with iron that it will W. H. Dunwoody, John Crosby, H. "I believe he is living at Lafayette, was known that all the shares, barring and red faced, with a loud voice and pay for mining, some specimens Bhowing it at all." Peavy & Co. and Van Dusen & Co., Minneapolis, Ind., or within a hundred miles of a hundred or so. were locked up. as high as eighty per cent. iron. obtrusive mannerseverything but D.C. Shepherd und H. P. Upham, Here was a subject on which Van there." Then came a startling rumor, as the St. Paul. R. B. Burdick, late grain inspector, Stopel could not only talk, but talk the imaginary, shrewd-looking man The secretary oi Interior gave C. M. Baxter "Did he have a family?" has been selected as president stock went up twenty, thirty, forty, well. And he did. He explained all the right to make timber-culture entry of affairs. He had begun as a boy in "Yes his wife died in the insane asylum and general manager of the new organization, anything you please, that Van Stopel vof the northwebt quarter section 8, town about puts and calls and options and at Cleveland, and one sen is a which will be known as the Great a broker's office, rose to be a clerk, was behind the scenes pulling the 128, range 44, Fergus Falls land district. margins, buyers' ten days and sellers' Northern Elevator company. barber at Toledo. 'This supports Sparks' decision rendered went from there to the curb-stone, and strings. five, so clearly that his fair interlocutor .July 11, 1885, in the case of the St. Paul, A post office has been established at Teien, then to a seat in the exchange, and Wall street raved. It was a corner. did not understand it. But she Minneapolis & Manitoba road vs. Baxter. Kittson county, with Augusta Westman The Philosophy of Dancing* his wealth was very far up in the millions. Now, a corner is a two-edged sword, did not say so. TUnder the law of 1857 the St. Paul and postmaster. Postoffico discontinued: Pacific railway, of which the above road and keen as a razor, and unless managed "I should like to speculate myself. Jacksville, Wilkin county mail to Christine, He had been too busy to think It seems to me that there is something is successor, secured title to the land, dexterously it cuts both ways. A Dak. Acting postmaster: From I have $50, and I should like to'double subtler, something more real in of marriage, but he had a remarkably .among which was a parcel in section 13, Nov. 3, 1886, Henry Albers, Union Lake. gang of brokers in the face of ruin it, just for the fun of the thing." dancing than these rather superficial town 124, range 39, upon which a Mr. fast horse, and why should he not buy The mail services from Pelican Rapids to are like bucks at bay. They are dangerous. "Miss Duke, you are very fortunate, Thompson had made a filing. The company distinctions, interesting as they may Barnesville, from Nov. 20, is changed to a wife? Millicent rather rebuffed his But Van Stopel was master for just now there is the greatestthat acknowledged Thompson's title and end at Norwegian Grove, omitting Barnesville, be to the ordinary observer, useful as advances, but he knew the value of of his art. He did not desire to ruin .relinquished the lands, taking in lieu thereof is, I think I know of a stock that will decreasing the distance eleven miles. they may be to one who treating the above first mentioned tract. By the anybody, if the result was to destroy The railroad mail services from Winona, money and bided his time. surely (I mean probably) rise to a dancing from a mere historical standpoint. 'decision of the land office, confirmed some to Winona Junction, Wis., via Chicago the profits. With a noble magnanimity higha better figure shortly and if There was a rival in the field. Myndert time ago by the secretary, the latter tract All human knowledge, we are & Northwestern railway, IromNov. 1, not properly appreciated by this you entrust your little venture to me, did not know it, though if he had -was decided to be outside the ten-mile is changed to extend from Winona Junction told, is relative so is all dancing. In evil generation he compromised at 50. I promise that you shall much more known he would have despised such a limit of indemnity land, and hence Baxter's to La Crosse, Wis., increasing the distance dancing as in everything else there is His gains only amounted to a few millions. than double it." competitor. This was Frank Moore, right to settle on it as part of the 4% miles. an ideal, an ideal ever unattainable, The street breathed easier. public domain. On the basis of the above the general manager employed by the "0, thank you! You are so kind. The Minneapolis Millers' union will sink decision the case is again decided against but toward which all dancing should Moore, who did the same thinghad firm, who was highly valued becasehe But then you know that I want to deal the road. into a state of suspended animation for to. in fact, for when the lion roars the tend. As the ideal poet is one who was faithful, trustworthy and new all with a broker myself. That would be the present. cat criesbreathed very fast with astonishment. writes poetry purely for poetry's sake, about the work. He had a good salary charming. If you could tell me how to The general merchandise business of A. Postmasters commissioned in Minnesota: so the ideal dancer is one who dances and a slight commission on themanage that! Could you, now?" And Erickson & Son at Luverne, was closed on F. W. Shachell, Prairie Junction B. The day after all was over Peter sales of the Konia, which he had invented. purely for dancing's sake. As all motives she beamed on him a bewitching smile petition of creditors. The district court Y. McNairy, Campbell Samuel Cassairt, Duke came into the counting-room declared the firm insolvent. Eden Lake J. McLaughlin, Townville Ab-. Prudent though parsimonious, that fairly subjugated thegreat"bull" of gain, nay, all moral and ethical ner Remington, Kasson Henry M. Kaus, and examined the letters of the morning. Frank had managed to save some and tipped his horns with rapture. Dr. W. E. Yaw, of Minneapolis, died at tendencies, while they may magnify Carisle, M. T. Wenner, Georgetown Fred Cedar Falls, Iowa. Suddenly he tapped his bell and money, and had $20,000 saved in He smiled in return, hesitatedand and popularize a poem, lessen its Puhler, Ada John Stuart, Pipe St one W. sent for Moore, but the manager had bond and mortgage, beside over $2,000 the man who hesitates, surrenders. value as pure poetry, so all extraneous The Southern Minnesota railroad was G. Chilton, Castle C. Stein man, Smithfield, gone to Wall street. in bank waiting for good investment. "There are several stocks that are badly blockaded, and in some cases passengers Jens Pederaen. Georgeville Andrew Wel motives detract from the purity "What takes him there? Send him A very good match he might expect to were detained as long as three days. down," he said, "that may go up. I den, Antrom John Oberg, Kragnes Albert of dancing. It is true that this ideal is H. Blake, Two Harbors. in when he comes," and at the word, make, but to think of marrying Millicent should recommend the B., S. and W." A. C. Arntson of Montevideo has made never reached, but some dancing approaches Moore entered. "Oh, you're here, are and a handsome fortune seemed an assignment. The assets are said to be "B., S. and W?" Mail service has been established on the it much more nearly than nearly equal to the liabilities. you? I have a letter here from Jenkins. preposterous. route from Glencoe to Hutchinson, "Yesthe Barfield, St. Barnaby and others. The dances included in the via Chicago,Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, How did that last invoice of Millicent did not think so. Frank, Muskrats were naver so numerous in Waukee^haw railroad. It is standing first class, "Pyrrhica saltatio," were fourteen miles and back, six times a week, Houston county ar they are this year. fat turn out?" who came and went a familiar visitor now at 9." or as much oftener as trains may run in ancient times religious. The gambols "Lovely, sir lovely. Everything is County attorney-elect B. D. Smith is the to the house and was a great crony of "How am I to go about it, please?" from Dec. 1. of the Salvationists form the first person elected to an office in Blue lovely, and the goose Philip, had known her since she was a He told her. Mart Fahey put Jack Keefe to sleep in Earth county born in the county. only parallel among U3. The secular "What is the matter with you, little girl, and in this case familiarity "Dear me! I shall never remember four rounds in a barn near Lake Calhoun, Mr. J. H. laickey of Spring Valley has element has invaded the other representatives Moore? you seem excited?" did not breed contempt. The two had all that. Please to write it down for Hennepin Co. purchased the Mower County Democrat, of this classcalisth,enic3 a very good understanding with one "Do I? So I am." me, will you?" Lake Pepin closed entirely Friday night' recently established at Austin. another, and the senior Duke for a The old soap boiler turned his chair and the choruses in the ballets in the Van Stopel still under the fascination, the 26th inst. I is ''expected that teams A stranger with his windpipe entirely cut time, was not well informed in the around and gazed on the young man, former the end is health, in the latter took out his pencil and wrote, will be able to cross in a few days. through, and both hands and feet frozen, premises. But such things will leak who went on with his talk. while Millicent sat by, expectant. She the earning of money, or something Michael Walsh tried to crawl under a was found near Cedar Creek mills, Scott out, and at last the elder Duke heard "Didn't you say, sir, that I could was at his shoulder.her breath fanned freigh train at Campbell, and now he is at else, which ought to be equally subsidiary. County. Supposed suicide. of it. He bubbled up like the compound have Miss Millicent whenever I was Breckinridge in the hospital with one lea his temples, and he could scarcely Plainly it is not in this class James C. Miller, brother of Manager Miller, less than he had. in one of his kettles and interviewed able to settle $100,000 on her?" write legibly, but he persevered. of the Milwaukee road, was killed by that we are to look for dancing for his daughter on the matter. "Of course I did, but stop nonsense Wolves are said to be increasing in num. the Fast Mail at the Union Depot St. "Oh, thank you, so much." dancing's sake.Macmillan's Maga* ber in the woods along the St. Paul & Du "See here, Mijly," he said, "I'm not Paul, Thanksgiving afternoon. Mr. Millar and go to business." "Now," said he, "I have shown you zine. i: luth road. and his friend Mr. Rudy, in at- angry but I want you and Moore to "What dc you want?" two ways. You can buy either at ten stop your philandering nonsense. You