i tmwu-M jfvnt iw R. Pfefferle, XHK QUESTION ANSWERED. foliage settled into stillness, then it choice between the bolt of iron and FEBRUARY. the silence of the room the Italian's crouched, waiting. the bolt of electricity that killed Hoyt. medley wrought like magic. The wedding "Ah! Phil" murmured the bride, her Brightly was the moon inclining It was hard for a fellow to be done to guests swayed hither and thither What has Happened Durin? this Shortest Hosts O'er her honeysuckled door eyes dewey and her voice tremulous, death by a charge ol lightning when in grotesque mimicry of the dream Dealer in of the Year. Sweet was nightin silver shining "what if we should find our there was not a cloud in the sky." dancer upon the polished floor. The Yet she yearned for something more Prom the Boston Traveller. wedded hapiness to be no more than "Hoyt had been warned not to breeze of the night wafted the mysterious Only twenty-ei^ht days! this moon-flower, lovely to look upon, touch the battery wires," interposed strains out through the open casements, Perfumes were her senses steeping And this i3 quite enough for poor but to be broken by the first Hairston. In a faint yet Bubtle tide and bore them past wondering CANNED, DRIED & GREE^ Fragrant breath of roses sleeping rough usage. See! I can not make Grantly shrugged his shoulders. httle February is very much disliked wayfarers upward to the empryean to Left her still unsatisfied. even this small bud attach itself a^ain "I believe you had also warned Jack FRUITS, ifi* sweep the confines of other realms of by most ererybody. It has the misfortune where it .may gather life and beauty Fleming not to back that beastly mystery. 'Mid the lilacs, soft lamenting, to happen along when peopU anew." Flour etnei FeecM Arabian, had you not, Hardin?" Bardinelli was lending all the cunning Grieved the plaintive nightingale are tired of the cold, snowy days oi Hardin assented. She bent forward making a pretty of his hand to rouse the suspended Yet she coldly, half resenting, winter, but still February is obliged pretense of reuniting the plant, and Listened listless to his tale. "The Fates lead the willing and faculties of his beloved pupil. The STONK.WOODEN AND "WILLOW jlf, 1? its severed blossoms but instantly to be cold and snowy. It has to be drag the unwilling,', quoted Grantley. heavy lids veiling her vision were slowly Though a night such peace possessing WARE. she started back, making a vain effort "Who was there to warn Giles or raised surrounding objects were this by the laws of nature, but that Should all captiousness disarm, to suppress the exclamation of pain Darrow?" NEW ULM, MINN. once more photographed upon Yet she found herself confessing makes no difference with the great or terror that sharply broke the still "For the matter of that," flippantly the retina of the eye the tinge of life Nature somehow failed to charm. mass of people. They think only oi ness of the conservatory. Her cry "-M returned Cosby, "who can warn Fr. ~u. was returning to lip and cheek ner Did the moon smile down too brightly? their own comfort. Poets seem to was shrilly echoed on ths instant against the doom that may be 'lurking movements had less of grace and more Love bird weary with his trill? from the clump of ferns close, by in ambush for the first of us fellows of energy. It were as though the avoid February, for poetry about & Roses cense the air too slightly' which,violently agitated, gave sudden that leaves the Maecenas?" shackles of flesh were being again riveted Whatoh' whatwas lacking still? this month is scarce. Possibly in egress to the figure of a man. Rendered restless by the turn the upon the free movement of the this respect the month is fortunate. As she pondered thus in sadness, It was Bardinelli, late master in conversation had taken, Darby had spirit. The statue had waked to lite, Manufacturer of and Dealer in There seems to bo a dispute as to just Stole her lo\er from the door, music to Carolyn. It was to the side moved away from the group and was though another than Pygmalion Clasped her to his heart in gladness, where February aot its name,forsome of his former pupil he now darted. lea\ing the room. He heard the idle should reap the kisses of those divinely CIGARS, Then the night lacked nothing more. maintain that its name is derived from Darby was still clasping her in his words Cosby had spoken. He went parted lips. H. G. Gifford Temple Bar. the Latin februare, which means to arms, and questioning her in an agony on as though he had not heard. The Louder and louder swelled the waltz TOBACCOS, purify, as the old Romans had a custom of apprehension, while she, nervously baize doors swung shut after him. melodies of the forgotten musician. THE DANCE OF DEATH. of ceneral purilications in thelatter agitated, was using her womanly "After all it may not be a pitiless One who casually glanced toward him part of this month. Other authors PIPES. arts to reassure him. doom to which one goes, you see, saw that he was contorted, and that say that the month receives its name !u Cosby," laughed Hardin. "Wh "It is nothing, Phila mere scratch the veins in his forehead were purple from the godded Februa, who is supposed FROM THE "SOUTHERN BIVOUAC." Cor. Minnesota and Centre happier destiny could a, poor devil a sting. A great spider, I think. cords, tensely drawn. So might have to be identical with Juno. But of a Maecenas bacholor find awaiting The creature nipped me and leaped Philander Darby entei-ed the reading looked the Laocoon wrestling in the streets. the .p.ore commonly accepted idea ol him than the wifely embraces of a away before I could well see what it folds of the sea-monster. room of the club. At the granite the month i^ that its name came from KEWPLM, MINN. woman like Carolyn Lomax." was. Ah! Singor Bardinelli, is it Not the less surely, however, was threshold of the building he had hesitated, the Roman dninity Februus.who was you? Oh, Philwhat" "There's many a slip" quoted the master hand informed of the genius Jno. Neuman, identified with Pluto of the lower world. but the power of habit is strong, Pale and terrified she lay in the Cosby. "Fortune has a trick of smiling of a deathless will, and the observer, The month was placed in the year at arms of her husband, who, livid as and for five years it had been his habit on Darby, I know but she's a fickle unknowing, turned again to mark the same time as was January by the death, only held her closely, making beldame at best, and may play him the effects of his power upon her, who, to spend from one to three hours Emperor Numa.about 712 B.C. Dealer in no effort to restrain the Italian, false when he least expects it." like Eurydice, was being lured back daily in the luxurious apartments set But although February is theshortest who had, without ceremony, sized "I'd take Phil's chances for the from the world of mystery and shadow :o:R,ir GOODS, apart for the choice spirits composing month of the year,and is one which upon the bride's hand, upon the finger prize he's to draw from her to-night, by his Orphic enchantments. Suddenly has few friends, not a few events oJ the club. of which was appearing a faint line of at all events," said Hardin. "The she stood still. The throng of spectators #^B Hats, Caps, motions, importance are recorded as taking discoloration, marking the course of floral bell is swinging already in the gazed at her. Their united He had hesitated on this occasion, place during the month. This is the the envenomed sting she had received. Groceries, Provisions^ hall of the Lomax House ready for his breath would not have stirred the not because he had ever failed in being time when Cupid in the foim of St. The one word spoken, as he applied wedding chimes. Ha! speaking of the down of a thistle puff. Her white Crockery and Glassware, a welcome accession to the groups Valentine is supposed to be putting in his lips in sanction to the wound, had decorations, that reminds me. Sartini, bosom rose and fell. The orange Green, Dried and Canned his work, and although the custom of sent a deadly chill to the bridegroom's of young men usually to be found the florist, told me he had just blossoms looping her corsace trembled sending missives of love on the 14thengaged Fruits, etc, etc. heart. received an importation of Italian like sentient creatures filled with a in the accupations of the has somewhat declined, still Cupid is "Tarantula!" plants, and I promised Darby I'd call passion of joy in her living warmth I will always take farm produce in exchange place, but, without doubt because of quite an important personage in this V-&- by and tell him to send up one of No other word was spoken. Darby and loveliness. for goods, and pay the highest market price for alt unusual circumstances environing hifs month, and will not be ignored. those superb moon-flowers for Miss knew what meant the drop or two of kinds of paper rags. Hes eyes roved anxiously over the But the event for which February is own personality. For the fact is, Lomax. Startini is certain he has greenish, viscous liquid which the Italian expectant assemblage. She was looking In connection with my store I haie a first-clam most famous in the eyes and one that will put out its blossoms once or twice ejected from his lips, was the morning of Dai by's marriage for some one. saloon furnished with a splendid billiard tabic an? hearts of Americans is that on the just about the time of the marriage. each time returning in mad haste to For whom? day. my customers will always find good liquors ane 22d of the month was born the only Darby thinks that would be a pleasing his task of peril. Darby's bride knew. She smiled a da/zling snrle of recognition, cigars, and every forenoon a splendid lunch. That evening the multiform benefactions American who never told a lie. At omen for his bride." too,what signified Bardmelli's desperate and joyously stretched forth of the godh to him were to be least, George Washington is the ouly earnestness, as well as she comprehended He returned his paper to the file her arms. Her bridegroom hurried All goods purchased or me will be delivered t4 man in this country who is recorded crowned by the gift of a wife of his own the threatening of danger to and at once took his leave to attend to meet and to take her into nis embrace. any part of the city free of cost. as never telling a lie. And now theheart's herself in the vertigoand shivering already choosing. Under these circum- to the commission. Minnesota Street. New Ulm, Mlna small boy stays at home from school creeping over her. But neither A few hours later a brilliant company stflLnces, therefore, it was, perhaps, For the first time there was a discord on the 22d of the month, and celebrates of these thought of the risk Bardinelli was assembled in the parlors of Meat Market, in the music. No one noticed it natural that the bridegroom-elect the birthday of the father ol was hazarding Bardinelli himself did the Hon. Paul Lomax. They had There was a break, a pause, then a should have hesitated to brave the attention this country by getting thoroughly not give a thought to the matter till gathered there for the celebration of crash of chords, then silence. tired out. But celebrating Washington's his presence was sure to call the possible results of his daring came the marriage of his daughter and heiress "It was you who drew me back birthday does no one any great M. EPPLE, Prop'r. forth in the rooms of the club. Luckily to him in a flash of consciousness. to Philander Darby. What fate among the living, Phil," murmured harm, but, on the contrary, results in An ea^er glance, convincing him of the when he entered there were not half was there now which might balk the NEW ULM,MINN.. the bride, at rest on the heart of her MINNESOTA ST. much good fact that the poison was being abated most sacred plans of the bridegroom's husband. "Not the bands of death a dozen fellows present.and these weie There have been a good many men in the veins of his whilom pupil revealed life? Still Fortune's favorite, he had could hold me from you yet, dear. It in a group at one of the tables, evidently n^HE undersigned desires to inform the people of born in February who have afterward to him, besides, a fleck of blood already received at the altar, consecrated was the yearning of my spirit that I New Ulm ami vicinity that "it IIBAre-established engrossed in the discussion of become great. The marquis of Salisbuiy close to the puncture in the dainty by the high priest, Love, her his meat murket and is now orenpnred to wal spoke to you through the music of some subject calculated to divide interest was first taken in his nurse's on nib aid customers and friends with only Iht hand over which he had been gloating. most gracious boon, in the conjural Bardinell's violin." best *resh and cured meats, saii6a?es, lard and everything arms on the 3d of February, 1830, with the topic naturally suggested The blood, he knew, was from a vows of the woman he adored, and, usually kept in a flp.t-cl.iss market Tb "Then, 0 my beloved'" he answered, and on the same day of the year 1729 wound in his own lip. His stronge highest mnrket price will be paid for FAT CATi anion? her bridal guests, his young by the unconscious self-consciousness in the abnegation of an humble TLB, HIDES, WOOL, ETC. Mendelssohn first save evidence of his teeth had nearly met through it as he wife was moving, the stateliest and of the new arrival. gratitude, "it is to Bardinelli I owe M. EPPLE. musical soul which afterward developed lay in hiding there beyond the fern loveliest of them all. the debt I mav never hope to repay." They were highbred young bloods, into such grandeur. On the 7th mound. NEW In a pause in the dance her eyes "To Bardinelli?" those of the Jockey Club. The courtesy of the month in 1812, Chartes Dickens Meat Market. But the virus that was creeping frankly met his devouring gaze. He She turned in her gracious beauty of their greeting to Darby may was born, surely an event of which from her veins into his was as the was at her side in a moment. and moved toward the place of tho have been a tiifle more pronounced any month may be well proud. As wine of life to him in comparison "Come with me awhile, can you not, musician. than usual, that was all. Not the lift first and greatest president, th with the venom of jealousy that had Carolyn?" he eagerly whispered. "It He did not rise to meet her. He JOS. SGHNOBRICH, Prop'r., of an eyelid as they made room for Washington, was born in this month, maddened him as he lay there watching is a mad mockery to me, this phantasmagoria was sitting bending forward, and his him, betrayed cognizance oi the happy so it has the honor of producing him the wedded lovers, reveling in their of lights, flowers and nodding face was averted as from a sight distressing destiny they knew to be imminent for New Ulm, Minn. who by common consent is entitled to stolen bliss. and bobbing puppets, forever interposing to him. His violin had slipped him. His best man expectant, Hardin the fame of being the second greatest between you and me. Surely "It is done," he said, presently, lifting from his grasp and was resting Golden, displayed admirable finesse president the countiy has ever had, A large supply of fresh meats, sao we may be entitled to a quarter a flushed face from his odd work. against his knee, two of its strings in setting all parties at ease. Abraham Lincoln was born on the of an hour's emancipation from the "There remains, Signor Darby, but lage, haras, lard, etc., constantly on broken and snarled. She laid upon "We have just been discussing the 12th of the month. Again one of the shackles of les convenances." the drop of poison taken up by the his shoulder the hand from which he land. All orders from the country freak of fate which has victimized greatest philanthropists this country blood before I could yet to her." She smiled and, humoring his fancy, had extracted the venom or the tarantula. poor Darrow," he said addressing iromptlv attended to. has ever produced. George Peabody, put her hand within his arm. "The drop or two taken up by her Dai by. first opened his eyes to the CASH PAID FOR HIDES. blood? Heaven of mercy, is there no "Where will you take me? There "Bardinelli!" "Darrowwhat of him?" world on the 18th of this month antidote?" aie lights and people everywhere." Her voice had never before appealed "Man alive! Have you not heard? in the year 1707. Although February to him in vain. Now he gave it no Why, the morning papers are full of "There is one, but that may be impossible." He looked down upon her, smiling. is not a month over which THE HEW E heed. She bent over him, her bridal the shocking occurrence." "The moon's rays only have a right poets are enthusiastic, it was on the veil blending with the long hair floating "Speak, man! there must be no im- "The paperes I have neglected to to be where our moon-flower is opening 27th of this month that the most hadpossible here." over his shoulders. Her gentle look into 1I have been otherwise its blossoms. Dunbzek had famous of America's poets, Henry W. CITY PLANING MILL clasp closed upon the fingers still holding engaged," stammered Darby. less an artist's eye had he failed to see "There shall be no impossible, Signor, Longfellow, first sang his little songs, the taut bow. Then a passionate Hardin nodded. the peculiar fitness of that alcove for if Bardinelli's strength faint not," although it is not recorded whether cry broke from her lips and she turned the sky charms of our lunar plant." "I understand. Well, Darrow poor the Italian quietly said "for tarantism, they were in rhyme or not. MANUFACTURES to her husband: fellow, met an awful death last even- She moved at his side, roseate and in my land, there are the tarantella Having so many distinguished men "He is dead! He has given his life ing." DOORS, WINDOW SASiL. palpitant. So this explained the diplomacy dances." born in its day, the next thought is to for mine Phil." "It can't be possible! Why, I walked he had used in inducing the "I knowI remember," cried Darby. see who died while the days were called VENETIAN BLINDS, with him on Carleton Terrace as old gardener to move some of his "It is music, music she must have February. And the list of peisons late as 6 o'clock, and when I parted choicest plants from theretired alcove and youyou Bardinelli" who have gone to their final rest in Weather Proverbs Relating- to from him he told me he was going MOULDINGS AND FRAHIi:.S- to give place to the heavy foliaged "I know the musicyes. When the February is a most distinguished one, directly home." the Moon. plant sent up from Sartim's. He had poison woi ks in h*r nerves and brain and incudes Thomas Car'yle, Mary, "Yes. Yet it was not two blocks meant that only the moonbeams JPlaning, turning ami t./t she will move and II will play the queen of Scots, and Martin Luther. These are very numerous. Some distant from the terrace where he was should be there before herself and him death dance for her. Come, Signor But Febiuary of last year saw many persons suppose that the character of tvork with rib-sowpront^, igr tripped by the trailing loop of a telegraph to see the faint, pink blossoms open Darby, let me carry her I can best notable men of this country expire, the weather can be foretold by the anil neatly executed. wire. As fate would have it, at their hearts of perfume. Much of the place her so that the faintest notes for in this month died John D. Philbrick, hour of the day or night when the the same moment there was a train conservatory was in a blaze of light, may stir her numbed senses." Gen. Win field S. Hancock, exGov. changes of the moon occur. Others runninc at full speed upon the elevat-, as the balance of the house was but Half frantic with agony Darby made All work guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Seymour, John B. Gough and think that a change of the moon on ed. road above the buffer caught in the by a detour Darby succeeded in introducing no protest, but yielded* her to the Prof. John Pattock. Saturday is "always followed by a wire, and the locomotive rushed on, himself and his bride into the Palian. Was not the priceless life at February is apt to be a very gay C. ZELLER, Prop'r. severe storm." and still others say dragging the coils in which Darrow, alcove unseen. In this transverse section his mercy? Had he asksd for the month socially in this section of country, poor devil, was being tossed like a where the fern mounds endod.they that "A Friday's moon, come when SEWB00DS1 LOWEST PHICESl heart in his bosom he would not have and this will be mora than ever shuttlecock. Over and over he was found, as inticipated, their seclusion it will, comes too soon." Then wished to say him nay. Fragile of the case this year, for Ash Wednesday whirled, till the wire broke, and he invaded only by the half liht from again it is said if the points of the build though he was, Bardinelli caught the beginning of Lent, occurs this year was dropped into an obscure street, the outer conservatory and the splendor up the ldvely burden surrendered to new moon are upward there will on the 23d, and people will have to Henry J. LucUrs, mangled and lifeless." of the moonlight that was flooding him and bore her, with the strength crowd their pleasures between the 1st be dry weather: while others take the the new plant. They bent together Darby shivered he mads no comment. and speed of an athlete, back to the And the 23d in order to be considered opposite view and say if they point over their floral treasure. The bride It was on awful story to have glare and languorous perfumes of the socially correct. sideways it will be dry. But leaving Dealer inDRY uttered a little cry of delight. heard on his bridal morning. How ball-room. But cold and uncomfortable as is all these and many others like them, might a mortal bribe Fate who "See, Phil, it has five or six blooms "Her life is mine, her life is mine!" February it has in it many pleasant GOODS, there are a few proverbs about the rode as in the car of Juggernaut, grinding on it already, and there are other he muttered, in his half delirious joy, days, and although there is little visible moon which may be worth noting out the lives of the happy and buds opening. Did you ver see anything as he felt the pulsations of her heart progress in nature and even the GROCERIES, and testing. We give some of these: wretched alike? lovlier?" answering to the wild throbbmgs of Old Farmers' Almanac can only say The flippancy of Bret Crosby jarred NOTIONS, ETC. "Yes," he answered with gravity the poison-charged arteries of his that it is a good month for filling in When the moon is visible in the day upon his mood: "yes. niy Carolyn, I have seen something breast. swamps, yet it is necessary to the time, the days are relatively cool. Kieslisg's Block, "It strikes me that's about the lovelier." Awe-stricken, the wedding revelers growth of the coming vegetation, in In Western Kansas, it is said, that style Death's adopted these latter She bowed her veiled head lower cleared the floor of the dance hall. the same manner that the period in when the moon is near the full it never SEW ULM, MINN. days," commentsd that young fashionable over the pretty flowers. A strong arm There were rapid questionings and agitated the bov's age, between six and twelve storms, and the sailors say the full breaking the silence. "He's was passed about the slender figure. replies there were groans here years of age, when he appears to be prlAND&Cne moon eats clouds. -4V an ill-mannered monster that's net "Oh, my beloved!" was whispered and there and sobs half suppressed. an awkward ungainly piece of the human If the full moon rises clear, expect got the politeness of a French dancing in her ear, "these blossoms are but Then there wa3 a silence as of the furniture. And in the same manner fine weather. around the moon and master whn he pounces upon and insenate things, at best don't waste sephulchre in the garish house. this time will give him strength A large r.ng waltzes off to destruction with a fellow, your caresses upon them. I am consumed Through this silence stole the first and beauty in the time which follows. low clouds indicate rain in twentytour as he's done with Darrow." of envy of my own gift to weird notes of Bardinelli's Dance of hours a small ring and high "Fata viam invemenl," muttered J"X you."' Death. clouds, ram in several dayg. Ex-Gov. Curtin tells the story of the Grantly. "There were Giles, Fleming She was yielding to his touch, expanding No one looked at the musician every Last night the moon had a golden recovery of his eyesight as follows: "I and Hoyt as well as Darrow." into new beauty as the plant eye was fastened on the bride. ring, but to-night no moon I see. went to the oculist absolutely sceptical. There was an uncomfortable pause. was domgin the embrace of the moon's She lay upon the wine-velvet of the The larger the halo about the moon, The tragic deaths which had befallen He looked at my eye and said he rays. divan, white and rigid aDont her the nearer the rain clouds, and the the quartette of their members in the could cure it. I was eoing to Boston Out from the shadows of a fern trailed the satin and hice and orange sooner the rain may be expected. past eighteen months were not enlivening the next day to attend the merchants' mound, to one side of the absorbed flowers of her bridal attire. When the moon is darkest near the events to revert to. dinner, and I thought I would like to lovers, a face, livid, sharpened, Bardinelli's violin was giving forth horizen, expect rain. "The mare that broke Fleming's contorted, glanced for a second, quicker strains. So fantastic were the go seeing if possible. So when he asked If the fullu mo^n^jrjse_pale, expect neck had been landed but a week in rain.^ T~~ The bride's veil caught in the calyx of chords, now plaintive and imploring, when he could perform the operation, the country from Arabia," said Bret one of the half-opened bods. The now full of a mad energy, anon I said, 'Now, at once might just If ,on her cheeks you see the maiden blush Cosby "one would think she had moon-plant shivered through all its dropping into fathomless depths The ruddy moon foreshows the winds will as well have done with it.' He deadened crossed continents, and seas, spurred foliage. One of its 6tems" snapped of pathos, it, seemed as though the rush. my eyes with cocaine. He took of the three fateful hags, so speedily sharply, and Carolyn drew Dock with player were improvising the air, telling If the moon is seen between the scud an instrument. He made one skillful did she accomplish Fleming's doom one of the buds entangled in. the mesh ti the still figure upon? the conch and broken clouds during a gale it is cut with it. He filled my eye with on her arrival." f a g of her veil. the tale Of a life noble in its dreams expected to scud away the bad weather. blood. It was all over in a minute. "The fate that overtooTc Tom Giles "Ah, the pity of it!" she cried, taking and aspirations, tragic in its failures. vas less strange," commented Hardin: He said, 'There governor, go home and the despoiled buds into her jeweled Yet through the wondrous barmonxr In the old ol the moon a cloudy was a chance iu a thousand. To go to bed. and in the morning you ill fingers and gazing upon it regretfully. dropped ever, clear and pure as a morning bodes a fair afternoon. be struck, at a distance of fifty feet, see as well as anybody.' And sure So intent was she looking at the broken shower of pearls, the notes of the If there be a general mist before sun by a pin from a passing locomotive is flower and so intent was he gazing enough, I did." rhythmic tarantella waltz. rise near tho full moon, the weathei to me the very .irony of fate.' at her in her wistful beauty that neither The call to movement reached the will be fine for some days. ^*U%S SODA The attempt at pleasantry evoked of them saw what the pair or staring locked senses of the dreamer. She If the moon show a silver BWeldJ^^&J! but a feeble smile. The subject was Miss Anna Dickinson is said to be eyes, shadowed by the fern fronds, moved she arose to her feet she Be not afraid to reap your field, ^5 one that struck uncomfortable.upon in serious need of money, and will caught a glimpse ofthe hideous, glided over thefloor. Her movements But if she rises halved round,. the nerves of the group. leave her invalid mother's bedside for many-legged beast that had darted were as rhythmic as were the strains You soon will tread on deluged ground Golden shook himself together. "It The rising or setting of the moon forth from the foliage of the shaken of Bardinelli's violin, they were those the lecture platform, in order that her would be the splitting of a hair to will be followed by a decrease of a plant. Alert upon one of the broad of the Graces. Her face was the frozen mother shall not want. Best inthffWarliL be said, cynically, "to make storm which is then prevailing. leaves it stood, until the quivering one of the doomed Iphigenia, ..Upon .(torn tii IWHJIJ h^ad^t fMmtp