PETER SCHEBER, O-WHA-TA-FAIK. Just then a deep, hoarse sound as and the prime minister bowed low. The Son's Energy. though from a gigantic foghorn, John» Henry »--««d stoo like one paralyzed. irma*V» fr/vm a. aitra.Tt-Hn -finne Tirvim TV%t»-» TTntim. The most satisfactory way of a 0arpenters,m was wafted up from the south. He had read of feminine love- riving at an idea of the enormous trange Tale of Adventure In the L*nd of the John Henry listened then a look liness in the weekly story paper but energy ofthe sun is by measuring the si I**g* Feet. g$| —DEAl of intelligence came into his eyes. he had never before seen anything Builders and Contractors. amount of heat which his rays are "We are near the Horn, and someone BY KTJTHVEN LUCAS. to equal the vision of loveliness capable of generating and further, is tooting it," he exclaimed. flfcW ULM, MINRL The Chili Coast express was thtra-dering that now held him spell-bound. by our knowledge of the relation Beckoning to one of the natives Thatis ^^.^^ what^heosaw: Great,, vu.c*u glori- ^n southward at a speed of 50 & Designs and plans made to order ancT who seemed, from thefact that hehad ous dark eyes, fringed with, longcuria which exists between heat and mechanical miles an hour through a storm the estimates on all work furnished and bulldog physiognomy, a bad eye, ing lashes, in whose wonderous work, we are able at once to like of which had not been experienced contracts fairMally executed. and a deep crimson flush upon his estimate the amount of work which in that region for many years. nose, to be a person of some import- „.„ u^u^m., the sun is capable of doing, and also DOORS,UNION HOTEL, & ance, possibly award polititian, or a half parted, rosy lips revealing teeth The tempest howled like a horde of the quantity of energy he must be LATH, SHINGLES, saloonkeeper, he addressed that per- that gleamed and sparkled with fiends let loose from hell clouds had losing year by year. By suitable arrangements sonage in pure volupuk. pearl' perfect. -e irrideseenee a fac from SASH, BLINDS, piled themselves upon clouds until wgFt weean cause a certain & "Is not this the country called Pat- whose low, broad brow, great waves the last ray of departing day's light quantity of his radiation to be absorbed agonia? of of Shunnog shinin hln^lk blac Tin.Tftwae hair ros ina-eccumhrtcr sweeping STOnia?" vn WMfflSiMZKO, Propriety —and all kinds of— iiad been shut out the rain descended "It is you are in the land of the by water or other substance, curves to fall again upon a pair of 6 utyjlx a yaxx Patagons. the men of large feet 0 shoulders such as Venus would have in floods that made it seem as and note the rise of temperature Building Material. MISTS. ST., N E W ULM* Mrtfir, wha-ta-faik is our queen her name envied a form whose every graceful which results, and as we know the though the train was struggling being interpreted, means She-that-is- curve was in itself a poem. But this mechanical equivalent of each degree The only first class brick fixe prool along the bottom of a raging sea, looking-for-a-husband my name is vision of beauty had large feet. John NEWTJLJY, 2 MOT. of temperature in water, for instance, Hotel in the city, and through it all the storm king's Man-with-a-chronic-jaw-on, and I am Henry noticed it at once, and it gave it is only a matter of calculation to with large, airy rooms and an A fiery tongues darted hither and thith•er her prime minister. What are you him pain, arrive at a knowledge of the sun's No. 1 table. Good large sarapel like hungry serpents in search of a doing here?" ~J "What seek you in the hand of 0— total energy. Like everything else rooms for the accomodation of cori!^ prey. "We came not of our own free will wha—ta—faik." spoke the queen in connected with this wonderful oody, the monarch of the tempest clutched silvery, flute-like tones, clear yet soft, mereial travelers. Passengers and Thus far the brave little engine had us and hurled us hither we ask forlike figures gives us, says the Scotsman, moonlight changed to sound. baggage will be carried free from breasted the fury of the elements for food and shelter until we can "Great queen, but a moment ago I no adequate conception ofhis energy, and to the depot. Rates reasonable. catch the next steamer for home. without mishap. The glare from her had but one purpose in mind—to go and various illustrations have been The finest wines, liquors and cigars Go, and tell your queen that strangers v£NEW ULM, MINN. fJfi home yet now it seems to me that I fire shone upon the palid faces of the used by different investigators. Thus, at the bar. have come to her domain and could tarry here content forever. Are •engineer and firemen who, with set Hershel considered it in relation to seek her protection, Hurry up, for you She-that-is-looking-for-a-husband?" teeth and quickened breaths, stood the quantity of ice which it would Bnoklen Arnica Salve we are hungry." M.Mullen, PresH. ff. Tajen,Viee-Pres''i -at their posts, not knowing what melt in a given time, and states that The best salve in the world for Cats, "I go, I will carry your message to The queen smiled she saw that she #J1 C. Budolph, Cashier. Bruises Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, moment might send them to destruction. the amount of heat which the earth O-wha-ta-faik await my return here." made an impression, r* ••=-,.***$ Fever Sores, Tetter, chapped Hands,*fi The engineer, with his hand Casting the raw fish, which he had receives when the sun is overhead Directors: i,' "That is the meaning of my name Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-^' been nibbling, to a famished- looking upon the throttle, strove to pierce perchance you think it strange that would melt an inch thickness of ice tions, and positively cures Piles or no Werner Bcesch, Chas. Wagner, Dr. C. dog, Man-with-a-chronic-jaw-on made such as I should be compelled to seek the cavernous gloom, but he might in two Thours and thirteen pay required. It is guaranteed to give a low obeisance to the sun, stretched a spouse, and yet 'tis true for I know minutes. From this it Weschcke, 0. M. Olsen, E. O. Koch,^ •as well have endeavored to see perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. out his arms to the east, then strode that in my country beauty's measure Price 25 cents per box. Sold by 0. through the solid crust of the earth can be calculated that if with majestic air in the direction of the is the understanding's size, and L. Roos. into its fiery interior. the body of the sun were entirely surrounded palace of the queen, whose glittering mine, you see, is small, at least comparatively DRAFTS TO ALL PARTS Suddenly there came a flash of by a sheet of ice on its surface M. GR dome could be discerned in the distance, so, and none there is in OF EUROPE, AND PASSAGE lightning more vivid than any that of more than a mile in thickness, looming up behind alarge red my domain who'd link his fate with had preceded it the entire heavens the sun's heat would entirely melt barn. mine, because, alas! my feet are far TICKETS SOLD. seemed ablaze of incandescent light this coating of ice in the same It was a picturesque locality in to small." DEALER IN then came a crash as though the namely, two hours and thirteen minutes. which the train-wrecked travelers "You don't say," remarked John universe had been rent asunder, and Prof. Young uses and even Close Attention iven to Collecting. found themselves. They were in the -GROCERIES and BLASSW&RE Henry, who knew not what else to simultaneously a fierce blast swept more striking illustration. He says: midst of a great clearing, natural or remark. "Why don't you advertise in from the sea carrying with it a "If we could build up a solid column artificial, surrounded on all sides by for a husband?" Minnesota Streei opposite the vast, towering wave that overwhelmed of ice from the earth to the sun, two a dense forest. Some of the trees "Advertise? and what, pray tell, everything that lay in its miles and a quarter in diameter, over 400 feet high. Through the Congregational Church.^"^ is that? Youspeaktomeinriddles." way. spanning the inconceivable abyss of clearing flowed a river whose waters "Oh yes, I forgot where I was of NEW ULM, Low Eates to Pacific Ooasti The locomotive swayed and trembled ninety-three million miles, and* if the MTNIf. were so clear that they did not even course you don't know what newspapers and groaned like a thing of life sun should concentrate his power upon throw back a reflection. On either The new agreement between the transcontinental are." under the terrible strain then it succumbed. it, it would dissolve and melt, not lines authonzes a lower rate to Pacific bank were the huts of the Patagons, "Come sit beside me on my throne FRANK FRIEDKIANN, :oaat points via the Manitoba-Pacific route The hurricane lifted it up in an hour, not in a minute, but in a which consisted of nothing more or than is made via any other line. Frequent exjursions. I rather like your looks—who can tell bodily, carried it a distance inland single second one swing of the pendulum Accommodations first-class. Fo less than the trunks of gigantic trees perchance the goal is nearer than I rates, maps, and other .and set it down, right side up. and it would be water, seven dealer in hollowed out and provided with particulais, apply ,2T?S"o«w thought." more and it would be dissipated in tl. WARREN, General mm A &» iwm.ia The engineer applied the brakes, doors and windows. On the summit John Henry complied with alacrity. Brooeries, Crockery. Stoneware, Passenger Agent, St. fw A S vapor." Of course, of this enormous -even while the engine was being carried of a small hill was the palace of 0wha-ta-faik. Paul, Minn. JAuaAJfc.^ He had never experienced the sensation quantity of heat the earth receives through the air but they failed I was built of bricks An Excellent KouteT of sitting on the throne by thebut a very small fraction. The remainder, to work, and when the iron monster Glassware, Notions,* Canned of solid gold, and immense diamonds side of a beautiful woman. At a sign except, of course, what the Tourists, Dusmess men, settlers and others landed, it went crashing on, over hill served as windows. It was the only from the queen the guards withdrew, lesirmg to reach any place in Central or North other planets receive, passes away into and dale, through dense woods and building constructed of these materials. »rn Jlontana, Dakota, Minnesota, or Puget leaving the prime minister only to Fruit, Flour, etc. space and is lost forever, so far as Sound and Pacific Coast points should mvestj primeval forests, whose monarchs witness the further proceedings. ate regarding the rates and advantages ofiered can be ascertained, to the solar system. wept away before its resistless power, by this route. A rate 10m Chicago or St.Paul to John Henry and Juan, Jose, Miguel "How did you know my name?" If we estimate in mechanical Puget Souud or Pacinc Coast points ?5.001owei along precipitous cliffs, from which All goods sold at bottom prices and and Henrico sat down to await asked John Henry as soon as he was than via any othei line is guaranteed Accom- power what we do receive, we find it threatened av^ry ^moment to tiqns delivered free of cost to any part of the return of the prime minister, BTTPAUL comfortably seated. this to be on each square foot of surface clafes plunge into the fathomless depths NNEAPOLlS and the natives watched them with the city. "I know the name of every one Great equivalent, on an average, to below then over grassy plains and and undisguised interest as they passed a who comes to my domain—not only about fifty tons raised a mile high N E W ULM, MINN. M-MaBen fertile farming lands, ever and anon dark-complexioned bottle, from JiAlLvrAX. flT^Man that but everything about him thus yearly, or to one-horse power continuously tearing through a stray farmhouse mouth to mouth. Watertown, Aberdeen, Ellendale, Foir your history is like an open book to acting, to every thirty Bufoid and Bottineau, Dakota, are a few of the or barn—on, on until it seemed that GEO. BENZ SONS. me. 'Tisnotfor naught I have a principal points reached via recent extensions ol The natives look as most savages square feet of the earth's surface. I a demon had. taken possession of the this load. For maps or other information ad private seer." look. They were dark, unkempt, untutored, is by this enormous supply of energy dress C. WABBEN, General Passenger Agent, Importers and Wholesale Dealers In mass of machinery and was leading "The deuce," muttered John Henry Bt Paul, Minn wore few clothes and couldn't that the whole world is "kept alive it a wild race to eventual destruction. WINES &. 1" Send for new map of Northwest. under his breath. He didn't quite speak English. John Henry discovered and active. It keeps us warm and Where Are Yon Going? like the idea that this foreign potentate the latter fact when he held drives our steam engine and water The engineer and fireman looked should know all about his past up the bottle and asked the nearest wheels, it circulates our atmosphere When do you start» "Where from How many •at each other in mute despair. Not record. Then he added, aloud: "If native: "Take a swig?" The man in youi party? What amount of freight or and brings us rain and snow in due a word was said, for the violence of baggage have you? What route do you prefer? 217 & 219 E. 3rd Str. St. Paul, Minn' you know all about me it is but fair never stirred. season it grows and nourishes our Upon receipt of an answer to the above questions the speech impossible. that you should tell me something you will be furuibhed, lree of expense, with There was one peculiar feature about plants and animals, and, in a word, is The baggage car had been carried theloweRtRjB STIPAUL rates, also about yourself. Who are you anyway?" THEODOU MUELLER, the savages, and that was the size of the source of almost every earthly maps, timel*! a A tables.pamor§B|f long. The rest of the train had A 1 O 8 a valuable their feet. So large were these useful been left behind when the locomotive blessing. inform-i*l IUIUYAXI a on which "I am the last descendant of the members that they left tracks like will save trouble, time and money. Agents will started on its mad career across the call person where necessary. Parties not Aztecs who in times long past did to those of a snow-shoe club. •country. ready to answer above questions should cut out rule this country's vast expanse from MANUFACTURES. OF "Well, I'll be darned if this isn't the An Aerolite Falls in Cleveland. and pre«erve this notice for future reference. I In the baggage car were, beside may become useful. Address WAKBEH, isthmus to the Horn. They long queerest place I ever struck." According to a New York Times Beneral Passenger Agent, St Paul, Minn. Miguel, the baggageman, a breakman have passed away, and I alone remain. "Si, senor," replied Juan. Send for new map of Northwest. named Henrico and John Henry despatch an aerolite fell within ten O-wha-ta-faik my parents "And their queen is looking for a Smith, the son of a millonaire of feet of N. McMullen, while the called me, and the Patagons did husband well, I don't wonder nobody Cheap Cash Store Weehawken, N. J. He was cool and AND DEALER IN choose me to control their destinies. latter was smoking in the yard of wants her if her feet are as large collected, and while the two Spaniards Ees. loraokers' I am their queen, beloved as such, as those of her subjects. Just think his home, on Seelye avenue, Cleveland, were pouring forth prayer after prayer obeyed without a murmur yet, withal, of feet like those on a cold winter's Ohio. The aerolite was first for safety he sat calmly upon his my life is lonely, since there's none night." observed in the heavens. After it valise and smoked Valparaiso stogies. who'll take me to his heart and make Juau and Jose and Henrico and struck, "The mass of fire resolved Kuemke's Building, New Dim, Minn "Don't this beat all he remarked of me his wedded wife." Miguel said nothing, but they shivered DEALER IN sententiously, as the car gave a sudden itself into a ball as large as a football, "Those Patagons area pack of at the thought which Henry had GOODS, lurch in leaping over a mountain DRY and burned for a few seconds. fools," angrily replied John Henry. conjured up. torrent "I haven't had such a jolly NOTIONS, "None of them wants to marry a The atmosphere was filled with sulphurous At this juncture the prime minister time since I went to the last National HATS, CAPS, beautiful queen, who converses in odor. For a moment Mr. reappeared. Convention at home. I wonder where GROCERIES, CROCKERY blank verse? I don't understand it." "He that is called John Smith will NEWULM. MINN. McMullen was struck dumb with we are, and where we are going, and and OILS. "Ah, no, you cannot understand follow me the others will remain MANUFACTURER OF amazement and terror, but on recovering when we'll get there?" your notions are so different from where they are. These are the commands FINE CIGARS "Ok, Senor, we shall all be dashed he hastened to the spot where Also Musical Instruments ours. Among your people none of O-wha-ta-faik, the mighty to pieces I know we shall we shall the mass had fallen. He found a and WHEELER & WILSOJS'S would have a chance to wed whose queen," was his announcement. never see our homes again," wailed hole in the ground, from which a considerable feet were e'en but half so large as Latest Improved Mignel. "I wonder how the mighty female those of our women. So with us the SEW1JSG MACHINES. amount of heat issued. "Think so?" asked John Henry monarch of this benighted region opposite is true." Besolved at all hazards to find out "well perhaps we shall anyway, came to find out my name," mused ^©-Special brands made to order. "It seems to me your feet are of generous Ul Goods Sold at Bottom Prices, what had entered the ground, he there's no use troubling ourselves John Henry, as he followed the prime size, Queen." Erocured about it until after it comes, -weminister. "And I wonder what she alight and seizmg a small "Yes, yes, as you regard it.rt won't feel like bothering our heads wants of me. Great Donnelly! Can atched, dug down for a distance of WM. FRANK. SEW ULM. JOHN BENTZIN, John Henry pondered a moment MINN. about anything any more." He lit it be that she wants me for husband? two feet, when he found a substance as though revolving an idea. As Cottonwood Mills. another stogy, pulled out his ticket For the first time in his life a sense about as large as a small apple, too with a sudden resolve he blurted Empire Mill Co. and chuckled gleefully as he realized of fear possessed the dauntless hot to handle. He threw it out on out: that he was beating the company, American. the ground to cool, which took "Queen, since no one else will have for the conductor had been left far While he was yet musing on his about half an hour. After being you, suppose you bestow yourself on Custom grinding solicited. Will behind and could not collect his fare. ROLLER MILL. probable fate, the palace suddenly sufficiently cooled to handle he took me. I have known you but a few grind wheat for (one eigth) or exchange At length he dozed, and the train•«till loomed up directly in his path. The it into the house and proceeded to minutes, yet already I love you thundered on with unabated prime minister rapidly advanced, examine it. I is a half sphere, 34 fts. flour, 5 fbs. shorts and 8 right well. True, your feet area 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs. speed. rapped three times upon the golden weighs about twelve ounces, and has lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour trifle larger than we consider the gates, spoke some unintelligible the appearance of copper coated with and feed sold at low rates and delivered right thing, but we might go to words and bowed low before the entrance. a thin black substance. I is so 'There came a sudden crash the Chicago to live there no one would "We take pleasure in informing the n, New Ulm free of expense. hard that a sharp knife will not cut 'wheels of the engine spun around in notice anything strange." 3ublic that we are now ready for busness. it. The bottom, which is flat, is mid air for a few moments, and then The gates swung open, and a *L FRANK & BENTZIN. The best machinery and all the "I know full well that it Would punctured with small holes, making settled back upon the ground. The brawny voice shouted from within: latest improvements in the manufacture come to this, that you would thus it somewhat resemble a sponge. iron horse had encountered an in "Advance, John Smith." of flour enable us to compete with *ATJG. QTJEirSE, propose to me. I do accept, but One side is corrugated and has the .surmountable obstacle and stopped. John Henry entered and found ine best mills in the country^ know that I can never leave my na- appearance of beaten brass, only the -"Ah, we are there," complacently We are constantly buying himself a chamber whose dazzhng tive land here must I live and die color is a duller, coarser one. TheWheat, Temarked John Henry, as he picked luxuriance rivalled in brilliancy that our customs and our laws do so ordain. mass is covered in spots with a thin, himself up out of the corner of the (^.HARNESS MAK1 of a first-class bar-room. Cut-glass Stay here with me and help melted substance, which causes it to car, whither he had been thrown by Corn* /*•".. windows and magnificent paintings me reign 'twill be an easy task, and resemble anew casting. Mr. McMullen -and Dealer in- the sudden stop "let us see where we adorned the walTs. Richly uphofs"- thisrou^'country" is noTso baTwhen will place it in the hands of Prof. Whips, Collars, and all othfi?b are." tered couches and divans and sofas once you've learned its ways." gji Buckwheat, Morley, of Adelbert College, for analysis." er articles usually kept J1 He» stepped out and surveyed the invited to luxurious repose. The "ByjoveJ Queen, you offer ii not^ scene. The storm clouds had taken Jg in a first-alass liar- A. •»J.y J*J*C I V-, VAUCCli, yv floor texturess wa carpetede witshsoft richly-colored half bad I will stay." (flight and given way to the glorious sSft i^ At the Highest Market Prices that wer a and yield ^Mness s^°i 1 |^"'Tis well. Ho, therel he vassals, |3§r I ssunlight of another day. A crowd of ing as sealskin to the touch. go without and spread the joyous Mrs. Blaine Took a Hand. & We sell all kindsof 3££T& S ^people gigantic stature and palebrown New harnesses made to order and re Armed guards, immovable as news. O-wha-ta-faik has found a mELOVR, **~.Wi complexion, whom he hadgraven "If every man was cut and trimmed under statues, re stationed pairing promptly attended to. l| spouse. Now haste, prepare the marriage the eye of his wife, like Ji Blame, I would dSHOMTS, *never seen before and whose clothing about. From an inner chamber, feast." NEWMLM, KL,*^i«W & K"INN quit the business," said Frank Eosenau ci •was so few that he judged them to be BMA2T, &cj hidded by portieres that seemed as And my companions—what of the Continental hotel, as he related a personal H.FRENZEL, an full dress, st^od at a distance fleecy as clouds and yet completely them?" inquired John Henry anecdote in which James Blaine's beard AT LOW RATES. vcuriously gazing at the invading en^gine shut out all view, came strains of cut a prominent figure BoBenau went on to "They shall return again to their and car. Just ahead a large m..junction wierd, wild, unearthly music, seduc affirm at a few yeai a ago he was called to respective home, or else be made Special Attention given to lay upon the ground. I Mr Blame's room at the Continental hotel. tive as a siren's song which the policemen on our force." Manufacturer of Oixstorei "Worfc. Vwas this that had stopped the train. The magnetic statesman's beard needed operation flute like warble of the hand organ Thus it came about that JohnHen- SODA WATER, upon, and just as the distinguished y. Juan and Jose, the engineer and and the senerous trumpeting of Smith was never seen in WeeiTerrrm.TI fentleman was comfortably seated Mrs. An extra stone for giinding feed. y*V«eman, who had just picked them- the German banm were wore blended Into har TilonrJorl i«+r\ r. -vr TT -r.. .i -i hawken, N. Y., again.—Pittsburg lame drew near and proceeded to boas the SELTZER WAJTER jS'lves up out of the debris of the en^"me, perfect harmony. Steam Cornsheller. job. Chronicle-Telegraph. came running up to join their "With an eagle eye she watched each hair The music ceased It soft light that Wood taken for cash orin exchange and as it fell, and from time to time outlined the jompanionsinthecar. seemed to come from nowhere, yet exact curve she wanted the beardto assume," Word has been received at Denver from the Bfapitfe Mill do. Hen- J"" "Where are we?" asked John was everywhere, illumined the great said the barber. "1began to weaken and feel Ute agency, Utah, that four weeks ago, Piah, Champagne Cider. of them. chamber, the curtains parted, and a shaky, tut when it wasfinishedBhe expressed the notorious renegade chief, while returning CiSH PURCHASES satisfaction. Blame sat there like a lamb Damphina^^^gbhev replied woman stood revealed. to the Ouray agency from Green river with, a in a and didn't say a word."—Philadelphia -breath. a 7 .« a of Indians, committed smcide by shoot- *Bd CHEAP SALES. 1 Centre Street, r- orcL New Ulm, Mini^ ±ne guards prostrated themselves ing bimwtf through the heart-