Starkweathers WarStory PETER SCHEBEB, "But that makes it ever so much up about midnight, I suppose. The HDEMK E ^mmm galloped off, some going one way ore interesting," chimed in Miss camp was all quiet, one guard was and some the other, and as soon as Valeria. "I gives a sort of Italian asleep, another was on his beat a few the coast was clear I ran across and "Bachelor 3im, a grizzled old fellow Carpenters, flavor, you know, of the brigands yards off, and the other was standing jumped into the creek." fif living in a certain up-town boarding and all that, you know. I suppose —DEA. N— by the fire smoking his pipe." "So your greenbacks allgot spoiled they demanded a ransom?" house, is a great favorite with the "Ah, yes, and you crept," began after all," said Miss Clara. Builders and Contractors* "Ransom!" repeated Batchelor Jim, Miss Clara. ll -yonag ladies of the house, who use "Ob, no, I took them out of my NtW ULM, MINN. 3 with a chuckle. "Not mueh. I didn't "No, I don't creep at all," interrupted socks while I was under the bushes." •«, him as a lay figure for the display of look like I was worth three cents. I Bachelor Jim with a politeness "Ah, ha! there's a cool head for Designs and plans made to order and j# numberless little coquetries addressed was about the seediest looking chap that delighted his faction, I you! Under fire, too, vou observe." estimates on all work furnished and you ever saw, with an old boot on |'f* to the sensibilities of younger men. walked up to the fellow by the fire contracts faithfully executed. *&' said Valeria. S onarfoot and a shoe on the other, JLi Besides his honorable position as and asked him if he couldn't let me "I wonder said Miss Clara, with an and my hair sticking out through have a pipe and some tobacco." *»^oldest inmate, he enjoys a reputation air of mild reflection, "whether they half a dozen holes in the crown of my Bucklen Arnica Saive SHINGLES, DOORS, "Mercy! What did you want that would ever have found the money if I-, for good-natured wilhngness to act hat. I was a likely-looking customer The best salve in the world for Cnts, for?" asked the lieutenant who hadthey had shot him?" %g£g forto talk about ransoming. Besides Bruises Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, •'", as escorfe to the escortless, and evidently expected far more heroic. SASH, BLINDS, i&,Fever "I do wonder," spoke upCJthe that wasn't their style of doing Sores, Tetter, chapped Hands, g* little generosities in the way of "Well, I felt like I'd like to smoke." Major's wife in a fine, thin, precise things. ^Z, Chilblains, Corns, and all skin Eruptions, "And what did the ruffian say?" heater tickets, oyster suppers and *—and kinds of— little voice. "I do wonder whether -and positively cures Piles or no "The idea of going to buy hogs in "Oh, he was civil enough. He was that poor sentinel was badly burned. 1c lee cream parties which has long pay required. I is guaranteed to give that sort of costume?" exclaimed one an Irishman, and he said "Begorra I Building Material. "It's to be hoped he was," said perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. secured to him the devoted adherence of the opposite faction. "I'd have kin that same. Hyur's Jakeashlape Miss Valeria loftily, "and that he Price 25 cents per box. Sold Dy Q, of all unappropriated misses. gone and bought some descent an' the pipe a shtikin' out of his *ti*. profited by the lesson, and repented L. Boos, flEWULM, clothes." Lately, however, his supremacy in pocket: Sure yez might ez well be and reformed his way for life, which "But you don't understand," said kapin' it warrum fer 'irn." .. ***$ t^r* this special realm has been disputed he couldn't have done if he'd been izensioank, FRANK FRIEDMANN, 1 Bachelor Jim, with another chuckle. "Oh,Mr. Starkweather!" interrupt stabbed to death by the major, an old fellow equally "I did it a-purpose, don't you see? ed Valeria, leading off in a clasping 'Very true," granted the Major. .grizzled, good-natured and generous, If I'd uv been dressed up they'd uv ^dealer in of hands, "how perfectly clever that "Still it's my experience, that under though hampered with a slight incumbrance suspected I had money, and besides, is. I never had an idea you could such circumstances a man is less solicitous Broceries, Crockery. Stoneware, there was a man in the gang that imitate the Irish dialect like that. in the shape of a wife. about the welfare of other had worked for me and I'd discharged Go on what next." people's souls than about that of his She is a little woman, however, easily for stealing, and my game would uv Slassware, Notions, Canned "Well," continued Bachelor Jim, own body. Mr. Starkweather was in NEW ULM, MINN. overlooked, and seemingly quiet in•difierent been, up in a jiffy if he'd uv recognized his eyes twinkling like diamonds, a tight place, and I must say that, to the open flirtations carried me." "he filled the pipe and handed it to all things considered, he extricated Fruit, Flonr, etc on between her husband and "Oh' how perfectly awful," exclaimed me, 'an' may it taste shwate to yez," himself from it with commendable M.Mullen, PresH. B. Vajen,Vice-Pres'i 5 Miss Valeria again. "Weren't says he, "belike its last pipe yez'll skill and coolness half a dozen laughing girls. J. C. Rttdolph, Cashier. you awfully frightened?" All goods sold at bottom prices and iver shmoke." "There's isn't a doubt of it," said Since the advent of the major, a "Well, I'd rather they'd uv let me "Capital! capital!" creid Miss Valeria, Miss Valeria. Still she wore a slight Directors: delivered free of cost to any part of strong rivalry has sprung up, not as go along and buy my hogs, admitted "and I suppose when you found air of disappointment, as one who, the city. the rash reader may suppose between Bachelor Jim. him so obliging you bribed him to Werner Boesch, Chas. Wagner, Br. with long striving and great labor, N E W ULM, MINN. "I reckon so," said the major, let you go." opens a huge knotted shell, to find him and Bachelor Jim, but between Weschcke, 0. M. Olsen, E. G. Koch, laughing. "Where did you have your "Why, no I didn't," said Bachelor, therein a very minute oyster. iihe young ladies on their behalf. A GEO. BENZ & SONS. money hid?" Jim, "what would I let him know I portion of these, having fallen away "In my socks" had money for? That's just what I DRAFTS TO ALL PARTS from their first love, have set up a Importers and Wholesale Dealera A Glance at the CameL "Pooh! the worst place you could was trying to hide from him." OF EUROPE, AND PASSAGE WINES & pretense that the major possesses superior,, have thou ght of/' said the major. "Oh, I forgot that, well?" A camel's hind legs will reach anywhere—over "I wonder they didn't look there— "I asked him to get me a coal of charms which not only justifybut TICKETS SOLD. his head, round his LIQUORS, the first thing I should fire to light my pipe." compel this secession, a pretense chest, and on to his hump even when "But they didn't search me, you "Oh'" ejaculated Miss Valeria again lying down an evil disposed animal Tiotly contested by the faithful. see." in a puzzled tone, while Miss Clara Close Attention iven to Collecting. 217 & 219 E. 3rd Ste. St. Paul, Minn will shoot out his legs and bring you The Major is somewhat portly in "Oh! that was lucky for you. threw her a sarcastic smile. to a sitting posture. His neck is- ol "Well," urged Miss Valeria, "what person and pompous diction, and "And when he stooped to get it," the same pliancy. He will chew the did they do with you?" continued Bachelor Jim, I hit him loves much the sound of his own voice Qefcjfetf, root of his tail, nip you in the calf, "Oh, they just took me along until with my fist as hard I could drive, which is often uplifted in narrations or lay the top of his head on his they camped for the night. You see,'' just under the ear, and knocked him Two More -ofpersonal experiences, and especially hump He also bellows and roars at he went on, with a sudden outburst, over into the fire, and then ran off NEW UX.M, MINN, ^f* you, whatever you are doing—saddling exploits of valor performed by himas if some stronger vein of memory as fast as I could clip it." HARVEST MANUFACTURER OF had just been tapped, "I was in Fire him, feeding him, mounting him, A chorus of "Ohs'" greeted this during the "war between the States." FINE CIGARS. Prairie Bottom when they caught me, unsaddling him. To the unimtated denoument, as unexpected to the EXCURSIONS Bachelor Jim, on the other hand, and they just took me back on my audience as to the unfortunate Irishmen, a camel going for one with his mouth €s small and lean, with a square reticent road a little way, to a hill just opposite and Miss Valeria added enthusiastically. open and gurgling horribly is a terrifying cast of countenance, illuminated, where Fire Prarie creek empties spectacle but do not mind TO into the Missouri, and not by twinkling black eyes and a "Dear! how perfectly clever that him, it is only his way. I heard ol MINNESOTA, DAKOTA* more than three miles from my mill, was. I never should have thought cheerful smile lurking in perpetual one or two men having a lee: broken and there they went into camp. MONTANA. of such a thing." from a kick at various times, but it JgfSp'eeial brands made to order, ambush under a gray, stubby mustache. There's a fine cold spring there that "I think it was real deceitful and was the exception and not the rule, Tuesfiaya,0ct.9th& 23d., runs in a clear stream down the hill ungreatful," said Miss Clara. "The for a camel is really a very docile It is a difficult feet to launch him and across the road into Fire Prairie idea of knocking a man down in the animal, and learns to behave himseli WM. FRANK. JOHN BENTZIN. on the conversational stream, and I A E creek, and on the other side there's a very act of doing you a favor, and in most trying positions with equanimty, Cottonwood'Mills. still more difficult to keep him afloat sedgy pond that used to be the finest St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry» into the fire too! I was barbarous! though I fear it is only the result After he is launched, and it is here place for duck I ever struck. I've inhuman!" FROM that the Major's partisans make their of want of brains.—Count Gleichen. seen the whole pond just black with "But you don't think that he would ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS Custom grinding solicited. Will candidate, whose never-failing fund 'em." have shot him if he hadn't knocked of anecdote they perpetually vaunt. grind wheat for -J (one eigth) or exchange A BATE S arehim down," urged Miss Valeria. "Just see how ignorant we all The other evening after the Major CHEAPER THAN 34 fis. flour, fis. shorts and 8 "No, he wouldn't either, not if he'd Jnst a Little Colwed* of geography," said Miss Valeria. had related with much eclat one of lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour stayed in his place," retorted Miss "Now, I never knew before that there his best stories, Miss Valeria, the EVER BEFORE! New York Press Clara. and feed sold at low rates and delivered was a Fire Prairie creek or Fire leader of the Bachelor Jim faction, A tall and willcwy woman, with so "And how was he to get away if he creek Prairie or Fire Prairie bottom a New ¥lm free of expense. Less than Oris Cent per Mile suddenly exclaimed: light a tinge of dark color in -her stayed in his place demanded 'il in the country. Did you, major?" cheeks that not one man in 10,000 "Weren't you in the war, Mr. Starkweather? No round trio late being more than TWENTY FRANK & BENTZIN. Miss Valeria. "Can't say I did," said the major ("Bachelor Jim" is only a would suspect that she had negro NOLLARS. lncludinsr GREAT FILLS, HJELBDAaud "Well, I don't care," there must "but, then, these local names, you BUTTE MONTANA _, Eseudonyni used to designate him beind blood in her veins, has attracted con AUG. qiOTSE, have been some other way,"' maintained know rersons uesinng to tase a cup nuroaar11 iYortui?m his back.) siderable attention on Broadway Minnesota. Dakota or Montana for the purpose Miss Clara. "I don't think it "Of course," agreed Miss Clara, the "Yes, I was in it," said Bachelor of looking over the country, orTOiththe during the promenade hours for two was honorable, and I've always leader of his faction, with a scornful idea of selectins anew home withm the boundBries -Jim with an extra twinkle of his or three weeks past. Her form is perfect of ti-e GRANDEST WHEAT BELT IN heard that there was honor even curl of her lip. black eyes. THE WORLD, and an agricultural country feUitable HARNESS MAKER and her taste in dress excellent. among thieves. Don't you agree for diversined farming, dairy and stock "Well," prompted Miss Valeria, 0, Mr. Starkweather!" chorused She is the daughter of B. S. Pineb with me?" she added, appealing to puiposea, will do well to tafce advantage of seeing that her man had quite lost —and Sealer in— "his party. You never told us that. these rates. back, ex-govenor and ex-senator oi the major. the thread of his story. "They took Foi maps and information applv to your home Whips, Collars, and all oilier Come now, tell us a war story and Louisiana, the colored politican who "Well, a an has to take his chance ticket agent, to any agent ot the company, or you into camp and whatnext?" articles usually kept jou shall be forgiven." was largely instrumental in the seating when he can get it' under such circumstances," F. I. W I N E "Oh, they picketed their horses, C£I don't know any war story in a first-ttlass harness of President Hayes. Gov. Pmchback said the major' noncommittally. Gtenl Pass and Tkt. Agt, and got their supper, and I sat on a "What! Were you never in battle?" shop. is a highly educa'ted mulatto, "Still, I don't think I should St. Paul. TWTIH log and looked at 'em." ^questioned the leader severely and his daughter is said to have had have managed it in just that way!" New harnesses made to order and re "Why' whv didn'tyou run away?" "Oh, yes, I was in a dozen battles, Cheap Cash Store the best possible advantages for securing "Ah! I was sure of that! Now, pairing promptly attended to. asked Miss Clara. "You weren't 1 suppose." an education. His great fondness how would you have managed it, tied." AWell, then, tell us about them." NEW MLM, MINN is for poker, and when he sits major?" There's nothing to tell. I went in, "No, but there was the guard down to a poker table the bets are "Well, I think I should have slipped G$0. J$d0£#, and came out." H.FRENZEL, standing around with loaded muskets, sure to run his:h. upon him and quickly stuck a knife ^You didn' shoot anybody?', and then there were about 300 into him then I'd have put on his •"Perhaps, I don't know." men besides. I didn't see much coat and hat, so's to disguise myself, "And you were never shot, nor chance just then." The Early BirtL DEALER IN Manufacturer of and taken his gun and gone over to DRY GOODS, •taken prisoner, nor anything?" "Did they give you some supper?" Mrs. McSpilkins hired an alleged wherethe horses were picketed and selected "Yes, yes," admitted Bachelor Jim, SODA WATER asked Miss Valeria's lieutenant. NOTIONS, me a good horse. A man on colored lady to cook, and gave her evidently delighted to have discovered "No, they didn't seem to have any HATS CAPS foot has no chance against mounted particular instructions about larly SEL.TZER W A E something so satisfactory to spare One of the prisoners asked GROCERIES, CROCKERY pursuers." in his past experience. I was taken rising. After she toad got through ?J and OILS. "Of course," commented Miss Clara, and 1 prisoner once." she asked Matildy what was the first 'What! there were other prisoners?', triuuiphantly, apparently quite overlooking "Will you see that, now?" cried "Oh. yes six or eight of 'em. I Also Musical Instruments thing she had to do in the morning? the inhumanity of sticking a Miss Valeria, ecstatically. "What Champagne Cider. was away those fellows had of arresting nnd WMEELEU & WILSON'S knife into an unsuspecting man. "Get up and dress myself." modesty! A nerfect mine of heroic ad.Ye every man they met on the Latest Improved "That would have been far more gallant "No such thing." locked up in his bosom, and road." nlre Street. New Ulm. Minn SEWING MACHINES. more like a real soldier jfa never so much as hinted at it. l*De fust thing I must do in de "And what was it one of them There was such a chorus of assent CATARRH on, now at once, and tell us about mornings am ter make de fire asked?" asked the little lieutenant. to this imposing programme that Ul Goods Sold at Bottom Prices it. Where was it "No, that's not the first thing you. "Asked the guard whether we were Miss Valeria looked quite crestfallen, I "Well, it was up in Missouri are to do." not to have some supper. 'Guess but Bachelor Jim rallied bravely to "I Missouri'? oh, how nice! we've "Den I has done forgo* it." not,' said the fellow, 'but you'll .have SEW VIM. the defense. MINN. never had a Missouri war story yet. „. "The first thing you are to do in a pretty early breakfast most likely,' "Well, you see," he said. "I hadn't Wha battle was it m?" the morning, before you get up, is to and he tapped his musket." Empire Hill Co. any knife, but if I'd uv stuck him, and "I wasn't in battle chop up the kindling wood and have "Gracious! how perfectly dreadful," noc happened to hit a vital spot, why -"What! not in battle? Why, where it ready the evening before." exclaimed Miss Valeria. he'd uv hollered out and grabbed hold -were you?" "Oh, that's nothing," said the of me, and I'd uv been shot on the I was riding along the road." major "guards always amuse themselves ROLLER MILL. Killing: Time. spot." "Oh! out on the scout, I suppose." by playing upon the fears of "Of course!" said Miss Valera, borrowing Young Mr. Sissy and Miss Vere de "No, I was going to buy hogs." their prisoners." Miss Clara's expression, and Vere were seated beneath the shade An unmistakable titter was audible 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs. "Since there were so many of you," returning the sarcastic smile with interest of a chestnut tree enjoying the soft from the other side, but Miss said Miss Clara, with the air of being air of an autumn afternoon. Young Waleria did not flinch She was con*vinced au fait in such matters. I suppose We take pleasure ia informing the Sissy had said nothing but had sucked that Bachelor Jim had a war "And as for the horse," continued you rose and overpowered the guard, aublic that we are now ready for busness. 's Cream Balm his cane for fifteen minutes, finally he *tory concealed about him equal to Bachelor Jim, "that's very well in when the others had gone to sleep The best machinery and all tbe broke the silence: 'the major's best, and she was bound daylight, when a man's bound to and so got away." latest improvements in the manufacDure Cleanses the Nasal Passages. at lie should produce it. run, that is if he's dead sure he's gotthe "What are you thiniking of, Miss Allays Inflammation. Heals the of flour enable us to compete with "No, oh no," said Bachelor Jim, "Well," she said sweetly, "and why fast horse. But at night a fellow Maud?" Sores, Restores the Senses of ihe best mills in the country. "without arms or concert of action shouldn't they let you buy hogs if has the best chance on foot, because, Taste, Smell and Hearing. "I am thinking," she said, "how We are constantly buying -t that would uv been impossible,"^ yoci wanted to? I don't see anything you see, he can dodge under the beautiful the cloud shadows are as "Well, what did you do?" demanded Wheat, J*! ^criminal in that bushes." they sweep swiftly over the harvested Hye, A particleits applied Into each nostril and fa Miss Valeria. S S 6 6 0 Drareists or br mail. "Oh, they didn't know I was going "Or climb a tree," said the major, A!k fields." "Went to sleep/' said Bachelor ELY BBOTHEBS. 66 Warren Street, N fork to buy hogs," exclaimed Bachelor with generous concession^ s"*"Aw, does that sort ofthing amuse Oats, „y nowJim, sententiously. Jim, joining amiably in the that's very true you, Miss Maud?" 4 "To sleep? think of it," exclaimed Buckwheat, open laughter of the major's faction. "Which did you do,Mr. Starkweather?" "Not particularly» Mr. Sissy, but Miss Valeria, appealing to her company, &c. &c. "Fortunate for me they didn't, for 1 asked Miss Clara. one has to do something to pass who responded with a wondering ffaad $3,000 in greenbacks on me,and "I dashed into a sumach thicket," away the time."—The Epoch. At the Highest Market Prices. shaking of heads. tthey'd uv shot me in the twinkling if said Bachelor Jim. ?fjf«a ^£x "Oh, a tired man will sleep under J%, they'd uv suspected us We sell all kinds of "I think I should have elimecf a Motors.^VJvi any file if he has half a chance," said Electric "Mercy' how perfectly awful^J exvciaimed **:x A if, tree," returned Bachelor Jim, "because the major. §|The Mannfacturer and Builder his admirers. you see the ground fell off so & SMOBTS, "Yes. indeed," confirmed Miss "Oh, yes, they'd uv shot me sure," affirms that there are no less than that all the bullets hit in the tree Clara "I've often seen that stated. I ifes» BRAN, *5lie repeated with eomiction "You ten thousand electric motors in use tops. .*^_ _&&*, te#_. if if 2 suppose you area somnambulist then AT LOW RATES. .™8ee it was the Bed Legs throughout the United States. The "Gracious!* they shot" at you!" Mr. Starkweather", and walked away "Good gracious' the Red Legs'" "When I say CHEE I do not mean merelyl uses to which these are put are extremely cried Miss Valeria. in your sleep," she added, with fine Special Attention given to, Btop them for a time, ana then have them ^•exclaimed Miss Valeria much im6 "I should say shot. The bullets varied they embrace the riming tarn again I MEAN A RAJOICAIi CURE. irony. Oixstora Work .pressed by this sanguinary appella/tion. I have mule the disease of rattled among the branches like of sewing machines, printing "Oh, no," said Bachelor Jim, with "What are they 9 FITS* EPTXEPSY or hail. But I was safe enough under presses and ventilating fans operating undisturbed serenity. I was wide "They were a band of Kansas An extra stone for grinding feed. the sumach at the foot of the hill." FAIXING SICKNESS dental instruments driving street enough awake when I got away." «thieves and not soldiers at all," ex's "I should have thought they'd "Well, but how did yougetaway?" cars coal and ore haulage in Steam Cornsheller. S plained the major. mines, AWe-long study. I WARRANT my remedy hi., have beat thabushes observed the asked the little lieutenant. CUHB the worst cases. Because others have* "Still they had an ugly trick of pumping water, washing botttes W°©d taken for cash or in exchange iaued is no reason for not now receiving a cure ajor. "How did I get away?" repeated tii shooting," said batchelor Jim. «n a at once tax a treatise and a FRKK BQTTIJS and in machine shops, shoe factories, JJ( ii ri Bachelor Jim, as if it had just occurred 'They didn't think of that at ot my lOTAUaatB REMEDY. Giv« Express^ & "Very true," admitted the major 1 bookbinderies, knitting works, etc. *!H)f)lre JYLllL O and Post Office. It costs you nothing Jor a to him to tell that part of the first. They made sure I'd gone if ^blandly trial, and It will cure you. Address T* Fo comimiscellaneous uses they adventure. ^jWell, you see, I woke either up or down the road, and they ^4