a el Bridge a Tunnel "But hold on," said a morbidly A O N E A I S I E S Susani' obeyed', reading aloud' what in your ability, dear Harry and to I have to-day seen M. Varilla, the particular fellow, "what figure does we have already submitted) tx» the show*you that I have I shall place •Mt- author of the bridge-tunnel scheme this rope cut in the premises?" reader. 3 ^hr 7fringes a O o« 8 tfafsiesj *%43£$fc every dollar of my little fortunesome of communication between France Wit the her eyes, "Oh, the rope," said Jerry. "Well, "Whatf I to- do?" she' questioned, 0. H. OHADBOURK, JJ" fj. (BOSS, ten or twelve thousand in all, a,nd England, telegraphs the Paris I hadn't noticed that. Men, what Softer than their silver petal*, 7 1 U,' ,=,- with a look of evident annoyance, Presidents CuMuw if the farm can* be disposed of to Closed for blissful reveries -correspondent of the London Daily about this rope?" /, although it was plain from Fold her little hands in whiteness- ^"V advantage—entirely at y6ur command, COP. Mini aid Centra .S'irx. News. M. Varilla singularly resem. No one expressed an opinion and AS in prayer npon her breast $ the blush that accompanied itthu*. which twill enable you to commence bles Napoleon but, notwithstanding Jerry, after examiningthe rope, said Fear not for their folded lightness she felt not a little flattered. businessmen your own account On the heart unmoving pressed, i.„ Ids name and appearance, he does "There's nothing strange about the NEW ULJU, MINN. "Why, youi silly little* innocent," —not so extensive as the Floyd's to For that heart of angel brightness, -y &. rope that I can see." not own to any Corsican blood. In Tired ao early, lies at rest. replied Mrs, Gladstone, laughing, begin witbj of oourse but you will Collections sn£ all bn*tae*s pertanuag fe**taalcls»j« speaking of his plan, M. Varilla told "Yes, but wait aminute," remarked "it is against all rules of propriety to grow to it. The rap I marry is not prompt!/ *tu»ded t*. Tired so early!—when the dawning me that it had met with an excellent the morbidly particular fellow. keep two strings to your bow after toibe cramped-in his aspirations on Glimmered white winged through the room, Individual Responsibly,. "This heart failure business has gone reception at the ministry of public they have become so importunate. account'of my fears for the money I And the skies were half awakening, far enough and I want something works, and that M. Yves Guyot is Half in fading starlit gloom, The only thing you have to do is to might have lying idle ia some savings $500,000, else in this case especially as this From the heaven of the starlight soon to submit it to the ministerial consider the respective claims of these bank." Came the angels of the dawn rope gives us a clue to the cause of -jcouncil. I asked whether the sum of two daring aspirants, and.decide betweent And the morning's winds are sighing, The lover could only express his death." 16,000,000 livres given the "papers them. The choice cannot be And the curtain eastward drawn, emotion of gratitude by a tender Eagle Roller MilttCo. "I reckon you are right," Jerry replied. And her sleeping lace looked bi ighter, •at the cost of the bridge-tunnel was very difficult, of course, when you pressure of the hand a* they strolled And a whispering sob said—"Gonel" "I reckon this rope might be consider their relative positions in a mot under the mark. He informed back and once more* mingled with accepted as a clue. Say, did any worldly sense." yme that it was a great deal above it. All the daisies were unfolding the gay company. Has Capacity o$ of you know this feller?" In the fields where nevermoreShall ^he estimate is 10,000,000 livres 600 Barrels Per Day.. I know Arthur is-rich and Henry The next morning Susan informed the rapture of her child life "Yes," some one replied, "I did." but 12,000,000 livres would certainly is poor." her aunt Mrs. Gladstone, that she Kim and shout and laughter o'er. "What sort of a feller was he?" not be exceeded. In reply to are "Yes and the former is certainly Tired so early!—she has gathered and Harry Joy were-1©» be married "Didn't amount to mnch." All her gladness in swift space, mark that it would be a task of extreme not greatly inferior to the latter in at the expiration of a month, and "Wa'n't no accounjj to the community, She has sung her song and ended, Our flour a be a difficulty to make a tunnel, point of beauty and intelligence. Of preparations for the approaching Child like turning pleading face I reckon?" course vou will discard the rose for footh ends of which would be submerged, nuptials- were immediately set on Back to home where joys are weary— NEWULM, MINNESOTA. "Not at all." the pearls?" and both of them half a Toward the one familiar place. foot. "Well, wa'n't it the general belief "1 am not sure, aunty, dear. I mile from the shore, the engineer Everything was in readiness when Lay ber low among the daisies that he would sooner or later be have been* pondering the matter stated that the technical difficulties Angels know her more than we the time arrived, and a very costly hung?" deeply 'for the last five minutes. I were by no means as great as they They have led her home from wandering, and sensational display was the legitimate "Wall, then," Jerry continued, "if Tired with earthly revelry. have always prided myself that I am •might at first appear. M. Varillathen rp&ult of Mrs. Gladstone's it was the general belief that he And above her dasied pillow something of a judge^of human, nature. explained that his idea was to conatuct clever management. Let her simple tale be told would be hung, why we'll return it as To be sure, Arthur Floyd is a lift at the extremity of either Here the lover of the hllies Agreeably to the promise given a case of natural death, knowing rich and can lavish pearls, even diamonds, Bade a little blossom fold pier by which trains might be raised or him before marriage, Mrs. Joy surrendered that it was natural for the feller to He that wakes the flowers shall wake her, upon the lady of his choice lowered. How was this to be done all her property into her White as snow with heart of gold. die and having reasons for believing but in msy knight of the white rose without letting the water into the husband's hands, and he- immediately —Chambei's Journal. Obtained, and all PATENT HL*iNiAS «v that he would naturally be hung."— I recognize a natural superiority tunnel? The idea was to construct set up for himself in a limited way tended to for MODFRA TR FS£S Our offio* 10 Arkansaw Traveler. that weaUh. alone cannot confer. opposite the U. 3 Patent Office, and we can obUun in the same line- of business as the two square tubes of iron, about 90 l*utents In leas time than thoa* remote from My decision, aunty, ought to be KOSES AND PEAELS. Floyd s. feet in height, 600 feet long, and 400 WASHINGTON, send MODEL, DRA WING W In S a a re Time governed wholly by the present situation, PHOTO of lnrentton. We advise aa to patentability feet wide. These tubes would be As Susan had prophesied before In the time of Shakespeare domes' for riches, you know, have free of charge and va make HO VlLUtthM* bailt on rafts of special design, and their marriage, his business grew, VNLKSS rATBNTJS itfCCURAD wings, and aside from,that I find in tic service was in a state of transi" Susan Wilde was in a deep quandary. For circular, adrioe, terms and referenc*»it»» and in its growth proved a healthy on a calm day towed out to the end my poor admirer more sincerity, tion the old system was decaying' •ctual clients in your own State County, City of and profitable one. In five years of each pier, where they would be let mmmmwmm: Xowu, wnU to more strength of purpose, and a the new one springing into life and Susan's $12,000 had multiplied to -down straight into the sea. Stones great deal less vanity and selfishnessthan Her aunt, Mrs. Gladstone, was if one may be allowed to judge from $50,000, and Harry Joy was begining I -uwild then be shot down from barges may be found wrapped up in casual references scattered through, working an embroidery pattern at Bingham Eros, to be spoken of as one of the vround the four sides of the tubes, so him. who is-represented by pearls." out the plays of the poet, the new "heavy men" of Springvale. the opposite end of the room. On a =as to form breakewaters round them, "Surely you would not be so order does not appear to luue been But during that five years a great •and protect them from the action of stand in front of Susan lay a necklace sane, my dear, as to resign Arthur altogether satisfactory. In "King change had come over the fortunes currents and storms. A. peaceful lake of pearls and a simple white Floyd* with his prospective wealth LUMBER*INSDEALER Lear"—to take one example—Kent ot Arthur Floyd. would thus be formed within the and recognized social standing, for a iose. His father had died leaving him in denounces Oswald, the steward, as a tubes. "Just so," I said, "but how poor clerk in, his employ, with, full control of his extensive business. "knave, a rascal, an eater of broken The rose and the pearls were each •could a tunnel be made without havring nothing but his good looks to recommend For a while things seemed to go on meats: a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, it flooded? "In this way," reiplied accompanied with a separate note. him?" as smoothly as ever with Arthur, three-suited, hundred pound, Mr. Varilla, "the iron tube The rose and the pearls were each accompanied "I might, aunty. A young girl is though prudent people observed worsted-stocking knave!" From LATH, SHINGLES,. D00ES, would rest on a bed of sand, having sometimes supposed to consult her with a separate noteThey that he was becoming daily more beneath it an absolute impervious Shakespeare's plays it further appears heart rather than her ambition in fond of the wine eup and the disreputable SASH AND BLIND. both had been presented to her stratum through which the tunnel that the servants of the period these matters and surely, if I allow company of fast men and would run. When the tubes and the were companions and contidants of by special messengers within the last my heart to have a voice, it will plead Lime, Cement and GouL professional gamblers. He left his breakwaters round them are in poon their master, and that they were most potently in favour of Harry." half hour. business go at loose ends, trusting at the end of the piers, I bore generally sly and pilfering and players "Well, I have no power to control to the integrity ot the salesmen he DEAR SUSAN—Will you wear this rose on •down by hammering with specially of practical jokes. In great families Lowest prices always*. your decision/' responded Mrs. Gladstone* employed, and they robbed him. He jour bosom this evening, if there is any constructed steam hammers. When somewhat impatiently. "I it was customary for servants to spent much ot his time in the city room for hope for one who loves you truly the marley chalk is reached there will can only advise you as I think best. take an oath of fidelity on their entrance and a rumor reached Springvale one Opposite Railroad Sapst* and devotedlv? be a second and smaller tube let You are, of coarse, your own mistress day that he had lobt $20,000 at faro into office. Posthumus alludes KEWULM, sfrva down into the first, leaving sufficient but as you make your bed, so in one night—nearly twice the amount HENKY JOY. to the usage when he says of space to admit of a wall of concrete The second read as follows: must you expect to lie." of money that Harry Joy had Imogene's servants: FRANK FRIEDJIAMM, being built between the two. The There was but little more said upon had to commence business upon. DEAR MISS WIIJE—If you leel that you "Her attendants are water in the artificial lake will the subject, and that night Susan From this time Arthur Floyd became can ever love me with one half the ardor and All sworn and honorable." ^then be pumped out. and the scooping Wilde wore the white rose instead more recklpss and dissipated dealer in The condition of servants at this intensity that I do you, please acknowledge the pearls. Arthur knew of his disappointment out through the impervious than ever, and cautious people began period was therefore peculiar, and it the sweet truth by accepting the pearls and Groceries, Crockery, Stoneware, in season to send stratum may becommenceddown to is clear that they were ruled by a to whisper of impending bankruptcy. wearing them at Mrs Gladstone's reception in his excuses to Mrs. "the level of the tunnel. There will be curious mixture of stern discipline An officer from the city arrived this evening. Gladstone, for Susan had returned two great tubes of 160 or 170 feet and great laxity. One mode of enforcing one day and closed down upon Slassware, Notions^ Canned his present, with an appropriate or more in height, by which trains obedience was by imposing ARTHUR O everything. And these two missives were the declination, early in the afternoon. forfeits or fines, some of which are will be raised and lowered." ''Your The next morning after that ruinous, iource of the quandary into wliich Indeed, Arthur had privately flattered enumerated by Sir J. Harrington in Fruit, .Flour*, etc. lilts," I said, "will be of hitherto unknown but to some extent unexpected Susan Wilde, the acknowledged belle himself that the preference his "Nugse Antiquse." For being power." "Not at all," was failure, Arthur Floyd was found suspended absent from prayers, for uttering an of Springvale, had so naturally and would be awarded him, in consideration -the reply,"at the canal of Fontinettes, by the neck to a great beam All goods sold at bottom prices and oath, for leaving a door open, or of his wealth and high social insensibly fallen. Arthur Floyd was in the north of France, there are in his own barn, and quite dead when delivered free of cost^i to any part oi "for any follower visiting the cook," standing and to be thus set aside of the firm of "Floyd & Son," dry •elevators which raise a total weight di&covered. Susan Joy had just received a fine was inflicted, while in another for one so greatly his inferior in a the city. goods merchants, while Henry Joy a call from her aunt, Mrs. of 1,000 tons. My elevators will set of rules it is provided that worldly point of view, was a source was simply a salaried clerk in the establishment Gladstone, when the sad news of the N E W ULM» MINN. need to bear only a weight of about of deep chagrin and mortification to "If any one this rule doth break, of the aforesaid firm. suicide reached them. 200 tons. The general technical difficulties the young man. And cut more bread than he can eat, The young men were of about the Where should I have been now had in what concerns the pipers GEO. BENZ SONS. Shall to the box one penny pay. same age? both intellectual, well educated Henry Joy, on the contrary, was I accepted the pearls?" was all that will not be great. The force of the In case an offender should refuse to and eood looking. They had in an ecstasy of happiness at sight Susan said. iiide and wind would not be greater Importers and Wholesale Oealera la pay "direct without resistance," provision been classmates at the same university, WINES & of the the simple white rose so modestly "Indeed, deary, you were wiser than at the Forth, bridge. The viaducts is made at the conclusion that and young Joy owed his present displayed upon the heaving than I after all," confessed Mrs. between the coasts and the "Each one here shall be assistance. position in the establishment to the Gladstone, with a sigh.—M. S. in New bosom of the fond object of his LIQUORS, lifts would be constructed on the cantill And he that doth refuse to aid, influence of his friend, Arthur. Both heart's worship. York News. over system. In regard to the defensive By him one penny shall be paid were madly in love with Susan Wilde, —Chamber's Journal. "I could not afford such a oostly question, each country would 217 & 219 E. 3rd Sto St. Paul, Minn the beautiful orphan niece of wealthy present as Arthur sent you," he said be absolute mistress of the viaduct An I Prayer and aristocratic Mrs Gladstone, who "and therefore I had scarcely dared S a to Ingalls' Desk and the tube at her end of the tunnel." Some seventy years ago, when a had come to reside at Springvale PETER SCHERER to hope. Had I not loved you so Senator Ingalls studied law in "One more question: How menagerie was almost a thing unknown, after the death of her husband, who wildly, so madly, I should have hardly Massachusetts, and as soon as he would Great Britian be able to protect and a solitary wild beast waa was reputed to be worth his millions. ventured to make the bold proposition was admitted to the bar started to herself from invasion?" "Nothing now and then carried about the country Mrs. Gladstone was still of a marriageable to you that I did." Kansas with $70 in his inside pocket easier. To begin with, she would age, being but a trifle over for exhibition, says the Wide "I thought it a model of manly He opened an office near Atchison. destroy the elevator or flood the 40, and remarkably healthy and Awake, a certain New England village -DEi&EK IN,- delicacy and cleverness," responded His law library was made up of three tunnel. It would even be sufficient young looking. Mr. Gladstone had was thrown into great commotion Susan, blushing, and permitting him books, and the whole of his furniture "to destroy a part of the viaduct at left his property equally divided between by the news that an elephant was a chair and a table. His first to squeeze her hand in a mo&t demonstrative her end. A gunboat, or a Krupp gun herself and step son, a sophomore was to be evhibited in a neighboring manner. client was a carpenter, and his fee -commanding the elevator tube could in Harvard. town The village which is the scene "I felt myself very much in the condition was paid in kind. He got a table and effectively block the passage without of my story was not large enough to of a drowning man," said a high desk for his legal services, and definitely ruining the tunnel." "And Susan was an only child of an elder Harry, in a tone of happy triumph. induce his exhibitors to make any this desk painted green is kept in the where did you get your idea, M. W la. I sister, who had died some Vears before, "The faint hope I had of winning stay there, but his road lay through Ingalls family to-day as one of its Varilla?" I asked, "In thinking leaving her offspring "to Mrs. you from such a rival as Arthur was most precious pieces of furniture. It it Now an elephant could not be out a plan for the Paris Metropolitan LATA, SHINGLES, DOORS, Gladstone^ care. the straw, figuratively speaking, at belongs to Ingall's son, Ellsworth, packed away or in any manner be railway, I was brought to think Her father had left some property, which 1 grasped, and to! it buoyed who carried it with him to college kept out ot sight. His journey must that mixed systems lent themselves which her mother, through tact and SASH, BLINDS, me up and I gained the heaven of'my and who probably now uses it as a be made in full view, and everybody be&t to the solution ofgreat technical economy, had very materially increased, desires. Oh! Susan, darling, you part of his office furniture in the could get a look at him, and everybody and other difficulties. When reflecting so that at the time of her —and all kinds of»— starting of his law pratice.—Cor. don't know how happy your sweet was excited accordingly. Day upon the two opposite systems death Susan was left quite an heiress, promise has made me!" Philadelphia Press. after day passed—no elephant. The for a canal railway, it occurred to Building Material. having an unencumbered farm and "You know, Harry," said Susan, exhibition had been advertised for a me that the bridge systems would do some tour or five thousand dollars W quietly, that I have always aimed to Monday, and Saturday night had a,way with many of the objections to at interest. Neither of the young Declin of he Shellbark be a sensible and steady minded girl. SEW. ULM, mini the tunnel scheme." men had concealed from the other come, with no tidings of the famous Not many eastern people, unles** When I chose you, dearest, I did not his passion for Susan Wilde, and traveler. Sunday morning! The they are acquainted with the forests do it without reflection. In the first Citizens'Bank reasoning between themselves that "sound oi the church-going bell" summoned of the Mississippi valley, and more place I was fully sensible that I loved she could make but one of the two the people. Parson Adams, especially those found on the higher you the best—that there was more, Arriving at Conclusions happy in a matrimonial sense, they had begun "the long prayer" and the Alleghany mountains, know what a in fact, worth loving in your characterthan had jointly hit upon the above novel The doctors have talked so much really large hickory tree is. The in Arthur's. I have heard, congregation stood, devoutly attentive, method of ascertaining which of the •about heart failure that now when a shellbarks of Southern Indiana are on very good authority, that he to all appearance. But there two might claim her preference, each sometimes drank more than was sometimes 150 feet tall, with trunks was at least one exception, for Dr. man has a pain he sits down and promising to abide by the young good for him that he preferred associating four or five feet in diameter, andjbare Dobson's pew, near an open window, NEW ULM, MINN. if waits for his heart to fail. Nervous lady's decision. with gamblers and roughs to of limbs for seventy or eighty feet, commanded a view of the highway, people, although in comparatively Susan had read both of the notes sober, honest young men of his own and even larger trees can be found in and Dr. Dobson's eyes, wide open, carefully, and was now deeply pondering. good health, awake at morning surprised age--a class whom that set characterized the still almost untouched forests of were fixed upon the prospect. A M^utlen, Preset. E. Vajen, Vice-Pre** They had evidently brought as'old fashioned'—and I have to find that their hearts did eastern Tennessee and western North cloud of dust arose—then—slowly 'the young girl to a profound sense of J. C. Rudolph, Cashier. often heard it whispered that he, too, Carolina. But those large trees are not make an assignment during the above the hill opposite the window reflection, and she saw that she must indulges in the pernicious habit of Directors: doomed, and beforemanj-years have the head of the huge beast came into night. decide between the two. gaming. passed every hickory tree of sufficient sight. The eager doctor forgot time Arthur Floyd,aside from his personal Old Jerry Budd, coroner of a re. "Considering these defects, the intrinsic Werner Bosch, Chas. Wagner, D». size and proper quality will have attractions,had abundant prospective and place, and, shouting, "The elephant's worth of your character—for Tnote county in Texas, had so much been sacrificed to supply the ever increasing Weschckei O. M. Olsen, B. G. Koeh. wealth to recommend him, while coming! there he is!" he was I have been assured by those who demand for the wood. trouble in determining diseases that Henry Joy had only intellect, beauty out of the window like a dart. OS know you that your record is a spotless *^.lie fell into the habit of saying heart and fine physical power to plead for rushed the congregation, and whether one—weighs more in my humble, DRAFTS TO ALL PARTS failure, it mattered not what sort of him. With almost unlimited means Couldn' S a S a RacketFrom Parson Adams finished his prayer womanly estimation than all the -disease or accident took the victim at his. command the former could tradition has not told* OF EUROPE, AND PASSAGE wealth of the world associated with the Binjrhamton Leader. ,. ,_. -off. One day a man was found dead place her in the most exalted position a tarnished name. The clerks in a local dry goods TICKETS SOLD, in the road, with a bullet hole in society, while the latter, with *'I duly considered all these things, store tell an amusing story of a a through his body. Jerry summoned no other resource than his salary, as my decided preference for you, young fellow from the country who A Scotch correspondent informs me a jury and, after holding an iuquest, could only expect to support a wife and the result was, though contrary was employed by the firm not long that the successor to the late Miss decided that the man had died of comfortably, not ostentatiously. UloseAttention Given to I to my good aunty's advice, who had since, and who was deputed to assist heart failure. "Well," said Mrs. Gladstone alter Scott Macdougall, the lady who not the faculty, as she said, to discover at the flannel counter. A young lady Collecting. %&1mw**- .« "Yes," said one of the jurymen, a somewhat lengthy silence, "you poured all the contents other winecellars any ot these bugbears, I accepted dropped in and approached him with "but what's the matter with this seem to be unusually reserved on the into the Tweed, isby the irony the rose in preference to the —i y£\ a beaming smile, remarking: "I bullet hole?" subject of your morning's correspondence. pearls." of fate a brewer in Derby. It is a should like to look at your underwear," BuokleiiB Arnica 8aiT«,/^ "Oh, that bullet hole is all right. Can't you see that your "Bless you, darling!"* cried Harry, curious fact that the estate of Maleerston but the smile froze on her lips Thebest salve in the world for Cuts, P- He might have lived on a little longer good aunty is dying with curiosity deeply impressed by the sensible discrimination as she remarked the look of horror has been for some 200 years Bruises Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheumu if some fellow hadn't shot him, but to learn the contents of the notes?" of his promised bride. that overspread the features of the under a curse, and that it has hardly Fever Sores, Tetter, chapped HamW his heart would have failed sooner or Susan looked up confusedly. "If I ever disappoint you in your new clerk. Hurriedly excusing himself, ever descended in the direct liney Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Er»puons, later." "Will you read them," she asked, hopes or expectations regarding me, he, disappeared, and the next and positively cures Piles or nopay_ The curse was laid upon it by the g* Several days afterward a man was or shall I?" it will be because I lack the ability, thing that was1 heard: of him in that required, It ig guaranteed togiv* wife of the laird of Kaeburn, a*j ancestress found hanging from a- tree. Jerry "You read them, deary. You see I not the will, tosustain the role I have perrect satisfaction, or money xef undHI. establishment was that he had apprenticed decided that heart failure was the of Sir Walter Scott.—Loudon am bnsy just now with this embroidery marked out." 2^ T4 Prioe 35 oeata per box. d(M W 0* himself to a barber shop. cause. f@§gi* pattern." Truth. "I have theraost perfect ecmMene!" p^HSE« wJSrasa fen* 41 ^*»**i