on, where, tor the first time, he saw this marvelous fearah? Certainly no iN ALGERIAN ASOKMYMA. A tragedy, perhaps—1 was sure of it. Only a Little Rim of Steel. Sarah—which by the way, is really lover's task, she was not the woman All at onceit seemed to me I should Fr. Auffierheide, her name—nonchalantly" seated beside to throw herself at the head of any From the Kansas City Star. go mad—the voices h«xd hushed, and her father, and amusing herself one, and I was neither rich nor handsome, "I tell you what it is," remarked in their place came a sound like great by counting the pearls in her collar. nor illustrious, only a poor What did he call himself—Isaac, steel scissors slipping and clipping an old railroad man to-day, "it used captain who lived on his pay, and already Under pretense of buying babouches, ceaselessly, slowly, carefully, with Manufacturer of Brahim, Mordecai? No matter, he to be that they couldn't turn awheel Gobin halted at the-threshold but it at the turn of age. Indeed, firm, strong strokes, which stopped any to fast for me, but it is different was a Jew—Mordeciaavill be sufficient. my preoccupation was so great that was neither the velvet nor leather my heart-beats, for with these Fire, Well Building: a Steeple- now. The way these fellows run nowadays I blundered in the exercises, I, the He lived in the Troisieme-Bataillon-d' ones covered with their strange ornamentations, sounds came now an echo as of makes my hair stand on end. oldest captain of the regiment, till nor the gold-embroidered Afriqup, in the Jewish quarter, and I Brick, strangled sighs and groans. my comrades decided that the sun We used to think that twenty-five or ones of Turkey of Morocco which was a captain in the Second Zouaves. I heard them plainly an inner had turned my^ brain. drew his gaze. No, his fascinated and -hirty miles an hour was high running. Fine Pressed Bric for I can still see his little dwelling, with door had doubtless opened, and, ardent eyes contemplated", as in an People were just as well satisfiedr Neither was I more at case when though still unable to comprehend its low, vaulted door, thick, solid, ecstasy, this splendid beauty so suddenly ornamental front*. evening came, and I found myself in if not more so than now, and the words—that devilish Hebrew and studded with nails in strange designs, revealed to him, and already full uniform, with varnished boots there weren't so many accidents. tongue!—I heard them distinctly passion of love was dawning in his its white walls pierced with occasoinal and kepi in hand, entering such a Those days, when a man got on the the growls and curses of the Jew, the Have the heat of shipping facilities and boudoir as you have never seen. The 30U1. and heavily-barred windows, will pay prompt attention to mail •rder* orders of the wife in menace or emotion, ground there was some chance of his "Tranquilly the merchant showed light fell from a porcelain globe which and the supplicating tones those stange walls of Africa which getting away alive, but when you his wares and continued to talk, gave to everything an opalescent —they were from that voice of gold NEW ULM, MINNESOTA. calmly stare at each other across the touch ground on one of these fast though Gobin continued absorbed tint, deepened the shadows, and to which I had listened in the drapery-hung trains now, you're mighty liable to narrow streets and incline at the top and silent and tranquilly, also, the softened the colors like a veiling mist, boudoir! That marvelous H. Budolphi, staj- there, People are getting to young girl, apparently indifferent to with here and there a reflection clear until they almost meet. And I remember voice which gradually quitted its everything about her, applied herself and brilliant from a gilded frame upon look upon a mile a minute as a common him also as I saw, him first, tone of prayer to rise ini protest a to recommencing the counting of her the wall. A thick Persian carpet thing, and are just howling mad moment, and then—to come no more. in his little shop among his goods exposed pearls. For a moment she remained covered the floor, heavy draperies MANTFACTURKR or & DEAXKX at a road that dosen't make it. She was dead, perhaps, and I—tonnerre for sale, dusting his babouches thus, then, tired perhaps of the lieutenant's the windows, and, as I entered this Boots and Shoes! de Dieu !—had allowed it to be They never stop to think of the danger. persistency, she got up, and, and velvet slippers, ornamented with apartment, a woman—Sarah—came done! I put my sabre to the lock, All they think about is getting with a glance of the eye nearly insolent to meet me. jeweled buckles, pearls, and golden pressed it home, and entered like a to their destination. in its challenge—clear, piercing, Minn. 3d N. ttrs., ^N«w Ittm, Mia* "I had need of your assistance," cannon-ball. braids. "Why, when I stop and think of rapid—a glance which buried itself she said to me "thanks for coining!" like two points of light in the answering Ah what a spectacle The old being whirled across the country Slippers, however, were not all his And otien, sitting beside her, 1 listened, A largo assortment of men's aa# gaze of the young man, she turned Jewess, erect and pale, with shut fifty or sixty miles an hour, down paying more attention to the music shop contained. He was an omnimerchant, boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' ami and passed from sight behind the tepth and piercing eyes, in the centre hills and around curves, with only of her voice, sonorous as a golden children's shoes constantly kept and you found in his stock inner door. of the floor, Mordecai beside her, his an inch and a half of iron between hand. Custom work: ao4 repaiitaf bell, than to what she was saying, everything that you did or did not lips still trembling with maledictions, me and eternity, I get so scared I "Wen* monsieur/ demanded Mordecai, while she told me what Villaret had promptly attended to* a red-hot iron in his hand, and Sarah ant, from the ferule of a cast-off swear never to get on a coach again. as Gobin remained absorbed, told me before. The deception she upon her knees in front ofthem, with What do I mean by an inch and a cane to gems of rarest value. A 'which do you prefer?' had practiced upon her father in concert John Hauenstein, many and bleeding wounds upon her half of iron? Well, you know what with Gobin, the happiness of the "His voice recalled the lieutenant's strange acquaintance for met have visage, her face scared with burns— a passenger coa«h is, don't vou? thoughts he moved brusquely. first days, the disillusion, weariness, made, and it came about through an her beauty lost forever BREWER You know how they're built. A and the homesickness for the family 'Neither/ he responded, decidedly, ad\enture, a defense, rather, of this The old hyenas I fell upon them coa^ch is apretty solid thing no wradays, which nothing had been able to cure. 'I wish neither, but look you, Jew, Jewish merchant, whom a rascal was with the flat of my sabre I saw and and to look at one a person tell me what you ask for your daughter?" It was for this she had sent for me— and knew nothing in my fury and indignation, would think they were pretty safe, me, her father's friend. She wished seeking to defraud of his money. and undoubtly would have but that's because you don't know me to seefyim and bring about a 'My daughter?' cried Mordecai, Briefly, Mordecai was moved to gratitude, MALTSTER killed one or both ofthem, when suddenly anything about it. The coach itself reconciliation, for which her heart amazed 'did I hear you aright—did and the next morning, as a I was cauaht bv the lear and is all right so far as it goes, but was sore. you say my daughter?' souvenir, bestowed upon me a Kabyle stumbled and tell. It was the victim it's the wheels. Did you ever look at Well, intoxicated with her beauty 'Yes, and tell me quickly your who had come to the assistance' of Our brewery is fully equipped and able to the wheels? If you did you may gun, beautifully inlaid with ivory and and those subtle odors which prevaded price for her—I wish her!' good pleasantry her executioners All orders have noticed how they're made. A. the boudoir, and reckless of the pearl. you Frenchmen who have wit Mr F. Grebe has charge of the bottling eetaV "What are you here for?" she cried: good size, broad enough and heavy fate which befalls those who meddle to the ends of your nails with which dshment. From that day I was as one of the "go, I say go at once immediately, enough, and with a tire of the finest in such affairs, I promised everything to mock us poor people! Sell my Jew Mm, Minn. and leave justice to be done!" family they a at my coming, and kind of steel. But, on the inside of that she wished, demanding in daughter? You ask me that?' She had consented, then the sufferings the tire, you see a sort of rim or return but a kiss upon her hand, my called upon me always to admire the 'And once for all, answer me!' inflicted upon her by these monsters, heart meanwhilebeating "the charge" flange. That flange is about an thousand-and-one odds and ends cried Gobin 'Ifeel and know that I the ravaging of her beauty, the in my breast. And all night long inch and a half thick and about the love your daughter, and that to gain which the Jew was constantly purchasing loss of all that was her pride, was I tossed in my bed, still under the same depth. It dosen't look as if it her I am capable of any sacrifice. from all quarters, and from done for the sake of justice, and she sway of her strange fascination, the amounted to much, that little piece Reflect well I am rich, and you have meekly bowed to the barbarity ot which I was always expected to take domination of a fixed and obstinate of steel, but that's just what the two minutes in which to answer me!' this man, the pitiless wicVedness of idea wnieh reduced met the ridiculous lives of all the passengers depend upon my choice. Naturally, since he liked 'Par Javeh!' cried Mordecai, tearing this woman, the harder and the more state of a pupet in the hands That flange keeps the wheel to Manufacturer of and Dealer *a me so much, it ended in my liking his beard, 'I am only a poor Jew, cruel because they were her father of this singular woman. I was the rail and keeps the coach from but that which you have said, monsieur, CIGARS, him a little, for friendship, like love, and her mother! That which had ashamed of my weakness,but, neVerthe running off the track. it is not good. My daughter is certainly contagious. Matters passed, then, was not an assassination less, when morning came, like a "Well, now, when a train is going is not merchandise and I do not sell TOBACCOS, it was a family judgment to were in this shape, when one morning, soldier of his word, I started for the fifty miles an hour around a curve her'' and, as he spoke, heart-broken which the culprit had acquiesced! The shop in Troisieme-Bataillion-d'Afrique. as I strolled intheRueNationale vou see how much depends on that at the insult offered him, tears fell cries I had heard, and which had turned PIPES. flange The whole weight and speed with a group of comrades, the Jew from his eyes and chased* each other my head, were physical sufferingher of the train is against that flange on The devil's own task it was to decide met us, and stopped me to describe a down hie silk gaberdine. At the same will had nothing to do with Cor. Minnesota and Centrr one side, the outside of the curve, and the father to see the daughter. time rage and shame, the horrible cargo of valuables which had just them. streets. it is all that keeps the coach from "No!" he cried "no,I will see her no consciousness of knowing himsell arrived for him from Mequinez, and Horror and the actual sight of whirling from the track, Suppose KEW LM, MINN. more,this Deboran! The maledictoin powerless to avenge the outrage, the these atrocious excesses of partental which he wished me to see immediately. the flange broke, or, as is often the of the Eternal weight upon her head! fear of speaking too loud and drawing power turned my brain I regarded Jno. Neuman, case, was worn down and had been I would do so, I promised May her beauty fade as the rose of upon himself a cruel chastisemen t, Sarah for a moment with the eyes of missed by the car inspector, The August! May the earth open and bim, so soon as dinner was over, and gave to his face an expression so a madman—then I was out of the engulf her as Core, Dathan, and ehances are ten to one that the pitiable and pathetic that the hardest gi\&ing him a hand-shake, I was house and flying through the streets Dealer in Abiram! May my eyes close to the flange couldn't hold, but would climb of us would have been moved to about to rejoin my comrades, when like a thief in the night! DiRTS GOODS light of day if ever she comes before the rail and there'd be another accident. sorrow. Gobin, however, was pitiless. After this—and fifteen days offever a carriage passed us, the horses them' May my hand wither away if The reporters would be told Hats, Cap*, Notions, on a hospital cot—I had had enough going at a gallop, shining for a moment ever she touches it with her own!" the rails spread, or something of 'If she is not for sale, then, give ot Constantine they sent me to Groceries,* Provision*) that kind, and no one but the company in the sunlight—then gone like J. would rather have managed a her to me'' he persisted. France for convalescence, and in Crockery and Glassware, would know what caused the regiment of Bedouins! But I persisted, a flash. "Without replying, the Jew bent France I have since remained.— accident. painting for him the despair of Green, Dried and Canned his brow to the ground and continued Translated for the Argonaut from We all turned with a cry of admirat.on—every Sarah, the tears she had shed in my "There area good many accidents to weep, motionless as the image of JPruits, etc, etc. the French of Chalon by E. C. Wag. one, that is,' save Mordecai presence, and I found the way to eloquence, that happen that way, but it doesn't Desolation. Gobm became furious. gener. the Jew. A sudden pain in I who had never been able to appear to be any of the public's 'So be it!' he cried at last, 'since I will alwaye take farm prodoee la exefcaaf* my hand recalling his presence to me, say two words without stammering. business. As a general rule a coach you will neither give her to me nor far g-ooda, aud pay the highest market pricefor ejkinds I wheeled, to find him pale as a piece The mother was there, too, listening Pie for Sixtee in London wheel is watched mighty closely, and sell her to me, I tell you plainly that ef papez rage. of linen, sweat pearling his brow, his without a word, stony, and, at first, the minute a flange begins to wear There is a pie shop in London that fingers gripped upotf mine, and' his I"l T?P *fke-£f fi°m a r' la conMetton with my store I lw»» ftret-ela*» equally pitiless. new ones are put" on, but many a Charles Dickens used to stand before eyes following, wit f.h a gaze,of flame, & .& rr "And with a ifirm step middledohead an saloon furnished with a splendid bMIard tablw avas/ time an inspector will miss a wheel, erect leaving the the I was red as my kepi and sweating the vehicle which had just gone by, when as a child he drudged in a blacking my customers will always and good liquors «af) and then the chances are big that street the father who still sobbed and like a sponge with my exertions, tlgars,aa« every forenoon a splendid laaok. and in which reclined a woman factory. Every day, on his way sorrowed, he turned upon his heel there'll be an accident." when, at last, after talking together whose beauty had brought from us and from work, he paused to dethe to and disappeared, his last words and All Rootfis pvreeaeed or me will be delivered tt»ny in long Hebrew phrases, I received that cry of admiration. viands with his eyes, and part of the city free of ooet. vour menace remaining in Mordecai's the consent for the interview I had S me Foreign W "What is it?" I cried, dismayed Mlnneacta Streot, rji»t Mia* heart like a poisoned arrow. so ardently demanded. Too happy tonguelt V™6Be%h™y One of the fair young girl graduates at his appearance "what is it—are *v +v./% «v«^v,4- Jf the window panes, as if Meat Market, for theTO moment to notice anything, tha. *\...,'eWf ofIa "What passed after this I know you ill?" who quite recently mapped out doing hhe got a littl bit A nf I remembred afterward, in recalling very imperfectly. The merchant "111? no he began then, with taste of the good things that lay so the destiny of the world in an essay the scene how strange had been the closed his shop and for a while disappeared a groan and a Hebrew word—a curse, near, yet were so far beyond his entitled "A Dream of the Future," expression of both of them in giving M. E E Prop'r. from Constantine with his doubtless—he whirled about and fled reach. An American railroad man has taken to writing society novels, their assent, something devilish, entire family. When he returned MUWISOTA ST N E W M.MIN!* like a madman in the opposite who admires Dickens hunted up this triumphant, but nothing paternal and her latest effort, the manuscript again the lieutenant, in tab sight direction from the vehicle. pie shop when he was in London in JbisEmeat at the return of a repentant soul. and knowledge of all, was the lovei of which lies on the desk of the literary "And you didn't know her?" Villaret 'H nndersifned desires to inform the people 4 order to gratify sentiment and curiosity. and the protector of the beautiful The interview was fixed for the New Ulra and vicinity that he ha* re esta&tafr demanded, as I rejoined my editor for review, is well up to It proved to be a mere box of market ana Is now preapared to wsf same evening, at the fall of night. Sarah." comrades, still talking of this beautiiul the standard in current fiction. on his eld customers and friends with only Us* a place, in a poor quarter of the city, Sarah was to come alone, and they "The rascal!" cried Feldmeyer, best (yeah and cured meats, sausages, lard „A woman whose carriage was not but the original business was still Especially is this so in the selection a rr. •rythlnj uanally kept in a first-clnna market TM would then decide if she was to remain who was also listening to Villart's yet lost in the distance "or dicfeyou .conducted there, and pastry of highest mnrketprlce will be paid for WAT OJB$ of foreign words and phrases which in the house. Ah. had I but story "but how did he accomplish TLB, HICKS, WOOL, KTO. not see who it was?" doubtful aspect and uncertain age known when I dispatched the missive abound in the story. It strikes me, his purpose—how manage to carry M. E S "No," I responded, "and I scarcely still occupied the window. As the to her announcing my success! her away?" however, that they are not always saw her before she was gone." traveler peered into the shadowy interior The day passed tranquilly as usual TTVOLI "You ask too much," said Villaret, up to the mark in the application. "AVhat! you really didn't know her? a voice piped at his elbow, several times I was on the point of laughing "I know only that such She is the—but what do you call him, For instance, it is going a little too "Please, sir, will you buy me a weal returning to Sarah's house, but still was the case, and that it is always the Jew you were talking to far, I think, to say that the rounded pie?" had strength to refrain, and night moment ago? Mordecai? Well, she practicable when one has the goodis cheeks of Jessica wore a beautiful The owner of the voice was a small, had come and the hour for the interview will of the victim, as Gobin had BREWERYDAN Mordecai's daughter!" sub rosa hue, and that her hat draped dishe ^eled person, with whom a veal struck before I yielded to the Sarah's. If I remember lightly, he "Daughter? Impossible! he has in nom de plumes was most becoming. pie or any other kind would have irresistible desire to know what was too was away for a week or two never mentioned that he had one'" I don't quite see how the agreed right well, and he made his passing at the Jew's house—the desire from Constantine, furnished with a "It is the truth, all the same. She little bona fide could come in wagging: request from motives of undoubted of seeing for myself the reconciliation JOS. SCHMUCKER, Prop special permission is his daughter, and there is a story his tail, or that the chickens and strenuous personal interest. and the joy which I had "And then?" attached which I will relate to. you, NEW ULM, MINNESOTA could be put into their coup d' etat. The American replied, as Americans brought about. "And then—nothing the beautiful as we finish our cigars. Nothing extraordinary, I should not care to risk my bones do sometimes, with another question: Pure beer sold in quantities to suit the Sarah soon ran through his fortune, At the top of the Troisieme-Ba taillion but still a story, and gallopingaway on a horsdecombat, "How many boys do you suppose purchaser. Special attention paid to the and Gobin demanded and obtained I stopped a moment to regain short. but I suppose I should be as safe as bottling oi beer. that shop could hold?" a change of garrison to Laghout. mv breath. Not a sound troubled "Five years ago," continued Villaret, in ordering my steak double entendre, "I dunno. About fifteen or sixteen, Sarah departed for Algiers, where the silence. A ray of moonlight fell "this woman was the most especially when Ich dien at 2 o'clock I should think." her beauty soon queened it over in a straight white line upon the beautiful ornament of the father's precisely. Finis, the end is an apt "Well, you go and get fifteen more THE CHICAGO AND hearts and purses." And Villaret, pavement, the shadows thickened shop, and clothed in that elegant quotation.—Memphis Times. boys and bring them back here." about the corners of the angular ITI finishing his story, left us and returned Jewess-costume which displays so The boy studied the man's face for to duty, and we adjourned to roofs, and I, planted like a picket, e»» perfectly the curves of the body. Tall a moment as if to make sure he was Losin at Sea a game of billiards. listened with all my ears and heard and slender as you see her today, in the enjoyment of his senses, then, but the pantings of my lungs, the Those people who may be unfortunate A splendid woman, this Sarah, and with long lashes shading her hurled himself into a side street with precipitate throbs of my heart. A beautiful with that reposeful, almost enough to have taken AI LWAY. eyes, she was as lovely as a"houri escaped a yell. Hardly a minute elapsed before sudden thrill of uneasiness had seized solemn beauty which is the charm ol from a Mahommedan paradise. to artificial teeth should use exceeding he returned, the head of a procession upon me there was so little of the THE DIRECT THROUGH LINE TO Bunset Nothing classical about her. Whether she was adoi'ed among her circumspection when they of sixteen gamins, assorted air of festival at the return of a child and nothing Greek, the special character kind and kindred I leave you to imagine. CHICAGO, go down to the sea in ships. "What as to size and clothing, unanimous about this closed dwelling! Not a of her noble face and form, if 1 She was Sarah, Judith, Rachel, a splendid dentist sea sickness is! I in appetite and hope. This ragged murmur, not a light—nothing— may so express it, being a subtile in one, and truly an object of worship AND ALL POINTS EAST, had the whole of my teeth pulled out battalion assembled close behind the gloomy as a funeral! I was cold to vuluptuousness which held you like a to her father, who daily thanked Is so operated as to meet the requirements ot at one vomit," said a patient to the the bone the silence and shadow benefactor, and followed him precipitately tn-ougn and local travel, prov ding fast throuKb desire. Whether she wished it or his God for having blessed him with trams wilu close connections for into the shop when he announced weighed upon me I w&s not actually doctor one morning. Several dentists not, she exercised upon all the mysterious a child so beautiful. ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS, that he was going to give alarmed, but decidedly uneasy. power of the magicians o1 have stated that it is by no "Well, Constantine, like all other them all the pie they wanted. SIOUX CITY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, India, who seem to bend nature to Suddenly a cry came to me, stifled means an uncommon occurrence for garrison cities, is a sad place, as you For a quarter of an hour the astonished their will and to play with the scattered by the still walls, but which struck persons to finish a voyage in a practically know. One begins and ends, particularly O A A E N E baker served "weal an' 'am forces of the universe. me like the blow of a hammer. My toothless corldition.—London when one is young, by finding S A N A N I S O O A N pies, hand over hand, to the sixteen One morning, as I* was preparing excited blood leaped and ebbed, and nothing better to do than to drink Hospital. And all poiute astonished youth of London, while to go on duty, there was a rap at my then my ear was glued to the lock absinthe morning and night. One MONTANA, the American sat down and watched of the door. The sounds veiled by door, and a servant entered and wearies of this, it is true, and when WASHINGTON, the scene with hardly less astonishment. at W a S Kiss, handed me a satiny envelope, perfumed distance, were unmistakably voices one is ennuied one is not indifferent OREGON, Few words were spoken, and While the kiss of a pretty woman and coquettish as a pretty whose tones I heard, but not the to pretty girls. The point of which the onslaught was as fierce and persistent words. I still listened. If only I had CALIFORNIA and woman's thought. I have never been might be considered a harmless com. is, that there w,as at this time in Constantine while it lasted as the charge specially stupid, and in taking this gussed what passed beyond there, I pliment anywhere it is doubly a BBITISH COLUJiiniJ. a young Chasseur d'Afrique, at Tel-el-Kebir. The exhaustiftn of should have cried out as now these paper in my fingers the idea of a possible a certain lieutenant by the name of compliment—twice as sweet and romantic—when A A E S E E I N ANI I N I N supplies brought the banquet to an bonne fortune glided into my voices cried out, the, one with fury, Gobin, a handsome Lyonnaise of given beneath the oak A S are run on all through trains. end, and the traveler paid the score, mind. I broke the seal it was a rendezvous the other cold and clear, the third twenty-five years, always spick and of a moonlit park, with the stars supplication, with accents of infinite thinking it little to pay, in view of O O N I S SLEEPING A S for the evening, demanded span in a new costume, and bored to trembling like diamonds through overland trains to Californiaand Oregon. in terms almost anxious, an#signed tenderness, broken by tears and the fun he had had, while the boys death, so bored, indeed, that he had the dewy leaves and the lull of flowing tumbled into the street, cheering "Sarah" the daughter of my friend, sorrowful as a sob itself! I held my E E A I A S on the*Dearer recourse to the singular distraction of Linuted. fountains splashing their silver breath in the effort to hear alh my feebly on account of their gorged the Jew—the note was from her! Iresponded visiting street after street, omitting spray over the bared bosoms of 0 a in simply that I would be there. soul and being concentrated in the condition, and went to spread the S5^ 2S all information none-inthe whole city of Constantine. $£&£ Sn?r Agenta of the Cbacago KortS: All day long the thought haunted me. struggle to learn or guess the drama news of this miracle through the water nymphs and bronze gods with yfs "This strolling naturally drew him. iSSaVSSK'orto the Pass«*« G-MSI enacting: behind that closed door. What dfd she. want with me. lanes of London.—New York SUJU beautiful blind eyes.—Atlanta Can-' at last to the Rue Troisieme-Bataill- stitution. »4W. NEWMAN. WHITMAN. ^48d Vice-President. General Managar. W A. THRALL, Geo'l Pass, &TK't Agt.