The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-11-14
THE COMING NOVEL.
Literature for the Busy and Hollow
Chested American.
What Are We Coming to-Two-Vol.
ume Romances Cut Down to
the Brevity OF Phono-
graphic Phrases.

boston Globel
Preface-The American people are busy
and hollow-chested. People who are in O
hurry have no time to waste over a two-vol-
nme romance, and most everybody is in
hurry nowadays This is what novel litera-
ture is coming TO.
PAULINE-A DRAMATIC REALISM.
Prologue in the year lS65-Pauline War
rington is a wealthy heiress Tapped in luxury.
There is apparently nothing in the way of her
union with Claudian. But o, the hollow
mockery Of Appearances! Under the rose
bush is a serpent, invisible, watching Tho
serpent is a man. His name is NJ. Trayzeno
That he Is a villain is hardly necessary to re-
mark. He had watched Pauline at first with
the greedy eye of love, and then with the
venom of jealous hate, the acerbity Of gall
unlimited. 1t is simply this: Pauline has
rejected him for Claudian. Aha! II remains
only to wait under the rosebush and plot
M. Trayzeno plots deeply. One night Claud-
ian is found with a dagger in his heart Boo
oo-oo.
Act Pauline is the bride of NJ Trayzeno
She never suspects and she has permitted
herself to love him. He will help her dis
cover the assassin of Claudian. All, ha!
Act 2.-Flub.
Act 3.-More iub
Act At is night. The wife awakens out
of deep Slumber What is this visionl
Nightmarel No, a somnambulist. 'Tis NJ.
Trayzeno walking in his sleep. What is this
he is doingl He seems to be STOPPING over
an imaginary something. What glistens in
his handi A daggeri Yesl All, horrible
He strikes and theni Those words! Unsay
those wordsl Unsay theml But, no; he re-
peats them! The dreadful secret of years is
out. All, she is upon him now! Forgive
her; she is beside herself She knows not
what she does Her hands close about his
throat. With superhuman strength she
drags him TO the window She lifts him
upon the sill. He wakes His eyes roll back
in his head. One moment one terrible mo-
mentl He falls He throws his arms about
him like drowning man, and she-she, too
lights out G-O-R-E! Gore. The end
FROM SwILMONGER's MAGAZINE.
Agnes loves Bullethead, Bullethead loves
Agnes. Bliss. The stern parent objects to
their union. Gloom. They try to elope
Good. They are caught Bad They try the
DR.. Tanner busines to see if the stern parent
won't relent Awful suspense Will she
starve to death! No; and the stern parent
does not re.elt Obstinate man. At last
high up. 1t is for the last time. Their lips
meet in the last, long, quivering kiss. Is it
accident or is it design! No one will ever be
able to tell. Tic stern parent approaches in
the distance They are treading "orribly
near the fatal precipice. They gr> dizzy.
Their arms are about each other. There;
they are gonel Dent look, reader, for PHYS
sake don't lookl They will fall down 'steen
stories and bust The end.
THE LOST BRIDE.
A young man had just married beautiful
girl, and party of friends in the old manor
were assisting at a "house- warming" One
queer old genius, whose name was Flubdub,
made bet that he could hide himself where
nobody could find him. The bet was taken
and the old man finally concluded that he
had rather hide somebody else, and hid the
bride He hid her and stood around in great
glee during their unavailing search. All of
sudden he was taken with convulsions and
expired. The girl could never be found.
Mystery.
TO BE PAID FOR.
There was a hollow in two rocks next the
sea shore Two men stood there alone. They
were invisible from the land. There was
only a vessel sailing off upon the blue ocean.
Suddenly one man detaches a large bowlder
from its place and holds it over his com.
panion's head VIII he crunch him! II he
kills him he will die [The continuation of
this thrilling romance will be found in com
pany with the remains of the author in tomb
No. 2ll Of the New York cemeteryl
ONE-ACT TRAGEDY.
"Clarinda, will you be miner The speaker
was young man, and the one he addressed
was a beautiful girl. She burst into tears,
and he collected the water in a bucket. The
end.
1T Is ALL HERE.
They met. loved, quarreled, made 1t up
End.