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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1897-11-18

Die Babies" Der Gonsresationaliiten
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tisen, gum Seitcn ibrer Stride elm Shau-
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oas gum Better ibrer Stride!
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06

frightened and ashamed. She had sent
her maid home and was wishing that
she had gone, too, and that she had
never come.
In box facing the stage man with a
heavy mustache was lighting a cigar.
At last a door leading from the stage
behind the lower boxes closed noisily.
Quick, soft steps along the carpeted
aisle, and some one appeared in the au-
ditorium of the theatre.
1t was not George, in correct evening
dress and manly shirt front; square OF
shoulder, short of hair, and English
of demeanor.
Nor was it Fifne, in the shortest Of
fluffy skirts, the barest of naughty
shoulders, the toothpickiest of satin
shoes.
1t was Velvet. 1t was a boy; very
young, very charming and very pale.
He wore lavender-cOlored suit, that
showed the droop of his shoulders and
the lightness of his waist; a light-blue
satin tie, cream-tinted kid gloves, and
high-heeled, patent leather shoes. A
small, very shiny high hat was perched
on his clustering curls, and he carried
an absurd little cane with gold knob
on it.
He walked along the center aisle Of
the theatre, and half way down he
stopped.
'Ladith," he said, in frail, treble
voice, looking up first at one and then
at the other, and speaking with Curl
GUS little lisp that was evidently part
Of his makeup, Il am very thorry. I
width you had NOT eomer~I width you
would not teathe me tho. Il am going
to the ball with my father"
The ladies went home alone.
The Cosmopolite.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06

Sue, in nuttering white and tremul0us
lilies. sat half hidden behind the cur
tains. She blushed up like a rose, from
her timid neck to her mild forehead,
where the fair locks rippled blandly.
Opposite her in the box sat her maid,
in black, with a round straw hat and
poppies.
Say, sweetheart, is that somebody
your" sang Velvet, looking straight be-
fore him at an empty box. Empty, ex-
cept that a mana tall, handsome man
of about forty-sat quiet at the back
of it, twirling his heavy mustache.
Velvet took the last high note--a
pianissimo-as softly, as lightly, as
thinly as if it had been the point of a
needle, and held it like a thread.
The applause followed loud and up
roarious. Velvet was encored and
whistled at and yelled at until the comic
Irishman rolled onto the stage and made
the public change its mind.
The program was continued and
ended.
The fire curtain was let down, the
crowds left the boxes, filed out of the
SEATS, pushed out of the gallery. Lights
were turned out and attendants went
around turning up the seals.
I,al:a in her scarlet frock and white
satin shirt front, sat in box No. IA L.
She was alone; she had sent the gentle
men away, and they had gone, sneering
and offended, to talk about this latest
freak of hers.
Opposite her, in box No. Is r, second
row, sat Sue, in her muslin and lilacs,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06

"Adieu, ma belle annie; / kiss your
beautiful, lazy hands. LALIA.
Il shall wait for you In my box after
the performance. you know. No. IA J."
The letter fiuttered out of his hand
like a tried butterfly, and he picked up
the third. 1t was a gentlemanly scrawl.
and Velvet neither laughed nor sighed
as he opened it. He bent his curled
head and read:
Dear Boy: What do you say to
going to the French ball! Will wair
for you in my box after the show. IL
You want me to come around for you
to the dressing room, send Howard.
Il vote for no fancy costume or mask.
Come as you really are. Velvet. Good
by. TOM"
Somebody's eyes are my only light"
sang Velvet, stepping in floating radi-
ance on the stage, and turning a slow,
delicate gaze up to Lalia's box.
Lalia, dressed in scarlet frock with
white satin shirt front and huge dia-
mond studs, her hair curled and parted
on one side like a boys, gave little
gasp of pleasure as her eyes met his;
then she paled away, weakly. hrlp,essly.
OF the three men in her box, two bent
over to each other and laughed; the third
looked exceedinly angry and TUNED his
back with a shrug of disgust to the
stage.
Somebody's love has turrei my night
Into an ever perfect day,
warbled Velvet. with quick, cleaning
smile in the direction of box Is r, where
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06

A small black boy in white velvet
looking like a pocket edition of the big
negro-was asleep on the high leather
chair in the hall. Velvet touched his
arm.
Let me out he said.
The boy sat up. Yes, miss" he
said, quietly; and opened the door.
velvet's cab was waiting outside, and
Howard was asleep in one corner OF 1t.
my letters?' said Velvet, extending
pink fingers from the black and gold
curtains of his bed.
Howard brought them-three. Vel
vet opened the first with little laugh;
it was from Sue.
Dear George Il call You George be-
cause 1t is a nice, manly name. i al
ways think of you as nice, English
George. What on earth does Velvet
mean, after all? II is stupid: ] have
made up my mind TO do an exceedingly
wild and wicked thing. 1t is the first
really bad thing in my life. am going
to the French ball!
THAT is not all. / want to 60 with
you. / know il is outrageous, and
that Dick would 60 into blue rage il
told him, but have made up my mind
to be wild for once; and will go, and
with you. / know you will appreciate
the honor-no. that is not the word.
mean, what trust / put in you, to ask
you to take me TO such place. After
ALL you are a sort OF bohemian,
being on the stage, and all that; and
different from the m nIny brcthe, brings
home. Although i am sure of some Of
them, even if they are leader writers
and art critics-but that has nothing to
do with it, In return for this trust and
confidence on my part, want you to do
me favor. Be just as much of a man
on Wednesday night as you can Dress
as severely and squarely and correctly
as possible. Please, no rings. And
have your hair cut. And l wish you
would grow a mustache: but, of course,
you cannot by Wednesday. (By the
way, Dick says that rum. petroleum and
castor oil is. a great thing to make a
mustache grow. You rub it on IL tine
evening. II smells rather badD
Il will come to your theatre on
"Wednesday night SO that We do not
make il too late for the ball. TaAe
your evening clothes with you and get
ready directly after your turn. l have
taken a box-No. Is R., second row
and shall wait there until you come out.
Do not make it late, Dear George. As
am going to be wicked might as well
have as much of the wickedness is
can get. ! shall dress in white, very
pretty, with lilies Of the valley. Your
little friend. SUE"
: Il shall take Mary with me to the
theatre. She will not tell"
Velvet picked up the next letter,
written on pale yellow coroneted note
paper. He opened it with little sigh;
i: was from Lalia.
Ma Fifine cherie!
ITO reward you-oh. not for your
goodness, or kindness, or tender-heart-
edness, mechanic que tn es.-but to re-
ward you for the gracious fact Of your
existence, for the shadow Of your eyes
and the light Of your smile, and for
the divine possibilities of your tantaliz-
ing beauty. / will escort you-if you
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
THE END.
Genoa Marriage Brokers.

In Genoa there are regular marriage
brokers, who have pocketbooks filled
with the names of marriageable girls Of
the different classes, with notes Of their
figures, personal attractions, fortune and
other circumstances rskese brokers so
about endeavoring to arrange connoc-
tions in the same offhand mercantile
manner which they would bring to bear
upon a merchandise transaction, and
when they succeed they get commits
ss66iiii6ff ssi66iii 6f CT i, 3 per cent upon the portion,
with such extras or bonuses as may be
voluntarily bestowed by the party. Mar
riage at Genoa is thus oftentimes SIM
ply a matter of business calculation,
generally settled by the parents or rela-
tions, who often draw up the contract
before the parties have seen one another,
and it is only when everything else is
arranged and few days previous to
the marriage ceremony that the future
husband is introduced to his partner for
life. Should he find fault with her man
ners or appearance he may annul the
contract ON condition of defraying the
brokerage and any other expenses incur
:ed. London Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
D0d6 H0rkinS' WoddjDn
Iy VIOLA R0SBB0Ro.

Mrs. Harkins and some of her 'skin"
waited on the table and served a good
supper of cold chicken, oysters ("coxe"
oysters, if you know what they are), hot
biscuit, coffee and cake. The hotel peo-
pie tried now to give something of that
jollity to the occasion that had charac.
terized it in their previous imaginings.
but they were under a saddening spell,
and besides, not realizing that the we'd
ding feast was to come SO early, they had
supped at home and were not hungry,
and this in itself was depressing.
Harry soon lost the cheer the meeting
glances had given him. Charley was
bearing herself toward him with all
the unconscious indifference she had
worn for days past and was again de-
voting herself to palliating the suffer
ings of the lout of a bridegroom Harry
wondered that her father could consent
to let her come to such place 1t was
not desirable thing for young lady to
meet such people, however it might do
! for others.
After the supper the preacher at once
md finally disappeared, and, lol a change
Immediately made itself felt on all
sides Everybody, while the Second ta-
ble' was eating, was smiling, trying to
talk. Soon all were moving about and
the affability Of all who knew how to
be affable was welcomed, even in help
less way by the young Harkinses. Soon
an old white headed negro with a fiddle
slipped into the main room, seated him
self in a corner and Immediately occa-
stoned much chuckling interchange of
sly looks and humorous comment. All
sections of the party, so to speak, SYM
pathized in the point of view that in
duced these demonstrations, for it was
certain that number of church mem
bers of various degrees Of social eleva-
tion would dance tonight and repent
tomorrow, or at least when they were
duly disciplined" for their fall.
The dancing began, the old negro call
ing out the figures of the quadrilles and
having great deal to say about ''busy
bee. That busy bee was an old ac-
quaintance of every one present and
helped, as it had done many time be-
fore, to lighten feeling of good fellow
ship all around, for Uncle Ned for life
time had withstood all arguments in IA
vor of the use of the more usual term of
vis-a-vis.
The young Harkinses were transform
ed, and with confident good will asked
ladies to dance with them, l aides whose
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
An Oddity.

Joubert, the French moralist whose
Thoughts had great success, was SC
odd and original that witty woman
declared he gave her the idea of soul
which had met by chance with a body
that it had to put up with and do with
as we'll as it could
His friend and editor, Chateaubriand,
described him as an egotist who was
always thinking of others. His ambi-
tion was to be perfectly calm, yet nc
one betrayed SO much agitation as he.
In eating and in taking exercise he
was as inconstant as coquette. For sew
eral days he would live on milk; then
for week he would eat nothing but
hash. On one day he would be jolted in
a carriage full trot over the toughest
roads; OH the next he would be drawn
slowly through the smoothest alleys.
He had library of mutilated books,
for when he read he used to tear out OF
book the pages that displeased him
Youths Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Here is letter from the pastor of the
that every truth-seeker should read care
fully.
Every disheartened sick person and every
man or woman who has lost faith in the
remedies he or she has tried because none
of them has done any good-eyery one who
is sick ought to be cheered up and filled with
new hope and determination by the letter
written by Rev. William T. Bailey, pastor
of the Curtis Bay Church, the most influ-
ential church in South Baltimore.
On March 81, 1896, the Baltimore Sun,
under display headlines, published the fol-
lowing news of Rev. Mr.. Bailey's affection :
"Rev. VIM. T. Bailey, pastor of the Cur
tis Bay Baptist church, was paralyzed IN
the tongue while preaching Sunday night,
and lost the power of speech. The congre-
CATION was at once dismissed, and Dr..
was called. He said Mr.. Bailey was suffer-
ing from severe attack of nervous pros
tration caused by hard study and overwork,
and that he must have rest and quiet
The whole city was shocked. The papers
soon began to record an improvement.
On A pril 13, 1896, the following open let
ter was addressed to the proprietors of
Paine's celery compound:
South Baltimore, Md, April 13, 1896.
Messrs. Wells, Richardson d Co.,
GentIenlen:-I was taken very ill while
preaching Easter Sunday night. My doc
tor could not help me, so | discharged him
and began TO use Paine's celery compound
with crushing effect. / will not hesitate to
say that it is the best medicine in the world.
/ am, FraternaIly,
William 7. Bailey.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Spanish SOJdjeps

one OF the most pathetic, and even
heartrending, things in the history of
modern warfare has been the sending
of thousands of very young peasants
from the interior districts of Spain.
who are in the deepest ignorance of the
worlds affairs, to combat in Cuba, not
visible enemy, but the terrible fever,
which gives to but few of these un-
acclimated youths from the bracing
highlands of Spain a fair chance Of
recovery. SO little do they know of
affairs that they are scarcely aware
what they have come to the low coasts
of the tropical West Indian island for
before they are stricken down.
The simple-mindednes of the aver
age peasant-soldier of Spain is illus
trated by story told in Spanish jour-
nal. During the brief reign of the re-
public which followed the Punishment
of Queen Isabella in 1868, Don Carlos,
a prince who claimed to be the rightful
King of Spain under the old Salic law
excluding women from the throne,
made war against the republican gov
ernment. His standard was raised in
the northwest corner of the country,
and almost all his soldiers were
Basques-as the people of the ancient
race who inhabit that part of Spain are
called.
The city of Bilbao was defended by
an army of the republic. One moonlight
night two pickets of the hostile armies
met outside the trenches. One, a sol
dier of the republic, wore the uniform
which but lately had been royal; the
sother, the Carlist, had on his mountain
eer's garb, surmounted by the white
beretta, and carried an ancient flint
lock rifle. At the ends of their beats
the two "enemies"-neither of whom
knew why he was fighting the 0tffeeff-'
came together.
"Good evening, comrade! said the
Carlist, politely.
"Good evening, comrader' answered
the other.
'Where do you live, comrade"
II live in little village in Aragon.
on the other side of Spain"
"Possible?"
"Aye. And where do you live?"
son yonder mountain"
"And whom are you fighting for
hereT
'For King Carlos. And for whom
do you fight?"
''For the republic"
'For the republic? And who is the
republic?'
THAT don't rightly know, comrade.
but l think she is a new queen who
lives in Madrid"
The two men were silent for a mo-
ment, looking amiably at each other,
ond then the Carlist said wistfully:
sWhy doesn't our king marry her,
wonder, and have an end of wars!'
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
How to Cure Trouble.

Work is your true remedy. II mis-
fortune hits you hard, hit you some
thing else hard; go at something with
a will. There is nothing like good, sol
id. absorbing, eXhausting work to cure
trouble If you have met with losses,
YOU do not want to lie awake thinking
about them. You want sweet, calm,
sound sleep, and to eat your dinner
with appetite. But you cannot unless
you work.
There are some great troubles that
only time heals, and perhaps some
that can never be healed at all; but all
can be helped by the great panacea,
work. Try it, you who are afflicted.
It is not patent medicine. 1t is an
official remedy. All good physicians
in regular standing prescribe it in cases
of mental and moral disease. 1t op-
crates kindly and well, leaving no dis
agreeable or i'll effects. 1t will cure
more complaints than any nostrum in
the Materia Medica, and comes nearer
TO being a ''cure-alr' than any drug or
compound of drugs in the market; and
it will not sicken you if you do not
take it Sugar-cOated.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
EURoPE's FAIREsT QUEEN.
Queen Natalie of Servia and How Sh
Retains Her Beauty

One of the fairest Queens in Europe
is Queen Natalie, of Servia, and her
greatest beauty is her neck.
The Queen takes frequent and regu-
lar exercise with a heavy pitcher on her
head. The result of this is to straight
en- and strengthen her neck, and to give
1t the form which the highest standard
of female beauty requires. Not only
does the exercise add to present beau
ty, but 1t arrests the ravages which
time makes more quickly in the female
neck than in any other place.
She appears in the park surrounding
her castle at about 8 o'clock each morn
Ing taking a brisk walk with her pitch
er on her shapely head
Queen Natalie has abundant black
hair and rich coloring. Her figure is
very strong and erect, and her carriage
is perfect. for her favorite exercise
tends to develop the latter quality as
well as to beautify the neck and shOul-
ders. Her flesh has the firmness of
marble.
Her head is placed on her shoulders
after the manner of that of the Venus
of Milo. There are no protruding
bones, no wrinkles, no hOllows, but
neither is there any superfuous fat
ness.
The exercise to which Natalie owes
SO much of her charm is one which has
been practiced by women of the poorer
classes in many countries. Rachel, it
may be remembered, met Jacob when
she was going to the we'll with her
pitcher. The women Of the Oriental
countries, of Greece, and of Italy, have
always been accustomed to carry
pitchers and burdens Oh their heads.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Pastor Curtis Bay Baptist Church.

A few weeks ago there was published a
testimonial of the great virtue of Paine's
celery compound from nev. Charles L..
Thompson, D d., LIZ D., the eminent Pres.
byterian preacher of New York City. Rev.
Dr. Meek, editor of the Central Methodist.
recently wrote an open letter. telling that
Paine's celery compound had worked a re-
markable cure in his case. And last month
the great temperance evangelist, Francis
Murphy, told the public Low Paine's celery
com pound had been a blessing in his FAM
lily.
These are few among thousands.
Every one knows cons ientious, charl-
table persons who are too busy. more often
too procrastinating, to save their health
| from gong to pieces, and find 1T easier to
help others than themselves. Such per-
sons fill up the army of broken-doWn busl-
ness men and sicklv women.
Every one in this spring time needs to
purify the blood and regulate the nerves.
Carry home today-not by and by-a bottle
of Paine's celery compound. Cure ner-
vousness, neuralgia, and rheumatism this
spring You can now put your health on
sound basis by means of Paine's celery
compound.
Charity should now begin at home. At
tend to YOUR own health and that of your
family.
Paine's celery compound is within the
reach of every family where there is mem
Der afflicted by any stomach. liver or kid
ney trouble 1t cures permanently ana
! rapidly. -
It must be distinguished from all other
remedies.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

dropped on her knees and screamed
Harry, Harry!' and Harry let go the
Harkins he was holding and sprang to-
ward her and lifted her away from that
doorstep, and with that they both dis
appeared.
1t is to be supposed that Charley had
not noticed that her father was in quite
as much danger as her lover. To tell the
truth, of course both she and Harry had
each whipped up tho sense of the 9TH
er's danger for their own dramatic pur-
poses. have no doubt but the colonel
objected to Charley being shot. but he
only snatched the pistol from the aar'
kins boys hand and did not feel con-
strained to abandon the business in hand
for her sake.
By the time she and Harry were scat
ed on the wood pile-and it was o very
short time-peace was restored and the
Improbable prodigal sent off to pri-
vate apartment in charge of his mis-
guided brother, but Mrs. Peytee's agi-
tation on this occasion, like Charley's
own, was of an uncommonly enduring
nature. She had too much astuteness to
make nuisance of herself, and as ev-
cry one else Strengthened up and tried
to pass over the late unpleasantness as
the most natural thing in the world,
preparatory to getting away as soon as
possible, she, too, seemed to strive to
appear at ease but she kept near the
colonel with an air of dependence upon
his protection and a subtly conveyed
sense of safety in his shadow which he
found very touching. She showed dis
eliminating Judgment, too, as to where
to turn, that pleased him and raised his
idea of her intelligence. Evidently she
did not make the mistake Of consider
ing little rheumatic stiffness as help
less old age. The colonel conceived the
notion that it would be pleasant thing
to do the driving himself on the way
home and to have Mrs. Peytee on the
seat beside him. The reprehensible fact
was that the bit of tussle had stirred
the colonel's blood and made him feel
Is years younger.
Harry, too, was considering the posi-
bilities of the homeward trip. The 9TH
er young man was gentle, good natured
young fellow. Harry resolved to make
a confdant of him and beg him to sur
render the buggy and Charley to her be-
trothed. The other young man imme-
diately, blushingly and with the eager
ness of embarrassment consented. He
had no sooner done so than he was trou-
bled for fear his surrender was unworthy
properly high spirited man. He knew
he had heard of blood flowing about
smaller matters, but he realized his own
incapacity for living up to some high
ideals and was helpless against his own
human sense and sympathy.
Though quite in the dark about some
trifles whose amazing potential impor
tance we have seen, Mrs. Peytee conf
IDENTIFY and correctly announced the en-
gagement of his daughter to the colonel
on the way home, and that announce
ment formed the point of departure for
a conversation that was exactly to her
mind.