Pittston Gazette

              ( Oldest in the Wyoming Valley PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1891. \ Weekly Local and Family Journal. jw~r™4?"* "No. 8 yelling for the corporal of the guard. Yonder they go." which to get ready. Did the lieutenant excuse you from parade?" "I didn't ask him. Col. Lawler was good enough for tne." ing to the clumps of buffalo gr.iss. Tempted by the loveliness of the evening Mrs. Lane had ordered out her carriage, and the moment the report had been inado after retreat roll call and Mr. Hearn was returning sadly to his own quarters Lane headed him off: suoumn t nave said 'damn' in tne presence of la-lies or," with a, grim smile under his mustache, "or—of the press." "The ladies couldn't hear, sir, and 1 ANAWPqRJiA how cordial everybody wa3 to Hearn, who, confound it! was the cause of the whole row. The telegram he had just received settled that matter once and for all; yet ha was glad he had an adjutant on whom to devolve the coining iuty. i .w .iU CIIAMOIS. ilerr von .Pilsner now thought it wcrara be well to get our bearings and eat a little something before going ahead in search of oar prey. Capt. Cross, who was officer of the day, had quietly picked up his sword and harried out of the southwest gate, while down the roadway could be heard the sound of rapid footfalls. The call, however, was not repeated. Conversation soon became brisk and general, and in five minutes Cross came back. "Col. Lawler left tho post at 5 o'clock and couldn't have wanted you." c: g*::des - tk.s whiskered BIRD OF THE WILDERNESS. | meant that the pres3 should. 1 know | that according to 'Pinafore'and The Palladium I should have said, 'if you please." But mules and blackguards pay no at! tention to politeness. I've been thirty years u soldier, sir, and 1 know what fetches them." My costume, I should say, waa well suited to the hardships which we ahead of us, and was as follows: 1 wore knee panties of a dark worsted goods, made from full dress trousers which reached the sere and yellow leaf, as one may say, and been cut off at the and neatly hemmed again by my daughter, who is just learning to sew. Below these, as far as the eye could reach, extended a monotonous sweep of T.iaU thread hose, kindly loaned to me by an accomplished young lady who speaks nine languages. "All the 6ame i was acting under his orders and nobody else's. If you want any other authority you can go to Col. Morris; I'm busy now." And with h'is hands in his pockets and a jerk of the head to his companion, Welsh whirled about and led the way down the road toward the store, Abrams slowly following in his wake, but looking back as though curious to see the sequel. The first sergeant stood an instant flushing and with wrathful eyes, but raised his hand in respectf ul salute as tho young troop commander came quietly along. Miss Marshall leaning on his arm. By Gapt. Gbas. Kino, U. S. fl„ "No. I'm going to take you away from Wallace and Martin to-night, and I don't mean to let old Kenyon get his hands on yon again. Mrs."Lane and Miss Marshall want yon to drive with ns an hour or so; then we'll come back an l have a quiet little bite among ourselves." And Hearn pressed tho captain's hand and silently thanked him. t he Family Tree of the Gregarious Goat Ever since Hearn's trouble began Captain and Mrs. Lane had lost no opportunity to make him understand that they were devotedly his friends, and that if he would but come to them in his sense af utter wrong the shelter of their home, the welcome of their fireside, would be some compensation at least for the harsh treatment accorded to him by tlie world it largo. Thanks to tho efforts C■Df th-1 western newspaper a million or more of tree people had learned to look upon Lis name as tho synonym for all that was swaggering, brutal, drunken and btlllytog; an 1 it was easy to see that the young soldier was cut to t'.ia heart. Picked to Piece*—A Day's Hunting Authorof "The Colonel's Daughter," "The Deserter," "From the Ranhs," "Dunraoen Ranch," "Two Soldiers." "What was the matter?" asked Col, Morris. ISrought to an ICnd by a Touch of Sen- timeiit. "Some civilians, sir, and one of our men in a buggy, who said they came out by orderof the general commanding the division. and had been detained here until after taps." CHAPTER XIL (Copyright by Edgar W. Nye.] !/§ p I, V#i| " f in in\l Ifi |||||^| Much iis I had heard of this exciting fpoTt, I bail never until last week set out for a thorough hunt among the crags and eyries where the Harlem chamois is to be fonnd in greatest numbers. Having a little spare time, yet eager to bag one or two of these sure footed dwellers of the crags, I secured a work on the chamois and his habits, and informing myself thoroughly began to prepare for stalking this most shy and discreet game. I Copyright, 1890, By J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and published by special arrangement witli laem.] ''Certainly; that's all right. Those were doubtless the witnesses Col. Lawler sent ftDr. W hy wasn't the corporal of the guard sent down with them to pass them out?" Half a dozen of the guard were seated about tho rough stone porch of the gloomy old guard house as the carriage came rolling by. awl at sight of the occupants they quickly laid aside their pipes and respectfully arose and raised their hands in salute. The sentry on No. 1, facing sharply to tho front, brought his rifle to the carry with a snap that made the bayonet ring. Tho one man who remained seated and staring sulkily «t the carriage wore the cavalry nnfloffTi; it was Welsh. (0"KTINUliD J Ana now was tins young girl with the big dark eyes, looking so frankly yet scrtuinizin0'ly up into his face, quizzing him? The fact that for nearly a quarter of a century he had been a commissioned officer aud was now high in rank, if not in public esteem, had given him a certain self confidence of manner, and the consciousness of being the custodian of a host of official secrets added to his sense of self importance. Yet small and suspicious by nature he was forever looking for some covert ridicule. He had There is room in them for another gentleman with my style of calf. Lane." Anil quitting tne room, ho passed through she hallway anil met his Untimely callcra at the door. Sam came shnfling Lack an instant after, having gono to turn up the parlor, lights, and Miss Marshall, glancing over her left shoulder as the portiere \vas again raised, saw that one of the men thus introduced beneath the captain's roof was the Gefman Jew, Schonberg. Lane, busy in striving to restore the tone of general chat, did not see them at all. "You warned ldm for guard, sergeant said Hearn. answering Wren's salute. I also wore a Norfolk jacket of which I am especially fond. A nice, plaited, Norfolk jacket, with short waist and pleasant little cinch of same, is a good thing to go chamoisinjr in, f wnt My shoes were really lawn tennis shoes with brads in them, whereas my valet wore regular Alpine sprinting shoes and bicycle socks. "Their bugjy was tied the other side of the store, sir, and no one at the guard house could see them start." ''Yes, 6ir, and he says Col. Lawler excused him from parade." But tin unexpected ally had been discovered. Heara, who had at f ;t held aloof in solitude, brooding over his troubles, began to show decide! readiness to come. And though at all times grateful and most attentive to Mrs. Lane, that clear sighted voting matron speedily noted how his handsome blue eyes would wander about ia search of her quietly observant friend, and that ever since the night of her tilt with Lawler MLis Marshall's interest in the case had beeq quadruple:!. Now, this was not exactly what Mrs. Lano had planned. She wanted Georgia to marry in the army, but she also wanted, and saw nothing in tho least unreasonable in so wanting, to select that spirited young woman's husband for her. She did not for a moment think that there w;is any danger of Georgia's falling in love with Hearn. •f Well, the sentry ought to have let them go anyhow as soon ns he saw who they were. We have no authority to hold civilians here." "I reported the absence to Col. Morris, and he tells me there jnay have been some such understanding, sergeant. At all events, as Coll. Lawler has gone, he would give Welsh the benefit of the doubt; so we have nothing further to do with that matter." - *"£ (-"t |j " Pflj  "It wasn't tlio civilians the sentry was after, sir; be was perfectly willing they slionld go; but they had an enlisted man with them." Both officers noticed the fact as they tonclied their caps in acknowledgment of the courtesy of tho infantrymen, and exchanged significant glances. The ladies, too, were quick to note what had happened, aad they, too, looked at each other and then somewhat anxiously at Hearn. But the carriage whirled along. The instant it had passed Corp. Stein turned on Welsh. So did others pf the V . . I wore a hunting shirt, handsomely embroidered by a niece of Sitting Bull named Lo-lo-pe-wee-tang-a-wanga-ko-lapa, or the Sultry-stinger-of-the-brocadedbumble - bee - w hi ch-sitteth-down-whileits-superiors-stand-up. It is heavily embossed with lining of drap de Henrietta. It has a Stewart collar, bnt the waist is smocked and en V, with Gothic shoulders on to it. The hips are en gored, with roan faille Francais, puffed slightly —by the local press—and my pants were a sight to behold. They were really trunks, held in place with heavily embossed suspenders. They were made full at the waist, and quite pompadour en tournure, with heavily embossed stripe down side. They were of the time of Queen Anne, and extended back almost to the reign of Herod the Tetrarch. The Norfolk jacket was faced with purple satin de Lyon, and had a fringe of massive doodle bugs down each sleeve. Herr von Pilsner wore a less gaudy but fully as expensive costume, and carried a heavy crossgun, loaned hi™ by a descendant of William Tell. It was an hour later. Tho ladies had risen and betaken themselves to the front piazza; the men remained to smoke a cigar with their ho3t. The absence of the legal luminary oddly enough had dispelled the atmosphere of gloom that hung for a few minutes about tho lower end of tho table. He and his strange visitors were still closeted, so to speak, in the parlor, but now they came forth. In some mysterious way every woman had by this tirno learned that Mr. Schonberg was there, and at the sound of the opening parlor door and of the mellifluous accents of that gentleman's voice they instinctively huddled to the other end of the piazza. Lawler walked with the two men as far as the gate, and when they finally disappeared in the direction of the store came sauntering back to join the ladies. come to iho U .i ! a tDr Ct stranger to Capt. and Mrs. Lane, yet he felt a certain sense of superiority to them l*v cause be could, were he so disposed, tell that young matron a host of ugly things about her first husband. "Who?" asked Morris, with uncomfortable premonition of the answer. "Private Welsh, sir, of C troop." Wren ground Ijis teeth as he briskly strode back to his quarters. "What does the loot'nant say?" demanded Duffy, as he with half a dozen of his comrades clustered about tho office, eagerly watching the sergeant's face and his clinching hands as he returned.Hut Mabel arici CHAPTER XI. the parlor door. 'corgla Marshall met at There were sore hearts at Ryan in the week that followed. As had long been anticipated, orders came for the summer practice march to the Indian territory, and the Eleventh—band and allhad jogged away, leaving Maj. Kenyon to command the post, with his little battalion of infantry to guard it. The orders were received two days after Welsh's enlivening tonr of guard duty. The_ command was to march in forty-eight hours, equipped for field service, and Lieut. Hearn. with the other troop commanders, was occupied every instant in getting liis horses and men in thorough shape. Kenyon and Luine, after consultation among some of hid friends, had induced the young fellow to promise not to open one of the marked copies of the newspapers which now beg:m to crowd in with every mail, but to leave them all tp be considered by the little council of three, in whoso hands ho had been persuaded to rest his case. Of Lane himself he knew little or nothing beyond the fact that the proceedings of courts martial of which he had served as judge advocate were always correct. That he was known in the fighting force of the army as a brilliant and gallant soldier, who had been through many a hard campaign and had twice or thrice been wounded, was of no avail in Lawler's eyes. That might be a very proper thing in its way, but did not interest him. Just now he was casting up in his mind the probable cost of the dainty feast and wondering what means Lane had onttiie his pay. Miss Marshall, being from Cincinnati, would doubtless know something, and he proposed to pnt her on the witness stand forthwith, but, lawyer like, to lead up to the matter by adroit circumlocution. Yet at the first clumsily essayed compliment she had looked np in& his face, a merry light in her big, darfc, scrutinizing eyes, and ho became instantly sns- C'cions that she was quizzing him. jwler reddened at the very thought. "Nothing. Don't ask questions now, you men. The lieutenant can't do anything to him; the colonel won't let him." "What do you mean by sitting there like that?" was the demand. guard, "I know my business," was the surly reply. "Jnst you'tend to yours. You'd better study tactics and regulations before you try to learn mo anything." "Oh, do let the high spirited scion of our finest families alone, corporal. Can't you see it's turning his stomach to be civil to anybody?" protested a tall infantryman."Tho colonel won't, is it?" said Duffy, with a wrathful grin. "Be jabers, if I were colonel I'd command my rigiment, and no damned newspaper man would scare me out of it. It's The Palladium that commands Fcfrt Ryan tonight, and that blackguard Welsh is post adjutant —more shame to us all!" He was several years her fD;ior. to be sure; he was handsome, u: uished as a soldier, a man of nnim:..... .uible character as modern m 1 go; but, she argued, "he is so much younger for his years than Georgia for hers." She had had to think bo much for herself, and now the man sho should marry was— well, not crabbed old Maj. Kenyon, of course; ho was a widower—sour and yet susceptible. It was only too plain that he loved to come to the houso and talk with Miss Marshall by the hour, especially when the cavalrymen were all down at stables. Neither did she want the doctor, whom Jeannette McCrea could have if Bho would only make up her mind to drop Jim Wallaco, who was now so devoted that the yearning medical man had no chanco whatever. No, she didn't see, after all, jnst the right man for Georgia; still sho had always thought of some one so innch older, utterly ignoring the fact that when left to themselves most women have very different views of their own. Not a word had sho uttered to Georgia, of course, but to her loving and indulgent spouse sho had gone so far as to say: "It is lovely to seo how he is beginning to find comfort in her society; but, Fred"— And madaine breaks off, irresolute, yet suggestive. WE YODELED. Th * Rupri capra, or Kingsbridge capricornus, is a goatlike group of the Rupri caprine order, originating in western Europe. It resembles the roebuck in size, being about 2 feet in beight, though sometimes attaining a length of feet by 2| feet high, and a diameter of 21 to 7 inches. "Silence, there, Duffy! No more of that talk!" ordered Wren, as he banged to tho door of his own little den, and the knot of troopers scattered away. "All the same," muttered he to his faithful second, Sergt. Ross, "Duffy only tells the truth, and damn me if I ever thought the day would come when my old chief would knuckle down like that." "Ah. let iip now on Mr. Welsh, no Mulligan—that's what they called ye in the Twenty-third—wasn't it Mulligan? or was it Sullivan? Sure I know the family, and it's a foino one," protested Private Kelly, his blue eyes twinkling with fun. "As I don't smoke," he said, "I will take my enjoyment here. Where shall I sit?" "Take this chair, Col. Lawler," said Miss Marshall, noting tho aversion with which all the others of the party had besome Inspired. "May I send for coffee for you?" The animul is armed with curved horns, measuring from three to ten inches in length, slightly striated and at times corrugated where the chamois has attained great age. Both male and female of the Kingsbridge capricornus are provided with horns, though those of the femalo are generally less incinated. Oar first quarry was sighted east of the lofty pass at One Hundred and Tenth street. This animal pass is much frequented by the Harlem chamois at the summer season, and sometimes he is found above the line of vegetation. As we approached on the side against the wind, so that the chamois could not scent us, we were struck by the pungent odor of the animal, which came down upon us like a zephyr from the barge office. Moving carefully along, each of us, on an empty stomach, we approached near enough for a shot, and I gave the signal. Bang! went the gun of Herr von Pilsner. Bang! also went my gun almost at the same moment. In less time than it takes to. write these words the defile was full of Swiss peasantry, who pounced upon us and kicked both of us in rapid succession. As soon as I could get my breath I said I would be willing to compromise this thing if it could be done with honor to ourselves. At the peasantry ceased their attack upon us, and one said: Welsh sprang furiously to his feet, clinching his fist and making straight for the laughing little "dough boy." That young Celt, though a head shorter than his (lark antagonist, in no wise disconcerted, stood squarely facing him, and awaited tho attack with a grin of genuine delight on his freckled face. Stein sprang forward, however, and interposed."Miss Marshall, I have no small vices. I never drink anything stronger than milk; never smoke, never c'i+ew, never swear." And if in garrison circles that night it was predicted that something would be the outcome of the detail of Welsh for guard duty, no one was destined to disappointment. He appeared at the appointed time, and was curiously scanned by the other members of the troop, a? carbine in hand, be came slowly and in differently down the stairway just the trumpets began to sound the assem bly of the details. Unluckily for everybody who hoped to see Welsh brought up with a round turn by the snappy young adjutant, a drizzling rain had set in, and undress guard mounting in overcoats was the result. Welsh's forage cap and accoqternjents might past muster in a shower, but his full dress rig every man knew to be wofully out of shape, and such was the fellow's unpopularity among his comrades by this tiino that audible regrets were expressed by the men that the weather had "gone back on them." The week that followed the advent at Fort Ryan of the staff officer from division headquarters was one that the good people at the poet have not yet ceased talking about. Lawler had remained in the garrison only twenty-four hours, and went back eastward without a word as to his intentions, and, to the surprise of even Col. Morris, without having sent for or spoken to the man most interested in his coming—Lieut. Hearn. This in itself was something that excited most unfavorable comment, for it was known that he had had long interviews with Mr. Abrams, the busy representative of the press, and that he had driven in town to spend some hours in questioning certain dubious looking citizens presented to him one by one at the establishment of Mr. Schonberg. He had furthermore sent to the guard house for Trooper Welsh—once again there incarcerated by order of Capt. Cross, who as officer of tho day had arrested him for attempting to slip across a sentry's post the previous night. And once again, to the dismay of the cavalry officers and the unconcealed ridicule of the infantry battalion, Col. Morris had directed Welsh's immediate release. Corp. SMn tras at their heels. He had written a full denial of The Palladium's scandalous statements with regard to lii3 financial entanglements, and a full description, as has already been told, of tho original trouble at the trader's storo with Private Welsh. These had both been handed to Col. Morris in his office. No ono had heard from Lawler. No ono knew just exactly what disposition tho colonel had made of these papers. Mr. Abrams, too, had disappeared the day after Welsh's tour of guard duty? but tho whole garrison now was flooded with newspapers by tho hundred. It would Beem as if the guild of tho western press had resolved on a sudden and simultaneous assault on the army in general, and as if Fort Ryan was the vortex of tho Btorm. Sensational dispatches were published from various quarters. Other journals, envious of The Palladium's exploit, unearthed othe* victims, long sinco out of the army for general worthlessness, and with flaming head lines displayed to a sympathizing public tho talo of official abuse and tyranny which had compelled these several gallant and patriotic 6ons of America to quit the service they were well fitted to adorn. The animal i3 covered with rather coarse hair, especially on the under side of the trunk and thorax Imbedded in this long hair may be found at autumn time tho brown and furzy burrs of the burdock, or Manhattan edelweiss. "Yon seem to have a very correct appreciation of the legal profession," he said, however, with an effort at a gallant bow. "Most young women, I fancy, are far more partial to that of a soldier, for instance.""Never even swear, colonel?" "Never. What is it you aro smiling at?" "Have yon ever read the works of Josh Billings, Col. Lawler?" "No fighting here," he ordered. "Wait till you'ro off guard in the morning and settle it then." "I have no time to wasto on nonsense, Miss Marshall. And I never could see anything funny or witty in such men as Biilings and Artemus Ward." At theoppositeendof the Kingsbridge capricornus from the forehead may be found a very abrupt and somewhat tremulous tail. It is about as brief and devoid of interest as the pedigree of a mule, and is utterly bereft of either beauty or utility. It is totally inadequate to the great task of keeping away the flies that swarm upon its genealogy. The Harlem chamois is gregarious, and may bo found in herds of two to twenty individuals especially to the northward on tho rocky ranges along Little Fifth avenue, and in the deep defiles to the southward from Highbridge, among what is called the Sawed-Off or Interurban Alps. "Most women, you know, admire courage and truth and straightforwardness, colonel." "Don't thwart the gentleman, corporal. Here comes his friend the police reporter," laughed tho group cf guardsmen. But the unusual chaff had summoned tho officcr of tho guard to the spot, nnd at sight of the lieutenant every Irishman in tho p3rty assumed an instantaneous expression of preternatural intioeence. Mr. Albums, too, had reined up iu front of tho trader's 6tore, a few yards away, and noting the littlo knot "And you mean that these are more frequent in tho army—that is, among the—the officers of the line—than in the legal profession, I suppose. Now, Miss Marshall, a celebrated chief justice, from whom you may be descended, as you bear the same name, was the embodiment of all these traits." "Well, it wasn't his fun I was think*- ing of qnite so much just now as his insight into character," said tho young lady musingly, as she still gravely looked him over with her big eyes. Two young officers came strolling along the walk at the moment, and passing beneath the lamp raised their caps in salutation to the ladies. Miss Marshall nodded and smiled with marked cordiality. "But, Mabel"— responds her gray eyed lord with indefcaiteness equal to her own. "And his mantle fell on the shoulders of many, I doubt not, colonel; but—was it big enough to go round?" "Just enpiDose"— pause on her part. And then another "You are a daisy sportsman, aint you! You are a loo-loo, ain't you? Shooting ..f sotiuers peering across the road divincd at once that something -was going on. and so, with the instinct of his profesi-ion, hastened to the scene in time to catch a part of the colloquy that ensued. "Jitst suppose what, Mrs. Lane—that it should snow before September?" 'Tin afraid you're satirical, Miss Marshall," said Lawler, with a superior smile. "You young ladies not infrequently see only the glamour and froth of army characteristics. We who have spent many years in the endeavor to keep the army straight cannot look upon the officers quite as partially as yon do. We 6ee both sides of the double lives led by so many of the 'youngsters' in the line." "All wasted. Miss Marshall; they could not see it." "Step out, there!" shouted Wren sharply to the dawdling soldier, as he gave the command to fall in. "Now, Fred, you know, or else you haven't any eyes for"-— "No, colonel, and I particularly wanted one of them at least to do so. Now, that's a part of the army that I decidedly like." Eastward also, and along to the northward as far as the Pyrenees of the Spuyten Duyvil, may b6 seen at certain seasons of the year the tracks of this agile and swift animal, whose keen scent enables him to smell approaching objects at a distiince of seventeen to twentythree utiles, and to retaliate to an even greater distance. "Get a move on you, Misther Welsh," laughed Duffy from the upper gallery. "Or don't they ever shtep out in the excellent family down east? Sure, isn't he a fine looking, intelligent young man of 25?" ' "The corporal tells me the trouble grew out of your refusing to rise and salute when Capt. Lane pawed," said the officer of tbo guard, addressing the Stalwart trooper. "I for one," says Lane, partying the situation with the very words he knows will most delight her. "Who are they, may I ask?" "Mr. Wallace and his especial friend AL. Hearn." "You absurd boy!" But she comes fluttering across the room to reward him as he deserves. "What I mean is, Georgia might get to think of him." "It was a misunderstanding, probably, Capt. Cross," said the colonel in conciliatory mood to the old officer of the day, as he relieved him after guard mount. "Welsh was given to understand that these gentlemen, who had just come from an interview with Col. Lawler, had the authority of the department commander to take him to town with them, so as to be ready to make certain depositions early in the morning."» elsti glanced furtively over liis shoulder until sure The Palladium man  in range of his voice, and then loudly replied: Dozens of tr!vnqD« ami tatterdemalions reaped sudden and unexpected harvest of eleemosynary quarters and lunches from gaping audiences in thdbeer saloons by detailing individual experiences of their own when serving under Lieut. This or That in tho Eleventh horse or the Thirty-third foot. Dozens of Munchausens wore tho reporters' pencils down to the wood with details of their harrowing sufferings. Then the editorials began, and gr&vely lectured the people on tho wrongs of the whole system—tho unrepubuoau character of an army anyhow, tho repugnance in the American mind to all idea of discipline. Meantime of cour3o The Palladium was firing hot shot by the ton, and new so called scandals ftt Ryan, fresh outrages on the helpless and downtrodden soldiery were the subjects of Mr. Abram's lurid delineations, until it was to be wondered at that iu their wrath the offended public did not wipe the fonl \D)c& on their civilization from the face at the earth. "And is it possible that you find such young men to your taste? I gave you credit for having rather a higher standard." 1 "Twenty-five? "Faith, it's thirty-six Ul months he'd get if I was commanding," muttered Kerrigan. "How are your patriotic motives this morning, Mister American-Blood-with-the-Asshumed- Name?" "Only by the line, colonel, and by the young officers? Then who looks after the staff and the elders?" And Miss Marshall's face was bubbling over with fin. "Well, everybody is thinking of him just now, and in the light of such a catastrophe I suppose I'd have to make him think of her," This animal, I regret to say, is too often confused with the ibex of Staten Island and the Brooklyn Capricornus omniverous, which is found as far east as the Tyrol and theShinnvcock reservation. "But it is their standard J so much admire, Col. Lawler. I donH Jupt pose anythir.g would tempt either of those young men to say or do a mean or cowardly thing." "I'm a member of the guard, sir, and the regulations forbid guards paying compliments of any kind after 'retreat,' and I can show you the paragraph." "You know perfectly well,Welsh, that that applies to the guard collectively when under arms find not to individual members. I want no hair splitting here. See to it that you pay proper courtesy to every officer while youVe under my Command." And the lieutenant, a young infantryman, with decidedly resolute face, looked squarely into the glowering black eyes of the trooper and then, turning quietly toward his little office, his eye lighted Dn The Palladium man. For an instant it looked aa though he had something to say to him, too; but, struck by a sudden thought, he passed in without another word, and presently the sergeant of the guard appeared in tho doorway. There was evident purpose iu his coming. "lie does now; and if he doesn't—you can't make people fall i:i love, can you?" "They have stood the test of years, Miss Marshall, and need no guardian, as do these young fellows who so captivate school girls," answered Lawler, shifting uneasily in his chair. ''Now, Mrs. Brodie has a mature conception of their merits and defects. She was speaking of this very case of Mr. Hearn a moment ago. You seem to have known him quite a while, Mrs. Brodie. Were you ever stationed together?" "Sure his name is Dennis," laughed Duffy again. "Quit your sneering, Kerrigan. The young soldier's eyes are blazing with pent up feelings again, don't you see?" indeed a most malignant soowl was that which Welsh launched aloft at his persecutors, whose tun was cut short by the stern voice of Sergt. Ross ordering silence. And in another moment the detail of G troop was tending away in double time, with a pairting adjuration from Duffy not to go too fast; "it's to aisy to set the hlood boiling in Welsh's veins, anyhow," "Agreed, Mrs. Wisehead. Neither can you prevent it, can you? I kuow I couldn't stop a fellow from falling in love with V' u come few yc-ari ago, hard as I tried. Tho more I tried to put you away, tho iao;o you kept coining into that fellow's empty head.'" (Here Capt. Lane is rewarded again, and as soon us able to speak resumes.) "So why worry The Staten Island ibex of Tampkinsville and farther Tottenville is a more pungent fauna than tho Harlem chamois, and is moro easily domesticated. It gives milk in small quantities to people who have its confidence, and is less shy than the Harlem chamois, which dries ap early and yields only a very slight quantity of milk even to intimate friends. In March the teats of the Harlem chamois become chapped, and a mere casual or calling acquaintance is unable to successfully milk her. "No," said the colonel, with a superior smile; "and yet, do you know, Tm ready to stdke my professional reputation that one of them at least is quite unworthy your trust or confidence." "Now, are you not a trifle prejudiced, colonel? J thought the law presumed a fcoan innocent until proven guilty." But Pross eyed his commander unflinchingly and said no word. Among the infantry officers the opinion was openly expressed that between Abrams and Lawler and Trooper Welsh the colonel was simply demoralized. The crowd at dress parade fof several evenings was almost aa hig as that before spoken of, and, though The Palladium man did not again take position on the colonel's left during the ceremony itself, he was frequently at that officer's side when he made his way through the curious throngs both in going to and returning from his post. And afterward; with the eyes of the townspeople upon them, Private Welsh and the unterrified correspondent paced up and down the road in front of the cavalry barracks for half an hour; and the group sitting on Lane's piazza one evening especially could not help noting how ostentatiously the two conversed aa they neared the white wicket gate. now?"' THE FIRST CHAMOIS. the goats of dacint payple! Bushtiu me new milch nanny goat in the back and starvin' me childern. Go an, now, you divvle, and 111 have the polace here in two siconds." , We now saw our error, and after much haggling I secured a figure on the animal and purchased it Chamois hunting on the Harlem Alps has its drawbacks, among wljjch are the police. Game this season there, and as far north as the Pyrenees of the Spuyten Duyvil, is very plenty, but what pleasure is there in shooting the highly flavored preserves of the Swiss yeomanry under the nose of the police? "My! no, CoL Lawler; only one cannot help hearing thing3," answered Mrs. Brodie, totally unaware of the facial contortions of her better half, whq was helplessly, hopelessly striving to catch her eye and restrain her tongue. "Everybody in town seems to think he was such » popular young fellow; only, don't you kiiow, so careless, ** "Theoretically, yes; practically, men who have studied human nature through the courts, as I have had to, get to see through the yeneering of high tone that these tyoungsters' are so apt to assume." 'Well, I'm not worrying exactly only" "Only what? Every man can't have a wife like mine. Still, wouldn't she make rather a good one?" The malo in middle life wears a style of Mormon whiskers which loan dignity to his whole life, almost taking the place of brains in some instances, as is so often the case. It is only on the approach of the colder weather of winter that the Tyrolean ibex oi Yonkers, and as far north as Do boa' Ferry and Irvington, begins to wing his way to the extreme south, and to be occasionally 6een by hunters and wooclcuoppers along upper Fifth avenue, and tho trail between Murray Hill and Judge Smith's road house. Then a keen eyed iunger of the woods may be likely to catch the swift vision of an animal ascending the dizzy fire escape of a perpendicular flat to crop the tender herbage of some luscious gerar nium or flannel petticoat hanging upon tho Eton© ledge of some tall residence. "And so ypu are probably quite ready to agree with the correspondent of The Palladium, colonel, that most officers are frauds, especially the second lieutenants?"It was in tho ugliest possible mood that Welsh tossed up his carbine for the inspection of tho officer of -the guard. He had expected to poso as a hero and martyr. But whatever might be the mistaken sentiments aroused in the east by the efforts of a paper that had exhausted local well springs of scandal and sensation, here among those who knew the facts, and, above all, knew him,  had gained only ridicule and contempt. In all the garrison, poW that Goss was pone,' there was not a soldier who had •ver stood his friend. In his own troop especially, where the rank and file were devoted to their young lieutenant, there was wrath and indignation at his expense, and well be knew that nothing but discipline saved him from a ducking in the river or a hearty kicking down the barrack stairs. Still, with Abrams to stand by him and The Palladium to champion his, cause, he felt secure against fate; only ho had thought to be looked upon as liberator and leader among the men, and they were all laughing at him. This was bitter indeed. Ho almost hoped that the adjutant would order him back, replaced by the supernumerary, for tho rust he knew to bo about tho breech block of his carbine, and which the officer of tho guard would be sure to discover. But tho young lieutenant contented himself with pointing to it with white gloved finger and passing on, probably thinking it best to get him on duty at any price. "Good? Goodness! But the question is to find tho right man. However, 1 know what you mean, Fred. Don't interfere; so I won't. And there they are chatting in the parlor, yet, and it's time for him to get ready for parade— Why. hem's Mr. Mason!" And Mrs. Lane, who had slipped into tho dining room, caught sight of tho adjutant at the front door. It was on Friday evening that in answer certain dispatches he had been firing at department headquarters, CoL Morris received a message that at least put him out of uncertainty. That day The Palladium had outdone itself, and no one not conversant with the illimitable faculties of tho paid correspondent can begin to imagine tho heroic fltze attained in its columns' by the incident briefly sketched in tho last chapter: '•Continued Persecution of Trooper Welsh! Heaped Up Humiliations on His Head! Forced to Show Slavish Homage to His Insulter! Helpless Wrath of Comrades!" etc. The details of the incident, as told by the special correspondent, lost notlung of sensationalism, and Lieut. Lewis came in now for his share of obloquy. Poor Welsh was represented as having been marched out, and with brutal curses compelled to salute Lieut. Hearn, despite the fact that he, as member of the guard, was by law and regulations exwiqited from the requirement. "In vain did the young soldier plead that paragraph 891 of the regulations fully excused him. His releniless persecutors defied the laws of congress, and compelled him to 'stand and deliver' for the purpose of adding to. tho indignities already heaped upon him. Could the readers of The Pjvlladium have heard the low, deep mutterings of the men in tho garrison this night no mutiny on their part need have surprised them." Col. Morris and everybody at Mrs. Lane's end of the table happened to be deep in general chat at the moment, and neither saw nor heard anything of this sudden introduction of personal affairs at a social occasion. But Mrs. Morris lost no time. She saw Brodie's glowerering eyes across the board; she noted Lawler's keen, shrewd gaze, and the troubled look that flashed over Lane's kindly face, and bad just time to whisper to him: "How can you ever forgive tis for bringing the man? The colonel was in misery at the idea. Ho said he knew he would be talking 'shop' before dinner was half over. I can check Mrs. Brodie, at any rate." Then, aloud, "Pardon me, Col. Lawler," and now her face was wreathed in sweetest smiles, "I'm not going to let Mrs. Brodie prejudice you against one of my prime favorites." "My experience has certainly not given me a high opinion of the young men, Miss Marshall." L Half an hour later Welsh was standing some twenty yards away, engaged in low toned, eager chat with his civilian friend. The (aces of both men were clouded, and every little while the gypsy looking soldier shot an angry glance toward the guard house door. Presently they moved across the road and headed for the open bar at the trader's, wherein tho lamps were just beginning to gleam. Before they reached its open portals Corp. Stein was at their heels, and his stern voice ordered Welsh to bait, "And now, do you know, colonel, my intuition is very much in their favor." "But is your intuition as well founded, do you think, as long legal experience?" "What is it, Mason?" asked Lane, a sudden trouble iu his eyes, as he hurried through the hall. An Aid to Peregrination. "Well, your experience has been confined to the limited lew that nave come before courts martial, has it not?  intuition covers the great array of their number—the nihety-and-nine. Now, I haven't any especial knowledge of the matter you seem to be investigating. Col. Lawler, but I fancy that evidence such as Mr. Schonberg might give would have little weight before a oourt of intelr ligent men." White Mountain Native—Fm kinder Dld askin' it, bnt what's that iron thing "Wharton," qnotb Martin, as for the sixth or Beventh time the swarthy trooper and his champion approached the captain's quarters, "I'm consumed with envy. The time was when good looking cavalrymen like you and me oould command some bmall attention from the eyes of our friends and fellow citizens in town; but our day is done. These are the popular heroes of the hour. N°W, here comes Hearn's first sergeant. Surely he's not going to have the unbearable effrontery to remind Trooper Welsh that he ought to be cleaning up for guard tomorrow, when a gentleman of the proas wants to Jalk with him?" "The coloncl wishes Mr. Wharton to assume command of C troop temporarily. I'm ordered to place Ilearu in arrest," was the answer, in tones that tremble 1 a little despite Mason's efforts at impassibility."Go back to the guard house, Welsh; it's against orders for a member of the guard to leave it. and you know it as well as I do." Arranging myself last Saturday two weeks ago with a carbine, and hanging it over my shoulder by a broad strap, such as one sees in the geographies, I secured the services of a Swiss chamois stalker who has been temporarily shooting biscuits at a restaurant where I occasionally dine, and after assuring myself that he could also yodel, we bought some food and started out to the northwest, first taking a street car from the junction of Park row and Broadway. Lane's hand was extended as though to close the parlor door, which stoo 1 ajar, but ho was too late. The clink of the scabbard without had already been heard, and almost at the instant Hearn stepped forth into the hall. "My relief don't goon post for two hours yet, and this gentleman has business with me. You'd better not interfere with him." "You will change your mind when you come to see the books, young lady." "Have you changed yours?" they simply oonfirmed my judgment1' "Oh, indeed, Mrs. Morris," protested Mrs. Brodie, "I wouldn't (Jiink of such a thing. I was just going to point out to the colonel the very great difference between what he might have been then and what he has been ever sine® he joined the Eleventh." "But the point at issue seems to be what he was then, as Mrs. Brodie puts it," said Lawler. '•Tlie gentleman can see yon over You can't see him here." "You won't have far to look, old fellow. Hero I am." there "My heaven, llearn! I thought to find you over home, or I would never have come here on such an orrnnd." 'round your waist? "Then my intuition was right, C5olo neL" Already the sergeant was striding across the road; the lieutenant appeared at the door; a dozen members of the guard were eagerly watching the scene. "Is Welsh for guard tomorrow?" asked Capt. Lane, in some surprise. "How so, may J ask?" "It told me that you had prejudged the case." "Never mind; I am with you. Goodby, captain; say good afternoon to—to the ladies for me." Our route lay partially away to the north and west of Eivmgton street and Ilester Strauss. We rodo up the most of the way, stopping occasionally at the quaint little inns and chalets, where we refreshed ourselves with Swiss cheese, Hoff Brow bier, raw onions and cavvyar sandwiches made of rye bread containing bird seed, and between the slices of which chopped raw onion is spread, also a layer of catfish spawn, on which is a heavy tariff, two squirts of a lemon and a layer of codliver oil. "He is. The colonel relieved him from durance vilo beforo guard mount this morning, and I heard the first sergeant tell Hearn an hour ago that it was Welsh's turn for guard, and wanted to know whether he was to order him or not. Hearn said certainly," half turned. Mr. bent and muttered a few words in his ear, but the soldier, ;.fter cno glance around him, shook his head. Slowly and reluctantly ho turned. At this moment the officers came sauntering out into the open air, joining the group of ladies, who had fled back to the western end of the piazza as soon as they saw their obnoxious visitor safely anchored by Mis3 Marshall's side. "By Jove! I'm going over with you," said Lane, snatching a forage cap and springing down the stops. lie did not want to encounter the -questioning eyes within. "But I wouldn't for the world have you suppose I thought Mr. Hearn had done anything that was ungentlemanly. I'm only sn}*ing what rumor was," burst in Mrs. Brodie again, who had at laU canghl the signals on her husband's  and now only'sought to excuse her own impetuosity, even though in so doing ghe more deeply involved the young gentleman himself, ."J can't bear to hear such things said of him without any one to defend him; but what can one do?" All day long or\ guar*! tho men had taken frequent occasion to declaim quotations from The Palladium, until by evening stables they had rung the changes on Welsh's excellent family connections, his American blood, his patriotic motives in enlisting, his ardor for the flag and his lidelity to his oath, until he was ready ta vrish to heaven The Palladium had singled out anybody else to bo the martyr for its preconcerted exposition of official tyranny in the army, and heartily 6ick of the part he had been induced to play. "I'll get even with you for this, Stein," he hissed. And then, with shrugging shoulders, tho two objects of general interes—tho civilian and enlisted man—slouched back across tho road, the eyes of all upon them. "Where's Lawler?' queried Morris in no pleasant tone. "Has ho gone ofJ vfitfc those fellows?" "And the cut parade to-night on plea that Mr. Abrams wanted to talk Vith him- Hi was tho 'one private absent' reported from 0 troop." said Wharton. "That is the reason the sergeant ia after him now, I fancy, either to arrest him or else warn him for guard." But Mabel and Georgia Marshall met' at the parlor door. The editor, too, backed up his correspondent iu a three-quarter column as-' sault on tho ridiculous etiquette of the army. '-It may be," ho said, "all well enough in tho conscripted camps of EuroiDe, where whole nations are forced to service under arms, to exact of tl#» rank and file this slavish exhibition to superiors, but it is au insult to the high intelligence of the. soldiers of free America that because a beardless boy happens to have a strap upon his shoulder thousands of scarred veterans should bo compelled to do him homage. The whole idea of the salute is repugnant to, the republican mind and should l*D abolished; ind for that matter, as we h ive no farther use for an army, why stop at the "Have you heard—do yon know''" was the filtering question of the former. Tourist—That's my tire, friend. I find it very useful going down hill. Good morning.—Judge. "No; I'm here, colonel, getting a lesson in law which this young lady is so good as to givo mo." Miss Marshall flushed at the discourtesy in his tone, but gave no other sign. "I shall expect to sec you apppearing in the role of counselor yet, Miss Marshall." it was at this instant that tho rapid whirr of wheels and tho click of iron shod hoofs wero heard upon the drive, and briskly the Lane marriage came around tho turn. Lieut, Lewis stepped put from tho doorway. Again the sentry faced the road and carricd arms; again the soldiers of the guard arose, and those about the trader's door also faced tho roadway: again the white gloved hands were raised in soldierly salute, and one maq only turned his back and slouched away. Every 6oldier within range saw that Welsh was determined to disobey the orders he had just received. In six giant leaps the tall sergeant had reached his side. "Hear! Know! Who could help hearing? la it not au outrage?" • * After awhile we began to yodel. —A large policeman with an inflated 110 continubd] The Rich I'ncle. A Lady's Opinion. Only Son—Mamma, what does "good traits" mean? "If I were Hearn I'd quit attempting to dispicline that young man," said Ma£ Kenyon,. pessimistiq and glowering as eyef. "He ought to have sense enough fc» know that the worst blackguard in the service, with tho press behind him, is-more than a match for any officer who seeks to do his duty." lie (desperately)—Ti ll me the truth. Is it not my poverty that stands be- ( pinion of himself, hit my von Pilsner, of Geneva, a This was getting simply unbearable. While all at the other end of the table were having a merry, laughing chat, here was this professional investigator - an accidental and by no means welcome guest— taking advantage of the circumstances aud of the well known volubility of Mrs. Brodie io start her on the subject which called him to the post, and striving at a social party to "pick up points," "By Jove!" muttered Capt. Cross, "he's as bad as Mr. Abrams himself. What can we do to stop him? Nothing short of divine providence will ever stop Mrs, Brodie." crack on the head which conld have been heard, even above his breath, to a D;reat distance. I Was greatly distraught by this, an 1 tol l the officer not to do that way to a peaceable man or I would write him up in tiio papers and have a "Very well, colonel; if it ever come* to that I shall fall back pq my intnition.',?tween us? Fond Mamma'—Good traits? Is that expression in the new book I gave yon? "No'm. Mrs. De Fashion used it when She was talkin' about me to Mrs. De Style." He (with a ray of bo[De)—I admit that I am poor, and so, unfortunately, is my father: but I have an aged uncle who is very rich, and a bachelor, lie is an iuvalid, and cannot long survive. She (sadly)—Y-e-s, But where, meantime, was Abrams? The day wore by, and not once had he come to the garrison, and Welsh, sulkily plodding np and down ilia muddy |«jbC near the stables, and knowing well that every time the men looked at him or nudged each other in the ribs they were guying him, had earnest desire to eee his champion, pud to prevent the publication of other letters they had projected, sinco the only effect, locally, of the assault upon the good name of his young officer was to bring down the indignation of tho enlisted men upon himselfc It only made him rage {ho more spitefully against Heam, and ho longed for aq opportunity to vent his Rpleen. Miss Marshall's cheeks were still flushed and her eyes had a dangerous gleam under their dark and fringing lashes when she stepped a moment after into th© lately desecrated parlor. picture made of him "Did she? Mrs. De Fashion is a lady, every inch of her. Did she say you wer* full of good traits?" "No'm. She said I hadn't any."— Good News. ; "And if I were Hearn," drawled Martin, "I'd make that particular protege of The Palladium do his duty if I died for it, especially after the marked copies that came today. Now watch." She (delightedly) thoughtful you are. me to him?—New V, — IIow kind and Will you iutroduce tk \\ oekly. So he said why, of course, if that was the case lie didn't want no trouble with nobodv. We now rode a.rain on a street car for some distance until fatigue once more coiniK-lled us to pause at a beautiful refreshment cikdet, where we were "Yon appear to have bad quite a tilt with our friend tho judge advocate," said Lane, who had come In for more cigars for his guests. "I think I once told yon I would not care to be cross-cxamined by von, Miss Marshall; and it looks as tfyoug n he were not a littla nettled.1' salute?" The first sergeant, a trim, soldierly fellow with determined face and manner and quick pncjgbtio step, had by this time overtaken the pair, who strolling together had almost reached the picket fence and were within earshot of the Lanes' piazza. Mrs. Lane glanced eagerly up the road, for Miss Marshall and Lieut. Hearn at that very moment same from the Whartons' quarters next door and appeared upon tho gravel walk, Wallace following with Jeannette Mc- Crea. "Halt, Welsh, and face about}" he thundered, and then, fts the man still strove to edge away under the wing of his civilian associate, laid a brawny hand upon the liulkiug shoulder and spun him about as he would a top. No doubt the nincty-and-nine of The Palladium's readers thought their editor was souu 1, and were as opposed to the idea of that courtesy which is officially leclared to be "indispensable among military meu," as to any exhibition thereof in tho streets of their own peaceful and remarkably well regulated metropolis.She Took a Walk Accounted For. Mistress—Jane. h"w is this? Didn't I tell you to sweep th • front walk as far enabled to procure everything fresh from Europe, from a nice fresh nkase to a slice of Sweitzerkase. Also rich, dark brown MnchnerSec. with which to wash down our tempting food. » Johnny—Sailors named the rock of Gibraltar, didn't they, pa? as the corner? Pa—What makes you think so, sonny? Johnny—'Cause when they sailed near it they had to haul in their jib-er-alter their course. Jane—Indade, in tould me to swape t didn't; yez But the desired interposition came. Fdotstepe were heard on the piazza beyond the hall. The Chinaman, answering the summons to the door, came back, raising the portiere that hung heavily over the entrance, and handed his master a card. Lane took it, and glanced quickly at CoL Lawler. "I hope I haven't been rude to a  of yours, Capt. Lano; but that gentleman makes me wish over and over again that I were a man. Did yon know who his callers were?" {March an tin' I (111 it, mum, 1 rouMn't see why froa "Heels together, now. Look square at Capt. Lane. Now, then, damn, you, left hand, salute." walk to the c though for me loif yez wanted ino to walk to the corner West Shore. Two or three glasses of this rich Tyrolean beer started my Swiss maid to yodeling again at the top of his lungs, I quieted him by a well directed blow with Pa—Go and tell your mother to put you to bed immediately.—Texas Sittings. When tho devil is working in the breast opportunity is seldom lacking. The evening gun had thundered, tho last notes of the "retreat" had died away, and the 6un, that had been obscured all morning, went down in a golden radiance, leaving a sheen of beautiful color lingering along the crest of the opposite bluffs and reflected in myriad millions of rain drops still qliixa- But Col. Morris was himself wofully perturbed about this time. After imino lating Cross and other officers by name, as was to be expected, The Palladium man had taken to poking ugly little insinuations at the post commander, and this, thought Morris, was the heiglit of ingratitude. He was in no pleasant mood when tho men came marching up from stables, and it stuns him to see "Not badly done, sergeant," said Lieut. Lewis a moment after, as with kindling eyes he reached the spot just as the carriage had flashy by. "Finish what you have to say to your friend in fifteen minutes, Welsh, and then report to me at tho guard room. Not badly done," ho repeated, as he turned away with the tall infantryman by his side; "only yon the stock of my carbine, which struck They All Do It. him back of the ear, thns preventing Distracted Woman (at the police stahis arrest. As soon as he regained con- tion)—Oh, sir, I have lost my poor old sciousness lie thanked me warmly, and father! This morning he wandered wringing my hand again and again set out away, and I fear for his safety, as he is for the plateau north of the glacier which totally deaf. heads near the heights of One Hundred Police Sergeant—In that case, madam, and Tcnlli street, overlooking the Polo we will soon find him. He is walking "I have just heard," said Lane. There was sudden lull in the conversation on the piazza without, then the colonel spoke quickly: Why He Did It "If you will excuse me," said the latter, rising at once, "these are gentlemen whpm I telegraphed to meet, and I will save time by seeing them here, (will just ask them into your parlor, Capt. Old Brown (bringing out the strap)— Do yon know why I'm going to whip Sergt. Wren had stopped short on overtaking the trooper, and with  ceremony addressed him in tones that all could hear: yon. my son? "I wonder what that can be. That fellow yells in earnest, doesn't he?" "What la it?" asked Lane, stepping to the door. Little Johnnie—'Cause I'm small. If I was as big as that man next door who called yon a liar last night you wouldn't put a fiuger on me.—Puck. "Welsh, you're for guard to-morrow, and you've srot miirhtv little time in ground on the railway track.—Puck.