Pittston Gazette

              i£*'\ Oldest Newsoauer in the Wvoming Valley PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, FEHRUAKY (i, 1891. A Weedy Local and Family Journal. ANAWPqUTiA- getting weH enough to be read to a little while and to see some of his chums for a few minutes and to inquire how he had been hurt. Kenyon fairly towed his prisoner out through the hall and landed him on the veranda just as the noonday drum was sounding orderly call, then rattling out "Roast Beef of Old England" in hoarse accompaniment to the piping of the fife. Jtiair an Hour later two parasols could L 3 distinguished above the low shrubbery farther east along the row, and the Ladies on Burnham's veranda, where the doctor was seated in clover, now that Wallace had ridden away, stepped forward to the hedge and accosted the bearers and strove to persuade them to stay. Hearn's heart seemed to halt in then pounded gladly away again, for the delay was but momentary —phenomenally short for feminine chats, but the mail was coming, and Mrs. Lane was impatient to get her letters. Once more the parasols came floating along above the hedge. One, held some six inches higher than the other, was on the outside, farthest from the fence. That was hers, and she it must be who would first come in sight from behind the big liliac bush in Brodie's yard. "1 am twt awm, Col. Lawler."  "True," said Kenyon, with sarcastic emphasis. "It's one of the singular traits of somafellows in the army that, instead of meekly knuckling under to what they know to bo an outrageous misrepresentation of themselves and their profession, they should have the consummate effrontery to resent even newspaper attacks. Now, you can hardly conceive it possible, Col. Lawler, but do you know there are actually officers who think Hearn a thousand times more sinned against than sinning? And, that being their conviction, they are so blind to their own interest as to be willing to fight for it. It is incomprehensible—to some people, but it's a fact." "work" 'he judge advocate, a thing seldom enjoyed; and at last ol.l Qrace, humming and hawing a little, said that the court could not see the necessity, in view of the remarks mad j by division headquarters on a recent case, and must for the present decline tho request. Whereat Col. Lawler, in manifest ill humor, remarked that ho could be safely expected to say what would and what would not be approved by tho division commander, and that, if the court would not order it, he would get tho order by telegraph. begun. There would be no difficulty in utterly defeating the charge of assault upon the soldier Welsh, but what worried one and all was the testimony of Schonberg and B.-uine's relict. If that held good with tho court, then Hearn had been guilty of disgraceful conduct in stating orally and in writing that he had long since paid those debts. There could bo 110 sentence but dismissal. Hearn hail shut himself up in his room. That day had brought a long letter from his father, and it was this he was studying, soro at heart, when Kenyon entered.BILL NYE ON INDIANS. tne worna ox the ruiuro thdt people rail down and worship a warty prophet who cannot safely refer to the place where he was la.it employed. The red brother, as many of us know, is not educated. He has for generations gone fishing in his youth, and in his old ago died in ignorance. That is why religions fanaticism finds him a ready prey. That is why he is enabled to make, as the French say, one fox pass after another, and to fall a ready victim to the wiles of the crafty. A FEW REMARKS ABOUT BARBARIANS IN GENERAL. Bij Gapt. Ghas. Kino, U. S. fl., B1 Mahdi Held Cp an an Kxampie—The Indian Ghost Dance—The Power of Advertising—Some Fetching Costumes. Adieu, Brother, Ailieu! Author of "The Colonel's Daughter," "The Deserter," "From the Ranks," "Dunraocn Ranch," "Tiso Soldiers." [Copyright by Edgar W. Nye.] The ghost dance is not likely, however, td becomD popular at the Patriarchs' balls this winter, lam happy to say, as it is danced entirely by the males, the squaws not being in it, as Mr. McAllister, the blooming cad of an otherwise creditable epoch, would say. The squaws are sometimes present at these religious dances, but not generally allowed to participate. Below I am permitted to give some of the costumes worn - at a Pine Ridge small and early, ;is given me in a private letter dated some weeks ago. Tnsh-Tnsh, the daughter of old Johnnie-jump-up, the sockleaB Brule, wore a mauve drap-de-tay hat-lining with breast of buzzard in front and side ornaments of empty cartridges, .size .41. She also wore ear tabs to s-imei cut en V and made of muskr.it skin lined with bedticking. She wore ;m alpaca vest, with ~U v4 -m fri vctsss draped with New Orleans molasses. Her loose artillery trousers had a broad red stripe down the side. -She wore over all this a leather trimmed horse blanket with eye holes in it from St Paul. Her hair was braided plainly down each side, and tied en masse at the ends with sinews. Where it parted at tha nape of tho neck there peeped coquettishly forth a small patch of the beautiful skin of Tush-.Tush, bright and shiny as a new cent, and bidding thoso who were brave enough to do so to plant thereon a large, resonant kiss. "All right," said tho president, "and mean timo we'll proceed without one. I suppose you aro ready with your first witness, Mr. Judgo Advocate?" The painful and strained relations between the United States government and the red brother have prompted a long and rather interesting letter, which I have not room for this morning, but which goes on to make a great many inquiries regarding the Indian and his wild notions on religious matters, especially as to the ghost dance and the coming of a dark red Messiah. I Copyright, 1890, By J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and published by special arrangement with them. ] "You haven't slept a wink for two nights, lad, and I know it," said the major anxiously, as he studied the worn face of Lis friend. "I'm going to call Ingersoll in to prescribe for yox" And despite Hearn's protest the orderly waa seDt for the post surgeon. And—will it be believed?—when Col. Lawler sent his orderly to say that he would receive Hearn at Maj. Kenyon's quarters in case he desired to see him, the orderly came back with tho lieutenant's compliments and the singular response that tho lieutenant knew of no reason whatever why he should want to -see the colonel at any {ime. (continued ) The letters from Ryan were buoyant, and made no mention of care or trouble of any land. How could lie ask liia faiber's help when he had refused his a£[«r? The colonel rejoiced at the youngster's independence and decision, although he said nothing to his wife. Then came Frank's orders for Arizona, and Mrs. Hearn sobbed herself to Bleep. Again the father said, "Resign if you like and I'll start you here," but in the solitude of his library he kissed the boy's letter and blessed him in his heart of hearts for replying, "I wouldn't be my father's son were I to resign now, with the prospect of sharp fighting ahead." Heaven! with what trembling hands and tear dimmed eyes he read the glowing words of old Capt. Rawlins' dispatch telling how brilliant and daring the boy had been in the first fierce battle with the Apaches. He draped the Stars and Stripes over Frank's picture in the parlor, and bade the neighbors in to drink to the new south and the old flag, and even Mrs. Hearn, ever pessimistic and filled with secret dread of vague temptations that she knew not of, fearing them "If the court insists, yes; but I prefer to wait until I hear from the telegram which I am now writing." CHAPTER XIII. If Frank Hearn was a wronged and unhappy man before the regiment marched away his troubles seemed only intensified now. Deprived of the command of his troop and confined to his quarters in close arrest, he was confronted by a new sorrow, one least expected, yet hardest of all to bear. "We had better go right ahead,"  Col. Grace. And so, amid profound silence, the name of the first witness was called, and with the eyes of the entire room upon him, neatly dressed, cleanly shaved, and looking his very best, Troopor Welsh was ushered in from tho outer gallery, was sworn impressively by Lawler, and was asked for his name, rank and regiment, and whether ho knew the accused. The new correspondent of The Palladium described the liasty glance which Welsh cast at the lieutenant as one in which "his glowing, dark eyes kindled with tho pent up sense of the wrongs and humiliations heaped upon him by the officer in question." Maj. Kenyon, sitting close by Mrs. Lane, looked at Brodie with 6wift whispered comment on that furtive glance. Miss Marshal] never took her eyes from the witness's face. Meantime, with many emphatic noda and "humphs!" Kenyon read the long, long letter which, without a word, Hearn had placed in his hand, finishing it at last, going over several pages, and finally sighing deeply as he folded it: All barbarous tribes have, at; times, been greatly eiciti'd and overwrought upon these questions, and scarcely a year passes, if we could know of all that is happening among the barbarians of the • t»VK I* M/l*» V| V'Vt «MDwwD • )t the government to the extent of his ibility, proceeds to demolish his own ilaborately planned attack. It is the not infrequent result of such a system that the exertions of the prosecution so exhaust its representatives that the defense is left to its own devices, and in the case of Col. Lawler, as has been said, he had always held that when an officer was under trial the moral obligation of the government was to find him guilty, if a possible thing. Lawler had conceived it his duty then to accost Mr. Ilearu oa the piazza of his quarters, and blandlt to inform him that he was entitled, iJ he saw fit, to call in the serv ices of son*} suitable friend as amicus curia). Brajie and Cross were both etting there a: ;ie moment, and glanced at each other with a grin, as Hearn coolly looked the judge advocate straight in the eye and remarked that he was aware of the fact. The sharp assaults of The Palladium to a certain extent had been discontinued. One great and influential journal of the northwest had taken tho pains to investigate the situation independently, and was now giving its readers the benefit of the facts in the case of the much heralded martyr Welsh. A»C? "It is just what I feared, my boy; it is just what I feared. Still Fm glad ho didn't look upon it as your mother thought he would. Wonder what she thought of my letter— Hello, here's Ingersoll now." If Mrs. Brodie should happen to see them and stop them! But no; Mrs. Brodie went across the parade to the Crosses' half an Lour ago, thank heaven. Hearn's eager eyes were fixed upon the outer edge of that lovely lilac screen, longing for the first glance of the face he had seen in his dreams night and day now for nearly a week. If she were thinking of hi in, if he were anything to her, would not she be apt to look toward this veranda the instant she hove in sight around that sheltering bush? "Yonder they come now," said Kenyon, slowly lowering his boot heels from the balcony rail. "Tm going to stop them at the gate to see how Brent is." "I was at the hospital with Brent," eaid the mcdical man in some haste, "and had to go to Lane's first." "I thought you might not know it, and I desired to say that I should interpose no objection," said Lawler. when that eminent patriot was thus shown np in his1 trno colors the other papers had to moderate their ecstasies on his account. Very few managing editors, indeed, had not already been shrewd enough to see what he must inevitably turn out to be. But the originators had hoped to effect their onslaught on the army before the actual character of their witnesses was exposed.No one on the court could quite understand why Lawler had been detailed for this duty. It was a most unusual thing to call upon the officers of the department of military justice itself to furnish the prosecutor; rather was it their province to remain at the office of the division or department commander,, and in reviewing the records to sit in judgment on the judges. But The Palladium, true to Kenyon's prophecy, was not slow in explaining the situation. It was a case in which the whole people, with itself as their representative, had demanded the trial of the officer who dared maltreat the man. No ordinary occasion was this, but one to attract wide attention throughout the entire nation and be daily reported by the press. Col. Lawler saw opportunity for distinction hitherto unequaled. He asked of hia general the detail as judge advocate of the court, and the general, though surprised, saw no way to refuse. "No one ill at Lane's, I hope?' spoke Kenyon as Ilearn's face was suddenly uplifted. "I've just come from there." "I am not aware, Co). Lawler, that it is the judge a lvocate who either denies or consents. It is tho court, as I understand it, that settles the question." And Lawler went away with tingling ears. Hearn's temper was being sorely tried. No less than four times that Sunday morning had' he been called upon by gentlemen representing themselves as correspondents for some paper or other, each one of whom desired to interview him as to tho line of defense he proposed adopting, and really seemed astonished that lie should decline to give any information on the subject. And Hearn's replies to Lawler had been buzzed around the garrison with added emphasis at every repetition. "Oh, no; but Miss Marshall and Mrs. Lane have been going to see Brent every afternoon, and this evening he asked me to take a message over there. He wanted to see them to-night, but I had to say no; he's too feverish. SThey were much concerned to hear I had been called in to see you, Hearn, and I promised to come back at once and let them know how you were." "State how long you havo been in ervice, and with what company you na.»e served." more than peril or ambuscade, took heart and strove to rejoice that Frank was such a soldier. How shocked and sorrow stricken they were when but a short time after came the tidings of the old captain's lamented death! How they studied all Frank's letters and learned to know the regimental officers through his "eyes, and longed to meet that capital adjutant, Lane, when he came to Cincinnati recruiting! Col. Hearn even took a few days off and the north bound "fiver" on the Another instant, and once more the floating fringes of the outer parasol came sailing slowly into sight beyond the lilacs, then the white ferrule, a daintily gloved hand, a white draped shoulder, then a proudly poised, dark haired head, thick, low arched eyebrows and long curling lashes through a flimsy web of veil that hung almost to the rosy lips, close compressed; then sudden upward sweep of lash, a quick, straight glance from two deep, dark eyes, a gleam of jby, of glad recognition, an instant parting of the curving lips and a flash of white, even teeth, and Hearn's heart throbbeld and bounded. She had seen him instantly and was glad. "I've been"—then there was a sudden flutter of the eyelida and a moment's hesitation, but only a moment's—"I've been in Troop C, Eleventh cavalry, about eight months, stationed here at Fort Ryan. I enlisted in St. Louis ayeai ago." The moment The Pioneer came to the rescue it was time for them to change the line of attack, for no one of their number dared lock horns on a question of fact with a journal so fearless and respected. Still, as the truth can never SHAKING TIIEIR FISTS AT THE ENEMY, universe, no dbubt, that some religious craze is not having full swing among those people, who have not the blessings of the true and odIv religious light. How thankful ought we to be that we were born in a land where, to make these fool breaks, is a matter of impossibility! Standing Horse, who led the ghost dance, wore a United States wagon cover on his arrival, and also threw one corner of it over his departure; but when the dancing began he checked this outer wrap, and was discovered to be dressed lightly in a tiara of dickey bird's feet and a coat of shellac. He danced until utterly worn out and exhausted, when he fell to the ground, and a tidy was thrown over him by an attendant. A brief examination showed the skilled practitioner the extent of Hearn'B malady. and he insisted on his coming out. He wouid have added "over to Lane's piazza," but members of the court were calling there, and it would hardly be the proper thing. Returning thither, however, he found the gentlemen gone and Col. Lawler just seating himself for a social call. Tho judge advocate was just writing out tho answer when Misa Marshall leaned over and whispered a word to Kenyon. Tho major nodded appreciatively and looked eagerly along the faces of tho members of the court across the table. Capt. Thorp's eyes mot his, and it was Thorp who suddenly spoke: It ia not many years since the great fakir, El Mahdi, burst upon the vision of the orient, clothed m a small doily, and announced himself as the Messiah for whom his people had been bo long looking. And where is El Mahdi today? Where are all the tiddledewink Messiahs of profane history? And yet when Monday afternoon came, and in tho presence of a crowded array of civilians from all over the neighborhood Col. Lawler impressively inquired the name of the gentleman whom the accused desired to introduce as counsel, and even tho fans ceased to flutter and all ear's were yitent upon the reply, and a dozen pencils were poised over the pads on tho reporters' table, Mr. Hearn astonished almost all hearers by placidly, even smilingly, rosponding: "Nobody." Queen and Crescent to go thither and make the acquaintance of his boy's friend, and sat for. hours with Lano at the club, listening to his prai. : of Frank. Then came the eastward move again, and a brief leave, and the mother's heart yearned over her stalwart son, wondering at the bronze and tan of his once fair skin and rejoicing in the strength of his handsome face. Mother like, she sought White Wings, who came merely to look on, as he naively said, wore a fur cape of gopher pelts and calico shirt. No ornaments to speak of. So carefully had the court been chosen that of its entire array of thirteen members every man Was personally a stranger to the young soldier whose fate lay in their hands. Of all his regiment not another officer was at the post when the court began to arrive, and the only soldier—heaven save the mark!—was Welsh, now assigned, much to their disgust, to Capt. Brodie's company of the infantry for rations and quarters until his evidence should be given; and Welsh was the constant center of a group of newspaper men now billeted at Central Ciiy, and resenting it not a little that they were not invited to put up at the fort. "Nothing serious," he murmured to the ladies, as he took a chair, and in low tone began chatting with the Whartona. It was Lawler's voice that broke the stillness, and Lawlei, full of his profession, could talk nothing but "shop." "The witness has not answered the question, as I understand it." Jaybird, who fetched Tush-Tush to the dance, wore a percale shirt, which would have been tucked into the waistband of his trousers, if he had been blessed with trousers, but the cold and cruel winter, ah, the nipping, biting winter, came and caught the doleless Jaybird, caught hiin at a disadvantage, caught him slightly dishabilly, caught him shivering 011 the prairie, caught hiin short of ere a trouser; and goose pimples chased each other, following fast and following faster up his limbs of alabaster. When he saw Tush-Tush and passed her, then he trembling turned and asked her. Yet it was Mrs. Lane who had to do most of the talking, for Georgia Marshall was strangely silent. Every now and then her eyes seemed to take a quick note of the pallor of his face and the lines of care and trouble. Kenyon had held open the gate and quietly steered the two ladies to the veranda, where Hearn was hastily placing chairs; and though the mail orderly was approaching and Mrs. La&e knew there must be letters from her captain, she could not take Georgia instantly away, and so for a few moments they sat there in their dainty summer gowns and with deep sympathy in their eyes—eyes so different in color, yet so like in expression, they would have cheered a sorer heart than Hearn's. "Ho has answered a3 the court understands it," said Lawler sharply, "and entirely to my satisfaction." El Mahdi was a shrewd youth, even in the days when he snared suckers aloiig the White Nile. His mind was active and his thoughts profound. He early saw that the weak side of a man was his love of the supernatural, his Diss Debar side, as one may say. So ho said to himself: "I will educate myself and prepare myself for but one object. This Messiah business is what might be called a cinch. I will arrange to appear at the proper time for the purpose of playing a return engagement." "I could not but observe your presence in tho court room, ladies, even among the host of curious spectators. And how does a military court impress you, Miss Marshall, now that you have seen it?" "Ho may have answered to the satisfaction of the judge advocate, but I suggest that the court can speak for itself," was Thorp's cool reply. "The question should have elicited an answer as to the entire service, possibly in other commands, on the part of the witness, and he replies only as to C troop." long talks with hira and strove to catechise him as to what they did when not actually in the field. Was there not a great deal of dissipation? Did they not play cards? Were there not too many temptations to drink wine? What opportunity had they for attending divine service? etc. So far as he himself was concerned he answered frankly, bilt as to his comrades, all these questions he had laughingly parried. He had now been six years an officer, and had never once asked his father for money, yet she nursed her theory that under it all there was something hidden. From childhood she had been taught that army life meant frivolity and dissipation, if not vice, and now at last, when her husband was miles away from home looking after investments he had made in Florida, came this startling and terrible confirmation of her fears. In glaring head lines, in crushing, damning terms, in half a score of prominent northern papers she read of her Bon as a drnnken bully, a gambler, an abusive tyrant to the helpless men committed to his charge, and, utterly overwhelmed, the poor soul had thrown herself upon her knees to implore of heaven the strength to bear the dreaded blow, and wisdom to guide her aright in the effort to reclaim her wayward boy. The gray haired pastor, for whom she had sent, came jmd mingled his tears and prayers wifa hers, and then they had between them written the letter that was now before him: It is but the confirmation of a lohg haunting fi'ir. I have all along felt that you were holding back &omething from me, my son, and God only knows how I have prayed that this cup might be span-d me and this sin averted from you. I dreaded tlio temptation of army life for one of your impulsive temperament. I strove, I rebelled against the idea of your being subjected to such companionship. I hoped against, hope that It might not be as I feared, but, alas! my intuition was right after all. Do not think I am angry, my boy. Do not let this drive you from us. As soon as it is over come home, and all that a mother's love can do shall be done to spare you further bitterness My first impulse was to wire your uncle James at Washington to ask If something could not Ixj done to avert the court martial, but good old Dr. Wayne, whose son was in the army before the war, tells me that it is hopeless, and that the best that can be done is to get your resignation accepted, so that, though you have to quit the service, as he says, it may not be by the disgrace of a sentence. I have, therefore, wired James to go at once to the secretary, and Dr. Wayne lias alio invoked the aid of some influential frcnds. Wiro me instantly on receipt of this, that I may know that you are bearing up manfully. It will soon be over. May God sustain you, my son. is the j rayer of your devoted and distracted Mother. P. 8.—Frank, my worst anxiety is on your poor father's account. I dread to think of the effect this news will have upon him. JIo.. never appreciated the danger as I did. And this was the letter poor Hearn was almost raging over when the door opened, after a single prefatory bang, and in came the major. "Hello, lad! How are you today? The regulations which forbid your visiting the commanding officer don't prevent his coming in to see you, I suppose. Any more newspaper attacks? You couldn't l#ave got much worse if you had been running for president of these United States. I 3ee that tliree papers of my beloved home are now calling me ugly names lDecause my brother published a letter in which I had the temerity to say to him that Welsh was a sneak and Abrains a slouch and you a soldier; but I never expect anything better. Why, Hearn, my boy, forgive me. Something's wrong, and here I'm rattling away and never seeing it." "Read that," said Hearu; and the major read, with wonderment and concern deepening in his grizzled face, then turned away to the window with a long whistle. "Well, lad, that is something even I hadn't thought of. By gad! I'm going to write a few lines to your good mother on my own hook; she reminds me of mine. No; no shutting yourself up in your bedroom now. Come out here on the piazza, where there's sunshine, and where there will bo roses presently. Mrs. Lane and Miss Marshall have gone over to the Hospital with some jellies for Brent, and it's timo for them to return. Come out, I say, or, as commanding officer of the post, I'll send a file of the guard to haul you out. You've lost three shades of tan in four days, and I'm not going to let you mox»e in here, if I have to annul your colonel's order of close arrest and give you extended limits. Come out." There was no resisting the major; tbero was no resisting the deeper long* iflg in hi; heart. Every day since his in} Mrs. Lane had found means "Why, I understood from gentlemen here at tho post that you intended to introduce counsel," said Lawler, much nettled. "I can tell you better when I have seen it all, colonel. Thns far we've had nothing but the prosecution. It will seem less one sided after the defense." "With all deference to the court," said Hearn, "the understanding of the judge advocate is at fault." "He has given the exact information I desired," said Lawler hastily, "and all my question was intended to cover. I protest against interference with my witnesses." "Ah, that, I fear, will hardly amount to anything. The young man has been very ill advised—very. Possibly you heard that I had offered him my services —that is, any in my power to render— and that ho had refused?' Mahdi was about the color of a successful meerschaum pipe in those days, with bright black eyes, and in cold weather he wore cotton in both ears. This prevented pneumonia on damp days—a needed precaution, especially as he grew older and lived in a cave by himself, ostensibly fasting. But as matters stood the fort was already taxed to its utmost capacity; the only quarters in which there was room for the arriving gentlemen were those of the absent cavalry officers. Mrs. Morris had two spare rooms, and promptly invited Cols. Grace and Maitland, old friends of her husband, to be her guests. Kenyon took in three of the seniors. Mrs. Wharton happened to know Capt. Chase, who was one of the detail, and scandalized Mrs. Brodie by borrowing the Lane barouche, meeting him at the depot and driving him straight to her roof. There was instant titter and a ripple of applause. The correspondents glanced quickly at one another and then in surprise at Ilearn. For a man who refused to talk at their bidding, ho was displaying unlooked for ability now. Lawler reddened to the roots of his hair and glanced angrily around. She allowed that she would come with him. She said so long as they lived in the west, what was the use of trying to put on lugs. East, of course, she said her escort wouli} be de trop, but in the west, where pants do not make the man, nor want of them the fellow, there would be no fuss made over this idiosyncrasy. She then got ready and went. "la there no officer you know to take up this case for you?" overtake a lie, and as in this case the lie had a week's start, these exponents of the ethics of American journalism had reason to feel moderately well satisfied. It would be prudent, however, to let the m&tter "simmer" now; and there were other reasons, too; so Mr. Abrams was recalled from his mission to Central City and set to work at the foundations of the character of a gentleman just spoken of in connection with the coming municipal elections. He had hitherto borne an unimpeachable name in the community, but his friends had committed the grievous offense of speaking of him for mayor before The Palladium had been consulted, and it therefore became The Palladium's duty to pull his props from under him. Bang! came old Grace's sword hilt on the table. "It is 3 o'clock, Mr. Judge Advocate, and tho court will adjourn." The orderly carrying the mail came briskly in at the gate. Miss Marshall simply looked at the colonel a moment, making no reply. Finally: Lawler drew a long breath and glanced triumphantly at Thorp. "I left Mrs. Lane's letters at the house, ma'am," he said, as he handed a package to Kenyon and proceeded to unload half a dozen bulky newspapers on Hearn. Kenyon had opened his official letter with brief "excuse me" and then began to chuckle; "May I ask what services you could render him? I thought the prosecution was yonr specialty." Time went by and El grew to manhood, still keeping his finger on the public pulse, and knowing that some day times would bo ripe for his appearance. Living patiently for months in a deserted cellar, or in summer time fasting in a cave in the mountains, rarely eating anything, unless perchance a katydid or the milk of a wild ass on Tuesdays and Fridays, all the time crucifying the flesh, and thus attracting attention, he soon reached manhood, and with the budding of his delightful whiskers he began to cultivate the press and to get himself written up in the society columns."The aiidi'-nco must keep order," he said. "You are .vt liberty to witness these proceedings, bnt audible comment or any levity at attempted witticisms on tho part of the t»rcused will not be tolerated."But, however little the first day brought forth, tho second in no wise lacked sensation. Welsh and Mr. Levi Schonberg, in terms most emphatic, had described the assault upon tho principal witness; both declared tliat with brutal violence Welsh had been dragged forth from the barroom and then kicked and cuffed all the way to the guard house; both denied tho faintest provocation or excuse; and then, .amid oppressive stillness, Mr. Schonberg had described his connection with the trader's establishment six years before and his knowledge of the pecuniary dealings of the accused. In positive terms he asserted that old Mr. Braino had lent the accused sums aggregating six hundred dollars at different times, and that he had frequently and vainly importuned him in letters written by Schonberg for payment, had been ignored, and that finally when he, after the accused returned to tho post, strove to collect the amount he, the witness, was met with curt refusals, denials of all indebtedness, and finally with threats and assault. I presume there is a moral to the ghost dance and bloody massacre of this season. Possibly several of them. One of them is that you cannot majce a card case out of a sow's ear, and the Indian cannot be worked over into a Fanners' Alliance. Squaw Jim was a white man who once basked in the sunshine of my friendship. We were quite intimate in those days. Ho was a white, man. originally from near Napoleon, Ark. Ho gave his uamo in marriage to a Shoshone debutante with an Indian nam* that would fence ia a houso and lot. She apparently lovol Squaw Jim in her untutored way, but he told me that she was as wild as a hawk. In winter time ho could tell pretty near where to find her, but when the grass got green along the sunny banks of the mountain streams, and the "pussy" on the tall and graceful willow began to get its bock up, and the smell of the moist earth as the frost began to heave out greeted the glad nostrils, he could no longer make Push-me-ia-ha-to-le-quah, etc., come up nights. \Vtien the pocket gopher began to build his fresh embankments along the sides of the sandy hill, and the bittern wailed in the buffalo wallows; when the 1fttM.ee chirped in the low "draws," where the grease wood grew and the track of the sage hen wound along the gray margin of the alkali pond, then Push-meta-ha-to-le-quah, etc., with a glad cry lit out like a frightened comet, aqd for a moment the air along her trail seemed to be full of moccasins. "Oh, it is, certainly; thatis mybounden duty. Still? if I knew what evidence he had to offer—what witnesses he meant to call—any experienced lawyer could tell him how best to conduct the case." "Hearn, my boy, they mean to do you all proper honor. Just look at this detail, will you? Four or five colonels and majors and half a dozen captains to sit in judgment, and—well, if this don't beat all! old Lawler himself for judge advocate." "Mind you," said that young matron, "every man on this court shan't go to its first session without knowing something of Frank Hearn's real character. I only wish I had room for more." But Hearn's face wore a provokingly placid smile, and the president, rapping on the table with tho hilt of his sword, called for silence and curtly demanded of the judge advocate that he proceed with the case. Miss Marshall fairly laughed: "That strikes me as one of the most unique ideas I ever heard, colonel. If you belonged, we will say, to the combatant force of the army and had a position to defend, would you detail your plan of defense to the adversary!" Mrs. Lane had no spare bedroom, but bade her regimental friends who had to fill them up with members of the court "Georgia and I will board the whole array if you will only let us," she declared. "TO set a lunch for the court at noon, and dine the entire party at 7 every day they are here if some one will only agree to take Col. Lawler." Hearn's face was flushing and paling Not ten feet from where Mr. Hearn sat by his little table, whereon were his memoranda and a few books, Georgia Marshall, with sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks, bent and whispered to Mrs. by turns. Contenting himself for the time being with the announcement that the military authorities at division and army headquarters had expressed their deep sense of obligation to The Palladium for having brought to light the scandalous condition of affairs at Fort Ryan, and that it had received their assurances that as a result of its efforts Lieut. Hearn would be brought to trial by court martial, this public spirited journal wisely turned its attention elsewhere. Other papers, of course, kept up the hue and cry, but The Pioneer's columns having warned them that their martyr was -j/ter all only a scamp, and their victim a 1 "You don't mean that CoL Lawler himself is detailed?" "My dear young lady, you totally misapprehend the peculiar mechanism of our system. After having finishe 1 the government's sido then 1 am free to assist the accused." Pretty soon he began to prophesy a little. Having a private wire in his care, he was able to predict the arrival of British troops about a week ahead, and thus his business soon grew to be sometliing wonderful. Many a night he had to sit up and prophesy long after other people were in bed and asleep. Thus did he wax strong with his people, and get all he could do in that line. "Certainly I do; and what do you want to bet The Palladium doesn't say that this was done in deference to its suggestion that no biased associates of the accused officer should be allowed to officiate, as the people will tolerate no whitewashing of character in this most flagrant case, or words to that effect? Oh, I know those fellows! There's more conceit in one newspaper office in my beloved home than in all the armies in Christendom." Lane And Mrs. Wharton, catching the eye of some friends across the room, very improperly tapped the back of her kid covered thumb nails together in mute applause. The press and the populace might with tho prosecution, but it was easy to see that there were loyal and lavish hearts there stanch for the de- "One for our side." "And the accused, as I understand it, is free to 'play it alone,' as we do in euchre. Now, do you know, I think I would prefer that course to having an advocate who was more than half an opposer?"Nobody wanted Lawler, and so he was one of the three relegated to the gloomy precincts of old Kenyon's quarters and compelled to rough it at bachelor mess. It was arranged that eight members of the court should be quartered ».mong the cavalry homesteads and otherwise be entertained at the Lanes'. Of such are the expedients to which garrisons are subject. "Well, certainly, Miss Marshall, you cannot congratulate the accused on his conduct of the case thus far. He would have stood better with the court at this minute if he had taken my advice, as he wouldn't. Then I had only one course to pursue." Though Mohammed Achmed—his real name before he went west—was the son of a petty sheik, and therefore nobody scarcely, at the age of 40 years his mirror still told him that he was strangely beautiful. In the flush of manly health, robust and in the piuk of condition, though trained down a good deal, perhaps, by eating nothing but choke cherries and lightning bugs for weeks at a time, El Mahdi L:ie\v the proper moment to take hoi J of this ma i ter and burst upon the astonished gaze of his people as a Messiah. fense Nothing much more connected could well bo imagined". Both men were positive and precise as to facfe and dates, and both when cross examined by the accused stock stoutly and positively to their versions. Another witness was Mrs. Sclionberg that was and Mrs. Braine that had been, and her testimony, though by no means truculent or positive, was largely in support of that of her Jewish spouse. She was sure of the loans to llearn; sure ho had never repaid them; suro that Braino had directed them placed upon the books, and had frequently spoken to her of them, because slio thought that ho was too open handed and crcdulous, and had told him so. The court had not tDeen authorized to sit without regard to hours. Lawler argued that in a case of such widespread interest the sessions should be held when it would bo most convenient for the world at largo to attend, and by adjourning at 3 p. m., the conventional hour, all good citizens would bo ablo to get home in abundance of time, secure in the belief that nothing would transpire before they could return to their post of observation on the morrow. Nothing of great consequence was accomplished on tho first day beyond the ceremony of swearing tho court, which Lawler rendered as impressive as possible, the administering of tho judge advocate's oath, which Col. Grace rattled through in a perfunctory style that robbed the legal gentleman cf the dramatic effect he had contemplated, and the reading of the charges and specifications, which were breathlessly listened to by the flirong and most oratorically delivered by tho judge advocute. There was something especially lino in tho air with which he turned and faced tho soldierly young officer, who, in his trim fatigue uniform, stood opposite to him at tho table. The ladies had risen, Mrs. Lane's eyes saying plainly toiler friend, "We ought to go." oung officer with a capital military recrd whom the court might after all ac- It was not until Monday afternoon that the court its session. Two ofli.ers had telegraphed that tuey could not reach the post until the arrival of the noon train; but all that morning and most of Sunday the judge advocate had been bustling about tho garrison, full of importance and enthusiasm. Recognizing the interest felt in the caso by an entire neighborhood, and sedulously active in providing for tie needs of tho press, Lawler had caused the quarters of C troop to bo cleared of all the iron bunks. Arm racks and lockers were shifted away; a long table had been brought up from the mess room underneath and set in the middle of the big room, the president's chair at tho head, his own at the foot, those of the members at the sides. Another long table was provided for the swarm of newspaper correspondents, and then, for the general public, the mess rooms of tho cavalry had been ransacked, and benchos ana chairs to accommodate several hundred people ranged about the room. It was Saturday night when Lawler arrived and was met by Maj. Kenyon and escorted to his quarters. "Does the court meet here?" asked- Hearn quietly. "Please don't go, Mrs. Lane—not just yet." ait, it became necessary to prepare the cblic mind for such a bouleversement by pitching into military courts iu general Chamber" affairs, organized only to convict privates and whitewash officers, one journal going so far as to announce that a "court martial for Lieut Hearn meant simply that a body of men, each and every one of whom was in the daily habit of violating every rule of decency and humanity, was to sit in judgment on his case and declare him innocent." "Doesn't that look just a wee bit as though he were being prosecuted for declining eminent legal assistance rather than for alleged misconduct?" "Indeed we must, Mr. Hearn. I know you need to confer with the major now, and we will only be in the way." Lawler flushed and again glanced sharply from under his sandy brows and out of the corners of his twinkling eyes. Hearn's eyes had sought Miss Marshall's. She was standing by the balcony with half averted face, yet listening intently. Devout, hungry ai 1 sad he took advantage of man's devotional nature, and skun him out of his confidence an 1 his watermelons. Ho wept over the siu3 of his bettors, and deplored the undone condition of those whom he had not yet dono up. Yearning for a bright immortality, yet constantly postponing it so long a-s tlio Esrvntian uullets held out. El Mahdi went on, stringing t-ao people from day to day till they were ready to blindly follow him anywhero with their eyes closed. "You have a sharp tongue, young lady," he said, "but I presume your wit is mado to match it. It is a pity they could not be brought into requisition in defense of your friend before tho court itself. You cannot influence me." And he laughed loudly, and glanced around as though in triumph. Squaw Jim said that one at such a timo could easily play tiddledewinks on the coat tail of his savage bride. He would have been very lonely during the summer time if he had not been blessed with a white wifo at Omaha, with whom he dawdled away tie glad summer tide. "The court meets here, and on Monday of next week. Verily, Hearn, public wrath demands a prompt trial of your villainy. Now, with Lawler to prosecute, youH need a friend to defend. Who is it to be?" All this, of course, came duly marked When court adjourned at 3 p. m. on the second day tho caso had gone dead against llearn, and Col. Grace gravely inquired if ho could not procure counsel even now; it might still be allowed. But Hearn quietly shook his head. Wednesday morning was to have brought the redoubtable Mr. Abrams to tho scene to aid tho caso for the prosecution, but Col. Lawler was compelled to say that the witness wa3 not forthcoming, and had not even answered telegrams sent him. There was somo quiet grinning at the reporters' table, and old Kenyon breathed a sigh as ho bent over and whispered to Brodie: and with pencil comment to Mr. Hearn from scores of anonymous senders as he \ sat dazed and disheartened in his cheerless room; but this wa3 not all. Nearly two weeks had elapsed now since the "I have not asked any one," said Hearn, slowly. "The charges have not yet reached me. I do not know of what I am to bo accused, who ore the witnesses, or anything about it. Whom could I ask to oppose Lawler?" " 'Faith, Lawler, it's jost as lucky for you that Miss Marshall isn't counsel for the accused. You'll get knocked endwise when it comes to the defense, anyhow," said the doctor. The Indian can never, alas! bo taught the religion of the wnito mm any more than he can bo brought to look kindly upon the pick! 1 olive as an article of food. He can no more cope with the doctrine of the Trinity than he can raise side whiskers or Lima beans. Personal godliness and tha use of the crash towel are repulsive to the feelings of the red brother. The idea of jfGod who favors manufacture and industrial pursuits bothers him, and our great North American scheme of charitable endeavor, which consists mostly in telling other people how they can do a great deal of good, confuses him. 1 first assault, and the home letters, for which he had looked with mingled fear and longing, had begun to come. The first he opened was from his mother. VjJhe had received the marked copies of The Palladium of the first three or four days, sent no one knew by w*iom, and they were quickly followed by others. What was it Thackeray wrote? "There are stories to a man's disadvantage that the women who are fondest of him are always the most eager to believe." A devoted woman and mother was Mrs. Hearn, but her sole knowledge of army life was derived from what slie had seen around their nearly ruined home in a southern city about the close of the war. Frank's boyhood was spent in straitened circumstances, but little by little his father's toil and pluck had restored their fallen fortunes, and, a stanch soldier himself, ho could not wonder that the young fellow's heart ihould be wrapped up in the hope of a commission. Poor Mrs. Hearn! she had looked for something far different, and even her pride at Frank's winning a cadetship at West Point by competitive examination did not reconcile her to his entering upon a profession which would associate him with such characters as she had seen about the time the great armv was beintr disbanded, and hundreds of officers seemed to have nothing to do but carouse. By the time he was graduated his father's practice had liecome so well established as to warrant the squire-colonel's yielding to his wife's pleadings. War among tho Arabs is conducted on an odd plan. It consists in deploying scouts or pickets, whose duty it is to lead the enemy on for two or three months across the broad sweep of sand which he calls fatherland, ar;d compelling the invader to drink alkali water during tho meantime. This course of diet does not impair the health of the Arab, who has no bowels of compassion, but instead of those a porcelain lined alimentary canal and a clmker built gizzard, which assimilates readily anything from a caramel up to a fawnskin vest with hor.. buttons on it. Thus the Caucasian is readily overthrown by the Arab, and at autumn time, in his bleached aud eyeless skull, the scorpion finds her winter home. Miss Marshall had slowly turned, and now looked full at Kenyon's troubled face. Her slender hands were clasping; her breath seemed to come and go almost too quickly. "You think so, do you? Well, well, we'll see; we'll see." The gate had opened, and an orderly entered. "To th'» first specification of tho first charge, how say you, sir—guilty or not "A telegram for tho commanding offii etj" he said. guilty?' "There's no man here fit to advise you, Hearn, and I know of no one quite a match in subterfuge for that 'Tombs Lawler,'" was the reluctant answer. "You might tell Mr. Hearn that whatever ho may desiro to say to me about the case I can hear to-night. You havo no objection to his coming to your quarters, I suppose?' And, in the simplest way in the world, the answer camo in tones sufficiently clear to be audiblo beyond the open win- Konyon took the brown envelope, tore it open, and steppod into the hall doorway, where the light would fall upon the page. A gleam of sudden satisfaction shot across his face, and he turned eagerly toward Miss Marshall, whose dark eves had followed him. "Come," he signaled, and she rose and went to "D—n that fellow! He never meant to come and Lawler knows it. Cross examination would have broken him all up." "Then I'll fight it out alone as best I can," said Hearn at last. dow I am pained, of course, to note tho hostile feeling now existing between my own race and the red brother, for un donbtedly he was here first. So also were the centipede, and tho rattlesnake, and the north and south pole cats, bnt they, as civilization approaches, will have to retire, even as' tho red brother must, before the all powerful influences of Rum, Red Tape amd Rascality. Adien, red brother! Yon are going to join the Mastodon and the Scthyosauras. Some day, in the great yofider of approaching years, yon will have to lie over a tittle further in your geological bed, and give placo to the last specimen of the bald and perfected Caucasian, who with a wild whoop yields up his uneasy life, aud with his labor saving machinery and his soleratus bread he will lie by your side, Mr. Lo. So step forward a little farther, red brother, and give tho pale face a chance along with you to hold'on by the straps as tho great car of progress moves onwar-d, or else pitch along in your rocky bed and give room to the gentleman who today is acting as your agent and undertaker. "Lord, no! I like it. So does ho generally, but if you want to see Hearn you'll have to go yourself." And so to e.icli and every specification and to the chargej of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline, Lieut. Hearn calmly protested his eutire innocence, and the pleas were duly recorded. "Not guilty." The ladies were going; Mrs. Lane was down the steps already, and the major gallantly striving to raise her parasol. Hearn had clasped Miss Marshall's slender hand as she turned to say adieu, and the frank, cordial pressure emboldened him. He. would have held it firmly, but as firmly, yet gently, it was withdrawn. But two other civilians were produced, who claimed to bo old friends of tho late trader, and ono of these testified that the week before his death Mr. Braine had declared that Heam had refused to repay tho money and ho regarded it as good as lost. Hearn protested against this as "hearsay" and not testimony under oath. Lawler vowed it was material aud confirmatory, and tho court was cleared, to the utter indignation of the correspondents thus compelled to quit the room with the common herd. Thrice again this happened during tho day, and i«o-ple grew disgusted, many of them leaving; but those who remained, including the officers, could see no earthly hope for Hearn. Everything had been as conclusively proved as such witnesses could establish matters, and the only chance lay in tho impeachment of their testimony. " Why?'' said Lawler, reddening. "He ought to know that it is to his interest to seek the advice and assistance of the judge advocate. Of course he knows that I must do my full duty in prosecuting the case; but, outside of that, any service I can render him he has a right to call for." him "Read this," he said in low tones as he thrust the paper into her hand and sauntered back to his chair. "I can trust you to keep a secret." Tho Bedouin of the desert is a good deal like our own warlike Indians in manT ways. They are not tho kind of people who range their concave abdomens up against the heated guns of a hostile fortress and wait for an honorable death. Nyether would they scale a redoubt in the teeth of a galling fire. They are not constructed according to those specifications. On tho contrary, they sail up in a sort of circle, sort of tantalize and pick at the advancing foe, shake their travel stained nighties at the moving enemy, .and, emitting a war cry as melodious as the crampy remark of a cuckoo clock, they go away from them. Then Col. Lawler announced that in view of the importance and probable length of tho caso he desired the services of a stenographer and requested the authority of tho court to call one in. Tho president looked perturbed; stenographers were expensive, and tho last court he was on had been rapped over tho knuckles for employing one, although tho record exceeded a hundred and fifty pages in length. Lav.ier gazed after her with unmistakable curiosity, studying her face as she read, then turned and looked at Ken yon, who was ostentatiously humming the air Miss Wharton had just begun playingon the piano. What did it mean? Was his entertainer in league with the girl who so dared him? Mrs. Lane strove to cover her friend's somewhat abrupt quitting of the group by a timely word or two, but her question failed to catch the lawyer's ears. In a minute Georgia was back, had dropped the dispatch over Kenyon's burly shoulder with the brief whispered word, "Splendid," and then almost laughingly turned on the judge advocate. "Only a week yet, Mr. Hearn," she spoke, ner bosom rising ana failing quickly. "Is there no officer you know to take up this case for you?" "Oh, ho understands; but, as he was given no opportunity to speak for hini- Belf when you wero investigating the case, I fancy ho will ask none now until he comes before the court. Then you probably will hear from him." "1 fear not, Miss Marshall. You know I'm not even a first lieutenant yet, and he is a lieutenant colonel." She looked up one instant in his eyea, then with sudden impulsive movement held forth the hand she had just withdrawn."It might be very much better if he were to frankly consult the judgo advocate," said Lawler, gazing keenly at Kenyon from under his shaggy brows. "How long will you need one, and how soon can you get him here?" asked Col. Grace. "Grood-by," she said, turned quickly and was gone. "Very much better for tho prosecution. But—how better for him?" "Well, wo can get through with the case in a very short timo with a stenographer, but it will tako a week at le;vst without one." Ho did not say, however, that he had ono already in the room, in tho shape of a newspaper •man from Chicago. Some of tho court began to consult among themselves. It was nearly 3 o'clock on Wednesday when Lawler said that if tho other wit'ness, Mr. Abrams, did not put in an appearanco ho would rest tho case for the prosecution. Col. Maitland inquired why tho books of tho late post trader had not been produced in court in support of Schonberg's testimony, and Lawler promptly responded that they were too bulky to bo appended to the record, were property of tho estate, aud he had not considered them necessary. However, if tho court insisted— Aud the court did. Schonberg was directed to bring his books at 10 o'clock tho next day. ' After the battle the Arabian papers announce that fifteen hundred handsome Englishmen, with beautiful sloping shoulders and Venus de Medici figures, have bitten the dust, while one elderly Arabian has sprained his thumb by falling from his horse and striking on the sharp prong of a gopher hole. For a moment the two friends walked on in silence. "Well, those young men never gain anything by fighting a case. Ho had much better throw himself on the clemency of the court. But I suppose some one has undertaken to defend him?" Another shrewd glance. "Someone! yes, I've neard that several some ones offered their services by first mail the moment it was known you were to be prosecutor. Wnat the devil did you take it for, anyway?" "A penny for your thoughts, Georgia?" "I wish I were a man." "And now tell me, colonel, isn't there such a tiling as impeaching the "credibility of witnesses?" Secretly he rather wanted the boy to go on in his career, and was pronder of the chevrons the handsome young cadet captain had worn than of the old tarnished sleeve knots that he had pat away so reverently the day after Appomattox, where Lee's kindly hand had rested for a moment on his arm when he went to bid his beloved chief adieu. Yielding to her entreaties he offered Frank good indncements to drop the army and come home and study law, but the youngster said his heart was bound up in the cavalry. The mother had.let him go with prayers and tears. "On his account, is it? Don't you know—he would far, far rather have you just as you are?" Is "Oh, I suppose so in certain cases; but what has that to do with mine?" "Make him writo his own proceedings," whispered Col. Maitland to the president. "By gad, ho was probably the man that rapped your court for employing one thereat Omaha last month." "Yours? Well, ono would hardly think your witmsses assailable, of course; but But this has nothing to do with the late religious crazo among the red brethren.CHAPTER XIV, A l"urti«u Uelorin. "Have a cigar, Wilkins?" to send him some friendly little note, together with dainties of domestic manufacture; every day she and Miss Marshall had appeared at least once or twice upon the walk in front, although he could not join them; and now they were interesting themselves in Corp. Brent, Baid the major, and the corporal wa$ A general court martial was in session at Ryan, and for three days had been sitting in.judgment on Lieut. Hearn. It was the first occasion in many a long year on which Col. Lawler had appeared in the role of judge advocate, that complex and contradictory position wherein the so called legal adviser of the court, having prosecuted in the name even truthful men, you know, are sometimes mistaken." Tho Indian is no worse than all other barbaric people who scorn the sacred and secular press. Politics may be corrupt and leaders venal, but intelligence will win at last. It is where people do not advertise that the bogus Messiah is permitted to do up the people. It is where the Washington hand press aud the primary school house yet slumber in "No; sworn off." "You seem to forget, Maj. Kenyon, that it was a matter of very grave importance to tho .army as well as to tho public," said the colonel, with much dignity. "Officers who aro rash enough to seek to defend him can havo little conception of the feeling aroused throughout the entire north." Then lie scribbled a lino and tossed the scrap of paper over to Maj. Putnam on the other side, an l passed word down to Capt. Thorp, who had been judge advocate of tho court in question. It was evident tho members thought that hero was an admirable chance to "Books and figures den't lie, Miss Marshall. You forget the books." "Oh. true! I forgot the books. And Mr. Schonberg was bookkeeper, too." "Given up smoking?" "No: given up your cigars, '—New York Sun That evening tho party gathered on Lane's piazza was very silent and sad. Kenyon had been there a while and gone away with bowed head and thoughtful eves. The defense, of course, had not His Word SuiHcicut. [to he co.vtinueb] Bohr (the author)—Wait a minute, aud I'll show you the proofs of my novel. Gore--No, not I don't want any nroof.;. Yorr word is enonu'li.—Pne.k Hazktso has h gcod Ivceum.