Pittston Gazette

              % ■ A Ci * i iv: iiv P'TLXLO v, CA iitXK CO., PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST... IS1I2. KSTAV.I.'SIIKI) ! -n vol,. \r,i. n D. rDi swsjjnper in the alfe A Weskly to! and Family Journal. t *|i1 ! IN A " an • ' m VASCK nail U uOZi/il JUI1KIJ- Ui.H'el'S, V i. conn as vehement as ot yore. Every brave siiHrl ripe for action. and im Jiidian leader ever equaled in craft. in cu. uinj;. had inanag able of his f Mism Uerrioi: * was not he v.'hn i vvlw fliwe ' lit to him to fi/tri1 and leaned bat looked 11 y .:£ inn* from under i;er U:;i lashes. She euuld have found it m Ju heart to strangle the lovely ;;trl so dark ly, richly beautiful, but Ikt call u|»Di to lnomipt ni'isidi i • lKisiitr on tlio rouuil taoio. UrewC■ v.-.-.s i) i;iulur, if 0110 were to jud;;e • of pictures that had lxc:i it to liim by their jirototypaB. Then a handsomealbum lyiiijr I ll i uarcu to ijpoiu: to ?'l wjtliout first Ilis'l Vviaifrol word witli the beautiful girl whom hi' so admired. NYE'S PARCITEI) WELL v/\* ing on l'le wc; a. ?n.. had eat ithcr indication;', r ijerlv accent.a'l Mr 1 ar* atto r Ti|t» V.l't'K asking hi 1 in lovo 1). -i'l i tacheu to it. i on C suffer and toss about i.u-.l ! water. A typlioiil v.-, it but a shortago'and the pole variety i.4 u:. ; or the sights I ever listened to. rien Ic iDD i uOl.Ul r v bv til dared tola. ;t no, that IIo knew ho was 110 match for Brewster so far arD physique or reputation was concerned. Jmt then girla hud been known to prefer patrimonial estate to personal charma, and he meant at leact to try the effect of his solid qualifications as against those which made Brewster so attractive to the sere. lit; knew the major liked him well enough, and ho thought he eonld count on the good ofiices of Mrs. Berrien, but lie was not ::o suv! about Winifred. When the jovial major appeared he was in readiness to pay his respects at once, and was cordially welcomed by that red faced veteran; so w;is Randolph; and then there stood Brews-tcr at Winnie'r. tile seov.liiu; old i uo man need doubt liner IHIst • ■lit III, think tsho car.'s for Iti was ni'.^o.si vou HE HAS A HARD TIME TO GIVE IT i.it .d bitten of Ue qnai' til'S. Ijv w tie who j;.ive the cue. J-Iverv oir ii on Iho Veal !: near tho wiu'dov know!"' Wli hosiKl sue (_ How clo you for hiru ENOUGH TO DP.iNK t for two veui:;r iiisiii in the Dakota Nation l«c-; preach the coming of the Viest t ho Messiah craze was o::ly o an end. Uii-fcci-to. the Incr— he who ordained chat ■diould pre pare themselves o rites of the tfliout dance ill lu-r !i viciC in:; listlosbly tliithor Rolfe guvo a anyhow?" were the imp: that rCD:;C; to his lip;:. she had simply replied that sheknew because she woman's nujuiswtn'fljK' reason. Mo. Y/inilYed luid not told l;er. They had never C *:eha:i:;cd ;; word upon the subject. No. Jir. CrcwsUr had nor spoken. if bythct m-iw nit-ant C i lore: or marriage for W inifred would have tol l her on the infant. L'ut half a dozen other people had nt questions il all Before I dug the wo* me claiming to 1 claimed to have tho [rift cf Ci: •.•overbid the location of a vein «f water liv means of a hazel wand or crotch. For two dollars ho would have s'.io-.vn mo whero the water could be easily reached, hut I lacked faith. Coining lroai New York, 1 was checkcd tip pretty high, and I claimed to know as much of metropolitan life as Dr. Parkhivr.-.t, also a good many other things: so 1 pooh poohed tho water witch and went my way. I lacked faith. nud three or ft all of wbVim xvi fro:.i t fort rlimg of tho filiouldors, Koixmhiiijj almost like a shudder, at sight of the pho(■ / l'iiph which lay uppermost, :«*:vbinct J l C (Hit1 Ill) Says It If the Only Dry I'lhce In the a w::t cr.mo to witch. Ik iterc I evexi I ml! State—A Gem That lit; [?eseriljes an a of ci cloths. I ft I TV the U1U41 dl;ill redt ii ait, l.iyrhly burirfslusi niid Imihhetl, ;:i c:.u Ix-i ant woman in ovcnpiyilreM-. Kittle Piwt'c or l.huiic CarHunele. COPYRIQHT. »0*2. BT J. O. UfPIMQOfr COM PAM", «N » ! pit x 11 :i "the ladies' .) ul ikhmi retiinii-cl vvlit sjie was t;oi.s|iic»iously ;; I » home, uiid oiD|xDrtun:!icM lor were not ufforcleil by li ents, There were girl: were Cpiiei; to see lost his heart: IwU A Patriotic Mayor. PUBLISH BP OY SPKCIAL ARRAMCCtACNT WITH THC* the eyi*s « Christ mast UCJil . Hr i till la that neighborhood everybody knew l:or by fright. lie himself h;ul recoived in vital ions i:i her hand to lunch CDr to dinner. lie knew tho writing « tho note that lay bes ide the album, iir„t page upiwrmoct. Ilo would have had 110 eyes at all h;ul he not seen the "Carroll, mon ICopyrijht, ISO* by Edgar W. Nye,] [CONTORTED, 111 IC n«i bevond I «lot iiir.i and all their dead ancestry :li them wipe tin* paleface from 1 — I n-koi-to w;is n fraud ofTTio From Golightly, !D. C.. ccnaos a little poetic opal or rhythmic carbnncle, entitled "A Morafvtl kjong." It would indicate that there is growing up in the Carolinas, as it were, a poistbellnin sort of reminiscence in song. and that here in the thought ganglia ami turpentine C-enters of the new r.onth. where erstwhile its diagnosis has almost had the field to itself, now there is coming forward a free, joyotis trill of ileiiant gladness which inarku the a:;:'and tells of its former environments i:i a:i untrainlaelrd way that I mus: ussy 1 like. IEiiu nno pianKea uown a tivc uottai bill as his share on the subscription list, did not Kuto Cnrriu.-thecldostchiM. tell how he had eoriie all by himself afterward and given her an envelope which he bade her hand to mother from a friend—an envelope which was found to bold a fifty dollar treasury note? .f el r and «oiriectnre ovC the ! first water • lain t the | - \-t I vl e 111 ru of t he reven ;ml don: i masquerading so:no;D «-f :i it odds «vi.th tiisouvi I:..i •sive Indians knew , . : Autmoti The whol Vi til I 1 «eiI del white ni!:i D.;e at Icm'.V ill diet I I garrieon could ,;ee ] \- ;i ! deej.lv ill lo' etitoTiel bad ,hed cv unil juvyr even ti» snC wIkj were /-ear C nC willi which it began. With a with her IjV'TV glanee, word, gesture the eijrl the entire rejri- •ouipan there t saviour, when i •oo In- iiiuteiit to dare allr.d ' tin id" «juote I II wei shiver of disgust he whirled oVer a page of tho album. as though lo cover and liido the beguiling face, Iho betraying word.-, and then Brewster came bound- act , told tlr.i story with uuoi'riag certainly. "Is there a day. is there a:i side, both, as it so happened, ioulnn straight at him. ■esent at 1 lie im ule for i lis in every villain intnre of the red ma tie j=n C "hanjcf t f»C' ixiii«* Mini Man D lor ihm* iii.t! hour, when it is possibh for l\im to seo her, speak with her, that he i ; not by her side?" Sirs. Berrien. "You must realize it, major, and vou mut t decide what should be done. She likes him well, that i know, lor she is ever ready to dance with him or rido with him, and I can nee how hereyes brighten and her color rises when his step or his voice is heard en t)i« vnv:-n,!a " Faith is necessary i:i the afT life as well as those of a fui Faith has Clonc uracil to advauco the cause of progress and hnn inent and progression advancement must bat: band. Faith lias douo lancli to advance progress and to give progression to advancement (sic.). of this Sporting characters in the regiment who sought to lDorro\v from Eflis met with cold, even curt. refusal.- Neither would hoever gamble or bet with them. Neit her did ho seem to (rare to go to tu\v:i at all when first the regiment moved i:ruD-thi« its most delightful station after years of service on the distant frontierthe order was issued permitting meritorious soldiers to weir civilian  when on pass. Then he was almost the first tu appear -on the tfc* bustling county seat ii a neat, Hucbti usive, but remarkably well cut and well fitting suit. and. far better pressed than most of the townspeople, Sergeant Hi lis became au occasional visitor, b ever heard of his patronising ; establishments.than the bank. the post and express offices and the bookstores. Captain HazliHt, calling at the postoffice one day, was surprised to find Ellis at a lock bo*. th» key of which he calmly plated in his waistcoat pocket and then as calmly raised his hat in sal ntation to his superior officer Doth were in civilian dress, both mj , tempor ary leave of a few hours only, both from the point of view of the tnrresjHindent of a very enterprising (taper, occupied at the moment the Social plane, and bis allusions to "the slavish deference demanded by the aristocratic commissioned force of their enlisted but far worthier men" gave rise to some dts cussion at the fort. One or two officers held that Ellis should have given the military salute and ue oth$r. hot tin mass of opiniou was in favor Cf Li! taiectiun ;md rev it tpptd f itidU3 in latum, anil tin- L'liust! .. iiC-r oill L»l"ev "Well, by Jove. they do make an almost ideal couple!"'l:e said to hittsaclf. Brewster fair, stalwart, straight ar.d soldierly, a picture of manliness and vigor. Winifred dark, yet with so rich a slow mantling the toft, creamy ckia. with f.r.ch glorious, deep browBrblaek eyes, so lovely and slender ;:uil graceful a form. Her shapely head reemod jus: on a level with liis broad shoulder, and something he had been saying to her i:i a low tone just as the others were greeting her father had cent the blood surging to her cheek. Berrien thought she had never s eemed so beautiful, even in his fond eyes. For the first time he btgan to realise it was a woman, not a child, who stood before.- him. No wonder Brewster loved her with his whole soul. Why. if ho didn't! Pshaw! what was he thinking of? •o state. nervic t ume- There was out ojjIv telnctsuitlj th iteii er uigist an over tbC» liroad t the skies wereaglow witli the res. The vault of the heavens D the sound of frenzied shriek and Dt-li and the furious beat of the nm. It is but a step from the ice to the scalp dance—from n worship to Indian war. A.year ii£yyerv valley of beautiful South Dr.iiota t ittle were browsing on the settlers plowing on the plains.women sewing ami singing under the new raised rooftrees, and gleeful chihlitu playing in the golden he;:ps- of Stow the plow stands idle in the ie;l fnirow: the eattle have gone, to mttke up. presumably, for the reser riiil;age: women's songs have changed to sobs, children's laughter hushed to terrified silence, as the settlers hter was i:t od.t old difference when hoili \vc:c iui and tbat was ItuiiV man the gallant esjxriailv lint ami swore' by. and lliat was Kofi Those facts. added to the cutncijem D that the captain had nevef I hot words ii.-c! tiy his m loug years . nu ■ most mifortuniita for. in love as was Carroll 1 On tbu particular striven to hurry in: court—to try thivC a '.in.«'i:t dm* to a ing back end iu. Rolfe'.s hand was still on tin? album aa lie turned to face him. Progress and illy go hand iu uvar.ee- warned him that it nor Ind There will- CM The eyes of tho two men met, and again Brewster flashed hotly, lie remeinloivd i h:vt only iu tho morning's mail had tlio largo packet arrived containing this nji-wked for and unexpected two of HllHKl.illtt to —not until 4pVV! hrtpj, tVnil th I tkev if anytl iinli.ii x *0 ' Faith in a physician h;u done much to. advance tfao cause ox inodiciriG. fur instance. A neighbor of mine hero, t hrough faith in his doctor, made thj discoTery that it was the capsule and not the contents which cured him. Ono day tho doctor had tho capsules with him but none of tho filling, ami *r,o he administered the capsule. It did the patient so much good that now he often r.2o3 KKild 1 njrn .rotten i ildition t.) hi s portrait galleky. He had "tint, confound it. Bess!*— which was inneli nearer madam s proper name— "he hasn't anything but hi; pay," Mrs. Berrien laughed suftlv." not Op: 1 it until after eorRt— had not liioro tluui jjlanco»l at the photograph Ovoii tucn, lioatitifnl as it was from an artistic point of view. Then that note, -  ] a ;.u , DlK II ,CA r| 7.1 :.\\ IMSjzv;, ;i 1 ■m/A -' / T\ & f- ' rri * the thing wa-n't uft «:tt!rtaini- s:j n #1; i ncli irf:!K There in the Dal ho J and that idiotic, semiscntimental beginning! Sbe had never called him Carroll, but in certain evasive,/insinuating, in—well, avc have uo word for it in r.ll the vocabulary of the United States—in a way he could not but see and could not find a way to object to, she had been lately verging i:i that direction. It was, "But, liit hard, dear, t-veu that detriment haa occasionally Iwen overlooked/' t'rOm Mr mil to e i "Oh. of course. Exactly. I know. Neither hail I. That in what you moan, suppose. But things were different Platte v.-,i the accused v guilty and "th mercy," etc.. ami t'.i t specious pica of givm cate time tu, write up But the preside: it of t other views and luld 1 knew that Randolph r. Ridgeway, perhap-, Disadvantage of tho to slip over to :i" morning hour witli the imagine that pretty parh tures and piano, its a . r and portieres, the r faces, tho animated chat, self, in her dark, rich l.C the piano, wi?h Itidgewa her, eager to turn tl;- 1 do anything th;:t might!. sido. Confound the f money and a handsome p stead. What business had ht it in the cavalry, with no end of of getting his head knocked off, when his doting mother was so eager to have him come home, marry. Kettle down and takaup the management of the prorwrty his father had left liini two years before? Poor "Curly!" he could only gas: wistfully out a«\Dss the dripping parade from his seat in the dark courtroom and watch tho glinting of the Creligh; on the Berriens' parlor v.in.lov.'. Tlx major loved a broad i'v.-placo and a hickory blaze, and here ho had them to his heart's content for the first time in full twenty years of army  How must that firelight enhance thC coziuess and comlurt of in! How must it be f! the dark masses of lier liutrou.i hair ; this very moment! Ilovt t»o une cvni ntiu then." capsule by itself with gratifying results. the j tbo bcatt '! 31 OBtrillll tered iCi oil t Last spring a man in iinmimibe county was taken sick with a sort of misery in his side and a rising i:i his head. The doctor w;is sent for and decided to take the temperature of the invalid; «o he wiped his thermometer on the l:neo of his trousers and put it under the tongue of the sick man. It remained there ten minutes. Those who hart given »Itemselves up to the gastronomic delights of a fifteen cent thermometer that hasbet-h through a long hospital prae.tice will agree that it gives one the gay look of a mail who has just swallowed a soft shell ostrich egg or a wet umbrella. iog, the soldiery were e« 1 far in ini \ tioi "Granted again, Dick—very different, so much so that were things as tbev used to be I would be utterly opposed to her marrying in tbe arav!" T/ard thos thousands .• swart nm;j a:; of truculent v :nal had "How are you, Brewr.ter, lad? Glad you're here so early. Your troon n:»k' lay eyes dance this afternoon." Ob, .surrender ignominious! So ended bieffurt to be repellent. How could be be with Winifred's soft eyes looking at hiui so wistfully, so fondly? .c* | r.ffk the i '\, tflare in t fiuge of the towns Now red iu .sky at night, and the new se lights the way of many a ge'warrior. bound with arms ami ponies to swell the hostile ranks in the mazes of the Bad Lands "(Jod only knows liow soon it ma) come." read Far((tihnr. but a week lDe fore, "but 1 think you would lDetter be with your command." Farqnlvar relinquished his shooting ttip and at once got him homo. He could not bear to toil his people, in the happiest garrison the regiment had ever kuown. that perhaps it might be as well to drop tbe plans for the cavalry ball and the Christmas theatricals, the cherished projects for the coming holidays. He hated to have any one ask him if he thought there were not just a chance— just a chance—of their being ordered up there. But evt;n before he left he raid Berrien had been talking the matter over The idea was to uhv-'-ys have tiio regiment ready for anything, ami i» did seem aa though with all the sum mer and fall «jarehing and Awaiting and maneuvering rh the field they were, as the Englishirien would say. "pretty lit." Fit. certainly, for any amount of scout ing or lighting on the southern plains and yet utterly unprepared for the rigorsof a Dakota winter Any colonel who, serving in Arizona or in the Indian Territory, wis to apply for canvas overcoats, blanket lined, for fur ca|w gloves, boots, leggings, etc. intended only for service In the high latitudes wthild have Ueen laughed at. il imDI mnblied F.lnjuhar decided H l**st uirt to let any of the women worry m possibility. No use borrowing trouble ho said. Long years had the mrimeiil served in that wintry land. Fierce and incessant had been its campaigns against the Indians. IDire had lieen its suffer ings and losses. Only recently -onl\ within the year—bad they reached this paradise, with its hazy laudsca|MD its lovely, peaceful homes, its kindliness Jvnd greetingj'et warm in remembrance tbe edge of its cheer still new and nn "Nov.*, Mr. Carroll Brewster," or "my good friend Carroll," or "Sir Carroll," or in some way Carroll; but bore was an out and out Carroll, the tirst of the kind. A mouth before he not haw i]inched; now he shrank from the mere idea of familiarity of the faintest It Dakota li :i wo; a:m " •' V • This being just exactly the view the major bad not taken, ho could only stare at her in astonishment. xion s fov every i: papjxioMJ they ]x woman ranch I L.-:i to the render that paternalism punt ui the land—that v Ji» tH "Bess, what on earth uo you mean "Just what i. say, Richard. 1 like what 1 ve eecn of Mr. Brewster very much, and 1 don't wtfnder Winnie fancies him. Ho ia a gentleman; he is a fine soldier: he has a good record: lie is well connected: hi j family is one of the best that you or 1 know; be has everything in point of fact to recommend hiin that you had. my liege, and he has none of your bad habits. Yon need to drink and smoke and play poker, and. Richard, sometimes you used to swear." cieties and Indian rights asatx: And it was good to see Brewster's ap pronation of the veteran's allusion to hi:- troop. Gorham, the captain, had been away on leave for some weeks, during which time the lieutenant had had command, and, soldier that he was. had dorse his utmost to improve the drill and efficiency of his men. It was about tlie only troop that, did not come in for a rasping of some kind at the bands of the colonel that afternoon, and 1 icing ia Berrien's battalion reflected credit of course upon the major. Brewster's eyes had kindled and'lie had lowered his salDer in glad acknowledgment of the brie I words of commendation that fell frein Farquhar's lips as he completed his rigid inspection jDf the equipment of the glossy blacks, nrd the major had supplemented the words by a noil and a glance that spoke volumes. But while all tl:i; i was a joy to his soul, it was as nnfhii:;; as compared with Iwing praised by her father in her hearing. At that precise moment Carroll Brewster stood the Happiest man within the limits of a crowded county. PICKED OX r.Y AS AKTIST. ami prayerful congregation* away at tliO'Atlautic seaboard are tho ptcm with diatribes upon the wrongs of Ilia red man and the criminal neglect of the nation, and declaring that fie luid been striving to cut loose from her i:i every jtossibk) way, but hers vva.j n friendship that "clang closer than a brother," and just a?, snro as shooting Rolfe must have Been that infernal jDioture, those misleading words. Brewster read it in llolfe'rt calm brown eyes, but he would not discuss matters with liiui, much less stoon to explain, kind This is the rondeau a ; it conic . to nit*, dated Goliglitly, !5. C., .1 unp cf t!r present year, and signed Polk Runiiom: A so:; ;. IjsI summer when fitDv.cr:C md fruit wens rt-u At the end of ibattiUlienor my mioiu was de;ul Alas! we laid him on u iau&sy bed Strn's inhumanity lCD IaD After the doctor had gone tlio wife said; • countless Induinttmnurn, in this last "century of dishonor" Undo Sam has -tlisWrsed millions npon mil■i iu the desperately hopeless task of aborijiinal fitotnach. and in striving byiiuansof houesjTcenstts to re■dnou the number Crf the "countless" so pathetically referred to. Indians would ■make splendid ward politicians, and how it is that the Faclieuis of Tammany have not lon£ since iDosses.sed themselves of s4D available a means of swellijig their ranks i«wseth all understandi D him ; To sleep fore vi "Agamemnon, what was that there thing he give you when lie first come in?" J!iit the wan;of Mirrow btill roles lii;*h Jle leftchildren on this v.orl.l to livo You wish to sec me, captuin. Will And in the wiroiv of life to dy "That," s*y3 Agamemnon, "was clectricity, and I never got relief so quick since 1 was bore." uniet yon. tako n seatT "Weil, everybody did in those days." "Exactly, and hardly anybody does today, except perhaps one hear* a little odd language when the wind is blowing from the; drill ground. But in other respects things are indeed different. You and your cronies sometimes talk about how slow aud bow indifferent young officers are now as compared with what they were twenty years ago. Dick, if the army were today what it was wkca I married you I would whisk Winnie out of this garrison and never let her venture inside another. But it isn't. [11 every possible way that a woman and a mother can see, it is vastly letter, and you know it. I can conceive of worse fates for our daughter than that she should man y finch a man as Mr. Brewster and into such a society as we Ivave here today. You art- eagerly looking forward to your promotion. Do yon think being lieutenant colonel will compensate you for leaving such comrades and friends as you have in the Twelfths" And meet him. The American no:ig writer has hereto fore lDccn too graphic prhaps. lit should merely touch a note here and there, leaving the reader to liil in or, improvise tho connecting interlude. The lDoet should say to his reader: "Let tv wander ou toward tbfl ber.r.tifnl west We will meet at a certain point anil yon can go your own vv:vy through-the meadows, and there at ties e:id of tlie stanza we will join each oilier and com pare woodticks." action; being entirely in civilian dress himself, the civilian custom should pre- D. What I Juivo to ask need occupy nut little lime, and the call will sound in a moment or two. I am going to ark you a question, ami as man to man 1 want you to answer it." He paused, though awaiting submissive reply. Faith ina physician also brought about tho use of turpentine internally. The doctor erred in his order and wrote fur it to be used internally instead of externally. Faith of this kind has been the father of many important discoveries. "Well, damn it," said Mr. Randolph "that consists out here in shoving one's hands deeper into potkets, tilting the cigar higher in the mouth and giving just half a nod." It was tltiafTy m:- ceded, however, that in courteously raising his hat Sergeant Elliahad4C D110 al*.ut-. the right thing, and that in as paiiHi* ously raising his own in recognition th? captain had fittingly and scrupulously acknowledged the courtesy, thu sneer* and lashings of the Spasm City Chimes to the contrary notwithstanding. Still no one supposed'that Ellis, was going to re-enlist when liis time expired. They had already lDegun casting about for somebody else to.placu in churigj of the firehoiise. But skjitj thij papers with ready hand,.a#ceil iVfr  got a month's furlough, »-i9j to leave the department, and was bad; in two weeks ready to resume duty, hi? dark face a trifle iwler. his hrary heard "Ami the question!" asked Brewster, finally and unyielding. I knew a doctor very -will who was also digging a well, even as 1 have been this summer, until it gotto running in his mind. Night or day he could think of nothing else. When at leisure he was all the time looking down the road watching for a messenger who way ex- . JTPT--H- -f ■1lIriT1rTi-T-| -TiTT W-l-TMfif itf1" V.J'Tir-«2 8S '*1 the Indian had bad himself, sovcral wvesiUid his blooming olive branches **oksbee&h. vri cinch if." beys and such papjDooses as his letter halves had at the bavk (either of home production cr borrowed for the moment from the Vpce of Two-Drieks-in-his-Jhit). duly enumerated, would he not-swell the census of his tribe by judicious- distribution of all his wives'relations among those tepees not already off? Oh. if the truth could ever reach the ears of tpe general public what biles of Indian tagacoy might not yet lie in store for tiicm!] Wjiat annals might iait be rui- Tolded! llealirtg with his own. liis white children, who are lion voters. l/ncle Sun; ftervea out one ratiou a day to each en Jilted -soldier. "1 wjis in hopes you would assure ine of gi readiness to answer. Whatsoever have been the differences between ns in the past,, you can never accuse nie of having pried into your affairs, nnd the question I wish to ask is one of deep importance to myself, and its answer cannot. I believe, unpleasantly involve you.'' And still Drewster stood silent, the blue eye* looking straight into the brown. "1 will not prolong matters unnecessarily. What 1 desire to know, Mr. Brewster, id this: Have you or have yon not some knowledge of the past history ol Sergeant Ellis?" girl: Poetry, like music, should inspire those who are capable of receiving i:: spiration. but ft should not ho too graphic, lika tins report-of the United States coast survey. Nov/ wo have her - a soug which is brought to an abrupt conclusion, leaving th!D reader to easily supply the last words himself and com plete the stanza as follows: 'I /D / f le witl And now at ten o'clock the  was well tilled. A number of pleasant people had driven out from town. All the garrison girls were there, most of the eiders among the mammas, all the juuiors anion™ the matrons, and the dance went merrily on. Delightful music the orchestra of the Twelfth was ever ready to play, and this night tin ir loader seemed inspired. The affair \vs:i Urn cO „ r'4 (0*1 ... IMmt your wits wool gather in now Cio yon vou Brewster? He pulled himself together as lu st hi could, but tbiftt van And in the to row of life to dy He left live (.'D) children on tills world to live morning oi' tor And meet Uim. merit '•pjurilon ine, Captain Rolfe, bat I do not sen how that can concern you in the Oil, J'l-K, We'll meet him. We'll meet him When the sun tfoea flown. Mr. Ransom eonld write a good campaign sons 'f would turn his attention to it. Campaign songs are more cheery than the moan we give above. Here, where we regard clay as victuals, it is not pleasant to think of Polk's nncle turning to kindrpd clay and becoming edible at his time of life. AnCl now t«» think that, after all, be could have 110 moment at her side thiday! To tliink that Farqnbnr r.hould have ordered them out for hours of yot tering around at Kul'lleb..',-: .  side liuoj, lariats, picket pins awl ai. that scrt of track! It v.tu simply bar barous. He curbed his tongue .Li well as he knew how, for plainly he saw that his-chtims were mischievously  over him, but any one who knew Brewster could see laa wrath an 1 discomfiture. The announcement w;n mnli just before luncheon van over. The ad jutanteaine bolting in with theoVde, and shutting his ears to t'ie eliom "I'm hoping to exchange." becomingly trimmed, just threo days after Nita Uuthrie's arrival, just three days before she was to Lave gone hpiltie. Rolfe turned from the sentry anC! gazed away «astwurd. How many a N long mile down that beautiful vallev were the lights of the rushing train lD;• this time, and what meant ttils light so close at hand, shining faintly bnt clearly through the slowly plashing rain'? After one, and the sergeant still hp anu reading? No. it burned too dimly for a student lamp; neither was it iu the ser geant'a room. Following his thoughts. Rolfe, wrapped in his mackintosh, moved slowly out to the eastern edge of the bold bluff, passing the tire house on his way. A breast-high wall of rough stone ran diagonally over toward what was left of the old blockliousc, once perched on the brow of tbe cliff, and. as tbe captain reached the point of the bluff, he became aware of a dim figure standing silent and motionless between him and the southern face of the antiquated work. Another man whose thoughts were following the eastward windings of that misty valley, was it not? Another keeping sleepless vigil? "Who's that?" in low tone, he suddenly hailed. A start, a quick turn, then prompt advance and answer: "Sergeant Ellis, sir." ' " The deep collar of his overcoat was turned up about his ears, bo.that the face was well nigh bidden, but the voice was calm and firm. "You keep late hours, sergeant." "Not without warrant, captain." "Your warrant might suffer, sir, if the colonel knew you had lights ut two o'clock." "It is by his authority, sir, that one lantern burns all night: that is the one the captain sees."  "I nave stated substantially that it CliCl,*' was the quiot reply, after a moment's thought. "It coiiconiij ine verj doeply. 1 need ti» know something ol his antecedents. I have reason to ask. ami I repeat my question." least." "You can't, Dick. Nobody will transfer with you who once gets into the Twelfth. And now as to Winifred. You always liked Mr. Brewster. You rather preferred him until lately. What has changed your view?' entirely informal. No written mvita tions had been sent out. Officers were all in undress uniform, but. with few exceptions, all wero there, and the broad stripes of scarlet or yellow or white were to be seen everywhere throughout the room. Mrs. Berrien, a smile of motherly prido in her handsome dark eyes, was chatting pleasantly with the wifo of a local magnate, who could not say enough about Winifred's grace and beauty, and the gaze of hot a women seemed to follow the child as she appeared literally to float over the smoothly polished floor, just lightly- borne on Brewster's stalwart arm. It was one of the oldest and sweetest of the Strauss waltzes that was lDeing played at the moment, "Ojschichten aus dem Wienerwald," and slowly reversing and turning, with 113 eyes of more than half the spectators and wall flowers upon them, Brewster and Winifred were now gliding across the upper end of the hall within a few feet of the smiling row of lookers on, almost within touch of the mother's hand. His face wore a look no woman could for an instant mistake. His eyes, full of passionate tenderness, were fixed at the instant upon her lovely face. His lips were moving. Something was being said. The wife and the lads and hisses that 111111 bled about the married men's quarten in the queer old days wre aii to bo ltd from that one ration, unless, jter- mannna was a laundress. Dal when dealing with the ;iud injured red man he could not lie too magnanimous. BVe y head counted. Tho mumbling old lDeldam. great grandmother of "countless thousands,** braced tp from the edge of the grave for tho x-casion. The big bellied, little fouryear-olds, revding in the dirt about the reeking shambles, the tiuy hour-old japoose, even many a puppy, blanket 'swathed and elnng squaw buck, passing for a wee baby, anything he conld show as possessing a spark of Indian life was duly credited to the warrior lord of the lodge for another ration.- a full on* Cattle might and did shrink, but to the Indian there is more moat in a lean cow than in tho stall fed ox to the white, for the reason that "everything goes.' Horns and hoofs are the only things the Indian doesn't cat. There was a painful ]ause. Then Brewster spoke firmly: "Nothing, except—why—why. Eess, you must have pu n or heard, lor one tiling, this affair with lbs worn. And tnen rvenyon cam? nacK from leave, a burly Major of foot who had been visiting at his old home m Chicago and Was reported to lDe wearing the wil low for ajrirl who had but just married a mere junior first lieutenant m the Eleventh, their predecessors along 1 lii.- line. It mitfit be that was cros3 and • crabbed. The youngsters called him "grnmbly" at first acquaint ance. It might lie that he was so tnp|ied and nnhappy himself he could not U-ai to see the bliss and content ou every face about him. He and Rolfe were con genial spirits, said the lioys. for "UDth CDt them got left." lint Kenyon close mouthed as he was at times, had watched things a day or two and then had given Farquhar a "pointer." Iltt had heard something, he said, at division head quarters. Hence the order for "turn out everybody, field bits and fifty "Captain Kolfe, it is a question I re fuse to answer." know." , you Let Polk turn in and write a campaign song. Let it lie a reversible song that can be used by either party. Any man who Can paint such a word picture of his uncle's (loathcould build a campaign song that would easily ho heard above the noise of the workmen engaged in nailing the campaign lie. "As utterly one sided an affair its ever was known," said Mrs. Berrien stoutly. "I believe I cau see clear through it. 1 despise the woman. She has always made a dead set at some one of the officers stationed here, I Em told. She was just as absurd about Mr. Martin, of the Eleventh—every body says so in town —and she picked out Brewrter because he was the handsomest of the now lot when our regiment came in. Ask any one you choose, and I think my view will hold good. Ask Cfiptain Solfo what he thinks, and he and Mr. Brewster are aot on friendlv terms." .. THE WATER WITCH. pected tj tell him that the vein had been struck and the old well was squirting a column of water eighty feet high. All the money he earned by his practice he pat into blasting powder and fuse. Now and then he set a leg or trepanned tho head of his head well digger, but most generally he had to pay cash for all tho work he had done. Finally ho got to prescribing in a wandering sort of way, and seemed to ramble mentaHy while practicing. Tho well sort of warped his mind, till ono day he tried to remove a stony bruise by administering a small dynamite cartridge. Faith in the physician induced the lad to take the dynamite, and Hie stone bruise was removed. It- and the lad were buried in the same grave. They were planted by means of a corn planter in hills four feet apart. CHAPTER IV. as of expletives. "Wh:tt time did you Kay hoots and sad (Ilea, would sound?"' fiercely doraandi d Randolph. But let us puss on to speak of more agreeable subjects. Those who are interested in the subject of wells will 1* glad to know that workmen oa this well known structure of mine struik water on the evening of the Ktii inst., and went compelled to get out with great haste tc avoid lieing drowned. Two foot and teL inches of water were reported by my well superintendent, who tapped me fen another assessment and went home U. obtain much needed rest. thought tlia: two feet would hardly bo sufficient foi our family, several members of which use water exclusively as a tonic, so ) go] another man to put in a final blast. •'In a quarter of an hour; no you've no time to waste say ill'; swear words C r asking damn tool qnemtion you, Curly, you're for ;juarDl tomorrow And its {■ i Brewster finished his cnj» of tea in ;n undignified gnlp, quitting the tav,; the room in three strides. There w.i. just time to scurry over to 1) rrien': and wo lier for five minutes be t ore he had to jump back to his quarter.* anCD into ruling boots, etc. Any nretext would answer—the danco tonight, foj instance. ie ant "I liavo asked Itolfe: 1 arked him only this evening," replied Bt-rrien. taming redder, ''and he Legged to be cxcused from expressing an opinion." Agents might anil did cheat and steal, bnt so did the Indian, and many a rejoicing old sinner lias been credited With u family C,f twelve when his sole available domestic assets consisted of two squaws and three children, the papoose? having lDeen borrows! or personated by bnudled np doggies, the grandmother being public property passed around for -the occasion: the others, pickaninnies painted so as to look*entirely unlike the grinning urchins counted jn the Hock of brother Stab-in-the-Dark. whose people had just lDeeu enumerated. There were agents who lent thetnuelves to that sort of thing because the more Indians they conhl show as their especial wards, the more I Kir re Is and boxes aud Italea were invoiced to that agency and deftly "raked ofF' en route. There was a time when the man who wouldn't make hay when such -a sun shone was looked upon as an unprofitable servant who couldn't contribute to campaign funds. "What the devil do you suppose wo had yon made agent 'way up at Gallatin forT viced an irate political "boss" of a deposed and crestfallen Into incumbent •who came home superseded. "Why?" "Well, he wouldn't say, but he had seen something or other that we hadn't, and he doesn't like Brewster. I oan't have a man making lovo to Winnie on« minute ur.d ttiat Katsomined creaturo the next. I wish there v.-cro no dance tonight I want to see Ilolfo again. Who takes her?" rounds." The maddest man at mess at one-thir ty was Mr. Carroll Brewster—"Curly B" his comrades called him in the viwrs gone dv. when he nad much kink to the blond hair of his handsome head, und not a vestige thereof to the down on his lip. Now, as first lieutenant of the "Black Troop," with a mustache all bristle and curl, and with a jwite where on the curls were cropped to regulation lines, he was a very different sort of fel low. All the morning long he had sat on a garrison court, where as -swing member" he hid not enough to do to keep him from brooding over his woes lie had counted on spending the hours from two until stables basking in the light of those wonderful, deep, dark eyes of Hiss Winifred Berrien Some what ]Detted and spoiled in his earliei yearsof service, Brewster had had much of the nonsense knocked out of him in the harsh experiences of seven years in the saddle with a regiment renowned foi its touch-and-go sort of work He had steadied greatly in those years, part of the process being due to his own latent good sense, and not a kittle thereof to incessant striving on the range to win high honors as a sharpshooter, and to day then: was not a finer looking soldier wearing the broad yellow stripes in the Twelfth than this same ex-dandy "Cur Iv Brewster " lucre sun lingered alxait him a cer tain repute for self consciousness, u not for actual conceit, bnt he had grown to lDe thoroughly resjiected hi the regi ment and was vastly |HDpuhtr with Hitmen. He was ever ready to umpire their matches at baseball, coach then shooting. lend his own fishing tackle or shotguns to longing sportsmen 111 the ranks who had none of their own and he had won the lastiug gratitude of C troop, two of whose men were being mobbed by a gang of toughs one windy night in Sheridan City jnst as Curly came trotting t*»ck en route to the jK»st. "He was off hi» horse and into that crowd qnicker than winking," said Murphy, "and the way he laid over that gang with them white fists of his just made my sides crack with delight." He had more sense than they gave hint credit for, said the sen iors of the regiment after a while, and barring an early exjierience, a cadet love affair that he was long ago well over, toad never let himself go againnever until the Twelfth came to settle in this happy valley and Winifred Ber rieu returned from her eastern school Then he went all of a sudden. Only one man did not see it: that was Berrien Only one woman couldn't forgive his devotion, and she had no business inter i fering. being herself otherwise ill* posed of To his credit be it said, Brewster and the lady's husband were aliont the onlj men who up; eared unaware of this au tnmnal lui.itnatmn Nevertheless, m those numberless ways in which women can claim and secure the ap|Dearance. at least, of attention from men. the duuie "bi-et my neiu rig reauy at ouce am bring my horse up hero in ten minutes.' Is "There is ono couplo at least that is utterly lost to the rest of the world," said Mrs. Vance, for of a sudden the lovely upturned faco was bowed almost upon his arm, and the deep, dark eyes were veiled, and tho soft flush seemed to leap through tho creamy skin to her very temples. This blast was ill advised, as it cracke«' open the bottom of the well and let ou the two feet and ten inches of watet which had Ihjou put i:i there on the nigh of the 7th inst. It is low enough to sal; a gold mine, but the man who will carry water from the "branch" all night to salt the well of a kind hearted norther.: invalid who is willing to let bygones lDe bygones and read}-to lot the dead past do its own undertaking is not going to encourage cobwebs on the mouths of your cannon the way 1 feel like doing. ho called to his servant, slashed at lii. natty uniform with a whisk broom and bounded out of the door, only to, en counter the man of all others he least cared to sec coming in. "And iivu\ Otrrnil, will you Uihc me to the earriatjcT" That night, despite the long hours in t'.ie saddle, the young officers had bidden their lady friends to an informal dance in the hoproom. It was just a week after Nita Guthrie's adventure, and already, except in the thoughts of two or three men, that strange affair was a thing of tbo past. People had settled down to an acceptance of her own explanation of the cause, not that it was entirely satisfactory, but because uo other seemed plausible. Just why a girl should have been rendered nervous and upset because she had had a proposal. Mrs. Vance of course could not understand—"esjiecially," said she, "a girl who was reputed to have had so many offers." It was laughingly remarked by various military benedicts that since the moment when Miss Guthrie's scream of terror had appalled the garrison the dames and damsels of their several households had shown an unwonted degree of timidity in visiting about the post after nightfall, and that much more than the traditional amount of liuutiug behind curtains and under bedsteads was now going on. P. S —The following proclamation tomes from a friend in Louisiana, and Hows that patriotism and love of coun- "Mr. Brewster, of course. lie aslrcd her'two days ago, when tho affair was first projected. lie i.s in the parlor now, but so are all the others." "Were you just going, L'iewstcv' There is si matter I want very much tC ask you about, and I thought .histl time to catch you without fail try both have a strong hold op the mayor of Waveland, or else that he has some lots for sale there at a merely nominal figure. Tin "Oh, has that fellow Ilidgeway no sense whatever?" she continued, with all a woman's horror of an interrupted love scene, for at the instant Ilidgeway had darted forth, V.'atch in hand, with a triumphant shout: "Time! My half!" And without a word, with ono ewif upward glance into Brewster's longinj eyes—a glance fair^- brimming ovc with meaning—Winifred rele;tsed herself from the half cneircling arm and placed her hand on Ridgeway's sleeve. Another moment and 'she was beiu/ whirled away under the guidance of a verv different partner. voice was that of Captain Rolfe. The major stepped over to the window and bewail thrnmming with his pudgy fingers upon the pane. All the joviality and gladness seemed gone from Lis face. The lights were already beginning to twinkle in the quarters across the jiartide, and darkness, "wafted dowuward like a feather," was shutting out the long lino of shadowy bluffs beyond the stream. Down stairs he could hear the sovfnd of joyous chatter, the deep voices of the men mingling with the rippling, silvery laughter he knew and loved so well. IIow happy the child seemed! How she loved the regiment and gloried in his profession 1 How proud she was at school of the photographs he had from time to time sent of his brother officers, and how the other girls, her letters declared, envied her because she was a soldier's daughter and had lived on the wild frontier. He could hear the sound of other girlish voices, too, Winifred's friends from town, but he found that his ear listened only for hers. How blithe and musical and full of hope and gladue&s it seemed. How lovely she looked as she came down dressed for dinner just as he returned from that odd, constrained talk yvith Rolfe. Poor Rolfe! he was given over to the blue devils now, sure enough. He and Kenyon and "Pills," the doctor, formed a triumvirate of sympathetic spuls, for since tJeimie and "the kids" had gono Rolden's life seemed to have fallen into the sear and yellow leaf. "I am just going onv, captain, and I'm hurried, but if you will step in I'll Ik: back in ten minutes." Everybody, visitors especially, are or is, as the »ase may bo, requested of providing theirself or ilself with suitablo rubbish and fireworks, as well as also to bring their or its dinner, as our people are anxious of celebrating this Fourth of July as grander than ever before: Rolfe paused, baffled.. "Then 1 believe 1 will light a cigar nt jrour lantern," he finally said! and, turning, he moved away toward the low wooden building behind him. JEllis promptly followed, then sprang ahead and opened the door for his superior's entrance. "Well-1, ordinarily, I would not detain you, and-d. pardon me, if you were going to Major Berrien's, they are nli at luncheon. I have just left there." I did not murmur when I found that In charging two dollars per foot the well digger meant two dollars per foot down and two dollars up, or two dollars for digging and two for stowing. Also 1 paid for hands, materials, damages, medicine, etc. 1 never said anything unless it was that 1 did not hold myself responsible as late as this for the" damage that General Sherman did in the heat of passion, while 1 was too young to be held responsible, and that a little deal over a well, 1 thought, was a IDoor place to work in the entire expenses of a war. Rrewster flushed in spite of his effort at control. His first impulse was to say he was going over anyhow, if only to leave word, but, since he could not hope to see her, what was the use? It chafed him, however, to note that Rolfe, in that calmly superior way of his. was pressing on into the hall, as much as to say, "It is my will that yon give up what you have in view and attend ;:t once to my behest," just as though Brewster were still his second lieutenant, instead of First Lieutecant Brewster, commanding the "Black Horse" troop. It must be confessed that there was about Iiolfe an intangible something that ever seemed to give that impression to the juniors. It was one of the things that set their teeth on edge, as they expressed it, and set them against him. Feeling as he did toward tlio captain and exasperated at the way in which events seemed conspirinir ntrainst him. Brewster threw own U1M UOUl. To tho Citizens and Visitors of file Town of Waveland; As our people ft re anxious of celebrating this Fourth of July as grander than ever before, you are requested to display Hags front your wharfs and premises, and not absent yourself from the grand regatta under the penalty of depriving yourself and family of tho grand panorama of magnificent racing yachtsT "Let me offer the captain • a match; that is an oil lantern." And striking n lucifer on the strip of t?anduaper he i held it forth. Rolfe missed the flame with the end of his weed. Light canto to him, but not to his cigar. Muffled , though liia face remained in th- deptii3 of that c'avalry collar, Serjeant ClliV lips aud ehin were visible through the opening in the front and in the glare of the little match. " W hy, it was you and our congressman who exposed the stealings of my prodocessor and had him fired. 1 supposed you wouldn't stand that sort of thing. 1 supposed 3 ou wanted mo to be perfectly honest." • Day and Niglit. "Charles Wyndhatn once called at the greenroom, and on tillering sauk languidly into its famors Gar rick chair. Desiring to be genial, Secretary LeClerq blandly remarked: Kace will start from head of Nicholson avc at 12 o'clock. Have ready on your beach piles of rubbish to start bonfires. Provide yourself with suitable fireworks, and bo ready for the general display to be started at 8 o'clock, at a si .Trial given by the mayor at head of Nicholson ave. by tho ascension of a balloon, which wiFl discharge fireworks in the air as it ascends. Even when 1 found that the well al tho depth of 1W) feet h.-.d tapered so fast that it was merely a little feverish iDomt in the thirsty bowels of the earth I did not murmur. Even when 1 fonnd that i had 11,000 yards of earth' piled up at the mouth of the well on top of my strawberry bed 1 did not speak bitterly or refer with acrimony to the wooden cannon which were so placed as to keep JdcClellan falling back to the Arlington hotel in Washington every evening for weeks. 1 did nut rake up old personalities even when I went down once to see the well and the hands at tho windlass went to Ashevillo to sjtend a gala week, leaving me to enjoy tho glorious scenery known as the Land of the Sky. But I say that we should not c\peec to wreak the vengeance of a c-atury upon or collect tho consequential -damages of four years of hard fought and calamitous war from a peaceable ma* who lias been already "picked on" by tho so called artists of tho Uniled States till he does not daro to unveil himself in public till after twilight. "Of course we did; but, damn it, yon don't seem to understand; ho was paying to the other party." "Ah, Mr. Wyndhnm, yon fir" -;rowiig more and more like Mr. Gankk every dav of your life." "When did you shave off your bear*!, 1 should hardly bavo kftow.n yon." The lips trembled, bnt tf!e dnrh ryes, the deep voice, were stwwlj- * "Last evening, sir." Berrien was especially jocular, and more than ever disjiosed to tell his rronies in her presence that Berengarin iad said this or Berengaria had done I lat, the this or that being something more than usually absurd or improbable. But in the conversations held of late in tho sanctity of Berengaria's boudoir the major had been anything but jocular. There was one incident of that evening that had caused him deep perplexity, lie had never for a moment forgotten his wife's allusions to Winifred—Winifred, the ap)Dle of his eye. Tho possibility of her having lost her young heart to, or even having come to feel more than passing interest in, Carroll Brew- Bnt railways ard telegraphs have brought all this, or much of it. within Do this then to amuse our people and for many years to receive thanks ami praise. "Yes," instantly retorted a fellow actor sitting near, "and less and leas like him every night!"—Argonaut. Given under my hand and seal this Slith day of Jut*e, A. 1). 1802. changed, except perhaps human nati range, 1 to F Tl:i have A. A. tjT«MAW, Mayor. This proclamation v minds mo of a textbook which 1 once studied, entitled "Portuguese Without a Master." white or Indian. There Iiuk b»Deu failure to provide for carrying Cr,it the earnest recommendations of the LC\-t friend Ch Indian lias known for year whoso worn was his bond, whom they feared in war f,nd loved and trastcd in peace. There lias been shrinkage both in the cattle and tho count. No matter how much beef might Bhrivcl on the hoof in the old days, the Sioux, if he were at all sharp, got more than was his share, and most of the Sioux were as sharp ;.s their knives. Other tribes might have starved and suffered, but not they. With tho new order of things came full stomachs for hosts of other altorigines, but fault finding-for these Dakotas. No mom "tej«De counts:" on the contrary heads of fjonilies paraded their entire force, and while enumerators with book and pencil went along tlie front of the line. Uncle Sam's blue* oats on the border keenly watched the rear and put sudden stop to all sham and swapping Now the shrinkage came to in- privation, and, turning in appeal to the general who headed the great commissi!Dn and wod their faith, appealing to (Jrook for the remedies congress had utterly failed to provide, their hearts were bowed \\ itli the tidings that the Great Spirit had summoned the "Cray Fox" to happiet hunting grouuda. J 11st the IMace. CHAPTER ILL "Bridget," said tho head of the house, arrayed in evening dress, "I am unexpectedly called out for the evening, and 1 want you to see that your mistress gets this note us soon as she comes in, without fail." Here is an anecdote which I found in the book, and translated on a day while herding stock near Dirty Woman's Ranch, Wy., one of the most romantic spots west cf Skowhegan: the man "Walk in, as I said, captain. Make yourself at home. I wish to go into Haddock's u moment, and will be right back." It wasn't that he had anything to say to Haddock, but Haddock bail succeeded him as second lieutenant of Rolfe's troop, apd was ;io fonder of bis stern, self willed commander than Curly himself had been. It was simply that he would not yield a moral victor} to Rolfe, and that in naming Haddock he knew he gave at least a ; return for tho annoyance afforded him by tin captain's untimely cull. "vJi "Yis, sorr," responded Bridget, "FN lave it in the pocket of the trousers ye've just taken off; then she'll be sure to foind it."—London Tit-Bits. A physician eighty year- of a.~c had enjoyed of a health unalterable. Their friendauid him of It compliments every day. "Mr. Doctor," they said to him, "you are admiraUo man. What yon make then for to bear as well?" "I will teli you it, gentlemen," he was afiswored them, "and I exhort you tn san'.o time al to follow my example. I live of the product of unordering without tako any remedy who 1 command to my sicks." Kenyon, as in duty bound, was mat ing tho circuit of the garrison returning calls just now, but Rolfe went nowhere except the doctor's. There he could be found almost every evening, for ever since Nita Guthrie's visit the walls of the old house seemed charmed to him. "Begad,"' said the major. "I'll slip over there tonight myself, while the rest of the folks are dancing. I want to see what it is he is holding back." : \ was something that troubled him f .. more than ho cared to admit. Like many another father he had gone on laneyiii" his daughter only a childone to ''.urn the idea wf falling in love In laying down rules for the young one has to be very careful or they will be taken too literally. A case of this kind occurred recently with a result that put the parent decidedly out of countenance.Followed Instructions. I sent this work to a friend of mine who was just appointed -us minister to Portugal.. He-wrote thanking me, and saying that he would commit this anecdote in Portuguese to. memory. as they were going to give him a lr#ge boiled dinner on his arrival. It was two weeks before I heard from Portugal, and then I managed to make out by a Lisbon paper that he was dead. B. N. ~ would not present itself for years to come, and then only on parental intimation tiiat it was expected of her. Personally and officially he had nothing against Brewster. lie liked him quite ay well as he did any of the junior officers. and he liked most of them very much indeed. It was as soldierly, manly a lot of young fellows as one could ask to see, but in the close comradeship and intimacy of frontier life men get t( know one another so thoroughly and st well that the foibles, weaknesses and waywardness of the animal are apt to lu' far more prominently mentioned in garrison chat than his sterling or lovable traits. Some men. it tnny be said, have to die before their virtues can be in the least appreciated. I do not come before the public asking for 300 Piukerton men to protect me at the cost of their lives. My grounds art freo to those who wish to come and gambol on them, and no armed force will bo invoked to keep the peace on my plantation. 1 only ask that no one will refer to this well until I am more calm. Giving no sign whatever as Brewst r sprang away down tho steps the captain passed on into thb plainly fnrnisbed sitting room. Already McCnnn was busy hauling out the lieutenant's field boo Us. breeches anil overcoat, whisking off the dust and indulging in Milesian comment as he did so. At sight of Rolfe he abruptly ceitsed, bustled forward and offered the captain a chair, and a moment later bolted across t'ae hall to perform similar services in overhauling and dusting Mr. Randolph's possessions. "Johnnie," said his mother, "what did you mean by making me call you over and over again, when you heard me the, first time?" For the life of him lie could not be repliant in manner to Brewster when he went down stairs. The three young fellows honored with invitations 011 this particular evening were Brewster, Randolph and Ridgeway. Brewster because he was to be Winifred's escort to the hop, the oil era because they hail made the liest of matters and invited the other girls, Ridgeway, lie it known, not without inward exasperation. He fancied Miss Kitty Pennoyer as a substitute for Winifred Berrien alDout as much or as little as one is content wilii a back seat when lie cannot have o tiox Rut it. keiit him "in touch wiHD the house,' so to speak, and gave bin. onoortuuitiea at least of occasional "Why, ma," was the staggering reply, "you always told me never to interrupt you."—New York Evening Sun. "Cirptaln liolfc, it i* a question I rcfiixe The northwest winds that hart finally (banked up the southern clouds anil squeezed down a dismal dru:*!# the night of Miss Guthrie's departure nflw veered and whisked away the moiist and plashing "Teil, and the afternoon sun- Jo Cmwurr." In the meantime I have a large, beautiful, geared windmill for sale. I bought the windmill feeling certain that here, where tho«in only pauses to spit on its hands and get a better hold, water would be plenty even if we had to catch it in the well in tho shape of rain, butftiy well is now the only dry place in North Carolina. To my other duties 1 have to add now that of sprinkling the well. That is not all. After three or four months watchuig tha growth of a well you get at- A Boomerang Answer. It's All the Same In the End. Visitor at Seaside Boarding House—I say, landlord, your food is worse than it 'was last year. Mrs. Bingo—Why don't you emulate Mr. Witherbv's example? He has sworn off smoking, and his wife says he saved enough to buy him a new suit. Landlord—Impossible, sir!— London Tit-Bits. shine of t.h« Jav that followed utTrwtiwvl ;across the broad mesa in a Cooil of grateful warmth and radiance. The colonel ordered out the entire command, to the utter consternation of Miss Wioifreil Left to himself, Rolfe wearily turned to the mantel, and without show of interest glanced over the various photographs there displayed. They were mainly of army friends, young fellows in whom he felt flight interest at any time and none at all now. Su were thci e Bingo—He hasn't got thp suit yet, has he? Then was there no other (Jut —one which had never failed to wriny from the fcnvemiiient tlie cotR-emiou ilc nired. Old chief's plead in vuiu, but the blood of the youug warriors is hot and strong, the lust fyr reputation Exuclly. Mrs. Bingo—I don't know. Why? "I wouldn't be a fool if I were you." said Jones to a friend. "If you were I yon wouldn't be a lool," was the reply.—Exchange. More than once had the major closelj interrogated his wife as to the reason of her statement. Had thu young fellow Bingo—Because I won all his money the other night playing poker.—Cloak Review. J3errieu and the supreme disgust of some