Pittston Gazette

              e«tabm*heiDi85o. i vol.. Xl.V. NO. I Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 181)5. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. If l.no PER ANNTJM I IN AXIVANC «£ She pressed her trembling lips to his, anCl moaned: "Papa, dear, may I not give it to you in writing?" she asked, a slight flush suffusing her face. since l lost consciousness behind tne rocks, and I will lie as quiet as a mouse and listen," he said, taking her hand in his and pressing it warmly. called daily and bestowed upon him introduced him to the officers of the the kinde st attention, their hearts garrison as a brother officer and as Ms plowing with admiration fur his hero- prospective son-in-law. From every Ism. I salCl every omcer. i nat was officer of tho post he received a most not true. Lieut.. Vandever never came hearty welcome into the official ranks, near him. I hat ofiieer now K.-pt close and not one of them but felt honored In the seclusion CDf his own quarters with the friendship of one whose heroonly when obliged to come forth on ism naa oeen put to sucn an extreme duty. When his troop was ordered test and had not been found wanting. NYE IN THE CAPITOL. was natural to Webster and was apposed to resemble that of the lion, but a hornet finds it difficult to look like the lion, and when he undertakes it of course it makes him ridiculous. Jtfriv to alt .town, Kpi "Ned, you are dyingl You are dying-! I can see it in your poor, dear eyes. Oh! must you die so cruelly, and for me? Don't close your eyes, darling1— "Yes, daughter, that's military. Make a full report to me in writing and place it in my hands at the earliest possible moment. (live your old bear of a father a kiss and get to work on your official report at once, dear." "All right. and don't you forget your promise or I may punish you again by sealing your lips. You see, tho people at the fort herird tho firing when the Indians came upon us. and just after you fainted away a troop of cavalry came dashing up with papa at its head. He sprang from his horse with great big tears in his eyes, the very first I ever saw there in all my life, and I thought he would hug me to death, lie asked me if the Indians had harmed me and I told him they had not, but I feared you were killed. He stooped down over you and looked at your pale face and the blood all over your breast, and then, O, Ned, he raved like a madman. I never saw him in such a passion before! He stamped the ground and struck tho rocks with his sword and swore, oh! just awfully! lie called you by name, and (now, you mustn't mind, Ned, for it was only papa's bluster and he didn't mean it) ho called you a villain and told you get up and not lie there making a fool of yourself, acd said if you attempted to die he would have you drummfcd out of the service. He called you a brave, noble rascal, and said he'd rather lose every man in the garrison than you. Then he turned on Capt. Colby and asked him what in the—bad man, you krow— he was standing there for like a rapine Idiot while the Indians were escaping, and ordered him to follow and kill every one of them. The troop dashed ahead and overtook the Indians in the sand hills across the river and had an awful fight with them, for more Indians had come after the band that chased us. Papa sent his orderly flying back to the fort after the surgeou and an ambulance, and then he fussed around and hugged me and culled you good and bad names until the surgeon came. Then you were lifted in the ambulance, papa scolding the soldiers and telling them he would annihilate them if they hurt you. On the way in you recovered consciousness but were delirious. You kept begging me to fly to the fort and save myself and leave you to your fate, and papa asked if you hud talked that way when you was lighting the Indians, and when I told him those were your very words his lips trembled, and he turned his back and began to abuse the poor driver for running over stones. And that's the whole' story, dear, from a to izzard." HE LOVES TO VIEW THE SENATORS FROM THE PRESS GALLERY Mr. Pefler endeavoring to look like a lion would lDe amusing to a degree, because the pelican is more in his line. And Sitting Than, Unhampered anCl Alone, She kissed him once, twice, thrice, and ran away to her room. Iler pen flew over the paper with great rapidity as she fully, freely wrote down every detail of her relations with the private soldier from their first meeting until the present moment. She told of his enlistment, being ignorant of tho fact that the colonel had gotten a full report of that from Private Lannan, told of their many meetings, of mutual love and of her urgent appeal to Brown to go to her father and tell him all, and ask his sanction to their engagement. Nothing was withheld, and when the statement was completed she took it to her father's office, laid it on the desk before him, kissed him passionately and ran away to her room, her young heart throbbing with anxiety.hastily into tho saddle to fly to the assistance of ISrown in his defense of the commander's daughter Vandever pleaded illness and took to his bed for a day. The looks of contempt which were cast at him by the other officers after that day made his life one not to be envied, and it was not long before, nt his own request, he was transferred to a distant garrison, where he vowed A couple of years after their marriage Lieut, and Mrs. Thornton were sitting on the porch of their quarters enjoying the refreshing coolness of a New Mexico summer evening. The lieutenant was enjoying a cigar and watching the everchanging hues of the western clouds a* the sun slowly sank down behind the San Mateo mountains while his lovely wife sat scanning the columns of the last issue of the Army and Navy Journal.Hl» Able Eye Wanders O'er the Dignl- I met a dignified man the other evening on the congressional limited train of the Pennsylvania road. I hated him as soon as I saw him enter the car. He looked liko a man who would preside equally well at an old settlers' meeting or tho burning of a witch, a man with * great austerity and a real alligator conscience, one who would give his seat to a pretty stranger in public and compel his wife to build tho fire of mornings. Ho went into the dining car at once, and so did I a little later. When I came back, lie was in my parlor car seat, for which I had paid $1.25. I thought that it was only a temporary arrangement, and so went into the smoking room rather than disturb him, for he had the air of & cabinet officer, and as the present cabinet is composed of men who are not very well known I thought that very likoly ho ;night be a cabinet minister, for he liJifl * fortfolify wtth him, and as I could not tell just what it was I thought that possibly it might be a cabinet portfolio fled Senate—Getting Even With a Dead- ly Enemy In a Parlor Car. AltfjACfC [Copyright, 1805, by Edgar W. Nyo.l Washington is a largo and commodious, exaggerated county seat It is neat and comparatively noiseless when congress is not in session, and one can select almost any variety of society, from grave to gay, from lively to severe. I am arranging to come out this winter hera I should of came out last winter had it not been for tho death of a distant relative of considerable wealth which did not take place last season. Washington, D. C. VrmoA Au Rights R [CONTINUED ] realize the great danger that threatened his riders. Across the grassy valley he flew with almost incredible speed, and a thrill of hope flashed through the young soldier's breast as he noted that each bound of the animal increased the distance between themselves and the savages. he would begin his military career The horse did not seem to feel the ■weight of his double load, and sped over the ground at a rapid pace. CH APTER XVHL anew With tender, loving hands Alice administered to her lover's every want, and the roses deepened in her cheeks, her eyes grew brighter and her musical laugh took on a more joyous ring as she notod his fast increasing strength. When he was at last permitted to rise from his cot and walk slowly about the ward supported by her arm, she seemed happy an si joyous as a child. "O, Ned! Ilere is an Item about Mr. Vandever," she exclaimed. "What is it, dear?" "How noble of you, Ned, to risk your own precious life for me," she said, as they flew along. "An eternity of love and devotion could not repay you for your work of to-night." "Dismissed from the service for cowardice in the face of the enemy in an Indian campaign in Wyoming." I love to go up to thi Capitol and listen to the senate from the press gallery, especially on c it is making memorial speeches, xilere is something restful about it that soothes the wearied •yrtem and lulls tho fevered brain to sweet and dreamless sleep. Most of tho senators now are in the sere and yellow leaf, and the soft skylight sheds a subdued radiance on many a silvery crown that soon—ah! soon—must lie low in the justly celebrated tomb. "We gained on them. Courage, my beloved, courage, and we will yet escape them. If we can but reach the oilier side and gain the hig-h ground, tney may abandon the chase before getting too near the fort." "It does not astonish me," he replied. "Such unworthy men but rarely get into the service to east reproach upon the most honored profession on earth, and they invariably meet with their just deserts. An ulcer has been removed from an otherwise healthy body." "One smile from my darling one, one -vord of love from her lips would amply '•epay me for any undertaking, no •natter what dangers it might present," he fondly replied. "Did the In dians treat you harshly, Alice?" SHE LOOKED OVER TILE ROCKS. That afternoon he sent for her, and when sbs tamo in he softly said: you frighten me so! I cannot bear it! Speak to me once again, Ned! Oh! he Is dying—ho is dying!" "Sunshine, I have just written a detailed report of your capture and rescue to the secretary of war at Washington, and, of course, fully advised him of that young profligate's action in the matter. I have made certain recommendations regarding hiin, which I trust will Ihj considered favorably. My orderly is away on an errand, and I thought you might like to take a hand in the proceedings by yourself mailing the report. Take it to the post office, dear." One fine morning before A1 i«jy hod come to the hospital on her daily mission of love, the surgeon and Brown sat tnlking in the former's otlice. The patient had on the previous day walked to his troop's quarters, where he was given an ovation by his com- "God grant that they may! Oh, those frightful, unearthly yells! They seem to chill my blood," she said, clinging yet more closely to-her lover. She pave way to her great grief In the most pitiful sobs. The wounded man made a great effort to rally his strength, and feebly said: "No, Ned, but O, I shudder to think of the fate they held in store for me and which I would have met to-night had not this storm come on. There is in the band a young half-breed Indian who speaks fairly good English, and he explained to me that many of the Indians' horses have died lately from some epidemic, and the medicine man of the tribe told them that the Great Spirit was angry with the people and demanded a sacrifice to appease hia wrath. He told them that they must m:ike captive a paleface girl, and out in an open camp must build a great circle of fires, and that in the circle amid dancing and rejoicing the maiden must be bouud and trampled to death by horses ridden by those whose animals had died. The band which captured me were on the way to the ranch of a settler near the base of the San Mateo mountains west of the fort to carry off his daughter for the sacrifice when they heard my pony's footsteps coming down the gulch, and, concealing themselves near the trail, they awaited my coining. They believed the Great Spirit had thrown me into their hands, and their rejoicing was great. The wruxl for the fore-circle had all been collected when the storm approached, and as the thunders rolled in the distance the medicine man told them the Great Spirit was speaking to them commanding them to take me to the reservation where the entire tribe could take part in the ceremonies. O, Ned, in their blind, ignorant superstition they will be frantic over my escape, and will use desperate efforts to recapture me. Do you not fear pur- Promotion came In successive steps to our hero as the years rolled on. Afaj. Thornton now commands one of tha most important posts in the far west, lie is yet in the very prime oi manhood, and is the idol of his beloved Alice, whose marital life has been one of unclouded happiness. The major's aunt, whom he and Alice several times visited in her Brooklyn home, died several years ago leaving him a large fortune, yet ho remains in the service where he found such great happiness, nnd expects to serve his country until retired by reason of age. Without slackening his pace the horse dashed into the stream, but the water impeded his progress and the Indians gained rapidly upon them. Nobly the strong beast plunged against the swift waters which rose to his breast in the center of the stream, but the current was strong and his progress was slow. At last he reached the other side and dashed up the bank as the Indians were urging their ponies into the water on the opposite side. Filially, however, I had smoked up what cigars I had, and so went back to occupy my seat. As I drew nearer to him ho dropped off into profound slumber. But I had lost my seat in the smoking room, so I had to awaken him. He was so dignified and superior when he denied my right to the seat that I know I must have colored up to the roots of my hair. Meantime he resumed his slumber. I had to appeal to the porter. Ho could not settle it, and the conductor was taking his supper, so I had to lean up against the water cooler and acquire neuralgia of the spine. "Alice, do not despair. I—I—I—I am —very faint, but I—" rades. Thus it happens that each is interested In the eulogium industry possibly more than in most any other thing, and the disposition to swap senatorial obituary puffs should not occasion surprise. The janitor tells me that it has been his blessed privilege now for going on 16 years, with bated breath and almost un- verv "It is a lovely warm morning. Drown," the surgeon said, "and if you will walk slowly and not over-exert yourself you can go and surprise the colonel and your little nurse with a call. I am sure they will warmly wel- A fiendish yell from the Indians cut short his speech, and Alice, a cold glitter of desperation coming into her eyes, laid his head gently on the ground, seized his rifle, and, with a strange in her voice, said: He had never spoken to her more tenderly, and in the knowledge that he had read her paper and was fully cognizant of all that existed between herself and Brown, his kindness of tone and tender expression as he looked into her face filled her heart with a great joy. comc you." He needed no second bidding, and leaning on a cane for support, walked slowly to the colonel's quarters. On the way he met several officers, and warm were the congratulations poured upon him over his recovery. Again ho crossed the porch as he had done a fewweeks before, but not now with fear and trembling. "You defended me to your death, my lost darling. Now I will defend you till death calls me to go with you into the dark shadow?" Across the wooded bottom which intervened between the river and the western bluff they flew, and began the ascent of the gulch which led to the mesa. The steepness of the hill again impeded the horse's speed, and when they reached the summit the Indians could be seen flying across the bottom, still in mad pursuit. Raising herself she looked over the rocks, and to her amazement saw that the Indians were hastily mounting and rapidly retreating. At the same instant a rumbling sound from the direction of the fort fell upon her ears, and casting her eyes in that direction she observed a great cloud of dust raising in the air. Springing to the side of her lover she cried: Often they sit together In the beautiful western twilight, the dignified, handsome officer and his lovely wife, and talk of the strange events which clustered around their courtship, and the sweet woman is never so happy as when he gently chides her for her lack of taste in falling in love with an humble private in the ranks. When the conductor came back and found his diagram, for I had lost my check, it was discovered, of course, that I bad paid my rent for that seat, and so I got it. The dignified man got mad and threw things around at a great rata He tried to step on my valise and smash the china mustache cup which was inside and which I had bought as a present for Kate Cain, the Chicago lawyer. "Did you recommend his discharge from the service, papa?" she asked. *' 1 nat is no arrair oi yours, nine chatterbox," he replied. "You should not try to pry into official business. If I want to get the rascal out of the service, it is nobody's business but my Entering the hall he rapped lightly at the colonel's door. Tho same sharp, harsh "Come in," greeted his ears, but it did not now till him with alarm. "•Turning the Knoo, ne entered. "Courace, my darling-!" he aq-ain cried in an assuring tone. "Do not despair, for we may yet escape The fort can now almost be seen ' them. "Oh! Ned, darling, if you are yet alive rouse yourself. The troops are coming from tlie fort." own. Go mail the report and then come back to me. I want to talk to you." "Private 15ro\vn, by all the pods of war!" cried the bluff old soldier, arising1 and grasping his hand. ''Out .again, eh? Once more on your pins? That's right. Take a chair. I am very glad to see you." "God will aid us, Ned, my beloved," she responded. "My lips are moving in constant grayer for our deliverance. " He finally flung himeelf into his own chair aud flung his overcoat up into the rack with a bang. Just then the train stopped, and his mutterings were all that could bo heard. He was threatening to report somebody, and seemed to regard me as a fiend in human form. People turned around to see who he was, for he had the air of a man who adjusted the affairs of nations and made up the time tables for the planets. By and by he began to abuse the management of the road and ask why we had stopped there in the middle of a truck farm. Whoever was responsible for the delay ought to be thrown off the train. He said this two or three times, and had just paused to take breath when the porter came along and discovered that the dignified man was alone responsible, and therefore ought to be thrown off. But the priiv 1., s refused to move, and the eyes were closed as if in death. With a wild sliriek of agony she raised her hands aloft and fell acroos his body, ns a troop of cavalry thundered up to the spot, Col. Sanford at its head. When she returned she found her father sitting on the porch reading a late paper. She sat down near him and waited for him to open up the conversation, her heart throbbing wildly. Furtively she glanced at his face, but It was as calm as a summer day. Finally he looked up and said: "Uod bless him, his heart is in the right place, if his tongue does fly the track occasionally. Oh, my darling! I—" For half an houf they conversed regarding his wound, his return to duty and various other topics, but the young soldier's thoughts were in another apartment with his loved one, and he longed to greet her for the first time in her own home. Unable to suppress this burning desire he finally said: Up from the gulch came the Indians, but half a mile behind, and again their blood-curdling yells rang out upon the air. On they flew, puivued and pursuers, and Brown's heart sank within iiira when ho noted that the Indians were rapidly closing the gap between them. CHAPTER XIX. Her plump little hand was gently pressed over his mouth, and with a warning shake of the head she said: IS THE PRESS GALLERY. When Private lirown regained consciousness he found himself lying on a cot in the hospital, with the post surgeon bending over him. "Sunshine, I have just been reading a story here of a young girl of about your age, wno, line yourseii, mi brought into great peril. She was penned in a burning building in New York and a brave fireman at the risk of his own life rushed into the blinding smoke, up the blazing stairs and lowered her from her chamber window with a rope. In attempting to descend he fell and was badly injured, and was taken to a hospital. That young girl belonged to a rich, aristocratic family and the fireman was a poor, obscure fellow, no higher In the world, perhaps, than an ordinary private soldier, and she went to the hospital and nursed him and cared for him as lovingly as if he had been her equal in the eyes of the world until he recovered. She was a noble girl, Alice, and. damme, she done just as I would have a daughter of mine do under like circumstances."aided and alone, to listen to some of the most carefully worded and best punctuated memorial addresses ever listened to by a stenographer and janitor. He has received two testimonials for being neither absent nor tardy during these orgies.Spurring his horse to its greatest exertions a groan escaped from the soldier's now bloodless lips, for the animal began to perceptibly slacken its speed. His powers of endurance were almost exhausted, and it was evident that he could go but little further. The fort was yet two miles distant, and escape now seemed impossible. "There, there, there! Did I not forbid you talking? You will find me a hard master, old fellow, for I will enforce obedience to my orders. Listen.! 1 near papa s voice m tno surgeon s itice.""Col. Sanford, before I return to the hospital will you not permit me to pay my respects to my faithful nurse, Miss Sanford?" Heaps of Idle Gold. "How do you fee) now, my man?" the doctor asked, kindly. Since the present year began the stock of gold at the Bank of England has increased by £9,261,000, and now amounts to £34,111,000. This is a smaller total than that of July, 1879, £35,694,000, which was the highest ever seen, says the Investor. But the note circulation is also now smaller by £3,- 980,000 pounds, and as the fiduciary paper money of the bank has also been augmented by £1,800,000 during the same period, it follows that the reserve in the banking department of the Bank of England was on the 23d of May last fully £20,300,000, or the highest figure ever known. suit?" "Your absence may not be discovered until daybreak, my darling, and even should you bo missed to-night, they could not discover our trail in the darkness. Even now I am depending entirely on the instinct of the horse to keep our direction, for not a landmark can be seen in this pitchy darkness." "Very weak and faint, sir. How came I here? What is the matter with me?" The old officer's face assumed a cold, stern look and his genial air seemed to vanish as before an icy wind as he replied:The senate is one of the most dignified deliberative bodies in the world. I was told this by a guide. Senators do not keep their shoe blacking in their desks now nor eat Rhode Island greenings during the prayer. In every way as a nation we are marching onward and upward."Came to his senses, eh? Concluded he'd made an iufernal fool of himself long enough. That's right. That's right. That's sensible, and now you want to get him onto his feet again and do it quick, or, damme, I'll shut up your drug shop and drum you out of the garrison. How would you like that, you old pill mixer? Eh, Doc?" "You have been very sick. Brown. Can you not recall the past? Do you not remember being wounded by the Indians?" "Private Brown, we may as well come to an understanding right now. You nobly risked your life to restore my beloved child to my arms, and I am deeply grateful to you for doing so. It was but her simple duty to nurse you through the long days of suffering which you were called upon to endure from a severe and dangerous wound received in her defense. She performed that duty, and with my full approval and consent. Her duties as your nurse are now at an end, and I regret that I may give you pain after all you suffered for her if, in doing what I consider to be a father's duty, I use harsh language toward you. You may think It cruel aud heartless, sir, when I tell you that I cannot permit her in her own home to receive a call from a private soldier, no matter how worthy that soldier may be." "Zip! Zip! Zip!" The bullets from the rifles of the Indians began to fly by them. The signal bell cord runs along just adjoining the package rack in these cars, and the dignified man in slamming his overcoat into this rack had thrown it on the slack of the bell cord and stopped "Wounded? The Indians? What Indians?" He looked up at the surgeon in astonishment. Pulling the jaded horse behind a barricade of rocks which rose by the trail Brown sprung to the ground and cried: "But they will know that my rescuer Came from the fort, or that if I escaped ' l I would start back toward the foi nd should I be missed in the ni, .. -vould they not at once come in this direction in search of me?" Whenever a senator has made a speech Mr. Palmer of Hlinois, a genial and elderly gentleman, with a 20 oz. pippin faoe, goes over to him, shakes hands with him, and in a few well chosen words oongratulates him and thanks him for the wild, delirious joy he has given to the senate, and especially to the gentleman from Illinoia One morning, in an absentminded way, he started down the aisle to congratulate the chaplain on his terse summary of what he would like to have done, but later on changed his mind and paused at Senator George's teat to congratulate him on the brakeman onrve he had given to his hair. "Try to remember. See if you cannot recall your desperate fight with the Indians from behind the rocks." "It would all depend on the tune I marched to, colonel. If the band womd play: "See the corn-curing hero comes," or some other air laudatory of my profession. I don't think I would mind it much. Brown has certainly safely passed the crisis, and if nothing unforeseen occurs will rapidly recover. But it was a close call, colonel. That shot would prove fatal in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. 1 can't see where his heart could have been for that ball to miss it." "Get into the saddle, Alice, and push on toward the fort. For the love of God hasten, and I may be able to hold them at bay until you escape. Fly, my darling, fly, for not an instant must bt Brown closed his eyes and endeavored to collect his truant thoughts. Slowly, faintly and indistinctly at first, but growing clearer and clearer as his delirium-prostrated brain regained power, the rescue, the desperate ride for life and the battle all came back to him. "You are right, Alice. I had not thought of that. Then, in a reassuring tone, he added: "But do not feel the least fear, dear one, for we are mounted on a magnificent horse, and he is making splendid progress. We will surely reach the river by daybreak, and I think the Indians would not go far without some sign to show them that they were on our trail. Rest assured that we will reach the fort in safety in time for a good breakfast." An Irish Lawyer'* Queer Habit. Sergt. Kelly, a celebrity of the Irish bar, had a remarkable habit of drawing1 conclusions directly at variance with his premises, and was consequently nicknamed "Counselor Therefore." In court, on one occasion, he thus addressed the jury: "The casfe is so clear, gentlemen, that you cannot possibly misunderstand It, and I should pay your understandings $ vary poor compliment if 1 dwelt upon it for another minute; therefore, I shall at once proceed to explain it to you m minn'iely as possible." To his utter amazement the br:m girl slid from the horse's back and, with pale but determined face, replied: lost." He threw down the paper and marched abruptly into the house, leaving her staring after him in wonder. "No, Ned, I will not leave you. You risked your precious life for me! and it would be cowardly for me to desert you now. If you must die here, I will die with you." "Oh I tell me, doctor, was she—wai Alice saved?" She picked up the paper herself to read the interesting story. She glanced hurriedly over the prominent headings, but saw nothing referring to a Are. She then turned her attention to the minor articles, but the item referred to seemed to be hiding from her eyes. From page to page she turned, but only to find her search fruitless. IIow could she have overlooked a story which had caught her father's eye? Beginning at the top of the first column of the first page she went carefully over the paper column after column scanning every paragraph until the bottom of the last column was reached. There was not in the whole paper a word about a girl being rescued from a burning building. '"Calm yourself, my boy. The least excitement may yet undo all my work in my efforts to save you. -Miss Sanford is safe with her father." "In his mouth, no doubt, or— Well, no matter, t think it was not in hi* possession at the time. But, pshaw! You can't kill an infernal rascal like him, Doc, a—a—a—a lion that masquerades in the skin of a duin jackass. I'll make him Bhed that donkey skin when he gets on his feet again. Yes, damme, I'll make him wear his own colors. I'll go in and take a look at him." There was no time for further urging, for the yells of the Indians now came to them with startling distinctness as they rapidly came on. Gaining a position from which he could see over the rocks, the soldier leveled his repeating rifle and began to discharge it with deadly effect. "God be praised," he fervently said, great tears of joy starting in his paindimmed eyes. "How long have I been here, doctor?" Senator George is not spirituelle in appearance, and be has a massive jaw, which Samson wonld have sat np nights to yearn for. He conceals what forehead he has by draping his dank hair across It, and as one looks upon him it is natural to think that as soon as he has rested himself sufficiently he will return to the basement and resume his relations with the furnaoe. "I pray that you may be right, Ned, yet I have a presentiment that peril awaits us before we reach our home. I will try to banish the fear, which is no doubt a foolish one." Brown's face paled, as the cruel words cut into his heart as a knife. A great fear came upon him, and he almost groaned aloud in his 'agony of spirit, lie tried to speak, but with a gesture the officer stopped him. "For four days. You have been delirious all that time and very near to death, but you have now passed the crisis and there is a good chance for your recovery. You are built of good material, l.i-own. That shot would have killed any ordinary man." Sporting Terms, "You will laugh at your fears, little one, when you are again safe in your home. But see, darling, the rain has almost ceased, and it grows lighter." So unexpected was the fire that the Indians recoiled, and, springing from their ponies in confusion, sought for shelter behind the rocks which dotted "Nor, sir, hear my decree, from the enforcement of which I will never swerve a jot After tlu| visit Private Richard Brown will never again be permitted to enter this house, and I shall forbid my daughter to ever again mention his name in my presence. This may seem damnably cruel to you, sir, after what you have done for us, but there are rules of propriety in army life that cannot be disregarded. My daughter cannot maintain friendly relations with a private in the ranks." The old man entered the ward and walked up to the wounded man's cot. There was a look of unmistakable tenderness in his face as ho gazed on the pale features of the wounded man, and then on his daughter. The clouds were indeed passing away, and soon the stars glimmered dimly through tho hazy atmosphere. A cruel senator once referred to Senator George as the "educated hog," and Senator Ingalls moved to strike out the adjeotive as surplusage. "And Alice, doctor, ! has she been to see me?" Miss Sanford, ; he mesa. From their cover they kept up a scattering fire, but their bullets flew harmlessly overhead, or were flattened against the rocky breastwork which natured had provided. On and on they sped across the desert, every beat of tho horse's hoofs making an increased distance between themselves and their Indian foes. "Been here to see you, Indeed? Why the little witch will scarcely take time to eat and sleep, but wants to sit here by your side all the time. The young lady Is filled with gratitude toward you, Brown, for your heroism in rescuing her from a horrible fate, and the whole garrison is singing your praises. It was a bravo undertaking, my boy— a noble, heroic venture successfully ao■wniDiished."A smile of gratification spread over his pale, wan face. He cared not for the laudations of the people of the garrison. His Alice had been near him, and that was worth more to him than would have been tbe piauaius or tne Then a great light seemed to break in upon her. A half joyous, half wondering look came over her face, then vanished beneath a smile of the most intense delight. IX A ri'.OFOUKD SLUMBER. "How is your patient, Sunshine?" he asked in the mildest tone of voice she had ever heard him use outside of his own home. Senator John Sherman is built very muoh like Senators Proctor, Teller and Cullom. They are all tall, slender men, quite the reverse of Senator George. the train. At that moment he became the most unpopular man outside of political life. People glared at him from every direction and commented on him in a way that drove him behind his paper, and before he got to Washington he had read the advertising supplement of a Sunday paper four times. On through the gloom of night into the gray dawn of morning they rode, and just as the first streak of sunlight kissed the damp earth over tho eastern hills they came upon the bluffs overlooking the Hlo Grande at the point where they had crossed it, four miles below the fort. I'i5t'ring cautiously over the barricade the brave soldier watched his foes with eagle eyes, firing whenever a feathered head came into view. "Just as I would have a daughter of mine do under like circumstances." "O, he is doing real nicely, papa, and we now feel sure he will recover from his cruel wound. The surgeon gave me Senator Peffer also is long waisted, with keen, incisive shoulder blades. Some think that Mr. Peffer's caricatures are greatly exaggerated, but that would be impossible. The most grotesque cartoon I have seen was compared with the real Peffer greatly softened and idealised.He paused and regarded the .young man closely. Brown sat as dumb as a marble statue and almost as pale, for his heart was coinplutely crushed at the cruel decree. "TUEY'KK OFF." There came a cessation In the firing of the Indians, and ho heard them calling out to each other from their sOparated positions behind the rocks, and surmised that they were planning a sudden dash upon their hiding-placo. His heart became as lead in his breast, for he well knew that, althoupl —The Wheel. She understood him now, and blessing him for his little ruse, went quickly to the hospital. The old father was watching her from a parting in the window curtain, as and she tripped toward the hospital an expression of satisfaction came over his face. And that Is how Alice came to bo installed as Brown's nurse. CHAPTER XX 1 felt as fully revenged as Artemus Ward. Ho said ho had an implacable and remorseless enemy who started out by being envious and finally wound up by being viciou3 and revengeful, never allowing an opportunity for a mean remark about Ward to escape. "For years," said Arteuius, "I lay awake nights trying tf arrange some scheme for jcvenge, and 1 sought to plan a way by whinli I could do away with him in a ghastly and sickening manner. It took away my appetite and my interest in life. But at last a wise Providence took the matter in hand and arranged it far better than I could have done. His p-andmother died suddenly and left him b farm in Maine." "Here is the dear old river aguin," he joyfully cried. "Now to ford It, and in an honr you will be safely back in your father's arms." "But," the colonel resumed, with a strange twinkle in his eyes, "Lieut. Edward Thornton will always be a welcome guest at my home. There is your commission, sir, you trembling rascal, fresh from tho hands of the secretary of war. I iieu tenant Thorn ton, let me be the first to congratulate you upon your promotion, and to assure you thatif you prove as faithful in the discharge of your duties as an officer as Private ISrown always proved as a soldier in the ranks, the stars of a general may some day rest upon your shoulders." Mr. Peffer listens attentively to all the other speeches and occasionally introduces a harmless joint resolution. Now and then a look of anxiety comes over him as who should say, "I wonder what has became of all them joint resolutions which I have introduced," but the look is only momentary and soon gives plaoe to one of radiant peace. rifle miyht do deadly work as they advanced, they would . certainly overpower him and death would speedily follow. Ka a "Did father know you started after •se me. Ned?" j$he_ askedj^^M^tho^hc^ uuivorfif! "Has Col. Panford asked after me, doctor?" There was an eager look oil his face as he put the question. Brown for two hours calmly and peacefully. When he at last slowly, half dreamily awoke he felt a soft hand on his forehead, and opening his eyes they met those of his darling one. In his eagerness to get a good shot and thus still further intimidate the Ravages, he raised himself yet higher above the rocks, and tho next instant fell backward into the arms of his betrothed, the warm blood spurting from a bullet wound in his breast. "Col. Sanford calls to see you several times a day, Brown. You cannot realize the dangerous position in which your care places me. The colonel has given me the most emphatic orders to save your life, and says if I let you die ho will at once have me taken out and shot. Now you see tho peril which confronts me, and you must do all you can to ljasten your recovery by implicitly obeying my orders. You must not speak another word. You have talked too much already. You must remember my life is at stake, my man." A RESERVED SKAT. —Life. Senator Peffer does not look strong, and I could not help thinking that possibly his beard is sapping his life away. Physicians advise him to prune it; but, no, he will not consent to it, fearing that he would then sink into obscurity. A little koumiss in warm water might build him up and ultimately make him worthy of his beard, but it would only be an experiment. "Ned, my darling, do you know me? Do you know your Alice?" she whispered, bending over him. "How is it, Uncle Mose, that yon never married? Ain't yon an admire* of tho fair sex?" A IDark Romance. "Oh, Ned, Ned, you are hit! Yon are killed!" she cried, in agony. "Oh! my God, my God, what shall 1 do? father In Heaven, save him, save himl" With a great eftort/ie said: "Know you, my blessed angle? Of course I do," he replied, making an effort to throw his arms about her neck. She gently stopped him and with a blush upon her happy face said: As he *poke he handed the younfr man his commission, and warmly grasped his hand, while a grim smile flayed over his face. "Oh, yes. I fo't a duel wunce erbont or gal, sah." "A duel?" Thornton took the paper mechanically. In his wild astonishment he could not utter a word. He stood there tremblin1 and turning white and red by turns until the old officer broke into a loud laugh over his embarrassment. "Be brave, Alice, fny love, be brave. Tis not much. I am only—only stunned a little. I will re—recover in a—in a moment." "No, Ned, not here. Someone may see you. The attaches of the hospital do not think it strange that I should nurse my noble rescuer back to health and strength again, but they might not see the propriety of me permitting his embraces. They are not aware that your nurse's heart Is all yours, mf darling, every little, tiny bit of it." "Yes, sah; yeahs and yeahs ago. Sam Johnsing an myse'f we bofe lubbed do same gaL We was bofe boun ter hub (hit gal, an do bizness climaxated in er duel wid pistils. We bofe war er trifle nervous, sah, an do bullets went sorter wild, au nobody was hit but a ruewol in de nex' field." "HOW IB YOUB PATIENT, SUNSHINE?" strict orders not to allow him to talk, and I have just been scolding him for attempting to do so." Senator Hoar delivered a speech on Daniel Webster one day while I was present He pronounces Mr. Webster's first name Dan-nilL It was an eloquent, scholarly and olassical speech, and reflected great credit on both Mr. Hoar and Mr. Webster. The speaker started off in a rather nervous manner, fearing no donbt that I would criticise his manner of delivery, but I caught his eye and gave him at once an assuring look, whioh seemed to oheer him greatly as he proceeded.Hard to Please. Kicker (at stamp window, summer of 1893)—It's a darned shame to try to work off these big, ugly Columbian stamps on the peopla It takes two men and a boy to lickonoof 'em, and they're no good anyhow. Take these back and give me some red onoa His face grew deathly pale, and blood oozed forth from his pallid lips. Alice almost screamed with fritfht. and her voice trembled with Ho smiled knowingly as he referred to the eolonel's blustering threat. There was a smile of perfect peace and satisfaction on the pale face of the wounded man as ho closed his eyes to reflect over what the Rungeon had told him.' Alice was with him almost constantly, and, of course, it must be with her father's consent. And the old commander, himself, called several times daily to ask after hiin. This knowledge was sweet to his soul, and he felt supremely happy. Gradually his senses prow more and more in- "That's right. Make him keep his mouth shut only when he takes his medicine, and if he refuses to obey orders, gag him." A broad smile rested on his face as he spoke. Then for a moment, again contemplating the wan face of the soldier, he said: "Paralyzes you, my boy? J List petrifies you with amazement. By Godfrey, I have had that document hid away for two weeks just to have this fun with you. Never mind, lieutenant (slapping him familiarly on the shoulder) you'll get over it and regain full use of your paralyzed "tongue after while. I will find something that will restore your speech. Alice! Alice!" TrrE race Foa life. agon "Oil, Ned, my poor darling you are Jyinp. They have cruelly murdered you! Father in Heaven take me with she said "liless you for those words, my love. And you have been with me often tho surgeon tells me." "And did you fire again?" moved down the slope toward the river. "You have not yet told me how you happened to come alone to my "No, sail. Dat was er worry vallyble niewel, an we bofe got kinder skoartlike. So we entered into an americable derangement." Same Kicker (at same stamp window a year and a half later)—No Columbian stamps at all? You ought to have put a lot of thorn away when the government quit printing them. You might have known there would be a demand for them from fellows that want them for relics and forgot to save any themselves. They were tho best looking stamps that were ever turned out auyhow. You haven't got auy at all? It's a darned shame!—Chicago Tribune. him!" "Yes, Ned, very often, but you were delirious and did not know me. The Burgeon had almost given you up, and oh! my darling, my poor heart was breaking. He has just told me that you have passed the crisis and will live, and I have been down on my knees by your cot thanking tho Fathor for sparing you to me. Now Ned, dear, listen to me. You are not yet out of danger, and you are in my care, and the doctor has given me imperative orders to not let you talk much. I am going to obey orders implicitly, and I am going to make you obey me. Do you hear that, Mr. Ned? Here, now, it is time for you to take your medicine. There! Be careful! Don't spill it all over your chin. You careless fellow! You are the most awkward patient I ever had." "Private Brown, I am a gentleman, sir, and I think I know what is due from one gentleman to another. Give me your hand, sir, and accept my warmest thanks and most hearty gratitude for your noble, gallant rescue of the light of my life, this sweet girl here, from a horrible fate at the hands of those murderous Apaches, and for your couragoous defense of her life when attacked by overwhelming numbers. Yo\ir action was that of a soldier, sir, and you honor the uniform you wear." "Col. Han ford, I—" "Yes, darling, I came with his knowledge and consent." lie then related to her all that had transpired at the fort after the discovery that the Indians had carried her away. The affectionate girl gave him a hug that almost lifted him from the saddle and lovingly said: rescue With an almost superhuman effort he ■seemed to rally his fust departing strength and said: "How did you settlo it?" "Coming, papa, in a moment," came a silvery voice from another part of the house. "Sam tuek de gal, an I 'groed ter pay fo' do moweL As far as lub goes, dat cured dis dog ob snckin aigs. It wah a werry vallyble mewoL "—Texas Sift Mr. Hoar has a face that is not exactly suited to a memorial oration, but seems better fitted for playing Joshua Whitcomb. He has a nice, chubby, Pickwick face, with a sweet little rosebud mouth, and thero is a warm radiance about his spectacles which would ripen a watermolon in Nova Zembla. "I ain not so badly hurt as vou think Mice, and can yet protect active, and he soon sank into a sweet, refreshing sleep, the first since he had lHDrn brought*lnto the hospital. The Like a ray of loveliest sunshine she entered, and an exclamation of pleasure fell from her lips at sight of tier •hock of tiie shot made me feel faint, but it has passed, liaise me up !n your arms, dearest, so I can see over the rocks. I will yet beat them back. They shall never harm you, my beloved. liaise mo up. There — now rouse your hopes. Ah! hear their fiendish yells! They think they have us noD*, but will soon learu their error." injja tfoon bent over him and noted his strong, regular breathing, and softly "Oh! you dear, brave, noble fellow. Perhaps 3*our action in coming upon such a perilous mission to rescue his daughter may have great weight in breaking down papa's prejudice, and when he realizes that it was you who restored me to his arms he may look upon you with favor and no longer oppose our hearts' fondest desires." nurj lover. "Lieut. Thornton, allow me to present my daughter, Miss Sanford. Alice, dear, this is First Lieut. Edward Thornton, a new officer just assigned to duty with 1$ Troop, Sixth cavalry. Maggie McCarthy was married somewhat late in lifo when her old friends had begun to think she never would tako a mate. They were consequently tuueli interested in her housekeeping and professed tbemsolves greatly amazed as day after day proved that she really loved Jim and was not worn out with having him "underfoot" Maggie made a delightful wife, and when her baby came her happiness was complete. Old Maid. felt his pnlst •client! Excellent!" he said to 15rown, my brave boy, you ortli a whole regiment of dead men yet." In appearance Senator Georgo "Frisbie Hoar is a combination of Denman Thompson and Horace Greeley, but a more olassical cuss never ransacked tho tomes of forgotten hire. A speech by Mr. Hoar, with no allusion to Mithridates or other still earlier dates, may be safely regardo-d as a fraud. He wears a short sack coat, and when he tries to look severe it is like tho frown of an illuminated plum pudding. Considerate. himself. Little Charley—Papa, will you buy mo a drum? "Stop, sir-, not a word!" tho old man interrupted when Brown essayed to speak. You have orders to not talk, and a good soldier alwaysobeys orders. Eh, Sunshine? Not a word, sir, nor an attempt to utter a word. I hope to soon see you ready to return to duty. When you are ready to leave the hospital report to me for instructions. I will see you again, sir. Sunshine, take good care of him." And tho old officer walked away. Tlie old man darted out of t.lis- door to hide the tears that he could no longer force back, and the lovers Fond Father—Ah, but, my Doy, you will disturb mo very much if I do! Alice exerted all her strcr lug as he requested, and ag- When Col. Sanford found his daughter once more safe in her home, he acted in a manner that at times almost made her fear he was losing his reason. He would call her many times a day to come to him, and clasping her closely in his arms, as if he feared she might again be taken from him, would weep like a child and mutter praises and thanks to Heaven for her deliverance from death. The old man's heart was filled with joy immeasurable, and the light of love was never before so bright as now as he gazed upon her lovely face. were Charley—Oh, no, papal I won't drum except when you're asleep.—London Million. "Tliat has been the uppermost suhr ject of my thoughts during the entire trip, and I pray God that it may be as rant,' out as the Indians, supposi had been killed, were securing their ponies and preparing for a descent upon the maiden. Again they sought shelter behind the rocks and resumed their desultory lire. clasped'in cacti other's arms. "Ned, dear, what is the matter with papa? What did he mean by such an introduction?" Thus she went on in mock reproof. The happy tones of her voice and the arch, lovirg smile which accompanied her words did him more good than could any medicine in the post dispensary."All, ye should see Jim wid the baby I" exclaimed her friends among themselves. "Don't he admire it jiatl Listen to him, an ye'd think 'twas the fust choild ivor born into the warrld." Slie Approved. Happening to cast his eyes back over Tiis shoulder his heart ceased for a A moment to beat and his blood ran cold in his veins. we hope." As 1111 answer he placed the comtn "Here's my new bonnet. What do you think of it?" The effort proved too great for the wounded man, and he sank back heav ily into Alice's arms. She now becami almost paralyzed with fright ns sin sion in her hands, and a hasty plan at the document told her all. With a This is a source of groat sorrow to Senator Hoar, for, of coarse, tho ideal statesman is srpposed to bo soaked in austere melanoholy and unable for a moment to shako CD,f tho gigantio burden of his job. For my own part, I rather scorn this idea of continued and massive dignity, this moving about with the ponderous action of a new piano or a county seat in Nebraska. glad cry she ngaiu clasped her arm around the young officer's neck and u; Mrs. Fling—Oh, yes, it's awfully becoming to your maid. I saw her in the park with it ou.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A band of mounted Indians came sweeping down the bluff but half a mile behind them. here and—' "But, Alice, I mint talk. I cannot lie rilAl'TEIl XXI get her they wept tears of jCD One day a caller came away more liau over impressed by Jim's fatherly lie looked up into her blanched face, and with a smile so ghastly that it seemed to betoken the approach of death said, faintly: gently let him down upon the g: "No, you mvrt not talk, you rebellious darling." Then glancing around to see that no one was near -she implanted a kiss on his palo lips and continued: "There now, see if that will seal your lips. Vou must just lie there and let mo do all the talking. I'apa says I am a little nuisance of a chatterbox anyhow, so I guess I can talk enough for both of us." What a bright, generous flood of sunlight he left behind him. Two young hearts glowing withnn encouragement that filled their souls with happiness supreme. "Your father says you must :• mention the name of Private !!r again, darling," he said, with a sm face. ction Outclassed. lilure- as a prima donna? "My God, we are pursued," he cried, striking the spurs deeply into the sides •of the horse. "Cling closely, my loved one, for it will now bo a desperate ride for life." As I'm a livin soul, ho gets up ivery in two hours afore his work so he wash and dress the baby himsilfl" Can't slu? siua '•So she's a f The day following her return he called her into his business office and "Oh. yes, but she is timid when it comes t«D a hand to hand fight."—Detroit "I just don't care what papa say will always love him. He was my li love, and the name Private ilrown v always be a cherished one in my hear "Why do you weep, Alice, darli am not badly hurt. I feel very —weak—but—it is only—only loss of blood. I will rally in a moment Kiss me, Alice. The pressure of youi dear lips will nerve me—me—mo for one mo—more effort." I The days passed rapidly, and despite the pain ho suffered they were happy days to Private Ilrown, for Alice was ever by his cot encouraging him with her devoted love. Nor was she alono in her attentions to the wounded man. Every officer and lady in the carrison "Wash the baby? An dress him?" exclaimed another. "Now, • thin, why ried. Tho statesman, with his right hand immersed in tho breast of his frock coat and wearing a look of profound intellectual pain, should have gone out with the peculiar pantaloons worn during the Wefegterian era. This air is one that Tribun "May God in Heaven protect us," she (murmured, as the fierce yells of the (pursuing Indians reached their ears. savod Sunshine, that young scapegrace cd you from God only knows what and I must reward him. I want to tell me all you know of him ■ your iirst meeting to the present Luxury. How handsome he looked in his new uniform, with the straps of a first Heu: tenant resting on his shoulders. And how proud the day when Col. Sauford don't Maggie do it hersilf?" Tlir lightly sings Hoidr tlic . aiding sea, "Beho!;T! The summer tourist brings My daily moals to me." . —'Washington Star. J "Maggie!" was tho scornful response "Maggie, that old maidl She'd disthroy it "—Youth's Companion. The noble horse heard the savage cries of the pursuers, and seemed to fron tinu "Then tell me all that has happened