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THE PEITSBUEG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1892.
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TALK WITH TEACHERS.
Eminent Instructors From Abroad
Tell of Advanced Methods
IS THE PUIJLIC SCHOOL WORK.
Kiss Coffin Lectures on the Eeal Eights of
Children.
TEOFESBOR BDSSELL TALKS OX MUSIC
Instructing teachers in improved methods
of teaching the young was the burden of the
work done at yesterday afternoon's session
of the Allegheny County Teachers' Insti
tute at the Pittsburg High School. The
large domed chapel, where the teachers
convene, was crowded to the doors at both
the morning and afternoon sessions, and the
large body of auditors were closely at
tentive. During the morning Miss Mathilde B.
Coffin, ot Detroit, detailed her new method
of instruction in reading, and Prof. Emory
P. Russell talked on his new ideas regard
ing musical instructions, as was published
in The Dispatch yesterday in an inter
'wew with the eminent instructor.
tounty Superintendent Hamilton in
augurated his new method of holding the
institute. There were four divisions ap
pointed acd each of the instructors deliv
ered their remarks in separate rooms, to
those who were interested in the different
class's. Prof. Russell on music. Hiss
Coffin in reading, Prof. Deane on numbers,
and Dr. Maltby on measures were the di
visions at the morning session and the
tame instructors with different subjects
acted similarly at the atccrnoon session.
The Klchta or Children.
"The Rights of Children" was the subject
of an interesting a-ldress by the Hon. A. S.
Praner. ex-State Superintendent of New
York schools, after the afternoon sessiqn
had been assembled with prayers and music.
The gentleman thinks every American
child has as much right to be protected
Irom the evils of the home and other in
fluences as the American citizen has the
richt to be protected from the evils of the
land. "Een parents should not be su
preme in the control of children," con
tinued Mr. Draper. "There are home
evils as there are other evils.
The child should be protected from
thesp. Every child is born with
the inherent right to an elementary educa
tion and is justly entitled to attend school
in a proper building witn the proper facili
ties. It is their right to be given a sound
educational treatment without unnecessary
experiments. The old system of teaching
was by terrorizing the pupil. This must
be eliminated. Every child has an equal
right; their temperaments should be con
sidered; a uniformity ot treatment should be
inaugurated; favoritism should be abolished;
punishments should not be inflicted to-day
lor a misdemeanor committed yesterday;
they should be allowed to act naturally, and
when these necessary features do not obtain
the child should be protected from his
teacher. "Work corrects troubles.
Keep thft Papll Hay.
"The pupil should be kept busy. Engage
their affections. ArouBe their enthusiasm.
Awaken their energies and ambition. Do
this to your pupil and he will live to call
you blessed."
The stirring remarks of the speaker
aroused much enthusiasm and general ap
proval was evidenced bvgenerons applause.
The following nominations were then
made for the Committee on Permanent
Certificates: J?rof. E. B. McRoberts, Prof.
Brooks, C. B. Cook, W. D. Brightwell, J.
AV. Thomas, C J. Fisher, J. D. Anderson
and Miss M. J. Marshall This committee
is the most important one of the Institute
and the election to membership is con
sidered a high honor. The election will
occur alter the morning adjournment to-day.
The classes were then divided and the
four instructors repaired to their class
work. Miss Coffin addressed the teachers
of the lower grades upon instructing pupils
in the first branches of reading. She ad
vised her hearers to bring into prominence
the personality of the pupils to attract
their attention to the subject "Also,"
continued the lady, "attract their optical
attention by using colored chalks in black
board work. Do not attempt to progress
too rapidly. That confuses the little ones.
Sentence Method Approved.
"I approve of instructing by the sentence
method. Have a variety of idioms.
Select a subject and allude to it differently.
This will dwell with a pupil, and will give
them various methods "of expressing their
thoughts."
Prof. Russell talked of musical instruc
tion, and advised teaching by tone instead
of by note and rote. Prof. Deane discussed
numbers and the proper gradation of prac
A WAR MEMORY.
It does not matter where it was. I do not
want other people that is to say, thoss
who were around us to recognize Sister or
my sell. It is not likely that she will see
this and I am not sure that 6he knows my
name. Of course, some one may draw her
attention to this paper, and she may remem
ber that the name affixed to it is that which
I signed at tbe foot of a document we
made out together namely, a return of
deaths. At the foot of this paper our names
stood one beneath the other stand there
still, perhaps, in some forgotten bundle of
papers at the War Office.
I only hope that she will not see this, for
she might consider it a breach of profes
sional etiquette; and I attach great im
portance to the opinion of this woman,
whom I have only seen once in my whole
life. Moreover, on that occasion, she was
subordinate to me more or less in the po
sition of a servant
Suffice it to say, therefore, that it was
war-time, and our trade was what the
commercial papers call brisk. A war
better remembered of the young than of
the old, because it was, comparatively
speaking, recent The old fellows seem
to remember the old fights better those
lights that were fought when their blood
was 6till young and the vessels thereof un
clogged. w
It was, by the way, mv first campaign.
but I was not new to the business of blood;
for I am no soldier only a doctor. My
only uniform my full-parade dress is a
Ted cross on the arm of an old blue serge
jacket Raid jacket being much stained with
certain dull patches which are better not
investigated.
All who have taken part in war doing
the damage or repairing it know that
things are not done in quite the same way
when ball cartridge is served out instead of
blank. The correspondents are very fond
of reporting that the behavior of the men
suggested a parade which simile it is to
be presumed was borne in upon their fan
tastic brains by its utter inapplicability.
The parade may be suggested before the
real work begins when it is a question of
marching away from the landing stage; but
alter the work our work has begun, there
is remarkably little resemblance to a re view.
AVe are served with many official papers
which we never fill In, because, on the spur
of the moment, it is apt to suggest itself
that men's lives are more important. We
misapply a vast majority of our surgical
supplies, because the most important item
is usually left behind at headquarters, or at
the seaport depot. In fact, we do many
things that we should leave undone, and
tical problems. Dr. Maltby delivered a
short address upon food and clothing of
pupils, advising bis hearers to attend to
the material education incidental to the
mental
The meeting then adjourned until 9:30
o'clock this morning.
A LOVE TRAGEDY.
One Dead and Another Dylns; a Kesu!t
of a Man's Passion.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 2a A terrible
tragedy occurred at the home of ex-Mayor
Stephen Buhrer, No. 327 Franklin avenue,
about 9:30 o'clock this morning. The re
sult is that George Talcott is dead and Ed
Hutchinson lies at St Vincent's Hospital
in a precarious condition. Hutchinson,
who lived on Birch street, arrived at the
Buhrer home with the intention of calling
upon Miss Eliza Jackson, a domestic em-
j ployedjhere. Trouble was feared and Mrs.
Hutchinson began to raise a disturbance,
nf Tnp.A Tlfntt tfiA fnmilir pnarhmftn.
was called to put him out ot the house. '
When the coachman appeared Hutchinson
drew a revolver and shot Talcott in the
neck and mouth, killing him almost in
stantly. A physician was called, and he
was put out of the house by the infuriated
man. Hutchinson then threatened to shoot
Mrs. Buhrer. He finally turned the re
volver on himself and fired. He was taken
to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he is still j
alive.
CABED FOE WIDOWS AND OBFHAK8.
How an Indians Contractor Behaved to
the Families of .Employes.
HARTronD City, Ind., Aug. 23. At the
recent accident here, at theglass works, four
of the five men killed were married,
Alexander Moore leaving a paralytic wife
with three children. The contractor, J. V.
Smith, was away at the time of the sad
occurrence. He came home at once, and is
almost broken hearted.
He saw that all of the dead were properly
cared for and buried, and then promptly
sought out the bereaved widows and orphans
and supplied their every want, and to make
them comfortable in the future, gave to
each widow $1,000, paid all expenses and
placed them upon the payroll. The Coroner
rendered a verdict of an unforeseen and un
avoidable accident To say that Mr. Smith
has exalted himself in the estimation of
everyone, feebly expresses it He de
serves the encomiums, good will and con
fidence of the publio for this manifestation
of manliness and a tender regard for his
employes exhibited in this transaction.
EOANOKE HAS A FLOOD.
A Cloud Bursts and One or More
Are
Browned In the Deluge.
Roanoke, Va., Aug. 23. A cloud burst
visited Roanoke last night at 11 and within
half an hour over $100,000 of damage bad
been done and one life if not more was lost
Iu the business portion of the city, which is
in low land, were the principal sufferers.
Every store on Salem avenue and Jefferson
was flooded and their contents badly dam
aged. A large sewer is being built along Salem
avenue, and this ditch was soon 'flooded
with water. Barney Smith, a blacksmith,
at the Roanoke machins works, fell into it
and was drowned. His body was recovered
this morning. It is reported that two other
bodies have been found, but it is impossible
at this time to verify the report. Rain fell
in torrents during the night and is falling
now. Many sidewalks are washed away
and the electric plant flooded.
It Ought to Be Popular.
Bakers as a class are not particularly pro
gressive In a business way. Theie aro ex
ceptions, however, and one of the most not
able ot these is the Marvin bakery of this
city. Mr. Marvin never lets slip an oppor
tunity to please the public Even the issues
of the Presidental campaign have reoeived
Ills attention, and the result Is a "Grand
father's Hat" cake that has made itsappear
ance within the last few days, and which no
doubt will bo found at all the leading gio
cerr stores, it is said to be a delightful
cake, and. If a name goes Tor anything-, it
ought to bo Immensely popular.
ISO Head of Horses at Auction.
The Arnheim Live Stock Company, limi
ted, at 82 Second avenue, -Pittsburg, Pa.,
will offer at auction Thursday, August 25, at
10 o'clock a, x.
37 head of single driving horses, pacers
and trotters, without record, that can beat
2.W.
12 Kentucky saddlers, broke to do all traits.
9 teams of matched carriage horses."
50 head of horses and mares that weigh
1,100 to 1,700 lbs apiece; suitable for all pur
poses. 3 imported Percheron stallions and one
impoited Percheron mare, legisteied in the
American and Frenoh stud book. Pull ped
igree given at the sale.
10 (three) 8-year old Percheron coits. Also
consignment 50 head of bus horses and
mares.
All stock sold without reserve, to the high
est bidder. The Arnheim Live Stock Com
pany, limited, conduct their sales on pure
business principles. Ko by-blddlng allowed
at their sales. AH stock guaranteed as rep
resented. Sale positive; no postponement
on account of the weather.
omit to do more which we are expected
officially to do.
Tor some reason presumably the absence
of better men I was sent up to the front
before we had been three days at work. Our
hospital by the river was not full when I
received orders to follow the flying columns
with two assistants and the appliances of a
field hospital.
Out of this little nucleus sprang the larg
est depot for sick and wounded that was
formed during the campaign. We were
within easy reach of headquarters, and I
was fortunately allowed a free hand. Thus
our establishment in tbe desert grew daily
more important, and finally superseded the
hospital at headquarters.
We had a busy time, for the main col
umn had now closed up with the first ex
peditionary force, and our troops were in
touch with the enemy not 40 miles away
from me.
In the course of time when the authori
ties learned to cease despising the foe,
which is a little failing in British military
high places it was deemed expedient to
fortify us, and then, in addition to two
medical assistants, I was allowed three
government nurses. This last piece of news
was not bailed with so much enthusiasm as
might have been expected. I am not in
lavor of bringing women anywhere near
the front They are, for their own sakes
and for the peace of minds of others, much
better left behind. If they are beyond a
certain age they break down and have to
be sent back at considerable trouble;' that
is to say an escort and an ambulance cart,
of which latter there are never enough. If
thev are below the climacteric ever so lit
tle below it they cause mischief, of another
description, and the wounded are neglected;
for there is no passion of the buman heart
so cruel and selfish as love.
"I am sorry to hear it,'' I said to light
hearted little Sammy Fitz-Warrener, of the
Naval Brigade, who brought me the news.
"Sorry to hear It? Gad! I shouldn't be.
The place has got a different look about it
when there are women-folk around. They
are so jolly clever in their way worth ten
of your red-cross ruffians."
"That is as it may be," I answered,
breaking open the case of whisky which
Sammy had brought up on tbe carriage of
his machine-gun for my private consump
tion. -
He was taking this machine-gun np to
the front, and mighty proud he was of it
"A clever gun," he called It: "an al
mighty clever gun."
He had ridden alongside of it sitting on
the top of his horse as sailors do through
70 miles of clear desert without a halt;
watching over it nd tending it as he might
have watched and tended his mother, or
perhaps some other woman.
"Gad! Dootor," he exclaimed, kicking
ont his sturdy legs and contemplating with
TROUBLE IN A FIRM.
Keceiver Asked for the Lewis Foun
dry and Machine Company.
VOTING A DEAD MAN'S STOCK.
Electric Light Inspector Entledge Sued for
Heavy Damages. .
THE HEWS OP TBE COUKTY COUBTS
A hearing was had before Judge Collier
yesterday on an application for the ap
pointment of a receiver for the Lewis
Foundry and Machine Company. The suit
was brought by Isaao W. Prank and Ed
ward Kneeland against the Lewis Foundry
and Machine Company, limited, John L.
Lewis, John Davies, Mrs. Annie O. Lewis,
Mrs. M. A. Lewis Marshall, Annie O.
Lewis, W. A. Herron,Mrs. Bella D. Herron,
the executors of W. A. Richards, deceased;.
Thomas B. Richards and Mrs. ( Mary Bich7
ards.
The Foundry and Maohine Company, it
was stated in the plaintiffs' bill, is a limited
partnership association and was organized
with a capital stock of 37,000. John L.
Lewis was one of the largest stockholders,
and at his solicitation the plaintiffs bought
stock and Frank became Secretary and
Kneeland Treasurer and Manager. Under
their management, they say, it became a
paying concern. John L. Lewis, they
allege, then wanted to oust the plaintiffs
and get control of. the concern. To
do this he placed small Bhares with
the various members of his family
to admit them as members and voted the
stock of W. A. Richards, deceased, for
whom he was executor. The plaintiffs
were then put out of office. The election of
the transferees as members, it is alleged, is
illegal because Lewis could not legally vote
Richards' stock, and the vote would then
have been a tie and no election. They as
sert, further, that Lewis, as head of the
concern, has not attended to the business,
but by long absences has neglected it and
the plaintiffs conducted it They have offered
Lewis $150,000 for the interest held by him
self and his family, but be has refused it,
though the amount is in excess of the credit
on the books. The plaintiffs ray the arti
cles of the association are defective and
their interests endangered, and they ask
that the partnership be dissolved, a receiver
appointed to take possession and administer
and account for all property and assets and
make a distribution; also to declare the
election of Lewis' family as members of the
concern illegal.
At the hearing on the motion for a re
ceiver, S. Schoyer, Jr., appeared for the
plaintiffs, and Major A. M. Brown and J.
S. Ferguson for the defendants. A decision
was reserved.
SUED FOE LOOKJHQ UPWABD.
An Electric Ight Inspector Asked for
Heavy Damages.
Andrew Hanretty yesterday entered suit
in behalf of himself and nine-year-old
daughter, Margaret, against the Allegheny
County Light Company for damages for in-
i'nries to the daughter. He states that on
unel Inspector Rutledge, employed by
the company, was driving along Fifth ave
nue in a buggy, looking np at the com
pany's electric light lamps and wires. He
paid no attention where he was going and
was driving "rapidly. As a result he
knocked down and run over Hanrettv's
child. She was severely injured and flO,
000 damages are asked for her and f5,000 for
her father.
t Discharged From the Workhouse.
A petition was filed yesterday for a writ of
habeas corpus to secure the release of
Charles Miller from the workhouse. He
was committed July 15 by Magistrate Mc
Kenna for 90 days on a charge of disorderly
conduct. He alleged that it was his first
offense and the sentence was illegal. Judge
McClung heard his application and ordered
his discharge from the workhouse.
Executions Against Brewerand Buttermen.
Wm. a Pier, receiver of the William
Tann Brewing Company, yesterday issued
an execution against .George Tann for (5,273,
and one against Charles Manning for (3,195.
An execution was issued bv the Pittsburg
Beef Company against W. F. Scott and
Blanche IC Scott, doing business as the
Union Butter Company, for (554 22.
Condemned for a Postofflce Site.
United States District Attorney Lyon
yesterday filed the report of the viewers
appointed to appraise the Economy Sav
ings Bank property, at Beaver Falls, con-
demned lor a sue for a Government post-
omce. xne viewers nxed the value
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some satisfaction the yellow hide top boots
which he had bought at the Army and Navy
stores. I know the boots well, and avoid
them. Gadl Doctor, you should see that
gun on the warpath, Travels as light as a
tricycle. And when she begins to talk
my starsl Click click click click. For
all the world like a steam launch's engine
mowing 'em down all the time. No work
for you there. It will be no use you and
your stalactites progging about with skew
ers for the bullet Look at the other side,
my boy, and you'll find the beauty has
just walked through them.
"Soda or plain?" I asked in parenthe
sis. "Soda. I don't like the flavor of dead
camel. A big drink, please. I 'feel as if I
were lined with sandpaper."
He slept that night in the little shanty
built of mud and roofed chiefly with olii
palm mats, which was gracefully called the
head surgeon's quarters. That is to say, be
Eartook of such hospitality as I had to ofler
ini.'
Sammy and I had met before he had
touched a rope or I a scalpel We had
hailed from the same part of the country
down Devonshire way, and to a limited ex
tent we knew each other's people, which
little phrase has a vast meaning in places
where men do congregate.
We turned in pretty early I on a hos
pital mattress, he in my bed; but Sam
would not go to sleep. He would lie with
his arms above his bead (which is not an at
titude of sleep), and talk about that ever
lasting gun.
I dozed off to the' murmur of his voice
expatiating on the extreme cunning of the
ejector, and awoke to hear details of tbe
rifling.
We did not 'talk of home, as do men in
books when lying by a camp fire. Perhaps
it was owing to the absence of that pic
turesque adjunct to a soldier's life. We
talked chiefly of the clever- gun; and once,
just before he fell asleep, Sammy returned
to the question of the nurses.
"Yes," he said, "the head sawbones down
there told me to tell yon that he had got
permission to send yon three nurses. Treat
em kindly, Jack, for my sake. Bless their
hearts I They mean welL"
Then he lell asleep, and left me thinking
of his words anjl of the spirit w.hich had
prompted them.
I knew really nothing af this man's life,
bnt he seemed singularly happy, with that
happiness which only comes when daily ex
istence has a background to it He spoke'
habitually of women, as if he loved them
all for the sake of one; and this not being
precisely my own position, I was glad when
he fell asleep.
The fort was astir next morning at 4. The
bugler kindly blew a blast into our glass
less window which left no doubt about it
"That means all bands on deck, I take
it," said Sam, who was one of the few men
capable of good humor before tiffin tfme.
By 6 o'clock be was ready to go.1 It was
easy to lee what kind of officer this cheery
sailor was by tbe way his men worked.
111,000, and the Court approved the re
port. Foreclosing a jlallroad Mortgage.
In the United States Circuit Court yes
terday a bill in equity was filed by Wood
bury & Moulton against the Allegheny and
Kinxua Railroad, asking for the foreclosure
of a mortgage against the company for fSO,
000 with a year's interest.
TOOK ALL IN. SIGHT.
New Brunswick's Defaulter Surprised His
Brethren tn the Church,
St. JOHN, N. B., Aug. 23. Develop
ments in connection with the transactions
of G. Herbert Lee, who disappeared Satur
day, are the talk of the town. He had held
many positions of trust and was supposed
to be a model young man, being prominent
in church work and vestryman of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church. It is Impossible yet tr
obtain definite information of the different
estates which had been left in his charge
but it is believed that all are very niucl
depleted.
It is said the Drury estate will suffer the
most, the loss being estimated at from
(30,000 to (40,000. The Hagen estate, it is
thought, will also lose heavily. Lee is de
tained in Boston. It is the opinion of some
lawyers here that he can be brought back as
an embezzler. No one seems to know just
what Lee's difficulty was, but it is believed
he has been speculating in pork for some
time and lost heavily.
STOLE A SET OF BALLS.
Two Billiard Players Arrested at Rochester
and Brought Back.
For a week past proprietors of billiard
halls in this city have been complaining of
the theft of the ivory balls used in the
game. The halls are costly, and the loss of
a set of them is a serious matter to a pro
prietor. The latest complaint came from
No. 77 Fifth avenue and suspicion fastened
on Abe Rummel and Harry Gill, two young
well dressed fellows, whom the police say
always seem to have money, yet never work
and put in their time loafing around bil
liard halls. They left the city Monday
morning, but were captured at Rochester
by Detective Lazarus, of Beaver county,
yesterdav. Detective Robinson brought
them to this city last evening ou warrants
charging them with larceny. The police
think they are guilty of all" the thefts re
ported. DANCING THE MESSIAH DANCE.
Otoe Indians, Joined by Other, Create
Alarm Among Western Settlers.
Guthrie, O. T., Aug. 23 Deputy Mar
shal Lily came in this morning from Otoe,
near Ponca, bringing in nearly a score of
Indians. Lily states that the entire Otoe"
tribe are at th'eir camp dancing the Messiah
dance.
He says that recently they were joined
by the Ponras, Osages and other small
neighboring tribes and that the dance was
on in earnest, and that considerable anxiety
-was manifested by the whites in the neigh
borhood. t
Excursion for Poor Children.
The Association for the Improvement of
the Poor will on Friday give a fresh air
excursion on the steamboat J. M. Gusky.
Between five and six hundred children of
the poor families under the care of the
association will be given a trip up the
Monongahela river. The service of the
steamboat is given free by Captain Harry
Gould; bread, crackers and cakes" by
Marvin, and the Monongahela Navigation
Company will charge no lock tolls. The
association would like to hear from some
band that will play music in return for an
enjoyable boat ride.
The Jnry Scored the Railroad. Company.
The Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston
Railroad Company was censured by the
Coroner's jury in the case of Katie
Johannes, aged 11, who was killed on Mon
day while crossing r the tracks at South
Twenty-sixth street. Safety gates and a
watchman were suggested as life savers at
that point.
When Nature
Needs assistance it may be best to render it
promptly, but one should remember to use
even the most perlect lemedies only when
needed. The best and most simple and
gentle remedy is the Syrup of FIRs, manu
factured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
A Sellable Man.
M. J. Griuer, a Justice of the Peace at
Print, Mich., says one bottle of Chamber
lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
saved his life. He had been down with
bloody flux for three weeks when he com
menced using this medicine. It soon eured
him,'aud he believes saved his life. Ho
also says it saved the lives of three railroad
men in that vicinitr. 'Squire Griner is a
reliable and conscientious man. and what
ever he says can be depended upon. For
sale by druggists. vrrhsa
While they were getting tbe machine-gun
limbered up Sam came back to my quarters
and took a hasty breakfast
"Feel a bit down this morning," he said,
with a gay smile. "Cheap very cheap. I
hope I am not going to flunk it It is all
very well for some of you long-faced fel
low's, who don't seem to have much to live
for, to fight for the love of fighting. I don't
want to fight any man; I'm too fond of 'em
all for that"
I went out after breakfast, and I gave
him a leg up on to his very sorry
horse, which he sat like a tailor or "a sailor.
He held tbe reins like tiller lines, and in
dulged in a pleasant smile at the effect of
the yellow boots.
"No great hand at this sort of thing," he
said, with a nod of farewell. "When the
beast does anything out of the common, or
begins to make heavy weather of it, I am
not"
He ranged np alongside bis beloved gun,
and gave the word of command with more
dignity than he knew what to do with.
All that day I was employed in arranging
quarters for the nurses. To do this I was
forced to turn some of our most precious
stores out into the open, covering them with
a tarpaulin, and iu consequence felt all the
more assured that my chief was making a
great mistake.
At 9 o'clock in the evr ning they arrived,
one of the juniors having ridden out in the
moonlight to meet them. He reported them
completely exhausted; informed me that he
had recommended them to go straight to
bed; and was altogether more enthusiastio
about the matter than I personally or offi
cially cared to see.
He handed me a pencil note Irom my chief
at headquarters, explaining that he bad not
written me a dispatch because he had nothing
but a J pen, with which instrument he coulfl
nqt make bimself legible. It struck me that
he was suffering from a plethora of assist
ance, and was anxious to reduce his stall!
I sent my enthusiastic assistant to the
nurses' quarters with a message that thev
were not to report to me until they had had
a night's rest, and turned in.
At midnight I was awakened by the
orderly, and summoned to the tent ot the
officer in command. This youth's face uas
considerably whiter than his linen. He was
consnlting with his second-in-command, a
boy of 22 or thereabouts.
A man covered with sand and blood was
sitting in a hammock-chair, rubbing his
eyes and drinking something out of a
tumbler.
"News from the front?" I inquired with
out ceremony, which hindrance we 'had
long since dispensed, with
"Yes, and bad news. "
It certainly was not pleasant hearing.
Someone mentioned tbe word disaster, and
we looked at each other with hard, anxious
eyes. I thought of the women, and almost
decided to send them back before daylight
In a few moments a fresh man was
rousea out oi nis oea ana sent lull gallop
through the moonlight-across the desert to I
headquarters, and the officer In - command '
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Buok Vf ilkerson, wifemurderer, has been
sentenced to hang on September 30, at
Belton, Tex.
The terrible heat now prevalent in Ger
many has dried up grapes in JRbenlsb, Aus
trian and Baden vineyards.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Ttma says that the French wheat crop is
estimated at 102,000.000 hectolltro, and that
the high weight, 80 kilos per hectolltro, will
bring the production nearly up to the decen
nial average.
The London Standard's Shanghai corre
spondent says: "In reply to the Chinese
protest Bussla declares that the Russian
expedition under Colonel Tan off is simply
exploring, and does not Intend to occupy
the Painters."
The biggest strike in the history of the
Jimtown, Col., camp has Just been made In
tbe Shallow Creek (list lie ton the old Judge
Boy property. It has a lead of quartz, rich
in Bulphurets, which assays from 865 to 1,000
ounces In silver. (
Tlp-o-Tip, who claims to be a Zulu Prince,
'ut who is wanted In several oities for viola
ions of the laws, was arrested at Louisville,
'ty., Monday. The last place he operated
i as in xoieao. v.. wnere. with two wnlte
I confederates, he bioke Into and robbed
several nouses.
Another murder is reported in Perry
county, Ind. At Derby, a small town In tbe
eastern part of tbe county, Jim Carr killed
Cal Bryant by stabbing him four or five
times with a knife. Carr and Bryant bad
been old enemies and while at a dance en
gaged In a light.
Aflght occurred near Kennedy, Tex.,Mon
day between John Pace and Ambrose Col
lins, in which Collins was Instantly killed.
Another light occurred near Komes City be
tween Felix Burrls and Sam Henton and
Burris was shot through the bowels and ill
die. Henton was Instantly killed.
Eev. John Jayne.of Cincinnati, Is back in
tne .baptist pulpit, no was originally a
tanner, became an actor, and then entered
came an agnostic, married a lady possessed
or $100,000, and entered the publishing busi
ness. Recently no declared his faith re
stored. Tbe whaling bark Northern Light, whose
orew of 26 men mutinied at Oun, Alaska, has
arrived at San Francisco. Tbe bark was
ordered to San Franoisco for repairs, but the
crew claimed she was unseaworthy and
refused to go. They wero placed in irons for
three days, and then they gave in and the
whaler put to sea.
W. S. Daboll, the well-known actor, com
mitted suicide yesterday afternoon by tak
ing poison at the residence of 6. W. Slocum,
at Ilolliston, Mass., wheie he has been resid
ing with bis wife a good portion of the
season. He was under engagement to ap
pear at the Tremont Theater, Boston, last
evening, in "Purltana," and had been in
Boston rehearsing his part for the past few
weeks.
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began to regain confidence. I'think he ex
tracted it from the dispatch-bearers
tumbler. ' After all, he was not responsible
tor much. He was merely a connecting
link, a point of touch between two greater
men.
It was necessary to get my men to work
at once, but I gave particular orders to
leave the nurses undisturbed. Disasterat
the front meant bard work at the rear. We
all knew that, and endeavored to make
ready for a sudden rush of wounded.
The rush began before daylight As tbey
came in we saw to them, dressed their
wounds and packed them as closely as pos
sible. But the stream was continuous.
They never stopped coming; they never
gave us a moment s rest
At 6 o'clock I gave orders to awaken the
nurses and order them to prepare their quar
ters for the reception of the wounded. At
0:30 an Army Hospital Crops man came to
me in the ward.
"Shockin' case, sir, just come in," he said.
"Officer. Gun busted, sir."
"Take him to my quarters," I said, wip
ing my instruments on my sleeve.
In a few minutes I follow ed, and on en
tering my little room the first thing I saw
was a pair of yellow boots.
There was no doubt about the boots and
the white duck trousers, and although I
could not see the face, I knew that this was
Sammy Fitz-Warrener come back again.
A woman one of the nurses for whom he
had pleaded was bending over the bed
with a sponge and a basin of tepid water.
As I entered she turned upon me a pair of
calmly horror-stricken eyes.
"Ohl" she whispered meaningly, step
ping back to let me approach. I had no
time to notice then that she was one of those
largely built women, with perfect skin and
fair hair, who make one think ot what
England must have been beiore Gallic
blood got to be so widely disseminated in
the race.
"Please pull down that mat from'the win
dow," I said, indicating a temporary blind
whioh I had put up.
She did so promptly and returned to the
bedside, falling into position, as it were,
awaiting my orders.
I bent over the bed, and I must confess
that what I saw there gave me a thrill of
Horror which will come again at times so
long as" I live.
I made a sign to Sister to continue her
task of sponging away the mud, of which
oue ingredient uas sand.
"Both eyes," she whispered, "are de
stroyed. "
"Not the top of the skull," I said; "yon
must not touch that"
For we both knew that our task was
without hop
As I have said, I knew something of
Fitz-Warrener's people, and I eould not
help lingering there, where I could do no
good, when I knew that I was wanted else
where. Suddenly his lips moved, and Sister,
kneeling down on tbe floor, bent over him.
I could not hear what he said, but I think
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she did. I saw her lips frame the whisper
"Yes" in reply, and over her face there
swept suddenly a look of great tenderness.
Alter a little pause she rose and came to
me.
"Who is he?" she asked.
"Fitz-Warrener of the Naval Erigade.
Do you know'him?"
"No, I never heard of him. Of course
it is quite hopeless?"
"Quite?"
She returned toaher position by the bed
side with one arm laid across his chest.
Presently He began whispering again and
at intervals she answered him. It sudden
ly occurred to me that, in his unconscious
ness, he was mistaking her for someone
else?; and that she, for some woman's rea
son, was deceiving him purposely.
In a lew moments I was sure ot this.
I tried not to look; ut bl saw it all. I
saw his poor blind hands wander over her
throat and face, up to her hair.
"What is this?" he muttered quite dis
tinctly, with that tone of self-absorption
which characterizes the says of an uncon
scious man. "What is this silly cap?"
His fingers wandered on over the snowy
linen until they came to the strings.
As an aspirant to the title of gentleman,
I felt like running away many doctors
know this feeling; as a doctor, I could only
stay. ' ,
His fingers fumbled with the strings.
Still Sister bent over the bed. Perhaps she
bent an inch or two nearer; One hand was
beneath his neck, supporting tbe poor, shat
tered head.
He slowly drew off the cap, and his Sn
eers crept lovingly over the soft, fair hair.
"Marny," he said, quite clearly "you've
done your hair up, and you're nothing but
a little girl."
I could not help watching his fingers,
and yet I felt like a man committing sac
rilege. ,
"When I left you," said the bralriless
voice, "you wore ft down your back. You
were a little girl you are a little girl now."
And he slowly drew a hairpin out One
long lock fell curling to her shonlder. She
never looked up, never noticed me, but
knelt there like a ministering angel person
ating lor a time a girP whom we had never
seen.
"ily little girl," he added, with a low
laugh, and drew out another hairpin.
In a few moments all her hair was about
her shoulders. I had never thought that
she might be carrying such glory quietly
hidden beneath tbe simple nurse's cap.
"That is better," he said; "that is bet
ter." And he let all the hairpins fall on the
coverlet
"Now you aro my own Marny," he mur
mured, "are you not?"
She hesitated one moment
"Yes, dear." she said, softly, "I am your
own Marny."
With her disengaged baud she stroked his
Mn-himr cheek. Thera was a certain
science about ber touch, as if she had once I
Known something ox inest matters.
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Lovingly and slowly the smoke-grimed
fingers passed over the wonderful hair,
smoothing it
Then be grew more daring. He touched
her eye, her gentle cheeks, the quiet,
strong lips. He slipped to her shoulder,
and over the soft folds of her black dress.
"Been gardening?" he asked, coming to
the bib of her nursing apron.
It was marvelous how tbe brain, which
was laid open to the day, retained the con
sciousness of one subject so long.
"Yes dear," she whispered.
"Your old apron is all wetl" he said re
proachfully, touching her breast where the
blood bis own blood was slowly drying.
His hand passed on, and as it touched her
I saw her eyes soften into such a wonderful
tenderness that I felt as if I were looking
on a part ot Sisters life that waa sacred.
I saw a little movement as if to draw
back then she resolutely held her position.
But her eyes were dull with a new pain. X
wonder I have wondered ever since what
memories that poor senseless wreck of a
man was arousing in the woman's heart by
his wandering touch.
"Marny," he said, "Marny. It was not
too bard waiting for me?"
"No, dear." s
"It will be all right now, Mamy. The)
bad part is all past"
- "Yes."
"Marny, you remember the night I
left Marny F want no no, your lips."
"I knelt suddenly and slipped my hand
within his shirt, for I saw something in his
face.
. As Sister's lips touched his I felt his
heart give a great bound within his breast,
and then it was still.
When she lifted her face it was as pale as
hi.
I must say that I felt like crying a feel
ing which had not come to me tor twenty
years. I busied myself purposely with the
dead man, and when I had finished my task
I turned and found Sister filling in the
Eapers ner cap neatly tied her golden
air hidden.
I signed the certificate, placing my name
beneath hers.
For a moment we stood. Our eyes met
and we said nothing. She moved toward
the door, and I held it open while she
passed out
Two hours later I received orders from
the officer in command to send the nurses
back to headquarters. Our men were fall
ing back before the enemy. BlacJacood't.
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