VOL- xxxiv Spring and Summer Qhoes and Oxfords. The season brings many new and pretty styles in f.no shots and oxfords Ladies fine footwear —Tan color, Chocolate color, Patent leathers and line Dongolas, :n the new coin toe, Hull Dog toe, I-.mpire toe. cloth or leather tops ar.u :n ah sizes, __ A-A to E E Green Shoes. The Latest Craze. Have you seen tiiem. See the different stvles in ur in low,—Ladies and Gents' <_»reeu shoes on especially attractive lasts —several shades to choose from well-mpde, servicable and stylish. Men's And Boys' Fine Shoes. A:1 styles, all varieti-=> of footwear to be found in out -.nek. We aim to supply all wants—the wish for low prices alonj< with other-. ■ onr line of Men b, Boyf and Youths' fine shoes in russetts, vici ki'l and fine cilf, ::i the popular shades an : up to date styles. Complete line of Ladies' and Gents' patent leathers. I-ioe Kangaroo shoes and slippers for summer wear. Complete slock of bicycle shoes low cut shoes and Men's Romeo slippers— large stock of Men's and Bovs plow shoes, heavy box toe shoes which we are selling cheap. OXFORDS. Our stock of Oxford ties is very la r ge and owing tu the backward season leaves us with a large stock on hanils. These Oxforls are all made of fine Donj'ola and Russett leather, and we intend closing them out quickly, and in order to accom plish our purpose we have marked them away down, - > if you wish to purchase Oxfords cheap attend this sale. Full Stock of Leather and Shoe Findings Sole Leather Cut to Any Amount You May Wish to Purchase. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention JOHN BICKEL. 128 S. MAIN St. BUTLER, PA. fTpr' Afs -i G. F. KECK. , = 3 MERCANT TAILOR. P(jSu Jj&M % 142 North Main St.. Butler, Fa. J /ST When we make you a garmeut-KW a "lit ]?'' —>' ou may be sure that every st'tch in it ffm n J fy. is perfectly made. Our especial pridt is \V- \i".i f,i *#7 in the quality of our tailoring, we pay high I' A ;ri- wages and employ first-class tailors, so we ' I T get the highest grade of garments and you s know our prices are lower than others, and v,e keep the largest stock of goods to £ if select from. Call and examine for your * FITS GUARANTEED, reine/tilier the GF KECK Merchant Tailor, ■ * • 142 N. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. J. S. YOUNG. Tailor, flatter and GeruS Furnishing Goods. Summer heat makes the problem of looking, dressy and keeping cooi a hard one. But we've solved it; and for once economy, comfort and fashion go hand in haud. Our summer suits are finet in fabric, nobbier in pattern and more stylish in cut than «ver before, they fit your curves and yet they're not sweat bath outfits./ 'lhe pric ** may surprise you j. S. YOUNG. Tailor. 101 s. MAIN St., • - - BUTLER, I'A T. H. BURTON. T. H. BURTON, "THE BEST I've seen for the money," said a* 1 enthusiastic buyer who had visited every store, reserv.'fg ours for the last, "and when I leave my si2.ou I feel if * ' la( ' an $lB .oo suit for it." Nothing new to us, wO always did claim to give the best—always felt as if the _tmb lic knew it too. We would like you to compare any thing you see elsewhere for SIO.OO or even $12.00 with our $7.50. T. H. BURTON, T. H BURTON, 120 S. MAIN ST. BUTLER, PA. The Wise Grocer. Will try to induce his customers to buy the very "best %ro ceries in the market, because by so doing he makes a sale that will give satisfaction, and it is the pleased and satis fic have a vcrv la. asrortm- nt ■ ■tLt-' 4 of tooth pjmshes made expressly for us ~ wb''< h Ix-ar our stamp, these brush's \{Z// we K u»rantee and request the roturn of & A3*- r '-My j '/ff! anytV.it prove unsatisfactory. " You may need something for four - f:*--'- fiyh— cliappe knack which cheap tailors cannot j) j acquire 110 matter how j»fxxl is the r I t St • material they use. w & i i WE INVITE Vour inspection of our new- Spring Patterns an erfect cut and careful workman ship are a combination which give the best results and these are appreciated by the customer. In thai way he gets his money's worth A Standard Established. You see it yourself. No one need ex plain tft you why the clothes made by us are the most popular. Oura js a standard that makes them perfect We keep our goods up to the limit of perfec tion and our workmen all assist •n making the clothes first-class. It i c Hrtcy Fnoufih to into c loth and turn out clothes. It takes ability to obtain perfect re sults. Our tailors are the best, our cutter an at list and the per fect results as natural as the mis takes of others. Because our clothes are the best, people want them. WEDDING SUITS A SPECIALTY. Cor Diamond. Butler. P» if- ' ff\ )'[> m£s&%&&¥':■ (•J <^=== r The Place to Buy GAS COOK JNG; ANIJ II ['.ATIKG STOVKS, GAS HUIiNKRS AM) FIX TURKS, IIOSE, HATH TURS, F.NAM EL AND IMPROVED WELSHBACH MS BURNER. H O'BRIEN i ON 107 hast [ciTcrson St Wan run i aitiii i l men oit w«»mf.n u» (or rdipraialble i^tAblUkicd lioiiA)' Ui Milurv "*7H) « wl ; , J* jf rrfsum'iit. I <_•;» I . ijll- I'/I*' M'lf-iMl'ln- -->♦«! »-.4uril|>4 2 I'll * vi-jopi*. flu.' S'ntionn!, liiHuramcßlilg. Chicago BUTLKR, P-A.. THI'HSDAV, 17. IBiJT r .-T-. Gh 5- 1 3 - j -- iur A-r- \ >. ? by J. ti Lipt -.-on company.] XIV. The first Christmas a young fellow | spends in the army is one he is apt to i remember. V> hat he did in years be j fore, or ofv .ha; nature were the festiv - j ties in those '.hat followed, may.—ir. | course of time. become but ■■ ;igue an 1 ; shadowy pictures ... :'««• tl • mind'a eye. After something like 8 • • • u.. of service as a commissioned officer Mr. j Ijimbert was heard to say that never, ! ever, when a homesick plebe at Wert ! Point, had he passed so forlorn a j Christmastlde as that which Immedi ately succeeded his graduation. The rain was beating down in sullen | shower upon the bare and dripping j woods and sodden fields, the roads ' were deep in mud; camp, of which he ; was once more commander, v. a*» wet ' and cold and cheerless; in the adjoining I tent lay his senior officer groaning on i | a bed of pain, hands and face blistered i and bandaged, hair a.nd eyebrows g. ) while over uero> the way a pile of j scorched and blackened timbers, n j couple of chimneys, anil the stone | foundations, we.rc all that were left of Walton Hall. The story brought in of the big row at Vernon, though exaggerated, had been sufficiently confirmed in tin course of an hour or so that wintry evening of Lambert's last visit to t.he homestead, to warrant his being or dered thither with half tha company to "support the civil authorities In re storing peace." Close reported the j situation by telegraph to departmetl headquarters, and the oction taken bv I ldin, his dispatch reaching the gcn: ral commanding the n"xt day an hour or ! so aftxr that official hod bi-e:i ordered 1 from Wa.-!ilngton to send full parfieii- 1 lars of the disturba: <*• In his bailiwick. | for the federal official-- in the sooth and 1 the pn.rti.sar.;. of both sidrs of ihe po- ] litical questions ut issue had worked i the night wires foi a!' they V-. ri w>,-th, ' and the morning piper-- w ere | lurid with details of the tragic out- | break. It was midnight when I started on hit march with two excited . deputy marshals for guid'-s. Ftwaik* out tli--y met som horsemenco:. an old carriag - containing Walton I Scroggs, seriously wounde and a doe- j tor. With the escort Latnle-rt held brief pari* l - also with tl wor.nded n.an. ho. though w" full <>t pluck rid spirit-': his so 1 anxiety seemed to V "n the . core <»f h ! s *. !fe and the 'l.'«ck th< news uhl ui.e f/, • S lh\\r • h : i jij V , i\\l prwctM to "my irtMtet. MIM W" her. The account given the young ofli rycr of the circumstances hiuling up to th« fiir-ts differed radically from that with which he and his commander had thus far l»een favored. This was to be expected, as up to this point their nultf informant* were either negroes or a oaaple of whites of the Parmelee Ht4imp. In tfifc north, im a rule, the affair ap pear**! to have been u wanton and un provoked attack by Waitou Bcroggs una ti» friends upon some negroes who had 'IM9II instrumental in securing his ur j-est—nothing short, In fact, of a red handed act of vengeance, as was evi dent from the fact that immediately on his release- he and his party, armed to the teeth, had ridden over to Vernon, instead of going home, and without warning or apparent warrant had be gun the indiscriminate shooting down of certain unpopular whites and thef* luokless negro supporters. In the wuth, except among oerjain Journals published In the interest of the "radical" republican party, the oth er side of the story was promptly cir culated. "Capt. Bcroggs and a. friend, endeavoring to reach home by a cir cuitous route so as to avoid trouble after his release from j..i l ; where he had been incarcerated several weeks on baseless, txuroped-up charges, were set ■upon in the streets of Vernon by a blackguardly pack of loafers, insulted, abused and a-ssaulted, and finally com pelled in self-de'Vnse to draw their re volvers, not, however, until they had been fired upon. One odd circumstance connected with the*.e perein.lai uh'.X)t.!;• be rapes in those days was the fact that In footing up the score It was always found that, five negroes toone white, was oltwut the proportion of casualties. This may have he#n due to the jVct that *l o ratio of black to white lti every scrim mage was about five to one, or else that the Caucasian, being cooler und Jong skilled in the use of arms, woe more effective In close combat- At all events, when Impartially invewtlgated it witfl found that this Vernon dlffleullv dlf feled from lt« fellows in no particular > except one —that It "htul no political idgnlflcance what/'ver." Walton's friends, rejoicing with Idm In his re ' Jea- from durance vile, did so after the fashion, of t.he uay, and rnoroor less bad whisky was consumed before the stage ; 1 reached Vernon—where more fricnd.i 1 I were mi ', inure trvut'i tsdMltd) IPW where, as the devil of mischief would ' have it, he happe-ned inu> the bar of : ' the old tavern Just at the moment when ] two or three others, all white, were hap penning out. One of these was au old- ! time admirer of \\altoii, a man with whom hcroggs liud been at outs J for years. There was a jostle- unlntefl-1 - tionul -a sneer in the careless apology and a rankling «vord or two. i"• ■j makers drew the principals apart. In o doed, Walton was too happy to continue ] his journey home and i.-lhcrwaids to -J I care to quarrel. But h. • rlvm's heart j and brain were burning, and more ( liquor made matters ors<. Th horses v.-ere g brought around from the stable with the troop of vagrant nt-j groes loafing after, when, le-->pite the j efforts of his friends, the half- friend, was popu lar, well and widely known, and, ac cording to the somewhat accessible standard of the state and day, "a per fpet gentleman." It was characteristic of the time and place thut nobody pres ent. happened to think of the dead negro. Among these poor people Walton ficroggs was, perhaps deservedly un popular. The other mar, open-handed, generous, easy-going, had won not a little of their unreasoning yet enthusi astic regard. It was while Scrogga. with two advisers, was seated, sad and trembling, in a little room of the tavern ; awaiting the result of the doctor's ex -1 animation of his fainting foe that a I citizen came rushing in. "Perocgs, yxyu'll have to get out of this —quick. There was a meeting of that old Grant and Colfax club troing on tip the street, I and the niggers have rushed in and told 'em you killed Pete Jackson. The ! whole gang of 'em are coining." 1 Coming? They were already there. With furious yells and vengeful threat* a crowd, of negroes caine tc?u*- big along the village street stopping only a moment to verify the death of their friend, and—too late now for cx ' planotion or denial —they swarmed | madly into the office, demanding Wal ton's body. The battle was on in an In stant, a battle for life, a 00 seconds' war of raws, white against black, as it had to l>e, since none would listen to reason, and superior nerve arid aim told. Pis tols and the office v re- emptied about the same moment, but five more darkle® had gone to Join Pet® Jackson ut the n ercy sfrut, and the proprietor of the Houtherr Htar had di-d like the soldier ! he was defending the life of his guesA. 1 Sert ggs himself, seriously wounded, was borne away on the dark Tugaloo ' rvad, and far and wide the affrighted rerr'M's were scurrying >'■ r the coun try carrying tidings of riot ;u* they ran. It was nil a miserable blunder, but ! the end was not yet. Lambert and his detachment took station ut Vernon, when' i- t.h< negroes had fled in terror, and ill warring was at an end. (such v. ere his ord»T-\ rind he had no choice; yet it would have been wiser counsel to re.all him and his party within 2t hours. -Thee could ' .- e d i:e ls tter seri > :n ' !' i: i' Pi' 1 ' ; n« il - noi. 1 the whites it rematneu lor years an article of faith that desperate und de termined negroes bad followed Walton Bcroggs to his refuge and there wreaked vengeance for the blood of their fellowu. Among the negroes it hus never been looked oji UJ other than a direct mani festation* of divine v\ ratli upon their enemies and pereseeutors. How the house could have so suddenly burst into flame . veryone could theorize and no one explain; but at three o'clock In the morning the few men remaining with Capt. Close in camp were startled fiom their olcep by the report of the sentry's musket and the yell of "Fire!" and, springing from thetr tent*, were g-ie»?t«-d by the sound of crackling wood work and screams for aid arid the sight of Walton Hall one glare of flame. Rome men got there quicker than lit hers none were slow—but even the foremost of the soldiers were appalled and bewildered by what they saw and licnl Katherlne Walton and the qnnd roon maid Elinor wringing hands and imploring them to save the bed ridden mother, while Esther was mak ing vain effort to drag a helpless form through tflio blazing hallw ay. It was at this Juncture that Close came laboring up the path. He was slow, heavy, had a lunger distance to run, and was pant ing 1 aid, but he hurst through the squad already scrambling up the steps, sprang through the lire-flushing portul, und with the strength of an ox heaved Waiton, groaning, upon bl.s shoulders, tumbled him out Into the arms of his men, then turned on gasping Esther. "Where's your mother's room?" Al most fainting, she could only lean upon the pillar tor support and point through the vista, of smoke and fl.ime. Close leaped like a tiger, with Cun ningham and Murphy "* his back. An Instant, and these luttcr reappeared, blind, staggering, their fuces hidden In their hands, and burst out into the open air, stumbling heedlessly down the atcp» groan >ent ttp from the men; thetr captain was. gone. Tn vain Hums and Mcfiride strove to rush in to the rescue. Mortal mail could uot stand nueh heat And then, In the midst, of the wild walling of the t rrified und helpless women, came from around the north side of the hpu*»e a» exultant cheer. Those men who hud hud sense enough to strive to reach th»- side win dows were rewarded by the sudden thrusting open of the abutter# and the appearance of the well-known burly form of thel/ .u.pt»!ii with some ! blanket-shrouded shape In his arms, j The flames leaped forth from that very casement but. ft -Jtcond after Close and his precious burden were lowered to I tbe wnlk below. I Alel this W-ao the nUiry.of u brave I mun'ti deed I*e heard froni every lip, j t*ald Lambert, later, as he hastened , buck on receipt of the news; and this i was the response made ljy the brave j man himself, when his lieutenant bent I over his senior's seared and bandaged i face next day and tendered his soldierly I congratulations. Turning slowly over ! on his side, Clo»» pointed to the wreck j of a pair of uniform trousers, scorched find burned in a dozen places and lr- '■ retrievubiy ruined. "Leek," saiJ be. in< urofully. hem was my best pants." Th a it vf< und 'hat not only had the strange oh! fellow lost his hair and t Ward, mi l not a little of thaf cuticle oi his face and hands?, as well as those ' patched but | recious "best pant.-," but < hiit his eyesight was threatened. The pood eld loctor who Lad for so many years attended the Walton*, and who had come i.'. one? to. renew his mini-tra tioi.s unde.- the humble roof i.i town . tha.' was their temporary refuge, lis- I trued to the story of Close's heroism 1 with 0,-:irkened pulst and Tcindkd eye. i Tie and Mr. Barton Potts, who had -J 1 #®KJ *, y 1 Imm With his pr«cloua burosure had been too much fiT one - > fragile as th lady mother, and Mrs. Walton '-.as s:rklng fast. Walton Scroi'gs, too, was in des perate ease, though soothed by the knowledge that all the row Ht Vernon —that is, the human C.-.UM* of it all — was already out of t • r.ly es to how they v. . • but tin • e (Meted "to gH sh t ibrot ■■■<■. tb» ••••'•. to h'.r. :•.!«! • " ' ' • • r . - bcrt. v or"' • ft was long before the doctor came forth, and when lie did he called the youcg OiTieer aside, c quiver lit his voice und queer p;o : -ture about his spec tacles. "Have X ou KO expert on the ?ye and the ear in the army ? ' he ask. d. 'The captain should have the benefit Df the t eat advice without delay." Lambert said he would report the matter at once to department head piarters, and, while t hey were still talk ing, two men came riding out from ;o\\ n "old man Potts," beyond all loubt, and with him Lambert's rail way friend, th*' conductor, and these gentlemen, too, had come to "surren ler." Close could have had his fill of triumph and adulation that dull De ember evening, had he been so mimled and the doctor more complaisant; but that practitioner said that, while he was not in charge of the case, lie would strenuously advise against further dis turbance of the {sit ient. When ut last they were all gone and Lambert could address himself to the little packet of mail stacked upon the office desk, he was rejoicing to think how the good in his queer comrade was u inning due recog-, nitiou at last, "lie's a rough diamond," he said to himself, "but brave as a lion and true as steel!" And then as he opened the first letter from department headquarters, ud dresMed to Brsvet Capt. J- f. Close, First Lieutenant, —teenth infantry, Lambert's face paled and his eyes di lated. It was a brief, curt official note, directing ' apt. Close to turn over the command of his company and post and report In arrest to the colonel of his regi ment at New Orleans, for trial. "Ac knowledge receipt by telegraph." What, a Christmas greeting! XV. Those were the days which but fore shadowed the lettre de eaehet episodes of tbo winter of 1070-7}. Never au or namental, never a social, and often an embarrassing feature of garrison life, the first lieutenant of Company 0 had been laboring under the further disad vantage of a six months' absence from the post of the regimental colors. There were many to sj**ak against and none to speak for him. Ills singular bu.blta and characteristics, the rumors In cir culation with regard to his "saving" propensities when on bureau duty, arid the queer ''yams" in circulation as to his disposition of the property of tin* officers who luul died on his hands dur ing the fever epidemic, had all received additional Impetus from the publica tion in northern papers of the Parmeleo side of the Tugaloo stories, and Close's name was on the regimental market at low quotation, even before the an nouncement of Ids invest. Put this was not all. For months the regiment al commander hiul Iteen the recipient of frequent, letters from two despairing widows, relicts of the late Cnj>t. Stone and Lieut. Tighe, which letters claimed that their husbands laid died possessed of certain items of personal property —watches, Jewelry, money, martial equipments, '-tc. -of which Cunt. Close hod assumed charge and for only a very small portion of which had he ever ren dered account. They, with other la dles of tho regiment, had been, sent I north when It became apparent that, on epidemic was probable; thc-y hud never met Capt. Close, but were confident, from the unsatisfactory nature of his rcpllen, and from all they could learn about, him from the letters they re ceived from tho regiment, thut he wat robbing the widow and the orphan, and they appealed to the colonel for ro d r«-Rs. Now, old llraxton knew ulmoaft us lit tle >f Close as dir>d ever owned di - hr.: nd ftu was ready to r-r.V" orth n« to th>« truth 1"« stor l '. nnd llciapital Ptew •l '"rifTi!' and Dr Meigs could also testify thut th de.-eased officers hal 1 ardlv inv rffeets to -peak of -could they only be found. B'lt thereby hnrp t< t.!c of fur'her trou' !e. Meiir« him.- «elf had died of the fever and Orifflr, after a fitful cai>'er, hr.d bt-en found p-u:!t\ of all maimer of theft and dis honesty as to hospital store.-; in his eh'.— Te. and was himself lnnguishlng. It: dh honor-il .'•• diseharc.-. tit isonerat Ship island. Here thought to end it all. but widows -listers they v.ere. who were born iu the laundress* <|::.'irters of old Fort FUhnor nnd had folio--; ed the drum all over Texas ami New Mexico before the war—had wedded strapping servants a:id seen their spouses rair.ivl to t.he shoulder straps in thi- d- ,lett-v a pr!'-(-t ai d a pettlfofr p-r. and, min "juik'i fli : - f's." When De cem'f r c;i;ne Mich was th<* BCennitlla ftor. «f spee-fie ti jr. -.gainst the ..' »«■ i t an 1 friet-idless officer that •' ! '-] < ' k the simiileKt way out of • 1 '■• ' for s court-mprtial to t-y tlie . Tl'- :.i«. r ~v tnerefor''. ;:iid lieforv the official copy of the order was received at the barracks (as, oddly, often happened in those tiuies, until the leak was disiwered and duly pluirped), the New Orleans evening papers con tained the following interesting Item: "A genera! court-martial of unusual importance is to be held at the bar racks, the session to commence at ten a. ni. on the 2d of January, for the trial of Brevet Capt-. P. Close, of the —toe nth. Infantry, on oharffes serious ly reflecting- upon hi* character hh an officer and a Rvntlenian. The detail for the court comprises officers of several other regiments, as It Is conceded that ther is a widespread prejudice against the accused anion? his comrades In the —tecnth. I"\<-n the light battery lias been drawn upon in this instance, an unusual circumstance, a* officers of that arm generally claim exemption from such service in view of the peculiar and engrossing nature of their battery du ties. Brevet Brig. (ien. Pike, of the —th cavalry, Is detailtd a« president, and First Lieut. S. K. Waring, of the —th urtilh'ry, an Judge advocate of the court. The latter officer will lie remembered as the hero of a remarkable adven ture in connection with the recent cause celebre, the I.asccllcs affair." "Well, may I be kissed to death!" ex olaimcd Capt. Lively, of the Foot, a.s he burst into the messroom that evening. "Just listen to this, will you! Old Close to Ik.- tried by court-martial -with New Clotli«n for judge advocate!" "New Clothes," be it understood, was u name under which Mr. Waring wa« be ginning to be known, thanks to bin un wHllngnesti to appear a second time In aiij garment of the fashion ot the day. "By gad, If I were the old man I'd ob ject to the J. A. on the ground of ural antipathy!" said Mr. Burton; and uuiouk the men present, some of whom had beea the colonel's advisers In draw ing up the charges, there were half a score who seemed to think that poor Close could hope for no fair play now. It u:ia then that Maj. Kinsey, red-faced and Impetuous, burst in with the re buke that lieeame a classic in the an nuls of the old barracks; "Fair play be damned, ujul you fel lows, tool What fair play has the mm had at your hands? It's my belief that he. never would get it but for the fact that Waring is detailed." Th»* sensation Kinney's outbreak cre ated was mild compared with that caused by Close's appearance before a grave and dig"ifled court in tJie week that followed. On the principle of "a olcan sweep," it had been determined to arraign him on charge*) covering the allegations oa to his official misconduct In failing or refusing to support the federal authorities during the late dis turbances. "Might as well get rid of Mm for good find all," t~iJd old Hrax. And HO the array of charge* was long und portentous. So was the bill for transportation iuid i>er diem of civilian witnesses the government afterward* hud to pay. Ho was Braxton's face when, the evidence for the prosecution exhausted without proving much of anything, the testimony for thedefense began to be unfolded. It transpired that Mr. Waring had gone up to head quarters on the evening of the Ist of January and formally asked the gen. eral commanding to be relieved from duty as Judge advocate and allowed to defend the accused. The general was astonished, ajid asked why. Then War liifC laid before him piece by piece the evidence he lutd collected as a rissult of his investigation, and tj)«» chief ripped out son*"tl.in»< old itrax and hJs adjutant might haw been startled to hear, but, after thinking It all over, told Waring to go ahead, try the ea»e, "exhaust the evidence" and never mind the consequence*. He sent his uld-de eainp down, to say to Close that ant officer wi»Ofle assistance he desired should lie assigned amicus curia-. Closo replied that he "reckoned he could git along without any ainycuss curionn, what/ever that was- -he'd talked It over with Mr. Waring and Mr. Pierce;" and the trial went on. lNirrnelee wus the flint wit n<*« to Hut ten out. and go to pieces, and tiie only one who had anything but ""hearsay" to off.-r on the score the records, ANY tnore than tlinw let lei's: lie wuk ready t i v«fti-, unlets* tlie (fentlciiMUL hlinwlf dedred to hay HotiiethluK had nottic st:it<'inent to olTcr. llovi HIIK tliat, Mr. JIMII." 1 Ailvoriitf? Anil VVurliijf turned io I'ii rei*, «ho uiis tieffiiininff to unroll .1 butch of inonuiK'rijit, to whicih he hud devoted two Klrvplaw ni|/ljtn and Ui which he had Jitvialin-d i>uLir« unyi «ur v. ccsm l>y th« page upon all enemies Or ! accusers of client, riwce meant St to !■*.• the sensation of the day. an<' h«- i1 I'icrr. lully mesint to "show up" thaek of his 1 chair, the accused Ftood revealed in the I worn old single-breasted coat, the I coarse trousers and shoos, so long amo- I ciated with him. He cleared his throat, j and then faltered, lie did not know how to Infill. At lost the words cnjiic - -slowly, and with many a hitch ami •tumble: "You see, it's this war; Gen. Tike and gentlemen of the court. I never knew Anything nbont what was expected of a regular officer, 'r I wouldn't have tried it. All T knew was what I'd seen durin' the war, whoa they didn't wem to bfso different, from the rest, of us. I wns bred on the form; never had no educa tion; had to work like a horse ever since I wns weaned, almost, not.only for niy own livin', but—hut there was the Ha tiowJy found hl» IWt. mother, and, a* I gTew up, the hull care of the farm fell on me, for my father never wim strong, and he broke down entirely. When he died there warn't nothing left but a mortgage. There wa.i the mother and four kids to be fed on tliut. For 20 y«WK, from boy to man. thjf-re never was a time a copper didn't look jus big as a cartwheel to me; and when a man's b«en brought up that way he don't outgrow it all of a sudden. I've built the mother a home of her own, and paid off the mortgage and stocked the farm, and educated the youngfctor* and seen tliem married off, and now I low they'll expect, me to cducnte the children. When r hull fam b'ly grows up around one bread wirrner ltcomes natural for the next generation to live on him toe. I couldn't ha' gone to the war only Billy he's the next boy—was big enough to take cape o' Utlugs once the mortgage woh paid, and afterwards I jined the army—the rig gle-ers» —because It. looked to me Itku they got blKjrer f° r Ic«b work than any trade I ever heard of out our way. I'm sorry I did it, 'cause so long's there's no more fightin' I seem to be in the way; but I don't want to quit"— and here the rugged old fellow seemed to expand by at least a foot—"and I don't mean to quit except honorable. There ain't a man livin' —nor a woman either- can truthfully say I ever de frauded them of u cent." And then Close felt, for the chair from which he hud unconsciously advanced, and which Pierce hastened to push for ward to him, and abruptly sat down. Court adjourned Bine die Just, at lunoh eon time, and some of theofficersof the Infantry dicm invlt»*d th« members to come over and have a bite and a sup. They all went but Cram and Waring, Cram saying he had asked a few friends to his quarters, and Waring audibly re marking that it would take away his appetite to have to sit at meat with so and ho; so and no being' the officers who were mainly Instrumental in working up the oa*he'll want to be paid extra for doing it, when I can slap you just, as well myself and twtve the ex pense.—N. Y. Journal. I'napprevlatlve. "Might I ask what school of poetry you prefer?" inquired the young man who writes. And the old gentleman, replied: "The homeopathic school. '1 he small er the dose the better it suits me."— ' Washington Star. 15i0.24 HE SWORE AT THE MULES. ▲ad the Bishop Forthwith ni«ml>«e4 the Driver. A bishop's coachman roust not sw ear, especially when he. is on the box and the bishop inside, says the Pall Mall Cazette. There is a certain place in Spain called Porralos nnd it is in the province aid diocese of Z&mora, and the bishop of Zamora recently went in his coach and four (bot they weio mules) to hold a confirmation at Cor* rales. When the children of the diocese v-ere duly confirmed the mules, being confirmed already in stubbornness and original eln, refused to start and backed the carriage, with the bishop Inside it, nc-akirt Che churchyard gate, thereby making a breach in the sanctuary of the churchyard wcil. At thif- point the coachman is reported to havts uttered one of those thunderous Spoxish curses in which the language of Spain is so infinitely superior to the language of France, and which even a bishop must ! feel hns tha dignity of power. Unfor j tunately for him**lf the mayor of Cor ! rales, Sig. Tome, had just taken leave ol tlio bishop and was standing by tho carriage when the word reached him. He sprang forward and fined the coach man four pesetaa on the spot for blas phemy and profanation, for in Spain tlio mayor carries the court with him wherever he goes. The bishop also got out and dismissed the blasphemer ooa the spot; then the mayor got on the Jbox and himself drx/ve monsiegneur back to his episcopal residence. The confirmation has ever since been known by a title which may be freely trans lated the blue blazes confirmation of Corrales. A BORING ALLIGATOR. Said to Have Made a Hole In a Hc% Orleans Levee. Tho high wind that prevailed did con siderable damage to the levees along the Algiers shore, says the New Or leans Times-Democrat of late date. The wind after sunset blew especially hard against that Bide of the river. The waves were blown over the revetment and in some places did much damage to the earthwork. The guards were very active. They reported promptly all washings, and where the occasion de manded It the damage was promptly repaired. One of the curiosities of the flood is this section developed at the Morgan railroad wharf early one morning. There had been trouble there for son* days with seepage, and a force of men had been employed closing the crev ices and cracks through which the wa> ter percolated. There was an unusuoji quantity at one place one night, and the foreman of the gang, going over to the spot the other morning to ascertain the reason, announced the hole had been caused by an alligator, which bad burrowed through from under the wharf. Ht» trail could be plainly seen In the mud, and the workmen, in speak' lng of it to Bergt. Cologne, command log the Algiers station, said that they judged that he must have been at least four feet long. They think the vo ter covered all the resting places that u« might have had under the wharf, and he decided to bore a hole through the bank, and thus mix his time between dry land and water. HIS NARROW ESOAPe. Dt(l*lr't Boy WM TOO CoodiOlMMf pnd Uenee He's Ilecn Banished. The. DagleyH have a Bmall boy, and they are bringing him up on the the ory that the boy is father to the man, and that his most irrelevant questions should be as carefully considered and answered as those of grown-up people; eaj-8 the Chicago Times-Herald. At least, that was their theory up to lost week, when they had company tq dinner, and a story-telling contest afterward In which young Master Bag ley—albeit, he is of tender age—waa allowed to participate. "Bagley senior opened the conversa tional bout by remarking In that slight ly vague Btyle of his that the narrowest escape he ever had from being instantly killed tad happened a year or ( two previous. His audience listened eager- Jy, /or lie Is a good story-teller, bat unfortunately he saw the interest which be bad Jiroused reflected in tho shining ey«i rtfUagley, Jr., and he broke off to* say^ You couldn't gueiw, now, could Johnnie, how papa happened to nearly, get killed?" "Ycthir, I con," answered Johnnldv promptly. "Bless the boy. How was it? Tell tho company, ray son." "You had a ecrap 'lth ma," answered the youngster, and now Bagley's boy doesn't! sit up to show off for oom* P*«7- C Ulaner ot Jericho. An American traveling in Paleatina describes in the Hartford Courant au interesting dinner he ate recently at a hotel In Jericho. "We sat on the porch of the hotel at Jericho," he wrote, "after dinner at which fre were served with butter from Norway, cheese from Switz erland, mormalade from London, wine from Jerusalem diluted with water from the well of Elisha, raisins from Ramoth Ollend, oranges from Jericho (fax no respect inferior to those from Jaffa or .the Indian river, Florida), and almonds from the cast of the Jordan, smoking Turkish tobacco, which, like the Turkish empire, is Inferior to its reputation, and a cup of coffee from—• the corner grocery of Jericho." Cartridge la a Tobacoo l'lpe. A fatal accident of an extraordinary ahaitocter has occurred at Mantes, near purls. A hotel proprietor, who formed one of a party of sportsmen, had hi* tobacco loose In a pocket of his hunting Jacket, and in tho same pocket had placed his cartridges. In some way the powder escaiied from a cartridge and got mixed with tho tobacco. Uncon scious of this, he filled his pipe and lit it. A moment later the pipe exploded and a fragment was blown into his eye with such force that It pierced the brain and killed the poor man. I'onatble Effect. First Juror —What do you think of tibc testimony «o far u/s we have heard It? Second Juror The testimony? 1 haven't l*'cn listening to it. I've been wutehliiff them two lawyers wrunglo and wondering which <»f the two would lick If they got into u -Chicago Time It Warn Learned. "Yes," nho told her dearest friend, "I havb been practicing economy of late." "It's almost time," came tho voice of hex husband from, the next roam, "that you learned to play It without notes."—Chicago I'ost. Little Difference. "Oh, papa, there's lmrdly any differ ence between 'milk' and 'water' in French, Is there?" "Very little, daughter; not any more than there is between the art icles them selv«rs here in America." —Philadelphia Press. uin lie \v»« Wicked. "Why is it," said his mother to little Willie, "tluit you always make so much noise in the liouite w heu your Aunt May comes to sec usV" " 'Cos wluvu I'm good," «>aid little Wll - "alio sin#* o ineu"—