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<l customer who builds uji the grocer's business. We
have some of the very best goods obtainable which we
sell as close as any house in the county. Leave us your
order and we guarantee satisfaction.
The Butler Produce Co.,
C L MO,ORE, Prop'r
iy, vv. Jefferson St., Jlutlcr, I*a.
IF YOU GET IT AT THE BUTLER PRODUCE
IT'S FRESH.
WHILE YOU ARE WAITING
For your prescription don't fail to look . n f
over our line of perfumes, we have re- / .
■ceived some very fine ours lately, .u:<! C iijrl 11)
will be pleased to have you examine _ ) jf J/jy)
171 \gg3kw
Wp jsls;> 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<l hands and face, and if so we —' -~t*" -Vf\l
recommend Cvdonitit" Cream m a fine
toilet preparation.
REDICK & GROHM A N N
DRUGGISTS.
♦ PEOPLES PHONE. 114. BUTLER PA
—THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Liver Ills
t. a bii. is:.. • headactuj, cor..' - j
i ration, sour stomacn. in<i.ite»tiou are promptly
I ntred by HoodS Tills. Tl.cy do their work
Hood's
| ai,J u - orou '■ • 1 8
Best af; , di'.:. r pii* g , j js",
Kieent* All drt: -crisis. W pes
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co.. Lcv.ll. Mass.
Iht vitlv fill to taKC with litWi's S-ra-ji. .:ia.
Thiß I» Voor Opportunity.
On receipt of vn ccn-s, cash or stamp?.
' a ecerous Piniplo will 1-"' mailed of the
! anT,t popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
! (Ely's Cream
-1 *i-atc the h r.-at merit" ot the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS, '
Warren St, New York City, j
Rev. John Reid, Jr of Great Falls, Mont., |
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I I
cat; emphasiz*- bis s'atement, "Itisapos;-
1 tivedire for catarrh if used as directed.
j Rev. Francis W Poole, Pastor Central Pre:.
' Church, Helena; Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
i care for catarrh and contains no mcrt iry ■
nor acy injurious drujj. Price, 50 cents.
WE ARE MAKING
1
Good clothes at tuch low
prices thai po r ones art- 110
longer wanted.
? ? ? T
f There is a little something ahout »;
\ the collar ;.nd lapel of our ft' \\
0 r 1
0 and a 0.-1 tain graceful hanj; of the f ,
0 f i
J trousers that makes them original.
1 It is in part of the details, a 9 !
* 4 j
> 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<l a com
parison of prices.
ALAND,
MAKER OF
MEN'S CLOTHES
i
A Perfect Cut.
ft i
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When yon -jet a suit you want
it made right, A perfect ' tit is
necessary High grade good., a
j> 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»
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TURKS, IIOSE, HATH TURS,
F.NAM EL AND
IMPROVED WELSHBACH MS
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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
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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-<buuken .
man came lurch!i.gont of a neighboring j
saloon and with ,sa-. oaths rushed
at Walton, "demanding satisfaction."
Weapons nerc irawn and shots exr
char.ged on the Instant, and one of the
scattered mob of negroes fe:l dead .v!th
a bullet through his heart, while for a
moment Walton, with smoking pistol,
stood alone, looking down at his a- I *-
sailant. writhing on the sidewalk.
Friends rushed in. curried one nian into
tho drug store and crowded \\ alton in
to the tavern bar. Tt was "fair fight."
He had drawn only in self-defense. His
assailant was to blame, and there was
no man to suggest arrest But he stood
there pule and unnerved now, covered
with sorrow at the disaster to the ram,
who, even though n<> 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
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*, y 1 Imm
With his pr«cloua bur<l*a
hastened back from Quitman, came out
to r.amp to . .ee und thank the piostrate
soldier, Pott*' being ceremonious in his
expression of gratitude and admiration
aiul most earnest in his apology for
what he hnd said und thought of Close
in the past*. The doctor stayed longer
by the silent sufferer's cot, carefully
studying his face as far as it could be
Been. Professional etiijuette prevented
liis saying anything that might be a
reflection on the treatment and practice
of the "contract surgeon," yet it wu
plain to Lambert, and to Potts, too,
that he was disturbed. Close, however,
seemed to think less of hi* owu plight
than of that of the Waltons, who. ei
cept the little patch of fields about the
ruined homestead. 1 1 U'St everything
they owned in the world, and who were
now in sore anxiety and distress. The
terrib'e shock and ex;>osure 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 <i u.ger. i ; e: red
the doctor for full ; t .. i: >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 di<l thev. lie asked his
adjutant and one or two captain# what
they thought; he had a letter written to
Close t/lllng him of thejj- allegations
and calling for his version of tne mat
tei. It did not come, ami another let
ter a "chaser" wan seat, demanding
Immediate reply, and nearly a week
elapsed liefore reply came, dose wrote
Is laboring hand, and for all official mat
ter employed the company clerk aa
amanuensis. This being personal, ha
jxnt hours lti copying his .eply. jiw
aid ht was tired of answering the let
lei of Mesdames Stone and Tlghe on
t!:ls subject. He had sent them Inven
tory's of everything of which tliedrhus
bai:ds died possessed, and had remitted
i_-iit ry cent lie had reuffctfsl frOirt tjio
i-nle* thereof. Ouly oie- of ?hem had n
wnteV.. If 11 f tber !>r>d ever owned di -
hr.: nd ftu<ls. as was alleifw!. he.''lose,
hr.d never ""en them, nor t v .e hundreds
, f flo'!ar« nllect'il t<i be !r. their
PMj'or. n A r the company fund for
which Ptone was pet-onnfable. In jtoiut
of f°.et. he. Clo' •». \va* eoniy 1 1 led to say
he did not believe th- ladles ' new what
their husbands did or lid not have.
!!(> 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-<J state of the reg
ular army duri:ig-"the fatir years of vol
unteer supret: ai-y —the widows were
I'ow bached l>v a pr!'-(-t ai d a pettlfofr
p-r. and, min<lfnl of 'he success achieved
by »tteh proceedlrT w'icn led by h name
of their own nationality, were deter*
rn'mvl t<> "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 <if official uefliects.
The widows were tjie next. They be
gan truculently and triumphantly
enough, but the croas-exiamination re
duced tJicjn to contradictions and tear*.
It iK'canic evident that most of Stone's
company fund went north with one of
them, that the alleged diamonds were
paste and that both Stone, and Tighe
had IM-<-!I gambling and drinking for
months previous to their fatal seizures.
It win .-stivblWihed that., wi far from
having defrauded the widows of their
money, the okl fellow had sent tlmm
each SIOO over and abovi-. the proceeds
of the meager xales, besides accounting
for, as sold at fuir valuation, items he
never disposed of until I.ainhert tsiught
them
Tin-ii when Itcmne to teNtlmony &H to
war and othflrr «erv|pi-, Clone sat thero,
l.lln<l, banduffed, K<<UT»><l, ami little
I'leri'i, who luul volunteered u# "iiiuy
' IW " :LII_VII</W, unrolled out- letter after
aiioilitT tuid laid t.heni on the tablo, and
(In 1 < nt t.hi- rotindn of tJie court uutjl
old I'iUc choked them ofT by hayllifr
tli'-.V couldn't well uttocli tlw trcunnl'ii
*.<firv and WOIIIK'S t<> 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«- i<ourt v. crowded to Lear hfm
roail it, despite the significant absence
of i!r:i\ ami hU now confounded advis
or" Braxton already ir. deep cY.a-
T.res.-, the victim nf overweening crfl
denee in ti c statements of his at kc.-
'..te.». "Upon niy tout. general," be had
enid to rik.\ "t.l«e result of this trial il
readv make- rr.e fp**l ?.s though I. not
v-re • criminal." A >1 I'icrr.
lully mesint to "show up" th<fscnndal
mongers In the case. placing tile blame
nn them and not their colonel.
But it. was not to be. Old Close put
forth a hand aired hand and restrained
him. "I've been thinking' that all over."
l.e said, "and I'll justeav a word instid." 1
With that ho slowly found his feet aiwl
the ifreen patch over his eyes wa* j
brought to bear on the court. The •
silence of midnight fell on the crowded !
room, as. lcaninsr on the l>aek 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*<s against Close. The telegram
sent by Mr. Newton Tjimbort. that after
noon was on his own responsibility, be
cause neither Judge advocate nor mem
ber of the court could reveal Its find
ing, but. it bore all the weight of au
thority and It brought untold relief
to iui anxious household; not, as might
be expected, to the. immediate friends
and relatives of the accused in the die
ton t, north, for never until days uftor
words did they know anythingalxmtit,
but to a little family "lately in rebel
lion" and holding- In abhorrence Capl.
Clow and all hi* kin; far the dispatch
was addressed to Mrs. Walton Reroggs,
Pass Christian.
ITO 118 CONTINUED.]
PMc»otlun»rj Silence.
"And has the burglary bocn reported
to the jKjilce?"
"'(iuodiucus, not We're trying to cap
ture tlio tldwvce."—Chicago Journal.
A Ilotl lUrgMlo.
lie —Miss Passe is a baj-galn.
She—How is that?
Ho—Thirty-tight marked down to
fc4.-Tit.hltl.
Ties of Ki»blp.
He (after the Introduction) —I feel
acquainted with you already, Mrs. Sky
more. In fact. I may claim to be a dis
tant relation of yours.
She—lndeed, Mr. Bllm» I was not
aware of it.
He—Yea. I And by an Item in the pa
pers this morning that my second wife
has just married your fourth husband.
—Chicago Tribune.
A iiloomy bay.
Blinks -Why do ull the lawyers about
the courtroom look so gltnn to-day I
Jinks—Why, haven't you beard ? Mr.
llichinan is dead.
"He must have been very popular
among them."
"No; but ho died without leaving a
will." —N. Y. Weekly.
Domestic Ee#»«mr.
Elsie—Boo-hoo-hool Nurse slapped
xne.
Mumma —She must not do It again.
A/i likely as not »>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"—