VOL- xxxiv | Spring and Summer \ s hoes an( ' O x ' or( ' ? - I The season brings many new and pretty styles in fine shoes and oxfords—Ladies fine footwear —Tail color. Chocolate color, Patent leathers and fine Dongoias. in the new coin toe, Bull Dog toe, Ktnpire toe. c l otti or !«.atl:er tops am. in ail sizes, i A A to E E. Green Shoes. The Latest Craze. Have you seen them. Set the different styles in oui windows—Ladies' and] Gents' Green shoes on especially attractive lasts several 4i.. '.es to choose from well-made, servicable and stylish. Mer.'s And Boys Fine Shoes. f All styles, all varieties >f footwear to be found in our stick. We aim to supply' all wants —the wish for low prices along with others, onr line of .Men's, Roy' and Youths' fine shoes in russetts, vici ' id an-', line cdf, in the popular shades and . uji to date styles. Complete line of Ladies uno Cents patent leathers. Ime Kangaroo slioes and slippers for summer wear. Complete -t kof 'cycle shoes low cut shoes and Men's Romeo slipper large -took Men's and Boys plow shoes, heavy box t<>e shoes .vhicli \\c are selling cheap. OX F OR OS. Our stock of Oxford ties is very large and owing to the backward ;cas..n leaves us with a large stock on hands. These Oxfords are all made of fine Dongola and leather, and we intend closing them out quickly, and in order to accom plish our purpose we have marked them away down, so 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. ARE YOU IN NEED OF CLOTHING? IF SO, CALL ON E H. BURTON, 123 SJJfg MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. Hs| m| g. f. keck. nra I*- MERCHANT TA|LOR ' North Main St.. Butler, Pa. When wc make you a garment—or a suit L 7*!". °J}' -—you may lie s«r'-tliat every utitch in it y* is perfectly made. Our espe' j: iric is Wi ' " ' in the quality of our tailoring, we pay high V ages and employ first-class tailors, so we T? —-~<i! get the highest grade of garments and you g know our prices are lower others, iV i 1 and we keep the Inrgi r stock goods to \ • I 'J select from. Call am! exam ..• for ••our- Vrryrrj self, FIT? GUARANTEED rem- tiber the ►G. F. KECK, Tailor. I J.J. YOUNG, |r Tailor, Hatter and Gents Furnishing Goods. Summer licat makes the problem of looking'dressy and keeping cool a hard one. But we've solved it; and for once economy, comfort and fashion go ;hand in baud. ■Our summer suits are finer in fabric, nobbier in pattern and more stylish in cut han everbeforc, they fit your curves and yet they're not sweat bath outfits. The prices may surprise you. J. S. YOUNG. Tailor. ioi S. MAIN St., - - - BUTLER, I'A K The Wise Grocer. f Will try to induce his customers to buy the very best gro > ceries in the market, because by so doing he makes a sale that will give satisfaction, and it is the pleased and satis fieri customer who builds up the grocer's business. We L have some of the very best goods obtainable which we |L sell as close as any house in the county. Leave us your W order and we guarantee satisfaction. [ The Butler Produce Co., i C L MOORE, Prop'r 130 W. Jefferson St., Butler, Pa. IF YOU GET IT AT THE BUTLER PRODUCE IT'S FRESH. YOU ARE WAITING For your prescription don't fall to look , over our line of perfumes, we have re- / | ceived some very fine ones lately, and £ -Jj/~ f t L will be pleased to have vou examine ) 'MX} I ihem - We also have a ver/ la. ge assortm. Nt r\--J J— —' L of tooth brushes made expressly for us , wl". h bear our stamp, these brushes A-- > r - !(// .vV'' we guarantee and request the return of {(/,■ jMfpjr any thit prove unsatisfactory, You may need something for your _ - * chapped hands and face, and if so we "™ recommend Cydouium Cream as a fine 1/y ' toilet preparation. .RE 1)1 CK & 0 ROH AIA N\ T | DRUGGISTS. k PEOPLES PHONE. 114. BUTLER PA. I Advertise in the CIIIZtN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Liver Ills tike dyspepsia, headache, eotrtt (■•at'.-m, s r stony 'h, indigestion are promptly cured by Hood's Pills. They do Ilieir work Hood's Best aft- d:ni or pills. U I I K I f" nt V!! <i~ s.:istq. W ■ ■ «•» : |'repar.-J l>y C. I. lloo<i & Co., Lowell. Mass. J i The o:iU ?J1 to ttke with Hood's bars-tparilU. , T!iis li 4 Vonr «>pportnni»T' On receipt of t< n cei.'s. e-.- h or fitamps. | a ceneror.-. -- itnp'e will be mailed of the ( mrst popular Cat;.rrh and Hay Fever Cnre | ,'Ely's Cr. am Balm ; prfticient to dciuou- ; i strate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BEOTHEBB, 50 Warren St. New ork City. , Rer. John Reid, Jr.. of Great Fall ,M .v' ' 1 recommended Ely's Cream T" !.u to ne. 1 can emphasize his statement, Its; a pom- : tjve cure for cat.".*" hif n as directed. I r o v. Frnr.cisW. Poole, Pastor Central Vrte. I Church, Helena, Mont. Eiy'fl Crcruu Balm is tfcc acknowledged i cure for catarrh and contains 110 nv renry j I nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. RAILROAD TIME TABLES l\ li. & 1.. 12. k. w. Schedule of Passenger Train> in effect May:!". I - "!'? J'.utler ti) ie Trains leave Bntler as follows <V»n neant Lake Express Ji. ld Erie Mail 9:"» on rn and (ireenrill-- Aceoni modation •"i.oo p, 711. Trains arrive as follows: Conner.nt Lake Express ii .">■"> p. in.. Erie Mail 2:30 p. in and Green ville Accommodation 9:20 a. m. t Sun PAY THAIKS. Conueaut Lak - Express leaves at 7 a. in. and arrives at .•>•» p. 111 Train leaving at 7:2."> rnak- connec tion with Erie Ky. at Shenango, west: train leaving at 9:55 makes connection with V Y. & P. at Mercer and with Erie at Shenango, east: train leaving at 5:05 makes connection with N V. A: P. at Mercer, north cud south A Li Citoucn. Ticket Agent. * IJITTSU U I<G & W EST Ek N *■ Railway. Schedule ot i'as scnger Trains in cfli ct Maj 16, 1897. BUTLER TIME. \rriv«\ All* -l«en> A< ■ "in.if la!i »n.. . . - • am '■* 1. a.M \!| |«Q) I -1 • • " Nu « I»-1 i«* A< mi ati-u .... 1 1 M '• 17 Ak:"ii M..i! 8 1 I M 1 \ _i •. j Kc* •mnHxtation. . 1 -is All. ithei r 1 3 i •» i lv.. • ' Clii Eipri I 40 12 W Alleglifiiv M.til * u | h ■ All. -!. !,s 1 ly, 7 " 1. 1 i ' i \. 11 Mkm 5 4i) •• 1"j I i i ■ I 540 917 A-M I' 1 Hall • • hu. d \ nun iti 15 p.*! 9 \ m FoNbarg A>«"utui'Miatiut! 7 1" s «»."» SIN J.AY TKAINS. Allt-glicny h.xpre« 1*» a >'» 9 •[ A . (• . * • v .! , • P.M N. « Cm A \ ■ mi -i.fin 7 ['■} u E\j»iV' i v i - • All«*glit?nv Vccomnifjdafi"!!. I 7 (K» 44 Train* £■ • i.- n i tii ;it « -Z a. ni. ami V. 1"« p. elan • f i«• i. ..»i r • \i»for point* ou Alleglieuj Vail. \ Hv. For ti« k« t- to :ill |M>iuY>* in tin- wu-t. >. .rth witrt «»r w»ntl»W'*«(t n| |-1> t«» A 11. CROWH \ R JJ RKYNoLI*- - »'■« K urtr, l'.i ( VV. I \ —ill V.G. I A All J»< n. . l'.». 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" «n» 44 I'IM!,. !• Ipbia Ex pi vm, Kiwfcru ■VMM, K.u.l Line. " hi..- Phllad*a Mmi Sondftyi onlj - i" For d.-tail* <1 iiif'.inintiMt . add»« --» Tli - I. W .ti, P • - \_-i W. -ttTii 1 'l-irn 1. 1 •»ru« , r Fifth Av.-nu.' iud Mnitki f'u-M Mnrt. PitNliui - p.t J. B. 11l T< III^iN, J R. \V'iM• 1 1, ' I Maimgei nip,.--. \_.: • JWUf 1 ' > - T —= The Place to Buy GAS COOK ING AND IIEAT INGS'I'OVES, G/VS BURNERS AND FIX TURES, HOSE, BATH TUBS, ENAMEL AND IMPROVFD WELSHBACH m qU RNCR; !w. H. O'BRIEN I ON 107 East Jefferson St. BEE KEEPER S SUPPLIES SUCH AS Htve if Smokers, Brood Fr&mi 'tion Buxt », lirixiil aucl Surplus tlims , The IMVSI jiimhis at the I .w.-t |m.->h|li!.' j.rl James b. Murphy. Manet r>t . w.. . Bui; i Pa > Near Jv;iuo'r«'r s Uruccry BUTLER PA., THURSDAV, JULY 1 . IHOT -—v' "* . r "f - y X { • • 'j -* V. J y-r \r- - ' A v >' - •' s - LCopyriKht. i6v» tv J- U Lipplno.. Coopuy.) XVTIT. One soft, varm evir.ing in • ..rly Jur.f quit.' « fain ill. }>ar'> 1* •«' ' »l»e v.'-in.l . -if ii.-' i.'i tit f-t i". i&l < b.ihtißti. : - :>ir « • 'h w h ' the frni ill. • <.' r-i..: ;u <: n. ' j ft great uun h "f t><•!' .ttlo ; tnble l**s:<le the reclii. i.!f «• li:-'" i. r •, ! pro|>p> .l up with piilov. s, Mrs \'. alt >: ! wns pl.midly • r. » " til)'- N : I moan lit scene rapturously .-"iit. :n --j.latincr the «♦ j'.wart form of he. nol<li -r j son. It wat too much —it v.us too soon I —to fXfH-ft of a south rii woman . von <eo customary a thing" as it eh«r.g. »»f mind, when that.change a con f.s*ion of interest and pride in the army blue, but the mother did not live in all the broad and sorrowing south whos« soul would not. have thrilled with pride and delight, even thoupli hidden and i tinconfessed, in r<-adinp the rincrin.<7 words with which in general orders a giTat union leader hud published to liia troops the story of the Jieroistn, devo- | tlon. and soldierly skill with which j CoriKiral Floyd Walton. Troop "X. j Fourth cavalry, had conducted the de- . fense of the passengers on the Concho stag-e, savin? the lives of Brevet Lieut. Col. Sweet, who was shot early in the engagement, and of two civilians, and, though himself twice painfully wounded, maintaining the defense and Inflicting severe loss upon an over whelming force of hostile Indians, until 1 Anally relieved by the arrival of a detach- j ment of troO|»s and volunteers success- ! fu'lv and trallantly by Lieut. I. N. Lambert, —teenth infantry (wounded), , and Serg-t. Dolan, Fourth cavalry. Serjrt. Walton, promoted within the | week, had been granted a month's fur- ! lough as soon as able to travel, and with his arm in a sling liad hastened home ward, where within the. forty-eight hours succeeding his arrival ho had time and time again to tell his story of that fearful day. They had trot with in live miles of the Culicpte before dis covering that only a smoldering ruin remained of the s»ac.-e station. Hear ing from fleeing settlers of the. raid, Col. Sweet had decided to push for ward at top speed to reinfc.ice the little party of defenders. The driver bad urged the same course, and the two civilian passengers had naturally de murred. Then, when they found it too late, they turned And strove to retrace the road to were headed cfE , at. dawn, but fought a v.ny to Withei iaJs old dug-out, the driver and two I soldiers being killed. Col. Sweet and the t corporal both shot in the attempt, and \ the st-afre abandoned and burned. And j there in that stitling - hole, without we.- j ter for the wounded, they had fought ! oit dash after dash of the Indians; but I their ammunition was almost £onc, and only two men had any light lo r t in j then), when tliey heard the welcoming crack of th«. rescuers'rifles, l'ven then I the India n- 1111118" about nil the !on:r afternoon and night, and L-.Ril.ert g-ot his painful uomul in heading 1 11 little squad that ran the gauntlet to a neigh boring" spring for water for the fevered wounded. Of his own conduct Floyd had little to say. ("What else did they expect of a Walton?" was his mother's comment. "Is l.ruvery so rare an at tribute In the federal army?") but he could not say enough about young I>arnljert. "We were fighting for our lives; we had to fight," he said; "but he risked his to fetch us water. 1 «:iy that young fellow's a trump." And he flashed a significant glance at Kateaie, f..r Cousin Hart, with the imbecility of manhood, had let that domestic cut out of the bag, and then, once started, had told more. Floyd Walton, under pledge of secrec} - , was held a spoil-bound lis tener to Cousin ltart the second night after his arrival, when the rest of the family had gone to bed. Bart had been celebrating his cousin's deeds and rejoicing over his return to the exl'-nt of tangling his tongue, but Floyd could not trip him on his facts. "If you don't believe me, you can ask the doe tor —ask Col. Seroggs—or Walton — he'll be hyuh to-mawwo," said his in formant. "That's the kind of Yank he is, by Gawd, suh; an' if I thought tliey WOK maw like him you bet I'd recon struct, too. But the Laud don't make too many like him, nor young Lamlx-rt, either." And when Floyd finally went to his room that night after the lov ing visit, to his mother's bedside, he sat long at the open casement, gazing out on the soft, still beauty of the moonlit night, his heart touched and thrillled as it had not been for years, and his pride humbled. While he, wayward uud forgetful of their needs, had left mother and sisters to struggle for themselves, and had lost himself in vain dreaming of a sweet-faced girl who ho had early enough been warned was not for him—while he, reckless, selfish, weak, hud abandoned himself to drink and despair und then to the cold char ity of the world— it was an alien an 1 an enemy, an uncouth soldier in the hated blue, who had stood between the strick en and helpless ones at home and lutc want and privation. The good iingel who ministered to them in their distress, even when stipulating that they should never know whence came the needed aid, and who finally beenmn the "purchaser" of the desolate and ruined place, thereby supplying the means to make them so content and comfortable now, was that creature of istroug contrasts, Capt. Close'. Not until long after midnight did Walton leave hirtt,eat by the open case hicnt and seek his pillow; but there | wiiLj another watcher whose vigil out lasted his. In the little butch of le>t | lets brought, bv I ousin Bart from tl • pOM office that evening was one which bote the Austin stamp and wsts ad dressed In Lambert's hand. Beading It hurriedly, Floyd had changed color j and thrust it in his pocket, Kntcslc watching him with furtive eyes, yet never trusting herself to a question. It was Esther who eagerly demajided news of their absent friend. "Oh, yes, he's getting better," Floyd admitted, but then faltered. When was he com- I Ing? Oli, Lambert didn't say. The doctors probably wouldn't let him travel just yet. The letter was main ly about other matters —<l bout Col. Su it, uh. didn't 4.-em to be doing as well as they could wish. Hi.-»uife j was on the wav to loin him. Didn't Lamlvrt .-end nm . or<l -r tt-s re? No. lie j.• ic: T \ wrot> a hurry. ! And that night Vi- Ki tarfe mt. with her dimpled Ida buried in her pret -1 -ouiiil r.u g .'in:/ 1 ng out >:p n the flu-.'. . " "ers. .. sad -i' Tit an.l rle. piy tror '. 1. ul. Ther ttus somc -1 thing hi that letter thuttonocrnetl her; an-i how disagreeable >he had been to ■ Lambert! and he just knew it! and Floyd was i t .in and wouldn't toil herl At least this was the burden of her ;o- ; wh-.n at two o'clock in the morn ing she threw herself sobbing into K- ther's loving arms, and Esther, soothing and smiling softly to her seli, thought nho could soon find mttins to comfort her. That week brought other letters, and a telegram to Floyd, and 110 had busi ness 1n New Orleans and must go over fr.r a day. Lambert was coming on from Texas, and he'd fetch him back with him. Everybody could see he was , feverishly impatient to get away, and I n *nd smile flickon-d about the moth' j er's pale lips as she laid her hand in j blessing on his head. He went by the ] morning boat and haste-ned to the levee where the steamers of the Crom well line came in from Xeiv York. He was there h,.urs le-fore the Crescent eaitv plowing" her way up tl.e swollen and turbid river; and before she was sighted at English Turn, who should appear but Lieut* Waring and the gen eral's aide-de-camp who had come to i see him during his brioi confinement | under guard! Floyd, though in civil i iun dress, had promptly sprung to his j feet to salute them, but they recognized | him instantly and heartily shook his j hand and congratulated him on his re covery and on the honors he had won. And then it transpired that he, too, had come to see if he could be of ser v ice to Mrs. Sweet, and Waring suddenly bethought him of a story he had heard about the Quitman days. A fellow of infinite tact was Waring when he chose to be, and, after a few words of cordial greeting to the fair passengers, lie winked at his comrade, the aide de-camp, as he said he must hasten back to battery duty. And so, even when the sergeant, would have defer entially folle.n to the rear, it was that distinguished non-commissioned offi cer who gave his arm to the younger of the two ladies in response to War ing's calm ' Mr. Walton will take charge, i of Miss Sweet," and while the mother was led rwwy the walt'ng carriage .by the sialY ofßr- well knowing that I the mother-made engagement wus at | an end, the daughter's little hand j slipped trembling upon his arm. What j happened in the elvsium of that two | minutes' thmadii gof n dusty, crowded, ' freight-heaped wharf was not con ' few>od by either until two long years I ufter. The ladies went on to (ittlves ton that night, and Walton's face wat ' radiant when, two days later, he coinc back home; and then he could have hated himself for his selfishness when he saw Esther. "Why, where'S Mr. Lambert?" WHS her startled query, as she met him at the gate. Only the moment before »i« they saw the boat splashing away from the pier hud Katosie, with madly beat ing heart, run from her side to lmthe lft; flushed cheeks and hide in her room until she heard his voice on the veranda and the first graetings were over, and then she would summon up all her saucy spirit and go tripping down to meet him with due nonchalaaree and levity. She had planned it fill, pool child, reheursed the little comedy time and again, and was steeling herself to act her coquettish role, when her sis ter's words and Floyd's reply fell upon her astounded ears; "He had to go straight on home. Ills mother is ill." And not until then did Katesie Wal ton know that she, too, "had surren dered." All things come to him —or her—who knows how to wait; even an atxsent lover, eve 1 the era of peace and good will between estranged and warring sections, c. en t.lie end of a long story. Another year rolled by on clogging wheels and wrought many change#, throughout the sunny south. A daunt less spirit *iad drifted from this to a better world. Reverent hands laid the •wasted form of the la<ly mother under the grand old live oak' close to the "shining shore," and the Walton house hold, grieving, yet glad that the long years of suffering were ended, gave up, against his vehement protest, the ref uge which the beneficence of a stranger had afforded their beloved in her de clining days. The sisters went with Bcroggs to his new home In Texas, where a pioneer railway company had tendered him employment. Here Floyd eouhl sometimes visit them, a stalwart sergeant who gratefully declined the effer ot influential men to procure his discharge, saying that he meant to serve every hour of his enlistment. Here, within hail of the cavalry trum pets and sight of the national flag, there often came to spend the day 11 fair-faced girl, a northern blonde, the very antitype to Katesie's southern beauty, and the blue and the gray looked love and trust when each ga/.cd Into the otluer's eyes, for some remark able bond of sympathy had linked Genevieve Sweet and Kate Walton In rlose companionship. Here, too, were received and an swered letters increasing" in frequency, und one never-to-b<-forgotten day, fiotn a far distant post, there suddenly appeared a very proper young f.-llow in the conventional traveling garb of the period; and presently Jennie Sweet bethought herself that imjx.rtnnt household matters had to be looked lifter at the garrison, and Esther had her marketing to do and must do it "Of course Mr. Lambert will dine und take tea with ti». (We dined at one and tend at six-thirty in those days in Texas.) And so there was 110 one left to entertain him but Rnb ; ie— and the cat; and even the eat wus very much in the way—in Lumbert's way, that is, for the girl had the uugraeious creature tit) her arms, covering her with widestre-1 caresses, the instant after Esther's de parture. The porch was vine-clad, shaded and inviting, but Katesie per versely insisted on the steps and the I hot morning sunshine; pussy loved the ' warmth and sunshine. Lambert sought ! to stroke %nd caress SaMna. sine • j Sabina was held tight over a thumping • little heart and close under rosy lips • and dimpled chin and soft, flushed cheeks. His finger-tips thrilled at the delicious proximit; . and Sabina mag netically perceived it and malignantly 1 Bet back her ears and hissed, whereat he pinched her ears and was promptly j bidden to "tio sit ovuh yawnduh "f you cahnt leave huh yiths alone," where upon he transferred his attention to i Sabine's I:., -ting tail and precipitated ' a row. Sabina clawed and struggled: the outra. ' ear. ' 1 brstled like a hot- ; "tie ua»her; Kates e sought to soothe • with more l:ugs and kisses and those I'inotion-i! nn.l ja--' nate mouthings which women !aii«li on their felino favorites. "Oh, >itn Cattums! —um Kittr.ms!—um Possums! —um Twee- 1 ; turns!" rapturously exclaimed Miss j Walton tlirough her close presset! lij>s, j 1 an she buried her nose in the Huffy fur* j ' and this was more than Lambert could ! | ,tand. \\ th sudden quick decision he 1 j lifted the - mixhed Snl.ina from the I ; damsel's ;.rn ntid dropped hor on all j ' fours on the grass plot below. Then, as ; : quickly, he seized her mistress by her i empty hands. "Katesie, do you suppose I've w.. :--d all these weary months to see you j squandering kisses on a cat? nnveyou ; 110 answer now, after all I've told you, ! j after my coming so many hundred j miles?" Her hands were, writhing about in his grasp, making every pretense, and no real effort, at g. tting away. "Ah didn't tell you to come," she finally , pouted. "It's no time for trifling, Katesie. I've loved you dearly—ever so long— ever rlnce the time you leaned this bon ny head upon my shoulder." "Ah didn't! Ah nevuh did I" "You did; an 1 I've cot five gloswy threads of vmrr lieautiful hair to prove It." "It was all the fault of that ho'id shoulder-strap. Ah hate it, and yoti'h hateful fo' icminding me of it!" And still her hands kept writhing in vain impotent pretense at struggling. He held them with scarce an effort. "Well," said he, solemnly, "they will never vex your soft cheek again, Katesie. I have worn them for the last time." m "Yo' have?" and now the struggles seemed grndually to cea=e, or their con tinuance became purely mechanical, and t.he big. deep gray eyes looked wist fully up through their long, curving lashes. "Wlint— whut fuh. Ah'd like to know?" She didn't quite say "!ahke." "Well, several reasons have been set before me. Mother is getting on in year*., and wishes I could be near her. instead of half across the continent awav." She was looking up at him very sol emnly now. "Ah nevuli could 1 >eah you in those things—cits," she euid at last. "Brava! You are mastering army vernacular already, Katesie," he an swered. his eyes twinkling. "And do you think you could bear me if I con tinued to wear the old shoulder-strap:; 0 Ah, Katesie, it's too late. Here they are.' And, transferring unresisted one snowy wrist to contact with it* fellow in the grasp of his left hand, he drew f rtli from nil inner pocket an oblong parcel in which lay the light-blue vel vet straps, wound round and round with silk'-:, threads f hair. "I couldn't bear <<> turn tl.or.r over to uixyone btif you," he solemnly sivld. "They ate mine no longer." Sho was silent a i."ioiin*nf. Then the deep gray eyes were aguln uplifted, studying with troubled gaze the sol dierly, sun-tanned young face. "Ali'd milch rather you were going to keep on weahing them." she said. "But I thought, you hated the very sight of them- and the uniform?" "That was befo* Brothuli Floyd w oh It." He had reposseiised himself of the little hands by this time. "Then you do like the army blue a little? llow I wish I'd known this sooner!" "The army isn't so bad, now that some southern gentlemen are going back into it." she answered airily. "It would bo still more attractive with a certain southern girl T know in It." "All don't see how t hat would do you any good, 'f you're going to leave It." "Ah! It was the army I was thinking of just then—not myself. Thank yon for thinking of me, Katesie." And now his eyes wore brimming over with mingled tenderness and merriment. He had raised her hands, and, placing thorn palm to palm, stood clasping them, their rosy finger-tips close to his Hps. "Ah didn't! Ah wasn't! Let go ma hands. Must' Lambuht." And once again she began to writhe, simply to feel his resisting power. "Ah wouldn't live like some of those women do at the foht —just like gypsies." "So," rt-sponded Lambert, demure ly. "That's what a lady friend of yours told me; she said you were a spoiled little southern girl, brought up without any Idea of housekeeping or care and responsibility." "Who dayuhd to say such spiteful things?" demanded Mist. Walton, all ablaze in an instant. "She said," calmly resumed Lambert, "that the main reason you didn't care to be a soldier's wife, probably, was that you'd always iv.-n made a pet >«f and wouldn't know how to look after a brute, of a husband and one room and a kitchen —.ill a lieutenant's allowed,you know." "Who dayuhd to say such things? It wasn't.Genevieve! -Ah'd never speak "Walt till I tell you the rest," pursued calmly. "She said she really couldn't see why I wanted to marry you: you were not at all the sort of girl she'd expect .'wnorihi rner to marry." "Ah never hulid such outrageous Im pudence in all ma bawn days. Who was it? Ah'll never speak t' you again 'f you don't tell me this instant. Ah 11 never let you lea\o this spot till you do , tell me." "I'm only too glad to stay. 1 was afraid you might send me away any how, even after you found I had given up the shoulder-straps for your sake, since Esther told me I'd find it hard work to make you a soldier's wife." "Esthuh! Sin said such mean things 'ljout me? Oh, Ah'll pay huh off fo' that! Ah could manage just as well as she could, and keep house ev'y bit as well! Ah've been out they'll often with .h nny Sweet, and seen just how they man aged. Ah'd been watching—and study ing" (sob) "and now—now"—with sud den Inspiration "Ah b'lieve you're just laughing at me! All hate you 111011 thiui evuh, and Ah'll nevuh mah'y you— nevuh—jus' fo' lea* in' the ahmy and not. ha\ in' siitiieient confidence in mt to think I could be a soldier's wife. Ah might, have done It—Ah would, |>erhiips. If you had stayed, but—but—" But new she was eized and strained to his heart, and the furiouslv blushing face was kissed again and again, though indignant bars were starting from her eyes. It was useless to strug gle. She leaned there at last, pa sive, pouting, Bobbing a little, and striving to push luersclf from his embruce, out ' striving so feebly, so wry feebly. "My own little rebel," he murmured, with j hi' lips close pres ed to her cheek, i " 'Esthuh' did tell me I'd find it Irani wprk to win you for a soldier's wife, did tell n>e you hud had no care or experi- ' tnctj in the past, did say she thought a northern officer would have fallen *1 i love elsewhere; but she'never said yon were not fit to l>e a soldier's wife, and I never s-nid I was going to quit 1 « ing f soldier. I lo\e it Wtt.-r than any thin? in the world -but you—" "Vou did! You said yo'd done with j i t,he shoulder-straps fo'evih." And tip 1 tvished the i:. lig! a..1 gray oy. - . ..Mill, | ak? this brought the quivering '.itt'.e mouth, so re 1 and «o't and warm, too disc for safety to his yearning lip.*. . the} swooped 11 poll their prey. , "i didn't," he whispered as he held her close. "It's the old strap -the second lientefant's —I'll never wear agin. I've woh my bar now, and my wife." j Wc w r<r-fitting one winter's evening ! nearly two years later in the Lamberts' quarteis at old Fort S'*ott. Kinsey was there too, and Floyd WatT**aw"lth his . ; bri.lc . a their w.-.ldinir tour. A htTi.'ipg I fire of hickory logs was snapping on I the hearth, and un 1.-r the soft light of the shaded lump was Katosie, a charm ing picture of young wifehood, her 1 needle-work dropjied in her lap, her , gr.iv eyes following every movement o? Ii r husband, who was declaiming to i his guests ami pacing up and down in 1 uncontrollable excitement. It was the January of the "consoi!- | dution year,™ when 'oy act of congress I 43 regiments of Infantry were sum marily "telescoped" into half their numlier, and some hundreds of officers and gentlemen who had joined the reg > ular service at the end of tire great war i in the reasonable hoj>e of attaining ' suitabh muk before they died, found themselves suddenly bereft of all hope of promotion and doomed to remain subalterns mill file-closers until they were 50. It was the year when to pro vide for the superfluous officers of the consolidated regiments of fool they L/l *i • i -ttr' "My owa littio h© murmured. wore . rammed into every obtainable vacancy in the horse and artillery when incompetents were ordered be fore a board of exiiuiinera and given u chiiiioe to defend their commission;., - while -oh. the blaek shame of iti others, gallant fellows w ho had fought nil through the war, but had been at some time or other In the past ot odds, personal or official, with certain of their superiors, now, without word of warning, without opportunity of de fense, without knowing who were their accusers or what the accusations, found themselves summarily dropped front the rolls and their places promptly filled. The needed reduction by fair m.<ms proving too slow, tin-, methods of foreign despotisms were resorted to; "conltdleiit ial rejiorts" w solicited from eouimunding officers, some of whom, disdaining such lettre-de-cachet business, promptly consigned the of f-lid ing document to the flames or "pigeon-holed" it without reply, while others accepted eagerly the opj¥>r tunity to undermine the men whom courts had honorably acquitted. In some few instances there were gentle men thus disposed of who never knew they had been accused of n misde meanor until, amazed, they saw their names upon the published list. Among those thus given their conge was Brevet Capt. J. P. Close, first lieutenant --teenth infantry, at the moment ex pecting his promotion to the captaincy of company C. "The old man," as his soldiers called him, had returned to duty after his six months' leave, with eyesight permanently impaired, and had l»'cn received with cordial find avowed esteem by Fnrnliam and Kinsey and with o|>en arms by Lambert, The pianly follows in the regiment followed suit, and they had done ijiueh to rub off the uncouth edges, to polish the roug' exterior, nnd so reveal the value of the gem within, and Close was plod ding contentedly along as quartermas ter of a four-company post, when the blow fell. Minor, now lieutenant colonel, was 111 command of the teenth, the old ndjutnntniid quarter master in command of him. There WHO no need of asking whenee the unseen allegations came. An ill wind it is indeed tlmt blows nobody good. In the general "shake up" there came a colonel to the regi ment whose first official act was to ac cept the resignations of the two staff ofheexs und to upi>oint liiiubi:rt ad jutant. "I wish you hud gone in for a commission," said lie to Floyd, whom he had known in his sergeant days in Texas, but Floyd replied that if this treatment of Close twis «i specimen of arn.v Justice he reckoned railroading would ait him belter. Whereupon the new colone! swore thut 1f Close were ooly buck again he'd make him quarter master mill let his oppressors see the >thcr side of his story; but never came. With certain other wronged and as tonished men, he had gone to Washing ton und ideuded his case ls*fore a most harassed und unhappy cabinet official who was no longer able to undo the mischief, the senate having confirmed the nominations to the. vacancies thus created. "Ho allowed that, he guessed a few m '..l takes might have IK-OTI made 'long of his putting too much faith In what some officers told him," wrote Close to I.nmliert, "but that in nine case* out of ten the thing was all riirlit 1 told him 1 hadn't come to talk about any liody's rights or wrong* but my own; w hat I wanted wus the captaincy I was clean bilked out of. He said that he couldn't fix that anyhow. The only thing was to take a .wind lieutenancy and start l>iu:k at the bottom of the ladder again. Some of them—-poor fel lows who'd l>ecn so long in the army they didn't know any other w-ny of living and supporting their families— wus fools enough to do it, but I'd see 1 him damned first, and nigh onto told 1 him so. j "1 guess I've luul 'bout enough of it 1 anyhow, Ijunbert. I did my best for . the government in the days when if we fellows hadn't done our best there mighty soon wouldn't of been any 'cept Jeff 1 nivis, ayd if ' this here"* a pj ccinien of the t>e*? the goveminent oar ilo for ft nw.n thai £ol plu£>rt •' prett v full of lead ftg!.tir..r for it, why. next war that pompßan.iitu! I want to be a sutkr and nothing <.'!* '■ I.ucky I ain't aw bud off a* the rest. The "boys arc doing' first-rat*, and ttic gitls nre well hitched to very dwent farmer*, both of 'era, and 'bout all I've put to l«»>k my They're running two railroads through there now. nnd it won't be long before j I can bo a s.nator or ascretary, if I i cant be a antler. Now, I'm going tuck to Spirit T*ike, where I'm the prettiest home in the Hawke.ye state, : and it'll be all ready to welcome you ! ai.d Mrs. lximlvert and—well —Just as i B,>on as she f**els like Tm\elinij ngain nnd you must come und spend a long i V\ive with met. I ain't get any ebil- i liren of my own. ami my kindred are i kind of « reppeti up In theirs, and 1 took , i> shine to you the first day yosi set foot in t!:nt old niudh de of a <\amp a? So don'ty on fret about the future, Lambert. You stood by me when I hadn't ft friend, and—my will's . all made, boj, and don't you forget It. . Y'ours truly, J. P. CLO 6E." "P. S. j i„ the Cap." TOE END. LOVE. KufTcrcth I'OUff and I* Kind. Wrote th« A pontic, ami theChAtwomftn Contlrmi It. "It makes all the difference in the worM what a person marries for. I'm so thankful that I didn't make uny mistake," said a small, Shabbily dressed, tired-looking woman, who was grubbing at a house where she had asked for work. Her tongue was at nimlJe as her Angers, but her views on all topic# were so cheer) and hope ful, notwithstanding her manifest pov erty, that her garrulity did not become tiresome to the listening newspaper woman. Her opinions on marriage, coming as they did from a woman to whom marriage liad brought poverty ond unceasing lulior for an invalid hus band, were refreshing, and had the ring of u true heart. "Yes," she said, "folks that marriet for but one thing makes a dreadful mistake. I often think to myself: 'Wliat If I had married for anything in the world but. love, real, genuine, sure enough love! What a fix I'd lie in to day!" "You see, niv husband's been an in valid for nine years. He went into slow consumption four years after we wire married, and he ain't worked six weeks, all told, since; and I've lmd all the. supj>ort of him and our three chil dren for nine years, and I've done It by trailin' round from houiw to house, scpubbin' and clennln' house; and all the fcelln' I've had about it has been one of thankfulness that I wasableiuid willln' to do it. "S'posin' I liudn't married f»r love? S'posin' I'd marru'd for riches, and they'd taken wings andkflew away? S'posin' I'd married f<»r beauty, nnd and mis'ry had robbed my husband of his good looks? Wouldn't I be in a nice tlx? "Hnt 1 didn't marry for a thing on earth but respect aud love for a good man, and I ain't regretted it, and I nln't a bit unhappy or discontented, exeeptin' in the sorrow- that comes from the certainty that I ain't goin' t<. liav<. nir husband with me much longer. "He's failin' fast now, ]*> or dear! 1 itin't ever looked on him iu* a bur den. I ain't throwi-d it up to him that. I've bad the llviji* to make. I ain't fret ted nor complained, nor done any of the t-hlnirs I would surely have done if I'd made the dreadful mistake of marryln' for anything but real direc tion. "Folks that marries for anything else* has a lot of unhappiness l>e fore 'em that I don't know anything about."—Cincinnati Enquirer. rut's l'tiMNuurd, The Irish soldier seems to furnish the story-teller with many an anecdote. The following incident is said to have occurred at the battle of Foutenoy, w hon the great Saxe was the marshal in oomtnabd. "The piusswoni is 'Saxe,' ** said the otlieer of the guard, as he sent off an Irish trooj>er with a message; "don't forget the word," "Sure I won't, sir," was the reply. "Sacks —my lather w as a miller." When he came to the sentinel and wag challenged, the Irishman looked wise, and whispered: **'ltnfß,' yuii spalpeen; let me through!" Harper's Hound Table. SHORT IIOAD TO LGARJIIIIO, Quoth this lad, with a mischievous grin: "They say that if fame one would win, O'er book* he must pore And their ra«cs explore. 8o I'll pour over these to begin." -~N V. Times Ila rd-Balce. An amusing incident happened ut u farm, where the people were noted for making very hard and unpalatable crusts to their pastry. One day u tramp came to the door and begged for something to eat. He waa given a custard, with a crust so hard that it lifti ut of the dish whole. He was seen to go down the yard, and, having devoured the contents, returned shortly ufterward with the crust, aud said: "Please, mum, I've brought your pie fllsli back, and thank you!" • Oolden Days. I Familiar l'roblem. Young Mrs. Torkins had been care fully studying a picture which showed the costumes of the Greek axul Turkish soldiers. Laying tho paper aside she exclaimed with a sigh: "There's nothing new under the sun, Is there, Chnrley, dear?" "To what do you refer?" "Tho Euroj>eau situation. It seems to Lo tin mine old quest ion of which it's to be, .skirts or bloomers."—Washing ton Star. 111. I'lrat Trip. He Jind nei it been In one of tho fast •levators. If went to tho top nil right.' Then came t.he descent. It waa likti | lightning. The boy pushed him out,' and vrifi ul>out to clot*) the the old gent hollered out: "HoJd on, tliar; I wmittogoback." "What Cor?" j#v , left my fjtummick upJlha^'rrJJfrYt No2o FAVOHABLE TO HfftTLTH. Athletic IndalKed In to * Ilea, aonublc Kxient. Many of the athletic sports. If pur sued for sport or ns a recreation, ara valuable remedial helps and aid to ward physical improvement, says tho North American lCevievV. Unfortunate ly, the spirit of emulation in athittics, which in some communities La* grown into intense rivalry, is likely to lead to excesses in training and practice for contests, which unless checked ond brought down to a rational basis uiajJ do more harm than good. Many young men seem to think that because the practice of athletics is favorable to health the more they cau get of this practice the bolter. This id an er roneous impression, ioi it is as possible , to overwork iu athletics it is in burfl : iiess and a great many young people do themsi ives injury by their zeal in the practice of competitive ex ercise. Iu this line of ph,\ deal activity, a~'. ia any other there ia a liiuit to hutran capability and It ia poiwibio to <<• -elop the inuseulnr and nervous ni', 3Q the detriment of the heart and 1 -infra or 01 the system. Huttheeoa dltion" an ler which athletics are usual ly practiced nre so favorable to the maintenance of health and vigor few persons who were sound at the time of commencing their athletic efforta Lave injured themselves by the prac tice of these vigorous exercises. It ia true that a certain number of young men who were distinguished for their supremacy in certain athletic events have died young. But the number of young men who nre now practicing athletic exercises in this country and uppearing in public contests is very large, as many as COO or 700 entries be ing recorded in some of the great city meeting*. ESSAY OF AN INDIAN BOY. OrlKlnnl Ideas Advanced hj as In* tellliccnt Savaae of Temder Year*. * There is nothing more original than the early composition of an Indian boy. The following example is is till prc cterved as «n instance in which ita auvugu author epitomized in uncon scious iiorable und with excellent hu mor the relationß of the red man and his wbite brother, says the New York Moil und Express. It Is entitled: "Sto 'ry of Good Bird and Had Cat." Tho essay follows: "tine day, bright day, a little bird hr.ppy and stood on a log and sang all day long. That bird doeen't k:i£»w anything übout cat. Shetlilnks nobody is near to her. But behind the neax log old sly cati is watehbig. She w ant to «*t for supper, end she thinks about stealing all tihe time. The old catc;mfto very slowly, und by- a>nd by she go after tho little bird, but she does not see lrim and sjuig lou<3 again. She sang kmd like tliis: '1 am always try to do what is right; wen I ever die I go to Heaven.' That bird said these, all words, and I 6hall not forget the little bird what it fcaid, and theeo all wort la It said and after two or three xnlnutee go died; the cat jumped and catch and kill, eat. all up except lit,tie things from bird, wings, legs or skin, and. that bird is glad die because she is very good bird. The little bird has last time sang and very happy waa the little bird alter tluit. I think the old cat have goad dinner and happy just the «iimo as the bird was at lirwt time." CHAIN OF HUMAN BONES. Made In Llbby Prison by a Memltee of a New York Keslmeut. Cyrus 0. Thornton, a farmer living a (few miles out of Bolivar, Mahs., hae an odd watch chain. It is made of hu man bonca. Tho cliaiu eoi::;>lst£ of right links, each a trifle more than an inch long, connected with plated rings. The chain is about ten Inches long and has been highly polished by years of wear and glistens like ivofy, eays the Fall lilver Newe. lliornton tlvc chain at Peters burg, Va., in 1804. He was i\ member of company .I>, Fiftieth Kow York en gineers. A member of Ibe Twenty lirst New York Infantry mode two cliains while confined iu Libby prteon, and on his releose met Thornton and) sold liuu one chain for SSO in green backs. Tliornton has forgotten the maker's name. Tlie bones were taken from amputate<l arms and legs, and it required 18 months' lime to carve out the chains. For nvany i yenra after ho came homo from tho war Thornton wore the chain eveTy day, but for sev eral years ho has worn it only on Me morial day and at grand army reunions. Some of hla neighbors laughed at the Idea of the lioncs being- taken from hu man bodies, and he sent tho chain to a surgeou, who examined it and pro xiouncenl It to be of human bones. \« Lavatory for Leedy, It is a statehouse story at Topeka that Gov. Leedy, vv ho, when he came ltv to ofllco lust Junuury, declared that bo would not use the porcelain bathtub which he inherlU>d from his republican predecessor, now refuses to use tho porcelain lavatory. It is equipped with u supply uppliunce, which the governor bus not been able to "get the hang of," und ono day when he was unable to shut it off the water overflowed und deluged the floor. Gov. private secretary rescued his chief, and as the latter emerged from the bathroom drying his hands ond face, he decided that a requi sition be made for u tin wash bowl. "I am used to a tin bowl," he said. "It will not ruu over aud drown me every time I want to wash my face." The bowl was bought, nnd to-day It adorns a soapbox in the bathroom. A IfletloniLry Index. A man from Canada called at a drug and book store iu Klchford, Vt., tho other day and Inquired if the dealer hod any Indexes for Webster's unabridged dictionary. His wife, he said, gavtj him one for a Christmas present, but it was tarnal slow work hunting up words, aud he tlioupht if he could get an Index it would help him. lie AYant> to Ku«, The social philosopher was pcrtuAed. "Why is it," he asked, "that a woman will devote all her enet fries to develop ing n good llgure and ihen will make a crazy rush for some fashion that will absolutely conceal all that is sym metrical or bus the least element ol grace If it does not absolutely deform her in the view of the general public?" As ho spoke ho looked at a woman in a box coat with puffed sleeves and si#hed deeply.—Chicago Post. In IM>7. She got up from her kneoa nnd glanced madly at tho bapgy trousers. She pressed down the unheaving tie. "You are a cruel coquette," she said. Cliolly shivered. "You led me on to think that you loved me, and now you tell me that you have accepted Grace llorselcigh. I will get even with you." And she went foi tho door, vowing vengeance. "Coward!" cried Cholly, as she do parted.—N. Y. World. The Tronhled Way. Thl» world is all a fleeting dhow, A round of toll and caro; The circus always conios, you knew. When we haven't canti to srsre. —Chicago itetord.
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