VOL* xxxiv
MRS. J. E ZIMMERMAN.
1897. PALI ANNOUNCEMENT. 1897.
We take pleasure in announcing that we have already received our first shipment
of new Fall Dress Goods, new Fell St; les in Fan :y Silks, ami alsj the tact that
our orders were all placed before the new tariff became a law. We have cur
Winter Wraps, Blankets and Yarns and Woolen Dres< Goods. Styles and quality
guaranteed at lower prices than ever.
Attention, Teachers, and also Visitors to the Butler County
Fair.
We invite you to make our store your visiting place whilst attending the
Teachers' Institute and the Fair. You will receive a cordial welcjm.' and have
the opportunity 1o inspect one of the finest, most carefully selected up-to-date
stock of Goods, Wraps, Millinery .ind Ladies' Tailor-made Suits ever brought
to Butler,
A FEW SPECIALS.
25c All-Wool Novelty Dress Goods 39c
39c " " " " " 50-inch, " 50c
50c " " " " " 40-inch, " 75c
AH-Wuol Country Blankets in plain white, scarlet
and plaid, at $2 49 to $8 00 per pair.
69c New Fall styles in Fancy Silks value 85c
75C " " " " " " " 00
Space forbids our mention of all the money-saving baigains tJiat await you here
Come in and see for yourself.
Mrs. J- E Zimmerman.
T.~H. BURTON. * T. H BURTON
SSTYLE.f
Style is Everything Now-a-days
And we are glad thai jt appertains to every article in our stock, for correctness j
and elegance are sure concomitants to artistic development.
It Celts Yon no More to be in Harmony With The Best Expressed Styles of
The Season, Than to Constitute "A BACK NUMBER,"
By taking anything and everything irresponsible dealers may offer you. This es
tablishment intends always to keep up with the times and you pre sure of that basis
yourse'f if you will trust us to serve you.
T. H. BURTON,
120 SOUTH MAIN ST.. BUTLER, PA.
I C. F. T. Pape & Bro., 1
£ 122 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA.
| 30 DAYS SALE FOR CASH |
jB This means the Lowest Prices for WATCHES, CLOCKS, tn
jR JEWELRY and SILVERWARE Ever «
Offered to the Public.
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$3.00 hu y* a Goodj \ $4.00 Hainden ors $ll.OO buys a ladies 20*
) [Watch. movement male] [Elgin movement, withsyear, 14 k, diamond case.f
i tby Elgin Watch Co..with: :best Silvcrine £with movement made bvl
■ fSilverine case j jcase. ¥Elgin Watch Co. '*
j [ $14.50 buys a gents P ,$2.35 buys a.i- 8 da\xThe best Alarm i;
1, ii 4 k, 20 year case, withjtclock, with ajarn —walnutjfeClock made %
i [Hamden or Elgin move-j for oak finish. Former** for
\ [ment j [price #4.00. M 65cts.il
ii ii *
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yk All Goods are Warranted to be just as we say they are,
a or MONEY REFUNDED. X
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fffn I G. F. KECK,
EE wJU | MERCHANT TAILOR.
ii|lw j# 142 North Main St.. Butler. Pa.
gzS-====<==^=^x- ~ '• When we make you a garment—or a suit
" l »ryvSC_ 4-"'.' —you may be sure that every st'tch in it
_r "fr perfectly mmle. Our especial pride is
ft- 1 ' w.' in the quality of our tailoring, we paj- high
\ v ft .V[' wages and employ first-class tailors, so we
V U2j -f o get the highest grade of garments and you
*+ know our prices are lower than others,
* £f- aud we keep the largest stock of goods to
V 1 ♦ 1 /•} ',,4. select from. Call and examine for your-
Vrn\l\ *C° self, FITS GUARANTEED, remember the
li )1 1 U place.
G. F. KECK Merchant Tailor
" " ' 142 N. MAIN ST.. BUTLER, PA.
J. S. YOUNG. ~
Tailor, flatter and Gents Furnishing Goods.
Summer heat makes the problem of looking dressy and keepiiig'tool a hard one
But we've solved it; and for once economy, comfort and fashion go; fcer.d in Land
Our summer suits are finer in fabric, nobbier in pattern ai d more stylish in cut
haD ever before, they f.t jour cuivu &rd yet they're net sweat 1 ;.th outfits. The
prices may surprise you.
J. S. YOUNG. Tailor.
101 S. MAIN St., • - - IIL'TLER, FA
WHILE YOU ARE WAITING
For your prescription don't fail to look
over our line of perfumes, we have re- .
ceived some very fine ones lately, and *IJ/A r,,tS
will be pleased to have you examine ) if/jw
them * iTll
We also have a very la. >je asaortnu nt
of tootb brushes made expressly for us ' '
wt»i' h l>ear our stamp, these brushes \V^yrt
we gutrantee and request the return of f-\'
any thit prove unsatisfactory.
You may need something for your . *.V. "^1
chapped hands and face, and if so we -—, ''j/,
recommend Cydoninm as a fine
toilet preparation.
REDICK& GROHMANN
DRUGGISTS.
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Rev. John Reid. Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont.,
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Church, HtlenS; ilont
ElyM Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
Cor any injuri'j'js dniz Price, 50 cents,
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Houttie(ie|d ll)eKi^
ICOPTRIGHTEIJ.I
CHAPTER 111.
"You burled him alive?" For a mo
ment I was too stunned to act. Then I
hurled myself upon the man. as he sat.
with that placid smile of his upon his
lips, and I would have torn his throat
out had the three wretches not dragged
ice away from him. Ajfain and apfaln
I made for him. pan-.inf,' and cursing,
shaking off this mau and that, strain
ing and wrenching, hut never quite
free. At last, with my jacket nearly
torn off my back and the blood dripping
from my wrists, I was hauled back
wards in the bight of a rope au<l cords
passed around my ankles and my
arms.
"You sleek hound." I cried. "If ever
I have you at my swortlspoint I will
teach you to maltreat one of my lads.
You will find, you bloodthirsty beast,
that my emperor has long arms, and,
though you lie here like a rat in its hole,
the time will come when he will tear
you out of it. and you and your vermin
Will perish toj[>-*her." My faith. I have
a rough side to my tongue, and there
was cot a hard word that 1 had learned
In fourteen campaigns which I did not
let fly at him. hut he sat with the han
dle of his pen tapping against his fore
head and his eyes squinting up at the
roof as if he had conceived the idea of
some new stanza. - It was this occupa
tion of his which showed me how I
might get my point into him. "You
spawn," said I, "you think that you are
tafe here, but your life may be as short
as that of your absurd verses, and God
knows it could not be shorter than
that."
Oh, you should have seen him bound
from his chair when I had said the
words. This vile monster, who dis
pensed death and torture as a grocer
serves out figs, had one raw nerve
which I could prod at pleasure. His
face now grew livid and those little
bourgeois side whiskers quivered and
thrilled with his passion.
"Very good, colonel. You have said
enough."' he cried, in a choking voice.
"You say that you hava had a very dis
tinguished career; I promise you also a
very distinguished ending. Col. Eti
enne Gerard, of the Third hussars,
shall have a death of his own."
"And I only beg," said I, "that you
do not commemorate it in verse." I
had one or two other little ironies to
utter, but he cut me short with a fu
rious gesture which caused my three
guards to drag me from the cave.
Our interview, which I have told you
as nearly as I can remember it, must
have lasted some time, for it was quite
dark when we came out, and the moon
Was shining very clearly in the heav
ens. The brigand -, had lighted a great
fire of the dried branches of the fir
trees; not of course for warmth, since
the night was already very sultry, but
to cook thoir evening meal. A hujre
cepper pot hung over the blaze, and
the rascals were lyinj? all around in
the yellow glare, so that the scene
looked like one of those pictures which
Junot stole out of Madrid. There are
some soldiers who profess to care noth
ing for art ;.nd the like, but I have al
wavs been drawn toward it myself, in
Which respect I show my good taste
and my breeding. I remember, for ex
ample, that when they were selling the
plunder after the fall of I.anzig, I
bought a very fine picture called
"Nymphs Surprised in a Wood," and I
carried it with mo through two cam
paigns until my charger had the mis
fortune to put his hoof through it.
I only tell you this, however, to show
you that I was never a lm-re rough sol
dier like Itapp or Lefebvre. As 1 lay
in that brigands' camp I had little tiinu
or inelination to think about such mat
ters. They had thrown me down un
der a tree, the three villains squatting
round and smoking their cigarettes
within hand's touch of me. What to
do I could not imagine. In my whole
career I do not suppose that I have ten
times been in as hopeless a situation,
"liut couragw," thought I, "courage,
my brave boy, you were not made a
colonel of hussars at twenty-eight be
cause you could dance a cotillon. You
are a picked man, Etienne, a man who
has come through more than two hun
dred affairs aud this little one is surely
not going to be the last." 1 began
eagerly to glance about for some
chance of escape, and as I did so I saw
something which filled me with great
astonishment.
I have already told you that a large
fire was burning in the center of the
glade. What with its glare and what
With its moonlight everything was as
clear as possible. On the other side of
the glado there was a single tall fir tree
which attracted my attention because
its trunk and lower branches were dis
colored, as if a large fire had recently
been lit underneath it. A clump of
bushes grew in front of it which
concealed the base. Well, as I
looked towards it I was surprised to see
projecting above the bush, and fastened
apparently to the tree, a pair of fine
riding boots with the toes upwards. At
first I thought that they were tied
there, but as I looked harder I saw
that they were secured by a great nail
which was hammered through the foot
of each. And then suddenly, with a
thrill of horror, I understood that they
were not empty boots, and, moving my
head a little to the right, I was able to
see who it was that had been fastened
there and why a fire had been lit be
neath the tree. It is not pleasant to
bpeak or think of horrors, my friends,
and I do not wish to give any of you
bad dreams to-night, but I cannot take
you among the Spanish guerrillas with
out showing you what kind of men
they were and the sort of warfare that
they waged. I will only say that I un
derstood why Monsieur Vidal's horse
was waiting masterless in the grove,
and that I hoped that he had met this
terrible fate with sprightliness and
courage, as a good Frenchman ought.
It was not a very ehceriug sight for
me, as you can imagine. When I had
been with their chief in the grotto I
had been so (tarried away by my rago
at the cruel death of young Soul/iron,
who was on«i of the brightest lads who
ever threw his thigh over a charger,
that I had never given a thought to my
own position. Perhaps it would have
been more politic had I spoken the
ruflian fair, but it was too late now.
The cork was drawn and I must drain
the wine. Besides, if the harmless
commissariat man was put to such a
death, what hope was there for me,
who had snapped the spine of their
lieutenant? No, I was doomed in any
ease, so it was as well, perhaps, that L
should have put the best face on the
matter. This beast could bear witness
that Etienne Gerard had died as he
had lived, and that one prisoner at
least had not quailed before him. I lay
there thinking of the various tfirls who
A.
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mi
"COL. GERARD SHALL HAVE A DEATH
OF nis OWN."
would mourn for me, and of my dear
old mother, and of the deplorable loss
that. I should be both to my regiment
and to the emper-r. and I am not
ashamed to eonf< you that I shed
tears as I thought o tie- general con
\ stcrnation which my premature end
. would (rive rise to.
But all the time I was taking the
I very ke< nc.t notice of everything
which might possibly help inc. I am
| not a man who would lie like a sick
horse waiting for the farriar sergeant
and the pole ax. First 1 would give n
• little at my ankle cords, and then
another at those that were around my
I wrists, and all the time I was trying to
i loosen them I was peering round to
j see if I could find something which was
in my favor. Titers was one thing
: which was very evident. A hussar is
| but half formed without a horse, and
i there was my other half quietly graz
ing within thirty yards of me. Then I
observed yet another thing. The path
by which we had come; over the moun
tains was so steep that a horse could
only be led across it slowly and with
difficulty, but in the other direction
the ground appeared to be more open,
and to lead straight down into a gently
sloping valley. Had I but my feet in
yonder stirrups and my saber in rny
hand, a single bold dash might take
me out of the power of these vermin of
the rocks.
I was still thinking it over and strain
ing with my wrists and my ankles
when their chief came out from his
grotto and after some talk with his
lieutenant, whe lay groaning near the
fire, they both nodded their heads ind
looked across at me He then
tome few words to" the band, who
clapped their hands and laughed up
roariously. Things looked ominous, and
I was delighted to feel that my hands
were so far free that I could easily slip
them through the cords if I wished.
But with my ankles I feared that I
pould do nothing, for when I strained
It brought such pain into my lanco
wound that I had to gnaw my mustache
to keep from crying out. I could only
lie still, half free and half bound, and
see what turn things were likely to
tako.
For a little I could not sec what they
were after. One of the rascals climbed
up to the top of a well-grown fir
HE SAID A FEW WORDS TO THE BAUD.
tree up on one side of the glade, and
tied a rope around the top of the trunk.
Ho then fastened another rope in the
same fashion to a similar tree on the
other side. The two loose ends were
now dangling down, and I waited with
some curiosity and just a little trepida
tion to see what they would do next.
The whole band pulled upon one of the
ropes until they had bent the strong
young tree down into a semi-circle,
and they then fastened it to a stump,
so as to hold it so. When they had
bent the other tree down in a similar
fashion, the two summits were within
a few feet of each other, though, as
you understand, thoy would each
spring back to their original position
the instant that they were released. I
already saw the diabolical plan which
those miscreants had formed.
"I presume that you area strong man,
colonel," said the chief, coming toward '
me with his hateful smile.
"If you will have the kindness to
loosen these cords," I answered, "I will
show you how strong I am."
"We were all interested to see wheth
er you were as strong as these two
young saplings," said he. "It is our in
tention, you see. to tie one end of each
rope round your ankles and then to let
the trees go. If you are stronger than
the trees, then, of course, no harm would
be done. If on the other hand the trees
are stronger than you—why, in that
case, colonel, we may have a souvenir
of you upon each side of our little
glade." He laughed as he spoke, and at
the sight of It the whole forty of them
laughed also. Even now if lamin my
darker humor, or if I have a touch of
my old Lithuanian ague, I see in my
sleep that ring of dark savage faces
with their cruel eyes and the firelight
flashing upon their strong white teeth.
CHAPTKR IV.
It is astonishing—and I have heard
many make the same remark—how
acute one's senses become at such a
crisis as this. lam convinced that at
no moment is one living- so vividly, m>
acutely, as at tho Instant when a vio
lent and foreseen death overtakes one.
I could smell the resinous fagots, I
could see every twig upon the ground,
I could hear every rustle of the
branches, as I have never smelled, or
seen, or heard, save at such times of
danger. And so it was that, long be- !
fore anyone else, before oven the time
when the chief had addressed me, I had
heard a low, monotonous sound, fa*
away, indeed, and yet coming nearer
at every instant. At first it was but a
murmur, a rumble, but by the time he
had finished speaking, while the assas
sins were untying my ankles in ord«r to
lead me to the scene of my murder, I
heard, as plainly as ever I heard any
thing in tpy lift), v f
shoes, and the jin'gli - f brl.l'e ha ins.
with the clank of sab «rs iu.-t stirrup
irons. Is it likely that I. w'.io had lived
with the iicrht cavalry sin ■ the first
hair shaded try lip. would r:.i "ake the
sound of troopers on the march? "Help,
comrades, help!" I shrieked, and though
they struck n;e across the mouth and
tried to me r.p to the tree. I kept
on yelling: "Help me. my brave boys!
Help me, my children! They are mur
dering your colonel!" For the moment
my wounds and ray troubleshad bromrht
« on a delirium, and I look, d f..r nothing
less than my five hundred hussars,
kettle-drums and all, to appear at the
opening of the glade.
But that which reall3 - appeared was
very different to anything which I had
conceived. Into the clear space there
came galloping a fine young man Upvji;
a most beautiful roan horse. He was
fresh faced and pleasant looking, with
the most debonnaire bearing in the
world and the most gallant way of
carrying himself, a way which re
minded me somewhat of my own. He
wore a singular coat which had once
been red all over, but which was now
stained to the color of a withered oak
leaf wherever the weather could reach
"HELP, COMRADES, HELP!"
It. lliu shoulder straps, however, were
of golden laee, and he had a bright
metal helmet upon his head with a
coquettish white plume upon one side
of its crest. He trotted his horse up the
glade, while behind him there rode four
j eaveliers in the same dress —all clean
Bhaven, with round comely faces, look
ing to me more like monks than
dragoons. At a short gruff order they
halted with a rattleof arms, while their
leader cantered forward, the lire beat
ing upon his eager face and the beauti
ful head of his charger. I knew of
course by the strange coats that they
were English. It was the first sight
that I had ever had of them, but from
their stout"beuring and their masterful
way I could see at a glance that what I
had always been told was true, and that
they were excellent people to fight
against.
"Well, well, well!" cried the young
officer, in sufficiently bad French:
"What devil's game are you up to here?
Who was that who was yelling for
help, and what are you trying to do to
him?"
It was at that moment that I learned
to bless those months which Obriant,
the descendant of the Irish kings, had
spent in teaching me the tongue of the
English. My ankles had just been
freed, so that I had only to slip my
hands out of tho cords, and with a
single rush I had flown across, picked
up my saber where it lay by the fire,
and hurled myself onto the saddle of
poor Vidal's horse. Yes, for all my
Vvounded ankle, I never put foot to
stirrup, but was in the seat in a single
bound. I tore the halter from the
tree, and before those villains could so
much as snap a pistol at me I was be
pide the English officer.
"I surrender to you, sir," I cried,
though I dare say my English was not
much better than his French. "If you
will look at that tree to the left you
will see what these villains do to the
honorable gentlemen who fall into
their hands."
Tho fire had flared up at the mo
meat, and there was poor Vidal exposed
THERfc WAS POOR VIDAL BEFORE THEM.
before them, as horrible an object as
one could see in a nightmare, "(lodam!"
cried the officer, and "(rodam!" cried
each of the four troopers, which is the
same as with us when we cry "Mon
Dieu!" Out rasped the five swords and
the four men closed up. One who wore
a sergeant's chevron langhed and
clapped me on the shoulder. "Fight
for your skin, froggy," said he.
Ah! it was so fine to have a horse be
tween my thighs and a weapon in •my
grip. I waved it above my head and
shouted in my exultation. Tho chief
had come forward, with that odious
smiling face of his.
"Your excellency will observe that
this Frenchman is our prisoner," he
said. ,
"You are a rascally robber," said tho
Englishman, shaking his sword at him.
"It is a disgrace to us to have such
allies. By the Lord, if the general were j
of my mind we would swing you up to j
the nearest tree."
"But my prisoner?" said the brigand,
in his suave voice.
"He shall come with us to Lord Wel
lington's camp."
"Just a word in your ear before you
take him."
He approached the young officer, and
then, turning as quick as a Hash, ho
fired his pistol in my face. Tin- bullet
scored its way through my hair and
burst a hole on each side of my busby.
Seeing that he had missed me, lie raised
the pistol and was about to hurl it at
me, when the English sergeant, with a
single backhanded cut, nearly severed
his head from his hotly. Ilis blood had
not reached the ground, nor the last
"isWlfclafc
f JW'#lf-
UK SEA 111. V SEVERED UIB IIEAl) FROM
HIS SHOULDERS.
curse died on his lips, before the whole
Jjo£(JU; were up.iji u*£ btjJ with a doz<yj
b.nindsanil as many slashes >o were all
safely oct of the glade. and galloping
down tho winding track which led to
valley.
It was not until we hail left the ra
vine far behind us and were right out
in the open fields that we ventured to
halt and to see what injuries we had
sustained. For me, weary and wound
ed as I was, my heart was beating 1
proudly and my chest was nearly burst
ing my tunic to think taut I, Etienne
Gerard, had left this gang of murderers
so much by which to remember me.
My faith, they would think twice be
fore they ventured again to lay hand*
| upon one of the Third hussars. So car
ried away was I that I made a small
oration to these brave Englishmen and
told them who it was that they had
helped to rescue. I would have spoken
of glory also and of tho sympathies of
brave men. but the officer cut me short.
"That's all right," said he, "any in
juries, sergeant?" 1
"Trooper Jones' horse hit with a
pistol bullet on the fetlock."
"Trooper Jones to go with us. Ser
geant Halliday with troopers Harvey
and Smith to keep to the right until
they touch the videttes of the German
hussars."
So these three jingled away together,
while the otlieer and I, followed at
some distance bv the trooper whose
charger had been wounded, rode
straight down in the direction of the
English camp. Very soon we had
opened our hearts, for we each liked
the look of the other from the begin
ning. He was of the nobility, this brave
lad. and he had been sent out scouting
by Lord Wellington to see if there were
any signs of our advancing through the
mountains. It is one advantage of a
wandering life like mine, that you learn
to pick up those bits of knowledge
which distinguish the man of the world.
I have, for example, hardly ever met a
Frenchman who could repeat an Eng
lish title correctly. If I had not trav
eled I should not be able to say with
confidence that this young man's real
name was Milor Hon. Sir Russell
Bart, this last being an honorable dis
tinction, so that it was as the Bart that
I usually addressed him, just as In
Spanish one might say "the Don."
As we rode beneath the moonlight in
the lovely Spanish night we spoke our
minds to each other, as if we were
brothers. We were both of an age, you
see, both of the light cavalry also (the
Sixteenth light dragoons was his
regiment) and both with the same
hopes and ambitions. Never have I
learned to know a man so quickly as I
did the Bart. He gave me the name of
a girl whom he had loved at a garden
called Vattxhall and for my part I
spoke to him of little C'aralic of the
opera. He took a lock of hair from his
bosom, and I a garter. Then we near
ly quarreled over hussar and dragoon,
for he was absurdly proud of his
regiment, and you should have seen him
curl his lip and clap his hand to his
hilt when I said that I hoped it might
never be its misfortune to come in the
way of the Third.
CHA.PTEB V.
Finally he began to speak of what
the English call sport, and he told
such stories of the money which he had
lost over which of two cocks could kill
the other, or which of two men could
strike the other the most In a fight for
a prize, that I was filled with astonish
ment. He was ready to bet upon any
thing in the most wonderful manner,
and when I chanced to see a shooting
utar he was anxious to bet that he
would see more than me, twenty-five
francs a star, and it was only when I
explained that my purse was in the
hands of the brigands that he would
give over the idea.
Well, we chatted away in this very
amiable fashion until the day began to
break, when suddenly we heard a great
volley of musketry from somewhere in
the front of us. It was very rocky and
SUDDENLY WE HEARD A GREAT VOLLEY
OF MfSKETRV.
broken ground, and 1 thought, al- |
though I could see nothing, that a gen- |
eral engagement had broken out. The ]
Bart laughed at my idea, however, and
explained that the sound came from
the English camp, where every man
emptied his piece each morning so as
to make sure of having a dry priming.
"In another mile we shall be up with !
the outposts," said he.
I glanced around at this and 1 per
ceived that we had trotted along at so
good a pace dnring the time that we
were keeping up our pleasant chat that
the dragoon with the lame horse was
altogether out of sight. I looked on
every side, but in the whole of that
vast rooky valley there was no one save
only the Bart and I —both of us armed, .
you understand, anil both of us well
mounted. I began to ask myself
whether after all it was quite neces- i
sarv that I should ride that mile which j
would bring me to the British out- ;
posts.
Now I wi ih to be very clear with you i
on this point, my friends, for I would j
not have you think that 1 was acting !
J dishonorably or ungratefully to the I
! man who had helped me away from the j
1 brigands. You must remember that of I
all duties the strongest is that which a 1
commanding officer owes to his men. j
You must at o bear in mind that war is j
a game which is played under fixed j
rules, and when these rules are broken
one must at once claim the forfeit. If, |
for example. I had give n u parole, then j
I should have been an infamous wretch |
had 1 dreamed of escaping. But no j
parole had been asked of me. Out of
overconfident and tho chance of the
lame hors • dropping behind, the Bart
had permitted the to get upon equal
terms with him. Had it been 1 who
had taken him 1 should have used him
as courteously as he hud me, but at the
same time I should have respe crted his
enterprise so far as to have deprived
him of his sword, and seen that I had
at least one guard besides myself. I
reined up my horse and explained this
to him. asking him at the same whether
he saw any breach of honor in my leav
ing him.
He thought about it, and several
times repeated that which the English
sav when they mean "Mon Dieu." "You
would give me the slip, would you?"
taid he.
"If you can give no reason against it."
"The only reason that 1 can think
of," said tire Bart, "is that I should in
stantly cut your head off if you should
attempt it."
"Two can play at that game, my dear
Bart," said I.
"Then we'll see who can play It
best," he cried, pulling out his sword.
I had drawn mine also, but 1 was
quite determined not to hurt this ad
mirable young 1 man who had been my
benefactor.
"Consider!" 1 "Vmi so" tfcot T
im your prisoner. I might with equal
I WAS DETERMINED NOT TO HTTBT THIS
TOCKG MAN.
reason sar that you ure mine. We are
alone hero, and though I have no doubt
that you are an excellent swordsman,
you would hardly hope to hold your
own against the best blade in the six
light cavalry brigade*."
His an ,ivcr was a cut at my head. I
parried and shore off half of his white
plume. He thrust at my breast.'' I
turned his point and cut away theother
half of his cockade.
"Curse your monkey tricks!" h-? cried,
as I wheeled my horse away from him.
"Why should you strike at me," Raid
1. "You see that I will not strike
back."
"That's all very well," said he. "But
you've got to come along with me to the
camp."
"I shall never see the camp," said I.
"I'll lay you nine to four you do," he
cried, as he made at me. sword in hand.
But those words of his put something
new into my head. Could we not de
cide the matter in borne better way than
by fighting? The Bart was placing me
in such K position that I should have to
hurt him, or he would certainly hurt
me. I avoided his rush, though his
sword point was within un inch of my
neck.
"I have a proposal," I cried. "We
shall throw dice as to which is the pris
oner of the otbor."
He smiled at this. It appealed to his
love of sport.
VWhere are your -e?" he cried.
"I have none."
"Nor I, but I have cards."
"Cards let it be," said I.
"And the game?"
"I leave it to you."
'Eearte, then — the best of three."
I could not help smiling as I agreed,
for I dj not suppose that there were
three men ia France who were my mas
ters at the game. I told the Bart as
much as we dismounted. lie smiled
also as he listened.
"I was counted the best player at
Watier's," said he. "With even luck
you deserve to get off if you beat me."
So we tethered our two horses and
sat down, one on either side of the
great flat rock. The Bart took a pack
of cards out of his tunic and I had only
to see him shuffle them to convince me
that I had no novice to deal with. We
cut and tho deal fell to him.
My faith.it was a stake worth playing
for. He wished to add a hundred gold
pieces a game, but what was money
when the fate of Col. Etienne Gerard
hung upon the cards? I felt as though
all those who had reason to be inter
ested in the game, my mother, my
hussars, the Sixth corps d'armee, Ney,
Messena, even the emperor himself,
were forming a ring around us in that
desolate valley, neavens, what a blow
to one and all of them should the cards
go against me. But I was confident,
for my ecarte play was as famous as
my 6wordsmauship, and, save old
I
"I HAVE A PROPOSAL," I CRIED.
Rouvet, of the hussare, who won sev
i enty-six out of one hundred and fifty
g-arnes off me, I have always had the
j beat of a scries.
pro Br ooimxrwj.]
Wholly I nnaatatrd.
Mrs. Kidder —Now, darling, 1 hope
you will relish these tea biscuits. 1
worked so hard over them, and made
them entirely with my own hands.
Kidder —Yes; 1 can see that very pl/Jn
ly, dear.
Mrs. K.—Why, how so, love?
Kiddor —lieoause the yeast doesn't
appeal' to have worked at all.—Up-to-
Date.
A Musi.nl Treat.
Gus De Smith—Miss Nellie, how did
you like iny serenade last night?
Nellie CLatlie —I didn't like your posi
tion.
"My position? My attitude, you
mean."
"No, j our position. You weren't far
enough off for ine to hear you, and you
weren't close enough for me to scald
you."—Tammany Times.
Cauifht for Life.
Crimsonbetik —Did you hear about
Benedict?
Yeast—No; what's the matter with
him?
"(iot caught in a bureau."
"What kind of a bureau?"
"A matrimonial bureau." —Yoikkecrs
Statesman.
lie Waa a liaol Lawyer.
"Good lawyer?" repeated the man
who iiad been acquitted in answer to a
question. "Well, 1 should say so. Ever
since 1 heard him plead my case I've
had such n good opinion of myself that
I keep looking round to see if the wings
are sprouting And before that 1
thought I guilty."—Chicago Post.
Out of Date.
"That Fifth street church choir ninst
be all run down ami no good now."
"What has led you up to that opin
ion ?"
"They haven't had a row or a scandal
in it for over seven years."—Cleveland
Leader.
final a of the fteport.
"I hear that you have been engaging
m literary pursuits, Hampack," said
one Chicago pork dealer to another.
"Rata!" was his polite reply.
"Well, didn't you chase away a novel
fst who wanted to pay attentions to
your daughter?"— Town Topics.
One Thing tn Common.
Dinks —Did it ever strike you that
;>oet.s, dressmakers and absinthe have
one thing In common ?
Uotte —No; what?
Dinks—They all manufacture dreams.
—N. Y. Journal.
W» Do.
We may praise the great new woman
tVUh her strong, developed mind;
But wo like to have our mothers I
Btlll the good, kjnd.
WAr/frV WWW AW. S
(Vtrvwa* Teaptruntl BevtasOlHl
■tralacC
The pathetic recital of (be experience
of the engineer « how reason was shat
tered by his train running over and kill
ing two men, leads thoughtful persons
to the contemplation of the exceeding
frailty of humanity and the awful
consequences to tbe sensitive mind ot
such an accident as that which warn
the real cause of the collision of two
trains.
Of a highly nervous temperament,the
engineer, .vhile he felt himself guiltless
of murder, was yet so overcome with
the knowledge that he had taken twa
■ lives that he was wholly unbalanoed,
and probably in tbe most mechanical
way, with his hand on the lever, sent •
his train along the tracks, completely
oblivious of the danger that threatened
him. The piteous appeal to his fellows,
asking them if he really was to blame,
is one of the most pitiful incidents in
•the affair. Experts say that an en
gineer can only pass through a given
amount of strain, and that once having
passed this point he is scarcely ao
'countable for what he may do, says the
New York Ledger.
There is a great difference hi people,
however, as to the effect which such
calamities have upon them. People of
stolid and unirapressible temperaments
may pass through such experiences
and be but slightly overcome by them,
but it is a dangerous thing for the
sensitive, highly organized mind to be
placed in such an awful position.
ALL BIRDS NOT QEESE.
Decoy* Do Not Always Work t«ee«M<
tally.
Despite the success with Which de
coys are 6ometieies used by skillful
hunters, birds, in the wild state at least,
ore not easily deceived, says an ex
change. Their sense of hearing is pe
culiarly acute, and their instinct en
ables them iußt&ntly to detect the
slightest variation in the song of one
of their own kind —as is laughably
i'lustrated in the following true story:
A bird catcher, wishing to increase
his stock of bullfinches, took out his
limed twigs— i. e., twigs covered witli
a strongly adhesive preparation, by
alighting on which the poor birds were
caught like files on sticky fly-paper—
and arranged them In what he consid
ered a promising place. For a decoy
he took along a tame bullfinch in a
cage. Now it happened that this bird
was, for a bullfinch, highly educated—
overeducated, in fact. At finst the de
coy uttered a few natural noites, and
its cry attracted several of its kindred,
who posted themselves at a little dis
tance, wa.tching the bird In the aage
with much curiosity. Presently they
began to approach, hopping, inch by
inch, toward the fatal twigs. But just
at this critical moment the trained bull
linch, carried away by the excitement
ot so interesting an occasion, began to
pipe the old country dance known as
"Nancy Dawson," ond away flew all
the intended victims as test as their
wings could carry them.
A GIRL'S SHREWD PLAN.
H»w She Find* Oat a Maa'i Traa
Nature.
A captivating girl who carried a lor
gnette was talking recently to a party
of her friends and her words must have
borne weight, for the other girls were
listening. When girls are not all talk
ing at once it's a pretty good indica
tion that the one who is thus permit
ted to monopolize the conversation is
saying something worth while. "When
I feel that a man Is becoming interest
ed in me to the exclusion of other girls,"
said she of the lorgnette, "I at once put
him to a test which is calculated to
bring his true nature to the surface.
Of course, you all know what posers
men are, and how they are on dress pa
rade when the girls are about. Well,
my test is this: I make an engagement
with him to go off somewhere at eight
In the morning. Nine men out of ten
will be late. At that hour of the morn
ing a man is usually disagreeable and
hutefuL He will be unshaven. His
breath will be leminlsoeat of stale to
bacco smoke, and possibly of last
night's libations. His conversational
powers, usually so scintillating art
night, you will fiixl to be shorn of theli
attractions. If you want to look be
hind the screen of a man's conventional
ity, put him to this test. If he oomes
through it under favorable conditions,
he w ill make a good husband. But
I've never seen one that eould stand the
test to my satisfaction, and I've tried it
often."
SALOON STRAWS ARE COSTLY.
Particular Care Repaired ia Pleklsi
and Shipment.
"The straws through which we im- I
hi be mint juleps and other 6upposably
cooling decoctions in summer cost the
saloon men about as much as do tixeir
free lunches," said a red-faced man who
sat at a table in the St. Nicholas cafe
slowly sipping a julep through • couple
of straws, savs the St. Louis Republic.
"I just found this out the other day and
I have felt sorry for the saloon men
ever since, because every fellow who
uses a straw feels that it is his duty
to destroy it with his drink. The s®-
loou men get t<heir supply of straw®
from the big glass houses, and the most
of these establishments keep a regular
force of hands employed all through
the summer season cutting and prepar
ing the straws for use. Usually some
body lias to be sent to the country to
select the straw from the farmer, and
then it has to be handled with great
care in getting it to the city. This, of
course, is an item of expense which
must be made out of the saloon men."
Dtamantlta* Miycae*.
It is stated that the German military
authorities have decided to demolish
the fortifications and the walls of
Mayence, the most strongly fortified
city of Germany, which has witnessed
bo many fierce struggles and historical
tragedies.
Carloaa National Cutoa.
"I was so mad," said the vivacious
yoning American lady, "that 1 could
J-.ave eaten a pound of nails."
The listening Englishman made a
note in his commonplace book that even
anger is so well recognized ns anervoua
complaint in this country that tbe na
tive* aire in the habit of taking iron to
counteract it.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Lonklag After Trade.
"I see," remarked Mrs. Shooter, "that
thej' are going to put all those danger
ous trolleys under ground; why is
that, George?"
Cieorge (gruffly)—l suppose because
they want to get some of their old pat
rons back.—Brooklyn Life.
Homebody Hhanld Tell Iter.
Mr. Wildes—Who told your daughter
she could sing?
Mr. Howell —No one; she dreamt it.
"Well, doesn't she know that dreams
ulways go by contraries?" Yonkers
Statesman.
No Dlffreace.
Teacluer —What is the difference be
tween an ex-prize fighter and a philos
opher?
Ilright. Scholar—There ia no differ
ence. They are both expounder*.—Up-
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