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THE RED ACORN.
BY JOHN H’ELROY,
Author of “Anderson'oille,” Etc.
[Copyrighted by National 'ri-iimno Publishing 00.,
and published by. arrangement with than]
['I‘heuame given-this story is made glorious
b the valor and achievements of the
division of the Fourteenth Army
corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson
acorn, worn oi the breach; of . its gallant
soldiers and borne upon their battle flag.)
CHAPTER I.
A DECLARATION.,
On the afternoon. of' a perfect June day”
Rachel {Bond sat beneath an - apple tree 'at the
crest of a moderate hill and looked dreamily
away to where, beyond the village of Bardis
at the foot of the hill, the Miami river marked
the beautiful valley like a silver ribbon care-
lessly flung upon a wsb of green velvet.
Rather she seemed to be looking there, for
the light that usually shone outward in those
luminous eyes was turned inward. The little
volume of poems had dropped unheeded from
the white hand. It had done its ofiice; the
passion of its lines had keyed her thoughts to
in harmony that suffused her whole being,
until all seemed as naturallya part of the
glorious day as the fiescy clouds in the sap-
- phiro sky, the cheerful hum of tbs bees, and
tbs apple blossom’s luxurious scent.
Her love, and quite as much hsr girlish
ambition, had been crowned with violets and
bays some weeks before, when the fever hsat
of patriotism seemed to bring another passion
in Harry Glen’s bosom to the eruptive point,
and there came the longwaitod—for avowal
of his love; which was made on the evening
before his company departed to respond to
the call for troops which followed the fall of
Fort Sumter.
After the meeting .at which Harry had
signed the recruiting roll, he had taken her
home up the long, sloping hill, through moon-
light as soft, as inspiring, as glorifying as
that which had melted even the frosty God-
demof Maidenhood, so that she stooped from
her heavenly unapproachablsncsl, and kissed
the handsome Endymion as he slept.
Though little, and that commonplace, was
said as they walked, subtle womanly instinct
prepared Rachel’s mind for what was coming
and her grasp upon Harry’s arm assumed a
new feeling that hurried him on to the crisis.
They stopped beneath the old apple tree, at
the crest of the hill, and in front of the house.
Its gnarled and twisted limbs had been but
freshly clothed in a suit of fragrant green
leaves.
The ruddy bonfires, lighted for the war
meeting, still burned in the village below.
The hum: of supplementary speeches
to the excited crowds that still lin-
gered about came to their ears, mingled
with cheers from throat rapidly grow-
ing hoarse, and the throb and wail of fife and
drum. Then, uplifted on the voices of hun-
dreds who sang it as only men, and men
swayed by powerful emotions can, rose the
ever—glorious “Star Spangled Banner,” loftiest
and most inspiring of national hymns.
Through its long, forceful measures, which
have the sweep and ring of marching bat-
talions, swung the singers, with a passionate
earnestness that made every note and word
glow with meaning. The swelling pman told
of the heroism and sacrifice with which the
foundations of the nation were laid, of the
glory to which the land had risen, and then
its mood changing to one of direness and
wrath, it foretold the just punishment of
those who broke the peace of a. happy land.
The mood of the Sardis people was that
patriotic exaltation which reigned in every
city and village of the north on that memor-
able night of April, 1861.
But Rachel and Harry had left far behind
them this passion of the multitude, which had
set their own to throbbing, even as ,the roar
of a. cannon will waken the vibrations of
harp strings. Around where they stood was
the peace of the night and sleep. The per-
fume of violets and hyacinths, and of myriads
of opening buds seemed shed by the moon
with her silvery rays throu h the soft, dewy
1111'; a few nocturnal insects oned hither and
thither, and “ drowsy tinklings lulled the
distant folds. ”
As their steps were arrested Rachel released
her grasp from Harry’s arm, but he caught
her hand before it fell to her side, and held it
fast. She turned her face frankly toward
him, and he looked down with anxious eyes
upon the broad white forehead, 1 ed in
silken black hair, upon great eyes, aming
with a meaning that he feared to interpret,
. upon the eloquent lines about the mobile, sen-
sitive month, all now lifted into almost su-
pernatural beauty by the moonlight’s spirit-
ualizing magic.
What he said he could never afterward
recall. His first memory was that of a pause
In his speech, when he saw the ripe, red lips
turned toward him with a gesture of the
proud head that was both an assent and invi-
tation. The kiss that be pressed there thrilled
him with the intoxication of unexpectedly
rewarded love, and Rachel with the gladnws
of triumph.
‘— A‘... ..........,
What he said he could never afterward
recall.
What they afterward said wasas incoherent
as the conversations of those rapturous mo-
ments ever are.
“ You know we leave in the morning?” he
said, when at last it became necessary for
him to go. ,
“Yes," she answered calmly. “And perhaps
it is better that it should be so—that we be
apart for a little while to consider this new-
found happiness and understand it. I shall
be sustained with the thought that in giving
you to the country I have given more than
any one else. I know that you will do some-
thing that will make me still prouder of you,
and my presentiments, which never fail me,
assure me that you will return to me safely.”
His face showed a little disappointment
with the answer.
She reached above her head, and breaking
of! a bud handed it to him, saying in the
words of Juliet: -
Sweet, good-night:
This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower, when next we
meet.
He kissed the bud and put it In his bosom,
kissed her again passionately and descended
the hill to prepare for his departure In the
morning.
The days that followed were halcyon for
her. While the other women of Sardis,whose
loved ones were gone, were bewailing the
dangers they would encounter, her proud
spirit only contemplated the chances that
Harry would have for winning fame. Battles
meant bright laurels for him inwhich she
would have a rightful share.
Her mental food became the poetry of love,
chivalry and gloriouswar. 'The lyric had a
vivid personal interest. Tales of romantic
daring and achievement were suggestions of
possibilities in Harry’s career. Her waking
hours were mainly spent, book in hand, under
the old apple tree that daily grew dearer to
her.
The exalted mood in which we found her
was broken in upon by the sound of some one
shutting the gate below very emphatically.
Looking down she saw her father approach-
ing with such visible signs in face and de-
meanor of strong cchtement that shs arose
and went to him.
“Why, father, what can be the mater
she said, stopping in front of him, with the
open book pressed to her breast.
“Matter enough. I’m afraid, Rachel. There’s
been a battle near a plum called Rich Moun-
tain, inth Virginia, and Harry Glen’s—”
“0h, father," she said, growing very white,
“Harry's killed?”
“No; not killed.” The old man’s lip curled
with scorn. “It’s Worse. He seems to’ve sud-
denly discovered he wan’t prepared to die;
he didn’t want to rush all at once into the
presence of his Maker. Mcbbe he didn’t think
it’d be good manners. You know he was al~
i ways stronger on etikwet than anything else.
In short, he’s showed the white feather. A
dozen or more letters have come from the
boys telling all about it, and the town’s talk-
ing of nothing else. There’s one of the let—
ters. It's from Joseph Pancake, who quit
working for me to enlist. Read it for your-
self."
The old gentleman threw the letter upon
the gram and strode on angrily into the
house. , Rachel smoothed out the crumpled
sheet and read with a growing sickness at the
heart:
his. Bonn.
um Sun: italic my pen in hand to Iett you no
that with the exception of a occashunal took of
roomaticks,sn boonions all over my fete from
hard marchin, ime all rite, en'i hope you or in-
join the helm blessin. Weve jest had an awful
big fits and the waywe warmed itto the seceshers
Jest beat the jews, i doant expect theyvo stopt
runnin yit. Allthe Ssrdis boys done bully except
LIeut. Harry Glen. The smell of burnt powder
seemed to ousetfle his narvcs. . lie tuk powerful
sick all at wunst, jest as the trail was glttin rather
fresh. and be 147 greanln wen the restof the com-
pany marched ofi into the lite. He dcant find
the klime-it here as heulthy'asltisInSardis. i
'stinguished myself and have bin promoted, and
ive got a Rebel gun for you witha bore his sand
to put a walnut in, and it‘ll jest nook your whole
darned shoulder off e'Very time you shoot it. No
more yours til doth send me some finecut tobacker
for heavens sake. _ Jam Panama.
Rachel fore the letter into a thousand frag-
ments and flung the volume of poems into
the ditch below. She hastened to her room
'and- no one. saw her again until ,the next
‘ morning, .when she came down dressed in
somber - black, her face pale and her color-lam
lips tightly comprimcd.
CHAPTER II.
msr snows.
All military courage of any value is the
offspring of pride and will. The existence of
what is called “natural courage” may well be
doubted. What is frequently mistaken for
it is either perfect self-command or a stolid
indifference, arising from dull brained Inns
bility to comprehend what really is danger.
The first instincts of man teach himto
shun all sources of harm. and if his senses are
sufficiently acute to perceive danger, his natu-
ral disposition Is to avoid encountering it.
This disposition can only be overcome by the
exercise of the power of pride and will—pride
to aspire to the accomplishment of certain
things, even though risk attend, and will to
carry out those aspirations.
Barry Glen was apparently not deficient in
either pride or will. The close observer, how-
eyei‘, seemed to see as hismastering sentiment
a certain sterile selfishness, not uncommon
among the youths of his training and posi-
tion in the slow-living, hum-drum country
towns of Ohio. The only son of a weakly,
fondling mother, and a father too earnestly
treading the narrow path of early dili-
gences and small savings by which a
man Monies the richest in his village, to
pay any attention to hkn, Harry grow up a
self-indulgent, self-sufficient boy.
When he signed his name upon the recruit-
ing roll—largely impelled thereto by the doll-
catoly flattering suggestion that he should
lead of! for the youth of Sardis—he had not
the slightest misgiving that by so doing he
would subject himself to any of the ills and
discomforts incidental to carrying out the
enterprise upon which they were embarking.
He, like every one else, had no very clear
idea of what the company would be called
upon to do or undergo; but no doubt obtruded
itself into his mind that whatever might be
disagreeable in it would fall to some one
elss’s lot, and he continue to have the same
pleasant exemption that had been his good
fortune so far through life.
And though the company was unexpectedly
ordered to the field in the rugged mountains
of western Virginia, instead of to pleasant
quarters about Washington, there was noth-
ing to shake this comfortable belief. The
slack discipline of the first three months’ ser-
vice, and the confusion of ideas that pre-
vailed in the beginning of the war as to mili-
tary duties and responsibilities, enabled him
to spend all the time he chose away from his
company and with congenial spirits about
headquarters, and to make of the expedition,
so far as he was concerned, a pleasant picnic.
Occasionally little shadows were thrown by
the sight of corpses brought in, with ugly
looking bullet holes in head or breast, but
these were always of the class he looked down
upon, and he connected their bad luck in
some way with their condition inlife. Doubt-
les some one had to go where there was
danger of being shot, as some one had to dig
ditches and help to pry wagons out of the
mud, but there was something rather pre-
posterous in the thought that anything of
this kind was incumbent upon him.
The mutterings of the men against an ofll-
oer who would not share their hardships and
duties did not reach his ears, nor yet the
gibes of the more earnest of the officers at the
“young headquarter swells,” whose interest
and zeal were nothing to what they would
have taken in a fishing excursion.
It came about very naturally and very
soon that this continual avoidance of duty in
directions where danger might be encountered
was stigmatized by the harsher name of
cowardice. Neither did this come to his
knowledge, and he was conSequently ignorant
that he had delivered a fatal stab to his repu-
tation one fine morning when, the regiment
being ordered out with three days’ rations
and forty rounds of cartridges, the sergeant
who was sent in search of him returned and
reported that he was sick in his font. Joseph
Pancake expressed the conclusion instantly
arrived at by every one in the regiment:
“It’s all you could expect of one of them kid
glove tellers, to weaken when it came to seri-
ous businem.”
Harry’s self-sufficiency had left so little
room for anything that did not directly con-
cern his own comfort that he could not un-
derstand the deadly earnestness of the men he
saw file out of camp, or that there was any
urgent call for him to join them in their un-
dertaking.
“Bob Bennett’s always going where there’s
no need of it,” he said to a companion, as he
saw the last of the regiment disappear into
the woods on the mountain side. “He could
have stayed back here with us just ,us well as
not, instead of trudging off through the heat
over these devilish roads, and probably get
into n. scrape for which no one will thank
him.”
“Yes,” said Ned Burnleigh. with his af-
fected draw], “what the devil’s the use, I’d
like to know, for a fellah’s putting himself
out to do things when there’s any quantity of
other fellabs, that can’t be better employed,
ready and even anxious to do them.”
“That’s so. But it’s getting awful hot here.
Let’s go over to the shade. where we were
yesterday, and have Dick bring us a bucket
of cold spring water and the bottlm and
things"
“Abel” said Joseph Pancake to his file
leader—a red—headed, peck-marked man,
whose normal condition was that of out-
spoken disgust at everything—“this means a
fight.”
“Your news would’ve been fresh and in-
teresting last night,” growled Abe Bolton.
“I suppose that’s what we brought our guns
along for."
“Yes; but somebody’s likely to get killed.”
“Well, you nor me don’t have to pay their
life insurance, as I know on.”
“But it may be you or me."
“The devil’d be mighty anxious for green
wood before he’d call you in.”
“Come, now, don’t talk that way. This it.
a mighty serious time.”
“I’ll make it a dumed sight seriouser for
you If you don’t keep them splay feet 0’
your’n often my heels when we’re march-
lug.”
“Don’t you think we‘d better pray, or—-'-
something?”
“You might try taking up a collection.”
“Try starting a hymn, Joe," said a slender
showed a color more intimately connected
with the contents of his canteen than the
heat of the day. “Lino it out, and we’ll all
join in. Something like this, for example:
Hark, from the tombs a doleful sound;
Mine ears attend the cry.
Ye living men, come view the ground,
Where you must shortly lie."
Pancake shuddered visibly.
“Come,' spunk up. J 09,” continued the
slender young man. “Think how proud all
your relations will be of you if you die for
your country.”
“I’m mad at all my relations, and I don’t
want to do nothing to please ’em,” sighed
Joe.
“But I hope you’re not so greedy as to want
to live always?” said the slender young man,
who answered roll call to Kent Edwards.
“No, but I don’t want to be knocked oif
like a green apple, before I’m ripe and
ready.”
“Better be knocked of! green and unripe,”
said Kent, his railing mood changing to one
of sad introspection, “than to prematurely
fall from a worm gnawing at your heart.”
Joe’s fright was not so great as to make
him forego the opportunity for a brutal re-
tort:
“You mean the ‘worm of the still,’ I s’pose.
Well, It'don’t gnaw at my heart so much as
' some other folkses that I know’d."
Kent’sfaee crimsoned still deeper, and he
half raimd his musket, as if to strike him, but
at that moment came the order to march,
and the regiment moved forward.
The enemy was by this time lmown to be
near, and the men marched in that silence
that comes from tense expectation.
The day was intensely hot, and the stag-
nant, sultry air was perfumed with the thou-
sand sweet odors that rise In the West Vir-
young man at his right elbow, whose face -
giuin forests in the first flush of summer.
At last the regiment halted under the grate-
ful shadows of the broad topped oaks and
chestnuts.
The men threw themselves down for a mo—
ment’s rest on the springing mess that cov-
ered the whole mountain side. A hum of
comment and conversation arose. J 00
Pancake began to think that there was not
likely to be any fight after all, and hisspirits
rose proportionately. Abe Bolton growled
that the cowardly ofilcors had no doubt de-
liberately misled the regiment, that a fight
might be avoided. Kent Edwards saw a
nodding Mayapplc flower—as fair as a calla
and as odorous as a pink—at a little distance,
and hastened to pick it. He came back with
it in the muzzle of his gun, and his hands full
of violets.
A thick bodied rattlesnake crawled slowly
and clumsily out from the shelter of a little
ledge, his fearful eyes gleaming with deadly
intentions against a ground squirrel frisking
upon the end of a mossy log, near where
Capt. Bob Bennett was seated, poring over a
troublesome detail in' the “Tactics.” The
snake s:iW‘ the man, and his awkward
movement changed at once into one of elec-
tric alertness. He sounded his terrible rattle,
and his dull diamonds and stripes lighted up
with the glare that shinesthrough an enraged
man‘s face. The thick body seemed to
lengthen out and gain a world of sinuous
supplencss. With the quickness of a flash he
was coiled, with head erect, forked tongue
protruding and eyes flaming like satani-
jewels.
A shout apprised Capt. Bennett of his dan-
ger. He dropped the book, sprang to his feet
with a. quickness that matched the snake’s,
and instinctively drew his sword. Stepping
a little to one side as the reptile launched it-
self at him, he doxtrously cut it in two with
a sweeping stroke. A about of applause rose
from the excited boys, who gathered around
to inspect the slain serpent and congratulate
the captain upon his skillful disposition of his
assailant.
“O, that’s only my old but stroke that used
to worry the boys in town ball so much,” said
the captain carelessly. “It’s queer what
things turn out useful to a man, and when he
least expects them.” - >
A long, - ringing yell from a thousand
throats cleft the air, and with its last nOtes
came the rattle of musketry from the brow
of the hill across the little ravine. The bul-
lets sang viciously overhead. They cut the
leaves and branches with sharp little crashes,
and struck men’s bodies with a peculiar slap.
A score of men in the disordered group fell
back dead or dying upon the green moss.
“Of course, we might’ve knowed them
muddle-headed officers’d run us right slap into
a homsts' nest of rebels before they knowcd a
thing about it,” grumbled Abe Bolton, hastily
tearing a cartridge with his teeth and forcing
it into his gun.
“Hold on, my weak-knead patriot,” said
Kent Edwards, catching Joe Pancake by
the collar and turning him around so that he
faced the enemy again. “It’s awful bad man-
ners to rush out of a matinee just as the per-
formance begins. You disturb the people
who’ve come to enjoy the show. Keep your
seat till the curtain goes down. You’ll find
enough to interest you.”
The same sudden inspiration of common
sense that had flashed upon Capt. Bennett
encountering the snake now raised him to the
level of this emergency. He comprehended
that the volley they had received had emptied
every Confederate gun. The distance was so
short that the enemy could be reached before
they had time to reload. But no time must
be lost in attempting to form, or in having
the order regularly given by the colonel. He
sprang toward the. enemy waving his sword,
and shouted in tones that echoed back from
the cliffs:
“Attention, Battalion! Charge bayonetsi
Forward, DOUBLE-QUICK, MARCH!” I
A swelling cheer answered him. His own
company ran forward to follow hlslmpetu-
one load. The others joined in rapidly.
Away they dashed down the side of the
dcclivity and in an inst-ant more were swarm-
ing up the opposiin side toward the astonished
Confederates. Among these divided councils
reigned. Some were excitedly snapping im-
loaded guns at the oncoming foe, others were
fixing bayonets and sturdily urging their
comrades to do likewise and meet the rush-
ing wave of cold steel with a counter wave.
The weaker hearted ones were already clam-
bering up the mountain side out of reach of
harm.
There was no time » for debate. The blue
line led by Bennett fiung itself upon the dark
brown mass of Confederates like an angry
wave dashing over a flimsy bank of sand, and
in an instant there was nothing to be done
but pursue the disrupted and flying frag-
ments. It was all over.
CHAPTER III.
‘ A RACE.
The unexpected volley probably disturbed
Private Joseph Pancckc's mind more than
that of any other man in the regiment. It
produced there an efiect akin to the sensation
of a nauseous emetic in his stomach.
He had long enjoyed the enviable distinc-
tion of being the “best man” among the com-
bative youths of Sardis, and his zeal and in-
variable success in the fistic tournaments
which form so large a part of the interest in
life of a certain class of young men in vil-
lages had led his townsmen to entertain ex-
travagant hopes as to his achievements in the
field.
But, like most of his class, his courage was
piu‘cly physical, and a. low order of that type.
He was bold in those encounters where he
knew that his superior strength and agility
rendered small the chances of his receiving
any serious bodily harm, but of that high
pride and mounting spirit which lead to sol-
dierly deeds he had none.
The sight of the dying men on either side
shriveled his heart with a deadly panic.
“Oh, Kent," be groaned, “lemme go, and
let’s git out 0’ here. This‘s just awful, and
it’ll be ten times wuss in another minnit.
Lot’s git behind that big rock there as quick
as the Lord’ll let us.” ,
He turned to pull away from Kent’s detain-
ing hand, when he heard Capt. Bennett’s
order to the regiment to charge, and the
hand relaxed its hold. Joe faced to the
front again and saw Kent and Abe Bolton
and the rest of the boys rush forward, leaving
him and 0. score of other weak-knead irreso
lutes standing alone behind.
Again he thought he would seek the refuge
of the rock, but at that moment the Union
line swept up to the Confederates, scattering
them as a wave does dry sand.
Joe’s mental motions were reasonably
rapid. Now he was not long in realizing that
all the danger was past, and that he had an
opportunity of gaining credit cheaply. He
acted promptly. Fixing his bayonet, he gave
a fearful yell and started forward on a run
for the position which the regiment had
gained.
He was soon in the lead of the pursuers,
and appeared, by his lateszeal, to be making
amends for his earlier tardiness. As he ran
ahead he shouted savagely:
“Run down the hellions! Shoot ’emi Stab
’emi Bay’net ’em! Don’t let one of ’em get
away. "
There is an excitement in a man chase that
is not even approached by any other kind of
w. hunting, and Joe soon became fairly intoxi<
outed with it. ~
He quickly overtook one or two of the
slower-paced Confederates. who surrendered
quietly and were handed by him over to the _
other boys as they came up, and conducted
by them to the rear.
Becoming more excited he sped on, entirely
unmindful how far he was outstripping his
comrades.
A hundred yards ahead of him was a tall,
gaunt Virginian, clad. In butternut colored
jeans of queer cut and pattern, and a great
bell-crowned hat of rou h, gray beaver.
Though his gait was shamb g, and his huge
splay feet rose and fell in the most awkward
way, he went over the ground with a swift—
ness that made it rather doubtful whether
Joe was gaining on him at all. But the lat-
ter was encouraged by the signs-of‘his chase’s
dim First the bell-crowned hat flew off
and. rolled behind, and Joe (56qu not resist
the temptation to give it a kick Which sent it
spinning into a clump of honeysuckles. Then
the Confederate flung off a hammock, whose
flapping interfered with his speed, and this
was followed by a clumsily constructed cedar
canteen. Next followed the fugitive’s belt,
loaded down with an antique cartridge box,
a savage knife made from a rasp and handled
with buckhorn, and a fierce looking horse
pistol with a. flint look.
“I seemed to be bustin’ up a musyum o’
revolutionary relics,” said Joe afterward, In
describing the incident. “The feller drOpped
keepsakes from his forefathers like a bird
moltln’ its feathers on a windy day. I begun
to think that if I hop up the chase purty soon
he’d begin to shed Continental money and
knee breeches.”
The fugitive turned off to the right into a
narrow path that wound through the laurel
thickets. J 0o followed with all the energy
that remained in him. confident that a short ,
distance more would bring him so close to his
game that he could force his surrender by a
threat of bayonetin g. He caught up to within
a rod of the Confederate, and was already
forshortening his gun for a lungs in case of
refusal to surrender on demand, when he was
amazed to see the Confederate whirl around,
level his gun at him, and order his surrender.
Joe was so astonished that he stumbled, fell
forward and dropped his gun. As he raised
his eyes he saw three or four other Confeder-
ates step out from behind a rock, and level
their guns upon lair: with en summon or
bloodthirstiness that seemed simply fiendish.
Then it flashed upon him how far away he
was from all his comrades, and that the laby-
rinth of laurel made them even much more
remote. With this realization come the in-
voluntary groan: ,
“0, Lordyl it’s all up with me. I am a
goner, sure 1”
His courage did not ooze out of his fingers,
like the historic Bob Acms’; it vanished like
gas from a. rent balloon. He clasped his
hands and tried to think of some prayer.
“Now I lay me,” he murmured.
“Shun’t‘we shoot the vurmintl” said one of
the Confederates. with a motion of his gun in
harmony with that idea.
“0, mister—mister—good mister, don’t i
Please don’t! I swear I didn’t mean to do no
harm to you.”
“Well, ye acted mouty quare for a man that
didn’t mean no harm.” said the pursued man,
regaining his breath with some difficulty.
“A-chusin’ me down with thet ar prod on yer
gun, an’ a threatenin’ to stick it inter me at
every jump. Only wanted ter- see me run,
did yer?"
“0, mister, I only done it because I-wuz
ordered to. I couldn’t help myself; I swear I
couldn’t.”
“Whar’s the ossifers thet wuz a-orderin’
yel Whar’s the captins that wuz puttin’ ye
up tor hit? Thar wan’t no one in a mile of
ye. Guess we’d better about ye. "
Again Joe raised his voice in abject ap-
peal for mercy. There was nothing he was
not willing to promiseif hislifo were only
spared.
“Wouldn’t hit be better tor bny’net him?"
suggested one of the Confederates, entirely
unmoved,as his comrades were, by Joe's
piteous pleadings. “Ef we go tor shootin’
’round yore hit’il likely bring the Yankees
right enter us.”
“I ’spect hit would be better ter take him
back a little ways, any way,”sald theman
whom Joe had pursued. "Pick up his gun
thar, Eph. Come along, you, an’ be mouty
peart about hit, fur we’re in a powerful bad
frame 0‘ mind ter be fooled with. I wouldn’t
gin a. fi’-penny-bit fur all yer blue-bellied
life’s worth. The boys at jest pizcn mad
from sccin' so many 0’ thar kin and folks
killed by yer crowd o' thievin‘ Hessians.”
Grateful for events momentary respite,
Joe rose from his knees with alacrity and
humbly followed 'ono of the Confederates
along the path. The others strode behind,
and occasionally spurred him into a more
rapid pace with a. prick from their beyonets.
“O—ough, mister, don’t do that! Don’t,
please! You: don’t know how it hurts. I
ain’t got no rhinoceros skin to stand such jabs
us that. That come purty nigh goin’ clean
through to my heart.”
“Skeet ahead faster, then, or the next
punch’ll go right smack through ye, fur
sartin. Ef yer skin’s so tender, what are ye
doin’ in the army?”
They climbed the mountain laboriously,
and started down on the other side. About
midway in the descent they came upon a do-
serted cabin standing near the side of the road.
“By the Lord Hurry,” said one of the Con-
federates, “I’m a’most done clean gin out, so
I am. I’m tireder nor a claybank boss arter-
a hard day’s plowin , an’ I’m oz dry on a limo
kiln. I motion that we stop yore nn’ take a
rest. We kin put our Yank in the house
titer and keep him. I wonder what the spring
is that the folks that lived yero got thar water
from?”
Leaving one of the men to guard the pris-
oner, the rest of the Confederates started for
the hollow in search of waterto cool their
binning thirst.
They had gained such a distance from the
scene of the fight, and were in such an out-of-
the-way place, that the thought of being
overtaken did not obtrudo itself foranln-
stant, either upon their minds or Joe’s.
But as they came back up the hill, with n
- gourd full of spring water for their compan-
ion, they were amazed to see a party of blues
coats appear around the bend of the road at
a little distance. They dropped the gourd of
water, and yelled to the man on guard:
“Kill the Yank, an’ run for yer lifei” and
disappeared themselves in the direction of the
spring.
The guard comprehended the situation and
the order. He fired his gun at J 00, but with
such nervous haste as to destroy the aim and
send the charge into the puncheon a foot be-
yond his intended victim, and then ram off
with all speed to join his companions. The
Union boys sent a few dropping shots after
him, all of which missed their mark.
Joe managed to recover his nerves and
wits sufficiently to stagger to the door as his
comrades came up, and grasp one of the guns
the Confederates had left.
Questions and congratulations were show-
ered upon him, but he replied incoherently,
and gasped a request for water, as if he were
perishing from thirst. While some hunted
for this, others sought for traces of the Con-
federates; so he gained time to fix up a fairly
presentable story of a desperate and long-con-
tinued bayonet struggle in which he was be-
having with the greatest gallantry, although
nearly hopeless of succem, when the arrival of
help changed the aspect of matters. He had
so many gaping wound: to confirm the truth
of his story that it' was implicitly believed,
and he was taken back to camp as one of the
foremost heroes of that eventful day. The
colonel made him a sergeant assocn’asbe',’
heard the tale, and regretted much that he '
could not imitate the example of the great
Napoleon and raise him too commission on
the scene of his valiant exploits. His cot at
the hospital was daily visited by numbers of
admiring comrades, to whom be repeated his
glowing account of the fight, With marked im-
provements in manner and detail accompany-
ing every repetition.
He had no desire to leave the hospital dur-
ing his term of service, but his hurts were all
superficial and healed rapidly, so that in a
fortnight’s time the‘surgeon pronounced him
fit to- return to duty. He cursed inwardly
that officer’s zeal in keeping the ranks as full
as possible, and went back to his company to
find is preparing to go into another fight.
“110110, J oe," said his comrades, “awful
glad to see you back. Now you’ll have a.
chance to get your revenge on those fellows.
There’ll be enough of us with you to see that
you get a fair fight.”
“To the devil with their revenge and a. fair
fight i” said Joe to himself. That evening he
strolled around to the headquarters tent, and
said to the commander of the regiment:
“Colonel, the doctor seems to think that I’m
'fit to return to duty, but I don’t feel all right‘ '
yet. I’ve a numbness in my legs, so that I kin
hardly walk sometimes It's my old rheu-
matics, stirred up by sleeping out in the night
air. I hear that the man who’s been drivin’
the headquarters wagon has had to go to the
hospital. Iwant to be at something, even if
I can’t do duty in the ranks, and I’d like to
take his place till him and me gets well.”
“All. right, sergeant. You can have the
place as long as you wish, or any other that I
can give you. I can’t do too much for so
brave a man.”
So it happened that in the next fight the
regiment was not gratified by any thrilling
episodes of sanguinary, single handed .com-
bats between the indomitable Joe and
bloodthirsty Confederates. 5 ,
He had deferred his “revenge” indefinitely. ‘
CHAPTER IV.
mscmcn.
Harry Glen’s perfect self-complacency did
not molt a. feather when the victors returned
to camp flushed with their triumph, which,
in the eyes of those inexperienced three-
months’ men, had the dimensions of a Water- .:
100. He did not know that in proportion as
they magnified their own exploit, so was the
depth of their contempt felt for those of their
comrades who had declined . to share the
perils and the honors of the expedition with
them. He was too thoroughly satisfied with
himself and his motives to even imagine that
any one could have just cause for complaint
at anything he chose to do. .
‘ This kept him from understanding or ap-
preciating the .force of the biting innuendoes
and sarcasms which were made to his very
face; and he had stood so. aloof from all that
there was nobody who cared to ftake the
friendly trouble of tellingshim- how free the
camp conversation was making with his
reputation. '
He cOuld not help, however; understanding
that In some way he had lost caste with the
regiment; but he serenely attributed this to
mean—spirited jealousy of the superior ad-
vantages'he Was enjoying, and it only made
him more anxious for the coming of the time
when he could “cut the whole mob of beg-
gars,” as Ned Burnleigh phrased it.
A few days more would end the regiment’s
term of service, and be readily obtained per-
mission to return home In advance. .
The first real blow his confidence received
was when he walked down the one principal
street of Sardis, and was forced to a percep-
tion of the fact that there was an absence of
that effusive warmth with which the Surdis
people had ever before welcomed back their
young townsmnn, of whose good looks and
géntlemaulinem they had always been proud.
Now people looked at him in a curious way.
They turned to whisper to each other, with
sarcastic smiles and knowing winks, as he
came into view, and they did not come for-
ward to offer him their hands as of old. It
astonished him- that nobody alluded to the
company or to anything that had happened
to It.
Turning at length from the main street, he
entered the lateral one leading to his home.-
As he did so, he heard one boy call out to
another, in that piercing treble which boys
employ in making their confidential communi-
catng to 9pc another, acrgss a street:
1
“S-a-y, did you know that Hank Glen’d
got back? And they say he looks pale yeti”
“Has he?” the reply came in high falsetto,
palpably tinged with tllat fine scorn of a.
healthy boy for anything which does not ex-
actly square with his young highiicss’ ideas.
“Come back to his mummy, ch? Well, it’s a'
pity she ever let him go away from her.
Hope she’ll keep him with her now. He don’t
seem to do well out of reach of her apron
strings.” ’
The whole truth flashed upon him. Envious
ones had slundered him at home as a coward.
Ho walkexl onward in a flurry of rage. The
thought that he had done anything to deserve
criticism could not obtrude itself between the
joints of his triple—plated armor of self-esteem.
A swelling contempt for his village critics
flushed his heart.
“Spiteful, little-minded, country boobies,”
he said to himself, with an impatient shake of
his head, as if to adjust his hair, which was
his usual sign of excitement; “they’ve always
hated me because I was above them. They
take advantage of the least opportunity to
show their mean jealousy."
After a moment’s pause: “But I don’t care.
I’d a. little rather have their dislike than their
good will. It’ll save me a. lot of trouble in
being polite to u. lot of curs that I despise.
I’m going to leave this dull little burg say-
how, as soon as I can get away. I’m going to
Cincinnati, and be with Nod Durnlelgh.
There's more life there in a day than here in
a year. After all there’s nobody here that I
care anything for, except father and mother
—-nnd—Ruchel.” ”
A new train of thought introduced itself at
this tardy r‘emembrauc ‘ 'of his, betrothed.
His heat abated. Ho Opped," and leaning
against a shady silver maple began anew a.
meditation that had occupied his mind very.
frequently since that msunorable night under.
the old apple tree on the hill top. . f . I ‘-
There had been for him but little. of Ithat' 1
spiritual excitation which me that nighty,
the one supreme one in Rachel’s existence 'r;
when the rapture of gratified pride tandlldvo‘ -’
blended with the radiant moonlight widths»
subtle fragrance of the flowers intou qwegt,
symphony that would well chord’withsl-hfi
song the stars sang together in thgmorningu : ,
He was denied the intense pleasure,“
comes from success, after harrowing doubts;
and fears. His unfailing consciousness ofhig.
own worth had left him little doubt-that a
favorable answer would promptly follpw;
when he chose to propose to Rachel Bond, 0;:
to an other girl, and when this camcpwith, the;
anticipated readiness, he could not halp in the;
midst of his gratification other aggt thein;
trusion of the disagreeable .suipiclon' shuts.
peradventure, he had not done the best ,with .
his personal wares that he might. Pogibly: -
there would appear in time some other ,girly
whom he might prefer to Bachel,,nnd at- all J
events there was no necessity for hiscommit-
ting himself when he did, for Rachel “would
have kep ,” as Ned Burnleigh coarsely put it,
when made the recipient of Harry’s obnfie
deuce. . . .»
Three months of companionship with Ned
Bumleigh, and daily imbibition of that young
man’s stories of his wonderful conquests
. among young women of peerless beauty and
, exalted social station'confirmed this feeling,
and led him to wish for at least such slacken-
ing of the betrothnl tether as would permit
excursions into a charmed realm like the
where Ned reigned supreme. -
Fortho thousandth time—and in each Ire-
currence becoming a little clearer defined
and more urgent—came the question: ~ . »
“Shall I break with Rachel! How can I?
And what possible excuse can I assign for
it?" .
There came no answer to this save the spurs
with which base self-love was pricking the
sides of his intent, and he recoilcd from it—-»_
ashamed of himself, it is true, but . less
ashamed at each renewed consideration of
the query.
Ho hastened home that he might receive a
greeting that wduld efface the memory of the
reception he had met with in the street. .
There, at least, he would be regarded as a
hero, returning laurel—crowned from the con-
flict.
As he entered the door his father, tall, spare
and iron-gray, laid down the paper he was
reading and with a. noticeable lowering of the
temperature of his wonted calm but earnest
cordielity, said simply:
“How do you do? When did you get in?”
“Very well, and on the 1C! :30 train. ”
“Did all your company come?”
Harry winced, for there was something in
his father’s manner, more than his words, ox-
prcssive of strong disapproval. Ho an-
swered:
“No; I was unwell. The water and the ex-
posure disagreed with me, and I was allowed
to come on in advance."
Mr. Glen, the elder, carefully folded the
paper he was reading and laid it on the stand,
as. if its presence would embarrass him in
what he was about to say. He took off
his eyeglasses, wiped them deliberately,
closed them up and hesitated for a moment,
holding them between the thumb and fore.
finger of one hand, before placing them in
their case, which the had taken from his
pocket with the other.
These were all gestures with which experi-
ence had made Harry painfully familiar. He
used to describe them to his boy intimates us
“the governor clearing fori action.” There
was something very disagreeable coming, and
lie awaited it apprehensively.
_.“Were you"—-the father’s cold, searching
eyes rested for an instant on the glasses in his
~.,-hand,,and then were fixed on his son’s face—
“were you too ill the day of the fight to. ac-
company your command!”
Harry’s glance quailed under the penc-
trating scrutiny, as was his custom when his
father subjected him to arelentless catechism;
then be summoned assurance to shis aid, and
his face reddened with both genuine and
assumed anger.
“Father,” he said, “I certainly did not ex-
pect that you would join these mean-spirited
ours in their abuse of me, but now I see
that——”
“Henry, you evade the question.” The
calm eyes took ona steely hardness. “You
certainly know by this time that I always re-
quire direct answers to my questions. Now
the point is this: You entered this company
to be its leader and to share all its duties with
it. It went intoa fight while you remained
back in camp. .Why was this so? “Tera you
too sick to accompany it?"
“I certainly was not feeling well.”
“Were you too ill to go along with your
company i"
“ W cl l—I—really—-was—not—-fccliu g- -chI,
—-and there—was—some— work—in—camp—
that—needed-to—be—donc—and there was
enough without mo——and——I—-I-——”
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" Were you too ill the day of the fight?”
“That is suflicient,” said the elder man with
a look of seem that presently changed into
one of deeply wounded pride. “Henry, I
know too well your disposition to Shirk the
unpleasant duties of life, to be much surprised
that, when tried by this test, you were found
wanting. But this wounds me deeply. Peo-
ple in Sardis think my disposition hard and
exacting; they think Icare - for little except
to get all that is due me. But no man here
can say that in all his long life Robert Glen
shirked or evaded a single duty that he owed
to the community or his fellow men, no mat’
ter how dangerous or disagreeable that duty
might be. To have you fail in this respect
‘ and totakc and maintain your place in the
front rank with other men is a. terrible blow
to my pride.” “
“Oh, Harry, is that you?” said his mother,
coming into the room at that moment and
throwing herself into her son’s arms. “I was
lying down when I heard your voice, and I
dressed and hurried down as quickly as pos-
siblo. I am so glad that you have come home
all safe and well. I know that you’ll contra-
diet, for your poor mother’s sake, all these
horrible stories that are worrying her almost
to death.”
“Unfortunately he has just admitted that
those stories are substantially true,” said the
father curtly.
“I won’t believe it,” sobbed his mother,“until
he'telis me so himself. You didn’t, did you,
back out of a fight, and let that Bob Bennett,
whose mother used to be my sewing girl, and
whom'I supported for months after he was
born,'u.nd his father died with the cholera and
left her nothing, by'giving her work and pay-
lug her cash, and who is now putting on all
sorts of airs because everybody’s. congratu-
lating her on having such a wonderful son,
and nobody’s congratulating me at all, and
sometimes I almostwish I was dead.”
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GAZETTE surname, NORWALK, icons:
francs r." unseat-t.
. Attorney. iii. Counselors Lav =
a Gazette Banding}
ALEX. s. GIBSON,
Organist of 1st Gunmanzltcmrch, Waterbury,
Pianoforte, organ andlllufsical
Gomposition, ’ f
Lock Box as P. 0.,NORWALK,CONN.
E. WHITWDBTH,
Successor to B. Court, :
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEKS’ BUILDING, WALL STREET;
A FULL-ml or ,
Imported and Domestic Glbths.
Of the Latest Styles, constantly on hand.
Novelties in Scotch Snitin Satisfaction -
ted in every particular. gs. guarun .
PENSIONS;
Government Ola/lens.
My sole business. Thousands have In Me
Neglected. Address, free of charge, or visit, g
can. w. a. norm,
91 Stratford Avenue. Bridgeport, Conn
IV. H. M EEKER.
54 Main Street,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters Dealers in Plumbers’ an
Steam Fitters’ Supplies, and Gas Fixtures. d
Jobbing promptly attended to. 1
o. E. WILSON,
General Insurance it Real Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
Room No. 8 Gazette Building, Norwalk. Conn.
TNA INSURANCE Como! HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.
Insures against loss and dam e b Fire in
terms adopted to the hazard andagonsiystent wllh
the laws of compensation. COWLES it MERRILL
Sole Agents for N orwalk and vicinity. '
THE
Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its
18th SUGGESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstandln adollar of an id loss
or claims for losses. N5 sound mutual? ins-org:
for less.
W. C. Smnsr, Pres. S. E. OLIIS'I'EAD. Trees,
G30. R. (Iowans. Secretary.
A. CARD.
Having purchase- (1 the
F U RN ITURE BUSIN ESS,
Recently carried on by WILLIAM l.ocxwoon at
No. 36 MAIN STREET.
I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND
ORNAIENTAL. I have on hand a large
stock which I will sell
VERY CHEAP. FOR CASH
lshsllbepieased to meet all old or new friends
and Will guarantee satisfactiunin
every case.
quEORGE H. RAYMOND.
P E'I‘ER L. GUIGUE,
FLURIST ill] 8+ YMAN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwaik Cemetery,
NORWALE, - - CORN.
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and all sorts of designsin Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and Ito-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
FOR SALE.
A STYLISH
VICTORIA,
Newly Trimmed and Pain ted.
A Fine Family Carriage.
Will be sold at a very low price.
HENRY TILLY,
CARRIAGE MAKER,
SOUTH NOR WALK.
Funnier A. linear
Formerly of New York
Stock Ex.
ROBERT B. Bscn.
Theo. Haight & Co.
BANKERS it BROKERS,
47 BROADWAY.
Transact a General Banking business bu and s
Stocks, Bonds or Oil for cash or on, mnyrgins. ell
Stock trades can be made in ten shares and up-
wards on the Consolidated Stock and Petrole-
um Exchange.
COMBIISSION, 1-16 EACH \VAY.
Orders executed in Grain at New York
Chicago. 3m
THEODORE Halon-r,
Mem. of Con. Stock and
Pet. Ex.
and
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Don’t DO It!
Don’t send your laundry work out of town when
you can have it done at home in, in first-clash st is
and at reasonable prices. Call or send for p ce
2131;113:023]:th be gt} lthe laundgy by Thursday
nsure e ver on at d .
evenings until 8 o'clock. y ur ay Open
Old Well Laundry,
930. w. whack, hunger.
87 WASHINGTON STREET, [OUT]! NORWALK.
“an mus sonar, - . soawainx.
sustains;-
Always aim at littlerhiglleritlian the
mark,” sa 5 an exchange. Whatl. Kiss
3 girl on e nose? Never!
Poe never sat on the balcoiiy of a
easide hotel in Augui'st, or lie would
ve written" it “ The chin-chin-abula—
tion of the belles."
Mr. Plesnay—“ Waiter, here Is a but-
ton in the son .” Waiter-‘9“ Ah, yes—-
the cook’ . ' ell, you can have it.
He’ll never miss it.” ' . '
China and Japan 'buy our dried
apples freely. Thus does American in-
dustry, help to svvell the population of
the Oriental
f‘ Oh, what bird is that? I u... just
Iomed the Audubon Socie , and am so
Interested in bird' calls.” “That’s our
309. .”
“Sweeper,” asked Niggler, “ who are
theseiKmfihts of Malta. we read about
occasions y ?” “Must be some organi-
zation of brewers,” replied Swooper.
Creditor.“ Can you let me have my
little Inn 1" Debtor—“ Certain] , but-
dont destroy it. I may want 0 pay
something on it in the future.”
Somebody asks: “What is warmer
a woman’s love ‘9” Two women’s
love. Get two women after you and
the heat Will be found somewhat op-
preserve.
- We don’t wish to be understood as
findin fault with nature, but we do
.wmh,‘: rein~ the bottonr of our hearts
. , that the luminous end 'of the firefly had
been hitched lathe mounts-.4.
Bookbinder: “Will you have it bound
in Turkey.or.Morocco ‘1’” Purchaser—
gléi'aMergyl 2N0. filigat’sghfi use of;
W _ ~I «,away o are. :' are i
boundln Boston.” , , ..
.Telegrapho ator readin messa e
L“What’s, fig?! ;,‘ ill nlarry ygml
whenever you ,WISh.’”" Aged Spinster
L—f‘Yés; do you think it"too‘ 'forward ?
1 [ts my first offer and-I’m- afraid he’ll
get away.” - ,
Head of the House-“Jane,-a man
.camginto-day and madame; bu some
‘Rough “on ,Rats.”f. Wifee“ ercy,
John; we haven’t'a. rat in the house.”
Head'of the House—“Well, can’t we
get some?” .
The best way to clean a chrome,
Ethel, _is‘ to’ lay it to soak in entine
over night, and then han .it b , ore an
open, firs. to . Hang 1 close, Ethel;
'hang‘it close: Push one corner under
‘ the grate a few inches. ,
; Detective-“ See here, you called me
a lynx-eyed detective in our pa er to-
;ilay.” Reporter—“. Yes, did.’ - Detec.
tivee“ Well, .I want you to take that
back. I’m no more lynx-eyed than you
.are.” .
Husband (handing his wife some
money)—“ There, dear, is $50; and it
has bothered me some to get it for on,
[think I deserve alittle praise.” ife:
aPraise? You deserve an encore, my
ear.”
f‘ Were you at the sociable last
night ?” “Yes, and I spent 3. ve
pleasant evening.” “I heard Miss
was to smg there.‘ I‘ suppose you en-
ioyed that. ’ “ Ever so much. She had
«1. sore throat and couldn’t sing.”
Rinks—“Did you go to Milwaukee
to attend the Sangerfest?’ Jinks-—
. f Yes, I was there.’ Binks—“What
impressed 1‘you most during your so-
iourn m ilwaukee ?” Jinks—“ The
(Emulsions signs of ‘English' Spoken
ere.”
From the amount of seismic lore being
shot off. in the newspa era the chances
Ire that any man ' now know an
earthquake when. homesteono.» Here-
tofore there has been some danger of
confounding the blame thing with a
passing ash cart.
Fogg—“ I heard a. pretty com liment
for you the other day.” Mrs. assy—
‘Indeedl May I ask what it was?”
Fog —“I heard some one set how
pre you used to be.” Mrs. assy—
" Used to be! D9 you call that a com-
,ihment? I call it an obituary notice.”
By the Bartholdi statue: Policern an—
Move on now. We can’t allow loun-
gers here What are you doing here,
anyway. Lounger—Hist! Don’t give
me away. I am waiting for the statue
to be finished so I can Jum off it first
.and get ahead of the rest 0 the boys.
Miss Clara—“Do you not think, Mr.
Featherly, that Miss Smith, whom we
met last evenin ,is a very plain per-
son?” Mr. Feat erly—“ Yes, indeed;
I think she is the homcliest girl I ever
saw, present company, of course, always
ex—um—that is—. Yes; she is cer-
tainly a very plain person. Are you
lawn tennising any this season, Miss
Clara?” .
“ What is that you have 'got on your
writing paper,>Sadie?” “ hat is my
monogram.” “What is amonogram ?"
“Why, the initials of your name
changed so that the letters overlap
each other.” “011! I see! . But these
are-not the initials of our name.”
“Yes, they are." “Well, can’t make
'em on .” “Certainly not. That’s the
beauty of it. If you could make ’em
out it wouldn’t be a monogram worth
having.”
Mr. Baxter was about to take his
wife and children out for a sail. “ Come
on,” he said, “there’s a spanking breeze
and we mustn’t miss it.” “Papa,”
interrupted his little son, with his
hands folded behind him, “take the
rest of the famil and. go. With that
kind of a breeze lowin I don’t want
to be caught in a Ii 19 boat with
mamma until I have learned to swim.”
A gentleman who had been in town
only three days, but who had been pay-
ing attention to a prominent belle,
wanted to repose but was afraid he
would be t on ht too hasty. He deh-
catelly broach the subject as follpws:
“ If were to speak to you of marriage,
after having only made your acquam-
tance three (13 s 0, what would you
say of it ?” “ ell, should 53 ,‘Never
put off till to-morrow that w ch you
311;on have done the day before yester-
. y: ’9
At breakfast he be an to play with
she cruet stand. I to 6. him not to do
so. He persisted, and at last upset it
ind spilled the red pepper on the table
cloth. I said: “Now Allan, you were
iisobedient and upset the pepper caster.
and I should make the pumshment fit
the crime by putting some of the pop
per on your tongue.” He looked up in
a. flash and asked: “ Would the punish~
ment be the same, papa, if I upset the
sugar bowl ?" ~
M
An Ingenious Swindle.
A Swindle recently detected is con.
ducted as follows: A check, say for ten
dollars, is obtained from a dcpositor at
a bank, and a. blank check exactly like
the filled-in check is secured. The two
checks are laid one upon the other, so
that the edges are exactly even. Both
checks are then torn irregularly across,
and in such a way that the signature
on the filled check appears on one piece
and the amount and name of the payee
on the other. The checks having been
held together while being tom, of
course one piece of the blank check
will exactly fit the other piece of the
filled check. The swindler then fills in
one piece of the blank check with the
name of the payee and the amount to
suit himself, say five thousand dollars,
takes it with the piece of genuine check
containing the signature of the bank,
and explains that the check was acci~
dentally torn. The teller can put the
pieces together, and as they fit exactly,
the chances are thatLlie will think the
pieces are parts of the same check, and
become a. victim of the swindle. The
trick, of course, suggests its own
remedy. The teller should refuse to
pay any check that is mutilated.
w—_
Between Damascus and Jerusalem is
said to be a. tribe of about three thou-
sand Israelites, who have probably been
there since the beginning of the Chris-
tian era. ‘ They have neither city nor
town, but live in tents, and speak the
Hebrew language among themselves,
but use the Arabian with strangers.
They have remained, like the primitive
races, exclusively tillers of the soil and
warriors, and they always 39 armed.
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Norwalk Chronicler