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Clearnem or statement was never one of
Mrs. Glen’s. salient characteristics. Nor did
deep emotion help her in this regard. Still it
was only too evidentthat the fountains of her
being were moved by having another
woman’s son exalted over her own. Her ma-
ternal pride'aud social prestige were b0“!
quivering under the blow.
Harry met this with a flank movement.
“You both seem decidedly disappointed
.. that I did not got myself wounded or killed,"
he said. .
‘That’s an humanly whimper," . said his
father, contemptuously.
“Why, Harry, Bob Bennett didn’tgetcithcr
killed or wounded,” said his mother with that
defective ratiocination which it is a pretty
woman’s-privilege torindulge in at her own
sweet. will. 7 - .
Harry withdrew from tho mortifying con-
ference under the plea of the necemity of go-.
ing to his room to remove the grime of
travel.
He was smarting with rags and humilia-
tion. His panoply of conceit was pierced for
the first time since the completion of his col-
legiate course sent him forth into the world a
being superior, in his own esteem, to the acci~
dents and conditions that the mass of inferior
mortals are subject to. Yet he fonndreasom
to account for his parents' defection to the
ranks of his enemies.
“It’s no new thing," he said, while carefully
droning for a call upon Rachel in the even-
ing, “for father to be harsh and unjust to me,
and mother has one of her nervous spells,
when everything goes wrong with her.”
“Anyhow," he continued, “there’s Ned
Burnleigh, who understands me and will do
mejustice, and he amounts to more than all
of Sarina—except Rachel, who loves me and
will always believe that what I do is right.”
Ho sat down at his desk and wrote a long
letter to Ned, inveighing bitterly against the
stupidity and malice of people living in small
villages. and informing him of his intention
to remove to Cincinnati as soon as an opening
could be found for him there, which he
bogged Ned to busy himself in discovering.
Attircd in his most becoming garb, and neg-
lecting nothing that could enhance his per-
sonal appearance, he walked slowly . up the
hill in the evening to Rachel Bond’s house.
The shrinkage which his self-sudiciency had
suffered had left room for a wonderful :ex
pension of his affection for Rachel, whoa
love and loyalty were now essential to him.
to‘compensato for the falling away of others.
The question of whether he should break
with her was now one the answering of which
could be postponed indefinitely. There was
no reason why he should not enjoy the sweet
privileges ‘ of an afiianced lover during hhl
stay at Sardis. What would happen after-
ward would dspend upon the shape that
. things took in his new home.
He found ' Rachel sitting on the piazza.
Tho'ugh dmd in the deepest and plainesi
black she had never looked so surpassingly
beautiful. As is usually the ewe with young
women of her type of beauty, grief had
toned down the rich coloring that had at
times seemed almost too exuberant into that
delicate shell-like tint which is the perfection
of natureli painting. Her round white arms
shone Iika.f.l,uno’a,.as the outlines were re
vealed bythwgraneful motions which threw
back the widogslaeves. Her wealth of silken
black hair was, drawn smoothly back from
her white forehead, over her shapely head,
and gathered into a simple knot behind. Save
a black brooch at her throat, she wore no
ornaments-not oven a plain ring.
Sharose as Harry came upon the piazza,
undfor a. moment her facewas rigid with in-
tensity of feeling. This evidence of emotion
went-ssQllickly us it:came, however, and she
extglrdedzhmhandmithcalm dignity, saying
sun :
“tsuhavarstnmad, Mr. Glen."
In hioanxietyv-to,:»so play the impassioned
lover-ms étozlcomaal the moreancy ho had
' fostogredjinihis a-own heart, Harry did not
— ”the cubism 'ofr'this . greeting. Then,
tie: hisselfsflisfantion—had always done him
:- " invaluable service :ofpraventing a ready
=:; rciptiou dfdharcpellant. attitudes of others.
, ”mm-Mwud-sagerlyta; press a kiss
numb” “mutate-checked numwlth up
6-*§‘!‘.O.._thelfamily's, inthsro,~arn they?” said
' horlooking toward the open -windows of tho
,~~_parlor,3 “Well, what. rnattcrl, Isn’t it ex-
. .pmtedthat a-fsllow- will kiss his afiianced
» wife-on his return, and not care who knows
it!”
He pointed to the old apple tree where they
had plighted their truth that happy night,
with a gesture and lock that was a reminder
of their former meeting and an invitation to
go thither again. She comprehended, but re-
fused with ashuddcr, and, turning, motioned
him to the farther and of the piazza, to which
she led the way, moving with a sweeping
gracefulnesa of carriagethat Harry thought
had wonderfuny ripened and perfected in the
three months that had elapsed since their
We ~ .
“Fore god,” he said tollimself. (This was
a new addition to his expletory vocabulary,
which had accrued from Ned Burnleigh’a
companionship.) “I'd like to put her along-
side of one of the girls that Ned’s always
talking about. I don’t believe she’s got her
equal anywhere.”
Arriving at the and of the piano. be im-
petuously renewed his attempt at an. em-
brace, but her repulse was now unmistak-
able. .
“Sit down,” she said, pointing to a chair;
"I have something to say to you.”
Harry’s first thought was a. rush of jad-
ousy. “Some rascal has supplanted me,” he
« mid bitterly, but underhis breath.
_. She tooka chair near by, put away the
arm he would have placed about her
waist, drew from her pocket a dainty
handkerchief bordered with black, and
opened it deliberately. It shed a delicate
odor, of violets.
Harry waited anxiously for her to speak.
“This mourning which I wear," she began
gently, “I put on when I received the news
of your downfall.” _
“My downfall!" broke in Harry hotly.
“Great heavens, you don’t saythat you, too,
have been carried away by this wretched
village slander!"
“I put it on,”.she continued, unmindful of
the interruption, “become I suffered a loss
which was greater than any merely physical
death could have occasioned."
"‘I don’t understand you."
“My faith in you as a man superior-to your
fellows died then. This was a much more
cruel blow than your bodily death would
have been.”
“Fore god, you take a pleasant view of my
decease—a much cooler one, I must confem,
than I am able to take of that interesting
event in my history." , -
Her great eyes blazed, and she seemed
about to reply hotly, but She restrained her-
self and went on with measured calmness:
“The reason I selected you from among all
other men, and loved you, and .joyfully ac-
cepted as my lot in life to be your devoted
wife and helpmate, was that I believed you
superior in all manly things to other men.
Without such a belief I could love no man.
She paused for an instant, and Harry man-
to stammer:
"But what have I done to deserve being
thrown over in this unexpected way?"
"You have not done anything. That is the
trouble, You have foiledto do that which
was rightfully expected of you. You have
allowed others, who had no better oppor-
tunities, to sax-pom you in doing your manly
duty. Whate'vOr else my husband may not
be he must not fail in this."
“Rachel, you are hard and cruel.”
“No, I am only kind to you and to myself.
I know myself too well to make a mistake in
this respect. I have seen too many women
who have been compelled to defend, apologize
or blush for their husband’s acts, and have
felt too keenlythe abject misery of theirlivea
to take the least chance of adding myself to
their sorrowful number. If I were married
to you I could endure to be beaten by you
and perhaps love you still, but the moment I
was compelled to 00an your inferiority to
some other woman’s husband I should hate
you, and in the end drag both of us down to
miserable graves.”
"‘But let me explainthis.”
“It would ban wasteof time,”sheanswared
coldly.
you are convicted by general opinion of hav-
‘ing failed when a number Of commonplace.
fellows succeeded, You, yourself, admit the
justice of this verdict by tame submission to
t, making no effort to retrieve your reputa-
tion. I can not understand how this could
1,956;in youhadany ofthoqualitioathat x.
I fondly imagined you smile a high do.
But this inforview is Mine protracted
m paingnl extent. Into-Icy good night
part.
“Forever-i” he stamrnered.
“Ya”
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caught it and would hsva'carrhd'itto
lips, but she draw it 8!"!- , __ , ,
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“nil: sufilcont for-me to know that .
' herto her room after the interview and saw
. but at a cost that forbade exultation.
. confines the waves of gossip flowed with as
« had grieved her by not rising to her standard
- sion, and gossip was at spring tide.
admire her industry, or the way she got her-
. flexibility in scoring upon her face unconced-
left knowing what was being done.”
“No; all that must be ended now," she said,
with the first touch of gentlenem that had
shaded her sad, serious eyes.
“Will you give me no hope!” said Harry,
ploadingly.
“When you can make people forget the
past—if ever,” she said, “then I will change
thisdressandyoucancome backtome."
She bowed and entered the house. ~
CHAPTER V.
run LIN‘I.‘ scuAPmc AND BANDAGn name
UNION.
Rachel Bond’s will hadcan'ied her tri-
umphantly through a. terrible ordeal—how
terrible no one could guess, unless he followed
her alone with her agony. She did not weep.
Tears did not lie new the surface with her.
The lachrymol glands had none of that ready
sensitiveusss which , gives" many superficial
women the credit of deep feeling. But when
silo did weep it was not an April shower, but
a midsummer tempest. .
Now it was as if her intense grief were a
powerful cautery, which scared and sealed
every duct of the fountain of tears and left
her eyes hot and dry as her heart was ashes.
With pallid face and lips set until the blood
was forced from them, and they made a thin
purplish line in the pale flesh, she walked the
floor back and forth, ever back and forth,
until a half stumble, as she was turning in
the dreary round, revealed to her that she
was almost dropping from exhaustion.
Hours passed in this wrestle with pain.
How many she did not know, but when she
came forth it was with the composure of one
who had fought the fight and won the victory,
There was one ordeal that thus for she had
not been called upon to endure. From the
day on which she had donned her sable robes
to that of Harry’s return no one had ventured
to speak his norm in her presence. Even her
father and mother, after the first burst of in-
dignation, had kept silence in pity for her
suffering, and there was that in her bearing
that forbade others touching upon a subject
in her hearing that elsewhere was discussed
with the hungry avidity of village gossips '
masticating a fresh scandal.
But she could not be always spared thus. She
had not been so careful of the feelings of less
favored women and girls, inferior to her in
brightness, us to gain any claim for clement
treatment now, when the displacement of a
portion of her armor of superiority gave those
who envied or disliked her an unprotected
spot upon which to launch their irritating
little darts.
All the sewing, demos and mire societies of
the several churches in Sandra and been
merged into one consolidated Lint Scraping
ans. Bandage Making union,'in whose enlarged
much more force and volume as other waves
gain when the floods unite a number of small
pools into one great lake.
In other days a sensational ripple starting,
any in the Episcopalian “Dorcas,” was stilled
intocalmuess ere itpamedthecalmand
stately church boundaries. It would not do
toletitscxistencaba even suspected by the
keen eyes of the freely-censorious Presbyterian
dames, or the sharp-witted, agile-tongucd
Methodist ladies.
The rising fervor of the war spirit melted
away most of these barriers ton. free inter-
change of gossip. With the first thrill of
pleasure at finding that patriotism had drawn
together those whom the churches had long
held aloof, came to all the gushing impulse to
cement the newly formed relationship by con-
fiding to each other secrets heretofore jeal-
ously guarded. Nor should be forgotten the
“narrative stimulus” every one feels on gain-
ing new listeners to old stories.
It was so graciously condescending in Mrs.
Enphrosyne Pursifer to communicate to Mrs.
Elizabeth Baker some few particulars in
which her aristocratic associates of St. Marks
of womanly dignity and Christian duty
that Mrs. Baker in turn was only too happy
to reciprocate with a similar confidence
in regard to her intimate friends of Wesley
chapel.
It was this sudden lapsing of all restraint
that made the waves of gossip surge like
sweeping billows.
And the flotsam that appeared most fre-
quently of late on their crests, and that was
tossed most relentlesst hither and thither,
was Rachel Bond’s and Harry Glen’s conduct
and relations to each other.
The Consolidated Lint Scraping and Band-
ago Makingunionwasholding angular-ses-
“It is certainly queer,” said Mrs. 'I‘ufis, one
of her regulation smiles illuminating her very
artificial countenance; “it is singular to the
lastdegree that we don’t have Miss Rachel
Bond among us. She is such a lovely girl. I .
am very, very fond of her, and her heart is
thoroughly in unison with our objects. It
would seem impossible for her to keep
away.”
All this with the acrid sub-flavor of irony
and insincerity with which an insincere '
woman cannot help fainting even her most
sincere words.
“ Yes,” said Mrs. Tabitha Grimes,
“Rachel Bond started into this work quite
as brash as Harry Glen started into the war.
Her enthusimm died out about as quickly as
his courage, when it came to the actual
business, and she found there was nobody to ‘
self up, except a parcel of married women.”
“Well, why not?” asked Elmira. Spelter, the
main grief of whose life was time's cruel in:
able tallies of every one of his yearly flights
over-her head, “why shouldn't she enjoythese
golden days! Youth is passing, to her and to
all Of us, like an ari-ow from the bow. It‘d
beabsurd for hertc waste her time in this
stufly old place, when there are so many more
attractive ones. It ought to be enough that
those of us who have only a few remnants
of beauty left, should devote them to this
work” -
“Well,” mapped Mrs. Grimes, “your dona-
tion of good looks to the cause—even if you
give all you got—will be quite modest, some-
thing on the widow’s mite order. You might
easily obey the scriptural injunction, and
give them with your right hand without your
Elmira winced under this spiteful bludgeon~
ing, but she rallied and comeback at her on-
“30111811
thought Often occurs to me, that one great
reason why we both have been able to keep
in the straight and narrow path, is the entire
lack of that beauty which so often proves a
snareto the feet of even the best intontioned
women.”
Peacemaking was one of the prerogatives
assumed by Mrs. Tufisas belonging to the
social leadership to which she had elected her
self. She now hastened to check the rapidly
opening breach
“Indies,” she said, blandly, “the discussion
has wandered. Our first remarks were, I be-
have, about Mim Bond, and there was a sur-
mise as to her reasons for discontinuing ut-
tcndanoe upon our meetings”
The diversion had the anticipated effect.
The two disputants gladly quit each other, to
turn upon and read the object flung in be-
tween them.
“Why Rachel Bond don’t come here any
more?” said Mrs. Grimes, with a suit! that
was one of the keencst edged weapons in her
controversial armory. “When you know
Rachel Bond as well as I do, you’ll know how
little likely she is to do anything that’s not
going to be for her benefit income way. She’s
mighty particular in everything, but more
particular in that than in anything else."
“Of conme, we all know," said Elmira,
“she set her cap for Harry Glen, and played
her cards so openly and boldly—”
“Mrs. Tufis”-it was the calm even tones
Of Rachel Bond’s voice that fell upon the
startled ears of the little coteria of gcmipers.
She had glided in unobserved by them in the
earnestness of their debate. How long has
she been here and what has she heard! was
the thrilling question that each addremed to
herself. When they summoned courage to
look up at her, they saw her standing with
perfectly composed mien, her pale face hear-
ing the pensive expression it had worn for
weeks. With subdued and kindly manner
she returned the affectionate that
each bestowed on her, in imitation of Mrs.
Tuna, who was the first toracovcr her wits,
and then continued:
“I have determined to 1151:; the corps of
nurses.”
“Mrs. Tails, Ico'matoyou.as presidentcf
‘ .9.
-brceda,.both of’em,_andatnnd right, on their
thiaaociaty,toapolcgimformyabaaucafrom
6° men! of your meeting. and to excuse
myself "on the ground of indispositiOn. ’I
also want to announce that, as I have deter-
mined to join the corps of nurses for the field
hospitals, which‘Miss Dix, of New York, is
organizing, and as I will start for the front
soon, Ishall haveto ask you to excuse me
from any further attendance upon your
meetings, and drop my name from your
roll.” . ,
She replied pleasantly to a flood of ques-
tionsand expostulations, which the crowd
that gathered round poured upon her, and
turning, walked quietly away to her home.
CHAPTER VI.
was AWAKENING.
Deeper emotions than he had felt before in
all his life of shallow aimlessuem stirred
Harry Glen’s bosom as he turned away from
the door which Rachel Bond closed behind
her with a decisive promptuess that chorded
well with her mints composure during the
interview. .
This blow fell much more heavily than any
that had preceded it, because it descended
from the towering height to which be had
raised his expectations of an ardent greeting
from a. loving girl, eagerly watching for his
return. ' '
As was to be, from one of his
nature, he forgot entirely his ruminations
upon the advisability of discarding her, and
the difficulty he experienced in devising a
plan wherebythis could be done easily and
gracefully. He only thought Of himselfas
the blameless victim of a woman’s ficklensss.
The bitter things he had read and heard of
the sex’s inconstancy rose in his mind, as
acrid bile sometimes ascends in one’s throat.
“Here,”hesaidto himself, “is an instance
of feminine perfidy equal to anything
that Byron ever sneered at. This girl,
who was .so proud to receive my sin
tcntions a. little while ago, and Who so
gladly accepted me for her promised hus-
band, uow turns away at the slightest cloud
of disapproval falling upon'me. And to
think, too, how I- have given her all my
heart, and lavished upon her a love as deep
and true as ever a man gave a. woman."
He stopped for a. moment and gazed at the
old apple tree, under which they had stood
when
Their spirits rushed togetherat the meeting of
their lips.
But its mimont of odorous blossoms was
gone. Instead, it bone -a load of shapeless,
sour, unripened fruit. Instead of the freshly
springing grass at its foot was now a coarse
stubble. Instead of the delicately sweet
breath ‘of violets and fruit blooms scouting
the evening air came the heavy, persistent
perfume of tube rcses,and the mawkish scent
of sandy Puppies
' “Bah, it smells like a funeral,” he said, and
he. turned away and walked slowly down the
hill. “And it is one. My heart and all my
hopes lie buried at the foot of that old apple
tree."
It had been suggested that much of the
sympathy we lavish upon martyrs is wanton
waste, becauseto many minds, if not in fact
to all, there is a positive pleasure in consider-
oue’s self a. martyr. More absolute truth is
contained in this than appears at the first
blush. There are very few who do not roll
under their tongues as a sweet morsel the be-
lief that their superior goodnem or generos-
ity has brought them- trouble and affliction
from envious and wicked inferiors.
So the honey that mingled with the gall
and hyssop of Harry Glen’s humiliation was
the martyr feeling that‘his holiest afiections
had been ruthlemly trainpled upon by a cold-
heartcd woman. His dcsultory readings of
Byron furnished his imagination with all the
woeful suits and trappings necessary to trick
himself out as a melancholy hero.
On his way home he had to pom the prin-
cipal hotel in the place, the front of which,
on summer evenings, was the Sardis forum
for the discusion Of national politics and
local gossip. As he approached quietly along
the grassy walk, he overheard his own name
used. He stepped back into the shadow of a
large maple and listened.
~ “Yes, I seen himas he got oi! the train,”
said Nels Hathaway, big, fat, lazy, and the
most inveterate male gossip in the village.
“And he is looking mighty well—yes, mighty
well. I said to Tim Bctkins, here, ‘what a
wonderful constitution Harry Glen has, to be
sure, to stand the hardships of the field so
well.’ ”
The sarcasmwas soevident that Harry’s
blood soothed The Tim Botkins alluded to
had been dubbed by Basil Wurmsot, the
cynic andwit Of the village, “apt apprecia-
tion’s artful aid." Red-haired, soft-eyed,
moon-faced, round of belly and lymphatic of -
temperament, his principal occupation in life
was to playa fiddle in the Sardis string band,
and in the intervals of profedousl engage-
ments at dances and picnic to fill one of the
large splintrbottomed chairs in' front of the
hotel with his pulpy form, and receive the
smart orbitter sayings of the loungers there
with a laugh that began before any one else’s
audlastedaftertheotharshadgotten through.
Hialaughalonewasasgoodssthatof allthe
rest of the crowd. It was not a hearty, reso-
nant laugh, like that from the mouth of a ~
strong-lunged, wholesome-natured man, which
has the mellow roundnssn of a solo on a
. French horn. It was a. slovenly, greasy, con-
victionless laugh, with uncertain tones and
iii-defined edges. Ila effect was due to its
volunle, readiness and long continuance.
Swelling up of the puffy form, and reddening
ripples of the broad face heralded it; it began
with a contdgious cackle, it deepened into a
flabby guflaw, and after all the others round-
about had finished their cachinnatory tribute
it wound up with what was between a m
and the lazy drone of a bagpipe.
It now rewarded Nels Hathaway’s irony,
and therestof theloungern joined in. En-
couraged, Nels continued, as its last echoes
died away:
“Yes, he's just as spry and pear-t as any-
body. He seems to have recovered entirely
from all his wounds; none of ’om have dis-
figgered him any, and his nerves have got
over their terrible gtrain.”
Tim run promptly through all thenotes in
his diapason,and the not joined inon the
'middle register
6‘;.‘;‘§_I§'dgive airing Hathaway said, “to
know .i_how._the,,.mecting between.me and
RachelBondpasaes ofi.‘ He’s gone up to the
house The bonnet! Mallet-eased up in
shilzm Blind! flnory; and his perfumed
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“Well, my dear,” she said quietly, “the 2 ,MWWnsmtflyfl-‘h‘mm 11°”
Iwfiu'lflhgwm“ °‘ lichens stock.
“mm 33’" modsifand Hat.
her. mother’s people—are game
record every time. She’ll have precious lit-
tle traffic with a white feathered fellow. I
think she’s been preparing for him the coldest
shoulder any young feller in Sardis has got
for many a long day.”
There was nothing very funny in this
speech, but a good deal of risible matter had
accumulatedin'l‘irn’s diaphragm during in:
delivery which he had to get rid of, and he
did.
Harry had heard enough. While Tim's
laugh yet resounded he walked away un-
noticed, and taking a. roundabout course
gained his room. There he remained a week,
hardlycomingdownto his meals. ‘ Itwasa-
terrible week to him, for every waking hour
Of it he walked through the valley of humil-
iation, and drank the bitter waters of shame.
The joints of his hitherto impenetrable
armor of self-conceit had been so pierced by
the fine rapier thrusts of Rachel’s scorn that
it fell fromhim under them pounding of
the village loungers and left him naked and
defenseless to their blows. Every nerve and
sense ached with acute pain. He now. felt all
of. his father’s humiliation, all his mother’s
qusrulons sorrow, all his betrothed’s an
and abasamaut.
Thoughts of suicide, and offiying to some.
partoftba country where he warantirelv
unknown, crowded upon him incessantly.
But with that perversity that nature seem-
ingly delights in, there had arisen in bisheart
since he had lost her such a love for Rachel
Board as made life without her, or without
her esteem even, seem valuelem. To go into
astrangepartofthe country and begin life
anew would be to give her up' forever, and
this he could not do. ‘ It would be much pref~
arable to die demonstrating that he was in
some degree worthy of her. And a latent
manly pride awakened and cameto his assist-
ance. He could not be the son Of his proud,
iron-willed father without some transmission
of that siro‘s courageous qualities. He formed
his resolution: He would stay in Saudis and
rocoverbishonorwherehshadlostit.
Attheendofth'eweekhaheard thedrums
boat, the cannon fire, and the people cheer.
The company" had come home, and was
marching proudly down the sin-eat to a wel-
come as enthuriastic as if its members were
bronsod veterans returning victor-lonely from
acampaignthathadlsstedforyeara. _
His mother told hlm'the next day that the
company had decided to re-enlist for three
years or during the war, and that a meeting
would be held that evening to carry the in-
tention into e mention. thn the evening
came Harry Walked into the town hall,
dressed as care fully as he had him.
self for his visit to Rachel He found the
whole company assembled there, the mem-
bers smoking, chatting with. their friends and
mounting to admiring hearers the wonder-
ful experience they had gone through. The
enlisfineut papers were being prepared and
somooftheboyswhohadnotbaen examined
during the day'wsae-undergoing the surgeon’s
inspection in an adjoining rosin.
‘ Harry was coldly received by everybody
andwincadalittlo under this contrastwith
the attentipus that all thp other! were given.
At last all the papers and rolls seemed to
be signed and there was a lull in the pro-
ceedings. Harry rose from his seat, as if to
address the meeting. Instantly all was silence
and attention.
“Comrades,” he said, in a firm, even voice,
“I have come to say to you that I feel that I
made a. mistake during our term of service
and I want to apologise to you for my con-
duct then. More than this, I want to redeem
wmyself. I want to go with you again and
have another chance to—”
He was interrupted by an enthusiastic
about from them all.
“Hurrah! Bully for Lieut. Glen! Of
course we’ll give you another show. Come
right along in your old place and welcome."
There was but one dissenting voice. It
was that of Joseph Pancake:
“No, I’ll be darned if we want ye along
any more. We’ve no place for sick fellers
with us. We only want them as has sand in
their crows.”
But the protest was overslaughed by the
multitude of usents. At the first interval of
silence Harry said:
“No, comrades, I’ll not accept a commis»
sion again until I’m sure I can do it credit,
I’ll enlist in the company on the same footing
as the rest of the boys and share everythixg
with you. Give the lieutenantcy to our gai-
lant comrade Pancake, who has richly earned
it.”
The suggestion was accepted with more on—
thusiastic cheering, and Harry, going up to
the desk, filled out unenlistment blank, signed
it and the company roll and retired with the
surgeon for the physical examination. This
finished he slipped out unnoticed and went to
his home. On his way thither he saw Rachel
as she posed a brilliantly lighted show win-
dow. She was in traveling costume and
seemed to be going to the depot. She turned
her head slightly and bowed a formal recog-
nition.
As their eyes met he saw enough to make
him believe that what he had done met her
approval.
CHAPTER VII.
Pour AND CIRCUMSTANCE or GLomous WAR.
“Abe, you remember how that man who
made the speech when our colors were pre-
sented to us talked of ‘tho swelling hearts of
our volunteers,’ don’t you?" said Kent Ed-
wards, as he pnd Abe Bolton lounged near
the parade ground one fine afternoon, shortly
after the arrival of the regiment in camp of
instruction. . “You remember that that was
his favorite figure of rhetoric, and he re
posted it several times!”
“Don’t know anything about figger of rat-
tcrick,” growled Abe, who, his comrades said,
had the evenost temper in the regiment, “for
he was always mad.” “But I do remember
that he said that over several times, with a
lot 0’ other things without much p’iut to ’enr,
until I thought I’d drop, I was so thirsty and
W 7’
“Yes? Well, now if you want to get a
good idea of what that expremion meant, look
over there. Not only his heart swells, but he
swells all over.”
“I should think he did,” replied Abe, after
a moment’s inspection. “Unless his but has
an injy rubber band he’ll have to git it cut
offen his head, which ought to be hooped, for
it can’t swell no more without busting.”
It was Joseph Pancake erasing the parade
ground in more than Solomonic splendor of
uniform.
“I feel sorry for the poor lilies of the field
that he comes near,” sighed Kent, sympa-
thetically. “He is like them now, in neither
toiling nor spinning, and yet how ashamed
he must make them of their inferior rai-
merit.”
Pancake’s trinmphal march had now
brought him within a few feet of them, but
they continued to lounge indifierently on the
musket box upon which they had been sitting,
giving a mere nod as recognition of his pres-
ence, and showing no intention of rising to
salute. .
The glow Of satisfaction faded from Pan-
cake’s horizon, and a cloud overcast it.
“Here, you fellars," he said angrily, “why
don’t ye git up an’ saloot‘l Don’t ye know
your busine- yiti”
“W hat businsn, Joe i” asked Kent Edwards,
absently, paying most attention to a toad
which had hopped out from the cover of a
burdock leaf in search of insecm for his
supper.
Pancake’s face grew blacker. “The busi-
ness of paying properrespect toyour officers.”
“It hasn’t occurred to me that I am neglect-
ing anything in that line,” said Kent, lan-
guidly, shifting over to recline upon his left
elbow, and with his right hand gathering up
a little gravel to flip at the toad; “but maybe
you are better acquainted with our business
than we are.” ‘
Abe contributed to the dialogue a scorufnl
laugh, indicative of a most heartlem disbelief
in his superior officer’s superior intollectuality.
The dark cloud burst in storm. “Don’t you
know,” said Pancake, angry in every fiber,
“that the reggerlations say that ‘when an en-
listed man sees an officer approach, he will
rise and saloot, and remain standin’ and gazin’
in a respectful manner until the officer passes
five paces beyond him? Say, don't you know
that?”
Kent Edwards flipped a bit of gravel with
such good aim that it struck the toad fairly
on the head, who blinked his bright eyes in
surprise, and hopped back to his covert. “I
am really glad,” said he, “to know that you
have learned something of the regulations
Now, don’t say another word about it until I
run down to the company quarters and catch
a follow for a bet who wants toput up money
that you can never learn asingle sentence of
them. Don't say another word, and you can
stand in with moon the bat.” .
“Had your head‘ meakured since you got
this idea into it?” asked Abe Bolton, with well
assumed interest. '
“If he did, he hadto use asurvayor’s chain,”
suggested Kent, flipping another small peb-
ble in the direction of the toad’s retreat.
“If it wasn’t for ihe strict orders we ofilcers
got yesterday,” said Pancake, “not to allow
ourselves to be provoked under any circum-
stances into striking our men, I’d learn you
tellers mighty quick not to insult your su-
perior officers. I’d bring you. to time, I can
tell you. But I’ll settle with you yit. I’ll
haveyou in the guard house on bread and
water in short meter, and then I’ll learn you
to be respectful and obedient."
“He means ‘teacb,’ instead of ‘learn,’ ” said
Kent, apologetically to Abe. “It's just awful
to have a man wearing shoulder straps
abuse English grammar in that way. What’s
grammar done to him to deserve such treat—
ment? He hasn’t even or speaking acquaint-
ance with it.”
“I a’ it’s because can’t hit
back. That’s the kind he always picks on,”
answered Abe.
“You’ll pay for this,” shouted Pancake,
striding of! after the sergeant of the guard.
At that moment a little drummer appeared
by the flagstai! and beat a. lively rataplan.
“That's for dram ," said Kant Ed-
wards, rising. “Wo’d better skip right over
to quarters and fall in.”
“Wish their dram paradeswere in the brim-
stone flames,” growled Abe Bolton, as heroes
to accompany his comrade. “All they’re for
istostandupasabackgronnd, to show of! a.
lot Of spruce young ofilcers dressed in fancy.
n' n
V‘sWell,” said Kent, lightly, as they walked
along, “I kind Of like that; don't you! We
make picturesque backgrounds, don’t we!
You and' I, especially; you, the soft, tender,
lithe and willowy; and I, the frowning,
rugged and admantine, so to speak. I think
the background business b our best hold."
He laughed heartily at his own sarcasm,
but Abe was not to be moved by such
frivolity, and answered, glumly:
“Oh, yea: laugh about it, if you choose.
That’s your way; giggle over everything.
But when I play background I want it to be
with something worth while in the fore
ground. I don’t banker after making myself
a foil to show off such tellers as our ofilcaru
are to good advantage.”
“That don’t bother me any more than it
does amountain to serveasabmkground
for a nannygoat andapair ofaore-eyed
mules!” . -
“Yes, but the mountain matinee 'hasnan
opportunity to drop an avalau e on am.
At this point of the disco-ion they arrived
at the company grounds, and had scarcely
time to match up their guns and don their
belts before the company moved out to take
[is place in the regimental line.
The occasion of Lieut. Paucake’s elaborate
nal ornamentation now manifested
itself. By reason of Capt. Bennett’s absence
he was in command of the company and was
about to make his first appearance on parade
in that capacity. Two or three young women,
of the hollyhock order of beauty, whom he
was very anxious to impress, had been brought
to camp to witness his apotheosis into a com-
manding Ofiicer.
The moment, however, that he placed him-
self at the head of the company and drew
sword the chill breath of distrust sent the
mercury of selfconfidcnce down to zero. It
looked so easy to command a company when
some one else was doing it; it was hard when
he tried it himself. All the imps of confusion
held high revel in his mind when he attempted
to give the orders which he had conned until
be supposed he had them “dead-letter perfect.”
He felt his usually unfailing assumes shrivel
up under the gaze of hundreds of mercilessly
critical eyes. He managed to stammer out:
“Attention, company; forward, file right,
march I"
But as the companybegan tooxscuta the
order, it seemed to be going just the opposite
to what he had commanded, and he called out
excitedly: .
“Not that way! Not that way! i said ‘319
right,’ and you’re going left!”
“We are filing right,” answered some one
in the company. “You’re turned around;
that’s what’s the matter with you.”
So it was. He had forgotten that when
standing facing the men he must give them
orders in reverse from what the movement
appeared to him. This increm his confu-
sion, until all his drill knowledge seemed gone
from him. The sight of his young-lady friends,
clad in masses of primary colors, stimulated
him to a strong effort to recover his audacity,
and bracing himself up he began calling out
the guide and step with a noisy confidence
that made him heard all over the parade
ground:
“Left! left! left! Hep! hep! hep!
them head and eyes to the right!”
Trouble loomed up mountainously as be up-
proachcd the line. Putting a company into
its place on parade is one of tile crucial tests
of tactical proficiency. To march a. company
to exactly the right spot, with every man
keeping his proper distance from his filo loader
—“twenty—eight inches from back to breast,”
clear down the column, so that when the
order “front” is given everyone turns, as if on
a. pivot, and touches elbows with those on each
side of him, in a straight, firm wall of men,
without any sharnbling “closing up,” or “side-
stcpping” to the right or left—to do all this at
word of command looks very simple and easy
to the non—military spectator, as many other
very difficult things look simple and easy to the
Cast
inexperienced. But really it is only possible to'
a thoroughly drilled cgmpany, held well in
hand by a. competent commander. It is some-
thing that, if done well, is simply done well,
but if not done well, is, very bad. It is like
an egg that is dthengood or utterly worth-
less.
Pancake seemed fated to exhaust the cate—
gory of possible mistakes. Coming on the
ground late he found that a gap had been left
in the line for his company which was only
barely sufficient to receive it when it was
aligned and compactly “dremed.”
In his nervousness be halted the company
before it had reached the right of the gap by
ten paces, and so left about one-quarter of the
company lapping over on the one to the left.
Even this was done with an unsightly jumble.
His confusion as to the reversal Of right and
left still abode with him. He commanded»
“right face,” instead of “front,” and was
amazed to see the whole one hundred well
drilled men whirl their backs around to the
regiment and the commanding oflicer. A
laugh rippled down the ranks of the other
companies; even the spectators smiled, and
something sounded like swearing by the ad-
jutant and sergeant major.
Pancake lifted his plumed bat, and wiped
the beaded perspiration from his brow with
the back of one Of his yellow gauntlets.
“Order ‘an about face,’ " whispered the or-
derly sergeant, whose face was burning with
shame at the awkward position in which the
company found itself.
“About—face!” gasped Pancake.
The men turned on their heels. -,
“Side-step to the right," whispered the or-
derly.
“Side-step to the right," repeated Pancake,
mechanically.
The men took short side-steps, and follow-
ing the orders which Pancake repeated from
the whispered suggestions of the orderly, the
company came clumsily forward into its
place, “dreamed,” and “opened ranks to the
rear.” When at the command of “parade
mt.” Pancake droppedhis sabre’s point to
the ground; he did it with the crushed feeling
of u strutting cock which had been flung into
the pond and emerge: with dripping feathers.
He raised his heart in sincere thanksgiving
that he was at last through, for there was
nothing more for him to do during the pa-
rade, except to stand still, and at its conclu-
sion the orderly would have to march the
company back to its quarters.
But his woes had still another chapter. The
inspector general had come up to camp to in-
spect the regiment, and he was on the ground.
Forty years of service in the regular army,
with promotion average of one grade every
ten years, making him an old man and a
grandfather before he was a lieutenant col-
onel, had so surcharged Col. Murbauk’s no.6
ture with bitterness as to make even the very
air in his vicinity seem roughly astringent.
The wicked young lieutenants who served
with him on the plains used to say that his
bark was worse than his bite, because no rea-
sonable bite could ever be so bad as his bark.
They even suggested calling him “Peruvian
bark,” because a visit to his quarters was
worse than a strong dose of quinia.
“Yetb, that’th good,” said the lisping wit
of the crowd. “Evely bite ith a bit, ain’t
it? And the wortht mutht be a bitter, ath
he ith.”
The colonel behaved that the whole duty of
man consisted ' . loving the army regulations
and in keeping their commandments. The
best part of all virtue was to observe them to
the letter; the most abhorrent form of vice to
violate or disregard even their minor pro-
cepts.
His feelings were continually laceratcd by
contact with volunteers, who cared next to
nothing for the form of war making, but
everything for its spirit, and the martinet
heart within him was bruised and sore when
he came upon the ground to inspect the
regiment.
Pancake’s blundering in bringing the com-
pany into line awakened this ire from a pas-
sivity to activity.
“I’ll have that dunderhead’s shoulder straps
oi! inside of a fortnight,” he muttered be-
tween his teeth.
The unhappy lieutenant’s inability to even
stand properly during the parade or repeat
an order intensified his rage. When the
parade was dismissed the Ofilcers, as usual,
sheathed their swords and, forming a line
with the adjutant in the center, marched for-
ward to the commanding and inspecting
officers and saluted. Then the wrath of the
old inspector became vocable.
“What in God’s name,” he roared, fixing
his glance upon Pancake so unmistakably
that even the lattcr’s rainbow-clad girls, who
had crowded up closely, could not make a
mistake as to the victim of the expletives.
“What in God’s name, sir,” repeated the old
fellow, with purpling face, “do you mean by
bringing your company on to the ground in
that absurd way, sir? Did you think, sir,
that it was a bed of brick—with which I have
no doubt you are most familiar—that you
could dump down any place and any how, siril
Such misconduct is simply d'ngraceful, sir,
I’d have you know. Simply disgraceful, sir. ”
He paused for breath, but Pancake had no
word of defense to offer.
“And what do you mean, sir?” resumed the
inspector, after inflating his lungs for an-
other grist; “what in the name of all the pie-
bald circus clowns that ever jiggered around
on sawdust, do you mean by coming on
parade dressed like the ringrnaster of a trav-
eling monkey show, sir? Haven’t you any
more idea of the honor of wearing a United
States sword—the noblest weapon on earth,
sir—than to make yourself look like the drum
major of a band of nigger minstrels, sir!
Yes, sir; the drum major of a band of nigger
minstrels, sir! A United States officer ought
to be ashamed to make a damned harlequin
Of himself, sir. I’d have you to understand
that most distinctly, sir.”
The inspector’s stock of breath, alas! was
not so ample as in the far—off days when his
sturdy shoulders bore the modest single bar,
instead of the proud spread' eagle of the
present. Even had it been, the explosive
energy of his speech would have speedily
exhausted it. Compelled to stop to pump in
a. fresh supply, the colonel of the regiment
took advantage of the pause to whisper in his
ear-
“Don't be too rough on him, please. He’s a
good man, but green. Promoted from the
ranks for courage inaction. First appear-
ance on parade. He'll do better if given a
chance."
The inspector’s anger was mollifled. Ad-
dressing himself to all the officers, he contin-
ued in a milder tone:
“Gentlemen, you seem to be making prog-
rem in acquiring a knowledge of your duties,
though you have a world of things yet to
learn. I shall say so in my report to the
general You can go to your quarters.”
The line of ,ofilcers dissolved, and the spec-
tators began to melt away. Pancake’s
assurance rose buoyantly the moment that
the pressure was removed. He raised his
eyes from the ground, and looked for the
young ladies. They had turned their backs
and were leaving the ground. He hastened
after them, fabricating, as he walked, on ex-
planation, based on personal jealousy, of the
r’s treatment of him. He was within
astep of overtaking them, when he heard
one say, with toss of fiaunting ribbons and
hoydenish giggle:
“Did you ever see anybody wilt as Pancake
did when old Bite-Your-Hcad—Oi’f—In-a—Min—
uto was jawing him? It was so awfuny
funny that I just thought .I should die. "
The sentence ended with the picturesque
rapid crescendo employed by maidens of her
in describing a convulsive experience.
“Just didn’t he," joined in another. “I
never saw anything so funny in all my born
days. I was afraid to look at either one of
you; I knew'if I did I would burst right out
laughing. I couldn’t ’vo helped it—I know I
couldn’t, if I’d 'a knowed I’d ’a died the next
minute.”
“This would seem to be a pretty good time
to drop the fellow,” added the third girl to»
decisively. ‘
Pancake tnrnednnd went in another direc-.
tion. At the 9 O’clock roll call he informed
the company that the inspector was well
pleased with iisoppesrance on parade.
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Ofi‘ice States,
Shop Stores,
And everything appertain-
ing to cooking and heat-
ing at the
Lowest Possible Price for-Cash. .
E. II. Lockwood 8: (50.
Money to Loan.
En uire of o. E. ersoumo. a Gazette
ng. orwalk. Conn.
w|umor mono than at anythmgelso by akin)
an agency or the qesi aching book out. Be
era succeed grandly. None ful.. Terms free
ALLE'J‘ BOOK CO. . Portland. M sine.
Build-
tfls
. Number 49.
POWDER
‘ Absolutely Pugs,
. This Powder never- varies. A marvel of pure
strength and wholesomeness. More economic
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in com-
petition with the multitude of low test, short
weight, allum or- phosphatepowders.
ROYAL lemc Pownsn co.,1os Wall St, N. Y.
n. a. cmummn,
luvns'rrsluu'r sncunmus, REAL
_ , ESTATEiAND INSURANCE,
an magnum, - (seaward;
l
5 amp .wmnn mnxgnncn,
' ”unanimous trick. WALL STREET,
FAMJLY~ GROCERIES.
:1; BELDllhé'ull-RLBUTT,
6_ilttnrney ilni, Corinna at Law,
Room NO. it, nasal...
GAZETTE. surmise, sothLk', cons.
muss u. mean.
Attorney and 0011113810! at Law
a Gazette Building},
NORWALKg - CONN.
ALE-X. S. GIBSON,
Organrst of let Congregation] Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
E. WHITWOBTII,
Successor to B. CORN.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEKS’ BUILDING, WALL STREET.
A rum. LINE or
Imported and Domestic Cloths.
0f the Latest Styles constanil on hand.
Novelties in Scotch Suitin'gs. Satisfagfion guaran-
teed in every particular.
PENSIONS
-—:AND:—
. Government Claims.
My sole business. Thousands have Ri his
N eg.ected. Address, free of charge, or visit, g
GEN. W. H. NOBLE,
91 Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn
W. H. MEEKER,
54 Main Street,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Plumbers’ and '
Steam Fitters’ Supplies, and Gas Fixtures.
1
Jobbing promptly attended to.
O. E. WILSON,
General Insurance t Real Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
Room No. 3 Gazette Building, Norwalk, Conn.
ETNA INSURANCE 00., of HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.
Insures against loss and dam e b Fire n
terms adopted to the hazard audagonslystent will:
the laws of com ensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole Agents for orwalk and vicinity.
THE
Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its
ISIh succussm BUSINESS ma '
And has not outstandingadollar of un aid ‘Osse
or claims for losses. No sound omnpagm inls'ure:
for less. ‘
W. 0. Smsr, Plea. s. E. Oman-an, Tress,
GEO. R. Cowmrs. Secretary.
A CARD.
Having pursued the
FURNITURE BUSIN ESS,
Recently carried on by WILLIAM Locxwoon at
No. 36 MAIN STREET.
I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND
ORNAMENTAL. I have on hand a large
stock which I will sell
VERY CHEAP FOR CASH
lshallbeplessed to meet all Old or new friends
and will guarantee satisfactionin
every case.
QFORGE H. RAYMOND.
rerun L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST (INVIil YMAN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWAEE, - - CONN.
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbel'y, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and all sorts of designsln Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and Re-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
FOR SALE.
A STYLISH
VICTORIA,
Newly Trimmed and Painted.
A Fine Family Carriage.
Will be sold at a. very low price.
HENRY TILLY,
CARRIAGE MAKER.
SOUTH NOR WALK.
Fnsnsulcx A. Halonr,
Formerly of New York Mem. of Con. Stock and
Stock Ex. Pet. Ex.
Ronsar B. BACH.
Theo. Haight & Co.
BANKERS .85 BROKERS.
47 BROADWAY.
Transact a General Banking business, buy and sell
Stocks, Bonds or Oil for cash or on margins.
Stock trades can be made in ten shares and up-
wards on the Consolidated Stock and Petrole-
um Exchange.
COMMISSION, 1-18 EACH WAY.
Orders executed in Grain at New York and
. auras
THEODORE HAIGHT,
Chicago.
Don’t Do It!
Don’t send your laundry work out Of town, when
you can have it done at home in, in first-class style
and at reasonable prices. Call or send for price
list. Goods must be at the laundry by Thursday
morning to insure delivery on Saturday. Open
evenings untll 8 o’clock.
Old Well Laundry,
530. W. HALLOGK, Manager.
37 WASHINGTON STREET, SOUTH NORWALK
. aive
her of the Erie bar for twenty years. He
47 years Old.
AN ARTIST DEAD. .
A WELL KNOWN canrdoursr: also
SUDDENLY m A RESTAURANT.
The New York Press Club- land n Com-
mittee to Take Charge of the 180‘!!!
hot Find It ”On loo" in Another
Establishment.
an Your, Dec. 7.-James A. Wales, the
artist, died suddenly yesterday ;in arestau-
rant at Broadway and Fulton street. He had
gone in them for breakfast about 10 o’clock
in the morning, and aftcrf adoring some
chops sent a waiter to Hegeman’s drug store
for ten cents’ worth of bromide of potassium;
The clerk put up two drachms and sent it by
the messenger. Wales dissolved the powder
in a glass of water and drank it, and shortly
afterward fell asleep. The waiterpnot wish-
ing to disturb, him, took his" chops back to
the kitchen to be kept‘wal'm. After awhile
Mr. John Spencer"th to the apparently
sleeping man and shook him gently. . He was
dead; . .
[Deputy Coroner Herold concluded that
death was the result of syncope from organic
- disease of the heart, but had. been superin-
duced by the dose of bromide of potassium,
which of itself was not large enough to cause
death.
The board of trustees of the Prom club had
just adjourned when a little ruddy checked
undertaker rushed into the club hquse and
announwd that Mr. Wales was dead. The
undertaker declared that Mr. Wales’ friends
had no money, and that be supposed the
Press club would take charge of the remains.
The trustees deputed two of their number to
seethat the body of Mr. Wales was taken
care of until his friends could be
heard from, and, if necessary, to
order a suitable burial. The two
gentlemen called at the Oak street station,
informed the sergeant in charge that the
body would be removed in a. couple of hours,
and then called. upon Mr. Bunner, the editor
of Puck. Mr. Bunner said that he had role-
graphed to Mr. Cook of The Philadelphia
Times, Mr. Wale's’brOthardn-law.‘ He mfg--
gasted that the press‘club should have the
body! removed to: some undertaker’s. If
necessary, he would have it done himself. .
The two representatives Of the club then
ordered Undertaker‘ Benedict, of Carmine
street, tohave the dcadartisttaken to his
shop. ' '
‘ ' When Mr. Benedict arrivednt the Oak
:treet station he was astonished to find that
the body of Mr. Wales had been removed a
few minutes before. Undertaker Schreck
had seized the remains under anonder bear-
ing the name of Coroner Memmer, in the
handwriting of his deputy, Dr. Harold. Mr.
Schreck was in such a hurry to get away that
he forgot to take the burial permit. Mr.
Benedict declined to have anything more to
do with the case until matters were straight-
ened out. The two gentleman from the Press
clubcalled at the houss of Coroner Messe~
mar and Dr. Herold, but both were out.
Their next stop was to callat “rounder ~
taking establishment of Mr. Schreck When
they rang the bell for admittance a curly
headed young man looked through a win-
dow. .
“It’s them!” he cried to some one behind
him.
“Iock the door I” yelled a voice.
The door was at once locked. In a minute
or two a. tall man with, ,swarthy features
came out of a side door and approached the
visitors. *
“Vat can I do for you?” he said.
“Is the body of Mr. Wales in this place?”
“Yes, shentlemen; it vill be on ice in a
minute.”
“By what right did you carry it away to
Houston street?" -
“Vy, a man came to my blues and left an
order vrom the goronor so I could get it. ”
At midnight President Greene of the Press
club announced that he intended to insist
upon the restitution of Mr. Wales’ body, and
to do all in his power to punish whoever was
responsible for the seizure. It is aver-red
that some Of the officials connected with the
coroner’s office make money by helping
undertaken to get possession of corpses in
cases where relatives or friends of the dead
are likely to pay well.
Mr. Wales was born in Clyde, N. Y., on
May 10, 1850, and his parents still live there.
His father was a wealthy farmer, and en-
couraged his son’s artistic bent and sent him
to Europe, where he spent two years, chiefly
in Paris. He made great progress, chiefly in
the black and white. On his return to the
United States he was engaged by Frank Les-
lie. He was sent to Washington, where
he remained during two sessions of con—
gress. Upon his return he went to Puck,
then in its infancy. In 1880 he founded;The
Judge and lost money. With B. B. Valen-
tine and Capt. Thompson he started a weekly
called Snap, with which he was not success-
ful. He then went back to Puck, but soon
turned his attention to work for the daily
papers. Since June last he had done hardly
anything. He was very prolific, and is said
to have made more than 7,000 drawings. He
leaves a widow and two small children.
A Long Strike Expected.
LYNN, Mass. , Dec. 7.—The Knights of Labor
have ordered a strike at two shoe shops in this
city Operated by F. W. Breed, and 500 Opera-
tives are out. Mr. Breed hssa shop at Salem,
and the operatives there will be ordered out
also. Mr. Breed is doing a large country
business at his factory in Rochester, N. H.,
and 300 men are employed there. These will
probably be ordered out in a day or two.
The cause of the trouble is that Mr. Breed
has given out most of his cutting to Salem
workmen at $14 per week, while the price to
Lynn cutters is 817. Mr. Breed employs a.
considerable number of cutters at his Lynn
shops, and pays full price, but the.$14 cutters
are gradually undermining those at' Lynn.
A long strike is expected
Blown to Sea or Pcrishad.
Poun- PLEASANT, N. J., Dean—The three-
masted schooner which came ashore Sunday
above Townsend’s inlet was boarded : by the
life saving crew and found to have settled.
She is the Emily Shepard, of Middletown,
Conn. No vestige of the crow could be
found. It is supposed that the vessel sprung
aleak during the gala of Saturday night and
was abandoned, the crew taking to the boats.
They have either been blown out to sea or
have perished.
Ea Ovcrohargad for a Pension.
LOWELL, Mass, Dec. 7.—R.obert B. Cavorty,
a well known lawyer, who is 85 years old,
has been arrested for violating the law allow-
ing an attorney to charge but 810 for securing
a pension. He charged 8150 for securing the
pension, and sued to collect it. Although 85,
Caverty’s hair is jet black and hangs down
upon his shoulders. He has been a familiar
figure in the courts for many years in both
Sufiolk and Middlssex counties.
A Heavy Judgment.
Prrrssunc, Dec. 7.—Judge Acheson, of t! “L
United States district court, has handed ' ,
down an opinion in thecasc of tha'Union
Trust company against the Rochester and
Pittsburg railway on the rule for judgemenv‘
for wantof asuflcisut afildavit of defense,
followed by an order making tharuie abso-
lute. The amount of the judgment was 81,-
099,747.75.
Made Her a lit—anion.
Amos, 0., Dec. 7.—Miss Bertha Cook,
aged 19, has met with a horrible accident.
She was attending an old woman prostrated
with paralysis, when her dram brushed
against a red hot stove and ignited. The
flames quickly tgnveloped her, and she ran
screaming to a door. The invalid by
almost superhuman eflorta arose and threw
a blanket around the girl. She succeeded in
putting out the fire, but not until Miss Cook
was so terribly burned that the was rendered
a raving maniac. The old lady after the ex-
citement misused into her former paralyzed
condition, and owing to her severe burns
cannot recover. Min Cook is still living,
but will undoubtedly die.
Stone's Successor.
Em, Pa, Dec. 7. A. Allen, who
was appointed United States district attor-
ney for the western district Of Pennsylvania,
in place of Mr. Stone, suspended for "offen-
p,” has been an active mom.
studied law while engaged. .in another occu-
pation, and is altogether a self-made man.
He is a friend and supporter of Congressman
W. L. Scott, and has been active in politics.
He was can ' to for congress in 1878, but
was defeated y Osmer, Republican. He is
‘A Merchant Shot.
Pamannnrrna, Dec. 7.-Oscar Weber
while in the jewelry store cf William H.
Martin became abusive and was ordered out
by the proprietor, whereupon Weber drew a
revolver and fired four shots at Martin, one
of which took fatal elect. Weber was ar-
rested and jaded.’
A Private Postal Service.
Manna. Dec. 7.6—It is stated that the
bankers and merchants of Barcelona, owing
recent systematic mail robberies by which
y have sustained heavy. losses, purpose
startiagaprivatc postal service, payingto
flu sntthe militate ofpostaga
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