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FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1894. I

Thk Democratic party is all broken up on tlie issue which brought it into power. Neither faction will back down.

Ci.iktox R. Dkkckixkihgk was turned down in his district in Arkansas for Congress, but he was taken care of by the President who gave him the Russian Mission. He will succeed Hon. Andrew D. White who resigned.

Thk New York Ti ihum: cogently remarks that next to Artemus Ward's eagerness to save the country even if duty called for the sacrifice of every one of his second cousins on the lield of battle, there lias been "no more striking exhibition of unselfish generosity in the United States than the spectacle of the Democratic party heroically discharging its pecuniary obligations to the Sugar Trust by levying tribute upon the workingman's breakfast table. The scene vividly illustrates the quaint but handy old

Democratic principle: "When duty calls, find a substitute.-'

... I'.MiKit the enabling act admitting Utah as a State in the Union delegates to a convention will be elected next November to frame a constitution for the new State. This convention will meet next March. In November or December, 1SS5, the President will issue a proclamation formally admitting Utah in the Union. During the winter of lS'.iS-'Oii two United States Senators will be elected whose terms will begin on the 4th of Martli. ISim. The enabling act provides that polvumy shall be forever excluded from the State. One remarkable feature in the latter stages of the contest was the unaniminity with which the two great political parties have acted in favor of admission.

W. 15. CntTls. the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Hcrtml. asked .lolin Allen, the funny man from Mississippi, if the House is goin^ to accept the sugar schedule in the Senate bill. "Why of course we will," lie replied. ''We all give in when we have a row with the Senate. We are going to raise 1 for a while and let on as if we never, never would be enslaved by the trusts and the plutocrats. but when we get out of wind we are just going to lie right down and let them step on our necks. That is the way we always do and it is very mortifying for a man of my pride and high moral principles to realize that while tlie trusts are having to pay a big price for the Senate they are getting the House for nothing. 1 tell you no one can imagine how it grinds a man to read all about this bribery and speculation in the newspapers and the pools the Senators are in and the colossal fortunes they are making and not have a soul offer him a dollar."

Tin- sensation from Washington is the President's letter to Chairman Wilson of the House Ways aud Means Committee, in which he takes a decided stand against the Senate eoiuproini.se

tariff bill and declares emphatically in «,oved

favor of free coal, free, iron ore and taxed sugar. The letter i.s dated July but so close did Mr. Will keep the secret that lie had such a document that when he produced the letter and incorporated as a part of his remarks it created a [sensation Aside from his advocacy of the passage of the House bill and reading between the lines ithe President confesses that through "party perfidy and party dishonor" the Democratic party is not fit to govern the country. The letter is a severe thrust at the Democratic members of the Senate, and will be well calculated to widen the breach between the Senate and House. As matters stand now the differences bet,veen the two houses are irreconcilable, and all the appearances indicate that Use House and Senate bill would both fail.

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the New York Herald it is stated that a photograph of an order to buy sugar stock, given and signed by a Senator of wealth and distinction, has heen placed in the hands of a member of the Conference Committee in order "to force a vote favorable to a reduction of the tariff on lead.' The Ilcriihl states that the order was signed by one of four, who are named, Camden, Faulkner, Gorman and Gibson, and then mentions that "Senator Camden is orother-in-law to President Thompson," of the National Lead Company. It is also asserted that another, "one of the most famous Senators of the United States," ordered a purchase of 1,SOO shares of sugar that he has "had much to do with shaping the present policy" of the Democrats, and that his order was guaranteed by "another Senator, not an old member of the body, but a man of ability, before ..horn loomed up the vision of a great career, who had made a large fortune in business." This Senator is probably Smith of New Jersey. The licridd it will be remembered is a Democratic paper. Out of the mouths of its own newspapers the Democratic party stands convicted of selling out to Havermeyer, another Democrat, and the headfQf the biggest trust in the .anwtiy.

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CHAPTER I.

A strango thing happened at tho old fort during the still watches of the night. Even now, at 9 in tho morning, no one seemed to be in possession of the exact circumstances. The officer of the day was engaged in an investigation, aud all that appeared to be generally known was the bald statement that, the sentry on No. 5 had fired at somebody or other about half after 3 that he Lad fired by order of tho officer of the day, who was on -his post at the time, and that now ho flatly refused to talk about the matter.

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Garrison curiosity, it is perhaps needless to say, was rather stimulated than lulled by this announcement An unusual number of officers were chatting about headquarters when Colonel Maynard came over to his office. Several ladies, too, who had hitherto shown but languid interest in tho morning music of the band, had taken the trouble to stroll down to the old quadrangle, ostensibly to see guard mounting. Mrs. Maynard was almost always on her piazza at this time, and her lovely daughter was almost sure to be at the gate with two or three young fellows lounging about her. This morning, however, not a soul appeared in front, of the colonel's quarters.

Guard mounting at the fort was not held until 9 o'clock, contrary to the somewhat general custom at other posts in our scattered army. Colonel Maynard had ideas of his own upon the subject, and it was his theory that everything worked more smoothly if he had finished a leisurely breakfast before beiriumug office work of anv kind, and neither tho colonel nor his family cared to breakfast before 8 o'clock. In view of the fact that Mrs. May nurd had borne that name but a very short time, and that her knowledge of army life dated only from the month of May, the garrison was disposed to consider her entitled to much latitude of choice in such matters, even while it did say that she was old enongh to tie above bridelike sentiment. The women folk at the fort were of opinion that Mrs. JlaymiM was 50. It must be conceded that she was over 40 also that this was her second eutrv into the bonds of matrimony.

That no one should now appear on the colonel's pic.zza was obviously a disappointment to several people. In some way or other most of the breakfast tables at the post had been enlivened by accounts of tho mysterious shooting. The soldiers going the rounds with the "police cart," the butcher and grocer and linker from town, the old milk woman with her glistening cans, had all served as newsmongers from kitchen to kitchen, and the story that came in with the coffee to the lady of the house had last nothing in bulk or bravery. The groups of officers chatting and smoking in front of headquarters gained accessions every moment, while the ladies seemed more absorbed in chat and confidences than in the sweet music of the band.

What fairly exasperated some men was the fact that the old officer of the day was not out on the parade where he belonged. Only the new incumbent was standing there in statuesque pose as the band trooped along the line, and the fact that the colonel had sent out word that the ceremony would proceed without Captain Chester only served to add fuel to the flame of popular conjecture. It was known that the colonel was holding a consultation with closed doors with the old officer of the day, and never before since he came to tho regiment had the colonel been known to look so pale aud strange as when he glanced out for just one moment and called his orderly. The soldier sprang up, saluted, received his message, and, with every eyo following him, sped off toward the old stone guardhouse. In three minutes he was on his way back, accompanied by a corporal and private of the guard in full dress uniform. "That's Leary, tho man who fired the shot," said Captaifti Wilton to his senior lieutenant, who stood by his side. "Belongs to company, doesn't he?" queried the subaltern. "Seems to me 1 have heard Captain Armitage say he was one of his best men." "Yes. He's been in the regiment as long as I can remember. What on earth can the colonel want him for? Near as I can learn, lie only fired by Chester's order.'' "Aud neither of them knows what he fired at."

It was perhaps 10 minutes before Private Leary came forth from the doorway of the colonel's office, nodded to the corporal, and raising their white

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officers the two men tossed their rifles to the right shoulder and strode back to the guard.

Another moment, and the colonel himself opened his door and appeared in the hallway. He stopped abruptly, turned back and spoke a few words in low tone, then hurried through the groups at the entrance, looking at no man, avoiding their glances and giving faint and impatient return to the soldierly salutations that greeted him. The sweat was beaded on his forehead, his lips were white and his face full of a trouble and dismay no man had ever seen there liefore. He spoke to no one, but walked rapidly homeward, entered and closed the gate and door behind him.

For a moment there was silence in the group. Few men in the service were better loved and honored than the

veteran soldier who commanded the: th infantry, and it was with genuine concern that his officers saw him to deeply and painfully affected, for affected ho certainly was. Never before had his cheery vdeo denied them a cordial "Good morning, gentlemen." Never before had his blue oyes flinched. He had ljeen their comrade and commander in years of frontier service, and his bachelor home had been the rendezvous of all genial spirits when in garrison. They had missed him sorely when he went abroad on long leave the previous year and were almost indignant when they received the news that he had met his fate in Italy and would return married. "She" was the widow of a wealthy Now Yorker who had been dead some three years only, and though over 40 did not look her years to masculine eyes when she reached the fort in May.

After knowing her a week tho garrison had decided to a man that the colonel had done v.'isely. Mrs. Maynard was charming, courteous, handsome and accomplished. Only among the women were there still a few who resented their colonel's capture, and some of these, oblivious of the fact that they had tempted him with relations of their own, were sententious and severe in their condemnation cI second marriage, for the colonel, too, was indulging in a second experiment. Of his first only one man in the regiment besides the commandor could tell anything, and he, to the just indignation of almost everybody, would not discuss the subject. It was rumored that in the old days wlioj) Mfffnud wi*s

senior captain "and Chester junior subaltern in their lornier regiment tho two had very little in common. It was known that- the tirst Mrs. Maynard, while still young aud beautiful, had died abroad. It was hinted that tho resignation of a dashing lieutenant of the regiment, which was synchronous with her departure for foreign shores, was demanded by his brother officers, but it was useless asking Captain Chester.

He could not tell, and—wasn't it odd?— here was Chester again, the only man in the colonel's confidence in an hour of evident trouble. "By .love! What's gone wrong with the chief?" was the first exclamation froiji one of the older officers. "I never saw hitu look so broken."

As no explanation suggested itself, they began edging in toward the office, The door stood open, a handbell banged, a clerk darted in from the sergeant major's rooms, and Captain Chester was revealed seated at the colonel's desk, This in itself was sufficient to induce I several officers to stroll in aud look inquiriugly around. Captain Chester, merely nodding, went on with somo writing at which he was engaged.

After a moment's awkward silence and uneasy glancing at one another the party seemed to arrivo at the conelusion that it was time to speak. The band had ceased, and the new guard had marched away behind its pealing bngles. Lieutenant Hall winked nt his comrades, strolled hesitatingly over to the desk, balanced unsteadily on one leg, and with his hands sticking in his trousers pockets, and his forage cap swinging from protruding thnnrtj and forefinger, cleared his throat, and with marked lack of confidence accosted his absorlied superior: "Colonel gone home?" "Didu't you see him':" was the uncompromising reply, and the captain did not deign to raise his head or eyes, "Well—er—yes, I suppose I did," said Mr Hall, shifting uncomfortably to his other leg and prodding the floor with the toe of his boot. "Then that wasn't what you wanted to know, I presume. said Captain Chester, signing his name with a vicious dab of tho pen and bringing his fist down with a thump on the blotting pad, while he wheeled around in his chair and looked squarely up into the perturbed features of tho junior. "No, it wasn't," answered Mr. Hall in an injured tone, while an audible nuicker at the door added to his sense of discomfort "What I mainly wanted was to know if I could go to town." "That matter is easily arranged, Mr. Hall. All you have to do is to get out of that uncomfortable and unsoldierly position, stand in the attitude in which you are certainly more at home and infinitely more picturesque, proffer your request in respectful words, and there is no question as to the result. "Oh, you're in command, then?" said Mr. Hall, slowly wriggling into the position of the soldier and flushing through his bronzed cheeks. "I thought the colonel might bo only gone for a niinuto. "The colonel may not be back for a week, but you be hero for dress parade all the same, and—Mr. Hall!" lie called as the yonng officer was turning away. The latter faced about again. "Was Mr. Jerrold going with you to town?" "Yes, sir. He was to drive me in his dogcart, and it's over here now. "Mr. Jerrold cannot go—at least not until I have seen him." "Why, captain, he got the colonel's permission at breakfast this morning." "That is true, no doubt, Mr. Hall."

And the captain dropped his sharp and captious manner, and his voice fell as though in sympathy with the cloud that settled on his face. "1 cannot explain matters just now. There are reasons why the permission is withdrawn for the time being. The adjutant will notify him. And Captain Chester turned to his desk again as (lie new officer of the day. guardlwok in hand, entered to make his report. "The usual orders, captain," said Chester as he took the book from his hand and looked over the list of prisoners. Then, in bold and rapid strokes, he wrote across the page the customary certificate of the old officer of the day, winding up with this remark: "He also inspected guard and visited sentries lx*tween and a a. m. The firing at 3:30 a. m. was by his order.

Meantime those offiqers who had entered and who had lioMmniediate duty to perform wcro standing or seated around the room, but all observing profound silence. For a moment or two no sound is heard but the scratching of the captain's pen. Tljen, with some embarrassment and hesitancy, ho laid it down and glanced around him. "Has any one here anything to ask— any business to transact?"

Two or three mentioned some routine matters that required the action of the post commander, but did so reluctantly, as though they preferred to await tho

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Wilton indeed spoke his sentiments: "I wanted to see Colonel Maynard about getting two men of my company relieved from extra duty, but as he isn't here I fancy I had better wait." "Not at all. Who are your men? Have it done at once, Mr. Adjutant, and supply their places from my company if need be. Now, is there anything else?"

The group was apparently "nonplused," as the adjutant afterward put it, by such un looked for complacence on tho part of the usually crotchety senior

"litis rum one licrc nnyllihuj to axkt" captain. Still, no one offered to lead the others and leavo the room. After a moment's nervous rapping with his knuckles on the desk Captain Chester again abruptly sjKjke: "Gentlemen, 1 am sorry to incommode you, but if there be nothing more that you desire to see nie about I shall go oil with some other matters, which, pardon mo, do not require your presence.

At til's very broad hint the party slowly ft'ind their legs, and with much wonderin *nt and not a few resentful glances a1 their temporary commander the oftieoi sauntered to tho doorway. There, hu\v 'vcr, several stopped again, still reluctai to leavo in the face of so pervading a mystery, for Wilton turned. "Am I to understand that Colonel Maynard has '.eft tho post to be gono any length of ti ie?" he asked. "He lias not y-t gone. I do not know how long he will be gono or how soon he will start Foi pressing personal reasons ho has turn '•d over the command to me, and if he decide to remain away of course son) 3 field officer will be ordered to come to headquarters. For a day^apatyoyon jvill have to worry

along with me, tint 1 sna'n worry you more than I can help. I've got mystery and mischief enough hero to keep me busy, God knows. Just ask Sloat. to come back hero to me, will you? And, Wilton, 1 did not mean to be abrupt with you. I'm all upset today. Mr. Adjutant, notify Mr. Jorrold at oneo that lie must not leave tho post until I have seen him. It is the colonel's last order. Tell him so."

CllAlTKli II.

The night, before had been unusually dark. A thick veil of clouds overspread tho heavens and hid the stars. Moon there was none, for tho faint silver crescent that gleamed for a moment through the swift, sailing wisp» of vapor had dropped beneath the horizon soon after tattoo, and tho mournful strains of "taps, borne 011 the rising wind, seemed to signal "extinguish lights" to the entire firmament as well as to Fort Sibley. There was a dauco of some kind at the quarters of one of tho staff officers living far up tho row 011 the southern terrace. Chester heard the laughter and chat as the young officers and their convoy of matrons and maids came tripping lvomeward after midnight Ho WOK a crusty old bachelor, to use his own description, and rarely ventured into, these scenes of social gayety, and besides he was officer of the day, and it was a theory I10 was fond of expounding to juniors that when on guard no soldier should permit himself to bo drawn from the scene of his duties.

With his books and his pipe Chester whiled away tho lonely hours of tho early night aud wondered if the wind would blow up a rain or disperse tho clouds entirely. Toward 1 o'clock a light, bounding footstep approached his door, and the portal flew open as a trim built young fellow, with laughing eyes aud an air of exuberant health and spirits, came briskly in. It was Rollins, tho junior second lieutenant of the regiment aud Chester's own and only pet—so said the envious others. He was barely a year out of leading strings at the Point and as full of hope and pluck and mischief as a colt. Moreover, I10 was frank and teachable, said Chester, and didn't come to him with the idea that ho had pothing to learn and less to do. The boy won upon his gruff captain from the very start, aud, to the incredulous delight of tho whole regiment, within six months the old cynic had taken him into his heart and home, and Mr. Rollins occupied a pleasant room under Chester's rooftree aud was tho sole accredited sharer of the captain's moss. To a youngster just entering service, whoso ambition it was to stick to business and make a record for zeal and efficiency, these were manifest advantages.

There were men in tho regiment to whom such close communion with a watchful senior would have been most embarrassing, and Mr. Rollins' predecessor as second lieutenant of Chester's company was one of these. Mr. .Tcrrold was a happy mau when promotion took him from under the wing of Crusty Jako and landed him in Company B. More than that, it came just at a time when, after four years of loneliness and isolation at an up river stockade, his new company and his old one, together with four others from the regiment, were ordered to join headquarters aud the band at tho most delightful station in the northwest. Here Mr. Rollins had reported for duty during the previous autumn, and here they were with troops of other arms of the service, enjoying tho close proximity of all the good things of civilization.

Chester looked up, with a quizzical smile, as his "plebo" came in: Well, sir, how many dances had you with Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Not many, I fancy, with Mr. Jerrold monopolizing everything as usual. By gad! some good follow could make a colossal fortune in buying that young man at my valuation and selling him at his own." "Oh, come, now, captain," laughed Rollins, "Jerrold's 110 such slouch as you make him out. He's lazy, and he likes to spoon, aim ho puts up with a good deal of petting from the girls— who wouldn't if he could get it?—but he is jolly and big hearted and don't put on any airs—with us, at least—and tho mess like him first rate. 'Tain't his fault that lie's handsome and a regular lad}' killer. You must admit that he had a pretty tough four years of it up there at that cussed old Indian graveyard, and it's only natural ho should enjoy getting here, where there are thoaters and concerts and operas aud dances aud dinners" "Yes, dances and dinners aud daughters, all delightful, I know, but no excuse for a man's neglecting his manifest duty, as he is doing and has been ever since wo got hero. Any other time the colonel would have straightened him out, but 110 use trying it now, when both women in his household are as big fools about tho man as anybody in town— bigger, unless I'm a born idiot." And Chester rose excitedly. "I suppose he had Miss Renwick pretty much to himself tonight?" lie presently demanded, looking angrily and searchingly at his junior, .as though half expecting him to dodge tho question. "Oh, yes. Why not? It's pretty evident she would rather dance and bo with him than with any 0110 else. So what can a fellow do? Of course ask her to dance and all that, "Ml I think he wants us to, but I cannot help feeling rather a lioro to her, even if sho is only 18, and there are plenty of pleasant girls in the garrison who don't get any too much attention, now we're so near a big city, r.nd I like to bo with them." "Yes, and it's the right thing for you to do, youngster. That's one trait I despise in Jerrold. When we were up thereat the. stockade two winters ago and Captain Gray's little girl was there, he hung around her from morning till night, ami tho poor little, thing fairly beamed and blossomed with delight.

Look at. her now, man! He doesn't go near her. He hasn't had tlio decency to take her a walk, a drive or anything since we got here. He began from tho moment we came with that gang in town, lie was simply devoted to Miss Beaubien until Alice Renwick came. Then he dropped her like a hot brick. By the eternal, Rollins, he hasn't got off with that old love yet, you mark my words. There's Indian blood in her Veins and a look in her eye that makes me wriggle sometimes. I watched her last night at parade when she drove out here with that copper faced old squaw, her mother. For all her French and Italian education and her years in New York anil Paris that girl's got a wild streak in her somewhere. She sat thoro watching him as the officers marched to the front, and then her, iis I10 wont up and joined Miss Renwick, and tlicro was a gleam of her whito teeth and a flash in her black eyes that made mo think of the leap of a knife from tho sheath. Not but what 'twould serve him right if she did play him somo devil's trick. It's his own doing. Were any peoplo out from town?" I10 suddenly asked. "Yes, half a dozen or so," answered Mr. Rollins, who was pulling off his boots and inserting his feet into easy slippers, whilo old "Crusty" tramped excitedly up and down tho floor. "Most of them staid out horc, I think. Only ono team went back across the bridge." "Whoso was that?"

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Cub button was out wun ms sister ana another girl." "There's another fool!" growled Chester. 'That boy has $ 10,000 a year of his own, a beautiful home that will bo his, a doting mother and sister and everything wealth can buy, and yet, by gad, he's unhappy because he can't bo a poor devil of a lieutenant, with nothing but drills, debts and rifle practico to enliven him. That's what brings him out horo all the timo. He'd swap places with you in a minute. Isn't he very thick with Jerrold?" "Oh, yes, rather. Jerrold entertains him a good deal." "Which is returned with compound interest, I'll bet you. Mr. Jerrold simply makes a convenience of him. Ho won't moke love to his sister because the poor, rich, unsophisticated girl is as ugly as she is ubiquitous. His majesty is fastidious, you see, and seeks only the caress of beauty, and whilo he livos there at tho Suttons' when ho goes to town, and dines and sleeps and smokes and wiues there, and uses their box at tho opera house, and is courted and flattered by tho old lady because dear Cubby worships tho ground ho walks on, and poor Fanny Sutton thinks him adorablo, ho turns his back on tho girl at every dance because she can't dance and leaves her to you fellows who have a conscience aud some idea of decency. He gives all his devotions to Nina Beaubien, who dances like a coryphee, aud drops her whcti Alice Renwick comes, with her glowing Spanish beauty. "Oh, dr-n it, I'm an old fool to get worked upovor it as I do, bnt you young fellows don't see what I see. You have not seen what I've seen, and pray God you never mayl That's where the shoo pinches, Rollins. It is what he reminds me of, not so much what he is, I suppose, that I get rabid about Ho is for all the world like a man wo had in the old regiment when you wero in swaddling clothes, and I never look at Mamie Gray's sad, white face that it doesn't bring back a girl I knew just then whoso heart was broken by just such a shallow, selfish, acforable sooun— No, I won't use that word in spoaking of Jerrold, but it's what 1 fear. Rollins, you call him generous. Well, so he is—lavish, if you like, with his money and his hospitality hero in the post Money comes easily to him and goes, but you boys misuso tho term. I call him selfish to the core, because he can denj himself no luxury, no pleasure, though it may wring a woman's life—or, more than that, her honorto give it him." Tho captain was tramping up and down tho room now, as was his wont when excited. His face was flushed aud his hand clinched. Ho turned suddenly and faced the youngor officer, who sat gazing uncomfortably at the rug in front of tho fireplace: "Rollins, somo day 1 may tell you a story that I've kept "to myself all these years. You won't wonder at my feeling as I do about these goings 011 of your friend Jerrold when you hear it all, but it was just such a man as ho who ruined one woman, broke tho heart of another and took the sunshine out of the life of two men from that day to this. Ono of them was your colonel, the other your captain. Now go to bed. I'm going out" And, throwing down his pipe, regardless of the scattering sparks and ashes, Captain Chester strode into the hallway, picked up the first fbrage cap he laid hands on and banged himself out of the front door.

Mr. Rollins remained for some moments in the same attitude, still gazing abstractedly at tho rug and listening to the nervous tramp of his senior officer dn tho piazza without Then he slowly aW thoughtfully went to his room, whero his perturbed spirit was soon soothed in sleep. His conscience being clear and his health visct, there wero lio deep cares to keep him tossing 011 a restless pillow.

To Chester, however, sleep was impossible. He tramped the piazza a full hour before he felt placid enough to go and inspect his guard. The sentries •fccre calling 3 o'clock and the wind had died away as ho started 011 his round. Dark as was tho niglit, I10 carried 110 lantern. Tho main garrison was well lighted by lamps, and the road circling the old fort was broad, smooth and bordered by a stone coping wall whero it skirted the precipitous descent into tho river bottom. As I10 passed down the plank walk west of the quadrangle, wherein lay the old barracks and tho stone quarters of tho commanding officer and tho low one storied row of bachelor dens, he could not help noting tho silence and peace of the night

Not a light was visible at any window as I10 strode down tho line. Tho challenge of the sentry at the old stono tower sounded unnecessarily sharp and loud, imd his response of "Officer of the day" was lowor than usual, as though rebuking tho unseemly outcry. The guard came scrambling out and formed hurriedly to receive him, but tho captain's inspection was of tho briefest kind. Barely glancing along the prison corridor to see that the bars wore In place, he turned back into the night and made for the line of posts along the river bank. The sentry at the high bridge across tho gorge and the next one, well around to the southeast flank, were successively visited and briefly questioned as to their instructions, and then tho captain plodded sturdily on until he camo to the sharp bend around the outermost angle of the fort and found himself passing behind tho quarters of tho commanding officer, a substantial two storied stono house, with mansard roof and dormer windows.

Tho road in tho roar was some 10 feet below tho level of tho parade insido tho quadrangle, and consequently, as tho house faced the parade, what was the ground floor from that front became tho second story at tho rear. Tho kitchen, storeroom and servants' rooms wero on this lower stage and openod upon tho road, an outer Btairway ran up to the center door at tho back, but at the east aud west flanks of the house tho stone walls stood without port or window except those above tho oaves— the dormers. Light and air in abundanco streamed through tho broad Venetian windows north and south when light and air wero needed. This night, as usual, all was tightly closed below, all darkness aloft as I10 glanced up at tho dormers high above his head. As he did so his foot struck a sudden and sturdy obstacle. He stumbled and pitched heavily forward and found himself sprawling at full length upon a ladder lying on tho ground almost in tho middle of tho roadway. "D—11 those painters!" he growled between his set teeth. "They leavo thoir infernal mantraps around in tho very hope of catching 1110, I believe. Now,,, who but a painter would have left a ladder in such a place as this?"

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Lonsdale cambric worth l'iHic at

stripes and plain colors, all (rood styles, worth 8^, and they go iu this sale, per yard 10 pes 3G-ln. Pamnas cloth, very tine 26 pes flue wool CfiaLHcs, light colors, worth li*6 to 20 cents, In this salo, per yd 2^0

50 pes long cloth 15 pes beautiful Thibet cloth for wrappets 100 pes dress stylo ginghams '20 pes good style ducks, worth 7If 10 to 12%, all go In this sale, per yd 2^ 25 pes French Challles 20 pes best Swivel silks: 25 pes best French Organdie*, all worth 50c and 60c, all go in this sale, 17^ per yd 2"

Head tho Wa8h Goods Prices.

50 pes IV uces3 Cashmeres'for tennis and ft/* outing costumes, worth 15c, per yd....1w 10 pes dark ground one-half wool ChAl- 9ftf lies UO-ln. wide, worth 25c, per yd 50 pes of our best Scotch zeph) rs and French

Novelty ginghams, all good values at 1 Cp 25c, this salo, per yd

25 pes beautiful designs Satin black grouuds 32 Inches wide, worth 12K» cents, this 7*f sale, per yd

12^

Print Department.

100 pes white crround lawns with black and brown figures, the usual 5 cents kind, 01f this sale, per yd "2^ 25 pes good calico like some #ur neighbors ask 5 cents for, In this sale, per yd"2« 100 pes the handsomest designs cotton chal~ lies we have ever sold, worth 0J4, this If sale, per yd 50 pes fancy prints 200 pes good Indigo blue prints worth 5 to 7 cents, this sale, per yard

Kead the Print Prices.

"i00 pes the best pr.nts made In America, including Simpson black and gray nioum-Ii-Ings, worth 7c in any store, price per yd

Domestics.

The ready response ot hundreds of shrewdest shoppers will be noticed In our domestlo department. Here Is the reason wliv: Heivy brown cotton llannol, good value Qlp ut 12^0, per yard Blue and brown Denims worth 15c, In 4 this sale, per yd Extra heavy blue and white stripe feath- 4 er ticking worth lOh'c, this sale per yd

Inch wool casslmeres In pray and brown mixed, worth 50c, In this sale...

Promptness In Plumbing-

00K'

SO pes blue and brown plaid shirting 24 pes staple check apron'glnghuin worth Ino, In this sale ."0 pes fast color plaid shirting worth 0)4 20 pes good style domets: 160 pes best staple cheek ginghams, worth 8^c, In this sale 100 pes 30-ln. heavy shirting plaid, fast colors, worth 8^c,ln this sale Johnson Book-fold gingham, stable check, extra Hne, worth 12V4c, In this

'7c|

0-4 wide brown sheeting worth 10«j, In 4 this sale

5c, 01-

at this sale Lawrence 30 Inch brown inuslin, Jl^ worth 0J4c, at... *2^ Cabot and Hope bleached muslin, worth £1^

I rt 1 A IftKAARlflllA /I Cpllftf Kl AUilk Ail

8'/4C.

r.onsdale.Musonvllle and Fruit bleached Ln7 worth 10c

uc8

Bead the Domestic Prices.

1,000 cotton batts for comforts worth 8 ,c, In this sale 1,000 lbs. carpet wrap, all colors, 15c, JTlf. white, this sale '"'JS

White Goods and Linens.

The busiest corner in the store will bo this department whllb this sate lasts. Tho wherefore rests In these clearing sale prices: 20 pes extra line dotted Swisses In pure white and solid shades, white with colored dots, tho same goods we have sold) C_ at B5c, this sale, per yam 10 d07.cn extra large brown Turkish towels '25 dozen assorted Iltien towels 10If worth 15c to 20c at

dozen Turkey red napkins worth 5c lc go at 100 pes 101n. plaid glass crash red ancUl„ blue check worth 12W. go at "4^ 10 pes plaid and striped white goods, very proper for aprons and dresses all4 (1 tho 1

Be and 20c sta'Ics go at

5 dozen line apd large bleach and brown Turkish towels 20 dozen tine linen towels with colored boiflers, knotted) Qr fringe, worth 25c to 35c

20 pes 18-ln Bamsley crash worth 12H!c at§K 20 pes 10-inch Harnsloy crash7l„ worth 10c at '2^

Bead the White Goods and Linen Prices. 10 pes fancy plaid Turkey K6d table lln-11},, en58-In, worth 31c, at 5 pes extra heavy 50c unbleached tableTO,, linen 58 Inches wide In 3 designs at... .Jul...125c

llest 5-4 table oil cloth worth 20c, In this sale

ONLY. We sell too cheap to charge to any one.

Is a rare virtue, But we have it.

WILLIAMS

121 South Gr*en street.

Next to Tiiis JOUBNAL Bnilftihg.

A few more weeks and the Spring and Summer business ot '94 will be history—its most important event—our Great Clearing Sale. We won'tBB speak of the weather, but of the highest grade Dry Goods, in many instances less than cost.

Successful Storekeeping

Does not mean gigantic profit—it m6ans doing business—continually—constantly—selling

seasonable goods—even at a loss—before holding them over for marty months. We

are successful storekeepers and will sell thousands of dollars worth of sea

sonable stuff at even less than cost, while j^ou most want them.

This is the argument for the great

DISCOUNT CLEARING SALE-

Dress Goods.

In this sale we will offer some of the bst values ever shown in this city. Our word as successful storekeepers backs this statement. 10 pes HtMn wide all wool serge, good shades 19 ncs fancy novelty suiting formery sold at GOo, In thlfl sale,

5d pei^ngAsti Worsted eisVm^res In,£11 Bhmdeslo'ludlng blafck, regular pnce'JQf* 25c, in this sale per yard

5 ties 50-ln wide black 6llk warp glorias!^ worth 05c, In this sale per yard 10 pes black silk grenadine worth SSl .OOIQ^ in this sale per yard

Bead the Dress Goods Prices.

lOpcs .'H-ln fancy mixed suitings In grey and brown effects worth 15c, Inft/J^, this sale per yard UU^ G6od yard wldeselesla and percallnes In all sh«de yard

des, worth 15c, In this sale per

Louis Bischof.

Only two ways to run a business—a right and a wrong way—years of success, of progress, convinces us that this is the right way. Every department manager has his orders, every salesman and saleslady will be alert, every price is a trade winner.

"Make flay While the Sun Shines," rs a'maxim to be applied with peculiar force to tlie dry goods business, lint "hay making" timft is passed— now is Clearing Out time—and for the balance"of tKe s'ea!6ti 15 per cent, 20 per cerlt, 25 per cent and even 50 per cteht will drop fi-ofti the prices of every article in all our departments. Our patrons will buy cheaply. Our stock will be redtice'd. The object desired— turning merchandise into cash—will be accomplished.

Bia'fi trie Hotton Pricas.

Good stotfcTtfet dress shields worth 15c, at 7c. pojh dr6s9 Hayg, all lengths, worth 10c a

^o^d quality spring curling Irons worth 10c, Adam'atitTne pVris, 200 lu paper, 2 papers for lc.

Good quality safety pins, largo size 2c a doz, small size le. Pure castlle soap, floats on water, 2 cakes for 5 c.

Nice white pearl button, all sizes, worth 10c a dozen at 5c. Large size Batteen ties,' all shades, worth 10c at 5c.

Your smallest wlftili is as much thought of here fes your greatest dfeelre—we netfledt nothing. 200 ifood quality all bristle bono: handle tooth brusheiyorth 15c, at He.

Largd papers Vrass mourning plus or steel with jet heads, wortli 5o ait 2c. 600 yahls spools basting thread worth 5c, spools fofc 5c.

Best darling cotton, all colors and black, worth 10c a dozen at 5c.

Don't forget the above are only a few items selected at random and only a sample of

our bargain prices. Every item in our store will be sold at a discount price. Come to us for

your wants and save money. During this great discount sale all goods will be sold FOR CASH

LOUIS BISCHOF.

"The Big St re." 127-129 E. Main S*.

C. M. SCOTT,

Fire, Life and Accident

INSURANCE,

Real Estate and Loan Ageut.

Agent for the Bartlett Bindery. Any weeftly newspapers desired. Agent for the Suite Bnildqig and Loan Associatioj ti iAtoatfa. Cal 1 on me for rubber stim^s stebcUs, seals, hou&s numbers, accideht tickets. Oflice OVer Keeney'a drag store, south Washington st., CrawfordsvSlle, Ind.

Ladies' Waists.

All of our beautiful waists—of percale*, of lawns, of zepliyrs, tliey all go at the illacotfnt prices. 10 doz ladles waists 1n satin andpercule pattern, prints light and'darlc 8tyl58,i)0„ worth 40c. at ulC lOdoz ladles' waists made or best perealOB and Scotch lawns, elerant styleaCVn at 75c, ifo at 0oC

Hosiery-

lllschof's why of doing the hosiery busltiess is decidedly original Hosiery Is supposed to bo staple 8t"ek, perhaps 1t Is, nevertbeleM superior hosiery gets a severe mark down at tlie clearing sale. 100 doz. ladles' fancy stripe and boot pattern hosiery, extra floe guagfe In all shades aud black boot worth 20c and 411 25c per pair go at «2^ 500 doz. ladles'. Misses' and children's hose In blApk, aolld colors and fanoy stripes 100 doz, meu'stalllialf hoslery(U„ worth 8c to 10c, tills sale. UJv 25 doz. ladles' Lisle thread hosiery .every shade and black neatly embroidered, regular 35c and 50c quality in tills sale2

50 doz. laillts' Misses' and infanta' liosei lu black and CXjlots tfbrtli U5c Id til IS l)l„ sale at I 02425 doz. odds and ends children's-ffat black hose worth 2Tc and 25o per iifclr ik„ lu thlssale 1 "C

Bead the Hosiery Prices.

10 uoz. ladles' silk plaited hose In alll(l„ colors worth II.00 at.. *7^ 50 doz. ladies' and Misses' fast black hose! worth 25c at, 1 5 doz. men's half hose In lisle aud vottou worth 40c and 50cat

Gloves and Mitts.

50 do/* daraagod kid gloves like we have offered so many times before, aud you were so glad to get, of the 11.00 toll)/-* 12.00 quality at 50 do/., ladles' pure silk mlUs, black, our91n regular 35c quality In thlssale at

Bead the Glove Prioes.

Ladies'silk gloves, 75c quality atOOc.O^ 50c quality at 85c 35c quality at

Fans, Ribbons arid Hosiery.

1,000 yds Jaconet embroiderv. 8 in6hosJJn wide, lu *20 patterns, worth 20c at 500 Japanese paper fans lu lall sliades.AC^ worth

10c

at ....."vl*

1 ,ono yds aconet embroidery. 12 to 15 Inches wide, the 25c and U0t kinds at..1 500 Jap paper folding fans In boautlfulHO^ grays ana light shades. 15c goods at....^/^

Bead the Prices.

About 500 yds all silk ribbons, Nos. 4, •r.n9'.„ 7 and 9, worth 5c to 15c a yd at. VLoL.

Underwear.

The high quality of our underwear does not exempt them from clearing sale prices, so here you are: 3 styles ladies gauze vests, short sleeves, low necks, fancy

Bilk

embroidery aroundQ^

neck,worth 12Hc to 15c, In this sale 2 styles ladles gauze vests, short sleeves, low neck, beautUully ti Dished, worth 20c,4'1/%1

In thlssale Bead the Underwear Prices. Ladies gauze vesU.good quality, worth 101, at 4 style ladies vests, low necks, short sleev also long Meeves goods, either aregoodO^ value at 35c, at Men's gauze underwear the Bam# excdlleut quality we have oeen Belling at il5c, lni)^/% this sale

Umbrellas.'

Also parasols—a very considerable out throughout the line—and these umbrellas are the neateBt made lu all Crawfordeville. 100 extra quality gloria nmbrellas with paragon frame and natural stick handles, an excellent article well worthy 4Q 11.50, and wesell them at 4M« 7 100 best English gloria silk umbrellas fast color, natural stick handles with gold trimmings. You would think themT ,1(1 cheap at $2.00, go at 1

Bead the Umbrella Prices,

50 English gloria silk umbrellas with fancy bone, celluloid and metal hand-ffl 7Q les, beautiful 12.50 umbrellas at 7

Also parasols at cost and less.

Special for this de|iartment. 25 ladles' mackintoshes with caps, odds andT9 cuds of goodB that were 13 to 13.50 atj)£«uu

Borne Bpeoials.

lOdoz men's doniet shirts, light color aud weight, all sizes, that were :J5c,are9lr* now All our men's shins in doinet, percale, madras and oxfords that were 50u,are/ now

Bead the Prioes.

10 dozen ladies' all leather belts that are If),* worth 25c and 35c go at..

Curtains and Draperies.

25 prs ChenlUe portlers with wide dados and heavy fringe, all shades,that woreffQ 15.00, are now 25 pes assorted curtain Swisses ombroldered in various designs and sold foM 26cto35c at I'** 100 4-4 and 0-4 Chenille table covers, the regular 75c and 11,00 goodB goat*'** 100 pes best ctetous worth 15c, and 10 pes fancy colors drapery sat lues 3(Mn. Af» worth lo%0, are now

1VC

Bead the Drapery Prioes.

30 loch sllkollnet that were 15c are 1 lc 3d luch In 10%are now "2^ 90 Inch all Bilk draperies that have soldQQ^ for 75c are .j"7*" 100 large size Bates bread spread thatCC^, are worth $1.25 at OJC

ABSTRACT BOOKS,

A. C. Jennlson's abstract books oontaln a oop or evory deed of reoord to every trflot at land In the county, a* well as to eVfery unsatrllen. —--J UHed mortgage perlonoe. aided

His twenty jrj unrlralod ItSo/ln

tracing titles oaublo him to claim that. Jila office Is the boat place to have Deeds, Mortgage* Looses and Oontraots prepared, as well as reliable Abstract* of Hue. MONEY TO LOAN RE AT, K8TATK AND

INSURANCE AQ8NT.

O. U. PERRIN,

LAWYER

Will practice lii'Federal or State court*. CVOflloe,! Suite 2, Crawford (Building, south

Grt*n Street.