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Scenes and Portraits the Civil War.

THE DAILY JOURNAL.

KSTABTMUKD IN 1887.

ipt Sunday.

OURNAL COMPANY.

T. H. B.*McCAUr, President. J. A, M&SKN B. Secretary. CAIN. Treasurer. Entered, at CrawfordsvlUe, natter.

TUESDAY. AUGUST 7,1894.

THK AVERAGE TSA&TFXJF-'A Pullman palace car is 25,000 but the most expensive car costs 945,000.

'-"THE best service that this Congress can render is to kill the pending tariff legislation and thenadjourn.

THE Republicans of Wyoming have nominated a woman, Miss Reel, by name, for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

THE RETRIEVE reads the seventy Democratic A. P. A.'s out of the party in language more forcible than elegant, by saying, "To the devil with such Democrats." The Review must be hot.

THOSE who are advocating a change in the constitution providing that United States Senators shall be elected by the people should remember that the people make as many mistakes as the Legislatures. For instance, the people of Illinois elected Atgeld Governor, while the Legislature elected Senators Cullom and Palmer. Legislatures are not prone to make more blunders in their nominations than are State conventions.

A TABIFF for revenue only is the goal of Democratic aspirations," says the Evansville Courier. True in times past, but the refusal of class interests in Congress to yield in carrying out pledges made to the people has changed the conservatism of a tariff for revenue into, the radicalism of free trade and direct taxation.—Frankfort Crcxct nt.

All that the Republicans will ask is that the Democrats will be honest enough to make a declaration in their platforms in favor of the "radicalism of free trade and direct taxation."

THE 25 cent duty placed on wheat per bushel by the McKinley tariff is still in force.. The claim for this duty by the McKinleyites was to protect the farmer. With wheatselling in this market at 45 cents the farmer fails to see where his,protection comes in.— Frankfort C'escent.

The Democratic theory of the workings of a tariff law is that the price of an article is enhanced or increased by precisely the amount of the duty, and hence they have characterized this increase which the consumer must pay as "robbery." If the Democratic contention is true, wheatawould, now be selling at 20 cents, instead of 45 cents.

TENNESSEE.

THE JOURNAL is indebted to George L. Markley for a copy of the Chattanooga Pratt containing the result of the recent 'election held in that city and county' for judicial and county officers. The Press flies a big eagle which indicates that the Republicans were triumphant and the figures show that they carried the county by 1,500 majority. The Republicans have made great gains all oyer the State. The .Democrats claimed that they would .elect a Supreme Court by 20,000 majority, but. the official returns as far as received show that the majority can not be over 5,000, if indeed the ticket was not beaten by the Republican nominee?. The Republicans have gain\ed one Democratic

Judicial Circuit out

right anA-ia another they hare put in Jan Independent in place of a straight j.\l'JDemocrat. Congressman Enloe's district in West Tennessee went Republi'can by 1,000. .Republicans gained one, or more county officials in fourteen /Democratic counties, and the point that the leaders are especially pleased with Is than in a number of instances W ^Republicans Sheriffs were elected,thus

Dlacing the voting machinery of the counties in the hands of the party.' I 'Democrats made gains in very few bounties, and at best they were slight.

The result of this election will have a ^material effect on the Gubernatorial, Legislative and Congressional elections -tin November. The Legislature to be

^elected will have the choosing of a successor to Senator Harris.

A PARTY OK IMBECILITY. The Democratic party has been in full control of the Government now nearly eighteen months. It has had the President, and both branches of Congress. One year ago to-day the President called Congress in extra session, and theBession has been continuous since theii with the exception of -V,about font weeks. The tariff bill lias ""been under iconsideration ever since' the electlon in l892, and yet it has not yet reached the President* and nobody •can tell It'.T)oU rea^h him. The

House and Senate each has passed bills but thes^we" radically different both £dple,«iMl.. schedules, the one erably free trade and the other |ly protective, but both destruc_ff American industrial interests.

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"It is my last night of life, Nina, I and I am glad 'tis so. Proud and sensiI tive as I am, the knowledge that every man in my regiment has turned from me that I have not a friend among them that there is no longer a place for me in their midst—more than all, that I doservo their contempt—has broken my heart. We will be in battle before the setting of another sun. Any man who seeks death in Indian fight can find it eusily enough, and I can compel their respect in spite of themselves. They will not recognize me, living, as one of them, but dying on the field they have to place me on their roll of honor. "But now I turn to yon. What have 1 been, what am I, to have won such love as yours? May God in heaven forgivo me for my past! All too late I hate and despise the man I have been—the man whom you loved. One last act of justice remains. If I died without it, you would mourn me faithfully, tenderly, lovingly, for years, but if I tell the truth you will see the utter unworthiness of the man, and your love will turn to contempt. It is hard to do this, knowing that in doing it I kill the only genuine regret and dry the only tear that would bless my memory, but it is the one sacrifice I can make to complete my self humiliation, and it Is the one thing that, is left me that will free you. It will sting at first but, lik» the surgeon's knife, its cut is mercy.

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_j disastiWsio business as though |be proposed legislation had been an -ccomplUfowl jtectr Pfobably irisin* out ot the, ,un,certainty iiustvrtiat kind of a mongrel bill would finally be enacted into law. »te and Howe Ind in the m»aptfme,the business deprewio* continue. from day to coming1 ^ery

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Nina, the very night I came to you on the bluffs, the very night you periled your honor to have that parting interview, I went to yon with a lie on my lips. I had told her we were nothing to each other, you and I. More than that, I was seeking her love. I hoped I could win her, and had she loved me I would have turned from you to make her my wife. Nina, I loved Alice Renwiok. Goodbv. Don't mourn for me after this.*'"

CHAPTER XX

They were having a family conclave at Sablon. The furlough granted Sergeant McLeod on account of wound received in action with hostile Indians would soon expire, and the question was. Should he ask an extension, apply for a discharge or go back and rejoin his troop? It was a matter on which there was much diversity of opinion. Mrs. Maynard should naturally be permitted first choice, and to her wish there was every reason for according deep and tender, consideration. No words can tell of the'rapture of that reunion with her long lost son. It VT»B a scene over whioh the colonel could never ponder without deep emotion. The telegrams and letters by whioh ho carefully prepared her for Frederick's coming were all insufficient! She knew well that her boy must have greatly changed and matured, but when this tall, bronzed, bearded, stalwart man sprang from the old red omnibus and threw his one, serviceable arm around her trembling! form the mother wqfl utterly overcome.

Alice left them alone together a full hour before, even Bhe intruded, and little by little, as the days went by and Mrs. Maynard realized that it was really her Fred who was whistling about the cottage or booming trooper songs in his' great basso profundo and glorying in his regiment and the cavalry life he had led.• a wonderful content and joy shone in her handsome face. It was not until the colonel annonnoed that it was about time for them to think of going baok to Sibley that the cloud came. Fred said he couldn't go.

In fact, the colonel himself had been worrying a little over it As Fred Renwick, the tall, distinguished young man in oivilian costume, he would be weloome anywhere but, though his garb' was that of the sovereign citizen so long as hia furlough lasted, there were but two weeks more of it left, and officially he was nothing more nor less than Sergeant McLeod, Troop B, th cavalry, and there was no precedent for a colonel's entertaining as an honored guest and Bocial equal one of the enlisted men of the army. Ho rather hoped that Fred would yield to his mother's entreaties and apply for a discharge. His wound' and the latent trouble with his heart' a re it an as a

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ter to obtain, and yet he was ashamed of himself for the feeling. Then there was Alice. It was hardly' to be supposed that so very high bred a young woman would relish the idea of' being seen around Fort Sibley on the arm of her brother, the sergeant but, wonderful to relate, Miss Alice took a radically different view of the whole situation. So far from wishing Fred out of the army, she importuned him day after day until he got out his best uniform, wth its resplendent chevrons and stripes of vivid yellow and the yellow helmet cords, though tiiey were but humble worsted, and when be came tortn in tnat or ess, witn the bronze medal on his left breast and the sharpshooter's silver cross, his tall, athletio figure' showing to such advantage, his dark, southern, manly features so enhanced by contrast with his yellow facings, she' clapped her handB with a cry of delight and sprang into his one available arm and threw her own about his neck and kissed him again and again.

Even mamma had to admit he looked' astonishingly well, but Alice declared she would never thereafter be reconciled to seeing him in anything but a cavalry uniform. The colonel found her not at all of her mother's way of think-1 ing. She saw no Teason why Fred should leave the service. Other sergeants had won their commissions every year. Why not he? Eveii if it were some time in coming, was thore shame or degradation in being a cavalry sergeant? Not a bit of it! Fred himself was loath to quit He was getting a little homesick, toohomesick for the bpundless life and space and air of the broad frontier, homesick for the rapid movement and vigorous hours in the saddle and on the scout. His arm was healing, and such a delight of a letter had come from his captain, telling him that the adjutant had just been to see him about the new staff of the regiment. The gallant sergeant major, a young Prussian of marked ability, had been killed early in the campaign. The vacancy must soon be filled, and the colonel and the adjutant both thought at once of Sergeant McLeod. "I won't stand in your way, sergeant," wrote his troop commander, "but you know that old Ryan is to be discharged at the end of his sixth enlistment, the 10th of next month. Thei'e is no man I would sooner see in bis place as first sergeant of my troop than yourself, and I hate to lose you. But, as it will be for the gain and tho good of the whole regiment, you ought to accept the adjutant's offer. All the men rejoice to hear you are recovering so fast, and all will be glad to see

Sergeant

McLeod back again." Even Mrs. Maynard could not but see the pride and comfort this letter gave her son. Her own longing was to bare him established in some business in. the ea#t, hut he Bajd..frankly he bad

and would only pino for

tho old life iu the saddle. There were other reasons, too, said he, why ho felts that he could not go back to New York, and his voice trembled, and Mrs. Maynard said no more. It was tho sole allusion he had made to the old, old sorrow, but it was plain that the recovery was incomplete.

The colon :1 and the doctor at Sibley believed that Fred could be carried past the medical board by a little management, and everything began to look as though he would have his way. All they were waiting for, said the colonel, wns to hear from Armitage. Ho was still at Fort Russell with the headquarters and several troops of the th cavalry. His wound was too severe for him to travel farther for weeks to corns, but he could write, and lie had been consulted. They were sitting under the broad piazza at- Sablon, looking out. at the lovely, placid lnko and talking it over among themselves. "I have always leaned on Armitage ever since I first came to the regiment and found him adjutant," said the colonel. "I always found his judgment clear, but since our last experience I have begun to look upon him as infallible."

Alice Renwiek's face took on a flood of crimson as she sat there by her brother's side, silent and attentive. Only within the week that followed their return—the colonel's and her brother's— had the story of the strango complication been revealed to them. Twice had she heard from Fred's lips tho story of Frank Armitage's greeting that frosty morning at tho springs. Time and again had she made her mother go over tho colonel's account of the confidence and faith he had expressed in there being a simple explanation of tho whole mystery and of his indignant refusal to attach one moment's suspicion to her. Shockod, stunned, outraged as she felt at the mere fact that such a story had gained an instant's credence in garrison circles, she was overwhelmed by the weight, of circumstantial evidenco that had been arrayed against her.

Only little by little did her mother reveal it to her. Only after several days did Fred repeat the story of his night adventure and his theft of her picture, of his narrow escape and of his subsequent visit to the cottage. Only gradually had her mother revealed to her the circumstancos of Jerrold's wager with Sloat and the direful consequences, of his double absences the very nights on which Fred had made his visits, of the suspicions that resulted, the accusations and his refusal to explain and clear her name. Mrs. Maynard felt vaguely relieved to see how slight an impression the young man h..d made on her daughter's heart. Alieo seemed but little surprised to hear of the engagement to Nina Beaubien, of her rush to his rescue and their romantic parting. The tragedy of his death' hushed all further talk on that subject. There was one of which she could not hear enough, and that was about the man who had been most instrumental in the rescue of her name and honor. Alice had only tender sorrow and no reproach for her stepfather when, after her mother told lier the story of his sad experience 20 years before, she related his distress of mind and suspicion when he read Jerrold'B letter. It was then that Alice said, "And against that piece of evidence no man, I suppose, would hold me guiltless?" "You are wrong, dear," was her mother's answer. "It was powerless to move Captain Armitage. He scouted the idea of your guilt from the moment he set eyes on you and never rested until he had overturned the last atom of evidence. Even I had to explain," said her mother, "simply to confirm his theory of the light Captain Chester had seen and the shadows and the form at the window. It was just exactly as Armitage reasoned it out. I was wretched and wakeful, sleeping but fitfully that night. I arose and took some bromide about 8 o'clock and soon afterward heard a fall or a noise like one. 1 thought of you and got up and went in your room, and all was quiet there, but it seemed close and warm, so I raised your shade and then left both your door, and mine open ana went back to bed. "I dozed away presently and then woke feeling all startled again, don't you know—the sensation one experiences when aroused from sleep, certain that there has been a strange and startling noise, and yet unable to tell what it was? I lay still a moment, but the colonel slept through it all, and I wondered at it. I knew there had been a shot or something, but could not bear to disturb him. At last I got up again and went to your room to be sure you were all right, and yon we.^ sleeping soundly still, but a breeze was beginning to blow and flap your shade to and fro, so I drew it and went out, taking my lamp with me this time and softly closing your door behind me. See how it all seemed to fit in with everything else that had happened. It took a man with a will of his own and an unshaken faith in woman to stand firm against such evidence.''

And, though Alice Renwick was silent, she appreciated tho fact nono tho less. Day after day she clung to her stalwart brother's side. She had ceased to ask questions about Captain Armitage and that strange greeting after the first day or two but, oddly enough, she could never let him talk long of any subject but that campaign, of his ride with tho captain to the front, of the long talk they had had, and then tho stirring fight and the magnificent way in which Armitage had handled his long skirmish line. He was enthusiastic in his praise of tho tall Saxon captain. Ho soon noted how silent and absorbed she sat when ho was the theme of discourse. He incidentally mentioned little things "he" had said about "her" that morning and marked how her color rose and her eyes flashed quick, joyful, questioning glances at his face, then fell in maiden shyness. Ho had speedily gauged the cause of that strango excitement displayed by Armitage at seeing him the morning he rode in with the scout Now ho was gauging with infinite delight the other side of the question. Then, brotherlike, he began to twit and tease her, and that was tho last of the confidences.

All the same it was an easer group that surrounded the colonel the evening he came dowiAvith the captain's letter. "It settles the thing in my mind. We'll go back to Sibley tomorrow, and as for you. Sergeant Major Fred, your name has gone in for a commission, and I've no doubt a very deserving sergeant will be spoiled in making a very good for nothing second lieutenant. Get you back to your regiment, sir, and call on Captain Armitage as soon as you reach Fort Russell and tell him you aro much Obliged. He has been blowing your trumpet for you there, and as some of those cavalrymen have sense enough to appreciate the opinion of such a soldier as my ox-adjutant—some of them, mind you I don't admit that all cavalrymen have sense enough to keep them out of perpetual trouble—you came in for a hearty indorsement and you'll probably be up before the next board for examination. Go and bone your constitution and the rule of three, and who was the father of Zebedee's children, and the order of the Ptolemies and the Selencidse, other such things that they'll.

sure to ask you as indispensable to the mental out lit of an ludian fighter." It was evident that the colonel was in joyous mood, but Alice was silent. She wanted to hear tho letter. He would have handed it to Frederick, but both Mrs. Maynard and Aunt. Grace clamored to hear it read aloud, so he cleared his throat and began: "Fred's chances for a commission ate good, as the inclosed papers will show you, but. even were this not the case I would have but one thing to say in answer to your letter—he should go back to his troop. 'Whatever our friends and follow citizens may think on tho subject 1 hold that the profession of the soldier is to the full as honorable as any in civil life, and it is liable at any moment to bo more usefnl. I do not mean the officer alone. I say and mean the soldier. As for me, I would rather be first sergeant of my troop or company or sergeant major of my regiment than any lieutenant in it except the adjutant. Hope of promotion is all that can make a subaltern's life endurable, but the staff sergeant or the first sorgoant, honored and respected by his officers, decorated for bravery by congress and looked up to by his comrades, is a king among men. The pay has nothing to do with it I say to

Renwick, 'Come baok as 6oon as your wound will let you,' and I envy him the welcome that will be his. "As for mo, I am even more eager to get back to you all, but things look very dubious. Tlio doctors shake thoir heads at anything under a month and say I'll be lucky if I cat my Thanksgiving dinner with you. If trying to get well is going to help, October shall not be dona with before company will report me present again. "I need not tell yoa, my dear old friend, how I rejoice with you in your —bum and haw and this is all about something else,'' goes on the colonel in malignant disregard of the longing looks in the oyes of three women, all of whom are eager to hear the rest of it and one of whom wouldn't say so for worlds. "Write to me often. Remember me warmly to the ladies of your household. I fear Miss Alice would despise this wild, open prairie country. There is no goldenrod here, aud I so often see her as—hum and hum, and all that sort of talk of no interest to anybody," says he, with a quizzical look over his "bows" at the lovely face and form bending forward with forgetful eagerness to hear how 'lie so often sees her.'' And there is a great bunch of goldenrod in her lap now and a vivid blush on her cheek. The colonel is waxing as frivolous as Fred and qui*e as great a tease.

And then October comes, and Fred has gone, aud the colonel and his household are back at Sibley, where the garrison is enraptured at seeing them, and where the women precipitate themselves upon them in tumultuous welcoma If Alice cannot quite make up her mind to return the kisses and shrinks slightly from the rapturous embrace of some of the younger and more impulsive of the sisterhood, if Mrs. Maynard is a trifle more distant and stately than was the oase before they went away, the garrison does not resent it. The ladies don't wonder they feel indignant at the way people behaved and talked, and each lady is sure that the behavior and the talk were all somebody else's—not by any possible chance could it be laid at the door of the speaker.

And Alice is the reigning belle beyond dspute, (hough there is only subdued gayety at the fort for the memory of their losses at tho Spirit Wolf is still fresh in the minds of the regiment But no man alludes to the events of the black August night no woman is permitted to address either Mrs. Maynard or her daughter on the subject. There are some who seek to be confidential and who cautiously feel their way for an opening, but the mental sparring is vain. There is an indefinable something that tells the intruder, "Thus far and no farther." Mrs. Maynard is courteous, cordial and hospitable Alice sweet and gracious and sympathetic even, but confidential never.

And then Captain Armitage, late in the month, comes home on crutches, and his men give him a welcome that makes the rafters ring, and he rejoices in it and thanks them from his heart, but there is a welcome his eyes plead for that would mean to him far more than any other. How wistfully he studies her face I How unmistakable are the love and worship in every tone! How quickly the garrison sees it all, and how mad the garrison is to see whether or not 'tis welcome to her! But Alice Renwick is no maiden to be lightly won. The very thought that the garrison had so easily given her over to Jerrold is enough to mantle her oheek with indign^pt protest She accepts his attentions as she does those of the younger officers, with consummate grace. She shows no preference will grant no favors. She makes fair distribution of her dances at the hops at the fort and the parties in town. There are young civilians who begin to be devoted in society and to come oat to the fort on every possible opportunity, and these, too, she welcomes with laughing grace and cordiality. She is a glowing, radiant, gorgeous beauty this cool autumn, and she rides aud drives and dances, and, the women say, flirts and looks handsomer every day, and poor Armitage is beginning to look very grave and depressed. "Ho wooes and wins not," is the cry.

His wound has almost healed^po far as the thigh is concerned, and his crutches are discarded, but his heart is bleeding, and it tells on his general condition. The doctors say I.e ought to be getting well faster, and so they tell Miss Renwick—at least somebody does—but still she relents not, and it is something beyond tho garrison's power of conjecture to decide what the result will be. Into her pretty white and yellow room no one penetrates except at her invitation, even when tho garrison ladies are spending the day at the colonel's, and even if they did there would be no visible sign by which they could judge whether his flowers were treasured or his picture honored above others. Into her brave and beautiful nature nono can gaze and say with any confidence either "she loves" or "she loves not." Winter comes, with biting cold and blinding snow, and still there is no sign. The joyous holidays, the glad New Year, are almost at hand, and still there is no symptom of surrender. No one dreams of tho depth and reverence and gratitude and loyalty and strength of the love that is burning in her heart until all of a sudden, in tho most unexpected aud astonishing way, it bursts forth in sight of all.

They had been down skating on the slough, a number of tho youngsters and the daughters of the garrison. Rollins was there doing tho devoted to Mamie Gray, and already thore were gossips whispering that she would soon forget sho ever knew such a beau as err old in the now found happiness of another ona Hall was there with the doctor's pretty daughter, and Mrs. Hoyt was matronizing tho party, which would, of course, have been incomplete without Alice. Sho had Iwwn skating band inbiuif witjl a dev^^^^^^Kbaltem in the artillery, an^^^^^Htage, whose leg was unequa^^^^^^H, had been ruefully admirii^^^^^^kaHe had persuaded gloat hbm, and

Sloat went, but The hollow mockery of the wholo thing becamo apparent to him after they had been watching the skaters awhile, and he got chilled and wanted Armitage to push ahead. The captain suid he believed his. leg was too •tuf for furtlier tramping ^nd would be better for a rest 'fid £D|&t left him.

Heavens, £owl.be'autlful she was, with her sparkling oyes and radiant color, glowing with the graceful exercise! He sat there on an old log watching the skaters as they flew by him and striving to keep up an impartial interest or an appcarance of it for the other girls. But the red sun was going down, and twilight was on them all of a sudden, and he could see nothing but that face and form. He closed his eyes a moment to shut out the too eager glare of the glowing disk taking its last fierce peep at them over the western bluffs, and as he closed them the same vision came back—the picture that had haunted his every living, dreaming moment since the beautiful August Sunday in the woodland lane at Sablon. With undying love, with ohangoless passion, his life was given over to the fair, slender maiden he had seen in all the glory of the Bunshine and tho goldenrod, standing with uplifted head, with all her loul shining in her beautiful eyes and thrilling in her voice. Both worshiping and worshiped was Alice Renwick as the sang her hymn of praise in unison with the swelling chorus that flouted through the trees from the little brown church upon the hill. From that day she was Queen Alice in every thought and he her loyal, faithful knight for weal or woe.

Boom went the sunset gun far up on the parade above them. 'Twos dinner time, and the skaters were compelled to give up their pastime. Armitage set his teeth at tho entirely too devotional attitude of the artilleryman as he slowly (ind lingeriugly removed her skates and turned away in that utterly helpless frame of mind which will Overtake tho strongest men on Similar occasions. He had been sitting too long in the cold and was chilled through and stiff, and his wounded leg seemed numb. Leaning heavily on his stout stick, he began slowly and painfully the ascent to the railway and chose for the purpose a winding path that was far less steop, though considerably longer, than the sharp climb the girls and their escorts made so light of.

One after, another tho giowing faces of the fair skaters appeared above the embankment, aud their gallants carefully convoyed them across the ioy and slippery track to the wooden platform beyond. Armitage, toiling slowly up his pathway, hoard their blithe laughter and thought with no little bitterness that it was a case of "out or sight out of mind,'' with him as with better men. "$Vhat sense waa thore in his long devotion to her? Why stand between her and the far more natural choice of a lover nearer her years? "Like unto like" was nature's law. It was flying in tho face of Providence to expect to win the love of one so young and fair when others so young and comely craved it. The sweat was beaded on his forehead as he ncared the top and came in sight of the platform. Yes, they had no thought of him. Already Mrs. Hoyt was half way up tho wooden stairs, and the others were scattered more or less between that point and the platform at the station. Far down at the south end paced the fur clad sentry. There it was an easy step from the track to the boards, and there, with much laughter, but no difficulty, the young officers had lifted their fair charges to tho walk. All were chatting gayly as they turned away to take the wooden causeway from the station to the stairs, and MiBS Renwick was among the foremost at the point where it left the platform. Here, however, sho glanced back and then about her, and then bending down began fumbling at the buttons of her boot. "Oh, permit me, Miss Renwick," said her eager escort. "I will button it" "Thanks, no. Please don't wait, good people. I'll be with you in an instant"

And so the other girls, absorbed in talk with their respective gallants, pass-

"0?i, permit me, MUs lienwick," said her eager escort. "I will button It." ed her by, and then Alice Benwiok again stood erect and looked anxiously but quickly back. "Captain Armitage is not In sight, and we ought not to leave hiin. He may not find it easy to climb to that platform," she said. "Armitage? Oh, he'll come on all right," answered the batteryman, with easy assurance. "Maybe he has gone round by the road. Even 11 he haan't, I've seen him make that in one jump many a time. He's an aotive old buffer for his years." "But his wound may prove too much for that jump now. Ah, there he comes," she answered, with evident relief, and just at the moment, too, the forage oap of the tall soldier rose slowly into view some distance up the track, and he came walking slowly down the sharp curve toward the platform, the same sharp curve continuing on out of sight behind him—behind the high and rooky bluff. "He's taken the long way up," said the gunner. "Well, shall we go on?" "Not yet," she said, with eyes that were glowing strangely and a voice that trembled. Her cheeks, too, were paling. "Mr. Stuart, I'm sure I heard the roar of a train echoed back from the other side." "Nonsense, Miss Renwick I There's no train cither way for two hours yet"

But she had begun to edge her way back toward I lie platform, and he could not but follow. Looking across the intervening spaco. a rocky hollow 20 feet in depth, he eould see that the captain had reached tho platform and was seeking for a good place to step up then that he lifted his right foot and plaoed it on the planking and with his cane and the stiff, wounded left leg strove to push himself on. Had there boen a hand to help him, all would have been easy enough, but there was none, and the plan would not work. Absorbed in his efforts, he could not see Stuart He did not see' that Miss Renwick had left her companions and was retracing her steps

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500 pes the best prints made In America, In" eluding Simpson black and gray mourn-tp lngs, worth 7c in any store, prloe per yd

Domestics.

The ready response of hundreds of shrewdcBt shoppers will be noticed In our domestlo department Here Is the reason why: Heavy brown cotton Uarinel, good value Olp at 12J^e, per yard....— °3« Blue und brown Denims worth 15c, In 4 this Bale, per yd Extra heavy blue and white stripe foithertlcklng worth T6«c, thissale per yd

8V4o. at

...

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50 pes long cloth 15 pes beautiful Thibet cloth tor wruppeie 100 TCS dress style ginghams 20 pes good style ducks, worth lip 10 tol2J4 all go In this stile, per yd 2^ 25 pus French Challles 20 pes best Swivel silks 25 pes best French Organdies, all worth 50c and 00c, all go in this sale, lp poryd

Bead the Wash Goods Prices.

no pcBPr ncess Cashmeres for tennis and! Hp outing costu mcs, wortli 15c, per vd. ..1 10 pes dark ground one-bait wool Clial- Oftf lies 30-ln. wide, wortli 25c, per yd

pes of our beBt Scotch zephj rs and French Novelty srfngham, all good values at C/ 25c, this sale, per yd

•!5 pes beautiful designs Satin black grounds 3'! inches wide, worth 12H cents, this

.Print Department,

100 pes white ground lawns with blaok and brown figures, tho usual 5 centa kind, this sale, per yd

L2Y

25 pes good calico like some aur neigh- Olf 5 cents for, In this sale, per ydll2v' 100 pee the handsomest designs cotton cbal ..

bora ask 5 cents for, In this sale, per yd ton this

lies we have ever sold, wortn sale, per yd 50 pes fancy prints 200 pes good prints worth 6 t» 7 cents, this sale, per

Indigo blue

vorth 5 to 7 cents, this sa

Promptness In Plumbing

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34 Inch wool casslmerea In gray and 0C_ brown mixed, worth 50c, In this sale... -50 pes hlue'and brown plaid shirting 24 pes Blaple check apron gingham worth Jy, 5e, ID this sale 50 pes fast color plaid shirting worth 64 20 pes good style domets 160.pcs best staple chcck ginghams, worth 8^c, In this salo ,, 100 pes 30-ln. heavy Bhlrtlng plaid, fast (. lr colors, worth 8Mc,ln this sale Johnson Book-fold gingham, staple cheek, extra lino, worth 12Me, in this

7c|

D-4 wide brown sheeting worth 16H, In 4 tlj sale Pepperrell brown and excellent bleach muslin worth 7K, In this sale, per yd FuLl yard wide brown muslin worth 5c, Qlat this sale '*2VLawronce JJ 38 (noli brown muslin, ilworth 0J4c, at....:. Cabot and Hope bleached muslin, worth

L10

I,onsdale,Mnsonvllle and Fruit bleached worth 10c Lonsdale cambric worth 12^jc at Uq

Bead the Domestic PnoeB.

1,000 cotton batts for comforts worth Cr 8'ic, In this sale 1,000 lbs. carpet wrap, all colors, 15c, 17 If white, this sale

White Goods and Linens.

The busiest corner in the store will be this department while this sale last9. The wherefore rests In these clearing sale prices: 20 pes extra fine dotted Swisses In pure white and solid shades, white with colored dots, tho same goods wo have sold 4 at 25c, this sale, per yara 10 dozen extra large brown Turkish towels: 25 dozen assorted linen towels 4 ill,, worth 15c to 20c at

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't speak of the weather, but of the highest grade Dry Goods, ,in many instances less than cost.

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50 dozen Turkey red napkins worth Cc 4« gtj at. 100 pes 10-ln. plaid glass crash red andfLlr blue check worth 12J4, go at...:..—u4*' 10 pes plaid and striped white goods, very proper for aprons and dresses all\ ftp the 15c and 20estyles goat

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5 dozen fine and large bleach and brown Turkish towels 20 dozen fine linen towels with colored borders, knotted Qr fringe, worth 25c to 35c................1 20 pes 18-ln Barnsley crash worth 12^0 at)SH 20 pes 16-inch Barnsley crash7lr. worth 10c at '2

Bead the White Goods and Linen Prices. 10 pes fancy plaid Turkey Red table llnOQp en 58-ln, wortli 31o, at 5 pes extra heavy 50c unbleached table1)Op linen 58 IncbOB wide In 8 designs at... Best 5-4 table oil cloth worth 20c, ,, 4

In this sale ..

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

Is a rare virtue, But we have it.

Successful Storekeeping

Does not mean gigantic profit—it jneans doing business—continually—constantly—|£}ling seasonable goods—even at a loss—before holding

•I

121 South Gr+en Street.

Next to THE JOURNAT. Building'.

(them

are successful storekeepers ^and will-sell thousands of dollars worth pft seasonable stuff at even less than cost, while you most want them.

Xhis i? lhe argument for the great

DISCOUNT CLEARING SALE-

Djress Goods.

In this sale we will offer some of the host values over °hown In this city. Our word as successful it •rekeepera backs this statement. 10 pes 38-ln wide all' wool strge, good shades 10 pos fancy novelty suiting formcry sold at 50c, in this sale, yard 50 pes Bngllsh worsted cashmeres In all shades In ludlng black, regular prlcef 25o, in this sale per yard

"Make flay While the Sun Shines." Is a maxim to be applied with peculiar force to the dry goods business. But "hay making" time is passed— now is Clearing Out time—and for the balance of the season 15 per cent, 20 per cent, 25 per cent and even „50 per cent will drop from the prices of every article in all our departments. Our patrons will buy cheaply. Our stock will be reduced. The object desired— turning merchandise into cash—will be accomplished.

Bead the Notion Prices.

Good stockinet dress shields worth 15c, at 7c. Born, dress stays, all lengths, worth 10c a dozen, at 4o.

Good quality spring curling. Irons worth 10c, at 0c. Adamantine pins, 200 In paper, 2 papers for lc.

Good quality safety pins, large size 2c a doz, small size lc. Pure castlle soap, floats on water, 2 oakes for 5c.

Nice while pearl button, all sizes, worth 10c a doMft At Bn. Large size satteen ties, all shades, worth 10c at 5o.

Your smallest wish Is as much thought of here ssyqur greatest desire—we peglect noth"foo good quality all bristle bone handle tooth brushes worth 15c, at 8c.

Large papers brass, mourning pins or steel with jet befits, wOrtli 6c at'2c. 500 yards spools basting thread worth 5c, 3 spools for 5c.

Best darning cotton, all colors and black, worth lOo a dozen 'Sa

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

"The Big Store." 127-129 E. Main St.

C. M. SCOTT,

Fire, Life and Accident

INSURANCE,

Real Estate and, Loan Agent. Agent for the Bartlett Bindery. Any weekly newspapers desired. Agent for the State Building and Loan./ tion of Indiana. Call on me for stamps, stencils, seals, house numj accident tickets. Office .over Kee: drug store, south. Washington OrawfordsTille, lnd.

over for ipany mo/itfyL We

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5 pes 50-ln wide black silk warp glorias! worth 65c, in this salo per yard 10 pes black silk grenadine worth ttl.OOJ Qr

In this sale per yard "i/v-

Bead the Dress Goods Prices.

lOpcs 34-tn fancy mixed suitings in grey and brown effects Worth 15c, lnA^lv, this sale per yard —V"4*Good yard wldeselesla and percallnes in alhm«des, worth 15c, In this

Ladies' Waistt.

All of our beautiful waists—of Miules, of lawns, of zephyrs, they 11 io at toe iolacount prices. 10 doz ladles.walsta In satin and pero?le

10 doz ladles'waists made of best percales.ao4.8j»MUS«afcSiSiaBLJ«' at 75c, go at

fioaierjT'

Uischof's way of doing the Is detjldedjy original Hosl bo sta(le'Bt"ck, perhaps It perlor traKlery gets a MVei clearing tale. 100 doz. ladles' fanoy stripe and hoot

colors worth

Bale

per

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.

bualocu poaadto jesasuattbe

pattern hosiery, nztri One gtniM In all shades and black bo&t XTOra 25cper pair gotft .. ....... 500 doz. ladles'. Mil hose In black, solid stripes 100 doz. men'

children's Lnd fancy

worth He to lQc, this 25 iloz. ladles'Usle shade and black regular U5c and 50c q! at.

ad hosiery .ViverT iy -embroidered. lallty la this sale2^g

50 doz. ladli-s' Misses' and Infants' hose In black and colors worth 25o In tills i)l„ sale at 25 doz. odds black hpae lu thlarsale.

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PrioM.

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,r.l°..'1,49c

50 doz. ladles' and Mlaaea' faat black, hosef Or. worth 2So at........... v. 5

Gloves and Mitts.

50 doz. damaged kid tfkfrtoa like we have offered so many timet before, and you fcTo MM

*490

50 doz. ladles' pure silk mitts,black, ourf)").. regular 35o quality In this tale at

J*-

Bead the (Hove Prioes.

Ladles' silk gloves, ?5o quality at 50c 1C_ 50c quality at 35e 350 quality at

fans, Ribbons ud liociery.

1,000 yds Jaoonet ombroldory, 8 inchest wide, in 20 P.atHW*JH»UrJ!0p «.«• •.1

,fc

•per folding fans rri'beautlfuinQ,,

grays and light shades. 15c gcods at. .u Bead the Prioea. About 500 yi all' silk ribbons, Nos. 4, fi,fl11„ 7 and l), wortit pc to i^o a yd at,.v.(.'...."i'-!'-

rwear.

The high quality'of our underwi exempt ttiefii from Ctearmifsklfe ir you are 3 styles ladles gauze vests,.short sleeves, low

Special 1_ mackintosh ends

does not I, so here

2 styles ladles'gAuze Veijf^'4Bort»teeTes. low neok, beau tit oily'UnlsMli .wtat^ SOc,4 9-. In this aide.: I

In this sale. .. Bead the Ifcderwwi Prion. .dies gauze vests,good quallty^ worth 104, at i, snort sleev

Men's gauze underweur th^.sag)* .excellent quality^we.naye teen'aelllhg at 35o, ln2^c

Umbrellaa.'

Also parasols—a very .considerable

100 extra quality glorla'KmBrellas with paraxon irauie and natural stick handles, an) ex^uest mioKftWStoMhtfl 4Q 11.50, and we sell them at 100 bept Kngllsh gloria. silk, umbrellaa fajt colorfiUtanlfctfckfMMie* with

O 4 4

cheap at 12.00, go at. $1 Bead the tynlmllft., PrioM. 50 English gloria silk umbrellas with fancy Lone, celliilMif'and'lbetal hand-f 4 7Q les, beautUul l2,5Q ifjm!roUaa at.,».,..$*a'

Also parasols at oost and less.

Borne Bpemalsi

10 doz men's domet shirts, light color and welght, alt sizes, that were 26c,are2f All our iieji's shirts in dometi'.^reaii* madras andoj^fo^s l^q%^Ti0c,are4 (K.

HOW ......... ....MM. ...........

Beadthe Prioesi

10 dozen ladles' |Llj aU worth 23c an

0«ttmw4,Qr»pNM*.

25 prs Chenille portlert with wide dados und heavy 1 rlnge, all shades,that ww«C4 0C 85.00, are now~.'...:.« ..-w........ ^tiu.A*^...iy,'«" 26 pes assorted curtain SwisssMBilirald. SS ered in various designs and'»«t 26o to 35o at..v.:..,..

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100 4-4 and 0-4 Chenille table tlieregular.76claudll.00good»j(i»at*'v100 pos best cietons worth 15c and 10 pes fancy oolors drapery satlnes 36-in.4A« worth

lofto,

are now.....mm

)0 Inch 36 Inch 30 inch ail for 78c aw..

100

BeadthpfraiiftJ.Pnoe*.

lUclraperHf that tatre-wtd 1 (L.

large site Bates breed spiwlUiatCV. are worth 11.25 at "w*"

ABSTRACT BQOKS,

A. C. Jennlson's abstract books oontaln a oopj of every deed of. reetndLtaevfrr tract of lana In the oountT. IfSfiVfEmaff unsatisfied mortiiiie^^^W^n^ma.

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