Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Hope, Bartholomew County, 12 May 1892 — Page 2

, VETERANS RECONCILED. Argonaut. It was nearly noon at a Western fort with a “mixed garrison,” an( l the morning drill and reading of the mail having been safely gone through with, everybody was waiting for something to to break the everlasting monopoly. Lieut. Tony Rucker came out of the rookery known as the bachelors’ quarters, and started jauntily down the officers’ line, bearing in his hand a kite constructed on the most approved plan as remembered by him, and in building which he had awakened many fond memories of “kite time,” to which, as a boy, he had looked forward with happy anticipation each year. He was immediately surrounded by the abundant supply of small boys from Qthe officers’ quarters, all of whom were anxious for the kite. He picked out young Arthur because the boy was so fond of sport and never cried when thrown from his pony, but ypung Smart, of the cavalry, lounging on the bachelors’ piazza, stirred up “Mr.” Dawdle of the infantry by remarking: “You’ll get left, Plebe, for there goes Toney bootlicking that boy again, and he is sure of an invitation to tea, and you know what that means.” “That boy” was the captain’s son, and the captain's wife had a young lady sister visiting her, whom Toney

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already escorted for a ride on a horse, much to the disgust of . who received a sweet good-by from the young lady, but was rendered furious at the parting 'hot of “so long, Doughboy, ' from oney. But this is all by play to the kite tory. Toney took out of his pocket ball,of twine borrowed from the .missary sargeant for the occas- , and straightened out the kite1, made out of old yellow stripes rj 4' o’ scouting trousers. Every'ing ready, he called out: ■r, ray son, and I will run r you, and then she belongs ? .on. started in quarter-horse lie, encouraged by frantie yells .in the boys; but, ,alas! just as Arm’s young anno was ta<»vrily ap’ing from the piazza the kite ..need to duck in the most coway, and the faster Tommy ran me it ducked. itnpen’s the matter,’’ said the -’s son. t got the right sort o’ tail,” ,er; “tie a rock to her,” and dlar pieces of advice came le boys at once, time the piazzas were filled ators and the men waiting ill sallied out on the bares to see the fun, when uffy started toward the ’ n t important air which conorng to “one of the dl-i O .vons, before the oney. you want to shortcenter bridle and make on the wind like this,”

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>]or, taking hold of f is puzzling his mind •ould get more kite " g up his only extra ed and remaked: lat do you know ay?” r had always been 9y and showed it X with him, while ting dignity in all the subal■;man’s nerves ken for a few ry colonel and al commanduose demned —had added ling him an ore governte conveyairy reompletely,

and ho was on the point of venting ins rage on him when who of ail others should come strolling out but the commanding officer himself. He who had won his stars for bravery and conspicuous services from Perrybille to Resaca certainly ought to know all about kites. The excitement on the parade was too much for the old gentleman, and dismissing his orderly to dinner, he raised his sun-umbrella, and remarked to his excellent spouse: “I will go and show them how to put up a kite.” The very idea seemed to make him young again, and he threw out his chest and squared his shoulders as if he were going to take a new lease of life. He joined the group around tho kite, and Maj. Stuffy braced himself pompously and saluted with an air which plainly said: “I’ll stand me ground, be gad, sir!” “How do you do, Mr. Rucker?” said the general, blandly; “I see that your kite don’t work right, and —- —” “It will be all right in a moment, sir; I have sent the troop tailor for more tail.” “But, Mr. Rucker, when I was a boy [he retires for old age next year] we never made long tails; you just split the pieces you have and tie some knots in them. Then shorten up the bridle and make her stand so — ’ “just what 1 told the general,” said the major eagerly, “and he insulted me, sir! yes, sir, this youug

fellow that has not been in the service ten years, sir, asked me what did I know about kites, sir!” Now Major Stuffy had been avoiding the general ever since he had received the communication about the horses, and had even declined invitations to several garrison affairs for fear of meeting him, but he was greatly soothed when the general turned and said: “Why, major, I am astonished, sir! Mr. Rucker, what do you mean, sir, by speaking to Major Stuffy in this way, sir. An old man and valued officer of your own regiment, too, sir. I will not allow such things in my garrison, sir!” “But, general, I did not intend to hurt the major’s feelings. I guess I don’t know much about kites, anyway, boys, so you take it out behind the barrack and fly it to suit yourselves.” said Toney in a hopeless kind of way. “It will not go unless you change the bridle, as suggested by the major.” said the general. “And split the tail and knot it, as the general explained, boys,” said the major. Toney left the two old veterans, and as he entered the bachelors’ quarters he was uttering maledictions on the “old duffers” who had spoiled all his plans. The sudden disappearance of Toney and the boys left the two old gentlemen alone on the parade, and the whole garrison was enjoying their dilemma. The general hemmed and hawed a moment and said: “By the way, major, about that horse order; you know these young

lieutenats have an idea that they can | use ambulance and government animals whenever they choose, and I am determined to teach them a lesson; of course I did not intend the order to hold in your case; some consideration must be shown to long and valuable service, sir, and want you to understand this matter.” Major Stuffy extended his hand warmly to the general and said: “I am glad you mentioned, general; but of course I understood the matter perfectly. These young snipe are too presumptuous, anyway, and think they are entitled to all the consideration due old officers.” One of these “young snips” was struggling to pay up the bills contracted when his daughter was married, and another was incessantly engaged in short division in the effort to provide for the wants of his four boys.

The two veterans strolled away together in the direction o£ the clubroom, followed by several officers from the row, who were interested in the reconciliation. As the major threw open the door and followed the general in, he smiled benignantly on the old habitues, and said: “Come, gentlemen, join us in a bottle of wine.” Of course the invitation was accepted, for since the major had quit going on little “frolics,” as he called them, in deference to the temperance ideas of the young snips, all recognized this as some special occasion. The major busied himself in seeing that “Tubs” neglected no one, and talked in the most amiable way concerning the magnificent weather and the fine post the general had built up. “This reminds me of old days in Texas, gentlemen, when the dragoons—” he was saying, when his Loyal Legion button fell off and got into a convenient knot hole under the billiard table. Before he recovered from his efforts to secure the rolling button, the general, with the air of Sir Roger de Coverley, removed his own little emblem, and said: ‘‘Major, let me present you with this as a memento of this most pleasant occasion.” While the major was still overcome by this graceful move the general wished them all a pleasant time and escaped to his quarters. The news spread around that the major was having a birthday, and even Toney

Rucker put away bis wrath when the orderly came to ask his presence at theclubroom. “Tubs” was kept busy during the afternoon attending to the spiritual needs of the ever-in-creasing throng, for with each new arrival the major would say: “What a fine gentleman the general is; it was the neatest thing you ever saw sir! Why, he actually took this button from his own breast and presented it to me, by gad, sir! and we will drink to his health, gentlemen!” That evening, as the major and Toney, arm in arm, wended their winey way to their quarters they passed young Dawdle on the walk with the captain’s wife's sister, making hay while the field was clear. The garrison wore a genial smile for several days over the episode in their lives, and even the old repeaters in the guardhouse actually stopped hauling cordwood long enough to let the cart mule enjoy a horse laugh. The Age of Organization. New York Weekly. New Boarder—Well! well! This is the first place I’ve struck where they have preserved strawberries and peach jam instead of stewed prunes. Old Boarder —All owing to organization, my boy. Us boarders have a mutual protective association, with iron clad rules and heavy penalties: “Oh. ho! You kicked against the prunes, did you?” “Not much we didn’t. We passed a law that whenever prunes came on the table every member should eat a quart or pay a fine of $10. That settled it. The landlady found prunes too expensive.

I An Old Chestnut. One of the old stories is that in the year 1619 two councilors of Chi-istian IV. of Denmark while sailing between Norway and Sweden discovered a merman swimming about with a bunch of grass on his head. They threw out a hook and line bated with a slice of bacon, which the merman seized. Being caught, he threatened vengeance so loudly that he was thrown back into the sea. Good for the Geese. A hawk Hying over the premises of G. W. Fly the, near Buck Creek, Ga., chanced to see a goose grazing afar off from the flock. Thinking this would make him a nice meal, he flew down and attempted to carry the goose off to his long home- But the goose resisted, and the other geese hearing his cries flew to the rescue, and the hawk soon lay dead upon the ground.

INTO A RAVINEA Horrible Wreck on the Santa Fe Railroad. A Through Express Fell Through a Itrictge at MfldUl, Mo.—Many Killed and Wounded. A horrible wreck occurred on the Atchi son, Topeka & Santa Fo railroad near Medill, Mo., on the 5th by falling through a bridge. An official statement made at the Santa Fe general offices gives the following list reported killed and Injured In the wreck: Killed—Lon Markle, Kansas City, Mo.; Luther Cornelius, Klrksvllle, Mo.; S. E. Berkley, Westport. Mo.; John C. Groues, Macon, Mo.; one Iady° and two children names not known. Injured—P. C. Cowfing, Chicago, 111.; J. C. Winslow, Chicago, III.; N. Lancaster, Chicago, 111.; Mrs. Jane Hisey, Riverside, III.; Martin Regal, brakomau; J. F. Hartgen, Reading, Pa.; W. Allen, Athens, Pa.; Mrs. E. T. Allen, Athena, Pa., Wll* Adams, Dewsbersy, Yorkshire, England; H. M. Cutler, Chicago, 111.; A. Ruban, express messenger; Robert Shultz, Lexington Junction, Mo.; one Italian woman and child, names unknown. The fated train was the through California express, which left Topeka at 3:40 Wednesday afternoon, Rear Revere tho train struck a pile trestle bridge, which had been washed out of line. Just as the locomotive reached the opposite bank and the rear Pullman stood over the other end of tho bridge, the rest of tho train wont through to the river, thirty-six feet below. The wrecked cars were the engine, baggage oar. coach, chair car, tourist sleeper and one Pullman. The dead and injured have been taken to Ft. Madison. FOREIGN. Martial law has been proclaimed in Brazil. Russia is massing troops on the Polish frontier. The labor question will figure largely in the coming English elections. The Russian government has offered $100,000 rubles reward for the detection of the publishers of anarchist pamphlets. In which the Czar is blamed for the famine and misery prevailing In parts of the empire. Baron Fava, the Italian minister to the United States, has started on his way to Washington. He will be a passenger on the steamship Normannla, which loaves Southampton on May 7. The engagement of Count Herbert Bismarck and the Countess Margaret Hoyas is announced from Flume. The Countess is the granddaugnter of Robert Whitehead, inventor of the Whitehead torpedo, and is said to bo wealthy. China will requestor England a renewal for six months of the prohibition of the exportation of arms to Hong Kong, made in consequent!) of the Mason affair. The request for renewal will be due to tho activity of secret societies. Advices from South Africa show that locusts are ravaging the country. A swarm of the insects six miles wide recently passed over the country near Grahamstown, aCape Colony. They were flying seaward. The meal crop in the Orange Free State has been destroyed by locusts. The biography which Deeming is writing in prison at Melbourne deals at length with the killing of Mrs. Deeming and the four children at Rain Hill. The governor of the Jail, who has seen the manuscript, says that the story [is written in an incoherent way. The expedition to leave England on the 1st of June to explore a hitherto unknown portion of tho Dark Continent will be led and entirely equipped by William Aster Chanter, a young American, known to all interested in African exploration from his daring trip through Masailand around Mount Killma Njaro some three years ago. Mr. Chanlor is the son of the late John Winthrop CUanler, and a grandson of the famous Sam Ward. The expedition has as its objective point a section of Africa which, owing to tho inveterate hostility of the inhabitants, has defied the most persistent endeavors of all explorers' It is even a terra incognita to the Arab slavers and Somali traders. Thomas Hopkins, of Rochester. N. Y., went homo drunk and hacked his wife with a hatchet. His daughter was also struck while trying to stay the hand of tho would-be murderer. Thomas ended his spree and life at the same time by drawing a razor across his throat. Mrs. Hopkins may live. At Keokuk, la., Wednesday, Jacob Mefford sued his divorced wife for breach of promise. They were divorced a few months ago and were to have been remarried May 15, He discovered that she will be married soon to another man, and he now seeks a legal balm for his wounded affections. In the immigration investigation at New York, Superintendent Weber admitted that some emigrants escape from ship without undergoing inspection. O’Donovan Rossa said that when he was in an English prison tho convict thieves and burglars told him they were to be sent to America after serving their terms. Mrs. S. H. Bradley, wife of a prominent attorney of Guthrie, Okla., met a horrible death at the railway station. She was bidding farewell to a friend in one of the cars and attempted to get off the car while it was in motion. She fell under the wheels in such a manner that her head was severed from her body as cleanly as if the decapitation had been made by an executioner’s as.

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