Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1884 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1884

TOH BROOKS'S CHRISTMAS EYE. J

A True Story Told by the Light of a Miner's Camp-Firo. BT ROB T.OT. At the head cf a gnlch tbe boys 'had conitractcd a "dcby," by hewing down the sides and the head, with a chimney-Beat niched In the latter, to that the south end was the only part built op. Timbers across the top, Iron aide to side, thatched with torf, formed the roof, while the one door in the aouth end was made by drawing hides over a rough frame. No brown-stone front waa evermore admired by its owner tbaa was our doby hense by its builders. We bad rnn it up after getting the shaft down at the new lode, against the return ol Brooi?, who had started for Cenver on the 13th. to be back with part cf the iron work for the plant, by the 21th, also oar mail and a lot of Christmas extras, Crocks was the bos3, and deserved to be. J Le coys, to a man, g'orified the big luck "old Ti m" had struck, which madehira first owner of this nd two other rich placer lodes. He was not rough in epeech or nianaer, though he bad been mining since '54 over twenty years and had several scars from having been too near tbe red skins, and otie xu&ae by & ile.iican'a knife, lie was iix feet two, square-shonldered, heavy-handed and strong; bnt be had blue eves and a tender hfart. There was something from a long way back in Iiis life over which he still kept up a stltnt funeral. At times, when the camp was in high cheer, and when he seemed as jolly as the rest, & shadow would drift cress bis face, as a hazy cloud sometimes floats over a radiant moon, bat the shadow crly softened his cheerfulness, rendering him. somehow, more attractive. He cerer preached nor lectured, bat neither did be swear cor drink, though he sometimes heard e rrngh of the one and saw enough of the other that was Tom Brooks. It waa a winterisb evening np there on the tide of the mountain, and being Christmas eve the boys gathered early about the fire in the doby eieven of ns in all. It had been voted to wait supper till Urooks should arrive. He f aid he would be with us that night, and there wasn't a tinner of us who wouldn't have wagered a week's digging that he would keep his word. Five cf the boys eit around a barrel at a poker game. oi.e w&s writing a letter and another mending a ccat. Lila and MacAlpine, who, from hazing been cn opposite sidea in the war of 'Cl-5, were now the truest of partners, were preparing for a smoke. "Let me fill yon np from my pouch, Mac," raid Lile, taking MacAlpine's pipe from him and walking to a chest in a remote corner. A miaute or two later MacAJpine's heavy beard was clouded with smoke, as with legs comfortably crossed be settled himself to his one real enjoyment in life. Of a sudden a dash and a wbzzmg sound broke on us, and we saw MacAlpine's pipe ten feet awny. In a corner, the stem still between his teeth. There was a thont of laughter when the boy3 caught cn to Lile' a joke: He had pnt in a small charge of gunpowder in the bowl of the pipe. "Well, I thonpht you had gotten kind all at once! All right! 1 owe you one against next Cbrictmss eve,:' said MasAlpine. "And I hope, old fellow, you'll run into enough pay gravei, before that time, to play such a hand aa John Lindsay did last Cbri-n-maa eve then 3 on can forget this det " answered Lile, striding Mac Alpine heavily on tre shoulder. "What was Lindsay's game?" asked Joe Hutchison, throwing his car J3 to the centre, having failed to catch a pair. "Well. I don't know particular?, nor does any, out here, but Brooks; but it wa? lightning a straight flash against four aews, at the leest I could tell that from old Tom's eyes when he came back, after seeing it played Lindsay's wife and blind baby were stakes." "Ah! sort of gush game then won't he give it away?" asked Luke Barr, as he raked in a pot. "io more than he will why he left o(T being a lawyer, in a city, to break rock and become target for Indian bullet, 2,'JOO iriles from tome," answered Dan Roe, another cf the players, and the oldest of our camp cf tributers. "A 'Frisco man Wd, oat at theEnama, when I was d'ggiDg there,"said Jerry Bowles, Icoking up from his writing, "that Brccks bad a home he would have bet on as being eolid. Bat returning to it once from a little trip he found it all tumbled into ruin. He had it oat with the man on the spot and left him badly hurt. The home coald be heme to him no longer so he just packed his gripstck and bolted and has nevex been hack there since." "Helloa!" came a call from toward the lode, 200 yards down the gulch; helloa!'' was answered back by eleven voices. "It's Brocks!" "It's old Tom! ' "It's the boss!" was severally exclaimed, as, dropping whatever was in band, every man made for the door, from which all struck out in a run over the snow. IL Brooks was two hours ahead of the wagons, which were following up the mountain in the moonlight. While 'Chung," our Celestial cook, was preparing 6upper, the boys read letters from home, those who received any and 'most all did. That waa. always a quiet time in our camp a sacred hour it eeemed, soinenowwhen across long distances mothers and sisters, maybe, were talking to us; and it being Christmas eve, made ns realize our distance the more, and carried us over it on tender recollections of the old firesides and many a happier evening than this around them. While the boys were reading Brooks Fat in front cf tbe fire, which was welcome to him after bis cold rida.lookJng through the flame, it seemed, at something awav beyond it. The shadow I have told of as on his face; a reflect Ion, like, from a heavy though far distant cloud of sorrow, softened by a silvery light of patience. He was tracing over in memory some picture of happiness, now faded and gone from him forever. Tbe Celestial's announcement of supper called tfce boys around tbe rough table. Each on recited some item his letter, or letter, contained, all listening with eacred, Christmas eve attention to the news from every home. "John Lindsay chips in good wishes for the whole table,"eaid Mac A I pine, who was the last te speak. "And the beat luck back to him for not for-gtt-g old chums," responded Lile. "And l." k here, old man," he continued, placing his roogh hand on Brooks' arm, "we want the racket you were on a year ago to-night. What d'you say boys ain't I callin the right turn? "You must deal, you see' he addsd after the chorus in approval of his motion hud sounded. "All right, boys; I will bank for you. ome to the Ere," said Brooks aa he moved from the table. Bat the game was interrupted; the wagons had arrived. An hour later the boys were again around the fire, bnt for another purpose; one of he holiday extras a keg of whisky was ton the table, and every man except Brook had a loaded cup in hand. "Boys," said Lile, "we'll drink to John Lindsay, one o the very best ia it a go?" "Hold there, Lile!" Brooks interrupted, "my story was first in order. Will you oblige me, boys, byhearing it before you drink to our absent;friend." Wcuii we? Ol course one would; and for that matter would have have d uy thing else to oblige old Tom kind, generoas, it spoken old Tom. The boys were seated moit of them withjenps tili in hand, reat ing on their knees. IIL "I relate to-nteht, for the first lime," baBrooks, "the circumstances by which John, Lindsay and I came to know ech rther. They date from two years, 0, today. "Yon who were then with me remember

that I went to EL Louis tbe middle of December after machinery for a plant Ileit there on my return trip, on the night of the twf nty-third, by the North Missouri railroad. The weather was qaite cold, and I looked out the window from my berth in the sleeping car, next morning, upon four inches of enow. It was yet more than two hoars before breakfast, and I went from the sleeper to the second class car for a smoke. I found an uncccupitd seat, and was, for a while, the only person looking out upon the broad (jpanseof snow-covered prairies, dazzliag under the rays of the rising sun. On tho seat in front of mine a man was stretched, his head to the side of the car, who slept loneer tbaa most of his fellowpafseegtrs. When be finally roBe it was with a convulsive bound, as if the seat had thrown him upward. Tbe glance which took in his surroundings bad in it an expression Of affright. When repeated he shuddered nervously, and I noticed lar-?e be3da of perspiration on his brow. Moving restlessly on bis seat, he presently looked shyly in my direction, whin I taw that he was wretchedly bleated; he had evidently been drinking löng and beavilv. Hut beneath indications of bsottedness, there was that in his expression or manner, or both, which bespoke kind qualities of heart, a better life in a by-gone time, and mortification over bis then degraded condition. Occe when my eyes net bis own, be turned his face quickly away. Once he lelt his seat and walked unsteadily to the rear door of the car, looking dawn aa if ashamed to meet any humin face. Beturning to his seat be was quiet for a minute, but not still äis bands keeping up a nervous writhiDg. At It njth he tamed, facing me, and esked if I bad anything to drink. I told him I had not, but in so answering cLanctd to look across the aisle to a man whom 1 bad noticed drinking from a bottle soon after I entered tbe car. His eyes, following mine, had no poorer met with their craving look thoe of tbe nan with the bottle, than the latter handed it to him. He clutched it, and raising it to his lips, drank as one parched with thirst would drink wate. cot Btopping an til he bad emptied the bottle. "Only when he had lowered it from his lit s did he appear to realize the gross n ess of bis impoliteness. The constrained manner in which he held the bottle, knowing tbe owner to be awaiting it, and yet ashamed to return it empty, male a ludicrous picture. T hen, at ler gth, he placed it in the hand ei tended from across the aisle he heard some uncomplimentary epithets from the other man. Bat bad certain death been the assured consequence of his emptying the bottle, I do not believe he could have removed it from his lips until the last drop had been swallowed. Bed as was his face from dissipation, a deeper fluth suffused it when the man across the aisle spoke so harshly to him, and turning to the window he eat for some time wringing his hand", as he had done before. At length, however.he faced me, and spoke: " 'Do you not drink, air?' he asked. " 'Not now,' 1 answered hiia. "'Did you ever drink." " 'Yea " 'How did you quit it?' he inquired in an imploring way. " 1 Why, I only resolved that I would not drink, snd kept my resolution.' "His head inclined lower as he Bai J in a forlorn inane er, nore as if in soliloquy than as speskitg to rue: " I have resolved not to drink, too, a thousand time?, but I coali not can not quit, and it has brought ruin to all.' "1 leaned a little nearer to him and asked if he had a family. ' 'Yes, he answered, 'a wife and two cl ilJ en. Baf I left them two month ago without any means for their "-ort. Five years ago I waa a sober mat. li.-mm in business and owning a comfortable boxe. I crank the roof from over the heads of my children, drank my old father into poverty, and he now his my family as well as his own to toil for.' He waa under painfnl agitation. " 'Did yon notice "that I was frightened from sleep just now?'' he asked. I told him I bad observed that. " 'I had a shocking dream. I hofe it waa only a dream,' he continued; 'I saw my wife begging and heard my two children crying for bread. That wa what startled me; my children's cries, and oh, sir, one of them is blind. I heard my little Annie my blind darling crying for bread." "You see, boys, I was right; that besotted S3 he was, the man was not bad at heart, and seeing this I, just as cither of you would have done, sympathized with him more deeply than before, and raid to myself: I will straighten this man up; I will do this for the sake of his blind child." Lile, who was sitting a little removed from the table, here rose and 6et bis cup upon it. Joe Hutchinson's red face appeared as if essaying a contortion act, which he sought to bide from observation by turning it from the fire and blinking his eyes at the wall. Lile resumed his seat, and Brooks continued. "I will pa?s over the farther incidents of the day's travel and take you to the Wyoming he tel. Omaha, to which place John Lmdsay had sn emigrant ticket, and where I was to stop for two weeks. He haying no n.or.ey, I engaged a large room and had him share it with me, that I might keep him under observation. By encouraging talk, I had persuaded him to make one effort more, to shake oil' the habit which bad cost hint so dearly. He had been wretched during the day from a craving for drink, but at night be talked to me of Lis wife and children, whom he loved fondly, however much his neglect ot them Eight indicate the contrary. After he was asleep I wrote to his wife you know his Lome is in Virginia telling ol his resolution to straighten up and Bugge ting that fihe strengthen his resolve by a letter to him in my care. "Ibe next morning he was up quite early, and when I awoke was dressed and standing at a window overlooking Farnhani etrest, which was already noisy from merrymaking of Christmas morning. Snowballs were dying, borna blowing, and fireworks popping an accompaniment to the gleeful shouts of boys at play. A sleigh drawn by a pair of prancing ponies, whose quick st3p kept the bells in a perpetual jangle, came down the street, driven by a father whose two little daughters, wrapped in warm furs one on each Eide of him were clapping their wee gloved hands in their delight at the merry ride. Boor Lindsay looked on this scene, and as he contrasted it with the picture of his own children on that momingofChrist's natal day, with no presents and their father not at home to make glad their hearts, his lips quivered and tears followed each other in rapid succession down his face. He turned to eee if I was awake, and believing that I was net, he knelt before the window and in whispered utterances-but I overheard themprayed Heaven for strength to keep the resolution he had formed, and for its blessings on bis loved ones." 'Tom. didn't yon give the poor devil a lift?" asked grizz'y Dan Hoe, with a tear balanced on the bridge of his nose. "Boys, I had not said a prayer in years, but Bines Dan has asked it, I did draw my head under the coyer and offer up a few words on his account" "I'm glad you did," says Dan; "I would have done it out loud if I had been there." "John Lindsay was with me dann the holidays," continued Brooks, "and like a true man kept his resolve. One day a gentleman approached where we were standing and asked change for a $100 bill. I could not accommodate him, and he walked off with the money in hand, which Lindsay looked at it with wistful eyes. I inquired what he would do with such a bill if he had it. I would send it to bay bread and dressing for my dear ones, he answered. "That tame afternoon a singular piece of good fortune occurred to him. He and I were standing near the railway passenger station from which three trains had just started for Chicago by as many different roads, when I chanced to drop my cane. It fell near Lindsay's feet. As he picked it np, 'IOok here, Mr. Brooks, he exclaimed, and with the cane he held np a f 100 bill. Wtero did you gat that?' I asked In aurprie. 'I found it there.' he answered, pointing to the groand. 'I am glad ' I said

I to sum, 'and you can clainl it, f or no one j 1 . ' .. -

walked this way except passengers who are tow en route to Chicago, so yon can never ascertain the loser.' " "I'll bet a pound of dust I shook hands to-night with the passenger who lost the bill," exclaimed Luke Barr, "I know j on." " 'Keep oniet, Lukeremonstrated Brooks, 'and do not risk your dust on an uncertainty.' After a minute Lindsay catuht me by the arm. 'My prayer is answered,' be said; 'my family needs this come quick!' and he pulled me after him, almost on a run An hour later, when he had expressed tbe money to his wife, John Lindsay was the hf.ppiest roan in Omaha. "On New Year's evening a letter reached me from Mrs. Lindsay, and enclosed with it was one for John. I carried both to the room where he waa doing some writing for me." Brooks paused for a moment the shadow again rested on his face. Again the far away look was tracing tbe picture of happiness that Lad faded out of his life. "Boys," be resumed, "when you are wedded, may each pcsesa a wife but approaching in grandeur of character the woman who wrote those letters. Dispite bis dissipation and hii desertion of her, despite all tne suffering he had caused her, she still clung to him, hoping and praying for his reformation. I remember one part ot her letter to him. 'Be steadfast in your good resolve my dear husband, it read, if not on your own account, for the sake of our children ; for your little Annie, who never forgets, but is continually talking of you. One night it was the 21th 1 woke about midnight to rind Annie kneeling in bed, her sightless eyes raised Heavenward, her little hands clasped and uplifted. 'Good God, she prayed, 'send back to me my papa.' She lay dowa, not knowing that I had heard her priyer, aad was soon sweetly sleeping again. The next day, Christmas, we had a scanty dinner. In which I apologized to the children, telling them of the need of economizing on our little store of provisions, when Annie said, 'we will not need to do tbat loEj?,;marnma.' I asked why she said that. 'Last night,' she answered, 'while you were asleep, I prayed to God, and He told me papa was coming home again, bringing with him whole bushels of nice things to rat, and trunks fall of pretty dresses.' There was a scene in our room, boys, while that letter was being read, we both broke down in trying to read it aloud." By this time the cups the boys had been holding had Bomehow become too heavy for their knees, and one by one been set on the table. Three or four other faces were Imitating Joe Hutchinson's in the contortion line and were turned to the walls. MacAlpine was puffing like a small engine, seemingly not aware that he was making no smoke, the fire having gone out from his pipe minutes before. Brooks, who had risen for a drink of water, returned to hia camp fctool and resumed: "Of Lindsay's coming to the mines with roe you all know, and of his life, for nearly a j ar with us, how &e worked and saved, hj C what a valuable assistant I bad in him. SoieLow, that little blind child and tbat true-hearted wife ot his were forever before me. It it as for them that, as yon know, I made him my partner in the Pelican lede, tbe eale of which brought him in 28,000. He had sent home $100 every month, hia last remittance going off cn the 10th of last December, just as he and I started East We journeyed together to New York, where I Btopped; he went directly on to Baltimore to make some purchafes he had in view. I spent an boar with him in that city on the night of the 21st. "On the morning of the 22d, a stranger, who bad just arrived in the little town where Lindsay's family lived, enquired the direction to the place which had once been Lindsay 's home. Recent painting and other renovations had made the premises very pretty, which the stranger remarked to the owner, who chanced to be standing at the pate. The stranger asked if the place was for sale; the owner answered that it was. The price was asked and promptly named $1,(00. Would the owner, on payment of that sum, give possession that same afternoon ? He would. The owner was invited to walk to a lawyer's office. The owner didn't move his eyes off the stranger during that walk nor the succeeding half hour; he wai almost sure he was looking upon an escaped lnnatic. He was sure of it when he and the lawyer were required to pledge themselves not to reveal the name of the real purchaser to any person before Christmas raorn, iDg. But those two were the daft faces when, as the money was laid befere them, the name was given to whom the deed should be made. "Early the following day wagons broozht from tbe railway station the household goods Lindsay had purchased in Baltimore, which comprised parlor, bed-room and kitchen furniture, carpets (already made up) and full supplies for the pantry. These goods bore a fictitious shipping address which I had assumed for the purpose of Lindsay's plane. "Lindsay was still at she mines, but earning a comfortable support, was what hia wife believed, and told to friends, and so a neighbor of the family said to a heavily bearded man by whom he was seated on the train which at 0 o'clock that night, the 23d, drew up at the station. The neighbor, who left the car by the front, did not notice that he with tbe heavy beaid went out from the rear door. Yithout stopping to ask any directions, the latter person walked directly to the home, which tbe day before had changed ownership, and aa be stepped upon the threshold Lindsay received from my band the deed which made the home agiin his own." As Brooks paused Lile uttered a shout that

might have been heard a mile away. "Excute me, boys," he apologized, "but I wanted Lindsay to hear bow glad we are over it. No let up. there, old man; give us the whole lay ort," Brooks resumed: "Lindsay.mid he wanted to see hia wife's happiness at being installed in the old borne again, before he disclosed himself. Tbe plan required this one more night of separation from her, so we sat smoking and talking till near midnight, as we had donemanyanight before in the camp. The next day, Christ mas eve, was bright and cold, a light enow sovering the ground. The cook, a former servant of Mrs. Lindsay's, had no suspicion of who the bearded man was, under whose direction she set the house in order. I went out to purchase a horse for the carriage, which had not yet been moved from the depot. When I returned everything was disposed as though a family already occupied the house. Two little chairs were in the sitting room, two high chairs at the dining table, while toys lay here and there as if children had but now been at play. A large music box on a table in the sitting-room bore a plate with an Inscription in raised letters. Trunks filled with dress goods occupied tbe best bedroom, over the mantel in which hung a portrait of the wife, enlarged from a photograph she had mailed to him months before. 'ur great perplexity was aato how we should get the family to the house. We finally settled on the following device: I wrote a note to Mrs. Lindsay disguising my hand and signing the name assumed tor receiving tbe eroods telling her I had a fnend just arrived from the mine, bringing messages and presents from Lindsay for his wife, children and parents, to be delivered to each in person, and asking that they use the carriage to call immediately, if only for a few minutes. When it was almost dark I sent the carriage, another former servant of John's driving, with the note. Fires blazed brightly in every grate; the cook, busy with preparations for sapper for seven, was softly crooning one of the familiar melodies darkies sing so musically, while Lindsay, counting the moments, walked the fioor of the sittin room. At length the carriage retained. From another room to which he had retired, he saw bis wife enter, conducting the blind girL Hl younger child followed, with hia parents. When tbey wre seated Annie in ber mother's lap I went for John, andiutrodaced him Dy your name, Bee."

"Thank yon; I wish I'd been there with my name," said Roe. " 'I caw your husband a week ago and was intrusted by him with a few articles for his family;' be spoke measuredly, disguising his voice. A wistful face was raised toward his own, listening intently to his words though ehe could not see him. One glance at it was too much lor the father's composure. He turned abruptly away, but returned a moment later with the music box. "Here is something for Annie," he said. Again her face was lifted toward his as the slender arms were extended. Her delicate fingers ran over the raised letters: "From Papa to Annie" she read, and then, "It is a music box just what I love; mamma, I have a present this Christmas, haven't If Again Lindsay's emotion compelled his retreat, j covered his turning oil by banding his wife the deed to the home; "here is something will interest yon madam," I said. While she, with confused face began reading the paper, Lindsav leaned over his little boy to explain a toy he had taken possession of. At his first words of explanation I noticed a singular expression come over the blind child. Her bead was bent toward him, her lips parted; she looked to be listening with every nerve of ber body strained. When be spoke again her bands clasped each ether and a nervous trembling seize! her. The mother dropped the paper and Lindsay impulsively asked, as be sprang toward her, "What ails the child?" 'Yes, yesl it is I knew it-my papa, my tapa!' and bounding from her mother's arms the blind child was caught up to her father's heart The discuise was quickly torn from his face, and John Lindsay, with bis child clisgiug to bis neck, knelt at the side of his rejoicing wife to receive the caresses she rained upon him. The sged mother looked down on tbe scene with claeped Lauds, enraptured face and etreamirjgeyes; the old father's lips quivered with emotion, but only I the blind child conld speak. 'Mamma,' she said, 'did I not say Uod told me so; that papa was coming home again? And here he has come.' "There, boys, my story is ended; now you can return to your cups." Lile came to his feet and catching np Brooks's right hand shook it in silence, a reverential lock upon his face. Then taking up his cup he took out the bung, poured the contents of the cup into the keg and set the cup again on the table. Luke Barr followed Lite's example, then Joe Hutchison, whose red face was redder than ever, but now entirely out of contortion. In three minutes every cup had been emptied into the keg except old Dan lloe's, who, taking his in hand said, "here's to John Lindsay, the wife and the blind child," and so saying emptied the liquor on the fire. In the light of the bla7.e made by the burning flu'd I locked at Tom Broekä's face, It wa3 radiant as a sunbeam. Written for tbe Sentinel. THE PRIDE OF BARLOW GKEES$

A Rouacce of Militia Life ia America. BY CHAKLES II. HOYT. I can tell you right here tbat I'm done with this military business. A volunteer military company !a less nte than tbe Keely motor, and keeps a man in trouble and at expense all the time, and then If a war arises or a riot takes place, or anything dangerous comes up, you're expected to turn out and ritk your life and 5100 aulform for the public good. Belüg called Colonel or Major, and wearing a blue coat with brass buttons and commairhing the admiration ol the ladies and small coys, and cuttiDe a terrible swath on Decoration Day and Fourth of July la all very well, but it doetn't pay. I know, for I tried it for two years when I lived at St. Albans. We organized a company there for the purpose of giving a lot of us military titles, and having a lot of dunces, at which we could appear in uniform and dazzle tbe plrls. There were about two hundred of us wbo thought it would be a deuce of a fine thing to be fOldicrs as long as there was no fighting to do. ell, we got together, and when we came to organize, it proved tbat every man wanted to be ibe Colonel. We took 2s7 ballots, and on the first every man had one vote. When we reached tbe lat. Christian Berriel waa elected by 101 to 99 lor laul Barine. I voted for Baring after tbe tint tallot, and was mad at bis defeat. So were tbe other ninety-eight, and we swore there was fraud, and drew out and organized another company. Tbe first company ws called the Kunsome Guards. (Kunsome was a rich ir sn wbo would pat bp money for the uniforms.) We grabbed another rich man and named ourselves for Mm, the Barlow Urecna. Of course, we elected Bajiog as eoloneL We ielt that we ought to have a man for commander who anew something of military matten, and Baring ws generally reearded as the hero of the first Bau Kun. caving been present at tbat battle and being tbe first man to arrive in Washington from tbe field of battle, after the defeat. I was elected Major, and we put in as many other oflicers as possible, so as to eive all the titles we could. Of course, the rivalry between the two companies was awlul hot. I'm bound to admit that tbo other Company generally pot the start or us. But we followed 'em np awful close. If tbey hs3 a ball we bad one too. 11 tbey bad a picnic we went into the wood?, too, and ale dirt and bugs with our food. If tbey got ud theatricals we ran opposition. I remember tne Eight they played "Kichard III.;" we did 'Hamlet," and our performance knocked theirs ky high, though 1 ought to have p'.yed Hamlet instead of Banne; but be was tbe colonel, bo we bad to cast him for it. We wore our uniforms, too, instead of costumes, and I tell you they showed to advantoge on the stage. Oh. we kept even with that other company, though circumstances always did teem to favor them. But one day they got the start of us. We were all of us (by all 1 mean theoilicers) np in Colonel Baring's private otlice, when in ruhed Ii. Cottin. "Boys," Mid be, "have you beard the news?" We eagerly demanded an explanation of his eicitement. '-They're going to have a funeral," said he. "One ol the guards Jim Corwin is dead, and they're going to bury him and paint the town red doing it. Tiiev've got forty carriages and two bras bands engaged." We were all just dtmoraiizid for a minute. But Colonel Baring was a niaD of euergy. 'Boys," said he, "aie thoe jays to have sny festivities tnat we can't enjoy?'' "No," we ald. "We'll have a funeral thftt'll outfut eral their's two to one," said he. "Hooray!" said we. Then we held a council of war to look ove r the situation. The Colonel called in the Orderly. "Anybody in this company dead?" he asked. "No, ir." "Anybody likely to die?" "No. sir." "This company is always iu bard luck," Mffced the Colonel. "But we've got to have a corpse somehow. A funeral without a corpse is d d absurd." Wo admUted it. "If we could find a corpse we'd be all right," said Captain Graves. Couldn't w rob the cemetery r' a-ked Lieutenant Bones. "Tbat won't do," said the Colonel; "we want a nice freh corpse; oue they can't cast sny slurs on." Somebody su gef ted that a man named Chadbourne had teen killed by beinj? bit by a derrick that day. "He'll do," said the Colonel; and we at once proceeded to elect tbe deceased a r.ember ol the Greens, and then voted to give him t military funeral. "Bat what'll bis family say ?" käme oue asked. "Ob," tald tbe Colonel." we'll have to arrange with them. It tbey wont ltt us have tbe corpse any other way, we must buy it." They appointed me a committee to call on tbe widow and see what conld be done. I told tbem I thought money would be required, and they told me to use it. "Well, gentlemen," said I, "I'll do the best I can: but I never bought a corpse in my life. What ought I to pay?" Nobody knew, so I started out witb this final direction from tbe Colonel: "Get it as cheap as you can, but get it." I walked over to tbe widow's, rang tho door-bell and was ushered in. While I was waiting In the parlor for (be widow to come down stairs occurred to me that I was there on rather a pecu'.'v errand, and I am not ashamed to say I felt c'Jgtiy embarrassed. Well, tbe widow entered aaedding tears aa copicufcjy as a Texan utters profanity. I felt kind ot awkward in approaching the subject, bnt at last got at it You talk about a boller explobioo I It was nothing to bat 1 got when I mentioned baying tbe deceased. 1 bad enough in abou thirty seconds, and concluded their old funeri mUnt go to blazes I wanted to go fishing. 1 oe to leave, but she pnt her hand on my arm and said, "Don't go." Then she demanded, in reproachful tones, "What sum did you propese to Insult me by ottering for my poor dead busband T" "I didn't reckon on it as an insult," 1 said, "but I tbouicbt $0 was about riebt." "Hfty dollars 1" she exclaimed, in a tone of scorn; "you were not man enough to offer f75!" "Uy dear madame," I urgod, "you muBt remember tbe deceased was hit on the head by a derrick. His head must be all stove in. Damaged goods, ma'am I Damaged goods! You're ia luck to make a sale at any price 1" "vVell. I'm a poor, lone, unprotected widow nowl" stie moantd. "1 supiose you'll force me to take f M and will tear my darling's body away from me 1" fcixty-five ko?h," wild i, and it did. I ordered tbe remain tent over to the armory nod returned to report ruccess. The boys were deiigbtd. we st once ct to work preparing for the funerat. The Guard bad forty carriages. We ordered flity. Wa downed 'em on cut flowers, too. And as tbey put up one hundred yards ot crape in their anrory, we ordered one hundred and fifty. The decoiator said there wasn't room to pat up over

ninety, but we told him to get np the cue hundred and fifty somehow: we must beat the Guards. Tb, tbe Colonel had thirty men detailed as nourners and rehearsed them on weeping. At first tney didn't do very welL Bat be got at 'em. "You must remember," said he, "that the ceceased was a dear comrade of yours I Weep, you suckers, weep!" He got 'em at it at last so their grief was pitiful to see. And be rehearsed tbe alee club too, and in less than four hours we had all the preparations made for a funeral tbat would knock tbe one tbe Guards gave their man higher than a kite. Well, we were all in the Colonel's cfiice congratulating ourselves on the way we were gelng to get away with tbe Guards, and bow mad tbey'd be about it, when in rushed the Ortferly and whispered to tbe Colonel. The Colonel turned t ale and rushed from the room. We looked at accu other, learing some Impending calamity. Betöre we could say an more than "what is It?" theColeael returned. "Boys," he raid, "the devil's to pay I The corpse baa come to life!" Consternation seized upon ns, and it was followed by horror as the corpse (who, it seems, had omy been In a traare caused by the b!ow of the derrick) came ruthing in. As the widow waa ot a very economical turn of mind, she bad saved the inot of the Hock ot clothes ol tbe remains, to be traded to Italian peddlers for planter Images, and the only rarments in whic h he had been laid out to be buritd were a fa)e shirt front, a collar and dress coat His appearance was something weir and ghastly, and w veral of us indicate i a dispos tion to tet out of the window. But we were boo reash tired. Chadbourne (the remains) was raor feared than we were, his narrow escap. from being buried alive had coca" pletely unnerved him. He called frantically for liquor, and it: was given him. Then, as we calmed down a bit, the horror of our situation dawned upon us. We had made all our preparations for the funeral and now our corpse bad gone back on us. Ibe Colonel realized our predicament and promptly undertook 10 argue it with tbe remain. "We have engaged tie carriages," said be, "we have blrtd the bauds, we have decorated the hall, tbe eiervynian has written hiteermon and we have invited the people. If you lack out now, It places us in a very embarrasia? yos-tien." But the blamed loot of a remains cou dn't see it for a long time, and positively declined to get tack into the coüm and let the funeral proceed, but Colonel Baring was an eloquent man, and at last an offer of f 12 touched Caadboui lie's heart. That, and an agreement thtit be was merely to be placed in the bi towu-tomr, and should be let out and allowed to escape after the folks got away, fetched him, and ten miuutos before it was time to open the door and admit the gneMs, we got him into the cotün Co'onel Baring had lent the rema'.ns a pair of trousers, by the way). Then we thought we were all right, ard when the crowd got quietly seated, we proceeded with the funeral. Chaplain Toombs, of the Greens, conducted it, and I tell you the cererooties were impressive, The men detailed as mourn era did themselves proud. They seemed distracted by grief ! And the glee club sang S3 tbat tbey could be heard over at the Guards' Armory. But while every thing was working so well, the liquor the remains bad swallowed began to work. It was just our dratted luck! He U gen to get restless and twist in the coffin. Chaplain Toombs noticed it, and ielt terribly embarrassed, but he went on wita his glowing tribute to the dead, meanwhile whispering 'O the remains to keep still. But the blamed fool kept growing drunker and more restless. He wanted to rise up, and the Chaplain bad to hold him down. It was a terrible ordeal for the Chaplain to preach tbe funeral ortion and hold the corpse lu the colli a at the same time. But be made a heroic eß'ort oue for wnica 1 shall always honor him. He was bewailing the loss of a dear com'ade. and throwing hia whole weight on tne hand that rested ou the corpse's facs, when accidentally bis thumb got in the corpse's mouth, and tbe drunKen chump bit it to the bone. Tbat was too much for human endurance. The Chaplain ;bowled and jumped, and the corpse sst up. Tben there was a scare. Women falnte l and men got wild. For my part I saw oa r funeral was ruined after all our trouble, and I was awful mad. I had paid Stö for that corpse and meant to get my money's wottX so I went for him, and be was pretty near a corpse In dead earnest when I got through kicking him round the room. Of course, that settled the funeral. We tried to cave it from utter fail ire by turning it iLto a ball, but it didn't work. People eald it was a shockingly disgraceful affair. and it made a terrible scandal. Bat we could have stood all that It was tbe guying we got from the Guards tbat broke us up. We got it so bard that it hnally resulted in the dfcbandment of the Greens, and I've never joined a military company s ncc. I don't believe in 'em. The ouly streak of luck we bad wss that our uniforms were green, and we were able to sell them to the Feniaus when they got up a raid on Canada.

Thx strange things which occur in politics are forcibly illustrated in the conduct of Judge Tourgee, who, in May last, wrot9 of Blaine in his magazine, the Continent: "He is the incarnation of all the reprehensible elements of the Republican party. He is a politician in the low sense in wb'ch the term is nsed. To his mind statesmanship ia synonymous with trickery, While this characteristic gives him great strength with the 'heelers' and 'strikers' who manipulate conventions, it is a source of incalcuable weakness with the people, especially in a struggle so close and doubtful as the present one." Jndge Tourgee finally supported and did stumpirjg service for Elaine. Loss antt tiam. CHAPTER I. "I was taken sick a year ago With bilious fever.' ' ly doctor pronounced me cured, but I got sick again, with terrible pains in my back and sides, and I got so bad 1 Could not ruovel I shrunk! From 228 lbs. to 1 DO! I had been doctoring for my liver, but it did me no good. I did not expect to live more than three months. 1 bejran to use Hop Hitters. Directly my appetite returned, my pains left me, my entire system seemed renewed, as if by magic, and after using several bottles I am not only as sound as a sovereign, but weigh more than I did before. To Hop Litters 1 owe my lile." Dublin, June C, 'ol. R. Fitzfatrick. crtAPTEB n. "Maiden, Mass., Feb. l, lsso. Gentlemen I suffered with attacks of sick headache." "Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in the most terrible and excruciating manner. No medicine or doctor could give me relief or cure until I used Hop Hitters. 'The ürst bottle Nearly cured me;" Tbe second made me as well and strong as when a child. "And I have been so to this day." My husband was an invalid for twenty years with a serious "Kidney, liver and urinary complaint, "l'ronounced by Boston's best physicians "Incurable!" Seven bottles of your bitters cured him, and I know of the "Lives of eight persons" In my neighborhood that have been saved by your bitters, And many more are U3ing them with great benefit. "They almost Do miracles!' Mrs. E. D. Suck. How to Get Bick. Expose yourself day and night: eat too mnch without exercise; work too hard without rest; doctor all the time; take all the yile nostrums advertised, and then yon will want to know how to get well, which is answered in three words Take Hop Uitters! None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on tbe white label. Saun all tbe vile, poisonous stun' with "Hop" or "Hope" in their name. Little Tim's Mistake. I Philadelphia CalL Little Tim Good night, mamma. Mamma Why, you must not go to bed yet. Yon have not had your supper. Little Tim Oh, no; I'm not going to bed. I thought you ere. Mamma Go play, child. This is my new Mother Hubbard. "One hundred doses $1" is true only of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it is an unanswerable argument as to strength and economy. A delightful bon mot is reported of the little daughter of W. K. Va nderbilt After taking her refreshments for a week in the Gottiic dining-room of tbe paternal mansion on Fifth Avenue, she asked; "Mamma, will we. always have to eat our meals in church?" The reply is not reported. A happy combination of best grape brandy, smartweed, Jamaica ginger and camphor water, as found in Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smartweed, cures cholera morbus, diarrhea, dysentery or bloody flax, colic or cramps in stomach, and breaks np cold?, fevers and inflammatory attacks.

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Ebown JL Haetet, Attorneys forplaintli SHERIFFS SALE. Ey virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk ot the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, In a cause herein William Johnson is plaintiff, and ilaxemlliianna Sirausner et aL are defend, anü, (cae Ho. 33.031. requiring me to make tho sums of money in said decree provided and In msnner as provided lor in aid decree, with in terc st on raid decree and cons. I will expose at .public sale, to tue hübest bidder, on Saturday, the io-n day of jancaey, A. D. between tbe hours of 10 o'clock a ra. and o'clock p m., of said day, at the door of the Courthoue ot Marlon Ccnnty, Indiana, tbe rents aal profits lor a term not deciding teyen years, ol ua following teal estate, to-wit: Lots numbered eiht (s) and nine (9) in William rjarinirr an's outh addUion to the city of laiiaa apolia. In Marion County, tute nf Indiana. If such rents and proliui will not sU for a tnfficlent turn to atisly raid decree. Interest and com. lailL at tbe ssoe timeaa I place, expose to public Mle the fee simple of mid real estate, or so much thereof as may be tuflicient to diachaiee said decree, interest and ctis. bald aale will be made wittout any relu l whatever Irom vaiuatloa or appraisement laws. GEORGE n, CARTER, Stund of Marlon County. rcccmlcrlG, A. P. lL

Vs. F. IlEXDRK Ks, Attorney for plainlil SHERIFF'8 SALE I5y virtue of a tYrtifled copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk ot the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein Charles B.Eietcher ia pla.nUd.and Lucitöa C. liajd n ei al. sre defendants, (case No. FS.9l:9i reqnirii'i? rr.e to make the mm of twelve hundred and tit j dollars, with interest on aaid decree aid com, I will cxpow at pubnc sae, to the hiiibefcti'jidütT. oa SATURDAY, TUE 10TH D4Y OF JANUARY. A. 1).. between the hrnrs of 10 o'rloek a. tn. snd o'ciook p. m.. of taid rfay, at the duor of the Co'irt-hauso of 1'arion County, Jna. ana, ibe rents and p'oüt for a terrr. bot cicerdlng seven years, of tic folia ta p real olate, to wit: l.oi due. teied one hundred and ttirly-trireo (12: ) in Ingram Fletcher s tnird adaption ti tne tt c city of Indiarjapol's, Indiana, hs rt corded In rlat look No. 3, pure 1 fl, of the plat records of Vsrit.n Louniy; also. lt nnm'iered sixteen Clt" in Ketcham k f mith'a subdivision of b!oetc numbered five (5) of J. K. l'rake's adavtioa to the city ot Indianaroils, Indiara. It m h rents and pro tits will not Fell for a euS cient turn to atisly Mid decree, interest and cosi. 1 will, at the same time aad place, expose to public mle the fee simple of gaid real estate, or so much then of as may be sufficient to dicchargo eald decree, interest and costs. 8tidsle will uo made without any relief whatever from valuation or ai praiscment laws. GEORGE H. CARTER. Sbena of Marlon County. d?l tt.iir ' CakteuiS. LiMoiiU.lAttorncjgfor Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE Ty virtue or a certiSjl copy of a decree to me directed, froTt the Ciera of the Superior Court of Li rinn Coun y, Indiint, ia a cauFe wherein James W. Binford U plaintiff and Jcfe Jones et al. are defendant, oam No. S3, 2 16) requiring ire to make the sum of mx thousand e ght hundred and eleven dollars and fifiy-eijht cents, with interct on said decree and coms. 1 will expose at public sale, to tbe biatt bidder, oa SATURDAY. T.U. lOTI! DAY OF JANUARY. .V. D. lt$ between the bonrc of tt o'clock a. ra. and 4 o'clock p. m., of atd day. at the door of the Court Honso of Marion County, Indiana, tbe rents and proSui for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to wit. : Lots number ninety-eich (9S) and nlnetv nlno (C9), in Uright, Powell V Ellis' sub3iviion of outlot ot e hundred and fihy five (156), in te city of liidianapol s. Indiana. Ab-o, lot number four (I), In Wasmre'e heirv eubdivision of the et half of cutlot one hundred and tfty one, in tie c'tyof Indianapolis. Indiana. Alo, p.rta of lots number seventy seven (TT) and HveLty-elght (TS), of Ingram FViLer's second addition to the city of IndianarrfMi-., beginning at a point twenty-three (23) feet -om h? alley on the weM end of lot sev-enty-feveu (TT). In the south line of said lot, thence nor.b eigcty-feven e8T fett, more'or less, to the Er.rtli Vne of lot seventy-eiüht (TS. thence east thirty-two (32) feet on said north line ot lot No. T8, theme south elshtv seven 8T) feet, more or lesp. to the Fonth line of lot number 77, thenoo eet th.'rty-two feet to the place of beginning, citrate in Marlon County, Indiana. Iffcuth rents and profits will not sell forasn'ficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and tot's, I will, at the t-ame time an 1 plane, expose to public fale the fee simple of taid real estate, or to much thereof aa may be eufik-leni to du-charg (aid decree. Interest and costs. Sid sale will M made without any relief whatever front valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE IT. CARTES, f-heriil of Marlon County. December 16, A. D. V. cartek, Sullivan I'lai n tics. & Jones, Attorneys for SÜEFJFF'8 SALE By virtue of two expcutfons to me directed from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mnrion County, I will expose at public tale, to the the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, TUE 10T1I DlY OF JANUARY, A. D., ISeü, between the hours of 1) o'clock A. M. and I o'clo 1". M. of said day, at the door of the Court-hoo of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and prod for a term not exceeding seven years, of the folia inRrca) estate, to-wit: Lot oumber four (it in rqusre number thre ( in Malott I'ark addition to the city of Ind anawi?: alt-o, lot number thirty-two (321 in Habbard. Mcfartv t Martindale's eubdivision of lots one (1). two ( J), three ). four (1), five (S), six(Q), feven(7)nn1 iiehiiS)jn ton are 12 in Hubbard. McCarty A: MartmJaie's southeast addition ti the city of Indianapolis: ako. lots number ten ('.0), eleven U. twelve (12V thirteen l:i) snd twentysix cf ) in Vajcn's South Brookside add-ion to the City of Indianapolis-! also, lota number sixty (60) and sixty-one (11) in Tilford & Thrather'B addition to tne town of Irvington. And on failure to realize the full amount ot interest and costs, I will, at the same time an t place, ex poie to public sale the fee simple of said reel estate. Taken as the property of Franklin R. CoKIt at the suit of Max (iuhiclnnger and Frank L. KiU inter et aL fald wile will b made without any relief whatever from valuation or appruiacmeut laws. Cases No. 31,401 and 31.42T. GEORGE TT. CARTER. heriiIof Marion County. Deeccmber, 1C, A. P.. lc w.iw C. A. D3i:e, Attorney for PiaintiX SHERIFF SALE. Ey virtue of a certiCed cory of a decree to me directed, from tiie Cierk of the Superior lourt of Marion Cunty. fndiana, la a came wherein The Eastern S'ivine and Loan Association of Indianapolis la pUintirr. and Era V. Ryan et. al. are. defendants C-e No. 3i?i2). requiriue me to make the the sum of etebt hundred and niuety-cisht dollars end eighty cents, witb interrat on t-aid decree and com, I wiil expose al public rale, to the blghctt bidder, on SATURDAY, TUE 1CTII DAY OF JANÖARY, A. D. ISsS, between the hours of tjn o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Courthouse of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and ircfiis for a term not exceed. ng seven years, of tbe following real ee-tate. to-wit: 1-ot twenty-four (24) in Dnnlop A Tntewiler's subdivision of lots tweaty (2C) to twenty-six (2f) inclusive, in B. F. Morris' addition to the city of Indianapolis, In Marion County, la the fetate ot iDdlana. If uch rents and profT will not sell far a sufncicnt fura to satisfy satd decree, interest and costs, 1 will, at the same lime and place, expose to public a.e tfce fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof aa may le suflicient to diehareo said decree. Interests and costs, fcaid aale will be nade without any relief whatever Irom valaatioa or appraisement laws. GEORGE H. CARTER. Sherid of Marion County. December 15, A. D. lSl. A Gold Watch. I GOSSAMER GARKENTSJ - of i! .VTI c.! 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