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y‘m% S : ,‘#fi i ‘#l{‘ \ff \ERGEANT g T =, (ReEsus. . 7/ 7 . -3 o By Capr CAres Kine. USA. Copyright, 1893, by J. B. Lippinbott Co. CHAPTER L—Cbm'munb.. L ““What is it?” he cried, running and bending oveér him. ‘‘Are you hit? Here, let me help you, man.” And poor Schramm could only clasp his hand about his leg and plead in Eniglish equally broken: “Lauf'—Roon! Herr Lieutenant. | Ach Gott! I can it not make.” Thdn Morgan, big powerful fellow. cut biim short and swung the little ex-Hussar on his back and plunged ahead, heedless of his captives splutter and struggles. But yelling Sioux and whistling bullets both were gaining. Another minute, and down went lieutenant and man, carrier and carried, and this time Schramm, rolling over and over, never let go 9f his carbine, buts lying prone, levelled it over g little hummoclk, and sent a- shot square at the foremost Indian, tripping his calico pony in the mick of time. “Check tg your game, my bucks!” panted Morngan, loading, firing and missing agJ’in. “It's little but lead you'll get out of this outfit.” The Indian bullets| were biting at the turf all around him, yet mercifully flying wild. Schrasm, bleeding fast, was paling, yet kéeping up his fire, wondering how it wan he could so rarely hit those yelling, painted, feathered fiends darting about themonly a few hundred yards away. Then, rising on his knees, he shouted Prussian taunt and challenge. “‘Lie down, you fooll” yelled his officer, rolling pver to him, and, seizing his shoulder, M]organ forced him to earthy Not a seconid too soom; an Indian hadsprung fro%l his pony, taken deliberate aim and sent a shot that just grazed the hand chat pinned him down, and ‘then came| thunder of hoofs far out over the prairie and the rush of comrades to the rescue, and then the Sioux,’ firing tg the last minute, whirled away up the ravine, and Morgan’s déer hunt was over. That night, while Ray, with his troop, was still out in pursuit, Morgan lay with a shot hole through. the left shoulder at the bivouae fire, and was chaffed and condoned with in moderation| over.the failure of his venison chase, and took it all meckly enough. He had bagged no game, had well-nigh lost his own and other lives, had ridden almost blindly into Indian ambuscade, and yet, in point of result, as it turned out;that wasabout'the best day’s\work{ he nad done in all his life.

| CHAPTER IL o ““If ever p man came Into the vavalry who deserwfi:d well of his country,” said his colonel, ‘it is Morgan.” He was a good soldier, but a bad’ manager—a combination far more frequent than is probably ‘i(nown. He came into .the regiment in ’66, burdened with a wife aud a waridebt. A capital trooper, he had won honors with the saber in the Shenandodt:; had risen to the command of his battéulio,n, and was urged to tuke a commisgion in the regular army. Famous names backed his application, but he haclbee_n ~held to duty in Texas while earlier-discharged volunteers were picking up the plums in the newly-authorized regiments. He got in eventnally as second lieutenant where hislown licutenants had gone in as first. He had the brevet of a lieutenaunt colonel of volunteers and the rank and pay of & low-down subaltern of regulars when he and his wife and a little danghter joined the regiment in the south. When he came to the frontier aifier five years of reconstruction duty her health was impaired as much as §his prospects. Morgan was supporting an invalid wife, three children, a ne¢gro ‘“‘mammy,” an egregious folly of a female nurse and a scattered indebtedness of no one knew just how many hundreds or thousands, all on a first lieutenant’s pay, and that hypothecated. He loved his wife and _little ones; he.was attached to his com--rades and his profession, but every month found him more dangerously involved. He had no relatives to help hiny; she had some who might, but didn’t. He wore old. clothes, stinted himself in every way, yet saw no light ahead, ar{id, to make a long story short, would have thanked God for the chance to end it” all but for the thought lof those helpless little ones, when at| last the wife, not he, was taken. she had been practically bedridden for two years, and it would have been mercy to tal;le her long before, but Morgan couldn’t see that. He wepi sorely over the cold; emaciated form, then roused himself, gathered his' children in his strong arms and folded them to his heart. “You must be more than ever ‘little mother’ to them, now, Connie,” said he, as he kissed the white forehead of his eldest. She ‘was only fifteen that spring, yet for two years had been more ‘wqman than child, trying to help mother,| trying to ‘be a comfort, to “\poor‘d%ddy,” whose face took on deep and “dedper lines with every month, trying tp be a teacher and playmate and mother all in one to Sister Lottie, only eight, and to burly, brown-haired, uproa,rifilus little Billy, the one member of the household whose spirits were ugquelifiimb]te; There were ministering hands and loving hearts at the - rude old frontier fort, and in poor Mrs. Morgan/s last days, far from her home and kindred, there was no “lack of ‘womai’s nursing,” no *‘dearth of woman’s'tears.” Everybody seemed to go ‘i the solemn little procession when, afcot, they. 'kc'illbw'egl_t,hfi wasted form toits bleak and lonely resting place in the¢ post cémetery out on the open ‘prafrie. L RS Mg iee . M Sl "My God! to think of poor Carrie’s having to be buried-in such a dreary “waste 4s this!” moaned the widower “that evening as some of his comrades strove to comfort him. + He had written to her relatives—she had brothers and o sister married 'and well to do—telling of the inevitable end so soon to come, intimating that she lopged to be taken home and to lie by her mother's side in the shaded church yard, but that he actually had not a cent. The brothers were very sorry. Both in their younger days had freely bor--rowed the captain’s tens and twenties and lived high with sister Cad, to whom | the big-hearted dragoon sent ‘home *% Caroji *%”}*‘mfiwm four years Morgan served @g at. KUs pay was.the aisin sap PORY FAne #aubly, in fack, for the boys Wwerk, etht ‘atténding school, and thé old nwed's i) L’-‘E"a&,. T r‘m i TR e WU ARG, A

‘business languished as the war went on. But all this was something they rather wished 'to forget in the years that followeda They didn’t want to grow up into actively inimical rela~ tions with theitj elder sister’s husband, yet having so Ipng lived on his bounty, how could they, being ordinary mortals, help learning to hate him unless they could forget the benefits of the past? Bob and Sam, of whom she so often talked, were prosperous business men now, with wives and olive branches and vines and fig trees of their own, and how could their wives or they be expected to want to have her, a dark shadow at the fireside, to linger, languish and slowly die on their hands? Neither brother felt that he could stand the expense of fetching Carrie home. Each thought the other ought to do'lt, and both thought that ‘Lottie should--that is, Lottie’s husband. But Lottie’s husband knew not the impoverished troover on the far frontier, nor hiswite, nor his children, and Lottie was not particularly anxious that he should. Her beduty had captivated the brilliant young lawyer when professional business called him from Cleveland to Saginaw, but it took all he could command to keep up the style in which thefr lived now. A gay winter was coming on, and there was very little interest and less discussion among the three over the question which should sueccor Carrie, and so poor Morgan’s humble appeal was fruitless.

It was December when she was laid away. In February a strong column was sent to break up the Siovx stronghgds to the north, with the unusual result of breaking up several households at the fort. The Siouxlost nothing they did not get back; the soldiers got ‘back mnothing they lost; in faet, many of them did not get back at all. The savage chiefs held a council to settle on the spot for the next battle, and

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the soldiers a court to settle on the spot the responsibility " for the last, which was a failure. It was found that beyond certain serious casualties the damages were mainly at the hands of Jack Frost to the feet and fingers of the foemien, though several officers were declared to have suffered in mind, body, and estate, and others in reputation, which was odd, in view of'tha fact, as shown betore the court, that the accused had no reputation to lose. Morgan, happily, was spared all participation in this hapless campaign, being retained at the fort because of recent bereavements and his motherless children. He was made commissary to help him out of trouble, and thereby, was plunged into worse. When the command went out in midwinter he would have been glad to go and never return, but, as has been said, for those little faces at home. Another column was sent out in May, and others followed that in June, and still Morgan was held at the fort on commissary duty until later the direful tidings flashed in over the wires that Custer and his pet troops-were wiped out; then everybody had to go. Morgan strained ‘“little mother” to his heart, praying God to guard and bless the babies and bring him back to them in safety. Mrs. Warren, their next-door. neighbor, promised they should be the objects of her tender care. They had old mammy with them still, but the nurse had flitted eastward months before—one good riddance at ]east,—and by the end of July Morgan was serving out groceries and taking in money as field commissary. A column on frontier ‘campaign with only the clothes it had on and with never a wagon could hardly be expected to be burdened with a safe in which to secure the commissary’s funds. Uncle Sam has a simple ‘way of reimbursing himself in the event of loss: he stops the commissary’s pay until the amount is covered, and the commissary may stop the hungry mouths at home meanwhile as best he can—that isn’t Uncle Sam’s business. Morgan had over seven hundred and fifty dollars in ‘‘greenbacks” in the lining of his canvas hunting-goat when they reached the southern hills in October, and not a cent of it when they marched out on the 15th. The campaign being virtually over, all danger, hardship, work and heavy responsibility at an end, a staff captain came by rail and stage to take over the funds and stores of the line lieutenant and charge up to Him every cent’s worth that had leaked or dribbled from the mule-packs, a species of charging that differed from that expected of a linesman,: in that it involved none of the perils, yet promised greater reward. You may be assured this gentleman ¢id not come without a safe. Morgan, riding from the bivouac to the stage station, a mile away, the 'very evening of his successor’s arrival, was lassoed on his horse in Cinnabar canyon, gagged, bound, robbed of his ;Sckage of greenbacks, all in the flash of a bull's-eye. Picked up, stunned, ten minutes therecafter, he .could . not describe his assailants, but certain hard .characters with the command, some of the precious gang of recruits just arrived, made off that night with their horses, -equipments and everything. Certain civil officials gave chase. There was still hope they might be overhauled and the money ¢aptured ‘before they could reach the mining towns. Meantime, Morgan, not severely hurt, ‘was ordered to join his troop. It was ‘God’s mercy that only an hour before the robbery he had counted out every cent for which he was accountable in the presence of Old Tintop and his adjutant, otherwise he would have had to stagger under thé accusation of having made atvay with the money and made up the story. - - . . : : ~ In vain the rough old campaigner had sought to cheer Morgan by assurances that the party sent out in chase couldn’t help gathering in the robbers, who, ~'with one exception, were, strangers to the frontier. Morgan groaned ‘in spirit. ‘‘No, c;okmei’,‘;fifi:; useless Luck has been dead #g; inst, mww;i:;e ;veifurlzd the Wolveri guidons and 1 joined the regulars. That money will never be found, and I selghl bundied dollars move io debé

all I could stagger under. [t’s only worse and more uf it.” And here this forty-year-old fatalist turned away and buried his bearded face in his hands. And now, a few weeks later, with a hole in his shoulder and fever in his veins, Mr. Morgan was being borne along homeward in a mule-litter, hopeless and sick at heart, totally unconscious of the fact that one man at least in the long dusty ¢olumn looked up to him with an enthusiastic gratitude, even while looking down on him from the saddle. Schramm’s right leg had been shot through midway between ankle and knee, but the fracture was simple, and the wounded limb was skillfully dressed, set in splints, and Schramm rode in a litter a week or two, as ordered, then his Teutonic prayers took effect on the ‘“‘Herr Wundartz,” and he was allowed to swing the leg over the handsome roan hiscaptain had promised he should have again as soon as he was able to straddle the beast and settle the question why he had named him Bredow. We had little or no time for war history in the cavalry in those days. Morgan could not but note how affectionately Schramm’s blue eyes would beam upon him and how full of anxious sympathy were his.frequent inquiries as to whether there were not something he could do for the Herr Lieutenant. They sent the two, with others, in together to the old fort on the railway, and Schramm, whose wound was the more serious, was much the sooner recovered, and bustling around as though nothing had happened, while the veteran lieutenant, whose hurt was slight, seemed unable to rally. There are wounds that sap the vital forces worse than knife or bullet. Morgan was fretting himself to death. He broke down utterly when oOld Tintop, a month later,came in to see him on his arrival at the post.

“What can Ido, colonel?” he moaned. “T am too old to resign and try to find employment at homeé. There’s no room for erippled dragoons there. Yet creditors are hounding me, my pay may be stopped any minute to settle this commissary business, and then what will become of my children?” It was too much for Tintop. He had in his desk that moment the fatal paper received from Washingfon. It was all very well for the board of survey and the department commander to exonerate Lieut. Morgan from blame, but the watch-dogs of the treasury couldn’t allow him to drop that seven hundred and fifty dollars. There was no doubt that he was robbed. The robbers, in fact, deserting recruitsen route to the mines, were easily overhauled by experienced frontiersmen who “lit out” in pursuit the moment the affair was heard of. Itwas scandalous on the part of ““tenderfoot toughs” from the far cast to rob an army disbursing officer—and expect to get away with the swag. Buckskin Joe, Lopsided Pete, and other local celebrities lost little time in overhauling the Bowery gang and recovering such valuables as they had; but who was to overhaul Joe and Pete? The auditor said Mr. Morgan ought to have kept that money in the safe. The department commander, striving to aid a good soldier, pointed out that they didn’t carry safes when on Indian campaigns; if they did, they would even less frequently catch the Indians. But it availed nothing. What did the treasury department care whether Indians were caught or not? Mr. Mergan was held to have violated the spirit of his instructions in thaty he went to Capt. Stone in town to turn over the money, instead of waiting for Capt. Stone to come to him. Then the general pointed out that Morgan was orderéd to march with the command at daybreak, and ‘therefore had to turn over the moncy that night. DBut the bureau officials couldn’t see it. * Let Lieut. Morgan get a bill of relief' through congress, said the pragmatic official, well knowing that such bills are the outcome of influence, not innocence. = The colonel went to the office, and by way of comforting himself for the weakness which prompted him to blow his nose and wipe his eyes very often before leaving Morgan, and to kiss Connie and Lot several times after, pitched into Mr. Gray, his perennial chopping-block, and Gray, finding meeknessand silence not what was needed, fired back. They exchanged volleys a minute, Gray having all the advantage.of sense and the colonel of sound, and ended, asusual, ¢ /2 = ~.fi' 5 : :{ % {7"—‘ =~ " WD R =1 : A = o / = g I == Y ; . Al L : ¥ ;i\%- @ “I'M TOO OLD TO RESIGN.” by the old man saying he wouldn't give a tinker’s dam for an adjutant he couldn’t pitch into when he had to pitch into somebody, or that couldn't talk back. ‘“‘l’'m all broke up about Morgan. Can’'t we do something to pull him out of his hole?” : So they wrote letters, did the officers, to Morgan’s wife’s relatives, setting forth how brave and deserving and unfortunate he was, and that something must be done for those children. It's all well enough in the eyes of one's wife’s relatives to be brave and deserving, but, they have no usé for a man who is unfortunate. - In fact, if he is only fortunate they care very little how brave he may be, and less for his deserts. Robert answered the colonel's missive, but the other’s did not. Rob said they had alreddy been put to much expet:s¢ on their sister’s account—which, as they wore no mourning and published no notice in the papers at the time of her death, was an out-and-out whopper. He furthermore said if something had to be done for those children to go ahead and do it—which was simply indecent. Tintop had a copy made and sent it to a classmate, a distinguished officer of engineers whose office was in Detroit, and whose duties made him well known in influential circles, and the colonel made inquiries and sent reports. The boys were well-to-do, in a pnying business, both of them; and, as for Auai Lottie, she wasted more money in six months than 'would clothe, feed and comfort her army nicces and nephew as many mrs _“‘But,” said the engineer, 'l fancy her husband owes very much ‘more than Mr. Mm!u, and the crusk

BATTLE OF THE BORNDS.

Wisdom of the Administration in the Great Emergency. £

The secretary of the treasury has for l some months enjoyed the distinction of beihg the worst abused man in the country. It is pot a very pleasant position to occupy, but Mr. Carlisle has maintained it with his customary dignity; and, so far as the world knows, 1 without serious disturbance to his temper or digestion.’ - S . Mr. Carlisle did not, of course, expect to satisfy his eritics when he arranged the sale of the new-bond issue. It has not astonished either him or his friends that the contract with the new syndicate has caused him to be denounced by the republican and populist orators and press from Dan to Beersheba. He has too long been their target to care' for such firecracker artillery when he knows, and A knows that the publie knows, he has done the best possible for his country. : ' " All the assaults made upon the government have sought to establish two things: That it was unpatriotic and un%ust to American citizens to sell the onds to a foreign syndicate, and that they were sold at too low a price: Few have the hardihood to .say that they should not have been issued.

Unquestionably it would be best to place all loans with our own people, all things being equal. It is also true that a low price was realized for the issue. : : :

But every thoughtful man who carefully examines into the condition of, affairs must not only approve the sale abroad, but also the bargain made with the great banking houses which took the bonds.

By the termsof the contract the members of the syndicate obligated them- l selves to check the exportations of gold. The only way to do this is by keeping (down the rate of exchange, both by importing gold and by the employment of such other means for influencing the markets as lie in the power of the Morgans and Rothschilds and their associates who have great credits l abroad which may be drawn upon at will. This is really the principal con- ! sideration. in the sale; it could have ! been obtained from no other combina- | tion, unless, perhaps, the associated banks of New York could have been prevailed upon to enter into such an agreement. It is unfortunate that they did not rise to the situation. The New York clearing house is made up of ‘an aggregation of financiers who have shown themselves equal to any great emergency. While the Bank of' England had to call upon the richer Bank of Franee for assistance after the Baring crash. the New York clearing house weathered the great financial storm of 1893 without soliciting a penny of help, and held up the whole country insodoing. Had this great association desired to help the government it could have checked the gold run on the treasury long ago. The members have not cared to assume this patriotic duty, strained relations having grown up between, some of them and the secretary of the treasury, who has acted as he thought best independently of their wishes and advice. Private pique influenced them to such an extent that with over eightyone million dollars in gold coin in their vaults and with a further stock to draw from of over five hundred million dollars scattereéd over America, they refused to spare one dollar to relieve the treasury. : | Under the circumstances Mr, Carlisle | made the best and wisest arrangement | possible. Knowing that no matter at | what price the bonds might be sold in this country the gold would be immediately withdrawn and again hoarded, he decided to treat with a syndicdte that could not omly furnish gold, but ! also give some reasonable guarantee of its preservation for at least a time. ' Only such houses as the Rothschilds and the Morgans could give this guar- ‘ antee. : T

There is no sufficient ground for sup- l posing that the syndicate either cannot or will not do much of what it has agreed to do. It can control hostile bankers, some of whom there must be, by indireect influences, and thus virtually secure the cooperation of the New York clearing house and the great continental and English banking in-' stitutions.. The Rothschilds have | branches in all the great money cen- | ters of the world—London, Vienna, ! Paris, Brussels and Frankfort—and 1 through them can sell commerecial bills 50 as to keep down on the rate of ex-, change in favor of a country they are helping. They have been doing this for nearly a hundred years, and thisl they have no doubt agreed to do again, | if necessary, for the United States. 1

From now on we shall be able to watch for the first time, at least in many years, an intelligent manipulation of the money markets for a praiseworthy and patriotic purpose. We'can hardly see how the syndicate can fail to preserve a satisfactory gold balance in the treasury for many months. There will undoubtedly be attempts to cut it down. Such a one was Russell Sage’s recent withdrawal of $550,000 from the subtreasury and the efforts to force gold to a premium. But these movements will almost necessarily be individual efforts disconnected and of little consequence when exerted against the syndicate’s influences. A ¢ombination to bear the government’s credit would not be tolerated. The exportation of gold ccased as soon as an intimation of the contract got abroad, and there is no indication that it will be resumed, though at a time of the year when the tide sets its strongest to Europe. : : - If the syndicate do what it has undertake nthe value of such a service cannot be overestimated. The daily loss to. business under such conditions as prevailed during the great gold run was far in excess of what the interest on the bonds for a year would be. The syndicate made the bond issue a success, and the five millions or so it may make will be fairly and honestly earned.

When this administration and the men who compose it have passed into history, it will be understood by all that Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Cleveland met the greatest emergency that has arisen since the war with courage, patriotism and wisdom.—Louisville Cour-ier-Journal. , e {

——Benjamin Harrison is neither making birthday speeches like McKinley, nor, like Reed and Allison, explaining how he stands on silver so as not to antagonize the other side. At the same time he is keeping his ear very close to the ground and has his finger on the pulse. of Indiana.— Chicago Herald. §on p ~ ——Why grieve that American stock raisers have lost a trade of eighteen million dollars' a year with France? The sugar trust still lives.-—vChicag'o‘ TRO v e e S ey '

FINANCIERING OF COCNGRESS. Double Dealing Methods of Republicans e:‘ in the House. The administration cannot veryavell drive out the Fifty-third congress as Cromwell drove out the rump parliament. For one thing, the constitution is against it. Furthermore, there is in this country a rooted prejudice against calling in musketeers to expedite legislative proceedings. But it is a great pity—at least in some respects. We do not say in all. When a house of representatives that is overwhelmingly democratic decisively rejects a proposition the adoption of which would strengthen the national treasury half a million a year for thirty years; no doubt every demoerat who is also a patriot and a good citizen must for a moment chafe under the restrictions of settled constitutional practice. ‘“We have had enough of this!” eried Cromwell, striding into the middie of the chamber. ‘“The Lord hath done with you. I will put an end to your prating. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You should give place to better men.” And they scuttled out before his musketeers. :

Of course, we see.that this was irregular and foolish. One evil cannot be corrected by another and more monstrous. But the behavior of the house of representatives in rejecting a proposition toauthorizethe issue of three per cent. gold bonds must, in the present circumstances, be set down as an act of such uncommon and unpatriotic madness as to call for the severest censure the people can pronounce. There would be a savage satisfaction in seeing these false servants put out—al'ways by some safe constitutional process—if only their successors would be any better.

But what are we to infer from the conduct of the republicans in the house? Mr. Reed’s behavior the other day was plainly dishonest and insincere. He professed to support the sound-money resolution, and through partisanship or a worse motive did it what harm he counld. This is notol good augury for the republican congress tocome. : Following this defeat of a sound financial proposition, we may expect attacks upon the gold-purchase contract just made by the administration. Ignorance and vice will cheerfully join hands in that business. It still seems to be alittle difficult to convince even intelligent persons that this contract provides for something more than the sale of bonds.\ A study of its provisions shows that it makes provision not only for replenishing the treasury’s stock of gold, but for protecting it against all preventable drains.. How efficient the protection is will probably appear. It might be well for the too-ready crities to’ wait and see whether the government has made a bad bargain.—N. Y. Times.

.M'KINLEY’'S BUNGLING. A Condition l?rought Abous by High ‘ Tariff Legislation. Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, the putative author of the McKinley bill, says the way to maintain the gold reserve in the treasury is to stop the deficit in the revenues. This is a strange proposition coming from that source. From the close of the war until the McKinley law became operative there was no deficit in the revenues. From that time until the day the bill was repealed there was nothing else. At the close of Cleveland’s first term in the presidency, March 4, 1889, there was a surplus in the treasury ,of more than one hundred million dollars, and a revgnue redundancy that excited the concern of the statesmanship of the: country. But in 1890 the McKinley law was enacted, and the condition was changed. In three years:the surplus was exhausted, and instead, there was a treasury deficit. amounting to more than: fifty million dollars. In other words, the revenue deficit amounted to more than fifty million dollars a year under the McKinley law. For Gov. McKinley to comment in the language imputed to him in regard to the revenue deficit is, therefore, to set him down as a montebank. Under the circumstances he should be modest and silent. It does not lay in his raouth to censure anyone. Whateger evils the treasury has encounterdg in the last five years are attributabl§ to his bungling and to no other cause. —XKansas City Times. : ‘

POINTS AND OPINIONS.

, —lt is generally believed that Mr. Reed has killed his presidential chances by his course on the financial question in congress.—Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.). : :

—lt is 'to be hoped Tom B?’s neighbers in Maine will not bé whde enougli to ask him leading questions about his financial views. — Chicago Record. : ;

——There is an impression that the political difficulties of Thomas B. Reed are lot entirely disagreeable to his devoted friend, William McKinley.— Brooklyn Eagle. :

-——Mr. Boutelle’s red hair is the only assurance that Maine can now give the country that she keeps a plumed knight in stock. Reed’sfeather is white.—St. Louis Republic.

——What would be the state of our financial affairs to-day had the administration neglected to make this (bond) bargain, depending on congress to provide for the needs of the treasury?—N. Y. Post. L ——A notorious war deserter sueceeded in working through congress a biil giving him an honorable discharge from the army. The bill was to lay the basis of a pension claim, and was vetoed by President Cleveland.—Chicago Herald. . . ——=ln' the present bond issue the president has, we believe, done the ‘best he could under the authority given him. It is the duty of congress to legislate on this matter, and it has shirked its duty. Upon it, therefore, rests the blame.—Toledo Blade (Rep.).

——That the administration should be churged with dishonesty in the transaction effected with the sixty-five-million-dollar syndicate is an outrage not to be excused by the utmost stretch of allowance for partisan or factional hostility.—Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.). ——Hon. Thomas B. Reed sowed to the wind during the early part of the session and he is likely to reap the whirlwind in the end. He puts mischief in the hieads of his partisan asso-. ciates on the financial question, and when a patriotic impulse overtook him. he couldn’t get those whom it has been: his pride to command to listen to his; orders. Now he hasn’'t even the mel-, ancholy satisfaction of being with ths: ‘majority even of his own party.—~Kans saeCity Thmea != v a 0 ol

FOR: YOUNG PEOPLE.

POPCORN.

‘The cornfield, in the early fall, : - Was rich in fairy gold, : . The little silky purses all 4 . Were full as they could hold, Hran e But now the ficld is bleak and bare, » And snowflakes, large and light, SR Are dropping in the wintry air : ~Like grains of popcern white, g Then rake the coals out warm and red, And bring the popper here, : e And’in it then make haste toshed . -+ - The kernels from the ear. 3 * Oh what a merry jig they dance! : . They jump up one by one, : And hop about and pop and prance As it they liked the fun. Now through their wire bars they peep, - ' So fleecy and so white, S Like doves inside a cage, orsheep - , - ‘ All folded in at night. . : R So here are some for Baby Boy, . ° . And here are some for Lou, And here are some for Rob and Roy, - And here are some for you. e —Youth's Cog_;panion. PUTTING UP PRESERVES. How the 'Busy Little Ant Stores Away . . ¥Her WintepFood. | M No matter how cgderly and systematic the housekeeper, when' preserves are to be made, great excitement prevails in the kitchen. There is a scouring of brasskettles, a washing of bowls, and all hands are set to work peeling the fruit, or taking out the stones—if it has stones—with a quill, weighing, and stirring, and skimming the pot, and finally 6 dipping the steaming luscious fruit out tenderly, -placing it in the jar, labeling these and carrying them into a dark cupboard. I The tiny, insignificant ant, to. whom Solomon referred us to léearn wisdom, malkes no such ado over her - winter stores. | g R She is very much cleverer than a. human. being, for she simply walks quietly into the granary, touches the great heapsof seeds and grains, that the diligent workers have put away, with her quivering. antennae, and the deed is accomplished. What this queer little creature has done is this: shé has put a drop of formicacid, as it is called, upon each of the grains, which arrests the process of germination, and consequently the food in these underground pantries may keep for years without sprouting. It is the same substance which the busy little bee introduces into its honey, dropping a tiny bit of this poison into th¢ honeycomb from the end of its sting. o : The famous naturalist Moggridge repeatedly observed that when the ants were prevented from reaching their granaries the seeds began to- sprout, and that this also happen’ed when they abandoned their ncsts. It was inferred thet these insects possessed the means cf suspending the action without destroying the vitality of the grain and the principle of life hidden in the sand; and now it has been proved tkat this strange power lies in the formic acid just mentioned. A German scientist went so far as to'suggest in 1877 the use of it for preserving fruit for human households. ‘ = One naturalist relates that a kind of Indian ant collects large stowws of grass and sceds,. and after a severe storm brings out the entire stock within the granaries to dry it; for it seems the ex= cessive moisture destroys the preservative power of this acid. Another tribe of ants, which lays up immense quanti{ies of wheat and oats, is so small that eight or ten individuals are required to carry a single grain. They move in separate rows, over rough and smooth ground, up and down steps, often traveling hundreds of yards to place their booty @ the common storehouse, where it is preserved according to the means described. —Esther Singleton, in-Atlan-t4 Constitution. T

% BILLY PUSHED. THINGS. A:: ‘Western Church Collector Who Allowed i ' No Shrinking. PR The amount realized in a collection not infrequently depends on the individual who ‘‘takes it up.” This fact is well realized by a good pastor who serves in a Colorado mission. “We keephim,” writes Dean Hart, of Denver, giving ,the pastor’s name, ‘‘on the frontier. Hc isa rough diamond, and has a knack with the miners.” - i . Not long ago this excellent "preacher ¥vent to a camp called Rico, borrowed the dance hall over the saloon for his service, ‘rounded up the boys,” as:he expresses it, and filled the hall. > After the sermon ¢ame the collection. This was a very important feature. The preacher cast hiseyes over his audience, and saw a certain ‘‘hard case,” known as Billy the Kid. AT S “Billy,” he said, ‘‘take up the collection.” i i R . Very much honored, Billy took his big sombrero hat and with an air of

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-.ARTHUR'S. ROUND TABLE. All Those Who Sat Around It Were B!'n.voE T . and Noble Men. ‘ .There is no period of history more fascinating than that remantic chapter dealing - with the days of King Arthur, his court and the chivalrous deeds of his brave and gallant knights. It is the period that schoolboys ask questions about and love:to linger over, for it -tells them of a day when adventure and romance went hand in hand with beautiful legends and picturesque superstitions. The thrilling tales of the Knights of the Round Tabie make up one of the most popular books for boys ever written. - - King Arthur’s Round Table, according to one vorsion of the legend, was a sort of mutual protective association, composed of a dozen of the bravest and st powerful nobles of the country. King Arthur, who died in 543 from'a wound received in battle, was the prince of a tribe of Britons, the Silures,-in South Wales. “Arthur,” says a famous Welsh schol‘ar, ‘‘is the great bear, as the name (Arcturus) implies, and perhaps this constellation being so mear the pole and visibly: describing a circle in a small space is the origin of the famous Round Table:” - : :

~Merlin, the famous enchanter and ’ magician, - King Arthur’s chief counselor, organized ‘the Knights of the Round Table. . There svere thirteen seats in ‘memory of the apostles. Only twelve were ever occupied, and these only by knights of the greatest fame ‘and the best established prowess. The thirteenth seat was meant to represent, that of Judas, the:traitor. It was known as the: perilous seat. A rash and scornful Saracen knight once ptesumed to sit in it, and the earth opened ‘beneath it and swallowed him up, seat, trappings, armor and all. . . “ Some magic power wrote upon’ each seat the name of the knight who was ‘entitled to sit init. No knight could succeed to a vacant seat inless he surpassed in valor and daring the knight that had occupied it before him. Without- these qualifications some hidden and mysterious force would repel him

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The illustration shows the round table that is preserved at Winchester, in England, as a curious piece of antiq--uity.” Ak ‘ , :

' A Distinction with a Difference. - The young man. had failed in securing the girl as his own for life, owing principally to the violent opposition of her paternal ancestor, and a friend of ‘his was consoling him on his loss. " “By George,” he said, “I don’t see what you :wanted to marry that girl for.” : - ; s “That’s because you don’t know her.” I know her father.” . A . “But I wasn’t marrying him.” : - “Perhaps not, but you would have to become a member of the family.” . - “I could have stood that for the girl’s sa.ke.’.' ; S 5 Sga i e . “Well, I couldn’t. Why, I had some dealings with him in a business way and I found that he was a regular robP G e ol ~ The disappointed lover sighed pro- ~ “ldon’t know but that you may be pretty near right on the old man,” he said. “I had some dealings with him und found him a freebooter.”-~Detroit Srestrom . o o e 0