Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 September 1893 — Page 3

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of Minorca senses. Seeing that something was wrong', hetried again, this time prefacing with "Pass in review," and still the captains were implacable. The nearest one, to & stage whisper, tried to make the major hear "Close order, first." But all the time Brax was losing more of his temper (Kid Minor what was left of his head, and Brax came down like the wolf on the fold, gave the command to "Close order" himself, and was instantly echoed by Cram's powerful shout "Limber to the rear," followed by "Pieces left about! Caissons forward!" Then, Is the ramble and clank of the respond* ing battery, Minor's next command was heard by only the right wing of the battalion, and the company wheels were ragged. So was the next part of the performance when he started to inarch in review, never waiting, of course, for the battery to wheel into Column of sections. This omission, however, in no wise disconcerted Cram, who, following at rapid walk, soon gained on the rear of column, passing his post commander in beautiful order and with most accurate salute on the part of himself and officers, and, observing this, Minor took heart, and, recovering his senses to a certain extent, gave the command "Guide left" in abundant time to see that the new guides were accurately In trace, thereby insuring what he expected to find a beautiful wheel into line to the left, the commands for which movement he gave in louder and more confident tone, but was instantly nonplussed by seeing the battery wheel into line to the right and move off in exactly the opposite direction from what he hud expected. This was altogether too much for his equanimity. Digging his spurs into the flanks of the astonished sorrel, he darted off after Cram, waving his sword, and shouting: "Left into lipe wheel, captain. Left into line wheeL"

In vam Mr. Pierce undertook to explain matters. Minor presumed that the artilleryman had made an actual blander and was only enabled to correct it by a countermarch, and so rode back to his position in front of the center of the reforming line, convinced grot at lgst he had caught the battery commander.

When Braxton,

The laughter that followed this sally naturally reached the oars of the seniors, and so Brax never let up op the command until the review went off without an error of any appreciable weight, without, in fact, "a hitch in the tutor an unhitch In the harsc," as Doyle expressed it. It was high noon when the battalion got back" to barracks u-1 the officers hung out their moi* lothing to dry in the sun. It was near one when the battery men, officers and all, eame steaming up from the stables, and there was the colonel's orderly with the colonel's compliments and desires to see Capt, Cram before the big batteryroan had time to change his dress.

Braxton's first performance on getting into cool habiliments was to go over to his office and hunt through the book shelves for a volume in which he never before had felt the faintest Interest—the Light Artillery Tactics of 1864 There on his desk lay a stack of mail unopened, and Mr. Drake was already silently inditing the summary note to the culprit Waring. Brax wanted first to see with his own eyes the Instructions tor light ar» tillery when reviewed with other troops,vaguely hoping that there might still bo some point on which to catch his foernan on tide hip. But if there were he did not find it. Be was tactician enough to see that even If Oram had formed with his leading drivers on line with the infantry, as Braxton thought he should have done, neither of the two methods of forming into battery would then have got his guns where they belonged. Grain's interpretation of the text was backed by the custom of (service, and there was no use cltteisiiij? it farther. And so, after dincontentedly hunting through the dustcovered pages awhile In hopes of stumbling on some codicil or rebuttal, the colonel shut it with a disgusted snap and tossed the offending tome on the farthest table. At that moment Brax could have wished the board of officers who prepared the Light Artillery Tactics in the nethermost depths of the neighboring iwamp. Then he turned on his silent staff officer—a not unusual "i expedient. «*'Why ©a earth. Mr, Drake, didn't yam took up that point, Instead of making 1 «acQi a wreak tatar* the whole oo» sttB&sy* "1 eonldnt find anything etxmt 16 to

Cfcusey, sir, aajrwhe**," rolled Hie par turbed yoong man. "I dldnt know where eke to look." .. "Well, you might fe§ve_ aakgd M*.

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down to make his criticisms and comments upon the conduct of the review, Minor was simply amazed to find that instead of being in error Cram had gone exactly right and as proscribed by his drill regulations In wheeling to the right and gaining ground to the rear before coming up on the line. He almost peevishly deolared that he wished the colonel, If he proposed having a combined .review, would assumo command himself, as he didn't care to be bothered with combination tactics of which he had never had previous knowledge. Being of the some opinion, Braxton himself took hold, and the next performance, though somewhat erroneous in many rospects, was a slight improvement on the first, though Braxton did not give time for the battery to complete one movement before ho would rush it into another. When the officers assembled to compare notes during the rest after the second repetition. Minor |jfj growled that this was

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little better,

yet not good," which led to some one suggesting in low tone that the major got his positives and comparatives J| worse mixed than his tactics, and inquiring further **whether it might not be well to dub him Minor Major."

Ferry or Mr. Heree. The Lord knows you waste enough time with 'em." "Yon might have asked Capt. Cram," was.-what Drake wanted to say, but wisely did not. He bit the end of his penholder instead, and bridled his tongue and temper. "The next time I have a review with a mounted battery, by George!" said the post commander, finally, bringing his fist down on the table with a crash, "I just—won't have it!"

He had brought down the pile of letters as well as his fist, and Drake sprang to gather them, replacing them on the desk and dexteromsly slipping a paper cutter under the flap of each envelope as he did so. At the very first note he opened Brax threw fiimrtpJf back in his chair with along whistle of mingled amazement and concern, then, turned suddenly on his adjutant. "What became of Mr. Waring?,, Jle wasn't hurt?" 4ll "Not a bit, sir, that I know of. He drove to town with Capt. Cram's team —at least I was told so—and left that note for you there, sir." "He did!—left the post and left a note for me! Whyl—" But h«fe Braxton broke off short, tore open the note, and read: "Mr DEAR

Covoivsu:

trust you irUl over

look the informality of my poing to town without previously consulting you. I bad purposed, ot course, asking your permission, tout the mlthap that befell me In the runaway of my horse prevented my appearance at the review, and bod I waited for your return from tbe field it would have compelled me to break my engagement witb our friends the Allertons. Under tbe cirimmatances I felt sure of your complaisance. "As I hope to drive Miss AUerton down after tbe matinee, might It not be a good Idea to have tbe dress parade and tbe band outf They have seen the battery drills but are much more desirous of teeing the infantry. "Most sincerely yours,"

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"8. WARrsa^

"Well, for consummate impudence this beats the Jews!" exclaimed Brax. "Orderly, my compliments to Capt. Cram, and say 1 wish to see him at once, if he's back from stables."

Now, as has been said, Cram had had no time to change to undress uniform, but Mrs. Cram had received the orderly's message, had informed that martial Mercury that the captain was not yet back from staples, and that she would tell him at once on his return. Well, she knew that mischief was brewing, and her woman's wit was already enlisted in behalf of her friend. Hurriedly penciling a note, she sent a messenger to her liege, still busy with his horses, to bid him come to her, if only for a moment, on his way to the office. And when he cam?, heated, tired, but bubbling over with eagerness to tell her of the fun they had been having with Brax, she met him with a cool tankard of "shandygaff" which he had learned to like in England among the horse artillery fellows, and declared the very prince of drinks after active exercise in hot weather. He quaffed it eagerly, flung off his shako and kissed her gratefully, and burst all at once Into laughing narration of the morning's work, but she checked him: "NW, dear, dont stop for that yet. I know you're too full of tact to let Col. Braxton see it was any fun for you, and he's waiting at the office. Something tells me it's about Mr. Waring. Now put yourself in Mr. Waring's place. Of course he ought never to have made that engagement until he had consulted you, but he never dreamed that there would be a review to-day, and so he invited the Allertons to breakfast with him at Moreau's and go to the matinee." "Why, that rascal Ananias said it was to breakfast at the general's," Interrupted the battery commander

Well, perhaps he was invited there too. I believe I did hear something of that. But ho had made this arrangement with the Allertons. Now, of course, if review were over at ten he could just about have time to dress and catch the eleven-o'clock car, but that would make it very late, and when Bay Billy broke away from Ananias nobody couid catch him for over half an hour. Mr. Ferry had taken the section. Mr. Waring wasn't needed, and— Why, Ned. when I drove in, fearing to find hlca injured, and saw him standing there the picttire of consternation and despair, and he told me about his engngeircnt. 1 said myself: 'Why don't you go now?' I told him it was what you surely would say if you were here. Neither of us thought the colonel would object, so long as you approved, and he wrote such a nice note. Why, Ned, he only just had time to change his dress and drive up with Jeffera—" "With Jeffers? With my—-er—our team arid wagon? Well, I like—" "Of course yon like it, you old darling. Shs's sttch a dear girl, though just a little bit gushing, you know. Why, I said, certainly the team should go. But. Ned, here's what I'm afraid of. Mrs. Braxton saw it drive in at nine-thirty, just after Billy ran away, and she asked Jeffers who was going, and he told her Mr. Waring, and she has told the colonel, 111 wager Now, what you have got to do is to explain that to him. so thai he won't blame Mr. Waring/' •"The dickens 1 have! The moat barefaced piece of impudence even "Sain Waring Was ever guilty of-—to me, at leaf-t, though I've no doubt he's done worse a dosen times. Why, bless your heart, Nell, how can I explain? Yon mlgM, butr-" "Ifttt would ?ou have me suppose my big soldier couldn't handle that matter as well as 1? JCo, sir! Go and doit, sir. And, mind yon, Pm going to Invite them all up here to the gallery to hear the band play wad have a cup of tea and a nibble when they come down tills evening, He*a going to drive the Allertons here." "W«r«e a»d more of ill Why, you conspiracy in petticoats, youll be the ruin of me! Old Brax is boiling over now. If he dreams that Waring haa been taking liberties with him hell fetch Mat up ao short——'* "Ssaetiy! Yoa mustn't let him. You tell htm sent him up withyowr mind you—to keep hia engagement* since ft wm impaeelbie for him to oome back to review ground. Of warn HE KOOUBI eaqpeet him It

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"Dont know about that, NelL I reckon that's the way hell order out the whole gang of us next tune. He's 1 had his fill of mounted work to-day." "Well, if he should, you be sure to acquiesce gracefully now. Whatsoever yon do, don't let him put Mr.

Waring in arrest while Gwen AUerton is here. It would spoil—tsverything." vOh, match-making, is it? Then ni txy.n And

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vexed, but laughing,

half indignant, yet wholly subordinate to the whim of his beloved better half, the captain hastened over, and found CoL Braxton sitting with gloomy brow at his littered desk,' his annoyance of the morning evidently forgotten in matters riiore serious. "Oh—er—Cram, come in! eome in, man," said he, distractedly. "Here's a matter I want to Bee you about. It'6— well, just take that letter and read. Sit down, sit down. -Bead, and toUme what we ought to do about it**v JyflFf

And as Cram's blue- eyes wandered over the written page they began to dilates He read from start to finish, and then dropped his head into his hand, his elbow on his knee, his face fullof perplexity and concern. "What do you think of it? Is there any truth—" and the colonel hesitated. "As to their being seen together, perhaps. As to the other—the chal-J lenge—I don't believe it." "Well, Cram', this "is the second or third letter that has come to me in the same hand. Now, you must see to it thai he returns and doesn't quit "the post until this matter is arranged." "I'll attend to it, sir," was the answer.

And so that evening, while Waring was slowly driving his friends about the shaded roads under the glistening white pillars of the "rows of officers' quarters, chatting joyously with them, and describing the objects so strange to their eyes, Mrs. Cram's "little foot page" came to beg that they should alight a few minutes and take a cup of tea. They could not. The Allertons were engaged, and it was necessary to drive back at once to town, but they stopped for a moment to chat with their pretty hostess under the gallery, and then a moment later, as they rolled out of the resounding sallyport, an orderly ran up, saluted, and slipped a note in Waring's hand.

is immediate, sir," was his explanation. "Ah! Miss AUerton, WiU you pardon me one moment?" laid Waring, as he shifted whip and rems in the left hand and turned coolly up the levee road. Then with the right he forced open and heid up the missive.

It only said: "Whatsoever yon do, be here before taps to night. Come direct to me, and I will explain. Your friend,

CRAM."

"AU right," said Waring, aloud. "My compliments to the captain, and say I'U bo with him."

But even with this injunction he faUed to appear. Midnight came without a word from Waring, and the morning dawned and found him absent stiU. [2o be Continued Wext Week,"]

^HOW TO STOP HICCOUGHS.

Snggestl*ns For the Benefit of the Unhappy Victim.

The explosive and exhaustive little cough called hiccoughs is caused by the intermittent contractions of the laryns and diaphragm. Itis generally regarded as an indication of a disordered liver, but in children it is an unmistakable symptom of indigestion. As a rule it is spasmodic and passes off without need of treatment. At times the attack is serious, being distressing to the individual and annoying to his associates, and should be promptly treated,

One source of relief is a swallow of cold water. A fit of hiccough can be cured by sprinkling water on the face. Dashing a handful in the face is not pleasant surprise from a devoted friend or mother, but it is a sure cure, due perhaps as much to the sudden revulsion of feeling as to the water. If a baby has a hiccough, It is an indication that he has had far too much dinner. A change df position will bring relief, a favorite one being to put the well fed youngster on his stomach across the lap of his nurte.

An attack of hiccoughs in children is frequently followed by a bad night, either sleeplessness or the nightmare. Of course the mistake was in the surfeit the mother or the nurse must bear the blame and find away to stimulate digestion. It will be hard to keep the infant awike and dangerous to bathe him within tiree hours, but the old man's maxim max be tried on the smallest toddler:

After dinner sit awhfleji After sapper walk a

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Kow In Vpgae, They Are Beaatlfal.

After all the girl who wears with correct grace the old fashion^ gown of the renaissance, says the New York Sun, is the girl with the long curls and the short skirts. She wears it, too, ev6n as in the old days, with the low neck and short sleeves, as few grownup belles may dare. Bare indeed are the arms that may be exposed in broad daylight to a cold and critical world without blushing at their own temerity.

But the pink, dimpled beauty of the little lady, just out of babyhood, is most fascinating in the sprigged muslin frock she wears, with its pretty tucker of needlework drawn up about the low neck and its ftdl puffed sleeves, or in figured gown of challls or silk, with ruffles of lace broadening over the shoulder and narrowing toward the folded belt, showing between a gathered baby waist low in the neck and with, sleeves finishing with ruffles of lace jnstabove the elbow.'

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And there we, too, the dew little Dorothys and Elizabeths in their figured muslins of huge patterns and finished with the fichu of fine muslin crossed and tied at the back. AU modes and fashions in vogue among grown ups are .quaintly copied both in design and material for the little tots, so that the wardrobe of the nursery is not a replica of that arranged for the social world in which the mothers of the little maids Uve, move and have their being.—

These mothers study their little daughters with jealous eyes, determine the particular style which is most in keepbig with the children's individuality and display quite as much solicitude in conforming to this style as in emphasizing their own good points. Foolish moth-

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