Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1893 — Page 3

WAKING'S PERU.

O in S on a oil the family were overhauling' the Laecelles papers, and a dark-complex-* loned, thick-set, active little civilianwas maiHng frequent trips between." V, 1

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the department headquarters and bar-f

racks. At the former he compared notes with Lieut. Reynolds, and at the letter with Braxton and Craxn. The' last interview Mr. Allerton had befora' leaving with his family for the north was with this same lively party, the de

tective who joined them that night at

the St. Charles, and Allerton, being* a man of much substance, had tapped his pocketbook significantly. 1 "The difficulty just now is in having a talk with the widow," said this official to Cram and Reynolds, whom he had met by appointment on the Thursday following the eventful Saturday of Braxton's "combined" review. "She His too much prostrated. I've simply got to wait awhile, and meantime go

I about this other affair. Is there no I way in which you can see her?" Cram relapsed into a brown study.

Reynolds was poring over the note written to Braxton and comparing it with one he held in his hand—an Sold one, and one that told an old, old story. "I know ,you'll say I have no right to ask this," it read, "but you're a gentleman and I'm a friendless wornan deserted by a worthless husband.

My own people are ruined by the war, but even if they had money they wouldn't send any to me, for I offended them all by marrying a Yankee offlcer. God knows I am punished enough for that. But I was so young and innocent when he courted me. I ought, to 3 of left—I would of left him as soon as

I found out how good-for-nothing he really was, only I was so mnch in love I couldn't. I was fastenated, I suppose. Now I've sold everything, but if you'll only lend me fifty dollars I'll work my fingers to the bone until I pay it. For the old home's sake, please do." "It's the same hand—the same woman, Cram, beyond a doubt. She bled Waring for the old home's sake the first winter he was in the south. He told me all about it two years ago in Washington, when we heard of her the second time, Now she's followed him over here, or got here first, tried the same game probably, met with a refusul, and this anonymous note is her revenue* The man she married was a crack-brained weakling who got into the army the fag end of the war, fell in love with her pretty face, married her. then they quarreled and he drank himself into a randdle-head. She ran him into debt then he gambled away government funds, bolted, xvas caught, and would have been tried and sent to jail, but some powerful relative saved hiin that, and simply had him dropped —never heard of him again. She was about a month grass-widowed when Waring came on his first duty there. Ho had an uncongenial lot of brother fc^j^^oflieers for a two-company post, and ^••Veally had known of this girl and her people before the war, and she appealed to him, first for sympathy and help, then charity, then blackmail,

reckon, from which his fever saved him. Then she struck aome quarter master or other and lived off him for awhile drifted over here, and no soon cr did he arrive, nil ignorant of her presence in or around New Orleans, than she began pestering him again. When he turned a deaf ear, she probably threatened, and then came these anonymous missives to you and Braxton. Yours alwnj's came by mail, you any. The odd thing about the colonel's —tills one, at least—is that It was vHth his mail, but never came through the post office." "That's all very interesting." suld the little civilian, dryly, "but what we want is Evidence to ncquit him fend convict- somebody else of Laseelles' death What has this to do with the other?" "This much This tetter oamo to Braxton by hand, not by mail-bv harui, probably direct from her. What hand had access to the oftice the day when the whole command .was out n» review? Certainly no outsider. The mail is opened and distributed on its arrival at? nine o'clock. bv the chief clerk, or by the sergeant major, if he happens to be there, though he's gen* irally at guard mount. On this occasion he was out at review, l.eary. ohlei elerk. tells Col. llmxton he opened •nd distributed the mail* pitting the colonel's on Ma Koot was with him and helpe d. The third clerk came In later had been out all night, drinking. His name is Dawson. Dawson goes out again ami gets fuller, and when next brought home is put in hospital under a sen in Then he hears of the murder, bolts and isn't heard from since*. except as the man who helped Mr*. Doj le to get her husband home* He i* the fellow who brought that note, lie knew something of ifcs contents, for the murder terrif*M him. and he ran away. Find his t- and ij-ou strike that of the \vomau who •wrote these/' "BY the Lord, lieutenant, if you'll Kjult the army and take my place you'll make a name and a fortune," "And if you'll quit your plac* and take mine you'll get your coup de grace in some picayune lnd?rsr» light hud Im forgotten. So stay wl re you ore but find Dawson, find her, find Nvbal they know, and you'll be. famous."

Ping,

Th&t nlghU or very early nest mornthere was pandemonium at the It was clear, still, beautiful. A soft April wind was drifting \ap from the lower coast* laden with the perfume of sweet olive and orange blossoms. Mm. Cram, with one or two lady friends and a party of officers, bad been chatting in lew tone upon their gal!«ry until after eleven, but elsewhere about the moonlit quad* irangle all was silence when the seeond relief was posted. Far at the rear at the walled inclormre, where. In deference to the maimara and customs of war sa observed in the food old day* whereof our senior* teu, the sntier's establishment was planted within'

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easy hailing distance' of the guardhouse, there was still the sound of modified revelry by night, and poker and whisky punch had gathered their devotees in the grimy parlors gf Mr. Finkbein, and here the belated ones tarried until long after midnight, as most of them were bachelors arid Had no better halves, as had' Doyle, to fetch them home "out of the wet." Cram and his lieutenants, with the exception of Doyle, were never known to patronize this establishment, whatsoever they might do outside. They had separated before midnight, and little Pierce, after his customary peep into Waring's preserves, had closed the door, gone to his own room to bed and to sleep. Ferry, as battery officer of the day, had made the rounds of the stables and gun shed about one o'clock, and had encountered Capt. Kinsey, of the infantry, coming in from his long tramp through the dew-wet field, returning from the inspection of the sen-try-post at the 'big magazine. "No news of poor Sam yet, I suppose?" said Kinsey, sadly, as the two came strolling in together through the rear gate. "Nothing whatever," was Ferry's answer. "We cannot even form a conjecture, unless he, too, has been murdered. Think of there being a warrant out for his arrest—for him, Sam Waring!"

Well," said Kinsey, "no other conclusion could be well arrived at, unless that poor brute Doyle did it in a drunken row. Pills says he never saw a man so terror-stricken as he seems to be. He's afraid to leave him, really, and Doyle's afraid to be alone—thinks the old woman may get in." "She has no excuse for coming, captain," said Ferry. "When she told Cram she must see her husband to-day, that she was out of money and starving, the captain surprised her by handing her fifty dollars, which is much more than she'd have got from Doyle. She took it, of course, but that isn't what she wanted. She wants to get at him. She has money enough."

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"Yes, that womah's a terror, Ferry. Old Mrs, Murtagh, wife of my quartermaster sergeant, has been in the army twenty years, and says she knew her woll—knew all her people She comes from a tough lot, and they. had a bad reputation in Texas in the old days. Doyle's a totally different man since she turned up, Cram tells me. Hello! here's 'Pills the Less,' he suddenly exclaimed, as they came opposite the west gate leading to the hospital. "How's your patient. Doc?" "Well, he's sleeping at last. He Hcepis worn out. It's the first time I ve left him but I'm used upand wanta few hours' sleep. There Isn't anything to drink in the room, even if he should wake, and Jim is sleeping or lying there by him." "Oh, he'll do all right now, I reckon," said the officer of the day, cheerfully. "Go and get your sleep. The old woman can't, get at him unless she bribes my sentries or rides the air on a broomstick, like some other old witches Pve read of. Ferry sleeps in the adjoining room,.anyhow, so he can look out for her. Good night, Doc/YrAnd so. on they went, glancfng upward at tke sditu light just showing through the window-blinds in the gable end of Doyle's quarters, and halting at the foot of, the stairs. "Come over and have a pipe with me, Ferry." said the captain. "It's too beautiful a night to turn in. I want to talk to YOU about Waring, anyhow^ This thing weighs on my mind."^_4: l§^^

Done with you, for an iiour anyhow: said Ferrr. "Just wait a minute* till I run up and get my baccy."

Presently down me the young fellow again, meerschaum in hand, the moonlight glinting on his slender figure, so trim and jaunty in the battery

dress. Kinsey looked him over with a

srotle of soldierly approval and a whim-. ..

sical comment on the contrast between the appearance of this young artillery sprig and that of his own stout personality, clad as he was in a bulging b*r flannel sick coat, only distinguish a in cut and style from civilian

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pair Wished old •honlder «tn,ps.

Ferry was a swell His shell jacket fitted like wax. The Russian shoulder knots of twisted gold were of the handsomest make. The riding breeches, top boots and spv*s were such that even Waring could not criticise. HI) saber gleamed in the moonbeams, and Kinsey "s old leat hcr-covered sword looked dingy by contrast. His belt fitted trim aetd taut and waa polished his boot-tops Kinsey's sank down over the left hip, and was worn brown. Thesash Ferry sported as battery officer of the day was draped. West Point fashion, over the shoulder and croafid the waist, and accurately knotted and looped Kinsey"* old war-worn crimson net waa slung higgledy-piggledy over lite broad chest **What swells yoo fellowp in, Ferryr ha said, langfai^ly, tttiw

youngster came dancing down. "Even old. Doyle gets out here in his scarlet plume occasionally fod jtuts us doughboys to shame- What's the use in trying to make such a rig as ours look soldierly? [jf it fcvas& butlols our coa us look like parsons and our hats like monkeys. As for this undress, all thaj can be said in its favor is you- can4, spoil it even by sleeping out on- the levee in it. as I am sometimes tempted to da Let's go out there now.^|y

It was perhaps "quarter of two when they took their seats on the wooden bench under the trees, and, lighting their pipes, gazed out over the broad sweeping 'flood of the Mississippi gleaming like a silvered shield in the moonlight. Far across at the opposite shore the low line of orange groves and plantation houses and quarters was merged in one long streak of gloom relieved only at intervals by twinkling light. Farther up-stream, like dozing sea-dogs, the fleet of monitors lay moored along the bank, with the masts and roofs of Algiers dimly outlined against the crescent sweep of lights that marked the levee of the great southern metropolis, still prostrate from the savage buffeting of the war, yet so soon to rouse from lethargy, resume her sway, and, stretching forth her arms, to draw once again to her bosom the wealth and tribute, tenfold augmented, of the very heart of the nation, until, mistress of the commerce of a score of states, she should rival even New York in the volume of her trade. Below them, away to the east towards English Turn, rolled the tawny flood, each ripple and eddy and swirling pool crested with silver—the twinkling lights at Chalmette barely distinguishable from dim, low-hanging stars. Midway the black hulk of some big ocean voyager was forging slowly steadily towards them, the red light of the port side already obscured, the white and green growing with every minute more and more distinct, and, save the faint rustle of the leaves overhead, murmuring under the touch of

rrma LETTEB CAME TO BRASTOK BT HAST?, KOT BY MAIL. the soli, southerly night wind, l.ho splash of wavelet against the wooden pier, and the measured footfall of the sentry on the flagstone walk in front of the sally-port, not a sound was to be heard. •,

For awhile they smoked in silence, enjoying the beauty of the night, though each was thinking only of the storm that swept over the scene the Sunday previous and of the tragedy that was borne upon its wings. At last fcinsey shook himself together. "Ferry, sometimes I come out here for a quiet smoke and think. Did it ever occur to you what a fearful force, what illimitable power, there is sweeping by us here night after night with never a sound?" "Oh, you mean the Mississip," said Ferry, flippantly. "It would be a case of mops and brooms, I fancy, if she were to bust through the bank and sweep us out into the swamps." "Exactly! that's in case she broke loose, as you say but even when in the shafts, as she is now, between the levees, how long would it take her to sweep a fellow from here out into the gulf, providing nothing interposed to stop him?" "Matter of- simple mathematical calculation," said Ferry, practically. "They say it's an eight-mile current easy out there in the middle where she's booming. Look at that barrel scooting down yonder. Now, I'd lay a fiver I could cut loose from here at reveille and shoot the passes before taps and never pull a stroke. It's less than eighty miles down to the forts:" "Well, Vhen, a skiff like that that old Ana tele's blaspheming about losing wouldn^t take very long to ride over that route, would it?" said Kinsey, reflectively. "No, allowed to slide. But

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it in as a prixe—flotsam and what' you-may-call-*em. You see these old niggers all along here with their skiffs tacking on to every bi^ of drift wood that's worth having." "But, Ferry, do yon think they'd ven-

No, probably not Certainly not Anatole's boat." "Well, that's just what I'm afraid of, and what Cram and Reynolds dread." "Bo they? Well,sofar as that storm's concerned, it wonld have blown it down stream until it came to the big bend below here to tile east. Then, t^y rights, it ought to have blown against the left bank. But every inch of it has been scooted all the way to quarantine. The whole river waa filled with drift* though, and it might have been wedged in a lot of logs and swept out anyhow. Splendid ship, that! Who is she, do you suppose?"

The great blaek hull with its h^r traces? of maris and spars waa now just about opposite She barracks, slowly and wMfj—t1willy aseending Um

"One of those big British freight steamers that moor there below the French market, I reckon. They seldom come up at night unless it's in the full of the moon, and even then they move with the utmost caution. See, she's slowing up now." "Hello! Listen! What's that?" exclaimed Ferry, starting to his feet.

A distant, muffled cry. feA distant shot. The sentry at the sally-port dashed through the echoing vault, then bang! came the loud rqar of his piece, followed by the yell of:

i"Fire!

fire! The guard!" on in N W eekJ]

Feast of the Dolls.

In Japan there is one day in the year thai is called "The Feast of the Dolls." On that day all .the shops have finely dressed dolls in the windows, and beautiful collections of dolls are shown in all the public halls and theaters. There are big dolls, little dolls, boy dolls, girl dolls and baby dolls. Thousands of them and more too. They are dressed in bright, pretty silks and ate placed in such natural positions that yon have to look twice to be sure they are not alive. "The Feast of the Dolls" came a few months ago. And you cannot imagine what a pretty sight it was to see the dolls in their holiday attire, for this is a very beautiful senson in Japan, and the dolls were placed in windows filled with red quince blossoms and in little wagons loaded with pink apple blossoms.

A little American girl who lives in Boston was in Japan for the doll festival, and she was delighted with it. Her mamma took her to walk BO she might see'he streets lined with dolls, and the little girl laughed and clapped her hands again and again, laughing and shouting aloud at some of the queer things she saw.

In one of the windows there were big Japanese girl dolls carrying little boy dolls in what American children call "pick-arback" fashion. The little boys whb were carried appeared to be having a good time. But the girls screwed up their plump little faces and made eyes in a very funny fashion.— New York Ledger.

The Simplest Icing For Cake. There are housekeepers, and good ones, too, who affirm that icing for cake is made of the unbeaten white of the egg mixed with a cup of powdered sugar and the juice of half a lemon. They say that it is a mistake to beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth for this purpose, as is so frequently done. It takes much longer to make the icing if this is done.

CbeapPillowahams.

A young housekeeper says: "I Save all my scraps, however small, of white lace and embroidery, and I beg from my friends what bits I can. Then when I get enough just sew them together as you would make a crazy quilt and finish off the edge With lace ruffles. The result is the richest, most effective pillowshams for the least money that ever I have seen."

Our Public Schools

Are ttie main-stay of our republic, in them are being cultivated the minds which are to be our future law-makers and leaders in every walk in life. How essential it is that thene minds should be uuited to strong, heaithy bodies. So many children suffer from impurities and poisons in the blood that it is a nder that they ever grow up to. be men and women. Many parents cannot find words strong enough to express their gratitude to Hood's Narsaparilla for its good effect upon their children. Scrofula, salt rheum aud other diseases of the blood are effectually and permanently cured by this excellent medicine, and the whole being is given strength to resist attacks of disease.

Female Sufferers,—

Hear me. Many times I wished 1 was dead before I took

J?T. Pinkhams Vegetable Com* pound,

"I was discouraged, brokenhearted. I was so ill with female trouble I could not walk or stand, and had to be assisted to my feet when arisin^ from a nus.*" chair. My head whirled, and back ached, but worst of all was that awful crowding-down feeling in my abdomen.

A friend told me of the Vegetable Compound her faith won mine, and now

BOSTON,

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well. Oh! how can I return thanks to Mrs. Pinkham! Every woman troubled with uterus or womb troubles can be cured, for it cured me, and will them." Mrs. Kerhaugh, Juniata St, Nicetown, Pa.

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Baker & Watson, Agents, Terre Haute, Ind

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Impotency, Sexnal Abuse. Chronic Constipation, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Weak Eyesight, Female weakness or Irregularities, and Piles. On application question list of your disease will be sent, or call and see me.

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1:30 to 5 p. m. Monday, Thursday, Saturday. 7 to 8 p.

GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST.

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'.SAVE THE TACS.l ^^s

Ons Hundred and Seventy-Hires Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,

$173,250.00

In valuable Presents to be Given Away In Return for

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116.600 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, tor framing, no advertising on them 28,876 00 261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO $173,260 00

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To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from thia county we will give. 1 GOLD WATCH. To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of

SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES. To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET

KNIFE..... ....^7. 20 POCKET KNIVES, fo the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us tho next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I

ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARftTTOOTH PICK MO TOOTH PICKS, lb the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES send

UNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest fiPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I ICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS ....7 100 PI0TU5ESL

Total BT amber of PHsm for this County, m|

CAUTION.—No TagB will be received before Janoair 1st, IBM, nor a Each nockace containing tags must be marked plainly with Name Number of Tags In each package. All charges on packages must be prepaii plug tobacco produced. mvor from any

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absolutely, positively and distinctively A trial will convince the most skeptlcai of tbla fact.

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A list of the people obtaining these jprixes In this county will be published in this paper Immediately after February 1st, 1B9L

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YOUNG PEOPLE

TERRE HAUTE,

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