Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 October 1894 — Page 7

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_• promotion by fall." Anil so, Kuily enong-h, the veteran trooper had seen the qimuronn ride away, and ho was left jxile representative oi the co »msstoned''force of his rej*ua 11 at old Fort Ransom, and not till they had been gone two days did he note that Connie was drooping. "What is it. Little Mother, he said, fondly stroking back the tumbling mass of auburn hair and kissing her white forehead. "Tired out with all your household care? Growing too fast? Lot and Billy too much for you now?"

The big pathetic brown eyes were swimming a little, but she looked bravely up. "Perhaps it's spring fever," she said, with an attempt at laughing it ail lightly away. "I'm sure there's nothing else. I'm only a trifle fagged. It will be all right now that we can get out again in the sunshine every lay."

She was fastening his necktie for him at the moment then, patting his grizzled cheek, she took the whisk broom to dust the worn old fatigue coat pre-pa-atory to letting him stump forth on his halting way to the ordnance storehouse, but there came a rousing rat-tat-tat at the front door just at the instant, and, mammy being up to her elbows in flour and Penner away at the ©ommissary, Connie sprang to answer, and there, precise and soldierly as -ever, stood Schramm. "Why, Schr-r-amm!" she cried, delightedly. "Why—when—how did you get back?" "Sergt. Schultz, gnadige fraulein, was sent back with dispatches, find I •came with him. Is Herr Lieutenant within? I bring letters." And he handed her a packet. "Come right in, Schramm papa will be so glad to see you."

And thus bidden, yet ever unbending, Schramm stepped to the inner door, and there, hand at salute and heels together, he stood attention, his kb)d blue eyes alight with fidelity and affection. "Hello, Schramm!" exclaimed Morgan, limping around the big base burner with extended hand, which the soldier grasped respectfully an instant, then returned to his invariable attitude. "Well, you must have ridden hard." "Only forty-five miles, sir. We left them in camp on Bear Fork at midnight. There was news from the agency. We go back this afternoon with orders to catch them to-morrow at Painted Lodge."

Hurridly opening the packet, Morgan glanced over the contents—two official letters for himself, and a smaller note. "Why, Con, this is for you—from Thornton," he said, in surprise. Then, never noting the eager, almost incredulous light that flashed into her eyes, or the instant rush of color to her cheeks and brow, he tore open the first letter, an order from Tintop to send on •certain arms for the use of seouts. He glanced quickly up to send Schram for the ordinance sergent, but Schramm had disappeared. There stood Constance, her eyes dancing, her red lips parted, her bosom heaving, languor and pallor utterly banished from her face, grasping in both hands the letter he had given her, devouring its pages with all her soul in her eyes, utterly lost to him and to the world at large in the rapture of a young girl's first dream of love. For the first time in his life Morgan saw that his child was beautiful. For the first time it dawned upon him she was no longer a child. For the first time in his life the father called her to his side and she did not hear. "Connie," he said. Then at last, almost sternly, "Constance!" "Oh! what, papa dear? Forgive me, I was so—I was—" "Yes," said he, vaguely, feeling all helpless and bewildered yet. "Yes. What does he say? What does he write you?"

Another rush of color, anew flash in the great brown eyes, yet more hesitancy, more embarrassment. "Why, there's a letter for you, papa —he says so but—this is about somethin e'se."

Slowly Morgan turned, unwilling to think, reluctant to believe, unable to wound. It was all so sudden, so utterly unlocked for. What on earth could Thornton have to say to her? Where was the letter to him? Oh, here, inside Gray's dispatch. He tore it open: "Dear Old Man: In the mail sent forward to catch us there comes a weloonio letter from father. He says that Wall, of the Ninth, and Clinton, of the Sixth, have applied for retirement. You are sure of your double bars then before September, and we all are rejoicing. I couldn't help writing, as I wanted to be the first to tell yon. Please give the enclosed to Connie. Love to the kids, all three. Yours, P. T." Give what to Connie? He turned the envelope inside out, and there was no enclosure other than the letter. Mechanically he stretched forth his hand. "Let me see your letter, Connie," be said, and to his dismay she for an instant shrank back. Then, seeing the pain in his eyes, she sprang towards him. "Oh, do, papa read every word," she Raid. "Indeed, I'd rather—only he— only they didn't want yon to know it— just yet." But he did not seem to hear her. "I only asked to see if it could go In* side here," he said, slowly. "Thornton speaks of an in closure, and probably that was it. Here Schramm," he cried, hastening to the door, "will you tell tit® ordnance sergeant I want him right off? I'll meet him at the ante-room. Wait a minute just give me your arm down the steps." And, leaning on the blne-shirted, muscular shoulder, Morgan stamped away out through the little gate, out aercm the gr&my I»* jpanies

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rade where the infantry com were busy at drill and there was a had driven out to the but ,-mth cloud on both faces now, as, saluting at1• the gate, Schramm fell respectfully to the rear.

And yet, an hour later, when Morgan returned to his quarters and Lot and Uillv came tumbling tumultously to greet him, and he, moody and troubled, sent them off in suprome contempt to buy a nickel's worth of gum-drops at the store, then eamo slowly to his door, a vague sense of new trouble was tugging- at his heart, a doubt as to what he ought to do or say numbing his faculties, Pausing at the threshold, ho heard Connie's voice, low, rich, tremulous with happiness, singing one of her mother's old dear songs, a tiling she had not done since the bitter day they followed the mother to her grave, and the instant he entered she oarae to throw her amis about his neck and raise her glowing face to his lips. He took it between his hands and looked down gravely, fondly, yet with such a world of trouble in his eyes. The song was hushed. Once more the color mounted to her temples, but the big, soft eyes never flinched nor faltered. "Read that letter now, papa dear," she simply said. "1 want you to read it." And then when he would not, but sank wearily in his chair, she went and fetched the letter she had plaoed upon his desk, and perched herself upon the arm of the chair and nestled her soft cheek against his weathor-

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ALMOST STERNXY, "CONSTANCE!"

beaten jowl, and opened the note before his eyes, which in turn he promptly shut. Then she strove to pull them open by means of the lashes, and then he turned his head away. "I don't want to read the letter, Con," he said, remorsefully. "I never meant to let our Little Mother think I—" "Then I'll read it, papa," she began, interrupting him, whereat he clapped his hands to his ears. "Well, at least you must see the picture," she cried, and, jumping up, she ran to the mantel with a tintype, alikeness of a tall young fellow with a downy mustache arrayed in cavalry scouting garb, with prairie belt and holster, a very presentable young dragoon, too, the second lieutenant of Manning's troop but the eyes of the first lieutenant thereof looked less kindly on this counterfeit presentiment than ever they had upon the face of the original. "Where was it taken?" he asked, rather abruptly, feeling that he must say something. "Mr. Thornton says an itinerant artist drove out from town and met them at the first camp and took quite a number and some groups. He had two of them taken just like this, to send home, and dropped the odd one in here, saying it was a philopoena and a bribe." "Bribe? For what?" demanded Morgan. "Why should he bribe my little girl?" "Oh, there was no need," she laughed, blithely. "He—they all, he said, wanted something your Connie was only too glad to get and give. Now you must read it and see for yourself, papa."

But he would not. He was ashamed of the fear that for a moment had possessed him, that she had consented to a correspondence with Thornton without asking her father's counsel—she, his little Connie, his first-born. True, she was older at fifteen than many town-bred girls at twenty, for her childhood had been nipped in the bud, and since those slender shoulders had borne the care and burden' of woman for two long years, was it to be forbidden her to know aught of woman's glory? Only, had he been blind all the time? Day after day had Thornton been their visitor, yet never in all that time had the father seen or suspected in the young officer any more interest in Constance than he displayed in Lot or Billy. True, she was almost always a silent attendant at their daily game, or an absorbed listener to their talk, rarely leaving them except to go Into the other room to moderate the clamor of the youngsters, who, being burly and aggressive, were too often involved in a game of give and take in which they were fairly matched. But Thornton's manner to her, which was at first simply kindly and jovial, as it was to the other children, had certainly changed to greater deference as the winter wore on. Little by little he saw how her father leaned upon the girl, how thoughtful, how devoted she was. He had been reared a gentleman. He had a mother and sister whom he dear! loved, and from earliest boyh he had been taught by his soldier father the lesson of gentleness, courtesy, and consideration. From the other officers in the regiment, most of whom had known her in pinafores, her greeting was simply "Hello, Coal* or "Morning, Connie how's dad today?" Thornton's impulse from the first when he met this tall slip of a girl in solemn black was to oall her "Miss Morgan," which made her blush furiously. Later on, laughed at by the veteran sub., he had compromised on "Miss Connie," but not until he had been a dally visitor for several months had it oome to "Connie." Morgan never knew how she had fled to her room and nearly cried her eyes out the morning the battalion marched away. It was siter breakfast that Mrs. Woods had oome for her and, with otVr la-

of the post, from whose side the Mini Ska could bq. traced. fo£ miles, but to

whose summit Connie alone hurt been u, ld and active enough to climb. All ho a'*w

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At noon the sergeant came to say the stores were boxed and ready for shipment. Would the lieutenant sign the invoioes? Over at the adjutant's office the infantry*bugler had just sounded mess and orderly call. The companies were going in to dinner, the noise and bustle around the barracks contrasting strongly with the silence and desertion over there across the parade where stood the cavalry quarters. As Morgan came forth into the bright sunshine of the first June day, he noted how the snow-belt on the distant peak had lifted higher in the last forty-eight hours, and thought, with a heavy sigh, how care and trouble had sunk so'much deeper around his heart. Maj. Rhett, of the infantry, temporary commander of the post, was standing by the sun-

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TERRE ha PT1C SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, OOTOBBR 20,1894

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the mother's loss but It wm as nothing compared ?]Sf" yearning that possessed «Nm Who was there to counsel, who there to take his beloved child to K®r heart, and with mother love and RyW^thy, with mother kiss and clasping arms, In the sure haven of mother's ohangeleW love win from the virgin soul its chei^ ished secret, then guide and guard and oounsel as only mothers can?

Poor Morgan I lie would not read the boy's frank letter. That might Imply doubt of his little girl. He could not oonsult such friends as Mrs. Freeman she luvd taken hey babies and flitted away to the seashore for the summer, Mrs. Stannard, onoe his wife's kind friend and adviser, had gone long months before, when the major went to his new station. There were loving women, kind women, motherly women at the post, yet not those to whom he could speak of anything so sacred. Neither could he bring himself to the faintest reference to the matter in talking with his child. There was simply one thing which he oould do, thought Morgan. All the winter he had been growing fond and fonder of tho brightfaced, glad-voiced, soldierly young fellow but now, now, if it should transpire that all this time Thornton had been laying siege to Connie's innocent heart, he could hate, him and,, in time crush and punish.

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dial as Morgan and his sergeant came trudging along. One or two officers were with him. A telegraph message was in his hand, and he was looking strangely worried. All of the group ceased their talk and glanced at Morgan as he neared them. "The ordnance stores are ready for shipment, major," said he. "The colonel will have a couple of wagons at Alkali station to meet the freight to-night. We have billed it there." "How far were they camped from Alkali last night, Mr. Morgan?" "How far, sir? Well, they were. on Bear Fork, probably fifteen miles north of west of Alkali. They camp to-night at Willow Springs, and to-morrow under Painted Lodge Buttas, and—" "Yes, I know." interrupted the commander, "and it was at Willow Springs Maj. Graves was to meet and pay them, I believe?" "So I heard, sir. Though at first I rather imagined they wouldn't be paid now until after next muster." "Well, they won't. Graves was robbed at Minden station, early this morning, of every dollar, and the robbers wore cavalry uniforms." [TO BE CONTINUED.]

AUTISTIC MANTELS.

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Wltat M*utifi»fltnren» Are Dolnf to fttsk* the Opnn Flreiilne* an Attractive Feeture—Speaial Design* and Their Ornamentation—The Popular Colonial Mantel,

There we many manufacturers of mantels and fireplaces throughout tho United States who are endeavoring to embody every new feature to improve

MANTEL IN BRICK, IRON AND WOOD.

and make the open fireplace one of the most attractive objects in a room. That success in this particular line has been attained is evident to all who inspect the larger showrooms where everything pertaining to the mantel and fireplace is displayed. These rooms oontain hundreds of designs in andirons, fenders, fire sets, linings, screens, artistio wrought iron and steel work, tile of every description for hearths, faoings, floors and various other uses, marbles and compositions as well as every known means of heating from the smallest room to the largest building.

Among a number of designs for mantels depicted by Decorator and Furnisher is ask artistio suggestion worked out in briok, iron and wood. The shell and top board are of wood, preferably of oak. The body part of the mantel is of any kind of brick, speckled or Tiffany brick being a handsome material, or a terra vitrise glazed tile or briok makes a handsome and artistio effeot. The corner irons and frames are of thin wrought iron, studded every four or five inches with old bolt heads riveted to the bands, with the heads battered a little ant of shape to lend them antique appear* ance. The linings to the fireplace may be built of brick, or they may be of iron, as a matter of choica The brick will be rather more artistio and will receive from the fire an uneven coating of black that sometimes leads an antique appear ance that is appreciated by the lover of odd things.

A seoond design that works out well for a sitting or bedroom and is effeotive in almost any wood mav reoeive itg ornamentation at the hands of an artistio amateur by following the directions of the au|writy quoted: Construct the mantel^of pine or tfhitewood, paint it a cream white, with five or six successive ooats of paint for inside use.

When the last coat is thoroughly dry, rub the painted surface with very fine sand paper to obliterate the brush mark, and with oil colors paint across the top a branch of apple wood, leaves and a few ripe red or yellow apples. Scatter a few along the frieze below the shelf, and if nioely exeouted the effeot will be very pleasing.

Other branches or sprays may be used in place of apple. A branoh of dogwood or a piece of foxglow vine works in very prettily. A bow of pine needles with the cones and with a few cones

MANTEL DECORATED IN OIL COLORS,

scattered across the frieze, with some pine needles as if fallen there and dried, or a vine of

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top and across the corner of the glass will form a pleasing decoration. The oolonial mantel, too familiar to oall for description, is still a popular design, being simple in construction, inexpensive to make and tasty in appearanoa This style of mantel makes up well in any native wood, such as oak, ash, oherry, birch, hazel, whitewood, eta When worked in natural wood, this design calls for carved ornaments in low relief to be applied to the wood, either before or after they are carved.

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Pat 4 cups of granulated sugar with 3 of water and a cup of thick cream in a kettle stir until the sugar dissolves add a tablespoonful of butter and a pinch of soda. Let boil nntil it is brittle. Flavor with vanilla Poor into buttered plates and cool quickly. Take np and poll rapidly and evenly nntil the fruuM becomes soft and smooth to the touch. Draw out into flat sticks and let ttand in a dry place nntil creamy then drop in wax or buttered papers and put away in an airtight box.

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I COVER FOB UPRIGHT PIANO.

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^As an upright piano stands most frequently out from the wall and is plaoed so that the back is toward the entranoe to the room, where it is much seen, it has become necessary to have drapery for the back as well as the top and front A design of orchids, given in an illustration in Ladies' Home Journal, shows the back and top for a cover for an upright piano. It may be worked in two sections. The two portions, embroidered as shown, would be very handsome, but a selection of the design may be made and simply the back embroidered, the front and top being left unadorned, making the cover much less expensive.

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When housecleaning, remember that it only requires half as much rest to prevent great fatigue as it does to reoover from II.

Plaster of paris is brat for mending holes in walls. Wet only a small amount at a time, as it quickly hardens.

Prepare fennel tea like any tea and add a little to each bottle of milk for babies troubled with wind colic.

All you can do for bronzes is to keep them well wiped and dusted. If more is required, they should be sent to a professional cleaner, as they have a peculiar finish that is very easily injured.

Have at hand a strong pole to use as a lever in lifting heavy pieoes of furniture off the carpet when you take it up, and secure one of the men to do the hoisting.

It is quite correot to drink bouillon torn the cup as well as to take it with 1 spoon.

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