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12 TUB OMAHA DAILY BEE : TITI3-5DAY. OCTOIflfllt S50. 1897. KYDSE TOUCHED THE BUTTON Another Episode in the Stirring Life of a Pawnee Orphan , .INDIAN ATTACK ON WHITE HORSE STATION r.nnn anil FlrrrrnrltrrNiinl | nnil limit I Inliullnii I'lrntvH . , UliuriH'ti-rNtlc Slorj- J | of tin I'liilim. | , * _ " _ ( Copyright , HO" . ! > > ' Cy Wnrman. ) nc'ndg.irte Indiana had mailo BO tnnrh j trouble atVlilto Horse station that Whin- ' avv , the station keeper , and Mttle Kyuce , the Pawnee boy whom ho had adopted , determined to make It hot for the next Rang tli.it called. ] White Homo wan the wlldcei , most i danKiTous and desolate station on the pony i express line between St. Joe and Sacramento. j The place had been cleaned out on an average - ago of oactf a month since Its establishment , and Wells , Kargo & Co. , who owned the I ' business , were growing weary flndlng horses , and feed for nil the lawless hands In Wyom . ing anil surrounding territories. They had ashed Whlpsaw what ho re quired for the better protection of the sta I tion ; and the ponies galloped back to Sacra mento with his answer. I "A Jug of squirrel whisky , six six-shooters , I a whole lot of firecrackers and a man. " ' The man with the supplies came tip from California , a few days later , and Whlpsaw began to build his traps. He had been a trapper by profession up to the time ho came to U'hlto lloreu tc > take charge of the stallra. He gave two of the nix-shooters to the now man , llltcM a log with the help of his companions , and fixed the other four firmly In n crack , all pointing Into the cabin and toward the door. These Instrument of death were so grouped that Little Kyuse , lying on the dirt roof of the lean-to , could work them. A chink \\3S knocked nut and through this opening the boy was expeetcl j to fceil the fireworks when the house was full of Indiana ! They made the "cat hole" largo enough fyr I Little Kyuse , and In tint way he rculd slip I from the oibln to the stable , and to to thereof i roof jof the slicd. When tie boy had p'ayed with his battery and bewildered , the Indians , with a wild yell of de. i lr , turned to fly. CV tchlng glimpses of the glare of the gun th.it were aimed t them from the tiljs the savages now rushed townrd those yellow tinmen. Instantly the men dropped back , like so many pmlrlo dogs , pulled the doors down and were gone. Doing unable 'o compute with nn enemy tli t eoUld make Itself visible or Invisible nt will , that could come and go like the spirits of the dead , the Indians , with another wild , dcittAlrlng | cry , fled from the field , leaving the dead'to the mercies of the mjfl- tcrlous foe. V13I.OCITV OF Cl.NMI.V IIAM..S. Can > lie Titlil In n St'CMimlS Inllii- li'Mlnml I'raollon , An Invention of the greatest Importance to military science has reached Sandy Hook from Fortress Monroe , where It had been 'submitted to tests which demonstrated Its effectiveness nv.st satisfactory. It Is an Instrument made by Prof. John A. Ilrashcar of Allegheny awl called a photo-chrono- gnph. Its purpose Is the measuring of the peed of onnnon balls. The photo-chr.no- graph nt Sandy Hook Is the second con- strupted for the United Slates government , relates the New York Herald , but Is more complete than Its predecessor. Jn the present Instrument but a single lever Is used to fire the gun , to start the tuning fork to vibrate , to open the main shutter and ale to release the electric con- ncotlons which throw the beam of light on the photographicplate. . That Is , as BOOH as the lever Is pulled the cannon Is fired to stilke n wire nt any point desired. This opens the way to the photographic plate , which Is rotating 1,500 revolutions per min ute. A F.treak . Is made on the photographic plate , the length of which Is determined by the rapidity with which the ball Is moving , as also the point at which the ball cuts thd 'second ' wire , where It Instantly strikes oil the beam of light. As this distance can bo readily measured the question Is to determine how 1 tig tlie , ball Is between the two wires. Iloforo the ! cannon ball strikes the first wire nny distance In front of the cannon a tuning fork Is set In vibration , and through n dell- _ cute opining In n small dliphragm on ono ' of the prongs of the tuning f rk n powerful i beam of light Is sent on to thn photographic plate. The vibrations of the tuning fork are known exactly , and as this makes .1 sinuous streak of light alongside of .ho rtreak produced by the moving can n MI hill it \ < ° only ft qutsilon of meaourlng the vlbr.v Urn of the tuning fork covered by this p'rrik. ' as alsn the fractions of a vibration , In measuring the fraction of the vibr.itlon of a tunlnc ; fork Is wheto the m st delicate woik romci In. Ader the photographic plate Is developed h ! ' V > i > U UTTLK KYUSE I ) KG AN WORKING HIS UATTKUY. and had mastered the mystery of the fire crackers WhliteUW expressed the belief that ithe thing would be a success. Little ICyusc grinned with ravage delight as he listened } o the din of the revolvers and the noise of crackers. THR AMI1USCADE. Almost 100. yards from the cabin door end some forty or fifty yards-opart they dug three pits , long enough for a man to He down In. These pits were covered over w Ith stout wllloHH and earth , save a space at the end next to the , housu. which was covered by it trap door , hung to ono of the willows by strong leather straps. The tops of the doora were carpeted with burlap that had been wut and dabbed on the desert until It caught the color of the earth. It WHS summer time and Whlpsuw , the extra man and the rider , who was lying over there , now took their blanket and slept In the pits Little Kyuse , the 7- year-old 1'awneu slept In the cabin , for no Indian could come near him without his knowledge of the presence of the stranger. They had been sleeping out for more tlun a month , and the pony oxpreFs riders had begun to complain when th < > westbound rider , duo at White Horse nt midnight , failed to arrive. . At 1 o'clock Little Kyuse crept out to where Whlpsaw slept and whispered. "Heap long tlmo mo no sco 'cm Kyuse. " "What you see ? " "Mo see 'cm heap gun far awny , boom , boom , boom , " said the boy. Ono of the many peculiarities of Little Kyuso was that he never "heard" anything. He Insisted always that ho "saw" It thunder , or tint ho "saw" the Kyuso. the pony bring ing the mail , far away In the dead of night. So Whlpsaw knew that ho had heard the. sound of llreai-ms. and made no doubt that the PxpttHs rider had been killed. Whlpsaw ordered the boy to creep to tliu other pits , warn the men and get back to Ills plade. The jug of "bug-juice , " as ho called It , Whlpsaw had kept constantly just Inside tlio open door of the : cabin. Presently nn Indian came crouching under the owe of the ahod. Little Kyuso peeping over could sco his bent back , directly under him , and could hardly resist the temptation to plug him with tin- short rlflu that had been given him by the express company , hut lie knew that this wim only a scout or spy and that moro Indium were at hand. In a little while the Indian worked his way to tint cibln door , found tlio Jug , Binel'cd ' of It , * ook a drink and then darted away as noise lessly as a cat. It was some tlmo before a sound \uit licaid. for the band of ronegndes would not stir until they had drained tlio two-gallon Jug. Uau-Ily these band.j were small , from six < o R do/.cn men , but tula gang had thirty or forty dcxpcrnto Indians In It. The first Intl- jnaUrn Llttlo Kyuno hud of the return of the band was the patter of feet , like the noise by A baml of IIOJH running barefoot down a dusty lane , und then he saw the dirk forms of the Indians coming for the cabin like a swarm of grasshoppers. HOT KICIIITINQ. They bellovod that all the people of the station were In the house asleep and woul.l Tomight like rats In n twp. Outside the door tliny paused for an Instant , draw their liatrliets and then rushed Into the cabin. As H./-OII as ho heard their shuUIIng feet upon 4ho lloor Llttlo Kyusi began working hl lattery. The Indians without lushed to the roEpuo of their comrades within , who , being unable to lind the door , endeavored to lly from a hngan whoso very walls breathed thunder and lightning. The moment he had oir.ntlod DUO cluimber of iMcli of the pUtoU the Indian boy Ughted a few hundred fire crackers and slioveJ them through the crack , rolled loosely In a nonspape- as to hide tha flro , When these luvau to e\plmlo amid the savages ( lie boy began the work of emptying the revolvers that were fixed fust In the wall. To add tn the confusion the mon In the. pits now ( iut up their heads anil each emptied i pair of forty-lives Into the strug gling , Kccthlng band of favours. Those runn ing lu collided with those coming out anil ( hey all utumbltM and fell over the twisted bodies of the dying and the tload. In the Minding smoke the drunken Rivagcs began firing their rifles , wildly , or hacked ono an other to death In the awful da1 Knots of DIP place [ all of which the mare confuted the Indians without , causing them to contlnuo the struggle to gain an entrance to the cabin. Hach panning moment added to the axv ful ness of the scene. The wild war whoops of ttieto painted ( Unites of the p.aln , the tattle of rill of , the shrieks of the \vj : n Jed and tha. strangled cry uf the dlns were horrible toi licar. v Having reloaded their slx-shootrrs , la have handy fo- close fighting , tin men In the ( ills now began to use their rillrs on the wild rabblu of relinking , who were struggling at the door of the rubln , FJudlng 110 one to attack , lunlc-atrlcKeu It Is placed under a divided circle and the relations of the two photographic streaks measured with a micrometer. So exact has this method been found that the movement of a cannon ball two or three Inches can readily be timed. Heretofore measurements of such short In tervals have been utterly Impossible , because no photographic shutter that had weight could bo moved In such a brief space of time , and It Is In this very point that the new macl'lno is such a perfect ono of its kind. Instead of moving something that has mass the light from an electric arc Impinges on two Nlcols prisms , which lie at right angles to one another. In this position it Is Impossi ble for light to pess through at all , and It was Dr. Grchore who discovered that if a powerful current of electricity bo passed through a coil placed between these Nicola prisms the light lUelf can be rotated with out rotating the prisms. It can be readily seen that the electricity acts as , the shutter , and as on electric cur lent has no weight it can be moved In an Incredibly short space of time ; and even with Hie lag lint accompanies nil motion , any view lasting over the one hundred thou sandth part of a second can bo photo graphed. If jou want to be on the tafo side , stick t * the old reliable , DHull's Cough Sjrup. It Is sold by dealers everywhere. TIII : purcAruiiii's SU.AHY. An aiiprtkliNt Mulct's a Coiitrat't U'hU'li | 'II > H Illni V < ! > Well. In certain sections of the United States , notably In those where the religious ex pression Is- the strongest and the congrega tions the poorcot , and these characteristics are always combined , there Is an ever-prcfent ccntllct as to what the preacher ought to have and what he Is going to get , and It was Ci'i this subject a vUItlng preacher talked the other Sunday at dinner with a reporter of the Washington Star. "At ono of my appointments where I had been called , " he was saying , "to conduct a revival I heard a couple of the mombeis talking , though they did not think 1 was near enough to'henr. " 'I wonder what that fellow expects to uct ? ' said one. " 'All ho can raise , of couiw , ' said the other. " 'He wears good clothes , and they've got to bo paid for. ' " 'Yes , end I reckon wo might as well make up our minds to pay for 'em. ' "Tho conversation was becoming personal , and before It got too much EO and I would hp placoj where It would bo decidedly em barrassing , I broke In : " 'Now , look here , brethren. ' rald I , 'you don't have to worry about what you are going to pay mo. You don't have to pay mo a cent unless you want to , and I am not here to get money for my work. SHI ! I have to live , and I'll agree to this over time jou get a lleh Iri my sermons while I am hero you Just give mo a nlcUel. and If I don't hit you at all It won't co t you a cent. Now , Is that fair' . ' Is It a baigaln ? ' "They agreed to It with great unanimity , and I went ahead with my preaching , doing the best I knew how and praying for strength to tell the truth to the people and toi help them to bo belter mon and women , end 1 kept It up tor a week and was ready to Etart In on the second week , when ono of my men came to mo behind the little log meeting hoiuo where I was reading my blbie. " 'So you'rendlng to preach another week ? ' ho ( aid anxiously. " 'Yes , ' saia I. " 'Well , for the Lord's t-ake , Ilrother Hud son ' ho said In the most pleading tones , 'I wteh you'd null and go home. Ypu vo hit me so many licks already that I'll liavd to tell the only pair of mules I'vegot and a yoke of ycirlln' cattle to pay 5on what I ewe you already , and If > ou stay another week I'll have to give up the farm and put a chattel mortgage on the old woman und the children , ' , "Of course ; ' , } laughed the preacher , "It wasn't quite'is hid as ho made It appear , but I had made a good friend of him. and ho not only paid hh fparo willingly , but Insisted on my coming again and staying twice as Irirg. " Ill IIOIK'HI lll'llll-l > , "Wo could not say t > o much in favor of Chamberlam'ii Cough Heinedy. About Ihrro > oars ago oneof our children had an attack of croup and we were nfrald that we wouM lo * him. Seeing Chamberlain's Cough Hemedy. advertltcd we decided to give It a trial. It gave almost Instant relief and we bcllovo It saved the .child's life Flnct > ihen , wo have never been without u bottle of this remedy In the house ami wo reumimcnd It to every one as being nn honest rough rem edy. " L. W. Nlchol , Uaat New Market , Md. The Lot of Hofraotorj Privates Eomo Twenty Years Ago. BARBARITIES THAT BROUGHT A REFORM I'ro IMiokliiK anil Trultlnit In tin- Hull K HticUInu anil ( iiiKKlHK 1'rlNiMK-rn Who Wouldn't lie Coniiucrcil , The case of Private Hammond , who , nt ! ' \ > rt Sheridan the other day , was dragged by the heels a distance of 600 feet. Including some stairways , by order of the officer of he dny , attracts more attention to-'ay than t would have done twenty years ago. Then cruel and unusual punishments IMccd were meted out to refractory soldiers of the United States army , relates n correspondent of the Vow York Sun. In thote dajs a ten or thirty-day trick In the gilardhourc was not n comparatively minor matter as It Is now. The soldier who nowadays lands In the guardhouse \lrunkennefs , Irnubordlnatlon , leglect of duty , or nny other violation of regulations Is put to work at some job oiolind the post from fatigue call In the morning until recall from fatigue late In : ho nflcrncon. Th'o work Is never hard. It Is mostly of the pottering around sort .oHcIng around the quarters swecplrg brick walks , washing windows , trimming hedges , mowing grass , or something of that sort. The only discomfort connected with the work Is that It Is always performed under the watchful eye of a sentry with a leaded gun. On t'-e other hand , the guardhouse prisoner gits every night In that Is. he is permitted to slumber peacefully on the comfortable liunk lr. his guardhouse cell , while his com rades who have not committed themselves have to tnke their turns stan'dlng guard over him through the watihes of the night. 5"or ( Ms reason , no-account soldiers are often heard to express their Intention of getting themselves Into the guardhouse for the pur pose of resting. CAUUYING THR LOG. The soldlci who worked himself Into the gunrdhcuso prior to 187 ! ) did not got every night In , nor an > night In , from the day ho began his term until its cud. He walked his pest , two hours on and four off , from the be ginning to the termination ot his sentence , llut ho d d ro . carry a gun while on poH. He shouldered an unbarkcd log. from clx to eight feet in length and weighing from seveaty to 100 pounds , and the man In his roar carried the rille. The business of the so'dlcr'with th. ? rifle wns to sco that the soldier with the log kept LII the move up and down In front of the guardhouse , from the time he went on post until relieved , nt the end of two hours , by another guardhouse prisoner , to whcsc shoulder the log would bo transferred. It was aUo the sentry's duty to sec that the "log- luunper did not drop his burden. The pris oner eou'd shift it from one shoulder to the other , or carry It under his arm , or horizon tally In fruit of him , or any other way he chose ; but he had to carry It , and ho hid to keep moving , on pain of being indented with the point of a bayonet. There are humltcda of old coldlcrs Ktill In the United States army who did their little trick or tricks at "tree packing" in the old days , and none of them speaks with the s ightebt degree of enthusiasm of the Job. The guardhouse pris oner of large physique was out of luck in thcso dijs. A lOO-jiound log was Invariably bestowed upon him. The smaller logs were reserved for the prisoners of less bulk. WORKED OUT THE BOOZE. "It was u. hard game and no mistake " said an old so'dler at the Washington arsenal In commenting upon this punishment of the loKn , "but It had one advantage. It would work the ruin out of a man who had been on a long toot qulckcr'n anything 1 over saw or heard of. It waa pretty raw for a man who had been up against sutler store whisky for a wek or so to bo slnrumcd Into .tho mill heforo ho had even begun to think about so bering up , and then ho chased out In front of the clink with ono of those big slippery elm trees on his back that felt like It weighed a ton. Hut at the end ot his first two hours he'd be hobcr all right , and at the end of his next two hours he'd begin to feel like eating , whereas , if he'd been in his cell to sleep It off he'd ha woke up a wreck. " It was while packing a log on the second- btory balcony of the guardhouse at Fort Leavcnworth that Chief Douglas , one of the head men of the Ncz 1'crces tribe , which was rounded up in a bUnch at that garrison in 1S78 , made his escape. Douglas was too re fractory to be permitted to remain with the tribe , which was encamped , surrounded by a strong chain guard , In a clearing back of the post. He whooped It up to such an ex tent In the guardhouse one night , keeping all hands awal.e. that the commanding olll- cer dec'ded ' to give him some leg drill ti make him sleepy. Douglas who was a gi gantic , sinewy , magnificent-looking Indian could not see the thing nt nil at first , and merely shook his head with a look of Im measurable disgust when lie was requested to go on log p'rade on the balcony. He was locked In his cell , and there he did some thinking. The next morning he sent his respects to the officer of the guard and re quested the privilege of exercising with u log on the balcony. His request was granted and I)3Uglns picked out the biggest log in the cord , probably out of bravado , and began his march back and forth across the balcony. The sentry patroled his post on the ground below. About half an hour after Douglas took up his log ni'irch the sentry saw the tall figure of an Indian In midair. Douglas picked himself up in a fraction of a second mid was off for the woods like a deerhound. The sentry fired at him , but the redskin never turned , and he gained the shelter of the dense forest surioiimling the p st before the lemalnder of the guard knew whH wns the matter. The whole post , cavalry and all was turned out after the Indian three minutes after he leaped from the balcony. They got Douglau about four months later In Oregon. TIIOTTING' ' THE HULL KING. Ono of the punishments meted out to the cavalrj man who" got into the guardhouse under the old regime was "trotting the bull ring. " Tlio bull ring Is the circular trick upon which the hoi sea uio exorcised ulion there Is not much doing.around Uio post hi the way of dillls on account of Inclement weather , Upon the' smooth surface of the bull ring the fractious cavalryman of n couple of decadis ago was roiulrod to CUBO ) the intanglblo air at regular Intervals , named in the uenter.ee , e\ery day of hU conllno-.nent. Hlb bull ring work was no go-as-you-please walking match , either. He could go at any pace Kwiftcr than a walk but he was not allowed to walk. Heol-aniJ-toe business was baried. If ho ehoso to work It out In canter ing the Bcntry was agiceahlo. did he prefer the less graceful , but also the less Irksome trot , the sentry hadn't a word to say ; but If for a single Instant he relapsed Into a com mon , everyday walk he would hear the sen try's command , lllu- the crack of a circus rlngmaster'b whip , "Shako her up there , Pete ; what do you think this Is , a practice march ? G'lang ! " and If the bull ring pounder know his gait he would leave off walking right away. The bull-ring work was good for wind and nnu-cle , but It was hard and galling. A soldier unde'goln ? a bull ring sentence dropped dead from heart disease at a post in the southward ono day about seventeen 5car ? ago , , and then the bull ring punishment W-is abandoned. nAKHAUITY 1HUNGS KKKOHM. It was reserved for the commanding officer of nn Arizona post , a one-company outfit , to Inflict ea barbarous punishment upon an of- femlli'K soldier that the whole scale of pun ishments In the United States army wca 10- vltcd and mudo hint and tint. This com manding ofllccr was a captain , and the affair | happened In 1879. He had In his company a eoldlcr who was a u-ry hard ease , and put In moat of his time In the guardhouse. Ho cnmp'fted n guardhouse term In the autumn I of 1&79 , ami Immediately repaired to the i rear-by town of whisky uhacka and made j himself exceedingly drunk. He returned to ) the pout with the announced Intention of lazing It 10 the level of the desert and tiring p volley over Its aches. The/ captain had him Icpsoood as he uau entering the po < jt. The captain then constituted himself a sum- mury court-martial and pawed upon the case. j He ordered that n hole sufficiently largo to I recelya the upright body of a man bo dug I In the sand of the parade ground When tbc hole was dug the captain ordered that the hard ca o soldier bo Blood In It tip to hi * neck nnd that the sand be than repacked around him ns tightly ns possible , covering his arms and shoulders , nnd leaving only hln head protrudlnn above the ground. The captain's ordcrn were obeyed , but It afterward came out that the captain's We hung by n thread , so bitter was the ani mosity Inspired among the men on account of this cruel action. The offending noldlcr. Ktl'l ' moro than half drunk , was packed In the sand hole , his head nlono catching the rays , of the bl.vlng oml troplcal sun. and n sentry wns plnced over him. The sun was nothing compared to the desert ante. The desert ants ' eent out their couriers to the highways nnd by was s nnd dunes nnd hollows , nnd It wns no tlmo nt nil before some thousands ot them , big , red , itpldcrllkc nnd ferocious , were running over the , soldier's bend. They crawled Into lib ears nnd h's nose nnd his mouth , nnd they cnnsed him such unspenk- : nblo ngony that hot ehouted In frenzy. The ' pentry who happened to be the poor devil's ' bunklc first dltqbSycd gunrd regulations to the extent of stooplnV to brush the nnta from j i his comrade's facoj Next he disobeyed or- j ! ' ders to the extent of deliberately wnlklng over to the house' of the captnln. He took his rlfio along wilth him. "What do you monn by leaving your post ? " demanded the captain , appearing nt the door of his quartern. A IIHAVB SENTRY. "Because I don't tand for this kind of n game for you cr r.ny other mar. from here to ht.ll and back , " replied the sentry. The whrlo company , seeming to hnvo sprung from the ground , wns right behind him. 'And If you don't order that-man turnc ! Unsn In two seconds , I'll turn him loose mvsclf. " Tl'O captain turned to ono of his sergeants. "Arrret tlmt sentry ami tnke his gun nnd belt from him " he said. "I'll sheet any man dead that lays n hand on mo , " said the sentry quietly ) but It wan not necessary for him to say It , for the sergeant stood slock Btlll with hie hands behind his back. All were with the sentry. The sentry strode across the parade ground an 1 found his prl.snner Insensible. Tl.e nuts had already made his face iook like n href- steak. With his fixed bayorct the c-ontry dug the uncor.scloiiD man from the sand , and car ried him In his arms to the post hospital nnd dropped him at the feet of the post surge n. Then he walked to the commanding olllcer's quarters , handed the commanding olllcer his gun nnd belt , walke-1 out of the post , mid Ins never been seen or heard of lr. the United States armv from that day to till' . When the War department got wind of the matter the captain was eourt-martialcd , sus pended for a year and scorched by the secre tary of war. That was the extent of his punls-hment. Hut there was homo tall re vising of punishment regulations , and a pen alty WHS flxcNl for every'possible Infrnetloi , of discipline on the part of nn enlisted man. The Infliction of cruel nnd unusual punish ment was forbid ! cn with n degree of strict ness which It waa thought would preclude the possibility of anything ever happening In the service like this ar.t-hlll affair. Hut occasional cases of cruel punishments crop out down to the present day. Although the new regulations expressly forbid the punish ment of "bucking nnd gagging " men have been buckrd and gagged In the United States army within the pist dozer , years. Huek- Ina ; und gagging consists In tying a lefrac- tory soldier generally n roldler who Is m&nlacal with drink and very abusive hand and foot with cords and gagging him with a block of worn ! whittled to fit his mouth. The gngglng part of the punishment came near chnlclrq a number of soldiers to death , which accounted In pnrt1 for its erasure from the punishment liht. The general who was , Is. and probably always will bo regarded as the greatest Indian fighter the country has produced was up to the time he lost his life in a fnmous mnsr.acre , notorious throughout the enlisted ranks of the army for his In fliction of the bucklni ? an ! papglng purish- mcnt upon his men for the slightest Infrac tion of discipline ; and for this reason this Indian-fighting general was by no means so popular with his men under him ns the world has been led to believe. A STunnonx SOLDIER. It Is no easy matter to naume a guaruiiousc prisoner who declines to work. Solitary con finement in a dark cell or dungeon on a diet of bread nnd water has been known to fail with stubbam men. A solillcr sentenced to ten days In the guardhouse out at a 1'aclflc coast post a few ytars ago was bundled out of his cell at fatigue call the morning of his sentence. He had been sentenced by a t > uin- mary court-martial for neglect of duty on post and ho considered , rightly or wrongly , that ho had been unjustly scntencd. Con sequently he declined to go to work. " * and whitewash them "Olt along , now ) chicken coops , " said the provost sergeant to ilm at fatigue call. The solilicr deliberately stretched himself at full length on the gravel "in front of the guardhouse. "I'm not only not- going tn whitewash any chicken cocc's ' , " said he. "but I'm not going- to do a lick of work nor a hand's turn If they tccp me in the clink or In the clink dungeon 'or forty years , and neither you nor the guard nor the commanding ofllccr nor ( tie whole army can make me do any work , cither. " The oHlcer of the day happened along just then. "Prod him up a bit with your bayonet. " slid he to the sentry. The sentry prodded , but it was no go. "You can make a sieve out or me , " said the soldier , "but I don't work out this sen- ton' ' e. " The soldier was carried hand and foot Into thf dungorn lie declined to walk and had seven days on bread and water. At the end of the seven daxs he was let out of the dungeon which was darker than Egypt , rat- Infostcd and about twenty feet beneath tic ! Pacific ocean , that surged against the guard house overhead and asked If he had had OIlOUIlll. "A-plenty , " raid lie , "but I don't work. " He was pale and emaciated , but ho was n stubborn man. After a couple of days of confinement In a regular guardhouse cell he was again asked if he was ready to begin to work out his ten-day sentence. "Nope , " ho raid. "And what's more , I novcr will bo ready. You can put tint down. I'll creak first. " Si ho wis put back Into the dungeon for another seven da > s. He looked like a shadow wliiMi tlioy let him out of the dungeon this tlmo. Would he now go to work ? "Novcr , " lie said. After a few days of renting and feeding up In the guardhouse proper he iccelvod his third seven-day dose of the dungron. When they let him out tlils third time the hospital had to take him. Did ho propose to work out his Ion-day sentence after the surgeon had ralohed him "P ? "Nat niirli I don't , " was his answer , an-1 to hraro the scandal of having a man din undcT dungeon treatment this stubborn Midler received his discharge "without honor" when ho came out of the hospital. Plllllll-ll I'lU-IIKI-HI'llM. Chicago News : When money talks we never paus > to criticise Its grammar. Never strike a man when he's down es pecially fir a loan. A mouse can make dreas goods go quicker than < i high tariff can. A lawyer doesn't know everything , but ho think * you think he does. Liquor affects a man's brain , If he has any ; If not , It affects his legs. The women with tiny feet can't under stand why long skirts are fashionable. The man nt the little end of the horn al ways manages to make himself hrard. The want columns of the dally papers prove that man wants a great deal hero be low. low.When you Investigate a grewpomo talc you will usually find that It grew-come since It started. After a man succeeds In printing one klsa uron a girl's lips It's an easy matter to run off a large edition. Von can't cute con umptun ! but you can ovoid It and'euro every other form of tluoal nr lung tioublo by * the use nf One Mlnutf Cough Cure. Ili-r HMMT | 'IMM . Washington FtarM She wai having a gown tried on. and , as usual , It didn't suit her. She wanted certain ichanpes in a do. "Did you ever make dres-sos for dolls ? " she asked finally ' when the orde I wan over. "Occasionally"iaiiawerel the patient drfst- ir.aker "In there anjtblnx out of the ordinary in that line of work ? " "Yci " "What ? " " ' . " "They're easily pleased. There \s \ some doubt In her mind aa lo 'whether she has lost a customer , but she feels better , anyway. Subscribe for Tlio Sunday Ilee and reid Anthony Hope's great story "Simon Uale " Vr.HO.MTA. " . . . The YontiKoM Politlcr In Hi , . ( ! , Artny of lllirrt > . Since the beginning of the revolution one privileged character has shared the tent of the president nnd vlco president of the Cuban republic. He Is little Vfiianolo Ver ona , or "Vcronltn. " Ho Is the youngest eolrtlcr In the "nrmy of liberty , " nnd has passed through nil the dnngcrs. trials nnd hardships of that nwful struggle. A few months nftcr the war broke out a. boy not i moro than 12 years old rode Into the Insur , gent camp In Nnjfttaa. He had escaped from the 6lty of Puerto Principe the night be- fore. Uniting In front of President Clsneros4 .headquarters , ho saldr "I hnvo come to ' Join the 'Infiurrcctos. ' The Spaniards have | i killed my father , and 1 am the only one left [ In our family old enough to fight. If 1 can hnVp n gun I would like ns far ns possible lo tnko my fnthcr's plnco nnd fight for Cuba. " i Ho got the gun. nnd with It the love nnd protection of Salvador Clsneros. that grand old man who gave up nil to battle for his 'country's freedom. A Kpeclnl order wns sent to the United Stntes for ono light rlllo for a young eo'dler of 12 years. When the gun was placed In Veroultn's hands he wns un doubtedly the proudest boy In Cuba. The president became very much attached to him. nnd o c > i night had n pile of saroncs ( fnrgc hags made of palm leaves ) placed mi- VBRON1TA. dcr his tent for Vcronlta's bed. The bond of nffectlon between them grew to be ns strong ns between father nnd son. Many times 1 hn-ieseon them , the boy of 12 and the man of 72 , nslop In the tame hammock. While on the nnrch Voronltn rides ono of the president's spaio horses and noser com p'alns , no matter how fatiguing the journey may be , or how sharp the pangs of hunger may become. Mnny attempts have been made by the Spaniards to ambush nnd cap ture or destroy the provisional government and Its escort of fifty men , but so far with out suctCBS. ThcKo dangers , as well as those nt the battle of Saratoga , were , of course , shared by Veronita. When It became ap parent that the administration of this coun try was not disposed to assist the Cubans , and that the war of Independence might drag on for many weary yoirs , President Cis- neros determined to send little Veronitn to the- United States to school. Accordingly he embarked ono night from the codEt of Cuba In nn open boat with twelve companions. Escaping the vlgl'nnee ot the Spanish gunboats , ho crossed the L'OO miles of ocean nnd reached the city of Nassau , on New Providence Island. From that port he wns brought to New York by one of the \'ard line steamers , and is at present attending school at Henirstcad , L. 1. If Cuba does not gain her freedom this win ter he wants to go back nnd fight for Inde pendence until it is an accomplished fact. .Mniicn.v vr"iMiixcis" or MTTI HS. VninoiisVrHorn Who Hnvc MaiK' ami Kept ForlniM'N. The "Grub straet tradition" wns knocked In the head long ago , but the Pall Mall Ga zette has completely demolished It by show ing that writers are among the best paid workers. Indeed the "literary aristocracy' Is becoming a sort of plutocracy , whose members , Instead of lurking through the sldo lanes in fear of cieditors or "standing behind the screen" at the publisher's house , are In high consideration at the banks. Tennyson received $30,000 for "The Holy Grail. " During the last few years of his life Macmlllon & Co. paid him $50,000 or $00,000 a-year. For "The llevengo" alone the Nineteenth Century gave hint Jl.COO. Dickens left $500.000 ; Lord Lytton. $400,000 ; Mrs Henry Wood , $180.000 ; Mis. Dinah CiMik , $83.000. Victor Hugo left property in England alone valued at $457,000. Hut the novelists of the present day en joy n golden harvest unknown to their predecessors. For example , Mis Humphry Ward , who has been writing for only ten years and has produced very few bonks , has earned $300,000. She received $ & 0,000 for "Marcella" alone. George du Maurler re ceived $50.000 for "The Martian. " On two boohs "The Honny Hrlcr Hush" and "Auld Lang S > ne" Ian Maclnren's profits in Great Uritaln amounted to gUfi.OOO , and so popular Is his soft nonsens ? lu this country that he must have earned < iulte as much again from the American sales. Rudyard Kipling's profits have been enor mous. Their extent may bo judged from the fact that the editor ot the Pnll Ma'.l Gazette acknowledges that ho paid Kipling $750 apiece for the "ll riMCk Room Uallads. " Eleven thousand dollars wns paid for "Tho Seven SMB. " For short stories Kipling re ceives Z fthlltlngs A word. Oonan Doyle earned $ .15,000 by writing "Rodney Stone. " Hitler Higgard gels MW for a column of 1,500 words. In orlo year Stevenson cleared W5.000 from sjtullcales. The unfinished "Weir of Hcrmlston" was purchased for $15. . 000. 000.Zoln Zoln received $220,000 for hln first four teen books. The women writers of fiction arc well up In thf race. Kdim Lyall's Income como from her books Is $10.000 n year Miss Hrnddon charges $ fi.5PO for n "fairly long story. " Hut probably the highest prlco recently pild for n novel was $200,000 for Alphonso Daudel's "Sappho" Nor are the essayists forgotten In this distribution of gold. J. Addlngtou Symonds left n fortune of $375,000 ; Dr. Morrell , the grammarian , $200000. The publishers for Mr. Huskln pay him $20,000 n year. "Mr Gladstone used to earn $15.000 n je.ir by his pen. " In short , the "lltcrnry cnlllng" Is shown to be one of the most remunerative In the world. Even the hack-writers earn com fortable wages. Whether the quality of the output Is Improved by the remunera tion nr whether modern writers nrp falling "under the damnation of the checkbook" Is another question. iNcr-llnxi-li l r M ltiK ANSII' . recommends the URO of the grentest of nil tonle-s , "Malt Ntitrlnc , " nnd guarantees the merits claimed for It. For snle by all drug gists. AUT OF KKTTIMi IHM ! IT P. " Simple Knouuli to Ci-l CriMlU If You ICnim ll < > % \ . IIo was n past master In the science of getting trusted , relates the New York Press. Years of genteel povert > had made him pro ficient , and even when the cause was re moved and poverty had given way to pros perity ho continued the practice of getting "hung up" merely , ! tor the fun of the thing. "I want to keep my hind In , " ho ex plained. "A man can get rusty In this busi ness just as In any other and no man know- cth the day or tlio hour when adversity nnd hustedness will come and he will need ciodlt. " Thcto was no effoit on his pait to keep Ills system a secret. On the nntrnry , noth ing give him kenor pleasure than to dlenlay his skill before a crowd of admiring friends. The temptation to show ort was too great to bo les'.ited. ' "I'll Just bet you the prlco ot the cigars , " ho [ imposed suddenly , "that 1 ran get four of th ° ni without p tying a cent. " "I presume you tan , " said the would-be victim ; "It's an even liot that you have some olacp along here wheiv you st.ind In. You let me pick out the p'ace who e you are to get them and I'll tttko you. " "All right , " the export answered ; "you gn ahead nnd pick out the shop. It doesn't matter to mo where It Is. One's as good as another. " The victim walked his cotni.anlon from Twenty-third street to Fortyccoiul before he dared to risk a chance and then muldcnly and without warning he turned him Into n big hotel on the osmer. "Now get the cigars " ho o < lcccd. The expert walked up to the stand , grcetel the proprietor as If he hud known him all his life and picked out four 16-ccnt straight cigars. Onp he passed to his friend , another he placed In his mouth , carefully biting the end off. and the other two he init In his pockets. All the tltn > ho was hunting thtough his pockets. After he had searched them carefully and had even taken out his card case and examined the interior ho turno.l U > the cigar man. and. with only n moderate display of embarrassment , announced thai ho would have to pay him when he came in again. Ho had neglected to bring any money with him. "Why. certainly , " tald the cigar man. "Pay mo any time > ou think of It. " "That's CO cents you owe or two good drinks , " paid the expert when they reached the street. "We'll comnromlse on the drinks and I'll tell you how It's done. " "You thought that was such an old trick tint I would not have the nerve to work It , didn't you. The'c's where > ou make a mis take. The old games. If they are played light , arc tlio best ones always. "The trouble Is In playing them right. You would have made a botch of It at once. You wo'ild ' have professed great embarrass ment , analogized profusely , fumbled through your pockKs frantically and aroused the sus picions of the cigar dealer instantly. Did vou notice how I did It ? Hetrayed only a gentlemanly embarrassment , didn't get un duly excltod and made the dealer actually think that I was conferring a favor by letting him trust mo for the cigars. "You want to jiatronlzc them that's whnt they want and expect. The moment you let them suspect tlmt your embarrassment Is more than temporary you are lost. I have other tricks , but none as effective ns this old one. Go In and give a man you' card with nn I O U on It nnd If you are bra/.en enough about It you can get what you want. Ho will be so ilumfotinded that ho won't come to until you have gene. " "If you clumped n cart-load of gold ut my feet it would not bring such joy nnd gladness Into my life" Sowiitcs n prominent man lifter using tl.e method of scjf.treatincnt that linj rcMorpi ! so n-nny men wlio linil been wrecked by-exccsteK. ovei-\\ork or evil hubito of youth A little book thut makes it nil plain may be had without charge by writing THE ERIE MEDICAL CO. , 64 Niagara St. , Ilulfalo , N. Y. No C. O. D. scheme : no patent medicines lust the book under rlaln letter bcul. aa&H THAT THE FAC-SIMILE J * , - - taff - Arcecablcrcparalionror ( As SIGNATURE similating iheToodfltidHcgtila- liug Hie Stomachs andDowels of OF PromolcsDigcslion.Chcciful- > 4r > ncss and ncst.Contains neither Opunn.Morphinc nor Mineral. IS ON THE NOT NARCOTIC. OF EVERY ist Sttil BOTTLE OF Apcrfcd Remedy for Constipa tion , Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea , Worms .Convulsions .revcnsh- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of ( ftfZ& NEW "YOIIK. Caitorla is put up la cmo-tiie botthe only. It la net eolil In bulk , Dou't ' allow acycno to tell 700 anything clto on the plea or prcnlid that it Is "ju t as jod" ; and "will anntr every pur. poec. " 03-Bco that yea got O-A-B-T-O-K-I-A , Tit ft- CXACT COPV OF WRAPPER. eisllo "KtTRETCA , woJitivo * onmf itt" An absolute , permanent and kindly vegetable cure for thctoluccoluMt , DON'T ' STOP TOBACCO suddenly and lack tlic nerves take UACO-CUKO it Rcrtly weans I tea daa'l Hop lobittA. Hirn.fura i ( ri yea t COc. cr $1 boxei , 01-oxci ( Guarantee J cure ) (3.SO. II vour ilniRRitt il M not ( til it. \\o will * Eureka Clicra.fcMfeCo.LaCrosscWIs. Anthony Hope A'llhor ( if "Tho Prisoner ol' Zonda" lias c iiiiplctcil u X 'W St > ref Love , liitritfiu1. titul IVvoii'il ( iailair.i'v , 1-11 HIM A ROMANCK. ( ) ! ' TtlK KTIK- NG TIVKS OP rllAHLKs 11 jjl For serial i.uhllctith n in Fif teen lii-itallnu ut-4 , lu tli. ' Similar Hoe , U. inmeni'ed Oi > tobcr 17. THE STORY. Anthony TTopo'H nwslory of wittv anil inimitably ( .M'aiVftil diiilofjne , us well u hi * wonder ful skill in iht > i'eiivln < j of u lira- malic tale , is admirably dis- ] > hiyMl ( in this now story ol ingen ious const notion aiul'mistaineu interest. Few storirs. pve'ii of Mr. ] Ioo's ] ) , arc moro repli-to with incident , moro rapl'd in movement , or deal moro pie'tnr- usquely with a frrnuii of histori cal characters than this of "Hi- mon Dale. " This period is ono peculiarly suitable to ttie authrlr's fjonins. The hero moves in tlio romantic days of Charles II , and his for tunes nre entangled with tinier * of the dissolute Stuart , and of Louis XIV of Franco. A witch's prophe-cv at , his birth 1ms foretold that ' ' 'ho will love what the Kin } , ' loves , know what the King hides , and drink Irom the King's cup. " IIi.w Simon is bewitched with saucy NolKiwyn , but is ut heart fuMlif.nl to hihliYst love ; how ho bears himself like an honest gentleman through all the court intrigues ; how ho de fends his lady with a wit and with ( i sword point equally keen , to win her to himself at last , Mr. IIopo telK in a brilliant scr ies of vividly picturesque scenes. Read it in PblcGREW 78 1I1C ONLY SPECIALIST WHO TIIKATS AM. Private Diseases \lr.iljiM uod UUortlir nt MEN ONLY 20 YenroEiporlonco. 10 Vonrmn Omiihn. H"nk Kri'o. Cniitiiltn * ti'iurrco. ' Hux706or Hth and I'nnmm Bl , OMAHA. XCliB. WEAK MAN CUltE YOURSELF IT. iiiiiily' nomlnrul Irl li MUl.l , thf Ml' ll < -t- for JM M , nli. | , tni-h i > i < IIM turt ni h Hl > \ > . - , ail uin.aluiul mill loc - . Ail ' mail , BIIIH c-nlaiK' 'I up i h < nc.i Suin i i-ii. by lhK | 1 a ii.ili-il juil.- ' K' i OIltllllllllK & ' I'lIlH , Cul- CulU 1 1 inpoiimlol , ul I IIQ i .1 In mull fi in out lilv i- ui in. DI wi- will lurnlMi i-u ui - - - - - - JT JTY ! 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UN spnuiFio ri ms " " " " " " " " " Ilook of imrtU-uljiK fe ( ) , to jo , , , - Kulil. A , Co. , , lilh unU IJouLlal OirnU a. Neb ( Ull > iSI'ICCIFIC ( ; of " CURE i nits' . . . ' Illg i u lor uiunturM lutd i.'lUcuKrici ( ' , Inaininmlluai , rlltlluni or ulccratloa * - . mucuai lutiubi - - jr..on ' nouiUo. I'nialtii , ii'l nul ITHlEnniCHIuicnOo " " or polionuui. U.K. 1. ' . MUt la ltlu wr - - - - -.or t col CBljT Ml