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THE ALLIANCE HERALD T. J. O'Keefo, Publloher. ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA. A number of cities havo forblildon tho ubq 'of powder on tho Fourth ot July. Tho oxnot ropubllcnn plurality In Pennsylvania Is 285,347 nnd tho ma jority 245,241. Throo times as much freight passed the - So" last year na passed through the Suez canal. It has boon decided to hnvo no paid hostess for tho Missouri building at tho World's fair. Swon sent three-quarters of four mtlllon gross boxes of matches Im ported Into this country last yenr. Atlantic City possossob a police mo tor car which Is used Bololy for tho conveyance of lntoxlcntod prisoners. "Cuba day" at tho St. Louis exposi tion will bo August 12. "Good Koads day will be on Thursday, May 19, 1904. Government Inspectors passed upon &9,1G8,449 live animals last year at a cofet ot a little more than a cent each. A vnrnlsa manufacturers' associa tion was organized In Chicago by n number Of tho loading varnish mak ers of tho country. The sessions wcro secret. Charles Williams, following a quar rel with IiIb wifo, Bhot and killed her and then blew out his bralnB at Mur physboro, 111. Tho shooting occurred at tholr homo. Darlo Campana, a young Italian, of Leghorn, has tried successfully a now system of wireless telogrnphy. In which tho earth Is used for tho trans mission of waves. The German emperor has moro serv ants l.i his employ than nny other monarch. Altogether thoy numbor more than 3,000, about two-thirds of them being women. A Jury In tho case of Lou W. Lyons, on trial for tho assassination of Dis trict Attorney J. Ward Gurley at Now Orleans, returned a verdict of guilty. Lyons will die on the gallows. For some tlmo tho volcano of Strom, boll, near llomo, has been showing Blgns of increased activity, emitting considerable quantities of smoke, ashes and red hot stones, accompanied by loud detonations. F!sk & Robinson of Now York hnvo made a bid to tako at par tho pro posed l8suo of $1,000,000 4V4 por cent Hawaiian territorial bonds and tholr offer has been accepted, This Issuo is due in flftoen years. Tho original estlmato of tho cost of Philadelphia's slow snnd filtration sys tem for tho purification of tho city's water supply, made by thrco export engineers after four months' careful Investigation, was $14,000,000. As Paymaster Snee of tho Pennsyl vania was leaving tho bank at Logans port, Ind., with $42,000 of employes' salaries, Sheriff Buckley took from him the satchol containing the money, cnrrled it to tho court houso, and pour ing It out onto a table, seized nenrly ?20,000. Because he declared, it is said, that, save Robert E, Lee, Booker T. Wash ington was the greatost man born in the south during the Inst 100 years, nnd parents In consequence threaten cd to withdraw pupils. Prof. Bassett of Trinity college, Durham, N. C, has tendered his resignation. Tho board of delegates on rollglous nnd civil right 3 of tho United He brews had a conference with Spcnker Cannon, Representative Hitt and Sen ator Cullom to urge a supplemental treaty with Russia to securo uniform passports of recognition to all Ameri cans, rogardloss of race or creed. A complete count of tho votos cast In tho election In Capo Town qn No vember 11 for members of the legis lative council shows that instead of tho Bond, or Butch element, having gained a victory, as was expected, tho progressives, or British, havo a ma jority of one member in tho council. The examination of State Senator .George E. Green on tho Indictments found against him at Washington, which charged bribery and conspiracy in connection with tho sale of timo recorders and stomp canceling ma chines to tho government, was com menced at Binghampton, New York, before United States Commissioner Hall. vohn Rldeway, for many years head bookkeeper in the Chicago office of a prominent life Insurance company, was arrested In Boise, Idaho, at the request of tho Chicago police and is Lelng held pending the arrival of an officer from that city. John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treasury under President Cleveland, has expressed the belief that tho dem ocratic victory In New York City on November 3 forecasts tho rehabilita tion of tho democracy of Now fork state a nniai "M"MT"M"""""T i nil 1 ! News in Brief THE GIRL AT THE HALFWAY HOUSE A STORY OF THE PLAINS 1IY . llnUOII, AUTHOR OK THK HTOKV OP T V K COWnOV Cttrichttd, iOOS, 6r D, AHltttn tr Cotx-tattf, Aw Yerk mmmmmmmmmxmmmmmmmmmmmsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmm CHAPTER III Continued, a. In this part of tho wood tho dead woro mingled from both Bides of tho Icoutost, tho faded bluo and tho faded :gray sometimes scarco distinguishable. Then thcro enmo a thickening of the ,grny, nnd In turn, as tho traveler ad vanced toward tho fencos and abattls, tho Northern dcad predominated, though still thoro'wero many faces yol-low-pale, dark-framed. ! Franklin passed over tho nhattls, lover tho remaining fences, nnd Into 'tho Intreuchmentfl whero tho finnl stand had been. Tho dead lay thick, jamong them many who wcro young. .Franklin Blook looking out over tho fields, In tho direction of tho town. ;And thoro ho saw a Bight fitly to bo jcnllod tho ultlmntc horror ot all theso things horrible that ho had seen. Over tho Holds of Loulshurg thoro ;camo n fearful Bound, growing, rising, jfnlllng, stopping tho singing and tho twitter of tho birds. Across tho land thoro camo a horrlblo procession, ad Jvnncing with short, uticortaln, broken ipauses -a procession which advanced, paused, halted, broke into groups; ad Ivancod, paused, stopped, and stooped; 'a procession which camp with wall Ings nnd bitter cries, with wringing of hands, with headB now and then tlald upon tho shoulders o others for 'support; a procession which stooped uncertainly, horribly. It was the worn .on of Loulshurg coming to seek tholr 'slain n Bight most monstrous, most torrlblo, unknown upon any field ot Jclvlllzod war, and unfit to bo tolerated jevon In tho thought! It is for men, !who sow tho fields of battle, to attend also to tho reaping. ' Fratfklln stood at tho inner odgo of tho earthworks, half hidden by a little clump of trees. Ho saw approaching him, slowly but nlmost in dlrccL line, itwo figures, nn older lady and a girl. They camo on, as did tho others, nl ways with that slow, searching attl 'tilde, tho walk broken with pauses and IfgtiX' "Batterslelgh of stoopings. Tho quest was but too ob vious. And oven as Franklin gazed, uncertain and unnblo to escape. It Boomed apparent that tho two had found that which thoy had sought. Tho girl, Bllghtly in advance, ran forward a few pacoB, pausod, and then ran back. "Oh, there! there!" sho cried. And then tho older woman took the girl's head upon her bosom. With bared head and his own hand at his oyes, Franklin hurried away, hoping himself unBecn, but bearing indelibly pictured on his brain tho scene ot which ho had been witness. Ho wanted to cry out, to halt tho advancing col umns which would soon bo here, to tell them that thoy must not como upon this Held, mado sacred by such woe. Near tho Intrenchment where tho bitter close had been, nnd whero thero was need alike for noto of triumph and forgotfulnesB, the band major mar shaled his music, four deop and forty strong, and swung out Into tho anthem of tho flag. Tho head of tho column broko from tho last cover of tho wood and camo Into full sight nt the edgo of tho open country. Thus there camo Into view tho whole panorama of tho field, dotted with the slain and with thoso who sought tho slain. The music of triumph was encountered by tho concerted voice of grief and woo. Thero appeared for tho feet ot this army not a mero road, a moro battle field, but a ground sacred, hedged high about, not rudely to bo violated. But the band major waB a poet, a great man. Thcro came to him no order tolling him what ho should do, but tho thing wns in his soul that should bo done. Thero camo to him, wafted frora tho field of sorrow, a note which was command, a volco which sounded to him abovo tho voices of als own brasses, above tho tapping of :ho kettledrums. A gesture of com mand, and tho music ceased absolute ly. A moment, and It had resumed. The forty black horses which mado lp this regimental band wero tho prldo jf tho division. Four deep, forty Urong, with arching necks, with foro 'ect reaching far and drooping softly, sach horse of the famous cavalry band passed on out upon Oio field ot Louls urg with such carriage as showed it jonsible of its mission. Tho reins lay oo30 upon their neckB, but they kept stop to tho music which thoy felt. S'orty horsee paced slowly forwnrd, looping step. Forty tnimpetors, each nan with his right hand aloft, hold ngjild instrument, his left hand at his tide, be&rSnj? tho cap which he had re moved, rode on across tho field of Laulsburg. The mimic was no longer tho hymn of triumph. Softly and sndly, sweetly and sooth ingly, the trumpets sang a melody of other days, an air long loved in tho oldximo South. And Annlo Laurie, wcoplng, henrd ami listened, and wept tho more, and blessed God for her tears! BOOK II. Tho Day of the Buffalo. CHAPTER IV. Batterslelgh of the Rile Irish. 1 Col. Henry Battorslolgh Bnt In his tent engaged in the composition of n document which occasioned' him con corn. That Col. Batterslelgh should bo using his tent nsofllco nnd resi dence; for that such wnB the fact oven tho most casual glanco must havo de termined was for him a circumstance offering no special or extraordinary features. His life had been spent un der canvas, Urought up In tho pro fession of forms, so long as fighting and forago wcro good It hod mattered llttlo to him in what cllmo ho found his homo. Ho had fought with the English in India, carried sabro in the Austrian horse, and on his private ac count drilled regiments for tho Grand Sultan, deep within the interior of a country which know how to keep its secrets. When tho Americnn civil war began ho drifted to the nowest scene of activity as metal to a magnet. Chanco sent him with tho Union array, and thoro ho found opportunity for a cavalry command. "A gtntleman like Batterslelgh of tho Rllo Irish always rides," ho said, and natural horseman nB well as trained cnvnlryman was Bat terslelgh, tall, lean, flat-hacked, and martial even under his sixty admitted years. It was his boast that no horse the Rile Irish." on earth could unseat him. Perhaps nono over had until ho camo to tho Plains. For this was on tho Plains. As nil America was under canvns, It was not strange that Col. Batterslelgh should find his homo In a tent,, nnd that this tent should bo pitched upon tho West em Plains, Not that he had gone di rectly to tho West after tho muster ins out of his regiment. To tho con trary, his first abode had been in the city of Now York, where during his brief stay ho acquired a certain ac quaintance. What were tho linancial resources of Batterslelgh after the cessation of his pay as cavalry officer not even his best friends could accurately havo told. It was rumored that ho was the commissioner in America of the Lon don Times. He wns credited with bolng n Fellow of tho Royal Geo graphical Society. That he had a his tory no ono could doubt who saw him como down tho street with his broad hat, his sweeping cloak, his gauntlets, his neatly varnished boots. In reality Col. Henry Batterslelgh lived, during his city life, In a small, a very small room, up more than ono flight of stairs. This loom, no larger than a tent, was military in Its neatness. Batterslelgh, bachelor and soldier, was in nowiso forgetful of tho truth that personal neatness and personnl valor go well hand in hand. Tho bod, a very narrow one, had but meager covering, and during tho winter months its single blanket rattled to tho touch. "There's noth ing in tho world so warm as news papers, mo boy," said Batterslelgh. Upon tho table, which was a box, thero was displayed always an invari able arrangement. Col. Batterslolgh's riding whip (without which ho was rarely seen in public) was placed upon the tablo first. Above the whip wero laid the gauntlets, crossed at sixty degrees. On top of whip and gloves res to J tho hat, indented never more nor less. Beyond those, tho per sonal belongings of Batterslelgh ot tho Rllo Irish wero at best tow and humble. In tho big city, busy with re viving commerco, thero wero few who cared how Batterslelgh lived. It was a vagrant wind of March that ono day blew asldo the cloak of Batterslelgh as he raised his hat In salutation to a friend a vagrant wind, cynical and J merciless, which showed somewhat q me poverty via wnicji.. tsauersicign had struggled like a spjdler. andi & gen tleman. Batterslelgh, poor and proud, then wont out into tho West. Tho tent In which Col. Batterlrlgh was now wrltfng was an old ono, yellow and patched In places. In slzo It was similar to that of the bedroom in Now York, and its furnishings woro much tho same. A narrow bunk hold a bed over which thero m spread a nlnglo blanket. It was lent In tho tent, save for tho scraKlng of tho writer's pen; bo that iVjw and then thoro might easily havo been heard a faint rustling of paper. Indeed, this rustling was caused by tho small feet of tho prairio mfco, which now and then ran over tho nowspaper which lay beneath . tho blanket. Batters lolgh's table was again a rude ono, manufactured from a box. The vis Iblo scats woro also boxfs, two or thrco in number. Upon ono of these sat Batterslelgh, busy at his writing Occasionally he gazed out upon a sweet bluo Bky, unfrotted by any cloud. Ills eyo crossed n Bea of faint ly waving grasses. Tho liquid call of a "mlle-hlgh mysterious plover camo to him. In tho lino of vision frora the tent door thero could bo seen no token of a human neighborhood, nor could thero be heard any Bound of human lite. Tho canvas houso stood alone and apart. Batterslelgh gazed out of tho door as ho folded his letter. "It's grand, Just grand," ho said. And so ho turned comfortably to tho feed ing of his mice, which nibbled at his lingers Intimately, as had many mice of many lands with Batterslelgh. CHAPTER V. The Turning of the Road. At tho closo of tho war Capt. Ed ward Franklin returned to a shrunken world. Tho llttlo Illinois villago which had been his homo no longer served to bound his ambitions, but of fered only a mill-round of duties so potty, a horizon ot opportunities so restricted, as to causo in his mind a feeling ot distress equivalent at times to nbsoluto abhorrence. Tho perspec tive of all things had changed. Tho men who had onco seemed great to him in this llttlo world now appeared in tho light of a wider Judgment, ns they really were small, boastful, pompous, cowardly, deceitful, preten tious. Franklin was himself now a man, and a man graduated from that severe and exacting school which so quickly matured a generation of American youth. As his hand had fitted naturally a weapon, so his mind turned naturally to larger things than thoso offered In theso long-tilled fields of life. He camo back from tho war disillusionized, irreverent, impa tient, and fuUof that surging fretful ncss which fell upon all the land. To this young man, ardent, ener getic, malcontent, thero nppearcd tho vision of wjdo regions of rude, active life, offering full outlet for all the bodily vigor of a man, and appealing not less powerfully to his imagination. This West no man had como back from it who was not eager to return to It again! For tho weak and sloth ful it might do to remnin in tho older communities, to reap in tho long-tilled fields, but for tho strong, for tho unattached, for the enterprising, this unknown, unexplored, uncertain coun try offered a scono whoso possibilities mado Irresistible appeal. For twe years Franklin did the best he could at reading law In a country offico Every tlmo ho looked out of tho win dow ho saw a white-topped wagon moving West. Men came back and told him of this West. Men wrote lot ters from tho West to friends who ro malncd in the East. Presently these friends also, seized upon by some vast Impulse which they could nol control, in turn arrangod their affairs and departed for tho West. (To bo continued.) Tried to Pull Her Tongue Out. Jneob Glttel, of Southington, Conn., is In trouble. As a matter of fact the gentleman has been in trouble for years. His wife Is ono of theso un bearable nuisances which the Purl tans used to hold under the town pump a village gossip. Ho has tried every argument and used every threat to Induce her to cease her chatter and let him sleep o' nights, but in vain. Driven finally to desperation, ho determined to put a stop for good nnd nil to her Incessant talk by pull ing her tongue out. The cure would have been heroic but effective. But, weakened ns ho was by his loss of Bleep and by the continued strain on his nervous system, tho unfortunate husbaud had not tho strength to hold his wife with one hand while he per formed tho operation with the other. She got away and complained to tho authorities. The result is that, while everybody sympathizes with him, tho husband Is In Jail and tho woman is still talking. He Did Not Mote. Tho motor cyclist was careering down tho remoto country hillside at a speed which would have made a Sur rey policeman chortlo with glee. Sud denly there wns a 4.7 report, a Chinese-puzzle view of a motor-cyclist and his machine, and then both repos ed in a roadside ditch, each consider ably tho worso for tho experience, "Help! cried tho motor-cyclist; and In response to the cry a farm laborer hurried out from a field near by. For an Instant ho gazed at the strug gling mass in tho ditch, particularly focusing his. vision upon tho still re volving wheels of the cyclo, tho like of which, as ho explained afterwards, ho had novor seen before. Then he grabbed a big stone. "Tell mo where to hit her," he shouted, "and I'll dash her brains out!" London Answers. Utterly Useless. "Educatln some men," said Uncle Eben, "Is a good deal like glvln' a FIJI Islander a check on do national bank. Ho's got It. but what is ho gwlno to do wit it?" Washington 1 Star. 8ISTEB28 OF CHARITY Use Pe-ru-na for Coughs, Colds, Grip and Catarrh A Congressman's Letter. In every country of the civilized world Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to tho spiritual and intel lectual needs of tho charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent Sisters have found Pcruna a never failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over tho United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: Dr. S. D. Hartman, Columbus, Olilc: DcarSln "The young girl who used the Pcruna was suffering from laryngi tis, and loss of voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after further use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she Is entirely cured." Sisters of Charity. The young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Pcruna for catarrh of the throat with good results as the above letter testifies. Send to the Peruna Medicine Co., Co lumbus, Ohio, for a free book written by Dr. Hartman. mow ZZQM'T FORGET Don't forget when you order starch to get the best. Get DEFIANCE. No more "yellow" looking no more cracking or doesn't stick to the iron. It gives satis-"-faction or you get your money back. The cost is io cents for 16 ounces of tne best starch made. Of other starches you get but 12 ounces. Now don't forget. It's a. your grocers. riANUFACTURED BV DEFIANCE STARCH OMAHA. NEB. THE You cannot get up an orchestra com posed of people who blow their own horns. Happiness is never picked up on the bargain counter. DO YOOU dtOTIIES LOOK YEtXOWf If bo, use Red Cross" Bed! Blue. It williruko thorn white as enow. ! oz. package 5 cents He became the Man of Corrows for the sorrows of men. A day without a good deed leaves vou In debt. Stops tno Cough nnT AVorkH Off tho CoW Laiitivo Oromo Quinine Tablets. PrtceCSc. The best men nro always looking for the best men. PATENTS Send for our 42nd Anniversary Ttook on rut en U, c.intalnlui; nearly 10) llluitratlonaof mechan ical movement), and ralu&blo law point for Inven tory and manufacturer! j also an Intereitlce Hat ot J MASON. FENWICK & LAWRENCE. Patent Lawyers, Washington, D. C. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. The following letter is from Congress man Meckison, of Napoleon, Ohio: , The Peruna Medicine Co,, Columbus, O.t Gentlemen: "I have used several boftles of Pcruna and feel greatly benefited there by from my ca tarrh of tho head, and feel encour aged to believe thatitscontinued use will fully eradicate a dis ease of thirtv years' standing." David Meekison. Dr. Hartman, one of tho best known physicians and surgeons in the United States, was the first man to formulate Pe runa. It was through his geniu3 and per severance that it wa3 introduced to tho. medical profession of this country. If you do not derivo prompt and satis factory results from the use of I'eruna, write at onco to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statcmcut of your case and ho will bo pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The. Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. clothes. breaking. It CO., KEKiTSH A liar needs no label. 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