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
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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
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