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To advertise. Xever had snch
VtinrV-rsnr TjrTce; that has done
srroplv all and every want of our
NOTION DEPARTMENT.
German Knitting yarn. 15c a skein
Full count Pins 3 papers for 5 cents
Adamantine Pins -1 cent a paper
Best Needles 4 cents a paper
Curhngjxon, nine inch -- 3 cents
Twin Brees Stays cents a set
7-inch metal back combs -7 cents each.
Side Combe 1 cents a pair
Bafav Bibbon 6 yards for o cents
3Ien Olinioid Collars 10 cents each
Men's linen Collars, four ply 12 cents each
Men's Cashmere Hose 5 25 cents a pair
Mens Cotton Rockford Hose pairs for 25 cents
Men's Cotton Bockford Hose, heavy. .3 prs for 25 cts
Men's Camel Hair Underwear. - -21 cents a garment
Men's -wool fleece underwear,ex heavy. 50c a garment
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
Glen's Union Cassimere Suit for 8 5.00
GREAT
. -rSOZEB SI
We are overstocked
1 Look and
Mens Woolen Cheviot Suits in brown and black, sizes 36
Fine all-wool men s suits, all sizes, for $5,50, $6-50, $7.50, $8.50 Up to $16.50
Men s Overcoats from $2.50, and as fine as you want them. Boys Overcoats $1 up
A good heavy suit for a child for $1, better ones for 1.50 up to $5. Boys Long
Pants Suits from $2 up to $10, ages from 12 to 19 years. Good working pants for
90 cents which will not rip: in fact everything will be sold so cheap that you can
not help but buy. Please give us a call,
Model Clothing House, - - M. Einstein, Prop.
C0XJCISSI05ZS3" zaacEssiirGS
December 15, 1S97
Board met. pursuant to adjourn-
ent; present Commissioners R. D. j
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Tlmmnn. CJeo. E. Hardin and E. i
L. Garrison and county clerk.
The- fnllowin"- claims were
al-
Tnwf-ri nn the bridge fund: W. W. I
Young; 2 claims for lumber S25LS0;
Mike Cox, bridge work. 17-25; W.
A. St earn, bridg-e work, 9.00 A. TV.
Johnson bridge work. S.00; Win.
Johnson, bridge work 9.00; A. B.
Longpre bridge work, 5.00.
Claim of Paul G. Meyer (county
surveyor) for surveying and plat
ting. 5S.40 was allowed on road
fund.
The following claims were dis
allowed: Ernest Calling, tax under
-protest 18.72: J. H. Abshire, tax
under protest 1.60: JohnH. Savage.
Russian thistIev40-50.
Claim of Royal Irrsirrance Com
pany for 1L4S. tax undejrotest
was allowed and the txeasurerofc,
dered to refund.
Official bonds were approved as
follows:
Assessors Joseph D. Hawkins,
Robert E. Giesberger, D. MdN'icol.
W. S. Braugh, Edmund E. Smith,
"W. H. Aldrich, T. I. CRourke. C.
F. Shits John E. Cooper, John W.
Baggott, E. H. Springer.
Road Overseers Samuel Endsley,
Henry Sykes, James Ovens. C. P.
Weaver, "j. M. Smith, H. F. Price,
E. J. Baker, Fred St. Marie. Henry
Edier, M. W. Nickerson.
Constables F. E. Barber, John
Davis.
Justice of the Peace M. W.
Baker.
, Dec 16, 1S97.
Board met, present the full board
. and county clerk.
The following officials bonds
were approved, viz:
Assessors John A. Cushing,
Francis H. Horn, Ashley Peters,
W. C Beard. Clinton Lr. Patterson.
Jas McGrejror , A. J- Smith, W. A.
Latimer, "VT. Hunter, John An
derson, A. J. Gambred.
Road Overseers Martin Witzke.
Adam Sense!, J. B. Murphy. J. S.
Melton. Jr. Andrew Gnstafson, J
A. Dameron, Henry Xelson.
. Justice of the Peace I- A. Fort,
C L- Wood, Chas. Pornell. A. L.
Pierce, J- M. Souder. F. A. John
son, David Artlip, J. S. Robbins.
Costables A. E. Haarington,
WH. C Woodhurst, Geo. E. Knox,
Geo- E. Prosser.
Tke o&dal bond of Assoc S.
a run of trade; in fact its a regular
it. We have new goods arriving daily. We are in a position to
customers at prices never thought
in go
Men's all-wool Cassimere Suit for. 8 650
Men's all-wool Cheviot uit far ..8 6.50
Men's all-wcol Clay Worsted Suit for S S.G0
Men's all-wool Clay Worsted Suit, satin lined. .S13JX)
Men's all-wool Clay Worsted Suit sarin lined. -Slo 50
Men's all -wool BeaWnOvercoat for S 9X0
Men's all-wool Meltcjgfrvercoat for -S 9JO
Mens all-wool CasrSere Overcoat for ... $56"j65
31 en's all-wcol Cassnnere Overcoat for -JglOj
Men's Black Beaver Overcoat for. ..--?TJX
Men's jrood union Gassimere Overcoat for S Sy
Boys' Suits for $L L25 and 5L35: these are BAR
GAINS, but vou will be more pleased with our bet
ter suits at 8LS5, SliO and S2.S5. These are goods
that will give the bovs good wear.
Boys' Overcoats at S2.90
Boys' Overcoats at S4J90
Boys' Astrakan Beefers at SLSo
Boys' Chinchilla Beef ers at S2.00
22T When in need of Clothing visit our store and
inspect our stock.
W. . Saints, f rop.
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CLE ARING SALE
with goods and must unload as
compare prices with airy city in the
FOLEY'S OLD STAND.
' Baldwin, countv indg-e, vcas ap
proved.
The following claims were allow-
ed on bridg-e fund: Henry Brown.
, 01 -r ttt t
bridjre work, SlO; J. W. Alexan-
der, bridge work, 521; Albert Stein-
houser. bridge work. 57.SQ; Jas. H.
Moran. bridge work.o4.50; A. E.
Beer, bridge work, 57.04; "R. D.
Thompson, bridgework. 521; E. B.
Johnson, bridge woEk, 57.50.
December 17, 1T897. Board met:
present the full board and county
clerk.
Board examined the returns oi
overseers oBhighways.
December IS,
1897. Boarr;rn et;
s ft.
present the full board and county
The claim of Thos. Hanrahaagwed by the former. Such small
59. for bridge work, was allowed, ems are frequently overlooked
Board cie tinned to examine over-
seers returns.
Board adjourned to meet Decem
per 27, 187.
. An authority has figured oat
that the apple crop of the entire
country available for the trade is
thirty-eight million bushels, or
about one-half the crop of 1S96. As
the demands this year are as great
as last year, to say the least, the
prices to be paid will surely add
much to the wealth of the growers
and dealers.
Keeping iti mind that it is more
blessed to give than to receive, the
good people of Lincoln, under the
direction of Mayor,have inaugurat
ed a system collecting provisions
and other things with which to
make the poor people of the cap
ital city happy on 2ew Years day
and are succeeding splendidly in
the effort.
A crib of popcorn caught fire in
Hastings the other day and popped
till it covered a two-acre tract of
rround. Some
of
the natives
thought it was snow, waded into it
and froze to death which shows
' the power of imagination.
EaUartPs Snow Liniment.
This m valuable remedy is one that
ought to be in every house hold. It will
cure your rheumatism, neuralgia,
spraniS; cuts, bruises, burns, frosted feet
and ears, sore throat, and sore- chest.
If you have a lame back it will cure it.
It penetrates to the seat of the disease.
It will cure stiff joints and contracted
muscles after all cthar remedies have
! failed. Those who hav been cripples
for years have usedBauards Snow Lin
iment and thrown away their crutches
and been able to walk as well as ever.
It will cure yon. Price 50 cents. Sold
by JSorth Platte Pharmacy, J. CJ. Bush,
Manager.
I
land - slide. If s our spot cask
of by our competitors
who
days' etc.,. etc.
we need, money.
Union.
to 42, at
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02E OB LESS
Since open gambling" has been
prohibited by the city officials, it is
f said that games are quietly coa-
ducted
in two or three private
It is the dntv of the au-
rooms.
thorities to ferret out these places.
confiscate the paraphanalia and
arrest those - who are engaged in
jramblinsr jjames. We believe that
under the statutes the owner of a
building in which gambling is coo
ducted is liable to legal punish
ment. It would, therefore, be well
for property owners to "fire" ten
ants who use their rooms tor gam
bling purposes.
Tke Tribune thanks the Era for
callinjr its attention to the taxes
pfiweallhy country printing offices,
However, tnose taxes nave oeen j
pa.lU, cLLlU. L11C SliCLlli. Uy LUC LilLC
of whose patronage the editor of
the. Era is enabled to live on a diet
other than of crackers and cheese
will not have an opportunity to
make fat fees by serving a distress
warrant in this particular instance.
The Era can perhaps do a further
favor by informing The Tribute
of a way in which it can recover
the money it has paid m taxes il
legally levied by the populist com
missioners for the bridge fund.
Xext week the populist county
commissioners will have an oppor
tunity to accept a bid for doing the
county publishing" at one-third or
one-fourth the legal rate. The
commissioners or supervisors of
Cheyenne. Dawson, Buffalo, Cus
ter and other surrounding counties
have for years past accepted the
lowest bid for doing this work, but
the populist commissioners of this
county have ignored all bids aad
awarded the contract to their party
organ at full legal rates, thus vir
tually defrauding the tax-payers
of a thousand or more dollars each
year. Will Commissioners Hardin
and Garrison continue this unwar
ranted practice, or will tney as
honest men set their seal of disao-
proval on this "hold up by accept
ing the lowest bid?
There is a das af People
who are injured by the use of coffee. Re
cently there has been placed in all the i
gTOcerystores a new preparation called
GRATN" Q, made of pure grains, that
takes the place of coffee. The most del
icate stomach receives it without dis
tress, and hut few can tell it from coffee
It does not cost over as much. Chil
dren, may drink it with frreat benefit. 15
cts. and 2o cts. per package. Trv it.
Ask for GRATN-O.
SUIT IS TEE IDOF. .
A press dispatch from 5Tew Xork
dated yesterday says:, Itis officially
announced that Horace G. Bnrt,
third vice-president of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway, has been
selected for the presidency of the
Union Pacific Railway company
and will assume his duties January
6th. Mr. Burfs election as presi
dent is expected to carry into ef
fect the policy determined upon
by the reorganization .committer
when it was supposed that Mr.
Clark would be able to continue in
the management oi the property,
bnt which is impossible owing to
Mr. Clark's ill health.; The board
is to include WinsIowS. Pierce,
chairman; James StiUman, Marvin
Hughitt, Roswell Miller, E. H. Har
riman, Louis Fitzgerald, Henry B.
Hyde, John W. Doane, Otto H. Kaha
T. Jefferson Coolidge, jr., George J.
Gould, Oliver Ames. George O- Can
non and Jacob H. Schiff. Oliver W.
Mink is to be vice president in
char ire. of the New York office.
A HOTHE-TC AILJTJETG.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. McNeel living
northwest of town gave a grand
house warming and Christmas din
ner, throwing open the entire
new residence to the use of the,
ruests. of whom their were aboat
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sixty. The residence is the finest
on the north side of the river, its
fine workmanship being due to the
efforts of D. M. Hogsett as builder
and Mr. Sptcer as painter. Follow
ing the dinner Miss BniHy McNeel
brought in her school children vrho
had prepared a very interesting
programme, the chief feature of
which was the arrival of Santa
Chins in a decorated carriage drawn
bv four little girls dressed in white
with gay ribbons.represer.ting four
fairies. Old -Santa was represented
by Master Eddie McNeel who sang
a song of the land of ice and snow
upon entering the parlors. The
evening closed by every one wish
ing the host and hostess rnanv
happy returns of the day and a
long and enjoyable life in their new
dwelling. Miss Emilyjs efforts as
a teacher wertTcly appreciated by1
alL S.
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- iJW"iiiiTS Za & f;ri rf.fTffA.
The young people of Willow
have resolved to quit their foolish
ness and get married.
The young son of County Treas
urer White, of Red Cloud, was ser
iously injured while coasting on
Wednesday. .
A 500-ton sugar factory, says the
Tribune, would be a. sweet morsel
for Fremont to roll underher tongue
and no mistake.
The ranch house of L. H. Bord
well, near Sidney, was destroyed
last week by fire. The origin of
the fire is not kown.
CGSsible
uiT xrnxxr uiuusr 10- iizux uy xiss ski
a little boy of 8 or 9 years.
I teije
hTcccm -
A day cr two after the hi
Chiekaniauga the little fellow wij
putiful
camp. The general rede during;
tie a horse which went by the r.
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L J. Anderson, Benjamin Yates,
A. G. Blodet and Carl C. Thomp
son were adjudged insane this week
by the board of insanity of Saund
ers countv.
A team of horses attached to a
bob-sled in charjre of Joe Hicks of
Fremont, ran away Christmas eve
and spoiled the fun of a crowd of
merrv makers.
The challenge of the Gothenburg-
school football team has been ac
cepted by the Cozad school team
and the game will be played in Co
zad on the afternoon of Januarv 1.
It is so seldom that a Fremont
citizen cleans his sidewalk that the
Tribune finds space in its columns
to make the event a matter of his
tory when anybody is caught in the
act.
Coyotes are becoming numerous
ind bold. They visit chicken coops
Royal BtafcfS the feed purs,
whalcseHje asd delicieus-
PQW0S?
Ais5 e l ate ly Pure
sctai. uk5 pcwsct caaarireiac.
the village
of Bayard almost
nightly
and without leave, and
carry away the plumpiest yellow
legs in the place.
Down in Nebraska where they
have dollar wheat, observes the
Denver Post, people expect to get a
ton ot coal or samethinir like that
in their stockings. Kansas girls j
never look in such a receptacle for j
anything larger than a lead pencil. J
Some good Samaritan should
rush uooa thestate dairymen's meet I
ing which is now in session at Lin
coin and expiaia to that -aggregation
of intelligence what a cow
is. The question seems open for
discussion and should be settled
before adjourn Kent.
Charles Turner, a colored man
of Lincoln, plucked a nice plump
goose from in front oi batcher Wag
goner's staKd. and when he got his
appetite worked up to the proper j
pitch, a policeman stepped in at his
place of residence and lagged him '
off to jail. Charley will take his
Christmas dinner at tliejioiet de
Otto.
Report comes from vorfork that
the citizens ct that town are hot
on the trail of another sugar fac-
tory. The jNciorkians- know a
igooa
thin"" when tbev see it. A
bgdod
many of them bankrupted
themselves wheti thev srot their
first one, but they can plainly see
the factory has been the salvation
of the town.
Court has. been grinding- regu
larly at Lexington- this week.
The Peters rape case of Gothen
burg which has: been in court for
two or three years was brought to a
dose by a verdict of acquittal for
young Peters. Thus far as our
information gees, the state has
lost every case which is adding no
stars to the legal crown of County
Attorney Gttian. Czad Tribane.
The organization of a co-ooera-tive
creamery company in this city,
which has been under way tor a
few weeks past, bids fair to ter
minate very successfully. The
stockholders are aM 'business men
-.or - representative farmSrsrwh
have embarked im the enterprise
with a determinatwa to make it a
success, and a belief that it will
prove to he a paying investment
and open up a new line of basiuess
for the farming community. Lex
ington Pioneer.
The trial of Thos. Maudlin of
Kennebec precinct which heM the
boards in the district court before
Judge Sullivan at Lesingtoa last
week, came to a close Saturday
night when the jury acquitted
Maudlin of the murder of S. D.
Wiseman, his neighbor. Maudlin's
pJea was sef defence and by the
verdict, the jury evidently agreed
with him. The siurdered man has
two wines living, one
cominsr from
Illinois who claims
was ever granted.
that no divocce
She will ask
tor a
generous slice of his estate.
-Cozad Tribune.
IN TKE MERRY WORLD.
The "Weather rrophct's Woe.
I prmiEod. tfeua a ratesswzzs,
Aal is never rziaed a jt,
Then, pcapfcaned nmrfeeocm.
And the sea. was pipfflg hot.
X vaM. tfaem samr was wwinf,
Aad thit sky was snmaar'btee.
Thea I wrot of frcstu and TMi ni'M,
And hath, of thera ftftt ihraBsjh.
AikL Bcceoier eaiae jftMwL
rT4t I said, is wmhl Ik daoegr,
Asi tkesfcy -was. etenr zi red.
SO'Bsw I Sake af cassse
An antai, his r nitis,
AisafeKw of thssand
A S3kf WE of this.
I s&afcr t,aesx m a lot&e,
piamii r wiad -no-wr jindl jwta
Brkhi4 vttNMks and cteawrwaftsr
!r a BKmsec brief aatl plain.
T?t tiriB"rasrn sera te hie cs
TCriehr'er way tke wrinti say Vfow,
Asd aest day I eahntv Urfi 'em:
"Cenataij ! I wW jo o!"
E. S. Earaes m 2Gew Yrk cn.
Too Smart
General Hencock was sorely rrieil in
IS6I by the extreme fresfcn35 of some
of the cfiscess of bis command. Ona day
the major of a western regimeat rode
up to EaiKK ck'shfwiqaarsrrHaad, with
out dismoEHtisE, asked that General
Haficsck sttio out of his tent, as he de-
sired to speak with him. When tha
"superb" came forth, the pompous ma-
'or c"? to the general that he had come
over far the purpose of getrimt orders as
te what his reghsent should do that aft -
ernoon, and without waiting for Han-
cock to gfvo directions be went on to
f state that in his opinion, a tae eon-
mander of the recueenE ia the ahseaco
of the ccloncl and lieutenant cohraei,
his regiment should devote most of the
af ternoen. to cattalian anlL Jdxmeocs.
quietly gave directiGns that his regi -
meet remain in camn and fix un its
rmn-H-P5 ni Tjicsbr s?T wsible. When
the major rode away, Hancock squared
hfnwpTf, folded his hands and leaked
after him. Without addressing any par-
ticular person he said : "Tha major in
smart, d dsmaxtr to d d smart!
Heavenly hEtsT bet he is a mighty
smart man!" -J- A. Watrous in Chi-
caso Trmes-HeralX-
in
ENGAGED!
Ste TfnPT stEL iaeidririas' axist.
Sir Is nig to keephigfonricrar in sight.
There's a treniniocs asile on the lips he hss
JnsaesL
In her eyes shines a. new street light,
Attt the sodden, landscape fades away.
A shining- path spreads- before, her feet.
Love's deathless domnm she has altered tcdsy,
w!, oh, to be living is srreetl
HE.
He. hurrying- ofT to catch the train,
Eapes that hia people tvfllEiB tiw aiatak-
That a leaky giri snch a hnsbandto gain.
For she -wasn't much of a. catch.
Well, the deed is dene; the vie am must pay.
How much did that dres3- cose she -wnre to
nhrht? Ehe should -min fcsr own; there's & sarin
thasway.
Once msrried, heU set all snch. things right.
E. D- Piersoa mXew YorJcSun-
LOST HIS BEAED.
"Bezonvilie! Gravelctte I Montre
tout! What a lcng-trme ago it all seems
h?-Tf a lifetime, monsieurl" said urr
old friend Philipe Alibert, the ex-dra-rrnnn.
as w& stood before BrisHfiu's Tiic-
tnre in the salon of 1S9-L "Tea, that is
Gravelotte I was there. Is the picture
THtp it? Oh, no doubt I The artist knows
I cannot telL I had to fight, not look
about.
Yon want an anecdote of our troop,
monsieur? Well, you shall have one.
Yon may take it that we were picked
men. There was but one youngster
among us, and to us old mustaches his
beardless face seemed strange- Ah, he
was handsome, with the beauty da en
able, fairly tTt and very slim. He had a
caustic tongue, and nothing pleased him
better than to use it on us, his comrades,
in such a manner that we feared him
and left him to hfmsplf. How it was we
could not tell, bur Leon St Paul carried !
everything before him. Did one of us
offer attention to a pretry grisette mere- j
ly pour passer Ie temps, Lean would cut ;
him out and cover him in his retreat j
with confusion. rn,, in truth, was bad
enough when the intent was merely to ;
amuse oneself, but, sacre, it is hard to
bear when a man was in earnest, as
poor Cambert was with MamTselIe Ma
rie EmmanueL the vivandiere.
'A good creatare, that Marie. We
were devoted to her to a man, but she
reserved her grrrtTAs for Lean, and, if I
muss say what I think, the inmost re- !
cesses of her heart for monsieur le doc- j
tenr.
"Poor Marie I M. Tendame thought
nothing of her.
"Cambert hated Leon and would of- ;
ten say while stroking his thick, black
beard: 'This voting cockerel crows too
loud, messieurs. We must cut his comb ;
forhhi?. '
" 'Thers- are plenty of Prussian combs-,
far cutting, Corporal Cambert, our ser
geant would reply. 'Let us carve them,
my friend, before we practice on each
other. Who knows? he added thought
fnfiv on one occasion. 'The time may
came when we shall none of us have
the heart far crowing. '
"Ah, well, the campaign was in its
infancy then, and Prance, like a bride
who decks herself far her nuptials, had ,
gone out to espouse the god of war, lit-
tie dreaming what the children of her
marriage bed would be. But to my
story, monsieur. It was the eve of
Graveiotte, and Cambert, moody as
usual, came across Leon trifling with
Marie, the vivandiere. He found her
smiling into the youth's handsome,
beardless face, and in a burst of sar
casm unusual with him far monsieur
will understand that he had no great
command of language except for curs-1
ing he said to her, MamTse!Ie Marie
Emmanuel, if yon would have us con
tinue to be your slaves, at least give us
a man for a rivaL j
"Lson's face turned scarlet. 'Man or
bov ' he answer"!?!, I will wager my
silver rosary, hfessed by the holy fa-
ther himself, asainst that beard of !
yours, of which you think so much, '
that I ride before yon into the fight
when next we charge the Prussians.
" 'Agreed!' replied Cambert lightly, i
'Have the goodness to accept my assur
ance mademoiselle, that I shall present
yon with a silver rosary in a little 1
time
" 'Marie shall have the rosary, but
she shall also have your beard to stuff
a pillow far her favorite poodle, ' an-
swered Leon, and then, looking daggers
at each other, they parted.
"The morrow was the day of Grave-
lotte, and we heard that we were to
charge the blue tunics and drive them ,
out of she plantation of hop vines be- :
hind which they lay concealed. j
" 'Ah, this is work far men,' grunted ,
Cambert, as he looked to the left, an
which side rode Leon, with myself next j
inline j
" Look to your beard, Cambert an-
swered Leon, I?nghing scornfully. 'You ,
will never carry it into another fight. j
"The ward was given, and oil we
went. Tell you about it? What shall I
say? Only that the air was thick with ;
a mist which smelled of sulphur and
that a sv.anu oi bees from hell itself 1
seemed buzzing round our ears. j
fcPingI We were not half way across
the space which intervened between !
our starting point and those green rows
of hop vines, each one masking a blue
coated Prussian, when I got it! My
right arm was stung by one of those
bees and the bone shattered. I transfer-
; red my saber to my left hand and let
rny reins fall on the neck of my gray
mare. On she went, her head down, her
necfc srretnbed cut. her nose to tne
ground. j
" 'God of war!' I said to myself. 'Had,
' it only been my left arm same Prussian i
should pay for tnis : was tmnfrmg ox
; myself, of course, for it is not good or i
asreeable to charge Prussians with one j
utttt -nseless. but I saw what rgisred near
me I saw very well, though the gray
mist seemed turning red.
"Young Leon was the next. A bullet
struck TiT-r below tho breast just above
the belt, a little to the side a disci-
preeable spotthatl Strike yourself with
tout lsc, monsieur, so fust there, and
s voawiil kaowwhat I mean. Ihaaxdl
him gxcffis O JesnF and saw hfex
threw out both his fciiTids inso tsiri
Thrn I knew what had happeietL
"In another instant he would fail
backward ovec iBsfiiorse's' haunches,
and lie on the gronntl'with a Prussian
bullet in his internals and his com
rades horses trampling: the heausyhx
his young face. Crtjgl went the bd
tricMimj down, on toiny saddle my
teeth gritting together and a pretty
strong resolve in my soul to see some
Prussian fhnd very soon-
" 'Holy Virgin ! Jesn Joseph Cam
here's voice reached me thraugfe the
screaming- and the hissing af th bul
lets. He was speakhKr grimly. "Coer
age, comrade he said; yoa win your
wager, for you. ride befere metowasds
the enemy's lise. And, raonsi9ErT K"
was so! Lean Sc. Paul had been caught,
as he f elL and lay across the saddft
his rival, supported by his left arm.
"What followed then? YonsaustfpSB
tcre it for yourself, for I cannoc Same
of us never reached the hop vines, some
never returned, but these wholflExishad
Prussian comrades on their journey ra
the other wcrhL be sure s that- AhT har
on that journey a good soldier of France
is comforted by the presence of adowst
ed Prussian, though in life no read H:
broad enoush for tTn to travel amiaa
hly. "When it was over we returned, and
we three, Cambert, St. Paul an&L wrti
srHL together.
"Cambert bare St. Paul to tha pfate
where-ML Tendome and Marie Bwotob
uel were at work. They were bosh sev
ered with bleod and sweat. Thosurgaan
groaned as we brought the youth ia, fur,
as I have said, he loved St. PaeL hut
rnrift nttered a cry which was herd en
Cambert made him look mora grim
than ever.
"JSI was in very great haste to pert
company with my right arm, bu I ssecd
aside to give young Leon his chsaee- A
right tvt" is a good friend and sJMkwfch
closer than a brother. But even the hast
frfgnrT is sametimes de trap.
"The surgeon ripped thegarawass h
-with his scissors and tore them from tea
-wound, disclosing: the white Sesh f th
patient's body, but just then Leon;
roused and tried to drag himself n tm
his side, away from the heater's haad;
mnttaring' something that seemed so ha
ply that, exclusive to the last, be would
not be touched or handled in our pres-
ence.
"The surgeon drew back irresolute,
which was indeed straage wish mo-
ments so precious and gaping wounds
waiting far him en every side.
"Then it was that the vivandiere
spoke, turning to thosa wfaossead with-
in the door of the hut, saoved by such
cmdQsity: as men can feel who are nsad
toscenes-of J)Tccd,
"Goi gor ray mends,' she--safdi
monsieur must find that bailee, and
ffcix is no place for you. You all have
had mothers, women of Prance; sisters,
same af yon wives or sweashaarts.
Berire, I beg. If I cense to She dear of
the hut andlsay, 'My friends, it is the
death here her strong-voice brok
'then pray pray for the soul of a bcawe
daughter of Prance. '
"We who had called the young sol
dier comrade and loved or hated hira
far his srniring; handsome face cast a
strange look, upon the s3eat CTre--sfH.-der
the doctor's hands. We saw witk
opened eyes, and every head was lars
in an instant, for patriotism and tha
courage which God himself gives soxbo
times to his weakest caxamaaded aer
respect as no other earthly ataafcete
might.
"The doctor, with a gasping; sob;
turned to us as we drew toward the
door af the hut. I loved the yossfe, ' he
said. lI find that I have loved our sit
ter. It is well that yen shocM ga she
wishes it but courage, my brothers, tha
frhrtA frrw not yet come to say of out
brave comrade in anm may the soul
of the faithful departed rest in paces.'
Well, monsieur; my arm. wae taken
off and I did well enough. Theyox
tracted that bullet from young Laos's
body, mid the doctor kept it. A hie of
German lead, of course, but raado pco
cions bya counLry wunum 's bis ad. They
moved us to the house ex a wealthy pa
triot, and she lay in the temporary
ward ft-rnnng- the men, but separated ay
a screen. My bed was next to is.
j "Cambert came to visit us, dton
shaven, and not half so fiarce and gra
j without his mustache When ho laSa,
he was weeping like a child.
! "One dav I heard Marie RwwTwtneai
talking-to the patient behind the seraao
?rrjH then I heard the voice of Leonthsft
St. PanL
" 'How shall I face my oasmaa,
she said; 'how meet theaa, sow I m
longer dare to wear the orese m whack
they knew me?'
"And the vivandiere answestd: 36iat
them, dear friend, as the of
brave surgeon. He lavas yoa I
said it. Surelv such woman as yaw "WisM
' meant to
heroes. "
be the mothers of oarfhSHaa
"And what became at GaaoartT" ii
demanded
"Oh, he married," said A old sai
dier. "He has soos andoaadbsats. Pte
haps he married Marie THiamiimaa I
have seen his danghieK'- 9s is -wary
Tftra Marie." Cora. Laaglafc in 25wr
' York Journal.
"
lust- h Been a. xooa Screw,
Far several minuses the young mg
did not speak- Hie heart was wofaH.
It -was enough for him to kaowdja this
glorious creature hived hira; that sfca
, had nromised to saare has rase- r a;
new and dslightfKl sense of canKEshiB
he feasted his eyes once acre boob fcax
beauty, and as he realised tha aoaee-
i forth it wouM no ns prrruegB aw-
vide for her welfare aad haopiacse ha
rrmTrF nan almost WBOC With jOV- Hi
j -mr.r? fnrrrrn sesz-ied mcredible. Esal-
ly he -whispered tenderly;
I " "How did it ever happen, aarfeg.
, that such a bright, shmiag aagal a
yourself fell ia Iova with a oufi, sSaonl
fellow like me?"
j "Goodness knows." she murmured
' absently. "X must have, a sexawr loose
snmevrhere. ,r Pearson's Weeklv-
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