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NEMAHA. NEBRASKA.
ORPHAN BILLY.
Youm; nilly hnsn't any ma
To toll him w'nttodo;
To make him ml ml, an' comb htshalr,
An' keep him In a stew.
Ho doesn't haf to wash his self,
Nor mind about bis clothes
I tell ye Bill has mostcat fun
Of any boy I knows.
"N mil kin so a-llsbln', too,
Whenever he's Inclined.
"N bo kin stay away all dny,
'N no one over mind.
2 toll you orfuns has a snap;
1 most wish I was ono.
jMy ma an' pa watch me so elost
I can't havo any fun.
"N mil kin stay out late o' nights
Till nlno o'clock, or ten;
JBut let mo stay till half-past eight
N somptbln' happens, then!
"N you 1st ought to see Dill's clothes,
All tored up Into bits;
Hint If mine's tared a llttlo mlio
My ma 1st gives me fits.
"Vis, orfuns hav a snap, fcr sure
Still, whon I come to think
.About not bavin' any ma,
I kind o' baf to wink,
To keep the tears from comln' out.
For ma Is awful kind,
".' treats mo nice an' lovln', too,
1st 'cept when I don't mind..
She gives mo pio and cako 'tween meals,
'N helps mo make my kites;
'N seta fcr hours besldomyBod
When I am sick o' nights,
'N softly, gently strokes my bead,
'N calls me her dear son
I think I'd rather keep my ma
'N lot I3I11 have the fun.
Arthur J. Burdlck, In Chicago Record.
CAPTAIN GLO
BY CAPTAIN CIIARLKS KING.
(.Copyright, 1804, by J. B. Llpplncott Co.
I. Continued.
Quilting- New Orleans after n long
day's sight-seeing with his friends, he
uad sought a berth in the Pullman and
fslept soundly until aroused by the porter
:af ter two o'clock to change cars at the
junction. Now he was wide awake,
.and, after the first few miles of jolting
and grinding- through the darkness, was
becoming chilled and lonesome per
jhaps a trifle homesick. Twice had the
-conductor bustled through the train,
rousing sleeping passengers and seeing-
them safely oil at dark and mys
.tcrious stations where hardly a glimmer
of lamp or candle could be seen away
tfrom the mere shanty which served
ais a waiting-room and office. A heap
of wood was stacked up near the stove,
-and Lambert poked the waning em
"bcrs and piled on fresh fuel, whereat
,-n young- man who had got on at Cootcs--ville
with a shotgun and a big- bottle
for luggage, and who had for nearly an
:hour been singing sentimental snatches
lo his own deep satisfaction, now smiled
.maudlin approval and companionably
Aeld forth the bottle. " 'S good," said
lie, in loyal defense of the stimulant
unost courteously declined. "Bes' thing
;you can take these co' mawning's. Live
'bout hyuh an'whcre?"
"No," said Lambert, civilly, yet hop
ing not to be further questioned. lie
Tbusied himself again with the fire, then,
irisiug quicklj', sought his seat.
But the young man. with the flask
-was gregarious and bubbling over with
the milk of human kindness. He
promptly lurched after, and, flopping
down on the opposite seat, sending
isome of Lambert's belongings clattering-
to the floor, held out his hand.
" 'Scuse me, suh," he stuttered. "I
Ihope I ain't 'fended you. My name's
"Potts Barton Potts. We ain't what
-we were befo' the wall, you know. But
1 know a gen'l'm'n every time. Hope
1 ain' 'suited "
"Not by any means!" protested Lam
bert, loudly and heartily. "Don't think
of such a thing! I simply didn't feel
dike drinking; but I'm a thousand
ttimes obliged to you."
"Thn'z right. ThaV. all right," said
Mr. Potts, grasping Lambert's hand
and shaking it impressively. "I hello!
TVha'z that?"
Lambert's sword, encased in chomois
sskin, had come in contact with the
:.stranger's elbow and gone rattling
under the seat. Potts made a precipi
tate dive and fished it out, regaining his
equilibrium after some little struggle.
"Goin' to Quitman too? ThaV. my
home. An' I'm glad meet you. I
"know a genTm'n an' I'll stall' your
frien' I mean it. Missur Missur '
"My name's Lambert," said the lieu
tenant, quietly essaying to relieve Mr.
Potts of the sword.
"Lammert? Glad meet you Missur
Lammert. Where'd you say you
b'longed?"
"J'm going to Tugaloo."
"Tu-gloo? TliaV no kin' of place.
C'mawn to Quimman. Come to my
house. What 'n 'ell's thiz?" he broke
off suddenly.
"My sword," said Lambert, simply.
"Sword? sword?" exclaimed Potts.
"You goin' Tu-gloo with sword? You
Yankee offcer like that whaV. nanie?
Close?"
"A Yankee officer certainly," laughed
Lambert. "I've never met Capt. Close."
The effect of this announcement on
Mr. Potts was surprising. It well-nigh
sobered him. lie slowly drew back un
til he sa: erect, his head wobbling u bit
lu spite of his efforts at self-control.
$t
Presently he began to speuk, slowly and
impressively at first, then winding up in
a verbal entanglement:
"Missur Lam-p-bcrt, 1 didn't know 1
was tnlkin' to Yankee officer but
I'm a genTm'n, suh, an' I stun by
wh-wha I soy. I mean to stan' your
frien', suh; but as fo' that oth fcllnh
Close I'll see'm in 'ell first,"
II.
It was sun-up nnd snapping cold when
the brakeman shouted "Tugaloo," and
gratefully Lambert Htcppcd from the
train and felt free air. Mr. Potts was
sleeping soundly, doubled up in one of
the seats. The only wakeful bipeds in
sight were the conductor and his train
man. Unseen hands forward had
shoved the trunk out upon the frosty
boards. The sun was just peeping over
a low wooded ridge before them. The
track wound nway among some desolate
fields where tiny flakes of cotton still
clung to the brown and withered stalks.
In a cloud of steam the train pulled away,
leaving Lambert and his trunk to look
after each other as best they might, and
as the cloud lifted the young officer
looked curiously around him.
He was standing on a rude wooden
platform whose shrunken planks left
black, gaping ,seams between their tip
per faces, now, at least, beautiful in
their thick coat of sparkling white. Ex
cept where the footmarks of the train
men marred the smooth expanse, and
where in two or three places the planks
were gone entirely, this gleaming sheet
stretched the length of the platform to
where the white bulk of his trunk stood
on end at the eastern edge. The charred
and blackened relic of a flight of stairs
led from the platform to the sloping
ground some five feet below, but not
even a hand-rail warned the unwary
against a breakneck plunge into space.
Part of the platform itself had been
burned nway, nnd some charred and
blackened posts, sticking bolt upright
from the ground in the shape of a nar
row rectangle, showed that a wooden
building of some kind had formerly
stood nlong the rear of the rickety
staging. Midway along its length, on
the southern side, a shed with a sloping
roof had been loosely thrown together,
and the ends nearest him, boarded in
and pierced for a door and a couple of
windows, bore over the threshold in
black stencil the legend "Ticket Office."
Under the shed were a couple of
plows and some boxes. Out on the
bare slope, midway between the track
and a "snake" fence that paralleled it
some twenty yards to the south, a dozen
bnlcs of cotton were huddled, three of
them partially covered by old war-worn
'paulins and ponchos, the others en
tirely exposed to the rain of sparks to
be expected from any passing engine
when the wind happened to blow from
the track; and all of them, evidently,
defenseless against the predatory
hands of pilferers, for jagged rents were
torn in the coarse sacking of each, and
huge fistfuls of the white staple had
been dragged from u dozen gaping
wounds in every bale.
The red soil, showing here and there
through the scant and withered herb
age, was camcd with mule and wheel
tracks, and a few rods nwny a broken
down farm wagon lay with a spoke
bristling hub close by its shattered axle,
while the tire, rolling away from the
general wreck, reemed to have crawled
off to die by itself, and leaned rusting
against one of the charred timbers.
The southward view was limited to a
long, low ridge of ugly, white-flecked
cotton stalks. Eastward the sun was
breaking a pathway through the fringe
of trees along another ridge, and a faint
line of mist, rising sluggishly in the in
tervening low ground, with the hollow
rumble of the train crossing on invisible
bridge, told of the presence of some
slow-moving stream. Westward the
track came into view around a thinly
wooded hillside, with a clearing here
and there, in which some low cabins
were scattered.
With this cheerful outlook to greet
him at three points of the compass,
Lambert turned him to the north. There
was a siding with a switch at each end,
but, us three or four rails were missing
opposite the west end of the platform,
it stood to reason that the railway com
pany found the other nil 1 hat was neces
sary to the traffic of so bustling a place
as Tugaloo. A brown freight cor stood
on the siding with wide-opened doors,
nnd some household goods loomed in
plain sight. "There is more honcstj'
in this community than the United
Statesmarshal would give us to believe,"
thought Lambert, as he recalled the ex
tract from a recent report which was
shown him at department hcadquorters.
Ho laid his satchel and sword upon the
platform, and, wrapping his blue cir
cular about his shoulders, took a few
steps forward and a peep into the in
terior of the ear. From the midst of
bedsteads--, burenus nnd cheap old-fashioned
furniture, a quantity of bedding
had been hauled out upon the floor, and
from the midst of the bedding a woolly
head protruded that of n negro fast
asleep.
Beyond the cor stood a dusty open
square bordered on three sides by dingy
wooden structures, some of two stories,
but most of them only ono in height. A
wooden sidewalk framed the square in
home places, and in others only indica
tions of its former presence were to be
Been. The sidewalk was bordered by a
rude railing, to which, it was evklent,
horses nnd mules were tethered during
business hours, for at one of the rails,
even now, sprawled upon the soft, hoof-
pawed dust-, a long-enml quadruped
was half hanging by the bridle rein,
while the dilapidated saddle had worked
around during the night until it set
tled upon the animal's side.
Judging from such sign? or legends
as were visible over the doorways of
Tugaloo, Lambert's impressions were
that the vending of intoxicating drinks
was the principal industry, as there
were three saloons to one store devoted
to general mcrohundise--whleh estab
lishment, painted white and with an air
of prosperity and a flock of cotton boles
around it, bore the sign of I. Cohen, and
told pathetically that the pioneers of a
relentless nnd one-sided trade had al
ready made their lodgment in the midst
of a helpless community.
It was sunrise, nnd not n soul was ap
parently astir. A street lvd away north
ward at right angles to the main front
of the square, and straggling houses
lined it at intervals on either side. One
of these, with a belfry, at the corner of
the pla.i, seemed to be a meetinghouse
of some kind, possibly the pro tempore
substitute for the county courthouse,
Thought Lambert, for the center of the
Square was still heaped with charred
j'nd blackened beams and bricks where
once the courthouse stood.
As for the camp or quarters of Ma
future comrades and associates, Lam
bert could see nothing that in the least
lescmblcd a military station, and, do
what he could, the boy found it impos
Aible to down the faintly heartsick,
homesick feeling that speedily took pos
session of him. A dog would have been
welcome as companion, hut there was
not even a stray dog. For a moment
Lambert thought of arousing the negro,
but after one glance at the wide, red
cavern of his mouth nnd the emptied
flask lying close to the frowzy head, hu
decided in favor of the mule.
A short walk brought, him to the side
of the prostrate creature, and a long
pull induced his mulcship to stagger to
his feet, but in his struggles he snapped
the old headstall, and the remnant of
the bit and bridle dropped into the dust.
It was not until the vagrant stood erect
'.hat Lambert discovered from the U.
?. brand that he was, or had been, gov
ernment property. The saddle, too,
turned out to be one of the old-fashioned,
black-skirted, pigskin McClel
lans, so familiar during the war days.
As the mule seemed only half awoke and
unaware ne yet of his freedom Lambert
The younfr oQlcor bocamo suddenly nwaro of a
man woRrlni; tho chevrons of n corporal,
who, lUhing- rod in hand, wm standing Just
buyond a clump of buihei bolow.
first essayed to reset the suudlu.to which
he submitted without objection, and
then to replace the bridle, to which he
would not submit at all, but with low
ered front nnd menacing hoof turned
him about nnd jogged over to where
some wisps of hay lay scattered in
front of a shanty labeled "Post Office."
For ten minutes Lambert exercised his
arts in vain effort to recapture that
mule, nnd then, in sheer disgust, threw
the bridle on the sidewalk, picked up an
abandoned half brick, and let the mule
have itin the flank. He merely twitched
his scraggy hide, raised one instant the
:iearmo3t hoof, but neer lifted his
bead. The brute was hungry from long
fasting, and did not mean to bo dis
turbed, and Lambert, who had eaten
nothing s!nce the previous day, was
-presently in full sympathy. Once more
lie looked around in search of some
human being, nnd found himself con
fronting o citizen in shirt c.leeves and a
Tangled head of hair, who, leaning out
cf a second-story window was neverthe
less not 20 feet away. For a moment
eachregirded the other without a word.
Then the native spoke:
"What ye tryin' to do?"
"I wns trying to catch that mule."
"Wont him f'r anything?"
"No; only I found him Inngled in his
reins, nnd he got away after I loosed
him."
The native regarded the newcomer
curiously. Lambert hod slung his
blue cape over the hitching rail during
his brief pursuit of the ungrateful
beast and his neat-fitting suit of tweed
was something new to Tugaloo eyes.
So wns the jaunty drab derby.
"You don't b'long roun yore, do you?"
queried Tugaloo next.
"I don't; and the Lord knows I don't
want to; and I'd be glad to find some
way of getting myself uml my trunk
yonder, out to camp. Can you tuiggest
any?"
"We-cll, you might walk. Don't reck
on your trunk kin, though. Know tho
way?"
"No."
"Poller the track down thar a piece,
an' you'll come to a path along th
branch. It'll take you right In 'mongxt
the tents. Toin't more 'n a few rawds."
"Thank you, my friend. You're the
first live man I've found. I suppose 1
con send in for my trunk?"
"Beckon ye can. They've gowt mulcn
an' wagons enough."
Lambert gathered up his belonging!!
and trudged away. He did not mean
to yield to the feeling of depression that
wns struggling to possess him, yet the
blue devils were tugging ot his' heart
strings. Wasn't this just what his class
mates had prophesied would happen it
he went into the infantry? Could nny
service be much more joyless, unevent
ful, forlorn, than this promised to be?
"Mark Topley himself would go to
pieces in such a place," he hod heard
some one at headquarters say of Tuga
loo, but he meant to out-Topley Mark
If need be, and nobody should know how
much he wished he hadn't been assigned
to this sort of duty and to this particu
lar regiment certainly not his class
mates, and, above all, not the loving
mother at home. Heavens! how unlike
wns this bleared, wasted, desolate land
to the sweet and smiling New England
vole where his boyhood had been spent,
to the thickly-scttled, thrifty, bustling
shores of the Merrimoe!
He hod walked nearly a mile and had
seen no sign of camp or sentry, but on
a sudden the path left the brushwood
beside the sluggish "branch," rounded
a projecting knoll, nnd wns lost in tt
rough, red elny, country rood. A fence,
with n thick hedge of wild-rose-bushes,
was to his left leaves and roses long
since withered and over the tops ho
caught sight of the roof and upper
storj' of some old southern homestead,
nt which he hod a better peep from
the gate-way farther along. A path of
red brick led to the flight of steps,
broad and bordered by unpretentious
balustrades. Dingy white columns
supported the roof of a wide piazza.
Smoke was drifting from a battered
pipe projecting from the red brick
chimney at. the north end, nnd the
morning air wns faintly scented with a
most appetizing fragrance of broiling
ham. It mode Lambert ravenous.
Somewhere, around the next bend in
the rood, beyond the northward extrem
ity of the old fence, he could hear the
sound of voices and a splashing of water.
Hastening on, lie found himself over
looking a level "bench" surrounded
on three sides by a deep bond of the
stream and porfially separated from
the red roadway by a fringe of stunted
trees nnd thick, stubborn bushes; and
here, in an irregular square, Lambert
came face to face with the encnmpinent
of the first company, outside of West
Point, it was ever his hick to join. At
that particular moment he was just
about ready to resolve it should be the
last.
On two sides of the square, facing
each other and perhaps 20 yards
apart, were the "A" tents of the com
pany, ten on a side. At the flank farth
est from the road and pitched so oh to
face the center of the inclosiiro was a
wall tent, backed by one or two of the
smaller pattern. Nearest the road was
a second wall tent, used, possibly, by
the guard though no guards were vis
ible the white canvas cover of an army
wagon, and a few more scattered "A"
tents. Cook-fires hod been ablaze and
were now smouldering about the wag
on. Several men in gray woolen shirts
were washing their faces at the stream;
others, in light-blue overcoats, were
sauntering ubout tho tents, somu of
whose occupants, ns could be cosily
Kee'n, were still oslcep.
Standing at the edge of the winding
rood, and thinking how easy a matter
it would be to toss a hond-grcnudc into
the midst of the camp, Lambert paused
a moment and studied the scene, test
ing on his sword, still in its chamois
case, with his cloak and satchel
thrown over his shoulder, the young
officer became suddenly nwore of a man
wearing the chevrons of a corporal who,
fshing-rod in hand, wns standing just,
beyond a clump of bushes below and
looking up at him with on expression
on his shrewd, "Bowery-boy" face in
which impudence and interest wero
about equally mingled. So soon as he
found that he was observed, the cor
poral cocked his head on one side, and,
with arms akimbo and a quizzical grin
on his freckled phiz, patronizingly in
quired: "Well, young feller, who made them
clothes?"
Lambert considered a moment before
making reply. One of his favorite In
structors at the academy hud spoken to
tho graduating class about the splendid
timber to be found among the rank and
file of the army. "They are like so
many old oaks," said he, and some of
Lambert's chums had never forgotten
it. Neither had Lambert.
to nn CONTINUKD.
The convicted murderer cannot bo
sold to have a very high regard for tho
law, but he has for tho law's dolay.
Texas Sifter.
Men say more evil of women thnn
they think; it is tho contrary with
women toward men. S. Dubay.
LABOR DISSATISFIED.
An Open Letter to Hcrmtor Mot-gnu Iron
unci Stool Worker Unit Work Coal Min
ors to Btrllto Lockout In I'cminylvimla.
CmoAao, July 3. W. D. llyan, secre
tary of tho United Mine Workers of Il
linois, has written an open let.tcr to
United States Senator Morgan, In
which ho soys:
Tho stand taken by you In behalf of tho pa
triots lu Cuba dosorvca tho commendation of
nil liberty loving pcoplo, but lot mo call your
attention to tho condition of 40,000 of your constituents-
tho coul minors of Illinois. Tho In
snno competition Inaugurated by tho coal op
erator: has brought about a condition of bu(
forlng and destitution which was novcr equaled.
Wo havo been forocd to ncccpt reduotlon after
reduction, until tho price now paid l.s bo low
thnt miners cannot earn an average of 76 conta
n dny, nnd tho mines work only half time.
Taking an nvcrago of SI a day and
three day' work a week, u miner enrns $12 a
month. With a family of llvo a fair avorngo
tho wlfo has an nvorogo of less thnn three cents
n maul, to my nothing of clothing, rent, etc. I
doubt If any mora lives havo been lost In Cuba
slneo the Insurrection commenced thnn In tho
mines of Illinois during tho fmmo time; and I
urn certain there aro no more women and chil
dren hungry In Cuba ot present than among
tho families of tho minors ot IlllnoU Do
something to put tho lillo minors of Illinois to
work nt n fair rata ot wages and I will guaran
tee that every miner In Illinois will contrlbuto
nt least ono duy's wages ovory month for tho
bcnollt of tho downtrodden pcoplo of Cuba.
At Strentor, III., a meeting of miners
voted unanimously to go on striko now
and not wait for a general suspension
order. As a consequence, no coal is
being mined hero and nearly 2,000 min
ers aro idle. At Brnldwood, 111., tho
miners of tho entire Wilmington field
met at Chicken's grovo yesterday and
decided by a unanimous vote to go on
striko when tho national oflleers shall
order a suspension of work.
THOUSANDS OP J1KN BTOl WOltlC.
Pinwiimnn, Pa., July 2. As tho re
sult of tho failure of tho joint wago
eonferenco of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron and Steel Workers and
manufacturers to agree upon tho sealo
at tho Youngstowu conference all tho
union mills closed down yesterday and
between 75,000 and 80,000 men aro idle.
This includes thu skilled workmen and
those depending on them. Tho gen
eral suspension of work following tho
disagreement of tho joint, conference
committee at Youngstowu cannot bo
regarded ns cither a strike or a lock
out. Repairs aro always made at this
season of tho year and many manufac
turers do not sign tho scolo until
after their plants havo been over
hauled. Tills usually takes two or
thrco weeks. In thu meantime, tho
conference committee will meet and
endeavor to settle tho differences. If
tho committee finds that an agreement
is impossible, tho striko can then bo
considered as on in earnest. Tho con
ference on tho tin plate wago scale will
bo resumed to-day by tho committees
of tiio manufacturers and Amalg
mated association. All tho tin plate
plants lu tho country, with tho excep
tion of four non-union concerns, aro
idle, and a number of manufacturers
aro anxious to get to work.
MTtJMIMOlM COAT. MINIMIS TO STRIKE.
Tiutiti: IIautk, Ind., July 2. Next
Sunday, or prior to that day, circulars
will bo placed in thu hands of all tho
bituminous minors in tho United
States, calling them out on strike. It
is estimated that 200,000 men will bo
involved. Pennsylvania, Ohio, India
na, Illinois and parts of West Virginia
nnd Kentucky will contrlbuto to tho
movement. Tho striko is to enforco
tho Columbus scale of 01) cents per ton
for Pennsylvania; 00 cents for Ohio; 00
cents for Indiana, nnd f15 cents for Illi
nois. When the Columbus scalo was
adopted, it was not thought advisable
to attempt its enforcement. A commit
tee was then appointed to take in hand
tho matter of a striko and to order ono
as soon as such a course scorned oppor
tune. This committee has decided that
tho time has como to act.
LOOKOUTS IK rKNNHrr.VANIA.
Nicw Kknsinoton, Pa,, July 2.
Chambers' glass works and tho two
tin plato works at this placo have shut
down pending a settlement of tho
wago scale. About 1,B00 men are out
of work as a result. Chambers' glass
works gives employment to over 1,000
men and boys. Neither tho manufac
turers nor their men want an extended
shut-down.
JAPAN IS ANGRY.
May Withdraw Her Mlnlntor on Account of
Hawaiian Trouble.
Washinoton, July 2. Torn noshi,
tlio Japaneso minister, is likely to bo
recalled at an early date. While offi
cials of tho Japaneso legation hero
claim to be ignorant of any such
probability, well-informed opin
ion in state department cir
cles inclines to tho belief that
Mr. Iloshi will ask for his papera
within a short time. Tho reasons for
tho minister's recall aro twofold, not
tho lelst potent of which is said to bo
tho feeling of tho mikado's govern
ment and of tho minister personally
towai'd tho United States over tho Ha
waiian difficulty.
WHOLEFAMILY POISONED.
Mother and Tliroo Chlldron Dead ami Two
Other Children 111.
Br.ooJUXOTON, Ind., July 2. Tho vi
cinity of Belmont, Brown county, 14
mllos east of hero, Is greatly excited
ovor thu extermination of tho family
of John Stephens. Tho mother and
ilvo children wero taken suddenly ill
with what was thvught to he ilux
Monday afternoon. That night tho
infant diod. Tuesday morning tho
llttlo one-year-old boy died. Yester
day morning tho mother died and an
hour later tho six-year-old hoy died.
Two llttlo girls aro all that aro left of
tho family and thoy are dangerously
ilL b now believed that all wero
poisoned.
