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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
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W. W. BANDKKS, rubllfher.
NEMAnA. NEBRASKA.
THE RIGHT ROAD.
"I have lost the road to happiness
Docs anyone know it, prny?
I was dwelling thcro when the morn was
fair,
Put somehow I wandered away.
"'I saw rare treasures in scenes of pleas
ures, And ran to pursues them, when, lol
1 had lost the path to happiness,
And 1 know not whither to go.
"I have lost tho way to happiness
Oh, who will lead mo back?"
Turn off from tho highway of selfish
ness To tho right up duty's track!
Keep straight along, and you can't go
wrong,
For ns sure as you live, I say,
Tho fair, lost ilclds of happiness
Can only be found that way.
Kllu, Wheeler Wilcox. In Good Choor.
CAPTAIN CLOSE
BY CAPTAIN CIIAKIiKS KING.
LCopyrltfht, 1891, by J. D. Llppincott Co.
XIII.
Coil fined to her bed mid room ns was
Madam Walton, and only vaguely alive
to what might be going on in the house
hold for there were days when she
lay dull and apathetic, yet mercifully
spared from suffering it was Esther's
duty and fondest care to minister to
her mother's needs even at a time when
her henrt was torn with anxiety on ac
count of her husband, now a prisoner
in the hands of the United States mar
shal at the capital, and of her brother,
who, under the orders of the general in
command of the department, had been
sent under guard to New Orleans, there
to await, his trial by court-martial for
the crime of desertion. The visits of
tho old family physician were frequent,
for the invalid had had too much to suf
fer and seemed incapable of further
struggle. Floyd was twice permitted
to vifc.it his mother during the two clays
that elapsed before telegraphic orders
came in his ease. She knew him, elui-g
to him, yet seemed unable to realize
that he was going from her. She once
or twice asked if Judge Summer'! had
been heard from, for Cousin Hart had
written full details of Floyd's trouble,
and the family united in urging him to
make an appeal to certain inlluential
friend1 of the ante bellum days, who
had scandalized the Waltons by their
loyalty to the old Hag. Then Lambert
wrote p letter which Close signed and
sent to the department headquarters,
and the boy, remembering some kind
words said to him by his father's old
friend, ventured on a personal letter
to the general himself, pleading Wal
ton's case and portraying the family's
distress. It was this letter that over
came Esther's objection to the advice
of Mr. Potts to the effect that they take
Mr. Lambert in ns a day boarder. And
within -18 hours of his initial appearance
at their table Mrs. Seroggs, as he vas
the first to address his blushing hostess,
was more than reconciled to the step.
Hut if she was, Miss Kate was not.
The wrath and indignation of that
young lady can hardly be described. It
wai. one thing, she declared, for her to
sell eggs and butter to a gentleman who
was a friend of Floyd's, who told her he
despised his captain as much as she did,
who had enlisted only because he had
been promised immediate promotion to
a captaincy, and who never would have
done so even then, had he known that
soldiers could be used to persecute the
people of the south, lie was only wait
ing for his commission to come or his
discharge to tell Cnpt. Close, what he
thought of his conduct. It was all very
well to make friends with a gentleman
like Mr. Kiggs, who had been dear
brother Floyd's friend at Quitman be
fore he fell in love with that horrid
designing Yankee girl who htid led him
on to " 'cohtin' " her when she was all
the time engaged to thatrich ragpicker
or whutovoh lie might be. Mr. Kiggs
had behaved like a puhfect gentleman.
(She had forgotten the little bill he hud
been running up and was so long vainly
importuned to pay. She also attached
slight importance to Parton's state
ment that "Brother Floyd said Kiggs
was a fraud and liar, and responsible for
much though notcill of his trouble.")
As between Mr. Kiggs and this new
Yankee lieutenant, who had dared to
disguise himself and seek to make her
acquaintance, she had but one opinion;
Kiggs was driven to drink and desertion
by having had to serve under such
brutes. She declared she would starve
rather than eat under the same roof
with Lieut. Lambert, insisted on stay
ing in her mother's room and being
solved there, and wns cons-pieuous by
her absence from the table for the first
48 hours since Lambert's admittance,
despite Esther's pleading and Uarton's
ridicule. "You may think it fine to take
money from such people, Mrs. Seroggs,"
ohe declared, with high dis
dain; "but you never would if molt
was well enough to know whut wai go.
ing on." (Molt is the only alphabetical
combination that I can think of which
oven approximately represents Mis
Kate's pronunciation of tho term by
which she was accustomed to refer to
her mother). Put if Miss Kate wer.? in
dignant before, she was simply furious
when her married sister responded,
with exasperating calm:
"And yet you took Mr. Lambert's
money In payment for your butter,
Kntesie."
"Ah didn't. How dav-ah you say so,
EsthuhV It was Mr. Kiggs'."
"Floyd says it wasn't. Floyd nays
thut man had not had a cent for three
weeks. You know yourself it was Mr.
Lambert there at the fence both nights,
and you know why that wretch couldn't
have been there."
"Ah'll wuhk every ilnguh to the bone,
then, till it's paid buck," cried Miss Wal
ton. "An' it was mean an' contempt
ible an cowuhdly In him to fnwee it on
me as he did to listen to whut wasn't
meant fo' his yuhs at all." ."By his
"yuhs" Miss Walton meant those or
gans of hearing that lay so close under
the brown curls on cither side of Mr.
Lambert's shapely head ears which
she could gladly havo pinched, or
tweaked, or even banged, in her wrath
at that moment. The hard-earned, long
expected live dollars had been sent to
town and expended before this sisterly
conference took place, or beyond doubt
Miss Katesio would have h'urled it back
at the donor when he came so springily
up the walk that crisp December even
ing. Two days later brought a long let tor
front Floyd, written from the barracks
at New Orleans. lie wan not confined
in tho guardhouse, as he had feared and
expected to be. The prisoners await
ing sentence were there, but those yet
to be tried were kept in an old store
house that was not uncomfortable, and
on the evening of his arrival an officer,
Lieut. Waring of the artillery, took him
into a separate room, "treated me like
a perfect gentleman," wrote joor Floyd
leaving his leaders to divine whether
this lavish descriptive were to apply to
the lieutenant or himself, listened to
Floyde's story from beginning to end,
and told him to keep up his spirits.
"Lieut. Lambert had written urging
him to do a', he could to help me, and
had asked old Gen. Dueannon to restores
me to duty without trial, in view of the
way T had been tricked. If he does,
and will send me out against those in
fernal Indians in Texas, by heaven I'll
show them T can fight as hard for the
flag to-day as I did against, it three and
four years ago. All J ask is officers and
gentlemen like him oryoung Lambert
to serve under, and I'll earn my par
don." They had been utterly blue and hope
less on Floyd's account since his trans
fer to New Orleans, and this letter was
a revelation. Esther took it up to her
mother's room and strove to make her
understand its purport, "Katcsie" sit
ting silently, and, at first, scornfully
by. Mrs. Walton's faculties seemed too
dazed to follow, and Esther li'id to re
iterate and explain. Then the doctor
came, and the hale old gentleman's
eyes filled as he read. "That young fel
low is a trump," said he, referring to
Lambert; and he, too, bent over the
gentle invalid and whispered hope and
eournge. Later, when Kate was wanted,
it was found she had quitted the room.
Esther discovered her after consider
able search, shivering in a room up
stairs. She wouldn't, talk, but that
evening came to tea.
For several days Miss Kate contrived
to hold aloof from the general conver
sation, but it was a hard fight against
every natural impulse. Pefore the end
of t lie week her resolution had failed
her utterly, and time and again her
ready tongue had challenged Lambert
to debate; and now, to h'r chagrin, it
was he who declined. When formally
presented to "My sister, Miss Walton,"
by Mrs. Seroggs, the young gentleman
had bowed very low and had striven to
bo civil. As they sat facing each other,
and only the width of the table apart,
her downcast eyes and determined si
lence proved embarrassing, even though
long, curving, sweeping lashes and
flushed cheeks appeared, perhaps, to
dangerous advantage. "Aw pshaw!"
said Cousin Hart that evening, as he
and Lambert were smoking the pipe of
peace and the young fellow ventured a
fear that he had offended the damsel in
the butter business, "just you pay no
attention to that child for a day or
two, an' see how quick she'll come
round. She just wants to be huffy.
She'll be hawbly cut up when she finds
you don't notice her." Potts had not a
little worldly wisdom when he wasn't
drinking, and since his installation as
ex-oflicio head of the house he hadn't
touched a drop. Lambert, was begin
ning to like him very much, but
couldn't induce him to come over to
camp. "I can't stand that captain of
yours." was his sole explanation.
From frigid silence on. Katesie's part
to occasional monosyllable and thence
to brief and caustic comments on tin
remarks of her sister and cousin the
transition was easy; but now that Lam
bert addressed no remarks whatever to
her, yet chatted smilingly with the
others, the girl's position became ex
asperating. She was willing enough, at
the start, to keep at wide distance, but
that anybody should presume to hold
her there was a very different matter;
in fact, simply intolerable. Esther
noted in silent amusement how the girl
began to display unaccustomed so
Jicitude as to the fit of her gown, the
effect of such poor, little efforts at or
namentation as her simple store rf lace
or ribbon .afforded. Such quaint, old
fashioned bows and flounces as came
forth, such queer comoiiiationsot shade
and colorl Esther caught her more
than once glancing up shyly front under
the long lashes and looking furtively at
her vis-a-vis, for Lambert, with malice
prepense and aforethought, began tell
ing Mrs. Seroggs of the belles and
beauties of last, summer at the Point,
anil one evening when tho verbal block
ade had lasted perhaps three, days he
turned to Esther as they were rising
from the table and If it wasn't taking a
mean advantage of a defenseless foe,
what would be?
"I brought over these two to show
you, Mrs. Seroggs," said he, producing
some cartc-do-vlsite photographs front
an envelope. "This Is Miss Fordhain,
who was considered the prettiest girl
at Cozzens' this year, though that fash
ionable street suit is perhaps less be
coming to her than evening dress. And
this is Miss Torrance. 1 think. I told
you that our ladles are no longer wear
ing crinoline, and that these short
dresses are worn even for calling in the
daytime."
And Katie Walton was halted at the
threshold as she would have left, the
room. What woman could resist a poop
at these pictures of reigning belles
garbed in the height of the fashion of
tho day a fashion these fair southern
sisters hnd never seen, and had only
vaguely heard ofl Cousin Part could
have laughed outright when lie caught
a glimpse of Katesie's face, but merci
fully refrained. She Hushed, stopped,
bit her lip, turned and fnirly ran up
stairs, but camo down five minutes
later, as Lambert knew she would,
"looking for n book;" and Esther,
yearning over her, called her sister to
her side. Looking at northern .girls'
pictures wasn't making friends with
their friends anyhow! "Ah don't see
anything pretty in that one," was
Katesie's prompt, comment. "And Ah
couldn't l)o lti-uhd to weah a gown like
that." Put Lambert felt, that he had
won the day, and the next evening
fetched over a whole album full. "Ce
n'est que le premier pas," etc. Miss
Walton, having looked at, two, conclud
ed she might, as well see the others, but
she never meant to ask questions about
them as she had to when Esther wen
in to see what mob would like for her
tea. Cousin Part had brought in a bag
of plump and tempting "partridges"
that, evening, and was beginning to
puzzle Esther very much, when she re
membered how impecunious a jhm-sou
Part had over been, to account, 'or the
supplies which he began to fetch from
town.
And so things were going a trifle but
tcr at the old homestead towards the
lh5:Trr' ' V y$A III
Formally presented to "my aliter, MlBaWultou."
nd of December. Hopeful letters camo
from Walton. The Parmelec party
were having difficulty in getting reli
able evidence against him; his friends
were making him entirely comfortable
in his confinement, and his lawyer as
sured him that his release would lv
effected in a very few days. Floyd wrote
that an aid-de-eamp of the general com
manding had conn with Lieut. Waring
to see him, and to say that his ease was
being investigated and that, as yet.no
'.liarres had been preferred by the com
mander of his troop. Little delicacies
and luxuries in the way of tea, jellies
preserves and wine things to which
they ihad been strangers since early in
the war were finding tJuir way in and
greatly comforting the invalid mother,
and, could their doctor but say the dear
lady was really mending, the girin
would havo had hope, and courage, bu
Hie doctor could not say.
"I've got to go to Quitman for two
days on business, Esther," wild Cousin
Part one. keen morning, "and I reckon
I'll ask Dr. 1'alconer to come back with
me, 'f you don't n ind, and have a day
at the birds. They'll all be gone in a
week 'f this weather keeps on."
"You have deeper reason than that.
Parton. I saw you with Dr. Coleman
when ho went out last night. It's a con
sultation, is it not?"
"Why, of co'se I want Coleman to havo
a chance to talk it over with Falconer,
and he'd like it, too. Falconer's iiior
u to date, the old man says, and he
thinks perhaps the new school knowt
something wtith tryln'. You see, Cousin
Lou nin't pickin' up fnst as she ought
to."
"I see it all too plainly, Part. Wh'it
1 don't see is where all the money is
to come, from to pay for doctors and
consultations and and " Pig tears
began welling in her soft, sad eyes.
"Part, whersdocs itall.eome from now?
Ifow do we get all these dainties? You
can't spare it. It, mustn't ho Mr. Latu
belt's"
"Now just don't you bother 'bout
that, Esther. I made a raise, I tell yon
There's old I'nele I'eto and that' no
'count. nigger Frank been owin' your
mother on last year's crtwp o' eawt'i
all this time. I made them pony up, an'
1 told llleks I'd sell out his mule an'
cart 'f he didn't pay made him bawwo
the money "
"That wouldn't begin to cover the
cost of what you've been having sent up
front New Orleans the expressag"
even "
"Now just, don't you bawwo trouble."
(One r in a sentence, wasn't too much
for Potts. When they doubled up on
hint he. confessed judgment.) "Iam
bert Mends to all that. Tnele Sam, he
says, pays freight on commissary stores,
.lust do's I say, and we'll fetch Cousin
Lou round all right yet, 'and find ionic
body to rent the old pine and send yo'
all down to Piloxl for the winter. Put
I'll tell you what I do think, Esther;
y'ought to have Lambert over to sleep
in my room while I'm gone. He'll
come."
Put when Lambert came to tea that
night half expecting to be welcomed
to Cousin Hart's place in his absence,
a surprise awaited him. Esther, with
joy in her eyes, blushlngly told him
that her husband would be with them
before nine o'clock. A telegram had
announced his release and speedy coin
ing. "There's no train over before morn
ing, is there V he asked.
"No but Mr. Seroggs took the stage
at noon for Vernon, up north of here,
and will get a horse there."
And, as It was evident, that she looked
any moment for that longed-for com
ing, Lambert, decided to slip back to
camp instead of spending an hour in
chat or reading, as he usually did. At
this Miss Katesie's big blue-gray eyes
were opened wide with surprise, then
lowered hi confusion, for he turned to
look at, her.
"Oh! flood-night, Miss Walton," he
laughingly exclaimed. "1 had almost,
hoped you would ask me to stay."
"Ah don't know wh'a Ah should," was
the prompt and pouting reply. "Sis
ter Esthuli can if she likes."
"She doesn't like, to-night as a mat
ter of course. I couldn't expect, her
to. Put as your good mother is sleep
ing and Mrs. Seroggs will be able to
leave her to welcome her husband, and
you will be well rather superfluous.
I thought I might profit by the situa
tion to the extent of having an hour'.
chat with you about, your fair com
patriots up north, for example."
"Ah don't, know of any subject that
would interest me less. And they're
not my compatriots, as you call them,"
answered Miss Kate, with lite in Iter
eyes.
"Ah, true," said Lambert, with pro
voking coolness, and a mischievous
smile twitching the corners of his
mouth-, "I recall your indifference to
their photographs the other evening.
Will you kindly say good-night to Mrs.
Seroggs for me, and tell her "
"Ah'll tell her you were simply hate
ful and Ah thought you'd never go!"
"Well, I won't, if you think 1 ought
to stay," said Lambert, returning smil
ingly to the door and proceeding to
hang his forage cap upon its accus
tomed peg. She promptly snatched it
from his hand.
"Ah wish you and your photographs
wuh freezing up nawtli, whuh you
b'long, 'stead of coming down hyiih
ty'annizing over people "
"Now do you know I was wishing that,
too? It's so much nicer freezing up
north than being frozen here; and then
next week's Christmas. Oh, you don't
have any mistletoe here, do you?"
"We did, before you all came. You
Yankees ruined everything nice you
didn't carry off."
"Now, what am I to say, Miss Katcsie?
If I don't say you're nice you'll think
I'm ungallant; and what Yankee would
ever dare try to carry you oil'?"
"Lieut. Lambert, Ah think you're
simply horrid, and Ah wish you'd go,
.'stead of standing there pulling your
mustache in that silly way."
"Now, Miss Katcsie! the idea of your
being the first girl to set her face against
this struggling mustache! I never
should have thought it of you. Or was
'it the mistletoe pul you in mind "
"Will you go?" she cried, with flam
ing cheeks and stamping foot. "How
day-uh you stand there laughing at
me? Oh, if I were a man "
"If you were a man nobody would
think of such a thing. As I'm one, I
can't help it."
"Ah wish Ah could help you down
those steps and back to camp," she re;
torted, trying hard to look furious. .
TO UK CONTINUUM.)
Tim Urrat Khun of Turtitry.
The personal apcarancc of the great
Khan, ius described by Marco, is as fol
lows: "lie Is of good stature, neither
tall nor short, but of middle height. Ho
bus a becoming amount of flesh, and is
very shapely in all his limbs. His com
plexion is white and red, and the eyes
black and fine, the nose well formed and
will set on." Put tho portrait of Kublai
Khan, drawn by a Chinese artist, does
not exactly correspond with the pen
jxirtrait given here by Marco. Wo
know also, from Marco's own narrative,
that the omperor was subject to gout
In his later life, and wo are led to infer
that he was rather corpulent, a.s he Is
represented In the drawing given by
the Chinese artist, Nouh Brooks, In St
Nicholas,
RACE RECORD BROKEN.
Btnr I'otntcr, King of All K'ncorn, Muki-n m
Nmv Murk lit ComixHItlnn.
Inimanai'oi.ib, Ind., Sept. 80. -Tho
world's race record was broken hero
by Star Pointer in a match race with
.loo I'atehcn. The weather was per
fect for tho contest between tho two
kings of the turf. There was but one
heat of tho race to bo finished, each
having taken heats on tho afternoon
previous, the race, going over on ac
count of darkness. Tho track was
the best and thu horses both fit
for tho race of their lives. In fact,
every condition indicated that their
record of 8:01, hold by I'atehcn and
John II. Gentry, would be smashed.
The vast crowd was not disappointed.
They saw a mark that will, no doubt,
stand for years 8:01. Had tho black
follow, .not Cultured a bit at the head
of the stretch, uvun lower time, would
have beun recorded, as Pointer finished
strong with three open lengths of day
light between them.
KLONDIKERS MUST HALT.
A llfjivy Hnownlonn 1'uln mi Knit to
Ktirtlmr Trnvnl Tmviiril Yukon.
San Francisco, Sept, 120. A special
dated .111110(111, September lil, says: Thu
first snowstorm of the season swept
over tho mountains last night, which
is one indication that the same thing
Is likely to recur at any time or con
tinue steadily. Small boats which ar
rived front Skaguay bay report that
tho snow fell y4 foot deep on tho Ska
guay trail. This means that further
progress cannot bo Hindu on that trail
by the staggering thousands. Already
tho indications begin to bear out the
statement that tho trails to Klondike
Would bo" marked by collapsed tents,
blasted hopes and tho skeletons of tho
unwary and venturesome.
AG Al N M ICH AELWI NS.
Ill IthlCH n JUIll-M III till) KllHtttfttTllIU till)
World Kviir Suw. ,
Huston, Sept. 80. .Mm my Michael
Saturday won tho greatest cycling
event ever run on any Now England
track. It was the international 85
inllu race on Charles River park and
was run in the fastest cycling time thu
world oversaw. Michael's competitors
wore Lucicn Losna. of France, and
Eddlo McDitlllo, of Cambridge. It wius
a superb day and 11,000 people wit
nessed tho race. Michael swept over
the finish lino in 15:58 l-.', a winner,
loading Lcsiin over a third of a mile
and over two-thirds of a mile ahead of
iMcDufile.
THE STAFFLEBACK CASE.
iUitny (luliinii IViipIo Think Corn SI11IU11
Imok'N Story In llntriin.
(Iai.kna, Kan., Sept. 80. Thuru havo
been no nuw developments in thu
Stallloback ease for tho past throu
days. It Is believed by many that
Cora Stalllobaok, Rosa Hay no and thu
McCoiub woman, who havo been con
nected with tho most notorious gang
of cutthroats In existence, havo told
their stories only to gain notoriety.
Yot they still positively state that
time will prove their statements. Ex
citement is dying down, but if thu
bodies aro found nothing can prevent
a lynching.
MISSBEEM'S DEFENSE.
Him Will Illimiu Anothur for thu Kmlit-zzln-
llltlllt lit tlllt lllltl'lllllHOII I'ont. OMIf'l).
Wichita, Kan.,- Sopt. 20. Tho attor
neys for tho defense in tho Eva Ileum
embezzlement case from Hutchinson
declared Saturday that they would
try to provo that Will Mead, deputy
postmaster at thu time, got tho miss
ing money and that there was a short
age in tho ollico after Miss Pee in hud
been ' suspended. Miss Strattou, a
post ollico clerk, sworo that she had
scon Miss Ileem lend money to various
persons and that she had scon persons
pay her money and get crediton notes.
DERIDES FALSE PIETY.
11IhIiiii Vlnciuit SiiyH rri'iiclium Should
t'yolo iiml I'liiy IlitHtttiiill.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 80. In his
remarks before the Michigan Metho
dist Episcopal conference Kishop Vin
cent said ho had 110 sympathy with
preachers who couldn't ilay a game of
baseball or rido a bicycle. Ho said
that was too much Hko piety run to
seed. Some Christians said they are
pious when they aro only bilious. Mo
scored revivals and revivalists of thu
"Cyclone Hill" order. Tho revival
should go on all the time, ho said.
MlHMiurl t-x-Kliivi-H Want I'tMinloiiM.
St. Louis, Sept. 80. There is a move
ment on foot among thu negroes of
this city to organize a statu associa
tion, with headquarters in St. Louis,
for the purpose of ngi'ating tho ques
tion of pensioning 1.10 ex-sluves for
borviccs performed during their en
slavement. It is their intention to se
cure the reintroduotion of what witi
known as tho Thurston bill in con
gress and force It to a vote.
ICiikIIhIi Koup .Miikitr to Movn to Aim-rlcu.
NuV Yoitic, Sept. 80. The now pro
tective tariff law will cause tho loss to
the United States treasury of all
duties on at least two kinds of soap
that havo been imported in largu
quantities, as thu manufacturers havo
decided to start a factory in this coun
try, the customs dues having been
doubled on some of their goods.
A Son Horn to tho niurllioroiiRlm.
London, Sopt. 80. Tho duchess of
Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo
Vandorbllt, became tho mothorof a son
i.t three o'clock Saturday morning at
Spencer house, the ducal London resi
dence. Poth mother and son arc doing
well, according to tho reports from thu
attending physicians.