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THE OMAIA DAILY BEE: SUNDAV, JANUARY 6, 1901. wooded ravine, opened out over some leafy shallows, where the trees overhung the placid pool and peered down by day into thelr own inverted images. A little foot bridge had been built across the stream at the point where it narrowed again and went meundering through a charming landscape southwestward on its long, winding way to the Tennessce. Farm lands, houses and buildings dotted the billowing surface here and there toward the rallway embankment the west. The white tents of Prides Weakness, four companies gleamed in the sunshine choks to the wooaén trusa BHdge LERC Dore paleness, the iron way across the swirling waters. emac|a“o“ Parallel with the and 500 9 y allway yards SASC of 16 fan the dlngy Tine of the pike nervousness, while still farther toward the foothills, at conditions would have charmed tho senses | of you, Her letier, however, told you all | the fork of two wood roads, a good thr headaches, Il ore. quarte o o stood little with its beauty. Beauregard having aban uld, and more quarter mile from camp, stood @ doned Corinth and scattered y Her letter! Norman had received no let- | frame church where famous Ethiopian dizzy spelle. WAnY. golbg o . AtPeHNERSN i | ter, and his heart had been sore indeed | Preachers ofttimes exhorted in the past and Chattanooga, It behooved the hers | aver her silenco, for It Kate Ray would not | where now a_rude soldiery stacked arms impaired digestion, to look out f t A D he ¢ n er him he was truly friendless in his | without and spread blankets within, It was o look out for the approaches to Neshille | ELReet totL Be e L okun sk [ 116 Boat oF the Feasts 6f the pieket Fuard sleeplessness, prising troopers, Messrs . . s of letters and papers for the Emmet's | of the Buckeyes, the post from which the |ack of energy e they left the line Upports were ¥ v &an, who skipped thro ith t ! At Corinth, but never i thrown out, fan-like, through eithmoe len, and are herer (here ang | & WOrd for him. He asked Trot, the firat | the woods, and on this night In June, sott, sediment in urine, it everywhere among ymunteath It | sergean he had seen anything, and |stll and sensuous, half the Emmets were T o our communlcatlons. Tt | (s answer was, "Nothing since Pitts- | covering that southeastward front with painful menstruation, | the hardy, seasoned regiment, including | D8 Landing’™ where severai sacks of let- | Licutenants Malloy and Scarcliffe in com- the tardy, seasoned regiment, Including | ¥ 4" dapers et them s they boarded |mand, “Use the utmost vigilance,” were irregular menstruation, found themselves camped near the railway, | the RIVEr Queen, and Trott remembered | Pride’s stern orders at nightfall. “That Is with ‘Pullahoma Jiny miles off (o | dlstincily there was a letter for Holt—a | where theyil try to break throush, it leucorrhoea or Whnes, . thick letter addressed In a lady's hand. | through anywhere, and we want no reb cav- by squad. armed onls with eaniaene awi | There were somo for Brennan, too. The |alry running off our fellows |1 rear of the (endency to faln" hera were they bidden to wateh o reny | boys were all erowding round when the bag | line guard the railway bridge and ses (o it that | W48 Oprucd on the lower deck and someone | The Emmews were tired and worn. There weak back. o Chnpte Johnny Reb aidn't rip up the rails or burn | 0F them—he forgot who—sald Brennan and | had been an alarm the previous night and a . } Holt were working at commissary papers | long reconnoissance. Some of them had not Norman Molt, favortte mon of an oid | e HOWwe truss right under their re " [ in the in above, and he would take them | slept six hours in thirty-six, and felt seed A | mental nose Then two companies v six, and edy Kentucky family, le reprimanded at Wett | sent up the track to 1ok after the briame | UP: Later Corp Connolly recalled the same | in consequence. After midnight, when . high-spirited father. His home-coming, in | at Frenchman's creck and two more across | 0¥ e was on guard and couldn’t Corporal Connolly should have relieved the winter of 184, I8 celebrated by un old- | o wioht of way to protect the ston b | [Lets see, who was it took them? Why, | Private Darc at the footbridge, it fashioned Kentucky Christmus guthoring. | (18 FILL OF WAy (b protect the stonc arch | yes, it was Lynch—him that was Malloy's \was ~ Brennan's turn, and ~Brennan c Lo DE Bt Tawyer, and 3o BUFMett | mountain strenm that come topiies W€ | striker,” and Lynch had long sigce been |was leeping soundly and wearily Matioy, both ‘of " Cincinniatl. The latter | oo, bE FUER (700 came (i ent back to Nashville, sick of a fever. |as ired child. He had been fail- bri I‘utylrt‘rluyu(“ hl‘,y“."‘v“ “;v.‘,I‘,Lufr’“.,‘«ly”!.‘:y"‘.‘; om0 "” ”"‘\ ‘::;‘.‘n.‘n"“u ‘ Brennan was questioned. Yes, Brennan got ngely of late, and seemed far from Peceived, but arouscs the jealousy of Nor - |two letters that evening on the Queen et him slecp, Connolly,” said Nor- min Holt by his attentions to Duldy Lune Malloy separates Miss Lane from the main party durlig a fox hunt ana at the Christ ball the same evening affects an alr istuatetul to Daisy and | fval, Norman Holt: But | all 111 feeling 1s forgott when at midnight Wil surround Dr. Holt (o drink the Christ mas punch, which ceremony s interrupted midnight messenger, w), announces dungerous fline, of Judg Intyro. | stigatlon reveals Wi finapeial affulr s tangle and the Holt forty / e 7% 7/ W / | Men who suffer from vital weakness or any nervous disorder should take HUDYAN. HUDYAN Henry and Norman Holt enier I AnaanEan Halk e | k3 g ¢ is a specific for Nervous Debility, Nervous Exhaustion, Despondency, Exhausted Nerve Vitality, Holt enlists as private in the Oho infantry. | T e O L R LT A A 7 i R y . Ete. Whether your weakness be the result of overwork, worry or excesses, it maters not, HUD- tenant in the same company and Heary Holt Jolns the confederate forces rmon ,," / 7 s YAN will correct the evil. If you become a physical wreck, you have yourself to blame. HUD- fs ordered to conduct o skirmishing party R T L I T E T L o ! / ' . ; YAN is within the reach of every man, and HUDYAN is a positive cure. HUDYAN will ’ /i § 7 y of prominent reb Buiwview rald fails, Wing captured Norman accused of / X ° / / . strengthen all the organs of the body. It will invigorate the entire system. HUDYAN will / g A A, & treathery. Brain saves him from e iy L : p 4 AR % 3 prompptly correct all these conditions that result in physical decline. Charges agalnst Norman are disproved b Fngarl. Norman rejoins his regiment and | ; by “ " % Women who are pale, weak and gemerally run down, as a result of those afflictions to which women alons are gubject, find wids Bheridan in capturing Henry Holt, f b b 4 | in Hudyan a friend indeed. Hudyan allays Inflamation, Heals Ulceration, Cures Female Weakness and all Bearing Down Pains. s i Sl B 1 Hudyan regulates the menses. It relleves the pain during periods. Hudyan will strengthen aud tome the delicato organism of Between flat wooded banks the broad J8 ) women, #o the physiological process will take placee, without pain. Every sick of ailing woman, married or unmarried, should sircam was swoeping, the Queen floatiog, " RN l e ey take Hudyan, for Hudyan gives the marernal organs strength. It bullds up the entire sysf nolseless, with the flood Below, the men & ) had been comforted with coffeo and hard- 5 e / iard 4 { EMPORIA, KANSAS. | EEATTLE, WASH | HOPE, TDAHO. tack and were dozing off on their blankets » 4 ” ” Gentlemon:—I wish to state that I feel| Dear Doctors: I am certtain that your | Dear Doctors:—I took the Hudyan as d In the cabin two or three parties of offi- } HCEes T i “ 1 like & new man. Your Hudyan {s wonder- iludyan haw saved me from an eatly gTave | rected, followed your spectal instruction v A A ful, and every man who suffers f for 1 could get no permanent relief until cers were at cards or chat. Only a few s [ Y . SehRY J suffers from ner-| I took Hudyan. I suffered from femals |&nd am pleased to state tthat I am again appeared outside. A wooden shelf ran along A AN 4 2 b8 Vous yeakness should know of it I was troubls, and doctors sald I would have restored to perfect health. I feel twenty ppes 8 ki v % / ) totally unfit for my dulles, was very ner.| to undérgo an operation. I would not con: | years younger than 1 did. Am more ener- the rail, a narrow seat, and upon this Nor- I ¥ e £ H 5 lvoukl, had no eppe ite, and had a h sont to 1t. Hudyan had cured a lady fri c and my work does not tire me. I man dropped and buried his face in his i 5 ; ? 00| rough the atl i 7y > ook, Through ‘the action of your g mine, and T renolved 1o give it tr fiave no more diss spelln and sicep Tine, :].IpIx n.~l rnnlvinnnl‘ ,\:-\: L;lv‘l:'h‘r:‘v ::‘.‘»lnj"l": AN ;i / /% <o ki Y passed away, 308 BEECHE™ | Jound and wem "t ey ABEACK | At iiro 2 “worth dun\z S A Y s comrades. He crav b o k < % / only to think a few moments. Three or four . / > fil officers, wrapped in their overcoats and sprawling on big chairs or on blankets on the deck, were sensibly preparing for possi- Dble work on the morrow by sound sleep at night. There was no one to say him nay, i 7 7 ming sound (hat stceped the senses Iike an | Meantime, soldier suboraination must never | 7 B3 AUTIFUL At least there was none when he first ap- A v ! oplate. Over the bosom of the waters, in| be forgotten for an instant. e e 3 noiseless flight, swooped and circled a| And as they crouched there listening OOMPLEXION ope. . and the form of a young officer came § d brace of bas, and once in a while, an-|and with beating hearts, again the welrd SRl daethe, Therdqor alamInes FALE ! ’ S swering some Imperceptible breath of the | ery of the screech owl arose on the still HUDYAN I8 for sale by druggists—50c a package, or six packages for §2.50. If your druggist does not keep Hudyan send direot te the HUDYAN REMEDY COMPANY, Cor. Stockton, Rllis and Market Sts., 8an Franclsco, Cal. YOU MAY CONSULT THE HUDYAN DOCTORS ABOUT YOUR CASE FREE OF CHARGE. WRITE. him, and he stood at the rail alone. Then \ 1 . A A night, the reeds and rushes under the|air. Again was it answered well over to fn a moment, as his eyes became accus- bridge, the thick follage in the overhanging | the right, and from somewhere along the tomed to the darkness, he glanced about ; 3 S trees, stirred with languorous murmur, and | opposite bank, but to the east of the bridge him, at the two or three recumbent forms SR i the lone seatry found his eyelids closing | there came the jmpatient neigh of a horse. 3 " on one hand, at the lonely seated figure on ! : ? with heaviness. Twice he shook himself | Then again all was still. Five, ten minutes | WME. A. RUPPERT'S WORLD RE- the other. A moment more he stood rreso- ZRRRARG i g awake, twice he half rose, and, crouching | they waited, and not a sound was heard. NOWNED FACE BLEACH AL- lute, then stepped quickly to the latter and J sull ':m‘»;mlln:“l:;‘l:n::ym::::;\ll(l“|n sfort o] st |H;umm eramt over :;vr;.fl:vh':lv‘vll':;l MOST WITHOUT COST ? avy hand upon the shoulder. Nor- banish the pe o on. 3| Connolly, etter. t R T kiuntly rom ki rito e A y " A o'clock Mr. ‘Scarclifle axaIn came creeping | Whoover they are they keep away trom tho [ KO MATTER HOW BLEMISHED feet und stood at salute. i A A up the narrow pathway ’“”;‘ mu(m«n.-.. umll front of |I|n‘.< foot bridge. They must know THE SKIN, FACE BLEACH L y NS there was a brief muttered conterence. “I|it's guarded.” , 2 st VA il P LR R \\ o5 : thougbt yow'd be on later, Holt,” whispered | “I was thinking of that,” answered Mal- WILL MAKE IT PERFECT ofticer, In a cold, cutting tone, “you have X, 'x’ \ D e 'Tust Dalure Sawn 16 108 1ay, 1o wWuttited fons:" Copsolly Web & LI el i et Lk Ll ORI N : dangerous hour. That's why wo had you on [ company favorite, a man to be considered, los, 20008 R e 3 third relief.” not bluntly ordered about. “I should like A lump scemed to spring to Norman's W % ) 0 \ N “I'm taking Brennan's place,” was the[to know whether they are lining up in throat. He essayed to speak, but no words 2 AN SR \ 3 \ \ ] answer. “He's played out. It you wish, |those woods yonder, just as they did at Would come. - Bllently he. faced about and AR BRSSO \ \ I'll stick to it until sunrise. There hasn't | Shiloh, when they jumped Into the Army of obeying the menacing, pointing finger, moved (y R \ \ QNN \ been a sound thus far”” And Scarcliffe [the Tennessee. Do you think—could you wearily to the stairway a few yards for- \ went back to the reserve and said the foot | crawl out there 100 or 200 yards—may b ward. At the foot he encountered the se LA N\ AR 4 bridge was all right anyhow, with Holt| “Whatever you say, sir,” was the prompt geant major. “Just looking for you, Holt. there till sun up, whereat Malloy, pacing |answer of the Irish lad. He never yet had Report to the colonel in the after cabin at \ \ % pervously up and down in front of the |shrunk ata “dare” It was Holt who would once,” wore the stafl sergeant’s crisp words. i \ N\ wooden church, whirled about and asked |have opposed—Holt who strove to speak, " The shortest way was up the stairs again, \ QRN AN how that could be, and was told. but was silenced by the instant answer and In a tric he stood upon the deck from A little later the senlor officer of the | «“Then try it, corporal. IUll be a feather which but the moment before he had been B - stard catled up the sergennt of the reserve | {n the Emmets’ cap if we can discover and £o0 summarily ordered. There stood the offi- 2D MALLOY. aad bade him send two men to camp Wwith |balk their move. Keep sharp lookout, sen- cer, his first lieutenant, his back toward his, buslly teariak. s shoet of paper into frage Some fellow handed them to him. It wasn't ments and throwlng 'hem carefully o alleged generals who conceived that cavalry | Lynch. It was the commissary captain’s board, Dim as was the lght Norman | 0ad N0 higher use or function—so the Buck- | clerk or sergeant, he wasn't certain which could see with suMicient plainness that a | CY°% had to furnish two more companies as | Then there had been a letter, a thick le Jotter of size was belng reduced to scraps | Beadquarters guard, the penalty for being |ter for him and from Kate Ray, and he But why should Malloy start and grasp | *¢980 0l 10 (he regulars in point of set | never got it, nor could he find the man to the little wooden piliar of the covered way |UP @nd tyle, and that left our friend, the | tell what had become of it. He went and a8 ho turned and faced himt . Normay |colonel, with just four companies to protect |notified Gafiney of this mew. trouble, and could have sworn he was livid, trembling, | 0UF miles of track and the pleasing occu- | Gaffney could only sympathize and regret, the volce with which he spoke was | PAUOD of damning general officers in gen- |but when Norman returned to camp he was wd shaking with mingled wrath ang [©Fal and one in particular for overything |approached by Sergeant Trott and awk- dread Indecent he could think of. Whe a4 man's | wardly informed that Licutenant Malloy or- 1 ordered you below, sir. How dars | Whole ambition is sot on winniug the star |dered that hereafter he apply for permis- you disobey?"" y4IXI4| the yellow sash it is trying to command, | 8ic befcre he ventured to go so far from “The colonel orders me back.” was the | IB8tead of four regiments and a battery, [his company. As the Emmets were far- roply, as the dark eyes, mournfal but |O1IY four companies and a band. Colonci Feachinz foragers and given to exploring Madame A. Ruppert My Face Bleach is not a new, untried orders to bring out between them a kettle |try, Be ready to back him if he needs | remndy, but hus been used by the best - . o . + .. 0 o1 man. “I'll take his turn. Then It he's all | of coffes as hot as possible. They were help, I'll slip back and bring up som: fi“'.'.',',"q.'.,{",fi,’]'.“ g fo fitiieand | Tight at 3 be can take mine. If not, I can | back in half an hour or so, and Malloy, |men.” patohos, biackheads, eczenis, tan, sunburn, stand it And so it was Connolly and Holt | atter seelng coffee distributed to the Wak- | \ith that Malloy backed cautlously to- | saliowness, rouginess or radness of the that went forward toward 1 o'clock and |ing men of the guard, told the carriers 0 [ward the shrubbery behind them, whils | $Re"Anc, (0% riEianTas b found ¥ crouching by the north abut- | follow him out to the supports and pickets, | Connolly, erouching low, stole out upon tho | it-1s ‘absolutely barmiess o the most went of the little bridge and more than | where men also drank the comforting cup | narrow foot bridge and was speedily lost to R liia. Al Shiae s glad of their coming. *I can hardly keep | and went about their duty refreshed, thank- | gight in the shadows of the opposite shore. | gow applications is most apparent, for the my cyes open,” said he, “an’ I haven't seen | ful to the officer who at times scemed 50 | Norman remained alono—Norman, who a | skinbecomes s nature infendod it sheuld nor heard o d— thing ‘cep that time I|thoughtful. At Connolly’s picket Brenman |few minutes before rejoiced in the new life evhy Tty aut blemiah 11 cansot whistled, Cavalry ain't coming up to no | still slept the sleep of weakness and h4 energy the coftes had given him—Nor- | JSTos b AGtion 5 guan haLiS drans hy footbridge.” haustion, 50 they dld not rouse him. But | man ‘who now found It ebbiog, ooziug away, | imyurities out of the skinand doet not “No, but cavalry can ford these shallows | the corporal and private Darcy “":“h“‘"‘" and some strange hnR\‘"fl“""‘“"" “I“"‘k“"“ This s the only thorough and permanent casy enough. Samo old signals, Holt. Take | of & steaming mug and a nibblo of hard- |aver his sensen—Norman, who with keen | way, '~ ; ' g J r o i month, Twill offer to al your post.” And away went the corporal | tack, and then Connolly bethought him of | anxioty and disapprobation had heard th o During this month, Twill offer to anl with Darcy stumbling alongside, leaying | Holt, 100 yards farther out to the front at | words that sent his gallant comrade upon | Hieuch, sufioient to thow that it ia ail . b Sdgal b 41 aalf sloas & J And ader of this oan | A orman to hini ¢ the edge of the water. “O, certainly,” said [ perilous, probably a useless errand, yet | Iclaim forit, and any re burning with a sense of indignity and | PFide had done hig best to “stand in” | Without consulting their first lieutenant et sasia . ; 00 [PATILePE ALAER GF. Biives: A0 5 It was us breathless a night as the young | the lieutenant, “by all means, and to the|who found himself powerless to remon- B e PLLs e G Siven A wrong—lighting, too, with strango interest [With his state officers at Columbus, and | this seemed an invidious distinction, but | goiqier had known in the whole cnmxywatg: other sentries up and down stream.” strate or to act. Malloy had vanished packed in plaln wrapper, scaled, all charges Fo T B P e Rl o g [Mmost assuredly and assiduously had he la- | Norman sllently accepted it all. It prod-|anq (he day had been almost insufterably | “They come in mow, sir,” said the ser-|Holt was utterly alone—alone with this| Brepulte 0o 0 0 ye paquseal winn . “May bored to make his regiment everything it |ably would last only a short time at mbst y ’ " insulteratily " o ble - led the flow of the My book 'Row autitul will be straight into the steely blue. “May I be | 8 1y wo hot. Somewhere toward n:on there had boen | eant. “Only Holt stays—doing double | gtrange stupor that dulled the flo L0 gy v i S R allowed to pass?" should be in point of drill, discipline and |Both Colonel Pride and Captain Enyart [ [icer gy along the picket line west of | duty tonight.”” iife-blood in his velns, numbed his nerves, MADATE A. RUPPERT For a moment Malloy stood us though |#ficlency. ~ He had counted on Buckeye |were confident the commission would come | g rajlway where a vallant regiment of | “Then carry him a couple of hardtack |darkened his sight, deadened his hearing | o 0™ o’ Sioet ™ New York Sl e B k. butea door |Dacking to make him a general a month [ Within a fow days, for the former had se | yo giors held (he ground. For twenty | 81d 8ive me the biggest tincup you've got,” | What did it mean? What could it mean? rime. Ruppert's Gray Halr Rostorative opened at the instant, Gafiney's jovial (V3¢k, but the star had not come. On the cured the favorable recommendation of | oG8 (UG The wround: For twenty | g Bygy oy Tipcad on, corporal.” He rose to his feet in determined effort to [ g mti ORI S LT alr to ite naturay brogue rang out on the night. “Shure, I'll | CODLFATY, It w that, in epite of | General Buell himself, and, as Buell was |y 0"y etry | T was then about quarter to four. Away |ghake off the deadly drowsiness fast over Color. Can bo used on Any shade of hair, o Ohlo, it wa Sheridan, for the |more apt to criticise. than commend the | B¢ heen 50 brisk as to bring »d blindly d the and {8 not a dye, and does not discolor the Sad him at wanst. colonsl, “Twill be aiad o, to & an, for th o than commend thel,p. prguge fnto line, and later | ©Ut to the south and southwest the night |coming him. He stumbled blindly down th B oy O il ATty ot news to him—as it is to me." | stary all over the army already that |appointments in the volunteers, that was | " "o 0c, p ater | o emed to be waking up. The distant bark | dark bank, knelt at the brink and dashed | glways gives aatisfaction. H f ol i ol AP NS { Halleck had recommended the short-legged, |considered a feather in man's cap and a ause patrols to push forward all along o o the . he ¢ over head and face, shook Mme. Ruppert's Depllatory removes Damnation!"" hissed Malloy, as he turned | 0 . the front. They found three dead horses, | ©f Watch dogs broke the silence and in tho | the cool water over hea 3 T e O T and hurried away snapping-cyed liitle quartermaster for a |8lap at the state oMclals at Columbus. |y . o) o"0p s o B DS (o0 HOVROS: | gorgqt heyond the stream & lone whip-poor- | himselt vehemently, kicked out with one Fri e RS AT IV A moment later and the tall young sol- [Beneralship betore he had becn colonel of |There had not beeen lacking mischievous | (it G0 RRIGIE troopers had left nothing | (i"haq again roused and was pouring his |leg, then the other, thrashed with his arms | Jgin. PRl i dler was standing at attention, cap in hand, | ry more than a month. It was roug: |flings at Malloy when the matter was first | JAF THUUT U TLvORABle mpression and & | yoirg plaint fnto the drowsy ear of comiug | in alr—all to no purpose. He remembered Fime. Ruppert’s Egyptlan Balm for soft. in front of the colonel, who, seated at onr |0 Pride, who held that Sheridan owed his 'noised about the regiment. Some of his R I:] mise tag ked to a tree at the bend side of the cabin, his adjutant standing by | first success to the advice and counsel he |brother officers made the mistake of twit- | °f the pike to “call again in the near fu- ening and healing the face and hands, the sofa, and other offcers grouped about | KOt from the Buckeyes, and the only recog- | tiug him oF trylng to, but the man who had | {Ur®"" Then a squadron of Kentucky horse tailed as his escort—and we had not a few dawn. So absorbed secemed the sentry in|he had left his rific on |l|"| sransy slope by me. Ruppert’s' Hair Tonic "pouliively somothing at the front that not untll the [the bridge abutment, a dozen feet away | removes dandruff, all scalp disoases, stops ushed visitors were close upon him did he mnote |now. He must not quit his rifle. He must falling hair, and in mauy cases restores him, leisurely looked up from the papers | Pitlon they were going to get was a letter |shown such agitation and nervousness the ‘!‘ ished out on each of four southward lead- he held in his hand |of thanks and a commission for privatc |night on the River Queen was as placidly | !P8 roads, and for two hours rummaged the “Holt,” sald he, “I have a letter from |Holt | unconscious, to all appearances, as he haa [ W00U8 without finding a thing, the pickets 4 bair. and mutter challenge. No “honmors” are[nmot quit his post. Yet that post—that Mme. Ruppert's Atmond Oll Complexion Colonel Sheridan, cno paragraph of which | 1t was time, by the way, for that com- |been the day Gaffney read him FEnyart’s | Meanwhile being alert and eager. But just will interest you. He thanks us for the |mission to be along, thought Pride, und so|description of the sceme at the hospital. | 8bout supper time, away to the left front, P : evolY de of pure almond oil and wax. rendered on the outer line by night or day. |bridge seemed slowly turning, revolving | Soap, made o simond oil aud wax, Officer, noncammissloned officer and private | about some hidden axis; so were the trees | Delif tful for the complexion and war. prompt support given him the morning of [Sald old Gafiney. So, too, said the Bm- |OnlY one thing did he say that could bo [ the southeast, the explorers stumbled on a the 27th before starting on his way to |mets, who were, as they put it, “rejoice- [construed into a reflection on the proposed | Stionger force, had a sharp eetto with sabers ranted not 1o chap the most delicnte skin sentry crouched together, “Heard anything | beyond and the black shadows underneath; Al 0f the above toliet. preparations are Booneville, and €ays that but for his guide [ful” over the news, and, unbeknownst pointment and those who advocated it. | @nd Colts and then had to give way. After seen anything?’ whispered Connolly, €0 waes the ground under his feet, and he | always kept in Stock and can be had from he couldn’t have nadbed the rebel scouting | Norman, had clubbed together, subscribed So General Buell bas urged it, has he?" | that all was quiet again from sundown to long as you possibly can 0l azent. “Two screech owls began about ten|was growing dizzy and weak, and his knecs ““:uu.\ A minutes ago. They seemed to have piped |seemed bending beneath hlllx' ’HI.H OMAMA, NEB. up very suddenly,” was the muttered an- [wouldn't do! This would never do! Back y r D! ely spoke alloy, y | midni; save y 0 2 " o! ] Cook's Duchess Te L8 APO SUCK ull; party with their important papers, and, ra- | £00dly sum of paper (o bo collected at pay |Pensively - spoke Malloy, with somothing | midz xlh: ave ouly tho mournful plaint of | peard hoof beats across the stream, but | Back to that abandoned rifie! The bank Sopiislichees Tabuete arasocenptully ferring to lotters written, ahem—in your |da¥, and had gotten “Cap’ to send an order | that could hardly pass for a smile, yet not [ the Whip-poor-wills, but even they had | ope can sce nothing." was steep and he stumbled, and it seemed od monihiy byionts 10,00 ladlen. Frioe . says: I have heard so much In |to Loulsville for as handsome a sash, belt |be called a sneer. *Well, it lan't the first | ceased as tho night woro on. “Johuny Reb | “rgjere's coffee and hard tack the leu- |to fly up, violently hitting his forehead. 1t " tample and particuiara. The Cook Ca., ABGRA It L » A I Ravasitian | AR From il Ho ad relolued oo doau |8 S9ShaTR ATIRALRIReTHE visiting the outer Iine of pickets at mid- | connolly, “Drink. ItIl freshen you up.”|It was hardly felt. All his senses wero( 0l in Omaha by Kutn & Co.. 1§ & Dougtas urging his being commisstoned a first lieu- |&ud bad limped half acros @ of | But while preserving an unrufed front | DIEht. ‘Johnny Reb is never so much to| Ana eagerly Holt received the big tin cup | dying. He must have help! “Connolly! tenant in my regiment. He may look for |Tennesssec, ambulance scorning, and now |toward his assoclates it was observed that | be dreaded as when he is still,”" sald the | gt his hands, as Malloy had passed it, and | Connolly!" he fecbly cried, but the sound it before the middle of July''™ the Shiloh wound was giving no end of |Licutenant Malley's letters to his father | colonel as he, tco, made the rounds on his | ook a long deep draft scemed ftifled, proloned to a low, loug, |to set him on his feet and shook him al- colonel had stepped up to the stars and | Into camp hospital, which once more thre fortnight after they left the Queen, ‘‘ie’ll | ¥0'th, men, and whatever happens hold your | freshes on long night duty as “soldier [ lable. Good God! Connolly was away out | Shannon bade him imploringly to say he bade good-bye to the Second Michigan, [Malloy In command of the Emmets, and |thrick yo if he can, me boy,” said Gaftney. | & coffee’ when properly made. It sent a|at the fr and the plcket—Brennan and [ wasn't asleep. ‘“'Asleep—asl on post! Before the middle of July Norman Holt |that wasn't the best thing that could ha Falth, T wish you were an Irlsh dema Every caution spoke of the need of | grateful glow all through his tired body, |Darcy—away back 100 yards or more in the | Good God! No! Asleep? Never! Asleep?” was a prisoner under guard, ordered to |happened to Holt 'stead : face a general court-martial on trial for his | With every day now, however, Norman | there's nothing could bate ye out av it small, but all that could be spared at the| *I think the officer of the picket should | make them hear, but Malloy—Malloy sald | I wasn't asleep, sergeant. I heard you e, had been gaining in health and strength, for | Then all of a sudden guard duty became | moment, and, as Pride sald, enough to stand | hear these sounds for himself,” sald Holt, | he was coming back at once with more of | coming, plainly i hope is a noble tonic. He had won a friead |doubly hard. The visits to Gaftney were |off double their welght. The general had|as he listened again with strainiog ear.|tho boys. Thank God! That would save| ‘“Find his rifie, some of you" came in worth having in that little colonel of Wol. |stopped and the Emmets wero swearinz | faith in the Buckeyes, and he didn't spare | Since the night on the River Queen not|him. That would make {t—all right, They | cold, sarcastic, merciless tone from the lips terest. He had received a warm letter from | other night, and being at last kept within | 1 is one thing to pace up and down |and the lleutenant commanding. Holt had | self. The world was going round and|the bank. “Mr. Scarcliff—Sergeant Shan- Under the burning summer suns, over the | (hat gifted young staft officer, written |bounds; not so much frem restraint from |a beaten path and be alert and vigilant. | neither forgotten nor forgiven the harsh- round. His head fell again on the blue-| non—all of you ln fuct—you ure witnessos glaring pike, powdered and choked by the | o Nashville, on his way ain to the front, | Within as pres: from without whole [ It 1s another to crouch or lie upon some | ness of the officer's language, nor the en- sleeved arm, his scnses were reeling, On | this man has quit his rifle and was found Mmestone dust, thick and thirst-prcvoking, |'But there was one paragraph in it that |country became suddenly alive with gray- | grassy bank, and, keeping one's self hid- | mity which he well knew had prompted the bank above volces low but intense and under the bank—slecping on post dared and wondering where on earth they | orders took to Frankt Ha burg | One night the last week in June a | keep wide awake. Away to the east, up|word! One false step now would place him| like the muffed beat of the big bass drum.| where among the Lrees at the front, there Wero going and wherefore, the Buckeyes, | and Lextugton, but I did not get nearer to | little picket post, four men of the Emmets, | stream, the drowsy plash and murmur of | in Mallow's power. One bar on the shoulder | He strove to say, “Who goes there?” but| rang sudden cry. “Help, boys! Help, with the Emmets s the tail of the column | Asholt. At Lexington, however, I met some | was thrown out some 400 yards up stream | the waters fell in soft monotone upon the | strap that would come with his commission | the tongue refused its office. There came| quick! This way.” Then stunning blow much of the way, tramped wearily east- | warm friends of yours, the Rays, and Miss [ from the nearest supports. The brook, | ear. From time to time some swift-winged | would make him Malloy's equal in rank, and | consciousness only when rough hands laid| & stified groan, then silence. swer. “And twice in ten minutes I have|to the abutment! Back to the bridge! vor of that young soldier and was so well | and sword as morey could buy. *“Cap” was |time that gentleman has been pronounced | 18 as tired a sald Scarclitfe,” when | jopant brought out to the boys,” murmured | did not sting or hurt. That was strange % Woodward ave., Detroit, Mich, But befero the middle of July the young |trouble agaln, und the doctors ordered him |redoubled in length and frequency for the | Ambling charger. “‘Watch for all yow're | ‘There is nothing that g0 clears and re- | moaning appeal, an hour between each syl- [ most savagely, as the volce of Sergenant av a blue grass loyallst slecpless vigilance, The covering force was | rendered his senses again keen and alert. | woods. He couldn’t cry out. He couldn't | he pleaded, thickly. “Aslecp—You know verine cavalry. He felt sure of Enyart's {n- | over having sentry, picket and patro! every | them, once had word been exchanged between him | would 1ift him up. He couldn’t lift him- [of the oficer standing dimly outlined on ARMSAINE £1hale. KAADARARA WHORAYSL {4V | ERTe him Ialodling jor nd ogncers, “My|esated savaley i‘lvu from possible foe at the front, to also| 1t all. But patience—patience was the | hurrying footfalls smote on his dulled ears ~And then, far out to the south, some- ward through & landscape that under other | Kate was especially cordial iu all she sald " atter swirling foaming dows @ thickly | nsect beat the heavy alr with soft, bum- | then would Malloy be made to answer. | hold, dragged bim up the slope and strove (To be Continued.) 4 -