The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-01

and e.sed up al them c.nsed oMesr nth
bstwcen hi: black lips his eyss, HERE'S
and expanded. burning like coels beneath
his bloody brow. The colonel made an
rear. The feid bowed In token Of ohs-
dience.. II was Captain Coulter.
~, si I,.n s;'snSs u. nth an the ,Sa NIL. .r ,,s'S
longer streamed into that denle Of death ;
s srm sn ssS b. slso r a"s f ss.i ssur s'i .nssd; a shs
commander of his rear guard. who had
held his position pcrilousiy long in hope
IN had silenced his own. "I was
not aware of the breadth of my authority"
thought the colonel, facetiously, ridinR
Forward to the crest to see what had really
Al hour later his brigade WINS i'm bivouac
ON the enerny's ground and it's idlers were
examining, with something of awe, MS b
faithful inspect q saints relics, q score of
straddlinR dead horses and three disabled
guns, all spiked. The fallen men had
broken ndic would have given too great
satisfaction.
self and his military family i'm the planta-
ton house. II was somewhat shattered,
but il was better than the open air. The
broken The walls and ceilings were
knocked away here and there, aud there
was a lingering odor Of powder smoke
eNeIy U He tH-tIS, tlbt slOSGtS III
womcn's clothing, the c~upboards were not
badly damaged. The new enants for n
night made themselves comfortable; and
the practical effacemcnt OF Coulter's
battery supplied them with nm interesting
topic.
During supper tina evening an orderly
Of the escort showed himself into the
dininR-room and asked permission to
speak to the colOnel.
pleasantly, having overheard the request.
"COloncl. there is something wrong in
the cellar; 1 don't know what-somebody
there. was down there runaginR
al will go down and sec,'' said n staff
officer, rising.
others remain Lead on, orderly"
They took "a candle from the table and
descended the cellar stairs, the orderly in
n feeble light. hut presently, as they ad
vanced, it's narrow circle of illumination
revealed n human figure seated on the
ground against the blank stone wall which
they were skirtinG, it's knees elevated, its
head bowed sharply. forward. The face,
which SHOULD have been seen i'm profile,
was INVISIBLE, for the man WAS bent So far
rival that his long hair concealed IL;
and, strange to relate. the beard. Of a much
anrke and hue ss:x f isx . In |" ,h great sra,n sr a, led
the colonel. taking the candle from the
man and astsniively con.idereG him. The
long dark beard was the hair of a woman
dead. The dead woman clasped i'm her
arms q dead babe. Both were clasped in
the arms of the man, pressed against his
breast, against his lips. There was
blood in b hair of the woman; there
was blood i'm the hair of the man. A yard
away lay an infants foot. 1t was near an
irregular depression in the beaten earth
which formed the cellars noor-a fresh
excavation with u convex bit of iron, hav-
ing jagged edges, visible i'm one of the
sides. The colonel held the light as high
as he could. The floor OF the room above
wnS hrnkan thrns1Dh the snlinfarS mint
ing at all angles downward. "This case
ment is not b~omb-proof," said the colonel
gravely; il did not occur to him that his
summing up of the case had any levity
on il.
They stood about the group awhile in 81
lence; the staff officer was thinking of his
unfinished supper, the orderly of what
might possibly be i'm one of the casks ON
the other side of the cellar. Suddenly the
man whom they had thought dead raised
his head and Raxed TRANQUILITY into their
faces. His complexion was coal black
the cheeks were apparently tattoocd in
irregular lines from the eyes
The lips, too, were white, like those of u
stars negro. There was blood upon his
The staff officer drew back a pace, the
orderly two PAGES.
what are you doing here, my man ?'
said HE Colonel, ununoved.
"1his house belongs to me. sir" was
the reply, civilly delivered.
ITO you? Who then are-wcrct these ?'
"My wife and child. Colonel, i nm
Captain Coulter"
l:eorge Laws Glaas of Cham aEne.
New York letter tn Pittsburg Post: "Give
me m bOttle.v said (.eor.pe LAW at Inc re-