Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-14

intelligence of the soldiers of free Amer
| ica that bee ause a beardless boy happens
to have st-ap upon his shoulder thou
sands of SCARED veterans should be COM
PEELED to do him homage. The whole
idea of the salute is repugnant to the re-
publican mind and should be abolished;
md for that matter, as we have no fur
her use for an army, why stop at the
| ,aiute?'
No Goubt the ninety and mine of The
Paliadium's readers thought their editor
| vas sound, and were as opposed to the
| dea of that courtesy which is officially
declared to be indispensable among
| military mcn." as to any exhibition
| thereof in tie streets of their own peace
III and remarkably well regulated me-
| :ropolis.
But Col. Norris was himself wofully
| perturbed about this time. After immo-
| !ating Cross and other officers by name,
rs was to be expected, The Palladium
man had taken to poking ugly little in
situations at the post commander, and
| ihis, though Morris, was the height of
ingratitude. He was in no pleasant
| mood when The men came marching up
| from stables and it stung him to see
| how cordial everybody was to Hearn,
who, confound it! was the cause of the
whole row. The telegram he had Just
received settled that matter once and
Tor all; yet he was glad he had an adju-
| taat on whom to devolva the coming
duty.
Ever since Hearn's trouble began Cap
| tain and Mrs. Lane had lost no opportu-
nity to make him understand that they
~erc devote Ky his friends, and that if
| he would but come to them in his sense
Of utter wrong the shelter of their home,
| The welcome of their fireside, would be
| some ccmper sation at least for the harsh
| treatment accorded to him by the world
| Il large. Thanks IT, the efforts of the
! western newspaper a million or more of
| free people had learned to look upon his
name as the synonym for all that was
staggering, brutal, drunken and bully
ing; and 1t was easy to see that the young
| soldier was cut to the heart.
Butan unexpected ally had been discov-
cred. Hearn- who had at first held aloof
| in solitude. brooding over his troubles.
| began to show decided readiness TO
come. And though at all times CRATE
full and most attentive to Mrs. Lane,
that clear sighted Young matron speed
lily noted how his handsome blue eyes
would wander about in search of her
quietly observant friend. and that ever
since the night of her tilt with Lawler
Miss MarShallS interest in the case had
been quadrupled. Now, this was not
exactly what Mrs. Lane had planned.
| She wanted Georgia to marry in the
| army, but she also wanted, and saw
nothing in the least unreasonable in so
wanting, to select that spirited young
woman's hus band for her. She did not
/ for moment think that there was any
danger of Georgia's falling in love with
| Hearn.
He was several years her senior, to be
sure; he was handsome, distinguished as
a soldier, a man of uninpeachable char
| acter as modern men go; but, she ar
! gued, The is so much younger for his
| years than Georgia for hers" She had
| had to think so much for herself, and
now the man she should marry was
| well, not crab bed old Maj. Kenyon, of
course; he was a widower-sour and yet
susceptible. 1t was only too plain that
| he loved to come to the house and talk
with Miss Marshall by the hour, espe-
| cially when the cavalrymen We're all
down at stables. Neither did she want
| the doctor, whom Jeanette McCrea
| could have if she would only make up
her mind to drop Jim Wallace, who was
now so devoted that the yearning med
ical man had no chance whatever. No,
she didn't see, after all, just the right
man for Georgia; still she had al
ways thought of some one so much
older, utterly ignoring the fact that
when left to themselves most women
have very different views of their own.
| Not word had she uttered to Georgia
of course, but to her loving and indul-
| gent spouse she had gone so far as to say:
1T is lovely to see how he is beginning
to find comfort in her society; but,
| Fred And madame breaks off, irreso-
Lutte, yet suggestive.
But, Mabel responds her gray
| eyed lord with indefiniteness equal to
| her own.
Just suppose And then another
pause on her part.
Just suppose what, Mrs. Lane-that
it should snow before September
''Now, Fred, you know, or else you
haven't any eyes for
Il haven't-except for one" says Lane.
| parrying the situation with the very
words he knows will most delight her.
You absurd boyr' But she comes
futtering across the room to reward him
us he deserves. What mean is, Geor.
gia might get to think of him"
"Well, everybody is thinking of him
| just now, and in the light of such a ca
tastrophe l suppose I'd have to make
HIM think of her.
HE does now; and if he doesnt-you
can't make people fall IN love, can your
agreed, Mrs. Wisehead Neither
can you prevent it. can you? know
couldn't stop a fellow from falling IN
love with y.l Bome few years ago, hard
as / tried. The more tried to put yor
| AWAY the more yor1 kent cOmjOp int