Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-11

salu Lieutenant Gay. Tie shot at m
that morning after the Piutes jumped us.
I IF had had my way he would have hi
you" cried the commanding officer. "Yol
are miserable coward, Gay"
The commanding officer had seen long
service. He had an uncommon hold OF
the men who had graduated from the arm.
into the halls of congress. He went t.
| Washington with mission as soon as tn,
summer brought him healing.
Sergeant Larsen was ordered to appeal
before board and pass examination. H,
acquitted himself so well-in mathematics
in history, in tactics, in language-that a
the end they asked him questions with
Difference.
1t was Lieutenant Larsen-by order O.
the secretary of war, approved by the pres
J ident
I Then came the climax.
Larsen asked for Dorothy's hand ia mar
riage.
| The colonel commanding refused him in
rage; berated him for IL presuming ingrate
and ordered him out of his house. Then
| he returned to his old admiration for Leu
| tenant Gay. This putting up private sol
| dier always was bad. 1t made him forget
his origin.
| Gay tuuSco puC COIOIlGl Wy pldyluS CdruS
| The stakes were trivial.
1t was against regulation to gamble
But there was game over there in the
dark room above the store, where the
major and the captain and the lieutenant
found something more than pastime.
The colonel knew of it, and did not for
bid it. Then he went over and looked on
Then the old passion for play, which had
c1o civ ha bafo
burg, came back, and he took hand just
for that once.
He felt temptation tugging at him, and
rising, for a plague, to keep him from
yielding.
One evening he tapped at the dark room
door. The subdued noise within was
hushed to silence A second knock and
they opened the door, He sat down by the
other three and they dealt him hand.
II am not going to play any more, and
am going to order it,
At II he owed more than his pay would
amount to in year.
Another light knock came at the door,
Another silence followed it. A second
knock and the major responded.
It was Lieutenant Larsen. He was in
citizens clothes.
eff you have no objection l will join
you," he said, smiling
"You should be gentleman enough not to
come where you are not wanted" said the
older lieutenant.
"You should be man enough to know you
are violating orders. No lawless man cal
stand on pedestal above another. Deal me
hand"
The colonel sat back. He was out of the
game-dazed, bewildered, almost unbal-
anced.
Larsen won in one hand what Gay had
been an hour in winning
Presently Gay had three again, and he
made it costly to play. Larsen drew two
cards with him and bet one dollar.
Gay raised the limit, and was raised in
turn. He was mad beyond the point of
prudence. He touched the limit again,
only to see the insolent Larsen initiate
him.
Gay had four queens and an ace. Lar
sen had four kings ana vanquished him.
Gay had no more money; so he lost his
watch. 1t was Larsen's deal. The elder
lieutenant picked up a full hand.
II can't play it," he cried in frantic ex-
ASPIRATION. s'I have no more money!"
"Put up your coat" said the younger
lieutenant calmly.
'It's show down." he said and spread
out three mines and pair
tits show down." repeated Larsen
calmly, and spread out three tens and a
pair.
Gay walked home in his shirt sleeves
Early in the morning he went to the adj
jutant's office and prepared charges He
was willing to abase himself in furnishing
that upstart.
After he had labored an hour, the post
adjutant handed him paper. 1t was Lar
sens resignation. And it had been ac-
cepted.
At the reception which followed Doro-
thy's wedding, Lieutenant Gay appeared
It was his last night in Bidwell. He had
been transferred to Fort Fetterman.
1T is very dark day for the poor fell
lows in the army" said he, bowling above
the hand of the bride. "But you remem-
Der you told me one time that you would
never marry a lieutenant"
II haven't" replied the girl, her flashing
eyes lighted with the memory of that night
at Warner. my husband is free citizen
of this country-and nobleman at home"
Leroy Armstrong in Albany Press.
Connoisseurs in Perfumes.
The learned in scents claim that they can
distinguish and name each element of any
compound odor, just as the musician can
discriminate and trace the sound of the
various instruments that are rendering
the crowded symphony. Doubtless these
learned ones could distinguish, on coming
into lady's drawing room, all the various
breaths imprisoned in the pot pourri jar
the rose leaves, the cassia buds, the orange
flowers, the orris root, the vanilla, the ben
zom and cinnamon and musk and alcohol,
and all the innumerable rest. But to the
ignorant in such fine points the pleasure is
perhaps just as keen, let the learned deny
it as they may. Yet many think them
selves accomplished in this branch whose
education is still very far from finished.
We remember, at the time of famous
oriental exhibition in this country, when
people were possessed with the delights of
the altar Of roses to be brought there, that
the oriental stock of altar ran out, and it
was replenished from Yankee Dealers
stock of oil of geranium, and the sale con-
tinued just as before, entirely undimin-
ished, and with warm adulatiOn OF the
strange, rich sweetness of the real Turkish
and Persian altar of roses. And although
the oil of geranium is undoubtedly rich
perfume, yet the crafty orientals must
have laughed in their loose sleeves at the
way in which it took the place of the once
far richer and more delicate, and four times
more costly object of the bulbuls worship.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Mems Elbows.
"Will men never learn to keep their
hands out of their pockets and their elbows
down while walking along a crowded
street or when in a street carr" walled a
frail little woman to her companion as the
two fairly fought their way along Wabash
avenue, near Madison street, the other day.
"Some of the digs that I've received today
from mems elbows have been simply ter
rife! We ought to begin a crusade against
the habit. The man of medium height
swinging along with his hands in his
pockets and his elbsws akimbo does more
positive damage to women when he digs
his elbows into them at about every five
steps than all the corsets in the country.
II declare for it if had a-what is it
fhav call it-tnu11p' with the citv council