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SERGEANT CRGSUS.
BY CAPT. CHARLES KING, U. g. A.
Copyright Iso,. by J. B. Lipplncott Co.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VII.
The doctor was needed for Constance
that night, and Mrs Fenton and Mrs
Woods, loving women both, came in to
minister to her, SO utterly was she un-
nerved, unstrung. Morgan knew not
what to say or think. 1t was no time
to torture her with inquiry as to whv
the belief in Thornton's death should
SO utterly PROSTATE her, even were the
belief itself ustifiable-which he did
not at all concede. Ranchmen reported
an officer and his orderly killed in the
Mini Ska valley far to the north of
Pawnee station that evening about
dust. Ranchmen were proverbially SEN
sational. Even if an officer had been
killed, why should it be Thornton?
True, Winthrop's was the only com
mand in the valley at the moment.
True, the Indians knew of their COM
ing, for what movement of troops did
they not know al about as soon as the
troops themselves? If an officer had
been killed, it very possibly was one of
the Eleventh. From the landing at the
head of the stairs Constance had heard
49, 0DA OF IdDJ,
Fenton, and, waiting for 40 explana-
ton, had rushed to her bed. Why
should she believe Thornton to have
been the victim? And, even if he
were, why should it so affect herp
the apple of his eye, his loving.
winsome, loyal Connie, his Little
Mother, as he had so long called her2
Morgan wrung his hands in distress
and perplexity.
The doctor came in after his brief ex-
animation.
THE child has been running down
all winter" he said. ''She is in a low. |
nervous condition, the natural result |
OF the long strain. She has had a
woman's cares on a child's shoulders.
and any shock was likely to
upset her. The sudden news that one
Of her friends was killed was quite
enough to floor stronger woman, let
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alone Connie. Wen have her up again
in day or two; but she ought to have
rest and a change"
Rest and changed how glibly the
words fall How leaden they light on
the ear of husband and father impov-
erished in the service and bound to the
WHEEL How was he to offer rest and
change to any of his brood? If rest
and change could have saved the life
of his beloved wife, how could he have
won it for her?
I've given Constance soothing medi-
cine. Better not disturbe her tonight"
said the doctor, as he left; SO Morgan
venturcd not to bend over his sleeping
child, fearful OF breaking The spell
Yet at dawn, when the little battalion
of foot marched off to Butte, she was
up and at the window. importuning
him for latest news from the front.
Hours that morning lac had to be at the
office, for dispatches were coming in
thick and fast, ordering ordnance
stores and ammunition sent hither and
yon, and up to noon nothing whatever
was heard from Winthrop's command,
and the big eyes that questioned him,
when he came to kiss Comics white
forehead, were trimmed with mourning
circles, as though already she believed
him gone and for him mutely wore her
weeds. At three p. m. came dispatch
from Rhett. six miles out from Pawnee,
en- route for the Mini Ska, dated at
twelve: Report of killing of officer
L.
horse accidentally shot while scouting.
No other casualties heard Of Win
throp reported forty miles northeast of
Painted Lodge already"
Morgan took this over home at once.
Mrs. Woods, bonny little army wife |
and mother that she was, came from |
Comics room, and to her he gave the /
message. He would not permit anyone
to think he supposed his child could be,
at her tender age. unduly interested in
the fate of any man. Yet he found
himself listening at the foot of the
stairs Would she cry out in relief and
joy9 No; whatsoever she might have
betrayed to him, Constance was on her
guard now. She was her mothers
dduR uteE AOI pure SiiO, SdtO mt
Connie is so glad 1t wasn't true"
called Mrs. Woods, tossing the brown
paper down the stairs. "She wants to
know when you are coming up to see
her?"
After a while," answered he. 81
must go 20 the storehouse first" BE
FASTENED to his stock of arms and muni-
lions of war, thinking little Of them, 1t
must be owned-thinl1ing little of any
thing just now but Connie. Not yet
sixteen, an innocent, ignorant, garri-
girl, yet so like her mother In
her own girlhood, 50 gentle. unseltish,
for others; could it be that
III unsought she should have given her
yirlish heart to the bright-eyed, merry ,
roung fellow who had so suddenly left
hem, and that it was known-noted
~ other? If not. why should Rhett ,
lave taken all the trouble to send that !
Message telling of Thornton's safety? !
sorrow. trial. trouble Of nearly every
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st. Nicholas Magazine.

The holiday number is deserving of SUI
perlative praise and there must be some
thing wrong about the heart OF any child
who is not made happy il this alone should
oe the Cnristmas gift Some ofthe writ
ers for 1895 are Rudyard KipIlnp. Thee.
dore Roosevelt, Brander Mathews ana
many Others too numerous to mention. and
with Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge as editor. we
may look for the very best Of mental food
sandwiched with proper amount ofsscake
and confectionery style of literature"
which is so toothsome to old and young.
81 NICHOLS, Union Square, New York.
s. year. Send for Christmas number. %
cents.
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fro sr oosrrsurpl
sIcClure's Magazine.

This months issue, the first in the year.
is an assurance of reading OF very great
interest to all its subscribers, for Mcclure
has proved himself as one who goes for
ward, never backward. The Napoleon pa
per contains description of the battle of
Marengo, taken from contemporary
manuscript. We have Drummondis sec
ond paper about ID. l.. Moody. E. ]. Ed
wards writes of the work in "Municipal
Reform" OF DIR. c. H. Parkhurst. His
sketch of DR.. Parkhurst, which appeared
some time ago, was one of remarkable in
terest and this viii be universally read.
Beatrice Harradan, who wrote that much
read book, "Ships That Pass in the Night,
tells us why the story had such a tragic
ending and makes us regret with her the
withholding of the message to the Disa-
greeable Man.
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WHO KNOWS 2

Who knows the SORROWS and woe of the
drunkard's swife? We make such wives
happy. We take away their sorrow and
woe by taking from their husbands all
crying for drink, and,putting the men in
10 tirst-class physical condition. We can
not put man where he can never drink
again, but after we get done with the man
RAIL- depends on him and his friends.
II he chooses to continue in the old drunk
en- crowd that he used to associate with,
and occasionally take a glass with "just
10 be sociable," he win in little while be
a poor, miserable drunkard again. The
Morrell Cure does all that any cure can do,
but it is no use trying to save a man who
don't want to be temperate man enough
to do his part. Twenty offices in Vermont.
main Office, d. L. Griggs,
Secretary. Physician at w. Randolph, DIR.
Geo. w. Scott.
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kTATE OF VERMONT In Probate Court, held
zfandolph District. IS at Randolph in
paid Dist the 18th day of Dec. A. D. ls94 T.. r. BEN
+ pam. administrator of the
ae Of Andrew j. wickus late of Braintree in said
District deceased
Presents his ADMIRATION account for examination
End allowance and ihakes application for a decree OF
distribution and partition ~ the estate OF said de-
Feased Whereupon. II Is ordered by said Court that
paid application come under consideration and be
card on the sth day OF Jan. ADJ at the Probate
nice in said Randolph and IL Is further ordered that
persons interested be notified thereof by publica-
On Of notice of this application and order three
eeks successfully In the HERALD AND NEWS, print
al Randolph, before said time of hearing, that
aty may appear at said time and place. and show
aaself any they may have, why such account should
4 q he allowed and such decree made.
BY the Court-Atteet.
n ll07 WILLIAM II NICHOLS. Judge.
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Final Settlement.

4 SitOF VERMONT. [ In Probate Court. held
~ uV.fH DISTRICT SIS. at Randolph In said dist,
'N Am day Of Dec. A. ID. 1894. VIM. n. Dubois,
-, adnir. of the estate OF Mary NJ. Gorham
u lAaiolph In said District, deceased, pre-
w. lls aimlnstr account for examination and
aauce and makes application for a decree OF dis
-uVh AID Partition of the estate of said deceased
|.,,, Nhereupon.i IL Is ordered by said Court
- account and said application be referred 10
Il - \, p said court. to be held at the Probate
~ ~ az Randolph on the Sth day of
"A ny A.DlS95, for hearing and decision thereon:
49,. y y further ordered. that all persons
= u eq ee notified hereof by publication of no
80 saa application and order thereon. three
- excessively in the HERALD AND NEWS,
~ ~ published ia Randolph. and which circulates
49, ~ shborho0d OF those Interested before said
Il Me bearing that they may a. pear at said time
r p anu ~, u they see cause, object thereto.
bg the Court Attest
WM n NICHOLS JtrDGE.
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tstate Of clen,land g. Colhr.

The Undersigned having been appointed by the Hon
rl0tate Court for the District Of Hartford Com
ssonefa to receive, examine and adjust all claims
'la demands Of all persons aPainst he estate OF
taNiand {. Colby late of StOckbridge In said Dist
ceased. and all claims exhibited in Offset thereto,
eDi give notice that will meet for the purposes
Hi0ckbridge
I lhe 5tl day Of Jan. and 9Th day Of March next
9a OelUck p.nluntii O'Clock, p. m, each OF said
rs snd hat six months from the sth dav of Dec.
y. lsi is the iae limited bv said Court for sand
ohhofs 20 present their claims to US for exanina.
! 90 and allowance
4iei al stoekbrdge this 18th day OF Dec A. ID 1884
JOEL BLACKMEk Com
lM A. +. BAKER lalis.foners
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gy. They were here last Di~ht, and
Hrs Hinkel was seen toting a box up
into the post just as soon as she heard
they were inquiring for her shanty."
Morgan turned away. Far out across
the winding ribbon of the road, twist
ing and twining over the rolling sur
face of the prairie, he could see the
black dots in the light dust-cloud that
told of the rapid approach Of the Off
GERS of the law. Officially he had no
knowledge of the whereabouts of that
box, nor even of its existence; person
ally he had now every reason to be-
lieve that it was secreted under his own
roof. Confiden: Il Schramm's inno-
cence, he had faith that nothing crimi-
mating could be found in Schram's be-
longings. But suppose that the box
contained papers-personal and family
documents which dealt with nobody's
business but his own. What right had
they to turn his letters inside out, pos
sess themselves of his secrets, and
parade them in the columns of the
press, as paraded they certainly would
be? 1t was an embarrassing question.
What gave rise to the suspicion that
Schramm had left valuables in the
hands of Mrs. Hinkel?' he asked.
'oh, that was easy to find out" an
swered the civilian. "All the soldiers,
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photographs. There was photograph,
too, of a stalwart young lieutenant in
the dress of the Uhlans Another, a
boy not more than eighteen or nine
teen, in the uniform of foot-guards,
with the iron cross on his breast.
There was a sword-knot or two, and
then some documents, closly written in
German. filed, docketed and trinity
wrapped, and these, one after another,
the sheriff was searching through and
swearing over because he couldn't un-
derstand them, when again Morgan in
terposed.
There's no more money there, Mr.
Sheriff. Surely there's no reason for
prying into the mans family affairs.
When the arrest is made that will be
time enough. You've got what money
there is. Kindly give me a mem
orandum receipt for that and then
seal the case up again. l say again,
I'm ready to bet anything both Schultz
and Schramm will be able to account
for every moment and every dollar.
All you have to do now is to get them,
which your deputies can effect as soon
as they reach the regiment"
And, seeing how much Morgan
seemed to take the matter to heart
and that the officers evidently agreed
with him. the sheriff 1aally consented.
"All right; only we've got to take
this with us. We ought to hear through
Pawnee from the parties sent to make
the arrest by tomorrow night
And hear they did. late the next
evening. The party sept out from
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Commissioners. Notice.

Estate of Levi Clough.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
PROBATE Court for the District OF Randolph Commits
sOners 10 receive examine and adjust all claims and
demands of all persons against the estate OF Levi
ough late OF Washington In said District. deceased
land al claims exhibited In Offset thereto
ebv give notice that we will meet for the purposes
soresaid at the Washington House in Washington
|Cu the "a day of MAY next from
d o'clock am. until 4o'clock pinot said day and
Plat six mos from the 9TH day oiNoyA.D 1894 is the
hlme limited BY said Court for said creditors 20 pre-
sent their claims for examination and allow
anoe Dated at Washington this 10th day of Dec 1884
p O, HUNTINGTON &c.,
lbs W.Et WORTHLEY commissioners
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8STATE OF VERMONT, At Probate Court
DISTRICT or HARTFORD. SIS: held at Woodstock
Ewthin and for said District the 18th day OF Dee
IA d, 1884.
Present Hon..T. o. seaver, Judge.
An In
srument purporting to be the lastwill and Testament
.of Ira p, Adams late OF Royalton in said
District, deceased Il presentedliC Court by HannahP
adams the executriN named thereinior Probate: lt Is
ordered by said Court that all persons concerned there
n be notified to appear at session Of said Courtto he
held al the Probate office nWoodstock on the 18th
BAY ofJn A. ID. 1895. and show cause II any they may
sve AGAINST the Probate OF said instrument as the
I sst will OF said Ira r. Adams for which pur-
nose Il Is further ordered that y copy the record of
d. order be published three weeks successiveiyin the
White Riyerlierald. a paper published at Royalton
s state may be. the last of said publlca-
Ions 10 be one day at least. before said llih day OF
&anuary. A true record. Attest.
.N.J. SEAvER. Register. A true copy OF record At
PES. I. o. SEAvER. Judge. HOS
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Notice.

/. ~, ~ annual meeting Of the stockholders
~ National Bank of Orange County at
49, = viii be held at their banking
Il d.I IN chelsea, VT, on Tuesday. the
tsg o. January, 1895, at 10 O'Clock a.
s, ~ tne election of directors for the
: :. year, and for the transaction OF
a. o'ner business that may come before
|Cbsls.. -. .. b. COPELAND, Cashier,
-uelsea- VT, Dec 3, 1894. 1107
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Notice.

i1e eighteenth annual meeting of the
!. 80 ! holders Of the Randolph National
- - o. West Randolph, VT, will be held
, sHsh banking rooms on Tuesday, Jan.
80 80, az l O'Clock p. m, for the election
olii GERS for the year ensuing.
W.. ~ r. I. DUBOIS, Cashier,
west Randolph, Dec. s, 1891.
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StockhnIners, Meefinr-

~ ne annual meeting of the stockholders
49,, National White River bank Of
= ~, VI, will be holden at their bank
mouse mouse Tor the election of directors for
,os year ensuing, on Tuesday, Jan. S,
n D. fer order NJ. SYLVESTER, Cashier.
bethel, Dec. 10, 1894. IS
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STATE OF VERMONT, Court OF
DISTRICT OF HARTFORD. Insolvency
L. .,,nAAnr o. NNII L A LA IlAr


DISTRICT OF HARTFORD. Insolvency.
In the matter OF WILLIAM A. FARM
HAM, Insolvent Debtor.
Take notice that William A. Farnham
|oi Royalton, in said district, was, on the
|2lst day OF December, A. D., 1894, adiudged
an insolyent; and that a meeting of the
|creditors Of said insolvent debtor will be
held at Court of Insolvency to be held
bat the Probate Office in Woodstock, in
Said district, on the third day OF January,
. "A. D., 1895, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
10 prove their debts and choose one or
more assignees of his estate; and that the
payment Of any debts, and the delivery OF
|any property belonging to said debtor, to
him or for his use, and the transfer of any
property by him, are forbidden by law.
Dated at Woodstock, in said district, the
2lst day OF December, A d., 1894.
THOMAS o. 6EAvER, Judge.
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TORRENT.

Front room in Walbridge house,
now occupied by n. c. Greene, after
Dec. LIST would make nice dressmaker's
shop. Rent low. Apply to
a. y. Culver, Highland Ave.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-18
PER soNAL.

John R. Mclean. Of the Cincinnati En-
quiFeT- has, it is said, ordered private
palace car from the Pullman Company
Mr. Arthur Balfour says that Lord Ran
dolph Churchill Is the most brilliant En-
glish conversationalist OF the present day.
Miss Helen Gould is at Roxbury, n. Y. su-
pervising the interior finish Of the Jay Gould
Memorial church. The edihce will be dedi-
cateu on the anniversary OF Mr.Gould 5 birth
day IN the latter part Of May.
Directors Forster and INLAND two chem
lists OF Hamburg have discovered that ordi-
nary toilet soap added at the rate OF an ounce
% every twelve quarts Of water VIII Kill the
cholera oaeillf in ten minutes.
Gen. John C. Caldwell of Topeka, Kan,
who was placed in command at Gettysburg
siler the wounding Of Hancock, is nov, run
ming as candidate for congressman at large
on the republican ticket ia that state.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland will oc-
cupy their comfortable house on the Woodley
road very soon. The move will be made on
account OF the children for whom the Presi-
dent desires the most open air life possible.
Sir Robert Ball, the eminent English as
tronomer, in recent lecture in Leeds, en-
phatlcally asserted that the planet Mars is
lnhaolted. II was, he said. impossible for
men to live there. but creatures Of some sort
exist on that distant world.
Inspector Peter Conlin, Of the New York
police force, was lieutenant in the late
war. He was subsequently deputy collector
OF internal revenue OF the second district Of
louisiana, during Grants ADMINISTRATION. He
became policeman in 1904
A Welsh paper. the Seren Cymru, has been
composing an .eulogy upon Mr.. Gladstone,
which IS noteworthy as an instance OF what
MN NH might have called unnecessary truth
After stating that the range Of bis reading
was wider than Spurgeon's' (Which no one
VII! &c inclined to dispute the "Cymric'
Inarkable piece OF frankness: las an orator.
ne has been to England what drunkenness was
70 Athens" LOes the writer mean. asks the
Fdu Mai Gazette, that the eN-pramier has
been intoxicating everyone else. as well as
himself. with the exulerance Of his own YER
ooslty: Or should we, Tor drunkenness
read ''Demosthenes: Printers have ere
now trlpped up writers and plunged them
against their will into truth
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Judge J X. Hines statement upon leav-
ing 90 the Democratic party for the
Populist party, published in our dispatches
yesterday, is rather a queer kind of an
expression. 1t leaves the reader in doubt
just where the judge is lat" whether he
is really out of one party and into the
other, or out of both, or out of either.
He qualities his duty to act" with the
populists with a very expressive eff"
If they put forth a safe and conserva-
tive platform and respectable candi-
dates, he may go with them. The plat
form is likely to be the old one patched
over, which the judge evidently didn't
consider safe or conservative last cam
paign. AS to the candidates, surely the
Judge cannot mean TO imply that the last
batch weren't respectable. The queerest
part of the farewell address, however, is
the last two sentences, in which, after
referring to the domination of the
south by the east, he says; The south
is no more than a witch on a log. The
remedy is separate political action "
Thirty years or so ago there was pre-
vailing sentiment at the south that what
the country needed was the separate
political action of the sections. Later it
was discovered that separation was not
what was needed at all, and now,
instead of getting further apart, we are
trying TO get closer together
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A Ponulist Recruit.

1t can hardly be claimed that Judge
Hines, an Atlanta lawyer, is a recent con-
vert to populism. If we are not mistaken
he has been leaning strongly towards the
populist party for more than year. and
has finally dropped into its ranks. Our
recollection is that he was an admirer of
the sub-treasury scheme, which the pop
ullsts have abandoned as being impractic-
able. The judge having regarded that
scheme a wise one, it is not at all
strange that he should have found wis
dom in other populist demands.
In his interview, in which he announces
that he shall act with the populist party
in the future, in all probability, he says
that about the only difference between
the Democratic and Populist parties is
that the Democratic party doesn't
practice what it breaches and the Pop
ulist party does. The judge must have a
keen eye to detect such a difference. What
has the Populist party done? The Judge
would have some difficulty in answering
that question. 1t has not had an oppor-
tunity to do anything in national affairs,
and in the two or three states in which it
has attained ascendency, it has so dis
gusted the people that it's members are
leaving it, moved by the same feeling
that rats are that leave a sinking ship
In Colorado and Kansas where the Popu-
list party was but recently honored
that party is now condemned, and
it is about as certain as any
thing can be that at the next
state elections in those states it will lit
orally disappear under an avalanche of
ballots. Judge Hines is not happy in his
offerings, to say the least of it.