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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
perate case, though soothed by the

perate case, though soothed bv the
knowledge that all the row at Vernon
that is, the human cause of. it all
was already out of danger. Close begged
the doctor for full particulars not only
as to how they were but how they ex-
pected ito git along through the win
ter and at last said he wished to speak
to him alone, whereat Potts and Lam
bert, wondering, left the tent.
1t was long before the doctor came
forth, and when he did he called the
young officer aside, a culver in his voice
and a queer moisture about his spec
tacles. "Have you no expert on the
eye and the car in the army?" he asked.
1.-THE captain should have the benefit
OF the best advice without delay
Lambert said he would report the
matter at once to department. head
quarters, and, while they were still talk
ing, two men came riding out from
town--"old man Potts. beyond all
doubt, and with him Lambert's rail-
way friend, the conductor, and these
gentlemen, too, had come to "surren-
der" Close could have had his fill of
triumph and adulation that dull De-
cember evening, had he been so minded
and the doctor more complaisant; but
that practitioner said that, while he
was not in charge of the case, he would
strenuously advise against further dis
turbance of the patient. When at last
they were all gone and Lambert could
address himself to the little packet of
mail stacked up on the office desk, he was
rejoicing to think how the good in his
queer comrade was winning due recog-
milton at last. ''He's rough diamond,' -
he said to himself, "but brave as a lion
and true as steel!"
And then as he opened the first letter
from department headquarters, adj
dressed to B1evet Capt. J. P. Close,
First Lieutenant, -teenth infantry,
Lambert's face paled and his eyes di-
lated. It was brief, curt official note,
directing Capt. Close to turn over the
command of his company and post and
report in arrest to the colonel of his regi-
ment at New Orleans, for trial. "Ac-
knowledge receipt by telegraph
What a Christmas greeting!
ITO BE Continued
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Affected the Verdict.

"You see, gentlemen said the cosln-
sci for the defendant, complacently-it
was a compensation case-''I havetgot
the plaintiff into very nice dilemma.
If he went there, seeing that the place
was dangerous, there was contributory
negligence, and, as his lordship will
tell you,l he can't recover. If he did
not see it was dangerous, neither could
my client have seen it, and there was
no negligence ON his part. In eithe<
case am entitled to your verdict" Tha
jury retired. ''Well, gentlemen" said
the foreman, IT think we must give him
6 300" All agreed except a stout, rud-
dy gentleman in the corner, who cried.
hoarsely: ftGive him another 50, gem
men, for getting into the dilemma."
Verdict Observation-Disclosures House:
hold Words. "' ~. ~ {: ~ BIN
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the end was not yet. Lambert and his
detachment took station at Vernon

the end was not yet. Lambert and his
detachment took station at Vernon,
whence the negroes bad fled in terror,
and all warning was at an end. Such
were his orders, and he had no choice;
yet it would have been wiser counsel
to recall him and his party within q
hours. They could have done better
service nearer home. How it happened
none could ever surely say. Among
the whites it remained for years an
article of faith that desperate and de-
termined negroes had followed Walton
Scroggsto his refuge and there wreaked
vengeance for the blood of their fellows.
Among the negroes it has never been
looked on as other than direct mani
festation of divine wrath upon their
enemies and prosecutors. How the
house could have so suddenly burst into
flame everyone could theorize and no
one explain; but at three o'clock in the
morning the few men remaining with
Capt. Close in camp were startled from
their sleep by the report of the sentry's
musket and the yell of "Fire!" and,
springing from their tents, were
work and screams for aid and the sight
of Walton Hall one glare of flame.
Some men got there quicker than
Others-none were slow-but even the
foremost of the soldiers were appalled,
and bewildered by what they saw and
heard-KatherineW Walton and the q,,ad-
room maid Elinor wringing their hands
to ho 1e>1
ridden mother, while Esther was MAX
ing vain effort to drag helpless form
through the blazing hallway. It was at
this juncture that Close came laboring
up the path. He was slow, heavy, had
longer distance to run, and was pant
ing hard, but he burst through the
squad already scrambling up the steps,
sprang through the fire-fashing portal,
and with the strength of an OK heaved
Walton, grooming, upon his shoulders,
tumbled him out into the arms OF his
men, then turned on gasping Esther.
''Where's your mothers room?" AL
most fainting, she could only lean upon
the pillar for support and point
through the vista of smoke and fame.
Close lcaped like tiger, with Gun
ningham and Murphy at his back. An
instant, and these latter reappearcd,
blind, staggering, their faces hidden
in their hands, and burst out into the
open air. stumbling heedlessly down the
steps. a groan went up from the men;
their captain was gone. In vain Burns
and Mcbride strove to rush in to the
rescue. Mortal man could not stand
such heat. And then. in the midst of
the wild wailing of the terrified and
helpless women, came from around the
north side of the house an exultant
cheer. Those men who had had sense
enough to strive to reach the side win
dows were rewarded by the sudden
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Apostle, and the Charwoman Confirms 1t.
1T makes all the difference in the
world what a person marries for. I'm
so thankful that I didn't make any
mistake" said small, shabbily
dressed, tired-loo]ling woman, who was
scrubbing at a house where she had
asked for work. Her tongue was as
nimble as her fingers, but her views
On all topics were, so CHEEKY and hope
full, Notwithstanding her manifest pov-
crty, that her garrulity did not become
tiresome to the listening newspaper
woman. Her opinions on marriage,
coming as they did from woman to
whom marriage had brought poverty
and unceasing labor for an invalid hus-
band, were refreshing, and had the
ring. of a true heart.
EYES," she said, 'folks that marries
for but one thing makes dreadful
mistake. I often think to myself:
What if had married for amy thing in
the world but love, real, genuine, sure
enough love! What fix I'd be in to-
day!"
''You see, my husbands been an in
valid for nine years. He went into
slow consumption four years after we
were married, and he amt worked six
weeks, all told, since; and I've had all
the support of him ard our three chill
dren for nine years. and I've done it
by trailin' round from house to house,
scrubbin' and cleanin' house; and all
the feelin' I've had about it has been
one of thanl1fulness that I was able and
willin' to do it.
"S'posin' I hadn't married for love:
S'posin' I'd married for riches, and
they'd taken wings and flew away 7?
S'posin' I'd married for beauty, and
sickness and misty had robbed my
husband of his good looks? Wouldn't
be in nice fix?
''But I didn't marry for a, thing on
earth but respect and love for a good
man, and I amt regretted it, and I
amt a bit unhappy or Disseminated,
eNceptin' in the sorrow that comes
from the certainty that amt goin'
to have my husband with me much
longer.
He's failin' fast now. poor dear!
I amt ever looked on him as bur
den. T amt throwed it up to him that
I've had the livin' to make. amt fret
ted nor complained, nor done any OF
the things I would surely have done
if I'd made the dreadful mistake of
1narryin' for anything but real affcc-
ton.
"Folks that marries for anything
else has got a lot Of unhappiness be-
fore 'em that I don't know anything
about" Cincinnati Enquirer.
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At Bedtime.
Keeping o'er the balusters.

Keeping o'or the balusters.
~ AZ pedtime's witching hour,
mere comes from upper regions
voices Of magic power:
Iood night, mamma; good night, papa;
Sood night to everybody;
win pleasant dreams to all Of you,
GOOD night to Mid, Mid, Noddy."
sgt Mid, Md, Noddy answers not,
only psa and ma and Sue,
VINO walt and list with beating hearts,
And know just what to do:
me mother drops her knitting work,
Ana hurries up the stairs,
IN time to see some little knees
tended low for prayers
%God bless mamma, papa and Joe.
4 fess' May, Tom, Sue and Kitty:
Grandpa and grandma, old and gray,
ana nervous, more's the pity;
Our teachers and our playmates, too;
The cook who gives us food,
Johnny who comes from marketing
With things to eat so good.
God bless them all" is touchingly
Ereathed on the evening air.
Whose appraised eyes and folded hands
Tell of our bedtime prayer;
When down to sleep II lay me
And go to the land of Nod,
II l never here come back again,
May I have a home with God''
CLARK w. Bryan. In Good Housekeeping.
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thrusting open of the shutters and the
appearance of the well-known bur!y
form of their captain with some
blanket-shrouded shape in his arms.
The flames leaped forth from that very
easement but a second after Close. and
his precious burden were lowered to
the walk below.
And this was the story of a brave
mans deed be heard from every lip,
said Lambert, later, as he fastened
back On receipt of the news; and this
was the response made by the brave
man himself, when his lieutenant bent
over his seniors scared and bandaged
face next day and rendered his soldierly
congratulations. Turning slowly over
on his side, Close pointed to the wreck
of pair Of uniform trousers, scorched
and burned in a dozen places and ir-
retrievably ruined.
"Look," said he, mournfully. "Them
was my best pants.'
Then it was found that not only had
the strange old fellow lost his hair and
beard, and not a little of the cuticle OF
his face and hands, as well as those
patched but precious "best pants," but
that his eyesight was threatened. The
good old doctor who had for so many
years attended the Waltons, and who
had come at once to renew his ministra-
lions under the humble roof in town
that was their temporary refuge, lis
tened to the story Of Closes heroism
with quickened pulse and kindled eye.
He and Mr.. Barton Potts, who had
FASTENED back from Quitman, came out
to camp to see and thank the PROSTATE
soldier, Potts being ceremonious in his
expression of gratitude and admiration
and most earnest in his apology for
what he had said and thought of Close
in the past. The doctor stayed longer
by the silent sufferers cot, carefully
studying his face as far as it could be
seen. Professional etiquette prevented
his saying anything that. might be a
reflection on, the treatment and practice
of the contract surgeon" yet it was
plain to Lambert, and to Potts, too,
that he was disturbed. Close, however,
seemed to think less of his own plight
than Of that of the Waltons, who, ex-
cept the little patch of fields about the
ruined homestead, had lost everything
they owned III the world, and who were
now IN sore anxiety and distress. The
terrible shock and exposure had been
too much for one SO fragile as. the lady
21nother, and Mrs. Walt ton was sinking
fast. Walton Scroggs, too, was IA ses-
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CHPTAlN CLOSE
Bv CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.
copyright. 1894, by J. B. Lippincott Col
XIII.-CONTINUED,

"You could, easily, but you don't want
20, or you would have given me my cap
long ago"
oh" and the jaunty kept went
spinning into the darkness of the night,
and the little lady stamped in fury at
her own blunder. 'Take your cap, and
60"
"We-I," said Lambert, with provoke
ing GOODNESS, eff I'm to follow my cap
it hasn't gone towards camp at all. 1t
eee1ns-eNcuse me if come back for
light-it seems to have, dropped close to
that old arbor of yours among the rose
bushes, where you sit in the summer
moon]it evenings. Suppose we leave it
as an excuse for me to drop around
next time you go there"
But now she seized a candle and went
bounding down the steps. A moments
search among the bushes, and she found
it-a]so him, for he calmly followed.
There's your cap," she said, land
Jawnduh's the gate!"
He looked up in affected pain and
establishment.
"Why, Miss Katesie!-I supposed you
were simply acting on my suggestion,
and we were going to have such a lovely
time at the bower. That's why I fol-
lowed"
''Oh, All should like to tay-uh your
tongue, out. You know All hate the
very ground you stand on"
The gloom in his face gave way in
stantly to radiant joy. "You do?--
really?" he cried. ooh, I never hoped
for that..JI thought you loved every
inch Of this ugly old state and that
never could coax you to leave it. Do
you really hate it 500"
But now, fairly beside herself with
vexGtion, the girl had turned and fled,
her little feet seeming to fly up the
worn old steps that groancd and creal1ed
under any other touch. He stood gaz-
ing after her a moment, the teasing,
merry smile still lowering about his
lips. then picked up the cap she had
hurled to earth, and walked blithely
away.
Not ten yards from the gate came
Corp. Cunningham on the run. Capt.
Close desired to see the lieutenant at
once. A negro stood by the campfire
in front OF Closes tent, trembling from
either fear or excitement or both, his
rrotruding eyes fixed on the form of
old Rasmus, who was eagerly jabbering
ito the company commander.
do you know anything bout this,
lieutenant?" asked Close: ''These
darliies say there's been big row over
towards Vernon, and that Walton
8croggs is among the killed."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
"A Hard Test.

Wiggins-And you think that wom-
az can never keep secret?
Parrott-No, she can't.
Wiggins-Well, 1 don't know just
how big fool my wife thinks am.
and I'll bet you're in the same fix re-
garding your wife's opinions.-N. Y.
Truth.
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- r.. *
Advancem emit,

TITS wonderful said the man who is
always earnest, Ito see how they can de-
velop the intellects of the lower ami
mails. There is no telling how much we
may be able to benefit them by system
attic education"
What suggested that idea?
"A chimpanzee that saw. He was
cnce in perfectly wild condition. Now
they have by patient training taught
him to chew tobacco, smoke pipe, play
cards and drink whisky" -Washingto
Star.
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A New Classification.

"Now, SIR said the professor of
medicine, "you may tell me to what
class of maladies insomnia belongs"
'Why-er," replied the medical stu
dent, Its contagious disease"
Il never heard it so described. Where
did you learn of this?"
From experience. Whenever my
neighbours dog can't sleep, I'm just as
wakeful as he is''-Tit-Bits.
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Point Not Well Taken.

She"John, you are perfect bear
about the housed, -.
He-Maria, that assertion won'tstand
the test of science single moment. A
bear sleeps all winter. He doesn't have
to get out of bed before daylight every
morning to stir up the fire and call the
hired girl. Try some other metaphor,
Maria.-Chicago Tribune.
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Oddities of GfuAic.

Yeast-I saw a man to-day who had
no hands play the piano.
Crimsonbeak That's nothing!
We've got a girl down in our flat who
has no voice and who sings!-Yonker
Statesman.
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Boiling 1t.

Mother-Johnny, how often have I
told you that you must not bolt your
food?
Johnny-Guess 'tisn't no worse to
bolt my food than it is for you to turn
the key on it when it's in the cupboaad.
Boston Transcript.
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The True Test.

Bess-1ou could hardly call her a So
cial success.
Jess-Why, she seems to have plenty
of admirers.
Bess-Oh, yes, if you look at it that
way. but don't believe she's on friend
~ terms with a single man she ever re-
jected.-Chicago Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
A Modern Instance.

$50 that affair between Reggie Ash
croft and Penelope Phillips is off. What
was the troubie?"
''Why, Reggie forgot that Mrs. Phil
Ups is the man of the house and asked
Penelope's father for her hand. OF
course, when her mother found it out
the whole business went down like a
house of cards. Cleveland Leader.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
IT'S Often So.

# tell you it takes a: burglary to
make 3 man rich" ..$ =. ...,.. +.
s: s ou mean poor, don't you?"
B. mo; mean rich.''' s.z y 4 =. NJ
*s In what way p Sill VI z.@ Il ...
III ell, I have been reading about thu
value the goods stolen from Singers
house, and I find that he has lost moes
than he ever, hi d. : Chicago Pest
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The first Christmas young fellow
spends in the army is one he is apt 10
Remember. What he did in years be-
Gore, or of what nature were the festivi-
ties in those that followed, may, in
course of time, become but vague and
!shadowy pictures before the minds
eye. After something like 20 years of
iservice as a commissioned officer Mr..
Lambert was heard to say that never,
even when a homesick plebe at West
Point, had he passed so forlorn Il
:Christmastide as that which immedi-
ately succeeded his graduation.
The rain was beating down in sullen
shower upon the bare and dripping
woods and sodden fields; the roads
were deep in mud; camp, of which he
was once more commander, was wet
and cold and cherries; in the adjoining
tent lay his senior officer grooming on
bed Of pain, hands and face blistered
AID bandaged, hair and eyebrows gone,
while over across the way a pile of
,1corched and blackened timbers,
couple of brick chimneys, and the stone
foundations, were all that were left of
Walton Hall.
!. The story brought in of the big row
at Vernon, though exaggerated, had
been sufficiently confirmed in the
course: of an hour or so that wintry
evening of Lambert's last visit to the
homestead, to warrant his being or
idered thither with half the company
Ito Support the civil authorities in re-
storing peace" Close reported the
situation by telegraph to department
headquarters, and the action taken by
him, his dispatch reaching the general
commanding the next day an hour or
80 after that official had been ordered
from Washington to send full particu-
I lars Of the disturbance in his bailiwick,
for the federal officials in the south and
the partisans of both sides of the no.
51itical questions at issue had worked
the nigh t wires for all they were worth,
and the early morning papers were.
salurid with details Of the tragic out
break. ~
vas midnight when Lambert
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A Missing Scientist.

Mrs. Globetrot-What has become of
DR.. Cureal, the great scientist, author
Of .'How to Live Forever?"
Mrs. Stayhome-Oh he died some
time ago.-N. Y. Weekly. .~,.3,.'. 81
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
In No Danger.

1t was evident that he was depressed.
'Alas," he sighed, ''she has my heart"
'Oh, we'll, l wouldn't worry about
that, old man," said his chum. consol-
ingly. "She won't care to keep it,
Post.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
Got on Lightly,

"See here, young man," said the mag
istrate, ''you never paid me that fee for
marrying you" $3.50 -.
"You're mighty lucky I haven't sued
YOU for damagcs."-DetroitF Free Press.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
Cheap Real Estate,

He put a penny in the plate
Each Sunday, did this man,
To buy a mansion in the skies
On the installment PLAN!
49, IN. Y. Truth.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
Same Thing.

$50 he praised my singing, did hep"
Eyes, he said it was heavenly"
ibid he really say that?"
swell, not exactly, but he probably
meant that. He said it was unearthly."
-Tit-BitS.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25

The Same Old Chestnut.
The fishing seasons now at hand,
The finny tribe abounds
The same old lie we heard last wear
VIII once more go the rounds.
Baltimore World.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
Deeds. Not WOrils.

II never talk to book agents." said the
busy man.
"Good!" exclaimed the agent. II adj
mire man of action. Now, just put
your signature to this order and have it
over with. "-Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
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The Drute,x LATEST,

Mr.. Crimsonbeak-That dog next door
is mad, I understand.
Mrs. sonbeak-Perhaps he care
home to his dinner and it wasn't. ready
for him on time.-YOnkers Statesman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
IN TIE TRANSVAAL JUNGLE
TIE BRITISH LION MEETS AN AFRICAN LION.
HiHE Great Risks.

Taking Great Risks.
"Madge has more courage than any
girl know"
"How does she show it?"
"She sticks the stamp on the envelope
before she writes the address," Chi
cago Record.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
Learning the Wheel.

Learning the Wheel.
GLOW long did it take you to learn the
bicycle?"
me? 1t wasn't three days before I
could lie as fast as sny of thcm."-In-
dianapolis Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
Saved by the. ONCE Box.

Editor.-Man wants 70 see me? Well.
show him up. -.... -. s<..s-syl. r.
Office Boy-Not on yer life. He says
that's what you did, and he's after gore.
Town Topics. >= Il .e-essy u xs<slsssi
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25

Miss Ten Stryke-Well, wha. did papa
say?
Percy-Oh, he said there had never
been fool in the Ten Stryke family
yet, but if you married me there would
be two.-N. Y. Tribune.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25

Tired Timothy-1'm going to de trop
les, Lawrence. Food grows dere on
trees-cocoanuts and such.
Lazy Lawrence-Don't yer have to
climb de trees?
Tired Timothy-Naw. De monkeys
trows de nuts down at yer.
Lazy Lawrence--Well, don't you have,
to crack de nuts?
Tired Timothy-Naw; go on! = DEFY
cracks when dey hits yer.-N. Y. Truth.
Past Babyhood.
l. Friend-What a big girl your little
daughter is getting to be.
Mrs. Bloomernew (proudly)- Yes;
we expect to put her in boomers next
week.-Brooklyn Eagle. s5. =.-... >.. g.
Discrettonnry Gloom. X
''How would you define pessimist 22'''
HE is a man who is afraid to look
happy for fear some other fellow will
try TO borrow money Of him" Chicago
Record. .sss..
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LOVE-.
ITO BE Continued

Suffereth Long and Is Kind, Wrote tho
Apostle, and the Charwoman Confirms 1t.