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Evening star., 1898-05-14

fectly plain. We had TO fight or acknow-
ledge France to be the dictator of Europe.
stu. politics has nothing to do with my
story. General Trelawny and his forces
were in Brabant, and were under orders to
join the Duke of Marlboroughs army. We
were to go through the country as speedily
as possible, for 4 great battle was expect
ed. Trelawny'S instructions We're to cap
ture certain towns and cities that lay in
our way. to dismantle the fortresses. and
to parole their garrisons. We could not
incumber ourselves with prisoners, and SO
marched the garrisons cut, paroied them,
destroyed their arms and bid them. dis
persc. Put. great as was our hurry, strict
orders had been given to leave no strong
holds in our rear untaken. Everything
Went well until We came to the town of
ElSengore, which We captured without the
loss OF man. The capture of the town,
however. was of little avail for in the CEN
ter of it stood a strong citadel, which we
tried 10 take by assault. but could not.
General Trelawny a very irascible, hot
headed man. but the whole a just and
capable officer. impatient at this uneXpect
ed delay, offered the garrison almost any
terms they desired to eyacuate the castle.
But having had warning of our coming,
they had provisoned the place. were well
mander refused to make terms with Cen
erai Trelawny.
IF you want the place" said the French
man. come and take it,
General Trelawny. angered at this con-
temptuouS treatment, flung his men again
and again at the citadel, and that without
making the slightest impression on it,
We were in no wise prepared for a long
siege. nor had We expected stubborn re-
Evening star., 1898-05-14

sistance. Marching quickly, as was our
custom heretofore. we possessed no heavy
artillery. and so were at a disadvantage
when attacking a fortress as strong as that
of Elsengore. Meanwhile General Trelaw-
ny sent mounted messengers by different
roads to his chief, giving an account of
what had happened, explaining his delay
in joining the main army, and asking for
definite instructions. He expected that one
or two at least of the mounted messen-
gers sent away every day would reach his
chief and be enabled to return. And that
is exactly what happened for one day
dusty horseman came to General Trelaw-
ny's headquarters with a brief note from
Marlborough. The commander In chief
said:
Il think the Frenchmen's advice is good
We want the place: therefore, take it"
But he seat no heavy artillery to aid us
in this task. for he could not spare his big
guns. expecting, as he did, an important
battle Gen. Trelawny having his work
cut out for him, settled down to accom-
plish ii as best he might. He quartered
officers and men in various parts of the
town, the more thoroughly to keep watch
on the citizens, of whose good Intentions
n the siege were prolonged, we were by
no means sure 1t fell to my lot tn be
lodged in the house of Burgomastcr Seidel-
mier, of whose conduct have no reason TO
complain, for he treated me well. / was
given two rooms. one a large, low apart
Evening star., 1898-05-14

ment the first hoor, and communicating
directly with the outside by means OF
hall and separate stairway The room
was lighted by long. many-paned window.
loaded and filed with dfamond-shaped
glass. Beyond this large drawing room
was my bed room. ] must say that i en-
jeyed my stay in BurgoTnasteT Seidelmier )
house. not the less because he had an
only daughter, d most charming girl. Our
acquaintance riDeEed into deep friendship.
and afterward into-brt that has nothing
70 do with what | have to tell you. My
story is of war and not of love Gretlich
Seidelmier presented me with the hour
glass you have in your hand. and on it
carved the joined hearts entwined with our
similar initials.
so they are initials. ara they?" said
Eastford. glancing down at what he had
mistaken fer twining serpents.
Yes. said the officer. Il was more ac-
customed 20 sword than to etching
tool, and the letters are but rudely drawn
One evening after dark Gretlich and [ were
whispering together in the hall. when We
heard the heavy tread of the general COM
ing up the stair. The girl fled prscipitately
and /. holding open the door. waited the
approach of my chief. He entered and
curtly asked me to close the door.
lieutenant. ne said lit is nv intention
20 capture the citadel tonight. Get to-
getkec Twenty-Five OF your men and have
them ready under the shadow OF this
intend To do with them. In one hour 5
time leave tf.is place as qu5tly as possible
ana MAKE an attack on tfse western en-
trance Of the citadel. Your attack is to be
but a feint, and to draw of their forces
to that point. Still. if any OF your men
succeed III gaining entrance to the fort
they shall not lack reward and promotion.
Have yCu i wljch?
Not one that will go, general. but l
have an hour glass here.
Very we'll SET 1t running Collect your
men and exactly al the hour lead them TO
the west front; il il out five minutes quick
mar II frcm here. An hour and iive min
uteS from this moment l expect you TO be-
gin the attack ana the moment you are
before the " sSt"rn gate make as much
noise as your twenty-five men are capa bic
OF. to lead the enemy IL believe that
the attack is a serious one.
Saving this. the = neral turned and made
his way. heavY-footed. through the hall
and down the stairway.
| set the hour glass running, and went at
once to call my men. statioEing them where
| had been ordered to place them. ! re-
turned to have word with Gretlch before
| departed on what l knew was a danger
Gus mission. CHANGING at the hour g.ass
saw that not more than q quarter Ct the
sand had run down during my absence. I
remained in the doorway where / could
keep an eye on the hour glass, while the
girl stood learing her arm against the ar
Gle of the dark oassagcwav. sii~n~r rting her
Evening star., 1898-05-14

/. III any Inere De-tO
1.-THE doctrine of the
Rev. Jasper, that
"the sun do move"
and the world stands
still, might find 1t
necessary TO alter
their belief and TO
burn a bit Of incense
before the shrine of
Progress, were they
to glance through a
Washington directory
for tho uaar 1S.,f
Evening star., 1898-05-14
III.

Inc door opened. and the discussion be-
tween the government and tho onnosi,io,,
IN MS mind ceased to consj6 .r tho untipe
mess OF the visit. for here in the visitor
hlfnsef stood another problem. He was a
SCuhs man In military costume his uni
form beinS that of an officer Eastford re-
mtrnbeFed seeing something like il on the
Stage and Knowing little cf military affairs
thought perhaps the costume of the visitor
before him indicated an officer in the NJ
poleonic war ~"
Good evening" said the incomer. MAY
/ introduce niyseIf2 / am IF.ut San.or, -,
the regular army
on are very welcorne.'' returned his
host will you be seat -d?'
Thank you, no. l have but a few mo-
have it," '-'0
Your hourglass?" CALCULATED Eastford
IN surprise Il think you labor under a
mlsappFehension- The glass belongs to me
! bought it today at the old curiosity sbon
IN Finchmore street.
Il admit that. technically. rightfuI pos
ses7lo!i OF the glass rests with you. but. tax
ing you 10 be a gentleman, 1 venture TO be-
heVe that a mere statement Of my priority
OF claim viii appeal TO you. even though il
might nave no effect on the minds of jury
OF our countrymen."
You mean 10 say that the glass has been
stolen from you. and has been sold?''
II has been sold. undoubtedly. over and
over again, but never stolen so far as
nave Deen able 10 trace its history"
IF then the glass has been honestly mr.
chased by its different owners 1 fail 10 soc
how you can possibly establish any claim
TO it,
Il have already admitted that my claim
Is moral rather than legal" continued the
visitor. 1T Is a long story; have 1 your
permission to tell it?'
Il shall be delighted to listen," replied
Eastford. but before doing so 1 beg TO re-
rev my invitation. and ask you TO occupy
this easy chair bsfore the fire."
Tho officer bowed in silence, crossed the
room behind Eastford, and sat down in the
armchair. placing his sword across his
knees The stranger spread his hands be-
fore the fire. and seemed to enjoy the COM
forting warmth He remained for a few
moments buried In deep reflection. quite ig-
poring the presence OF his host, who, glanc-
Evening star., 1898-05-14
Origin of a Popular Sport.

From Life.
Don't fail me- said the aboriginal VIC
man.
Her husband wrapped a boomerang
around his waist. put half dozen stone
ARROWS In qusver. and took down his seven
foot club.
'Don't worry" he said. fixedly. I'll
bring back cook with me IL IL takes .
leg"
Evening star., 1898-05-14

iHS upon the fOurgIaSS IN diSput. upon his
knees. seeing that the sands had all run
cut. silently reversed it. and set them run
nlng again. This action caught the corner
OF the strangers eye, and brought him to a
realization OF why he was there. Drawing
heavy sigh, he began his story.
III.
''In the year 1705 l held the post of lieu
tenant in that part of the British army
commanded by General Trelawny. the ST.
preme command being. of course, in the
hands OF the great Marlborough"
Eastford listened to this announcement
with the idea that there was something alb
surd about the statement. The man sitting
there was calmly talking of a timS 1!2
years past. and yet ne himself could not be
T. day more than twenty-five years Old
Somewhere entanged in this were the ele-
InSntS of absurdity. Eastman found him
self unable to unraNel them, but the more
he thought of the matter the more rea-
sorab!e it began to appear. ami so, hoping
his visitor had not noted the look of sur
his mind back over the history of England
and remembering what he had learned at
school:
That was during the war Of the Spanish
succession?
Yes. the war had then been in progress
four years, and many brilliant victories had
been won. the greatest of which was prob
ably the battle of Bienheim.''
quite so, murmureS EaStford.
1t was the English. Casper cried.
That put the French to rout
But what they killed each other for,
never could make out.
The officer looked up in astonishnent.
Il never heard anything like that said
about the war. The reason for it was per-
Evening star., 1898-05-14

A Diagnosis of Tommy's Case.
From Puck
Mamma-Tommy Jones stays away from
school quite frequently. Is he delicate?
Johnny-No'm; but his mother thinks he
Evening star., 1898-05-14

AS the lieutenant ceased speaking East
ford thought he heard again the explosion
at the tower and started to his feet in
nervous alarm. then looked at the lieu
tenant and laughed. while he said
lieutenant. l was startled by that noise
just now, and thought for the moment
that l was in Brabant. You have made
good your claim to the hour glass, and
you are welcome to it.
But as he spoke he turned his eyes to-
ward the cnar IN which the lieutenant had
been seated. and found it vacant. Gazing
fund the room, in half-somnolent dismay
he saw that he was indeed alone. At his
feet was the shattered hour glass. which
had fallen from his knees. its blood-red
sand mingling with the colors on the car
pet. Eastford said, with an air Of sur
prise:
by Jove"
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from another Together we tottered across
the debris-strewn court yard. Some wood
work inside the citadel had taken fire and
was burning fiercely. and this lit up the
ruins and made visible the great gap in the
wall at the fallen gate. Into the square
below we saw the whole town pouring
soldiers and civilians alike coming from
the narrow streets into the open quad
rangie. I'made my way. leaning on Sept,
over the broken gate and down the cause
way into the square. and there. foremost
or all. met my general. with cloak thrown
CCat.
There. general" gasped: there is
your citadel and through this gap can We
march to meet Marlborough
Pray. sir. who the devil are you?" cried
the general, for my face was like that of
blackmoor.
Il am the lieutenant who has once more
disobeyed your orders. general, in the hope
OF retrieving a former mistake"
Sentore!' he cried. rapping out an
oath. Il shall have you court-martialed.
sir"
Il think. general 1 said. that 1 am
court-martialed already" for / thought
then that the hand of death was upon me-
which shows the effect of Imagination for
my wounds were not serious. yet l sank
down at the generals feet. He raised me
in his arms as if l had been his own son.
and thus carried me to my rooms. Seven
years later, when the war ended. / got
leave of absence and came back to Elsen-
gore for Gretlioh Seidelntier and the hour
glass.
Evening star., 1898-05-14
Govern mcnt oMrIals.

pardonable flourish. This library contains
upward OF l.45) volumes"
Evening star., 1898-05-14
Some Facts About the Washington of
Sixty Years Ago.
CLEANED FROM AN old DIRECTORY
Houses Were Not Numbered and
the Lotteries Throve.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Written for The Evening Star.

~UBS CRIBE r s
Evening star., 1898-05-14

rs the door to the lower room in the
tower bolted?"
''but low archway. This archway has
not been closed, because no cannon balls
ever come from the northern side.
How much powder is there in this
room?"
II do not know; nine or ten barrels,
think
1t was evident to me that the fellow. In
his fear. spoke the truth. Now the ques-
lion was, how to get down from the wall
into the courtyard and across that to the
archWay at the southern side. Cautioning
the sentinel again that if he made the
slightest attempt to escape or give the
alarm instant death would be meted to him.
1 told him to guide to the archway,
which he did, down the stone steps that led
from the northern wall into the courtyard
They seemed to keep loose watch inside
the only sentinels in the place being those
on the upper walls, But the man we had
captured not appearing at his corner in
time, his comrade' on the western side be-
came alarmed, spoke to him, and obtain
ing no answer, shouted for him, then dis
charged his gun Instantly the place was
in an uproar; Lights flashed and from diff
ferent guard rooms soldiers poured out I
saw across the courtyard the archway the
sentinel hads spoken Of and calling nv
men, made @ dash for it. The besieeed
garrison. nota expecting enemy within,
had been rushing1 up the stone steps at
each side to the outer wall to man the can
non they had soirecently quilted, and it
was some minutes before knowledge of
the real state Off things came rs them
These few minutes were all we needed
but l saw there was chance for a slow
match, while If We fired the mine we proh-
ably would die under the tottering tower.
By the timefwe reached the archway and
found the powder barrels the besieeed
finding everything silent outside, came to
a realization of the true condition of AZ
fairs We faced them with bayonets fixed
while Sept, the man who had captured the
sentinel took the hatchet he had bronpht
with him at his girdle, flung over one nf
the barrels on its side, knocked in the head
of it, allowing the dull black powder 10
pour on the cobblestones Then filIinr bis
hat with the explosive he came out toward
US. leaving thick trail behind him. Rv
this time we were sorely beset and ono ~
our men had gone down under the fire of
the enemy, who shot wildly, being baff,ed
by the darkness. otherwise all OF rs had
been slaughtered. seized musket from
a comrade and shouted to the rest:
Save yourselves and to the GARRISON
in French, ] gave the same warning thor
fred the musket into the train OF powder
and the next instant found myself hair
stunned and bleeding at the further end
of the court yard. The roar Of the err
piosion and the crash of the falling fower
was deafening All Elsengore was aroused
by the earthquake shock 4 called 10 NV
men when could find my voice and Sent
answered from one side and two more
The true northerner., 1898-06-01
Republican Congressional Con-
VentiOn.

The republican convention for the
fourth congressional district of Mich
igan, will be held in Longwell's opera
house, Paw Paw, convening at / o'clock
p. m, Tuesday, June %, 1898. This con
vention is called for the purpose of nom
mating a candidate for congress, To Sc
lect a congressional committee, and to
transact such other business as may be
properly brought before the convention.
The various counties of the district will
be entitled to representation as follows:
Allegan 20, Berrien "a,
Cass 10, Barry l3,
St. Joseph IA, Van Buren II.
BY Order of Committee,
M. O. ROWLAND, Secretary.
+. Il. gibson, Chairman.
The true northerner., 1898-06-01
That Strategic Board. &"

No one thing in connection with the
conduct of the war on the part of the
administration has come in for so large a
share of abuse as has the so-called naval
strategic board. As is apt to be the case
with hasty criticism, and has been the
case with probably all the fault finding
about the war. methods, this has come
from ignorance of. the powers of the
board and the purposes for which it was
organized and is maintained. We were
pleased TO see an interview with Secre-
tary Long in this connection, in which
he said:
1--WE are leaving the conduct of opera
tions to commanding officers The free
dom of action given to commanders of
squadrons was shown in the orders to
Admiral Dewey, which have been pub
lished. He was allowed to make his own
plans. \ similar case is that of the
movement against Porto Rico by Admiral
Sampson. He was allowed to carry out
ideas of his own i'm attacking San Juan"
Mr. Long then went on to explain that
the "war board" is the proper name for
the body, and that its principal function
is to collect useful information and trans
NIT it to naval commanders, not to lay
out fixed programs of action for the
fleets.
The American people are prone to
avail themselves of their unquestoned
privilege of kicking" at things that do
not exactly meet their approval. In the
present instance, we think fault finding
entirely unjustifiable. Much has already
been accomplished with almost no loss
to the Americans. Our national officers
are, we believe, controlled by the highest
patriotism, and they have many avenues
of information not open to the public.
We believe time will reveal the wisdom
of the plans being pursued.
1t is much easier to find fault than it
is to raise and equip an army and
direct foreign war.
The true northerner., 1898-06-01
Their Peculiar Aversions.

Most people have aversions of some
kind or other, and some very strange
ones. The sight of set of false teeth
makes John l.. Sullivan sick at the
stomach. Napoleon did not like to see a
white dog. Agassiz could not bear to
touch polished steel The sight of the
rising moon, when it was full, always
made Nine de Stael i'll. Barefooted
children made Louis XIV nervous. Dean
Swift has said that Bolingbroke would
"act like one bereft should he cast his
eye on poor, harmless toad F" Disraeli
had an attack of vertigo when he saw
anybody chewing gum. Dickens never
liked a stiff shirt bosom, and Button
would fly into rage if any one put an
egg on the dining table at which he sat-
The true northerner., 1898-06-01
A Bootblack's Novel Scheme.

The most enterprising bootblack in
New York is a young negro who has a
stand on Columbus avenue not far from
the Natural History museum. His loca-
ton is one which does not bring much
transient" trade, but he has goodly
number of regular customers. On days
when the weather looks threatening this
wise young man issues rain checks, good
for IL hours, so that if it rains and a
customers shine is ruined he gets new
one free of charge. The rain checks are
slips of paper with the date and hour
written in pencil. New York Press.
The true northerner., 1898-06-01
Republican County Convention.

A republican county convention for
the county of Van Buren, will be held at
the village of South Haven on Thursday,
the 23rd day of June, A. ID. 1897, at ten
o'clock a. M, for the purpose of selecting
seventeen delegates to attend the state
convention TO be hereafter called, to
select seventeen delegates to attend the
senatorial convention to be hereafter call
ed, TO select seventeen delegates to at
tend the congressional convention called
for Paw Paw, June %, 1898, to select a
county committee and for the transac-
ton of such other business as may prop
erly come before said convention. The
several townships will be entitled to rep
resention in said convention as follows:
The true northerner., 1898-06-01
WHEN CIRLHOOD ENDS
And Womanhood Begins-The Time
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