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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-03

pUtILizcr7'
Mr.. Stanforth warmly "It may. be
sometimes necessary to withhold con-
tidence, but never to lie, sir. Keep
your secret; shall not trouble you for
it, l am merely citizen and take no
part in the national dispute"
But do, papa"
I looked at Helen. She was regard
ing me earnestly. "If this gentleman is
with u.s." she said-"us of the south
he need not fear to declare himself. If
he is with the Yankees''-
"Helenn
There was an uncomfortable silence,
during which Mr. Stanforth regarded
his daughter sternly.
"If there is one right in the south"
he said, sacred above all others, it is
the right of hospitality. Mr.. Brander-
stane cannot be forced to divulge his
opinions"
But has he right to conceal them,
papa"
while our guest he has"
"Mr. .Stanforth," said, your daugh-
ter is right. No man should remain I'M
der the roof of one who has succored
him without revealing his identity
when 1t is called for. May ask you
to order my horse?"
l started up. I was too preoccupied
to notice the stand beside me covered
with books. with which had vainly
tried to alleviate my confinement, and
struck my arm at the very spot where
l had been wounded.
A SILVER passed over the father; the
daughter gave an involuntary start.
My coat, which had been thrown loose
ly over my shoulder, had become dis
arranged, exposing the arm, upon
which every eye was turned. Both Mr..
Stanforth and Helen bent forward in
tently. We were congratulating our
selves that no damage had been done
when on the white shirt sleeve ap-
peared spot Of bright red blood.
Jackson, run! The doctor! Quick!
Tell him the wound has opened"
! sank back on the sofa. Mr.. Stan
forth began running about wildly; Mrs.
Stanforth entered in wonder; the serv-
ants focked in with open eyes and
mouths.
Papa, your handkerchief"
Helen Stanforth spoke the words rs
coolly as if she had been an experienced
surgeon. With her fathers handker-
chief she improvised tourniquet, and
the bleeding stopped at once.
'Now, see here" said the doctor when
he had arrived and repaired the dam
age, you've had close call, sir. Per
haps you'll pay some attention here
after to what tell you. sir"
Next time, DOCTOR" said feebly,
''let me go. My life is Of little moment
to me-"
AS spoke Helen, who had gone out
of the room for something, returned.
"Ah, Miss Stanforth," said the doc
tor, II will leave the patient in your
care. You seem to be always on hand
when he needs you and to know exact
ly what to do. Let the others keep
away"
81 will relieve you, DOCTOR" she said
quietly.
The doctor gathered up his belong
ings and left the room, leaving Helen
standing looking at me with a certain
curious earnestness that could not
interpret. As she had been the Indirect
cause Of my mishap, naturally ex-
pected she would refer to 1T, perhaps
express some regret. She was think
ing Of an entirely different matter.
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"a l. WIS lOtSSu pGtSlSteu III COH-
"a sidering me always in danger.
a doctor must needs be at all
times within reach. q STRIPPING of 4
medical graduate must sleep in the
same room with me, the old gentleman
was constantly coming into the room
to ask if wanted anything, while his
wife was as tender and motherly as if
I had been her own son. Even the
servants wed with each other in wait
ing on me, and when anything was or
dered for me with haste unusual to
the negro they scrambled to see which
one would bring it. Only the girl who
had brought me there came and went
as though I was an ordinary person
with an ordinary wound, to be treated
in an ordinary manner.
All this attention and sympathy
veXed me beyond measure. What right
had to accept it, q Tennesseean, in
arms against the south. in search of q
Confederate enemy? Yes, and more
was I not the bearer of information
that would enable the hated Yankee 10
swoop down on this fair region and re-
claim it for the Union? The least sus-
picion of my true character would turn
the devotion lavished upon me to con-
tempt. My very life would be in dan
ger. Pooh! What cared for my life,
except that dreaded to go to my long
home detested by those who had sue
cored me. Besides, the information
Observation-Disclosures Of vital impor-
lance to the Union cause-must be car
ried northward.
A crisis came soon enough. 1t was
evening, and I was reclining on my
sofa looking out upon the beautiful
hills lying to the eastward. The girl
with the cool head and impressive face
was standing by a table rearranging
books and bottles and what not which
had been in use during the day. Sud
denly the door opened, and my host en-
tered. I saw at once by his expression
that something had occurred to put
him on his guard, or perhaps he had
been thinking. wondering what kind Of
person he was harboring. At any rate,
he came up and, drawing chair be-
side me, began to talk. 1t was plain
that he wished to ask me questions,
but he was too kind, too generous to
one. in my condition, too hospitable, to
ask them directly
"The doctor tells me, Mr. he be-
gan. upon my word, you have been
with us three days, sir, and we don't
know even your name"
"Branderstane, John Branderstane. l
am equally ignorant to whom am in
debted for all this attention"
"Our name is Stanforth, sir. This is
my daughter Helen, Mr.. Brander-
btane."
Helen inclined her head slightly, and
raised mine far enough from the pill
lows to do the SAME,
"ar. stanforth,' I said - there was
gratitude both in my voice.and in my
eyes-"whoever bears your name may
hereafter can-upon me for any service.
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You have placed me under an obliga-
ton which,
'.Tus, tut! You know our southern
custcms-we are nothing IL not hos
pitable. You are southern man, Of
course?" -
"of course" spoke the words hes
itatingly. .,e---
your state?" ,.
Tennessee"
EAST, middle or .west?"
EAST"
Mr.. Stanforth paused. There was no
information as to my sentiments In the
fact that hailed from east Tennessee.
More than two-thirds of the people Of
that section We're with the Union.
May ask, SIR" said my host, with
an evident intention Of ending all doubt
in regard to the side with which l was
affiliated, "are you Union or a Con-
federate sympathizer?"
l was about to declare myself an
ardent supporter of the Confederacy
when my little friend Ethel, who. had
visited me on the day 1 was shot, APP
peared in the doorway, her blue eyes
looking straight into mine. Had my
intended falsehood been rammed back
into my throat with the butt of re-
volver it could not have been more eff
fectually stopped. Then something i'm.
PEELED me to turn my glance to Helen.
She was about to pour liquid from a
vial into glass and had paused, her
eyes fixed on me intently.
"dr. Stanforth," said, you and
your family have been too kind for me
to deceive you. will not. do that, but
it would not serve my purpose to de
clare myself" y. ,,
You are an honorable man, sir, who
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S6I y2ANDs up" ~
@ Why he shouted the
W M words don't know, for in
another moment he gave
me one barrel, and before could raise
q finger heard click, admonishing
me that l was about to get the other.
A thin film Of smoke floating above the
feace TO the right and two malignant
eyes psering at me from between the
rails betrayed his position. Like flash
I whipped ont my revolver, but before
could raise it there was another re-
port. and my right arm dropped, be-
numbed by charge Of buckshot. Seiz-
ing my weapon with my left hand, I
brought it to q level with the eyes be.
hind the fence and fred. There was q
sound Of q body falling, and I knew
that had struck home.
Squirting my horse to the side of the
road, craned my neck over the fence,
and there in the ditch lay the BUSH
whaclser. His hat had fallen off and
left bare q head Of red, shocky hair.
In his belt was his revolver, beside him
a shotgun. His body, clad in "butter-
NUT" lay on an incline, his feet in the
water, which flowed lazily past. The
sun, Shining through budding branches,
lighted up his face, and knew that I
had seen him before. Indeed, vivid
scene in which be had borne part
came up out Of the past to fling over
me cloud Of gloom like the wing of an
Apollyon.
4 A drew an Involuntary sigh. 1t was
mot that had taken life Dives were
/'cheap enough in those days, and he had
sought to take nine; it was not my
narrow escape from death, but an over
powering consciousness that the spirit
of war lurlled everywhere; that the
beautiful face of Nature about me-
trees, fences, bushes, everything-best
served to cover assassins.
us he dead"
Startled at the sound of voice,
glanced aside. There, leaning against
lthe. fence, her arms resting on the top
rail. gazing at the disagreeable sight on
which had been intent, stood young
girl.
Where did you come from?' asked,
lifting my hat with my left hand.
There" She turned her head and
glanced at a house on the other side Of
the road
You must have stepped lightly. I
didn't hear you coming"
Without reply she continued gazing
at the body of the bushwhacker. 1, too,
looked again at the upturned face, with
s!ts slassy, staring eyes.
why did you kill him?"
II will tell you"
But did not tell her then, for as
spoke felt something warm trickling
over the back Of my hand and, looking
down, saw blood dripping upon her
dress.
4 "Come into the house, quick. That's
arterial Blood
Selling the reins, she led my horse,
following, to side gate. This she
opened. and we went up to the veran-
,da. Catching sight of colored boy,
she called to him:
/ Mount quickly and ride for the doc
tor! Tell him man has been shot,
an artery cut, and life is in danger"
/ I had dim image Of the boy tearing
down the road, and. tottering into the
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was about to interfere, but q natu-
raj distaste at giving away q fellow
creature caused me to desist.
Il thought hearn dat chile talkin."
The woman stood still a moment, but,
hearing no sound, numbered out Of the
room. The boy popped up from his
hiding place as soon as she had gone.
II like yo'," were the first words he
uttered. ''Yo' wouldn't tell on Teller,
would yo'?"
"How could when you are glad I
'plunked' my enemy? Is that your
nanny" s:sssssaasys, sssss,,. .,.u,.....
Eyes; that's Lib aMgssslss
"Nursed you from baby?"
eyes, an she reckons she's goin to
nurse me all my life" .,.ss.ssa
lis your name Buckingham
Buckingham! No; amt got any
such doggone name as that! Ny names
Buckeye"
How did you happen to get that
nameT' $500 \
cause I was horned thar
"Where?"
"In Buckeye" "
"In Ohio?"
Reckon tits the same" 'Tr-ss----
I contemplated Buck for awhile with
out hearing any. Of the questions he
continued to fire at me. Why not in
trust him with the message? There
was every reason why 1 should not do
SO except that he was devoted to me
and had no one else to send. While
was celebrating Lib came in, sur
prised him. dragged him out Of the
room and shut the door,
l heard footsteps on the veranda,
then in the hall, then ascending the
staircase, as of people carrying a bur-
den. The door had evidently been shut
to prevent my seeing what was being
done. For awhile there was hurrying
to and fro, and knew that something
unusual had occurred. After all had
been quieted Buck, who had mean
while escaped from his dusky captor,
slipped back to forbidden ground.
1t occurred to me that could draw
from Buck the solution Of the recent
commotion, but what passed under the
roof of my friends was no concern of
mine, and I scorned to get it from q
mere boy. But wished to test Bucks
power Of reticence. Ten to one he had
been instructed not to talk to me about
the mysterious occurrence.
Buck" I asked, "who came to the
house awhile ago."
Wasn't anybody came to the house
awhile ago."
"a sick man, wasn't it?"
'No, he wasn't sick"
II thought you said no one came?"
"No one did"
"Of course no one came; he was car
RED"
"If yo' know SO much about it, Mr..
Brandystone, what's the use O. askin
met"
"You admit that whoever he was he
wasn't sick?''
"Qf course he wasn't sick. How
could he be sick If he wasn't any
body?
There was sudden rustling in the
hall, and Helen swept into the room,
her eyes flashing fire.
Buck, leave the roomv she COM
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CHAPTER II.

go HESE kind people with whom
81 l was lodged persisted in con-
"a sidering me always in danger.
doctor must needs be at all
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CHAPTER I.
CaptaiD r. A. MITCHEL,
Author of Chattanooga" "Chickamauga," Etc.

CHAPTER I. ssssssSS,;SssasSaa ssssaaEE77'
4 BUsHwaAcKED. gss,,s'sss: :ssss..;.'
Sxw E2ANDS up" ~
:" EH Why he shouted the
III II words I don't know, for in
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CHAPTER III.
a DEFINITE OBJECr.

ssXAYlIase v ta's ss un31e rIn w9 s'ss
W w and I, who should be
IN and doing am caoed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
TO BE HEARD SATURDAY
Topeka Millers' Discrimination
Case Will Be Tried.

The board of railroad commissioners
has set Saturday, August 3, as the date
for trial of the complaint of the Topeka
nillers against the Santa Fe and other
roads for abolishing the five-cent diff
ferential rate they enjoyed for 80 years
Answer was made by the defendant
company to the effect that wrong
long continued does not make a right
The power of the board to compel the
companies to break the new railroad
law by making a discrimination in
favor of Topeka, as it is put in chal-
lenged
In the answer it is stated that at
the time the differential of five cents
per hundred on wheat to Topeka was
established, a like differential against
Topeka in favor of Kansas City, on
shipments of wheat eastbound, was in
force. To equalize the rate and put
Topeka on an equal basis with Kansas
City, this differential was established.
Such differential against Topeka has
been abolished for some time, and the
reason for the differentia1 in favor of
Topeka no longer exists. A differential
of one cent per hundred pounds now
exists in favor of Topeka and other
Kansas milling centers and against
Kansas City to points east of the Mis-
sissippi.
If this differentia1 is restored, Attor-
ney Hurd states. as demanded by the
compliments, there will be a differen-
tiaI in favor of wheat against flour to
Topeka and to Topeka only. This. it is
argued would be a backward step, as
the carriers have been pursuing a pol
icy of abolishing differentials on wheat
and flour to conform to the pleadings
of Kansas millers. for years past, to
have equal rates on wheat and -four
The Topeka millers are prepared to
show that the action of the railroads
really diseriminates against them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
AGUINALDO'S KEEPER.
Captain Mallory Says Filipino Warrior
Is Contented.

San Francisco. July 2s.-Among the
army officers who have returned to
the United States on the transport
Meade is Captain J. s. Mallory. for
merly a lieutenant colonel of volun-
teers, who is to rejoin the Second in
fantry. Up to the time he was ordered
home Captain Mallory had Aguinaldo
in his charge. Captain Mallory says
that the ex-insurgent leader spends all
his time in studying and receiving VS.
itors- His wife and family are with
him and he appears contented.
Captain II. Fl. Sargent, another pas
senger on the Meade. was lieutenant
colonel Of the Twenty ninth volunteer
infantry, commanding the attacking
forces at san Mateo at the time Geh-
eral Lawton was killed, December 19,
1893 He has since taken his old title
Of captain in the regular army.
Captain William L. Kenly, command
ing the Eighth field battery, which the
Meade brought home, commanded the
battery at the Zapote river in a fight
under General Lawton, and ran the
guns to within thirty-five yards of the
insurgents trenches across the river.
Captain kenly was an aide to Gen
eral Macarthur until he took command
Of the Eighth a short time ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
KEEP Up THE FIGHT.
Notwithstanding Recent Declaration
Of DR.. Koch

New York. July pa special to the
Tribune from Long Branch n. J., says:
DR.. John 4. Weyeth, president of the
American Medical association,in speak
ing of theory recently put forward by
Professor Koch in London. that tuber
culOsis is not communicable to human
beings by eating the meat or drinking
the milk of tuberculous cows, said:
Notwithstanding the reports that
Professor Koch has stated that bovine
tuberculosis is not transmissible to
man, we should not cease to take all
precautions to destroy the baciln that
are found in milk and beef. It is by no
means proven by DR.. Koch or any one
else that this transmission of the dis.
ease is impossible. Moreover. it is the
general belief and opinion of the best
experts and investigators in this de-
partment of medical science that milk
from tuberculous cows is dangerous
source of infection to human beings,
especially to children of low resist lance.
DIR. Koch is reported to have based
his opinion. in part, on the fact that
primary tuberculosis of the intestines
is extremely rare and that in a large
number of post mOrtenns made in Berlin
he had seen only two or three subjects
in which primary tuberculosis had oc-
rurred in the intestineS"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
TOO MUCH FOR "BOBS.
Irish Nationalist Oppose Giving
the Earl 5000 Pension.

New York, July pa dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
The Irish Nationalist have determ-
ined to oppose the royal declaration
bill, the kings title bill and the money
grant to Lord Roberts. AS Roman
Catholics the Nationalist regard the
proposed amendment to the royal dec
laration as unsatisfactory and mad
equate and they will hardly allow the
bill to pass without a struggle. Not
much opposition is expected to the
kings title bill, but the Nationalist
WILL as consistent opponents of the
war in South Africa, object to the large
grant to Earl Roberts for his services
to the state. The amount of the
grant has not yet been announced. but
it is understood to be 100000. In 1881,
when Lord Roberts received a baron
etcy in recognition of his services in
Afghanistan, the sum of 212,500 was
voted to him and pension of 9100
was also conferred upon him. Lord
Wolseley, however, received 425,0O0
after the Ashantee campaign. and
General Kitchener was granted $4,000
after the Soudan campaign, and an
other grant may be awarded to him at
the next session for his work in South
Africa. General Butler is out of sym
pathy with the desire of certain poll
ticians to raise the question why mis-
claims have to be passed over. 1t is
stated that he would regard the intro
duction of his name and services into
the discussion on Lord Roberts grant
as not friendly to him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
KITCHENER,s PLACE
Will Fall to General Lyttleton When
War Ends.

New York, July ga dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
1t is freely rumored that General
Lyttleton will succeed Lord Kitchener
as COMMUNICATIVE chief of the British
forces in South Africa. General Kitch-
ener, it may be assumed, will not be re-
called until the end of the war is act
ually in sight, as Lyttletons task win
be more passive and administrative
than belligerent. Gen. Lyttleton did
good work under Gen. Hu1ler in the
early days of the war, but Gen. Fores-
tier Walker and Methuen are both SEN
ior to him. Neither of these men is,
however, likely to be appointed, and it
must be said in favor of the choice of
Lyttleton that he has already distin-
guished himself in civil life. When pri-
vate secretary to his uncle, Mr.. Glad
stone, he was regarded as a man with
a future. He has expressed himself in
public as sanguine of a satisfactory
settlement of the South African ques-
ton in the long run, and he sees no
reason why Briton and Boer should not
live peaeeably side by side. This is the
proper spirit with which to approach
the situation. But the man to whom is
really confided the task of solving the
final problem is Lord Miner, and he is
well aware of the difficulty of the task
that awaits him on his return to South
Africa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
Seeds for Cent

her little friends at lantern party
Saturday evening. Her guests Were-
Cressie Conway. Una Smith, Bertha
Dake, Frances Elm, Maud Daub, Grace
Miriam Withers, Anna Myers, Russell
Reed, Wade Reed, Claude Belts, Kos
coe Conway, Clair Phillips, Don Baird,
George Miller, George Montgomery,
Fred Stitt and Frank Munsie.
At the request of John Z. Frost. land
agent for the Santa F'e, John Rogers.
county surveyor, was in North Topeka
Saturday making preliminary arrange
ments to open a sixty foot street
through the Santa F'e lands to the Kan
sas river. 1t will be just little south
of Gordon street and VIII likely be
known as Oakland avenue as there is
already a new Gordon street in Little
Russia which is a little north of old
Gordon street, and is only forty feet
wide and does not extend through to
the river.
A r. Palmer, assistant superintend-
ent Of the Union Pacific Kansas divis-
ion, went west Saturday afternoon with
his family in his special car No II to
visit his son-in-law and daughter Mr.
and Mrs. E. Johnson at St Marys. They
returned to Kansas City this morning-
Mr.. Johnson is station agent at st.
Marys, and is one of the oldest en-
ployes on the Kansas division 9. T.
Mcclellan division superintendent OF
the Santa Fe was in Kansas City Sat-
urday on official business with Mr.
Palmer and was with the party as far
as North Topeka
Mrs. Sarah Sheetz died Sunday after
noon at 3 O'Clock, at the home Of her
son, John Sheetz. ST., 1928 Quincy
street. Mrs. Sheetz was 70 years old,
and had been i'll for some time, having
been bedridden for the past five
months. She leaves five children, two
sons in Reading, Pa, and Messrs. John
and Aaron Sheetz and Mrs. T. ~.
Ringer of this city. The funeral viii
be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the home of Mr. Aaron Sheetz.
1892 Quincy street. The services viii
be conducted by Rev. T. J. Pearson, OF
the Conversational church and the
burial will be in Rochester cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-29
BONDS ARE GOOD.
Judge West Holds Jackson County
Township Issue.

Assistant Attorney General West
has given out an important bond opir-
ion to County Attorney H. F. Graham
for Jackson county. The township of
Franklin issued railroad aid bonds in
the sum of SIS, 900. The bonds were
printed and deposited with the state
treasurer in 1886. but there were certain
conditions imposed on the railroad
company which it must fulfill before
getting the money. These conditions
were not fulfilled until 1887, some time
after the law passed by the legislature
in that year permitting railroad aid
bonds to be refunded at the expiration
of ten years had gone into effect
The question now at issue was
whether the bonds were sissued'' be-
fore or after this law went into effect,
when deposited with the treasurer or
when taken by the railroad company
after fulfilling the conditions imposed.
Judge West in a lengthy and careful
opinion decided that the bonds issued
after the law went into effect and that