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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-02

upon his brow. but he controlled his
feelings.
Ladies'" he remarked, ST am ready
to receive you report Kindly name
your candidate. Have you agreed up
on one?''
Mrs. Bradley Coates arise and faced
the chair. I'VE have" she replied.
who is it?" he inquired? He glanc-
ed apprehensively among the women,
wondering which had been chosen.
Kindly name your candidate" he
repeated; 1--WE are waiting"
THE candidate. - began the presi-
dent in a weak voice, ION whom we
have agreed
Yes, yes,'' said the chairman, en-
couraging and expectant. The presi-
dent surveyed him through her lorg-
nette.
THE candidate of the Ladies' Protec-
tive Association of Cypress Hills, Is
-" she continued.
'Who is 1t, madam" demanded the
chairman.
rs" she concluded with an effort,
"Mr. Mr. -Mackay Hallowell, Mr..
Chairman"
The chairman spun around where he
stood and clapped the candidate upon
the back.
Three cheers he commanded, for
the next Mayor of Cypress Hills" They
were given.
And now!" he exclaimed, ''once
more. Three great big cheers for the
Ladies' Protective Association OF Cy-
press Hills-and a tiger, too. Hipl
hipl -"
And they gave them with a right
good will.
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into the enemy's country. More were
damned in behind, regiment after reg
iment without discernment till the era
ter brimmed and choked. Then came
the ready enemy and the pit became a
shambles.
Across the open fields men saw them
coming, grim fighters of four years,
lean, hard men, faces set, jaws tense,
trailing long rifles with vicious bayo-
nets, coming with a leap. Men, these,
fighting back to wall. If this break in
the thin line were not stopped, this en-
tering point crushed back or broken
off, then it was the end of all. Small
wonder if they came desperately and
without thought to themselves.
Now see the circumstance of those in
the pit. Crowded to suffocation, blind
ed by smoke, powerless to use rifle or
bayonet. ranks broken and dispersed,
men without officers, officers without
men, walled in by gray men with rifles.
Those who had advanced beyond fell
back upon them in broken brush, in
creasing the riot. Behind. more regi-
ments were driven blindly in. A bat
terry opened on them, slashing iron
slugs in where was no chance to miss
blowing narrow lanes through the boil
ing mass, lanes which instantly were
choked.
SiLCA - lCSliIlCuL Idly III reserve I'M
mediately in rear of the crater The
men watched the brutal sacrifice with
anger. 1t was useless, wasteful slaugh-
ter. OF a sudden rose cry that the
enemy came again. Coming they were
on the last assault.
Across the yellow fields they swung
at run, yelling like joyful fiends.
Fresh troops these, eager to win their
share, men whom bullets could not
ctnn xtyhn fhntferI,f
hold their homes from dissertation.
Hard men to front. Cicero, watching
from the trench away back, so far out
of range that his regiment was not
firing at all, gave an inarticuiate
grunt, a sound of soulful satisfaction.
His rife dropped to level. He took
a quick sight, loosed away and sprang
one side to see the effect. He leaped
wildly up.
Got him." he yelled. 1T got him"
For an instant he was radiant with
success. Then swiftly, as though him
self were struck, his manner changed.
Blank horror spread upon his face,
CHASTITY, greenish look, blue at the lips,
as of one who in his last moments sees
the red pit open at his feet, look of
unfeigned, open anguish, with some
thing of renorse. His rife fell from
his hand. He ran to the captain.
Cap" he begged in a frenzy, "let
me go bring him in. l shot him in the
shoulder. l can bring him in easy. Let
me go, Cap"
The captain refused, of course. To the
mind of a sans man 1T meant sure
death. Cicero we till his back was
turned and departed in the face of or
ders. which was not in the least like
Cicero.
Now all foolhardy exploits that was
probably the star performance. II was
several hundred yards to the crater
across an open field raked four ways
by seething fire. The space was polka
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shoot him. oughtn't to "a done it.
though"
They cast back in memory across his
series of artistic fictions and remem-
bered dimly. 1t had been a minor ef-
fort. IL had not impressed them deep
~. He had done better before and
since.
Did you get your money!" asked
one.
Cicero ran a gaunt hand down a
trousers pocket and produced a roll
of bills.
Got all he had. by DAHL" he said
fiercely. Three hundred dollars"
He flourished the roll hurriedly and
returned it to his pocket. He very
nearly deceived them. One standing
behind laughed boisterously.
It's reb money, Cicero. It's worth
less as grass" he shouted.
Cicero sheepishly surrendered.
Course / know il amt worth much,
he said. "I had to humor him some
though. He was crazy to pay me. You
see, the doctor cut the poor Teller UP
scandalous loolkin' for that bullet. An
besides he's my kid brother. you know
l guess I'll call it square. Yes, by
Danl 1 guess we're square"
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the situation. "A good suggestion.
brother Hallowell." he assented.
The ladies then retired and the men
waited for them.
Inside. the ladies glanced expectant-
ly at the president, Mrs. P. Bradley
Coates
well, ladies'" she began, I'VE are
I here to choose our candidate and a
woman candidate at that. The day of
our emancipation has come. l await
your pleasure, ladies'"
AS she said this she raised her eye
brows slightly and almost impercepti-
bly, in the direction Of a tall young lady
with weak eyes and spectacles-a poor
relation of the president. The woman
rose and began to read from a piece
of paper. AS she did so the President
Redeemed slightly for she herself had
written what was on the paper.
The reader stated that 1t seemed to
her in contest of this character, that
it was but fitting that she who was
the leader of the associa tion-she, who
had been selected by the members as
them head-should be the candidate.
She therefore took pleasure in nam
ing to the ladies present the name of
on dear to all of them-the name of
with a sigh of relief. She had done, her
duty. The president waited for some
signs Of applause. There were none.
Instead there was a tremendous rus
ting of skirts and murmurings of dis
content were heard.
THE idea," said one woman to her
neighbor, "she wants it for herself.
Did you ever? AS though we'd let her
have it,"
"Tsyya ooipo to .,ot 49, aaa -u..nYnL
here" said the other.
She did. She rose and stated that
what Miss Pickens had just read with
sarcastic emphasis on ready of
course appealed to them, but the OBJ
lection to 1t was that as they had Sc
lected Mrs. Bradley Coates as presi-
dent, they would prefer to keep her in
the Office which she so admirably filled,
rather than sacrifice her to the public
interest by electing her mayor. Some
one else should be suggested. But"
exclaimed Miss Pickens. she could
hold both offices at the same time"
The president cast an approving glance
at Miss Pickens, then she arose.
Any further suggestions? ?" she in
quired. One woman in the middle
leaned over to another.
You nominate me. and I'll nomi-
nate you," she suggested.
It was done. Then nominations fol-
lowed in bewildering order. Each
woman entered into long harangue in
favor Of her nominee. Finally the
nominations were closed. The voting
began.
When the votes were counted 1t was
found that every woman in the room
had voted for herself. There were
three votes for Mrs. Bradley Coates.
One had been cast by Miss Pickens.
And the other two had been cast. evil
IDENTIFY in her agitation, by the presi-
dent herself. Another bas.ot was
necessary-no person had received a
sufficient number. On the second bal
lot all the votes remained as before
except those in favor of Mrs. Bradley
Coates. She had six. There's 70 helm
for it," sighed the president, 1--WE must
vote again."
1t was half past one when the La
dies Protective Association of Cypress
Hills filed into the main hall. Half OF
the voters Of the Borough were asleep
The air was redolent of tobacco.
The chairman took his accustomed
place. There was frown Of disgust
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sure he could get him, but he squat
ted where he was and cuddled his rifle
close. He was weary time aiming.
The suspense tried the nerves of the
watchers, though Cicero sat like a
craven image. Presently the old piece
went off with a ripping crash.
Missed, Cicero?" asked several, i'm
mediately.
ero.
Later-it seemed a full minute-a
body bumped through the branches
and struck earth so solidly it seemed
TO the watching crowd they could
hear the thump.
Ultimately he was the boast of the
regiment. which would have gambled
recklessly on his hitting anything in
rifle range or a half mile beyond. So
ne went through the WILDERNESS sand so
sat down with the army before Peters
burg.
Here the engineers dug a mine and
dug well. In the gray dawn of a day
they loosed fire upon a fuse and fled
away. Within while the Southern sal
lent rose majestically in air, fifty, a
hundred, two hundred feet. with the
boom of a thousand guns. Up, up, up
ourst huge dun mushroom of earth
ana smoke and fragment of men, tow
ering to mid-heaven, hung poised while
a man might breathe twice, and settled
suddenly back. Men gasped before they
shouted, for the sight was awful
Where had been the Southern line
the level fell away to a vast hole into
which the debris settled while the
smoke drifted idly aside. Shattered
men lay lily buried in the gaping
grave.
Now was confusion where should
have been readiness, and readiness
where should have been confusion,
Minute crowded minute, but the as
suit was delayed. Across the open
wound the time was used to vast adj
vantage.
Ultimately the regiments pushed for
ward into the hole. Some pasesd it,
gaining precarious footing on the far
side. Some even advanced delicateIv
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since. One thousand dollars gone like
I'd burnt it. Ben poor ever since.
That was three years ago 1 track
ed him to Cincinnati, but 1 lost him
there. Guess he went South. Now
whatd you do to a Teller that used
you that way? Eh?"
'I'd ketch him first" said one with
a laugh.
Then what'd you do?" persisted
Cicero calmly.
Then I'd likely shoot him.
Cicero smoked silently and the men
chatted among themselves. Ultimate
ly he spoke with the air of judgment.
That's what I'll do" he said. "Ill
shoot him, by Danl.'
''Well," said one, "you better learn
to shoot some first. You're liable to
miss him." and the crowd laughed at
the sally.
Cicero sat dazed. 1t was a distinctly
new thought. He stared vacantly loose
awed. A bugler sounded taps and an
other at a distance Joined him like an
echo. The notes came clear and clean
as separate drops of water. BY ones
and twos the men rose and slipped into
the dark. Cicero remained staring at
the fire.
From that evening dated his change
of heart He became a walking tor
ment with his bitter thirst to learn. He
asked questions till he was openly
voted a nuisance qualified by variegat-
ed adjectives. D company refused
with jeers to take him seriously. But
by dint of ceaseless awkward fumbling
with his rifle, much cross-eyed squint-
ing down the barrel, painstaking firing
upon a definite mark at every conceiv-
able chance. Cicero slowly. and despite
D company, made himself a marks
man.
This was good, but he was not sat-
isfied. 1t may be he now first felt the
Joy of fighting for a waist hold upon
that elusive damosel, Perfection. He
continued his exertions and in three
months was one of the best shots in
the company.
and closed one eye; later 1t listened
doubtfully, with puckered brows; in
the end it believed to the uttermost
and marveled. There was no denying
Cicero's prowess. Given his own old
rifle, whose idiosyncrasies he knew to
a grain of powder he did things which
gave him the undisputed title Of sharp
shooter to the company.
In the Wilderness the regiment was
vastly annoyed one day by a hidden
marksman who successfully picked off
three lieutenants and a major. An
officer with glasses finally located him
in a tree a long three-quarters of a
mile away. To the average eye he
was indistinguishable, but let an officer
expose himself for a moment and
there came a pun of white upon the
green and a bullet sizzled In at least
close enough to give him notice.
Cicero asserted that every time the
wind stirred the tree he caught
glimpses of the marksman. When
the ajor was hit the captain tcld
him TO try a shot. Cicero allowed"
1t was a long shot and he want
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-02
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His name will he given ON appli-
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A CANCELLED DEBT
BY FREDERICK WALWORTH.
Copyright, 1902, by F. w. Brown)

When Providence and the Federal
government added Cicero Sanders to
the regiment, the blessing was heavily
disguised. Cicero was a miracle of mill
tary ignorance. The brigade was fill
ing" and all the recruits toed in and
marched crooked in the eyes of the
two-year veterans. but Cicero was the
hutton on the cap of guileless igno-
rance.
Doubtless he was born and raised in
some barbarous zone where man still
did his killing with the axes of the
stone age He admitted he had never
run an eye along gun sights. He didn't
know butt from muzzle and for some
time thought the bayonet was to clean
the barrel withal.
Nor was this all or the worst. Thirst
for knowledge was not in him. Having
enlisted voluntarily. his patriotism
stopped dead. He recognized no reason
Tor making himself useful as a soldier
Freely he lent the countenance of his
presence, but that moral duty dis
charged, he accounted his obligation
Cancelled. D company's orderly sergeant
despaired in language which should not
be uttered.
Cicero was six fet long-not high,
for he stopped in the shoulders-thin,
long-armed, shrewd- eyed-a typical
Vermonter, or kentucky mountaineer.
AS a fact he hailed from Southern
Ohio. 1t speaks for itself and for him
that with all his greenness, he never
was known as Sis" The men guved
him gayly and freely. but they never
called him Sis. Palpably it did not fit.
Observing his ignorance and his in
difference, D Company trembled when
ever he was moved to pick up his rifle
1t is one thing to be shot in battle
heat, with the smoke of your own pow
der in the air. 1t is another thing far
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Incredulity sat upon them and none
answered. Cicero continued:
Ihats what happened to me. 1 had
teller workin' for me once. He'd
been with me since he was a little fell
Ter, an'-well, somehow, 1 kinder liked
MIN. He was a good boy, plucky as
they make 'em, an we got along first
rate. He'd work like a grown man
when he was only Is.
wen, it run along till he'd ben with
me upwards O. ten years. 1 thought
lot o. that boy. I'd seen him grow
up. Then he took a notion he didn't
like farmin'. Wanted TO go to the city
and try his hand. He didn't have any
money an was kinder backward about
startin' out broke. He fretted a good
DIT Wanted me to lend him money.
BY Dan1' 1 says, Jim, 1 can't do it.
l amt got any to lend l didn't have
neither
That was in the winter. Long in
the spring 1 sold piece of land. Got
the money in greenbacks too late in
the afternoon to put it in the bank, SO
l brought it home. Well that even
IN he plagued me hard to lend him
that money. l couldn't do it. Had to
have a new barn or quit farmin', one.
mats why sold the land an he knew
it. Finally he went to bed feelin'
pretty sore.
Long about midnight, I guess it
was, l heard somebody in my room
snoppin' round. I called out to know
who it was an this Teller answered up
cool as a watermelon.
It's me, Cicero he says. Lookin'
for a match he says.
Il heard him tumble with the matches
an directly he went out an 1 went
to sleep, wonderin' what he wanted g
match for. Never once thought o. my
money. Well, sir, by Dan'l. Webster.
next mornin' that Teller was gone an
my greenbacks with him AN blest If
I've seen sight or heard sound of him
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-02
THE PRESIDENT
Of the City Council, Wilkes
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Rheumatism.

Col. VIM. j. Harvey, a president OF
Wilkesbarre's City Council, who win
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Tor the city, was once a mere physical
wreck, torn in every muscle and nerve
from the frightful pains caused by
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In his own abrupt way he states his
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removed to be drilled through by a
careless friend. The company told him
this in exclusive vernacular. but it af-
lected him not.
Yet the company loved him. Fearless
he was as a bullet-proof Achilles. Not,
however, with that courage which
treads fear under and lifts one through
despite it. He simply lacked the men
tai elements of that emotion. He cared
no more for loose hot lead than for SO
many paper wads. and this alone en-
deared him to the regiment.
Further, he was a most remarkable
liar Pipes being lit about the camp
fire in the evening, Cicero comfort
ably disposed his lank anatomy and
slipped the leash upon an Imagination
whose splendid course struck the cir
Gle dumb. Yet, understand this: 1t
was guileless lying. They knew he
was lying, and he knew that they
knew. Therefore no harm was done.
Wild incredibilities became simple hum
drum facts under his telling, till d
company would have hesitated at a
statement by him subscribed ana
sworn to before justice OF the peace.
He had a youthful desire to be ac-
counted a bad. man, grim person
with a hidden past.
He was a battle-scarred veteran or
many feuds by his own dispassionate
telling, yet in unguarded moments he
owned to a placid life on fertile farm.
He had a way of topping out grossly
impossible narrative with the caustic
remark, Now, you fellers don't be-
lieve that, do you?" which stopped just
short of convincing. Therefore, When
by chance he told unsullied truth, it
was accounted in him for fiction.
There fell a clean, crisp autumn
night some month after Cicero's adj
vent. The men sat close about the
fires.
Did L ever tell you fellers about the
time lost my fortune?" drawled Clc-
ero
How many millions was it, San
ders?" asked a serious voice, and the
men laughed.
Let her rip, son. We can stand it
II YOU tell it slow"
Don't flgger interest on 1t an Wen
believe you"
Dry up an let him tell it."
Cicero, musing, blew out volume
OF smoke his sunken cheeks had no IL
cense to inclose. He turned upon his
side and spoke across the valley where
IN the far distance the fires OF the
mterlying dark.
Twant million, but it looked that
way when lost it." he said. What d
you fellers do to a man that lived in
your house with you, an ct your vic
susls, an took the wages you paid
nm an'-yes. was almost like broth
10 you, an then some night stole
sseIy cent YOU had laid away an clear
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NORTHFIELD.

Ward Holton is very sick with a
throat trouble.
Work is being pushed on the new
store of G. f. Williams.
Dr.. N. P. Wood and family are plan
ming to board during the moving Of
their home
Mr.. Martin of Charlestown, N. H.,
expects soon to move his family to
Mortified. At the present time he is
boarding with Mrs. Saunders.
Warren Wright met with quite mis-
fortune which coming so closel- upon
his recent attack of the measles is
doubly hard for him to bear. He heard
noise and in getting up quickly his
ankle turned causing him to break a
small bone.
The Red Men closed their charter
Tuesday evening, taking in several
more palefaces. Sachem Wright had
hardly recovered from the. measles
when he sustained fractured ankle,
thus continuing his absence. The mem
bership has now doubled since the in
ception of the tribe month ago, and,
while all fhe members are, with enc
exception, from Mortified, a number
from adjoining towns wish to join. 1t
is hoped the regala will have arrived
in time for degree work at the next
meeting