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for passage If presented before midnight
OF the day OF expiration. Your gateman
and inspector passed the tickets all right.
and it's not our fault ST the train was
late leaving the terminus
Don't know what the law says. and
don't care responded the conductor
I'll carry you but I think the man On
The next division will turn those tickets
down. sue
so the travellers spent the night fret
ting and borrowing trouble. and wish
ing the scalper in the happy hunting
grounds until the change of conductors.
expecting to be elected at the division
point where this occurred but the new
man didn't show up for forty miles OF
So and their spirits began to rise.
When the captain OF the train saw
the disputed transportation he exclaim-
ed: These tickets have expired"
Not on your mileage returned my
friend. giving him the same bluff he
had worked with the first conductor.
Your inspector passed on those tickets
before We left, and your other conductor
carried US on them. and you can't az
ford to take chances on a damage suit
by putting US OF. he declared
THE diplomatic conductor studied over
the proposition. and finally announced
IN wire the general passenger agent,
anC what he says goes
so farms, fields, houses, woods. deserts
stations and high-priced scenery flashed
to the rear. but my friends were not en-
joying the trip very much. They expect
/ e. to get the kibosh from the general
/ passenger agent at every station, but
tie day wore on and no word came from.
/ him.
| After another spell of horrors th'
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STORY OF A DOu(tNlT HOW NAr1E ClSED rNN SORE HEAR

little. that perhaps she ia
more than n little. and
come to love me enough 10
before the doughnut-crull
versy. But that controversy. 49,
elared. had shown me TO her what l am
stubborn. bent on my own way. not
open TO reason Then she looked up al
ne darkeninz hills. paused a monent.
while the great hush Of the world
poured round Us. and said softly. II
you viii admit that you are wrong. II
sou will acknowledge that doughnut
IS a round ring. such as we have at
table here. IlI-f'n marry you stsiL
Cutting laughed.
''Don't laugh. you brute said Pen
roze. IT was no laughing matter ! az
sure you. II was ridiculous. 81 yea viii
Yves ever man PIT in more ri.iieu-
lous poeition than that But II was no1
Iaughable loved her TOO mush.
y still think il iaughable" said Cut
ting. 1T was 50 easy to win ncr. after
all"
What" cried Penrose Easy n
you think I would give IN a principle for
a NAAiAu toD-Aah Win 4.-lf tlaL
for rnomentI was tempted. she looked
50 lovely there in the drzk Ard loved
her SCI But was not tempted long
told her tsaf # she really loved me she
would make TO such ridiculous demand
as that. SIZE would not ask man -
sacrifice his principles. foll her. IT,
short. that could not acceds 10 her re-
quest II was a test she had no right 10
1ecu.-e
We walked back 20 the house in sill
ence. and she retired al once Tho next
morning left. As l climbed into the
rig to 20 - the station. l saw Her and
the Upstart setting forth On a hshi-E
tri2."
Well aid Cutting. after a long sill
ence. You have given her up for good
Ell? And the UDstsrt. did she r-arIy
bi-a2"
"she did not. said Penrose. rather
eagerly. u happen to know she IS stu
unengaged
Cutting whistled. And you are rot
going to B. this year, he asked
No said PeErose. "But I've jast
/ reserved a room there in case OF e-aer-
/ gcncies.'
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!: RED CLOUDS ATTACK ON MAJOR jim" POWELL

reason may have been that he was de-
feated in this. one OF the most desper-
ate. OF our Indian engagements. Red
Clouds prominence among the Sioux
was owing TO his bitter declaration OF
war to the death against the whites. All
the disaffected OF the tribe Joined his
band
Although / could not get Red Cloud
10 talk about his attack on Major Powell
! had been well posted on that fight by
several members Of the Twenty seventh
Infantry. who were in the engagement
The old chief verified many OF the de-
tails Of the Indian side OF the story
such as had been told me about the ap-
proximate number OF Sioux engaged.
their losses in killed and wounded, and
the terrifying effect on the attacking
Indians OF the much talk" gun. the
then new. to them. breech- loading rifle.
Major Powell and his soldiers were
guarding a wood contractors party OF
citizens. who supplied the Fort Phil
Kearney garrison with wood Powell
knowing that he would be attacked az
any time. had fortified his camp by
building "hasty entertainments" His
foresight stood him in his hour of great
peril. for on the morning OF August
2. 1867. 500 warriors. splendidly mounted
the best and bravest OF the Sioux ma
tion. appeared IN hostile array before
the camp Of this little band OF white
men--two officers. twenty-siX pIii,v-a "a
soldiers. and four citizens These de
termined men knew this was a hght
to the death. There would be nothin,
/ 81 driven from the hastily constructed
/ fort. That these warriors advanced open
/ ly on this little band OF white men, con
! trary to the Indian weil-known secre
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being sometimes given to boys as well
as girls.
The tickets had been signed and val
idated for return passage. so there was
no occasion for my friends to add for
gerry to perjury. and the gentIemanIy
scalper proceeded to coach them on the
various mysterious signs and marks en-
the pasteboards.
Remember said he, these tickets
were bought at the uptown ONCE OF
the company. not at either of the de-
pots. They were purchased by the lady
on the Path of last month. she paid $50
each for them and signed them both.
You had a lower berth in the sleeper
Morpheus. as you Will note BY the con-
ductor's pencil mark on the back of each
ticket. Your names are Austin on this
trip, and You had better not have any
letters or cards in your pocket with any
other name on. Don't let the conductor
bluff you and you'll get through all
right Not one in a thousand comes back
TO US. Here's one OF my cards. Good
by
According TO the rules and regula-
items made and provided in section ten
canto two, chapter seven of the thrill
ing continued story printed on the fac'
oC the tickets, they expired by statute
Of Limitation AT midnight on the nigh
% the day on which my friends bough
them and the train was due to leave a
1895 D. m, which was a narrow margin
but my friends managed to squeeze b!
/ tho gatekeeper and boarded the traiI
| which was being held for connection.
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two cruIiers. Croquet and tennis games
became tests of merit between the
parties 10 the great controversy We no
longer travelled in a big bunch. but IN
two lunches: IL the crullers went Ash
ing. the doughnnts went the other way
for berries. II the doughnuts wanted q
drive. they found the crullers had IN
gagged all The teams and invited enough
extra guests from the hotel up in the
village new arrangement Of eat
ing at table soon worked itself out. and
we positively glared al each other. Ike
Guelfs and Ghibellinss. across the in
tervening space The music critic grew
more III natured. the Boston spirster
more caustic in her remarks about New
York and New Workers generally. ! be-
came more plghesded and stuffy than
ever. ready TO take opposition sides ca
any question. only the Harvard Up
start retained his cheerful. disgusting
good nature, fact not hard 10 'nier-
stand when he enjoyed Her companion
ship so much more than did. now nc
camp was divided against itself.
Wei. to make long story short tho
time came for me 10 go back 10 the
city. ard J coTralled her one evening al
twilight in spite of the efforts OF the
Upstart 10 thwart me. and led her down
to our little coy corner on the banb
or the Sunday River The little poo
where the river broadened out was sill
as glass and mirrored the mountain
tops and the evening star. which laid
It's silvery track right to our feet. II
was the hushed, solemn hour OF ID,
day. when the soul should be o. peace
and love supreme.
/ 4 addressed her DassiOnately. ! toll
her again OF my love. OF my devotion
reminded her that on this very spot
month before she had been at leas
kind to me. giving ne hope. And
asked her FOR hnal answer before
went back, an answer that would ethel
make me the happiest man in the wori'
or the most miserable. ALI the elo
quence that was in me, in the hour, il
the occasion. I poured forth
Quite in the approved fashion. sal
Cutting in his dry way. And wha
did she say?''
"she said" continued Pearos
mournfully. that she had loved me
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tactics, showed the utter contempt in
which Powell's force was held. On they
came. shrieking their war cry. firing
volley OF bullets. The reply was a dead
ly and continuous stream Of shot from
the little band. The warriors could not
face that deadly fire. They were driven
back In confusion and amazement. The
secret OF the white mans success was
that but short time before the Fort
Phil kearney soldiers had been armed
With a new breech- loading rife. a fact
at that time unknown to the Indians.
They were calculating on the old-time
Misunderstanding guns in the hands OF the
troops. Red Cloud and his principal
chiefs held hurried consultation
Ihey determined to launch their whole
fighting force. and on foot. against the
little fort on the hill. Major Powells
Lieutenant Jenness, CALAMITY. and as he
thought necessarily, exposing himself
during the first attack had been killed
one or two men had been killed or
wounded and the attack had developed
certain weak points of his defenses,
which were promptly strengthened with
Whatever was AT hand The firing was
o rapid that the gun barrels became
ovoI heated; spare guns were placed in
eech wagon bed. Some OF the -ncn were
poor shots and fired wildly; they we're
ordered not to fire. but to load AMI pass
guns 10 the selected marksmer Now
{, on the hills swarmed a semioIrcIa %
wsrriors al least 2.0o0 strong When
within about 500 yards, the order 20
charge was given. The wholc line dash
od on 10 the corral. TO be. when they had
almost touched il. hurled Lack in con
fusion and dismay. Again AMI again did
the gallant line rally and ,'har-,;. 20 D.,
AGAIN broken. discounted. and driver
back; aud II was only after three con
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two camps. we discussed with warmth
that gradually developed into positive.
ill-feelins. the tremendous question
What is q doughnut?'
The Harvard U9start thought he had
elinehed the whole question when he
quoted the magazine advertisement
taken from a still more ancient proyerb.
To make a doughnut. taEe a hole and
put some dough around it, But this
Was met with a storm OF re5uttai.
Proverbs are VIGOROUSLY wrong: the
proverb was probably coined BY some
ignorant Bostonian. a magazine Nil
print any faisity so long as IL is faid
for; names may shift their meaning.
ana the discussion is over the present
definition of the term. and the ike.
when we retired that night I was ia a
hot rage. which was by no means abated
when / saw the Harvard Upstart Did
ding Her goodnight on the yeranda Of
the cottage next 90 the main house,
where 1 slept she had taken but iittle
part in the controversy, but her sym
pathies were plainly on the mistaken
side.
The following DAY the discussion was
resumed at breakfast. and WAS aggr1-
waited by a large plateful of the offend
ing food LETT over from the nighs De-
fore. We had been so excited then .hai
we had neglected to eat it up Already
a noticeable division Of the household
had begun. when we set OF tor {
tramp that morning the cruller party
headed by myself and the music critic
wanted to climb Bear Mountain. The
doughnut CONTINGENT got fool notion
into their heads that Il would be better
TO tramp across the river in the
meadows. though the day was ridicu
lousy hot The result was that w
each went our Separate ways. l wa.
too stufy to give in. and so were to-
rest Of our side and I had the melen
choly spectacle OF the Upstart settinl
out with her at his side. while / wakes
J IN the opposite direction with a shipper
ing young thing from Danbury, VIII
bored me until 1 was positively rude
well. the hostilities kept up, fed b
renewed controversy. every time crul
Iers were served at the table, which wa
| rather often. II We played foursome
it WAS always two doughnuts agains
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third conductor took charge of the train
He was an old man. grabbed and sour.
with full war paint or. When he spotted
those tomahawked tickets he Jumped
four feet in The air and let a whoop out
% him you could have heard two miles.
Z can't carry you on those tieketst he
shouted
BY this time the travellers we're feel
ing more at ease, for every mile was
bringing them nearer 10 their destina-
ton. The joIlied the old man for fair.
ted him the company couldn't run the
risk OF a damage suit II he refused 20
honor the tickets: pointed out how the
inspector had passed them. and that the
other two conductors had carried them
on the questionable tickets. The blum
worked cnce more, but the Jealous en-
ploye declared his intention Of referring
the matter TO the general once and II
the tickets we're declared no good he
swore be would collect full fare for the
ertire distance travelled
Sadness again overloaded the beau
ties OF the far-famed scenic route for
my friends. who wore an aggrieved ex-
preston, as II they were the victims OF
gross abuse and vilihcation. limiting at
damage suits. but time wore on and no
word came from the c. p A.
In time. TO their great relief, the
train reached their destination. where
the conscience stricken passengers ex-
pested TO find the owners of the tickets,
/ the general passenger agent and the
patrol wagon waiting for them. but not
soul disturbed their restored serenity,
and their first and last ride on scalpers
/ tickets was over.
The railroads will have TO get up be-
fore breakfast to circumvent the willy
sCalper.'' concluded the drummer.-Sar
| Francisco Chronicle.
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your illustration is taken from the
mouth of the Cheerful idiot:
You can never claim the adjective,
retorted the Harvard Upstart. with his
usual insolence But We wander from
the subject. Are those things on the
table which Mr. PeIrose desires dough
nuts or erullers-that is the question
And | will answer IT, They are dough
nuts
They are not. snapped the music
critic. They are crullers. Anybody who
knows anything knows that doughnuts
are spherical in shape. solid. and made
of different material. Your education
on this point. as on some others might
mention, has been sadly neglected
Why don't you lay the blame on the
elective system. as is your usual illogi-
cal wont? asked the Upstart. Now. !
don't know how Wagner would compose
a doughnut motif-save that Il would be
sad and low-but do know that eruI-
Ter is six inches long. composed of two
twists of dough curIed about each other.
doughnut is what we have on the
table
And here the discussion became gen.
eral. To a unit the New York and Con-
necticut people took my side. affirming
that what was offered on the table we're
crullers. and that a doughnut was a
spherical mass OF raised material. soliI.
or containing bit of jelly. The twist
affairs were, If they were anything, n
variety of crullers, we were willing 10
concede. The Boston and Massachuset.s
party. with equal rnanimity, stoutly
maintained that doughnuts were the ring
affairs on the table, that crullers were
the twists. and they would not concede
that real doughauts had any STANDING
10 court whatever. Most OF them had
never even seen or heard OF the rea
doughnut I never knew till then hon
provincial Boston and Massachusetts
really are.
THE controversy was carried outside
the house, into the solemn stiffness o.
| the mountain twilight. We forgo: q
watch the sunset shadows creep ovel
the high hills. We forgot to take oul
evening stroll through the dewy mead
ows. We forgot to read or 10 pla!
cards. All that evening. divided int
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the first part was fred. evfeted and re-
moved from said train between stations
by said conductor. assisted by the head,
middle and rear brakemen, baggage mas
ter. fagmsn. engineer. fireman and other
servants and employees of said corpora
ton. otherwise termed the party OF the
second part, in which said victim gem
orally failed to recover damages in tort
or pax vobiscum. and your petitioners
will ever pray.
Therefore my friends realized that it
was somewhat risky TO travel on misft
tickets. but they decided TO chance IL.
and they overhauled the stock of bar
gain-counter transportation, finally find
ing two tickets which seemed TO fill the
bill The scalper said that as the tick
cts were marked down to such a ridicu-
lousy low figure he didn't feel like guar
anteeing them unqualifedly. but he as
sured my friends that there would be
no risk TO speak of, and in case Of
trouble to wire him. which was a safe
proceeding so far as he was concerned,
for the reason that he expected to nit
the high trail himself that night
He kindly posted the travellers on the
necessary points and instructions for
using the scalped tickets. It was hard
20 say whether the original owners wero
two ladies or a lady and gentleman, for
although the tickets were apparently
signed by the same person In a small
feminine hand, there was a slight dis
similarity in the style of chirography
feminine, the other one was doubtful
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You might have WHAT" said Cutting.
4 want the whole truth, now I'm in for
81 much OF a. I've plenty of time.
Well. might have somebody to darn
my stockings for me, if you must
krow." said Penrose. she was OF the
Boston party had been TO B ever,
summer since she was a little girl.
saw her grow UP into the finest GIL
OF. Cutting the finest, altogether most
adorable girl you ever set eyes on, Why.
If b were in the middle of the desert
Il would be a summer paradise with her
there. And came to love her. rs every
man of sense has TO do. told her so
che day down by the Sunday River, and
she laughed and skipped a stone three
times and | said she made my heart
skip The same way; and she laughed still
harder and said / was an old dear
think OF that, you brute. aud stop your
own laughing,-she called me an ole
dear though I'm not thirty-iye. or not
much more, and she wouldn't say any
more then; but Was happy and hopeful
knew she never called that young Har-
ward upstart an old dear.
Il hope not. said Cutting. They re-
sent such familiarity, Harvard men But
how about the doughnuts2'
I'm coming to them. Well. one
day we had crullers on the table; you
know. those round rings OF dough, fried
in a kettle. that aren't half bad with
coffee IL you have the digestive appa-
ratus of an ostrich asked the Bos-
ton spinster to pass me the crullers.
You mean the doughnuts. don't you?
said she. sweetly Now, ! know pretty
generally what / mean. and ! don't care
to be picked up in my speech by WON
an mean the crullers. said /
haughtily. i see no doughnuts on the
table And / see no crullers," sale
she L cannot be expected to pass what
don't see: in. other words. TO handl,
the intangible.
The intangible is often visible
though said the Harvard Upstart. but
ting in. Witness the view from noun
tain top.
/ Yes, said the music critic, ant
you can always be relied on to pas
It. You are Philistine, and you quot
Bangs. suppose you are aware tina
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idylfc spirit of brotherly and sisterly
love. The food was good, the beds good.
the air and scenery superlative. Il was
the ideal
And it would have remained so for all
time Il the doughnut had not entered
last July. like fee thinking pafson IA
an old-time church. or like the devil in
Kirling's poem. to cause schisn. disrup-
ticn. open hostility.
You see. the party was about eaua'E
divided geographically. A score Of as
came from New York or Soutneastcrn
Connecticut. and a score. the rest OF the
crcwd. came from he vicinity Of Pos
toa. There was a music cri;'c IN the
New York division. who once wrote
book on Wagner in the big front bed
room of the main house. and aai 20
keep that room forever after because
ANYBODY else who tried it hal lad
dreams. lie and were leaders on our
side in the controversy that arose
don't say this in a Boosting spirit; far
from il. have always been roo ready
10 debate on all occasions, and this time
\ paid high for my fault. Bat ruth
ccmpeIs me to admit that I was leader.
''The Boston party naturally enough.
was led by a woman and a very young
and seIf-assertive young man just out of
harvard. The woman was a spinster. not
your comic paper Boston type, but a
stout. handsome. witty. well-dressed
creature that one suspected had remain
ed single from choice until one had
/ learned her uncomfortable controversial
3 temperament The young man was be-
meath notice. one would like 10 say. only
] one cannot. He would never stay beneath
! notice. He was the best swimmer, the
best tennis and golf player, the best
mountain climber. the most accommo-
dating rascal 70 the women, the best
reader OF an evening. the best looking
man in the place If he hadn't beer
there 1 shouldn't have taken the oppo-
site side so bitterly as | did, aud then
perhaps, I might have
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nent medicine man" OF the Sioux had
told him that the total loss in killed and
wounded of Indians of all tribes and
bands in that fight was 1.1S7 II this is
true the cornhatants were as l white
10 100 Indians; the losses 1 white TO
26S Indians
one OF the citizens who fought with
Powell was grizzled cid trapper. who
had spent his life on the frontier and
been in Indian fights without number.
Some months after the battle the de-
partment commander met and ques-
toned him.
How many Indians we're in the at
tack2" asked the general
Well. GinrT. I can't say for sartin.
hut I think thur was nigh onto 5000 OF
en-
How many were killed and wound
ed?''
Wall. Ginr1. l can't say for sartin.
but think thur wus nigh onto thou
sand ov en- hit,
How many did you ldn?'
Wall. Ginrl. / can't say. but gi me
a dead rest. l kin bit a dollar AZ ffty
yards every time and fired with a dead
rest at more'n Fifty OF them Iujins Insid.
of fifty yards
For heavens sake, how many times
did you fire." exclaimed the astonishe,
general.
Wall, Ginr'l. can't say. but KEEP
eight guns pretty well het up for mor'I
three hours
This may be called a TRANSITION
fight" The Indian was just emerging
from his scarcely dangerous days o
bows and muzzle-lcaders. and procuring
an arm suited to his mode of fighting
becoming what he now is. the fines
natural soldier in the world.