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CAIIWILE WOODS CO O T FiMDAY DEC 21 1900
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Cromveirs Iron Heart
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
(Copyright 1900 Dally Story Tub Co)
’Tis the fashlon of these latter days
to hold that Oliver Cromwell the great
Lord General of Parliament was of
such hardness of heart that' none of
the emotions that sway the dommou
clay found lodgment In his preast
Therefore do I adventure '-this state-
ment that my children and my chil-
dren's children may have it on record
over my tipn nnd seal what Old Noll
did do for me that time I was Captain
of the First Troop of the Ironsides
It began — where of a verity most
things do begin — with a woman Mis-
tress Margaret Fullerton I loved her
and so did many notably one Oliver
Hep worth Now of a truth this Hep-
worth was not by nature more cruel
and violent than other men and we
were friends o? a sort But when Mis-
tress Margaret had no ears for his
suit lie straightway conceived a most
bitter hate for me And in this he was
unwarranted for though I was sick
with love for Mistress Margaret I
worshiped afar off not daring to make
my passion known Now when war
was proclaimed the girl did go with
kith and kin at was most natural and
so did our side with the King while
Hep worth and I made haste to offer
our swords to Colonel Cromwell who
was our neighbor and much looked up
to by us As the war went on we rose
in favor with our colonel until we
both were given a troop And then
one day we clashed and Cromwell had
Captain Hepworth transferred to a
regiment of foot Whereupon Hep-
worth straightway came to be named
as a man who had no mercy in him
and his fierce zeal made him a major
Then came the day that Lord Wil-
loughby the commander-in-chief or-
dered that Grafton House should be
taken and put the undertaking in the
charge of Major Hepworth giving him
choice of foot and horse and some ord-
nance Major Hepworth chose a com-
pany of his own regiment of London-
ers and mine own troop of the Iron-
sides At this I marveled much and
had suspicion of some secret design
We drew up about the wall that sur-
rounded the park of Grafton House
and made formal demand for its sur-
render The answer came back to take
it if we could
“Ha!” cried Hepworth “The malig-
nants refuse our terms and send back
violent defiance Lord I thank Thee”
And then he shouted with exultation
iii every tone: “I order ‘no quarter’ —
spare none whoever they may be!”
I sickened at his words for I guessed
llis sword went whirling half across
the great hall
that in Grafton House must be women
and children but they wore soon for-
got In the fierce joy of tho onset My
troop was in the great hall Insido
was a rabble of musketeers and pike-
men and beyond them the great stair-
way was crowded with retainers and
servants among them women and
children Midway up tho stair stood
Ijord Chiilingford my companion of
college days and clinging to his arm
was liis bride of a month And just
behind them stood Mistress Margaret
Fullerton !
Lord Chiilingford caught sight of me
nnd bade his men lay down their arms
saying that I was known to him and
would grant honorable terms And
then while I stood there dumb with
the horror of the pit that had been
digged for me there came the first
rush of the Londoners shouting: “No
quarter! Death to the rapists! Smite
the malignants hip and thigh!"
"Yes Lord Chiilingford” I said like
ft -man in a trance “you shall have
quarter I pledge you honorable treat-
ment" And then I took hie offered
sword in token of surrender Then in
strode Major Hepworth
"Ila! ' he cried “you are first Cap-
tain WyVherleigh Verily I chose
well” And then he smiled a smooth
smile for which I could have torn his
crafty heart out
“I thank you Major Hepworth” I
made reply “They have surrendered
H'wols Ixird Chillingford’s sword”
With that 1 offered him the blade
“What is this?" he cried stepping
back and refusing the sword “Sur-
render? You forget sir that I ordered
'no quarter’ ” And behind him the
I-ondoners took up the words “No
quarter!” with a wild ferocity that
set the women and children to scream-
ing with terror and made even Lord
Chillingford's scornful face grow white
“I pray you Major Hepworth” I
said “countermand your order Here
be women and children Else 'tis mur-
der” For a space of a score of seconds
Major Hepworth hesitated glaring
to right and left He saw me setting
at naught his order He saw on the
proud calm face of the woman he had
wooed and lost contempt and loathing
unspeakable Then the devil in him
broke loose
"Mutiny!’’ lie cried “Wycherleigh
you are under arrest Drop your
sword and retire to the rear London-
ers I give the prisoners into your
hand to work your will To the at-
tack!” “Ironsides stand fast!” I shouted
so that my voice rose above all the
hell of sound that broke loose upon
his order And like a living wall of
steel the First Troop of Cromwell’s
Own closed up behind me Oh but
the clang of their spurred heels on the
marble floor was a sound to hear and
thank the Lord of Hosts for! So we
faced each other for an instant while
that devil Hepvvorth’s face went livid
for rage and the Londoners strained
and surged behind him A devil he
was and with the devil's own courage
For shouting the charge he came on
sword in hand and his men behind
him
Midway I met him His sword
went whirling half across the great
hall My point stood at his throat
Perchance the devil glaring out of his
eyes discovered a blacker devil in the
eyes that glared into his
And Lord Chiilingford and his aye
to the meanest scullion under his roof-
tree went out of Grafton House under
safe conduct
I sat in the guardhouse waiting for
the dawn and death Yet I was at
peace with fate Even to die the death
of a mutineer had no sting For I
had laid down my life to save the
woman I loved and I thought of the
morrow’s dawn with a smile
Cromwell was in London on press-
ing business with the Parliament and
in his absence they had given me
short shrift The deadly mischance of
it! For had he known he would have
saved me that 1 felt in my heart
A key turned in the door the bolt3
were pushed back The door opened
and shut and a woman’s figure stood
dark in the feeble candle light No
need to ask who it was 1 rose and
stood staring I could not speak
‘’John Wycherleigh” she said “when
we walk in the valley of the shadow
of death a maid may do that which
at another time she would not So it
is that I have come to you unbidden
If I am not welcome I will give you
thanks for the gift of life at your
hands and get me gone” So low and
sad was her voice that I scarce knew
it for hers for Mistress Margaret Ful-
lerton was a proud woman holding
heiself aloof and not given to a show
of feeling She went on:
"For I would not have you think
John that we were thankless or
idle in your behalf First we
suit wold to Cromwell I made a way
to Lord Willoughby I told him all
and I asked for your pardon But tho
must lie would grant was this pas3
to tile guardhouse And when Crom-
well came half an hour ago I went to
him ”
“Ha!’’ I cried “Cromwell here! And
what said he?’’
"Little” she answered sadly “lie
beard me to the end then questioned
me close lie sat silent a space and
then strode out the door without a
word John he is a man of iron— body
and soul and mind of iron — I under-
stand him not”
So tills was tho end— no word of
hope from my colonel!
"Margaret” I said and I knelt down
at her feet “dost know what 1 was
saying in my heart when you came
in? 'Twas this: ’Though she lie in
some other man’s arms she can never
forget!’” There was silence between
s for a space and then her little hand
drew me to rny feet and I took her in
my arms
“Jack” she whispered "on my
knees I begged of Lord Willoughby
the life of the man I loved If not
you then none shall Hark! What
is that?”
Of a sudden the grohnrf shook with
the tread of a horse and- the air was
full of the clink and rattle of stirrup
and sword Then came stillness again
I dragged the oaken bench to the
window and together we stared out
into the darkness Round the guard-
house was ranged company upon com-
pany of horse the fitful light of the
campfires flashing on headpiece and
sword It was the Ironsides
And as we clung together staring
and doubting our eyes the door of the
council hall opened and Cromwell
strode out Behind him was Lord
Willoughby and General Crawford and
others of the council In the glare of
the torches we saw Cromwell point
with outstretched arm to hi3 regiment
of horse For a moment Lord Wil-
loughby stood like a stone Then be
made a gesture of assent and submis-
sion anil went off to his quarters
without looking back
We sprang to the floor in an agony
of expectation The door flew open
and Cromwell came striding in booted
and spurred and plastered with mud
from his ride from London
“Free you are my lad!” he cried
“and still captain of my First Troop
The fools! They swore you should
die till I showed them our Ironsides
here and told them to take you if thoy
could Then they changed their
minds”
And this much I will tell you of
what my colonel said but his further
speech to me and to the blushing wom-
an on my breast I will not set down
It is for my wife and me and none
others
But this I will say: When the Iron-
sides beheld us three come forth for
once their iron discipline was forgot
and a shout went up that minded me
of the day when the First Troop took
the Royal Standard at Edge Hill
T ravelins UditK of Wild Oats
Get a head of wild oats ami lay it on
the table over night first moistening
the oats Next morning you will dis-
cover that the head of oats has
crawled off the table and likely enough
has made tracks for the outside door
This peculiar gift of traveling lies in
the spikes that extend from the cov-
erings of the grains As the mois-
ture soaks into the head of oats it
swells and the spikes change position
in such a way as to set the head to
tumbling over and over sidewise The
larger and coarser varieties of wild
oats have this power of locomotion de-
veloped to a remarkable degree and
even domestic oats will develop It If
allowed by neglect to degenerate Go
down into the fence corners of the oat-
field and see if you cannot find a long
and well-bearded head of ' tame” oats
that has been allowed to grow wild
Then take it home and try the experi-
ment Marriuxe Iicernen In Wisconsin
Novel use is made in Wisconsin ol
a law which requires that at least five
days elapse between the issuing of a
marriage license and the performing of
the marriage ceremony The purpose
of the law was to discourage the com-
ing into Wisconsin of couples from
other states on marriage bent and in
that particular the law is working well
But it is regarded as a nuisance by the
residents Records of licenses issued
are open to public inspection and are
daily scrutinized by representatives of
firms dealing in household wares
Then for the intervening five days the
marrying parties are besieged to leave
their orders for furniture and the like
on the installment plant or other-
wise ltrcent Flection In IJrltnln
Speaking of the recent election in
Great Britain the London Saturday
Review says: “What most interests the
public after a general election is to
glance at those who are really new to
parliamentary life if happily there
may be a future statesman among
them Taking the 130 or so new mem-
bers in the proper sense of the term
there never yet was a general election
which threw up a smaller proportion
of men with any sort of distinction
intellectual professional or scientific"
To feel exquisitely is the lot of very
many but to appreciate belongs to the
few Only one or two here and there
have the blended passion and under-
standing which in its essence cou-
stituU worship— C A tidiest sr
T1IE LUNCH CAR GOES
POLICE ORDER NOMAD RES-
TAURANTS TO MOVE ON
As a Feature of Night Life In the
Western Metropolis They Fed the
Hungry and Made Pleasant Sight—
Story of Change
The story of the decline and fall of
the lunch wagon is a story of city life
and changes says the Chicago News
No one seems able to recall just when
the sandwich car first sprang into ex-
istence with its array of good things
looming up in tempting neatness at
the street corner its white-aproned
proprietor its bright lights and tiny
cooking apparatus and above all the
inviting aroma that gradually grew to
lie associated with tho lunch ear
From an humble start it grew to be
a recognized institution in some cases
outfits have been built that represent-
ed comparatively large investments
The lunch ear was primarily a crea-
ture of darkness During the clay it
was concealed from sight but when
the shades of night fell it was care-
fully drawn by horses to the spot
where it was destined to radiate good
cheer There safely anchored it did
a land office business in pleasant
weather or foul a haven of refuge to
the hungry and weary nighthawk
Every class and every grade became
at once patrons of the lunch ear to a
greater or less degree The rounder
doing tho tov n in a fine equipage
drew up alongside to take solid re-
freshment The belated person going
'home waiting for a night car at a
lonely corner forgot his discomfort in
munching at an egg sandwich well
primed with thin slices of pickle while
good natured pleasure seekers return-
ing from the ball laughed immoderate-
ly over the fun derived from wrestling
with Its hot palate-tickling products
What was sold at the lunch car was
clean and pure— therefore i ts popular-
ity It was cooked before the very
Life-Saving
oervice
The annual report of the life-saving
service made public during the week
shews that at the close of the fiscal
year the- establishment embraced 269
stations 194 being on the Atlantic 58
on the lakes 16 on the Pacific and 1 at
the falls of the Ohio at Louisville
Ky The number of disasters to docu-
mented vessels within tho field of
operations of the service during the
y°ar was 384 There were on board
these vessels 2635 persons of whom
2607 were saved and 48 lost Six hun-
dred and seventy-three shipwrecked
persons received succor at the stations
to whom 1447 days’ relief in the ag-
gregate was afforded The estimated
value of the vessels involved in dis-
aster was $(127500 and that of their
cargoes $3342690 making a total value
of property imperiled $9470190 Of
thl3 amount $7264690 was saved and
$2235300 lost The number of ves-
sels totally lost was 61 In addition to
the foregoing there were during tho
year 329 casualties to small craft such
THAT SWEET TOOTH
It 1 4 Not the roHHetslou of Femininity
Alone
The sweet tooth is presumably sup-
posed to be strictly a feminine pos-
session All of masculinity's 32— if
the dentist has left him so many — are
according to the ideas of the general
public dedicated to beef and such sub-
stantial One person who has no such
illusions on this subject is the maid
to whom a stalwart specimen of mas-
culinity brings a box of candy which
he gravely helps her to devour (the
candy not the box) at the rate of two
pieces to her one There are a few
other people who ran speak with au-
thority of the fondness of the lords or
creation for sweets and these are the
shopkeepers and the waiters in res-
taurants Only this morning a tall
broad-shouldered virile son of Adam
was seen standing in front of a shop
that makes a specialty of fancy cakes
and tarts and open-work pies such
ns women and children love He was
probably on his way to his office for
he didn’t go inside at all he simply
gazed with delight and heaved a sigh
as he forced himself away says the
Baltimore News Tala evening no
eyes of the purchaser and was serve!
in a style that left no room for letty
distinctions such as are sometimes ex-
perienced in a cafe or restaurant
It mattered not to the man in charge
whether his patron was attired in the
latest style or In tatters whether tip-
sy or sober respectable or an outcast
the service was the same to all who
thrust the price through the little
aperture wher he presided over his
gasoline And so the lunch van
became popular with all — that is all
except restaurant proprietors The
latter saw hundreds and thousands of
persons being fed whose patronage
might otherwise be theirs Some wont
into the business themselves others
protested Those who chose the latter
course maintained that they had a
right to tie heard against men who
paid no rent but rather usurped the
people’s rights to the streets and who
took business from established res-
taurant keepers whose places in many
instances had formed landmarks fop
years The restaurant keepers were
joined by saloonkeepers with lunch-
counter attachments to their bars
Other business men with grievances of
ether varieties were enlisted to raise
their voice against the sandwich car
Them were too many in the opposition
to bo ignored and one clay an order
came forth from police headquarters
to make the lunch venders “move on”
It brought forth a storm of counter
pretest but the opposition had won
the day The lunch-car owners were
violating the law every time they set-
tled down upon a corner and they
found their day had come Some se-
cured sites inside the building line
dismantled their cars from their
wheels and settled down as permanent
business men instead of nomads
Others put their outfits in storage and
quit the business while some few pos-
sessing political pull continued to ad-
here to the old line by changing the
base of operations from time to time
But the lunch car as a thriving insti-
tution has ceased to exist on its old
lines and' the nocturnal hours have
lost one of their most picturesque features
Number of Lives and Value
of Property Saved During
the Year
as small yachts sailboats rowboats
etc on board of which there were 781
persons 776 of whom were saved and
five lost The property involved in
these instances is estimated at $260070
of which $256770 was saved and $10-
300 lost Besides the number of per-
sons saved from vessels of all kinds
there were 591 others rescued who had
fallen from wharves piers and other
positions of extreme peril many of
whom ould have perished without
the aid of the life-saving crew Five
hundred and fourteen of these were
rescued from dwelling houses out-
buildings and other elevated places
submerged wholly or in part by the
terrible flood of the Brazos river in
Texas July C to 12 1899 The crew
saved and assisted to save during the
year 371 vessels valued with their
cargoes at $1006500 and rendered as-
sistance of minor importance to 83
other vessels in distress besides warn-
ing from danger by the signals of the
patrolmen 19 4 vessels
doubt he’ll go back there on his way
home and buy almond rakes and ec-
lairs galore He'll te ll the saleswoman
they're for his little nieces but they
won’t he at all They'll bo for him-
self and such of his bachelor friends
as happen to drop in his den Life Is
not all beer and bee fsteak to the ath-
letic youth: cream puffs ami kossuth
cakes enter into ir though lie would
seorn to cnrfi ss this awful truth fir
fear of being deemed ( fTmn!nai-
Housekeepers t edify that the men in
their families who refuse d ssert an
few and far la tween nnd the mascu-
lines like sweet dishes not too mudi
of the evanescent order Delicate
trifles and russes that melt in the
mouth are not as great favorites as
a substantial plump hot mince pie
with a mound of ice cream “on the
side” to use a professional term But
whatever it is the sweet course is nev-
er despised One of the affecting sights
of the summer was to witness great
athletic-looking men who are morn
used to something and soda than any
other drink sitting inside fragile
girls nnd plowing their way meekly
through a mass of ice cream chocolatn
and soda with a long-handled spoon
It was quite as if the lion had taken
to condensed milk as a constant diet —
acd onioved it
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