Hobart Weekly Chief. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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CHAPTER III—Continued.
In this part of the wood the dead
were mingled from both sides of th«
contest. the faded blue and the f *<l•-J
Kray sometimea acarce distinguishable.
Th«a there came a thickening of the
gray, and in turn, as the traveler atf-
van" d toward the fences and abattls.
the Northern dr*ad predominated,
though atill there were many facea.yel-
low-pale dark framed.
Franklin passed over the abattls.
over the remaining fenj;*#. and into
the intrenrhroenta where the final
Ktand had be«n. The dead lay thick,
among them many who were young.
Franklin stook looking out over the
fiHls. in tlw direction of th«- town.
And there he aaw a sight fitly to be
callel the ultimate horror of all these
thing" horrible that he had seen.
Over the fields of Loulsburg there
•ame a fearful aound, growing, rlalng,
falling, stopping the aingtng and the
twitter of the birds. Across the land
there came a horrible procession. ad-
vancing with short, uncertain, broken
pauses—a procession which advanced,
paused, baited, broke into groups; ad-
vanced. paused, atopped. and stooped;
a procession which fame with wail-
ing* and bitter cries, with wringing
of hands, with heads now and then
laid upon the shoulders of others for
aupport; a procession which stooped
uncertainly, horribly. It was the wom-
en of Loulsburg coming to seek their
alain—a sight most monstrous, most
terrible, unknown upon any Held of
civilized war. and unfit to be tolerated
even in the thought! It Is for men.
who sow the fields of battle, to attend
also to the reaping.
Franklin stood at the Inner edge of
the earthworks, half hidden by a little
clump of trees. He saw approaching
him. slowly but almost In direct line,
two figures, an older lady and a girl.
*They came on, as did the others, al-
ways with that slow, searching atti-
tude, the walk broken with pause* and
i moved, rode on across the held of
I I uisburg. The music was no longer
I the hymn of triumph
Softly and sadly, sweetly and sooth
Ingiy. the trumpets sang a melody of I
other daya. an air lorg loved in the ,
old time South And Annie Laurie, j
iv .-ping heard an>! listened, and wept i
the more, and biesaed God fof her I
tears!
BOOK I!.
The Day of the Buffalo. |
CHAPTER IV.
Q.ttersleigh of the Rile Irish.
Col. Henry Battersleigh oat in his
tent engaged in the composition of a
document which occasioned him con
ccm That Col. Battersleigh should
be Ufeing his tent as offlce and resi-
dence—for that such was the fact even
the most casual glance must have de-
termined— was for him a circumstance
offering no spe< ial or extraordinary
features. His life had been spent un-
der canvas. Brought up in the pro-
fession of arms, so long aa fighting
and forage were good it had mattered
little to him in what Mime he found
his home He had fought with the
English in India, carried sabre in the
Austrian horse, and on his private ac-
rount drilled regiments for the Grand
Sultan, deep within the interior of a
country which knew how to keep its
secrets. When the American civil war
Itegan he drifted to the newest scene
of activity as metal to a magnet.
Chance sent him with the Union army,
and there he found opportunity for a
cavalry command. "A gintleman like
Battersleigh of the Rile Irish always
rides," he said, and natural horseman
as well as trained cavalryman was Bat
tersleigh, tall, lean, flat-backed, and
martial even under bin sixty admitted
years. It waa his boast chat no horae
"Battersleigh of the Rile Irish."
Ktoopings. The quest was but too ob-
vious. And even as Franklin gazed,
uncertain and unable to escape, it
aeomed apparent that the two had
found that which they had sought. The
girl, slightly In advance, ran forward
a few paces, paused, and then ran
back. "Oh, there! there!" she cried.
And then the older woman took the
£irl'a head upon her bosom. With
bared head and his own hand at his
eyes. Franklin hurried away, hoping
himself unseen, but lieartng indelibly
pictured on his brain the scene of
which he had been witness. He wanted
!to cry out, to halt the advancing col-
umns which would soon be here, to
tell them that they must not come
upon this field, made sacred by such
woe.
Near the Intreuchmcnt where the
bitter close had been and where there
was need alike for note of triumph
and forget fulness, the band major mar
ahaled his music, four deep and forty
strong. and swung out into the anthem
of the flag. The head of the column
broke from the lust cover of the wood
and came into full sight at the edge
of the open country. Thus there came
Into view the whole panorama of the
field, dotted with the stain and w'.th
those who sought the slain. The
music of triumph was encountered by
the concerted voice of grief nnd woe.
There appeared for the feet of this
army not a mere road, a mere battle-
field. but a ground sacred, hedged high
about, not rudely to he violated.
But the band major was a poet, a
great man. There came to him no
order telling him what he should do,
but the thing was in his soul that
should be done. There came to hitn.
wafted from the field of sorrow, a note
which was command, a voice which
sounded to him above the voices of
his own brasses, above the tapping of
the kettledrums. A gesture of com-
mand. and the music ceased absolute-
ly. A moment, and It had resumed.
The forty blu< k horses which made
up this reglinentul band were the pride
of the division. Four deep, forty
strong, with arching necks with foro
feet reaching far and drooping softly.
ea« h horse of the famous cavalry hand
passed on out u|s>n the field of Louls-
burg with such carriage as showed it
sensible of Its mission. The reins lay
loose upon their necks, but they kept
step to the music which they felt.
Forty horses paced slowly forward,
keeping step. Forty trumpeters, each
man with his right hand aloft, hold-
ing his instrument. Ills left hund at nls
side, b«a/lug the cap which Liw Uad re-
on earth could unseat him. Perhaps
none ever had—until he came to the
Plains.
For this was on the Plains. As all
America was under canvas, it was not
strange that Col. Battersleigh should
find his home in a tent, and that this
tent snould be pitched upon the West-
ern Plains. Not that he had gone dl;
rectly to the West after the muster-
ing out of his regiment. To the con-
trary. his first abode had been in the
city of New York, where during his
brief stay he acquired a certain ac-
quaintance.
What wore the financial resources
of Battersleigh after the cessation of
his pay as cavalry officer not even his
best friends could accurately have
told. It was rumored that he was the
commissioner in America of the Lon-
don Times He was credited with
being a Fellow of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society. That he had a his-
tory no one could doubt who saw him
come down the street with his broad
hat. his sweeping cloak, his gauntlets,
his neatly varnished boots.
In reality Col. Henry Battersleigh
lived, during his city life. In a small,
a very, small room, up more than one
I flight of stairs. This room, no
i larger than a tent, was military In
Its neatness. Battersleigh. bachelor
J and soldier, was In nowise forgetful
I of the truth that personal neatness
| and personal valor go well hand in
hand. The bed. a very narrow one,
had but meager covering, and during
the winter months Its single blanket
rattled to the touch. "There's noth-
ing in the world so warm as news-
papers. me boy." said Battersleigh
Ppon the table, which was a box,
there was displayed always an Invari-
able arrangement. Col. Battersleigh
riding whip (without which he was
rarely seen In public) was placed
upon the table first. Above the whip
were laid the gauntlets, crossed at
sixty degrees. On top of whip and
gloves rested the hat. indented never
more nor less. Beyond these, the per-
I sonal belongings of Battersleigh of
i the Rile Irish were at best few and
humble. In the big city, busy with re
I vivlng commerce, there were few who
I tared how Battersleigh lived It was
I a vagrant wind of March that one day
j blew aside the cloak of Battersleigh
I as ho raised his hat in salutation to
u friend a vagrant wind, cynical and
merciless, which showed somewhat of
the poverty with which Battersleigh
had struggled like a soldier and a gen-
tleman. Battersleigh. poor anil proud,
then wuitl out iuiw the West.
The tent (a wr eh Cel. Ba*:er*le!„
waa now writing was an old ol
) !low and jsw hei in place-- la sixi
it wa- similar to that of the bedroon
n New V_ rk, uud lu f mi*i. ".n er
murti tb" same A narrow bunk hel
a ( • 1 CAT Which there was -pre^J
s.ngle blanket, it was -.lent in tV
tent, save for the scratching of tt4
writer s pen, so tfcStTnow and tb- i\
M. -re r®!eht easily have been h«ai J a
faint rustling of paper , Indefl. thl*
ru-tlin^ waa caused by the small feet
of tha prairie rrioe which now and
then ran over the newspaper which
lay beneath the blanket Batters-
leigh* taWe was again a rude one,
manufactured from a box. The vis-
ible seat- were a!*o box^s. two or
three in number I'pon one of these
sat Battersleigh. busy at his writing
Occasionally he gaze! out upon a
sweet blue Wky unfretted by any
cloud. His eye crossed a sea of faint-
ly waving grasses. The liquid call of
a mile-high mysterious plover-eame to
him In the line of vision fcom the
tent door there could be seen no
token of a human neighborhood, nor
could there be heard any sound of
human life. The canvas house stood
alone and apart, Battersleigh gazed
out of the door as he folded his letter.
"It's grand. Just grand." lie said And
so he turned comfortably to the fee •
lng of his mice, which nibbled at hu
fingers Intimately, as had many mice
of many lands with Battersleigh.
CHAPTER V.
The Turning of the Road.
At the close of the war Capt. Ed-
ward Franklin returned to a shrunken
world. The little Illinois village
which had been his home no longer
served to bound his ambitions, but of-
fered only a mill round of duties'so
petty, a horizon of opportunities so
restricted, as to cause in his mind a
feeling of distress equivalent at times
to absolute abhorrence. The perspec-
tive of all things had changed. The
men who had once seemed great to
him In this little world now appeared
in the light of a wider judgment.- as
they really were—small, boastful,
pompous, cowardly, deceitful, preten-
tious. Franklin was himself now a
man. and a man graduated from that
severe and exacting school which so
quickly matured a generation of
American youth. Aa his hand had
fitted naturally a weapon, so his
mind turned naturally to larger things
than those offered in these long-tilled
fields of life He came back from the
war disillusionized, irreverent, impa-
tient, and full of that surging fretful-
ness which fell upon all the land.
To this young man. ardent, ener-
getic, malcontent, there appeared the
vision of wide regions of rude, active
life. ofTerlng full outlet for all the
bodily vigor of a man. and appealing
not less powerfully to his imagination.
This West—no man had come back
from It who was not eager to return
to it again! For the weak and sloth-
ful it might do to remain in the older
communities, to reap in the long-tilled
fields, but for th«> strong, for the
unattached, for the enterprising, this
unknown, unexplored, uncertain coun-
try offered a scene whose possibilities
made Irresistible appeal. For two
years Fiankltn did the best he could
at reading law in a country offlce.
Every time he looked out of the win-
dow he saw a whiter-topped wagon
nio\ lng West. Men came back and
told him of this West. Men wrote let-
ters from the West to friends who re-
mained in the East. Presently these
friends also, seized upon by some
vast Impulse which they could not
control. In turn arranged their affairs
and departed for the West.
(To be continued.)
Tried to Pull Her Tongue Out.
.Jacob Glttel, of Southlngton. Conn.,
Is in trouble. As a matter of fact the
gentleman has been in trouble for
years. His wife is one of these un-
bearable nuisances which the Puri-
tans used to hold under the town
pump—a village gossip. He has tried
every argument and used every threat
to induce her to cease her chatter
and let him sleep o nights, but In
vain. Driven finally to desperation,
he determined to put a stop for good
and all to her Incessant talk by pull-
ing her tongue out. The cure would
have been heroic but effective. But,
weakened as he was by his loss of
sleep and by the continued strain on
Ills nervous system, the unfortunate
husband had not the strength to hold
his wife with one hand while he per-
formed the operation with the other.
She got away and complained to the
authorities. The result is that while
everybody sympathizes with him. the
husband is in jail and the woman Is
still talking.
He Did Not Mote.
The motor cyclist was carearing
down the remote country hillside at
a speed which would have made a Sur-
rey policeman chortle with glee Sud-
denly there was a 4.7 report, a Chi-
nese-puzzle view of a motor-cyclist
and his machine, and then both repos-
ed in a roadside ditch, each consider-
ably the worse for the experience.
"Help!" cried the motor-cyclist; and
In response to the cry a farm laborer
hurried out from a field near by.
For an Instant he ga:;ed at the strug-
gling mass in the ditch, particularly
focusing his vision upon the still re-
volving wheels of the cycle, the like
of which, as he explained afterwards,
he had never seen before Then he
grabbed a big stone.
"Tell me where to hit her." he
shouted, "and I'll dash her brains
out!"—Ixmdon Answers.
Utterly Useless.
"Ed tics tin' some men." said I'ncle
Eben. "is a good deal like givin' a
FIJI Islander a check on de national
bank. He's got It. but what is lie
gwlno to do wif I:?"—Washington
Star
he
lift.
. novelist ha* ae-
.'his residence in Ire-
^mifeiler of Irish anecdotes that
. not Included la his sad book. "The
nti'.Ied Field." Mr. Moore says that
was walking one day in a Dublin ,
-fr«'e wh a an undertaker's assistant
passed him. Aarrying on his back a^
< jffin unusually tiny. A young man ,
stepped the assistant near Mr. Moore.
"Is it possible." exclaimed the young
man. "that this coffin is intended for
any living creature?"
Silence for a Month.
A curious custom prevails in Bui-,
nria wh.ch must t e a hafd penalty
i '<>t the woman who loves to hear the
s nnd of. her own voice. All newly- |
carried womet> are to remain
I dumb for a month aft-T marriage, ex-
'cpt when addressed by tfcPir hus-
! bands. When it is <V-i^able to re-
move this restriction permanently the
husband presents Jrer with-a gift, and
then she can chatter to her heart's
content. .
Aluminum Dishes.
Aluminum cooking utensils are be-
r.g pushed by many of the big shops.
Tttey are brought out in shapes as at-
;ractlve. as the fine silver, copper and
fold liped cooking vessels used In
wealthy households. The stew pana
.errapln dishes, coffee urns and tea-
kettles of aluminum have now such
beauty of contour and flnlfth-that they
"<eem almost more appropriate to the I
dining-room table than to the kitchen
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Expensive Invitations.
The latest craze in New York among
the i ry wealthy is an extravagant
*tyle jf invitation card. Not long ago
the wife of a millionaire ordered 200
of these from a local firm and they
cost her jtist $10 each. The cards
were made of ivory edged with gold,
.be name of the guest and hostess be-
ing lettered in gold on one side, the
other being hand-painted. Cards at t*
each are quite common.
Art for Revenue Only.
"So you could not get on with that
eminent actor. Walker Tlze." "No,"
answered Stormington Barnes, "our
professional association had to cease."
•'Professional, jealousy ?" "Certainly
not. The difficulty was entirely due
to his mercenary disposition. He
spurned a half Interest in the business
and Insisted on his salary of |2& a
week."—Washington Star.
Mrs. L. C. Glover, Vice Pres. Milwaukee,!
Wis., Business Woman's Association, is
another one of the million women who
have been restored to health by using
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
" Dean Mas. Pinkham : I was married for several years and no children
blessed my home. The doctor aaid I had a complication of female troublea
and I could not have any children unless I could be cured. He tried to curs
me. but after experimenting for several months, my husband became dis-
gusted, and one night when we noticed a testimonial of a woman who had
been cured of similar trouble through the use of Lydia E. Pink liam's
Vegetable Compound, lie went out and bought a bottle for me. I used
your medicine for three and one half months, improving steadily in health,
and in twenty-two months a child came. I cannot fully express the joy and
thankfulness that is in my heart. Our home is a different place now. as we
hare something to live for, and all the credit is due to Lydia K. Pinkham'.*
Vegetable Compound. Yours very sincerely, Mits. L. C. Glover, 014 tirova
bt, Milwaukee, Wis." Vice Preaident, Milwaukee Busineas Woman's Ass'n.
Work of Weather Bureau.
The Weather Bureau collects its In-
formation hy telegraph, and for a short
Ime twice a day the whole tele-
graphic system of the country is at
its service to the exclusion of all
other business whatsoever. The tel-
?gramJ are sent4 in cipher, to secure
:heir correct, careful transmission,
and to lessen tolls.
First Schoolhouse Flag.
On Catamount hill, at Molraln,
Mass., a s^ell monument has been
raised to morr the site of the first
Hag raised ever a pvbllc schoolhouse
In the United States. The flag ques-
tion was displayed In May. 1812, from
a log schoolhouse which stood on the
hill.
Siberian Market.
Rastern Siberia offers an enormous
fle'd for iron and steel ware for build-
ing purposes; also for tools, etc., for
carpenters and locksmiths. These
line* are largely In the hands of Ger-
mans. There Is also large demand
for guns and nunti'ig material.
Women should not faii to profit by the experience of theae two
women ; Just an surely as they were cured of the troubles enume-
rated in their letters. Just no certainly will Lydia E. Pinkliuin'a
Vegetable Compound cure others who suffer from womb troubles
inflammation of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability,
and nervous prostration ; remember that it is Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound that is curing women, aud don't allow
any druggist to aell you anything else in its place.
An Indiana Lady Telia of m Wonderful Cure: —
" Dbar Mrs. Pinkham: It is a pleasure
for me to write and tell what your wonderful
medicine has done for me. I was sick for
three years with change of life, and my
physician thought a cancerous condition of
the womb. During these three yeara 1
suffered untold agony.
"I cannot find words in which to ex-
press my bad feelings. I did not expect to
ever see another well day. I read some of the
testimonials recomending your medicine aud
decided to write to you and give your treat-
ment a trial.
" Before I had taken half a bottle of
Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com-
pound, I began to sleep. I have taken now
six bottles and am so well I can do all kinds
of work."—Mrs. Lizzik Hinki.k. Salem, Ind.
If there is anything In your case about which you would like
apecial advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. She can surely help
vou, for no person in Amerlea ran speak from a wider experience)
in treating female ills. Address is Lynn, Mass.; her advice is free
and always helpful.
ApAAA FORFEIT Ifwewinot forthwith prodae*** original latUri sod alpUarti of
\hllllM abeve twtimoulsle, which will prove their sbtolnta gfiiulnenrM.
WUUUU Lj<M* *• rink ham Ked. Co.. L;ss, Mm
Up-to-Date Trains.
The "trains de luxe," which now
covpr the distance from Moscow to the
Pacific in sixteen days, and which
rival in luxury any in the United
States, each carry a physician and an
inspector wbu speaks half a dozen lan-
guages.
Any small boy will tell you that
even leather slippers can be felt.
Safe, swift and sure Is the proper
description of Cheatham's Laxative
Tablets. Cure Colds In a day. Can be
carried In vest pocket. Easy to taka.
Guaranteed. Price 25 centa.
Ideal Electric Lamp.
Hundreds of electricians are at this
.noment striving to construct lamps
in which nothing is consumed save
the electrical energy applied to them
— lamps that have the radiance of the
sun and the coldness of the moon.
Wiggs—A cold day is best for foot
ball, don't you think so? Waggs—
Well, it's* generally a cold day for one
of the teams.
OOOO HOFSKKBEPER8
Use the bast. That's why they buv Red
CtoouBall Blue. At leadinggrooera, ;> cento.
PILE CUBE
Th«r« are remedies and rem-
•dies on the market for Piles*
most of which are injurious
rather than helpful.
Dr. Caldwell's
(LAXATIVE)
>yrup
reps
epsin
Heat From Incandescent Light.
It is usually lmacined that the in .
candescent electric light gives out
verv little heat. As a matter of fact,
only 6 per cent ot Its energy goes to
niaue light, while 94 per cent goes Into
heat.
Papier mache mushrooms and toad-
stools are now made for the purpose
of demonstrating the difference be-
tween Lne natural products.
IMMENSE TOBACCO PURCHASE.
rerty-Rltkt Thousand Hollar* Paid
tar a I'aary Ut of Tobare*.
Is guaranteed to oure any
oase of Plies or the money re-
funded, If you follow direotlons.
Is that strong enough?
PEPSIN 8YRUP CO., Montlcella. III.
Sun Parlors.
Johif D. Rockefeller is building two
sun parlors in his residence in West-
chester county. New York, snd will i
spend 1100.000 in rebuilding a number
of private drives on his estate.
Suggestion for Hero.
"I want a hero for a new story." said
the author. "Let me see." said a
Irlend. "Suppc.se you take n man who
has read all your books?"—Atlanta
Constitution.
Long Time Prime Minister. !
Sir Robert Walpolc held the tin
beaten record of having been prime
minister of Knglatid for. In all. twenty 1
one years.
The biggast purchase of high grade
iada in the We '
turer was
III., for hfs celebrated Htugle Binder
tobacco ever made in the West by a
cigar manufacturer was made last
Wednesday by Frank P. I^ewis, Peoria
cigar. A written guarantee was given
that the entire amount waa to be fancy
aalacted tobacco. This, no doubt,
makes the Lewis factory the largest
holder In the United Htateaof tobacco
of so high a grading.—Herald-Tran-
Hcript, Dec. SI, 19Qt.
Mint Juleps
Still, the mint jullps that have real
ly the best after effects are those
which are tossed over the shoulder.—
Boston Herald.
Veto Power la Unused.
No British sovereign has vetoed s
Parliamentary bill during the last one'
hundred and eighty-five years.
Where Sheep Have Pastured.
It takes six vears for grsss to grow
where sheep have pulled it up and |
trampled it.
Hawaiian Farm Wages.
In Hawaii the average wage of o
farm hand Is $20 a month.
Parents do not neglect your Child-
ren's Coughs, Sore Throats. Colds,
Etc.. they often lead to fatal results.
Try Simmons' Cough Syrup. Pleas-
nnt, safe and sure. Guaranteed. Price
C5 and ZO cents.
No, Maud, dear, there is no reason
why a contractor's business should not
expand.
DONT tOWEQ'S
GET WET!®1
ASH YOUR DCALU FOB THE
6LICKEP
MADt FAMOUS 6Y A DEPUTATION
EXTENDING OVtD MOPt THAN.
HALF A CENTUM
TOWtR'5 garment and f
hat* are mads of the beat /J I
matenala in black or yellow 'l I
fw all kind* of wet work. ''
JATWACTIOM I* GUMUTTUD YOU MKXTO
-mh^'
Wsrat7'.9.,t «
Mck itiraa and dlxtrlbute circular*
and sample, of ourrond*. Salary $60
p>-r month; N per day for expenses.
KUMLMAM CO.,
OaeL 0-4. Atlat Block.
CHICAGO.
{juurmiu RAW FURS wintil
For Londoa J o rr Stlaa. Qpoaaaa. Maakrat. Mia*.
The twenty-flve miles of dyke to
make possible the drainage of the
Zuyder Zee. which will reclaim from
the sea land enough to support 3,000,
000 Dutch. Is to cost I7C.OOO.OOO and be
thirty three years in building
W. N. U.—Oklahoma City, No. 46, 1903
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