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Ail kinds of "MACHINE WORK REPAIRS can be bad iu Sumter, at short notice, and in.{ the very best class of work, at the shop re cently opened by the undersigned on Liberty Str:>t, near the C. S. & N. Depot. Boilers Patched, and Wl& end Gin Work a Specialty. Prompt attention given to work in the cocotry, and first class workmen sent to at tend to same. Call at the shop or address through Sumter Post office t Aag 13 EDGAR SKINNER. ? ?BE SIMOSDS MTIOML BIKfi* OF SUMTES. ?TATB,\CITV AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital.$75.000 00 ?orpiua Fond ...... 7,500 00 .Transacts a General Banking Business. .'Careful attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 acd upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first dajs of January, April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, Vice President. Ii. S. CjBSON, Aug. 7 Cashier. TBBBMIISIITII, SUMTER, S C. - CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. . Also DPS A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received, interest calculated at the rate of 4 per ceut. ,pcr annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH", A. Whits, Jr., President. Cashier. Aug 21._ 5,000 Accident Insurance. FOR 25 CENTS PER DAY, & days, $1.00 ; 15 days, $2 00 ; 30 dajs, S3 00; one year, $10 00. fa case^f death, $5,000. For loss of both bands, $5.000. For loss .of both feet, $5,000. For loss of one hand and one foot. $5,000. For loss of one hand or one foot, $2,500. $25 weekly indemnity. THOS. E. RICHARDSON, Agent for the Fidelity & Casualty Co., of New York. May 28_Cash capita! S250,000. Dr. T. W. B00XHART, DENTAL SURGEON. .Office over Bul?man & Bro.'sShoe Store. entrance on main STREET. SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours?9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. April 17?o_ G. "W. DICK, D. D.S. Office over ?ogirr's New Store, -nrr&aircz cir main st&cst, SUMTER, S. C. Office Spurs.?9 to I ;30: 2:30 to 5. 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China, Druggist, Sole Agent. Jan 22 E!y3s Cream Balm Cleanses theETasal Passages. Al lays TTiflftTrrmfljirji. Heals tha Sores. Bestores the Senses of Taste, Smell and Hearing. A particle is applied into each nostril and Sa agreeable. Price 50c. at Druggists or by , ELY BROTHEES.56 "fliirren SL,New York. This popular remedy never fails to effectually core Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness And all diseases arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion. The natnral result is good appetite and solid fleaiow Dose small ; elegant* ly soar coated and easy to sa allow. SOLD EVERYWHERE. A. WHITE ft SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent. *aoog other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE. NORTH 3RITISH t MERCANTILE. HOME, ofKewYork. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented, $75;G00,000. Feb.12 ATTENTION ! Citizens of Suinter and Vicinity ! J. Mii???E ? 00 Bave opened a Mim j At tbeoW stand of John I. Brunso?, on Re t publican Street, opposite Graham's Stables, ! guarautee to do first class work in every de partmeut of their business, and ask the pat ronage of the citizens of Sumter and vicinity. Give us a trial. Come and get first class work at bottom prices. Feb. 12. A. ... ST?CKEY. JOHN T. GREEN. STUCKE? & GREEN, Attorneys at Law, SUMTE it, S. C. March 26 THE SUMTER INSTITUTE. FOUNDED 1867. - - CHARTERED 1383. The Twenty-Third Collegiate Year of this school for young ladies begins THURSDAY, SEP TEMBER 4tb, 1890, and closes JUNE 13th, 1891. bmater has special advantages from its railroad connections, its healthfulness and its social and religious privileges. It is the purpose of the Principals to make the Institute, as near as practicable, a well regulated Christian home and its course of study equal in all respects to that of the best femtle colleges in this country. For terms and more detailed information as to course of study, and expenses, the public is referred toonr printed Circulars. These may *>e obtained by addressing the "Sumter Institute, Sumter, S. C." All eomrauaiea .ions thus addressed, will receive prompt at .cation. Mes. L. A. BROWNE, Miss E. E. COOPER, July 9 Principals. ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY. SUMTER, S .C. E XERCfSES will be resumed ou MON DAY. SEPTEMBER 1st. For terms, etc., apply to the Directress, SISTER M. JOSEPH. Aog 20?Oct I. BETHEL CLASSICAL aad ??J?AR? ACADEMY. $35 MSSSSiaa Prepares for Business, Univ. of Vs., and Wc8t Point- Catalogue address j Uaj.A.a.?mTHjBotb?l academy, Ya-? mit SOLDIERS. By Capi, OSAELES KBTG. {Copyrighted by J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila delphia, and published lb rough special arrange 'mect with the American Press Association.] CHAPTER i. Tico missives had reached him. , The rain was plashing dismally on the grimy window sill and over the awning of the shops below. The street cars went jingling by with-a dripping load of out side passengers on both platforms. Wag ons and drays, cabs and closed carriages, that rattled or rumbled along the-ordi narily busy thoroughfare, looked as though they had been dipped in the river before being turned loose on the street, and their Jehus, a bedraggled lot, must needs have something amphibious in their composition, else they could not have borne up against the deluge that had been soaking the city for two days past. The policeman, waddlingaimlessly about at the opposite corner, enveloped in rubber cap and overcoat, ca^t occasional wistful glances into the barroom across the way, wherein the gas was burning in deference to the general gloom that overhung the neighborhood, and such pe destrians as had to be abroad hurried along under their umbrellas as though they half expected to have to swim before they could reach their destination. The dense cloud of sooty smoke that had overhung the metropolis for weeks past, and that wind from any direction could never entirely dissipate, for the simple reason that smokestacks- by the score shot up in the outskirts on every side, now seemed to be hurled upon the roofs and walls, the windows and the pave ment, in a black, pasty, carboniferous deposit, and every object out of doors that ore could touch would leave its inky response upon the hand. A more depress ing "spell of weather" had .not been known for a year, and every living being in sight seemed saturated with the general gloom?every living being ex cept one. Capt. Fred Lane, of the Elev enth cavalry, was sitting at the dingy window of his office in the recruiting rendezvous on Sycamore street and actu ally whistling softly to himself in su preme contentment. Two missives had reached him that ghastly morning that had served to make him impervious to wind or weather. One?large, formal, impressive and bear ing the stamp of the war department in heavy type across its upper corner?had borne to him the notification of his pro motion to the rank of captain (Troop D) Eleventh cavalry, vice Curran, retired. The other?a tiny billet?had given him even greater happiness. It might be hard to say how many times he had read and reread it since he found it on tho snowy cloth of his particular breakfast table in his particular corner of the snug refectory ?of "The Queen City," on the books of which most respectable if some what venerable club his name had been borne among the list of army or navy members ever since his "graduation leave;" fifteen years before. All bis boyhood, up to the time of his winning his cadetsliip at West Point, had been spent in the city where for the past sixteen months he had considered him self fortunate on being stationed on re cruiting service. During the second year of his term at the academy he was startled by the receipt of -a sad letter from his mother, telling him briefiy that his fa ther, long one of the best known among the business men of the city, had been compelled to make an assignment. What was worse he had utterly broken -down under the strain, and would probably never be himself again. Proud, sensitive and honorable, Mr. Lane had insisted on paying to tho utmost farthing of his means. Even the old homestead went, and the broken hearted man retired with his faithful wife to a humble roof in the suburbs. There, a few months after wa?jL, he breathed his last, and there, during Fred's graduating year, she fol lowed him. When tho boy entered on his career in the army he was practically alone in the world. Out of the wreck of his father's -fortune there came to him a iittle sum that started him in the service free from debt and that served as a nest egg to attract future accumulations. This he had promptly banked until some good and safe investment should present itself, and, once with his regiment on the frontier, Mr. Lane had found his pay ample for all his needs. It is unnecessary to recount the history of his fifteen years' service as a subal tern. Suffice it to say that, steering clear of most of the temptations to which young officers were subjected, he had won a reputation as a capital "duty oin- j cer,'' that was accented here and there j by some brilliant and d;ishing exploits j in tho numerous Indian campaigns through which the Eleventh had passed with no small credit. Lane was never one of the jovial souls of the regiment. Kis mood was rather taciturn and con templative. He read a good deal, and spent many days in the saddle exploring the country in the neighborhood of his post and in hunting and fishing. But, from the colonel down, there was not a man in the Eleventh who did net ! thoroughly respect and like him. Among ! the ladies, however, there was one or two who never lost an opportunity of j giving the lieutenant a feline and not in- j effective clawing whenever his name j came np for discussion in the feminine j conclaves occasionally held in the r?gi- ! ment. Sometimes, too, when opportun- ! ity served, ho was made tho victim of ! some s'aarp or sarcastic speech that was j not always easy to bear in silence. Mrs. Judson, wife of the captain of B troop, ! was reputed to bo "down on Lane," and j the men had no difficulty whatever i:i lo- I eating the time when her change of heart j took place. The truth of the matter was that, j thanks to sample habits ttn? to his sense of economy, Lan-? had quite a snug little ' balance in the bank, and the ladies of I the regiment believed it to be bigger than it really was; and, haying approved the furnishing and fitting vp of his r;UuX ters, the next thing, of course, that They essayed to do was to provide him -with a wife. There the trouble began. Simul-, taneously with the arrival of his first bar as a first lieutenant there came from the distant east Mrs. Judson's younger sister "Emmy" and Mrs. Loring's pretty niece Pansy Fletcher. Lane was prompt to call on both, to take the young ladies driving or riding, to be attentive and courteous in every way; but, while he did thus "perceive a divided duly,'" what was Mrs. Loring's horror on discov ering that pretty Pansy had fallen rap turously in low with "Jerry" Lattimore, as handsome, reckless and impecunious a young dragoon as ever li ved, and noth ing but prompt measures prevented their marriage! Miss Fletcher was suddenly re-transported to the east, whither Jerry was too hard up to follow; and then, in bitterness of heart, Mrs. Lcring blamed poor Fred for the whole transaction. Why had he held aloof and allowed that ?that scamp?that ne'er do weel?to cut in and win that innocent child's heart, as he certainly did do?" Against Latti more the vials of her wrath were emptied corara publico, but against Lane she cculd not talk so openly. Mrs. Judson had beheld the sudden de parture of Miss Pansy with an equanim ity-she could barely disguise. Indeed, there were not lacking good Christians in the garrison who pointed significantly to the fact that she had almost too hos pitably opened her doors to Miss Fletcher and her lover during that brief but vol canic romance. Certain it is, however, that it was in her house and in a certain little nook off the sitting room that their long, delicious meetings occurred almost daily, the lady of the house being busy about the dining room, the kitchen, or the chambers overhead, and Emmy, who was a good girl, but densely uninter esting, strumming on the piano or yawn ing over a book at the front window. ""What Mr. Lane needs is a gentle, modest, domestic little woman who will make his home a restful, peaceful ref uge always," said Mrs. Judson; and, in ferential ly, Emmy was the gentle and modest creature who was destined so to bless him. The invitations to tea, the lures by which he waj induced to be come Emmy's escort to all the hops and dances, redoubled themselves after Miss Fletcher's departure; but it was all in vain. Without feeling any particular affinity for Mr. Lane, Emmy stood ready to say "Yes" whensoever he should ask; but weeks went on, he never seemed to draw nearer the subject, and just as Mrs. Judson had determined to resort to heroic measures and point out that his attentions to Emmy had excited the re mark of the entire garrison, and that the poor child herself was looking wan and strange, there was a stage robbery not twenty miles from the post. Lane, with fifteen troopers, was sent in pur suit of the desperadoes, and captured them, after a sharp fight, ninety miles up Ine river and near the little infantry cantonment at the Indian reservation; and thither tho lieutenant was carried with a bullet through his thigh. By the time he was well enough to ride, the regiment was again in the field on In dian campaign, and for six months he never s?w Fort Curtis again. When he did, Emmy had gone home, and Mrs. Judson's politeness was something awful Lane was out with the Eleventh again in three more sharp and severe cam paigns, received an ugly bullet wound through the left shoulder in the memor able chase after Chief Joseph, was quar termaster of his regiment a year after that episode, then adjutant, and finally was given the recruiting detail as he neared the top of the list of first lieu tenants, and, for the first time in fifteen years, found himself once more among the friends of his youth?and still a bachelor. Securing pleasant quarters in the ad joining street, Mr. Lane speedily made himself known at the club to which he had been paying his moderate annual dues without having seen anjihing of it but its bills for years past, yet never knowing just when he might want to drop in. Then he proceeded, after office hours, to hunt up old chums, and in the course of the first week after his arrival he had found almost all of them. Bailey, who sat next to him in school, was now a prominent and prosperous lawyer. Terry, who sat just behind him and oc casionally inserted crooked pins in a con venient crack in his chair, was thriving in the iron business. Warden had made a fortune "on 'change," and was one of the leading brokers and commission merchants of the metropolis. He had always liked Warden; they lived -close together, and used to walk to and from school with each ether almost every day. Mr. Lane had started on his quest with a feeling akin to enthusiasm. Calm and reticent and retiring as he generally was, he felt a glow of delight at the prospect of once more meeting "tho old crowd;" but that evening he returned to his rooms with a distinct sense of disappointment. Bailey had jumped up and shaken hands with much effusion of manner, and had "my dear-feilow"-ed him for a minute or two, and then, "Now, where are ycu stopping? m be round to look you up the very first evening I can get away, and?of course we'll have you at the house:" but Lane clearly saw he was eager to get back to his desk, and so took his leave. Terry did not know him at all until he began to laugh, and then he blandly inquired what he'd been doing with himself all these years. But the man who rasped him from top to too was Warden. Busi ness hours were over, and their meeting occurred at the club. Two minutes after they had shaken hands, Warden was standing with his back to the log lire, his thumbs in the arm holes of his waist coat, tilting on his toes, his head well back, and meet affably and distinctly patronizing him. "Well, Fred, you're still in the army, are your" ho asked. "Still in the army, Warden.*' "Well, what on earth do you fbid to do with yourself out there? How do ! you manage to kill time?" j "Time never hung heavily on my hands. It often happened that there wasn't half enough for all we h;ul to do." "You don't tell me! Why, I supposed that about all you did was to drink and play poker." "Not an unusual idea., I find, Warden, but a very unjust one" \ "Oh, yes, I know, of course, you have S';E2e Indian fighting to d?> once in a. while: but that probably amounts to very little. I mean when you're in per manent camp or g;irrison. I should think a man of your temperament wotii 1 just stagnate i:i such a life, i v/ondet you hadn't resigned years ago and como here and made a name for yourself/' "The life lias been rather more brisk than you imagine,1' ho answered, with a quiet sniije, "and I have grown very fond of my profession. But you speak of making.a name for myself. Now, in what woul.? ".a.it have consisted?" "Oh, weii. "f course, ii' y--n really like the army and living in a desert an 1 that sort of thing, I've nothing t;> say.-' said Wurden; "but it always strati m- as such a?such a?well, Freci. such a wasted life, all very well for fellows who hadn't brains or energy enough to achieve suc cess in the real battle of life" (and here Warden was "swelling visibly"), "but not at all the thing for a man of your ability. We all conceded at school that von were head and shoulders above the rest of us. We were talking of it some years ago here in this ver}-room; there'd been something about you in the papers ?some general or other had mentioned you in a report. Let's see: didn't you get wounded, or something, chasing some Indians?" Lane replied that he be lieved that "something like that had happened," but begged his friend to go on; and Warden proceeded to further expound his views: "Now, you might have resigned years ago, taken hold of your father's old busi ness, and made a fortune. There's been a perfect boom in railroad iron and every other kind of iron since that panic of '73. Look at Terry; he is rolling in money?one of our most substantial men; and you know he was a mere drone at school. Why, Fred, if your father could have held on six months longer he'd have been the richest man in town today. It always seemed to me that he made such a mistake in not getting his friends to help him tide things over." "You probably are not aware," was the reply, "that he went to friend after friend?so called?and that it was their failure or refusal to help that broke him down. The most active man in pushing him to the wall, I am told, was Terry's father, who had formerly been his chief clerk." "Well," answered Warden, in some little confusion, for this and other mat ters in connection with the failure of Samuel Lane & Co,, years before, were now suddenly recalled to mind, "''that's probably true. Business is business, you know, and those were tough times in the money market. Still, you could have come back here when you left West Point, and built up that concern again, and been a big man today?had your own establishment here, married some rich girl?you're not married, are you?" Lane shook his head. "On the other hand, then, you've been fooling away all this time in the army, and what have you got to show for it?" "Nothing?to speak of," was the half whimsical, half serious answer. "Well, there! Now don't you see? That's just what Tm driving at. You've thrown away your opportunities? 'All right, Strong; Til be with you in a min ute,' " he called to a man who was sig naling to him from the stairway. "Come in and see us, Fred. Come and dine with us, any day. We're always ready for friends who drop in. I want you to meet Mrs. Warden and see my house. Now excuse me, will you? I have to take a hand at whist." And so away went Warden, leaving Lane to walk homeward and think over the experi tences of the day. He had "made a name for himself" that was well known from the Yellow stone to the Colorado. Thrice had that name been sent to the president with the recommendation of his department com mander for brevets for conspicuous and gallant conduct in action against hostile Indians. The Pacific coast had made him welcome. Busy San Francisco had found time to read The Alta's an 1 The Chroni cle's correspondence from the scene of hostilities, and cordially shook hands with the young officer who had been so prominent in more than one campaign. Santa Fe and San Antonio, Denver, Cheyenne and Miles City, were points where he could not go without meeting "troops of friends." It was only when he got back to his old home in the east that the lieutenant found his name asso ciated only with his father's failure, and that his years of honorable service con veyed no interest to the friends of his youth. "Money makes the mare go," said Mr. Warden, in a subsequent con versation; and money, it seems, was wbat he meant in telling Lane he should have come home and "made a name for him self." Lane had been on duty a year in the city when a rumor began to circulate to the effect that investments of his in min ing stocks had brought him large re turns, and men at the club and matronly women at the few parties he attended began asking significant questions which now it pleased him to parry rather than answer directly. His twelve months' ex periences in society had developed in him a somewhat sardonic vein of humor and made him, if anything, more reticent than before. And then?then all of a sudden there came over the spirit of his dream a marked and wondrous change. He no longer declined invitations to balls, parties or dinners when he knew that certain persons were to be present. Mabel Vincent had just returned from a year's tour abroad, and Lieut. Fred Lane had fallen in love at first sight. It was a note from her that made even that dingy old office, on this most dis mal of days, fairly glow and shine with a radiance of hope, with a halo of joy and gladness such as his lonely life had never known before. The very first time he ever saw himself addressed as Capt. Fred Lane, Eleventh cavalry, was in her dainty hand. He turned his chair to the window to read once again the pre cious words; but there entered, dripping, a Western Union messenger with a tele gram. Tearing it open, Lane read these words: "All join in congratulations on your promotion and in wonderment at the coloners selection of your successor. Noel is named." Lane gave a long whistle of amaze ment. "Of all men in the regimentr he exclaimed. * Who would have though of Gordon Noel?" CHAPTER II. ss> "Conic up, fv>7(x?/ conic vp everybody*. It's cJ?mvpayiie today." The colonel of the Eleventh cavalry : t . _n v n -_- __ _1 w;us a gentleman who had some pecul iarities of temperament and dispojdtiou. This fact is not cited as ? thing at all unusual, for the unbiased testimony of the subalterns and even the tror>p com service -would go far to wards establish ing the fact that all colonels of cavalry are similarly afflicted. One of the sali eut peculiarities of the commanding officer of the Eleventh was a conviction that nothing went smoothly in the regiment unless the captains were all on duty with their companies; for, while at any time Col. Riirgs would approve an application for a lieutenant's leave of absence, it was worse than pulling teeth to get him to do likewise for a gentleman with the double bars on his shoulder. "Con found the man!" growled Capt. Greene, "here I've been seven years with my troop, saving up for a six months' leave, and the old rip disapproves it! What on earth can a fellow say?" "You didn't go about it right, Green ey," was the cairn rejoinder of a com rade who had been similarly *cnt" the year previous. "You should have laid siege to him through madame a month or so. WTiat she says as to who goes on leave and who doesn't is law at head quarters, and I know it. Now, yon watch Noel. That fellow is wiser in his generation than all the rest of us put to gether. It isn't six months since he got back from his stiff detail, and see how constant he is in his attentions to the old lady. Now, I'll be* - you anything you like the next plum that tuml>??: into the regiment will go to his maw and nobody else's." "Riggs wouldn't have the face to give anything to Noel?in the way of detached duty, I mean. I heard him sa- when 'Gordy' was coming back to the regiment that he wished he had the power to transfer subs from troop to troop; he'd put Noel with the most exacting captain he knew and see if he couldn't get a little square service out of the fellow." "That's all right, Greene. That's what he said six months ago, before Noel was really back, and before he had begun doing the devoted to her ladyship at headquarters. Riggs wouldn't say so now?much less do it. She wouldn't let him, comrade mine; and you know it." "Noel has been doing first rate since he got back, Jim," said Capt. Greene, after a pause. "Oh, Noel's no bad soldier in garrison ?at drill or parade. It's field work and scouting that knocks him endwise; and if there's an Indian within a hundred miles? Well, you know as much as I do on that subject." Greene somewhat gloomily nodded as sent, and his companion, being wound up for the day, plunged ahoad with his remarks: "Now, Tin just putting this and that together, Greene, and IT1 make you a bet. Riggs has managed things -ever since he has been colonel so that a lieu tenant is ordered detached for recruiting service and never a captain. It won't be long before Lane gets his promotion: and 111 bet you even before he gets it Riggs will have his letter skimming to Washington begging his immediate re : call and nominating a sub to take his place. Til give you odds on that; and I'll bet you even that the sub he names will be Gordy Noel.-' But, though he scouted the idea, Greene would not bet, for at that in stant the club room was invaded by a rush of young officers just returning from target practice, and the j oiliest , laugh, the most all pervading voice, the cheeriest personality of the lot were those of the gentleman whose name Capt. Jim Rawlins had just spoken. "What you going to have fellows?" he called. "Here, Billy, old man, put up that spelter; I steered the gang in here, and it's my treat. Don't go, Forbes; come back, old fellow, and join us. Captain, what shall It be? Say, you ail know Dick Cassidy of the SevMth. I heard such a good rig on him this moming. I got a letter from Tommy Craig, who's on duty at the war departmen t, and he told me that Diclc was there trying to get one of those blasted college details. What d'ye suppose a cavalryman wants to leave his regiment for, to take a tiling like that?" I "Perhaps his health is impaired, Noel," said Wharton, with a humorous twinkle in his ha7idsome eyes. "Even cavalry j men have been known to have to quit their beloved profession on that account and get something soft in the east for a year or so." The color mounted to Noel's cheeks, but he gave no other sign of understand ing the shaft as aimed at him. Promptly and loudly as ever he spoke out: "Oh, of course, if he's used up in ser vice and has to go in to recuperate, all well and good; but I always supposed Cassidy was a stalwart in point of health and censtitutior.. Who's going to the doctor's to-night? you. Jack?" Jack?otherwise Lieut. Joan Tracy shook his head as he whiff ed at the cig arette he had just lighted and thea stretched forth Iiis hand for the foaming glass of beer which the attendant brought him, but vouchsafed no verbal reply. Lee and Martin edged over to where the two captains were playing their inevi table game of seven up. Two of the juniors?young second lieutenants ?despite the extreme cordiality of Noel's invitation, begged to be excused, as they did not care to drink anything?even a lemonade; and no sooner had tho part}' finished their modest potation than there was a general move. Wallace and Hearh went into the billiard room: WTha?rton and Lee started in tho direction of their quarters; and presently Mr. Noel was the only man in the clubroom without an occupation of some kind or a comrade ! to talk to. j Now, why should this have been the case? Noel's whole manner was over flowing with jollity and kindliness: his eyes beamed and sparkled as he looke-l j from one man to the other: he haile ' each in turn by his Christian ?arae and in tones of mo3t cordial friendship; he chatted and laughed and had comical anecdotes to tell the party: he was a tall, stylish, fine looking fellow, with expres sive dar:-: eyes and wavy dark brown hair: his mustache was the secret envy of more than half of his associates; his figure was really elegant in its grace and : suppleness; his uniforms fitted him like a glove, and were invariably of HatSeld's choicest handiwork. Appearances were with him in every sense of the word: and yet there was some reason why Iiis soci ety was politely but positively shunned by several of his brother officers and "cultivated*' by none. It was only a few years after tho groat war when Gordon Noel joined the Elev enth from civil life. He came of an eld and influential family, and was welcom ed in the regiment as an acquisition. lie made friends rapidly, and was for two or three years as popular a youngster as there was iu the service. Then the troop to which he was attached was order; -.! to the plains, via Leavenworth. It was a long jonmcy by boat, and by the time j they reached the old frontier city orders 1 and telegrams were awaiting them, one j of which, apparently to Mr. Noel's great 1 surprise, detached him from Iiis com pany and directed him to report for tem porary duty at the war department in the city of Washington. He was there eight een months, during which time his regi ment had some sharp battles with the Chey^njies an? Kiowas in Kansas and , the Indian Territory. Then a new sec retary of war gave ear to the oft repeated , appeals of the colonel of the Eleventh to ; have Mr. Noel and one or two other de j tached gentlemen returned to duty with i their respective companies, and just as they were moving to the Pacific coast , the absentees reported for duty and went ; along. At Vancouver and Walla Walla ! I Noel seemed to regain by his joviality I and good fellowship what he had lost in the year and a half of his absence, though there weie out and out soldiers in the Eleventh who said that the man who would stay on "fancy duty" in Wash ington or anywhere else while his com rades were in the midst of a stirring campaign a gainst hostile Indians-couldn't be of the right sort. Up in Oregon the Modoo trouble^?xm began, and several troops were sent southward from their stations, scouting. There were several little skirmishes be tween the various detachments and the agile Indians, with no great loss on either side; hut when "Capt. Jack" retired to the natural fastness of the lava beds, serious work began, and here Mr. Noel was found to be too ill to take part in the campaign, and was sent in to San Francisco to recrrperate. The short but bloody war was brought to a close with ' ?S2t_-^Jj3rj3T2; part in any of its actions, but he rojoined ?ftcr a delight ful convalescence in San Francisco (where it was understood that he had broken down only after -:.ding ni^ht and day and all alone somo 300 miles through the wilderness with orders to a battalion of his regiment that was urgently needed at the front), and was able to talk very glibly of what had occurred down in the Klamath Lake country. Then came his promotion to a first lieutenancy, and, as luck would have it, to a troop stationed at the Presidio. For three months he was the gayest of the gay, the life of parties of every kind both in town and in garrison; he was in exuberant health and spirits: he danced night after night, and was the most pop ular partner ever welcomed in the parlors of hospitable San Francisco. And then all of a sudden there came ridings of an out break among the Arizona Apaches of so formidable a character that the division commander decided to send his Presidio | troopers re-enforce the one regiment that was trying to cover a whole territory. There was pathetic parting, with no end of lamentation, when Mr. Noel was spir ited away with his lynx eyed captain; but they need not have worried?those fair dames and damsels; not a hair of his handsome head was in danger, for the ?th had grappled with and throttled their foes before the detach ment from the Eleventh were fairly in the territory, and the latter were soon ordered to return and to bring with them, as prisoners to be confined at Al catraz, the leaders of the outbreak, who would be turned over to them by the ?th. To hear Noel tell of these fierce captives afterward was somewhat con fusing, as, from his account, it would appear that they had been iak?n. in hand t?-hand coiiuiri \*y hiV:>ool? arid a small detachment of his own troop; but these . were stories told only to over credulous friends. The Eleventh came eastward across the Rockies in time to participate in the great campaign against the Sioux in '78, and was on the Yellowstone when Ouster and his favorite companies were being wiped out of existence on the Little Horn. The news of that tragedy made marry a heart sick, and Mr. Noel was so much afiected that when his comrades started to make a night ride to the front to join what was left of the Seventh, he was left beMnd, ostensibly te sleep off a violent hea<lache. He promised to ride after and catch them next day. but, through some error, got aboard Gen. Terry's steamer, the Far West, and made himself so use ful looking after the wounded that the surgeon in charge was grateful, and, knowing nothing of his antecedents, gave hjm a certificate on which he based an ap plication for leave on account of sickness, and went to Bismarck with the wound ed, and thence to the distant east, where he thrilled clubs and dinner tables with graphic accounts of the Ouster battle and how we get up just in time to save the remnant of tho Seventh. The Eleventh fought all through the campaign of *70 and tho chase after Chief Joseph in TT; but Noel was again oa temporary duty at the war department, and there he stayed until *7S, by which time various officials had become ac quainted with some of the facts in the case. The Eleventh "cold shouldered" him for a while after he got back: but they happened to be now in a region where there were no "hostiles." and where hops, germans, theatricals, tab leaux and entertainments of all kinds j were the rage. No other man could be half so useful to the ladies as Gordon Noel. He had just come from Washing ton and knew everything: and when they took him up and made much of him 'twas no use for the men to stand aloof: they had to take him up too. Lane was adjutant of the regiment at this time; and he, having seen every re port and letter with reference to Mr. Noel that had been filed in tho office, would hardly speak to him at all except when on duty, and this feeling was in tensified when, a year or so later, they were suddenly hurried to Arizona on ac count of a wild dash of the Chiricahuas. j and as the different companies took the field and hastened in the pursuit Mr. Noel was affiicted with a rheumatic fever of such alarming character that the youthful "contract" surgeon who had ac companied his troop held him back at the railway and speedily sent him cast on a three months' sick leave, which family influence soon made six. And this was about the record and reputation that Mr. Noel had succeeded in making when Capt. RawTins was ready to bet Capt. Greene that, despite it ail, the regimental Adonis would get the recruiting detail, vice Lane, for everybody knew Fred Lane so well as to prophesy that he would apply to be relieved and ordered to re join his regiment, and everybody was eager to see him take hold of poor old j Currau's troop, for if anybody could "straighten it out" Lane could. The news chat Noel was named by the colonel caused a sensation at regimental headquarters which the Eleventh will probably not s<>j:i forget. "Old Riggs" had become the commander of the regi ment after it seemed that the Indian i wars were over and done with, and, j thanks to our peculiar system, of promo i tion, was new at the head of an orgaai I zation with which he had never served as subaltern, captain or junior field offi ccr. Discipline forbade saying anything to his face?for which the colonel was devoutly thankful?but everybody said j to everybody else that it was all Mrs. I Riggs* doing, a fact which the colonel j very well knew. So did Noel, though, he rushed into the ] club room apparently overwhelmed with \ amazement and delight: "I supposed of course it would be Fob j lansbee. 1 never dreamed ho would give j i it to ine. Come up, crowd! come up everybody! It's champagne today," Ire : 1 inyially shouted; and there were men 1 who could not bear to snub him openlyT Nothing had really ever been proved against him; why should they judge him? ^ But there were several who de^ dined, alleging one excuse or another:! and even those who drank with him dii to while applauding Wharton's toast: "Well, Noel, here's to you! It ought to have been Follansbee; but I wish yod the joy of it." . fTO B2 CONTIXCKD J Crisp of Georgia. A Parliamentary Fighter Who is ? Host in Himself. From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Washington. Sept. '20?Crisp, of Georgia, is the one man on the Demo cratic side of the house against whom Mr. Reed uads it very difficult to control. Angry protestation^ from an opponent, bitter arraignment, even insults do not affect Mr. Reed; except, to make him more arbitrary, and tyrannical The calm, digniSed, cour teous, but bold ?ud determined demands of Mr. Crisp for fair treatment an! order y procedure annoy the Speaker. Crisp has the reputation of b<dng faff and of having the highest sense of the proprieties. Fie is respected by eveff man in the House and regarced "?s tire ablest man on the Bemo^ratic side. H'.b v?ord is looked '?pon ?s being as* good as bis oath, and when he pro nounces a proceeding unfair and impro per it is known by every one who heard him that he really thinks so, and that he is not trying merely to iriipre^ the minds of others something wibu he doss not believe himself. When & clear voice which can be heard in every part of the ball, though it is not raised to an angry pitch, he checks the Speaker and protests against som-; arbitrary action be is about to take, the Speaker may not yield to him, but h? winces aB the blows that are aimed at him, and id every W3j *bows his uneasiness; Mr. Reed knows that Mr Crisp does not talk without .purpose nor to deal with trivial things. 3?very time he had made a point it has gone home no mat ter how much the tyrant has d?dg?d of ha* been shielded by his supporters. Crisp is familiar with the rules botfi new and old ; he is a quick thinker and a ready debater, sound in bis judgment and sincere and impressive ia hil manner Physicaily he is nearly as big as Reed, but more compactly,bui!t$ his head is laTge ana round as Reed's is, but it is of better shape and rests' more gracefully on his shoulders ; he is" as prompt and powerful in speech as % Reed, but not as rude and bitter ; be is as brave as Reed, bat not as wicked ! Mr. Reed appreciates the qualities of Mr. Crisp and knows that it mean? defeat to enter into controversy wit? him. Ia many ways the Georgian ha? proven himself the more skillfdl: Od Thursday, for iustance, when tb? speaker attempted to have the journal approved before the proceedings under the call of the House were dispensed with, Crisp forced hhn to a decision that this could be done only by unanimous consent. With all his shrewdness Mr. Reed did not see the parliamentary importance of that ruling until after* wards, and then he resorted to ? thing which none but the least scrupulous members do ; he doctored the. record and omitted the ruling from rhe|o?raal; His partisans sustained him in this, out the victory was with Mr. Crisp when &@ exposed the thing. Again yesterday, when Mr. Reed counted a Quorum; though no quorum* was present, there is no other man od the democratic side probably; whd could have, by the mere impressiven?s? of bis demand, forced the Speaker td test the Count by appointing tellers: Mr. Reed held out on one vote and found his word impeached by his owri action. It Mr. Crisp said he doirbted tbe correctness of the count no man in the House could dispute his sincerity. The Speaker's refusal to order the count confirmed the doubt and "bro?g'?rt It td the minds of others. The Speaker was quick to see tnat he was it a disadvantage, ev?h a worse disadvantage than be ??ould have be?H under had he ordered tbe count and hi? error had been discovered,, for there would bave been the supposition of mis take. But he could not correct it tbed. Mr. Crisp had agaiu embarrassed him. But when the next vote was taken and tbe count disputed, tbe frank demand of Mr. Crisp put upon him the imputa tion of sharp practice or fraud, if he refused the count by fellers. Hs yield ed with reluctance, and be and Mr. McKinley tried to assume the virtue magnanimity; W hen the count by tellers was begud two more men were ic the hall than when the Speaker made his count, yet the tellers found but 161, though th?. Speaker had announced the presence of 1GG. Later three more came in, and the tellers announced tbe presence <? 1G4. 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