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THE AHGUS. Published Daily sod Weekly at 1854 Second Ave- J. W, Potter - Publisher. Ti km s Daily, 50c per month; Weekly, $3.00 All commnnirtriftne Af atiii tlve character, political or religious, must have iii:ku iur paoiicanqn no anch arti- puunu iur ucmoQi ei?natarea Correspondeuce solicited from every townihip Saturday, March 21 1891 AXXOUXCEMEXTS. nniumuuu 01 mv lnenrts, l i.n.-uy nnnounce myself s a candidate for the office of collector subject to Ihe decision of the vuiuviaui,t,iijr iu usuip convention. LOUIS OHLWETTKR .J hereby announce myself as a candidate for the omee of collector at the suggestion of many friend, subject to the decision of the UvUUviin;:itj luwuaaip convention . WM. KCKaRMATS'N. Parts and London, are communicating dj telephone. Chicago Mail:, "The wise men of the east are keeping one eye on Sanator- clect Calmer and the other on 1892." Springfield Register: The Palmer iubilee on next Wednesday will be the grandest political demonstration ever witnessed in this city. Tns absolute heartless nss and dishon esty of Senator Matthew Quay is shown in the Tact that Anna Dickinson is now the inmate of a pauper insane asylum, while the republican nuinal committee owes her 5.000 for her stump speeches in the last national campaign. A bh'e book i iat issued bv the Eng lish Kovernment reveals that there are lo2 peers who own places where liquor is sold. A few own hu:b. as 70 and none less than two. Will American Anglo maniacs now imitate these peers? "It's English, you know." Replying to iha inquiry of a corres pondent, il. 3 Chicago Inter-Ocean gives a bit of information which is particularly interesting at this time. It says tha't Italy Ins ten iron-clads. five steel war ship, nod two wooden war ships, all of the first-nlass; twenty-one war vessels of the second class; twenty.seven of the third class; fifty ocean torpedo vessels; amy torpedo boats or various classes; twenty. three iroa-clads for coast defense in all a navy of 258 vessels carrying 583 guns and manned by 16.786 men. The death of Lawrence Barrett at New York last night removes from the stage of life as well as the stage which was his profession, one of the noblest and best types of self constructed manhood. Mr. Barrett carved out his own career by painstaking, studious industry. He look ed upon the stage in its highest art as a great school of instruction for the eleva tion and advancement of man.' He there fore cultivated and employed his talents to the beet possible advantage, and Lis life work has done more to promote the standard of the profession, which he honored than that of any other member of it. The shrieking by D'ltalia of "Ven detta" and its demand for further blood-, letting, in revenge for the New Orleans massacre, are without an iota of justifi cation. Reparation should and will be made, but the country cannot and will not permit these hot-beaded howlers to rouse a few of their countrymen to a state of anarchy. These people should pause and consider before they go further in this matter. This is not a country which peitnits moba to revenge their wrongs by blood. Occasional uprisings like that of New Orleans cccnr in spite of all pre cautions, but the national government is now warned and ready, and it will take prompt measures to suppress this folly should it take tangible form. Illinois, says the Peoria Herald, has set an example for other states to follow in the matter of the selection of United States senators. For many years that branch of the national legislature Las been getting farther and farther away from the people. They had begun to doubt the efficacy of having such an institution, made up largely of nwllionaires or politi cal bosses. The democratic party of this state saw a remedy for this defect in the election of United States senators by the people and in the placing of John M. Palmer on their ticket they put the rem edy into effect. It has worked like a charm and a return has been made to true democratic principles. The example thus set will undoubtedly be followed in ' many of the states. The democratic party of Illinois will always hereafter place is senatorial candidate plainly be fore the people. The experiment, if such it may be called, has exceeded their an ticipations and they are proud of the fact that they have abandoned the caucus plan in state matters to take up that of the primary. Hard Coal Market. $7.75 per ton for best anthracite coal, all sizes, delivered within city limits, 25c per ton discount for cash. Indiana black $4.50 and Cannel coal $6 per ton delivered, cartage added on all orders for less than, one ton; carrying in 25c per ton extra. E. G. Fbazer. To the young face Poztoni's Complex ion Powder gives fresher charms, to the old .renewed youth. Try it. AN ARMY PORTIA. By CHAELES KING, U. S. A., Author of "The Colonel's Daughter," "The Vrscrtcr," "From the Ranks," "Dun raven Ranch," "Two Soldiers." Copyright, 1S20, by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and published by special arrange- me.nl witn Li.-'iri i CHAPTER XIV. "2 am not atrarc, Col. L'tvU-r." A genc-ral court martial was in session at Ryan, and for three days had been sitting in judgment on Lieut. Ilearn. It was the first occasion in mar.v a long -car on which C.,1. Lavvl.-r 'had j-p-peared in the role of judge advocate, that complex and contradictory position wherein the so called legal adviser of the court, having prosecuted in the name of the government to the extent of his ability, proceeds to demolish bis own elaborately planned attack. It is the not infrequent result of such a system that the exertions of the prosecution so exhaust its representatives that the de fense is left to its own devices, and in the case of Col. Lawler, as lias been said, he had rdvays held that when an officer was under trial the moral obligation of the jjovcrnnieTit was to find him gr.ilrv. it a possible thmg. No one mi the court could quite under stand v.hy Lawler had been detailed for this duty. It to a most imu.nal thing to call upon the officers of the depart" merit f military justice itself to furnish the prosecutor: rather was it th-ir j.ror i:;ce to r; i;:a::i at the ire -f the di vision or nepartment commander, ami in reviewing the- records to sit i:i judg ment on the judges. But The Palladium, true to Kenyons prophecy, was not slow in explaining the situation. It was a case in which the whole people, with it self as their representative, had de manded the trial of the officer who dared maltreat the man. No ordinarv occa sion was this, but one to attract wide attention throughout the entire nation and le daily reported by the press. Col. L.awiersaw opportunity for distinction hitherto nnequaled. lie asked of his general the detail as judge advocate of tho court, and the general, though sur prised, saw no way to refuse. So carefully had the court been chosen that of its entire array of thirteen mem bers every man was personally a stranger to the young soldier whose "fate lav in their hands. Of all his rciriment "not mother officer was at the post when the court began to arrive, and the only soldier heaven save the mark! was Welsh, now assigned, much to their dis gust, to Capt. Brodie's company of the infantry tor rations and quarters until his evidence should be given: and Welsh was the constant center of a group of newspaer mi n now billeted at Central Ciiy, and resenting it not a little that they were not invited to put np at the iort. But as matters stood the fort was al ready taxed to its utmost capacity: the only quarters in which there was room for the arriving gentlemen were those of the absent cavalry officers. Mrs. Morris had two spare rooms, and promptly in vited Cols. Grace and Maitland." old friends of her husband, to be her guests. Kenyon took in three of the seniors. Mrs. Wharton hapitened to know Capt. Chase, who v.-as one of the detail, and scandalized Mrs. Brodie by borrowing the Lane barouche, meeting him at the depot and driving him straight to her roof. "Mind yon," said that young matron, "every man on this court shan't go to its first session without knowing some thing of Frank Ileum's real character. I only wish I had room for more." Mrs. Lane had no spare bedroom, but bade her regimental friends who had to fill them np with members of the court. "Georgia and I will board the whole array if you will only let ns." she declared. "111 set a lunch for the court at noon, and dine the entire part- at 7 every day they are here if some one will only agree to take Col. Lawler." Nobody wanted Lawler, and so be was one of the three relegated to the gloomy precincts of old Kenyon's quar ters and compelled to rough it at bach elor mess. It was arranged that eight members of the court should be quarter ed among the cavalry homesteads and otherwise be entertained at tho Lanes'. Of such are the expedients to which gar risons are subject. It was not until Monday afternoon that the court began its session Two cI2 ers had telegraphed th.it they could not reach the po.t until thearrira! of thj noon train: but all that nmniiug ;:nd most of Sunday the judge advocate had been bustling about the garrisJ.1, full of importance an 1 cr.tlr.i'iiasui. Ii 'cogniz ing the interest felt in the cane by an entire neighborhood, and sedulously active in providing for tho needs of the pres:?, Lawler had caused the quarters of C troop to b? cleared of all the iron bunks. Arm racks and lockers were shifted away; a long tablo hid basn brought x:n from the mess room under neath and set in the middle of the big room, the president's chair at tho head, TH.EARGUS. SATURDAY. MARCH, bis own afthe foot, tbose or the mpm bors at the sides. Another long table was provided for the swarm of news paper coi respondents, and then, for the general public, the mess rooms of the cavalry bad been ransacked, and benches and chairs to accommodate several hun dred peoi lo ranged about the room. It was Saturday :-.ight when Lawler ar rived and was met by JIaj. Kenyon and escorted t o his qn.irters. "You might tell Mr. Hearn that what ever he may desire to say to mo about the case I can hear to-night. You have no object on to bis coming to your quarter;-., I euppose;" "Lord, no! I like it. So does he gen erally, but if you want to seo Hearn you'll have to go yourself." ' Why?" said Lawler, reddening. "He ought to l:now that it is to his interest to seek th advice and assistance of the judge advocate. Of course ho knows t- at I mu.;t do my full duty in prosecut ing the c ise; bnt, outside of that, any sen-ice I can render him he has a right to call f jr." "Oh, he understands; but, as he was givoa no opportunity to speak for him self when 3 ou wcro investigating the case. I fan y he will ask none now until becomes 'off on? the court. Then you probably vill hear from him." "It migl t be very ranch better if he were to frankly consult the judge advo cate." se.W LawVi. gazing keenly at Kenyon from under hir? shaggy brows. 'Very much better for the prosecu tion. But how better for him?" 7vil, those young men never gain anyt'-iing 1 y f. .vilag a ca-e. lie bad v uva '. !. r t'ro'.v himself c:i the clem ( :: y t' .he -urt. But I suppose some :: l.a.i r. . ! - :.': ; to defend him?" A:i.-:',;er -v.: , h:::ce. :-i:i? - -. I've heard that s--v-er.:;. . i' their services by li:: mail th' i.io-.uent it was known you were t.l:eirto:-irue. Wnat the devil di 1 oil for. auvwav?" Y, -. : .i t: forget, Maj. Kenyon. th.:t it v.-;. . -. matter r.f very grave im p..; t.,r.c to ili,: array as well as to the pr ihic, f.n: s colonel, with much dig- v"".'. ere. who are rash enough to t ' him can have little om. c o;i-m of t' i'evling aroused thron-rh- e: ; . n :-ih." r;. :! Kenyon. with sarcastic e?::ii.n.-js. .-. o:noi' the siniruhirtrriits i". : .v.; i-.i ;h.- army that, instead :lv !::.;:vkl:r : under t wh.it thev . ; Le ; ! outrage.. n I'lisrepresen t:Uie:i I' ;hc. :s ive.- and their profession, ti: v :):. "; the consummate ef Iro:: i r ur even n v.oaer at- h::v :'y c .nceive Lawie '. 1 e.t do vou t::iT;k il ara a thousand limes ia.re a-.;e.h.. t thin sinning? And. that li. i-: their '..:ivi-.-th;i. they are so blind to ov.-a interest j;s t- be willing to light i ; -r it. it i ; iTiomrirehen.-ib:.' to l;.,:.... -. .. . 1 I 1" '. it's a fact." will it be lx 'hived? when L'ul. Lawler CMX ::$ orderly to say that he would re.-eiv Ilearu at Maj. Kenyon's qnavt. r ; in case he desired to see "him. the orderly c::ie back with the lieuten ant", cnuipliments and the singular n-spo::.-e that tie lie;;:: riant knew of no rea. en whateer why he should want to see the colonel at any lime. La-.vler had conceived it his duty then t accost Mr. ' learn on the piazza of his quaro and blandly to inform him that, he was fs titled, if he sow fit. to call in Ihe services of s mi ' suitable friend as .miicnsyuriitj. Brodie and Cross were both suing there at h moment, and glanced at ea.-h other with a grin, as Ilearu coolly looked the jndge advocate straight in the rye and remarked that he was aware of the fact. "I thought you mi.,iit not know it. an 1 1 ilc.vired X- say that I should inter pose no objecti ru. said Lawler. "Iam n.. : av are, Col. Lawler. that it is the judgj a .vocate who eith-r denies or consents. I . i.i t!v cuirt. ns I under stand it, that settles th- question." And Lawler went sway wkh tingling ears. Ileum's temper war- being son-ly tried. No 1 ss than four times that Sunday morning had be be,-:, called upon by g.ntli ru(.:i rep.-ese:.t:-: - themselves as ce: re; pondents for a ane paper or other, e:eh one of whom de-ired to interview a -, to the line of d-ef t.? he proposed a-b'-i'ting. and really :e..-u.i".l aXuaishod that he should decline to give any in formation o;i ti e euoj, et. And Ilearn's re; lies to Lav i r had leen buzzed around th ga i.aai with added nipha-i-is at every rep: titiori. A'.: 1 yet vl en Monday r.rternoon -.::.' '. and in .h" pre:-- ice of a crowded arr.:;- .1' ci vlih :i:j l.-.ai ail over the iv i .::) ol (' d. Lav. ! r i:nr--lively ::i-j!;;r-.-l the n -.me ' tiie gentleman . hfaii the accus 1 1 d'.vired to introduce a ; counwl, and ee:i the fans cease 1 to a: ar: 1 r.U r. wer : intent upon the r ; ' e. and a d.az 'a ti -ncils wer - jntised ". : the pauii on ih reporters table, r.lr. Hearn as-loSU'ied almost all bearers hy ; i.icidl3, even amilingly, responding: 21'. body." 'vVav. I understood from gentlemen h re :.t the p(j,t that you intended to iu-ir;.u-. counsel." eaid Lawler, much -aetilei. "With all deference to thecourt," eaid He an. -the understanding of the judge a -ivocate is at fault." '. i re was int tant tit ter and a ripple of ao; hiusa. The corres)ondents glanced quie ;!y at one another and then in sur prise at Ilearu. For a man who refused to talk at their bidding, he was display ing -.n'-ojked -;1 T - Highest of all in Leavening Power. E-QiJUTELY PURE rcdoned to iho root3 tf bis hair and glancetl angrily around. "The r.udionco must keep order, lio :aid. "Yon are at liberty to witness these proceedings, but audible comment or any levity at attempted witticisms on the part of the accused will not bo tol erated." But Ilearu's face wore a provokingly placid bmile, and tho president, rapping on the table with the hilt of his sword, called for wlence and curtly demanded of the judge advocate that ho proceed with th3 case. Not ten feet from whero Mr. Ilearn sat by his little table, whereon were his memoranda and a few books, Georgia Marshall, with f narklin? eves and flnshod cheeks, bent and whispered to Mrs. laue: "One for our side." . And Mrs. Wharton, catching the eye of some friends across tho room, very improperly tapped the back of her kid covered thumb nails together in mute apidanso. Tiie nress and the nonnl.ira might be with the prosecution, but it was easy to see that there were loyal and lavish hearts there stanch for the de fense. The court had not lecn authorized to sit without regard to hours. Lawler argued that in . case of such widespread interest the sessions should beheld when it would be most convenient for th world at large to at tend, and by adjourn -iug at 3 i. m.. the conventional honr nil good citizens would 1? abb? to get home in abundance of time, secure in the belief that nothing won id tr.in.-pir bef are they could return t their pot of observation o:i the morrow. Nothing of aavat coij.x-queiice v:h a c .mplihed 0:1 lk' first day beyond the ceremony of wearing the court, which L awh-r ren- ,u-r . .1 as l.njires-ave as po-s.bl. tl,.. a 1-luim.-.teririg of the judge a Ivocat-V oath, which Col. Grace rattled !hr..ugh in a 1 rrrmci-ory style that robbl the legal geatiem in of the dramatic effect he had coateuiT.i ate 1. and "the reading of the charge.-, ..-a 1 specification-, which were breatiih srh- litenel to by the throng a.'al mo t ratorically delivered by th ja l r. 1 vacate. Ther w.n ;xmejhi:ig e.-. ci.il;y lire in th' air with which be tans.il an 1 faced tho holdi.nly young of l.c r. v::; , in !::s trim fat i rre r.nii'onri. itoe t . ' : .. ire t him at th tnb!.. 'i. ti; - lirst frpvvilirai :-.u .f the :ir.-t charge, ho-.-.- say you. . ir -nitrv or not guilty?" Aiel.iu the : ::::pe r way in ti world. J " ev. r . a:.r in i :v-. e,!i- i. ntly .ear r '. a a i; h yon I th" op.ai v.-;n-ow: "Ne' -;'' ! ; ' "! 'i v.-y - .i . ;.; ..;i,,:i a:ei t the charge ; of .-:; ie. t i.!:tH-c.m-i.ag an oiacvr a:: l a gent ierna.i. and of coudiu-t irejn.licial 1 g. il t.r.b".- .-ml iiiilitary iieiplin Lieut. Hearri calmly protected hi- entire innocence, and the pleas wre duly r.ford .1. Then Col. Lawler atr uour.ee?! that i: view of the importance an 1 probable length of the case be desired the services of a stenographer and rc.rr.ested the authority of the court to call one iu. Th president looked jH-rturled; yt4-u.g-raphers were elusive, anl the la.-t court ho was on had been rapped over the knuckles for employing one. al though the record exceeded' a hundred and fifty pages in length. "How l ing will T. -.1 need one. and how soon can you get him here?" asked Col. (Jrace. "Well, we can get through with the case in a very r hr: tim-;witha stenog rapher, but it will take a wek at le.wt without one." He did not say. however, that be bad one already in the r .om. in the hhapo of a newspaper man from Chicago. Some of th;- court began to consult among themselves. "Make him write Lis own pr feed ings." whispered CVd. Maitland to the president. -By gad. he was probably the man that rapped your court for em ploying one thereat Omaha last month." Then he scribbled a line and tossed the scrap of paper over to Maj. Putnam on the other side, and pa.e.1 word down to Capt. Thorp, who had ln-en judge advo cate of the court is. question. It was evident the iuciuIkt.! thought that here was an admirable chance to "work" the judge advocate, a thing sel dom enjoyed; and at last, old Grace, bumming and hawing a little, said that the court could not see tho necessity, in view of the remarks mada by division headquarters ou a recent case, and must for the present decline th-.; request. Whereat Col. Lawler. in in.uufet ill humor, remarked that lie could bo safely exix-etvd to say what would and what would not !e approved by the division commander, and that, if the court wor.ld not order it. he would get the order by telegraph. -All right," said the president, "and ii'iean time we'll proceed without one. I suppose yuu are ready with your first witness. Mr. Judgo Advocate?" "If the court insists, yes: but I prefer to wait until I hear from the telegram, which I am now writing." "We had lx-tter go right ahead," s;. d Col. Grace. And so, amid profound silence, tho name of the iinst witness was called, and with the eyes of the entire room upon him. neatly dressed, cleanly shaved, and looking his very l;at. Trooper Welsh was ushered in from the outer gallery, was sworn impressively by Lawler, and was asked for his name, rank and regi ment, and whether he knew the accused. The new correspondent of The Palladium described the hasty glance which Welh TJ. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. 21. 1S91. H. SIEMON & SON, DEALERS IN- toves and "TjTnwaro, PUMPS, ISTIXjS, &c, Baxter Banner Cooking and Heating Stoves and the Oeneseo Cooking Stovtt Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Work. 1508 SECOND AVE., ROCK ISLAND, ILL. J. B. ZIMMER, THE WELL KNOWN Ml erchant Tailor, Star Block, Opposite Harper House. ha pnrrtej for the Spring and Summer of 1891, A larger and finer Hock thtn evr. Thft too.: wV. arrive ic few dy. Wait and th. m. HAVE YOU SSL B. Sr m $3.00 Calf Goodyear Welt Shoes? Tbe bt-rt Mm.' Kr. !;e in ll.r rity f. r the i.rice. 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