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Show , liiE SALT LAKE TIMES, SATUKUAY, JULY 10, 1800. Lane gave a long whistle of amaze-ment. "Of all men in the regiment!" he exclaimed. "Who would have thought of Gordon Noel?" CHAPTER II. Cf"' Trillinr iomarCe of liWW esferi frontier. ITOr B CflPT' GArtRLES KING, U. S. ft. Noel that had been filed in the office, would hardly speak to him at all except when on dut.T, and this fueling ww when, a year or ao later, they were suddenly hurried to Aritnna on of a wild dash of the Miiricahnaa, and as the different companiea took the field and hastened in the pursuit Mr. Xoel was afflicted with a rherunatic fever of snrh alarming character that the youthful "contract" surRvon who had ac-companied his troop held him back at the railway and idily tent him eat on a threw months' sick leave, which family influence toon made six. And thit was about the record and reputation that Mr. Noel had succtvded in making when dpt. Rawlins was ready to bet Capt. Greene tlmt. despite it all, the regimental Adonis would get the recruiting detail, vie Lane, for everybody knew Fred Lane so well an to prophesy that he would apply to be relieved and ordered to re-join his regiment, and everybody was eager to soe him take hold of poor old Curran'a troop, for if anybody could "straighten it out" Lane could. The new that Noel was named by the colonel caused a sensation at regimental headquarter which the Eleventh will probably not soon forget. "Old RiggV" had become the commander of the regi-ment after it aeeined that the Indian wars were over and done with, and, thanks to our peculiar system of promot-ion,- waa now at the head of an organi-sation with which he had never weired aa iuhaltern, captain or junior field offi-cer. Discipline forbade enying anything to hie face for which the colonel wa devoutly thankful but everybody Mid to everybody elue that it v.a ail Mr. Rings' doing, fact which the colonel very well knew. Ho did Noul, though he rushed Into the club room apparently overwhelmed with amazement and delight: "I BupiNwed of course it would lo Fob lan bee. I never dreamed he would give it to me. Come up, crowd! come up everybody! It'e champagne today," he jovially shouted; aud there were men who could not bear to snub him openly. Nothing had really ever been proved against him; why should they judge him? But there were several who de-clined, alleging one exrrnne or another, and even those who drank with him did so while applauding Wharton's toastt "Well, Noel, here's to yon! It ought to have leen Follanaliee; but I wish you the joy of it" ITo b rent limed next KMunlay.) aaia patronisdng him. "Well, Fred, you're still in the armv, are yon?" he asked. "Still in the army, Warden.' "Well, what on earth do you find to do with .yourself out there? How do you manage to kill time?" "Time never hung heavily on my hands. It often happened that there wasn't half enough for all we had 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 some Indian fighting to do once in a while; but that probably amounts to very little. I mean when you're in per-manent camp or garrison. I should think a man of your temperament would just stagnate in such a life. I wonder you hadn't resigned years ago and como here and made a name for yourself." "The life has been rather more brisk than you imagine," he answered, with a quiet smile, "and I have grown very fond of my profession. But you speak of making a uame for myself. Now, in what would that have consisted?" "Oh, well, of course, if you really like the army and living in a desert and that sort of thing, I've nothing to say," said Warden; "but it always struck me as such a such a well, Fred, 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 you wore head and shoulders above the rest of us. We were talking of it some years ago here in this very 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 panio 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, i your father could have held on six months longer lre'd have been the richest man in town today. It always seemed to me that he mado such a mistake in not getting his friends tJ 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 I'm driving at. You've thrown away your opportunities 'All right, Strong; I'll 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-ences 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 and 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, itseems, was what he meant in telling Lane he should have como home and "made a name for him-self." ' . LtJie had been on duty a year in tho city when a rumor began to circulate to the effect that investments of bis in min-ing stocks had brought hira 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 somewhai sardonio 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 jast 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 j he ever saw himself addressed as Capt j Fred Lane, Eleventh cavalry, was in her dainty hand. He turned his chair to the window to read once again the pre-- j cious words: but there entered, dripping, a Western Union messenger with a tele-- j gram. i Tearing it open. Lane read thesa j words: "All join in congratulations on your promotion and in wonderment at the colonel's selection of your successor. Noel, is named." the only man iu the eluliroom without an occupation of some kind or a comrade to talk to. Now, why should this have been the case? Noel's whole maimer was over-flowin-s: with jollity and kindliness; his eyes beamed and sparkled as he looked from one man to the other; he hailed each in turn by his Christian name and in tones of most cordial friemlship; he chatted and laughed and had comical anecdotes to tell the party ; he was a tall, sta-lis- fine looking fellow, with expres-sive dark eyes aud wavy dark brown hair; his mustache was tho 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, ami were invariably of Tlatfield'a choicest handiwork. Appearances were with him in every souse of tho word; and yet there was some reason why his soci-ety was politely but positively shunned by several of his brother officers and "cultivated" by none. It was only a few years after the great war when Uordon Noel joined the Elev-enth from civil life. lie came of an old nd influential family, and was welcom-ed in the regimeut aa an acquisition. Ha mado friends rapidly, and was for two or three years as popular a youngrter as there was in the service. Then tho troop to which ho was attached was ordered to the plains, via Leavenworth. It was a long journey by boat, and by tho time they reached the old frontier city orders and telegrams were awaiting them, one of which, apparently to Mr. Noel's great Burprise, detached hira from his com-pany and directed him to report for tem-porary duty at the war department in the city of Washington. Ho was thero eight-een months, during which time his regi-ment had some sharp battles with the Cheyenues and Kiowas in Kansas and the Indian Territory. Then a new retary of war gave ear to tho oft repeated appeals of the colonel of the Eltiveuth to have Mr. Noel and one or two other de-tached gentlemen returned to duty with their respoctdvo companies, and just as they were moving to the Pacific coast the absentees reported for duty and weut along. At Vancouver and Walla Walla Noel seemed to regain by his joviality and good fellowship what he had lost in tho year and a half of his alwence, though there were 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 wore in the midst of a stirring campaign against hostile Indians couldn't be of the right sort. Up in Oregon the Modoc troubles soon began, and several troops wore sent southward from their stations, scouting. There were several little skirmishes the various detachnieuta and the agile Indians, with no great loss on either side; but when "Capt. Jack" retired to tho natural fastnew of the lava beds, serious work began, and hero Mr. Noel was found to be too ill to take part in the campaign, and was sent in to San Francisco to recuperute. The short but bloody war was brought to a close with-out his having taken part in any of its actions, but he rojoiued aftor a delight-ful convalescence in San Francisco (where it was understood that he hud broken down only after riding night and day and all alone somo BOO miles through the wilderness with orders to a battuliou of His regiment that was urgently needed at the front), and was able to talk very glibly of what had occurred down in tho Klamath Lake country. Then came his promotion to a first lieutenancy, and, a luck would have it, to a troop stationed at the Presidio. For three montlis he was the gayest of the gay, the life of parties of every kind both in town and in garrison; be waa in exuberant health and spirits; he danced night after night, aiffl was the most pop-ular partnerever welcomed In the parlors of hospitable San Francisco. And then all of a sudden there came tidings of an out-break among the Arinona Apaches-o- f so formidable a character that the division commander decided to send his lresidio troopers the one regiment that was trying to cover a whole territory. There was pathetic parting, with no end of lamentation, when Mr. Noel waa spir-ited away with his lynx eyed captain; but they need not have worried thoae fair dames and damsels; not a bait of his handsome head was in danger, for the th had grappled with and throttled their foe 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 z, 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 taken in hand-to-ban- d conflict by himself and 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 7B, and was on the Yellowstone when Custer and his favorite companies were lieing wiped out of existence on the Little Horn. The news of that tragedy made many heart sick, and Mr. Noel was so much affected that when his comrades started to make a night ride to the front to join what was left of the Seventh, he waa left liehind, ostensibly to sleep off a violent headache. He promised to ride after arid cateh them next day, but, through mme error, got aboaid (ien. 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 antecedent, gave hira a certificate on which he baaed an ap-plication for leave on account of siekns, and went to Bismarck with the wound-ed, and thence to the distant eaat, where he thrilled club and dinner tables with graphic account of the Custer iattle and how we got up just in time to save tho remnant of the Seventh. The Eleventh fought all through tbe campaign of "76 end the chase after Chief Joseph in "77; but Noel was again on temporary duty at the war department, ! and thero be stayed until 7H, by which time various officials had become ao ! qnainted with some of the facta in the caee. The Eleventh "cold ihould,Ted" ' bim for a while after be got back; but they happened to be now in a region ! when there were no "host ilea." and J where bops, gennans, theatricals, tab-- leanx and entertainments of all kinds were the rage. No otbr man could 1 half so useful to the ladie an Gordon NoeL He had jnt come Itum Washing-- ' ton and knew everything; and when they took him np and made much of ' him 'twas no use for the men to stand aloof; thty had to take him op too. Lane was adjutant of the regiment at this time; and he, having seen every re-port and t!T,yiixtfmj&.l some sharp or sarcastic speech thiit'was not always easy to bear in silence. Mrs. Judson, wife of the captain of B troop was reputed to be "down on Lane," and the men had no difficulty whatever in lo-cating the time when her change of heart took place. The truth of the matter was that, thanlw to simple habits and to his sense ,of economy, Lane had quite a snug little balance in the bank, and the ladies of the regiment believed it to bo bigger than it really was; and, having approved the furnishing and fitting up of his quar-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 tister "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 duty," what was Mrs. Loring's horror on discov-ering that pretty Pausy had fallen rap-turously in love with "Jerry" Lattimore, as handsome, reckless and impecunious a young dragoon as ever lived, and noth-ing but prompt measures prevented their marriage! Miss Fletcher was suddenly to the east, whither Jerry was too hard up to follow; and then, in bitterness of heart, Mrs. Loring 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 wore emptied coram publico, but against Lane she could 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 Bhe had almost too hos-pitably opened her doors to Miss Fletcher anil 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, Emmy was the gentle and modest creature who was destined so to bless him. The invitations to tea, the lures by which he was 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, thero 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 the river and near the little infantry cantonment at the Indian reservation; and thither the 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 en In-dian campaign, and for six months he never saw 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-a-nd still a bachelor. . , Securing pleasant quarters in the ad-joining street, Mr. Lano speedily made himself known at the club to which he had been paying his moderate annual dues without having seen anything of it but its bills for years past, yet never knowing just when he "fhtwant. drop in. Then he proceeded, after 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 acon-venie- nt 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 other almost every toy. Mr. Lane had started on his quest with a feeling akin to enthusiasm. Calm and reticent and retiring as he generally was, he felt at the piospectof once a glow of delight meeting "the old crowd;' but that more 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 him for a mmnte or two, and then, "Now, where are you stoppmg. Til be round to look you np the very first evening I can get away, and-- of course well have you at the house;" but Lane aaser to tret back to cler.rly saw he waa hi, d and so took his leave. Terry aa not know him at all rmtd he began to laufih. and then he Mandly mqtnred himself aU what he'd been doing with But the man who rped Sm from years. top to toe was Warden. Bua-- Z hours were over, and theu- - meedng occurred at the club. Two minutes after shaken hands, Warden waa Sine back to the log fire, SSSufatl. armholesof his wai his toes, his beadU coat, tilting on bjamoet affably jmd disttnctly "Come vn, crowd.' com up everybody! It's champnfliie toiiu." The colonel of the Eleventh cavalry was a gentleman, who had some pecul-iarities of temperament and disposition. This fact is not cited as a thing at all unusual, for the unbiased testimony of the subalterns and even the troop com-manders of every cavalry regiment in service would go far towards establish-ing the fact that all colonels of cavalry are similarly afflicted. One of the salient peculiarities of the commanding officer of the Eleventh was a conviction that nothing went smoothly in the rogimeut unless the captains were all on duty with their companies; for, while at any time Col. Itiirgs 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 gonTleman with the double bars on his shoulder. "Con-found tho man!" growled Capt. Greene, "here I've boon 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 calm rejoinder of a com-rade who had been similarly "cut" the year previous. "You should have laid siege to him through madanie 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, you 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 staff detail, and see how constant he is in his attentions to tho old lady. Now, I'll bet you anything you like the next plum that tumbles 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 say 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 littlo 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'1 - Greene somewhat gloomily nodded as-sent, and his companion, being wound up for the day, plunged ahead with his remarks: "Now, I'm just putting this and that together, Greene, and Til 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 I'll bet you even before he got it Riggs will have his letter Bkimming to Washington begging his immediate re-call and nominating a sub to take his place. IU give you odds on that; and I'll bet yon 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 tho jolliest laugh, the most all pervading voioe, the cheeriest personality of the lot were those of the gentleman whose nam Capt. Jim Rawlins had just spoken. "What you going to have fellows?" he called. "Here, Billy, old man, put up that tpelter; I steered the gang in here, and it's my treat Don't go, Forbes; cone back, old fellow, and Join us. Captain, what shall it be? Say, you all know Diek Cassidy of the Seventh. I heard such a good rig on him this morning. I got a letter from Tommy Craig, who's on duty at the war department, andhe told me that Dick was there trying to get one of these blusted college details. What d'ye suppose a cavalryman wants to leave his regiment for, to take a thing like that?' "Perhaps his health is impaired, Noel," said Wharton, with a humorous twinkle in his handsome eyes, "Even cavalry-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 iu to recuperate, all well and good; but I always supposed Cassidy was a stalwart in point of health and constitution. Who's going to the doctor's you, Jack?" Jack otherwise Lieut. John Tracy-sh- ook his head as he whiffed at the cig-arette he had just lighted and then stretched forth his hand for the foaming ghv ef beer which the attendant brought him, but vouchsafed no verbal reply. Lee and Martin edged over to where the two captains were playing their inevitable game of seven up. Two of the juniors young second lieutenants despite the extreme cordiality of Noel's invitation, begged to be excused, a they did not care to drink anything even a lemonade; and no sooner had tbe party finished their modest potation than there was a general move. Wallace and Hearn went into the billiard room; Wharton and Lee started in the direction of their 9iartgra;t.:r-d),presetitl- Mj.m Noel - wa u I Two missives had reached Mm. Fie rain was plashing dismally on the - lmy window sill and over the awning ItheBhops below. The street cars went Igling by with a dripping load of out--e passengers on both platforms. Wag-I-s and drays, cabs and closed carriages, lit rattled or rumbled along the ordi- - Irily busy thoroughfare," looked as lough they had been dipped in the river Ifore being turned loose on the street, Id their Jehus, a bedraggled lot, must Ids have something amphibious in lir composition, else they could not Ire borne up against the deluge that i ll been soaking the city for two days lit The policeman, waddling aimlessly loot at the opposite corner, enveloped in Ibber cap and overcoat, cast occasional Istful glances into the barroom across e way, wherein the gas was burning I deference to the general gloom that lerhung the neighborhood, and such pe-- Istrians as had to be abroad hurried Log under their umbrellas as though ley half expected to have to swim before ley conld reach their destination. The I'ise cloud of sooty smoke that had Ifrliiing the metropolis for weeks past, I l that wind from any direction could Iver entirely dissipate, for the simple lison that smokestacks by the score lit up in the outskirts on every side, Iw seemed to be hurled upon the roofs lil walls, the windows and the pave-len- t, in a black, pasty, carboniferous Iposit, and every object out of doors 1st one conld touch would leave its inky Iponseupon the hand. A more depress--g "spell of weather" had not been lown for a year, and every living being I sight seemed saturated with the lneral gloom every living being ex-- Ipt one. Capt. Fred Lane, of the Elev-It- h cavalry, was sitting at the dingy tudow of his office in the recruiting Indezvous on Sycamore street and actu-l-y whistling softly to himself in su-l?- contentment. iTwo missives had reached him that lastly morning that had served to lake him impervious to wind or weather, lie large, formal, impressive and bear-I- g the stamp of the war department in lavy type across its upper corner had Ime to him the notification of his pro- - I Hon to the rank of captain (Troop D) leventh cavalry, vice Curran, retired, lo other a tiny billet had given him fcn greater happiness. It might be Ird to say how many times he had read II reread it since he found it on 'the Iwy cloth of his particular breakfast I 'lein his particular corner of the snug iectoryof "The Queen City," on the loks of which most respectable if some-fi- at venerable club his name had been Ime among the list of army or navy limbers ever since his "graduation I've," fifteen years before. I All his boyhood, up to the time of his Inning his cadetship at West Point, had I'tn spent in the city where for the past fcteen months he had considered him-I- ", fortunate on being stationed on re-lating service. During the second year I tonn at the academy he was startled I the receipt of a sad letter from his Icther, telliug him briefly that his fa-le- r, long one of the best known among l business men of the city, had been Impelled to make an assignment What m worse he had utterly broken down fder the strain, and would probably Iver be himself again. Proud, sensitive I d honorable, Mr. Lane had insisted on lying to the utmost farthing of his Fans. Even the old homestead went, I'd the broken hearted man retired with V thfal wife to a humble roof in the tombs. There, a few months after-- I pd. he breathed his last, and there, fn"S Fred's graduating year, she fo-iled him. When the boy entered on Is career in the army he was practically 8 in the world. Out of the wreck of s father's fortune there came to him a tie sum that started him in the service from debt and that served as a nest ? t0 attract future accumulations. is he had promptly banked until some d and safe investment should present ,elf: and. once with his regiment on the Ww, Mr. Lane had found his pay f e for aU his needs. i unnecessary to recount the history 18 fifteen years' service as a subal- - Suffice it to say that, steering "ar of most of the temptations to which officers were subjected, he had a reputation as a capital "duty offi-- ;' that was accented here and there xm brilliant and dashing exploits nuinerous Indian campaigns ;aago which the Eleventh had passed no small credit Lane was never the jovial sows of th regiment s mood was rather taciturn and e. He read a good deal, and ,eat many days in the saddle exploring country in the neighborhood of his LTtm hnnting and fishing. , from the colonel down, there waa mm in the Eleventh who did not :;tMyrespertaadlikeMm. Among iad'es, however, there waa one or ' who never lost an opportunity of jmg the lieutenant a foline and not cawinS whenever his name np for discussion in the feminine weaves occasionally held in the regi-- ; Sometimes, too, when opportun- -' .lajwasmade the victimof UTAH NATIONAL BANK. Capital, $200,000. TmnmT PrrnrnsxT: 1 Orn or ri-r"- n r th fmnKjv W llJIH.tii.'l. June W. I Whi-M'a- tr U'rintJ Tldeno- - prMantM !o lb umtrmtinvl. tt aaa & maUn to aipar that the "l ull National tun ( fl - i ttv." tn ha (lir oC sail Lake. 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VV,l).i!ieiJ t.:ablt Trantarttn lltntrttl llmtkinj Jtuitt in all il llraneht. ulcbt draflu m tba prtnrlpal HUM t lhaworlil. luura rlrrular lttf oi rrnllt ant Hial monny unlT mi all arti r( ,tjf"$ and thniirlrnt. rcilllimi ir.nntlp attamW t,,. Iiana tiMiuny at Iba low,! rat" auU uit lha brat tanna pr, ailing la Ibl Biarkat, McCORNICK & CO., . 8ALT LAKH, I'TAU Canfvl nttrnttnn pliva In IS fintt of Orm a bullion. II vWkK t'uaatyaawaU, kV1 "9rki ptumt. COLLECTIONS MADE AT LOWEST RATES ACTIVE ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. VOIiIlKsrnl)KTS; New York- - lui an Tra.1. HU liana. Owra- - Nat. Hank, k'lmiua HrM, Chlratf'v 'immr lal Nt Mans. Kan t'ranri Kir- -l Nat. Han. Vnmkmf WfMMlworlh Nal. Hana. I miali omaha Nt. Ilank. Ml. tmla- - htab- - Hna "I lwla Kanaaamr- - " Ha "t Knaa'Kf MiiTr-tli'r- r Nat liana. I'Hf Ha. Kn !mtn. KitrfUud-Maaa- ra. Mattla 4 Ok, M taitutiartl aim!. Capital Full Paid, 9 100,000.00 HURPUIH. I20.0OO. Union National Bank, UNITED STATES DLT03IT0RT Transacts i General Banking laslaesi Oafs IVpoalt VsnlU, lira sad liarUf I'roof. Rents from $5to$25 per Annum j.n. wiiitn. rrwMMt, M. II. Wal.KKH. M. 4. UK Mat A W. I aahUr, L, If. rAKSIaWOKrM. A a.raahlar, 4. H HaLSi.lt, Jr, Aaaa, laafctM, az.mA.rn. rrvum pEAtESTATE ACINCY tava. Rata tm.n'Uimm rues, tlursa Jlaaaca '.ornn (ai(. Coi, AGENCY WARWICK HIGH-GRAD- E SAFETY BICYCLE. I rarry a abrk ot SAreTT ICTriR .is.oa), t--t . ., ts.m, iif.w. ua.e. taicuxu u4 MrtlftUM In p.ir-!i- frnm mn T'"l aa a alo,: U .. tt'a aoJ au m salt. LaJgaat wt aaa Lavaa rrlca a pr. Ia t.aaila, Oaaay HUarr, aaa. SHOT-GO'- S AT COST. Bit) tie anil ('ua Kepalrln?. AaiCAtl.aArM W RITISM MAC8I Cartion.1, Kibtxm an4 Papwv UL R. EVANS 2 W. SI Stiuia itnst, t5H L4 Q'f ' MEN YOU HEAR OF. William Morris, the English port, dec-orative artist aud Socialist, is 68 years years old. Austin Dohson is an engineer as well aa a poet, and draws a salary from the English civil tervice. Oovnronr Taylor, of Tenneosoe, Is a big limn, with broad shoulders and a deep chest. He wears a short iiiuatache and close cropped sido whiskers. Outfit J. Bellamy's new nov.i "Were They Sinners?" was completely rewritten three tiimw, and gone over for correction and revision, it is said, twelve times. A scheme has been taken In hnud by Lord Urasaey to turn Brussels into a sea-Hi- rt by building a canal and thn-- im-mense basins large enough to admit ahipt of 1,000 tons. Herman Onlrichs, who recently wed-ded Miss Fair, Is so good an athlete and lioxer tliat It is said he would like to tackle Sullivan himself if the frat could bo performed incog. Representative McKinley is a poot man, though he lnut been thirteen years in congress. H occupies two small rooms in a hotel. Ho is a hard and conscientious worker. James Horner, one of I'ittaburg'i weatbiest citizens, has a passion for gathering cacti, of which he vmc a large and rare collection. Ho also has many valuable orchiiia in his green-houses. Maj. Powell, of the national goolig-lea- l survey, is a rather short, thick ar t man, with a large head that is covered with shaggy gray hair. Hn Is an enter-taining talker and is very popular in Washington, Among the many gifts received by Mr. Stanley recently Is a well worn copy of Shakespeare works, from a tailoring man. Mr. Stanley was much gratifiVd by the receipt of it, and wrote tho giver, a cordial letter of thanks. It is said thut Cardinal Lavlgerio has built at Briska, on the northern edge of the Sahara, a building over wbotw door is inscribed "Bit Allah," the house of God, which is to be the borne of a new Catbolio order, th Brother of the Sa-hara. THEATRICAL CHAT. Edward Terry's ttnaltb has beu com-pletely reestablished by bis trip to India. The Paris Ojra ComIq tie's new build-ing is to cost ti,0K),OO", aud is to 1 su-perbly adorned with works of art. The Arcadia theatre at Bt. Prtoniburg has rwntly been with Mine, Uriirier-Montbaxo- n in "La Mow-otto.- " Mme. Janauwhi k is to have a new play for next waarm. It is called "lly Order of the Cxar," ami the scene are Laid in Ittuwia. "La Baaucbfl," an opera given at th Opera Coinhme iu I'aris, ha Wn with much favor. The story is amuiiing from banning to end, and M. Andre Mfuxager's inusia l bright and unconstrained. The well known English wttr, John Billington, has made a great hit in Aus-tralia in the character of John J'ewry-bingl- e in "Dot." This part, in ear!i r ytrars, was awx latM with the uame of Barnufl Emery, London's l.tUwt music hall U called the Tivoli Theatre of Vari-ti- n and is in the j Htrand. Tlio bhlt of buildings cost i $1.2.V),000; the theatre covers ao ara of 8,000 square feet ami it ornamentation is entirely Eaat Indian. Mme, Carvalho, to original creator of tbe roles of Juliette in Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette." f MriI!o, of Migtion ami so many other charming j operatic figures. ha iwvntly Sold hrr j superb collection of paintings at aortion. ART NOTES. .,, The sab of picturt at the London i Acad'my in lf-- have been uotbl. i Jan Van B.rs' "Htiula" brought s!M,0f. ! ' at the rate of tf) tin) square inch, one , Lcndoo pap;r rwmark. Tbe president of tbe Art inatituUs, of Chirac, it i r?prtl, hum mxnwi to j Spain valuable ivory and wi1 cavrvioipt, ! enam'--l and othr object to ad4 to tha J ct,Hection at the t, . |