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THE ASHEVXLLE DAILY CITIZEN. TUESDAY, MARCH 15; 1898. mmm n 9 Nos. 40 and 42 Pattern Avenue. & Lru 0r Regular dDpening of Fine IDress (Broods, Silks and all the ILatest Umported Fabrics Will TTalke IPIace THURSDAY MIGHT RiARGH .17 COroiiyiEMGiMG AT 8 O'CLOCK. Our big store has never been so full of the latest Novelties as it is this Spring. We have taken pains to make this the most complete and successful affair that we have ever offered the people of Asheville. An important change will be made in our system of business this Spring. This will be explained to you by the different salesmen. Everybody invited to this grand display, and especially all strangers in the city will be welcomed. -Ml. 1 5 Grandest display of HIINE FRENCH AIND DOMESTIC All UU1INERV ever seen in the State will be on exhibition at our big opening THURSDAY INIOHT. One hun dred FINE PATTERN HATS will be shown in tliis department. We have secured more talent than ever before, and will be able to turn out better and nicer Hats than has ever been seen for the price. One of our strong features will be fine goods of the very latest design for medium money. Our buyer spent five weeks in this department, and we can safely say that all the newest and latest designs in fine millinery have been secured. It will pay those intending buying to inspect this feature of our Big Store. Many lines will be -olaced on sale far below the Thursday Night, ftlarch 1)7 At 8 O'Clock. ?7t- TN3LEjnj ' rvnrt-r frto." Aoj.x mm int. tm, v K T T" riiaptcrsi I. ami II. At Fort llussell, a fr.ntit-r I'nlted States army ist. I.i. utvnant Slaynard meets Miss Na thalie Ituirri. Maynard rinds a susplc .,u character lurkinjf under Miss fanard' window. rilAPTF.lt III. t'ontinufd. Somebody elbowetl a way to the side of the Tictiro and his amateur nurses, a glaaH of whisky in his baud the oue restnratiTB almost rare-to be obtainable on the frontier and Maynard forced a few drops between his patient's teeth. "That won't help, lieutenant, " chuckled bystander. "Nutbiu short of four fin gers will begin to tell on his ninons. He's copper lined, he is," whereat th assemblage snickered. Maynard repeat ed the dose, and a fluttering sigh was the speedy response. The sponge wa actively plied. More whifky was ad ministered, this time with less diffi culty, and then the feeble baud soujibf to find the batterexl bead, but fell bad limply. "Open his shirt, lieutenant,' suggested the man who knew biiu as Boston, and the young officer's hand ought the heary muffler that wastwiht ed loosely about the neck. A coarse blue flannel shirt was revealed, was opened at the throat, and then a pack age in oiled silk, banging by a silken cord, was found, and then came a doc tor. Lifting an eyelid, he poepod into the dull pupil, felt the pulse and placed his band over the heart. "My office is only a few steps away. Lift him up and bring him there," said he, in the quiet, authoritative tone of the professional who had dwelt long among men moet of whose dead he had attended immedi ately before or after their sudden disso lution and had seen them buried as they fell, with their boots on. The order was obeyed in silence. A shutter wa I lifted from its binges at the nearest sa loon, the patient was hoisted thereon and the march began. Maynard stopped a moment ... "Xjeave fcicnuitt nere wltn my Horse, sergeant, and go with the other men to gather what yott can of the absentees. This has made a diversion in on favor. lLjrin you at the Empire presently." CTuiscontented crowd hovered at tha foot of the doctor's stairs. That level headed pewonage. had ordered out every tMHiy bat UntlatoUoai and the man who knew the patient as Boston, but he opened to Maynard 's knock. "Come in, lieutenant," he promptly said, as soon as he saw the face at the door. "Yon gave this biff fellow a abarp lesson, but 1 fancy he deserved It. These gentle men" (here be winked sagely at the racer) "have giveu me the particulars. No," he continued, "there's no frao tnre, no serioas concussion. He'll oome around presently. All . that's likely to be necessary is a quiet room and com plete rest for a few days. We have no publio hospital as yet. The coroner's office ord inarily is all that is necessary. " "Will you kindly see that he gets every attention, doctor, and send the hill to me at the fort? My n&ma'a Mar-. prices paid by other houses. Our goods are bought from manufacturers by the case and we nard, " said the officer. ' r'Now I have' to join my men, if I can be of no further use or service here," whereupon the two shook hands and parted. - Buffalo Coat followed to the door. "You're a d d good fellow, lieu- tenaut," said be, "and I'm sorry the gang behaved as they did. It was the sergeant they were after, not you. He's all right, too, only he gets huffy when they guy, and that's uuts for the crowd. Now I'll let you into the whereabouts of your strays. Thero was only one at the Empire, lying dead drunk in the back room, but there's a raft of 'em across the road at Ilaimifin's, some in plain c-lorlies. Their money's about giv en out, and bo'll bo glad to got rid of em. " Maynard thanked the man rather coldly and impatiently, too, though he could hardly say why, mounted his horse, overtook tlio patrol a few blocks away and imparted the tidings to his sergeant. Two minutes later they had dismounted again in a side street, mo lested ami followed no longer, though the populace still hovered curiously about barroom doors. The corporal with two men was sent through a back alley to the rear yard and doorway of Hanni fiu's place. Maynard and bis party sud denly apiseared at the invitingly open front, and with the tacit consent of the proprietor began their search of the premises, up stairs and down. From under beds and out of closets they draped three of the absentees; then they invaded the cellar. Almost immediately there was a rush from a dark corner, a crash of boxes and barrels upon tho resounding floor. The ser geant's lantern was shivered to bits. There followed a sound of blows, curses and struggles. Two dim figures bounded away up the steps, and Maynard, striv ing to follow, stumbled over a prostrate form, and then, suddenly conscious of a sharp pang in the side, found bis search ing hand deluged with bis own blood And everything growing dim and dark about him. Before he had finished bandaging pa tient number one Dr. Tarry was hur riedly summoned to Hannifin 's . by the report that Lieutenant Maynard had been stabbed to death. There was a telegraph line from Cheyenne to the adjutant's office at Fort Russell in those days. Orderly call had jnst sounded and- the adjutant was still at his work whtVj in came the sol dier operator with white. Beared face. Lieutenant," said he, "the town offioe mvs Loot 'n ant Maynard 'a stabbed tnrougn the heart trying to arrest de serters." The colonel and Major Barry had been having a consultation about the probable movement of the battalion to the field and were just coming forth into the halL , Both heard the abrupt an nouncement. Both started tbe colonel into the adjutant's room, the major for his home. "For God's Bake keep it quiet as you can," were the latter's words, "at least until I've had time to break it to my ife." . ' CHA'PTEK IV. A spell of dull weather bad fallen on the fort. Except when a snowstorm was raging the Wyoming skies were gener ally clear and cloudless, and they had bad earlier in the month a snowstorm fierce enough and long enough to render further specimens entirely unnecessary, i The wind, had taken a freak of hlowina- from the south for 86 hours, and the men were scurrying about without over coats the men of Stannard'a battalion, that is, for, true to prediction, Barry had gone. Buxton and Freeman, Ray mond and Turner, Gregg and Wayne, Truscott and Ray were the eight cap tains whose troops were quartered at Russell. Buxton was away on leave, but his troop was in Barry's battalion, and so were Freeman's, Raymond's and Wayne's. There wasn't a woman whoso hus band had to go who did not think dowp in the bottom of her heart that it ought to have been the other battalion, or at least that if one had to go both should have gone, and most of them said so. To Mrs. Barry there were greater trial and hardship iu the separation from her devoted husband than to the wives of many of his juniors. But she was si lent. Nathalie Baird alone knew what it meant to the invalid, and her own attentions would have been redoubled, but Mrs. Stannard bad promptly ap peared to Log thjt she might take the major's placoat the afternoon readings, and Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Atherton, the colonel's wife, had been almost equally insistent, and otker ladies bad called to know if there wasn't something they could do even Mrs. Turner, who never read anything. And they all had so much to say about "dear Mr. Maynard," and what a shocking thing it was, and how dreadful to have to wire to his home people that be was so seriously wounded. His mother, it appears, was dead, his father old and too feeble to undertake tbe long journey, but his sis ter was alreadvon the way. He Mill la.v He still lap tn a room at the Inter Ocean. in a room ' at the Inter Ocean in town, too severely injured and too weak to be moved. There was fear of fever; possi bly of blood poisoning, so said the serv ants, and his friends at the fort could only Bubmit. Atherton was an angry man when told all that had transpired in town. He came down, said the troopers, like a thou sand of brick on te fellows brought back by the patrol and had caused rewards to be offered for tbe two 6till at large, one of whom at least had been guilty of stabbing the lieutenant. Maynard and his men, coming from the brightly lighted saloon into the dark cellar, could see nothing. The two skulkers. whose eyes had become accustomed to the gloom, and who were aided by the ' . . . ...... .. . Droaa streaK 01 iignt irom tne trap in the saloon floor, had plainly seen the searchers as they descended, had made their bold rush . for freedom and easily escaped. But this they could have done without bloodshed, and even those who had been their friends at the fort would none of them now. 4 SUMIER The'' stabbing of young Mr. Maynard was absolutely without justification even by men who had prison staring them in the face. They were crazed by protracted drinking was the only ex planation, but it was nothing more than explanation ; it was no excuse. Ever since the end of S2ptember the previous year the young officer had been steadily on duty with his troop. It takes much less than five months for veteran sol diers to take the measure of, or, as they express it, "size up," an officer, and Maynard was thoroughly well liked .by the men of the entire command. Only those black sheep of the fold, the ir reconcilable toughs, who are to be found to the number of two or three in almost every garrison, could find it in their hearts to say aught against him. As luck would have it the two deserters still at large were characters of this type blackguards incarnate, who had served doubtless under other names in more than one company until the looce recruiting methods of that day had landed them in Buxton's troop. Here so long as the burly captain was on duty they had no bad time. Buxton had a peculiar affiliation for the tough ele ment of the rank and file, possibly be cause he had spent some years before the war as one of them. But Buxton had gone on leave, and his first lieuten ant was giving the troop a needed straightening out, a process that in volved Privates Yell and Culligan in disciplinary methods hitherto untried and led to their determination to sever, for the third or fourth time probably, tbe bonds that welded them to Uncle Sam. No vestige of doubt remained that these ruffians, or one of them at least, had dealt Maynard the well nigh fatal blow, and had the garrison had its say all Fort Russell would have joined in tne searcn and pursuit, and a short shrift and sudden cord would have been the lot of both. And so it happened that Nathalie Baird found herself sorely missing tbe sight of that dashing rider and the sound of his cheery, ringing voice as she took her afternoon exercise on the prairie and could not help thinking a great deal about him and feeling very, very full of interest and pity and not a little desire to be of some use to him in his critical state. She could not help wishing it was tbe proper, the obvious, thing for young girls like herself to be come the nurses and caretakers of war riors wounded in the line of duty. They did such things in romance and fiction, but Nathalie had never read"Ivanhoe" and the host of stories that blessed their hero with such sweet companionship and care. She found herself wondering very much what Mr. Maynard 's sister would be like and wishing she knew her and could go to see her, and ruminating over all these things Nathalie's step was slower, her ees downcast and her round, soft cheek lost the lively flush that buoyant health and exercise had given it. There were still some young fellows left in the garrison, though both Dana and Hunter had gone with the field column, tbe latter in Maynard Pc in Wayne's troop, but something .u--. oll U D a wouia rawer oe aione .jusi now, ana noting her pallor and the wistful, anx ious look with which the blue eyes re garded everybody who bad just oome out from town garrison gossips began to talk, especially Mrs. Turner. Then Maynard's sister eacb.ed Chey- enne, was met at the train hy "Major and Mrs. Stannard ar.d the adjutant and escorted at once to her brother's bedside at the hotel, where a communicating room had been made ready for her. She proved to be older than the sufferer by several years, and a woman whom grief, anxiety and care had told upon before her thirtieth year. She was a trifle cold and undemonstrative, too, thought the trio who met and welcomed her, but ev ery allowance was made. "Some of us will be in every day un til Mr. Maynard is well enough to be moved," said Mrs. Stannard, "so you must be sure to let us know of any thing that you or he may need, and when you do come to Russell we have spare rooms in bur big quarters, and you're to come right there, both of you. " Miss Maynard had no idea how kind this was of Mrs. Stannard. She did not realize that her brother had only a sin gle room under a roof that could barely cover an ordinary parlor, yet that had to shelter the abodes of three bachelor subalterns two besides himself. But Miss Maynard was very, very glad to go to the Stannards when, five days later, the doctors and nurses lifted her soldier boy into the yellow ambulance, trundled him slowly out to the fort and then bore him up stairs into the major's front room. April had come by that time, and a warm south wind, as has been said, played for several days, and the skies were murky, the air soft and unusually humid, and Maynard was presently allowed to sit propped np in bed, while Grace, his adoring sister, read to or chatted with him, and the doctors let him see occasional visitors. Mrs. Stannard was there by the hour, and the stern colonel had called and had been most kind and thoughtful, and, so far from finding fault, had praised Maynard's conduct, and still the paHt was not happy. TO BE CONTINUED. Many Think! When it was eaid to the woman: "In sorrow shalt thoubrinr forth chil dren," that a perpetual curse was pronounced, but the thrill of joy felt by every Mother when she clasps to her heart her babe proves the con trary. True, dangers lurk in the pathway of the Expectant Mother and should be avoided. "Mother's Friend" So prepares tbe system for the chan ge taking- place that the final hour is robbed of all danger and pain. Its use insures safety to tbe life of both Mother and child, and makes child birth easy and recovery more rapid. Int by tiBrna. i rrwlt rf prtw.ll.ie PER BOTTLE. Boo "To Expectant Mothers." niallei frre. con tatninar TmlaabU lufonuatiuu mntl ToianUirT tekU onials. Th BndfleM Beffilator Oft., IHutt, C. SOLO BV ALL DOUQQISTS. CITY MARKET. Corrected dally by W.F. Snider, wholesale and retail grocer. These prices are being paid by the merchnnts ot the city today: Butter... 15r20 Apples t75ol00 Eggs . 7 Apples, dried 4to7 Chlckeni .. 10f Horghnm 20 to a Turkeys BOTal.SO Beeswax, per lb 80 IWcks l.V30 Honey J0aU2 Potatoes, sweet.. 6tort Wheat jqo Potatoes, Irlsh...6itoH0 Corn 4H Turn! pa ax40 M eal -8 Onkn 1.2ftt .85 Cabbage' per lb 2 Ry, , &6 Beans perbu..75 to 1.00 Hay, ton .14.00O1&00 Peas tt to 75 Celery, per dtx.'OyjoO Read the advertisement of . Hotel "Entire," New York, on pace 4. jig' $sr&&$fe4n can easily undersell those buying from jobbers. & C Notice. State of North. Carolina, Buncombe county. By virtue of the power and authority vested in me as trustee in a certain deed of trust executed by D. T. Millard and wife, Josephine E. Mil lard, on the 6th day of June, 1893, to secure to Mary S. Cutting the payment of one certain note therein described for the sum of $3000 and interest, de fault having been made in the payment of said note and a portion of the in terest when the same became due. and payable, and the power of sale contain ed in said deed of trust having become operative, and having been requested by the owner and holder of said note to make sale of the lands hereinafter and in said deed of trust particularly described, to satisfy said debt and in terest accrued, I will sell, to the high est bidder for cash, at public outcry, at the front door of the court house in the city of Asheville, county of Bun combe, North Carolina, on FRIDAY, THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL, 1898, At 12 o'clock noon, the following des cribed piece or parcel of land or city lot, situate, lying and being in the county of Buncombe and State of North Carolina and in the city of Ashe ville, and bounded and more particular ly described as follows: Beginning at a stake in the northern margin of. Orange street, the southeast corner of J. W. Schartle's land, and running with the northern margin of said street south 88 degrees east 9 poles and 2 links to a stake, the southwest corner of O. H. Henry's land; thence with the west ern boundary of said O. H. Henry's said land north 2 degrees east 300 feet to a street to be opened from Central avenue (formerly called "Bridge street) to Merrimon avenue (formerly called Beaverdam street) the northwest cor ner of O. H. Henry's said land; thence with said street to be opened north 88 degrees west 9 poles and 2 links to a stake, the northeast corner of J. W. Schartle's said land; thence with east ern boundary of J. W. Schartle's said land south 2 degrees west 300 feet to the beginning, containing one acre and one-twentieth of an acre, more or less, and being the same land conveyed to said D. T. Millard by J. M. Gudger, jr., and wife by deed dated the 24th day of June, 1890, recorded in book of deeds No. 71, page 417. In the office of the Register of Deeds of Buncombe county. Said deed of trust above described is a second deed of trust upon said prop erty, there being a first deed of trust upon the same for $1125, dated July 1, 1890, executed by said D. T. Millard and wife to H. A. Gudger, trustee. This the 12th day of March, 1898. H. DOUBLEDAT, ! Trustee. 3-15d4t-tues MOTTO;: cme L JAMES H. LOUGHRAN-QProprietor 56 and 58 South Main Street, Asheville, N. Cs ' 'Phone 139. P. 0. Box 372. OMP Charleston & Western Carolina "Augusta and Asheville Short Line." In effect October 3. 1897. Lv Augusta 9 :40am 1:40pm Ar Greenwood 12:17am Ar Anderson 6:10pm At Laurens l:15pm 1:10pm Ar Greenville 3 : 00pm 1 10 :15am Ar Spartanburg 3:00pm Ar Asheville 6:45pm Lv Asheville 8:20am Lv Spartanburg 11:45am 4:30pm 4:00pm 7:30pm Lv Greenville Lv Laurens .. Lv Anderson , Ar Greenwood ..11:55am 1:15pm 7:00am 2:28pm 9:35pm Ar Augusta 6:00pmll:10am Ar Aiken 6:50pm Close co nee t Ions at Greenwood for all points on S. A. L. and C & G. Rail way, and at Spartanburg with South ern Railway. For information relative to tickets, rates, schedules, etc., address W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt. Augusta. Ga. T.'M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Notice. Having qualified as executor of B. Zager, deceased, late of Asheville, State of North Carolina, county of Buncombe, this is to notify all persons having claims against the . estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 8th day of March, 1899, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 8th day of March, 1898. SAM FINESTEIN, Executive. M. Meyers, attorney. 3-8-d6t Tues Notice. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of A. J. Massey, this is to notify all parties holding claims against the estate to present them to me for payment within 12 months from the date of this notice, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Persons indebted to the estate will come in and settle. March 11, 1898. J. McD. WHITSON, . 3-lld30t Administrator. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Hav ing qualified as administratrix of the estate of Catharine M. Hichborn, dee'd, ail persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to pre sent the same within 12 months from this date, or this notice will be plead in bar of same. All persons owing said estate are requested to come forward and settle same at once. HARRIET L. HICHBORN, Adm'x of Catharine M. Hichborn. 3-1 6w tuesday . "QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY." t inend iquor ffouse. WE DEFY COMPETITION ON ALL KINDS WINES AND LIQUORS. OUT OF TOWN ORDERS SOLICITED. n fC " ... .. ,......." ... III THE CHEAPEST FIREWOOD. FOR SALE THROUGH All Coal Dealers -AND- All Grocery Stores Which Have a 'Phone. Hendersonville & Brevard R.R. T. J. RICKMAN, Manager. In effect Sunday, December 5, IS 97. NO. 2. 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