6 SECONOMY CARRIED TOO FAK. j Old Ma.'.'s Thrift That Led Him Irtc Ridiculous Action. President J. G. Schurman of Cornell was discussing elective college -courses, of which In the freshman and «ot»homore years, he disapproves. "A freshman of 16 or 17," said Pres ident Schurman, "is too young to choose for himself the courses beat for film. His mind is not mature I enough. It will make mistakes. ""In its immaturity, its proneness to i «rror, it is like the mind of an old ] 'titan in my native Freetown. He, ; though old, was mentally undeveloped, j and saw nothing wrong or ridiculous > fin a piece of economy that he putin i iprsctiee in the cemetery. "The old man had lost four 'wives, and desired to erect for each a head iStmie, with an inscription commemora tive- of her wifely virtues. "But inscriptions, he found, were j ■very expensive. He economized in j £his way: 'He had the Christian name of each wife cut on a small stone above her Sirave —"Enrma," "Mary," "Hester," "Edith." Under each name a hand pointed to a large stone in the con- , '■ter of the lot, and under each hand . *were the words: ""For epitaph see large stone.'" OLD GENTLEMAN NOT PLEASED. Letter's Inscription Certainly the Re verse of Flattering. In the English club at Hongkong a White-haired old gentleman, who had •Come down from some northern port, was sealed at dinner when he sudden ly became very excited. He had been brought a letter by a solemn-faced Chi nese butler, and he saw something on the outside of this letter which sent him downstairs two steps at a time to interview the hall porter. When he came back he told us what was the matter. The hall porter had inscribed in the envelope, in Chinese, for the in formation of the butler: "This is for the old baboon with •white fur." Unfortunately for the hall porter, the old gentleman was a first-class iSCbolar in the Chinese language. THREE CURES OF ECZEMA. "Woman Tells of Her Brother's Terrible •Suffering—Two Babies Also Cured —Cuticura Invaluable. "My brother had eczema three dif ferent summers. Each summer it came out between his shoulders and down his back, and he said his suffering was terrible. When it came on the third summer, he bought a box of Cuticura Ointment and gave it a faith ful trial. Soon he began to feel better and he cured himself entirely of ec eema. with Cuticura A lady in In diana heard of how my daughter, Mrs. Miller, had cured her little son af terrible eczema by the Cuticura Remedies. This lady's little one haul f!ie eczema so badly that they thought they would lose it. She used Cuti cura Remedies and they cured her child entirely, and the disease never came back. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk, Cold water, Mich., Aug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1907." Such a Clever Waiter. Two gentlemen dining in a New York restaurant were surprised to find on the bill-of-fare the item, "green bltiefish." "Waiter," one asked, "what sort of flsh are green bluefish?" "Fresh —right out of the water," said the waiter, ofThand. "Nonsense," said the man. "You know well enough that they do not ♦ake bluefish at this season." The waiter came up and looked at the disputed item. "Oh, that, sir," he said, with an air of enlightenment, "that's a hot house blueflsh, sir."—Youth's Com panion. REDUCED COLONIST RATES. One-way tickets atspccial low rates on -sale daily throughout March and April, from all points on The North Western Line to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Puget Sound points. Daily and Personally conducted tours in tourist sleeping cars via tho Chicago, Union Pacific & North West ern Line. Double berth only $7.00 through from Chicago. For full par ticulars write S. A. Hutchison, Man ager, Tourist Dept., 212 Clark SL, Chi cago, 111., or address nearest ticket agent. Wouldn't Burn. The coal man came down like a wolf on the fold; • He jingled with silver, he tinkled with gold; lie sold us his specialty—"walnut" by name— And we slated our roof in the spring with the same. WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE. "From October to May, Colds are the most fre quent cause of Headache. LAXATIVE BROMO VCtNINE removes cause. E.W.Groveou bo* 2&c Actors who are egged off the stage ought to make a fresh start. I /k STORY Cv j [LANGFORD] j of -the J = THREE = BARS $ T tß>- n KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES I (Copyright by A. C. McClurg <fc Co., 1907.) , SYNOPSIS. Georse Williston, a poor ranchman, liigh-minded and cultured, searches for cattle missing: from liis ranch—the "Lazy S." On u wooded spot in the river's bed that would have been an island had the Missouri been at high water, he discovers a band of horse thieves engaged in work ing over brands on cattle. He creeps near enough to note the changing of the "Three liars" brand on one steer to the "J. R." brand. Paul Langford, the rich owner of the"Three Bars" ranch is sent for by Williston and is Informed of the operations of the gang of cattle thieves— a band of outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who long have defied the law and author ities of Kemah county, South Dakota, with impunity, but who, heretofore, had not dared to molest any of the property of the great "Three Bars" ranch. Willis ton shows ills reluctancy in opposing a band so powerful in politics and so dreaded by all the community. Langford pledges Williston his friendship If he will assist in bringing "Jesse Black" and his gang to Justice. Langford is struck with the beauty of Mary, commonly known as "Willlston's little girl." Louise Dale, an expert court stenographer, who had followed her uncle. Judge Hammond Dale, from the east to the "Dakotahs," and who is living with him at Wind City, is requested by the county attorney, Richard Gordon, to come to Kemah and take testimony in the preliminary hear ing of Jesse B/ack. She accepts the invi tation and makes her first trip into the wild Indian country. Arriving at Velpen across the river from Kemah. she is met by Jim Munson. a hot headed cowboy of the"Three Bars" ranch. In waiting for the train Munson looks at some cattle in the stock pen. In the herd being shipped to Sioux City by Bill Brown he detects old "Mag" a well known "onery" steer belonging to his employer of the"Three Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start for Kemah. They take lunch at the Bon Ami restaurant, conducted by Mrs. Mig gins, a great admirer of Itlchard Gordon, the county attorney. meat poisoning plot which resulted in the Illness of Williston. Langford and other witnesses for the state in the cattle thief case against Jesse Black. A buck hoard tries to block the way of Munson's team at the entrance to pontoon bridge across the river. Munson crowds past the buck board team wrecking the bucklmard. They arrive at Willlston's. Crowds as semble in Justice James R. McAllister's court for the preliminary hearing. Jesse Black springs the lirst of many great surprises, waiving examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a member of the out- Jaw gang, he had learned that the steer "Mag" had been recovered and thus saw the uselessness of lighting against being bound over. Richard Gordon, the county nttorney who is unpopular because of his many failures to secure convictions In court, wins the admiration of Louise, which is mutual. County Attorney Gor don accompanies Louise Dale on her re turn to - "Wind City. CHAPTER Vlll.—Continued. "Mrs. Higgins, at the Bon Ami," she continued, smiling. "I was so hungry when we got to Velpen, though I had eaten a tremendous breakfast at the Lazy S. But 5 o'clock is an unholy hour at which to eat one's breakfast, isn't it, and I just couldn't help get ting hungry all over again. So I per suaded Mary to stop for another cup of coffee. It is ridiculous the way I eat in your country." "It is a good country," he said, sob erly. "It must be —if you can say so." "Because I have failed, shall I cry out that law cannot be enforced in Kemah county? Sometimes—may it be soon—there will come a man big enough to make the law triumphant. He will not be I." He was still smarting from his many set-backs. He had worked hard and had accomplished nothing. At | the last term of court, though many cases were tried, he had not secured one conviction. "We shall see," said Louise, softly. Her look, straight into his eyes, was a glint of sunshine in dark places. Then she laughed. "Mrs. Higgins said to me: 'Jimmie Mac hain't got the sense he was born with. His little, dried-up brain'd rattle 'round in a mustard seed and he's get tin' shet o' that little so fast it makes my head swim.' She was telling about times when he hadn't acted just fair to you. I am glad—from all 1 hear— that this was taken out of his hands." "I can count my friends, the real ones, on one hand, I'm afraid," said Gordon, with a good-humored smile; "and Mrs. Higgins surely is the thumb." "I am glad you smiled," said Louise. "That would have sounded so bitter if you had not." "I couldn't help smiling. You—you have such a way. Miss Dale." It was blunt but it rang true. "It Is true, though, about my friends If I could convict —Jesse Black, for instance —a million friends would call me blessed. But I can't do it alone. They will not do it; they will not help me do it; they despise me because I can't do it, and swear at me because I I try to do it—and there you have the whole situation in a nutshell. Miss Dale." j The sun struck across her face. He reached over and lowered the blind. "Thank you. But it is "vantage in' now, is it not? You will get justice before Uncle Hammond." Unconsciously his shoulders straightened. "Yes, Miss Dale, It is "vantage in.' One of two things will come to pass. I send Jesse Black over or " CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908. he paused. His eyes, unseeing, were fixed 011 the sliding landscape as it appeared in rectangular spots through the window in front of them. "Yes. Or " prompted Louise. softly. "Never mind It is of 110 conse quence," he said, abruptly. "N'o foi»r of Judge Dale. Juries are my Water loo." "Is it, then, such a nest of cow ards?" cried Louise, intense scorn in her clear voice. "Yds," deliberately. "Men are afraid of retaliation—those who are not actually blood-guilty, as you might say. And who can say who is and who is not? Hut he will be sent over this time. Paul Langford is on his trail. (live me two men like Lang ford and that, anachronism an hon est man west of the river—Williston, and you can have the rest, sheriff and all." "Mr. Williston—he has been unfor tunate, has he not? He is such a gentleman, and a scholar, surely." "Surely. He is one of the finest fellows 1 know. A man of the most sensitive honor. If such a thing can be, I should say he is too honest, for his own good. A man can be, you know. There is nothing in the world that cannot be overdone." She looked at him earnestly. His eyes did not shift. She was satisfied. "Your work belies your words," she said quietly. Dust and cinders drifted in between the slats of the closed blind. Putting her handkerchief to her lips, Louise looked at the dark streaks on it with reproach. "Your South Dakota dirt is so— black," she said, whimsically. "Better black than yellow,he re torted. "It looks cleaner, now, doesn't it?" "Maybe you think my home a fit dwelling place for John Chinaman," pouted Louise. "Yes—if that will persuade you that South Dakota is infinitely better. Are you open to conviction?" "Never! I should die if I had to stay here." "You will be going back —soon?" "Some day, sure! Soon? Maybe. Oh, I wish I could. That part of me w'aich is like Uncle Hammond says, 'Stay.' But that other part of me which is like the rest of us, says. 'What's the use? Go back to your kind. You're happier there. Why 1 "I Shall Send Jessie Black Over —" should you want to bo different? What does it all amount to?' I am afraid I shall be weak enough and foolish enough togo back and —stay." There was a stir in the forward part of the car. A man, hitherto sit ting quietly by the side of an alert wiry little fellow who sat next the aisle, had attempted to bolt the car by springing over the empty seat in front of him and making a dash for the door. It was daring, but in vain. His companion, as agile as he, had seized him and forced him again into his place before the rest of the pas sengers fully understood that the at tempt had really been made. "Is he crazy? Are they taking him to Yankton?" asked Louise, the pretty color all gone from her face. "Did he think to jump off the train?" "That's John Yellow Wolf, a young half-breed. He's wanted up in the Hills for cattle-rustling—United States court case. That's Johnson with him, deputy United States marshal." "Poor fellow," said Louise, pityingly. "Don't waste your sympathy on such as he. They are degenerates—many of these half-breeds. They will swear to anything. They inherit all the evils of the two races. Good never mixes. Yellow Wolf would swear him self into everlasting torment for a pint of whiskey. You see my cause of complaint? But never think. Miss Dale, that these poor chaps of half breeds, who are hardly responsible, are the only ones who are willing to swear to damnable lies." There was a tang of bitterness In his voice. "Per jury, Miss Dale, perjury through fear of bribery or self-interest, God knows what, it is there I must break, I sup pose, until the day of judgment, un less —I run away." Louise, through all the working of his smart and sting, felt the quiet re serve strength of this man beside her, and, with a quick rush of longing to do her part, her woman's part of com forting and healing, she put her hand, small, ungioved, on his rough coat sleeve. "Is that what you meant a while ago? But you don't mean it, do you? It is bitter and you do not mean it. Tell me that you do not moan it, Mr. Gordon, please," she said, impulsively. Smothering a wild impulse-to keep the hand where it had lain such a brief, palpitating while, Gordon re- mained silent. God only knows what human longing he crushed down, what intense discouragement, what sick de sire to lay down his thankless task and flee to the uttermost parts of the world to bo away from the crying need he yet could not. still. Then lie answered simply, "I did not mean it. Miss Dale." And then there did not seem to be anything to say between them for a long while. The half-breed had set tled down with stolid indifference. People had resumed their newspapers and magazines and day dreams after the ileeting excitement. It was very warm. Louise tried to create a little breeze by flicking her somewhat be grimed handkerchief in front of her face. Gordon took a newspaper from his pocket, folded it and fanned her gently. He was not used to the little graces of life, perhaps, but he did this well. An honest man and a kindly never goes far wrong in any direction. "You must not think, Miss Dale," he said, seriously, "that it is all bad up here. I am only selfish. I have been harping on my own little corner of wickedness all the while. It is a good land. It will be better before long." "When?" asked Louise. "When we convict Jesse Black and when our Indian neighbors get over their mania for divorce," he answered, laughing softly. Louise laughed merrily, and so the journey ended as it had begun, with a laugh and a jest. In the judge's runabout, Louise held out her hand. "I'm almost homesick," she cried, smiling. CHAPTER IX. The Attack on the Lazy S. It was late. The August night was cool and sweet after a weary day of intense heat. The door was thrown wide open. It was good to feel the night air creeping into the stifling room. There was no light within; and without, nothing but the brilliant stars in the quiet, brooding sky. Williston was sitting just within the doorway. Mary, her hands clasped idly around her knees, sat on the doorstep, thoughtfully staring out into the still darkness. There was a stir. "Bedtime, little girl," said Willis ton. "Just a minute more, daddy. Must we have a light? Think, how the mosquitoes will swarm. Let's goto bed in the dark." "We will shut the door, and next summer, little girl, you shall have your screens. I promise that, always providing, of course, Jesse Black leaves us alone." Had it not been so dark, Mary could have seen the wistful smile on the thin scholarly face. But though she could not see it, she knew it was there. There had been fairer hopes and more generous promises in the past few years. They had all gone the dreary way of impotent striving, of bitter disappointment. There was little need of light for Mary to read her father's thoughts. "Sure, daddy," stie answered, cheer ily. "And I'll see that you don't for get. As for Jesse Black, he wouldn't dare with the Three Bars on his trail. Well, if you must have a light, you must," rising and stretching her firm fleshed young arms far over her head. "You can't forget you were born in civilization, can you, daddy? I am sure 1 could be your man in the dark, if you'd let me, and I always turn your night-shirt right side out before hanging it 011 your bedpost, and your sheet and spread are turned down, and water right at hand. You funny, funny little father, who can't goto bed in the dark." She was rummaging around a shelf in search of matches. "Now, I have forgotten long since that I wasn't born on the plains. It wouldn't hurt me if I had misplaced my nightdress. I've done it," with a gay little laugh. He must be cheered up at all costs, this buffeted and disap pointed but fine-minded, high-strung and lovable father of hers. "And I haven't taken my hair down nights since—oll, since months ago, till —oh, well —so you see it's easy enough for me togo to bed in the dark." (To Be Continued.) VARIETIES IN HUMAN SPECIES. Sourea sf Everything That Is Beautiful and Interesting. Each human being has something distinguishing, in form, proportions, countenance, gesture, voice—in feel ings, thought, and temper, in mental as well as corporeal physiognomy. This variety is the source of every thing beautiful and interesting in the external world —the foundation of the whole moral fabric of the universe. Certain external circumstances, as food, climate, mode of life, have the power of modifying the animal organi zation, so as to make it deviate from that of the parent. But this effect terminates in the individual. Thus, a fair Englishman, if exposed to the sun, becomes dark and swarthy in Bengal; but his offspring, if from an English woman, are born just as fair as he himself was originally; and the chil dren, after any number of-generations that we have yet observed, are still born equally fair, provided there has been no intermixture of dark blood. Blow to Medicine Cranks. "There is one good thing about the passing of the boarding house," said the sad-eyed man,"and that is, it has done away with the man who ostenta tiously takes his medicine at the table. It is impossible for a man to do a thing like that at a cafe. He would bo ignominiously ousted, if not by the outraged guests, by the waiter in attendance or by the watchful proprie tor, who usually has the feelings of his guests at heart." RAKE TOOTH GATE HANGER. New and Novel Use to Put Worn-Out Rake Teeth. A correspondent of the Prairie Farm er writes saying that he has been fusing old broken or worn-out rake teeth for handling his gates. He sends a sketch showing the meth od which is sim ple. This farme, - takes teeth to his shop, where he has a forge, and after heating them l4fSr~ and bends the iJSSSLa/ other in the form of a large staple. In case he is using six-inch board in his gate, he makes the loop in the staple seven inches so as to allow plenty of sliding space for the gate board. The legs of the staple are left about six or eight inches long so that when two holes are bored into the posts, quartering as shown in the cut, the staples will be reasonably firm. The reason for boring the holes quartering is obvious, inasmuch as it is necessary to secure sufficient space to open and swing the gate to one side. ONE MAN SWING SAW. Device by Which the Farmer Can Manage Big Saw Himself. This saw frame is of Ix 2 inch pieces, except sills which are of 2x4. vHHf The Saw Frame. Frame is made 14 inches wide with guide in center. Make any height to suit, suggests the Agricultural Epitom lst, using a common crosscut saw. STUDYING THE SOIL. The Successful Farmer Must Know Nature of His Land. To be successful in its cultivation, the farmer must study his soil. If he expects to hold and increase the soil's fertility, rendering it fit for cultiva. tion, it is necessary that he should know of what it is made. Knowing that he can intelligently add to or Bubtract from the ingredients in which it is deficient, or with which it super abounds. A fertile soil is one of apparently good texture, or peats, containing sul-> phate of iron, or any acid matter; and yet such a soil can be remedied by a top dressing with lime, which converts the sulphate into manure. By the ap plication of sand or clay, says the Epitoraist, a soil in which there is an excess of limey matter can be im. proved. A dressing of clay, marl 01 vegetable matter will likewise benefit a soil that is too abundant in sand. Peat will improve light soils and peat will be improved by a dressing of sand, though the former in the course of nature is but a temporary improve ment. Soils which are loose in their tex. ture, neither so light as to become readily dry, nor so heavy that they will get too wet in rainy weather, are the most fertile. The amount of nitro gen in the soil largely determines its fertility. This nitrogen is stored up only by previous generations of plants. The most fertile field can sooner or later be brought to a state of exhaus tion by severe cropping, in which more nitrogen is removed from the soil in the crop than is formed and stored up in the soil during the same period. FARM FACTS. Don't be a dead one. Get out of the rut. The proper handling of a farm calls for thought as well as work. It pays to study every field and crop. The waste of the farm will pay the Interest on the mortgage if handled right. Weeds may be turned into seven-cent lambs and mutton. Half the money spent each year for wagons could be saved if better care was taken of the old ones. Make it a rule not to leave the old wagon out of doors over night. The farmer who raises some grain and keeps a few cows will find that a flock of 100 to 300 fowls can be made very valuable. The skim milk and the grain will be well paid for fed to good fowls. Give a Little Feed. Look for the roosting places of par tridges and quail and throw them some feed during February and March if the snow is deep or the ground cov ered with a crust of ice. They are both valuable birds around the farm, particularly the quail, which eat many injurious insects'. Post your firms and do not allow anyone to shoot your friends. Syruprffigs eraia Cleanses the vSy.stem Effect ually; Dispels Colds and Head aches clue to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts truly as a Laxative. 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