6
Midshipmen and Marrlagi.
Midshipmen and piarriage ara Inter
•sting the navy department at pres
ent considerably. In the last three
years more than one midshipman lias
been dismissed from the service for
marrying before he has been graduated
from Annapolis. Also there have been
Increasingly numerous requests to the
navy department from passed mid
■btpinen asking permission to mar
ry. The department has been thus
far lenient with Cupid and has granted
most of these requests.
MIX FOR RHEUMATISM.
A prominent specialist gives the
following as a never failing remedy
for rheumatism, and says that If fol
lowed up it will effect a complete
cure of the very worst cases. "Mix
•tie-half pint of good whiskey with
one ounce of Toris Root Compound
and add one ounce Syrup of Sarsapar
tlla Compound. Take in tablespoonful
doses before each meal and at bed
time." The ingredients can be pro
cured at any drug store and easily
mixed at home.
Laugh and Fat; No.
There is nothing in the maxim
*lau:}h and grow fat" or else the joke-
Bmiths fail to grow mirthful over their
own merrymaking.
Great humorists seldom are fat. P.
P. Dunne is the heaviest, weighing
about ICO pounds. The weight of
others living is: Mark Twain, 150
pounds; George Ade, 147; Jerome K.
Jerome, 143, and W. W. Jacobs, 132.
O. Henry is really a great humorist,
iut he is in the 180-pound class.—
Heme Magazine.
IT SEEMED INCURABLE
Body Raw with Eczema —Discharged
from Hospitals as Hopeless—Cuti
cura Remedies Cured Him.
"Prom the age of three months until
fifteen years old, my son Owen's life
was made intolerable by eczema in its
worst form. In spite of treatments the
diseaso gradually spread until nearly
every part of his body was quite raw.
lie used to tear himself dreadfully in
his sleep and the agony he went
through is quite beyond words. The
regimental doctor pronounced the case
hopeless. We had him in hospitals
four times and ho was pronounced one
of the worst cases ever admitted.
From eacli he was discharged as in
curable. We kept trying remedy
after remedy, but had gotten almost
past hoping for a cure. Six months
ago we purchased a set of Cuticura
Remedies. The result was truly mar
velous and to-day he is perfectly cured.
Mrs. Lily Hedge, Camblewell Green,
England. Jan. 12, 1007."
An industrious man can easily earn
his own living, but the trouble is he
usually has to earn a living for a lot
of others.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
have a world-wide reputation for cor
ing coughs, sore throats and relieving
bronchitis and asthma.
Most people who talk too much get
it where Tessie got the beads, sooner
or later.
ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE"
Thai Is I.AXATIVK ltltOMc>\JtJlNINK. look to*
tho sliciiuture of K. W. <JK<)VK. tho World
©Tor to Cure a Cold In One Day. £»c.
Experience begotten of matrimony
I a great teacher.
THOS. CALE, OF ALASKA,
MEMBER OF U.S. CONGRESS
Well Knozvn on the Pacific Slope. His
Washington Address is 1312 qth St.,
N. IV., Washington, D. C.
CONGRESSMAN THOS. CALE.
Hon. Thos. Cale, <vho was elected to
Congress"from Alaska, is well known on
the Pacific slope, where lie has resided.
His Washington address is 1313 Stli St.,
N. W., Washington, I). C.
Washington, D. C.
Peruna Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen: I can cheerfully recom
mend Peruna as a very efficient rem•
ody for coughs and colds.
Thomas Cale.
Hon C. Slemp, Congressman from
Virginia, writes: "1 have used your val
uable remedy, I'eruna, witli beneficial
results, and can unhesitatingly recom
mend your remedy as an invigorating
tonic and an effective and permanent
'cure for catarrh."
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
TSERTALT^
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KATE AND VIRGSL D. BOYLES
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(Copyright by A. C. McC'lurg tic Co., 1W7.)
SYNOPSIS.
Oenrgo Williston. a poor ranchman,
high minded and cultured, searches for
cattle missing from his ranch- the "Lazy
S." On a wooded spot in the river's lied
that would have hecn an island had the
Missouri hern at high water, he discovers
a band of horse thieves engaged in work
ing over brands on eat lie. He creeps
near enough to note the changing of the
"Three Kars" brand on one steer to the
"J. R." brand. Paul Langford, the rich
owner of the"Three Mars" 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 1 itikola,
with impunity, but who. heretofore, had
not dared to molest any of the property
of the great "Three liars" ranch. Willis
ton shows his reluctantly in opposing a
band so powerful in politics and so dread
ed 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 "Williston's little girl."
CHAPTER 111.
Louise.
It was raining when she loft Wind
City, hut the rain had soon been dis
tanced. Perhaps the judge was right
when ho said it never rained north |
or west of Wind City. But the judge I
had not wanted her to go. Neither
had the Judge's wife.
Full 20 minutes, only day before
yesterday, the judge had delayed his
day's outing at the mill where the
Jim river doubles right around on its
tracks, in order to make it perfectly
clear to her that it was absolutely
outside the bounds of her duty, thai
it was altogether an affair on the side,
that she could not be expected togo,
and that the prosecuting attorney up
there had merely asked her out of
courtesy, in deference to her position.
Of course he would he glad enough to
get her, hut let him get some one
nearer home, or do without. It was'nt
at all necessary for the court report
er to hold herself in readiness to an
swer the call of anything outside her
prescribed circuit duties. To be sure
she would earn a trifle, but it was a
hard trip, a hard country, and she
had much better postpone her initial
journey into the unknown until the
regular term of court, when he could
be with her. He had then thrown his
minnow seine over his shoulders,
taken his minnow pail In one hand
and his reel case and lunch box in
the other, and walked out to the road
wagon awaiting him at the gate, and
so off to his frolic, leaving her to
fight it out for herself.
The judge's wife had not been so
diplomatic, not by any means. She
had dwelt long and earnestly, and no
doubt to a large extent truly, on the
uncivilized condition of their neigh
bors up the line; the roughness of
accommodations, the boldness and
license of the cowboys, the daring
and insolence of cattle thieves, and
cunning and dishonesty of the Indians,
and the uncouthness and viciousness
of the half-breeds. She had ended by
declaring eloquently that Louise would
die of lonesomeness if, by God's good
providence, she escaped a worse fate
at the hands of one or all of the many
evils she had enumerated. Yes, it
was very evident Aunt Helen had not
wanted her to go. But Aunt Helen's
real reason had been that she held
it so dizzily unconventional for her
niece togo to that wild and unholy
land alone. She did not. actually fear
for her niece's personal safety, and
Louise more than half suspected the
truth.
She had heard all the arguments
before. They had little or no terrors
for her now. They were the argu
ments used by the people back in her
eastern home, those dear, dear peo
ple, her people—how far away she
was! —when they had schemed and
plotted so pathetically to keep her
with them, the second one to break
away from the slow, safe, and calm
traditions of her kin in the place
where generation after generation of
her people had lived and died, and
now lay waiting the great judgment
in the peaceful country burying
ground.
She had listened to them dutifully,
half believing, swallowed hard and
followed her uncle, her father's
youngest brother, to the "Land of the
Dakotahs."
Now, that same dear uncle was a
man of power and position in the new
land. Only last November he had
been reelected to his third term on
the bench of his circuit with a big,
heart-stirring majority. In the day
of his prosperity he had not forgot
ten the little, tangle-haired girl who
had cried so inconsolably when he
went away, and the unaccountable hor
ror in whose eyes ho had tried to
laugh away on that, never-to-be-forgot
ten day when he had wrenched his
heartstrings from their safe abiding
placo and gone forth in quest of the
pot of gold at the rainbow's end—
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1908.
tTin first nf many generations. Tradl- '
tion knew no other since bis ances
tors had felled forests and built homes
of hewn loss. NOW he had sent for
Louise. His court reporter had re
cently left him for other fields of
labor.
There was commotion among her
people on receipt of the astounding
proposition. She lived over again
the dark days of the first flitting. It
might well be her uncle had exag
gerated the dangers of life in the new
land. It was great fun to shock his
credulous relatives. He had surely
written them some enormous tales
during those 15 years and more. He
used to chuckle heartily to himself
at reading some of the sympathizing
replies. Hut these tales were held in
evidence against him now that he
dared to want Louise. Every letter
was brought out. by Louise's dear old
grandmother and read to her over
again. Louise did not half believe
them, but they were gospel truth to
her grandmother and almost so to
her father and mother as well. She re
membered the old spirit of fun ram
pant in her favorite uncle, and while
bis vivid pictures took all the color
from her sensitive face, deep down in
her heart she recognized them for
what they were worth. The letters
were a strange medley of grasshoppers,
blizzards and Indians. Hut a ten-dol
lar per diem was a great temptation
over a five-dollar per diem, and times
were pretty hard on the old farm.
More than all, the inexplicable some
thing that hail led her uncle to throw
tradition to the four winds of heaven
was calling her persistently and would
not. be denied.
The dear hero of her childhood
was much changed to be sure; his
big joints had taken on more flesh
and he had gained in dignity of de
portment what he had lost in ease of
movement. His once merry eye had
grown keen with the years of just
judging. The lips that, had laughed
so much in the old days were set in
lines of sternness. Judge Hammond
Dale was a man who would live up to
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Louise.
the tenets of his high calling without
fear or favor, through good and evil
report. Yet through all his gravity
of demeanor and the pride of bis in
tegrity, Louise . instinctively felt his
kindliness and loved him for it. The
loneliness fell away from her and a
measure of content had come in its
place, until the letter had come from
the state's attorney up in Kemah
county:
My Dear Miss Dale: The pightpenth of
August is the date set for the prelimin
ary hearing of Jesse Black. Will you
come and take the testimony? I am very
anxious that the testimony be taken by
a competent reporter and shall be grate
ful to you if you decide to come.
The Judge will tell you about our p.~r>T
accommodations. Let me recommend '•">
your consideration some ROO<I friends of
mine, the Willistons, father and daiijr'.i
for. They live three miles northwest of
Kemah. The judge will remember Wil
liston, Oeorge Williston of the Lazy S.
They are cult"red people, though their
way of living is necessarily primitive, r
am sure you will like it better there than
at our shabby little hotel, which is a
rendezvous for a pretty rough class of
men. especially at court time.
If you decide to come, Mary Williston
will meet you at Velpen. Please let me
know your decison. Very sincerely.
RICHARD GORDON.
So here she was, going into the In
dian country at last. A big state,
South Dakota, and the phases of its
civilization manifold. Having come
so far, to refuse togo on seemed like
turning back with her hand already on
the plow, so with a stout heart she had
wired Richard Gordon that she would
go. Hut it was pretty hard now, to
be sure, and pretty dreary, coming
into Velpen knowing that she would
see no one she knew in all the wide,
wide world. The thought choked her
and the impish demon, loneliness, he
of the smirk and horns and devil's
eyes, loomed leeringly before her
again. Hlindly, she picked up her um
brella, suit case and rain coat.
"Homesick?" asked the kindly brake
man, with a consolatory grin as he
came to assist her with her bag
gage.
She bit her Hp in mortification to
think she had carried iter feelings so
palpably on her sleeve. Hut she nod
ded honestly.
"Maybe it won't be so bad," sym
pathized the brakeman. His rough
heart had gone out to the slim, fair
haired creature with the vague trou
ble in her eyes.
"Thank you," said Louise, grate
fully.
There was a moment's bewilderment
on the station platform. There was
no one anywhere who seemed to be
Mary—no one who might be looking for
her. It was evening, too, the lone
some evening to those away from
home, when thoughts stab and memo
ries sap the courage. Some one push
ed her rudely aside. She was iu the
way of the trucks.
! "Chuck it ' None o* your nasa, my
i lad! There's my fist. Heft it if you
: don't put no stock in its lo<:ks. Git
out o' this, I say!"
The voice was big and convincing.
The man wasn't so big, but some way
he looked convincing, too. The truck
man stepped aside, but witj plucky
temerity answered hack:
"Get out yourself! Think you own
the whole cattle country, jest 'cause
you herd a few ornery, pink-eyed,
slab-sided critters for your salt?
Well, the railroad ain't, the range,
ie' me tell you that. Jest you run
your own affairs, will you?"
"Thanky. Glad to. And as my af
fairs is at present a lady, I'll thank
you to just trundle this here railroad
offspring to the back o' this here lady
—the back, I say—back ain't front,
is it? Wasn't where I was eddicated.
That's better. And ef you ain't sat
isfied, why, I belong to the Three
Bars. Ever hear o' the Three Hars?
Ef I'm out, jest leave word with the
boss, will you? He'll see I git the
word. Yes, sir, you ol' hoss thief, I
belong to the Three Bars."
The encounter was not without in
teresting spectators. Louise's brake
man was grinning broadly at the dis
comfiture of his fellow employe. Louise
herself had forgotten her predicament
in the sudden whirlwind of which she
was the innocent storm center.
The cowboy with the temper, having
completely routed the enemy to the
immense satisfaction of the onlook
ers, though why, no one knew exact
ly, nor what the merits of the case,
turned abruptly to Louise.
"Are you her?" he asked, with a per
| ceptible cooling of his assertive bra
vado.
"1 don't know," said Louise smiling
fearlessly at her champion, though in
wardly quaking at the intuition that
had flashed upon her that this strange,
uncouth man had come to take the
place of Mary. "The boldness and li
cense of the cowboys," her aunt had
argued. There could be no doubt of
the boldness. Would the rest of the
statement hold good?
"I think maybe I am, though I am
Louise Dale, the new court, reporter.
I expected Miss Mary Williston to
meet, me."
"Then you are her," said the man
with renewed cheerfulness, seizing her
suit case and striding off. "Come
along. We'll git some supper afore
we start. You're dead tired, more'n
likely. It'll be moonlight so't won't,
matter ef we are late a-gittin' home."
"Court reporter! I'll be doggoned!"
muttered the brakeman. "The new
girl from down east. A pore little
white lamb among a pack o' wolves
and coyotes, and homesick a'ready. No
wonder! I'll be takin' you back to
morrow, I'm thinkin', young lady."
He didn't know the "little white
lamb" who had come to help Paul
Langford and Dick Gordon in their big
fight.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
PROBABLY NOT ON PAY ROLL.
Father's Occupation Would Likely Be
News to Lord Clare.
"The late Frederick McNally had oc
casion," said a Chicago lawyer, "to
consult me about an infringed copy
right. Mr. McNally said he thought
there would be no trouble about cor
recting this infringement. The thing,
he believed, had been innocently done.
The man who had done it was an ama
teur in publishing—unsophisticated —■
like a girl his father used to tell about
in Ireland. This girl was the daughter
of a poor man, and every week or so
she used to come to the village rec
tory with a pheasant or a hare to sell.
The price she asked was low, and
for a time the pastor bought of her.
Then somehow, his suspicions were
aroused. The next time the girl call
ed, he said to her sternly: 'lt is good,
fresh game you bring, my dear, and
your price is always reasonable; but
do you come by all these pheasants
and hares honestly?" 'Oh, shure, yes,
yer reverence,' said the young girl.
'My father is poacher to Lord Clare.'"
As Might Be Expected.
A man who, with his family, bad
spent several weeks at a fashionable
summer resort, discovered one morn
ing that he had lost his pocketbook.
Thinking it possible that it might have
been found by some employe of tho
hotel at which he was staying, he re
ported his loss to the landlord.
"That's too bad, Mr. Johnson," said
that functionary. "I'll make inquiries
about it. What kind of pocketbook
was it?"
"Russian leather," answered the
lodger.
"What color?"
"Dark red."
"Any distinguishing marks about
it?"
"It had a clasp."
"What was the shape of it?"
"Flat, of course," said Mr. Johnson.
"Haven't 1 been here more than a
month?" —Youth's Companion.
Trying for Faker Prize.
He didn't set himself up to be a na
ture faker, but be confessed he knew
a story which, if not exactly accurate,
was at all events somewhat brilliant.
"This happened in the cottage of a
peasant who had his quiver full of
children. When the baby was put to
sleep at night every one in the family
was enjoined to be quiet. They were,
including the dog. One night, how
ever, the dog fancied the room wasn't
as quiet as it should be. There was
an old-fashioned clock in the corner
i of the room, which ticked somewhat
loudly with its ponderous pendulum.
The dog, thinking that this ticking
might disturb the baby, went cn tip
toe. and, putting his paw against the
pendulum, stopped it. And that's a
fac " Hut even the oysters on
i the counter gaped with astonishment
—New York Press.
HORTICULTURE
HOW TO GRAFT TREES.
Simple Directions Plainly Told Which
You Will Need Next Season.
A scion is a portion cut from a
plant, to be inserted upon another
I (or the same) plant, with the inten
; tion that it shall grow. The wood for
scions should be taken while in a dor
mant or resting condition. The time
usually considered best is after the
leaves have fallen, but before severe
freezing begins. The scions should be
cut in about six-inch lengths from ma
tured new wood from bearing trees
of known variety; then tied in bunch-
tMNNIB SCIONS
SPLITTING Till STOCB SCION <N»I«T«D '
T SC°iO« IN M_«» OBAPUNG «A» APPLISD
Cleft Grafting from Start to Finish.
es and placed in T.oist sand, where
they will not freeze and yet will be
kept cold enough to prevent growth.
Good results may be followed by
cutting scions in the spring just be
fore or at the time the grafting is to
be done, but it is a much better plan
to cut the scions in the fall.
The stock is the tree or part of a
tree upon which or into which the bud
or scion is inserted. For best results
in grafting it is essential that the
stock be in active, growing condi
tion.
When in the spring the sap begins
to move in the stock, be ready; this
occurs early in the plum and cherry,
and later in the pear and apple. Do
the grafting if possible on a mild day
during showery weather. The neces
sary tools are a chisel or a thick
bladcd knife or a grafting iron (with
which to split open the stock after
it is sawed off smoothly with a fine
tooth saw,) a hammer or mallet to
aid the splitting process, a very sharp
knife to trim the scions, and a supply
of good grafting wax. Saw off a
branch at the desired point, split the
stock a little way down, insert a
scion at each outer edge—taking care j
that the inner bark of the scion fits
snugly and exactly against the inner
bark of the stock. This —together
with the exclusion of air and mois
ture until a union results —constitutes
the secret of success. Trim the scions
wedge-shaped, as shown in the pic
ture; insert them accurately; the
wedge should be a trifle thicker on
the side which comes in contact with
the bark. Then apply the grafting was
and the job is done.
VALUE OF WOOD ASHES.
They Will Give Rich Returns If Ap
plied to Fruit Trees.
Where wood is burned save the
ashes. They are too valuable to be
thrown aside with those from the
coal fires. Ashes left from burning
brush, etc.; even when in small quan
tity, should also be utilized, as the
potash in them is a splendid ferti
lizer for fruit trees. I distribute wood
ashes under peach trees during the
winter as fast as they accumulate,
sometimes spreading them on top
of snow. The result on the trees and
fruit is marked.
Wood ashes will have a tendency
to overcome, with apple trees, the
ofT year in bearing. When spreading
ashes remember that the roots of a
tree extend for some distance; there
fore do not put them too near the
trunk, but scatter them about at
Borne little distance, depending upon
the size and shape of the tree.
American Apples.
America is the greatest apple grow
er of the world. Europe produces
many apples, and so do the other con
tinents. Even Australia and New
Zealand are producing and exporting
apples; but in no part of tho world
have the people paid so much atten
tion to apples as they have in the
United States. The first settlers
brought apples with them from Eu
rope and they seem to have had a
mania for sticking down the seeds
everywhere. There is probably no
state in the union in which apples are
not raised. They do best in the cold
sr parts of the country, where they aro
found in greater abundance.
Fine Apple Orchard.
What is said to be the greatest
showing by a young apple orchard
was made last season by J. O. Marks
of the Hood river district of Oregon.
For the first grade fruit from a two
acre orchard of Spitzenburgs he re
ceived $570.75. He had 150 five-year
old trees on this tract that produced
IS3 boxes No. 1 apples. The second
grade fruit paid the entire expenses,
leaving the amount stated as net
profit.
Making Bone Meal.
The bones wo putin a barrel with
an equal amount of wood ashes and
keep them moist. In a short tlm® the
bones will be as fine as the ashes sad
make an excellent fertilizer.
More proof that Lydia E. Pink
ham's VepretahleCompound saves
woman from surgical operations.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardiner,
Maine, writes:
" I was a great sufferer from femalo
troubles, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table, Compound restored me to health
in three months, after my physician
declared that an operation was abso
lutely necessary."
Mrs. Alvina Sperling:, of 154 Cley
bourne Ave., Chicago, 111., writes:
"I sv.ffered from female troubles, a
tumor and much inflammation. Two
of the beat doctors in Chicago decided
that an operation was necessary to savo
my life. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound entirely cured me without
an operation."
FACTS FOR S3CK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, mado
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Typical Farm Scene, Showing Stock Raiting ia
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Entry may now be made by proxy (on certain
conditions), by the father, mother, son, daiiKb
ter, brother or sister of an intending home
steader. Thousands of homesteads of 160 acree
each are thus now easily available in these
great grain-growing, stock-raising and mixed
la rilling sections.
There you will And healthful climate, good
neighbors, churches for family worship, schools
for your children, good laws, splendid crops,
and railroads convenient to market.
Entry fee in each case is SIO.OO. For pamph
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