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"It's a sthrange thing, ain't it, Norah," asked one of the girls, "how nianny new koinds of diseases people get these days. Only this mor-rnin' I were readin' an advertisement of a new midicine. It said it were wonder rfulTfor a sluggish liver." "Gwan!" exclaimed the other girl, eeornfully. "Liver trouble an't no new disase. Me own grandfather was harfn' liver trouble whin I were not more'n tin years old." "Maybe," was the laconic response. "But," added Norah, "what I want to know is: how do thim slugs get inside the liver, anyhow?"—lllustrated Sun day Magazine. ECZEMA FOR 55 YEARS. Suffered Torments from Birth—ln Frightful Condition—Got No Help Until Cuticura Cured Him. "I had an itching, tormenting ecze ma ever since I came into the world, and I am now a man 55 years old. I tried all kinds of medicines I heard of, but found no relief. I was truly a frightful condition. At last I broke out all over with red and white boils, which kept growing until they were asjaig as walnuts, causing great pain and misery, but I kept from scratching as well as I could. I was so run down that I could hardly do my work. I used Cuticura Soap, Oint ment, Resolvent, and Pills for about eight months, and I can truthfully say I am cured. Hale Bordwell, Tipton, la.. Aug. 17, 1907." "I cheerfully endorse the above tes timonial. It is the truth. I know Mr. Bordwell and know the condition ha was in. Nelson R. Burnett, Tipton, la." TOO MUCH. w Eddie — I- don't mind so much dat I quit smoking 'cause you ast me ter, but ter be refused after I'd gone an' washed me handsome face fer a week straight—well, honest, I didn't think it of yer. Sees America a Heaven. Prof. W. B. Elkin of the University of Missouri believes that Ameriea will be a veritable heaven 'on earth within 180 years, and he goes onto tell why in an article which he has written for the American Journal of Sociology. Among other things which will be a feature of the millennium he pictures ts a reformed press. Newspapers, he uys, will be printed and edited by the colleges. A Necessity of Life. The liquor men say that Americans every year spend less money for liquor than for chewing gum, proprietary medicines, candy, perfumes and hair oil. However, Americans simply must have hair oil. The General Demand of the Well-informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and aflieient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com ponent parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its ex cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Siisir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup wo. proceeds along ethical lines and relies ♦n the merits of the laxative for its remark able success. That is one of many reasons why ©yrtp of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given fch« preference by the Well-Informfld. "3fo get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale *y all leading druggists. Price fifty canto par bottle. ( ■ i ■ *nrrfT-rny-h 7 SERIAL y ( t jQ STORY {\J LANGFORD | of the | = THREE se BARSS 112 KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES I (Copyright bj A. C. MctJiurg & Co., 1107.) SYNOPSIS. George Williston. a poor ranchman, Aigli-minded and cultured, searches for cattle missing from his ranch—the "Lazy 8." On a 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 Bars" brand on one steer to the "J. K." brand. I'aul 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 his 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. Itichard Gordon, to come to Kemah and take testimony in the preliminary hear ing of Jesse Black. 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 liars" ranch. In waiting for the train Munson looks at some cattle in the stock pen. In the lierd 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 Hy Mrs. Hig- Kins, a great admirer of Richard Gordon, tile county attorney. Louise is told of a 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 buckboard tries to block the way of Munson's team st the entrance to pontoon bridge across the river. Munson crowds past the buck board team wrecking the buckboard. They arrive at Willlston's. CHAPTER VII. The Preliminary. Very early in the morning of the gay set for the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black the young owner of the Three Bars rode over to Velpen. He identified and claimed the animal held over from shipment by Jim's per suasion. Brown gave possession with a rueful countenance. "First time Billy Brown ever was taken in,"he said, with great disgust. Langford met with no interruption to his journey, either going or coming, although that good cow-puncher of his, Jim Munson, had warned him to look sharp to his pistols and mind the bridge. Jim being of a somewhat belligerent turn of mind, his boss had not taken the words with seriousness. As for the fracas at the pontoon, cow men are touchy when it comes to a question of precedence, and it might well be that the inflammable Jim had brought the sudden storm down on his head. Paul Langford rode through the sweet early summer air without let or hindrance and looking for none. He was jubilant. Now was Willis ton's story verified. The county at torney, Richard Gordon, had consid ered Williston's story, coupled with his reputation for strict honesty, strong and sufficient enough to bind Jesse Black over to appear at the next regular term of the circuit court. Under ordinary circumstances the state really had an excellent chance of binding over; but it had to deal with Jesse Black, and Jesse Black had flourished for many years west of the river with an unsavory character, but with an almost awesome reputa tion for the phenomenal facility with which he slipped out of the net in which the law —in the person of its unpopular exponent, Richard Gordon —was so indefatigably endeavoring to enmesh him. The state was prepared for a hard fight. But now—here was the very steer Williston saw on the island with its Three Bars brand un der Black's surveillance. Williston would identify it as tho same. He, Langford, would swear to his own ani mal. The defense would not know he bad regained possession and would not have time to readjust its evidence. It would fall down and hurt itself for the higher court, and Dick Gordon would know how to use any inadver tencies against it —when the time came. No wonder Langford was light hearted. In all his arrogant and un hampered career he had never before received such an affront to his pride and his sense of what was due to one of the biggest outfits that ranged cat tle west of the river. Woe to him who had dared tamper with the concerns of Paul Langford of the Three Bars. Williston drove in from the Lazy Sin ample time for the mid-day din ner at the hotel —the hearing was set for 2 o'clock —but his little party con tented itself with a luncheon pre pared at home and packed neatly and appetizingly in a tin bucket. It was not likely there would be a repetition of bad meat. It would be poor policy. Still, one could not be sure, and it was most important that Williston ate no bad meat that day. CAMERON COUNTV PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908. Gordon mot (hem In the hot, stuffy little parlor of the hotel. "It was good of you to come," he said to Louise, with grave sincerity. "I didn't want to," confessed Louise, honestly. "I'm afraid it is too big and lonesome for me. I am sure I should have gone back to Velpen last night to catch the early train had it not been for Mary. She is so—good." "The worst is over now that you have conquered your first impulse to fly," he said. "I cried, though. I hated myself for it, but I couldn't help it. You see I never was so fer from home before." He was an absorbed, hard-working lawyer. Years of contact with the plain, hard realities of rough living in a new country had dried up, some what, his stream of sentiment. Maybe the source was only blocked with debris, but certainly the stream was running dry. He could not help thinking that a girl who cries be cause she is far from home had much better stay at home and leave the grave things which are men's work to men. Rut he was a gentleman and a kindly one, so he answered quietly, "I trust you will like us better when you know us better," and, after a few more commonplaces, went his way. * "There's a man," said Louise, thoughtfully, on the way to McAllis ter's office. "I like him, Mary." "And yet there are men in this coun try who would kill him if they dared." "Mary! what do you mean? Are there then so many cut-throats in this awful country?" "I think there are many desperate men among the rustlers who would not hesitate to kill either Paul Lang ford or Kichard Gordon since these prosecutions have begun.- There are also many good people who think Mr. Gordon is just stirring up trouble and putting the county to expense when he can have no hope of conviction. They say that his failures encourage the rustlers more than an inactive policy would." "People who argue like that are either tainted with dishonesty them selves or they are foolish, one of the two," said Louise, with conviction. "Mr. Gordon has one stanch sup porter, anyway," said Mary, smiling. "Maybe I had better tell him. Precious little encouragement or sympathy he gets, poor fellow." "Please do not," replied Louise, quickly. "I wonder if my friend, Jim Munson, has managed to escape 'bat tle, murder and sudden death,' includ "One of 'Em, I'm a Thinkin', Was Jake Sanderson." ing death by poison, and is on hand with his testimony." As they approached the office the crowd of men around the doorway drew aside to let them pass. "Our chances of worming ourselves through that jam seem pretty slim to me," whispered Mary, glancing into the already overcrowded room. "Let me make a way for you," said Paul Langford, as he separated him self from the group of men standing in front, and came up to them. "I have watered my horse," he said, flashing a merry smile at Mary as he began shoving his big shoulders through the press, closely followed by the two young women. It was a strange assembly through which they pressed; ranchmen und cowboys, most of them, just in from ranch and range, hot and dusty from long riding, perspiring freely, redolent of strong tobacco and the peculiar smell that betokens recent and inti mate conpanionship with that part and parcel of the plains, the horse. The room was indeed hot and close and reeking with bad odors. There were also present a large delegation of cattle dealers and saloon men from Velpen, and some few Indians from Rosebud agency, whose curiosity was insatiable where the courts were con cerned, far from picturesque in their ill-fitting, nondescript cowboy gar ments. Yet they were kindly, most of the men gathered there. Though at first they refused, with stolid resentment, to be thus thrust aside by the breezy and aggressive owner of the Three Bars, planting their feet the more firmly on the rough, uneven floor, and serenely oblivious to any right of way so arrogantly demanded by Mie big shoulders, yet, when thev perceived for whom they way wa.s being made, most of them stepped hastily aside with muttered and abashed apologies. Here and there, however, though all made way, there would be no red faced or stammering apology. Some times the little party was followed by insolent eyes, sometimes by malig nant ones. Had Mary Williston spok en truly when she said the will for bloodshed was not lacking fn the country? But if there was aught of hatred or enmity in the heavy air of the impro vised courtroom for others besides the high-minded counsel for law and order Mary Williston seemed serene ly unconscious of it. She held her head proudly. Most of these men she knew. She had done a man's work among them for two years and more, in her man's work of riding the ran ges she had had good fellowship with many of them. After to-day much of this must end. Much blame would ac crue to lier father for this day's work among friends as well as enemies, for the fear of the law-deflers was an omni-present fear with the small own er, stalking abroad by day and by night. But Mary was glad and there was a new dignity about her that be came her well, and that grew out of this great call to rally to the things that count. At the far end of the room they found the justice of the peace en throned behind a long table. His hon or, Mr. James R. McAllister, more commonly known as Jimmie Mac, was a ranchman on a small scale. He was ignorant, but of an overweening conceit. He had been a justice of the peace for several years and labored under the mistaken impression that he knew law; but Gordon, on short ac quaintance, had dubbed hiin "Old Ne cessity," in despairing irony, after a certain high light of early territorial days who "knew no law." The prisoner was brought in. His was a familiar personality. He was known to most men west of the river —if not by personal acquaintance, cer tainly by hearsay. Then came the first great surprise of tlfc affair of many surprises. Jesse Hlacik waived examination. It came like a thunderbolt to the prosecution. It was not Black's way of doing busi ness, and it was generally believed that, as Munson had so forcibly though inelegantly expressed it to Billy Brown, "He would fight like hell" to keep out of the circuit courts. He would kill this incipient Nemesis in the bud. What, then, had changed him? The county attorney had rath er looked for a hard-fought defence— a shifting of the burden of responsi bility for the misbranding to another, who would, of course, be off some where on a business trip, to be absent an indefinite length of time; or it might be he would try to make good a trumped-up story that he had but late ly purchased the animal from some Indiana cattle-owner from up country who claimed to have a bill-of-sale from Langford. He would not have been taken aback had Black calmly pro duced a bill-of-sale. The absoluteness of the surprise flushed his clean-shaven face a little, although his grave immobility of ex pression underwent not a flicker. It was a surprise, but it was a good surprise. Jesse Black was bound over under good and sufficient bond to ap pear at the next regular term of the circuit court in December. That much accomplished, now ho could buckle down for the big fight. How often had he been shipwrecked in the shifting sands of the really remarkable decis ions of "Old Necessity" and his kind. This time, as by a miracle, he had es caped sands and shoals and sunken rocks and rode in deep water. A wave of enlightenment swept over Jim Munson. "Boss," he whispered, "that gal re porter's a hummer." "How so?" whispered Langford, amused. He proceeded to take an in terested, if hasty, inventory of her charms. "What a petite little person age, to be sure! Almost too colorless, though. Why, Jim, she can't hold a tallow candle to Williston's girl." "Who said she could?" demanded Jim, with a fine scorn and much re lieved to find the boss so unapprecia tive. Eden might not be lost to them after all. Strict justice made him add: "But she's a wise one. Spotted them blamed meddlin' hoss thieves right from the word go. Yep. That's a fac\" "What 'blamed meddlin' hoss thieves,' Jim? You are on intimate terms with so many gentlemen of that stripe—at least your language so leads us to presume—that I can't keep up with the procession." "At the bridge yistldy. I told you 'bout it. Saw 'em first at the Bon Amy—but they must a trailed me to the stockyards. She spotted 'em right away. She's a cute'n. Made me shet my mouth when i was a blabbin' too much, jest before the fun began. Oh, she's a cute'n!" "Who were they, Jim?" "One of 'em, I'm a thinkin', was Jake Sanderson, a red-headed devil who came up here from hell, I reckon, or Wyoming, one of the two. Nobody knows his biz. But he'll look like a stepped-on potato bug 'gainst I git through with him. Didn't git onto t' other feller. Will next, you bet!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Keep Burglars Out. Buy at any hardware store a small, plain hinge, one and one-half inches long by one inch wide when closed, or smaller. Screw one side of hinge upright onto the lower right-hand corner of upper window sash, direct ly above the slight flange on all up per sashes. See that the hinge is toward and almost touching the win dow casing. This will leave one side of ifle hinge free to turn. When wishing to fasten window turn the free side of the hinge as far back aa possible. This brings it over the low er sash. !i will be invisible from the outside, but will prevent the lower sash being raised or the upper one lowered. When hinge is closed it will not interfere with raising win dow, and does not disfigure or weak en the window sash. EYES ON MADEIRA SYNDICATE WOULD MAKE IT A RIVAL OF MONTE CARLO. Negotiations with Portuguese Govern ment Under Way for Conces sion in the Island Off the West Coast of Africa. Monte Carlo is an immensely profit able resort for her owners, and why should not another similar pleasure and gaming resort be equally profit able? Such is the question which has often arisen in the minds of men who have noted with envious eye the pros perity of the Monte Carlo establish ment and who have had a desire to found a similar resort in some other favorable location. Various places have from time to time been sug gested, and now it is said that a hotel syndicate, of which M. Ritz is the head, is negotiating with the Portu guese government for a concession at Madeira. If this syndicate secures what it wants it will be enabled to ?st.ablish luxuriously appointed casinos which will rival those of Monte Carlo, and provide hotel accommodations and other attractions and conveni ences which will be superior to any thing the world has yet seen. The island of Madeira, the chief of the Madeira Islands, is situated in the Atlantic ocean off the west coast of Africa and belongs to Portugal. The Island is a magnificent health resort, abounding in mountainous spots of great beauty and produces fine wines. You can almost choose your climate to suit yourself, for the higher you climb the main mountain the cooler it becomes, until you reach the cloud line or cloud bank usually overhang ing the mountain. The roads are very bad, paved with rough cobblestones, and the vehicles mainly are bullock carriages, slow but Bure, and as nobody in Madeira ever is in a hurry, the slowness of the bullocks is most enjoyable and rest ful in the extreme. The capital of the island of Madeira is Funchal, a town of some 25,000 in habitants, situated at the foot of the great mountain, rn(fre than 6,000 feet high, on a gentle slope facing the bay, or anchorage, where nearly all the steamers and other craft anchor. Fun chal forms a sort of amphitheater around the clear, blue waters of the bay, and from it runs a funicular rail road up the mountain to an old con vent or church, where, when clouds are not in the way, a grand view is obtained. In addition to the bullock carriage, or "carro," travelers can be slowly and lazily taken about from spot to spot in hammocks swung on poles and orzzdzr "Gvseas' carried on the shoulders of two men who know their business. The temperature of Funchal is very even, ranging from 63 to 75 degrees, and the hotel accommodations are im proving yearly. The island was discovered in 1418 by a Portuguese named Zarco, and has a small garrison of Portuguese soldiers. The military band plays in the public garden nightly and affords a most pleasant diversion from the quiet of the day. Bananas flourish in Madeira as in a few other climates in the world, and every kind of tropical fruit, vegetable and flower is grown there. The prin cipal product, however, is a grape from which fine wines are made. There is a stone pier at Funchal, but the harbor is bad, vessels having to anchor several hundred feet from the shore. 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