7 7 SERIAL 112 l/a story oj v « I | o_f the . U THREE = j BARS 3) I " 1 | j SLATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES .CojuriKbt bj- A. C. A Co., 15W2.) SYNOPSIS. Williston. a poor ranchman, hif?' -minded and cultured. HcarchcH for •cattle missing from his ranch the"Lazy H " On a wooded .spot in t!i«* rivcr's bed that would have been an island had the Missouri been at hitfh water, he din covt-w ;»t hand of liorsc thieves engaged cr* working- over brands on rattle. He rctr'gts near » noiigh to note the chanß >llß- of the"Three Mars" hrand on one steer to the "J. K." brand. I'aul Lan*?- furd, the rich owner of the"Three is informed of the operations of the vjariK' of eat tie thieves a band of •utlaws headed by Jesse Black, who ?<*ripc have delied the 1 iw and authori ties. of Kemah county. South Dakota. l*snj?f ord is struck with the beauty of TVtary. commonly known is "Willislon's Kittle *rirl " Louise Dale. an expert • y the dim starlight they were able to dim/Aguish the outlines of the cattle .-ihi-.if still, empty, black. Nothing imifvt'd out there. "t" think they're frightened off," said Vdar> t.t last, breathing more freely. "TBey were probably just one, or he ?Vi not have left. He knew he you, or he would not have fired ayaZn. Do you think it was Jesse?" ".Tesse would not have missed," he said, grimly. At ihat moment a new sound broke the stillness, the whinny of a horse. Reinforcements had approached with in the shadow of the cattle-sheds. Something moved out there at last. "Daddy!" called Mary, in a choked whisper. "Come here—they are down at thi' sheds." Williston stepped to the back win dow quickly. "Change places," he said briefly. "Daddy!" "Yes?" "Keep up your nerve," she breathed between great heart-pumps. "Surely! Do you the same, little comrade, and shoot to kill." There was a savage note in his last words. For himself, it did not matter so much, but Mary—he pinned no false faith in any thought of possible chivalrous intent on the part of the raiders to exempt bis daughter from the grim fate that awaited him. He had to deal with a desperate man; Ihere would be no clemency in this desperate man's retaliation. To his quickened hearing came the sound of .stealthy creeping. Some thing moved directly in front of him, but some distance away. "Shoot every shadow you see, especially if it moves," were the fighting orders, and bis was the third shot of that night. "Hell! I've got it in the leg!" cried a rough voice full of intense anger and pain, and there were sounds of a precipitate retreat. Out under protection of the long row of low-built sheds other orders were being tersely given and silently received. ".Vow, men, I'll shoot the first man of you who blubbers when he's hit. D'ye liear? There have been breaks enough in this affair already. 1 don't intend for that petticoat man and his pulin' petticoat kid in there to get any satisfaction out o' this at all. Hear me?" There was 110 response. None was needed. Some shots found harmless lodg ment in the outer walls of the shanty. They were the result of an unavailing ■ II II Oark Sinister Figures Flitted frcm Tree to Tree. attempt to pick the window whence Williston's shot had come. Mary could not keep back a little womanish gasp of nervous dread. "Grip your nerve, Mary," said her father. "That's nothing—shooting from down there. Just lie low and they can do nothing. Only watch, child, watch! They must not creep up on us. Oh, for a moon!" She did grip her nerve, and her hand ceased its trembling. 111 the darkness her eyes were big and solemn. Sometime, to-morrow, the re action would come, but to-night— "Yes, father, keep up your own nerve," she said in a brave little voice that made the man catch his breath. Again the heavy minutes dragged away. At each of the two windows crouched a tense figure, brain alert, eyes in iron control. It was a fright ful strain, this waiting game. Could one be sure nothing had escaped one's vigilance? Starlight was deceptive, and one's eyes must needs shift to keep the mastery over their little horizon. It might well be that some one of those ghostly and hidden sen tinels patrolling the lonely homestead had wormed himself past staring eye balls, crawling, crawling, crawling; it might well be that at any moment a sudden light liaring up from some corner would tell the tale of the end. Now and then could be heard the soft thud of a hoof as some one rode to execute an order. Occasionally, something moved out by the sheds. Such movement, if discernible from the house, was sure to be followed on the instant by a quick, sharp remon strance from Wllliston's rifle. How long could it last? Would his nerve wear away with the night? Could he keep his will dominant? If so, he must drag his mind resolutely away from that nerve-racking, still, and un seen creeping, creeping, creeping, nearer and nearer. How the stillness weighed upon him, and still his mind dwelt upon that sinuous, flat-bellied creeping, crawling, worming! God, it was awful! He fought it desperately. He knew he was lost if he could not stop thinking about it. The sweat came out in big beads on his forehead, on his body; he prickled with the heat of the effort. Then it left him—the awful horror—left him curiously cold, but steady of nerve and with a will of iron and eyes, cat's eyes, for their seeing in the dark. Now that he was calm once more, ho let himself weigh the chances of succor. They were pitifully remote. The Lazy S was situated in a lonely stretch of prairie CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1908. land far from any direct trair. True, it lay between Kemah, the county seat, and the Three Bars ranch, but it was a good half mile from the straight routs. Even so, it was a late hour for any one to be passing by. It was not a traveled trail except for the boys of tiie Three liars, and they were known to be great home-stayers and little given to spreeing. As for the rustlers, if rustlers they were, they had no fear of interruption by the officers of the law, who held their places by virtue of the insolent and arbitrary will of Jesse Rlack and his brotherhood, and were now carousing in Kemah by virtue of the hush-money put up by this same secret tribunal. "Watch, child, watch!" he said again, without in the least shifting his tense position. "Surely!" responded Mary, quite steadily. Now was her time come. Dark, sinister figures flitted from tree to tree. At first she could not be sure, it was so heartlessly dark, but there was movement —it was different from that terrible blank quiet which she had hitherto been Razing upon till her eyes burned and pricked as with needle points, and visionary things swam be fore them. She winked rapidly to dispel the unreal and floating things, opened wide her long-lashed lids, fixed them, and—fired. Then Williston knew that his "little girl," his one ewe lamb, all that was left to him of a full and gracious past, must go through what he had gone through, all that nameless horror and expectant dread, and his heart cried out at the unholy injustice of it all. He dared not goto her, dared not desert his post for an instant. If one got within the shadow of the walls all was lost. Mary's challenge was met with a rather hot return fire. It was probably given to inspire the besieged with a due respect for the attackers' num bers. liullets pattered around the out side walls like hailstones, one even whizzed through the window perilous ly near the girl's'intent young face. Silence came back to the night. There was no more movement. Yet down there at the spring something; maybe one of those dark, gaunt cot ton woods, held death —death for her and death for her father. A stream of icy coldness struck across her heart. She found herself calculating in delib eration which tree it was that held this thing—death. The biggest one, shadowing the spring, helping to keep the pool sweet and cool where Paul Langford had galloped his horse that day when —ah! if Paul Langford would only come now! A wild, girlish hope flashed up in her heart. Langford would come— had he not sworn it to her father? Had he not given his hand as a pledge? It means something to shake hands in the cattle country. He was big and brave and true. When he came these awful, creeping terrors would disperse—grim shadows that must steal away when morning comes. When he came she could put her rifle in his big, confident hands, lie down on the floor and —cry. She wanted to cry—oh, how she did want to cry. Cold reason came back to her aid and dissipated the weak and womanish longing to give way to tears. There was a pathetic droop to her mouth, a long, quivering, sob bing sigh, and she buried her wom an's weakness right deeply and stamped upon it. How utterly wild and foolish her brief hope had been! Langford and ail his men were sound in sleep long ago. How could ho know? were the ruffians out there men to tell? Ah, no! There was no one to know. It would all happen in the dark —in awful loneliness, and there would be no one to know until it was all over—to-morrow, maybe, or next week, who could tell? They were off the main trail, few people ever sought them out. There would be no one to know. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Cause of Seaman's Bad Language. At Southampton (Eng.) a seaman named Johnson had to appear before the borough magistrate on a charge of making use of bad language in St. Mary's street. In explanation he said he was married in St. Mary's church, Southampton, many years ago. lie left Southampton after the ceremony and was away several years. Coming back the other day he went to look at the church, and find ing there was still no eteeple to it he did in his righteous anger use some very strong words. In fining the de fendant ten shillings and costs the chairman of the bench said many peo ple had said strong things about such a beautiful church as St. Mary's hav ing no steeple, but they did not use such bad expressions as the defendant bad. A Breeches Stratagem. After the battio of Ramillies had been won by the great duke of Marl borough, Lord John Hay, who com manded a regiment of Scotch dra goons, when the regiment of foot, called the King's, consisting of 1,200 men, submitted to him and surrend ered their arms and colors, ordered, to prevent their running away, and the necessity of setting a strong guard over them, that every man should cut a piece out of the waist band of his breeches, which obliged them to hold them up with one hand, and in that posture they marched with a guard of only 25 dragoons and a sergeant. Charles XII. did some thing like this by the Muscovites after the battle of Narva. Gossip Set to Music. "I went to the opera last night." "What did you hear?" 'That Mrs. Browning is going to get a divorce, Mrs. Biggs has the dearest dog and a new baby, and the Mutton's are going to live iu India." —Harper's Weekly. CLIMATE IS IDEAL GREAT WEALTH ACQUIRED IN GROWING GRAIN. Writing from Saskatoon, Saskatche wan, Canada, W. H. Ellwanger, who was formerly a resident of Green Mountain, lowa, says:"The climate in summer is ideal for growing grain. Long, clear days of sunshine, no bad storms. We never need to guard against cyclones; I never saw a better climate in my life. We made more money during the season of IDOG than any previous five years in central lowa—one of the best districts in the Btate." Put Mr. Ellwanger was a resi dent of the town, and it might be more interesting to read what a farmer ha 3 to say about Western Canada. From hundreds of atters all filled with words of praise, recounting success in Western Canada there has been one selected. It is as follows: Paynton, Sask., Canada, Dec. 10th, 1907. To Whom This May Concern: I moved to this address February 3, 1907, from Montgomery, lowa, and took a homestead 35 miles north of Paynton. It was cold when I moved here but it did not stay cold long; it broke up the Bth of February, and was not so cold after that but the spring was late on account of the heavy snow fall, but in spite of the late spring I saw better grain than I ever saw in the states, raised this year. I helped a man finish sowing oats the 4th of July and they made fair oats. In a good year oats will go 100 bushels to the acre and wheat 25 to 50; all root crops do well here. I saw turnips weigh 7 and 8 pounds. I raised potatoes this year that measured 11% inches one way and 18% the other in cir cumference. This is a line stock coun try; hay in abundance, good water, plenty of fuel, free and plenty of building material —the government gives us timber to saw into lumber and we can get it sawed for about SG.OO per thousand. All small fruit grows wild here, then there are ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants, deer, moose, elk and fish in abundance. I was over to Turtle Lake yesterday where there is lots of fishing being done this win ter. I saw about a carload of white fish in one pile. I gave 25 cents for 86 pounds of fish. What do you think of that. Brother Yankee? I think this is a fine place both to make money and to live. There was an old man up here visiting his brother-in-law. Now this man owns land close to Des Moines, lowa, and is in good circum stances, but he took a homestead and says he will lie contented if he can only putin the rest of his days in Canada. He would get up in the morn and look out of the door and say: "Well, who wouldn't live in Canada?" Now I have been in 13 different states in the United States, and I never saw the chance that there is here for a man that has a little muscle and a little brains. Three cheers for Cana da! (Signed.) W. A. SPICE." This is the temperature through November. I took it myself so I know it is right, in the shade: Morning at Morning . 112 Mornlne Af Date nt s *' , Date »t s , Sunrlso sun!,e ' Sunrlßß 1 27 37 1G 28 35 2 30 40 17 12 20 3 2G 37 18 12 29 4 29 34 19 20 33 5 27 36 20 12 24 6 30 38 21 18 27 7 12 30 22 16 28 8 28 34 23 15 27 9 • 17 16 24 18 22 10 2 13 25 8 20 11 5 26 26 32 28 12 28 20 27 20 16 13 7 11 28 8 14 14 21 18 29 18 20 15 20 31 30 18 27 NOT SO BAD AS HE LOOKED. She— you admit that you only married me for my money? He —Well, I'm glad you know that at least I'm not a fool. LUMBAGO This is really Rheumatism of the Muscles of the Loins and is character ized by a severe, at times, agonizing pain in the small of the back, allow ing the sufferer scarcely a moment's rest, while the ailment is at its worst. It can come from cold, exposure to draft, from getting wet feet or wear ing wet or damp clothing. It causes acute suffering, and if allowed to be come chronic it may permanently dis able the sufferer. The way to secure quickest relief is to redden the skin over the painful part by rubbing with a flesh brush or piece of flannel rag, and then apply ST. JACOBS OIL by gentle friction with the hand. To refuse to yield to others when reason or a special cause require it Is a mark of pride and stifl'ness.—Thom as a Kempia. PERUNA EDITORIAL NO, 2. Dr. Hartman has claimed for many years that Peruna is an EXCELLENT CATARRH REMEDY. Some of the doctor's critics have disputed the doctor'* claim as to the efficacy of Peruna. Since the ingredients of Peruna are no longer a secret, what do the medi cal authorities say concerning the remedies of which Peruna is composed? Take, for instance, the ingredient HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS, OB GOLDEN SEAL. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous membranes, chronic rhinitis (nasal catarrh), atonic dyspepsia 'catarrh of the stomach), chronic intestinal catarrh, catarrhal jaundice (catarrh of the liver), and in diseased mucous membranes of the pelvic organs. It is also recommended for the treatment of various forms of diseases peculiar to women. Another ingredient of Peruna, COBYDALIS FORMOSA, is classed in th» United States Dispensatory as a tonic. CEDRON SEEDS is another ingredient of Peruna, an excellent drug that has been very largely overlooked by the medical profession for the past fifty years. THE SEEDS ARE TO BE FOUND IN VERY FEW DRUG STORES. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent disease* as a SUBSTITUTE FOR QUININE. OIL OF COPAIBA, another ingredient of Peruna, is classed by the United States Dispensatory as a mild stimulant and diuretic. It acts on the stomach and intestinal tract. It acts as a stimulant on the genito-urinary membranes. _________________________ Useful in chronic cystitis, chronic dys _ entery and diarrhea, and some chronio Our Peruna Tclblct diseases of the liver and kidneys. - _ .. . , These opinions as to the ingredient* IS reruns With °f Peruna are held by all writers on _ the subject, including Bartholow and Fluid Removed. Judder. OF HYDRASTIS, BARTHOLOW SAYS it is applicable to stomatitis (catarrh of the mucous surfaces of the mouth), follicular pharyngitis (catarrh of the pharynx), chronic coryza (catarrh of the head). This writer classea hydrastis as a stomachic tonic, useful in atonic dyspepsia (chronic gastrio catarrh), catarrh of the duodenum, catarrh of the gall duct, catarrh of tho intestines, catarrh of the kidneys (chronic Bright's disease;, catarrh of the bladder, and catarrh of other pelvic organs. BARTHOLOW REGARDS COPAIBA as an excellent remedy for chronio catarrh of the bladder, chronic bronchitis (catarrh of the bronchial tubes). BARTHOLOW STATES THAT CUBEB, an ingredient of Peruna, pro motes the appetite and digestion, increases the circulation of the blood. Use ful in chronio nasal catarrh, follicular pharyngitis (catarrh of the pharynx), increasing the tonicity of the mucous membranes of the throat It also re lieves hoarseness. Useful in atonic dyspepsia (catarrh of the stomach), and ia chronic catarrh of the colon and rectum, catarrh of the bladder, prostatorrhea, and chronic bronchial affections. MILLSPAUGH, MEDICINAL PLANTS, one of the most authoritative works on medicinal herbs in the English language, in commenting upon COLLINSONLA CANADENSIS, says that it acts on the pneumogastric and vaso motor nerves. It increases the secretions of the mucous membranes in general. In the mountains of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Carolina, collinsonia canadensis is considered a panacea for many disorders, including headache, colic, cramp, dropsy and indigestion. DR. SCUDDER regards it highly as a remedy in chronic diseases of the lungs, heart disease and asthma. These oitations ought to be sufficient to show to any candid mind that Pe runa is a catarrh remedy. Surely, such herbal remedies, that command the enthusiastic confidence of the highest authorities obtainable, brought together in proper combination, ought to make a catarrh remedy of the highest efficacy. 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