6 THE GREAT MAN'S OCCUPATION. Nothing Very Serious In His Mind Just at That Moment. The multi-millionaire waS being ■haved. As he lay back in his chair, looking upward, his grave face gave the impression that he was in deep ■tudy. "Ah," whispered one of the barber shop loiterers, "I'll wager a dollar against a toothpick that he is think ing of railroad mergers." "No," said another, "he is thinking about*bear raids in Wall street." "Bet he is pondering over the re bate system," echoed a third. "I'll ask him." Walking over to the chair, lie said politely: "Beg your pardon, sir, but to settle an argument, would you kindly tell us what mighty question you are study ing over?" The multi-millionaire turned his lathered face around and smiled. "1 was just studying two flies doing handsprings on the calling," he chuckled, and the trio of guessers looked so sheepish they failed to hear "Next" when it.was called to theni. Willing to Oblige. The poor but nervy young man was after the hand of the heiress. "Young man," roared her irate fa ther, "never darken my door again." "AH right, sir," replied the suitor, blandly, "I'll come around to-morrow and give it a coat of bright red paint That will be much better than dark ening It." And the next instant the poor but nervy young man was being chased by a Scotch coachman, a French chauffeur and an English bulldog. This woman says that after months of suffering Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made her as well as ever. Matule E. Forprie, of writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "1 want other suffering women to know what Lydia 10. Tinkham's Vege table Compound lias done for me. For months I suffered from feminine ills eo that I thought I could not live. I wrote you, and after talcing Lydia E. Pinkha in's Vegetable Compound, and using the treatment you prescribed I felt like a new woman. 1 am now etrong, and well as ever, and thank you for the good you have done me." FACTS FO3 SICK WOMEN. 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Thousands of homesteads of 160 acres each are thus now easily available In these Seat grain-frrowiup, stock-raising and mixed ruling sections. There you will find healthful climate, good neighbors, rhurchtut for family worship, schools for your children, good laws, splendid crops, Cud railroads convenient to market. Entry fee in each case is 910.00. For pamph let, "Last Best West," particulars as to routes, best time togo aud where to locate, ftpply to H. M. WILLIAMS, Law Building, Toledo. Ohio* THE MAN WHO SWEAPS BY THE FISH BRAND SLICKER fis them n who I \ has tried to get the same service out of some other make I *>sn brns» Clean Light • Durable Guaranteed Waterproof and Sold Everywhere at 5300 ItIUSTDATED CATALOG fßltfOß IHi ASfVJNtt *?SER!AL^ (/3 STORY Cxjj 1^— —— " ■ LANGFORW ojf the r * 1 I KATE AND VIRGIL D. EOYLES j[ (Copyright by A. I*. MeL'lurjf cV L 11K)7 * nmnfrtdvtfr •' SYNO p S|S George Williston. a poor ranchman, high mind".l and oultured, si ar-hes for cattle missing from his ranch- the "Lazy S." On ;i wooded spot in the river's bed that would have he» n an island hud tin Missouri been at high water, he dis covers a band of horse thieves engaged hi working over brands on cattle. lie creeps near enough to note the ehang ing of the "Thre« liars" brand mi one steer of the "J. U " brand. Paul Lang ford, the rich owner of the"Three liars," is informed of the operations of the gang of cattle thieves .t band of outlaws headed by Jesse Hlack, who long have defied the law and authori ties of Kernah county, South Dakota. Langford is struck with the b< aut.v of Mary, commonly known as "Williston's littles 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 Clordon. to conic to Kemali and take testimony in the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black. Jim JVlunson, in waiting at the train for Louise, looks at a herd of cattle being shipped by llill Mrown, and there detects old "Mag," a well known "onery" steer be longing to his employer of the"Three Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start for Kemali. Cinwilg assemble in Justice James It. McAllister's court for the preliminary hearing. Jesse Hluck springs the first of many great surprises, waiving examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a member of the cattle gang. he had • earned that the steer "Mag" hud been!*♦•- j covered, and thus saw the usclcssness of fighting against be ing bound over. County Attorney Cordon accompanies Louise Dale on In r return to Wind City. While Williston stands in the light in his door at night a shot is Href] nt him. The house is attacked and 11 Itattlo ensues between Williston urul his daughter, 011 one side, and the outlaws 011 the other. Tin house Is set on lire. As an outlaw raises his rille to shoot Williston a shot from an un known source pierces his arm and the rifle falls to the ground. Aid has come to Williston, but lie and his daughter are captured and borne away by the outlaws. Jim Munson late jll night heard the shots, liscovered the attack on Williston's house, hurried to the Three liars ranch and sum moned and his bra\e men to the rescue. It was LangforU who tired the shot which saved Williston's life. Langford rescues Mary from her captor. Langford takes Mary to tin home of Mrs. White, ller arm has been broken by a shot. She grows delirious and receives medical at tention. The party search in vain for "Williston. Louise conies to nurse Mary. Williston is given up for dead. r.ui i meager evidence is obtainable against Jesse Hlack, and it is concluded that the case must he fought out on the sole question of "Mag." CHAPTER XIII.-—Continued. There was a fifcii calender that term, and (he close of the first week found the court still wrestling with crimin- j al cases, with that, of Jesse Hlack yet uncalled. Gordon reckoned that' Hlack's trial could not possibly be taken up until Tuesday or Wednes- j day of the following week. Long be fore that, the town began filling up j for the big rustling case. There were i other rustling cases on the criminal docket, but they paled before this one | where the suspected leader of a gang ! was on trial. The interested and the ! curious <lid not mean to miss any part of it. They began coming in early in j the week. They kept coining (here- i mainder of that week and Sunday as : well. Even as late as Monday, tie-! layed range riders came 'scurrying in, ! leaving the cattle mostly to shift for ! themselves. The Velpen aggregation, better informed, kept to its own side j of the river pretty generally until the! Sunday, at least, should be past. The flats southeast of town became j the camping grounds for those unable to find quarters at the hotel, and who j lived too far out to make the nightly ! ride home and back in the morning. They were tempted by the unusually mild weather. These were mostly In dians and half-breeds, but with a good ly sprinkling of cowboys of the j rougher order. Camp-fires spotted the ! plain, burning redly at night. There ' was plenty of drift wood to be had for | the hauling. Hlanketed Indians squat ted and smoked around their fires—a 1 revival of an older and better day for | them. Sometimes they stalked ina-1 jestieally through the one street of the town. The judicial party was safely housed in the hotel, with the best service it I was possible for the management to I give in this busy season of congested | patronage. It was impossible to ac- i commodate the crowds. Even the of fice was jammed with cots at night. Mary Williston had come in from White's to be with Louise. She was j physically strong again, but ever j strangely quiet, always somber-eyed. CHAPTER XIV. The Game is On. Contrary to expectation, the case of j the State of South Dakota against Jesse Black was called soon after the sitting of the court. Monday afternoon.! No testimony was introduced, how ever, until the following day. Inch by inch, step by step, Gordon fought ■ for a fair jury through that tense af ternoon. Merciless in shrewd exami- j nation, keen to detect hesitancy, pre judices sought to be concealed he j cleverly and relentlessly unearthed. Chair, after chair was vacated —only to; be vacated again, it seemed there was not a man in the county who had not heard somewhat of tins much-heralded I crime—ix crime it were. And ho who I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908. had heard whs a prejudiced partisan, fiow could it be otherwise where feel ing ran so high—where honest inen mostly felt resentment against the man who dared to probe the wound without extracting the cause of it, and a hatred and fear curiously intermin gled with admiration of the outlaw whose next move after obtaining his freedom might be to cut out of the general herd, cows of their own brands —where tainted men, officers or cowmen, awaited developments with a consuming interest that was not above manipulating the lines of justice for their own selfish ends? Yet, despite the obstacles in the way, Gordon was determined to have an un prejudiced jury in so far as it lay in human power to seat such a one in the box. So ho worked, and worked hard. Court adjourned that evening with the jury-box filled. The state's friends were feeling pretty good about it. Langford made his way into the bar where Gordon was standing apart. lie passed an arm affectionately over his friend's shoulder. "You were inspired, Dick," he said. "Keep 011 the same as you have begun and we shall have everything our own way." Hut tiie fire had died down in the young lawyer's bearing. "I'm tired, Paul, dead tired," he said, wearily. "1 wish it were over." "Come to supper—then you'll feel better. You're tired out. it is a tough strain, isn't it?" he said, cheer ily. He was not afraid. He knew the fire would burn the brighter again when there was need of it —in the morning. They passed out of the bar together. At the hotel Mary and Louise were already seated at the table in the dining-room where the little party us ually sat together when it was pos sible to do so. Judge Dale had not yet arrived. The landlady was in a worried dispute with Red Sanderson and a companion. The men were evidently cronies. They had their eyes on two of the three vacant places at the table. "But I tell you those places arc; taken," persisted the landlady, who served as head-waitress, when such services were necessary, which was not often. Her patrons usually took and held possession of things at their own sweet will. "You bet they are," chimed in Red, deliberately pulling out a chair next to Louise, who shivered in recogni tion. "Please —" she began, in a small voice, but got no farther. Something in his bold, admiring stare choked her into silence. "You're a mighty pretty girl, if you aro a trottin' round with the Three liars," he grinned. "Pleyty time to change your live " "Just move, will you," said Gordon, curtly, coming up at that moment 21 ' "It Is a Tough Strain, Isn't It?" with Langford and shoving him aside with unceremonious brevity. "This is my place." He sat down quietly. "You damned upstart," blustered Sanderson. "Want a little pistol play, do you?" "Gentlemen! gentlemen!" implored the landlady. "I'm not entering any objection," said Gordon, coolly. "Just shoot— why don't you? You have the drop on me." For a moment it looked as if San derson would take him at his word and meet this taunt with instant death for the sender of it, so black was his anger. But encountering Langford's level gaze, he read something therein, shrugged his shoulders, replaced his pistol and sauntered off with his com panion just as Judge Dale came upon the scene. Langford glanced quickly across the table at Mary. Her eyes were wide with startled horror. She, too, had seen. Just above Red Sander son's temple and extending from the forehead up into the hair was an ugly scar—not like that left by a cut, but as if the flesh might have been deep ly bruised by some blunt weapon. "Mary! How pale you are!" cried Louise, in alarm. "I'm haunted qy that man," she continued, biting her lip to keep from crying out against the terrors of this country. "He's always showing up in unexpected places. I shall die if I ever meet him alone." "You need not be afraid," said Gor don, speaking -juicily from his place at her Louise . Hashed him a swift, bewildering smile of gratitude. Under this cover the young ranch man comforted Mary, whom t lie others had temporarily forgotten, with a long, carressing look from his hand some eyes that was a pledge of tire- I less vigilance and an unforgetting I watchfulness of future protection. CHAPTER XV. The Trial. The next morning every avifilable seat was filled early. People had blocked the rough plank walks lead ing to the courthouse long before the doors were unlocked. The day prom ised to be fine, and the many teams coming and going between Kemah and the river to pick up the Velpen peop ple who had crossed the ice on foot gave to the little town somewhat ol the gala appearance of fair time. Tho Stately and blanketed Sious from their temporary camps on the Hat were standing around, uncommunicative, waiting for proceedings to begin. Long before the judicial party had arrived from the hotel the cramped room was crowded to its limits. There was loud talking, laughing and joking. Local wits amused themselves and others by throwing quips at different members of the county bar or their brethren from across'the river as they walked to their places inside the rail ings with the little mannerisms that were peculiar to each. # The door in the rear of the bar opened and Judge Dale entered. A comparative quiet fell upon the peo ple. He mounted to his high bench. The clerk came in, then the court re porter. She tossed her note books 011 the table, leisurely pulled off her gloves and took her place, examining the end of her pencils with a critical eye. It would be a busy day for the "gal reporter." Then Langford came shoving his way down the crowded aisle with a sad-faced, brown-eyed, young woman in his wake, who yet held herself erect with a proud little tilt to her chin. There was not an empty seat outside the bar. Louise motioned, and he escorted Mary to a place within and sat down beside her. The jurymen were all in their chairs. Presently came in Gordon with his quiet, self-reliant manner. Langford had been right. The county attorney was not tired to-day. Shortly after Gordon came Small— Small, the dynamic, whose explosives had so often laid waste the weak and abortive independent reasoning pow ers of "Old Necessity" and his sort, and were the subject of much satire and some admiration when the legal fraternity talked "shop." As he strode to his place, he radiated bombs of just and telling wrath. He scintillated with aggressiveness. With him came Jesse Black, easy and disdainful as of old. After them, a small man came gliding iu with as little commotion as if he were sliding over the floor of a waxed dancing hall in patent leather pumps. He was an unassuming little man with quick, cat-like movements which one lost if one were not on the alert. When lie had slipped into a chair next his associate, Small, the inflammable Small, towered above him head and shoulders. "Every inch the criminal," audibly observed a stranger, an Englishman over to invest in lands for stocking a horse ranch. "Strange how they al ways wear the imprint 011 their faces. No escaping it.l fancy that is what the Scriptures meant by the mark of Cain." The remark was addressed to no in particular, but it reached the ears of Jim Munson, who was standing near. "Good Lord, man!" he said, with a grin, "that's the plumb smartest crim inal lawyer in the hull county. That's a lac'. Lord, Lord! Him Jesse Black?" His risibilities continued to thus get the better of his gravity at frequent intervals during the day. He never failed to snort aloud in pure delight whenever he thought of it. What a tale for the boys when he could get to them! "These cattle men!" This time the tenderfoot communicated with him self —he had a square chin and a di rect eye; there were possibilities in him. "Their perverted sense of the ridiculous is diabolical." (TO BE CONTINUED.) EULLDOG HALTS THE DANCE. Holds Up Soldiers Because Master Fails to Appear. Beverly, N. J. —Bob, a bulldog bo longing to Lieut. Frank J. Toner, held members of Company G. Third regi ment, National guard, at bay and de layed a drill and dance which the sol dier boys were to have had the other night. Somehow Bob, a ferocious brute and generally muzzled, got lost from his master. Seeing tho door of the armory hall open, he mounted the stairs, knowing that the master fre quented the building. The canine searched high and low and ventured into the parlor and proceeded to give Capt. James V. Cain, who was seated at his desk, a military salute. The captain did not like the tone and quickly made his exit to find a more secure place, not relishing the idea of quarreling over the right of posses sion. After inspecting the military accou terments and being apparently satis fied that his master was not there Bob conceived the idea of waiting at the head of the stairs until his master appeared. Suddenly the door was flung open and with a hilarious shout the soldiers started on a run up the stairs. Bob's unmusical growl could be heard above the noise, and the foremost fell back as if hit by a Hotchkiss gun. No amount of coaxing or pet names could remove Bob from his position. It was a matter of 20 minutes before the master showed up, after he was sent for to rescue the soldiers. Phenomenon Explained. A comparatively young man whoso mustache remained jet black while the hair 011 his head turned white ex plained the phenomenon by saying it was because his lips enjoyed all the good things of life and his head had to suffer all the troubles. HAD CATARRH THIRTY YEARS.! Congressman Meekison . Relief i. «' * I CONGRESSMAN Mf tkISON COMMENDS PE RI NA. "/ have used several buttles of Peruna and I tee! greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that If / use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing. " —David Meekison. OTHER REMARKABLE CURES. Mr. Jacob L. Davis, Galena, Stone county, Mo., writes: "I have been in bad health for thirty-seven years, and after taking twelve bottles of your Peruna 112 am cured." Mr. C. N. Peterson, 132 South Main St., Council Bluffs, lowa, writes: "1 cannot tell you liow much good Peruna has done me. Constant confinement in my store began to tell on my health, and i felt that I was gradually breaking down. I tried several remedies, but obtained no permanent relief until I took Peruna. I fell better immediately, and live bottles restored me to complete health." A SINCERE RECOMMENDATION. Mr. D. C. Prosser, Bravo, Allegan Co., Mich., writes: "Two years ago I was bad ly afflicted with catarrh of the stomach. 1 had had a run of typhoid fever, was very de- i doted. I could find nothing I could eat without causing distress and sour stomach, •'inallv 1 came to the conclusion that 1 had catarrh of the stomach and seeing Peruna advertised, began to take it. It helped me.soon, and after taking three or four bottles 1 was entirely cured of stomach trouble, and can now eat anything." Manufactured by Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. Had Done His Best. Representative Adam Bede of Min nesota is credited with the story of the boy with tho disreputably dirty face, who was sent to the town pump by tho teacher, with the scriptural in junction, to "wash and be clean." He returned with the chin and i lower part of his face looking rather j pale, but his cheeks and forehead re- j mained as dirt-hued as before. The children roared at his comical appear- ! ance, and, when tho teacher asked him why he had not cleaned hi* en- > tire face, ho answered: "I washed and wiped as high up as my shirt would go." HOW TO TEST LINSEED OIL There is nothing that will make paint go wrong on the house more ! quickly than poor oil. It is as bad in its way as adulterations in the white lead. Petroleum oil cheapeners may be detected by placing a drop of the oil on a black painted surface. If one sees ; the characteristic iridescence or play of colors which kerosene exhibits, it is evidence of adulteration. Corn and fish oil can be detected by the smell. Adulteration in white lead can best be discovered by the use of a blow pipe, which National Lead Company will send with instructions free to anyone interested in paint. Address, National Lead Company, Woodbridge Building, New York. Nothing to Get. Gelett Burgess was talking at a theatrical supper in New York about the Lark, his delightful little paper that failed. "Nearly all good papers fall," said he."l have an aged friend who runs t. splendid paper in a small western village. The last copy my friend sent me had this editorial paragraph marked in blue pencil: " 'Burglars entered our house last night. To the everlasting shame of the community, for whose welfare we have labored 38 years, be it said, they got nothing.' " Out of Reach. A little child of two years was cry ing lustily for the round, full moon. "Oh, no," said her little sister. "God has put it away up so high nobody could get it, or else they'd soon smash It all to pieces and there wouldn't be any moon." Carries Weight. 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Kf»t£rc Viray ' •vOSaM Hair to its Youthful Color. pa bJb IEI M tl at 'lrugglfcts or by malt. ■V ■ ■ HH Bampte bkKK. Addreat, Ha ■ ■II-anakesis" H PC Has *3B* Trlbuna Bid*.. NEW YOU SOLDIERS' WIDOWS April 19. 1908, Congress piase'l a law fflv)hfc<ill widow* of Civil War Holdiers, having W daywwonorable service u ppnHlon of lt£.o<> per month, wrltmw for pftpwnk HYIN<*TON & WILSON, Attya., Washington, i>. C. BIATriITO w.tni.n V. rotaomn. Patont AttO*w rUHPIIiX ncy, Washington. D. fJ. Advio# 112 g% | Imißl I free. 'l'erms low. Hi*ha»t rat, \v ITIOVVS'uiltJor N EW LAW obtain* " _ )jy JOHN VV. MORRIS, PENSIONS Washington, O. tt
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