6 CSERTAL^ 1/2 STORY cvj [LANGFORD I oJ 7 the | J THREE J !BARSS F t-By KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES (Copyright by A. C. McClurg & Co., iyo7.) SYNOPSIS. George Williston, u poor ranrhman, high-mimled anil cultured, searches for C;M tic missing- l'rom liis ranch—the "Lazy S." On a wooded spot in tin 1 river's bed that would have been an island had the Missouri been at high water, he dis covers a band of horse thieves engaged in working over brands 011 cattle. He creeps near enough to note the chang ing of tin"Three Bars" brand on one .'tecr to the "J. R." brand. Paul 1-ang ford, the rich owner of the"Three lii.rs," is informed of the operations of the gang of cattle thieves—a band of outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who long have delied tiie law and authori ties hi' Kemah county. South Dakota. Langford is struck with the beauty of Mary, commonly known as "Williston's little girl." Louise Dale, an expert court stenographer, who had followed le r uncle. Judge Hammond Dale, from the east to the "Dakotalis." and who Is living with him at Wind City, is requested by the county attorney, Hiohard Gordon, to come to Kemah and take testimony in the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black. Jim Munson, in waiting at the train for Louise, looks fit a herd of cattle being shipped by Bill Brown, and there detects old "Mas." a well known "onery" steer be longing to his employer of the"Three Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start for Kemah. Crowds assemble in Justice James U. McAllister's court for the preliminary hearing. Jesse Black springs the tirst of many great surprises, waiving examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a member of the outlaw gang, he had learned that the steer "Mag" had been re covered. and thus saw the uselessness of lighting against being bound over. County Attorney Gordon accompanies Louise Dab- on her return to Wind City. While Willijynn stands in the light in his door <it night a shot is tired at him. The house is attacked and a battle ensues between Williston and his daughter, on one side, and the outlaws on the other. The house Is set on fire. As the outlaw raises his rifle 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, hut ho and his daughter are captured and borne away by the outlaws. Jim Munson late at night heard the shots, discovered the attack on Williston's house, hurried to the Three Bars ranch and sum moned Langford and his bravo men to the rescue. It was Langford who fired the shot which saved Williston's life. Langford rescues Mary from her captor. Langford takes Mary to the home of Mrs. White. Her arm has been broken by a shot. She grows delirious and receives medical at tention. The party search in vain for Williston. Louise comes to nurse Mary. Williston is given up for dead. But meager evidence Is obtainable against Jesse Black, and it is concluded that the case must be fought out on the sole question of "Mag." Judge Dale arrives to sit at the December session of the cir cuit court at which the cattle theft case is to be tried. Gordon has hard work in securing an unprejudiced jury. Red Sanderson takes a seat in the hotel dining hall beside Louise and addresses her. He is unceremoniously shoved aside by Gordon. Sanderson draws his gun. CHAPTER XV—Continued. There were others who did not know the little man. He hailed from the southern part of the state. But Gordon knew him. He knew he was pitted against one of the sharpest, shrewdest men of his day. "Gentlemen, I think we are ready," said the judge, and the game was on again. The state called Paul Langford, its principal witness in default of Wil liston. "Your name, place of residence and business?" asked the counsel for the state. "Paul Langford. I reside in Kemah county and I own and operate a cattle ranch." After Langford had clearly de scribed and identified the animal in question, Gordon continued: "Mr. Langford, when did you first miss this steer?" "On the 15th day of July last." "How did you happen to miss this steer?" "My attention was called to the fact that an animal answering this de scription and bearing my brand had been seen under suspicious detention." "Prior to information thus received, you were not aware this creature had either strayed away or been stolen?" "I was not?" "Who gave you this information, Mr. Langford?" "George Williston of the Lazy S." "Now you may tell the jury in what words Williston told you about the steer he saw." This, of course, was objected to and the objection was sustained by the court, as Gordon knew it would be. He only wanted the jury to remember that Williston could have told a dam aging story had he been here, and also to remember how mysteriously this same Williston had disappeared. He could not have Williston or Williston's story, but he might keep an impres sion ever before these 12 men that there was a story—he knew it and they knew it —a story of which some crotchet of the law forbade the telling. "What did you do after your atten tion had been called to the suspicious circumstances of the steer's deten tion?" "I informed my boys of what I had heard and sent them out to look for the •steer." "That same day?" "Yes." ■"Were they successful?" •"No," "Did this steer have a particular Stamping ground?" "He did." "Where was that?" "He always ranged with a bunch on what we call the home range." "Near the ranch house?" "Within half a mile." "Did you look for him yourself?" "I did." "He was not on this home grazing ground?" "He was not." "Did you look elsewhere for him?" "We did." "Where?" "We rode the free ranges for sever al days—wherever any of my cattle held out." "How many days did you say you rode?" "Why, we continued to look sharp until my boy, Munson, found him the day before Ihe preliminary at the Vel pen stock yards, on the point of being shipped to Sioux City." "You went to Velpen to identify this ■steer?" "I did." "It was your steer?" "Yes." "The same for which you had been searching so long?" "The very same." "It was wearing your brand?" "It was not." "What brand was it wearing?" "J R." "Where was It?" "On the right hip." "Where do you usually put your brand, Mr. Langford?" "On the right hip." "Always?" "Always." "Do you know any J. R outfit?" "I do not." Gordon nodded to Small. His exam ination had been straightforward and to the point. He had drawn alert and confident answers from his witness, involuntarily, he glanced at Louise, who had not seemed to be working at all during this clean-cut dialogue. She flashed a fleeting smile at him. He knew he was out of sympathy with the great majority of the people down there in front. He did not seem to care so much now. A great medicine is a womanly and an understanding smile. It flushed his face a bit, too. Langford was most unsatisfactory under cross-examination. He never contradicted himself, and was a trifle contemptuous of any effort to tangle NS —EL N HR~ •_] The Game Was On. him up in threads of his own weaving. The little man touched Small on the arm and whispered to him. "Mr. Langford," said Small, in a weighty voice, "you travel a great deal, I believe." "I do." "For pleasure, maybe?" with a mys terious inflection. "Partly." "Business as well?" "Business as well." "Just prior to the arrest of the de fendant," insinuatingly, "you were away." "How long prior do you mean?" "Say a week." "No." "Two weeks?" "Yes." "You had been away some time?" "The better part of a year," con fessed Langford, with engaging can dor. "Yes. Now, Mr. Langford, I should like you to tell me about how many cattle you range—in round numbers?" "About 5,000 head." "Yes. Now, Mr. Langford, you who count your cattle by the thousands, on your own sworn word you have been out of the country a year. Don't you think you are asking this jury to j swallow a pretty big mouthful when j you ask them to believe that you could so unmistakably distinguish this one j poor ornery steer, who has so little to distinguish him from thousands of others?" "I have owned that spotted steer for years," said Langford, composedly. "I have never sold him because he was rather an odd creature and so can tankerous that we dubbed him the Three Bars' mascot." Gordon called Jim Munson. "What is your name?" "Gosh!" The question was unexpected. Was there any one in the county who did not know Jim Munson? And Dick Gor don of all people! Then he remem bered that the boss had been asked the same question, so it must he all right. But the ways of the court were surely mysterious and ofttiines foolish. "Jim Munson. Jim Munson's my name—yep." Gordon smiled. "You needn't insist on it, Mr. Mun son," he advised. "We know it now. Where do you live?" CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1908. "Hellity damn! I live at the Three Bars' ranch." "In Keiuah county?" "It sure is." "What is your business, Mr. Mun son?" "Jim's shorter, Dick. Well, I work for the boss, Mr. Paul Langford." "In what capacity?" "If you mean what do I do, why, I ride the range, I punch cows, I always goon the round-up, I'm a fair bronco breaker and I make up bunks and clean lamp chimblies between times,"" he recited, glibly, bound to be terse yet explicit, by advicfe of the boss. There was a gale of laughter in the bar. Even the court smiled. "Oh, Jim! Jim! You have perjured yourself already!" murmured the boss. "Clean lamp chimneys—ye gods'" "Well, grin away!" exploded Jim, his quick ire rising. He had forgotten that Judge Dale's court was not like Justice McAllister's, llis fingers fair ly itched to draw a pistol and make the scoffers laugh and dance to a little music of his own. But something in Gordon's steady though seemingly careless gaze brought him back to the seriousness of the scene they were playing—without guns. The examination proceeded. The air was getting stilling. Windows were thrown open. Damp-looking clouds had arisen from nowhere seem ingly and spread over the little prairie town, over the river and the hills. It was very warm. Weather-seasoned inhabitants would have predicted storm had they not been otherwise en gaged. There was no breath of air stirring. Mrs. Higgins had said it was a sorry day for the cattle when the river was running in December. Others had said so and so believed, but people were not thinking of the cattle now. One big-boned, long-horned steer held the stage alone. The state proceeded to Munson's identification of the steer in question. After many and searching questions, Gordon asked the witness: "Jim, would you be willing to swear that the steer you had held over at the stock yards was the very same steer that was the mascot of the Three Bars' ranch?" This was Jim's big opportunity. "Know Mag? Swear to Mag? Dick, I would know Mag ef I met him on the golden streets of the eternal city or ef my eyes was full o' soundin' cat aracts! Yep." "1 am not asking such an impossible feat, Mr. Munson," cut in Gordon, net tled by the digressions of one of his most important witness. "Answer briefly, please. Would you be willing to swear?" Jim was jerked back to the beaten track by the sharp incision of Gor don's rebuke. No, this was indeed not Jimmie Mac's court. "Yep," he answered, shortly. Hilly Brown was called. After the preliminary questions, Gordon said to him: "Now, Mr. Brown, please tell the jury how you came into possession of the steer." "Well, I was shippin' a couple o' car loads to Sioux City, and I was drivin' the bunch myself with a couple o' hands when I meets up with Jesse Black here. He was herdin' a likely little bunch o' a half dozen or so— among 'em this spotted feller. He said he wasn't shippin' any this fall, but these were for sale—part of a lot he had bought from Yellow Wolf. So the upshot of the matter was I took 'em off his hands. I was just lackin' 'bout that many to make a good, clean, two cars full." "You took a bill-of-sale for them, of course, Mr. Brown?" "I sure did. I'm too old a hand to buy without a bill-o'-sale." The document was produced, mark ed as an exhibit, and offered in evi dence. (TO BE CONTINUED.) TOOK HIS OWN FROM ROBBER. How a Pilgrim Got Back His Stolen Purse in Church. From Czenstochowa, the Mecca of Polish pilgrims, comes an amazing story of coincidences. A pilgrim went to one of the priests and complained that some thief had stolen his purse while he was in church, and asked for money. The priest replied that he had no money and that the best thing for the pilgrim to do was to try to find the thief. "I shall go into the church and steal money from some body else," said the pilgrim, "for I have nothing togo home with." He went into the church and seeing a man in the crowd with a wallet on his back slipped liis hand into it and pulled out his own stolen purse, with the exact sum he had left in it. He was so glad to find his money that he hurried off to tell the priest and the thief got away. What's Geography Good For? This is from the philosophy of Mrs. Louisa Schmitt, who berated a teacher for not promoting her daughter be cause the latter was deficient in geog raphy. "Teacher, you don't know it all, 1 guess," said the irate Mrs. Schmitt. "1 wish it that my daughter gets througli school so she gets a man. Never mind about the geography; just promote her without it. Why, my other dawghter, she didn't know geography and she got a man. And you know all about geography and you ain't got any man at all. What is this geography good for? See that my daughter gets through school." Dramatic Emotions. The most effective moments in the theater are those that appeal to commonplace emotions—love of wom an, love of home, love of country, love of right, anger, jealousy, revenge, am bition, lust, and treachery.—Clay Ham ilton in the Forum. HtEMAPEEI BRITISH LIBERAL LEADER QUITS HOUSE OF COMMONS. 11l Health and Too Much Work Forces Distinguished Lieutenant of Glad stone and Friend of Carnegie Into Easier Post. London. —John Morley, the distin guished liberal leader, has been ele vated to the peerage; he will, how ever, retain the office of secretary for India in the reorganized British parlia ment. Morley's reason for accepting a peerage is his declining health and a throat affection that makes the strain of the work in the house of commons too great. In leaving the house of commons that body loses one of its most noted members. Many accomplishments in and out of his official duties have un doubtedly earned this title for the English liberal leader, historian, the ologian, orator, editor and student. Morley has likewise been called the Puritan of politics, a title which his passion for righteousness and his pub lice austerity have conspired to win him. It is difficult to imagine Morley among the peers, for whose benefit he invented the phrase: "Mind them or end them." When made secretary of state of India his critics said he would make a weak executive. He proved otherwise. He made a vigorous speech in the house of commons, in which lie announced his purpose to crush sedi tion in India with a strong hand. He defended the sharp treatmeut he had I - Jmsgte 'c'ggfy ||i W k. JOHN MORLEY~ ' extended to Indian agitators and re fused to offer an apology. "British rule in India will continue and ought to continue and must continue," said he. John Morley was born at Blackburn, England, December 24, 1838. He was graduated from Chettenham and Lin coln college, Oxford, and began life as a barrister. In 1867, however, he was called to the editorship of the Fortnightly Review, .a post which he held until 1882. From 1880 until 1883 he was likewise editor of the famous Pall Mali Gazette, leaving his desk there togo to parliament as the repre sentative of Newcastle. He was Irish secretary in 1886 and again from 1892 to 1895. In 1896 he was returned to parliament and since gradually achieved for himself a reputation in politics, letters and philosophical thought. Morley was Gladstone's favorite lieu tenant when the "Grand Old Man" died. He was one of the axious per sonal friends who watched over the great premier in his last illness, and his "Life of Gladstone" is one of his most notable literary labors. Hall Caine and Andrew Carnegie are among the close friends of the liberal. The laird of Sldbo is accounted one of the particular intimates of Morley, in a personal way, in the tendency of their thoughts and aims and otherwise. Recently Carnegie, well knowing his friend's studious inclination, presented him with a library of 90,000 volumes, one of the finest collections of books in existence. In 1904 Carnegie also influenced the noted Englishman to come to America. In Pittsburg Morley was the guest of Carnegie and there delivered his only American lecture. In an interview in America Morley said that he, as an English liberal, was always intensely interested in Amer ica and her politics and that England as a whole was fascinated by Presi dent. Roosevelt. More than once it lias been said that if John Morley had a vice lie might be premier. As it is Morley is too full of unrelenting rectitude, too barren of ap parent passion, to be an English popu lar hero. For all that he is a man of emotions and feeling, but, above them all, one of restraint. One never knows Morley the man, but one can never es cape! Morley, the exterior, distant, re served and unbending. In politics Morley is a liberal in every sense, but he holds the same reserve of caution on his theories as on his public behavior. In religion lie is an agnostic, but not one of the as sertive kind. He has a quick, keen and delightful sense of humor, is •one of the most charming of companions and is a great fa vorite among women. He is by na ture nervous, is quick in temper and rather impatient. He lias no amuse ments other ilian walking, and is fond o£ music and books. His father wished to make him a minister of the gospel, Out he fell under the teachings of John Stuart Mill, the philosopher, and thereafter the church was impossible. The council of empire at St. Peters burg has raised the Russian legation at Tokyo to an embassy. BACON MAY SUCCEED TAFT. assistant Secretary of State Likel> to Head War Department. Boston. The intimate personal friends of Assistant Secretary of State Bacon, formerly of Boston, have re ceived information which leads them to believe that Mr. Bacon will become secretary of war about July 1 next, succeeding Secretary Taft, who is un derstood to be desirous of retiring from the cabinet at that time. The determination of Secretary Taft to retire is said to bo quite definite, and is understood not to be dependent upon the outcome of the national convention. Mr. Bacon was born in this city ir.d was particularly prominent in ath- Robert Bacon. ieties while attending Harvard uni versity, being captain of the varsity crew. He was a classmate of Presi dent Roosevelt. He was connected with the bank ing firm of E. Rollins Morse & Co. until 1899, when he became a mem ber of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York, where he has since made his home. He married a Miss Carlton of New York. His friends in this city, upon hear ing of his reported advancement, were not surprised, for something of such a nature had been anticipated. HOUSE OF LITHOGRAPHIC STONE. Home in Nuremberg, Germany, Covet ed by Many. Berlin. —Lithographers look at it and sigh. It's a plain, plastered stone house about 50 yards from the ancient city hall of Nuremberg, Germany. There is nothing to distinguish it from the other old houses of the neighbor hood except that it is built of lith- Jgraphic stone, worth from six to 21 lents a pound. So lithographers who jo to Nuremberg wander from the worn tourist trails to see the wonder. The house was built about 1680, near ly 100 years before Alois Senefelder, the discoverer of lithography, was born. Andreas Lichtenstein, who built it, took the stone easiest to get and secured it for the trouble of carry fey ji iptsfi A Cross Marks the Building Coveted by Lithographers. Ing it away. Now the material in the building is worth about $4,000. The present Andreas Lichtenstein, a descendant of the man who built the house, has said "Nein" about once a month for the last 20 years to specu lators who want to buy his home and tear it down for the stone. It is his home and that of his forefathers and he refuses to part with it. So lith ographers, with thoughts of rising prices, look and sigh. Lithographic stone is found in com mercial quantities only in Bavaria. The largest quarries are near Nurem berg. Chinamen Take Up Skating Fad. Whether it be owing to Christian ity, civilization or Americanization, mattery not, but the Chicago China man is "getting there." He has taken to roller skates, says the Chicago Ex aminer. With him it has become a case of "roll, roll, roll along," but instead of "over the dark, blue sea," as when he came from the "Celestial kingdom," it is across and along the pavements of the "chop suey district." That he enjoys tlie sport is attested by the increasing numbers seen night ly in Clark and adjacent streets. It seems odd to see these so-called heathen going with the wind, their queues flying behind them, and the straps of their skates pressed down deeply into their well padded sandals. The missionary didn't teach John Chinaman to skate. He got. the in spiration from his children, and they learned it from their American school mates. Averted an Excuse. "I noticed," remarked the piano stool to tiie parlor lamp, "that you started to smoke last night when Miss Yerner was entertaining ,Mr. Tim mid." "Yes," replied the lamp, "I saw she was just waiting for an excuse to turn me down." Looked On as Form of Bribery. Controller Wilson of Chicago has ruled that no telephone, traction, elec trie light or other public utility corpo ration can make contributions to iios litals or other charities^ ALMOST A MIRACLE. Raised Up When Science Said Ther« Was No Hope. G. W. L. Nesbitt, Dopot Street, Marion, Ky., writes: "I was a chronic t invalid with kidney troubles, and often wished death might end my awful suffer ings. The secretions were thick with sedi ment, ray limbs swollen and my right side so nearly par "nanr- alyzed I could not raise my hand above my head. The doctor held out 110 hope of ray re covery, and I had given up, but at last started using Doan's Kidney Pills and made a rapid gain. After three months use I was well and at work again." Sold by ail dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. EXTREE! EXTREE! Si—Pop, the old red caow hea kicked the bucket! Hi —Je-rushlem, I wouldn't tuk S4O fer thet caow! Did she pass away in peace? Si —She passed away in pieces, yep! The old fule kicked thet bucket o' stuff yeou go tew blow up stumps with! 15 YEARS OF SUFFERING. Burning, Painful Sores on Legs- Tortured Day and Night—Tried Many Remedies to No Avail —Cured by Cuticura. "After an attack of rheumatism, running sores broke out on my hus band's legs, from below the knees to the ankles. There are no words to tell all the discomforts and great suf fering he had to endure night and day. He used every kind of remedy and three physicians treated him, one after the other, without any good results whatever. One day I ordered some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent. He began to use them and in three weeks all the sores were diefl up. The burning fire stopped, and the pains became bear able. After three months he was quite well. I can prove this testimonial at any time. Mrs. V. V. Albert, Upper Frenchville, Me., July 21, 1907." Paving the Way. "George," said the pretty girl, "I know you're awful bashful." 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