6 In STORY cv I of the J THREE L I *" i KATC AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES - ... (Copyright by A. (.*. Jlci-lurn JL CO., 1W7.) SYNOPSIS. George Williston, a poor ranchman, lit-rli minded and cultured. searches for <ait|e missing from his ranch—the "I.azy S." On a wooded spot in the river's bed thai would have bun an Island had the Missouri been at high water, he dis covers a band of horse thieves engaged in working over brands on cattle. He creeps near enough to note the chang ing: of the"Three Bars" brand on one steer to the "J. R." brand. I'aul Lang ford, the rich owner of the"Three Bars." 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 authori ties of K eniah 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 lier uncle. Judge Hammond Dale, from the east to the '"Dakotahs," and who Is living with him al Wind City, is requested by the county attorney, Richard Gordon, to come to Kctnah and take testimony in the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black. Jim Munson, in •waiting at the train for Louise, looks at a herd of cattle being shipped by Bill Brown 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 Kemah. Crowds assemble in Justice James R. McAllister's court for the preliminary hearing. Jesse Black springs the tlrst of many great surprises, waiving examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a member of <\.t outlaw gang, he had learned that the steer "Mag" had been re covered and thus saw the uselessness of fighting against bolng bound over. County Gordon accompanies Louise Pale on her return to Wind City. While ftVilliston stands in the light in his door pt night a shot is tired at him. The house Is attacked and a battle ensues between TVillistun and his daughter, on one side, and the outlaws on the other. The house is set on tire As an outlaw raises his rille to shoot Willlston a shot from an un known source pierces his arms and the jrif 1• • falls to the ground. Aid lias come to Willlston, but he and his daughter are ■captured and borne away by the outlaws. Jim Munson late at night heard the shots, ifliscovered the attack on Williston's house, liurried to the Throe Bars ranch and sum moned Langford and his brave men to the rescue. It was Langford who fired the shot which saved Williston's life. Langford rescues Mary from her captor. The party search in vain for Williston. Louise comes to nurse Mary. Willlston Is riven up for dead. But meager evidence is obtainable against Jesse Black, and it is concluded that the case must be fought out on the !Sol question of "Mag." Judge Dale ar rives to sit at the December session of tl" i in nit court at whit li the cattle theft •case is to be tried. Gordon has hard work Ins.- tiring an unprejudiced jury. Red 'Sand, rson takes a seat In the hotel din ing hall beside Louise and addresses her. H' is unceremoniously shoved aside by (Gordon. Sahderson draws his gun. The (trial begins. CHAPTER XV.—Continued. Tlio hearing of testimony for the state went on all through that day. It was late when the state rested its •case —so late that the defence would not be taken up until the following day. It was all in—for weal or for woe. In some way all of the state's •witnesses—with the possible excep tion of Munson, who would argue with the angel Gabriel at the last day and offer to give him lessons in trumpet- Wowing—had been imbued with the ■earnest, honest, straightforward policy «112 the state's counsel. Gordon's friends were hopeful. Langford was jubilant, and he believed in the tolerable In tegrity of Gordon's hard-won Jury. Gordon's presentation of the ease thus far had made him friends; fickle friends, maybe, who would turn when the wind turned —to morrow—but true It was that when court adjourned late in the afternoon, many who had jeered at him as a visionary or an unwel come meddler acknowledged to thern selves that they might have erred In their judgment. As cn the previous night, Gordon was tired. He walked aimlessly to a window within the bar and leaned against it, looking at the still, oppres sive, cloudy dampness outside, with the early December darkness coming on apace. Lights were already twink ling in kitchens where house wives were busy with the evening meal. "Well, Dick," said Langford, com ing up cheery and confident. "Well, Paul, it's all in." "And well in, old man." "I —don't know, Paul. I hope so. That quiet little man front down coun try has not been much heard from, you know. I am afraid, a moral up lift isn't my stunt. I'm tired! i feel like a rag." Langford was called away for a mo ment. When he returned, Gordon was gone. He was not at supper. "He went away on his horse," ex plained Louise, in answer to Lang lord's unspoken question. "1 saw him ride into the country." When the party separated for the night, Gordon had not yet returned. CHAPTER XVI. Gordon Rides Into the Country. Gordon rode aimlessly out of the lit tle town with its twinkling lights. He did not. care where lie went or ;what direction he pursued. He wanted to ride off a strange, enervating dejec tion that had laid hold of him the j moment his last testimony had gone iln. It all seemed so pitifully inade quate -without Williston—now that it was all in. Why had he undertaken It? It could only go for another de feat counted against him.' Though what was one defeat more or less when there bail been so many? It would he nothing new. Was he not pursuing merely the old beaten trail? Why should the thought weigh so heavily now? Can a man never attain to that higher—or lower, which is it? —altitude of Blrlfeless, unregretful hardness? Or was it, he asked him self in savage contempt of his weak ness, that, despite all his generous and iron-chid resolutions, he had secretly, unconsciously perhaps, cherished a swert, shy, little reservation in his in most heart that maybe—if he won out — "You poor fool," he said, aloud, with bitter harshness. Suppose he <1 id. A brave speci men, lie. if he had the shameful ego ism to ask a girl—a girl like Louise— a gentle, highbred, protected, cherish ed girl like that —to share this new, bleak, rough life with him. Hut the very sweetness of (he thought of her doing it made him gasp there in the darkness. How stifling the air was! lie lifted his hat. It was hard to breathe. It was like the still oppres siveness preceding an electrical storm. His mare, unguided, had naturally chosen the main-traveled trail and kept it. She followed the mood of her master and walked leisurely along while the man wrestled with himself. If he really possessed the hardihood to ask Louise to do this for him she would laugh at. him. Stay! That was a lie —a black lie. She would not laugh—not Louise. She was not of t hat sort. Itather would she grieve over the inevitable sadness of it. If she laughed, he could hear it better— he had good, stubborn, self-respecting blood in him—but she would not laugh. And all the rest of his long life must be spent in wishing—wishing—if it could have been! But he would never ask her to do it. Not even if the im possible came to pass. It was a hard country on women, a hard, treeless, sun-seared, unkindly country. Men could stand it —fight for its future; but not women like Louise. It made men as well as unmade them. And after all it did not prove to lie the undoing of men so much as it devel oped in them the perhaps hitherto hid den fact that they were already want ing. These latent, constitutional weaknesses thus laid bare, the bad must for a while prevail—bad Is so much noiser than good. Hut this big, new country with its infinite possibili ties—give it time—it would form men out of raw material and make over men mistakenly made when that was V L:- 5 _ ... v- ,m --r "Why. Lena, Old Girl, We've Been Taking Our Time." N?ssinle. or else show tie dividing line so clearly that the goats might not herd with the sheep. Some day, it would be fit for women—like Louise. Not now. Much labor and sorrow must be lived through; there must be much sacrifice and much refining, and many must fall and lose in the race before jus big destiny be worked out and it be fit for women—like Louise. Down in the southern part of the state, and belonging to it, a certain big-barred building sheltered many women, when the sun of the treeless prairies and the gazing into the lone some distances surrounding their homesteads seeped into their brains and stayed there so that they knew not what they did. There were trees there and fountains and restful blue grass in season, and flowers, flowers, flowers —but these came too lale for most of the women. If it had been Langford, now, who was guilty of so ridiculous a scnti mentalism—the bold, impetuous, young ranchman—he smiled at him self whimsically. Then he pulled him self together. He did not think the jury could believe the story Jesse Hlack would trump up, no matter how plausible it was made to sound. He felt more like himself —in bettor con dition to meet those few but stanch friends of his from whom he had §o summarily run away—stronger to meet —Louise. Man-like, now that be was himself again, he must know the time. He struck a match. "Why, Lena, old girl, we've been taking our time, haven't we? They are likely through supper, but maybe 1 can wheedle a doughnut out of the cook." The match burned out. Not until be had tossed it. away did it come to liim that they were no longer on the main trial. "Now, that's funny, old girl," he scolded. "What made you be so un reasonable? Well, we started with our noses westward, so you must have wandered into the old Lazy S branch trail. Though, to be sure, it has been such a deuce of a while since wo traveled it that 1 wonder at you, What's the matter now, silly?" liis mare had shied. He turned her CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908. nose resolutely, domineeringly, bacJi toward the spot objected to. "I can't see what yon're scared at, hut. we'll just Investigate and show you how foolish a thing is feminine squeamishness." A shadowy form arose out of the darkness. It approached. "Is that you, Dick?" Gordon was not a superstitious man, yet he felt suddenly cold to the crown of his head. It was not so dark as it might have been. There would have been a moon had it not been cloudy. Dimly, he realized that the man had arisen from the ruins of what must have been the old Williston home stead. The outlines of the stone stoop were vaguely visible in the half-light. The solitary figure had been crouched there, brooding. "I'm flesh and blood. Dick, never fear," said the man in a mournful voice. "I'm hungry enough to vouch for that. You needn't be afraid. I'm anything but a spirit." "Williston!" The astonished word burst from Gordon's lips. "Williston! Is it really you?" "None other, my dear Gordon! Sor ry I startled you. I saw your light and heard your voice speaking to your horse, and as you were the very man I was on the point of seeking, I just naturally came forward, forgetting that my friends would very likely look upon me in the light of a ghost." "Williston! My dear fellow!" re peated Gordon again. "It is too good to be true," he cried, leaping from his mare and extending both hands cordi ally. "Shake, old man! My, the feel of you is—bully. You are flesh and blood all right. I don't know, though. Seems to me you have been kind o' running to skin and bones since I last saw you. Grip's good, but bony. You're thinner than ever, aren't you?" All this time he was shaking Willis ton's hands heartily. He never thought of asking him where he had been. For weary months lie had longed for this man to come back. He had come back. That was enough for the pres ent. Tie had always felt genuinely friendly toward the unfortunate scholar and his daughter. "That's natural, isn't it? Besides, they forgot my rations sometimes." "Who, Williston?" asked Gordon, the real significance of the man's re turn taking quick hold of him. "I think you know, Gordon," said the older man, quietly. "It is a long story. 1 was coming to you. I will tell you everything. Shall I begin now?" "Are you in any danger of pursuit?" asked Gordon, suddenly bethinking himself. "I think not. I killed my jailer, the half-breed, Night bird." "You diil well. So did Mary." "What do you mean?" "Didn't you know that Mary shot and killed one of the desperadoes that night? At least, wo have every rea son to think it was Mary. By the way, you have not asked after her." The man's head dropped. He did not answer t'of a long time. When ho raised his head, his face, though show ing indistinctly, was hard and drawn. He spoke with little emotion as a man who had sounded the gamut of des pair and was now far spent. "What was the use? I saw her fall, Gordon. She stood with me to the end. She was a brave little girl. She never onto faltered. Dick," he said, his voice changing suddenly, and lay ing hot, feverish hands on the young man's shoulders, "we'll hang them— you and I —we'll hang them every one —the devils who look like men, but who strike at women. We'll hang them, I say—you and I. I've got the evidence." "Is it possible they didn't tell you?" cried Gordon aghast at the amazing cruelty of it. (To Be Continued.) COFFIN WAS A BACK NUMBER. So Pennsylvania Man Sold It and Will Purchase Another. Isaac Coffman of Hatton, Pa., has sold a coffin he made many years ago. He sold it not because he felt he would have 110 use for it, but because his wife insisted that it was out of date. Mr. Coffman is nearing his eightieth birthday. He explained to a friend that he constructed the coflin 20 years ago. It was built of chestnut because, as he put it, "Many's the time I have sat beside a cheery blaze of chestnut logs and heard them crackle and burn merrily. It makes such a homelike blaze that I picked it in prefernce to other woods. It was my desire to have the coffin as cozy as possible, and I rejected the frivolities which so many persons affect in the matter of coffins. In order to have it handy I kept it in the garret. But my wife tells me that styles have changed, and since I have accumulated a little for tune .?he will not permit me to die un less I consent, to get an up-to-date casket. To avoid trouble I agreed to sell the old one. But at the same time 1 think that the coflin which was good enough for mo in my poorer days should satisfy mo now, and I shall always feel out of place in the new-fangled affair." Tennyson and the Socialist. Tennyson figuring as a champion of the Imperiled rights of property is thus quoted in William Ailingham's lately published "Diary." "I was once in a coffee shop in the Westminster road at four o'clock in the morning. A man was raging. 'Why has so-and-so a hundred pounds and 1 have not a shilling?' I said to him, 'lf your father had left you a hundred pounds you would not Kive it away to somebody else.' He had not a word to answer. I knew he Uudu't." ~ ' . ■ Picked Up in Pennsylvania ERIE. —George A. Hirsch of this place lost both of his legs beneath a Lake Shore freight train. LAT ROBE.—Morris, the 3-year-old son of Andrew Peters of Bradenville, was fatally scalded by falling into a boiler of hot water. NEW CASTLE.—Partially eaten by rats, the mutilated body of Harney Sweeney, aged 65, was found by boys in a shed buck of the Coliseum skat ing rink. WEST NEWTON William Wil helm, aged 18 years, was drowned and Roy Hi finger, 16, had a narrow es cape here while rowing in the You ghiogheny river. JEANNETTE. —Owing to the in creased demand for bottles, the last of the idle furnaces of the Jeannette Glass Co.'s works was put.in opera tion, affecting 150 men. HAZLETON.—John McCarthy, one of the best known newspaper men in the state, died suddenly from paraly sis of the heart at his home at Weath erly, 12 miles from here. UNIONTOWN.—The store of John 11. Bovd at Cool Spring was entered by thieves and canned and bottled goods, meats, Hour, etc., were taken to the amount of over SSOO. SOMERSET. Shocking treatment of inmates of the Somerset county home is alleged in charges resulting in the arrest of Poor Directors Will iam Brant and John Reiman. GREENSBURG.—The Saxman Store Co. of Bradenville was awarded S2OO damages against the H. 9. Kerbaugh Co. for an explosion of dynamite three years ago, which wrecked buildings at Braden ville. PHILADELPHIA.— One man was probably fatally injured and a large building destroyed by an explosion of powder in the plant of the Lexow Flashlight Powder Co. at Grassland, Pa., near here. WASHINGTON. Miss La.ura Sharpnack, daughter of Abraham Sharpnack, is dead at her home at Khedive, Greene county. This is the sixth death in the Sharpnack family during the last year. BROWNSVILLE. While com mencement exercises for pupils grad uating from its rooms were being held in a theater the brick schoolhouse at Bridgeport, a suburb of Brownsville, was destroyed by lire. WASHINGTON.— John Millikin, a Civil war veteran of Jefferson, Greene county, has been presented with the old battle flag of his company in the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania infantry, or ganized at Zollarsville in 1861. READING.—AII employes of the Reading railway road department have been ordered on ten hours per day. They had been on nine hours all winter. This affects at least 1,000 men on the different divisions. POTTSVILLE.—By the explosion of a charge of dynamite in the gangway of the Draper colliery, Andrew Cav aiage was killed and three foreign la borers were so badly injured that they are not expected to recover. WASHINGTON—WiIIiam Cameron, accused of stealing a horse, escaped from officers at Hookstown, jumping out of a window in the office of Jus tice James Reed while the justice and others were examining the warrant. HARRISBURG.—As a result of the raid made by agents of the state dairy and food division together with fed eral authorities 011 the illegal sellers of oleo in Schuylkill county the traf fic has been almost entirely broken up. BUTLER.—In a wreck of a west bound freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad a mile west of Evans City two men were perhaps fatally injured. The track spread and 17 coal cars plunged over an embank ment. HARRISBURG.—The reports to the state banking department by 327 trust companies. 130 state banks and 13 savings institutions, under date of De cember 16, show that deposits aggre gated $632,006,359, against $666,143,- 524 a year before. CONN ELLSVILLE.—Charging con spiracy and circulation of slanderous statements, Hev. A. Bleisz, pastor of St. Emory Magyar Catholic church of Connellsvllle, lias made information against the former organist, Adalbert Pogany, and four of his supporters. BUTLER. Lawrence McLaughlin of Karns City, an. oil well pumper, was struck by the Buffalo flyer on the Allegheny Valley railroad at Parker and instantly killed. His body was hurled 300 feet to the water's edge. HARRISBURG.— A telegram re ceived here from Pottsville stated that John J. Lendcrman, head of the Dundee Creamery Co. of Pittsburg, and' N. E. .Turns, his agent, were fined SIOO and costs 011 each of 13 indictments for illegal sale of oleo in Schuylkill county. BEAVER FALLS. The Beaver Falls .Manufacturing Co. has shipped a carload of sledges to Panama for use on the canal, being part of a large government order. GREENSBURG. The Stahl glass works, destroyed by fire last Decem ber, have been rebuilt and will be ready for operation very soon, employ ing 350 men and boys. HARRISBURG.—A small hatchery has been established by the state au thorities at Beaver Meadow, near Wiikesbarre. It will be used to stock streams in the vicinity. JOHNSTOWN. Mrs. Percy A. Long, a bride of four months, sudden ly fell unconscious at her home and died several hours later at the hos pital. Internal hemorrhages were the cause. HARRISBURG.—The state of Penn sylvania will raise 6,000,000 seedling trees on its nurseries this summer and all of the young trees will be set out in the forest reserves of the commonwealth and given care. CONNELLSVILLE. Fire of un known origin destroyed a vaudeville theater owned by Samuel Hantman, and damaged the stores of B. Kerner, J. Levy and the Chicago Dairy Co., ail frame structures in North Pittsburg street. PITTSBURG. Almost without warning death came to James Wilson Lee, attorney, independent oil pro ducer and former leader of indepen dent Republicans in Pennsylvania and in the state senate. Death was due to heart failure. GREENSBURG. Mine Inspector Chauncey B. Ross of Greensburg an nounced that out of a class of 20 appli cants for mine foremen in his district live passed satisfactorily, and out of 45 candidates for fire bosses but six were successful. GREENSBURG.—The decision of Commissioner of Fisheries James W. Meehan that trout shrink after being out of water and that the law requires only that they be full six inches when taken from the stream will result in several cases here being threshed out again. GROVE CITY. A settlement be tween the coal miners and operators of the Mercer and Butler coal fields has been reached. The miners will resume work under the old scale, pending a settlement for the coming year by a meeting of the miners' dele gates and operators. CLEARFIELD.—The body of Clark Chase, son of Postmaster Chase of this city, was found in the barrens, seven miles from Clearfield. Chase left here recently for a day's trout fishing. He became lost and perished in a snowstorm which swept over this section of the country for two days. HARRISBURG. Auditor General Robert K. Young refused to pay the Wayne county commissioners the amount they claimed for the printing of the ballots for the recent spring primaries and the authorities will have to be content with a much less sum than they attempted to charge the state. PHILADELPHIA.—The state su preme court, in affirming a Philadel phia court, holds that neither the mayor of Philadelphia nor the direc tor of public safety can discharge a municipal employe who obtained the position through a civil service exam ination, without giving a reason for their action. KITTANNING.—HeId up by three highwaymen, pounded and cut with sandbags and knuckles, robbed of his money and watch and then thrown over a 30-foot embankment, where he was a target for stones as he lay help less, Lynn Saylor, a puddler, was left for dead by his assailants. His con dition is serious. BUTLER.—Charged with assaulting Frank Ross of Lyndora, driver of a bakery wagon, stealing 30 loaves of bread and S3O, demolishing the wagon and seriously injuring Ross, 25 Ital ians. employed on the Pittsburg, Har mony, Butler & New Castle trolley line, were captured near Petersville and lodged in jail. BUTLER.—Joseph Sykes of Butler township, arrested for refusing to pay taxes, protested to Justice Jacob Keck that he understood this is a "free country where nobody pays taxes and nobody has to pray." Justice Keck told Sykes everybody but the rich pay taxes and prayer is optional with the individual. Sykes paid. GREENVILLE. —Awakening to find a burglar going through the clothes in his room, Dr. M. A. Bailey fired two shots at the Intruder as he leaped through a window. Later a trail of blood was found leading to the Lake Shore railroad. KITTANNING.—The largest single month's shipment in the history of the j Ford City plant of the Pittsburg Plate > Glass Co. was made during April, ' when 1,700,700 feet of plate glass was ( disposed of. Over $60,000 was dis tributed at the semi-monthly pay, I This woman says that sick women should not fail to try Lydia ID. Pinkham's VegetaJblo Compound as she did. Mrs. A. Gregory, of 2:555 Lawrence St., Denver, Col., writes to Mrs. I'iakham: "I was practically an invalid for six years, on account of female troubles. I underwent an operation by the doctor's advice, but in a few months I was worse than before. A friend ad vised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it restored me to perfect health, such as I have not enjoyed in many years. Any woman Buffering as I did with backache, bearing-down pains, and periodic pains, should not fail to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made 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 ? 3lrs. Pink ham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has pfuided thousands to health. Address, Lyiiu, Mass. CAUSE FOR HIS HURRY. "Ah, I love to see a little toy In such a hurry to get to school!" "Yes, sir. Me little brother's got de measles, an' I'm hurrying up to get excused!" Bees in Block of Stone. While workmen were sawing through a block of Bath stone at Kxeter, ling land, they cut into a cavity in which was found a cluster of two or three dozen live bees. The incident occurred at the worfts of Messrs. Collard & Sons, monu mental sculptors. There was not much sign of life in the bees at first, but when air was admitted they gradually revived and after a few hours several of them were able to fly. Compensation. Mrs. Raker —My husband costs me a good deal of money. Mrs. Barker—Yes, and he isn't very good to you, either. Mrs. Baker —I know it, but I got a dandy lot of wedding presents with him. Chocolate Pie Is H«althful. Chocolate is healthful and nutritious and ehocolati! pies are becoming very popular. They are easy to make if you use "OUR PIE." Chocolate flavor. Diroctionson pack age. Contains all Ingredients ready for in "Put up by D-Zerta Co., Rochester, N.Y." Living well is the best revenge w« can take on our enemies.—Froude. Mrs. Wlnslow'n Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, rtMluoen to tUinmatlon, allaja pain, cures wind colic. u bottle. A well-informed physician is fro quenlly ill-informed. 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