6 7 SERIAL 112 j" 1 "J o 112 the | J THREE U :j BARSS> I ■By \ | KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES i ** » (Copyright A. r. Mcciurg Co., lyui.j SYNOPSIS. George Williston, a poor rruvhnvin. high-minded and cultured, searches for tattle missing from his ranch—the "Lazy 9." On a wooded spot in the river's lied Jhat would have been an island had the (Missouri been at high water, ho dis covers a band of horse thieves engaged !a working over brands on cattle. He creeps near enough to note the chang ing of the"Three Bars" brand on one *teer to the "J. K." brand. Paul Lang ford, the rich owner of the"Three liars," is informed of the operations of the gang of cattle thieves—a band if outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who long have defied the law and authori ties of Kemah county. South Dakota, l/angford is struck with the beauty of M.ary, commonly known as "Williston's (title girl." Louise Dale, an expert rourt stenographer, who had followed tier uncle, Judge Hammond Dale, from the. east to the "Dakotahs," and who J» living with him at Wind City, is requested by the county attorney, ■Richard 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 a t a. herd of cattle being shipped by Bill Brown and there detects old "Mag," a well known "onery" steer be longing to ids employer of the"Three Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start for Kemah. Crowds assemble in Justice James B. McAllister's court for the preliminary hearing. Jesse Black springs the first of many great surprises, waiving examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a Jncmber of the outlaw gang, he had learned that the steer "Mag" had been re covered and thus saw the uselessness of Sighting against being bound over. County Attorney Gordon accompanies Louise !>ale on her return to Wind City. While Williston stands in the light, in his floor a.l night a shot is tired at Idm. The house IJie attacked and a battle ensues between Williston and his daughter, on one side, . snd the outlaws on the other. The house is set on fire. As an outlaw raises Ids rifle to shoot Williston a shot from an un 3ttiow« source pierces his arms and the ritlo falls to the ground. Aid has come to WilliHlon, but lie and his daughter are captured and borne away by the outlaws, iim Munson late at night heard the shots, Aiaeovered tlie attack on Williston's house, hurried to the Three Bars ranch and sum atoned Langford and his brave men trt the rescue. It was Langford who fired the shot which saved Williston's life. Langford readies Mary from her captor. The party warch in vain for Williston. Louise comes to nurse Mary. Williston is given up for tk-ad. Hut meager evidence is obtainable against Jesse Black, and it is concluded that the case must be. fought out on the note question of "Alag." Judge Dale ar rives to sit at the December session of the circuit court at which the cattle theft '■ase is to be tried. Gordon has hard work in securing an unprejudiced jury. Bed Sanderson takes a seat in the hotel din ing hall beside Louise and addresses her. fie is unceremoniously shoved aside by Gordon. Sanderson draws his gun. The trial begins. Gordon makes a good im pression. Wandering aimlessly on his horse meditating In the night Gordon finds himself beside the ruins of the Mzzle S. He is called by his name. The voice is that of Williston, and the long lost man and needed witness is found. CHAPTER XVl.—Continued. "Tell me anything? Not they. She was such a good girl. Dick. There never was a better. She never com plained. She never got her screens, poor girl. I wish she could have had her screens before they murdered her. Where did you lay her, Dick?" "Mr. Williston," said Dick, taking firm hold of the man's burning hands and speaking with soothing calmness, "forgive me for not telling you at once. I thought you knew. I never dreamed that you might have been thinking all the while that Mary was dead. She is alive and well and with friends. She only fainted that night. Come, brace up! Why, man alive, aren't you glad? Well. then, don't go to pieces like a child. Come, brace up, I toll you!" "You —you —wouldn't lie to me, would you, Dick?" "As God is my witness, Mary is alive and in Kemah this minute —un- less and earthquake lias swallowed tho hotel during my absence. I saw her less than two hours ago." "Give me a minute, my dear fellow, will you? I —l " He walked blindly away a few steps and sat down once more on the ruins of his homestead. Gordon waited. The man sat still —his head buried in l>is hands. Gordon approached, lead ing his mare, and sat down beside him. "Now tell me," he said, with simple directness. An hour later the two men sepa rated at the door of the Whites' claim shanty. "Lie low here until I send for you," ■was Gordon's parting word. CHAPTER XVII. Fire! The wind arose along toward mid night—the wind that many a hardened inhabitant would have foretold hours aefore had be been master of his time and thoughts. As a rule, no signal service was needed in the cow coun try. Men who practically lived in the open liad a natural right to claim 30r.n0 close acquaintance with the por '.enis of approaching changes. Hut it would have been well had some storm Sax waver over the little town that ;.ai. For the wind that came slipping lip In the night, first in little signing Thill's and skirmishes, gradually grow ing more impatient, more domineering, more utterly contemptuous, haughty, ajid hungry, sweeping down from its northwest camping grounds, carried a deadly menace in its yet warm breath t to the helpless and unprotected rattle j huddled together in startled terror or already beginning their migration by intuition, running with the wind. Ic rattled loose window casings in the hotel, so that people turned uneas ily in their beds. It sent strange crea tures of . the imagination to prowl I about. Cowmen thought of the de- I pleted herds when the riders should come in off the free ranges in the spring should that moaning wind mean a real northwester. Louise was awakened by a sudden shriek of wind that swept through the siight aperture left by the raised win dow and sent something crashing to | the floor. She lay lor a moment drowsi ly wondering what had fallen. Was it anything that could be broken? She heard the steady push of the wind gainst the frail frame building, and knew she ought to convjei herself suf ficiently to be aroused to close the window. Hut she was very sleepy. The crash had not awakened Mary. She was breathing quietly and deeply. But she would be amenable to a touch —just a light one—and she did not mind doing things. How mean, though, to administer it in such a cause. She could not do it. The dilapidated green blind was flapping dismally. What time was it? Maybe it was nearly morning, and then the wind would probably go down. That would save her from getting up. She snuggled under the covers and prepared to slip deliciously off into slumber again. Hut she couldn't goto sleep after all. A haunting suspicion preyed on her waking faculties that the crash might have been the water pitcher. She had been asleep and could not gauge the shock of the fall, it had seemed terrific, but what awakens one from sleep is always abnormal to one's startled and unremembering consciousness. Still, it might have been the pitcher. She cherished no fond delusion as to the impenetra bility of the warped Cottonwood floor ing. Water might even then be trick ling through to the room below. She found herself wondering where the bed stood, and that thought brought her sitting up in a hurry only to re member that she was over the musty sitting-room with its impossible car pet. She would be glad to see it soaked —it might put a little color into it, temporarily at least, and lay the dust of ages. But, sitting up, she felt herself enveloped in a gale of wind that played over the bed, and so wise ly concluded that if she wished to see this court through without the risk of grippe or pneumonia complications, she had better close that window. So she slipped cautiously out of bed, ner- CSigli >■. "Won't Save a Thing." vously apprehensive of plunging her feet into a pool of water. It had not been the pitcher after all. Even after the window was closed there seemed to be much air in the room. The blind still flapped, though at longer in tervals. If it really turned cold, how were they to live in that barn-like room, she and Mary? She thought of the campers out on the flat and shiv ered. She looked out of the window musingly a moment. It was dark. She wondered if Gordon had come home. ;Of course he was home. It must be nearly morning. Her feet were get ting cold, so she crept back into bed. The next thing of which she was con scious, Mary was shaking her excit edly. "What is it?" she asked, sleepily. "Louise! There's a fire somewhere! Listen!" Some one rushed quickly through the hall; others followed, knocking against the walls in the darkness. Then the awful, heart-clutching clang ' of a bell rang out—near, insistent, me | tallic. It was.the meeting-house bell. There was no other in the town. The girls sprang to the floor. The thought had found swift lodgment in the mind of each that the hotel was on fire, and in that moment Louise thought of the poisoned meat that had once been served to some archenemies of the gang whose chief was now on trial for his liberty. So quickly does the brain work under stress of great crises, that, even before she had her shoes and stocking on, she found herself wonder ing who was the marked victim this time. Not Williston —he was dead. N'ot Gordon—he slept in his own room back of the office. Not Langford—he was bunking with his friend in that same room. Jim Munson? Or was the judge the proscribed one? He was not a corrupt judge. He ceuld not be bought. It might be he. Mary had gone to the window. "Louise!" she gasped. "The court house!" True. The cloudy sky was reddened above the poor little temple of justice where f#r day and weeks the tide of human interest of a big part of a big CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, "RBUjRSD.AY, MAY 28, 1908/5 state—ay, a bis; part of all the north west country, maybe—had been stead ily setting in and had reached its cul mination only yesterday, when a gray-eyed, drooping-shouldered, flrm jawed young man had at last faced quietly in tlie bar of his court the defter of the cow country. To-night, it would dance its little measure, re cite its few lines on its little stage of popularity before an audience frenzied with appreciation and interest; to morrow, it would be a heap of ashes, its scene played out. "My note books!" cried Louise, in a flash of comprehension. She dressed hastily. Shirt waist was too intricate, so she threw on a gay Japanese ki mono; her jacket and walking skirt concealed the limitations of her at tire. "What are you going to do?" asked Mary, also putting on clothes which were easy of adjustment. She had never gone to fires in the old days before she had come to South Dakota; but if Louise went —gentle, highbred Louise —why, she would go too, that was all there was about it. She had constituted herself Louise's guardian in this rough life that must be so alien to the eastern girl. Louise had been very good to her. Louise's startled cry about her note books carried little understanding to her. She was not used to court and its ways. They hastened out into the hallway and down the stairs. They saw no one whom they knew, though men were still dodging out from unexpect ed places and hurrying down the street. It seemed impossible that the inconveniently built, diminutive prair ie hotel could accommodate so many people. Louise found herself wonder ing where they had been packed away. The men, carelessly dressed as they were, their hair shaggy and unkempt, always with pistols in belt or hip pocket or hand, made her shiver with dread. They looked so wild and weird and fierce in the dimly lighted hall. She clutched Mary's arm nervously, but no thought of returning entered her mind. Probably the judge was already on the court-house grounds. He would want to save some valuable books he had been reading in his of ficial quarters. So they went out into the bleak and windy night. They were immediately enveloped in a wild gust that nearly swept them off their feet as it ciime tearing down the street. They clung together 'fur a moment. "It'll burn like hell in this wind!" some one cried, as a bunch of men hurried past them. The words were literally whipped out of his mouth. "Won't save a thing." Flames were bursting out of the front windows upstairs. The sky was all alight. Sparks were tossed madly southward by the wind. There was grave danger for buildings other than the one already doomed. The roar of the wind and the flames was well nigh deafening. The back windows and stairs seemed clear. "Hurry, Mary, hurry!" cried Louise, above the roar, and pressed forward, stumbling and gasping for the breath that the wild wind coveted. It was not far they had to go. There was a jam of men in the yard. More were coming up. But there was nothing to do. Men shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders and watched '.he progress of the inevitable with the placidity engendered of the potent: "it can't be helped." Hut some things might have been saved that were not saved had the iirst 011 the grounds not rested so securely on that quieting Inevitability. As the girls came with in the crowded circle of light, they overheard something of a gallant at tempt on the part of somebody to save the county records —they did not hear whether or no the attempt had been successful. They made their way to the rear. It was still dark. (To Be Continued.) QUEER NAMES USED IN CHINA. Much the Same Idea as That of the North American Indian. "We Chinese," said the law student, "give our children queer names. Our girls, for instance are not called Mabel, Jenny or Matilda, but Cloudy Moon, Celestial Happiness, Spring Peach or Casket of Perfumes. Our boys get less delicious names. Boys are made for work and wisdom, rather than for dancing and pleasure, and their names show this, as Practical Industry, Ancestral Knowledge, Com plete Virtue, Ancestral Piety, Discreet Valor. To our slaves we give still an other set of names. Yes, those dear, pathetic little slaves of ours, some girls, some boys, who do a hundred various little tasks about the house, these lowly creatures have names like Not For Me. Joy to Serve, Your Hap piness and Humble Devotion." POWER OF THE ROTHSCHILD 3. Accumulated Wealth Soon to Make Influence of House Enormous. It has been calculated that at the present rate of accumulation the Rothschilds will own by the middle of the present century some £2,000,000,- 000 sterling, or nearly enough to pay off the national debt three times over, says a writer in the Grand Magazine, of London, England. The imagination is staggered and fails to realize the power which is represented by such figures. It. could finance, or it could stop, a war; it could delay the indus trial development of a country for a generation; or it could, on the other hand, enable a country which it fa vored to beat all its industrial rivals. A pejper like this must have its fingers on all the arteries through which flows the life-blood of commerce, the ebb and flow of which it can regulate un controlled. I Picked Up in -##- 1 I -##--#(<#-Pennsylvania | v.■;■ '•*:." •z&'ZixMtt*! trEC"-j'atv -?> <S».-i-rfC?sSte«S3^ NEW KENSINGTON.— The board of health has directed that all cases of typhoid fever in the borough bo pla carded hereafter. BUTLER. —With the skull frac tured, the body of John Descenti, aged 4.">, a laborer, was. found in a ravine. Descenti had SBO in his pockets and this is misskig. FRANKLIN. —Mrs. Mary Gormley died near Franklin, aged 102 years. She was born in Franklin and lived in New York and Pittsburg before she came back here. SCRANTON. —The seventh annual convention of the postoflice clerks adopted a resolution asking legisla tion by congress for increased wages and summer vacations, OIL ClTY. —George Buchanan, aged 55, janitor of the public schools at Tidioute, committed suicide by hang ing in the basement of (lie building. 11l health was the cause. GREENSBURG. —Jacob Fox, aged 74, dropped dead at the Keystone ho tel from heart failure. He was a brother-in-law of Daniel Dillwiger, the distiller. Mr. Fox was wealthy. WASHINGTON.— Married June 6, 1902; divorced November 3, 1900; re married May IS, 1908. Such is the matrimonial record of Cannonsburg and his wife, Margaret Henderson. H ARRISBU RG. —The Pennsylvania building at the Jamestown exposition has been sold to private parties for $3,000. The building cost $31,000 and was a replica of Independence Hall. WASHINGTON.— Of the 28 persons who took the examination for mine foremen in the Sixteenth district at Brownsville, nine were successful for first grade certificates and one passed for second grade. BROOKVILLE. —Edward Kerwin of Arcade, N. Y., died of injuries sus tained in a gas explosion in the Sigei 011 field. Sylvester Covil, who was working with Kerwin, was seriously burned, but will recover. KITTANNING. —The comptroller of the currency has appointed Frank R. McCormick receiver for the First Na tional bank of East Brady, which re cently closed. William J. Robinson held the office temporarily. MONONGAHELA. —Dogs attacked a flock of prize winning sheep on the farm of Joseph Lytle aud kille.i 24, besides injuring others. The sheep were of imported stock and valued at $350. The law will allow sllß. BEAVER FALLS. —Lightning struck the residence of Calvin Ecklin at Homewood, tearing out a corner of the building and doing much damage. Miss Helen Nicholson and a little child of Mr. Ecklin were rendered unconscious for several hours. LEWISBURG. —Through a miaun derstanding of orders two Reading passenger trains collided at a curve just north of here. Both engines were badly wrecked. Twelve passengers and the crew of the southbound train were injured, none fatally. MONONGAHELA. After being robbed of all their money and valu ables, five foreigners on their way home from Gallatin were cursed by 12 of their own countrymen because they had no more cash and four of them shot, one perhaps fatally. UNIONTOWN. — Members of tile state constabulary, county detectives and a large number of citizens searched this vicinity for the un known assailant of Mary Kolesca, 11 years old, and Helen Swink, 13 years old, who were seriously assaulted. WASHINGTON. —NearIy 1,000 ne groes were here recently to attend the anniversary and thanksgiving conven tion of the Second regiment of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. Members of the order came from Pittsburg, Wheeling and other points. PITTSBURG. —Ernest W. Bowman, former assistant cashier of the Citi zens' National Bank of Tionesta, Pa., pleaded guilty in the United States court to a charge of aiding Joseph W. Landers and William C. Wynian in the abstracting of tlie bank's funds, amounting to over $14,000. BRADFORD. —WhiIe playing about a storehouse, Lester Woodworth, a young son of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Woodworth, had the misfortune to have a large grindstone fall over up on him, breaking one leg at the thigli and producing a number of bruises about the head and arms. GREENSBURG. —The property of the Reese-Hammond Fire Brick Co. at Bolivar, this county, and Garfield, Indiana county, was sold to M. R. Murphy, representing the First Na tional bank of Pittsburg, to satisfy a mortgage. HARRISBUR G. —The charges against St. Joseph's hospital in Read ing have been found to be without foundation and a report to that ef fect lias been made to the state board of charities. An investigation was made covering several weeks. FORD CITY. —Mrs. Emory Flat is dead here from measles. Her three children had the disease, and through nursing them she contracted it. GREENSBURG. —Harry F. Seanor, ex-sheriff of We tnioreland county and for years leader in county Republican politics, died at his home here. SH AMOK IN. —The body of .Michael i sher, aged Hi years, was found hang ing from a tree with a rope around his neck. Foul play is suspected. UNIONTOWN. Orin J. Sturgis, managing editor and one of the own ers of the Uniontown News-Standard, shot himself in the head and died a few moments later. JOHNSTOWN. —Seven persons are known to have been injured and great damage was done by a terrific wind storm which followed a narrow path through Johnstown. KITTANNING. —A violent rain and windstorm passed over this section recently, doing heavy damage. Hail stripped the leaves from the trees and it is feared destroyed fruit. WASHINGTON. —Attorney A. M. Linn of Washington lias sold to A. S. Brastiell a tract of land in Center ville for $35,000. There are 14 acres of surface land anil 60 acres of coal included in the deal. HARRISBURG. —State police have been called into a probable murder case near Altoona, where a telephone foreman was found dying along a road. The belief is that the man was assaulted by foreigners. PITTSBURG. —The extensive prop erty of the Federal Coal and Coke Co. near Fairmont, W. Va., has been pur chased by the New England Gas .anil Coke Co. of Boston for a spot cash consideration of $1,250,000. WI LKESBAR RE. —William Capar onet, a young Italian of Hilldale, was shot while returning to his home and he is not expected to recover. Two other Italians were arrested on sus picion of having fired the shots. OIL ClTY.—James Green of Greens burg was found near the Pennsyl vania railroad station at Tionesta with a knife wound in his throat. Green says he was held up by two highwaymen, who robbed him of sl7. GREENVILLE. —Frederick Donald son, son of a proiniuent doctor, and .Miss Violet Carmen, his companion, were shot but not seriously injured by 1.. Thomas, an Italian, as they were about to board a train. The as sailant was arrested. UNIONTOWN. —In an encounter with chicken thieves in which shot» guns were used George A. Stewart, a farmer at Thompson No. 1, was pep pered with more than 125 shot. One of the shots punctured his throat, in flicting a dangerous wound. PHILADELPHIA.— Frank A. Mun sey announced he has leased the building on Chestnut street so long occupied by the Evening Bulletin, and says that within a few weeks he will establish a new evening newspaper. The new paper will be independent in politics. PHILADELPHIA. Thieves en tered the armory of the Third regi ment, of the national guard in this city and obtained the silver and gold medal bars awarded by hte state to members of the regiment who had qualified on the ranges during the past year. KITTANNING. —Hundreds of men will get work on new roads to be built in Armstrong county. Manor township has awarded a contract to P. F. McCann of Greensburg at $43,- 540.43. The bid of H. C. Hinkle of Altoona, $40,446.20, for reconstruction of the road in South Buffalo township has been accepted. UNIONTOWN. —The River mine of the If. C. Frick Coke Co. at South Brownsville, which has been idle since April 1, 1900, will resume op-- erations as soon as the plant can be putin shape to start. No coke had ever been made at (his plant, but the Frick company has engineers stak ing out a string of 500 ovens. BURGETTSTOWN. Mrs. Samuel Bridgeman, who was found half con scious in the yard of her home, told on reviving a tale of maltreatment at the hands of a foreign robber. The woman was left alone. A roughly dressed foreigner surprised ber in the kitchen, took a pocketbook con taining $7. and left her securely bound. UNIONTOWN— Frank Cocis, al leged io lie an agent for Joseph F. Freeauf, Pittsburg, was arrested on a charge of bringing liquor into Fay ette county and disposing of it at Arnold City, which is in a local op tion district. REYNOLDSVILLE. —WhiIe attempt ing to take a flash-light picture in a room in the Imperial hotel I. D. Kelz, a photographer, was hurt and four men narrowly escaped injury through the explosion of a new device for mak ing the illumination. MARK TWAIN ON MONEY. Humorist Points Out What He Consid ers Some Wrong Conceptions. Mark Twain said that tho financial panic had caused a wrong idea of the use and value of money. "The spendthrift says that money, being round, was made to roll. The miser says that, being flat, it >vas made to star-it up. Moth are wrong. "Strangely wrong, too, in their id* as about money are the veteran Aus tralian gold diggers. These simple old fellows, though worth perhaps a lmli million or more, live in the sim ple dug-outß and chanties of tin ir ieaa early days. "Once, lecturing, I landed at an Aus tralian port. There was no porter in sight to carry my luggage. Seeing a rough-looking o!d fellow leaning against a post with his hands in his pockets, I beckoned to him and said: " 'See here, if you carry these Hl> to the hotel ill give you half a crown.' "The man scowled at me. He took three or four gold sovereigns from liis pocket, threw them into the .sea, scowled at ine again, and walked away wiiliout a word." AMENITIES. -W mm "And you call yourself honest? Hah!" "Sir, I keep the commandments." "That must be because you've got an idea that they be-long to somebody else." His Quick Recovery. "I was so glad," said Mrs. Oldcastle, "to see Dr. Goodleigh in the pulpit again last Sunday. He had such a time of it. Dear me, it must be per fectly dreadful to have one's appendix removed. 1 dread it so that I don't know what. I should do if I had to un dergo an operation. They said, when the doctor went to the hospital, that he wouldn't be out again for a month or more." "I know it," replied her hostess a3 she started the diamond-studded phonograph, "but I guess he re puderated a good deal faster than they expected." The Objects of Her Feelings. "Patrick," gushed the amorous Wid ow O'i.eary, "Oi've long - anted t' eon fiss t.' ye th' state iv me ft*elin's toward ye, an' now Oi must tell ye thot. Oi love ivvry hair iv y'r head!" "Thin, if ye do," replied the o4ntnan. tine Patrick, who has just come from the barber's, "Oi'll toil ye, Mrs. O'i.eary, thot wore ye in Casey's bar ber shop around th' corner, ye'd foind Casey sweepin' th' objects iv y'r feel in's into his dustpan at th' prisint. mo ment!" —Illustrated Sunday Magazine. Thousands of American women in our homes arc cTitily sacrificing* their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is ofte brought on and they suffer in silenc< drifting along from bad to wors knowing well that they ought t have help to overcome the pains ant aches which daily make life a burden It is to these faithful women tlnr e.YO>3AE.PsNB€HAS¥i'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a boon and a blessing; as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of Mayvillo, N. and to Mrs. H r . P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa., who say "I was not abl * to do my own work, owing to the femile trouble from which I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound helped me wonderfully, and I am so we'i that 1 can do as big a day's work a- I ever did. I wish every sick womai. vouul try it. FACTS FOR S3C& WOMEN. For thirty yer.rs Lydia E. rink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been tin standard remedy for female ill? and has posit ively cured thousands c women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, nice ra tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges t ion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it ? Mrs. l'iiiklinm invites all side women to write her for advice. She lius guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass* -
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