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EBEXSIWKG. PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1S94.
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TRY THE FREEMAN.
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pirt, Omstip.ition. Malnrio. AToro Ills
result froman T'nlie.ilrfiyLivcrth.inany
other cause. V'tiy FiiiTer when you can
lip c.irc.l ? Dr. i-vinford' Ijivrr Invigor
lif or U a rli'!r;itnl f.lTnUv lii.'i1i'-itif.
lull: lUl Ulil.H r WILL. M'1'l'I.Y VOl'.
Steel Picket Fence.
. ThAN WOOD
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'Ar5lTI..' r-OR YOO.
.Irs' a-woarvin' I'T you
HU II..- inn., a-f.-t lin' t.lue:
V i -!i.o' lor y.i . wiiial.-rin' whon
Yi-u'i; lit-.n' lioriti tton.
I! 1.-. a. il.i.ri Know what todo
Ji ' a u. aryin' for you.'
I!.vm's s.i liinouorii.' nitli your chair
l ATipty l-v lia- tiro lai-c ih. re.
J. s" can't siaml tliosl-.-lit of it!
t lo out ;.Hrs an' rt.am tt lit:
l.iit tin. wo ..N i-. Ion. aoino, too
J.-s' it-wary;:! for you!
i'.iaios 11. o v. in.l vvlih soft carosa,
!.i:.- t!.-- roi.'l.u' of y.it.r lr-r.s;
I ilo ...o ins f ariit' to t In - proiiml
S. i'Ay. Ii your fiMtstop sound:
ioit t -i li!;- v owr t'Vrs so bluoi
Jos' ti-wt-ai-yta for you!
Mornin e .m.-s: tho liir.ls awiko;
I . s ii - s i for vour sal-c!
I'.ui ih- ro's s.-.iiri-ss i:i tho notes
1 Ii it i'o::n- t'arinia' frotn their throats;
Se. in lo leel your ali.-ience. loo
Ji s' u-v.-oary in' for you!
i:v i:in eot'ies; I miss you more
When Hie lai i; fliKiins in the door;
Set ins j.-s' 1 l-.o you iirtrr lc
There lo ! :i it l..r me!
Latch sr.x s 'in' iiu": thrills me throuph-
S.-IS in.- wetiryin' for ytu!
Jos' ti-wear-.-iri' for you
All lite lii".- a-fi" li'i' l.'ne;
Wishin' fr j-oii - i i-mloriTi' when
Y. il'll ! e h.ith'i ti.-jo ttt'en:
I.'esilt ss. tlou t ki.im- what to ilo
a v . arv In fur yon!
-Frank I.. Slanti-i', in Alianta Constitution.
A XKKVY CAITUKK.
How Billy Barsforrl Arrestod
Throo."Piujoroi Jack.
riio Ilepitty sln-rifT Yenf .M.iue Into 1 1
letoii llHsin mt. I Crttiiclit Out the
liorsa.l lil.-f hi.iI Tan of
Ilia l'als.
"1 say," s.ii.i i'i.I. (i.viro-o Ilarry nt
the I..)t is i 1 iil ifi.' niirl.f. s;iy1li. Ni'v
V .; ':. .i::i, "i t'lty pit Thr.t;-
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i -.n o:i thi' Str'p. Ilo went i.itt)
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; !i r !i;ul ineti. trt full of
i.Tll'. ll'll' tl ill's.
"V.'.-il, :,if. ll'.orf tvns a li irsetlii.-f
' i 11. live l simply t.. ; :.-:tl : . .r-.-s.
i ' v ii't ;i l'.i.siii.'ss itli !:;i'.i, it :ts :
.'i. . m, an 1 lie v.;is a m.s.t ex:i! tel.
si'.-:ei:;o !iiii rii'ier, i-.in 1 ;.ivt musti-r
i f i;. ::.-. Th.-ro isn't a ton in tin
. '.rt l:Vi-.-t v. Ii.-r' liis i-i-.-onl i.-. r. -t
iv. ri. sin-.l not :i rau.'limaii iu Wvi-iii-
::-:iil.l M.-nt tria v!i Won't Iv la-l to
..n.i'.v tuat 'l'lui'e-I-'ili'.f i-el .I;i.-1; lias
pao'i i'l liis oli.'ei.s. It's c-uri. t-a.
I I.car I iru-ii win. kni'V.- liim s .y that
I. a .4 as sott ;is a woiuaii ulu.ut
t it-fi'-s, an. I as Jjitn! ::s a .vonian
o'li.i;; ol.o'i-s. Marring liorso stoaTm;
io- -.. a.s lo ,1-st .is tin !av, ami tiu-ro-w.ii'ii't
a i iati weaiiiio; six-shooter
. i.i .' i o-i . rariiier i -r risi: in. to t' h lp a
";v rii' on: of :;-;-ti!ty. 1 v.- 1 ar.l il
;'::;' ...i::!." i!jo:i it- m't icr.o'.v v. i.at it
';.L Harry l:..-el!o nso.l to
ill" -' ! -lai'i. oill'.illl'triil'l-
1.' saw it in olia-rs.
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.as- 1 1 1 . . 1 1 'A ; i . ll:a! fear is a
, K-.'ii.iioi' .-f. 'i:a 11, IJiuoii as s.m s:
u hi is. Jack if-rtT wotil l litiw in
o.i :io'..
I'll U-t that Mii'-mii-
lion of cold never struck tbo pit of
stomach. I've often thougrlit tiiat one
n-ason sai'.or men are as a nilft so Vniv
i-. siinply that their stomachs are well
Inliaveil.
"Kut wh.tt 1 starttl out to tell was
alxmt the only time I ever heard of
Thi-eP-Fiiijjervd Jack's Iw-ino; arrested,
lie had lio.l knows how many lights
with the oiik-ois. lost two fiiip-.-rs .tnd
i. -i.t his ii:dinetivc title in one of 'cm, J
li.iuk. Kut somehow lie always n.an
;i -ol in come o.:t lirst hcsL 1' irrin;
.-.-iiaps Scott Hyde, there wasn't a
:pn. !.-r man w ith :irun in ail Wyon.iiio;
..r Montana, ami when he shot he
'.'siiaily s!i. it straight.
"Well, sir. I knew a man at Cheyenne,
when 1 was slationed at- l-'ort I. A.
S : u. .-.t'l i, whose business was catching
ihieves. It was a passion with him,
i-.r.t as stealing horses was witli Three-A'in-.-red
Jack. only, if such a thing-
v. as po.ssililc, it was a siv;ht hifrcr
passion. His name was K.ir.stord, Kiily
lli.i -i'oril, and he was deputy slicrilf of
t.uraaiie county. He was a line, bio;
follow, unusually fjniet, and tlie.jiiick
est man to move I ever saw. If there
,v:ts anytliinj Killy Karsfoird was afraid
f he never 'met up' with it, as they
.say out tlu re.
"One day Killy Karsford mad.o up his
mint' he'll oct Thrc-riii.-red Jack.
There'd been a biy bunch of xnies run
oil" from some ranches in the Sweet
water country, and the job was laid to
'! I'.rce-i- inhered Jack". Jack hail a r.-yn-iarly
organized ban.l, with h. ad.piar
t. rs over ill what was then calteil the
Teton basin, but I see they cad it Jack
son's hole now. It is just below w here
K.d-crt t.'ay Hamilton's dead Innly was
m.ia.i in the creek. Jack's band was
inai'ie r.p of some of the toughest men
in Wvoiuiii', triHHl shots, line riders and
I'a.'d'eitiwns, as pood at a h;,'ht as at a
ivi:-.!:. and always ready for eitlier. The
'.-ton basin wisn't so well-kmwvn in
t liose .lays as it is now. It wasn't so al
iii':;;iitv .safe for st rangers to H-lroppinr
ar . nn. 1 ther" promiscu usly. In fact,
it. vsas tui little known that it was com
monly described as U'ino; just over be
yond tho birf Teton.'
Well, when Hilly I'.arsfor.l made up
bis mind lo jret Threo-t'inovrcd Jack
he didn't say a word alxnit it to any
isiy, but just tMk his horse and lit
out tor Kajrie rin k. lie ha.I to fi- way
.-. -mid llu Tetons and the basin to (.'et
; : ore, but he wanted to make sure of
. iie la.- of the country ln'forc he tackled
l.e ;nn. There were heavy rewards
out. for Jack and Killy didn't reo-ard
fh-'in wit h disfavor, allhoii!.'h he used to
11 ine that the main thin-,' t hat started
was the desire to have the o-lorv of
,t"i.;!i',' Tiiree-l'ir.o-ered Jack all alone.
'-.i.-er ideas of "-lory soini' men have.
'".illy p,t over to Kairle r.nk all
r' -iit--they call it Idaho falls now. 1
!'. Ii 've, and after f.Hiliii around there
:i.iiiie and linditi; out what he could
:i;ont. the Tetons, he went out to the
Slios'ii.me rescrvati-n anl p't an old
. lief ther. to make liim :i map of the
'. . ton country. The old fellow drew it
..ii a shingle. It was an ;.lmihty
r.mirli map, as you can mirhty well
ii. iaine but it showed the lay of the
-.'! r7 r-V fairly well, and Killy pot a
pretty pod notion of where he was
try in"; topi.
"Ky "fail, sir, there wasn't any pristle
in the end of Killy Karsford's brcast
Iwane. He's no spring chicken. What
did he do but i.ano- around that Sho
shone camp four or five .lays Ion per,
and then make out to the old chief that
heM burned up by mistake the shinple
on which tjie map was made and ut
th. old tiucli to make liim another.
That nipht Killy compared the two
. shinples. The maps apreed in essen
tial details, and Killy concluded the
ohl Indian was playinp fail with him.
So he started out. He went up over
the Tetons and down into the basin, as
fine a picture of a little valley as a
man wants to see lyinp out of dinars,
with a little roek runninp throuph
the middle of it and line pasture pras
prow in p.
'As Killy went into the valley he
made out a little cabin down next to
t he creek, several miles from the foot
hills. It was morninp, and he had lots
of time. He pot down to the c-et-k.
pot olT his horse and made as if he
wore prospectinp alonp the little
stream. As he came alonp toward the
cabin he saw Three-I'inpored Jack and
three other fellows sittinp on a lieneh
In-sitle Iho wall. Their Winchesters
wore all standinp apainst the end wall
around the corner from them. They
wore all watchinp Killy. but didn't
seem to reeopnize hun. Or if they did
they thought they had a cinch, and
kept on siuokinp and chinninrr, w ithout
ever a motion t gvt ,.ut their puns.
They probably llpured that when Killy
pot ripht opposite them they'd speak to
him, and while some of them talked
one would hold him up. Possibly they
meant to do him. Kut lie fooled them.
"He kept prospectinp alonp the lit
tle creek until he pot fair even with
them, kecpinp his horse Ix'twocn him
and the men loside the cabin, with his
i ridic rein thrown over his arm. Just
:.r. he eaaie even with them he whipped
out his two six-shtoters like liphtniiip.
j!iniHvI in front of his pony, ami drew
on the four horsethicves not thirty
yards away.
'"I'ut up your hands, he said.
"Ky pad, sir. they wore paralyzed.
Ki.t they recovered .piick. The
two follows on the end jumiHtl for
their Winchester. Killy pot the lirst
with his rirht and wi:;j.-cd the other
wil'i his left. His horse jumped a bit.
he sai 1 when he told nie a'.n.ul it, ai.tl
Isithcred ids arm. The other two saw
they wen- trapped and put up their
hands. One of them was Thrcc-Finperod
a -iw.
" ilow are you. Jack?' says Killy.
liia.i t. find you at home. I've coiik-
t lonp way to see you. JN'ow won't
.'on kindly turn round ami stand with
,'o-ir face to that wall there, while I
assist your friend a bit to relieve him
self of any extra shootin' or cuttiu
irons ho may have in his itnckets?'
"Jack lurnod nround without a
word. It's curious what a powerful
i.iiiuence there is in the drop of a six
h.'il. r; and Uie lsja'-ty of doinp it
Aiihapuu and not a Winchester is
...at yon can cover two men at
...ice wilh the trun. Now there was
l'iat p:tnp of train robbi-rs down at
i!ii'.vl;!i.s. Kut that is anot'ar story.
Ja'-ki.l.Msl up iiiainst tiie v:iil lim.
' "l h-.mks.' says Killy, L ippinp ti:c
ori !! r. in from Ids left aria, and tak
inp soiii.' hiie, httiut cord out of one of
his hoistors with his left had, all the
t ine k.-i pinp Ixith men covered with his
riphU
"Just koer your hands well up
al.o-. f yo.i.r head, j. lease." he saiil t the
oilier fvllow; 'anil you. Jack. j::st
i.va-e J'l'.t jour hitnds out Is hiii.l your
l-ick. ln't try an3' prab pame, now,
for I'm watehiup. you kiiow, and this
pun miplit po oliV
"Jaui.- stuck out his hands as he was
order.vl. quiet as a lamb. Then Killy
walked up to the other, follow affil held
out the conl. There was a noose in
on-; end alre.uly prepared.
" -Xo-.v,' s:t:-.l he. 'just have the kind
ness to put that noose over Jack's hands
and tie it up tipht- 1 'lease le careful.
I'd 1k sorry to have to do any more
shoot inp Lhan I've done.'
"Well, sir, the fellow did it- And
then Killy pot another noose and tied
the other fellow himself. Then he
st'-KHl 'em loih up apainst the wall and
went through them anil took every
bloominp thinp they had in the way of
metal away from them. Then he tied
their feet and set 'cm down on the
ends of tiie lieneh and tied 'em fast to
that. Then he went throuph the fel
low he had w inpe-.h He w as bad hit
throuph the shoulder, and was uncon
scious from loss of IiI.mhL Killy ban
daped liim up and manapod to brinp
him "round after a bit, feeling1 pretty
chipper all thinps eonsi.lerciL Killy
buried the dead man anil then pot up
some of Jack's stolen horses. lie lashed
the wounded man into one saddle, and
then took the rope oil Jack's leps, pot
lil ii t astraddle a pony and lashed his
feet together under the pony's bell v.
Then he served the other chap thesaire
way. He threw all their puns into the
crock am! then untied their hands, but
tied their cl!ows topet her across their
backs. That left their hands free to
puide their ponies. Then he jumped on
his own jxiny anil niaole those fellows
po ahead, one of 'em leadinp the pony
the wounded man was ridinp. It took
Killy thirty hours to pet them out over
the raiipo, and he never took eyes olf
of 'em until it was done. Kut he did it
and pot the rewards. And ten days
after he pot "em in Laramie a lot of
their panp held up the town and took
'cm out. Yes, sir, they did."
HIS PLAINTIVE PLEA.
What He Thought She Shnald Have ..le.l
to Her Necialive.
He had loved her very tenderly and
for a lonp time, but she had scorned
him. says the Ietroit Free Frcss.
He was no worm cither, for he would
have turned when trod upon, but she
reeked not this.
It was cnouph for her that she did
not care for him.
This is usually cnouph for any wom
an. AImi for any man. when the boot
is on the other foot.
I'lirof Midi is the kingdom of Cupid.
His condition had at la-.t become tin-In-arable
to him. and he had resolved
to win all or lose all.
It war. late one cveniup when the
fateful moment arrived.
"Will you marry- me'.'' he asked her
in plain, uiitrimmcd lOnplish. lor he
co, ml trust liiiiiscli to iiotiiinp in the
ornamental line.
She .-.purr.ed him scornfully.
''No!" she replied with sarcastic,
hateful, cruel emphasis "no!"
The word pierced the heart in his
Ixisom. His lips iinivercd and at lirst
he could not speak.
- ""Have you no more to say?" he asked
at last plaintively.
"No. sir," she replied. "What more
could I say?"
T didn't know." he murmured trem
ulously, "but I think you mipht havt
Sitifl '.No, I thank you!"
A TEXAS ELOPEMENT.
How a Westorn Storm Aided Two
Venturesome Lovers.
Kob and May were ow eel hearts.
Of course they were; that's what
they had ieon learninp ever since Kob,
astiipplinp of twenty, had come out
from Tennessee to the Texas 1'anhan
dle with the family.
In those days May was a b.-ipht-htircil.
hiph-strunp little pirl of four
teen whom Kob never called nor
thoupht of as "red-headed."
Kob was astrotip. pi oil-humored loy,
not a bit afraid of work; and he uad a
way witii him that pave him command
of men and creatures. He rose r: pidly
in Ohl Man Love's employ from simple
cow puncher to wapon-lioss. then fore
man, nud when he was only twenty
live went, with the approval and pood
will of his employer, to take the posi
tion of ranch manaper for a la.stou
company.
All the world loves a lover. IJo'-j was
such a whole-hearted one, h;s- st: to of
mind was so patent, he look sucli de
lio;it in it, wore his chains with such
o;je:i pride and enthusiasm, that ail the
l'anhandle felt with and for him.
Kosides beinp a fellow that a pirl
could love without any dillicuity, any
body .villi a daughter to spare .nipht
have been pleased with Kob for a sou-in-law.
And Old Man Love was pleased
cnouph with the match, and preatly
piveri to brappinp of liob as a eoiniiip
adjunct to the Ive preatness, until
the Irapetly of the onc-horncd hi indie
cow, which tore thinp; all up peiicral
ly, threat.'. led t sever two 1 iving
hearts and darken forever Kob's and
i-iay's happy horizon.
This oid cow worth perhaps seven
dollars txble.l up at one of the r ainil
r.ps sixirtiup, in addition to the K. X.
of the K is ton National, which was
.Vtviiim dy known as the "lioau" j
... and. till Man Iove's (xxx).
Th.-.uph very uncommon, such aeei
.o'Tits may occur in the haste and c.-n-l;::-ioii
of brandinp. w ithout necessari
ly inipl vinp dis'ionesty on some one's
ir'- While they sometimes -.-suit
i i !i r'lts a i 1 killinps, they are asily
- 'i hi ,'ii Ijasted between rtason
al.i. ; pe, since any clever cat t!-.'iuan
' i a rea t; ly le'.l which brand is of the
iipT standiup.
Hut any cow ly on the ranpe rould
have told you that while Old Man
i.arr was siu-.ir cnouph hiiuse l. he
vrs a crazy crank aloiit the s.'creil-:-c-.s
of hi--, brand. His lonp suit-., was
. j'imp up nud down and tt ? wear
...at it never yet was on :;nythi;i; that
-Viiid't his own. lie invariably claimed
:n animal t hat lro it in addition t. an
ther brand ;is did this old cow), l.ow-v.-r
piui.ily it showecl as the su-ver of
the two, ll. iiiph as a i.i:i!Ur -.." iaot
' is br:m.li:ip irons were han.lbd by
,ast as many eareiess cm lnij-s as any
..I hers.
If l.b had known what that aped
.'.'id damap. d brin. lie cow waspoinpto
.ost him. he mipht. iH-rliap. have
'.linked his obvious dutv and let Old
Man Iove have her in the face of
r.put and rcas.ui.
I '.nt he w as not the man to lie backed
down by anyone, and he dared the
worst and pot it!
He held the cow for his company,
fter a lieree contest, and Old Man
...-eve went home rapinp, to pivi his
Aistortod version of the affair, issue or-
-rs that no member of Ids family was
t-i speak to, or of. Kob. from that time
rih. and to remark sipuilicantly- that
h-' had far rather see a child . f his
married to a horsethief thantoapi'r
...oa capabie of such lieliavior.
Communication U-twocu the i .vers
had sim-e In'ea manaped. once or twice,
by the utmost stealth and secrecy,
ilavinp, by this means, lieeii assured of
his sweet heart's stea-1 fastness and readi
ness Kob s'nt her worn by one of her
father's piuvIkivs to ride a po.nl horse
;.- ist tin- half-way brundinp pen, iivmed
.imself with a license and hnnp
.r.'iin,! the Triple X ranch for a colt.
When May finally found the oppor
tunity t: slip away ill the most care
ti'ss manner, with one of the men's
aiii'ari-ri.s .:i and in the face of tiireat
ctiinp weather, she re.-eived a r: ptur
n'.is welcome from the lonp-bar. i-hed
Kob. and they promptly beaded their
panics for Si :n ire Wiley's, just the other
side ..f Hoiii-hip creek, who was sup
posed to bo holdinp himself in readi
lioa.; for their visit.
Y.'l.at Mexican, or other paid si y, or
what unfriendly or envious band car
ried the news to Old Man Love will
not lo known: but h.' burst into one of
iiis near e .v camps, at dinner si ortly
after Kob ami M ay's departure, idee a
loarinp South African lion with mus
tard in hi., eye.
"The bys" who knew well onouph
whr.t was afoot, and what would le
asked of them dropped their tin cups
and plates, j-impe-d on their waitinp
ponies and were out. of hailinp ilistanee
in-fore he fairly lit iu their midst.
Kut old Frank l'oarsall. the cook,
was a new man. not lonp from South
west Texas, neither knowinp nor car
inp particularly for lkd Holly and his
love aiTairs. So he sto.nl at his ouicial
o.Ht. at the tail end of the chuck
wapon, and pave amiable attenti .n to
the ii::pa:si mod haranpue and sirpular
unties of this new- and entertaininp em
ployer. Keinp oommandeil to come alonj and
assist in disiwrsinp Kob and rescuinp
May, hi' mounted a sorious-appejrinp
but lil ful-tcmpcred, buckskin-coloreil
jo::y, wiih one white eye and much
symmetry of hone as much of a char
actor in its way as Hank was in his
an 1 started, with considerable interest
and oiiri'isity.
They rode hard and were near ovcr
h:iuiii!p the lovers within a n ile of
Uoarir.p creek". Knt while puistier and
pursued' pushed on at their utmost
ltce, nnal her factor was eominp with
:t hundred times preater speed to take
a hand in the pame. -'
H:o dry led of Koarinp cree'e was
just lM-fore them. Wyond that v. tiny
rise, then nil urroyo. and lieyonc that,
.-.pain, therif.f of the justice's .muse,
just in siphL i As Ik.b and May
clattered over the crock bed and
scrambled up onto the rise beyond,
lo.h l.Ntl.itl back and their ponies
topi'd, tossinp their heads piickiiip
their cai-s and sntirtinp at a c-trio.iv.
humminp sound that suddenly seemed
to li'.l ail the air about-
"llurrv m darlinp." crieil Kob.
! throwitip out a hand to catch May's:
I "'tis a bip storm oouiinp from above.
j Kut before they could descend this
slop.' to cross the dry arroyo iu front it
was ruuninp from bank to bank and
brimminp over w ith a sudden ll.xv.l of
rod. muddy water.
And even almve the noise of the flood
liefore them they beard a sound like
the anpry shoutinp of furious multi
tudes, lookinp backward and up the
creek whence the sounds came they
saw a preat. tnmblinp, snudderinp
wall pushinp bi-fore it anil K-.trinp
upon its crest all imapinable m.iU 'i
debris a lvancinp down the dry creek
bod with such a thunderous onslaupl.t
that the little mound on which they
stood shook and seemed fairly to lower
under their feet.
They looked alxmt them. The
arroyo ran into the creek Wh.w.
Ala.ve, both it and the creek had
Hooded out until they joined. Their
little mound was an island, mumon
tariiy prowinp smaller, surrounded on
every side by rapinp torreu;.-., in w hich
wore ill iven and whirled whole trees,
full prown cattle, wilh sometimes::,
fence jxist whose trailinp wires had
caupht in their barls all ratininT of
phastly wn-ckape.
I'p came the water about them; down
f"ll the bip hail.
"It's a cloud-burst above, dnrlinp,"
said Kob. "It won't last h.i the v ti
ler won't cover this rise."
"I'm not afrai-.', Kob.' sai l May. with
very white lips; "I'm pla.l I came, any
how. If we've pot to die we'll .lie to
pether; and the way I've felt foi the
last three weeks I'm sure that's a heap
lietter than livinp apart,"
Kob j-.iinjH-'d ulT his pony and lifted
May from hers. The hail was eominp
bipper and ln-at cruelly uio:i theiu. K
v.rapjH'd his siiokor about her, pashe.i
the ponies close t. (pother and sheltered
her with them and his own ldy as
b.-st he cotlid.
"We won't die," he said; "I nt. poor
little pirl, what nn awful storm I've
ilrappe 1 you out into!"
J iv .t then, from the farth-r bank -.f
the creek, aWivo the awful howlinp..:
the storm, came this iiuellipent com
mand iuld Man Love's oar-Aplitluip
t : es:
"May Iro! You come here to m"
this minute!
Anil May lauphcd h-s-
terieally.
"Well, he can't pet at
but the hail can. O, l-o
us. anyway
at V 'iir imir
hau ls! O, K .b. 1 can t War it
hliek.T back on!"
pat the
"Why, honey," sai 1 K ib. as the tours
came in earnest now. "Id pet founded
just the same anyhow: and you must
let me have the comfort of keepinp
urns of it off you it ain't a rmtohiu"
on tiie way your pa would do uii. if he
could pet me ripht now."
While the storm rap 1 and the writer
rose nearly ti their feet. Han!: Fearsall
had the almost exclusive ivnofit of ol 1
Man bivv's remarKs. since onlv his
v.il-.I.st shrs'i'ks rAn-
th-
couple, who were t'x niueh absorbed in
eucit otiier to heed cither iiim or the
storm very much.
These remarks disaprecd with Mr.
IVarsall, who was n.tori ..i.-.ly a m.i:i oi
ju.lpa.ent and observation.
"What's the matter witii that younp
feller'.'" he iueried. anprlly; "wateit
h'.irx a standi n' to the north'ard uv his
j,al, a-'.:ecpiu the hail oife:i her! He
ain't no chump! If he keeps that li k
up ripht throuph he'll make a l-cttcr
hatband "n what you ever did."
About this time, the hail ceasinp, the
expectant justice came down to the
further bank of the arroyo. Tiie water
was poinp down visibly, but its roar
was still cc.md.tcral.ic.
"Ho, Hob!" yelled the justice above
its sound, "pot your license?"
Kob took it out and w aved it ab vo
Itis head
Old Man Love could not from where
he stixxl hoar a word, but he sisnnu'il
what had iMen sai 1, aiid t!ie sipht id
the document was like a red rap to thc
bnlL
"I dare ye to marry "cm," he
screamed. "1 dare ye to do it'." An I
iu an ecstasy of rap.; and anxiety Ik
forced Lis pony down into the f: .'.ai'inp
creek among tiie whironp t: ;-if t. whei
he was promptly p tohe-.l -'if l y the
terrific. 1 creature, whie'i inst-.ititiy re
turned. I'oarsail, at the . isk u his o-.vi.
life, had to lish him out, reeeivinp plen
ty of abuse for his paius and rcluruinp
it with bitter irony.
In two minutes' time the shallower
arroyo was fordablo, l.i-'Uoii the creoK.
down which bip drift continued to
come, was not. Kob set May on her
pony, mounted his own. am! prepare;
to ride out. The sipiit of liie justiei
a plains cupid, with boots, slicker and
cowboy hat preparinp to take charpe
of the pair was tx much for Old Man
Love, and, dismounted as he was. he
plunped, in a delirium i f rape, into the
crock, snlntterinp and y.'l'ir.p:
"Stop! Hold on! You just dare!"
May hesitated, friphicned; but old
Ilauk l'earsail yanked her father out
apain and set him on dry land, snort
inp. "Koppone ye! I pulled y'out onct
liefore! What fur caint ye stay out!
Huh?
"When ye try bnckin' apin a loy like
that, backed by a Texas norther, you're
apoin to pit left -don't ye know it?
That kid's pot a double cinch on I'rov
erdunce! Kut j-e had this hyer storm
staked out!
"l!o it feller! Io it pal! I'm w ith ye
every time I'm for ye! Yer the ripht
sort! I wouldn't bender ye fer all the
tlurned old snake-bit fools in Texas!
I'll jist pother up the scraps o this
ole co jit, an tote 'em back to the
ranch."
And as May and I Sob rode off, tat
tered, beaten, drapplecl, but obliviously
blissful and jaunty, a faint hail fol
lowed them.
"Oood-by kids wish yer joy! Come
on, ole calamity!" Alice MaclJowan, iu
Chie-apo Herald.
I-earnin;; the rTt-ini; 'fraud.
Many of the children in the cast end
of London are trained in the arts and
blandishment.; of lieppir.p by old hands
at the business, who have retired from
active operations. In Paris there are
several - professors" who earn pood in
comes by teaching younp people how
to K-p. Clever purse fakirs, pocket
pickers and handkerchief stealers are
turned out after a certain course- of
lessons, for which a modi rate fee is
charped. Keppars pitches" freiiueiit
ly chanpe hands at respectable lipurcs.
and adviTti.-cnicnts oftcu appear in
the-French papers .aiforlup to disuse
of "lucrative corners" and "pxal
wills" to thooe desirous of ciitcrii-.p
the ranks of the iK-ppinp fraternity.
Just the other day a pitch in front of
the Ixnivre wasdisiosod of for one hun
dred dollars.
HIS WIFE'S MISTAKE.
For Thirty-Fivo Yoara Her Pride
Was Suflk'idnt, and Then
It was a little old villape in West
chester county, N. Y., not far from the
settlement which the Ilupueiiots of the
French Koe-helle had founded.
It was chill and still and o'crshad-oivt-il
by lush loliupeand the prowth of
tall trees much uri trimmed. Mrs. okin
ncr dwelt in a laipe white house,
pilastcrcd in front, set back from the
road and sArcenod from the eye of
casual passers by a prove of elms.
Once every day a coach, an anti
ijuatod coachman, a pair of fat, sleek,
mild horses drew up liefore the pate at
the end of th narrow path. Mapped
with white square stones leadinp to the
dixar of the house.
And from that d.xr came a tall
feminine lipr.ro, erect, clad in roll's of
deep Liack.
On Sundays likewise did Mrs. Skin
ner appear with a majesty of pait old
ape and sulfide had lx?on powerless to
impair, wa.kinp up the aisle of tiie
Lpiscopal I'nii-eh to the very front Hw,
whence, raisinp her eyes from the
pec-.ukor's f..o . she mipht see in the
loft transej t ti e memorial tablt ts of
throe Sk.niurs. now passed on to the
silent iiiaj. .rily.
On the lirst Sunday in June the win
dows wire thrown -pen, the day mild
with the June balminessof fresh-blown
leaf and Uower, and the sunshine would
creep in and lie in it pol.leii shaft over
the richest and oldest tablet of the
three not put there by herself, the one
sacred to the memory of LplnTt
Thomas Hamilton Skinner.
That khaft of yellow simlipht lay so
to-day, disturbed only as the checkered
shadow of a breoz-j-slirred lxauph shift
ed and decomposed its luminous bar,
and Mrs. Skinner, mayhap Kt In-1 Mary
ile Kay, wi:o of the Lpliert Thomas
Hamilton skinner of lonp years apo
forpot t!:- e'erpyman's text and nop
loctod to follow his discourse. back
into the past must her fancj- have
strayed, for when in its peroration the
Kurpliced 11 pure lifted up its hand and
the conprepatioii rustled to its feet or
bent decorous heads upon its hands Mrs
Skinner, in her black rolx-s. st im
movable, and only stirred and seemed
to wake to consciousness of external
thiups when the orpan pealed forth
and the people- slowly, wilh the re
lieved joyousness lxrn of a sense of the'
raptr.ro of all nature without and the
satisl'aelion of a duty fuuiiiod. issues 1
through thevauitetl portal to liic south
wind, the restless s.inpinp of birds, the
sun slii:iinp in a white plare u the
piavel walk.
The house with the white columns
was dusk and cool aud filled wilh a
Sabbatarian tti'.lness. Somewhere the
preen blinds had been opened by some
new, impetuous hand, untrained, as yet
tu the strict Usapcs that prevailed with
the servants of litis household.
Mrs. Skinner ordered the lipht shut
out.
Alone ohe sat iu the darkened din-inp-rixim
at her midday meal. An old
servant soitiy nioveU iu and out. Pic
tures family portraits of Skinners and
Ie Kays looked with the Hat surfaces
and w.xxlen poses that characterize
such American art of the early years tif
the century from tarnished frames on
the wails.
Like more than one De Kay w as this
old woman's hauphly head, with the
iiiph, clear profile.
Kcantiful had she been, the Fthel de
Kay of all those years apo. Well had
she known it, t. x .. Yet what had her
Ix'au'.y availed'.' would she have asked,
curvinp iu bitter contempt those still
Cue. fall lips.
After she had passed into the draw-inp-room
the old servant who hail
dressi-d her mistress' hair aud huup up
her black drosses these forty years
noiselessly entered.
"Shall I pack, ma'am?"
Mrs. Skinner was a moment in reply
in p.
"A few thinps in a valise yes. We
shall only be pone two or three days."
The ne'Xt day mistress anil maid were
ascendiup the steps of the old town
house iu Tenth street. It had lx-on
carefully closed since the depart tire of
the last tenant. Thonph the afternoon
was warm the breath of tiie empty
rooms struck apainst Mrs. Sieinucr's
check with a dull chill.
."shall I let iu the sun, ma'am?" said
Hannah.
Mrs. Skinner did not seem to hoar.
"So they want the top llixjr, cxi,
these new tenants?" she said.
"Yes, ma'am," said Hannah, who was
in some wise manaper of her mistress'
affairs as welL
"Then everything must be moved
out."
"If I could do anything- "
Nothing' " was the answer.
And Mrs. Skinner slowly ascended
the stairs, while Hannah in silence sat
and kept watch at the foot.
Kack into the past apain walked the
stately old woman in black. Slowly
di 1 she unlock the door ami move into
the larpe-, old, littered room.
For the tir ,t time in thirty-five years
she looke 1 upon the objects there. Her
eyes, in the dim lipht, in the musty
silence whifh at her entrance ban
broken into a succession of small, low,
strunpe sounds glanced from one to
the other for the first time; for the
lirst time since the day when the trap
cdy of her life had come to her.
The bnnes of the past were stirred,
indeed, now. And she had hated them;
she had shut them away; she had tried
to foepet them, to let them lie in their
praves! A wronped woman such as she
was w hat else could she do?
Suddenly- sbe:.tartol up.
Her c-ye's accustomed row to the ob
scurity of the room, saw them both
the two portraits- she had placed side
by side ltoforc she locked the ilnor, with
her i v.-n hand, never except by her own
hand to Ik opened, thirty-live years lx
fore. There they wire as she had
placed them the dr.y she had li ft the
house, tlto hou.se of her husband who
had wronped her.
Kpoert Hamilton Skinner, the hand
somest of all l.: family, there he was.
l it-.; c- s. his sm.xith face, his
lauphinp, treacherous, .leb..i. air mouth.
The w idow looked at tin m all.
Anil then the face of Martha, his
cousin. Ah, yes she had been fair. taxi.
Martha, with hoi innocent face and hi r
lips that were like ripe ro.,es. and all
her poldeti curls that foil npm her
white neck. And as treacherous as
false as he.
Well bad she placed them tdde by side
and l.x ked the dixir upon them lock
inp hem out as she had locked the man
and woman who had wronped her out
of her life forever.
When Hannah, the hours passing
without sound from above, crept fear
fully up the stairs and to tin open door,
she uttered a low cry. n the lloor, iu
the heavy gloom of the room, lay her
mistress, senseless. In her hand she
held a faded jiajx-r.
Hannah, lift inp t he unci msoii in hen 1,
l.xikod alxmt her in the palhcrinp.
deepening darkness. A tall, (plaint,
piece of furniture, with many drawers,
had lx-on opened. One of the drawers
sli mmI out, w ith a scat ten d c. uf usii m of
paiH-rs.
Tho preen shutters wove open now in
the old w hiti'-pilastorod house in Wevt
chester county. The d.xtor wont in
and out every day.
He shook his head: he hx.ked at tin
old maidservant prut'ly. suspiciously.
"There are infallible indications of a
mental shock."
"I know nothing." was the old wom
an's t'txil answer.
'1 h doctor, w ith an impatient dick
of t ho to.ipif. went rapidly ihovnlhe
white llappinp and back lo hisjipat.
tho pale. Hannah, immovable in every
feature as always went back to her
mistress' side.
"You told him?" the white lips would
frame.
"No, Mrs. Skinner. You know I
wouldn't," was the only answer.
One day tho imalid looked up.
"Hannah."
llannuh crossed the room and Mood
by Iho l'd.
"I've ln'on thinkiup, thinking a preat
deal," the once strong, pereiupt irv
tones saiiL "You know what I moan?"
Hannah ii xlded.
"I've been thinkiup that pcrtias you
knew.'"
A swift chanpe went over tho old
woman's face.
"O. Mrs. Skinner, don't ask me."
"I shad ask you." Strenpth seoiue.l
to have ret u rued lo t he doctor's pat lout.
Forcibly she raised herself on one arm.
liujioriousiy she stretched out the
stiil handsome hand in tho old linn,
comman.iinp posture. "Tell me cvei v
' thinp you k ii. w."
"Then none of it was true. Miss
Martha never cored never, never. It
wu-s some one els.. Kut she knewy..ti
would not have liked it. ma'am, f ir
she was poor and not much in the way
of family, and since Miss Martha lived
with you she was " the old woman's
voice sank.
"Afraid to let me Know? She was
afraid of me. Oo on. "
"Well, yes ma'am. Kut Mr. Skinner
he found it out and she told him all.
Miss Marth.a. And ho was tryinp to
pet Miss Martha's sweetheart into
some business, ina'am. And Iheii, w l.-.-n
that was done,"" the two of them wo..!d
have told you. Kut il.oy did not dare
before. And it's for that, so help uu
God Aliniphty, Mrs. Skinner, ma'am,
that they were so much together, of
anything else "
Apain the old woman stopped. This
time a color came into her strong, con
trolled, withered old face. "There
never was on all this earth a wife that
was 1 vod more faithful than you, Mrs.
Skinner, ma'am."
"And you never told ire?" The
tones that came from behind the lod
hanpinps seemed to have grown
slriinpcly old.
"There would have lx-on no u-o
ma'am and you know that," came the
brin answer.
"lie Mr. Skinner my husbaiuL
never defended himself, Hannah."
O, how fast the pride, stulilxirn'y i!i
held throuph all these years was break
ing. "No, ma'am," primly, "not when you
wouldn't listen to him, and turned Miss
Martha out of dxirs, ma'am. He came
to me, did Mr. Skinner. 'Jlur.ir.tli,' said
he, 'you know this is a most horrible
untruth.
" "e's, sir.' said I. 'Kut she will nev
er believe it, he said. And he was as
white- as the doaU "Never was a wife
lx;ttcr loved,' said he. 'Kut if her awful
pride and anper are to wreck my li:c,
I, tx, can have pride. I shall not sue
to her.'
"And with that he was pone, and I
said never a word, ma'am, for this is
the first time in thirty -live years that
the master's name had boon spoken, as
you know, ma'am."
Softly, noiselessly, Hannah rose from
her chair. One thinp more she had to
say:
"lit was like no one else over was
Mr. Skinner. Never was a kindc.. hand
somer, sunnier gentleman. I would
have done anything for him."
The yellow letter that had crime fror.
tho little drawer in the old piece of
furniture, ami on which a dyinp hand
had traced the truth that the beautiful,
vindictive woman its owner hi.l la?"."
called wife might learn it at last, lay
on the In'd w ithin reach of Mrs Skin
ner's fingers.
The soft June simlipht shone into
the room, and outside the windows the
birds sanp. And these thinps seemed
to mock the woman who lay there, he
life passed, thrown away, all her un
forpivinp bitterness, her vengeful pride
thrust back upon her with the despair
ef a love which neither the illusion of
outrape nor the oncoming sorrows of
ape had been able to dim. Sunday
Mercury.
Karly l.l.'ita AlH.t.t llnlr.
All the ancient philosophers held cu
rious ideas resjK-ctiiip the prowth.
functions, structure, etc.. of tho hair,
and hal many superstitions fotiinh .1
on these old opinions. The i-ailv
writers on the make-up of the huma.-i
lxxly almost invariably refer to the
hair as Whip an excrement fed on sab
stanecs similar to itself. They -i,;i-posod
that it perierated in the fuligi
nous parts of the hlocxl; was exhaled
by the heat of the ln!y, lie-cojniiip linn
and fibrous upon lx-inp exposed to the
air, jus 1 us the 1'ui.l of tho spider web
docs. In the. days every idea rcspci l
inp the prowth and character of hair
is thanped. It is new iiprccd that
every hair properly and truly lives and
receives its nutriment from the body.
True, they take upon themselves the
nature ol parasitic plants: lacy prow
as vcpctatioli tiroes, yet cio-h has, n- it
wore, a distinct lilt tind economy.
That they derive their existence from
the juices of the Ix.dy there is no
doubt, but that bxd is not taken from
the nutritious juices, for wo know that
hair will thrive even thonph the body
starve or Ik' wasted by disease, or even
after the animal life has t i ai d to ex
ist in the flesh or skin to w hich they
arc aiLaciiocL
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