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THE PITTSBURG "DISPATCH. MUDAT, ATJ&TJST 12, i89a
A HOT KACE FOR LIFE.
Close Call of the Daltons, Pursued bj
a Posse of One Hundred.
START ON A LAWLESS CAREEB.
Cutting Wire Fences on the Bun While
Under a Eattltoff Tire.
A PITTSBURGER'S UNIQUE WORLD'S FAIR SCHEME.
AN INDIAN TERRITORY RANCHER'S TALE
St. Louis, Aug. 11. Burrie Cox. a ran Ch
ilian of Tulsa, L T., and who, by the way, is
one-eighth Creek Indian in his own right,
was in St. Louis yesterday. He guarded 17
carloads of cattle into the city, and left
again for the land of backing ponies and
dirty blankets by an evening train. Bnrrie
is a six-footer, broad of shoulder and rather
lank of build, bronze-cheeked and sharp
eyed. He can shoot as quick as the next
man, and, as he terms it, "a heap sight
straighter n most." He talks very fluently
about his wild life, and not the least inter
' esting of his experiences has been his
acquaintance with the Dalton boys, Grant,
Bob and Emmet, whose names are now
veritable terrors to railroad officials. Bume
knows probably a near'as any who are not
members of the "Dalton gang," the true in
wardness of many ot their feats that have
been distorted or belittled by deputy mar
shals and express messengers.
"I was brought up right alongside of the
Daltons," said Burrie, "and for a good, de
cent lot of fellows, they were as way up as
the next They were drove, simply drove,
into stealing anil robbing, but they've al
ways treated me square. Soon after they
got to going, they wrote to me and ssid:
Ton ain't got any express cars to rob.
"We'll let you alone, Burrie, and we want
yon to let us alone.' I said it was a go, and
since that time I haven't lifted a band to
harm them. Anj how, what good would it
do me? I might go out and ketch them,
and then I might go out and ketch a heap
of cold lead in my stomach, and my little
wife would be a widow, my kids orphans
and my ranch an orphan asylum.
Mno of tho Dalton Bora.
"There were nine brothers of the Dal
ton", and Cole he moved out to California
early, near Fresno. Charles B. Dalton
moved to Kingfisher, Okla., and went farm
ing there, and Frank was a United States
deputy marshal, and got killed near Fort
Smith, Ark., while trying to make an ar
rest. But Bob and Grant and Emmet,
they're the ones the country's talking
about. Grant held a commission under
Deputy Marshall Carroll at Fort Smith and
Bob oiie under the Fort Smith court also.
He afterward went to the Osage Agency as
a deputy marshal, and while there got ac
cused of selling whisk v. This means the
penitentiary if convicted, you know. Em
met was with Bob then, and there was a
writ issued against them both, charging the
offense. Bob went to "Wichita, where he
had to answer for it and gate himself up.
He was there bound over without evidence,
and Alf Houts and Cvrus Beardon went his
bond for 1,000. You can guess this
made the brothers, and especially
Bob, pretty blamed mad. It was then, and
not tin men, mat tney started out as law
breakers. They went out and stole a bunch
of 30 horses and drove them to Baxter
Springs, where they were sold. A man
named Scott bought the horses, and they
then stole another bunch. They wanted
the money to beat that case at "Wichita.
There was fun on hand when the boys
rode to Baxter Springs, Kan., with that
second lot ot nags. The owners of the first
bunch were there getting back their horses.
Bob and Emmet and a Creek Indian drove
their second lot to Baxter bold as you
please, and Bob went in to see if the way
was clear. As he approached the depot he
met a young man, who said, "are you the
fellow that lost the horses up in the Terri
tory, and are up here after them?"
A Rush After Weapons.
"Bob says 'yes, and rides back to Emmet
and the Creek. They're dead on to us,' he
remarked riding down toward them, 'and
it's about time we was getting out of here.'
"Clem Rogers, a Cherokee, who lostsome
of the first bunch of horses and was in town
hunting for them, drove down past the
three of them and nailed 'em for what they
were. Looking up the street, the two
brothers and the Creek saw the men of the
place rushing into the hardware store after
guns. The chase was on. Grabbing the
best horses in their string. Bob, Emmet and
the Creek lit out About a mile out of
Baxter Springs the Daltons left the main
road and followed a little branch toward
the boundary of the Nation. "When they
got to the line they found that the country
was divided up into little fields ten acres
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BORROWED A GRADE.
Application for an Injunction Upon
the Sugar Run Railroad.
CHARGES OP COLLUSION MADE.
Eiemeni Brothers' Tank Process Patent
Declared Invalid.
ME NEWS OP THE COUNT! C0IJBT3
"W. H. "Wachter, of this city, has de
signed a giant "Observation "Wheel" that
befits a "World's Fair. The wheel will be
230 feet high and revolve between two pow
erful! steel trussed towers 115 feet from the
ground. It will be the highest seat of ob
servation on the ground1;, except the pro
posed Columbian tower. It will be of
double strength. There will be 28 cars
swinging easily upon short horizontal piv
ots in the upper center of each car, so that
no matter in what position the wheel, the
passenger will rest as easy as in the old
rocker at home.
The baskets will be beautifully uphol
stered and contain opera glasses, a sliding
table and other comforts for the benefit of
the sightseers. There will be 41 spokes in
this monster wheel, and each one will be
handsomely decorated with the coat of
arms representing the 44 states. The en
tire structure will be decorated in bright,
fancy colors and in gold and silver bronze.
There will be compartments en suite a la
Americaine, Great Britain, Germany,
France, Austria, China, etc., and the whole
surmounted with flags of all nations. The
carrying capacity of the wheel will be 280
people, and the time allowed for loading
and unloading, including several revolu
tions, will be 15 minutes, providing for
about 1,000 persons per hour. In eight
hours per day, 8,000 people at 25 cents per
capita can be carried. The plant will cost
524,000, will be entirely of steel and will
be run by electricity. There will
be four stations to load and unload at the
same instant The foundations will be 18
feet deep, anchored with sand. There will
be a neat arrangement to protect passen
gers in inclement weather, and the entire
resistance ot wind pressure against tower
and wheel will be a stress of 84,000 pounds,
while the weight of the wheel, net, is 190,
000 pounds, and scats and passengers 90.000
pouuds, a total of 280,000 pounds.
square and fenced in with wire for pastures
for small herds. So they had to cut wire.
Of course, they had clippers for the pur
pose, but it was terrible with the gang run
ning them in plain sight In cutting the
fences Bob and Emmet did not go
straight through or they'd have never
gone a mile. They went through one fence,
then skirted it for half a mile and would
tnen cut through the next further on, thus
making a zig-zaz course through the little
squares of fencing, and thus making their
pursuers cut fences too. If they had blun
dered through in a straicht line in plain
sight of the posse they'd have been caught
and shot in no time. In that ride the Dal
tons cut 19 fences and only rode a distance
of two miles by the crow. " Before they got
through their zig-zaging Scott, the pur
chaser of the first bunch of horses, who
knew the country, made a circuit of the
land to head the boys joK. As they were
getting through the last fence the Creek"
yelled: 'There comes a man.
"Bob drew a bead on Scott and hollered:
'Come np." Scott came. 'What do you
nui j. m uumm; norses mat ran away.
Then run off and find 'em.' Scott didn't
stop to say goodby.
'The Juait or the Creek.
"The posse of 100 men was not very far off
now, and in their chase the Daltons had to
run through a field crowded with hay
makers. The haymakers made for them
with their pitchforks, but as soon as Bob
shot into the ground, by way of reminder
what he cpuld do, the laborers skedaddled.
By this time the horses began to peg out
The Creek's horse was the worst, and broke
down. The Indian then wanted to get up
behind Emmet, but Em told him tn waif t;n
they got through the cornfield. The last
they saw of the Creek was his black head
now and then bobbin? abont in thn mm
"When Bob and Emmet got out of the field
riding a good nag and leading a gray mare.
The Daltons proposed a trade, but the boy
didn't want to change. The sight of Bob's
gun under his nose changed his mind
and the trade was made. It took
time, though, and by noon the gang was
within 300 yards. The gray mare was
fractious and threw Emmet before he had
gone ten rods. He got on again and they
crossed a branch with the posse howling
close behind them. On the other side of
the branch the boys separated, and most of
the posse followed Emmet As he had a
fresh horse, as well as Bob, they easily dis
tanced their pursuers; but, in the trouble
with the skittish mare, Emmet lost his
saddle. They met again and came to a sor
rel mare with a mule colt Bob thought the
mare better than his mount and changed.
The sight ot the mule colt following on be
hind its mother and braying pitifully when
it began to get tired would have been vry
ludicrous to any one not so deeply inter
ested in the game as the Daltons. Then
they met a fellow astride af a poor horse,
wno nau a decent saddle. . xney ottered to
buy the saddle from him and he agreed to
sell for $12. Emmet put it on bis horse.
leaped into it and was off before the country
gawk oould gather his wits.
"After getting clear away the boys, Bob
and Emmet, realized that they could not
stay in the country, and put out for Cali
fornia. Houte and Beardon, who went on
Bob's bond, had to pay it Grant also went
to California after he was released fromjaiL
They were located near Fresno, on Cole's
farm.
"The latest news of the Daltons now is
they are expected to rob a train at Fort
Smith. Deputy Marshal F. J. Dodge,
with a posse, is down there looking for
them, but it will be a very cold daytwhen
they are caught by that delegation."
The application of 0. "Weidenfeld, for a
preliminary injunction against the Sugar
Bun Bailroad was reargued yesterday before
Judge Acheson in the United States Circuit
Court Judge Buffington also sat on the
bench, and his counsel will be taken by
Judge Acheson in arriving at a decision.
"Weidenfeld applied for a preliminary in
junction last December, and Judge Beed
granted it on January 7. The lawyers for
the railroad company claimed that they did
not have an opportunity to present their
case, and they asked for a reargament.
Their application was granted and the rear
gument took place yesterday afternoon.
"Weidenfeld was represented by O. "W. Artz,
of New York, and the railroad company by
John Ormerod and A. C. Dornan, of Cow
dersport, Pa.
The projected line of the Sugar Bun
Bailroad runs from Sugar Bun junction, on
the Allegheny and Kinzua Bailroad, in.
McKean county, in a southwesterly direc
tion, to Sugar Bnn station on the Western
New York and Pennsylvania Bailroad. The
road is intended to reach heavy timber in
the Sugar Bun Valley. Its chief promoters
are A. Healy & Son, a large tanning firm of
New York City, who have bought the bark
on the timber lands of S. S. Bullis.
H lint to Beach Their Bark.
Ten thousand cords of this bark are plied
up ready for transportation as soon as Mr.
"Weidenfeld and the courts will be kind
enough to allow tbe Healys to build their
road. Bullis is a heavy lumber dealer of
Olean, N. Y., who recently became insol
vent He is President of the Allegheny
and Kinzua Bailroad and he and a man
named Barse, of Buffalo, own a majority of
the stock. It was the building of this road
that swamped Bullis.
"Weidenfeld, who is a New York stock
holder in the Allegheny and Kinzua, al
leges in his complaint that the Sugar Bun
Bailroad Company has seized illegally a
part of the grade and right of way of the
Allegheny and Kinzua, and that this seizure
was made through the collusion of Bullis.
It is charged that tbe latter, knowing his
own road to be insolvent and unable to com
plete its line, persuaded the Healys to come
in and build the road up Sugar Creek Val
ley in order that Bullis might make a good
thing privately out of his bark contract
with Healy. Only about two miles of the
road were bnilt when Mr. Weidenfeld
thrust a stick through the wheels. The
Allegheny and Kinzua Company bonght
the right of way some years ago, and Bullis
nas tne deeds in bis possession.
Bradford Merchants Want the Road.
The attorneys for the defendant company
yesterday presented to the court a dozen
affidavits from citizens of Bradford, mem
bers of the Board of Trade and City Coun
cils, -that the building of the road would be
a public benefit, would open up a valuable
lnmhaii i4tr if AtiM Tinlm 4s doiittlAn
Western McKean county, and would large-
ly increase the trade of Bradford. The de- 1
lendants lawyers maintained that the pro
jected road was a publio concern, and that
it had a right to condemn property and
exercise the right of eminent domain. It
was also contended that' the Allegheny and
Kinzua Company had allowed its right of
way to lapse. The charges of collusion be
tween Bullis and the Healys were denied.
The complainant's counsel held that
the Sucar Bun Bailroad was a private
afiair, and had no richt to seize or condemn
land as right of way. No testimony was
taken, as that will he in order when the
Court proceeds to pass on the question of
granting a permanent injunction. The
Judge took the papers in the case and will
render a decision in a few days.
law and that the amount assessed exceeds
the benefits resulting from the said im
provements. THB TANK PATEHT INVALID.
Judge Bafflnjton Banders a Decision Im
portant to Glass Manufacturer.
Judge Buffington yesterday rendered a
declsion-in the patent suit by the executors
of Frederick Siemens, of Dresden, Saxony,
againet the Chambers & McKee Glass Com
pany. The Court held that the defendants
have a right to use the deep tank in the
manufacture of glass. The suit was brought
to prevent the defendants from using a con
tinuous glass melting tank more than 18
inches deep. The Court says that the tend
ency of the glass trade has been toward the
use of tank furnaces, fed at one en'l and
worked at the other. On November 22, 1879,
the Siemens brothers seenred a patent for a
tank of a depth sufficient to allow the forma
tion below the upper fluid metal of a layer
of metal in a semi-fluid and partially solid
condition. The Court says:
Onr conclusions, briefly stated, are that
the fluid layer and Its functions in a con
tinuously worked deep tank weie well
known before tho patent was granted. That
at the time the gravltal action or the glass
and the reaction taking place during tbe
movements weie known, and no hitherto
unknown and now known movements, ac
tions or process In the melting of glass were
disclosed in this patent in snlt. In view of
the state or the art at the date of tlie patent,
the claim granted was not patentable and
the letters patent are Invalid.
SEW ADYERT1SEMENTS.
PECK'S 1 Mi.
Several large Executions Issued.
The following executions were issued
yesterday: Thomas Liggett, assignee of the
Dollars Savines Bank, which was assitrnee
j of John Kelly, vs D. "W. a Carroll & Co.,
the boiler manufacturers, 55,588; Max Veit
& Co. vs Charles Italic, 51,496 54; a. L.
Large, trustee for use of Joseph Payne, ad
ministrator of the late William Payne, vs
John B. and John F. Large, $2,470 75;
Anton Hilz vs Jacob Mende, $1,015 48.
asssBP v
Became Insane In the Workhouse.
Judge McClung made an order yesterday
to remove Mary Long from the county
workhouse to the insane department of the
City Farm. The woman bad been com
mitted for 60 days by Magistrate Succop, of
tbe Southside. She was one ot the best
known women to the Southside police, hav
ing been arrested and sent to the workhouse
every few months for several years past for
drunkenness.
Thrown Under tho Street Sprinkler.
John W. Drummond entered a snlt for
53,000 damages against the Pittsburg Trac
tion Company yesterday. Drummond was
employed by the city as the driver of a
street sprinkler and alleges that on July 13
he was struck by a cable car on Fifth ave
nue, between Grant and Smithfield streets.
His wagon was upset and be was severely
injured and bruised by falling under the
sprinkler.
Judgments on Three Notes.
Knox & Beed, attorneys for the execu
tors of James Neel, filed judgments yester
day against Philip Zenn on three notes
given June 9, 10 and 11 respectively, for a
total of 57,401 22.
T8.
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AN UNWr-UilLU umir.
SOME drops are not as pleas
ant as others. The drop in
the price of our Home-Made
Clothing will be much appre
ciated by our customers, es
pecially this week. In order
to make room for the im
mense stock of fall- clothing
we are making we are com
pelled to clear out every vestige
of sfring or summer goods
left in our building. To do
this no sacrifice is too great
We need and must have room.
- so prices cut no figjire. Ex
cellent suits go at $8; hand
some suits at $io; elegant,
stylish stiits at $12. In pants
you want to see the thousands
of fine pants that o at $2.2
$2.75 and $3. Nothing re
served; all must go.
Nearly every household nses a stimulant
of some kind. None better known or more
highly recommended than Klein's "Silver
Age" and Duquesne Bye whiskies. Physi
cians of high standing have vouched for the
truth ot this over their signatures. These
testimonials are shown in Max Klein's win
dow, Federal street, Allegheny. Send to
him for catalogue and price list of all kinds
of liquors. " mwf
TO-DAY AND SATCBDAT.
with their tired horses they met afeilow I olypmtV
De Witt's Xittle Early Risers. No griping
Object to the Assessment.
' E. P. Jones filed exceptions yesterday io
the report of the Board of Viewers ap
pointed to assess damages for the Twenty
eighth street sewer between Jones avenue
and the Allegheny river. Mr. Jones claims
the act under which the improvement was
made is unconstitutional; that the work has
been completed without due authority of
Positively the Last Two Bays or Onr Great
Fire Sale P. C. C. C, Clothiers.
To-day and to-morrow final wlndup of our
great flie sale. Whatever is loft of all the
slightly damaged clothing is now placed in
our well-lighted basement to be sold for
whatlt willbring. This Is positively the final
wlndup of our lire sale. .Remember, every
thing will be absolutely slaughtered, ileal
value is not at all consldeied. $12 and $15
men's salts are marked CI ib; men's $2 50
pants at 89c; men's heavy overcoats at $1 U,
worth $18: men's fine suits $7 25 and $5 90,
and the same heavy rednotlons on all men's
snlts, men's overcoats, men's ulsters, men's
and boys' pants, boys' suitsand hats and
furnishing goods. Last two day. Come
early.
P. C. C. C, Clothiers, corner Grant and
Diamond stieets.
ISS
954 AND 956 LIBERTY ST.
au8-13-TiWT
PARROTS, $5
A lot which we guarantee to learn to
talk;
Also young mocking birds, $3 each.
ESPICH'S BIRD STOEF
Je25-mrBo 60 Smlthfletd street.
JEW ADTET ISEKENTS.
Late
Buyers
Fare pretty well at these stores. To
get reliable and desirable goods at
way-off prices compensates one for
being lardy.
Special
August
Offerings
Ladies' Ribbed Vests at i2jc
and 15c; better grades at 240,25c,
30cand38c; all exceptional values.
Ladies' Ribbed Silk Finished
Swiss Vests at 48c, formerly 62c.
Ladies' Silk and Lisle Vests at
50c, formerly 75c.
Ladies' Silk Vests, 7SC, all sizes.
formerly $1.
Ladies' Lisle Union Suits, knee
length, low neck, no sleeves, the
$1.25 quality now at $1; the $2
quality at 1.50.
Ladies' Black Lisle Equestrian
Tights now 90c, were 1.25.
Ladies' Striped Wash Skirts,
straight shirred ruffle, good value
at 75c and 85c
Ladies' Black Sateen Skirts,
shirred ruffle, at 62c. (
Ladies' Black Sateen Skirts,
plaited ruffle, now 68c
Worth
Looking
After.
Big bargains are offered in reliable,
well-made MUSLIN UNDERWEAR,
GOWNS, DRAWERS, SKIRTS, COB
SET COVERS, Shobt UNDER SKIBTS.
CHEMISES, Silk and Muslin SKIRT
CHEMISES. Our lines still large and
prices are exceedingly reasonable. "We
never advertise Muslin Wear at ridicu
lous prices. Good goods possess a certain,
value, and its money wasted to buy trash.
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A cure fer Piles, External, Internal. Blind, Bleed.
In and Itching, Chronle. Recent or Hereditary.
This remedy has potitlTely nerer been known M
fall. II a box. s ror s. dt man. a guarantee siren
with six boxes, when purchased at one tlmjto re
fund the 15 if not cured. Issued by KMIL Q.
BTOCKT.Drucjrlit, Wholesale and Retail Agent,
Hot. 1401 and 1701 Penn ave., corner Wylle are.
and Fclton St.. Pittsburg, Pa. Use Stueky't
Ularrhosa & Cramp Cure, 2S and SO eta. Jal-S2-eoJ
WE'D rather take $5 to $10 less for our
Made-to-Measure Suits than to carry
them to next year. You'll find $20
and $25 Suits better value than ever. Same can
be said of the $5, $6 and $7 Trousers several
dollars reduced.
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AN UNLUCKY SHOT.
FOUNDED ON FACT.
WEITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH BY
tJOECIsr STJIISTIDIEIRS,
Author of "Abel Drake's Wife," "The Tempter Behind," "Robbing
Peter to Pay Paul," "The Ambitious Widow," Etc, Etc.
Chapter I.
It had been an unusuallydry summer.
The thirsty eartb, parched through waiting
for the long delayed rain, had, as though
hopeless of absorbing sufficient nutriment
through her pores, opened and split into
deep ruts, ready like so many open mouths
to catch the sorely needed moisture.
Farmers were loud in their complaints,
paper wrote dismallyrelative to the ap
proaching crops, and prayers for rain had
been offered in most of tbe chnrches.
The cloudless sky which morning after
morning met the eager inquiry of the farm
ers, and nightly gave promise of as fair a
day succeeding, strengthened the impression
already prevalent, that under existing
circumstances their crops suffered rather
than gained by their being left longer
standing.
A few, therefore, of. the farmers in and
around the little village of High Leighton,
if snch scattered homesteads deserved the
tiile of village, had commenced cutting
their corn and were already busy harvest
ing. The men at Perrat's farm were giving over
work for the night as their master with his
two sons entered the comfortable kitchen
parlor, where a substantial supper was
spread, and where Elizabeth Perrat, wife
and mother, sat with her work at the open
door awaiting the return of her men folk.
"Luke," she said, addressing the elder
son, who beside his father and his stalwart
young brother of 16 looked strikingly deli
cate, "You've never been without your tea
all this while? Father and Tom happen may
go so long without, bnt it is foolish for you.
Why didn't you come home, or I might have
sent some over for the three of you if you'd
told me vnn trprpTi,t nnmintr
"All right, mother," be answered. "Rose
Arnott brought her lather's tea down to the
field, and as there was a deal more than he
could manage they made me have some,"
wiping as he spoke the perspiration from
his face and neck, before he threw himself
wearily into an arm chair by the tea table.
The men when they had finished polish
ing their scythes, and had hung them in
their place, followed Luke's example, and
were soon enjoying a hearty meal.
- "Did you say Arnott was in the field?
Surely he is too ill to be of fur use," Eliz
abeth Perrat remarked to her husband.
"He's too ill to be anywhere but in. hii
bed," he answered. "But Eose savs it
amuses him, and takes his thoughts off him
self." m "Well, you see," Tom chimed in, "when
it's so near, only just at the back of their
cottage, I don't see as it can hurt The air
will do him good."
"Think he'll be able to work again,
father?" queried Luke.
"Yes," Perrat answered. "He's like
enough to be cured in a tew weeks if he
ain't foolhardy, or uses his leg too soon.
But what's to keep them meantime, I should
like to know. They sold some of their
furniture to pay eight weeks' rent last Fri
dav." "I'd like to send him a pitcher of strong
soud I've made, only all hands seem busy,"
said his wife.
"I'll take it, mother," Tom said, quickly;
"I was going round this evening."
"Oh,, ayl you're always going; but I'll
put it ready for you."
When he was about to start she handed to
mm a basket in wnich she had securely
packed the soup.
Waiting till she had rejoined the others
in the inner room Tom took down a gun
from the wall. "I may have the luck to
spot a rabbit or two. I didn't see the good,
or I could have told them as how the Ar
notts are nearly starving let alone the
rent," he mused.
Striding along with the gun on his
shoulder, the basket on his arm, and his
bright young face raised on the look out for
some venturesome rabbit, he soon crossed
the orchard, paddock, and one or two long
fields belonging to their farm, when to his
jigut ud saw Buuicbuiag move, oil an in
stant be was ready, gun in hand.
The long grass near a clump of bushes by
the roadside parted, a brown something
showed Itself in the road, a rapid report
juuuwcu, nuu tiic Bumeimng ieil. -
When Tom Perrat went to pick up his
prey he stood up aghast He had shot a
pheasant He looked about him eagerly in
all directions, but seeing no observer he
determined to make the best of the matter,
and taking out the jng at soup from the
basket he substituted the pheasant carry
ing the jug in his hand.
The Arnotts, husband and wife, greeted
him warmly. Bose had gone to the village
shop to buy a loat of bread, they said, but
would be back directly.
"Mother sent a little soup. She thinks
you might fancy some," Tom said, turning
to Arnott who was restintr on chairs, "and
I thought I'd managed to shoot a rabbit for I
you, when it turned out to be this thing,"
dragging the pheasant from his basket
It Tom had experienced uncomfortable
sensations regarding the slaughter of the
bird, sacred to sportsmen, before coming to
the Arnotts, they were anything but lessened
when William Arnott whistled portentous
ly and his wife flung up her hands in dis
may as they saw the bird.
When, however, they were assured that
the deed had been witnessed by no one,
they forbore adding to his apprehensions,
and bidding him observe absolute silence
on the subject, comforted him by laying it
should be plucked and the feathers destroyed
at once; the bird they intended to sup on.
Tom strictly obeyed their injunctions as
to being silent about shooting the bird,
therefore the event which happened on the
following day completely overpowered his
people with surprise and consternation.
It was noon, wanting but a short time to
the laborers' midday meal, and master and
men were worfeing right merrilv.
The hot sun shed its burning rays; but
the sevthes moved in unison apparently as
steadily as they had done when the reapers
started in the earlv moraine-.
Lute Perrat and the invalided Arnott
alone rested, lying in the shade of somo
wheat sheaves. A few children minding
babies were singing together one of their
jschool songs. Their childish voices rang
sweetly o'er the harvest field.
Before tbe bright sun rises over the hills,
In the corn fields poor Mary is seen.
Impatient her little blue apron to nil
With the few scattered ears she can glean.
Suddenly Arnott laid a heavy hand on
Luke's arm, saying excitedly:
"Look! Yonder comes a policeman. Go,
speak to him, and stop him .from coming
among the men. J will send your brother
to you. .Quick! I can't explain now," he
added in answer to the young man's puzzled
inquiry. "Go."
Luke Perrat went to the policeman, and
while talking to him led him to where they
would be unobserved, and where his father
and Tom quickly joined them.
Tom there received a summons from the
policeman to appear before the magistrates
in the county town on Friday next, for the
unlicensed snooting of a pheasant on the
turnpike road. It was all out through the
officionsness of he official, who, newlv ap
pointed to the village, had seen the'deed
committed, and hoping to commend himself
to tbe higher powers, summoned them on
jfhe charge of poaching.
xne jrerrats, wno, jrom iamer to son Had
borne an unblemished nqpie, and been re
spected alike by those above and beneath
tnem, were told that their son Tom would
in all probability suffer imprisonment un
der the rigid laws to guard the sacredness
of sport, and avenge unauthorized intrusion
on its domain
Indignant as they were, yet their sorrow
any sympathy with their eon's trouEle far
outweighed their anger. They were de
termined, however, to explain matters at
headquarters and settle all, if possible, by
offering to pay a heavy fine.
As for Tom, in the heat of his youthful
horror at the prospect of imprisonment and
the disgrace it would bring on his family,
be resolved to take flight
. When the family were sleeping ha took
from his desk his small store of money, ad
ded to it a lew pounds of his father's, made
a bundle ot bis clothes, and, leaving a let
ter to explain and ask pardon for all,
promising to repay the money he bad just
taken, he stole noiselessly out of the house
and made his escape.
A friend of Tom's had left the village to
go out to America, where he had work
promised him by some relatives. He had
often asked Tom to join him. He was then
at Southampton waiting for tbe ship to
sail. Tom would join him there and seek
his fortune in the New World.
Instead, however, of taking the direct
road, he turned aside to the Arnotts' cot
tage. All was in darkness. Picking up some
earth he threw it against the attic win
dow. In a few moments a head appeared, which
by the light ot the harvest moon he at once
recognized as belonging to Bose.
"I will come down at once," she said,
"wait a moment."
"Oh, Tom," she cried, as she joined him
and held out her hand, "what will you do?
what will you do?"
When Tom had told -her his plans, he
noticed that she was lully dressed, and
broke off suddenly to ask how it was,
"I could not sleep; I felt somehow iyou
would come. And must you really go awav
over the sea or be put in prison?" She be
gan to cry, adding brokenly, "It was all
lor us, tool Oh, TomI TomI"
Tom's large brown eye were clouded and
his voice husky, as he said, taking her hand
and gently stroking it "Don't take on so,
Bose don't! I'll come back again, God
willing, when the fools, policemen and
magisC . es have forgotten all about it and
I'll wnre to you, and when you know where
I am you'll write too, won't you?"
"Yes, yes!" she sobbed out
"I must be going, Bose. I must indeedl
Goodby; you know how fond I am of you.
don't you ? Say goodby to your father and
mother, and and; Bose, promise me you
won't walk out with any other fellow, will
you ?" His voice was very thick now.
"I won't, Tom, I promise you. Oh, I
couldn't!"
"Will vou give me a kiss, Bose?" he
asked, "to take with me and think of when
I'm lonely?"
"Oh, Tom," and she threw her arms
round his neck. He kissed her wet face
and bade God bless her, and then took her
to the cottage door, and, waiting till he had
heard the bolt drawn within, walked rapidly
away.
CHAPTER IL
Three years had passed away since Tom's
flight, and during those years the Perrats
had not been so prosperous as of yore.
Their elder son, Luke, instead of regain
ing strength, as the dootors prophesied,. had
succumbed during the last month to an in
ternal disease, due, it was supposed, to
some accidental injury.
The parents, who had never recovered
from their grief at Tom's flight, were deeply
stricken by the death of Luke,
v Bereaved of his two soaa their father de
clared he had nothing left to work for;
there was enough for his wife and himself.
Why, then, should he toil and slave?
So in a few months after their son's
death he ceased his constant work and
supervision, and the farm suSered in con
sequence. His wife, unremitting in her loving care
of him, endeavored to conceal her own
sorrow in order to minister to his.
In these endeavors she was aided and
strengthened by Bose Arnott, who in pro
portion as she found Tom's parents de
sponding or failing, cheered and assisted
tbem.
William Arnott, her father, after his
weary illness, which had been caused by a
fall from a scaffolding, had completely re
covered his health, resumed his duties as a
builder, and had lately ' been promoted to
the post of foreman.
Bose, in her ripening womanhood, fresh
as tbe wild flowers among which she lived,
with her shy pretty manners and sweetness
of temper, had attracted some of the village
swains. She encouraeed none, so by de
grees they left off worrying her, one after
the other declaring among themselves,
that she thought still of her boy friend
Tom him as had gone off to America and
who like enough, vaftcr all, she might never
see again.
Bose and Tom's parents had duly received
letters from Tom three or fonr times a year.
At first the reports were far from promis
ing, though written in as honeful a strain
as possible. Then the news came that he
had obtained regular and suitable work,
which, though poorly paid, promised well
for the future. ,
At the close of his second year of ab
sence he returned the money he had taken
from bis father; and later still a few useful
presents arrived from him. He always de
clared in answers to suggestions as to his
return home, that he dared not venture.
He was haunted by the fear that should he
do so the dead bird would appear in the
shape ot a policeman's summons to avenge
its "foul and mbst unnatural murder!"
As time went on and Bose noted the
growing despondency of Tom's parents-, a
thought for their ultimate relief struck her,
which she determined to carry into execu
tion. Privately she had made many inquiries
as to the dangers that might attend Tom's
reappearance, after the lapse of more than
three years.
Without exception she had been assured
that, though it was just possible the sum
mons for his old offense might be renewed,
such proceedings would, to say the least, be
most unlikely and, under the circumstances,
unjustifiable. Tbe lapse of time, the re
spectability of the family, and the vouth's
good character at the time would all help to
excuse tbe offense.
Taking the information she had gained
to his parents, she urged his father to make
stiil further inquiries where the girl could
hardly do so. Perrat, animated by the new.
hope, gladly undertook the duty, and
Boss's assurances wre corroborated.
The danger to their son thus seemed in
finitesimal, while his reunion to his family
would be to his parents as new life.
Tom. encouraged and strengthened hv
thee e representations from home, deter-
mined to return, and sailed for England,
after having been absent three years and
seven months.
Expectant of the wanderer's arrival, the
old farm-house had assumed once more its
cheerful aspect: while his parents day by
' day strained their eyes to watch anxiously
every ngure wuicn appeared in tne distance
along the turnpike road.
The Arnotts, also, both husband and wife,
looked forward hopefully to the return of
their young friend; while Bose, it seemed,
could only contain herself and her happi
ness by bursting into glad snatches of song,
full and blithesome as untamed forest birds.
She worked, tidied, and adorned, both at
the cottage and tbe farm, till, as tbe parents
at both homesteads said, "there was nothing
more to do."
Yet on the morning of the fourth day. on
which it bad been thought possible that
Tom might arrive, she remembered the
flowers would need replacing by fresh ones
and she rose early to seek her iavorites.
The dew was still wet on the meadow
grass in the early Kay morning, as with
p:nk skirts tucked up above her dainty
little ankles she ruthlessly robbed hedge,
bush and tree of their flowers and blossoms
to cram into the basket on her arm.
Her large course straw hat had fallen
from her head and hung at the back, held
bv its ribbons. Her bright brown hair
glinted and waved in its neat braids as the
sun's rays fell on it, and on her upturned,
happy face, wsth its sweet, gray eyes and
warm complexion, glowing with youthful
healtft.
A prodigal, as he called himself, who had
arrived at the town nearby late on the
previous night, and who had started by
daylight in order to reach his ultimate
destination in good time, had in his keen
lookout seen the figure, and drawn near to
observe.
From the position chosen by him he had
a good view of her face, raised in contem
plation as to which branch of a blossoming
apple tree she should mim at
The wanderer, travel-stained and bronzed,
seemed unable to withdraw his glance, but
gazed and gazed while a tender, wistful
look grew in his fine brown eyes, and a deep
sigh of intense longing swelled his broad
chest
Eose had by jumping succeeded in reach
ing her branch, but seemed quite unable to
break it offi '
"Let me help you," said a voice close by,
and a tall young fellow produced a knife,
cut off tbe coveted treasure and gave it
to Bose. As he did so their eyes met, and
the deep glow, which through the bronze
bnrnt on his cheeks, slowly crimsoned hers,
and dispelled the half inquiring puzzled
look with which she had first regarded him.
"Tom, oh TomI is it really you?" and she
held out her hand.
"Aye, it's me," he said, takjng and hold
ing her hand and staring at her meanwhile
with a look of which he was quite un
oonscious, but which caused Bote to thrill
and tremble where she stood.
"I ventured back, you see, Bose, and
though I'm changed a bit in looks, I'm still
the same Tom," he added humbly. "Are
you glad to see me?"
Bose thought what she dared not excress.
that he waa limply the beat, the hand- 1
somest Tom the world held, or ever would
hold but she looked up shyly as sha
answered him.
"I am right glad, Tom, and I've kept my
promise, though you may not remember
what it was," she added softly.
"Don't I though," exclaimed Tom, hil
face shining with joy.
"Bose!" cried a man's voice. They turned
and saw Arnott, his features dark with sus
picion. Tom went forward, was soon recognized,
and after a hearty welcome from Arnott
and from his wife, who bad come to the cot
tage door, he hastened on impatient to see
his parents.
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I. O. O. F. EXCURSION
To Buffalo and Niagara Falls, Via F. A TT.
By., August 16.
Special train ot flrst-class day coaches
and Fnllman sleeping cars will leave P. t
W. depot, Allegheny, at 8.30 r. JC (city time)
Tuesday, August IS, running via Butler
and Erir. arriving in Buffalo. S.30 a. Jt,
Niagara Falls 630 a. jr. next day. Tickets
good five days. Fare H 75. Toronto, Can.,
$5 75.
S15forKonnd Trip to Kansas City From
Plttsbarg via Pennsylvania Idnea.
Excursion tickets account Knights of
Pythias conclave will be sold August 19, SO,
21 and 22 as above, with corresponding low
round trip rates from other ticket station!
on the Pennsylvania Line. Beturn coupon
will be valid up to and including September
15. Low rates to Chicago and St. Louis on
same date. uwrs
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I.ake Cnantanqna and Return, 35 OO.
Niagara Falls and return tl CO
Toronto, Can., and return 8 00
Via Allegheny VaUey EaUway.
Tuesday, August lb.
Ticket good 15 days returning. Trains
leave Union station at 8:20 jl. ic and 8:50 .
k., consisting o( Eastlake coaches, Pullman
buffet, parlor and sleeping cars.
Are Ton Going Ont or TownT
If so, do not leave silverware or other valu
ables In the honse, bnt store tbem In the
safe deposit vaults of the Farmers' Deposit
National Bank, 65 Fourth avenue, where, at
a small cost, you can have absolnto proteo
tion. o
Why Not to Tout
You certainly want goodjioarders and
roomers. HowtoseouretbemT A few small
adlets in The Dispatch cent-a-word adver
tising columns have sent them to others.
Why not to yout
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Via .Pittsburg and Western Railway, Tues
day, August 16. Special train will leave
Pittsburg and Western depot 8.30 7. sfc, olty
time, arrive Niagara Falls 6.30 a. 2C
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Hair Balsam brings back the youthful color.
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