s, :v il w ti THE SOUANTO-NT TRTBUNE-FRIHAY MORNING-, APRIL Cfl, 1807. . g. Che Rome RMditta 0rck -THfe. . ft Sy-CV ,Yl tffe. sw wen witee AVTYIOfi or RED Copyright, 18D7 by SYNOPSIS. It Is Christmas day on the cattle ranch I it tho Malhrur octroy. lan Drake, the newly arrived superintendent, hn planned tho holiday for tho men hue caroo?, n they uro called In that roKlon. A shooting match In tho morning, Haines in tho afternoon and a fine dinner, pro pared by Sam, the Chinese cook, Is tho order of the day. Drake Is a remark able boy, only nineteen yenrH old, but Max "VoroI, his employer, has sulliclpnt fuith In hli) cournRp nnd ability to h.ivo placed him In contio'. of tho ranch. Among tho buccaroos tiro three brothers, named Drinker, who havo been nick-named "Full," "llalf-rost Full" and "Drunk.'' They nro pretty tough characters. On Christmas afternoon arrives Vnclo l'.'s co, a peddler rf cheap Jewelry, who smurt Kles In to tho buccaroos a demijohn of whisky. Liquor Is tabooed at the ranch; It Is thf only way by which the men van ibo controlled. Tho men n'e soon undtr hn Intluence of liquor, and Drake dis covers the statu of affairs when they are called to dinner. Things bt'ttlii to look eerlous, but Drake determines to put on a bold front, and with Holies, tho school master, who lives at tho agency, ho in ters tho dining-room to await tho others. PART IV. Drake wont into the dlnlnc-room, prompt in his seat at the head of the tnblc, with tho schoolmaster next to him Nice man, Uncle Pasco," ho con tinued. 'Tut his time is not now. Wo have nothing to do for the present but Bit like every day nnd act perfectly natural. "I tnvo known .simpler tasks," said Mr Holies, -but I'll begin by qproadlnjr this excellently clean napkin." "You're no hchooltiiarm!" exclaimed Drake. "You please me." "The worst of a. bad thlnir," said tho mild Holies, "is liming time to think about it, and wo have been spaied that " "Here they come," said Drake, They did come. Hut Drake's alert BtrateBy served the end he had tried for. The drunken buccaroos swarmed disorderly to tho door, and halted. Once more the new superintendent's, wny took them back. Here was the decent table with llKhtsserencly burning, with unwonted Good things arranged upon It the olives, the oranges, tlie pro serves. Neat as parade ill III were the men's places, all tho euro and forks symmetrical along the while- cloth. There, waiting his guest at the far end, tat tho slim young boss talking with his braider, Air. Holies, the parts in their smooth hair going with all th'o rest of this propriety. liven tho dally tin dishes were banished in fuvor of crockery. "Shy of Sam's napkins, boys?" eald the boss. "Or is it the bald-headed china?" At this bidding they came In un certainly. Their whisky was abashed Inside, they tcck their seats, dancing I across at each other in a trans-lent si- I lence, drawing their chairs gingerly beneath them. Thus ceremony fe i un expectedly upon the assemblage, and for awhile they swallowed in awk wardness what tho swift, noiseless Sam brought them. He, In a long, white apron, passed and repassed with his things from the kitchen, doubly ciriclent and civil under stress of anxiety for his young master. In the paues of his serving he watched fro the background, with a face that ires ently caught the notice of one of them. "Smile, you nlmond-ye-l highbind er," sail the buccaroo. And the China man smiled his beat. "I've forgot something." said Half past Full, rising. "Don't let 'em skip a course on me." Half-past left the room. "That's what I have been hoping for," sold Drake to Holies. Half-past returned presently and caught Drake's look of expectancy. "Oh, nol boss," said the buccaroo, In stantly from the door. "You're on to me, but I'm on to you." He slammed the door with ostentation, and dropped with' a loud laugh Into his seat. "Fit st smart thing I've know him doing," said Drake to Bolles. "I am disappointed." Two buccaroos next left the room to gether. "They may get lost in the snow," said tho humorous Half-past. "I'll Just show 'ein the trail." Once more he rose from tho dinner nnd went out. ' Yes, he knew too much to bring It in here," said Drako to Bolles. "He knew none but two or three would dare drink, with me looking on." Lmt ft r Ei " n n I I li ja 1 u SPECIAL The JBicycles we offer are the well-known Monarch Cycle Co.'s Defiance and the famous Dart Bicycle. Every wheel sold will be fully guaran teed. We have had ioo of these wheels consigned to us to sell at the low price of $29.50 to raise cash quickly for the owners of these bicycles. You will have choice of colors, Black and Maroon; each wheel highly decorated. s Why pay $60 to $100 for a bicycle when this sale offers you the opportunity of securing a High Grade Wheel at this price? Sale Opens Thursday Horning and Continues Thursday and Friday. Morris -- MEN Arttv WHITE." Owen Winter. f "Don't you think lib Is afraid to lirlnR it In tho canio room with you at nil?" Holies suggested. "And mo temperance this season? Now, Holies, that's unkind." "Oh, dear, that Is not at all what" "I know what you meant, Holies. I was only Just making a little merry over this casualty. No, ho don't mind inn to that extent, except when he's .sober. Look at him!" Half-past was. returning with his friends. Quite evidently they had all found the trail. "Uncle Pasun Is a nice old man!" pursued Drake. "I haven't got my gun en. Have you?" "Yes." said Holies, but with a sheep ish swervo of the eye. Dinki sruessed nt once. "Not Haby IJuntlng7 Oh Lord, and I promised to "Oil, NO, BOSS. YOU'RE ON TO give you an adult weapon! The kind they've put on to eat dinner in." "Talkln' secrets, boss?" said Half past Full. The well-meaning Sam filled his cup. and this proceeding shifted the buc caroo's tiueulont' attention. "What's that mud?" ho demanded. Colfee," said Sam, politely. The buccaroo swept his cup to the ground, and the next man howled dis may. "Burn your poor legs?" said Half past. He poured his gluss over the victim. Tiny wrestled, the company pounded the table, betting hoarsely, until Half-past went to tho lloor, and his plate with him. Go easy," said Drake. "You're smashing the company's property." "Bald aded china for sure, boss!" said a sfcoud of the brothets Drinker, and dropped a dish. "I'll merely tell you," said Drake, "that the company don't pay for this chlnu. twice." "Not twice?" said Half-past Full, smashing pome more. "How about thrice?" "Want your money now?" another inquired. A riot of bamcr took all of them, and they 1) i to laugh and destroy. "JIo 'i did this con?" said one, prylnr hi3 threo-tlned fork. "Hoi h did you cost yourself?" said niio. net to Drake. "What, our kid bo&s? Two bits, I guess." "Hyas markook. Too dear!" They biaivled at their Jokes, loud and ominous; threat nunded beneath their lightest word, the new crashes of things thf-y threw on the floor struck sharply tluouah the foreboding din of their mirth. The spirit that Drako Blnce his arrival had kept under In them day by day but not quelled, rose visibly each few succeeding inlnutes, swelling upward as tho tide' does. Buoyed upon tho whisky, It glittered In their eyes nnd yelled mutinously in their voices. "I'm waiting all orders," said BollC3 to Drako. "I haven't any," said Drake. "New ones, that Is. -We've sat down to see this meal out. Got to keep sitting." He leaned back, eatlns dellbcrauly, &$fS lts "' Vs I 1 Ladies' and Gent's Wheels SALE AT K30P.R1S BROS.' Bros Shoe Store, 330 Lackawanna palng no more to the buccarcosi thus they saw lib would never leave tho room till they did. As ho -hart taken his chair tin- first, so was tho boy boundo quit it the last. Tho game of prying fork tines at.iled on them ono by one, and they took to songs, mostly of love and parting. With red whisky In their cjes, they shouted plaintively of swoet-hearts, nnd vows, and lips, nnd meeting in the wlldwood. From these they went to ballads of the cattlo trail and tho Yuba river, and so in evitably worked to tho old coast song, made of thro languages, nnd verses rymed on each year Blnce tho begin ning. Tradition laid It heavy upon each singer in his turn to kegp the pot a-bolltng by memory or new invention, and the cljant wont forward with hyp notic cadence to a tune of larklsh, rip ping gaiety. He who h'ad read over his old stained letters in the soriowfut corner had waked from such dream ing, and now sang: "Once, Jcs' onced in the year o' '43 I mot a fancy thing by the namo o Jas satrlnei I never could persuado her for to leave me bo Sho went and she took and sho married me.'1 His neighbor took It up: "Once, once again, In the year o' 'CI, Hy tho city of Whatcom, down along tho shore I never could pcrcuado them for to leave me be A Shvnith squaw wsnt and took and mar ried me." "What was you doln' between all them years?" called Half-past-Full. "Shut ycr mouth," said thu next singer. "Once, once again In tho year o' '71 It was the suddenest deed that I ever done- ME, BUT I'M ON TO YOU." I never could persuado them for to leave mo be A rich banker's daughter sho took and married me." "This Is looking better," said Bolles to Drake. "I'm not so sure," said the boy. Ten or a dozen years were sung. "I never could persude them for to leave me be," brought down the chorus nnd the flits, until tho drunkards could sit no more, but stood ur to sing, tramping tho tune heavily together. Then, Just us the turn came round to Drako himself, they dashed their chairs down, pnd herded out of the room be hind Half-pa.st Full, slamming the door. Drake sat a moment at the head of his Christmas dinner, the chairs, the lumpy wreck. Blood charged his face from his hair to his collar. "Let's smoke," said he. They went from the dinner through tho room of the great fireplace to his office beyond. "Have a mild one?" ho sald to tho schoolmaster. "No, a strong one to-night, if you please." And Bolles gave his mild 6mlle. "You do me cood now ar.d then." said Drake. "Dear me," said tho other, "I have found It the othir way." All the rooms fronted on the road with doors the old-time doors, where tho hostlles had drawn their pictures in the days before peace had come to reign over this country. Drake looked out, because tho singing had stopped, and they were very quiet in the bunk house. He saw the Chinaman steal trom his kitchen. "Sam is tired of us," he said to Bol- Ic.a. "Tired?" "Running away. I guess1. I'd prefer a new situation myself. That's where you're deficient, Bolles. Only got sense enough to stay where you happen to be. Hello! What Is he up to?" Sam had gone beside a window of the bunkhouse and was listening there. Suddenly he crouched, and was gone among tne sheds. Out of the bunk house Immediately came a procession, the buccal 00 still quiet, a careful, gradual body. Drake closed his door and sat in the THURSDAY chair again. "Thy'ro escorting that Jug over here," said lie. "A new move, and a big one." Ho nnd Holies heard them enter the next room, always without much noise , rf& "HELLO! WHAT IS HE UP TO? or talk; the loudest sound was tho Jug when they set It on tho lloor. Then they reemed to sit, talking little. "Holies," said Drake, "tha sun has set. If you want to lake after Sam" Cut the door of the sitting-room opened, and the Chinaman himself came in. Hu left the door a-swlng and spoko clearly. "Allsscr Dlake," tald he, "3lovu bloke." (Stove broke). TO UK CONTINUED. REV. DrTm'LEOD'S LETTER. Rend nt tho Ynic Banquet on Tues day Night. The following letter of regret from Rev. James McLeod, D. D., was read at the Yale banquet in the board of trade rooms Tuesday night: My Dear Judge: I regret very much that I cannot bo present this evening at the Yalo Alumni banquet. I had hoped that I might be ablo to accept tho kind Invitation of your committee, but that hope ha vanished, and I must bear tho great disappointment. I wouM like to have said a word or two about "Our Friend the Enemy." Tho rivalry between Yale and Princeton on tho nthletlc Held has always been friendly, al though Yalo has, somehow, taken good care, for the most part, to be In tno po sition of "Our Friend tho Enemy." lTo-n year to year, Yalo has carried oft tho palm, but sho has always, been generous enough to leave to Princeton "tho pleas ures to hepc. ' Availing herself of thli generosity, last yenr, Prlnc-eton realized her long-cherlshcd hope; but how long sho will bo allowed to rejoice In it Is one of those subjects concerning which Prince ton ought not to express an unqualified and positive opinion until Yale has again spoken. But I think I express the mind ot Princeton men pretty generally when I say that they would not be unwilling to allow Yale to enjoy the "pleasures of hope" a season or two longer. Tho friendly rivalries that have taken placo on tho nthletlc field between there uni versity havo only knit them more close ly together, and strengthened their bonds of friendship. But there Is another and broader field in which their rivalry Is qulto as pronounced and qulto as manly. By training tho mir.d, by putting a bond upon tho conscience, by lilting the youths who como under their Influence to make tho btst use of this life, these universities havo dono and they arc doing a nob'.o work. And their work Is all tho nobler, because It Is saturated with tho truths of Christianity. This is rivalry of which heaven approves, and If Yalo outruns Princeton In this field It will bo to her everlasting honor. I think it is In tho quaint red city on tho Moselle that an Inscription may bo seen on the wall of tho ancient "Ilath haus," which claims for tho city of Troves an antiquity surpassing that of ancient Rome; nnd ftt the end of that In scription is this famous line: "Perstct et Aeterna Pace Fruatur." Yalo Is a llttlo older than Princeton, but, In her material surroundings, sho lays claim to no such antiquity as tho Inscrip tion In tho Rathaus claims for Treves. Nevertheless, the truths of Christianity, of which Yalo and Princeton are. In a man ner, guardians, are older than tho oldest university, oncl In the maintaining, unfold Ing and Inculcating of these truths Prince ton greets Yale.nnd bids her God-speed. On behalf of Princeton let me repeat tho lino already quoted, and say of Yale to her sons and to her honored and distinguished president: "Perstct et Aeterna Paco Fruatur." Your fraternally, James JIcLcod. Scranton, Pa April 20, 1S97. , A Sure Thing. Simpson "How do you know that yoi' rlvnl and her father will fall out a tight?" Simpson (gleefully) "They'vo both Joined the same church choir." Tam many Times. tiii: GOSSIP. I told my lovo unto tho dew That vanished In the air; I told it to a llttlo bird That warbles everywhere. J ' At eve I told It to a rose And said, "The secret keep." Quoth she: "Howaro, and have a caro. I whisper In ray sleep." An adept grown, I told my lovo To her whom I adore. Sho smiled and said: "It must be so. I've heard It thrice before." Pittsburg Post. Monarchs, Defiance and Dart's Models 1897. AND SHOE STORE. 330 LACKA. AV I AT THE THEATERS. ; fiiTW ""Jiwr-ir)-tj-il-jii)j-iaijif The favorite comedian, Roland Reed, nnd his capable company wllf open a two-night and Saturday matinee en gagement nt. the Frothlngham this evening, the opening performance be ing a benefit tendered to the Scranton lodge of Elks, on which occasion ho will present his latest success, "The Wrong Mr. Wright" which will be repeated at the matinee Saturday, closing tho en gagement on Saturday night with the ever welcome comedy, "The Politician." Mr. Reed's new play Is "The Wrong Mr. Wright," a comedy In three nets by George H. Broadhurst. The scenes are laid at Old Point Comfort, otime very pretty effectB ore secured In the last act In a representation of the pa rade ground at Fortress Monroe. There are some good Beats left for the Elks' benefit tonight. m "My Friend from India" Is the friend of everybody who likes good, clean fun and plenty of laughter. The farce will be at tho Academy of Music one night only, Monday, April 20, presented by a company Including Frederick Bond, Wnlter Perkins, Edward Abeles, the Misses Mnrlon Glroux, Helen Relmer, Kenyon Bishop, Louise Galloway and May Voltes, of the original cast. It Is a long time since a success so unex pected and so positive has been made known in New YorK as has been made by "My Friend from India." The piece U a farce, pure and simple and pos sesses several novel situations and they are good and funny ones, too. They form surprises which take the audience unawares and create a riot of laughter. "The Juckllns," a dramatization of Ople Reld's story of the same name will havo its first production in this city at the Academy of Muslo on Tues day evening. The stage version was done by Daniel L. Hart, of Wllkes Barro for Stuart Robson, who h?.s made an Immense success of 11. Mr. Robson and his company will be seen at the Academy Tuesday night in It. Here Is what two Cincinnati papers say of "The Juckllns:" The plav calls forth sympathy, laughter and lumps In the throat, us the emotions will havo It. Times Stur. Tho Juckllns Is a delightful composite of humor, pathos and piety, and bids fair through Its dramatlo worth and whole some humor to rank with Shore Acres and Tho Old Homsteod. Commercial. m C. D. SIMPSON'S GIFT. SyrncuiO University Presented a Vnlunlilc Geological Specimen. From the Syracuse Standard. Tho unlveisity has recently received a valuable geological specimen in the form of the petiitled trunk of a tiee taken from the coal mines of Simpson & Watklns near Carbomlale, Pa. The specimen la about olffht feet hlph and two feet in diameter sit the ba&o. ft is of the SiElllaria specie and n Fcmbles an elm in outer uppearanew The bark Is preserved In perfect con dition. The tree was producul during the carboniferous period and 1b fossil ised into anthracite coal. The specimen was found In mines 275 feet below the surface und directly iiver a vein of coal. It was In more perfect condition when it was taken from the mine In 1894 than now as it was allowed to stand out doors ior a year ar.d wan subject to the rain and frost. .Last year it va.s on exhibi tion at the Atlanta exposition and the owner, C. D. Simpson, of Scranton, Pa., presented it to tho university. It weighs 3,600 pounds. It 'will be useful in demonstrating to students the change from vegetable life into mineral and together with the 200 nilneraloglcal specimens recently given by R. L. French, '92, will form valuable additions to tho geological de partment. His Kind. Hills Are you superstitious? 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