vol.. XXXIII Unoaltnn'o FALL AND WINTER SHOES fluoCllUil ij AKa \^ WE SHOW YOU More Stylish, Servicable. Lower Priced Footweai Than Any Other Shoe House in Town Besides The Greatest Variety to Chose From. You can examine every particle that goes to make this !ine of Shoes from the bottom up. We show them in every style of toe-Bui Dog. Razor, Needle and Lon don, Double Sole and Extension Edge. They are up-to-date. Patent Leather, Enamel, Cordovan, Willow Tan Calf Besides this line our Men's Working and Dress Shoes at si. oo, si'2s, |i 50, $2.00 and $2.50 are great values and find ready sale. Boyi and Girls jSctool Shoes —Made strong, servicable, stylish, heel or spring. They are water and cold resisters; they will carry a boy or girl a long road to schoo l . We have them in oil grain, kangaroo, box and crack-proof calf, kip, unlined, veal calf, in buttoj and lace, at 75c, Ji.oo, $1.25, $1.40, and 1.50. Ladies Fine Shoes in all the newest lasts, all widths,at 85c, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, S2OO, 12.50. '-,.00. See our welts, heavy soles, at $2-Oj, ;i. 50 and fe.oo. Ladies' Warm Shoes and Slippers, flannel lined, at 45c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO and $1.25. They are Crumbs of Comfort. Men's and Boys' BOOU and Heavy "Shoes, high or low instep, box toe or plain. Men's at 75;, |i,oo 11.25, *'-50, 12.00 and $2.50. Boys' at 75c, fl.oo, $1.25 and $1.50. If you watt good, servicable Footwear i t one price and where your dollar will buy as much as your neight>or's dollar will, go to -H-Butler's Leading Shoe Honse#- Opp. Hotel Lowry. B. C. HUSELTON. BICKEL'S 128 Soatb Main street. Te Have MOY«T into out new store-room with a large stock of all the latest styles in Fall and Winter Footwear, our large stock was never so large as at presentQOw ing to the large orders which we placed with the manufacturers, we bought our stock lower than ever before and can sell you good valuable footwear much lower than ever before offered. Our large store offers many accomodations, seven experi enced talesmen in attendance. A stock twice as large as before to select from, a stock of all new goods fresh from factory including all the latest and up to date Style*. Full Stock of Rubber goods of all kinds. Full stock of Felt and Knit boots with either leather or rubber overs, warm lined shoes of all kinds, leggins in all sizes. Large stock of Ladies, and Children's oil grain, Kangaroo Calf and Kip waterproof shoes. Mens' working shoes of all kinds and at low prices. Mens' hand made box toe boots and shoes. Boys' high cut kip shoes, warranted waterproof. Our winter tans. Pebble grains and Dongola, Cordovans, Porpoise and Patent calf shoes in all the new toes, no matter what style you may want we can suit you and at lower prices. We Have Included in our new building a special depart ment for 'naking shoes to order and repairing shoes fitted up with all the latest machinery so as to do work quick, neat and substantial. Kour experienced shoe makers ready to do your work while you wait. In This Big and Handsome Shoe Store, every day bringing us new customers who take advantage of our large assortment and the low prices we aje offering, shows that the people appreciate a large stock to select from and low prices to buy re'iable footwear. TEACHERS We welcome you to visit our new store, whether you wish to buy or not. If you are needing shoes we can show you a large stock to select from and special prices will be offered to teachers during Institute week. FOR THE LATEST STYLES IN FINE FOOT WEAR, CALL AND SEE US. JOHN BICKEL, BUTLER, PA Mrs. J E. Zimmerman Special Announcement. spa 7? 1 ' <■ 2T >5, 5 i We have a most complete assortment of these, all depart ments filled to overflow with the most desirable and choicest styles we have ever shown at \ery attractive prices. We never affix our signature to any statement that we are not positively sure is true, our old friends and patrons know this and to those who do not know us, we say give us a trial. We will not disappoint you. jVlrs. J. E. Zimmerman Successor to Ritter 4 Ralston. L ■ ■ . . =7 Anf Friday, Saturday, Monday, vW. 15, 16, 18. SPECIAL SALE OF FINE MILLINERY! V Bonnets at $3.00. $4.00 and $5.00 Worth <5.00, $6.00, and $7.00. \ r Hats at $5.00 $7.00 and $9.00 Worth $7.00, $9.00 and $12.00. C / Childrens Hats $1.50, $2.25 and $3,00 Worth $2.00, $2.75 and $3.75. f Ladies Natural Wool Underwear at 75c the kind you have been paying SI.OO for. M. F. & M. MARKS, 113 to 117 South Main Street, Butler, Pa. ? Our entire stock of (Fall and Winter im portations in Milli ?nery dress goods jLadies and Misses S Jackets, Caps, Col larettes and Fur ef fects are now in. i THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Constipation Causes fully half the sickness in the world. It retains ihe digested food too long in the bowels ami produces biliousness, torpid liver, lndi- Hood's bad taste, coated ■ ■ ■ tongue, sick headache, In- all somuia, etc. Hood's Pills 111 cure constipation and all its ™ results, easily and thoroughly. 25c. All druggists. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass. The oulj' Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparill* . ' KAILKOAD time tables. PENNSYLVANIA R SW Western "ernsylvania Division, Schedule in Kfleet Mey 18 1896. South, —' —Ween Days A. >l. A. M *. M M P M' I UTLKR Leuvv 025 Buo 1120 *2 45 505 ""axonburs;. . Alrive €54 6 2.1 11 43 310 528 duller Jc't.. •• 727 84? 12 07 335 553 Buller.let Leave 730 84« li 12 335 553 Natrona ..Arrive 738 85S 12 21 345 602 Tarentum T43 903 1226 358 CO7 Sprlmtdale ... 752 912 1238 402 .... Clareiaoct 807 925 12 53 416 627 Sbarpstarg S l4 931 lot 422 632 Allegheny city 825 942 114 4SI 642 A. M A. M. P. M. r. M. P. M. SIJRDAY TRAINS Leave Butler tor Alle tl» !i> lit} and principal Intermediate stations 7:40 A. M„ '?:■» and 5 oo P. M. North. —— Week Days —■■ — A. M. A. »I. A. 11. P. M. P, M. .UegbenyClty..Lv.7 00 900 11 25 300 530 81iarp.»hurg 711 912 1137 Claremont 919 It 45 Sprwfcdale 930 1159 55> Tarentum 732 939 32 OS 330 607 Natrona 737 943 12 13 334 611 BuUerJc't Ar 745 950 1223 340 020 Blltler Jc't Lv 745 950 12 34 345 620 Saxonburg 810 lo 15 12 59 409 644 rfClLKlt Ar. 835 10 38 125 435 710 A. M. A. M, P. M, P. M. P. M. SUNDAY TRAINS Leave Allegheny City for Butler aud principal Intermediate stations 7:25 a. -M.. 12SSO and7:ls P. M. Week Days For tho Eaf>t .Week Days, r. ni. a. in. a. m p. in. 245 625 Lv Butlkb. .. Ar 10 02 12 36 335 727 Ar Butler Jc't Lv 953 12 42 340 745 Lv Butler Jc't Ar 940 12 34 346 749 Ar Freeport.. Lv 93d 12 30 350 753 '• Alleg'y Jc't " 933 12 21 400 804 " Leechbnrir.. " 920 12 11 419 821 "Paalt(.n(Apollo" 905 1155 445 851 " Saltsburg..B 37 11 32 518 922 «• Blairsville..." 805 11 00 527 930 "Blairsville las'n"7 45 10 15 850 11 35' Altoona "3 40 800 100 310 " E»rrisburg..."ll 55 310 430 623 " Philadelphia. 'S 50 11 20 a. n'. p. m. p. m. p. in. Through trains for the east leave Pitt«- bnrg (Union Station) as follows: Atlantic ""*~dailv 3 10 A. M. Pennsylvania Limited " .....7 15 " Day Express, " .... -7 30 " Main Line Express •' 800 " r 'biladelphia Express " .... .4 30 P. A'. Pastern Express " ......7 95 " Fast Line " ......8 10 " F<>r detailed information, aJdre. t Tbos. P Watt, P»»s. \g' Western Bis rift, co .•'nth Ave i.i.u sniitbfield Si , Pittsburg PKFVOST. i. K. WOOD, (ie.i*-rm 7 :0 ph. KUwood Accomo 6 05 pm 7 3» pm CMdmo Express 6 05ptnj 9 25 am Allegheny Express | s oo ptn Kane and Bludlord Mail 10 or, am 6 20 pin clarion Accomo 5 15 pm 9 50 am Koxburg Accomo 7 35 ■ m 8 05 tun SUNI>AY TRAINS. | I De Forest Jut. Accomo 8 15 am: 7 30 pm Allegheny Accrmo I {loooam Chicago Express 3 35 pm 4 55 pro Allegheny Accomo ! 6 05 pm 4 55 pm Pullman buffet Sleeping t'ars and Jrsl-cla> •lay Coacbei IUJI through between Butler at: •'hlcago ilallv. For through tickets to points th' 1 Whs' Northwest or Southwest apply to A. B. CKOUCtE. Ageii' Ba tier Pa Trains leave the h 4 O depot In i iubu:g .or 'Ui- Kasl a* follows. For Washington IV C., Baltimore, Phlladel phla, m>i Now York, 7:20 and 930 p. m •Jumberl-iml, 6:40. 7 :30, a.m. l :10, 920 p. m.Con oelsvllle. f:4O, 7:31), a. m. 1.10, 4.30, 4.45. 5.30,9.20 »>. m. Unloutown. 7. -0 a. m , 1 10,4.30, 5.30 p. m. Unlontown. Morgat toft and Fairmont, 7,30, ,i. m. and s,3tip. m Mi.fleaaant 6.40. 7.3" a. PI .10 and 4.30 p m Washington, Pa., 7.40 ami .30 a. m., 4.0U.4.45 and 9.00. 11.55 p. m Wheel Dg. 7.40. ami 9.30 *. ra., and 4.00. 9.U0. 11.55 p „ Cincinnati, st, _,ouls, •'olumbus and Ne« ark. 7.40 a. m.. 9.10. U.55p, in. For Chicago, 2.40 an 1 9.30 p. m. Parlor and sleeping care to Baltimore \v a.xii Ington. ''lnclnnat.l and Chicago H. 0 DCSKLE. Gen Supt. Allegheny, Pa U. W. BAfSKTT, A O.P A Allegheny, Pa K. P. REYNOLDS, Supt.. Foxburg, Pa. MHE PITTSBURG, SHENAN GO & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD. TIME TABLE—In effcti Monday, Jane 28, 1896. Trains are run by Standard On tral Time (90th Meridian). (JOINO NORTH. GOINO SOUTH 10 |l4 12 STATIONS a 11 113 p.m pm . p.m. Arr I>v'ea.m. a.m. I" m I 455 230 Buffalo 5 3," 2 2 ... |S24 1 00 Dunkirk 6 56| 1 4 | sum, I 7 00 1 42 9 48 Kr1e....'.. 6 10 8 35 3 6 25 1 09 9 15 . Wallace Junct. 6 47 9 15 1 6 20 1 04 ' 9 11 Glrard 6 50 S 18 t 4 6 09 12 64, 858 .... Lockport. ... 700 9lt 4 .. 6 02|l? 851 .Cranestllle. 7OS 938 ! 4 0 5f j6 45 Kredoola... 7031144 623 5 44j 10 43 6 25j Mercer 7 2i|is 04 7 00 5 30 1 0 291 6 10 Pardoe 7 36112 22 7 1« 519 10 201 6 00 ... Grove City. .. 7 47 12 33 7 25 60b10 U8 548 .. Hunisvllle.... 758 '2 45 736 4 sb|io '>ol 10 . Brancluon.. .. 8 oe|'2 54 740 5 00|. .. .18 It liv . Brarichfon.ar 7 10J12 10 5 45l ... 855 ar...Hllllard...lv 6 2*lll 15) .... 4 531 9 sr>l 5 351.v.. .KelSters 8 10112 581 74» 4 39 9 421 5 21 Euclid 8 22 1 12 8 03 4 1»| 9 151 4 50|.... B'lUer 8 50] 1 42| 8 32 2 201 7 SW | i4MHV, nvil •I 8 501.... 2 l&la.ml I PltUburg,B&O. p. m|p. ml.. NOTE —Train No. ] starts from Exposi tion Park at 5:45 a.m. Mondays only. No. 2 runs to Exposition Park .Saturdays only. Trains 15 and 16 will run Sunday only between Bullur and Exposition Park,mak ing all stops Lv Butler at 7:30 a.m. Re turning leave Exposition Park 6 p.m. J. T. BI.AI It. General Manager, Greenville, pa W.G. SARGKANT. G. P. A.. MeadvlUe. Pa HUNDREDS of papers in different styles, for correspondence. Box pa per, tablets ai-d envelopes to match Paper by the pound or ream. AT DOUGLASS' Near P. O 241 S. Main St BUTLER, PA ■ i h \ M!v , 1 ■ , 11 1 4 HE Mi itfCr.' . • ••ll "V) » ret. lor *«. j . . lirTLKR. PA., THURSDAY, OC 1 O HER 22. 1890. (Copyright, 1596 by American PRTJAA AJWOCIA tIon.] CHAPTER XXVTL Bouton expected to meet with a fieroe opposition before entering the valley, and he knew if he was not opposed it would be on account of the prisoners. As the Prophet had told his companions the prisoners were Bonton's strong point —stronger than his allies. One of the gang proposed that they should give three cheers when they emerged from the canyon into the valley, but no re sponse was given; the bravest felt an awe he could not define and a sense of weakness in striking contrast with the recent vaunting. The cavalcade rode down to the lake and went into camp on the shore. The horses were staked in such grass as they had never cropped before, and they rolled and ate with a sense of enjoyment in striking contrast with the feelings of their masters. Fires were lit and the led glow flashed out on the hike, turning it to blood and frightening the wild fowl sleeping in the sedges. Bouton affected a greater flow of spirits than usual. When the evening meal was over, he went from fire to fire, cheering the men and assur ing them that if they continued to do as they had done a fortune such as would exceed the dreams of the most ambitious awaited every man in the party. "What are your people going to do with the captain?" asked Alice Blanch ard of Bouton. "Going to try him, miss. " "What are they going to try him for?" "Forshooting down their friends and killing one of them when we were in the pass yesterday.'' "What right have they to try him?" "Maybe they have no right in West Virginia, but out in these mountains no "Going to try him, miss." man ever saw a right that didn't have the backing of power. What would all your law be if there was no power to enforce it?" He saw that he had uncon sciously evolved a strong argument, and he felt rather proud of it as he looked into the beautiful pain lined face for an answer. "If your people find the captain guil ty, as they are sure to do, what then?" asked Alice. "Then he must die," said Bouton grimly as he turned to rejoin his com panions. Alice burst into tears. "Do not cry, Alice. Do not give way, my child. We have all done what we thought was for the best," said the cap tain. And he made a movement as if he would lay his kindly hand on her head, but the cords cut into his wrists and re minded him that he was bound. "But," she sobbed, "they will take you away and kill you." "They will take me away and go through the farce of a trial, not to elicit truth, for that is a thing they know nothing about, but to afford amusement or satisfaction to the red handed gang. I do not fear the result because I do not and never have feared death.'' "From my earliest recollection I have heard of Captain Brandon," said Nora, who was also weeping, "but until he was captured I never saw him. He has been not only my hero, but an idol of my father and mother, who never set eyes upon him. If I could save him by dying, I would gladly do it" "I am sure of that, my child," said the captain. "But in our dire distress we should not lose sight of the fact that these men cannot—certainly not in this place—have their own unobstructed way. Tho Prophet is here, and he is a host. Louis Kyle is here with the herd ers ; besides Howard Blanchard is here with the immigrants, and Henry Kyle, like an angel, is watching from the cliffs and tho God of the just is watch ing over all. The outlaws are not as strong as they were. The Indians under Black Eagle have refused to accompany their white allies, or rather their white masters, into this valley, which to their people has ever been held sacred as the dwelling place on earth of the Great Spirit Let us therefore have patience. Wo still live, and the end of our efforts and hope is not yet in sight" The girls felt the better for the cap tain's brave, strong words, and they were about to assure him of the fact when two rough men came from the largest fire and stood before them. "We've come for Captain Brandon," said one of the men. "I am here," replied the captain. "Got up and come along with us," •aid the men, beckoning to the captain to rise. "I cannot walk. See, my feet like my hands, are bound," replied the cap tain. Tho man drew his knife and with a dexterous slash out the rope that bound the captain's feet, and was in tho act ot inning him roughly by the arm wht# the captain bounded up and said, "I am ready!" "Waal, stall In har atween us. We're sheriffs,'' said the man who had so far kept silence. The captain obeyed, and one of the men uttered the word "March!" when and Nora came before the captain and with loud sobs threw their arms about him and kissed his wounded faoe. Tho darkness prevented their seeing that his one eyo was filled with toars and that his bronzed cheeks were wet The captain was conducted to the largest fire, about which all the outlaws had assembled, to witness if not to partici pate in this sickening burlesque on jus tice. He was placed on the ground in a position where all could see him, and the men who had been chatting and swearing at once became silent. Bouton rose to his feet and after some forced coughing delivered himself as follows: "Boys, Captain Brandon has always been down on our crowd, and if we were as bad as he thinks we are, instead of giving him a trial, as wo intend doing, wo'd kill him on sight" He was interrupted by Fairplay, who had rejoined the party nrlhqf -were en tering the canyon, wtpfe. "That's so Boutoik talkin sense now. Why, ekJn, wuss enemy than allien troop* and law oddicers from here to 1m And I'm for finiahin the job aqrfeiore palaver!" Another storm of applause followed Me of Sim Bliss. Thin, beardless riul weak looking, Sim Bliss formed a striking contrast to the hardy ruffians about him. But the contrast was only physical. In thought and feeling he was quite in sympathy with theee despera does, and with more strength and cour age he might have been a leader. But he soon proved that he had a quality more admirable than any of them pos sessed and a power that made the stron gest feel like an infant before him. Sim Bliss waa fairly educated and well up in all legal forms and legal tricks, for law has its tricks as well as vice. He was a ready speaker, and he used words that were beyond the comprehension of his rude auditors, which was a strong point in his favor. After recounting Captain Brandon's crimes Sim Bliss proposed that Bouton should act as presiding officer of the court and that all the men present should oonsider themselves jurors in the case he was about to call up. In all this there was not even the semblance of legal method, but as he was the only man present aware of the incongruity the forms were accepted with due so lemnity. The fact that some of the jurors were called as witnesses struck no one as be ing at all out of order—indeed, nothing that Sim Bliss could have done or sug gested would have been thought irregu lar. He was a lawyer, and they reasoned, as other men do about doct. rs, that h< should know everything pertaining to his own calling. Sim Bliss had been duly posted by Bouton as to the captain's offenses against the gang, and as there were witnesses ready to prove anything that might be charged, there was no trouble in sustaining all that was asserted. "Before asking you, gentlemen and friends,'' said Sim Bliss, after conclud ing the farce of taking testimony, "whether the prisoner at the bar is guilty or n< guilty, I think it would be only righ' to ask the prisoner at the bar if he has anything to say in his own defense.'' Sim turned to the cap tain and nodded to show that he was at liberty to speak if he so desired. "I have nothing to say," replied the captain. "I have no favor to ask.'' "That being the case," interposed Bouton, wit!i a smile of malignant tri umph on his olive face, "I'll ask the boys if they think Brandon guilty or not guilty?" He rose and looked at the men, and the men with one accord sprang to their feet and shouted: "He is guilty!" "What shall we do with him?" asked Bouton. "Hang him!" was the response. "Don't you think we had better shoot him?" suggested Bouton. "That'll give every fellow a chance to get in a little work." "Yes. Shoot him I" they answered, and more than one hand was reached back to the revolver stock. "When?" "Now!" came the thundering re sponse, and the men crowded forward. "I think," said Sim Bliss, "that to execute him now would be a little ir regular. It is customary to give the con demned an opportunity to make their peace." "Then we'll give him till sun up!" shouted Fairplay. This suggestion was acted upon, and the condemned man was at once placed under a special guard. CHAPTER XXVIH The Prophet did not seem more ex eited than usual. He was always in tensely in earnest, but not more so now than was his habit After the evening meal was over he replenished the Area jn the altar, and tolling the people to withdraw to the chamber in which was the fountain he knelt down and so re mained some minutes with his head Sowed down and his hands clasped. He uttered not a word, but to God, whom he worshiped, his prayers were loudar than the musical thnnder of all the earth's organs. He rose hastily, and going to where the people were gathered waiting by the light of the torches he said to Howard Blanchard: "I am going to leave." ' 'Going to leave us,'' exclaimed the people in a gasp of agony and surprise. "Yes; it is necessary that I should leave, and I ask Howard Blanchard to take charge during my absenoe. Are you all willing?" The men and women coughed and nodded, and Howard Blanchard fidget ed with his belt and appeared 111 at ease. "Let the women and children stay in this place. Until I return they must not renture nearer to the entrance. Do you understood, Howard Blanchard?" "I do and shall carry it out," replied the spirited young man. The Prophet raised his cap reverently and gazed up as if his blue eyes were piercing the roof and looking through til obstacles to the source of all power, rhen he covered his head, threw his rifle into the hollow of his left arm and Itrode down to the Stygian labyrinths of the cave. In a few moments he was in the home of eternal darkness, yet with out increasing his speed he kept on, avoiding every obstacle and turning ev ery angle with as much certainty as if the midday sun shone full on his path way. Gradually the hoarse, solemn roar of the subterranean waterfall broke on his ear, and a faint glow, like the specter of a dying light, fell on the dense shadows In front, making them all the darker for the contrast. The man in charge of his herders had orders to appear at the falls with a torch whenever there was danger in the outer world, so the Prophet expected this. But he was not prepared to sec the light of half a dozen torches and as many torch bearers be hind the falls. As was his habit, he un covered and stood behind the glowing illuminated curtain of water, till the torch bearers one by one came out and stood before him. "Why are you all here?" he asked. "Because our herds have been seized and we have been driven away," said the man who, it will be remembered, met the Prophet at the same point on a previous occasion. "Who wan the foe?" asked the Prophet. "Black Eagle and his friends, " re plied the man. "Black Eagle! Ah, I knew he would not dare enter the valley sacred to the Great Spirit. So ho wants to show his white allies that he is still working for them by attacking me away from the place he dreads. Let it be so. " The Prophet wav >d his arm, and the tore! bearers, forming in single file, with their flambeaus held high over their heads, preceded him through the gal leries and chambers of the cavern that led to the upper world. The fires ouraing in Bouton's camp »erved the Prophet for a guide, but he was so familiar with every inequality of the ground that he could have made the journey blindfolded. He had not gone half the distance, and had reached a point from which he could see the dark figures of the outlaws between the Ires and himself, and he was in the act of sitting down with the intention of re maining there till daylight, when he heard the low murmur of voices near by. The murmur came gradually nearer un til he could catch the words and recog nize in the speakers Henry Kyle and Kushat. "Rest," said the Sioux girL "You must be weary." "I can never feel weary nor rest again, but you are wearing yourself out, Kushat. Leave me, for the end is Hear ing. Leave me before it comes,'' said Henry Kyle. "Leave you?" she exclaimed. "Ismy love a thing that grows weary with my body? Shall I leave you now when you most need companionship? Oh, Henry Kyle, you know not the heart of Kush at!" "I cannot explain, Kushat, but I feel as if all my past life were drifting back as the stormclouds drift before the tunny wind or the darkness and mist roll away before the light. The end I speak of is the time when by one act I ihall make to God and man full repara tion for the evil I have done and the ■uffering I have brought to others.'' "It is the voice of human love that ■peaks,'' said the Prophet, rising and going toward them. "Next to tho love for a race which only God can feel is the love which a woman gives to the idol of her physical affection." "Is that the Prophet?" asked Henry Kyle, and the click of his rifle lock told that he was ready to attack or resist "I am so called by men. Happy shall I be if I have won, when my work is done, the name of faithful servant" replied the Prophet, and he went over and stood before Henry Kyle. "What news from the valley? What of my father and mother?'' asked Henry. The Prophet told him of everything that had transpired since he last saw him and of the condition of affairs in the valley, adding in conclusion: "When this trouble began on the Blue Water, I dispatched a trusty rue* lenger to Fort Keogh for aid. If he has He recognized the speaker. gone through, it should be here tomor row, when we can capture or destroy Bouton's people." "I fear that the messenger you sent to Fort Keogh has fallen, " said Henry Kyle, adding with a sigh, "but come what may I shall remain here and guard this point" "Very welL This point being guard ed, duty calls me to another. We shall meet when the sun is up.'' As silently as he had come the Prophet disappeared, and Henry Kyle and Kushat took their watch on the summit of one of the loftiest crags that sommanded the campfires of the out laws. Though both should have been weary, they did not sleep, but sat side by aide talking in whispers until day light began to flush the east. Seating himself behind a rook, Henry Kyle opened his ammunition pouch to be ready for the work of destruction he had marked out Great was his horror to find that the cartridges prepared for his repeating rifle were expended or lost. Only one was left, which, with two in the chamber of the gun, consti tuted all the ammunition he had de pended on. "But you have your pistols," said Kushat. ' 'They are loaded.'' "True, but to make them effective I must get nearer. Will you follow me? Mark you, Kushat, I would rather that you remain back." "I will follow you even to the tents of death and through them," she re- Slied, with her red hands on his shoul ere. It seemed impossible, looking up from the valley, to enter by any other than the route already mentioned, but Henry Kyle would not waste time in going to the canyon, the nearest regular avenue. While he and Kushat were climbing down the giddy cliffs, with as much se curity as mountain sheep, a scene of ittrring activity was being enacted in the valley. The IUD was not yet up when Bou ton's men, more thirsty for blood than jven the night before, demanded that Captain Brandon should be led out and ihot Bouton was more than willing to oblige them. He went over to where the saptain was sitting on the ground, and with the expression of a demon in his fellow eyes he said: "I owe you one, Captain Brandon. The time has come when I can pay you back with interest." Bouton motioned to one of the guards, who unbound the captain's feet and bade him rise. The captain obeyed without assist ance and looked up from the place where the men were drawn up with their rifles to the entrance of the cave and then to the cliffs and sky, but in no place did bis eye rest on anything that promised hope. "Are you ready?" Mfa£'Bouton. The captain made no reply; but, drawing himself up, he took position between the two armed men who had been guarding him. "Move on!" commanded Bouton. They led the captain to the edge of the cliff. As he went on he could hear behind him the heartbroken cries of Alice and Nora, and once he turned his eyes to look back at them. "Do you want to bo blindfolded?" asked Fairplay, who seemed to bo in command of the riflemen. "No," replied the captain. "I have never feared to look death in the face.' 1 "My men," said Bouton, advancing with his rifle in hand to the front, "I demand the first shot." He raised his weapon, but at that in stant a shot rang out from the cliffs and Bouton tottered and fell. CHAPTER XXIX As Bouton fell the rifle he was about to aim at Captain Brandon dropped from his hand, and he wheeled about us if on a pivot and so faced his astonished men. All heard the shot, but they did not know what to make of it. There was no foo in sight, and they were on the point of concluding that it was an accidental shot from one of their own rifles when they heard yells coming down from the cliffs, and looking up they saw Black Eagle motioning wildly at something still lower down. The astounded outlaws forgot for the moment the man they were about to ex -1 and scattered to get a better view of the source of danger. While they were watching Black Eagle and his In dians, Henry Kyle, whose unerring rifle had stretched Bouton on the earth, nev er to rise again, dropped into the valley, with Kushat beside him, and before the outlaws could realize what luid happen ed they threw themselves before the captain, and, both having pistols, open ed fire. Fr *'rplay was the first to recover his presc.u f . ''id. and shouting to his companions lu . I' w him he fired at the young hero - « firL In a few seconds a volley was pw-.J at the devouted pair, and they fell across the captain, completely covering him. That was Fairplay's last order. Before the men could retreat the wall of the valley directly in their front seemed to open, and from it a band of men swarmed out, with the Prophet at their head and Howard Blanchard and Louis Kyle close behind. The Prophet shouted: "For God and justice! Charge!" A cheer was the answer, and the im migrants ai'd herders threw themselves with irresistible force on the outlaws. Utterly demoralized, though they out numbered tveir assailants' four to one, they fled precipitously through the can yon by which they had entered the val ley. Here Font Robb succeeded in halting them, when suddenly a cry went up from the outlaws: "Troops, Robb, troops! Let us re treat or we shall be lost!" A bugle rang out clear and loud above the roar of the conflict Neither friend nor foe was long in doubt Out from the black rift the blue clad horsemen swarmed, and as they entered the val ley they drew their sabers and formed in line till the sun flashed on CO uplifted blades. The officer in command hesitat ed. Though he saw that a fight was go ing on, he could not toll friend from foe. Seeing his perplexity, the Prophet ran toward the young officer, whom he had not seen before, and shouted: "Yonder are the invaders and oat laws. Charge them, in God's name, and smite them hip and thigh till the power of Belial be broken!" Still Captain Duncan deliberated, and it is doubtful if he would have gone into the action had not Black Eagle and his warriors opened fire from the cliffs, a fact that encouraged the fugitives to make a stand. Riding quietly to the front of the line, the handsome young officer in com mand called out calmly: "Attention!" In an instant the men sat straight in their saddles, grasped the bridle reins In their left hands, and, with their saber hilts resting against their right hips, they gazed fixedly at an imaginary line 50 feet in front Even the jaded horses pricked up their ears in anticipation of the next order. "Forward, trot!" The line moved forward to the music of jingling spurs and clattering scabbards. The next instant the thrilling notes of the "Charge" rang out From each man's hip a blade flashed high in the air, and from each rider's lips burst the cavalry cheer: "Charge! Charge!" "We surrender! Wo surrender!" shouted the outk.-.vs aearers had set him down agnin. "The rifles were raised to destroy me, and I looked into the black muzzles with a feeling that they were the last things on which my earthly eyes would rest, but, like a guardian angel, he drop ped down from the sky and saved me," sobbed the iptain. The Prophet laid his hand on the cap tain's broad shoulder and locked into his blood stained face with an expression of unutterable questioning and tender ness. "Let us wait. It maybe better to say no more—better that the dead past should bury its dead. " "No, no, Captain Brandon; this must not be. Break the seals which the an- L?els of charity and silence have BO long placed on your lips—break them, or 1 will," said the Prophet with great ear nestness. "If the silence is to be broken I will do it But we mnst now consider the course that would bring the greatest happiness. Am I not right?" The two friends walked across the valley, and on the way they passed the bodies of a number of dead outlaws with their ghastly faces upturned to the ■un. Among them was Fairplay, his bronzed hands still clutching his rifle. As they were neariug the cave Captain Duncan met them and greeted Captain Brandon with a warmth that showed they were valued friends. There is a man over here, a prisoner, who wants to speak to one of you gentlemen," said Captain Duncan. "Who is he?" asked the Prophet "I believes he calls himself Font Robb, but I recognize in him a criminal who is wanted by the governors of half a dozen states and territories," replied Captain Duncan. They went over to where the prison ers were seated on the ground, guarded by a number of cavalrymen. "See har, gents,"said Font Robb, rising and touching his cap, "I've got a favor to ask, and I'll say it's the one I'd do for either of you if you was in the same flx I am'' "What is that?" asked the Prophet, who was now in a mood to grant any reasonable favor, even to an outlaw and an enemy. "Don't let the sojers carry me off," said Font Robb. "Carry you off?" "Yes, tote mo away from har." "What would you have me do?" 'Why, I'd have you gents take the law in your own hands. You're the par ties as I've gone for last, and you oughtn't to let the military interfere. You'd ought to make it your own fun'ral and prepare the corpse accordin to taste." "I must say I do not understand you,'' said the Prophet "Waal, I ain't much on the chinnin, that's a fact. But har's the pint: Why can't you and Captain Brandon take me right out and shoot me? If you don't want to take a whack at me, mebbo Louis Kyle would The fact is I don't want to be took off and tried where I'm pretty sure of bein strung up. Thi« is the favor, gents, and I'd be forever obliged if you was to grant it," said Pont Robb again, touching his cap "We have not the power to grant your request," said the Prophet, "and we would not if we could Life to us is eacred Live while yo-i can and prepare to meet the God whom you have offend *llCßWEOFlß92. It Is Grinding Men Down to Poverty and Want. PEOPLE PROSPEROUS ONOE. But the Demogogue Got Loose Then as He Is Now, TAKEN UP OK A MOUNTAIN. Wlien the McKinley "Protective Tariff" Was Voted Down In the Vail of 1893, the Greatest Crime of Oar Nation's History Wat Committed—lt Stopped Onr Na tional Progress and Took the Dally Hread from Thousands of American Working uien. We remember hearing a story of one of the rigidly orthodox preachers who devoted twelve Sundays to a aeries of ser mons on "The Sins of the Babylonians." He was not unlike the people who are now much exercised about "the crime of 1878," while they forget entirely the greater crime of 1892. If there was a crime com mitted in 1878, It la twenty-three years old, and the statute of limitations bars proceedings. More than that, It Is a question not yet settled whether any crime was oommitted In 1878; but If It was, the extent of Injury Is so variously estimated that It partakes of the nature of Injury done by the sins of the Babylonians, and ought to be rele gated to the Investigator* of prehistoric remains who are digging In the works of the mound builders. The crime of 1878 is not hurting anybody now, but the orlme of 1892 is grinding men down to poverty and want, and lining our pubHc roads with a procession of tramps. That Is a crime worth investigating and worth the best efforts of the voters to oorrect It. The country was prosperous and Its peo ple happy In 1898. The people could not live without work, but they had work at remunerative wages, and were prospering. But the demagogue got loose among them. He told them they were poor, and that they would have been rich if the crime of 1873 had not been committed. He made the farmers believe that, Instead of being the most prosperous people in the world, they wera the poorest. He took them In the spirit Into high mountains and showed them the "gems from the mountain, the pearls from the ocean, the myrrh from ths forest and the gold of the mines," and said they should have all these tumbled into their laps If they would elect him to con gress and Cleveland to the presidency. That Infernal lie was the Inducement which led the poor dupes of free trade— the simple little ostriches —to stlok their heads into tho sand. When the McKinley protective tariff was voted down in the fall of 1893 the greatest crime of our nation's history was oommitted We stopped our national progress. We took from our own people, by the millions, their dally bread. We ceased to employ our own people, to manu facture or otherwise produce what we needed for home consumption, and we employed men in England, France, Ger many and Italy to do that work, and paid our money to men beyond the seas, In stead of giving it to our own neighbors and countrymen. We thus brought want and misery to our own people. That crime is what we are now dealing with. That is the whole point there Is In the political campaign now in progress. We want to undo the orlme of 1893, and punish the perpetrators of It That is what this election Is about and nothlrg else. MeadvlUe Trlbusa-Republican No. 42 VOTE FOR STURTEVANT. Making • Splendid Fight Afilnil Slblfjf In Erie and Crawford. The Kepublican candidate for congress for the Erie-Crawford district is n man of whom not one word has u?r n said, nor can be said, against his character as an honest man. He Is a man of the people and for the people, and a man whom the people will cast their votes for on the 3d of November. He has made a clean can vass and won for himself the respect and confidence of every voter with whom he has come in contact He has used no argu ments of the bombastic order, nor has he rosorted to the low and contemptible style or oratory —trying to make the people be lieve that the classes are against the masses. Mr. Sturtevant tells the voters that) "there are no classes. We are all one com mon people. All working for the greatest number." How different on the other "Ido of the house—trying to create strife and discontentment among neighbors, telling them to repudiate their honest debts, hold ing before their eyes visions of free silver and untold wealth, visions of luxury, ease and Idleness. The word "free"'is illuminate ; hall the colors of the rainbjw; t..0 word "free" Is emphasized on every oc : :i to allure the voters to their ruin. Mr. Sturtevant tell the votors to read, post themselves, look up the recor '