VOL- xxxvi pAMs pOOTWeAR Our entire fall stock of BOOTS, SHOES and RUBBER ;:oods are all in. We bought early and gave large orders there by enabling us to offer you the best of solid footwear at away down prices. No advance in price of leather goods, and felt goods cheaper than last season. We have au extremly large stock to select from. LEATHER GOODS. Men's kip do-.ible sole and tap box toe boots f 2 5° Hoy's " " " " " boots i -5o Men's high cut box toe shoes *• ' -75 Hoy's high cut double sole and tap shoes 1 -75 Youth's " " " " " " " '-S 0 Women's liest kangaroo calf shoes 1 2 5 Women's best oil grain shoes ' 2 5 Misses' l>est kangaroo calf shoes ' 4 ,'hildren's best k:mgaroo calf shoes ' 5 Children's fine dongo'a slioes I RUBBER LIST."' Mali's Storui Kim? ruMx r 1k»01 13.75 Women's rf*gnl:&i liHijlit rul»l»cr rj Mfn'H p»*tral;ir hHght ruMM?r lioot* M«*n's burklo ar't i<*- ; lioy's n-'-'ulnr t**i£lit ruMn-i' '** nts I.'** tjin*kli* ar.'tii's * » Youth's regular rubber boots 1.35 La<U(h' Mbte'-s' JiiniriiHilron ruM*r> -• FELT GOODS.^ Men's best white f«lt bantu A snae over-. .Men's On-y f.-lt ami sernnd overs ?I..Vt Hoy's Ist (trade overs 1-Ki Boy's " 1 Youth's 1« " 1.10 Youth's ' " S 'S.. S9ROSIS SHOES "'ST' In all the latest styles for fall wear. Full stock ol the A E. Nettle ton fine shoes for men. Ladies' aid Gents felt shoes and varm lined shoes and slippers. Visitors to ths Butler County Fair, ws welcome you to our store Make this your headquarters during your stay in LJutlcr. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - HUTLER, PA. ( j; | : I ) ' That the dread house cleaning is ovu the next A 1 { ~ f and more important work is picking a new carpet A To pick a carpet in our well stocked carpet rooms Q I is a pleasure, so say the many who have done so. Q 1 We liave the famous Hartford Axminister, Wilton X Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels and Ingrains Jf in a" the up-to-date patterns, only, and prices Y tlia' will astonish you. Then our China Mattings, V I Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and jr Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to '# < see our 5 ' SI.OO Axminister Rugs, || ] Neatest tiling for the money ever shown in Butler at 'r DUFFy'S STORE 11 m E: in . ~, | i .IT .J* |j Won't buy clothing for the ptirpo.4c of spewl- I i| ing momy. They desire to get the bjest .1 / ] Vti Hl*. possible results for the money expended. ' I V W 1 Notchcnp j;oods but good.-, us cheap .is can I 1 \* \ be sold and made up projierly. ' Call and j| M *V| M examine mv large dock ot jl KsS* SPRING SUITINGS. IjV Yv y f_J 1 «tight lip to date, tin- latest styles, shade*. 1V N aH and colors that could In- bought. Call and U, l\ 1 examine them. n n Rtsan d Workmanship U I ' I Guaranteed. G. F? K6CK, : 142 North Main Street, Butler, Pa PAPES, JEWELERS. Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelery, Silverware, Spectacles etc. We have a large and well selected stock. We Repair ail Kinds of Watches. If you have broken jewelery that you think l.eyond repairs Iniivj it to us and we will make it ;IM ;;ood as new We take old gold and silver tin- same as cash allowing the highest market price. 122 S. Mair. H., J'utkr, 1' ELKO PAINT! Ready for use is the best paint on the market SENOUR FLOOR PAINT stands second to none, fully guaranteed. Full Line of WALL PAPER for this fall; prices lower than ever. Picture and Mirror Framcing a Specialty. Room Mouldings, Stationery, Paints, Oils and Varnishos. Contract Painting & Paper hanging Patterson Bros., 236 North Wain Street. Butler, Pa. Wick Building. Peoples' Phone 400 A DIAMOND FOR A DOLLAR, L C. WICK, Limited Special Offer Which I)kaukr in Will Last for Ten Days Only OKNIIINK HAUKIOH IHAMoNIW liuve a n , ... ill l w..rld-»lil<- r. |.ui;iil -i, It. W almost liii|...s- Uniirih * W0 PK P(l il 111 H(! f klt.lr to .IUIIIIKIII .li lliim from until'- illii- llUUyil W»UI RCU UUIIIIJOI mnmis huiiclri'ilt of dollars i-ai-h. Tlu-y are worn by tim bo«t piopli-. We will for ward a IOMIIXK iUititios IIIAMOMI Al,l * KIJ,MS . Ij r .V 1 i'''.'.Vr.■ v 'iV.'r-V-■.V.f Doors, Sash, Minds, Mouldings, K'trrlnßH, srrewaororoiH, 42 liar l>alr liinx , wt tlii|(» an- iniuJe of one coiilliiuout ulmi of rMlllltjleS atld I^atll llili-k. Nhelletl Kolit, ami ar>- warranted not to , , ■ c. i tirntkh. Hpeetal romliliiallon offer for tin V.lways ill iltock. daysonly! Itlim ami *tud nerit u» any ad dn-'-S U|HMI r«-r<l|it of § I ..>ll. In onli ilnn rlii -■ _. .. .. . ... . ..a. ... . EI'E n Klvi- fln«.r 1111-iiHiir.ni. M T.y IMIIHT a LIT." |- ol |JME, tl \IR AM) IM.ASTI'.R .itrintr illw full p ij-1 t« nlarH. A<!<lr« sn plaL'ily TIIK HARICIOX I'lAMuNli i'O Office opiK>sitc P. & W. J)ctKit. lIHI-lIH3 llroiiflway. 11 1 Si vi York. BUTLER. PA. ~ THE BUTLER CITIZEN. NONE SO POPULAR. It is Dai'y Gaining Favor ii Pennsylvania Results Reported From People Who Have Given a Fair Trial to the Remedy. Morrow's Kiil-at-oids, the scientific i kiilney remedy and backache cure, is j j daily gaining favor in this state. No ■ medicine has cvtr l>een sold in Pennsyl vania for Kidney ailments, backache, I nervousness, sleepleness ami general de bility that hasgained sucli popular favor j as Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. We give you the experience of Mrs. E W. Fulkerson. 30 Ktnn street, New Castle, Pa., says:—"About four years ago I commenced to have a dull heavy pain in my back just over the kidneys, and at times it would be a sharp shooting pain. ; I was so nervous I could not get the proper rest and sleep. Morrow's Kid-ne oids were recommended to relieve me so I decided to try them. In a very short time they relieved me of all the trouble some symptoms. I find Morrow's Liver lax to be au excellent remedy for con stipation." Morrow's Kid-ne-oitla are not pills, but i Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents ;i box at all drng stores and at Redick & Grohman's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac- j tu.e<t by John Morrow «fc Co., Chemists, | Springfield, Ohio. Buier Savings Bank I/id tier, Pei. Capiial - f6r<,oix>.(*j Surplus and Profits - - $ 170,000.00 JOS. 1. PURVIS I'rfcfiiin 1 .1. 11KNRV 7ROUTMAN .Vice-President U M. CAMPBKM., .Ir i'ul liitr LOU 13 15. STEIN J' :!«-r IMKEtTOKS—J"»eph L. I urvts, .1. l.'ei.r, Troi'.tman. W. I>. Branitou. W. Stein. J i l '. <'jl'lUb»-11. Tlie Butler Savnizs Bunk is the Oldest H.-IIIKIIIK I nstitutioi.f 11 liutler t'ounty. Oeneral banking business transaeti d. We Milli-lt ai-counts of ~il producers, lui r eluints. farmers and ot hers. All b.islnrss entrusn d to us will receive prompt attention. Interest, paid on tlim* deposits. TH EC Butler County National Bank, 13 utle r Peon, Capital paid in - - fi jo,rx*».f)o Surplus and Profits - Jos. Ilartman, J Preside fit; J. V. KitLs, Vice President; C. A. Bailey. Cashier; John i>. McMarlin, Ass't Cashier. / neneral banklnff business t ran«>:iet.ed. Interest |iuid on time deposits. Money loaned on approved seenrlty. We invite you to open an aci'ount with this bank. HlliWT JUS —lion. Josi-ph Ilartman, Hon. W. s. Waldron, I»r. M. Hoov« r. 11. Sle- S»i I'iii-y. E. P. Abrams, I*. Collins I. O j'inlth. 1.1-slle I*. llH7.lett. M. I'im tr iri. W. 11. f.arliin. Harry lleasley. Dr. W. 1:. Mrt'ainliess. Ui-n tlassntb. I V. KIM ► Braun's Pharmacy. Cor. 6th St. and Duquesne Way, Pittsburg, l'a,, L, D. Telephone 2542. Wholesale and Retail. Importer and Jobbcrof 1 "hi niical.s, l'crfunics, Soaps, l'nusiics, Jilt The lion >c wc.'>t of New York carrying a ftili line <>l Meyers' Grease, Paints an<l theatrical <joods. Physicians' PreGcriptions Compouiuled Day or Night by "Registered Pharmacists" only. Wholesale and retail dealer in Lubricating and Illuminating Oils, Capital Cylinder, Dynamo, Water White and Standard Gas Kngine Oils, Gasolein, 15en zinc, I'aradfine Wax and Petrolatum. Address all mail orders to W. F. Braun. Rare Bargains! We want to ilis]»ose of our present stock of 'gy models, and in order to do it quickly have cut the prices from S3O, #35 and S4O to 122.511 n1,, l These are strictly high grade and up-to-date bicycles, and can't be niatcheil lor price and quality. Oon't miss this omiortuni ty to procure a good wheel tor little money. We sell sundries cheaper than and other house in town. WHITE, WALTER & CO., 303 S. Main Street. >N HAIR SWITCH FREE ij\' ON EASY CONDITION*. Jrm i <,'ut thl ««1. out anil mall to u*. fw-mi n ft \ J iii)i&ll wiiiifin <>r yxiir ti(ilr,cuti'loiM't<iUin 1 yr rootM. hKM» NO nilNfcVi v . will m iU<' nint \f \ h.-i,.| yo.i i.v.n.11, p.tpal.l fIN E HUMAN f\if) ftAIR SWITCH. »" (MllliTti, rhort •t« T»i Wk Will IllCloitO VY J J to return It t«i Ifnol |>< rfrrlly «alUf«rlorf. inoMt '»! m iHinry vuhj.- and y<.u w|«h At fl.bU K4UI fiMP.iiK you 1 rrl. fi. ln and \ th. 3 HWltcbtf t-« thnu jUrvi l l.y innJl^ «* jyjjzK pcrfurtl T r aU*fiutt<iry .and (U Ihm ktta 11; Wf% th« •wllrh «••> ■end you frr* for your Iroulik. Vk 1 I /ff Hrilii- I'Uaoa, Orxana, H. «1., K SUrlilnr*. ItMSL lllliwa, t'urnllurr, Witrlm, lllryrloa, nii'l .illir r |ir»aluai for l*lill>K ▲K-.X artlrra fur 4lur H«llr|i<'B. On. Itdjnrnrii • l'l»no In llftr.i, .l«y «, ...,r a Mrwlur flarblu. In U days. Onlrr 11 Hull«'h Hi oner «»r »rlteto-duy for Hil I I'KKMII MUFKKU. Addrrw. Ladles' Hair Emporium, Chicago. H.O.HAYS. L.H.HAYS. PUT YOUR RIG UP AT bros.'l Livery and Sale Stable Best Accommodations in Town. West Jefferson street, Butler, l'a People..' I'houe 109, Bell's I'hone 59. BUTLKR, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTKMBKR 7, l.Si)i> j , J _T' S- te:» 1 IGEOME 3 W, ,sCRIFFIffIi j [ "Eh. mon, yon're no tcllinf? met It's bnrefacedr-t robbery! It's dog eating (Jog—just cannibalism in beesness. That's what it is." "It was true, thontfb. Sanely, s'xvelp mi*: may I never see the glint of a go niva again if it isn't. There was £3,000 worth <>f the klips in poor little Tom- , my's insides, as yon know. The tecs 1 pull me npnsar the border. In the dark Tommy slips ont of the cart, as usual, and make.* for the clump of gums on the other -id- < f the drift withont be ing seen. The tecs find nothing, of coarse, and I drive* on, thinking what i rt of a lawsuit wo shall have this | time against Lipinski and his people, I crosses the drift and pulls np by the trees. I whistles, and Tommy, like a . good, obedient little tyke what knows | his bizness, jumps in and"— "Oh, my, to think you'd got such a )>< antifrri lot so far only to —aweel, go on. Ike, and let's have the rest of it. " "As I says, the dog jumps in, and I drives off again. 'Bout a hundred yards farther on both my horses comes to the ground with a crash, and I goes after them on to my head. When I comes to myself and picks my MI If np. there was half a dozen fellows on horse back round the curt. One jumps down, and before I can so much HS shout be has a cloth over my head and ties me up so tight I can neither see nt.r speak Ti: u he knocks with his knuckles on my head and tells me if I don't want a Imllet in it I'll k< cp quiet and be good. Of course i WHS good as they make 'em. " j "But the dog, mi 11, why didn't he . mak' a bolt for't when he saw there , .was trouble? He's been vera weel trnineii. I'd ti i <-lit In- might 'a' got avra' in the scrimmage. "He didn't have a chance. I hears i him give :i * mothered up yelp and ' wpnal. and from that I knows that ho i is like my 1 .d—in a bag That tells : me tin t they bad tumbled to the lay or that tbeiv wan some one there that knew it. Well, they bundles me and the dog into the cart and drives away somewhere for about half an hour. Then they pull? np, hauls me ont. hus tles me into a house of some sort and takes the bag off my he id. When I looks about me, I wan in a bit of a small loom, and there was four fellows there, all with masks on. " "Kidnapers and midnight robbers— maybe murderers as weel," groaned the Scotchman. "Ike, mon, I'm thinking yon had a narrow escape. That Free State's It :-i:;ht too free if it"> coutim* to , this. It's naethin r better nor a savage land wi'out lav." nor oi : r in't. What did they do till you then v" "They asked me bow many klips I'd ; got and win le they were, and of course ; I says I bav none, and they can search me if they like, and they does—a good bit worse than the tecs did, I can tell you. "f course they finds nothin r, and then they laugh and says if I haven't got them the dog has. So they turns poor Tommy out of the sack, and s'welp me. old pal, 1 doesn't like to tell j you what happened then. I'd educated t that dog perfe t, and I loved the little | fellow, and besides he was worth a lot [ of money with all he knew." Sandy Fiv. i r's little Hebrew accom plice quite broke down here for a mo ment or two, and Sandy himself gave a j sympathetic sniff, for they had both i lost not only n lot of money, but al»o a j guiltless accomplice whom it would be • very hard to replace. "They murdered him, Sandy, right before my eyes in a big tin footbath, and of course they found the klips. Then they offered to sell them back to me for £2,000 and told me they'd have made it £OOO more if they hadn't had to kill the dog." "Eh, sakes, what a murderous price! Blank robbery! Why, they cost us £!J00 straight from the Kaffirs. And yon paid?" "Well, they was worth £II,OOO trade price, and the thieves knew it; so I did. I gave them ii draft on the bank here, and they kept me there till one of them got the cash and brought it back, and then they ties my head up again, puts me into the cart and drives me away with the klips in my pocket. When they took the bag off, it was night, and I wa*i in a little kloof They showed me the way to Freetown and rode off. I got into Freetown by the morning and found Handbeim there wondering if I was dead or gone to the Breakwater for change of air. "Well, 1 told him the story and got £:i,800 out of him for the klips on the strength of it. Then I drives back, brioiking my heart about poor little Tommy and wondering where we shall get another dog like that. That China man's <iog that he fooled Lowenthal so Mveetly with wasn't in it with Tommy." "Nay, that he wasn't, mon. Why, Tommy mnst a' run close on £20,000 worth for us, and might 'a' run £20,000 worth more wi'out a snnpeecion, wi' that woudeifu' stomach of his. But, there, lie's dead and gone, the puir wee martyr, and we'll jnst go and talc' a drink till bis future in the happy hunt ing grounds. But tell me, Ike, lad, did you hae nue notion what ouy of theiii thieving murderers might 'a' been? Home of t hem must a known yon or they'd never 'a' suspected the dog." "They was always masked when I saw any of them, but, Sandy, if I wasn't sure as death that Lipinski and his chaps did for Hetli Salter that night he ran the big parcel and they got it hack, I could swear that tie boss of 'em had just bis Yankee twang, and his liuijd wasn't nnlike, neither," replied Ike, whose F.nglisb was of the oriental order, and whose tenses changed with the variations of his mental tempera ture. "Now, where were we going tot Let sgo to the qneen's tlmt.'s Lipin ski's place. Jjet's see if he's there, and if he's heard anything about this gang over the line." When they entered the barroom they found Mr. Inspector Lipinski not only there, but the central Ilgureof tic some what motley crowd that was wont to foregather there for their evening lime juice, to use a conveniently general term. He was standing, as usual, the most nattily dressed man in (he place, with one elbow resting on the bar counter and a glass hall full of whisky and soda beside him. Opposite to him stood no less a personage than Mr. Michael Mu ratti and there seemed to Is* a discus sion of some little heat going on be tween them. Just as they went in he slapped his glass down on the mahogany and said in a loud, angry tone "Of course you fellows never take any responsibility, unless It's a case of searching private housed and annoying innocent people. Hut what I say is that this Is just as much vorir affair as the Free St ite j-.lice's. Why don't you com- j bine instead of everlastingly bickering ; and letting criminals slip through your fingers? If there's been a robbery on their side of the line tonight, there'll bo one on your side tomorrow or the ' night after. As for saying that thepar- I eel was illicit, that's all rot, and nei- j titer here nor there. Max Sandbeimisa perfectly respectable man. Why, I've done business with him myself scores of times. ' I've no doubt you have, Mr. Murat- j ti. I wish I'd been there at the time," • replied the inspector, with a snap-of • malice in his tone which sent a elinc- ! kling laugh n-mid the crowd and brought j out u red spot Ixtween Mickey's eye brows. Before he had his retort ready Ike pushed his way through the half cir cle about them and said with ill advised anxiety: "Wba-at was that? Wiiat has hap pened to Max Sandheim, and when did it happen ? Was he robbed?" "Aw. the blighted eediot!" murmur ed bis partner, but he didn't shout it . like a stage aside, and so it wasn t in aid. He went to one end of the coun ter and ordered a drink, hoping that no one bad seen him come in with Ike. The inspector pulled himself up I straight and, as he could do on occa sions suddenly assumed an air of au thority which kept even the angry Mickey quiet while he answered: "Ah, Mr. Cohen, gocd even I So you've got buck all safe, but you're a bit anxious about your friend Sand heim. Very natural, of course. Well, I'm snre yon'li lie sorry to hear that a few hours after you left him, say about j 8 o'clock tonight, he was held up on the j road between Freetown and Boshoff by I four armed and masked men and robbed j of a parcel of stones which he valued i at £4,000. I daresay you'll knowubont how near that is to the truth. He rode ; into Boshoff and reported, and we have just had the news here by telegraph, "liy the way, how's that dog of yours?" The crowd noticed unanimously that this was the first time since the story of the diamond dog had become common property in camp that the inspector had mentioned one of its species publicly, and they closed up a little, thinking there was something coming. Mr. Mu ratti, for reasons of his own, paid his apparently exclusive attention to his drink, while Sandy Fraser cursed all Jews and dogs in silence and kept his ears anxiously open. New, I key Cohen, though not a strong man nor yet one of conspicuous pluck, was one of those peculiarly con , stituted individuals, who gain a sort of secondary courage through stress of circumstances, somewhat as runners get their second wind. From what the I '( - I^l] "fipi J "lib' P" 4»' M A; ' /V There mmnt 'l t>> /* c« dc'sciuwcton nf xoine little hail. inspector had said he saw that he knew n goo. l deal more about bis late adven ture "on the other side" than he thought he did. Suspicions are some times as good as knowledge. He stnek his hands deep down into his pockets, looked the inspector squarely in the face and said "11 you want me to sell you a pup, Mr Lipinski, I'll be happy to oblige you I eau't sell yon that one. because It's dead. But 1 think I could tell yo.u the name of the man who ordered it to be killed. Anyhow I guess —you'd —a —recognized —his voice—as I cal kerlate I -did." Ikey didn't,do the Yankee drawl at all badly, and the shot went right home. For the first and the last time in his life Inspector Lipinski lout his self command in public But his start was only momentary, and the (lush that came into his cheeks died out again in an instant. "What do you mean by that, sir?" lie asked in a tone as calm as usual, but with a distinctly threatening ring in it. "Just about what he says, 1 reckon, " drawled Mickey Muratti, who was about as good a mimic as he was a jug gler "If you don't recognize that twang, I do. That was well done, Ikey. hoy. What 11 you take? The next'fl with me." What might have happened after this no one will ever know, for just at that moment one of the inspector's men en tered hurriedly and handed him a note. .Unopened it, glanced at it., crushed it up in bis hand and said "Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but, so far as I'm concerned, this entertainment will have to be postponed. Another man wants to see me very urgently about a dog.'' With this he drank off the remains of his whisky and soda and turned and walked to the door, followed by his offi cial satellite, not a little pleased at such an opportunely good "get out" from a situation which was bidding fair to be come embarrassing. It pleased the fates to draw out the tragedy which thus began with the in human butchery of poor little Tommy into more scenes than could be repro duced here. The present narrative is, however, only concerned with tint last of them, or perhaps it would be mote correct to say the last but one, and that which brought the curtain down. As week after week went by the out rages committed by the mysterious border gang, us the unknown desper adoes who had so suddenly invaded the hitherto comparatively safe frontiers of the Free State and Oriqtinland West very soon came to l>e culled, seemed to increase in number and daring. It was quite a curious situation such a one as the student of human crime had never had the chance of studying before and never may have again It was a sort of three cornered contest between underhand roguery, open violence and the forces which worked for law and order. Tjie old struggle I > tween the police and tli" I D. I! • rdiur.iondsmuggling, fraternity went en r,- I , fi.re, but with an added terror i. r the evildoer, wh if he elud ed the clutches of the law. might the next hour fall into the no more merci ful grasp of the gang. The honest and lawful trader still hated the I. P B. as his worst enemy, but the gang ribbed both with uu impartiality worthy of a more honorable calling. The peliee. naturally, had anything lmt a happy time of it If they devoted an adequate amount of time and force to hunting for the gang—which was never where it was expected or wanted the occupation of the I. P B. became comparatively pleasant and easy, wLile if they did their proper work thorough ly the gang promptly went on the warpath with renewed vigor and ex tended its scope and raked in the plun der with both hands from the honest and dishonest alike. It will be readily understood that no state of affairs con hi possibly be more distasteful ti Mr Inspector Lipinski than th;' Notonly was his professional credit at stake, but men like Mickey Muratti, Ikey Cohen, Sandy Fraser and Alexaudc r Macadam, who he absolutely km w either to lie or to have been in volved in extensive I. D. B. transac tions. bnt who were now getting rich, and therefore men of influence in a town where the faculty of making mon ey anyhow was the only one that "got a man on," were making sarcastic com pariseins between Honnslow Heath 100 years ago and the diamond fields of tie day, and were asking ugly questions altqtit the efficiency, nay, even the in corruptibility, of the police force in general and the detective department in particular. It was this last suspicion that touch- ! ed the puzzled and harassed inspector most keenly. As a practical man he hael no belief in miraculous escapes or the possibility of people being in two j different places at once, and gradually tliu conviction forced itself upon him that the immunity of the gang from i caj ture and its invasion of trap after ! trap that he had laid for it v.itli all the ' skill and cunning at his command could only be due to the connivance of some of j his own men and the Five State police, which he knew to be anything but im maculate. This conviction led him at last to the resolve to risk not only reputation and position, but life itself, in tire attempt to personally break up the gang, or at least to penetrate the mystery which shrouded its doings and shielded it from justice. This resolve once made, it did not take a man of bis character very long to translate it into action. He caused certain information to leak out, as it were, through underground channels which were always at his } service, to the effect that in consequence of strong suspicions that the Diamond mail to Vryburg was going to Im.' held np by the border gang on a certain night when it would be carrying an ex ceptionally valuable consignment of gems the stones would be run the night before, as though they were an illicit parcel, over the border to Freetown and thence conveyed in the usual way to Port Elizabeth instead of Cape Town Tie' Diamond mail of the following day was to take no consignment at all, but was to be accompanied by a double guard. On tbe appointed night the inspector had a score of his best and most trusted iiifcU, armed to the teeth, posted along the border within bail of the point win-re the road to Fre town crosses it. On the other side a detachment of the Free State police was by arrangement with the district chief to be lying in wait ready to act in concert with them and to catch the gang 1» tween the two forces at the mo:nt nt of attack. Wh. n Inspector Lipinski si t ont that nijrbt to take his part in the working out of bis scheme, lie took an even more than usually affectionate leave of bis daughter a pretty, giac-ful giri of be tween 111 and 17. who was the incarna tion of the one romance of bis life, the daughter of the only woman lie had ever looked upon to love and long for and the one rose that ho had saved ont of the paradise that lie had once dwelt in. He Went to his office and changed his uniform for a suit of clothes that he had never been seen in. a sort of semi sporting rig, that he had had up spe cially from CupeTown, put bis favorite Smith Wesson in bis right hand coat pocket, and then started ont. to walk to Beaconsfield. On the way lie overtook his Kaffir groom, leading his be-1 horse lie mounted, saw that the pair of heavy Jh tank miniii mini than unnnlly ctCcc tlnnuli leave nf lil* daughter Colts in the holsters were ready for im mediate use, and then cantered off to ward the Itordcr, which lie had timed himself to reach a little before I in the morning. It bad been arranged that two of bis own men should hail him just before he got to it and tliut then the game was to begin. News bad reached hint that the gang had got wind of the big pared he was supposed to be carrying and had vowed to have; him and it at any price. If his men only did their duty and the Free State police kept faith with him. the new terror of the border would be a thing of the past by morning. Two mounted figure's loomed out of the darkness ahead of him and pulled up on either side of the road A gruff hail came growling down the .viml "Is that yon, Da vies, Mays? All right. 1 suppose the others are ready. Open a bit and let me through, then chase for all you're worth. Yon needn't lie afraid of catching me. " As he said this he touched his horse with the spur, and the easy canter broke into a gallop The two men pulled their animals aside. As he came up the moon broke through a rift in the clouds, and 1 he saw that they were both masked. It was too late to stop. He clucked his ' head and dived for his Smith Wesson, but the next instant a rope of rawhide, 1 stretched taut across the road, passed ' over his horse's head and took him un der the chin. Then came a jerk that nearly broke hit neck, a thud against the bard mud of the road, a mist of r dnjjcing stars before his eyes anil then I darkness Wiien he c-aitic to himself, he was half -itting, half lying in a h.nam ck deck chair in the same little hut in which Ikey Cohen had witnessed the liirvrder of p«ior little Tommy There was a burning taste of raw brandy in his mouth and throat, and his head was aching terribly. He li . k d up and saw a in ;:i with a black clutli liia-k over the upper part of his face sitting astride a wooden chair in front of him, with his arm- across the back, looking at him through the eyeholes of his mask. Even in the first moments of returning con sciousm be seemed to recognizd some thing familiar in him, and the seeming soon ltecame certainty. • • Evening inspector. Coming round a bit? That's right. Been waiting quite a time 1 to have a bit of a chat with yon. Feel up to it now? Have another nin There was n i mistaking the drawling t i:e i t the clip i f the word ends. The ii;-;. ti r i rallying thoughts went ba.-k to that night at Freetown, nearly 1H months ago now, when, fur the sake of per-oital pique and a threatened repu tation. lie had sanctioned -in fact, as sisted in the doing of—a deed of treach ery and violence, the one nnlawfnl and unmanly act of his life, with which the worst of the offenses laid to the charge of the gang wonld compare only too fa vorably. Now he felt instinctively that he was in the presence and at the mercy of the chief of this baud of outlaws, against which he had declarecl war to the death a man who. owed him a grudge that life would hardly pay. Still,, he had ele- j liberately staked his life on this very venture, and he was not the man to take his stakes off the table when the game was going against him. He looked in ! silence at the masked man for a few moments to let his thoughts get into ! something like order. Then he said quietly: "Well, Mr. Salter. 1 confess 1 never expected to see you in the flesh again, but. since you have manifestly resur rected. I don't quite see the {*>int of that mask of yours at least not in pri ' vate life " "Rc snrrected: I!y thunder, sonny, you've hit it in once. Say. did yon evei see anything more like a last year's corpse than me?" H« tore thi> mask from his face as he uttered the last word The inspector st:.. g; rid to his feet and dropped back into the chair with a gasp of amaze m 'lit and a groan of horror mingled in tb • same breath. What had been Seth Salter's not uncomely face was now a one eyed, noseless mass of pits and seams and scars too hideotts to imagine. "Y.ta-\ looka sorter pretty, tat it" Don't seem to think much of it Waal, p'raps not. 'tain't likely; but if yon and your chaps didn't exactly do it. them as yon was kind enough to leave me to ont yonder in the kloof did. Ye>s, sir. that's vultures' work. I'd a bullet of yours through my right ami, one through the chest from one of your slouches, and a crack over the head with a carbine stoi*k that'll 'a' knocked the grnej outer >■ me people's skulls, so, you see, I hadn't much chance again' the critturs. But I thought I'd tight to u finish, and I should 'a' gone if a Capo lad hadn't come through the kloof before I was all gone and toted what was left of me to his hut and fetched an old Kaffir med icine man to patch me up. "No, you needn't trouble to make any remarks. You're weak yot. and I'm on deck jnst now Tt'U make things shorter and pleasanter if yon jnst make yourself comfortable and hear me out. I shan't worry you with what happened to me jnst. after 1 got l>et ter. and I'd one eye and a month left, as yon see, and the eye had to look around for something to put in the month. "Waal, after considerable tips and downs, I met your Lootenant Mays way down in Natal. I told him who I was or had l>ee ii for you can Itet he fldn't recognize me—and we put our heads together and worked out this border gang scheme. I found the requisite hard cases for the actual work, and he got round your chaps or kept 'em off the scent, as the case might be. The game- worked' like an angelic picnic. We robbed thieves, and the thieves daren't split. Then, as the organization got better, we exteuded things, and by about three months ago we'd half yotjr chaps and nearly all the MIOJIS on this side in i»ir pay. "Waal, we've made Urns of money, and we're jnst thinking aliont retiring into respectable society; bnt. Mr Li pinski, there's just two things I want to do Itefore I do that." "And those are—revenge on me, and what else, may 1 ask?" 'JfJness you're nervy, little man, and yon may ask. Yaas, one of 'em's to square np things with you and the other is to clean ont the mail when it takes that big consignment that ycai trieel to fool ns over tonight on board, which, I take it, 'll Ist the day after to , morrow, or, I should say, today, for it's morning now. We've got you, anil all the guard bill two ate chipping in with us, so that's as good as done "And may I ask again what you ip tend to do in the way of squaring things up with me? Something with vultures in it, I suppose. 1 can't growl under the circumstances, though, for the sake of my own conscience, I'd like to tell you that we honestly thought you vA-ro dead before we left you. I can't think bow you stood all we gave you. What a thousand pities yon didn't give the i|nietly!" "I guess it is for you Why didn't you let me keep 'cniyiifter I'd played the game and run fair and honor able? But that's nowhere. If 1 didn't think yon a white man mid grit all through, I wouldn't give you a chance. ! I'd have your living twines, so to speak, picked clean by tomorrow night, as I mighty near had mine. Hut I ItelleVe you did think me dead, and so I'll give yon a square show. But I'm going to < give you half all honr's hailesfirst, just to even tilings up for what I had when < I was fighting them vultures " "And that?" "I'm going to make you play me Chicago, best 7 games out of l!t If I ! win, I shall plug you fatally and go 1 and clean the mail out. you win, I'll 1 give you back your shooter and Itack I my one eye again' yonr two at shooting 1 on the drop I'll set the alarum of that ' clock to go off two minutes after we've ' taken our places Then, when It goes. ' we'll go one or both of us. That's ■ about as fair as I can afford to l» ' What do yoa thinkt" I "I don't see much hades in that, to ' tell yoa the truth ' 1 "No, ItecaiisK you seetn to have for- 1 gotten TTUTT MISM Kadlia's going down with the mail that day. Yon know I've 1 admired her a lot How d'you think she'd like to have Some nf the NtolleH t we shall get if 1 had 'eiu cut for her as ) a wedding jiresent? I shouldn't take the dead gems and leave the living and ' the best of 'em all tiehind, you bet " r "That'll do, enrse yon I tJet out the dice!" "Waal, that's hizticsa, anyhow, if it ain't over grateful or jsilite Take a 1 drink tlrst, just to steady your hand? | No? Then I will Here's the dice. vVo'll shake for first throw " Now, for the instruction of the uu sophisticated, the game of Chicago is ' played with diet) in this wise Five ; lie -are thr. K# A - . ant li» the tir-t nix tlir- \vu . other* • From five dotrn to tv.u •j> t- are t tinted «»tie l*jli» iu't-*t le I ft ill the table after each throw . hi•• tlt* ..!• fiv. thr* w - and th high.wt in fi*» a..*, counting .V»t» Tbc tw< played in Hleri. e. People dn wbin the -•.ik'-s are «.» bin thut if they 1. -e they can mver play a_:ain Tiif fat«-s mnst have Isnn l*».k ing I'Vtr th» ir shonlders and . n;. .ving the •!'_Mine. for they drew it • it t. •it - itnio-t length After the t«nth game Sultw vu twi. ahttd. and the in*-;iect..r w u the eleventh by -ix ani the twelfth by —-v.ii "Six aii'l -even* thirteen. and wi v* tb<- thirteenth game to play," naid Sal tei »ha[iiiiif tbn first actual sent.-ii.« t!!..t h;i<l been n{« k' ii sino- the play I—- R.iii "Shunldn't wonder if I l«*l now. That'* help vonraelt Whisky* I i for shouting My tlir.-w, I reckon." Hi" shu-k th- dkv u;- canted the bo* gently over, and th-- dice tri kl.d out In a little white rattling -tr«ain Wbf-n tb>y settled there *trc two a «i*. a four and a two. "Tv ' hundred and -ixty* not a l« i ntart. l>nt I gn.«s I'll (five the aces an other cfcanw." Ilenh.uk np th* three dice They raiw 'Mi an nee and two wise*. Ilia ?<• wan tn >w 800. with two nil ire throws, but be had the option of leav ing th. nix . r including it in the n st throw, ob th- cliance , f getting an are inntead of it He Wt it and threw th' tw. They came np six and four. Mak ing bin t<<tal 124. with one more throw He t -.-id the fonr into the I. x and n it i lling along the table. When it stop |w>d it was a three "I ve swn lietter. he miM as b<* gathered the dice into the box and pn«h ed it over to the int>pector. "lint aßy tliiTi_r over 400 takes* tig nr. - to lM*at it " Lipinski's first throw was a poor one Six. five, two three* and a two! The second throw three aces came np to gether. making hi* wi re MO, The oth er was a four lie picked it np, threw and made a three of it He tried again and made it a nix. He wan now W#- fonr behind "Tongh lack. hot I guess yon've got j to try again, parti." The hand of the man wan Arm thonghthe heart of the father was -hak ing rtf the inspector turned tti. Isot over for the last time "An ace! By thnmler. i thought so! Wual. if that ain't the lack of satan. t<'ll me. There's yonr gnn!" By every law save that of the nn written code of gaiubler* honor In- Hpecti* Lipinaki w..nld have been jimtl fied in covering Salti an he went to net the alarm, and he d another very rtrong motive for doing it. bnt be didn't. He knew the game, and he played it They took their pla«>*s< in oppiwite corner* of the hat, al»>nt eight paces ujuirt The little Anioiiiia clock to think itself a Ixiiler factory for the time being, no londly did it tick the fa tal .seconds away W-h irrrr hang - Iwng—bang ting-a ling a ling bang -Iwng— ting —bang ntirr np' It wan an ntrange a ( borne an mortal earn ever heard, and the little cl«n-k eeemed to think no and did ita bent to keep itn end np. When it wan over. In spector Lipinnki pull»sl himself np on to his haniln and. looking acroxn the hnt through a mint of blood and a fog of nmoke, naw Heth Halter'* one eye glaring at him over the barrel of a re volver that wan nwayiug from *ide t.» nide a foot i>r so from the floor Then he remembered that hi* Smith Wonrin had only five chauitwr*. Sal ter* Colt pri liahly had nij Hennw the flame leap from the mnzrle and at the •wine instant Salter's head dropped with a thump on the floor. A re«lhot knife •eemed to pierce bin nhonlder. and then he dropped, too. jnnt too noon to hear angry nh<>nt.« and the stamping of lloW* boefn ontnid«- The Free State police didn't mind winking for natinfactory consideration-* at I I) H . or even at a peaceable form ) r \Wu= i "I'iKU, loo hs *,rfer pretty, dvn'l ttf" of robbery under arum, lait tbey Imd neither th»" ntoinach uor the heart for a ahare of blood guiitimMw, and w». when one of the iunp»-ctor'n traitor* drop|*sl » hint a* to the real pnrpoee for which he had been taken to tin* hat, their cotumandar* ordered an immediate raid on It. He M<>t there three minutes toy kite. Salter Wan uuconwioTin and IJeeding to dentil five bullet hole inbilu The inspector wan inaenalbte, t<*>. Imt be re vived and lived long enongh to giv»- the true *tory of what hud happened The I>utch |n>Hceman wisely oonclnaled tliat a procefs of whit>'wanhing would be gi«*l for hi* noli 1. *o he had the inspect or'n Ikhlj - conveyed with all h«>tH>r acronH the Imrdfr and delivered it to the liritlnh authoritiea with nuch an ac count of tin* night'* doing* an fully in nil red their lieing the laat of the exploit* of the Imrder gang The lldrr. ( mi any one tell how it happened, it) the s|M*ech of our country j»sip|«. that the word "poetoftlco" lost itn firnt and more imjiortalit half, and lnnmo nim ply "theoflice?" In no New England village that I know of in the poetoflice called anything elnt* than "the ..AW" nlmply. In every village there are com monly neveral offices Tin* d«**tor ban one, and the wjutre ha* one. and the factory ban a very important one; Imt people nay, "1 am going to the office. " or ask. "Have yon l**en to the office T" and thiv never m>«in any thing bnt the jHintofllce. nor will you bear the word "poatoflicn" from one of them once in a month It htrike* uie an a curious abbrevia tion. and it ia very hard, even after I years of it, to refrain from asking. < "What office?" when the |»«tofHce ia thus mentioned without any previou* reference to it lioston Transcript - ' I'lrasrd to Obllff. Mlstres* (toeook) Your name. Mary, , and my daughter'* being the same, j make* matter* somewhat confusing Now. how do you like, say, the name of Hrl.ttf.-t • <"is»k Share, mum. It'* not me that'* » particular. I'm willing to •all the I yotnitf lady an) thing you like Tit ' | Rit. 1 No. .'C> AN UNEVEN HAY CROP. Sh<»rtrr r»«»a&r Than ( «mI m •tank litwwtk mi The hay cr *p ! < o»itlftu*«l a* unusu ally Irregular an.l uneven" by the A merit an .\.ri nitarM. nay* at the Ci nerai nUiilli, - The range ia failM (a n:ag ull:.f-nt lu.v -irtati. and *hen the rlev in uarruMwl t«» take tn state - oivi.iioaa only the raug>* in almost a* great \-*t ••oly is tl <r>- gr>-at il:-;»iritj ia state • i-Btllti-'n*. !.iit wlthtn the »tate the ««»■ Irregiilniity evlat* It is thus lb;:. It I. - • I. tl.e ci.udtt.oa Cur the whole tii-Ul. l>ul the < arefui r tonw of our tountry (Ml'o>|»mlhli furntak atMimlaat bunt* f..r the - laun that the hay i-rop t!.i* year will be «mall in • or.jwrisoß with the a Mini tan t pmdnet ■ of bi«t year Kant of flte Atli .-'i-inlei ami tn tlaa south the ton. *|»r:ng dr»wght i-ame at a time when its fi.il eff«-»t waa ansae ent in tli*. gre-* -Top NVit only wait the crop rat short, hot on aiaterfal areas no att. ? pf was u.aife to cat aay hay. <-attU- K*tng i«».-tur«sl on ntenttows I In the a!>s4'iH-e ft any nourishua-nt on re. ii ,r |*utnre arena. Ia New Kng land tile crop Us ally run* fmni nar foqrth t.i on. iialf a i-n»p In J*ew York and IVnnsylrania only three fourths of a crop hia sight With ! *Bch a ait tuition in fh>-«e Important hay districts It naturally follow* that the I geio-ral average at cwadlthia for the whole crop ia k>w West of the AUeghaniea the maaoa I !uw pr tite«l radically -isfferent nadt : tlon-- InnteaA itf drought the whole . uprlag ami aamnu r have f«eea nartnl | by a .Teat eiiis. of rainfall, ami a»»t j ! -king ' cyood the bare riunl* uf pre ! cipitat on the pnbhe has h*>»a •-oavtae ■ il that the crass of the xtent Woafcl , make «ihml any deticieui-tes tn the eaet. , Btit aoch In not as*areiL Instead of a ! great hay crop as a result of the ma nual rainfall In the i-eatral valley*, the crop in inferior to laat year for the hell a* a whole, ami In many loraUttea it Ii decidedly smaller than the nrera«e fte a series of year*. While the partial failure In the eaat la the result of the drought entirely, the uneven crop of the west i» due ta a cause which I* apt to be loot* lasting and farreaching. The aeverv winter which so nearly .Wr»y**«t the winter wheat «-rop over a large d;strict left a heavy mark on the meadnv* a* well, (lover ntifferetl to an extaat al most l»eyi ml pr»n-e.lent, and me;ah»nr» were h ft In <m-h shape In many see tlon* thet t!.e plow waa the only reme dy «tti this account Uiere waa a larger area of grass html put tn coca thaa fat many year*, ami much of what waa spared will another year he plowed. The crop promise of fjx» weat ia not up to the usual st.imlard. fot only Will there tn* a shortage hi tonnage, hat the usual rankneaM in weed growth rjifcn year will lower the <|<Mllry of the In portions of «ihio. In.ban* ami Illi nois the citoifilalnt of white top la greater than ever liefore. ami thia pert will n.s.-saitate further plowing irp of grass laml \lfnlfa Tmr tf. t Putw An »MUo Farmer ■ • rrespoadeat aalw wh« tber alfalfa can be «wl tn aa orehanl for hog pasture which '.tm N-.-ii In timothy and clovor amt la ail heaved out. and Joseph E Wing a» awera Alfalfa umlouMetHy makes the beat hog pasture of any plant that ta# l>e grown Whether the soil of this* ac chard will grow It or not ta another •luestion The clover having froaen oat ma> simply be the re»nlt of Ita having die.l front »ld age. or It may be tAM the soil Is undntlned ami apt ta heave thing*. If the soil I* n-ally rich and dry. I should now the alfalfa wttboot any hesitation. Plow the laml ileep. throat lng up an Inch or two of new soil and •owing the alfalfa along about the miihlle of April or later Cover by roll ing Ite anre the laml Is smooth, eo that the mower can run over It easily, for keephlg It m«»wed off two or thnt times the first summer to destroy the weeds ami to Invigorate the alfalfa by the ell we cllpplug la the a»er«!t of atr ceesful alfalfa growing IM> not pa* tnr.* It the tlmt year, ami do not pas ture it the second year too close, ami never allow the hogs to ran on It arfcrn the alfalfa ia fronted, or ths plants wtfi be destroyed. Ilarirallna «•)< Braa* tar l»»* tut aa Soon «t»t pod* turn yelho* or Inwmm a light brown. If left t.»» lons to ripen, the leaves will drop «fl. thus injuring the value of the hay ami straw. The stalks will also becom too hard and tough to cat with a mow er or rea|«*r An old fashtuoed self rake or dropper la the bast I'ut ttn l>eann In small piles, .-uta.nlng a g»*»l forkful each, ami allow them to care They are l>est thrashed from the ftrhi a* this naves extra tiandling. the shell lng of the seed ami prevvnt* heating If stonsl when m< perfectly drie.l i'are must l«e taken la feeding the hay flke corn fishier, foe It Is a rich r>» imrf fmsl. gdvises American Agrt cultiirlst %!«!•. The s«>cretary of agrictdtnra ha* an Bounced that any graduate of a «-ol lege receiving aid from the I'ulUsl States ha* the chance, on certain e*-n dltkHia. to lie Icarneil from the 1 aite.l Static civil servk-B «n»mmission. W»<t. Ington. «»f becoming a "aclentlfle abt In the I'nltcd States «h-|)artn>ettt of ag rlculture for a perlo«l limited to ten years at a salary not to exceed s*• per month. The minimum age limitation for entrance to examination far th. po sition is 2I» year*. There Is m> magt taum ago limitation. A rrlplr t viarttfar* An >lm<*i lacredibUi triple eoim-i dence was noted in Francs n few year* ago In I "MM the deputy ft* Ih- Ar dennes nan M Frrry. fi* Loir et • h M llrisaon and tot the Vijagi M Hugo In 1 *M, lt)l vcara earlier, a h district had been repreeented in the chamber by a man of exactly -h« nn> name —San Francisco Call *»t Her atyls. "The ides'" exclaime.l th* 11..rial actreaa aa -be lieat aa aag •it too an the flisjr with hsr slipper ••What's the troableT t'aa't y> a get your divorce?" "Yea. hnt that lawyer has off I • am-nre it without publicity 1" »*«h ington Star Vrlakknrleiiiil • ••«*. "Mr*. Jorkens. I na* }-»u pri*. Mrs Itrash'a bouse f.-laj •*, but 1 luive no aciuait With her at all, 1 Ju*t use h.-. plmne " Chi* ago Beo-ri • Klondike luck * at the presei t tt; •eeiiis to mean tlw «afe arrival .»f tt prosji' ctiir at the front gate of a -»n |Mitbetie relative In the States. St T itliln I»w|iunTllt
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