than es? I ir! Bro- 5 your Ww. to sub- ng to VG/ Great loons. atrons rated Fam- louses, iting a Fa. ol! Son, Pha- Ons, prices. Bring in aw. Don't 1 cost. Thanking ; 1! 'e rooms, Window hing per- nade and of CS r known. 8 to make | 1ist-—the y dollar's } red tick- je, Tick: nity of a 0. 8L., an I kinds of Bea Foam" ) handle ght in car- tore in | vamos’ pthesiors $What care we if it ae or shits Come to a realm sll wineapd thine? Top | So must I follow him. h Ary 2 § {Bide by side as the years go b. Under a bright or a cloudy sky, ; : . Close to his heart alway, Ever as sunlit hills grow brown, © 7 \ Stil], as the golden sun goes down . Outof the dying day. = Feet, that fell on Your weary way, = ‘Pass! I follow through night and day + Toone blank myStery grown; = MONTES FOLLISTER.. : ] DY F. 3. samtam, ig JOR 8. fact, yon never saw a’ fresher, cleaner eéwboy ‘than Montie ,Hellister, Montie was Sita Maire, ‘where they make. the boys i wash the dishes and N * Knit'the sbcksif thére Q. Happen to'be no girls sent into thé family. / ; 3 hy Ho dad no sisters and ! so he was put through the. Housework, “svhich Hroubio) Bim rot at all. / He mather hiked it, in fact, He “brought some of his dishwashing notions with him to the range god many other . tenderfoot ideas. + Among these: latter was the horror of seeing anybody killed. He was 'saneat with his kit, washed and shaved 80 much, and, wore such fleckless’ jumpets and sharts that the boys sometimes called him Girly. Hollister. . “We were a bad lot at Lucin’s. Some- body was always getting killed ‘and ‘buried. When Pete Orr. got three of Bill Somiery's bullets mn him® and. died before the clock in old Ashby’s groggery could _give a dozen ticks, it:made some of the . boys laugh to see how’ ridiculously the man squirmed on the floor and with what a flop his head fell back against the piece of zine by the little stove. But Montie did not langh. He just turhed away his head snd ‘went, ‘out’and looked over the sagebrush in a very solemn way. I fol- lowed and saw him bend over and wipe his eyes with his white handkerchief. It affected ‘me more’#d see him that way than it did to ses Peet's mouth open avhen his head fell back. ‘But a cowboy with a clean, white Tinert Handkerchief just think of that! Pete wasnlt anything to Montie-~nof evens half-way sort of a friend. The fact was he had led the laugh on him many a time when the boy had ‘done something to show his girlish- «mess, But Montie couldn’t help weep- ing when he died. * Now, you are mistaken about the boy “+if you think there wasn’t any sand in him. You ought fo have seen him ride that bucker up at Mesilla Springs. | The. {beast had never had a saddle touch his hide before, and he threw off every one of the six men who tried to ride him, You know there is the back of a regular lbronco that comes up like the thing the Philistines or some other fellows used to throw big stones with when they besieged the high walls of Jerusalem. But this, bronco had a double spring. Just when you thought you were coming down all right into the saddle after the first spring he met you half way with the other, and that laid you out cold. But he didn’t throw Montie. That boy kept on as firm as the saddlehorn and rode the beast six ‘times around the corral and up to the ranch house. . The boss said he was a nailer, but the bucker had spattered Montie’s chaparejos with mud, and so he wasn’t happy. The boys used to say that Girly Hollister combed out hischapa- rejos every night before he got into his * blanket, which may or may not have Deen true; a k Now about that affair of the Mormon girl. You couldn’ get me to tell the . story for a whole band of long-horns if it wasn’t for two things. It has gone about tiat Montie turned Mormon him: self and went through the Endowment Hote. | {But it isn't go. They've got | the wrong brand on him. I want to take the twists out of that story; also to tell about that affair of Big Dorkin, The credit for that business has been given to the wrong man. long enough. You see the girl was the daughter of a ‘man who had been a Bishop and had a front seat in the Tabernacle, but he moved away from Salt Lake and died,” She be- longed, to the tenth wife, I think—or was it the Feventht Anyway it was a long way from the first. - The Bishop “had all kindd of sons’ and daughters— | red-headed, black-headed, white-headed and brown. She was one of the dark ones, and if there was a prettier among: the whole twenty-three girls T never saw her. ‘Most of them were as ugly as sin! Her mother, a ‘quiet little woman from Louisiana, had settled in a valley by her- self, about ten miles from Lucin’s.. She had quite a ranch that thie old man had | left her and about three. hundred head. Hers was the XB brand, with a saw- tooth slit in the left, ear. She had Chinamen "at swork on the ranch—a strange thing for a Mormon, But thers was 4 white man in charge of things for her. “He was the hulkingest big Mor- mon that ever I saw.’ Not bad looking was Ephraim Dorkin, Splendid: shoul- ders, big hears neck, a head like Golish and hoofs on’ him like any Missourian. He was proud, and he wore twelves when he ‘should have worn fourteens, |. antl the boys used to say that his boots were full of feet. Yes, he was proud, and He had reason to be when you put him alongside of the rest of ‘the male “Mormons. t, ereabout. ° “They were ugly brutes, mogy of them. You could see atone. that Big Dor kin Test of ‘the: ‘omen of Mormondom, that ugly ‘hangs étraight down. on three sides, is. Hy The seg Bi 7 acd at wes; : a pe ii red hat with beads on it and a dotted .| veil that came down to her lips. The’ combination struck him right between _ | the eyes. He was more babyish than 3 ever after that, and when Shorty Spence 3 | out enough tears from it to’have watered ‘| a sheep. L Nt ing along in the queer little hop-trot do feel like helpigg out” a friend. Bo I "But Montie was pretty well pinked. i short in front and trails in a pointed snd interested you. Her mother didn’t care. In fact, she leaned a bit toward the reformed Latter-Day Baints and the revised Beok:9f Mormon, and;she didn’t Bly Eton cd Lord would strike her daughter dead if she came out looking rather smart now and then. When Montie first saw that girl she had on a pink something and a little flat, laid out Frank Van Zile, he wet his hand- kerchief so that you could have wrung 7 Tremonstrated with Montie. - You can’t go in for Mormons, greeny,” ‘said 1, in my off-hand way. . t“Why don’t you marry a greaser girl, and done with it? She'd make it lively for you—the greaser would—but she wouldn’t be bothering about ‘the or- dinances,’ ‘the Paraclete,’ ‘the imposition of hands, ? ‘the endowments’ and the seven bulls of Bashan. n “I ain’t goin’ to let her do anything of that sort if I marry her,” said Moutie, ‘with his Maine twang. | #Yes, you will. And the tribe will curse you for a Gentile and all therpeo- ple will say ‘amen.’ You can't get around 1t. Zion vourself and become a saint with the rest of them, if you do this unholy thing.” Montie reflected while he drove a steer into the corral. = But what did the sap- headed young bull-puncher do but go over to Beamster’s place that very night. Now, I knew Big Dorkin wouldn’t stand much of that sort of thing, and 1 was glad when Moutie told me next day that he had had a big row with the large man, and that he had been ‘ordered off the ranch. *¢The coyotes will be eating you in about a week, Girly,” I said, ‘‘unless. > dead shot.” Montie whipped out’ his six-shooter and, without glancing at the sight, plumped a nailhead in the door of the dugout fifty feet away. It was the only ‘nailhead you could see from where we stood, and it was a rattling good shot. I km shoot, too,” he said, very ; quietly. © The baby wes getting its teeth, I don’t know how he got on with Jess ‘after that, but he seemed to be light- hearted enouzh, and J take it that she liked his down, East ways, his twang and his fresh, clean look, for he got her pic- ture and sent to Eureka for a brooch. I wondered when Dorkin would kill him, The time would not be far away, I felt sure. The big fellow came up to. Lucin’s every Saturday night, aud I no-. ticed he looked sourer and sourer each time. ‘All’of us made sure thére would. be 4 dead Maine man in camp before long, aud we were sorry that it was go-: ing to be Montie, for he wassuch: a quist little feliow, and so clean. The shooting took place Just. before dusk in the second week of August. Montie had been down to the Beamsters’ and was coming back to camp. I was loitering along 1 the trail waiting for him to come up. ' He was about half a mile | away from me when I first saw him com- that his buckskin had. When I looked overthere the'second time I saw some one on horseback ‘swooping down on | Montie from behind. The boy didn’t notice the neweomer. at first, but he turned his head when’ ‘he heard the clat- ter of the hoofs on the ground, atid when he turned I saw he had his six-shodter in his hand. So the fellow coming’ on was Big Dorkin, of. course, and I was going to see some fire fly, Mind you now, it was their own fight.” Why should I have taken ahand init? A two to-one combination is a low-down thing for a man to go idto, even though you kept out of range and the greasewood sort of hid mc, butthey didn’t notice me anyway any roore than as if I'd heen 8 jack rabbitor a coyote, = It was the prettiest shooting 1 ever saw for the distance. They didn’t get ‘close together. You see Dorkin thought that would be an advantage to aim, but he didn't know how much practicing Montie had done at longe range. Every shot fired hit something. One took Montie in the left atm. I knew that, forl saw the “arm fall, limp-like, when ‘Dorkin pulled, and then there were two shots almost together, ‘1 think” Montie's kuow that the other struck- the boy's mustang, for he gave an awful plunge. Well, they had it back and forth; Montie, nodded in his saddle and there was blood running from his head and from his hand, could see that, though he sat up steadily enough. Eleven shots fired and Dorkia had the twelfth. ‘Montie eou’dn’t slip in another cart- ridge very easily because: his left -hand. ‘waited for that last shob: Dorkin didn’t seem to be in any hurry to fire it. He had it all his own way now. He reeled and bowed a minute and then he steadied up and walked his horse toward Montie with a grin that spread. all over his. big face. It wasn't the kind of grin that makes a maa sleep, well: after: he has seen i—a, ghastly; nasty grin. I wanted to yell to Montie % give his couldnt’ do it.: Maybe. his clean, steady, ‘nerve, as he dut: there waiting for Dorkin ‘to ‘come up, took my ‘breath away. 1 know this, that it made my i face tingle | and: my fingers to clench fo. see him | there. i i.¢/ 8 Was that big. ‘brute ‘never going! to taat 1 took a hand. Why it as soon as the - boys last shot. was gone? pennant ‘behind. Noy she ‘barnessed as ie plone sod 2ho swags Tookod trim | ‘You'll have to ‘enter into | you k:zep away from there. Dorkin sal {'his drm as he spoke. punched a hole in Dorkin’s neck, and I. like a idol, firing tast, while Dorkin took it slow, But the big fellow seemed to “be getting lightheaded, for he reeled and: was'n6' good, and 80 he sat Shere: and mustang the pin-wheel, but gomehow I | stop? It looked as though / be vos Fite br | ing to ride the boy dowh. It was t own that you see on them that had, tT ans! was as firm a8 an iron jail: sud gave, av- other ghastly : smile cn his face. - Just as I was expect- ing to hear the pop and see the flash down fell Dorkin’s right hand. : His left clutched his side, his head flopped down -over_ his horses neck ‘and the ball. from his ‘pistol nearly took the shoe off from Montie's buckskin. " One of Maontie's bias had done its ns just on the scratch, as you might htontie and I shook" hands ‘without a word. . No,:he dido’tcry that time, I aw he needed a doctor, but there was something else to be done just then. “Do you really want to marry that Beamster. girl?’ I. asked. The young saphead grinned as he said, *‘Yes.” “Well, you'll never do it in the world ‘till this thing's fixed up all right.” I pointed: to Dorkin’s well peiforated body. os ‘What. do you meant” ¢‘Can’t you see? She won’t dream of baving you if she knew that you plunked the life out of that man. He's been | something to her some time, if he isn’t now. And then, remember, he was a Mormon.” #¢1t does look ugly,sure,” gaid Montie. _$*Of course it does. hat’ done? Let me think. an. I killed him.” Ana = © sYou'??. . : “Yes “And, before’ he could say another word I had peeled off my jumper and put a bullet through one sleeve and another through the loose part of the top of my hat. © Montie dooked, on “in a dazed sort of Way. : You gee, it was ation that old TQ brand quarrel of ours. You remember that trouble Dorkin and I had last oar? Well, that was it.” . «But how about me?” ‘He glsnced at “You—why you've, got. to go to Eh. 4 man. who tried to hold you up, or: somethin, a Montie's eyes were moist with. grati- | tude, but I hastened him away to the. lone cabin of China Jim, whom we! twenties. Ashby's groggery ‘the boys: showed me, the utmost respect. : $That’s the fellow who Tid out big .Derkin,” they would say toa stranger i in! low tones as I passed along. stHe's a, bad man.” swaggering a little si kL: wore the: giant's’ robe. No: I wasn’t at the wedding. To toll Beamsters kept it still for-fear the elders a Gentile. They were wedded by that Baptist preacher over from Tewks’, which ~—San Francisco Examiner. = — The. Migration of Trees. Toa “report on the mofed trees’ apd’ shrubs of Nebraska, C. E; Bessey, Director and Botanist of the station, in addition toa classified list of 125 species some interesting statements concerning’ their probable origin.’ He tells that a bution of these woody plants shows that come from the heavy forests of Missouri. ber is evidently very small, ‘Kansas, ‘but these must eventually be mouth of the Kansas River, only in the western part of the State un- questionably came from the Rocky ‘their present limits. « Only one of these; of the Niobrara; Platte and Republican | Rivers will show several more of these Rocky Mountain plants which have come down with the river currents. It is aud shrubs have come down thie streams, especially as prevailing winds are also from the westerly parts towards’ the posed .it much easier for the Western wind, than’ for the elins, ashes, plums, etc., to have gone up the stream ‘against the prevailing winds, It is suspected the meaning of all this is that Eastern conditions are slowly ad- vancing westward; « that such climatic and other changes are slowly takin place upon’ the plains’ as favor’ the Eastern rather thas the Western trees. pears probable shat the Wester. trees westward. ih was exhibiting in Montreal, a came to see the show with a diamond, sparkling. on | ostrich named Daun, and before any could interfere the ostrich caught t diamond and swallowed it. - The st other day died in Cincinnati, - held upon | Ljabbed the spurs into Nance and sh | thi grin. feet of - the "hog, who sat there. with a | 's to be. back. Then I fired anot er through the | reka in China Jim’s wagon on the dead” quiet; ‘When you come back in three weeks from now you've had a fight with. ‘bought, body and soul, for ok gold. After that when I walked sato old And to gave mylife I couldn’ 't help: X the truth, nobody was invited., The | would make a fuss aout Jess marrying’ | was the niore reason for keeping it quiet. : of trees and shrubs of that State, makes” close study of the facts a3 to the distri. nearly all have prohably. migrated to the’, -plains from the East.: some cases done no mure than to get a. little foothold in the extreme: ‘South- eastern counties, to which they have They have in A few have crossed the Missouri River |. from Western Iowa, although this num. | Nearly all | of our trees, says the bulletin, have comel tp the Missouri bottoms and spread | from the southeastern corner of the State west and southwest? Possibly a few | ‘nmay have come up the Blue River from | co traced to the Missouri River bottems at | The trees and shrubs which. are found ; Mountains, and have spread eastward to | 9 the buffalo berry, has spread itself over | the whole State. There is a probability | that a careful examination of the bluffs) singular that so few of the Western trees east, One: certainly ‘would have sup- | trees to come down stream, and with the With our present knowledge it now ap- | are slowly retreating, while, the Eastern species. ‘are slowly" puting their way Had 2 Taste, for. Diamonds. LT Last summer, while Robinson's ¢ireds rentleman :andsome » shirt front, | This diamond caught the eye of a. big. bo ay he o did not seem fo. disagree with him, but | he contracted the grip euuatly, % gad the the SE The. coon ins cage. “A raccoon makes an easily kept cage animal, ale sioften found "sq confined. When awage itis the most 1 restless of ‘all’ creatures, pacing to and fro incessantly within its bars,” being almost always in motion when in its cage and not coiled up in sleep. It is very fond of sugar and all sweet- meats, and, strange to say, it will greedily drink strong, sweet alcoholic tipsy. L mon animal in this country, yet it does not withstand any aystematic or persistent hunting from the hand of man, and there are to-day many wide sections utterly unfrequented by it, where, a few decades ago, it was abundant, the country itself remain- ing just about the same as to open timber, cultivated fields and dense i forest, The South American form is Known pearance toours and aiffers only in possessing much shorter fur and other minor eharacters; it extends over all “South America as far south as the ‘Rio Negro gnd it is very .commion in ‘all suitable localities, according to Flower, with the same general habits; fresh water crabs in- that region upon ‘which this animal is very ‘fond of name above given. down from the United States through Mexico well into Central America, and those specimens ‘taken in Costa Rica are said to be the largest of their an anglicized shortening of an Indian designation, ‘arathkoon,” of the Delaware. The French raton ior raton laveur and the German Waschba and similar European names are de- rived from the curious habit which ‘dipping or washing: ios food in the water if near a ‘creek’ or pool; it also literally rubs’ and washes. its fore- paws in any ‘stream or spring that it may chance to run across when lei- surely prowling through the meadows -or forests. La ' The Sign ofthe Hat. Swipes—* Hello,’ Bobbie. old fei, ears?’ Bobbie—'Don’t mention it. I Free Press. 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