KI T OR N ELL?'
Carrot Jim had been up on the range
for six months, and when he came
down the old Oregon trail with 4,000
cattle he was as thin as a rail and
homesick with that awful homesick
ness which a man feels who hasn't a
home. He was In sight of Bryson when
Ills pony went down and, falling on
him, fractured his leg. When they
got him in town, they took him to the
hotel and proceeded to mend him.
"Thought you was just in time to go
to the weddln' Jim," said some one.
"What weddln'?" asked Jim, glad to
speak and save himself from groaning.
"The weddln' up at Lee's."
"At Lee's?" cried the sick man, sit
ting up. "Which girl is goin' to be
married—Kit or Nell?"
"Don't know."
Carrot Jim got up on his elbow and
looked over the crowd.
"What man's here that will do a
service for me?" he asked. That It was
not a tritling service which he was
about to ask was apparent from his
manner. His face was strained and
white with physical pain, but in his
eyes was a look such as physical pain
cannot give.
"I guess I'm your man," young Hig
glns said, coming around from behind
tne big base humor. "What's the job?"
He was a strapping young Irishman,
with round blue eyes, and Carrot Jim
got him out of u stampede 011 the range
the year before. Every one had for
gotten It except liiggins himself. "It's
n little slow," he said npologctieally,
"so I'll be glad to git out of here. What
do you want me to do?"
Carrot Jim suw everything blnck be
fore him, and his voice us he spoke
sounded far olf and like the voice of
another man, but he managed to say:
"Ride to Lee's—now, now, now! Qlt
back before the weddln' and let me
know whether It's Kit or Nell."
"Well?" said young liiggins. "Well?"
"Well," cried Carrot Jim, gesticulat
ing violently with Ills fingers like a
man In the wheat pit, "if it's Nell, come
back here and let me know, and I'll
set 'em up for the hull crowd, and if
it's Kit—why, If It's Kit"—
"Then," said young liiggins, compre
hending, "probably you'd rather not
see me at all."
"Don't be a fool, Jim," said the hotel
clerk. "If a weddln' is 011, it can't be
stopped. There's a storm comin' up.
I wouldn't want unybody I was con
sumed übout goin' far today."
But Carrot Jim turned frantic eyes
011 young liiggins, and liiggins nodded
to Jim and went out.
It was eighteen miles up to Lee's,
and the road lay in the open country.
It run In fact the length of a treeless
mesa, and the pulverized dust of the
highway, poisoned with ulkali, was a
torture to the nostrils, blinding to the
eyes, agonizing to the throat. liiggins
got a cayuse, because they have the
souls of Indians in them and will go
their Journey no matter what comes.
By and by there was a yellow whirl
of dust all about him, and the little
cayuse was blown out of the road, and
then suddenly the wind seemed blow
ing from the heart of Glacier buy, and
there was an awful iclness that sceihed
■to freeze his heart and grout swirls of
yellow sand going tip to heaven—splen
did moving spirals wonderful to see—
and a noise as of great angry waters,
though there were no waters.
But the cayuse, mind you, had the
soul of an Indian In him and would
go to his Journey's end, 110 matter whut
came. So he put his nose to the ground
and stood there with his rigid legs
planted firm, and the young Irishman
lay Hat 011 the horse's back, and they
stuck together like two brave fellows
who knew when the fight came and
weren't going to run uway.
In a few moments the dramatic part
was over, the thermometer had fiillen
28 degrees, and a northwester was
beating 011 them. Then they took up
the road again and pushed on. When
they got to Lee's, the horse whinnied,
ami some one came out and lugged
Higgles in to the fire, and after n drink
or two he wus ull right. And then,
what with having the cold in his brain
and the memory of a pretty victory in
his heart—for he liked to be a hero
and was glud he was alive—he sat up
and whooped like an Indian, so that
the cayuse out 111 the stable heard it
and lifted its ears as If his old mas
ters were culling him.
For the bride wus Nell; it was Nell,
with the china blue eyes and the silly
yellow hair, and Kit—who had lovely
eyes of brown and a brow like a Ma
donna's, and whom Carrot Jim hud
been thinking of all those awful soli
tary nights up on the range—Kit was
nsking liiggins how he felt and why
Carrot Jim hadn't come with him.
They didn't want him to go back
that. night. They said It was suicidal,
but liiggins had his own ideas, and he
had read of D'Artagnun, so he got Into
a H(|uirrel skin coat nnd kissed the
bride nnd took a stirrup cup and rode
away. In his breast was an envelope
with a 'ock of brown hair. It was for
Carrot Jim, and Kit had cut it for him
with her own hands.
So the Irishman went out singing
nnd laughing and swearing at the
northwest, which he gave permission
to do its deadly worst, for he was a
lover by proxy nnd had a foretaste of
days when he should be a lover for
himself.
All Modern Warships Are Rams.
All turreted ships are called monitors
after Ericsson's celebrated ship, Moni
tor. All modern warships are meant to
ram and to that end are built with a
projecting prow under water extending
to a considerable distance from the
regular bow line. There are.no vessels
known as rams nowadays. Ericsson's
Monitor was not built with a project
ing prow or beak. As a matter of fact,
all modern ships of war are rams in
everything but uaine.
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CLOTHING SALE I
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At the urgent request of many of the patrons of Refo- |
wich's Wear Well Clothing and Shoe House, of Freeland, |
especially those who were unable to be waited on during |
their big sale, the above firm has decided to continue their |
record-breaking sale for another fifteen days. |
$20,000 Worth of Clothing, Shoes, j
Hats, Caps and Furnishing Goods 1
Which we purchased at a sacrifice during a recent sheriff's sale, must be sold at once. We must have ffj
the cash. Now is the time to buy, as never before were you offered good, reliable goods at the prices I j
we are asking. Bargains like these are heard of but once in a lifetime. Come immediately and get
your share of them. Is
Read This Sample List of Tremendous Reductions : I]
Men's ,Suits Boys' Suits Footwear Sj
Men's Suits, worth |6.00, now - -2 98 Boys' Long Pants Suits, were $ 5.00, now 350 Ladies' and Gents' 1.50 to $1.75 Shoes, now 98c 5
Men's Suits, " 8.50, " 428 Boys' Long Pants Suits, " 7 00, " 425 Ladies' and Gents' 2.00 to $2. 25 Shoes, now 148 [®l
Men's Suits, " 10.50, " - - 500 Boys' Long Pants Suits, " 9 00, " '6 50 Ladies' and Gents' 3.00 to $3. 25 Shoes, now 198 S
Men's Suits, " 14.00, ■ - - 800 Boys' Long Pants Suits, " 12.00, " 38c Ladies' and Gents' 4.00 to 55.00 Shoe , now 298 m
Men's Suits, " 16. 00, - - 900 Shoes for Children all Prices. Lg
Children's Suits s
Men's Pants Furnishings p
Children s Suits, worth 5i.75, now - - woC jijl
Men's Pants, worth $2.00, now - - 98c rivMrpn', tnita << lic •> 1 ~ „, . , oo„ M
Children s Suits, 2-aSi 1 Men s and Boys Dress Shirts, worth 7sc, now 3SC S
Men's Pants, (the famous Reading make) z-u-u < c■. ~ 17C I=l
worth 12.00, now - - - 128 Children ' s Suits - " 3's°> " " " 1/5 Men's and Boys' Dress Shirts, " 1.00, " 50c fS
Men's Pants, worth *3.50, now - - 200 Children ' s Suits . " 5-°o, " - - 248 Men's Medium Heavy All-Wnol Underwear, ®
worth 75c, now ... - 00C
Men s Pants, " 5.00, " 300 Children's Medium Heavy All-Wool Under- Sj
wear, worth 35c and 40c, now - - IOC IS
Children*. K.ee Pants, worth ,50.035 c, now llc Thousands o! Other Articles Have Umble ,,„ 75C ln(1 Sl oo kinda no „ . 39c 1
Children's All-Wool Knee Pants (lined all igrj
through) our own make which we manu- Umbrellas, >1.50 kind, now - 68C IS
facture from remmants Of cloth, worth B eeti Proportionately Reduced. TT ~, , .. . 7CL r W,
75c to $ 1 .00, now ... - 48 Umbrellas, #1.75 kind, now - - - /OC |jg
PTTQTAII "A/T A riT rATH-TTTQ Should you prefer your clothes made to order you must not forget that
LJ OJL V / IVI ~ IVI r\ I/ Pj vj I A/ J_ L LJJjO we lead all others in this line. Our stock this season is the largest and lEj
the prettiest ever brought to Freeland, and with our reputation for perfect fitting, good trimmings and guaranteed workmanship none can (0
equal us in giving you a satisfactory Easter or spring suit. raj
ALL OUR GOODS MUST BE SOLD--YOU GET A BARGAIN IN EVERYTHING I
Money Refunded II Goods Are Not as Advertised and Entirely Satisfactory. j|
REMEMBER THE PLACE ! MAKE NO MISTAKE ! 1
Don't B? Misled. Sy liaise Signs and Prices, jp
ral
But Save Money by Coming Direct to the Old Reliable Store, the
Wear Well Freeland I
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THE JAPAN CURRENT.
Knro Slwo Piles Groat Load* of
Driftwood on AIBBUU'B Shores.
11l one sense the Kuro Slwo, or Japan
current. Is the most Interesting in the
world beenuse many oceanographers
believe It was the direct means of peo
pling America. Tills much at least is
certain: If a boat were to be set adrift
on parts of the Asiatic const and sur
vived all storms, the Jupnn current
could be depended upon to carry It
across the I'nclflc and deposit it on the
American shore. Such a thing has
happened, In 1832 nine Japanese flsh- |
ermen were left derelict and unable to
find their way back to shore. They
went with the current, and after a
drift lasting during several months
they were carried to Hawaii.
Trees torn by storms from the banks
of Asiatic rivers frequently float across
the Pacific to the American coast. Be
tween Ivakatag and Kyak islands,
about 1,200 miles northwest of Seattle,
enormous piles of this driftwood cover
the beaches. There can be no question
of the Asiatic origin of the timber.
They are the trunks of the camphor
tree, the mango and the mahogany.
| Logs 150 feet long apd eight fee.t in dl
umeter arc frequently found. Many of
them are seen floating shoreward, with
fantastic roots standing high above the
waves. In places the logs are plied
twenty feet high. They are generally
without hark, which has been peeled
off by the waves,.and most of them
have become white and heavy from
Impregnation with salt water. As tbey
pile up the sands drift over them, and
gradually they sink out of slglit, nnd
new benches are formed. This process
has been going 011 for ages, and the
sbore Hue Is being steadily extended.
Exenvatlons along the beueh show that
texture of the buried timber cets hard
er and harder the tart tier in you go,
until In some instances petrifaction lias
taken place. Other excavations show
logs that have turned to coal.
The presence of Siberian driftwood
011 the shores of Greenland convinced
Nausen that his idea of drifting across
the Polar sea in the Fram was logical.
Great quantities of the wood are an
nually cast on the coasts of Spits
bergen and Nova Zembla, and there
are tribes of Greenland Eskimos who
depend for sledge runners and other
wooden implements on the drift from
Siberian forests. For years they de
| pended for iron implements ou the
I hoops or casks 'who'll cniuu lo Uu.nl
over seas.—Theodore Waters in Ains
lee's.
Hid Propensity.
"I never forget a joke that I once
hear," remarked liorem.
"No," rejoined Guyer, "and you don't
give nny of your acquaintances a
chance to."—Chicago News.
The specter of unpaid bills never
haunts those who buy only what they
can afford.
The greatest of all pleasures is to'
give pleasure to one we love.