TRe
"BLACK.
By O.
(Copyright by Aluslee Magasine Co.)
OR some months of a cer
tain year a grim bandit
Infested the Texas border
along the Rio Grando.
Tecullnrly striking to the
optic nerve was this no
torious marauder. His
personality secured him
the title of "Black Eagle, the Terror
of the Border." Many fearsome tales
re of record concerning the doings
of him and d!b followers. Suddenly,
In the space of a single minute. Black
Eagle vanished from earth. He was
never heard of again. His own band
never even (rueaaed the mystery of
his disappearance. The border
ranches and settlements feared he
would come again to ride and ravage
the mesqulte flats. He never will.
It Is to disclose the fate of Black
Eagle that this narrative Is published.
The Initial movement of the story
Is furnished by the foot of a bar
tender In St. Louis. His discerning
eye fell upon the form of Chicken
Ruggles as he pecked with avidity at
the free lunch. Chicken was a "hobo."
He had a long nose like the bill of
a fowl, an Inordinate appetite for
poultry, and a habit of gratifying It
without expense, which accounts for
the name given him by bis fellow
vagrants.
Physicians agree that the partaking
of liquids at meal times Is not a
healthy practice. The hygiene of the
saloon promulgates the opposite.
Chicken had neglected to purchase a
drink to accompany the meal. The
bartender rounded the counter, caught
the Injudicious diner by the ear with
a lemon spieezer, led him to the door
and kicked him Into the street.
Thus the mind of Chicken was
brought to realize the signs of coming
winter. The night was cold; the stars
shone with unkindly brilliance; people
were hurrying along the streets In
two egotistic, jostling streams. Men
had donned their overcoats, and
Chicken knew to an exact percentage
the Increased difficulty of coaxing
dimes from those buttoned-ln vest
pockets. The time had come for his
annual exodus to the south.
A little hny. Ave or six years old.
stood lookin? with covetous eyes In a
confectioner's window. In one small
hand he held an empty two-ounce vial;
In the other he grasped something
flat and round, with a shining milled
edge. The scene presented a field of
operations corrmenstirate to Chicken's
talents and daring. After sweeping
the horizon to make sure that no of
ficial tug was cruising by, he Insid
iously nccorted his prey. The boy,
having been early taught by his house
hold to regard altruistic advances
with extreme suspicion, received the
overtures coldly.
Then Chicken knew that he must
make one of those desperate, nerve
shattering plunges Into speculation
that fortune sometimes requires of
those who would win her favor. Five
cents was his capital, and this he
must risk against the chance of win
ning what lay within the close grasp
of the youngster's chubby hand. It
was a fearful lottery. Chicken knew.
But he must accomplish his end by
strategy, Finre he had a wholesome
terror of plundering Infants by force.
Once, In a park, driven by hunger,
he had committed an onslaught upon a
bottle of peptonized Infant's food In
the possession of an occupant of a
baby carriage. The outraged Infant
had so promptly opened Its mouth
and pressed the button that communi
cated with the welkin that help ar
rived, and Chicken did his "thirty
days and" In a snug coop. Wherefore
he was, as he said, "leary of kids."
Beginning artfully to question the
boy concerning his choice of sweets,
he gradually drew out the informa
tion he wanted. Mamma said he was
to ask the drug store for ten cents'
worth of paregoric In the bottle; he
was to keep his hand shut tight over
the dollar; he must not stop to talk
to anyone In the street; he must ask
the drug store man to wrap up the
change and put In the pocket of his
trousers. Indeed, they had pockets
two of them! And he liked chocolate
creams best.
Chicken went into the store and
turned plunger. He Invested his en
tire capital in C. A. N. D. Y. stocks,
simply to pave the way to the greater
risk following.
He pave the sweets to the young
ster, and had the satisfaction of per
ceiving thnt confidence was estab
lished. After that It wns easy to ob
tain leadership of the expedition; to
take the Investment by the hand and
lead It to a nine drug store he knew
of In the same block. There Chicken,
with a parental air, passd over the
dollar and called for the medicine,
while the boy crunched his candy,
glud to ho relieved of the responsi
bility' of the purchase. And then the
successful Investor, searching his
pockets, found an overcoat button
the extent of his winter trousseau
and, wrapping It carefully, placed the
ostensible change In the pocket of
confiding Juvenility. Setting tho
youngster's face homeward, and pat
ting Mm benevolently on the back,
for Chicken's heart was as soft as
those of his feathered namesakes
the speculator quit the market with a
profit of 1.700 per cent on his In
vested capital.
Two hours later an Iron Mountain
freight engine pulled out of tho rail
road yards, Texas bound, with a string
of empties. In one of the cattle tars,
half burled in straw, Chicken lay at
ease. Beside him In his nest was a
quart bottle of very poor whisky and
a paper bag of bread mid hee.e Mr.
Ruggles, In his private car. was on
his trip scuth for the winter season.
For a week thnt car was trundled
southward, shifted, !nld over, and
manipulattd after the manner of roll
ing stock, hut Chicken stuck to It,
leaving It only at necessary times to
satisfy his hunger p.nd thirst. He
knew it must go down to the cattle
country, and San Antonio, In the heart
m
of
KA.GLE
HENRY
of It, was his goal. There the air
was salubrious and mild; the people
Indulgent and long-suffering. The bar
tenders there would not kick him. If
he should eat too long or too often
at one place they would swear at him
as If by rote and without heat. Thoy
swore so drawllngly, and they rarely
paused short of their full vocabulary,
which was copious, so that Chicken
had often gulped a good meal during
the process of the vituperative pro
hibition. The season there was al
ways springlike; the plazas were
pleasant at night, with music and
gayety; exceut during the slight and
Infrequently cold snaps one could
sleep comfortably out of doors In case
the Interiors should develop lnhospi
tality. At Texarkana the car was switched
to the I. ft G. N. Then still south
ward It trailed until, at length. It
crawled across the Colorado bridge
at Austin, and lined out, straight as
an arrow, for the run to San An
tonio When the freight halted at that
town Chicken was fast asleep. In ten
minutes It was off again for Laredo,
the end of the road. Those empty
cattle cars were for distribution along
the line at points from which the
ranches shipped their stock.
When Chicken awoke his car was
stationary. Looking out between the
slats he saw It was a bright, moonlit
night. Scrambling out, be saw his
car with three others abandoned on
a little siding In a wild and lonesome
country. A cattle pen and chute
stood on one side of the track. The
railroad bisected a vast, dim ocean
of prairie. In the midst, of which
Chicken, with his futile rolling stock,
was as completely stranded as was
Robinson Crusoe with his land-locked
boat.
A white post stood near the rails.
Going up to It, Chicken read the let
ters at the top, S. A. 90. Laredo was
nearly as far to the south. He was
almost a hundred miles from any
town. Coyotes began to yelp In the
mysterious sea around him. Chicken
felt lonesome. He hod lived In Bos
ton without an education, in Chicago
without nerve, in Philadelphia with
out a sleeping place, in New York
without a pull, and in Pittsburg sober,
and yet he had never felt so lonely
as now
Suddenly through the Intense si
lence, he heard the whicker of a
horse. The sound came from the side
of the track toward the east, and
Chicken began to explore timorously
In that direction. He Btepped high
along the mat of curly mesqulte grass,
for he was afraid of everything there
might be In this wilderness snakes,
rats, brigands, centipedes, mirages,
cowboys, fandangoes, tarantulas, ta
males he had read of them In the
story papers. Rounding a clump of
prickly pear that reared high Its fan
tastic and menacing array of rounded
heads, he was struck to shivering ter
ror by a snort and a thunderous
plunge, as the horse, himself startled,
bounded away some fifty yards, and
then resumed his grazing. But here
was the one thing in the desert that
Chicken did not fear. He had been
reared on a farm; he had handled
horses, understood them, and could
ride.
Approaching slowly and speaking
soothingly, he followed the animal,
which, after its first flight, seemed
gentle enough, and secured the end
of the twenty-foot lariat that dragged
after him In the grass. It required
him but a few moments to contrive
th- rope Into an ingenious nose-bridle,
after the style of the Mexican borsal.
In another he was upon the horse's
back and off at a splendid lope, giv
ing the animal free choice of direc
tion. "He will take me somewhere,"
said Chicken to himself.
It would have been a thing of Joy,
that untrammeled gallop over the
moonlit prairie, even to Chicken, who
loathed exertion, but that hla mood
was not for It. His head ached; a
growing thirst was upon him; the
"somewhere" whither his lucky mount
might convey him was full of dismal
peradventure.
And now he noted that the horse
moved to a definite goal. Where the
prairie lay smooth he kept his course
straight as an arrow's toward the
east. Deflected by bill c arroyo or
Impracticable spinous brakes, he
quickly flowed again into the current,
charted by his unerring Instinct. At
last, upon the side of a gentle rise,
lie suddenly subsided to a complacent
walk. A stone's cast away stood a
little mott of coma trees; beneath It
a Jacal such as tho Mexicans erect
a one room house of uptight poles
daubed with clay and roofed with
grass or ttilo reeds. An experienced
eye would have estimated the spot
as the headquarters of a small sheep
ranch. In the moonlight the ground
in the nearby corral showed pulver
ized to a level smoothness by the
hoofs of the sheep. Kverywhero was
carelessly distributed th pnrapher
nalia of the place -ropes, bridles, Bad
dies, sheep pelts, wool sacks, feed
troughs and camp litter. The barrel
of drinking water stood In the end
of the two horse wagon near the door.
The harness was piled, promiscuous,
upon the wagon tongue, soaking up
the clew.
Chicken slipped to earth, and tied
the horse to a tree. He halloed again
and again, but the house remained
quiet The door stood open, and he
entered cautiously. The light was
sufllclent for hl:n to see that no one
was at home. Ho struck a match and
lighted a lamp that stood on a table.
The room was thnt of a bachelor
ranchman who was content with the
necessaries of ll'o. Chicken rummaged
Intelligently until he found what ho
had hardly dared hope for a small,
tirnu-n tun, , ...III ... .1 ,1 ... ,
w.u.... jnf, iiint nun i t ' 1 1 v tt i u i (i BUllltt-
! thing near a quart of hla desire.
Half an hour later, Chicken now
a gamecock of hostile aspect emerged
from the house with unsteady steps
nun equipment to repine Ms own
ragged attire. He wore a suit of
coarse brown ducking, the coat being
a sort of rakish bolero. Jaunty to a
degree. Boots he had donned, and
spurs that whirred with every lurch
ing step. Buckled around him was a
belt full of cartridges with a big six
shooter in each of Its two holsters.
Prowling about, he found blankets,
a saddle and bridle with which he
caparisoned his steed. Again mount
ing, he rode swiftly away, singing a
loud and tuneless song.
Bud King's band of desperadoes,
outlaws and horse and cattle thieves
were In camp at a secluded spot on
the bank of the Frio. Their depreda
tions In the Rio Grande country, while
no bolder than usual, had been ad
vertised more extensively, and Can
tain Kinney's company of rangers had
been ordered down to look after them.
Consequently, Bud King, who was a
wise general. Instead of rutting out
a hot trail for the spholders of the
law, as his men wished to do, retired
for the time to the prickly fastnesses
of the Frio valley.
Though the move was a prudent
one, and not Incompatible with Bud's
well-known courage, It raised dissen
sion among the members of the band.
In fact, while they thus lay Inglorl
ously perdu In the brush, the question
of Bud King's fitness for the leader
ship was argued, with closed doors,
as It were, by his followers. Never
before bad Bud's skill or efficiency
been brought to criticism; but his
glory was waning (and such Is glory's
fate) In the light of a newer star.
The sentiment of the band was crys
tallizing Into the opinion that Black
Eagle could lead them with more lus
ter, profit and distinction.
This Black Eagle sub-titled the
"Terror of the Border" had been a
member of the gang about three
months.
One night while they were In camp
on the San Miguel water hole a soli
tary horseman on the regulation fiery
steed dashed In among them. The
newcomer was of a portentous and
devastating aspect. A beak-like nose
with a predatory curve projected
above a mass of bristling, blue-black
whiskers. Ilia eye was cavernous
and fierce He was spurred, som
breroed, booted, garnished with re
volvers, abundantly drunk and very
much unafraid. Few people In the
country drained by the Rio liravo
would have cared thus to Invade,
alone, the camp of Bud King. B it
this fell bird swooped fearlessly upon
t lie in and demanded to bo fed.
Hospitality in the prairie country Is
not limited. Even if your enemy pass
your way you must feed him before
you shoot hltn. You must empty your
larder Into him before you empty
your lead. So, the stranger of un
declared Intentions was set down to
a mighty feast.
A talkative bird he was, full of
most marvelous loud tales and ex
ploits, and speak'ng a language at
times obscuro but never colorless.
He was a new sensation to Dud
King's men, who rarely encountered
new types. They hung, delighted,
upon his vainglorious boasting, the
spicy strangeness of his lingo, his con
temptuous familiarity with life, the
world and remote places, and the ex
travagant frankness with which he
conveyed his si nt imcnts.
To the ir guest the band of outlaws
seemed to he nothing more than a
congregation of country bumpkins
whom he was "stringing for grub"
Just as ho would have told his stories
at the back door of a farmhouse to
wheedle u meal. And. Indeed, his
ignorance was not without excuse, for
tho "had man" of the Fouthwest does
not run to extremes. Those brigand
might Justly have been taken for a
!Itt!o party of peaceable rustics as
ttl(l for a fish fry or pecan gath
ering Orlitlo of rnnr, slchlng of
gait, soft-voloed, unplcturesquely
clothed; not one of them presented
to the eye any witness of the des
perate deeds they had earned.
For two days the glittering stranger
within the camp was feasted. Then,
by common consent, he was Invited
to become a member of Cie bund. He
consented, presenting for enrollment
the prodigious name of "Captain
Montressor." This name was Immedi
ately overruled by the band, find
"Piggy" substituted as a compliment
to the awful and insatiate appetite of
its owner.
Thus did (ho Texas border receive
the most spectacular brigand that
ever rode Its chaparral.
For the next three months Bud King
conducted business as usual, escaping
encounters with law officers and being
content with reasonable profits. The
band ran off some very good com
panies of horses from the ranges, and
a few bunches of fine cattle, which
they got safely across the Rio Grande
and disposed of to fair advantage.
Often the band would ride Into the
little villages and Mexican settle
ments, terrorizing the Inhabitants and
plundering for the provisions and am
munition they needed. It was during
these bloodless raids that Piggy's
ferocious aspect and frightful voice
gained blm a renown more widespread
and glorious than those other gentlo
volced and sad faced desperadoes
could have acquired In a lifetime.
The Mexicans, most apt In nomen
clature, first called him The Black
Eagle, and used to frighten the babies
by threatening them with tales of the
dreadful robber who carried off little
BLACK EAGLE AND HI8 BAND.
children in his great beak. Soon the
name extended, and Black Eagle, the
Terror of the Border, became a rec
ognized factor in exaggerated news
paper reports and ranch gossip.
The country from the Nueces to the
Rio Grande was a wild but fertile
stretch, given over to the sheep and
cattle ranches. Range law was main
ly a letter, and the pirates met with
little opposition until the flaunting
and garish Piggy gave the band "un-
i due advertisement. Then McKlnney's
ranger company headed for those pre
cincts, and Bud King knew that It
meant grim and sudden war or else
temporary retirement. Regarding the
risk to be unnecessary, he drew off
his band to an almost Inaccessible
spot on the bank of the Frio. Where
fore, as has been Bald, dissatisfac
tion arose among the members, a id
impeachment proceedings against Dud
were premeditated, with Black Eaglo
in high favor for tho succession. Dud
King was not unaware of the senti
ment, and he called aside Cactus
Taylor, his trusted lieutenant, to dis
cuss it.
"If the boys," said Bud, "ain't sat
isfied with me, I'm willin' to step
out. They're buckin' against my way
of handlln' 'em. And 'specially he
cause I concludes to hit tho brush
while Sam Kinney Is rldin' the lino.
I saves 'em from beln" shot or sent
up on a state contract, and they up
and says I'm no good."
"It ain't so much that," explained
Cactus, "as It Is they're plum locoed
about Piggy. They want them whis
kers and that nose of Mh to split the
wind at the head of tho column."
"There's somclhin' mighty seldom
about Piggy," declared Dud, musingly.
"I never yet see anything on tho hoof
that he exactly prudes up with. He
can Khore holler a plenty, and he
j straddles it boss from where you laid
the chunk. Dtit he ain't never been
smoked yet. You know, Cactus, wo
ain't had a row slnco he's been with
us. Piggy's all right for skearln' the
greaser kids and layln' waste a cross
roads store. I reckon he's the finest
canned oyster buccaneer and cheese
pirate that ever vena, tut how's his
appetite for flghtln'T I've knowed
some citizens you'd think was s'nrv
In' for trouble get a bad dose of dys
Ppsy te first dose of lead they had
to take."
"He talks all spraddled out," said
Cactus, " "bout the rookuses he's been
In. He claims to have saw the ele
phant and hearn the owl."
"1 know," replied Bud, using the
cow-puncher's expressive phrase of
skepticism, "but It sounds to me!"
This conversation was held one
night In camp while the other mem
bers of the band eight In number
were sprawling around tho fire, lin
gering over their supper. When Bud
and Cactus ceased talking they heard
Tlgpy's formidable voice holding forth
to the others as usual while he was
engaged In checking, though never
satisfying, his ravenous appetite.
"Wat's de use," be was saying, "of
chasln' little red cowscb and hosses
'round for t'ousands of miles? Here
ain't nuttin' In It. Gallopln' t'rough
dese bushes and briers, and gettln' a
first dat a brewery couldn't put out,
and mlssln' meals! Say! You know
what I'd do If I was main finger of dls
bunch? I'd stick up a train. I'd blow
de express car and make hard dollars
where you guys gets wind."
Later on, a deputation waited on
Bud. They stood on one leg, chewed
mesqulte twigs and clrcumlocuted, for
they hated to hurt his feelings. Bud
foresaw their business, and made It
easy for them. Bigger risks and
larger profits was what they wanted.
The suggestion of Piggy's about
holding up a train bad fired their
Imagination and Increased their ad
miration for the dash and boldness of
the Instigator. They were such slm-
pie, artless and custom-bound bush
rangers that they had never before
thought of extending their habits be
yond the running off of live stock and
the shooting of such of their acquaint
ances as ventured to Interfere.
Dud acted "on the level." agreeing
to take a subordinate place in the
gang until Dlack Eagle should have
been given a trial aa leader.
After a great deal of consultation,
studying of timetables and discussion
of the country's topography, the timp
and place for carrying out their new
enterprise was decided upon. At that
time thcro was a. feedstuff famine in
Mexico and a cattle famine In certain
parts of the I'nlted States, and there
was a brisk international trade. Much
money waa being shipped along the
railroads that connected the two re
publics. II waa agreed that the mo t
promising place for the contemplated
robbery was at Esplna, a little sta
tion on tho I. & G. N., about forty
miles north of Laredo. The train
stopped there one minute; the coun
try around was wild and unsettled;
the station consisted of but one house
in which the agent lived.
Dlack Eagle's band set out, riding
by night. Arriving In (lie vicinity of
lOspinu they rested their horses all
day In a thicket a few miles dlstunt.
Tho trHln was due at Esplna at
10: So p. in. They could rob the train
and bo well over the Mexican border
with their booty by daylight the next
morning
To do Dlack Eagle Justice, he ex
hibited no signs of flinching from the
responsible, honors that hnd been con
f rred upon him.
He assigned his men to their re
spective poHts with discretion, and
coached Idem carefully as to their
dutlea. On each side of tho track
four of the band were to lio conc ealed
in tho chaparral. (lotch-Kar Dodgers
wua to stick up the station agent.
Broncho Charlie was to remain with
the horses, holding them in readiness.
At a spot where it was calculated the
engine would be when the train
stopped, Dud King was to lie hidden
on one side, and Dlack Katie himself.
' on the oiher The two would get the
drop on the engineer and firemen,
foi'e th'tn to descend and proceed
to the rear. Then the express car
would be looted, and the escape made.
No one was to move until Black Eagle
gave the signal by firing his revolver.
The plan was rerfect.
At ten minutes to train time every
man was at his post, effectually con
cealed by the thick chaparral that
grew almost to the rails. The night
was dark and lowering, with n flnfc
drizzle falling from the flying gulf
clouds. Black Eagle crouched behind
a bush within five yards of the track.
Two six-shooters were belted around
him. Occasionally ho drew a large
black bottle from his pocket and
ral ed It to his mouth.
A star appeared far down the track
which soon waxed Into the headlight
of the approaching train. It came on
with an Increasing roar; the engine
bore down upon the ambushing dos-
pcradoes with a glare and a shriek
like some avenging monster come to
deliver them to Justice. Black Eagle
flattened himself upon the ground.
Tho engine, contrary to their cal
culations, Instead of stopping between
him and Bud King's place of conceal
ment, passed fully forty yards farther
before It came to a stand.
The bandit leader rose to his feet
and peered around the bush. His
men all lay quiet, awaiting the signal.
Immediately opposite Black Eagle was
a thing that drew his attention. In
stead of being a regular passenger
train it was a mixed one. Before
him stood a box car, the door of
which, by some means, had been left
slightly open. Black Eagle went up
to It and pushed the door farther
open. An odor came forth a damp,
rancid, familiar, musty. Intoxicating,
beloved odor, stirring strongly at old
memories of happy days and travels.
Black Eagle sniffed at the witching
smell as the returned wanderer smells
of the rose that twines his boyhood's
cottage home. Nostalgia seized him.
He put his hand Inside. Excelsior
dry, springy, curly, sort, enticing, cov
ered tho floor. Outside the drizzle
bad turned to a chilling rain.
The train bell clanged. The bandit
chief unbuckled his belt and cast It,
with Its revolvers, upon the ground.
His spurs followed quickly, and his
brond sombrero. Black Eagle was
moulting. The train started with a
rattling Jerk. The ex-Terror of the
Border scrambled Into the box car
and closed the door. Stretched lux
uriously upon the excelsior, with tho
black bottlo clasned closely to his
breast, til b eyes closed, and a foolish,
happy snillo upon his terrible features,
Chicken Rugglcs started upon his re
turn trip.
rixllsturhed. with a band of des
perate bandits lying motionless, await
ing the signal to attack, tho train
pulled out from Esplna. As its speed
Increased, and the black; masses of
chaparral went whizzing past on
either side, the express mossengeri
lighting his pipe, looked through his
window and remarked, feelingly:
"What a Jim-dandy place for a hold
up!" Burled With Mis Pipe.
A man named Doilln, who was guill
otined for murder at Le Mans, France,
the other morning, smoked a pipe be
fore his execution and asked leave to
have It burled with him. When Doilln
was awakened by the governor of the
prison and told that his last hour had
come he turned to the chaplain and
said: "Father, you know how fond
I am of smoking, and that cigarettes
do not interest me. Fill my pipe for
me, and let me smoke It for the last
time." The chaplain did so, and, after
smoking his pipe, Doilln submitted
himself to the hands of the execu
tioner and his assistants. But before
going to the scaffold he obtained
leave to slip his "best friend," as he
called his pipe, Into his pocket, and
the prison governor promised him
that it should be burled with bis body.
At the Wrong House.
A man with a valUe rang the bell,
and a lady came to the door. The man
bowed, and inquired If the lady owned
a graphophone. She said yes, she be
lieved there was one somewhere about
the house, but that it had not been
used for a long time.
"Then I should like to show you,"
he rejoined, proceeding to open his
valise, "a new attachment for the
machine, which we are "
"No use," she interrupted, waving
him away. "I used to have an at
tachment for the things, hut I haven't
now, and don't want to have. Our
neighbors on both sides have grapho
phones, for which they have a very
strong attachment. Good day, sir."
Tho door closed with a slam, and
the man went sadly down the steps.
Youth's Companion.
One Vote for Draper.
Governor Draper Is having a lot o.
fun explaining why ho was not a pas
Bcngcr In the airships recently at At
lantic City, admitting that It was fear
thnt kept him on the ground.
In connection with this, he tells
what ho calls an "honest to goodness"
story:
" 'Two men were walking down the
street a few days ago," he relates,
"and I heard this conversation: 'I'm
going to vote for Draper this time,
eve n If he Is a Republican.'
"'Why?' demanded the other.
'You've always been a good Democrat.'
." 'I know I have," said tho first
speaker, 'but Governor Draper is tho
ono of the whole bunch that had a
eiwineo to fly, but sense enough to
slay on the ground.' "Boston Jour
nal. .
Latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme.
Hero Is the latest get rich-quick
scheme downtown. In an office where
20 men aro employed Jones went to
Smith and said:
"Smith, if you give me Bve cents I'll
tell you how you can pick up 20 cents
without leaving the office."
Smith thought It ever a second and
then handed out the ah kel.
"Now," ho suid, "how do I get my
20 cents?"
"Easy," bald Jones. "You Just go
and work four men the suiuo as I
worked you."
"Fine Idea," said Smith, and passed
it on to Drown, Black, Jackson and
Qulnn, each of whom delivered up a
nickel and started out to get theirs.
Sticky Sweating
Palms
after taking salt or ethart1)
waters did you ever notioe that
weary all gone feeliner the palms
of your hands sweatand rotten
taste in your mouth - Cathartics
only move by sweating1 your bowels
Do a lot of hurt Try s UASCA
ItET and see how much easier the
job is done how much better
you foeL m
CASCARKT toe box fnr w-V"
treatment, nil dniirelts, Blnr aeller
la U workL Million bases a snoota.
t LM
Afflictions mark the dlfferonoe be
tween iron and steel.
No harmful drug in Garfield Tea. Ka
turVs laxative it is composed wholly of
lean, sweet, health-giving Uarbsl
No man has come to true greatness
who ha not felt in some degree that
his life belongs to his race. Phillips
Brooks.
There's Many a 8llp.
"What Is the name of the song the
lady Is singing?" i
" 'Meet Me in Heaven. "
"Don't you think she's taking a
treat deal for granted?"
Woman as Bank Cashier.
Miss Ethel Boynton is cashier of
the National Bank of Bayslde, L. I
the only woman in the state holding
such a position. She says that to be
trustworthy a man or woman must
first he kind, then he cannot find It In
his heart to betray the trust that is
reposed in htm.
OATS 259 Bu. Per Acre.
That is the sworn to yield of Theodore
TTarnies, Lewis Co., Wash., had from
Salter's Rejuvenated White Bonanza oat
and won a handsome 80 acre farm. Other
bit yields are 141 bus., 119 bin., 103 bus.,
etc., had by farmers scattered throosboni
the U. 8.
Sailer's Pedierree Barley, Flax, Corn,
OaU, Wheat, Potatoes, Grasses and Clov
ers are famous the world over for their
purity and tremendoua yielding qtialities.
We are easily the largest growers of farm
seed in the world.
Our catalog bristling with iced truths
free for the asking, or send 10e in (tamps
and receive 10 package of farm seed nov
elties and rarities, including above mar
vrlotn oats, together with hist catalog,
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La Crosse, Wis.
Real Courage.
He was the small son of a minister
and his mother was teaching him the
meaning of courage.
"Supposing," she said, "there were
twelvo boys in one bedroom, and
eleven got into bed at once, while the
other knelt down to 6ay hla prayers,
that boy would show true courage."
"Oh," said the young hopeful, "I
know something that would be more
courageous than that? Supposing
there were twelve ministers in one
bedroom, and one got Into bed with
out saying, his prayers!"
A Dry Wash.
Representative Livingston of Geor
gia, who, disgusted at the bath-tub
debate In the house recently, proposed
that a little money might be made by
renting the bath tubs out, said recent
ly, apropos of this subject:
"We are now a good deal like Bill
Bprlgglns on a rero morning.
"Bill's valet entered his bedroom
one January morning and said with a
shiver:
"Will you take your bath hot or
cold, sir?'
"'Thank you.' said Bill; Til take U
for granted.' "
THE SITUATION
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Katharine) He waa to marry a
telephone girl, but she broke the en
gagement. Kidder Oh, I see! A case o
"ring off."
IT'S FOOD
That Restores and Makes Health
Possible.
There are stoma. h specialists as
well aa eye and ear and other special
ists. One of these told a young lady, of
Now Brunswick, N. J., to Quit medi
cines and eat Grape-Nuts. She says:
"For about 12 months I suffered se
verely with gastritis. I was unable
to retain much of anything on my
stomach, and consequently was com
pelled to give up my occupation.
"I took quantities of medicine, and
had an idea I was dieting, but I con
tinued to suffer, and soon lost 15
pounds in weight. I was depressed
in spirits and lost interest in every
thing gonerally. My mind was so af
fected that it was impossible to be
come interested in even the lightest
reading matter.
"After suffering for months I de
cided to go to a stomach specialist.
He put me on QrapoNuts and my
health began to improve immediately.
It was the keynote of a new life.
"I found that I had been eating too
much starchy food which 1 did not di
gest, and that the cereala which I had
tried had been too heavy, I soon
provod that it la not the quantity of
food that one eats, but the quality,
"In a few weeks I was able to go
back to my old business of doing cler
ical work. I have continued to eat
Grape-Nuts for both the morning and
evening meal. I wake in the morning
with a clear mind and feel rested. I
regained my lost weight in a short
time. I am well and happy again ana
owe it to Grape-Nuts." Name giver
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read "The Road to Wellvllle," in
pkga. "There's a Reason."
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w appears from ttiaa to Hue. Taev
ara icraulua, trua, aad tall af bnaaaa
later!.