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'M j; Lr j?? r'$ 1 0 T Efrfbfb'MJhJl THE GIRL HALFWAY A STORY OF 11V B, HOUGH. Al THOU OH (.otyriehttJ, 1901 CHARTER XXII. Continued. At this placo they saw a few men sitting outside the door, calmly smok ing uniong these Sam, the liveryman, a merchant by name of Chapman, and a homesteader, who was known as One-eyed Pennyman. inside the house, playing cards with Curly, were four other men. Franklin noticed that they nil were armed. They all ap peared from their story, to have Just dropped in to pass a .little time with Curly. From time to time others dropped in, moat of them remaining outside in the moonlight, sitting on their heels along the porch, talking but little, and then mentioning any thing but the one subject which was uppermost 'in overy one's mind. Yot though nothing was said, It might well be seen that this little body of men -wero of those who had taken tho stand for law and order, and who wore resolved upon a now day in the his tory of the town. It was a battle of the two hotels and what they represented. Over at the great barroom of the Cottage there was at tho samo time assombled a much larger gathering, composed chiefly of those transient elements which at that tlmo really made up the larger portion of the population of the place wide-hatted men. with narrow boots and broad belts at which swung heavy, blued revolvers with broad wooden butts a wild-looking, wild living body of men, suvage In some ways, gentle in others, but for tho most part Just, according to their creed. All drank whisky, and drank it regularly. Up to ton o'clock the whisky had produced no effect. At ten o'clock a big Texan raised Ills glass high above his head and mnshed it upon the bar. "Law an' order be damned!" said. :lie. "What kind o law an' order is it to let a raurderin' Greaser like that "I command you In the come clear? Which of us'll be the next he'd kill?" "Well," said a conservative, sooth ingly, "let's wait till to-morrer. Let's let the Co'te set another day, any how." "Yes, I reckon that's right; yes, that's so," said others; "we'd better wait till to-morrer." t A brief silence fell upon the gather ing, a silence broken only by tinkllngs or shufflings along the bar. Then, far off, over the prairio, there came a lit tle flat, recurrent sound, or series of sounds, as of one patting his Angers softly together. It fell and rose and grew, coming rapidly nearer, until at length there could be distinguished the cracking and popping of the hoofs of running horses.- "It's the Bnr O outfit, from the Bra zos, coming in," said some one. The crowd pressed out into the air. it opened and melted slightly. The crowd at Curly's shanty increased Hllghtly, silently. Inside. Curly and liis friend still played cards. The giant prisoner lay asleep upon the floor. The rattle of many hoofs swept up to the door of the Cottage, where the restive, nervous horses were left standing while tho men went in. their leader, a stocky, red-mustaohed man, bearing with him the rope which he had loosened from his saddle. Having drunk, the leader smote upon the bar with a heavy hand. "Come along, men." he called out. "The quicker we hang that d d Greaser the better it will be." He moved toward the door, followed by many silently, by others with steps that lagged. "Well, ypu see "began one man. "To h 1 with all that!' said the new comer, turning upon ' him fiercely. "We don't need no cowards!" "No, that ain't it," resumed the first man, "but we got to respeck the Co'te fust Co'te ever did set here, you see. The fellers, some of 'em, thinks some o' the Jury thinks that the fel ler's too crazy fer to hang." "Crazy be d d! We'ro goin to hang him, an' that sottles it. 1-aw an' order kin take caro of It afterward," All tho time they wero shifting toward the door. As though by concert they swung into saddle and swept oft up the street In a body, above tho noiso of their riding now breaking a careless laugh, now a shrill yell of sheer Joyous oxcitement. More than a hundred men drew up in front of tho frail shelter over which was spread the doubtful aegis of the law. Fifty men met them. The lights W6iit out in the house In an instant, AT THE HOUSE THE PLAINS THU STORY OV Tllli COWBOY by I). AtllftOH Sr" CtmHinr, V i'ark ?WWlfwWAwWgaWfyWwWJW3 and in front of the door thero swept a dark and silent cordon. The leader of tho invaders paused, but went straight forward. "Wo want that man!" he said. "You know very well you can't have him." "Wo don't know nothln' o tho sort. Wo want him, an' we're goin' to have him." Qit out of tho road!" A second figure stood by tho side of Franklin, and this man was recognized by the leador. "Aw, now, Curly, what d il foolish ness is this here? Bring him out." 'You know I won't Jim," said Curly, simply. "We're tryln' him on the square. You ain't tho Co'te. I koln't give him to no one but the Co'to." Silence fell for an Instant, then from tho rear of the party thero came push ing and crowding and crleH of "Burn tho house drive him out!" Thero was a rush, but It was met by a silent thickening of tho Hue at the point ns sailed. Men scuffled with men, swear ing and grunting, panting hard. Here and there weaions flashed dully, though as yet no shot was flred. Tho rushers toward the house grew closer, so that assailants and besiegers were now mingled in a fighting, swoar ing mass. "You're no cowman. Curly," cried ono voice, bitterly. "You're a d d liar!" cried Curly In reply, "whoever says that to me! I'm only a-keepin' of my word. You kaln't clean us out. I'll shoot tho llvln' soul out o' any man that touches that door! This hero is the Jail, an' I'm tho dcpplty. and, by ! you'll not have my prisoner!" "Quite right, me man," said a cool voice at Curly's side, and a hand fell on his shoulder as a tall form loomed sprang toward tho building. The cries became savage, heastllke. It was no longer human beings who contended name of the law!" over this poor, half-witted being, but brutes, less reasonable than he. Juan left the door. He swept Frank lin and Curly and Batterslelgh aside as though I hey were but babcB. It was his purpose to rush out, to strike, to kill, it was tho moment of opportunity for the leader of the as sailants. The whistle of a rope cut tho air, and tho noose tightened about tho giant's neck with instant grip. There up in the crowd. "There's good ma tayrlal in you, me bully. Fair play's a Jule, an' it's fair play we're goin to have here." Backed by a crowd of men whoso resolution was ns firm as their own, these three fell back in front of the door. Franklin felt his heart going fast, and knew that more was asked of him here than had ever been upon the field of battle. In a moment, he re flected, the firing would begin. Suddenly the climax came. The door was thrust invslstlbly open, not from without, bur from within. Stoop ing, so that his head might clear Its top. the enormous figure of Juan, the Mexican, appeared in the opening A roar of anger and excitement rose as the prisoner was seen standing there before them, though outlined only by the dim light of the sky. Every man In the assalllug party was a surge back upon the rope, a movement which would have been fatal for auy other man, which would have been ratal to him. had the men got the rope to a horse as they wish ed, so that they might drag the vic tim by violence through the crowd. But with Juan this act was not final. As the great bear of the foothills, when roped by the horseman, scorns to attempt escape, but pulls man and horse toward him by main force, so the giant savage who was now thus assailed put forth his strength, and by sheer power of arm drew his would-be captors to him. hand over hand. The noose about his own neck he loosened with one hand. Then he raised his hand and let it fall. The caster of the rope, his collar bone broken and his shoulder blade cracked across, fell in a heap at his feet as the swaying crowd made way. There came, boring into the silence with horrible distinctness, tho sound of one morclful, mysterious shot. The giant straightened up once, a vast black body towering above tho black mass about him, and then sank gontly. slowly down, as though to curl himself In sleep. Thore was a groan, n roar, a swift surging of men thick, black, like swarming bees. Some bent above the two prone flgurcB. Others caught at tho rope, grovoilng. snarling. They were snveil the last stago of their disgrace. Into tho crowd thero pressed the figure of n newcomer, n hatless man, whoso faco wns pale, whose feet wero unshod, and who bore one r.rm helpless In a dirty sling which hung about his neck. Haggard and unkempt, barefooted, half-clml as he had stumbled out of bed at his rnneh six miles away, Bill Watson, tho sheriff nppiarcd a flgure heroic enough. With his broken arm hang ing useless and Jostled by the crowd, he raised his right hand above hts head nnd called out in a voice weak and halting, but determined: "Men, go go home! I command you In the name of the law!" BOOK IV The Day of the Plow CHAPTER XXIII. The End of the Trail. The Cottage Hotel of Elllsvllle was. singularly enough, in Its pnlmy days conducted by a woman, and a very good woman she was. It was perhaps an error in Judgment which led the husband of this woman to undertake the establishment of a hotel at such a plnce and such a time, but he hastened to repair his fault by amiably dying. Tho widow, large woman, of groat kindness of heart nnd n certain skill i,i the care of gunshot wounds, fell heiress to the business, carried it on and made a success of it. All these wild lange men who came roistering up the Trail loved this large and kind old lady, and she called them all her "boys." watching over the wild brood as a hen does over her chickens. She fed them and comforted them, nursed them and burled them, always new ones coming to take the places of those who were gone. Chief mourner at over threescore funerals, neverthe less was Mother Daly's voice always for peace nnd decorum; and what good she did may one day be discover ed when the spurred and booted dead shall rise. There was yet no key to the Cottage bar when there came tho unbelievable word that there was no longer a buf falo to be found nnywhere on the range, nnd that the Indians were gone, beaten, herded up forever. Far to tho north, it was declared, there wero men coming In on the e&w range who had silver-mounted guns, who wore gold anil Jewels and who brought with them saddles' without horns! It was said, however, that those new men wanted to buy cows, so cows wore tnken to them. Mother Daly looked upon this, and it was well. She understood her old boys nnd loved them. Sho was glad the world was full of them. Sho look ed out over tho wide, wind-swept plains, along the big chutes full of bel lowing beeves, at the wide corral with ite scores of saddled Nemeses, and she was calm and happy, it was a good ly world. It was upon one day that Mother Daly looked out opon her world; upon the next day she looked again, and all tho world was changed. Far as the eye could reach, tho long and duaty roadway of the cows lay silent, with its dust unstirred. Far, very far off, there was approaching a little band of strange, small, bleating, woolly creatures, to whose driver Mother Daly refused bed and board. The cat tle chutes were silent, tho corral was empty. At the Cottage bar the keeper had at last found a key to the door. Up and down the Trail, east and west of the Trail, all was quiet, bare and desolate. At some signal some sig nal written on the sky all the old life of Elllsvllle had taken up Its Jour ney into a farther land, Into another day. The cowman, the rnllroad man and tho gambling m'an had gone, leav ing behind them tho wide and well perforated Cottage, the graveyard with its double street, the cattle chutes with well-worn hairy walls. (To be continued.) Senator Hoar's Advice Ill-Received. A young man from Florida uaiac to Washington to represent a news paper in his state,, says a correspond ent of a New York paper. A few days after ho arrived Senator Hoar Intro duced a bill referring to a lottery in Florida. The young reporter has tened to see the senator, with visions of n column Interview witli him con corning the bill and Its effect and all that. The servant said the senator would see him. "What Is It?" asked Mr. Hoar, when the young man had been shown in. "I want to ask you about tho bill you Introduced to-day?" "What do you want to ask me about it?" "Why, I am from Florida and rep resent a Florida paper, and I thought you might give mo an explanation." "Have you rend the bill?" "Yes. sir." "Do you understand it?" "I think I do, sir." "Well. If you do not. no explanation I could make would help you to. Good evening." And that was another of those inter views never printed. , Beecher and the Medium. While In England Henry Ward Bpecher was entertained by p gentle man who believed in spiritualism and was himself a medium, says the Ar gonaut. Ono day he asked if Beecher would like to talk with the spirit of his father. Dr. Lyman Beecher. Mr. Beecher replied that it would ploaso him Immensely. Alter the seance wan over ho was asked how it had im pressed him, at which, with tho twinklo in his oye, Belcher respond ed: "Ail I have to say is that If I deteriorate as fast for tho flrst ten years after I am dead as my father has, I shall be a stark uaked fool." HARBOR BLOCKED STEAMERS SUNK ACROS3 THE CHANNEL BY RUSSIANS. IMS KEEPS THE JAPANESE OUT All Vctscls on the Outside Keep Up Steam for Emergency Believed that Vice Admiral Makaroff Will Adopt the Offensive. LONDON A correspondent of tho Daily Mall at New Chwaug says that after the removal of the hnttloshlp Relvlznn four Uusslau steamers, llio Hnrbln, tho Hallnr, the Nlngutn nnd tho Snngnrl. wero nnchorcd at tho mouth of tho entrance to Port Arthur In proper position and sunk, leaving only a small channel available, Vlco Admiral Makaroff having previously ordered tne whole fleet to remain out side with steam up, economy of coal being unnecessary. This disputed, which Is prominently displayed by the Dally Mall, and which tho correspondent says is "on Hussinn Information." Is, if true, news of the Hrst Importance, confirming the Idea that Vlco Admiral Makaroff will adopt the offensive and make n des perate attempt to bring together Bus sla's scattered naval forces nnd on deavor to Inflict dnmngo upon tho Japanese navy. Tho story must, however, lie view ed cautiously, the only approach to conilrmallon from any other quarter being In a dispatch from tho corre spondent of the Dally Telegraph at Yin Kow, which says: "Vlco Admiral Makaroff has Issued orders that the saving of coal is unnecessary, but the big gun ammunition in tho fort must not be wasted. Evidently the ammu nition is running short." Thero is no other news to hand on the subject. The Dnlly Telegraph's Toklo corre spondent sends an unofficial rumor that tho .Tapaneso have occupied Dalny. it is remarked that the British newspapers all regard Vice Admiral Togo's report that lie has laid mines nt Port Arthur as a mero bluff and they say that such a feat would bo I in possible under tire. The Daily Mali thinks that if Vice Admiral Makaroff closed the channel it was in order to prevent the in gress of Japanese torpodo boat de stroyers. as was done at Wei Hal Wei during the Chlno-Japanese war. It is a subject of unceasing remark and conjecture that nothing lias been heard of the Vladivostok squadron, and it is beginning to be believed that it Is really inside the harbor of Vladivostok-. DOES IT INCREASE CANCER? Investigating Effect of Chilled or Frozen Meat. LONDON. The question was raised In the house of commons today whether chilled or frozen meat has any injurious effect on consumers, and especially whether such meat contributes to the Increasing number of cases of cancer In the United Kingdom. President Long of the local gov ernment board said that while be had no information to the abovo effect, he thought the matter might prop erly be referred to the royal commis sion of inquiry into tho causes of cancer, which Is now sitting. Civil Service In the Philippines. WASHINGTON'. The president has Issued an executive order applying civil service rulos to the sorviee of tho war department In the Philippines and also classifying umployos In that servlco specially commended. Grover is Sixty-Seven. PRINCETON. N. J Grovor Cleve land quietly observed his 07th birth day at ,home. Thoro was no colohra tlon except that he rocolvod some of bis most intimate Princeton friends, who calledd to offer congratulations. OFFICER OF COSSACKS. RATINQ OF PENSIONS. Order Regarding Payment Undor tho 1890 Act. WASHINGTON.-Commissioner of Pensions Ware, with tho approval of Secretary Hitchcock, hns Issued an order milking the following change lu pension rntlng: In tho ndjudlcnllon of pension claims under the act of June 27, 1800. ns uiuended, It shall be taken nnd con sidered ns an evidential fact, if tho contrary does not appear, and if all other legal requirements a.ro prop erly met -that when a claimant has passed the age of (It! years lie Is dis abled oneiiinf In ability to perform manual labor and Is entitled to bo rnted at $0 per month; after GS years at $8 per month, after t!8 years nt $10 per month, nnd nftor 70 years at $12 por month. Allowance at higher rate, not exceeding $12 per month, will con tinue to he made as heretofore, whero disabilities other than ago show a condition or Inability to perform man ual labor. This order bIiiiII take effect. April 111, lOOi, and shall not bo deemed rot ronctive. Tho former rules of tho offlco fixing the mnxtnium and minimum years nt 75 years, respectively, are hereby mod ified ns above. Committee Sees Private Report. The special committee of the hoiuo on the postofllcc report has, it is said, received the report known ns "Exhibit Q." Tliis document has never been made public nnd tho feeling created among members by tho thorough man ner in which the special commltteo is dealing with the task assigned it, is growing somewhat Intense. Revelations of "new deals" are hint ed at In the cloak rooms. In tho mean while the special commltteo is car rying on its work behind closed doors. An all-day session was held today. May Grade Consular Service. Senator Lodge was authorized by tho senate committee on foreign rela tions to make a favorable report on his bill to grade the consular service. The bill was materially amended and as npproved oy tho committee pro vides that vice consuls may be ap pointed to perform the present duties of consular agents nnd that the latter grade shall cease. Provision is mado that there shall not be more than two consul generals of tho first class at $2,000 per annum; eight consul gener als of the second class, at $8,000; thir teen consul generals of the third class, at $0,000, and thirteen or the fourth class, nt $5,500 eac.i. There will bo thirty-seven consuls of the first class, at $5,000; thirty-five of the second class, at $4,000; sixty of tne third class, at $3,000; forty of the fourth class, at $2,500,; .thirty of tho fifth class, at $2,000, and fifty or the sixth class, at $1,800 each por annum. The bill regulates all fees, official or unoffi cial, and provides for the performanco of notarial acts. Demand Statehood Rights. LAS VEGAS, N. M. Tho republican territorial convention selected dele gates to the natlonul convention nt Chicago endorsed the administration of President Roosevelt and passed the following resolution by a unani mous vote: "We tavor and arc of right entitled to statehood within tho boundary lines of our tenltory as they now exist. Wo ! hereby expross our confidence in tho national administration and congress dealing with us In the mattor of state hood fairly and justly." Russian Captain is Shot. NEW YORK A telegram from Lomberg. forwarded by the London Times correspondent nt Vienna, says that Captain Leontieff, of the Russian gonornl staff, has been arrested at Warsuw for having sold to a foroigu power a lUt of the socret agontB maintained hy tho Russian general staff in the frontier districts of Rus sia, on the wost. The dlscovory was made through tho dolivory of a money order to another person of tho same name. Leontieff is reported to have been shot. I poultry 1 1 in ii c ' i- j1 111 Raising Pheasants. For pheasants take a medium sized den, after sho lias been sitting two or throo days, gently lift her oft of tho nest nnd placo not over 15 to 18 pheasant eggs In tho nest, gently re plnco her ou tho nest; it she flies off when replaced, lot her go, she will most likely go back of her own will. If possible, select tho tamest hcus for hatching quail and pheasant eggs. Food nnd water should bo placed so that tho hen can subsist during incu bation. This is especially essential If tho hen Is shut up in some out building, otherwise tho food part Is not so essential, as she will soon find food If nllowcd to roam over tho yard, etc. If tho hen is qulto tame, examine tho eggs frequently to see that nono is broken or whethor sho has fouled her nest; it any of the eggs hnvo been broken, remove tho broken eggs and clean nil the othors that have becomo dirty from tho broken eggs; do this with a damp cloth dipped in warm water. Nevor put tho eggs in water. A foul nest 13 quite certain to kill the young Llrds. It takes 22 to 24 days for the eggs to hatch. After tho eggs havo been under tho hen 20 days sprinkle the eggs with hike-warm water. I find that this greatly assists the young in leaving tho shell. Tho hen should ulways bo set In a box whoso sides are at least six inches highor than the nest; if not tho youug will leave their foster mother nB soon as they nro out of tho shell. Don't remove the den until tho young nro at least 24 hours old, aB by that tlmo they will havo learned a part of their foster mother's call or talk. When you dcslro to rcmovo tho heil aud her brood to a coop, first get four boivrds, say 12 to 14 Inches wide, edge them up, making a square en clcBuro; nail tho ends together and then throw dirt around the bottom odgoB of tho bonrds, so that It Is not possible for a bird to get out; better, perhaps, to put dirt ou both sides ot the boards, as it often happens that other chickens mny scratch the dirt away from tho outside, thus giving tho young a 6hance to get" out. When you nro qulto certain that you have jour enclosuro such that tho young ennuot escape, then take any old box that you may have, rcmovo ono end and ono side, placo the box in the center of enclosuro with open sldo Oown, nail slats over the front to keep tho hen in tho box. When this Is all done, tako tho hen and her brood and place them In the box, aud tho first thing to do after this has been dono Is to give tho hen all the corn sho will eat. h J, Wilson. Crested White Ducks. Crested White ducks are valuable chiefly as ornaments, as they possess no qualities that are not found in more commonly grown breeds. Tho standard weight ot tho mature drake Is 7 pounds and ot the duck G pounds. Scaly Legs. "Scaly legs" is caused by a para site and hence can be quite easily eradicated from a flock. Tho trouble, does not spread rapidly and this again indicates that it Is quite easy to con trol. It Is seldom met with in young fowls nnd less in tho light Mediter raneans fowls than in tho heavy breeds. Old birds of the heavier types are most likely to havo it. Fortunately for the raisers ot water fowls, ducks and geese are not subject to It. As parasites of all kinds can bo killed by tho use of grease and oil, these may be disposed of the same way. Probably tho oil and lard them selves would do the work, but to make the remedy the more efficacious, kero sene Is added. It Is also sometimes woll to raako an emulsion of kero sene and water and dip tho legs of the fowls into this. Pure lard Is good and if tho legs of the fowls are greased with this till the spaces between the scales are filled the recovery should ho complete. This is a matter that should be attended to, as tho birds doubtless suffer greatly from the in cessant itching. This is shown by the persistency with which fowls at fected with this disease peck at their legs, often maKlng them bleed. Every farmer can Improve hl3 flock of fowls by constant and careful se lection, always weeding out the poor est A Change of Corsets. A valuable discovery has been mado that half of woman's ills come from wearing the same pair of corsets every day, says Philadelphia Pres3. There is somo truth in this statement for the reason that pressure is always exerted upon the samo placo and ono gets tired in spots. A change of corsets would naturally moans a change in pressttro. Tho same holds good in shoes and hats. It people would only consider these small things, much discomfort and annoyance could be avoided. The poor liver gets credit for all our Ills. .-rlrl r - - "