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By M. QUAD.
Copyright, 1W9, by T. C. McClure.
Five city girls who wore summer
guesta at the Crow's Nest hotel set
out one ilny to walk to the village of
Gladys, three miles away. Tlio walk
hadn't covered half n mile when two
objects of Interest were caught sight
of nt the same time In a Held to the
left. The first wan n spotted calf
about six Months old, and the second
was a tramp asleep under a tree. Five
philosophers would have passed these
objects by with a glance, but those
girls were not philosophers. Some one
suggested that dirt and stones be
thrown to see the calf run away and
the tramp get a inovcpn him.
It was Miss I.otta Innls that threw
the stone that brought about the sur
prise. It was an awkward throw, of
course, but the hand of Providence
guided it along until It struck the calf
In the ribs; The calf Jumped over the
tramp, the tramp awoke and caught
the calf by the leg and brought It
down nud broke Its neck, and thn live
girls who were not philosophers utter
ed live screnms nnd ran away. As
soon as they realized the enormity of
their offenso they mvore each other to
secrecy.
It was the tramp, however, who set
tled things. Clothed In a suit given
him by the farmer for the purpose, he
lounged around the hotel until he had
Idontltled the guilty party, and then
It was planned for things to happen.
Three days after Miss I.otta Inula had
been Identified nH the assassin of
calves and the rude awnkoner of
tramps she rode over to Gladys with
the mail carrier to do some shopping.
The birds sang, the chipmunks darted
In nud out of the bushes, and no thun
derstorm arose to warn the poor girl
what was In storu for her. The vil
lage was reached, her shopping done,
nnd then the constable arrested her.
He gave her to understand that the
law empowered him to put handcuffs
on her wrists, shackles on her ankles
and a gag in her mouth nnd also to
walk beside her with a gun In one
hand and a bowle knife in the other,
but If she would give her word not to
turn desperate ho would forego those
pleasures.
A. few minutes later Miss Lottie
found herself arraigned before a Jus
tico of the peace on charges of inal
cloua trespass and a barrel of other
things. Scared? Of course she was
Beared. She was so frightened that
she was fairly dumb. It came upon
her so suddenly that she couldn't think
what to do. Tho farmer was deter
mined, the constable driven by duty,
the tramp revengeful nnd his honor
feeling that tho majesty of the law
must be upheld If It pulled the shin
k. gles off the roof of his olllcc. No ono
puggosted that tho girl see a lawyer,
tmd she had begun to weep nnd think
about offering a million dollars to set
tle tho case when a young man ap
proached her and tendered his card
and added:
"I am a guest at the hotel here, nnd
you will see by my card that I am a
lawyer. I shall be glad to take your
case."
"Hut I have no Inoney to pay you!"
walled the girl, remembering that her
last purchase had left her with only
7 cents In her purse.
"That doesn't make the slightest dif
ference." Then, turning to the court,
he announced that ho represented the
prisoner nnd wished for time to con
sult as to her defense. This was
grudgingly allowed him, and, looking
through her tenrs, Mlns I.otta discov
ered Hint tho card handed her bore
tho name of Walter Ilalpln. She told
him the story of the stone, the calf
nnd tho tramp, but she was so upset
that she scarcely noticed that ho was
a good looking young man of four and
twenty nnd evidently city bred. At
the end of u quarter of an hour ho
announced his readiness to proceed
Tho farmer was too stingy to employ
n lawyer, and, having the justice and
tho tramp with htm, it looked as If he
had a sure thing. It looked that way
for about ten minutes, nnd then things
began to change. Miss Lotta made
her statement under oath. There were
a calf and a (ramp, but no malice. The
stone she throw might hnve hit the
calf, the tramp or any other old tiling.
That it hit the calf was only an ac
cident. Tho young advocate defined trespass;
ho defined malicious trespass: he de
fined glrllsm, tramplsm and a dozen
other things having n henrlng on tho
ense. lie got his honor nil tangled up;
ho got tho tramp scared; lie got the
constable fooling that he was liable to
hoavy damages for a false arrest, and
then lie asked for his client's disehargo
nnd got It. Ills honor decided to give
the tramp thirty days to satisfy the
Inw, himself and tho other folks.
Tho mall carrier had departed, and
of course the .vanig lawyer hired a
rig and drove hN client ba k to Crow's
Nest. Of course he drove over there
alone the next day to talk over the
case with her. As a matter of fact, he
got in the habit of showing up there
almost every diy. It was lecal busi
ness, in a way, and Miss l.-iita found
herself rntli-r liking legal Ihi-Iik'kh
After tho season was over there was
correspondence nnd later on social
calh. Almost a year went by nnd
nc thing had been said about the legal
fee when tho lawyer called one even
ing nnd smilingly nnd a bit anxiously
nunounced:
"My dear ox-client, you owe me a
v fee for keeping you out of stato prison
or life, and I'm going to ask you to
tVav It lv becoming my little wife."
Well, what could a poor ejrl do? She
hadn't ovcu the 7 cents this lime, and
she had to sny "Yes" nnd make the
m of It.
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By HELOISE AME8.
Copyright, 1905, by American Prosa Asso
ciation. "This Is Intolerable."
"A plensnnt summer morning Intol
erable?" "You know very well I don't refer to
the morning."
"I hope you don't refer to me."
"I refer to this position In which I
am placed by my mother."
"What position?" V
"When a girl comes to my ngo she
la nn Independent woman havlug
rights upon which no parent can tres
pass." "You menu sho ought to bo Inde
pendent." "My mother has made up her mind
that I-tlmt she that you"
"Any ono elso In It?"
"You don't help me a bit. To stato
it boldly and correctly, she la throwing
mo at you."
"I trust 1 shall ninke n good cntch."
"Hvcr since she nrranged that the
two families should spend the hot sea
son together here she has kept me In
misery. What could be more crucify
ing to a girl's pride than to have her
mother show every moment that she
wishes her daughter to catch n certain
man? Last evening when Mr. Fitch
called she treated him abominably.
Her motive was apparent to every
one."
"Suppose 1 go a way?"
"You might do that that Is. If you
wish."
"Oh, your mother doesn't trouble mo.
I would go to get you out of the mud
dle."
"But," she rejoined nfter n pnuso,
"every one would sny tho man was
so persecuted he went to escape being
positively forced to"
"It wouldn't do. Would It?"
There was no reply to this.
"It wouldn't do, would It?"
"Suppose," he ndded medltntlvely
"suppose I propose to you nnd you de
cline me. Wouldn't that let you out?"
"Thank you. If a man proposes to
me I prefer to treat his proposal as I
see fit."
"Hut your mother?"
"I shnll neither decline nor ncccpt
nny ono to plenso my mother."
"Well, I don't see how I can help
you."
"I don't either."
"It's a dospernto case."
"Exasperating."
"I tell you what you do. Accept the
nttcntlons of nnothnr man, Fitch, for
Instance. He'll do for a dummy, and
sny"
"Mr. Fitch In a very nice young
mnn."
'"Hint's It nice. You can tell your
mother you're doing It to egg mo on."
"Do you dnro accuse mo of having
dono that?"
"I wiib giving you n plan to Induce
your mother to let us I mean you-
nlone."
"You should go Into the diplomatic
service."
A pause.
"If there Is no way out of It," he
Biild presently, "I suppose we'll have
to submit."
"Oh, It isn't ns bad ns that."
Another pause, this tlmo constrained.
"We might go out there on tho pier
and Jump off."
"Now you're tnlklng silly."
"I have It! I'll go nnd proposo to
Mnrcla Eldrldge."
"I've always thought n girl with a
face like n pnn of milk would suit
you."
"I don't menu nnythlng permnncnt.
I could break It off In tho autumn."
"If you do you needn't come back
to"-
Slic bit her lip.
"Why don't you Just tell your mother
you don't want me. won't have mo and
she's to stop her Interference at once."
To this there was no reply.
"You don't seem to think much of
that proposition."
"It s about as senseless ns tho oth
ers."
"One more nnd I'vo dono. Take the
mnn you want, go to your mother nnd
tell her you're engaged."
This met tho same reception as the
last- silence.
"I give it up."
"I would advise you to gl it up if
you can't think of anything less pre
posterous than Mint."
"Why preposterous?"
"Do you supposo Mint nil tho men of
my acquaintance hnve made mo enrte
blanche otters good for nil tlmo?"
"I didn't think of Mint."
A long pause. They strolled on to
tho pier. The sky was blue above
them, and tho waves were rolling in, a
pale green, below them; gulls directly
overhead, ships out on the horizon.
"There's a way out of It If we can
only find it," lie said presently.
"I'm afraid we're not bright enough.
Perhaps we don't want to find It."
"That's singular. I thought we had
been trying to find It nil tho while."
"You haven't contributed much to
ward Mint end."
"I? What have you contributed?"
"It Isn't my part to find a way out
of It. I took a risk of being considered
uiiuialdeuly to mention It at nil."
"Let us sit down on this bench, nnd
I'll try onto more."
They seated .themselves. Ho looked
up at the sky and down at tho waves,
but saw neither. Then ho said:
"Suppose I go to your mother and
ask her for your lmiid."
She did not reply to Mils nt once, but;
her features expressed relief.
"Don't you want my henrtV"
"I have it."
"What made you think so. Certainly
nothing that I hnve said or done."
"Mini bull ul tlibrc ibid Inc."
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By HORACE B. QAYLORD.
Copyright, 1W9, by American l'roa Aaio
elation. My cousin, Hetty Archibald, Is scat
ter brained. As 1 was about to leave
oil the r:."0 train to spend the week
end nt her cottage by tho sea sho sent
mo this telegram:
Vlo will bo at station at 6:15. Hrlng her
down.
1 knew no more who Vic was than
tho contents of a Hottentot newspaper.
What should I do go to the station
and trust to luck? That was all I
could do, and that I did.
There was the usual rush to get
aboard that one finds on the last days
of the week nt trains going to sensldc
resorts. There were a dozen people
ahead of me at tho ticket office, among
them a pretty girl to whom the ngout
gave a ticket to Manasquan, which
was my station. Of course I took note
of her and hoped she might turn out
to be Vie, but there was only the rea
son of her destination. I walked about
for ten minutes before the train stint
ed, observing every one who seemed to
bo looking for some one. All I could
see were a youngster of eighteen who
waited at the gate till the starting boll
rang and n man with a dog, whoNeaned
against a post.
As tho train rolled oft 1 entered u
enr, and there sat tho girl with tho
Manasquan ticket. I stared at her,
nnd, nfter looking nt mo for n mo
ment, she dropped her eyes. Beside
her on tho seat was a suit case, which
I noticed was marked V. T. That set
tled It. Sim must bo Vic. Instead of
approaching her nnd nsklng her If she
wns the girl I looked for I concluded
to gain the Information on the detec
tive plan. It would bo Interesting to
discover her Identity by following tho
clow given mo on her suit case. It
would be more Interesting to know her.
she not knowing mo. It would be
downright fun to tako her to my
hostess, chaff Bet for her failure to
give mo proper Information, then tell
them both Mint by my Ingenuity I had,
after all, been ennbled to do all that
had been required of mo. Raising my
hat, I said to her:
"Pnrdon me, but I think we nre go
ing to the Rnmo station, nnd, arrived
there, we will bo entertained at the
same house."
"Yes?" she replied, with a smile.
"You are going to Manasquan, I be
lieve?" "I am."
"And you will bo tho guest of my
cousin?"
She put the suit enso on tho floor,
nnd I sat down beside her.
"Who Is your cousin?"
"I have thought that It would be en
tortnlnlng to havo you see If by ques
tioning me you can find out who I am
nnd certain orders I hnve received re
specting you."
"That would serve to while away
the time wo shall spend on the train."
"Will you-begln?"
"Let me see. You nro Harold Bliss?"
"No."
"Not Rose Duttou's fiance?"
"No. I wish I, were any one's
fiance."
"I glvo It up."
"Can't you guess my orders?"
"No."
"I am directed to bo your escort." .
"You don't mean It."
"Yes; I wns telegraphed to mot : ou
nt the station to escort you to Maims
quan and thence to"
"Where?"
"To tell you would spoil all the fun."
"And," she said, nfter a little
thought, "to tell you where I'm going
would spoil nil tho fun too."
"It certainly would. The person
from whom I received my orders Is
very careless and gave no clew by
which to recognize you. Nevertheless
I have secured a clew. Do you like
to read detective stories?"
"I dote on them."
"Well, we ar enacting n Utile de
tective story. When we get to the cud
of our Journey wo shnll have the de
nouement." "I dare sny It will all be very clever.
How did you happen to think of such
a plan?"
"Mauasqunu!" shouted a iraliiiiiau.
I picked up her suit ease and left
the car with her. I was about to hand
her down the step when a gentleman
put his own hand In ahead of me. He
stared at me ominously. The lady
said:
"Mack, this gentleman has enter
tnlncd me delightfully on the train.
He knows me, but I don't know him.
He says bo wns ordered to escort me
home."
I didn't like this feature of the af
fair nt all.
"Come. Oinnle. tho carriage U wall
ing." said the young man, casting n
suspicions glance at me.
"Heavens! Oinnle!" I had blun
dered. "Is not your first name Victoria?"
"Oh. no; It's Virginia!"
I got very red in the face and stood
mute.
"The denouement Is different," said
the girl, "from what tho story Inrll
rates. I ndnilre such endings."
Hho smiled bn k at me with dancing
eyes as sho left with the man whom
Instinct told me wns her llnnce.
When I renchod the Archlbulrt cot
tugo the first thing Uct said to mo
was:
"Where's Vic?"
"Who the dlekons Is Vic?" I asked
nuifrlly.
"My poodle. Thomas was to have
her at the Nation for you. Didn't yon
tsce him?"
"Yes. I uuw lilin," I growled, "but I
didn't know him. The next tlmo yon
ninljo n request plenso bo moro ei-
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All parties desiring- to raise
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ROAD NO. 818.
To nil whom it may concern: Tha
Commissioner appointed for tho pur
pose or locating a public road has re
ported in favor of tho same with a
slight change as follows:
Commencing at tho i section corner
between sections 3 and 4, T. 13 N, of
Rango 30 W., boing (identical with
S, E. corner of lot 5 of County Clerk's
Subdivision of Lot 1 and S. E. J N. E.
J of Section 4, T. 13 N, Range 30 W.,
running thenco north of section line to
tho S. E. earner of Lot 2, thenco wett
between lots 2 and 3, to a road now
traveled nnd having been traveled for
moro than 10 yours und having been
dedicated to adjoining lot owner by
W. L. Park, former owner and
proprietor of said lund, thenco north on
sulci traveled roud to tho north lino of
snid section 4. That part of said rond
along soction lino nnd between lots 2
and 3 to ho GO feet wido and that part
now traveled and having been loft as a
road by VV. L. Park to bo GGft, wido.
A road less then 50 feet wide cannot
bo gruded properly. AH objectiona
thereto or claims for damages must bo
filed in tho oflico of tho county clerk on
or boforo noon on tho 12th day of July,
1009, or such road will bo established
without roforonco thereto. '
Dated North Plutte, Nobr., May 7,
1900. F. R. Elliott
mll-4 County Clark'.