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(Copyright. A. C. McClurs & Co.. 1910.) CHAPTER IV. An Old Acquaintance. TTie Carson City look-up wan an Im provised affair, although a decidedly 'popular resort. It was originally a kwo-room cabin with gable to the Ifrtreet, the front apartment at one 'ttrae a low groggery, the keeper sleep ling In the rear room. Whether Bud dun death, or financial reverses, 'had fateo the cause, the community had In taome manner become possessed of the "property, and had at once' dedicated !H to the commonweal. For the pur ;iKMe thus selected It waa rather well (Adapted, being strongly built, easily guarded, and on the outskirts of the 'town. With Iron grating over the i windows, the back door heavily spiked, nd the front secured by Iron ban, ny prisoner onoe locked within could probably be found when wanted. On the occasion of Keith's arrival, the portion abutting upon the street waa occupied by a rather miscellaneous aHxembly the drunk and disorderly -element conspicuous who were rawaitlng their several calls to appear 'twfore a local justice and make an wer for various misdeeds. Some were 7aelng the floor, others sat moodily on benches ranged against the wall, while a few were still peacefully slum HxNing upon the floor. It was a frowsy, disreputable crowd, evincing but mild ' 'tturiosHy at the arrival of a new pris oner. Keith Tiad barely time to glance about, recognizing no familiarity of ' face amid the mass peering at him, as lie was hustled briskly forward and thrust Into the rear room, the heavy door closing behind him with the snap lf a spring lock. , Htf was alone, with only1 the faint- irt- murmur of voices coming to him rthrotigti the thick partition. It was a room soma twelve feet square, open to the roof, with bare waits, and con taining no furniture except a rude 'boueb. Still dased by the suddenness of his arrest, he sank down upon the Mtt, leaned his head on his hands, and endeavored to think. It was dlf- 'flortlt to get the facta marshalled Into any order or to comprehend clearly the situation, yet little by little his ttram grasped the main details, and he awoke to a full realisation of his otiHUon, of the forces he roust war ttgainst The actual murderers of those two men on the trail had had their suspicions aroused by his ac tions; tbey believed he guessed some thing of their foul deed, and had de termined to clear themselves by charging the crime directly against ihim. It was a shrewd trick, and If ithpy only stuck to their story, ought to succeed. He had no evidence, oth Ur than his own word, and the marshal tiad already taken from his pockets the papers belonging to the slain linan. He had not found the locket jhldden under his shirt, yet a more thorough search would doubtless re tvoal that also. Even should the case come to trial, Itow would It be possible for him to establish innocence, and would It ver come to trial? Keith knew the character of the frontier, and of Car mon City. The inclination of its citi zens in such cases waa to act first, iund reflect later. The law had but ulender hold, being respected only 'when backed by the strong hand, and IprlmUlve instincts were always in the 'awcendency, requiring merely a leader to break forth In open violence. And In this case would there be any lack Kif leadership? Like a flash his mind iroverted to "Black! Bart." There was the man capable of Inciting a mob. If, for some unknown reason, he had suf ficient Interest to swear out the war rant, and assist in the arrest, he would (have equal cause to serve thone fel lows behind him In other ways. Nat urally, they would dread a trial, with ilt possibility of exposure, and eagerly primp any opportunity for wiping the date clean. Their real security from discovery undouM l',y lay In his "Oh, De Good Lawd, Dat Am Waits an' John Sibley.' Malta (loath, and with the "Red Light" crowd .behind them they would i- - . . . )OF)TSIE itil ATAIX OF T11C PLAINS P AMDALL PADDISH- .uthor Or" My Lady Of The South." iemWildepness Was King Etctrc ILLUSTRATIONS Dv DfARDR1 MfLVIU.' perlence no trouble in getting a fol lowing desperate euough for any pur pose. The longer Keith thought the less he doubted the result. It was not then a problem of defence, but of escape, for he believed now that no oppor tunity to defend himself would ever be allowed. The arrest was merely part of the plot intended to leave him helpless In the hands of the mob. In this Hicks was In no way blamable he had merely performed his sworn duty, and would still die, If need be, In defence of his prisoner. He was no tool, but only an Instrument they had found means of using. ...... Keith was essentially a man of ac tion, a fighter by Instinct, and so long accustomed to danger that the excite ment of It merely put new Are Into his veins. Now that he understood exact ly what threatened, all numbing feel ing of hesitancy and doubt vanished, and he became Instantly alive. He would not He there In that hole wait ing for the formation of a mob; nor would he trust In the ability of the marshal to defend him. He had some friends without not many, for he was but an occasional visitor at Carson who would rally to Hick's assistance, but there would not be enough on the side of law and or der to overcome the "Red Light" out fit, if once they scented blood. If be was to be saved from their clutches, he must save himself; if hla Inno cence was ever established it would be by his own exertions and ba could accomplish this only out yonder, free under the arch of sky. He lifted his head, every nerve tin gling with desperate determination. The low growl of voices was audible through the partition, but there was no other sound. Carson City was still resting, and there would be no crowd nor excitement until much later. Not until nightfall would any attack be at tempted ; he bad six or eight hours yet In which to perfect his plans. He ran his eyes about the room searching for some spot of weakness. It was dark back of the bench, and he turned In that direction. Leaning over, he looked down on the figure of a man curled up, sound asleep on the floor. The fellow's limbs twitched as If in a dream, otherwise he might, have deem ed him dead, as his face was burled In his arms. A moment Keith hesi tated; then he reached down and shook the sleeper, until he aroused sufficiently to look up. It was the face of a coal-black negro. An in stant the fellow stared at the man towering over him, his thick Hps part ed, his eyes full of sudden terror. Then he sat up, with hands held be fore him as though warding off a blow. "Fo" de Lawd's sake," he managed to articulate finally, "am dls sho yo Maasa Jack?" Keith, to whom all colored people were much alike, laughed at the ex pression on the negro's face. "I reckon ycr guessed the name, all right, boy. Were you the cook of the Diamond L?" "No, san, I nebber cooked no dl'onds. I'se ol' Neb, Bah." "What?" "Yes, Bah, I'se de boy dat llbbed wld ol' Missus Caton durln' de wah. I ain't seen yo', Massa Jack, sence de day we burled yo' daddy, ol' Massa Keith. But I knowed yo' de berry H-iniite I woke up. Sho' yo' 'members Neb, sal)?" It came to Keith now In sudden rush of memory the drizzling ra'n In the little cemetery, the few neigh bors standing about, a narrow fringe of slaves back of them, the lowertng of the coffin, and the hollow sound of earth falling on the box; and Neb, his Aunt Catou's house servant, a black Imp of good humor, who begged so hard to be taken back with him to the war. Why, the boy had held his stir rup the next morning when be rode away. The sudden rush of recollec tion seemed to bridge the years, and that black face became familiar, a memory of home. 1 "Of course, I remember, Neb," he exclaimed, eagerly, "but that's all years ago and 1 never expected to see yon again. Wbat brought you West and got yon Into this holsf The negro hitched np onto the bench, the whites of his eyes conspic uous as he stared uneasily about he had a short, squatty figure, with ex cessively broad shoulders, and a faca of Intense good humor. "I reck'n dat am oooslder'ble ob a story, Massa Jack, de circumlocution ob which would take a heap ob time tellln'," be began soberly. "But It happened 'bout dls way. When de Yankees come snooptn' long de East Sho' I reck'n maybe !t des a yeah aft er dat time when we done burled de ol' Co'nel dey burned Missus Caton's house clah to de groun'; de ol' Missus waa In Richmond den, an' de few nig gers left Jest oatchally took to de woods. I went Into Richmond huntln' de ol' Missus, but, Iawd, Massa Jack, I nebber foun' nuthin ob her In dat crowd. Den an' officer man done (rot me an put me dlggla' in de trenches. Ef dat's what wah am, I sho' don' ""Vfci-rao'. wh- t)en mttr dat I lint mm natchally drifteJl. f reckon I" llbbed I bout eberywhar yo' ebtr heard olX ' ro dar want no use ob me gotn' back i to de East Sho. Somebody said dat de West am de right place fo a nig- j ger, an' so I done headed west" , He dropped his face In his black i hands, and was silent for some min utes, but Keith said nothing, and fin ally the thick voice continued: "I tell you', Massa Jack. It was mltchty lonely fo Neb dem days. I I didn't know whar any ob yo' all was, i au' It wan't no fun fo' dis nlpser beln' free dat away. I got out ter Indepen dence, Missouri, an' was roustabout !u' on de ribber, when a couple ob men come along what wanted a cook to trabbel wld 'em. I took de Job, an' d;t's what fetched nie here ter Carson City." "But what caused your arrest?" "A conjunction ob circumstances, Massa Jack; yes, sah, a conjunction ob circumstances. I got playln' pokah ober In dat 'Red Light.' an' I was doin' fine. I reckon I'd cleaned up mo'n a hundred dollars when I got sleepy. an' started fo' camp. I'd most got dar w'en a bunch ob low white trash Jumped me. It made me mad, It did fo' a fact, an' I reckon I carved some ob 'em up befo' I got away. Enny bow, de marshal come down, took me out ob de tent, an' fetched me here, an' I ben here ebber sence. I want goln ter let no low down white trash git all dat money." "What became of the men you were working for?" "I reckon dey went on, sah. Def had 'portent business, an' wouldn't likely wait 'round hero Jest ter help a nigger. Ain't ennybody ben here ter see me, nohow, an' I 'spects I'se eradi cated from dey mem'ry I 'spects I (To Be Continued.) I No Sleep, No Rest, No Peace for the Sufferer From Kidney Troubles. No peace for the kidney suf ferer Pain and distress from morn to night. Get up with a lame back. Twinges of backache bother you all day. Dull aching breaks your re(st at night. Urinary disorders add to your misery. Get at the cause cure the kid neys. Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kidneys only Have made great cures in this locality. Mrs. I. Youmans, of Glenwood, Iowa, says: "I had a dull pain in my back, extending into my neck ami I was unable to get my proper rest. Two months ago I procured Doan's Kidney Pills and their use made a marked improve ment in every way. I can praise Doan's Kidney Pills highly, for I know they can lie relied upon to strengthen the kidneys and dis pose of any symptom of kidney complaint." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. White Felts Popular. "The thing in millinery right now," said a millinery salesman to a Journal reporter at the depot, "is the white felt hat. They are very popular in the cities. They will be all the style for early fall wear and they xvill soon be as popular in the smaller cities as in the big ones. Felt hats in colors xvill also be. very popular, green and purple shades being most in evidence. But right noxv the white felt is the thing." Noyes County Charlman. From 'Wednesday's Dally. The republican county central committee met at Weeping Water yesterday and chose Charle9 Noyes of Louisville for chairman and Dr. E. W. Cook of Platts mouth for vice chairman. Thero was a big attendance of com mitteemen at the meeting, besides most of the county republican candidates. The committee ad journed to meet at the call of the chairman. DANCE. A social dance will be given at the T. J. Sokol ball Saturday, August 20, 1911. Everybody cordially invited. Music by M. W. A. orchestra Admission, 50c; ladies free. 'I!"IH"!H-H"W-IH"I-I'H Many ills come from impure blood. Can't have pure blood wilh faulty digestion, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens stomach, boxxcls and liver, and purities the blood. MIPOnilDI nipiriP IfllDUUUali I Aull lU The New Superintendent Says Great Work Is Being Done. Anthony De Bernardi, recent v pronioteii to Hie position of gen eral superintendent of all the lines of the Missnnnn I'urilie rail road west of Si. I.ouis, xxas in Omaha Saturday. This was his first isit here .since asiiiinng the duties of his new otViee. lie came up oxer the rixer line from Kan sas City, making an inspection of xx hat is beintr done in the xvay of improvements. Superintendent De Beruardi is authority for the statement that the Missouri Pacitle's main line is rapidly being put in tlrst-class condition. Curves are being cut out. grades are being cut down and a number of heavy fills are being made. Bridges are. being re built in a number of places. When all this is done the road will be the short line between Omaha and Kansas City. When the improvements are completed, which will probably be as early as the first of next year, a new schedule will be made for passenger and express trains, the plan being to cut from txvo to three hours from the present schedule. Superintendent De Bernardi is another of the western railroad men who has made good. Twenty-three years ago he was an or dinary section hand, working along the tracks in Missouri. Officials of the road saxv that ho was made of the right kind of stuff and in a little while the young man became boss of the section. From that time on pro motions came with great rapidity, he served as trainmaster, assist ant superintendent, until now he holds one of the best positions in the service of the company. For a number of years he was super intendent of the Omaha division, with headquarters in Ibis city. Omaha Pee. An ordinary case of diarrhoea can, as a ruie, be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy has no su perior for bowel complains. For sale by F. fi. Fricke & Co. Mrs. Horrigan Dead. Mrs. Michael Horrigan, mother of Kd Horrigan of Omaha. J. C. Horrigan of New York and W. .1 Horrigan of Hastings, Neb., died of arterial eurrhosis at her home in Lexington. Neb., last Sunday night. Mrs. Horrigan was 01 years of age. The body arrived in Council Bluffs last evning and was taken to Culler's undertaking parlors. This nioriiim; it will be taken to Iinogene, Iowa, her former home, for burial. Omaha World-Herald. Mrs. Horrigan is a sisler of Mrs. Mary C. Murphy of this city, j xx no departed yesterday tor iino gene to attend the funeral, which occurs there today. The deceased lady has visited her sisler here on several occasions and was quite well knoxxn in Plattsmouth. Baseball Sunday Afternoon. The Plaltsmoiilh baseball team xvill play the Cedar Creek team fin the home diamond next Sunday afternoon, the game to be called at 3 o'clock. This is the second game between Plattsmouth and Cedar Creek this reason and promises to be a good one. Turn out and give the boys a good crowd and assist them at, least to pay the visitors' expenses. Mrs. Frank (lobelman returned from Murray last evening. CATARRH HAY FEVER ELY'S CREAM BALM Applied Into lh nodrlls Is quickly absorbed. OIVE8 RELIEF AT ONCE. It clonnsoM, soot lies, Ih-uIh ami rtml the disimwd lueinlirHiio resulting from Cutnrrh ami drivi-s awuy a CiM in the Head quickly. Ki'ston-i the Nenstus of 'J'uste and Kmidl. It in enny to uhh. Contain no injurious drug. No inep'ury, no eocalno, 110 rmr. jiliimi. TliO liotim-liold r'-liifly. Price, CO cotitH at bru'ints or ly miiil. CLY BROTHERS. 56 Wtrrsn St., New Yon 111 IH p) HIS I LESS Old Hochstrasser Place Gaining Fame As A Place For Cupid Miss Mae Crook and Raloh Slander Will Be Married There Tonight Those Who Have Been Married. "I.et ail xx ho enter h re beware. "' Daniel Cupid. Platlsmouih ha,, a Inune where four marriages have taken place in the last ten or Ixxelxe mouths, or rather xvill have taken place xx hen at 7:;i0 o'clock this evening Mr. Halph Sladler of Salem uud Miss Mae Crook of this city will be united in wedlock at the home of the bride's parents on South Chicago avenue. The Crook home, better knoxvn as the Hochstrasser place, is a pretty place of twenty acres, situated in the southwest part of Plattsmouth, and the little god of love seems to have made his. bid ing place there during the last year, if lie is going to continue his home at that place he ought to put out a sign something like that at the head of this article, for four men Rev. Arthur Brown of Lincoln, Robert V. Sherwood of Plattsmouth, Ike Smith of Salem and Ralps Stadler of Salem can all testify that Cupid's home is mere, ana mat "iney nail no chance at all, mice they entered xvilhin the gate." State Superintendent Crabtree May Visit Plattsmouth Schools Personally In September. The following letter from State Superintendent Crabtree to Super intendent Abbott of the Platts mouth schools will explain itself, and as it is a matter of interest to teachers we publish the com munication in full, by permission of Professor Abbott: Lincoln, August 15, 1011. Superintendent N. C. Abbott, Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Dear Friend: The complete rules for the certification of teachers are noxv in the hands of the printer. Copies will be mailed lo you just as soon as received from the press. I am mighty proud of this whole scheme. We have used great care in preparing the rules and regulations in order to avoid the mistakes that always result from over-haslry xxork, yet we cannot hope to have the com pleted bulletin entirely free from imperfections. We shall be ready very soon to begin issuing cerlitlcales to those xx ho bold positions in schools or ganized under sub-division . In order to give each of your teach ers a square deal and in order to get. the assistance of Hie super intendent in passing on some cases, I am now planning to visit xotir school personally or to send a representative of this olllce to you some lime during September REACHING TI1B i n v 11 ..Mil I tow ann CUAT110F SCHOOL TEACHERS House hunting will be made easy if you use your telephone. You may then determine from from a real estate dealer the available houses before you go to look for one. If you are moving to another town, an ex planation of your needs over the Long Distance Bell Telephone lines "will enable the real estate dealer to have a house ready when you arrive. o5 M. :. BRANTNER, II PLAUSMOUTH I II II xxas late last fall that Rev. Broxxn and Miss Kathlene Hoch strasser were married at thft Hochstrasser home. At that time Mr. Sherwood was often seen at the home, and on January 4 he and Miss Hannah 11. Hochstrasser were married. A little more than three months passed and Ira Smith and Miss Ora Crook were married. A new family had moved into the plaoe, but results in the matrimonial line were the same. Tonight the fourth wedding will take place, that of Mr. Stadler an.4 Miss Mae Crook. For the fourth time in less than a year will i wedding inarch pour forth from the home, and young people make merry with the old,, old -wedding customs. Rev. Mr. Holyoke of Omaha will perform the ceremony this even ing. Thero will be a number of out-of-town guests at the wed ding, among whom will be Mr. and Mrs. Ike Smith of Salem, Mrs. B. W. Brown of Omaha, Misses Net tie and Minnie Stabler of Salem and Louis Witt of Salem. to pass on every application and to sign and present the certifi cates at that time. Life certificates may be validat ed without expense. The feo will lie $1 for certificate instead of $1.25. Those who paid $1.25 wilt hnvo the excess returned to them. But these matters need not be ex plained further until the date of the visit. The new rules will show the grade of certificate each, will be entitled to. Wish you would be kind enough to let eaoh of your teachers know at onco th plan to attend lo certificates after school opens 80 as to provvmt their feeling anxious about the matter. Very Rincerly yours, J. W, Crnbtroe, ; State Superintendent. John Fassbender for Coroner. We note In the Nebraska City papers that John Fassbender, formerly of this city, xvas nomin ated by the democrats of Otoe county for coroner. John is an awful good man, and if he has made himself as popular in Otoe county as he was in Cass, he will undoubtedly be elected. He is a splendid man for the place and the democrats should make a desperate effort lo elect him. Miss Buckington relumed to Pacific Junction this morning, af ter visiting at the home of J. W. Hainey for a few days. C. A. RAWLS LAWYER Office First National Bank Building RENTING AGENT r.'ivr- v. HAH 1 MONTHS PMwmm Nebraska Telephone Company Plattsmouth Manager