A Mm in V r* Illustrations by Ellsworth Young •YNOPSIS. The story opens with Jesse Smith re lating the story of his birth, early lift- in |l#abrador ami of the death of Ills father. Jesse becomes a sailor. His mother mar ines the master of the ship amt both are Post in the wreck of the vessel. Jesse becomes a cowboy in Texas. He marries Polly, a singer of questionable morals, ■who later is reported to have committed feiulcide. Jeses becomes a rancher and fenoves to British Columbia. Kate Trevor (takes up the narrative. Unhappily mar ried she contemplates suicide, but changes ber mind after meeting Jesse. Jesse res cues Kate from her drink-maddened hus band who attempts to kill her. Trevor [loses his life In the rapids. Kate rejects otters of grand opera managers to return to the stage and marries Jesse. Their married life starts out happily. Kate sue wmbs to the pleadings of a composer to return to the stage and runs away with (trim She rescues Widow O’Flynn from her burning house, is badly burned tier self and returns home, where Jesse re ceives her with open arms. Cattle thieves appear In the neighborhood. Jea«e asks ■Kate to go to a place of safety. To Ills Joy she refuses Jesse resumes the nar rative. He calls on neighbors and plans Eo capture the robbers. Kate Is rescued rom the hands of the bandits. The rob >ers are captured, but later make their means Jeeee la captured by the robbers, but bv,a clever ruse makes prisoners of [the robbers. CHAPTER X. gate’s Narrative. At Hundred Mile House the long table had been removed from the din ing hall, the benches set back to the pog walls, and at the head of the room an enormous Union Jack draped a [very small portrait of Queen Victoria. [Beneath was the chair, in front of it kt table set with writing materials and the Bible, while at one end the school ma'am looked very self-conscious as ■clerk. In official black, with large red Itows like signals of distress, i On the right sat Iron Dale, Jesse, and Oiyeelf, and all our posse, very ill at lease. On the left were two gaunt American stockmen, both wearing hats, while one had the star of a United States marshal. Beside them sat the general public, consisting of Tearful George, two ranch-hands, nn Indian, and the captain’s bulldog. Wee James, the captain’s grandson, sat with the dog at first, but pres ently he Interrupted the court to say that he would like to sit on me. He sat with considerable weight for so ■mall a person. At Captain Taylor's entrance the constable ordered us all to stand. At sight of the two strangers he mounts ed a single eye-glass, and stared with growing wrath until they removed their hats. Then, taking the chair, he permitted us to be seated and or dered his constable to "Bring the prisoners aft." Had our captives been washed and brushed, they might not have looked so wretched or so guilty. Old O’Flynn, described by Jesse as Whiskers, with bis head in a blood-stained bandage, Eils right hand In a gory handkerchief, ooked so ill that he was given a seat. The Mexican, whose beautiful leather dress, and soft dark eyes reminded fcna sharply of the opera-house, seemed like a trapped wolf, only thinking of escape to the nearest woods. Bull Durham’s swaggering gallantry was marred by obvious traces of a black eye. "Prisoners," said our justice of the t>eace, laying his hand on the Bjjile, "this book contains the only law I know. I’m not here as judge or law yer, but as one of Her Majesty’s offi cers trusted to do the sporting thing, and to deal fairly and squarely with three innocent men who have the misfortune to be charged with crime. jTou’ve only to prove to me that (you're Innocent, and I have power to let you go free. But I warn you to tell the truth." "Seems a square deni. Cap" said! Whiskers. "It is a square deal. Now, would you like to have some one of your countrymen as prisoners’ friend?" Whiskers looked reproachfully at the United States marshal who de manded his extradition, and the rep resentative of stock associations who offered fabulous rewards for his body,; "dead or alive." ‘‘Wall," he drawled, “not exactly." "Ton other prisoners. Do you ac cept this man as your spokesman?” “Si, tenor." t "That’s all right,” said Bull. “Prisoner O’Flynn, you are charged with assaulting a woman, you others with aiding and abetting. Guilty or not guilty"’ - "It’s a fact," said Whiskers sadly, "and all three of us wishes to say .Whai’s got to be said’’—he drew tain: iseif up to bis full height—“by gentle men! We tried to force a lady to Ee her husband away. She shamed and we honors Mrs. Smith for at she done. She told us to go to blazes. Yes, sir! We just owns up that we’re guilty as hell, as the best way of showing our respect" •‘Gentlemen,’’ Captain Taylor spoke very gently. “I understand that you. O'Flynn, received two wounds in pun ishment, and that two of your com rades were killed by the men who avenged this affront. Is that true?” “It’s a fact.” “The verdict of the court is, ‘not guilty* “Bui prisoner, your confession proves the right of the settlers to | organize for defense of the settle ment until the constable could be brought to their help. All you settlers who have taken part in the capture of these prisoners are engaged by the province as special constables from the day you undertook service, until I give you your discharge. You will be paid on such a scale as I direct “Rudolph Schweinfurth.” The marshal came forward and was sworn. “You are a United States marshal?” “Yee, your honor.” “You submit proof?” The marshal's credentials were read. “Yon claim theee prisoners for ex tradition?” ‘“Yes, sir.” “Sit down. Cyrus Y. Jones.” The other stockman was sworn. “You are representative of certain stock asso ciations and submit proof? Right. Ybu claim certain cattle alleged to be Btolen, and found in possession of the prisoners? Right. You submit pho tographs identifying certain of these cattle and evidence of theft And you offer twenty-five thousand dollars' re ward for recovery of the stock. Pay that money Into court and take my re ceipt. “Prisoners, you are charged in your own country with robbery-under arms and homicide in various degrees. Do you or do you not wish to prove your innocence?” The prisoners scratched their heads. “.Marshal.” said the magistrate, “I don’t know what my powers are in this matter, but it’s evident that the less red tape there iB the sooner these men will get the justice they rightly demand. I don’t want them. Give me a receipt and engage what men you need for escort duty. You, Mr. Representative, give me your receipt for the cattle. Now clear out, and get to the States before you're inter fered with by any lop-eared officials. Constable, hand over your prisoners. “Mr. Dale and Mr. Smith, will you trust me as magistrate to make a fair division of this reward? A11 right One-quarter goes to Dale, one-quarter to Smith, and the other half to be equally divided among you. Is that fair? A11 right, here’s the plunder. Let’s get the table in and dinner served. I’m famished.” So the court rose, and the dear old captain, having, I believe, broken ev ery statute in British Columbia Juris prudence, asked all hands and the prisoners to dinner. “Of course,” he said afterward to Jesse, "I ought to “Whist! Hide the Gun,” He Said. have committed you and Dale to trial for homicide, lined you all round for using guns without a license, turned the lawyers loose on a fat extradition case, and impounded the cattle to eat my grass at government expense. As it is. I'll be hanged, drawn, and quar tered by the politicians, damned by the press, and jailed for thrashing editors. And I missed all the fun.” After dinner the crowd broke up Into little groups. In one corner the American officials were bargaining with Mr. Dale for his Sky-line men to ride with the prisoners and the cattle. By the door stood Mr. Brooke, ex plaining something at great length to our bpred constable. At the head of the long table Captain Taylor was telling me how difficult it was to find a suitable nursery governess for Weo James. At the foot of the table I saw the Mexican whispering to his unfortunate chief—plans for escape, no doubt. Then Jesse joined them, with a present of pipes, matches, and tobacco to ease the journey. “Mr. Smith,” said poor old O'Flynn, “this yere Sebastian Diax has been with me these twelve year. He’s only a greaser—” “Medio Sangre, senor!” said the half-breed proudly. “But he’s got the heart of a white man. He's like a eon to me." “I’m proud,” said Jesse, “to make your acquaintance, both of you. You are men, all right.” "We fought the rich men that had wronged us, them and their breed. We put up a good fight. Yes, sir! And we wouldn’t hare missed a mile of that twelve years’ trail. It wasn’t our way to insult women, Mr. Smith." “You had to git that information somehow,” said Jesse, “and Mrs. Smith forgives you." “That's off our minds, Mr. Smith.” “Mostly known as Jesse,’’ said my husband. “Jesse. We bin consulting, and we agree you’re the only man here we'd care to ask favors of.” “I’m your friend, all right." “Jesse, If we don’t escape, we are due to pass In our chips.” “I'm not going to help you escape.” “Wall, you haven't helped our es cape to any great extent, so far as I • know.” Jesse chuckled. “But I’m asking you to look after my wife and my son." “I’ll do that.” “You’ll save the boy from his fa ther's trade?” “I reckon.” •Hut her thar. ’ And they shook hands. ‘‘Them horses we was riding." said the outlaw, "Is for my son.’’ “That’s all right.” “And one thing more. That Brooke has an eye on your good lady. He's 'your enemy from times far bafek In Abilene. He’ll live to do yon dirt. Thar, 1 sort of hates to talk so of one of my men, and 1 won’t say no more. “Say. my hands being hurt, will you just reach into my off hind pocket? That’s right. There’s a gold watch. Take it, my time’s up. Give that to your lady from us as a sort of keep sake. Goodby, partner.” "Goodby, friend.” “Adios,” said the Mexican. “Vaya usted con Dios!” And the English of that is, ‘‘May you ride with God!” CHAPTER XI. Billy O’Flynn. Kate’s Xarrative. Jesse is cruel to young O’Flynn. PerhapS he is justly, rightly cruel, In gibing at this young cowboy, taunting him until the lad is on the very edge of murder. “Got to' be done,” says Jesse, “I promised his father that I’d break the cold until he’s fed up with robbers. So just you watch me lift the dust from his hide, and don't you git gesticulating on my trail with your fool sympathies.” Billy docs not suspect that the tormentor loves his victim. My heart aches with his humilia tion. His mother is my cook, not a princess, as the boy’s pride would have her. His father was one of the most dangerous leaders of the Rocky Mountain outlaws, so there the lad saw glory, and I don’t blame him. But all the glamor was stripped away when Jesse tricked O'Flynn and his gang into surrender, handed them over to justice, and showed poor Billy his sordid heroes for what they really were. His father has been hanged. That night the lad had come from Hundred Mile House, with Jesse's pack-train bearing a load of stores. There was a dress length, music for my dear dumpy piano, spiced rolls of bacon, much needed flour and gro ceries, and an orange kerchief for Billy. From his saddle wallets he pro duced my crumpled letters and the weekly paper a Vancouver rag, Therein Jesse labors among tangles of provincial politics, I gloat over the cooking recipes of America's nice cui sine. and spare maybe just a sigh over the London letter. Billy’s por tion consists of blood-curdling dlsas iOLD FORT BUILT BY RUSSIANS Vcheoloflist's Explanation of 'Ruins of Buildf.ig on the Northern Coast 1 of California. I Ruins of buildings on the oid Weske fanch. near Windsor and about thir teen miles north of Santa Rosa. Cal., hitherto unexplained, now are thought to be the work of people of mechani cal skill, probably Russians, who (erected the buildings 100 years or Snore ago. That the edifices were not the work of the Spaniards is taken for granted, as the history of this country under Spanish rule is sufficiently complete to give assurance that some record of ! the construction of the buildings tfouid hare been left. , The constructing is too exact to nare been the w prissing the fatherless and the widow-, and burn he will afther for a Protes tant. Yis,” she flashed round on her son, “feed buttermilk to- thim calves, and hould up yer head alladh, 'cause you inherit glory while he’s frying!” Away from the widow’s hate and her son’s vengeance, I led my man out under the stars. I gave him his cigar, that black explosive charged with deadly fumes, lighted him a sul phur match. It soothes his passions, and the pasture scent makes him gentle, but when I fear my grizzly bear, and hardly dare to stroke, I lead him by the keen silver spring, across the hollow where our flowers would make a devil smile, and on through the wild rose tangle, to my cathedral pines. Tonight he seemed suspicious, even there, biting off tags of the vin dictive Psalms. Nor would he sit un der the father tree until I sang to him. “What do you want?” asked Jesse then, all the rancor gone. “Jesse, do you know that it’s nearly a year since we married?” “Ten months. Kate, and fourteen days. Do you think I don’t rackon?” ] I sat down on the root of the little governess tree, the humblest In the grove. “In the Bible, dear, who w-ae the son of Jesse?” “David, of course.” “Do you remember, dear: ’for I have provided a king among his sons’?” He looked away across the thun drous misty depths of the canon, and the moonlight caught his profile as though it were etched in silver. “A mighty valiant man,” he whispered, “I’m a Rich Woman, Dear.” “prudent in matters, and a man of war.” “Jesse, I've got such a confession to make. When you settled Mr. Tre vor's estate—" “His estates were debts, and we paid 'em. There ain't no need to fuss.” “You paid the debts. You were hard driven to meet the interest on your mortgage.’’ “That's paid off now. Besides we’ve a clear title to our land, mother's gravestone's off my che6t, we don’t owe a cent in the world, and there's nary a worry left, except I’m sort of sorry for them poor robbers. Why fuss?” “You earned six thousand dollars, at goodness knows what peril. I let you still imagine that you were poor." "We got plenty wealth, Kate, wealth enough for—for David.” "I wanted you, Jesse, just you, I wanted poverty because you were poor. I have been content, and now you’ve won the capital to free the ranch, to buy a thoroughbred stallion, to stock the place." “That's so.” “Jesse, under my dear father's will, I have seven thousand five hundred dollars a year.” “A what!” "I’m a rich woman, dear. I’ve been saving, my income, and there'a ten thousand dollars for you at the bank.” So I gave him my check, which he receipted promptly with a kiss. He is so rough, too. Then we discussed improvements. A bunch of Kast Oregon horses, three cow-boys to handle our stock, a man to run the Sky-line contract, an irri gated corn Held, and winter feed, two Chinese servants, so many ‘must haves' that we wared quite despond ent over ways and means. Jesse must go to Vancouver on business, and thus after much preamble 1 came at last to the point. “Take Billy with you.” “But if I go, he's got to look after the ranch." “You preach at Billy,” J said, “you pray at him. Remember he’s wild as these woods, son of a dangerous felon. His mother goads him on, and there’s danger, Jesse." 1 knew while I spoke the folly of appealing to his sense of fear. He chuckled softly. . (TO BE CONTINUED.) THOUGHT NIGHT HAD PASSED Tired Farm Hand Lost Alt Track of Time in Hia Brief but Evident ly Deep 8lumber. Even when you are wide awake It Is frequently hard to estimate the pas sage of tisae. On one occasion you find it hard to believe that several hours have elapsed, and on another the day may drag so slowly that the clock seems to have shirked its duty. While you are aaleep the calculation of time is, of course, almost impossi ble, as this incident, told by a farmer's son at the corner store one rainy morning, aptly illustrates: Father hired a new hand last night j —a big, good-natured Dutchman. Evi dently the poor fellow was tired from tramping about the country, for he went to bed immediately after supper. As usual, father went down to the cellar about 9:30 to throw some coal in the furnace and adjust the drafts for the night. Evidently this made enough noise to rouse the new hired man, for mother, who was sitting be side the table in the dining-room, saw 1 the stair door suddenly open and dis close the broad form of the Dutchman. Blinking drowsily before the light, he exclaimed: “Good morning. Missis! Good morn ing! i could chuat as well haf come down von hour ago if you had only volte in* tip!"—Youth's Companion. Couldn't Break Off Cigarette*. King George, as every one knows, ia very fond of his cigarette. Once hia majesty said to the Czar, when thg august cousins were talking of the evils of excessive indulgence in “tags:” “Do you know that, when I was years younger, I got an idea that cigarettes were bad for me? I re solved to limit myself to five smokes a day. “The first day I managed to exist upon the number determined. Tbs second day 1 smoked all five before lunch, and felt miserable for the rest of the day. The third day 1 smoked the five judiciously, but still felt a great ‘wanting.’ On the fourth day I could stand It no longer, and so smoked fifteen ‘tags' to make up fat my self-denial." SERUM CHECKS RAVAGES OF HOG CHOLERA Check Pens. (By L. M. BENNINGTON.) During the cholera epidemic of the fall of 1911 a farmer came to Veter inarian Hadly, of the University of Wisconsin, and wanted to know what was the matter with his hogs. “It is not cholera,” he declared, “for I had that on the farm about ten years ago, and the pigs behaved differently then.” "Wait a minute," declared Doctor Hadly. “Before you go on 1 will tell you the symptoms of those animals. They exhibited a loss of appetite, they were chilled and trembled, their temperature was two to five degrees above normal, the skin was scurvy, and the coat hard and dry, they hid in the litter and resented being dis turbed, they walked stiff and sore and stood about with their hind legs crossed, they—" "How d\d you know that?" inter rupted tbeKfarmer excitedly. “That is just what ailed my hogs.” "1 was simply describing to you the symptohis of acute cholera. The other time your herd probably had the chronic form of the disease; there is a great difference between the two forms.” The symptoms of cholera must us ually be confirmed by a post-mortem examination. The hog is strung up just as it is slaughtered for the but cher and the carcass opened. If cholera is really present, the lymph glands will be red and congested, the kidneys diseased, the marrow of the backbone dark to almost black, the lungs congested and the bowels show ulcers and sores. Serum a Preventive, Not a Cure. The serum used in hog-cholera is not a cure, but is intended as a pre ventive measure In case of an out break, or where an outbreak is threat ened. In some cases hogs may con tract the disease and die before the a Sacrifice to Science. Hog in Crate Ready for Immunization. He Has Been Scrubbed and Cleansed to Perfection. serum has time to take effect; so it is very important that the treatment should be applied as early as possible, in case the disease makes it appear ance. Some conditions or disease which resemble cholera are tuberculosis— although this disease is usually much slower in its progress—ordinary diges tive troubles due to improper feed ing, or unsanitary surroundings and thrax, pneumonia caused by dust, cold or worms. A hog can be made immune by vaccinating with anti hog-cholera serum, so he will not take the disease. This is called artificial Immunity, and may last for a few weeks only, or during the life of the animal, accord ing to the method UBed in the vaccina tion. Hog-choiera serum is nothing more nor less than the defribinated blood of' hyperimmunes, with the proper antiseptics added for preserving it, and consists of a saturated solution of antibodies to antagonize the germ of hog-cholera. There are four ways or methods of tramforming an immune Into a hyper immune. The first way is the quick subcutaneous method, introducing sub cutaneously in the region of the abdo men ten cubic centimeters of virulent blood to the pound of liveweight of the immune. The objection to this method is that a leakage may be made through the needle wounds, owing to the great pressure produced by the introduc ! tion of such great quantities of blood under the skin causing abscesses. The second way is the slow sub cutaneous method which has less radi cal'effect on the hog, and is less likely to cause abscesses. It takes a longer time to produce a hyperimmune than the first way. Administer doses of one, two and one-half and five cubic centimeters per pound of body weight seven to ten days apart, thus giving the immune' ample time to recover from the transitory effect produced. The third way is known 'as the abdominal method introducing the virulent blood directly into the peri toneal cavity. The dose is the same as in the first way. Care must be taken not to puncture the bladder. This method is best employed by suspending the animal by the hind legs and allowing the abdominal con tents to rest on the diaphragm, then inserting the needle, through the wall of the abdomen about two or three inches below the anterior borders of the pubis, an inch or two inside of the median line to avoid puncturing of the bladder. The fourth way by intravenous in jection. Virulent blood is introduced directly iuto the circulation by way of the ear-vein at one dose. Five cubic centimeters per pound are prescribed. It is difficult to reach the veins, be cause of the coarse ears, and often the veins are scarcely visible. How ever, this method is a trifle more potent. A 150 pound hog requires 750 cubic centimeters of serum. How the Serum Is Obtained. The hog is placed on the table and then washed, the tail is thoroughly washed with an antiseptic solution and luke-warm water and soap, and then with a weak solution of alcohol. Before preparing the hog bottles are washed and sterilized and covered with a cloth which has also been sterilized. A piece of the tail is ampu tated, and in this way the blood is drawn from the hog. From a hog weighing 150 pounds about three pints of serum is obtained at one bleeding. A hog can be bled four times before he has to be hyper immunized again. The blood received in this way is defibrinated, and the small amount of carbolic acid is added to preserve it, and does not injure its protecting power. The blood is then, ready for use. A hog weighing 150 pounds will yield from 29 to 100 doses of vaccine at one bleeding. A hog can be bled once every eight or ten days. Tbe above are government directions. After the serum has been tested and found to be potent, it is put up in bqttles of three sizes, sealed and stored in a cement cellar, where it can be kept at even temperature until used. Some Dangers to Be Avoided. From the fact that there is always more or less fever caused by. vaccina tion, and more or less danger of the animal becoming infected through the wound made by the needle of the syringe, the following after treatment is recommended: Spare diet for three or four days, especially of corn, but plenty of wa ter, thoroughly clean and comfort-' able pens with plenty of clean bed ding, with absolutely no chance to get into tbe mud of any kind. The more mud and dirt the more danger. They should not be dipped or operated upon for at least two weeks after vaccina tion. When the disease makes its appear ance in the neighborhood, all the well | hogs should be vaccinated, and all the sick hogs should be destroyed and burned, and should any of the vac cinated hogs develop cholera, they too, should be destroyed and burned. This will prevent to a certain extent the spread of infection. Among the most convenient and efficient agents for destroying disease-germs rank heat, solution of creolin, carbolic acid, caustic soda or sulphate of copper! fumes of chlorine, chloride of lime! slake lime, lime water and kerosene oil. All straw, cobs and litter should be removed, and if cholera is preseut, burned, and a strong solution of some good coal-tar dip or crude carbolic acid, about one part of the dip to twenty of water, used on all woodwork and floor of the pen. Though hog-cholera Is not communi cable to man, there Is danger of an thrax, septic infection and tubercu losis. If a person has a sore on hiB hand he should not touch a dead ani mal, or if he should receive a cut or a scratch during the examination, the hand should be placed in pure kero sene at once. Growing Beans. Beans are one of the staple farm crops on which there is still a little money for the skilled grower. Many fanners who continue to grow wheat would do better with field beans, and many others located near a market might raise garden beans and llmas at a profit. Cheap Nitrogen. Nitrogen from the air can be got without money and without price suffi ciently to mature grain crops. It is because alfalfa, clover, soy beans and other leguminous plants have the pow er to take nitrogen from the air and also from the subsoil, that growing these crops in rotation with grain, especially wheat, oats and rye, avoids the expense and necessity of applying nitrogen to the grain crops. Yolk of an Egg. In 100 parts of the yolk, 52 per cent is water, 45 per cent, is oil and fat and 1 per cent, each of albumoids, coloring and mineral matter.