RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF (MiNiAieMimmiMm R"Vifi The Real Man By FRANCIS LYNDE (Coerrls tit by Chss. Scribner's Sou) Did you know tlmt Smith Imidcd hnlf In this thing to wlnl a aozcn cases 01 new nnes on u imi CHAPTER XVI (Continued.) 13 On tho day following the hindering concrete fnlluro nt tho dam, Smith gnvo Rtlll more color to tho charges of IiIh detractors In tho business field. Those whose affairs brought them In contact with lilm found n man maidenly grown yenra older and harder, boody and harshly dictatorial, not to nay qunr relsomo; a man who seemed to lmvo parted, In tho Bhort space of n slngta night, with all of the humanizing affa bilities which he hud shown to such n marked degree In the reorganizing and rollnanclng of the Irrigation project. "We've got our young Napoleon of flnanco on tic toboggan slide, at last," was tho way In which Mr. Crawford Stanton phrused It for the bejewoled lady at their luncheon In the Hophru cafo. "Klnzle Is about to throw him orcr, und all this talk about botch work on tho dam Is getting his goat. Thoy're telling it around town this morning that you can't get near lilm, without risking a light. Old Man nucle us went up to his ofllec In behalf of a bunch of the scared stockholders, und Smith abused him first and then threw him out bodily hurt him pretty savagely, they say." Tho largo lady's accurately penciled eyebrows went up In mild surprise. "Bad temper?" she queried. "Bad temper, or an ncuto attack of tattlcltis;' you can take your choice. I supposo he hasn't, by any chance, quarreled with Miss IMchlunder over night? or has he?" The fat lady shook her diamonds. "I should say not. They were at lunch eon together In the ladles' ordinary as I came down a few minutes ago." Thus the partner of Crawford Stan ton' joys and sorrows. But an Invis ible onlooker In tho small 'dining room above-stairs might havo drawn other conclusions. Smith and tho daughter of the Lawrcnccvlllo magnate had a small table to themselves, and If tho talk wcro not precisely quarrelsome, It leaned that way at times. "I hare never seen you qulto so bru tal and Impossible as you are today, Montague. You don't seem Uko the lame man. Are you going to reconsider and take me out to the Baldwin ranch this afternoon?" "And let you parade me there as four latest acquisition? never In this world I" "More brutality. Positively you nro getting me Into a frame of mind In which Tucker JIbbey will seem Uko a blessed relief. Whatever do you sup poso has becorao of Tucker?" "How should I know?" "If he had como In last night, and you had met him as I asked you to 1b any such heavenly temper as you are Indulging now, I might think you had murdered him." It was doubtless by sheer accident that Smith, reaching at the momont Cor tho salad oil, overturned his water glass. But the small accident by no means accounted for the sudden gray ing of his faco under the Tlmanyonl Wind tan for that or for tho shaking hands with which he seconded tho wait er's anxious efforts to repair the dam age. When they were alone again, tho momentary trepidation had given pJuco to a renewed hardness that lent a biting rasp to his voice. "Klntle, the suspicious old banker that I've been telling yon about, Is de termined to run mo down," he said, changing the subject abruptly. 'Tve got It pretty straight that ho Is plan ning to send one of his clerks to the Topas district to try and And your fa ther, in the hope that he will tell what he knows about me." 'Does this Mr. Klnzlo know where father Is to bo found?" "He doesn't; that's tho only hitch." Kiss Verda's smile across the little able was level-eyed. "I could bo lots of help to you, Mon ttsmnt In this flnht you are mnklntr. If you'd only let me," she suggested. Til fight for my own hand," was the grating rejoinder. "I can assure you, right now, that Klnzle's messenger will never reach your father alive." "Oohl" Bhuddered the beauty, with a little lift of the rounded shoulders. "How utterly and hopelessly primitive 1 Let mo show you a much simpler alter native. I have a map of tho mining district, you know. Father left It with meln case I should want to commu nicate with him." Smith looked up with a smile which was a mere baring of tho teeth. "Yob wouldn't get In a man's way "Thcro Is a play, nnd I havo the seats," he announced briefly. "Mcrcll" she flung back. "Small favors thankfully received, nnd large ones In proportion; though It's hardly n favor, this time, bocuuso I havo paid for It In advance. Mr. Klnzlo's young man enmo to see mo this morning." "Whnt did you do?" "I gave him n tracing of my map, and hu was so grateful It mndo mc want to tell him tlmt It was all wrong; that he wouldn't llnd father In a month If ho followed the direc tions." "But you didn't t" "No; I can play the gume, when It seems worth while." Smith was frowning thoughtfully when ho led her to the elevator alcove. "My way would havo been the surer," he muttered, half to himself. "Barbarian I" she laughed; nnd then: "To think that you wcro onco n 'debutantes' darling I' Oh, yes; I know It was Carter Westfnll who said It first, but It was true enough to nnme you Instantly for all Lawrencevllle." CHAPTER XVII. The Megalomaniac. Sixty-odd hours before tho explrntlon of the time limit, Hartley Williams, lean and somber-eyed from tho strain he had bee under for many days und nights, saw tho president's gray road ster plowing its way through tho mesa sand on tho approach to the construc tion camp, und wus glud. "I've been trying all the morning to squeeze out time to get Into town," he told Bnldwln, when the roadster camo to a stand In front of tho shack com mlssnry. ."Where Is Smith?" Tho coloned threw up his hand In a gesture expressive of completo detach ment. "Don't ask mc. John has gone plumb loco In theso last two or thrco duys. It's as much as your llfo's worth to ask him whero he has been or where ho Is going or what he means to do next." "Ho hnsn't stopped fighting?" said tho engineer, half aghast at the bare possibility. "Oh, no; ho is at It harder than ever going it Just "a shaving too strong, is what I'd tell him, If he'd let mo get near enough to shout at him. Last night, after the theater, ho went around to the Herald ofUco, and the way they're talking It on tho street, he was aiming to shoot up tho whole newspaper Joint If Mark Allen, tho edi tor, wouldn't take back a bunch of the lies he's been publishing about tho High Line. It wound up In a scrap of some sort. I don't know who got the worst of it, but John Isn't crippled up nny, to speak of, this morning only In his temper." Williams shook his head. "I guess we'll havo to stand for the grouch, If he'll only keep busy. He has tho hot end of It Wo couldn't very well get along without him, right now, colonel. With all duo respect to you and tho members of tho board, he Is tho fight ing backbone of tho whole outfit." "Ho Is that," was Baldwin's ready admission. "Ho Is just what we've been calling him from tho first, Bart- ley a three-ply, dycd-In-the-wool won der In his specialty. Ho Is fighting now like a man In tho last ditch, and I bellevo he thinks he is In tho last ditch." "It will be only two days more," said tho engineer, saying It as one who has been counting tho days In keen anxiety. And then: "StUUngs told mo yesterday that we're not going to get an extension of tho tlmp limit from tho stato authorities." "No; that llttlo flro went out, blink, just as Smith said It would. Stanton's backers havo the political pull In tho stato as well as In Washington. They're going to hold us to tho letter of tho law." "Let 'era do it We'll win out yet If wo don't run up against ono or both of tho only two things I'm afraid of now: high wator, or rtfe railroad call down." "Tho railroad grab? Havo you heard anything moro about that?" "That Is what I was trying to get to town for; to talk tho railroad business over with you and StUUngs and Smith. They've had a gang here this morn ing a bunch of engineers, with a stranger, who gavo his name ns Hal lowcll, In charge. They claimed to be verifying tho old survey, nnd Hallowell notified me formally that our dam stood tortruck yesterday, nnd hnd them sent out here?" "Not" "He did and told mo to say nothing about It It seems that ho ordered them somo tlmo ago from nn arms agency In Denver. That fellow foresees everything, colonel." Dexter Baldwin had climbed Into his car and was making ready to turn it for tho run back to town. "If I wcro you, Bartloy, I believe Pd open up tlioso gun boxes nnd pass tho word among as many of tho men ns you think you can trust with rifles In their hands. I'll tell Smith and Bob StUUngs." Colonel Bnldwln saw tho company's nttornoy, us soon ns ho reached Brew ster. But Smith was not In his ofllce, and no ono seemed to know whero ho had gone. Tho colonel shrewdly sus pected that Miss Itlchlandcr was mak ing another draft upon tho secretary's time, and he sntd ns much to Starhuck, nicer in i in: uuy, uiicii mu iiiiiiu uwuur sauntered Into the Illirli Lino head- quarters and proceeded to roll the In evitable cigarette. "Not any, this tlmo, colonel," was Slurbuck's rebuttal. "You've missed It by u whole row of apple trees. Miss Rich-dollars Is over nt the hotel. I saw her at luncheon with the Stnntons less than an hour ago." "You haven't seen Smith, have you?" "No ; but I know where he Is. He's out In the country, somewhere, taking the air in Dick Maxwell's runabout. I wanted to borrow tho wagon myself, nnd Dick told me he had already lent It to Smith." "We're needing him," snld tho colonel shortly, nnd then he told Stnrbuck of the newest development In tho paper rallrond scheme of obstruction. From that the talk drifted to n dis cussion of Klnzle's latest attitude. By this time there had been an alarming number of stock sales by small hold ers, all of them handled by tho Brew ster City National, and It was plainly evident that Klnzle hnd finally gone over to the enemy nnd was buying ns cheaply ns possible for some unnamed customer. "If they keep It up, they can wear us out by littles, and we'll break our necks finishing the dum and snvlng the franchise only to turn It over to them In tho round-up," snld the colonel dejectedly. "I've talked until I'm hoarse, but you can't talk marrow Into an empty bone, Billy. I used to think wo had a fairly good bunch of men In with us, but In these last few days I've been changing my mind at a fox trot." The remainder of tho day, up to the time when tho offices were closing and the colonel was making ready to go home, passed without Incident In Smith's continued absence Stnrbuck 'I'm Going to Hunt Up Mr. Crawford Stanton." with any flno-Bpun theories of the ultl- squarely In their right of way for a mate right and wrong, would you? You wouldn't say that the only great man Is the man who loves his fellow men, and all that?" Again the handsome shoulders were lifted, this tlmo In cool scorn. "Are you quoting tho little ranch per son?" she Inquired. Then Bho Answered his query: "Tho only great men worth speaking of aro the men who win. For the lack of something better to do, I'm Willing to help yort win, Montague. Host naturally, I am tho ono who would know whero ray father Is to bo found. And I havo changed my mind about wanting to drivo to tho Bald wins'. Wo'll compromise on the play t iiro is u play." bridge crossing of tho river.' "They didn't servo any papers on you, did they?" Inquired tho colonel anxiously. "No; tho notlco was verbal. But Hallowell wound up with a threat no said, 'You've had duo wurnlng, legally and otherwise, Mr. Williams, This Is our right of way, bought and paid for, as wo can provo when tho mnttcr gets Into tho courts. You mustn't bo sur prised If we take whatever steps may bo necessary to recover what belongs to us.'" "Force?" queried tho Mlssourlan, with a glint of tho border fighter's flro In his eyes." "Muybc. But we're rendy for that. had offered to go to tho dam to stand a night watch with Williams against a possible surprise by the right-of-way claimants ; and StUUngs, who had been petitioning for an injunction, cume up to report progress just as Buldwln was locking his desk. "Tho Judge has taken it under ad visement, but that Is as far as he would go today," said tho lawyer. "It's simply a bold steal, of course. I'm sworn to uphold tho law, and I can't counsel armed resistance. Just the same, I hope Williams has his nerve with him." "He has; and I haven't lost mine yet," snapped a voice at the door ; and Smith camo In, dust-covered nnU swar thy with the grime of tho wind-swept grasslands. Out of tho pocket of his driving coat ho drew a thick packet of papers and slapped it upon Uie drawn down curtain of Baldwin's desk. "There you are," ho went on gratingly. "Now you can tell Mr. David Klnzle to go straight to blazes with his stock pinching, and tho moro money ho puts Into It, tho more somebody's going to losel" "John t what have you dono?" de manded Baldwin. "I'vo shown 'em what It means to go up against a winner I" was the half triumphant, half-savago exultation. "I havo put a crimp In that fence-climbing banker of yours that will last him for ono whllo I I'vo secured thirty-day options, at par, on enough High Line stock to swing a clear majority If Klnzlo should buy up every other share there is outstanding. It has taken me all day, and I've driven a thousand miles, but tho thing is done." "But, John I If anything should happen, and wo'd havo to make good on those options, ... It would break tho last man of us I" "Wo'ro not going to let things hnpj pcnl" was the gritting rejoinder. "I've told you both a dozen times that I'm You tuke cai of tlioso options, StUUngs; they re worth a million dollurs to somebody. Lock 'cm up somewhere nnd then for get where they nrc. Now I'm going to hunt up Mr. Crawford Stanton be fore I cat or sleep I" "Easy, John; hold up a minute I" the colonel broke In soothingly; and StU Ungs, moro practical, closed the office door silently and put his back against It "Tills is a pretty sudden country, but thcro is somo sort of a limit, you know," the big Mlssourlan went on. "What's your Idea In going to Stan ton?" "I mean to gtvo lilm twelve hours In which to pack his trunk and get out of Brewster nnd tho Tlmanyonl. If ho hasn't disappeared by tomorrow morn ing" StUUngs was slgnnllng In dumb show to Bnldwln. He hnd quietly opened tho door nnd was crooking his finger nnd making signs over his shoul der toward tho corridor. Baldwin saw whnt was wanted, and immediately shot his desk cover open und turned on the lights. "That last lot of steel and cement vouchers wus mndo out yesterday, John," he sulci, slipping tho rubber baud from u flic of papers In the desk. "If you'll take tlmo to sit down here and run 'cm over, and put you- name on 'cm, I'll hold Martin long enough to let him get tho checks in tonight's mall. I'll bo back after a little." Smith dragged up the president's big swivel chair and planted himself In It, nnd nn instant later ho was lost to everything save the columns of fig ures on the vouchers. StUUngs had let himself, out, nnd when the colonel followed him, the lawyer cautiously closed the door of the private ofllce, and edged Baldwin Into the corridor. "We've mighty neur got a madman to deal with In there, colonel," he whispered, when the two were out of earshot. "I wus watching his eyes when ho snld that about Stanton, and they fairly blazed. He's going to kill somebody, If we don't look out." Baldwin was shaking his head du biously. "He's acting like a locoed thorough- bred that's gone outlaw," he said. "Do you reckon he's sure-enough crazy, Bob?" "Only In the murder nerve. This deal with the options shows that he's all to the good on the business side. Thnt was the smoothest trick that's been turned In nny stage of this dodg ing fight with the big fellows. It sim ply knocks Klnzle's rat-gnawing game dead. If there were only somebody who could calm Smith down a little and bring him to reason somebody near enough to him to dig down under his shell and get at the real man that used to be there when he first took hold with us" ' "A woman?" queried Baldwin, frown ing disapproval In anticipation of what StUUngs might be going to suggest A woman for choice, of course. I was thinking of this young woman over at the Hophra House; anybody can see with half an eye that she has a pretty good grip on him. Suppose we go across the street and give her an invitation to come and do a little missionary work on Smith. She looks level-headed and sensible enough to take It the way It's meant" StUUngs was a lawyer and had no scruples, but tho colonel had them In just proportion to his Southern birth and breeding. "I don't Uko to drag a woman Into It, any way or shape, Bob," he pro tested ; and he would have gone on to say that he had good reason to be lieve that Miss Richlander's Influence over Smith might not be at all of the meliorating sort, but StUUngs cut him short "There need be no 'dragging.' The young woman doubtless knows the business situation; she evidently knows Smith a whole lot better than we do. It's a chance, and wo'd better try it. He's good for half an hour or so with those vouchers." (TO BE CONTINUED.) CHARGED MOTHER LOST CRIPPLED ffOY Brooklyn Woman Is Accused in Court of Abandoning Four-Year-Old Son. New York. Before Magistrate Doylo in Yorkvlllo court were brought two persons. Ono was Mrs. Agnes Cuslck, twenty-four years old, of No. 225 Eighth street, Brooklyn, charged with abandonment of her four-year-old son. The other was the little boy, a victim of Inst year's lnfanttlo paraly sis epidemic and still hobbling about on a leg brace. It was his picture, which was published In a newspaper r "Did You Make Any Effort to Find This Boy?" Juno 20, which led to the discovery of the mother by an agent of the Chil dren's society. Tho only Information which tho boy could give when found on June 21 was that his name was "Jimmy," and that he Is a "very, very good boy." "Did you make any effort to find this boy?" Magistrate Doyle asked the mother. "I looked about the neighborhood where I lost him," she said. It was her story that she lost him In a crowd and did not abandon him. "A dumb animal would have done more than that," exclaimed the mag istrate. "A dumb beast would have looked everywhere for her lost. Here is a cripple that requires a mother's care and love, nud yen made no ef fort to go to a police station or to make Inquiries for him." "I did all I could," sobbed the woman. Upon testimony, however, that when first shown the photograph of tho little boy she had denied being his mother, the woman was held in ball for trial. BEST JOB IN THE WORLD MUSIC NEED OF FIGHTING MEN Blare of Band Instruments Brings Cheer to Troops and la Jutt aa Necessary aa Ammunition. "The blare of the trombone, the shrill note of the piccolo and the drums blending with other band In struments In a military organization give cheer to the men with the guns and Is Just as necessary as ammuni tion," says Charles H. Parsons of New York. "During tho Spanish-American war tho tunes happily accepted were thoso of the vaudeville stage, when 'There'll Bo a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight' was said to have led troops to tho capture of San Juan hill. Tho old Civil war melodies having the Bwlng of march cadence were first of all, 'Dixie,' probably used, at least hummlngly, by the soldiers of the North, as those who followed the 'Stars and Bars.' And It is worth while to recall that 'Dixie' was the most popular of all the melodies strummed In camp and sung In action of all the old-time songs during the war of 1808. "Canned music will give to the boys at the front much of their entertain meat evenings to come," added Mr. Parsons. "The phonographic records will cheer many groups. And they will have programs provided by the stars of tho operatic world and other entertainers who may not givo to them their cheer first hand." Youth Makes Love to Mine Officer's Daughter at $4.60 Per Day. Keewalln, Minn. According to one man here, there Is a job In a local mine which need never bo filled with a strikebreaker. The man who makes the assertion is a little bit peeved about something, but he declares that among the mine em ployees are five boys. One of them has "the Job." "He makes love to an officer's daugh ter," says this man, "and he gets $4.r0 a day without doing anything; he just makes love." Oh, you Job 1 MrMt1xMtMiMMtU1rMttttrkUittti MOTHER STOLE TO AID BABIES; FINED 1 CENT' New York. Tho lowest flno In tho history of the Brooklyn federal court was Imposed by Judge Chatflcld In the case of Mrs. Mary Purcell, on trial for forging a pension voucher that had como to her homo In the name of her mother after her parent had died. She took the money, she told tho Judge, for her babies, for they had no food. When tho flno of 1 cent was Imposed sho was unable to pay It Attaches of the court not only handed over the cent necessary to keep her from Jail but made up a good-sized purso for her. ywwgggpw BIG CROPS III WESTERN Mil Good Yields of Wheat, Splendid Production of Pork, Beef. Mutton and Wool. ' The latest reports give an assur l.nco of good grain crops throughout most of Western Canada, where tho wheat, oats and barley are now being harvested, about ten days earlier than last year. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Albertn nro all "doing their bit" In a noblo way towards furnishing food for tho allies. While the total yield of wheat will not be as heavy as In 1015, there aro Indications thnt it will bo an aver age crop In most of tho districts. A letter received at the St Paul olllce of the Cnnndlan Government, from a former near Delia, Alberta, says har vest In thnt district Is ono month earlier than last year, nis wheat crop Is estimated nt 35 bushels per acre, while some of his neighbors will hnvo more. The average In the district will be nbout .10 bushels per acre.' Now, with tho price of wheat In tho neigh borhood of ?2 per bushel, It Is safe to Bny that there will be very few farm ers but will be able to bank from for ty to fifty dollars per acre after pay ing nil expenses of seeding, harvest ing nnd threshing, as well as taxes. The price of land In this district In from $25 to $30 per acre. What may bo snld of this district will apply to almost any other In Manitoba, Sns kntchewnn or Albertn. Many farmers havo gone to Western Cnnnda from tho United Stntes In tho pnst three or four years, who having purchnscd lands, bad tho pleasure of completing the payments before they were due. They hnve mnde tho money out of their crops during the pnst couple of years, and If they are as successful In tho future as In the past they will hnve put themselves and their famUles beyond all possibility of lack' of money for tho rest of their lives. It Is not only In wheat that the farmers of Western Canada aro making money. Their hogs hnve brought them wealth, and hogs nro easy to raise there bar ley Is plentiful and grass abundant, nnd the climate Just the kind that hogs glory in. The price is good nnd likely to remain so for a long time. A few days since n farmer from Daysland, Alberta, shipped a carload of hogs to the St. Paul market, nnd got a higher price than was ever be fore paid on that market. Two mil lion three hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dol lars was . received at Winnipeg for Western hogs during the first six months of this year. 181,575 hogs were sold at an average price of $15 per cwt, and had an average weight of 200 pounds each. The raising of hogs is a profitable and continually growing Industry of Western Canada, nnd this class of stock Is raised as economically here as anywhere on the North American continent There Is practically no hog disease, and Im mense quantities of food can be pro duced cheaply. It has been told for years that the grasses of Western Canada supply to both beef and milk producers the nu tritive properties thnt go to the devel opment of both branches. The stories .that are now being published by dairymen and beef cattle men verify all the predictions that have ever been made regarding the country's Im portance In the raising of both beef and dairy cattle. The sheep Industry is developing rapidly. At a sale at Calgary 151,453 pounds of wool were dispused of at sixty cents a pound. At a sale at Edmonton 00,000 pounds were sold at even better prices than those paid at Calgary. The total clip this season will probably approximate two million pounds. Many reports are to hand showing from six to eight pounds per fleece. 85 carloads were sent to the Toronto market alone, Advertisement v DOG LEADS HER PUP ASTRAY Owner Is Fined Two Dollars Each Don In Court In Brooklyn. for To Mark Light 8wltchea. So that electric light pull switches can bo found la dark rooms thore has been Invented a glass pendant filled with a substanco absorbing light In tho daytime and becoming luminous at night. Fruit Production. The production of apples In this country during tho last six yenrs has averaged over 00,000,000 bnrrels. The estimated value of this applo crop for 1015 was $145,000,000. Tho product of peaches In 1014 was estimated nt 54,000,000 bushels, and of penrs for that year 11,000,000 bushels. Consid ering all of the hardy fruits of tho North and tho tropical fruits of the South, what a vast bulk Is gathered every year. Surely famine nnd star vation cannot come to-a country thus supplied. New York. It cost a mother dog Just f4 here to lead a pup astray from tho narrow path. Tho case came up before Magistrate Naumer when James. Pesceno of No. 530 Grand avenue was charged with having two dogs unmuz zled. 'It'n tho mother, your honor." ho ' explained. "Theso two dogs aro mother nnd Hon nnd tho mother lends the son astray, doggone It." "I hate to do It," said tho Judge, "but two dollars fine for each dog." YOU MAY TRY CUTICURA FREE That's the Rule Free 8amples to Any one Anywhere. 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