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CHAPTER VII
The Strayed Cow
Dolores sat In the doorway wait
ing for her fathers return from the
tavern Ho bad been to the house
while she was over the mountain and
had his supper She herself bad eaten
nothing for she had no appetite In
spite of her walk over the mountain
She was quite idle her hands in
their old listless attitude in her lap
her dark head -resting against the
unpalnted door post her grave face
and thoughtful eyes raised to the
heavens The moonlight falling across
her face defined it clear and perfect
as marble upon the clean bare floor
behind her lay her Bhadow long and
dark
The night was silent the distant
sound of rude singing from the tav
ern died away the lights went -out
one after another in the long low
houses Dolores began to wonder
vaguely why her father did not come
Midnight had passed the hours ticked
away one by one on the big clock
In the corner the moon hung round
and golden above tho mountain peaks
in the west in the east a streak of
whiter light appeared broadened and
deepened The girls shadow disap
peared from the floor it lay in front
of her on the door stone
The cow was cropping the grass on
the roadside her breathing deep and
contented Lodie the next neighbor
came up the road with a bucket His
well was low in this dry weather
Johnsons well was public property at
such times
A sheer day he said apologetical
ly looking at the brindle
Dolores roused herself a slow
thought coming to her mind I have
been waiting for my father she said
Is he still at the tavern
Lodie held the bucket suspended
half way down the well a dull sur
prise was the leading expression on
his face
Dont ye know where he went
Dlores Warnt ye hyar when he
kem up fer his gun an started ter
hunt ther cow ower yander on ther
mounting Ther cow is hyar
Wheres yer feyther
A sudden sharp fear woke in her
mind she arose and faced Lodie the
sunlight on her head
If he went over on the opposite
mountain to hunt Brindle and has not
returned he must have lost his road
or gotten hurt or something to keep
him
Ye3 said Lodie slowly An
theys want him et ther court ter day
ef he aint thyar theyll kem fer him
theys sweared theyd hev him fer
ther thing kyant be settled tell he
goes
He swung the bucket up on the
edge of the well and passed down the
road in silence his slouching figure
like a blot on the exquisite landscape
Breakfast was ready and Dolores
went in and set the potatoes and ba
con at one side of the hearth the
coffee was ready to make she never
made that till It was ready to be
drank When all was ready wtithin
she went out to the bank under the
pines The sun was high and warm
but under the pines the shadows were
cool and dark and there she waited
for her father
By and by the men of the settle
ment started over the mountain in
groups of twos and threes Dolores
watched them go scarce taking her
eyes from them till their slouching
figures faded and blended with thef
yellow road and the rugged paths As
they passed they asked for her father
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She arose and faced Lodie
every one receiving the same reply
Later as Dolores watched a yellow
clcu dust arose where the road
and the sky seamed to meet She
watched it mechanic lly As the cloud
appeared and drew nearer out of it
appeared a body of horsemen riding
ftt a sharp pace down the rough road
They slackened their pace as they
came up The girl was plainly dis
cernible in her print gown under the
pines They halted at the rickety
gate and one of them dismounted and
went up the walk He removed his
hat as he drew near Dolores
Miss Johnson
She hesitated a moment the name
was unfamiliar to her save as used
by young Green Then she bent her
head in reply
Your -father
He is not here she said slowly
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I do not know
But we must find him He
frowned sternly his face and voice
were authoritative He is summoned
to appear In court to day In the Green
case the law cannot wait Can you
give us no idea where we can find
him
No
He returned to his companions and
reported that Johnson was not there
his daughter did not know where he
was They held a consultation If it
were possible Johnson must be found
and brought to court that day law
and right must not be delayed Riding
down the mountain they halted at the
tavern The tavern keepers wife came
out to meet them
They asked for water she said
water was scarce on the mountain
But we must find him
but she could give them cider if that
would do
They replied that cider would do
very well in fact much better than
water for their purpose for they had
a rough time before them
As they drank they asked for the
host He was away she said gone
over the mountain to the town a
trial was being held there had they
not heard of it Nearly every one had
heard of it it was making a stir
Folks were excited about it there
was to be a trial there and Johnson
had they ever heard of Johnson
was all they were waiting for to lay
the guilt where it belonged he knew
more about it than most folks some
thought
Did Johnson go No not that she
knew of and she would know He
went over to the opposite mountain
last night to- hunt his cow
In what direction did Johnson go
She was not sure she believed he
went right down the road across the
valley There was a bridge across
the river if one followed the road
along the foot of the mountain a bit
Jenkins had seen her there and he
told Johnson so at the tavern John
son went right over to hunt her he
took his gun in case he came across
game but that was useless unless he
were luckier than usual for Johnson
was too shiftless to have luck
Yes the cow came back she had
lost her bell he would expect to find
her by that doubtless he would keep
on hunting he hadnt sense enough
to know she would most likely come
home by herself But if he did not
wish to return for reasons best known
to himself Johnson was shiftless but
he was no fool about some things
His girl now had about as little
sense as was possible She did not
even know when she vas well off she
was like her mother for all the world
only worse
As for Dolores she seemed to like
him to talk to her she was not in the
habit of talking much she never
talked with her neighbors she felt
above them he was the judges son
and no doubt she felt flattered that
he took notice of her Their men
never said much to her for they did
not like her Maybe she went over
the mountain Well maybe she went
because she wished to go How could
she answer for her Perhaps
Could they find Johnson if they
tried She did not know The oppo
site mountain was a dangerous place
there were sharp ledges and turns and
deep chasms folks seldom ventured
over there except for hunting they
had no cause to go
Did they want Johnson He was
not in the habit of going off he never
went hunting except on their own
mountain he had no ga ahead in him
he was shiftless and so was his daugh
ter only worse
They had accomplished their errand
and paid her liberally as they arose
to go more determined than ever to
find Johnson were it a possible thing
The 2 rsS
The deputies rode slowly do n the
mountain The road was hard for
their horses and uncertain besides it
was strange to them and strange
ground was unsafe They talked lit
tle On leaving the tavern one of
them remarked that the woman knew
what she was talking about and now
they would find Johnson if such a
thing were possible for they had more
reason than ever to find him
They - szs z the foot of the
mquntain in search of the path of
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which the woman spoke There was
no road here as along the other moun
tain a narrow line half hidden by
long grass and tangled bushes strag
gled in and out capriciously as though
to puzzle its followers now up the
mountain side again straying out into
tho valley meadows nearer the rivers
moaning Above among the pines tho
blue haze was tangled hiding all be
yond the dread mystery of the moun
tain clung like a garment about It
The men rode on In silence there
was a solemnity around them that
hushed all light words The enormity
of their undertaking dawned more
and more upon them to search for a
man in that wilderness with the moun
tains haert for his hiding place and
its robo of haze for his shield was ab
surd There were chasms and dan
gerous places sharp turnings and
winding paths ledges hidden by haze
that would swallow a man as com
pletely as a sepulcher and leave no
trace massive rocks overhead that a
tremor of the mountain would hurl
upon them No worider the men grew
silent and allowed the horses to have
their way man could not follow the
dangerous hidden paths only brute
instinct could find the safe places
They came at last to the path up
the mountain and the horses refused
to take it until urged by whip and
spur It was a path that shielded all
beyond it as though the mountain
had made a fastness that none could
break The horses tolled up slowly
slipping now and again on the treach
erous ground the tangled bushes and
low boughs swept them as tbey
passed above the pine boughs parted
enough for a mans head to pass un
touched beneath Now and again the
bushes and ferns great rocks loomed
path seemed lost in the wilderness or
ahead and the path that seemed cut
off turned sharply and wound up the
mountain again and again the horse
hoofs paused on the edge of a chasm
half hidden by haze and the men
with white faces held them up by
main force from the ghastly depths
beneath their very feet Their voices
as they shouted in hopes of a reply
had Johnson lost his way sounded
gruesome in the loneliness
Half way up the mountain they
paused and faced about It was use
less they said and foolish to follow
the path up higher no man would
wander up there of his own free will
facing the law were preferable one
knew what lo expect from it Here
death laid his -traps in secret and
lured his victim on he waited at
every corner and lurked near every
rock he was above below and before
them he reigned in the mountains
heart If Johnson were there he
might stay there their lives were of
more value than his they would re
turn to the town and report the utter
hopelessness of the search It would
be wiser to search for him nearer
home to hide from the law showed
that he was cowardly and a coward
would never come there They would
stop at the tavern and speak to the
woman again her words might be
wiser than they thought And they
would speak again to that girl of
Johnsons she might be more willing
to talk and she was no fool
To be continued
SHIRTS GROW ON TREES THERE
That at Least Is the Statement of an
Old Sailor
Shirts grow on trees where I came
from said the old sailor
How so shipmut a pale clerk
asked
The sailor emptied his glass and
wiped his mouth with the back of his
hand Im a speakin he said of
the South seas You know them isl
ands over there
Sure said the clerk
Well thats where I mean that
shirts grow on trees Theres a kind
of a willow tree on them islands with
a soft flexible bark A native selects
a tree with a trunk thats just a little
bigger round than he is He makes a
ring with his knife around the trunk
through the bark and he makes an
other ring four foot below Then with
a slit of the knife he draws the bark
off the same as a boy does in makin
a willow whistle and hes got a fine
durable snirt All he needs to do is
to dry it out make two holes for the
arus and put a lacin in the back to
draw it together
In the spring of the year the shirts
are gathered Men and women both
go out at that time to look for trees
that fit them These bark shirts are
treated so as to be soft and flexible
They dont look bad Gosh hanged if
they look bad at all for shirts that
grow on trees Philadelphia Record
Knew the Major
I hear the major is coming up to
spend a week with you
Yes and I am fitting up a room
for him to entertain his friends I
put in ten chairs and a sideboard
Where is the major from
South Carolina
Then you had better put in ten
sideboards and a chair
Out of Season
Why are yer so sad asked Dust
Dennis
Why growled Sandy Pikes dat
lady said if Id split de wood shed
give me an old pair of shoes she
promised me last winter
An did she
Yes she give me a pair of snow
shoes
Making ricrni
Macaroni is made in forty different
shapes and sizes A special klzd ox
very hard wheat is used in this manu
facture
Lighthouse Service
The United States lighthouse ser
vice costs 4500000 a year
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THE TARIFF BURDENS
NOBODY SEEMS ABLE TO FUR
NISH SPECIFICATJONS
Easy to Assert That Industry Is Op
pressed Because of Protection But
Much Easier to Prove the Blessings
It Has Conferred
Alluding to the report that the pres
ident and some others have prevailed
upon Gov Cummins to abandon the
Iowa idea at least until after the
next presidential election the New
York Evening Post says
It is not to be inferred that the
Iowa Idea has undergone any change
or that Gov Cummins has retracted
one jot or tittle of his own previous
sayings Nor can such changes take
place while the tariff burden resting
upon western industry continue to
weigh upon it Petitions from makers
of agricultural implements calling for
relief from the duties on iron and
steel and a great variety of articles
which have been monopolized by
trusts are now in circulation They
will be presented to Theodore Roose
velt and to the congress of the United
States as soon as the latter come to
gether in regular or special session
They embody the Iowa idea and
they will disturb the harmony of the
party in many places before the dele
gates are elected to the next national
convention
It is a fault of free traders in
which class we do not hesitate to in
clude Gov Cummins because if he
had his own way he would destroy
our protective policy by radically
changing it for the benefit of foreign
ers and some selfish home interests
that they deal in generalties and care
fully omit particulars The Evening
Post illustrates this trait in the above
extract from its columns What are
the tariff burdens which now rest
upon western industry In what
way is the west now burdened by any
of the schedules of the Dingley tariff
All of them working together have
Veen powerful factors in creating for
this country in the six years since
they have been in force the most mar
velous and most general prosperity in
that this country has ever known
year 1902 to 17981507 against 1G
714308 in 1901 15979909 in 1900
13594524 in 1899 9073384 in 1898
and 5302807 in 1897 To Increase
these exportp more than three fold in
five years does not look as if our
agricultural implemont manufacturers
had been carrying many burdens in
their export trade under the Dingley
tariff
Wo do not believe that tho west
wants the free trade policy of Grover
Cleveland or any policy approximat
ing it to be substituted for our pres
ent protective policy Under this lat
ter policy It has no tariff burdens
to complain of only tariff blessings
to be thankful for Iron and Steel
Bulletin
All Records Beaten
We never sold so many products of
American manufacture to foreign na
tions in one month as in the last
April the month of March and April
1900 alone excepted
And yet the Democratic free traders
again want to tinker tho tariff in or
der further to increase our export
trade
In 1893 7 the tariff reformers got
In work in economic law which they
thought would increase our foreign
trade The net result was they de
spoiled our domestic trade and at the
same time home manufactures failed
to get a foreign market such as we
now have under the Dingley tariff
On the only occasion in two gener
ations of American politics when the
Democratic party had opportunity to
show for what purpose it existed a
Democratic President and congress
not only failed to effect good results
but actually succeeded in bringing dis
aster on all American interests
The less the Democratic tariff re
formers now say about promoting our
foreign trade by tariff tinkering the
better especially as under the pres
ent tariff all records are being beaten
in the history of our exports alike of
manufactures and of the products of
the farm Boston Herald
MAIDEN FIRST VOTERS
Colorado Women Display Interest In
the Next Presidential Contest
A unique and interesting feature of
the campaign of education
OEEING THINGS
The west has abundantly shared in
this prosperity No western industry
has been oppressed by the Dingley
tariff all western industries have
been helped by it
It is true that some western and
eastern agricultural implement manu
facturers not satified with the con
trol of the magnificent home market
enjoyed and beiug themselves free
traders would still further increase
their profits by enlarging their for
eign markets through reciprocity at
the expense of their own countrymen
who do not make agricultural imple
ments but who do make other things
But these embodiments of the most
brazen selfishness that the worid ever
knew can not truthfully say that the
Dingley tariff has been a burden to
them It has immensely helped them
and well they know it
But the Dingley tariff has not helped
selfish agricultural implement manu
facturers or their selfish interests in
the east or west to close American
iron and steel works or helped them
through reciprocity to substitute the
wool of the Argentine Republic for
that of American farms or to substi
tute French gloves and brushes and
glassware and other French products
for the products of our own factories
All these and similar absent features
of the Dingley tariff are not bur
dens As well say that the laws
which are intended to restrain the
enemies of society from the commis
sion of crime are burdens
In addition to controlling the home
market absolutely and charging for
their reapers and mowers and thresh
ers and plows and cultivators such
prices as they care to exact our
agricultural implement manufacturers
have been steadily extending the for
eign market for their products ever
since the Dingley tariff became a law
as the following official figures will
show Our experots of agricultural
Implements amounted in the calendar
ated by the American Protective Tar
iff League with reference to the con
test of 1904 is furnished in the re
turns from Colorado In that state
unrestricted woman suffrage prevails
and amorg the lists of persons who
will cast their first vote in a
dential election next year are a large
number of young women Here in
deed is a fruitful and inviting field
What more necessary more useful
more piofitable or more agreeable
work could there be than to provide
with Protection literature the thou
sands of fair ones who will next year
be the first voters in Colorado And
where moreover could the good seed
of sound doctrine be more advantage
ously scattered Women are vitally
concerned in tariff matters for they
are the chief sufferers when free
trade hard times take the place of
protection prosperity Truly a pleas
ant task it will be to aid in rightly
directing the political steps of the
budding electresses of the Rocky
Mountains If further proof were need
ed of the value and utility of the first
voters plan this would settle it
Ready to Meet It
Can the tariff issue be sup
pressed asks the New York Journal
of Commerce Suppressed by whom
Republicans do not ask to have it sup
pressed They have not raised the is
sue and would be glad enough to have
the tariff let alone and protection go
on its prosperity making way for an
indefinite term of years But if the
free traders and tariff reformers in
sist upon forcing the Issue Republic
ans are ready to meet it It is an Is
sue which they have no need to shirk
or evade All the strength of the sit
uation is on the Republican side
Demdcrato will make the tariff an
issue They always have and always
will we suppose Very well let theiTt
do it again in 1904 Republicans will
welcome the tariff issue They vrill
not lift a finger to suppress it
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NEED OF GOOD KOADS
BENEFIT DWELLERS IN BOTH
CITY AND COUNTRY
Little Incident That Set Farmer and
Manufacturer to Thinking Along the
Same Lines and Boomed tho Cause
- of State Aided Road Building
A few weeks ago a Maryland farm
er found an automobile safely anch
ored in a mud hoio on a coantry road
about twenty miles from the city
home of the owner The automoblllst
was vigorously swearing at tho mud
the farmers and the rural districts in
general After cooling down some
what ho struck a bargain with the
farmer to extricate his machine and
haul it to tho noareBt possible road
for 350 When the job was finished
both wero in a comparatively good
humor Tho automoblllst lit a fresh
ten cent cigar and presented the farm
er one and the following dlaloguo en
sued
Why dont you farmers improve
these roads
Well we do work em every year
but they dont seem to get any bet
ter
But why dont you build firat class
roads and be done with it
Say Mister you must think were
rich out here in the back woods How
much do you reckon it would cost
Not less than two or three thousand
dollars a mile I guess That would
break us up Were taxed already as
much as we can stand If you city
fellows want to go touring over these
roads I guess youll have to get used
to the mud same as we have
After the two had smoked in si
lence for half a minute the farmer
cleared his throat and ventured to
ask
Say why dont you rich city fel
lows give us a lift and help us im
prove these roads Ive been reading
some lately about state aid and gov
ernment aid for the farmers in build
ing good roads Why dont you go in
for these things Wouldnt It be a
benefit to the whole community
Well replied the automoblllst
who happened to be a millionaire
manufacturer I dont know but you
are right I hadnt thought of it In
that light
After some further discussion along
this line the two separated each with
some new ideas The farmer had
grasped the idea that the automobile
which he had always viewed with
mingled feelings of scorn and amuse
ment might after all turn out to be
a great friend of his might in fact
be the means of inducing tYh rich men
of the cities to help the farmers build
good country roads
The rich city man on the other
hand had got a glimpse of the real
conditions and sentiments prevailing
in the country He realized as never
before that no general improvement
of the country reads could be hoped
fpr so long as the farmers were left
to work out the problem unaided In
fact he saw the injustice of expecting
them to shoulder the whole burden
As a result of this incident both
the farmer and the automobilist are
now conducting a little campaign
among their neighbors in favor of
state and national aid to road build
ing
THE D-
FOOL VOTE
How Champ Clark Won Precinct by
Daring Rejoinder
Congressman Champ Clark usually
manages to take pretty good care of
himself whatever the circumstances
During one of hi3 campaigns in Miss
ouri he struck an exceptionally hos
tile neighborhood He had been sub
jected to several interruptions and
finally a burly fellow strode down to
the front of the platform and said
Say youre a d fool and every
body here knows it
Clarks face actually became radi
ant at this announcement He leaned
over and before the bewildered spec
tator who had hurled the epithet
cculd think seized his hand and
wrung it warmly Then facing his
audience squarely said
The remark of my friend here has
given me renewed encouragement If
before I had any shadow of doubt as
to ray success he has dispelled it for
if I poll the full d fool vote of
this precinct I will be elected by a
rousing majority
Clark afterward said he knew ho
was taking long chances But the au
dience went wild over the rejoinder
and1 the Congressman really did carry
the precinct when election day rolled
around Baltimore Herald
Kansas Philosopher
The old man was sitting on the roof
gazing placidly across the rushing
waters
Washed all your fowls away
asked the man in tbe boat
Yes but the ducks- swam smiled
the old man
Tore up your peach trees
Dont mind it much They said
the crop would be a failure
But the flood Its up to your wu
dows
Wal them windows needed wash
ing anyway stranger
Dreams of the Gracs
O to He in Ions grasses
O to dream on the plain
Where the west wind sings as it passes
A weird and unceasing- refrain
Where the rank grass t03es and wal
lows
And the plain3 rim dazzles the eye
Where hardly a silver cloud bosses
The flashing steel shield of the sky
To watch the srey pulls s they glitter
Like snowflakes and fall from on higa
To dip in the deeps of the prairie
Where the crows foot tosses awry
Like the swirl o swift waltzers in gle
To the hirsh shrill creak of the cricket
And the 3ong of the lark and the bee
Hamlin Garland