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3j JEAJf KATE LSTLJM
Aulho cf At a Girls Mera Etc
Entered Accordlns to Act of Congress ia tho Year 1800 by Street Smith
In tbo Ocs of tho Librarian of Consress at Washington D C
CHAPTER VIII Continued
Tho woman came to meet them as
they rodo up Foam dripped from tho
mouths of their horses and their
heads hung listlessly while their
flanks were covered with sweat Tho
men dismounted and loosened the sad
dle girths
Had Johnson returned they asked
her
Not that she had heard cf she re
plied Did they want Johnson Had
they been searching for him
Ye3 they replied they wanted John
son ho was summoned to appear in
the town in tho Green case it was
believed he could tell considerable
about the matter should ho not ap
pear to day they must wait
What if he were dead she asked
csirlously if he had fallen into Eome
one of the dangerous places on the
mountain
If ho were dead they said well if
he wore dead that would put a differ
ent face upon the matter they hoped
he was not dead for the law should
not be baffled Did she think he was
dead Had she cause to think so
No she knew no reason why John
son should be dead unless ho had
fallen in some of the dangerous places
on the mountain they must know
this for they had been there for her
part she knew nothing about it save
from what she heard those say who
had been there
They paid her liberally and rode
away Dolores was still sitting at tho
gate under the- pines with her haggard
face and idle hands and the eye3
that watched for what did not come
Johnson was not there she said
quietly and they never questioned her
word but instinctively lifted their hats
as they rode away
CHAPTER IX
A More Thorough Search
Dolores worn with watching and
faint from lack of food fell asleep at
the door way and slept the whole
night through the dawning had deep
ened to broad light when she waked
She bathed her face with cool
water from the well and brushed her
soft hair back winding it in a heavy
coil at the back of her head
The table was set as she had left it
the day before and when she hung the
kettle over the fire she took the pail
and went out to milk Brindle
Lodie came up for water he hesi
tated as he saw Dolores but she rose
up bravely to meet him She did not
speak but her eyes asked him a ques
tion
Ther case were postponed he
said slowly Ther jedge were put
put considerable but as t couldnt be
helped he said theyd hev ter wait tell
yer feyther kems
He did not linger he dared not
linger when she was watching him
He could not tell her of the roused
suspicion regarding Johnsons non
appearance He left a full bucket on
the edge of the well fcr her
Dolores was unused to attention
this siight act touched her strangely
she watched him go down the road
and his slouching figure had a sort of
grace in her eyes
She arose and carried the pail in-
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I will walk she said simply
side Then she prepared a pot of
coffee strong and clear and drank a
cupful She fried some bacon and
eggs and ate them determinedly She
was impelled by her hidden purpose
and ate that she should have
strength
When she had finished she filled a
large bottle with rich new milk and
hung it at her side with a slender
rope across her shoulders she knew
that she would have need of both her
hands Then she closed the door and
went down the path with a firm step
As she pushed the rickety gate up
and fastened it with its swinging rope
and turned to go down the road a
atep crunched the gravel at her side
and a familiar voice sounded in her
hitherto had held
ears a voice that
such sweetness to her shut as she
had always been in her hard life But
she turned now with the free look
dying from her face and eyes
Dolores exclaimed young Green
eagerly a warm light in his kindly
her with outstretched
eyes as he went up to
stretched hands I came over to see
afectttrjour father You have heard
nothing frcm him yet Miss Johnson
I shall find him to day she said
steadily
For the flr3t time ho noticed the
bottle at her waist and the strange
sad expression of her face A knowl
edge of her errand flashed upon him
He touched her arm gently to detain
her
You are going to find him Miss
Johnson Dolores You believe he i3
lost over on yonder mountain What
fools we were not to have thought of
that before Let me go with you
may I What could you do should
you find him He used no softening
words to her he Icdbw she compre
hended the possible ending to their
search -
You must ride my horso Miss
Johnson The way is long and rough
and
I will walk she said simply Her
lips had lost their warm red color her
wide eyes were on his face in their
strange wistfulness
Then I will leave him at the tav
ern he said quietly to comfort her
A group of men were around the
door of the tavern as they approached
and were talking over the events of
the previous day When young Green
and Dolores appeared their glances
were suggestive and they listened in
silence when the young man spoke
When he finished an ominous silence
fell upon them Then Lodie arose Of
them all he was the most angular and
uncouth but among them he was
nobler than they
Ther depties dednt know ther
mounting he said gravely Theys
might hev ams stepped on em
othout knowin et Ef he hev met
with an acedent he maynt be able ter
kem an 11 die thout help kem ter
em Ef thet gal o Johnsings ken go
ower thar ter hunt em I reckon we
uns ken do t
His slow heavy words roused an
interest in his listeners as all Greens
words could not do and they arose at
once to their duty with many a word
of grumbling that passed unnoticed
because each understood that this was
simply their way of showing the depth
of their interest
The strange party moved along the
ghostly mist of the valley road and
across the bridge like spirits of the
mountain The ascent was hard and
toilsome and Dolores was unused to
such exertion young Green was ath
letic but he also had never eo had
his strength put to the proof- They
paused many times to rest and re
cover breath By and by Green helped
Dolores Her recent lack of food and
sleep had unfitted her for such exer
tion She was panting and weak but
she smiled her slow brave smile and
shook her head when he offered to
take her home if she wished She
came to find her father she said
quietly and she would find him she
felt certain of that
Up in the blue space a vulture hov
ered the dull flap of his wings was
audible in the dead stillness and hol
low below Dolores saw him and her
eyes dilated
See she cried her sweet strange
ly penetrating voice full of terror
echoing down the misty hollow See
Why is he there They follow where
there are wounded He is not there
for nothing
Their eyes followed hers her terror
was reflected in their faces used as
they were to such scenes and young
Green instinctively drew her nearer
himself as though to shield her from
what might follow There was noth
ing certain about the vultures prey
it might be a wounded hare a stag
or a man That it was something
was certain something too that was
wounded not dead
They stood in silence a moment
with awe struck faces while the bird
of death hovering above them had a
terrible meaning for them Dolores
clung to young Green with trembling
hands in the first wild moment she
did not feci his strong arm about her
there was a look in her eyes he could
never forget Then she loosened her
hold of him and stood alone slender
and stately on the brink of the yawn
ing gulf It was marvelous how she
impressed those about her with her
personality Many a time afterward
the young man wa3 wakened in the
night with the memory of her as she
stood there in her utter self-forgetful-ness
her feet touching the edge of
the gulf opening before her her ten
der face grand with its brave soul
I will call him she said gravely
He may answer for -he Is there I
know
She leaned above the void filled in
with ghostly mist and gruesome shad
ows young Greens hand was upon
her arm but she did not know It She
called aloud and her voice rang down
the silence waiving the echoes from
rock to rock
Father Father
The bird of death overhead flapped
his heavy wings and uttered a fierce
cry as a panther might that has lost
its young They waited and listened
no sound disturbed the hush of the
mountains heart save the echoes
fainting farther and farther into the
mysterious depths below
Father Father
He did not hear said Dolores
quietly Or perhaps he cannot an
swer I will call again
That he was there she did not
doubt whether dead or alive she
would find him she believed that too
She placed her hands to her mouth
and her voice again wo c tho echoes
like the tones of a flute-
Father Father
The vulture whirred down in froni
of them with Ita fierce cry Then
suddenly up frcm the depths yet not
far from them- floated a faint call
half moan half answer They listened
as though in doubt afraid to believe
lest they be mistaken But again the
faint voice sounded not far distant
but weak Green stretched himselJ
flat on the ground leaned fai
over the perilous edge
About twenty feet below a sharp
ledge projected forming a flat shelf
this was covered with a tangle ol
shrubs and bushes The mist hung
about It like a phantom shroud and
even to Greens clear eye It was bui
faintly discernible Whether or nol
Johnson was there he could not tell
He called cheerily and again the
weak voice replied the bushes below
were stirred slightly and a feeble
hand appeared for an instant
Green arose swiftly to his feet he
uncoiled the rope with swift sweeps
of his muscular young arms and fast
ening one end around his waist se
cured tho other end to a sturdy sap
ling near The men understood his
design without words and obeyed hia
orders promptly
Dolores watched them with dilating
eyes and her lips close shut as though
to stifle a cry When she saw whai
Let me go it is my duty
young Green was about to do she
came forward a world of wonder nd
horror and pleading In her eyes that
were larger and darker than usual as
they met the steady blue ones above
her
Do not go she said slowly as
though the words would not come
Let me go it is my duty but you
you must not risk your life fo
him
He replied hurriedly There was a
swift flashing smile in his eyes a3
they met hers It was pleasant to him
that she cared for his safety and he
answered her with a swift bravo
smile He spoke to the men cheerily
but clearly and concisely he told
them to hold hard and mind their
work They were ready and obeyed
him at once and without word3
As he turned to let himself down
over the edge he looked toward Do
lores She was standing apart from
them white and silent her slender
graceful figure in its homely print
gown sharply defined against th9
drooping pine boughs that swung low
down her brown eyes were on him
with a great wonder in their depths
At the time he did not understand
but he smiled at her and the smile
was so grave and tender and steady
that it seemed to her afterward when
she thought of it that he had spoken
She neither moved nor spoke he
believed that she did not see him
though her eyes were on him till he
disappeared over the edge the rope
making a dull whir through the grass
that stifled all thought in her mind
but the possibility of danger to him
To be continued
Source of Nervous Impulse
The theory of Loeb and Matthews
that the nervous impulse although it
brings in electricity is far from re
garding the transmission of that im
pulse as identical with a simple elec
trical current In a medical journal
Dr OBrien advocates the old theory
that nervous current and electrical
current are identical because first
electricity is always present when
nerves act second electricity is the
form of lorce which would do the
work required third because the ter
minal and central mechanisms con
nected with the nerves correspond to
the terminal and central mechanisms
connected with electrical system of
communication and do similar work
in sending receiving relaying switch
ing transforming accumulating re
tarding distributing and translating
impressions and fourth because elec
tricity with such construction of con
ductors and of terminal mechanisms
is the only form of force we know of
that would do all the work required
Vital Statistics Lr
Greater London which includes all
the suburbs has a population of 6581
372 an increase of just under 1000000
in ten years more than half of which
occurred in the outer ring At the
ages of nineteen twenty twenty one
to twenty five and twenty five to thir
ty there are more than twice as many
females as males It is pointed out in
considering the excess cf females over
males account must be taken of the
large number of female domestic serv
ants who are brought into London
from the country London has 234
39S female servants aud only 15425
men servants London has less
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ABE LOSING INTEREST
CUBA AND CANADA NOT EAGER
FOR RECIPROCITY
All Markets Better for Cuba Than One
Market Only While Canada Will
Not Sacrifice Her Domestic Indus
tries by Tariff Reductions
In the following comment by the
free trade Springfield Republican
there is more of fact than is custom-
ary in that newspapers discussion of
tariff matters
Cuba Is reported to be losing in
terest in the adoption of reciprocity by
the United States It is finding itself
able to get along very tolerably with
out reciprocity One of the Minne
sota congressmen says the people of
that state are becoming more and
more concerned about reciprocity with
Canada but Canadas interest in reci
procity under repeated rebuffs from
the United States has been declining
as interest on this side has been in
creasing
It is undoubtedly true that Cuba is
caring less and less about reciprocity
She never really cared very much
about it The scheme of tying up
Cuba with a bargain that in the long
run was sure to be a bad one for her
while it was a viciously unfair and in
jurious bargain for the sugar and to
bacco producers of the United States
originated with Havemeyers Sugar
trust Cuba was not solicitous about
the arrangement Havemeyer was
The Sugar trust literary bureau was
for a time successful in exploiting the
idea that a moral obligation was in
volved on the part of the United
States Many sincere and conscien
tious people supported the reciprocity
proposition on that ground solely
They recognized its injustice to a
large and important body of domestic
producers but they felt bound to re
deem a promise which they were per
suaded to believe had been made at
3ome time by somebody They seem
to have lost sight of the fact that no
body had the shadow of a right to
make such a promise or the power to
carry it out that is nobody but the
United States congress There is we
believe no pretense that congress ever
made uch a promise
But the moral obligation plea so
shrewdly worked up by the Sugar
tiust finally flattened out For a long
time past it has been patent to the
dullest comprehension that there is no
moral obligation in the case merely
a business deal in which a favored
number of American manufacturing
and commercial interests stand to get
greatly the best of the arrangement
while the Cuban people outside of
those identified with the affairs of the
Sugar trust and the Tobacco and Cigar
trust are certain to be injured more
by cutting themselves off frcm the
worlds markets than they would be
benefited by giving to the United
States a monopoly cf Cuban trade
This is a view now very generally held
in Cuba It explains why Cuba is
ti fVi oHnntinn rf
reciprocity by the United States
Similarly true is the Republicans
assertion that Canadas interest in
reciprocity under repeated rebuffs
from the United States has been de
clining as interest on this side has
been increasing Canada has found
out that the United States even if it
would consent to any sort of reciproc
ity ceriainly would not consent to a
reciprocity limited strictly to natural
products Beth Canada and the United
States are sellers of natural products
Neither is a buyer Canada would
have much to gain by such reciprocity
The farmers lumbermen and fisher
men of the United States would be
the losers Finding that no such jug
handled swap can be made Canada
has naturally lost interest in reciproc
ity Nobody in Canada possibly ex
cepting the farming lumber and fish
ing interests favors reciprocity in
manufactures Reciprocity in manu
factures would virtually kill every
Canadian manufacturing industry
Reciprocity of this kind with a pref
erence in favor of the United States
would not fail to bitterly offend Great
Britain to say nothing of Germany
France and the rest of the world It
Is doubtful whether the British
ermenc won a ie u ar
dren than it has had for many ears
but it has more people ov r fy five f V
manufacturing interests of the United
than ever before
Kingdom Hn Monday of this week
this very question was under discus
sion in the house of lords The cable
leport says
The Marquis cf Lansdowne
tary of State for Foreign Affairs saii
tho govornment considered that thv
time had come when they bhould en
deavor to find some means of ascer
taining whether it was1 possible to ob
tain closer fiscal union with the
onles to find some means of protect-
ing them if they were subjected to1
ill treatment in consequence of the
preferential treatment they granted
to the mother country and to discover
means of protecting British interests
against inequitable competition
Closer fiscal union with the colonies
ts and must be British policy In these
circumstances is it to be for a moment
supposed that Canada for the sake of
enriching the manufacturers of the
United States will enter Into a reci
procity arrangement that will stifle
her own industries and at the same
time subject British Interests to a still
more inequitable competition than
that which Is now complained of
Such a proceeding on Canadas part 13
cut of the question That is why Can
ada is losing interest in the reciprocity
game That is why the National Reci
procity league and Its Minnesota
branch that i3 especially devoted to
of the project aro
the Canadian part L U15 tiuj
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those books that should oc accorded
ana tne vuai nueu ut lUBtuvC41uI
serious constaern ion
means of protecting British interests
against inequitable competition such
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AI7HORS Jtt
Rather than tho excoption It is the
rule nowadays for publications of Im
portance to devote more or loss space
to current books and their authore
With tho thought In mind that such a
department will be welcomed this
column will hereafter appear at regu
lar intervals giving short reviews oi
Ruth Kimball Gardiner is the au
thor of a most delightful book for chil
dren issued by Zlmmerman3 New
York entitled In Happy Far Away
Land The voltimo is composed ol
twelve folk lore tales that should ap
peal Immediately to parents and teach
ers who value the delicate sensibili
ties of childhood All requirements
of the specialist in child study seems
to have been fully anticipated In these
stories without sacrificing the very
necessary Interest or the moral The
child of to day will evidently relish
these tales with the same amount of
enthusiasm that children of yesterday
did the stories of the past It Is nor
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facts and m n w oue iacu
wasting their time All the
tech children villainous things Jack
conditions are against any genera
scheme of reciprocity between Canada I the Giant Killer may have been a
good story for young minds accord-
and the United States There will bo
Pon i0miv m ing to by gone estimations but
f mq ttu0i srntea not - ured with Princess Bo Peep or
lliLCfaiai u - I
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before
The White Knight in In Happy
Far Away Land the earlier
us OI opinion must uave ut eu uiw
Democratic Opoortunities
ii i a mrmov ediv at rami in nappy rar away
Land contemplates all things from
scheme of be-
on a gold basis In the
e viewpoint oi iue cm umuu
Democrats
ing unlike it behooves the
teaches the le3son of work
to indorse silver at the Bryan ratio
Republicans believe in protection
Therefore let the Democracy howl for
free trade Republicans beheve in
prosperity and have labored with suc
cess to secure this The Democratic
program therefore is to howl in favor
HE WILL NOT BE TEMPTED
ViVUVVWWWVVWvTv
of the good old hard times with Coxey
sciously
and the beauties of nature and the
wholesomeness of living aright Thie
book deserves to rank as a classic for
little folk
Richard Harding Davis novel Cap
tain Macklln although a product of
nearly a year ago Is still holding its
own with current fiction Captain
Macklln is distinctly one of the im
portant books of 1902 having a spe
cial element of vividness and personal
quality because it treats with a kind
of life with which Mr Davi3 has be
come very familiar in the course of
his own diversity of experiences Cap
tain Macklins career carries him
Outline Sketch of Captain llackHn
through a South American revolution
and various other military adventures
Macklin as a character is acknowl
edged to be one of the authors most
fascinating heroes As for the novel
armies and soup houses Republicans
It is a step decidedly m advance of the
make no secret of believing in the in-
- oi authors most popular former stones
and is a rich fulfilment of the promise
ht nartiv dMnrihed hv the word ex-
pansion They want tne country to
grow and rejoice that it is growing
They regard the taking cf the Philip
pines as having been a duty that to
of increasing power conveyed in his
early work
Willis George Emerson emerges
somewhat like Hopkinson Smith from
mi - w mq pwiin 3 successful career along industrial
pines is the destiny of this people Hnes into tne story telling field Soon
and that this course is the only one ter leaving college Mr Emerson en-
i it 0iTrf5o fn listed in the movement to convert tne
the credit of the United States and to
the benefit cf the islands They hold
that the record of the army has been
clean and honorable and that the
American soldier fighting under a trop
ic sun dees not by this act become a
bandit thief an assassin
UUll a Lillet or U uUJliJ
i rT rno rrnusaeau
j South Bend Tribime
Good for Marcus
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cattle range oi ouuiuncsisiii iaouo
into an agricultural paradise and was
one or the founders of Meade Kansas
where the scenes of Bueli Hampton
are laid Since those days he has been
a lawyer a town builder a mine opera
tor has built the first smelter ever
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All tnese points are citea simpiy ior uia -- -- -
is at work on the largest aerial
the purpose of throwing a preserver to now
in the world During all tne
Democracy as it flounders in a slough tramway
of uncertainty It is different from years that he has been engaged m
Republicanism now but if it wants to these various enterprises his novel
increase and emphasize the difference Buell Hampton Forbes Company
the way is easy enough Tacoma Boston has been slowly crystallizing
Ledgen i into the wCrk to which tho public is
j giving so complimentary a greeting
Essentially Democratic yr Emerson has put himself and his
The Iowa idea gained all Its l varied experiences in the new regions
lowing from those who wanted to at- 0f the West into his book Politics
tack the tariff as a means of hitting banking and journalism come in for a
the trusts The Iowa idea iarge place in the story while the
sented an effort to lower the prices of i natural phenomena of the region the
commodities that were thought to be prairie fire and the hot winds are no
too hign It was born when beef cat- iess vividly portrayed His entire life
tie were S per hundred pounds It na3 been spent amid the life and
voiced the sentiment of a non-pro- sc5nes be writes about and he says
duciag class purchasers not sellers iin bis preface There is so much in
It was a doctrine essentially Demo- thp tale that is based upon facts and
cratic and it had to be put to death
for the good of the country and the
party It was popular for a time as
free trade theories always are Des
Moines Capital
True Americanism
Conatnr TTnnTia shnwpri hia trup
l actual happenings that I hardly know
j where history ceases and fiction be
l gins
The New Amsterdam Book Com
oany New York announce publication
of a beautifully illustrated book of
under the title of
cniiaren s nnems uuuci i
Americanism in the matter of his j Lays for Little Chaps Alfred J
wedding He decid
daushters gown
ed that the material should be Amer
ican made and all the work connected
with the construction of the garment
be done in this country He placed
no limit on the expense but stoutly
affirmed that no foreign texture or for-
eicn labor should enter into a make up
Waterhouse the author is a new name
in the Eastern field so long occupied
by Eugene Field and Jame3 Wnitcomb
Riley- West of the Rocky Mountains
his name J3 a household word and
his verses for children are eagerly
read whenever they appear The pres
ent volume will contain the best that
he has ever written together with a
number entirely new to the public