THE LITTLE
BROWN JUG
KILDARE
By
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Illustrations By
RAY WALTERS
T I
1903 by The Bobbs-Merrlll Company.
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SYNOPSIS.
Thomas Ardmore , bored millionaire
Henry Maine Grlswold , professor
n the University of Virginia , take
trains out of Atlanta , Griswold to hli
/college / , Ardmore in pursuit of a girl
who had winked at him. Mistaken for
lOov. Osborne of South Carolina , Gris-
.tv-old's life is threatened. He goes to
{ Columbia to warn the governor and
meets Barbara Osborne. Ardmore
llearns that his winking lady is the
daughter of Gov. Dangerfleld of North
'Carolina. ' He follows her to Raleigh
, a.nd on the way is given a brown Jug
at Klldare. In Raleigh he discovers
that the Jug bears a message threaten
ing Dangerfleld unless Appleweight , a
terimlnal , is allowed to go free. Ard-
ijnore becomes allied with Jerry 'Dan-
fferfleld In running the affairs of the
atata In the absence of the governor.
A scathing telegram is sent to Gor.
Osborne. Griswold becomes adviser to
Barbara Osborne , who is attending to
her father's duties In South Carolina.
Orders are sent to the sheriff to cap
ture Appleweight. Valuable papers are
missing from Gov. Osborne's office.
GklBwold places the theft at the door
of the attorney general.
CHAPTER VIM. Continued.
He had opened an atlas and was
poring over it. with a magnifying
. glass.
"It's positively funny , " he mur
mured , laughing a little to himself ,
, "but I know something about this
country over here. Here's Ardsley , in
jthe far corner of Dllwell county , and
here's Klldare. "
i "Yes ; I understand maps. Dilwell
is green , and there's the state line
and that ugly watery sort of yellow
is Mingo county , South Carolina , and
Turner Court House Is the county
aeat of it. Those little black marks
are hills on the border , and it's right
there that these Appleweight people
live , and dance on the state line as
though it were a skipping-rope. "
"That's exactly it. Now what we
want to do is to arrest Applewelght
and put him in Jail in South Carolina ,
which relieves the governor of North
Carolina , your honored father , of all
embarrassment. "
She snatched the paper-cutter and
took possession of the map for a mo
ment , then pointed , with a happy lit
tle laugh.
"Why , that will be only too easy.
You see there's Azbell county , where
the militia is encamped , just three
counties away from Dilwell , and If we
needed the soldiers it wouldn't hurt
the troops to march that far , would
it ? "
"Hurt them , nothing ! " exclaimed
Ardmore. "It will be good for them.
You have to give orders to the adju
tant general , and , being engaged to
him , he would be afraid not to obey
your orders , even if you told him to
go in balloons. "
"Well , of course , I'd send him an
official order ; and if he was disobedi
ent I could break our engagement. "
It would have Interested Ardmore
to know the total of Miss Danger-
field's engagements , but the time did
not seem propitious for such inquir
ies ; and , moreover , his awe of her
as a young person of great determina
tion and force of character increased.
"Well , there's the map , and there's
that insulting telegram ; what are you
going to do about it ? " asked Jerry.
She seemed to be honestly Inviting
suggestions , and the very thought of
this affected him like wine. He de
liberated for several minutes , while
she watched him. A delicious country
Quiet lay upon the old statehouse ; in
the tranquil park outside the birds
whistled their high disdain of law and
precedent
"A governor , ; ' he began , "is always
a dignified person who doesn't bother
his head about little things like this
unless everybody 'else has gone to
sleep. Now , who's the chief of police
In a county like Dilwell what do you
call him ? "
t"Do you mean the sheriff , Mr. Ard
more ? "
"Certainly. Now , give me those
telegraph blanks , and I'll drop him a
few lines to let him know that the
government at Raleigh still lives. "
It is in the telegram alone that we
Americans approach style. Our great
commanders did much to "form it ; our
.Tiusiness strategists took the key from
them. Telegrams were , however , with
" Mr. Thomas Ardmore , something
more than a form of communication
-or a mere literary exercise. Letter-
-writing seemed to him 'the most
formidable of human undertakings ,
rbut with a pad of telegraph blanks
under his hand his spirit soared free. '
All untrammeled by the horror of the
day tariff , whose steep slopes have
-wrought so much confusion and error
among the economical , he gave to the
wires and the wireless what he never
-would have confided to a stamp. He
wrote and submitted to Miss Jerry |
Dangerfield the following :
To the Sheriff ol 1)11 well Countr
Kildare , N. C.J
What Is this I hear about your Inabil
ity to calch Applewelght and the reit of
his bunch ? Your inattention to your du
ties Is a matter of common scandal , and
If you don't get anxious pretty soon I
shall remove you from your job and theft
borne. 1 shall be down soon to see wheth
er you are pitching puolts at the black
smith shop or fishing for lobsters in Rac
coon creek. Instead of attending to your
knitting. Your conduct has annoyed me
until I am something more than vexed by
your behavior. The eyes of the grea
North State are upon you. Wlro me at
length just what you propose doing or
not doing in this matter.
WILLIAM DANGERFIELD ,
Governor of North Carolina.
"What do you think of that ? " he
asked , his pride falling as she
scanned the paper carefully.
" ' ? " Jerry
"Isn't it pretty expensive
Inquired , counting the words to ten
and then roughly computing the rest
"I'll take care of that , Miss Danger
field. What I want to know is wheth
er you think that will make the sher
iff sit up. "
"Well , here's what father sent him
only about a- week ago. I found It in
his private letter book , and it's marked
confidential in red ink. "
She read :
Act cautiously In Applewelght case. In
dictment by grand jury IB undoubtedly
faulty and Foster threatens trouble in
case parties are arrested.
"And there's more like that ! Papa
never intended to do anything , that's
as plain as daylight. Mr. Foster , the
treasurer , comes from that county
He thought papa was going to have to
do something , so he's holding back
the payment of the state bonds just to
frighten papa. You see , the state
owes the Bronx Loan and Trust Com
pany that $250,000 , and if it Isn't
paid June first the state will be ever
lastingly disgraced. " .
"Oh , yes ; I'd forgotten about that"
"I don't see how you could forget
about it. That must be almost as
much money as there is in the world.
"We've got to raise it , anyhow , even
If we go to the pawn-shop. I pawned
my watch once when I was in col
lege and Billings he was my guard
ian had shut me off. Grissy he's
my friend Grissy says pawnbroking
is only a more vulgar form of bank
ing. "
"I think your telegram to the sher
iff is all right , " said Jerry , reading 11
again. "If you'll go to the door and
whistle for the messenger we'll get it
off. "
Ardmore addressed himself once
more to the map. It was clear that
the Appleweight gang was powerful
enough to topple great states upon
their foundations. It had , to Ard-
more's own knowledge , driven a gov
ernor into exile , and through the
wretched Foster , who was their friend ,
the credit of the state was gravely
menaced.
"I'll wait for the sheriffs answer ,
and if he shows no signs of life I'll
go down there this afternoon. "
"Then you will undoubtedly be
shot ! " Jerry declared , as though an
nouncing a prospect not wholly de
plorable.
"That has itu disagreeable side ,
but a great many people have to be
shot every year to keep up vthe aver
age , and if the statistics need me I
won't duck. I'll call up my man on
the telephone this forenoon and tell
him to put my forester at Ardsley to
work. He's a big fellow who served
in the German army , and if he's afraid
of anything I haven't heard of it. If
we ccn drive the gang into South
Carolina , right along here , you see"
and Miss Dangerfield bent her pretty
head over the map and saw "if we
He Deliberated for Several Minutes.
can pass the chief outlaw on to GOT.
Osborne , then so much the better , and
that's what we will try to do. "
"But you're only the private secre
tary , and you can't assume too much
authority. I shall have to go to Kil
dare to visit my aunt , who is a nice
old lady that lives there. The fried
corn mush and syrup at her house is
the best I ever tasted , and if papa
should come when he sees that some
thing is being done quite different
from what he intended , then I should
be there to explain. If you should be
killed , Mr. Ardmore , no one would be
there to identify you , and I have al
ways thought it the saddest thing in
the world for any one to die away
from home "
"It would be sad ; but I hope you
would be sorry. "
"I should regret your death , and I'd
make them give you a perfectly beau
tiful military funeral , with Chopin's
funeral march , and your boots tied
to the saddle of your horse. "
"But I don't let them fuss about puli
ng off the boots , Miss Dangerfield , if
I die with them on. It would be all
right for you to visit your aunt , but I
shouldn't do it if I were you. I once
visited my aunt , Mrs. Covingfon-
Burns , at Newport for a week. It was
a deep game to get me to marry my
aunt's husband's niece , whose father
lad lost his money , and tlie girl was
beginning to bore my aunt. "
"Was she a pretty girl ? " uked
Jerry.
" he 'Iras a whole basket of peaches ,
and I blight have married her to get
"from my aunt if it were not
I have made it a life-long rule
Hovar to marry the orphaned nieces
of the husbands of my aunts. It's
lieen a good rule to me , and has saved
me no end of trouble. But if my sis
ter doesn't change her mind , and if
she really comes through Raleigh to
day In her car with those friends of
hers , she will be delighted to have
you join her for a visit at Ardsley.
And then you would be near at hand
in case some special edict from "the
governor seemed necessary. "
"But wouldn't your sister think it
trange "
"Not in the least. Miss Dangerfield.
Nothing Is strangp to my sister. And
besides , you are the daughter of the
governor of a great state. She re
fuses to meet senators , because you
can never be sure they are respect
able , but she rather prides herself on
knowing governors. Governors are
very different Since I read the con
stitution I can see very plainly that
governors are much nearer the people
ple , but I guess the senators are near
er the banks. "
"Well , I have some shopping to do ,
and it's ten o'clock. It would be hos
pitable to ask you to luncheon , but
mamma cries so much because she
doesn't know where papa is that our
meals at the executive mansion are
not exactly cheerful functions. And be
sides ! ' and she eyed Ardmore severe
ly as she rose and accepted her para
sol from him "and besides , you know
our relations are purely official. You
have never been introduced to me ,
and socially you are not known to us. "
CHAPTER IX.
The Land of the Little Brown Jug.
Caboose 0186 , with three box cars
and a locomotive attached , lay in the
southeastern yards at Raleigh late in
the evening of the same day. In the
observatory sat Mr. Thomas Ardmore ,
chatting with the conductor , while
they waited for the right of way. Mr.
Ardmore's pockets were filled with
papers , and he held half a dozen tele
grams in his hand. The freight cars
behind him were locked and sealed ,
and a number of men lounging near
appeared to be watching them.
The reply of the sheriff of Dilwell
county had precipitated the crisis.
That official succinctly replied to
Ardmore's message :
Be good and acquire grace.
While this dictum had aroused Miss
Dangerfield's wrath and indignation ,
it calmed her fellow conspirator , and
for hours Ardmore had poured forth
by telegraph and telephone. No such
messages as his had ever before re-
diated from Raleigh. The tolls would
have bankrupted the commonwealth
if Ardmore had not cared for them
out of his private purse. His forester ,
with an armed posse from Ardsley ,
was already following the streams
and beating the brush in search of
Appleweight. One car of Ardmore's
special train contained a machine gun
and a supply of rifles ; another abun
dant ammunition and commissary sup
plies , and the third cots and bags.
The men who loafed about the train
were a detail of strike-breakers from
a detective agency , borrowed for the
occasion. Cooke , the conductor of tha
train , had formerly been in the gov
ernment secret service , and knew the
Carolina hill country as he knew the
palm of his hand. Ardmore had
warned his manager and the house
keeper on his estate to prepare for
the arrival of Mrs. Atchison , whose
private car had come and gone , car
rying Miss Geraldine Dangerfield on
to Ardsley. Ardmore had just re
ceived a message from his sister at
some way station , reporting all well
and containing these sentences : "She
is rather different , and I do not quite
make her out. She has our noble
brother-in-law a good deal bewil
dered. "
Cooke ran forward for a colloquy
with the engineer over their orders ;
the guards climbed into one of the
box cars , and the train moved slowly
out of the Raleigh yards to the main
line and rattled away toward Kildare ,
with Mr. Ardmore , pipe in mouth ,
perched in the caboose cupola.
Not Capt. Kidd nor another of the
dark brotherhood sailed forth wittt
keener zest for battle than Mr. Ard
more. Indeed , the trailing smoke of
the locomotive suggested a black flag ,
and the thought of it tickled his
fancy. Above bent the bluest sky in
the world ; fields of corn and cotton ,
the brilliant crimson of German clo
ver , and long stretches of mixed for
est held him with enchantment. And
when night came , after the long
mystical twilight , the train passed
now and then great cotton factories
that blazed out from their thousand
windows like huge steamships.
( TO BE CONTINUED. )
No Exercise.
We have the impression that we get
nervous troubles from to-day's rush
of life. But impressions and serious
; hought often yield widely different re
sults. We do rush about a lot , but
man never went so little on his feet
is her.e and now. Cars , elevators , au-
; omobiles .carry where man listeth
without scarcely the crook of a knee.
Actually , there are men in this city
svho travel toward hundreds of miles
i day and scarcely get enough exer
cise for the final cellular digestion of
.he rich , greasy , juicy , vinous viands
.hey devour. And never since crea-
jon's dawn , except in aldermanic Lon-
ion , has the glutton's platter been so
stuck under business men's noses all
ie time from the first thing in the
norning to the last thing at night
Dnce in a while the Frenchman , the
Dutchman and the Englishman stuff
vith these intensely rich , juicy gorges.
But like Haffey's whisky they are here
or us all all the time. New York
i > rets.
Big Demand for Product From
Babies and Adults.
New York Woman Surprises Friends
by Successful Operation of Dairy
Near Buffalo Animals Put
on Special Feeding.
New York. A New York woman
has surprised her friends by making a
success of a goat dairy on her farm
near Buffalo.
"No one was more surprised than
my friends when I went into this busi
ness , " she said. "I hardly know my
self how I started. It's one of those
things which come to you at times
when you feel that you must do some-
ing for a livelihood , yet do not know
what to do the result of an inspira
tion , perhaps.
"But you are , after leaving the city
and moving out on this farm for the
children's sake , I realized that there
was plenty of room to carry on a
profitable business If I only knew
what to do.
"The chief reason I took hold , of
goat raising , I think , is because I
heard our family doctor say that the
best thing for young children suffering
from summer complaint and malnutri
tion was pure goat's milk. He also
said that it was the best nourishment
Cor weak stomachs. Furthermore , he
declared it was almost impossible to
secure goat's milk in the cities.
"This set me to thinking. Here I
was , an able-bodied woman , and here
was plenty of room for all the goats
I could get hold of. So it was 'goats
or give up , ' I decided , and I have cer
tainly made a success at it.
"In the first place , the worst thing
I had to contend with was that I had
no ready money. I went skirmishing
around and was finally able to borrow
$500 , which amount I considered suf
ficient as my first outlay. So I bought
$600 worth of goats.
"These were not of any fancy breed ,
but Just ordinary goats , young and in
healthy condition. The goats I sim
ply turned out on my pastures , and
the beauty of it Is that the goat can
live on very sparse vegetation if nec
essary. He will not eat the proverbial
tin can , but he will get nutriment out
of what ordinary animals would starve
upon. Accordingly , he Is not expen-
llve to keep.
"But to get the proper strength of
toilk In Its healthy , pure condition , I
put my goats on a special feeding. It
was my purpose to sell my milk to
druggists and physicians. To succeed
I wanted the best product I < could get
to put on the market.
"The eagerness with which my pro
position was received by the medical
fraternity In Buffalo encouraged me to
go in for goat's milk for all it was
worth. I assured these people they
could depend on me for a certain sup-
Volcano Study Center.
Springfield , Mass. The "Volcanic
Research Society" has just been or
ganized In this city. Its membership
will Include scientific men from all
parts of the country , the plan being
to make exhaustive investigations of
volcanic eruptions and activities in
various parts of the world.
The society plans to make this city
the center of information concerning
volcanoes , earthquakes and allied phe-
.nomena , I
FIRST WOMAN WIRELESS OPERATOR
! z , .w * v _ > > . $ rvx * M < Kt.
i & r # > * m & $
Graynella Packer of Jacksonville , Fla. , has been appointed wirelea
MISS
operator on board the Clyde liner Mohawk , running between New York-
and Charleston and Jacksonville , and is the first of her sex to fill such >
position. Miss Packer , who is twenty-two years old and very pretty , f -
tends to use the money she earns to study music , as she is especially i -
terested in voice culture and wishes to become a grand opera singer.
ply , and they guaranteed to take all
I could furnish.
"This constituted a daily routine of
work. I got two helpers , but did much
of the work myself. Everything I
have about my goat stables is as sani
tary as it is possible to make it The
milking is done under the same sani
tary rules. My bottling is all steriliz
ed and I deliver my milk in pint and
quart bottles , fresh and sealed. No
sooner is , it received each day at the
drug stores and dispensaries than It
is carried away. I furnish the fresh
product to the trade for several cents
more than is paid for ordinary cow's
milk. '
"My milk is bottled and put on the
trains every morning in the same
manner as the usual dairy business ,
and the bottles -.ome back to me
REVENGE OF LOVER
Irate French Youth Vents Spite
on Wrong Man.
All Paris Laughs at Levon , Who Filled
Mouth of His Sweetheart's Father
With Axle Grease and
Couldn't Explain It.
Paris. All the world loves a lover ,
it Is said , but all Paris is laughing at
one. His name is Levon , and he was
employed at the Bourse. Whenever
his employer wanted him he was
never to be found but , stocked with
a long list of excuses , was always
able to retain his position. Finally ,
however , his employer decided to
make a personal investigation. The
result was that he suddenly came on
his employee hidden in a corneof
the Bourse conversing sweetly with a
young girl.
, Not giving Levon time to frame one
'of ' his excuses the stockbroker dls-
1 charged him immediately. Levon
I would not have cared much had it not
( been for the fact that in his conversa
tions with his girl friend he had given
the impression that he was a member
of the firm. To be "fired" in front of
the astonished young woman's eyes
was more than he could bear. He de
termined on revenge.
That evening he bought a pail of
axle grease and a long brush. He then
posted himself at a corner near the
office of his ex-employer. He heard
steps approaching and prepared him
self. As the man turned the corner
Levon dabbed his face and whiskers
plentifully with the grease. The man
opened his mouth to yell , but the
brush found Its way Inside and pre
vented anything but a sputter. Final
ly , however , half a dozen strong arms
prevailed on the discharged clerk to
have mercy. The party adjourned tea
a police station and the operation of
separating the victim from the wagon
grease was begun. Levon looked on ,
not without , enjoyment , until the
man's face emerged. Then he almost
expired. The man on whom he had
taken his "revenge" was not his for
mer employer , but the father of his
sweetheart.
Levon tried to explain matters to
the man he hoped would some day be
his father-in-law. But that hard
hearted individual Immediately made
a charge against him. And as mis
fortunes do not come singly , his
sweetheart , as soon as she heard of
the affair , swore never to see him
again. The judge , however , had a
sense of humor and thought three
days' imprisonment , In connection
with his other trials , was enough.
Animals Particularly Ravenous and
Causing Much Loss to Stock
Owners and Ranchers.
Boise , Idaho. Wolves are destroy
ing scores of sheep and cattle in the
southern part of the state , according
to James J. Gordon , an Orryhee coun
ty rancher , who is In Boise for a few
days. The animals are said to be
particularly ferocious tuis year , for
the early season , and many of the
ranchers are taking special precau
tion In the hiring of extra ranch
hands to ward off the rttacks of the
ravenous animals.
"It is the most remarkable early
winter I have ever seen , " said Mr.
Gordon , "In the number of wolves
which are infesting the country. Not
only sheep , but many cattle are being
destroyed by the animals , which are
traveling In packs over the country
Even the coyotes are doing more dam
age than unusual this year , but the
greatest danger to the stockman is
the number of wolves.
"The animals are apparently raven
ous , which is an unusual condition at
this season of the year , and much
trouble Is anticipated when the win-
Painting Brings $400,000.
Vienna. A report of the accidental
discovery among some pictures at
Schwarzau , the'country seat of tlie
Duke of Parma , of a canvas by Ve
lasquez , which had been missing for
1GO years , is published in the Wiener
Journal. The picture is said to be an
equestrian portrait of Philip IV. of
Spain , painted in 1623. According to
the Journal the picture already has
been sold to an English firm of art
dealers for $400,000.
empty for a Iresh supply. In a
short time I was able to pay my borrowed - ,
rowed $500 back. Very shortly I shalU
double my supply of goats and very }
likely will soon ship my milk into' '
New York city.
"The goats themselves are easy t
take care of and require about tbfc {
same average space a goat as the com
mon sheep , but I should much rather
put all the money I had into
than the latter. Goats are very hardjv
"For a farmer's wife , or any womaflC
who wants to take up an out-of-docri
existence , I can say that nothing W
better than systematically rumfng /
goat dairy. On the size herd I
a woman should be able to clear
a year and do It nicely and wi
trouble when she is once experience *
in the dally routine. " ,
Windfall for Farm Hand.
London. A fortune of $250,000
been unexpectedly left to John
Lusky , a farm laborer of Busby.
Glasgow.
McLusky was found by a legal
which Inserted an advertisement In
Glasgow paper seeking his where * ;
bouts. ;
The fortune was bequeathed by ai
brother who died some weeks ago '
New York.
Meat Imports $205,000,000 ,
London. Frozen meat of the vain *
of $205,000,000 was Imported by Bug- '
land last year , said Mr. Stanley Ma-
chin at a reception given by the LOOT
don chamber of commerce to
gates from Vienna inquiring Into
ineat supply.
Damage by Wolves in Idaho
ter really sets in severely. Manjv
ranchers have had trouble with them. '
running into , the very barnyards.
"Wolves are decidedly on the 1&
crease in the southern * part of th *
state , and more have been killed thoJ
in the past month than In formea
years. ,
"In the event that the trouble is
not abated , it is extremely probabW ,
that united efforts will be made bjt \
the stockman , and hunting parties- I
will be organized as part of a syste
matlc crusade against them.
"Another means , which has been *
suggested as an aid In their exter
mination. Is an added reward to they
bqunty given by the state , whic * .
would be offered by the stockmen.
"Large bands of sheep have be '
removed rom northern Utah and it is.
generally believed that this has beea
responslbls for a large number of
wolves which h'ave come into the
southern part of this state , for they ,
have been forced out of Utah , be
cause of lack of food. "
Hen Lived 21 Years.
Biddeford. Me. Capt Daniel Tan
box's famous black hen is dead. Th
captain announced the news alonff
with some interesting information con
cerning the hen's career. She wouli
have been 22 years old had she lived
until next May. Her record as a pro
ducer has been a remarkable one , th -
captain asserting that the bird ha *
laid 4,000 eggs.
The last was of unusual size. How
ever , it was right after that the hea
became feeble , and though receiving
closest care , died. Her eggs were nether
her only claim to public attention and
admiration , for she had never been
licked by anything on the place that ,
feathers.