Show v SERIAL iFirst State BANK of A J Lewie Alma Y Salina- STORY - THE LITTLE BROWN JUG President Huish Cashier AT i r "“1 KILDARE Drafts drawn on all the pridcip&l cities of the United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits MEREDITH NICHOLSON Illustration Bjr RAY WALTERS “2--S" MEATS and GROCERIES HIDES PKLT8 WANTED OEO WLONG PROP Copyright 20 by The Company SYNOPSIS Everything for the table for all occasions Fresh and Fine The White Front Market Thomas Ardmore and Henry Maine Griswold stumble upon Intrigue when the governors of North and South Carolina are reported to have quarreled Griswold allies himself with Barbara Osborne daughter of the governor of South Carolina while Ardmore espouses the cause of Jerry Dangerfleld daughter of the two These governor of North Carolina young ladles are trying to All the shoes of their fathers while the latter are missing Both states are in a turmoil over one Applewetght an outlaw with great each othpolitical influence Unaware of er’s position both Griswold and Ardmore set out to make the other prosecute Apple weighj Ardmore organizes a big hunt Griswold also takes the field Frank Collins Atlanta reporter Is arrested by Ardmore but released to become press agent for the young millionaire's expedition Griswold’s men capture Bill Appleweight Jerry Dangerfleld discovers the captive her outlaw and leads him to Ardsley own prisoner Griswold Is obliged to report the loss very mysterious to him to Barbara Osborne CHAPTER XIV — Continued were composed by messages their joint efforts at the station with not so much haste but that an associate professor of admiralty 29 years old could defer In the most trifling matters to the superior literary taste of a girl of 20 whose brown eyes were very pleasant to meet In moments of uncertainty and appeal He signed the messages Charles Osborne with a flourish Ingovernor confidence dicative of the increased and daring which Miss Osborne’s arrival bad brought to the situation “And now”' said Griswold as they rode through the meager streets of Turner’s “we will go to Mount Nebo church and see what we can learn of Applewelght’s disappearance” “The North Carolina papers are s making a great deal of Gov activity In trying to put down outlawry on the border” said Barbara "Marked of the newspapers copies are pouring into papa’s office I can but hold Mr Bosworth responsible for count We may upon It that he that will do all in his power to annoy us' — and then as Griswold looked at her he was aware that she had quickly colored and averted her eyes and while as a lawyer he was aware that words of two letters might be provocative of endless litigation of the bitterest sort he had never known before that “us” In itself the homeliest of could cause so sweet a diswords The SCENIC LINEOFTHEW0RLD THREE SOLID VESTIBULED EACH TRAINS WAY DAILY BtTWLELN SALT LAKE CITY and DENVER PASSING THROUGH CANYON of the GRANDE EAGLE RIVER CANYON RUBY CANYON GLENWOOD SPRINGS FERTILE AND THE i PULLMAN FROM F A FRUIT AND COLORADO AND THE FAMOUS CANYON of the GUNNISON GARDEN of the GODS MANITOU SPRINGS THE' ROYAL' GORGE AGRICULTURAL AND UTAH TOURIST DISTRICTS SLEEPERS SALT LAKE TO DENVER CHICAGO AND WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS FOR FOLDERS BOOKLETS WADLEIGH GP& TA Denver Colorado OF ADDRESS A BENTON ST LOUIS ETO I GAPD Salt Lake City Utah tress Johnson- - Artaeson LUMBER CO - - - Everything In Lumber - -- We sell Jumbo Plaster and Portland Cement Doors Windows Phone 16black Mouldings Don’t Tako It Go FS After For Grantod Business ut business because you are In everybody is aware of the fadt Your Roods may be the finerft in the market but they will remain on your shelves unless the people are told about them that business way — the advertising way An ad in this paper offers the maximum service at the in a minimum cost ADVERTISE you want to more your Reach the merchandise buyers In their homes through the columns of THIS PAPER dollar on and expended every if a reap you’ll dividend It reaches' the people of the town and vicinity you want to reach It— — Try It Pays — handsome “We are quite near the estate of your friend Mr Ardmore aren’t we ?” asked Barbara presently “I fancy we are” replied Griswold but with a tone so coldly at variance with his previous cordial references to the master of Ardsley that Barbara looked at him inquiringly “I’m sorry that I should have given Miss Osborne you the impression that Mr Ardmore and I are friends as I undoubtedly did at Columbia He has for some unaccountable reason cut my acquaintance in a manner so unlike him that I do not pretend to explain it nor I may add is it of He had only a the least Importance few days ago Invited me to visit him though I had been to his house so often that the obscurest servant knew that I was privileged even beyond the members of Mr Ardmore’s own family In my freedom of the place When I gaw that his house would be a convenient point from which to study the situation I wired him Appleweight that I was on the way and to my utter amazement he replied that he could not entertain me— that scarlet fever was epidemic on the estate —on those almost uncounted acres!" And with a gulp and a mist In hie eyes Griswold drew rein and pointed from a hill that had now borne them to a considerable height toward Ardsley itself dreamily basking in the bright morning sunlight within its cincture of hills meadows and for- est Horner Rasmussens Cll THE CAFFETERRA For Choice Confectioneries Fresh Fruits Ice Cream Tobacco Cigars Stationery Old Post Office All Hours Restaurant Bldg Bakery — Harness Leather Shop U Goods and — -- — - Shoe Store w P Tents and Wagon Covers and a Horse Blankets Harness Saddles We want your trade L full line of Men’s and Boys' Dress and Work Shoes Drop in and look overL Our goods are the best and our price the lowest our lute and he convinced 7 He knew the ways of Ardsley thorbetter In fact than its owner oughly ever had in old times but in his anger at Ardmore he would not set foot on the estate If he could possibly avoid doing so In reaching the scene of the night’s contretemps He found without difficulty the trail taken by men and In due course Habersham’s of time they left their horses a short distance from the church and proceeded on foot “It seems all the' stupider in broad daylight” said Griswold after he had explained just what had occurred and how the captors In their superstitious awe of Appleweight had been afraid to carry him off the moment but had they were sure of him slipped back among their fellows to Vatt until the coast was perfectly clear To ease his deep chagrin Barbara laughed a good deal at the occurrence as they tramped over the cene discussing It They went into the woods back of the church where Griswold began to exercise his reasoning powers “Some one must have come In from this direction and freed the man and taken him away” he declared He knelt and marked the where Appleweight had been left tied but the grass here was much trampled and Griswold was misled by the fact not knowing that news of strange disappearance had passed among the outlaw’s friends by the swift telegraphy of th6 border had and that the whole neighborhood been threshed over hours before It might have been 6ome small consolation to Griswold had he known that accomand friends Appleweight’s plices were as much at a loss to know what had become of the chieftain as the men who had tried so ineffectualFrom the appearly to kidnap him ance of the trampled grass many men had taken a hand In releasing the prisoner and this Impression did not clarify matters for Griswold '"Where does this path lead?” asked Barbara "This Is Ardsley land here this side of the church and that trail leads on If I remember to the main Ardsley highway with which various other roads are connected— many miles In It’s Inconceivable all that the deliverers of this outlaw should have taken him into the estate where a sort of police system is maintained I don’t at all by the forestry corps make It out" He went off to explore the heavy woods on each side of the trail that led Into Ardsley but without result When he came gloomily back he found that In his absence Barbara had followed the bridle-patfor a considerable distance and she held out to him a diminutive handkerchief pocket which had evidently been snatched away from the owner — so Barbara exbranch of plained — by a an oak and flung Into a blackberry bush where she had found It It was a trifle indeed the slightest bit of linen which they held between them by Its four corners and gravely inspected ’’Feminine beyond a doubt” pronounced Griswold sagely “It’s a and here good handkerchief are two initials worked In the corner tered all about the place and they all know me” I want "Oh just a little farther! to see the towers of the castle!” If she had asked him to Jump Into the sea he would not have hesitated and he was so happy at being with her that his heart sang defiance to Ardmore and the splendors of Ardsley They were riding now toward the red bungalow where he had often on the broad benches and sprawled chaffed with Ardmore for hours at a was time served here sometimes Tea when there were guests at the house and Griswold wondered Just who were included In the party that his quondam friend was entertaining and how Mrs Atchison was progressing In her between efforts to effect a match Daisy Waters and her brother The drives were nearly all open t the public so that by the letter ot the law he was no Intruder but behemust not go yond the bungalow Sobered by the thought of his breach with Ardmore he resolved not to pass the bungalow whose red roof was now In sight “It’s like a fairy place and I feel that there can be no end to it” Barbara was saying "But It Isn’t kind to urge you In We certainly are doing and It nothing to find Appleweight must be nearly noon" It was Just then — he vividly recalls the moment — as Griswold felt in his waistcoat for his watch — that Miss with Thomas ArdJerry Dangerfleld more at her side galloped Into view like IrreThey were racing madly children and bore bolster sponsible ously down upon the two pilgrims hatless and Jerry and Ardmore warm at were pardonably Indignant thus being arrested In their flight and the master of Ardsley feeling for once the i dignity of his proprietorship broke out stormily “I would have you know —I would have you know —” he roared and then his voice failed him He stared he spluttered he busied himself with his In eagerhorse which was dancing ness to resume the race He quieted the beast which nevertheless arched and pawed like a and then the master of Ardsley bawled “Grissy I say Grissy!” Miss Osborne and Prof Griswold on their drooping Mingo county nondescripts made a tame picture before Ardmore on and his fair companion their Ardsley hunters The daughter of the governor of South Carolina looked upon the daughter of the governor of North Carolina with high disdain and It need hardly be said that this feeling as expressed by glacial and glances was evenly reciprocal that In the contemptuous upward tilt of two charming chins the nicest judgment would have been necessary to any fair opinion as to which state had the better argument The associate professor of admJral-twas known as a ready debater and he returned his former quickly friend’s salutation and in much the same contumelous tone he would have used In withering an adversary before a jury “Pardon me but are you one of the here?” employes Grissy old man don’t look “Why He Knelt and Marked the at me like that! How did you —" “I owe your master an apology for Where Appleweight Had Been Tied riding upon his property at a time that may tell us something — ‘G D’ when pestilence is giving you cause It probably belongs to some guest at for so much concern The Ardsley And there’s a very faint sug- from scarlet fever Is deplorably gestion of orris — It’s a city handkerhigh—” chief” said Barbara with finality “but “Oh Grissy!” cried Ardmore It has suffered a trifle In the laundry "You have addressed me familiarly as this edge Is the least bit out of by a nickname sometimes used by Indrawing from careless Ironing” timate friends though I can’t for the “And I should say from a certain I want you to life of me recall you crispness it still retains that It hasn’t know that I am here in an official cabeen In the forest long It hasn't pacity on an errand for the state of been rained on at any rate” added South Carolina” Griswold chin which had Miss Dangerfield’s j "But even the handkerchief doesn’t dropped a trifle pointed again Into the tell us anything” Barbara said blue ether “You will pardon me” she said “but spreading It out “except that some woman visitor has ridden here withlD an agent of the state of South Caroa few days and played drop the handlina is far exceeding his powers when kerchief with herself or somebody he Intrudes upon North Carolina soil” else to us unknown” "The state of South Carolina does “She may have been a scarlet fever what it pleases and goes where it Miss Barbara Ospatient from Ardsley you’d better likes” declared tone borne warmly have a care!” And Griswold’s Mr Ard whereupon was bitter more at a glance from his coadjutor "I’m not afraid and as 1 have never waxed righteously Indignant been so near Ardsley before I should “It’s one thing sir for you to ride lfke to ride In and steal a glimpse In here as a but quite anThere’s little danger of meeting the other for you to come representing an or any lord of the manor I suppose unfriendly state 4 You will please and we choose which view of the matter I of his guests at this hour need not go neat the house” shall take and I shall act accordHe saw that she was really curious ingly” and It was not In his heart to refuse (TO BE CONTINUED) her so they followed the How “Pop” Billings Got a Bargain through the cool forest and came In G Billings who has paid a K C due course to the clearing where Jerherself lost larger sum of money for trotters and ry had first confessed pacers to drive on the road and amaand thereafter had suffered the capand owned more tured outlaw to point her the way teur matinee races of them than any ten horse lovers In home tells of a very sad experhas been cut here the country “The timber first ience in the horse he ever owned since my last visit but I remember In his life the very well They all a young man Mr BillWhen quite ultiof the estate reach the highroad a fast trotting mare ings fancied mately We may safely take this one to him at $2000 but not having which has been the most used and priced more than $500 to his name he perwhich climbs a hill that gives a fine suaded his mother to advance him the outlook” balance which she did after much The path he chose had really been In due time his father heard begging condition beaten into better thah of the fast trotter his son had bought and they rode either of the others and expressed a desire to try her side by side now A deer feeding on The request was complied with and a grassy slope raised Its head and after a few spins on the board the old stared at them and a fox scampered asked how much he had It seemed that gentleman wildly before them dollars “Six hundred for her paid they were shut In from all the world father” was the answer these two who but a few days before “Well the mare Is not Charley had never seen each other and it was worth it” said the goveiior “but I a relief to him to find that she threw rather like the way she steps so I off her troubles and became more aniwill take her from you and you can mated and cheerful than he had yet have your $000” The deal had to be seen her closed They reached the highroad much A Quiet Maid sooner than Griswold had expected and he checked his horse abruptly reLady Visitor — "That new girl of nice and quiet" membering that he was persona non yours seems very Mistress — “Yes she’s very quiet She grata on this soli 'We must go back I mustn't be doesn’t even disturb the dust when seen here The workmen are scat she's cleaning the room” WEDDING CAKES FOR RENT Showy Confections May Be Hired for About $3 Each and Are After Each Occaeion There was something wrong wltk the cake the baker said it looked aE right and It smelled all right but hla artistic sense told him It would not taste all right “Then fix it up with an extra coal of Icing and we will keep it for renter” said the proprietor "Who In the world would rent a cake?” some one asked “Wedding parties” said he “They want a big cake In the center of the table for show but a cake of that size good enough for a wedding would cost more than they can afford ts pay so they order fine cake put up 1b individual lioxes for the guests anil use the bride’s cake just as an ornament They don't buy it they rent It Sometimes a cake Is rented a dozen different times After each wedding It is freshened up with a new coat of Icing and looks as good as new for A good renter the next occasion fetches about $3 a wedding ASK THE SALVATION ARMY That Is What Many Do When They Want Anything Even a Bonnet for the Horse A teamster who needed a bonnet for his scrawny horse applied to the Salvation army "Why did you go to them for such a thing as that?” someone asked “Because I knew they had them" he said “I saw one of their wagons go down the street with two strings of horses’ bonnets stretched from the so 1 top of the cover to the tailgate hustled down and asked for one before they were all gone” “His case Is typical of hundreds ot “Our others" said an army worker collection wagons are veritable curiHousehold osity shops on wheels goods and clothing comprise the bulk of the load but it Is topped off by or curious odds and ends Penurious souls keep an eye on the most conspicuous contributions and when they Bee anything they want they simply follow the wagon down to headquarters and ask for It" J "Con" Knew His Duty as Usher The congregation of a certain church Is not “exclusive" but some ol its members were surprised at the apThey said pointment of a new usher that he might be a very good young man but he had' not belonged very it long to the church and besides seemed unlikely that a street car conof a ductor would suit the etiquette But the trustees house of worship said that he bad been chosen for that very reason adding: “We need a man of that kind to deal with the end seal He Is a greater nuisance In the hog church than In the cars t Early In the service he plants hlmse'f at the atsle end of a free pew and later comers who are ushered Into that pew fall all over him taking their places It takes a man with grit to make him move along This former conductor has the grit and he has tact gained from experience That Is why we made him usher” Odd Wireless Telephone from German a Africa Writing says: "We found here in the dense forest among people who know nothing of modern scientific discoveries a good and practical wireless The natives have for the telephone purposes of ceremony peaceful and warlike drums of various dimensions made of wood and these when beaten emit sounds of about an octave in Aside from the ceremonies range the drums are used also as a means of communication We had a proof of it one day Our caravan was ready to start when our head servant stopped suddenly In his work listened intently and then gave unmistakable We learned later signs of pleasure that the Indistinct sounds conveyed to him the news that a boy had been born to his brother In a neighboring tourist village” No Such Goat3 Now They must have had some pretty a hunsavage goats In Connecticut dred years ago Under an old law if a boy was driving a goat along a highway and they met a traveler and the goat jumped on to the traveler and threw him down and bit him and otherwise harmed him that boy could ba sent to jail for three months and his father sued for damages The goat has improved in temper If one is being since those days driven along now and meets a traveler he simply winks and passes on and the boy la safe The Cost Seymour— I don't believe that has a single enemy among all his neighbors every one of them speaks of him as If he were the best man in the world Well I guess that’s right Ashley— but Wallman has to pay pretty high for their good opinion every year lav he has to Invest in a new A Terrible Creature "Father said the small boy “is tb a there any animal more terrible lion?” a cow If'ehe fpn’t "Yes my son In neck or the pursnt kicking you you over the pasture to hook you the’s trying to send germs arounn fa your house in the milk” a I |