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Show i r-j- Strait as panting like prize fighters. m I would, I could neither choke nor secure possession of the weapon. fc. Conquest Spring and winter met on day Near the huddled hills; Scant hi lock as lichens gray. Springs like daffodils. They were known as open foes Over all the earth: Spring detested lee and enows; Winter, blooms and mirth. his tense and tyrant clutch Prisoned fen and field; Long the streams, to bar his touch, Raised an Icy shield. Spring, to break their fetters free, Summoned all her charms All her wondrous witchery To take the king of storms! tong May I pass, kind sir? she said. Reaming, blossom-wisL'p m him with lips of red, Ryes of April skies. Winter wavered, loath to go; e, The three gentlemen In the smoking that resulted In my receiving it, yet room of the Pullman on the Chicago if you care to listen I will tell the flyer were intimate business acquaint- story, ances. After wearing the market and The other three drew their chairs kindred subjects threadbare thpy sat up in an attitude of expectant interback silently and looked at one an- est, and after pausing a moment, as other. Each knew the habits of the if for reflection, the stranger went other so well that it required no word on; on any ones part to explain that one It happened fifteen years ago," be and all yearned for a fourth man to said, when I was ranching out West. make up a game of draw." The 1 went West because I drank myself broker made a move. He punched the button by bis side, and when a porter appeared be took from his case a business card, wrote a tew words in pencil on the back of It and handed It to the darky, Deliver that to 'the gentleman in 3 A, will you, Sammy? And wait to aee if there is an answer, he said. So it happened that a few minutes later, with the luxurious train bowling and only smoothly over the road-bed- , fifty out of the nine hundred odd miles between New York and Chicago covered, a quiet game of poker was in The newcomer differed progress. slightly from the other three in that bis clothes were somewhat noticeable, any bis Jowelry shiny, as if all purchased in a lump, and recently. Yet be was a corker at the game of draw. None of the four observed that each lime the conductor passed through the car he would gaze with a serious air at this fourth man, whose profile greeted him as he sat facing the enI could neither choke him nor eecure gine. The steely blue eyes of the conposeeeeion of the weapon. ductor would rest for several seconds on the face of the stranger, as if busy nearly crazy at college, and, being with reminiscence, and then he would ashamed to go home, I resolved to lose continue bis passage, seemingly puz-zlc- myself on the plains, at least until 1 I became a could return decently. A carious thing about poker Is the cowboy. I learned to do many things almost uncanny facilities it affords for not considered essential in the East, establishing an intimacy. To an ex- and the pure air and hard work, and pert, the stranger who sits opposite a minimum of whisky, eoon act me up him playing his hand, taking up the again. But, try as I would, I could lards, arranging them, betting, pulling never make boon companions of my In the pot, Is at the samo time laying comrades, and they, realizing that I bare cardinal features of his mental was not of their class, did not take me kiake-up- , so that ten minutes play entirely into their fellowship. Well, one evening Jake Bellair rode Joes more to create an environment kf friendship than hours of conversa- to town on his broncho. He was tion indulged in on a first meeting, known as Bad Jake. Tho news therefore It seemed perfectly natural spread, and every one kept Ms eyes fchen the broker, after scanning the skinned for first sight of him. SudItranger, allowed his glance to rest on denly there was a whoop outside the tbo latters head. He looked at the saloon where the boys were gathered, parting in a mass of fine black hair.. drinking and playing, and Jake ap-1 At first glance there was nothing peared in the doorway. In a trice about It, but a few moments found myself standing alone beside Study showed that it was wider than the bar. The bartender bad disapseemed natural, and finally the peared. and every cowboy bad sunk discerned that the thin straight softly Into a seat Jake's eyes lighted line was as white as chalk, as smooth on me, and next Instant he stood In Is satin, and In reality was as straight front of me. and I looked down the as a ruin, whereon no nalr grew, Ob throat of a Colt 45. son of Dance, you blankety-blanserving his Bteady glance, the stranger You loaned back in his chair and re- Satan! yelled the bad man. bloomin Eastern pickpocket, or marked: or whatever you are, dance, or "1 see. sir, that you are more ob-I'll fill you full of holes. I never before had looked Into the menacing barrel of a revolver, and ray gaze remained glued to the little rond blackened circle, from which death might spurt at any moment.' Although I never for an Instant took my eyes from tho hole, I could feci the glance of every one in the room fixed on us. I did not want to dauce. If I did t would be ridiculed, maybe forced to leave town, or bavo fifty fights on my hands In as many days. If I did not The next Instant 1 hounded like a panther at tho hnd man. My left hand dos.-about the pistol, my right hand seized hla throat, with no gentle grasp. Thu action was so quick he hadn't time to draw tho tiigger. I could feel the bullied rage sizzle within Min as I wrenched the pistol barrel toward tho roof, being unable, though I exerted all my strength, to tear the weapon entirely from his grasp. I was' on athlete and a hit of a boxer at college, and I meditated suddenly releasson of ing his throat and smashing Mm on Dane, you blankety-blanSatan, yelled the bad man. the Jaw. But he read my thoughts, nd his left hand closed on my right servant Ilian the majority of manwrist with a grasp of Iron. So. locked kind. Tho broker hastened to murmur an In thnt grip, we struggled, amid a hubapology, but the olher cut him short bub now, for every ono In tho room with a good niturcd Inugh and a de- was on his feet, exclaiming at the precatory vino o his hand while he audacity of my action. I felt I wne weakening l.lttlo by Mid: "That line of parting is really n little tho muzzle of tho revolver a downward are, and we were car, as pornnp you have perceived. It Is rarely that 1 relate the Incident both covered with perspiration and ' tin-bsu- Press. There Is No Unbelief. There 1 no unbelief! Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod i And waits to see It away the clod. Trusts he in Uod. . pu-ij- by. Trusts the most High. There I no unbelief! Whoever sees 'ueuth winters fields of snow Tho silent harvests of the future grow, God's power must know. Ther is no unbelief! Whoever lbs down on his courh to sleep, Content to lock each sense In slumber deep. Knows God will keep. There Is no unbelief! Whoever says the unknown. The future, trusts that power aloue Nor dares disown. There Is no unbelief! The heart that looks on when dear lids close And dares to live when Ufa eye- has only Woes, God's comfort k train-robbe- MICHIGAN WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDER OF TWELVE PERSONS And then, as a dizzy feeling began to creep over me, the shot came. At the same Instant I felt with the Instinct that serves a man in place of wits at such a time that he had cot hit me, although 1 could feel the biting powder sink Into my scalp and face. As I started back I wrenched the pistol from his hand, and the next moment had him covered before his left hand could drop to his hip, where another gun was strapped. 'Hands up! 1 cried. Jake threw them up. I stepped up to him, unloosened his belt, which dropped to the floor, and then, regaining my former position, I exclaimed: I never saw you before, and 1 never want to again. I will give you till midnight to shake this town. If I ever set eyes on you again one of us dies. Go! He backed to the door, and we could hear his horses hoofs strike the clay in a gallop. Then I raised my hand to my head and brought it back covered with blood. The bullet. Intended for my brain, bad run along my skull, tearing a clean, straight furrow that healed In a weak, but left this scar, which will be there as long as I live. The other three gentlemen were expressing ti'elr Interest In the narrative, when once more the conductor The narrator looked him appeared. full in the face: Damned if it isnt ODell," said the official, heartily. "Say. I knew wen meet before, and its worried me for the last two hours to place you straight. Its only this minute that I saw that sear on your head, and then I had you for sure. Why, it must be ten years ago yop got that. Do you remember? You were braking in the Olean yards, and when Tench decided for a flying switch one night you went And you in to cut loose the box. missed your hold and went down. We thought you were a dead one sure, Mrs. Mary McKhfght of Grayville, and you escaped with that rip on your head. Weir, how are you. anyway. Mich., who Is in Jail at Kalkaska, Given up the road long ago, I sup- Mich., and has confessed to the murder of her brother and bis wife and New York Press. pose? baby by administering to them strychnine, denies firmly tht.any other of NOT A SHREWD CUSTOMER. the twelve deaths ascribed to her Man Thought He Was Beating the Bar, were due to her efforts. In answer to questions she repeats her faith in but Loet Hla Own Money. When a man drinks alone it la 15 Providence that all she has done has cents straight in most respectablo been for the best, and, while she talkB The other day a genius freely on the circumstances of the groggeries. stepped Jauntily Into a Pine street Murphy murders, refuses to answer posada and ordered two whiskies. The natural supposition of the barBRIDE OF KANSAS GOVERNOR. man was that a friend was expected, therefore he set out two empty Chief Executive Had Long Been Englasses, two glassfuls of water from gaged to Mrs. Ida Weede. the tub and a bottle of something, then Mrs. Ida Weede was the Kansas bit off a check for 25 cents, cast it who was engaged to Gov. widow City upon the bar and remarked: Please W. J. Bailey of Kansas for two years The customer pay the cashier. without anyone knowing it, and while an ounre of each into liquor poured thousands of letters was he receiving empty glass and passed back the bottle. After swallowing one drink he of proposal following the publication ate a cracker, then gulped down the of stories that he was a confirmed manother, paid his quarter aud went out. bachelor and that the executive a without be at sion might Topeka im"Wise guy," said the barman, administration. his pressed. "Fool guy, said the owner. hostess during He paid a quarter for two ounces of Mrs. Bailey, whose marriage to theNew York governor took place June 9, was erawhisky in two glasses. There is no unbelief! Whoever says, when clouds are In the sky. Be patient, heart, light breaketh by and knows. There Is no unbelief! thus by clay and night unconsciously For The heart lives by that faith the lips deny. Cod knoweth His Task Too Hard. The Austrian treasury was In deplorable condition when the war with Franco broke out ln'lSSD, and when Baron llruek, who hnd ehargo of the untlonul finances at tho time, was wiled up to resMird to the toast, May God defend tho army, the minister replied that his fervent prayer was that God would, for he himself would not bo able to do so much The baton found his task longer. even more difficult, evidently, than he expected, for ho took his own llf before tho war was over. It Would Seam So. Wife I was surprised to learn bad taken unto that Mr. himself a wife after thro score years of single blessedness. Husband Well, tho old adage Is still working, A iium never gels too Old-uult- old to loam. k Flret Recognition, Ernie Ob, my father hns Just discovered that you are a poet. Suitor (sadly) Well, that la moro than tiny of tho editors have done. The tinder The Rang rarge of fifty-nv- of Hearing, hi arlng iu adults years of nge Is approxi- mately 16,000 to second. 4S,o(io vibrations a People in very walk ,of life have bad backs. Kidneys go wrong and the back to ache. Cure sick kidneys and OF Woe l: 4! be-gin- s T backache dis- quickly appears. Read this t e s 1 1 mony and learn how it can be dot A, A. Boyce, a farmer and a half miles from Tre? says: "A severe cold BettiJ kidneys and developed so m . ' lp-- I was obliged to lay off i0,T count of the aching in B.v. sides. For a time I was walk at all, and every tried and all the medicine anvs Mr , not the slightest effect. MjJ: tlnued to grow weaker until - fnte fit for anything. Mrs. Bcyftf, of Doans Kidney Pills advene. - liJjle sure cure for Just such condu, fro' one day when in Trenton a box home from Chas. a. Z V ,flale drugstore. I followed the t j by Lyi COK w for fci'and discs - c I-j- ! d ;able Co surprJb to tc e 11 i ' th llf ' a.e much more gratified a backache disappearing gradual j rom the Atl It finally stopped." id A FREE TRIAL of this great th,s great coi medicine which cured Mr. Bf.i ;s of woman be mailed on application to if ' iul tllouf Tsarepoa of the United States. Addret.u a' saying ' Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ,fc ; docs curt by all druggists, price 50 cental complain Ilnkh The Editor Ate Too The editor and wife had 4 "ll al square meal Sunday on acc- - t health t ft having received an invitation . 4 at the hotel. Perk said texup ; IfiR'c9 we wouldnt accept, but weiju-- jcUarg the benefit of our lady readers -- ? tate that they had chicken stuff that goes with such a lau strawberry shortcake and Iett4 wife wore her blue and t, looked real dear. Mrs. Perkin?' new skirt and looked too The editor woretj anything. day, Monday, Tuesday, ft L,( . Thursday, Friday, Saturday was sick all night. White Leader. I .v.. ux&s MTmnr fr I l questions relating to the other cases. She has lived at Grayville all her life, respected and supposedly sane. But for the filing of a mortgage with the figures raised, alleged to have been given her by her brother, the crimes might never have been discovered. She first confessed to one murder, then at other times to two others, saying her mind was freeing Itself, and it is thought she will tell of the killing of some of the other persons, includ- Cheap Paasenger Rates ing two of her former husbands. Fe Route To Boston, Baltimore, DEATH OF GEN. A. MD. MCOOK. Atlanta and other f I Was the I.aet of the Famoue Fight-inMcCook. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook, U. S. A., retired, suffered a third stroke of paralysis at 6 oclock on the morning of June 12, and died a half hour later at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Charles Craighead at Day-toOhio. Gen. McCook came West from Washington a few weeks ago, and shortly aftciward suffered a mild stroke of paralysis. This was followed a few days later with a second and more serious stroke. He rallied and appeared to be steadily Improving until June 12, when the end camo sud deely. Mrs. McCook, the widow; Mrs. Chauncey Baker of Washington, a daughter, and Mrs. Craighead were at the bedside. g particulars, address On poli F.L C. General Agent, A. T. & Dooly Block, Salt Lake - S. F.EJ City, f.jjy Weirllth. pr sker ant Young Men and Maiden Turn as it led us. W Life would become intoleral girls could not be on franlii coquettish terms with tua t awn age, or some years tlie'.i The idea that because two you: J Aq nitnrai a pie may have a great deal in tq they must clso be ia love is ii.Fsw-th.b- ou Jying out. No one is hurt, no u.worM. compromised, when a friendshi; Li&by, M not lead to marriage. John CM Hobbes in Pall Mall Macazlne. som-Vo 14 Hail Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional core. Price, JOKE ON SWEET CHARIT' And the Colored Porter, He Tho? Last of Fighting McCook. ly Enjoyed IL The other day a colored prttr J (MaJ. Gen. McDowell McCook, who was the last of the fighting McCooks one of the hotels was sent toVq to leave the active rolls of the army in cups. After making thepcj where at one time were the names of he started back to the hotel ir Ms eight brothers, his father and sevone of the hostlerys best pair eral cousins was born In Columbia commercial traveler and the asked the negro to carry bin county, Ohio, April 22, 1831. Ho was graduated from West Point case to a Washington street di A few minutes later the nep J in 1852, and after a short experience h in drilling recruits at Newport bar- pin case, and tin cups, were of ctore. The a:; .the traveling racks. In Kentucky, was sent to Jefferson barracks. In St. Louis, to Join In the store. While waiting t the army expedition that was prepar- the negro sat down on thefelH ing to go to New Mexico and estab- case, and in less than a jiffyin bit lish new posts there. The expedition One of the tin cups was and it fell forward, as doe b 1 17SS J.&Sl'UZY' went by boat io Fort Leavenworth, held by a blind man. ployed as a clerk In Kansas City after and then marched in sixty-nindays Perhaps you won't believe 'L Santa to Fe. a husband After and until the death of her short service in that negro collected 43 cents Gov. Baileys clecttdn last year. She the Southwest he was recalled to the slumbered. Passereby thought i East to two become 1! elder has assistant instructor blind sons, the being years And maybe tt. mendicant. of Iniantry taetks at West Point, lie old. ter the Joke! Hs didnt enjoy was there wlu-- the civil war began. Nets 'deed he did. Indianapolis In Honor of Dead Author. From that time Gen. McCooks miliA fund of J50.UUO Is being raised tary life was one of almost ceaseless Japanese Handkerchief for a menjorlal to the lute Charles activity, ids work bringing him from The do not send the Japanese , whose book. "Ilu'iso-i.ol- the rank or captain to that of brevet handkert hiefa to the wash, btr Accounts, was published Just major general In the five of the marlly burn them, as they are after the author's recent death. The war. lie took part In theyears of paper. The specimens at r, und will he used for the endowment Nasbvllle, nnd the battles capture of Shiloh. exhibition in London were of a' of a professorship In the school of Stone Hlvi-r- . Liberty Gap, more beautiful to the eye than commerce, accounts and finareeof New Clili'kamnugu arid oilier and of very email bulk. Ttosj fights. York university, to lie known as (tie In Is;m he was appointed brigadier about half a cent apiece. Charles Waldo Haskins prop ssorshlp was and I'.oreial to the comassigned f accountanil of auditing and history Stops llinOATCoughCold mand of the department of Arizona, Works llm Ten thousand dollars of ancy. the now the j department of Colorado. One Laxative ltromuCJuiniiia i'ul fund has already been suliserlbed. The Venom of 6nake A Natural Question. The venom of snakes contain At the time when some unvety was Intermediary bodies, wlik'b felt In Washington regmdlng the i would not tie virulently health of Guv. Tart of the Philippines. but tho normal blood serum of t Secretary Hoot cabled an Inquiry as tlble animals contains tho f to Ms condition. The governor anwhich, by conjoint action wltbt1: swered saying he hud Just completed termedlary bodies of the vcuuDk a hoisehaik Journey of twenty-livthe deadly poisoning. miles and stood lh As will. r. Waldo-Haskins- why. IN EVERY WALK rifiy 1 WLE d trip Mr. Taft weighs 25 pounds, the secretary could not tcslst the (cmptutloll "I low is Un to Inquire by cable: horse? Officials Ue Automobiles. City officials In New York whose duties require them to visit various places are taking to the automobile as a minus of locomotion, (he dry Police pajlj't the bills In some cases. malo-- s Commissioner Greene Ms rounds regularly In ono of these machines. ns do several other department Io n 1. An nulo lias been purchased for one of the water department engineers. Razor 150 Yaart Old. Charlea Morton of I tho proud possessor of a r:i'J I something over 1R0 years la In a splendid state of prefrj nd Is far auperlor to the rar modern tlmca. The razor was f ly owned by Judge Vcncble of ony of Virginia, nnd who wns Inont pal Hot. Judge Veiicb! polntedjudgo of Kentucky Patrick Henry, governor of U Kentucky then being a Pounty'f commonweolth. The razor at Sheffield. England, In and is very heavy, the blade bf trenmly thick and broad, with woodeo handle. R.EL Frump in Ass TED ti rS t. ran n, H fl1H nun, u Ten An Kindly M, u7,i ! Usttio i The Late Gen, A. D. McCook. year before Ills retirement. In ISPS, ha was promoted to tho rank of major general. Gen. McCook represented tho United States government at tho coronation of Czar Mi hula iu May, 18PC. tua theyt 4 |