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Show i Of: t f he H ouse of the Three ri&anidlers By Irving Bacheller rl(ht kr IrrtBf Baehalk. (WOT Sarrlca) : hi .... aa i 1 : r- ii 'chapter IV iund of the Mystery. pent a year and a half In ttie village. It was en- many visits to the Tun gown's core. The myste-Ug myste-Ug lady had thrown a romance upon It Once spoken playfully of their and of their wisn to see Bumpy Brown looked d quickly changed the never spoke of her.Tlie ,lly times with the tinker frd. ' He entertained them t Jests and thrilling tales jfooi His good-natured, at, not like that of any f had made them fond of y were keen-minded boys, sected that his stories were e, that his alleged friend I was a fiction. In spite they loved to be with wn. id now begun to find him- was growing In strength, id wisdom. He had learned bdy. He had acquired an $nful longing for ood 'Still he liked not less good eood company. His friend, AnMrk hart tonf Mrh hflt JReade and Dickens and . r .. 1 1 . rr IB oi.koiigienuw uuu xea- lis best creditors were the e grammar, and the lc- Ete bad begun to enjoy his ine. He had a sense of the long letter that be had i Mr. Converse, pverse was so pleased with r that he sent a check of irs to the boy and bade hint i pleasr I with the money, nt to Ashfield and bought lent. That day he wrote to Ruth Blake in which he !t I can come to. visit-you being Intimidated and op-y op-y soiled garments. I hope will like my new clothes We have gone Jnto part PRECEDING EVENTS EWtd. racte and starving boy at bout tixtcn I, found b th. Mode, and bafriraded, by ounpinc party. He has fled from bit brutal tatW. B Fi. and in cWn cloth-, y. . rivM ki. .uj, a. ShTj (Serien, la aaat on hU .y to Canton, with ktter to Colond BUk The colonel bi , and their youag dauchter Ruth, ara fanpreand by th. dot'. anannar. He eocure. a eituetlon a, th. UU,. of Amity Dam, and b.come. friendly with a youth of hi. ag a, "Bony," and Bump, Brown, tinker, conaid-edby conaid-edby th. traitUcl a. unWrd banua. of hi. periodic Up from .Met aofarfety. W th Bony, Shad U a viaitor to th picture., .had, which Browa call home, known m the vicinity aa Um "Fun Shop." and our business Is to make Impression on you. - If we Jiall not blame the clothes mil think that I am lnv ery st be said that the under-Was under-Was successful. On three I that autumn he and the es were engaged In this ro- nterprise. The handsome the girl were canoeing and ut the countryside together. succeeded in getting him- ply In love. The last of sits was on a Sunday late in The colonel was " not at Shad ate a midday dinner Mh and her mother. The them for a time to go out frrnnL This was a purely move. The friendly gen- in and the boy talked to- :y Dam is no place for von." fs. Blake. "I'm eoiaii to try you out of that mire of rus- iou must come to Canton to school. The colonel and been laying Diana' I hum f I could be a kind of mother buld like that I would be oud." " need a mother or n fnw 10 JfOU Pftllld hplnff-lrnn. .,., i - juui UUU- ou are so young." i. tny greatest tronhlA 1 tha ft J. am so young." ,. . pou call that a trouble? I Nt I were back af in love at seventeen. It was nning 0f a great happiness." boy was quick to take ad- i wis opening. He was for it He htnshort . at her and said? fcess that I bnrM- k on loved to lie down at night alone with your happiness, wrning the birds sang of the "ran. Even, the fiow- the field Irno. Jlooker) at -nn j . . , , feads BS If they would give Feouracempnt t4,o i. v- - . . u MiC f"y treat me." 17" i - ' ojhey are always reminding the colors In h. l,.i. m "ci iiaii auiu cheeks. I thinv . . fd the moon and the stars H"1 snw her face to me." 7"! Are you in love?" F- hut I am not a child." pm do Vnn 1nvoV F daughter." - 1,ake took fho hn. i.j love! and getting one hundred '7 dollars o , .- i,l . J cur: eue ex-u ex-u With rnJ . . evu-uaiurea amose-1 amose-1 sunnn th.t L-a ,,, ' " una your r l0Dg on brcad mi F115 not always going to be f Jay have scarcely Nn fast, t .t,.n' . fx .i uaii get aione. t'me to fn i- i Jrz Iav. , "iter " got alon& not before." ueu u cornea. . No body can tell when he will fall In love." - "I wouldn't take this so seriously. You'll getj over it" "Never! Ton don't know how bad it Is. I would rather die than give it up. I want to be engaged to Ruth." "It Is Impossible. You are both far too young." .- "But you were only seventeen when'' you fell In love." "True, but those days things were different and I was not engaged en-gaged for a year after that The colonel was then three years older than I--old enough to be sure of himself. Now, Shad,-1 must ask you to promise me on your word of honor as a gentleman that you will say nothing - te r Ruth . of this until I give you permission to do it We'll see' how you' get along and we shall do everything that we can do to help you. If you keep your love for her and If she should be fond of you we will have another talk about it by and by." "I will make the promise and keep It,' but if I see that some other fellow Is trying to get her it would be hard for me to keep myself from Jumping in." -: . .... -: Don't worry. You have the In side track. We are all fond of you. Let's see what happens." Shad returned to his task in Am ity Dam a bit depressed. Soon after that an unexpected trouble came upon him. One of the gold rings had been missing from its showcase for a week. Since the loss had been discovered ShaJ had observed s difference slight but unmistakable In the manner of Mr. and Mrs. Smithersv Indeed, he thought that other people had begun to treat him coolly. The next Sunday afternoon Shad and Bony went down to Brown's cove. Shad told Bumpy of bis trouble. "Folks are Just nat'rally cussed mean," said Bumpy. "They're made that way. - By Jeedlx I They can't help It no more'n a toad can help havln warts. "I heard t'other day In a house where I was tinkerin' that youan'" Bony was wild. I says: 'Them boys are all right Till they've learnt their lesson be easy on 'em. They'll come out as straight as a loon's leg.'" Boys are quick to detect the note of Insincerity. They knew that Bumpy spoke from his heart in spite of his own bitterness. Suddenly he came to Shad. "Boy, I forgot yer trouble," he said. "Tell me about that ring.- When did you see it last?" "When I was showing it and some other trinkets to a girl the other day." "What glrir "I don't know her name. She was about eighteen years old light-colored balr an' blue eyes. She had pretty teeth an' a turned-up npse. There was a scar on her left cheek. Wore a blue dress." "I'm afraid she's rather Ught-fin. gered, said Bumpy. "I know her, an" what folks say in her neighborhood a few miles south 6 here. I'm agoln up there in a day or two. ril see what I can do. Don't worry." As they were leaving Bumpy said : "Come down next Sunday. I may have some news." Th next Sunday, to avoid crltl- .cism, they went to. meeting and promptly set out for Brown's cove. Bumpy was standing by the door. He waved his hat. as they came op and called out: "By Jeedlx, boys I I'm happy! See thatr . He held up the gold ring between his thumb TOdforeflnger Shad trembled with excitement "How did you get ltr he asked. "Oh, I went an' see that gal an' I Jus' scared It out o her. Told her she'd .have to give It back' or go to jait She broke down and handed hand-ed it over. It was kind o" pitiful. I told her nobody, would even know her name an' they won't not from me. k rm a goln to take it to Smith-ers Smith-ers and tell him how I come by It" "They Batdowirta their dlnnerof roastTiartridges and baked potatoes pota-toes and pumpkin pie. "There's Just one fly In iny ointment," oint-ment," sal Bumpy, as- he began to carve the birds. 4 "What's that?" Bony asked. Tve been drunk ag'in. Met an old" comrade. We got to talkin "bout the second day - at Gettysburg. There's rathta curus "bout Gettysburg. Gettys-burg. It'i slippery ground. He had a bottle, we walked to Brown's cove In the cool o' the night an' got urunK on-tne way. We sot down here an' fit the Confeds 'till daylight day-light If I could fereit fietivshiir an' some other things, I'd be re- spectacle." They ate a moment In silence. Then Bumpy added: une drink will put the devil In ine. The old sores begin to bleed. But I'm through by Jeedlx I Never no more whisky for me. I'm through. The woman has looked purty solemn since then." He carved the hirds and loaded their plates. It was no time for idle words. Talk was not resumed until each had dulled his appetite on the bones. Then Bumnv beean his tales of thrilling and Improbable adventure. : When the boys thanked him and bade him good-by the sun was low. The Masked Man Clubbed Him With His Revolver, but Still He Clung. They left with a most friendly feel ing for the old man. - One-day MrSmlthers sentShad down to Cyrus Doolittle's with a package of medicine which had come up on the stage for old Oscar Os-car Perry, the father-in-law of Cyrus. Cy-rus. Here was the ill-fated house which Shad was never to forget The old gentleman was sitting In a wheel-chair. He had the worried, sorrowful sor-rowful look of the strong man who has had his warning. He had been partly paralyzed by a stroke. - His daughter, Mrs. Doolittle, opened the door for Shad. She was an erect handsome woman with a face somewhat some-what careworn, but still comely. The house had a gloomy and depressing de-pressing atmosphere. There was a solemn note in the ticking of the old family clock. After all, houses have a kind of character. Cyrus Doolittle and his son, Moses, a boy of Shad's age, were cleaning a pair of colts tethercd'On the barn floor. His errand accomplished, Shad went out for i look at the colts. The boy turned from his work to speak to Shad. His father rebuked him, paying : ..7TT "Come, boy, I'm in a hurry to get away. Bring the harness." Turning to the young clerk, he asked: "Young man, are you loafing today?" "No, sir." "Well, you don't seem to be very busy." i The tall, brown-bearded, gray-1 eyed man had spoken In his bustling manner without stopping his work. Late in the afternoon of the mem orable tenth of November Shad had gone down the road some two miles to collect a bill "Darkness overtook him on his way back. He was hungry hun-gry and hurrying with a bicycle lantern lan-tern in his hand, so as not to be too late ferrbia-supper, When-ahont a quartern of a mile from the store he dimly saw a man approaching him at a rapid pace. He could hear his footsteps on the rough frozen road. .Shad stopped. The man had turned suddenly, some sixty paces from where Shad was standing, stand-ing, got over the fence and hurried hur-ried away In the darkness. As Shad came near the store he saw a crowd of people In the street - Men were itjffcntingj Hysterlcai women were crying. Shad ran toward me crowa in front of the store. Bony was there. - ' ' "What's the matter?" Shad asked. What's the matter!" Why, some man Just bust Into Cy Doolitle's bouse net ten minutes, ago an shot flp the iruil famly, murdered emjight an' left The oI man Is killed. Mis' Poolittlelan' the teacb- is over to Silas Meriwether s mos , dead an' bleedin awful. It was ilka a battle in the war." 'A singular, paralysis of fear and distress had fallen upon the good people of that village. . A few men had rushed out In the roads and fields in a vain quest for the criminal crim-inal ' " " "Come-on! I saw him," Shad said to Bony, and the two ran at top . speed down the road toward the fence where Shad bad seen the man, climb over the fence and vanish van-ish in the darkness. It was near the Doty place. The man must have gone around the barns and then whither, It was impossible to say. The boys were in deadly fear of finding the criminal but saw no-body. no-body. - - "We're darn fools," said Bony as they we?e wearily walking back, "What would w have done with him ah' what would he have done to us? Tfiey say ol' Bumpy Brown is the murderer." .. "Lord, no I" Shad exclaimed. ' "It can't be." . ' Lesshe's"gbrie crazy. Two men have run1 down the river to. see if he's to home." T So began the wildest night in the history jjf Amity Dam. Divested of all the excitement and ;ild rumor f that nlgfit, this is the problem one of the most remarkable remark-able in the criminal records of our country. ' Mrs. Doolittle, her invalid father, ber son Moses, a -boy of twelve, and Henry Plerson, a handsome well-dressed well-dressed young man of nineteen from Ashfield .who was teaching In the school at Amity Dam, were sitting around the evening lamp, about seven o'clock the work of the day being finished. Cyrus Doolittle had gone to Grlggsby,' some fifteen miles away. Suddenly this family group" heard a rap at" the front door. The boy Moses ran and opened it A man, masted In a peculiar way, stood before be-fore him. He wore a small, light-colored light-colored slouch hat tan overalls and a coat of the same materlat7Hls face was covered with a red and white handkerchief. " The man advanced ad-vanced into the room holding a revolver re-volver In his right hand. The boy fled before-. him through a door at the back of the house. The Intruder In-truder walked1 with the limp of Bumpy Brown. Henry Plerson bravely brave-ly took a step toward him. The first bullet was fired at the young man, breaking his left arm at the elbow. Shocked nnd fflghtpnpfl, the latter partly fell on a lounge, then ran out of the open door Calling for help. . The masked man fired at Mrs. Doolittle, who had risen from her chair. The ball struck her breast above her heart and glanced, penetrating pene-trating the flesh of ber shoulder. She did not fall. She stood appalled. The mannpproaehed her: Then came a curious factor In the problem. prob-lem. . He stood for a second, close to her, the revolver pointed at her face. He did not fire This gave color to the theory ihat she" was not the one that he had come to kill. He dealt her something between be-tween a blow and a vigorous push with his left hand. It appeared that he was trying to get her out of the scene. She fell, quickly, recovered her feet and ran-through the open door J from which her son and young Pier-son Pier-son 'had fled Into the darkness beyond. be-yond. As she fell old Oscar Perry, her invalid father, threw himself forward from his chair and seized the skirts of the Intruder's coat and clung to them with his strong hands. The masked man clubbed him with bis revolver but still he clung. Two shots with the muzzle of the weapon close to the invalid's neck loosened his bold. The old man, slumped to the fioorA - - The murderer ran out Into the darkness and away, firing a shot as he went Ail this bad been accomplished accom-plished In less than a minute. Mrs. Doolittle, her son and the teacher had fled to a neighbor's bouse, and help had been sent to Oscar Perry. News of the crime sped through the village like aVind-driven fire in dead grass. Within five minutes the wires were flashing- It .through - the county. . Doctors, the district attorney, attor-ney, the sheriff, the county Judge were presently speeding toward the little village of 'Amity Dam. The lights were burning most of the night In Ephralm. Smithers store. For a time It was filled with excited residents. Mst of them agreed that Bumry Brown was the guilty man With thpse Shad and Bony openly took Issue. 'He-wMa'V4iav-oohe It even If he was drunk," they said. "He's the most harmless critter In the world when he's drunk." What "was he always knockln' the Doolittles forr We doubters asked. The -boys f had to acknowledge that they did not know, that it was probably some crazy notion he had got In his head. . . Fine. Stone Tools That Were Used by Indians How the Indians of the Mimbres valley lived and farmed ' 2,000 or S,000 years ago Is shown by discoveries discov-eries made in a great 125-room pueblo' pueb-lo' or prehistoric apartment house by Paul H. Nesbltt, leader of the Logan Museum-Southwest expedition, sponsored spon-sored by Beloit college, Beloit, Wis. The ruins of the cultural area being be-ing explored by Mr. Nesbltt and his students date, according to the archeologists, between 1000 B. C and 200 b. a " In a statement to Science Service, Mr. Nesbltt Bald: "One cache of twenty-five stone hoes was found on a stone ledge a few Inches above the floor of a room and another lot of forty-eight stone hoes was found in association with a male skeleton. Such hoes are rare and the number above represents a greater total than has ever been found in any single ruin In the Southwest . " , "With another burial was found a copper bell, a product not manufactured manufac-tured here, but brought by trade from Old Mexico. Only one otner such bell has been found In this area. W. Bradfleld, state archeolbg-lst archeolbg-lst qf Sauta Fe, in -1024 found one at Cameron creek ruin, near Hurley, N. M. The bell is of great importance, impor-tance, as it throws additional light on the age of these ruins. "The early inhabitants lived in pit rooms (entirely subterranean) later the houses became semisubterranean and finally were .built entirely above ground." Kansas City Star, Precepts of Franklin Should Be Remembered The proposed $5,000,000 Philadelphia Philadel-phia memorlaLta JBgnJamin franklin should have some place in it "calling attention to that American's 13 suggested sug-gested virtues and precepts, on which the club of Washington and Sioux City, Iowa, patterned after the Junket Jun-ket club of Franklin's day, are founded, found-ed, says the Pathfinder Magazine. They are: . "Eat not to dullness, drinlyiot to elevation. Speak not but what may benefit .others or yourself, avoid trifling tri-fling conversation. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Ilesolve to perform what you ought, perform without fall what you resolve. Make no expense but to do good to others r yourselfL e., woRte nothing. Lose no time; he always employed In something useful ; cut off all unnecessary unnec-essary actions. Use no hurtful de-celt, de-celt, think Innocently and Justly and. If you speak, speak accordingly. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your dutyAVoidextremesrorbear; resenting re-senting Injuries so much as you tliink they deserve. Tolerate no unclean-liness unclean-liness In body, clothes or habitation. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents, ac-cidents, common or unavoidable. Be chaste. Imitate Jesus and Socrates." Scientists Fight Pests With Natural Enemies Entomologists, it Is reported, are gradually changing their method- of warfare against our Insect foes. Instead In-stead of attempting to discover effective ef-fective Insecticides, they, are now seekjrig methods of causing Insects towaragHlnBtaeh other.- Fortunately Fortu-nately the Insect world Is never really real-ly at peace at any time. The tremendous tre-mendous reproductive powers of this form of life are offset by the bugs, flies and birds which prey upon fhem. . The best way to keep the coddling moth under control, It has . been found, is through a tiny wasp and likewise the meally bug Is best kept under control by its natural enemies. Instead of searching for Insecticides, Insecti-cides, therefore, the search Is for the natural enemies of the pest It is desired to combat and these are then Imported or increased by. protection from llielr natural enemies in turn.; Novel. Dangerou. Giftt - Professor Kogers of Massachusetts Tech thinks that It Is extremely hazardous haz-ardous to give anyone a popular novel .as a present "No one can possibly tell what may impress 'Great Aunt Elsie' as a suitable suit-able title, he explains. "I, myself, when but iten , years old, received a copy of 'Lender Two Flags' from a. relative who hadtheldear that the book would give me n truthful and interesting picture of the Civil war. It was many years before I was allowed al-lowed to read the hook." Boston Globe. Arckaa In Hamaa Feet There are three arches In the foot. In addition to the long arch at the Inside which extends from beel to great toe, the longitudinal arch. The front or anterior arch extends across the bail of the foot the arch at the outside of . the small toe and the arch across the middle of the foot under the Instep. Da Year Beat - At neither he that slngeth most nor prayeth longest but he that doth it best deserveth the greatest praise; so he, not that hath most years, but many virtues, nor he that hath grayest hairs, but greatest goodness, llveth longest The chief beauty of life conslsteth not in the numbering of many days but in the using of virtuous doings. Lyly. National Park Holding. - Yellowstone and Hot Springs were set aside as government reservations reserva-tions before any private claims were made on the land. Practically all other national parks contain some private land. This land is being acquired ac-quired by the government when satisfactory sat-isfactory arrangements can ( be made. " ' Dandridga Family . Martha Dandrldga (Mrs. George Washington) was the eldest of eight children. The children of John and Frances Jones Dandrldge were: Martha, John,' William, Bartholomew, Bartholo-mew, Anna, Maria, Frances, Elizabeth Eliza-beth and Mary. Stormy Petrel .-. -The jBtorroy petrels,sometimes called Mother Carey's chickens, are the . lInIeat.of- web!ootedbIrds. Their name, "petrel," Is a form of "Peter," and was given them because be-cause of their ability loiwalk upon .the water. . - - Electric meters were ' devised In the development of electricity by numerous Inventors and are of three different kinds. The earliest type of ampere-hour meter was the Edison tine-sulphate electrolytic meter, me-ter, but the trouble of reading It caused it soon to be replaced by mechanical meters. A large number num-ber of such have been invented, as those by FerranU, Elihn Thomson, S. Evershed, Chamberlain, Hook-ham Hook-ham and others. .... 1 M -M - Death Punitkme-t The only crimes for which capital cap-ital punishment may now be inflicted, inflict-ed, according to the law of England, Eng-land, are high treason and murder. mur-der. By United States statutes nine crimes may be so punished, including includ-ing treason, murder, arson, rape, piracy pi-racy and robbery of the maiL Bramble Trad Mark" Pigskin gloves are made from the skins of wild pigs, such as the peccary pec-cary of the southwestern United States and Mexico. - The bramble scratches on these gloves are supposed sup-posed to be an indication that the skins are actually from wild animals. Still Mystery A magazine prints a symposium on "Why is an old bachelor?" An old bachelor represents either supreme su-preme wisdom or supreme disappointment disap-pointment Which it Is. all the wisdom wis-dom of the world has not yet been able to settle. Affection in Same Clai - That old theory that a common cow, killed by a railway locomotive, had a value far in excess of what she was worth on the boof seems related re-lated in some way to the high price placed o alienated affections To--ledo Blade. ( Iron Road for England A number of cast-iron roads are to be laid in England, following successful! success-ful! experiments with short sections. The advantages of such roads are tald to be that they are guaranteed to wear about twice as well as stone and three times as well as wood ; that the short projections on the surface of the metal prevent skidding, and that British Iron can be used instead of foreign materials. - The cost of building iron roads Is reported to -he the same as for the best wooden paving. The metal Is laid not in long sheets, but by putting put-ting triangular castings on a cement base, ; " Native Fifit -"Were there good and cheap rooms in the resort where you spent your holidays?" . "Plenty of them ; but the natives lived in them." Exchange"- Dr. Pierce's Pellet are best for liver, bowel and stomach. One little Pellet for K laxative three for a cithartio. Adv. All should be taught to speak calmly and sensibly In public, but not necessarily to be orators. 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