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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-31

They will surely interest and you may profit largely
by sharing in the bargains We would say at the same
time, however, there's show of novelties which ought
to command your attention.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08

Indian, but each of whom could tel
tremendous tales of their dongs in tn,
valley, 1t was declared that at least 81
OF Victories old band were raiding the
Santa Clara and might be expected tc
assault Jose's at any moment. The
corral was filed, therefore, with scrag.
gy COW ponies and swarthy men, and
the sight of an officer, one-armed. pal
lid, exhausted, reeling earthward from
an equally exhausted steed, was all that
was necessary to complete the panic.
Over half the Mexicans present made
mad rush for the subterranean refuge
known as the "dug-out," and but for
couple of troopers who had put into
Joses with famed and useless horses
Randy would have gone headlong to the
ground. They caught him just in time
and bore him inside the ranch, where
the sight of his death-like face drove
Jose almost frantic. But the troopers
knew what to do for their officer and
speedily brought him round, and when
he asked for DR.. Gould they told him OF
his going, and Randy's next demand
was for coffee and fresh horse.
[To BE CONTINUED
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
HIGHLY UNSATISFACTORY.
Money Out of Feeding Cattle
for His NeiGhbOrs.

A correspondent asks us to advise
him what compensation farmer
should have for fattening cattle belong
ing TO another man, says the Home
stead. He wishes to know what would
be just and fair to both feeder and
owner, the feeder furnishing every
thing in connection with the fatten-
ing of the cattle. The question is one
that we could not answer with any rea-
sonable hope of furnishing basis for
such contract as would be equitable
to both feeder and owner without see
ing the cattle, and even then it would
depend upon how good a guess we were
able to make about what the cattle
would probably do in view of their
condition when they go on feed, their
breeding, the length of time they were
to be fed, the price of feed, and the
other conditions surrounding the I'M
dertaking. If there is any one prop
osition in regard to cattle feeding that
has been more completely established
during the past couple of years than
another, it is that there are cattle and
cattle, and that while some will respond
to feed promptly and continuously and
make regular and steady gains in a
satisfactory way, there is a large per-
centage of the cattle going into the
feed lots that will do nothing Of the
kind. The usual basis on which such
contracts are made consists of the pay
ment of so much per pound for the gain
that is put on. The cattle are weighed
in to the feeder and weighed back
when delivered back to the owner.
What given lot of cattle will do in
given period, however, is matter that
no one can positively tell in advance,
and even the expert feeder who has
handled cattle all his life can only
form an opinion that will be of any
value, in any given case, after a care
full examination of the lot of cattle it
is proposed to feed. Speaking general
ly of contracts of this kind, however,
it may be said that they are particular
ly hard on the feeder as rule. The
owner puts in his cattle at given
weights, and they may be either good,
bad or Indifferent; they may be of a
kind that will respond readily to feed,
and gain anywhere from two to three
pounds per day, or they may be of
kind that will make only pound
day gain, or less. The cost of making
the gain may be as low as four dollars
hundred, or it may be twice as much
or even more. All these risks the feeder
takes, and when the owner receives his
cattle back he pays for just what the
feeder has accomplished. In other
words, the man who feeds another's
acfitd1f, takes AXES all the risks Of the trans
ton any of the occasional sPep0eAlsa-
gains that cattle feeders now and then
make, by reason of striking good mar
ket. 1t is not contract that we would
advise anyone to make unless he is so
poor and so destitute of credit as to be
unable to raise money to buy cattle and
thus entitle himself to all the possible
gains in the transaction, as well as to
take its risks of loss.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08

pcsterous demand. 1t was they who
haunted him at the San Francisco club,
and the man, drunk and triumphant,
insolently demanding money that
night, had fired that well-nigh fatal
shot when repudiated, defied, and
struck. The very next day at their
hotel came a letter warning them to ST.
lence as to the identity of the assailants
So long as these latter were allowed to
escape arrest they would keep the Sc
cret, but if arrested and brought to
trial they would proclaim McLane a
blgamist. All this was made known to
Uncle Mellen, and he, too, backed the
niece's cause and kept up the deception.
Tut no one could tell where the first
wife was hidden. "She will be pro-
duced when needed, and her money
must be paid through her sister," The
money, large sum- was paid, and then
there was temporary peace. But Nc
Lane dropped and died under the
weight of shame and anxiety. There
was quarreling between the widow and
| lHC anu lul IACI uC1ldltuS
from those cormorants, who now open
| ly threatened to claim the dead mans
estate for the widow and her son-they,
az least, knew nothing of the latter's
death; and then Fanny, coming to Sedg-
wick, tried to reassert her old sover-
eighty over Merriam and to gain pos
| session of the papers of which her hus-
band had told her and which Randy had
long since sent to Parry, but concern
ing which she had never spoken to her
brother-in-law, believing him to be ig
norant of their existence; and it
pleased Ned Parry to let her live on in
ignorance that he had them. He took
q curious interest in making study of
her, and had, without consulting his
client, a more than professional inter-
est in the case.
| But now Bullock, the man who shot
McLane, had been traced to and ar
rested in Chicago, together with his
dashing helpmeet. Uncle Mellen had
been FRUSTRATED by paralysis as re-
suit of the news. The secret could be
no longer kept, and Fanny McLane,
hunted, desperate, self-deluded, and
self-drugged, believed herself ruined
woman when at last Ned Parry came.
Too i'll to see him, she seemed at
least relieved to know he had come, and
that night in Grafton's parlor he sat
gravely listening to Harriet's recital of
what Fanny had detailed to her, max
ing no comment, but taking it all in,
when, just at tattoo, trooper dis
mounted at the gate and bore to Mrs.
| Grafton brief missive from her hus-
''ho' -, -----'ittau that morning
nearly 20 miles northwest -os-N~---.,ee
ranch.
you must prepare Merriam for the
worst" it said. There is reason to be-
lieve poor Florence has fallen into the
hands of little band of Apaches. The
sign is unmistakable and we are just
starting in pursuit"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
CHAPTER XV.-CoNTINUED.

They found her grave, headstone and
all, but could get no trace of her long
devoted lover. 1t was surmised that he
had taken what was left of the money
and gone elsewhere in search of con-
ISOLATION. McLane came back to New
York, met Fanny Hayward, fell in love,
and Uncle Mellen urged the match in
every way; and we know the result.
There was fortnight in which McLane
seemed the happiest of men. Then came
a shock. Fanny found him nearly
crazed with trouble. A letter had come
purporting TO be from that supposed
to-be-dead woman demanding further
heavy payment as the price of her 81
lence. McLane honestly told Fan the
truth, and was astonished at her de-
cision. She babe him pay the money
and have done with it."
They might have doubted the genu-
ineness of her letter, but there was no
doubling that of young McLane's dying
statement, witnessed by the officers
from Sedgwick. He declared his moth
er alive. And so one crime led to an
other. No sooner had they reached
California thaa the whole Perkins
family seemed resurrected, and black
mai. was their business. The eldest
sister demanded heavy hush-money,
and it was paid. The second sister
turned up with her husband and pre-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08

strap GAY passes. On the throatlatch
is sliding loop (D), as shown, to make
that part which goes over the horses
head larger or smaller. On each side
the straps &C E) are held together by
means of loop (O, which is movable
on them as required. 1t will be seen
that the halter is formed of three
straps only and that the straps can
easily be adjustable, so that the halter
will fit any horse by simply sliding OF
moving the loops D and ] ], as well as
the loops G G of the cheek pieces. BY
sliding the loop D down on the throat
latch the halter cam be put on the horse,
and when put on the loop D is moved
up again to fasten it. The three straps
of the halter can be made of leather,
rope or any other suitable MATERIAL
Farm and Home.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08

in air by the pointed muzzle of his
closest pursuer and then pounced
upon by the painting hounds, and Ran
dy found that they were in a little am
phitheater among the buttes-found
the little spring in which the streamlet
had it's birth, and there they dismount-
eG and unsaddled and let the horses
roll; and here they took their luncheon,
and had happy loving hour, all alone
with the horses and hounds in this lit
tie world of their own; and Floy had
named the spot-a fond, foolish little
caprice, perhaps, and vowed that it
was to be her refuge by-and-by. This
is where am coming to build my lone
ly cloister one of these days, when you
grow weary of me, SIR" she had laugh
ingly said. And now, as he piled spurs
to Dicks heaving sides, Randy won
dered, wondered whether it might not
be that she had made that wide detour
around Jose's purposely to find and re-
visit that romantic little nook and there
pour out her grief to the solitude of the
silent foothills
At five o'clock Brown Dick was black
with sweat and dust and streaked with
foam, but still pressed gamely on, and
Randy, with white, set face, in which
deep lines of pain and WEAKNESS were
craving. gazed fixedly ahead with burn
ing, fevered eyes, conscious that
strength was failing him and praying
for the first sight of those dun adobe
walls of Joses sheltering ranch.
Just at seven o'clock of the early win
ter's evening the denizenso of Jose'sheard
the thud of horses hoofs at the gate
and the hail of feeble voice. Jose's
wife at that moment was in half-tearful
talk with Mrs. Hayne, who from dawn
till dark had been on watch-hoping
against hope for tidings of Florence,
and who now, wearied with long vigil
and well-nigh worn out with anxiety.
was lying down in search of sleep.
Gould, veteran soldier and surgeon that
he was, could no longer bear the sus-
pense and inaction at the ranch. He
| had borrowed one of Jose's horses, and,
with half-breed Mexican for guide,
had ridden away at dawn, hoping to
strike Graftons trail and follow him
into the mountains, whittier he was
supposed to have ridden i'll pursuit of
the Apaches. Gould was skeptic. He
said he didn't believe dozen Apaches
were off their reservation. He didn't
believe half dozen had ventured over
the New Mexican line, and if any had
he was willing TO bet months pay
they were not hostile. This was COM
forting to Mrs. Hayne, but Jose's people
were not so easily cured of their con-
viction. BY the time the rumor reached
the ranch, brought in by stampeded
herdsmen, no one of when had seen an
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
PIGS Require Pure water.

Swill, or milk mixed with grain, is
too often regarded as drink, and no
other is provided, says the Farm, Stock
and Home. The truth is that in addition
to sloppy food the hog needs pure
water, and should have access to it
at all times. Do not make the mistake
of thinking that water out of mud
hole will answer every purpose; 1t
should be pure water, as clean as that
given to dairy COWS or horses. Impure
water contains germs of worms and
other internal parasites, and also of
disease, and should ltever be given to
any kind of stock.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08

as possible between the post and him.
self. He know he could get another
horse at Jose's, so Brown Dick was
never spared an instant. At three
o'clock, galloping free, the gallant
horse was stretching away northwest
ward over the low, rolling earth-waves
that seemed to spread to the very lap
OF the Mescalero, spanning the horizon
toward the setting sun. Far behind
him, the scattered ranches and the
sparse green foliage of the Santa Clara.
Far away on either hand, the lumpy,
sandy barren, dotted everywhere with
little dull-hued tufts of coarse heritage
or stunted sage. Ahead of him the tor
tuous, twisting, dusty trail denied
with scores of footprints, the tracks of
Grafton's troop on its way to the res
cue. BY this time Randy was burning
with thirst, but the water in his can
teen was warm and nauseating. He
raised the felt-covered flask to his lips
from time to time and rinsed his mouth
and moistened his parching throat, but
that did not allay the craving. He had
still 30 miles to go before he could reach
Jcse's and exchange Brown Dick for
broncho, and have DR.. Gould renew the
dressing of his wounded arm. He
knew that Florence had failed to appear
there, but he knew her pluck and spir-
it, and believed he knew the reason
that there might be sojourners there
either from the Catamount or from the
post who would seek to turn her back
OF hold her there; and he knew that in
her overweight. half-maddened state
she was starving for her mothers pet
ting and her fathers arms. He knew
her so well that any attempt to dissuade
her now would result, he felt assured,
only in frantic outburst and more de-
termined effort to push ahead.
Then he had another and even better
reason for thinking he could quickly
find Mignon's trail, although it might
be miles to the north of Jose's. On
their return from their latest visit to
the Catamount they were having
glorious run with the hounds one love-
ly November morning, and the jack
rabbits led them far out to the north
Of the road among the buttes and
powders that clustered about the
course of little stream, barely yard
wide anywhere, that rippled out from
among the foothills only to be lost in
the sands of the desert to the east. One
vigorous old rabbit, close followed by
the hounds, had tackled suddenly and
darted up this narrow valley, and Floy
and Mignon, all excitement, darted aft
err him, while Randy. guiding Brown
Dick behind, watched with fond, proud
1; lies his young wife's graceful, fear
of the brook poor jack had S 3 en- -- rl-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08

The good flockmaster will be very
watchful day and night for the comfort
and health of his charges. Nothing un-
dermines so quickly the health of the
lamb as a few hours neglect, either in
a cold rain or exposure to draught in
sheltered buildings. The flockmaster
who wishes to get the utmost gain and
consequently profit from its operations,
will look after these things carefully
during the season when lambs are
dropped and when they are still young
and tender.-Prairie Farmer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
FATTENING HOGS.
,nnR2tu Farmers Understand the
duce the Best PoPR.

No country on earth can produce
pork as cheaply as we can. No fault
can be found with the hams and shout
ders from American hogs, and only the
absence of lean streaks prevents our
bacon from taking first place. Under
present conditions we cannot afford to
produce bacon such as comes from Dem
mark and Ireland, because there is
more profit in producing weight with
corn. With all these advantages of
cheap feed and favorable climatic con-
ditions, we can produce pork very
cheaply, but we should not be content
with this. We should try to produce
better pork than we do without adding
to the cost.
Very few farmers would say they do
not know all about raising hogs, but
the truth is, very few really do know
the best way to feed for the best re-
suits in quality, gain in weight and
healthfulness,
Most farmers are inclined to think
the best way to feed lot of hogs is to
put them in a lot and keep corn by them
all the time. Corn and corn alone is
enough for a hog, they think, and to
feed this in unlimited quantities re-
quires neither judgment nor sense.
The average farmer does not read, nor
does he bother himself much with
thinking. The man who is above the
average reads and thinks, and he knows
there is much to learn in even so sim
pie an operation as raising hog. He
| knows that corn alone does not fur
nish all the elements that 60 to make
perfect pork. The thinking farmer pro-
vides pasture of clover or blue grass
for his pigs, and gets them up to 100
pounds or above with grass, wheat
bran, skim milk and such heterogeneous
feeds as to make lean meat and bone.
Then he feeds corn and oats or bran,
and toward the last feeds all the corn
the animals will eat, with good appe-
tite, and goes into the market with a
finished product that he may be proud
| of, which has not cost him any more
than full corn-fed hog would have
cost. When all farmers follow this
course, then will American pork have
come into its own and the price will
rise to it's true value,-Farmers' Voice
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
A PERFECT DOCUMENT.
Criticisms of the Declaration OF In,
dependence Are Easily Dis
posed OF.

The Declaration is divided into two
parts: First, the statement of certain
general principles of the rights of men
and peoples, and, second, an attack on
George III. as a tyrant, setting forth
in series of propositions the wrongs
done by him to the Americans which
justified them in rebellion. Criticism
has been directed first against the at
tack on the king, then to the originate
ty of the doctrines enunciated, then
against the statement of the rights of
man, Jefferson's "self-evident truths"
and finally against the style.
The last criticism is easily disposed
of. Year after year, for more than
century, the Declaration Of Independ-
ence has been soemnly read in every
city, town and hamlet in the United
States to thousands of Americans, who
have heard it over and over again, and
who listen to it in reverent silence and
rejoice that it is theirs to read. If it
had been badly written, the most ro-
bust patriotism would be incapable of
this habit. False rhetoric or turgid
sentences would have been their own
death warrant, and the pervading
American sense of humor would have
seen to its execution. The mere fact
that Jetferson's words have stood sue
ccsssfully this endless repetition is in
- 4 bot tho DaoIorot;o, b,.
the true and high flteia.o I. 'Di :. 'i'n .as
alone could have preserved through
such trials its impressiveness and it's
SAVIOR. To those who will study the
Declaration carefully from the literary
side, it is soon apparent that the Eng
lish Is fine, the tone noble and dgnified.
and the style strong, clear and impos-
ing.-Senator Ii. G. Lodge, in Serb
ncr's.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
TO MY WIFE.
IT'S many a year since you and I.

IT'S many year since you and I.
in holy troth and faith.
Joined heart and hand and vowed to be
Husband and wife till death.
All me. how much of good and i'll,
OF pleasure and of pain,
Our eyes have seen, our hearts have felt,
Dear wife, dear heart, since then!
Yet In our humble home-nest we
Still happy sit, and sing
A sweeter song than skylarks trlI,
In praise of love and spring.
When winter comes to US, and clouds
Obscure the light of day,
We murmur not, because we know
That We have had our May;
We know behind the clouds the sun
Shines somewhere in the blue,
And that the darkest night but brings
The stars more clear to view.
BY bearing one another's griefs,
Their weight one-half Is less,
And sharing one another's joys,
We double happiness;
Life, measured by this golden rule,
Becomes, despite the tears
Which sometimes blur the bluest skies,
A round of happy years.
And with this golden rule. dear wife,
We ever will comply,
In sweet contentment seeing thus
The tide of time glide by.
Ready, whate'er the outcome ba
Lies shade or shine to share
Content to know its issues are
Safe In our Fathers care.
They truest live who live for love,
Love is life's crown of bliss,
The soul of life Is deathless love-
Who loves immortal Isl
Charles w. Hunter. in Atlanta Constit
tinn.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-08
STORY OF THE GREAT LAKES.
A Fruitful Source of Material for
the Writer'S of History
and Fiction.

There is much of thrilling interest,
much of romance, much OF daring sur
rounding the shores of these lakes,
much in a study of the early periods of
their history, for the historian or the
novelist. A long time ago-sc long it
seems like ancient history to us-the
first white man, probably about the
middle of the sixteenth century, saw
these lakes. 1t is not so easy to fix
date for this event, but we know that as
early as 1880 to 1910 the French priests,
the voyagers and the coureurs de bois,
the trappers and adventures of the day,
visited the eastern lake region on the
north. They came with two messages:
one bore tidngs of the commerce, and
proved that the French nation was alive
to the value of the new country; the
other told the story of the Christian re-
ligion. It were well, perhaps, to mem
ton another message-a more or less
bnleful one-brought by the adventur-
ers; for there were adventurers among
these early discoverers-men who had
no other motive than to seek the strange
and the exciting, and to spend their
days in the alluring and profitless occu-
patton of seeing how many hairbreadth
escapes they could enjoy, in how many
scenes of pillage and robbery they could
take part.
Those who have written so gracefully
and elegantly of the early history of the
regions surrounding the northern per-
tons of the great lakes have but begun
to tell the tales which will be told with
more and more freedom of invention as
the writer's of the future come to ap-
preciate more and more what splendid
storehousc of material lies in this
Northland.-W. S. HARDWOOD, in st. NiGb-
| nlas