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TYPEWRITERs.

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OTHER bargains Lyman Bryan a Brother
typewrters Dallas, Texas. y
BI-TFkENsDNRFE TYPEWRITERs ON
easy payments; $40 cash. ana - Per
month 90 responsible people, OF tp9 49,, aIY
furnish GOOD references. W, n Nussel,
generui agent for Texas, Arkansas, lnolan
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EESToCK FOR SALE.

HrEREp thoroughbred, 6-year.old
~ by "Gallantry. Handsome,
a, with star; good style and action,
ID 1850 pounds, 1914 hands high;
Il disposition good saddler or driver,
A or double: fine walker; will make
*egalt surrey OF family horse. Ad-
A Lock Box 1873. Kyle. Texas L.
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ron sALE-le 1lAEatd auEg ssrsi 70
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WANTED--At once, BY Young niau Of ex-
perience, position as salesman Ia dry
goods store; can furnish good references.
2SSs, this office. IS
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ONE handsomely furnished front room At
No. Z Butler hats Ii
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|oNs REACH A FEW.
post Want Ads reach all,
FINANCIAL.

t--=ons Vendors Hen note for
n ALh-v,,', INTEREST," runs two years.
rs per w Houston, Texas. II
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BIDS AND PROPOSALS.

Greene, Atlanta, Texas 10
S0TITE 10 CONTRACTORS Houston.
TeXus January 8, 1903. Sealed proposals
addressed to -. ID. Bryan, secretary Of
The CITY Of Houston, Texas, win be re-
ceiyed IN 10 II o'clock noon, on Monday
FEBRUARY o 1908. for the construction Of
a brick city hall and market house and
market shed on what " known as market
sduare, ia this city, according 10 plans
ma specihcni Ions on fife at the office OF
me CITY secretary and at the office Of
Gporgn r. Dickey & Co, architects The
city reserves the right TO reject any aud
all bids.
titled check for 5000 on any bank In
Houston, made payable 10 the mayor OF
said city without conditions, same to he
forfeited MS liqulduted damages ia case
~ failure Of successful bidder 10 enter
into contract ana bond as required by the
div council within ten days after being
notified Of acceptance or bid.
The successful bidder Will be required 90
Furnish Il bond in the sum Of twenty five
Thousand 100000 dollars with any re-
snousible individuals or surety company
~ hOndsmen. for the faithful perform
ance III the work as per contract
The contractor win be governed by all
rho ordinances Of the city regulating or
nertaining Ia public works, especially the
labor ordinance, passed February III. 1902
snS rnnst agree to proper deductions from
contract price for violations thereof.
% r. Holt, Mayor,
d. D. Bryan. City Secretary. 10
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HUN IAChS might ON d0v cniig ,,17--,---
SOB. Rice hack stand. e"''S' pno9g
Two go ROOMS aud hall, upIairs. el0
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FOR SALT wo-story house and two lots
OF ground In Fourth ward on car line,
south corner, owner must have money at
once. a bargain. See n. l.. Mills, ZIG
Main street II
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Divine service will be held at Swan
Creek In - at - o'clock.
All are cordially invited.
ARTHUR WELLINGTON MOORE

On the whole I liked his letter.
liked its modest self depreciation. and
liked its cool assumption Of my SYM
pathy and cooperation. But l was
perplexed. l remembered that Sunday
was the day fixed for the great base
ball match. when those from Home"
as they fondly called the land across
the sea from which they had come.
were to wipe the earth with all comers.
Besides, "divine sarvice" was an inno'
vation in Swan Creek. and | felt sure
that, like all innovations that suggested
the approach Of the east. 1t would be
by no means welcome.
However. Immediately under the no
tice Of the Grand baseball match fol-
the pain killer week from Sunday,
at 2:3O; Home versus the World"
pinned on the door Of the Stopping
Place the announcement:
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CHAPTER III.

THE COMING OF THE PILOT.
rVE was the first missionary ever
InI seen in the country, and 1t
U1mylla was the Old Timer who named
I&H him. The Old Timers advent
to the foothill country was pre-
historic, and his influence was In
consequence immense. No one ven
tured to disagree with him. for to dis
agree with the Old Timer was to write
yourself down a tenderfoot, which no
one, Of course, cared to do. 1t was a
misfortune which only time could re-
pair to be a newcomer, and 1t was
every newcomers aim to assume with
all possible speed the style and GUS
toms of the aristocratic old timers and
to forget as soon as possible the date
of his own arrival. So it was as the
Sky Pilot-familiarly the Pilot-that
the missionary went for many a day
In the Swan Creek country.
had become schoolmaster Of Swan
Creek, for in the spring kind Provi-
dence sent in the Muirs and the Bre-
mans with housefuls of children, to the
ranchers' disgust, for they foresaw
plowed fields and barbed wire fences
cramping their unlimited ranges. A
school became necessary. A little log
building was erected, and was ap-
pointed schoolmaster. 1t was as school
master that l first came to touch the
Pilot, for the letter which the Hudson
Bay freighters brought me early one
summer evening bore the inscription:
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CHAPTER Nv.
THE PILOTS MEASURE.


m0 r was Hi Kendall that an
i%l nounced the arrival Of the
6Swal missionary. I was standing
(SsgsS at the door of my school,
watching the children ride off home on
their ponies. when Hi came Looping
along on his bronco in the loose jointed
cowboy style.
We'll" he drawled out, bringing his
bronco to dead stop in single bound,
"he's lit"
Lit? Where? What?" said l, look
ing round for an eagle or some other
flying thing.
"Your tlanked Sky Pilot, and he's
beauty. pretty kid-looks too tender
for this climate. Better not let him
out on the range" Hi was quite dis
gusted evidently.
"What's the matter with him, HIP
"Why. he amt no parson! don't
20 much on parsons. but when l calls
for one don't want no bantam chick
en-. No, Stree. horse. l don't want
no blankety-b blank pink and white
Completed nursery kid foolin' round
my graveyard. If you're goin' to
bring along a parson, why. bring him
with his eyeteeth cut and his tail
| feathers on"
That Iii was deeply disappointed was
quite clear from the selection Of the
profanity with which he adorned this
lengthy address. 1t was never the ex-
tent of his profanity, but the choice,
that indicated HIS interest in any sub
ject.
Altogether the outlook for the mis-
! sionary was not encouraging. With
the single exception of the Muirs, who
really counted for little, nobody want
ed him. To most Of the reckless young
bloods Of the Company of the Noble
Seven his presence was an offense, to
others simply a nuisance, while the
Old Timer regarded his advent with
something like dismay, and now HIS
impression of his personal appearance
was not cheering.
My first sight Of him did not reassure
me. He was very slight, very young,
very innocent, with face that might
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THE sCHOOLMASTER.
Public School,
Swan Creek.
Alberta.

There was altogether fine air about
the letter. The writing was in fine,
small hand. the tone was fine, and there
was something fine in the signature
arthur Wellington Moore" BE was
glad to know that there was school
and a teacher in Swan Creek. for a
school meant children, in whom his
soul delighted, and in the teacher he
would find a friend. and without a
friend he could not live. He took me
into his confidence, telling me that
though he had volunteered for this far
away mission field he was not much OF
a preacher and he was not at all sure
that he would succeed. But he meant
to try. and he was charmed at the pros
pect of having one sympathizer at least.
Would be kind enough to put in some
conspicuous place the inclosed notice,
filling in the blanks as thought best?
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Divine service will be held at Swan
Creek. in the Stopping Place Parlor.
a week from Sunday. Immediately
upon the conclusion Of the baseball
match.
ARTHUR WELLINGTON MOORE

There was a strange incongruity In
the two, and an unconscious challenge
as we'll.
All next day. which was Saturday,
and, indeed. during the following
week. stood guard over my notice, en-
joying the excitement it produced and
the comments it called forth. 1t was
the advance wave Of the great ocean
of civilization which many Of them
had been glad to leave behind-some
could have wished forever.
To Robert Muir. one of the farmers
newly arrived. the notice was har-
binger Of good. 1t stood for progress.
markets and a higher price for land,
albeit he wondered hoo he wad be
keepit up" But his hard wrought.
quick spoken little wife at his elbow
"hooted" his scruples and. thinking Of
her growing lads. welcomed with un-
mixed satisfaction the coming Of 1.-The
meenfster." Her satisfaction was
shared by all the mothers and most OF
the fathers in the settlement. but by
the Others. and especially by that roll
licking. roistering crew. the Company
of the Noble Seven. the missionary's s
coming was viewed with varying de-
prees of animosity. 1t meant llnita-
tion of freedom in their wildly reck-
less living. The permit nights would
now. to say the least. be subject TO
criticism; the Sunday wolf hunts and
horse races. with their attendant de-
lights, would now be pursued under the
eve of the church. and this would not
add to the enjoyment Of them. One
great charm Of the country. which
Bruce. himself the son Of an Edinburgh
minister and now secretary Of the No
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An Indian on Whisky.

A sturdy plea for prohibition Is that
made by Jim Barnett, full-blood
Creek Indian, in a letter to one OF the
two newspapers in the Indian Terri
tory printed both in English and IN
Indian dialect. Under the caption,
What an Indian Thinks About Whis-
KY" some old truths are tersely ana
effectively, if crudely, stated. Whether
or not one agrees with the assumption
that whisky is fine drink, and 1t
seems like everybody likes q drink 1t
is impossible not to be impressed by
the force of the following homely illus
tration: 81 know whisky Is a murderer
and a robber, too, and it takes all the
money from a man. When a man goes
to town and tells his wife he is going
to get such things, and so his wife
would depend on him and also his chill
dren, but when he gets back he would
be drunk and his wife's feeling Is hurt
and also his children, because he come
home drunk and broke. This tell US
the whisky is a bad thing" Barnett 8
observations are founded on experience.
II used to drink whisky myself, ne
confesses, about twenty-five years
ago, and 1 quit ever since" The larger
part of his advice Is cunningly con-
trived to appeal with greatest force 10
the pocket: well, my friends, don I
touch no drink and save money, and
YOU will get rich. And so, never seen
a whisky drinker fail to get poor and
stay poor for all his life." This dark
Poor Richard, besides stating the pro-
hibitionists' case succinctly, offers good
material for those who are working
for a dry" state when Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory get into the Un-
ion, whether as one commonwealth or
two. 1t Is a pertinent question he
propounds when, after confessing his
old fault, he hopefully adds: And II
everybody, too, was like me, wouldn't
it be good ?"-New York Post.
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1T was Hi Kendall that an
nounced the arrival Of the
a missionary. I was standing
III at the door Of my school,
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plunge into the sea Of mountains, now
dimiy visible. Behind us stretched the
prairie, sweeping out level to the sky
and cut by the winding coulee Of the
Swan. Great long shadows from the
hills were lying upon its yellow face,
and far at the distant edge the gray
haze was deepening into purple. Be-
fore us lay the hills, softly curving
like the shoulders Of great sleeping
monsters, their tops still bright, but
the separating valleys full Of shadow.
And there, far beyond them; up against
the sky, was the line of the mountains
blue, purple and gold, according as
the lsght fell upon them.
The sun had taken his plunge, but he
had left behind him the robes Of SAT-
from and gold. We stood long without
word or movement, filling our hearts
with the silence and the beauty, till
the gold in theswest began to grow
dim. High above all the night was
stretching her star pierced, blue can
opy and drawing slowly up from the
east over the prairie and over the sleep
ing hills the soft folds Of purple haze.
The great silence Of the dying day
had fallen upon the world and held
us fast.
Listen" he said in low tone, point
ing to the hills. Cant you hear them
breathe" And, looking at their curv-
ing. shoulders, l fancied I could see
them slowly heaving as If in heavy
sleep, and 1 was quite sure I could
hear them breathe. was under the
spell of his voice and his eyes, and
nature was all living to me then.
We rode back to the Stopping Place
in silence, except for word Of mine
now and then which he needed not,
and, with hardly good night, he left
me at the door. / turned away feel
ing as If 1 had been In strange coun-
try and among strange people.
How would he do with the Swan
Creek folk? Could he make them
see the hills breathe. Would they feel
as I felt under his voice and eyesl
What curious mixture he was! l
was doubtful about his first Sunday,
and was surprised to find all my In
difference as to his success or failure
gone. 1t was pity about the baseball
match. would speak to some Of the
men about it tomorrow.
Hi might be disappointed in his ap'
pearance. but as I turned into my
shack and thought over my last two
hours with the Pilot and how he had
"got" old Latour and myself 1 began
to think that Hi might be mistaken IN
his measure of the Pilot.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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By RALPH CONNOR

Author OF

BILE Seven, described as letting q lel-
low do as he blanked pleased" would
be gone. None resented more bitterly
than he the missionary's intrusion,
which he declared to be an attempt
ito reimpose upon their freedom the
trammels of an antiquated and bigoted
conventionality." But the rest OF the
Company, while not taking 80 decided
stand, were agreed that the estab-
lishment Of q church institution was
an Objectionable and impertinent as
well as unnecessary proceeding.
OF course Hi Kendall and his friend
Bronco Bill had no opinion one way
or the other. The church could hardly
affect them even remotely. A dozen
years stay in Montana had proved
with sufficient clearness to them that
church was luxury Of civilization
the west might well do without.
Outside the Company Of the Noble
Seven there was only one whose opin'
ion had value in Swan Creek. and that
was the Old Timer. The Company had
sought to bring him in by making him
an honorary member. but he refused
to be drawn from his home far up
among the hills. where he lived with
his little girl Gwen and her old half
breed nurse. Ponka. The approach or
the church he seemed to resent as q
personal injury. 1t represented to him
that civilization from which he had
fed fifteen years ago with his wife
and baby girl, and when, five years
later, he laid his wife In the lonely
grave that could be seen on the shaded
knoll just fronting his cabin door the
last link to his past was broken. From
all that suggested the great world be-
yond the run of the prairie he shrank
as one shrinks from sudden touch
upon an old wound.
81 guess I'll have to move back" he
said to me gloomily.
"Why" I said in surprise. thinking
of his grazing range. which was ample
for his herd.
"This blank Sky Pilot" He never
swore except when unusually moved.
"Sky Pilot?" inquired. e..
He nodded and silently pointed to the
notice.
"Oh, well. he won't hurt you. will
he?
Cant stand It." he answered savage
ly; must get away"
"What about Gwen" l ventured,
for she was the light of his eyes. "Pity
to stop her studies" was giving her
weekly lessons at the old mans ranch.
Dunno. Amt figgered out yet about
that baby" She was still his baby.
"Guess she's all she wants for the
foothills. anyway. What's the useT'
he added bitterly. talking to himself
after the manner Of men who live
much alone.
I waited for a moment, then said,
"Well. I wouldn't hurry about doing
anything" knowing well that the one
thing an old timer hates to do Is to
make any change in his mode Of life.
maybe he won't stay"
He caught at this eagerly. That's
80! There amt much to keep him,
anyway" And he rode off to his lone
ly ranch far up in the hills.
looked after the swaying figure and
tried to picture his past. with its trag-
edy: then l found myself wondering
how he would end and what would
come to his little girl. and | made up
my mind that If the missionary were
the right sort his coming might not be
a bad thing for the Old Timer and
perhaps for more than him.
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Cured. He made that a pretense Tor
new opening. He had as mucn
venom as a rattlesnake. If kept a
scrap-book of all Mr.. Gonzales said
about me 1t would take cart to haul
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[Continusd on Fourth PaSsl.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-25
Otherwise.

Two distinct shocks Of earthquake
were felt at Portland, Or. though no
damage resulted.
The second biennial convention of
the German-American alliance was
held in Baltimore recently.
The firemen Of Pittsburg have or
ganized a union and have applied to
the American Federation of Labor for
q charter.
The overturning Of the lions cages
at the carnival in East st. Louis caused
a panic, but it was found later that the
lions had not escaped.
The Knights and Ladies of Honor
held their fourteenth annual. convention
at Louisville with an attendance of 100
delegates from all parts of the coun-
try.
The Uintah Indians of the White
Rock agency in Utah are in an ugly
mood on account of a survey Of their
lands and threaten the surveyors with
violence.
Judge Seaman Of Chicago has de-
cided that a Judge cannot be held to
account for anything said while on the
bench except through Impeachment
proceedings.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-25
TERROR IS LOOSE
ALLEGED TRIPLE MURDERER IN
NEBRASKA ADOPTS TRAcY's
TACTICS.
BIG POSSE IS ON HIS IKA!l
BOLDLY REVEALS HIS lOEN''''
AND coMPELs PEOPLE TO
ASSIST HIM.
BIG POSSE IS ON HIS TRAIL
HIS ESCAPE Sims IMPOSSIBLE
rWC.THIRDS OF THE MEN in lHE
COUNTY HAVE JOINED IN
THE SEARCH.

Cowles. Neb., Sept. 22.-Tom Madl-
son. the farm hand who is charged
with killing Mrs. Payne, her daughter
and granddaughter, is terrorlZlhg
Webster county.
He was seen several times Satur-
dav. and in each case he told his
Identity and warned people under the
penalty of death not to tell OF seeing
him. He is thought to be surrounded
In a cornfield near Inavale, and his
capture is expected. 1t seems that
two-thirds of the men in Webster
county have joined in the search and
that escape is impossible for him.
The first man who met Madison
was a liveryman of Red Cloud named
Carney. Madison was heavily armed.
Pointing his revolver at Garney's
head, Madison said:
I'm Tom Madison, the man those
bloodhounds are after. Promise me
you will not tell of seeing me, or l will
Blow Your Head On.'
Carney promised. He was allowed
to drive on. Madison then went on to
the home of a farmer named Komkley
and, after entering the house and
threatening to kill the whole family,
he stole a team of horses and rode
off.
The fugitive then went on to anoth-
er farm house where the family was
lust sitting down to dinner. He bold
ly entered the house and drew his re-
~yolyers. He compelled them to serve
him and he ate while threatening
them with death if they did not obey
ais slightest command.
Near Inavale Madison stopped three
men or the road. He told them who
he was and made one Of the men take
off his shoes and trade with him. All
the tobacco the men had was turned
over to the fugitive. He is desperate
and a fierce fight is expected.
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Sin and Sinners.

Miss Isabel Clarke, a wealthy WON
an, committed suicide at San Francis
co by inhaling gas.
\ Herman =. Denham, a letter carrier
Of Washington, shot and killed his wife
and then killed himself.
Mrs. Clara Costello of Chicago com
mitted suicide by saturating hel
clothes with kerosene and setting them
on fire.
s. w. Tyson, j. D. Crumpler, DR.. G.
D. Clements and E. L. Warren of COT
fee county, Alabama, have been arrest
ed on charges of peonage.
Miss Della Walton of Aurora, Ill.
shot a hole through the hat of Ernest
Berry, her lover, and thinking she had
killed him she shot herself, fatally.
Uncle" Finney, a negro over ninety
years old, has been assassinated at
Richmond, Va, supposedly because he
was suspected of being a sorcerer.
Five experienced English spinners
have been arrested in Canton Mass.
charged with violation of the antioch
tract law, and will be sent back to
Liverpool.
Sheriff George F. Wharton and Dep.
uty Frank Bough of Edna, Tex, were
killed by a prisoner named McCagle or
Lander. After Wharton was shot he
killed McCagle.
Two highwaymen attempted to hold
up four citizens at Clay Center, Kan,
who resisted. The robbers shot them,
one, Louis Behrinde, being fatally hurt.
The bandits got nothing.
The New York police used sledge
hammers and crowbars in efecting an
entrance to the Garfield club rooms.
They arrested four men on a charge of
maintaining a poolroom.
Arthur Amieson. a banker of Pitts
burg, Pa, has been missing since Aug.
IS, and SO has $4,000 of deposits. Two
ostensible proprietors of the bank,
Packoveski and Mollashek, are in Jail.
Five masked men entered the bar
room Of the Hotel O'Neil at Tacoma,
held up five men, robbed the till and
forced the proprietor to open the safe.
The robbers secured $1,000 and jew
elry and several gold nuggets.
H. W. Davey is In Jail at Niagara
Falls charged with attempting to vio-
late several little girls, among them
the daughter of Chief Of Police Ma
loney. Maloney shot at Davey, but
was restrained. The police Judge ad-
vised Davey to go to Jail. lest he be
shot II out on bail.
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Warrington Notes,


Gustaf w. Pearson was appointed
rural carrier to fll a vacancy at Bra.
ham, MINI.
The reported resignation Of Danic!
Sullivan, superintendent at the Fed
Lake agency, is not oflcially con
hrmed.
The Indians of Warmers ranch, Cal.
refuse to work on the irrigation work
for their benefit unless the whole tribs
is employed.
Martin Jacobson has been appointed
postmaster at Rowland. Cook county,
Mimi, and Marion A. Babcock at Mon
terey, Martin county.
Samuel J. Saindon has been trans
ferred from the Rosebud agency of
South Dakota to be superintendent of
the Sisseton agency, at Z salary of
$4,000.
The National Park bank of New
York and the Bankers National bank
of Chicago were appointed as reserve
agents of the First National bank cf
Rush City, MINI.
Brig. Gen. Frank d. Baldwin, com.
handing the department Of Colorado
In his annual report urges the re-es
Enlistment of the army canteen under
proper restrictions.
The state department has been ad-
vised Of the death of Samuel A. Nc
Allister, United States consul at Bar
BADGES, West Indies. He was born in
Pennsylvania and was appointed from
Delaware in 1897.
Assistant Secretary Taylor Of the
treasury department has selected as
the site of the United States postoflce
at Marinette, Wis, the property on the
corner Of Liberty and Stephenson
streets; price. $4,000.
Secretary Moody has disapproved
the findings in the case of Ensign
Ward X. Workman, u. S. n, who was
tried by court-martial and acquitted Of
the charge of "culpable inef1ciency in
the performance Of duty"