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BOOK Ill.
The Day of the Cattle.
CHAPTER XIV.
EIiisvilIe the Red.

GilIoNllC lnS HSU.
Gourdlike, Ellisville grew up in a
night. 1t was not, and 10, it was.
Silently. steadily, the people came to
this rallying place, dropping in from
every corner Of the stars. The long
street spun out still longer its string
of toylike wooden houses. The Cot
tage Hotel had long since lost its key.
and day and night there went on vast
revelry among the men of the wild.
wide West, then seeing for the first
time what seemed to them the joy
and glory OF life.
Land and cattle, cattle and land
These themes were upon the lips of
ALL and in those days were topics of
peace and harmony. The cattleman
still stood for the nomadic and un-
trammeled West, the West of wild
and glorious tradition. The man who
sought for land was not yet recog-
nized as the homesteader, the man Of
anchored craft, Of settled convictions,
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ALEXANDRA OWNS FINE DOGS.
Her Hiohness Possesses Great Skill
in Training CANNES.

IN framing CANNES.
Queen Alexandra. who has made her
yearly visit to Denmark. the land of
her girlhood. is fond Of dogs, and has
all sorts, sizes and breeds. She pos
sesses great skill in training them
and the pets which she has about her
are all capable of wonderful tricks
But there was one dog upon which
her majesty confesses that in vain
she used to cast longing eyes. 1t was
a famous performing canine named
Minos. and it was the rage as a soci-
ETY. entertainer. Invitation cards at
great London houses used to bear the
strange announcement. ITO meet the
dog Minos." The following story Of
this remarkable creature is often told
by the Queen, according to an English
contemporary: Upon one occasion,
when bidden to carry Q handkerchief
to the most beautiful lady in the room,
the mischievous fellow sprang up to
Queen Victoria and laid it at her feet.
The latter laughed merrily. hicked the
dog in the face with her own hand
kerchief and bade him do his duty
honestly. Thereupon the dog picked
up his handkerchief and. in great
humility, approached Queen Alexan-
dra. then the Princess Of Wales. lay
down. and placed the handkerchief be-
fore her.-Leslie's Weekly.
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WHY HE COULDN'T COME.
Valet Gave Good Reason, But a Poor
ExcuSe.

EXCUSE.
E. H. Hartman whose controversy
with George Gould. in the Northern
Pacifc-Great Northern plan has been
much discussed OF late. had some
years ago valet named Banks.
Banks was in a hundred ways an
oddity. He took snuff. he wore wig.
he sported thumb ring. and in the
depths Of winter protected himself
with neither gloves nor overcoat.
Mr.. Hartman says that one morn
ing when he awoke he found that
Banks had neglected to call him. and
that neither his shaving water nor
his bath had been prepared. Accord.
ingly he shouted:
Banks! Banks!"
Yes, SIR" Banks shouted back.
Banks, where are you?"
I'm up in my room in bed. sir"
Why. what do you mean by lying
abed this hour in the morning? Come
here at once!" Mr.. Hartman stormed.
Il can't do it. SIR" Banks cried
Justify.
Why can't you do it,"
Il can't do 1t, sir. I'm drunk, SIR
Albany Argus.
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Of adventures ended. For one brief
glorious season the nomad and the
home dweller shook hands In amity
not pars.ng to consider wherein their
interests might differ. For both, this
was the West, the free. unbounded,
illimitable. exhaustless West-Homer-
ic, Titanic, scornful of metes and
bounds, having no scale Of little
things. The horizon Of life was wide.
There was no time for small exact.
ness. A newspaper, SO called. cost a
quarter of q dollar. The postmaster
gave no change when one bought a
postage stamp. A shave Was worth 4
quarter of 4 dollar. or 4 half. or a
dollar, as that might be. The price
Of = single drink was never estab-
lished. since that was something never
called for. By day and by night,
ceaseless. crude, barbaric. there went
on q continuous carousal. which would
have been joyless backed by . vitalit:
less superb, an experience hess young
Money and life-these two things we
guard most sacredly in the older
societies, the first most jealousy, the
latter with q lesser caro-.
The transient population Of Ellis
vile. the cattle sellers and cattle buy
ers and land seekers, outnumbered
three to one the resident or perma-
nent population. which catered TO this
floating trade. and which supplied its
commercial or professional wants.
'of the real Ellisville that was
:. The social compact was still
: embryo. Life was very simple. 1t
was the day OF the individual, the
day before the law.
With this rude setting there wss =,
be enacted a rapid drama Of nataris'
progress such as the world haS r var
elsewhere seen; but first there must
be played the wild prologue Of the
West, never at any time to have
more lurid scene than here at the
Halfway House of continent. at the
intersection Of the grand transconti.
mental trails. the bloody angle of the
plains. Eight men in a day, score
in a week, met death by violence
The street in the cemetery doubled
before that Of the town. There were
more graves than houses. This su-
perbly wasteful day, how could it
presage that which was to come? In
this riotous army of invasion. who
could have foreseen the population
which was to follow, adventurous yet
tenacious. resolved first upon inde-
pendence, and next upon knowledge.
and then upon the fruits of knowl-
edge? Nay. perhaps. after all, the
prescience of this coming time lay
over Eilisville the Red, so that 1t
roared the more tempestuously on
through its brief, braZen day.
ITO be continued)
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Gar Arrested-For a Minute.

Motorists will be amused to hear Of
an adventure which befell the czar
when he was staying at Darmstadt
short time ago. The czar was driving
in a motor car with Prince and Prin-
cess Henry Of Prussia and the Grand
Duke OF Hesse, and, when passing
through Bockenheim, suburb of
Frankfort, the car slipped on the
greasy cobble-stones and came in con-
tact with the wall of house. Happily
no harm was done. but the car had
hardly been backed into the road again
when a policeman stopped it and de-
manded the name of the owner. The
czar replied Il am the Emperor of
Russia" and the policeman was SO
taken aback that he let the car go on
without taking any further steps. The
czarina was much amused at the in
cident, and it is said that she has
made the momentary arrest OF the
czar the subject of one of her carica.
tures.-London Sketch.
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How She Trained Him.

A man wanted to register a piece of
mail matter and as he showed it un-
der the window at postofice he told
one of Uncle Sans young ladies what
he was there for. She told him to get
it weighed and get his postage stamps
at the next window.
He got it weighed at the next win
dow. hut forgot his stamps. He
pushed the bundle under the regis
tered mail window and 1t was pushed
back again with the postage stamp
command repeated. He travelled again
and got the stamps and stuck them
on and showed the bundle under the
window the third time.
The young lady examined it care
fully, then informed him that the
sender's name must be on the upper
left hand corner. where he had writ
ten the house number and town only.
Back came the package and he
wrote his name and for the fourth
time showed the package under. the
window and it was received.
And they both kept good natured.
He agreeably learned something. She
agreeably taught him. He paid I'm
Gle Sam eleven cents. Uncle Sam
took the package four hundred miles
and promised pay for it II It did not
get delivered all right. Economic &C
curacy!
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was not customary for gentlemen to
tell ladies when they met for the first
time that it was like strain of for
gotten music'-not the first time"
Music never forgotten, them" said
Franklin impetuously. This is at
least not the first time we have met"
In any ordinary duel Of small talk this
had not been so bad an attack. yet
now the results were something which
neither could have foreseen. To the
mind of the girl the words were shock
ing, rude, brutal. They brought up
again the whole scene of the battle
field. She shuddered. and upon her
face there fell the shadow of an ha-
bitual sadness.
you have spoken of this before,
Captain Franklin" said she, "and if
what you say Is true, and il indeed
you did see me-there-at that place
Il can see no significance in that, ex-
cept the lesson that the world is
very small one. have no recollec-
ton of meeting you. But, Captain
Franklin, had we ever really met, and
II you really cared to bring up some
pleasant thought about the meeting.
you surely would never recall the fact
that you met me upon that day"
Franklin felt his heart stop. He
looked aside, his face paling as the
even tones went on:
That was the day Of all my life
the saddest, the most terrible. have
been trying ever since then to forget
it. dare not think of it. 1t was
the day when-when my life ended
when l lost everything, everything on
earth I had. Because of Louisburg-
why, this-Ellisville! This is the re-
suit of that day! And you refer to it
with eagerness."
Poor Franklin groaned at this. Il
know-I could have known" he blum
dered-"I should not be SO rude as to
suppose that-ah. it was only you
that remembered! The war is past
and gone The world. as you say is
very small. 1t was only that was
glad"
"Ah, SIR" said Mary Ellen. and her
voice now held a plaintiveness which
was the stronger from the droop Of
the tenderly curving lips-"ah. sir.
but you must remember! To lose your
relatives, even in a war for right and
principle-and the South was right"
(this with a fash of the eye late pen
siye)-'.that is hard enough. But for
me It was not one thing or another:
1t was the sum OF thousand mis-
fortunes wonder that l am alive.
It is no wonder that those of US left
alive went away. anywhere, as far as
We could, that we gave up our coun-
tf,-that we came even here!"
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Franklin was fully conscious of the
leave-taking. Buford saw nothing out
of the way, but turned and held out
his hand. "6y the way, Captain
Franklin" said he, I'm mighty glad
to meet you. sir-mighty glad. We
shall want you to come down and see
us often. 1t isn't very far-only about
twenty-five miles south. They call our
place the Halfway Ranch, and It's not
bad name, for it's only about half
way as good place as you and l have
always heen used to; but it's ours,
and you will be welcome there. We
shall depend on seeing you now and
then"
Il trust we shall be friends" mum
bled Franklin.
"Friends?" said Buford cheerily, the
smiling wrinkles of his own thin
face signifying his sincerity; why,
man, here is place where one needs
friends, and where he can have
friends. There is time enough and
room enough, and-well. you'll come,
won't you?" And Franklin, dazed and
missing all the light which had recent.
ly made glad the earth, was vaguely
conscious that he had promised to
visit the home Of the girl who had
certainly given him no invitation to
come further into her life, but for
whose word of welcome he knew that
ne should always long.
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A Musical Mistake,

A professor of music wrote the
name of the town for the name of the
person addressed and when the un.
delivered communication was adver.
tised reader recognized the mistake
ana notified the person to whom the
professor wrote. When we think
faster than our hand can make the
words the hand becomes treacherous,
and jumps to catch up and mixes the
thought. The reader who caught the
error knew about such errors being
made and by means of the given
name guessed right on the person who
should have received it. The United
States government has some experts
who can guess some great intentions
Of error-makinS correspondents
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Wall Of pespondeney.

In a ft of dependency Michigan
editor gets of the following, although
there is no way Of telling whether it
is original with him: I'VE live in a
land of high mountains and high
taxes; low valleys and low wages; big
crooked rivers and big crooked states
men: big lakes: big strikes; big
pumpkin heads; silver streams that
gambol in the mountains and pious
politicians that gamble in the night !;
fast young men and faster girls; sharp
financiers and sharp-toed shoes; fer
tile plains that lie like a sheet of
water and thousands Of newspapers
that lie like thunder"
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Th ank God for the
elderly men who are
able to whistle and run.

An old man whistling always makes
me more hopeful.
And when an old man can win a
foot race there is natural rejoicing
among the spectators.
A few minutes ago l saw a man o.
elderly appearance come into a sta.
tion in a hurry but when he found
station in greater rush and ran to
another car line.
The way he ran caught my eye. He
made race track time and you would
have thought him made of rubber he
went so easily. He had the graceful
ness CT youth in his muscles.
He had bundle of long strips Of
wood. A belt was around his over
coat at the waist. His cap was over
his ears and he was business"
Last year I secured the picture of
a man about hundred years of age
who enjoyed life and had a system
of daily exercises which would be use
full to you and to me to follow. for
got my kitchen chair exercise this
morning.
Occasionally do hear elderly men
whistling and more might whistle IL
they would stop their worrying and
believe In better methods.
An elderly man, though l suppose
he would not want me to call him
-;derly, won a foot race at a picnic
and seemed none the worse for it,
You would not think him able to run
rod to look at him but he has been
athletic all his life
This is being written in a street
car which is cold enough to make ice
cream but l want to add a few words
to tell you what a man told me this
week.
He lives over a mile from his rail.
road station and he makes the trip
on foot six days week. When he
first moved to his present home he
formed the habit of running from the
station to the house each evening.
Then he uniformed the habit by neg
lect. but now he is reforming the
habit. 1t is taking time for him to
do it. He is older and he has to run
a part of the way daily but he is
gaining each day.
II you try any exercise go slow and
watch results. 1t is like some medi-
cines in that it does not agree with
everybody equally as we'll.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Another Hour.

Another Hour.
But II seems as though I had al
ways known you" said Franklin. turn
ing again toward the tall figure at the
window. There was no reply to this
neither was there wavering in the at
titude Of the head whose glossy back
was turned to him at that moment
1T was like some forgotten strain
OF music!" he blundered on, feeling
now hopeless. how distinctly absurd
was all his speech. Il surely must
always have known you, somewhere"
Mary Ellen still gazed out OF the
window. In her mind there was a
scene strangely different from this
which she beheld. She recalled the
green forests and the yellow farms Of
Louisburg. the droning bees, the
that sodden. stricken field. With a
shudder there came over her a swift
resentment at meeting here, near at
hand, one who had had q share in
that scene of desolation.
She turned toward him slowly at
length, and SO far from seeming se-
rious. her features bore the traces Of
smile. do you know" said she.
II think ! heard Of stage-driver-
wasn't It somewhere out west-who
was taking schoolteacher from the
railroad to the schoolhouse-and he
well. he said things, you know. Now.
he had never seen the schoolteacher
before"
Yes, l have heard of that story"
said Franklin. Il don't just recollect
all sbout it."
ut seems to me that the stage
driver said something-er, like-may-
be he said 1t was like forgotten mu.
sic to him."
Franklin colored. THE story was
an absurdity. like many others about
the west" he said. But" he bright.
ened, "the stage-driver had never
seen the schoolteacher before"
Il don't quite understand" said
Mary Ellen coldly. In my country it
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Dumas Love for His Porthos.

Like Balzac, Dumas was fond Of his
own creations. Among them all he
loved Porthos best. The great, strong,
vain hero was child after his own
heart. One afternoon. it is related, his
son found Dumas careworn, wretched,
overwhelmed.
What has happened to you! Are
you sick?" asked Dumas fils.
No" replied Dumas pere.
We'll, what is it, then?'
Il am miserable
"Why?"
This morning l killed Porthos.
Poor Porthos! Oh, what trouble |
have had to make up my mind to do
it. But there must be an end to all
things. Yet when l saw him sink
beneath the ruins, crying 1T is too
heavy for me- l swear to you that |
cried"
And he wiped away tear with the
sleeve Of his dressing gown.
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FOR TECHNICAL SKILL.

Then the Branches.
II personal ability is the roots OF
the tree, technical skill is the
branches and what are the uses OF
roots without the branches?
A Source Of Judgment.
While acquiring technical skill you
grow good judgment faster than in
any other way.
Many Times.
Technical skill makes a machine
which does more with common ability
than great ability can do without the
machine.
Improved Life by Skill.
Has technical skill done more to i'm
prove and prolong life than personal
ability has done for technical skill?
Helps Us Prepare.
The best help in preparing for sue
cess is to have the companionship OF
technical skill. Association with the
skillful is q source of ability.
Also Driftwood.
Ability without skill is driftwood
and 1t is the biggest sticks OF all.
Ability must have some skill OF some
kind in order to do anything.
What Some Employers Say.
When they want help and advertise
for it they are able to find plenty Of
people with semi-technical skill. but
to find anyone out of work who is
thoroughly skillful is very uncom-
mon. They do not have time to re-
teach the poorly taught. Young peo-
pie should be rightly taught during
the first instruction.
The Picture by Skill.
You can buy a school slate and q
twenty -five-cent silver coin for a half
dollar. but l saw a painting Of
slate and coin on it for which you
would have to pay ten dollars to own.
In this case the skill meant twenty
times the actual value OF the real
article.
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Blood Of the Filipinos.

Ethnologists Of the Smithsonian In
stftution have Investigated the Philip.
pines, with results that are Of rare
interest to science. They have called
attention to the fact that In the veins
Of the tribes Of the archipelago nows
the blood of all the races and var!e-
ties Of mankind.
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Blindman Buff.

The hands of the children have blinded
his eyes.
They turn him and spin him about;
For moment he stands: then a plunge
with his hands.
A scamper. a laugh. and shout;
And it's who will he catch?" rs II
Nellie 'or Jack?"
With everyone holding his breath:
Then an end to our fun. for the kerchief
slips down.
And We see that the Blindman is Death.
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IL Personal Ability More Important
than Technical Skill?
FOR PERSONAL ABILITY.
The Root. Of the Tree.

The Roots Of the Tree.
You might say that personal ability
Is the man himself-the source OF
everything done.
Judgment Must Lead.
Rules and systems fail often to pre-
vent errors of judgment.
Ability Must Exist.
No mechanical device can make hui
man intelligence and watchfulness un-
necessary in connection with it.
Life Before Skill.
The experts say that the personnel
OF the navy is more valuable than the
type of ship used.
Source Of Success.
There is no permanent success with
out a preparation and personal abil-
ity is the preparation for technical
skill.
Simply Driftweod.
Is 1t easier for ability to acquire
skill than for skill to acquire ability?
Skill without ability is only driftwood.
Ability Has Forethousht.
An adult without technical skill Of
some kind lacks forethought, which
is a msin element Of ability. So that
ability will possess technical skill.
He Broke the Globe.
An expressman who had skill to
handle a trunk. lacked ability. in the
form Of forethought, to see the
porch light globe and the trunk
smashed 1t. He had plenty OF skill
to carry the trunk around the light,
but he lacked ability to direct that
skill.
Ability Backs You Up.
A little man had skill enough to hit
big man on the head with an UNI
brella, but he did not have ability to
back up his skill and in the end he
got the worst of it, Ability would
have caused him to wait and manage
in a way to have the big man kick
himself.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-06-04
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F. l.. Simpson came in from Orc
grande Sunday on business, and brought
in some fine ore for the Elk City Board
Of Trade mineral exhibit. The ore was
taken from the Stratton and Indepen-
}ence claims owned by Simpson and
Dyer, and are situated near the Dia-
mond Hitch
A fine, new line of up to date station
cry at the P. o. newsstand.
Frank Steckner brought in some fine
ore from his claims for the Board of
Trade exhibit. The consignment was
pack it in on his back. The ore is from
the Big Elk, Big Hump and Seldom
seen groups.
NOTICEI Those having horses in
my care will please call and settle for
same on or before April Is. H. D.
Brundige.
s. G. fainter, owner eff the Reliance
group, is a contributor to the mineral
exhibit of some very good looking ore
from that group.
n me line OF COlleI soaps DIT DdShSIC
Drug Store.
Dick Greckwell is working his pro-
perty on American River and reports
rood results.
Buy your perfumery at Baskets
Drug Store.
VIM. Struve and Joe Odsen returned
Il.
week.
Lem Curry and brother arrived in
camp today from Meyers Falls, Wash.
Mr. Curry holds valuable property on
Calena Creek with George Evans and
I'd. Roach. He reports a lively and
ever growing interest in the north to-
ward Elk City district. s353r
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First class attention given to horses
Hay and grain. Teams of all kinds.
Call on Clark & Stillwell, Clearwater,
Idaho.
Send your orders to the Elk Store for
Oranges, Lemons and Bananas.
E. M. Aldrich and w, c. Brewer
came in on Sundays stage. Mr.. Brewer
returned to Spokane Tuesday, Mr. AL
drich remaining day or two longer to
look over the camp.
DO NOT OVERLOOK THIS. FOR
quality, fair prices, fair treatment,
quick service and immediate attention,
send your orders to O'Bannon & Clark,
Clearwater, Idaho.
Joe Eakin arrived in camp Sunday
from his ranch on Salmon River on his
way outside on business.
Born Friday, June Bird, to the wife of
j. A. Whitaker, a ten pound girl;
mother and daughter are doing WELL
ATTENTION To any one desiring
freight to be delivered from the rail
road or outside points, would do well to
trust their wants in this line to Clark &
Stillwel, Clearwater, Idaho, who have
several freight teams and do a general
freighting business between the rail
road and Elk City points.
The ladies of Elk City gave fare
well dance to Mrs. Craig, the retiring
teacher who will leave shortly to join
her husband at Cottonwood, where they
own fine ranch. Mrs. Craig has been
the poplar and efficient teacher of Elk
City schools for the past two years.
The people generally join in wishing
Mrs. Craig Godspeed and a prosperous
future in her new field of labor.
Gilbert Hull, William Buster and bro
Their left the fore part of the week for
Gibbonsville on horse creek, via Spo-
kane and Missoula, thence up the Bit
ter Root River and across the range.
w. G. Litchfeld has taken position
as ranger on the Bitter Root forest re-
serve for the season.
George " Harrington brought in a
fine bunch of beef cattle this week.