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looked up the sky to see if there were
miracles a-coming, for nothing less was
Ching to be much use. Then the Naco peo-
pie came whirling down on the right, and
the black arroyo lay broad across their
hopes, so they swung north to look for
crossing and were thrown right out of the
hunt.
Presently soon my youngsters had another
big stroke of luck, because the Bisley crowd
missed aim, and had to swing in behind
with the men from Grave City.
Jim,' says Curly, has they closed in
YETI"
Our wind is covering all three outfits
now
Then came yell from behind, for in the
dawn the hunters had caught sight of their
meat.
Now close ahead doomed something white
like a ghost, and Jim let out a screech as
1t reared up against him sudden. AS he
SHE'D wide and spurred, he saw the ghost
some better-a limewashed monument, the
boundary mark of old Mexico.
"Saved!' he yelled. They can't follow
beyond the Line"
They cayn't, but they will says Curly;
fire the grass
Jim grabbed a hair from the buckskin's
name, took matches from his wallet and
bound them into a torch, struck a light
to the tip and held it in his paws against
the roaring wind Then he made shift to
swing himself down till the long grass
brushed his fingers. He dropped his torch
beside CROSSWORD bush and cantered on
with Curly knee to knee. That flicker in
the long grass grew to a blazing star,
spread with the flaws of the wind swayed
its small tongues to lick new clumps and
pass the word to others just beyond The
bush blazed up with roar as only grease
wood can, and flung its burning sticks upon
the storm. so that the fire spread swift
a man could run over acres of greasewood.
To the east was mesquite bush which burns
like gum-cotton in a gale of wind. But
now9the draught of the fire had made that
gale a scarlet hurricane with the stride OF
running horse, which flushed the flying
cloud wrack overhead, and made red day
along the mountain TANKS.
l reckon that If I'd happened with that
outfit of hunters, l should have known
enough to bear east and circle round the
blaze without loss of time; but the leader
saw the burning mesquite grove and tried
to swing west of trouble. There the arroyo
barred them, and before they won to the
other horn of the fire their horses had gone
loco refusing to face the heat Anyways,
they stampeded with their riders. and 1
reckon those warriors never stopped to look
back until they had thrown themselves
safe beyond the railroad. If they had come
out for a manhunt, they got that liberal
and profuse beyond their widest dreams.
TO be continued tomorrow.
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THE LATE COMMODORE MccANN.
Long and Creditable Career in the
Naval Service.

Commodore William P. Mccain. L. S. N,
retired who died at New Rochelle N. j.,
yesterday morning, was born May A. $780,
in Kentucky, and was appointed a midship-
man in the navy from November l, 1913;
served on board the Raritan, Columbia at
the Naval Academy and on board the
Vixen. He was warranted past midship
man from June 49, 1854, afterward serving
on board the Vixen and Independence. He
was promoted to master from September
Is, 1855, and to lieutenant on September 10,
1855, afterward serving on board the re-
ceiving ship at Baltimore; was ordered to
the Sabine on August II, 1881; ordered to
the Maratanza on February g. 1862, and
was promoted to lieutenant commander
from August s. 1862
command the Hunchback; on September 20,
nebec at New Orleans, was ordered to COM
mand the Tahoma on February g. 1865; to
the Naval Academy on November II. 1866;
to commend the Tailapoosa on February p,
1886; to duty at the naval rendezvous,
Philadelphia, January ], 1867, and was pro-
noted to commander from December 8,
1857.
On January "a. 1868, he was ordered de-
tao he'd from the naval rendezvous, Philadel-
phia. and on August 81 1858, was ordered
to the navy yard. Philadelphia. He was
ordered to duty as lighthouse inspector of
the eighth district on September 10, 1870.
and after detachment from that duty was.
on September 2, 1871, ordered to command
the Nipsic. On January Q, 1878. was or.
dered 70 duty - equipment odlcer - the
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Mau-Hunt.

1 reckon that civilized folks are trained to
run IN rut, to live by rule to do what's
expected. If they're chased they'll run, IL
they're caught they surrender. That's the
proper thing to do.
Our pIainsman, he's a much resourceful
animal; he never runs in the rut and he
always does exactly what's not expected
Here were Jim and Curly surrounded by
five men all hot for war Breach could
shoot good, but his horse was a plumb IDIOT
when 1t came to firing. He was scared he
would miss Jim and get the counter jumper
who -pranced around behind Of the rest
one was railroad man, and useless at
that, one was a carpenter and one was
barber-all of them bad shots. Still, they
knew that their prisoners could neither
fight nor run.
The prisoners did both most sudden and
heaps surprising. While Jim's mustache
was dropping Curly's first bullet got
Broach's horse in the eve, sending him
backward over on top of the man, Jim
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navy yard, Norfolk, Va, serving until de-
tached under orders dated September 3,
1873 and ordered to duty as inspector OF
the eleventh lighthouse district. He was
promoted to captain from September 81,
1876.
On February 6. 1877, after detachment
from duty as inspector of the eleventh light
house district, he ordered to command
the Lackawanna. On March 20, 1879, was
ordered to command the receiving ship In
dependence. On June 10, 1881, wfs ordered
detached from the Independence and to COM
mand the Pensacola. He was ordered TO
duty as member of the lighthouse board
on December 3, 1888, and was promoted to
commodore on January &C. 1887. On April
Is, 1887, he was ordered detached and to
duty in command of the navy yard, Boston.
On January %, 1890, was appointed an
acting rear admiral, ordered 10 hoist nag
OIL board the Pensacola and assume COM
mand of the South Atlantic station. was
detached from this command on August 10.
1891 On August II 1891. was ordered to
duty as president of the naval examining
and retiring board. On May =, 1892, was
ordered detached from duty and placed on
the retired list from May 4, 1892. During
the Standardization war he served as
prize commissioner for the district of south
ern New York under orders dated July 30.
1898
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CURLY
A TALE OF THE ARIZONA DESERT.
BY ROGER POCOCK,
OF Fontr
Copyrght by Brown
LIE OF THE ARIZONA DESERT.
BY ROGER POCOCK
Author OF "a Frontiersman." etc.
Copyright. 1905, by Little. Brown & co.,

men are coming down from Bisley They're
closing in on three sides, and we can't es-
cape"
Curly said nothing.
Say, Curly, you're not hurtT'
Mosquito bite said Curly; look ahere.
Jim. If anything goes wrong, you'll find
the captain at La Soledad tomorrow"
What captain?'
MY father. 1 made him swear he'd
wait. How's yo' buckskin?"
'Flagging."
She'll live through, all right Don't you
talk any mo-"
You're losing hopper"
There's allus hope" said Curly, but
them stars seem nearer to we-all."
They were riding through crossword
bushes and long grass, while here and
there stood scattered trees of mesquite.
That made bed going for horses, but. when
they swung aside for better ground, they
nearly Numbered into arroyo.
Only the dawn gray saved my boys from
breaking both their neckS in that deep
gap, but now they had got to lose the shelf
ering darkness, their horses were mighty
near finished. and three big outfits of rid
ers were closing down all round tf en- jim
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OR IEA M
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Presidential Nominations Confirmed.

The Senate in executive session yesterday
confirmed the following nominations:
Thatcher T. Hallet, Massa chusetts, col
lector of customs, district of Barnstable,
Mass; James NJ Lawrence, receiver of pub
lie moneys at Roseburg, Ore; Luther D.
McGahan. register of land Office at MInot.
n. D.: Charles F. Gallenkamp, surveyor of
customs, port of st. Louis, Mo-; Abram NJ
Tillman, attorney, middle district of Ten
nessee; Luman F. Parker, jr.. judge of the
United States court, northern district of
Indian Territory; Charles H. Filson. secre-
tary of Oklahoma, and number of post
masters.
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The Dunlop Milling company's plant at
CIarksville, Tenn, was damaged by fire
Yesterday to the extent of S250,00o.
insurance, S175 600 A warehouse contain
ing 1900 bushels of wheat and $500 bar
rels of flour was destroyed.
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The city of Chicago and the Chicago CITY
Railway Company, which operates ain Of
the street railways on the south side of
the city, have reached deadlock on the
terms upon which the franchises of the
company are to be renewed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

he Is breaking rock. can tell the
 old offender no matter whether he mas ever been In my court before.
 But there are many ood-hearted, hon.
 est men when they are sober who lose
 their heads when they are drunk. They
 nave an appetite for drink which they
 seem unable to control They meet their friends in barrooms and the first thing they know they are drunk ana Tn trouble They are arrested and sent to my court, charged with dis-
 turbanee of the peace or some other trivial offence. It would do such men more harm than good to put the stain of the workhouse upon them. What they need is good strong nor. al stimulant. T. produce the pledge and give them a. chance to work out their own reformation. Then I back up that pledge with the law created ny 7o0.O0O people The chances are that the man who knows the eye of the court is upon him wherever he goes will stay at home evenings inc stead or lounging around saloons.
 Here is case in point. A delicate women endured the abuseN of her drunken husband as long as she could. He was poor teamster, earning s9 a week. He was the father of three children. ranging in age from three to eight years. Regularly every Sat- urday night he went home drunk. hav- ing spent the greater part ot his wages for liquor.
 He mistraated his wife. His chil- dren were so afraid of him that they hid under the bed when they heard him coming. The furniture in his It, tie home was mortgaged His wife and children were in tatters. Finally in her desperati n the wife had the husband arrested, and he was brought into my court for disturbing her peace. The thin little woman appeared in court, carrying her youngest child in her arms Tears streamed down her cheeks as she. told me of the Indigni- 1 ties she had borne. She asked me to 1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

taken under these conditions is great Temperance workers say that more than 50 per cent of the pledges taken voIuntarily are broken.
 Speed Mosby, Governor Folk sk pardon attorney, gives tho following cxplana- : ton of the administrators system of extending clemency to convicts:
 Whenever we find that convict owes bis trouble to whiskcy and the Governor pardons him. he issues tho pardon upon the condition that tho man shall in the future abstain from intoxicants. If he does iTnbibe agastl, under thu conditions of his pardon he Will be brought back to the peniten- tlary The same Is true of gamblers When a mans trouble is due to gam bling. the Governor never par dons him except upon the con dition that if he ever gambles against he shall be brought back to the penitentiary. Folk is the first Cover nor who ever did ttlis Wherever it ap- pears that the convictf has got into trouble because of any bad habits. or for any cause that might In the future lead to crime again. the Governor all ways put it in the pardon that if he ever falls into that line Of conduct again he win have to come back to prison"
 Governor Folks experiments have not had time to be thoroughly tested So far, no one who is enjoying his liberty under the terms of the condj- tional pardon has violated it. But Judge Pollard. during the more than
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
FREEDOM BOUGHT WITH A I TEMPERANCE BADGE UNIQUE EXPERIMENTS A GOVERNMENT MINIMIZE DRUNKENNESS

s ~. than to send him to prison. It is bet ter for the city. better for society. bet ter for the individual. and a thousand times better for his family to say to the drinking man The court will forgive you for your past conduct, but you must pledge yourself to behave in the future Virtually the man Is enioined from getting drunk.
 Tn giving defendant an opportu- : nity to sign the pledge always im- pose q suitable fine for his offense. let him off on his promise of good behavior. with tho distinct understand. ing that If he drinks again he will have to go to the woI khouse The man who knows he is going to he sent to the rock pile for getting drunk VIII Keep out of the reach os tempta- ton. have learned by observation that after they have kept sober fot a month they have very little trouble It is during the first month after giv- ing them the pledge that I have to Keep sharp lookout over them. They must report to me regularly every week either at the court or my home. If a man is working and cannot get away without losing time l give him the privilege of reporting to me at night at nay home. If he is q mar ried man I require him to bring his wife with him.
 '1t is useIesS waste of lime to give the old toper d chance to reform. He has become q confirmed drunkard and know that he Is better off when
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

Helen' .'ho used to be my nelgh0or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

our friendships. I think I ought to put the emphasis of this talk just here. for nothing is more harmful to girls than exclusive friendship, in which two of them are so absorbed in each other that they have no room for another thought in the world.
 have seen Amy Se devoted to Phyilis that she was wretched when Phyllis went away to school, actually pining and being Ill as if she could take no more interest in life. This kind of friendship acts very badly on all concerned. The girl who cllngs as the vine clings to the tree is a para site. She chokes out the wholesome life of the one to whom she clings, and she gets no good herself,
 Whatever you do, dear girls, [ beg of you to avoid Friendships that use up your vitality, make you negiieent of duty end prevent you from making the best of ..te as you go on. A girl may have for a favorite teacher a sort Of adoratioE that Is morbid and fool- ish, or she may in secret cherish a sort of devotion to somebody she hard ly knows, living dream life that t,n- fits her for either work orS play. In. friendship. dear girl. cultivate a sense of proportion
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
SCHOOLGIRLS AND FALSE VALUES
The Girl Who Was Too Fasus About Her cohesSystem an Ex celent Servant But Tyrannical Maser-0 0verdong in the Matter of Telling the Truth Setting Too High Value
 on Manners-FoOliSh Notions about Friendship

so worshipped truth-telling that 1t was
 dinicult to carry on an ordinary con-
 versation, If she were in the company.
 She utterly refused to be accurate or
 dehnite about anything lest by chance
 she, should say what was not literally
 true You could never bring her to a positive statement. She always shedged with 1T think" "T fancy" or Tt is my
 impression. And more times than I l can tell you. she came back after a call
 to correct what she feared might have
 been too highly eolored. Having no
 imagination herself. she could not make
 allowances for it in her friends. The
 worst of the matter was that HeIen's
 truth-telling laid a burden not on her
 self alone but on the rest of us, If
 anyone related an incident in her hear
 ing and varied tho telling In some
 trihtng detail, Helen was on the alert
 to set the narrator right and rectffy
 the mistake. It was maddenIng to have her rush in when you mentioned that you had gone to town on Friday at noon, with the correction, Tt was ii o'clock. auntie. dear not I2, when you took the train" We must tell the truth. girls, according to the highest standards of ethics, and we must never deliberately stain our souls with false- hoods, but a mRrtfnet like Helen mis- takes the huslS for the kernel and is Hhtiy Jo Oe persona no Bfata In SOcf- ety to the end of her days
 Equally unfortunate is Marcia. who Is so resolved on saying nothing un- kind about anybody that she at times preserves a silence which can be easily misunderstood. and which is much more hurtful to her 'neighbors than an occasional criticism would be. Our are diverse. Some of us are impulsive. emotional and inipetu- ous. Some of us speak before we think; some of us have looked so long at one good things fin life and conduct, that we can see nothing else. Good man ners and decorum. savior faire and the graceful carriage that comes from with high bred people are very charming. Yet 1t is possible to 1 Set too high a value on these and to | overlook real worth in some one who | Is shy and awkward and who has not | had the advantage of much social | raining Robert Burns has the true ring in his famous lyric, familiar to every reader of the English tongue.
 n he rank Is but the guinea's stamp, The mans the gold for a that"
 We need sense of proportion in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
NEW YORK TRANSPORTATION.
The Whole Life of the Metropolis VII
 he RNvOIufsonfwaa

i l be Revolutionised.
 New York. Jan. 2T.--(Special.)--
 Changes of revolutionary slgnincance
 are being made in the conditions of life
 in New York. Skyscrapers are filling
 the narrow confines of Manhattan Is-
 land--slEy- -scraper offices. sky-scraper Y apartment houses, sky-scraper colleges,
 sky-scraper churches--soon / the city will be a vast workshop with an over-
 whelming demand for numberless trains to take the human workers to | their homes in the suburbs in light.
 ning-like time
 Tn handle the local trafiic from points ! near the city, transportation lines are
 constantly multiplying their facilities by additional trackage, new stations, and under-river tunnels.
 The New York Central's huge new station is rendered necessary mainly
 by the crowding thousands who must
 be brought to and carried away from
 the city morning and evening. The
 Pennsylvania's station the foundation
 for which now looks like the swath of whirl-wind through the densely built up section of the west side will provide for only .tithe of the army that invades the New York shorc from Jersey every morning only to- swarm back again at night.
 When transportation plans now un- der way are carried out, a map of Man. hattan Island will look like a centipede, from every side of which will stream. the lines indicating tunnels, ferries and bridges. to Jersey, to Brooklyn, to Long island City. and additional lines of rails to the northward, spreading fan-like from the Hudson to the Connecticut line aud beyond
 The steam railways, rapidly as they increase their facilities, cannot keep up Nx ....a-. FH-s fla. shown the opportunity for the high speed electric railway. From the ter minus of the Subway at 177th street, a new road. the New York, Worcester and Boston, Is being built to consist of four tracks over private right of way, and with no grade crossings.
 This line will mark an epoch in Su- | burban transportation It will be of as | perfect construction as modern engin- eering can make 1t. Penetrating the heart of beautiful westchester county, the road will run to Portchester on the New York Connecticut boundary line and to White Plains. on the foot hills of the Berkshires The line is being built for electric express traffic, at mile minute; locals will run as fast as forty-flve miles an hour, The whole inc and branches cover only thirty six miles, but its roadbed and equip nent are the same or better than the team railroads maintain. With such -oads as this the city can he emptied # it's out-of-town workers comrort- ,bly and quickly. The old-style, one ar trolley In suburban traffic Is giving vav to the high-speed electric train f the city of the future is to be only l, workshop. the new Westchester road hows how the workers will get to and rom their labors, This is the type of ailway that will solve the problem of ver- population in cities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
PIeaaant Faes. nr, wo .r,.....,,

A pretty ltttle story is told in Berlin Of the crown princess.
 Her royal highness in reading the morning paper happened to notice tho advertisement of a certain shop for a nice looking young lady Of good figure to act as a model in the tfressmakine- department. It was, she thought ex actly the post for a certain protege of hers, and accordingly she soon after ward applied for the post in person.
 She entered the shop unattended and requested to see the propriator.
 T came" she said to that gentleman,
 because saw your advertisement, and I thought"-- ~
 The proprietor laid, his hand on her shoulder and said kindly: My dear girl. I'm sorry. but fgs no good You hhvenst the figure for the place. But you have a pleasant face, so I'll tell you what I'll do. Come again in a months time. and then I'll see if can find you place as junior Saleswoman."
 The consternatlon of the good man in discovering his visitors identity was only equal by the tact and Kindness of the princess, who. before she took her departure, made him forget his discom- future in admiration of her charming manner and evident aHiiability.