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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
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SYNOPSIS.

George Williston, a poor ranchman,
high-minded and cultured, searches for
g." On a wooded spot in the rivers bed
that would have been an island had the
Missouri been at high water, he dis;
covers band of horse thieves engages
ing of the Three Bars brand on one
steer to the ~. r." brand. Paul Lang
Bars" is informed of the operations Of
the gang, of cattle thieves-a band OF
outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who
ties Of Kemah county, South Dakota
Langford is struck with the beauty of
Mary &c, commonly known as "WillistOn,s
court stenographer, who had followed
her uncle, Judge Hammond Dale. from
the east to the "Dakotahs," and who
Richard Gordon, to come to Kemah and
take testimony in the preliminary
waiting at the train for Louise, looks
at a herd OF cattle being shipped by
Bill Brown and there detects old
Bars ranch. Munson and Louise start
Tor Kemah. Crowds assemble in Justice
James r.. McAllster's court for the
preliminary hearing. Jesse Black springs
the first of many great surprises, waving
examination. Through Jake sanderson. a
MEMBER OF the outlaw gang, ne Hdu
learned that the steer Mag had been re-
covered and thus saw the uselessness of
lighting against being bound over. County
Attorney Gordon accompanies Louise
Dale on her return to Wind City. While
Williston stands in the light in his door
at night shot is fired at him. The house
Is attacked and a battle ensues between
Williston and his daughter, on one side,
and the outlaws on the other. The house
ls set on fire. AS an outlaw raises his rifle
to shoot Williston a shot from an I'M
known source pierces his arms and the
rifle falls to the ground. Aid has come to
Williston, but he and his daughter are
captured and borne away by the outlaws.
Jim Munson late at night heard the shots,
discovered the attack on Willistons house,
hurried to the Three Bars ranch and sum
moned Langford and his brave men to the
rescue. 1t was Langford who fired the shot
which saved Williston's life. Langford
rescues Mary from her captor The party
search in vain for Willstop. Louise comes
to nurse Mary. Williston Is given up for
dead. But meager evidence is obtainable
against Jesse Black, and ii is concluded
that the case must be fought out on the
sole question of Mag" Judge Dale ar
rives to sit at the December session of
the circuit court at which the cattle theft |
case is to be tried Gordon has hard work
In securing an unprecedented jury. Red
Sanderson takes a seat in the hotel din |
Ing hall beside Louise and addresses her |
He is unceremonously showed aside by |
Gordon. Sanderson draws his gun. The |
trial begins.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
The President Writes Letters.

Washington, May 9.-Three men,
bers of the United States senate have
received letters from President Roose-
welt within the last few days declar-
ing his supremacy. as commander in
chief in all matters referring to the
control of the army and navy. Two
letters have created intense feeling in
the senate, and it Is not unlikely that
they will precipitate conference of
Republican members. The letters, in
every case, are in defense of his
course in discharging without honor
the negro soldiers he believed to be
guilty of shooting up the town of
Brownsville, Tex, and his action in
banishing Colonel William F. Stewart
to an abandonment military post in a
desert section of Arizona.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
APPROVED vREELAND BILL
THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE CAUCUS
VOTE WAS 115 TO Fl.
Favored Commercial Paper AS Asset
for Emergency Currency-A Com
mission to Study the Question.

Washington, May s. - AT 1920
o'clock Wednesday night the Repub-
lican caucus of the mouse committed
itself by a vote of ll5 to q 10 the
principle of commercial paper as an
asset upon which 10 issue additional
circulation in time of emergency. This
is in accordance with the Vreeland
bill, but by separate action the reso'
luti1n was so amended as to eliminate
Mr.. Vreeland's name from the bill,
by still another vote the caucus de-
cdcd to recommend the appointment
of Il commission to consider the cur
ren1v question and report bill at the
next session of congress. Coupled with
this provision was another providing
for the immediate appointment of a
co"mittee of five members to draft a
new bill in accordance with the action
of the caucus and along the general
lines of the second Vreeland bill In
accordance with this action the chair
appointed as such committee Messrs.
Vreeland IN. j., Burton co., Weeks
(Mass.), Mckinney Ill) and Know
land (Cal1f.)
Under the terms of the resolution the
committee will be expected to report
a perfected bill to an adjourned con-
ference TO be held next Monday eve
ming.
The following is the text Of the
resolution adopted:
Resolved, That the conference APP
proves recognition of commercial pa
per through clearinghouse associations
as safe and logical asset for emer-
gency currency and also approves the
proposition for a currency commits
sion: and be it further
Resolved, That the chairman appoint
a committee of five to perfect BILL
such committees to report the perfect
ed bill to the conference at an adj
journed meeting to be held within five
days.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15

when there had been so many? 1t
would be nothing new. Was he not
pursuing merely the old beaten trail ?
Why should the thought weigh SO
heavily now? Can man never attain
to that higher-or lower, which is it?
altitude of strifeless, unregretful
hardness? Or was it, he asked him
self in savage contempt of his weak
ness, that, despite all his generous and
iron-clad resolutions, he had secretly,
unconsciously perhaps, cherished a
sweet, shy, little reservation in his in
most heart that maybe-if he won
out
You poor fool he said, aloud, with
bitter harshness.
Suppose he did. A brave speci-
men, he, if he had the shameful ego
ism to ask a girl-a girl like Louise
a gentle, highbred, protected, cherish
ed girl like that--to share this new,
bleak rough life with him. But the
very sweetness of the thought of her
doing it made him gasp there in the
He lifted his hat. 1t was hard to
breathe. 1t was like the still oppres-
siveness preceding an electrical storm.
His mare, unguided, had naturally
chosen the main-traveled trail and
kept it. She followed the mood of her
master and walked 'leisurely along
while the man wrestled with himself.
If he really possessed the hardihood
to ask Louise to do this for him she
would laugh at him. Stay! That was
a liza black lie. She would not
laugh-not Louise. She was not of
that sort. Rather would she grieve
over the inevitable sadness of it. II
she laughed. he could bear it better
he had good, stubborn, self-respecting
blood in him-but she would not laugh.
And all the rest of his long life must
be spent in distinguishing it
could have been! But he would never
ask her to do it. Not even If the i'm
possible came to pass. 1t was hard
country on women, hard, treeless,
unkindly country. Men
could stand flight for its future;
but not women like Louise. 1t made
men as well as unmade them. And |
after all it did not prove to be the |
of men so much as it devel |
oped in them the perhaps hitherto hid
den fact that they were already want
ing. These latent, constitutional
thus laid bare, the bad
must for while prevail-bad is so
much noiser than good. But this big,
new country with its infinite possibili-
ties-give it time-it would form men
out of raw material and make over
men mistakenly made when that was
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
COFFIN WAS A BACK NUMBER.
So Pennsylvania Man Sold II and VIII
Purchase Another.

Isaac Coffman of Hatton, Pa, has
sold coffin he made many years ago.
He sold it not because he felt he would
have no use for 1t, but because his
wife insisted that it was out of date.
MIR. Coffman is nearing his eightieth
birthday. He explained to a friend
that he constructed the coffin 20 years
ago. 1t was built of chestnut because,
as he put 1t. "Many's the time have
sat beside a CHEEKY blaze OF chestnut
logs and heard them crackle and burn
merrily. 1t makes such a homelike
blaze that l picked II in preference to
other woods. II was my desire to
have the coffin as coy as possible,
and rejected the frivolities which so
many persons affect in the matter Of
collins. In order to have It handy
kept 1t in the garnet. But my wife
tells me that styles have changed, and
since 1 have accumulated little for
tune she will not permit me to die I'M
less l consent to get ar up-to-date
casket. To avoid trouble [ agreed to
sell the old one. aBut at the same
time / think that the coffin which was
good enough for me in my poorer
days should satisfy me now, and
shall always feel out of place in the
new-fangled AFFAIR"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
Man
Is
a
Builder
By REV. THOMAS EDWARD BARR.
Milwaukee.

goodwill are its comersones. Do you square to these?
With what building national house? Liberty
and Justice equality brotherhood national
hope
kind of house does religion make for you? chamber
horrors and authority hold
terror? with the mchad heavens guide
an unknown What the landmarks of this estate
Reverence and for all that because God made it, faith the
good in men and hope the ultimate triumph of right
selves world love- for all Gods world here and beyond the
vail of DEATH specially help those who need Does your religion make
il easier for YOU temptation? Does help you be bave
thiv ambitious untirng Does make patient sympathetic help
full? Does bring and spiritual closer
with the appeal supreme controlling lasting worth? This is The
tabernacle down of heaven for each and which each
NAV make tangible himself In this the peace that pah under
standing and joys foreyermore
Four There fe house c. character Thought and
desire purpose experience tent the expression of ourselves
which we can quit and through which look and work upon the
world What poisoned shirt of Nesus mentng Hercules
TO his death? be the creative fogeam of the building of God
the house not hands, eternal the heavens To that
revelation toll and pain are well
worth while. C/Lte1D4~d et4r7O-S HO1Sl
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
CHAPTER xv.-continued.

The hearing of testimony for the
state went on all through that day. 1t
was late when the state rested its
case-so late that the defence would
not be taken up until the following
day. 1t was all in-for veal or for
woe. In some way all of the states
witnesses-with the possible excep-
ton of Munson, who would argue with
the angel Gabriel at the last day and
offer to give him lessons in trumpet
blowing-had been imbued with the
earnest, honest, straightforward policy
of the states counsel. Gordon's friends
were hopeful. Langford was jubilant,
and he believed in the tolerable in.
tegrity of Gordon's hard-won jury.
Gordon's presentation of the case thus
far had made him friends; tickle
friends, maybe, who would turn when
the wind turned-to-morrow-but true
It was that when court adjourned late
in the afternoon, many who had jeered
at him as a visionary or an unwel-
come meddler acknowledged to them
selves that they might have erred in
their judgment.
AS on the previous night, Gordon
was tired. He walked aimlessly to a
window within the bar and leaned
against it, looking at the still, oppres-
sive, cloudy dampness outside, with
the early December darkness coming
on apace. Lights we're already twink
ling in kitchens where house wives
were busy with the evening meal.
We'll, Dick" said Langford, COM
ing I'D CHEEKY and confident.
well, Paul, it's all in"
And we'll in, old man."
T-don't know, Paul. hope so.
That quiet little man from down coun-
try has not been much heard from,
you know. / am afraid, a moral up
lift isn't my stunt. I'm tired! l feel
like a rag"
Langford was called away for a mo-
ment. When he returned, Gordon was
gone. He was not at supper.
HE went away on his horse" ex-
planned Louise, in answer to Lang
ford's unspoken question. Il saw him
ride into the country"
When the party separated for the
night, Gordon had not yet returned.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15

possible, or else show the dividing line
SO clearly that the goats might not
herd with the sheep. Some day, it
would be fit for women-like Louise.
Not now. Much labor and sorrow
must be lived through; there must be
much sacrifice and much refining, and
many must fall and lose in the race
before its big destiny be worked out
and it be fit for women-like Louise.
Down in the southern part of the
state, and belonging to it, a certain
big.barred building sheltered many
women, when the sun of the treeless
prairies and the gazing into the lone
some distances surrounding their
homesteads seeped into their brains
and stayed there so that they knew
not what they did. There were trees
there and fountains and restful blue
grass in season, and flowers, flowers,
fiowers-but these came too late for
most of the women.
II it had been Langford, now, who
was guilty of so ridiculous a senti-
young ranchman-he smiled at him
self whimsically. Then he pulled him
self together. He did not think the
jury could believe the story Jesse
Black would trump up, no matter how
plausible 1t was made to sound. He
felt more like hmself-in better con-
dition to meet those few but stanch
friends OF his from whom he had so
summarily run away-stronger to
meet-Louise. Man-like, now that he
was himself again. he must know the
time. He struck a match.
why, Lena, old girl. we've been
taking our time, haven't we. They
are likely through supper. but maybe
can wheedle a doughnut out Of the
cook"
The match burned out. Not until
he had tossed II away did It come TO
him that they we're no longer on the
main trial.
Now, that's funny, old girl" he
scolded. What made you be so I'M
reasonable? Well, we started with
our noses westward, so You must
have wandered into the old Lazy S
branch trail. Though, to be sure. 1t
has been such a deuce of a while since
we travelled Il that I wonder at you.
What's the matter now. sillyT"
His mare had SHE'D. He turned her
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15

Washington, May. S.-The joint COM
mittee of congress on the library
Thursday adopted a resolution, &C
ceptng on behalf of the government a
marble head of Abraham Lincoln ex-
ecuted by Gutzon Durglum and pre-
scented by Eugene Meyer, Jr., of New
York 1t will be given a conspicuous
place in the capitol.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15

Tennyson figuring as a champion of
the imperiled rights Of property is
thus quoted in William Allingham's
lately published Diary" 81 was once
in q coffee shop in the Westminster
road at four o'clock in the morning.
A man was raging. Why has so-and-so
a hundred pounds and / have not a
shillIngT l said to him, II your father
had left you a hundred pounds you
would not give It away to somebody
else He had not q word to answer.
I knew he hadn't"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
It's Churches Worth $4,000.

Sabetha, Kan, May Sat the an
nual convention of the Congregational
churches of Kansas the reports
showed that the church owns proper
ty in Kansas valued at $4,000. This
is an increase of $290,000 in a year.
In the last year 100000 has been
spent for expenses and $4,000 for
missions.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15

Involuntary architects, we shape ard
rear four houses for ourselves, establish
ing and identifying them or making them
unsafe and unsighty by all we are and do
What are YOU making your family house,
your home, out of? Loyalty, honor, truth,
unselfshness are the four corners of loves
inclosure, the safeguards of its teaching
and inspiring ministry, the anchorage of
the hearts it sends forth for struggle with
the world.
You build house for yourself in So
ciety. Business and social intercourse are
its life. Integrity, industry, justice and
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
No Beer In Soldiers, Home.

Washington, May S.-By the over
whelming vote of 167 to 46 and fol-
loWslg a two-hours debate, the house
of representatives Wednesday again
went on record against the re-estab-
lishment of the canteen in National
Soldiers homes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
TYphoid Follows a Banquet.

Marsballtown, Iowa, May Forty
cases of typhoid fever have appeared
within the past three days at Rockwell
City. All those infected are prominent
people who ate at a mems banquet
served at the Methodist church April
IA. The cause is not known.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
Mixed Schools Unlawful There.

Guthrie, Ok, May THE governor
Tuesday afternoon signed bill max
ing it unlawful for white and persons
of African descent to attend the same
school. The bill is an emergency one
and went into effect Immediately.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
okIaboma's Pure Food Bin.

Guthrie, Ok, May. 9.-The house and
senate Friday passed a very complete
pure food bill with more exacting re-
quirements than the National bill. A
pure food analysis station was estab
llshed at Oklahoma university.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
Fined sribe.Takino Aldermen.

Rockford, H., May 9.-The grand
jury Thursday afternoon returned true.
bills against Aldermen Carly Rey-
nolds and Paulson, who are charged
with having accepted brides. Carly
and Reynolds pleaded guilty and were
fined. the former $4,000 and costs and
the latter $500 and cost.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
CHAPTER XVI.
Gordon Rides Into the Country.

Gordon Rides Into the Country.
Gordon rode aimlessly out of the lit
lie town with its twinkling lights.
He did not care where he went or
what direction he pursued. He wanted
TO ride of a strange, enervating dejec-
tion that had laid hold Of him the
moment his last testimony had gone
IN. IL all seemed so pitifully made
ouate-without Williston-now that II
was all in. Why had he undertaken
II? II could only go for another de
feat counted against him. Though
what was one defeat more or less
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
A CITY Clerk Short sae. 600.

Mobile, Ala. May 9.-Expert &C
countants employed by Mayor p. J.
Lyons Thursday afternoon discovered
a shortage in the books of ex-city
Clerk R. d. Owen to the amount Of
s29, 500.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15

task of repeating old laws which hampeed and constrained
n@X@l the citns-destrucon simple workout the
E%&J task of creating of laws which guide and help
HW1 TO attaining the ends they bent Seventy wears
lHn8H people thought that the great thing When
OI@ they had got they dissatisfied simply
I letting everything and everybody alone their
veal or woe, on indviduast principles they forthwith
work to forbid things which had been tolerated
government all of functions delicate
than those of which they had stripped it,
The demand for profuon of legislation inevitable
Guilty of having good undenabe In what does difficulty consist
In three things First those who demand legislation
understand exactly what the evil they desire the good they
to attain Secondly when they do understand the evil they seldom
what the remedy when they seek the audabe end they seldom
perceive the best Thirdly, the measures
dial and constructive called for large that very
of them those most urgently needed No legislation deal with all
Where being pressed by different persons
ost another and like people crushing another in the
exits of theatcr they slowly than they made pass
along in rcguay order
The task legislation difficult owing the
completely of modern civilization the scale industry
the growth modes production distribution
need be regulated yet regulated interfere with the
play of individual enterprise
Many problems which legislation presents hard
for the ordinary members and the ADLER legislative
bodies because they be mastered without special knowledge ct
be added that in the United States further difficulty arises from
the fact that legal skill often required avoid transgng
provision of the federal or a state constuion)
The conditions make desirable organized
for the gathering and examination of materials for legislation and ep
% for collecting the laws passed other countries subjects of
rent importance
pushing of needed public
interest there should be in Legislature by which
definite person body of become responsible for the conduct of
legislation.
Bills of local personal ought to be separated from bills
of general applicability and dealt with different and quaudcal
way.
Arrangements ought be made for instance by the creation Of
drafting department connected with legislature chief committees
the putting into proper legal form of all bills introduced
Similarly method should be provided for rcctng bills belo
law such drafting have into them dur
ing their passage.
When any bill Of experimental kind has been passed. its workings
should be carefully watched and periodically reported rcspec
both the which actually enforced found enfOcec
and the practical results of the enforcement.
enable both the legislature and the people to learn what
law force actually is and thereby facilitate good cgsa-
tion law ought be periodically revised and far
sble be brought compact consistent and
telgbe shape.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-15
Making
Law
Difficulty of Franz
ing Good
Laws Is Enormous
By HON. JAMES BRYCE.
British Ambassador to United States.

lie difficulty of framing good laws enormous because the
work is in most countries longer the comparatively easy
task of repeating old laws which hampered and constrained
the characterization simple workout the far harder
task of creating set of laws which shall guide and help
TO attaining the ends they bent Seventy wears
people thought that the great thing freedom When
they had got it they dissatisfied and instead Of simply
letting everything and everybody alone to work their own
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-04-07

labor. On the other side are tue cap
,alns Of greed and graft, who have
assumed the privilege Of setting
prices and levying tribute upon pro-
duets that they have not spent a days
labor or Il dime to produce. Every
device that greed could plan to out
wit the cotton farmer has been used
to bear down the price Of cotton, and
the weaker have been forced to take
the cotton bear prices or take to the
woods. In their desperation TO rule
or ruin, the recent made-to-order
panic has caused The mills and other
manufactures to shut down or cut
time at the peril Of bread riots. This
drastic action of the money power of
Gotham is sending out great armies
OF tramps over the country who will,
grow into law breakers. The failure
OF Il government to throttle these
panic breeders, gamblers and de-
stro,ycrs of peace and prosperity of
our common country is recruiting
an army Of law breakers and breed
in" anarchists: and these same people
talk about shooting down with gait
tirn- Guns the very people they have
forced 20 this extreme desperation.