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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
lCogvrtgbt by a. c. uccIurs & Co., 1919
SYNOPSIS.

George Williston, a poor ranchman,
Hi=h-,ninded and cultured, searches for
s" on a wooded spot in the rivers bed
that would have been an island had the
Missouri been at high water. he dis
covers a band of horse thieves engaged
In working over brands cattle. He
crocpS near enough to note the chang
ing of the Three Bars" brand on one
{ord, the rich owner of the Three
Bars" is informed of the operations of
the, gang, of cattle thicyes--a band of
outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who
long have dehed the law and authori-
ties of kemah county. South Dakota.
I:angford is struck with the beauty of
little girl" Louise Dale. an expert
court stenoerapher. who had followed
her uncle, Judge Hammond Dale, from
the east to the 'Dakotahs" and who
IS living with him at Wind city is
requested by the county attorney.
Richard Gordon, to come TO I[emah and
hearing of Jesse Black. Jim Munson, in
waiting at the train for Louise, looks
at aat,, herd of cattle being shipped by
Mag" a well known "onery" steer be
longing TO his employer OF the Three
Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start
James r. McAllister's court for the
preliminary hearing Jesse Black springs
the first of many great surprises, waving
examination. Though Jake Sanderson,
member of tive outlaw gang. he had
learned that the steer Mag" had been re-
covered and thus saw the useleSsness of
fighting against bong bound over County
Attorney Gordon accompanies Louise
Dale on her return to Wind City. While
IWillston stands in the light in his, door
Rt night shot is fired at him. The house
Is attacked and a battle cnsues between
'WillStOn and his daughter, on one side,
and the outlaws on the other. The house
SIS set on fire. AS an outlaw raises his rifle
TO shoot WilliStou shot from an un-
known source pierces his arms and the
yihe falls to the ground. Aid has come to
'WilSton. 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 WilliStOn's house,
hurried to the Three Bars ranch and sum
moncd Langford and his brave men to the
rescue. II was Langford who fired the shot
which saved Williston's life Langford
rescucs Mary from her Captor. The party
search in vain for WilistOn Louise comes
to nurse Mary. WillistOn is given up for
dead. But meager evidence is obtainable
against Jesse Black ana 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 10 be tried. Gordon has hard work
in securing an unpreiudiCed jury. Red
lSandcTSOn takes a seat in the hotel dim
Ing hall beside Louise and addresses her.
He is unceremoniOusly showed aside by
Gordon. Sanderson draws his gun The
trial begins.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
CHAPTER xv.-continued.

The hearing of testimony for the
state went on ali through that day. 1t
was late when the state rested it's
.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
witncsses-with the possible excep-
1iOn of Munson, who would argue with
the angel Gabriel at the last day and
offer to give him lessons in trumpet
Dlowing-had been imbued with the
earnest, honest, straightforward policy
of the states counsel. Gordon's friends
were hopeful. Langford was jubiant,
and he believed in the tolerable in
tcgrity 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- true
it was that when court adjourned late
in the afternoon, many who had jeered
at him as a visionary or an unwel-
come mcddler 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-
siye, 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.
Well Dick" said Langford, com
ing up CHEEKY and confident.
VOL, Paul, it's all in"
And we'll in, old man"
'I--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, | feel
like 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. u saw him
ride into the country"
When the party separated for the
night, Gordon had not yet returned.
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Tennvson and the Socialist.

Tennyson figuring as a champion Of
the imperied rights of property is
thus quoted in William Allingham's
lately published Diary" Il was once
in a 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
shilling?' | said to him, If your father
had left you hundred pounds you
would not give it away to somebody
else He had not G. word to answer.
| knew he hadn't" s.. g.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
"Why. Lena, Old Girl, We've Been
Taking Our Time"

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 wCmen-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 * 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,
howers-but these came too late for
most Of the women.
If it had been Langford, now, who
was guilty of so ridiculous a senti-
mentalism-the bold, impetuous,
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 it was made to sound. He
felt more like himself-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. Manlike, now that he
was himself again. he must know the
time. He struck match.
why, Lena, old girl, we've been
taking our time haven't we? They
are likely through supper, but maybe
| can wheedle Il doughnut out of the
cook.
The match burned out Not until
he had tossed it away did it come to
him that they were no longer on the
main trial
"Now, that's funny, old girl" he
scolded What made you be so un-
reasonable? Well, we started with
our noses westward, so you must
have wandered into the old Lazy S
branch trail. Though, to be sure. it
has been such deuce of a while since
we travelled it that | wonder at you,
What's the matter now, silly?"
His mare had SHE'D. He turned her
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
COFFIN WAS A BACK NUMBER.
SO Pennsylvania Man Sold 1t and VIII
Purchase Another.

Isaac Coffman of Hatton, Pa, has
sold a coffin he made many years ago.
He sold it not because he felt he would
have no use for it, but because his
wife insisted that it was out of date.
Mr.. 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 it, ''Many's the time | have
sat beside a CHEEKY blaze of chestnut
logs and heard them cracile and burn
merrily 1t makes such a homelike
blaze that l picked it in preference to
other woods. 1t 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 l
kept it in the garret. But my wife
tells me that styles have changed and
since | have accumulated a little for
tune she will not permit me to die un-
less | consent to get an up-to-date
casket To avoid trouble | agreed to
sell the old one. But at the same
time ! think that the coffin which was
good enough for me in my poorer
days should satisfy me now, and I
shall always feel out of place in the
new-fangled affair"
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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
darkness. How sitting the air was.
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 lie-a black lie. She would not
laugh-not Louise. She was not of
that sort. Rather would she grieve
over the inevitable sadness of it. If
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 wishing wishing-if 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 a hard
country on women, a hard, treeless,
sun-seared, unkindly country Men
could stand it-fght 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
undoing 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
weaknesses thus laid bare, the bad
must for a while prevail-bad Is so
much noiser than good. But this big
new country with its infinite possibili
ties-giye it time-it would form men
out of raw material and make over
men mistakenly made when that was
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
Bees in Block of Stone.

While workmen were saving through
block of Bath stone at Exeter, Eng.
land, they cut into cavity in which
was found cluster of two or three
dozen live bees.
The incident occurred at the worRs
of Messrs. Collard & Sons, monu.
mental sculptors. There was not much
sign of life in the bees at first, but
when air was admitted they gradually
revived and after a few hours several
of them were able to fly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
CHAPTER XVI.
Gordon Rides Into the Country.

Gordon Rides into the Country.
Gordon rode aimlessly out of the lit
tie town with it's twinkling lights.
He did not care where he went or
what direction he pursued. He wanted
to ride off a strange, eneryating dejec-
tion that had laid hold of him the
moment his last testimony had gone
in. 1t all seemed so pitifully made
without Williston-now that it
was all in. Why had he undertaken
1t? 1t could only go for another de-
feat counted against him. Though
what was one defeat more or less
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
cLEARFIELD.-The body of Clarl

cLEARFIsLD.-The body of Clark
Chase, son of Postmaster Chase of
this city, was found in the barrens,
seven miles from Clearfield. Chase
left here recently for days trout
fishing. He became lost and persisted
in a snowstorm which swept over this
section of the country for two days
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
PITTSBURS -

PITTSBURG. Almost without
warning death came TO James Wilson
Lee, attorney, Independent oil pro-
ducer and former leader of indepen-
dent Republicans in Pennsylvania and
in the state senate. Death was due to
heart failure.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
GROVE CIT,

GROVE CITY. A settlement be-
tween the coal miners and operators
of the Mercer and Butler coal fields
has been reached. The miners will
resume work under the old scale,
pending a settlement for the coming
year by meeting of the miners dele
gates and operators.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
PHILADELPHIA.-The state

PHILADELPHIA.-The state su-
preme court, in affirming Philadel-
phia court, holds that neither the
mayor of Philadelphia nor the direc-
tor of public safety can discharge a
municipal employe who obtained the
position through a civil service exam
ination, without giving a reason for
their action.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

TANNING.-Held up by three
highwaymen, pounded and cut with
sandbags and knuckles, robbed of his
money and watch and then thrown
over a 30-foot embankment, where he
was a target for stones as he lay help
less, Lynn Saylor, a puddler, was left
for dead by his assailants. His con-
dition is serious.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
GREENSBURG.-T

ENSBURG.-The decision of
Commissioner of Fisheries James w.
Meehan that trout shrink after being
out of water and that the law requires
only that they be full six inches when
taken from the stream will result in
several cases here being threshed out
again.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

HARRlSBURG.-The reports to the
state banking department by 327 trust
companies 1870 state banks and 13
savings institutions, under date of De
cember 16, show that deposits aggre.
gated $632, ,359, against $666,143,-
524 year before.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
Compensation.

Mrs. Baker-My husband costs me
good deal of money.
Mrs. Barker-Yes, and he isn't very
good to you, either
Mrs. Baker, know it, but got q
dandy lot Of wedding presents with
him
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
BUTLER.-Joseph Sykes of Butle

BUTLER.-Joseph Sykes of Butler
township, arrested for refusing to pay
taxes, protested to Justice Jacob Keck
that he understood this is a free
country where nobody pays taxes and
nobody has to pray" Justice Keck
told Sykes everybody but the rich pay
taxes and prayer is optional with the
individual. Sykes paid.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
HAL FTON -Jobn

HAZLETON.-John Mccarthy, one
of the best known newspaper men in
the state, died suddenly from paraly-
sis of the heart at his home at Wealth
erly, II miles from here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

This woman says that sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound as she did.
Mrs. A. Gregory, of 1855 Lawrence
St, Denver, Col, writes to Mrs.
Pinkham:
Il was practically an invalid for six
years, on account of female troubles.
underwent an operation by the
doctors advice, but in few months /
was worse than before. A friend ad-
vised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as 1 have not enjoyed in
many years. Any woman suffering as
did with backache, bearing.down
pains, and periodic pains, should not fail
to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
COMPOUND"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

RUTLER.-Charged with assaulting
Frank Ross of Lyndora, driver of a
bakery wagon, stealing 80 loaves of
bread and $50, demolishing the wagon
and seriously injuring Ross, % Ital-
ians, employed on the Pittsburg, Har-
mony, Butler & New Castle trolley
line, were captured near Petersville
and lodged in Jail.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
HARRIsBuRG.-As q resu

HARRISBURG.-As a result of the
raid made by agents of the state dairy
and food division together with fed
eral authorities on the illegal sellers
of oleo in Schuylkill county the traf-
fic has been almost entirely broken
up.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

HARRlSBURG.-The state of Penn
sylyania will raise 100000 Seeding
trees on its nurseries this summer
and all of the young trees will be
set out in the forest reserves of the
commonwealth and given care.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
CONNELLSVILLE. :

CONNELLSVILLE. = Fire of un-
known origin destroyed a vaudeville
theater owned by Samuel Hartman,
and damaged the stores of b. Kerner,
J. Levy and the Chicago Dairy Co, all
frame structures in North Pittsburg
street.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

HARRISBURG. - Auditor General
Robert X. Young refused to pay the
Wayne county commissioners the
amount they claimed for the printing
of the ballots for the recent spring
primaries and the authorities will
have to be content with a much less
sum than they attempted to charge
the state.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
SOM RSET.

SOMERSET. - Shocking treatment
of inmates of the Somerset county
home is alleged in charges resulting
in the arrest of Poor Directors Will
lam Brant and John Reiman.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
Chocolate Pie Is HAaIthfuI.

Chocolate is healthful and nutritious and
chocolate pies are becoming very popular.
They are easy to make if you use OUR
PIE" Chocolate flavor. Directions on pack
age. Contains all ingredients ready for in
put up by D-Zerta Co, Rochester, NY"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

TANNlNG.-The largest single
months shipment in the history of the
Ford City plant of the Pittsburg Plate
Glass Co. was made during April,
when 1,700,706 feet of plate glass was
disposed of. Over 100000 was dis
tributed at the semi-monthly pay.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

WASHlNGTON.- - John Millikin, a
Civil war veteran of Jefferson, Greene
county, has been presented with the
old battle flag of his company in the
Eightyffth Pennsylvania infantry, or
ganized at Zollarsville in 1861.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
GREEN RU RG.

GREENSBURG. - Mine Inspector
Chauncey b. Ross of Greensburg an
nounced that out of a class of % appli-
cants for mine foremen in his district
five passed satisfactorily, and out of
45 candidates for fire bosses but six
were successful.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

GREENSBURG. - The Stahl glass
works, destroyed by fire last Decem
ber, have been rebuilt and will be
ready for operation Yery soon, employ.
ing $50 men and boys.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

HARRISBURG.-A small hatchery
has been established by the state au-
thorities at Beaver Meadow, near
Wilkesbarre. 1t will be used to stock
streams in the vicinity.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
BROWNSVILLE.

BROWNSVILLE. - W lille com
mencement exercises for pupils grad
uating from its rooms were being held
in a theater the brick schoolhouse at
Bridgeport, suburb of Brownsville,
was destroyed by fire.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

REENSBURG.-The Saxman Store
Co. of Bradenville was awarded $500
damages against the II. s. Kerbaugh
Co. for an explosion of dynamite three
years ago, which wrecked buildings at
Bradenville.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
READING

READING. All employees of the
Reading railway road department
have been ordered on ten hours per
day. They had been on nine hours
all winter. This affects at least 1000
men on the different divisions.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
PHILADELPHIA

PHIlADELPHIA.- One man was
probably fatally injured and a large
building destroyed by an explosion of
powder in the plant of the LeXow
Flashlight Powder Co. at Grassland,
Pa, near here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

BUTLER.-In a wreck of a west
bound freight train on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad a mile west of Evans
City two men were perhaps fatally
injured, The track spread and II
coal cars plunged over an embank-
ment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
CAUSE FOR HIS HURRY.

"Ah, | love to see a little 10y in
such a hurry to get to school,"
Yes, sir. Me little brothers got de
measles, an I'm hurrying up to get
excused"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

JEANNETTE. - Owing to the in
creased demand for bottles, the last
Glass Co.'S works was put in opera
ton, affecting $50 men.
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SVIIIE

TTSVlLLS.-By the explosion of
a charge of dynamite in the gangway
of the Draper colliery, Andrew Cav
alage was killed and three foreign la
borers We're so badly injured that
they are not expected to recover.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21

GREENVILLE.-Awakening to find
q burglar going through the clothes
in his room, DR.. NJ. A. Bailey fired
two shots at the intruder as he leaped
through a window. Later trail of
blood was found leading to the Lake
Shore railroad
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
HARRISBURG. A

HARRISBURG. A telegram re-
ceived here from Pottsville stated
that John j. Lenderman, head of the
Dundee Creamery Co. of Pittsburg
and n. e. Jurns, his agent, were
fined 500 and costs on each of 13
indictments for illegal sale of oleo in
Schuylkill county.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
LATROBE

ATROBE.-Morris, the 3-year-old
son of Andrew Peters of Bradenyille,
was fatally scalded by falling into a
boiler of hot water
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-21
WAsHINGToN-William Cameron

WASTING ON-Wllllam cameron,
accused of stealing a horse, escaped
from officers at Hookstown, jumping
out of a window in the office of JUS
tice James Reed while the justice and
others We're examining the warrant.