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SYNOPSIS.

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der pIainsmar, IL looking for roaming war
parties OF savages. He sees . wagon team
at full gallop pursued by men on ponies
When Keith reaches the wagon the raid
ers have massacred two men and-de-
parted. He searches the victims nnding
papers and locket with woman's por-
trait. Keith y arrested at Carson CITY.
charged with the murder, his accuser be-
Ing q ruff1an named Black Bart. A negro
companion IN his cell named Neb tells him
that he knew the Ksiths in Yirgtnia. Neb
says one Of the murdered men was John
eibley, the other Gen. Willis Waite, former
ly Confederate officer. The plainaman
and Neb escape. and later the fugitivet
fOl!e upon a cabin ana tino Its occ.r-.
70 be- young girl, whom Keith thinks
he saw at Carson City. The girl explains
that she Is In search Of a brother, who
had deserted from the army. and that q
Mr. Hawley induced her to come to the
cabin while he sought her brother. Haw-
ley appears. and Keith In hiding recog-
nizes him az Black Bart There Is ter
rife battle In the darkened room In Wnich
Keith is victor Horses are appropriated.
and the girl who says that her name Is
Hope, joins in the escape. Keith explains
his situation and the fuRitives make ior
Fort Larned. where thejgirl is LEFT with
the hotel landlady. Miss Hope tells that
she is the daughter Of General ware.
Keith and Neb drift into Sheridan. where
Keith meets an old friend. DR.. Fairbain.
under the assumed name of Fred VIII
loughby. and becomes convinced that
Black Bart has some plot involving the
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"Oh. no; Fred and were the only
children; but what shall do? What
ought to do?" l2s
The Irish mouth of Kate Murphy
set firmly. her blue eyes burning.
It's not sthrong OF am on advisin'."
she said, shortly, but If 1t was me
Ord be fer foindin' out what all this
mix-up was about. There's somethin
moighty quare in it. It's my notion
that Hawley's got hold av thin papers
av yer fathers. The ovid gint thinks
so, too, an that's why he's SO hot
afther catchin him. May the divil
admoire me av OF know where this
Maclaire gyurl comes in. but Oi'll bet
the back divil has get her marked
fer some part In the play. What
would OF do? Be goory. Ord go to
Sheridan, an foind the Gineral. an
till him all | knew. Maybe he could
piece 1t together. and guess what
Hawley was up ter"
Hope was already upon her feet.
her puzzled face Frightening.
"Oh. that is what wanted TO do.
but was not sure 1t would be best.
How can get there from here?"
"Ye'd have ter take the stage back
to Topeky; loikely they'd be runnin
thrains out from there on the new
road. It'll be aisy fer me ter foind
out from some av the lads down be-
low"
The only equipment operating into
Sheridan was a construction train.
with an old battered passenger coach
coupled to the rear. A squad OF
heavily armed infantry rode along, as
protection against possible Indian
raiders. but there was no crowd
aboard on this special trip. as all
construction work had been suspended
on the line indefinitely. and most OF
the travel, therefore, had changed to
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CHAPTER xIx.-tcontlnued.)

The dead silence which ensued was
broken only by heavy breathing. Then
Scott swore. bringing his fist down
with a crash on the washstand
That rather stumps yer. don't IT..
Bart? Well. 1t don't me. tell yer
it's just as said from the first. 1t
was Keith an that niger what
jumped ye in the cabin. They was
hidin' there when we rode in. He
just nat'rly pumped the gal. an now
he's up here trailin' you. Blame 1t all.
1t makes me laugh"
II don't see what you see to laugh
play with. let me tell you. He may
have got on to our game.
"Oh. hell. Bart. don't lose your
nerve. He can't do anything. because
we've got the under holt. He's fugi-
tive; all we got to do is locate him.
an have him flung back inter jail
there's murder an hoss-stealing agin
him.
Hawley seemed to be thinking
swiftly, while his companion took an
other drink
wen. para, am tndt 50
mo, that trick won't work. Scott.
We could do 1t easily enough II we
were down in Carson, where the boys
would help us out The trouble up
here Is that Wild Bill Hickock is
Marshal OF Sheridan. and he and
never did hitch Besides, Keith was
one of his deputies down at Dodge two
yo,r. ,uo-vou ramouhor uhop INIT nh
Charlie's place was cleaned out? Well,
Hickock and Keith did that job all
alone. and Wild Bill isn't going back
on that kind of pal, is he? tell
you we've got to fight this affair
alone, and on the quiet. Maybe the
fellow don't know much yet, but he's
sure on the trail. or else he wouldn't
have been in here talking to WillouEh-
by. We've got to. get him. Scott. some
how. Lord. man. there's a clean mil
lion dollars waiting for us in this deal.
damned sleepy. and I'm going to bed
You locate Keith tomorrow, and then
when you're sober. we'll figure out
how we can get to him best; I've got
TO set Christie right Goodnight
Bill
He went out into the hall and
down the creaking stairs. the man he
wanted SO badly listening to his de
scending footsteps. half tempted to
follow Scott did not move. perhaps
had already fallen drunkenly asleep
on his chair, and finally Keith crossed
his own room and lay down. The din
outside continued unabated, but the
mans intense weariness overcame II
all, and he fell asleep, his last con
scious thought memory OF Hope
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cAApTgR Xxx.
Hope eoe. to Sheridan.

Hope Goes to Sheridan.
The discovery OF the locket which had
fallen from about Keith's neck made 1t
impossible for Hope to remain quietly
for long in the hotel at Fort Larned.
The more carefully she thought over
the story o. that murder at the Cim-
maron Crossing. and Keith's tale OF
how he had discovered and buried the
mutilated bodies. the more assured
she became that that was where this
locket came from. and that the slain
freighter must have been her own IA
ther. She never once questioned the
truth OF Keith's report; there was that
about the man which would not per
NIT Of her doubling him. He had
simply failed to mention what he re-
moved from the bodies. supposing this
would be of no special interest.
Mrs. Murphy. hoping thus to quiet
the apprehensions OF her charge, set
herself diligently at work to discover
the facts. As her house was nlled
with transients. including occasional
visitors from Carson City, and was
also lounging headquarters for many
Of the ofacsrs from the nearby fort.
lie experienced NO diniculty In pick
ing mp all the floating rumors. Out OF
tA1se, With Irish shrewdness. she soon
managed to patch together consist
mt fabric Of fact.
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Was In Real Trouble.

A passenger who escaped uninjured
from serious railway smash, seeing
a fellow-traveler searching anxiously
among the wreckage with lantern,
offered to assist in the search. and,
thinking the old man had lost his
wife, asked in sympathetic tones:
''What part Of the train was she in?''
Raising his lantern and glaring at the
kindly disposed passenger. the. old
man shouted with indignant distinct.
ness that triumphed over physical In
trinity: She, sir! she! am look
ing for my teeth"
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BABY's ECZEMA AND BolLs

"My son was about three weeks old
when noticed breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also. and in a few days became solid
scab. / became alarmed, and called
our family physician who at once pro-
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tie fellow was under treatment for
about three months. By the end Of
that time, he seemed no better. be-
came discouraged. dropped the doc
tors treatment, and commenced the
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
and in a few days noticed marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter When he was about seven months
old, all trace of the eczema was gone.
During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out in
boils which / cured with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been great sufferer. During
the time of teething and from the time
I dropped the Doctors treatment, I
used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment. nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti-
full, and his head mass of silky curls.
had been afraid that he would never
be well, and feel that / owe great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies"
(Signed) Mrs. Mary w. Ramsey, 224
E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs, Col.
Sept. "a, 1910 Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere. sam
pie of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti,
cura," Dept. L, Boston.
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Any Port in a storm.

In a New England seaport town,
there is wealthy but illiterate man..
who owns many vessels, and follows
their course over the seas by the aid
Of large atlas and q ten-horse-
power magnifying glass.
1--WE just had letter." he said to.
a neighbor, from one of my captains,
and he tells me he's been in fearful
storm. I'll read you from his letter
what puzzles me. He says:
"sThe waves rose like mountains.
We were driven before the wind. to.
the very great danger Of our lives, and
put into great jeopardy
"What I want to know" said the
ship owner. sis. where ls Great Jeop-
ardy. It's somewhere in the Mediter-
ranean. but 1 can't find it on the map
anywhere"
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Declined to swap an old vest for ,
Worn-out Farm Full Of
Diamonds.

In this day of great fortunes 1t 10
not unusual to read in the daily news
columns Of great fortunes being lost
and won in day. and the following
anecdote is quoted to illustrate how
one man cast aside an opportunity to
become many times a millionaire
Years ago a man named Saitzmann
owned an estate in 0riqualand. and
adjoining his property was an old
worn down farm that had not been
worked on account OF its poor soil and
the lack of necessary water. The
owner of this .arm met Herr Salts
mann one day and offered to trade the
farm for an old waistcoat he had seen
him wearing.
Az saltsmann did not wish to bur.
den himself with piece Of worthless
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"Shure. honey. It's not SO bad the
way they tell 1t now" she explained,
consolingly. Nobody behaves now It
was yer father that got kilt. 1t was
two fellers what stole his outfit.
clothes an all, an was drivin off wild
'em inter the sand hills. Divil wan
does know who kilt 'em, but there's
some ugly stories trayelin about,
Some says Injuns; some says the
posse run 'em down an Black Bart
an his dirthy outfit. they swear 1t was
Keith Owe got me own notion; An
nyhow. there's bout three hundred
dollars. some mules. an lot O. val
yble papers missin'."
now?"
That's what 'Oive been trytn' ter
foind out First of he went out to the
Cimmaron Crossing. guarded by
squad O. cavalry from the fort here
Tommy Game wint along. an told
me all about 1t. They dug up the
bodies. but niver thing did they find
on 'em-not paper, nor dollar.
They'd bin robbed all roight The
ovid Gineral swore loike wild mon
all the way back. Tommy said. an
the first thing he did at Carson City
was to start huntin' fer Black Bart
He was two days gittin' on the trail
av him; then he heard the feller was
gone away trapsing after singin or
dancin' gyurl called Christie Maclaire.
She was supposed to be ayther at
Topeky or Sheridan. A freighter told
| the ovid man she was at Sheridan. an
SO he started there overland. hopin
| ter head of Black Bart OF reckon
we could towld morn that"
What do you meap?'
why shure, honey, what's the use
tryin' ter decave me? Didn't Jack
Keith, wild his own lips, tell me ye
was Christie Maclaire?'
But I'm not! I'm not. Mrs. Muir
ply. don't even know the woman,
1t is such strange thing; cannot
account for it-both those men mis-
took me for her. and-and l let them.
| | didn't care who the man Hawley sup
posed me to be, but Intended to have
told Mr.. Keith he was mistaken.
don't know why | didn't, only ! sup
| posed he finally understood But
want you to believe. Mrs. Murphy
I am Hope Waite. and not Christie
Maclaire."
ITS little the loss to ye not ter be
her, an Oi'm thinkin' loikely JACK
Keith will be moighty we'll plased ter
know tho truth. What's 'Plack Bart
SO ayger ter git hold av this Maclaire
gyurl ferf'
81 do not iP the least know. He
must have induced mo to go to that
place in the desert believing me to be
tho other woman. Yet he said moth
ling of any purpose; indeed, he found
no opportunity"
Mrs. Murphy shook her head dis
paragingly.
ut was ahure some divilment," she
asserted. stoutly. He'll be up te
some trick wid the poor gyurl; o.
know the loikes av him. Shure. the
two nv yer must look as much aloikl
a. two payes in a pod. Loikely now
it's a twin sister ye've got,
| Hope smiled. although her eye
were misty,
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Apply to the Cashier.

A timid knock. a gruff "Come in!"
and the tear-stained, new office hoy
stood before the manager.
"P-p1ease, sir" he blubbered.
The manager looked Up sharply.
"P-please, sir!" he blubbered again.
well, WE'LL" asked the manager.
"what is it?"
"P-please. sir, upset p-packet of
envelopes" said the office boy. dab
bing his streaming eyes with his coat
sleeve, "and the c-cashier k-kicked
met"
Good gracious, my lad!" snapped
the manager irritably. You don't:
expect me to attend personally to ev-
cry detail Of business, do you?"
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A MusIcat Prodigy,

In 1S41 arrived 10 London dussian
boy. called Antoine Rubinstein. not
twelve years old. whose performances
on the plano had excited wonder
and delight among the musical anna
teurs He was equally skilled In the
ancient as well ~ modern style OF
playing and gave with wonderful ef-
feet the most dimcult pt ssages OF Bach
or Thaiburg All this. too. was done
with the utmost apparent ease. and
in the most difncult passages ne ire
quently induiged himself In grotesqus
limitations OF the peculiar trtckeries OF
the composer upon whose music ne
was engaged.-Ths Russian Boy.
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An Early Frohman.

First Medieval Manager-How's
your latest miracle play?
Second Ditto-Fine. Thought 1t
would be failure, though, till we hit
on something that's got the women
coming in droves.
F. M. M-How SO?
Second Ditto-We lost the baby that
we used in the Solomon-and-the-Tw
Mothers baby scene. and have been
using lap-dog ever since. Puck.
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Plenty of Such Men.


what kind of life insurance policy
is yours?"
"Twenty-year plan"
How long have you been paying
premiums on it?"
Fifteen years"
"Then at the end Of twenty years
do you get your money back or merely
paid up policy?"
''Why-er-Tve never really read it
through yet, and I'm not sure about
that. You know how a fellow puts off
such things, and-er-"
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NoMEsEEKERs ExcUR $40 NJ
RATES TO TEXAS AND NEW
MEXICO POINTS DUR.
INC d0fA

On the first and third Tuesdays OF
each month during the entire yea.
The Colorado and Southern Rail-
way will sell round trip homeseekers'
excursion tickets to great many
points In New Mexico and Texas at
greatly reduced rates. Final limit
rs days allowing liberal stop-over
privileges. For detailed information.
rates, ETC., call on your nearest Colo.
RADIO and Southern agent or address T.
e. Fisher. General Passenger Agent,
Denver. Colo.
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Some Peroratin'.

In making peroration before en-
raptured hearers speaker said:
1--WE must not be content but mist
advance. We must go on and on. We
MI st reach higher heights, broader
breadths and deeper depths"
A village evangelist was improvis-
ing in prayer and presently stumbled
into a pitfall.
ooh. Lord" he prayed, Make the
intemperate temperate; make. the un-
holy holy; make the industrious dus-
trious.''
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SO weak, l had to take
to my bed. Kidney
secretions were sup
pressed, l became ter
ribly bloated, and final
ly reached the point
where / took no inter-
est in life. 1t was then
l began using Doan's
Kidney Pills and soon
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Some Vocabulary.

"Did you learn any French while
you were in Paris?" asked Bildad,
meeting Slithers shortly after his re-
turn from Europe.
"Oh, little" said Slithers; mot
80 very much. though. l got so
could say cigarette in French"
"Good!" said Bildad. What 10 cs
garette in French?"
Cigarette" said Slithers.
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Kind Parent,

Dad" said young Jack Shiftless to
Old Bill the other night, II want to go
to the show tonight" "a show at night
is no place for kid like you," said
Bill. You should be at home in bed"
But peddled bills and have two
tickets" said Jack, as he began to
sniffle. "All right, then" answered
Old Bill, 81 will go with you to see
that you don't get into trouble"
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wan.s to See II.

Il done heard it read in de paper.
said Uncle Rasberrv. dat some o
deshere flying machine gemmen says
a man kin do anything bird KIN. :
That's what they say
well. when any CT EN- sees hui
man sit fas' asleep holdin' onto tree
branch wifi his feet. l sho' wishes dey'd
call me to have look"
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Work. Both Ways.

"Mr Wombat, I must leave you to
get married l know a great many
girls leave the firm to get married
Still, l hope you can fill my place."
"That will be all right. We have a
waiting list of ladies who left us to
get married, are now tired OF their
husbands and would like to come
back"
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improved. Before long was without
a sign Of the trouble that seemed to
be carrying me to my grave"
when Your Back Is Lame, Remem-
berthe eName-DOAN'S." 50c, alls.ores.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
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A Lucky Slip.

joel hear dat Tom SmiH dOne
got cut wild razor.
Sam-Yes, he were gittin' shaved
and he were tryin' to get his hands
In de BARRIERS pocket and de razor
slipped.
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Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con.
stipation. Constipation is the cause Of
many diseases. Cure the cause and you
cure the disease. Easy to take.
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Casting Aside a Fortune

land he kindly refused the offer A
few years later big clear diamonds
were found on this waste stretch. and
now millions Of dollars could not pur.
chase it.
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Poor Qollie.

"Oh, dear!" sighed little Mabel
'Tm having an awful time with my
dollie."
"How's that?" queried her mother.
She's so cross l can't do tnihg
with her" answered Mabel Il guess
she must be Matching her teeth
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II It is safe to trust God in any
thing 1t is safe to trust him in every
thing.
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Makes the hundress happy-that's Rex
Cross Bag Blue. Makes beautiful, cIsal
white clothes. All good grocers.
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If every man had all the money he
wanted, the devil would get US all.
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important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children. and see that it
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TIRED, SICK AND DISCOURAGED.

Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Health
and Cheerfulness.
Mrs. ]. P. Pemberton, S54 Lafayette
st.. Marshall. Mo-. says: For years
suffered with Bright's disease which
doctors said was incurable. l grew
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Hls eeartl

His Bearing.
"Is he a man of military bearing?"
well, he likes to soldier
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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
CIothino of Mineral Wool.

Now Thomas A. Edison is telling
us that one day we shall find cloth
ing dirt cheap" for the reason that
the sources of mineral wool are in
exhaustible and processes are under
way by which it will be robbed of its
"scratchiness," be spun, woven, dyed.
and withal turned out into the nat
test kind of garments.
Mr.. Edison might have said that it
will be Stag" cheap. Mineral wool,
or as it has been called mineral cot
ton, is produced by turning jet of
steam through liquid Stag from a fur
mace. Under the influence Of the
steam the hot Stag is blown into fine
white threads Until Mr.. Edison
mentioned it's coming adaptability for
clothing mineral wool has been val
liable as a non-conductor of heat, and
as such has been used as a covering
for boilers and steam and hot water
pipes.
Which suggests that mineral all
wool overcoat may be all right in a
hard winter, while an undersh1rt oil
even mineral cotton might be uncom
fortably warm in August-Chicaga
Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
BURGLAR Befriended Him.

A burglar was arrested for robbing
a house up the state some time since,
and the next morning the victim rush
ed wildly into the magistrates office.
AS soon as he could get his breath to
working again he told the official that
he had come to see about the pris-
oner.
Glad you came down." was the af-
fable response of the magistrate, II
suppose you want to appear against
him"
We'll. guess mott" exclaimed the
victim with a glad smile. IL want to
kiss him on the brow and give him
$40 Among other things that he stole
from the house was package Of love
letters that l wrote to my wife before
we were married"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-07-14
LOCATED HIM RIGHT AWAY
Possibly Display of Bill of Generous
Denomination May Have Had
Some Effect.

A southerner who was visiting St.
Louis wandered into the dining room
OF the hotel and, seeing a negro serv-
ant who had all the importance of an
army officer standing near the door,
asked him who the head niger" was
around there. The negro stretched
himself to his full height and POM
pously replied that there amt no mig
gers in st. Louis. sab. We is all
gem men of color"
We'll" said the southerner, drawing
a 800 bill from his pocket and finger
ing it, Il expect to be at the hotel for
some time and want to make sure that
| will be taken care Of
"Oh, sah," said the negro, whose
eyes were popping from his head. did
you want to know who the head mig.
ger waiter is? That's me" ALLEN.
town Call