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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1915-01-22
CHAPTER XII.
The Man In the Shadow.


Two hundred feet, il one. Hopi lin
zen from the lip of the cliff Then sud
deniy the thing that had been Hopi
jim olaue was checked in it's headlong
descent by the outstanding trunk of a
tree, over which it remained doubled
up, limp, horrible
Inc miniature landslide that had
been caused by his fall went on
settilng gradually as the slope be-
came less sheer. Only part of it.
double handful of pebbles, gained the
bottom of the canyon
lts muffied impact on the ground
round his feet reused the man who
mad comprised the bandits death from
the pose he had unconsciously as
sumed on the instant of firing.
He stepped back, and snatcbed IN
case containing binoculars
Not before the glasses were adjusted
to his vision did he find time to re-
spond absently to the alarmed and in
slstent inquiries of his two compan-
ions, man of his own age and a girl
of some years less, who had been
Weakened from their sleep by the re-
port of the rifle.
NOW the latter plucked his sleeve
momentarily DETECTING the glasses
from the object which they were fol-
lowing so sedulously as it moved
along the heights; a wildly running
horse with woman bound helpless
upon its back, both sharply in sill.
houette against the burning blue.
"Alanl" the girl demanded what
is it? Why did you fire? Why won't
you answer me? What is it?"
Judith" Alan replied tersely, again
picking up with the glasses the run
away horse that fed so madly along
the pefilous and narrow track of the
hill trail.
The name was echoed from two
threats as Alan swung sharply and
thrust the glasses into the hands of
the girl
Judith" he affirmed with a look of
poignant solicitude. She's roped to
the back of that crazy broncho-heIp-
less! See for yourself; one false step
suppose stone turns beneath its
hoof-shell be killed."
While the girl focused her glasses
upon that speck that flew against the
sky Alan turned to the two horses
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CHAPTER XII.
The Trail of Flying FOOTPRINTS.

| The Trail of Flying Hoof-Prints.
In the still air of that young day the
chill of night fingered stubbornlv-
and would until the shadow of the
eastern rampant had crept slowly
down the canyons western wall, tele-
scoped upon itself and vanished, let
ting in the sun to make the place a
pit of torment and of burning.
REFRESHED from rest and exhilarated
by this grateful GOODNESS. his horse
responded willingly to the first light
touch of Alan's spur. In twinkling
the overnight camp dropped from view
behind the rounded shoulder of a hill
side, mesquite-cloaked
Then from its first spirited flight
the horse settled down to steady 60
ing, heightened its stride, and ran for
leagues with the long, apparently eff
fortress and tireless lope of the plains
bred broncho, ventre-a-terre.
Alans departure from camp had an
ticipated by round quarter-hour the
appearance on the upper trail of
friends of the slain bandit, to the
number of four or five, who had both
discovered and recovered his BODY.
called his death murder and pledged
themselves to its avengement-laying
responsibility for the putative crime
at the door of the man and woman
to be seen in the canyon, Immediately
below the scene of Hopi Jim's fall.
Between the moment when discov-
mo t1,A II \
terrupted their simple and hurried
breakfast and that which found Rose
and Barcus mounted on the back of
their own horse and making the best
of their way down the canyon in pur-
suit of Alan, but little time had
elapsed.
And even with it's double burden
their horse made better time upon
the broad lower level than those who
followed the ridge trail. BY mid morn.
ing, when they approached the foot.
hills that ran down to the desert. the
pursuit was more than a mile in the
rear and shut off to boot by a mono
lithic hill, while Alan was many a
weary mile in advance.
lie sat upon ms morse, Just then. at
standstill upon the summit of a round
ed knoll, the Painted hills lifting nm
behind him, the desert before unfold
ing like map-but like a map all
blurred.
Was Judith out there, somewhere
lost, defenseless, forlorn, impotent to
lift hand to shield her face from the
blast of that savage sun?
No rest for Alan till he knew
Descending the knoll he reined his
tagging mount back into the trail, fol-
lowing its winding course through the
and round the base of that
mountain toward the iunc-
ton with the ridge trail, miles away.
1t approached the hour of noon be- |
fore he gained the point where the
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SYNOPSIS

,,a ne q of Hearts is the "death-sign" en-
ppffoyed by Seneca Urine in the private war
~ ehseance which, through the agency
a ms daughter Judith. he wages against
T ,,,n Law, son of the man, now dead, who
dar, lnnocently responsible for the acct
Me whlch rendered Urine a helpless Grip
f,'i,., Alan loves and is loved by Rose
ouuiths twin and double Judith vows to
ciI.r,pass MS death, but under dramatic
"REMINISCENCES Alan saves her life and so
Iaamsii,nnsiy, wins her love Thereafter
judith is by turns animated nv the new
sJst, the old hatred and jealousy of her
ana % IN escaping her persecution Alan
leiuse In the Painted HflIs-a range Of
DE- mountains bordering the Arizona
cbas' judith. while pursuing, suffers
r. a,so u heart and warns them in time
a ceuin ior this she is seized by an outlaw
beci, hpiice and bound helpless to the
niieN ~ a morse Alan shoots the accom-
a ne,.; dliu the horse runs away, following
perlious mountain trail
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time mighty gust of wind swept
athwart the waste, hot as a furnace
blast. In trice dust enveloped mar
and horse, sitting cloud of super
heated particles that stung the fest
like a myriad needles. And then dark
ness fell, the twilight of hades, a cop
per-colored pail, Nothing remained
visible beyond arms length.
Blinded, half suffocated. unspeak
ably dismayed and bewildered, the
broncho swung round, back to the
blast, and refused to bulge another
inch
Himself more than half-dazed, but
still bounded by his nightmare vision
of Judith, Alan dismounted to escape
being torn bodily from the saddle by
that hellish sand-blast, and Selling
the bride sought to draw the horse
on with him.
He wasted his strength in that en-
deavor: the animal baked, planted
its hoofs deep in the sand, stiffened
its legs and resisted with the stub
bornness of a rock; then, of a sudden
Jerked his head smartly, snapped the
bride from his grasp and flung away,
scudding before the storm.
Pursuit was out of the question.
indeed, the bride was barely torn
from his hand before Alan lost sight
of the broncho.
For a moment he stood rooted in
CONSERVATION as in a bog-with an
arm upthrown across his face.
Then the thought of Judith re-
CURED. w..
Head Bonded and shoulders rounded.
he began to forge way into the teeth
of the sandstone.
How long he fought on, pitting his
strength against the elements, cannot
be reckoned
In the end he stumbled blindly down
a slight decline and was abruptly
conscious that he had in some wav
found shelter from the full force of the
wind.
He staggered on another yard or
two, breathing more freely. and blum
dered into a rough-ribbed wall of rock
some sporadic outcrop, he under
stood, whose bulk stood between him
and the storm.
He thought to rest for a time. until
the storm had spent it's greatest
but as he laid his shoulder
gratefully against the rock and
scrubbed the dust from his smarting
eyes he saw what he at first conceived
to be a hallucination: Judith Urine
standing within yard ar him, alive,
strong, free.
He stared incredulously, saw her
recognize him, open her mouth to
utter wondering cry that was inaudi-
BILE, and come quickly nearer.
"Alanl You came for me! You fol.
lowed me, through all this!"
He threw off her hand with a bitter
was like the croaking of a
raven as it issued from his bonedrv
in momentary possession
Of hysteric madness, reeled away from
he woman and the shelter of the rock
and delivered himself anew to the
mercy of the dust-storm.
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an arm bent under him In a pose
lrlghtfully suggestive of dislocation
when she turned him on his bach
ana released the arm, he made nc
sign TO indicate that the movement
haQ caused him the slightest pain
ihere was slight cut upon his
proW' bruise about his left temple.
She tore linen from her bosom. be-
neaeh her coarse flannel shirt. and with
sparllg aid from the canteen. washed
lhe cut clean and bandaged it.
Ihen, seeing that the storm held
with fury undated she rose. reson.
holtered and returned to exert all her
strength and drag the unconscious
man across the dry bed of that ancient
intercourse and under the lee of its
farther bank
mere sitting, she pillowed his
mead upon her lap, and bending over
him made her body an additional ebo1-
Ter 10 MIN from the swirling clouds
Of dust.
ana Tor hours on end Judith nursed
MIN there. scarce daring to move
save to minister to his needs. bathing
ms fevered brow and moistening his
parched lips and throat
In the course of the first hour she
was once startled by the spectral Wis
Ion through the driving sheets of dust
OF morse that plodded up the arroyo
bearing two riders on its back.
weary with the weight of it's douhIe
burden, 1t went slowly and passed so
near to Judith that she was able TO
recognize the features of her sister
and Tom Barcus.
be sure she made never a sign to
catch their attention.
Within the next succeeding hour
the coppery light lost something of
lS not Drlllance, took on a darker
shade, and then one darker still Twi.
light stole athwart the desert. turning
its heat to chill its light to violet.
Growing more intense, the cold
eventually reused the sleeping man.
And hardly had his eyes Enclosed
ana looked up into the eyes of Judith
bending over him than he started up
and out of her embrace, got INSTEAD
lily upon his feet and after a moment
OF pause, watching her rise in turn
STROBE away-or, rather, staggered
with the gesture of exorcism.
Uncomplaining, hugging her new
born humility to her with the ecstasy
OF the anchorite his horse-hair shirt.
Judith followed him patiently. at a
little distance.
Not far from where he had rested
there was break in the overhanging
wall of the arroyo. Through this he
scrambled painfully, reaching the level
of the desert only after cruel effort
the unheeded woman at his heels.
A brief pause there afforded both
time to regain their breath and survey
the desert for signs of assistance. II
offered none, other than what they
might accomplish through their own
exertions. For leagues in any quarter
it stretched without break other than
the black cleft of the arroyo, cleaning
a bleached and deathly white in the
moonshine-like the face of a frozen
world
With tacit consent both turned that
way. Alan leading, Judith his pertina-
,ious shadow, with never a word or
sign between them to prove that either
was aware of the others company.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Open MutinY.

OPCFf WUtTNys
Though she had been schooled to hold
the very name of Law In loathine nm
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son deserves much credit for the
manner in which he competed with
these men.
Mr.. Williams to-day made the
following statement regarding the
sale this morning:
The sale taken as a whole was
in my opinion success when all
conditions are taken into considera.
ton. OF course, / regret that |
did not get top prices for all Of the
cattle, but they were closely graded,
and every cent possible was obtain
ed for them. The buyers who were
here were expert judges of butcher
stuff, and were free bidders on the
cattle that were in good condition
to kill, but were mighty slow to bid
on the stuff. We propose to have
market day again next year in
Greenwood and we will have all of
the cattle IN good shape for them.
| think the farmers who had cattle
here yesterday will go back with Il
determination to feed better cattle
and to get them in prime condition
before selling them. The educa-
tional f,,auture of the day was in
nv mind the most valuable feature
Greenwood county can raise just as
good beef cattle as any section of
the country, and l hope that this
market day will result in stimula-
ting the raising of more and better
beef cattle in the county"
Greenwood Journal.
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ments were served which were at,
tractively arranged.

ments were served which were at,
tractively arranged.
The Apollo music club met with
Mrs. Jamas Strother on Friday af-
ternoon, with Edward MacDowell
as the master for study, and q most
delightful meeting was held. Miss
Willis gave a full life sketch, hav-
ing studied in New York under a
great friend aud pupil Of Meadow
ell. She told interesting facts about
him and of the Mcdowell memo
rial school. Mr.. and Mrs. MacDow-
ell gave their country home for this
school. The musical selections were
his compositions and were we'll
executed. The hostess, assisted by
her daughter, Miss Ruby Strother,
served delig ghtful fruit salad, sand
wiches, pickle, crackers and sliced
tomatoes which was greatly enjoy
ed. AS the guests arrived they were
refreshed with punch and this at
tractive corner was again visited
before departure.
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B. M. /. Complimented by Army
Officer.

Greenwood, April l7.-Capt.
Schindel, U. S. A., who inspected
the Bailey Military Institute on the
10th, commended highly the work
of the military department, stating
that it had made unusual improve
ment during the past year and that
he was very much pleased with the
interest manifested by the cadets
and with the close ani extended or
der work.
81 find that the school has i'm.
proved to rather unusual extent dur
ing the year," he said, and L am
very much pleased with the interest
shown by the boys in the general
appearances at formations, and their
instruction in close order and ex-
tended order work, / f ound to be
quite good"
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Dean Eric w. Hardy a Builder.

Mr., Eric w. Hardy is winning
fame for himself and rejecting hon
or on Edge6eld, she county of his
birth. Soon after graduating from
the S. C. G. I. he went to Furman
university and later took a post
graduate course at the University
of Chicago. Since leaving Chicago
he has been connected with several
prominent institutions of learning,
having been called from the presi-
dency of Lexington college, Mis-
souri,, TO become dean of the Bessie
Tiff college of Forsythe, Georgia.
The Golden Age of Atlanta has the
the following to say of Mr.. Hardy
in its last issue:
Talk about optimism-intellig ent,
constructive, inspiring optimism
the new Dean and acting president
of Bessie Tiff College, Prof. Eric
w. Hardy, is the "top liner" among
the Bessie Tiff builders in Georgia.
Coming midterm from Lexington
College, Missouri, he says he was
imp. .essed at once by the great foun-
dation work done by President
Charles Spurgeon Jackson, and like
wise by the wonderful Bessie Tiff
spirit" that breathes of love and
loyalty and makes for sensible
Christian womanbood, and he has
been grinped by the deepening con-
viction that a greater Bessie lift
will tower away above the threat
and the clouds of wartimes and pan
ic like pyramid of light. A gradu-
ate of Furman University, in South
Carolina, and winning his masters
degree later at Chicago University,
Eric w. Hardy knows how to trans
late wide scholarship into the solu-
ton of practical problems.
Winning numerous medals in
defamation and oratory during his
school days, this gifted young man
has hinged the gift of eloquent
- his learn a,
oa-ssa1 &Hoa 'rposp. anti. r.
t.ssr}y az. -
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Clemson College. Notes For Far.
mer and Dairyman.

These notes are prepared by the
Dairy Division Of Clemson Col
lege, which viii be glad to ans swer
any questions pertaining to dairy.
ing.
The only safe rule for tbe dairy
man to follow: Test, don't guess.
Prices received for dairy products
remain fairly constant.
The dairy farmers income is
steady and sells his product for
daily, weekly or monthly cash set
Elements.
1t broadens the thinking powers
Of man to breed and develop a
good dairy herd.
The income from the dairy COW is
quick. Feed purchased and ted
one day is converted into milk the
next.
Buttermilk is not only good
beverage, but has a good medicinal
effect. It's nutri,ive value is high,
two quarts being equal in this re-
spect to about one pound of beef
steak.
Two pounds of grain when fed
with skimmilh or buttermilk will
take the place of one pound of but
terfat for raising calves. A pound
cf butterfat will sell lor thirty cents
and two pounds Of grain will cost
about three or four cents.
Clean milk is milk that is pro-
daced from COWS free from disease
and under clean conditions and
which, after having been produced,
is SO handled as to be kept free
from outside contamination. Clean
milk is one Of MANS greatest boons.
Dirty milk is one of his worst ene-
mics.
With the approach of warm
weather, farmers will have to take
special measures to keep cream
cool. There are several good, in
nxnensiun mAthods Of doing this
50 h,.,, as,; inyolva-the use of
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TRENTON NEWS.
w. c. T. U. Held Interesting
Meeting. Box Opening by
Auxiliary. Miss Salter
Celebrated Birthday.

The w. C. T. U. held it's regu-
lar monthly meeting at Mrs. Rubye
Shealy's on Saturday afternoon.
The subject for study and discus.
sion being Medical Temperance. A
New York physicians arraignments
of alcohol proved most interesting
paper read by Mrs. Shealy. Of In
terest too was paper read by Mrs.
Salter, entitled alcohol the young
mans greatest enemy. After these
subjects had been finished Mrs. An
ma Edison entertain d the Union
with, The crusade of the Johnston
union against the saloon in 1881"
This subject brought to grateful
remembrance the fact that our our
little town was voted "dry" about
that time by the untiring and faith
ful efforts of those christian women
Mrs. Bess Jones Miller, Mrs. Wal
ter Adams and the late Mrs. S. r.
Warren. The next meeting of the
union will be held with Mrs. d. r.
Day.
Mrs. l.. D. Crouch entertained
large number Of friends on Friday
evening last with a delightful fish
fry.
Miss Sallie Mae Miller who has
been teaching a large school near
Camden has come home for the sum-
mer and her friends are happy to
have her with them again.
Mrs. S. B. Mays from the Horns
creek section visited friends here
during the past week. A warm well
come always awaits this beloved
lady.
Mrs. Austin Clark, Miss Corinne
Clark and Master Hugh Clark spent
Saturday in Columbia.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.. Cooper and
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,.o.vvrs TO Augusta.
A very important meeting of the
Woman's Auxiliary took place at
the home of Mrs. John Bryan on
Thursday afternoon last. This was
lae occasion of the Blue Box"
opening and as Mrs. Bryan is Gus
todian she had arranged a pleasing
program. Mrs. J. d. Mathis was
elected delegate to the convention
in Spartanburg in May. The next
meeting will be with Mrs. Roper
Day. After all business was dis
patched an enjoyable half hour was
spent socially, during which time
Mrs. Bryan served tempting re-
freshments.
The Silver Tea which the Method
ist ladies gave on Friday evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w.
Miller. proved success socially and
financially, nearly twenty-five dol
lars having been raised, which will
be added to the building fund.
Miss Mamie Cheatham was the
guest of Miss Flee Swearngen for
the weekend.
A party consisting of gentlemen
from Johnston. Edge6eld and Tren-
ton, guests cf the owners of the
old Baynum pond, enjoyed an out
ing at that inimitable spot on Fri
day last.
Miss Effie B1oadwater. very at
tractive and lovely young lady from
Grovetown, has been on a visit to
Miss Mayme Broadwater. During
her stay she was also entertained by
Mrs. D. r. Day.
Miss Oracle Salter celebrated ber
thirteenth birthday anniversary on
Thursday evening last with a pretty
party. Many of her young friends
enjoyed her charming hospitality,
and the music, games, and the de-
lightful refreshments prepared for
them. May our little friend who
is just entering her teens continue
to be as sweet and gentle in girl
hood as she has proven herself a
child.
Mr.. John McCarty, that aged and
honored citizen of our community,
has been called to Saluda on sad
mission-the extreme illness of one
of his sisters.
Mrs. Sease from Winnsboro is on
visit to Mr.. James Miller and
family. Mrs. Sease has many friends
who are delighted 10 see her.
Mr.. s. L. Roper from Horns
creek spent Saturday, and Sunday
with his daughter, Mrs. w. H. Moss.
Miss Agnes Fiyths from Augusta
is the admired guest of Miss Emma
Bouknight.
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Meeting of Group Four.

Group Four, of the South Caro-
lima Bankers Association, compris-
ing banks within the counties of
Aiken, Edgefeld, Lexington, Rch-
land and Saluda. will hold third an
nual meeting at the Jefferson hotel
in Columbia on Tuesday, April 81,
at 8 p. M. 1t will be the aim of the
executive committee to have the
occasion as informal as possible and
the proceedings, we feel sure, will
prove interesting and instructive,
and there will be- enough of the So
cial feature TO guarantee delight
full evening for all. Mr.. VIM. Ingle,
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Bank IF Richmond; Mr.. w. j.
Roddev, president of the National
Union Bank, Rock Hill; Mr.. FL.
NJ. Dibble, president of the Bank
of Western Carolina, Aiken, and
Mr.. F. H. McMaster, of Columbia,
will make addresses. Group Four
should congratulate themselves on
having these gentlemen with them,
as their papers will be we'll worth
hearing. Officers and directors of
banks in Edgefeld county are cor
daily invited to be present.
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gun and saber, and we went like a
cyclone over ditch es, gullies,
fences, my pal calling out,
shoney, hold de bride. Bob falls
down, let him fall, you hold on. ]
l am going to take you over to the
promise-Iand, Ito Richmond) where
you have been wanting Hooker to
carry you so long, as he can't dc it
l will, but as sure as life, | am GO
ing to make Bob Keep up with the
bunch, no matter what they have to
go over, Bob as you call him has
got to follow, when l say spur
Bob you do it, if they have to scale
mountain or swim the Potomac. |
am going to be with them, so hold
on Bob, and when / say apply the
spurs you gave the gray. In a
short while we were through the
federal lines, and safe at Gen. But
ler's headquarters, and turned over
to him the whole push, high-low,
jack and the game. AS | bade the
fat Dutchman goodbye, I told him
that luck was a fortune bate or no
bate, that the tables had turned,
aud history repeats itself. Gent.
Rntler sent me- to nv command.
That was the last time that l ever
saw the Dutchman, Though | did
meet, and shook hands with Gen.
Sickles, at the reunion at Gettys-
burg and told him of my capture
and being before him, but he could
not rem smber. He asked me if was
in the battle at Gettysburg. l told
him that l was in the wheat field,
peach orchard, and at DEVILS bend.
Well, said the General, / expect it
was you that shot off my foot. No,
general, was aiming above the feet
that day, was to get the hea Is.
J. Russell Wright.