Pittston Gazette

              4- kstahi.isiieu i8rDCD. 1 VOL. X UII. NO. 28. f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Vi lley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 181)4. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. ( 91.50 I'KR ANNUM } IN ADVANCE iiruto lilted from the ground and handed tip to n l't llow already ensconced within the covered wagon Hie senseless, pcrhajw lifeless, form of pretty little Until, his father's idol. The poor child lay unresisting in the ruffian's amis, hut not so l'aquita. It took two men, Strong and burly, to lift and force her into the dark interior, and one of those, to the uttermost detail of his equipment, was to all appearanco a trooper of the United States cavalry. ho questioned eagerly, his heart locating ammunition. Kick CD(T everything else. We'll feed and water hero before starting, then we've got to rido like the devil. Send Trooper Bland hero as soon as he h:w unsaddled. I want him to ride with me. lie knows all tho roads to tho south." path. Straight away southward led the wlieeltracks, first separate and distinct, but soon blending, as though one wagon had fallen behind and followed the trail of the bolder leader in the first. Straight away after them went the ruck of hoof tracks, telling plainly that for a time at least tho gang had massed and was prepared to guard its plunder. madly Harvey himself It's C;•D. Here's Mr. Ned HILL NYE IN MAINE. 10 ne snerirt at foruana isregaraea as the goal toward which nil tho boys iu Maine should aspire. It is as good as being president of the United States and is less exposed to assassination. Those who cannot be sheriff hope some day to marry into his family and inherit his cigar trade. "No—1(«) late!—others were inside when the roof fell in. More water— more water!" In an instant Wing was kneeling by the side of the prostrate man. HE SAYS HE CAN MAKE A COTTON MILL LIKE THE ONE HE SAW. Sergeant Leo nprang to the ollas gleaming there in the firelight and brought hack a I.rimming dipper, holding it to the poor fellow's parched lips uutil he could drink no more, then slashing away the thongs with which ho was bound. '■Merciful heaven, my friend, bnt they ve used you fearfully! 'theyonly bound and held mo till Jncl:. .»n gut back from Oralvo's a couple of hours ago. Are yon shot injured?" Meinecke sainted in his methodical German fashion, turned away and presently could be heard ordering "Unsaddle, '' and then shouting for Private Bland. 15 it, Alan! lie? IIjih No Time—He Dparribes the Gin Palace and (iivew a Harrowing At Augusta I had a strange experience. I was given a very comfortable room at the hotel, and having lost considerable Bleep for several nights, sitting up with college boys and so forth,.I read a brief chapter from a very interesting book respecting the World's fair and retired. Stop to divide it was evident they dared not, for they had not with them the implements to break into the safe, and all their searching and threatening had failed to extract from the apparently dying paymaster any clew as to what lie had donC with tho key. Stick together, therefore, they undoubtedly would, reasoned the lieutenant, and all their effort would be to reach soino secure haunt in the Sierras and there send back their demand for ransom. Twenty-five thousand dollars in cash and George Harvey's precious daughters! It was indeed a rich haul—one that in all the dread history of the Morales gang had never been equaled. Even had they failed to secure the safe tho richer booty was theirs in having Bcized the girls. But few people in Arizona—as Arizona then was constituted —would make great effort to overhaul a gang of robbers whoso only victim was Uncle Sam and "his liveried hirelings." Nobody in Sonora would fail to regard them with envious eyes, but in the deed of rapine that made them the captors and possessors of those deft nseless sisters each man had put a price upon his head, a halter round his neck, for "gringo" and "greaser," American and Mexican alike, would spring to arms to rescue and avenge. "No, 110." groaned Harvey. "But I am broken, utterly broken, and my sisters are in the hands of thos- hounds." Kxperience In Augusta, Where He Lis- ten** to a Snore—Who the Guilty One Wag. There stood his panting horse with hanging head and jaded withers, the very steed whose rush they had welcomed with such exceeding joy, saddled, bridled, blanketed, saddlebaggcd, lariated, side lined, every item complete and exactly as issued by the ordnance department. The trooper himself wore the field uniform of the cavalry—the dark blue Mouse, crossed bv the black carbine sling, whoso big brass buckle Ned could even now see gleaning !«•- tween the broad shoulders and gathered at the waist by, the old fashioned "thimble belt" tho troop saddlers used to make for field service before tho woven girdlo was devised. Even more. Harvey in his misery remembered tho thrill of joy with which he had noted, as tho splendid rider reined in and threw himself from the saddle, the crossed sabers, tho troop letter " C" and the regimental number gleaming at the front of his campaign hat. . "This is greaser work," ho cried. "IIow could they have left you alive? Where are Moreno's people? Who's done this anyhow?" " Are there any of our men besides tho farrier who have any knowledge of surgery?" asked the lieutenant of Sergeant Lee. 'Never worry alxiut that, man. 1 know young Drummond w. 11. Thorn isn't a braver, better officer in the old regiment if ho is but a boy. He'll never drop that trail till ho overtakes them, [t'opyrltdit, 1«H, by FMi?ar W. Nye.] Way Down In Maine. .-IT", 1893 J5Y C/IMLC5" KJhlO.. We are traveling through the Pine Tree State and enjoying the sweet and resinous air of calm winter, while the glad plunk of the skater as he skates into an airhole is heard on every hand, and the tinkle of myriads of sleighbells echoes through the spruce forests and the fir trimmed hills. "Pasqnal Morales. Moreno was in it too. 'Tn'iw the paymaster they were laying for, Imt they've killed NC C1 Harvey and gut his sisters—old Harvey's children from Tucson." "They say Bland has, sir. I don't know any one else." Soon thero came from tho adjoining room a low whistle. I regarded it as a signal and answered it as a matter of mere sport, as it were. The reply came back along with a low gurgle like? that of a baby elephant dying in a kettle of mush. (CONTINUKD.) worse than a greaser: yeiiea reeny. "If you had a dhrop ofr Irish blood in yer veins, ye'd never ask the question. Now, if you think you can take this money, here's your chance. No "Well, I've just sent for him. Mr. Harvey here doesn't seem to be wounded, yet it's impossible to bring him to. Give Woods a little more whisky and see if you can-get a word out of tho major or Feeny." and by 1ho time bo needs us old Pike here an.i I will bo at his side. Thank the Lord, those louts were frightened off arid never took our horses. They're fresh as daisies, both of 'em. ('beer up, Mr. Harvey. If hard riding and hard fighting will do it. we'll have your sisters here to nurse you before anoth r night. Come. Pike," he cried as he vaulted into saddle. "Now for the liveliest gallop of your lazy, good for nothing life. . Come on!" At one instant he was on the point ©£' urging the paymaster to comply with the outlaw's demand, pledging himself and his father's fortune to make good to the government every cent so sacrificed. His father conld pay it four limes over and would rather sink his last cent than that the faintest harm should come to those beloved children, but the next moment Feeuy's splendid defiance had so thrilled him that he could not frame the words ho thought to speak, and yet here was awful jieril close at hand. What right had he to further jeopardize the life, fho-Junior of these, his father's fondest treasures? If it were only himself, he would stay and fight it out to the bitter end. lint if the roblxDrs could now be content with the money alone and pledge safe gnard for the property, was it not his duty, would it not be his father's mandate were he there, to buy the safe and contents from the agent of the general government and pay the ransom levied? "What?" cried the officer, leaping to his feet. "Harvey's daughter** here? —here? Man, are you mad?" Maine is a glorious state. She is very largely given over to manufactures and looks upon tariff reduction at the pros- Harvey ever went back on his friends." It was a snore, Following this came a quick detonation, like the explosion of a paper bag under a cloud. Then there was a snatch of song without words and a nocturne in something or other. Even brain muddled Mullan felt a maudlin impulse to cheer at Feeny's enthusiastic answer. Even poor old Plummer gave a half stifled cry. Possibly he dreamed that rescue was at hand, but there was little time for re- nt's God's truth! Oh, if I had a drop of the whisky that's being burned in there! I'm nigh dead," But efforts with tho half suffocated men had 110 effect. Tho whisky with Woods had lwtter results. He presently ceased his shivering sobs and could answer more questions. Drummond begged for particulars of the capture, and these tho man found it difficult to give. Ho was stationed at the back door, the corral side, he said, and hsudly saw the final rush., But there was something""feo queer about it. Thero had been a few minutes' lull. Then Harvey and Feeny lDoth Ixgan to talk excitedly and to call out that the "road agents" were rnnning away, and then presently there came tho sound of galloping hoofs and cheering and both the sergeant and Mr. Harvey had shouted that the trc«i{Ds were coming and rushed (Dut tC D meet them —■'' And the next thing I knew,"said Woods, "was seeing Feeny flattened out oil the ground and crawling 011 his hands and knees and the room filled with roughs, some Mexicans, some Yanks, and I slipped into tho corral and saw one of them shoot Feeny as he was trying to crawl after me; and while they were swearing and searching for the safe and carrying it out, Mr. Dawes and Mullan nifinaged, somehow, to help the paymaster out, and then went in after tho other man." "Hun to my saddlebags, Lee; fetch that flask, quick; then call in the men and send one back to hurry vp tho rest. Where have they gone? What have they done with their captives?" It was a musical snore punctuated with the wail of a damned soul. I sat up in bed, and the materialized ghost of my departed hair rose like new asparagus on the old site. [to kk continued.] joicing. Springing back whence ho came, the unseen emissary was heard shouting some order to his fellows. The next instant the rifles began their cracking ou bith sides, and the bullets, with furious spat, drove deep into the adobe or whizzed through tlio gunnysacks into the barley. The unseen foe was once more investing them on every side and not a shot could bo wasted in return."God knows! 1 could hear them screaming nnd praying—thoso , poor girls! Mullan and the pay clerk picked up Feeny after he was stunned, and they'rushed him back through here, wliero tho paymaster had dragged himself, to where you found him. That—that's th«C paymaster you've got there. Tin 11 they tried to save a drunken soldier while all the gang seemed crowding after the safe and the v. iris, but they were shot down inside and must have burm C1 to death if they wasn't killed. Oh, God, what a night!" ON THd CAD Li. CAP5 The Story j. J i«»nD !•;/ I J.«; o»ni tiC-4c»r. ! ;t IV w Intvrrup- If this were to be my last letter to my friends all the way from Edinburgh to City of Mexico and this statement were to face me at the bar of judgment, I should still say that I never heard anything like that snore since Hell Gate was blown out in New York city. Who—who could thin be, wearing the honorable garb of " (soldier of tho United States, yet figuring as » ringleader in a hand of robber* and assassins now adding rapine to their calendar of crime? Edward Harvey's heart almost burst with helpless r:igo anil wretchedness when ho saw his precious sisters dragged within tho canvas shelter saw the tall, uniformed brigand leap lightly after them and heard him shout to tho ready driver, "Now, off with you!" Ho was t:iil, ratin i" tiii i and : l 11 • 1 wore angular, aln his "Sunday'' which would he puma facie evidence of its Ion;?, faithful servic- ia that rapacity. He had his son with him, perhaps 12 yrtlrs of age, and as tlu-y rode north in a Wells street cable car tile old man whs telling the young hopeful "liow it was 50 years a ro." r.8 \ rs .1.1 tiDrC lsmce :ii Eight years ago at Herkimer, in the state of New York, a cruel woman who had promised to love, honor and obey her husband stole up behind him while he was reading the -'Heavenly Twins," or some other work, and split open his head with an ax while he was in the midst of an unthought think. Had she truly loved him she would not have done this. But she did, and then quartered him. He hadn't had a dollar for years that he could call his own, but in death he had four quarters on his person after his loving wife got through with him. Once more tho furious crackle and roar of the flames were heard close at hand, and then the smoke grew thicker, (he heat increased, and jxxir Ned Harvey, his eyes smarting, knelt, steadfast, at his post and prayed prayed for the coming of rescue, for the return of the loved father, all the gallant troop at his back—and then, even as though in answer to his prayer,there came a sudden lull in the fight. But he little dreamed of the fury of revenge and hatred horning in the As tne rearmost or tne ntuo party of pursuers disappeared in tho darkness and the wearied pack mules went jog- King sullenly after, urged on by the goad ot their half Mexican driver, the sergeant left in charge of tho detachment at tho corral looked at his watch and noted that it was just 2:30 o'clock. Tho dawn would bo creeoinir on at 4. "The ole house stood* her* very spot—right on"'-.— Ike, on this And weak, unstrung, unmanned, thf poor fellow sohlx d aloud. eon! of Pasqu.il Morales. Re little fathomed tho treachery and cunning of the outlawed scoundrel. Even as he was revolving these thoughts in his mind, ever mnl again listening with new hope for the sound of rallying trumpet, the lieat of rescuing hoots, there resounded through the night tho sonorous and ringing voice that so short a time liefore had called for the surrender of the safe. "Edward Harvey, we pledge safe conduct for you, your sisters and your party. Here is your w;igon ready, your team hitched in. ThroW your arms out of the door. Come forth as you please. Put the sonoritas in tho wagon. Look neither to the right nor left, but. drive away, and God be with you. We have no quarrel with you and yours. Wo war only with these soldiers who have killed our chief." Crack I went the whip as the men sprang from the heads of the frantic mules, and with a bound that nearly wrenched tho trace Jiooks from tho stout whippletreo tho Concord went spinning over the sands to the south, whirling So near him that over tho thud of hoofs and whirl of wheels and creak of spring and woodwork he could hear lDoor Fanny's despairing cry—tho last sound ho was aware of for hours, for now in dead earnest Harvey swooned Ontario!" yelled the conductor from At this instant there rode into the corral a couple of troopers. The old man looked steadily at the man in blue for about one minuteaud quietly tho rear end of the car "Lieutenant Dramniond here?" cried one of them. "We'ye tound a man out on the plain to the southeast, gagged and bound. Shall we fetch him in?" IN THE ISF.LFltY, resumed his narrative ent time with horror. I went through the largest cotton mill in the world last week. It is a marvel of ingenuity and power. The river turns these millions of spindles, and machinery makes it possible for one man to do the work formerly done by 2,000 women. What is to be the result at last of this machinery advancement and perfection? Isn't that throwing the laboring classes out of work more than the tariff tinkering? All cotton goods are made here, from the coarse grain bag up to the beautiful white and crinkled seersucker which adorns the glorious form of the summer girl. "Something"scorning!" shouted Feeny excitedly. "They see or hear somebody sure. Look, Mr. Harvey, ain't that twoof their fellows scudding away westward out there?" Wearied ns were his men, he did not permit them all to rest. Tho condition of his wounded and tho instructions left him by Lieutenant jPrnmmond made it necessary that they Should have constant attention. It was sore trouble for him to look at tho old paymaster, who*© lifo seemed ebbing away, lying there so pallid and moaning at times bo pitifully, but Feeny lay torpid, breathing, yet Beeming to suffer not at all. "On this sjHit about IHor 50 years ago, Ike. your grandfather use d tor take mC an your uncle Jim down to the grand old lake"  "You go, Quinn, but get some one else to help you. Patterson, your horse is fresh, gallop back on the trail. Tell Sergeant Meineeke to come ahead for all he's worth. Let the packs take care of themselves. Send Sergeant Lee in here to 1110 again." Then with trembling hands tho young officer turned his attention to his other patients. Severing tho cords with his hunting knife, he freed them from their binds, then dashed water over their scorched and blackened faces, meantime keeping up a running fire of questions. Between his solDs, the young civilian told him that tho outlaws had hitched in both teams and taken also the spare mules and the buekboard. They had lifted the Harvey girls into the Concord, the safe and Pasqual Morales into the paymaster's ambulance, while the wounded men and Moreno's people probably wore put on the open wagon. Then they had all driven furiously away to the south, leaving only two or three men to complete the work at the ranch. Then WChk1s could tell littlo more. One thing, he said, amazed and excited him so ho couldn't believe his eyes, but ho was almost ready to swear that the fellow Feeny ran to shako hands with was a soldier in uniform, and that he held Feeny's hand while another man came up lDebind and '"mashed" him with tho butt of his pistol, and that this fellow in soldier clothes was the man who afterward shot Feeny as he was trying to crawl away. "Erie!" shouted the conductor innocently.After cutting him up like the brother of Ali Baba she consumed him in the cook stove. It took several days, and even then his artificial teeth were easily recognized by those who knew him. Surely enough. I11 the glare of the burning sheds the besieged caught a glimpse of two of the gang bending low in their saddles 10(1 yards uway and scudding like hounds over toward the open plain. The old man's face had about three or four convulsions, but trying to ignore the interruptions he proceeded once Half an hour later, tho rafters of tho ranch having by this time tumbled in and turned tho interior into a glowing furnace, there came riding from tho west a Blender skirmish line of horsemen in the worn campaign dress of tho regular cavalry. With the advance there wero not more than six or eight, a tall, slender lieutenant leading them on and signaling his instructions. With carbines advanced, with eyes {veering put from under tho jagged hat brims, the veteran troopers came loping into the light of the flames, expectant every instant of hearing tho crack of outlaw's rifle or perhaps tho hiss of feathered arrow of unseen foe. Though some of tho steeds looked hot and wearied, the big rawboned sorrel that carried tho young commander tugged at his bit and bonndod impatiently as though eager for the signal -"charge." Straight into tho circle of light, straight to the southern entrance, now a gate of flame, the soldier rode and loudly hailed "Moreno!" away. more Discovery followed, and so instead of a nice second husband she stood in the early spring on an elevated platform at the Herkimer jail, with bared head, to give her wretched life to the state in part payment for the naughty act for which she had been tried. "As I was sayin, Ike, he used to take me an your uncle Jim down to the grand old Lake Michigan a-fishin every week or so. In them days, Ike, we didn't have no new fangled fi.shin poles like they have now. with screws an windin machines all over 'em. All we had then was a long stick cut out of"  Both were in desperato need of surgical attendance, but wht-r© could surgeon be found? Tho nearest was at Stoneman, the littlo cantonment across the Christobal, 30 miles to tho east, and though a gallant fellow had volunteered to make the ride alone through the Apache infested pass and carry the dispatch that Druinmond had hurriedly penciled there was no possibility of doctors reaching them beforo the coming night, and tho thought of all they might have to suffer through the fierce white heat of tho intervening day was one that gave tho sergeant deep concern. Then, too, who conld say whether the solitary trooiDer would succeed in running tho gantlet and making his way through ? Ho was a resoluto old frontiersman, skilled in Indian warfare and well aware that his lDest chance was in the dark, but speed as he might tho broad light of day would lDe on him long beforo he could get half way through tho range. The stage from tho west would probably come along alDout sunset, but nothing eotjld be hoped for sooner. No troops were nearer than tho Colorado in that direction except tho littlo signal post at tho Picacho. Corporal Fox and two men had been sent thither to inquire what tho signal meant, and it would soon bo time for them to come riding in with their report. How he wished Wing were hero! Wing knew something about everything. Ho was an expert veterinarian, something of a doctor, knew inoro of mineralogy than all the officers put together and could speak Spanish tDottcr than any man in the regiment. When it became necessary to have a signal station at the peak and it was found that no one knew anything about tho business. Wing got ono of tho old red manuals, studied »ho system and inside of a week was signaling with tho expert sent down from San Francisco. "Is it rescue? Are our iDeople coming?" was the query that ruse to every lip. "God grant itT" Heavens, how hearts were lDoating! How ears were straining underneath that now blazing roof! Louder, fiercer roared tho flames. Furious became tho snapping of nun baked branch mid twig. Stifling and thick the smoke. Below you can start in with the big. silent water wheel and go on up to where a hundred thousand delicate threads are put into one, and above that the giant bell which tells the noon hour and the labor day off into sections. I went up into the belfry to see this big Ben of the Androscoggin mills. I had to climb a long ladder through a dark skylight, and for comfort I had worn a high hat. Up in the belfry I straightened out my hat and stood on the icy comb of the roof while the wind blew through the whiskers of a man who had been secured foi that purpose. rm yourst.ii m nis piace. ueatn tor him, perhaps for them—dishonor anyway—w;is all they could look for if no rescue came. Was it not his duty to his parents, to his sisters, even to God. to accept these terms—to withdraw his little force? Why should ho be periling such precious lives and names in tho defense of a government official who had been so wreckless as to part with his guard and put himself and his funds in such a predicament? From the oth«r room, in which the major now lay, feebly moaning, no word of remonstrance came. Even in their extremity, then, the soldiers of the government would not nrge that he stay and encounter further peril in their defense. One of the drugged troopers was lieginning to regain some atom of sense, and sitting up was miserably asking what had hapjiened, what was tho matter now. Druinmond looked around at the man incredulous—almost derisive. The story was improbable, too much so to deserve even faint attention. Just then Meinecko eamo back and, precise as ever, stood attention and saluted. As she shot into eternity she gave a shriek that interfered with my rest for over a year. I never heard anything like it till this night at Augusta. It un- "Oak!" yelled the conductor again Suddenly rising, the affronted old man started for him, but changing his mind sat down again, determined to tell Ike how it was or die "a-tryin." "Quick! Come here for a breath of air," called Harvey to his sisters. "It's safe for a moment at least." And instantly they joined him at the doorway, still (dinging close to the floor. "Herr lieutenant, Private Bland is not with my party at all, sir." "With these hick'ry poles, Ike, we used ter ketch somo fish that would"  "Did you leave him back with tho packs?" Clang! clang! went a great bell on the car, and the old man stopped short again. The man on the front end had a suspicions look on his face, aud the old man decided to keep a weather eye on him. Listen! Hoofs! The thunder of galloping steeds! A distant cheer I A soldierly voice, in hoarse command: "No, sir; the men say ho wasn't with us all night. He rode ahead with the lieutenant until wo came to Corporal DC mi iv an's Ixxly.'' "Steady, steady there! Keep together, men!" Finding tho paymaster and sergeant well nigh dead, they had contented themselves with binding and leaving them to their fate, to lie cremated when the roof of the shed came down. Then one of the gang whom he had once befriended in Tucson pleaded with his fellows to spare the Jife of tho only one ot the party left to tell the tale. Pasqual and the Mexicans were gone. Those who remained wore Americans, judging by their speech, though two of them were still masked. "My name is WCxxls," said the poor fellow. "But that bandit had to lieg hard. They were ready to murder anyliody connected with the defense, for Ramon was killed and Pasqual shot through the leg. I did that, though they didn't know it. They bound and left me here, but made me swear I would tell Harvey and his friends when they got "back that it was no use following; they had 30 armed men and three hours' start. They never thought of any one else getting here first. Oh, my God! who can break jt to Mr. Harvey when ho does come?'' I never saw a finer sight than the view of Nova Scotia from this belfry on a keen, cold winter's day, while off to the northward and eastward Labrador could be seen, and back of it the aurora borealis reflected from the redhot journal on which the earth revolves at the north "(rod lie praised!" screamed Feeny in ecstacy. "Look up, major, look up, sir. We're all safe now. Here come tho boys. Hurroo!" And mad with relief and delight tho sergeant sjirang "HC''h not been with mo since," exclaimed tho lieutenant. "Sergeant Lee, ask if any of tho men have seen him." "One day, Ike, I got a lake trout on my hook that was 2 feet 3$ inches"  "Chestnut !" shouted the conductor vociferously, at which the enraged old man jumped to his feet and yelled: Leo was gone but a moment, then came back with grave face and troubled eyes, bringing with him a young trooper who was serving hiH first enlistment. But hissing, snapping Woodwork alone replied. Guided by an experienced sergeant, some of the troopers, never halting, rodo on into tho eastward darkness, and there wero stationed as vedettes to guard against surprise. Returning to where he had passed his lieutenant, the sergeant dismounted, allowing his weary horse to stand, and then began a minute examination. Fol- "Yes, sir. it wer' jest 2 feet 3£ inches long, an old as I am I can lick any lop jawed dude with a long tailed coat an brass buttons as says 'chestnuts' to me again. Come on, Ike, let's git out of this durn hack an walk," to pole. " Private Goss, here, has a queer story to tell, sir." This mill takes the raw cotton as it comes from the iron jaws of the big compress and turns it rato a million beautiful fabrics. Ttv man who falls into the carder at the ground floor will find himself in a counterpane on the top floor "if he don't watch out," •' Go and douse water over your C1 d worthless head, Mnllan," lie hoard the sergeant say. So Feeny was evidently alert as ever and must have heard the projxmition from without. At his feet, huddled clone to the floor where the thick smoke was least distressing, Fanny and Ruth still clung to one another, the latter trembling at the sound of the voice from without. But Fanny bad quickly, eagerly, raised her head to US' ten. For a moment no reply was made. Then camo the impatient query:'' Harvey, do you bear? Yon have no time to lose. You have but a minute in which to answer." "What do yon know? What have you seen?" asked Drummond. "Wliv. sir. ritrht after Seri :eant Lee But Ike had been peacefully sleeping through it all.—Arkansaw Traveler. caught sight of tho fire and sung out that it was Moreno's I was back about a rouple of rods looking for my canteen. I was that startled when they found CorjxDral Donovan dead that I dropped it, and all of a sudden somebody comee out past mo leading his horse, and I asked him what ho had lost, and he said his pii*s and passed mo by, and I thought nothing more about it—only no sooner did he get out into the dark where I couldn't see him than 1 heard all of a sudden a horse start at full gallop right this direction, and now I think of it it must lmvo been Bland, for it was him that passed me, sir—sneaking out like." For IferM'ir Only Mine, du Deffand, a celebrity of the last century, was a great invalid. One day when she was fri bed several guests arrived and were admitted. They all began to shiver and pull their cloaks around them. Mr. Bean, who operates this giant mill, showed us over it and explained all the complicated machinery, so that I could build a mill just exactly like it now if I did not have so many other things to do. But he advised me not to do so, for with the dull times and apprehension everywhere a funny paper in London would pay better than a cotton mill does now. hinged my mind for a week, and I could not eat or Bleep. Perhaps it was my surprise that she did not expect to go directly to Abraham's bosom, where there must be an awful nest of murderers by this time worrying the life out of poor Lazarus, but this shriek of a lost soul that day gave my brain a jolt that it will never fully recover from. LISTENING. i Ji D v -a ' V" : -M / ' *D: "What!" exclaimed the invalid. "Is it cold here?" "It is simply freezing," answered a guest. "Major," heburst forth at last in an agony of donbt, "yon bear what they Bay, you see how I am fixed. If I were here alone, yon won hi never net Dd to ask lny services—l'«l with yCm to the hitter end—lrat think of my father, my mother, if anything lx-fall my sisters. •Can nothing lxD done?" a Uill trouper shot into nUjht. from his lair just as a tall trooper in the Union bine shot into Bight in the lull glare of the flam en, sprang from liis foaming steed, waving bis hat and yelling: The sergeant sprang from his lair just as "Thank you for telling me," said Mine, du Deffand. Maine, too, looks with great grief upon the prospect of having free lumber admitted across the Canadian border, where wages are very low and pine unlimited.I was therefore surprised when this man with his bugle played a bar of '-The Campbells Are Coming." I never knew a snorer with such a register as this one. He would give a little moan like a new puppy that has missed the maternal font by three-quarters of an inch, and then he would render the mush kettle gurgle and the Balaklava groan, winding up with the Herkimer squeal of the damned soul whose tail has been caught in the door. • at - '• raC ZcD -v.- — - sr-r+h*7Zf ' h JL And then Sergeant Lee came hurrying hack, one or two men with him, and together they laltored to restore to consciousness the paymaster, breathing feebly, and old Feeny, bleeding from a gatli in the back of tin- skull and a bul let hole throngli the lxxlv. For nearly a quarter of an hour their efforts were vain. Meantime Drummond, well nigh mad over the delay, was pacing nbont like a caged tiger. He set two of the men to woik to hitch the lDewildered She ranjj a bell. The "guests supposed she whs sending for a maid to make a fire, but whon the servant came in Mine, du Deffand said, "Amelie, bring me in my down coverlet." Having given this order, she began a conversation about other matters.—Argonaut. Dminmond sprang to his feet. The pulp mills of Maine are a great branch of industry and utilize many kinds of wood which otherwise would not be of use at all. Inside of 24 hours a spruce tree now may return to Portland in the form of the Boston Sunday CJlnlDe—that is,'I mean if the tree should be large enough. Of course you couldn't make a Sunday paper out of a scrub tree. "All right! All safe, lads! Here "What say you to this, sergeant? Do yon believe—do you think it possible that Bland has deserted and joined these outlaws?" The interior of the ranch was still a smoldering furnace as 4 o'clock drew nigh. Woods, weak and exhausted, had fallen into on uneasy sleep. The trooper detailed to watch over old Plummer and Feeny and batho their faces with cold water was nodding over his charge. Hero and there under the shed on the north side which the flames had not reached the men were dozing, or in low, awestricken tones talking of the tragic events of the night. Near the east gate, reverently and deeply covered with the oidy shroud to lDo had, the newest of tho saddle blankets, lay the stiffening remains of poor Donovan and his comrado. Lurking altout the westward end of tho inclosure, their beady eyes every now and then glittering in the firelight, tho Mexicans, men and boy, wero smoking their everlasting papelitos, apparently indifferent to the fate that had deprived them of home and occupation. we are ! From the lips of the stricken paymaster there came only a groan in reply. Down went Harvey's rifle as ho leaped out into the air to greet the coming host. Down went Feeny'a carbine as, with outstretched hand, he sprang to grasp his comrade trooper's. With rush and thunder of hoofs a band of horsemen came tearing npto the sjxDt just as Feeny reached their leader— Eastern Jealousy "1 fear he cannot hold out long, Mr. Harvey," muttered the clerk. "Idoubt if he heard or understood yon." "I don't know what to think, sir, but I haven't forgotten what Feeny said of lam." Tticrc In the flcrcc ll'ih I of tlirjt nines stood the ('oiicord ivu/un. lowing the freshest hoof: tracks, he found the young officer riding alxiut through the thick smoke within the ■ I have never put in such a night since I was born. The glad snort of the 2-yearold colt came now an£ then, followed by the twitter of swallows and the cries of the wounded at the surprise and capture of Marco Bozzaris. Then the folding bed would creak, and I would imagine that it had closed upon thCs sufferer, for a stifled snort would come from the bedclothes, and death would seem to have come mercifully to lay his cold hand on the strong man in his agony. "Well, why not let them have tiesafe if they'll guarantee that that is afl they want? How much have you therer I feel sure my father would make it "What was that?" little Imrros to the well wheel ana get up sevoral huge lracketfnls of water against the coming of the troop. He ordered others to rub down his handsome sorrel, Chester, and the mounts of two of the advanced party. At last nfter what must have seemed an age, yet tw in Id not have been over 80 minutes from the |;ime of their arrival, a soldier rnnnlng in said be eon Id bear hoofs out on the plain, and at the same instant two mem appeared lugging between them, bleeding and senseless, the ragged form of Edward Harvey. "That bo Jiiul too smooth a tongue to have 1C C1 a rough and honest life; that if ho was a Texan us ho claimed Texas peoplo had lunrned to talk a different lingo sinco ho was stationed among them with tho old Second cavalry lDefore tho war, nnd that he wished he'd been thero nt Lowell when tho adjutant accepted thoso letters from former officers of tho regiment aa genuine. Bland would never show them to Feeny. Said ho had Bent 'ein nil to his home in Texas. That was what made bad blood between them." Aside from all these other industries, it is estimated that from $7,500,000 to if 10,000,000 come in each year from the summer boarder and sportsman. I met tho proprietor of a hotel on Marblehead lake the other day, and he told me that he kept 30 guides all summer and as many canoes, and the ideal trip now consists of paddling from the head of Moosehead lake for over 800 miles to St. Johns through the virgin forest. There is really no game preserve that has the flavor of tho Maine preserves. The log jam and game preserve in Maine are such well known delicacies that I need not pause hero to dilate upon them. good." reached him and went down to earth, stunned, senseless from a crashing blow, even as Ned Harvey, his legs jerked from under him by the sudden clip of a rawhide lariat, was dragged at racing speed out over the plain, bnmpingover stick and stone, tearing through cactus, screaming with rage and pain, until finally, battered into oblivion, the last sound that fell niDon his ear was the shriek of agony from his sisters' Ijjis, telling him they were struggling in the rude grasp of reckless anil infuriated men. corral "There's over $215,000, Mr. Harvey "Any sign of Moreno or his people, sir?" he hailed. WITTI i' "Well, if it was only 25 ecnts, Mr. Ned Harvey, all I've got to say is devil a wan of them would they get so long as I conhl load a shot or pull a trigger. Go yon, if yon will. Take the leddies by all means if you think it safer, bat before I'd trust the wan sister I ever had —(bxl rest her sortl to tile promise of any sueh blackguard party as this, I'd bury my knife in her throat.'" "Not yet. Just see what's lieyond that dixirway. My horse is frightened at something there and 1 can't see for the smoke." Mm Obedient, the sergeant pushed ahead, (tending low to avoid the stifling fumes. Between the tumbledown heap of barley sacks and the crumbling wall lay some writhing objects in the sand, and his stout heart almost failed liiin at the moan of agony that met his ear. I was just going to the door of the room to savo the man's life when across the hall camo a commercial traveler who sells hand sleds for the Maine Manufacturing company. He was in his robe do ouit and ,wore a high hat to keep tho cold air from striking his nude head. Kicking the door rudely with a big shoe which he carried in his hand, he said, "There, d n you, you're dead, and I'm glad of it, but if j»ou ever dare to move a hand or foot again, yon low lived stiff, I'll come 18,000 miles to murder you in the most sickening manner I can think of." : An awful stillness followed Feeny's words. For an instant there was no sound but quick lieating hearts, the mutterings and complainings of jxxir Mullan, staggering alxwt in search of his carbine, the quickened breath and low moaning of jioor old Plummer. Then again came the loud hail from without: Scratched, torn, covercd with blood and bruises and still unconscious though he was, Drummond knew him at a glance. They had met the previous year, and though only once it was enough. Men with young and lovely sisters aro not soon forgotten. Kneel- "liy heaven 1 nnd now to think that one of our troop—C troop—should havo been engaged in this outrage) But we'll get them, men," said Drummond, straightening up to his full height and raising, his gauntleted hand in air. "They can't gQ fast or far with those wagons such a night as this. They'll strike tho foot hills before thoy'vo gono 10 miles, then they'll havo to go slow. We'll catch them before tho sun is up, and, by tho God of heaven, if Bland is with them, I'll string him to tho highest treo wo can find." "Waal, how, if that don't beat all. I've jist been readin about them Colo rado rainmakers, and now 1 see they'vi got a clearing house in New York."— Life. Help! water! Oh, for Christ's sake, One of tho troopers had burrowed a hole in tho sand, started a littlo cook fire and was boiling somo coffeo in a tin quart mug. Overhead and far down to the horizon on every side tho stars shone and sparkled through tho vftjxirless skies. Eastward toward tho Christobal they were just beginning to pale when a faint voico was heard pleading for water. Sergeant Butler sprang from his seat and hastened to where he had left Mr. Harvey but a few minutes before, still in deep and obstinate swoon. CHAPTER VI water!" The Maine liquor law is always a very interesting cadaver to me. In fact, I have roamed around the charnel house of dead prohibitory measures for several years in various states. They simply make drinking inconvenient and breed a more ruinous breed of rum. could not long have lain unconscious. No Jxmes were ltroken, no severe concussion sustained in the rapid drag over the sandy surface, and the awful sense of the calamity that had liefallen him and the dread and doubt as to the fate of his Ix-loved ones seemed to rally his stunned and bewildered faculties and bring him faco to faco with the horror of the situation, Jiarely able to breathe, he found himself rudely gagged. Striving to raise his hand tit tear the hateful bandage away, lie found that he was pinioned by the elbows and bound hand and fCxDt by the very riata probably that had dragged him thither. • No doubt as to the nationality of his unseen captors here. The skill with which he had been looped, tripped, whisked away and bound—the sharp, biting edges, even the odor of dirty rawhide rope—all told him that, thongh Americans were not lacking in the gang, his immediate antagonists hailed from across the Soiiora line. Who and what they were mattered little, however. The fact that after hours of repulse in ojxn attack the foe had all on n sudden carried their castle by a damnable ruse wan only too forcibly apparent. Writhing, struggling in miserable effort to free l*mself from his Ixmds, pixir Harvey's burning eyes were maddened by tin* picture before him only a couple of hundred yards One liftnnd carried him out of sight of his superior, The next instant, dragging by the fCxDt a prostrate form, he emerged from the bank into the fresher air of the center of the corral. Off came his canteen and was held to the parched lips of a stranger in scorched civilian dress, his Ward and hair singed by the (lames, his legs and arms securely bound. Another Theory "You don't mean to tell me," said the young man to the scientist, "that the aurora Inirealis is merely an electrical display?" 4 In Lewiston the gin palaces are under the streets, and a labyrinth of passages kno\C*n only to "members in good standing" leads to the interior, with ever and anon a door marked "pull" when it means "push," and "push" when it means to the initiated "pull." This confuses the officer, so that by the time he gets in fairly the decanters have been emptied down the sink, followed by an acid which 'removes all traces, even of the odor. A guard is above both day and night, whose duty it is to press the button when the sheriff enters, and when he gets at last through this devious way he finds the bartender engaged in lathering and sh.-iving a customer or shampooing him with a lxittle of Angostura bitters. "Once more. Nrrt Harvey, will yon come out and 1** navel or stay there and roaet ? Surrender now and you're all right; but, liy the (rod of heaven, if you refuse it's tho last chance for yon or those you were fool enough to bring here. Think for your' si Stern, man. There's no hope for one of yon if you delay another minute." "Certainly." Then he shook the door violently, threw some coal through the transom and went back to bed again. "Well, well! I wonder if it isn't the exhaust for some of the remarks that get into our tel^ihone."—Washington Star. "Who are yon and what's happened? Whose work is this?" demanded the lieutenant, leaping from saddle to his side. The man se«mCd swooning away, but the sergeant dashed water in his In the morning I got up pale and haggard. Slowly I dressed myself and went down to breakfast. As I passed the desk I said to the clerk, "Who was that thrice accursed brute who slept in No. 9 last night?" "Wny do you ask?" "There's moro thaH him that'll be strung up," growled n grizzled old trooper in nn undertone. "The gang that murdered Put Donovan will find scant mercy in thi\crowd." All Uncoiujtitrable* AverNhm, Tramppes—W'at's do gjattor Roadsidiy1 lit? looks all broke up. Weary Itiiggles—He slep' in a box las' night. An wen he woke up this morn in ho found it was a soapbox.—Chicago "Water, is It, sir? Hero yon arc! I'm glad to see you picking up n little. Mr. Drummond left this for you too, sir. He said you would maybe need it." And the sergeant raised the dizzy head and held a little flask to Harvey's lips. * with And then it was a woman's voice, tremulous but clear. filCO. "Aye, aye," paid another, "and there's more than Pat Donovan to be scored off. Look yonder." For at the instant one of the packers came leading into the corral a resisting mule, at sight of whose burden many of the horses started in fear. It was the lifeless body of Donovan's companion,the soldier who had escaped the assassin's bullet when Patsy fell only to 1m* overtaken and cnt down half way to Moreno's. "Because he is dead. Died in his sins with a newborn snort .on his cowardly lipa Died with a room full of echoes and throttled groans. That's why I ask." "Ned, wasn't it to nave ns that Major Plnmmer sent his men? Wasn't it for our sake ho jjavo up all his escort?" "Quiclc!—tho others 1—or they'll burn to death." Tvn men appeared liHTijinij between them the ragged form of Edward Harvey. ing liy his side, tho lieutenant sought anxiously for traco of blade or bullet. Rents there wero many and many a bloody scratch and tear, but, to his infinite relief, no serious wound appeared. Still in deep swoon, his friend Boomed to resist every effort for his restoration. The dash of water in his faco wits answered only by a faint shivering sigh. Tho thimbleful of whisky forced between his lips only gurgled down his throat, and Drummond felt no responsive flutter of pulse. The shock to his system must indeed have been great, for Jlarvey lay like one in a trance. Drummond feared that he might never again opvn his eyes to light and home. Record, "What others? Where, man?" exclaimed the soldiers, springing to their feet. '• Whero Is ho?" at last tho Bufferer was ablo to gasp. "It was, Fan, yes- ■at least he thought Dozeleigh—Why do you insist upon the new pastor being a fat man? A (aoorf Idea. no." "Overhauling the outlaws, hand over fist, by this time, sir. He has 20 good men at his back, and we'll have tho ladies safe tonight—seo if we don't." "Ah," said he, looking at a little drawer with a string of labels on it, "you are wrong, I guess, about that. That room was occupied this week by Viola Murkins, the prima donna of the Singed Cat Opera company, so called because the girls who sing in it are so much better than they look." "And now you wonld ilesert him, would yon? Leave him to lDe murdered by these robl*Crs. tho worst gang wo ever had or heard of? I say yon shall not. 1 for one will not go into their hands. Ruth cannot go without me. Stay and fight it (jut, Ned, or you're not your father's son." MOh! somewhere in there the far end of the corral -or Moreno's west foom," was the gasping reply. Deacon , Broil daisle—Because fat men are generally short winded.—Williamsport Review. . Liquor is shipped all over Maine insido of molasses and sugar barrels, in tobacco boxes and inside of big boxes ostensibly containing mill supplies and machinery. Bangor openly sells all sorts of liquor and is considered the smartest city in Maine. In Portland the office of sheriff is said to be worth $50,000. The sheriff manufactures a cigar which he sells to those who also sell rum. But he raids these places regularly. It is an exciting sjDectael© to see the sheriff with his foam fleck ud steed flying toward a liquor joint of which he has just heard. He ha* a loud, vociferous chime of 1 tells on his foam flecked steed, and when he gets to the door of the rum palace he climbs out, carefully blankets his horse, "trie's" the sleigh runner so that ho cannot back up, ties the steed in several intricate knots and enters the place. By that time the place is swept and garnished, for the sheriff has to get the frost out of his whiskers, and that takes time also. Another rush into tho whirling, eddying smoke, another search along under the wall, and presently in tho flickering light the rescuing pair came u(Kin a barrier of barley sacks, bunting in places from bilge flakes of lire falling from the blazing rafters of the overhanging shod, and behind this, senseless, suffocated, helplessly lxmnd, two other forms. Thmstimr the sacks aside. tlje troopers seized and drugged forth their hapless fellow creatures. Jarred by sndden pressure, a burning upright snapped. There was a crackling, crashing sound and down came tho rafters, sending another column of flame to light np the features of men rescued not an instant too soon from tho death that awaited them, "Oh, God!" groaned tho stricken brother, fcurying his face in his arms an tho recollection of tho fearful events of the night came crowding upon him. For a moment he seemed to quiver and tremblo in every limb, then with sudden effort raised his head and turned again, the blood trickling anew from a gash itf his face ns he did so. I iiheiitiMl "It's tho bloodiest night I've known even in Arizona," said Lee to his young leader. "The paymaster and Mr. Harvey about as good as dead, old Feeny dying, most like, the clerk and Mullan and some other trooper of the escort burned to ashes in that hell hole there, and Donovan and this last one—some of our fellows think U isFlynn, from F troop shot to death. It's worse than Apache, lieutenant, and there'll l»e no use trying to restrain our fellows when we catch the blackguards." Briggs—Itubinsan's mother used to Lh a washwoman. And it was so. Griggs—'That's probably why he hangs up so many of his clothes.—Brooklyn Life. ' "Fan! Fan! you're a trump! God bless your brave heart!" cried Harvey, "ft seemed cowardly to go, yet the re. sjxinsibility was more than I could bear." Kxposuro, "He married such a cold girl." "Poor fellow. And lie is completely wrapiDed up inlier."—Detroit Tribune. "Givo me more of that," he moaned, stretching forth a trembling .hand. ' too. Lend 1110 a horse and your carbine. I must gol I must gol" But there his strength • failed him, and grasping wildly at empty air poor Harvey fell heavily back before tho sergeant could interpose an arm to save. 1 "May the snints in heaven smile on your purty face for all eternity!" muttered Feeny in a rapture of delight. "Tho young leddy is right, Mr. Harvey, though it wasn't fot me to say it. Shure yon can't trust thoee scoundrels. They'd stab ye in the back, sir. and rob you of your pretty sisters and drag them away liefore your dying eyes. That man Pawpial is a devil, sir, nothing less. Shure we'll fight till rescue comes, for come it will. I tell you theJCoys are spurring toward us, h—11 to split, from every side now, and we'll whale these scoundrels yet." away A Social Out) Ma«lc rieanaut. Maud—Did ycu enjoy your cali at Mrs. Frigiddes? Elaine—Yes. There in the fierce light of the flames now bursting from every window and roaring and shooting high in air from the brush heajxd roof of Moreno's ranch therestood the Concord wagon, stalwart men clinging to the heads of the plunging and excited mules, a big ruffian already in the driver's seat, whip and reins in hand; there beside it was the paymaster's ambulance, into which three of the gang were just shoving the green painted iron safe the Pandora's lxDx that had caused all their Borrows—there Moreno's California buckhoard. iiressed into service and l»e-tng used to carry the wounded, drawn by the extra mules, and then—God of heaven 1 what a sight for brother's eyes to seo and make no sign!—then one big Strange Coincidence. "—J—!—I" exclaimed the man as he fell into attopen coal hole. "That's strange," remarked And then the weary troop came trotting into view, old Sergeant Meinecke in command. Halting and dismounting at his signal, tho men stood silent and wondering at their horses' Jieads, while their leader went in to rC:iDort to Maud—I didn't know she was at home in the afternoons. A quarter of an hour later, leaving half a dozen soldiers under an experienced sergeant to guard the packs, the wounded and the nonconi bat ante at the smoldering ruins of the ranch, with barely a score of seasoned troopers at Ins back, Lieutenant Jim Druinmond rode resolutely out toward the southern desert, toward the distant line of jagged mountains that spanned the far horipon. The false and fatal blaze at the Picacho had utterly disappeared, and all was darkness at the west. The red gl»w of the smoldering embers lwhi nCi 'was no lonirer sufficient to light their a by- "What's fit range?" snorted the man as he climbed out. y '/Yoti're the twentieth man who's fallen in there this morning, and they've all urnde the same remarks."—Hallo. standcr. Elaine—She wasn't.- -Cbicago Record. '"Don't think of it, sir. Von're far too weak, and you're not needed. Never fear, the lieutenant and C troop will do all that men can do. They'll bring the ladies safely back as soon as they've hang what's left of that murdering gang. Ilellot That you. Fox V" ho shouted, springing up as two ot three horsemen came spurring in. Mifclit Be So. "My God!" cried Sergeant Lee,"this is old Feeny—and yet alive." Drummond barely lifted his eyes from the pallid features before him. "Unsaddle, sergeant; rubdown; pick out the best and likeliest horses. I want 20 men C0 go on a chase with mo. How soon can the packs get up?' his commander. A.—Why are they so slow about finishing your new house? Together the two raised the senseless form, lDoro it out. into t'D« ojk ii space, 'laid it gently beside t! W Irst discovery and ran back for the next, a big, heavy, bulky shape in 1CkDso ami bloodstained garments. It took all their strength to lag it, forth. Then the lieutenant bent by tho si do of tho slowly recovering civilian. B.—Because they are buildingit out of Philadelphia brick, I suppose.—Columbia Spectator. CaroumlM For Suspicion. Maud—How long after Nettioinafried him di'l she begin to suspect that ho was not a reftl nobleman? So all is nice and legal there. He sells the proprietor a thousand of his Stenchers cigars, eats 20 cents* worth of cloves, Then from without came the final hail: "They must lie fully half an hour liehind, sir," Just the One For Illm. Jennie—It was when she noticed that although two wt'i'kH had elapsed ho was still treating her with kindness and civilitv.—Chicairo Record. liver dish of calamus root into his pocki't nnrT then goes away to rai'l another sink hole of iniquity and soil it wiiic Cold Slaw cigars 4r emptu Mr. Sappy—Smart? Why, she Las bwains enough for two, Miss Mawy. "What answer, Harvey? Now or "Sorry for that, sergeant. We've got to take at least four of them; load them un with liarlev. bacon, hardtack, "It'8 I—Wing," was the answer in 'ringing tones. '' Fox is coining slower. Quick now. Is it so that that gang has run off t.ho vontiir lailins?" She—Has phe? Then sho is just the girl you ought to marry, Mr. Sappy.— Truth. never." I "Go to h—11, you son of an apo end "Are thero anv more wo can reach?"