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"jeptt jp f- THE ALLEN&-ARE THEY DESPERATE CRIMINALS, OR , , , JUST VICTIMS OP ISOLATION Something About, the Lives and Loves of the "People Who Killed Alfeaayas Paid Toll With Her Life. J Down" in a mountain valley of- Virginia,' a Judge. 'aid ajprosecu tor and a sheriff hveBeen shot down in'dpe c.Qrt; r .; Vengean.cehis blegnjsjorh, and many men and womeftVyyill die before thabyengeancejisiexacted. The story reatis, like the eighteenth century' " ,-v t J The Allehsnd-theipkm pf the Governdr Mann. Virginian mountains ARE of the eighteenth century. v ' As they livedthen,-as they fought then, as they'died then; so they live and, fight and die now. They are big, roughuneducat ed men, kindlyat heart anH pos sessed of a code of hqnor u and "ethics, as strict, and ihMts way as high, as that df anyman's t Their women arcbig-women bigt of body, ,big of heart. They Jove seldom; but when they do love, fhey love with a passion and a fierceness unknown to wo men of more "civilized," more ''refined" communities. They are mpst notable for their chastity. If you were to become lost in the Virginian mountains, and, when nearing exhaustion, were to come suddenly upon some lonely, rough-hewn cabin of the Aliens, you would be treated vith a courtesy and gentleness great er than the courtesy and gentle ness of ballrooms. The Aliens would feed you, and care ior you. You.would be given a bed if they themselves had to sleep,on the floor. The best they bad would be yours without the asking, and the only way you could give them offence would be to offer to pay for what you had received -at their hands. Yet these afe the same people who now are branded as cold blooded murderers, and they are the sdnje people who will drench the Virginian mountains with blood before they will allow themselves to, be captured. Yesterday one of them, an old man, was rounded up in his cabin in the depths of the mountains. Two score of detectives ambush ed themselves about the cabin, and poured a hail of bullets through its roughly built logs.