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8YN0P8I3.
i Archibald Tertiuna, a popular and In
iSnlent young baolu-ltir of Ion1on, r-pmlvt-a
news tli At ha Ihui l"n made lirlr
Jo tha eatata of lila Aunt Oeuririttiia, Willi
jn Imonie of fc.-A.uuO a yur. un conditio ft
ttiat he bfcoma enifiiKort to ba muirl'd
wlilun tn iluya. 1'ulliiiu to do ao the
Uisaey will to ft third oounln In Amer
ica. Tha iory opuna nt Omtla Wyrkoff,
whnra Lord Vlnrent and hla wife, frlt-mla
l.f Tetlaina, urn dlm-usulnir pinna to find
Iilm a wife wllhln the im-arrllmd time. It
eema thut Lady Vlnrrnt la oiia of BHVen
pxraona nitin-d Aantlia, nil cloea girlhood
cliuma. Hln du'ld.a to Invite two thoin
to tha rnatle and have Archie there aa
fcne of tha HWHta. Agntha Hlxlh atrlki-a
Archie aa a hatilpalttid beauty. AKiitlia
Flrat la a breny Amrlmn KlrL )ady
yinrent twlla her huxbund that Aifulha
Sixth already rarea for An-hle. He ipilna
from Aa-atha Blxth tha adiulaHlon that
aha rarea for him, but will require a
rnonth'a time filly to lntike up bur mind.
Acatha Flriit, noKlerted by T'rhiiBe, re
relvea attention from IHlle Kwr. Four
daya of the prncloua time have puaaed
when Terhune la railed to London on
bualnrea. AKatha Klrat, on tha plea of
alckneaa. exiuaea lnrMolf from a motor
trip planned by tha Vlnienta. Ijiter they
aee Arailia rirat nlrklnir flowera with a
nlrklnir
The Vln
traniie man.
rents
dlanuaa
A(tatha' aeerulnn duplicity. The follow
ing day the party vllta the rutna of an
old convent Terhune rontlnuea hla at
tntinn. to trntln Hlxth. Then auddnnly
he tranKfera hla nttcntlona to Aitatha.
Flrat. Vlnrent arorea him for hla appar
ent flrkleneaa. The lnat evening of tha
tlma allotted In which to become cnKnund
arrlvea. Tha following day Solicitor Burna
rill arrive from Ixmdon, and the Vin
cents are anxloua to conmimmate tha en
ngement. Vincent dlacovora Agatha
Flrat and a man with hla arm around
her waist. Vlnrent decide that the man
must be Terhune. The next morning Ter
hune and AKHtha First are very friendly
ft the breakfnst table, while Acatha
llxth aeema aomewhnt displeased. Bollcl
or Burna arrives. The Vincents are
anxious. In an Interview of Vincent and
Shi wife the Uttr cries In desperation
eror tha puizllnn condition of affolra.
CHAPTER X Continued.
"Then don't you understand?" she
aid. "Don't you seer
"Well, really, nearest, I dont," I
tad to acknowledge. "I don't see what
ell that has to do with"
. But her quickly bent head and low
choked cry of "Wilfred!" Interrupted
me and then the oddest thing of all
happened. There was my own wife
crying and there was I, her own hus
band, unable to comfort her because
she pushed me away every time I
came near her.
It was too much. And hang It all!
The cause of all the friendships In
the world wasn't worth that moment's
pain. I was disgusted with the whole
business, and In my agitation I went
down to the stables and flung myself
on a horse to try and ride the rancour
ct my first taste of Dcarest's displeas
ure out of my veins. But I didn't
make very good work of It and I am
afraid anathematized Agatha First
and Agatha Sixth an even old Ter
tiune himself all the way out and all
the way back.
, When I returned It was twelve
o'clock and the footman told me at
the door that Solicitor Barnes had ar
rived and was In the library. As I
bare said, In accordance with Ter
fcune's aunt's wishes, Dearest had in
vited Mrs. James' solicitor, Mr.
Barnes, of Barnes, Wllloughby & Sons,
up from London to take luncheon with
us, that he might be present at the
time when the stipulated ten days ex
pired and be witness to the fact that
the time was not overstepped by so
much as a minute. They had sent
the station wagon to meet him as per
Dearest's arrangements, and he had
reached the castle not ten minutes be
fore my own arrival. I was glad of
that, for I remembered, with a new
and troubled sense that I was no
longer In her good graces, that my
wife had Instructed me to meet him
inyself.
Impelled by this thought, I hurried
Into the library without changing my
riding things and found Solicitor
Barnes pacing restlessly up and down
the, apartment and glancing at his
-watch from time to time.
"Ah! Lord Vincent?" he asked we
had not yet met and as I assented 1
shook his thin Impassive hand as cor
dially as I could. He was like most
barristers I have met, a fishy looking
beast, though one couldn't help ad
miring the look of omniscience about
him, as If never so much at home.
"And how Is Lady Vincent?" he ln
' quired politely, when I had finished
apologizing for my attire and for my
neglect to meet him at the station.
Conversation was certainly flagging.
I had no heart for it, with all I had
on my mind, and bad begun to feel
pretty well talked out, when a foot
man appeared In the doorway and
wanted to . know if ho was to show
the gentleman upstairs.
I didn't answer hid question. It
seemed too much trouble to have to
explain to William that the barrister
was not a guest overnight, and Instead
I Inquired where Lady Vincent was.
I thought it rather odd that she did
not come down and welcome Mr.
Barnes, and was almost annoyed when
the man Informed me that "Her Lady
ship" was in her room and by her ex
press orders was not to be inter
rupted. "But does Bhe know that Mr. Barnes
is here?" I asked, rather impatient of
all this mystery. Mr. Barnes himself
answered me before William could
epeak. -. ,
"My dear Lord Vincent," he said.
"Don't, I pray, trouble about ft! I
have been welcomed by your lordship
and shall await Lady Vincent's pleas
ure In regard to meeting her, which
will be soon, no doubt, for we lunch
at one, do we not?" He took out his
big open-faced watch. '
"What time Is it?" I asked anxious
ly, as a sudden remembrance of the
Importance of that same luncheon
rushed over me. Would Terhune sit
(down to It an affianced or a free man?
CHAPTER XI.
"The noon hour exactly," said he.
"Great Scotland!" I exclaimed aloud.
fThen the deed, I thought, must be
jflone; I had been two boura riding.
rTerhune must have decided his fate
lone way or the other during that
klme. It was quite exciting. I rang
Ear a footman aa when William had
appeared ngriln
I asked htm where
Mr. Terhune was, realizing at the
sume time that It was Just as much
Arch's duty to entertain old BarnoB,
since the solicitor had come upon bis
business after all.
"Don't know, your lordship. Will
try to find him," said William, leaving
the room Just In time to cscupo col
liding with Tcrhuno. who burst In up
on us In a manner so unceremonious
and Bxcltablo as to be quite unlike
himself.
"Upon my vord, Vincent," he ex
claimed, quite Ignoring Solicitor
Barnes, "I'm glad I've found you! I
thought I never should! I say, where
have you been?"
"Riding," I replied, "for an hour or
two, and talking to Mr. Barnes, which
you should have been doing also. I
don't think you've spoken to blm yot,
have you?" But far from attending
to my hint, he hardly let me finlBh
before he grasped my shoulder and
was shaking It nervously.
"I've made a mess of it, Vincent!"
he said, and bis voice stirred me to
real feeling. It was so genuinely dis
tressed. "Upon my word I have! I
wouldn't have believed It if you'd told
me yesterday, but she's refused me!"
"By Jove!" I expostulated, for of
course I knew that Agatha Sixth was
the "she" referred to. "You don't say
so!" And somehow I felt Just as sur
prised and disappointed as If I had
not kuown of my friend's rash es
capade of the night before. I had felt
so sure that it would all come right.
"Kef used me!" he went on distract
edly. "Just as If I'd been the dirt
under her feet, my dear boy! As If I
were Insulting ber by asking her!
Mo a Terhune! As If I were insult
ing her!" His face flushed again at
the thought and he ran an agitated
"Yes, I Did Ak the
hand through his thick, slightly gray
hair, careless of the disorder It left in
Its wake.
"Poor old chap!" I said pityingly. I
felt thunderingly sorry for him, for It
was uncommonly hard lines, but some
how I couldn't think of a thing to say
that made matters any better.
"Where was it?" I asked him with a
natural curiosity to learn the scene of
the disaster.
"In the west garden," he replied.
"I'd been sticking in the house all
morning waiting for her to come down
stairs. You know she went up right
after breakfast, but hadn't succeeded
in seeing her. So I thought I'd take a
turn In the garden to brace me up,
and there she was herself!"
"Fine!" I ejaculated, as Interested
in his recital of the catastrophe as
If I were at a play or watching the
races. We had both of us forgotten
Solicitor Barnes, who had retired dis
creetly to the hearthrug and was
pacing It with mathematical precision.
"Not so fine!" went on Terhune,
"because she made as if to escape me
directly, which of course wasn't very
encouraging!"
"Decidedly not!" I exclaimed. "But
you asked her?"
"I did. I blocked her way as she
started up the path, put my cane right
across in front of her, and asked her
why she wanted to run away from me
when all I wanted In the world was to
stay by her all the rest of my life!"
"Bravo!" I cried. "Played, indeed!
And then?"
,"And then," he tald, polishing his
eyeglass furiously as he spoke, "and
then If she didn't go and pretend to
misunderstand me! But I didn't let
that hinder me. I simply said It again
as plain as man can put It, 'Will you
marry me?'" He stopped and I could
see that pain and anger, resentment
and humiliation for the moment had
mastered his power of speech. "And
then?" I prompted him again.
"Why then she refused me!" he said.
"She told me If I were the last man on
earth she wouldn't marry me! It was
very cruel and I can't imagine why she
should eraak so harshly!" I thought I
could.- I fancied I understood Agatha
Sixth's reasons for behaving as she did
perfectly well, in the light of her suit
or's performance the previous evening.
But of course Terhune was still In the
dark as to our knowledge of that episode.
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"dud, Wilfred!" he went on In de
spairing tones. "Think what I've lost!'
"Yes," I agreed. "Dnsh it all!
thought wo had you all fixed for a for
tune. Arch!"
But he didn't appear to hear mo, foi
he dropped despondently into an am
clmlr, repeating as it to hlmaolf,
"Think what I've IohU"
There waa a momentary ellcnco t
the room, broken only by the drj
clearing of Mr. Barnes' legal throat.
Then I went over and put uiy bund on
Arch's shoulder. I folt sorry for blm.
and I couldn't beur to sou all m
bright plans for bis future end so. )
wouldn't have It, In fact. "Como
come!" I expostulated, "Don't g've up!
You must make another try! Surol
you're not going to throw away youi
only chance "of Inheriting a propertj
that will make you rich for life and
which should be yours by light of youi
aunt's promiBo, for the lack of a little
spirit! Or If you di, it's not like you
that's all!"
But my words die not succeed In
arousing blm.
"Oh, as to that," he said, speaking
from the depths of his misery and tht
arm chair, "as to having another try,
look at the clock!" I looked. It wai
half after twelve.
"Time's up at ono, Isn't It, Barnes?"
he asked, taking notice of that worthy
barrister for the first time.
"I believe It Is, Mr. Terhune," re
piled Mr. Barnes, as Indifferently as II
it were only a question of boiling
breakfast eggs.
"You see," said Arch, looking at m
despairingly, "there's no use talking ol
urging her again. I could do nothing
at all with her in that short time, even
If I were Inclined to. It's a pity, of
course. I rather fancied that propertj
of my aunt's. An income of $20,000 a
year is a good deal to lose at oue blow.
Especially when the blow Is unexpect
ed! By Jove, you know, she did hall
way promise to marry me, after all!
Can't think why she changed hoi
mind!" But of course I could think,
and I didn't quite see how Terhune
could call the blow unexpected.
"You know I warned you that you
were paying far too much attention to
Agatha First," I said, "but you would
Indulge your fondness for flirtation and
you see the result an upset kettle ol
fish!" It was all the reference to th
Girl to Marry Me."
scene In the drawing room of the night
before that I Intended to make. After
all, as in the case of my discovery of
the red automobile in the wood, we had
seen what we were not meant to have
seen. And until Arch came to me and
spoke of that event himself and asked
my advice, my hurt friendship made
me resolve not to demand his confi
dence or thrust advice upon him. Let
him keep his secret if that was his
wish. I would not intrude upon It,
though his reticence pained me ever so
much.
"I couldn't very well holp It," he re
plied. "Upon my word I couldn't The
girl's very fetching, you know, and she
seemed to take such an extraordinary
fancy to me that I couldn't help re
sponding. Agatha Sixth, on the other
hand, had hardly a word to say to
me!"
"Of course not!" I said hotly. "The
more attention you paid to Agatha
First, the less Miss Lawrence paid to
you. That was quite natural. You'd
askod the girl to marry you, you know,
and she couldn't understand why you
should want to have anything to do
with anyone else!"
' "Yes, I did ask the girl to marry me,
and she chose to keep me waiting for
an answer," replied Arch impatiently,
"which kept everything at a standstill.
I couldn't go ahead till she said the
word, and as time hung heavy on my
hands "
"You made love to some one else.
Deuced clever!" I interposed sarcasti
cally. "Well, I couldn't make love to hei
very well, could I, when she wouldn't
say positively whether she wanted m
to or not? She kept me at arm't
length all the time!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Shines of Pioneer Days.
"A .file of bootblacks now does dutj
In front of the California exchangt
and the man with dirty boots whi
passes them and is no customer must
run the gantlet. Capital enters tht
field with the armchairs and cushions
and to the armchairs and cushlon
newspapers are added. Close to tht
customer's eyes is this placard
'Boots blacked (not wet or greased)
25 cents. Boots blacked (when wet o
greased), 60 cents. Boots blacked (al
over, legs, etc.), 50 cents.'" Whittle
sticks Wide West A paper published
in San lYanclsco fifty yari ago.
(3Ae HOME
DEPARTMENT
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MAKE CANDY AT HOME
SOME SIMPLE RECIPES FOR
WHOLESOME SWEET8.
How to Mike Delicious Chocolate
Caramels, Peanut Nougat, Cocoanut
Creams, Sweet Popcorn, Old-Faah-loned
Molasses Candy.
Chocolate Caramelt. Two table
spoonfuls of butter, one-halt cup of
milk, one-half cup of sugar, one cup
of moIaHae8, four squares of chocolate,
one cup of walnut meats broken In
fine pieces.
Put butter in a porcelain saucepan
and when molted add milk, sugar and
molasses. When these are at the boil
ing point add chocolate, finely grated,
and cook until brittle when tried in
cold water. Stir often to prevent mix
ture from sticking to pan. Remove
from the fire, beat four tliies, and
thon put In the nuts and two tel
spoonfuls of vanilla and tura lnta a
buttered pan. When cold cut In
squares and wrap each in paralln
paper.
Peanut Nougat. One poun 1 of su
gar and ono quart of shelled peanuts.
Chop the nuts fine, and sprinkle them
with a little table salt. Put the sugar
in a smooth granite saucepan, and
when it Is on the fire stir constantly
until melted to a syrup, taking care
to keep the sugar from hardening on
the sides of tho pan. Add the nuts,
stirring them well through the sugar,
and pour at once Into a warm, but
tered tin and murk the squares. The
sugar must be taken from the fire
the moment It Is melted or this candy
will not be a success.
Cocoanut Creams. Two cups of
sugar, two-thirds cup of milk, two tea
spoonfuls of butter, one-hulf cup of
shredded cocoanut one-half teaspoon
ful of vanilla. Put butter in a gran
ite saucepan; when melted add sugar
and milk. Heat to boiling point and
stir until sugar is dissolved and then
boll gently twelve minutes; remove
from fire, add cocoanut and vanilla
and beat until creamy and mixture
begins to sugar slightly around edges
of saucepan. Pour them Into a but
tered pan, cool slightly and mark off
in diamonds.
Pralines. One and seven-eighths
cups of powdered sugar, one cup of
maple syrup, one-half cup of cream,
two cups cf hickory nuts or pecan
meats, cut In pieces. Boll first three
things until, when tried in cold wa
ter, a soft ball forms. Remove at
once from fire and beat until creamy;
add nuts and drop from tip of spoon
in small blobs on buttered paper.
Old Fashioned Molasses Candy.
Two cups of Porto Rico molasses,
two-thirds cup of sugar, three table
spoonfuln of butter, one tablespooniul
of cider vinegar. An iron or copper
kettle with round bottom is best for
making this. Put butter in, place
QUAINT PLATE DECORATION
Common Plate Ornamented With
Postage Stamps Makes Pretty
and Unique Effect.
A very quaint and effective decora
tion for hanging upon the wall or
placing upon the mantel-piece is
shown in the accompanying sketch, in
the shape of a plate ornamented with
old postage stamps.
A common plate, one of those little
white plates that may be purchased
for a penny, for instance, will quite
well answer the purpose.
Any paper adhering to the stamps
should be carefully removed and the
greater the variety of stamps used,
the more effective the plate will look
when finished.
With a little ingenuity a great many
different designs may be worked upon
the plates, and it is an easy matter
to gum the stamps in their position.
WISE BUYING TH BEST
Take an Inventory of Stock and Ex
perienceIt May Help When
You Shop.
Do we buy unwisely at times and
under stress, or do we buy wisely as
a habit?
If we do the latter, this is high time
to reform. No woman wants her
closet filled with gowns and hats that
are useless, and she does not want
the memory of having spent $10 on
something that had to be given away
because she could not uee it
It is all very well to give away old
clothes, but it takes a saint to give
away new ones with any degree of un
selfishness and equanimity.
What the coming season will really
bring is only rumored, not foretold.
There is no reason to believe that hats
a skirts will bo less eccentric than
hey have been. Colors will probably
e loss vivid and black will be much
vorn. Hats will be trimmed at the
jack, skirts will be short, and pre
sumably narrow.
The hair will go back to the Greek
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over fire and when melted add mo
luAHea and Biigur. Stir until sugar In
dissolved doing this well when the
candy Is nearly done lent it burn.
Boll until the mixture becomes brittle
in cold water. Add vinegar JuEt be
fore taking It from the fire, and thon
pour into a well buttered pan. When
cool enounji to handle, pull until light
in color and porous in quality;, do
this with the tips of the fingers and
thumb. Cut In small pieces with
greased shears, and then arrange on
slightly buttered platters to cool.
SOME SIMPLE COMBINATIONS
Nainsook, Jap 811k, or Fine Calico
May Be Used In This
Garment.
Nainsook, Jap silk, or fine calico,
might be used for the simple comblna-
tions illustrated here; the front is
trimmed with groups of tucks and
strips of insertion, then the edge is
finished with beading and lace; this
also trims the armholes. Tucks are
made at the waist to cause a good fit.
The le,'3 are finished with frills of
material edged with insertion and
lace; ribbon bows are sewn at the
side.
Materials required: 2 yards 36
inches w'tde, 1 yards beading, KVt
yards late, 3V yards insertion, 3
yards rlbTion.
until the plate is entirely covered.
When complete, It should be varnish
ed with ftome transparent varnish, as
it will preserve the stamps and also
enable the plate to be cleaned when
occasion, arises.
TWO SIMPLE MADE-OVERS
Tailored? Shirtwaists Are Easily Made
Over for House Wear in
Morning.
D?d you know that you could make
over yc"ur old tailored shirtwaists for
house wear in the morning? Cut out
the neck at the collarband and the
sleeves at the cuffs. Supply instead
plain percale low collars and turn
back cuffs of some contrasting color.
Cut off also the skirt sections which
are ustlally torn by pinning and sup
ply a belt of the percale. This belt
will fasten over the skirt; thus, all
you wfJl need to complete your toilet
when dressing hurriedly in the morn
ing will be a pin to hold your collar
closed.
Another made-over is the apron
which was originally a lingerie blouse.
Use tie front, cutting a bib of one
sleeve and tie-ends of the other. The
back -ill make the belt and face the
lower edge. With a little ribbon-run
beading and a lace ruffle, here is an
apron you will not be ashamed ta
pour tea or do embroidery in.
Rule for Stitching.
Don't stitch skirt seams all in on
direction; the bias side should beheld
under the straight edge, which meant
that the seams of half the skirt should
be stitched from top to bottom and
the o'.her half from bottom to top.
fashion and be arranged in a large
psyche w many small curls the pom
padour shows no sign of returning
Theri is a strong tendency to bring
high collars back into fashion and put
the collarless blouse out of commis
sion. ' But whatever the fashion, the great
point is the way the individual ap
proaches them. If you will go to work
now, take an inventory of stock and
experience, get the result well in your
mind, and be guided by it when you
begin to buy clothes next month, then
you will be less apt to make mistakes
and will probably view your purchases
with serenity after you have worn
them.
Silk Stockings.
Silk stockings should always be
bought with cotton feet to wear bet
ter. If you have been a foolish virgin,
however, or have been presented an
all-silk pair, line the heels of your
evening slippers with velvet Paste
It smoothly from the sole to the edge,
making the piece about two Inches
wide from the center of the back.
Uso Slue, not mucilage.
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HE TEXAS RANGERS, who
have had a prominent part in
trouble along our southwestern
border, constitute a force that
Is more feared by miscreants
han any other body of men that civi
lization has ever organized.
They carry law and order to the re
mote regions along the Rio Grande,
where outlaws of two nations take
refuge. Tbey carry it into the back
woods, where feuds rage constantly,
beside which those of Kentucky's
mountains sink into Insignificance.
Tbey carry it into populous cities.
They carry It into every nook and
corner of that great state of Texas,
the extent of which is such that they
are problems to face such as other
states dream not of.
The Texas rangers are the most
picturesque set of legalized fighting
men in this country. They have no
counterpart in the world. Only forty
In number, they are equal to almost
any emergency that may arise when it
comes to putting to a test real fight
ing qualities. Tht presence of one
ranger upon a scene of disorder and
threatened lawlessness is usually suf
ficient to quickly restore peace and
uphold the dignity of the law. The
ranger Is there to do his duty. He
Joes It fearlessly.
The rangers are picked men, every
one of them. They must be proved
experts in marksmanship and at home
In the saddle; they must be of good
moral character, which means that
they do not drink or gamble. When
a vacancy In a company occurs the
captain selects the man to fill it
"I can Iook into a man's eyes and
tell whether he has got the right kind
of stuff in him to make a good rang
vc," Captain W. J. (Bill) McDonald,
wbo suW many years in the service,
BHid the other day. "I nevef made a
Mistake in picking my mn."
Most of the rangers were former
lowboys. When a man leaves the
ranger service he usually either goes
back to the ranch or takes a position
as peace officer in some county or
city.
The official reports of the adjutar.
general's department of Texas show
that during the period from 1870 to
1SS4 Indians and Mexican thieves
itole 30,838 head of cattle, 3.781
horses and 2,436 sheep. The maraud
ers killed hundreds of citizens, burned
many homes and destroyed a vast
amount of property. "Although cat
tle stealing was the original object of
the raids, the lawless bands engaged
In them have been necessarily led to
the perpetration of other and greater
crimes. The lawless spirit engendered
by their trade, and their own protec
tion, caused them to murder travel
ers who happened to meet them on
their raids, and tkcie whom they
thought might inform against them.
In fact, theBe raids were soon turned
Into generai rtffcbery and murder.
The conditions on the lower Rio
Grande border region began to Im
prove as soon tin Captain L. H. Mc
Nelly and his company of rangers
were sent dow!i there to run down
the outlaws. McNelly adopted the
policy of giving no quarter. He asked
none. It was fight to the death
when be and Mr men got within
(hooting distance of the Mexican
thieves.
The men who won distinction in the
Texas ranger service were the fore
runners of the present era of peace,
development and prosperity that the
state is enjoying. Most of the many
rangers who wou distinction for their
bravery and notable exploits in the
performance of their duty are dead.
Some were killed in the service, oth
ers succumbed to natural causes. A
few of them are still alive and active.
Rangers Carnes, Lawrence, West
and Craighead recently rode Into a
Jungle that skirts the Rio Grande near
its mouth. Mexican renegades were
hidden In the thickets and the rang- j
ers knew the deatily peril Into which
they rode.
Despite the disadvantage under
which they worked, the rangers rode
Into the thicket. They could die but
Once and their business was to court
Seata. A road had been cut through
the Jungle and following this the rang- j
ers were ambushed. The outlaws
opened on them at close range with
shotguns and every man went down.
Carnes and Lawrence were killed and j
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Craighead and West were wounded
Pablo Trevino was so indiscreet ai
to peep for a moment from the thick)
et and Ranger Carnes, whose right
arm was broken and who was neai
death, shifted his six-shooter to hii
left hand and got bis man, then died
Sergeant W. J. h. Sullivan, who hal
been shot to pieces so many tlmei
that he Is no longer able to chaB4
outlaws, is doorkeeper for the hous
side of the Texas legislature. He hai
the reputation of having been th
best ranger sergeant that the force
ever knew.
If the present movement to abolisb
the rangers Is not carried Into effect
by the legislature It is probable that
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the service will be completely reor
ganized. It is planned to merge the
four companies, each of which now
consists of only ten men, into one
company of forty men, and to place It
in charge of an experienced officer,
who shall have full control of all
ranger operations.
Songs From Welsh Tournament.
The great festival of a people's po
etry has Just lately ended at Colwyn
bay. All Wales center of spontane
ous song while the age of science
seems to have dulled the sense of
poetry in the modern world turn to
its Eisteddfod with undiminished fer
vor, to hear weisn bards cnant tna
nation's songs.
With the progress of Welsh sons
there has come the desire to make
it known to English speaking people.
At the suggestion of Mr. Lloyd George
and other leading Welshmen, Mr. Al
fred Perceval Graves, himself an hon
orary member of the Gorsedd, has set
to work to make a series of English
versions from the Welsh poets, includ
ing some of those attending the last
Eisteddfod. The old songs and the
new in the examples Mr. Graves has
translated, in the same measure as
the Welsh originals, show how the
character of Welsh national poetry,
has remained unchanged. I
Cause of Hla Demise.
Watkins Didn't you say your father.
was an Inventor?
Tompkins Yes; he made a specialty
of inventing safety devioes.
Watkins Is he still living?
Tompkins No; he Invented andj
demonstrated. safstv folding bed.
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