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SAINS 34 POUNDS
Quit Taking Tanlac 18 Months
Ago—Still Retains Weight
and Feels Fine.
SUFFERED TWENTY YEARS
John Crsbtree Says tM Money H#
Paid for Tanlac Was Best
Investment He Ever Made
in His Life.
"I have gained thirty-four pounds on
three bottles of Tanlac and I now know
■what it is to enjoy life and good health
after suffering twenty years," said
John M. Crabtree, a general merchant
at Five Mile Station A, Dallas, Texas.
"I bought my first bottle nearly two
years ago," continued Mr. Crabtree,
"and it was the best investment I ever
made in my life. I began to improve
almost from the start and three
bottles simply made me over Into a new
man. I have enjoyed the best of health
ever since.
"I suffered with catarrh of the stom-
ach and Indigestion for twenty years
and for eighteen months I had to live
almost entirely on cereals. My stom-
ach was full of gas and I suffered with
awful headaches all the time. I was
nervous and couldn't sleep. I spent
nearly all of one whole year in bed
and fell off in weight to one hundred
and eighteen pounds.
"After using three bottles of Tanlac,
I had increased in weight from one
hundred and eighteen ^pounds to one
hundred and fifty-two—making an ac-
tual gain of thirty-four pounds—all my
troubles were gone and I was feel-
ing like a new man.
"Although It has been a year and
a half since Tanlac relieved me of my
awful catarrhal trouble and indiges-
tion, I still retain my increase in
•weight and feel simply fine all the
time. I've been eating anything I
■want—In fact anything anybody else
can—and sleeping like a child every
night. Being made into a strong,
healthy man after suffering as long
as I did Is enough to make me rejoice
and I'm glad to indorse Tanlac be-
cause I know what it will do."
There is a Tanlac dealer in your
town.—Adv. v
A Sporting Event.
At a recent sports meeting in a coun-
try town an old countryman picked up
a disused program of events and was
studying it earnestly when a swell ap-
proached him.
"Hello, old chap, what's the next
event on the program?"
Old Man (looking up from his card)
—A donkey race, sir. Are you going to
run?"
Dr. Peery* "Dead Shot" la powerful and
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to expel Worms or Tapeworm. No castor
Oil neceaaary. Adv.
Catching On.
"What Is the meaning of 'alter ego?"
asked the teacher of the beginners'
class In Latin.
"It means the 'other I,'" responded
a pupil.
"Give me a sentence containing the
phrase."
"He winked his alter ego."—Boston
Transcript. ,
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t BASE HIT LOSES GAME |
| "Never will I forget a base hit *
*£ Demmitt got for us against the
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St. Louis and lost us the ball
game," said a White Sox player.
"It was beginning to rain when
we went to bat the last of the
fifth. The score was tied. They
tried hard to stall along, but we
managed to get a home run, and
then they stalled harder than
ever.
"Faber came to bat, and, try-
ing to strike out, knocked a
dinky grounder the Browns *
didn't try to field. Red stole sec- J||
ond, third and home on three ~
pitched balls, no attempt being
made to nail him.
"It was up to Demmitt to fan,
_ for two were out, but instead of _
jj doing this, he happened to knock *
a little roller that went for a |f*
single. Then, next instant, it %
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mained a tie. We played it off tf
and lost." *
WOULD CHANGE GERMAN NAME
Nick Altrock Asks Court to Permit
Him to Call Himself MacAltrock
—Can't Take Chances.
Nicholas Altrock is a ball player
tvho can trace his ancestors back to
the land of the kaiser. He is a regu-
lar German, but thus far has kept it a
secret. Now that there is a mix-up
between this country and Germany,
however, Nicholas has taken it upon
himself to be prepared and maintain
Nick Altrock.
an attitude of the strictest neutrality
He did not enlist for that would inter-
fere with his ball playing. Instead,
he wandered Into court In Washing-
ton recently and asked that his name
be changed to "MacAltrock." Nick be-
lieves the little dash of Scotch will
deceive the dear old public and save
him from many unpleasant moments
on the ball field.
"Yes, that's straight about changing
my name," said Nick; "I can't take
any chances these days, and if the fans
don't take kindly to that 'Mac' stuff, I
am prepared to carry It further. As a
last resort I shall go into court and
have my front name changed to Mi-
chael. How would Michael MacAlt-
rock sound?"
MONEY MAKERS HURT SPORTS
Trouble Arises Between Owner and
Player When Discussion of Re-
ceipts Is Taken Up.
Grantland Rice says that the influ-
ence of money upon sport is bound to
be bad. There is no way out. As long
as gate receipts continue to grow there
is a certainty of ill feeling at hand
between thofee who pay and those who
play. It has been suggested that in
baseball a good many years ago there
was far less trouble between magnate
and player. This Is true. But there
was also a run of smaller gate re-
ceipts. When admissions run up to
8,000 and 10,000 a day and the pot In-
creases, trouble is sure to keep pil-
ing up. The player wants to make all
he can get. The owner wants to get
all he can make, both sides having the
true human touch. There is nothing
at all out of the ordinary in all this,
since the same conditions exist in
every branch of existence. It only
seems worse in a game, for everyone
likes to think that sport is divorced
from financial consideration, whereas
in this country sport and the love of
watching sport have been capitalized
to the limit. The only way out would
be to abolish all gate receipts. And
this is no way out, for then there
would be no daily baseball. So base-
ball will have to fight its way out, just
as various other trades have to scram-
ble along, with a few breathing spells
between trouble. Big money has come
to the game, and big money means big
trouble when discussion of the proper
split arises. It may seem to be a
shame that a great game should be
marred' by loud and raucous debate
over the division of the spoils, but
there are a number of things in this
world that seem to be a shame that
can't be averted.
ABILENE SELECTED FOR
WEST TEXAS COLLEGE SITE
Dissension Has Arisen Among Merry
bers of the Board Over Voting
for Site.
Austin, Tex.—At the conclusion of a
meeting of the locating board of the
West Texas A. and M. College at Aus-
tin Friday the announcement was
made by the several members of the
board that Abilene had been selected
as the location for the institution.
Abilene won the college over twenty-
two other West Texas cities and towns.
The initial cost of the college is to
be $500,000.
There were five members of the
commission to locate the school. These
five met in executive session in the
office of the governor and agreed that
nothing save the announcement of the
result was to be made public.
But three of the five members—a
majority of the commission—have
since made statements that they did
not vote for Abilene on either the
first or the second ballots; that an-
nouncement was made after the sec-
ond ballot that Abilene had received
three votes and that they then agreed
to making the action unanimous.
Governor Ferguson asserts that Abi-
lene was unanimously selected on
the third ballot and has issued a
lengthy statement giving the reasons
why the location was decided upon.
Governor Ferguson and Superintend-
ent Doughty voted for Abilene on both
the first and second ballots; Lieuten-
ant Governor Hobby, Speaker Fuller
and Commissioner Davis voted for
Abilene on neither of the first two
ballots; and voted on the third only
because of the f announcement made
that Abilene had received three votes
on the second ballot.
The site which Abilene offered com-
prises 2,000 acres and is valued at
$125,000. It is to be sold to the state
for $40,000. It is situated just south
of the town of Abilene and near the
state epileptic colony. The city of
Abilene is to furnish free water for
all purposes, including Irrigation of
fifty acres, this water to come from
a dam across Elm Creek to twenty-four
miles above the city. A railroad
switch is to be built to the site and
a depot erected. The street car line
is to be extended to the ground. Nat-
ural gas is to be furnished the insti-
tution at the rate of 12 %c per 1,000
feet. A motor line is to be operated
between the college grounds and the
city.
The citizens of Abilene will execute
a bond of $50,000 to obligate them-
selves to furnish all of the benefits of-
fered in their bid to secure the college.
Not unyi an adequate water supply
is fully developed at Abilene will a
brick be laid in the construction of
the new West Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College, is the opinion ex-
pressed by a member of, the board of
directors of the Agriciiltural and Me-
chanical College, which will have jur-
isdiction over the new institution.
Governor Ferguson gave out a state-
ment Friday in which he describes
Abilene's advantages and expresses
the opinion that the commission made9
a wise choice. Says construction is to
begin at once and "it is possible to
build at Abilene an agricultural and
mechanical college that will be the
pride of Texas."
Russians Begin Offensive Move.
The soldiers of new Russia have as-
sumed the aggressive. For the first
time since the revolution last March
Russian troops have begun an attack
on an extensive scale. Along a front
of eighteen and a half miles in the re-
gion of Brzezany, Galicia, Russian
troops have stormed the German posi-
tions. Berlin says the Russians suf-
fered heavy losses and were compelled"
to reti re before the German fire. The
attack was made between the upper
Stripa and the Narayuvka river, a trib-
utary of the Gnila Lipa in the section
southeast of Lemberg, the Galician
capital, where the artillery firing has
been heavy recently. v
Greek Cabinet Is Sworn In.
Athens.—The Greek ministry head-
ed by Eleutherios Venizelos took the
oath at the palace Wednesday and was
acclaimed by an enthusiastic crowd.
The new ministry is: Premier and
minister of war, M. Venizelos; min-
ister of the interior, M. Repoulies;
minister of foreign affairs, M. Politis;
minister of marine, Admiral P. Coun-
douriotis; minister of finance, M.
Michsalacopoudos; minister of agri-
culture, M. Negropontes; minister of
communication, M. Paapanastasion;
minister of education, M. Dingas; min-
ister of food supplies, M. Embirkos;
minister of relief for refugees, M. Si*
mos.
Car Plunges Into Niagara River.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—A belt line car
on the great gorge route, loaded with
passengers, left the rails, plunged
down a twenty-foot embankment and
turned over in ten feet of water on the
edge of the whirlpool rapids Sunday.
Nine persons were killed outright.
Florence Brown Murder Mystery.
Dallas, Tex.—Felix Jones, in custody
at El Paso, was indicted Saturday by
the Dallas county grand jury on a
charge of murder of Miss Florence
Browu in a Dallas real estate office on
July 28, 1913. Jones is said to have
denied any knowledge of the killing.
He is held in El Paso in connection
with the death of Thomas Lyons of Sil-
ver City, N. M., whose body was found
in the Highland Park addition to EI
Paso on May lb with bis skull crushed
with some instrument.
HEART OF THE SUNSET
By Rex Beach
Copyright by Harper & Brothers
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ALAIRE AUSTIN AROUSES THE BRUTAL C0VET0USNESS
IN GENERAL LONGORIO'S NATURE AND HE BE-
GINS TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY
Mrs. Alaire Austin, a handsome young matron, mistress of Las
Palmas j*anch, gets lost in the Texas desert and after an all-day
struggle Wanders into the little camp of David Law, a ranger,
hunting a Mexican murderer. Circumstances force her to stay 24
hours in the camp. Law catches his man, kills another and es-
corts her home. "Young Ed" Austin, drunken wastrel, berates his
wife and makes insinuations about the ranger. Austin is se-
cretly in league with Mexican rebels. Alaire starts for her ranch
La Feria, in federal Mexican territory, to secure damages for cat-
tle confiscated by soldiery.
CHAPTER V—Continued.
—5—
"I was coming to that. Your hus-
band, senora, is an active Candele-
rista."
For a moment Alaire was at a loss;
then she replied with some spirit: "We
are two people, he and I. La Feria be-
longs to me."
"Nevertheless his conduct is regret-
table," Longorio went on. "Probably
evil men have lied to him."
For the first time Dolores stirred.
She had watched her countryman with
a peculiar fascination. Now she said,
as if freed from a spell:
"Pah! Nobody pays heed to Senor
Ed. We do not consider him."
Alaire turned upon her with a sharp
exclamation, conscious meanwhile that
the woman's tone, even more than her
words, had enlightened Longorio to
some extent. His lifted brows were
eloquent of surprise and curiosity, but
he held his tongue.
"Am I to understand, then, that you
rob me because of my husband's ac-
tion?" Alaire asked.
"No. I shall help." Longorio beamed
enthusiastically. "It shall be the ob-
ject of my life to serve you, and you
and I shall arrange this matter satis-
factorily. I have influence, believe me.
Duty calls me to Nuevo Pueblo, and
you shall return with me as the guest
of my government.'' He rose to his
feet, but his eagerness soon gave place
to disappointment.
"Thank you," said Alaire, "but I
must first go to La Feria and get all
the facts." " v
"Senora! It is a wretched journey.'
See!" He waved a contemptuous ges-
ture at the car, crowded to congestion.
"There is no food; you have no one to
wait upon you. In my company you
will be safe. Upon my honor, you will
enjoy the highest courtesy—"
"Of course. But I must go on. I
have Dolores and Jose to look after
me." Alaire indicated Sanchez, who
had edged his way very close and now
stood with admiring eyes fixed upon
his hero.
"Yes, mi general," Jose exclaimed,
eagerly, "I am here."
Longorio scrutinized the horse-
breaker critically. "Your name is—?"
"Jose Sanchez."
"You look like a brave fellow."
Jose swelled at this praise, and no
doubt would have made suitable an-
swer, but his employer held out her
hand, and General Longorio bent over
it, raising it to his lips. He called one
of his subordinates closer and ordered
that a lieutenant and six soldiers be
detached to ac"t as an escort to Mrs.
Austin's party. "Senora, the hours
will drag until I may see you
again and be of further service. Mean-
while I shall be tortured with radiant
dreams. Go with God !" For a second
time he bowed and kissed the hand ho
held, then, taking Jose Sanchez inti-
mately by the arm, he turned to the
door.
Dolores collapsed into her seat with
an exclamation. "Caramba! The man
is a demon! And such eyes. Uf!"
Dolores was interrupted by Longo-
rio's voice beneath the open window.
The general stood, cap in hand, hold-
ing up to Alaire a solitary wildflower
which he had plucked beside the track.
"See!" he cried. "It is the color of
your adorable eyes—blue like the
sapphire gem." He placed the deli-
cate bloom in Alaire's fingers and was
gone.
"Cuidado!" breathed Dolores. "There
is blood on it; the blood of innocents.
He will burn for a million years in hell,I
that man."
J Jose Sanchez came plowing into
Alaire's car, tremendously excited.
"Look, senora!" he cried. "Look what
ttie general gave me," and he proudly
displayed Longorio's service revolver.
Around Jose's waist was the cartridge
belt and holster that went with the
weapon. "With his own hands he
buckled it about me, and he said,
'Jose, something tells me you are a
devil for bravery. Guard your, mistress
with your life, for if any mishap be-
falls her I shall cut out your heart
with my own hands.' Those were his
very words, senora. Caramba ! There
is a man to die for."
Nor was this the last of Longorio's
dramatic surprises. Shortly after the
train had got under way the lieutenant
in command of Alaire's guard brought
li r a small package, saying:
"The general commanded me to hand
you this, with his deepest regard."
Alaire accepted the object curiously.
It was small and heavy and wrapped
in several leaves torn from a notebook,
and it proved to be nothing less than
the splendid diamond-and-ruby ring
she had admired.
"God protect us, now!" murmured
Dolores, crossing herself devoutly.
CHAPTER VI.
Blaze Jones and His Neighbors.
Blaze Jones rode up to his front gate
and dismounted in the shade of the big
ebony tree. He stepped back and ran
an approving eye over another animal
tethered there. Of course the youths
of this day were nothing like the
youths of his own, and yet—Blaze let
his gaze linger fondly on the highbred
mare and her equipment—here at least
was a person who knew a good horse,
a good saddle and a good gun.
As he came up the walk he heard
Paloma laugh, and his own face light-
ened, for his daughter's merriment was
contagious. Then as he mounted the
steps and turned the corner of the
"gallery" he uttered a hearty greeting.
"Dave Law! Where in the world
did you drop from?"
Law uncoiled himself and took the
ranchman's hand. "Hello, Blaze! I
been ordered down here to keep you
straight."
"Pshaw! Now who's been giving
you orders, Dave?"
"Why, I'm with the Rangers."
"Never knew a word of it. Last I
heard you was filibustering around
with the Maderistas."
Blaze seated himself with a grateful
sigh where the breeze played over him.
He was a big, bearlike, swarthy man
with the square-hewn, deep-lined face
of a tragedian, and a head of long,
curly hair, which he wore parted in a
line over his left ear. Jones was a
character, a local landmark. This part
of Texas had grown up with Blaze,
and he possessed a splendid indiffer-
ence to the artificial fads of dress
and manners. He was plainly an out-
door man.
"So you're a Ranger, and got notches
on your gun." Blaze rolled and lit a
tiny cigarette, scarcely larger than a
wheat straw. "Well, you'd ought to
make a right able thief-catcher, Dave,
only for your size—you're too long for
a man and you ain't long enough for a
snake. Still, I reckon a thief would
have trouble getting out of your reach,
and once you got closer to him— How
many men have you killed?"
"Counting Mexicans?" Law inquired
with a smile.
"Nobody counts them."
"Not many."
"That's good." Blaze nodded and
relit his cigarette, which he had per-
mitted promptly to smolder out. "The
force ain't what it was. Most of the
boys nowadays join so they can ride
a horse cross-lots, pack a pair of
guns, and give rein to the predilections
of a vicious ancestry. They're bad
rams, most of 'em."
"There aren't many," said Paloma.
"Dave tells me the whole force has
been ..cut down to sixteen."
"That's plenty," her father averred.
"It's like when Cap'n Bill McDonald
was sent to stop a riot in Dallas. He
came to town alone, and when the citi-
zens asked him where his men was,
he said 'Ain't I enough? There's only
one riot.' Are you workin' up a case,
Dave?"
"Ura-m—yes! People are missing a
lot of stock hereabouts."
"It's these blamed refugees from the
war! A Mexican has to steal some-
thing or he gets run down and pore.
If it ain't stock, it's something else."
Dave Law's duties as a Ranger rest-
ed lightly upon him; his instructions
were vague, and he had a leisurely
method of "working up" his evidence.
Since he knew that Blaze possessed a
thorough knowledge of this section and
its people, it was partly business which
had brought him to the Jones home
this afternoon.
Strictly speaking, Blaze was not a
rancher. He had speculated heavily in
raw lands, and for several years past
lie had devoted his energies to a gi-
gantic colonization scheme. It was by
no means a small operation in which
he was engaged. The venture had
taken foresight, courage, infinite hard
work; Blaze was burdened with re-
sponsibilities that would have broken
down a man of weaker fiber.
But his pet relaxation was reminis-
cence. His own experience had been
wide, he knew everybody in his part
of the state, and although events in
his telling were sometimes colored by
his rich imagination, the information
he could give was often of the great-,
est value—as Dave Law knew.
After a time the latter said, casually,
Tell me something about Tad Lewis."
Blaze looked up quickly. "What do
you want to know?"
"Anything. Everything."
"Tad owns a right nice ranch be-
tween here and Las Palmas," Blaze
said cautiously.
Paloma broke out impatiently. "Why
don't you say what you think?" Then
to Dave: "Tad Lewis is a bad neigh-
bor, and always has been. There's a
ford on his place, and we think he
knows more about 'wet' cattle than
he cares to tell."
"It's a good place to cross stock at
low water," her father agreed, "and
Lewis' land runs back from the Rio
Grande in its old Spanish form. It's
a natural outlet for those brush-coun-
try ranchos. But jL haven't anything
against Tad except a natural dislike.
He stands well with some of our best
people, so I'm probably wrong. I usu-
ally am."
"You can't call Ed Austin one of our
best people," sharply objected Paloma.
"They claim that arms are being
smuggled across to the rebels, Dave,
and, if it's true, Ed Austin—"
"Now, Paloma," her father remon-
strated mildly. "The regulars and the
river guards watched Lewis' ranch till
the embargo was1 lifted, and they never
saw anything."
"I believe Austin is a strong rebel
sympathizer," Law ventured.
"Sure! And him and the Lewis out-
fit are amigos. If you go pirootin'
around Tad's place you're more'n a]3t
to make yourself unpopular, Dave. I'd
grieve some to see you in a wooden
kimono. Tad's too well fixed to steal
cattle, and if he runs i arms it's be-
cause he's a 'galvanized Gringo' him
self—married a Mexican, you know."
When mealtime drew near, both
Jones and his daughter urged their
guest to stay and dine with them, and
Dave was glad to accept.
"After supper I'm going to show you
our town," Blaze declared. ."It's the
finest city in south Texas, and grow-
ing like a weed. All we need is good
farmers. Those we've got are mostly
back-to-nature students who leaped a
drug counter expecting to 'light in the
lap of luxury. In the last outfit we
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V/*CENT N
"I Believe Austin Is a Strong Rebel
Sympathizer."
sold there wasn't three men that knew
which end of a mule to put the collar
on. But they'll learn. Nature's with
'em, and so am I. God supplies 'em
with all the fresh air and sunshine
they need, and when they want any-
thing else they come to Old Blaze.
Ain t that right, Paloma?"
"Yes, father."
Paloma Jones had developed won-
derfully since Dave Law'had last seen
her. She had grQtyn into a most whole-
some and attractive young woman,
with an honest, humorous pair of
brown eyes. During dinner she did
her part with a grace that made watch-
ing her a pleasure, and the Ranger
found it a great treat to sit at her
table after his strenuous scouting days
in the mesquite.
"I'm glad to hear Jonesville is pros-
perous," he told his host. "And they
say you're in everything."
"That's right; and iirosperity's no
name for it. Everybody wants Blaze
to have a finger in the pie. I'm inter-
ested in the bank, the sugar mill, the
hardware store, the ice plant— Say,
the ice plant's a luxury for a town this
sizo. D'you know what I made out of
It last year?"
"I've no idea."
"Twenty-seven thousand dollars J"
The father of Jonesville spoke proud-
ly, Impressively, and then through
habit called upon his daughter for
verification. "Didn't I, Paloma?"
Miss Paloma's answer was unexpect-
ed, and came with equal emphasis,:
"No, you didn't, father. The miserable
thing lost money."
Blaze was only momentarily dis-
mayed. Then he joined his visitor's
laughter. "How can a man get along
without the co-operation of his owik
household?" he inquired naively. "May-
be it was next year I was thinking
about." Thereafter he confined him-
self to statements which required no-
corroboration.
Dave had long since learned that to-
hold Blaze Jones to a strict account-
ability with fact was to rob his so-
ciety of its greatest charm. A slavish
accuracy in figures, an arid lack of
imagination, reduces conversation to
the insipidness of flat wine, and
Blaze's talk was never dull. He was a
keen, shrewd, practical man, but some-
where in his being there was con-
cealed a tremendous, lopsided sense
of humor which took the form of a
bewildering imagery. An attentive au-
dience was enough for him, and, once
his fancy was in full swing, there was
no limit to his outrageous exaggera-
tions. A light of credulity in a hear"
er's eye filled him with prodigious
mirth, and it is doubtful if his listen-
ers ever derived a fraction of the
amusement from his fabrications that
he himself enjoyed. Paloma's spirit
of contradiction was the only - fly in
his ointment; now that bis daughter
was old enough to "keep books" on
him, much of the story-teller's joy was-
denied him.
Of course his proclivities occasion-
ally led to misapprehensions; chance
acquaintances who recognized him a*'
an artful romancer were liable to con-
sider him generally untruthful. But
even in this misconception Blaze took;
a quiet delight, secure in the knowl-
edge that all who knew him well re-
garded him as a rock of. Integrity. As
a matter of fact, his genuine exploits
were quite as sensational as those of
his manufacture.
When, after supper, Blaze had
hitched a pair of driving mules to his
buckboard, preparatory to showing his
guest the glories of Jonesville, Diy
said:
"Paloma's getting mighty pretty,
"She's as pretty as a blue-bonnet ^
flower," he father agreed. "And she
runs me around something scandalous,
I ain't got the freedom of a peon."
Blaze sighed and shook his shaggy
head. "You know me, Dave; I never
used to be scared of nobody. Well, It's
different now. She rides me with a
Spanish bit, and my soul ain't my
own." With a sudden lightening of his
gloom, he added: "Say, you're going to
stay right here with us as long as
you're in town; I want you to see how
I cringe." *
In spite of Blaze's plaintive tone it
was patent that he was Inordinately .
proud of Paloma and well content with
his serfdom.
Jonesville proved to be a typical
Texas town of the modern variety, anil
altogether different to the pictured:
frontier village. All in all, the effect,
was much like that of a prosperous,
orderly northern farming town. To its
happy founder it seemed well-nigh per-
fect, and its destiny roused his mad-
dest enthusiasm. He pointed out the
Odd Fellows hall, the Palace Picture
theater, with is glaring orange lights
and discordant electric piano; he con-
ducted Law to the First National
bank, of which Blaze was a proHd but
somewhat ornamental director; then
to the sugar mill, the ice plant and •
other points of equally novel interest.
Everywhere he went Jones was
hailed. by friends, for everybody
seemed to know him and to want to
shake his hand.
"Some town and some body of men,
eh?" he Inquired, finally, and Dave
agreed:
"Yes. She's got a grand framework,
Blaze. She'll be most as big as Fort
Worth when you fatten her up."
Jones waved his buggy whip In a
wide circle that took in the miles of
level prairie on all sides. "We've gat
the whole blamed state to grow In.
And, Dave, I haven't got an enemy in
the place! It wasn't many years ago
that certain people allowed I'd never
live to raise this town. Why, it used
to be that nobody dared ride with
me—except Paloma, and she used to
sleep with a shotgun at her bedside."
"You sure have been a responsibil-
ity to her."
"But I'm as safe now as if I was In
church."
Dave Law turns up some sur-
prising evidence against certain
Texans and he makes important
plans. It's all in the next in-
stallment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Ready Reckoner.
Grugs—Do you know any reliable rule
for estimating the cost of living?
Stubbs—1 do. You take your Income
—whatever that may be—and add 10
Tier cent"—Richmond Times-Dispatch..
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