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COW PUNCHER
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IMTIII BOITN DUNCAN.
-David EMn, Me of
aMftlsaa
of ikt
• with his pistol
firm hta maniac raynso whoa tho
•rat out—oMIs bo hu svsr an
«nWf and tips or me, breaking tbo
Mg aC Doctor Hardy bat not Injur-
teg Mo boaattful daachtor Irons.
Dam room— tho Injured man and
Mags a doctor from 4$ mlleo
•war. Irene taboo charge of the
•amabaaptac. Dave aad Iron# cot
WOtt aoawolnfi daring her enforced
•tar. They part with a Mac and aa
hap Hid proaloe. Oara’e father dleo
aad Dam warn to town to ooek hlo
fwtaaa. A man named Coo ward
toaehoa Mm hla first lesson la city
ana onr a now
CHArnm IV—Csatlaasd.
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Fortunate fata, or whatever good
Mfal It la that aomattmoo drops un-
tptiHl favors, designed that young
■Man should the following day deliver
coal at the homo of Mr. Melvin Dun-
can. Mr. Duncan, tall, quiet and forty-
•** waa at work In hla garden as
Dam turned the team In tha lane and
hacked them up the long, narrow drive
roan acting with the family coal chute.
As tho heavy wagon moved straight
to Its abjective Mr. Duncan looked on
with approval that heightened Into
admiration. Dava shoveled hla load
without remark, but aa ha stood for
• moment at tha finish, wiping tha
•wont (Com hla coal-grimed face. Mr.
Duncan engaged him In conversation.
Ton handle a team Ilka you wore
ban to It," ho said. “Where did you
“Wall, I came up on a ranch,” said
Dave. *Tva lived with horses ever
atnee I could remember."
“You're a rancher, ebr queried the
"Wall, there's nothing like
ad tbo open country. If 1
-----lo hones Ilka yon there
Isn't anything would hold me In town.”
"Oh, 1 don’t know," Dava answered.
"Sou might gat sick of U.”
"Did you gut Nek of ftr
Eldon shot u keen glance at him.
Tbo conversation waa becoming per-
sonal. Tat than woo In Mr. Duncan’s
manner a certain kindliness, a certain
appeal of sincere personality, that dis-
armed suspicion.
"Yea I got sick of It,” ha said. "1
lived on that ranch eighteen years
and never was Inside school or church,
wouldn’t that mako you tick? . . .
So 1 boat It for town."
"And I suppose you are attending
church regularly now, and night
school, too?"
Davo's quick temper fired up In re-
sentment, but again the kindliness of
tha man’s manner disarmed him. lie
waa allant for a moment, and then be
•aid:
"No, I ain't That's what makes me
•lek now. I cams In here Intendin’ to
gat aa education, an* I’ve never got
even a start at It, axcac* for some
things perhaps wasn’t worth the
money. Thera always seams to be
somethin’ else—In ahead."
"Thera always will be." said Mr.
Duncan, "until you start”
“But how’s It to be doner Dave
questioned with returning Interest.
“Schools an’ books cost money, an’ 1
never aava a dollar.”
“And never will," said Mr. Duncan,
“until you start But I think 1 see a
plan that might help, and If It appeals
to you It will also be a great conven-
ience to me. My wife likes to go driv-
ing Sundays, and sometimes on a
weekday evening, but 1 have ao many
things on hand I find It hard to get
out with her. My daughter uaed to
drive, but theaa new-fangled automo-
biles are turning tha world upalde
down—and many a buggy with It.
Well—as I aaw you driving In hero 1
aaid to myaelf, There's the man for
that Job of mine. If I can get hint;'
but I’m not rich and I couldn’t pay
you regular wages. But If I could
ar,uare the account by helping with
your studies a couple of nights a
week—-I used to teach school and
haven't altogether forgotten — why.
that would be just what I want Whnt
do you aay?”
T Dover saw anything on four feet
1 couldn't drive," said Dave, “an' If
you're willing to take a chance I am.
When do we start f’
“First lesson tonight. Second les-
son Thursday night. First drive Sun-
day." Mr. Duncan did not explain
that he wanted to know thf boy better
before the drives commenced, and he
fait that two nights together would
satisfy him whether ha bad found the
right man.
Dava hurried back to tho coalyard
and computed tha day’s work In high
IpEMfi. R nnm< ha waa at umtj
started on a mad that might load
somewhere. Alter supper ha sur-
prised hla fallow laborers by changing
to hla Sunday clothes and starting
down a street loading into tho residen-
tial part of tha town. Thera ware
■peculations that ha had "seen a
skirt.”
Mr. Duncan mat him at tha door and
•bowed him Into tho living room.
Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lov-
able in tha mature womanliness of
forty, greatod him cordially. She waa
•orry Edith was out; Edith had a ten-
nis engagement She was apparently
deeply Interested In tho young man
who was to bo her coachman. Dava
had never been In a home like this,
aad hla syss, unaccustomed to con.
fortable furnishings, appraised them
■a luxury. He soon found himself talk-
ing with Mm Duncan about horaaa,
and than about hla old Ufa on tho
ranch, and than about coming to town.
Almost before ha know It ha had told
her about Reenle Hardy, but ha had
checked himself la time. And Mrs.
Duncan had noticed It without com-
ment, and realised that her guest waa
not a boy but a man.
Then Mr. Duncan talked about gar-
dening, and from that to Dave’s skill
In backing hla team to tho coal chute,
and from that to coal Itself. Dava had
•hoveled coal all winter, but he had
not thought about coal except as
something to be shoveled aad shov-
eled. Aad aa Mr. Duncan explained
to him the wonderful provisions of n
tore—how she had stored away In tho
undiscovered lands billions of tons of
coal, holding them In reserve until tha
world’s supply of timber tor fuel
should bo nearing exhaustion, and as
ho told of tho Immeasurable wealth of
this great saw land In coal resources,
and of how tha wheels of tho world,
tnUBc and industry and science, even,
were dependant upon coal and the
mao who handled the coal, Dava felt
hla breast rising with a sense of the
dignity of hla calling. * Ho had had to
do with this wonderful substance all
winter, and not until tonight had It
Haw Lika ft tenia She Waal
fired the divine spark of hla Imagina-
tion. Tha time ticked on, sod although
ha waa eager to be at work ho almost
dreaded tho moment when Mr. Duncan
should mention hla lasaon. But be-
fore that moment came there was a
ripple of laughter at tha door, and a
girl In tennis costume and a young
man a little older than Dave entered.
“Edith,” aald Mrs. Duncan.
Dave aroee and shook hands Then
Mr. Allan Forsyth was Introduced.
Mr. Forsyth shook hands heartily, but
Dave waa conscious of being caught In
one quick glance which embraced him
from head to heel. And the glance
was satisfied—self-sattafled. It was
■uch a glance as Dave might give a
horse when he would my, “A good
horse, but I can handle him.” It was
evident from that glance that Forsyth
had no fear of rivalry from that quar-
ter. And having no fear ho could af-
ford to be friendly.
Dave had no distinct remembrance
of what happened Juat after that, but
ha waa conaclous of ao ovorwholmlag
desire to hear Miss Duncan sing How
llkt Reenle ahe weal And Just as he
waa beginning to think Mr. Duncan
must surely have forgotten hla lesson
he heard her aaklug him If aha should
sing. And then ho saw Forsyth at tha
piano—why couldn’t ho loovo her to
do It herself, the butt-tn?—and than
he heard her fine, silvery voice rising
In the notes of that song about the
land where the aun should never go
down. ... And suddenly ho knew
how lonely, how terribly, terribly
lonely he was. And ho sat with head
bowed, thqt they might not know.., ,
And then there were other songs,
and at last Mrs. Duncan, who bad
slipped away unnoticed, returned with
a silver teapot and cups of delicate
china, and sandwiches aad ctkq aad
talked and laughed. And whan ha
looked at hla watch It was alarm
o'clock J
"I guess we didn’t get aay lesson
tonight,” ha aald as ho shook hands
with Mr. Duncan at tha sidewalk.
“I am not ao aura.” replied hla tutor.
“The flrg_ thing for you .to loam Is
that aU learning does not coma from
books. A good listener can learn as
much as a good reader—If he listers
to the rlgh£_klnd of people.” And as
Dave walked homo the thought deep-
ened In him that It really had ham a
learn, and that Mr. Duncan had In-
tended It that way. And ha wondered
what remarkable fortune had bom hla
The air waa full of tho perfume of
balm o’ Gilead, and hla feet wan light
with the Joy of youth. And he thought
much of Edith and of Been!# Hardy.
In subsequent lessons Da vs waa rap-
idly Initiated into many matters be-
sides parlor manners and converse
tlon. Mr. Duncan placed the first and
greatest emphasis upon learning to
writ# and to writs wall. They had
many philosophic discussions, In which
tha alder man sought to lead the
younger to tho acceptance of truths
that would aot fall him in tha strain
of after Ufa, and whm a conclusion
had bam agreed upon It was Mr. Dun-
can’s habit to embody It la a copy for
Dave’s writing lesson.
Aa soon as Dava had learned to read
a little Mr. Duncan took him one day
to tho public library, and tha young
man groped In amusement op and
down tho grant rows of books. Pro
mtly a strange sense of lnsdequste-
nesa came over him. “I can never
road all of those books, nor half of
them,” ha said. T suppose one must
road them la order to bo well In-
formed.”
Mr. Duncan appeared to change tbo
subject “You llko fruit r ho asked.
“Yes, of course. Why—'*
“Whm you go Into a fruit store do
you stand and aay, *1 can never eat
all of that fruit crates and crates of
It and carloads more In the ware-
house?* Of course you don’t You
sat enough for tho good of your sys-
tem and 1st It go at that Now Just
apply tha aama sense to your wading.
Read as much as you can think about
and no more. Tho trouble with many
of our people la that they do rod road
to think but to save themselves the
trouble of thinking. Tho mind, loft to
Itself, Insists upon activity. 8o they
chloroform It"
Dave's talks with Mr. Duncan be-
es®* almost nightly occurrences, ei-
ther at tha Duncan home or when he
drove tho family—for tho master of
tho bouse often accompanied them—
»r when they met downtown, as fre-
quently happened. And the boy was
not slow to realise the broad nature
of tho task to which Mr. Duncan had
set himself. Hla education waa to be
built of every knowledge and expert
ence that could go Into tho rounding
of a well-developed life.
The climax seemed to bo reached
when Mr. Duncan Invited Dava to ac-
company him to a dinner at which a
noted thinker. Just crossing tha con-
tinent, bad consented to speak.
“It will be evening dross,” aald Mr.
Duncan. “I suppose you era hardly
fitted out that way?”
“I guess not” said Dava, smiling
broadly. He recalled the half-humor-
ous sarcasm with which tha Metford
gang referred to any who might be
seen abroad In their “Hereford
fronts." Ha bad q sudden vision of
hlmaalf running tha gantlet of their
ridicule.
But Mr. Duncan was continuing.
"I think I cun fix you up,” ho mid.
"Wo must bo pretty nearly of a slse,
aad I have a spars suit" And almost
baton ha knew It It waa arranged that
Dava should attend tho dinner.
It waa an eventful night for him.
Hla shyness soon won off, tor during
these months ho had bean learning to
accept any new experience gladly.
And ns be sat among this company
of tho boat minds of tbo town bo fait
that a now world waa opening before
him. His good clothes seemed to work
up In some way through bis subcon
sctousnms and give him a sense of ca-
pability. He was In tha mental at-
mosphere of men who did things, and
by conforming to their customs he
had brought hla mind luto harmony
with theirs, so that It could receive
suggestions, and—who knows?—retain
suggestions. And ho waa made to
think, think, think.
CHAPTER V.
Tho summer was not far gone whan
Dave, through an Introduction fur-
nished by Mr. Duncan, got a now Job.
It waa Id tha warehouse of a whole-
sale grocery, trundling case* and
mcka of merchandise. It was cleaner
than handling coal, and tha surround-
ings ware more congenial and the
wages ware better—fifty dollars a
month to bagtu.
“Tha first thing la to get out of the
deadline,” said Mr. Duncan. “I in
not hoping that you will have fouud
destiny In n wholesale warehouse, but
you must get out of tho deadline. As
long as you above! coal you will abovol
coal. And you art not capable of
anything hatter until yon think you
aro."
"EM rvt liked it grotty wall,” mid
Da vs. “As long as ! waa
log for my wages It waa dull going,
but It was different after I got to ana
that avan shoveling coni waa worth
while. 1 suppose It la tho same with
groceries, or whatever one does. Aa
soon aa you begin to study what you
handle, tho work loam It* drudgery.
It Isn’t a mao’s Job that makes him
nick of hla Job; It’s what ha thinks
of hla Job."
A light of satisfaction was In hla
teacher’s eyes os Dava made this an-
swer- Mr. Duncan hod realised that
ha wan starting lata with this pupil,
and If there were any short cuts to
education ba must find them. Bo b#
had set out deliberately to Instil the
Idea that education Is not a matter of
schools and colleges, or courses of
reading, or formulas of any kind, but
a matter of the five senses applied to
every experience of life. And ho know
that nothing was coarse or common
that passed through Dave's hands.
LIFT OFF CORNS!
CTO BB CONTINUED.)
LEFT FALSE TEETH IN~BUTTER
Kansas City Man Prouder Than Rail-
road Engineer Who Waa Victim
of
Apply fa* drop* then ttft am,
touchy corns off with
fine**—No pain!
A mao left the ofltea of a Ranaas
City dentist the other day with a full
complement of new false teeth. Hard-
ly had he reached the street when ba
was seised with a fit of sneeslng,.and
when tbo storm had passed over, the
upper plate was gone. It bad rolled
Into the gutter, much to the amusement
of tho crowds.
Tho man, being greatly humiliated,
turned away and went directly back to
the dentist. T couldn’t stoop down
and pick up those teeth In front of
all those people, you know," ho told
tho dentist, end proceeded to order a
new plats.
This man was emslderably mom
sensitive than a certain engineer on
a Santa Fs branch road In Kansas
a few years ago. Tbs engineer, while
leaning out of his cab window, sneeaed
and lost his teeth. Ha stopped tbs
train, walked bock half a mils until ha
found thorn.
On hla return tha passengers nat-
urally wanted to know whnt ho had
been doing, and so pleased was he
with bln success that be told thorn.
And tho passengers In turn ware se
pleased with the explanation that no
one complained of tho delay except tho
conductor, who said ha had left his
spectacles at home that morning, hut
nobody offered to hold the train for
him while ho went back after them.
Doesn't hurt a bltl Drop n llttjo
Freesone on an aching corn, Instantly
that corn stops hurting, then you lift
It right out Yes, magic I
A tiny bottle of Freesone coots bat
• few cents nt any drug store, hut la
sufficient to remove every hard com,
soft corn, or com between the toes,
and the calluses, without soreness or
Irritation.
Freesone Is the sensational dim
covery of n Cincinnati genius. It la
wonderful.—Adv.
Hie Only Love Affair.
Rose—Did Jim have more than one
love affair?
Ruby—Only one, I believe
“When he fell in love with you?”
“Oh, dear, no t He had fallen In love
with himself long before we ever met"
—London Answers.
For your daughter’s sake, use Red
Cross Ball Blue In the laundry. She
will then have that dainty, well groom
ed appearance that girls admire. 5c.
Entitled to Clemency.
"Your honor, I admit I was exceed-
ing the speed limit, but I bad an ap-
pointment with my husband, sad I
didn’t want to keep him waiting.”
“Madam, the case Is dismissed.”—
Judge.
How’s This?
Wa offer 9100.00 for aay csss at catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALL’S
CATARRH MBDICIMB _
HALL’S CATARRH MBDICIKB to tak-
en Internally and acts through the Bleed
- Mucous Surfaces of tho System,
its for over forty
tmonlals freo.
Toledo. Ohio.
o Internally and acts
a tho Mucous Surface
•old by druggists for
Price 75c. Tootlmonfa
F. J. Chenoy A Co.,
Housekeeping. '
Wa went housekeeping Immediately
upon our marriage, for mother said
she despised these boarding people;
the went to housekeeping when she
was married, and she meant all her
children should do tho same; and If
their husbands weren’t able to go to
housekeeping then they weren’t able
to be husbands, and there was an end
of It; and no two people, she aald,
brought up In different fashions, could
unite their llvei Into one without some
Jarring, and a third party was sure to
turn that Jar Into an earthquake; and
If there wore fewer third parties half
the trouble would bo done away with;
for ahe believed half the divorcee and
separations and quarrels In the state
wars brought about by boarding houss
Intimacies with third parties.—Harrtst
Spofford.
Playing far Safety.
Jim—You spend too much money on
that girl. Remember girls frequently
help a chap blow In his coin and then
marry the fellow that saves up.
Ed—I know. That’s the reason Fa
spending mine.
Cutleuru Snap far the Complex left.
Nothing better than Cutlcura Soap
dally and Ointment now and then aa
needed to make tho complexion dear,
scalp dean and hands soft and white.
Add to this tho ro—tupHug, fragrant
Cutlcura Talcum and you have tho
Cutlcura Toilet Trio.—Adv.
First Wheat Grown In Canada.
Tbo first wheat that ripened In Ca-
nadian sunshine was grown In 1S0T
nt Port Royal, now Annapolis Basin,
Nova Scotia. Hero Champlain and de
Monts founded a poet and built a fort.
They were Joined by Marc Lescarbot,
a lawyer of Parts, a poet, and the
earliest writer of Canadian history.
Love of adventure drew him to Port
Royal. Outside the palisades of the
fort he cultivated n plot of land In
part of which he sowed wheat,
brought, of course, from France. His
sowing was toll or winter wheat It
grew well, ripened perfectly, and with
sickles Lescarbot and bln associates
cut the crop. That waa tho first wheat
crop harvested on land now within tho
Dominion of Canada.
•oMterff Hat Cords.
Tho colon of tho cords on tho hate
of soldiers stand for distinctive
branches of the army. Bins In for In-
fantry; yellow, for cavalry; red, for
artillery; rod and white, tor engineer
corps; salmon sad whits, signal corps;
maroon, medical corps; black and rod,
ordnance corps: buff, quartermaster
corps; gold and black, commissioned
officer.
Oongenlal Employment
-I understand yon have hired n dis-
charged soldier ns n farmhand I"
“Yes," replied Mr. Cobbles. "He was
In tbs tank corps.” “What sort of
service Is be giving?" “Ths best ever.
1 told him Just to consider my little
old tractor n teak, and ths way to
Ths Cynle.
A cynic la in many Instances a su-
per-idealist who believes ths world
could bo perfect by rectifying a few
slight errors which he take* tho trou-
ble to point out
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Direction Book in package tells how
to diamond dye over any color. To
match any material, have dealer show
you “Diamond Dye" Color Card.—Adv.
Qualified.
"Cholly assures me that I am tho
prettiest girl In town.”
“How does he know?”
“Well, he's been helping take tho
census.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
RECIFE FOR GRAY HAIR.
To half pint of water add I as. 1
I a '11 box of Barbo Con pound, aad IA
aa of glyeeriae. Apply to tha hair twioa a
wash until it bseooMS ths desired abode.
| Any druggist ran put this up or you eon
i mix it sthome at very little cost. It will
gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair,
and will make harsh heir soft sad glassy!
It will not eo’or ths scalp, is aot stkkyee
greasy, and doss not rah off.—Adv.
A Mind Reader.
Myrtle (during the argument)—But,
my dear Lily, I haven’t said n word.
Lily—Never mind. I know what
you’re thinking, and there*! no use say-
ing you weren’t, for I wouldn’t betters
ym If you dhL—London Answer*
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