Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908 Page: 7 of 8
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V
LANGFOMI
OF THE (
THREE B
BY KATE AND VIRGIL
CODYMGHr by A CMCLUPC S<CO /J
-- rr
SYNOPSI8.
Qeor go Wllliston. a poor ranchman,
high minded and pultuml, searches for
cattle missing from Ills ranch-the "Lasy
tt." On a woodM spot In the river's bed
that would have been an Island had the
Missouri been at high water, ho discovers
a hand of horse thieves engaged In work-
ing over brands on cattle. He creeps I
noar enough to note the changing of the I
"Threo Bars" brand on one steer to the
" J. R." brand. I'aul I.angford, the rich
owner of the "Three Bars" ranch. In sent
far hy Wllllst.m and 1* Informed of the
operations of the gang of cattle thieves,—
a baad of outlaws headed by Jesse Black,
who long have defied the law and author-
ities of Keniah county. South Dakota,
with Impunity, but who, heretofore, had
nbt dared to molest any of the property
of the great "Three Bars" ranch. Willis-
ton shows his reluctancy tn opposing a
hand so powerful In politics and so dread-
'*4 hy all the community. Kangford
pledgee Wllliston his friendship if lie
will Assist in bringing "Jesse Black" and
Ills gang to Justice. Lant^ford is struck
With the beauty of Mary, commonly
known as "Wllliston'* little girl." Louise
Dale, an expert court stenographer, who
had followed her uncle, Judge Hammond
Hale, from the east to the "Dakotahs,"
and who Is thing with him at Wind City,
Is requested by the county attorney,
Richard Gordon. Io come to Keniah atid
take testimony in the preliminary hear-
ing of .Jesse Black. She accepts the invi-
tation and makes her first trip into the
wild Indian country. Arriving at Velpen
aiToss the river from Kemah, she is met
hy Jim Munson. a hot headed cowboy of
the "Three Bars" ranch.
CHAPTER IV.
"Maggot."
An hour prior to this little episode
Jim Munson had sauntered up to
the ticket window only to find that the
train from the east was 40 minutes
late. He turned away with a little
shrug of relief. It was a foreign role
he was playing—this assumption of
the duties of a knight in dancing at-
tendance on strange ladies. Secretly,
he chafed under it; outwardly, he was
magnificently indifferent. He had a
reputation to sustain, a reputation of
having yet to meet that which would
lower his proud boast that he was
afraid of nothing under the sun, neith-
er man nor devil. Hut he doubted his
ability so to direct the point of view
of the Boss or the Scribe or the rest
of the boys of the Three Bars ranch,
who were on a still hunt for his spot
of vulnerability.
The waiting room was hot—unbear-
ably so to a man who practically lived
in the open. He strolled outside and
down the tracks. He found himself
wishing the train had been on time.
Had it been so, It—the impending
meeting—would now have been a
thing of the forgotten past. He must
needs fortify himRelf all over again.
But sauntering down the track toward
the stockyards he filled his cob pipe,
lighted it, and was comforted. He
had a 45-minute reprieve.
The boys had tried most valiantly
to persuade him to "fix up" for this
event. He had scorned them indig-
nantly. If he was good enough as
he was—black woolen shirt, red neck-
erchief and all—for men, just so waa
he good enough for any female that
«ver lived. So he assumed a little
swagger as he stepped over the ties,
and tried to make himself believe that
he was glad he had not allowed him-
self to be corrupted by proffers of
•blue shirts and white neckerchiefs.
He was approaching the stockyards.
There was movement there. Sounds
of commands, blows, profane epithets,
and worried bawllngs changed the
placid evening calm into noisy strife.
It is always a place Interesting to
cowmen. Jim relegated thoughts of
the coming meeting to the back-
ground while he leaned on the fence,
and, with idle absorption, watched the
loading of cattle into a stock car. A
switch engine, steaming and splutter-
ing, stood ready to make way for an-
other car as soon as the present one
should be laden. He was not the only
spectator. Others were before him.
Two men strolled up to the side op-
posite as he settled down to musing
interest.
"Gee!" he swore gently under his
breath, "ef that ain't Bill Brown! Yep.
It is, for a fac'r Wonder what he's
a shippin' now for!" He scrambled
lightly over the high fence of the pen.
"Hullo, there, Bill Brown!" he yell-
ed, genially, making his way as one
accustomed through the bunch of re-
luctant, excited cattle.
"Hullo yourself, Jim! What you
doin' in town?" responded the man ad-
dressed, pausing In bis labor to wipe
the streaming moisture from his face,
tie fanned himself vigorously with his
drooping hat while he talked.
"Gal huntln'," answered Jim, sober-
ly and despondently.
"Hell!" Brown surveyed him with
astonished but sympathetic approba-
tion. "Hell!" he repeated. "You
don't mean it, do you. Jim. honest?
Coin*-, now, honest? So you're come
to it, at last, have you? Well, well!
What's comln' over the Three Bars?
What'U the boys say?"
He came nearer and lowered hla
voice to a confidential tone. "Say,
Jim, how did It come about? And
who's the lady? Lord, Jim, you of all
people!" He laughed uproariously.
"Aw, come off!" growled Jim. in
petulant scorn. "You make me tired!
You're plumb ltiney, that's what you
are. I'm after the new gal reporter.
She's due on that low-down, ornery
train. Wish—It—was in kingdom
come. Yep, I do, for a fac'."
"Oh, well, never mind! I didn't
mean anything," laughed Brown, good-
naturedly. "But it does beat the
band, Jim, now doesn't it, how you
people scare at petticoats. They
ain't plzen—honest."
Jim looked on Idly. Occasionally
he condescended to head a rebellious
morrow ror rnstlin' that there very
critter from the Three Bars ranch?"
"No, I didn't" Brown answered
shortly." "Any case?"
"I guess yes! Wllliston o' the Lazy
S saw this very critter on that island
where Jesse Black holds- out." H£
proceeded to relate minutely the story
to which Wllliston was going to swear
on the morrow. "But," he concluded,
"Jesse's goln' to fight like hell against
bein' bouud over."
"Well, well," said Brown, perplexed-
ly. "But the brand, Jim, it's not
yours or Jesse's either."
'"Qualnted with any J R ranch in
these parts?" queried Jim, shrewdly.
"1 ain't.", •:
"Well, neither am 1," confessed
Brown, "but that's not savin' there
ain't one somewhere. Maybe we can
trace it back."
"Shucks!" exploded Jim.
"Maybe you're right, Jim, but I
don't propose to lose the price o' that
animal less'n I have to. You can't
blame me for that. I paid good money
for II. If it's your'n, why, of course,
it's your'n. But I want to be sure first.
Sure you'd know him. Jim? How
could you be so blamed sure? Your
boss'must range 5,000 head.1'
"llnow him? Know Mag? I'd know
Mag ef my eyes were full o' soundln'
cataracts. He's an old and tried friend
o' mine. The meanest critter the
Lord ever let live and that's a fac'.
But the boss calls *ini Ills maggot.
Seems to actually churlsh a kind o'
'lection for the ornery critter, and
says the luck o' the Three Bars would
sort o' peak and pine ef he should
ever git rid o' the pesky brutp. Maybe
all into tbe part. Bnt his "get awajr* '
must be clean and dignified.
"Likely bunch you have there," he ' |
said, casually, turning away with un-
assumcd reluctance.
"Fair to mlddlln','! said Brown with
pride.
"Shippin' to Sioux City, you jaid?"
"Yep."
"Well, bo long."
Satan Terrified.
Tliere is as great genius displayed
In advertising as In the higher
branches of literature. No problem
launts the modern advertising man.
In the window of a little bookstore In
eighth avenue, New York, was re-
cently heaped a great pile of Bibles,
marked very low—never before were
. Bibles offered at such a bargain; and
So Io°K- Shippin any these ibove them all, in big letters, was the
days, Jim. • usoriptton: "Satan trembles when ho
"Nope. Boss never dribbles em iWs Bibles sold as low as these."—
out. When he ships ho ships. Ain't j Woman's Home Companion.
none gone over the rails since last
fall.'
He stepped off fcrlskly and vaulted
the fence wLth as lightsome an air as
though he were bent (>n tho one er-
rand his heart would choofft-, and
Bwuug up the track carelessly hum-
ming a time. But ho had a vise like
grip on hJs cob pipe. His teeth bit
through the frail stem. It split. He
tossed the remains away with a ges-
ture of nervous -contempt. A whistle
PURE FOOD.
No Food Commissioner of Any State
Ha* Ever Attacked the Absolute
Purity of Grape-Nnta.
Every analysis undertaken shows
this food td be made strictly of Wheat
and Barley, treated by our processes
to partially transform the starch
parts luto a form of Sugar, and tliero-
sounded. He quickened his pioe. If fore much easier to digest.
he missed her—well, the boAs w<is a I Our claim that it Is a "Food for
good fellow, took a lot of nonsense
from the boys, but there were things
he would not stand for. Jim did not
need to be told that this would be one
of them. *■ . . r, - •
The platform was crowded. The
yellow sunlight fell slantingly ou' the
gay groups.
"Aw, Munson, you're bluffln', Jested
the mall carrier. "You ain't Ipokiti'
fer nobody; you know you ain't. You
ain't got no folks. Don't believe you
never had none. Never heard of em."
"Lookln' for my uncle," explained
Jim, serenely. "Rich old codger from
the state o" PGnusylvauey some'ers.
Ain't got nobody but me left."
"Aw, come off! What you glvlti' us?"
But Jim only winked and slouched
off, prime for more adventures. He
was enjoying himself hugely—wheu
he was not thinking of petticoats.
CHAPTER V.
At the Bon Ami.
Unlike most of those who ride much \ , ,ow"
her escort was a fast walker. I^uis« ?' al'th,lnK8> °
hu.i . — t.i,, .... _.,.k facture tho elixir of life. There
I've G.t a Bili-of-Sale for Him.
steer shutewards. Out beyond It was
still and sweet and peaceful, and the
late afternoon had put on that thin
veil of coolness which is a God-given
refreshment after the heat of the
day. But here in the pen all was con-
tusion. The raucous cattle-calls of
the cowboys smote the evening air
startlingly.
"Here, Bill Brown!" he exclaimed
suddenly, "where did you run across
that critter?" He slapped the shoul-
der of a big, raw-boned, longeared
steer as he spoke. The animal was
on the point of being drlveu up the
sh ute.
"What you want to know for? asked
Brown in surprise.
"Reason 'nough. That critter be-
longs to us, that's why; and I want to
know where yon got him, that's what
I want to know."
"You're crazy, Jim! Why, I bought
that fellow from Jesse Black t' other
day. I've got a bill of sale for him.
I'm shippin' a couple of cars to Sioux
City and bought him to send along.
That's on the square."
"I don't doubt it—s' far as you're
concerned, Bill Brown," said Jim, "but
that's our critter jest the same, and
I'll jest tote '1m along 'f you've no ob-
jections."
"Well, I guess not!" said Brown, la-
conically.
"Look here, Bill Brown," Jim was
getting hot headedly angry, "didn't
you know Jesse Black stands trUl ro-
be's right. Leastwise, the critter's his,
an4 when a thing's yours, why, it's
yours and that's all there is about It.
By crack, the boss is some mad!
You'd think him and that wail-eyed,
cross-grained son-of-a-gun had been
kind and lovin' mates these many
years. Well, I ain't met up with this
ornery critter for some time. Hullo,
there, Mag! Look kind o' sneakln',
now, don't you, wearln' (hat outland-
ish and unbeknownst J R ?"
Bill Brown thoughtfully surveyed
had trouble In keeping up with him
though she had always considered her
self a good pedestrian. But Jim Mua
son was labojrlng under strange onv
barrassment. ye was red-facedly
conscious of the attention he waa at
tracting striding up the inclined
street from the station in the van o4 i
Brain and Nerve Centre*" lsi baaed
upon the fact that certain parts of
Wheat and Barley (which we use) con-
tain Nature's brnln aud nerve building
ingredients, viz.; Phosphate of Pot-
aah. and tho way wo prepare the food
makes it'eafi.v to digest and assimilate.
Dr. Geo. W. Carey in his book on
"The Biochemlc System of Medicine"
says:
"When the medical profession fully
understands the nature and rang - of
the phosphato of potassium, insane
asylums will no longer be needed.
"The gray matter of the brain is
controlled entirely by the Inorganic
cell salt,, potassium phosphate.
"This salt unites with albumen, and
by the addition of oxygen creates nervo-
Iluld, or thi* gray matter of the brain.
'■'Of course, there is a trace of other
salts and other organic mister In
nerve-fluid, but potassium phosphato
is the chief factor, and lia3 the power
within it Bel f to attract, by Its own law
nianu-
herefore,
whfeoCtnervous symptoms arise, due to
the fact that the nerve-fluid has been
exhausted from any cause, the phos-
phate of potassium is the only true
I remedy, because nothing else can
I possibly supply the deficiency.
'The ills arising, from too rapidly
the prettiest and most thoroughbred
girl who had struck Velpea this Ions
time.
Not that he objected to attention
under'normal conditions. Not he! H«
courted it.. His chief aim in life
seemed to J?e to throw the limelight
of publicity, first, on the Three Ban
ranch as the one and only in the cato
gory of ranches, and to he connected
with it in some way, however slight,
the unquestioned aim and object ol
existence of every man, woman and
child in the cattle country; secondly,
on Paul Langford, the very .boss of
bosses, whose master mind was the
prop and Btay of the northwest, If not
of all Ghirstendom; and lastly, upon
himself, the modest, but loyal servt-
tor in this Paradise on earth. But girls
were far from normal conditions.
There were no womij at the Three
Bars. There never hg<i l*«*;n any
tho
| consuming the gray matter of
brairi .cannot. be overestimated.
"I'hosphate of Potash, is to my
mint), the most wonderful curative
agent ever discovered by man, and
the blessings it has already conferred
on the race are many. But 'what
shall the harvest, be' when phyniclans
everywhere fully understand the part
tfi'ts wonderful " salt plays In tha
processes of life? It will do as much
as can be done through physiology to
make a heaven on earth.
"Let the overworked business man
take it and go homo good-tempered.
Let the weary wife, nerves unstrung
from attending to sick children or en
tertaining "company, take it and note
how quickly the equilibrium will be
restored and calm and reason assert
her throne. No 'provings' are required
here. We find this potassium salt
largely predominates in nerve-fluid,
woman at the Thr«* tier. wV-M* tk« feflclen^h •J0*"*8 well-
momorv ^ I bVmptonis. The beginning and
end of the. matter Is to supply the
memory of man.
Presently he bolted into a buifUtng, J
which proved to V® the Bon Ami, a
restaurant under the direct supcrvle- j
Ion of the fat, voluble and tragic.M'r . !
Biggins, where the men from Ito
other Bide of the river had right ol j
way and unlimited credit.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WAS ALMOST TOO PARTICULAR.
Colored Man's Literal Qbediflnce
Caused Slight Embarrassment.
lacking principle, and In molecular
form, exactly as nature furnishes it In
vegetables, -fruits and grain. To sHp-
ply deficiencies—rhis 5? the only law
of cure." •
Please observe (hat Phosphate of
j Potash is not properly of the drug-
shop variety but is best prepared by
j "Old Mother Nature" and stored In
J the grains ready for use by mankind,
j Those who have been helped to bettei
1 health ^y the use of Grape-Nuts are
i legion.
"There'll a Reason."
BRAIN POWER
Increased by Proper Feeding.
An old bachelor, who lives Is the
suburbs of a southern city, hires a
negro to clean up his room, fill the
lamp and perform like services. A
few days ago the colored domestic,
who had been using his employer's ! A lady writer who not only has done
blacking, said; "Boss, ouf blackin' am i good literary wock, but reared a fam-
done out." "What do you mean by j ily, found In Grape-NUts the Ideal rood
saying our blacking?'" growled the! for bra'in work and- to develop healthy
sordid employer, "everything belong* children. She writes:
to me. I want you to understand that
nothing belongs to you." The terri-
fied darkey apologized and promised
to remember. On the following Sun-
the steer whose ownership was thus i day the bachelor happened to meet
so unexpectedly disputed. j the colored menial, accompanied by a
"You hold him,' insisted Jim. "Ef I chocolate-colored woman pushing a
he aln t ours, you can send him along | baby carriage. "Was that yonr baby
with your next shipment, can't you? j in that carriage?" he asked the next
What you wobblln' about? Ain't afraid j day at his home when he was enter-
the boss '11 claim what ain't, his, are j taining quite a number of his friends. !
you, Bill Brown?" "No boss, dat's not our chile; dat's j
"Well, I can't he'p myself, I guess," your chile. 1'se neber gwine to say 1
said Brown, in a tone of voice which
told plainly of his laudable effort to
keep his annoyance in subjectiou to
his good fellowship. "You send Laqg-
ford down here first thing in the morn-
ing. If he says the critter's his'n that
ends it."
Now that he had convinced his
quondam, acquaintance, the present
shipper, to his entire satisfaction,
Jim glanced at his watch with os-
tentatious ease. His time had come.
If all the minutes of all the time to
come ahould be as short as those 40
had been, how soon he, Jim Munson,
cow puaokap, wuuld have ridden them
uuflin beloags to me no nioah "
Hard to Dodge.
Wedderlyj-"You say your frlentl
Higgins left a widow?" Singleton—
"YeB." Wedderly—"He must have
been a wise guy. I tried to leave ene
once, but she kept on my trail until
she married me." ;
Prompt Action Needed.
"If you don't have those wart* re-
moved in time, Mrs. Crossway," tald
Mrs. Lapsing, "the first thing you
know your hand will be all coverad
with the unsightly execration*."
"I am an enthusiastic proclaixner of
Grape-Nuts as a regular diet. I for
merly had no appetite in the morning
and for 8 years while nursing my four
children, had insufficient nourishment
for them.
"Unable to eat breakfast I felt faint
later, and would go to the pantry and
eat cold chops, satmage, cookies,
doughnuts or anything I happened to
find. Being a writer, at times my
head felt heavy and my brain asleep.
"When I read of Grape-Nuts I began
eating It overy morning, also gave It
to the children, including iny 10
months old baby, who soon grew as
fat as a little pig, good Ratured and
contented.
"I wrote evenings and fe*Iing the
aeed of sustained brain power, began
eating a small saucer of Grape-Nuts
with milk,. Instead of my usual indi-
gestible hot pudding, pie, or cake for
dessert at night.
"I grew plump, nerves atrong, and
when I wrote my brain was active and
clear; Indeed, the dull head pain nevei
returned."
POSTUM CBREAL CO., Ltd.
Battle Creek, Mich.
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