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* (Continued frost Tueedajr) "iT-m! It's a good thing for us tha the house is between us and barn We will try to work our way dowi that acequia to our left. Come ot Nolan!" So, belly down, as coyotes crawl 01 their game, the two Americans ver: lowly began their advance 011 the b? leaguered house. One, two, three hundred yards the: crept down the hillside. Presently wueu mey rvacueu a ponu wnere in< acequla opened out into the grass land, Kynaston would go no further. "We've got to stay here till we cai attract their attention," he explained "If we go any farther we'll be shot at. While I don't particularly mind being shot at by a greaser I don't covel hay in' old Upton line his sights on me Raise up a bit. Nolan, and stick youi hat up on the end of your rifle so the? can see it." The hat. thus showing above th? edge of the ditch, was presently seer by the defenders. A shout from the rear wall of the cottage brought old Mr. Upton to the masftive door, which he threw open. Kynaston and Nolan saw him standing for a moment with a pair of Held glasses at his eyes scanning them curiously. Presently, reassured, he w&vsd his hand. Still belly down among the red dust and the empty cans that for years had been thrown there from the house, the two soldiers crept painfully down through the chicken yard, past the pony corral, and so up into the back yard of the house itself. Mr. Upton shook hands warmly with the youngster. "Whore 're your men, Kynaston'.' Where 're your men? Tou never came here by yourself?" "What's the trouble?" asked Ky naston. "We heard the tiring and QQ XXT t VlO flomaa ivliot n-aa U )'' "Hay corralH. Two hundred tons of new hay that those devils burned up for me. They sent word that if 1 didn't pay them ten thousand dollars for what tbev call their 'war chest' they'd burn the place." "Who are they?" "Rebels, of course. Some of Villa's men. You never < an tell who they are. They'd been down there sine* before daylight. What re you going to do? Where 're your men?" "Five miles back. Left 'em on the last ridge with orders not to come up unless I signal for 'em. 1 dare not start anything on this side of the line, you know. You can pull out here by the same way that we got here^and refugee across the line, to my men. And leave all I've got in the world! No, thanks, but 1 should Ifka to get my daughter and Mrs. Fane out If we can. Can you get them acros';"** . "Sure thing. Come on." * "Come into the house and I'll get them started to pack up so ynu can get right back." Kynaston stood not upon the order of his going, but went at once, for the memory of the pretty Miss Upton was more than enough to send the blood flowing faster through his veins Dorothy met him in the great hall. It was filled with smoke from the lower line of loopholes, where two of .the employees of the mine were ftring Japidly at the attacking party below t&em. The smoke sucked back through the hall aa Mr. Upton opened the door. AiiMilslMln i i .?*??-? ? "I'm more than glad to see you again!" cried Dorothy, as she gave K Ua. I *V. I ?- J1 J i if i uci mini umiua now uiu you get here and?why?" "To get you out." he sutd, quickly "But you must come at ohce. We can't delay a moment. At any minute they may work around to flank you on the hillside, Upton, and if they do there will be no chance of anyone getting away from the house." Mrs. Fane, who hud joined the y group, waa listening white-faced. "You girla, get your things at once," ordered Upton. "Kynaston la right. He cannot crose the line to help us in force, and the only thing he can do la to take the two of you oft my hands. Dorothy, Marion, go and get your things. Go, I say! 1 shall stay here until something turns up. I do not moan to have this place looted without taking It out of the hides of the men who do it. Go, girlie." As the two women ran hastily to their rooms to get what few things they could take with thoin Upton quickly outlined bis movements and Kynaa ton's. "Take them to your camp, JCynaeton, and keep them there till you heea from me. Ill probably be with you ?by tomorrow or the next day 1 shall net leave here till 1 have come ta some sort of an understanding about thli property. They dare not loot the plac? openly. Here are the girls now." Nolan, looking north under th< :. Sharp of his hand through the partially I ep?aod back door, waa volleying low toaed careesL A _ . 2 vtOUL .VILLAS i ^ George B. ^rJ"' IWnej r "l beg pardon, sir. but?I couldn't help it. Tliero go our horses, sir." lie pointed to two little brown spots ' u that showed momentarily against the j 1 brown of the hillside. The two ^ Americans' horses were loose and had 1 taken the chailce to return to their ( 1 own camp?Ave miles away. ^ "It's a good thing we saw it in time a ?look oui: low Dri'lge ror a'j turn i skulls!" r Whee-e-e! A bullet whined past Upton and buried itself in the heavV 1 ^ door post. It came straight fr<fm the ( hill where Kynaston and Nolan had 1 g secreted themselves an hour before, away up in the rear of tbe house. j Upton dragged them back into the J' house and slammed the door, which he ^ barred. "1 wonder what in the world that means," said Mrs. Fane breathlessly, j .. oblivious to the fact that Kynaston s had taken and kept hold of her hand. u "It means," said Upton, working feverishly to close the shutters of the a windows on tho north side, "that j, they've got men on that side of us? Now, Kynaston. you said that you r eould signal your sergeant to come to f) help us. \Vht.n was your signal?" Kynaston shook his head. ^ "We %must use every other means j n before we do that," he said slowly, j "If our men cross the line as an armeu ' body it means intervention and?war " j "We haven't got a whole lot of j choice," commented Upton savagely. R "Don't you see that they've got us r( surrounded on all sides? There 1 comes their line, moving out sf the R( cottonwoods to the attack now. Get to your loopholes, men." j _ And Kynaston. peering through tho (| narrow loophole that Upton bad cut | In the shutter, saw a thin lins of men moving forward across the open land c in widely extended order. i I The attack was on. e] n CHAPTER V. w ? El Water! Kynaston watched carefully tho Hna ti of men which was working out of the clump of cottonwood trees to the j t mth. He noted that thev came for- ^ ri ward very slowly, seeking cover carefully, and that they were a good seven 4 hundred yards away. , At that range his own rifle and that i of Nolan were the only two that could tj be counted upon for elficiout service. t., j the ordinary hunting rifle rarely being lighted for over three hundred yards. ^ He called Nolan to a port-hole on the front face of the building There were Ave other men in tha s house?Mr I'pton, John Wilkes, an 0 old miner about sixty-flve yearB old; i an American mine surveyor named Wilson and two Moxican eervanta, one of whom was the cook. In addi- ^ tlon to those there were himself and Nolan. Mrs. Fane and Miss Upton, and ^ an old Mexican woman who had lived ^ at the place for twenty year*. "First of all. Upton?it's a bit lata ta ask about it now if arrangements l have not already been made?but bow t] I ia your water supply?" | lJ>ton looked at hiia, frankly put- , ^ . clad for a momunt! "** - j "Heaven knows! Miranda there" ' [ ?Indicating the old woman?"generally gets the water that we drink ? ; from the spring in a bucket, but we 1 pump water to the bathroom from the windmill, yonder." He pointed down ^ the slope to a windmill faintly dis- t corned against the line of the groen v alfalfa patch. g "That'll be the fisst point of attack ( then," growled Kynaston. "Nolan, set your sights for six hundred and i / fty jnpis and cut loose at the first I person you see going for the windmill. They'll be trying to disconnect \ "Too late, sir,'" said Nolan, peering a out. "They've got it already," "Worse luck!" snapped Kynaston.! ( He turned again to Upton. "How much water in the house?" Upton ran quickly back into the ( kitchen, whence he came back with a bucket in his hand, a look of chagrin (| upon his face. "There is only this one bucket and t] it isn't full by a long shot. What'U (1 we do, Kynaston?" r "Do like Br'er Terrapin did when b the cornfield was set on fire. He 'set {, and tuk it," if you remember your d Uncle Remus," said Kynaston grimly. "Put that bucket somewhere where f it can't be upset, Upton. It's all we've got, and the Lord knows when we'll j( i get any more. "Make the ladies sit down on the fl floor, Upton, below the line of the ^ loopholes, so that no stray shot can , hit them. 1 "There they come! And by Jove, ( It looks as if they mean business at ^ last! Pending a flag of truce for- f ^ ward. The nerve of the beasts! "Will you see the flag, of truce, Up- t ( ton? I can't go. You see, I'm in a f uniform and it must not get out that a United States officer is over hers on Mexican *oti T*k? tout revolver with rilK LAM CASTER NEWS rou'and don't let them chine witlii.. en yards of you. I'll cover you from be house." So l"pton, laying aside his rifle, vent down the hill to meet the pseudo>fficer, who. with an orderly behind tint, was signaling for an interview. A'hen they met, Upton left no doubt n the officer's mind that the miner vas angry. "Well, what is it you pirates vant?" he asked truculently. "Are rou tryin" to make a livin' by your >wn unaided efforts?" "We have come to collect from the lolders of Mexican property a part >f their ill-gotten gains in order, senor, hat the brave and patriotic defenders >f the republic shall not be hungry."' "Well, you've undertaken a grown nan's Job, then," snarled Upton. I've never yet seen a Mexican who vasn't hungry all the time. What pecillcally do you ask?" "We demand the payment by the >auta Cruz mine of five tho'. "~.ul dolars in eash and the surreni' ?f all ho arms, ammunition and powder, inluding dynamite, that you ha e, as iell as the permanent loan of all your bte-bodied horses." M-m: Ana wuat ao I get out or I?" "You will have our protection and iur aisurauces that you will not be iothered or annoyed by any further ompulsorj loans made to the proviional republic." I'pton fumbled for a moment in his octet, from which he finally produced wo papers. These he handed to his uterviewer. "There are two other 'protections' iven me last month," he said tersely. \ ou will see that one is for two thouand and the other for fifteen hunred " "We will guarantee you against nv further contributions," said the ther ingratiatingly. "If your own force isn't strong rough to take my place ik. certainly bat strong enough to protect me gainst anything. No, senor, 1 won't ay you a single cent?not a sou mrkee. I've stoot* all I'm going to land from you fellows. Now I'll apeal to the American consul." The other spat derisively. "Hetter trust to me!" he said vainloriously. "Hut if you do not sureuder immediately, but compel me to ike the place, I tell you frankly, eror, 1 shall show no quarter?" "Well, I can't help that, can I? 1 rill give you, sir, exactly what you an take?an' It won't strain your back a carry It. either," snappod Upton "Very well, senor," said the Mexian. "I give you half an hour to conuit with your companions. If at tho ud of that time you decide to accept ly terms you have only to wave a rhite flag from your front doQr. 1 ball ktiow what it means. "If there is no flag?then all that allows is your own fault. Adios. enor. May the saints teach you wisom!" The Mexican strode off to is tnrui while Upton picked the best <0? the slope to the house. The long half hour came to an end t last. Suddenly down by the corals a ritle cracked. A bullet wheeped trough the window where Kynaslon lood. Lodged in the heavy window ost. At the smack of the impact the oungster sprang back. Raising his rille, he tired at a bead lat showed above a stone. The flat, mucking report and the heavy recoil f the piece Bteadicd him. "Did you hit him?" asked a soft ua steady voice behing him. He jrned to see Dorothy standing near im. "Don't think so. Please get back, ilss Upton. You might be hit, you now, and then?" His eyes told the rest of it. Doron> laughed a little. "What do you think the upshot of liis matter will be?" she asked. "If ou're in this fix on my account"? lushing, she added hastily?"and? r? Mrs. Fane's, I'm more than scrF!=aC "I'm not," he answered curtly Stop that? Excuse me, please." "That," was the sneaking aproach. belly-down in the dust, of two f the attackers who. in attempting o gain the shelter of a huge cotton ycod tree, recklessly exposed them elves. The two army rifles instantly ook toll. One man rolled over and ay still, while the other was sent limp ng to cover. Dovo*!,y covered her face with her lands for a moment, then turned away vith a little shudder. It was war, cbo new, but It was hard to accustom her ujr to tne taea 01 ueatn ana suiTeriug lfiicted under her very eyes. An oath from Upton made Kynas n turn. He saw John Wilkes, the Id engineer, step to the table and, icking up the dipper help himself a a drink of water. The dipper was still immersed In he water when there came another at, smacking report, followed by a rash as of a stone on a hoard. Tho ucket broke into fragments and fell rotn tho table, tho water dripping own upon the floor. Mr. Wllkea stood gazing upon the uin. "What the?" he ejaculated helpessly. "Bullet through the east loophole," aid Kynaston shortly. "The bucket raa In the line of Are. Now, you've tne it, Mr. Oreaaer! That's all the rater we had." Hour after hour the defenders sat >e*1de their loopholes watching the low advance of their besiegers. The dexlcans did not dare advance across he open under the fire of ths rifles TO BE CONTINUED TUESDAY 3 MAY 19, 191(>. MEXICAN BANDITS MAKE ANOTHER RAID SEVENTY FORD RIO GRANDE AND 8HOOT DOWN THREE TROOPERS AND BOY. I LOOT THREE SMALL TOWNS ^ I Carry Off Two America.* Citizens and Cut Their Thoats.?Fiie Shacks? Ranchmen to Rescue. Alpine, Texas.?Villa bandits, some 70 in number, l'orded the ltio Grande and 'sweeping 15 miles inland 011 American soil, raided the little settlement , of Glenn Springs and attacked a detachment of American cavalry consisting of nine men of Troop A, the Four! Leenth Cavalry. Three troopers and a little 1C yearold boy were killed, tvfro cavalrymen were wouuded and another is missing. He is believed to be a prisonei of the bandits who are now fleeing southward into Coahuila. Mexico. Two American citizens. J. Deetuer, and a man named Compton, accord J ing to reports received here, were carried across the Rio Grande and reports have it that their throats were j cut. A posse of 50 citizens of Mara , thon are in pursuit of the Viilistas. The bandits' foray, ca? rying them | through the southern limits of Brew stern county in the Big Bend district of Texas, and taking in three little MtClemeuts near the border?Glenn Springs, Boquillas and Deemerz?took ; place 011 Friday night and' Saturday morning, but news of it did not reach here for several days. Within an hour preparations had begun for adequate action. Majoi General Kunston ordered four troops of cavalry to the raidod section to reinforce smuil detachments already on their way to the scene from Presi dio, Alpine and other points. It is said thai if the exgiencies of the case demand such action ihey will cross the border in order to run down and dia perae the bandits. The forces consist ' of two troops of the Eighth Cavalry from Fort Bliss, Ei Paso, undar Major Ganglionic .and two troofis tinFourteenth Cavalry from Fort Clark under Colonel Sibley, otuBwdtr of the Fourteenth. General Scott and Kunston met General Obregon and Juan Amador. Mexican Sub-Secretary of Foreign Ad fairs, in the immigration station at the American end ol' the International bridge for what had, been sxpoctod to be their final conference, it develop ed later, however, that practically the only matter discussed wa sthe bandit raid at Glcen Springs. QMMAN RAIDERS FIRE ON AND CHASE BIG LINER Forty American Citizens Aboard. News Alarms Shipping Circles. New York.?The steamship Venizia, arriving here from Bordeaux, Franco, with 40 American citizens abroad, was only matter discussed was the bandit by two commerce raiders, while off the Azores, according to a story related when the vessel docked. Reports had been in circulation for mere than a week that at leaet one sea raider was again operating in the western Atlantic, and todays news has alarmed shipping circles. Captain Boniface and members of the crew were reticent but the Ameridhas on board, who were employed in caring for horses transported on the Venizia's last voyage eastward, vouched for the story. According to theea men, the Venisla encountered the commerce raiders April 28, three days out from Bor deaux. The hostile craft, they said, loomed up without any flags showing and bore down upon the Venizia. Captain Boniface at once became suspicious and prepared for a sudden dash The raiders signalled to the Venizia to 61ow down, but Captain Boniface's answer was an order for full speed ahead. As the Venizia started away, according to the story, a shot passed over her, this was followed by an other which dropped close to the VenIzia. but the efforts of the redder* to overhaul her proved unsuccessful. BRITI8H SUBMARINE SUNK BY GERMAN GUNFIRE. Berlin, via wireless.?The British submarine E-.71 was sunk by the guntre of a Oerraan warship to the west of Horns Reefs, off the west coast of Denmark, on the morning of May 5, it was announced by the German ad miral. The admiralty report also announces the destruction of a hostile aeroplane by German airmen with the help of a torpedo boat off the Flanders coast and the capture of another aeroplane by torpedo boats. Only a Few. A few people take their pleasure so seriously that they have to opea offices and get Into business for relaxation.?Washington Star. Claim* Oldest Orchestra. Bath, in England, claims to hare , the oldest permanent orchestra in ex| Istence. it was founded by Bean Nash about 1706. mm V WEEKLY BULL BUREAl News to Publish "Wa Benefit of Man (Address all communications re latlve to this department to Hon. el ;J. Watson, State Agricultural Com jmlssioner, Columbia, S. C.) | The work of the State Bureuu o I Marketing goes merrily and success I fully forward. A glance at the Want this week will show calls for (juan tities of farm products. Through out the state fanners and merchant and consumers themsel es are nov using the service wttth results s< satisfactory t?> them that they ai most invariably write the 13 ureal expressing their appreciation of th | ?9|f |JUI I II II I 1 I'M UlllHI Mil I IVI MIIU ' [change thai the state villi the eo [operation of t|i?? press is afTordini j them. Tills week a farmer in Spartanbur jeoiMitv writes: "I am writing to ex press my appreciation oi th? servii of tlie* Marketing Bureau. it ha: served me well since its establish in en l. and I hope the work y mi ar trying to do will have the co-opera tion of our farmers all over tin state." A farmer In Chester writes "1 am very much pleased with tli business that I have done througl your column in both buying and sell i*ig." A farmer in Lexington, ii making a number of offerings and ;r. sorting a number of wants write? "Sometime ago I advertised soni peas through your Bureau ??r .Mar k' ting. and 1 am so well pleased am here again." A farmer in Chesto in liis letter presenting offering! makes this significant statement "I am having line results from you bulletin. I get long distance calls telegranfs and checks by first mail Many thanks to you for the nev plan.'' A farmer in Spartanburi shows that the exchange feature o the Bureau is effective as well a the buying and selling feature. II writes: "I have just completed ai exchange through your column fo an automobile. I think you arc do ing a wonderful work for us farmer and wish to thank you for what vol have done for me.'? Recently a dairy uian in the u] country wanted a competent man t.< take charge of his dairy. The Bureai took the matter up with a man wh? wanted just such a position. Th in.in who wamen me jon writes "I sincerely thank you for the troubl you went to on my behalf. Dr. and I have come to an agreement I start on the 6th.*' This man wh< wanted the place lives far out on i rural route. The following is a summary o tit,, weeks Wants and Offerings tha I FARMERS' Don't they fit in nice Jus of the best old-line companies 1 Aren't Lancaster and York coui have to organize? i , D. E. BO YORK S< I -J llhisCof^' In youi( search for th cal cofl ee, you take r Luziar ne. Each ca guarartee: "After uj this cspi according tc satisfy d in every res fund t te money you | a monfcy-back guarar use one-half as tnuc coffee. Writ# for pri U Reily -Taylc 11 - .. ii ii ii " " ??? ETIN J OF MARKETING nts" and "Offersfor y Farmer Friends -t could not be bandied from the list on file. Wonts 20 bushels Burr Clover seed in the burr. 6 to 10 bushels Crimson Clover seed either shelled or in the hull. Several cars good Peavine hay. Several ears Corn in shuck. Brabham and Irorn peas. About six Peafowl tiggs for hatching. "Will pay $4.00 or $5.00 for t hem." ) one registered Guernsey hull. 500 pounds Wheat Screenings for chick feed. 500 pounds Rough Rice for chick feed. ' A good second hand 25 II. P. Boiljer and 20 II. P. Engine. One No. 2 - Saw Mill. Will exchange for same -Jo II. P. Gasoline Wood Saw. l>i A setting of Purple Guinea Eggs. * 2 pecks of pure yellow seed Corn - on cob. p One second hand Steel Tower and - Tank for country watei works. Give 1 kind and best cash price. : Young man eighteen years old, p with some knowledge of poultry h raising, desires position on poultry - or dairy farm. Willing to start on a reasonable salary. Offerings 50 bushels Cowpeas of the following varieties: lllack. Clay. Whippoorwill. Small White. Market price. ' 1,000 bushels Mixed Field seed I peas, $1.15 per bushel, f. o. b. Dun* barton. Sacked in 2 1-2 bushel bur* laps. I 500 bushels Brabham and Whip' poorwill peas, $1.40 per bushel, f. o. b. Dunbareon. Sacked in 2 1-2 bushel burlaps . K f 40 bushels 90 per cent sound Iron 9 peas, $1.25 per bushel, f. o. b. Pelion. 20 bushels Crowder peas, very x prolific, sound, $1.25 per bushel, f. o. b. Pelion. 15 bushels very One Speckled peas, . $1.30 per bushel, f.o. b. Pelion. ( Clover seed, 50 pounds for $3.75. 90 Day Selected Velvet beans, 50 pounds delivered $2.00. 0 200 bushels Selected Cotton seed, 3 wilt resistant, staple 1 3-16, $2.00 II per bushel. 3 10 bushels wilt resistant Sea Island p Cotton seed, $2.00 per bushel. Creech's Improved Prolific Red Cob c | seed Torn, 75c per pock. ~| Mexican Jnno Corn, r>0 pounds for I $2.00. 1 j Norton Yam Potato Plants, $1.25 l|per 1,000. Lookout Mountain Irish Potatoes, f i 50 bushels for $1.85. t (Continued on page 7) MUTUALS t at this time when nearly all lave withdrawn from the State? atles fortunate that they don't NEY, Agent KTH CAROLINA It ic best and most economiK> chances when you buy n carries this unqualified sing the entire contents of directions, if you are not ipect, your grocer will repaid for it." We also give itee that you only have to :h Luzianne as a cheaper emium catalog. ?i ' ' >r Ca New Orleans ?