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AFOUL VILIJ* ? Capt, (Continued from Tuesday) "tVlTai are' you piayjng ror. daddy?" "Just to pass the time, daughter Run on out, you and Marion. Wo have been talking over some matters you wouldn't understand." The girl passed her hands lovingly over the old miner's sparse hair. The light in her eyes told Kynaston what the loss of her father would mean to Dorothy. Then suddenly it came to him that he was playing the fourth hand, and that on the upshot A# ?hia u a !-. -1 * * * ' ..mo uuc nuuu it ucpenaea wneiner or not that light should dawn again in Dorothy Upton's eyes. He bit his lips till the blood cam? and ran down, a salty trickle, into his mouth. Upton looked at Kynaston grimly as he flung the fifth card into the widow and settled himself to play his hand. "'Patience and shuffle rhe cards." as the Spaniards say. Walt a bit. Kynaston." He laid down his hand for a moment and shakingly lit a cigarette. "Who've you got at homo, Kynaston'.'" "Sist?*r. Why? What's that got to do with it ?" "How old arc you. son?" "Twenty-five. Still, why?" "An" I'm sixty-five. Did vou aim at that man. Kynaston? As Hod s your judge, answer rae!" And straight as a shot came Kynaston's answer "I aimed as delib< - a' ly at him as I ever aimed at anything in my life. Did you?" "I did. An without lyin more than ordinnrtlv I ilr. i ,-?n -n- ,< i ? miss it's the Urst time :'or a long lime. Did you see the body? "No. They covered it up with the blanket toe quick for m?> to s< < Why j "I wonder if it's possible that we both plugged him. "That's got nothing to do with it.' said Kynaston roughly. "They only claim one of us. Play your hand. l*pton! What ails you?" "Nothin . only Id like to bet that , If you killed him he's gut two builetholes in hint I must say I don't like : the idea of hnvin' a clean miss s> t down against me?takin' up tho I widow, are you?" For Kynaston, the piay passing to him, quietly laid down his hand and picked the five cards from the center of the table. "Wouldn't have me stand on two [ small pairs with tin stakes we're play- i in' for. would you?" There was little mirth in the Jest j Just so do men jest who, standing on i the Peaks of Peril, look down into the Valley of the Shadow. Just so have Anglo-Saxon men jested from time Immemorial, playing with death as boys do with marbles, holding it indeed to be a little thing where honor is to be gained. The older man speculated. Then he threw down a card. Th?s gave him the right on the next play to throw down one card and pick up two. "Shall we turn up the cards?" The sweat had started again on Kynaston's face, but he summoned a laugb?It was the poorest imitation that was ever heard?and flung down his hand face up. It wan one ace, one king, one seven and?two fours! "If you've got anything at all in your hand as it is, you have me beaten. ( I can't better my hand from what I threw down. In the name of Heaven, Upton, show down!" Upton, with a quick look at his young opponent, laid his hand quietly upon the table. Three jacks peered out from behind a seven spot. "I was aiming to speculate again on the next round if you hadn't dropped out an' then try for the four jacks. Want a drink?" Kynaston nodded, smiling wanly at his host. "It's all right, old man," he said presently. "It's as it should be. You see you've got Dorothy to look after ?and?I'd have liked that job myself If the cards had fallen the other way?" Upton whistled. "Good Heavens, boy' Does she know?" Kynaston shook his head softly. "No. It came too late for me to tell her. She must never know, Upton. Not a word of this. 11 go down at dusk. You must get the ladles In the back room on some pretext They would raise the deuce and all If they knew?and then I'll walk on down. "I shall not take a rifle with me, but 1 will lake that little thirty-eight automatic of yours. It may come In handy In the time of need, and I can hide that where a heavy gun would be detected. And now, If you don't mind, old fellow, I'll trouble you for a sheet or two of paper. "If I am reported as killed over here thp American papers would Jump fil to the oonclusion that I had deserted. H 111 & couple of notes that 1 / .OF L'S MEN \y | \e B. Rodney "Go cn. Deal!" I '1 lik< you to del Ivor when?when? when I've goto down there.' "Kynaston! 1 don't like to ask you I this?but. .nan and hoy. I've known the army for fifty years, and I knowthat an oilier r doesn't get a chance to put by any money. Were your people array people? ' ! | "Yes. Why?" 11 "Is your sistrr dependent upon you In any way?" , "None <f your business, Mr. Upton," said the young 'cr. "No one need be < concerned in this matter hut vnn '< | me We played the came. 1 lost, and I mean to pay.' 1, Th< r was no mistaking tlio tears ] in th< r?d man's eyes as he looked 1 adily at his opponent. 1 'I know.' he said slowly, fiddling \ 1 with the pa<k. though his ltando j' sh"ok "I knov.* ! won't insult you ; by offering to trade places with you. i you hav< answered tny question, boy. [ If it is any sma.ll comfort to you, you ' can rest assured that your sister shall j be provided for Wbere're you goin'?' "To my room a moment. I 11 see , yon when 1 come back. To Kynaston as he passed out of the great m .in room the world seemed a w hirl. The game was fair enough, but hi had not count< 1 on his nervous , system failing him. it is oni thing to contemplate death i as a possibility; it is one tiling even to contemplate it as a certainty at the ; end of a tpeciljeil time, but to gamble life away as if it were a dollar was something that the cavalryman was not prepared lor. He would pay?of course ne would pay, just as he km w in his heart of hearts that old Upton would have paid j had he lost. Hut to save his soul Ky- | n as ton could not help reflecting that. I had the end been different, he might have had his chance at winning Doro- I ?h? "J Well, it would not take long. It would be over in twenty-four hours, j unless?a horrible thought came to I him?those men below, whose prison- j r he would be In two hours, were savages in the rough; savages with1 the blood-lust fairly roused and in- ! flamed by defeat. He had heard tales of torture among the prisoners that he had seen at Nogales?horrible tales! The thought of having to go with- j out even saying farewell to Dorothy unnerved him for a moment, but ho realized his own limitations, and he knew that In that last moment he ! would betray himself. So down he sat ' at the table and wrote two short { notes; one to his colonel, In which he explained the whole affair, and the oth-1 er to the nister that lived in a quiet little Maryland town among the placid back eddies of the eastern shore. Kynaston, his notes written, filled the clip of the automatic and slipped it into his boot-leg, where its flat frame would be most likely to lie undetected. A 1 ? 11 ' <> uiuuiuii unci upiui! camo into i the room, His face was gray with j suppressed feeling and bla gaunt frame allowed unmistakable suffering. In the few minutes that had p&BBed since i Kynaaton had left him the whole trag- i edy of the next twenty-four hours had i been brought home to him. i "I can't let you go, boy," he said < hoareely. "We had better take our chance. Bring your men on over across i the border." < The appeal was almost overwhelm- i ing in its intensity. i "Don't you know that it moans your j life?" ; ] "I know. But it means war if I do; and, Upton, as God Is my Judge, j | I cannot start a war that will involve j , the country to save my own skin. \ You see that, don't you?" ' l Upton licked bis dry lips. | < "When?when?do you mean to t leave?" he asked. I t "Right now." I i Kingston's face was pals. ) THE LANCASTER NEWS "Are the Tadiea In the back room?" "Yes. Ill go with you to the door." The two men strelleil listlessly toward the door of the main room, where the defenders stood eying them. Frank puzzlement was written large upon their faces as Upton unbarred the door, letting Kynaston out upon the smooth four-hundred-yard stretch of grass that spread from the door j step to the stream, grass that had I been laboriously plunted by hand through two generations. Below them the land sloped away to the east, a riot of gold and dun. pearl and opal, and that curious redbrown that one sees in the southwest and nowhere else on earth. Looking out before he shut the door a.rain. 1'nton saw a mlir> nwov ? ? ?!_ umn of r?'d dust swirl up to the amethystine sky and heard a series of long, joyous yells that cut the deseri silences like a knife. Yell after yell broke out. then tiring, and then more yells. "That'll he the arrival of the re- ' enforcements they spoke of," said Ky- j naston. "I'm off, old man. Adios! ' Give my love to?your?duughter." Upton frankly choked as ho watched ' the younger man swing off down the hill. ? Steadily Kynaston tramped down ' across the dead olive-green of the parched alfalfa patch, skirted the dead 1 brown of the sugar care, paused to ' wave his hand to the o.d miner, and ' 1 then?disappeared from view among the cottonwoods. ' ' Upton, sighing, turned hack to the 3 house. He tramped through the great room amid a great silence. Men < turned from their loopholes, scanned i his face, and furtively fell to rubbing t spotless rifle-holts with their shirt- j sleeves. They saw in his face such 1 grief as is above mere words, and. t after the manner of the southwest, re ; fipected it. 1 Dorothy and Mrs. Fane he found in t the back room. They kne.w, or sin j pected. Mrs. Fane was sitting in a chair at the head of the table, her fare , in her hands, frankly weeping, with | her arms spread upon the table. In r t beautiful tigure racked with sobs. , Dorothy, a mixture of fire and icc. , stMiwl liv u-in.T.i... - w. COBTO , ind barred, confronting Mr. Wilkes, who fairly cringed beforo tlte concen- f tratod fury in her eyes. { "I suy it was a shame?a shame!" ho cried. "What if he did kill him? Did they not try to kill him lirst, and lav they not stolen first from us. and !or tvo 'ays now fried to kill us all? Did he not peril his life to get us \va.er? Did he not cross the line and risk his life and. more than his life his reputation as a soldier to help us? "What must he think of us? To have us accept such a sacrilice from him! Oh, father, I cannot stand it! Marion, say something!" Dut Marion was long past saying anything that could he of even the smallest comfort. It was Mr. Upton who said slowly: "Wo did the best we could, daughter. We are but human, after all. N( ither Kynaston nor 1 were sure which ot us shot the man. Anyway, they promised us immunity if the man who killed their leader should give himself up to trial by court-martial ?' ' YVlii..l, " ?- ??? ? f ........ .... unci utuui, imiijuniu ( Dorothy scornfully. , "And as wo could not toll which of U8?ho or I?It was who did the killing, we played a hand of poker to decide. That was what wo wore doing ^ when you came in." "Gambled away a life!" ejaculated the horrified girl. ? "And you mean that this"?she * pic ked up the cards lying on the table * ?"this was the price of his life?" The tears were running down her ' cheeks like rain. v "And you had? What did you ' have, father?" 1 "Three jacks -and?" The old miner never finished his * sentence. He started back from the table as if a coiled rattlesnake lay within a foot of his face; for his daughter had n dropped the hand that had saved his 1 life and had turned up the band thut s Kynaston had thrown so scornfully 1 in the middle of the table, disclosing to his horrified eyes?four nines' 11 CHAPTER VII. ti ? fl A Contest of Wits. Dusk was slowly drawing down as g Kynaston left the house. Below him a in the camp of the attackers excite- n ment was rife. Serious as was his n predicament, he could not help specu-'s lattng on the cause of it. Anything, f even the most trivial thing, might turn h the scale in his favor, and he did not r mean to miss the slightest chance. > He knew right well that, given the chance, Upton would get his party out and across the hr.r.iu?- t where the cavalry had camped. He t also knew right well that the old i t miner woud leave no atone unturned a to help him. If he could gain thirty- rl tlx hours at moat and then manage to g escape, he might still win out. He was by no means hopeless, p though well-nigh desperate, as he drew p down from the higher ground to the ' v camp, well sheltered in the valley. He , ^ law that more men were coming in? t presumably the talked-of re-enforce* ments. They saw him as he came down the Pill and entered the flat on which tho "amp lay. The horsemen, ir a madly rolling crowd swept forward toward n lim, lariats circling, horses frantically ^ caracoling about him, thetr riders 1 driving to see who should be the first ? get a rope about the neck of the , iccursed gringo. TO BE CONTINUED TUESDAY n - V ? I MAY 2t>, 1<UH, MAKE GOOD WAGES IN SHORT HOURS IN TRAIN SERVICE Some Interesting Figures As To Actual Earnings Of Men On Southeastern Roads. Washington, D. C.?In connection with the movement of train and engine employes for inert used wages, ia frank statement of the earnings ol men employed in freight service in the southeastern terrl?ur/ will doubtlesjj he of iP'CJoM. For engineers the prevailing minimum rate in through freight service ranges from $5.15 to $5.t>3 per day ior olivines of onlinary types, in local freight service from $.">.23 to $0.00 for olivines of ordinary types, in both through und local freight service from $0.23 to $7.0't for Mallet typo engines. For white firomen on engines of ordinary types the minimum rate ranges from 12.75 to $:l.r>n per day in through freight service, from $3.00 U> >2.CO in local service; on Mallet engines in both through and local service from $1.00 to $4.25. For conductors the standard minimum rate in through freight service is $4.10 per day, in local service $t.5o i>er day. For white brakemen the standard rate in through freight service is 12.75 per, in local service $3 per day. The foregoing are the minimum laily rates that must be made by the ail ways to each employee in the classes named who does any work at ill in a day, irrespective of how few \ours he may be on duty or of how ew miles he may actually run. These ato.s are paid for any work up to 00 miles with additional pay for >vi rtinie if the run is not completed n the specllleil number of hours. Oti the other lit.r,d, the earnings of miployees frequently exceed these inures as the actual earnings depend ipon the number of miles run and. in lie case of fast freight runs, the armings are much higher for com larntively short hours. Taking as an illustration a fast rclght train running over a division 50 miles long where the daily run an he made in 7 hours and 30 uiinites, the engineer would receive for his 7 1-2 hours on duty the sum of iN.10. the fireman $t.7o. the conduc or $0.1.">. and the white hrakeman 4.10. Thus while the first figures show he minimum that can be paid an nglneer, fireman, conductor, or irakeman for a day s work, the later figures show the wages that can >e and are being made by train and ngine employees on fast frei lits on ong divisions, such as are being ruti very day in regular service by a lumber of roads in the suu^ienst for landling live stock, perishables, and >tlier freight which it is necessary o move on expedited schedules. In yard ser\ire the standard rates or white employees vary from $3.0" o $3.">t? per day for day switchmen, ind from $3.20 to $3.70 for night iwitohmen. and from $3.50 to $3>o or day foremen, and from $3.70 to 14.00 for night foremen These are he minimum rates that can he paid or a day or any part of a day up to 0 hours, after 10 hours pro rata overime is paid. Under the men's proposals the low st yard employees who now receive 13.00 for a 10 hour day would reolve $3.0o for an 8 hour day, or 14.12 for the work at present perormed in 10 hours, and the night ard conductor now receiving $4.00 or his 10 hour day would receive his $4.00 for his 8 hour day, or $5.30 or the work at present performed in 0 hours. 100,000,000 Paralyzed Just as the railroads have begun to riaka mnnnw ? 1 J ?...v ?.vuvj, uuci nojoiiu uiuu years, hey are threatened with a great tiike. Four national railroad unions hreaten to tie up every steam road ti the country. The number of em loyees Involved may total 400,000 *hey seem to have it in their power o stop all freight and passenger trafc on 250,600 miles of track. We have never had a strike of such cope and magnitude, it would parlyze all American industry and com aerce and stop our export trade. A ation of 100,000,000 people would tand still, while it* biggest Industry ought out a question of wages and ours. A deadlock would be Inconeivably destructive?Bangor (Me.) < ewa. A Railway Break Down. In the case under consideration, If he engine and trainmen should win heir point, it would be but another tep towards a general railroad breakown, and that would mean eventual overnmenl ownership. The railroad employee who assists n any move of that sort, once be ecame a government employee >'ould undoubtedly Hpend a goodly iart of his time when off duty in rylng to flrd how many kinds of a onkey he had made of himself.?Atsnta Iron Tradesman. The Wrong Theory. To pursue a dispute as to hours nd wages on the theory that workngmen are entitled to all that can '? forced from employers and extort1 from the people by employers is ot the bast way to promote the per* lanent welfare of labor.?Now Tork Vorld. HOME DEMONSTi ORGANIZED I The following; Women's Home I Demonstration Clubs have been or-j j Kanized in Lancaster county under the supervision of Miss Martha Q. Creighton, Home Demonstration ! Agent for Lancaster county: | IMeasnnt Hill Home Demonstration < 'lub Mrs. K. It. Beckham. Mrs. S. Heck 'ham, Jr., Mrs. J. K. Beckham, Mrs. I M. W. Cuuthen, Mrs. L. V. Cauthen. | Mrs. John Magill. Mrs. J. Sam Marshall. Mrs. Sidney Robertson, Mrs. (). W. llutleire \li?? r- r. - Vftnn I. | Miss Alma Van Lnndingham. Honorary members: Four Fanning club members. ' Elgin Home Demonstration Flub Mrs A. J. Bailey, Mrs. J. ?. Bailey. I Mrs. William Bailey. Mrs. Albert ! Bailey, Mrs. A. J. Raskins. Mrs. C. P. Caskey. Mrs. Jim Cauthen. Mrs. , Kinma Cauthen. Mrs. J. O. Duren, ; Mrs. Will Flemming. Mrs. J. S. Ha' gins. Mrs. Bobbie Haglns, Mrs. J. (). Harper. Mrs. Jim Harper, Mrs. John Harper, Mrs. R. S. Harper. Mrs. <*. 1*. Johnson. Miss Estelle Bailey. ' Miss Vera Bailey, Miss Bessie Bailey, Miss Edna Bailey, Miss Maude Duren, , Miss Sara Flemming, Miss Lizzie , Harper. Miss May Harper. Miss Eva Johnson. Miss Corrinne Jones. Miss Nannie Kirk. Miss, Myrtle Truesdale, Miss Luoile Truesdale. Honorary members: Nine Canning club members. Van W.vck Home Demonstration Flub Mrs. I.oula Courteney, Mrs. J. II. Crenshaw, Mrs. W. J. Crenshaw, Mrs. Mice CIriflin, Mrs. J. A. Hyatt. Mrs. W. IV MacOuirt, Mrs. Edwin Nisbet. Mrs Ida Nishit. Mrs. T. W I'lyler, Mrs. Sallie Stewart, Mrs. S.' L Thompson, Mrs. G. L. Vaughn. Mrs. J. M Voder, Mrs. K. M. Yoder. j Mis- Kathleen Bates. Miss Annie Hyatt. Miss Athlie Nisblt. Miss Janet' Plvler. Miss Fave Thompson. Miss Ethel Vaughn. Miss Louise Vaughn. Antiocli Home Demonstration Olub Mrs. W. B. Arrant. Mrs. W. H. R. j Barton. Mrs. Willie Barton. Mrs Willie Blaekmon, Mrs. Bob Brasing-, Wlnthrop College SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vaeant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will bo held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. in. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When Scholarships are vacant after July 7 they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examination for Scholarship examina- j tion blanks. FARMERS' 1 / i Don't they fit in nice just i of the best old-line companies bat Aren't Lancaster and York count! have to organize? D. E. BOIS YORK - SOI DO Yl GIV1 Let us print your Drop in and se THEY ARE MODELS OF N Fast Presses i RATION CLUBS IV THE COUNTY ton, Mrs. W. B. Hegler. Mrs. Oscar Lane, Mrs. Will Long, Mrs. C. L. McManus. Mrs. J. Q. MeManus, Mrs. B. L. Barker, Mrs. Coleman Robinson, Mrs. E. G. Robinson. Mrs. E. L. Stogner. Mrs. Peter Threatt, Miss Ellen Baker, Miss Lillian Blakeney, Miss Minnie Caskey, Miss Beulah Hegler, Miss Mamie Threat. Xortli L.-menster Home Demonstration Club Mrs. D. |>. Adams. Mrs. Charles Adams. Mrs. J. Boyd Craig, Mis. J. ('. Craie. Mrs .1 10 ('Loin \t-*. t W Craig. Mrs. N. B. Cousar, Mrs. A. B. Robinson, Mrs. K. L. Robinson. Mrs. J. Clark Robinson. Mrs. VV. J. Snipes, Miss Annette CraiR. Pleasant Valley Home Demonstration CIul> Mrs. J. B. Alexander. Mrs. J. Z. Bailes, Mrs. S. R. Bailes. Mrs. Massey Culp, Mrs. M. I>. Davidson. Mrs J. M. Harris, Mrs. J. P. Harris, Mrs. Charlton MacGlnn. Mrs. M. W. McManus, Mrs. Frank Moore, Mrs. W. P. Norman. Mrs. June Patterson, Mrs. f>. W. Potts. Mrs. D. O. Potts, Mrs. It. M. Ross. Mrs. Fiank Stephenson. Mrs. J. D. Wolfe. Miss Anna Culp. Miss Mary Potts. Honorary members: 11 Tannine club members. Oak Hurst Home Demonstration Club Mrs. O. M. Cauthen. Mrs. A. J. Cauthen, Mrs. J. 8. Cauthen, Mrs. Blanche Crimminger, Mrs. Sarah Floyd, Mrs. J. F. Hammond, Mrs. A. % R. ^Tegler, Mrs. W. .1 Hinson, Mrs. J. C. Robertson. Mr*. Fred Robertson. Mrs. J. M. Robertson, Mrs. L, R. Rolllncs. Mrs. H. B. Rollincs. Mrs. Clarence Wright. Miss \nnie Hinson, Miss Onio Mackey. MiKdna Robertson. Miss Florence Robertson, Mlsa Flotilla Robertson, Miss Irene Robertson. Miss Madelene Robertson, MIsS Mattie Robertson, Miss Clara Ma 3 Rollings, Miss Emmie Rollings. Miss Ruth Rollings, Miss Ella Rutledge, | M'ss Hattie Rutledge, Miss Carrie TTssory, Miss Mavian Ussery, Miss Sallie 1'ssery. Honorary members: Five Canning club girls. Nine elderly ladies. Nine men. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1010. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. I). B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 59-12tp There In more Catnirb In this section of the country tlinn u 11 rtli.r <li, . j.nt lo^ftlier. and int t the lust t> w yours xv.,-. -un nosed to bo Incurable. 1- or a jstv i .-.?>> ycurs doctor* proiiuuiii fil It u lo* 1 1.' i 1 |>r > Korlbvd local remedies. and by ? .. taiilly i Unit < ? cure wttU loonl trcatuiout, d it . ir.ilile. Mclenca has |?rovi-t\ Vularrli l? .i 111 u I ? nal Jlmnw, :ul thcrcfiAt r-i|iilr? * .. - -i. iti I treatment. 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