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/afoul viua I Capt. Geon Continued from Friday. Mercifully Be forestalled their attempts by backing up against a tall mesquit bush so that the loops of their lariats could not settle about his neck Seeing his intention they voiced their disapproval in a renewed outburst of yells. Further designs upon him were provented by the opportune arrival of an officer, who (.ispersed the crowd by the simple process of beating them bout the heads with a stick. "Have you come from the house yonder, senor?" "Yes. And I claim proper treatment from you, sir. You can hardly claim to treat people in your power decently when your troops are as out of hand as that." "I will take you to El General Obispo, senor," said the officer courteously. "For your own sake, I warn you. do not anger him. His temper is a trifle uncertain, owing to his having to undergo severe privations for the past week." A sentry slept in the doorway. From the interior came the smell of a meal that had evidently Just been served. Following his guide, Kynaston entered. El General Obispo, a squat little man, whose high cheek bones ana full Hps betokened his Indian ancestry, looked up from the supper which he was eating by the simple process of stuffing as much carne seeo in his mouth as that organ would hold, and then cutting otf the balance with a none too clean knife. El gener.il growled out a question. The officer explained who Kynaston was. In answer the general rose hastily from the table, spat the meat from his mouth, and began such a furious tirade of scurrilous epithets as to become nearly epileptic. Kynaston stood silent. "Take him away! Place him in the cuartel till a consejo de guerra (court-martial) can decide what the fate shall be of any accursed gringo who dares kill one of our gallant soldiers! Here!" He tossed a paper to the officer. "Let him see, capitan, that even in his own accursed country, where the pigs walk on their hind legs and talk and act as if they were indeed men. they are beginning to see that the revolutionary forces of our land are not to be withstood?the court martial will meet tomorrow afternoon." "He is in a better humor than I thought," said the officer to Kynaston. "El viejo diablo (the old devil) gave you the paper, senor, not because he wished you to read it, but becav.se he himself cannot read, and wished to impose upon you here is the cuartel. Can 1 send you some blankets? I fear the house will not be so comfortable as I might wish?ITola, there, hornbres! A guard for the Americano!' And before ho even realized that he was indeed a prisoner, Kynaston found himself shoved inside the dirty interior, the door closed and a guard set outside. Kynaston, seeing that he might as well take things coolly, seated himself on a blanket that a peon threw in the door, took the paper from his pocket and disposed himself to read. The very lirst thing that caught his eye was a six-column display head: ARMY OFFICER DISAPPEARS SO DOES PRICELESS GEM There followed a garbled account of thn arrival ot the Emerald Hell in Ky uasiuu a < unii). a siiu more garbled account of how it cr.mo into northern Mexico. The account of the gallant "Have You Come From the House Yonder, Senor?" fight made by the prisoners he had left In bla camp told plainly enough thw_eource of the story. OF k'SMEN I Y \e B. Rodney Hie article stated that, acting on information received from a Mexican prisoner who had been outrageously 1 abused by the army officer who had captured him. the Tarryville Argus had dispatched a special correspondent to the camp of the United States > troops. There he found Major Updyke, who > with visible reluctance had substani tiated the story about the Jewel. Kynaston swore and raged impotenti ly up and down the little room. Apparently It was not enough that he i should sacrifice his life itself; his very reputation, too, was to be torn to shreds. Hour after hour passed. He had a little tobacco, but one cannot enjoy smoking in the dark. So he set and thought and thought till the tiny stars came out like forget-me-nots in the wonderful Mexican sky. and the camp woke to renewed life in the coolness. Presently he was aroused by the sound of someone fumbling at the chain that fastened the door on the outside. The door drew open. In the shadow he heard a voice. "Ohe Mio capitaa!" It was the voice of the officer who had met him. "Si?si! What is it?" "If you will come with me it will perhaps benetit you.' Kynaston fumbled in his boot-leg to sec if that tint automatic pistol still lay close to his leg. Fortunately, he had not been examined for concealed weapons; the Mexicans had taken for granted that a man surrendering himself would not be fool enough to bring arms into a hostile camp. Kynaston stepped out. The officer with two guards crowded their way with their prisoner through the fastgathering crowd to the house where the general lived. Hy the light of the two gluttering candles stuck in empty bottles that illuminated the dirty interior Kynaston saw. seated beside the rebel commander, a tigure that he recognized at once?the blind priest of Trocanto, the guardian of the shrine! The general was the first to break the silence. "I have brought you here, Senor Gringo, to ask you some questions. This good man tells me that you are an Americano ollieer. Is it true?" "Ask him. if he is your source of information," said Kynaston in a disguised voice, lie could see the priest lean forward in an eager attempt to identify him. "There has been a story come to us"?the general was in deadly earnest?"that we mean to look into There was a stone of incalculable valuo in the South that we meant to use to buy arms and ammunition to help our cause We got it; then our forces were attacked by three times their number of the accursed federalistas, and so the stone was taken. It was then that, pursued by our men, the thieves fled across the lino and took refuge on American soil, carrying with them the stone that meant so much to j the righteous cause. "That stone was taken charge of by the American officer. The next day the stone and the officer had disappeared, and now the good father tells me that you are the man. I tell you plainly, Senor Gringo, that, failing to obtain from you news of the stone's whereabouts, the court-martial shall do its duty in the morning. Am I clear?" "Aye! As clear as your own laws ?anil doubtless as d ini-nniln or " This time at hearing Kynaston's voice the eld priest leaned back in his seat. "It is the man. he said quietly "It is the otticer who took the stone.' "A hr'rcaln?then the stone againrt you/ hie! The stone that means two hundn d thousand pesos against your life! It can profit you nothing to keep it. for if it is not turned over to us you shall surely die." Kynnston turned hotly toward the priest "Thou hast eaten iny bread and sali," ho said passionately. "Thou hast slept in my camp. Thou known.-.t right well that 1 did not take the stone; thou knowest right well that , thou thyself art the thief, and that I | had parties out searching for thee by I mesa and by river. What hast thou i to gain, padre, by lying away my | Jife?" Tho old priest turned gray under 1 nis dark skin. "My son, tills Is not fair. Thou sayest that thou (lldst not tako it. Who then did?" "Who? Who hut the man who has sought It, as he says, for so long? The j blind priest of Troeanto, of course. I Who else has so great a desire for it? i 1 couid not have taken it, as my com| mandante?major?can prove, for I | was with him from the moment that | he came into my camp till the bundle was unwrapped, and the stone was found miasm*/* THE LANCASTER NEWS i "\\ as no <ki? o.se tn your tout then." asked the general. "Thou knowcst there was, senor." The voice of the blind priest rose to 1 almost breaking tension. "Thou knowest there were the two ladies? where are they. 1 say?" "Where are they? Is this camp a place to ask such a question? Wouldst 1 thou expect to find women?decent women?in such a camp ot ladrones?" "Then, senor," said the general, 1 "there can be but one person who ' knows about the stone. Either one of ' the ladies must have seen the stone when it was in your tent, or else? | which is, of course, unbelievablo? one of them has taken it?" "No?no!" ' The voice suddenly rose to a shriek: the Mexican captain raised his hand 1 to guard his leader from the blow that I a luvuglll ??3 UUIUIIK. IVJIIttBlOU dropped his hand. 1 "Someone in your camp must know 1 the matter. IHrabtless if any man eni tered your tent while the ladies were in your camp they have Been him. A note to Senor Upton that 1 will send 1 i hy an officer will discover the matter. You can tell him with perfect | truth that if the Jewel is not restored your life will pay the forfeit." * "Wherever It is found? Do you mean, general, if for instance I should ; 1 be able to prevaL1 noon this blind pflest to restore it that I will be re- ] leased ?" < "Si?si! But mark. I must have ' the stone in my hands before safety 1 1 is promised to Senor Upton." 1 A lieutenant had entered with a ' hasty report which he whispered in ' the ear of his commander in chief, and 1 1 had handed him a paper. A pleased ' smile stole across Obispo's face as he ' ! read it aloud: ' . 1 It Is permitted to nnnnunoo that tonight ] the Kullnnt Ocnernl Villa will make an attack <>n the American army. The mil- ' hint general will himself leud hut a small force It this tlrst attack, and will then await re enf 1 irn im-nls. Vou will therefore join the main force at l'alomas liv tomorrow evening. The gallant tieneial Villa refuses to disclose . his plans, but says he will he In El Paso within two weeks. Kynnston could hardly believe bis ears. Was Villa really to attempt an invasion of the States? What could such a move mean but war, the war lie was sacrificing himself to avoid? ' The army must be advised, but how? A murmur of approval from those in the room bad greeted the reading ' ot the message. After a moment 1 Obispo turned to him again. "If you wish to live, gringo," he said, "see to it that ray messenger takes a letter from you to the house of Senor Upton this night." Obispo waved his hand in dismissal and Kvnaston was escorted back to the little adobe house where nnnor and ' pens wore brought him. For a few moments Kynaston sat. tapping his ( teeth with his penholder, thinking over the situation, revolving in his mind what he wanted to tell Upton ' and how he should tell it. For he hud u message to send Upton that would never get by his censors if they should understand it; and his censors, moreover, would he everyone in camp who j could read. Ho linully concluded not to attempt to tell Upton of the intended attack hy Villa, but to contlno his efforts to intimating how an escape from tin house* might he made with the machine After a few meaningless intro- ( ductory sentences he wrote: T mil tohi that the accusation is mail against mo that I have taken or eon coaled tin priceless Emerald Bell w1 wo captured when we look the federal party prisoners. of course you know that I know noth ing ot n. i am told further that* if it is < ivstorcil, or positive information Is give* , which will lead to its restoration, 1 will lie released. An to tin* repairs to the automobile that we spoke of, I would take the machlm ifi once t* the United Stales, as no r*- 1 pairs can be made here. You must take ( the machine at once as the delimit mechanism wdii ruin if kept here more ' than ten l wish l could write hours, if < you know anything ahout the Jewel send worth 1 am firmly convinced that the ol I 1 ' I priest who has turned up here either has | I It or knows where it Is. You can see what they are saying ' about me across the harder. They anus. j me of having stolen Ihe accursed Hell. I i unnot Imagine where It can tie unless 1 the <S<1 priest has taken It. Of course he has. hut equally of course he will never acknowledge it. I I fear that If they shoot me I Will have < j lost more than my life, for this attack . on my honor will leave me In worse case ' | than death. After it is all over, save in. ] honor for me if you can. Write my sc. . i ter at least tha? that accusation Is tin- ' true. Iff clipped trom the paper the ar ' tide which intimated that lie had ( stolen th e I tell and pinned it with a ' hit ot splinter to his note, to tie given 1 ?o the messenger. As tlio courier ! walked off to the great clilnahorry tr. ' under which his horse was tieu. Kynastnn thought cheerlessly -it win the remit of the mission must he. The nicss^ tiger was gom an hoi ( when a sudden llurry at tlio pout o. ( the guard set ti. i camp alight with ex < citeniejit. An aid came hastily to th house, uema ling admission. I "Voui loiter was received, senor, i by Senor I pton, who declined to read i it." said the aid. "lie said that he < was a caballero of blood and refused to receive messages that were sent < hint by the hands of a common sol- i dier. JIo dcuiaiided that El Genera! i Obispo send a commissioned officer 1 to talk witli him. Accordingly Major ' Gutierrez will go up at daylight to t arrange matters." t Kynuston spent a sleepless night, i Early in the morning tho camp was I awake, the noise and excitement fore- < casting a move. An hour later an > officer, furious with anger, entered with four men. He seized tho American roughly and tied liis hands behind him with a strip of rawhide. t "Ixis porros!" the officer gritted. "To treat with men like that?el gen- ( eral wishes to see /ou, gringo. 1 TO BB CONTINUED FRIDAY. I 3 MAY 30, 1916. IN THE OLD TRUNDLE BED Downy Couch Occupied by the Children of Other Days a Delightful Place of Repose. Thoro may be a few of us left who remember the trumllo bed?but for which it would have been impossible to bring up the old-fashioned family of good proportions. Houses were small and families were large in those days, and providing beds was a problem. So It was solved by tlie trundle bed?a low structure that rolled beneath the "regular" bed?and which was trun-, died out at night and tilled with chil-, ilren, says the Dayton News. It was a feather bed, of course?big! and thick and soft. You sank into its; very bosom. No danger of a kid fall Ing out; no more danger than there would be of a raisin falling out of a cake. For the children fitted into the > feather bed for all the world like peas in a pod?a nestlike formation holding | the tiny form. Besides, if you did fall out of a trundle bed, you wouldn't have far to fall; only an inch or two. for, bo It remembered, the trundle bed was built low. so it would roll under another bed. But it was a glorious Invention! A billowy, downy couch fit for the angels ? and angels slept in them. The temperature didn't matter. In memory they were ulways comfortable. Warm In winter and cool in summer?they must have been?sweet and clean and Tresh always. That's the way we recall them, anyway, so it is the way i they must have been. The night had i uo terrors after one was tucked away ! In a trundle bed, and sleep came quick-1 Iv to "knit up the raveled sleeve of care." The morning came instantly, it seemed, but you were refreshed, and1 ready for the rough and tumble work i or play that beckoned to you. I BARNACLE GOOD HUMAN FOOD Meat Is Asserted to Be Delicious, if People Could Be Educated to Its Use. The eagle barnacle (balanus aquilalj whoso shells measure as much as ten' Inches high and from six to seven Inches wide at the base, and whose, meat sometimes weighs close to a pound, is not only edible but delicious, according to Prof. Trevor Kincaid, of the University of Washington. It is the largest barnacle known, and inhabits only Alaskan and Pacific coast waters. Tons of these barnacles may be harvested easily in the San Juan islands. Professor Kincaid says, and students at the marine station at Friday Har bor have tried thein with most satisfactory results. They contend that the barnacles are as ftood as the best crab or shrimp. Living on sma\ forms of marine lffe, they are held preferable to the crab, which is a scavenger. Their nutritive value Is that of most food tlshea. Professor Kincaid doubts whether I a market could easily be developed for the barnacles, because the public would have to be educated to their use and because there is no great need of new foodstuffs from the sea. They will livo for a week or ten lays after being taken from the water, and could be shipped across the con-1 tlnent without difficulty. The shells muko pretty and useful' ornaments. Neither Meat Nor Drink. As an illustration of the keen sense of humor possessed by the famous Scottish Judge, I>ord Mackenzie, Sir J.j II. A. Macdonald, late lord Justice clerk, tells the following story in his reminiscences, "Life Jottings." On ono occasion when the jury had retired to consider conviction or acquittal. they rang their bell, producing the usual stir of anticipation in court. It turned out. as reported by the macer, that they rang to ask if they might be allowed to have some water while they were in deliberation. According to law of Scotland, it is forbidden, when a Jury has been inclosed, that they should he suffered to have any "meat or drink" until they lave returned the verdict. Everybody listened to hear what the judge would jay. Lord Mackenzie, looking up medItntlvrtlv ilnlivarnfl hlmanlf in lellberato tones, heard throughout tho :*ourt. thus: "Well, ye canna call it neat" (and then more rapidly), "and it mirtalnly is not a drink; they can lave the water." Perfectly Natural. "Nope! There wasn't anything out if tho ordinary happened at my house, he night you speak of," replied Mr. '.np Johnson of Rumpus Ridgo. "That was the time we'd set to name the baliy, and invited a passel of kinfolks to orter help us achieve it. My wife's not her was sorter present, and several >f wife's brothers and sisters and their families and such like, and about a lozen of my kin, and some of tho neighbors, and a feller or two that prob'ly expected there would be some liquor laying around loose. All of 'em pcared to have their preferences in tho way of names and an earnest dejire to stick to 'em. Hut thoro wasn't inythlng peculiar happened?nothing nut what you'd nacher'ly expect to ocjur when a hunch of that size and sort allied round to name a baby."?Judge. Would Upset Arrangements. "Havo you anything to say why sen;enoe should not be passed on you?" isk?-d the Judge. "Only that sending me to prison will >e most inconvenient, your honor. I lad made other plana for the next Ave rears," replied the prisoner. : - jPIU J, ... T*. . * +BURIED WITH HAND MIRRORS j Tombs Tell Stories of Vanity That Was Marked in Ancient Egyptian Women. "Bury me with my mirror?so when I become n mummy I can see if my hat is on straight." So spoke the wives and daughters of seven thousand years ago, according to evidence dug up at Dendereh. one of j Iho ? -"? -? ? > h.'d uiucoi liiii's ui r.,gypi, oy me ii.ckley B. Coxo, Jr., oxpcdition sent out by the Philadelphia University museum. Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, director of the expedition, has sent report of the operations. The vanity of the women of those early days was revealed by some ancient graves which the university exploiers opened. In several of these graves they found highly polished bronze mirrors, which had been buried with the women, who were supposed to need them after death. Another grave, that of a child, contained a cow. which was supposed to nourish the dead. In another a dog was buried with a child, and one had a bunch of dates four thousand years old. I Museum authcr'.tles regard as one of the most valuable finds a necklace which bears an inscription showing that it belonged to Sesostrls, a king who lived about 3R00 B. C., and who is said to have conquered the whole world. I The necklace was found on a woman, who may have been a daughter of the 1 king or one of his favorite wives. It consists of several strands of carnellan beads inscribed with the cartouche of Sesostrls. The government of Egypt will keep a part of this necklace. and Doctor Fisher will send the remainder of it to Philadelphia. LITTLE TIME FOR COURTING According to Mr. Dobbs He Was Altogether Too Busy to Stop and Go After a Wife. Mrs. O'Shnughnessy and Mr. Dobbs; got on famously. After supper, while she and Elizabeth washed the dishes.1 she asked him why he didn't get married and have someone to look after him and his cabin. "I don't have time," he answered. "I came west eighteen years ago to make n start and a home for Jennie and me, but I can't find time to go back and get her. In the summer 1 nave to nupitle to make the hay ami grain, and I have to stay and feed the stock all the rest of the time." "You write her once In a while, don't you?" asked Mrs. O'Shaughnessy. "Yes," he said. "I wrote her two years ago come April; then I was so busy I didn't go to town till I went for my year's supplies. 1 went to the post oflice, and sure enough there was a let ter for me- been waltln' for me for six months. "You see, the postmaster knows me, and never would send a letter back I set down there right In the office and answered it. 1 told her how It was, told her 1 was coming after her soon as I could find time. You see, she refuses to come to me 'cause 1 am so far from the railroad, and she is afraid of Indians and wild animals." "Hnvo you got your answer?" asked Elizabeth. "No," ho said, "1 ain't had time yet to go, but I kind of wish somebody would think to bring the mail. Not many people pass here, only when the open season takes hunters to the mountains. When you people come back will you stop and ask for the mail for me?"?Atlantic Monthly. Mere Appetizers. Dr. Wilfred Oreufell, the Labrador physician, tells the following amusing story about one of his trips on a koma-1 tik, or dog sled. It ought to be said first of all that Doctor Grenfell often haa samples of compressed eatables and nonfreezable foods sent to him. He and bis guide were on the way to a distant village where a small boy was reported to have "found himself In his stomach," which means in the somi-'Chaucerian dialect of Labrador that ne was afflicted with indigestionA businesslike bi business asset. you fine samples ordering elsewhere CALL. BOOK 1 LAW \ C1RCU Job Work o I la.;:.- . ^ ? ? - - The guid<- "cleft the split" (split the wood), and prepared the luncheon of steaming tea and pork buns, one of the few natural foods that really does not freeze. "Where," Inquired Doctor Grenfell, "are tho compressed-food tablets? I gave you a month's supply this morning." "Oh," rnswered the guide impassively, "I ato them after breakfast," and be hungrily bit into his pork bun.? Youth's Companion. Rough on the Mayor. The newly elected mayor of a certain town was about to make his first journey in that capacity through the place. The townspeople had arranged that from an arch of flowers under which he was to pass a floral crown should hang, surmounted by the words: "He well deserves It." But the wind blew away the crown and when the pompous mayor passed under the arch, to the great joy of those who voted against him only a rope with a noose at the end of it dangled there with "He well deserves it" standing out in bold relief above it. Philosophy That Failed. "I don't see Si Perkins any more at the grocery lyceum." "Si sorter lost caste. He was setting on a cracker barrel arguing that lifsi wasn't worth living. A lamp exploded." "Well?" "Si was the first man out."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Boys in Business. The \merlcan Boy says that "boy* are the backbone of the wintergreenj oil industry," because it is they whOi pick the wintergreen leaves and take them to the distilleries where the oil is distilled. Over 90 per cent of all the wintergreen oil produced in the world comes from Monroe county, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Pocono mountains, where the wintergreen plant is plentiful. The plant ia only three inches high and it is almost as backbreaking a process as picking strawberries is, to pick 50 pounds per day, which is a day's work for a nimble boy. There are said to be about BOO of these "wintergreen boys" and theyi work every day from April to November, picking the leaves, making them into bales and carrying then&i i by pushcarts to the "stills." The?> boys could tell us much about rattlesnakes. but they have trained eyes and ears so well that it is a rare thing for one of them to be bitten. Wintlirop College nvnuijAiwinir aim K.iTKANDK EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vacant scholarships In Wlnthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. in. Applicants must not be lesa 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 examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1916. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. I). II. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 59-12tp There la trior* Cntnrrh tn this section of the country thnn all other tlK'nwn |>ut together, and until the last few yeura \vn* supposed to bo incurable. t or a great uiany years do. ton* pronounced it u total di* urn- aud prcaerlbed local remedies, and by constantly tailing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it lucuruble. Science baa proven Catarrh to be u conatllutlonal tllaeaae. ind therefore requires conatltutlonul treatment. Haifa Catarrh Cure, mannfacturcd by K. J. I'heney & Co., Toledo. Ohio. I* the only Conatltuttonul cure on the market. It la taken Internally in iIorch from 10 dro|>a to a teaapoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mticoua aurfnees of the ayatem. They offer one hundred dollars for r <o?.- ii tuna hi cure. ?rini n>r circular* and testimonial*. Acldr.as: F. J. CHEXF.Y & CO., Toledo, Oblo* Sold hjr Druggist*. 75c. Take Hall* Faintly rill* fur constipation. I ! ' ' I * jsiness card is a We can show ! here. 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