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tumorous Department. Not the Question to Ask. The young mother, who excused herself for placing her five-year-old child in school on the ground that she had already exhausted her resources on her progressive offspring, should syinpa- , thizc deeply with the distracted instructors who are endavoring to hold j their own with the practical children of the day. The teacher in a certain city school had laid aside the book and was drawing on her imagination for examples in fractions. " In the first place this teach- . or, just out of the normal college, had never in her life gone marketing. And she was absorbed in getting numbers enrmhie of the divisions she had ill mind. "Suppose." she suggested confidpntly, "the butcher asks you forty-two cents a pound for beef, at that price what would three and three-sevenths pounds come to?" The scrawny girl to whom this was propounded, who had traveled innumerable times the distance between her home and the grocer's and butcher's, giggled a little?not without contempt. "It wouldn't come to our flat," she stated decidedly. "Ma'd send me back good 'n' lively if I didn't know better'n to pay that much for beef myself."? Youth's Companion. A Born Orator.?It is narrated that Col. Breckinridge, meeting Majah BufTo'd on the streets of Lexington one day. asked: "What is the meaning, suh. of the conco'se befo' the co't house." To which the Majah replied: "Gen. Buckneh. suh. is making a speech. Gen. Buckneh. suh. is a bo'n oratah." "What do you mean by a bo'n oratah ?" "If yo' or I. suh, were asked how much two and two make, we would reply 'foh.' When this is asked a bo'n oratah he replies: 'When in the co se or human events it uecomes 110cessa'y to take an integeh of the second denomination and add it, suh, to an integeh of the same denomina- ' tion the result, suh. and I have the ( science of mathematics to back me in J mv judgment, the result, suh. and I ( say it without feah of successful co.itradklbi.. suh, the result is fo'. That's a bo"'i oiatah."?Lyceumlte. The Odd One?"As every one who 1 has visited London knows," said a ' young man formerly attached to our embassy at the British capital, "the T number of passengers carried on cer? tain 'busses is limited by regulation. J "Once a kindly Irish conductor, though quite aware that his 'bus was j full, had permitted a young and sickfl lv woman to squeeze in. The 'bus r had not proceeded far before the uss mil prank st><?k?> tin. Ctincluctah!' he exclaimed. 'You've one over your number, y' know!' _ " 'Have I. sir?' asked the conductor with affected concern. Then, beginning to count from the opposite end, leaving the complainant until the last. ^ he repeated: 'Wan, two, three, four, faive, siv, sivin, eight, noine, tin, ' 'lefen, twelve, thir?so I have, sir, an' c be the Lord Harry, ye're the man. "And out he did g<>."?San Francisco Chronicle-Telegraph. T Future Food Faker.?Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government's brilliant food f expert, was talking about a notorious case of food adulteration. "The morals of these people!" he 0 said. "It is incredible. Hut 1 know r a little boy who will grow up and join v them some day. "I was walking one morning in a meadow when I saw this little boy ' gathering mushrooms. "'Have you had good luck?" 1 s asked. " 'Fair,' he answered, showing me his basket. 1 "Hut I gave a cry of alarm. ' " 'Why. my lad,' I said, 'those are toadstools you've got. They're poison, deadly poison!" "He tipped me a reassuring wink. " 'Oh, they ain't for en tin", sir.' he said:''they're for sale.' "?Washington Star. , a Played For His Wages.?Tho conductor of a certain band, which was rehearsing a piece, stopped the music abruptly and frowned at a stout fellow who was putting all tho other musicians out. "I say, Hermann," he demanded, "what do y.>u mean by playing a lot of half-notes when* there should be whole notes?" Hermann lowered his instrument. "Veil," he said, "I make explanations by you. You cut down my wages to half-brice, don't you?" The conductor stared in amazement. He had done so, but? "I'nd I gontinues to make der notes init my instrument, but dey vill be half-notes until der vages is put back to whole brice. Dat is fair, ain't it?"? Tid-Bits. Silence Was Courtesy.?A man in West Newton, who lias many friends. was puxsieu tne omer uay wnen one of (hem called him to account for j neglecting his wife. I "What in the world is the trouble?" ' said the friend. "You used to be , madly in love with Mrs. Iilank. Don't i you care for her any more?" f "I surely do." said the husband. ' "Well, if you love her. how does j it come that you haven't spoken to her t for the last fifteen years?" "oh. that," said the man. "The | fact is. I hate to interrupt her."? Most on Traveler. i A Budding Merchant.?The jeweler i left his new boy in charge of the store 1 while he went home to his dinner, but j not until he cautioned tin- youth that , all the goods were marked and that he i must not let any one take goods with him unless they were paid f<>r. "Well. Sam," he asked, upon his return, "did you have any customers?" "You bet!" said Sam gleefully. "And I got his money, too! I sold one man all those brass rings you had that were marked ISc. on the inside, and here's the money?a dollar and ninety-eight cents."?Judge. Not Much Difference. A stranger addressed the farmer's boy across the fence: "Young man. your coin looks kind o' yellow." "Yes. that's tile kind we planted." "I?on't look as if ymi would get mote than half a crop." "We don't expect to. The landlord gets the other half." Then, after a short time, toe man said: "ISoy. there isn't much difference between you and a fool." "None," replied the boy, "only the fence."? I>mdoii Standard ittioccllaucints ilradimi. !"! ^ w * OV of PASSING OF THE "BIG FIVE." The Senators Who Have Dominated an the Country's Legislation. Next March, when Senator Aldrlch j,,. and Hale retire, there will be an eml sh of a leadership without precelent and probably without succession?the 1 leadership long known as that of the th Big Five. be Never since the senate came into J? being was there such a leadership as that of Aldrlch. Allison, Hale, Spencer <>tl and Orville H. Piatt, and despite the i1'* isi current attempt to guess at a new a Big Five. Big Six, or Big Four, it is not likely that any leadership to come sri will resemble that which has gone. (>)? For the leadership was created by jn' conditions that had never existed be- a 1 fnro nml thusp cniulltlnns have nass mi pel. or are passing away. wj In most of the talk about a sue- He cession the guessers have figured out ivho will take the chairmanship that ^.a Aldrich and Hale lay down. They have argued that Burrows is in line tea for the financo chairmanship, hut JjJ' that ho may not be re-elected, and ,nj that if he is not Penrose will be in iw line?that Perkins is in line for ap[>ropriations. and so on. But it was no mt the chairmanship of appropriation "D ivliich made Hale one of the quintet "u Aho ran the United States. Where MacOregor sat was the head of the an able. th< Xo quintet, no quartet, no sextet. WC] ver bossed the senate before the tj,( lays of the Aldrich-Allison clique. The wil rulership of that clique arose out of Mc peculiar conditions that are now dyng. There will be leaders, but their ] eadership will be of a different stripe tio t is because of the passing of these onditions that Aldrich and Hale are as jelatedly following Spooner, who read rer ho writing on the wall three years -Vlt pa i i go. ha, It is an epoch parliamentary his- ate nry that is dying, and one which 1 vill be a favorite topic with political listorians in years to come, as it be- (|U, omes more and more sharply differ- lea ntiated from the conditions of those m{" oul ears. Tt is an epoch that will be- sell ome stranger all the time, and .may nai 'lid by becoming incredible to future eaders. ^ Aldrich has been loosely referred to j is the boss of the senate, but he was tht) lot a boss in the sense in which Mur- 1JUI >hy rules Tammany hall or in which 3uay bossed the #state of Pennsylva- ing lia. He was the head of the quintet, pit: A'hen the quintet began to disinterrate the political guessers promptly as lusicd themselves with each new dis- spe ippearance from the ranks, in figurng out who would be the successor nuJ f the man who had gone?just as cro low they are speculating upon the ch? uccessor of Hale or of Aldrich. s.en dot Hut the places of the men who van- 'pjji shed never were filled. First went clu Matt. who died in 1905. "Who will 'ea ill his place in the Big Five?" asked tjje he political gossips, and Lodge was typ Ixed on as the likeliest choice. But ,,1U Matt had no successor. Lodge has ( ^ ieen a leading figure in the senate. lor ,nd has been included in the conn- bef iis of the leaders, but he never be- U1 amp one of the five bosses of the ipper house. ato The Big Five simply became a Big luu 'our. SV" of Then Spooner. chilled and uncom- ,ne ortable in the new atmosphere which I ras spreading through the senate hamber, left it. Speculation became (.(H ife a.s to his successor. But there per ras no successor. ha) The Big Four became a Big Throe. * oft I In 1908 Allison died, and when ajj( kldrieh and Hale were left alone in the he leadership their isolation empha- out ized the hopelessness of ever recontructing the conditions of leadership on hat had prevailed so many years, ags; jodge was influential, so was Crane, o were others. But the place they (jjs' IIled was similar to that which Mark In la una filled at the beginning of this '"'I entury: and Mark Hanna, important inil powerful as he was. never was wai me of the dictators of legislation who ti-i nade up the Aldricli quintet. nu! pol Now Aldrich and Hale are going. ,na md going for much the same rea- 1 ons that impelled Spooner to ttike ,'UI time by the forelock. They lin- j|g'r fereil after the signs of the times be- j,,j. amo manifest; he (lid not. Hale lin- I fered until the sound of approaching j.?1 lefeat was in his ears. am A quarter of a century ago fJeorge hat ?\ Kdmunds ?>f Vermont, now living JJ'Jj n retirement in Philadelphia, was , * he leader of the Republican party in > he senate. Rut his was a floor leulership. He was not a dictator of egislation. and 110 one would ha -i ant I reamed of applying to him the word boss," as it has been applied to .\1- ,s voi Inch. As prominent as he were such j0 nen as Logan. Sherman. Ingalls. let lawiley. Frye, Jones of Nevada, and a,a nany others: but there was 110 (^ luintet which met in a committee wa 00m, laid out a party policy and led I he senate to its fulfillment. wa With the admission of new states t|u he senate grew more and more un- eoi vieldly. It was no longer a place I'"' II which everybody could lie his own au loss. The old political boss. The obi a' olitical methods, the methods which ' ose to a climax in the last years of '" ? the nineteenth century and wliich are ' low confronting a new spirit, called or the concentration of power in 1 , lie hands of a few. * - .1- ..... 1....1 he in lilt IIOUM* lilt* M'Mlll WIM* inw liru ?y a parliamentary revolution. I'?y '. I(j he Iteed reformation, perfected unier Henderson, Crisp, and Cannon, a j. . ittle knot of men became rulers of . eKislation. , Coder this system the power went with certain otlices?the speakership ind the majority places on the com- . m it tees on rules. It did not make . much difference who tilled them. f)'( whether the men were mediocre or >v. ureat. He who held the speakership j1(|| was the czar. That system is now s menaced by the rebellion that the jt(t, new political conditions are creating. .,j,| In the senate no parliamentary rev- 1 ,|, ulutioii was possible, but the power ( entered in fewer hands continually until finally it reached those of the sj)( live men who directed senate letfis- niJI lation for so many years. mi It differed from the house despot- ,.v< <mi in flint live m?*n rose* t<> i.v. heir power by dint <?f ability. True, hey dfd not hold certain chairman- ,M, diips; t>111 when, one after another, ,,f he live dwindled to four and three ind two. the chairmanships did not \p make Caesars of the new men who tj1( fell heir to them. Xe These live men did actually control lie senate's legislation. They did |)u1 more than that. On many occasions j,,. hey controlled the legislation of con- ,|rj tress. They did even more than that, tin >ti not a few occasions they rose su- f,,) perior to both the house and the tin [ resident, and were in sober truth the government of the Ciiited States. far Their zenith was when McKinley ivas president and Henderson speaker in* f the house. McKinley was no man |ea o override a senate <|Uitltct. He sel- a 1V lotn felt any desire to do so. Ilender- ar< son was a commonplace speaker, and wil tinier him the house was a mere tool nf f the senate. an Toward the close of Henderson's ne' eirime discontent growled in the lea louse. The lower chamber chafed der its impotency, and under the iter gibes thrown at it from all er the country as a mere appendage the senate, a vermiform appendix legislation, a rubber stamp for exuting the senate's will. And it was cause Cannon asserted the leadership d set his face flintly to its reeognim that he achieved at a bound that st popularity with his fellow-conessmen that withstood so many ocks and has only wavered at <t in the face of the new condims. More attention has been given in e last two or three years than ever fore in the senate leadership. Tnat not because it has been more ongly accented than before, but cause, with the vanishing of the tiers, Aldrioh has seemed to stand tie and because one man's bossn is more apparent to the eye than hossism shared by five. Bossism is a hard word and not deiptive. Aldrich never really bossed e senate. Bossism implies maehin\\ and there is no such machinery that body. The speaker, was really boss. Cannon did restore the house that equal position in the manage?nt of the country's affairs, of tich the senate had robbed it in nderson's day. but it was a victory the house, not for the members the house, and the house was nnon. >> ui-ii ut- nun twiuju-iu-w me acium: iders to recognize the house as an ual, all that had been gained was it they had recognized the Cannon ichine as an equal; and the Cannon ichine was Cannon. Hut, bossed as the house might be, ? senate could not be- bossed. Can11 could crack the whip and say, 10 this," and the house must do it. t Aldrich hail no whip to crack i*r the senate. Dalzell, Payne, Grosvenor, Sherman d Walter Smith were autocrats in ; house and none of them was a in of overshadowing ability. They re autocrats because they were on committee of rules; because they, th Cannon, were the house machine, n of less ability than they would ve been as powerful placed where y were. Hut the five men who ruled legislan in the senate were men of great ility, and they ruled by virtue of it fact. They are just as able now they were then, those of them who naiti; but the conditions which tided ready acquiescence on the rt of the senate in their leadership ve gone. The old, comfortable seni is no more. When no deep, dividing principle ^h as the New Idea presence arose make leadership difficult the only jstion was "who are our natural ders? Our purposes being in the in (irruy muun ine same inrougn: this comfortable club called the late, who are the men best fitted turally to give those purposes dition?" Aldrich, Allison, Hale itt and Spencer answered that jstion. itut now a wide division makes it impossible. The fundamental rposes of the senators are Irreconlble. The New Idea in politics, ing all over the country and mak: itself manifest in legislatures, in elections, in state politics?niakitself manifest in the house, where shakes the firmly-seated throne of strong a man as ever held the akcrship?must make itself manil in the senate; the senate could ; possibly escape. for several years past a new wil has been pushing into the iniber. Election after election ds to Washington some man who ?s not regard the senate as a club, e new men have no instinct of bbiness in them. Nor can party Ity be used to appeal to them. It no party cleavage which separates m from the senators of the old ie. the type which has not varied ch in half a century. ?o great are the changes which v seem imminent that new senas no longer serve their novitiate ore taking a position in the front things; and that is the most vevoionary change that could be conved. The tradition that young senrs must be seen and not heard s gone by the board entirely. The iate atmosphere has become one strife, and in the midst of it are n not yet warm in their places, 'erhaps the sacrosanct rule of protion by seniority may go next, ere is no limit to what the revolu1 is capable of doing. If that hapis the pillars of the temple will /e fallen. n the heyday of the quintet they en differed among themselves >ut party policies. Hut hints of se differences seldom reached the side world. In some committee in?usually in Hale's?<they would et and thresh out their differences, ce they agreed their union was linst the world. Vhen the Philippine question came for instance, Spooner and Hale agreed with their three colleagues the Caesarshlp. They were antiperialists. The matter was fought behind closed doors. When the ?rs opened the policy of the quintet s annexaMon and Spooner, the anmperialisi, was put forward as the mber of it deputed to defend the icy on the lloor. He was its spokes11. iale neve:* left anybody in do r t it lie was unconverted. He took part in the execution of the 'imialistic" policy. Hut he did 110thto embarrass it. -low, without a machine such as uioii had in the house, could these ? men steer the senate this way 1 that? Aldrich. its central ligure, 1 neither patronage nor machinery, * the appeal to pay loyalty, for followers were as good Rcpubliis as lie. Senator lOlkins was asked one day secret of A Id rich's power. He ghed at lirst and saiti he didn't >w. Then he fell to considering it. 1 finally he said 'Well, the best answer I can give this: Suppose thete is something i want very much indeed. You go Aldrich to get him to agree to y<>u have it. He talks to you >ut it, and after live minutes you out. You have ceased to want thing you want and now you nt the tiling that Aldrich wants." Cach of these men hail his sheerly hied place in the quintet. Aldrich s the political manager, Spooner orator and lawyer. Piatt the istructive legislator. Allison the >t. the compromiser, the whittleray of difficulties. Hale was generadvisor and brake on the others, ler Spiainer's disappearance Hale nine virtually the lloor leader, i'latt and Spooner were regarded as statesmen of the combination, itt was a public man of the old lord. He was not showy, and when got in the limelight it was without v intent of his own. His death in i." was in the height of the quintet's e. The throne had been establerl so long that it seemed everlast ; it mi u never was si i iiiiii as men. When. within two years. Spnoner imunced his intention to withdraw, was a clap of thunder to W'ashttonians. it was rite first real indition that the old order was drawing a close. I*a Follette was after miner's senatorial seat hnt it was I believed, and it was not trite, that miner left to avoid a fight. The iv order of things, already nntieele in the senate, made it no longer >asant to him. 'tunniins went after Allison's seat. !. though Iowa is a N'ew Idea state would not retire the venerable hi in whose career she took so nh pride. Allison's strength, how r was gone. He was dying then, r a long time he had been unable take his old active part, and the wer was concentrating in the hands Aid rich and Hale. Shortly af1 Iowa's vote of confidence in him ison died and Cummins went to senate to swell the ranks of the w York men. A year and a half ago. it was ennnecd bv a friend of Aldrich that would not serve out his term. Alch. however, refused to confirm announcement, and it finally was gotten. 1'mbably Aldrich withheld announcement so that lie could tv to completion his battle over the iff. The old leadership is gone, or will by next March. What will the new dcrship be? Leadership there must rays be where two or three dozen gathered together Hill that there I never be a leadership like that the comfortable days of old Idea d the Ahlrieh-Allison uuintet as rer before had tln-re been such a dersllip seellis utterly improbable. V* w conditions, new methods. HORSE THIEF CANON. A Rendezvous of Notorious Mexican Outlaws. The old settlor pointed to a weedgrown track that veered from the main road and led off across the stagedotted mesa toward the mountains. "Ever been up Horse Thief Canon? Mighty pretty spot?when you get u|j into it?big live oaks and sycamores and bay trees, and when you get up toward the top, mountain lilacs and then pines. Lilacs must be in bloom up there now. Ever see 'em? Just like a blue spring morning cloud a-setting down on the hillsides! The old lilac at home, by the gate posts?I used to think they was the sweetest (lowers Cod ever made?but them mountain lilacs, they're like a baby's face, so fresh and tender and delicate. The ol' home lilacs always looked to me like grandmas' faces, sweet and sort o' faded, and yet with spring in 'em. Mcbbe it was the lilacs they used to wear in their bonnets made me think that. "Horse Thief? How'd it git its name? Well"?the old man shoved back his sombrero, braced his feet on the brake rod of the buckboard and shook himself down comfortably? "want to hear a yarn?a genuine Californy story?" he inquired; then added with a chuckle: "You fo'ks back east never believe us Californians when we tell the plain truth about tilings as they are, you see. So we might jest as well tell 'em big and make a good story while we are about it?that's the way 'Californy' stories has come to mean jest plain lyin'?but 'tain't our fault. 'F you mossbacks wasn't so afraid o' believln' anything that you didn't see happen in your own little township, we would be satisfied relatin' facts. This story has a foundation of truth, at any rate. It was tol' to me by a Californian, a native son o' the native sons. Ho \vnj tuii'ii river vnniler in the Sunt' Ana Valley: his father was a Fortyniner and Ills mother a Lopez?oF Californy family?blue Castilian blood touched up with native American?an' that combination made some o' the finest wimmen that ever wrastled with the meanness of men. Ches had Yankee horse sense along with a Don Quixote imagination and the legs o' an Indian under 'em. He got his eddication, for the most part, from a gun an' a fish hook?knew ev'ry valley and peak, an* all the deer runs an' trout holes in this here range o* mountains. As a young feller he did have some great adventures. He spent a good part o' his later years tellin' 'em?an' they never lost nothin' by the tellin'. "Well, this particular incident happened along early in the 'fiOs. This country was pretty primitive then?not much doing but stock raisin', an' horse stealin' was one of o' the principal occupations?Mexicans an' Indians would pick up a band and run 'em down through the mountains to Mexico. 'Twas 'bout the time Valesquez was the headliner in all the papers, an' when it come to fillin' space with fiction them country papers of the '60s wasn't so fur behind the big dailies o' today. But for a fact, that gentleman kept people guessln'. No rancher was surprised when he got up in the mornin' to find the pick o' his herd or the best horse gone. Ches's father had Imported a stallion an' was raisin' racing colts. He took mighty good care <?' any promising youngsters, for the old' man was a good deal of a sport; but fer all of his watchin' Valesquez an' his men slid in an' got away with bis best. An' when that gang ran an animal off that was the last of it. The sheriff, ner the ranchers, ner the United States troops couldn't never locate the stock ner catch the robbers. "Well, one day in springtime?there is a springtime even In this climate? Ches and ol' Dent Peters's boy set out fer a big deer hunt. They was goin' to fetch home venison enough for the summer's supply of jerky, they said. They crossed over the mountains by the Lonesome Trail, down below here, without sigiitin' a single deer. They worked up along the foothills an' at night they camped down here at the foot of Dos pinos Canon, the Mexicans called it then. Cites had heard that there was n trail up to the divide through that canon an' a pass to the Sant' Ana side; but no white man had ever been over that way, so fur's he knew. He was aimin' to have a try at it an' find out about that pass. And lie reckoned the deer must be somewhere an' they ought to be up there. He couldn't understand their not findin' 'em right along?deer was about as common, and as easy to kill, in them days as jack rabbits are now, accordin' to Ches. "Before they was up in the mornin' a Mexican come down the canon?a man, Ches knew. He said he'd been huntin' deer, too, an' that he'd come down Dos Pinos and not seen a sign, but an Indian had tol' liini there was a herd over in San Pasqual Canon. He declared 'twas all nonsense about there bein' a pass through this way, and he seemed so blamed anxious for the boys to go over to the San Pasqual or to Oak Canon, or most any other place, that Ches made up his mind there was soinethin* bark of it. The Mexican said he'd been travelin' all night an' was goin' to camp right there an' have a sleep. The boys, to throw him off tinscent. made for San Pasqual; but as soon's they could find a way across, they worked up over the ridge and come down into I>os l'inos. It was tough work?lots o* chapparal and a turrible steep, stony backbone. It was noon before they got down to water, an* they was ready to rest and eat. Ib-fore they got through along came two more Mexicans down the canon. They was armed with knives and guns, and stickers in their boots, an' they looked ugly when they seen tlie boys. They asked 'em so many questions ("lies was more sure than ever that i ... ...... t I. I r .I'.iu ill till. II' illil TIllH' unt down and said they'd have some grub, an' when they got through the rations was pretty nigh cleaned out. They swore there wasn't any deer in that canon, and finally they as good as ordered the hoys to go hack and he quick about it! So Chess to|' 'em that lie was nimin' to get over to Oak Canon, an* jes* took this way for a short cut. The Mexicans didn't show no signs of goin' on about their bizness, and finally the kids had to start out again and climb another ridge without any trail to foll. r. The other kid was sick afraid an' wanted to got out u' the mountains and go home, hut dies he'd got an idea that theiv was something interesting in that canon, an' lie was hound to lind out what it was. They went up a perpendicular hill an' sneaked along in the brush for a couple o' miles, then they dropped back into tile valley. Chos says in* never put in such a hard day's work before or since. I can believe it Travelin' in them lilac thickets is like worinin' your way through a fine-tooth comb, an' with loose rocks and boulders and rattlers and pisen oak an' the heat 'Iwan't any stroll for health. "Tiny went cautious this time, an' pretty soon they heard voices ah They dropped behind the rocks i waited. After a while Cms sna himself along the creek bed until could see half a dozen Mexicans , ting under a tree, smokin' and pla monte. He knew right away thai had struck the Velasquez band of , throats?he recognized Velasquez ( his silver belt an' embroidered s ( brero. He always declares that t heart plumb stopped beatin', an' he I a cold chill jest like a snake crav up his back. That outfit didn't 11 ( murderin' a man any more than I , did stealin' a horse?murder and 1 | bery was their ev'ry-day trade. Hu he watched 'em, too scared to 11 away, he remembered the colt broke himself?his own property? they'd took not more than six w< before. And he made up his mind find that colt and catch tlie gar somehow. He crept back to the I'e boy. and they lay and waited watched, and held their breath, I were so afraid o' attractin' attent I'll bet Ches Wlndon never disper with taikin' so long in his life any < er time! "It seemed like a good many h< to the boys before the robbers wi ped themselves up in their scrapes ln?? nt\* tlion time eonl <tna t litj CI.. V..C .. cc., W..V . up the canon and another down trail as guards. When they Ik snoring the boys started again, era ing on their hands and knees. The planted his hand on a rattler once, the snake was as surprised as the I an' between their mutual astonishn they got separated so that the re| hit only air when he left fire. The ca was narrow here, an' so they ha<! crawl out once more. They had pretty much all their clothes on brush during the day, and it was t skin they hung on the bushes that ni They got out into the pines at 1 and the moon came up. They c< look down into the canon and see trail, and after a while they spol the guard going down the val Soon's he was out o' hear in' t lie L slid down the bank and trotted up I trail as fast as their sore feet'd ce 'em. Ches had his plan mapped now. He was going to get across down Into the Sunt' Ana soon'? could, and gather a posse and lead back to capture Velasquez. He ki the man that caught Velasquez w< have a story to tell that would la? lifetime. An' then there was a reward?and his colt, beside! "The canon got narrower and r rower until it stopped short in a \ o' rock. At first they couldn't see : way out. The Peters boy said it i a trap, an' he set down, clean give < Ches hunted around until lie struck trail again. He hauled the other up, an' there they saw the purt sight he ever struck, Ches says. A tie potrero, all soft grass an* flow just like a bowl. A wall of hills i rocks clear round it. and a band horses standin' round peaceful an' c tented. There was a gate and a fe New I "otic Gives no outside heat, no smell without heating the kitchen or the ( ately extinguished. It can be chan handle. There's no drudgery conne You don't have to wait fifteen or tv light and it's ready. By simply tur intense heat on the bottom of the f has a Cabinet Top with shelf for coffee, teapot or saucepan, and e\ health and temper. It does all a w< with 1, 2, and 3 burners ; the 2 and Cabinet. Every dealer everywhere: if not at yonrs. i Standari (In "IN A BAD WAY" Many a Yorkville Reader Will F Grateful For This Information. When your hack gives out: neenmes lame, weak or aching: When urinary troubles set in. Your kidneys are "in a bail way Dunn's Kidney Pills will cure yoi Here is pood evidence to prove i A. Marks, Depot St., Lexington, C., says: "1 suffered from severe pn through my back and sides for mon and felt miserable in every way. kidneys did not act properly am knew that they needed a tonic. I last procured Dunn's Kidney Pills : since taking the contents of one I I am able to do my work without i trouble. The pains in my back i sides have been greatly relieved . my kidneys give me no annoyance recommend Doan's Kidney Pills to < r persons in return for the great b eilt I Jiave obtained from their use For sale by all dealers. Price cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Huff New York, sole agents for the Unl States. Remember the name?DOAN'S? take no other. 1785. 1! COLLEGE OF CHARLESTO 126th Year Begins September 3i Entrance examinations will be 1 In the County Court House on Fric July 1, at 9 a. m. All candidates admission can compete in Septem for vacant Boyce scholarships, wli pay $100 a year, one free tuit scholarship for each county of So Carolina. Hoard and furnished re in Dormitory. $12. Tuition $10. catalogue address, HARRISnN RANDOM'H. ITesiden 39. t 2t ead. along the break at the head o' the and canon, but they couldn't set' any wa>' iked out. They started around it, an' behind he a ledge there was the pass to the othsit or side of the peak, a regular gate, with yin' a log fence across it. They took down : he the fence, and then Ches went among cut- tiie horses; they'd bunched up and ; by moved down to the gate, and lie found oin- his own colt. She hadn't forgot his his call, an' in a minute he was on her feit back and the boy had climbed on a c 1 in' bronco. lind "They was circling round the bunch they to start 'em through the pass, when rob- they heard a yell and a shot. The t as guard had come back. Hut Ches was love bound he'd take them horses along, antf he'd In' kept on driving them ahead. They that circled round and round tiie pasture, ?eks but at last a little pinto Indian pony he'd took the lead and bolted through the ig? pass. The cow pony knew the trail, ters and she set the pace. Hut pretty soon an' they heard the whole gang coming hey through the potrero, yelling and curslon. ing and shooting. Them boys lashed lsed the horses into a gallop, until they ith- went tearing down the. mountainside. They slid down the hillsides, carrying nirs rocks and dirt and brush along with ap- 'em; they climbed hills on the jump; and they sailed along ledges; one horse nan went over and rolled down the mounthe tainslde, but the string behind never >ard broke. Tlu-y went around turns so iwl- short the boys'd 'a' been screwed oft" kid if they hadn't stuck tlghter'n the' but horses' own hide. Those boys'd never boy, have got to the bottom whole if they tent hadn't 'a' been raised on horseback, itile an' if them ponies hadn't been Callfornon ny broke. I to "It was daylight when they struck left the first ranch and told their story, the By 10 o'clock twenty men was on the heir trail; but Ches didn't lead 'em. He owns ght. up that his mother put him to bed, ast, rolled up in rags and taller 'intment. juld They didn't need no guide, though, to the follow (lie trail that band o' horses had tted left. They found the potrero, and " iney wont tnrougn ami como down tins ?oys side and found the camps. But they hat didn't find Velasquez nor any of his my crowd. out* "An' that's how Horse Thief Canon and got its name?and how Ches Windon i he got his reputation. According to a 'em newspaper story I read the other day lew he captured Velasquez alone up in >uld Horse Thief Canon. Mebbe. by now, lie 't a actually thinks he did!"?Los Angeles big Times. larvali The Reason Why.?"Jane," said a any lady rather sharply to her cook, "I tvas must insist that you keep better hours out. and that you have less company in the the kitchen at night. Last night you kept kid me from sleeping because of the upiest roarlous laughter of one of your women lit- friends." ers, "Yis, mum, I know," was the apoloand getic reply; "but she couldn't help it. o' I was a-tellin' of her how you tried to on- make a cake one day."?Ladies Home nee Journal. (Many Women who are Splendid Cooks dread having to prepare an elaborate dinner because they are not sufficiently strong to stand over an intensely hot coal range. This is especially true in summer. Every woman | takes pride in the table she sets, but often it is done at tremendous cost to her own vitality through the weakening effect of cooking on a coal range in a hot kitchen, k It is no longer necessary to wear yourself out preparing a fine dinner. Even in the heat of summer you can cook a large dinner without being worn out. ter/Sction ookstove I, no smoke. It will cook the biggest dinner :00k. It is immediately lighted and immediged from a slow to a quick fire by turning a cted with it, no coal to carry, no wood to chop, /enty minutes till its fire gets going. Apply a ning the wick up or d ?n you get a slow or an lot, pan, kettle or oven, and nowhere else. It keeping plates and food hot, drop shelves for ren a rack for towels. It saves time, worry, )man needs and more than she expects. Made [ 3-burner sizes can be had with or without vrite for Descriptive Circular to the nearest agency of the A Oil Company corporated) WHICH? Probably you arc at this time thinking of cither insuring your life for the first time or of increasing the amount of insurance you already have. In case :eel you decide definitely to apply for insurance, is it your purpose to insure in order to help some agent with whom you are favorably impressed by reason of his personality or is it your intention to insure for the benefit of those dependent on you or for your own protection in your old age in the company that you are satisfied has a record without spot or blemish, extending over a period of 50 years <>r more and which writes a contract that guarantees you a sepia re deal under any and all cir1' cumstances, and is more liberal than . that of any other company in business? Which? If you have been figuring on helping an agent and you are not satisfied that the company is the kind described above, you might save yourself ' many future regrets by making him an .. 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SHERER, Proprietor. teen years, and has met every require- _____ ment of the most competent musicians. . ? See me about the Lester. See The Enquirer office for R?OEO. T. SCHORB. built Typewriters of all kinds. 1 WINDFALL OF WATCHES CHANCE TO GET A Good Timepiece for a Little Work Liberal Offer Well Worth I Consideration. The Publishers of THE ENQUIRER have 011 hand Twenty-fire BANNATYNE NICKLE WATCHES, worth $1.50 each, that they desire to distribute among friends who will help to increase the already large subscription list, and it is our pur pose to make this distribution, in whole or in part, on j Saturday, June 4. The conditions of the distribution will he One Watch to Each of the Winners of Nine Competitive Contests, hereby in ^ augurated for Nine Competitive TVstricts. and the balance, or more if necessary, to each clubmakcr who returns and pays for as many as five Annual Subscriptions. I For the purposes of the competition each of the Nine Townships of the county will h'e considered a Competition District, and competitors living in the counties adjoining will be included in the township to which they are closest. ^ The competitor in each of the Nine Districts Returning and Paying for the Largest Number of Names by SATURDAY, JUNE AT 6 O'CLOCK, provided that number he NOT less than Two, will be entitled to the Watch offered for that district. Each competitor who returns and pays for as many as Five Names during the contest will be entitled to a Watch regardless of whether his club is the largest for his district. ^ ? 'I' 1 A. ILompetitors who return i zoo or more names ana ian to get h the Watrli offered for the largest nuniher of names in their D district, will be allowed to add other names until they obtain fl the requisite number to entitle them to a Watch. I i The BANNATYNIi WATCH is a Cood Watch. It is bet- fl ter than anv dollar watch made and it is as good and as relia- H hie a timekeeper as can he had for three or four times the fl price. The Bannatyne Watch Company Guarantees It for One I ^ Year. The guarantee means that any ordinary trouble or dc- fl feet, not caused by abuse, will he corrected on the return of fl the watch to the factory, the owner of the watch paying trans- fl portation both ways. But this return to the factory is very sel- fl dom necessary, most of these watches continuing to run in fl perfect order for years. 9 All who desire a good Watch are invited to enter this com- I petition at once. There is every chance to win and no chance fl to lose. Make a Start Today. fl H It is preferred that all orders for subscriptions he accom- fl panied by the Cash; hut upon the order of contestants, names fl will he entered, at the Cluhmaker's risk, and collections de- fl ferred until the closing day of the contest. fl Subscribers who want one of these BANNATYNE Watch- fl es. may have THE ENQUIRER for one year and a WATCH fl 011 the payment of .$3.00, either to Competitors for the District 9 Premiums or by paying at The Enquirer office. Subscribers fl who names arc already on our lists, and want a Watch, may fl I have their subscriptions extended One Year and receive a fl Watch on the payment of $3.00. fl coMMBNch at oxen. fl L. M. GRIST'S SONS. I '