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THE PEOPLE. BARNWELL. 8. C. I R Rimrock Trail COLDS _ - • SYNOPSIS.—To th« Three-liar ranch. Arizona, O'vned Jolnt'y by Sandy ‘ Bourke, ‘‘Mormon’' Peters and "feoda-Water Manning, a line collie makes Its. way. in the last stages of exhaustion.. Inscrip tion on its dollar says its name is ajrit. •property of P. Casey.’' Scenting a desert tragedy, Bourke and Sam mount and let the dog lead them. The two find a dying maj», Patrick Casey, pinned under -an overturned wagon. Kneeling beside‘"'the wagon is his ydung daughter Molly, fifteen. They ex tricate the old prospector, who dies repeating '’Molly—mines!” ‘T’H look out for that, pardner,” says Sandy. It is agreed that Molly stays as mascot of the ranch, %Jhe and the “Three Musketeers'’ J Be coming partners in the mines. Sandy insists dpon an education for Molly. Jim Plimsoll, gambler, visiting the r ranch, insults Molly. He claims he grubstaked Casey, which made him the old man’s partner. Mormon drives him -eff. Starting with a gold eagle. Molly's luck piece. Sandy, with Sam, plays faro at Plimsoll's place, winning I’.O.OtQ. It is arranged that Molly shall go Kast to be "eddlcaied.” A neighbor, Miranda Bailey, warns the ranchers that Jim Plimsoll. a» Patrick Casey's “partner,” claims guardianship of Molly, and the au thorities aland In with him. Mand> determine* to lake the girl ts New Mexico, to an old friend. Barters Bedding. f»r aOvF a. T»>4 »hr» the strl. art ou^ 1*111 tie aheriff an-t Hitnaol e. Mono»»» an rf?kfh0. 0i) •1 SafMly an 100 O0 Tlhw |W0 0f 0 ^ r 0 rfc>u«tbur0 it* 0 00T If «0%80 Mallf rf tmm H |0# tSS00 1 00000 ewt# 0 fv0P0« > Ilk# 00lf eldF’fcb Vth# 0Ks| CmAPTIA X ■ %mm laagf <t»rwa its «am irii Mtf by J. ALLAN DUNN Amthm of "A Mon to Hu Moto, m ote. Copyright. 193, by J. Alisa Dona for him forget me. I hope you won’t iio tliat ymiraelvQg. Don’t tliink I'm unhappy, because I’m not.” “If she’s happy, I’m a <Gila lizard,” said Mormon. - “What’s the sense of havin’ her miserable fo’ the sake of a yiT book learnin’. She’s gettln’ to spell so I can’t make out what she’s writin’ about.” * ’ At last Molly wrote that she had made the basketball team and won honors and favors. She gained laurels for the college In swimming and ten nis, and life went more merrily. CHAPTER XI Pay Dirt. In September there was a killing In the Good Luck poolroom, the murder of a stranger whose friends made such an investigation, backed by the real law-and-order element of Hereford, that the exposure brought about for feiture of all licenses and a strict shut ting down on gambling and Illicit liquor, riimsoll left Hereford for bis htiVse ranch, deprived of the sheriff’s the same way now. Speshully when the courts hack up n man like Plim soll. Lendls cheaper than rope, but somehow It ninl, so convincin’.” Brandon changed the subject after he had spoken, but'it was plain that he and his companions had not given up the matter; cl«$nr also that they were sure of. PHnisoll’s guilt and lay ing plans to trap him. They stayed until the next morning and departed. The incident was forgotten as the roundup days grew near. Molly was not to come home at Christmas after all. She formed a friendship, the first close one she had made, and Barbara Redding advised that the Invitation extended by this new acquaintance to spend the holidays be accepted. Snows fell, the temperature ranged dowft far below zero at times* winter gave reluctant place to spring until the last moment when It turned and fled and,' far Into the desert, myriads of flower-blooms sprang up overnight ■while everywhere the cactus gleamed in silken blooms ^n yellow and crim son. One April night the Bailey flivver came charging up to Three Star, smothering Itself in a cloud of dust that had Dot nettled l*efore there sjirang out of ff Mlnmda Bailey and with ’em la a smaner bunch that thrives liest when things la nln h«phaa» ard. There’ll be llrker down there, aa* It’ll sure lw» qulckflre llrker at,that. If you weren’t the kind you are,” added Mormon, ’Td tell you that down there ain’t no place fo’ n woman!” "Meanln'?” 0 snapped Miranda Bailey. But there was a gleam In her eye that showed of a conipllin#nt accepted. “Meanln’,*’ said Mormon, “that, ef you’ll take It ’thout offense, you-all air plumb up-to-date. When wimmen. took up the ballot T figger they wasn't on’y ready fo’ equal rights, they knew how to git ’em. ’Side from the shoot in’ end of it. I’d say you was as well equipped as any man to look out fo’ yore own Interests.” “Thanks,” replied Miranda. “I sup pose you mean that as a cdmpllmenL Also I know one end of a gun/from an other an' I can hit a barn if It ain’t flyln’.” They rolled down to the valley and over the dusty road to the camp. Be fore they reached the main street a car passed them from behind with a rush, driver and passengers reckless, whoop- | ing as they rode, one man waving a bottle, another firing his gun into the . alr ' “That's the kind that’ll Agger to run Dynamite fo* a. while,” said Sandy, j “I’ll bet there ain’t twenty old-timers In the camp—real miners. I mean.” The street was alive with changing groups, merging, breaking up to listen to some fresh re|M»rt of a strike, or opinion as to the |kro*|>ec?*. Thera "fllcial c<>un tenanc# and J *rd:in beg un th# lanky E d. tem|M •rurlly charged with were tin U It men In night. Tlie men to W'<> rrjr a *»ut election. a trr mem lou* actlv Ity. The enu*# of I were of ■ii aorta, from rowhoya In One 0V1 *fi n* In «k rly t»ct oh#r n lit tl# roun * Ed *JS ralvanl ►in waa *o atronx their rft ■1 dl. who had left the rr mg# ImwIv r l«h to the Thre e St •r. that he a< -1 ml ly wn ii ft •an h la aunt aa for tl ir cl uir lie 0 ’ midden wealth , to all atr •ins er « to til# county men wte rte lN-ar# •r of Yl np\v# at orel k«** |M- r% from Hereford ami 0 IheT fare* 0 9*1 grim, wl Ki rT0«*k aw. r*| fit jt.k ea. •*Oi ,,1,1 it* niM - TW v# struck tt-wn^ whoae f£T% -H Iflla*) 0 •’ r# bo r» \y CD<» pe th an psy dirt at i*j iQ0 mi t«! Omi ika of ayl* Mo nvM •n *0 •imcewient that *>• rivtl tanlf it 01 r00t r old In th* Are. A* town. fl lt« |o«g drn#rtl.»n had "Th Ip a Vbr Ttn rr# f(90 f, 0tci*| |{ 0** 01V thin tl U»U00I - dollai w a t'<a i n a,• | .a H0t •II, t rr' «i m -i hftied. waa nog 0 albt**l of 0 r «V0 ha* r. w fcA Whoi 1# at fr nk 0 uf It. 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Pinkham’i Vegetable Com pound?'’ Replies, to date, have been re ceived from over 50,000 women an swering that question. 98 per cent of which say YES. That means that 98 out of every lOO women who take the medicine for the ailments for which it is recommended arc benefited by it. This it a most remarkable record of efficiency. We doubt if any other medicine in the world equals it Think of it — only two women out of 100 received no benefit — W sue- Oeeeet out of a poesible 100. Did you ever hear anything like It? We must admit that we, ouraelvee, are astonished. Of course we know that our medi cine does benefit the large majority of women who take iL But that only two out of 100 received no benefit is most astonishing. It only goes to prtve, however, that a medicine specialized for cer tain definite ailments—not a cure all —one that is made bv the most scien tific process; not worn drugs, but from a combination of natures root* and herbs, can and doc* do more good than hastily prepared prescrip tions. You see, we have been making, improving and refining this medicine for over 50 yean until it is so perfect and so well adapted to women's needs that it actually has the virtue to ben efit 98 out of every 100 women who take it. Its rellabilitv sod .recognized effi ciency has gained for it a sale In almost everv country la the world a ling all other*. Hurti evidence *houid Induce every woman suffering f nay ailment peculiar to her »ex to try l.ydla IL l*lDkham‘« Y< table Compound and see If she can’t (*• one of tba 98. ' . Ptnkham Xedirina < <k. I ynn. Maaa. T*k* te Fresee Most l.ydla »•; ?«r ■ Two Chnsefel L**m ~Wbea I aas fea Inile.” eaM tfco :Rdh fcnf*, IRMR 0 llgw fVflBNP I 9 Imp •®9*’V W tbdTf* 0M0MP HWMRRP0I WW ashing eteshee |i erne a very fieevw gof nat «ne esaaoa. otvh greet gesa lee ut nandL apiieshsd ssgae eelee In e Mew ' **>i w sMah awn* * * % gdrWif IWMvBk. ~ 00iH| fftfc* 0HMI ftfc 00 *| CM • 0r% fr0t0 *100 — t 1000HM 00MN0NP0 0fW0 «M»0 00 tft*0 0 #t#0 | 00T9 10000 mm •* f \l > VI •* 1 * I * ■ At b -« * * I&000 00| hrnrnm fi A > ' s Is 0 m *<’ M. “A 1 ••at .fu I A v S t believe. Mehb** you ran pikix him. Sandy. Set annind an’ howled like a ►l«-k r«y«*le fo’ fo’-flvr day*—mostly night-. If the gc] hulks I’ll ►land hark of her fo quit an’ come hark to Three S!;ir.“ “An’ have Jordan git her away an’ put her under IMimsoH’s guardeen- xhlp’r” , “He r’udn’t do that. Mirandy Bailey ’mbblock him.” ^’He c’udn’t do anything,” said San dy. “1 got niyse’f app’inted legal guanleen to Molly while we was in Santa Rosa, one day Barbara an’ Molly was slioppin’. John Redding’s lawyer fixed it up.” Tlio months passed without, especial incident at llib Three Star. Sandy p Tm'lj a s ed a c liani pi < >n He ref o n 1 h u 11 Xor tlie' henl out oi' the ranch share of the faro' wlmiings. Other improve- inents were added, imd the three part- ners seemed on uie fair way to pros perity. “Lead’s Cheaper Than Rope, but Somohow It Ain’t So Convincin’.” who. owns what he calls the Waterline hawss ranch, sixteen miles east of you, more or less ; an’ who gits more fancy breeds out of the mangy cayuses 1m shows his broodin' mares an’ stal- lions. thrrn there is dlTferent fish in the sea. Fr<«m all I can figger most of his mares must have^fo^foals a year. “Some of us arc frdtTK^this state— Mojave county-two of us- frem Ne-- vada. Me. I'm from California. all begn losin’ hawsses offHm’ on an’ «<• Vr iiiiid’ ^oi io^oiin'r an' compared notes. Seems most of the missin’ stock sorter drifted across the Arlzony line "MMMk M ta a-rgy I lie In til hlH feet, he The springs sonuwyheres hejtween Mojave City an’ Topoeky-Most of ’em have been sold nr passaai .on. All. <>f ’em have been faked an’ doctored more or less. Talk lioints to Plimsoll,' so do sotpe facts, but not enough.” . '• * * 1 •% » is* rw 11aw nm MW Utti t l« kia^MWt this j/np- | NtjJp’, kut v 111 Who tu l.al. Mi muds IhiUey snt taetween Mini Smiii Whatever lack of rh- displajVal aan n* a driver, rplngw a row* from vuriatiis parts a>f the ear n* It ran, hut he ca>nxa‘d the engine, jnt- fornied .miracles ht had places in the road, nursed the insufficient ruallatair surfaa e and kept the ttiVver at a sim mer. , They made the down-road as the sun rose above the run of the eastern range, so Jagged it seemed trying to claw back the mounting sun. Ever in view below them lay Hie intermountain valley in which the camjHuid been lo cated. There were a few tenfsi-djoine wagons and picketed horses, and there wt're a great many machines parked at will. Here and there unbroken glass in the windows flung back the sun. Suddenly smoke jetted from a tumbled chimney,;oilier puffs jot]owed and steady vapors mounted. Ant-like ttu'kn ix t* w\»«<r4wl f v-» 1. <.. « r. x-» embdzj Utile knots, misie«l theniselved with theTrerses, hurried hack to lireak- fusLs, Faint sounds eame up to the travelers. “W’udn’t think that place had-been dead as-a cemetery fo’ years?" com mented Sandy. . “Stuhted up overnight like an old engine. That’s the hotel, with the high front. Furniture all In It mu’ in the cabins. M<mt of the fix- two saloon* an* the re»t Meet ►In’ cate , , I *•% Imom * • w*. TVfw Xf w-X* loves ’WtfMgir st to# r%• I MM* tb#r fk#WM>4 tb# ewtiBa Mmm# with a to* w hl« Fhmi ni<>n‘‘n your’n. Wliat‘11 you have, folks? I’ve g**t *teak an’ |>o*k an* tHUHl*. Itfove over Home beef. More coinin' ter-tuorrer. HI have a ' real imnnon hy the end of the \v«*ek. | Steak? Seguro! Biscuit* an’ coffee.^ He Khoiitisl orders to a helper and hurried off to pan broil the steaks. “Whirt’s the Indications?” asked Sandy, after Simpson had rejoined them. "Big. Look here. White gold!" He pulled out a piece of tin whit* mineral with a brilliant metallic lus ter. sparkling with curious crystals. “Sylvanite—twenty-five per. cent gold an’ twelve an’ a Fialf silver. Veined in the porphyry. There’s a young us* suyr’r come in last night. He ’lows it’a sylviTmte, same as they have overdo Boulder cb'rHUvi.n Colorado. lies a kid, hut I w’udnft wonder hut h» , knows what he’s tallcin T ahout-, S?'m* euITs ft telluride. But -it’s gold, all right, an’ there’s a big vein of iytns^ 1 to the swfare an the jciiolt east side oi riivver encK^ They passed the heavy mineral from hand to.hand, examining It with eager curiosity. Simpson rambled oh. Lady back herq in th,e crowd,* •aid Sandy quietly. Just mix AUbastine with water cold or hot and apply to any interior sur face. The sure result is beautifully tinted walls in exactly the color you wish. Alahastine comes in all standard colors and these intermix to form count less others so that your decorating taste may be accurately followed. Non* gmnuinm wit hoot thm Crooo and Cirda printed in rod. Economy. “Gw in# to diit drntis’sgsta missy K auburtms Ltd, » newrty Iciportad qu#n#d ; .* ’Peor* lib# y,>u «rnt gsorj bisssml day.* Tb# sebarbes iody rflq. s t ib# Mas *ad •/ ba«:at E3* 0 ewta-eC pm Ms# •ne’e mpoMi ta ‘ 2 J H tb# p#tp «sK » bsMbsad 8b ’* •*»! mump, fea #M ti an twr paa liswit At has ■«ht— •1 Itof awnas maa*«* m at* aqataab tod