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?V. X % ™ It is an ill wind that Wows ^ . lb the batter. • * " Bolivia should stop and count 100 jjefore going to war. 1 As yet the aeroplana men cannot go ^gp for an all-day picnic, taking thflir flinch along. As the list of summer tragedies |rows larger the need for greater care grows plainer. New York is evidently harboring loo many Chinamen who look on mur­ der as a pastime. King Edward is getting to be a vet- ruler, for he has entered upon the ninth year of his reign; \ • in i i Now that the hot-weather record lltas been broken, it is to be hoped It be mended and stay so. A Virginia woman shot her husband because he insisted on playing ^phon­ ograph. This is a record case. Through dissensions and the lack of jfeinds the movement in New York to build a children'* theater ha**' been Abandoned. Isn't it annoying that now, just In Ike finest time of the whole year, the charity people tip oft the fact that there are jobs for everybody? In France, as in this country, it is fee wealthier families that are ifhunned by the stork. Mavbfe the fcaufhty footman scares the timid bird. Now that canned fresh air is to be in­ troduced into mines as a safety de- Vice, the canning idea appears to have •geached its height--or, to speak cor- .lectly in this case, its depth. ' A man in St. Louis hasinveifed a iNpice which he claims will make air .Rights safe. But this will detract largely from the excitements of seeing t them if curious crowds are assured «|||obody will be hurt. I ' 11 ' • " j " A girl in Pennsylvania who aimed , ,'|jt a rat with a rifle shot her njother. , ;lt is time that feminine sharpshooters fijhould learn something by experience. % the girl in question had aitlied at Tier mother, she would have stood a 'better chance of shooting the rat. *v v h . * Women ought to know by this time Vf ^bat they go by contraries. .• « f- 1 J % 4. , • A man in New York brought his *virlfe into court because she had such '•^V mania for hard work that he could ^ ' ' H«ot restrain her from doing it all the \ A * lime. This one remarkable case is § fcnough to balance the many which 4<S|?omen bring against their husbands because the latter compel them to do "rfrard work all the time. & -V, 1 The Turks have started to fight the Sp /Creeks with the boycott--that blood- sVV ,.*iJtess weapon of modern warfare which ^ ,' tauses more devastation and brings I• * * kpeedier results than all others in the % '%rray of improved armaments, and 1"' 1 * * Whose victories are caused by the un- Endurable agony it inflicts upon that jjtnost sensitive of all organisms, the .7 pocket nerve. • Murray Sinclair and Ms gaqt #£ iwdfr era were called out to clear the railroad tracks at Snioky , Creek. McCloud, a young road superintendent, caught Sin­ clair and his men in the ^ct of looting the wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded in­ nocence, declaring it only amounted to a small sum--a treat for the men. MefTloud discharged the whole outfit and ordered the wreckage burned. McCloud became acquainted with Dickste Dunning, a girl of the west, who came to look at the wreck. She gave him a message tor Sin­ clair. "Whispering" Gordon Smith told President Bucks of the railroad, of Mc­ Cloud'* brave fight against a gang of craned miners and that was the reason for the superintendent's appointment to hlB high office. McCloud arranged to board at the boarding house of Mrs. Sin­ clair, the t>x~forem£>,n's deserted wife. Dicksl# Dunning was the daughter of the late Richard Dunning, who had died of a broken heart shortly after his wife s demise, which occurred after' one year of. married life. Sinclair visited Marion Sin­ clair's shop and a fight between him and McCloud was narrowly averted. Smoky Creek bridge was mysteriously burned. Superintendent McCloud overheard Dick- si* criticising his methods, to Marlon 8incla.ir. A stock train was wrecked by an open s#ltch. Later a passenger train was held up and the express car robbed. Two men of a posse pursuing the bandits were killed. McCloud was notified that Whispering Smith was to hunt the des­ peradoes. Bill Dancing, a road lineman, proposed that Sinclair and his gang be sent to hunt the bandits. A stranger, ap­ parently with authority, told him to go ahead. Dancing was told the stranger was "Whispering Smith." Smith ap­ proached Sinclair. He tried to buy him off, but failed. He wurned McCloud that his life was in danger. McCloud was car­ ried" forcibly Into Lance Dunning's pres­ ence. Dunning refused the railroad a right-of-way, he had already signed for. Dtcksie Interfered to prevent a shooting affray. Dicksie met McCloud on a lonely trail to warn him his life was in danger. On his way home a shot passed through his hat. Whispering Smith reported that Du Sang, one of Sinclair's gang, had been assigned to kill McCloud. He and Smith •aw Du Sang. Whispering Smith taunt­ ed Du Sang and told him to get out of Medicine Bend or suffer. Du Sang seemed to succumb to the bluff. McCloud's big construction Job was taken from him be­ cause of an injunction Issued to Lance Dunning by the United States court. A sudden rise of the Crawling Stone rl\er created consternation. Dicksie and Ma­ rlon appealed to McCloud for help. « his- pering Smith Joined the group. He and Dicksie spent the night in conversation. Smith giving the girl an outline of his life. In the morning McCloud took his men to fight the river. Lance Dunning welcomed them cordially. McCloud, suc­ ceeded in halting the flood. He accepted Dunning's hospitality. Dicksie and Ma­ rlon visited Sinclair at his ranch. He tried to persuade his deserted wife to re­ turn to him. She refused. He accused Whispering Smith of having stolen her love from him. A train was held up and robbed, the bandits escaping. Smith and McCloud started In pursuit. £ i Uruguay is joining the progressives ' 4*i*ln South America. That country is sv. S*.\ . Pi Vow in the market for a loan of $6,- §00,000 for public works purposes, and like other countries in that quarter ' turns to the United States to get the vljnoney. Another indication of the Strengthening ties between this and f ie South American nations, a rela-onship that eventually must be high- ; iy advantageous all round. (» ' Aeroplanes having shown capacity for going swiftly and for long dls- ^ ( < tances, the problem next to be at jrV-l V lacked is how to make them fly high. ; ijlt is obvious that an airship to be of * generally practical use must be capa- ' t>ie of ascending to a considerable dis- -• stance. One of the,, inventors says *'•"Cgoo<* motor* and serve" will meet "che difficulty. And who can doubt <• j, ; I that these requisites will be for^h- «omlng? this country," asked the rancher, wltl* a bitter oath, "unless he picks up everything that's going?" "Pick up your gun, man! Tm not saying anything, am 1?" ^ "But I'm damned if I can .give a double-cross to any man," added Rock- stro, stooping for his revolver. "I should think less of you, Rock- Btro, if you did. You don't need money anyway now, but sometime you may need a friend. I'm going to leave, you here. You'll hear no more of this, and I'm going to ask you a question: Why did you go against this when you knew you'd have to square yourself with me?" "They told me you'd be t4$tfeft care of before it was pulled oft." "They lied to you, didn't they? No matter, you've got their stuff. Now I am going to ask you one question that I don't know the answer to; it's a fair question, too. Was Du Sang in the penitentiary with you at 'Fort City? Answer fair." : . s. ; "Yes." "r "Thank you. Behave yourself and keep your .mouth shut. I say nothing this time. Hereafter leave railroad matters alone, and if the woman should fall sick or you have to have a little money, come and see me." Smith led the way back to the horses., "Look here!" muttered Rockstro, following, with his good eye glued on his companion^ "I pulled on you too quick, I guess--quicker'n I'd ought to." "Don't mention it. You didn't pull quick enough; it is humiliating to have a man that's as slow- as you are pull on me. People that pull on me usually pull and shoot at the same time. Two distinct movements, Rock­ stro, should be avoided; they are fa- for Sleepy Cat. At three o'clock they struck north (or the Mission moun­ tains. . ^ CHAPTER XXV. ' The Sunday Murder, ' posse, leaving Medicine Bend before daybreak, headed northwest. Their Instructions were explicit: To scatter after crossing the Frenchman, watch the trails from the Goose river country and through the Mission mountains, and intercept everybody riding north until the posse from Sleepy Cat or Whispering Smith should communicate with them from the southwest Nine men rode in the party that crossed the Crawling Stone Sunday inornlng at sunrise with Ed Banks. After leaving the river the three white-capped Saddles of the Mission range afforded a landmark for more than 100 miles,- and toward these the party pressed steadily all day. The southern pass of the Missions opens on the north slope of the range into a pretty valley known as Mission Springs valley, and the springs are the head-waters of Deep creek. The posse did not quite obey the instruc­ tions, and following a natural instinct of safety five of them, after Banks and his three deputies had scattered, bunched again, and at dark crossed Deep creek at some distance below the springs. It was afterward known that these five men had been seen entering the valley from the east at sundown just as four of the men they wanted rode down South Mission pass toward the springs. That they knew they would soon be cut off, or must cut their way through the line which Ed ' < f \ ts Curiosity is not confined to may one - -^joatioix. The phlegmatic English ap- ; -Ipear to have their full share. The (-^daughters of the czar landed at K iCowes and went w foot for a shop- l&H :t I*'*"* expedition, but the crowd which ^ » "^gathered about to gaxe at them be- gp1. xh - ^came bo much of a mob that the po- Jiice came to the rescue and Induced %f) : 1 the little grand duchesses to take car* fv- * xiagea In order to avoid the annoy- ?'ance. li^Cy . .. BBSS * • ? / * ^ ! ' I t t o n o " c i n c h " t o b e a s u s p e c t e d ; jqrmpathiser with fallen monarchy or tkk i even a relative of the "down and out" nowadays. News comes from Teheran , ^that Zill-es-Sultan, an uncle of the de- V posed Shah of Pereia- has been fined IfV $500,000 in favor of the state treas- ury and expelled from the country. And a military escort will see that he v. goes. He might exchange condalenoes i with Abdul Hamid of Turkey, now an ; ex-sultan, who also had to "give up." Parisian scientific enterprise has evolved the "germ kiss.' A fair Pa- j.,. * Tlsienne allowed herself to b«i kissed K ~ a smootll-shaven man and then by • * bearded one; and the consequent consequent /"* 3?" * microbes were collected by a steril- .« *zed brush. It was found that the •i> ! H.'- • beardless man had depostited only the sweet germs of affeGtiGB upon her lips, while the other had left besides bacilli of tuberculosis, diphtheria, pnuemonia and a few other addenda. Now it seems that the osculating maiden misses all sorts of troubles by a close shave. W-'~ jf CHAPTER XXIV*--Contlnued. Whispering Smiths brows rose pro- testingly, but he,, spoke with perfect amiability as he raised his finger to bring the good eye his way. "You ought to change your hat when you change your mind. I saw you driving a bunch of horses up that canyon a few minutes ago. Now, Rockstro, do you still drag your left leg?" The rancher looked steadily at his new Inquisitor, but blinked lik»3 . a gopher at the sudden onslaught. "Which of you fellows is Whispering Smith?" he demanded. "The man with the dough Is Whis­ pering Smith every, time," was the answer from Smith himself. "You have about seven years to serve, Rockstro, haven't you? Seven, I think. Now what have I ever done to you that you Bhould turn a trick like this on me? I knew you were here, and you knew I knew you were here, and I call this a pretty country; a little smooth right around here, like the people, but pretty. Have I ever bothered you? Now tell me one thing--what did you ^et for covering this trail? I stand to give you two dollars for every one you got last night for the Job, if you'll put us right on the game. Which way did thej go?" "What aye you talking about?" "Get off your horse a minute," sug­ gested Smith, dismounting, "and step over here toward the creek." The man, afraid to refuse and unwilling to gA, walked haltingly after Smith. "What is it, Rockstro?" asked his tormentor. "Don't you like this coun­ try ? What do you want to go back to the penitentiary for? Aren't you happy here? Now tell me one thing--will you give up the trail?" "I don't know the trail." "I believe you; we shouldn't follow it anyway. Were you paid last night4 or this morning?" "I ain't seen & man hereabouts lor a week." "Then you can't tell me whether there were five men or six?" "You've got one eye as good as mine, and one a whole lot better." "So it was fixed up for cash a week dgo?" "Everything is cash In this country." "Well, Rockstro, I'm sorry, but we'll have to take you back with us." The rancher whipped out a revolver. Whispering Smith caught his wrist. The struggle lasted only an Instant Rockstrc writhed, and the pistol fell to the ground. "Now, shall I break your arm?" asked Smith, as the man cursed and resisted. "Or will you behave? We are going right back and you'll have to come with us. We'll send some one down to round' up your horses and sell them, and you can serve out your time--with allowances, of course, for good conduct, which will cut it down. If I had ever done you a mean turn I would not say a word. If you could name a friend of yours I had ever done a mean turn to I would not say a word Can you name one? I guess not. i" .' i + Mtejle unpopularity of the Moorish war in Spain and the demand that the people whose money and blood are •pent in the contest should have voice in deciding their own fate show* the march of republican ideas in the world. No longer will the mass of any nation submit to he looked on merely as tools or food for powder by a few constituting the government. The con­ stitutional monarchy, in which there Is a popular voice in the government, to the oply one which can weather socialistic storm la Europe. I N % N "New shall Break Your Armf I have left you as free as the wind here, making only the rule I make for every­ body--to let the railroad alone. This is my thanks. Now, I'll ask you Just one question. I haven't killed you, as I had a perfect right to when you pulled; I haven't broken your arm, as I would have done if there had been a doctor within 25 miles; and I haven't started you for the pen--not yet. Now I ask you one fair question «N|ly; Did you need the money?" ' f4 "Yes, I did need It." . Whispering Smith "Sroppea "the man's wrist. "Then I don't say a word. If you needed the money, I'm not go­ ing to send you back--not for mfne." "How can a man make a living In tal to success. Come down to the Bend- ̂ sometime, and I'll get you a decent gun and give you a, tew lea- sons." Whispering Smith drew his handker­ chief as the one-eyed man rode away and he rejoined his companions. He was resigned, after a sickly fashion. I like to play blind-man's-buff," he said, wiping his forehead, "but not so far from good water. They have pulled us half-way to the Grosse Terre moun­ tains on a beautiful ttail, too beautiful to be true, Farrell--too beautiful to be true. They have been having fun with us, and they've doubled back through the Topah Topahs toward the Mission mountains and Williams Cache--that is my judgment. And aren't we five able-bodied Jays, gentlemen? rive strong-arm suckers? It is an Inelegant word; it is an inelegant feeling. No matter, we know a few thingB. There are five good men and a led horse; we can get out of here by Goose river, find out when we cross the railroad how much they got, and pick them up somewhere around the Saddle peaks If they've gone north. That's only a guess, and every' man's guess is good now. What do you think, all of y^u?" "If It's the crowd we think It is, would tfaey go straight home? That .doesn't look reasonable, does it?" asked Brill Young. "If they could put one day between them and pursuit, wouldn't they be safer at home than anywhere else? And haven't they laid out one day's work for us, good and plenty? Farrell, remember one thing: There is some­ times a disadvantage in knowing too much about the men you, art after. We'll try Goose river." It Was noon when they sfruek the railroad. They halted long enough to •top a freight train, send some tele­ grams, and aak' for trews. They got orders from Rooney Lee, had an empty box car set behind the engine for a special, and, loading their horaee at the chute, m%£e a helter-skelter run Banks, ahead of them, was posting at every gateway to Williams Cache, was probably clear to them. Four men rode that evening from Tower W through the south pass; the fifth man had already left the party. The four men were headed for Williams Cache and had reason to believe, until they sighted Banks' men, that their path wa| open. They halted to take counsel on the suspicious-looking posse far below them, and while their cruelly ex­ hausted horses rested, Du Sang, al­ ways In Sinclair's absence the brains of the gang, planned the escape over Deep creek at Baggs' crossing. At dusk they divided; two men lurking In the brush along the creek rode as close as they could, unobserved, to­ ward the crossing, while Du Sang and the cowboy Karg, known as Flat Nose, rode down to Baggs' ranch at the foot of the pass. At that point Dan Baggs, an old lo­ comotive engineer, had taken a home­ stead, got together a little bunch of cattle, and was living alone with his son, a boy of ten years. It was a hard country and too close to Wil­ liams Cache for comfort, but Dan got on with everybody because the tough­ est man in the Cache country could get a meal, a feed for his horse, and a place to sleep at Baggs', without charge, when he needed it. Ed Banks, by hard riding, got to the crossing at five o'clock, and told Baggs of the hold-up and the shooting of Oliver Sollers. The news stirred the old englneman, and his excitement threw him off his guard. Banks rode straight on for the middle pass, leav­ ing word that two of his men would be along within half an hour to watch the pass and the ranch crossing, and asked Baggs to put up some kind of a fight for the crossing until more of the posse came up--at the least, to make sure that nobody got any fresh horses. The boy was cooking supper in the kitchen, and Baggs had done his milk­ ing and gone back to the corral, when two men rode around the corner of the barn and asked if they could get something to eat. Poor Baggs sold his fife in six wordB: "Why, yes; be you Banks' men?" ' Du Sang answered: "No; we're from Sheriff Coon's office at Oroville, look­ ing up a bunch of Duck Bar steers that's been run somewhere up Deep creek. Can we stay here all night?" They dismounted and disarmed Baggs' suspicions, though the condi­ tion of their horses might have warned him had he had his senses. The un­ fortunate man had probably fixed, it in his mind that a ride from Tower W to Deep creek in 16 hours was a physical Impossibility. ^ "Stay here? Sure! I want you to stay," said Baggs, bluffiy. "Looks to me like I seen you down at Crawling Stone, ain't I?" he asked of Karg. Karg was lighting a cigarette. "I used to mark at the Dunning ranch," he answered, throwing away his match. "That's hit. Good! The boy's cook­ ing supper. Step up to the kitchen and tell him to cut ham for four more." "Four?" ^ "Two of Ed Banks' men will be here by six o'clock. Heard about the hold­ up? They stopped Number Three at Tower W last night and shot OIlie Sollers, aa white a boy as ever pulled a throttle. Boys, a man that'll kill a locomotive engineer is worse'n an In­ dian ; I'd help skin him." "The hell you would!" cried Du Sang. "Well, don't you want to start in on me? I killed Sollers. Look at me; ain't I handsome? What you go­ ing to do about it?" Before Baggs could think Du Sang was shooting him down. It was wan­ ton. Du Sang stood in no need of the butchery; the escape could have been made without it. His victim had pulled an engine throttle too long to show the white feather, but he was dying by the time he had dragged a revolver from his pocket. Du Sang did the killing alone. At least, Flat Nose, who alone saw all of the murder, after­ ward maintained that he did not draw because he had no occasion to, and that Baggs was dead before he, Karg, had finished his cigarette. With his right arm broken and two ' bullets through his chest, Baggs fell on hit^ face. That, however, did not check his murderer. Rising to his knees, Baggs begged for his life. "For God's sake! I'm helpless, gentlemen. I'm helpless. Don't kill me like a dog!" But Du Sang, emptying his piBtol, threw his rifle to his shoulder and sent bullet after bullet crashing through the shapeless form writhing and twitching before him until he had beaten It In the dust soft and flat and still. Banks' men came up within an hour to find the ranchhouse deserted. They saw a lantern in the yard below, and near the corral gate they found the little boy in the darkness, screaming beside his father's body. The sheriff's men carried the old engineman to the house; others of the posse crossed the creek during the evening, and at 11 o'clock Whispering Smith rode down from the BOuth pass to find that" four of the men they were after had taken fresh horses, after killing Baggs, and passed safely through the cordon Banks had drawn around the pass and along Deep creek. Bill Dancing, who had ridden with Banks' men, was at the house when Whispering Smith ar­ rived. He found some supper in the kitchen, and the tired man and the giant ate together. Whispering Smith was too experi­ enced a campaigner to complain. His party had struck a trail 50 miles north of Sleepy Cat and followed it to the Missions. He knew now who he was after, and knew that they were bottled up in the Cache for the night. The sheriff's men were sleeping on the floor of the living room when Smith came In from the kitchen. He sat down before the fire. At intervals sobs came from the bedroom where the body lay, and after listening a mo­ ment, Whispering Smith got stiffly up, and, tiptoeing to still the jingle of his spurs, took the candle from the table, pushed aside the curtain, and entered the bedroom. The little boy was lying on his face, with his arm around his father's neck, talking to him. Whispering Smith bent a moment over the bed, and, setting the candle on the table, put his hand on the boy's shoulder. He disengaged the hand from the cold neck, and sit­ ting down took it in his own. Talking low to the little fellow, he got his attention after much patient, effort and got him to speak. He made him, though struggling with terror, to un­ derstand that he had come to be his friend, and after the child had sobbed his grief into a strange heart he ceased to tremble, and told his name and his story, and described the two horse­ men and {the horses they had left. Smith listened quietly. "Have you had any supper, Dannie? No? You must have something to eat. Can't you eat anything? But there is a nice pan of fresh milk in the kitchen." A burst of tears interrupted him. "Daddle just brought in the milk, and I was frying the ham, and I beard them shooting." "See how he took care of you till the last minute, and left something for you after he was gone. Suppose he could speak now, don't you think he would want you to do as I say? I am your next friend now, for you are going to be a railroad man and have a big engine." Dannie looked up. "Dad wasn't afraid of those men." 4s-'*? 'f- f "Wasn't he, Dannie?" ^ He said we tomiM "My poor boy." "He is coming, don't be afraid. Dp you know Whispering Smith? He is coming. The men to-night all said he was coming." The little fellow for a long time could not be coaxed away from his father, but his companion at length got him to the kitchen. When they came back to the bedroom the strange man was talking to him once more about his father. "We must try to think how b£ would like things£done now, mu^i-fi'i we? All of us felt so bad when we rode in and had sp much to do we couldn't attend to taking care of your father. Did you know there are two men out at the crossing now, guarding it with rifles? But if ytra and I keep real quiet we can do something for him while the men are asleep; they have to ride all day to-morrow. We must wash his face and hands, don't you think so? And brush his hair and his beard. If you could just find the basin and some water and a towel--you couldn't And a brush, could you? Could you honestly?. Well! I "The Hill You Would 1' Sang. Cried call that a good boy--we shall have to have you on the railroad, sure. We must try to find some fresh clothes-- these are cut and stained; then I will change his clothes, and we shall' all feel better. Don't disturb the men; they are tired." _ They worked together by the candle­ light. When they had done, the boy had a violent crying spell, but Whisper­ ing Smith got him to lie down beside him on a blanket Bpread on the floor, where Smith got his back against the sod wall and took the boy's head in his arm. He waited patiently for the boy to go to sleep, but Dan was afraid the murderers would come back. Once he lifted his head In a confidence. "Did you know my daddy used to run an engine?" "No, I did not; but in the morning you must tell me all about it" Whenever there was a noise In the next room the child roused. After some time a new voice was heard; Kennedy had come and wa« asking questions. "Wake up here, somebody! Where is Whispering Smith?" Dancing ansvywed; "He's. tight there in the bedroom, Farrel, staying with the boy." There was some stirring. Kennedy talked a little an£ at length stretched himself on the floor. When all was still again, Dannie's hand crept slow­ ly from the breast of his companion up to his chin, and the llttfe? hand, feel­ ing softly every feature, stale over the strange face. . ; "What is It. Dannler "Are yon Whispering Smith#* "Yes, Dannie. Shut your eyes." At three o'clock, when Kennedy^ lighted a candle and looked in, Smith was sitting with his back against the ̂ lS wall. The boy lay on his arm. BothSJ wefe fast asleep. On the bed the dead .: J man lay wlOihandkerchtef over his facet: - CHAPTER SI? r# Williams Cache. Ed Banks had been recalled befor* • daybreak from the middle pass. of the men wanted were now known H|| to have crossed the creek, -whichf^ meant they must work out of the couc* ; try through Williams Cache. "If ypu will take your best two men, Ed," said Whispering Smith, sitting^, down with Banks at breakfast, "and f- strike straight for Canadian pass to^vt* help Gene and Bob Johnson, 111 under-S take to ride In and talk to Rebstock^g while Kennedy and Bob Scott watch.. ( Deep creek. The boy gives a good de-'..\-| scription, and the two men that dldi|^ the job here are Du Sang and Flat , Nose. Did I tell you how we picked^ ̂ up the trail yesterday? Magpies. They< shot a scrub horse that gave out "On " ^ them and skinned the brand. It. J hastened the banquet, but we got. there r before the birds were all seated. 'Great - luck, wasn't it? And it gave us ,a beautiful trail. One of the party crossed the Goose river at American fork, and Brill Young and Reed fol­ lowed him. Four came through the.^ij Mission mountains; that is a cinch and- j they are in the Cache--and if they g*t<# I out it is our fault personally, Ed, and not the Lord's." Williams Cache lies ih the form of a great horn, with a narrow entrance' at the lower end known as the Door, and 4. rock fissure at the upper end^; leading into Canadian pass; but this* fissure is so narrow that a man with a rifle could withstand a regiment. For 100 miles east and west rise the gran­ ite walls of the Mission range, broken nowhere save by the formation known aa the Cache. Even this does not pen- erate the range; it is a pocket, and runs nqt over half-way Into it and out again. But no man really knows the Cache; the most that may be said is that the main valley is known, aid it Is known as the roughest mountain fissure between the Spanish stake and the Mantrap country. 'Williams Cache lies between walls 2,000- feet high, and within it is a small labyrinth of can­ yons. A generation ago, when Medi­ cine Bend for one winter was the terminus of the overland railroad, vigi­ lantes mercilessly cleaned out the town, and the few outlaws that es­ caped the shotgun and the nooee at Medicine Bend found refuge in a far­ away and unknown mountain gorge once named by French trappers the Cache. Years after these outcasts had come to infest it came one desperado' more ferocious than all that had gonei before, lie made a frontier retreat of1 the Cache, and left to it the legacy of his evil name, Williams. Since his day it has served, as it served before, for the haunt of outlawed men. Tfo honest man Uvea in Williams Cache, and few men of *ny sort live there long, tiwif fl»ss are Uves of vio­ lence; neither the taw nor a woman crosses Deep creek. But from the day of Williams to this day the Cache has had its ruler, and when Whispering, Smith rode with a little parly through the Door into the Cache the morning after the murder in Mission *alley he sent an envoy to Rebstock, wTSwe suc­ cess as a cattle thief had brouitiit its inevitable penalty. It had *»ade Rebstock a man of consequecce **?d of property and a man subject ts the anxieties and annoyances of such re­ sponsibility. (TO BE CONTINUED.) not to be afraid," "Did he?" ,.J, "He said Whispering: coming." Smith was The Living Before the Dead a 1 : Common Sens* Opinion Clothed Poetio Language Delivers* from the Bench. ^ r In One might aay that John Driscoll's ears burned while Judge* Marean read his decision in court the other day. except that such a statement might be open to misconstruction. For John has been dead for two^ears. Just the same, whatever may be the feelings of the deceased about the matter, Judge Marean's common sense ought to come in for a bit of reward. Driscoll left his estate of a few thousand dollars to the church he at­ tended at Far Rockaway on condition, literally, that his grave be kept green. In his will he commented with a cer­ tain austerity upon the commoa prac­ tice of neglecting the green tents be­ neath which the greater part of man kind's army is bivouacked, and de­ vised his thousands with an eye to making John Driscoll's grave,a thing of beauty to the end of time. But John Driscoll had some collat­ eral relatives, poor and ill-ciad and on the verge of starvation. Maybe they never did anything for John Dris­ coll during his life. Maybe John Dris­ coll even hated them. But neverth^ less they are 111 and in need, and that money John Driscoll gave to the grave might keep them In comfort for their few remaining years. No hint through the documents as to their previous re­ lation to John Driscoll. ' But Judge Marean held "that It is better that the hungry be fed and the Ill-ciad be clothed and the fatherless be comforted than that a mound of earth be flowered and gardened. The revolving seasons may well cara^for John Driscoll's grave. The winter may cover It with a glittering mantle and the spring adorn it with budding flowers, and the summer weave above it a thick green coverlid, which in lta. turn the fall may grant a russet hue. Let the law be as merciful to .the Hr- ing as God is to the dead.-Cincin­ nati Times-Star. \ Krakatoa. perhaps the most remarkable vol-1 canic eruption known was that which took place in August. 1883, at the Is-J land of Krakatoa, in the Straits ofl Sunda. Streams of volcanic dust were] thrown 17 miles high, and more than] a cubic mile of material was expelled] from the volcanic crater. The alrl waves started by the eruption trav­ eled around the earth seven tlmes.1 The noise was heard at MaSCaSa, miles away; at Borneo, 1,116 miles dia-[ tant; in West Australia, 1.700 ni'.lea away, and even at Rodaguez. distant more than 2,900 miles. The dust nnd powdered pumice thrown out of th« crater made the entire circuit of th« earth before settling down, and the cause of the strange sunsets H were observed for many months. The Old Man and Death. An old man that had traveled a long way with a great bt^ndle of fagot found himself so weary that he flun| it down, and called upon death to d« liver him from his most miserable ei istence. Death came straightway his call and asked him what he want ed. "Pray, good air," said the olJ man. "Just do me the favor to li*lj ine up with, our l^4ie <rf £a«o«^*' Aesop. , Ml..