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tiVHEH MENWEREGftME Cy ADELAIDE RUTH HILL. Copyright. 1C09, by American Press Asso ciation. J ' . "The old fashioned fight of the far west." said the veteran from Idaho, "has died out with the stagecoach. Now and then there's some monkey business sola' ou there, but it's not what it used to be. I've seen and beaid of a number of 'em. but none in rcy remembrance for reel tightm". sich lis men fijjlit who're goin' to tight at all. equals that between McGuire and Hiley away back in the' fifties. "The fust of it all was a dispute over cards. It didn't amount to much, ex cept it m;:de bad blood between the two men. Afterward they met on a ranch, and Riley accused McGuire of purposely brandin" stock a3 didn't be long to him. McGuire tried to kiil him tben and there, but was interfered with by Riley's friends. Soon after that some one, knowiu' that the two men were bound to have it out. sug gested to McGuire that they go off alone for the light. McGuire agreed and rent word to Riley that he'd meet 'him the next mornin' at sunup on the trail between Beeswax and Bully creek and they would then and there settle whether or no he had branded FtoeU thas wasn't his'n. Riley agreed There wasn't no seconds, no surgeons nor any of ttse claptrap that men have ia toy duels. They was just goin' out to fight. "Yv'ell, the next mornin', when it was still dark, McGuire mounted his horse end rode off toward the trail. There had been nothin' said about weapons, each man bein' left to take what he thought he could do the most damage with. McGuire carried two six shoot ers and a knife. As be rode along the stars was a-dyin' out and there was consld'able light where the sun was glttin' ready to come up. He looked toward the few little shanties that was Beeswax and saw somepin black' comln' from ' that direction. It was Riley, and he was armed just about ns McGuire was. They was a mile apart. "Not wan tin' to bring on the fight too near Beeswax, McGuire waited awhile, then moved on slow. When Riley got into range McGuire suddenly ducked under his horse's neck and fired. His bullet didn't do any dam age at all. Riley - he ducked Indian fashion, too, and fired. Both on 'em was ridin' around in a circle lookin' for a chance to plug the other. "Finally Riley's horse went down, hit by one Of MeGuire's bullets. Riley, knowin' this would give his enemy an advan tage, shot MeGuire's horse, and each made a breastwork of his animal. "Riley got the first plug, McGuire cuttin' a scratch around the side of his head that filled his shootin' eye with blood. . He put his handkerchief under his hat to ketch it and kept on flghtin. ;;' "Before the dozen shots each of 'em Started with was exhausted both of 'em had three or four wounds. Nei ther of 'em dared go out from behind his horse till then, but when the last shots had been fired they started for each other with knives. Both on 'em staggered as they eyed each other, watchin' for a chance to git in a blow. But they was both about equally tuck ered out, and neither on 'em had an advantage, and neither on 'em could git in a stroke to kill. "By this time the pop'latlon of the three huts that made up the town o' Beeswax, bein' wakened by the shots, come out to see the show. I was one on 'em. McGuire and Riley was back up' at each other, both staggerin' from loss o' blood, havin' more of it outside than Inside and Just enough in their blinkers to keep 'em from seein where to strike. ' It was a beautiful sight, I tell you, these two game men settlin' fhelr dispute in true manly fashion, without seconds or surgeons. "Bimeby they got so weak and so blind that their blows was nothin that a four-year-old- boy couldn't dodge; (tben they stopped altogether. We picked 'em up and carried 'em to the town. There wasn't but one room that could be spared, and we put 'em on bunks side by side. Each on 'em had from ten to fifteen wounds, and they : was pretty well played out, but we watched 'em for awhile, thinkin' if they got strong enough they'd go at each other ag'in. , You see, we didn't want 'em to die on our hands, we to send for burial things and nothin' to pay for 'em. "We did git a doctor for 'em, and he looked out for 'em both. He said he thought Riley would -die, though he couldn't be sure about either on 'em. It was some time before either knew enough to understand what was goin' on and longer before they could say anything. We was speculatin' whether when they, got up they'd call the fight off, start In for, a new one, or what. when one mornin', when the sun ,was shitiin' In on 'em peaceful Riley he reached out his hand, took hold o' Me Guire's and says he, he says: " 'Reckon you didn't brand no stock that didn't belong to you.' "We was surprised to see, McGuire take his hand, and he says, says he, 'You're game anyway.' "It was two months before they got up and another before they could git away.: When they did they rode off fu?t rate friends. v"No; siree: there ain't no such game ficrfcts' now ns they was then. The i sand has gpue out of!- - , . . v f .' "Game,, fight sr. replied, tie listener. - "That's what they were game fights. or better named dogfights. Such men r.nre' pnly ; large ; gamecocks.;, and even .'. that, sort of . fighting has. disappeared "under more 'civilized conditions. The country "where what you call these game fights took ' place -Is now . being - covered with dwellings, schools, cot i leges and churches." " ' - CANNON'S BOXING ; ABILITY. Speaker Drove His Right Into Ribs of Clerk Who Taunted Him as Fighter. Speaker of the House Cannon, who iparred receutly -with "Philadelphia Jack" OlBrien at the.latter's training tamp, demonstrated his pugilistic abil ity again the other day at Washington. Uncle Joe was sitting in his office in the capitol smoking a long black cigar when Alexander McDowell, clerk of the house, entered. "What's all this I hear about your prowess with the mitts?" said Mc Dowell, tauntingly. "The only way you can fight is with a gavel." "Is that so?" drawled the speaker, without removing his cigar. "D'ye want a personal demonstration? Put up your dukes right now and I'll show you a trick or two." McDowell laughingly raised his hands as Uncle Joe sprang to his feet. He advanced his right foot awkward ly and thrust his right hand out before him. v "Oh, come, come!" said the speaker. "Get In proper position. You don't know anything about the game. You look like an elderly lady trying to shoo chickens out of a garden patch. Put your left foot forward and guard with your left arm". That's better. Now look out." With the warning Uncle Joe made a few feints that had the effect of com pletely demoralizing McDowell." Side stepping quickly, he feinted wickedly with his left for the McDowell chin and as the clerk threw up both guards drove a hard one into the official's ribs. . "Ugh!" said McDowell, and a look of pained surprise crept over-his face. -. "It was a shame to do it," said Uncle Joe, picking up his cigar and starting for the door. . "Come back!" challenged McDowell vociferously. ' "Come back and make it a finish fight. I dare you." "Aw, go and get a reputation first," was the speaker's retort as he vanished in a curling cloud of smoke. "IN GOD WE TRUST" ON. CENT Lincoln Penny Will Bear Inscription and Mark Departure In Coinage. Director of the Mint Leach in Wash ington has ordered that "In God We Trust" appear on the new Lincoln cent, the designs and models for which were recently completed by "Victor D. Brenner, the New York sculptor and medalist. ' ... . , . ' Dies of the Lincoln penny had al ready been made and proofs struck off and submitted to President Taft and other officials. In a letter received re cently from the Philadelphia mint Su perintendent Landis wrote that it was expected to issue the penny in June, but the other day Mr. Brenner was advised from Washington that the words "In God 'We Trust" must ap pear on the coin above the head of Lincoln. The pennies now are not ex pected to be issued before - August, when the dies, wiir be distributed among the United States mints and pennies coined simultaneously at Phil adelphia, San Francisco and Denver. The Lincoln penny marks a depar ture in American coinage. Coins pro duced by American mints have never borne the heads of any particular per sons, only those depicting Liberty or the American Indian. PERIL IN BRIGHT HEADLIGHTS Make Enginemen Color Blind and In terfere With Reading Signals. The dangers which arise from sub stituting strong electric headlights for those now used on railroad locomo tives was. emphasized at Indianapolis in a conference held the other day by the railroad commission of Indiana and reports of virtually all railroads operating in the state. The conference was called to con sider the law recently enacted accord ing to which the commission has power to order locomotives to be equipped with stronger headlights if it finds that such a step is advisable. The dangers from the stronger type of lamps, it was shown, arise from the fact, supported by a large number of practical tests, that the Intensity of the rays, when used on a locomotive, tends to destroy the power of the en- gineman to distinguish among the col ors used in switch lamps and that sit ting behind the strong rays for a con siderable length of time produces fa tigue of the' eyes and interferes with the reading of night train Orders and signals. . . Butterfly Farms. There are now in England and Prance several establishments where butterflies are bred. HE RETURN' OF THE MARY DEHTDF The Air Reserves. ,- The United States government has thir teen men employed In its department of military aeronautics. Official Report. We couldn't man a battleship or move a submarine, We couldn't make a cruiser hit her pace. But when it comes to handlin' a sky cruisin' machine You've got to stand aside and yield us place. 1 : , , We're just a baker's dozen, and we do not make much show When the jackies go paradin' through - the street, But when the next war threatens you will r hear from us;-you .know, The thirteen of the skyfalutln' fleet. We don't spend time at practice with thoea miiAt?. roann srur.s (We just let dummy mtro bombshell i ; , dropjj'i j -; . 'i, -v, - - - ,--,.- ..- You don't heir mtich -about us. and we ain't, -no fa-vlnto sons, , But. we're there .in.-. Mr. Mars' ' flshtin'- : 'Shop;- ' .. . ;.: -- We're tinkerln'v. with gas bags and a-flx;-in' aeroplanes ' i Our talk is mostly' scientific dope- But when wtie battle's rasln' and the en--emjr snakes- grains ra; - We'll prove the nation's pride and joy ' and hope.' - ' -Arthur Chapman in Denvsr Republican. By EVELYN WETWORTH. Copyright. 1909. by American Press Asso- , ciauon.J The Mary Denton was a whaler that made voyages from New ; Bedford about the middle of the' nineteenth century. The only . testimony that I have to personally bear in the matter of her last return is that I was one of those who saw her the morning she was observed to be making into port with all her sails set. I'm not going to try to explain anything either psycho logically or scientifically. That I shall leave the reader to do after reading the story. The Mary Denton was named for the niece of the owner. There were a number of Dentons in New Bedford at that time, mostly sailor folks. Mary was about twenty. She was in love with a young fellow named Kendell Edward Kendell a fine young fellow, but a landsman. Kendell was as much In love with Mary as she was with him, but he was at the beginning of life and was not yet prepared to. sup port a wife. Mary had a love for the sea, inherited from generations of sail or ancestors. Whether it was this that induced her father to ask Captain Denton to take her on a whaling voy age or whether he wanted to get her away from Denton with a view to breaking off the match, or to pass some of the time that' must elapse be fore their marriage I don't know. I never heard that the Dentons had any objection to Kendell provided he could take care of Mary. At any rate, Mary went with her uncle on a voyage that was to last three years. Edward Kendell seemed heartbroken when he heard that he was to be sep arated from his love for this long pe riod. Mary would have been delighted to go had it not been for leaving a lover behind. As it was, she was equally cast down. She cheered her lover with the hope that by the time of her re turn he would be doing well in busi ness and they could be married. Whoever conceived this plan of sep arating them seems to me to have act ed with as much foresight as human beings are given. The lover knew that he was in no especial danger of losing his love while shut up on a vessel with only her old uncle and a crew of un refined men, and a cruise would, like ly build up her physique, which was delicate. For a little while after she had gone he, seemed stupefied, then suddenly went to work with a will that was bound to produce, results. New Bedford, being then the center for the whaling industry, was a lively place, and Kendell was employed with a mercantile house trading in the oil. Every year be was advanced both as to position " and salary. - When - the, ;time for the return of the vessel had come he had become one of the first young business men of the place. ' Captain Denton had told Kendell that he would , bring his girl back to him on the third anniversary of her departure, and some said that if he were ahead of time on nearing port he would slow down nnd if behind would hurry. But as he was dependent on the winds this was doubtless said to encourage the downhearted young fel low. Naturally we wondered if the ship would come in on the appointed day. Kendell seemed to think it would. But I noticed one thing about him after a certain date he became very despondent He said in explana tion that he had had a dream or a sen sation, or something of the sort, that the ship was in trouble. I shall never forget the third anni versary of the sailing of the Mary Denton. It had rained during the night before, and the morning was balmy, but with fog. I was sitting at my desk on the second floor by a win dow facing the harbor when the sun came out I heard a cry from the street, "There she Is, true enough !" Looking, I saw the fog rolling away and a ship with all her canvas set coming in under a very light breeze. I ran downstairs and into the street, to find several people looking at the coming ship. We all agreed she was the Mary Denton. While we. looked another bank of fog enveloped her. We waited, to see it roll away, but there was no break in it till sunset, when it suddenly vanished. But where was the Mary Denton? We all had expected to see her riding at anchor. There was not a sign of her. She could not have sailed away, for there had been no wind. She could not have sunk in the harbor. ;f , I was standing beside Edward Ken dell when the fog lifted. The moment I saw the ship was not there I looked at him. An ashen gray slowly spread' Itself over bis face, as if he had been touched by a specter. With a moan he turned away and disappeared.'" There were five of us who saw" the ship, all, as I have said, agreeing that she was the Mary Denton. '' Most of us believed that she had for some rea son and. : in some unexplained way stopped in the fog and probably drift ed out to sea. r But why she should not have cast tfhehor in plain view, of her port none of us could understand. There was no more fog that day, and we who had seen the ship or the vision looked for the Mary Denton to come back. But she did not come that day nor any day. She is on the list of missing ships. . The port she sailed from, is no more the busy place of that period. The piers are deserted Whal ing voyages are a thing of the past Edward Kendell left, the place the day we all . came, eventually to think his sweetheart appeared Jn the guise of the ship that was named for her, and he was never seen there again , . A DRAMATIC CLIMAX. It Didn't Come In Just the Way It Had 6een Planned. ' Her grcat-great-grandmotner had been an actress and practiced dra matic situations. The old lady had also practiced walking home when the company stranded. The histri onic talent had therefore come down to Clara de Vere'in a legiti mate way. Graduation day was at hand, and she determined to take a dramatic advantage of the occasion. She studied and thought and planned, and at length she hit it. Paul Ross more, the clerk in the music store at $10 per week, would be there and have a front seat, and at tha critical moment he would spring upon the stage and - Her essay was announced at last, and she appeared. She was a vision in white. Never had she looked more lovely. Never had she seem ed to have more nerve not a halt nor a tremor as she came for ward and faced that large and en thusiastic audience. In a loud, clear voice she began. In a voice without a sign of timidity in it she read her essay almost to the last line, and then she wavered, stum bled, lost her presence of mind and seemed about to faint. .,. The audience began to applaud to encourage her, but it was too late. She . swayed, tottered about and threw her Paul his cue and was about to sink to the floor when .a man sprang upon the stage and clasped her in his strong arms and whispered in- her ear to be brave. It was not her Paul. He was still sitting there like a bump on a log. He was a one horse grocer named Hogg; He was fifty years old and had red whiskers and a bald head. "With a- shriek of decpair Miss Clara twisted herself out of his arms, called him an idiot and" fled behind the curtain. The dramatic situation had been knocked into a cocked hat, and never again never more on this earth would she speak to the young man who hadn't got his wits and his legs united soon enough to play the hero to her heroine and end the graduation exercises with red and green fire nnd women fainting away all over the hall. -J oe Kerr in St. Louis Republic. 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