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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