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FATAL WATER-HOLE To Track and Kill the Hunted One Must Have Great Endurance. By L. K. OEVENDORP. Just at dawn Cherokee rubbed -the circulation back Into his leathery face, shivered a bit, and looked down across the rock-strewn dtp. Out , across the wavy haze purple and undulating that hung over the sand covered earth like the enshrouding gauze of a dancer, he knew the water hole lay. For days he had kept to the painted, tower-like buttes. Scanning every nook and cranny among the rocks, silent; and stalking the sun-peopled crevices; creeping up to the overhang ing boulders and peering down below to the thin yellow ribbon of a trail that seemed to squirm In and out among the dull heaps of drift. He had watched, as a mother watches for the fever to turn In the first-born, for the thin blue spiral of amoke climbing skyward, to mark the location of Mitchell's camp-fire, lit had watched and looked at shadows that melted Into nothing until bis eyes seemed dry. When he winked the lids appeared to be coated with sandpaper, that scratched and burned hlB eyeballs like the back-fire from a loose breech-block. But Mitchell was "covering" well; there was no smoke no telltale. Still, he knew that somewhere In this great cradle of rocks, snugly tucked In, lay his game knew, too, that sooner or later Mitchell muBt make for the water-hole. Today was the day be had figured that he would "break cover." Several times he had foun- the un mistakable signs of another'! pres ence. Cleverly concealed, in fact hid den entirely to a less skillful observer than he, but nevertheless "signs." Once be had found the burnt I ticks and ashes of his Are found them be cause the sand by which they were -covered was of a lighter hue than that next to the little circle under which they lay. The fire hrd burnt out the color. Then,, farther on and In line with the water-hole, his pony had pulled off some of the leaves of a scrub-oak plain, and speaking to Cherokee like' the pages of a book plain because of the Inherited Intui tion from a Cherokee mother, and they all told him that he was coming cp with the game. All he wanted was a glimpse of him; Just a sight at him along the blue octagon barrel. He "hobbled" the pony and left her In a sand-pocket. Down across the slope he crawled and out Into the gray sand; Into the opalescent half-light; out to the fringe -around the water-hole to lie perhaps for hours In the suffocating sun rack. I lie cautiously looked over the tumbling sand rim of the little crater, 'hut no living thing was within Its 'basin. He quickly slipped down the aide. Flat upon his stomach be lay and drank. When be bad finished he filled his canteen and climbed back to the rim. Here he dug a trench In the aand and mounded It up In front of ' him, leaving a low place through lch be poked the muzzle of his - gun. ( Now, It was to watt V Hack of him lay the desert, out of which, burning Its way through the amethyst hate, came the sun, and he shrank farther Into the sand-pit as he thought of what he was to suffer. In front lay the Jumble of rocks and scrub from which he had come and from which Mitchell was to fol- ttow. Unless, oerhaot. he had mlscal culated or that It was not Mitchell In "The Chimneys," and he had been following a lonely prospector dodging the Apsches or maybe he wouldn't take the chance of stopping at the springs before he crossed Into Mexico. This did not seem possible, for It was over forty miles to the Southern Pa' clflc and the next water, and no town nearer than Columbus on this side of the line. He'd stop; of course he'd stop; "as sure as hell lacks water, he'd stop,1 he muttered. For the first two hours he wstched the shore-timbered pile before him; aaw tbe sun chase out the luring ananes from each pocket; felt Its Ira partial rnys burn Into his back, and lieat almost to lntoleratlon the sand about him. He drew from his vest pocket piece of folded paper and read the lines printed thereon, and then care fully refolded It and put It back a paper worn from many readings, soft ana damp from his body. From under the brim of his hat he could look sway straight into the cloudless spnee. A buzzard was Idly describing a clr rte. Ho watched It .as long as Its psth was In front of him. Me count ed from when It left his sight, In Its tlrelcM swing, until It came around Into range again. He fell to wonder ing If It was the same one or If there were two, for the count did not tally eacn lime. fie felt an almost uncontrollable de sire to turn over and look, but h knew that a moving objoct could be seen too far In that atmosphere, an he had waited too long now to spoil It all. As be lay there he planned how he would pull on Mitchell ss be rode down Into the water nolo. He wouldn't Ira blm a chance to draw a frac tion of a second late with Mitchell meant that one would never have ' nance to pull then, with the sua In ht9 eyes as he knew It would be, foi he had figured where the man would corns In he would get him. He had planned to shoot the Instant the ponj started to drink, and Mitchell wouk be climbing off, facing him, with hli head and shoulders above the pony'i back and both hands In sight, one on the pommel, the other on the pony'i neck he could picture them. If there was any such thing as pity In Cherokee's nature, it was going oul to Mitchell now. Again he tried the hammer. It came back soft and easy noiseless as he pressed the trigger; the sprlns was strong and stiff; the oil oozed out on his thumb, and once more hi lined up the little white bead 'v 1th thi tiny crotch back by his eye. He read the paper again and mut tered lowly to himself, then looked uj at the sun-glints on the wings of the big bird as It came round In Its sweep. He wished he had two canteens ol water and wondered If the pony wai down and If that rusty w-gou-tlre would ring with a bullet hitting It. 01 If It would sound dead how long had the bones of the horse been there If his head would stop aching! Suddenly there came upon him the half-conscious sensation that be bad been asleep. He stared down into the water-hole. There beside a pony, still In tbe act of drinking, stood Mitchell. . Cherokee rubbed hlB eyes: yes. there he stood. It seemed but a mo ment ago that he bad looked ovei toward "The Chimneys." and between them and the water-hole there wai nothing but a stretch of radiating sand. But here before him, supreme ly unconscious of the presence of anything but himself, stood "Quick" Mitchell. Mitchell had come across to the bole while he slept like a herder. Ignoring completely the plan be had formed the plan that bad con templated the deliberate shooting ol the game through the notch In the sand-pile, he rose to one knee, fairly staggering. With one foot slipping across the rim of the water-hole and the other pressing tightly against the sand behind htm, he slowly covered the pocket In the flannel shirt His eye twitched, he trembled; hii vest was bunched under the butt ol tbe gun and he could not hold It tight to his shoulder. His right hand wai asleep and felt full of cactus spines He was going to pull when he felt sure whon the pocket and the two sights along the hot blue barrel came In line. Somehow they wouldn't; hli thumb was trembling upon the stock, the muzzle was wobbling, and be couldn't steady down. He cursed himself that he should have fallen asleep, for bis nerve was bad, and he knew If he missed that he'd never have a chance to pull again. The foot hanging over the edge was slipping; a pebble loosened and rolled down tbe slope. The man below turned slightly and looked up from the bottom of tbe hole In thi sand. Throw up your hands, or 111 bore ye!" yelled Cherokee as he nit him self unable to pull, with the chance of missing, and hoping for a steady ing down of his nerve when he ssw Mitchell's hands In the air. The man was talking not respond Ing to bis command standing mo tlonless. He heard him say something that sounded like. You don't expect that gun's going off with your Test caught unler thi hammer, do you Cherokee unconsciously lowered thi forward sight a trifle, and for an In stant dropped his eyes to the breech then In Just that Instant, from thi almost Indistinct aro of blue as thi man whipped down, there came sputter of flame once, twice, three times, and Cherokee crumpled up like a piece of burning hide and slid down the sandy slope. Mitchell climbed up tbe little Inter venlng distance and turned blm ovei upon bis back. From out of his vest pocket a pspej slipped and fluttered, half-open. Pick ing It up, be squatted down upon hli heels and read: FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS RE WARD - Will be paid for the body of "Quick Mltcnall, or THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS For Information that will had to hli capture. (Signed) JAMES CRE8SON, Sheriff ot Orant Co., N. M. Poor old Cherokee," be whispered as he tucked the upper corners of the bill under the dead man's suspenderi and the lower edge beneath his belt And I staked blm to his lsst outfit too. He shouldn't have come alona But five thousand was big to Chero kee. The pony came up and sniffed, thai rubbed her nose against his sleeve. When he bad ridden to the edge ot the rocks he turned and looked back High In the air a buzzard was keep Ing to Its trackles: path around the waterhole. (Copyright.) Confidential Communication. "Who painted that wonderful oil picture T" asked the visitor. "Let me tell you a secret," replied Mr. Cumrox. "If 1 bad spent my life learning to pronounce the names ol all these great artists I'd never havi made money enough to buy their pic tures." A Perfect Bear. Emma My husband Is the most la consistent man. Muriel What has be done, now? Emma He said be was too poor t buy nsw drswtng room furniture, yei be gave thousands of dollars for a sea) on the stock exchange. CURE FOR FUNGUS POISONING . ... Antitoxin Enabei Eplcura to Devour Toadstools Without Fesr of Any Injurious Results. It may be comforting to the epi cure who trembles every time he calls for mushrooms lest the cook has In advertently slipped In a poUonous fun gus or so, to know that an antitoxin can be made from the most poisonous varieties ot mushrooms which If In jected In case ot fungus poisoning 1b Just as effective as the common anti toxins for diphtheria and rabies. ' In addition to this, If the mushroom eat er Is in sufficient fear of poisoning and Is so fond of mushrooms It would be possible after a series of frequent injections of the poison covering a pe riod of several months to Inoculate him so that he could wander out Into the fields and devour toadstools raw without worse effects than a possible Indigestion. The French scientists Radlas and Sartorv were the men who made this consoling dUcovery, and the plants from which they made their virus were the frightfully poisonous aman ita phanoldes and the amanlta mappa. The original experiments were made upon rabbits and were highly suc cessful. ROTECTS MARKSMAN'S HEAD 8harpshooter Need Not Now Be Com pelled to Expose Himself When 8hootlny From Trench, Much of the modern warfare Is con ducted from trenches thrown up by the soldiers, from behind which sharp shooters keep up a fire back and forth. By watching closely, tbe Bource of tbe shooting may be clOBely located, and then as the bead of the marks man rises over the embankment It Is necessary for him to expose himself. It Is only for a second, but It Is long enough for the enemy's sharpshooters to pick him off. There has been re cently Invented a weapon which makes this exposure unnecessary. Tbe gun Is rather heavier than the average. Shooting From 8helter. having a hollow tube adapted to be re movably mounted upon and to extend longitudinally of the barrel and hav ing front and rear sights so arranged with respect to tbe hollow tube as to be In alignment with the opening through a tube and visible to one sighting through the tube. Removable plugs are supplied with the weapon for closing the forward end ot the tube and barrel, all so constructed as to enable the barrel and tube to be repeatedly forced Into or through an embankment or earthworks In such a manner as to form a tunnel or aper ture In the earth adapted to enable tbe firearm to be aimed or sighted and discharged while In the tunnel or opening tbus formed and to prevent the earth from falling In upon the bar rel and obscuring the sights, where by the person using the firearm Is en abled to be shielded and protected by the embankment through which tbe barrel and tube are tbus Inserted. A ton of soot results from tbe burn ing ot 100 tons of coal - Lightning clouds are seldom more than 700 yards from the earth. Nearly four hundred women applied for patents in England last year. Instruments with which he cures 'black eyes In 20 minutes have been Invented by a Kansas City doctor, Folding rods, carrying wheels at their lower ends, have been patented to help bear tbe burden ot band baggage. For window cleaners there bas been Invented an adjustable wire seat which can be suspended outside a window from the sill. From tbs seeds of the castor oil, plant a German chemist bas extracted what Is said to be tbe moat powerful poison known. A sanitary drinking tube has beeu Invented for use with any kind of container, so compact It can be car rled In a vest pocket An American naval officer Is the Inventor of a writing tablet every other sheet of which Is so cut and gummed that It can be folded and pasted to form an envelope. MEASURING A LAMP'S LIGHT Portable Device, Invented by Phlladol- phian for Determining Its Candle Power. A simple and efficient device for da. terralnlng the candle power of a light in a lamp post or other support ot a like character has been racnntlv in vented by a Philadelphlan. It la a portable device and Is meant partic ularly for tbe convenience of rag companies and gas experts or munici pal oinclals who might have occasion to test tbe character of lights. It Find Light's Efficiency. consists principally of a photometer box on a staff with certain standards marked along Its length. Tbe box Is supplied with a standard electric lamp lakiug its current from a battery car ried In the pocket of the operator. The photometer box is supplied with mir rors reflecting the light of the lamp In such a manner that Its Intensity may be readily compared with that of the standard lamp. In use the operator may held one end of the staff with one hand and place the other end against the lan tern or globe of the street light. With his free hand the operator presses the handle elements together, thus es tablishing the circuit and releasing the clutch element, lighting the stand ard light and freeing tbe photometer box on the staff. The operator may then ascertain the candle power by comparison In the ordinary way and having done this, the operator re leases the handle elements, thus breaking the circuit of the lamp and locking the photometer box on the staff. Tbe operator at bis convenience can then read the scale In respect to the pointer and so ascertain the can dle power. SMELL CAUSE OF INVENTION Odor In 8ulphurlo Acid Waste Led to Production of Professor Bell's Photophone. Alexander Graham Bell, the great Inventor, In the National Geographic magazine, tells bow his photophone was Invented primarily because of a smell. The explanation Is as follows: First a chemist detected In sul phuric acid waste an odor which on analysis was found to come from a hitherto unknown substance. This was called sllenlum. Second, sllenlum crystallized was found to be a conductor of electricity of phenomenally high resistance. Third, tbe new resistant having been put to use In place of who'j colls of wire to balance the Atlantic cable during tbe period of laying, was found to have at night twice Its resisting power during the daytime. Fourth, Professor Bell, playing upon sllenlum'i sensitiveness to light pro luced the photophone, by means of which one may talk over beam ot light TELEPHONING IS MADE EASY Englishman Patents Device, Shaped Like a Trumpet to Increase Bound From Receiver. To do away with holding the' tele phone receiver during a long conver sation or while waiting for some one to be called to the telephone, H. W Prance, London, England, has pat euted a trumpet shaped device for magnifying the sound from the recelv- Uoes Awsy With Holding Telephone Receiver. er so that It may be heard throughout a medium sized room, says Popular Electricity. The trumpet has a platform at one end to support the receiver, the open Ing In tbe receiver being over the oponlng at tbs small end ot the tram- pet when the device Is In uie. i LAMP CAUSES EYE DISEASE Safety Device Seriously Impairs Sight of Underground Workers, Es pecially Coal Miners. While progress In science has en abled Industrial concerns to greatly Increase their output and bas made the life ot the worker much easier, at the eame time It exacts Its penalties and it has recently been discovered that the Bafety lamp used by the mod ern miner has greatly Increased the prevalence of an eye trouble which se riously impairs the sight ot the under ground worker, especially coal miners. . This trouble baa been known for some time and la believed to be caused by the great eye strain to which the men are subjected when working in tbe dim light of the safety lamp. In mines where an open-flame light or candle can be used, the disease Is rarely found. In Great Britain records show that some 1,618 miners were found to be suffering from the disease during one year, and the loss In money Is estimated at more than ' $15,000, represented by the compensation paid these men under the law. This, of course, does not take Into account the reduced earning capacity of the men during the progress of the disease to that point of acuteness which made them eligible to compensation under the law. This la one of tbe occupa tional diseases to which much study Is now being given, though no real remedy has yet been found. SCREW MADE TO HOLD FAST Supplied With Slot Along Length With Edges Which Prevent Its Easy Withdrawal. Carpenters and woodworkers will be Interested In a screw of new design which has been recently patented for the purpose of preventing the screw from working loose after It has been once driven into place. In tbe manu facture of much medium-grade furni ture screws are made use of, although they are tabooed In the first-class pro ductions. In furniture the screws are bound to work loose after the piece has been In use a little while, and If not given attention It Is not long be fore tbe furniture will fall apart ln- A Hold-Fast Screw.. deed, In such a piece constant atten tion is required to keep them to gether and fit for the service for which they were designed. The new screw has a slot along Its length with edges so shaped that they offer no resistance to tbe passage of the screw as It en ters, but a series of little heels or projections stand In the way of Its withdrawal. Matches can be made waterproof by dtpplng In hot melted pasaffln. Chinese exports of firecrackers to tbe United States are yearly diminish ing. It Is only necessary to boll a cork for five minutes to make It fit any bottle. see A chimney 115 feet high will sway, without danger, as much as 10 Inches, In a strong wind. Next to tbe United States, Ger many and France are tbe largest pro ducers of Iron ore In the world. The United States has more than G. 000,000 factory employes, and 1,600. 000 railroad employes. That It Is very cool and light Is the claim for a new perforated metal band for the Interior of stiff bats. - An excellent waterproof brown pa per Is being made In Englnnd of which 10 per cent of the material Is peat Portable power plants up to B0 home power that use crude oil for fuel are coming Into common use In France. e Cork slabs, compressed from a thickness of 14 Inches to half an Inch, are being tried out for flooring In rail road cars. e An Illinois man has patented clamps to hold paint brushes on the ends of poles at any angle to save painters the need of ladders. see Russian railroads protect ties and telegraph poles against decay by soak ing them for several months before use In strong brine. PUTTING UP PEPPERS 8EVERAL METHODS, AND ALL OP. THEM MAY BE TRUSTED. Otama Is One of the Best of the Prep-' arstlons That Can Ba Msde From the Vegetable Stuffed Green .Chllles. (By LIDA AMES WILLIS.) ' We do not give this as the original and authentic peck of pickled peppers picked by Peter Piper, though It was given us by an o'ld gardener's wife. whose English forbears emigrated to Virginia with the very first F. F. V.'s. V.'s: Remove the seeds from large green peppers, slice and lay them In a stone Jar, alternating each layer of peppers with a layer of sliced cabbage; cover with salt and let stand over night. In the morning drain off the water. Take enough vinegar to cover the pep pers, an ounce each of black and white mustard seed, juniper berries, whole cloves and whole allspice, half an ounce celery seed, a large white onion, chopped fine, and a head of garlic, it the flavor Is liked. Let the mixture boll up, then pom over the peppers. Pack tightly In a jar, cover with horse radish leaves and close up tightly. A little shredded fresh horseradish placed on top will take the place ot the leaves. Otama. Slice a sweet green pepper with seeds removed, add - an equal quantity of Spanish oulon and green tomato. Put some fresh dripping or sweet beef suet in a stewpan, adding a little hot water. Then put In tbe vegetables, cover closely and stew gently for an hour. Stir often enough to prevent burning and serve very hot Stuffed Green Chllies. Remove stems and seeds from six green chllles. Boll two pounds of meat until tender and chop fine. Add a large ripe to mato, two small onions, one cupful boiled rice, chopped fine, add olives. raisins, a tabltspoonful of vinegar, one one of sugar and salt and pepper to taste. Fry the mixture in butter un til all flavors are well blended, then stuff the peppers. Dip them In but ter and fry in lard. Deviled Peppers. Use green bell peppers. Cut oft the stem eud and remove the Inside. Chop cooked cold ham, or tongue, veal or chicken. For a pint of meat use the yolk of a bard boiled egg rubbed smooth In a scant tablespoonful softened butter; half a tablesponful made mustard, half a tea spoonful sugar, and add enough vine gar to tbln sufficiently to moisten the meat to a paste. Fill the DeDDer shells, rounding up welL Serve as a luncheon dish. Oakland Stuffed Peppers. Cut th tops from six bell peppers, scoop out the seeds. Chop an extra seeded pep per nne ana mix with a small onion chopped fine,. a cupful of chopped to mato pulp, two tablespoanfula ot but ter or salad oil, teaspoonful of salt and equal measure of bread crumbs. Stuff tbe peppers, replace the stem ends. and bake tbem for bait an hour. Bast two or three times with butter or salad oil, and serve as a hot vegeta ble. Cheap Fish Dinner. Get three or four der pieces of halibut; wash good and pui on to boil with a little salt When done take from water and lt pick over and remove all bones snd sain, put some back In water In which it has been boiled: add nntin. Ions, pork or butter and milk, and you nave a nice cnowder. Now take re mainder of fish, break it In small pieces and spread on lettuce leaves; PUt two bunches Ot rurllulio. It,...h food-chopper, mix the radishes with usn ana pour over all some mayon naise dressing- and salt nri and you have a dandy lobster salad mm you can nardly tell from the real lobster. Now. for friiut ,.-. cod or haddock, cut In pieces, dip in mm ana pour some catsup over It; fry In hot fat and vou h--- m.j uw - - I'ltU IUW- star. Serve these together and you resuiar Dsn dinner. i , 1 I Peach Foam. This Is a simple and easily made dessert: One cupful and a half ot canned peach, without tbe Juice, cut very fine or strained; three tablespoon fuls of powdered sugar, whites of three eggs. Add the well beaten whites to the fruit and sugar and beat until ' thick, smooth and velvety, then put In a mold previously wet with cold wa ter. Any other fruit would vary the recipe and be good and Jelly may ba used If you do not have peaches. Serve with whipped cream. Braided Necktie Rug. A beautiful braided rug can be made of discarded neckties, put two bright ties and a dark one together and so on. if you have a small square of any bright green or red carpet a foot square put Into center and sew braids around. Can make It Just as large as you wish. Very pretty m Tront of a dresser In bedroom. Cleaning a Hairbrush. The best way to clean a hairbrush without softening Its bristles Is to dls solve a large lump of ammonia In luke warm water and wash the bristles, rinsing quickly. If these Instructions are followed, the result will bo satis factory. Beef Ragout. Cut cold roast beef Into thin slices put them In a hot spider with a little butter, cook for a moment, then place the meat on a hot dish and pour over tbem a tomato sauce.