was found by the fountain in the
tu tn tneir laces as w e a ffa s were the Bible has found its way mto
way to Shur. See Genesis 1G:
boseued and muscles grew taut with every nation and language of
fee
suspense
of
the
moment.
above the carcel walla, carrying with
'arth, over 2tMlidifferent trans- II, 12.
"What the devil Is it?" wonderingly
"Behold thou a rt with child,
it a s! wer of so- baked, blood-stained
A ti 1 n d e p e n d e o t N e w s p a p e r
ations of it having been made,
earth ilngled -• o i l fra- Jents of flesh. (emanded Billy Scott.
and shalt bear a son and shall
"Po you hear It. too?" There wai- l be fact that thia book has sur-
Rjmvly the whlttsh-b!utf wreaths set
call his name lshmael. And he
PLBLISHKD EVERY THURSDAY tled down or drifted away. Soldiers | note of relief In Buck Williams' w ^ t a m i : , 7 " u c h " u n X l l S ' ^ ' 1
a wild man; h ‘8
were strewn over the ground—some mice. “Scotty. I thought for a min
b " L h and
J s„aU ba “^
«
7
^
bW
hideously mangled corpses, others tte I had the rams again—and It;
CHAS. BALLARD, E d ito r
(even years since I touched a drink
writhing in agony.
s a t least circumstantial evidence' every man s hand against hi
Hardlnge, miraculously uninjured, That's the same tune 1 heard the nighi
hat the gieat Being whom it and he shall dwell m the pres-
E n te re d as »ecoutl-ciaaa m atter Oclout-r peered with amazed and horror-filled 1 got hack to El Tigre, when I dreamed
Washington wa- loading his army of
I, 1912. a t th e post office «at lla tse y , O re- eyes for some sight of the Hindu.
daim
> as it: author has also b een , eonee of all his brethren.
ghosts against P aeJ^ o's peon- Then
JnllsiDgrao Jltendra had vanished.
jou. u n d e r the Act ot March J, 1879.
Hagar bore a son, and called
Thunderstruck for an instant, the 1 woke up to find that lousy thief had
Iw'aM
to
notice
some
of
the
Ms
name lshmael. A s a boy he
me
hamstrung
for
fair!''
quick-witted kuave at the next bolted
iM -iotr.l to the u ia te ru l u p b u ild in g of for the Jatl gate. He had not reached
“It's a flute or a fife of some sort.” internal evidences of the reliabil- j was wild and untamable. Mar y
H alsey a n d su rro u n d in g country and the opening, however, when a frightful averred Friday Thornton, "playing
■tv of the sacred writings. I will a trying hour was spent by
uiun co u n ty g e n e r a lly . S ubscription yell of terror rose outside in the ‘Yankee Doodle,' I guess.
"Glt out. Friday,” scoffed Tommy , c fe • to u t a few of the proph- j Isaac, the heiraceonling topiom -
rate »1.50 per year in advance.
streets of Zapatllllo.
"Los Americanos! El Tigre I El Wlokwire. “That ain't 'Yankee Poo
ise, on aceount of the tricks and
dle' any more than it'« ‘I.oad, Kindly eiies.
S (J White Leghorn Baby T igre!"
insults and injuries inflicted up
One
of
them
was
uttered
by
Light.’
If
thal
ain't
'Everybody’s
Do
Behind the roar of other rifles rang
Chicks.
out a heurty < heer. Herbert Hardlnge, Ing It,’ Pm a greaser royoelf.'*
Noah. A fter the flood Noah on him by lshmael, the son of
"It can't ho any of Moreno's outfit,”
We ar prepared to hatjh about scurrying across the road for pro
plante 1 a vineyard and at one the bond woman. His hand was
with Moreno's bodyguard, thoughtfully remarked Scott. "Hi;'
20,000 ehicks for the season and tection
shotgun artists never play nothin’ but time drank of the wine until he against every man and every
sprawled suddenly and lay still.
are booking orders from the old
A hatless giant, with yellow hair fontan and guitars.'’
became drunk.
Ham, Noah s man’s hand was against him.
“Here goes, hoys!” shouted Wil
reliable O A C strain at $18 and and Implacable blue eyes, upon hla
Go with me a few years and
son. acted in a disrespectful man
$20 per hundred. Order early if ferocious face a satyr’s smile of utter liams, gnlloplng his horse down the ner at that time and when Noah find Joseph the petted son of his
contempt for danger, was riding at hill toward the building. The other
you want to be sure of a date.
He dreamed th a t the
the head of the cyclonic knot of men. followed unhesitatingly. The piping was sober he pronounced a cutse father.
I have a few cockerels of the
His smoking rifle told the story of notes grew more clearly audible as upon him, and a blessing upon twelve brethren were binding
Ihey swept up the road to Buck’s resi
same strain . t $2 and $2.50 each. the Englishman's passing.
the other two. It came in the sheaves and tbe sheaves of the
Shrieking Mexicans scattered for dence.
Rosedale Poultry harm , J C safety
in every direction before that , The owner of El Tigre wan first out nature of a prophecy. You will other eleven bowed down to his
Harri on, Prop, K 2, Shedd,.Ore. whirlwind, tigerish assault—fleeing as of the saddle. He strode iuto the find it recorded in Gen 9: 25-27 sheaf. His brothers were jeal
thc-lr forefathers had fled three gen tiulldlug. with rifle ready, Scott, Thorn-
ous of him on account of his fa
erations before when confronted by Ion and Wlokwire jn t behind. The as follows: “ Cursed be Canaan
a servant of servants shall he be th er’s partiality and his dream
luartette burst Into tbe dining room.
fighting men of Anglo-Saxon blood.
■Seated cross legged on the floor was into his brethren.
With a venomous look of semisatis-
Blessed be aroused their anger and they in
f act Ion, Buck Williams spurred his an emacloted. brown-hued little man.
he Lord God of Shem; and Ca terpreted the dream to mean
foaming horse over Hardinge's corpse, «iked to the loins, save for an Im
rscu
late
turban
which
encircled
his
naan
shall be his servant; God th at the eleven brethren were to
straight Into the Jail yard.
He sharply reined in the animal, as fe-ad. From a small, reedlike pipe shall enlarge Japheth and he bow down to him.
his Inquisitorial eyes fell upon Jiten- mine the music which they luid heard
1 *
hall dwell in the tents of Shem,
Joseph dreamed again th at tbe
ad upon which he was still perform-
ilrn's turban. He lenped to the ground
and
Canaan shall be his servant. ’, sun, moon, and eleven stars
g
vigorously,
but
with
the
greatest
and picked up the discarded head
composure.
Canaan was the son of Ham. bowed down to him, and the
dress.
To bo enntir ijo
“Too late!” he groaned. “I was
But his descendants are spoken brothers declared th a t neither
sure that volley I heard was his finish.
By FRANK BLIGHTON
Great God! what hellish luck—five Thc
Inspiration of the Bible of in the prophecy. Taking up they nor the father nor mother
minutes more and I should have saved
these predictions one by one we should ever bow down to him.
A sermon by Chas Ballard.
himI”
c in see the complete fulfillment The time came when Joseph was
C o p y rig h t.
With a perplexed glance at the dead
All Scripture given by inspira
8YNOPSI8.
and dying soldiers clustered in or tion of God is profitable for doc of each of them. The Canaan- absolutely in their power and
CH ATTER I.—W hile his train ts held around the huge hole freshly gnashed
ite ; were made slaves of by the
on a siding Turn D a v e n p o rt, engineer or
for reproof, for correc descendants of Shem when the they determined to kill him, but
In the earth, he remounted and rode trine,
th e P acific L im ite d , becomes In tere s te d In
the fu r tiv e m ovem ents of a sm a ll b ro w n
tion, instruction in righteousness Jews took possession of the land before they did so there can e
dejectedly through the gate.
m nn e v id e n tly a fo re ig n er, ar<1 in vest*-
al mg a band of people who of
A tnan hurried up to him.
gates
W h a t he discovers sends him
that the man of God may be per
ba. k to Ids t ap In a h u rr y
Buchanan
of Canaan. Later on when Af fered to buy Joseph, and the
“Did you find him. Buck?”
W illia m s , m in in g m an . hoards th e t r a in
feet,
thoroughly
furnished
onto
“He's gone, Scotty. But he evident
and m akes the acq u a in ta n c e o f th e
rica had been peopled by the brothers sold him and he was ta
s tra n g er.
J a lls in g ra o
J ,te n “ £a ’ .,
ly had company, for hell must have all good works. 2 Tim 3: 1G, 17.
proves to he un E a s t In d ia n . T h e lim ite d
progeny
of Ham it became the ken away to Egypt.
broken loose in that Jail yard—every
Is wrecked.
It is not my purpose to claim
country from whence peoples of
body’s
dead
in
there
I”
C H A P T E R I I . - W i l l i a m s , tho ugh pain-
Do you remember what kind
every
“Gosh—that’s tough ! But why didn't that God has dictated
fu lly burned, eaves J lte n d ra , w ho had
all nations pro'll red their slaves
been pinned under th e w reck. T h e H in d u
of people it was th at bought J o
word if the B ble to the writers,
you
bring
him
along
with
you
last
vow s e te rn a l g ra titu d e
W illia m s
re
either by direct purchase or by
night. Buck? The boys was on the as an author of today would dic
ceives a message te llin g hlin M exican
seph? Gypsies, says one, but
re v o lu tio n is ts
have
eetsed
his
m ine,
way five minutes after we got the tate to his amanuensis, hut I d< theft and kidnaping. Africa has they were not. Notice careful
k n o w n as " E l T ig re ." anu k ille d or driv e n
news down In Culiacan yesterday aft
-*»
S m arlcans.
always been the dark continent
ernoon, and all Mexico couldn't have claim that “ Holy men of God md its people have suffered ly: they were Ishmaelites, their
C H APTER III —On his way to m . ..........
taken either you or him away from spake as they were moved by tie
hand against Joseph and they
alone W illia m s d iscover! th a t J lte n d ra Is
nany a heart ache and hack
fo llo w in g him . and he orders him to tu rn
us.”
Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1: 21.)
took him to Egypt and for a pal
h;n k
T h e H ind u a p p a re n tly acquiesces,
“1 don't know, Scotty. I was crazy.
iche too as a resuTl of the curse
but when W illia m s reaches the m ins h''
It
was
God’s
purpose
to
give
try twenty pieces of silver they
finds J lte n d ra there.
I suppose. All W hought of was my
oronounced upon Canaan by the
sol 1 one of God’s noblemen into
self—and getting hack here to clean to man a revelation of his will,
CHAPTER
IV . T h e
H in d u
declares
F a te has hound him and W illia m s to
up that dog Hardlnge. I remember and he selected the men to writ« patriarch Noah.
slavery for life, so far as they
get her. and asserts m ysteriou sly th a t the
Jltendra'» saying something about for him as he saw fit, and h<
'ods V is h n u and B lva a re w ith him
W il
The prophecy a ’so stated that were concerned.
iam s. som ew hat touched, a llo w s M m to
beating It quick, and that his gods opened their understanding -<
stay
W h ile In a slee0 o f exh austion W i l
God should dwell in the tents of
would keep an eye out for him. that they might say the righ
liam s Is m ade prisoner bv a M exican
More than that; The Arabs
f«»rce headed by M anuel Pacheco, his fo r
-'hem. This was literally ful-
Scotty, 1 can’t ever forgive myself—he
are
the descendants of lshmael
m er m ins forem an
W ith J lte n d ra . also
thing
at
the
right
time,
in
ihe
was a good scout."
iileJ when the tabernacle was
u prisoner, the p a r ty sets out fo r Zaps
tlllo
On the w ay Pacheco b r u ta lly s trike s
and they have always te e n a
“He sure rnusta been. B u ck !” con right way. and at the right plan .
erected in the wilderness and Je
W illia m s and alm ost Im m e d ia te ly fa lls
soled the superintendent. "But I Sometimes his purpose was re
wild untamable race. They live
fro m his horss dead, a p p a re n tly w ith o u t
ll ovah adopted it as his earthly
cause.
wouldn't—”
vealed
bv
dreams,
sometimes
by
“Look what he did for me," Inter
li ?adquarters.
It was typically by rapine and plunder, they
C H A P T E R V - A r r i v i n g at Z a p a tlim W i l
rupted Williams. "He followed me al visions, sometimes by direct com fulfilled when the promised Mes pitch their tents where they
liam « and J lte n d ra nre pla< ed In a filth y
cell
W illia m s is visited by H e rb e rt H a r -
most five hundred miles after I threat muni ation with Jehovah him
please without any respect for
dltige. rep re s e n ta tiv e o f a riv a l m in in g
siah thru a long genealogy of the
ened to shoot him If I saw him again :
com pany. H e offers W illia m s his lib e rty
private property, and the owners
self.
Sometimes
his
servant;
I f he w ill abandon E l T ig re a nd agree
lie gave Pacheco the 'Broadway Rouse’
Jews made his appoarance in
♦ j leave »he c o u n try .
W illia m s In d lg -
may help themselves if they can.
In some fashion I have never been able have been placed in | eculiar cir Palestine.
uaxiUv rsruo*%.
to
figure
out,
the
very
minute
that
cumstances
th
at
they
might
CHAPTER
V I -B o th
m en e re con
They have never been conquer
Jap h eth ’s pithw ay was also
ilrty greaser struck me across the
dem ned to be shot n e x t m o rn in g
F*
know of a surety the thing,
ed.
Babylon was supposed to
hausted by rage st his Im potence. W i l
face;
and
last
night
he
grew
this
gun
liam s sleeps and Is aw-akened bv J lte n
At other narked ou, for him. “ God shall have conquered the world, but
right up In the middle of that cell in whereof they wrote.
d ra pushing in to his hands a loaded rifle
Did he ever
and u rg in g him to escape
A fte r hla de
there and then opened the door for me times the writers have writ ■nlarge Ja p h eth .”
the Arabs never did bow the
p a rtu re J lte n d ra
converses
w ith
the
—all because I dragged him from un ten words, the meaning of which Jo it? The descendants of Chem
g u ard whose rifle he had given W illia m s
knee
to any of the Babylonian
der
that
wrecked
car.
And
then
I
laid
have never been given much to
C H A P T E R VII H a rd ln g e Is d u m fo u n d
rulers.
The Medes and Persians
ed w hen In form ed hv M»>reno o f W i l lown on him like a yellow pup. 1 they themselves ha 1 absolutely
raveling or spreading out over
lia m s ’ escape, and visits the ja il to m ake
ain’t
a
roan,
Scotty—I'm
a
pop-eyed
no
conception.
In
fact,
there
conquered
Babylon and inciden
sure th a t J lte n d ra Is exei ited
The la t
goose-brained blob! I might have fig are instances when the writers- •arth. They would have been
te r Is led out and In fo rm e d th a t he has
tally
the
rest
of the world except
been pardoned and Is free, the M exican «
ured they'd hand It to him pronto with
In ten d in g to shoot him as he leaves the
have asked for more information ontented with enough territory the Arabs, and they still roamed
me gone!”
prison
J lte n d ra
know s o f th e
pi«»
or their needs there in western
throu gh th e soldier he had In tim id a te d ,
"Aw I don’t take It so much to heart, and have been told that it was
and has a rra n g e d to th w a rt 1t
A p p a r
\sia,
but not sn with Japheth. the plains and did as they would.
ent! v overjoyed, he tu rn s to leave ’ he
¡tuck. A man can't think o f everyt not for them to understand in
Alexander the Great with his
prison, at the m om ent of his d e p a rt,ire
hing when he's making s gltaway. Be-
beglng a c ig a re tte fro m the officer In
t' eir day, but that it would be ’ushing eastward they peopled brazen coated Greeks swept the
i ha, go o f the firin g p a rty
H e lig h ts It
ddes, It ain't all your fault. If he
ksiv, and westward they filled
and drop« the m atch on a tr a il o f pow der
•ould glt you out, why couldn't he git understood later, in “ due tim e.”
world in one great besom of de
leadin g to a q u a n tity concealed In pro«-
ltnlt> Io the soldiers and st a distance
>ut himself? What was there to hinder
God proposed to give to man Jump”, and southward they en- struction, and it is said of him
from J lte n d ra
Moat o ' th e f.rP s p a rty ,
dm from followin' you?”
wt»*» K .io in g e . a rs kidou by the explo
kind his Written word and he ha. .■ oached upon the land pre-empt- that he wept because there were
sion
Jlraedew d ia s n o ** —
“I don't know, Scotty. But I do
given it. Anti he has given it it ;1 by Ham 's descendants, and no more worlds to conquer, but
tie oowea nm trunks and ten IQ .now that he thought of me first—
still not having room they cross
hat's what galls me—and I never such a way that the brainies'
walked firmly toward the (rate. A fsw
he never subdued the Arabs.
hought of him till I was half-wny to men the world has ever produc- • 'd'.he ocean and have filled the
feet further on ho stooped to Ignite
Tho Romans, who claimed to
'ullacan
and
run
Into
you
hoys.”
wo
western
continents.
Did
the match on the end of the old drain
have not been able to refute it
“Well, beefing won't help us any.
where It projected above the ground
be mistresss of the world for
Joah
look
forward
to
the
time
by th>
f the little fellow's dead he ain't got and, though backed
Crunching low. he sheltered the Annie
many hundreds of years, could
lothtng more to worry about. He's wealth and power of the worl I. vhen these great facts should
with his cupped lianda.
letter olT'n we arc, I guess, for Mo- and men who had the will to cl«' i • accomplished and imagine the never control the descendants of
The hinting remnant he dropped
lshmael. They arc wild men of
Into the hole. He rose, fsclu c the Im
eno'll glt his men together and start it, they have never been able to vhole thing or was he inspired
ps i lent soldiers, puffing vigorously,
the
woods, their hands against
>f
God?
We.
living
at
this
end
.oinethlug
If
w
e
don't
beat
It
for
Kl
obliterate it. Men have endeav
then turned and walked a step or two
every
man and every m an’s hand
line
ami
looking
back
over
further In the direction of the en I’lgre before they rally."
ored by every means jxissible to
trance. atlll aome distance away, which
against
them, and they are tab
banish it from the face of th» he centuries that have followed,
.»>
CHAPTER VIII.
It was never Intended he should reach
ernacling
in the m idst of their
earth; they hid it, and buried mJ -e.'ing the exact fulfillment
alive.
Swami
Ram
Bid«
Adieu,
brethren
for
ever, living monu
This time Hardlnge knew there
it, and made it a crime punisha if his prophecy will have to con-
"Listen I”
would he no delny In the death deal ng
ments
of
the
prophecy of the
•de that God has spoken thru
Ruck W illiam! held up a warning ble by death to have p< ss< ssiori
volley.
angel
who
spake
these words to
'••■ah
when
Noah
uttered
these
of it, and the most bitter and re
A sound, curiously resembling a »and.
The
two
score
American
riders
trilli
the
mother
of
an
unborn nation.
vords,
and
Moses
must
have
hiss, swept along beneath the surface
lentlcss persecutions have been
of the ground, almost at the English ng behind him halted In the cover of
—
n
inspired
also,
for
he
wrote
Now
I
will
call
attention to
waged against those who had
man's feet. It was not unlike the sub the thick trees Just above El Tigre
only
one
mo
e
prophecy,
al-
mine.
Sonic
wer«
aching
with
wounds,
faith in it, but still the bom-
dued “sw Ish” of a rocket as it hurtles
next prophecy that I will though if I had the time and
through the air, or the whisper of a other» reeling In their saddles with lives. Today while many of it
fatigue. Rut at the signal everything
serpent beneath a tuft of grasa.
otice will be the one given by space I could recall a hundred,
was forgotten except the possibility of foes slumlier in death, and hut
The corpora, had no time to recover
another brush with Moreno's men
ie angel to Hagar, when, tired and then 1 will view the subject
dreds
of
volumes
w
ritten
to
di.
from his surprise. Beneath his feet
Indomitable, resolute expressions re- credit it, and overthrow its in
d foot.-ore, fleeing from the from another view point,
the earth suddenly upheaved. followed
»laced tbe line» which pain bad pntot-
T he Halsey Enterprise
ci the nriag squad.
X great cloud of smoke leaped high
Swami
Ram’s
Reincarnation
f
hr a roar Uat mingled with iha vollar
fluence are long since forgotten,
rath of Sarah her mistress, she
To be continued next v