Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1903, Page 11

(Copyrin’ The lonz found the the face catching ing into the va » of & girl ¢ od white m ambled along at snall's pace in response to the cluck. cluck of the rider. “Turner's Bess” shaded ber | brows w her sunburned hands, while her blue eves ranged down the valley to whers the gray roof of the country store | gleamed white beneath the caks. On her arm hung a splint basket of eggs and the family meal sack was across the mule’'s withers Of the r men that the door of the “store” not one offersd her assistance as she slipped cautiousty to the ung the bridie over the hitching thrown were grouped et entered. The loafers droned om | they talked of the crops, of the new telephone line that was to lnk them visibly with the de world, of the last storm and e effact on the peach cTop. Ol Jim Wiliams nodded his head toward the open door, through which shrill sounds of bargaining in the high-keyed voice of the grocer's wife were issuing. broken by & softer voice, sweet with the hush of the | mountaine; “Gittin’ ter be & lkely gal; en they éo say as how 0id man Turner alr & makin' & sight of money outen that new camp of engineers,” and old Jimmie winked at his andience. The “tradin'“ had pro- gressed to a point of settiement, for “Tur- ners Bess” flashed out and back with the meal sack, and presently came dragging it out, assisted by Mother Meigs, who, with the assistance of 0id Jimmie, settied it across the patient mule, and Bess clutched s bundle of pink calico under one arm. The men watched the girl as she sprang on the white mule's back, and clucking to| “Nance” was soon lost among the poplar and oak of the mountain side across the Devil's Backbone, logrer untll | Faskins Ridge, where the outcrop of pink limestone reared its crest against the sky, and the masses of laurel and purple rdo- dodendron ricted against the rim of the world. Up and up, to a sheitered ravine, where the white mule smortsd and stood stffl, her forefect planted stifly and ears pointed forward, as a stalwart figure rose up in the path before them. lay hack lke a halo, and the roll of calico tumbied to the ground; then she found her tonguoe. o t yer doln.’ Jack Haskins, a fright- enin’ of my mule? Hain't you got muthin’ better ter do than a layin' in wait fer & ™ The young feliow made mo answer for a moment, only came a step or two Dearer, and, shifting his Winchester to the other haod, laid his right on the bridle of the now quiet mule-and the brown eyes met the biue. that faltered and fell “Bess Turner, Gawd kne's T hain't a Your pap'd shoot me ke ridge, but it's mor'n half your fault, for, Ress, from ther very day yer came ter thar schoolhouse over yander, with yer purty curls a tangiin’, yer blue eyes, en a knowin' no @iffuns atween me en ther other boys, en giv me them sweetening of yourn, till right mow, I hain't mever give up a wishin' that you wa'nt Silas Turper's gal or me Jack Haskins' boy. Thers hain't no mite of reason why we two can't be friends” She shook her Bead gently, and he went on. coming still closer. “Bess, there's sumthin’ mighty _ wrong about this heah business of your L @ap en mine goin’ roun’ fixed ter kil one mnother on sight when there hain't a | Gawd's thing atween ‘em but & measly shote what didn’t know the diffuns er one cawn flel' en anuther, en died forty years en more past. Fore Gawd, gal ther Bain't no sense 1o it, en Bess,” his voice @ropped to a lower note, been a day sence that ome, when we was Jeetle chape, en turned away from e en the apples 1 brung yer, en tole me ‘pap says he'll whale the Nfe outen me ef 1 so much's Jook at ye, that I hain't been a wantin' to be friends” He had rested his arm on the mule's shoulder and his face was very that the flash of color went up the sun- burned cheek to where the brow lay mar- ble white beneath its thateh of red curis as “Turner's Bess” shrank away, Htile, then, speech failing. the honest brown eyes flashed their story across the chasm of blood fend from Jack Haskine, son of the Old Jack of the Devil's Back- bone, to Bess Turmer, the daughter of his bitterest enemy The Jong shadows came marching up from the valley, changing the sunset glory to gray, the phip-poor-will Sicoded the silences with its pleading cry as the white mule turned down the slanting road that led to the Turner cabin The spring was deepening inte summer en Haskins Ridge. uneventful days that swung by on a goiden cabie, but “Turner's Bess” developed a new restiessness in the blue eyes that watched the crest of ridge—balf fear, half brooding joy. But only the mother noted and half divined the change that had come to the girk The, ruddy lght from the huge fireplace framed Mary Turner's gaunt figure against the dusk as she st n the doorway of the “there's mnever you r log cadin ve girl, who came slowly dow path. The sflence of the mo > the bone of thetr peor ing said & the girl took her place at the supper t Once or twice the mother =m-‘*-.uuu trouvies imed bum«--du-mun-w siness, Xuusea, Drowstness. after Puln 15 the Bide. de. ‘While their most #access 1us been shown in caring SICK Boadache s Carte oL itk Liver Piiware squnlly valuabie 13 Coustpasien, 100 aaneving sempleint: vhie Tocy oo carresd 1] @inorders of the stomech. simoimie the I and reguisie the bowela. Even if toey only EAD i Up and up, as the afterncon sun gleamed | fts strageling vanguard touched the tip of | shied, too. The pink | near the girl's, so near | just & | the | V ang Jack & making love t h otalk of the rew. | c when she tried t of Molly Jame- | anv terme people had been | £ wudly discussed. wh £ . a thetr scorn. fled midnight, and Kk tofled on with his - tad anred | P nevertheless, | a =k - n k below the d a t Dew was going up between . rop gathering and the - . | . s son re . the eky | meachin’ ¥ ™ as sing the whis Down ter th o A - pering pine a b told of a stalwart tradin’,” the woice Ve t | hike figure tha seed It in the sunset her keen, dark eyes dwelt anxiously on the the glow P whose red curls | face of the girl, who aveided her glance k girl, what wo fashing u K AR the wosds Stlas T pped 10 the rack above the | | w the ridge, wh full of whispering volces—it may be that @oor and lifted down his Winchester Tap d at work that very | the red squirrel chattered too loudly to the ping the lock significantly he said: “Bess 1t they were surprised eant | bluejay: but one even as “Turners | “HAINT YOU GOT NUTHIN" BETTER TO DO THAN ALAYIN' IN WAIT FUR A GAL™ there's talk on the mountain as how you|long months in the untold horror of a|Bess” came up the trail. and the Winches- | little | B8 been a sparkin' along with Haskins' | prison. Jack in prisom, or worse, dead in | ter lay on the ground while the red curls | Jack over yander on ther ridge. That ther)the struggle that was inevitable. were pillowed on the homespun jacket, two | | idge hain't so mighty wide, en ther smoke| “Jim, I'm gettin' sleepy.” No answer. | other figures stepped from the covert of from Haskins' cabin comes over when ther | “Jim, I say. Here, man, you m/stn't g¢ |laurels. Old man Turner and old man wind is a blowin' this er way, but hit's|to sleep like this," «3d he shook his partner | Haskins stood face to face, rifie in hand about a hundred miles for my gal ter travel | wi no gentie hand. The two arose and | and hetween them young Jack, with his | en right heah. en now, I'm sayin’ to vou, ef | | you strike that trafl heahs s that arm thrown around the waist of Bess tched themselves. “Guess we'd better | take a turn—" “Turner's pin |can travel faster than any gal aseekin’ a| “Yes, and rum up on some of them| No sound. save the lark that greeted the | man. en its hunted Haskins' blood fore you | ‘shiners’ acting picket. You're bright!” | sunset and the whirr of the falling leaves wus thought about. You got your warnin'.| But they moved away a little. Just then a| then old man Haskins spoke to old man | en you knows ther meanin’ of them graves, | rabbit scudded across the road and the two | Turner | en who made ‘em. en what we Turners owes | ter the Haskins, by the eternal Gawd, pursued the fleeting shadow, not more than | ten yards, but it gave Bess her chance, and Silas Turner, ¥ en debtors all their 'l see yer don’t forgit.™ | with & swift movement she roiled into the | their daddies over a measly thirty poun’ | The girl began to cry, softly at first, then | tangle of laurels and was 2d away as | shote; en vou en me has been a totin our broke into wild sobbing. Old Silas hesi- | the two men, attracted by the rustle, came | guns fer each other ever since we wuz knee tated, then put the rifie back on its rack, | back to the Jog. *The woods are alive with | high ter katydids, en nelther dasn't cimb slowly crossed the room and 1aid his hands | rabbits. There'll be fine hunting later | ther ridge ‘thout riskin’ a t at ther top on the red curls. “There. little gal. pap didn't | along | Ther's graves n yander by the old {mean to skeer vou. Gawd knows th Past jungles of the blackberry, between | cabin. graves of your people’s makin', en | thing hain't mome of my making. Thers |the network of grapevines, up sianting cliffs | over thar. where the cedars is the tallest, is d over the crest of the ridge Into an un- known world went “Turner's Bess.” her red curls zfloat in the moonlight. She had | folks of yourn what now there's no yo kin ung Haskins but him. there hain't no young Turners but her—en {hain't no man's blood on my hands yet my planted; en { but there's no telling how soon “twill be.” | he added gloomily. “Ole man Haskins' daddy | shot mine, en my Uncle Abe killed Jim | heard of Haskins cave—sll the other moun- | look at 'em.” He paused 2 long moment. | B " % Haskina, en then both familles shot on | tain children had been there. but she had | “Silas Turner, there's an end ter all things, | F"'fi‘“hD:_h!“wv!}f:_ power of the entire | o ! rd on ! never dared to cross this i Still, wher s B body iles’ Nervine will keep the ght fer a spell. Ther's a graveyard on | Dev . " 0. .. | saved my ole womani ,erves strong and bealthy or restore !Haskine' side of ther ridge en | knowiedge failed instinct guided, and she | on down at Loulsville 1| gy ".,,,.m',, weakened. Sold j‘herl one on mine, en ther good Glld"’ t uuhfillhlllhzx; d;:fl ‘l‘:fi ““;“‘:filh and he threw down the | antee. Write for free book on | only knows who'll be ther next.” He fell | carved in the o that to Haskine' | old fint stood. head bared and | diseases. > . | 1o brooding. with eves fixed on the flames, | house se gray roof she could see ders back. & fair target | TR ILES MEDICAL 0., Sikhart, 1ad and Bess mestied down, the red curls|“Sieam In the shifting light: then turmed | Crash' Silas Turner's rifie beside 1t | = against his knee. | sharpiy to the right, and lifting & Syinging | and the old men turned to the two who| ONEESS Less Tham AT Otheve. Over the ridge the full moon swung wp | CUrta vines sped up the face of the | waited there In the gathering shadows, and | DR the sky above a world of silent sound, | C!!ff along & path that only the blind could | the horny hands met for the first time in . | of wild fragrance that poursd from secret | bave trodden fearlessly. Far beneath the|two long lives as old Silas laid the other | MCGREW | nocks in the cliffe and the ripple of springs | blue river ran. and she heard the birds| hand on the red curls: “Bess, my gal, you | that sprang from their base 1o trickle away | UtLering thelr night calls in the tree 10ps | wus ther first ter cross the ridge, en 1 PECIALIST 10 the river far down in the valles. Toe | below as the stooped bene Aifl:b:_u;x ot | reckon you'l have ter stay there e gl Peter bird sent a sleepy call to waken the cave mouth. All long Ui the owl, who bugied the night alarm 1o | Winding labyrinth and the girl felt her wav. | T0 SUPPRESS THE CHARWARII DISEASES OF the frogs in the stfil pond s svedt’ of | DOP nds touching the stone walls or MEN ONLY er side; then a sudden turn and the red in the the rifge. Sllent, yot swake g, :ru 00k Shom. & ppdion e Courts Bravely Coming to the Ald of lest of a senges. the mountains brooded eh o . - » re. around above their children. Little white clouds | ¥hich were gathered two men N e - Satly. Srenienss @rifted’ over the face of the moon, oman. Back in the shadows stood & mas Fool-Killer. ws that quivered through giades of lau 5 s cpoiliyre o ol of wow] | | and rhododendron. peopled with the white | Whisky filled the cave. The woman screamed | The fooi-ki has been so thoroughly trunks of Gesd peplars sud & ghiver with ing Jack sprang for his rifie. | o\ erwor. e L a rustle of falling leaves that the early - A e saw.who it was | ing that anable, apparently frost had doomed Lyt 'h-"“" her red curls tossed | to pay any attention to his legitimate r brave blue eyes seeing nmone but | time “Turner's Bess crept along in the shadow | | e e "; “"‘J:m; \”m who swarm cha of the fence, with swift bare feet that| . . " Fol - ™ through he and e wh siimnd. B the S of &ing the Revnoos. They're coming’ ut| have been compelled to step in and where the old white en ita mest that now: but I jest | to the aid of the agent who has in the sumset glow. Thers was & re | < - pvertaxed s efforts to relieve the r th e b A Ol 1 ” at @ doubt of the force that was drawing her | 5 oo e T ot ¢ f’};:”‘i:“;' world of re rms of idiocy. Sev-| on. old Silas had settied thst She had o 5 v . | eral prom society men Denver ey - A i P g "' spoke t hiséwife crept forward and ! pave bes for damages for tilat e v " | peered into 1 i " o ¥ * {Mke a wall on the crest of the ridge, but | o . x"f < " : . \:‘n be ':u |ing & hands decorated Pullman r | she could see yet the grim face bent OVEr | prer - Tan g o~ B adgbld 1 a gent | the rifie—see. too. ax she had once. whea | LV % Turnd's Naimie My Gamd mi-2n | digtie method a weddis |a utrie chid, sbuddered away fr ] G s i r"r::“"fl S pwE o8 Guir. b roey bleeding body of young Hank Riddle. Jack | | b B, 3 M v | Duluth sowste iths have Haskine, hor mon. his face white 1n the | ooy s “arrr oy ok She inarhetively [ been amrested for induiging the rice { suniight. and the pleading eves B | g > o8 as = “‘ ek o | throwing ¥ and causing & runaway | forever. Bome instinct. like that of a hurt | BT™® Droke the silence. “Ther's Do timwe | whi considerable damage to - b ter 1 o Vg a4 b . {ontmat; Mot Griven her theeugh the nignt | U5, 100 1t yer v .::m.. , 204 | prope very nearly caused the dea | e this one spet o bwesd over the future | T eint et cemivd amelstion Goom. who were "ihe i loom r ith trouble 3 e t good-natur as TNt loamal dorty GRS bl | woman Twenty minutes S & oo A pew sound in the wh of “the - s g gt ve partici ood: . crON inte - ~ . - ot party—th call 1t a ened—voices and the stealthy tres o gl - ‘X ke .} - o two men Her ear told her the Aed neighborhood an ne Dear winging ar R e ‘ The oid people had crossed the threshoM | American vice consul. and the sultan is | “M‘:“' f»r m‘,_‘ ;‘* o e €7 | when Bess pped and laid her band on | now trying, as a result of the episode, to “ o i o Sl %'s arm. “Here's where I gotlsguare himself with the officer of an :"""‘h"’ "’l’ ""’;"‘_" GRA rafielt e ‘l turn back Pap would Kill me ef he | American hattieship a&h::l beneht. ot gleng "vw—fl' -’lu.a d whar 1 be tonight D Taaa Satbanai St L il 5 8 ‘”‘m h“"" "“l ':w . Py e |, Untll then young Jack had not questioned | connection witk of theas Sessemetrs- 55 Mo wiiame g ik e + b her. but be suddenly realized that the girl | tions by rough-and-ready humorists comes turned. but mot four feet from her. Then | - P b Jeet from her. Ther|nad ventured into forbidden territory. had | from Utica, N. Y. where a bride. who re- ol ":“: to talk :'“ far trom | risked life iteelf to save him He thought | sented the insult of a charivar! party. has oy :'- um'.x' 'h." l“‘"‘" the "“.' of the prison walls. with never & waft of | been held to the grand jury on & charge of ‘:_”"(' ot et 1t vas aat s fow un, | laurel. the light of the stars on the Irvine | ssssult. The accused woman and her o said it was just & few hun- | pijie or & sight of Bess. He thought of his | bushend nad returned from their honey- | dred yards below the ridge on the Haskins oM father and mother, who must have suf- | moon 1o be welcomed, after they had re- side Y ‘!-n—l too;: and then—as the moon went be- | tired. by & gang which procesded to make “Are you sure of your guide™ asked one. [hind a cldud—iu Meu of the unready | might hideous by the toot of the harn. the Damned sure,” laughed (he other | words he gathered the lithe figure against | groan of the horse fddie. the héating of “There's nothin’ in this world as depend- able for dirty work as a jealous woman It seems that this Mollle—Millie. whatever ber same W-bas besn e’ round and bis breast. smothering his kisses inte the | tin pans. and by alleged funny songs Just red curie. sought and found with his own | when this bhrand of slleged mirth was at the quivering lips of “Turser's Bess ™ s heigbt the tride opened & window and Thers was & resticss Ume o8 the moud- | dcluged the crdwd with & generous appli- | never be baldness, and to P cation of bolling water heen nd with courage sufficien re- | sent the time-honored style of funmaking The charivari party was broken up an next day the bride was arrested on a barge of asssult. The charge was pre- | ferred by & young man in the party who | was = diy scalded that he will be marked for it unfortunate for him, of - t intelligent persons | everywhers will ha be, restrained from | | regotcing that an indecent and outrageous | violation of personal privacy and a shame- | ass assault upon the sanctity of the home | has once signally rebuked. 1 highly improbable that the w n ques tion will be convicted of the her. While the resul unfortunate, the spirit that prompted commendable ©f encouragement and emuk brides and grooms —Was harge made were cer tatnly her to resent the insult is and worthy tion by oth ton Post RING WORM AND DANDRUFF. They Are Each Caused by a Pestifer- ous Germ. Ring worm and dandruff are somewhat ar in their origin. each is caused by a The germ that causes dandr the root of the hair and saps its | using falling hair and, fin Without dandruff there wo ‘e dandruff it is necessary to kill the germ. 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Fifty fellow-workmen, shocked and hor- rified, who saw him topple from the Wil- liamsburg bridge the other day declare that he must have a “charmed life” He s 30 years old, of medium stature, welghs 140 pounds and is well bulit, but there is Dothing about him to indicate that he is a man of more than ordinary powers of en- | @urance. Sizer has bean an fronworker all his life and has received all his falls within the last two years. 1 leaned over the edge of the span.” he sald, “to get at my coat. I had been riveting very fast and I became suddenly dizzy. Feeling myself reel asd going, I reached for the keg'in which my coat lay to save myself. It was like a dying man's grab. The keg was loose and it toppled with me. Instantly the thought of drop- | ping straight mnto the water struck me, and I reached for the girder to straighten myself. The ends of my fingers touched | it, and it was enough to allow me to make my body rigid. “No thought of Geath entered my mind. 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