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Church, wearing overalls and jumper, more than 200 of his con gregation signed the “overalls pledge. At Medford, Rey. Rollin 8, Tuttle, clad in white denim overalls, preached his frat sermon as pastor of the HL! side Methodist Bpiscopal Church, and commenced organizing un Overalls and Old Clothes Club. pe at oe Migratory Bird Act Constitutional. ‘WAGHINGTON, April 19—Tho Mi- gratary Bird Act of 1918, designed to carry aut provisions of a treaty between this country and Great Britain for the protection of migratory binds, waa held constitutional to-day by the Supreme New England DIED. FARRELI—On April 18, WILLIAM M. PARRELL, at his ‘rosidence, Sound Resch, Conn., beloved husand of Pmma Farrell, father of Ralph @. War and brother of Jamon A. Farreit Bilzabeth A. Varrel). funeral service ce of horeal GRBADY,—Suddenly on April 17, EMMA M. GRADY (nee Tolan),,beloved widow vf the late Henry Grady. Funeral from her iate reaidenc Wom 111th st, on Tuesday, at 0.15} A. M.; thence to St. Colombe Church, | Wort where & solemn mass o! | requiem will be celebrated, Auto cortesy, HAVENS.—-MARY, Bervices Monday, 3.30 P. M BELL FUNURAL CHURCH, @6th et sau CAMP. roadway | PERSONALS. | bo a REFINED COUPLE wieh to adopt attrac: tive, healthy «irl, 1 to 3 y of age; Vent home and’ all advantages yt edu: Wri Mi parcieulare: all BRUM Ruaignt cyenen ee at 66" St. ="5 Qecastons. Artistic Funeral Designs our Speetaity. 23" Street at 8" Ave Mecca ddrew 1, 0. N., P.O, | in the attack on the trooy LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. wo ‘Overland fire ‘with part nek svg ‘aboard, OV: atm a, MORE RIOTING IN IRELAND. | Troops and Civilians in a Clash at Londonderry. DUBLIN, April 19.—A number of per- sons were wounded in renewed rioting between troops and civilians at London- derry last night, despatches here to-day| sald. The trouble started when Sinn Fetners clashed with Unionists. Troops were culled out and attempted a bayonet charge. They were stoned and fired on with revolvers. Both Irish factions appare ly joined Rioting continued throughout the elty and sur- rounding distric en $100,000 Alienath A jury before Justice Fawcett in the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-~ found a verdict in favor of hte defendant in sult or Mra. Ka No. nue U, _ Brook: ce EK. Rook. . Brooklyn, affections of John # bund. Mrs. Berke sue Rock is th a wealthy Tor $100,0 Witiam I pleture pro- Rock, ducer —_—— Killed in Auto Crash, HORNELL, N, ¥.. A 19,—George Postmaster at Arkport, was s2- injured and his wife was Killed stenlay when the automobile in which they Were riding was run down! by another car between thia city and} Dansville. Three men who were in the! x which struck the ‘Taylor machine are under arrest at Dansville BaP conse Lady Astor @ Soffrage Delegate. LONDON, April 19.—On the invite- tion of Premier Lioyd George, Lady Astor will attend the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress at Geneva in June as the oMeial represen- tative of the British Government if it ts possible for her to go at that time, ~~ jan Keds Claim G LONDON, April 19.—pard fighting in several sectors of the Polish front is re- ported by the Russtan Soviet Govern- ment in its communique issued at Mos- eo wo Sunday, An advance by the Reds in the Black Sea region alam is announced, oo Prices veallued om Swift & Cor anion ot cutoams beat ia Now York Cheesy | Wook ending Saturday, Aprit 17, on ship: Toots cold out, ranged tram 10,00 cont 24,00 conta per pound and ‘averagad APRIL 19 x 1620. BY HARO LT LL Ly TT TT THE LAST STRAW LD .TITUS Broke, disheartened, a New York society girl suddenly finds herself heiress to a vast Western cattle ranch. This thrilling story tells of the life she found there, and of how she won for- | tune, a home and happiness. Kar sh, ‘Copyright Small, Maynard ‘end Companr. 1920. CHAPTER 1. HE last patches of snow, even in the most secluded gulches, had been licked up by the mounting sun; the waters of Coyote Creek bad returned to the confines grass clumps, and cottonwood buds bench before the bunkhouse of the F In the pauses, such as the one rit of idling. y of a young man, who sa quently towards the road as though way to bring fresh interest; long in one pose, as men do who 8! for its own sake; Jimmy Oliver, be} whittier, stopped now and then en held his head at an angie, it Neda: ing; and although he worked ! ea triously at the belt it was evi (#4 that Tom Beck had thought for othe! affairs. ; “So she was his nephew an’ only heir,” commented ‘T'wo-Bits, re ‘i ely. Hepburn stirred and snortes y Siena Oliver, Igoked at the, Mera jed-blotche 2 ; Sreaker ‘and grinned, After a moment {a x eaid: know less than anybody I ever en- countered! 1 you I said to myself: “That man ain't real, He's no work of God A’mighty. Some of these hombres that draw cai'- toons for newspapers got him up. I thought you must have brains, seein’ you're so powerful low on looks. Yo 2 good cowhand and a first rate hor: handler, but won't you ever get an, thing in your head but those thingy Or-dig this cartoonist make a mistake an’ put your kidneys in your skull? “Nieco—NIECE! Not nephew!” “Have it your way.” ‘Two-Bits .aid in his high yoice, swallowing i immense Adam's apple shot up haif the extraordinary length of his jean throat toward his pointed chin, and slipped back again with a jerk. “I was halt right, wasn't 17 She's his oaly heix, aln't’she? You can't ask @ man to be more 'n half right, can you?” “If hig heir'd been « nephew in- stead of a niece, We wouldn't all be settin’ here so anxious about rival,” opined — Jimm “An wouldn't all be wonderin’ if we was goin’ to work for a squaw outfit, It’ de a relief when this Jady lands in our midst. Mebby there'll be less speculatin’ and more work done.” “You're right,” assented Dad, and “There's a th pulled at his mustache, lot_to do.” ‘Tom Beck began to whistle sofily and the older man glanced sideways at him uneasily; then fixed his eyes on the road. < “Pl bet tWo bits,” volunteered Two- Bits, “that she's as homely as Tom I of bumble bees.” ae dhe demonstrated interest in hig offer and, as (hough he had not even heard it, Bock said: “Seems to me there's been a lot ‘on lately, Dad. Ov did you mean there was a lot more to do’ “{ gon't remomber such awful a y.’ the other repiied. *’Cou “Nobody ever located those four mares an’ their colts, did they? And the last we heard about that bunch of white faces they was headed tae? ‘*Kepburn changed what started as impatient expostulation Sharp sigh and relieved himself by stabbing a spur into the hard ground. “yes, there has been stealin'," ho admitted. ‘There's been a lot of it. But who could do anything? Tho old man had been slack for years and in the last months before the end he just let go entire. Hé wouldn't even give anybody else authority enough to have any & ‘dn't even have a foreman. ‘That's why horses an’ cattle have been stole from him. “*Course, there's been more devi! to ay nince he fore, but wh in lawy Ly, won't even looks you goin’ to do é ‘His manner was as benevolent as was deliberate and he turned a ral emile on Beck, fe thievin’ go merrily on, T expect,” the other sald, giving the leather strips a series of sturdy jerks to tighten the mesh. “T expect you'd like to be foreman, wouldn't you, Dad?” Two-Bits asked innocently, | whereupon Hepburn certified the accuracy of that tal by moving uneasily, “Yc a fair foreman. . 4 f nands and th 2 on the jo! what it pa Now Tommy here,” he continued, oblivious of the older man's discomfiture and the delighted smiles. of the others, “would make a fine foreman if he'd only give a damn. But he don't . he don't. It's too bad, Tommy, you don’t settle down and amount to somethin’, You're the best hand in this country!" Beck lifted his face a loudly. “The smell of your bouquet ts about as delicate as your diplomacy, ‘Two- Bits!” he said Another pause. Beck resumed lis whistling and Hepburn devoted his nt- tention to the road. Once he Idoked at the other from the tail of his eye and a flicker of ill temper showed in his broad, grizsled fact “Her name's Jane, aln’t it?’ Two- Bits was an ardent converaationalist, “Jane Hunter! I knowed a school ymarm named Hunter onct. She was ‘worse n’ thunder for sourin’ milk, “Til bet’ —— “Listen!” Oliver held up his knife in gesture and Two-Bits stopped talking. The sounds of an approaching wagon were clearly audible. “VY bet it's the mall instead of’"— “You lose,” muttered Hepburn, get- tng to his foet aa a bucihoard swung around the bend. “An’ she sure's come to stay!" from Jimmy as ho closed his knife with an air of finality. nd sniffed 04 cents ver poUnd—AdvE ‘The body of the wagon was piled gestion of ‘green was making its appearance about the bases of another whittling and two more, hats over their eyes to shield them from ined in the desultory conversation from time to time, he Soniinas Neat ie now prevailing, was something besides ‘Dad Hepburn, gray of hair, eye and mustache, but with ‘Two-Bits Beal was uneasy snd did not remain When I first sct eyes op so his claims 1 am an’ about as pleasant as/ toward Utah with a shod horse tratl- | into a} | A DARING PIDER, GUIDING HER MOUNT WITH A PRACTISED HAND, JANE HUNTER, THE NEW | OWNER OF THE H-C RANCH, WON THE RESPECT AND ADMIRATION OF THE MOST DUBIOUS OF of the stream bed; in places a sug- were swelling, Four men satyon the 1. C. ranoh; one was braiding a belt, t nearest the doorway, glanced fre- expecting to see another come that it in the first high with trunks and bags, and be- side the driver sat a very smail wom- an. That she was not fond.of the West, not the sort of woman these men ‘had been accustomed to deal with. was evidenced from the clothes she wore, but at least one of them Temarked that she was not wholly An Exciting Western Romance of Adventure and Love turned on him her searching, straightforward glance his freekles became lost in a pink suffusion.. He swayed his body from the hips and jooked high over her head of- fered a limp hand. “I'm Mr. Beal,” he said weakly, “Don't you believe that!” laughed Hepbura, “That's Two-Bits. He ain't entitled to any frills,” “Two-Bits it is!" the girl cried, scanning his face in amazement at dts color and contour. couldn't call you mister, Two-Bits. We're going to be t00 good friends for all that!” “Oh my gosh!” giggied the fius- tered cowboy and turned away, seek- in refuge in the bunkhouse, “You talk about me bein’ got up by aw feller that draws pictures, Tom,” he said to Beck. “Holy Tin Can, you ought to see her! hy, this felier that paints them girls for these here. now, magazines painted her! She Jooks like sh@ walked right out of a picture, with blue eyes an’ yeller hair an’ all pink an’ white. An’ friendly. oe Oh my, I'll bet she makes this outfit take notice!” Old Carlotta, the ylang Mexi- can woman who had been house- keeper at the H C fop years had come from the house to greet her new mis- tress.~ ‘The trunks were carried in, th buckboard departed for its twenty- five mile trip back to town and the riders who Bad been at work further down the x straggied in to hear the first tales of their new boss. Conjecture was high as to her plan of procedure. “It won't take long for things to happen. You can bank on what I want I will be depen whomever is selected.” She had spoken rapidly, ot no loss for words, without a trace of hesita- tion or embarrassment, looking In tently from face to face, studying t men as she explained her plan, but sho paused her eyes were on Bock’ eyes and their gaze was arrested the & moment as though it had encoun- tered something not usual. “I'am going to need all your help and all the suggestions that you can give m with a slight gesture to im- clude the four, though she still lool straight at the tall Westerner—"but I feel that at first there must be a sys- tem of some sort, a man ut the head of the organization. I'm going to let you draw straws for the place.” aoe men stirred and looked at one anothe: That's fair onough,” said Dad, with just a trace of indecision in bis voice. “Yor us,” commented Curtis, a lean, leathery man. Jane stooped and picked up an oat straw. She broke off four pieces and placed them tightly between her thumb and palm. “Now, draw!" she directed, with a smile, holding them toward Curtis. he lucky straw will be the shortest. Surtis silently selected one of the bits, Then Jimmy Oliver drew and the two stood eyeing the lots they had picked. Hepburn had cleared his throat twice rather sharply when the drawing commenced and as he stepped forward at her gesture he manifested an eagerness which did not quite har- t upos Jimmy Oliver declared. without the qualities essential to the | THE COWBOYS. | frontier, for when the driver dropped down to open the gate he gave her the reins to the lathered, excited horses whic had brought ber from the railroad. As soon as the gute | swung open they sprang forward, but | she put her weight on the reins and spoke with confident authority and | wrenched them back. “Not exacily helpless, anyhow,” Tom Beck said to himse | “Lie was the only one of the group 1k across toward the \ cottonwoods which sheltered the long, |red ranch house beside the creek. He \sat there, braiding his belt, an inde- |finable hale smile on face, The girl—for girlish: was her outstanding quality—jumped out un- assisted, She looked about slowly, at who did not w the house first of all, then at the low |stable and the corrals and, lastly, {down the creek, on either side of }which the hills rose sharply, giving a false appearance of narrowness to the bottoms, and her eyes rested for a jong moment on the ridges far be- and sharp In the crystal She was unawaro that the driver was waiting for her to give further directions and that the three others }had ne close and stopped, waiting for her to notice them, for she said | aloud, though to herself: “Kor a beginning markable!” ‘Thon § shar ly, with a hard mirth quality, and turned about. She was genuinely surprised to confront the men; evi- dence of this was in her eyes, which were large and remarkably blue, She smiled brightly and said: | “on, 1 didn’t know I was overlook- ling any one! I suppose you men be- long here, on the ranch, and it’s likely youve been waiting ‘for the new dwner to come. Well, here am! I'm Jane Hunter and I want to know who you are, Now what is your name?” Her frankness, that unhesitating, assured manner of a distinct type of city-bred woman, was new, but it Over-rode somewhat the embarrass- ment they all feit ‘My name is Hepburn, Dad said and shook hand: “I hope you like this place this 1s e laug! D- ma'am," heavily, I know I shall, Mr, Hepburn. And| chosen on the job for any length of your name time, but I don’t care to take the re- | “Thats Jimmy Oliver, Miss Hun-| sponsibility of handling the men m: ter,” Hepburn sald, If, as my uncle and as Mr. Alwa ‘Two-Bits had watched this with’ have done, Some one must do this growing vopfusion and whq@ she and until 1 learn enough to know our kind of a woman, an’ the good notions she'll She's that Lord aloue knows wha have, but she'll get busy! kind.” He was not wrong, for just as the sun was drawing down into the hills Caviotta appeared at the bunkhouse. “Miss Hunter, she want to spik to Senor Dad an’ Beck an’ Jimmy an’ Curti she said. "Right awa: “quick-pronto.” rhis must be a gn th’ rest of us left oft,” Two-Bits said “I'd give a dollar to look at her agains. , clost up. I'll bet f wouldn't be afraid to look next time.” ‘The four men summoned went {m- mediately to the big house, Beck lagged a trifle and it was certain from his manner that his curiosity was not greatly excited, He appeared to be amused, for his black eyes twinkled gaily, but as they passed through the gate they set their gaze on the back of Hepburn’s broad neck and a curious speculation showed in them. Jane Hunter was waiting on the veranda which ran the length of the |ranch house and without formalities | began her explanation. You ail know the situation, T be- |lieve, My uncle left me this’ ranch |and I have come from New York to | take possession. How long I remain | depends on a number of things, but I find that for the present at least, 1 must conduct my own business, For the last four weeks, since the prop- erty came to me, it has been In the hands of Mr. Alward, the attorney in town, I arrived yesterday expecting to have his help, but his doctor has sent him into a lower altitude be- cause of some heart difficulty and I'm alone on the job with nothing to guide me but a lengthy ietter he wrote. “[ know little about business of | any sort, 1 know nothing at all about ranching, 80 I have a great deal to learn. I do know that the first thing I need is an actual head for this place and that is why I called you here: to select a ,”. ,@ foreman, you call him? “Mr, Alwara left word that any one of you four men would be com= petent and I'm Boing to chooge one of you by chance: Understand, this \is no guarantee to keep whoever is meetin’ with monize with his usual deliberation. He drew, eyed his straw and glinced (heroly at those held by the other 0. Beck had not moved forward with the others, but stood buck, thumbs hooked in his belt, his eyes, which were mildly smiling, still on the girl's face. She looked at him again and saw there something other than the interest that approached eagerness which had been evident in the others; she read another thing which caug) her attention; the man was laughing at her, she felt, laughing at her and at the entire performance, It seemed to him to be an absurdity and as she searched his expression again and perceived that this was no bucolie whim but the attitude of a man whose assurance was as stable as her own the smile which had been on her face faded a degree, “Now it {§ your turn... straw,” she said to him, “Thank you, ma'am.” he replied in an even, matter-of-fact voice, though hat annoying smile was still in his eyes, “but I guess you can count me out.” She lowered the hand which hold the straw. “You don’t care to draw?" “That's what I meant, ma'am.” “And why not?” She was piqued, without good reas son, at this. refusal. “In the first place, ma’am, I've never taken a chance in my life, if I knew it. I've tried to arrange so I wouldn't have to. I'm a poor gam- bler.’ A suggestion of a flush crept into the girl's cheeks, for, though his man- ner was all frankness, he gave the impression that this was not his rea- son, or, at least, not his best reason: he seemed, in a subtle manner, to be poking fun at her, “Besides,” he went on, “pickin’ at pieces of straw don't seem Hike a g00d way to pick men. the last ou understand why it is be! done that way?” Though her meant ner did not betray it, she felt as though she were on the defensive. “Yes, ma'am. T wasn't reflecting ‘on you especially. I was thinkin’ jabout your lawy But you won't be 8o very mad, if T ain't crazy to take chance, will you? _ If anybody wants to know whether ¥ can hold a ‘job or not, I'd sooner have ‘em as\,/ out me or try me; when it comy to drawing lots I'l have to be cour ed out.” (Another Fascinating Cha, 5 ‘Morrows, yer