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GREENCASTLE f INDIANA. TUESDAY, .IAN, 14, 1008.

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E. B. LYNCH ✓ House Furnisher and Funeral Director GREENCASTLE, 1ND.

THE EOS 60K0E8 How Both Sides of the Line Are Watched and Guarded.

UNCLE SANTS' BRAVE RIDERS.

12 and 14 North Jackson St.

(Telephones 89 and 108

WILLIAMS (& DUNCAN Sanitary Plumbing Hot Water, Steam and Gas fittino. Electric Wlrino and Fixtures ALL WORK GUARANTEED

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A FEAT IN PHOTOGRAPHY.

; The Work That Is Performed by These Well Mounted, Well Armed and Courageous Patrols—The Mexican Rurales and Their Methods. If business or recreation should take ! you down to that loug line which forms the boundary between the United States | and Mexico, you may by ehnnei>weet u well mounted rider, armed with rifle land pistols, pacing observantly along [ some bypath or canyon. He is one of the United States boundary riders appointed by the treasury department to I patrol the border on the lookout for j smugglers, cattle runners and other persons whose presence on the American side is generally undesirable. For tliis position the man selected i must possess courage, judgment and no little physical endurance, for his j duties may call him forth at all hours | and seasons, and he may be responsible for a stretch of border laud many

miles in length.

For example, between San 1'iego, on the Facille coast of California, aud i Yuma, in Arizona, (In re is but one j boundary rider to patrol a line of over | 150 miles, and lids is In part over a sparsely settled mouulaiuous region and partly through the waste of the

Colorado desert.

As opposite him, on the oilier side of

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AVe are located on Ben Lucans old lumber yard grounds where we will

handle all kinds of COAL. (Near Vandalia Station)

We are ready to make you pri^bs on

Daring Descent to Get a View of an

Osprey's Nest.

Now commenced my work, and I do- the Hue, the Mexican g<c. ,\-:ii. ‘til mainscended on my rope to terrace after tains from fifteen to twciit.s rurales terrace, forcing my way through thick for the same work, it i a c .1 iilusrows of prickly pear, a most painful tratiou of tin trust icp tl in a -ingle operation. And now we found that American citizen by hi:. ' eminent,

there was nobody below to signal us

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where the nest lay. The inevitable re-1 suit was that after descending more than 100 feet 1 had to signal to be hauled up again, always through the

-r,, . . , . . T cm i prickly pear. Again did 1 descend, .Block, Anthracite, JNut, black und Hga ui did i fail to find the nest.

On the third occasion I reached ft-re-cess in the great cliff, whence, after unbending my rope and securing it to a bush for obvious reasons, 1 made a j cast along a ledge to the south and [ reached a point which I identified as | being not far from the nest as seen , from below. So 1 retraced itfy steps I and, regaining my rope, was hauled j up for a third time. During this op-j «yrution 1 passed a ledge where a pere- j grine falcon was nesting. The old j female swept close around with shrill cries and eventually alighted on the : sandy shelf of rock within a few feet of me and. with outspread wings and every feather standing on end, lowered her head aud screamed furiously/! I have no doubt I was close to her young, hut 1 had more serious work in

hand, and so I left her alone. I now made my fourth and last

descent and found myself immediately over the nest, but before 1 could go j down to it tlie party handling the rope had to work their way down toward me, since the rope was too short. Finally 1 reached the nest, an enormous mass of big sticks-measuring more than five feet across and doubtless the result of many years’ work. In It were ] two eggs much incubated. By stundiilg on a lodge close to the nest and pressing the camera between my body j and the face of the cliff 1 was able to I take some long time exposures with ! fairly good results, it was near sun- |

OSCAR WILLIAMS, Manager F.B. HILLIS F. SHOPTAUGH

IXTERUKBAN TIME TABLE.

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RUPERT

BARTLEY, Agent.

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Tim. Card In effect July ii 19n«

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J. A.

MtOHAEK Agent

It Is probable there is uo other muu iu the United States whom it would be harder to find at a given moment than the boundary in. r of the San

Diego-Yuma district.

He may Vie down on the Colorado desert, watching near nine water holes for a venturesome hart ! of cattle runners,or in some c:r.i\ n of the mountains on tlie lookout I'o:' a v ...in load of prohibited iimnl.rant Chinamen; hut, wherever lie is, one m y be fairly sure it is not whoiv tlie tran giv- nr of the customs laws expect bin* to be. That lie must posse both judgment and courage the folhoving incident, which took place during the career of the former boundary lidor in llii- district, will aptly illustrate: For some time a band of cattle runners bad been working ■. -cos fully back and forth over the line hi spite of the boundary rider’s vigil.•nee. They seemed to be able to divine his movements, so that while ho w as watching a trail through the mountains they were rushing a bun h of cattle over

the desert.

But at last tie managed to surprise the band and. rifle In band, drove two of them into Cnmpn. Then, however, arose tho qncstiou us to tlie method of taking t'lom down to tlie const. lie hired a d ' Mo seated vehicle,* the only one in the place. But at ouco another quo th n presented Itself. How was lie to scat bis prisoners, for either U’'\v must be placed together on the front or the back seat or separated, both seemingly a hazardous choice? He linnl!" decided to separate them, and so, with one on the front scat with him and the other behind, he started

ON ffv COASTER SPECIAL. ■By T AV LOB WHITE. Copyright, 1907. by N. E. Daley “Do you think King can keep this pace all the way to town?" asked Joyce anxiously, Dick Torrington’s chin squared itself as he looked at the sturdy black flying over the hard packed snow. “If King doesn't keep going,” he said, with an uneasy laugh, “you’H keep on being Joyce Waring and not Joyce Torrington. I’ve timed it so as to just pmke tfle train, if we miss that, your father will be after us iu no time at all.” Joyce shivered at the suggestion For years site had lived in dread of the stern old man who since his wife's death bad looked on life with hatred. When Joyce had come, her gentle mother had slowly faded away, and Hiram Waring, blaming tlie innocent child for the death of the woman ho loved so passionately, had never shown her the affection that was her hbritu jr. As a child her innocent transgressions were punished with an unjust severity, and when Dick Torrington had asked her father for her hand ho had licet) driven from 'the house for tto other apparent reason than Mr. Waring’s hatred of Joyce. The father would not give his consent to u marriage because It would make her happy. and thereafter he watched her more closely than ever. But Dick Torrington was not "f the sort to take Ids unjust dismissal without an effort to win the woman he loved, aud tlie elopement was tlie re-

sult.

Bosh* was tlie terminal station of a branch line on which the single train made two trips dally each way. Hank t : ,vw took a pride in the punctuality with which the road was run, and it was certain that the morning train would leave exactly at half past it. By plnnniy. tho elopement so as to reach tho station just as tlie train started, Di.k was assured that there could lie no successful pursuit. King could cover the ground faster than \\ ring's double team, even should the latter be already hitebod The start of the elopement had been successfully accomplished, and now King was flying over the road toward

sef, ami tlie cliff was in deep shadow, ( for the coast.

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which did not facilitate my task, lie- j tween the simly nature of the cliff, the slipi>ery terraces covered witli loose soil and stones and tlie detestable ; prickly pears I never bad a more un- I pleasant or arduous task on a cliff lie- j fore. But I have lived to endure worse experiences, although not so painfully protracted as were these. „ My very curt entry in my diary sum-1 marizes the whole jnh thus: “Bad shale j cliffs, vertical and dangerous. Height I over sea. 1G0 feet. Top o'f cliff, 310 feet. The worst bit of rope work I

ever did."

AVitlt regard to the prickly pears. It was many months before the last of the poisonous spines I had collected in

The two cattle runners managed td communicate with each other by sigus and at a rough part of tin* road made the boundary rider, in turn, their prisoner. Needless to say. they then made tlie best of their opportunity to escape over tlie bor.’.c.', but a they fell into tho hands of t unsympathetic rurales they would liav > been better ofT If they had submitted to Ibo law of

tbrlr own country.

This brings one of the somewhat different methods pns ued by the Mexican govern men t iu guarding their side of tlie border. From a cursory inspection of tho line one might suppose that the Mexican side Is n r gnanh 1 al all. You may cross the line ten times at

various parts of my body consented to ; different places and m- t eyes on

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“When attacked by a cough or a cold, or when your throat Is sore, it Is rank foolishness to take any other medicine than Dr. King’s New Discovery,” says C. 0. Eldridge, of Empire, G«a. “I have used New Dlrcovery seven years aud I know it is the best remedy on earth for • j coughs and coids, croup, and all • throat and lung troubles. My chlld- ! ren are subject to croup, but New ■ | Discovery quickly cures every at- ■ tack.” Known the world over as the . King of throat and lung remedies. Sold under guarantee at The Owl I Drug Store. 50c and $1.00. Trial I bottle free. Jn

the town, while Hiram Waring* still puttered about tlie burn iu blissful ignorance. Presently, however, he would come'into the house, and then perhaps he would realize what was up. Meanwhile they would have made the train, and presently they would be across the state line, where licenses were not necessary. The laws of their own state required residence before a license could be issued, and us town clerk Joyce’s father was charged with

tlie issuance of licenses.

All would have gone well if a small j boy had not thrown a snowball at I Dick. The well packed hall of snow

a rurale, but it is well known that you have done so nevertheless, and on the eleventh excursion you are likely to j

find yourself surrounded by a pictur- nilss< ( , the driver, but struck King a

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esque group, who will carry you off to jail if your explanation L not satis-

factory.

As a rule, the •rurales patrol hack and forth in detachments at a distance of from ten to fifteen miles from the actual border. Many a headlong dash for tlie Auierh au si le lias liecu made by perfectly law abiding citizens, with the rurales at their he* Is. because they have been heedless in obtaining a permission to cross the border. True, au American citlzou may crofM the border at will, ns far as lie himself is concerned, but as Im is almost certain to carry some article ifable to duty it is upon that charge that he may be arrested.—Michael Whit^ in Youth’s Companion.

Rural Claims. Through tin* inline ;' ■ of the dally press cities a: ! their need- have come to absorb such an amount of dntlj’ attention that the importance of the country and its Inhabitants to the welfare of the nation is Inr ly overlooked; hence the call to do everything that can be done to enlarge, to refine, to purify and to strengthen the life of our country people. And one means to this end which hr. i not hitherto been used as much ; it mi lit have been Is tlie cultivation in the school and In the homo of the habit of reading good books. Bishop of Hereford in Nineteenth Century.

smart blow in the ribs. The high spirited horse was unused to such treatment and bolted down the road with Dick frantically sawing at the reins. “It is all right!” he shouted. “It will help us make time. U will lie easy if 1 can stop him before we reach the

Hill.”

Joyce's face blanched. The Hill (always spelled with a capital) was a steep descent of nearly a mile, with one ugly turn. If King should bolt down the hill, there was little chance that Dick would be able to guide him around the curve, and they would be thrown down the side. “You will stop him before then,” she said confidently. But the corners of her mouth were drawn and tier lips were white. She knew King and realized how little chance there was even while she sought to comfort Dick with her confidence. It was a little more than a mile to the top of the Hill, and Dick fought the horse every Inch of the way. He had called to Joyce to kneel iu the bottom of tlie cutter, and just as they reached the descent he pulled King's head to one side and guided the crazed animal into a tree. Dick shot over the side of the cutter as they struck, but he was on his feet In an instant to hold the horse. There was no need for that. King lay still on the sparkling snow with his head twisted oddly to one side, and for a

moment Dick gazed sadly u| n ibs voritv. Joyie. he had seen, was unharmed. Her position and the tin U n > had saved her from worm. 1 than a shaking up, and she had regained the seat. “Poor old King”’ >he cried as she saw with relief that Diek was unhurt. “I cob id kill that “Ne\er min I tlie Edwards boy." said Dick brusquely. .“What we have to think about Is the train We never can walk that hill in time to make the train. Have you nerve enough to ca-1 it in tlie cutter?" “I’d risk anything rather than return home," cried Joyce. “I never will let father catch us.” "Then here g<a*s." cried Dick guyly as lie pulled the cutter I :e k into tlie road and caught up < c of the broken shafts. "It’s been a long time since 1 went bobbing, hut 1 think 1 can make

It.”

\ He gave Joyce the shaft to hold and pushed the cutter over (lie brow of tho hill, climbing in over tlie back when he bad It started. Once back In tlie cutter lie took the shaft and Improvised a steering rudder. The body work a horded him leverage, amt I dek laughed as tlie sleigh liegan to gain speed. For the first half tulle the road was straight, aud little si,m ring was i i-cs sary. Then ahead loomed the turn, and Dick’s face turned grave as he dug tlie shaft into the road. Slowly tlie slei ii responded to tlie pressure, and in another i, lant tiioy liad swung around tlie verve as neatly ns a champion coasti r o ■ his iow pointer, aud tlie.’. v.ere ig. in on the straight am! head, d lor the station Hank Carew had jm-i I naked UD engine down from the house, and a white plume of steam rose* froi'i tlie dome as the engineer vnlied for tin* mini * hand of the clock lo touch the bottom of tile dial. The runaways were still a quarter of n mile from the station when the eu:ter slowed up. but they hail gained more than a minute in tlndr wift de scent, and they did not have to run. As they came up to the union pint form tin' little knots of loang . ill; cred about them. Rapidly Dick e. plained the reason for the coast, ar 1 the listeners cheered as they heard the tale. For years tie had grumbled at tin* way War! g tivited Joyce, rnd they were glad that at la -I she was to bo released from her father's h ml reign. “Here comes your dad now!" nip .1 a shrill voice. And with aio r ord they turned to sec the lam' iar Waring team tearing over tk. brow of the

hill.

Carew glanced fit the steam gangand the clock. Then lie leaned out of the window. “All aboard that's going!” lie called in a stentorian voice »“We're changing tlie schedule today. The bd'.O is ; lug out at !>:28!” Another instant and the train was rattling down tho road toward tlie state line, and IHnim Waring came dashing up to Hie platform to be greet ed by ironical eiiecrs. “The train went ahead of time!" lie sputtered. "I shall report this to tin.* officials!" “You’re wrong, squire,” d .nvied Ned Burns, who p el as a wag. “Thut ain’t the regular train. That's the Coaster special. Makes ch so connection with tho Cutter express, from up your way.” The laugh which folio ed showed Waring that the sympaihy was all with the runaways, lie was to be a candidate for county treasurer iu the fall. It would not do t > turn his townspeople ig.insl him. As he head ed the horses for hmiio ho half turned In his seat. “When that Coaster special completes the naiad trip.” lie shouted out, “you might tell Dick Torrington to come out to my place. 1 ain't going to kill the fatted calf, but there's a turkey I was saving up for Christmas l guess tliut'il do as well.” The ftomane and the Sea. Virgil I understood to have lived long on tlie hay of Naples, and he dwells repeatedly with unsurpassed cf feet on the littoral phases of the sea, lint on the element at large he expresses little but a sense if vu- ■ness, power, malevolence. It is a toilsome and perilous expanse, to be hurried across and escaped. Across the land tlie Romans went with indomitable confidence, marking their way with those works of peculiar permanence, so that t id ay the Briton traverses Hie original roads they built, and tlie Gaul walks beneath their arches. But -even in imperial times the voyage from Rrundisiuin to < Reece was something of a hardship. The oceon was a thing “bt irew’d with wreck and disaster." in lis depths or on Its shores lay the bones of those who never received burial and hence could not pass over the Styx. When Tiberius built a yacht it* floated it on the quiet lake N'einl au I very likely kept it anchored like a palatial houseboat. The sea lacked th ’ e sential stability which tlie Ho ins so much valued. It was oulranging. Roman adaptability made it a medium of empire, but never witli tho vl dug spirit.—Sewn nee Review.

HIS TERRIBLE EYES.

Isnator Cats Could Almost Paralyze a Man With a Look. Giant heads, bodies and brains were Webster and Cass. All the strength of New Hampshire granite was concentrated in those two sous. To look upon them made the ordinary man feel . small. Wonderful eyes they possessed, ! aud men have lieeu known to shiver with dread when one or the other allowed ids glance to fall upon them. Cass could look through a stranger iu I a way to make his brain burn mid ids knees knock together. One searching rl.m* seemed to destroy all mentality and lill the victim with paralytic emo-

tions.

Vo man dared take liberties with Cass, in is pi tin* proprietor of the Xadonal hot el in Washington was a man who so closely resembled the great senator from Michigan that he was often mistaken for him. Au old friend, reluming from a journey, entered the lobby ami. seeing him leaning against the desk, slipped up liehiud aud lilt him u terrific whack on the shoulder, saying cheerily and slmultaneously: "Iloilo, old man! Here I am back again. How are you?” Senator Cass straightened up his six feet three aud, turning upon the assailant Ids terrible, bloodshot eyes, almost annihilated thin with a look. Not a word was spoken. That look was ample. The stranger was so “rattled” that he could not even apologize, but slunk dejectedly out of the hotel. I.ater in the day when congress was supposed to be in session the stranger returned to the hotel to shako bands with the proprietor and toll him all about tlie Cass incident. Walking bravely up. he laid ids hand down on his frU id's shoulder and. without waitIn- for a greeting, surprised Idui with: "See here, old fellow, you got me In a deuce of a scrape tills morning. Why, you know, 1 took old Cass for you. slapped him on the back, nearly taking off a shoulder, and tho old fool looked at me as if he wanted to commit murder. Tlie darned old lunatic, why doesn’t ho stay out of here? He knows"-- Again the great senator from Michigan straightened up Ids six feet three, again lie turned Ids bloodshot eyes, again ho looked and again tlie victim tied. Two mistakes of that kind In one day!

CHARACTER IN WALKING. Traits Which Arc Readily Disclosed by One's Gait. "There's a conceited man coming down the street," said the girl in the group on a corner. "How do I know? By his walk, 1 can tell the chief trait of any person’s character by watching him or her walk. For instance, if u man walks with a heavy lift to ids hips lie's sure to be obstinate. If he sinks down a little on Ids heels lie lias a comfortable attitude toward life and the world in general in fact, he’s a bit lazy. That woman coming down tin street now is a gossip. Any one could tell that because of her mincing, fussy gait. Indecision is the chief character istic of that woman's character across tlie street. Don’t you see how she swings her foot rather hesitatingly in the air before she puts it down? "The man who walks with his knees /leading is sure to lie of the pious type —the disagreeably | Ions type, I mean You see that old codger who is cross lag the road with Ids stomach seeming to lead the rest of him—well, of course it is evident that feeding is his chief delight. When an Intellectual man walks ids head leads. Tb- f girl who sways so is self conscious. Yes. that girl going down the street lias pretty walk, gliding and quiet, but watch out for her; she is treacherous in the extreme. “The man who puts his feet down especially solidly is heavy and somewhat stupid. Thut little person crossing tin* road with a quick, clean step is energy personified, but he lias tlie sort of energy which lias no regard for the rights or feelings of others. The girl coming out of that store lias an ugly streak Iu her nature. Don't you see how she puts her foot down unwillingly as if she wen* saying: T won’t! I won't!’ I shouldn't advise any man to marry her. “Of course 1 don't pretend to know thoroughly a person’s character by ids walk, but I do discover Ids predominating characteristic.” The Quality of Mercy. A notorious mountain moonshiner, familiarly known as Wild Bill, was tried before a federal court in Georgia and was adjudged guilty. Before pronouncing sentence the judge lectured the-prisoner on his long criminal record and at last, informing 1dm that the court entertained no feeling of anger toward 1dm, but felt only unmixed pity, sentenced liini to spend six years in the federal prison at Atlanta. Bill stolidly shifted the quid of tobacco in Ids mouth and turned to leave the courtroom with the marshal. Once outside the only thing he said was this: “Whll, I suah am glad he wa’n’t mad at ii e!"

Johnny’s Interpretation. Little Johnny was hustled off to church one Sunday morning with the admonition that if he could net remember the text when he came home ho couldn't go out to play that afternoon. At the dinner table lie was a kc.l the text of the sermon and said: “Don't lie afryid, you’ll get theqntlt.” The mother laughingly replied. “You must be mistaken Johnny,** bnt he was sure he was right. The t at . r dropped until, during the wee 1 ;, the i t r called, when it was learned th tlie text was, “Fear not. the comforter will come.”—('Idea go Tribune.

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Proving It. “Keep up your courage, old man," said the passenger who was a good sailor to another who was leaning over tlie railing und paying tribute to Neptune. “Never mind me,” came the answer between gasps. “I’ve always heard that It took travel to bring out what there is in a man.”

Painfully Natural. Playwright—Is her acting natural? Manager (enthusiastically) — Natural? Why. when she appeared as the dying mother last night an insurance agent nho lias her life insured for $25,000 und who was In the audience actually faluted.—London Tit Bits.

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