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April 13, 1910. THE
on one side or another?I never could
make out which?of a series of detective
adventures in which a brace of counterfeiters
f.gured. He was an affable
rogue, could make a six-shooter play
more tricks than any man I ever saw,
and positively did not know the meaning
of fear.
"Hook-Nosed" Jake, as Jake Strong, a
man of some thirty-odd years, with a
slightly stooped form, was called, comnlotaH
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"Rio Grande" Jim, who carried it to Mayfield,
who sat at the left elbow of Ben
Kirk.
"Hook-Nosed" Jake was, not excepting
even "Rio Grande" Jim, the most picturesque
member of the group. Without
doubt one would have picked him out as
the most desperate and dare-devil spook
that ever scurried across a Western prairie.
Like Jim, he wore a huge mustache,
but unlike Jim's it was r.s red as that of
any Viking's that ever dreamed of skull
cups and the mead of Valhalla. His
face was also red. His nose, which suggested
his sobriquet, was his overshadowing
feature. Its outline suggested the
upper mandible of a green parrot, but it
had a hairy and pustulous appearance,
wklch made one think of a sea lion in a
pink sea.
Jake's favorite weapon was not a revolver
(though he always went heeled
with a brace of them in his belt), but a
certain sheath knife known as a "tooth
pick." The specimen of this weapon
which Jake carried was scarcely lighter
than a small saber, and wondrously chased.
He stroked It, petted it, kept It as
keen-pointed as a cactus spine, and talked
sweetheart talk to It in his leisure
moments when it lay on his lap. This
knife he could throw, point outward, with
deadly precision thirty or forty paces,
and with such force as to drive It through
an inch board or the skull of an ox. The
interior of Jake's anatomy was a lost
river of red liquor. He could drink more
than any two men on the ranch, and yet
had n^ver been "floored," as It was termed.
I kept an eye on Jake and had real
occasion to do so, for he showed a pointed
dislike to me from the time of our
first meeting.
The serious turn which had been given
the conversation about the camp fire by
the introduction of the sybject of the
"Rustlers" had worn away. Flasks had
go;-.e several double rounds, and both
Jim and the trapper had mellowed up to
a stage of effervescence. Jim was especially
full of reminiscences of his Ranger
experiences, which inevitably led him
back later to the mood which had been
produced by rumors of the proximity of
"Rustlers." An old memory dropped him
square on his starting point.
"Hit was a clean dozen years ago," he
went on, "an' I was batched with two
other Ranger fellers ter hold the Injuns
an* outlaws off'n a big herd uv ponies
and the'r drovers on the way to MataTnoras.
Them was powerful ticklish
times. Thar wus plenty uv redskins an'
other devils In the country, en' we three
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didn't look like more'n a breakfast fer a
lot uv Cermanches er a crowd uv white
cutthroats; but we kep' our eyes skinned
en' our powder dry. We calc'lated frum
the fust to git through 'thout any holes
in our hides."
"An' did yez do that same?" asked Benito,
impatiently anticipating the result.
"Didn't we, pardner? Yer may search
me, returned Jim, with the customary
locution of blasphemy attached, and then
went on: "We wus farin' fust-class ontil
we struck Devil's Canyon, whar we hed
to mek a ?
(Continued next week.)
PURITY OF SPEECH,
Purity of speech means something
more than the omission of vulgar phrases
that ought not to be used by any selfrespecting
person. A young girl should
carefully avoid falling into slangy or
careless modes of speech. You can shut
your eyes and tell whether the woman
next to you is a lady (or, should I say, a
gentleman?) by listening to her conversation.
There has been in recent years
? icauuuu against me word "lady," because
it has often been misapplied.
There is really no reason why we
should not use It In describing an attractive,
polite and agreeable woman.
A charming writer has given the definition
of lady as woman in a high state of
civilization.
I am sure you prefer to be considered
highly civilized to being thought savage
and barbarous.
When a girl says "Gee whiz," "It was
something fierce," or "You're up against
it," you need nothing more to convince
you that she is not altogether a lady.
She may be a good-hearted, well-meaning
girl, but, friends, she proclaims to the
universe that she is common.
Nobody wants to be stamped as common.
To say to any one that she Is
kind-hearted mnri-nohiro/f ?,<m? *- -
, o-? "MVUI vu, nuiiug LU
serve a friend, and that she honestly
pays her way, is to say that she is a respectable
member of society, but to add
to this that she is common and ordinary
is to indicate a fatal defect.
Blood I
It is Important that yo
blood of those impure, p
that have accumulated
The secret of
and really wond
Hood's S;
as a remedy for Blood Humors is 1
sarsaparilla, but the utmost remedi
dients,?Roots, Barks and Herbs,
cacy in purifying the blood and t
There is no real substitute for Hoc
medicine. Get Hood's today, in liq
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Purity of speech requires the omission
of slang and silly, superfluous phrases.
The latter, while perhaps not profane,
are often not refined, and show that one's
associations have been with ill-bred persons.
To think before von
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lent rule.
You should make up your mind once
for all to use only grammatical words
and phrases to represent the thing you
mean to say. Never say "hadn't .ought,"
or "ain't," or use a singular vero with a
plural noun.
Most girls have gone through the
grammar school, If not further, and they
have been taught what Is right and what
is wrong in framing sentences In English.
Vocabulary is another matter.
We acquire a good stock of words for
daily use, a working vocabulary; that Is,
puruy Dy our own pains and care, and
partly by listening to others who use
good language, and partly by every day
reading a few pages in a book that is
worth attention.
No matter how busy one is, he should
try to keep one good book on hand, and
read it through page by page, although
to do so may occupy several weeks.
More than most people think, they enrich
their vocabulary by regularly attending
church services. The habit of
listening to sermons does more for you
than its first object, which is to lift the
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ui.uu iniu ?u aunospnere of devotion.
It adds, little by little, to your treasury
of beautiful and well-chosen words.?
New York Evening Telegram.
Mr. Edison compares the drinking of
whisky to the throwing of sand Into the
bearings of an engine. It is his emphatic
way of saying that intoxicating
liquor is disturbing and destructive. He
Is on record as saying that his reason for
not drinking Is that he has better use for
his head. The time is coming when common
sense will lead men to let deadly
puinuu uiune. some men have common
8enEe now, and do not touch liquor under
any circumstances.
Humors
u should now rid your
oisonous, effete matters
in it during the winter,
the unequaled
erful success of
irsaparilla
the'fact that it combines, not simply
al values of more than twenty ingre?
known to ha*e extraordinary effi>uilding
up the whole system.
>d's Sarsaparilla, no " just as good "
uid form or tablets called Sarsatabs.