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To the Business World.
J. A. Carter, Proprietor Carter Dry Goods & Shoe Co.
Going: West.
Having failed in my effort to effect a sale of my business and residence last year. ]
deferred the move to the West till this year, and now offer my BUSINESS AND RES 1
J 3 ENCN FOR SALE, together with a two years’ optional lease on the store house from
June i. For information apply to Dependable Real Estate Agency, of this city. A splendid
opportunity fo somebody to get a business already advertised and established, by June i,
lfpy, when I hope to leave for the West. %■
Announcement to the Public.
The remaining four months to June I, i (unless sold before) will be spent in closing
out every vestige of Winter Dress Goods, Dry Goods, Cloaks, Furs Blankets, Hosiery
Gloves, Shoes and Slippers at cost and many at less than cost. We mention only a few of
them.
WINTER GOODS.
1 Cloaks arid Furs, one-thml off (less
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than cost. ) Ladies’ 50 inch Cloaks,
$» 50 up. Child’s Clocks 69c up.
1 Winter Dress Goods and Dry Goods
at cost. \
1 * lo pair Cotton Blankets at cost.
.
4* 3 pair line Wool Blankets at cost.
5 * Ladies i5c I lose, uc.
6. Child’s Triple Knee Hose, 3 pair for
? 5 c.
5oo pairs Ladies’ and Children’s
Shoes at cost.
8. 600 pair Ladies’ and Chil Iren’s Sup¬
pers at cost.
9 -»7-inch Outing, 5c.
10 Best Outing, 7|c.
11. Underwear at cost.
1 2 . Bordered Handkerchiefs 1 Ic.
13. Embroidered Handkerchiefs, 4c.
14. Knit Petticoats at cost.
New Spring White Goods, Embroideries, Laces,
Baby Irish and many Dress Goods and Suitings and
many other Spring Goods are now in and will be con=
stantly coming in all the Spring, as it is my purpose
to keep up a first class stock and keep the business at
the top all the Spring.
It is the chance of a life time to get New, Seasona=
ble Goods at such reductions.
New goods to be added each week to take the place
of the close=outs.
Words fail me to express my appreciation of the
kindness of the many who have contributed to the suc=
cess of the business by a liberal patronage, and 1 earn=
estly solicit a continuance while 1 remain
Very respectfully,
J. CARTER.
P. s. $1,000 worth Hardware, Cutlery, Razors, Harness
aud Tablewear at 10 per c^it less than cost.
1 second hand 2-horse Wagon; 1 second hand 2 seated Car¬
riage; 1 second hand White Sewing Machine; 1 second hand
Estev Organ; 1 second hand Decker Upright Piano; 1 ueilth 1
Buggy Horse, work &
anywhere.
THEMUKKAY NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1000.
Spring AND SUMMER
GOODS.
1 . New Dress &eods and White Goods
at Big reductions.
40-inch Whit'* Lawn, 9- and up.
ioc, I2L: and 1 5 ° India 1 /mon for
be, loc and 1 2 §e.
All other White Goods, Madras,
Ginghams, etc , ]o t > 2 o per cent
discount.
4 * 4 ,ooo yards new Embroidery, lo to
33! per cent discount
25c Corset Covers only 19:.
Wide El inncingi worth 75■: to Si .00
going at 50 to 7 5 c.
Ocher Embroideries 3c up.
u i 3,500 yards new Dices, Baby Irish,
etc., 10 to 33;| per cent discount.
6 . All seasonable Spring Goods at cor¬
responding reductions, except a few
stapleu which are now retailing be
l.-w mill price, and will have to be ad
vanced when present stocks are ex
hausted.
l -* Genuine Royal Worcester Corsets
will share in the cut.
8. Umbrellas at bargains.
The Y Ranch
Short
By FRANK II. SWEET.
Copyright, 1308, by Frank H. Sweet.
tory hunting stray bunches.
It bad been a good season, with plenty
of water and grass, aud Sam Bell, the
owner, was confident of passing the
10,000 mark, the stockman’s ambition.
But as the territory narrowed and
the (ruant bunches were hurried in
under the eyes of the counters and
added to the main herds the estimate,
conservative as it had seemed, was
apparently much too high. When all
were In the count was still considera¬
bly under 9,000.
“There’s a gate down somewhere,"
said Bell to the foreman emphatically.
“We haven't made the increase we did
last year, when t ho season' was bad.
Are you sure there weren’t any strays
left ltt siime out of the wiyt eoulees or
sink holes?" /
“Oh, there may be a few scattering
ones here and there, but a thousand!
Good land! Where’d they hide them¬
selves V”
“That's so.” Bell’s gaze swept Im¬
patiently across the sea of tossing,
dashing horns, and a hand dropped
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Involuntarily to his bolt. His thoughts
hail flown to tho sumo solution as the
foreman’s. Ono-haif of the count,
5,000, he bail intended to send to mar¬
ket mul thou spend the winter la Hu
rope, ids first relaxation in ten years
of ranching.
“What's your idea?” lie snapped.
The foreman made a significant mo¬
tion of lifting:, then swung ills arm to¬
ward the foothills.
“There’s no hiding place this side o’
the bigger hills and ravines.” he said,
“an’ that number o’ cattle wouldn't
stray so far from home without in¬
ducement. Then, ag'in, no cattle lifter
would dare to steer straight for mar¬
ket with our brand showln* plalifT*
“Just what 1 think. Now, boys,"
glancing about at su.-h of the cowboys
as were in hearing and his voice grow¬
ing quick and decisive, “we'll run this
thing into the ground right here and
now. Just enough of you remain to
keep these cattle in the neighborhood
and the rest scatter round to all the
surrounding ranches and find out who
have lost cattle. Then we'll organize
a quick hunt of recapture and ex¬
termination. Who has the V ranch
now, forty miles to the north, toward
the foothills?"
One of the cowboys guffawed.
“Bitty little girlie lost away from
mamma,” he lisped. “Looks jest like
tt picter an’ ain’t never rode a boss nor
heereil 'bout original sin. Sure”—at
the frown on his employer's face—
"that’s Jest as I pumped it from her
head man an’ all round man. I’ve
met him two or three times while
roundin’ cattle up that a-way. an’ he’s
a whole Sunday school book in colors
an’ big print. He ain't never swore
nor smoked nor stole nor drlnked nor
anything like that, an’
“About the girl and the ranch?” in
terrupled Bel).
“Jest what 1 m a-telliu impertur
bably. “The story’s like tills: ‘My
friend the German’s big as any six
an’ a half foot nmn could be an’ as
lnnercent as any two foot boy ought
to be, an’ he knows all about ranebln',
for he was raised on a down east
farm, where they allers keep a cow
an’ some pigs an’ hens an’ gener’ly
have a boss for plowin’ an’ sieh an’
drivin’ to meetinV an’ he’s the only
man folk on the V ranch. An’ the
second chapter goes on to say that
when old Peebles was gored last
spring the only heiress an’ legatee an'
kin was this same picter girl, who
was studyin* lK>oks in a village high
school. But she was jest as plucky 's
innereent, an’ 'stead o’ sell in' she come
straight on to run the ranch herself
an’ brim? this German, who greed to
>°ok out for everything for one-third
the profits. He told me all this him
self, jest like a baby would.’ "
“And these two "are running the V
ranch by themselves,” said Bell In¬
credulously. “Why, a veteran cow¬
boy couldn’t look after a herd of auy
decent size, such as I suppose old
Peebles owned. Did he tel! you their
number?”
‘‘Don’t guess he knows,” grinning.
“His great drawback is weak head.
He talks big as a 10,000 man—’bout
what they’ve done an’ are doin’ an’
are goin’ to do an’ ’bout their round¬
ups an’ brandin’s an’ slch. But one
time when I pinned him down to real
numbers he flung his shoulders back
an’ looked proud as a peacock an’
said he guessed as much as seventy
an’ spoke like ’t was printed in big
letters. Ye see, at home he'd novel*
been used to but one.
“Now, my idee’s this," looking about
the group which had closed in to lis¬
ten. “Old Peebles himself wa’n’t
much of a cattle man an’ got more an’
more shiftless ’fore he was gored. Ho
never had only 500 or 000 head, I
guess, an’ half these slipped away or
died ’fore his end come. Then be¬
tween the gorin' an’ the girl reaehin’
there the herd must ’a’ thinned eon
sider'hle. I wouldn’t wonder if the
weak herd was reasonably close to
the mark, though tnebbe the count ’ll
run to a hundred or more, One man
could look after that many in any
place an' up where they are could
care for 'most any number, Tiie V
ranch is jest a long valley that ends in
a p’int, with the only entrance this
way, an’ it has the best grazin’ I
know. Almost any size herd could
feed there, an’ a man at ibis end could
look out for 'em all. If’t wa’n’t for
that the two Innocents couldn’t V
herded a dozen a week without a
stampede. That valley’s jest honey
an’ peaches for the little girlie.”
“It’s one of the most exposed ranches
in the whole country.” declared Bell,
with considerable uneasiness in his
voice. “If there are cattle stealers in
the mountains, as seems a sure thing
now, the V ranch is right at their
liands, and, from what you say about
the owners, there wouldn't be mm h
opposition. I question if even now
any cattle are left on the ranch.
What’d you say the girl’s name was?”
“Didn’t say. But I guess it spalls
out Katherine, for the man spoke of
her as Mees Kat'in’, though likely her
scliooigirlle name is Kitty, Shall 1
ride out that away?"
“No; i'll go myself. It’s time i was
showing neighborliness. Besides 1
don't mind confessing I'm n little anx¬
ious. The rest of you visit all the
ranches within thirty or forty miles
and invite every nmn who has lost cat¬
tle t<t join in the hunt. I will cover
the territory in my direction.”
There were two ranches on the way
out, and these lie visited. But the
owners seemed incredulous ns to his
loss. The year had been the most
prosperous in their experience, they
declared, and neither of them had
missed a hoof. Ai d yet tlielr cattle
had strayed In all directions, many
even penetrating into tiie foothills.
On across the plain with long, easy
undulatfems he swept making rapid
progress, but so easily as to seem in
fto hurry, him£?lf and horse as one, a
machine for speed
The V ranch owner was swinging in
a hamtnock under one of the trees
that were scattered about the dug
out. Old Peebles had been shiftless
financially and Industrially, but he
had been an artist for beauty and
comfort. Other ranchers had raised
.•attle; he had grown trees and ar¬
ranged hammocks and scats under
them and boxes for birds’ nests in
them. Within the dugont he had more
easy lounging places and entrances
for birds and a profusion of books
And while he had read and dreamed
and slept the herd had scattered and
decreased.
To this place had come the girl
from the cast,_ young in years, hut
with the dreaminess of centuries in
her blood. And she had found the
place good.
She had scarcely thought of loneli¬
ness or visitors, but now, as she saw
the first one sweep into her valley
and straight oil to the dugout, she
found tiiat Interest of (lie outside
world surpassed that of (he book in
her hand, and she rose and stood
awaiting his approach with a flush of
anticipation on her face.
She was more than merely pretty,
and the consciousness of it thrilled
Sam Bell even before he swung him¬
self from Ids horse and stood before
her with doffed hat Since his college
days lie had seen little of women, but
this one struck him as being more
suited to a drawing room than to a
dugout. He had thought to pay his
compliments and state ins errand
while holding to his bridle reins, but
before a half dozen words were rpo
ken he made a turn with he reins
about a limb and accepted the camp
chair beside her hammock, which she
hospitably Imlicaled. I hen lie pushed
(be chair aside and sprawled at full
upon the ground, which custom
bad made a more natural and eom
fortatile position.
“So you don’t think you’ve lost any
cattle?” he asked after some minutes’
conversation. “Are you sure?”
“No, for I never found out how
many I own,”‘she answered. “They
keep coming in, sometimes singly and
sometimes In greater flocks. It keeps
poor Hans busy looking after them.
Yo u see. my uncle was very, very
e are !ess In business, and I suppose hts
cattle s t rayed j ut0 ail the wild places
in the mountaing He once w . r ,, fe me
hc dldn . t know how manv he owned ,
ag tbey ' were never together Hans
and j are now rounding * them In, I
think you call it.”
aj sbou i d think you'd find it rather
dlfficu!t only two of you » sravely .
.. So ; It Isn’t anv trouble at all. Ire
memtM , r our cow at home , ised to come
up to the barn every night. I suppose
IPs a sort of cattle nature. Of course
some of these have been off a long
time—five or six moutlis very likely—
and perhaps it might seem a little odd
they should come home. You see, Us
What we call animal, instinct. The
poor cattle have discovered in some
way that people are living here now
and that they’ll he cared for. So
they’re coming home. Dou't you think
the idea is very beautiful?”
“Yes, Indeed,” he assented earnest¬
ly. But he was looking into her eyes
and watching the changes of expres¬
sion on her animated face. And he
was already congratulating himself
that his ranch was only thirty miles
nway and that the two Intervening
ones were owned by family men. He
would be more neighborly hi the fu¬
ture. A girl like this ought not to be
very much by herself in such an ex¬
posed place.
“Hans is a very competent man,” he
said.
“Yes, indeed. He does everything
nearly. The branding came hardest to
him at first, but he is getting accus¬
tomed to It some, as he has done so
much, lie te out branding a new lot
now. I always stay near the house
when lie does that, it seems so cruel.
But it’:; necessary, I suppose.”
“Yes, it's necessary, But I don’t
quite understand. 1 thought your un¬
cle’s cattle were already branded.”
“So they were—in his way. But
you’ve heard how careless he was.
Even his Branding is—is—well, shift¬
less. Why, some of them have rue of
the lines dropping nearly half an inch
below the other. Just think of It!”
flushing with something very like
shame.' “I told Hans all the country
would be laughing at us, and he’s
made a new branding Icon. larger
than the other, of course, to cover the
extra length of that line. All our new
branding looks neat and regular now.
aril- but won’t y< u come and look at
It?” rising suddenly from the ham¬
mock aud looking at him shyly. “I’m
so new to it all, and I want to learn,
please tell me all you can. I hope
you’ll conic over real often now. I
didn’t suppose I was a l>it lonesome,
but just talking with some one from
outside shows me 1 am.”
Beil rose almost dizzily, so great
wan. the sudden agitation will, h sent
the Mood rushing to Isis face.
Rut when they came to the narrow
pen into which Hans drove the entlie
fir branding the color left his face ns
suddenly ns it had come, and In its
place was an expression which car¬
ried his gaze swiftly from the cattle
to the girl and then to Hans. But the
girl looked nt him trustingly anil
Hans with stolid simplicity.
“That animal instinct for coming
home has bcc-n a lot of assistance 1 >
j-ou In rounding up the cattle.” he
could not forbear saying.
“It certainly has,” the girl agreed,
“for Hans wouldn’t even have had to
leave the valley but for drti log other
ranchers’ euttic home. IJe laughs at
me, though, aud says the fine grass In
the valley ls the Instinct that draws
the cattle here. I suppose that does
help some, but ugh!” as Hans 'applied
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WHEN THEY CAME TO THE PEN THE COLOB
LEFT HIS FACE.
(he whfte bot iron to auotber flllllk
^ tbe odor of burlllll , flesb fiUe dthe
flir borrid) crueU UVa aw
from here goon as we can ... Then ns
th waIked back toward tbe haiu .
mocb; .- What Ls br#nd !iIld b , nv
head do you 0 wn? That’s the
question out here on the plains,
j „ f , leve Aud of course we raiK . he „
ht to kBOW ea , b ()thor . s mark .
learBed Bergmarms and Ollson’s
oh , vus , rve ,, ot about
2.000 head branded now. Poor Hans
doesn’t know figures, so I have to
keep county,
Bell did not hesitate, and he had
given up all thought”Of going to Eu¬
rope.
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»’ 0C f' J , 10 an ^«ed, “and my brand ’
he took an envelope from bis pocket
an t ma ^ on 1 a " IC a ' ery ong
tal1 . ) ' so lo ng that he scarc fjf reco «'
“ " f , ’’'T , sotnetuIng ,lke
th,s - - Now I' ieas « tell ,, me something
'°” r life J 11 ,lle east '
WUe!! be ! ' e;iv ' lu ' d home it was late
In the night but the foreman and
several of the cowboys were awaif
iag lllra - Th ey had brought no one
back with them, for no one but them
selves'had lost cattle. Bell listened
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^ all ^ had ^ given mountains in their he reports, said when “but
the ^ J? a 0T ? 88 a mU '
count Now we’ll turn In.” ,