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SYNOPSIS.
■Cowboys of the Flying Heart ranch are
heartbroken over the loss of their much
.prlze.t phonograph by the defeat of their
champion In a foot-race with the cook of
the ..Centipede ranch. A house party'la
en at the Flying Heart. J. Walllngford
•peed, cheer leader at Yals, and Culver
•Covington, Intercollegiate champion run
ner. are expected. Helen Blake, Speed's
sweetheart, become* Interested In the )om
■Of the. phonograph. She-suggests to Jean
Chapln. sister or the owner of the ranch,
that she Induce Covington, her lover, to
win back the phonograph. Helen declares
thet —llM'ovlng ton WOW# run. Speed will.
The Cowboys are hilarious, over theJjron
•ecf. Speed and his valet, (Jlaxa.
trainer at Yale, arrive. Helen Blake nxks
fil-ed. who has posed to her as an ftth-
Iste. to I ace against the Csntlped* Wail.
The eowboyi Join In the appeal to Wally,
and fearing that Helen will find him out,
n« consent* He .Insists, however, that he
shall be entered as an unknown, - figuring
that Covington will arrive-til time to take
his place. Fresno, gl'*e club slngrer from
Stanford university and In love with
Helen, tries to discredit. Speed with the
lad let. and the cowboys. Speed and Glass
put in the time they are supposed to be
training playing cards In a secluded spot.
The 1 cowboys explain to Speed how much
•the race means to them" Speed assures
them he will do his best. The cowboys
tell Glass It is up to him to sec that Speed
wins ftie race. Willie, the gunman, de
clares the trainer will go buck east pack
ed In Ice, If Speed falls. A telegram cornea
from Covington sitylng he Is In jail at
•Omaha /or ten days. t»ln*« In a panic
fol k ces Speed to begin training In earnest.
Speed declares to Larry that the best way
out Is Mr ,him (Speed) to Injure himself.
•Olaan won't stand for it. Glass force*
Speed out at sunrise to practice running
At the Instigation of Fresno the cowboys
.put ice In Speedjs shower bath, • -
CHAPTER Xjlll.- —Continued.
"I give him a nerve treatment. A
]»ck-rabbit Jumped at him thiß morn
ing and he bolted to the outside fence."
Larry forced his employer to a seat,
'then, securing a flrjn hold of the flesh,
began to discourse learnedly upon
anatomy and hygiene, the while his
▼lctlm writhed. It was evident that
the cattlemen were Intensely interest
ed. "Well, sir, when 1 first got him
hla sploven was In terrible shape."
•aid Larry, "In fact, I never saw
auch a—" *
"What was In terrible shape?" ven
tured the tenor.
"His sploven."
"Sploveu! Is that a locality or a
beverage?"
Glass glowered at the cause of the
Interruption "It's a nerve-center, of
■course!" Then to the others, he ran
•on, glibly'- "The treatment was sim
ple, but it took time. You see, I had
to first trace his bedildo to its Bource,
like this." He thrust a finger into
▼/ally's back and plowed a furrow up
ward. "You see?" He paused, tri
umphantly. "A fore-shortened bedildo!
It ain't well yet."
"Can a man run fast with one of
them?" Inquired Willie.
"Certainly, cer tain ly—provided, of
course, that the percentage of spelldif
ter in the blood offsets It."
; Both cowboys came closer now, and
toung eagerly upon every word.
"And —does they ques
tioned, while JPresno suggested that It
wras not easy to tell without bleeding
the patient.
"No, no! You can Hear the spell-
Glass motioned to Willie
"Put your ear to his chest. Hear
anything?"
"Heart's poundin' liko a calf's at a
hrandln." '
"Which proves 1J!" proudly asserted
the trainer. "Barrin' accidents. Mr.
Speed will be in the pink of condition
toy Saturday."
The cowmen beamed benignantly.
"That's fine!"
"We are sure pleased, and we've jgot
something for you, Mr. Speed. Come
on, Mr. Fresno, and give us a*band.
We'll bring it In."
"It's a present!" exclaimed the ath
lete, brightly, when the three had gone
•ut "They teem more friendly thla
Morning."
"Yes!" Qlaas laughed, mirthlessly.
They think you're going to win."
"Well, how do you know I can't
You never aaw this cook run."
. "1 don't have to; I've seen you."
"Just the aame, I'm In pretty good
■hnpe. Maybe I could run if I really
tried."
"Send yourself along, kid. It won't
fcsrm you none." The speaker fanned
himself, and took a seat In the cosey
corner.
"Ah! Here they come, bearing
gifts." Speed rose in pleased expec
tancy. "I wonder what It caq be?"
The three who had Just left re-en
tared the room, carrying a trayload of
thick railroad crockery.
"We've brought your breakfast to
Too." explained Stover. "We'd like you
to eat alone till after the race." Still
BUI began to whittle what appeared to
toe a blood-rare piece of flesh, whll£
Willie awkwardly arranged the dishes.
"Tou want ma to eat as well as sleep
tare?"
"Exactly."
"Oh, I eant do that! I'm sorry,
toot —"
"Don't make us insist." Willie looked
sp from hla tray, and Olaaa raised a
soolat hand and said:
"Don't wake 'em Insist"
With fascinated stare fev~*d drew
nearer to Stover and examined the
■Mat bone.
"Why—why, that's raw!" ha ax
claimed.
"Does look rar\" agreed the fore
man.
"Then take it out and build a flre
under it 111 consent to eat here, but 1
won't turn cannibal, even to please
you."
"I'm sorry." Stover did not inter
rupt his carving.
"Your diet ain't been right," ex
plained Willie. "You ain't wild enough
to suit u^"
"Is this a Joke?"
"We ain't never Joked with you ylt,
have we?"
"No But—"
"This breakfast goes as she lays!"
Glass broke abruptly into smothered
merriment, "When 1 laugh nowadays
It's a funny Joke"' he giggled.
That grown men could be so stupid
was unbelievable, and Wally, seeing
himself the object of a senseless
prank, was roused to anger.
"Lawrence, get my coat," said he
"I've been bullied enough; lsm going
up to the house," When Stover only
continued Whittling methodically, he
burst out: '"Stop honing that shin
bone! If you like it you can tnt It!
I'm going now to swallow a staok of
Ivot cakes with maple syrup!"
"Mr. Speed," Willie -impaled him
with a steady' glare, "you'll eat what
we tell you to, ami nothin' else! If
we say 'gnss,' grass It'll be. You're
goin' to beat one Skinner If It takes
4 human life. And if tllat life hap
pens to be yours, you got nobody but
yourself to blame."
"Indeed!" ■
"You heard me! I've been set to
ride herd on you daytimes, the other
boys 'II guard you nights We been
double-crossed once—lt won't happen
again."
"You intend to make me eat this
disgusting stuff, whether I want to or
not?" Even yet the youth could not
convince himself that this was other
than a Joke.
"No." Willie shook his head. "We
Just aim to make you want to eat It."
Then Larry Glass made hhi fatal
"mistake.
"Say, why don't you let Mrt Speed
buy you a new phonograph, and call
the race off?" he Inquired.
Stover, stricken dumb, paused, knife
In hand; Willie stared as If bereft of
motion Then the former spoke slow
ly.' "Looks like we'd ought to smoke
up this fat party. Will."
Willie nodded, and Glass realized
that the little man's steel blue eyes
were riveted balefully upon him.
"I've had a hunch It would comh to
that," the near-sighted one replied.
"Every time 1 look at him I see a
bleedin' bullet hole In his abominable
region, about He laid a finger
upon his stomach, and CJfass Teit a
darting pain at precisely, the same
spot.
"That's where you hit the gambler
at Ogden," he heard Stover say—it
might have been from a great distance
—"but I aim for the bridge of the
nose."
"The belly ain't so sudden as the
eye-sock :>t, but It's more lingerin,'
and a heap painfuiler," explained the
gun man, and Speed was moved to
sympathy. -
"Larry only wanted to please you—
eh, Larry?" he said, nervously, but
"Hsart'a Pounding Like a Calf* at
BrandlnV
Glass madq, no reply. Hla distended
orbs were frozen'upon Willie. It waa
doubtful if he fe'len, heard
"Our honoc ain't for sale," Still Bill
declared. . , -
Here Berkeley Free DO spoke. "Of
course not. And you mustn't thfek
tbat Speed ia ti-ying to get out of the
race. He wants to run! And if any
thing happened to prevent hla runSlng
he'd be broken-hearted, I know ha
would!"
Willie's hypnotic eye left the train
er's abdomen and traveled slowly to
Speed.
"What could happen V qaeetioned
he.
"N-nothing that I know of."
"You don't aim to leave V
THE ENTERPRISE. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA.
"Certainly not"
"Oh, you fellows take It too sori
ou»ly," Tresno offered carelessly "He
might have "to."
Willie's upper Hp drew back, show
ing his yellow teeth. .
"They don't sell no railroad tickets
before Saturday, and tjie walkln' ia
bad. There's, your breakfast, Mr.
Speed. Whsu you've et your fill, you
better rest And don't talk to them
ladies, neither; It spoils your train of
thought!"
CHAPTER XIV.
fOW that the possibility of ea
cape from the Flying Heart
was cut off, the young man
felt agonising regret that he
had not yielded to his train
er's earlier Importunities
and taken refuge In flight
while there was yet time
Everything waa too latcnow.
Even If he made a clean breast of the
whole affair to Jean, or to her brother
when he arrived, what good would that
do? De doubted' Jack's ability to save
him, In the light Of what had Just
pasHed; for men like Willie cared
nothing for the orders of the person
whose pay roll they chanced to grace.
And Willie was not alone, either; the
rest of the crew were equally des
perate. What heed would these no
mads pay to Jack Chapin's commands,
once they learned the truth?
There were still, however, two days
of grace, and to youth two days Is an
eternity. Therefore, he closed his eyes
and trusted to the unexpected. How
the unexpected could get past that
Willie's Hypnotic Eye Traveled Slowly
to Speed.
grim, watchful sentry Just outside the
door he could not Imagine, but when
the breakfast bell reminded him of Vila
hunger, he banished his fears for the
sake of the edibles his custodians had
served.
"Don't you want anything to eat?"
he Inquired, when made no move
to depart for the cookhouse.
"No." -- "/•
"Not hungry, eh?"
"I'm hungry enough to eat a pluah
cushion, but—" - >
"What?"
"Mary!"
"Marledetta?"
"Sure. She's been chasln' me again.
If somebody don't side track that Cu
ban, I'll have to lick Oarara" He
sighed. "I told you we'd ought to tin
can it out of here. Now it's too late."
It was perhaps a half-hour later
that Helen IJlake came dipping Into
the gymnasium, radiant sparkling, her
crisp white dress touched here and
there with blue that matched her eyes,
in her hands a sunshade, a novel, and
a mysterious little bundle.
"We wer§ so sorry to lose youvat
breakfast," she began \
Wally led her to the cosey corner\
and seated himself beside her.
"I suppose it is a part of this hor
rid training. J would never have men
tioned th.it foot race If I had dreamed
it would be like this."
Here at loast was a soul that sym
pathized.
"The only .hardship Is not to see
youj" he declared softly.
Miss Blake dropped her eyes.
"I thought you might like to go walk
ing; it's a gorgeous morning. You
see, I've brought a book to read to you
while you rest—you must be tired aft
er your run."
"I am, and I will. This Is awfully
good ofyou, Miss Blake.'' Speed rose, ;
with Joy, but the look of
'Glass was not to be passed up. "I— |
I'm afraid it's Impossible, however." !
The blue eyes flew open in aaton- 1
ishment. "Why?" the girl .questioned.
. (TO BK CONTINUED.)
Hecatan Tried To.
"Philip," said the teacher, "parse
tbt sentence, 'Yucatan Is a penln- !
aula.'"
begat Philip, f
who never could understand gram
mar any way, "Yucatan is a proper
noun, nom'tive case, second person,
singular"— J,
"Why?" asked teacher In amaze- I
ment, "how do you make that out?" j
"Yea'm." said Philip, swallowing i
hard. "Fim person I ca tatt, second
person, Yucatan, third person, Heca- j
tan; plural, first person •We atan, sec
ond par—" ....... . r ., v ...
But right here the teacher fainted.
On* Way to Cure. Habit of Btuttering.
Recently a well-known woman phy
sician wrote a pamphlet on "Stutter
ing Children," and sent it to all her
friends. In it she told the mothers
of alii-children who are Inclined to
atutter that the way to aggravate-vthe
affliction ia to notice it.
"Pay 'no attention to it" aha wrote,
"but when the child talka particularly
clearly, praise blm for It. Keep him
in the open air aa much aa possible.
There are only a few caaea that must
be sent to a school to overcome the
stuttering habit"
THE HER SCHOOL
LOCATES AT CHARLOTTE ON
MAGNIFICIENT PROPERTY
FOR INSfITUTE.
THE CONTRACT IS SIGNED
Colonel Horner it Given 45 1-2 Aorea
X v*' ' s•» ? , * *.,,
For Site and $15,00 C. Ca-h. —To Be
Open-d in Fell of Stu
, . :
dents Expected.
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I Charlotte.—-J C, Homer,
J president of Horner Military Institute,
j recently accepted a proposition made
| by the cltlsens of this city and the
j historic school will in the future be
I coudu t« ii Imre instead of at Oxford,
| where ior the past 70 years It has
| beoii Iti successful operation.
The proposition as accepted called
I for v & cash bonus of $25,000 and a site
of 25 a> res of land whereon to locate
the buildings, athletic grounds, pa
| rade grounds, etc. The school will In
all probability open next September
for the reception of students and It Is
confidently believed the Institu
tion will commence with at least 250
students.
Colonel Horner was waited upon by
I the committee.composed of Messrs.
J Qeorg" St« phens; chairman, Leake
I Carraway, secretary and C. O. Kuos-
S ter. Herlot Clarkson, John Hill Yucfc
' f»r. A C. Springs, Tbontas liresham,
j \V. S. Alexander, David S. Yates, John
| Paul f.ucas and Charles P. Moody,
I and a further discussion of the site
! took place. ~ \ •
At a later meeting Colonel Horner
; and the committee talked at- some
i length, the final agreement reached
was that Colonel Horner would, be
i given a site of 45 1-2 acres and $16,-
000 In cash. He preferred to keep the
surplus 20 acres and to accept less
j cash, this 20 acres having he on con
•ervatlvety estimated to be worth ♦ 10,-
000, hence the drop from $23,t|00 to
$15,0«0.
"It Is agreed between J. C. Horner
and George Stephens and his asso
elates as follows:
"That J. \ Horner Is to remove his
school now located at Oxford, N. C.,
| to this community and locate it on
j what is known, as the Stephens Com
pany aild Mecklenburg Farms Com
pany lands, suld lands adjoining ,the
b»nd of Jt H. Ham, the Stephen Com
pany and others and containing 45 1-2
: acres, and said, lands are the Hams
| as hatfe been designated and pointed
} out to the said J. C. Horner by the
| said George Stevens. .•
.•j "The said J C. Horner Is to build
upon said land school buildings and
| the school shall be open for patron
j ago by the fall of 1914 and maintain
I and operated as a high grade boys'
1 school."
In choosing Charlotte for th« loca
tion of this great preparatory school,
Colonel Horner has an extensive ter
ritory from which to draw students to
iMs institution There itf no such
. school In this entire section, neither
In North or South Carolina, and he
will doubtless "find that additional
facilities must be added to theschool
with regularity. It Is confidently ex
pected that Charlotte will patronize
this school and that many of the
students to be found thpr4 will be
Charlotte boys, who will find there
| an excellent place to fit themselves
for the University or other large in
stltutions.
North Carolina Charters.
Raleigh.—The Secretary of State
1 chartered the Dan River Hallway
Company of King, Stokes County, for
operating interurban electric lines be
tween towns In Stokes and adjacent
| counties and for developing water
power. The capital is $500,000 author
ized and S.IOO subscribed by Htylee
Miller, B. E. Kapp and others. Tlnsre
are also charters for the Wlnston-Sa
lem Construction Company, capital
SIOO,OOO authorized, and $5,000 sub ,
scribed for a general contracting bus
; lness by W. K. Franklin and W. W.
j Walsh of WJnston-Salem and the Peo
: pie's Building Company of Lynchburg,
j Va., and Tar Hiver Brick Company,
Rocky Mo«nt, capital $50,00 authoriz
ed, and $16,000 subscribed by W. B.
! Coleman, S. S. Toler and others.
'f Capture Big Still.
—Forest City. Deputy Collectors
Stewart and Qulnn have Just returned
i from McDowell county, where they de
stroyed one of the larpost Illicit dis
tilleries found in those parts in many
years. The officers were in 30 stepß
of the plant before the blockaders dis
covered them. The men made good
their escape after a hot chase. Thfe
officers returned to the scene of the
operation and found an up-to-date,
we!l-equlpped plant, Just ready for the
run. Two "thousand gallons of beer
was ready for the last process.
Virginia and North Rates.
Washington, D. C.—"l am confident
we will win our fight against the Vir
ginia cities at. ' Greensboro ; soon,"
said Corporation Commissioner Travis
recently "The Virginia cities claim
they are not fighting North Caro
lina's lower freight rates;. Thi? is not
true. Virginia haa always fought any
proposition proposed to lower the
freight rate*, to our state." Mr. Trft
vis was here making final arrange
ments for the Interstate Commerce
Commission hearing at Greensboro
that be is to attend.
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READY FOR 3LPVICE,
T HKIVK lire those ANIONS us who
see nothing Itl oal tnttc about
the snow. The varied and e*
julslte forms assumed by the
|j. frost particles on crystallisa
tion, revealed* In their fullest beauty;
I beneath the lens, are lost to their un
j |i|j|irnciittlvi> vision. To theiu "the
' fleecy HIIOW" am) "the beautiful SHOW'
are absurdities. The oyly form of
I snow-inspired poetical effort that ap
j peals to tbem la the parody,-
"The. snow,, the snow, the beautiful
KUOVV,
The more you don't want It the more
it won't HO." 7
is not meaningless to them, for they
are the men who must battle with It.
I V
| Such, for Instance, Is , the railroad
man In any part of Uncle Sim's wide
domain In whicA the ice k}njs disputes
his sovereignty. The Du kolas, Mitine
sota and northern lowa are favorite
haunts of Ihe wayward monarch, and fFi
those regions It is that he holds some
of his most fantastic revels. The wind
swept prairies of Kansas and Nebras
ka, level as a table for great distances,
are often difficult to manage in mid
winter, but they do not possess the
essentials of a great snow country.
The general contour of Minnesota and
Dakota Is rolling, so that on most of
the railroad lines there are many cuts,
j ten to the mile in some places. This
! Is the Jderfl Bpot for the snow block
i ade, and for six or seven months of*
I the year an almost ceaseless battle
| Is going on. ,'v>^
Every railroad traversing these re
j glons is equipped with a large force
of snow fighters. Nowadays rotary
snow plows In the hands of men who
know how to operate them can cut
■ their way through drifts that In the
early days of railroading would have
i established a complete blockade. The
rotary plow Is one of the marvels of
i the age. It in a liberal education In
the business of snow fighting to watch
one of them eating Its way through
! afl apparently Insurmountable drift
! that threatens to cut off all communi
! cation between the Atlantic and ,Pa
ciflc northern terminals. \
Menace to Railroading.
There are several passes In othe
great divide region of the ltocky
j mountains which for about half of the
year offer a constant menace to rall
! roading ip their vicinity. The snow
j begins to fall late In August or early
In September, and it continues until
j well into May and sometimes June.
' There are also intermittent snowfalls
J during the summer I ', but not enough to
; make serious trouble. great falls
| are during January aird February
roads that cross the great di
vide must expend enormous sums In
their annual conflict with the snow.
Special crews are provided for this
work, and special engines are held In j
reserve to be put behind the snow i
plows as needed. Before the rotary
was Jnyenty;d the man with the shovel j
was the sole dependence, in the early
days of the transcontlnentaj railroad,
thousands of laborers were kept on the i
pay rolls simply as snow., shovelers.
The snow shed* ejected by these lines ,
have cost a mint of rnoDey. The wind j
swept stretches of Wyoming and oth l - !
er states are guarded by wind breaks
consisting of high fences built across '
the most exposed points. These
fences seem to be fragile barriers
against such a mighty foe as the snow !
king, but they servo their purpose ad- I
mirably, frequently preventing a !
blockade.
,in spite of the greatly improved j
methods ot 'snow fighting, blockades 1
are still of frequent occurrence on j
these mountain roads. It Is not at all
unusual in Colorado and Wyoming for
a train to be stalled between stations
for hours and perhaps for days. Those
who have had experiences of this* kind
do not Wax enthusiastic over them.
Sometimes provisions are lacking, and
the luckless paasengetg are in actual
danger of starving. In these lonely
•tretcbes there is not a ranch for
miles. As a rule the roada take ex
traordinary precautions against block
ades of this description, for In several
eases large damages have been col
lected by the victims.
Great Mas« of hjtenesa.
The huge snowdrifts that some
times rise in a single night are fre
quently ten, 20 or even SO feet In
! "height. To one wlio sees such an ac
cumulation of snow for the llrst time
jlt Beeins lmposulb,, that any plow,,
j'oven the moat Improved rotary, can
I penetrate It. With a rush and a
| plunge the great plow in hurled Into
| the muss of frigid whiteness. Black
! clouds of smoke pour from the en
j klnes, hnd the huge bladeß of the ro-
I tary begin to eat Into the drift. The
snow shoots ouf °f orifice at
side of the plow. As it Is distributed
j'lt forms an Immense white seml-clr
j cle which Is constantly moving on
| ward, showing the progress of the
j plow.
Slowly the rotary excavates Its way
.forward, and finally the plow and Its
I engines are burled In u trench of
| white. Only the smokestacks can be
seen, and they continue to belch forth
Inky clouds that settle In a coat of
smudge jipon the snowfleld The
I great white semi circle moves steadily
onward, and In the course of time It
becomes apparent that the drift Is b*-
lng conquered. It Is eventually over
come and 4he passengers on the reg
ular express train which passes that
way a few hours later knows nothing
. of the SHOW battle that has made their
further progress possible They may
discover that they are moving rapidly
through a narrow canyon whose walla
ate snow, but they do not realize the
mighty force that has enabled them
to cross the ridge of the continent.
It is the element of the unexpected
that sometimes ailds largely to the se
riousness of these occasions. At the
passes over the great divide adequate
provision against trouble has been
ipade, and long blockades are few.
Now and then, however, word comes
that a train has not .been able to
force its passage through a snow accu
mulation 100 miles or more from tho
nearest rotary plow. Then there is
consternation indeed. To get a plow
to the blockaded train will take time,
but It must be done. In the meantime
the drift may be growing on the un
used road, and each hour is bringing
fresh menaces to railroad men and
passengers alike,
When, a rotary plow Itself Is caught
In a snow blockade the situation be
comes even more complicated. Such
Instances are rare, but it has hap
pened. Such a thing can only be pos
sible through the carelessness of some
workman, for a. rotary plow with suf
ficient power behlpd It can eat Its way
through a drift of almost any dlmen- »
slons
' ' ,
Paid for Gambling.
The only Instance known wherein j
an employe was paid by his employer
for gambling occurred In New Or
leans. Walter Lamana. a child of
wealthy Italians, was kidnaped, and
the " interest was Intense throughout
the gulf coast country.
The s'affs of thfc two leading morn
ing dallies were engaged ih "draw,"
after hours, when the city editor of
one of »iem was called out. sum
moned a reporter.
i "Get back In there and play at the
paper's expense," he hissed. "Make It
lively." j - y* •, •"
The reporter raised 'em and hoisted
'em and lifted 'em for an hour
Then the game was broken up by
cries of "Extra! Extra!" and the staff
of the other paper read with emotion
that the body of the child had been
found. .
There was a $lO check from the
editor in the next
pay day.
\ Without ■ Doubt.
Book Agent—Here's a book yqu can't
afford to be without —"Every Man His
Own Lawyer." —-
Parmer Jones (who once bad a at
suit) —Humph! I think an honester
name for that book would be "Every
Man His Own Worst En*my."—Puck.
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