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FARM ESS £30M A3R0AD.
the fame of America'*
IV Hi-re-» of rich soli i»
An Indus of Span
predicted |.y a Bar
-s i!^;u who is in New
Spaniards, ulTft have
I <1 States to engage
The Hurcetonan ex
- of Spanish
lesertwl 'agriculture to
• --ry i.ccanse of high wages
v d-irirg the war. tiud
••» il>1 rcasing since
atul are anxious to re
vs tnd Plain
T:i S;.;i!u chaii'vs to engage
a ! :r.v - tile are limit
• ' ! e soil u poorer than
: a c .» i!.-riMe number
fortune* await than in
>t r regions. The ar
rival of »•« from this new
quarter si I so as a lesaon for
A- ■ ■ lirnre is the big
la Antericti. Prices of
— ' •; are Msher than they
have ever I !. fi 1 ■ Men seeking
e - rve 'he cotmtr.v and to
:i' future for thein
'.i :..i oj.jiorumiry
y i : r of the United
_- > :< Americans
' vs ;i< it offers
"V • •tirtenti* to a mail
::■» to which we arc Willing
• 1 - ■ ' of a I light."
• M'e that trench
i. . cicild say as
" ' •? All the phi
a'lle human inter
in How !t re
! - ■:» for ■ - f - iap Judgments of
v i>t casually, hut do
••••. "I : - y< ' n.»w right away
w{ t I . to like anyone or
.s'.iiK are general
. " . . if i ar prattling away
s.-> oft^n. w'thent
whet hi* we are civ.
I ;»res^ n« of ourselves
S ictiaies the man whom
we have most heartily condemned at
• -r sight ■ ems. when we meet him
r under different conditions. In his*
lot..-, for i\- vi e, ^o he an entirely
''.*!"■ -it cr *'vr■ *ays *>Uo State
Jour ml. ].• • i:< wait, at least, until
v. e g- t 0"r rt* In a "good light,"*
before we f • • ' •>» them. If we can
ever pretend to judge.
It is said that forr.er Premier
n( , ; ■ • turn to public life.
The "Teat i "Tiger" cnt: ot settle
down, in I'-a- iy. to a monotonous ob
scurity any mure than the old war
l.orse can he wtileat with a jogtrot
existence.
The meo •' ■■ in who has cut meat
and st:,. his diet schedule
v i aid see::'. I" • ' in a position to
- y the pretensions of
the U. C. I
I ! < s increase in
jlf.. ;:,'t give r>v lielientlon
tliat the municipal bo«o» cuuirolleu
tUC £ iMlia. jUs4iii.n-S£Ii
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A TALIk OF THE FLATWQODif
lyid Anderson M
COPYE-IGHT BY THE BOBBS-MERRJLL CQf-\PANY j
A grin puckered ills eyes ror a mo
ment, then his brows lowered. An
other question, a hard one. hud to be
asked, that set him raking over his
slim stock of words for ways to ask It.
"Do girls—I mean—have you got any
place about you your dress—to car
ry It?"
She was looking at him, her eyes
frank anil wide—eyes that had no
need to narrow.
"I haven't," she answered; "but I
can make one."
"I advise you to."
He laid the revolver on the stand
nnd turned back to her. The time had
come tn go. and the.v both knew it.
For a while they stood silent. Once
his hand reached toward her, but he
drew It back.
"Will you be ready to raise the
blind when 1 blow out the candle?" he
said at last.
She went to the window and the
next moment the room was In dark
ness.
I Two fluttering spots of white In the
gloom rolled up the blind, found the
strings that held It and whipped them
Into a knot. Then the girl stepped
back. The man crawled through the
window—with extreme care not to
scar the ground outside.
It Is pa«t all knowing how her hands
happened to get Into his. He bent his
head and laid his face upon them;
suffered them to slip out of his fingers
at last; and turned away.
He was cone on the Instant—gone
as a shadow goes—never knowing
that for long and long the dull window
framed a white face listening for
some^ouml of him to come back out
of th# night.
The woodcraft of the Pearlhunter
was profound. It was about nil life
had taught him, but it had taught him
[ that. With the logical precision of a
j schoolmaster passing from one step of
i a problem to another, it led him
I straight to the trail of the man he had
j been following a short time before—
J which, of course, took him in the dl
• rectlon of Pallet) Rock. The man he
[ followed had doubtless gone back to
I the village by this time. This proh
i ability he had already estimated and
j set down in his reckoning at Its
: proper value. But he had another pur
j pose In turning his steps toward Fall
en Hock. He was deliberately going
; back to the cabin.
With every caution to leave no trail,
j he picked his way through the woods
to the edge of the bluffs, stole over
and down toward the cabin. The first
' glance nt the black bulk of it. squat
' ted In the deep gloom under the up
• standing rocks, brought him to In
j stant pause. There was a light with
( in. He crouched down In the bushes
to consider what this unexpected cir
cumstance meant before venturing an
other step.
No sound came from the cabin. The
rltrht was intensely still. Xur an oar
stirred the river. The ^terfall alone
fretted the - ' nee. The I'earlhuntnr
flattened himself it; the weeds and
bushes and foot by foot worked his
way until be was nMe at last to bring
. his face let el with the tiny opening.
With his tpe Hose, the chink afforded
n tolerably clear view of the interior
j of the cabin. He barely restrained a
j cry at what he saw.
1 Stooped over the small, hair-covered
! trunk, his hat off. stood the Red Mask.
He had pr'.-d open the lid and had
! laid the contents of the trunk out
with seeming care In rather neat
heaps upon the floor. In his hand he
held the picture of the Iron-Gray
Woman.
The Pearlhunter*s rose at
Ing his mother's picture in such hands,
• and his breast burned to dash Into the
I cabin and settle his score with the
j sacrilegious wretch once anil for all.
j Rut It was not his tn do ns he pleased
; tWit night. His activities for the tno
( meat were limited to keeping his eve
j fast to tiie chink.
, The man bv the trunk straightened,
j enrried the picture to the candle and
I stood looking long upon it. He laid It
: to his Ifps. again and again, as If he
would drink up the beautiful face
j from the card. He pressed the picture
j to his bosom; held it again to the
i candle and whispered to it in tones
J that did not carry to the ear of the
I amazed listener. He strode up and
down the room; and there was on his
face a look that no man had probably
ever seen there before, and probably
would never see again.
After long moments he roused him
self, unbuttoned his vest, and put the
picture carefully away in am Inner
I pocket. The watcher outside the wall
I winced; his lips drew together In a
tense line. Hut there was much to he
j seen just then. The man Inside had
j risen, crossed the floor, put the things
I back in the trunk, closed the lid and
j picked up his hat. Next moment the
; caudle was blown out. The Pearlhunt
• lively bad time to creep into the
fringe of weeds when tue eaoin noor
opened and softly closed.
With a brisk step that Indicated he
had flung olT the spell of the past, the
notorious renegade walked around the
west end of the cabin, past the spring,
and straight to the tiny pool under the
waterfall, where the I'earlhunter, who
had stolen along the north wall of the
cabin had his second nstoundlng sur
prise since coming down the bluff.
Jumping lightly from rock to rock
In the shallow water of the pool, the
bandit approached the cataract, the
third leap landing him upon the flat
top of a rock almost within the very
wash of the falling water. Pausing
an Instant to pull his hat tight and
turn np the collar of his coat, he
sprang straight into the thin blade
of the falls, flis leap must have car
ried him completely through to the
other side. It was the first the Pearl
hunter knew, or even suspected, thai
there was an open space beyond. So
completely rlld the falling water hide
everj"thine hack of It that probably
the man who had Just leaped and
tbe man who watched him were the
only two who knew there was any
thing back of It.
The Pearlhunter stretched himself
flat under cover of a clump of sprouts
growing about an old white oak
stump, and kept his eyes fixed on the
waterfall.
Time goes slowly to one who
watches and waits. It was probably
not more than ten minutes, though It
seemed far lunger, when, without so
much as a diverted fleck of spray In
warning, the waterfall flung forth up
on the flat-topped ruck a lithe and ac
tive figure thai sprang lightly to shore
over the two Intervening stones.
Pausing on the brink of the pool
harcty lung enough to shake his cor.i
hy the lapels ami to knock his hat
Stood Locking Long Upcn It.
uraitist 1:!* hami, lie Immediately se'.
out aloi.•: ili:.' blti.Ts toward the vll-1
Intro, its t;ti> nt' il its If ho had not j
Just |ut! (I o.i' utt Die most sensa
ttoH.-.) smnt ever ftvit l.y tt l'iatwoods- ]
num.
The IVrtrl! :nter slipped "N! "1(? :
cover and !'ly followed; trailed lilm
up tlie !>l<:: • ihro'tih the corner of tlie \
woods mid out to the fiver road where j
It angles nortii through tlie cut iu tlie j
cliffs; mil ut the fence. near
j wlure the |nii!t crossed It, till the re
ceding steps '.vcre well ou their way
to tl.e village.
CHAPTER X.
The Car.dlc in tlte Cranny.
All tlie w:.y li.ick to Kalien Iiock the !
Penrlhunfer prndr- -d tin- scene lie had i
gars''} on through rho chink In the
cabin wall: the man's transfigured
face; his actions with the picture—that
above all—the picture. It puzzletfc.hitn,
angered him. That such a man should
have her picture; his mother's—with
the darkly beautiful face and wonder
ful eyes—warm against his breast! It
was another reason why he should
hunt him down.
The rearlhunter was as brave as
the woods make them but It is no dis
credit to his mat.hood to say that
his blood mn a little faster as
be stepped down off the rock into the
water and waded through the falls.
JSvery Inch of the way had to be felt
out with his fingers before his feet
could be trusted to follow.
Tlie roar of the falls had dulled a
little when suddenly a sound came out
of the dark just ahead—a sound like a
garment rubbing against some rough
surface. The rearlhunter stepped to
one side of the passage and flattened t
numrtr agnmst me "wan. ' out of the
dead silence the sound came again. A
grin loosened his fnce. The very
sound he had half expected—a horse
contentedly munching his hay.
The Pei.rlhunter came out from
against the wall and inched his way
deeper into the blackness of the pass
age. It abruptly widened until he was
no longer able to reach from one wall
To the other with his outstretched
arms. Though denied the use of his
eyes, he knew that the passage broad
ly expanded Just there and became a
cave. He stood In the very entrance
of It.
The nert step—there was no help
for it—light! Desperate and danger
ous—the tirst spark, and the cave
might spring to life. Still, It was bet
ter than to stumble over a sleeping
man; or walk into a knife. With his
revolver balanced, his face to the open
cave, he reached his left hand along
the wall to the farthest stretch of his
arm, bringing his body as far as possi
ble from the light, and with his fin
gers fumbled out a spot suitably
smooth and dry—for there must be no
fallnre. The match scraped. A tiny
flame leaped away from the rock. It
lighted up the place surprisingly.
The cave was not large—hardly
twice the size of an ordinary room.
The first swift glance showed him that
—except for the horse—It was empty.
The stub of a candle caught liis
eye, stuck by Its own tallow to an out
standing stool of shale Just beyond the
mouth of the passage. He crossed the
passage and held the match to the
wick. In the better light he studied
the place more closely.
The cave could not have been far
below the ground, for an oak root had
found Its way through the wall. It
was to this that the horse was tied.
For a moment he was strongly
tempted to.stay where he was till his
prey returned the following night and
then rid the Flat woods of him, and
trust what evidence he already had to
prove his case.
But a better plan had been forming
ever since he came Into the cave, and
there was much yet to be do >e; though
the cave would have made a good hid
ing place during the coming day—al
ways provided the bandidt di<J not
chance to return before his time
Selecting a spot that he Judged to be
about right for the take-olT. he leaped
T' " > .T.J •
He Leaped at the Falls . . . and
Landed on the Flat Rock.
nt the Calls, and, half to Ills surprise,
landed on the flat rook outside. It
was like breaking through the crust
of creation Into n m-w world. Mar- .
veling at the small amount of water
that had c!uns •<> hini, he sprang o\"6r
the.two Intervening roel.-s to the shire, j
lie hurried nrouna to the front of
the cabin. raised the Intch, entered 1
and closed the .door. Snatching up
some cold biscuits and strips of fried j
bacon, lie hurriedly made six sand- j
withes and stuffed them into his pock
ets. Hesting at tiie spring long enough
to eat two of his Sandwiches, lie |
drained a gourd of water, crossed the ■
branch below the falls and hurried i
away up the bluffs into the deep I
woods. j
A mile and more north of the wi- i
teifnli. Wolf Him bends west to dou- I
bie and twist and loop through a tan- !
jrle of hills and irulches known as Fox
Den, the- wildest and most Inaccessi
ble district of the FIntwoods. The
I'earlhunter had heard of the place,
ile resolved to take his chances there.
The spot v as no great distance above
the three-gabled cabin.
Away up the bare front of a cliff his
eye lighted on the month of what ap
peared to be a cleft. In the rock. Wolf
Run washed against a narrow ledge at
the very foot .of this cliff. He spread
himself flat against the face of the
rock and strained from crevice to crev
ice. It was a prodigious task, but all
tasks have an enj—either at the bot
tom or at the top» The Pearlhunter's
task finally ended at the top. It
had to.
(Continued cm Saturday)
"Safety First."
It Is not enough to put poison on one
shelf and noupoison _ on another, for
they can get mixed up. And then as
surance becomes doubly unsure. The
new little tags, tllnminated with an
undark radium mixture that only and.
always glows In the dark is the safest
means for pointing out medicinal dan-:
fers.
aids to good looks, sound
teeth, eager appetite and
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR ON FINAL
HEARING
In the Court of the Commissioner
lor the Territory of Alaska„
Division No, 1« befor8 the Hon. J.
J. r. Ward. Ex-Offlco Pronate
Judfce •i'tlns In Probat®, at SkaS
way, PraciLc-t
In th« ma'ter o£ tli® Estate ol
Georee AIowl, deceased.
Notice ,1s nereby siveu by the
rl, rsi«ned, ad'"nlistrator of the
tato of Georse i!o;vl, deceased, that
a final r©Port ,and petition for diHri
butioa ba» becn filed ,-witli the jbove
named court ty the 'Administrator.'
of the above aamed estate; tuat the
Court Is asked to settla such rePori
fllstribut» '.ho ProPerly to the t i
, jvr'ons entit'ed 'o the same and
discharge the administrator, ;and th.
rL"r«day the 23 [day of Decembe
1920, a' 2 |p. m. In tho court Hot
of the above entiltled Cour'. has bee
Flit J as thg ti^e and Place for th
bearing of »uch final report and Pe
ililon.
Dated at Scaswaytbls 27tfi day <
Dctjber, 1920,
(Signed) A. C. Blanchard,
Administrator
First Pabllication, Oct. 30th. 192"
Final publication Nov. 27th. 192"
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.Many 3kagway PeoPle tako their
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j tfiB kidneys when they know the'e
omau* cecd helP. Weak kidney
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I advtse anyone having weak kid
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[ get Down's Kldeny Pills — the
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TIME TABLE- NO. 46
• Tuesday and Fr!d«J'.
N*. J, JJ. Bonnd Mo.
1st OlMet
8:80 ft. m. LeaveS. SKAGWAY Arr'ra
11:00 a. WHITE PASS Lea res
12:40 P. m. BENNETT »
2:10 P. id. CAttCROSS
4:30 p.m. VVHITEHORSE
Pa'Seiigera mu't be at depot 'u time to hay0 Baggage
pected and checked. Insp«cilon '* 'topped 30 m'aates before
leaT'ng time of trains.
1B0 pound" of Baggage W1 bo checked free with each full
fare t'c&et and 75 pound* tt'ltn each half fare t'cket.