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EDITORIAL
The Rose Garden* of Lyons.
The ro>e growers of Lyons are
known the world over. The ground
where the roses are chiefly cultivated
Is on the outskitts of the city. It Is
tlat. devoid of trees, and protected
only by high walls at the confines of
the property. The rvse plants are set
oat for commercial purpose In straight
rows, sometimes 100 feet long. Near
ly all the plants are out of doors. The
greenhouses fi>r a rose garden of 15
acri s do not number more than two,
averazlng 30 feet In length.. It Is only
in exceptional winters that the plants
have to be covered. Sometimes the
tops of the older plants are rather
loosely bound in straw.
She Wa» Worth 50 Cents.
After marrying ft couple, a negro
paster was frequently taken aside by
the bridegroom and asked. "How much
do I owe you?" He had performed
sncb a ceremony when the bridegroom,
a flashily dressed negro who had ex
perienced a great deal of emotion
while the knot was being tied, whis
pered in his ear: "Parson, what do
I owe you for inarryin' us?" The
parsnn pondered a moment and then
replied: "As mach as you think you're
wife's worth." The bridegroom
thanked him and then pressed some
thing feelingly into his hand. It was
a half a dollar.
Increasing Term of Usefulness.
It Is not of great Importance to
the race to develop a half dozen cen
tenarians or a single duocenten
nrlan, except that they are' an Indi
cation o: the possibilities of resisting
disease. It Is a more significant
achievement, so far as the race Is con
cerned. to Increase the period of max
imum usefulness, to produce men who
will at sixty have the vitality which
their fathers had at fifty. And that
Is being done, not by startling foun
taln-of-youth theories, but by the
steady advance In health standards
and Intelligent use of modern discov
eries.
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A TAL£ OF THE FLATWOODJ
COPYRIGHT ESV THE BOBBS-HERRJLL COWANY
—xTy to sleep," sue saia, wnne
smoothing the pillow niuler his head.
The Man Both Dreaded Most to See*
"and gain every bit of strength you
can. If you must go tonight."
Her manner seemed not to Invite a
reply—rather seemed to forbid one.
He closed his eyes ami settled himself
Into the luxurious novelty of the sit
uation—the happy privilege ot obeying
such a nurse.
Sl-e moved the table back by the
window, re-arranged the work basket
ami vase of roses, and went to the
kitchen with the tray. He opened his
eye« the minute she was gone. It was
I farthest from his thoughts to spend
another moment of that wonderful day
in sleep. His great regret was that
he had already spent so much of it
' that way. Whatever was to happen,
It was no time to sleep.
The girl, busy with the dishes, heard
the cout h creak, and pitied him in his
restless pain.
"Wild Rose!"
She almost dropped the cup she was
I wiping. That call was not Inspired by
pain. No pain in the world could have
wrung it from him. She hurried back
into the room. He had risen and was
standing near a window, a look on his
face that made her half afraid of him,
his eyes like a blade half drawn. He
had heard a step. How he beard it—
sensed it—only the hunted know.
The girl sprang to his side, her eyes
followed the motion of his hand, and
her lips turned while. A man was com
ing up the path—the man both dread
ed most to see.
Handsome, jaunty. debonair. smooth
faced except for 1 he aggressive mus
tache slightly shot with gray, the no
torious bandit swung along up the
walk. The I'earlhunter stood crouchttV
forward. His hand dropped to his hip.
closed over the butt of the revolver,
then slowly unclosed. He was taking
his arm out of the sling when the girl
caught him. shook him, drugged him
back.
"Quick!" she cried, pushing him
across the floor, "My room! Behind
the curtains!"
At the door he hung back, his head
still over his shoulder.
"I reckon I must hide!" he muttered,
still glaring back toward the window.
"But not there! The kitchen?"
"No, my room. It's safest."
She ptished him behind the curtains.
I "But if he comes In?"
"He won't!"
1 He caught a glimpse of her—white,
hard as the face of the hills, and the
blt*e In her eyes like bright steel
touched with flame.
A quick glance at the tiny silt be
tween the curtains behind which she
knew the Pearlhunter was standing, a
very positive and vigorous shake of
her finger that said plainer than words
to stay there: and she rose and walked
with a firm step to the door. A nar
row inch sh,e opened it and with her
left hand held It so, with her right
shoulder propped against it in such a
way that her right side and arm were
concealed.
The man on the outside of the door
drew back a step, and, with a sweep
ing how—too sweeping, even for the
Flatwoods—ids hat came off and Ids
handsome face put on its most affable
smile.
i "And how Is my wood fairy this aft
ernoon?"
| The girl made no reply. Her face.
I framed In the narrow opening, changed
' not a shade.
I Nothing so disconcerts a man as to
[ have h'S advances met with silence.
Some or tne lines and wrinkles that
did duty for the smile left the bold
fare of the renegade.
"It was so very lonesome In the vil
lage, with the men all hunting that
desperado, that I thought I'd walk out
anil spend the afternoon with you, and
talk over with you some very charm
ing plans I have formed. You have
whQt I believe to be a wonderful voice.
While, to my great regret, you have
never sung for me, yet, as I have
passed back and forth through the
woods In my business of looking tip
timber options, I have sometimes
heard you sing. You undoubtedly have
a great voice. Now, I am rich, with
no one to spend my money on. What
better could I do with It than give to
the world a great singer? If you will
go with me, you shall have the best
training the world affords."
He put one foot up on the door-step,
his. face beaming—if such a face can
beam. The IVnrlhunter stiffened In
his place behind the curtain. The girl
never changed a hair's breadth In the
narrow opening between the cheek of
the door and the jamb. Her cold si
lence was apparently too much even
for the bold man that faced her.
"Aren't you going to Invite mi^tn?"
"My father Is away this afternoon.
I can not Invite you In."
It was tbe tirst word she had spok
en—a word cold and hard enough:
but the brazen intruder seemed to take
encouragement from It.
"Then permit me to Invite myself."
He advanced 11 step, laid his hand to
the door, pushed llchtly. The narrow
silt between cheek and janili widened
not a hair.
The passions of a Prussian noble
were behind that face outside. They
heiran to br>*:ik through its thin ve
neer of politeness, lie put his hat back
on. but still kept his hand on the
door.
"I inlnht choose to come In."
The girl made no answer; neither
did she suffer the door to yield. The
last vestige of the smile left the man's
*n ce.
"I niisht demand to come in"—some
thing close kin to a snarl slipped Into
his voice—"to search this cabin for
th;»t notorious desperado, the Red
Mask, the murderer of Louie Solo
mon."
"The Ked Mask Is not In this cab
in."
The answer came slowly, and there
was a peculiar emphasis upon the
word "in." doubtless unconscious. To
the listener behind the curtains, it was
as If she had said: "Not In the cabin.
Just in front of it."
The pressure on the door increased.
The I'enrlhunter saw the trlrl brace
her body against It. The door began
to five a tiny mite at first—an Inch
two inches—
Ht- could stand It no longer. He
was in the very act of sweeping the
curtains aside when the girl's right
arm, the one hid behind the door,
dropped-to her side. Her hand weut
into the folds nf her dress. When it
came out it hold the revolver he had
cleaned and put in order the night be
fore. She corked the weapon and
leaped back. The door Hew open. The
man on the sti-n barely saved himself
from sprawling in upon the tloor by
clutching the door jamb. When he re
gained his balance, he was gazing Into
the muzzle of a very steady and de
pendable looking six-gun. At first
Hash he actually thought It was a joke.
"You won'iln't shoot a man?"
His voice had lost Its Jaunty assur
ance.
"No," came the cold, crisp answer
down the steady barrel, "but I'd shoot
a snake."
There was 110 chance of misunder
standing her.
"Damn'd if I don't believe you
would!"
"You know how to find out."
He knew. . lie slowly raised his
hands. The expression in his eves
might have meant any number of
things; first of all, that he bowed to
necessity; second. Dint he would come
again. Astonished, ifiortilied, baffled—
that, most of all; baffled—lie doubtless
salved his pride with that second
thought: He would come again. The
girl sensed something of what smol
dered deep in the bold eyes—eyes that
a good woman could hardly meet with
out dishonor. But there were plans
afoot—and she trusted them.
"Listen'. I'll give you time to get
out of sight. If you walk fast. If you
look back, or you are in sight when
I think the time is up, I'll shoot; and
I'll hit what 1 shoot at."
He studied the eyes back of the re
volver. What he saw whirled him
around, his hands still up; and started
him back down the path. The farther
he went the faster he went. In less
time than she had thought, he had
passed the turn and disappeared.
She closed the door, laid the revol
ver on the table beside the sewing bas
ket. crossed the room to the sofa. The 1
He Studied the Eye* Back of the Re
volver.
Pearlhunter had come out from befttna
the curtains, admiration rutinlng riot
to his eyes.
"I wish I knew some way to tell
you," he said, "how proud I am to
know a girl like yon. I don't know a
man that could have done It. And
lUm the Hed Mask! Before you I
feel like a—a—tailor."
She looked up at him, tried to smile;
the smile was a failure. Her lips
quivered; her eyes fell. To the Pearl
hunter's amazement she dropped down
on the sofa and burst Into tears. He
stood shifting from one foot to the
other, puzzled and helpless. It was
beyond him. He sat down beside her,
reached forth his one free hand and
laid It upon her hair.
"Why—don't cry I It's—all over—
now I"
He frowned in an effort to think of
something else to say. But all he conld
think of was: "Don't cry," and tlmt
didn't seem to do any good. He was
thinking some very uncomplimentary
things about his clumsy and awkward
self, when she looked up. The man
stared. She was laughing—a nervous
little laugh right through the tears.
The laugh astonished him more than
the tears, but It was an Immense re
lief to him, just the same.
"My, Isn't It silly for me to carry on
like this! And.over nothJnj!" x
"Nothing!"
"Well, hardly anything."
"And you weren't afraid?"
"Not with—you here."
The half-hesltatlng statement
pleased the man—pleased him Im
mensely.
"And you're not afraid now?"
"Only that they might find y#u. Why
should I be?"
"Then—I must follow him."
He rose from the sofa. Hat he had
none—It was tramped to nigs In the
dust- and dirt of the village under the
wide reaching limbs of the oak—but
he besjan hitching together the strips
and tatters of his blouse.
The girl sprang up and faced him.
"You! Why, you can hardly stand."
"We must find out whether he goes
hark to the village or down to Fallen
Rock. Everything depends on know
ing that."
He made a step toward the door.
She got before him.
•Til go."
"You!"
"Why not? I know the woods, and
they're safer for me than you Just
now."
She was at the door of the kitchen
before he could stop her, Her haste
the greater, perhaps, becatise she
knew lie would stop her. Re reached
lier'arm Just as she raised the latch.
"Xo—! It's my place 1"
"It's 'your place to stay right here
and gain strength for your big plan
tonight. Why, it's only a little ten
minute run—and I know every bush
and tree."
His plan! Everything depended on
It—on his being able to carry It ,
j through. He could not move till the
time came, and that would be when
the dark came. It would ruin every- J
thing to be seen too soon. And yet
he must know which way the man
went. Much depended on whether he
feil his horse now, or went on to the
village and came back after night to
feed him. The I'earlhunter hesitated,
wavering between a very keen and un
spoiled chivalry and a very insistent
expediency.
"If he should—catch you!"
She laughed merrily.
"Not even you could catch me tti
the woods."
She flung open the door. He
stretched forth his anu.
"No. no I I can't—"
But she was gone.
(I jiitluued on Thursday)
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NOTICE OF AOMINiSTRATOR ON FINAL
HEARING
In ike Court of the Commissioner
for tie Territory of Ala9ka„
Dlvl'lon No. X. belor® the Hon. J.
J. V. Ward' Ex-Offlco Pro Date
Judfce I'tlns in Probate, at 9kaS
vrxr, PredLfct.
Ia tba nia'ter ot the Estate or
Georse Mowl, deceased.
Notice }a noreby tfiven by the
rt.r»j8ned, adninllgtrator of the
tat« of Georffe l£owl, deceased, that
a flnal report ,and petition for dlHrl
b«tlon ha" been, filed ,with the above
naired Court ty the 'Administrator?
of the abova n,amed estate; that the
Court Is asked .to settle such rePort
di*tribute '.ho ProPerty to the hei!
,ivr"ons entu-'ed lo the same and
discharge the administrator, and th
Th"r«<lay the 23 [day of Decembo
19!0, a' 2 [p. m. In, the C0urt Roc.
of th« abova en til tied Co"r'. has bee
fixed es thg U™e and Place for th
hearing of «ch Oaal rePort and Pe
til ion.
Dated at Searway^this 27tb day o
Octjfcer, 1920.
(Signed) A. C. Blanchard,
Administrator
First Publllcation, Oct. 30th. 192t».
Final publllcatlcn Nor. 27th. 1920
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TIME TABLE NO. 46
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2:10 p. m.
4:30 p. m.
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Passengers mu't be at depot «ji t>m« to hav0 Baggage la
pec ted and checked. Inspection 11 'topped 30 m'nutes before
leaving time of trains. ' —
1B0 pound" of Baggage w'l be checked free with eaci full
fare ticket and 75 pound" wltn eash half fare t'cket.