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P.^ris, April 1—There is a grow
ing sentiment that Pr widen t Wil
son should define publicly the
limi.s within yhich America can
jo'u the Kuroi^an associates in
the German peace terms. JIany
teel that while the presidfant's pol
icy of attempting by private nego
liarioii9 to reconcile | conflicting
viaws and interests hw been wise,
the »iu.e is now come when it seems
necessary to enunciate publicly
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sentials. A case In point is the
French Insistence upon an armed
al lance with America as a condi
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From the French viewpoint an
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Loses 3 Sons
By The War
Mike Miller, on© of the best
Known chefs In this part of Alas
k», returned to Seward' on the
Alameda, to try to forget the hard
h*nd fate dealt him. by the w*r.
Two daj'3 before tine armistice was
signed, two soaa of Mr. Miller were
killed at tile front. Another
sen returning on eicJc leave from
the front, died the day ho arrived
In New York. Wh.cn Mr. Miller
went south last fall ho wag proud
of the iaet that ma three boys ware
fighting the Hun. Mr. Miller is
still proud of his boys, now dead,
but to have taken from him his all
at a time of life when h© most
needed their comfort is the strug
gle tht aged Alaskan roost fight,
an! U fighting m'm'uliy.—Gateway.
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INTHE CICARINU:
A TALE OP tHE NORTH COUNTRY
? IN THE.TilrlE OF SILAS WRIGHT
IRVING BA£hELLER_
/J ^ Autho* of
0 tilti HOLDENj |y«l 'and U DAWiEl OF THE blessed ISLE\
r'/ 4/ Utttw-if VITH UZZIE. ETC, ETC
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'& / f- 8YN0PSIS. | * \
f CHAPTER I—Barton Baynes, orphan,
1a taken to lire Vlth his uncle, "Peabody
Baynes, and his Aunt Deal on a /arm on [
Rattleroad In >a neighborhood called Uck
ltyspllt about the year 182S. Barton meets
Sally Dcakelber?, about his o^m age, but
socially of a clai'8 above the Bayneaes,
and Is fascinated by the pretty face
and fine clotljes. \
CHAPTER xx- -Barton meets Roving
Kate, known In t,le neighborhood as the
"Silent Woman.'' Amos Grlmshaw, young
son of the rteheat man in the township.
Is a visitor at the Baynes home, and
Roving Kate tell8 th« fortunes of the two
boys, predicting a bright future for Bar
ton and death fn tho gallows for Amos.
Reproved for a'1 act of boyish mischief
Barton runs aw>1'- Intending to make hla
home with the funkelbergs. He reaches
the village of t^nton and falls Into a
sleep of exhaxH "on on a porch. There
he la found by Silas Wright. Jr.. promi
nent man In pul^'0 affairs, who, knowing
Peabody Baynes. takes Barton home af
ter buying him bew clothes.
CHAPTER in—Barton and, hla uncle !
and aunt visit Canton and bear Silas
Wright read a sermon.
CHAPTER J V—Silas Wright evinces |
much Interact lr1 Barton, and sends a box I
of books and n»aga2lne8 to the Baynes
home. The, «le'-tlon ot Sll«» Wright to
the United S tatcs senate la 'announced, j
CHAPTKR Barton '» twelve I
Sears old h« K»cornes aware of the ex
tent of a »ond8£»i mysterious I
power knfcwn J9 Money, and learns
how through hi" Po»!*asslon of that won
dei^l thln» Orl'nahaw ,s the most D°wer
ful inj ireadv dreaded man In the com
munity Sost of th® »«ttleni being In his
£bt? AfS?» ;te,t to the ***"*> v°m8
Mr Wrigh* leave8 a not0 ,n a "eal' en" •
felOM which R»rtan 19 to read the
tort^lrtt^en leave, horr at
tend school.
CTTAPTT'R Vtt—Now In h!s sixteenth
year Barton acc<>mPanl«« Purvis."
the hired man. to1''1® Porfofflceat Can
ton. On the wav me<t a rlder- and
the three Jource* together. They are
held up by a. man ,wlt^ a S^n.-who rnakeg
the highwayman^., d«man<i of "Your
money or your lilV P"™'' ™,n» awa>'
while the stranger. * ?a,t0'' *>"' b':
fore he can u»e ll the robber ahoot. and
kills him. Baru «J » .£or8» 2lrow« '"I"
and runs away. the murderer bends
over the stranger Barl°" !ir°T5i*# 8t0"8
which he observe, wounds the thief, who
makes olf at one®' but not until Barton
had noted that h!8 ,taoc„lc„TaB b/°^n
In a peculiar rru.^" - Kv. f ni
neighborhood for *h\,r°bJ}?r ia unavailing
and the stranger 3 burled.
CHAPTER VIII—Barton leaves home to
attend Michael Hacket's school. Amos
Grlmshaw is arrested charged with the
murder of the stranger.
CHAPTER IX —Grlmshaw seeks to
bribe Barton to he silent about his
wounding the mu:"deref of the man killed
on the road. Tho offer Is spurned.
cruiFTEIv X—Emissaries of Ben Grlm
shaw seek to kidnap Barton, or do worse.
He is warned by Silent Kate," and es
capes.
CHAPTER XI—Uncle Peabody. Aunt
Deel and the neighbors celebrated Christ
inas. "Old Kate" Is one of the party. I
CHAPTER xn -Barton and Sally Dun
kelberg formally pledge their troth.
CHAPTER XIll-Old Kate's silent but
ontelenting pursuit of Old Ben Griinshaw
has its effect, ard goaded beyond endur
ance, Grlmshaw dies as the "Silent Wom
an" points at him.
CHAPTER X:(V—Barton gets a letter J
from "Roving K ate" which heartens him
Immensely, altliough at the time he I
doesn't understand It.
The people of the little village baa
learned that he preferred to be let
alone when he had Just returned over
j the long, wearisome way from the
scene of his labors. So we had the
evening to ourselves.
| Mrs. Wright, being weary after the
[ day's work, went to bed early and, at
! his request, I sat with the senator by
I the Are for an hour or so. I have al
I ways thought it u lucky circumstance,
for he asked me to tell of my plans
and gave iue advice and encourage
ment which have had a marked effect
upon my career.
I remember telling him that I wished
to be a lawyer and ray reasons for It.
He told me that a lawyer was either a
pest or a servant of Justice and that
his chief aim should be the promotion
of peace and good will In his commun
ity. He promised to try and arrange
for my accommodation In hir office In
the uutumn and meanwhile to lend me
some books to read while I was at
home.
"Before we go to bed let us have a
settlement," said the senator. "Will
you kindly sit down at the table there
and make up a statement of all the
time you have given me?"
I made out the statement very neat
ly and carefully and put It In his
bands.
"That Is well done," said he. "I shall
wish you to stay until the day after to
morrow, If you will. So you will please
add another day."
I amended the statement and he paid
j me the handsome sum of seven dollars,
j I remember that after I went to my
j room that night I stitched up the open
, lng In my Jacket pocket, which con
: talned my wealth, with the needle and
I thread which Aunt Deel had put In my
j bundle, and slept with the Jacket un
j der my mattress. .
CHAPTER XV.
I Use My Own Compasa at a Fork In
the Road.
j Swiftly now I move across the bor
i der Into manhood—a serious, eager,
restless manhood. It was the fashion
of the young those days.
Mr. Wright came up for a day's fish
ing in July. My' uncle and I took Mm
eomioKT RNrTOWMKraiv ovwo uonu»
up tne river.
While we ate our luncheon he de
scribed Jackson and spoke of the fa
mous cheese which he had kept on a
table In the vestibule of the White
House for his callers. He described
his fellow senators—Webster, Clay,
Rives. Calhoun and Benton. I remem
ber that Webster was, In his view, the
least of them, although at his best the
greatest orator. We had a delightful
day, and when I drove back to the vil
lage with him that night he told me
that I could go into the office of Wright
& Baldwin after harvesting.
"It will do for a start," he said. "A
little later I shall try to And a better
place for you."
My life went on with little In It
worth recording until the letter came.
I speak of It as "the letter," because
of Its effect upon my career. It was
from Sally, and It said:
"Dear Bart: It's all over for a long
time, perhaps forever—that will de
pend on you. I shall be true to you,
if you really love me, even If I have to
wait many, many years. Mother and
father saw and read your letter. They
say we are too young to be thinking
about love and that we have got to
slop It. How can I stop It? I guess I
would have to stop living. But we
shall have to depend upon our mem
ories now, 1 hope that yours Is as
good as mine. Father says no more
letters without his permission, and he
stamped his foot so hard that I think
he must have made a dent in the floor.
Talk about slavery—what do you think
of that? Mother says that we must
wait—that it would make father a
great deal of trouble if It were known
that I allowed you to write. I guess
the soul of old Grlrashaw Is still fol
lowing you. Well, we must stretch out
that lovely day as far as we can. On
the third of June, 1844, we shall both
be twenty-one—and I suppose that we
can do as we please then. The. day
is a long way off, but I will agree to
meet you that day at eleven in the
mornlug under the old pine on the
river where I met you that day and
you told me that you loved me. If
either or both should die our souls will
know where to And each other. If
you will solemnly promise, write these
words and only these to my mother—
Amour omnia vlnclt, but do not sign
your name.
What a serious matter it seemed to
me then! I remember that It gave
Time a rather slow foot. I wrote the
words very neatly and plainly on a
sheet of paper and mailed It to Mrs.
Dunkelberg. I wondered If Snlly would
stand firm, and longed to know the
secrets of the future. More than ever
I was resolved to be the principal wit- J
ness in some groat matter, as my
friend in Ashery lane had put It.
I was eight months with Wright &
Baldwin when I was offered u clerk
ship In the office of Judge Westbrook,
nt Coblesklll, in Schoharie county, at
two hundred a year and my board. I
Knew not then Just how the offer had
ome, but knew that the senator nnwt
have recommended me. I know now
that he wanted a reliable witness of
the rent troubles which were growing
acute in Schoharie, Delaware and Co
lumbia' counties.
It was a trial to go so far from
home, as Aunt Deel put it, but both my
aunt and uncle agreed that It was "for
the best."
How It wrung my heart, when Mr.
Purvis and I got Into the stage at Can
ton, to see my aunt and uncle standing
by the front wheel looking up at me.
Ifow old and lonely and forlorn they
looked! Aunt Deel had her purse in
her hand. I remember how she took a
dollar out of It—I suppose It was the
only dollar she had—and looked at It
a moment and then handed It up to
me.
"You better take It," she sold. "I'm
'fraid you won't have enough."
How her hand and lips trembled t I
have always kept that dollar.
I couldn't see them as we drove away.
The judge received me kindly and
gave Purvis a Job In his garden. I
was able to take his dictation In sound
hand and spent most of my time In
taking down contracts and correspond
ence and drafting them Into proper
form, which I had the knack of doing
rather neatly. I was Impressed by the
Immensity of certain towns In the
neighborhood, and there were some
temptations in my way. Many people,
and especlully the prominent men, In
dulged in ardent spirits.
We had near us there a little section
of the old world which was trying, in a
half-hearted fashion, to maintain It
self In the midst of a democracy. It
was the manorial life of the patroons
—a relic of ancient feudalism which
had its beginning In 1629, when the
West Indies company Issued Its char
ter of privileges and exemptions. That
charter offered to any member of the
company who should, within four
years, bring fifty adults to the New
Netherlands and establish them nlonjz
the Hudson, a liberal grant of land, to
be called a manor, of which the owner
or patroon should be full proprietor
and chief magistrate. The settlers
were to be exempt from taxation for
ten years, but under bond to stay In
one place and develop It In the be
ginning the patroon built houses and
barns and furnished cattle, seed and
tools. The tenants for themselves and
their heirs agreed to pay him u fixed
rent forever In stock and produce and,
further, to grind at the owner's mill
and neither to hunt nor fish.
Judge Westbruok, in whose office I
worked, was counsel and collector for
the patroons, notably for the manors
of Livingston and Van Rensselaer—
two little kingdoms In the heart of the
great republic.
Mr. Louis Latour of Jefferson coun
ty. whom I had met In the company of
Mr. Dunkelberg, came during my last
year there to study law In the office of
the Judge, a privilege for which he was
Indebted to the- Influence of Senator
Wright, I understood. He was a gay
Lothario, always boasting of his love
affairs, and I had little to do with blm.
One day In May near the end of my
two years In Coblesklll Judge West
biook gave me two writs to serve on
settlers In the neighborhood of Bald
win Heights for nonpayment of rent.
He told me what I knew, that there
was bitter feeling against the patroons
In that vicinity and that I might en
counter opposition to the service of
the writs. If so I was not to press the
matter, but bring them back and he
would give them to the sheriff.
"I do not Insist on your taking this
task upon you," he added. "I want a
man of tact to go and talk with these
people and get their point of view. If
you don't care to undertake it I'll send
another man."
"I think I would enjoy the task," I
said lu Ignorance of that hornet's nest
back in the hills.
"Take Purvis with you," he said.
"He can take core of the horses, and
as those back-country folk are a little
lawless it will lie Just as well to huve
a witness with you. They tell me that
Purvis is « man of nerve and vigor."
I bad drufted my letters for the day
and was about to close my desk and
start on my journey when Louis La
tour came in and announced that he
had brought the writs from the Judge
ond was going with me.
"I wouldn't miss it ror a thousand
dollars," he remarked. "By Jove I I
thluk we'll have a bully time."
"I don't object to your going but
you must remember that I am In com
mand," I said, a little taken back, for
I had no good opinion either of his
prudence or his company.
"The Judge told me that I could go
but that I should be under your or
ders," he answered. "I'm not going to
be a fool. I'm trying to establish a
reputation for good sense myself." >
We got our dinners and set out soon
after one o'clock. I had read the
deeds of the men we were to visit
They were brothers and lived on ad
Joining farms with leases which cov
ered three hundred and fifty acres of
land. Their great-grandfather had
agreed to pay a yearly rent forever of
sixty-two bushels of good, sweet, mer
chantable. winter whent, eight yearling
cattle and four sheep In good flesh and
sixteen fat hens, all to be delivered In
the city of Albany on the first day of
January of each year. So, feeling that
I was engaged In a Just cause, I brave
ly determined to serve the writs if
possible.
I rode in silence, thinking of Sally
and of those beautiful days now reced
ing Into the past and of my aunt and
uncle. I hud written a letter to them
every week and one or the other had
answered It. Between the lines I had
detected the note of loneliness. They
had told me the small news of the
countryside. How narrow and mo
notonous it all seemed to me then!
Rodney Barnes had bought n new
farm; John Axtell had been hurt In a
runaway; my white mare had got a
spavlij!
"Hello, mister!"
I started out of my reveries with a
little Jump of surprise. A big, rough
A Big, Rough Dressed, Bearded Man
Stood in the Middle of the Road
With a Gun on His Shoulder.
dressed, bearded man stood In the mid
dle of the road with a gun on his
shoulder.
"Where ye goin'?"
"Up to the Van Heusen place."
i "Where do ye hail from?"
"Cobleskill."
"On business for Judge WestbrookT"
"Yes."
"Writs to serve?"
"Yes," I answered with no thought j
of my imprudence
"Sny, young man, by hokey nettle!
I advise you to turn right around and
go back."
"Why?"
" 'Cause if ye try to serve any writs
ye'll git into trouble."
"That's interesting," I answered. "I
am not seeking a quarrel, but I do
want to see how the people feel about
the payment of their rents."
"Say mister, look down into that val
ley there," the stranger began. "See
all them houses—they're the little
houses o' the poor. See how smooth
the land Is? Who built them houses?
Who cleaned that land? Was It Mr.
Livingston? By hokey nettle! I guess
not. The men who live there built the
houses an' cleaned the land. We ain't
got nothln* else—not a dollar! It's all
gone to the landlord. I am for the
men who made every rod o' that land
an' who own not a single rod of It.
Years an' years ago a king gave it to
a man who never cut one tree or laid
one stone on another. The deeds say
that we must pay a rent o' so many
bushels o' wheat a year but the land Is
no good for wheat, an' ain't been for
a hundred years. Why, ye see, mis
ter, a good many things have happened
In throe hundred years. The land was
wlllin' to give wheat then an' a good
many folks was willln' to be slaves. By
hokey nettle I they had got used to it.
Kings an' magistrates an' slavery
didn't look so bad to 'em as they do |
now. Our brains have changed—that's
what's the matter—same as the soil
has changed. We want to be free like
other folks In this country. America
has growed up around us but here \*e
are llvln' back in old Holland three
hundred years ago. It don't set good.
We see lots o' people that don't have
to be slaves. They own their land an'
they ain't worked any harder than we
have or been any more savin'. That's
why I say we can't pay the rents no
more an' ye mustn't try to make us.
By hokey nettle! You'll have trouble
if ye do."
i continued on Thursday)
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