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EDITORIAL
SAVING AND COMFORT
Higher rateg of wages paid dur
g the war have opened to workers
ie choice of various new standards
action—they cannot all be ca!l?d
andards of living.'?
The nearsighted have used their
ausual wages to indulge in all
>rt3 of extravagance which gave
:tlo satisfaction and' contributed
Jthiug to permanant family sta
lity. Where they are not harm
g themselves, they are cultlvat
g tastee which taoy cannot hope
permanently gratify.
Others, the farslghted have
tve used tbeir increase in wages to
iprove their comfort up to tho full
ficieocy point for themselves,
d their families, and are think
? uirefully before they 6pend
eir surplus. Many are investing
sely in homes or working other
?1I considered investment pur
ases.
The wisest of all areputting a
-ga snare of their earnings into
ar caving Stamp® or saving banks
provide for necessities that mao'
ise, and- particularly to establish
"turn around" fund that will eu
le them to meet more comforta
r anv change^ in business or
iployment that may result froi
armistice conditions.
These far-sighted people have ta
n ihe war, and Its unusual oppor
iities for earning, very seriously;
as they did not expect the war
last always, they have not bank
on war conditions in employment
luring indefinitely. They are rea
for the future. If wage* keep
, they are still so much ahead of
> game.
.TVSOX (ITT
HAS A FIVE: 15
Dawson, March 7—A stage passed
art* at noon, with Billy 'Wil
lis orp, and will hit the burg
5;15. It has 3,000 pounds of
11.
Ca»e Fahley, an early pioneer or
rbanks, a cousin of Dan O'Con
1, was found dead at her homo
that city Sunday. She '"as 80
rs of ag».
-ouls Forsbloom, known as "Lou
the Horse," died in "Fairbanks
nday as the rcwult of injuries
eived in a runaway last summer.
teller Brothers' big clock keeps
correct time. Keller Brothers
> keep correct Ice Cream.
A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT
IRVING BACMELLERw
Ai/tho* or
(BEN HOUKH VM AND U BARREL Of THE BLESSED ISLES,
•*» JUffltW UT V1TH LIZZIE, ETC. ETC
8YN0P8IS.
CHAPTER I—Barton Baynes, orphan,
la taken to live with hla uncle, Peabody
Baynes. and his Aunt Deel on a farm on
Rattleroad In a neighborhood called Llck
Ityspllt, about the year 1821 Barton meets
Sally Dunkelbarg, about hla own age, but
socially of a. claim above the Bayneaes.
I and la fascinated by tile pretty face
and fins clothe*.
| CHAPTER n--Barton meets Roving
I Kate, known In the neighborhood as the
"Silent Woman." Amos Grlmshaw, young
son of the richest man In the township,
la a visitor at the Baynes home, and
Roving Kate tells the fortunes of the two
boys, predicting a bright future for Bar
ton and death on the gallows for Amos.
Reproved for an act of boyish mischief
Barton runs awny, intending to make his
home with the Dunkelbergs. He reaches
the village of Canton and falls into a
sleep of exhaustion on a porch. There
he la found by Silas Wright, Jr.. promi
nent man in public affairs. who, knowing
Peabody Baynes, takes Barton home af
ter buying him new clothes.
CHAPTER HI—Barton and hla nncle
and aunt visit Canton and hear Silas i
' Wright read a sermon.
CHAPTER rV-SIlaa Wright evinces
much interest lr1 Barton, and sends a box
of books and n>a*axlnea to the Baynes
home. The election of Silas Wright to
the United States senate is announced. I
CHAPTER V—When Barton is twelve 1
years old he b scomes aware of the ex-I
lstence of a wonderful and mysterious
. power known 43 "Money," and learns
! how, through his possession of that won
derful thing QrUnshaw is the most power
I ful and greatly dreaded man In the com
munity most of the settlers being In his
debt After a visit to the Baynes home
Mr Wright leaves a note In a sealed en- '
velope which Barton ** to read on the
first night when he leaves home to at
tend school.
' CHAPTER VI—Barton is asked to
drive a load to mill, arrives safely, but
in a snowstorm, unable to see the road,
th« horses get into the ditch and *
wheal of the wi»gon is broken. Uncle
Peabody manages to get together
enough to satisfy Grimshaw and obtain
an extension.
J How proud tt made me to bear him '
say:
j "Deel. our boy Is a man now—made i
this Jumper all Hone by himself an' |
bas got through all right."
She came and held the lantern up
to my face and looked at my hands.
"Well, my stars, Bart!" she ex
claimed in a moment. "I thought ye
would freeze up solid—ayes—poor
boy I"
We carried the grist In and Aunt
Deel made some pudding. How good
it was to feel the warmth of the flre !
and of the hearts of those who loved I
me! How I enjoyed the pudding and j
milk and bread and butter!
"I guess you've gone through the j
second peril that ol' Kate spoke of,"
said Aunt Deel as I went upstairs.
Uncle Peabody went out to look at
the horses.
When I awoke in the morning I ob
served that Uncle Peabody's bed had
not been slept la. I hurried down and
heard that our off horse had died In !
the night of colic. Aunt Deel was cry
ing. As he saw me Uncle Peabody
began to dance a Jig In the middle
of the floor.
"Balance yer partnersI" he shouted.
"You an' I ain't goin' to be discouraged
If all the bosses die—be we, Bart 7" j
"Never," I answered. !
' That's the talk! If nec'sary we'll
hitch Purvis up with t'other hoss an'
git our haulin' done."
He and Purvla roared with laughter
and the strength of the current swept !
me along with them.
"We're the luckiest folks in the
world, anyway," Uncle Peabody went
on. "Bart's alive an' there's three feet
o' snow on the level an' more comin*
: an' It's colder'a Greenland."
It was such a bitter day that we
worked only three hoUrs and came
| back to the house and played Old
Sledge by the fireside.
Rodney Barnes came over that after
noon and said that he would lend us
a horse for the hauling.
We had good sleighing after that
and got our bark and salts to market
and earned $98. But while we got our
pay In paper "bank money," we had
to pay our debts in wheat, salts or
corn, so that our earnings really
amounted to only $62.50, my uncle
said. We gave the balance and ten
bushels of wheat to Mr. Grimshaw for
a spavined horse, after which he
I agreed to give us at least a year's ex
: tension on the principal.
I We felt easy then.
CHAPTER VII.
My Third Peril. *
"Mr. Purvis" took his pay la salts
| and stayed with us until my first great
j adventure cut him off. It came one
| July day when I was in my sixteenth
j year. He behaved badly, and I, as any
j normal boy would have done who had
| had my schooling in the candle light,
j V>e had kept Grimshaw from our door
j by paying interest and the sum of $S0
j on the principal. It had been hard
I work to live comfortably and carry the
I burden of debt. Again Grimshaw had
j begun to press us. My uncle wanted
to get his paper and learn. If possible,
j when the senator was expected In
^ Canton.
So he rare me permission to ride
cantiaai PMciaxwcvBticEn. —*nv wi wn»
witn rums to tiw post omee^®-* dis
tance of three miles—to get the mail.
Purvis rode in our only saddle and I
bareback, on a handsome white filly
which my uncle had given me soon
after she was foaled. I had fed and
petted and broken and groomed her
and she had grown so fond of me that
my whistled call would bring her gal
loping from the remotest reaches of
the pasture. I had nnraed her Sally
because that was the only name which
seemed to express my fondness.
"Mr. Purvis" was not an experienced
rider. Mj filly led him at a swift gal
lop over the hills, and I heard many
a muttered complaint behind me, but
she liked a free head when we took
the road together, and I let her have
her way. *
Coming back we fell in with nnother
rider who hnd been resting at Seaver's
little tovern through the heat of the
A Gun 'Vent Off in the Edge of the
Bushes Close By.
day. Ho was a traveler on his way
to Canton and had missed the right
trail and wandered far afield. He had
a big lut'itary saddle with bags and
8hiuy brass trimmings and a pistol io
a holster, ell of which appealed to my
eye and interest. The filly was a little
tired and the stranger and 1 were rid
ing abreast at a walk while Purvis
trailed behind us.
We heard a quick stir in the bushes
by the roadside.
"What's that?" Purvis demanded in j
a hnlf-wlii^per of excitement. We j
stopped. !
Then promptly a voice—a voico j
which I did not recognize—broke the
silence with these menacing words,
uharply spoken:
"lour money or your ui«i
"Mr. Purvis" whirled his horse and j
clashed him up the hill. (Jlanelng j
backward, I saw him lose a stirrup and (
fail and pick himself up and run as |
If his lift! depended on it. I saw the '
stranger draw his pistol. A tun went 1
off in the edge of the bushes close by.
The flash of fire from its muzzle
leaped at the stranger. The horses
reared and plunged and mine threw
me in a clump of small popples by the I
roadside and dashed down the hill. |
My fa'l on the stony siding had I
stunned me and I lay for three or four !
Becondj, as nearly as I can estimate it, j
in a strua&e and peaceful dream. Why !
did I dream of Amos Grimshaw com- j
ing to visit me ag*in, and why, above ]
all, should it have seemed to me that i
enough things were said and done in '
that little flash of a dream to fill a !
whole day—enough of t.'lk and play i
and going end coming, the whole end
ing with u talk on the haymow? Again
and again I have wondered about that
dream. I came to and lifted my head |
and my consciousness swung back upon '
the track of memory and took up the j
thread of the day, the briefest remove
from where it had broken.
I peered through the bushes. The j
light was unchanged. I could see
quite clearly. The horses were gone. {
It was very still. The 6tranger lay
helpless in the road and a figure was
bending over hifti. It was a man with
a handkerchief hanging over his face
with holes cut opposite his eyes. He
had not seen my fall and thought, as
I learned later, that I had ridden away. J
His gun lay beside him, its stock
toward mt. I observed that a piece
of wood had been split off the lower
side of the stock. I jumped to my feet.
and seized a stone to hurl at him- As
I did so the robber fled with gun in
hand. If the gun had been loaded I
suppose lhat this little history would
never have been written. Quickly I
hurled tlic stone at the robber. I re
member It was a smallish stone about
the size «f alien's egg. I saw it graze
the' sfcle ofTifs hea<T" t saw Tils' hand
touch ti e place which the stone had
grazed. He reeled and nearly fell and
recovered himself and ran on, bat the
little st( ne had put the mark of Cain
upon hlia.
The stranger lay still In the road.
I ILfted his head and dropped It quick
ly With a strange sickness. The feel
of It and the way It fell back upon the
ground when I let go scared me, for 1
knew that he was dead. The dust
around him was wet. I ran down the
hill a (few steps and stopped and
whistled to my Ally. I could hear her
answering whinny far down the dusty
road and then her hoofs as she gal
loped toward me. She came within a
few feet of me and stood snorting. I
caught and mounted her and rode to
the nearest house for help. On the
way I saw why she had stopped. A
number of horses were feeding on the
roadside near the log house where An
drew Crampton lived. Andrew had
just unloaded some hay and was back
ing out of his burn. I hitched my
filly and jumped on the rack saying:
"Drive up the road as quick as you
can. A man has been murdered,"
What a fearful word It was that I
had spoken I What a panic It made In
the little dooryard! The man gasped
and jerked the reins and shouted to
his horses and began swearing. The
woman uttered a little scream and the
nhllrlron rnn orv\ntr to h**r side. '
The physical facts which are further
related to this, tragedy are of little
moment to me now. The stranger was
dead and we took his body to our home
and my uncle set out for the constable.
Over and over again that night I told
the story of the shooting. We went to
the scene of the trugedy with lanterns
and fenced It off and put some men
on guard there.
In the. morning they found the rob
ber's footprints in the damp dirt of
the road and measured them. The
whole countryside was afire with ex
citement nnd searching the woods and
fields for the highwayman.
The stranger was burled. There was
nothing upon him to indicate his name
or residence. Weeks passed with no
news of the man who had slain him. I
had told of the gun with a piece of
wood broken out of its stock, but no
one knew of any such weapon in or
near Lickityspllt.
One day TJocle Teabody and 1 drove
up to Grimshaw's to make a payment
of money. I remember It was gold
and silver which we carried in a little
sack. I asked where Amos was and
Mrs. Grimshaw—a timid, tired:looking,
bony little woman who was never seen
outside of her own house—said that
he was working out on the farm of a
Mr. Beekman near Tlattshurg. He had
gone over on the stage late In June
to hire out for the haying. I observed
that my uncle looked very thoughtful
as we rode back home and had little
to say.
"You never had any idee who that
robber was, did ye?" he asked by and
by.
"No—I could not see plain—It was
so dusk," I said.
The swift words, "Your money or
your life," came out of niy memory
and rang In it. I felt Its likeness *o
the scolding demands of Mr. Grim
shaw, who was forever saying Id ef
fect: i
"Tour money or your home!"
That was like demanding our lives,
jecause we couldn't live without our
lome. Our all was In It. Mr. Grtm
abaw's gun was the power he had over
as, nnd what a terrible weapon It
was! I credit him with never realiz
ing how terrible.
We came to the sandhills and then
CJncle Peabody broke the silence by
saying:
"I wouldn't give fifty cents for as
much o' this land as a bird could fly
around In a day."
Then for a long time I heard only
the sound of feet and wheelB muffled
In the sand, while my uncle sat look
ing thoughtfully at the siding. Whefl
I spoke to him he seemed not to hear
me. . .
Before we reached home I knew
what was in his mind, but neither
dared speak of it |
People came from Canton and all
the neighboring villages to see and talk
with me, and among them were the
Dunkelbergs. Unfounded tales of my
bravery had gone abroad.
Sally seemed to be. very glad to see
me. We walked down to the brook
and up into the maple grove and back
through the meadows.
The beauty of that perfect day was
upon her. I remember that her dress
was like the color of its flreweed blos
soms and that the blue of Its sky was
In her eyes and the yellow of the sun
light in her hair and the red of its
clover in her cheeks. I remember how
the August breezes played with her
hair, flinging its golden curving strands
about her neck and shoulders so that
It touched my face, now and then, as
we walked! Somehow the rustle of
her dress started a strange vibration
in my spirit. I put my arm around her
waist and she put her arm around
mine as we ran along. A curious feel
ing came over me. I stopped and
loosed my arm.
"It's very warm!" I said as I picked
a stalk of flreweed.
What was there about the girl which
so thrilled me with happiness?
She turned away and felt the rib
bon by which her hair was gathered
at the back of her head.
After a moment of eileoce I ven
tured:
"I guess you've never fallen In love."
"Yes, I have."
"Who with?"
"I don't think I dare tell yon," she
answered, slowly, looking down as she
walked.
"I'll tell you who I love If you wish,"
I said.
^WhoS" _ . . A
"You?' I whispered the word and
was afraid she would laugh nt me, but
she didn't
We stopped and listened to tlio sonp
*WIII You Love Me Always and For
ever?"
of a bird—I do not remember what
bird It was—and then she whispered:
"Will you love me always and for
ever?"
"Yes," I answered In the careless
way of youth.
She stopped and looked Into my eyes
and I looked Into hers.
"May I kiss you?" I asked, and
afraid, with cheeks burning.
She turned away and answered: "I
guess you can if you want to."
Now I seem to be In Aladdin's tower
and to see her standing so red and
graceful and Innocent In the sunlight,
and that strange fire kindled by our
kisses warms my blood again.
(Continued on Thursday)
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