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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-11-13

President Roosevelt is to give all
Panama canal employees who have
served two years beautiful medal.
e. B. Conner of this city, will be
among the fortunate ones.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-11-13

Divorces were granted Monday to
J. W. from Helen Lackey and Flora
from Ralph Augsburg.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-11-13

The October deficit in the national
treasury amounted to over ten mil
lion dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
SYNOPSIS.

Chip Mcclure, a ~16-year-oid girl living
at Tins place in the Maine woods is
sold by her father to Pete BolduC, a
half-breed. She runs away and reaches
the camp of Martin Frisbie, occupied by
Martin. his wife, nephew, Raymond Stet-
son. and guides. She tells her story and
is cared for by Mrs. Frisbie. Journey of
Erisbie's party into woods to visit t
of Mrs. Frisbie, an old hermit, who has
resided in the wilderness for many years.
When camp is broken Chip and Ray oc-
cupy same canoe The party reach camp
of Mrs. Frisbie's father and are wei
coined by him and Cy Walker, an old
friend and former townsman of the her
NIT. They settle down for summers
stay. Chip and Ray are in love, but no
one realizes this but Cy ak Strange
canoe marks found or lake shore in front
of their cabin. Strange smoke is seen
across the lake. Martin and Levi leave
for settlement TO get officers to arrest
Mcclure, who is known as outlaw ana
escaped murderer. Chips one WOODS
friend, Tomah, an Indian, visits camp,
Ray believes he sees a bear on the ridge.
Chip is stolen by Pete BOlduc and es-
Capes with her in a canoe. Chip is res
Cucd by Martin and Levi as they are re-
turning from the settlement. Bolduc es-
Capes. Old Cy proposes to Ray that he
remain in the woods with himself and
AMI and trap during the winter, and he
concludes to do so. Others Of the party
return TO Grcenvale, taking Chip with
them, Chip starts to school in Greenvale,
and finds life unpleasant at Aunt Com
forts, made so especially by Hannah.
Old Cy and Ray discover strange tracks
in the wilderness. They penetrate fur
ther into the wilderness and discover the
hiding place of the man who had been
sneaking about their cabin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
and McGulre crawled into his dem.

and Mcclure crawled into his den.
Most of these movements were OBJ
served by the half-beed, who, watch
ing ever while he plotted and planned
how best to catch his enemy unawares,
saw him emerge from amid the lodges
again, go down to the lake, return
with a pail of water, and vanish once
more
All this was a curious proceeding,
for he, like Old Cy, had expected to
find MCGUIRE occupying some bark
shelter, and ever now he supposed
there was one among this confusion of
bare rocks.
Another surprise o o came to this
distant watcher, for he now saw a thin
column of smoke rise from a ledge and
continue in varying volumne until hid
den by twilight.
And now, secure in his cave and
quite unconscious of the watcher with
murderous intent who had observed
his actions, Mcclure was enjoying
himself. He had built a little slate
fireplace within his cave. A funnel of
the same easily fitted material car
ried the smoke up to a long, inch-wide
hssIre in the roof. He had a table of
slate to eat from, handy by a bed filled
with moss and dry grass, also pine
knots for needed light.
Opening into this small cave was a
lesser one, always cool and dry, for no
rain nor melting snow could enter it,
and here was McGuire's pantry, and
here also a h~alf-dozen tin cans, safely
hidden under a slab of slate, stuffed
with gold and banknotes.
To still further protect this inner
cave he had fitted a section of slate
to entirely fill its entrance.
When the last vestige of sunset had
vanished and twinkling stars were re-
hected from the placid lake, the half.
breed descended from his lookout
point, and, launching his canoe, fol
lowed close to the Swallowed shore
and landed just above where Mcclure
dlSemDarked. indian that he was, ne
chose the hours of night and darkness
to crawl up to the bark shelter which
he expected to find, his intention being
to thrust a rifle muzzle close to his
enemy's head and then pull the trig'
ger.
But to do this required a long wait
and extreme caution. His enemy sure
ly had a campfire behind a ledge, and
shelter as well. The smoke had seemed
to rise out of a ledge, but certainly
could not, and so-still unaware Of
McGuire's position, yet sure that he
was amid these lodges, and a q
shelter-Pete graspcd his rife and
crept ashore.
1t was too early to surprise his
enemy-time to fall asleep must be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
STUDY NOT A NECESSITY.
End and Aim of Woman's Life, as Un.
derstood by Rosie's Mother.

In one of the Philadelphia public
schools is a little girl pupil whose an
cestors and coreligionists have ever
held that the principal end and aim Of
the life of a woman is marriage. This
little girl is we'll up in most of her
studies, but she has an inveterate dis
like of geography and it seems impos-
sible to teach the study to her. The
other day her teacher, made impatient
by her seeming unwillingness to learn
her geography lesson, sent to Rosie's
mother a note requesting her to see
that the girl studied her lesson. The
next day showed no improvement,
however, and the teacher asked Rosie
whether she had delivered the note.
eyes, ma'am," was the reply.
"And did your mother read the
note, Rosie" said the teacher.
eyes, NAM"
What did she say?"
my mother said that she didn't
know geography, an she got married,
In my aunt didn't know geography,
an she got married, an. you know
geography, an you didn't get mar.
Vied."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
P XIV.

To trail an enemy who is never
without a rifle and the will to use it,
requires courage and Indian cunning
as well. Pete Bolduc had both, and
after observing the many signs of a
trapper's presence in the swamp, he
knew, after he crossed it and reached
this lake, that somewhere on it's
shores his enemy, Mcclure, had his
lair.
He paused at the outlet, as did Old
Cy, to scan every rod of its rocky
shores, not once, but a dozen times.
No thought of the blessed harmony
of lake, sky, and forest, or the Sc
questered beauty of this spot, came
to the half-breed. Revenge and muir
der-twin demons of his nature-were
in his heart, and the Indian cunning
that made him hide while he watched
for signs of his enemy. The bare peak
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16

More than that, so near do we often
come to an important discovery and
miss it, Old Cy had twice leaned
against a slab of slate closing the en-
trance to this cave and access to a
fortune. the heritage of Chip Mcclure.
Rays fear, while well founded, were
needless, however. McGuire-for il
was this outlaw whom they had am
pie reason to avoid-was many miles
away. And yet so potent was the
sense of danger, that neither Old Cy
nor Ray thought of food, or ceased
padding II moment, until they had
crossed the vast swamp and nee more
pulled their canoe out at the point
where they had entered it the day
before.
Here a brief halt for food and rest
was taken; then they shOuldered theil
light craft and started for Birch Camp
In the meantime another was
ascending this winding stream, ant
long before nightfall, Pete Bolduc
sure that he was on the trail of Nc
CURE, entered the ledge-bordereC
lake.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
CHAPTER XVI.

For two months life at Birch Camp
much resembled that of a w%oodchuck
or a squirrel. Now and then a day
came when the crusted snow permitted
a gum-gathering trip into the forest,
or a few midday hours at ice fishing;
and I've were the first signs of
spring more welcome than to those
winter-bound prisoners. The wise
counsel and patient example of Old Cy
had not been lost upon Ray, either;
and that winters experience had
changed him to an almost marvellous
degree. He was no longer a moody and
selfish boy, thinking only of his own
privations, but more Of a man, who
realized that he had duties and obliga-
tons toward others, as well as him,
self.
With the returning sun and vanish
ing snow, animal life was once more
astir, and a short season of trapping
was again entered upon, and mingled
with that a few days more of gum
gathering. 1t was brief and at a disad.
vantage, for ice still covered the lake,
and until that disappeared no use of
the canoes could be made.
Once well under way, however,
spring returned with speed, the brooks
began to overflow, the lake to rise, and
n morning, instead Of a white ex-
panse of watery ice, it was a blue and
rippled lake once more.
And now plans for Rays return to
Greenvale were in order, and the sole
topic of discussion. He was as eager
as a boy anxious for the close of
school, and for a double reason, which
is self-evident.
1t was agreed that Old Cy and him.
self shorid make the trip out together
in two canoes, and convey their stores
of gum and frs. At the settlement
these were to be packed, to await later
sale and shipment. Old Cy wouldthen
return to camp, and Ray would go on
to Greenvale.
A change in this plan came in ar
unexpected manner, however, for q
few days before the one set for de
parture, Old Cy, always on watch, saw
a canoe enter the lake, and who should
appear but Levi, Martins old guide.
I've been cookin' up at a lumber
camp on the Moosehorn," he ex
planned, after greetings had been ex
changed, IAN l thought l would make
a trip up here an call on We fore
went out"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16

overlooking the lake o o impressed
him as a vantage point, and after a
half-hour of watchful listening he laid
his rifle across the thwart, handy to
grasp on the instant, and, selling his
paddle once more, crossed the lake to
the foot of the peak.
To hide his ano here, ascend this
with pack and rifle, was the next move
of this human panther, and here in a
sheltering crevasse he lay and watched
for his enemy.
Two hours later, and just at sunset,
Mcclure returned to the lake.
AS usual, he, too, paused at the out
let to scan its shores. He believed
himself utterly secure here, and
thought no human being was likely to
find this lakelet. But for all that, he
was watchful. Some exploring lum-
herman or some pioneer trapper might
cross this vast swamp and find this
lake during his absence.
A brief scrutiny assured him that he
was still safe from human eyes, and
he crossed the lake.
From the bare cliff a single keen
and vengeful eye watched him.
AS usual, also, Mcclure made his
landing at a convenient point, some so
rods from his cave, and carried his
N up and turned 1t over, back Of a
low-jutting ridge Of slate, He skinned
the half-dozen prizes his traps had Sc
cured that day and followed a shallow
defle to his lair. Here his pelts were
stretched, a slab OF slate was lifted
from its position in q deep, wide Gre
vase between two Of these lodges.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
SaGffGKM on l5SflS3A Car

Many people persist in riding oil the street cars insuhfdenty protected by
clothing.
They start out perhaps in the heat of the day and do not feel the need of
wraps.
The rapid moving of the car cods the body uduly. When they board. the
car perhaps they are slightly persping: When the body is in this condition it is
easily chilled. This is especially true when a person is sting.
Beginning a street car ride in the middle of the day and ending it in the
evening almost invariably requires extra wraps, but people do not observe these
precautions, hence they catch cold.
Colds ire very frequent in the Spring o. this account, and rs the Summer
advances, they do not decrease. During the Spring months, n ne should
think of riding OF the ar without being provided with a wrap.
A cold caught il, the Spring is liable to last through the entire Summer
Great caution should be observed att this season aganst exposure 10 cold. During
the first few pleasant days of Spring, the liability Of catching cold is great;
No wonder so many people acquire muscular rheumatism and catarrhal dis
eases during this season.
However, in spite of the greatest precautions, colds will be caught.
At the appearance Of the first symptom, PHuna should be taken according
to directions on the bottle, and continued until every symptom disappears.
Do not put it off Do not waste time by taking other remedies Begin at
has entirely disappeared. This may " you a long and perhaps serious illness
1herO or.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16


would wheeze and have spells of cough
ing that would sometimes last for a
half hour.
"Now we a never thank you enough
for the change you have made in our
little ones health. Before she began
taking your Peruna she suffered every
thing in the way of cough, colds and
Group, but now she has taken not quite
a bottle of Peruna, and is we'll and strong
as she has even been in her life"
Pe-ru-na for Colds.
Mr.. James Morrison, 6S East 10th st.,
Paterson, N. j., writes:
81 have given Peruna a fair trial, and
1 find it to be just what you claim it
to be. cannot praise it too highly. l
have used two bottles in my family for
colds, and everything imaginable. I
can safely say that your medicine is the
best / have ever used."S
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Had Prepared For Ordeal.

ulate you or your little ones behavior.
l have christened more than 1000
babies, but I eve before christened
one that behaved SO well as yours
The young mother smiled demurely.
No wonder he behaved WE'LL she said.
His father and /, with a pail Of water,
have been practicing christening on
him for the last ten days The idea
of rehearsing a baby for a christen-
ing! Who but a college girl would
think Of such a thing?"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
A Counter Stroke,

A stylishly-dressed woman entered
a Chinese laundry and paid for a
Numbered shirt.
why do you wear those rats 1
think you call them, in your hair?" in
quired the Chinaman, who had IN in
quisitive turn of mind.
flush, Mr.. john" replied his GUS
toner. II always thought it was Chi
nese etiquette not to talk about the
things they like best"
The Oriental blinked his eyes as the
lady passed out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
and then another, and all the while
listening and advancing again.

anu lhEu GuOlnGEH aAu all NhC WIN
listening and advancing again.
1t was McGuire's habit, while stay
ing here, to look at the weather pros
poets each night, and also to obtain a
drink of cool water before going to
sleep.
Often when the evenings were not
too cold, he would sit by the lake
shore for a half-hour, smoking and
watching its starlit or moon-glittering
surface, and listening to the calls Of
night providers.
In spite of being an outlaw, devoid
of moral nature, and n who preyed
upon his fellow-man, he was not with
out sentiment, and the wild grandeur
of these enclosing mountains, and the
sense of security they gave, were
pleasant to him. His life had been a
harsh and brutal one. He had dealt
in mans lust and love of liquor. He
measured all humankind by his W
standard of right and wrong, and be-
lieved that he must rob others or they
would rob him. He had followed that
belief implicitly from the start, and
would so long as he lived. He felt
that every mans hand was against
him, and no reproaches Of conscience
had resulted from his cold-blooded kill
ing of an officer. Never once did the
thought return of the few years when
a woman's hand sought his in tender
ness, nor any sense of the unspeak'
able horror he had decreed for his own
child.
So vile a wretch seemed unfit for
Gods green earth; and yet the silence
of night beside this lake, and the stars
mirrored on its motionless surface,
soothed and satisfied him.
He had now and then another i'm
pulse-to some day take his savings
Of many years, secreted here, and go
to some other country, assume another
name, and lead a different life.
And now, while an unsupported
enemy was waiting for him to enter a
sleep that should know no waking, he
left his cave and seated himself on a
shelf-like projection close to the lake,
which was deep here, and the ledge
shore a sheer face rising some ten feet
above the water.
One hour or more this strange com,
pound Of brute and man sat there con,
templating the stars, and then he sud
denly detected a sound-only a faint
one, the mere click of one pebble
striking another.
He arose and listened.
Soon another soft, crushing sound
reached him. Some animal creeping
along in the passage between the
lodges, he thought. =.
He stepped quickly to the end of the
shelf. On that instant a crouching
form rose upward and confronted him
He had n moment only, but
enough to see a tall man a step be
low him, the next a flash of splitting
fire, a singing pain in one shoulder
and this human panther leaped upon
Mcclure!
But life was sweet, even to Mcclure
and as he grasped and struck at this
enemy in a blind instinct of self-pres
ervation as both closed in a death
grapple, n instant of awful agony
came to him as a knife entered his
heart-a yell of mingled hate and
deadly fear, as two bodies writhed on
the narrow shelf, a plunging sound, as
both struck the water below-and then
silence.
Death and vengeance were clasped
in one eternal embrace. ,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Rad Effects From Cold.

Mr.. M. J. Deutsch, Secretary Building
Material Trades Council, Isl Washing
ton St., Chicago, Ill, writes:
81 have found your medicine to be
unusually eficacious in getting rid of
bad effects from cold, and more espe-
cially in driving away all symptoms of
catarrh, with which l am frequently
troubled.
"The relief Peruna givesin catarrhal
troubles alone is well worth the price
per bottle. | have used the remedy for
several years now"
Spells Of Coughing.
Mrs. G. e. Long, writes from Atwood,
Colorado, as follows,
"When l wrote you for advice my
little three-year-old girl had a cough
that had been troubling her for four
months. She took cold easily, and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Prompt PAYMENT.

A village doctor, whose most
troublesome patient was an elderly
woman practically on the free list, re-
ceived a sound rating from her one
day for not coming when summoned
the night before.
"You can go to see your other pa
tents at night" she said, why can't
you come when l send for you? Amt
my money as good as other people's?"
II don't know, madam" was the re-
ply. II never saw any Of it."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16

Trellis for Beans.

is plowed. Plant and cultivate one
row each side Of line until beans be.
gin to vine, then set pole slanting, ty,
ing them together where they cross at
the wire. This braces the whole row,
explains Farm and Home, and beans
can be cultivated with hoe. Hills three
feet apart in row with one vine ia
hill are better than two vines.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Christening Rehearsal Struck Clergy
man as New Idea.

These college girls" said a clergy
man, as he gazed at the white and
superb ranks Of beautiful graduates,
ARE a boon to the a They intro
duce new ideas. / christened the other
day the first baby of a married col
lege girl. Now, babies usually cry
while they are being christened, but
this n was as quiet as a lamb.
Throughout the ceremony it smiled
up beautifully into my face. well.
madam, said l to the young wife at
the christening's end, I must congrat-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16

allowed. Yet so eager was the half
breed to deal death to him, that he
must needs come here to wait. No
chances must be taken when he did
crawl up to his victim, for a false step
or the rattle of a loose stone, or his
form outlined against the starlit sky
as he crawled over a ledge, might mean
death to him instead of Mcclure. And
so, crouching safely in a dark nook
above the landing, Pete waited,
watched and listened.
One hour ~passed-it seemed two
and then the half-breed crept stealth.
lily up to where the smoke had been
seen. Not by strides, or even steps,
but as a panther would, lifting one
foot and feeling where 1t would rest
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Kerosene Emulsion.

One-half pound soap, one gallon wa.
ter, two gallons kerosene. Dissolve
the soap in water over fire. Remove
from fire and add kerosene. Stir vic.
lently. Use n part Of emulsion to
is parts water.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
EASY WAY TO POLE BEANS.
TreIlis on Which Beans Will Find
Ready Support.

Set posts at convenient distances
apart and stretch a wire at the top.
This may be done as soon as ground
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
lmportant TO Mothers.

Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
A Elaa Pole.

Iceland wants to have a flag of its
own 1t won't have to 90 fay Cor the
pole.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Bears the
The Wronu Tense,


Dorothea's father was sitting before
a window in his country house with
Dorothea on his knees. He was look
ing across the fields with unseeing
eyes, when the lassie broke in on his
reverie with, what are you looking
at, papa"
II was looking into the future, my
dear"
"The future, papa! I thought 1t was
into the pasture!"-Harper's Weekly.
Pettit's Eye SaIve for Csc
relieves tired, overworked eyes, stops eye
aches, congested, infamed or sore eyes. All
druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo. N. Y.
Men have no rights in the world;
they have only duties.-George Mere
dith.
The Detroit times., 1908-05-08
TAUGHT MARRIAGE IS SINFUL, SHE
MARRIES FIRST MAN SHE MEETS

/. WASHINGTON, May Sis mar.
riage sinful?
Does the woman who becomes a
wife forfeit all chance OF a harp and
crown In Paradise?
Pretty Adah Pratt. OF the WON
ems Commonwealth" thought SO for
2e years. Then she married the first
man she met.
There is gloom among the members
tof the commonwealth" in conse-
jquence. Her name is never mention
ed. She is referred TO as "the fool
fish virgin"
q The "women's Commonwealth" was
tlnaugurated 80 years ago in Waco.
TEX. Then Mrs. Martha McWhirter
announced that she had had a vista
ton from the Almighty. and had been
told that 1t was sinful to live with a
man. She forthwith left her hus-
land.
Gathering about her small follow
ing OF women. she went to Bolton, a