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singer, had cheated the Powers above. They
could not hold him for murder when he had
laid no fatal hand on any man. He turned
to 60, then hurriedly came back and muffled
the prospector's mouth with long scarf. Then
he vanished into the shadows Of the forest
FAR to the left huge hawk wheeled in the
heavens. He too had prey in mind. He
flew directly over the prospector, making for
a gap in the ridge pines rising just beyond.
Passing the gap, it needed only few Sec
onds to whirl above Mrs. Dowlings front
yard, where the insatiate Daisy Sylvester,
now so greedily absorbed as to forget all
hawks. was on the verge of uprooting the I'M
lucky aster completely.
She never saw the down rushing terror till
it's talons struck into her fat sides Then, in
deed, her piercing squawks made every other
half grown pullet fly like the wind for shelter.
Up into the air she was snatched, still scream
ing When Miss Shipley ran to the rescue.
the hawk was fifty yards away and growing
smaller with rapidly increasing distance.
All would have gone we'll for the ravisher
but for flock of bandit crows These robbers
stole eggs and corn Unfortunately. But
claws, the very CLINT of his red brown feathers
filled them with righteous rage and they made
a joyous dash in his direction. Nothing pleases
these .sad-colored gentry more than to dis
cover a burdened hawk. Hampered with his
prey. the enemy has sorry time.
The hawk struck out savagely with his
hooked beak. his gray eyes bitter with anger;
but Daisy Sylvester was about all he could
carry Even his steely muscles felt worried
by her too plump form. He missed the crows
and received Some humiating whacks the
head from their blunter beaks.
Miss Shipley saw the crows attack. and re-
joiced in it, glad of anything to distract her
mind She snatched up her rifle and ran after
the moving melee, determined to do all she
could to save the pulet. At first the COM
batants drifted away from her so rapidly
But presently the attack the hawk grew SO
determined that she began to get within good
range and to think she might risk firing.
As the barrier passed through the gap in
the pines and came into the open space beyond.
the crows skurried aside from the fire and the
man below. But their unfailing instincts re-
assured them. and they returned with bitterly
venomous beaks. just as the hawk came above
Van Buren, There the battle hung in space,
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the besieged hawk barely holding his own.
unable to move either forward or backward.
The powerless man below them stared up
with agonized eyes. Oh, God! to be free as
chance, however small! Any death but that
unjust Judgment suspended above him by the
slender rope Any enemy but that unwaver-
ing line of red, frightening always Tightening
until in the sickening suspense it seemed to
him that the cords of his heart would snap
long before the flame could bite through the
end of the cord; although the scarlet edge
now had almost reached the heap of withered
leaves round the pegs!
He tried to cry out. His smothered tone
was answered by the clean, sharp crack of a
rifle and by the whirling fantically downward
of dark substance above his head. His reel
ing senses had only time to accept this as the
end, when Daisy Sylvester and the dying hen
barrier fell plump into the flames just swapping
at the last leaves.
Between the last agonies of the MORALLY
wounded hawk and the wildly chaotic strug-
giles of Daisy Sylvester every vestige of fire
was crushed out, though a most disreputable
smell of singed feathers rose from the scorched
pullet, and the frightened crows scattered IN
every direction.
Miss Shipley saw the enemy DROP and ran
toward the spot, anxious to rescue the Ply
mouth, if it had escaped being killed The
scene that she entered on made her heart
stand STILL for Van Buren, lay white and un-
conscious uiueI IIe sosPenoeu eIoae nc
independence of her mountain life had taught
the girl to waste no time in vain EXPLANATIONS.
By the time Van Burens senses returned he
was free.
His first use of his liberty was to comfort
the shaken girl. who unavoidably had read the
whole story from the self evident arrangements
of Hughes.
"Oh, dear Lowell" she sobbed. eff / had
been moment later, should have died too!
That wretch, whom have taught OH how
could he?"
head down on his shoulder "Never mind that
now. dear heart, since after all we have to
thank Hughes for this understanding; or
rather our feathered friend. Look at her!"
And indeed, Daisy Sylvester, born beyond
question to adorn a circuit riders Sunday
with much whirling. fixed drunken, re
proachful eye on the lovers as if she also could
ask, What if | had been later"
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your father that day. when l was aft scrub
bing Paintwo a., g., a., 49,. ,.
I" l thought it was her good opinion of me. :"
went on Bridge earnestly; but now l know
it was your visit on the forecastle. Miss Mum
son, you were then the exact duplicate Of a
little girl who died at thirteen.-a little girl
that l worshiped as one of Gods angels, and
who went to the angels Her name was Zenie.
| have read of reincarnation. wonder if it
is possible that her soul returned-in YOU"
The girl stiffened and drew back, while her
eyes opened in the old wonder of the night on
the forecastle. Bridge. looking forward, went
on gravely: =,
What right have we-poor. wretched
human souls Ito say that we will do this or
that thing, that we will strive and succeed,
when there are forces within us past our
understanding, that decide the matter for us !?
l loved that little girl Zenie. She made me
a plucky. ambitious boy. She died. and
became wreck, tramp, a scrubwoman on
liner. l saw you, and went to work. and
here l am,-as sailor practical success.
once read poem that l liked. l forget the
title and the author: but one verse ran like
this:
1.-The moving finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit.
A heavy cane came down on his head, and
an angry voice broke in, Damn you! Is this
daughter up till near midnight, and wake me
UP making love to her over my window? Zaza,
60 below at once!" The Captain had rounded
the corner of the house in his pajamas.
The girl screamed as the cane was poised
for second blow; but Bridge said nothing,
nor did the cane descend again. The mate
raised his two arms high above his head, leaned
backward over the low poop rail, sagged down,
and slid headlong over it into the sea:
Again the girl screamed, and the Captain.
shouting Man overheard" sprang to a life
buoy fastened to the taffrail, tore it loose, and
threw it. "My God! what have l done1" he
said chokingly. Il did not mean to knock
him overheard"
No one heard this. The girl had swooned
in the alley. and the man at the wheel was
snugly ensconced in a warm. sound proof
wheelhouse with but one window open.
Put your wheel down." ordered the Cap,
tain through the window. Bring her up till
she shakes. All hands forward. therel Come
aft four men and clear away this quarter
boat Weather main brace the rest of you'll"
They did all that men may do. They hove
the ship to- lowered boat, and searched till
daylight But Bridge, who could not swim.
was not found; and the ship went on, with a
remorseful Captain trying to comfort frantic
girl. who in two days was down with brain fever.
To be concluded next Sunday
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ture And this continued until the ship had
rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed along
the fortieth parallel to the vicinity of St.
Paul, by which time the father, having wor-
RED himself into insomnia, was compelled to
relax his vigilance by the physical necessity
of sleeping as long he could. night or day,
whenever sleep came to him, and the daughter,
intent upon matters far removed from love
and lovers, unconsciously placed herself in
the way of better acquaintance with Bridge
She came on deck alone one night in the
first watch, when the ship was tearing along
before quarterly breeze that she could barely
carry the kites under, and from the break OF
the poop watched Bridge on the main deck
giving the last orders toward the setting of
main royal staysai1; then. as he mounted the
poop steps, she accosted him.
"Mr Bridge" she said. holding up her
fathers sextant will you please point out ut
Why, certainly" said Bridge, all his MS shy ~
quarter. Miss Munson. I've noticed you before
with the sextant Studying navigation?
and I've got far meridian observations
and chronometer time; but l want to 60
farther, and father is bad teacher. He's
somewhat cross, and, Mr.. Bridge, do you know
l think I'm going beyond him!" She smiled
little roguishly
THAT ought to be easy" answered Bridge
"You are young, with fresh mind 1t is
hard for men to study.
But so easy to do other things.--to COM
mand ships. to fight, to shoot. to ride horses.
to swim. I'm a swimmer, though it took me
years to learn. l swan a mile once"
You can beat me-" answered Bridge
simply. Il cannot swim at ALL
II am ambitious" she said. Ito do what
men do. My present fad is navi cation l shall
never be satisfied until I have an ocean Ii
cense"
1T is a great force in you, Miss Munson."
said Bridge earnestly ut is rare in women:
but men feel it now and then. 1t griPped me
seven years ago, and lifted me from the fore
castle to the cabin. Do you remember!"
WHAT" she asked.
1.-THE man on lookout in the Umbria, on the
night you came forward when you thought
had called to you? Remember. it was foggy.
and your father came after you"
understand. Oh Mr.. Bridge! No, l don't
understand. thought knew you then, and
l have thought since came aboard that
knew you, that l had met you somewhere;
but father"
Never mind. Miss Munson. These things
are inexplicable. l thought, the years
went on, that it was a certain, curious sort
of praise of myself. from an old lady saw with
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
SCIENCE SCORES AGAIN.
A Preparation That Will Destroy the
Dandruff Germ Discovered.

Finally the scientific student has dis
covered a certain remedy for dandruff.
When it first became known that dan
iruff is the result of a germ or para
site that digs into the scalp and saps
the vitality of hair at the root, causing
falling hair and badness, biologists
set to work to discover some prepare
ton that will kill the germ After a
years labor in one laboratory, the
dandruff germ destroyer was discover
ed; and it is now embodied in New
bros Herpicide. 1t prevents badness,
stops falling hair and speedily Grad
icateS dandruff. Destroy the cause,
you remove the effect" Sold by lead
ing druggists. Send 10 cents in stamps
for sample to The Herpicide company
Detroit, Mich. Sold in two sizes, sc
cents and 81. T. IT. Thomas, special
agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
AN ELECTION PRIMER
Pertinent Points, about Our Election
Machinery For NeqO Voters and Old
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
When did the Republican party originates

In 1854 The first used at political convention in
Jackson Mich The first Republican national convention met III Pitts
burg Pa in 1856 and adopted platform in which the chief plank
declared confers upon congress
the of the United States for their and
that the of this power it both the right and the impera
duty congress prohibit the territories those twin relics of
barbarism, polygamy and slavery"
Who the party's first presidential candidate7
John c. Fremont He defeated by James Buchanan, the
Democratic candidate.
Who was the next candidatea
Abraham Lincoln He nominated Chicago and elected
his chief opponent being Stephen A. Douglas nominated by the
northern wing the Democracy Lincoln reelected 1864
General George B. Mcclellan, Democrat.
How many Republican presidents have there been?
Nine Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes Garfield Arthur Bena
min HARRISON Mckinley and Roosevelt Lincoln Garfield and
Mckinley assassnated Johnson Arthur and Roosevelt
ceded the presidency death the president being vice
leys uncompleted second term.
Since the war; Republican chiefly stood
For what is known protective tariff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
BOTH SIDES OF THE PROfiI-
BITION QUESTION
A City Without Saloons.

IBY THE PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE
LOCAL OPTION COMMITTED
Cambridge, Mass. has had no IL
censed saloons since 1886 There We're
122 of them at one time, but they are
occupied now by other lines of bust
ness or as dwellings. There is of
course some illegal selling. some
Kitchen bar rooms" but it has been
reduced to minimum.
Results: Thirty-three physicians
signed the following statement:
THE undersigned, physicians prac-
Using in Cambridge, bear testimony
from our observation to the improved
condition of the city since the saloons
have been closed. The streets are more
quiet and free from intoxicated per-
sons; and so far as our practice leads
us to those quarters of the city where
the saloons did the most harm and we
find much less evidence of the abuse
of liquor and an improved moral
tone"
Seventy-one employers of labor said:
"The undersigned, employers of lab
or in the city of Cambridge, bear testi-
mony to the increased efficiency. reg
ularity and promptness of employees
since the closing of the open saloons"
Rev. John O'Brien, pastor of Church
, of the Sacred Heart, East Cambridge,
once opposed to no license wrote:
Il would say no license has been
a great success in Cambridge. 1t re-
moves temptation from the path of the
young; it saves our innocent children
from the demoralizing and often
shameful scenes of the open bar room.
Profoundly conscious of my response
bilities to God for the advice / offer
in this matter, with a firm conviction
that the interests of religion. morality
and good citizenship are involved,
Isay to all who hear my voice Vote
mo license"
Material prosperity-During ten
Years of license the average increase
in population was 1,177; during Is
years mo License" it was 2,142. New
houses built during license years,
1,156; during no license years, 296.
Assessed valuation during ten IL
cense year shrank s3,19O,7S3; during
Is no license years it increased
: $3G,771,2O5, an average annual gain
, of $2,451,413.
At the present time the city is deriv.
5 ing from four to five times as much
: revenue from the increase in it's val
< uation fairly attributable to the no Ii
cense policy as it could get from Ii
l. cense fees, if it could go back to Ii
cense.
r Citizens of Rock Island how would
s. you like to enjoy that kind of pros
perity?
V LOCAL OPTION PRESS COMMIT
s TEE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
Our New Submarines.

After exhaustive trials of the new
submarine torpedo boats the naval
board reported that four of them had
exceeded their contract requirements
and should be accepted They have
now been brought to such a state OF
efficiency as to make them important
factors in national armament. There
is one family medicine that has reach
ed the highest possible point of eff
cheney in cases of stomach, liver, Kid
ney or bowel disorders and that is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. During
is 81 years experience it has been sc
thoroughly tested that no one ever
questions its ability to cure poor appe
lite, heartburn, bloating, sour risings
costiveness, dyspepsia, indigestion
oiliousness, sleeplessness, female ills
colds, grip, general weakness or ma
laria, fever and ague. Don't fail t
ry bottle at orce. The genuine We
guarantee absolutely pure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27

circus necktie. What'else did have!
"A girl" said Marcia eXploSively-"a
girl who locked like an actress. You
had your arm about her waist, and you
were kissing her, and the people walk
ing along the beach stopped and laugh
ed at you. and suddenly you saw them
and got up and ran away"
And here's where / get the engage
ment ring and my letters back, and you
tell me that have destroyed your faith
in the honor of men just because some
motion picture actor happens to look
| like me-"
1T was you" insisted Marcia. There
can be no possibility of mistake"
I'm from Missouri" declared Jim
ME. Would you mind taking me to
the place where Ifcan be confronted
with the evidence OF my perfidy?"
"Since you will not admit your gull"
said Marcia coldly. Il do not see how
you can deny the picture when you
must recall the circumstances"
please" said Jimmie pIeadingly. and
Marcia nodded an assent. The Nickel
Odeon was but a few blocks away, and
presently they had paid an admission
and had passed into the darkened hall.
For half an hour they sat there
watching the Pickering pictures thrown
against the screen of whitewaShed
wall; then Marcia turned to Jimmie.
1--WE must have seen all the pictures,
she said, with embarrassment. "This
seems to be the place I was in yester
day, but recognize none of these pic
lures. l hope you do not think u
81 think you are unfamiliar will
picture theaters," said Jimmie, with ;
laugh. wait here a moment"
He>siipped away in the darkness, ani
Marcia closed her tired eyes to shu
out the tiresome flicker.
She felt more miserable than ever
Jimmie's attitude had somewhat shak
en- her confidence in the Identification
and now she had even failed to prov
her case with him. Presently hant
rested on her arm, and she opened he
eyes.
''Slip out" said Jimmie. 81 hav
solved the mystery in part. The sam
people come here every day. so the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
Is Indeed Well Worthy.

Springfield Register: The many
friends of John l.. Pickering of this
city are urging him to present his
name to the democratic voters at the
August primaries for the position of
clerk of the supreme court. Mr.. Pick
ering was the democratic nominee for
that Office six years ago and ran over
$4,000 votes ahead of his ticket. 1t
is safe TO say there is no man in the
state who would make a more faith
full and painstaking official and none
whose election would reflect more
credit upon the party. 1t seems use
less to say word in reference to his
democracy, as that has been proven
| by years of advocacy of the principles
of the party. For a great many years
he has been a newspaper man and he
is acknowledged to be the foremost
correspondent in the state, and has
shown his devotion to democratic
principles by his aid to- the party in
his untiring political energy. not only
as a correspondent. but in helping tC
draft some of the best platforms of the
party. There is no doubt that he is
acquainted with more men in Illinois
than any other man in the state, and
his name on the ticket would undoubt
edly give it great additional strength
and we feel confident that every dem
ocratic editor in the state will be re
joiced to see him the nominee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
just for Information.

After all the mystery about the route
of the battleship fleet from San Fran
cisco back to the Atlantic, and all the
.denials from Washington that the
armada would go around the world
and enter the Atlantic through the
Suez canal and the Mediterranean,
Secretary Root has at last admitted
that the fleet will probably" return
by way of Suez.
Now that this is settled, would
some kind friend of the gentleman in
the White house who has been so busy
nor years in calling other people
naughty nameA, explain what he would
call himself? AS the Nevada Journal
pnt is: If Mr.. Bowen was an "disin-
gsneous, Mr.. Chandler a deliberate and
unqualified, Judge Parker an inven.
tive, Mr. Storer perfidious, Mr.. Wal
lace an utter, Mr.. Whitney a DELHI
crate, and Mr.. Hartman a willful liar
and If others would be called "a short
er and an uglier word" what may We
think of a gentleman who solemnly
declares what is the truth is not so?
Our own vocabulary is somewhat
limited, We must admit, when it comes
to qualifying a falsehoOd. So We ash
the gentleman of the White house thi!
question, merely for information
that's all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27

the Methodists number 6,660,784, the
Baptists 5,224,305, the Lutherans, q
O22,6O5, the Presbyterians 1,S21,504
and others in succession. The grand
total in 1907 includes 161,731 minis
tiers, 21O,199 churches, 32,983,156 COM
municants and members. There are
six Adventist bodies, ii Baptists, nine
Catholics, 90 Lutherans and II Metro
dist The population of the United
States in 1900 was 5000, 1897, of whom
G5,S43,S02 were native born. Stats
tics have certain value for ascer-
tanning strength and progress, OBJ
serves the Boston Waterman but they
are not a perfect or full index of all
the religious conditions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27
Review of Church Grow til.

DR.. H. X. Carroll, who was in charge
of the government census of churches
in 1890, has published in the New
York Christian Advocate statistical
tables for 1907 of ministers, churches
and communicates of various denom-
nations in this country. The net gains
for all denominations in 1907 were
2.S01 ministers. 4,214 churches and
627,546 communicates. In point of
numbers the Roman Catholic figures
are estimates and include all persons
baptized 1t reports 1858 clergymen,
12,4S2 churches and 11,371,970 COM
municants, a gain of 246000 commun.
icants. The Methodist Episcopal
church includes 1851 ministers, o.,
965 churches, 3,036,667 communicates
and a gain of 52,406. The white Bap
lists, north and south, have 24,410 min
listers, 30,S91 churches and 3,13711l
members, and gain of 63,265. The
colored Baptists have 12.204 ministers
17,721 churches, 1,117,S24 members
and a gain of 44,077. The Presbyter
ians of all names numbers 1928 min
listers, 16,47S churches. 1921 ,504 mem
bers, and a gain of 1897. The Dis
ciples include 1.2S5,123 members, the
Episcopalians. S21,240 communicates
the Congregationalists G99.327 mem
bers and the Lutherans 643,599 com
municants.
In the order of denominational fam
lilies, including all under the name
the Catholic body numbers 11,645. 495
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-27

A papers, on her career by Miss Emily
NJ. Burbank, in the March Century, in
cludes report of Miss Farrar's ideas
on this subject. and the frontispiece
of the number is a color reproduction
of painting from life of that young
experienced artist, as MEDIA in Il
Pagliacci," made for the magazine by
de Ivanowski. OF scarcely less in
terest in this number are two bio
graphical sketches: a record of the
last work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
by his son, with illustrations of the
sculptor's later important creations;
and a second essay by Helen Keller,
even more of a revelation than the
first article of this wonderful girls
wonderful gifts and accomplishments.
THE night of blindness has its blind
ness, too" she writes. 1.-THE only light
| less dark is the night of ignorance and
| insensibility." Those to whom the fic-
ton is always the best of the maya
zine will find stories in many keys
from John Corbin, Lucia Chamberlain,
Frank L. Packard, Harry Stillwell Ed
wards and Owen johnson, from the
| last a humorous story of life and
schoolboy romance at a boys school.
I, The new chapters of DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell's "The Red City" prove that
the author is writing with ripened
skill, setting the scenes in the most
romantic times historic Philadelphia
has ever known.