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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1910-04-29
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CHAPPED HANDS AND SORE
NTpPT rs

ASS healing sslve for burns, sores,
core nipples and chapped hands Cham
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allays the pain OF a burn almost instant
ly, and unless the injury is very severe,
heals the parts without leaving scar.
Price, 25 cents. For sale by
All Druggists.
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again to consider well this enterprise
before finally committing himself to
1t. eff this were any other country,
If there were any law up here or any
certainty of getting a squar deal, I'd
never say a word, I'd urge you to go
the limit. But
He was about to laugh off her fears
as he had lone before, when the plain
tive wrinkle between her brows and
the forlorn droop of her lips stayed
him. Without thought of consequences,
and prompted largely by his leaping
spirits. he stopped and, before she could
divine his purpose, kissed her.
"Good-by!" he laughed, with dane
ing eyes. That's my answer" and the
next second was at the sled. The dogs
leaped at his shout, and the cavalcade
was in motion.
The Others had not observed his
leave-taking, and now cried a final
farewell; but the girl stood without
sound or gesture, bareheaded under
the wintry sky, a startled, wondering
light in her eyes which did not fade
until the men were lost to view far
up the river trail. Then she breathed
deeply and turned into the house, OBJ
livious to Constantine and the young
squaw, who held the sick baby up for
her inspection.
The hazards OF winter travel in the
north are manifold at best, but the
country which Emerson n his COM
panions had to traverse was particu-
larly perilous, owing to the fact that
their course led them over the back
bone of the great Alaska range, that
, desolate, skyscraping rampant which
interposes itself between the hate of the
Arctic seas and the tossing wilderness
of the North Pacific. This range forms
a giant, ice-armored tusk thrust out to
the westward and curved like the horn
of ap African rhino, its tip pointed
eight hundred miles toward the Asiatlc
coast, its soaring peaks yelled in per-
petual mist and volcanic fumes, it's
slopes agleam with lonely ice fields. 1t
is a saw-toothed ridge, for the most part
narrow, unbroken and cruel, and the
rival winter gales roar over it in a
never-ceasing war. On the north lies
the Forgotten Land, to the south are
the tempered reaches of the Pacific.
In summer the stern sweep of rock
n tundra Is soaked with weeping
rains, and given over to the herding
caribou or the great grass-eating bear;
but when from the polar regions the
white hand of winter stretches forth,
the grieving seas lift themselves, the
rain turns to bitter, hail-burdened ur-
ricanes that charge n retreat in a
de~ath-dealing conflict, sheathing the
barrier anew, and confounding the
hearts Of men on land and sea. The
coast Is unlighted and badly mapped,
hence the shore Is a graveyard for
ships, while through the CUTS, which
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at intervals penetrate the range, the
billiards. screech until travellers bur-
row into drifts to avoid their fury or
lie out in stiff sleeping-bags exposed to
their anger. 1t is a region of sudden
storms, a battle-ground of the elements,
which have swept it naked of cover in
ages past. and it is peoplel scantily by
handfuls of coughing natives, whose
igloos are hidden in hollows or chained
to the ground with cables and ships
gear.
1t was thither the travellers were
bound, headed toward Katmai Pass,
which is no more than a gap between
peaks, through which the hibernal gales
suck and swirl. This pass Is even balder
than the surrounding b~arrens, for it
forms a funnel at each end, combining
the winds and affording them freer
course. Notwithstanding the fact that
1t had an appalling death list and was
religiously Stunned, Emerson would
hearken to no argument for a safer
route, insisting that they could spare
no time for detours. Nothing dampened
his spirits, no hardship daunted him; he
was t~treless, ferocious in his haste.
A week of hard travel found them
camped in the last fringe of cotton
wood that fronted the glacial slopes,
their number augmented now by a
native from a Russian village with an
unpronounceable name, who, at the
price of an extortionate bride, had
agreed to pilot them through. For
three days they lay idle, the taut walls
of their tent drumming to an incessant
fusillade of Ice particles that whirled
down ahead of the blast, while Elmer
son fumed to be gone.
The fourth morning broke still and
quiet; but, after a careful scrutiny of
the peaks, the Indian shook his head
and spoke to Bait, who nodded in
agreement.
whats the matter?" growled Elmer
son. 'Why don't we get under 'way?"
But the other replied:
mot today. Them tips are smoking,
see!" He indicated certain gauzy
streamers that 1oated like vapor from
the highest p~innacles. That's snow,
dry snow, and it shows that the wind
is blowing up there. We dassent
tackle it,"
DO you mean we must lie here wait
ing for an absolutely calm day."
Exactly"
"Why, it may be a week."
at may be two Of them; then, again,
it may be all right tomorrow"
'Nonsensel That breeze Won't hurt
anybody"
"Breezel' Bait laughed. TITS more
a tornado up yonder. No, we've
Just got to take 1t easy till the right
,ao,nent oomas and Their mako a dash
It's thirty miles to the nearest stick of
timber; and once you get into the Pass,
you can't stop till you're through"
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THE SILVER HORDE Rex Beach
Rex Beach

Still unconvinced, and surly at the
delay, Emerson resigned himself, while
Bait saw to their sled. tended the dogs,
and made final preparations. Finger
less fraser lay fiat on his back and
nursed a pair of swollen tendons that
had been CALLED by his snowshoe thongs,
reviling at the fortune hat had cast
him into such inhospitable surround
ings, heaping anathemas Upon the head
of him who had invented now shoes,
complaining of everything in general.
from the indigestible quality Of baking
powder bread to the odor of the guide
who crouched stolidly beside the stove,
feeding 1t with green willows and
twisted witheS.
The next dawn showed the mountain
peaks limned like clean-cut ivory
against the steel-blue sky, and as they
crept up through the defiles the air was
SO m~otionless that the smoke of their
pipes hung about their heads, while the
creak of their soles upon the dry sur
face of the snow roused echoes from the
walls on either side. At first their
! progress was rapid, but in time the
drifts grew deeper. and they came to
bluffs where they were forced to notch
footholds, unpack their load n relay
1t to the top, then free the dogs, and
haul the sled UP with a rope, hand over
hand. These labors, besides being in
tensely fatiguing, delayed them consid-
erably, added to which the higher alti-
tudes we're covered with a soft-eider-
down that reached nearly to their knees
and showed ahead of the sled in great
masses. Thus they dragged their bur-
den through, instead of over it.
BY midday they had gained the
summit, and found themselves in the
heart of a huge desolation, hedged in
by a chaos of peaks and pinnacles, the
SHOWS unbroken by twig or bush, I'M
tracked by living sign. Here and there
the dark face of some white-cowled
rock or cliff scowled at them, and, al
though they were drenched with sweat
and parched from thirst, nowhere was
there the faintest tinkle of running
water, while the dry powder under foot
scratched their throats like dry filings
when they turned to it for relief. All
were jaded and silent, save Emerson.
who urged them on necessarily.
1t was early in h afternoon when
the Indian stopped and began testing
the air; Bait also seemed suddenly to
scent a change in the atmospheric con-
ditions.
Whats wrong now?" Emerson asked
grufly.
Feels like wind answered the big
man, with a shake of his head. The
native began to chatter excitedly, and
as they stood there a chin dreugnt
famed their cheeks. CHANGING upward
at the hillside. they saw that the air
was now thickened, as II by smoke,
and. dropping their eyes. they saw the
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continued From yesterday,

N
"He is my style. all right" said the
big man. He's desperate, and he'll
fight; that's what l want-somebody
that won't blench at anything when
the time comes" He ground his
teeth, and his red eyes famed,
rejecting the sense of injury that
scared his brain. "What he don't
know about the business, 1 do, and
we'll make it win. But, say, amt he
awful at asking questions? My head
aches and my back is lame from an
swering him. Seems like he remem-
bers 1t all, too"
Goaded by the wrong he a suffered,
and almost m%aniacal in his eagerneSs
for the coming struggle, the giants
frenzy told Cherry hat the fight would
be an unrelenting one, and again a
vague tremor of regret at having
drawn this youth into the affair crept
over her and sharpened the growing
pain at her heart.
During the evening Emerson left
the two other men in the store, and,
seeking her out in the little parlor,
asked her to play for him. h con-
scented gladly, and, as on their first
evening together, he sang with her.
Again the blending of their voices
brought them closer. his aloofness wore
off, and he became an agreeable, ac-
complished companion whose merry wit
hand boyish sympathy stirred emotions
In the girl that threatened her peace
9f mind. This had been the only COM
~lNanionship with her W kind she lar
enjoyed for months, and with his melt
ing mood came a softening of her own
A-z T.. ,lsal n nANAanAI I4fA-A
him gracious and irresistible. Banter
ingly, and rising out of his e~lation, he
tried to please her, anG, in the same
spirit tina calls the bird to it's mate,
she responded. 1t was their last our
together before embarking on his peril
Gus Journey in search of the Golden
Fleece, and his starved affections clam
ored for sympathy, white the iron in
his blood felt the magnetic p~ropinquity
of sex. When he said goodnight it
was with a wholly new conception of
His hostess, and of her power to charm
as we'll as manage men and affairs;
but he could well have dispensed with
an uncomfortable feeling that came
over him as he reviewed the events
of the evening over a last pipe, that
he had been playing with fire. For
her part, she lay awake far into the
morning hours. now blissfully floating
on the current of half-formed desires,
now vaguely fearing some dread that
clutched her.
The g~ood-byes we're brief and COM
monplace; there was time for nothing
more, for the dogs were straining to be
off and the December air bit fiercely.
But Cherry called Emerson aside, and
in a rather tremulous voice begged him
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fluff beneath their feet stir laZily. Lit
upon the ridges. whisking out of sight
as suddenly as they appeared. They
became conscious of a sudden fall in the
temperature, and they knew that the
cold of interstellar space dwelt in that
ghostly breath which smote them. Be
fore they were well aware of the omin-
Gus significance of these signs the
storm was upon them, sweeping
through the chute wherein they stood
with rapidly increasing violence. The
terrible. unseen and of the Frozen
North had ~unleashed its brood of furies,
and the air rang with their hideous
cries. It was Dante's third circle of
hell let loose-Cerberus baying through
his wide, threshold throat, and the
voices of tormented souls shrilling
through the Internal shades. 1t came
from behind them, lifting the fur on
the backs of the wolf-dogs and filling
1t with powder. pelting their hides with
sharp particles until they refused to
stand before it, and turned and
crouched with flattened ears in the
shelter of the sled. In al instant the
wet faces of the men were dried and
their steaming garments hardened to
shells, while their blood began to move
more sluggishly.
Fraser shouted something, but Elmer
sons whipping garments drowned the
words, and without waiting to ascer-
tain what the adventurer had said the
young man ran forward and cut the
dogs loose, while Bali and the guide
Foil 80 ,,n1oGh4nO thn clad thn fnifc NJ
their parkas meanwhile swapping like
boat sails, their cap strings streaming.
AS they freed the last knot the hurri-
ane ripped the edge of the tarpaulin
from their clumsy fingers, and, seizing
a loosely folded blanket belonging to
the native, snatched it away. The fell
low clutched wildly at it, but the cloth
sailed ahead of the blast as If on wings,
then, dropping to the surface of the
snow, opened out, whereupon some
twisting current bore it aloft again,
and it swooped down the hill like a
great bat, followed by a wall of despair
from the owner. Other loose articles
on the top of the load were picked up
like chaff-coffee pot, frying pan and
dishes-then hurtled away like charges
of canister. rolling, leaping, skipping
down into the swale ahead, then up
over the next ridge and out of sight.
But the men were too fiercely beset by
the confusion to notice their loss. There
was no question of facing. the wind, for
it was more cruel than the fierce breath
of an open furnace, soaring the naked
flesh like a fame.
All the morning the air had hung in
perfect poise, but some change of tenn
pe~rature away out over one Of the rival
oceans had upset the aerostatic bali
ance, and the wind tore through this
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gap like the torrent below a broken
reservoir.
The contour of the surrounding hills
altered, the whole country took on a
different aspect, due to the rapid
changing of the atmosphere. the limits
of vision grew shorter and strangely
distorted. Although rs yet the SHOWS
We're barely beginning to move. the
men, knew they would shortly be forced
to grope their way through dense
clouds tina would blot out every land
mark, and the touch of which would
be like the stroke Of a red-hot rasp.
Bait came close to Emerson and bell
lowed into his ear:
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fTo pei contInuea Tomorrew.l
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What shall we Go? Roll up in the
bedding or run for it,"
How far is it to timber?"
Twelve or fifteen miles.
Lets run for it! We're out of grub.
anyhow. and this may last for days"
There was no use Of trying to secur
additional clothing from the supply in
the sled, so they abandoned their outfit
and allowed themselves to be driven
ahead of the storm. trusting to the
natives sense Of direction and keeping
close together. The dogs were already
well drifted over and refused to stir.
fTo ne Continued Tomorrewa h
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
Election Day.

Dear Margery Doom:
Please nswer these questions: 1.
Did presidential election ever fall on
the 4th of November? 2. Was presi-
Dental election day on the 4th OF No
vember in the year 1895? Yours truly,
A READER.
1. AS Election Day always falls
on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday IL must have occurred on
the 4th of November at some time. ..
Presidential Election Day was on No
vember 8 In 1895.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
News FOR SHOPPERS

At Hahne & Co.'S will be found an
excellent assortment of mems broad
cloth overcoats lined with fur and hav-
ing Persian lamb collars.
Fine cheviot coats for growing girls
are shown at L. s. Plaut & Co.'S in
a variety of attractive styles. prettily
trimmed n guaranteed 10 wear well.
A well-made black broadcloth suit,
cut on severe lines, with stitched
seams and outside pockets, may be pur-
chased al L. Bamberger & Co.'S for a
moderate, amount.
Striped fiannelette night dresses,
trimmed with braid or piped with
silk, are among the very special bar
gains at the David Straus store.
Dainty stocks and jabots of fine
Irish crochet may be obtained very
reasonably at Marshall & Balls.
Long coats of heavy blanket ma
terials are shown in the seasons new
belted styles at Bedell's.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
No Will.

Dear Margery o
I wish You would kindly answer a
question for me In the STAR: II a per-
son has died and left no will. can the
property be sold when there Is one
child not of age, or can IL be signed
over to the mother without the child's
signature? CONSTANT READER.
Refer h matter to the lawyer who
has charge of the settling of the es-
tate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
Landlord and Tenant.

Dear Margery Doom:
Kindly tell me h is right? I have
lived ten years In a house. The land
lord came oil the la 81 day of the month
and said we would have to be out by
the 1st of December Does he have to
give us a written notice on the first
day of the month? NJ. e. M.
Apply to the Legal Aid Society In the
Social Service building, 1S Central ave.
nue., for information.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
To Remove Sugar.

Dear Margery Doom:
Kindly let me know through your
column what will clean a brown bril-
~lantine skirt that has had melted sugar
spilled on It? And oblige, E. w.
Try boiling water to dissolve the
sugar. Then wash thoroughly and
press the skirt while damp.
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' ;::: ADWDg[E's''4''':; ' s;;'
BY MARGERY doom

Correspondents are requested
not to send stamps for personal
replies. MISS DoOn's mail is too
heavy to permit her to write
private letters.
Letters written on both sides
of paper Will not be considered.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
East Side Park.
Dear Miss Doom:

Please let me know how many times
around the East Side Park makes a
mile on the outside of the park. and
what is the distance of the inside track?
J. C. AND F. L.
The distance around the East Sid
Park is eight laps to the mile, eighteen
inches from the inside rim of the track.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
Stores Open Election Day.

Dear Margery doom;
VIII you kindly tell whether the de-
partment stores in New York will be
open Election Day? Thanking you,
G. F. j.
The department stores in New York
will be open on Election Day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-04
Brown Hair.

Dear Margery Doom:
My hair is brown. VIII you kindly
let me know how / can make It jet
black? NELL r.
If you wish to dye your hair there
are preparations that can be applied
for that purpose.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
ATTACK ON
So SCALE

An attack on the So q day scale
for laborers Is made in a remon-
STRANGE filed against the assess
ment roll on the Fourth avenue
paving, Browne to Spokane street,
by James Broad, the contractor,
and other property owners. The
cost of the work is called exces-
sive and the wage scale Is blamed
for theh Ugh cost. Broad says that
the city has ordered So a day for
wages, when as a matter Of fact
the running scale for laborers Is
only $2.25. Broad believes that the
taxpayers are being made to pay
the 50, but that the labOrers are
not getting it and that by one
means or another the laborers are
hired under the scale. The street
committee will inquire into the
matter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
Gazing In Mirror, Girl
Walks Into Cistern.

Like most other pretty girls, Miss
Esther Constable. 16,nof Blooming
ton, Ind, likes to convince herself
of her attractiveness, and for the
purpose she had q silver hand
mirror.
She was walking along the back
porch of her grandfather's home
viewing herself in. the sunlight, un.
conscious of the fact that the lid
was off the cistern until she and
her mirror went kerplunk! down
into it's dark depths.
She became unconscious and was
nearly drowned when her grand.
mother, who had seen the accident,
screamed and brought assistance.
Ben Porter rescued her after he
had nearly lost his own life, but
the mirror is still at the bottom of
the cistern.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
IA THEIR OF EIGHT WANTS
WATER RENT REBA TED

George w. Vine. poor man with
eight children, living at E401S
Twenty-ninth avenue, has asked
the city council to rebate his water
rent as a donation to worthy
cause. Mr.. Vine is a booster for
Spokane, as is witnessed by his
large family. Things have gone
hard with him, and the donation of
free water will help materially. He
explained his case to Councilman
Mohr, and the latter suggested that
the matter be brought before the
city council.
That body last night referred
Vines petition to the finance COM
mittee, which oversees all chart
table donations
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
ODDITIES IN THE
NEWSOF TODAY

A big black eagle swooped down
on Henry Merritt of New Brighton
as he was gathering driftwood on
the shore below South Beach, S. L.,
and closed it's talons on his right
shoulder.
He turned and saw the bird in
time to strike at it, and it then at
tackled his hands with it's beak, at
the same time holding to his shout
der He called for help and fought
it with a piece of wood, but it did
not fly away until 25 other campers
came to his rescue. 1t then mount
ed telephone pole and remained
there for some time before soaring
away, no one present having a gun
to use on it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
WHAT THE WEATHER
MAN SAYS TODAY

An area of strong, high pressure,
with crests over British Columbia
has covered the northwest, causing
a somewhat general fall Of tempera'
ture on the north Pacific coast over
most of the Rockies to the lower
Mississippi valley; morning temper
atures in the northern Pacific
states were considerably below nor
NAL. Yesterdays storm center is
still near the middle Of the Missis-
sippi valley. Rain fell in the north
ern Rockies, the middle Of the Mis-
sissippi valley and on the south At.
lantic coast. High morning temper.
atures have prevailed eastwardly
from the Mississippi valley.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
PretzeI Not a Deadly
Weapon, Court Decides,

The pretzel is not deadly weap-
on when applied externally. accord
ing to decision of the police court
Of Columbus, Ohio.
Edward Carlisle, a, non-union
motorman, charged Harry Roberts
with assaulting him. What did he
hit you with?" asked the court. "A
pretzel," replied Carlisle. Case
dismissed" said the court.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
WANTS MUNICIPAL HOME
HERE DURING WINTER

Petitipps have been placed In
circIl11IDA by Sister Bilkiss, prison
reformer. calling upon the city
council to establish municipal
home, such as is maintained in
many Of the progressive cities of
the country. The coming of the
winter, and the probability that
many men will be in need Of as.
sistance, is urged by Sister Bilkiss
as a reason for early action.
The purpose of the home Is to
give needy men without means
lodging, food and a doctors care
until he can go out and earn the
money to get these necessities.
There are so-called charitable insti-
tutions that cater to this class of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-24
Finds Silver Quarter
In a Head of Cabbage.

Clifford Crossman says there
is money in cabbage. and this is
why: He lost quarter early in
the summer when setting out cab
bage plants, and few days ago
as Mrs. Crossman was cutting open
a head of cabbage from the patch
she found the quarter in it.
Yes, it happened at Winsted,
Conn, and there is no doubt the
quarter in the cabbage Is the same
Mr.. Crossman lost