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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
Still no sign of Appleyard.

0CAAA Nv 0AoA VI ApPICydIu.
He must have tramped, at a rude
guess. several hundred yards before
he discovered either a break in the
bluff or any change in the general
conf1guration of the shore. Ultimate
~, however. the one fell away in.
land and the other widened.
A moment later he came upon a
small catboat careened above high
tide mark, with a gaping wound in its
starboard side. forward and below the
water-line.
She lay stern to the water. Taking
the point of her stem as his guide,
Coast turned inland again. on a line
a straight as possible considering
the slanting lay Of the land and tho
impossibility Of seeing anything be-
yond a radius Of a few feet.
He had not gone far upon this
tack before he stumbled upon a path
Of hardpacked earth, obviously made
by human feet. Then he found him
self mounting a rather steep grade.
and in another moment was face to
face with a plain weather.boarded wall
OF a wooden building.
There were no windows that he
could discover OF this side. and
though he listened keenly he heard no
sounds from within.
Other buildings presented them
selves successfully, as like as peas
to one another and to the first he had
encountered: all peopled exclusively
by the seven bowling devils Of DESC
lation and their attendant court Of
rats-or SO he surmised from sundry
sounds of s%curryings and squeaks.
He gathered that he was threading
a rude sort Of street. fringed on one
side-to seaward-with the abandoned
dwellings of what had apparently been
a small fishing community.
mo Mans Land indeed!" he com
mented. "Certainly lives up to the
name, even if it's some place else. 1t
begins to look as if I'd drawn a blank.
But Appleyard ="
He was moved vaguely to liken the
place to the Cold Liars of the Jungle
Books. "Only infinitely sordid," he
unused, at pause: lacking the maj
esty and the horror Wonder
had l better go back?"
AS he hung in the wind, debating
what to do, whether to press on or
to be sensible, swayed this way and
that by doubts and half-formed i'm.
pulses, somewhere near, seemingly at
his very elbow, certainly not twenty
feet away, suddenly a dog howled
Long drawn. lugubrious with a note OF
lamentation, the sound struck discor
dant upon his overhaul senses. shock
ing him (before he knew IT. to out
spoken protest.
Good God!" he cried aloud
"What-?"
GRO BE CONTINUED)
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

the existence of a spot so oddly
named. A number of black dots along
its northern shore seemed to indicate
buildings--but Appleyard had distinct.
ly said ''uninhabited."
Coast turned out the lamp and went
back to the deck.
There Vas nothing to be seen, moth
ing to do.
He fidgeted.
Then out of the confusion of his
temper, in which ennui stalked in sim
gular companionship with perturba-
ton. he CHANGED upon an odd end of
thought. n of those stray bits of in
formation, mostly culled from desul-
tory reading, that clutter the back of
every mans brain.
He happened to remember hearing,
some time. some where. hat fog rare
ly clings to the surface of moving wa
ter; that, by putting ones vision upon
a plane almost horizontal with the
water. it is ordinarily possible to see
for some distance roundabout.
There may be something in it . .
"a. No harm to try"
Forthwith he scrambled out upon
the stern, from which, after some in
tricate maneuvering and by dint Of
considerable physical ingenuity, he
managed to suspend himself. at peril
of a ducking, with his head near the
water.
He was promptly justified of his
pains; the theory proved itself-in
that mi instance at least: between
the slowly undulant floor, CLASSY and
colorless, cnd the ragged fringe Of
the mist curtain. he discovered q
definite space.
Directly astern and. roughly. some
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

"Cleaning my pipe. Go on and
sleep; your times not up yet"
whats o%'clock?"
Appleyard mumbled something in
coherent as he stepped out on deck;
and Coast turned over and slept
again.
1t seemed hours later when he found
himself abruptly wide awake, in a
tremor Of panic anxiety bred of a
fancy that a human voice had cried
out In mortal terror, somewhere
within his hearing. He started up, In
formed by that sixth sense we call in
tuition that conditions abroad the
Echo had changed radically since the
last time be had fallen asleep; and
1t seemed no more than a second from
the moment his eyes opened until
he found himself In the cockpit, gaz-
ing dazedly into the bic
heart of the fog.
At first, in his confusion. he could
see nothing amiss. The Echo was rid
Ing on a quiet tide and an even keel,
with scarcely any p~erceptible motion.
The encompassing darkness was in
tense, nnfathomable. %profound; only
the forward light showed a dim halo
Of yellow opalescence near the mast
head. and the faint glow from the
cabin lamp Quivered IN slowly swirl
ing convUlutions of dense white va
por, like smoke. The port and star
board lights had been extingnished,
as they should be when a vessel
comes to anchor.
What. then had Interrupted his
slumbers?
He turned with a question shaping
on bis lips.
Appleyard was nowhere visible.
Coast required some minutes before
he was convinced of the fact of the
little mans disappearance. But the
cabin proved as empty as the cock
pit, and the tender was gone.
The cabin ~chronometer chimed the
hour of -four in the morning.
AS the echoes died, as though they
had evoked the genius of that place,
a strange and dreadful cry rent he
silence, sounding shril across the wa
tiers. yet as if coming from a great
distance.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
Tragedy of a Tomato Vine

populated temporarily. Amateur ag-
riculturists climbed on each others
necks to view the wonder. The head
OF the house inspected it through a
magniIying glass. His spouse capped
her hands and exclaimed: AT last
we shall have u own salad from our
own vine" Even the Waterman from
a row Of empty houses nearby was
called to look, and he remarked sol
EMMY that he never saw such a large
tomato on such a small vine
Then came along one of those hor,
rthly practical persons. who said II
couldn't be, and had to have a closer
look. He spoiled 1t all by his discov.
cry that the tomato had been tied on
with a string. and II you want t. know
who tied 1t on ask the woman wac
lives next door.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
Fault Brought Home.

DR.. James r. Docking, the president
of Rust university, once discussed, in
a Fourth of July address at Holly
Springs, Miss, the reason Of Benedict
Arnold.
"Arnold's fault" he said. was as
plainly brought home to him as the
fault of Fenimore Cooper's friend.
"Fenimore Cooper gave a friend a
copy Of his last work. inscribing on
the fly-leaf the words:
Ito John Blank, with the authors
affection and esteem.'
"A few months later Cooper came
upon this same book at a second-ha
dealers. He bought it in and sent it
to his friends again with a second in.
scription:
""This volume. purchased at a sec
ond-hand shop, is represented 10 John
Blank with renewed affection and re-
iterated expressions of esteem.'
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
After N%eighbors had Given Voice
to Their Wondernent.

Now doth the amateur agriculturist
flourish and wax proud at his Luther
Burbank achievements, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. One such nursed a
lone tomato plant from delicate and
sickly infancy to robust maturity.
With all a mothers tender care he
ministered to hat plant. He watered
it. brushed the dust off 1t, pleaded with
Il. encouraging II to better things.
Then one day q member of the family
rushed into the house with glad It'd.
ings. There was a real tomato on the
vine.
What an assenblage there was
about that plant! Tho block was de-.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

forty feet away, a shelving stretch OF
pebbly beach, softly Tapped by low
voiced ripples. shut in the view. The
Echo's tender, drawn up beyond the
waters edge. bfsected 1t.
Good" said Coast, abstracted, re-
covering from his constrained posi-
ton.
Curiosity gripped him strongly, eau
ton contending vainly; he knew quite
we'll that he would never bide content
until he had probed for the cause and
source and solved the mystery of that
wild cry in the night Just gone.
Moreover, he felt in a measure re-
sponsible for Appleyard. Surely there
must be some strange reason for his
p%rotracted absence.
Abandoning himself, deaf to the
counsels of prudence, Coast rose and
stripped of his clothing.
He let himself gently into the water
Gearing to dive because he did not
know its depth) and found 1t warm
warmer than the air. He struck out
cautiously. using the slow, old.fash-
toned but silent breast stroke. In two
minutes. however. he was wading up
to tho beach.
There was no sign OF Appleyard:
only the tender. Upon that stone.
strewn shore the feet Of the runaway
had left no trail. Though Coast cast
about in a wide radius, he found no
sign of the missing man. The peb'
bles scratched and bruised his I'M
protected feet, and he began to SILVER
with cold. He gave it up, presently
returned to the tender, pushed of
and sculled out to the Echo.
Then, having rubbed his flesh to q
blush with a coarse towel, he dressed
took the small boat back to the beach
drew it up and, now fully committed
to an enterprise the folly of which be
stubbornly refused to debate, set of
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
CHAPTER VII.

Some moments elapsed, Coasts
every nerve and sense upon the rack.
Though he heard it no more. still that
cry rang in his head, and he could but
wait, smitten dumb and motionless,
feeling his chilled flesh crawl. en-
thralled by fearsome shapes con
3ured up by IN imagination striving
vainly to account for what had hap.
pened-wait Ut seemed) intermin-
ably; for what he hardly knew or
guessed. unless it were for a repeti-
ton or some explanation of that in.
applicable cry.
He received neither. His straining
faculties detected none but familiar
noises.
I%naens1bly he grew more calm. So
silent was the world, seemingly so
saturated with the spirit of brooding
peace, that he was tempted to be-
lieve he had dreamed that first shrek,
to which he had wakened. and that
the second was but an echo of it in
his brain: some hideous trick of
nerves, a sort of waking Authorization,
to be explained only on psychological
grounds.
And yet .
Appleyard? What of him? Was
there any connection to be traced be-
tween his mysterious disappearance
from the Echo and that weird, I'M
earthly scream? Was there really
land near, and had the little man
found 1t only to become the victim of
some frightful, nameless peril? Could
that have been his voice, calling for
help :? And in what dread ex-
tremity :?
There was nothing he could do, no
way to reach the man. The tender
was gone, the shore invisible-and
who should say how far distant? 9th.
erw!se he would not have hesitated to
swim FOR It.
Presently 1t occurred to him to won.
der whore the Echo lay--oR what
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

to reconnoiter along the waters edge.
feeling his way.
After a time the beach grew more
sandy. and emboldened by the knowl-
edge that be would have his foot
prints to guide him back. he left the
water and struck inland-but only to
find his progress in that direction
checked by a steep wall of earth, a
cliff-like bluff of height indetermin-
able, its TANKS waveeaten and deeply
scanned by rain.
At random. with no design, he
turned again to his left and proceeded
as before. but now along the foot OF
the bluff, trudging heavily through
damp, yielding sand
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA

while attending school at Lebanon,
Ohio, in 1882. l became afflicted with
boils. which lasted for about two
years. when the af1iction assumed the
form OF an eczema on my face. the
lower part Of my face being inhamed
most OF the time. There would be
w~ater-blisters rise up and open. and
wherever the water would touch it
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open.
the place would scab over. and would
burn and itch so as to be almost un-
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place to
another. back and forth over the
whole Of my upper lip and chin. and
at times the whole lower part OF my
face would be a solid ore. This cor.
dition continued for four or five years.
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time. so much so
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
During all this time of boils and
eczema. l doctored with the best ply.
SASA0Ao VI tAAo PNAS Va "a oNhS , ONS
to no avail. Finally I decided to try
Cuticura Remedies, which l did. taxi
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores.
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash
Ing. In a very short time I began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until I was
we'll again, and have not had a re-
currence Of the trouble since, which Is
over twenty years. I have recon-
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith In
them as remedies for skin diseases"
(Signed) A. c. Brandon. Attorney-at
Law. ~Greenville, O.. Jan. II. 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere. a sample
OF each, with 32-page book. will be
mailed free on application to "Cud-
cura." Dept. L. Boston.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
NeWspaper Is the Medium.

The Importance Of this whole ques-
ton Of publicity to the consumer is
growing on the manufacturer. He
sees his competitor or some man in
another line turning the trick of pub
licity and he sit up and thinks. He is
gradually realizing that localized.
crystalized publicity in the home is
what pays best and hat he can only
get that through the newspaper
The Daily Club.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
Mans Many WanA.,

How many ways there are IN which
u peace may be assailed. besides
actual want! How many comforts do
we stand in need Of, besides meat and
drink and clothirg! Is it nothing to
"administer to a mind diseased"-tc
heal a wounded spit? After all other
difficulties are removed. we still want
some one to bear cur infirmities, to
impart u confidence to. to encourage
us in our hobbies (nay. to get up and
ride behind us), and to like us With
all our faults.-HaZlitt.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
SYNOPSIS.

Garrett Coast, a young man OF New
York City. meets Douglas Blackstock. who
invites him to a card party. He accepts.
although he dislikes Blackstock, the rea-
son being that Doth are in love with Kath-
crime Thaxter. Coast fails to convince her
that Blackstock Is unworthy Of her
friendship. At the party Coast meets two
e quarrel. n Blackstock shoots Van
Tuyl dead. Coast struggles to wrest the
weapon from him.. thus the police dis
He il convicted. but an he begins his SEN
tence, Dunda names Blackstock as the
murderer and kills himself. Coast be-
comes free. but Blackstock has married
Katherine Thaxter and fled. Coast pur-
chases a yacht and while sailing sees a
man thrown from a distant boat. He res
cues the fellow who Is named A~ppleyard.
They arrive at a lonely island. known as
Nc Mans Land.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Coles Carbolisalve quickly relieves and
cures burning. itching and torturing skin
diseases. 1t Instantly stops the pain OF
burns. Cures without scars. 25c and 500
by druggists. For free sample write to
J. w. Cole & Co... Black River Falls. Wis.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
Sharp-Eared Maid.

Wife-Our new maid has sharp
ears.
Hubby-Yes. l noticed that the
doors are all scratched up around the
%keyholes.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Dr.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated
easy to take as candy. regulate and invIg-
crate stomach. liver and bowels and cure
constipation.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Wealth may not bring a man happi-
ness, but it surrounds him with 8
multitude of would be friends.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
At the Bank.

Your husband has stopped payment
OF your alimony check"
Il know it: he no longer loves me-"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

The ~up-tO-date waitress wears 4
fetching costume.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Hrs. "fnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
.Hethlng, softenS the gums, reduces lnaamma.
.on. aliays pain, cures wind collie, &c a tottls
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Many people suffer Intensely over
imaginary injuries.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Saves Clothes OF Rider.
A saddle hat a New Jersey man has
patented includes a leather flap tc
cover the buckles that frequently wear
our a riders clothing.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

Many 4 Woman encourages a man
by irving to discourage him.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08

That is LAXATIVE RROMO QtININE. Look TO
the signature of Il. W. GROVE. | oed The Worl.
over TO Cure i Cold in One bay. 2Jc.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
important to Mothers

UtVJQOv V6JIV So SVvOVvJ6V5
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and SEQ that it
signature sea's s" Of &HMZZM
In Use For Over so Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castorix
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-08
CHAPTER VI.-(Continued.)

"Cleaning my pipe. Go on and
sleep; your times not up yet"
whats o'clock?"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-05-23

most dyspeptic nation because we
used so little soup. The poorest
peasant in France has soup for his
dinner, whether he has anything
else or not may be uncertain. The
stomach is benefited by the use of
soup, because it is stimulated and
prepared for the reception of strong-
er food by its use. Soup offers an
economical method of preparing
tasty dishes out of scraps, A good
soup maker said it took at least six
flavors to make the best soup. Into
his stock went vegetables, gravies,
condiments, remnants, which, COM
bined, are abundant. nourishing
and appetizing, but which alone
would not be worth re-heating.-
Wallaces' Farmer
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-05-23
Notes.

A lady who wanted to put linole-
um on an old flour, the warped
boards of which would cut the lin
oleum, covered the floor evenly
with sawdust, which she claimed,
gave her smooth surface and was
still perfectly satisfactory at the
close of eight years of service.
Pour pancake batter from a
wide-mouthed pitcher. A little
graham meal is an addition to
buckwheat cakes. Wheat flour
cakes made with sour milk are
lighter and better if mixed the night
before; add the soda in the morn
ing. A cloth sewed fast to a fork is
a convenient gridle greaser if no
D amt brush of the right size
is at hand.
1t is claimed that we are the
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-05-23

La Toilette says that rs per cent
of these totals is water, but if it is
only rs per cent it is a greater trib-
ute than any governing power ever
before exacted from a people. The
war cry in the coming fight should
be: Every dollar for defense, but
not cent for tribute. st. Joseph
Observer
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-05-23
Then fine Real Fight Begins.

The real fight of the campaign
for the control of this great govern
ment will not begin until after con-
ventions are held and the noEnina-
tons made.
The Democratic party will have
to make that fight mainly upon
the record of the of house of repre- /
sentatives. Has it shown itself fit
to govern? No house ever passed
so much legislation in the interest
of the common people in the same
length of time as the present one
has, and the fact that this legisla-
ton is made ineffective by a stand
pat senate, will not dim the brilli-
ancy of the record.
Aside from the legislation enact
ed the house has done great service
the people by the inv estieations
that it has made and the facts that
it has brought out. Among all the
revelations none are more import
ant than those presented to the
people by the Stanley committee.
1t employed expert accountants and
put the government behind them.
These accountants were able to
present facts in the same official
way as when employed by courts.
The facts reported by them must
stand unchallenged. They show
where the power to control ecOnom-
ic conditions rest, give the names
of the men in control for the first
time, and the various financial in
situations that they direct. The
names of the men and the value of
the institutions which they direct
are given by the Stanley committee
as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-15

vrecking vessels towing that raised craft
also had an air plant which was con-
nected by hose to the collier, SO that the
mishap to the Yankee would not be du-
plicated.
That the Yankee should have been sunk
the very night she was relocated and re-
toicing filled the hearts Of all concerned
especially that she should be run into
by one Of the associate salvage boats
seemed the sheer irony of fate. Just one
outfit Of diving dress was saved upon that
occasion. and that was actually on
diver ct the time, who was pulled ABOARD
from the cruiser just before she Went
under 1t was an anxious time for po'h
that diver and his surface attendants
hut all concerned fortunately kept their
wits about them.
Notwithstanding this discouraging anti
climax to their labors, Mr. Mbuckie
engineers still believed that the vessei
could he fi5atcd forward by means OF
compressed air, even though she. was
dftv-thrcc feet down. Because her stern
was deeper than her bow 1t was not
Thought advisable to employ air aft, some
doubt existing i'm the minds OF the techh-
cal advisers as TO the decks being strong
enough to withstand the contained ar
pressure should the cruiser be brousht
suddenly to the surface from that deptn'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-15

The object of the salvage engineer 10 W
oht,iu as nearly as possible balance De-
,veen the, external water and TIE internal
air--the structure being poised between
those two contending and equal forces.
II the upper deck were made airtighs anu
the whole inside space of the snip turned
into q single reservoir for the air-the
rater- of course, passing out through
holes in the bottom-air pressure suliicie"'
IN keen the water out at the Dottoil
would actually be greater at the uhder-
side OF the top deck than the hydrostauc
measure of the everything water column
Ships are not built to withstand a burst
ing effort from within-they are intended
TO resist only certain asnount OF COM
prossiye effort on the part of the out
living and supporting water under norman
conditions.
What would happen then IL air were
turned loose indiscriminately under such
conditions? The single supporting deck
would be blown open before the Doa'
started surfaceward. TO overc me this
difficulty the salvage engineer using air
divides his vessel into strata, as our
sketch shows. In the lowermost space
the confined air IS just sufficient TO eXpel
the water ut that DEPTH and equal TO the
average of the outside water pressure al
that submergence interval In the mex