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Evening star., 1914-03-29

haps two seconds. Then his gaze
leaped toward Pericles O'Brien in a
glance of questioning sarcasm. From
him to Jordan it sped, and with it
this interrogation:
"Of course you are friend of
Captain Jessup's and would like to
see him cleared of responsibility, his
license as a master saved to him?"
Il do not know Captain Jessup,
Sir"
"No? Then presumably you are a
friend of his charming daughter, who
sits there beside him?' and, shaking
his head in negation, Jordan's dark
eyes followed the examiners point
ing finger where it went toward
Martha Jessup. Don't know Miss
Jessup, eh?'
NO
"Then you must know the gentle
man who sits on the other side of her
and has been acting here as sort of
sea lawyer or counsel for her father
MIR. Per1cleS " Br1en!
Eyes, I've known Pericles O'Brien
since boyhood," answered Jordan,
but without looking at the salvor.
captain O'Brien isl should call
Pericles O'Brien my truest, my best,
friend"
"Ah!" gloated Gleason, and at that
every eye in the room was fixed on
Pericles, even the girls at his side,
and her fathers.
But the junior partner of the West
Coast Wrecking & Salvage Company
might have been a wooden man, so
motionless did he remain.
"The Toltec was stranded three
months ago." resumed the examiner,
"and yet you have waited until the
very last moment of this inquiry be-
fore coming forward to tell this re-
markable story! Why did you not
inform the government of your ex-
perience with this current at the
time of its occurrence?"
Because it would have meant the
discovery of what l trusted, hoped,
would never be known" answered
Jordan steadily. II was making my
first trip as Captain and as
commander of the Granada, and it
would have been a poor recommen-
dation for my being kept in that posi-
tion,-that l had come within a
hand-breadth of losing the ship. If
Evening star., 1914-03-29

Coast Wrecking & Salvage Company gone in the
north nearly month. The morning that he returned
home the cables carrying the news that on the
preceding day the Isthmian Mail Steamship Companys
fourteen thousand-ton liner Toltec, homeward bound
from Panama. had gone the rocks of the lower
Nicaragua coast That afternoon the West Coast Com
panys wrecker Electra, with Percles on her bridge
started south to save the Toltec, if possible
TT was the end of April when the Toltec put her bat
tered bows through the Golden Gate in tow OF the
Electra On the liners bridge stood Perices, and be-
side him ROYAL Jessup her commander looking all of
sixty years instead of fortyve and in his prime. AS
the harbor opened up ahead Jessup said hopeless
sort of way:
"Well, suppose this will be the last time I'll ever
come through the old Gate the bridge of ship"
"Steady there Jessup!" warned Perices, pausing in
the of eveling glass at liner coming up astern
"Stick your jaw out Your company people will be
coming aboard in few minutes. And remember your
little girl Got meet her with brave face above ALL
"Oh I'm not letting CO." answered Jessup, reading
Perices' thoughts and smiling bravely but neverthe-
less he wondering whether it would not have been
far better if Bren had not upon him that night
two months before when he stood in his under the
bridge his eyes fixed his daughter Marthas picture
and pistol at his head.
aHelo!" exclaimed Pericles glass the liner
"Here comes the Granada!
Jessup took the glass; and for several seconds held
on the Pacific Companys liner Turning to Per1cles he
said q" think Percles that I'd have got through
those black days and nights of mine down south if it
hadn't been for the story you told me about young
Jordan. He has known real trouble, hasn't he?"
"The kind that out the heart the bitterest an
swered Percles and just then fleet OF launches darted
from the shore and in one OF them came Martha,
ROYAL Tessups daughter, and the giant salvor saw
that she was as supple the water the sde and
fairer a thousand times than her photograph which
hung in the of the Toltecs
Evening star., 1914-03-29

EVENING of the day following was
- closing in rapidly as Royal Jes-
sup and his daughter left the offices
of the West Coast Wrecking & Sal
wage Company. The government in
quiry to fix the responsibility for the
stranding of the Toltec had been
peremptorily set for the next day,
and the three had been going over
the evidence in the case.
As the door of his private office
closed upon the Jessups, Pericles
O'Brien shook his head doubtfully.
He believed Royal Jessup's story OF
the strong and inexplicable current
that had put the Toltec off her
course and upon the rocks; but
would the government inspectors
give it credence? AS Jessup himself
had said more than once in bitter
ness that afternoon, it was defense
that required "a preponderance OF
confederation. In the midst of this
moment of doubt Benny Jordan was
ushered into the room by an office
boy, and as Pericles took the hand
of the Granada's commander and
welcomed him he saw in his dark
eyes that look of pain which had
been there that raw December morn
ing when they had met in Cali
fornia-st. outside Merchants Ex-
change.
1t was nearly two hours later when
Captain Benjamin Jordan of the liner
Granada went out into the night
alone from the offices of the West
Coast Wrecking & Salvage Company.
And for an hour afterward Pericles
O'Brien remained at his desk pom
dering what a marvellous and infinite
thing human nature was.
THE inquiry began at nine o'clock
= the next morning. BY eleven
all of Jessup's officers had given their
testimony and Jessup had been sworn
and was finishing his story.
"And is that all you have to tell
us?" sneered the young assistant dis
trict attorney, Gleason by name, who
was examining in behalf of the gov
ernment.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
Continued next week.
china's Religion by Law.
The ClGtYnland Plain nanlar

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
From superficial inspection little fault
can be found with Yuan Shin Kat for the
action which he has dictated to the adj
mintstrative council. But a glance below
the surface shows that the adoption Of the
state religion is merely one more reaction
airy step by the powerful old man who
holds China In his two hands.
u Vat Sen and nearly all the import
ant leaders of the revolution were Chris
ttans. Their religion was not advertised,
the revolution as a movement to
Christianize the country. The Christian
Chinese represented nearly all the adj
vanced thought and occidental learning Of
the nation. They We're the men who con-
ceived tho republic, and it was their In
tellfgence which brought the republic into
being. They did not seek to establish
Christianity as the state religion, however
devoted they themselves may have been
to its teachings. Their fight was politi-
cal and not religious. They destroyed the
old order, but they did not destroy Com
~fucfanism, although Confucianism was
one Of the props of the empire. .
Yuan was placed at the read Of the re-
appraised him as China's strongest
them. sven by beheading them, till not q
single progressive Is left at the mock-irn-
perial court at Pekin. And now. by die
tating the establishment OF Confucianism,
he serves notice that even the religion Of
the reformers Is banished from his court
Yuan and Christianity are naturally an.
tagonistic; the ideas and ideals OF the
Christian leaders are just What the reaO-
tionary president has been battling.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12

ing good health now and owe it all to
your remedies. I take pleasure in tell
ing my friends and neighbors about
them."-Mrs. MATTE HALEY, sol Col
quhone Street, Danville, Va.
No woman suffering from any form
Of female troubles should lose hope I'M
til she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients Of which are derived
from native roots and herbs, has for
forty years proved to be a most valua-
BILE tonic and invigorator Of the fe-
male organism. Women everywhere
bear willing testimony to the wonderful
virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE CompOundwiH help you, write
to Lydia E.P northumberland
(confidential) Lynn. Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by woman
and held in strict confidence.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
CHAPTER XVII
THE BACKWARD TRA1L

Harlan did no know what haunting
of loneliness took him the next eyening
to the hills. 1t was the first day Of
September, and already q veil Of haze
lay in the wooded little valleys, and the
far slopes had the first bronze of the
ripening corn Yet 1t was summer,
with.a harvest moon drawing up across
the river, round and full and golden.
He wandered down old trails from
Eagle Point, northward along the bluff
were glimpses of the distant Missis-
sippi over b sycamores and window
sloughs. He crossed the last glade to
the ridge over which was Tanners
quarry. Already through the laurel
and naples and young elms a patch
Of white sheer roc arose. And on
this point be stopped to look down in
the valley. From the quarry bed the
road ran on winding past the fringy
corn patches OF the pocket squatters.
But all the unloveliness OF their meager
homes was hidden in the shadow. and
all the beauty of the hill beyond lay
revealed by moon Harlan had not
been on the back trail for more than q
year. When he came to the old IA
1niliar rock jutfing over the cliff he
paused. Some one was before him, sit
ting whore OshAd intended to Sit, look
ang ~ he had wished to look out vi
the valley and the town.
And before he came out o9 the 0had-
low he krew 4 Wa Aurslie. Aurelie
who Could not leave without q visit
Ito the home trail. She had not been tc
LindDtrom'1 house. but tonight hnd rid
den over from MArlville. tied the livery
mount 1t the StnSinawA creek bridge
and ctambered up to where she could
look efthex way. I o the Village &c
her foster fatheres place below ths
1quAx1ys Harlan watched her long. Shs
II U4A6 SnstfA HAeu aWA1 yrnOnp .xlyr. s. H,,.1
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
Remarkable Offer Of Free Trans.
portation Expenses to Moline,
ILL.,, and the Famous Tri-
Cities, and Return, Made
to Intending Automo-
bile Purchasers.

Any intending purchaser OF an au'
tomobile in this vicinity who writes to
Mr.. Chas. E. Giltner, personal repre-
sentative of Mr.. Velie, care of the
Velie Motor Vehicle Co., Moline, I'LL.
will receive full details as regards tho
unusual offer the Velie Company is
making of paying transportation ex.
penses Of intending motor car buy
ers in this vicinity to and from Moline,
The Velie company has always
claimed that anyone going through an
automobile factory, and studying care
fully how an automobile is made, has
a great advantage owe those who
merely know how to drive an auto
mobile. In order to popularize the
idea of having factory selections made
and to educate Velie buyers at the
Velie factory they are making this un-
usual offer.
This offer is made with the approval
of the local Velie agents; in fact, the
Velie agent nearest to you will guar
antee service Of the highest type, to
any purchaser of an automobile who
goes to Moline and selects his car
there.
Any publisher of a paper in this vi
entity is we'll acquainted with the
high standing Of the Velie Company
and knowing the gentlemen interested
in the Velie and John Deere Compa-
MES (for years agents for Velie Mo-
tors and Buggies), will take pleas.
ure in recommending this offer as be-
ing of unusual interest and worthy
in every way Of careful consideration.
Special arrangements can be made
with those preferring to visit the We.
lie Agencies at Omaha, Kansas City.
Minneapolis, Chicago, or other large
cities nearer than Moline.
Write Mr., Chas. E. Giltner, co the
Velie Motor Vehicle Co., Moline, Ill.
at once; even If you cannot go until
later.-Adv.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
GOOD servants,
From the National Monthly

From the NaConal monthly.
Young Mr.. Thorndyke. an English
man. who was very prominent socially.
Invited to dine with the Allison's
one evening. Louis. the young o of
the Allison's. had been allowed to be
one Of the party. During q silence at
the dinner table. the boy asked:
sAre you an Englishman?"
Yes" laughed Mr.. Thorndyke. Don't
you like Englishmen?"
"Oh. yes" was the response, "our
butler Is an Englishman. Mother all
ways says Englishmen make the most
capable house servants in the world
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
And There You Have tho Tango.

a<cdtted TO an Arkansas City negro:
net tango, boss am sort Of q easy
Moaion: Ye jis 30 q stealing along
like We didn't have any knee
45oints and wuz walkin' on eggs that
seoet fo'ty cents 9 dozen. Atlanta
Constitution.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
their Breed.

Tour father has q lot Of very fine
tAiak !, observed the young a
EssHAS he incubators Z No. said the
1Wset young thing just home from
Eh0arding school, think they're
.xg1ymouth Rocks."-Dallas News.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12

mucn DeCCeI JllaH l.
did when the doctor
was treating me. I
don't suffer any
bearing down pains
at all now and sleep
well. I cannot say
enough for Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound and
Liver Pills as they
have done so much
forme am eniOv-
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12

D cAnges mAnysssseri0us dis
IT, 9S sSssa3 ktsNatfs th0rnuehly cured hy. Doctor
111si@N 3easantaA RI lets. One ~alaxative,
d k1SaIa = cathattic. ADV.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12

From JafIrey. N. II. comes the story
OF b cold morning on which the lid o1
the tea kettle was found frozen on,
even while there was q ara In the stovA
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
Brilliant Idea.

Brilliant Idea.
Young Mother really don't know
why he cries so.
Bachelor Friend-Perhaps it is his
teeth coming through.
Young Mother-No! He isn't teeth
ing.
Bachelor Friend-Maybe it's his hair
coming through that hurts him!
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
rhs LICE

# ell hon did you sleep last night7
GnS&hsiIsSsIlpIsen the night there once.
a4g ~ badly. NY husband adores
6Hxlkhe md ne was spouting him all
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12

rhuuaband gpt mixed NJ In
11133[1Ilif 5kEillSthsS Injecting and.
l211Bs9l a him home me half
hslf .hot
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
What $40 Did
FOR this WOMAN
The Price She Paid for Lydia
E.Pinkham'sV Vegetable Com
pound Which Brought
Good Health.

Danville, have only spent ten
dollars on your medicine and I feel so
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12

~ onessBROMO QUININE"
w Tho genuine. call Tor full name. I.AxA-
nv EWHRcMO0UININR. Look for signature Of
Eyy5Xs|CR0vE. Cures 4 Cold in Ono Day. CSC.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
Out of Date.

Out of Date.
isn't she GRACEFUL"
Eyes, but horribly old-fashioned.
The SLOUGH is all the style nowadays.
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
Thrifty Scot.

It was a hard-headed Scotchman, and
he was in conflict with that enemy Of
mankind, the jobbing gardener. The
question was the price of barrow-load
Of potting soil, which the gardener had
just wheeled in. The gardener de-
manded a shilling; the Scotchman Of
fered ninepence. why, sir" pleaded
the gardener, gentlemen pay me nine
pence when they come and borrow my
barrow and take away the soil them
selves" "Yere no tellin' me?" said
the Scotchman. Then ye maun jist
wheel that barrow-load back again.
I'll be room at yer place in ten NEE
nutes."
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
MADE THE CONDUCTOR SMILE
DIgnIfied Lady Thought shs Was
Handing Man Her Ticket, But It
Was Something Else.

With an air Of satisfaction a dig
nified matron living on the South side
settled herself in a section Of the Pull
man bound for Chicago-the first stage
in trip to Europe, relates the Kansas
City Star. Presently came the con-
ductor, and the woman handed him a
small envelope. The conductor had
grizzled hair and eyes that twinkled.
He looked long and carefully at the OBJ
1ect he drew from the envelope.
did you think, madam" he asked,
"that you could ride to Chicago on
this?"
why. of course I did," said the
woman.
But l do not think can possibly ac-
cept this as transportation to Chicago" /"
persisted the conductor, whose eyes
we're now frankly laughing.
The woman became very reserved,
but her eyes snapped. "on what
grounds do you refuse my ticket?" she
demanded.
At this the conductor could not re-
strain his mirth. He held up the OBJ
iect he had taken from the envelope.
"G didn't-no, couldn't have given
you my bunion plasters."
But she had.
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
Elve-Ysar.old,s pleapprovaI.

Five-year-old Herbert, born Of a
bookish family, had learned to read
so early and so easily that he scarcely
remembered the experience. When
his little sister began her studies
Herbert watched her progress with in
terest. One day he confded to his
mother:
"Ruthie showed me her new lesson
book today, and it's the queerest thing
you ever saw! Why, 1t just says, is it
a dog? 1t is dog. Can the dog run?
Yes, the dog can run and a lot of silly
things like that. Course 1 didn't like
to say SO, but I don't think much Of
that book, mamma 1t didn't seem to
me that the style had a bit of juice!"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
SIMPLY DEMANDING HER OWN
Recent Discoveries Show That Wom-
an Has Retrogressed Since the
Days Of the Pharaohs.

In the days of the Pharaohs-no less
than In the days of the Roman empire
woman was on a plane of equality
with man. There is thus, perhaps,
nothing exorbitant now in her de-
mand for the vote. She is only ask
ing for a little Of her own back.
Sir Castor Maspero has unearthed
some Pharaonic papyri which throw an
interesting light on the Pharaonic con-
Eideration Of woman and marriage.
In those days mankind evidently IA
vored a kind Of trial marriage, and
this marriage woman entered on terms
Of perfect equality, or even, perhaps,
on terms Of superiority.
This was the usual Pharanoic mar
riage contract, as deciphered by Sir
CASTOR Maspero:
Thou takest me to be thy wife and
thou givest unto me dowry. If it SO
hap that / tire of thee or that / cast
my eyes on another than thee, will
return unto thee a part of thy dowry
and will go where good seemeth unto
me-"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
Early Strategy.

The origin and the local color Of the
following story is German. The spirit
of It is one which is not, perhaps, en-
tirely alien to American youth. Hans
and Fritz; two small boys, had gone to
the rink to skate. Hans overcoat ham
pered him and he wanted to get rid
Of 1t. The German courtroom person
does not check your coat unless you
pay your fee. The fee was only a
penny, but Hans did not have the
penny. He was at loss.
Huh! it's dead easy" spoke up
Fritz. "Give me your overcoat. I'll
take it to the man at the checking
place and say 1 found it. He'll put it
away. When you are ready to go home
you go to him and ask if anybody has
turned lost overcost in to him. Then,
Of course, you'll get yours"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
Just the ThInu.

She was an unsophisticated damsel,
and it was with a bashful air that
she sided up to the necktie counter
in the Quitting stores.
81 want a tie for my young mar" T"
she said to the polite assistant.
Something appropriate to his tastes;
he's a keen footballer, you know"
Perhaps you can tell me his club
colors?" suggested the salesman.
Sorry" was the maiden's answer,
"but really forget them.
Then an idea of dazzling brilliance
seized her.
"Just the thing" she cooed, estat-
ically. SHOW me some semi-fnal ties,
please"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
PInlnn for a companIon.

A Buckinghamshire (Eng.) farmer
once wrote to distinguished scientific
agriculturist to whom he felt under
obligation for introducing a variety of
swine: Respected Sir-I went yester-
day to the fair at A. l found several
pigs of your species. There was a
great variety Of beasts; and I was
greatly astonished at not seeing you
there"
Another farmer wishing to enter
some animals at an agricultural exhi-
bition wrote as follows to the secre-
tary of the society: Dear Sir-Enter
me also for a jackass."
The director of the geological gar
dens was on his holiday. He received
a note from his chief assistant, which
closed thus: THE chimpanzee seems
to be ,pining for a companion. What
shall we do until you return7"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
His Day Of Rest.

well, Master Jackson" said a min
lister, walking homeward after serv-
ice with an industrious laborer, who
was a constant attendant, Sunday
must be a blessed day of rest for you,
who work SO hard all the week! And
you make a good use Of the day, for
you are always to be seen at church. :"
AYE, sir" replied Jackson, ut is,
deed, a blessed day; works hard
enough all the week, and then comes
to church O. Sundays, and sets me
down and lay my legs up and thinks
o. nothing"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
InfalIlhIe sinn.

Whenever Roberts mother went
away on a visit, the little fellow was
so badly spoiled by a doting father
and grandmother that upon her return
it took several applications of the rod
to induce him to mend his ways.
One day, when she had been absent
for week, neighbor asked Robert
when his mother was coming home.
"Oh, she'll be back very soon now"
he replied. I'm beginning to get
pretty bad!'
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
Plain to Him.

Among those visiting an art ex'
hibition held recently in Cincinnati
was an old German, who wandered
about, looking at the paintings with
interest. Finally, he stopped befdte
a portrait which showed a man Git
ting in high-backed chair. Tackled
to the frame was small white ria
card, reading: "a portrait of J. F.
Jones, by himself"
The aged Teuton read the card,
and then chuckled sarcastically:
''Vot fools is desc art beoples, he
muttered. Anybody dot looks at dot
picture would know dot Jones is by
himself. Nobody else is In der pic
ture"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
No Longer Strain on Her Nerves.


For a week after Mrs. Wakefield
gave her colored cook an alarm clock
the family was awakened each day at
a. m. by the clang Of its resound-
ing bell. At the end of this time it
was heard 10 more in the early
watches of the morning, but Mrs.
Wakefield fancied several times that
she detected the muffled sound of its
alarm toward evening. When ques-
toned on the subject Dinah said with
a shake of her dusky head:
well, Miss Wakefield, nah nerves
ain berry strong, as yo' know, an dat
alarm clock jes' riled 'em all up. 1
kin stan it in de ebenin' fust rate,
but ter be woke up sudden upsets me;
so jes' sets it TO- de ebenin' stead
OBJ de mawnin'. an it goes off an
doan' disturb nobody"
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
Wed Without His puds.

The theft Of a suit case containing
his wedding outfit came near causing
a postponement Of the marriage Of
Charles R. Light Of this city and Miss
Ella Salem of Myerstown, but the nup-
tials went on.
Lawrence McBright of Carlisle was
arrested, charged with the theft, and
the suit case was recovered with its
contents intact, except pair of shoes.
Lebanon (Pa.) Dispatch to PhiladeI
phia Record.
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-15
The Modal

John Sloan, the well-known painter
was lecturing on Models" before an
art class in New York.
Then there is the frivolous model.
said Mr.. Sloan. She, unless very beau
tiful, is to befaToided.
"A frivolous model besought a friend
Of mine to employ her.
"'No, no. said he. I only do still
life-fowers and fruit
We'll, said the model, looking up
at him reproachfully out of linipid blue
eyes, well, amt 1 a peach?"