Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-08
sTEss OF THE STORM COUNTRY
 AT EMPRESS THREE DAYS.
Great Five-Act Paramount Feature Starring Mary Pickford.

starring wary flckIOru.
 Tessibel Skinner, a wild, mother less little elf, lives with her father in a rude hut on the shores of Cay uga Lake, near Ithaca. On account of the sudden and regular squalls on the lake, the vicinity is called the Storm Country" The poor and ig- norant fisherfolk are termed squat ters. Tess is one of these people,
 and adores here uncouth father who lives by poaching and the illegal net
 ting of fish. One day he is found near the body of murdered fish
 warden with his rifle close by crntain- ling one empty shell. Skinner is ac-
 cused of the murder and convl~ted on c.rcumstantial .evideace. Tess is frantic with grief and anxiety and
 walks miles through the rain to see her father, climbing up a vine ty the side of his ceii Frederick Graves, handsome the
 ological student, and his sister Teola
 befriend Tess. Frederick tells her
 of God of whom she has never heard,
 and his written word, the Bible. and
 bids here pray and have faith. Tess
 steals Bible from the Mission
 Church, painfully spells out the les son taught her by Frederick and the untutored girls faith brings her
 wonderful strength and hope.
 Professor Young, an eminent le- gal authority and an influence in the community, touched by her love for her father, mercedes for her and se- cures new trial for him. Tess is :, happy over this evidence of Gods love for her, but gives Frederick more credit than shesdoes the Pro- lessor. Tess and Frederick fall in love.
 Elder Elias Graves, Frederick s father, a religious but bigoted and narrow man, the enemy of the poor squatters, does his best to have Tess father convicted. Teola Graves loves young student named Dan Jordan, who perishes in fire, leaving her worse than a widow. Teola does not dare tell her proud father of her pit iful plight. Tess hears her weeping in the woods one day and takes her to her hut where her child is born. To shield her Tess takes the child and cares for it. Frederick and her neighbors believe she has fallen, and Frederick tears her Bible from her hands and burns it. Her life new be- comes hard one. Everyone avoids her and Tess has nothing left but her supreme faith in God. At last, when Tess takes the baby to church to have it baptized, Teola's father denounces it, and refuses to perform the ceremony. Teola can remain si- lent no longer, and now comes for ward and claims the baby, and dies from a hemorrhage, with the infant in her arms. The proud elder is over come with shame, and writes Tess a pleading note for forgiveness, which the humble Frederick bears to her.
 Tess nobly understands and for gives all; goes to Frederick's waiting arms and another fisherman is found to be the murderer of the fish-war den.
 Her father |. ..berated and all is love and happiness for her.
 This drama has attracted the larg- est crowds in eastern cities of any film put on for years, ana wherever it goes it is eagerly received by pie ture lovers. It will appear at the Elm press Theatre Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
 Mary Pickford in ''The Eagles Mate," will appear next week. This is another Paramount feature.