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STR0NG'S MESSAGE VIGOROUS, YlRlLE
 AND PROGRESSIVE
5ronlInuod nom pagc s.l
works cen hours, and be Wla Tsosas- ls 60 ,, better.

works cen hours. and be Wla Tyoba6. is Co ii better.
 Elections
 rhe acca or 8 modified iorr cS Ac Aai ,rai'ea sallot system is Imperative Ia thls Territory Cneer che psesent nc eod many kinds of ballots are now >elnr aseG and it is irococntF iu,- pcesiase fat thc vctcr t' cast 2n ic- sererdcnt ballot and maintain hia scv. frcien rirht CT citizenship. X simple nractlc,i law thaf wifi meet pre1cat -aonirtrcrt is recommended "A law fer tht rccistfalion of voters ir Ter rltorial elections lu an incorporated towns wcaid tc % logical ccacomitsnt cf an improved oallOt 1w.
 fr t7.E connection ' my Ae permit ted Go acirt cut that Q corrupt .prac- tccs a.t would lttcod Co arnmotc. .pgr stv os elections. Fortunately Alaska has been comparatively tree rom cor, cantcn "a elections. but it has not been rakn0wn. such @ iaw should contail provisions making it crime to p1y workers Go Influence vctcs at ihe polls or any ether Qiaco The prsctice of having workers is merely a cubtcrfarc Co buy vctes. and should not sc tolera,ed. The expenses of canCliascf for e'ec,ivc offices in the Tcrito-y should oe ilUatcd, and thcy shacid te oou-calcd % rcuder an item- t-ee account Of expenditures made in sDcs elections
 Primary Eie-tler Law
 ri7ect primaries as 2 urdcySf1ad the term. mean arovidinc 1 method by law hy which ths people may votc direc,iy for the persons who uay ro- ecat taemseivcs Ger variocS o.ficos This would Go away with -he nhiec- tsonabIc convention methods thnt fye ouentiy prevail and give The reople an opporigesfy 60 veto directly f0r thc r7ospcctive nominees of aii poliucsl parties The many widely scattere5 communities and tho sporscncSs CT pcpalation together nith the cost tast would te cntaned if a prima-y elec- ton law were enRcted. may b5 con s.cered as making such g. law in1t- visab'o at thls tlmc. The question. however. is submitted for yonr con sitcratcn.
 Territorial Elections. ....
 The system at present employed in tNn .srrr-r rafu.- -r HNa .-.sna ..a-a ~s
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ANOTHER PATIENT DISCHARGED

1t the Governors office yesterday notification was received of the dis charge at the Morningside sanitarium of D. E. Minert a former resident Of Unga Miner has only been retained at the Oregon sanitarinm since Sept 6. 1914. He has secured a position in Portland and will not return to Alas ka for the present.
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Other Mattere.


 The desirabiiity or a commission form of government for incorporated towns is presented for your consider ation This form of municipal gv. ernment has found popular approval ia the towns and cities in which it has been adopted. It Is claimed that efficiency in municipal government Is largely Increased and the municipall- ties are more economically and hon. estiy governed This is Q matter. how ever. that should be left to the muni- cipaiities tO adopt OF reject by popu- lar vote. and # law providing for such municipal government should be enacted provisions for a referendum should be made.
 N Tho regulation of public service cor poralions doing business within incor- porated towns is Q subject worthy Of your consideration l make this suggestion in view of the fact that a substantial growth may be reason ably expected or many Of the towns Of the Territory and some provision wlli be needed for the regulation of public service corporations doing bus iress therein. No extensive legal ma chinery should be required to make such work effective, as a commis- sion for. each incorporated town could be appointed by the town council or elected by the people Co serve with out pay as Che duties Of such com. mission would not be many Of oner- ous.
 Tn conclusion. ! welcome you to the capital Of tho Territory, and I express tho hope chat your work may be sat. isfactory to yourselves and profitable Co ;he people whom you represent. Let us. then. pledge our stcadfast de- sire 10 help to serve the people Of our great Territory. It Is my desire to help and serve the people of Alaska unErudgingly and unflinchinsly. Wo are air pioneers Of the Territory. We know it and we are at one with the aims and aspirations Of tho men and women who arc the factors in It's growth and development. The oest years ot my He have veen spent in this Territory. and ] would Ike Co share our resncnsibnitics with ali the
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pcople oe Aiaslsa, and therefore in- gite their corporation. lher yiewe. lhoir help and their advice. D give Che Territory thc sorY.ca 1or which we have aclomnly dedicated our time md our abilities.
 |. 2. 4. STRONG
 Governor.
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comINe ON THg ALAmEDA.

The Alameda, which leaves Seattle tonight at D. m., is bringing Q good sized passenger list, among which are the following: R. E. Lewis, Mrs. L. Dunham. c. O. Lee, Dr. and Mrs. Pay zant, Ernest Karlberg, Mir. and Mrs. William Rariberg. Mrs. L. NJ. Fucker, Mr. and Mrs. L. Bradfcrd, J. r. Ad- kins and 4. M. Nelson for Juneau.
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Mrs. Mary K. Brewer has opened a boarding house over the Hilde5ranc Plumbing shop directly opposite Dor ans Drug Store. She will be ploaeed to rocaivo boardera .st-
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NEw NoraRY PUBLIC.
IIl

Charles Cosgroya prominent at. torney of Kc,chsan. was yesterday appointed notary public by Gov. j.. B A. Strong.
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Ernest N. Harris. Of the Gastineau drafting force returned yesterday from . short trip to the Eagle River mine.
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SPORTS
31a0 9t-l co l31 l11l
.on IhcoInnItYIe Raeard.

Joe lNccIunity'c Record.
 Ice McGinnity often called the
 sfana old man of baseball" has g wcnderful record Tho now leader Of tho Tacomn Tigsrs sili has @ few more good games in hla mighty right arm. too, for last year he won many games for Tacoma pitching with his head, in0tUad of his orm.
 The Iron man'a lighting record from 1899 to l9i1. lnclusipa ia as follows.
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COME to the Palmiet. ten you about work, business. marriage, and the future. Get your fortune told. sOs Front st. s-1-st.
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Tc--Ilor'1T EIscCTo-1-

The system at present employed in the eSnvasslur of the votes cast at
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There ore 8 number or com mnnlfias which are dcnied the
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The EmpIre nas moEa Tsad9r1 Lhan

onV oflcT LIaaII1 1111r.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-11-27
THE wAToHMAN AND souEHRoN NOVEMBER -, 1915

You haven't even a letter of in.
PRODUCTION"
Il never heard"--her voice rang
with note against which he knew the
utility OF argument--"that the Savior
needed letters of introduction.
And so an imagined heartbreak and
crumbling world Of illusions-as she
fancied-had driven her suddenly into
self-appointed exile--and q mission.
Her education had been pointed to
fitting her to oversee such work-done
by the hands Of others. Even then,
had not he and all the rest goaded he.
with their insistent refrain, "You can't
do it," Now she was here.
She drew herself up straight as she
sat on the stile and impatiently dashed
away the moisture from her eyes. II
that other man had only had in him
the iron wasted on this desperado
Anse Havey! She rose at last and
went unwillingly back to the cabin.
The host sat barefooted before the
fire and talked with the missionary
The girl heard their conversation
through the dullness of fatigue, won.
dering how she was to sleep in this
pigsty, yet restrained from asking per-
mission to retire only by her embar.
rassment and unfamiliarity with the
native code.
At last she heard Brother Talbot
suggest: Hits gittin' ter be late an
we've got tol'able long way ter jour.
ney termorrer. I reckon we'd better
lay down."
Juanita began counting heads. There
were six In the room, and the boy Jeb
was yet to return from the dance, and
while she was still trying to work out
the problem the woman pointed to a
corner bed and suggested: II reckon
you'd better bundle in with Dawn"
She saw the girl crawl into bed
just as she was and the mission
ary kick of his brogans and shed his
coat. Taking of her own boots and
jacket, she slipped between the faded
"comforters" OF the sheetless couch.
In five minutes the taper was out
and the place was silent save for the
cracking Of the logs. The little girl
at her side lay quiet, and her regular
breathing proclaimed her already
asleep. In another five minutes Jua-
nita. with closed eyes and burning lids
and aching muscles, heard the nasal
chorus of snoring sleepers. She alone
was awake In the house.
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other seeming to stare through the
massive timbers of that at the back
with leveled pistol. No one spoke. No
one moved, but the regular swelling
breath Of sleep had died, for every
pair Of lips In the place was holding
its breath, batcd.
Then came fresh pounding Of hoofs
and scattering OF gravel and O. chorus
OF angry, inCOherent voices sounded
above the noise of Fighter was it
pursuit? Whatever words were being
shouted out there in the night were
swallowed in the medley, except q
wake Of oaths that seemed to float be-
hind.
The noise, like tie other which had
preceded it. died swiftly, but in the
instant that it lasted Fletch McNash
had lifted his lett hand and brought
his rifle to the ready" and his son had
instinctively thrust forward his
cooked revolver.
For full minute, perhaps, the girl
In the bed had the picture Of two fig
ures bc5,t low like bronze emblems OF
motionless preparation, yet not a syl
liable had been spoken, and when, from
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quite q distance beyond, there came
the snap of a single shot, followed by
the retort of volley, they still nei-
ther spoke nor moved. But at last,
as If by one impulse, they rose and
turned to face each other.
Then, and then only, was there ut
terance of any sort inside the house.
In voice so low that Juanita would
not have heard it save that every
sense was painfully alert, Fletch said
to his son: 81 reckon ther wars on
again."
The boy nodded sullenly, and the
father commanded in an almost inau.
dible undertone:
Lay down."
The boy went back to his pallet and
the father to his bed. For a long time
there was dead silence, and then one
by one they took up again their chorus
OF snores. Tomorrow might bring chaos
but tonight offered sleep. Still the
girl lay gazing helplessly UP at the
rafters and wondering what things
happened out there in the grim, un.
communicative silence of the slopes.
A little while ago she had been
dreading what might come. Now, in
an access of terror, she thought of
what must come.
Ther wars on" That was enough.
Evidently there had been hell" over
there at the dance. She had reached
the country just in time to see a new
and sanguinary chapter open.
She would in all probability see
people she actually knew, with whom
she had spoken, and whose hands she
had taken, the victims Of this brutal
blood-lust.
And in the face Of such things these
human beasts could sleep! .. ...
But one was not sleeping, and after
while among the snoring slumberers
Good Anse Talbot rose and knelt be-
fore the hearth. There were still a
few glowing embers there, and as he
bent and at last took the knotted
hands away from his scanned face they
cast a feeble light upon his features
and upon the bare feet that twisted
convulsively on the stone fireplace.
1t was tortured face, and as the
girl watched him she realized for the
first time the significance Of the words
to wrestle in prayer" It suddenly
came 10 her that she had never before
seen man really pray. For an hour
the backwoods missionary knelt there.
pleading with his God for his unrepen.
tant people.
Outside single whippoorwill walled
plaintively, These poor hills! These
poor hills!"
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CHAPTER w.

Physical exhaustion will finally tell
even over such handicaps as noun.
tain feather bed and the fumes of q
backwoods cabin.
If Juanita Holland did not at last
actually fall asleep, she drifted into a
sort Of nightmare coma from which
she awoke with start.
She wondered If she had really
screamed aloud as her eyes opened
and stared at the rafters, but little
Dawn's sleeping breath rose and fell
undisturbed at her side and the snores
about her went on unbroken. She
raised her hand and wiped the per-
spiration from her eyes. She even
ventured to look cautiously about.
After all, she must have slept heav.
ily for now besides the four beds
there was pallet on the floor, and at
It's top the freight, which was lower
now, but still strong, showed tousled
head and at its foot two bare feet.
Jeb had come home from the dance.
Again she shut her eyes, but their
lids were hot and feverish. The whole
procession Of the days wretched oc.
currences paraded before her, and she
wondered If these creatures were
worth the effort she was making in
their behalf.
What monstrous things might she
have to face at the very outset of her
mission? Could it be that the sleep
Ing volcano Of violence would select
her coming as cue for eruption, and
that she, who had seen o2ly the bet.
ter things Of life until today, must
begin her work by looking at such a
revolving drama?
Finally she fell again into that half
sleep which dreams Of wakefulness.
1t may have lasted minutes or hours,
but suddenly she reused again with a
start from new nightmare and Law
trembling under the oppression of a
poignant foreboding. What was it that
she had subconsciously heard or mag.
ined? She was painfully wide awake
In the slumbering cabin. At last she
was sure OF sound, low but instinct
with warning.
Bcardog was growing just outside
the door.
Then, violently and without the pref.
ace OF gradual approach-precisely as
though horsemen had sprung from the
earth-there clattered and beat past
the front OF the cabin staccato thun.
der of wildly galloping hoofs and n
rattle OF scattered rocks. She felt an
uncanny freezing OF her marrow.
Horses travel perilous and broken
roaGs in that fashion only when their
riders are in wild haste,
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At breakfast she did not see Dawn

At breakfast she did not see Dawn
the dryad had vanished! i
During the meal no allusion was
made to the happenings of last night,
but the girl noticed that inside the
door leaned the householder's rifle
gun" and under young Jeb's armpit
bulged the masked shape of a pistol.
butt.
Young Jeb's face yesterday had
been that Of boy, this morning 1t was
the sullen face of a man confronting
grim realities. Had Juanita been
more familiar with the, contemporary
affairs OF the community, she might
have known that on many faces along
Tribulation that morning brooded the
same scowl from the same cause The
McBriar yell had been raised last
night in the heart Of the Havey coun-
try, and this morning brought the
shame Of a land invaded and dishon.
ored.
Dawn did not reappear until Juanita
had mounted and turned her mules
head forward. Then, as she was pass.
ing the dilapidated barn, the slim, cal-
lco-clad figure slipped from it's door
and intercepted her in the road, hold
ing up a handful of Queer-shaped
roots.
L lowed ye thought need these
hyar," said the girl diffidently.
Juanita smiled as she bent in her
saddle to take the gift.
Thank you, dear; what are they?"
Hits ginseng" Dawn assured her.
Hit grows back thar in ther woods
an hits got a powerful heap Of vir-
tue. Hit frisks ther speret an drives
away torment. Ell yer starts ter
swoon agin, jest chaw hit"
Juanita repressed her amusement.
You see, DEAR" she declared.
'there's one very wonderful thing
you know that / didn't know. And
don't forget, when we meet again we
are old friends"
Then, when she had mounted her
mule, looking back over her shoulder.
Juanita saw the figures OF both Fletch
and Jeb cross the fence at the far
side OF the yard and turn into the
mountain thicket. Each carried q
rlne Graded in his bent elbow.
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but I amt never found no way vet TO
get peace without fightin' for It,"
She saw him ride away into the
moonlight, with his shoulders very
straight and the battered felt hat very
nigh, and she looked neither to right
nor left as he went until the mists
had swallowed him.
For long time while she sat there
on the stile gazing across the steep
banks between which the waters of
Tribulation slipped along In a tide of
tarnished quicksilver and beyond
which rose the near ridges Of blue
and the far, dim ridges OF gray.
At her back she knew that the fam
lily and the missionary were sitting in
talk.
She sat there with her hands clasped
about her updrawn knees as she used
TO sit when some childhood grief had
weighed upon her.
She could not shake out OF her mind
the humiliation Of having shown her
weakest side to Bad Anse Havey. 1t
was some satisfaction to remember
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an air es much alike es two peas in q
pod" went neighborhood pronounce.
ment. "They air both soured on
mankind an they glories in human
misery"
Had the fight on that winter eve
ming ended in the death of both par.
Elephants, McBriars and Haveys would
alike have called it gentle riddance
and dropped the matter where it stood.
But since q Havey had slain a Nc.
Briar and the Havey still lived it
could not, in honor, be 80 dropped. It
left an uneven score.
Since the mountaineer has little to
do in the winter and spring save gos-
sip, the affair grew in Importance
with rehearsing, and to each telling
was added new features. It was sig
nificantly pointed out east of the ridge
that Noah had incurred the displeas.
ure of Bad Anse Havey by the suspi.
cion of tale-bearing to old Milt Mo
Briar. It was argued that the particu-
lar wife-beating which led to the trag.
edy might have passed as uneventfully
as several similar episodes heretofore,
had not the heads of the Haveys made
it q pretext for eliminating a McBriar
who dwelt In their midst and carried
news across the ridge to his own
people. .-.
For several years the feud had
slept, not the complete sleep Of death,
but the fitful, simmering sleep of eau.
tious animosity. But neither clan felt
so overwhelmingly strong as to court
an issue just yet and, realizing the
desperate quality of any outbreak,
both Milt McBriar "over yon" and
Anse Havey over here had guarded
tho more belligerent kinsmen with
jealous eye. They had until now held
them checked and leashed, though
growing.
For these reasons the trial Of Cal
Douglas had been awaited with O
sense Of crisis in the town Of Peril,
where it might mean a pitched battle.
So it had been awaited, too, up and
down the creeks and branches that
crept from the ragged hills, where men
were leading morbid lives of isolation
and nursing grudges.
During the three days that the sus.
pense continued each recess of court
found the long-limbed frame of Milt
McBriar tilted back in a split-bottom
chair on the flagstones at the front
Of the hotel. His dark face and pierc-
ing eyes gazed always thoughtfully
and very calmly off across the dusky
town to the reposeful languor of the
piled-up, purple skyline. Likewise,
each recess found seated at the other
end of the same house-front the short
er, heavier figure of fair-haired man
with ruddy face and sandy mustache.
Never did he appear there without two
companions, who remained at his right
and left. Never did the dark giant
speak to the florid man, yet never did
either fail to keep a glance directed
toward the other.
The man Of the sandy hair was Breck
Havey, next to Bad Anse the most
influential leader of the clan. His in.
fluence here in Peril made or unmade
the officers of the law.
When these two men came together
as opposing witnesses in homicide
case the air was fraught with ele-
ments of storm.
"Thar's war a-brewin'," commented
a native glancinp at the nuiatlv seat.
ed figures one noon. "An' them fel,
lers air In ther bilin'."
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CHAPTER v.

In the lowlands morning announces
itself with the rosy glow Of dawn and
upfung shafts of light, but here in the
hills of Appalachia even the sun comes
stealing with surreptitious caution and
yelled face. as If fearful Of ambuscade.
When Juanita opened her eyes, to
lind the tumbled beds empty save for
herself, she told herself with dismal
heart that day of rain and sodden
skies lay ahead of her.
The dim room reeked with wet
mists, and an inQuisitive young roos-
ter stalked jauntily over the puncheon
floor, where his footballs sounded In
tiny clicks. It was a few minutes
after five o'clock, and Juanita shivered
q little with the clammy chill as she
went over to the door and looked out.
Bending over gushing spring at
one corner Of the yard in the uncon.
scious grace Of perfect naturalness,
her sleeves rolled back and her dark
hair tumbling, knelt the girl Dawn.
Juanita crossed the yard, and as she
came near the younger girl raised a
face still glistening with the cold wa
ter into which 1t had been plunged and
glowing with shyness.
The older woman nodded with a
smile that had captivated less simple
subjects than Dawn and said: Good
morning. think you and are going
to be great friends. / know we are IL
you will try to like me as much as I
do you"
Then the girl from Philadelphia
plunged her face, too, into the cold,
living water, and raised it again, smil-
ing through wet lashes.
What makes ye like me" Dawn
suddenly demanded in a half-challeng-
ing voice.
"You make me like you," laughed
Juanita.
The mountain girl held her eyes still
IN the unwavering steadiness of her
race, then she said in voice that car.
ried an undertone of defiance:
"Ye hain't nuver seen me afore,
an" she broke off, then doggedly,
AN besides, don't know nuthin'."
Il mean to see you often after this"
announced the woman from down be-
low, "and tho things you don't know
can be learned"
A sudden eagerness came to the
younger face and a sudden torrent of
questioning seemed to hover on her
lips, but it did not find utterance. She
only turned and led the way silently
back toward the house. When they
were almost at the door Dawn hcsi-
tated, and Juanita halted with an en-
couraging smile. 1t was clear that
the mountain girl found whatever she
meant to say difficult, for she stood
indecisive and her cheeks were hotly
suffused with color, SO that at last
Juanita smilingly prompted: What
Is it, dear?"
"Ye said" began Dawn hastily and
awkwardly "ye said suthin' bout me
tryin' ter like ye. IL don't halter
try docs hit" Then, having made
confession as difficult to her shy taci.
turnity rs callow boys first declara-
tion of love, she fled abruptly around
the corner Of the house.
Juanita stood looking after her with
a puzzled brow. This hard mountain
reserve which is so strong that friends
rarely shake hands, that fathers sell
dom crn1race their children, and that
the kiss is known only to courtship,
was new to her.