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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
Another Result Of the War.

Secretary McAdoo, in his annual re-
port, referring to the effects of the
war, says: 1T is tribute to the eco
nomic strength and soundness of the
country and to the patriotism of It's
people in every class and walk OF life
that the shock has been so admirably
withstood." 1t was the war crisis,
too, which caused the administration
finally to abandon it's theory that a
government could ignore the nations
business interests and be successful.
and taught it that the iron doors of a.
bank do not bar patriotism.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06

upon his pleasure And when at length
he decided to speak. it was with ring
OF hateful irony in that strangely
sonorous voice OF his.
Rose" he said slowly-"my daugh-
teri am told you have today been
guilty of an act Of disloyalty to me-"
She said coolly: you had me spied
upon"
Naturally. with every reason to
question your loyalty. l had YOU
watched"
She waited a significant moment.
then dropped an impassiye monosyl-
liable into the silence: ''WelI?"
You have visited the man Digby,
servant and friend Of the man 1 hate
and you love-"
She said. without expression: Yes"
Repeat what passed between you"
u shall not. but on one condition"
"And that ISL
Tell me first whether It was you
who sent the rose TO Alan Law-and
more, where Judith has been during
the last fortnight"
Il shall tell you nothing. my child.
Repeat"-the resonant voice rang with
inhexible purpose-"repeat what the
man Digby told you!"
The girl was silent. He endured her
stare for a long minute. a spark of
rage kindling to fame the evil old eyes.
Then his one living member that
had power to serve his iron will, a
hand like the claw OF a bird of prey,
moved toward a row of buttons sunk
in the writing-bed of his desk.
Il warn you have ways to make
you speak"
With a quick movement the girl
bent over and prisoned the bony wrist
in her strong fingers. With her other
hand, at the same time. she whipped
open an upper. drawer OF the desk and
took from 1t a revolver which she
placed at safe distance.
TO the contrary" she said quietly,
you will remember that the time has
passed when you could have me pun
ished for disobedience. You will call
nobody: II interrupted, / shan't hesi-
tate to defend myself. And now"-lay-
ing hold Of the back of his chair, she
moved 1t some distance from the desk
you may as well be quiet while
find for myself what wish to know"
For a moment he watched in silence
as she bent over the desk, rummaging
its drawers. Then with an Infatuated
gesture of his left hand. he began to
curse her.
She shuddered little as the black
oaths bllstered his thin old lips, dedi-
eating her and all she loved to sin,
infamy and sorrow; but nothing could
stay her in her purpose. He was
breathless and exhausted when she
Strengthened up with an exclamation
of satisfaction, studied intently for
moment a sheaf of papers, and thrust
them hastily into her handbag. togeth-
er with the revolver
Then touching the push-button
which released a secret and little-used
door. without backward glance she
slipped from the room and. closing the
door securely, within another minute
had made her way unseen from the
house.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06

moment she rested there unresisting.
sobbing quietly.
What is il? What is It, deaIsst?''
he questioned. kissing her tears away.
ITO find you all right. I
was so afraid" she cried brokenly.
"of what? Wasn't | all right when
you left me here this molningf"
She disengaged with an effort, rose,
and looked down strangely at him.
Il did not leave you here this morn
ing. Alan. ! wasn't here"
That brought him to his own feet
In iifry. you were notI" he STAN
mered. Then Who-T
Judith" she stated with conviction.
"Impossiblel You don't under
stand"
The girl shook her head. "Yet I
know: Judith was here until this
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
Republican, United.

A united Republican party is the
chief gain of the country from the
November election. The Democrats
have notice served upon them that in
1915 the Republicans will enter the
campaign with their full force and
the addition of many new members
of the party. represented by the DEM
ocratic following of the Progressive
party-an element that has been swept
into the Republican ranks along with
others by the dissolution of the party
of Mr.. Roosevelts leadership. The
Republican party in its own right is
the majority party of the country and
in its own right It can carry the next
presidential election. This 1t intends
to do. From the present time on, the
party will be at work to give it's unity
the full effect of plans and activities
that will inevitably lead to the de-
thronement of the Democrats in the
next great contest
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
Pay and Think; Think and pay.

Either the tariff was badly adapted
to raising revenue or the great sums
now being taken from the people are
in excess Of what is needed by the
government. Properly devised duties
would bring in sufficient for the coun-
try's requirements, and If they fail to
do so they are arranged by men In
competent to frame a tariff When
you pay your deficiency tax to the
government, bear in mind 1t repre-
sents either incompetency or extrava-
ganc6 1t is an unnecessary tax. and
it must be paid at a time when every
body is economizing in his own at.
fairs. Why shouldn't the government
economic as well as the people De-
troit Free Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
DUE TO THE TARIFF
New Taxes Should Be Given
Their Proper Name.
Are Not Properly "War Taxes" but
deficiency Taxes" as Study of Ma
tionaI Balance Sheet VIII
Quickly Prove.

When Europe went to war last sum-
mer and our congress was called upon
to lay new taxes, though we were
not at war and not at all likely to be.
it seemed natural to speak of them
as war taxes" as burden put upon
e by Europe's war.
Some who strive for accuracy in Ian
guage objected to the term then. How
ever, President Wilson in his special
message to congress ascribed the ne
eessity of these new taxes to the Eu-
ropean war, and boldly challenged the
odfum supposed to attach to war
taxes" by making the term his own.
Time has proved that Mr.. Wilson
was somewhat in error. The new
tariff law having now been IN effect
Is months, it is possible to make &C
curate comparisons showing the rela-
tive effects upon the national income
of the war and of the Democratic
tariff
The Herald has made them several
times in its reviews of THE Nations
Daily Balance Sheets" They show
for the whole month of November that
the tariff caused decline Of customs
receipts which compares with the
present effects of the war as with Z.
Therefore, it is plain that the new
taxes were mainly made necessary by
tariff change, and by appropriations
of congress, with little regard to the
effects of that change. Hence the
Herald, in the interest of accuracy,
moves that they be hereafter referred
to as Deficiency Taxes" and will so
refer to them-Chicago Herald.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06

had none beyond hurting knife belt
ed at the small of his back. All else
had been either consumed in the for
est fire or stolen by his Indian guide
who had subsequently died while at
tempting to murder his employer.
Since that event, the man had sue
ceeded in losing himself completely.
In seeking shelter from the thunder
storm. he had lost touch with his only
known and none too clearly located
landmarks. Then, after q night passed
without fire In the lee OF ragged
blur, he had walked to discover the
sun rising in the west apS the rest Of
the universe alphabetically upside
down; and aimlessly ever since he had
stumbled and Numbered In the maze
of those grimly reticent faEtnesses, for
the last few hours haunted by fear
of failing reason-possesso1 by a no.
ton that he was logged by furtive
enemies-and within the latt hour the
puppet of blind, witless panic.
But even as he strove to calm him
self and rest, the feeling that some
thing was peering at him from behind
a mask of underground gres intoler-
ably acute.
At length he jumped up, glazed Wild
ly at the spot where that something
no longer was, flung himself fran
tcalfy through the brush In pursuit of
II, and-found nothing.
With a great effort he pulled him.
oil oil ~ a.,
the promise not again to give way to
Authorizations, and turned back to the
clearing.
There, upon the log on which he
had rested. he found-but refused to
believe he saw-a playing card a
trey Of hearts. face up in the san
glare.
With gesture of horror, Alan Law
fed the place.
While the sounds OF his fight were
still loud, a grinning half-breed guide
stole like shadow to the log, laughed
derisively after the fugitive. picked up
and pocketed the card, and set out
N tireless, cat-footed pursuit.
An hour later, topping a ridge of
rising ground, Alan caught from the
hollow on it's farther side the music Of
clashing waters. Tortured by thirst,
he began at once to descend in reck.
less haste.
What was at first gentle slope Gov
cred with waist-deep brush and car
peted with leaf-mold. grew swiftly
more declivitous, q messy hillside, as
steep as roof, bare Of underbrush,
and sparely sown with small cedars
through whose ranks cool blue water
twins led far below.
The ahelving moss-beds afforded
treacherous footing; Alan was glad
now and then Of the support OF a ce-
dar, but these grew ever smaller, and
more widely spaced and were not al
ways convenient TO his hand. He
came abruptly and at hesdlong pace
within sight OF the caves Of Cliff
ard precisely then the hillside seemed
H. slip lsam under BIN.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
lnaredIents Of Happiness.

After a long, stern chase l am con-
WINGED that the ingredients Of happf
ness are very few and simple. writes
Michael Monahan in AT the Sign of
the Van" The trouble with most Of
US is that we think we want too many
things and SO miss our true aim in the
effort to obtain them. It is better to
put beauty In your life than money
In your purse. GiIt-edged stocks viii
not compensate you for the poverty
Of the mind, A city mansion and .
country house, the seductions of soci-
ETY. and the vain pursuit Of the aniso
seed bag will not make up to you for
a dearth OF soul life. Cut out the SUI
perauiues- and begin TO live.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
CHAPTER VIlI.
The incredible Thing.


Broad daylight. the top Of a morn
ing as rare as ever broke upon the
north country: Alan Law opening be-
wildered eyes to realize the substance
of dream come true.
True 1t proved itself, at least, In
part He lay between blankets upon a
couch Of balsam fans, in corner OF
somebody's camp-a log structure,
weather-proof, rudely but adequately
furnished. His clothing, rough-dried
but neatly mended, lay upon a chair
at his side.
He rose and dressed in haste, at
once exultlng In his sense OF complete
rest and renewed well-being, prey
to hints Of an extraordinary appetite,
and provoked by signs that seemed to
bear out the weirdest flights OF his de-
lirious fancies.
There we're apparently indisputable
evidences of a woman's recent pres
ence in the camp: blankets neatly
folded upon a second bed OF aromatic
balsam in the farther corner; an effect
of orderliness not common with
guides; a pair of dainty buckskin
gauntlets depending from nail in the
wall; and-he stood staring witlessly
at IT. for more than a minute-in an
old preserve Jar on the table, a single
rose, warm and red, dew upon its
petals!
There was also fire in the cook
stove, with a plentiful display of
things to cook; but despite his hunger
Alan didn't stop for that, but rush ed
to the door and threw It open and him
self out into the sunshine, only TO
pause, dashed. chagrined. mystified.
There was no other living thing in
sight but a loon that sported tar up
the river and saluted him with a
shrek of knocking laughter.
The place was a cleft In the hills,
a table Of level land some few acres
In area, bounded on one hand. be-
meath the cliff from which he had
dropped, by a rushing river fat with
recent rains; on the other by a second
cliff of equal height. Upstream the
water curved round the shoulder OF a
towering hill, downstream the cliffs
closed upon It until 1t roared through
q narrow gorge.
Near the camp. upon a strip of
shelving beach that bordered the river
where 1t widened into a deep, dark
pool, two canoes were drawn IN. bot
toms to the sun. Dense thfckets of
pines, oaks, and balsams hedged In
the clearing.
He was. It seemed, to be left severe
ly TO himself, that day; when he had
cooked and made way with an enor-
nous breakfast, Alan found nothing
better to do TIL time for luncheon
than to explore this pocket domain.
He Toasted famouBly again at noon;
whiled away several hours Vainly whip
ping the pools with rod and tackle
found In the camp, for trout that he
really didn't hope would rise beneath
that blazing sun; and toward three
O'Clock lounged back to his aromatic !
couch for a nap.
The westering sun had thrown a
deep. cool shadow across the cove |
when he was awakened by Emporium
ate hands and voice of magic.
Rose Urine was kneeling beside him. |
ciutching HIS shoulders, calling on him 1
by name-distracted by an inexplica-
bic anxiety.
He wasted 10 time discriminating /
between dream and reality, but gath
cred both into his arms. And for !
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
CHAPTER vi.
Disclosures.


In little corner Office, soberly fur.
nished, on the topmost floor of one OF
lower Manhattan's Hottest ofice-tow.
ers, little mouse-brown man sat over
big mahogany desk; a little man of
big affairs, sole steward of one of
Americas most formidable fortunes.
Precisely at eleven minutes past
noon Tor at the identical instant chos-
en- BY Alan Law to catapult over the
edge Of a cliff in northern Mainel the
muted signal of the little mans desk
telephone clicked and, eagerly lifting
receiver TO ear, he nodded with a smile
and said in accents OF some relief:
ask her to come n at once, please"
Jumping ur. he placed a chair in in.
innate juxtaposition with his own:
and the door opened, and young
woman entered.
The mouse-brown man bowed. Miss
Rose Trine7" he murmured with a
great deal OF Difference.
The young woman returned his bow
with show of perplexity: Mr.. Dig.
byf"
You are kind 10 come in response
to my-ah-unconvent In, a
ton" said the little man Wont
you-ah-sit down 2
She said. SThauk you. grayely, and
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06

her life on the dam at Spirit Lake.
Now do you seer"
His countenance was blank with
wonder: "GratitudeY
Rose smiled YEARLY: Not graft
tude alone, but something more ter
rible. She rose and held
out her hand. mo, that can blams
her. But come; II we strike
through here we will, think, pick up
trail that will bring us to Black
Beaver settlement by dark"
CTo BE CONTINUED)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
CHAPTER VII.
~oh, Come. Comet" She Cried wildly.
The Mutlneer.

Within the hour Rose Urine stood
before her father in that somber room
wherein he wore out his crippled days.
in that place OF silence and shadows
whose sinister color-scheme OF Grim
son and black was the true livery Of
his monom ania-his passion for ven
geance that alone kept warm the en-
bers Of life in that wasted and move
less frame.
An imp.sh malice giimmered IN his
suuken eyes as be kept her waiting
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
SYNOPSIS.

The on Hearts is the death sign"
Used by Seneca Urine in the private war
OF vengeance. which, through his daugh-
ter. Judith, a woman of violent and Grim
TGges against Alan Law. whose father
.1Dw dead Urine held responsible for the
accident which made him helpless Grip
pie Law loves Rose. but under dramatic
circumstances saves the life Of judith.
neT twin sister, and unwillngly gains
her love, also
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06

The Progressive party has lost IT'S
'egal identity in Oregon by its failure
20 cast five per cent of the vote given
to congressional candidates in the last
election; but probably even that won't.
enable it to conceal its humiliation.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-01-06
Their One Best Bet.

1.-THE country needs the Progressive
party" says George w. Perkins. The
statement is a little inaccurate. The
Progref i've party is needed, but not
by the country. Only by the Demo-
crats.-Kansas City Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04

FOR RENT Houses with all improve.
ments at moderate rentals j. l.. Gtpple
1851 Market street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
pHnADEIPUIA PRODUCE

philadelphia, Jan. T. - Wheat -
Higher; No. 2, red, spot, export, .s1,30H
a 1,S2 Y; No. !, Northern. Duluth, ex-
Corr 90 :o Higicr; her Fl No. 2, yellow. local
n 7oo771ac.
Bran - Firmer: winter, per ton
s26.50@270O; spring. per ton, $4,000
26.25.
Potatoes - Market firm; Penn
sylvania. per bushel, 90 q Coo; New York
per bushel. 400 4Sc; Jersey, per basket
50 5D40c
hay - The market is firm; tim
othy No. 1, large bales, S1S.50@19.0 90;
No. 1. medium bales. S.50@19.O0: No
>, do, $17.00@1S.00: No. 8, do. s14.506O
1850; samples, $4,000 400; no grade
ll.UUGDl3.UO.
Dressed Poultry - Firmer; turkeys
fowls. heavy, i71a @iShc; do, average,
14M 17c; do, small 12@1Sc; old
roosters, 121ac; broiling chickens. near
by, 16@22c; western, 14@2Oc; roast
ing chickens, 14@2Sc; ducks. log l7c;
geese, 13M14c.
Glover mixed hay. I4sh.. ,,,y.1 ed
No. ., do, $1500@16.00.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04

ONE of the best grocery and fresh
meat stores in this city is offered for
sale at Inventory. value. Good oppor-
tunity for live wire. Bell Realty Co.,
Bergner Building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
Services For Victim of
Auto Smash-up Tomorrow

Funeral services for Miss Grace
Maugan, aged % years, $40 Forster
street, who died early Saturday morn
ing from injuries she received in an
automobile accident at Front and Wal
nut streets late Friday night, will be
held at the home tomorrow after
noon at o'clock, the Rev. B. II.
Hart, pastor of the Fifth Street Meth
odist Church, officiating. Burial will
be made in PaXtang Cemetery. The
pallbearers will be Harry and Gene
DeLone, Ross and Francis Simonettl,
Albert Senior and bud" Commings.
Miss Lillian Swails, r. Elder CIeck-
ner and Samuel Weber, three others
who were injured in the accident and
were taken to the Harrisburg Hos
pital. are reported improving and will
probably leave the hospital in the
next few days Coroner Eckinger will
not hold an inquest until these three
leave the hospital and can come as
witnesses to the hearing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
Works Old Sympathy
c. o. D. Game, Is Charge

That old crooked C. o. d. game
sending packages to the address of
persons who died recently-will be
explained at the police station to-mor-
row afternoon. Mayor John Is. Royal
will give a hearing to j, II. Chapman,
alias Il. +. Brown, on a charge Of false
pretense.
Chapman was arrested in Lewistown
Saturday on information from Herbert
Il. Lucas. post office inspector. Inspec-
tor Lucas believes he has Federal
the mails. The Adams Express Com
pany is the plaintiff in the case at the
police station. Chapman. 1t Is alleged,
secured names of persons who died re-
Gently. To the addresses of the de-
ceased he sent c. o. ID. packages con-
tanning cheap jewelry and left the col
the express company. Chapman has re-
tanned Robert Sucker as his attorney.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
STOCKS HIGHER At
|. OPENING Of MARKETS
Bethlehem Dominated During
Early Hours, Common Going
to Its Highest Point in Years

New York, Jan. h Opening deal
ings in the stock market here to-day
were more or less at variance with
quotations for our stocks in London,
where trading was resumed after a
With the exception of United States
Steel and Pennsylvania. which declined
mere fractions, most of other stocks
were trifle higher, although the dull
movement was confined practically to
shares of the inactive group. Bethle-
hem Steel, Common and Preferred,
dominated the early market the COM
mon rising to its highest price in sew
eral years. Anaconda Copper was the
only American issue to show any ad-
vance abroad
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
Gardner Gives Views
on Preparedness of
United States For War
By Assoeiated -Press

Washington, Jan. 4.-Representa-
tive Gardner urging his proposal to
investigate the military preparedness
of the nation, told the House Military
Committee to-day that the "entire
field army, militia, regulars and all
of the United States would just about
garrison Paris" and the United States
to-day owns little more than half
of the number of guns Russia had at
the battle of Mukden."
Mr.. Gardner had a series of lively
passages with members of the COM
mittee which he arraigned for not
summoning Major Generals Wood and
Crozier to get their views on pre-
paredness.
He quoted figures at length to show
that the combined force of regulars
and national guardsmen would form
battle line Go miles long, two-thirds
of the way around Greater New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
BOY WILL LOSE LEG

Mihllnburg, Pa. Jan, 4.-William
Jolly, 13 years old. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Jolly, living about ten
miles west of Mifiiinburg, met with a
serious accident on Saturday while Wis
iting a set of muskrat traps which the
boy operated to earn money to help
support the family. His musket was
accidentally discharged. the load strik-
ing him in the right leg below the
knee, breaking the bones and tearing
away the muscles. After the accident
the boy crawled about hundred yards
and then called his little sister. who
pulled him home on q small hand sled.
Medical aid was SUMMONED and the
boy was taken to the Mary Packer
Hospital at Sunbury. where Ii is
thought the leg will have to be ampu-
tated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
IN Regarding OF WICONISCO
STREET., FROM SIXTH STREET 10
,IEFFERSON STREET, HARRIS

hI IN.
NOTICE is hereby given that the un-
dersigned Viewers. appointed by the
Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin
County to ascertain and assess dam
ages and benefits which have accrued,
or many accrue, by reason of the i'm
proVement aforesaid, will meet upon
the same and the premises affected
thereby on Monday. the 18th day OF
January 1915. at 10 o'clock A. NJ, when
and where all parties in interest may
attend personally or by counsel IL they
see fit. And the undersigned Viewers
will hold an adjourned meeting i'm the
Council Chamber. in the Court House.
at Harrisburg. on the next succeeding
day illegal Holidays and Sunday eX-
cepted). at 10 o'clock A. NJ, and con-
tinue the hearings until all parties In
interest who may attend shall have had
an opportunity to be fully heard
Il. EARL GRAEFF.
HARRY FAHNESTOCK,
PAUL G. SMITH.
Viewers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
FOR SALE

FOR SALE a parlor Novelty
Double Heater; only used four months /;
moving to heated house the reason for
selling. Apply corner Twenty-ninth
and ELM streets, Penbrook, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
ATTEND TRAvELFEsr

DIR. II. c. Pardoe read an interest
ing paper this morning on q trip '"To
the Golden Gate and Return to the
East" at the regular meeting of the
Methodist NTinisterium of Harrisburg
in the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation. Several of the pastors re-
ported on tho number of converts
that had been received into the
church of tho Slough ''trallhitters."
The Lutheran Ministerium met this
afternoon. The Rev. Fl. w A. Han
son was the principal speaker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
SITUATIONS wANTED-Female

WANTED - a colored woman wants
washing or days work. Call sos state
street.