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CHAPTER XXI.
The Retire at.


Marta remained where Westerling
had left her, rooted to the ground by
the monstrous spell of the developing
panorama of seemingly limitless move
ment With each passing minute there
must be hundred acts of hereism
which, if isolated in the glare of a
days news, would make the public
thrill At the outset of the war she
had seen the Browns, as part of a pre-
conceived plan, in cohesive rear-guard
resistance with every detail of per-
sonal bravery utilized factor of or
ganiZed purpose. Now she saw de-
Tense, inchoate and fragmentary, each
part acting for itself, all deeds of per-
sonal bravery lost in a swirl of disor-
ganization. That was the pity of it.
the helplessness of engineers and of
levers when the machine was broken;
the warning of it TO those who under
take war lightly.
The Browns rifle flashes kept on
steadily weaving their way down the
the heels of the skirmishers in greedy
swarms. A heavy column of Brown in
fantry was swinging in toward the
myriad-legged, writhing gray caterpil-
lar on the pass road and many field
batteries were trotting along parallel
road. Their plan developed suddenly
when a swath of gun-fire was laid
across the pass road at the mouth of
the defile, as much as to say; Here
we make a gate of DEATH" At the
same time the head of the Brown in
fantry column flashed it's bayonets over
the crest of a hill toward the point
where the shells were bursting These
men minded not the desperate. scat
tered rifle-fre into their ranks. Before
their eyes was the prize of panic
that grew with their approach. Kinks
were out of legs stiffened by long
watches. The hot breath of pursuit
was in their nostrils, the fever of vic
tory in their blood
In the defile, the impulse of one Gray
straggler. who shook handkerchief
aloft in fatalistic submission to the in
evitable. became the impulse of ALL
Soon a thousand white signals of sur
render were blossoming. AS the firing
abruptly ceased, Marta heard the faint
roar of the mighty huzzas of the hunt
ers over the size of their bag
Some doctors of different regiments
thrown together in the havoc of rem
nants of many organizations, with the
help of hosptal-corps men, were try
ing to eXtricate the wounded from
among the dead They heard a won-
ans voice and saw a woman's face.
They did not wonder at her presence,
for there was nothing left in the world
for them to wonder at. Had an imp
from hell or an angel from heaven ap-
peared, or a shower of diamonds fallen
from the sky, they would not have
been surprised Their duty was clear;
there was work of their kind to do,
endless work. Units OF the broken ma
chine, in the instinct of their calling
they struggled with the duty nearest
at hand. They begged her TO go back
to the house; this was no place for
her
But Marta did not want safety. Dan
ger was sweet; It was expiation. She
was helping, actually helping; that
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RHoIp 9T EfAlN F0Ml2nlSIe

that Easter. we climb, not as slaves
who endure because there is no escape.
but with joy triumphant. For the as
suranee is ours that We shall thus rise
with him into the light
And so he bids US on this Easter day
to accept our valleys. for they lead
out into life; not clone beyond, but
now. The sliding stones cannot
plunge US over the brink, nor the
threatening rocks crash down and
crush out our lives We have his word
that because he lives we shall live
also. Our feet are set securely upon
the road. and we shall climb in safety
up the vision frightened way to the
goal
1t is into our night=dark valleys that
the vision comes, for sunshine blots it
out The valley is by day a smiling
thing, tempting to lettering among its
trees and flowers, and to dreaming
beside its singing brooks. So COM
pletely does it satisfy the senses that
it may even become a lotus vale of
forgetfulness, to lure the traveller from
his sturdy purpose and beguile him
into indifference to the way that leads
to the plains of God But presently
night overtakes him. Then he rouses
With the shadows chill and heavy on
his heart, he at last looks up and, be-
holding the star begins his climb up
toward the morning. Gethsemane and
Golgotha lie along the way, but Eas-
ter breaks beyond. The vision has glo-
rified the vale.
And still Easter does not mean to
us all that il should. Il is a day of
somewhat selfish rejoicing We quick
en- to the new life of the spring, we
make our hearthsides gay with fresh
blossoms; our hearts echo the glad
message of the bells. 1t IS our joy, our
peace our brightness, our Easter.
But it was very different on that
first Easter. If you will think back
moment you will recall the word of the
angel to the women at the sepulcher-
He is risen-go tell his disciples.'F
Now, as then, there are many to whom
Easter has not come. They are dead
to life, back there in the valley-little-
children defrauded of their birthright
of joy; women exploited for gain;
youth drawn into evil by the lure of
false brightness. That We might have
life" is the purpose of the Christ in
his resurrection; and yet in that death
valley they know nothing of life and
light, they who are also a part of that
all-inclusive we
Before we can make our Easter truly
his Easter we must first hearken to his
message: Go down into the valley
and carry the vision to those who per-
ish there. Make your Joy their joy;
your life their life; your safety their
safety. Lead them up with you, into
the light"
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hitherto he had never included in his
recollection of it.
You said l could not win" He drew
out the words painfully.
When you said that you brought on
this war to crafty your ambition. |
chose to be one of the weapons of
war; fought for civilization, for my
home, with the only means | had
against the wickedness of victory of
conquest-the precedent of it in this
age-a victory which should glorify
such triekery as you practised on your
people
81 should like to shoot you dead"
cried Beliini.
And you let me make love to you'll"
Westeriing said in a dazed. cropping
monotone to Marta.
Such a wreck was he of his former
self that she found it amazing that she
could not pity him Yet she might
have pitied him had he plunged into
the fight; had he tried to rally one of
the broken regiments; had he been
able to forget himself.
Rather, you made love to yourself
through me-" she answered, not harsh
ly, not even emphatieally, but merely
as a statement of passionless fact. IF
you dared to endure what you ordered
others to endure for the sake of your
ambition; if"
She was interrupted by a sharp zip
in the air Westerling lodged and
looked about wildly.
What is that?" he asked. WHAT
Five or six tips followed like a
charge OF wasps flying at speed that
made them invisible. Marta felt
brush of air past her cheek and Wes-
terling went chalky white. 1t was the
first time he had been under fire. But
these bullets were only strays. No
more came.
Come, general. let US be going!"
urged the aide, touching his chief on
the arm.
yes, yes!" said Westerling hur-
riedly
Francois, who had picked up the coat
that had fallen from Westerlings
SiOQiutIo VIII Ills SlelI at VIC bdHH-4AiS
held it while his master thrust his
hands through the sleeves.
And this is wiser" said the aide,
unfastening the detachable insignia of
rank from the shoulders of the great
coat Its wiser, too. that We walk, =
he added
Walk? But my carl" exclaimed
Westefling petulantly.
I'm afraid that the car could not
get through the press in the town" "
was the reply. Walking is safer
The absence in him of that quality
which is the soldiers real glory, the
picture of this deserted leader, this
god of a machine who had been
crushed by his machine, his very lack
of stoieism or eourage-all this sud
denly appealed to Marta's quick SYM
pathies They had once drunk tea to-
gether.
"Oh, 1t was not personal! did not
think of myself as person or of you
as ene-enly of principles and of thou
sands of others-to end the killing-to
save our country to its peoplei oh,
I'm sorry and, personally, I'm horrible
-horrible!" she called after him in a
broken. quavering gust of words which
he heard eonfusedly in tragic moekery.
He made no answer; he did not even
look around. Head bowed and hardly
seeing the path, he permitted the aide
to choose the way, which lay across
the boundary of the Galland estate.
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Cow Secretly Adopts Fawn.

Following a Jersey COW which had
developed habit of disappearing
every morning and coming home in
the evening without her usual supply
of milk. James Wilson discovered that
the COW is raising a motherless fawn.
Wilson followed the COW to the
outer edge of his farm. He was sur
prised to see a pretty fawn come from
among the underbrush and start to
nurse at the cows side. The COW
seems well pleased with her charge
and the fawn shows affection for its
foster mother.-Greensbur (Pa) Dis
patch to New York American.
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MISS The VISION
OF THE VALLEY
Too Many Are Late in Seeing the
Way Out From Darkness to
the Light That Is Tri-
umphant.

4 CAMPING party from the East
~ stepped from belated train late
one August afternoon at the station
of bleak little frontier town at the
edge of the Black Hills, and looked
anxiously at the shadows already lying
long across the one street.
We'll, here's one day lost" grum-
bled member of the party. 1T will
be night before everything is loaded
and ready, and We can't start off in the
dark,
Why not?" asked the guide.
Couldn't find the way"
Il know the way, returned the
guide simply We'll start at eight.
Night was swallowing the last dregs
of daylight when eight o'clock came,
and apprehension was lined into every
face as the party climbed into the
wagon and plunged into the dark
mouth of the canyon, which opened
abruptly into the town. The road
Rugged the canyon wall on one side;
on the other rushed a noisy little
mountain brook, its chatter softenine
gradually into quiet murmur as the
canyon road wound up the hillside.
leaving it far behind in the DEPTHS
below
Dense darkness separated the tray-
elers each from each Stones dislodged
by the serambling hoofs of the horses
slid down into the canyon, measuring
the narrow margin between safety and
destruction. Hand gripped hand. and
breath came short.
It's like the valley of the shadow
of DEATH" voice shuddered out into
the darkness.
The guide, directing his team in
front, sensed an unspoken fear.
Just look up" he called hearten-
ingly over his shoulder.
A wedge of brilliant star.strewn sky
seemed swung into the abyss. forcing
the canyon walls apart and stretching
a luminous canopy from crag to erag
The radiance transformed the valley
in the uplook, into a vision of glory
Up and up wound the road, nearer and
nearer to that Overwhelming arch of
star-shot brightness, till the travellers
at last stood safe upon the s6fning
Interest, the dark hours of trembling
bewildefment over and JOY beyond
They looked back silently, as far as
the starlight revealed it, over the road
up which they had come.
Il wouldn't have missed it for the
world, one of the party finally broke
the spell. 1T would have been a trag.
edy to lose an experience like that. .
And in that brief sentence she un.
consciously summed up the one real
tragedy of life-to miss the vision of
the valley The valley itself is not a
tragedy to thinking people. For Wf6le
men can still Just look up" and look.
ing. realize that ahead lie fairer lands
to which they are surely bound, they
are safe. 1t is where there is nc
vision the people perish
The road toward those fairer lands
is the common, everyday road of hour
ly living. 1t lies inevitably through
the valleys, often through environine
night. To travel it means WEAKNESS
bruised and trembling feet, cropping
hands, poignant pain. and a back looi
through vista of disappointments
and apparent failures
But there is way out. Centurie,
ago, on the day that we call Easter
light broke into the darkened val
leys, and the way shone forth for al
who will "just look up" Now, since
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Mineral May Be of Much Value.

Virginia produced all the American
output of rutile produced in 1913 A
large part of the rutile produced in
1913 was used in the manufacture of
titanium carbide electrodes for arc
lamps A part of the ilnenite found
in the deposits and separated by
means of a magnetic separator has
been sold for use in making electrodes
for electric lights, and the expert
ments with the electric furnace point
to the possible use of ilmanite in the
direct production of tool steel.
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precinct he made a mistake, and the
nice, pleasant-looking person was ar
rested on the charge of vagrancy. In
the Manhattan avenue court he was
sent to the workhouse for three
enthusiastically Eagle.
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The Liberal Democrat
Published by
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Published every Friday morning
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Bryan on Armaments

II challenge the doctrine now be-
ing taught that we must enter into
mad rivalry with the Old World In
the building of battleships-the doct-
rine that the only way to preserve
peace is to get ready for wars that
ought never to come. 1t Is barbar-
GUS, brutal, unchrlstlan doctrlne-the
doctrine of the darkness, not the doct-
rine of the drawn.
Nation after nation, when at the
zenith of It's power, has proclaimed
itself invinclble because Its army
could shake the earth with its tread
and its ships could fill the seas, but
these nations are dead, and we must
build upon a different foundation II
we would avoid their fate.
Carlyle In the closing chapters OF
his French Revolution that thought
is stronger than artillery parks and at
last molds the world like soft clay,
anu IIl6n TIC duuS UIdO unoh VI OhO"b""
is love. Carlyle Is right. Love is the
greatest power in the world. The
nations that are dead boosted that
their flag was feared; let 1t be our
boast that our flag is loved The ma
tions that are dead boosted that
people bowed before their flag; let us
not be contented until our flag rep
resents sentiments so high and holy
that the oppressed Of every land will
turn their. faces toward that flag and
thank God that there is one flag that
stands for self-government and for
the rights of man.-From 1.-THE Price
of a Soul"
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cause. An oil tank car, three other
freight cars, the baggage car, and the
trucks of the smoker left the rails
but did not turn over. No one was
hurt, but 1t took special crew un-
Til the next morning to get the track
In condition for traffic, about fifteen
rail lengths of track being torn up
Hugoton Hermes.
Tyrone has erected a grand stand
for baseball and basket ball and any
other entertainments the town wishes
to hold out doors. The stand Is OF
ample capacity to hold any crowd
that Tyrone will turn out and Is as
good as any along the line. The
stand was built under the direction
of Emil Hall with the help of the
other sport loving boys about town
who kindly donated their services
free.-Tyrone Observer.
A good many of the farmers near
Fowler started to cutting their alfal-
ia Monday morning. The first crop
is going to be good one with the ex-
ception that the cold wave we had
last week almost killed the blooms
Fowler News.
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Remember, there is only one Nat
ional. Chas. W. Ellsaesser has that.
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HER DEATH NEAR
So Everyone Thought, But Is Now
Well And Stronger Than Ever.

Newton, Mo. II can certainly
speak a good word for Cardui, the
woman's tonic" says Mrs. Jay
Rhoades, of this town. II suffered fol
IL years with my right side, and the
last three years, would have a bad
spell with 1t about every three months
l would get SO bad off, every one
would think could 1t live.
The first Of July, began taking
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and
haven't had a bad spell since soon
after began taking it.
Before taking Cardui, was 30 ir-
regular, and, at times, could hardly
stand on my feet. Now, / can clean
house, and do any kind Of work with
out its hurting me in the least.
Cardui will surely do for other
women, what it did for me. I am tell
ing all my neighbors about it."
Cardui is o mild and effective tonic
for women, that has been found, by
actual use, during more than 80 years
to relieve the ailments to which all
women are peculiarly liable.
Card-u-i has helped thousands
Why not>you? Try it. NcBi
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Eureka Items

G. Fl. Morehouse and son, Charlie
went to Tyrone Monday.
Mrs. V. Capps is sick at this writ
ing,
Sidney Capps is working for his
brother, Vance this week.
Miss Celia Gruenbecker visited at
the @. Il. Morehouse home Tuesday
afternoon.
G. E. Morehouse sold COW recent
ly for beef.
G. W. Elliott and daughter, Mrs.
Odell from Liberal spent Tuesday
with Walter Elliott and family.
Mrs. S. A. Capps of Liberal is visit.
ing her daughter, Mrs. W. A, King
and her son, Vance Capps.
G. L. Morehouse has boy helping
him this week.
John Lubbsrs and wife left Sunday
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Rapp who live
about rs miles north OF Tyrone. They
returned Tuesday.
Owing to the rainy weather the
farmers are unable to plant crop.
Rev, DUNCAN filled his appointment
at Eureka Sunday. A good crowt
attended.
G. e. Morehouse called at tn,
| Gruenbecker home Wedne day
Several from this neighborhooC
were In town Saturday.
Levi Newman bought a section o
land In Colorado near Curtis New
man.
The Liberal schools closed las
week and Elsie Long has returned
home.
Mrs. AL Lawder spent Friday nigh
at Liberal with her mother, Mrs
Woods.
Rufus King spent Saturday will
Charles Morehouse.
Mrs. Lula Newman is getting alonI
fine and will soon be able to return
home.
Violet Morehouse spent the weel
with her grandparents.
Not a very good attendance atSun
day School Sunday on account of tht
rain.
@. e. Morehouse, wife and daught
or, Lovica spent Sunday at thu
Eraim home.
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The fact is, whether we like It or
not, we are all mixed up together In
this world-poets and plumbers, crit
les and crooks-and the more clearly
we recognize 1t, the firmer. sounder,
truer will be our grip upon the sig
nificance OF human life. Why, many
time when | have been sitting here
reading In my study, living for the
moment in the rarer atmosphere Of
the poets, the philosophers. the
prophets, l have had to get up and
60 out and feed my pigs. have al
ways thought 1t, somehow, good for
me.-From "Hempield," by David
Grayson in the American Magazine.
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The erection of grain elevator at
Gray Is being talked about among our
business men. This would be one of
the greatest things that could be es-
tablished here, as 1t would bring to
the town more money during the fall
of the year than anything else. The
fact that we are forty miles from a
railroad makes no difference as the
people OF Ochiltree who are nearly as
far from railroad as we are have had
an elevator several years and they
have found that 1t Is not only agreat
convenience to the farmers but big
institution for the town. If an ele-
vator is established here 1t will be
done by stock company and any of
our citizens or farmers can take stock
In it.-Beaver County Republican.
He who reads history learns to dis
tinguish what is local from what is
universal; what is transltory from
What Is eternal; TO discriminate be-
tween exceptions and rules; to trace
the operation Of disturbing causes;
to separate the general principals,
which are always true and every
where applicable, from the accident
al circumstances with which in
every community they are blended,
and with which, In an Isolated com
munity they are COMPOUNDED by the
most philosophical mind. Hence It
Is that In generalization the writers
OF modern times have far surpassed
those of antiquity.-MaCaulay.
Last Friday afternoon the west
bound train was derailed about seven
miles west Of Hugoton, near the
Gregory ranch; soft track was the
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Will Be a Big Sale.

In this issue you will find full
page ad Of public sale to be held
next Thursday, by Flanders & Dykes.
This will be one Of the largest stock
sales ever held In this country, and
will be worth going miles to attend
II In need Of any articles mentioned
therein. Look the ad over and get
out there on that day II you need any
stock, implements or other things
listed In the same.
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SherifPs Sale 2137

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given
that under and by virtue of Judge
ment rendered In the District Court
in the County Of Seward, in the State
of Kansas, in an action wherein, f.
V. Cason, was Plaintiff and G. E.
Knox and others are defendants, and
of an Order OF Sale issued on said
Judgement, to me directed and de
livered, 1 will, on Monday, the It'll,
day of June, A. d. 1915, at 10 o'clock
a. m. of that day, at the West Front
door Of the Court House In Liberal,
In the County OF Seward, in the State
of Kansas, offer at Public Sale and
sell to the highest bidder, for cash in
hand, the following tracts of land,
situated, lying and being in the
County Of Seward, in the State of
Kansas, namely: The East half of
the Southwest Quarter (Ei SW4).
The West half of the Southeast
Quarter (Wl, seq, Section nine (9),
Township Thirty five 1857 south of
Range Thirtyone (31) west OF the 9th,
P. M. Seward County, Kansas.
o. e. DoBsoN, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, May 5, 1915.
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State Of Ohio, City Of Toledo,
Tffcaa Nounfv 4 %.

Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the firm of F. ]. Cheney
q Co., doing business in the City OF To-
ledo. County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
cry case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use Of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
A. ID. 1886.
(SeaD A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials, free
f.. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family PILLS for constipation.
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First Published in the Liberal, Den
ocaat, May IA, 1916.
Notice For Publication

Department OF the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Dodge City,
Kansas.
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Advertised Letters
Juna |. 1915.

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ward, j. E.; Moore, W. H.; Paret,
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Entered as second-class matter January 9.
1911. at the post Office at Liberal. Kansas
nder the Act Of March 8. 1879.
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See our 2 row sleds-P. and o. Can
ton and Oliver Wood boxes. Hard
oilers. THOs. w. CAV.
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May 9Th, 1916

May 9Th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that Earl j,
Rose, of Kismet, Kansas, who, on
April End, 1912, made Homestead
Application Serial, No. OHIO, for
Sc /, Section 2, Township 80 S, Range
32w, 9th Principal Meridian, has
filed notice OF intention to make
Final Three Year Proof, to establish
claim TO the land above described, be.
fore the Clerk of the District Court
of Seward County, Kansas, at Liber-
al, Kansas, on the 10th, day Of June,
1915. Claimant names as witnesses:
Thomas NJ. Kirk, Harry L. Odds,
Charley H. Shoup, Arthur G. Mutt,
all of Kismet, Kansas.
R. R. WILSON, Register.
Not coal land.
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Martin Woodward, wife, and dauRht-
er, Blanche, of Tyrone, we're here on
business Saturday.