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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11

Jeb McNash shook his head. A spasm
OF battle went through him and shook
him like a convulsion TO the soles Of
his feet He had but to crook his I'm
ger to appease his bloodlust-and
break his pledge.
II done give Anse my hand ter bide
my time 'twell l wal dead s~artain," he
told himself. Il hain't quite dead sar-
TAIN" he told himself. Il hain't quite
dead ssrtain yit. / reckon I've got ter
wait a spell"
He unlocked the rife and the other
boy rode on. but young Jeb folded his
arms on the wet earth and buried his
face in them and sobbed, and it was
an hour later that he stumbled to his
feet and went groggily back, drunk
with bitterness and emotion, toward
the house of Anse Havey. Yet when
he arrived after nightfall his tongue
told nothing and his features told less.
Juanita, living in the cabin she had
built with the girl who had become her
companion and satellite, making fire.
quent hard journeys to some house
which the shadow of illness had in
vaded, found it hard to believe that
this life had been hers only a few
months. Suspense seemed to stretch
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
Set off Up the Street.

a h'isting of skirts and such a screech-
ing of terror nor such a scramble for
something to get behind since the Chi
cago venue water main burst.
Daniel Matthews, a driver for P. d.
Carroll, an expressman, tried to guide
his horses out of the way of the ram
paging tank, but it's hard enough to
dodge Oh foot, let alone trying to
dodge with two horses and a truck.
The kissing monster hit one of the
horses and fractured a leg.
Meanwhile Sam a doing a SER
pent gallop after his runaway junk,
and was losing by a mile, when the
angry tank gave a last kissing gasp
and fell dead.
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XII.

One day in early October young
Milt McBriar happened upon Dawn
and Juanita walking in the woods.
The gallant colors and the smoky
mists Of autumn wrapped the forests
and brooded in the sky. An elixir
went into the blood with each deep
drawn breath and set to stirring for
gotten or hitherto unawakened emo
tons. And in this heady atmosphere
Of quickened pulses the McBriar boy
halted and gazed at the Havey girl.
Juanita saw Young Mills eyes flash
with an awakened spirit. She saw a
look in his face which she was woman
enough to interpret even before he
himself dreamed what its meaning
might be.
Dawn was standing with her head
up and her lids half closed looking
across the valley to the Indian sum
mer haze that slept in smoky purple
on the ridges. She wore a dress of
red calico, and she had thrust in her
belt a few crimson leaves from a gum
tree and a few yellow me from a pop
lar.
Juanita Holland did not marvel at
the fascinated, almost rapt look that
came into Young Milt's eyes, and
Young Milt, too, as he stood there in
the autumn woods, was himself no
mean figure. His lean body was
quick of movement and strong, and
his bronzed face wore the straight.
looking eyes that carried an assurance
Of fearless honesty. He had been
away to Lexington to college and was
going back. The keen intelligence Of
his face was marred by no note OF
meanness, and now, as he looked at
the girl of the enemy, his shoulders
came unconsciously erect with some
thing of the pride that shows in men
of wild blood when they feel in their
veins the strain Of the chieftains.
But Dawn, after her first blush,
dropped her lids a little and tilted her
chin, and without a word snubbed him
with the air of a Havey looking down
on a McBriar.i
Milt met that gaze with q steady
one Of his w and banteringly said:
Dawn, pears like ye mought "a got
tangled up with a rainbow"
Her voice was cool as she retorted:
Il reckon that's better than Citing
mixed UP with some other things"
Il was Jest a-thinkin', es I looked at
ye," went on the boy ~gravely. tibet
hits better then gittin' mixed up with
anything else"
ITO BE CONTINIIEDN
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11

ing Of thunder. but that year the
clouds seemed to have dried up. and
down in the tablelands OF the Blue
Grass the crops were burned to worth
less stalk and shrunken ear. Even up
here, in the birthplace Of waters, the
corn was brown and sapless, SO that
when a breeze strayed over the hill
side fields they sent up a thirsty, dying
rasp of rafting whisper.
1t was not only in the famished
forests and scared fields that the hot
breath of the plague breathed, carry
ing death in its fetid nostrils. Back in
the cabins Of the "branch-water folks"
where little springs diminished and be-
came polluted, all those who were not
strong enough to throw off the touch
of the specter's finger sickened and
died, and typhoid went in and out of
Havey shack and McBriar cabin whis-
pering, "a pest on both your houses"
The widow McNash had not been
herself since the death of Fletch. She
who had once been so strong over her
drudgery, sat day long on the doorstep
of her brothers howell and, in the Ian
guage of her people. "jest sickened an
pinned away"
So, as Juanita Holland and Good
Anse Talbot rode sweating mules
about the hills, receiving calls for help
faster than they could answer them,
they were not astonished to hear that
the widow was among the stricken.
Though they fought for her life, she
refused to fight herself, and once
again the Eastern girl stood with
Dawn in the brier-choked "buryin'-
ground" and once more across an open
grave she met the eyes of the man
who stood for the old order.
But now she had learned to set a
lock on her lips and hold her counsel.
So, when she met Anse and Jeb after
ward, she asked without rancor: MAY
! take little Jesse back with me, too?
He's too young" she added, with just
a heartsick trace of her old defiance,
to be useful to you, Mr.. Havey. and
I'd like to teach him what / can"
Anse and Jeb conferred, and the
elder man came back and nodded his
head.
Jesse a go back with ye," he said.
I'm still amin to give we all the rope
We wants. When we've had enough an
quits, let me know, an Ill take care of
Fletch's children"
And on her farm, as folks called
Juanita's place. that September saw
many changes. Near the original
cabin was springing up a new struc-
ture, larger than any other house in
that neighborhood, except, possibly,
the strongholds of the chiefs, and as
it grew and began to take form it inn
parted an air of ordered trimness to
the countryside about it. 1t was fash
Toned in such style as should be in
keeping with it's surroundings and not
give too emphatic a note of alien
strangeness.
Juanita wished that her cabin could
house more occupants, for the plague
had left many motherless families,
and many children might have come
into her fold. AS it was, she had sew
eral besides the McNashes as her nu-
cleus, and while the weather held
good she was rushing her work of
Undertaking and building which the
winter would halt.
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the girl. and with that he took II down
again and set 1t TO his lips and blew.
A mellow sound, not loud. but far
carrying. like the fox-hunter's taily-ho,
loated over the valley.
Our house hain't more than g
whoop an q boiler away" he said
awkwsrdiy. but when ye're Twin over
hyar by y~oreself. eff ye ever wants any
thing in Their nighttime. jest blow tibet
horn"
After she had almost burst her
cheeks with effort, he added: Don't
never blow this signal onless ye wants
ter raise merry hell"
Then he initiated very low, through
pursed lips, three long blasts and
three short ones.
What's that signal?" she demand
ed.
we've heered the McBriar YELL" he
told her. Tibet horn calls Their Havey
rallyin' signal. When tibet goes out
every Havey tibet kin tote a guns got
ter git up an come. Hit means war"
Thank you. Jerry. l won't call the
Haveys to battle"
The night after she had flung her
challenge down to Bad Anse Havey
Juanita stayed at the McNash cabin
to be with Dawn and the widow. The
next day she went with them to the
mountainside "buryin'-ground," where
Good Anse performed the last rites for
the dead.
After it was all over, and it had been
decided that the widow was to take
the younger children up Meeting
house fork to live with a brother, the
missionary and the teacher started
back. Jeb was to stay here alone to
u the farm, and when Juanita re-
turned to the ridge Dawn went with
her.
They were passing a tumbling wa
terfall, shrunken now to a trickling
rill, when Dawn broke the long silence.
"Wunst, when l wal a leetle gal"
she said, "Unc' Perry war abiding out
up tibet branch from Their revenuers. 1
used ter fotch his victuals up thar ter
him"
Juanita turned suddenly with a
shocked expression. 1t was as if her
little songbird friend had suddenly and
violently reverted; as if the flower had
turned to poison weed. And as Jua-
nita looked Dawn's eyes were blazing
and Dawn's face was as dark as her
black hair-dark with the same ex-
preston which brooded on her broth
er's brow.
What is it, dear?" Juanita asked,
and in tense and fiery voice the
younger girl exclaimed:
Il wishes l war a man. I wouldn't
wait and set still like Jobs dom. By
heaven, I'd git tibet murderer. I'd cut
his heart outen his body"
81 tole ye," quietly commented
Brother Anse, tibet ther instincts in
Their blood. Anse Havey went down
ter Frankfort an set in Their legislator
but he come back Their same man
tibet went down. Somethin' called
him. Somethin' calls ter every noun
tain man tibet goes away, an he bark
ems ter Their call"
"Anse come back" repeated Dawn
triumphantly. AN Anse is hyar. Eff
Jeb sets thar an don't do nothin', |
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TANK IN LITTLE
Kissing JAUNT
Does Serpentine Tango in Chica.
go Street, Causing No Little
Excitement.
BUY" FOR SAM
Soda Fountain Attachment Picked Up
by Junk Dealer Does Some
Startling Things When At
tackled by Purchaser.

Chicago.-Sam Shamberg, dealer in
rags, old iron, and related products,
made a good buy recently. He came
across a secondhand liquid carbonic
acid tank such as is used in soda
fountains.
He took it to his emporium at Chest
nut and Franklin streets and, being a
prudent person, he saw a varied profit
to be had in dissecting the tank.
The MOBILES of such tanks are made
of brass and brass is a readily sal.
able metal. Hence Sam would remove
the nozzle first. He stood the tank
upright and hit 1t a crack with a
sledge.
A Little Kissing Jaunt.
A truly alarming thing occurred. AS
If ~resenting the violence of Sans at
tack, the tank Kissed with remarkable
humanness and, without further ado,
set off up the street in most shocking
haste.
1t SO happens that the factories in
this vicinity are discharging their hum
dreds of workers at this time Of day
and the majority of these are girls.
When these young ONE saw a hid
eous gray object, foaming at the mouth.
kissing like a e serpent, and swiz-
cling up the street like an intoxicated
muskellunge, they thought the city had
been attacked by German submarines
and a torpedo had gone astray.
A H'isting Of Skirts.
Well, sir, they say up along West
Chestnut street there v was such
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weeks to years, and she awoke each
new day braced to hear the news of
some fresh outbreak, and wondered
why she did not. A few neighborhood
children were already learning their
rudiments, and plans for more build
ings were going forward.
Sometimes Jeb came over from the
brick house to see his sister, and on
the boys face was always a dark cloud
of settled resolve. If Juanita never
questioned him IN the topic that she
knew was nearest his heart it was be-
cause she realized that to do SO would
be the surest way to estrange his
friendship and confidence.
In n thing she had gained a point.
She had bought as much property as
she should need. Back somewhere be-
hind the vel. of mysteries Anse Havey
had pressed a button or spoken a word,
and all the hindrance that had lain
across her path straightway evaporat-
ed. Men had come to her, with no
further solicitation on her part, and
now it seemed that many were animat-
ed by a desire to turn an honest penny
by the sale of land. In every convey
ance that was d~rawn-deeds of ninety
nine-year lease instead of sale-she
read a thrifty and careful knowledge
of land laws and reservation of min
eral and timber rights which she
traced to the head of the clan.
AS summer spent itself there was
opportunity for telling timber, and the
little sawmill down in the valley sent
up its drone and whine in proclama-
ton that her trees were being turned
into squared timbers for her buildings.
Once, when Milt McBriar rode up to
the sawmill, he found the girl sitting
there, her hands clasped on her knees,
gazing dreamily across the sawdust
and confusion of the place.
! "Ye're right smart interested in tibet
thar woodpile, hain't ye, ma'am?" he
inquired with a slow, benevolent smile.
His kindness Of guise invited conf
dence, and there was no one else with
in earshot, so the girl looked up, her
eyes a little misty and her voice i'm.
pulsive.
"Mr. McBriar," she said, every one
of those timbers means part of a
dream to me, and with every one of
them that is set in place will go a hope
and a prayer"
He nodded alphabetically. "I reck-
on" he said, I'VE kin do right smart
good, too"
"Mr. McBriar," she flashed at him in
point-blank questioning, Since / came
here l have tried to be of use in a
very simple and ineffective fashion. /
have done what little / could for the
sick and distressed, yet I am constant
ly being warned that I'm not allowed
to carry on my work. Do you know Of
any reason why I shouldn't go ahead?"
He gazed at her for a moment, quiz
zically, then shook his head.
ooh, pshaw!" he exclaimed, II
wouldn't let no SIGH talk es tibet fret
me none. Folks round hyar hain't got
much ter do except ter gossip round.
Nobody hain't a-goin' ter hinder ye.
We hain't such bad people, after ALL"
After that she felt that from the Nc
Briars she had gained official sanction,
and her resentment against Anse Ha-
vey grew because Of his scornful un-
graciousness.
The last weeks OF the summer were
weeks of drought and plague. Ordi-
narily, in the hills storms brew swiftly
and frequently and spend themselves
in violent outpourings and cannonad-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
STARTS AUTO; CAN'T STOP 1T.
YeIls to Watching Wife: "Phone to
Garage and Tell Me Next Time
Come By"

Shenandoah, Ia.-A Shenandoah
business man purchased an automobile
and after a lesson in driving started
out by himself. From her window his
wife proudly saw him whizz by, well
up to the speed limit. In a few min
utes he zane back again and then
again and again.
Finally he shouted to her as he
went by, Say, Lizzie, telephone to the
garage and find OUT
He completed the sentence the next
round, how to stop this darned
thing and tell me the next time / go
by"
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again struck the railway, this time
so miles from the point at which they
had previously crossed II, but the Of.
ficer's reply from the war department
was awaiting him. 1t had been tele-
graphed to every station within two
hundred miles.
A more striking instance OF c
racy occurred after the same officers
transfer to the East. He was travel
ing home on leave and. as the regula.
tions require. had notified the depart
ment OF the day. hour and probable
route Of bis journey. After be had
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
Laugh and Grow Wen.

Gloom is not a virtue, any mor
than filth. The "odor Of sanctity" does
not necessarily involve a long face
and a long black frock coat and infre-
quent baths. Laughter is good medi-
cine, both for the body and the mind.
The mar who laughs is likely to be a
healthy man, and o happy man, and
be Is rarely a villain.
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East was once with a small scouting
party in Arizona. After two weeks N
the desert his squad came to the rail.
way near a small station. within ten
minutes a telegram from Washington
was brought to him by the station
agent. II asked II the officer wished
to be transferred to one Of the new
artillery regiments then forming.
He answered by telegraph that he
would be glad to enter either OF them.
Then with HIS squad he set of again
across the desert.
Il was six days later when they
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
SYNOPSIS.

Juanita Holland, a Philadelphia young
woman of wealth. on her journey with
her guide, Good Anse Talbot, into the
heart of the Cumberlands to become a
teacher of the mountain children. faints
at the door of F1etch McNash's cabin.
While resting there she overhears a talk
between Bad Anse Havey, chief of his
clan, and one of his henchmen that ac-
quaints her with the Havey-McBriar feud.
Juanita has an Improbable talk with Bad
Anse and they become antagonists. Cal
douglas of the Havey clan is on trial in
Peril. for the murder of Noah Wyatt, a
NlcBriar. In the night Juanita hears
Ieudists ride past the McNash cabin
Juanita and Dawn McNash become
friends. Cal Douglas is acquitted. Nash
wyatt attempts to kill him but is him
SELF killed by the Haveys. Juanita goes
10 live with the Widow Everson. whose
boys are outside the feud. Milt McBriar,
head of his clan. meets Bad Anse there
ana disclaims responsibility for Wyatt's
attempt to kill Douglas. They declare a
truce, under pressure from Good Anse
Talbot. Juanita thinks she finds that
Bad Anse is opposing her efforts to buy
q and build a school. Milt McBriar
breaks the truce by having Fetch Nc
Nash murdered. Jeb McNash begs Bad
Anse to tell him who killed his father,
out Is not told. Juanita and Bad Anse
Iurther misunderstood each other. Bad
Anse is bitter.
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KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM
War Authorities Keep Effective Track
Of All the Soldiers Under
Their Control.

Il is doubtful whether any foreign
war office follows with an accuracy
greater than that displayed by the
United States war department the
movements OF its officers. The follow.
ing is an Interesting ~ in point:
A young army officer who had seen
snrvice in this country and IN the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
Unable to Appreciate silence.

Some people never learn to appreci-
ate the beauty OF silence. Perhaps 1t
is an appreciation that cannot be &C.
quired. Perhaps 1t comes by nature.
Such people seem to believe that all
apparently human relations must ex.
press themselves in speech. They
keep up an incessant chatter and they
try to make others chatter In return
They are among the most ~fatiguing in.
.-huences in the world. Often they arc
tormented with personal curiosity
They ask searching questions, and IL
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
FORMS A DEVILS ROSARY
New Mexico Snake Killers "Beadsv
Are Hundred Rattlers of
Reptiles.

Tucumcari, N. None hundred
Mathematics is the record Of G.. T.
Taylor Of Lesbia, who claims to be
the champion snake killer Of eastern
New Mexico. He now has a hundred
rattlers on a long string which he
calls his devils rosary"
Taylor says this is the dangerous
season for rattlers. as they have been
shedding their skins and are partially
blind and very mean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11
FLOOD LIFTS cow INTO TREE
Among Other Freakish stunta h.,
Maryland II Steals Barrel Of
Vinegar.

Frederick, Md--Queer freaks were
played by a cloudburst which swept
owe a section Of Frederick county.
County Commissioner Frank M. Ste
yens of Creagerstown lost two cows.
He found n of them in the fork Of a
peach tree V feet from the ground.
samuel Geisbert Of Creagerstown, who
thought he had taken every movable
object from his cellar, lost a barrel OF
vinegar,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11

been on the train for eight hours at
a small station the conductor entered
with a telegram. asking II anyone OF
his name was on board. On opening
the telegram the officer found that 1t
ordered him to detached duty.
E%xactness Of detail could not be car
ried much further. The war depart
ment knew the whereabouts Of a e c
ond lieutenant even when he was trav-
cling on leave Of absence.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11

A man may deliver a convincing
barroom grafton concerning a free
country, and then be required to put
his money on the counter before being
served.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-11-11

they do not receive spontaneous and
full replies they become suspicious or
hurt.
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birds.
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Well, sir, they say up along West
Chestnut street there never was such
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-22
sODA-lAD[N VESSEL
HAS BEEN DIVERTED
THE VESSEL, WHICH WAS RE-
PORTED TO BE EN- ROUTE TO
PENSACOLA FROM CHILE. HAS
BEEN ORDERED ELSEWHERE.

A few days ago It was reported
that the steamship Strathfillan, from
Chile with cargo Of soda, was coming
to Pensacola, but yesterday announce
ment was made that the Strathfillan
had been diverted to another port,
and that She would likely go to New
York. This action is said to have been
taken because Of the delay in the soda
cargo reaching the United States. II
had been scheduled to, come via the
Panama canal, but since navigation
by that route has been rendered i'm
possible because of the slides therein,
the steamer named will be taken to
another port.
The announcement, however, was
also made last night that another
steamship with soda cargo, which
has been reported leaving Coronel, is
to come here, but it will be some
weeks before that vessel is reported
or expected. This vessel brings 9
total of about 10000 sacks of nitrate
Of soda, it was stated in authoritative
circles last night. No advance infor.
nation as to this vessel, however, has
been received at the Pensacola Gus.
tom house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-22
STATE H|GHWAY !
OFFICIAL HOME
HON. J. D. SMITH rs BACK FROM
CHICAGO, WHERE HE ATTEND
ED BIG CONVENTION.
sPrcrAL 70 rHr JouRNAI.

SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.
Mariana, Dec. 21.-Hon. ]. d.
Smith, state highway commissioner
for the Third congressional district,
has returned from a trip to Chicago,
where he represented the state of
Florida at the meeting Of state high
way commissioners of the United
States. He reports q full meeting
with delegates from practically all
the states Of the union.
The purpose Of the convention was
to formulate plans to lay before con-
gress at the present session looking
to the procuring of federal aid for
the building Of q system Of highways
throughout the country. It is under
stood that the matter will be pushed
as much as possible. The delegates
also obtained some very valuable
ideas from each other on the building
Of roads, and it is believed that this
exchange Of ideas viii result in very
material benefit especially to the
South.