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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-03-11
CHAPTER LXllt.
The Edge of the World.

The Edge Of the World.
Hernandez crOuched behind one of
the huge earthen jars. The light that
streamed in at the caves mouth dark.
ened suddenly, and huge figure crept
in. At first Hernandez thought this
was the pirate chief-but that fierce
fighter was lying far across the pit
with a bullet through his head. The
figure crept on farther-then Her.
nandez saw.
It was Ilington. Ilington was I'M
armed-his face was blood covered.
He was a figure fearful to behold.
Hernandez climbed the ladder in fear
full haste. Ilington saw him and fol-
lowed, caught him, tore from him Her
nandez' ever ready knife, and faced
him squarely.
II swore to tear you apart with my
hands," cried Ilington beside himself
with rage, "and I'm going to do it."
1.-TWO can play at that" painted Her.
nandez, come on
1lington came on-reckless of the
fact that he was fighting on the edge
of a precipice.
Far to the rear Annette plucked
, Meals wrist.
"Look-look,' she cried, Hernandez
and my father-and the Portuguese
has knife.''
She was not the only watcher. Be-
low on shore fresh boatload of ma
| rines were landing. They had seen
the fght-they watched it now. Their
officer peered through his glasses.
"Our friend the Portuguese" he
said, we've got to get him and take
him back The world needs one Her
| nandez less"
Even as he spoke, Hernandez struck
with his knife and ripped open ling
TONS arm.
With a Wild cry the fresh marines
scrambled up the cliff. Hernandez,
cool with GOODNESS of desperation, side
stepped, and lifting one foot, neatly
tripped his man.
Ilington fell heavily, with one arm
hanging over the precipice.
And then Hernandez looked-for the
| first time he took note of his surround
ings.
Behind him ranged Neal and his
, squad, with fixed bayonets and with
death shining in their eyes. Below.
scrambling up the cliff were twenty
men, dangerous desperate.
- Hernandez paused-his eyes mar
rowed. He was beaten and he knew
it.
Hernandez rose to his full height.
"Sorry gentlemen" he said, "but
you've never beat me yet and you can
not beat me now.'
He retreated pace or two, gave
sudden run-and leaped far out over
the edge Of the precipice.
Neal formed his men in line-they
were Joined by the squad that climbed
the cliff. -
Forward, march, said Neal. An
nette and her father followed them.
Inside of fifteen minutes, the little
squad were scurrying about the inside
Of the cave. They were splunging
their hands into the liquid metal and
letting it run through their fingers.
Some little island, this" they COM
mented. .--- 10.
1T took you boys to get it for u.s."
returned Ilington, without you, Lost
Island would have been lost forever.
and so would we."
He turned to Annette, Annette he
said, this is yours all yours. You
are a princess-this is your kingdom.
4 He stretched wide his arms to include
| all Lost Island. "Your Kingdom" ha
repeated.
1 Annette looked at Neal. Neal
loked at Annette--then he rushed for.
ward and caught her Fl his arms.
Annette glanced at the boys in bluA
"And thia-my king she said.
THE END.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-03-11

} Know, "she Said,
49, said Hernandez, II have kept
my promise. The woman ia yours
the treasure is mine. It is bargain"
Then he uttered q sudden exclamation.
1T is not Inez," he cried, tdt is you
you little wildcat of an nington. So
you have arrived. 1t is better So
better So"
1T is barter, eh?" he queried, .'you
: the woman. the jars of quicksilver"
The chief regarded him iercely.
You lie in your throat, stranger" he
exclaimed in cultural tones ST cap
tured the woman-you kept, her from
me-. took her by force-and have
waited long" He laughed loud--a de-
risive laugh. Il took her by force.
have her, Yes, and .yonE have our
treasure-after you, too, have waited
long after you have taken it by force.
Ho, no." z>s...,.a - -
Hernandez understood. =
E He sprang at the pirate chief, strik.
ing at him frantically, and clutching
at Annette, trying to tear her from
him. - l*gxsssEE EEss
In a moment multitude Of beasts
swarmed through the underbrush- -
entered the arena of events. .sssss
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CHAPTER Lxl.
cutthroata

cutthroato.
As the keel Of the Missouri's launch
grated against the sand, Annette
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SYNOPSIS.

Copyright, 1915, By william Hamilton Osboruel
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-03-11
CHAPTER ExII. g: e

Onslaught.
ca the ~chief's part 1t was g os1t,
Evening journal., 1916-08-11
WHEAT PRICES BRING
SMILES TO The Farmers

Special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL
MILFORD, Del, Aug 11.-Wheat
growers generally in lower Kent and
Sussex counties who ten days ago
were bemoaning the fact that heavy
rains for several days had caused
them thousands of dollars worth Of
damage, now are smiling These
broad faces have been caused by the
fact that while some damage was done
to the wheat crop. the rains gave the
buyers q scare, with the result that
the price in wheat has been showing
steady increase. During the middle
OF the wet weather prices were only
fair. but when the weather continued
TO stay unsettled the buyers COM
menced TO offer more money for the
wheat. Since then the price has
steadily increased and is now selling
for % cents a bushel more than il
was before the rains.
Evening journal., 1916-08-11
MRS. MOLLIE P. Mitchell
is BURIED At ELKTON
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
ELKTON. Md. Aug 1.-THE flu
neral OF Mrs. Mollie Pierce Mitchell.
widow Of Or Andrew 3. Mitchell, Of
Washington. d. c.. was held in Elk
ton on Tuesday. with burial in Elkton
Cemetery Mrs Mitchell was, num-
her OF years ago. ono of the most
prominent members OF the (then) OK
elusive society Of Elkton. Sho was
noted for her beauty and lovely dis
position. and was an ardent church
woman, being a great worker in Trim
| ity Protestant Episcopal Church.
Shortly after her marriage 10 Or. An
drew 3. Mitchell they removed TO VIII
mington. where the rector practiced
medicine for some time. Later they
/ lived in Delaware City. Mrs Mitchell
had no children. She was a daughter
Of the late Captain and Matthew G..
Pierce Of Elkton Mrs Clinton Nc
Cullough. of Minneapolis. is her only
sister
While driving her automobile on the
Elkton-Singerly road on Monday even
ing, Mrs. STANDBY Evans was for an
instant blinded by a bug flying into
her face.
The death Of r. Rufus Oldham oc-
CURED al his home. on East Main
street, Wednesday morning. after a
long Illness. He was local superin-
tendent OF the Prudential Insurance
Company. He is survived by his wife
and one son. James Oldham. and two
sisters living in Wilmington.
The West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church is having revival meetings I'M
der the leadership OF the Rev Henry
N Ralconer.
Personal Miss Marion OFT is the
guest Of her aunt. Mrs Uric Connor
Of the Second district.-Mr and Mrs
Thomas Kessler Burns have returned
to their home in Wilmington. after a
visit TO Mr.. Burns parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Burns.-Miss Mildred
Lynch. of Wilmington. is visiting rela-
tives in WARWICK. Frank Blake. OF
Childs. was in town on Tuesday 3D.
The Rev William f. Venables of Bal
ilmore spent last week with friends
In Cecil county. Stanley steele.
OF Wilmington, recently visited his
mother Mrs. Joseph II. Steele, OF
Chesapeake City.-Mrs. Virginia Mac
kali McCabe is the guest Of her niece.
Mrs. John Francis Porter. Of Will
mington. Professor Hugh W. Cald-
well has returned form a visit 10
Mt Holly Springs, Pa. - Howard
Bishop, OF Wilmington. has been
spending a few days in Warwick.
Evening journal., 1916-08-11
nELMAR SUMMER VISITORS.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
DELMAR, Del. Aug 11.-Miss
Mabel Lear has as her guests this
week. Miss Mary V. Elliott. of Sea
ford. and Miss Florence Locates, of
Laurel. She entertained in their
honor on Wednesday Misses Lydia
Wilson. Hattie p. Elliott. Grace
Penuel. Gertrude Gordy. Iva Culver
Mildred Phillips. Mildred West, Flor
ence Stevens. Mrs. j. Paul Ellis-Mr.
and Mrs. II ]. Penuel. of Philadelphia.
are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Ellis
Miss Ella Smith of oxford. Md. is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. NJ. j. Knots
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hastings, Of
Philadelphia. are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs ID. ]. Truitt-William Locates.
Of Philadelphia, is spendin a few
days with his father. Burton Locates
Miss Nellie Dill, OF Berlin. Md. is
visiting her brother, II. P. Dill-Mr.
Evening journal., 1916-08-11
BLUE-EYED MEN make
UNFAITHFUL HUSBANDS
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 11.-Unfaithful-
ness turks behind the blue eyes of
men Blue-eyed men make very. very
poor husbands.
That's the statement Of Bradley
Hull, who. by the way is brown-eyed
Hull ought to know. He's attorney
for the Cleveland humane society He
declares that seventy-flve per cent OF
the men who have forsaken their
wives or children during the last
seven years here are blue-eyed men.
I've got figures to prove this in
dictment against such men" ASid Hull
Maybe the blne-eyed man is NOR,
Adventurous"
Evening journal., 1916-08-11
A WONDERFUL CHANCE

TO secure those excellent values in the small
articles that you need so much for the complete
ness of your wardrobe And we represent some
unusual vaIues-at any rate you'll feel much sat
isfactOn at the values and qualities that we offer
Evening journal., 1916-08-11
HOTEL KENTUCKY

Atlantic City, n, J.
WITH FIREPROOF ADDITION.
Kentucky Ave. Near Beach, Capacity 400,
so rooms. with hot and cold running water /;
80 with private bath. Telephone and electric
lights in every room. Elevator from street
level Send for booklet and points Of interest.
American Plan Rates including good meals.
50 TO "a DAILY; $40 TO $3.50 WEEKLY.
N. B. KENNADY. Proprietor.
Evening journal., 1916-08-11

and Mrs. George ". P. Maddox, Of
Pocomoke City. are spending some
time with Mrs. Maddox's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. f. Sturgis-Mr. and Mrs
E. B Lynn, of New York, and Miss
Lillian Shockley, Of Pittsville, Md
are guests of Mrs. G. r. Powell Elder
II. Claude Ker. of Middletown. N. Y,
is visiting relatives here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. Z.
Sharp 7pits like sharp kniVes do often
cut their o0UnerS fngerS-ARRowsMITH.
REGULATING AUTO LIGHTS

M 1 =, Meals ,shsas1t has done ne sfrsat mrSh
traffic conditions in Harrisburg
but nothing more praiseworthy than
to restrict the use of dangerous head
lights in the city limits. The ordl-
nance passed by Council on Monday
will prevent many accidents such as
have occurred in the past few years
due to drivers of cars being blinded by
the glare of needlessly strong lights.
The Mayor is deserving of all praise
for his efforts in this matter and he
will win the everlasting gratitude of
countless people if he next devotes his
attention to the motorcycle speed
fiends who make the highways danger
Gus to pedestrians, particularly after
nightfall, and who use their cutouts
constantly, to the destruction of rest
and peace along the main highways
of Harrisburg and vicinity. There is
an ordinance covering these points and
no doubt a few arrests and stiff fines
would do much to break up the prac-
tice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
Paper Waste

Evidently the house of representa-
tives has no fears of paper famine,
although the possibility of an actual
shortage in print paper is to-day
gravely menacing. Notwithstanding
the cries of warning that are being
uttered by paper manufacturers, the
house has opened the f1oodgates of the
channels leading to the printing Of
tfce, granting leaves to print" in such
number that the composing room and
press room forces of that establish
ment will be kept busy for weeks
turning out the words of wisdom sup
posedly uttered on the floor in the
course of debate. This is a campaign
year and practically every member of
the house is keenly interested in the
elections for himself or his party, and
everyone wants some of the usufruct
of office in the way of free campaign
material With the printing office
grinding out his speeches and his
frank sending them without cost
throughout his state and district, the
member candidate possesses a dis
tinct advantage over his rival, who
must pay for his own printing and
postage. In these circumstances 1t is
not surprising that the prospective pa
per famine fails to deter the national
legislators from indulgence in printers
ink at the government expense. The
grievous misfortune in this situation is
that there is no editorial check what
ever upon the language of the con-
gressional authors.-Washingt Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
Rumanian War Strategy
New York World.1

Upon a smaller scale, Rumania en-
joys the advantages which Germany
has well employed of superior railways
and shorter interior lines.
She need not lengthen the Russian
line by more than frontier guards,
since the Russians can now use the
Czernowitz railroad south. and there is
only one railroad pass in the whole
Rumanian panhandle over the Car
pathians. Her reserves can be mo-
hilized in the great central plain.
From Craiova or Slatina three hours
run will take them to any one of five
points on 800 miles of frontier without
using lines reserved for Bucharest and
Pitesci concentrations. She can move
upon Hungary with little risk from
the rear over lines more numerous
than Bulgaria has from the south.
And on that boundary Bulgaria may
let we'll enough alone.
Only in the Dobrudja is small part
of the Rumanian frontier unguarded
by mountain chain or unbridged river.
If, as reported. Turks menace this
there as in Armenia. They can be
rushed from Ismail or Remi, where
they have been waiting for months, by
Danube barges, by railways from
Galatz or from Odessa by the Black
Sea.
Earlier in the war Rumania's long
western loop of boundary against sur
rounding foes would have been a
menace. Now that the foes are fully
occupied. it is an advantage. Her ter
ritory offers new channels of attack
to Russian hordes which have not
nearly reached their utmost numbers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
HARRISBURG PLAN'' IS AGAIN
USED AS MODEL FOR OTHERS

TN a recent issue of Municipal En-
cheering" an important mag
azine devoted to municipal pro-
Jects and general improvement under
taRings involving engineering skill, an
interesting illustrated article was
printed describing the improvement of
the Susquehanna river basin in front
of Harrisburg. 1t is from the pen of
Farley Gannett, a prominent consult
ing engineer who had much to do
with the river front work, the filter
plant, Paxton creeks regeneration and
our sewage problems.
Mr.. Gannett says this city has taken
long strides toward making the banks
and streams of it's water courses
beautiful as we'll as putting them in
sanitary condition. He describes the
work, says the editor of the magazine,
from intimate knowledge of what has
been done and what is still in mind for
future development. The illustrations
show Paxton creek conditions before
and after the concrete channel was
created, resulting in a self-cleansing
stream and the reclaiming of large
areas of valuable manufacturing sites;
the river front with it's noisome odors
and unsightly shore line before and
now the splendid front steps" and
the terrace possibilities. and a view oi
the dam which has made possible such
a magnificent summer spectacle as
the Kipona of Monday last.
Public NegIectfuI
From Mr.. Gannett's illuminating
and valuable contribution to this lead
ing magazine we make the following
extracts which should be impressed
upon every Harrisburger:
Where there are no railroads or in.
dustrial works, 1t is most astonishing
that civic pride and economic consid.
erations do not cause advantage to be
taken of the potential beauties and
uses of the streams. But even wher
these drawbacks exist, the banks an6
channels can often be attractively i'm.
proved.
There is seldom any such attempt
to control and guide the flow of water
in streams other than the irregular
banks as nature made them and as
man has encroached upon and narrow,
ed the channel without regard to the
necessities of the situation. But wher
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
Living Page From History
[Kansas City Times. ]

1t was a spectacle Kansas City will
not soon forget, that of the ten thou
sand veterans of the Grand Army of
the Republic who yesterday marched
through its streets to the sound of the
fife and drum. Void of every aid that
goes TO make a military parade impos-
ing, these columns of old men, march
ing without uniform, were nevertheless
a far more impressive sight than any
merely martial spectacle this city has
looked upon.
They marched in wavering lines.
many with canes, many supported by
Boy Scouts, and where some old fellow
hobbled a little slowly the column
slackened and waited for him to catch
up. 1t didn't matter if they did get
out of step with the fife or if the line
got a little mixed while Boy Scout
worked through with his bucket of
water and passed brimming dippers
to outstretched hands. Nor did it de-
tract anything from the spectacle that
here and there granddaughter
marched in the column with a blue
sleeve resting on her shoulder, or that
two old fellows walked with clasped
arms steadying each other in most un-
military fashion. These were the
things that lent the impressiveness no
military pageant could have supplied.
Here was the nations history written
in living characters far more effectively
than it has been described in words.
Here could be felt and seen what
Lowell meant when he wrote:
Weak winged is song, nor aims at
that clear height
Whittier the brave deed climbs for
light"
Historian and poet have tried to tell
the story, but none has succeeded in
delineating it as did the slowly moving
columns of white haired and STOPPING
old men as they passed along through
the cheering crowds.
In those crowds were thousands OF
persons who never before had quite
realized what the Civil War meant. To
them it belonged to a period as remote
as the Revolution, yet here they saw
before them men who had carried
rifles in it's battles, who had fought for
and preserved the nation and were
now, many of them, marching in their
last reunion parade, death walking al
their sides. Something of all that
came home to the crowds as they
watched. 1t could be seen in the hand
kerchiefs that went to eyes and sensed
in the subdued cheering in which there
was more of reverence than elation.
1t was a sight that will be remem-
bered, a page from history that Kan
sas City has been honored in the. op-
portunity to read. Soon it will be a
closed page and all that will be known
of the Civil War will be contained in
books.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
HARDWICK HARD HIT

CENATOR HARDWICK, of Geor-
y gia, is aggrieved because Mr..
Hughes called the country's at
tention to the fact that, under a Dem
ocratic administration, the South
dominates legislation through its con-
troll of the chairmanships of the i'm
portant committees in Congress. Mr..
Hardwick calls this a new waving of
the bloody shirt" says he thought the
day for that had passed and shows
much peevishness because Mr.. Hughes
has seen fit to discuss the fact.
The truth is that the North has no
desire to revive the bitter memories
of the war or of reconstruction days.
Whenever the subject is raised by a
Northern speaker or a, Northern
newspaper it is because the South it.
self has compelled attention to the
fact. No one would criticise the
South for the position of power which
it holds in the Democratic party if
the South had come to that position
honestly. But the fact is that, through
laws which deny the right of suffrage
to the colored man, the Democrats of
the South have put themselves in a
place of political power which is un-
just and which is subversive of the
fundamental principles upon which
this. Republic is founded and to main
tain which the South was worsted dur
ing the War of the Rebellion.
Accordingly, it so happens that the
Democratic party, by means of the
iniquitous election laws which are
operative in the Southern States, en-
ters every campaign with an enor-
nous initial advantage. Twenty-Five
United States senators, more than a
hundred representatives in Congress,
and 146 votes in the electoral coll
lege are at the disposal of the Demo
cratic party without even the formal
ity of contest. The only contro-
versy that ever arises is as to which
Democratic faction in any one of the
eleven States which constitute the
Solid South Shall control the Offices
Naturally, the North chafes under this
sort of thing though the North
would probably grin and bear it if this
South showed less of a disposition tc
rub it in" to the North whenever g
Democratic administration is in pow.
er. The South taxes the North and
takes the money for itself. The
South resists every attempt to equal.
ize either the burdens of taxation OF
the conditions of doing business. The
income tax and the child labor law are
recent examples in proof of this. Yet
the South pouts and whines like q
spoiled child if anyone in the NORTH
calls attention to the plain facts. Sen.
ator Hardwick shows that he ha.
been hard hit by Hugnes-but there
are harder blows yet to come, we
hope.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
Another Intervention
IFrom the Toledo BIade.I


Mexico has escaped armed interVer-
tion.. 1t may be that 1t cannot escape
another form of Intervention.
Word comes that typhus fever is cpl
demic in Northern Mexico and that in
one city alone 100 have died of the
plague In few days. 4 dispatch from
the State of Guanajuato tells of the
death of score of persons. from eat1
ing flour with which a merchant, seelk-
ing to make up for shortage, had mix
ed sawdust.
These two reports give the trus~~pic. j.
ture of Mexico. The people are khearly
starving and they become the easy vic
Tins Of plague and adulteratig6n. T1s
lutionists fought SO long areE all except
exhausted. Few. supplies are. .comiHs
| to the country from its ntighbors or
from across the sea, A htandfull of
meal, a few beans the ROOFS that can
be dug from the ground or the stray
cattle which can be come upon. in the
barrens, these are almosS all thar
Mexico is living on to-day.
Instead of shooting ouf way to the
tumultuous heart of Mexico, we may
be compelled to reach It the better
with milk for the children. with medi-
cines for the pitiable people who are
too weakened to battle with plague.