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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20

this fear. by every violin calling from
the grave that nothing was so in
evitable as death, which lurked behind
every corner, hid in every shadow, lap
deep in the dark tube Of every gun.
These men could not have a friend;
They knew their one chance OF holding
on to life lay in their own distrust,
wstchfulness, dexterity. and that hope,
by the very nature Of their lives, could
not be lasting. They had doomed them
selves. What, then, could possibly
have dwelt in the depths Of their minds,
as they went to their beds on q starry,
night like this, with mystery in silence
and shadow, with time passing surely,
and the dark future n it's secret APP
preaching every hour-what, then, but
he'll?
The hell in Duane's mind was not.
fear Of man or fear OF death. He would
V been glad to lay down the burden
Of life, providing death came naturally.
Many times he had prayed for it. But
that over developed, superhuman spirit
of defense in him precluded suicide or
the inviting of any enemy's bullet.
Sometimes he had a vague, scarcelys
analyzed idea that this spirit was what.
had made the southwest habitable for
the white man.
Every II of his victims, singly and
collectively, returned to him for ever,
1t seemed, in cold, ~passionless, accus-
ing domination OF these haunted hours.
they did not accuse him Of dishonor
or or brutality or murder.
they only accused him of Death. 1t
was as if they knew more than when
they were alive, had learned hat life
was a divine mysterious gift not to
be taken. They thronged about him
with their voiceless clamoring, drifted
around him with their fading eyes.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20
DAISY FLYKILLER
DIFFERENT STRAIN OF BOYS
Little Story Shows Why It Is That
Some Succeed in Life While 9th
ers Don't "Make Good"

Two boys left home with just money
enough to take them through college.
They both did well ut college, took
their diplomas in due time, and got
from members Of the faculty letters
to a large shipbuilding firm with which
they desired employment. When the
first boy was given an audience with
the head Of the firm, he presented his
letters.
what a you do?" asked the presi-
dent.
Il should like some sort of a clerk
ship"
well, sir, / will take your name and
address, and if we have anything Of
the kind I will write to you"
The other boy then presented him
self and his papers.
What can you do?" the president
asked him.
Anything that a green hand can do,
sir, was the reply.
The president touched a bell that
calledRa foreman, and the college grad
late went to sorting scrap iron. A
week passed, and the president, meet
ing the superintendent, asked, Glow
Is. the new mar getting on?"
oh said the superintendent, she
did his work so well that 1 put him
over the gang"
In two years that young man was
the head Of q department., and on the
way to q salary larger probably than
his friend will rel earn.-Youth's
companion.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20
HAPT X.

- "
"A hundred miles from the haunts
most familiar with Duane's needs. far
up Where the Nueces ran a trickling
clear stream between yellow cliffs.
stood a small deserted shack of covered
lheq"ite poles. 1t had peer made long
ago, nut was we'll preserved. A door
laced the overgrown trail, and another
raced down into a gorge of dense thick
ets. On the border fu9itives from law
ara men Who hid in fear of some one
II mao n never lived In houses
VAIN ohlS one door.
I. II was a wild spot, lonely. not fit for
human h~abitation except for the OUT
nara TO leave for most of the other
Wi!d hooks IN that barren country.
DOWN in the gorge there was never
lalha% sweet water, grass all the year
round cool, shady retreats. deer, rab-
blts, turkeys. fruit. and miles and miles
OF narrow twisting. deep canon full Of
broken rock; and impenetrab!e Tickets.
The scream of the panther was heard
lEeSe. the squat OF the wildcat, the
cough of the jaguar. lnnGmerable bees
bU22ed IN The spring blossoms. and. it
@eeined. scattered honey to the winds.
All cay there was continuous song of
plrds that of she moeking-bird lond and
sweet and hooking above the rest.
On Clear days and rare indeed were
cloudy days-with the subsiding of the
wind at sunset q hush seemed to fall
around the little hut. Far-distant dim
blue mountains stood go!d-rimmed
gradually TO fade with the shading of
light.
AT TINS quiet hour q man climbed up
out OF the gorge and sat in the west
ward door of the hut. This lonely
watcher OF the west and listener to the
silence was Duane. And this hut was
the one where. three years before, Jen-
ME had nursed him back to life.
The killing of a man named Sellers,
and n combination OF circumstances
that had made the tragedy a memorable
regret, had marked, if not a change, at
He had trailed Sellers to kill him for
the supposed abduction of Jennie. He
had trailed him long after he had
learned Sellorh Travelled alone. Duane
wanted absolute assurance of Jennie's
death. Vague rumors. a few words here
and there, unanthenticated stories, were
all Duane had gathered in years to sub
stantiate his belief--that Jennie died
shortly after the beginning of her Sec
ond captivity. But Duane did mt know
surely. Sellers might nave teld him.
Duane eXpecte6, II not to force it from
But the bullet went too unerringly: it
locked his lips ard fixed his eyes.
After that meeting Duane lay long at
the ranch house of a friend, and when
he recovered from the wound Sellers
had given him he started with two
horses and a pack for the lonely gorge
on the Nueces. There he had been hid
den for months. a prey to remorse, a
dreamer, a victim Of phantoms.
1t took work for him to lind subsis-
tence in that rocky fastness. And work,
action, helped to pass the hours. But he
could not work all the time, ever il he
had ound 1t to do Then in his idle
moments and at night his task was to
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20
"Thirty-Nine; Going on Fifty.v

How old are you?'
Charles Peltijohn, a lawyer, was
questioning a client, seemingly
fifty or more.
''Thirty-nine.''
Speak right up urged P%ettijohn
as the oma answered in a low tone.
You need not be ashamed of the
questions
'T%hirty-nine,' reiterated the woman,
in the same tone.
What did you say?"
''%Thirty-nine, going on ffty.'-In,
dianapolis Star.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20
Fitting and Proper.

Nov, what do you think of a man
who would kiss and trll?'
oh. there's no harm in telling,'
said the fair debutante, IF he limit.
himself to telling the kisser how much
pleasure it gave him.c-Birmingham
.Age-Herald.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20
CHAPTER TX (Continued).

N'S >O1r 80 AsN>t NtA - t@CN'
We're chattering. To find a shelter
in that barren waste seemed a futile
task. Quite unexpectedly, however,
they happened upon a deserted adobe
cabin situated a little off the road. Not
| only did it prove to have a dry inter-
ior. but also there was firewood.
Water was available in povis every
| where; however, there was no grass for
| the horses.
A good fire n hot FOOD and drink
changed the aspect of their condition
as far as comfoct went. And Jennie
lay down to sleep. For Duane, how
ever, there must be vigilance. This
cabin was no hiding place. The rain
fell harder all the time, and Inc wind
changed to the north. IT'S d norther,
all right" muttered Duane. 1.-TWO or
three days" And he felt that his ex-
~traordinary luck had not held out.
Still one point favored him, and it was
that travellers were not likely to come
along during the storm.
Jennie slept while Duane watched.
The saving of this girl mean more to
him than any task he had ever as
sumed. First it had been partly from
| a human feeling 10 succor an unfortu-
nate woman, and partly a motive to
establish clearly to himself that he was
no outlaw. Lately, however, had come
a dl11erent sense, a strange one, with
something personal and warm and pro-
| tective in it.
As he hooked down upon her, a slight,
slender girl with bedraggled dress M
disheveled hair. her face, pale and
quiet, a little stern In sleep, and her
long, dark lashes lying on her cheek,
he seemed to see her fragility, her pref
tiness, her femininity as never before.
But for him she might at hat very
moment have been a broken. ruined
| girl lying ack in that cabin of the
l Hands The fact ouun hin, ., fo,)iry
of his importance In this shifting of
her destiny. She was unframed, still
young; she would forget and be happy;
she would live to be a good wife and
mother. Somehow the thought swelled
his heart. Hic act, death dealing as it
had been. was a nob one, and helped
him to hold on to his drifting hopes.
Hardly once since Jennie had entered
into his thought had those ghosts re-
turned to torment him.
Tomorrow she wofld be gone among
good. kind people with a possibility of
FINDING her relatives. He thanked God
Tor that; nevertheless, he felt a pang.
h slept more than half the day.
Duane kept guard, always alert.
whether he was sitting, standing, Oh
walking. The rain battered steadily
on the roof and sometimes came in
gusty flurlies through the door. The
horses were outside in Il shed that al
forded poor shelter, and they stamped
restlessly. Duane kept them saddicd
and bridled.
About the middle of the afternoon
Jennie awoke. They looked a meal
and afterward sat beside the little fire,
She had never been, in his Observation
OF her, anything but a tragic figure, al
unhappy girl, the farthest. ENJOY
from serenity and poise. That char
ncteristic capacity for agitation strlcl,
MN as stronger in her this day. Ile
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20
Human Nature.

Why that hospital is so popular
beats me. 1t hasn't the best system
and It certainly hasn't the most sue.
j cessful Doctors
But It has the prettiest nurses"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20

Old age is the evening of life. See,
I'D childhood is the next morning.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20

Tint good fellow mask quite often
hides q hyenalike home disposition.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20

CONTINUED Sext weekly
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
THREE AMERICAN
MINISTERS QUIT
ENJOYS to Netherlands, Siam
and Colombia RESIGN.

Resignation Of three United States
ministers to foreign countries was an
nounced last night at the State Depart
ment.
The retiring diplomats are:
DR.. Henry Van Dyke, Minister to the
Netherlands.
william H. Hornibrook, Minister to
Siam
Thaddeus Austen Thomson, Minister to
Colombia.
Announcement Of the resignation of
Minister Van Dyke came following dis
patches from The Hague announcing the
rumored resignation Of the diplomat
The State Department at once confirm
ed the rumor, announcing that the resig-
nation had been received and accepted,
but that no successor had been appointed.
1t was reported at the department that
John W. Garrett, Of Baltimore, formerly
United States Minister to Argentina, is
being considered for DR.. Van Dykes post.
Announcement then was made of the
resignation of the other two ministers,
but II was not stated whether the resig-
nations had been accepted.
No reasons were given for any of the
designations.
It was stated that the resignation of
Dr. Van Dyke reached the department
some time ago.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
charlie Chaplin CAR
GOES ON A RAMPAGE
Auto Starts Buttins Into Vehicles When
Left by Its Driver.

An Adams Express Company automo-
bile, gyrating uncontrolled up street
northwest between Ninth and Tenth
streets shortly after noon yesterday. sent
pedestrians scurrying to doorways be-
fore George Marceron, the driver, who
had left the machine unattended, caught
up with II and stopped its cavortingS
Marceron had left the machine in front
of 9T d street. The car suddenly started
up the street. An American Ice Com
pany wagon got In the way and was
pushed up the street until II struck a
motorcycle driven by Robert s. VaIen-
tine, 1ss Indiana avenue northwest The
motorcycle was thrown against a wagon
which was forced out on the curbing
Then the express car swerved to the
other side of the street and struck an
automobile owned by H Colmer. OF the
Cosmos Theater. driving It also up IN
the curb. Then It began TO swing back
into the street. but Marceron climbed
aboard and shut OF the powe-.
Marceron declared he had shut the
power OF completely. Witnesses said the
machine had stood perfectly motionless
for a few moments after Marceron had
left II.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
S2'GRINGOS"
Villa Said to Have Slain Ger
man Vice Consul, Also.
CBy the International News service.)

(By the international News Service)
Ell Paso. Tex. Dec. 4.-Carios Ketelsen,
German vice consul at Chihuahua City;
Charles Elmendorf. an American, and
another American whose name is un-
known. were killed by Villa. according
to a report received from Juarez. A
daughter of Elmendorf was said to have
been carried OF by the Villistas.
Government agents here sent the in
formation to Washington.
Villa has the Carranzistas along the
border badly worried tonight. They do
not know when he is going to strike next
Consul General Gonzales was reported
this afternoon to have asked Mai Gen.
Bell to aid in the protection of JuareZ.
in event Of an attack on the city by
Villistas. Hundreds of Americans go to
Juarez daily to attend the races.
Villa and his army are encamped at
San Andres in a strategic position it is
reported. should his control Of chihuahua
state be threatened.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
BUDGET. IGNORES
HUMBLE WORKERS
l,O4l Pages of Estimates
Pass Up" Underpaid Fed
eral Employees.

There are 1.ol pages in the three-inch
volume Of estimates for the government
departments for the next fiscal year, is
sued yesterday, and the number of low
salaries government employees who will
scan its voluminous pages looking for
increases in wages will find the usual
pages Of disappointment.
While many Of the department heads
have attempted to better the condition
Of the lowest paid employees in the serv-
ice, there has been no general recommend
alton for higher salaries for this class
Of workers, and the proportion Of higher
compensation is much greater.
Congress had the inadequate salaries
Of the Postofice Department called direct
ly to its attention by the introduction Of
bill by Representative Tague, of Mas
sachusetts, seeking increased salaries for
clerks and carriers In first and second
class postoflces.
By the terms of the bill the clerk and
carrier service Is divided into seven
grades. with a minimum of 500 for the
FIRST grade and a mEkinum of 81 500 for
the seventh grade. Clerks in first-class
offices can be promoted 800 a year auto
matically until they reach the maximum
Of 1850. In the second-class ofiices they
advance In the same progression until
they reach q maximum of s., 800. By the
terms Of the act alf provision of the act
Of 1Ss Inconsistent with the proposed act
are repealed.
The opening session Of Congress found
many members supporting a movement
to give the underpaid clerks and en-
ployes In the Federal service a higher
wage.
Representative Meyer London, of New
York, declared the high cost of living
was constantly with US and the Euro
pean war had only served to accentu-
ate IT."
"Al people working on fixed salaries
feel this situation acutely," he said.
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
WILSON TO WAR ,
on HIGH PRICES
Favors Probe of Increased
Cost of Living.

President Wilson Is preparing to NM
out who Is responsible for the unprtee-
dented increase In the cost Of living. He
intends to order an Investigation by the
Department Of Agriculture. or to appeal
to Congress to undertake the task.
This was learned authoritatively last
night from SOURCES close to the Presi-
dent. 1t Is possible that the President
may include in his address to Congress
today an appeal for an immediate inyes-
tigation.
Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison.
president and secretary. respectively, OF
the American Federation of Labor, at
the head Of q committee Of five repre-
senting the Federation. yesterday con-
veyed to the President the sentiment Of
the labor organizations In regard to in
creased living cost.
The committee urged Mr.. Wilson to
take any action in his power to ascertain
the real reason behind the rocketing
prices. Mr.. Gompers was given TO under
stand by President Wilson that he had
every intention Of trying to guide the
hand of the law to the guilty Eroups
The committee also laid before the
President the resolutions passed at the
recent convention Of the Federation In
4ucS0 IoSOluIlOn8 Included q
protest against 'militarism," describing
as system fostered and developed
by tyrants."
The President was urged by the COM
mittee to lend his utmost aid to the
passage Of the industrial training and
vocational education bill. This measure
passed the Senate at the last session, but
has not been acted upon by the House
In addition. the committee informed the
PFRAtdaWf O ~.
OF Labor supported the project to grant
half holidays to workers in the Federal
service.
President Wilson limited. that this would
be impossible in some executive depart
ment.
The committee declared that labor or
gantxations were opposed to the clauses
In the Porto Rican citizenship bfll grant-
ing the franchise only to property owners
or those capable Of passing . litcracy
test.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
BRITISH PEOPLE SICK
OF WAR, DECLARES Mp.
Liberal Member of Commons Saws
Peace Lies in Neutrals' Move.

(By the International News Sefvice.)
New York, Dec. I'm an open letter
to this country, made public today,
Charles P. Trevelyan, Edberal member of
the British House Of Commons, declares
the common people of Great Britain, as
well as of the other belligerents, are
heartily sick of the war"
Mr.. Trevelyan is of the opinion that
the only hope Of peace lies in the force
Of public opinion in the United States
and other neutral countries.
He pleads that the great neutlals
should consistently urge peace, speak
ing not to the governments. but to the
people, with a voice so loud 1t would
reverberate across the seas"
The communication from Mr.. Trevelyan
was made public after a meeting of the
American Neutral Conference Committee
at the Hotel McAlpin.
After telling about his opposition to
the continuance Of the war, Mr.. Treve-
lyan says:
IF were asked to define briefly the
attitude of the mass of my countrymen,
i should say THAT they are heartily sick
OF the war, that they are not aware Of
the WEAKNESS Of the Germans and the
willingness Of the German government
to negotiate, and that consequently they
regard peace as hopeless, and therefore
are not prepared to advocate 1t.
But II once It were brought to the
consciousness Of ordinary Engfishmen
that Germany were ready for a reason
able peace, to adjure her conquests, and
above all to evacuate and help to COM
pensate Belgium, a rapid and radical
change would appear in popular opinion
at the moment II Is clear that the bel
hgerent governments will now have me-
diation-"
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
Tells HOW TWO AEROS
and U-B0AT GOT ship
American Relates Story of Thrilling
Capture of Dutch Passenger Boat.
Ry the International New. serv,e,

(By the International News serviee.l j
New York. Dec 4.-How two Gerfnari
aeroplanes and a submarine captured TIN
Dutch passenger ship Koningin Regentes
On November 10 was told here today by
DR.. Howard T. Kimberly, of San Fran
cisco, after his arrival here on the Hol-
land-American liner Ryndam.
DR.. Kimberly was on the Koningin Re-
gentes en- route from Flushing to Lon
don when the ship was captured.
"A German aeroplane was seen circIing
above the ship four hours after we left
port" said the doctor. The pilot sig
nailed with smoke candles, and soon an
other aeroplane approached from the
direction Of the Belgian coast. This Sec
ond machine signaled US to stop, and
then submarine came up.
I'VE were ordered to follow the C-boat
to port, and the seventy-five passengers,
including three Americans, were taksn
on. We were not molested in any way,
and special sOlicitude was shown for the
Americans. Later we were released and
sent to Holland. The Germans apolo-
gized to US many times"
The Koningin Regentes has been re-
leased by the German naval authorities.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
Will entire CABINET
QUIT? London WONDERS
British Puzzled Over Whether Asquith
Has designations of All Ministers.

(By the International News Service, !,
London, Dec. Has Premier Asouitb
the designations Of all the ministers in
his pocket7 "
The fact that the prime minister dur
ing the discussion which followed his
eagerly awaited statement in the house
Of commons today failed to answer this
question is agitating the British public
mind more than anything else tonight.
speculation generally tends to the he
lief that had he chosen to answer n he
would have necessarily done 50 In the
amrmative. The fact that he failed to
reply with fiat no implies to the ma
jority Of observers that the report is
true ii"
Two more days Of anxiety remain he
fore the whole political mystery is ci.sn-
ed up, partly at least. for today's Parlia-
ment session was more or less abruptly
adjourned until Thursday, at the non
controversial suggestion Of the premier.
This much seems clear tonight. that ~.
new governmental crisis is the 'crea flor
whether carefully deliberated Or not none
ventures to guess-of Lloyd Georre
through his ultimatum, revolving about
the war councils character and function
The wal. minister, 1t is now generaIIv
UNDERSTOOD announced that unies, mi.
body Is reduced in .meAbership to a few.
including himself, and unless It be sJvsn
absolute authority as to the conduct oT
the war-independent from the cabinet
the government and country could Ioo,r
around for new war minister.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
FORD AGAIN TO END"
WAR ACROSS ATLANTIC
Viking Press Club Reunion in New
York Gets News from Detroit.
tBy the international New. servie,

(By the international News Service.) }
New York, Dec. 4-Henry Ford will
leave for Europe on his second peace mis-
sion within thirty days.
This announcement was made tonight
managers Of the famous Ford peace ship.
at reunion Of the Viking Press Club,
composed Of newspaper and magazine
writer's who were delegates on the peace
ship.
Henry Ford sent a telegram from De-
troit, regretting he could not be present
and saying he would reach New York
tomorrow.
Since the return Of the peace ship dele
gates, Mr. Neeley declared, the leaders
of the Ford paclfist party have been in
continuous communication with high rep
resentatives of all belligerent countries
He said their names could not be men,
toned, for IL II were known they were
talking peace they would be ruined po-
The diners also were told that all the
peace ship delegates except Louis Loch-
ner, had been fired
Henry Ford's peace ship sailed for Eu-
rope a year ago yesterday Ito end the
war" The party was composed of lts
forty-six Of whom were newspaper and
magazine writer's. The peace delegates
failed to fulfil their motto Ito get the
boys out of the trenches by Christmas" 1"
Instead, internal troubles developed and
the party disbanded in Stockholm.
Many, including the late Inez Milhol-
land -Boissevain, quit in a tiff
The Washington herald., 1916-12-05
NICARAGUA AND COSTA
RIGA sever Relations
Sale to U. S. of Site for Coalins Sta.
tion Causes International Trouble.

American Minister jefferson cabled the
State Department last night that the
President Of Nicaragua had Informed him
two days ago that Costa Rica had broken
ON Diplomatic relations with INicara qua
He denied also that q crisis was inn
pending as q result Of Nicaragua's re-
fusal to abide by the decision Of the Gem
trail American Court.
Despite the refusal Of his country to
pc severned by the ruling of the court,
minister Jefferson was informed by the
Nicaraguan President that the relations
between Nicaragua and the two other
republics involved are now Just as they
have been"
The court had ruled that Nicaragua
had no right to dispose OF q site for a
naval coaling station in Wonseca Bay
to the United States, and no right to seil
to the United States the rights to the
canal route taking part Of the San Juan
River. the Nicaraguan boundary.