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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1916-08-03

ward show either OF lear VI cAoA'o
ment. for l had a crew composed OF
men who show at their best only III
time of danger. Scarcely word was
spoken until, in the midst of a wlld
upheaval of the two madly frightened
Mania beneath us, the boat was hung
from their backs and was turning over,
when 1 shouted, High side" which or
der was instantly obeyed, two OF the
men, except for an arm and a leg'
throwing themselves entirely out of the
boat.
The boat struck head first and
shipped lot of water over her bow,
but we were now clear of the two Man
ia, who raced together on the surface
for short distance.
These two Manta appeared to have
lost all fear of the boat and it's occu-
pants; we were many times In tOucn-
ing distance Of them and they both
passed under the boat several times.
The first was female, well above 10
feet in width, and I was about to at
tack it, when 1 saw, nearly a mile
away, the largest Manta that I have
ever seen. 1t was on the surface so l
ran the boat down to it. and never
have I wanted to kill any one thing
quite as badly as l wanted to kill that
great fish, for it was fully "A feet In
width and must have weighed not less
than 10000 pounds. was uncertain
however, as to it's gender, and fe-
male was absolutely necessary.
She was now swimming on or near
the surface with mate following, al
most touching her all the time, and,
with all ready, we moved to the attack.
AS she was passing, quartering across
our bow, gave the word. Charlie and
l drove our harpoons deep into her
broad back; then, with great splash
of her fins, she plunged below and
ahead. AS the drogue was snatched
under, it threw water high in the air
and the shock was so great that 1t
brought the great ray to the surface
in that awkward, wheeling, edgewise
leap that Mania make, after the man
ner of a wheel turning over. Before
it's tail had reached the perpendicular,
l and all of my crew saw an embryo,
folded in cylindrical form, thrown high
in the air, and 1 heard Captain Jack
exclaim, did you see that? The young
one has tail longer than the old one"
The embryo quickly unfolded its fins
and, catching the air horizontally, its
descent was retarded until after the
mother fish had disappeared beneath
the surface.
When 1 had hurled my harpoon and
reached behind me. the spade lance
had been instantly placed in my hand,
but as 1 saw this embryo feebly flap
ping on the surface, 1 passed back the
spade lance and yelled "Give me an
iron, quick" (the harpoon is always
called an iron) and while not five sec
onds were taken in the exchange, that
was too long, for as threw back my
hand to strike, the male swept the en-
bryo beneath the surface with one Of
its fins.
I passed back the harpoon and seized
the spade lance, as saw the wounded
female, now on the surface, charging
down on us at highest speed. I was
forced to strike instantly and there
was not sufficient time to clear up the
line attached to the lance handle, so
the point Of the spade lance was slight
~ detected, with the result that the
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1916-08-03
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written based on the great
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Watch for the
ssue with the First
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[JN[)E R T IRE
By RICHARD PARKER
Based on the drama of Roi Cooper Megrue,
Author of s'Under Cover and Co-author of
sit Pays to Advertise.
Illustrations by Frank Parker
From the first chapter
to the last, "Under Fire"
fairly teens with action.
There isa beautiful woman
who marries a German
spy, believing him to be
French There is a hand
some Irish secret service
man for love of whom and
in devotion to her country
the beautiful woman be-
comes a spy within the
German lines.
OUR NEW SERIAL
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1916-08-03

FTER several days OF
windy weather, which
had made successful
Mania hunting impos-
sible, the morning OF
April II, opened calm
and hot.
To kill a Manta,
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08
Specter Of Pauperism.

Do you know that in the United
States &C out Of every 100 people that
die leave no estate whatever? Do you
know that out of the remaining "a
only nine leave estates larger than
$4,000, and that the average of the
balance of rs is little less than ST.
300? Do you know that at the age Of
sixty-flve. 81 out of every 100 in Amer
lea are partly or wholly dependent
upon relatives, friends or the public
for their daily bread, for their cloth.
ing and for roof under which to
sleep? We all know that the one SAFE
guard against pauperism by the coun.
tries of Europe has been thrift, s. w.
Strauss Of Chicago writes in Leslies
France. Germany, Belgium, Holland
and Switzerland have been the lead
ers in thrift. Do you realize that &C.
cording to recent government stats.
tics, SO per cent Of the American peo-
pie are living from day to day on
their wages, and that loss of employ
ment would mean pauperism for all
but two per cent of us?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08

away rrom such 1ntolerable assocIa-
tions. Though, at that don't believe
you even guessed how unspeakably
vicious they were!"
He paused and waited. anticipating
furious denial or attempt at refuta-
ton; such would, indeed. have been
the logical development Of the temper
in which she had descended to con-
front him.
Rather than this, she seemed calmed
and sobered by his charge; far from
resenting it, she appeared disposed
to concede it's fairness; anger deserted
her expression, leaving it intent and
grave. She came quietly into the room
and faced him sQuarely across the
table,
You thought that i'll Of me-that
was capable of spying on you-yet
were generous enough to believe
despised myself for doing it,"
mot at first. At first, after we had
met back there in the corridor, was
convinced you were bent on further
spying. Not till within this hour, since
waking up, did begin to understand
how impossible it would be for you to
lend yourself to such villainy as was
at work last night
'But if you thought that of me then,
why did you-"
1T occurred to me that it would be
just as we'll to prevent your report.
ing back to headquarters.
But you say you've changed your
mind about me?"
He nodded. Quite"
But why?" she demanded in voice
Of amazement. "Why1'
Il can't tell you," he said slowly
Il don't know why. I can only presume
(TO BE CONTINUED
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08
CHAPTER XIV.
Awakeninu,

awakening.
It was late afternoon when Lanyard
wakened from sleep so deep and
dreamless that nothing could have in
duced it less potent than sheer sys
temic exhaustion, at once nervous
muscular and mental.
A profound and sitting lethargy be
numbed his senses. There was stu
por in his brain and all his limbs ached
duly. He opened daZed eyes upon
blank darkness. In his ears sounded
vast silence.
And in that strange moment of awak.
ening he was conscious of no individ.
uality-it was, for the time, as if he
had passed in slumber from one exist
ence to another, sloughing in the
transition all his threefold existence
as Marcel Troyon, Michael Lanyard
and the Lone Wolf. Had any one of
these names been uttered in his hear
ing just then it would have meant moth
sensations inclosing dull embers of vi
tality.
For several minutes he lay without
moving, curiously intrigued by this
riddle of identity-it was but slowly
that his mind, like blind hand CROP
ing through the arras of a darkened
chamber, picked up the filaments Of
memory.
But one by one the connections were
renewed, the circuits closed.
Singularly enough, in his under
standing, his first thought was of a
girl-still, presumably, asleep upstairs
in the studio, unconsciously his pris-
oner and hostage.
For he was no more as he had been.
Wherein the difference lay he couldn't
say, but that difference existed he
was persuaded-thath he had changed,
that some strange reaction in the
chemistry of his nature had taken
place while he slept. 1t was as if sleep
had not only repaired the ravages of
fatigue upon the tissues Of his brain
and body, but had mended the tissues
of his soul as we'll.
His thoughts we're fluent in fresh
channels, his interests no longer the
interests of the Michael Lanyard he
had known, no longer self-centered, the
interests of the absolute ego. He was
concerned less for himself, even now,
when he should be most concerned
about himself, than for another, for
the girl Lucia Bannon, who was moth
ing to him, whom he had yet to know
for twenty-four hours, but none the
less woman of whom he could not
cease to think if he would.
It was her situation that perturbed
him, her predicament from which he
sought an outlet-never his own.
Yet his own was desperate enough.
Baff1ed and uneasy, he at length be-
thought him of his watch. But it's tes-
timony seemed incredible the
hour could not be five in the after
noon! Surely he could not have slept
so close upon full round Of the
clock!
And if it were so, what of the girl?
Had she, too so sorely needed sleep
that the brief November day had
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08
GRAMMAR IN DECAY
MODERN CARELESSNESS OF DIS
TiNCTiON is CRITICIZED.
Vocabulary Has Become the Despair
of Dictionary Makers, But the
Proper Usage Of Words Is
Little Considered.

Whether our speech is to serve US
as mitten or as a glove depends on
the pains we are willing to take with
distinctions like those in should" and
would" what and that" the
boys and "of the boy" writer in
the Boston Herald observes For our
thought, both in seeing things and in
mulling them over, is far subtler and
more finely shaded than the CORE
spending string Of words that we ad-
dress to our friends in such express
sion as we can reach, we depend on
the trim distinction of our grammar as
directly as the typist on the distinc-
tons of her keyboard or the wood
carver on the differences Of his gouges.
To lose from good usage even one
well-based grammatical distinction is
to lessen by just that amount our
means of matching our thoughts with
our words.
Unhappily our careless use of the
mother tongue is confusing forms and
dropping distinction that even COLO
quail wording can i'll spare. Our enor-
nous voca bulary grows" faster than the
dictionary makers can issue appendix
and new edition; but our grammar,
tips. Take for instance would and
should" Here in New England the
distinction fingers. In the middle
West and beyond would" has hope
lessly merged with it's own service
that of Should The smoother
phrases II would like" and Il would
be grateful already appear in formal
writing, and only the verbalist is
vexed. The distinction Of who from
that" for all the good examples in
the talk of street and shop and in the
common version OF the Bible, is as
good as gone from our modern books.
In "a running fight 'by running a
race" 81 saw John running" Il saw
Johns running" how many of us can
tell apart, as adjective, infinitive, par
ticiple and verbal noun, those four
"runnings"? Is it any wonder that we
are letting slip the good distinction
between He didn't like Tom inter-
A graver loss has
come of our laziness with subjunctive
forms. Our school children think US
quaint when we say, IF he were" or
wherever it be-" Shades of Demos
themes and Cicero! What could even
the orators have done had Rome and
Athens dulled their stilettolike sub
junctives into blunt indicatives?
Language is the worlds oldest won
der. No one really knows how it be-
gan or how it attained it's structural
perfection. The Greek grammar was
finer than the Roman; the Sanskrit
finer than the Greek. Language is the
one taking argument for prehistoric
golden age. It's laws have been studied
and named and marveled at by men
like Grimm and Mueller and our own
Whitney as if human speech had some
mysterious life Of it's own. The least
the rest of us can do is to pass it to
The next generation with the least
possible damage from our own using.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08

the prefecture, he felt sure that Roddy
would be avenged by M. de Paris. But
1t was quite as we'll that there should
be no clue whereby the author of the
mysterious telegram might be traced.
1t was, then, not an ill-pleased Lam
yard who slipped off into the night and
the rain; but his evaporation was
elaborate when the first object that
met his gaze was that wretched fiacre,
back in place before the door, Lucia
Bannon leaning from it's lowered win
dow, the cocher on his box brandish-
ing an importunate whip at the ad-
venturer.
He barely escaped choking on sup
pressed profanity, and for two sous
would have swung on his heel and
ignored the girl deliberately. But he
didn't dare-close at hand stood SER
geant de vile. inquisitive eyes bright
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08

little house Of two stories. Blank
walls of beetling tenements shouldered
both house and garden on either side.
Unlocking the gate with a ready key.
Lanyard refastened it very carefully,
repeated the business at the front door
Of the house. and when they were Sc.
curely locked and bolted within dark
reception room, turned on the electric
light.
But he granted the girl little more
than time for fugitive survey of this
anteroom to an establishment or
unique artistic character.
"Solon's living quarters are down
! stairs here" he explained hurriedly.
| Hes unmarried. and lives quite
| alone-his studio devil and the woman
who cares for things come in by the
day only-and so he avoids that pest
of Partisan life, the concierge. With
your permission. I'll assign you to the
studio-up here"
flight Of steps, he had made light in
the huge room by the time the girl
joined him.
81 believe you'll be comfortable" he
said THAT divan yonder is as easy
couch as one could wish-and there's
this door you can lock at the head OF
the staircase; while l. of course. will
be on guard below. And now Miss
Bannon-unless there's something else
I can do
The girl answered with a wan smile
and little broken sigh. Almost in
voluntarily. in the heaviness of her
fatigue. she had surrendered to the
hospitable arms of huge lounge chair
Her weary glance ranged the luxuri-
ously appointed studio aid returned
to Lanyard's face, and while he waited
he fancied he caught something NOV
ing and wistful in those eyes so deeply
Swallowed with distress, perpleXity and
fatigue.
I'm very tired indeed" she con-
fessed-"more than I knew. But I'm
sure I shall be comfortable. And I
count myself very fortunate, Mr. Lam
yard You've been more kind that /
deserve Without you, don't like to
think what might have become of me-"
please DON'T" he pleaded. And sud-
denly discountenanced by conscious
ness of his duplicity, he turned to the
stairs. Good night, Miss Bannon," he
mumbled, and was half way down be-
fore he heard his valediction family
echoed.
AS he gained the lower floor the door
was closed at the top of the stairs and
it's bolt shot home with a soft thud.
When he turned to lock the lower one
he stayed his hand in transient indie
cision.
Damn it!' he growled uneasily-
'there can't be any harm in that girl!
Impossible for eyes like hers to lie!
And yet And yet Oh, what's the
matter with me? Am losing my grip?
Why hesitate over ordinary precau-
lions against trcachery on the part OF
a woman who's nothing to me and of
whom I know nothing that isn't con.
spicuously questionable? All because
of pretty face and an appealing man
ner!"
So he locked that door, if very gent.
ly, and having pocketed the key and
made round Of doors and windows to
examine their fastenings, he stumbled
heavily into the bedroom Of his friend
the artist. "f - .~ % -"'s
- Darkness overwhelmed him then
he was stricken down by sleep as an
OK falls under the ak.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08
HIS Lono Suit.

Mr.. Swiggs-Anyway, you can't &C.
cuse me of contracting bad habits.
Mrs. Swiggs-No, indeed. You in.
variably expand them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-03-08
SYNOPSIS.
~

IA SYNOPSIS.
.CHAr1ER lat royon's. a Paris inn
the youth Marcel Troyon. afterwards tt
pc know known as , Miehae. Lanyard. is caugh
takes the boy with him to America ant
imakes of him finished craftsman.
CHAPTER II-After stealing the Ombe:
Jewels and the Huysman war plans If
the first time in many years because he
on his trail. On arrival he finds i RoddY' al !:
ready installed as a guest
CHAPTER I1I-At dinner a CONVERSE
ton between Comte de Morbihan. M. Ban
non and Mile. Bannon about the Lone
tWolf. celebrated craftsman who works
alone puzzles and alarms him as to
whether his identity is only guessed o.
known
CHAPTER Iv-To satisfy himself that
dresses and goes out. leaving Roddy an
Parentiy asleep and snoring in the next
room, then comes back stealthily, to and
q girl In hts room
Mile Bannon. who explains her presence
by saying that she was sleep-walking.
CHAPTER Win his apartment near
the Trocadero he finds written on the back
OF twenty-pound note, part Of his con-
o 6a y no heard an oI 9vttation
them.
CHAPTER V1I-Lanyard attempts to
that The Pack has forbidden the buyers to
Pack.
him and takes him before three masked
members Of The Pack.
CHAPTER K-He recognizes Popino>,
ro1iS oh o1e
man, but the third. an American, is un-
known to him. He refuses alliance with
them. '
CHAPTER x-on his return to his room
ne Is attacked in the dark but knocks
out his assailant.
CHAPTER XI-He gives the uncon-
sc1ous man, who proves to be the mys-
FERROUS American. hypodernic to keep
him quiet. discovers that Roddy has been
murdered in his bed with the evident in
and changing the appearance of the I'M
conscious American to resemble his own,
starts to leave the house.
d. CHAPTER KILN the corridor he en-
counters counts III, lucia Bannon. who insists
CHAPTER XIII.
Companions.
The enigma of thu girl so deeply In.
trigued his imagination that it was
only with difficulty that he concocted
noncommittal telegram to Roddy's
acquaintance in the prefecture de po-
lice-that imposing parsonage who had
watched with the man from Scotland
Yard at the platform gates in the Care
1 du Nord q, "
It was couched In English when
eventually composed and submitted to
the telegraph clerk with fervent, If
inaudible, prayer that he might be
ignorant Of the tongue.
Come at once to my room at Troy
on's., Enter via adjoining room pre-
pared for immediate action on impor-
tant development. Urgent.
.~ "RODDY."
Whether or not this were Greek to
the man behind the wicket in the tele-
graph bureau, it was accepted with
complete indifference-or, rather, with
an interest that apparently evaporated
upon receipt of the fees. Lanyard
couldn't see that the clerk favored him
with as much as a curious glance be-
fore he turned away to lose himself,
to bury his identity finally and forever
under the incognito of the Lone Wolf.
He couldn't have rested without TAX
ing that one step to compass the arrest
Of the American assassin; now, with
luck and prompt action on the part of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-13

Congressman Miller is busy on
the stump making addresses for
the Republican party. Mr.. Miller
is by far one Of the most able
speakers in the country and wher-
ever he addresses the voters he
is listened to with rapt attention
and by capacity audiences. AT
one time it was the impression in
some quarters that Mr.. Miller
would have opposition on the
ticket but it has evidently petered
out, as it should have done. He
has been a faithful man and the
voter considers this as an asset
regardless Of his failure to vote
ON the Adamson bill, over which
some people became very much
|perturbed. He evidently had rea.
sons for not being present and
voting on the measure, on the
passage of which the wisdom OF
the president and congress is
questioned by many.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-13

A wise nut has discovered that
it is unhealthy for two persons to
occupy the same bed regardless OF
the fact recorded in the Book OF
Books that Moses slept with his
forefathers, which was five to a
hill, and then lived to the ripe old
age OF seven or eight hundred and
twenty years. Another savior of
the health of his brethren has
learned that it is unsafe to ride a
horse that another fellow has rid
den, or to attend church where
other people attend. The kiss has
been branded as a tempter of
death in all manner of diseases
Handshaking is now considered
extremely dangerous. The Cros-
by Times thinks if things keep
up 1T will be unhealthy to be bur-
led in the same graveyard with
other people. The only place a
person can be safe from disease
or getting run over is in a store
that does not advertise.-Antigo
Farmers Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-13

Number 1851 has arrived. Mum
Der 1851 was j. j. Mccarthy, 1.
w. w. agitator who, on August
26th of this year, was released
from the state penitentiary at
N. D., where he served
a term for robbery in the first de-
gree, committed in Sargent coun-
ty. Mr.. Mccarthy will add one
to the force consisting Of j. j. Ell
tor and Joseph Gilday, who have
gone into winter seclusion in a
Virginia hotel. What a lovely
collection those I. w. w. agita-
tors would make if they could all
get out of Jail at one time and as
semble in a grand reunion.-Chis
holm Tribune-Herald.