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Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-01-02

mourners in their white robes walking
two abreast. each pair holding a hand
kerchief. The Parsee accounts say
that the body is received by two beard
ed attendants at the entrance to the
towers. and that by them the shroud
is removed and then vultures do the
rest. This is probably what happened
that day.
All | could note on this occasion was
a sudden movement of the vultures
in the palm trees. There seemed to
be hundreds OF them. They paused
for a minute on the outer edge Of one
OF the towers and then disappeared
within. In a few minutes they re-
appeared.
The Parsee method OF disposing OF
the dead is, perhaps. as the Parsees
say, more sanitary than the Christian
burial in the earth. or even than the
Hindu cremation. 1t meets the tenet
of their faith that fire, water and earth
are too sacred to be polluted But
the western mind cannot become &C.
customed to it.
In conclusion, it may be said that
there are other New Year obsery-
ances in India besides the New Year
of the Christians, Mohammedans. Hin
dus and Parsees. There is a Chinese
colony il Bentinck street, Calcutta, and
the Chinese there observe the New
Year as they do in the United States,
or in any other section of the world
in which they are foIInd
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-01-02

rooms in the back part of the house
readily accessible. The two bedrooms
in the opposite back corner OF the
house from the kitchen can be reached
through this hall. The basement is
made with plenty OF headroom so that
heating plant can be installed. The
house is built well off the ground,
TO make this possible.
II a storage room for fruits and vege-
tables is desired it is well to place
the furnace in one end of the basement
rather than in the center. The storage
room can thus be kept cool, which
will keep all the perishable things in
good condition.
The exterior walls OF this bungalow
are finished in one of the typical bun
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-01-02
THE sRAvEsT FLOWERS.

December not all bleak winter here by The earlier days
and
English daisy
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-01-02
Dc ep Plowina In FALL

Deep blowing In the fall is to be
most surely advised when conditions
will permit Of good work being done
Soil SO handled has the opportunity to
settle naturally before seeding time
and to absorb into its subsoil all the
available moisture OF long period
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-01-02
Increases Water SupoIv,

Deep blowing increases the supply
of water that the soil can carry with.
out injuring the crop.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-01-02
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
Prices for NJ etsls.

western Newspaper Union News service.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28
I lRIl III |lil|l|
COMING

The magistrate OF David w.
Gritiith's feat in staging "rhe Birth
Of a Nation" is almost appaulinG-
at lSaast to the devotees OF the cider
forms Of theatrical entertainment.
Where now are the little groups OF
actors. the pinchheck scenery and
the pretty properties OF the so-called
Legitimate" drama. BY compari
on with the new art, the legiti-
mate" measures to the mountains
like Il molehill. Instead of scenery
Tor his background Griffith has used
Nature For subject he has cover
ed 1850 years Of American life his
tory. Eighteen thousand people
have done his bidding and in the
u1a1o" measures to the mountain
hair~raising rides Of the Ku klux
Khan three thousand riders and
horses sweep over the dusty roads
No wonder that this magnificent
historical spectacle is the talk OF the
country. Il has established an en-
rely new art in the realm of the
,heatre-the art of pantomimic
screen spectacles with an orchestral
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28
II ri'Raf.s INi.I(,

Should Wife Forgiven which
is coming 10 tf., Lyric theatre on
December 3iat, is full of heart in
terest and absorbing dramatic Stu
ations. Lillian Lorraine, the star of
the photo drama, has achieved both
stage and film prominence, and she
has risen to the opportunities offered
by this remaraahla presentation in q
manner which is striking evidence
Of her versatility Taking the part
of dancing gig! in q western city,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28

her career of love, intrigue, short
lived happiness. and final redemption
after pistol duel in the dark be-
tween two of her lovers, in which
she is wounded, form only part OF
a well worked out plot which VIII
permit no relaxation in attention on
the part of those who watch it's pro-
gress on the screen. 1t is the next
release on the Equitable program,
and Is fully up to the high standard
Of that company's productions.
Have we any empty jails in this
country? In with the food price
boosters!
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28
NEW YE.Af, S,NE,TEShS AT
CORPUS CEEHSTl CHURCH

Father sLiechy wishes to announce
that, not being able to go to Savoy
this month, he will have High Mass
at Corpus Christi church at 1890
a. m, on Sunday. the 3lst Of Jan,
and on Monday, New Years day, will
have ma, at $780,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28
U. b. CHURCH.

Next Sunday being the last day Of
the old year the church will take
special account In the morning and
evening services. Special program
at 1880 p. m. Music and special
songs. Sermonette and other fea
lures. Come.
q. X. slime, Pastor.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28

score perfectly synchroniZ"d to the
action. 1t has also created a trs+
menaous sensation because of its
vaster and more iorcefui irealn4on.
of the theme ri Thomas D.XUas
The Clansman, which both as
book and plav created thu greatest
furore of the Las decade
The great deeds o. the a'ivil war
and the horrors o. rec"hstru 90
are made to i've again aj@ the as-
zion reborn is authorized. M-
Griffith, pioneer &morg jire ogs,
manager! this &,jlpen0oUo ach =
ment without Me aia Of diaIogae I
music and ettecga ttA vj71tily ghi.
drilling taie OF fifty year. ago.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28

All PARTIES having ,s,,ei;,tl work on
t!i:s,fo& III Hi>ot'a StH.,iu should cal!
fs,r II H. $nt,tf 49, .et-':s,'s ~ h:ss'
t3isgl.,>.tHs or ii.r -.ts.$l.u ana will leave
Naatsu in the near future .-~~s>.
DISFI
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28

Approximately 100, 900 acres ~
Inherited mont Competent Indian
lHnds on the Crow reservation VIII
be auctioaHI off by the Department,
nt the INTERIOR Bids viii b. receives
in Washington on January ,, q,
per cent OF me amount q the h,D
in 1st "eron1rahy tne ord aNH he At
auce must pe p4io within SO &Jy~
alter he sale is completed and p
proved. The land lies II way 03-
tween Billings and Sheridan. ~ :.
and is in the fertile Big .torn ~
Little Biz Horn river val ~ =
believed that il will bring al -.
rrage OF $40 an acre.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28

Four thousan& H;ae hua,1red a.
forty acres; OF land Here sod
at the state LARD sale ut Deer L. ~
by Register Sidney Miller ASS j
by George 3. Hopkins. assistant r
istnr. The top price paid vas !
an acre for % acres. Thj, was ~
chased by N. j. Bielenb@rg e
land lies at the foot O, Mount ? "
ell, William Il faulev paiA - PCT
acre for 800 acres The Aye"a 81
price paid was about SIG
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

But neither Manley nor his enemy saw that descent. for Legar's man as he lurched suddenly forward threw all his weight on the outstanding cop per cornice, painted white to look like marble. And 1t was a cornice made only for ornamentation. and not for support. For it's fastenings surren- dered to the strain of that suddenly imposed weight and the buckling seg- ment of copper swayed outward as the desperately clinging fingers clutched at its edges.
 Manley. hanging to the balustrade with one arm, reached out to grasp that buckling strip of metal to which a helpless man was hanging sheer over space. He caught at 1t. even as Golden caught at his straining shoul- ders to hold him steady.
 But law. stronger than the will of man. seemed to suck the metal slowly. inevitably, out of the clutch of his tired fingers. Then the last fasten- ings gave, the strained and twisted sheet-metal tore slowly away, and the black shadow of man fell like plummet to the iron and stone of Broadway. 300 feet below.
 (To be continued next week.>
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

raced on. "I'm going to stop for noth- ing this side of he'll"
 Yet that valiant boast was little more than the articulation of mortal pride so often preluding mortal disas- ter. For. bearing down on them along that lonely stretch of roadway they could already sec second car. The point about this car that worried Train was that 1t was not approach ing them as a well-behaved car should approach comrade vehicle, but vermiculated drunkenly from one side of the road to the other. Even Margory, as she leaned forward, puz- zling over these strange movements, realized that peril was involved in passing a vehicle so uncertain of its course. At the same time, too. she could hear from far behind her the prolonged and warning cry of an auto horn. wailing disturbingly through the quiet air of the late afternoon.
 There was 8 crash of metal and H1ass, a rending of honey comb radi- a.ors and coppered lenders. Human bodies erupted from seats. rolled in- vertebrate on the dusty road, lay stunned and motionless in the clouded afternoon sunlight. Among the first to sit up and stare dazedly about was Margory Golden, with road dust ground into her sunny hair. with the shoulder of her motor coat torn completely away and with the dull ache of countless bruises on her numbed and throbbing body.
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through a network of wooden stuts and steel piano wire stays and cross guys. He was vaguely conscious of Evart calling out that everything was all right, that there was no damage which half hours work couldn't patch up.
 But Manley, in truth, was thinking little of either Evart or his flyer. All his thoughts, as he climbed frantic ally up through the broken tower window. were revolving about the problem as to whether or not he was too late. And that all-vital ques- ton still obsessed him as he mounted the iron treads of the stairway lead ing to the tower top, panting up flight after flight until his lungs seemed bursting for want of air, and his over-driven heart beat drumlike against its rib-cage. And as he reached the top and flung out through the narrow door opening on the campanile-like balcony crown ing that sky-scraping structure. he knew, even as he saw two figures standing there before him, that he was too late.
 That much he knew, even before he caught at enough breath to call out warning to Enoch Golden or swing about and spring for the secs ond figure. already shrinking back in the shadow of that many-columned cupola. For in the hand of the sec- ond figure Manley already had caught sight of tell-tale sheet of paper. It was a yellowed and time worn scrap of paper, and little more. but to Manley it had become the em- blem and pennon of 8 desperate cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

And Manley, as he clinched with Le- gar's stalwart emissary, fought for it. Nor was his opponent one to be de- spised. The two men fought along the crest of that midnight tower as two mountain lions might fight along the brink of an Andean precipiec. They fought with gasps and grunts, with strange guttural sounds. with teeth barred and face distorted. blind to the blows that were given and taken, un- conscious of the fact that the very pa- per for which they were fighting had already fallen to the cupola floor, and from there had been blown by the north wind to the farthermost edge of the cornice circling the stone column supports.
 Golden himself was already reaching for that paper when Legar's confed- crate caught sight of 1t, broke from Manley's grasp and dove bodily for where 1t lay. Manley, a second later, followed him. There, half astride the balustrade of coppered wood painted to look like marble, the fight was re- newed.
 Then a second breath of night breeze. signing through the tower top. carried the paper slowly along the cornice edge. It was Legar's man who saw 1t as 1t moved. He wrenched away. twisted about. and caught at 1t as it fell. But already he was too late. It lifted with the wind. drifted and eddied slowly about in the moon light. and foated swayingly down into the darker canyon of Broadway. where it was soon lost to sight.
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sorrowfully, and had put a finger to her lips. And she had smiled again, more happily, as she had helped the girl into a softly-lighted room and gently told her that she must rest. And there had been something in- effably soothing in the quiet going and coming of that quiet-eyed woman, before sleep brought relief to the shaken and throbbing body on the ivory white bed.
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Ten minutes of frantic efforts at telephone booth in the nearby vil- lage. however. convinced Manley of the inpossibility of getting in touch with Golden by wire. Every effort to reach the house by that means proved fruitless And time was precious.
 Manley's first thought. in his di- lemma. was to commander some nearby car. Yet nothing but a racer. he remembered as he snatched out his watch. could get him to the Gen. tral Tower Building in time And racers, he bitterly remembered. did not grow on bushes.
 His next thought, however, took him tearing down the village street like madman. For the name of "Cedarton" had brought into his Bobby Evart." And Bobby Evart, who had his workshop and hangar on the southerly outskirts of that village. He had been an early volunteer for the federal air scouts and at San Diego had twice broken his own alti- tude record, established at Pensacola, and was now immured in the myste- rious task of fashioning a stabilizer for monoplanes-a stabilizer Man. ley remembered. which was receiving sympathetic attention from certain navy officials in Washington And the intrepid Bobby. he also remem- bered, seemed the one person who could still save the day for him.
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Instead of finding this same in- trepid Bobby boring over blue prints of stabilizer parts, however. the breathless Manley found his old-time friend in a rattan club chair tran quilIy playing chess with his maiden aunt. In two minutes the breathless newcomer had explained to the some- what astonished young chess player a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

NooH GOLDEN Oes gth hts c daughter modern Eden ~ "Wtndpard Iand inraded Lud1t0 Pa Pa1do steal the sland cte aud Padops PaMdort the child Golden aud hts scite narrosoly TeIue Golden hardened millionaire himself the 0l prince1g
  her he is the Hammer The grl Goldems spirited agaf Manley h tirolous the "Os Nest chee 
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 Third under the 0use of torged Manlev Kidnapped m the meantime Morgoy locked the big raa at Goldens dong Legas limousine snotches thts
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

Yet at the next turn in the road his ight-heartedness suddenly departed from that keen-eyed driver. For as he took his turn and speeded up along Q dustless stretch of open highway. he saw figure run out to the middle of the road. It was not the fact that this figure stood directly in his path that most disturbed him. It was the discovery, as he drew down on 1t, that this figure wore a yellow band of cloth across the eyes, with moonshaped apron falling almost to the end of the nose. that brought the redoubt- able Trains heart suddenly up In his mouth. But even while that figure remained stubbornly and directly in his path. motioning for him to stop, he rem ernb nbered his orders. Instead of slackening his speed, in fact. he in- creased 1t. increased 1t to the limit of the engine's power. And he would surely have ridden down that would be interceptor had not the latter. at the last moment. leaped quickly aside
 Margory Golden, as he did so, half rose in her seat, for she, too. had caught sight of that mysteriously- shadowed face.
 But that was the Laughing Mask" she cried aloud. in wonder. as they swept on.
 ''The what ma'am?" asked Train. without looking back. for he had every need now of watching the road.
 She did not answer him at the mo- ment. for she was staring back. try ing to catch a second glimpse of the stranger r, his strangely fashioned domino. Rut ha had already disap- pe>~od from sight.
 She was startled bv a quick cry of warning bursting from that drivers throat Staring ahead. she saw that still another effort was being made to intercept them. This time it was a man with a red flag. What that flag stood for, waved so authoritat1vely before them, she could not compre- bend. Her doubts. however. were not shared by Train. for the car was again humming with it's suddenly &C., celerated motion. Instead of stop ping. it swept past the man with the crimson ensign of warning, swept past him so closely that itss fender end slapped against the fiagstick it. self as he repeated his lusty shout of command.
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want your daughter to live, want her sent back to you, take that chart to the twentysfourth floor of the Central Tower Building, within the next hour, and hand 1t to the man In the black ulster who will be waiting there. No trickery can succeed. And this Is your last chance! JULES LEuAk,
 Silently the beaten man stared down at this strange nissive. Slowly as he did so. the last of his once iron VIII melted away. He realized, as never before, the diabolical resourcefulness, the fanatic and sinister tenacity or this old-tine enemy who had worsted him in @ long fight and a bitter one. And the thought of that fragile girl, held as a hostage in hands so ruthless, brought about his heart sickening twinre of horror, a nauseating surge of dread. The safety of Margory was not to be imperiled for mere scrap cf yellowed paper.
 He rose heavily from his chair and crossed to the vault. From this vault he took the map, the time yellowed square of rnaniln about which so many of the sorrows and troubles of all his life seemed to revolve. Then calling for his hat and coat and or dering q car, he tremblingly made ready for his midnight visit of cap!tu- lation to the Central Tower Building.
 While these events were taking place, however, there was one mem- ber of the Golden household who re- mained far from inactive. When David Manley so abruptly left e tran ouil bungalow at Cedarton and 50 stealthily pushed his way through the shrubbery surrounding that bunga- low, 1t was because he had made the sudden discovery that Legar himself was in tho neighborhood. Nor was it hard for him to guess the reason for that master criminals invasion of those sequestered grounds. And Man. ley. promptly deciding to stalk the stalker himself. was rewarded by overhearing enough of Legar's plans, as the latter hurriedly issued his in- structions to two of his confederates near the roadside, to realize the neces- sity of at once getting in touch with Enoch Golden Whatever happened, he felt. 1t was his duty to warn Margory's father that Legar himself had acknowledged his ignorance of the girls whereabouts and had ex- pressed his intention of tricking the chart out of its present owners hands.
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guess the sooner you get out there the better!"
 But where are you sending me?" asked the girl. Instead of watching her father, however, her eyes were on Manley's face as she spoke.
 I'm going to send you out to your Aunt Agatha's on Long Island!" was his curt response as he swung about to his secretary. And while Mar gory's getting her things together, Manley, you send Train, the chauf- feur, here to me for his instructions"
 Manley, promptly crossing to the door, was startled to find the figure of the new footman standing close beside 1t as it was swung open.
 Ten minutes later, when Manley re- turned to the library with Train at his heels, he found Enoch Golden staring down at a sheet of paper lying on his desk. At the center of this paper stood a large black blot.
 Its the Spotted Warning" said Golden, his heavy face furrowed with a trouble deeper than he was willing to admit. But how, in Gods name, did 1t get here?''
 Manley, after staring at the strangely spotted sheet, stared even more intently at the ceiling directly above the point where the paper lay on the desktop. A momentary look of satisfaction fitted across his face as Golden turned to him with crisp command to precede Margory to Ce- darton and there explain both the reasons for her visit and the precau- tions to be exercised during that visit.
 And as for you, Train,'' continued the grim eyed old millionaire. turn ing to his chauffeur. T want you to take my daughter out to Cedarton as quickly as your car and the speed laws will let you carry her. There are special reasons for this. remem- Der! And from the moment you leave this house. don't let anything or anybody stop you"
 Thirty minutes later Margory Gold en, surrounded by her bags, sat back in the swaying automobile. puzzled in the tide of events. And as mile by mile swam by beneath the hurrying wheels the keen-eyed man in the driving seat found a load lifted from his own shoulders.
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"Margory. don't you know me? Don't you remember your own mother?" that quiet t-eyed woman had asked as she had taken her in her arms. And as she stared up into that motherly face, bent so close over her own, she had said. with gasp of be- wilderment Are you-you the Laughing Mask?" But her mother. she remembered. had smiled, almost
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What happened after that for all time remained strangely like dream to her. She remembered seeing Train lying close beside his wrecked car, with the blood trickling from his wrist and staining his whip-cord uni- form. She renebered seeing other figures, even more helpless looking. But most of all she remembered how one of these figures, pulling himself together, had slowly risen to his feet. As he did sorhe turned half-stupidly about and stared down at her. And the moment she saw that pallid yet triumphant face she knew that 1t was Legar. She knew that he was confronting her, that he was slowly but determinedly making his way towards her. And she Knew that in another moment she would have been their prisoner again had not sud- den and unlooked-for interruption taken place.
 This interruption came in the form of flying roadster, vii masked figure leaning low out from its run ming board as 1t swept down on them. She remembered the sudden shout of the men the sudden clutch of the strong hand as 1t caught at her while the roadster swept by, the equally sudden pain through her bruised body as she was swung safely up into the seat of the onward swerv- ing car. She remembered, too, the arm close about her as she lay back, weak and panting. as they dano sd and speeded on along that lonely road. She remembered turning in through a stone gate. winding along an orderly gravel driveway, stopping before a vine-boyered bungalow. She remembered, as the masked man at her side helped her in through an ory-white door, turning dazedly to him and asking who he was, And she remembered the smile that showed just beneath the fringe of the yellow domino ss he shook his head and the sensa q deprivation that swept through epsr as she found her self once more alone. Then from the same door through which the laughing mask had stepped, she re- membered, she had seen a quiet eyed woman come out, quiet-eyed woman who had crept p to her. with tears yelling from her eyes and q smile of pitying tenderness about her lipS
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"stop~ mOcked the driver as hs