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R A N ID O MI N O T E s

will regret to learn that she is critically i'll at the South Highlands infirmary.
 Frederick Dodge Jr, who is fresh man at Cornell university, will go to Cleveland, Ohio. for, the holidays, where he is to be much entertained by his many relatives and friends, Cleveland being his former home.
 Miss Beverly Leake has returned from a delightful visit to relatives in Rich mond.
 Miss Juliet Foster has returned from Agnes Scott to spend the holidays with her parents, Rev and Mrs. J. s. Foster. Miss Olive Cheek has returned from Hamilton Pennsylvania college at Lex ington, Ky, to spend Christmas with her parents AIr and Mrs. P. F. Cheek, in Norwood.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert Gobin Stout are spending the holidays in New York city, the guests of MT. and Mrs William Meade Prince.
 Miss Geraldine Mccormick a student at the Peabody college In Nashville, is SpenulnS the tnTlSliildS SSdSOn WlIu HeI parents.
 Thomas Bryan who is attending Cham berIain- Hunt academy in Port Gibson. Miss, and James Bryan of McCollie school in Chattanooga, arrived Thursday to spend the holidays with their parents
 
 William Rushton, James Bryan, Robert Bowron, Hughes Terry and Alex Gibson who are attending McCollie school in Chattanooga, are at home for the holi- days.
 MT and Mrs. Mercer Barnett and Miss Emmie Barnett have gone to Cleveland, O., where they will spend the holidays with Mrs. Lotus Cuddy.
 Miss Allie Gleen and Miss Mary Cren- shaw of Auburn will spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. c. B. Glenn.
 MT. IT. P Purnell is i'll at the Birming- ham infirmary.
 Mrs M. A. Copeland and her little son, Miles A. Copeland, Jr., are visiting with relatives and friends at Demopolis. They expect to return to Birmingham about January 10.
 Mrs T. Richardson is ill at the Bir- mingham infirmary, following a nopera- ton and is reported to be improving.
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To Be a Reader of 1.-The

The man or woman who is thoroughly conversant with the great issues of the day. who can talk inter-
 estinely and with knowledge of the facts, on the war, politics. art. music. or literature is welcome addition to any circle and sought after guest at social functions. To be able to do this you will say, involves much larger amount of reading than you can possibly find time for Not by any
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of THE LITERARY DIGEST will keep you absolutely up-to-date upon all these subjects and will give you broad and comprehensive outlook upon world affairs that you could obtain in no other way If you wish to be cosmopolitan. polished, and we'll informed. make point of reading The Digest each week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitworth of Nashville are spending the holidays in the city with Mir. and Mrs. H. S Mathews.
 Miss Julia Randolph, who teaches school at Inland. Ala, is spending a few days in the city en route to her home ln Greensboro, where she will spend the holi- days.
 Mrs. w. c. Agee has returned to her home in Selma after spending a few days in the city as the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. John P. Evans.
 Miss Louise Friedberg of Montgomery will spend the holidays with Mrs. A. Ja- cobson.
 The many friends of Mrs. Gus Durham
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Peace Demonstrations Planned

New York, December 22.-Monster peacs demonstrations, at whicn will be read "a manifesto from the American people tc the world in the cause of peace" will bs held at midnight on New Years eve in Chicago, Denver San Francisco and this city, it was announced here today by the American neutral conference committees At each meeting a community chorus will ring out the present year with song. Mes. sages are expected to be received from
 neutral conference committees in Euros pean countries. Y.
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When Rourke had left David and Cora looked at each other. In David the fighting blood was seething. If he were alone he would have throwns Rourke down the stairs. But as he- looked at Cora there came to him thes vision of her reading garbled, mali- cious gossip and skillfully woven lies
 about himself and Rose Bret ands Wanda A sickening welter of slimy slander; a paving over of old and hidden wounds And the vision causeA the heart to sink.
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Lumbermen to Grant Increase

Chicago. December 22-Employes in tns lumber trade throughout the country wiH receive an immediate wage increase of from to 10 per cent, E. E. Hooper, sec- retary of the Lumbermens association. announced here today. Both union and nonunion workers will be granted the increase.
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HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville, December 22.-(Special) Paul Monfee. who has been clerk of the city of Huntsville during the last five or six years has resigned that position and will go with the Huntsville Bank and Trust company after January 1. MT. Monroe was elected city clerk when the city commission took charge of affairs in 1911 and is regarded as one of the most efficient men who ever held the po- sition.
 Edgar Davis, private secretary of Mayor Thomas T. Terry, is mentioned as the probable successor of MT. Monroe.
 Silas Morley and J A. scroggns, have been arrested on charges of tres passing after warning. It is claimed that they raded the Pastime poolroom, search ing for liquor so frequently as to inter- fere with the legitimate business of the establishment and never found anything, either. The proprietor complained to the sheriff of the raids and when the two officers continued them. warrants were served on them by deputies.
 Ambrose Overton, county tax assessor and brother of David D. Overton. who is in the Birmingham jail under sentence of death for the murder of Probate Judge w. T. Lawler, has returned home from a visit to his brother. He stated on his arrival here that the health of his brother was very much improved and that his quarters in the Birmingham jail are very comfortable. The prisoner is bearing up well under the strain and is cheerful in the belief that he will get new trial when his case goes before the supreme court.
 Prominent sportsmen of Huntsville will attend the annual meeting of the Ala bama Field Trials club at Decatur in January and extend an invitation for the club to hold it's next annual meeting here. Hotel Monte Sapo. on the mountain will be offered as headquarters and thousands of acres of good hunting grounds will be offered them for the trials to be run on.
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Financial Editor Dies

London, December 22.-Harry Hananel Marks, editor and chief proprietor of the Financial News, died in London last night, aged 61 years.
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"A brown satin toque, with something Russian about it. is what Mimi demands to wear with her seal fur coat And she chooses a tight little high hat like this one, all crown, with a fanciful ornament of the satin which gives height, vet does not lengthen her face. The ornament
 of filigree and colored stone, is placed so the little pendants bob and sway with
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Russian women predominate among foreign born students of their sex in Paris
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NUMBER 9.
A LAND OF MURDERS.
Fapua, Cold BIooded Country, Where
Life Is Held Cheap.


Papua has long been known as
bloody land. 1t Is bloody land still.
But the blood of white men is rarely
let, and the wanton slaughter Of nn-
tives, the one by the other-at least
in those fast widening regions which
are within the sphere of the laws
fast diminishing. All this being SO in
one year, nevertheless, when there
We're 215 prisoners committed for trial,
lis of them We're charged with murder,
nine with manslaughter and five with
attempted murder.
To the civilized mind the motives to
murder, shocking enough, to be sure,
nor wanting an aspect of grewsome
humor. are upon occasion incredible.
As they are matters of record, how
ever. disclosed on painstaking investi-
CATION. they are to be accepted, not as
irresponsible tales. such as wander
ABOUT the eastern seas, but as substan-
t1al facts, however singular and incom-
prehensible they may appear
1t Is matter Of court record. for ex-
ample, that certain natives of what is
called the coast range, being upon trial
Tor the murder of two carriers, whose
throats they had cut. admitted the deed
without the least hesitation and sought
to justify the ghastly business upon
the ground that the carrier had appear
ed to be cold and hungry''-deiected
fellows, far away from their village.
Ihe prisoners had not eaten the car
flers. They had mereiy-with the most
considerate expedition-cut the throats
or the carriers. who were strangers, at
any rate, aud therefore of no great con-
sequence. and no ingenuity of cross
questioning could elicit motive uI-
terror to the one so ingenuously ad-
Vanced-that the carriers, appearing to
be "coid and hungry" were, in the
opinion Of the gentlemen who had in
continenty cut their throats. much bet
ter dead
similar case of merciful extermina-
ton concerned young native employ
ed 10 shoot game for white planter,
who encountered sick man papuan,
on the road near river and stran-
S'NN uiii ~ 0Sdtu. Gfl1I lie
planned that the sick man had created
annoyance and a considerable embar.
rassment as well by insistently re-
qnesting to be carried across the river
to the other side. whence his way Law
forward to his village.
Qnite So. said the presiding officer.
why, then, didn't you carry him
across the river?"
He was too heavy" replied the na-
tive. ut would have put me to a great
deal of trouble
why did you kill him?"
what else could do? The man
was SICK
1t was out of the question to endure
the labor of carrying the sick man
across the river. 1t was equally out Of
the question to abandon the pitioble
object. Therefore the bewildered fell
low had strangled him-the most oh
Vlous way out of dilemma which
eade fair to distress his feelings.-Har.
per's Magazine.
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A Sailors CompIiment

through all the years they were to.
sether Mrs, Jessie Benton Fremont
lived for her husband, as before her
marriage she had lived for her father
her brilliant mind, her heart and her
hands were constantly busy in her hus-
eand's service. and n gallant sailors
compliment shows that her devotion
was widely recognized. During the
war. when Admiral Porter had com.
mand of the Federal faet on the Mis-
sissippi. his flagship was the steamer
benton, named after Mrs Fremont's
father. The admiral named the little
tender of the flagship Jessie Benton
Fremont. and he wrote to Mrs. Fre-
mont his explanation:
You have always sailed close to
your husband and your father"
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have got across the fats Smoke said
when they paused for breath on the
bald crest of the summit. I'VE must
be Thousand feet higher here
But Labiskwee. without Speaking.
pointed down to all open fat among
the trees In the midst Of 1t, scattered
abreast. were FIVE dark specks that
scarcely moved.
The young men," said Labiskwee.
"They are wallowing to their hips" !"
Smoke said They will never gain the
hard footing this day. We.haye hours
the start Of them Come on, McCan.
Buck up. We don't eat till we can't
travel"
In the higher valley in which they
now found themselves the crust did
not break till in the afternoon. at
which time they managed ito gain the
shadow of mountain where the crust
was already freezing again
Black darkness came ON. after long
twilight, at 8 O'Clock. when they made
camp in ciump of dwarf spruce. Nc
Can was helpless. The days march
had been exhausting, but In addition.
despite his nine years experience In
the arctic. he had been eating snow
and was in agony with his parched and
burning mouth. He crouched by the
fire and groaned while they made the
camp.
In the night came wind and snow,
and through the day of blizzard they
fought their way blindly, missing the
turn of the way that led mp small
stream and crossed a diYide to- the
west. For two more days they wan
dered. crossing other ana wrong di.
vides. and in those two days they
dropped spring behind andsclimbed up
into the abode of winter.
The young men have lost our trail.
an what's to stop us restin' day?'
McCan begged.
But no rest was ACCORDED. Smoke
and Labiskwee knew their danger.
They were lost in the higlImonntains,
and they had seen no game nor signs
Of game. Day after day they strug-
gled on through an iron confgurltion
Of landscape that compelled them to
labyrinthine canyons and valleys that
led rarely to the west. The terrible
toll and the cold ate up energy, yet
they cut down the size OF the ration
they permitted themselves
One night Smoke was awakened by
sound of struggling. Distinctly ! he
heard gasping and strahgling from
where alcCan slept. kicking The fire
into flame. by its light he saw Labisk-
wee, her hands atthe mars throat and
forcing from his mouth 4 chunk OF
partly chewed meat. Even as Smoke
saw this her hand went toIher.hip and
flashed with the sheath knife in it.
"Labiskwee" Smoke crixd, and his
voice was peremptory.
The hand hesitated sa....s..s.s..ssz2.. =
Don't" he said. coming to her side.
She was shaking with anger, but the
hand. after hesitating moment longer,
descended reluctantly to the sheath.
McCan sat up. whimpering and snari-
ing.
where did you get it?" Smoke de-
manded
Feel around his body" Labiskwee
said.
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go back. IL am only a wild girl, and
| am afraid Of the world, but | am
more afraid for you. You see, it is as
you told me. l Dve you more than
anybody else in the world | love yon
more than myself The Indian IAN
guage is not a good language. The
English language Is not good lam
guage. The thoughts in my heart for
you. as bright and as many as the
stars-there is no language for them.
How can | tell you them? They are
there-see!"
As she spoke she slipped the mitten
from his hand and thrust the hand In
side the warmth Of her parka until 1t
rested against her breast Tightly and
steadily she pressed his hand in its
position. And in the long silence he
felt the beat. beat of her heart and
knew that every beat OF it was love
And then slowly, almost imperceptibly.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Wonder of Women,

VSS"NS' " vsSHaS"'
Y ABISKWEE lay in stupor, hel
b breathing SO imperceptible that
A@ often Smoke thought her dead
In the afternoon the chatter.
ing of a squirrel aroused him. Drag
ging the heavy rifle. he wallowed
through the crust that had become
slush. He crept On hands and knees
or stood upright and fell forward In
the direction of the squirrel that chat
tered its wrath and fled slowly and
tantaliZingly before him. He had not
the strength for quick shot. and the
squirrel was never still
So profound was his weakness that
he lay like dead through the night. nor
did dreams disturb him.
The sun was in the sky. the same
squirrel chattering through the trees,
when Labiskwee's hand on Smokes
cheek awakened him.
"f'ut your hand on my heart. lover
she said, her voice clear. but faint and
very far away. MY heart is my love
and you hold it in your hand" A long
time seemed to go by ere she spoke
again. Remember always there is nc
way south. That is well known to the
caribou people. West-that is the way
and YOU are almost there-and you
will make it."
And Smoke drowsed in the numbness
hat is near to death until once more
she aroused him.
Put your lips olAmine." she said. u
will die So
I've will die together. sweetheart >
was his answer.
''No.' A feeble futter of her hand
checked him. and so thin was her voice
that scarcely did he hear it, yet did he
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CHAPTER XIII.

! shall help you to run away"
iSfEN to me-" said McCan. 'The
q spring thaw Is here, an the
~ crust is comm on the snow.
It's ithe time to travel. /
|soad run with no less a man than
m
but you can't run" Smoke contra
tied Your backbone is as limber
ihawed marrow. If | run, | run
sile The world fades. and perhaps
shall never run"
aid Shass: Your partner is dead
hunters did not kill him. They
elo the body. frozen in the first of
spring storms in the mountains
man ean escape. When shall we
eofa'e your marriage:"
ah iabiskwee: Il watch you. There
aoaole IN your eyes. in your face,
~ Know all your face When
aFe nanpy the corners OF your
'sa turn np, When you think sad
ssnts they turn down. When YOU
. shere are three and four wrin
~ 9he corners of your eyes. Wher
'a'ssh There are six But can
count them now
aase never read books. do not
loW 70 read But Four Eyes
- me much, And in his own eyes
y seen the trouble of the hunger
y world, He was often hungry
'ue world. Is the world so good
Nv 100. are hungry for 1t? Four
aaa nothing. But you have me-"
s.. s,saed and shook her head.
Eyes died still hungry for the
81 Aud IL you lived here always
a. sou' too. die hungry for the
a am afraid do not know the
sorldy. ""' 10 run away to
IN so''iu not speak. but by his
'aer hnes was she convinced.
s.es Of silence passed in which
s.ois struggled. while Smoke
~. s.uself for the unguessed weak.
~ enabled him to speak the
s''. his hunger for the world
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Did Thar Raef

Judge Robert O.. Harris tells OF A
rather embarrassing Introduction which
former Ambassador Curtis Guild once
received when he went to speak at
political rally In the western part of
Massachusetts. According to Judge
Harris. 1t went something after this
fashion: THE voters decided that the
town committee ought to have a rally,
with the best speaker 1t could get.
We couldn't get Governor Robinson;
we couldn't get Senator Hoar nor Tom
Reed. but We did the best we could,
and now have the honor Of introduce
ing Mr.. Curtis Guild of Boston. In
dianapolis News.
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Genuine Art.

That man says be wants his pic
ture to look perfectly natural" said
the Photographer assistant.
Make 1t as handsome as possible"
replied the proprietor
But he insists that he doesn't want
the picture to fatter him"
He won't think 1t fatters him.
He'll think that Mt last somebody has
managed to catch the way he really
looks. ."-Washington Star.
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Much Needed Assistance,

Here's q man suing for divorce be-
cause his wife goes through his pock-
cts" said Mrs. Smith. reading from the
newspaper. What would you do IL
You woke up and found me going
through your pockets?"
Iy' said Mr.. Smith sadly. Il would
get up and help you iook."-Exchange.
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while it kept his lips tight on the trutl
Of the existence OF the other woman.
Again Labiskwee sighed.
! Very well, love you more than
fear my fathers anger. and he is NOR,
terrible in anger than a mountain
| storm You told me what love is. This
Is the test of love. shall help you te
run away back to the world"
Smoke awakened softly and without
movement. Warm. small fingers touch
ed his cheek and slid gently to a pres.
sure on his lips The one word
Come" was breathed In bis ear. He
sat up carefully and listened. Close
at hand be could distinguish the light
regular breathing of Snass.
Labiskwee tusged gently at Smokes
sleeve and he knew she wished him
to follow. He took his moccasins and
German socks in bis hand and crept
out into the snow in his sleeping moe
casins. Beyond the glow from the
dying embers of the fire she indicated
to him to put on his outer footgear.
and while he obeyed she went back un
der the fly where Snass slept
Feeling the hands Of his watch,
Smoke found it was ! in the morning.
Labiskwee rejoined him and led him
on through the sleeping camp.
"Now we can talk" she said when
tho locf I.>fk lnoI II
behind
In the starlight, facing him. Smoke
noted for the first time that her arms
were burdened. and. on feeling, dis
covered she carried his snowshoes, a
rifle. two belts of ammunition and his
sleeping robes.
Il have everything fxed." she said.
with happy little laugh. Il have
been two days making the cache
There is meat. even flour. matches and
skis. which go best on the hard crust.
and. when they break through, the
webs will hold up longer. Oh. do
know snow travel. and we shall so
fast, my lover"
hSA"cnS ShSN hSo StfSSAh. Audl SuC
had been arranging his escape was
surprise enough. but that she had plan.
ned to so with him was more than be
was prepared for Unable to plan i'm
mediate action. he gently, one by one.
took her burdens from her. He put
his arms around her and pressed her
close. and still he could not think what
to do
God is good" she whispered. HE
sent me a lover"
Yet Smoke was brave enough not to
suggest his going alone. And ere he
spoke he saw al! his memory of the
bright world reel and fade
We will go back. Labiskw Wee" he
said You will be my wife. and we
shall live always with the Carbon
people"
NO. no. And her body. in the cir
Gle of his arm. resented his proposal
Il know. have thought much. The
hunger for the world would come upon
YOU, and in the long nights 1t would
sievour your heart. Four Eyes died Of
hunger for the world. so would you
die. And will not have you die We
will go on across the snow mountains
Gu the south traverse
Dear. listen. he urged I'VE must
70 back
She pressed her mitten against his
lips to prevent further speech. "Yon
;rya mo Noc that ro,t iavn mo
Il do love you. Labiskwee iou are
my wonderful sweetheart.
Again the nitten was caresStng OBJ
ssacie to utterance. AVE shalt 90 on
1T would be a great wrong to you to
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Yielding the Place.
how YOU who's boss I"

''1'll show you who's boss"
My DEAR" responded Mr.. Enpeck,
these continual demonstrations are
unnecessary. / do not dispute the ti-
tle.'-Louisville Courier-Journal.
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CHAPTER XXlN.

Like Weary Ghosts In Dead World.
81 a CAN strove to struggle, bnt
NE Smoke gripped him cruelty
AVE and searched him. drawing
forth from under his arm-
pit, where it had been thawed by the
heat of his body. a strip of caribou
meat. A quick exclamation from La
biskwee drew Smokes attention. She
had sprung to McCan's pack and was
opening it. Instead Of meat out pour
ed moss, spruce needles. chips-all the
light refuse that had taken the place
OF the meat and given the pack it's due
proportion minus it's weight.
Again Labiskwee's hand went to her
hip. and she flew at the cuiprit, only to
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1t is a peculiar quality of a fool to
perceive the faults Of others and to
forget his own.-Cicero.
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Or Sale

Lumber,
sond-hand Brick,
aa-hand Fire Brick,
,sksnith Coal, at less
i IA laands, on long time. We
S Is,a tha 20 Bossier people. 1t
~ to a.,s as ambition OF every man
sosn piece of land.
8. boLINGER & COMPANY,
botinger, La.
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Caught In Smokes Arms.
be caught in Smokes arms. where she
surrendered herself. sobbing with the
futiiity of her rage
oh. iover. 1t is not the foodr she
painted ut is you. yonr life. The
dog. He is eating you. he is eating
you!"
II was morning stark still. clear
blue above. with white sun dazzle on
the snow. The way led up long wide
slope OF crust. They moved like weary
ghosts in a dead world.
Something is going to happen" La
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while it kept his lips tight on the truth
OF the existence OF the other woman.
Again Labiskwee sighed.
Very we'll. love you more than I
fear my fathers anger, and he is more
terrible in anger than mountain
storm You told me what love is. This
IS the test OF love. shall help you to
run away back to the world"