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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
PICKED UP AT RANDOM

About twelve marriages out of every
100 are second marriages.
There is no federal institution in
the continental United States for the
reception and care of lepers.
The coal mines of Sweden do not
produce enough fuel for that countrys
needs and scientists are trying many
experiments with peat, of which there,
is vast supply available.
So serious was a recent invasion OF
Uruguay by locusts that an agricul-
tural and live stock census of that
country was postponed for three
months.
To enable persons to take breath
ing exercises systematically and on a
progressive scale is the purpose or
simple apparatus invented by a
French doctor
Elephants have been put to work
in England. Horses are scarce, due
to the great demand for war horses,
but Sheffield firm broke the horse
famine by hiring retired elephant
from a circus. which pulls as much as
five horses.
By photography, with a vibrating
lens, an English scientist has timed O.
lightning fash at one-nineteenth of a
second.
Parachutes to bring an aeroplane
safely to land after it had met with
mishap in flight are French inven-
ton.
Hawaii will be equipped with a
lighthouse giving a double fash OF
light OF 100000 candle power every
ten seconds.
The mineral production OF Alaska
last year is officially estimated to have
been worth $32,OOo.OOO. the greatest
amount on record. !
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

Alan was struggling back from coma.
He muttered, he talked, he awoke.
Lieber found his sunken eyes, the pu-
pills appearing almost concave, fixed
on him with a seeing gaze. 1t was like
resurrection. A spirit had come down
upon the body. Eye to eye, mouth to
mouth, heart to heart, it had given
sight. breath, life.
The eyes closed. Lieber hurried
away. From the kitchen he brought
a bowl Of broth. 1t was steaming and
filled the room with an odor of rich
essence. 1t was in itself a concentra-
ton of life. The bowl was emptied.
Alan sank back into the pillows. His
eyes wandered wistfully over the bare
walls, the high thing of the strange
room. "'I would nave, great godsl but
one short hour of native air-let me
but die at home,'" he murmured, and
Lieber heard.
The words clutched at his own heart,
but he answered cheerfully, You shall,
my boy, you shall die at home If you
like, but you're going to have years TO
think it over. Sleep, that's the word.
And sleep it is" he added to himself
as Alan's eyes closed and his chest be-
gan to rise and fall in healthy breath
ing. Lieber held his wrist. The pulse
was taking on strength.
Alan was still sleeping when Gerry
arrived. Lieber looked up, surprised.
you've come all the way back from
Fazenda Flores?''
Gerry nodded. "How is he? Has
he come TO, yet?'
YES" said Lieber in low. modu-
lated tone. HE came to, all right. But
the fights not over yet. Fever goes
and comes, you know. If another par
oxysm seizes him, he'll not have the
strength to pull through. It's ques-
ton of hours now"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

| HOME
i By
/ GEORGE ACNEW CHAMBERLAIN
Il Copyight byTh Century, ompan

Copyright bv The Century COMPANY

dertake to deliver the sick man at
Lieber's in two days. McDougal pom
dered. 1t was a chance. If he sent
Alan to the rail-head there wouldn't
be even a chance. There was no one
who could help at the rail-head, nor
along the thin line, nor even at the
coast.
''In two days." said he despairingly,
"the master will be dead"
They gathered at the door of Alan's
tent and looked in at him as he Law
half comatose. NO" said the oldest
of them, che will be dead In seven
days time"
AS McDougal picked him up and
laid him gently in a hammock, Alan
came to. The hammock was padded
with pillows and blankets and strung
on stout bamboo pole with two men
at each end supporting it.
What are you doing with me?" he
asked angrily and sank back into the
pillows. From there his eyes glared
up at McDougal.
I'm sending We home" said Nc
Dougal gently but firmly.
Alan smiled twisted smile. "Send-
ing me home" he repeated, and added
resignedly, "Oh, all right" Then he
started up. Bring Matches" he said.
McDougal took matches from his peck
ct. Alan drew two letters from inside
his coat Burn them" He held them
out and watched jealousy as McDou-
gal opened out the sheets with averted
eyes and set fire to tho thin paper. The
filmy cinders blew hither and thither
under the light breeze. The men under
the pole moved nervously, anxious to
be off. Their eight companions
wheeled their fea-bitten ponies and
headed for the trail. mo, you don't"
shouted McDougal and explained with
many gestures that they were to ride
behind on account of the dust.
1--WE know, MASTER" answered one
quietly, 1--WE would but start"
McDougal held out an awkward
hand in farewell. You're ready, Mr..
Wagner
YES" said Alan between chattering
teetn, ana then cried, mo, L want Lne
board-my epitaph thing, you know"
McDougal dived into the tent and
brought out the board with the roughly
cut words that he could not read but
somehow began to understand. He
slipped it into the hammock behind the
cushions and then just touched Alan's
hand and gave the word to the men.
They started off in a shambling, rapid
trot. The horseman fell in behind. A
cloud of dust cut them off from Nc
Douglas gaze. He turned and fell
upon his laboring squad with a rolling
flood of curses. To them the words
We're Greek, but nevertheless their
blood curdled and they worked as only
Wayne had taught them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
Story Of
Today and
ofAuDays

here" he said, springing up the steps
and sweeping a saddle harness and
some old magazines off great raw
hide settle on the veranda.
They laid the sick man on the settle
and Lieber started to strip him with
gentle, deft hands Kemp strobe for
ward and helped but Gerry stood by,
powerless to move He had recognized
Alan, the man he had sworn to break
if ever he met him. Somebody else
had broken Alan, terribly. pitilessly.
Gerry's eyes shrank from the sight A
lump came into his throat Alan was
dead. Alan with whom he. had wan
dered barefoot through those quiet
lanes of home, with whom he had
fished and swum. and once had
fought. What little fury Alan had
been in that boys battle! 1t had not
been fought to finish. On one i'm
pulse they had stopped and looked at
each other and turned away, ashamed
to shake hands.
Lieber, once heavy, f1osid and clum-
sy, was transformed. He worked
quickly, with sure hands. The body
lay stripped on the settle. Under it
still lay the hammock and dusty blan-
kets. The pillows and a board had
been tossed on the floor. Lieber ex-
amined his patient minutely, without
haste. The spleen was frightfully dis
tended and pushed out across the alb
domeu He could feel ifs hard nm.
yielding margins. The feet were swol-
len. The face was yellow with the
sickly gray-yellow of nodded straw.
Coma had set in.
Iieber dragged a great medicine
chest out from his room. With alcohol
he rapidly washed out the Justified
nOstrils of the stricken man and
bathed his face and then the limbs and
body. Then he took out hypodermic
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

and picked up the board. He took Il
into his private room, propped it up
against some books on the table and
sat before it with his face dropped
in his hands. To his closed eyes the
words seemed no longer carved in
wood. Against the inward darkness
of his brain they shone out in points
of light. He could not shut them out.
"Qui de nous ma pas Ell sa terre
promise, son jour d'extase, ct sa fin en-
exil?"
At shutdown Lieber came out to his
patient. He had him moved, settle
and all, into a room whose windows
opened upon the veranda. Lieber sat
beside him and nursed him through the
long, hot night. To the dizziness of
his hand had been added tenderness.
and into his face a new determination
had come-a resolve to win Alan's
battle for him whatever the odds.
Gerry did ret sleep that night. He
lay ON the little extra bed he had made
upon his sons arrival and, propping
himself on his elbow, gazed around
him. The moon shone through great
cracks in the warped shutters and
filed the room with a glow that, as his
eyes dilated, became a revealing light.
In one corner was an iron wash-stand
with its vessels of coarse enameled
metal, a recent purchase. In another
corner stood a grotesque clothes-rack.
1t looked like a young pine with irreg-
ular branches and top Topped of. On
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
SYNOPSIS.
III

Alan Wayne is sent-away from Red Hill.
MS nome, by his uncle, J. Y, as a moral
aaliure Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
OIL thday. Judge Healey defends Alan in
ms business with his employers. Alan and
AK, Gerrys wife, meet at sea, homeward
pound, and start Irritation At home
Gerry, as he thinks, sees Alix and Alan
-Sioplng, drops everything, and goes TO
Pernambuco. AliX leaves Alan on the
train and goes home. Gerry leaves Per-
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. On a
canoe trip he meets a native girl The
Judge fails to trace Gerry. A baby is born
TO Alix. The native girl takes Gerry to
the ruined plantation she is mistress Of
%ierry marries her. At Maple house Col
nngeford tells how he met Alan-"Ten
Per Cent Wayne'-buiiding a bridge in
Africa. Collingeford meets Alix and her
baby and gives her encouragement about
Gerry. Alan comes back to town but does
not go home. Gerry begins to improve
Margarita's plantation and builds an ir-
r1gat1ng ditch. In Africa Alan reads
"Clem's letters and dreams of home. Ger
ny pastures Lieber's cattle during the
drought. A baby comes to Margarita.
Collingeford meets Alix in the city and
finds her changed. Alan meets Alix, ]. Y,
and Glenn, grown to beautiful womanhood
in the city and realizes that he has sold
his birthright for a mess of pottage. Kemp
and Gerry become friends. They visit
Liober, and the three exiles are drawn
together by common tie. Lieber tells
MS story. In South America Alan gets
the fever.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

an-seeing eve. He paused before COW
ering him up. That's it." he said
There's fire in him-the worst kind
and he's been playing with it. just
tickling it with stale quinine" His
eye ran rapidly over the thin body. II
said the dose l gave him vould prob
ably kill him. but we changed my
mind. I'm betting the other way, now
really look at him. There's no flesh
on him. but he doesn't look like skel-
eton. Why2 Because of the sinews
and bones of him-they're perfect.
Look at the way the sinews hold his
neck and the way the neck carries the
sinews Look at the fat bulge of his
ribs and the breadth of his shoulders
over the hips That means heart and
lungs and vitals. That mans been a
fighter, and unless I'm a bigger fool
than / was yesterday he's a fighter
yet"
Cover him up, for Gods sake" said
Gerry
Lieber dropped the sheet and went
off to the kitchen. Gerry and Kemp
covered the stripped body and tucked
many blankets over it. Lieber came
back and took off half the blankets.
Mustn't tire him with weight" he ex-
planned. IF he's going to sweat, he'll
sweat all right. observation-disclosures
fever-is the tiredest disease in the
world. When they get too tired to
breathe, that's the end" He took hold
of Alan's wrist. '"To feel his pulse,
you'd say he was dead now"
bout time we was startin'." re-
marked Kemp with his eyes toward
the declining sun.
Gerry's first impulse was to say he
would stay, but he suddenly remem-
bered Margarita. How far away from
life she seemed! Alan and Margarita
could not crowd into one day or even
into one world-it was against the or
der of things. But facts do not stand
on the order of their coming, they sim
ply come, and against the protest of
mans will they present his fate;
against the cry of the troubled and
displaced soul they voice the eternal
j'y suis, j'y reste of inanimate things.
One cannot go around fact. One
must either break ones head against
it or swallow it and let it take it's
course through the mental gorge.
Gerry longed to stay by Alan's side,
and through his returning conscious
ness, as through a magnifying glass,
gaze upon the world he had foresworn
the heritage be had abandoned. But
the fact of Margarita and her boy
suddenly declared itself-demanded
digestion-and Gerry turned his back
on Alan. He mounted, and with the
silent Kemp reversed the drive they
had made together months before.
Lieber did not go with them. When
he had seen them off, he busted him
self giving orders for the tidying up
Of the veranda, the feeding of Alans
convoy, beast and man, and the prepa-
ration of a room for the self-invited
guest. From the pile of dusty pillows
a servant was picking up, fell board
Lieber glanced down at it. Words
were cut roughly but clearly into its
surface They spoke to him. They
held his eyes. He stopped laboriously
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

syringe and graduated glass. In the
glass he dissolved a powder and with
steady hands added measured drops
of liquid of faint amber hue.
Gerry found his tongue. What is
it?" he asked.
"Quinine and arsenic" said Lieber
shortly.
arsenic? Isn't that dangerous
said Gerry.
Lieber glanced at him. at will prob
ably kill him."
''Then why-why--" protested Ger
~. A great desire to protect what
was left of Alan had come over him.
"Why?" said Lieber dryly, "I'n tell
you, Mr.. Lansing. Because 1t is less
cowardly to kill man than to let
him die"
He mixed the solution in the syringe
and then, grasping Alan's arm, he
pressed it until the veins came out in
swelling network Hold his arm like
that" he commanded Kemp. Kemp
clutched the arm. The bones seemed
to bend to the grip. Lieber chose a
swollen vein and pierced it with the
needle. He forced the dose into the
blood. There" he said with smile
to Gerry, that's what's known as an
intravenous administration of quinine
and arsenic. If another paroxysm
hits him he's done for, but We'll know
all about that in forty-eight hours
time"
He went into the house and brought
out clean sheets, soft wooden blankets,
pillows and pillow-slips. Kemp had
never seen such linen; Gerry had al
most forgotten the feel of it. Gerry
came to life. With one hand under
Alan's shoulder and another under his
hips, he lifted hi1n as though he were
an empty shell. while Kemp and Lie
Der drew out the dust-caked blankets
and hammock and spread first a cane
mat over the settle and then blanket
and, on top Of that, sheet. The touch
Of Alan's dry, cracking skin seemed
to Gerry to be burning his hands. at
is as though there were fire in him, v
he said to Lieber,
Iieber looked at bis patient with an
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

the stubs Or pegs hung his clothes and
Margarita's and, ON the lowest peg of
all, the Lilliputian garments of the
Man. The floor was bare and rolling,
for the boards. roughhewn from hard
wood giants of the forest, had warped
steadily through many years. In it's
center stood the great rustic bed that
Gerry had made from the twisted
limbs of trees and Bonifacio had plat
ed with thongs. BY raising himself
to the full length of his arm Gerry
could see Margarita lying uncovered
on the coarse, yellowish homespun.
On her bare. brown arm lay the black
head of her son.
Gerry shuddered at the nearness-
the familiarity-of everything The
seams of elementary life stood out bru-
tally. For the first time he saw them.
From the touch Of the coarse homespun
that covered him, his mind went back
to the feel of Lieber's fine linen, and
from that it poised on Alan and then
flew back to Alix-Alix, who. seen
through the years, became doubly ethe-
real and f1owerlike. Where was Alix?
What had Alan done with her? He
must ask him. That, at least, he must
know. But before he could ask he
must decide about Margarita and steel
himself to his purpose. He thought of
the long, still days at Fazenda Flores
before Alan had come to Lieber's-the
struggle and the reward that had been
his-and the firmness in him, the
steadfastness that had led Alan to
name him The Rock. rose up in de-
Tense of Margarita and her son.
Gerry was up early. AS he was
saddling True Blue Margarita came on
ing?" she asked.
Gerry looked up. He was a
little pale from the wakeful night
and there were slight shadows under
his eyes. - am going to Lieber's.
There is a sick man there-he is dying
and 1 must help. He is my fellow
countryman."
Margarita's eyes searched his face.
Her bosom rose and fell rapidly. 40
not CO." she said, and Gerry started at
the passion in her voice.
He looked at her and smiled. 81
said half to himself.
"Ah," said Margarita, beating with
her little brown fist on the veranda pill
lar, 81 know. l know. II is not death
that calls thee. Why should one turn
from things that live to fondle death?
1t is the stranger thou wouldst see"
Gerry dropped the reins of his horse,
and, hurrying up the steps, took Mar
garita in his arms.
"And why not, my beloved? 1t is
not woman l go to see, but a man.
Shall / not talk with man that is
at deaths door?'
LET him but dfe," pleaded Marga-
rita; 'let him but die and thou shalt
go and bury him. See, the day is
beautiful There Is a cloud. Perhaps
it will rain. Come, my Geree, let us
go down to the river and swim. We
will take the Man. He shall sit on the
bank and the river will play with his
bare toes. He will laugh"
Gerry smiled but shook his head.
Tomorrow, my beloved, tomorrow we
shall play with the Man and the river"
Margarita's arms fell to her sides
in pathetic surrender. SIZE watched
Gerry mount and ride slowly up the
slope to the bridge where Kemp await
ed him. Then she went back to the
veranda steps, sat down and wept
with her face hidden in her hand. She
did not know why she wept, but she
knew she wept FOR things that were
going to be-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
May 8, 1915.

Germans made violent attacks
near Ypres and in Champagne.
Teutons under Won Mackensen
won great victory In West Gallcia
Continuous bombardment OF Oar
danelles maintained by allied fleet.
British steamer Minterne and
four Morse steamers sunk by Ger
man submarines.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
May 5, 1915.

Germans drove British back but
were checked by French.
Russians retreated along Galician
line and from Carpathian slopes.
Teutons captured Gorlice.
Turks checked allies at Sedd-ul-
Bahr.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
May 1. 1915.

Germans gained ground along
Ypres canal, but lost near Saga
telle and In lie Pretre> forest.
Germans invaded Russian Baltic
provinces.
Russians defeated In kovno and
at Orawa and Opor valleys.
Two German torpedo boats and
one British destroyer sunk In
North sea battle.
Dardanelles and Bosporus forts
bombarded.
American tanker Gulflight torpe-
decd.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
May 2, 1915.

British and French vainly at
tackled Germans northeast OF
Ypres.
Great battle developed In Plain
of Rawa, Central Poland.
Austrians took offensive In re-
gion of Ciezkowice.
Allies made further advance on
Gailtpoii peninsula; Australians
lost heavily.
German aeroplanes bombarded
EpinaI and other places.
Last Of the Iandsturm called out.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
May 6, 1915.

German line around Ypres gave
way in places, and French won
ground in AIsace.
Teutons took Tarnow, Jaslo and
DuE<ia and drove Russians from
Dunajec and Biala rivers.
Russians defeated Turks In eau
casus.
Desperate fighting in GaIlipoIl.
Five British vessels sunk by sub
marines.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
Nav 4, 1915.

Germans took three villages near
Ypres.
French gained in region of
Steenstraete.
Fierce battle near Stry between
Russians and Teutons-
Triple alliance treaty denounced
by Italy.
Turks defeated allies near AVi
Burnu.
Lloyd-George introduced second
British war budget.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05
May z, 1915.

Cunard liner Lusitania sunk by
German submarine; 1884 persons
lost, including 1902 Americas.
Germans made more gains near
Ypres.
Turks captured ten British guns
at Sedd-uI-Bahr.
Russian aviators dropped bombs
on Constantinople.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

There's lot of maudlin senti-
ment about "dear old mother"
put into cheap songs and sung
by scaIawags, but just the Same,
"God" and Mother" are the
two biggest words in the Eng.
lish language. Consider here
the effect of a mothers memory
on Alan Wayne.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-05-05

If you had the opportunity TO
put out of the way forever the
man who you thought had
wrecked your home and life,
would you do IT, specially If
your purpose could be accom-
pIished simply by little neglect
In giving a fever patient his
medicine on time?
Evening journal., 1916-07-18
Defer VOTE ON c. A. R.
POSTS CONSOLIDATION PLAN

Voting on the proposition TO consoli-
date the four Grand Army posts of the
city into one organization will be car
ried on at the next meetings OF the diff
ferent organizations. Members of Gen
Thomas 4. Smyth Post, No. !, were Ia
have voted on the proposition last night
but it was found two weeks notice OF
the proposition was required and only
one week had elapsed The vote was
accordingly postponed until next Mon
day night.
Members Of Gen Phil Sheridan
Post, No 23, have been scheduled to
vote on the proposition next Wednes.
day night, but it is understood the two
weeks notice may prevent final action
in that case also. The proposition may
also be postponed ror another week
by members of Admiral S. F. dupont
Post, No. 2, who are to meet Thurs
day night. Members of u. S. Grant
Post, No. 13, do not meet until some
time next month so that the vote IN
their case may be final.
The consolidation committee is
composed of three members from each
Grand Army post. James X. Alexan-
der, OF General Phil Sheridan Post
No. %, is chairman of the committee
The consolidation would combine all
members of the Grand Army organ
izations here into one post.
Evening journal., 1916-07-18
Wilson insists ON
Child LABOR BILL
Tells Senate Leaders Want
Law Before He is Noti-
fled of His denomination
ADJOURNMENT DATE
IS SATISFACTORY
BY The United Press.

WASHINGTON. July is.-Presldent
Wilson called at the Capitol today to
urge personally that Senate leaders
overturn the Democratic caucus leg
islative program which would have
deferred action on the national child
labor bill. The President informed
leader Of the Senate that he did not
wish TO be notified Of his nomination
and to begin his campaign. until after
the child labor and workmen's COM
pensation bills had been passed He
talked with Senators Kern and Mar
tin
The President asked also. Il Is un-
derstood, an early adjournment OF
Congress. The caucus date of August
20 is satisfactory 10 him. But he urged
the child labor bill and the workmen 8
compensation act be included in the
program 10 be completed by that time.
despite every adverse consideration
After the conference with the Presi-
dent, Senator Kern. caucus chairman,
said he believed any necessary
changes in the legislative program
could be effected without further eau
cusing.
The President in his talk with
Martin, who is chairman OF the appro-
priations committee. asked that the
committee aid in speeding up the pro-
gram.