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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16

Lieber, with Gerry and Kemp, sat In
the shade of the veranda, smoking after
the midday meal. The stock had been
corralled, but, on Kemp's advice, the
start for FaZenda Flores was to be
made halfway through the afternoon.
There was to be a great moon that
night and the drive would be robbed of
the perils of darkness to cattle as well
as of the horrible heat.
The three were silent, half somno-
lent, when a passing herder grunted
and pointed westward with his chin.
Lieber stood up and looked. A pillar
Of dust was coming across the desert.
He could see men riding and
thing else. He took his field glasses
from a peg and looked again. Gu
neral, or a sick man," he said and sat
down to wait. Kemp started whiting
to keep himself awake. Since the hour
Of Lieber's confession he had hardly
spoken.
When the cavalcade came within
easy view Gerry stood up and watched,
He could not hide his curiosity like
Lieber and Kemp. In front of the
horses came four men bearing a sag
ging hammock on a pole. They were
running in quick, springy steps that
made the hammock sway gently from
side to side. The pace they kept up
under the burden was marvellous.
They were followed closely by eight
horsemen. At the first signs of falter-
ing among the bearers, four of the
| riders would throw themselves off
their ponies and run under the pole.
The change of relay was made without
a stop, without a pause. The freed
ponies stood with hanging heads and
%straddled legs. Even from a distance
one could see that the burdened men
had run the wiry little beasts off their
feet. They were all in, but the men
were still erect-keen. With a final
squirt the cortege drew up before the
veranda. Lieber stood up. Dead or
dying" he asked.
Master, we do not know" an
swered the oldest of the men, their
leader.
"Fever or smallpox asked Lieber.
"Fever."
With a look Of relief Lieber went
down the steps to the hammock. A sheet
had been thrown over the pole to keen
of the worst of the sun. He pulled
it Off. A CHASTITY sight net his eyes,
but he did not shrink. Bring him up
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16
SYNOPSIS.

Alan Wayne is sent away from Red Hill,
his home, by his uncle, J. Y, as a moral
failure. Glen drinks Alan's health on his
birthday. Judge Healey defends Alan in
bis business with his employers. Alan and
klix, Gerry's wife, meet at sea, homeward
bound, and start a Irritation. At home.
Berry, as he thinks, sees Alix and Alan
bloping, drops everything, and goes to
Pernambuco. Alix caves Alan on the
train and goes home. Gerry leaves Per-
hambuco and goes to Piranhas. On q
eanoe trip he meets a native girl. The
bulge fails to trace Gerry. A baby is born
ko Alix. The native girl takes Gerry to
khe ruine plantation she IS mistress of.
Gerry marries her. At Maple house Col
Eingeford tells how he met Alan-"Ten
per Cent Wayne"-building a bridge in
~Collingeford meets AliX and her
and gives her encouragement about
Gerry. Alan comes back to town but does
mot go home. Gerry begins to improve
|Margarita's plantation and builds an ir-
|rigating ditch. In Africa Alan reads
letters and dreams of home. Ger
|ry pastures Lieber's cattle during the
drought. A baby comes to Margarita.
|Collingeford meets Alix in the city and
her changed. Ala meets Alix, ]. Y,
and Glen, 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
Lieber, and the three exiles are drawn
together by a common tie. Lieber tells
his story. In South America Alan gets
the fever.
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here" he said, %springing up the steps
and sweeping a saddle harness and
some old magazines off a great raw
hide settle on the veranda.
They laid the sick man on the settle
and Lieber started to strip him with
gentle, def 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
fshed and swum, and once had
fought. What a little fury Alan had
been in that boys battle! 1t had not
been fought to a finish. On one i'm
pulse they had stopped and looked at
each other and turned away, ashamed
| to shake hands.
Lieber, once heavy, ford 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 q board had
been tossed on the floor. Lieber ex-
amined his patient infinitely, without
haste. The spleen was frightfuily dis
tended and pushed out across the alb
domen. He could feel its hard, I'M
yielding margins. The feet were swol-
len. The face was yellow with the
sickly gray-yellow of nodded straw.
Coma had set In.
Lieber dragged a great medicine
chest out from his room. With alcohol
he rapidly washed out the Justified
n~ostrils Of the stricken nan and
bathed his face and then the limbs and
body. Then he took out a hypodermic
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16

and picked up the board. He took 1t
into his private room, prOpped it up
against some books on the table and
sat before 1t 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 eu sa terre
promise, son jour d'extase, ct So fin en-
exil?"
At shutdown Lieber came out to his
patient. He had him moved, settle
and all, into a o whose windows
opened upon the veranda. Lieber sat
beside him and nursed him through the
long, hot night. To the deftness 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 not 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
filled the room with n 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, q recent purchase. In another
corner stood n grotesque clothes-rack.
It looked like a young pine with irreg-
ular branches and top Topped off. On
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syringe and a graduated glass. In the
glass he dissolved a powder and with
steady hands added measured drops
Of a liquid of faint amber hue.
Gerry found his tongue. What Is
it," he asked.
"Quinine and arsenic" said Lieber
shortly.
arsenic? Isn't that dangerousg"
said Gerry.
Lieber glanced at him. ut will prob
ably kill him."
"Then why-why-" protested Ger
ry. A great desire to protect what
was left of Alan had come over him.
why" said Lieber dryly, "Ill tell
you, Mr.. Lansing. Because it Is less
cowardly to kill a man than to let
him die"
He mixed the solution in the syringe
and then, grasplng 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 a smile
to Gerry, that's what's known as an
in%travenous administration of qulnine
and arsenic. If another paroxysm
hits him he's done for, but Wen 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
neve seen such linen; Gerry had al
most forgotten the feel Of 1t. Gerry
came to life. With one hand under
Alan's shoulder and another under his
hips, he lifted him 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 owe the settle and then Il blanket
and, on top of that, a sheet. The touch
of Alan's Cry, cracking skin seemed
to Gerry to be burning his hands. "It
is as though there were fire In him.
he said to Lieber.
LieSer looked at his patient with an
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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 e 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 filing of the strange
room. az would have, great gods! 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 1t over. Sleep, that's the word.
And sleep 1t u.s." 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, YETI"
yes" said Lieber in a 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 a ques-
ton of hours now"
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HOME
By
GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN
Copyright by The Century Company


dertake to deliver the sick man at
Lieber's in two days. McDougal pom
dered. It 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 lay
half comatose. NO" said the oldest
Of them, 'he will be dead in seven
days time"
laid him gently in a hammock, Alan
| came to. The hammock was padded
with pillows and blankets and strung
on a stout bamboo pole with two men
at each end supporting it.
what are you doing with me?" he
asked angrily and sank back int the
pillows. From there his eyes glared
up at McDougal.
I'm sending We home" said Nc
Dougal gently but firmly.
Alan smiled a twisted smile. "Send-
ing me home" he repeated, and added
~resignedly, ooh, all right" Then he
started up. Bring Matches" he said.
McDougal took matches from his pock-
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 the thin paper. The
flmy 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. "No, you don't"
shouted McDougal and explained with
many gestures that they were to ride
behind on account of the dust.
"We know, MASTER" answered one
quietly, 1--WE would but start"
McDougal held out an awkward
hand in farewell. You're ready, Mr..
Wayne?"
yes" said Alan between chattering
teeth, and then cried, "No, | want the
boarding. 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 stumbling, 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
were Greek, but nevertheless their
blood curdled and they worked as only
Wayne had taught them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16
Make the Liver
Do it's DUTY

Nine times in ten when the liver is
right the stomach and bowels are right.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16

all-seelng eve. He paused before COW
''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 would prob
ably kill him, but I've 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 a skel-
eton. Why? 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 fiat bulge of his
ribs and the breadth of his shoulders
over the hips. That means heart and
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 W. 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. Northumberland
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. ITO 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 n day or even
into one woSld-it was against the or.
Ger 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 a fact. One
must either break ones head against
it or swallow it and let it take its
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 foreswor1
the heritage he had abandoned. Blu
the fact Of Margarita and her boy
suddenly declared itself-demandet
digestion-and Gerry turned his bacl
on Alan. He mounted, and with thu
silent Kemp reversed the drive they
had made together months before.
Lieber did not go with them. WheI
he had eel them off, he busted him
self giving orders for the tidying VI
of @the veranda, the feeding Of Alan
convoy, beast and man, and the prepa
ration of a room for the se~lf-inviteC
guest. From the pile Of dusty pillow
q servant was picking up, fell a board
Lieber glanced down at it. Word
were cut roughly but clearly into it
surface. They spoke to him. The.
held his eyes. He stopped %laboriousl,
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Compound made her well, SO l took it and
10Y l am just as we'll as l ever was. I
cannot understand why women don't
see how much pain and suffering they
would escape by taking your medicine.
l cannot praise it enough for it saved
my life and kept me from the Insane
Hospital. Mrs. E. SHELDON, 5657 S.
Halsted St., Englewood, Ill.
Physicians undoubtedly did their best,
battled with this Ease steadily and could
do no more, but often the most scientific
treatment is surpassed by the medicinal
properties of the good old fashioned
roots and herbs contained in Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. :
Surely the scores of testimO-
malls that we are constantly
publishing proves this to be q
fact. n
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HY4EFMNB


Avoid operations. Positive remedy tn TIT
mo ll-Results sure Write for our r KE.E.
big Book OF Truth and Facts To-Day.
Galspre Remedy CO. Dept. c *. 2i9S Dearborn 81. .Chieas
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with headaches, e
vousness, flashes OF
heat, and l suffered
SO much l did not
what l was
doing at times. ]
spent $1,000 on doc
tors and not one did
me any good. One
day a lady called at
my house and said
she had been as sick
las I was at time,
and Lydia E. Pink
iL~-1-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16

If you had the opportunity to
put out of the way forever the
man who you thought had
wrecked your homo and life,
would you do Il, specially If
your purpose could be accom-
pIished simply by a little neglect
In giving a fever patient his
medicine on timer
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-16

There's a lot of maudlin sentl-
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
Ilsh language. Consider here
the effect of a mothers memory
on Alan Wayne.
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4 REMARKABLE
STATEMENT
Mrs. Sheldon Spent $1,000 for
Treatment Without Bene-
fit. Finally Made Well by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

E%nglewood, III. -"While going
through the Change of Life 1 suffered
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-22
Jack Lamey
For Second Time
Sues for Divorce

Another chapter in the sunrise we'd
ding romance was written on the dock
ct of the superior court Monday morn
ing when Attorney John Y. Smith hled
for Mrs. June McEachron Lamey suit
for divorce and alimony against Jack I.
Lamey, a singer in motion picture the
aters.
Mrs. Lamey charges that although her
husband makes SO a week singing in
picture shows that she and his son
JACQUES, 2 1-2 years of age, have been
allowed to suffer for the bare necessities
OF life.
Iamev and Miss June McEachron
were married at sunrise one morning in
July, 1912 and in February, 1913, she
fled suit for divorce. Later, however,
the baby was born, the couple become
reconciled and the suit was Withdrawn.
But now they are in court again. Mrs.
Lamey alleges that her husband travels
over a southern circuit and that despite
the fact that she has begged him TO take
her with him on all of the trips that he
complied only on one occasion. and al
lowed her TO accompany him to Jackson
vile There she became i'll, she asserts,
and despite that fact he left her alone
all night in a strange hotel while he
cultivated the bright lights and other
alluring attractions of Jacksonville"
Finally. she says, she had to wire for
her father, who brought her back to At
lanta-
She declares that her husband graves
the applause of the public above the
comforts of the home and that his life
on the picture stage has converted him
from a normal man into a "carouser and
rambler"
And so she asks divorce, alimony and
the custody of the child.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-22
Digs Grave for
HIS Victim and
Kills With ACE

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-An axe murder
planned so carefully that even the grave
for the victim was dug before he was
slain was revealed today. the police say.
in a confession by Mrs. Feofil Zdrowski.
According to the alleged confession,
Tony Sandrovich. 1fty-five years old, a
farm hand employed near Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, was slain for mis- money by
repeated blows from an axe administer
ed by Mrs. Zdrowski's husband, Sandro-
vich's employer, and Alex Metelski.
"a grave already has been dug" says
the alleged confession, I'VE threw the
body into 1t and left for Chicago"
According to the police the two men
confessed when informed of Mrs. Zdrow-
skis statement. 1t is said only $50 was
taken from Sandrovitch.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-22
HOUSE COMMITTEE
TENTATIVELY AGREES
ON ARMY MEASURE
CIV Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Feb 21.--A new army
reorganization bill providing for feder-
alization. of the national guard, increase
of the regular army to $4,000 men.
doubling the field, artillery. increasing
engineer corps by about fifteen com
panies, creation of four squadrons of
air craft and of an entirely new corps
OF cadets from the colleges having mill
tary training, was agreed upon tenta-
lively today by the house military COM
mittee ,.-.ss
The committee authorized Chairman
Hay to draft the new bill Immediately
with a view to having IT ready for con-
sideration by the committee next We'd
nesday or Thursday with the under
standing that amendments meeting in
dividual views of some of the members
may be offered later .'
The committee agreed that congress
has the right to- take over the national
guard by legislative enactment and ap-
preparation.
The provision for a corps of cadet
officers from the educational institu-
lions having military training is ex:
pected to increase the efficiency of the
army by providing 5000 trained Of
ficers for use in emergency.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-22
RIP Shorter Day
Here; ChNckles By
Won Hermann

Uncle Sans weather man. c. F. Won
Hermann, chuckled hugely Monday
morning when sunshine and warn
breezes saluted his cheeks.
This" said he, sis the rip shorter
predicted for February by these long
range forecasters. Last night the mer
Curry at its lowest ebb reached the rip
snorting mark of "A degrees. 1t win
be- Just about that rip snOrting7 tonight
and we'll have another rip shorter Tues
day" e., '- g..
. While Atlanta basked in warmth Mon
day. New York shivered with above
zero. The cold is confined to New Eng
land and won't get south. said Mr.. Won
Hermann. 'i
A dispatch from New York says that
with a drop of II degrees in the tenn
perature between midnight and o'clock
New York shivered today in the second
severe cold wave of the winter. The
thermometer registered % degrees above
zero at midnight and dropped to 6. by
s o'clock The weather forecaster pre-
dicted no relief before tomorrow.
At Boston the coolest weather OF the
winter prevailed throughout the greater
part of New England early today, with
Greenville, Me-, at 20 below zero, report
ing the lowest official temperature. hTe
highest was above at Nantucket.