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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10
stones was a sage, compared to the

stones was sage, compared to the
reckless person who interferes in a
quarrel between husband and wife!
This is no place for mel"
Disregarding their protests, she
raced on, leaving them. She did not
pause until she reached the foot OF
the cliffs, fully furlong away. There
she looked back. She was just in time
to see Lake dig his hands deep into
his trousers pockets, shrug his shout
ders peevishly, and stalk away He
did not once look back, but strobe on
until he reached disused boathouse
farther down the beach. He walked
around this and seated himself gloom
lily upon keg at the side most dis
tcnt from his wife.
She turned to observe the bride.
Mrs. Lake had seated herself on the
sands, raised her parasol and laid her
hat on the beach at her side.
1t was the bride who surrendered.
Presently she sighed, got to her feet
and, leaving the parasol and hat on
the sand, began to walk slowly toward
the boathouse. June watched her go
watched her until corner of the boat
house hid her from view.
Then, as her own gaze strayed back
to the place where the bride had been
, sitting, June was aware of throbbing
and burning at the back of her right
hand. She looked down at the hand.
Cd Gfrnla rlD xyiufHlxf N g
the snowy flesh. At the same in
slant, an impulse seized and mastered
her.
Darling forward from the base OF
the cliffs, June sped to where the hat
lay forgotten on the beach. A little
nearer to the water was a cavity, a
foot or so deep, that some child with
q pail and shovel had that morning
dug in the soft sand.
June picked up the hat, priceless
bird of paradise plumes and all, went
to the hole in the beach, thrust the hat
into it and piled the sand over it.
Then she glanced furtively along
the shore. The bride was still hidden
from view by the boathouse. A very
devil of mischief danced in June's
eyes. She caught up a seashell and
wrote with it on the sand these
words:
THAT there may be peace, the Red
Circle lady has destroyed the offend
ing hat"
She neatly traced border around
this queer message. stuck up the para
sol alongside it and ran guilty back
to the shelter of the cliff 4
Meanwhile, the bride, rounding the
corner OF the boathouse, had beheld
her newly espoused lord and master
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10

other three was too great. Breathing
fast and quite exhausted by their long
run, they came alongside the Lakes
and Lamar just as Max reached the
outstanding parasol in the sands.
June almost sobbed aloud in sudden
relief The parasol ferrule was stand
ing an inch deep in water. The tide
had crept in. Natures plying hand
had sponged out the tell-tale hand
writing in the sands.
Tit was here!" Mrs. Lake was ex-
planning, tearfully. Just right here.
Mr. Lamar. And-and now the tides
washed it all away. How horrid!'
Lamar had not come empty-handed
to Surfton.' That evening he called on
June. AS they sat in a window nook
in the library of the cottage, he said:
Il have a surprise for you, Miss
Travis. | meant to tell you about ii
this morning. But all that excitement
about the monkey and the mysterious
writing on the sand, drove 1t out of my
mind"
lie held up a pearl pendant that
dangled from slender gold chain. At
sight of it, June cried out in joy
"Oh, my pearls!' she exclaimed, rap.
turously. MY beautiful pendant that
was stolen!"
Il told you how we found the jewels
Alma La Sale stole at the ball." said
Max. Il recognized this pendant. And
| got leave to bring it back to you at
once"
"Oh, thank you! Thank you thou.
sand times. How shall ] ever be able
to thank you as | ought to-"
by letting me put the pendant back
where it belongs" he answered, his
eyes agiow.
With an embarrassed laugh she held
out the chain to him. Almost rever.
emily he took it; rose and stepped be.
hind her. Caressingly, he placed the
pendant chain about her soft white
throat, taking an uhduly long time in
closing the catch that fastened the
trinket in place.
He was standing behind her Be
lieving himself unseen, he stopped low
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10

specialist, who had been pointed out
TO him one day in the city.
Quick" gurgled O'Hara, pointing
up the alley, Smiling Sam Eagan's
there. He got my gun and"
Lamar did not wait for the rest of
the sorry confession. At bound he
was in the alley. At its far end the
moonlight showed him the squat body
of Eagan vanishing around a house
corner.
Haiti" shouted Lamar drawing his
revolver and pursuing with all the
skilled speed of college Splinter.
Around the alley corner he ran. Ia
gan, bare thirty yards ahead, heard
him coming. Hating, Sam hid him
self behind the jutting edge OF q house
and fired. The bullet few wide.
Lamar answered with two shots.
One bullet grazed Sans ear. The
other fattened itself against a stone
just above his head.
Sam, steadying his arm against the
house-edge, fired again. This time his
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10

sitting glumly on the keg, with his
back to her. She took step toward
him, hesitated, waited a few moments
in the hope that he might turn around,
and then murmured Indignantly to her
self:
NO! l won't give in"
She turned on her heel and started
back to where she had been sitting.
But she could not see the hat and
,parasol where she had left them. Her
first thought was that someone had
stolen them. Then, some distance
down the beach, she caught sight of
the parasol. standing upright in the
sand the marks of small feet leading
TO and from IT,
Puzzled,~the bride went to recover
her lost possession. AS she reached
the parasol, she saw the writing in the
sand-saw and read it. With a scream
her quarrel quite forgotten in this
newer and greater tragedy-she ran
wildly in search of her husband.
June waited no longer. With sigh,
she turned to retrace her steps home
ward. Already, the Red Circle had
faded again from her hand. Already
she was repentant and Disguised at
her insane prank.
Wondering how best she could make
good the loss to Mrs. Lake, she
reached her own cottage. In the gar
den, talking to Mrs. Travis and Mary
was Max Lamar. who had Just arrived
at Surfton, in answer to June's tele-
gram. and who had come directly
from the station to the Travis cottage.
June came in upon the group as
Mary, very red-faced and uncomfort-
able. was finishing a right untruthful
version of the monkey-theft. June
came to her relief.
Good morning, Mr.. Lamar she
said, taking his eagerly outstretched
hand, you didn't waste any time, did
you. Come down to the beach and Ill
show you where the monkey was sto-
len. | have some notes to show you,
too. Notes took on the case"
AS she spoke, she led the way to-
ward the garden gate. Lamar gladly
hurried along at her side. Mary, with
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10
SYNOPSIS.

"Circle jim Borden, named from a red
birthmark on his hand. has served his
third prison term. One IN each Borden
generation. always criminal has borne
the Red Circle mark Jim and his son
Ted are the only known living of the
Bordens. Max Lamar, a detective. is de-
tailed 10 keep an eye on Jim. June Travis
and her mother meet Jim as he is re-
based. jim and Ted are killed. Next
q Lamar sees the Red Circle on wom-
a. hand outside a Curtained automobile.
June. marked with the Red Circle, robs
Grant. a loan shark. Mary Junes nurse.
discovers her theft and tells her she Is
Circle Jim's" daughter though Mrs.
Travis does not know. Mary tricks La.
mar June. dressed as "a boy. RECEIVERS
Mary's coat from the police. Lamar visits
Smiling Sam" Jim's Old crime partner.
At tho seaside June Seals war invention
plans from Todd Drew and sinks them IN
the sea with her boys clothes. Sent to
SurftOn by Smiling Sam, Alma La Sale
paints the Red Circle on her hand and
robs the guests al a BAH. Mary sees her
wash OF the mark and POINTS her out
10 Lamar who follows her back to town,
captures her with the jewels and goes
after Smiling Sam"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10
EIGHTH INSTALLMENT
"PEkCE AT ANY PRICE"

Inch by inch. the door began to
give. Under the smashing blows OF
the two men the gap widened. A
jagged rent appeared across the sur.
face of the panel. One more mighty
crash of the inproyised battering
ram, and the banch-end burst in.
~There was q hole i'm the secret door
enough for a slender man to wrig-
~ through. Lamar dived head first
hyo the breach, closely followed by
Ais companion.
into the inner room they plunged,
and across it, guided by the noise of
fighting outside.
The low door leading to the yard
was ajar. Through the doorway hur-
ried Lamar, bending double to clear
its top. Across the yard he raced
and out of the gate into the alley, ar
irving Just as the two policemen were
putting the finishing touches upon the
subjugation of Mr.. Thomas Dunn.
A crack on the head had momen-
tarily dazed that industrious young
battler, and before his cigarette-sod-
den brain could clear from the impact
one of the policemen had snapped a
pair Of handouts around the pris.
oners unwashed wrists.
Now, them" said Lamar, briskly,
where's your boss"
Huh? o.. grunted Dunn.
Il say, where's your boss? Where's
Sam Eagan? Where is he hiding?"
Tom looked duly bewildered.
Il don't know no Sam Eagan,"
One Of you take him to headquar-
tiers, Max ordered. The chief will
find a way to make him talk You two
others so through the building, cellar
to roof I'm going back for another
look around the shop. It'll be worth
while, if can find what l want"
A minute later Lamar was back in
the wrecked cobbler shop He had
remembered the shoe that had rat
tied when he so idly played with it
on his visit to Sam the previous day.
And he set TO work looking for it.
One disreputable piece of footgeai
after another, he picked up from the
heap in the corner OF the room. And
at last he found the shoe he sought.
With an awl he pried loose the run
down heel. II was hollow. Empty
though the hollow now was, it CORE
sponded in every way with that in the
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10

shot found a mark, but not that at
which he had fired. Patrolman O'Hara,
charging along the alley to reinforce
Lamar, was so unfortunate as to catch
the ball in the calf of the leg. He
sprawled headlong.
Most decidedly this was not O'Hara's
lucky night.
Sam, aiming with better judgment,
pulled the trigger again The hammer
fell with click upon an exploded car
fridge. The pistol was empty. Throw
ing it away, he took to his heels.
Lamar followed at racing speed,
hating only now and then to fire.
Up the alley came a second patrol
man and several civilians. They halt
ed at sight OF the wounded O'Hara.
The latter raised himself on his hands,
stammered out the gist Of the story,
pointed in the direction whittier La
mar and Eagan had disappeared, then
slumped to earth in dead faint.
The hue and cry reached the street
at the alleys far end, looked up and
down, saw no one in either direction,
then ran valiantly to westward. La
mar and his quarry had turned east.
Lamar, more than once, in the
vague moonlight and black shadows,
missed sight of the man he followed.
Once he completely lost him, and was
about to give up the chase, when a
glimpse of something black, silhouet-
ted against the skyline and moving
heavily, like wounded bull, set him
off in hot chase again.
By this time they had left the vii.
lage behind them. Sam, running with
no sense OF direction, found himself
at the shoreward base of the ridge
that eliminated in the ocean-side
cliffs.
Up the ridge he scrambled, grunting
and heaving with fatigue. 1t was then
that Lamar, two hundred yards behind,
caught sight OF the broad, squat body
against the skyline.
Up the ridge toiled Eagan, seeking
some cavern or rift of rock wherein
to hide until morning. Ever upward
he worked his way.
Clambering as nimbly as a cat, La
mar swarmed up the steep slope be-
hind him. Once only he paused. That
was when Sam, gaining the summit,
halted and stared dazedly around. La
mar, resting his pistol barrel on a
ledge Of rock, pulled trigger. The re-
volver was empty. He dropped 1t and
continued his swift climb.
Sam, gradually recovering his breath,
heard stone rattle Just beneath him
He wheeled about, as Lamar bounded
up to the fiat summit-rock beside him.
No word was spoken. Breath was
too scant and too precious for that
The two men sprang at each ether.
Unarmed, forced to rely on natures
primal weapons, they came together
with a thudding shock that sent them
both to the ground.
Gripping each other I'm murderous
fury, they regained their feet, and, on
the slippery edge of the cliff, with a
sheer drop of 800 feet to the sea that
Numbered below them, they fought.
To and fro they reeled, on the peril
Gus verge of the precipice-there, on
the black cliff In the white moonlight
Hitting. wrestling, struggling, they
battled, tiny specks Of living and vi.
brant hatred suspended between sea
and sky.
Inch by inch Sam began to drag his
lighter foe toward the brink OF the
precipice.
(END OF EIGHTH INSTALLMENT.)
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-11-10

shoe Alma La Sale had been carry
i,~s under her arm when she was ar
rested.
No sign of Eagan, either in this
building or the next, reported a po-
liceman, coming in as Max stood ex-
aiming the hollow heel.
Plenty of signs of him here.
though, answered Lamar, holding up
the shoe, I've found what | was look
ing for It's the link | needed to
CONNECT Smiling Sam Eagan with
the jewel thefts that have been both
sering you people.
Ten minutes later Chief Allen was
listening attentively to Max Lamars
story. Fifteen minutes later the fol-
lowing message was on its way to
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-13

He awoke to the sound of CONVEX
sation near by, Getting to his feet
he made out beyond bright, pretty
maiden of about Is and a slOuchy,
but honest-faced, country pumpkin
a 'trife older. Near by was a keen
faced, business-appearing young
man, obviously city bred. Leaning
against a tree was a tripod and cam
era. The young man was speaking.
ct will never. do"
what do you want me to do?"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-13
- go - &c
- MOCK KISSES
BY Victor Radcliffe

- = = = = = = -
Copyright, 1916, w. G. Chapman.)
i Ruby Wardel was madly Jealous
of her husband and he never suspect
ed the fact Certainly he was hand
some, chatty, accommodating, but
all of his impulses were Of the friend
ly and humane order and he idOlized
his wife solely as the apple of his eye.
He had noticed the first gloss Of.
sweetness and perfect happiness
somewhat dissipated after the first
six months of married life, but he
attributed the growing pettishness of
Ruby to loneliness, ennUi, the alb
sence of close girlhOOd friends. Ar
mold was away good deal of his
e. time, being a travelling salesman. He
felt sorry for Ruby on this account.
AS to Ruby, she continued to hear
what terrible f1irts these knights of
- the road were, most of them, her in
formants assured her, like the sailor
who has a sweetheart in every port.
= If Arnold had understood his wife
and her concealed suspicious better
he would never have telegraphed her
one summer afternoon:
Man away for two days. Expect
a big order. Will be delayed 48
hours"
These facts were true. Arnold was
acting under a strictly business i'm
petus and house instructions. He had
two days to loaf in. The village was
crude. hot, dusty, a deal old town.
The next morning he resolved upon
a hike down an inviting-lookng
country road.
The primitive struck him from the
start of his jaunt The farms were
ancient, the people homespun, and
gawky. At some doorsteps he saw
old women with distaff and spinning
wheel He neared a ruined old mill
patched with moss, a fit setting for
a picture of a far past. century.
There was a little grove near it. The
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-22

State of Nrv MpNIyo. ........2g. 900. 90
Hcuuula county $5,Uu0oo
Lp-4 county cN-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-22
't ll'll ss,sss
Accounts Unpaid.
NO HIGHER PRICE FOR THIS

While food and clothing have ad-
vanced in cost, it is well for the sick
that the prices of such reliable fam
lily remedies as Foley Kidney Pills are
not increased. Persons in moderate
circumstances find doctors bills hard
to pay in the easiest of times. Don't
neglect weak, tired or disorderod kid
neys. Foley Kidney Pills cost little
and relieve backache, pains in sides
and loins, sore muscles, stiff joints,
rheumatic pains and annoying bladder
trouble. Royal Drug Company
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE.

The Republican has no intention of
being drawn into newspaper SQUAD
BILE at this time. There is too much
worth while to waste time chewing
the rag, but we do want to make an
explanation or denial to the charge
that we want to head mob and in
fict personal violence on the editor of
he Oroino Tribune. It isn't nec-
essary. The Tribune is having all
the trouble and tritulstion we. in our
most hateful and beligefant moments.
ever hoped our contemporary might
enjoy. or might plague him. and we
would not raise finger that would
add to the burdens of the Orofno
Tribune's soul. Would we step in
and put it out of its misery? Not on
your life. Sweet Marie. We are too
tender hearted for that. We are like
the man who cut off an inch week
Of his pups tail because he couldn t
stand to cut it all of at one time and
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15

have done with a disagreeable job.
As q matter Of fact we need the
Orofino Tribune in our business. It
makes the people appreciate local
paper that boosts and works for Oro-
fino. AS for hurting our business
there is nothing to that, since we
couldn't get business that goes to the
Tribune if we went after it with a
gatling gun, and nothing the Tribune
can say or do will deprive US of bust
ness that comes to the Clearwater Re-
publican. But we are still convinced
that the business men of Orofino we're
lacking in something when they per-
mitted the Tribune to knock the Oro-
tino Cement Company, and help tie q
struggling industry up. That was a
time when the citizens Of this town,
not the editor of the Republican,
should have applied enough violence
to the rear end of the Tribune editor
to have sent him seeking greene1
pastures.
The Republican is quite sure there
is need here for live, booster paper,
one loyal to Orofino and Clearwater
county. and we propose to devote the
most of our time advertising this Sec
tion of the state.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15

The Japanese cannot be accused of
overlooking any of the business bets
offered by the American markets thru
the combination of European war and
Underwood Tariff influences. They
have largely filled the place formerly
held by Germany in the toy field;
school books printed in Japan are in
use in some Pacific Coast cities; the
LaFollette bill turned over to Japan
most of the carrying trade of the
Pacific; now cotton goods woven in
aranese mills, mainly from Amer
lean cotton. are demanding attention.
This latter detail sounds like an echo
from the days of the Walker Tariff OF
the '40s, when America grew the cot.
ton and then bought it back from
Eng land as finished goods. Manu-
facturers' News.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15

The Auburn. N. Y, News, says :
Commerce statistics continue to pre-
sent evidence of the keen competition
we shall have to meet when the war
is over. Cuba achieved 20 per cent
increase in her sales to US during the
first nine months of this year, COM
pared with a similar period last year,
or from $3.50, OOO, 900 to 1902, 900, 600.
As most of this was accounted for by
sugar, and as the duty on sugar was
reduced Is per cent, Cuba getting
duty still 20 per cent. lower, were,
by reason of our treaty with her, some
idea can be had as to the profits which
rolled into the Golfers of the trust
controlled by the seaboard sugar re-
finer;es, who subscribed 80 literally
to Democratic campaign activities,
and whose lobby for free sugar re-
ceived the support of President Will
son. They refine sugar and send it
abroad at prices far below those
quoted here, and stick our people TO,
higher prices. Fine brand of Amer.
| icanism
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15

The Clearwater Republican notes
with considerable satisfaction that the
Potlatch Lumber Company has taken
prompt steps to eliminate all 81
Wont Work" buns from their camps,
and have told the sympathizers of
these trouble breeders that they, too,
may look elsewhere for employment.
The l. w. w. is un-American in
practice. principle and teaching, law
less and anarchistic in its utterances,
and destructive to the peace, happi-
ness and order of any community in
which it gets q footing
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15
CLEARWATER REPUBLICAN
Published every Friday by
P. L. CIRCUIT
HITTING THE PRINTER.

Whether it is the European war,
Woodrow Wilson, or something un-
seen, we do not know, but somebody
has hit the country publisher with a
brick. and peeled off lot of skin.
Prices of paper have advanced till it
has become like handling real money
when one fingers few sheets of pa
per. News has doubled. 1t has
passed the eight cents per pound
mark, and still climbing. True, the
recent investigation arrived at the
conclusion that this raise in news
print was not justified since the cost
of producing paper has not increased
materially, but we go right on pay
ing the increased prices, helpless as
lambs at slaughter. and that in the
face of this investigation that has on
ly increased our discomfort since it
makes us feel that we are being held
up and skinned to FRAGILE. Ignor-
ance would have beer bliss, and we
might have saved the cost of this
government investigation. The printer
is not dealing in theories today. He
must pay the increased price, look
pleasant, and take his medicine.
Therefore, if the printer charges
more for advertising, job work and
printing generally don't blame the
printer. The service costs more and
the increase is probably more than
justified.
For example, common amber man.
lila, paper ordinarily used for sec
ond sheets in taking carbon copies,
retailing for seven or eight cents d
pound in small lots, is now $l8 a
hundred pounds wholesale.
News print was three and half
and four, but now it has advanced be-
yond eight cents in lots of few
hundred pounds, but in ton lots about
eight.
Bonds that wholesaled for nine te
twelve cents pound have doubled
and more, while the higher priced
bonds have shown corresponding in
creases. To save themselves the
printers have been compelled to ad.
vance prices, but scarcely would we
dare to jump prices to a point that
material increase would demand.
If printer covert his dollar into
food he discovers that his dollar
has shrunk amazingly. For instance,
suppose we take the dollar year for
a subscription and convert it into
meat, potatoes, wood, -four, beans,
sugar, milk or hundred other ne
cessities of life. and our dollar has
shrunk to half and even one fourth its
purchasing power of few years ago.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-15

Orofino can be the cleanest, finest
small city in the entire Northwest.
1t can have the cleanest alleys, the
best lawns and the finest flowers to be
had, since we have the climate and
soil. when ample water is available,
to produce these things. Our one
need. as DR.. Owens has several times
pointed out, is the water from Orofino
creek converted to ditch and carrie
around the foot of the hill to be dis
tributed free thru the residence Sec
tion Of town. Our soil is of char
acter that requires heavy irrigating
during the summer months, and with
this ample supply of free water the
citizens should make use of it.
What paradise we could make OF
Orofino if we tried.