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The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-01-12

NJ q thundoe. but ehat year ne
clouds seemed 10 have dried up. and
down In the tablelands OF the Blue
Grass the crops were burned to worth
less stalk and shrunken ear. Even up
here, in the birthplace OF waters, the
corn was brown and sapless. SO that
when q breeze strayed over the hill
side fields they sent up thirty. dying
rasp of rafting whisper.
II was not only in the famished
forests and scared fields that the hot
breath Of the plague breathed, carry
ing death In its fetid nostrils. Back In
the cabins Of the "branch-water folks"
where little springs diminished and be-
came polluted, all those who were not
strong enough to throw on the touch
Of the specter's finger sickened and
died. and typhoid went in and out OF
Havey shack and McBriar cabin whis-
pering. "a pest on both your houses"
The widow McNnh had not been
herself since the death Of Fletch- She
who had once been so strong over her
drudgery. sat day long on the doorstep
Of her brothers howell and, in the lam
guage Of her people. lest sickened an
pinned away"
So. AZ Juanita Holland and Good
Anse Talbot rode sweating mules
about the hills, receiving calls for help
faster than they could answer them.
they were not astonished to hear that
the widow was among the stricken.
Though they fought for her life, she
refused to fight herself. and once
again the Eastern girl stood with
Dawn in the brier-choked "buryin-
ground" and once more across an open
grave she met the eyes OF the man
who stood for the old order.
But now she had learned to set .
lock on her lips and hold her counsel.
So, when she met Anse and Jeb after
ward, she asked without rancor: May
l take little Jesse back with me, too?
He's too young" she added, with Just
a heartsick trace of her old defiance,
to be useful to you. Mr.. Havey. and
Id like to teach him what l can"
Anse and Jeb conferred, and the
elder man came back and nodded his
head.
Jesse can go back with ye," he said.
I'm still Amin to give ye all the rope
We wants. When we've had enough an
quits. let me know. an Ill take care Of
Fletch's children"
And on her farm. as folks called
Juanita's place. that September saw
many changes. Near the original
cabin was springing up q new struc-
ture. larger than any other house in
that neighborhood. except, possibly.
the strongholds of the chiefs, and az
1t grew and began to take form it i'm
parted an air of ordered trimness to
the countryside about 1t. 1t was fash
Toned in such style as should be In
keeping with its surroundings and not
give too emphatic a note OF alien
strangeness.
Juanita wished that her cabin could
house more occupants. for the plague
had left many motherless families,
and many children might have come
into her fold. AS it was. she had sew
eral besides the McNashes as her nu-
cleus. and while the weather held
good she was rushing her work of
Undertaking and building which the
winter would halt
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-01-12

the gin. and viGh that he took Il down
again and set Il TO his lips and blew
A mellow sound. mot loud. but Tar
carrying. like the fox-hunter's tally-hO
noated over the valley.
Our house haint more than {
whoop an . boiler away" he said
awkwardly. but when ye're Twin oveI
hyar by yoreself. Of ye ever wants any
thing in Their nighttime. Jest blow the,
horn"
After she had almost burst he,
cheeks with effort he added: ''Don't
never blow this signal onless ye wants
ter raise merry hell"
Then he initiated very low, through
pursed lips, three long blasts and
three short ones.
whats that signal" she demand
ed.
"Ye've heered the McBriar YELL" he
told her. Tibet horn calls Their Havey
rallyin' signal When thet goes out
every Havey tibet kin tote q guns got
ter git up an come. Hit means war.
Thank you. Jerry. ! won't call the
Haveys to battle"
The night after she had flung her
challenge down to Bad Anse Havey
Juanita stayed at the McNash cabin
to be with Dawn and the widow. The
next day she went with them to the
mountainside "buryin. ground" where
Good Anse performed the last rites for
the dead.
After It was all over, and It had been
decided that the widow was to take
the younger children up Meeting
house fork to live with . brother. the
missionary and the teacher started
back. Jeb was to stay here alone to
cun the farm, and when Juanita 70
turned to the ridge Dawn went with
her.
They were passing . tumbling va.
terfall, shrunken now to Q tricklins
rill. when Dawn broke the long silence
"Wunst, when l war . leetle gal,
she said. "Unc' Perry war abiding out
up tibet branch from Their reyenuers. !
used ter fotch his victuals up thar ter
HIM"
: Juanita turned suddenly with o
shocked expression. II was as II her
little songbird friend had suddenly and
violently reverted; as II the flower had
turned to poison weod And as Jua.
nita looked Dawn's eyes were blazing
and Dawn's face was AZ dark AZ her
black hair-dark with the same ex.
preston which brooded on her broth.
er's brow.
What IL It, deari" Juanita asked.
and in tense and fiery voice the
younger girl exclaimed:
II wishes war Q man. I wouldn't
wait and set still like Jeb's doin'. By
heaven, I'd git thet murderer. I'd cut
his heart outen his body"
II tole ye." quietly commented
Brother Anse. "thet Their Instincts in
Their blood. Anse Havey went down
ter Frankfort an set in Their legislator
but he come back Their same man
tibet went down. Somethin' called
him. Somethin' calls ter every noun.
tain man tibet goes away. an he bark.
ems ter Their call"
"Anse come back" repeated Dawn
triumphantly. AN Anse is hyar. Ell
Jeb sets thar an don't do nothin',
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-01-12

Mash murdered Jsb HcNssh bsss Bad
Anse 70 tell him who. killed his father.
further misundsr.tsnd eseh nc othss. RaS
Anss 70 bitter. =
CHAPTER x-contlnusd.
I'm grateful for this teachers
course" said Juanita hotly. land I'm
not going home" ~
Anse Havey went on:
But know that boy. know that
u I'd talked thataway he'd Just about
have gone out in the la'rel an got
somebody. Hit might not q been the
right Teller. and he might have found
that out later. I reckon ye never had
Q father murdered. did YET"
Hardly" answered the girl with .
scornful toss Of her head. You see, I
wasn't reared among gun-dghters."
well. I have" responded the man.
7 was In the Legislature down At
Frankfort when II happened. a-helpin'
70 mako the laws that govern this
stats. was fer them laws In theory
but when that word came paired on
with Republican. SOS not to lose my
vote on the floor. an come back here
to these hills an got that Teller.
reckon ought to be ashamed to tell
70 that, but I'm 20 plumb ign'rant that
can't feel IL knew how Jeb felt
an 10 held him OF with promise to
wait OF course 70 couldn't accept the
help OF Q man like that"
He turned and withdrew his hands
from his pockets.
I'm through" he added. IAN I'm
obleeged to ye fer harkenin' to me-"
There 10 something in your point
Of view. Mr.. Havey." she acknowl-
edged. "But Il II all based on twisted
and distorted principle.
Il don't think myself a saint. I
guess I'm pretty weak. My first ap-
peal to you was pure weakness. But
stand for ideas that the world has
acknowledged to be right, and for that
reason I am going to win. That 10
why. although I'm girl. with none of
your physical power. and no gun.
lighters at my back. you are secretly
afraid OF me. That IL why you are
making unfair war on me. stand for
tha funpln ~ h1o Porra NJ rivtlivo tiop
eh.t mnat soonar nr ,.tar swaan WI,
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a.nc."
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clouded and became puzzled. surprised.
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The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-01-12

A man may deliver a convincing
barroom> Grafton concerning q free
country, and then be required to put
his money on the counter before being
sarved.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-01-12

CAuc " q pOAuI WueTo Tue InlCk6t
grew down close and tangled to the
road. He had seen Young Milt going
west along that road this morning and
by nightfall he would be riding back
The gods of chance were playing into
his hands.
So he lay down. closely hugging the
earth, and cooked his rifle. For hours
he crouched there with unspeakable
patience, while his muscles cramped
and his feet and hands grew cold un.
der the pelting Of rain which was
strangely raw and chilling for the sea.
son. The sun sank In an angry bank
of thunder-heads and the west grew
lurid. The drenching downpour blind
ed him and trickled down his spine un
der his clothes, but at last he saw the
figure he awaited riding a horse he
knew. 1t was the same roam mare that
Bad Anse had restored to Milt Nc.
Briar.
When young Milt rode slowly by
fifty yards away, with his mount at a
walk and his reins hanging, he was
untroubled by any anxiety, because he
was in his own territory and was at
heart fearless. The older boy from
Tribulation felt his temples throb and
the rife came slowly up and the one
eye which was not closed looked point
blank across immovable sights and
along steady barrel into the placid
face Of his intended victim.
He could see the white of Milt's eve
and the ragged lock Of hair under the
hat-brim which looked like a smudge
Of SCOT across his brow. Then slowly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
The Zulu Trilogy

FINISHED. By sir II Rider Haggard With
frcniispiece IN colos. limo. pp. 800. Lonzmans.
Gnsu q CO.
II would be superfuous to enter into
any detailed review Of this latest Of
the ALLAN Quatermain" romances. All
that needs to be said is that II is
worthy of ITS predecessors. II Is. we
think, the eighth Of the romances
which have that immortal hunter as
their hero, and II is the third of VIVA,
We may call the Zulu Trilogy-thros
consecutive yet independent works por-
traying in hctiGn often more truthful
than history the downfall Of the oncs
mighty Zulu nation; this one ending
with the death of Cetewayo II may DO
that il contains no one scene quite
equal TO that in a former volume which
portrayed the Zulu warriors defenc.
Of the stair, a scene for rival to
which we must turn to the Niblung
lay, or to the Had; but the general in
terest is 10 less than in the earlior
tales of Quatermain, the vitality truth
full picture Of African life is unim-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
John, Viscount Morley
His Own Boswell and at Times
His Own Pepys

Skyo' aa, FsiIs~ ~ Al soais' coilexe oIfgrd
Two VOLUMES. Royal $50. ~. T. $685. S'S Al"
Macmillan Company.
A fine and singular tribute Is paid to
the book, to its author and to its read
ers, In the publication OF purely
American edition simultaneously With
II not q trife in advance Of It's appear
snee in England. Thus Is It intimated
that Lord Morley and his Recollections
are of sufficient interest TO Americans
and that Americans care enough about
him, and them, to warrant so etitiy a
venture. In that we are glad to believe
the judgment Of the publishers to be
sbundantly justified. We should have
thought so in advance, on general prin-
ciples; but we are completely convinced
of It now, after the first Of what we
hope will be numerous readings OF
these enhancing volumes.
II has been Lord Morley's good tort
una 20 have g long dual career, In let
ters and in politics; and In both OF
them In that Victorian Age which, de-
spite the affected scorn Of some Very
Superior Persons. is assured of dis
tInguished and seldom rivalied rank IN
the annals of all time for both litera-
ture and statecraft. To this we CRATE
fully add the possession of an excep-
tlonal power and grace Of narration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17

his impulsveness. which at times led
him into error. Thus, in the very first
letter given, which gives an interesting
view of the exquisite Cry tai Palace,
which then covered what is now Bryant
Park, he naturally referred to the Gro
ton water system, but made the strange
error Of saying that 1t entered New
York through immense sewers laid
across the bed of the Hudson River"
when, in fact, it came through an
elevated aoueduct over the Harlem
River Was there in that some mys-
FERROUS adumbration of what would be
done when the Croton supply was
sweled by the addition Of that from
Ashokan, more than sixty years later?
Again, the same trait was shown, re-
,ieved and redeemed by one of the fin
est and sweetest nobility, many years
afterward, when some malicious med
dlors tried to persuade him that The
Tribune, as a member of the staff of
which some of the best of his early
work had been done-such as the i'm
mortal "Beef Contract" story-had
turned against him and had been max
ing brutal attacks upon him almost
daily for two months. He few into d
Mrs. Clemens mildly suggested that it
would be we'll first to look up the files
and see just how brutal and sneering'
The Tribune had been. He did so. and
by dint Of painstaking scrutiny found
that in the course of several months
The Tribune had printed one harmless
little joke at the expense of one of his
books, had quoted couple of English
comments upon his works and had
paid him one handsome compliment.
Of course, he was just as quick to
appreciate the truth as he had been
10 resent the imaginary wrong. Citing
the results of his search, he wrote to
Howells: THAT is the prodigious bug
aboo, in its entirety! What the devil
can those friends of mine have been
thinking about, to spread these three
or four harmless things out into two
months of daily sneers and affronts ?"
What. indeed? But of such is the
Kingdom of Spite!
II is in innumerabIe such little
touches as these that the charming
humanity Of the man is disclosed-his
impulsiveness, his generosity, his
scorn of shams, his sympathy, his
whimsicalities. his optimism, his ire
pressible sense of humor. In most
cases his letters are sufficiently self
/ explanatory, but wherever they need
calculation Mr.. Paine supplies 1t, gen.
orally with accuracy and good taste. II
may be that some even among his
/ ardent admirers will regard obviously
/ the initial characterization Of Twain
as zone Of the foremost American
philosophers Of his day; the worlds
most famous humorist of any day;
/ during the later years of his life
/ Americas chief man of letters: her
best known and best loved citizen"
/ But IL is better to estimate a man too
/ highly than too lowly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
ROCKS AUTHORS: PUBL ISE1ERS~NEWS: REVIEWS: COMNltN
China Itself
Intelligently Seen and SymPa-
thetically Interpreted

TIE SPELL OF CHINA BY Archie Bs ,.;s pe md
rated and illustrated With co.0r psa,S AZ
duosravures from photographs oy r, n, Ne"
nan sTo. pp. 1iy. iOi The rage IOmpAn''
This is China. We are reminded in
the photography which this voiume
contains that many works nave oeen
written about that land since Marco
Po,o's. first of all; or, since an eVll
generation too often refuses TO giye
that most veracious scribe the credi'
which is his due, let US say since VIII,
iams's Middle Kingdom" Many OF
these have been excellent, too. But we
should doubt II any in all the long cata-
logue more perfectly reproduced China
itself for the distant reader than THIS
work before US. A trained observe :,
seeing everything, understanding and
approaching everything and gifted with
a,singular power of making others see
what he saw and understand 1t as ne
did. Mr.. Bell has produced one OF the
most fascinating and most informing
books about China that We remember
ever to have read.
There is scarcely page without some
Illuminating incident or shrewd obser--
walton which reveals the very heart and
spirit Of China itself. Thus, at Han
kow:
stopped at the iron grating in the
principal station of the great railway
and asked: what time does train
60 to Peking?"
Zone starts in two hours grunted
the agent.
But how is any one to know that
this is the case? 1t is not posted on
the schedule at the hotel" ! COM
planned.
"Oh, plenty people know" he
smiled. Every train is full. If
train go before people come to-day,
they 60 tomorrow. That makes ALA
same Train go every day, once
day to Peking now"
That road is to China what one Of
the trunk lines between New York and
Washington is to America. The Incl
dent is Characteristic of the China
which still is, but which, as the author
perceives, is passing away. Presently
that marvellous nation will awaken to
better things. "The great day is COM
ing" And the reader of this luminous
volume, amused, delighted, charmed,
will also be most vividly informed as
to what that day is likely to mean to
China and to the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
Too Late for Love

THE GREAT GIFT By sidney Patoroster. l2rio.
% $40. The John Lane Company.
The son of the "black sheep" member
of a great family, in early years a
waif of the streets, through sheer de-
termination, integrity and innate abil
ity raises himself to leadership in bust
ness, society and the state, but finds at
middle age that it is too late to win
the heart of the girl whom he loves,
but who loves not him but his young
kinsman. and the story closes in the
spirit of "Richelieu," with the young
couple happy and the leading character
consoling himself for his loss of her in
enhanced devotion to the state.
It is not a novel plot, but it is de-
veloped and worked out with refresh
ing originality Of treatment. the verbal
craftsmanship is admirable-almost
any paragraph could be taken as a stu,
dents model of pure, clear English; al!
the principal characters make a strong
appeal to the sympathy and interest
of the reader, and-for which we are
truly grateful-there is not q hint ut
sex alterations, nor is there even so
much as a near-villain in the whole
drama. The reading public should well
come a multitude of such books.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
For the Movies

HOW To WRITE FOR MOVING PICTURES; BY
Marguerite Bertsch- Illustrated IRON PHOTO
graphs. emo pp. 275. The George H. DorH
Company.
There are probably few persons In
the United States with any literary
warnings who have not written NOV
ing picture scenarios, ere not now In
the throes of producing some. or have
not some in contemplation. But OF
waht ues Is a moving picture scenario
which does not sell? Genius which
bushes unseen is, after all, unproht-
able and discouraging.
Five years as editor in chief OF the
Vitgraph Company has given the au-
thor of his book an unsual opportunity
to know the moving picture business
from the inside. and she herself Is
successful writer of scenarios. The
book is far from being dry textbook
II deals with the problems of the see
mario writer from both sides OF the
screen, and treats in detail the under
lying philosophy of what makes sal
able moving picture plot, or, for that
matter-because the same general rule
apples-a good short story or play.
ANY one who aspires to become q
writer for the moving picture stage
will And in this book not only essen
tial technical details, but real inspira'
tiOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
FTP. A. and Hill-China Itself
Current Fiction and Miscellany

haired, and the old fascination and
thrill spontaneously Toturn with every
mage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
Mark Twain
His Personal Letters for Nearly
Threescore Years

MARK TwAIN's LETTERS. Arranged. with com.
ne1t by Albert Blgeow Paine. lIuslrAted I"V
touInes Sro. ~. $50. HAr1er Sfos.
It was an admirable thought to coll
lect and publish the letters VI Marx
Twain. for which the reading worid
will be grateful. II was well TO do this
because Of the tangible proof thIs
given that the writing Of letters is not
lost art; because of the intrinsic ana
extrinsic interest of the letters them,
selves, and because of the unequalled
revelation which they give OF the brain
and heart of the writer. To us who
are fond of psychological observation
the last consideration is the greatest,
and we unhesitatingly record that no
letters Of which we have knowledge are
more keenly and Enthusiastically self-re-
vealing than these. Concerning the
authorship Of almost any other corre-
spondence some might have a doubt, II
the names were not given; but nobody
who had ever read Mark Twain's books
could hesitate for moment to declare
these letters his.
They disclose his weaknesses as well
as his virtues. Among the former was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
Neurasthenia

MEMORIES. BY Alma Newton. l2mo. pp. ss.
Dvfield Co.
The author has a notable command
of language. and a more than ordinary
emotional power. But surely the critic
must have been "a sarkastik little
kuss' VINO said that she showed in this
book the exercise of more than the
usual amount of restraint. II he spoke
truly, Angels and Ministers of Grace
defend US from any work in which she
shows less than the usual amount,
for here restraint is far more hcnored
in the breach than in the observance
True, the author does not go quite as
far as another Of her sex who, in vol
ume which is one of the joys Of mem
ory. told of a marble statue s weeping
But she writes with an exuberance OF
emotion far beyond all ordinary
bounds, save in the case Of neuras-
themes. The simple fact is that there
is scarcely a normal page or para
graph in the book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17

RrcoJI BOTTOMS. By John Visc0unt Morley. .
ks HwI yellow VI All Souls ColleEe. OAgru
Two volumes. Royal $50. ~. 4. $685. S'E I'M
Macmillan Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-17
Young Life in an Old House

DORIS or DoBBs FERRY. BY Carolyn Wells
Illustrated by Frances Rogers. limo. pp. -s0
Goorgr n. Doran Company.
An eccentric old man wills that as
rich estate shall pass by lot to one OF
his numerous AMI eagerly extectanf
heirs. The lot falls 10 the charming
young daughter Of his runawoy ana
now deceased niece, and che takes pos
session of the old Colonial mansion
with its m ,morias of Washington and
Rochambeau, with its haunting ghost
of a fascinating young French oiiiceI
and with its hidden treasure. VI
course, her life there is full Of romance
Of mystery, of humor and Of senti-
ment. which we are not going to dis
count for the reader by telling more
of it in advance. The name of the su-
thor is ample guarantee Of the spright-
ly, witty style in which it is written
and of the thoroughly wholesome and
human charm of characters. plot and
incidents.