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The Lamar register., 1917-07-18
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FRANK H SPEARMAN
Authsr Of WHISPERING SMITH


swered without surprise or fear: Hen
ry, do take you"
"And /, Henry, take you, Nan. here
and now for my welded wife, for bet
ter for worse, for richer for poorer,
from this day forward, until death us
do part"
They sealed their pact with a silent
embrace. De Spain turned to Duke.
"You are the witness Of this marriage,
Duke. You will see, II an accident
happens, that anything, everything l
have-some personal prOperty-my ia
ther's old ranch north Of Medicine
Bend-some little money in bank at
Sleepy Cat-goes to my wife, Nan Nor
gan de Spain. VIII You see to itT"
81 will. And II It comes to mc-you,
De Spain, will see to It that what stock
/ have in the gap goes to my niece
Nan. your wife"
She looked from one to the other OF
the two men. "All that 1 have" she
said in turn, "the lands in the gap, ev-
erywhere around Music mountain, go
to you two equally together, or which
ever survives. And If you both live,
and 1 do not, remember my last mes
sage-bury the past in my grave"
Duke Morgan tested the cinches OF
the saddle on the Lady once more, un-
loosed the tugs once more from the
horses shoulder, examined each buckle
Of the collar and every inch of the two
strips Of leather, the re-enfOrced fas-
Jennings on the whlfletree, rolled all up
again, strapped 1t. and stood by the
head TIL De Spain swung up into the
saddle. He bent down once TO whis-
per a last word Of cheer to his wife,
and, without lookNg back. headed the
Lady into the storm.
The Lamar register., 1917-07-18
CHAPTER Xxx.
Gambling With Death.

Beyond giving his horse a safe head
way from the shelter, De Spain made
tie effort to guide her. He had cho-
the Lady, not because she was
resher for she was not, but because
Ice believed she possessed of the three
horses the clearest instinct TO bring
her through the fight for the lives that
were at stake. He did not deceive him
self with the idea he could do anything
to help the beast find n way to succor;
that instinct rested wholly in the La
dy's head. not in his. He only knew
that If she could not get back to help
he could not. His own part In the
effort was quite outside any aid to the
lady-it was no more than to reach
alive whatever aid she could find, that
he might direct 1t to where Nan and
her companion would endure a few
hours longer the fury Of the storm.
His own struggle for life, he real
lied, WIS with the wind-the roaring
wind that hurled its broadsides Of fro
zen snow in monstrous waves across
the maddened sky, challenging every
living thing. 1t drove icy knives Into
his face and ears, paralyzed in It's
swift grasp his muscles and sinews,
fought the stout dow Of blood through
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tantly bdcK to life. Day and night the
doctors worked over the three. The
Town, the division, the stagemen and
the mountain men watched the out
come of the struggle. From as far as
Medicine Bend railroad surgeons came
o aid in the fight.
De Spain cost the most acute anxi-
ETY.. The crux Of the battle, after the
three lives were held safe, centered on
The effort to save De Spain's arm-the
me he had chosen to lose, If he must
lose one, when he strapped it to the
whlilletree. The day the surgeons
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all the country, rode behind the gayly
decorated bridal coach in procession
from the church to Jeffries' house.
where the fcasts had been prepared.
During the reception Il modest man,
dragged from an obscure corner among
the guests. was made TO take his place
next Lefever on the receiving line. 1t
was Bob Scott, and he looked most un-
comfortable until he found chance
to slip unobserved back to the side
Of the room where the distinguished
Medicine Bend contingent, together
with McAlpin, Pardaloe, Elpaso and
Bull Page, slightly unsteady but ex-
tremely serious for the grave occasion,
appeared vastly uncomfortable to-
gether.
The railroad has not yet been built
across the sinks to Thief River. But
only those who lived in Sleepy Cat in
its really wild stage days are entitled
to call themselves early settlers, or to
tell stories more or less authentic
about what then happened. The great
or number of the Old Guard of that
day, as cankering peace gradually re-
asserted itself along the sinks. turned
from the stage coach to the railroad
coach; some Of them may yet be met
on the trains in the mountain country
Wherever you happen 10 find such II
one, he will tell YOU of the days when
Superintendent de Spain of the West
ern division wore gun in the noun
tains and used It, when necessary, on
his vifc's relations.
Whether it was this stern sense of
discipline or not that endeared him to
the men, these old-timers are. to IL
man, very loyal to the young couple
who united in their marriage the two
hostile mountain elements. one In
special, Il white-haired old man, de-
~crihed by the funciful as retired
outlaw, living yet on Mans ranch In
he gap, always spends his time in
town at the De Spain home, where
lc takes great interest In an active
title boy, Morgan de Spain, who
waits for his Uncle Dukes coming. and
digs into his pockets for rattles cap
tured along the trail from recent huge
rattlesnnkes. When his uncle happens
10 kill n big one-One with twelve or
thirteen rings and a button-Morgan
uses it to scare his younger sister,
Nan. And Duke, secretly rejoicing at
his bravndo but scolding sharply. helps
him adjust the old ammunition belt
ragged from the attic. and cuts fresh
,nshes In It 10 make 1t fit the childish
waist. His mother doesn't like to see
her son in wnrlike equipment, ambush
nc little Nan in the way Bob Scott
says the Indians used to do. She
hreatens periodically to burn the belt
~ and throw the old rifles out of The
louse. But when she sees her uncle
md her husband watching the boy
md laughing at the parade together.
'hr relents. 1t is only children, after
III, that keep the world young.
CTHE END.l
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agreed that If his life were to be saved
the arm must come or at the shoulder
u gloom fell on the community.
In lifetime of years there can come
to the greater part Of US but Il few
DAYS. few hours, sometimes no more
than a single moment, to show of what
stuff we are really made. Such crisis
came that day to Nan. Already she
had been wheeled more than once into
De Spnln's room, to sit where she
could help WOO him bacl, 10 life. The
chief surgeon, in the morning. told
bed she rose bolt upright. mol" she
declared solemnly. you shan't take
his arm on"
The surgeon met her rebellion tact
fully. But he told Nan, at last. that
De Spain must lose either his arm or
his life. NO" she repeated without
hesitation and without blonching, you
shant take or his arm. He shan't lose
his life"
The blood surged into her cheeks
better blood and redder than the doc
tors had been able to bring there-such
blood as De Spain alone could call into
them. Nan. with her nurses help,
dressed, Joined De Spain. and talked
long and earnestly. The doctors, too.
laid the situation before him. When
they asked him for his decision. he
nodded toward Nan. "She will tell
you. gentlemen, what Wen do"
And Nan did tell them what the two
who had most at stake in the decision
would do. Any man could have done
as much as that. But Nan did more
She set herself out to save the arm
and patient both. and, lest the doctors
should change their tactics and move
together on the arm surreptitiously
Nan stayed night and day with De
Spain, until he was able to make such
active use Of either arm as TO convince
her that he and not the surgeons would
soon need the most watching.
Afterward when Nan, in some doubt
asked the chaplain whether she was
married or single, he obligingIy offered
to ratlfy and confirm the desert cere-
mony.
This affair was the occasion for an
extraordinary roundup at Sleepy Cat
| Two lOng-hostile elemeuts-the stage
and railroad men and the Calabasas-
| Morgan gap contingent Of mountain
men, for once at least, fraternized.
| Warrants were pigeonholed, suspicion
| suspended, sidearms neglected in their
| scabbards. The fighting men Of both
| camps, In the presence Of a ceremony
| that unftpd na GuufD and Nam Mpruuu
could not but feel a generous elation.
| Each party considered that II wns con
| tributing to the festivity in the bride
and groom and the very best each
could boast, and no false note dis
turbed the harmony of the notable
day.
Gale Morgan, having given up the
fight, had left the country. Satterlee
Morgan danced till all the platforms in
town gave way. John Lefever attend
ed the groom, and Duke Morgan stern
| ly but without compunction, gave the
| bride. From Medicine Bend, Farrell
Kennedy brought notable company
of De Spain's early associates for the
event. 1t included Whispering Smith,
whose visit to Sleepy Cat on this oc-
casiOn was the first in years; George
McCloud, who had come all the way
from Omaha to join his early comrades
in arms; Wickwire. who had lost none
of his taciturn bluntness-and so many
train dispatchers that the service on
the division was crippled for the entire
day.
A great company of self-appointed
The Lamar register., 1917-07-18
CHAPTER XXX.
At Sleepy Cat.

Nothing in nature, not even the
storm itself. is SO cruel as the beauty
of the after calm. In the radiance of
the sunshine next day De Spain, deli
rious and muttering, was taken to the
hospital at Sleepy Cat. In an adJoin-
ing room lay Nan. moaning reproaches
at thess who we're torturipg her rsluc-
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
new APPLICATIONS
FOR DEFENSE LEAGUE
Ninth Precinct Holds Interesting
Meeting to Boost League.

The Ninth precinct, Home Defense
League. met at Masonic Temple,
Eighth and F streets northwest. with
a large attendance. At a business
meeting, prior to the regular drill,
some very enthusiastic patriotic
speeches were made. The various
chairmen of the subcommittee of the
dance which will be given Thanksgiv-
ing eve for the benefit of the uniform
rank. made very flattering reports.
w. r. Love, chairman of the enter
tainment committee, has prepared a
very high class program to precede
the dance. A Reed. chairman of the
printing committee, reported the prep
aration of an elaborate program
The northeast citizens are support
ing the movement to uniform their
defense league with all possible as
sistance. y number of new applica-
tionS were received, and it was
noticed that some were from persons
living outside of the precinct.
Silas Z. Robb. the clerk. was ap-
pointed an additional sergeant While
Capt. e. E. Hennard was drilling a
company of eighty men they were
were given a pleasant surprise visit
from William p. Emo, William ].
Eynon, Odell Smith and Harry ALL
mond, directors of the Home Defense
League of District of Columbia. Each
made a short address complimenting
the men on their efficiency at drill.
There will be a meeting of all the
officers of the Ninth precinct league
at No . police station house tomorrow
evening at s o'clock,
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
LECTURE FOR NAVY MEN.

An illustrated address on the manu-
facture Of steel wire and steel wire
rope used by the United States gov
ernment will be given Wednesday
evening IN the auditorium of the new
Interior Building, under the auspices
of the Bureau of Supplies and Ac.
counts. Navy Department. X. G
Sunderland. chief engineer of the John
a. Robeling's Sons Company. Trenton
n. j., will deliver the address. Ad-
miral MCGOWAN, paymaster genera,
Of the navy, has extended an invita-
ton to all government employees to
attend.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
'FRENCHMAN GIVES
YIDDISH Bible
Young Mems Hebrew Club Present
ed with Trench Souvenir.

A prayerbook in Yiddlsh. direct
from the trenches in France. is the
treasured souvenir presented to the
Young Mems Hebrew Association by
Sergt. George Edinger. member of the
French Military Mission.
Decorated with the military cross
of honor for distinguished services at
the front, this young man says he
has a double duty to accomplish in
seeking to drive the Boches Off
French soil.
At the beginning of the war. when
the Germans overran AlsaCe-Lorain.
and the northern provinces of France,
they took SerGt. Edinger's sweetheart
prisoner. 1t has become his sworn
purpose, therefore, not only to drive
them out because of the duty every
patliotic Frenchman owes his coun-
try, but for a much more personal
reason on his part, namely. his desire
and determination to put forth every
possible effort to restore his lost
sweetheart.
Sergt. Robert WE'LL, 151st French
Infantry and Sergt. A. Kosmann. of
the French Engineer CORPS, accom-
panied Sergl. Edinger, as guests OF
the association.
The party left last night, after a
weeks stay at Fort Meyer and Wash
ington, for Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
RIFLE CLUB MEMBERS
GET PRIZE MEDALS

Glass 3" medals. awardsd by the
National Rife Association to the
five members OF the Washington
Rife Club. constituting its 1917 in
door small-bore rifle team, were
distributed yesterday to the win
nCrs. The five high men compos-
ing the team are: P. NJ. Reynolds,
]. II. Robertson. W. C. Robertson, o.
NJ. Schriver and John J. Andrews.
Both SchriYer and Andrews are
gunnery sergeants In the L. S. Ma
rine Corps. Sergt. Schriver is in
charge of the indoor range under
Polls Theater. and instructor for
the Home Defense League Rifles at
that place, while Sergt. Andrews
was coach last year at Jacksonville,
Fla, for the Washington Rifle Club
at the annual shoot of the National
Rife Association. He was high man
on this occasion ana winner or the
Wibledon cup.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
WAR Chorus WILL
SERENADE CITIZENS
Plans Being Formulated to Increase
Membership.

Washington will soon find herself
serenaded by more than 100 strong
male voices of the war chorus, if
Dlans formed last night at a meet
ing of singers of government depart
mcnts in the auditorium of the In
terror Building, Eighteenth and F
streets northwest, materialize.
Otto P. Simon presided. He has
been organizing a chorus of male
voices for war work. Singing at the
training camps around the city and
at the future liberty loan celebra-
tons were made the objects of or
ganization.
Through a misunderstanding in the
meeting place, only fifty members pre-
sented themselves. More than one
hundred are expected to be on hand
at the next meeting in the auditorium
next Saturday night.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
800 RESIDENTS
Open. DOOR IN
REPLY TO CALL
Submit List Of Rooms to the
Chamber of Commerce
Bureau.

More than 800 Washington residents
with rooms to rent and willing TO
board incoming emergency war work
ers have submitted their names to
Thomas Grant. secretary Of the Dis
trlct Chamber OF Commerce. and d.
rector of the newly organized room
and board registration bureau of the
trade body. The bureau was organ
lied three days ago, and hundreds
Of offers of rooms and board for
those working In the government de-
partments have come In response to
a request by the director.
Strangers in the city other than
government employees who need rooms
and board are also beginning to apply
to lthe Chamber of Commerce on
the second floor of Gil Twelfth street.
Secretary OF War Baker in a state
ment yesterday declared that the in
flux would reach a high level within
the next few weeks. .,.
Thousands of -new employees will
arrive in Washington and they must
be taken care of in Washington
homes" he asserted.
The Chamber of Commerce bureau
expects to have a list OF desirable
rooms and board ready for the new
comers when they arrive. These
lists will be distributed with the heads
of departments and also at the ho-
tells. Only the most reliable places
will be recommended.
The housing problem has been dis
cusscd for the last few months by
the Women's Federated Council on
Employment. cooperating with the
Women's and Girls Division of the
Department of Labor. Every angle
pertaining to placing girls in safe
and respectable homes has been sur
veyed. The Department OF Labor. in
recent announcement. showed that
within two months nearly Loo girls
had been put to work through the
division. In n large measure these
girls were from other cities and the
Safeguarding OF their health and wei
fare has become one of the largest
problems taken up by the council.
The Y. w. c. A. has placed several
hundred girls in respectable homes.
The association continues to be flood
cd with requests for housing facili-
ties.
The Chamber OF Commerce Regis
tration Bureau will handle the prob
lem OF roominS newcomers irrespect-
i've of the sex or religion.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
Widow of Gen. Merritt
Helps Recreation Fund
Gift of $4,000 to Provide Amusement for Men
at Camp Merritt, Named in Honor
of Husband. III

A $1,000 gift in memory of her hus-
band, one Of the hoy generals of
the civil war, has been given by Mrs.
Wesley Merritt to the War Camp
Community Recreation fund commit
tee of Washington.
This is the first donation recorded
by the Washington committee and
marks the opening Of a campaign to
raise $50, COO, in the nations Capital as
part of the s4,0O0, 900 fund being raised
throughout the country for the amuse-
ment and recreation of soldiers while
on leave.
The money given by Mrs. Merritt
will be for the maintenance of a club
house for enlisted men at Camp Mer-
ritt which was named in honor Of her
husband. The site for the club house
will be selected by Gen. Shanks. in
command of Camp Merritt. 1t will be
located outside the camp and will be
conducted by the enlisted men them
selves. DIR. Cyrus F. Stimson, repre-
senting the War Department commits
sion on training camp activities In
community organization, has been en-
trusted with the details of the ar
rangements.
Wesley Merritt was one of the most
brilliant and successful cavalry lead
ers developed by the civil war. Though
but 2S years old at the conclusion OF
that war, he had received seven bre-
vets for gallant and distinguished SER
vice and was one of the three COM
missioners appointed by Gen. Grant
to carry out the terms of the sur
render of Lee at Appomatox.
He also served with distinction in
the Indian wars as colonel. In
1883 he was appointed superintendent
of the Military Academy at West
! Point, where he remained five years
| Later he commanded different mill
tary departments of the East and
| West.
At the outbreak of the Spanish
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04

war in 1898 he was appointed military
governor CT the Philippine Islands and
commanded the Eighth Army Corps
which was sent there. With Admiral
Dewey no received the surrender of
Manila on August 13. Later in that
year he was ordered to Paris to at
tend the conference which arranged
the terms of the treaty of peace with
Spain.
Gen. Merritt was retired from ac-
tive service in June. 1900, and died
December 8, 1910
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
THE VOICE OF JOHN THE BAP.
TIST AGAIN HEARD
REPENT YE, FOR THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN is AT HAND
JAMES +. TALMAGE,


City,
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
Modern Structure
To Go Up On G Street

The National Rifles building is about
10 De torn down and in its place a
handsome, modern ten-story building
is to be constructed.
Inc whole of the first floor will be
occupied by Tennille, the clothier. Mr..
tennilie Is to be located at 80 G street
unti ms new home is completed,
which wrs~be about next July.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04

Every housewife is familiar
with the quality OF these rugs.
Assortment better than ever.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
Travellers Have Learned that Stu.
arts Dyspepsia Tablets Protect
the Stomach from Heart
burn, Sour Rsings, Gas
Fermentation and
Other Distress.
Near the Missouri-Abroad the
Double Eagle Limited,

The ways of cooking change from
town to town. You don't get food
cooked twice the same way with the
stomach gets rough Treatment q,
times; 1t needs help. Hundreds of
travellers rever have the least bit
OF trouble because they have learned
that a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet after
meals prevents stomach distress.
hurn. nrusea. INDIGESTION, dyspensia of
the worst type, sour stomach, bloaty
feeling and all eructations and irri.
|taton. and freshen and invigorate The
omach. They cheer you up, and
wake you get all the good there Ia in
|fpur food. You will forget Won evar
ID stomach to worry you.
6et f0-cent box of Stuart's DN-s-
Srs7 Tablets at any drug store.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-09-26
WHEEEOCK.

Mrs. G. L. Gerry, Correspondent
Mrs. P. J. Shovey and Mrs. Roy
Bickford, who have been sick the
past week, are better.-Red Cross
meeting last week was with Mrs. A.
w. Porter and this week Wednesday
will be with Mrs. L. W. Drake
Road Commissioner Smelling has fin
ished the state road on Mathewson
and commenced on the road above
the creamery Monday morning.
Mrs. Florence st. Pierre was at her
fathers, William Porter's, last We'd
nesda yand Thursday. She returned
to her work at st. bloomsbury Center,
taking her little daughter, Evelyn,
who has been stopping at her grand
fathers the past year, with her.
Pent Porter spent several days last
week with friends and relatives at
Newport.-W. P. Darling and family
were called to Glover last Sunday to
attend the funeral of a relative
Miss Thelma Wilcox of Boston is
spending a few days with her uncle,
w. P. Diamond, and family.-All
roads lead to the Old Red School
House this week Thursday, when the
school reunion will be held. Promi-
nent speakers will be present.-Miss
Gladys Bigelow, who is teaching at
East Burke village, was in this place
visiting friends over Sunday. She is
a former teacher in this village
| where she has many friends.-Mr.
and Mrs. Will Thompson of Green's
boro visited Mrs. Thompson's broth
er. w. P. Graves, over the weekend.
Lyman Sleeper, district deputy,
made an official visit at Riverside
grange last Saturday evening. Two
candidates took the first and second
degrees that evening. The next meet
ing there will be a class of two for
the first and second degrees.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-09-26
STYEAR IN HALF
CENTURY FOR BAPTISTS

The Vermont Baptist State Con-
vention with Re. RI. w. A. David
son lids. Secretary and superintendent
and Howard Crane as Treasurer has
just closed one of the best years in its
history. There have been GA additions
to the churches by baptism. which is
the largest number received in any one
year since 1876 or in forty-one years
and the church membership is now
994Tswhich is the largest since 1874
or in seventy-three years. The con-
vention has expended in educational,
evehge1istic and missionary work in
the State during the year just closed
$26.833.73 and closed it's books in the
i 7th with - balance on hand of $685.
i Is. E5k So.
Dtrfng the year there has been add
3 ed to the Permanent and Trust Funds
z$19,722.46 SO that the Convention now
hasiA fund of 1921, 1880. the income
3of which is used for benevolent and
missionary work right here in Yer
8mont The annual meeting of the Con-
Hvention and allied organizations will
be Held at Richford beginning next
Monday night, the oath, and closing
"Wednesday night, the 18th. At thi.
session. new constitution is to be
adopted and some radical changes
made fer the future welfare of thu
work.