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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-15
CHAPTER X.

Fer a few moments Bad Anse Havey
most Imply into the chair he had
pushed forward. Havey paced the mar
row length Of the room, pausing once
to gaze down at the rigid body OF the
dead man. At last he came and took
his place squarely before her by the
hearth. both hands thrust deep into
his coat-pockets. A long black lock
fell over his forehead and he impa-
tiently shook 1t back
I'm the first place." he began in his
deliberate voice, we've said some
things thet l doubt not ye believe to
be true. but they're most all OF 'em
lies"
He flung back his head and looked
squarely down at her. his eyes mar
row and swapping. but with his voice
pitched to low cadence. "Ye've said
things that, since ye're a woman,
amt got any way OF answerin The
only thing l asks is thet ye harken to
what / want to say"
go on; I'm listening with humble
attention"
we've called me a murderer an a
hirer Of murderers. That's a lie. I've
never killed no man that didn't have
his face lords me. nor one that wasn't
armed. I've never hired any man
killed.
"Ye've likened me to Milt McBriar
Thet was lie. too. Ye've said some
right bitter things. an l can't answer
ye. II ye was man l could"
And If l were a man. what would
you say to me?" she inquired.
81 reckon"-his words came with an
icy coldness-"I'd be pretty liable to
tell ye to eternally go to hell"
And II l were a man." she promptly
retorted, I'D endeavor with every
ounce of manhood l had in me to see
that you and the others like you did
go there. I'd try to see that you went
the appropriate way-through the
trap of the gallows."
She saw his attitude stiffen and his
face flush brick-red to the cheek bones.
But after few seconds she heard him
speak with a fair counterfeit of amuse-
ment.
wall. it pears like we've both got
to be right smart disappointed-on ac-
count of your bein' a woman"
And this time 1t was she who
flushed.
81 don't hardly know why I'm TAX
in the trouble to make any statement
to ye," Havey went on. 1T ain't hard
ly worth while. ye came up here with
your mind fixed. Ye've read lot of
hearsay stuff in newspapers, an facts
ain't hardly apt to count for much. |
reckon afore. ye decides to hang me
yen let me have my day in court,
won't ye?"
Before your own judge and your
own jury?" she naively asked him.
That's the way you usually have your
day in court, isn't 1t, Mr.. Havey?"
Its you that's settin' as the court
Just now" he reminded her. 81 reck-
on ye can judge for yerself how much
l owns ye."
In spite OF herself she smiled.
Il rather think I can," she admit
ted. approximately, at least"
81. think l understand ye better
than ye do me-" he went on slowly. 81
think ye're plumb honest in all the
notions ye fotched up here. despite
the fact that most of 'em are wrong.
Ye've done come with a heap OF money
20 teach folks what you low they'd
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-15

"Fletch McNash He's Done Been Kilt"
ye're plumb. everlastingly sartain
who got your pa, ye won't raise your
gun against any man."
The boy sank down into his chair
and bowed his head in his hands.
while his f1nger-nails bit into his tenn
pies. Even Juanita Holland had felt
the effect OF Havey's wonderfully
Quieting voice. Finally Jeb McNash
raised his face.
AN will 7e give me yore hand,
Anse Havey. thet II ye finds hit ou'
afore l do. yen tell me thet mans
name?"
'.I amt never turned my back on
"a kinsman yet. Nb." said Anse grave
ly.
The boy nodded his acquiescence
and hurriedly left the room. Juanita
| gently lifted Dawn's head from her
hap and went forward to the hearth.
She had listened in silence. out
ragged at this callous talk and this
private usurpation OF powers of life
| and death. Now 1t seemed to her
that to remain silent longer was al
most to become an accomplice.
Something in her grew rigid. She
! saw the bent and lethargic figure of
| the bereaved wife and the stark, sheet
| ed body OF the feud's last victim. Be-
! fore her stood the man more than
anyone else responsible for such COZ
ditions.
"Mr Havey." she said. as her voice
grew coldly purposeful with the ring
Df oh hat
| you did not mean to let me stay here;
that you did not intend to give these
| poor children the chance to grow
straight and decent"
She paused, because SO much was
struggling Indignantly for utterance
that she found composure very diff
cult. And as she paused she heard
him inquire in an ironically quiet
voice: who told ye that?"
Never mind who told me. l haven't
come here to answer your questions.
came too these feud-cursed hills to
fight conditions for which you stand
as sponsor and patron saint. l came
here to try to give the children re-
lease from ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ig-
norance makes them easy tools and
dupes for murder lords-like you"
| Again her tumult of spirit halted
her and she heard Dawn sobbing with
grief and fright on the bed
Are ye through" inquired Anse
Havey. His voice had the flinty quiet
of cruelty repressed passion, and his
face had whitened. but he had not
moved.
mo. I'm not through" she went on
with rising vehemence. II came here
| seeking to interfere with no mans af-
fairs-wishing only to give your peo-
pie. without price, what they are en-
titled to-the light that all the rest
of the world enjoys. l found the COM
munity bound hand and foot in
slavery to two men of a like stripe.
! found their hirelings numbering each
other from ambush. I'm only a wom-
an, but l carry the credentials of de-
cency and civilization. You two men
have everything else-everything e1-
cept decency and civilization. You
and Milt McBriar!"
| He had listened while the muscles
of his jaws stood out in cramped ten
sity and the veins began TO cord them
selves on his temples. Now he said
in a low voice. between his teeth: BY
heaven, don't linen me to Milt Nc
Briar!"
The girl laughed little Historically
| and wildly. thea swept on:
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-15

grudge-nursin' an hate. Ye couldn't 1
make allowances for tho fact that he'
wasn't Matched in barnyard to peck
at corncobs an berries, but in an
eagles nest-that he's bird OF prey.
Ye couldn't consider the fact that the
KILN instinct runs in the current OF
his blood an was drunk in at his moth.
er's breast. Ye'd Just teach barnyard
lessons to young eagles, an that's why
ye. might as well go home"
CTo BE CONTINuED.J
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
RUN THEM DOWN
Popular Mechanical

lHopular Mechanics.
This country has long been honey
combed with German spies. Every
day or two some person who passed
as business or professional man,
and who has been well regarded, is
caught with the goods" and arrest
ed. Every state, every city, and
every town harbors these agents or
allies of the enemy who are masuue-
rading as peaceable citizens. Our
easy-going, think-no- evil iway makes
smooth sailing for pirate craft, right
into the councils of state and city,
and even our own homes. No coun-
try had ever so we'll organized and
numerous a spy system as Germany
has maintained right here in the
United States under our very eyes
The constantly recurring incendiary
fires, the ingenious lies of endless va
riety, are both part of the same un-
derground system. The Chicago
Herald has printed, run down, end
exploded more than one hundred of
these adroit falsehoods which would
pass muster with most auditors. Here
is where we can all be alert to spot
Sand stop this propaganda. The next
one you hear, run it down to its
source. You will not get far before
you reach some one who can't re-
member who told it. Anybody who
is full of information favorable to
Germany and unfavorable to our
cause. and who can't remember
where and from whom he acquired
this news, will bear watching. Here
is an opportunity for boys and girls,
as well as groWnupS, to run down, To-
cate, and explode this work of the
propagandists.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
Over tie Tofs
;n Pexna.

Everybody in Stroudsburg these
days is dining off bear meat, owing to
the generosity of R. D. Melvin, who
shot the biggest black bruin killed
in that neighborhood in many years.
1t weighed 5O2 pounds and the as
sassinator is so benevolent that he
passed the bear around literally.
The city of Lebanon, as a unit
will join at 8 o'clock Christmas
morning in the song my Country
'Tis of Thee" every one arising
wherever he happens to be. This
is to be n national affair but Leb-
anon has already got the movement
under way. Here is the appeal:
with hearts thrilled with rapture
and gratitude for the blessings that
America has brought to all of us,
though our eyes be jeweled with
tears, let us all join in this great
chorus to exalt our ideals and our
love of the homeland. May we never
forget nine o'clock on Christmas
morn, 1917"
. Lancaster's first prisoner of war
captured by the Germans is John
Kimmel, aged twenty-five years, of
No. 314 Chester street. Kimmel was
q member of the gun crew of the
U. s. s. "Meraldos," sunk by a sub
marine in the North Sea in the first
week of November. No announce
ment of the sinking of the ship has
ever been made by the Navy De-
partment. 81 wish 1 was home" is
all the German censor allowed John
to write to his mother in the first
letter, just received.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
NEWSPAPER ADS. BEST

Nothing equals the daily news
paper as an advertising medium"
This was the statement of c. A.
Brownell, advertising manager of
the Ford Motor Company, to mem
bers of the Chicago Advertising As
sociation, at a recent luncheon.
The daily newspaper is the voice
of the people," said Mr.. Brownell.
1T is the eyes of the multitude.
For the last six years the Ford Com
pany has touched nothing else, and
one year alone we spent more than
S16,OOO,O00 in advertising.
Il have here a most remarkable
comparison of the circulation of
papers as compared with magazines.
have taken fifty-one cities in the
United States and 149 daily news
papers in these cities. The COM
bined circulation of these papers is
15,5OO,O00. have taken the week
ly magazines with the greatest cir
culation in the Nation and find that
in these fifty-one cities the maga-
zines have a combined circulation
of $4,000.
"A page advertisement in the two
magazines would cost $500, an
equal space in these newspapers
would cost less than $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
RUsSIA'S FOOD PROBLEM

There is food enough in Russia,
but the fault Hes in it's distribution,
and this fault may be traced, first
to the long war, and the disorgani-
cation that occurred in consequence,
to the mismanagement of the revolu-
tionary government. Transportation
has diminished in efficiency both
river and rail; so that with long
hauls from the south and east 1t is
difficult to transport enough food
The provinces in the north raise but
little grain. and it is difficult to take
them supplies. AS a result the peo-
pie there suffer from the need of
certain articles, chiefly wheat bread.
There is usually plenty of whole-rye
bread, which is black and soggy, the
rye being ground with stones, end
therefore rather gritty 1t isn't
bread that we could eat, except
ing as last resort; but the Russians
eat it and prefer it to white bread.
This winter possibly, with the riot
ing that has occurred there may be
great dearth of food in Petrograd
and Moscow. People may suffer;
but If the conditions could remain as
they were during the summer there
would be no suffering, or not as
| much as will occur in certain por-
tions of Chicago.
The fact is that I saw fewer evil
dences of malnutrition in Russia
than l see in Chicago. ] saw no one,
| outside the hospitals. who was rot
well nourished, nor did 1 see an in
dividual who was not fairly well
| clothed and well shod. excepting the
beggar who wore the garb that
enc bed him to carry on his calling.
! DR.. Frank Billings in Cartoons
Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
SATURDAY. DECEMBER, 22. 1911
MORE CITY REVENUE

OUNCIL is facing the necessity
of more taxes, abandonment of
~ the municipal ash collection
nIan or higher water rates 1t Is
hard enough to face any one OF THESE
three at this time, but OF the trlo an
advance of water rates is probably
the least offensive.
There has been persistent oount
in the minds of those acquainted
with the facts concerning the WIS
dom of the several reductions OF wa
FER charges in Harrisburg in recent
wears. 1t never did look like goou
business. The saving to the con-
sumer was small. but the aggregate
has sadly crippled the department
and the city government as whole
with wages and coal both going up
and extensions of the system neces-
sarv. it is only fair that, the CITY
being unable to take care of these
from the general fund, the money
be raised by the water department
itself.
AS for abandoning the ash COL
lection system just as it bids talr 10
become really efficient, that will not
be well received. We should not go
hack to the village system of con-
Quoting the city's affairs, and that is
what private ash disposal, with all
it's attendant evils, means. Besides
the city can dispose of ashes much
more cheaply than the private citi-
zen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
THE PEOPLES FORUM

Possibly only two or three in a block.
These were the harbingers of
Christmas.
a few days later counted them
by the scores in a single block. But
n day or two before the day those
floral designs symbolized they were
as numerous as the windows of the
dwellings along the route.
So now, on Monday the 18th of
December, as l walked the streets
of Harrisburg I saw the Red Cross
at many places; but few in dwellings,
not alone in Harrisburg, but in all
the suburban towns and villages
and far into the rural districts. BY
Saturday, Monday and Christmas
Day tens of thousands, yea, tens of
millions of these significant symbils
will greet the passersby and call to
them in service.
When the Jehovah God instituted
the Passover, He said that when
your children ask what that symbol
portrays, you tell them.
Thousands will ask. what does the
Red Cross mean? Tell them. All,
tell them.
Go to the camps, to the trenches,
to the bloody field of slaughter, go
to the homes of the millions of war
cursed, victims, go to the haunts Of
poverty and suffering, go to hos
pitaIs, go, go, and ask.
The Red Cross in the window ad-
vertises that you are heart and dol
lar invested and that you appeal to
others to come quickly and join in
the benignant movement to help suf-
fering humanity.
The immediate blessing the Red
| Cross movement is the relief it car
ries to the millions of sufferers. The
moral influence on all nations will
certainly be revealed under divine
| blessings after this cruel war has
ended, and conditions gradually be
made normal. The conditions will
never be what they once were. Out
of all this stupendous evil, under
Gods blessing, and the hallowet
influence of the Red Cross, the Y
M. c. A. and the church conditions
will be marvelously altered.
May a gracious Providence haster
the auspicious day. Meanwhile le
| the symbol of the Red Cross b,
every where conspicuous and all the
million workers not cease their &C
! tivities.'
REV. c. d. RISHEL.
South Enola, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
MIST no THEIR PART

~ HIPPERS who are justly COM
planning of congested freight
~ traffic are not entirely blame
less. At a meeting Of commercial
body representatives and freight
agents in this city the other day Il
was plainly shown that many cars
are being held on warehouse sidinss
much longer than necessary. Many
consignees are unnecessarily slow In
getting the freight off cars once II
is received. This is a condition that
is uncalled for and must be reme-
died.
The man who receives freight and
lets the car stand longer than Is re-
required to get its contents into his
warehouse is conspiring against rail
road efficiency and is a detriment to
his neichbor who is crying for cars.
The shipper, the consignee and the
railroads all must work together II
the congestion is to be relieved
Chambers of Commerce and Boards
of Trade can perform a distinct serv-
ice in this respect by urging proper
measures upon their members.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
THE AULD SCOTCH WIFE

They say I'm kinda crazy
Sim they sent me the news about
him,
But there's no an hoor o. the day
That I'm no hearin' Jim;
When I'm darnin' their socks
l hear him singin' tae me.
When Jimmie was a bairnie
He was the brawest singer
Y ever heard. His wee room voice
In ony HART wad linger;
And so I'm thinkin' that's the way
I'm aye hearin' him singin' tae me.
They said it was at Arras,
But it's no sac muclSle odds
AS lang's he's gane-he's game,
Lying some place under sods:
But when I'm washin' the dishes
/ hear him singin' tae me.
He was q bonny laddie,
And / thocht that his reid held
Was a, CLINT o. Gods gold glory
When 1 was smilin' and sayin'
"God speed"
Moo even when I'm greetin' aboot
I can hear him singin' tae me.
suppose it's the best aye happens,
And I'll no start findin' fault
With the mercy that's been good TO
me
Or the bullet that said to him
Halt"
For when we're singin' in the kirk
I can hear him singin' wi me.
And whether it's the kirk tunes
or some o. Robbie Burns,
"AuId Hundred" or Sweet Alton"
Ma HART inside O. me burns;
For tho I never see him
/ can hear him singin' tae me.
And IL he's near me all the days
should be glad we're no apairt,
And I'm thinkin' it'll no be long
(The doctors say that it's ma
hairt),
And maybe afore ye ken
| Well bath be singin thegither again
John s. Barnett, in the New York
Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22

Changers appear to be very much
in sympathy with Auditor General
Snyder's effort to cut down payrolls
and to insist upon being shown
necessity for some appointments. 1t
will be recalled that some newspa-
pers and some men who We're very
noisy in approving announcements
OF this sort of action by A. w.
Powell, right - after he became
Auditor General, are now indignant
at Snyder for even making inquiries.
1t All depends on whose OK is gored.
The annual row over whether
Berks county shall pay for meals
eaten by inspectors is on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
CHANGE OF SCHOOL RULES

"HE School Board will take a
long step in the direction of in
creased efficiency of administra-
ton IL it adopts the changes of
school rules outlined in last even
ing's issue of the Telegraph. Gen
orally speaking, they are the recon-
mendations of the experts who made
the school survey a year ago and If
nothing more comes of the survey
than the revisions now under con-
sideration the expense will have
been justified.
Instead of the old hap-hazard COM
mittee administration, all very well
when the board was large in num-
bers and the city small in size, but
very cumbersome and inefficient un-
der present conditions, the various
departments are. to be operated
each by responsible head. all un-
der the authority of the superin-
'tendent of schools, and he in turn at
the command of the board of direc-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
CHRISTMAS OPPORTUNITIES

" HERE appears on another page
of the Telegraph of this issue
a column headed christmas
Opportunities" q list of worthy
homes into which no holiday cheer
may come unless YOU play Santa
Claus to the unfortunates.
The Associated Aids vouches for
each as worthy of your charity. What
are you going to do about it?
With all the war work activities,
and hands stretched forth for our
dollars at every turn, some of us
have forgotten the poor whom we
have always with us-the unfortu-
mates of our own city. There must
be no letting down in this quarter.
The organized charities of the city
are now generally we'll conducted,
but administration amounts to little
If there are no funds to administer.
Governor Lowden, of Illinois, set
forth the need and the importance
of meeting it the other day when
in public statement he said:
Inc large sums or money which
are flowing in for relief work, be-
cause of the war, should not blind
us to the needs of our charities at
home. Some most useful charities
already have closed down for lack
of funds.
European countries engaged in
this war neglected their home
needs, with a resulting increase
in juvenile deliquencies, the
spread of immortality, and new
forms of dependency. We must, at
whatever cost. avoid this mistake.
The war in which we are engaged
is a war for civilization. While
we fight for that civilization up
on foreign battlefields we cannot
afford to see it slip away at home.
| earnestly urge upon all who
have given in the past to home
charities to give again, at least as
much, at whatever personal sacri-
fee. Tt is a time of sacrifice, but
of self-sacrifice, not the sacrifice
of the helpless ones. who need our
fostering care.
Give as the Lord has prospered
thee"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22
THE RED CROSS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
A symbol is a sign of a thing
which it represents. 1t is the i'm
mediate tangible representation of
some event, or some thing, or som e
condition. The lion is the symbol
of strength; the flag is the symbol
of nation; the Christmas tree and
evergreen wreath are the symbols
of tne natal DAY of the worlds Re-
dee.ner.
Ard now, the Red Cross! Why
the red cross and why not crescent
or a shield, or some other sigu? ?
That at once indicates it's true mean
ing. The cross on which the
gracious Eedecmer was crucified and
rel the sacriticial blood that stained
the ragged cross on Calvary.
1t means the Christian devotion of
self f-denial, of sacrifice, of cheerful
service for humanity.
From it's earliest incipiency dur
ing the perilous days of Miss Clara
Barton up to the present time and
Cross is the symbol of what it rep
resents. 1t represents the Red Cross
movement and all it's attending be-
nignant forces and moral influences
over all mankind-over Jew, Gentle,
Mohammedan and heather.
What does it all mean? The Red
Cross is as conspicuous as the twin
king stars on the darkest night. Why
so conspicuous at the present time ?
The horror of war has called the
Red Cross to tremendous service
to immediate service, to untiring
service.
Why the conspicuous display OF
the Red Cross symbol?
Years ago while residing in Phila.
delphia, eight or ten days before
Christmas, while riding on the troll.
ley cars, my attention was attracted
by the display in resident windows
of floral wreaths or other designs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-22

Out of the hundred millions which
Congress gave to the President for
eXigent war expenses, he has given
George Creers Committee on Public
Information s1,s5O.OoO. This is not a
large percentage of the total sum at
the Presidents disposal: but il is
wholly out of proportion to any genu-
inc service which the committee has
rendered to the people. No detailed
items have been presented to show
what Mr. Creel has done with all of
this money; but it is very plain that
a committee cannot be stated with
any large number of dollar-a-year-
men