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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
Copyright by Harper q Brothers
CHAPTER XIV-Continued.


Heaven knows! Out In the barr
or under the house." Taking advan.
tage of the dressmakers momentary
absence from the room, Paloma con.
tlnued In a whisper: II wish you'd tall;
to dad and see what you make Of him.
He's absolutely-queer. Mrs. Strange
seems to have peculiar effect on him.
Why, it's almost as if"
"What"
"Well, suppose I'm foolish, but
I'm beginning to believe In spells You
know, Mrs. Stranges husband Is sort
of-necromancer."
'How sillyw
There was no further opportunity
for words, as the woman reappeared at
that instant; but a little later Alaire
went in search Of Blaze, still consid-
erably mystifled. AS she neared the
farm buildings, she gimpsed a mans
figure hastily disappearing into the
barn. The figure bore suspicious re-
semblance to Blaze Jones, yet when
she followed, he was nowhere to be
seen.
"Mr. Jonesw Alaire called. She re-
peated Blaze's name several times;
then something stirred. The door of
harness closet opened cautiously, and
out of the blackness peered Paloma's
father. He looked more owlish than
ever behind his big, gold-rimmed spec
tacles. "What in the world are you
doing In there?" she cried.
Blaze emerged, blinking. He was
dusty and perspiring.
Hello, Miz Austin!" he saluted her
with a poor assumption of breezlness. |
II was fixin' some harness, but I'm |
right glad to see you"
Alaire regarded him qulzzically.
What made you hide?" she asked.
Hide? Who, me?"
Il saw you dodge In here like a
gopher"
Blaze confessed: II reckon I've got
the willles. Every woman l see looks
like that dressmaker."
"Paloma was telling me about YOU
Why do you hate her so?"
II don't know IS l hate her, but her
and her husband have put jinx on
me. They're the worst people I ever
see, Miz Austin"
"You don't really believe In such
things?"
Blaze busted off a seat for his yisi-
tor, saying: Il never did till lately,
but now I'm worse than a plantation
niger. l tell you there's things in
this world we don't sabe. / wish you'd
get Paloma to fire her. I've tried and
failed. | wish you'd tell her those
dresses are rotten"
But they're very nice; they're love-
~; and I've just been complimenting
her. Now what has this woman done
to your"
1t seemed impossible that man of
Blaze Jones' character could actually
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
WANTED
STRONGHOLD OF THE BEAVER
Largest Colony In Existence Making n
Last Stand in Businesses of
Southern Rockies.

Far up In the Businesses of the
southern Rockies, hidden In one of the
most inaccessible hooks that remain
In this country today, what is proba-
bly, the largest existing colony of beav-
er, has established itself for a last
stand.
The beaver was once one of the most
abundant of our American animals, but
the ease with which he was trapped
and the value Of his fur soon drove
him far on the road to extinction. Soon
only the most stringent of protective
legislation was able to save him, but
now he seems to be Coming back"
and wherever he finds a favorable To-
cation he increases rapidly.
There Is no better place In the world
to study the interesting habits of this
little animal than in that little hidden
mountain valley just south of the Col
orado line which the Mexicans have
christened "Lagunitas" and the Ameri-
cans call Beaver Lakes" The valley
nesties against the very backbone of
the continental divide, 10000 feet
above sea level, and from every side
II Is approachable only y long and
toilsome forest travel, except in win
ter, when 1t is not approachable at all.
The hollow in the mountains crest ia
dotted with irregular rows and minia-
ture ranges of hills, two and three
hundred feet high, that make up a
most bewildering topography.
In among these hills the beaver have
built them a city. The landscape Is
ideal for the building of their dams.
and by throwing barriers of stick and
mud from hillside to hillside they have
created dozen big lakes, some of
them half a mile long. Along the
shores of these lakes are built the
beavers lodges. There are probably a
thousand beaver in this community.
reigning in undisputed supremacy over
their mountain domain. They are shy
brutes, but very early In the morning
ana just at sunset you can often sur
prise them cutting the quaking aspen
on the bank with their chisel teeth or
plastering away industriously at one
OF their elaborate dams.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
CHAPTER XIV.
An AWakenind

Time was when Phil Strange boosted
that he and his wife had played every
Playground and seaside amusement
park from Coney island to Galveston.
In his battered wardrobe trunks were
parts of old costumes, scrapbooks Of
clippings, and a goodly collection of
Autographs, some advertising the su-
pernatural powers of Professor Magi,
Sovereign of the Unseen World" and
others the accomplishments of mile.
LIE Garde, Renowned Serpent Enchan-
tress." In these gaudy portraits of
"Magi the Mystic" no one would have
recognized Phil Strange. And even
more difficult would 1t have been to
trace a resemblance between Mrs.
Strange and the blond, bushy-headed
Mile. LIE Garde" of the posters. New
ertheless, the likenesses at one time
had been considered not too flattering,
and Phil treasured them as evidences
OF imperishable distinction.
But the Stranges had tired of public
life. For long time the wife had
confessed to a lack Of interest in her
vocation which amounted almost to q
repugnance. Snake-charming, she had
discovered, was far from an ideal pro-
feSsion for woman of refinement. 1t
possessed unpleasant features, and
even such euphemistlc titles as "Ser-
pent Enchantress" and "Reptilian
Mesmerlst" failed to rob the calling
of a certain odium, a suggestion of
vulgarity in the minds of the more
discriminating. This had become so
distressing to Mrs. Strange's finer
sensibilitles that she had voiced
yearning to forsake the platform and
pit for something more congenial and
finally she had prevailed upon Phil
to make a change.
The step had not been taken without
but benign Providence
had watched over the pair. Mrs
was natural SeamStress, and |
luck had directed her and Phil to n
which was not only in need
of good dressmaker but peculiarly
ripe for the talents of sootbsayer.
Phil, too, had intended to embrace
new profession; but he had soon dis
covered that Jonesville offered better
returns to man of his ac-
cepted gifts than did the choicest of
seaside concessions, and therefore he
had resumed his old calling under a
slightly different guise. Before long
ne acknowledged himself well pleased
with the new environment, for his wife
was far happier in draping dress goods
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harhor crude superstitions, and yet
there was no mistaking his earnest
ness when he said:
II amt sure whether she's to blame
or her husband, but misfortune has
folded me to herself"
"How?"
swell, I'm sick"
"You don't look It,"
II don't exactly feel II, either, but
l all. / don't sleep good, my hearts
actin up. I've got rheumatism, my
stomach feels like I'd swallowed some
thing alive"
You're smoking too much," Alaire
affirmed, with conviction.
But skepticism aroused Blaze's in
dignation, With elaborate sarcasm, he
retorted: II reckon that's why my best
team of mules ran away and dragged
ME through ten-acre patch of grass
burrs, Ell? It's wonder / wasn't
killed. l reckon I smoked so much
that | give tobacco heart to the best
three-year-oId bull In my pasture
Well. ] smoked him to death, all right.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

upon the figures Of her customers than
hanging python folds about her own,
and he found his own fame growing
with every day. His medlumistic gifts
came into general demand. The coun-
try-people journeyed miles to consult
him, and Blaze Jones' statement that
they confided in the fortune-teller as
they would have confded in a priest
was scarcely an exaggeration. Phil
did indeed become the repository for
confessions of many sorts.
Contrary to Blaze's belief, however,
Strange was no Prince of Darkness.
and took little joy in some of the Sc
crets forced upon him. Phil was
good man in his way-so conscientious
that certain information he acquired
weighed him down with a sense of un-
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
USES TOMATOES AS WEAPONS
Woman Vendor Also Effectively Bonn
bards kimonoed Customer With
the Scale Weights.

The high cost Of things generally
including tomatoes-Was directly re-
sponsible for the loudest case heard In
the YOrkville court, a case rejecting
the difference in shopping tactics to be
observed in various segments of
large city, says the New York Herald.
Mrs. Anna Saconne was present In
cerise Klmono and bandages to COM
plain of the commercial tactics of
Mrs. Concetta Fasano, a travelling sales
woman for tomatoes According to
the evidence, Mrs. Saconne was COM
planning Of the price and condition
of the tomatoes sold by Mrs. Fasano,
when she suddenly received one
pound weight in the direct center of
the forehead, and was subsequently
bombarded with other weights ranging
from a quarter of pound to three
pounds, after which q deluge of toma-
toes wrecked another azure blue XII
mono which Mrs. Saconne wears when
tomato shopping.
"Why this?" asked the magistrate
of Mrs. Fasano.
"She buy notheeng and tall-a too
mooch," explained Mrs. Fasano. "If
she joost buya sometheeng an walk
away, all right, shut up, but she no
buys sometheeng and says averytheeng
ees no good. slappa da face; she
talks. I trow da weight; she talks.
trow da fruit; she talks. She talk,
she talk, she talk. She no buy soom-
fheeng; she talk, she talk, she talk.
How mooch?"
give dollars" answered the mag
strate, and the fine was paid.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
Door Comparatively Modern.

Who invented the dow no one
knows. 1t is, however, an invention of
comparatively modern times. All the
ancient houses, even the houses con-
tanning doorways, had no doors. Fab
RIGS or skins of animals were hung
across the doorways to keep out the
elements.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

! Probably 1t was nicotine poisonln' that
killed twenty acres of my cotton too
and maybe If I'd cut out tobacco I'd
have foated that bond issue on the
irrigation ditch. But [ was welded to
cigarettes, SO my banks are closin'
down on me. Sure! That's what a
man gets for snokin'."
"And do you attribute all these mis-
fortunes to Paloma's dressmaker?"
The man nodded gloomily. THAT
amt half! Everything goes wrong.
I'm scared to pack weapon for fear
I'll injure myself. Why, I've carried
bowie knife in my bootleg ever since
l was babe in arms, you might say
but the other day l jabbed myself
with 1t and nearly got blood poisonin'.
This fellow, Strange, with his fortune
tellin' and his charms and his conjures,
has hocus-pocused the whole neigh
borhood. He's gettin' rich off of the
Mexicans. He knows more secrets
than parrot"
"He is nothing more than a circus
fakir, Mr.. jones'
"Yes'm! Just the same, these greas-
ers ID vote him into the legislature if
he asked them. Why, he knows who
fetched back Ricardo Guzman's body
He told me So
"Really?s Alaire looked up quickly,
then the smile left her face. After a
moment she said, perhaps he could
tell me something l want to know?"
mo, don't you get him started"
Blaze cautioned, hastily, "or he'll put a
spell on you like he did on me-"
II want to know what Ed had to do |
with the Guzman affair.""
Blaze shook his head slowly. "Well,
he's mixed up somehow with Lewis.
Dave thinks Tad was at the bottom
of the KILN, and he hoped to prove
it on him; but our government won't
do anything, and he's stumped for the
time bein'. I don't know any more
about Eds dealin's than you do, Nliz
Austin; all | know is that l got SER
pent in my household and I can't get
shed of her. I've got lapful of
troubles of my own"
"This is too occult for me-" she de-
dared, rising. "But-Im interested in
What you say about Mr.. Strange. If
he Mexicans tell him so much, perhaps
lie can tell me something. I do hope
'ou have no more misfortunes."
you stay to supper" Blaze urged
hospitality. 'Ill be in as soon as that
gone"
But Alaire declined. After a brief /
hat with Paloma, she remounted
lontrose and prepared for the home I
ward ride. AT the gate, however, she S
act Dave Law on his new mare, and
1hen Dave had learned the object of |
er visit to Jonesville he insisted upon
ccompanging her. .
1t was early dusk when they reached f
as Palmas; it was nearly midnight q
hen Dave threw his leg across his S
addle and started home. h
Alaire's parting words rang sWeetly
his ears: 'This has been the pleas c
ntest day | can remember"
The words themselves meant little n
ut Dave had caught wistful under =
me In the speakers voice, and fancied
e had seen in her eyes a queer, half I,
'ightened expression, as of one just q
wakened. >,
Jose Sanchez had beheld Dave Law
the Las Palmas table twice within Ut
few days. He spent this evening la NJ
oriously composing a letter to his &c
lend and patron, Gen. Luis Longorio. II
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
A Poor Financier.

He-We'll have to give up our in
tended trip. My account at the bank
Is already overdrawn.
She-0h, John, you are such
wretched financier. Why don't you
keep your account in bank that has
plenty of money?
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

A little lad came in the grocery store
for a five-cent head of lettuce. The
clerk was removing the withered
leaves and told the boy they cost ten
cents, whereupon he remarked, Cant
you take off few leaves and make it
five cents?"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
HoW's This ?

We offer $4,000 for any case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is TAX
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c. Testimonials free
F. ]. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

Theodore had learned from his play.
mates that the Murphy family had ten
children, each being two years older
than the one before, you know the
Murphies; well they got ten shilren.
Each kids two years older than each
other; they go by ages"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
Cossack Superstition.

Among the numerous superstitions
OF the Cossacks there Is q belief that
they will enter heaven in better state
or moral purity If they are personally
clean when killed In battle.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

Now some scientific sharp says
there are styles in emotions" ST be.
lieve it. | know some women who al.
ways wear their dignity rufIled."
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
WASALLRUN DOWN
Faulty Kidneys Caused Acute Suf-
fering. Completely Recovered
Since Using Doan's.

Mrs. Harry A. Lyon, s st. William
St, s. Boston, Mass, says: 'Doan'S
Kidney Pills have surely done me
wonderful good. About two months
prior to the birth of my baby, had
two commissions and was taken to a
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
WRONG DIAGNOSIS.

Omar-Miss Hazel tells me she has
blue blood in her veins.
Aimee-She's mistaken. She has II
only In her mind.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

hospital. Doctors said
the commissions were
due to my kidneys not
working properly.
II had swelling of
the feet and ankles
so that | had to wear
large sized slippers.
My back sched in
tenSelY. I WAS merry
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

tSAioSAJB was ilCi " aAANS' AAv"s
GUS and unable to sleep. / also suf-
fered from awful headaches and felt
weak, tired, languid, and run down.
"After / came home friend sug-
gested that I try Doan's Kidney
Pits, and got some. soon noticed
Improvement; my back became
stronger and I felt better In every
way. | kept Oh taking Doan's and
was cured. They are surely reliable"
Mrs. Lyon gave the above state
ment in May, 1915, and ON March
II, 1917, she said:
my cure has lasted. take Doan's
occasionally, however, as a strength
ener for my kidneys"
Get Doan's at Amy Store. Soc Box
DO a MS KIDNEY
@~ ~ a n a ~ PILLS
FosTER-MlLBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27
Not ALWAYS.

'Talk is cheap"
mot when it's love talk with q wit
ness handy"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-10-27

rs she good nurseY
"She must be; she's awfully home
ly."-The Lamb.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
MEDINA GIRL IS
ATTACKED and
HER HAIR BURNED

Mis-. Christine stormburg. en-.
ployed by ,. u. Lincoln. u grocer
nj Medina, across Lake Wash
iDgtop. n In n critical condition
Saturday nv the result 81 mys-
trrious attack on her late Fri
day night by two men M she
approached her home, after =
visit 10 Seattle.
Miss RtormburR had stepped off
the last boat. leaving Seattle short.
~ after midnight and was approach.
ing her home. when within about
200 feet Of her front door man
jumped At her throat from behind,
and threw her TO the ground. shs
was gagged. but struggled fierceiy.
breaking away from her aHsailant.
She dashed 20 the house. and upon
entering tho front door. was attack
ed by "a second man. who burned her
hair badly with n flame that shot
up quickly.
After tussle she broke away
and reached for tho electric light
fixture near the door.
She was unable "a give a very
good description OF either OF tho
men. Deputy Scott Malone is work
Ing on the case.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
POISON
when CAUGHT
WITH STUDENT

CHICAGO. Nov. 2s-Mrs Fife
Logan. said 20 be wife % Prof. Wal.
ter Logan. Cleveland music teacher.
10 IN Francis willard hospital IN a
serious condition an result Of
swallowing antisop,ic tablets.
According 10 the police. Mrs. 10.
gan was found by private detectives
last night with Harry u. Whitcrost.
one 81 her husbands pupils. in a
room at the Hotel Morrison. She ia
sald TO have taken poison after the
discovery.
Mrs. Logan IL alleged TO have dis.
appeared from Cleveland two days
ago. 1T was an accident. we had
no intention OF meeting here" dc.
clared Whiteroft today. II came 10
Chicago on business. and was walk.
ing down tho street whom | met n
woman. We registered at the no
tel. Then ahc left and / happened
to meet Mrs. Logan She was Wis.
ting me last night when detectives
came 81
a woman who said she was Mrs.
Daisy Hartwig. OF Chicago was In
tho room when the detectives ap.
pcared. She refused 10 explain her
connection with the case.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
WOMAN KILLS
SELF BY JUMP
FROM HOSPITAL

Nine Eienore Nlemtrinovitz. 30.
a Polish iaundresn AZ the Providence
hospital. hurled herself TO death
from the sixth floor 90 the concrete
walk az the entrance OF the hospital.
nth ave. and ". Jefferson 1T. at 7
O'Clock Saturday morning.
Two months ago Mrs. Niemtzino.
vitz came 10 the hospital and volun'
tecred her services for charity. Her
fellow workers say abe had been
despondent over the war. and tina,
she has a'son serving in the Rus
slan army. No one knows very
much about her.
a card found on her person. print.
81 in French. stated that she was
going 10 give concert. She was
an accomplished pianist.
No ono Witnessed tho suicide. bu,
T. Brady. the nightwatchman heard
the duh thud OF tho body as IL hit
the concrete. and. with the aid OF
several nurses. carried the body into
tho building
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
Repatriated by Gen. Byng,
French Peasants Laugh and
Cry for Joy on Battlefield

Women pushed baby carriages FIJI.
ed with babies and packages ola
men and boys trundied makeshift
pushearts bearing all their earthly
possessions ono grandfather
strained 20 roii along "a vehicle the
wheels OF which had done service on
a German aeroplane.
Tommy Helps FIN
Young girls bent under tho load
OF heavy sacks on their tired backs
Here and there a Tommy. ono OF
tho countless thousands who had
perhaps marched miles and waited
hours with his ss pounds ot equip.
mcnt strapped on---siagRercd along,
submerged under bundles and Hacks
hs was carrying for the infiffn. the
aged. or the worn-out.
one Philadelphia boy. driving an
ambulance. filled his car with boxes
and bundle. and perchei feeble. old
men and women on them. Many Of
that miserable company. their tired
eyes cleaning fcvcrishly. told me
they would rather bc homeless. no
roof above them. rain soaked.
bound they knew not whittier as
they were then--than 10 continue In
the comparative comfort OF the days
before the resurrection. living
among those who had raped IN. ma.
ton.
II was no, all drab. however Even
tho most exhausted. with that in.
domitabls energy that IL inherent In
tho French peasant. and with tired
out nerves newly strung with JOY
ana gratitude. chatted volubly.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs

United Press Correspondent
WITH THE british Ar
MIXES IN FRANCE. Nov. "a
The glory that was Of the resur.
rection was In the eyes Of = pitt
full procession that tramped the
byways OF the war out Of Can.
tainE today.
Frances peasants. little ntorekecp'
ers. village officlais--plain people
after wars waves had receded. IL
war the procession OF the repatriat
ed. those mlracuiously restored TO
the soil Of their beloved France and
freed from Puss!an slavery.
simms First Civilian Here
Tho United Press correspondent
was IN. first civilian % enter Can.
tAinE from tho allied side for close
onto four years. I me, tho process
sion just outside. it's vanguard start
Ing last night IL passed hour by
hour IL constituted all tho remain
Ing civilians OF CantninE
They glanced at my correspond
en,s unlform--thought mo-a British
officer and every man. woman and
child gave some expression OF tho
gratitude that was IN their hearts 90
their dsliverrrs.
Already on thu road for - hours
covered with mud from hsad TO foot
Tired. bcreft OF all nve what they
carried or dragged. tho procession
was nj enc, a column OF misery and
os Joy.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
HEAVY CASUALTIES
OF FOE REPORTED

ny UHifed Press Leased WHe
ROME. Nov. 7t.---faiiurs OF pow.
erful enemy thrusts delivered on the
front from the Aslago plateau 10
tho Bronta river In the face OF the
stubborn Italian resistance. was re.
ported In today's official statement
on tho Lower Piavc. the war OF.
flee reported extremely heavy on.
envy casualties. Tho groups OF Ger.
mans ana Aus,risna attempted TO
cross the river In small boats. They
were subjected TO n terrific fire Of
artillery machine guns ana rifles
from tho Italian defenders. many
boats being turned over by tho vio-
ienco Of tho defense.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-11-24
UP TO LUNDIN, SAYS
Attorney GENERAL

By United Press Leased Wire
OLYMPIA, Nov. 24.---It IL up to
Alfred IL. Lundin to start custer pro-
ceedings against the Merchants Pro-
tective corporation. according to =
letter sent 20 Charles Il. Riddell. OF
the Seattle Bar association, by Attor.
ney General Tanner Friday.
Tanner points out that. under the
decisions, the state has no right to
start such proceedings. II, after the
prosecuting attorney has started
such proceedings. the state deems
that II Is justified and needed. 1t will
lend It's aid
The attorney general suggests that
the association committee present its
evidence TO Lundin.
This matter rests with tho state
examining board, and 1t Is believed
taht the action OF the Seattle Bar AS
ISOLATION grievance committee, in
asking for the custer of the Protec-
tive corporation. will cause the board
TO start disbarment action.