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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

/; is related yiaa, when : veterinary
surct~,n aas u!s>v called as witness
Ia i cal >e 10 prove t.-s, aoE>s. was a
"Faa.cC' the oi's.esia- cV&Qssl. in his
lcs...y>: tatv>. saS4 ~ TIE aig-s-s> II
!ur Ssy TIA. nay c,i...;'s ao-sss was "A
'r&rrr, JUS f,'p7ssca; - The iar1 the
S2yi &: ats.>c he iUS,i,s.~ "No~ said he
witness. 'SoU must understand that
ta4t = na; my sGSn,~Ss- Noa. Il you
VII, l'c tie ht,rSc aat ulasc the aossr.
!. ~s . veterinary sa:-rNsa, will sxI'sxs,
-. vi-..icu ~ t~ whether yoa asv a
~. sry' ~ ,au: -t'arga snl iiusAe.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10
TkE couS-PrS NEED.

There j, aJ Sa,a lt.ag IS ra-s3sfIe
row" SAID N.l.&ta l.pL'nsa Es. 49,.
sjasrs,.t.s E,rt.9N sE.rs-~!:y sta,ls-i.is a.
s.!d ae a'a1,. tur ,aailoE,r i~ .r,Ah.-
lstton 40 the ground tia, IN ;,4.s e-t~!S
ouT eu0n;ry a,e&> ,a@4s Lea VIA
",3,Aa sad aulr,A-.;.taE.ag araiaS. .lssa
W.:a steady U,rNrs 4I4 ,ausC!pS~
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

ile.ith ASH god looks 80 h2.nLin-
band. A-.l The WOMAN xho wishes IN
rstain aer youth will never leck hassis
. .lh ,Eorfy. Tbs fog~ruBD<f vi old ago
- the taet drawing of the littis nfrseA-
Zach ,liae th%y .nccesJ In gaining eoss-
trvl. axe has won . tr~aeh fresa youth-
NoFry Ioo aft~a takes the form q. self
pity ansi Ia. wossAn vts suffers irVsn
This Beslrsisn can ena ~ ssfsr ro1sscay
t-aa ~ .4..ez~ss Asrsel1 n sasytASsin
ll...~a4s. - ExgAAnaa
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10
ut,l,nlny.

4 lot OF misguided R'puhlican
editors think thai 1t would b,'
dIsluyal to discuss natinua! poll
{ - nj the present nom"nt. We.
however, are not SO squcanI-h.
The party IN power Is playing
politics aS well Us making war.
and anticipates II long run Of
public favor as the war party,
that is, IL the war IS a success.
|! not, il viii play politics some
more by trying 10 lie out of it,
and laying the blame on the Re.
licaps. '"lraitorous" or not,
we're for turning the Democrats
out at the first opportunity,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10
Tough Oh Otis.

Tho following "a appeared n
y small Illinois daily recently.
Lost On street car FRIDAY
night at Peterson Park. ladies
datiI blue serge coat .ui,. huod
with hight roiorrd satin. Mrs
DtS Moore has worn IL SO long
everybody knows II. WA You
please call phone ullH VIII pay
tor Your tru8h.e. Mrs. OTIS
Mnnre
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10
LIQUID BREAD ccsTLv.

Liquid hrvad" Is os>,sv. S~se'.iJe
declares 10. :. :u&n woSii ssse ~
saai.uw daily it'S s..s>.s = ssrs. al,
= ,~1s; - s = ,. sss.,.a. lie a...,.-.a.
~ protocols aeV>i,>i. ~ - s.asSe-s -
t,l..s,SA he Cs'A-'s, al.a.e->.~
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

One of EuG!and's big men re.
marked tie o,h"r day that WI.
son would dictate the peace
terms at the c, Inclusion of ihr
war. This is about the way il,
will be dictated John Bull,
well, Sam, you done fine;
much obliged. You'd better go
home now
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

\ man III California is said 10
have discovered process by
which the gasoline outpu, can
be increased twelve fold. We
await the details.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

The United States is being
called upon 10 feed a.! Europe.
How easy We could have ended
the war, instead Of getting into
Ii, If we hadn't been prcjuiiced.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

Uncle Sam may rot go busted
on this war, but he's digging in,
to his pile pretty deep.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

1t now appears that while Gov.
ernor MAJOR danced lot CT his
political friends were raiding
the states cash drawer.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10
OUR FLAG.

The Kaiser. by general con.
census OF opinion. isn't licked
yet-but just wait.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

To our way oi hooking NJ il, II
still appears singular and in
cousistcni that the man who
shouts for war should be q pa
tr.ut. while The man who speaks
OF peace is "A traitor. II man.
Kind could only get i.s ideas Of
PATRIOTISM based upon peace,
wcl! IL" to let sign would bc
hung On the munitions factories
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10


TX Warden Met lung Of the
MIssou. prn,tcntiary has been
indlctcu ,l connection with III"
graft di!,.,urcs IL Jeff City.
|, would br a Lard irony Of fate
should Met.unG. as the out
gone 81 this charge, hrd him
self an inmate ot tlc IN :!,u,,un
where he oarn ruicd as master
Bu, he nprdu', worry alnu, that,
good Democrats in NJ sSuuri
are rarely brought 10 face sucll
uLlnuMy.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1917-10-10

We are still anxious TO hea.
from Mr.. Hoover. He must have
dropped off to sleep.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
"Oh, my God," said Meade, 'this is

"Oh, my God," said Meade, 'this is
more than I can bear"
"I don't want to force you to do any
thing you don't want to do and you
are not in any mood to discuss these
things" she said in quick compassion.
"Some day you will come back to me-"
He stretched out his hands toward
her over the grave.
II don't know" he cried. II dare
not hope"
"With love like ours" she answered,
"all things are possible"
II can't bind you. You must be free" ;"
he said slowly, turning his head.
"You are breaking my heart, but I
shall live and fight on for love and
you."
"God bless you.''
"You are going away?" she asked at
last.
II must break with everything. I
must give you your chance Of free
DOM"
"Very WE'LL" said the woman. "Now
hear me. You can't 60 so far on this
earth or hide yourself away so cum
ningly but that I can find you and
maybe follow you. And i will. Now,
I must go. I left my car down the
road yonder. Will you go with me?"
The man shook his head and knelt
down before her suddenly and caught
her skirt in his grasp. His arms swept
around her knees. She yielded one
hand to the pressure of his lips and
laid the other upon his head.
"Go now," he whispered. "for Gods
sake. If I look at you I must follow"
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

and the letter had not been discoveries
anyway. He did not even regret the
bold falsehood he had uttered or tho
practical subornatlon Of perjury OF
which he had been guilty in drawing
out and accepting and emphasizing
Shurtliff's testimony.
There had been no inquest over his
fathers death. The autopsy had
showed clearly heart failure. he had
not been compelled to 60 on the witness
stand and under oath as to that. AL
though, If that had been demanded, he
must needs have gone through with 1t.
Indeed so prompt and public had been
his avowals of responsibility that he
had not been seriously questioned
thereon. He had left nothing uncer.
tain. There was nothing concealed.
He had inherited a competence from
his father. 1t was indeed much more
than he or anyone had expected. He
had realized enough ready money from
the sale of certain securities for his
present needs. The remainder ne
placed in Shurtliff's care and few
days after the funeral, having settled
everything possible, he took train for
the West.
The whole world was before him.
and he was measurably familiar With
many portions Of it. He could have
buried himself in out-of-the-way cor.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
CHAPTER. x.
The New Rodman,

There are no more beautiful valleys
anywhere than those cut by the waters
Of primeval floods through the foothills
Of the great snow-covered Rocky noun
tains. The erosions and washings Of
untold centuries have flung out in front
Of the granite ramparts Of succession
Of lower elevations like the bastions Of
a fortress. At first scarcely to be dis
tinguished from the main range in
height and ruggedness these ravelins
and escarpments gradually decrease in
altitude and size until they turn into
a series of more or less disconnected,
softly rounded hills, like outfung
earthworks, finally merging themselves
by gradual slopes into the distant
plains overlooked by the great peaks
Of the mountains.
The monotony Of these pine-clad,
wind-swept slopes is broken even in
the low hills by out-thrustings Of stone,
sometimes the hard igneous rock, the
granite of the mountains, more fre-
quently the softer red sandstone Of a
period later, yet ineffably old. These
cliffs, buttes, hills and mesas have
been weathered into strange and fam
tastic shapes which diversity the land
scape and add charm to the country.
The narrow canons in which the
snow-bed streams take their rise grad
ually widen as the water follows its
tortuous course down the mountains
through the subsiding ranges and out
among the foothills to the sandy, arid,
windy plains beyond. At the entrance
Of one of the loveliest of these broad
and verdant valleys, a short distance
above its confluence with a narrower,
more rugged ravine through the hills,
lay the thriving little town OF Coro-
nadO.
Some twenty miles back from the
town at a place where the valley was
narrowed to a quarter Of mile, and
separating it from the paralleling ra-
vine, rose huge sandstone rock called
Spanish Mesa. Its top, some hundreds
of feet higher than the tree-clad base
Of the hills, was mainly level. From
it's high elevation the country could be
SScu LUZ udAy llAACS, AAoAAIAAAo OAA oAS
hand, plains on the other. It stood
like an island in sea Of verdure. Lit
tie spurs and ridges ran from it. To-
ward the range it descended and con-
tracted into a narrow saddle, vulgarly
known as 'hog-back," where the
granite of the mountains was hidden
under a deep covering Of grass-grown
earth, which formed the only division
between the valley and the gorge or
ravine, before the land, widening, rose
into the next hill.
The people came from miles away
to see that interesting and curious
mesa, much more striking in its ap-
pearance than Baldwin's knob, the last
foothill below it. Transcontinental
travellers even broke journey to visit
it. The town prospered accordingly,
especially as it was admirably situated
as q place Of departure fox hunters. e.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

He Debated With Himself Whether Ie
Would Not Be Better to End Ie
Than to Live.
ners Of far countries, in strange conti-
nents. These possibilities did not at
tract him. He wanted to get away
from, out Of touch with, the life he had
led. He wished to 60 to some place
where he could be practically alone,
where he could have time to recover
his poise, to think things out, to plan
his future, to try to devise means for
rehabilitation, If it were possible. he
could do that just as we'll, perhaps bete
| ter, in America than in any place else
And there was another reason that
held him to his native land. He would
still tread the same soil, breathe the
same air, with the woman. He did not
desire to put seas between them.
He swore to himself that the free.
dom he had offered her, that he had in
deed forced upon her unwilling and re"
jecting it, should be no empty thing 50
far as he was concerned. he Wovlo
leave her absolutely untrammeled. He
would not write to her or commune
cate with her in any way. He would
not even seek her to hear about hee
and Of course as she would not know
whittier he had gone or where he was
she could not communicate with him.
The silence that had fallen bstween
them should not be broken eveG for
ever unless and until Ah, yea h0
could not see any way to complete that
unless and until" ut first, but perhaps
after q while he might.
He knew exactly where he would go
Dick Winters, another classmate and
devoted friend ut Cambridge, had gone
out West shortly after graduation. Ho
had q big cattle ranch miles from
railroad in a young southwestern state.
Winters, like the other member Of the
youthful triumvirate. Rodney, was =
bachelor. He could be absolutely de-
pended upon. He had often begged
Meade to visit him. The enginee4
would do it now. He knew Winter1
would respect his moods, that he would
let him severely alone, that he could
get on q horse and ride into the hills
and do what he pleased, think out his
thoughts undisturbed.
To Winters, therefore, he had gone.
He had an idea that his future would
be outside Of engineering. Indeed he
had put all thought of his chosen pro-
fcssion out of his mind and heart, at
least so he fancied. Yet, spending an
idle forenoon in Chicago waiting for
the departure Of the western train, he
found himself irresistibly drawn to the
great. steel-framed structures, the sky
scrapers rising gaunt and rigid above
the other buildings Of the city.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

est distance between two cardinal
points, and one Of the great transcon-
tinental railways bought it and began
improving it to replace it's original
rather unsatisfactory line.
The long wooden trestle which
crossed the broad, sandy depression in
front of the town, the bed Of the an
cient river, through which the Picket
Wire and further down its aff1uent, the
Kicking Horse, flowed humbly and
modestly, was being replaced by a
araat yiaduct Of s*ael. Far uQ the
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
CHAPTER lX-Continued.

"Shurtliff," said the young engineer,
after the mound had been heaped up
and covered with sods and strewn with
flowers and the workmen had gone, Il
have left everything I possess in your
charge. You have a power Of attor-
ney to receive and pay out all moneys {;
to deposit, invest, and carry on my fa-
TIERS estate. The Office is to be closed
and the house is to be'sold. My will,
in which I leave everything to Miss H.
lingworth, is in your hands. You are
empowered to draw from the revenue
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
al Want to Stay Here Little While
by Myself"

of the estate your present salary so
long as you live. If anything happens
to me you will have the will probated
and be governed accordingly"
''Mr. Meade" said the old man, and
he somehow found himself transferring
the affection which he had thought had
been buried beneath the sod on that
long mound before him, to the younger
man. He had loved and served
Meade all his life and he began to see
that he could not stop now, nor could
he lavish what he had to give merely
on a remembrance, ''Mr. Meade" he
said, "where are~you going and what
do you intend to do?''
'T don't know where shall 60, or
what I shall undertake eventually"
said the man. 'I'm going to leave
everything behind now and try to get a
little rest at first"
"And you will keep me advised of
your whereabouts
"Perhaps-I don't know. One last
injunction: you are not to tell anyone
the TRUTH
"God forbid" said Shurtliff, Eve
have lied to preserve the honor and
fame of him we loved who lies here"
"Don't render our perjuries Of nom
effect.V
II will not, sir. haven't found that
paper. I guess it was destroyed"
II presume so. And now, gOOd-by."
"Aren't you coming with me?'
II want to stay here little while by
myself"
Shurtliff turned and walked away.
When he reached the road, down which
he must go, he stopped and faced about
again. Meade was standing where he
. had been. The old man took of his
hat in reverent farewell.
Meade was not left alone. Beyond
the hillside where his father had been
buried rose clump Of trees. Bushes
grew at their feet. A woman-should
man be buried without woman's tears?
had stood concealed there waiting.
Helen nlingworth had wept over the
.dreariness, the mournfulness of it all.
She had hoped that Meade might stay
after the other went and now that he
was alone she came to him. She laid
her hand upon his arm. He turned and
looked at her.
'I knew that you would be here" he
said.
"Did you see me?''
"Lfelt your presence"
"Listen," said the woman. "You are
wrecking your life for your fathers
fame. A man has right perhaps to
do with his own life what he will, but,
when he loves a woman and when he
has told her so and she has given him
her heart, did it ever occur to you
that when he wrecks his life he wrecks
1ers, and has he right to wreck her
Afs for anyone elze2"
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
CHAPTER xI.
The Valley Of Decision.

nc vauSy OI OSSSoiOUs
Much water had run under the
bridges Of the world and incidentally
over the wreck Of the International,
since that bitter farewell between
Bertram Meade and Helen nlingwotth
over the grave of the old engineer. Life
had seemed to hold absolutely moth
ing for Meade as he knelt by that low
mound and watched the woman walk
slowly away with many a backward
glance, with many n pause, obviously
reluctant. He realized that the lifting
of hand would have called her back.
How hard it was for him to remain
quiet; and, finally, before she disap-
peared and before she took her last
look at him. to turn his back resolutely
as If to mark the termination Of the
situation.
Father, fame, reputation, love, taken
away at one and the same moment! A
weaker man might have sent life to fol-
low. In the troubled days after the
fall of the bridge, his fathers death,
the inquests, his testimony and evil
dence freely given, and that parting,
something like despair had filled the
young engineers heart. Life held moth
ing. he debated with himself whether
it would not be better to end it than
to live it. He envied his father his
broken heart. Singularly enough, the
thing that made life at least value
was the thing that kept him from
throwing it away-the woman.
Striving to analyze the complex
emotions that centered about his losses
he was forced to admit, although 1t
seemed q sign Of weakness, that love
Of woman was greater than love of
fame, that in the balance one girl out
weighed bridge and father. That the
romance was ended was what made
life insupportable. Yet the faint, vague
possibility that it might be resumed If
he could find some way to show his
worthiness was what made him cling
to it.
Of course he could have showed
without much difficulty and beyond
peradventure at the inquest over Abb
bott and the investigation into the
cause of the failure of the bridge-un-
fortunate but too obvious-that the
frightful and fatal error in the design
was not his and that he had protested
against the accepted plan, If only he
had found the letter addressed to his
father. But that he0would neve& a
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

in line Of promotion has been given the
level. One of the men went East last
night. You can have the job, which
is-
" don't care anything about the de-
tails" said the man quickly and gladly.
"It's the work want
"Well, you'll get what the rest do,"
said Vandeventer. "Now, as you just
ly remarked, have found that it Is
not polite out here to inquire too close
ly into a mans antecedents and I have
learned to respect local customs, but
we must have some name by which to
identify you, make out your pay check,
and"
"Do you pay in checks?"
mo, but you have to sign check"
"Well, call me Smith,"
Vandeventer threw back his head
and laughed. The other man turned
little red. The chief engineer observed
the CLINT in his new friends eye.
''I'm not exactly laughing at you." he
explained, "but at the singular lack Of
inventiveness Of the American. We
have at least thirty Smiths out of two
hundred men on our pay roll, and 1t Is
a bit confusing. Would you mind Sc
lecting some other name?"
IF it's all the same to you," an
nounced the newcomer amusedly-the
chiefs laughter was infectious-"Im
agreeable to Jones, or Brown, Or"
eve have numbers of all of those,
too."
"Really," said the man hesltatingly,
II haven't given the subject any
thought"
"What about some Of your family
names?"
''That gives me an idea," said the
newcomer, who decided to use his
mothers name, "you can call me Rob
erts."
"And 1 suppose John for the prefix"
"JOhn will do as we'll as any, am
sure"
1--WE have about fifty Johns. Every
Smith appears to have been born
john"
"How did you arrange it?' asked the
other with daring freedom, for q rod
man does not enter conversation on
terms Of equality with the chief en-
gineer.
II got little pocket dictionary down
ut the town with list Of names and 1
went through that list with the Smiths.
dealing them out in order. Well, that
will do for your name," he said, max
ing @ memorandum in the little book
he pulled out of his flannel shirt pocket.
He turned to q man who had come up
to the level. "Smith," he said-"by' the
way this is Mr.. Claude Smith, Mr.. Rob-
crts-here's your new rodman. You
know your job, Roberts. Get to work."
And that is how Bertram Meade,
few months after the failure Of the
great bridge, once again entered the
ranks Of engineers, beginning, as was
necessary and inevitable, very low
down in the scale.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
A man Of Meade's ability will
soon find a place for himself in
any environment, and SO it Is
with the young engineer. His
new start In life is described
in the next instaIlment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Sweet, Young. Thing.

In q local theater, one evening re-
Gently, a powerful spotlight revealed z,
house fly crawling over the powoere&
surface Of a pretty girls back. "Oh,
lookie," whispered little girl, in tones
that could be heard all about her.
"lookie at the f1y!" '.Hush, DEAR" ths
child's mother cautioned: There was .
moments silence, then the little gilf
aeain whispered hoarsely: II spec ths
fy thinks he - q q naEshma1loH. -
lkcAa1RA
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1917-01-12
BR0UGfI IS GOVERNOR
Broush Became Governor ef trkan-
sas Y ednesday tftern0on-0thef
Officers Sworn In.

Little Raef. 8rk.. fe-Before one q
the largest crowds ever gathered To-
gether here TO attend a gubernatoral
inauguration, Governor Charles Hill
man BFough TOOK office today
Governor Brough made his iaaue-
uration speech before a JOINT session
Of the legislature this afternoon rs
remarks constantly were interrupted
b. applause. Because Of the unusual
enthusiasm the address required more
than three hours-a record-bat he
held hs audience throughout with
ease.
s tense situation developed al. the
JOINT morning session, when the re-
firing governor, George W. Hays, just
before delivering his farewell mes
sage, told the legislature and the aud
fence that he senate had refused t
permit :, special messenger To Tile a
lis i appointments he had made
since the last session Of the legisla-
tare The appointees in question in
chde Or. J. D. Southland OF Fort Smith
to the tuberculosis sanitarium board
and J. ". kuykendall, also Of Fort
Smith, to The state board Of eduta-
ton.
Turning 70 President Davenport.
aho Was pres dine, Hays asked for
permission to file the appointments.
Davenport ruled him out Of order
Broueh WAS sworn IN Immediately
af5er Hays concluded MS final ad-
dress The other state officers. IN
Guiding John D Arbuckie Of Fort
Smith. attorney general, were then
sworn.
Many laws teadine to the social
tetterment Of the state, including re
aulatidn Of liquor imports and eXs
cIasion Of liquor advertising from
newspapers. the calling Of eoastitut-
ional convention, fletatien OF $780,
Gee bonds To place the state on a cash
bass, revision Of the assessment and
taxation laws, and enhancement Of the
state railroad commission making 1t
a public utilities comm ssioa,. were
among the recommendation Of Cover
nor Charles Hillman Brough N his
inaugural address To the Forty-first
legislature today The address IN full
made about 25. GOO words.