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to reload. David leaped to the top of
the bank and braced himself for the
onset. AS the dubbed rifle of the out
law rose above his head, David swung
his own upward to meet it. They
crashed together and splintered with
a shock; and in the same second, fling
Ing the broken stock away, the mighty
arms of Simon Girty flung themselves
around David.
With the strength of desperation,
David strOve to oppose the terrible
sinews. Back and forth over the
frozen grass the two men fought like
beasts, heaving, struggling, stumbling
Dver roots, locked in an embrace as
deadly as that of the cougar. But 1t
could not last long; David felt his
strength ebbing under the terrific
strain and his breath grew short and
gasping; when suddenly the earth gave
way beneath their feet and with last
despairing effort David twisted him.
self above as they toppled OVer the low
bluff, and the fight was over. Girty,
falling underneath, had struck his head
upon a stone; and his arms relaxed
their hold.
David stood up, painting.
Girty lay very still. But David
knew that he must make sure that the
man was dead before he could be safe
himself. He felt in his girdle for his
knife; but it had fallen out during the
struggle. Clambering up the bank
again, he saw it lying on the ground
and as his fingers closed upon the
handle he thought he heard a sob. He
turned his head quickly.
"Toinette"
The name burst from him in the
completeness of his establishment, in
the revulsion of his despair, in his
mighty joy, like the cry of the soul
itself.
Toinette was leaning against the log
from behind which Girty had risen. ex-
hausted by the effort she had made to
free herself from the thongs that
bound her feet and hands. A sob had
come from lips drawn in utter weari-
ness and despair.
He was beside her.
"Save yourself" she murmured faint
ly, there are Indians comingw
He kneeled and cut the thongs that
bound her ankles and then those of her
wrists. AS she tried to stand. she
swayed weakly and tainted. There
was no time to lose: he lifted her limp
form upon his shoulders and ran stag
geringiy in the direction of the troops.
He could never overtake them-the
marching column and the slow-moving
wagons must be mile away by now.
He stumbled on with desperate exer-
ton. He reached the winding creek
again, laid down his unconscious bur-
Gen and dashed the icy water in Toi-
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BITS OF INFORMATION
100000

Philadelphia has 100000
school children.
Chicago has 6,0S6 lawyers, a
gain of 22S in a year.
Cleveland has 100000 street
car riders daily.
China yearly imports $4,000
600 worth of various kinds of
leather.
Color blindness is said to
have been discovered by the IA
nous Doctor Priestly in 1777.
The tusks of an African ele-
phant sometimes weigh as
much as 100 pounds, and reach
nine feet in length.
One hundred and fifty hosiery
and knit goods mills in Phila-
delphia produce $15,000,OOO
worth or material annually.
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Windmill Pudding.

The new draft had just arrived in
France and the men were exchanging
notes with the old hands.
''Do they feed you well out here?"
asked one of the raw hands.
"Oh, not at all bad" replied the cam
naigner-"not at all bad Good break
fast and good dinner, and always pud-
ding after dinner"
pudding, Ell? What kind of pud-
ding today?"
"Oh, the usual kind-windmin pud-
ding!"
"Windmill! What sort is that?"
"Why, if it goes round you get
some"
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to meet them as they neared the town !:
women ran among the men even as
they marched and flung their arms
around the necks of brothers, fathers,
husbands, though some sought in vain
for those who would never return,
or threw themselves with weeping be-
side the bodies of those who lay upon
the filters. But hundred hearts were
happy and thanked God; and happiest
of all was a little old man, Patrice
O'Bannon, who strained his daughter
to his breast and kissed her again and
again with tears mingling with his
kisses; for she had been brought back
to him as from the grave.
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Storm Breaks.

Young Doctor Elliott, lying prone on
his blanket on the hewn logs OF the
floor of COnrOds tavern, stirred uneaS-
lily in his sleep. Outside, the artillery
of the last thunderstorm of the autumn
rumbled and crashed above the steady
rush of the rain. A hand fell upon the
latch and the door burst open before
the fury of the wind. Elliott woke to
find the rain driving into his face. He
was about to rise TO close the door
when the whole room was struck out of
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Poison Liners.


going back to his work at the trading
house of Francois Vigo. But he stayed
there only a week or two before his
loneliness made existence without a
sight of Toinette an existence not to
be endured. He hated the sight of the
ill-smelling store, with its heaps of
green skins, it's cracking bundles of
furS, hated the sight of the cheerful
HOLSTERS and French who thrOnged the
streets of the old capital, and lOathed
the Wretched Piankeshaw Indians who
slept in the doorway. Suddenly, one
morning, he told old Vigo that he
must leave; and the next day found
him once more in Corydon, where Ike
welcomed him with beaming face.
Still the breach was open! 1t is so
hard for young men and maidens to
lay down their pride!
To Toinette the days were almost
unbearable. David acted like bear
with a sore head, she thought. 1t was
just what she might have expected,
she told herself. 1t is perfectly silly
to be so big and finty, she was sure.
David had never spoken ten words to
her at any one time, since the day he
had knocked everything into cooked
hat by telling her he loved her. Peo-
pie who loved each other didn't act as
they did, she knew; why, whenever
they had been together she felt as
though something tremendous, some
thing bigger than she was, was in the
very air around and on the point OF
exploding. She didn't approve of ex,
plosions, still less of things, nameless
forces, that were bigger than she was
When she had talked to David in the
old days it was like talking to the heart
of one Of those terrible creatures OF
steel, about which Mr.. Livingston had
written her father-that great thrOb
being caldron which they fed with logs
and which palpitated with fury an(
| drove a boat from Pittsburgh to New
Orleans in a month. 1t was bigger
than she was and unmanageable and
it was not at all her idea of love
Whenever she thought about it, that is
to say about the atmosphere which was
Immediately and mysteriously evolved
out of common day whenever DaviC
and she encountered, her eyes filled
with tears Of vexation. AS for being
sorry, that was another matter. If Da
vid wished to be flint, she was perfect
ly capable of being steel. Yet she
thought about him every day.
Her father, for the first time in hel
her. At home, in New Orleans, she
had gone to him with the story OF
each boy who had danced attendance
upon her and he had seen them as she
did and together they had laughed each
cavalier into oblivion; but she found il
impossible to discuss this new problem
with him. It was no use telling hel
father that she was afraid of some
thing she couldn't name. If it was
true that she had trembled from head
to foot when she felt that the sparks
which flashed back and forth from hel
steel and David's flint were danger
ously near a powder mine somewhere
inside her, that was her affair ant
she would have to drown it with hel
own contempt as best she might.
Accordingly, the little old gentleman
who was sincerely troubled by the evi
dent breach between his daughter anG
David, got small satisfaction from
Toinette when he stuck cautious fin
ger into the difficulty. There was
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ACTRESS TELLS SECRET.

A well known actress gives the follow.
ing recipe for gray hair: TO hair pint o.
weter add / or. Bay Rum, small box of
Barbo Compound, and Y OF. of glycerine.
Any druggist can put this up or you can
MY ft at home at very little cost. Full
directions for making and use come IN
each box of Barbo Compound. 1t VIII
gradually darken streaked, faded gray
Sair and make 1t soft and glossy. It Will
NOT color the scalp, is not sticky OF
greasy. and does not rub Oh. Adv.
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Opposed to Woman's Rights.

Patience-You say she's an anti-suf-
fragist?
Patrice-Indeed, she is.
Doesn't believe in woman's rights?'
"No, and her prejudice goes to such
a length that on Christmas eve she'll
never hang up any but the left stock
ing"
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nothing wrong and she was perfectly
happy and if David chose to be a
bear with q sore head that was his
concern and not theirs; and Mr.. O'Ban-
non wisely forbore further attempts to
effect a reconciliation. Ike Blackford,
who remained a stanch friend to each,
was likewise constrained to remain in
troubled silence, he had opened a we'll
meaning mouth to each in turn and
had got no cakes to fill it at either
fair.
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Mot ono Enounh to Reach Here.

BILL see by this paper that China
has the longest National hymn.
Jill-Ever hear 1t?
"Oh, no, I've never been over there. .
"Well, it can't be so awful long If
II hasn't reached here yet"
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Constipation, indigestion, sick-headache
and bilious conditions are overcome by a
course of Garfield Tea. Drink on retiring.
ADV.
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A bad boy seldom inherits his bad
ness from his father. The old man
usually hangs on to all he has.
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Many a would-be poker player made
4 mistake in his calling.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-23


See what happens to the turkey
when it flies south of Mason and Dix
on's line!
Mrs. Duvall of the Dover house in
Maryland vouches for this transforma-
ton:
1.-THE men go off hunting and the
mistress may finish some book she has
been trying to read for the last year
and when the hunters come in, glowing
with the exercise of climbing over the
fields, with twenty or thirty birds, a
dozen or so rabbits and three or four
woodcocks, we all gather in the big,
warm kitchen and pick birds-yes. and
clean them, too-while the men build
a big fire on the huge brick fireplace
in the dining room and one of the
maids sets the table.
"And how beautiful 1t is, with the
dancing light of the pine knots reflect
ing the silver and china in the waxed
mahogany! Then we broil the birds;
yes, we all cook them, basting and
turning them and dripping them with
melted butter, and finally busting with
salt and pepper-fresh ground, it is.
"The candles are lighted, and-nois-
lily, maybe; impatiently, perhaps
knowing the wonderful taste of the
broiled birds. we gather around the
long oval table. Plates of hot biscuits
are brought in, hot coffee with hot milk
is our drink, and great cakes of wild
honey taken from a tree in the woods
where the hunters had found it.
"That is Thanksgiving dinner here.
"And in the kitchen the rabbits are
'skun,' and Aunt Mary, true to her
position as Nanny puts
good lard negroes are not allowed to
use lard; they must fry out fat from
fat back) in three or four iron skill
lets, cuts the rabbits up and dips them
in flour, salt and pepper, and fries
them all brown and crisp-and never
forgets to fry an onion in the same
pan!
Sand when the long table in the
kitchen is set, and the delicious
Drowned rabbit and pans and pans of l
cornbread and the bits of wild honey
that were too broken to be sent in the
house are ready, Aunt Mary asks the
she is very devout-then
silence reigns for while, maybe for
half an hour.
"But finally a mouth organ is drawn
from Joe's pocket, and soon the rhyth-
mic shuttle tells us who have finished
our birds that Rena is dancing; and
we all troop out to see the girls dance,
to see Rena pick de lizard
off de fence"
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SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine. for
durable ailments of the kidneys, liver
and bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thou
sands upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp Root, physicians prescription for
special diseases, makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases. 1t is gen.
tie, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. T., for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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His Home Paper.

What shall you send him when he's
in training camp or over there? A
letter? By all means, that foremost
and oftenest? And after that, what!
Some foolish little knick-knack which
is neither quite ornamental nor en-
tirely serviceable? Or, when in doubt,
will you take lesson from what Rich
ard Henry Dana wrote in 1.-TWO Years
Before the Mast?"
"After all, there is nothing in a
strange land like a newspaper from
home. Even a letter, in many re-
spects, is nothing in comparison with
it. 1t carries you back to the spot
better than anything else"
There is more in this today than
Dana ever put there.-Collier's Week.
ly.
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His Own Words.

With an idea of testing his pupils
knowledge of their mother tongue, a
Boston schoolteacher wrote on the
blackboard the well-known proverb, "a
wink is as good as a nod to blind
horse"
Then he told the class to rewrite
this saying, using their own words, but
retaining the original meaning of the
sentence.
One youngster wrote, "a spasmodic
movement of the optic is as adequate
as q slight indication of the Uranium
to an equine quadruped devoid of its
visionary capacities"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-23
Wealth of Australia.

The recently completed census of
wealth In Australia shows that the
country's net assets are equal to ST.
675 per head of the population. The
migration returns show loss of 279,-
900 males since the war began and
white women now outnumber the men
by $1,000.
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500 Reward. 500

Catarrh is local disease greatly inhu-
enced by constitutional conditions 1t
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys-
TEN. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
destroys the foundation Of the disease,
gives the patient strength by improving
the general health and assists nature in
doing it's work. $4,000 for any case of
Catarrh that HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE fails to cure.
Druggists Toe. Testimonials free.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio.
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HEAL BABY RASHES
That Itch, Burn and Torture With cutI.
cura-TriaI Free.

A hot Cuticura Soap bath is soothing
to irritated skins when followed by
a gentle application Of Cuticura Oint-
ment. Use Cuticura for everyday tot
let preparations to prevent such trou-
bles. After this treatment baby sleeps
mother rests and healment follows.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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All There.

Good heavens The star has for
gotten his lines"
"Oh, well, the leading lady hasn't
forgotten her lines. That gown she's
wearing sets off her figure to perfec-
ton"
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"REALLY, NOW

81 can't take that. / must have Red
Cross Ball Blue. I have used it for
more than ten years. My white
dresses, linens and lace curtains are
snowy white. l simply can't do with
out Red Cross Ball Blue. You will get
It? All right, FL wait. ADV.
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Satisfa ctory.

BESIDES he make a satisfactor
husband?
June-Very-fo her enemies.
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Most amateur photographers prove
conclusively that truth is stranger than
fiction.
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British radicals demand the close or
ganization of the workers against war
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-23

DR.. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for laxative, three for cathartic. AID.
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Sure.

Blotter-What's the matter?
Calendar-Oh, alas, fear my days
are numbered.
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Mistakes will happen-and if fell
low isn't on the job every minute
they'll pile up, too.
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Quite True.

Experience is the best teacher"
"Yes, but time gives us good many
more wrinkles"
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Spending everything you make is a
sure way of getting to the poorhouse.
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Would Like To, Though.
Teacher-Name a bird besides the
ostrich that doesn't fly.
Bright Boy-The jailbird.
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Some men are most laxative when
they have nothing to say.
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No fight is ever over until one side
TO it quits. .
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UnsubstantiaI Returns.

did you raise anything on your
promise to pay?"
ooh, yes; / raised smile"
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important TO Mothers

It's only a tough world to the fel-
low who wants to run ii.
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A Sure Way.

II wish knew how to kill time"
"Why, don't you join an amateur
musical society,""
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Not His Fault.

Boy-Do you work here?
looking.
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GOOD OLD DAYS
''BEFO' De WAH"
Eloquent Description Of a
Southern Countryside
Thanksgiving.

e; ::;; !; s
knowledge is the following:
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WHEN OUR UNCLE
SAM WAS YOUNG
Only twenty-five Nephews
and Nieces at This
Thanksgiving.

TNHIS pretty piece of sentiment
is intended to refer to a dinner
given in 1854 by Uncle Sam to
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shape from kidney trouble" says b.
Reuter-, North St., West Chicago, III.
II couldn't stoop because of the awful
pains in my back and the steady, dull
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-04-03
Proper View Of Life,

Why is it. wonder, that the little
boy almost always imagines that out
side of home is to be found the larger
liberty? Why do young men fondly
dream that yonder,, always yonder, is
to be found business opportunity?
Why does the dissolute man conclude
that, outside the common virtues Of
society, he is to find the larger life?
For you, my son, will sometime find
that your largest liberty was in the
old home, where, if there was author
1ty, there was also deep and abiding
love; and you, my friend, will find
that others succeeded in your home
town, while you failed in the world;
and you, my liberty-loving man, will
most surely realize, that in the COM
mon virtues Of the simply good life
is to be found what you seek in the
by-paths of the world. Find the wealth
that lies everywhere about you. Prac.
tice the virtues that you know. Cher
ish the love that is yours now. Value
the friends that you have known and
In the supesfcial you will find the
profound, and in the simple things
the things eternal.-St. Johns Bulle-
tin
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Joke on Grandfather,

Seven-year-old Willie sat next to his
grandfather at the dinner table and
handed him Il note from the principal
Of the public school requesting the at
tendance Of the grandfather at a meet
Ing of the Parents and Teachers as
ISOLATION. The old gentleman, who is
sond of a joke, pretended to reaC az
follows, Dear Sir: Your crop-eared,
bandy-legged. sniffled-nose boy needs
spanking. There are no shingles In
this school sufficiently heavy for the
purpose. Will you kindly take him
Into the wooaahad and administer
much-aeeded correction?" Everybody
at the table laughed except the young
ster. With perfectly grave face he
said, "Oh, grandfather, I should not
have thought that you would preserve
all these years a note that was writ
ten to your father when you was q
boy"
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COUNCIL IMPOSES
ANNUAL TAX ON
CEMETERY LOST
Continued from page onc.l

A letter from the Pine Bluff com
pany, telling of complaints over the
blowing of the fire whistle at night
and suggesting that the whistle not be
blown after s p. M, was referred tc
the fire committee.
Two Ordinances Pass.
The ordinance raising the salaries
of members of the police department
was introduced, and under suspension
of the rules was given it's three read
ing and was finally passed. 1t fixes
salaries as follows:
Chief of police. s110; assistant chief,
$S5; patrolmen $40; patrol drivers,
$50; stocklnan. sos. This is general
increase of $40 per month.
The council also adopted the
chicken ordinance, after eliminating
the third section, which provided a
fine of from 81 to IS for allowing
chickens to run at large. AS adopted,
the ordinance grants to all property
owners the right to impound Or kill
stray chickens found on any premises
except those of their owners, and it is
expected that this clause will allow
each individual property holder or
tenant to protect his own flower or
vegetable gardens from stray fowl Of
whatsoever kind.
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When the Cir! Proposed.

And have tried to make it clear to
you in every way knew. I've asked
you to this house, times without mum.
Der. I've played tennis with you, and
walked and talked with you, and
ridden your rounds with you in your
bunny old milk wagon. I've simply
thrown myself at your head, day after
day. But you--you wouldn't under
stand. You wouldn't look at me. Nor
listen. You mooned about, and moped
your ridiculous heart out. Because
you thought was such blind, silly
fool, I couldn't look past your prop
erty and your ill-luck, and see how
splendid you really are Because you
thought Twas such q stuckup simple
ton I'd not want to marry you. be-
cause you were q milkman. When I'd
drive your milk cart, I'd chase the
cows tor you, Is You wanted me to-
Woman's Home Compa tinn