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brought TO the attention of officials IN
high places where the charges would
do most good. The details of the story
were to be held in reserve for publicity
in case the muckrake magazines should
try to make capital of the report of
Elliot.
Kusiak found much time for gossip
during the long nights. It knew that
Macdonald had gone on the bond of
Elliot in spite of the scornful protest
of the younger man. The case against
the field agent was pending. Pursuit
of the miners who had robbed the big
mine-owner had long ago been dropped.
Somewhere in the North the outlaws
lay hidden, swallowed up by the great
white waste of snow.
The general opinion was that Mac
was playing politics about the trial Of
his rival. He would not let the case
come to a jury until the time when a
conviction would have most effect in
the States. the gOssips predicted. They
did not know that he was waiting for
the return of Wally Selfridge. The
whispers touched closely the personal
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CHAPTER XIX.
In the Dead of Night.

In the Dead of Night.
While Kusiak slept that night the
wind shifted It came roaring across
the range and drove before it great
scudding clouds heavily laden with
sleety snow. From dark till dawn the
roar of the wind filed the night. Be
fore morning heavy drifts had wiped
out the roads and sheeted the town in
virgin white unbroken by trails or fur
rows.
With the coming of daylight the
tempest abated. Kusiak got into its
working clothes and dug itself out
from the heavy blanket of white that
had tucked it in. By noon the bust
ness of the town was under way again.
That which would have demoralized
the activities of a Southern city made
little difference to these Arctic Circle
jewellers. Roads were cleared, paths
shoveled, stores opened. Children in
parkas and fur coats trooped to school
and studied through the short after
noon by the aid of electric light.
Dusk fell early and with it came q
scatter of more snow. Mrs. Selfridge
gave a dinner-dance at the club that
of great variety and much value. The
hostess outdid herself to make the af-
fair the most elaborate of the season.
Nobody in Kusiak of any social i'm
portance was omitted from the list OF
invited except Gordon Elliot. Even
the grumpy old cashier of Macdonald's
bank-an old bachelor who lived by
himself in rooms behind those in which
the banking was dOne-was persuaded
to break his custom and appear in a
rusty old dress suit of the vintage of
'95.
The grizzled cashier-his name was
Robert Milton-left the clubhouse
early for his rooms. 1t was showing,
but the wind had died down. Contrary
to his custom, he had taken two OF
| three glasses of wine His brain was
excited so that he knew he could not
sleep. He decided to read don
| Quixote" by the stove for an hour OF
| two.
Arrived at the bank, he let himself
| into his rooms and locked the door. He
stopped to open the draft of the stove
when a sound stopped him halfway
The cashier stood rigid, still crouched
waiting for a repetition of the noise
| 1t came once more-the low, dull rasp
ing Of a file.
Shivers ran down the spine of Mil
ton and up the back of his head tt
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HOLD WOOL IN THIS COUNTRY
War Trade Board Takes Steps to
Meet the Requirements of Both
the Army and Navy

Restrictions governing the exporta-
ton and Importation of wool were
frightened recently by the war trade
board with view to conserving Amer
lean supplies and checking the increase
in prices, which have risen 2UO per
cent
No commodities containing wool will
be permitted in future to leave the
country, it was announced. if, in the
judgment of the board. the wool is
needed for the uses either of the army
or the navy.
Importers before they can obtain IL
censes Will be required TO Gfg7 an
agreement that they viii sell no wool
to persons other than manufacturers
and that they will give the govern
ment an option TO purchase all wool
imported at price per cent less
than the price that obtained for the
same grade July 80, 1917.
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Shopping Made Easy.

No longer must the married man
spend frenzied hours trying to match
silks over the counters of the depart
ment stores The government has de
cided that the sufferings OF the silk
matching husband are just too horri-
bic and is planning to alleviate them
by Standardization. Soon Henry Will
be able TO order E-67S5 and carry 1t
home to Jane with the absolute GER
tainty that there viii be no comeback.
The magic mechanism Is the colorime-
ter, q device which Is being perfected
by the United States bureau OF stand
ards. The vibrations OF hght-which
determine color-wiil be thrown onto
one plane by the colorimeter and split
up. Definite color standards so de
termined will be used In grading crude
oil and paints as well Is color fabrics
l-MiIastnna-
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the roots of his hair Somebody was
in the bank-at two o'clock in the
mOrning-with tools for burglary He
was a scholarly old fellow, brought up
in New England and cast out to the
uttermost frontier by the malign trag
edy of poverty. Adventure offered no
appeal to him.
But though his knees trembled be
meath him and the sickness of fear
was gripping his heart, Robert Mil
ton had in him the dynamic spark that
makes man He tiptOed TO his desk
and with shaking fingers gripped the
revolver that lay in 4 drawer.
The cashier braced himself for the
plunge, then slowly trod across the
room to the inner, locked door The
paIsied fingers of his left hand could
scarce turn the key.
It seemed TO him that the night was
alive with the noise he made in turning
the lock and opening the door. The
hinges grated and the floor Squeaked
beneath the fall of his foot as he stood
at the threshold.
Two men were in front OF the wire
grating which protected the big safe
that filled the alcOve to the right. One
held q file and the other a candle.
Their blank. masked faces were turned
| toward Milton, and each of them COW
cred him with a weapon.
'W-what are you doing here?7
quavered the cashier.
drop that gum" came the low
sharp command from one of them.
Some old ancestral instinct in the
bank cashier rose out of his panic to
destroy him. He wanted to lie down
quietly in a faint. But his mind as
serted its mastery over the weakline
body. In spite of his terror, of his
fiaccid will, he had TO keep the faith
He was guardian Of the bank funds
At all costs he must protect them.
His forearm came up with q jerk
Two shots rang out almost together
The cashier sagged back against the
wall and slowly slid TO the floor.
The guests of Mrs Selfridge danced
well into the small hours. The Cali
fOrnia champagne stimulated a gayety
that was balm to her soul. She want
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How did you persuade Tim Ryan to
lend you his huskies?''
''Why don't you take a paper and
keep up with the news, son? These
huskies don't belong to Tim"
Meaning that Dir. Gideon Holt is
the owner?''
you've done guessed it, admitted
the miner complacently.
He had a right to be proud of the
team 1t was a famous one even in
the North 1t had run second for two
years in the Alaska sweepstakes TO
Macdonald's great Siberian wolf
hounds The leader, Butch. was the
hero of a dozen races and a hundred
savage fights.
what in Halifax do you want with
1.-The whole outfit must have cost a
small fortune"
''Some dust" admitted Gideon proud
~. He winked mysteriously at Cor
| don. 81 got a use for this team, if
| anyone was to ask you"
Haven't taken the government mail
contract, have your"
'Not so you could notice it. I'll tell
you what want with this team. as the
old sayin' is" Holt lowered his voice
and narrowed sIyly his IittIe> beadlike
/ eyes. I'm going to put a cfimp in
| Colby Macdonald. That's what I aim
to do with it,
'fHow?"
The miner beckoned Elliot CLOSED
and whispered in his ear.
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work for me and / know It will help
others If they will give it q fair trial -
Mrs LIZZIE COURTNEY, los 9Th Ave,
West, Oskaloose, Iowa
Why viii women drag along from day
to day, year IN and year out, suffering
such misery IS did Mrs. Courtney, when
such letters as this are continually being
publishedf Every woman who suffers
from displacements, Irregularities, in
fammation, liberation, backache, ner-
vousness, or who is passing through the
Change OF Life should give this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, trial For
special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co, Lynn, Mass. The result
Of its long experience is at your service
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affairs of Macdonald. The report of
his engagement to Sheba O'Neill had
been denied, but it was noticed that
he was constant guest at the home
of the Pagets. Young Elliot called
there too. Almost any day one or other
of the two men could be seen with
Sheba on the street. Those who want
ed to take a sporting chance on the
issue knew that odds were offered sub
rosa at the Pay Streak saloon of three
to one on Mac.
Sheba rebelled impotently at the
situation. The mine-owner would not
take mo" for an answer. He wooed
her with q steady, dominant persist
ence that shook even her strong
will. There was something resistless
in the way he took her for granted
Gordon Elliot had not mentioned love
to her, though there were times when
her heart f1uttered for fear he would
| She did not want any more cOmplica-
tons. She wanted to be let alone. So
when an invitation came from her
| little friends the Husteds, signed by all
three of the children, asking her to
come and visit them at the camp back
of Katma, the Irish girl jumped at the
chance to escape for a time from the
decision being forced upon her.
Sheba pledged her cousin to secrecy
until after she had gone, SO that Miss
O'Neill was able to slip away on the
stage unnoticed either by Macdonald
or Elliot. The only other passenger
was an elderly woman going up to
the Katma camp to take place as
cook.
Later on the same day Wally Sell
fridge, coming in over the ice, reached
Kusiak with important news for his
chief. He brought with him an order
from Winton, commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office, suspending Elliot pend
ing an investigation of the charges
against him.
Oddly enough, it was to Genevieve
Mallory that Macdonald went for con
ISOLATION when he learned that Sheba
had left town. He had always found
it very pleasant to drop in for a chat
with her, and she saw to 1t that he
met the same friendly welcome now
that a rival had annexed his scalp tC
her slender waist. For Mrs. Mallory
did not concede defeat. If the Irisf
girl could be eliminated, she believed
she would yet win.
His hostess looked up at him with &
hooking little smile.
"Rumor says that she has run away
my lord. Is it true?''
Eyes. Slipped away on the stage
J this morning"
That's a good sign. She was afraiC
to stay"
It was a part of the fiction between
them that Mrs. Mallory was to Civ
him the benefit of her advice in hi!
? wOoing of her rival She seemed t.
1 take it for granted that he would a
last marry Sheba after wearing ava,
] the rigid Puritanism of her resent
| ment.
:. Macdonald had never liked her s.
well as now. Her point of view wa
r so sane, so reasonable. It asked 70
g no impossible virtues in a man. Their
e was something restful in her genia
k derisive understanding OF him. Sh
s had a silent divination Of his mood
/ and ministered indolently to them.
do you think so? Ought to 70
e low her?' he asked.
8 She showed a row of perfect teet
l. in low ripple of amusement. The ST
r uatiOn at least was piQuant, eve
q though it was at her expense.
e No. Give the girl time. Catch he
e impulse on the rebound She'll b
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KIDNEY SUFFERERS HAVE
FEELING OF SECURITY

You naturally feel secure when yen
know that the medicine you are about TO
take Is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful OF habit producing drugs
Such medicine Is Dr.. Kilner's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence Is maintained In every
bottle OF SEamp-Root-
Swamp-Root is scientifically compound
ed from vegetable herbs.
It Is not a stimulant and il taken In
teaspOonful doses
It Is not recommended for everything.
According to verified testimony It II
natures great helper IN relieving and over
coming kidney, liver and bladder trou-
bles.
a sworn statement Of purity Is with
every bottle sf Dr.. Kilmers Swamp
Root.
If you need medicine, you should have
the best
IF you are already convinced that
SEamp-Root Is what you need, you VIII
find It on sale at al drug stores IN bottles
Of two sizes, medium and large
However, If you wish first 10 Try this
great preparation send ten cents 70 Dr.
Kilmer & Co, Binghamton, n Y, Tor q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper-Adv-
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WERE TWO GREAT STATESMEN
Bismarck and cavour, Men OF the
Highest Genius and Most Profound
Diplomatic Skill.

At nearly the same date the world
beheld an empire of Germany and
kingdom of Italy revivingsthe old gio-
ries of distant past and giving a ma
tfonai character and a national spirit
to millions who had long cherished
common language and common habits
of life.
Two great statesmen were foremost
in the achievement of that splendid his
torical result, Bismarck in Germany.
Cavour in Italy, says the Youths Com
panion. Both were men of the highest
genius, of wide insight, of profound
diplomatic skill and of indisputable
patriotism. But their aims were total
~ different. Bismarck had no faith in
the people and sought TO make an alb
sOlute empire on the medieval model
of fixed classes, each working in its
sphere for the good of the state, and
the whole eliminating in a God ap-
pointed, God supported monarchy. Ca
YOUR, although he believed it best to
retain the monarchical form, worked
from the beginning to establish thor
oughly modern democracy; govern
ment that should be essentially Of the
people, by the people and for the peO-
pie.
Bismarck summed up his theory of
government in the celebrated phrase
that power must be sustained ''by blood
and IRON" Cavour said of himself In
| q phrase far more deserving OF ce-
lebrity, 81 am the child OF liberty, and
to liberty I owe all that I am" The
hearts of modern Germany and modern
Italy are disclosed in those two say
ings of their greatest sons. and we can
see today what different results are
produced by different teachings.
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SH1u PAINS a q
nothing seemed 70
do me any good A
friend advised me
to take Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. I
did 50 and got re-
lief right away. I
can certainly re-
commend this Vslu-
able medicine to
other women who
suffer, for 1t has
1ora anch good
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IN MISERY
FOR YEARS
Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia E
PmkhaIn's Vegetable
Compound.

Oskalooss, Iowa" For years was
simply In misery from Q weakness and
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merry capable of handling 100 hides
daily is needed In China
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Farm information is the secret OF
farm inspiration
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Their Idea.

what is the principle Of repeating
rif1esl'' ST suppose 1t is TO make every
shot tell on the enemy"
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A man. loves to be rated as @A-1."
but there's the draft list
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The Particular Time.
%You say you worship met When
do you do it,"
dearest. in my idol moments"
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Macdonald was no sIuggard. 1t was
his habit not to let the pleasure OF the
night before interfere with the bust
ness OF the morning after. But in the
darkness he oversight and let the town
waken before him. He was reused by
the sound Of knocking on his door.
sEWho is it2s he asked
'It's Gopher Jones. Say,
Mac, the bank amt open and we can't
rouse hilton. Thought I'd come TO
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
ICuiCura Soap
Is Ideal
For the Hands
WHEN YOU THINK FLAGS

Think of Factory PFIc0
Same price - before the war.
Then write to N for catalogue
a HERICAN FLAG MFG. CO.. EAston, Pa
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ed her dinner-dance to be smart, to
have the atmosphere she had found in
the New York cabarets. If everybody
talked at once, she felt they were hav-
ing a good time If nobody listened
to anybody else, it proved that the af-
fair was q screaming success.
Mrs. WaIly was satisfied as she babe
her guests good-by and saw them pass
into the heavy snow that was again
falling. They all assured her that
there had not been so hilarious q party
in Kusiak.
One old-timer, a trif1e lit up by rea-
son of too much hospitality, phrased
his enjoyment a little awkwardly.
ITS been great, Mrs. Selfridge.
Nothing like it since the days of the
open dance hail."
Mrs. Mallory hastily suppressed an
internal smile and stepped into the
breach How do you do it," she
asked her hostess enviously.
my dear, if you say it was a sue
cess"
what else could one say2"
Genevieve Mallory always preferred
to tell the truth when it would do just
as we'll Now II did better, since II
contributed TO her own ironic sense of
amusement. Macdonald had once told
her that Mrs. Selfridge made him think
of the saying, Monkey sees, monkey
does.' The effervescent little woman
had never had an original idea in her
life.
Most OF those who had been at the
dance slept late. They were obliviOus
of the fact that the storm had quick
ened again into a bowling gale Nor
did they know the two bits. OF news
that were passing up and down the
main street and being telephoned from
house to house. One of the items was
that the stage for Katma had failed TO
reach the roadhouse at Smiths Cross
ing. The second bit OF news was local
For the first time since Robert Milton
had been cashier the bank had failed
| to oDen on the dot.
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started to go through Belgium und
Wiped der WOmens und children so
easy l meier imagined dose otfel ignor-
ant Americans would force demselfs
upon US and insist on coming ofer to
Germany-right into our own belofed
land. Had taught of such a tings l
belief never would hat started. Und,
oh, my son, wouldn't it be otfel if dey
would do to Germany just vat We did
to Belgium and France? 1t almos'
kills me to tink about such tings.
Und right now dey are on our belofed
soil. How can de be so rude ven
dey were nefer invited to come here?
Dey say some Of our men hat met der
American ruffians near Metz. Und
vat you tink dey said? 1t makes der
vet salt water tears come to mine eyes
to tink about it-dey said dey vas
coming on to Berlin. AS l told you
before l do not want to meet 'em ven
dey get here so l must close immed-
lately, as | will run just like you be-
fore l will hat anytings to do nit dose
nasty Americans.
Your lofing ladder in hastiness,
VILLYUM.
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Lieut.. Bob" Mitten, Aviator, Report
ed Missing in Farnce.

The Independent received copy of
the Saskatoon, Sask., Star, with the
picture of Lieut.. R. C. Mitten, former
ly of Minot, who is reported missing
in France, where he has been fighting
the Huns. Lieut.. Mitten, or "Bob"
Mitten, as he is known by his old Mi
not friends, was employed as clerk at
the Leland hotel in this city for many
years. He left this city six or seven
years ago and ran hotel at Cut
Knife, Sask., and farm at Colville,
Sask.
He has father at Vancouver, a
brother, Hughie, at Saskatoon, two
brothers at Colville, and sister, Mrs.
w. Murison, at Punnichy.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force
in 1917 and received preliminary
training at Fort Worth, Texas, under
the famous Cant. Vernon Castle. Lat
err he finished his aviation training at
Montrose, Scotland.
He has been missing since Sept. %.
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Logan Hit Hard by Influenza.

The influenza has struck the village
of Logan, located down the 500 line
nine miles from Minot, exceptionally
hard. Of the fifty inhabitants, all but
three either are ill with the epidemic,
or have had it. Miss Sarah Hecker,
Mrs. Geof Hecker and Mrs. Gard are
the only inhabitants of the village
who have escaped and they were kept
up night and day nursing the victims.
There have been three deaths, Jesse
Howard, the elevator manager, James
Egan and his 15-year-old daughter,
Gladys. Edward Neiss, the banker,
and his babe are reported seriously i'll
at this writing, while another Of
James Egan's daughters is reported
critically i'll.
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KAISER ANSWERS SONS LETTER

Feeling that the touching letter of
the Crown Prince to his father which
has been published in several of the
state papers, requires a reply from
Papa Kaiser, the Valley City Times
Record editor last week had an inspi-
ration and assisted the Kaiser by writ
ing the following answer for him:
Rotterdam Palace, Oct. 1, 1918:
hardly know how to address you
dis ledder. as your last vas dated on
der run. However, I am sure it will
catch you somevere between der Hin
deredburg line und der Rhine. Would
advise you to hurry back to der Rhine
as soon as possible, as dose rough
Americans seems to be after der whole
bacon as we'll as der Rhine. do not
blame you in der least for not wand
ing to associate nit dose Americans.
l understood dey are now calling you
der Clown Prince. Such rudeness--
vat? Why should dey call you such
a names? Keep sway from dem as
far as possible. Dey tell me dose Am
orleans are insisting dey are coming
to Berlin to pay der respects to me.
If you get close enough to one of dem
just tell him if der day efer comes
when an American gets to der pal
ace der will be non ow de Clown
Heads on der reception committee. 1t
may be dose Americans means us
harm What if dey should get to Ber-
lin before we know it But if der
worst comes to the worst, my dear
son, you should remember you should
stand between your lofing fadder and
danger. What would der German peo-
pie do if der divine ruler should be
killed?
Und don't you let dose rough Amer
leans fool you about dat song dey
sing-what you call 81 won't be back
til it's ofer ofer derc." No stree,
what dose deceivers means is dat deg
won't go back till it's ofer ofer here.
Anyhow that is just der way dey act
l am getting suspicious about de &C
tions. Vat ?
Und anoder ting, my dear son, dose
Americans dey are so deceiving-you
can't believe a ting dey say to YOU.
Before dey got into dis var dey want
ed peace. Of course dey did not say
what kind of peace dey wanted, but |
belief what dey really want is piece
of Germany. But be dat as it may;
Why did dey get into dis var? Ger
tainly We did not want e min. All We
did vas sink der Loosetania-und vas
it our fault dat tousand or two peo-
pies und der children get drowned?
Why didn't dey svinm to der shore wild
der babies? Und ven We blowcd up
der ships nit food und odder things
on 'em it vas not because We did not
love der Americans--ve had to have
something's to feed der peoples We cap,
tured. Just so! Why did dey get mad
as such fiddle tings as dat? Vat?
At dat time dey said dat dey wanted
piece. But dey hat changed der mind.
Now we offer dem peace und vat do
dey say? Vat does PRESIDENT wilson
say? He is de worst deeciver OF der
whole American race. ! belief ne IS
der very one vich wants pice OF Ger
many.
Tell dose Americans We wants
notings to do nit 'em. When We
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Plenty of Grub in Sight.
Frank Leslie from Carpio writes
that threshing is completed in the