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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-04-03

tossed.
Slowly the light of reason came back
into his eyes. Sheba was standing be-
fore him, his rifle in her hand. She
had struck him with the butt of 1t.
"Don't touch him! Don't you dare
touch him" she challenged.
He looked at her long, then let his
eyes fall to the battered face of his
enemy. Drunkenly he got to his feet
and leaned against a willow. His
forces were spent, his muscles weight
ed as with lead. But it was not this
alone that made his breath come short
and raggedly.
Sheba had flung herself down beside
her lover. She had caught him tightly
in her arms so that his disfgured face
lay against her warm bosom. In the
eyes lifted to those of the mine-owner
was an uncomfortable defiance.
"He's mine-mine, you murderer"
she painted fiercely. eff you kill him,
you must kill me first"
The man she had once promised to
marry was looking at a different wom-
an from the girl he had known. The
seft, shy youth of her was gone. She
was forest mother of the wilds ready
to fight for her young, wife ready to
go to the stake for the husband of her
choice. An emotion primitive and
poignant had transformed her.
His eyes burned at her the question
his parched lips and throat could
scarcely utter. $50 you love
him?"
But though it was in form question
he knew already the answer. For the
first time in his life ne began to taste
the bitterness Of defeat. Always he
had won what he coveted by brutal
force or his stark will. But 1t was be-
yond him to compel the love Of girl
who had given her heart to another.
"Yes," she answered.
Her hair in two thick braids was
flung across her shoulders, her dark
head thrown back proudly from the
rounded throat.
Macdonald smiled, but there was no
mirth in his savage eyes. "Do you
know what 1 want with him-why
have come to get him?"
"No."
'T've come to take him back to Ku-
siak to be hanged because he MUIR
dered Milton, the bank cashier"
The eyes of the woman blazed at
him. "Are you mad?"
'It's the truth" Macdonald's voice
was curt and harsh. "He, and Holt
were robbing the bank when Milton
came back from the dance at the club.
The towards shot down the old man
like a dog. They'll hang for it If 1t
costs me my last penny, so help me
God"
"You say it's the truth" she retort.
ed scornfully. "Do you think 1 don't
know you now-how you twist and dis.
tort facts to suit your ends? How long
is it since your jackal had him arrest.
ed for assaulting you-when Wally Sell
fridge knew-and you knew-that he
had risked his life for you and had
saved yours by bringing you to DANES
after he had bandaged your wounds"
"That was different. 1t was part of
the game of politics we were playing"
"You admit that you and your
friends lied then. Is it like you could
persuade me that you're telling the
truth now?"
The big Alaskan shrugged. 'Be-
lieve it or not as you like. Anyhow,
he's going back with me to Kusiak-
and Holt, too, if he's here"
An excited cackle cut into the con-
versation. followed by a drawing an
nouncement from the window. "Your
old tillicum is right here, Mac. What's
the use Of waiting? Why don't you
have your hanging-bee now?'
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sWELIAM Macleod RAIN
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Copyright 1907. By William Macleod Rain.

She ran forward, calling on each by
2sEzEse TO stop. Probably neither knew
shse WIS there. Their whole attention
-ezaz focused on each other. Not for
IN instant did their eyes wander, for
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followed tile stream down. They tray.

followed tile stream down. They tray.
eled steadily without haste. SO long
as they kept a good lookout there was
nothing to be feared from the men
they had left behind. They had both
long start and the advantage of
weapons.
If Elliot had advertised for a year
he could not have found q man who
knew more of Colby Macdonald's past
than Gideon Holt. The old man had
worked a claim on Frenchman creek
with him and had by sharp practice
so at least he had come to believe
been lawed out Of his rights by the
shrewd Scotsman. For seventeen years
he had nursed a grudge against Mac
donald, and he was never tired of talk.
ing about him. One story in particu
lar interested Gordon.
'"rhere was Farrell O'Neill. He was
a good fellow, Farrell was, but he had
just one weakness. There was times
when he liked the bottle too well. He'd
let it alone for months and then just
lap the stuff up. It was the time Of
the stampede to Bonanza creek. Well,
the news of the strike on Bonanza
reached Dawson and we all burnt up
the trail to get to the new ground
first. O'Neill was one Of the first. He
got in about twenty below Discovery,
If remember. Mac wasn't in Dawson,
but he got there next mo'nin' and
heard the news. He lit out for 3D.
nanZa prOnto."
The old miner stopped, took q chew
of tobacco, and looked down into the
valley far below where Kamatlah
could just be seen, q little huddle of
hutS.
'Well?" asked Elliot. 1t was occa-
sionally necessary to prompt Holt
when he paused for his dramatic .ef-
fects.
MAC drops in and joins O'Neill at
night. They knew each other, y un-
derstand, so O course it was natural
Mac would put up at his camp. O'Neill
had a partner and they had located
together. Fellow named Strong"
mot Hanford Strong, little, heavy,
set man somewhere around fifty?"
"You've tagged the right man.
Know him."
1--WE met him."
"Well, I never heard anything
against Han Strong. Anyway, he was
off that night packing grub up while
Farrell held down the claim. Mac had
a jug of booze with him. He got Far
,rell tankeG up. You know Mac-how
he can put it across when he's q mind
to. He's a forseful devil, and he can
be mighty likable one. But when he
Is friendliest you want to watch out
he don't slip an uppercut at you thatll
put you out of biz. He done that to
Farrell--and done it a-plenty."
"How?"
"O'Neill got mellowed up till he
thought Mac was his best friend. He
was ready to eat out Of his hand. So
Mac works him up to sign contract
before witnesses too; trust Mac for
his half interest in
the claim for five hundred dollars in
cash. and Macs no-'count lease on
Frenchman creek. Inside of a week
Mac and Strong struck a big pay
streak. They took over two hundred
thousand from the spring cleanup"
1T was nothing better than rob-
berry,"
(TO BE CONTINUED0
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eCWULIAM MACLEOD RAINE

ABOUT the meeting that otherwise
would never have taken place.
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THOS r. CARKEEK.
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER; Super
.atendent Southeast corner 9TH ana
Main streets, Dubuque. Iowa.
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Better throw your hands up. No

Better throw your hands up. No
monkey business, do you hear? I'd as
lief blow hole through you as not. )"
Big Bill turned bitterly to Elliot.
$50 you We're taking all the time,
young fellow, We save your life and
you round on us. You're a pretty slick
proposition as double-crosser."
Sand that amt ALL chirped up Holt
blithely. 'Tet me introduce our friend
to you, Mr.. Big Bill Macy. This is
Gordon Elliot, the land agent ap-
pointed to look over the Kamatlah
claims. Selfridge gave you lads this
penitentiary job so as | wouldn't meet
Elliot when he reached the camp. IF
he hadn't been so darned anxious
about it, our young friend would have
died here on the divide. But Mr.. Self
ridge kindly QUILTED a party and sent
us hundred miles into the hills to
rescue the perishing, as the old sayin'
goes. Consequence is, Elliot and me
meet up and have that nice confiden-
tial talk after all. The ways of Prov
idence is strange, as you might say,
Mr.. Macy"
"Your trick" conceded Big Bill sui
lenly. "Now what are you going to
do with us?"
"Not thing-going to leave you
right here to prospect Wild Goose
creek" answered Holt blandly. dur
den says there's gold up here-heaps
of it."
Bill Macy condemned burden in Ian
guage profane and energetic. He
didn't stop at burden. Holt came in
for share Of 1t, also Elliot and Self
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

G. X. READING. ARCHITECT.
Plans and Specifications on I'll kinds
of work. Office, sos East Union street.
Manchester Iowa.
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Scampering.
From somewhere in the distance
came q faint sound.
"What was that?" asked George.
Sounded like shot. Mebbe it was
an echo" returned bud.
"Came too late for an echo," Big Bill
said:
Again family from some far corner
Of the basin the sound drifted. 1t was
like the pop Of scarcely heard fire.
cracker.
The men looked at one another and
at their prisoner.
"Think we better break camp and
drift" asked bud.
"No. We're in little draw here
as good hiding place as we'd be like
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A Man staggered Orunkenly Into View.
~ to find. Drive the horses into the
brush, George. Wen sit tight"
bud had been busy stamping out
the campfire while Holway was driv-
Ing the horses into the brush.
"Mebbe you had better get the camp
things behind them big rocks" Macy
conceded.
Even as he spoke there came the
crack of a revolver almost at the en-
trance to the draw.
One of the men sWore softly. The
ginllet eyes of the old miner fastened
on the spot where in another moment
his hoped-for rescuers would appear.
A man staggered drunkenly into
view. He reeled halfway across the
mouth Of the draw and stopped. His
eyes, questing duly, fell upon the
camp. He stared, as If doubtful
whether they had played him false,
then lurched toward the waiting group.
"Lost and all in," Holway said in a
whisper to bud.
! The other man nodded. Neither of
them made move toward the
stranger, who stopped in front Of their
camp and looked with glazed eyes
from one to another. His face was
drawn and haggard and lined. Ex-
IRENE exhaustion showed in every
movement. He babbled incoherently.
Don't you see he's starving and out
Of his head?" snapped Holt brusquely.
sect him grub, pronto."
The old man rose and moved toward
the suffering man. "Come, pard. Tha's
all right. Sit down right here and
go to it, as the old sayin' is" He led
the man to a place beside Big Bill
and made him sit down. ''Better light
a fire, boys, and get some coffee on.
Don't give him too much solid grub
at first"
The famished man ate what was
given him and clamored for more.
Coming up soon, pardner," Holt
told him soothingly. ''Now tell US
how come you to get lost"
The man nodded gravely. "Hit that
line low, Cord. Hit 'er low. Only
three yards to gain"
'Plumb bughouse." commented bud,
chewing tobacco stolidly.
"Out Of his head-that's all. He'll
be right enough after he's fed up and
had a good sleep. But right now he's
sure some Exhibit A. Look at the
bones sticking through his cheeks"
Big Bill commented.
"Come, Old-Timer. Get down in
your collar to it. Once more now.
Don't liz down on the job. All together,
now" The stranger CLICKED to an
horse and made motion
Of lifting with his hands.
'sLooks like his hawss is begged
down in Fifty Mile swamp" suggested
Holt.
''Looks like" agreed bud.
The old miner said no more. But his
eyes narrowed to shining Sits. If this
man had come through Fifty Mile
oNalup, JIG 1uuSl nave otal tCNt IL oiu lAS
river. That probably meant that he
had come from Kusiak. He was a
young man, talking the jargon of
college football player. Without doubt
he was, in the old phrasing Of the
North, chechako.
Gideon Hollis sly brain moved keen
Y to the possibility that he could put
| name to this human derelict they
lad picked up. He began to see it
IS more than a possibility, as even a
at least as fifty-fifty
nance. A sardonic grin lowered about
he corners Of his grim mouth. It
would be strange freak Of irony II
Vally Selfridge, to prevent a meeting
,etween him and the government land
gent, had sent him a hundred miles
nto the wilderness to save the life Of
aordon Elliot and % had brought
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NEW MOVE IN OLD EIGHT
OVER SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Federal Government and Sanitary
District of Chicago Contest
Great Lakes Water Privilege.

CHICAGO. January "a new move
in the ancient fight between the fed
era1 government and the sanitary dis
trict of Chicago over the quantity of
water taken from the great lakes to
carry Chicago sewage down the drain
age canal was made by the trustees
of the sanitary district today.
The district, as was suggested by a
board of engineers seven years ago,
now proposes to decrease the flow from
Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan by
constructing weirs in the st. Clair
and Niagara rivers.
These. the engineers say would raise
the levels of these lakes to the height
which navigators claim is necessary
to the free movement of lake shipping.
The trustees today voted to provide any
money necessary for the work.
The government and the sanitary dis
trict have been in the courts for years.
The trustees claim that they are en-
titled to flow of $4,000 cubic feet OF
water a minute from Lake Michigan.
the quantity is only 100000 cubic feet.
According to the government the great
er flow has lowered the level OF the
great lakes to the detrinlent of nayi-
cation. Tia lesser flow would compel
Chicago TO Duild inc!nerating plants to
care for much of its sewage and
refuse at heavy expense. whereas 1t is
estima ted that the weirs could be- con-
structed for about S50o.ooa.
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BREAK DRY LAW, CHARGED.
Three Colored Persons Arrested for
Alleged Liquor Selling.

Sergt. Sheetz, who has charge Of In
vestigations of violations OF the Shep-
pard prohibition law in the second pre-
einct, and Policeman J. o. B. Gray ar
rested three alleged sellers Of liquor
yesterday. Two of the persons ar
rested were Alfred Green. thi-ty-six
years old. and -.idie Green. his wifs.
who gave her age as twenty nina
years. and George Perry, twenty years:
old.
The defendants are all colored. tbss
Greens residing at IL Fenton place.
where the three arrests were made. 1
and Perry giving his address as 444 r
street. 1t is said by the police that
marked money was recovered from ona
Of tho defendants. who. it IL charged. |
sold bottle Of whisky to a particular
Individual
A number Of bottles of whisky and :
several "empties." it is said. were found
in the Fenton place house, The triox
will appear in Police Court tomorrow.
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by RENE FEIBELMAN.
CabieGram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

AMSTERDAM. Holland. January g.
The most categorical denunciation of
Germany's fraudulent no annexation
plans in the east Is found in the
Leipziger yolkszeitung. Germans
leading Independent socialist organ
and q relentless enemy of the govern
ment socialists of the vorwaerts
brand The Leipzig paper, the editor
Of which is a socialist of such outstand-
ing personality as Franz Mehring.
writes of the Hrest-Litovsk negotiations
.Germany's government has revealed
its war aims in the east. Today every
one in Germany, Russia, France. Eng
land, Italy and America knows that
what Germany wanted when it started
its peace parleys with Russia was q
peace favorable to the extension of the
military, economic and political power
OF Germany in the east. ThiS she felt.
must be made palatable to tie Russian
republic through the so-called popular
vote, which is anything but democratic.
Tries to Hide Plans.
Germany wants to make use OF the
so-called right of the people TO choose
their own form Of government simply
tie hide her annexation plans. In order
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Drawers, made OF good quality cambria, with lace
and embroidery trimmed rufaes. Open or closed
models.
Night Robes of good quality muslin, in shp-over
models. Lace and embroidery trimmed yokes.
Short Underskirts, made of cambria. trimmed with
deep embroidery edges Some with dainty lace
edges.
Corset Covers made OF fine nansook. Yokes pref
tily trimmed with fine embroidery and laces.
White Petticoats, made of good quality muslin
with neat embroidery edges. All at
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Germany Has Revealed Cards
and They Mean Conquest
Denies SLau Provinces Haze Not Voiced
Sympathy With Berlin as Claimed

to conceal her schemes Germany saws.
that the people she wants TO annex have
already decided that they wish TO o.. ,
separated from Russia. We cannot $50
on what Germany bases such an asses -
ton. We all know that since the Rus
sian revolution the sympathies of tho
Polish people have been more and mor.s I.
with Russia. With regard to the Let's
and the Courlanders there is docu-
mentary evidence to show that neither
of these races wishes to become Ger
man. but desires to remain autonomous.
Therefore what Germany is actually
striving for 10 to tear these peoples
from Russia. to place the German yoke
on them in spite Of the fact that they
recently declared that they would stands
for nothing of the sort"
Severe Setback for Peace.
The Leipziger Volkszeitune concludes-
its sensational indictment Of Germany.
as follows:
'Germanys aims in the east mean a
severe setback for peace. The chances
are that so&fong as Germany seeks suci, ,
things in the east the entente will
never make peace. We know what Il
Germany aims at. We know that Bull
garias wholesale annexation plan Is.
approved by us. What then must our
aims be in the west? For this policy.s
SO clearly revealed the people will have!
to pay with their blood. Germany haaf
shown her cards and they mean cone
quest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-06
DEMOCRACY UNDER TEST;
UNDERGOING CHANGE
Power to Organize for War on Trial
Socialism. Termination and
Internationalism.

ing America r the war are defined by
Arthur E. Bestor, president Of Chau
tauqua Institution and head of the
new speaking division Of the govern
ment committee on public information.
In referring to the challenge of
the central powers as. indeed. a
challenge to democracy. Mr.. Bestor
says; The problem is whether or
not democratic governments can or
ganize themselves as effectively under
the supreme test of war as govern
naents under absolutist forms. The
dangers to democracy are not all from
the outside. If we are engaged in the
task of establishing democracy as an
ideal and way. OF life. we must think
Of it in dynamic. not static. terms. as
an IDEAL. and not an aehievement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-06
Dutch Ships to Garry Cotton Here,

NEW YORK, January 5.--According to
reports received here today by cot
ton brokers and shippers, a number OF
the Dutch steamships which have been
held here and at other Atlantic ports
for several months by embargo regula-
lions may be used within a short time
to transport cotton from South At
lantic and gulf ports to cotton manu-
featuring ports of New England.