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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-02

For Answer he kteseo the Heo Lips.
was one among ten thousand, domi-
nant, virile, every ounce Of him strong
as tested steel. But he felt as II all
his energy were Gagged.
"Why don't you gor' the girl plead
ed. 'It's no use to stay"
He stopped In front Of her. TIN
going to marry you, Sheba. You're
mine."
"No. Neverr" she cried. ''Tn take
the boat and go home first"
you've promised to marry me.
You're going to keep your word and
be glad Of 1t all your life."
She shook her head. "N0."
"Yes." Macdonald had always
shown remarkable restraint with her.
He had kissed her seldom. and always
with a kind Of awe at her young pur-
ity. Now he caught her by the shoul-
ders.
The color famed into her face. She
looked hot to the touch, an active
volcano ready to erupt There was an
odd feeling In her mind that this big
man was a stranger to her.
Luxe yOuH uduub 1IOm uc, Du0 OF
dered.
'Do you think I'm going to give you
up now-now. after I've won you
because Of q fool scruple in your
pretty head7 You don't know me. It's
too late. love you-and I'm going
to protect both Of Us from your prud-
ishness."
His arms closed ON her and he
crushed her to him, looking down hun
grily into the dark little face.
Let me Co." she cried fercely.
struggling to free herself.
For answer he kissed the red lips,
the flaming cheeks, the angry eyes.
Then. coming to his senses, he pushed
her from him, turned, and strobe heav-
lily from the room.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-02

an occasional cigar with the land agent
and aired his views on politics and af-
fairs social. He left the boat at the
big bend.
Not till q week later did Elliot re-
turn up the river. He was asleep at
the time the Sarah passed the big
bend. but next morning he discovered
that Selfridge and Dustin had come
aboard during the night. In the after
noon he came upon a real surprise
when he found Meteetse and her little
boy Colmac seated upon a box on the
lower deck where freight for local
points was stored.
His guess was that they were local
passengers, but wharf after wharf
slipped behind them and the two still
remained on board. They appeared
to know nobody else on the Sarah.
though once Gordon met Dustin Just as
he was hurrying away from the Indian
woman.
Meteetse transferred with the other
Kusiak passengers at the river juno
ton. The field agent was not the only
one on board who wondered where
she was going. Selfridge was con-
sumed with curiosity. and when she
and the boy got OF at Kusiak. he could
restrain himself no longer. Gordon
saw Wally talking with her. Meteetse
showed him an envelope which evil
IDENTIFY had an address written upon 1t,
for the little man pointed out to her
the direction in which she must 60.
Since leaving Kusiak nearly two
weeks before. no word had reached
Gordon Of Sheba. As soon as he had
finished dinner at the hotel. he walked
out to the Paget house and sent in
his card.
Sheba came into the hall to meet
him from the living room where she
had been sitting with the man she e1-
pected to marry next week. She gave
u little murmur Of pleasure at sight of
him and held out both hands.
~ was afraid you weren't going to
get back in time. I'm SO glad" she
told him warmly.
He managed to achieve a smile.
"when is the great dayf"
"Next Thursday. OF course we're
rs busy rs can be. but Diane says"
A ring at the door interrupted her.
Sheba stepped forward and let In an
Indian woman with q little boy cling
ing to her hand.
"You Miss O'Neillf" she asked.
ayes"
From the folds Of her shawl she
drew letter. The girl glanced At the
address. then opened and read what
was written. She looked up. puzzled,
first at the comely, fat-footed Indian
woman and afterward at the handsome
little brown-faced papoose. She turned
TO Gordon.
''This letter says am to ask this
woman who II the father Of her boy.
What does It meanr'
Gordon knew instantly what II
meant, though he could not guess who
had dealt the blow. The impulse to
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-02
GENEvIEvE MALLORY, SEEING MACDONALD SLIPPING
FROM E-R GRASP, TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME

synopsa-As representative government
ONe also going Colby Macdonald active head Of land
friendly
people
Mrs. Sheba's dinner Elliot
failure Elliot
believes
Gideon Holt odme miner who knows much about Mac
activities Elliot
On
Kusiak Elliot Meteetse,
a engaged
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Elliot rose and looked across ut the
blue-ribbed mountains. His square
Jaw was set wheL he turned 1t back
toward Diane.
"She isn't going to marry him II I
can help It," he said quietly
He walked out of the gate and down
the walk toward his hotel.
A Message was waiting for him there
from his chief in Seattle. 1t called him
down the river on business.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-02

Elliot finds himself In q serious
predleament ~ q result Of q ro-
markable chain Of elreum-
stances which seem to convict
him. These circumstances are
related In tho next lnstallment.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-02

CTo I'm coNTNuE1a
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-02

Copyright. William Macleod Raine.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15
Important to all Women
 Readers of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women have kidney or bladder trouble and never suspect 1t.
 Womens' complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease.
 If the kidneys are not in healthy con dltlon, they may cause the other organs to become diseased.
 You may suffer pain in the back, head ache and loss of ambition.
 Poor health makes you nervous, irrita ble and maybe Respondent; it makes anyone so.
 But hundreds Of women claim that Dr Kilmeras Swamp Root, by restoring health to the kidneys, proved to be just the remedy needed to overcome such 1nditions.
 A good kidney medicine. possessins real healing and curative value, should be a blessing to thousands of nervous over-worked women. Many send for a sample bottle to SC, what Swamp Root, the great kidne, l liver and bladder medicine will do fo l them. Every reader of this paper, wht has not already tried it, by enclosing ter cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton N. Y:, may receive sample size bottle }. Parcel Post. You can purchase th medium and large size bottles at all drl stores. Adv.
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never barks like that unless it's per son. And l saw something move"
 Somebody taking walk, like us. Couldn't be deer" said Mir. Stagg.
 Oh" cried Carolyn May later, II see it again. That's skirt see. Why it's lady!"
 Mr. Stagg suddenly grew very stern looking, as well as silent. All the beauty of the day and of the glade they had entered seemed lost on him. He went on stubbornly, yet as though loath to proceed.
 Why" murmured Carolyn May, tits Miss Amanda Parlow That's who it is !'
 The carpenters daughter was sit ting on a bare brown log by the brook. She was dressed very prettily, all in brown.
 Carolyn May wanted awfully to speak to Miss Amanda The brown lady with the pretty roses in her cheeks sat on log by the brook. her face turned from the path Joseph Stagg and his little niece were coming along.
 And Uncle Joe was quite stubborn He stared straight ahead down the path without letting the figure on the logs get into the focus of his vision.
 Hanging to Uncle Joe's hand but looking longingly at the silent figure on the log, Carolyn May was going down to the stepping stones by which they were to cross the brook, when suddenly Prince came to halt right at the upper end of the log and his body stiffened.
 What is it. Prince" whispered his little mistress. Come here"
 But the dog did not move. He even growled-not at Miss Amanda, of course, but at something on the log. And it was just then that Carolyn May wanted to scream-and she could not :!
 For there on the log, raising its flat, wicked head out of an aperture, was snake. horrid, silent, writhing
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Carolyn learns from simple Chet GormIey some things about her financial affairs that cause her much worry. Read about it in the next instaliment.
eTo BE CONTINUED
TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS AT NIGHT
Been Overcome by Development of New Process.

Neither fog nor darkness handieaps the supereyes of the war department signal. corps cameras, according to Edward Hungerford, who describes the remarkable progress of wartime aerial photography in Everybody's. He gives some interesting examples:
 "I have seen a photograph of a wan ing moon over Rome-taken by the new process. It is the first real pie ture of the moon that have ever seen, although l formerly attempted the thing myself. Most of the moonlight pictures that one sees are fakes, made by photographing the sun in various unusual and artistic phases. But this was real. One could ase the tiny pools of water standing in the uneven places of the Tagging, the flickering street lamps st the corner. A picture whose reality almost makes 1t uncanny. And the photographer who took the picture in the rain was ar rested by gendarme as being mental ly unsound. He was only released when he took a picture of the lieuten- ant at the police station and proved beyond question that he could make good portraits by artificial light.
 "I have seen photographs made by this new process from the front row of theater balcony during the progress of the play: others made in church during vespers and illumined entirely by the candles upon the high altar The process is very new and 1t is very wonderful Moreover it is susceptible of adaptation to night observation both from airplanes and upon tn, land."
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creature, the look of which held the less.
 Uncle Joe glanced down impatiently, to see what made her hold back SO. The child's feet seemed glued to the earth. She could not take another step.
 Writhing out of the hole in the log and coiling, as it did so. into an atti- tutle to. strike. the snake looked to be dangerous indeed. The fact that it was only q large blacksnake and non poisonous made no difference at that moment to the dog or to the little girl-nor to Joseph Stagg when he saw it.
 It was coiled right at Miss Amanda's back. She did not see it, for she was quite as intent upon keeping her face turned from Mr. Stagg as he had been determined to ignore her presence.
 Carolyn May was shaking and help less. Not so Prince. He repeated his challenging growl and then sprang at the vibrating head Miss Amanda uttered a stifled scream and jumped up from the log, whirling to see what was happening behind her.
 Joseph Stagg dropped Carolyn Mays hand and leaped forward with his walking stick raised to strike. But the mongrel dog was there first. lie wisely caught the blacksnake behind the head, his strong, sharp teeth sev- ering it's vertebrae.
 "Good dogl" shouted MT. Stagg ex- citedly. Fine dog!"
 "Oh, Miss Amanda !" shrieked Caro- lyn May. IT thought he was going to sting you-I did!"
 She ran to the startled woman and clung to her hand. Prince nosed the dead snake. Mir. Stagg looked exceed. ingly foolish. Miss Amanda recovered her color and her voice simultaneously
 What brave dog yours is. little girl" she said to Carolyn May. And
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15
CaIomel Loses You a Days Work!
 Take Dodson's Liver Tone Instead Read my guarantee! If bilious, constipated or head achy you need not take nasty, sickenng, danger
 ous calomel to get strengthened up.

Every druggist in town-your drug. glst and everybody's druggist has no. uced a great falling off in the sale of calomel. They all give the same req son. Dodson's Liver Tone is taking its place.
 "Caiomel is dangerous and people know It, while Dodson's Liver Tone is periectiy safe and gives better re- suits" said prominent local druggist Dodson's Liver Tone is personally guaranteed by every druggist who sells 1t. A large bottle doesn't cost very much, but if it fails to give easy rehef in every case of liver sluggish ness and constipation, you have only
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PRINCE BECOMES AHERO OF ANOTHER ADVENTURE WHICH
 INCREASES HIS POPULARITY

an at  May CameronHIannas Carlyns York bach the Corners The her by  of houSekeeper Carolyn penniesS guardian
 
  the the disfavo with
  of the Corners by roblin the schoo
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'TH BELMORE ENDICOTT

l do so despse snakesl" Then she looked directly at Mr. Stagg and bowed gravely, ''I thank you she said. but so coldly, so Carolyn May thought, that her voice might have come just off an iceberg"
 "Oh, I didn't do anything-really 1 didn't" Stammered the man. It was the dog"
 Both looked very uncomfortable. Joseph Stagg began to pick up the scattered ehestnuts from the over turned basket. The lady stopped and whispered to Carolyn May:
 Come to see me, my dear. want to know you better"
 Then she kissed Carolyn May and slipped quietly away from the brook disappearing quickly in the under growth.
 Joseph Stagg and the little girl went on across the stepping stones. while Prince splashed through the water Carolyn May was thinking about Miss Amanda Parlow and she believed her Uncle Joe was. too.
 Uncle Joe" she said. would that bad old sndke have stung Miss Amanda?"
 Huh? No; reckon not" admitted Mir. Stagg ahsent-mindedly. Black snakes don't bite. A big one like that can squeeze some"
 But you were scared of it-like me and Prince. And for Miss Amanda" ]" said Carolyn May very much in ear nest.
 T guess most everybody is scared by the sight of snake. Car'lyn May"
 But you were scared for Miss Amanda's sake-just the same as 1 was, repeated the little girl decidedly.
 "Well?" he growled. looking away. troubled by her insistence.
 'Then you don't hate her do you?" the child pursued. I'm glad of that. Uncle Joe. for like her very much. l think she's a beautiful lady" To this Uncle Joe said nothing. "I guess" thought Carolyn May wisely, .that when two folks love each other and get angry the loves there just the same. Getting mad doesn't kill it; 1t only makes 'em feel worse.
 Poor Uncle Joe Poor Miss Aman- dal Maybe if they'd just try to look up and look for brighter things they'd get over being mad and be happy again.
 When Uncle Joe and Carolyn May returned from this adventurous walk Mir. Stagg went heavily into his own room. closed the door and even locked it. He went over to the eid-fashioned walnut bureau that stood against the wall between the two windows and stood before it for some moments Tn an attitude of deep reflection Finally, he drew his bunch of keys from his pocket and opened one of the two small drawers in the heavy piece of furniture-the only locked drawer there was. He drew forth a tintype picture. faded now, but clear enough to show him the features of the two individuals printed on the senstized plate.
 His own eyes looked out of the pho tograph proudly. They were much younger eyes than they were now.
 And the girl beside him in the pie turei Sweet as wild rose, Mandy Parlow's lovely. calm conntenance promised all the beauty and dignity her matured womanhood had achieved
 Mandy! Mandy'' he murmured over and over again. "Oh. Mandy Why? Why?"
 He held the tintype for a long. long time in his hand, gazing on it with eyes that saw the vanished years rather than the portraits themselves. ] Finally he hid the picture away again, closed and locked the drawer with a sigh and with slow steps left the room.
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O ask for your money back.

to ask for your money back.
 Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant. tasting, purely vegetable remedy, harmless to both children and adults. Take spoonful at night and wake up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick head ache, acid stomach or constipated bowels. It doesn't gripe or cause in- convenience all the next day like vio- lent calomel. Take a dose of calomel today and tomorrow you will feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don't lose a days work Take Dodson's Liver Tone instead and feel fine. full of vigor and ambition.-Adv.
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DRUGG|STS!! PLEASE NOTE v|Ck'S VAPORUB OVERS0LD
 DUE TO PRESENT EPIDEMIC
Tremendous Demand Last Few Days Has Wiped Out Excess Stocks That We Had Estimated Would Last Until Next January. Last Weeks Orders Called For One and Three Quarter Million Jars-Today's Orders Alone Amount to 932, ,459 Jars.

quantities as possible. If you are out we will try to ship limited amount by Parcel Post or express, and pay the charges ourselves.
 3rd-In order to make distribution still quicker. we will ship direct to your retail customers quantities not more than three (3) dozen 30c size at any one shipment.
 4th-We are now out of the 60c size and will be for the next ten days. WHAT WE ASK THE RETAIL DRUGGIST TO DO.
 Buy in as small quantities as possi- ble. If you have any quantity orders, given the jobber's salesmen or given to our salesmen, don't bother about them-no need to write us-it is absO- lutely impossible to fill these orders at this time. If the jobbers in your territory are out of Vick's VapoRub, we will ship you by Parcel Post, pre- pad. quantities not more than three (3) dozen 30c size in any one order. Naturally, we can't open accounts at this time. so your check or money or der for this amount must accompany order. Don't write us stating to ship thru your jebber, as we then have to wait until we write this jobber and get his O. K. If you wish the goods to come thru your jobber, have him order | them for you.
 SHOWED UNDER WITH coRRE-
 sPoNDENcE.
 Our force has already been "shot to pieces"-twenty-fo of our men are wearing Uncle Sam's khaki-and this recent rush has simply buried us. All our sales force has been called in to help in the office and factory. We just mention this so you won't hold it against us if your wires and letters aren't answered promptly.
 SPECIAL BOOKLETS ON SPANISH
 INFLUENZA.
 We will send. on request, to any re- tail druggist. 100 or more little book let's just issued, on Spanish Influenza, giving the latest information about this disease-its history-the symp- toms-the treatment, and particularly the use of yick's VapoRub as an ex- ternal application to supplement the physician's treatment.
 NEW WAYS TO USE VAPORUB.
 Tn addition to the usual method Of using VapoRub-that Is, applied over the throat and chest and covered with hot flannel cloths-our customers are writing us daily telling of their sue cess in using VapoRub in other ways, particularly as preventive. They melt little in a spoon and inhaie the vapors arising, or melt 1t in a benzoin steam kettle. Where the steam kettle is not available. VapoRub can be used in an ordinary teakettle. Fill the tea kettle half full of boiling water, put in half teaspoon of VapoRub from time to time-keep the kettle just slowly boiling and inhale the steam arising.
 According to a Bulletin just issued by the Public Health Service, Dr. Stiles recommends that the nose and throat be kept coated with some oily substance. For this purpose Vapoltub is excellent-just put a little up the uostrils from time to time and snim we'll back Into the air passages. NY. GREENSBORO, N. C,
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15
TO GUARD AGAINST INFLUENZA

Keep little Vacher-Balm in your nose, it is antiseptic, and kills germs, though harmless to use, internally, or externally. It also relieves the dis tressing symptoms. 25c in Tubes, and Jars. Avoid imitations.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15
THE BLUE THAT'S TRUE.

Red Cross Ball Blue gives to clothes a clear, dazzling white, winter than snow, not greenish yellow tinge like cheap bottle blue. Buy Red Cross Ball Blue for next washday. You will be happily surprised. Large package at your grocers, 5 cents.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15
Big Shipments Are En Route to Jobbers. Until These Arrive There May Be a Temporary Shortage. All Deals Postponed Buy in Small Lots Only.
RETAILERS CAN GET MIME. DATE SHIPMENTS DI- RECT BY PARCEL
 POST.

This advertisement is written on Monday, October Dist. IL is directed to the attention of all distributors of Njck's VapoRub, both wholesale and retail. In an emergency such as the present epidemic-our duty-arid your dltv-is to distribute VapoRub in the quickest possible manner to those sec tions stricken by Influenza. We, there fore, call your careful attention to the following:
 DANGER OF SHORTAGE IF SUP
 PLY IS NOT CONSERVED
 On October 1st we had on hani. at our Factory and in twenty warehouses scattered over the country, sufficient VapoRub to mst us, we thought, until January list, allowing for a % per cent increase over last years sales, and not counting our daily output. This pig excess stock had been accumulated during the summer months.
 Then this epidemic of Spanish h. fiuenza hit us-and in the last ten days this stock has vanished. At first we thought this tremendous demand would last only few days, but the orders have run:
 We'd, Oct. 16. .1S,504 doz.
 Thur. Oct. IT.. 25.323 doz.
 Fri, Oct, IS. .39.256 doz.
 Sat, Oct. 10. ...... .45.S33 doz.
 Mon., Oct. .77,705 doz.
 Up to Saturday, October 18th, we have actually shipped for this month $400, ,2S4.1O. or over two million Jars of VapoRub.
 THE PROBLEM NOW IS TO DIS
 TRIBUTE VAPoRUB QUICKLY.
 Most of this tremendous quantity Is still en route to the jobbers, aut freight and express are both con- gested nowadays, and it may be some time before this supply reaches the jobbers. In the meantime, therefore 1t is necessary that we distribute, as widely as possible, the stock that we are manufacturing daily, together wlth that now on the jobbers' and retailers shelves, in order that it may get 10 the Influenza districts quickly. our normal output is about 4O00 dozen per day. We are putting on night shift, but it will be little while be- fore that is producing.
 WHAT WE ASK THE WHOLESALE
 DRUGGIST TO DO.
 Last Saturday we notified all of our iobbers, by Special Delivery. as fol lows:
 1st-Deals and quantity shipments sof oll kinds are cancelled. Fill no kp,antity orders of any kind, whether taken by our salesman or by your own. Sell in small lots only.
 2nd-Order from us in as small THE WICK CHEMICAL COMPi
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Generosity.

You should not disdain to feed the stranger at your gates"
 q don't" replied Mir. Cumrox; 'my wife feeds one stranger after another at luneheons and teas and things"
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Contrary Effect.

People who gossip much are gen. erally very narrow" Yet they manage to spread a lot"
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STOMACH ACIDITY,
 INDIGESTION, GAS
QUICK! EAT JUST ONE TABLET OF PAPE'S DIAPEPsIN FOR
 INSTANT RELIEF,

When meals don't fit and you belch gas, acids and undigested food. When you feel Jumps of distress in stomach pain, fiatulenee, heartburn or headache. Here is instant relief-No waiting!
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He Knew.

Mrs. Oldwed-"Am I dearer to vou than eyer?" Mir. Oldwed-"Sure thing. Everything is dearer nowadays"
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

If we could just find money as easily as we find fault we would all be mil. lionaires in short time.
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People who marry for money usually live to regret that they didn't learn trade instead.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

The small boy wonders if his mother will ever get over being surprised at the things he does.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

There are times when the loveliest spot on earth looks suspiciously like an ace.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

Just as soon as you eat a tablet of Pape's Diapepsin all the dyspepsia, in- digestion and stomach distress ends. These pleasant, harmless tablets of Pape's Diapepsin never fail to make sick, upset stomachs feel fine at once, and they cost so little at drug stores. Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

This country now manufactures prac tically everything along chemical lines.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

It's going to be mighty difficult even after peace is made to treat a German as a friend.
The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15

When Baby is Teething GROVES BABY BOWEL MEDICINE will correct the Stomach and Bowel troubles. Perfectly harm less. See directions on the bottle.
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Even good luck can't do anything fol a quitter.

Keep your liver active. your bowels clean by taking Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and youn keep healthy. wealthy and wise. Adv.
 Motto of the circus manager: Give every man q show"
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! creature, the look of which held the
 little girl horror-stricken and speech