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CHAPTER lll-continued.

"You saw mommie, of course. .Yol
came from h9mew
mo, did s.ot. I got as far as thu
creek and law Blues tracks comm.
down, so J. !ust sort of trailed along
fleeing it was mommie's daughter l fell
most like talking to-"
'Mommie's daughter" laughed a lit
tie and instinctively made a change in
Che subject.
"I'ye got to go in and wash the
Dishes" she said, stepping back from
him. "Of course nothing was done in
the cabin, and I've been doing a little
Aousecleaning. l guess the dishwater
y hot by this time-if it hasn't all
boiled away"
Ward, as a matter of course. tied his
borse to the fence and went into the
sabin with her. He also asked her to
Aake him to a dish towel, which she
did after a good deal of rummaging.
he stood with his hat on the back of
his head, a cigarette between his lips,
and wiped the dishes with much ap-
parent enjoyment. He objected strong
" to Billy Louise's assertion that she
meant to Grub the floor, but when he
found her quite obdurate he changed
his method without in the least degree
yielding his point, though for diplomat
ic reasons he appeared to yield.
He carried water from the creek and
filed the teakettle, the big iron pot and
both pals. Then, when Billy Louise
had turned her bac'; upon him while
she looked in a dark corner for the
mop, he suddenly seized her under the
arms and lifted her upon the table, and
before she had finished her astonished
gaspings he caught up pail of water
and sloshed it upon the floor under her.
Then he grinned in his triumph.
Bly, Louise gave a squeal of conster-
natnn and then sat absolutely still,
staring round eyed through the door
way Ward stepped back-even his
was slightly jarred-and
twisted his lips amusedly.
Hello" he said after a few blank !
"You missed some of it, didn't |
you" His tone was mildly commiser-
ating. "Win you come in?"
MOO, thank you, 1 don't believe 1 |
will" The speaker looked in. however,
saw Billy Louise perched upon the Ia
bic and took off his hat He was well
Dlastered with dirty water that ran
Town and left streaks Of mud behind.
1 must have got OF the road" he said.
I'm looking for Jason Meilke's ranch"
Billy Louise tucked her feet farther
lnder her skirts and continued to stare
lumbiy. Ward, CHANGING at her from
he corner of his eyes, stepped consid-
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and all around. And I'll keep a good
lookout for the calves"
Many men would have objected to
the unconscious patronage of her tone.
That Charlie Fox did not, but accept
ed the spirit of helpfulness in her
words, lifted him out of the small ma
tured class.
"It's awfully good of you," he said.
"You know lot more about the bovine
nature than I do. for all put in every
spare minute studying the subject. I'm
taking four different stock journals
now. Miss Louise. I'll bet / know lot
more about the different strains of va
rious breeds than you do, Miss Cattle
Queen. But I'm beginning to see that
we only know what we learn by ex-
perience. I've new book on the sub
ject Of heredity of the cattle. I'm 60
ing home and see If Seabeck hasn't
stumbled upon strain that can be
traced back to your native mountain
Sheep"
Billy Louise laughed and said good
by and stood leaning over the gate
watching him as he zigzagged up the
hill, stopping his horse often to breathe.
She began to wonder, then, about those
calves. Vented and not rebranded,
they would be easy game for any man
who first got his own brand on them.
She meant to get description of them
when she saw Charlie again-it was
like his innocence to forget the most
essential details-and she meant to
keep her eyes open. If Charlie were
right about the calves not being any
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CHAPTER v.
The Little Devils of Doubt.

TIME spring had come, and Wolver
inc canyon. with the sun shining
down aslant into Its depths, wa:
picturesque cash in the hills, wild
enough In all conscience, but to the
normal person not in the least degree
gloomy. The jutting crags were sun
Lit and warm. The cherry thickets
whispered in light breeze and shell
tered birds that sang in perfect con-
tent. Not gloomy place surely when
the peace of sunny morning laid its
spell upon the land.
Billy Louise, however. did not re-
spond to the canyons enticements. She
brooded over her own discouragements
and the tantalizing little puzzles which
somehow would not lend themselves to
any convincing solution. She was in
that condition Of nervous depression
where she saw her finest cows dead by
bloat In the alfalfa meadows-and how
| would she pay that machinery note
then? She saw John Pringle calling
Unexpectedly and mistakenly for his
time" and where would she find an
Of her sight? John Pringle was slow,
and he was stupid and growled at poor
Phoebe till Billy Louise wanted to
shake him, but he was STEADY" and
that one virtue covers many a mans
faults and keeps him drawing wages
regularly.
Her mother had been more and more
inclined to worry as the hot weather
came on. Lately her anxiety over
small things had rather got upon the
nerves of Billy Louise. She felt Ill
used and downhearted and as if moth.
ing mattered much anyway. She pass
ed her cave with mere glance and
scowl for the memories Of golden days
in her lonely childhood that chung
around it.
She was in this particularly dissatis. |
fed mood when she rode out Of the
canyon at its upper end, where the
hills folded softly down into grassy |
valleys where her cattle loved best to |
Craze Since the grass hac started in |
the spring she had kept her little herd |
up here among the lower hills, and by
riding along the higher ridges every
day or SO and turning back wander.
ing animal now and then she had held
them in a comparatively small area,
where they would be easily gathered in
the fall. A few head of Seabecks stock
had wandered in among hers and some
IF Marthy's. And there was big roam
steer that bore the brand of johnson,
over on Snake river. Billy Louise
Knew them all, as a housewife knows
ler flock of chickens, and if she missed
seeing certain leaders in the scattered
yroups she rode until she found them.
rwo old cows and one big red steer
hat seemed always to have follow.
ng wore bells that tinkled pleasant
title sounds in the alder thickets along
he creek as she passed by.
She rode up the long ridge which
ave her wide view of the surround
ng hills and stopped Blue, while she
tared moodily at the familiar, shadow
plotched expanse of high piled ridges,
With deep, green valleys and deeper ,
ued canyons between. She loved ,
hem, every one But today they fail
d to steep her senses in that deep con- {
ent with life which only the great out
oors can give to one who has learned
ow satisfying is the draft and how
oothing.
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"If You'll Let Down the Bars, Mr.. Fox,
III Hit the Trail"

where in the cove, then they had been
turned dejectedly away from the fence
and went down to a shady nook by the
creek, where she had always liked to
do her worrying and hard thinking.
The next day she rode early to the
Cove and learned some things from
Marthy which she had not CLEANED
from Charlie. She learned that two of
the calves were a deep red except for a
wide, white strip on the nose of one
and white hind feet on the other; that
another was spotted on the hindquar
| tiers and that the fourth was white.
with large, red blotches. She had
known cattle all her life. She would
know these if she saw them anywhere.
She also discovered for herself that
they could not have bfoken out of that
pasture and that the river bank was
impossible because of high, thick bush
es and miry mud in the open spaces.
She had a fight with Blue over these
latter places and demonstrated beyond
doubt that they were miry by getting
him in to the knees in spite of his vio-
lent objections. They left deep tracks
behind them when they got out The
calves had not gone investigating the
bank, for there was not a trace any
where, and the bluff was absolutely
unscalable. Billy Louise herself would
have felt doubtful Of climbing out that
way. The gray rim rock stood straight
and high at the top, with never crew
ice, so far as she could see, and the
gorge was barred so that it was i'm |
possible to go that way without lifting |
heavy poles out of 1eep sockets and |
sliding them to one side.
1--WE got an idea about gate here"
Charlie confided suddenly. There |
won't be any more mysteries like this. |
I'm going to fix swinging gate In
place of these bars, Miss Louise. 1
shall have 1t swing uphill like this,
and I'll have weight arranged so that
it will always close itself If one is care
less enough to ride on and leave 1t
alleged brain. / shall do it right away
too. Aunt Marthy is rather nervous
about this gorge now. Every evening
she walks up here herself to make sure
the bars are closed"
You may as well make up your
mind to it," said Billy Louise irrele-
vanity In tone of absolute certainty.
Those calves were driven out of the
gorge. That means stolen. You needn't
accuse any one in particular. l don't
suppose you could. But they were
stolen"
Charlie frowned and glanced up spec
at the bluffs rim.
ooh, your mountain sheep theory is ,
10 good" Billy Louise giggled. 81
loubt If a lizard even would try to I
cave the Cove over the bluff" which ,
certainly was sweeping statement !
when you consider a lizards habits. !
"A mountain sheep couldn't anyway" J
They're hummers to climb" (
'But calves are not, Mr.. Fox. Not n
Ike that. You know yourself they were +
tolen. Why not admit it?" :
would that do any good-bring
hem back?" he countered, looking up \
t her.
mo, but / do hate to see person q
effberately shut his eyes In front OF n
act. We may as well admit to our +
elves that there II . Tnstler In :he &
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erately between her and the stranger
so that his broad shoulders quite hid
her from the mans curious stare.
you've struck the right place." he
said calmly. This is it." He picked
up another pail Of water and sloshed it
upon the wet floor to rinse off the mud.
sIs-ah--Mrs. Meilke inY One could
not accuse the young man Of craning,
but he certainly did try to get another
glimpse of the person on the table and
failed because Of Ward.
-.She's down in the meadow" Billy
Louise murmured.
"She's down in the meadow" Ward
repeated to tie bespattered young man.
-ioy just 20 Gown past the stable and
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who don't know
any better), let us
begin by asking
the question, SIS
it wrong to fight?"
Every boy or CIR.
with civilized par
ents can answer
that question.
1t is not to be
answered by Eyes
or mo-"
If we say Eyes"
we admit at once
t h a t our old
friends, G e org e
Washington and
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Helping to Win
the War
Advice to Americans Between the AGES
Of E and Is
BY GEORGE AIDE
BY GEORGE AIDE

Assuming that this letter is now
oeing read by some boy or girl old
enough to go to school but still young
enough to be called ''kid" (by those
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-05-30
SWAMP 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 a gen.
tie, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
um and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-05-30
General Pay Increase Affecting
Nearly 1000, 900 Persons Is :
Announced.
TAKES EFFECT JUNE |
Director General McAdoo Carries Out
Substantially the Recent Recon-
mendations of the Railroad
Wage Commission.

Washington, May 27.-Director Gen.
eral McAdoo has announced general
pay increases for nearly 100000 rail-
road employees, effective next Satur-
day and retroactive to Jan. ] last, car
rying out substantially recommends
tons of the railroad wage commits
sion.
The aggregate of the increases
probably will be more than 100000
year, half of which will be distrib-
uted within few weeks as back
pay in lump sums ranging from about
500 to nearly 5000 each.
The director general departed from
the wage commissions recommends
tons in the following particulars:
The principal of the basic eight
hour day is recognized, but owing to
exigencies of the war situation, hours
of employment are not actually re-
duced and overtime is to be paid pro
rata Future adjustments of pay are
to be made on the basis Of eight
hours.
Day Laborers Affected.
In addition to the ordinary scale of
increase, day laborers, employed main
ly on track work, are to get at least
21h cents an hour more than they
received last December 81.
minimum of 55 cents an hour is
established for the shop trades, in
Guiding machinists, boiler makers
and blacksmiths.
Women are to receive the same
pay as men for the same work, and
negroes are to get the same as white
men for similar employment.
All increases now ordered will be
determined according to percenta-
age scale based on pay received in
December, 1915, and any increases
which have been allowed within that
time Will be deducted. In many cas-
es raises in pay in the last two and
a half years are about equal to the
increases now approved, and conse-
quently those employees will get little
or no more. To correct just such
situations when injustices are appar-
ent will be one of the principle duties
of the new wage board, whose crea-
ton was suggested by the railroad
wage commission. In no cases are
wages to be reduced.
Brotherhoods Get Theirs.
Men working on the monthly, daily,
hourly, piece work and train mile
basis, will benefit by the new allow
ances, and members of the four lead
ing railroad brotherhoods whose pay
was raised through operation of the
Adamson act are to receive from 10
to 40 per cent additional, a smaller
increase than they had asked of the
railroads shortly before the govern
ment took control.
The wage order applies to all en-
ployes of the 164 roads now under
federal management, but not to the
socalled short lines unless they are
retained by the government after
July 1.
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DRAFT EVADER STAYS FOUR
Stacker Sroots Men Who Reported
Him to Authorities.

Huntington, w. Va, May 27.-Four
men paid their lives and another was
wounded at Olive Hill, KY, near here,
as penalty for reporting Melvin Col
Inns, taxi driver of Huntington, who
failed to register for the draft.
Collins shot the following men
dead:
H. Carpenter, John Howard, Cleve
Sparks, and John Shields. Lee Spell
was wounded.
Collins gave himself up to Ken
lucky sheriff Immediately after the
battle. He was lodged in the Catletts-
burg, KY, jail.
Collins had failed to register last
June. The five men had reported him
to his local draft board here.
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MANY BROWNING GUNS MADE
Enough to Equip Division Are Being
Sent to Camp Meade.

Washington, May 26. = Enough
heavy Browning machine guns to
equip a division have been manufac-
tured, the War department announced,
and are in process of shipment to
Camp Meade, Maryland.
Enough of the same guns for in
struction purposes, it was said, have
been shipped to every national guard
training camp and national army cam
torment where troops are in training.
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u. S. WARSHIP SINKS DIVER
Quick Vengeance on U-Boat Which
Sent lnniscarra Down.

London, May 27.-The German sub
marine which torpedoed the British
steamer Inniscarra was sunk by an
American destroyer shortly afterward
it is announced. Prisoners from the
submarine have been landed
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"a Heart Bowed Down." Etc.

A teacher in Boston public school
received an examination from a little
girl of ten years who wrote beneath
the questions she had answered:
IF some of these questions are
wrongly answered it will be because
have troubles of which the great
world neither knows nor cares, there
fore excuse wrong answers"
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CHICAGO Club Gusts Germans.

Chicago, May 1S.-Eighteen alien
enemy employees were discharged by
the Chicago Athletic association in
pursuance of it's policy of excluding
such aliens from the premises of the
club.
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British Vessel Torpedoed by Sub
marine Had American Troops
on Board.
FIFTY-SIX MEN LOST
London Admiralty Statement Says
Americans Missing Were Probably
Killed in One Compartment
at Time Of Explosion.

Washington, May 27.-The REQ
department has given out the
names of So members of Company
3, 18Th United States infantry,
Fourth Division, missing from the
torpedoed British steamer Mol
davia. The MoIdavia carried $50
American soldiers.
Included in the list are the fol.
lowing from the northwest: Pri-
Yates Geo. D. BoosalIs, Fargo, N.
D.; Leslie C. Bracken, Loyalton,
Mimi; Walter G. Bracken, North
ST. Cloud, Mimi; Geo. NJ. Buchan-
an, Marrette, Wis; Jos. p. Callan,
Milwaukee, Wis; EdW. L. Claus
ing, Grafton, Wis; VIM. G. Croatt,
Port Washington De Pere, Wis;
Conrad EckeI, West Alis, Wis;
Edw. L. GerI, ManitoWoc, Wis;
RedwaId Gutenberg, Pigeon Falls,
Wis; Isador M. Kniepp, ST. Paul,
Mimi; John Kohus, South Mil
waukee; Rudolph Mike, De Pere,
Wis; Emil j. Bosh, Lankin, S.
D.; Frank Roux, Rice Lake, Wis.,;
Joseph Sherman, Fort Totten, N.
D.; Lewis p. Spies, Nelson, Wis;
Willow Trapp, Arbor Vitae, Wis;
Edward NJ. Weber, Tolley, N. D.
london, May 27.-The Admiralty an
nounces that the British armed mer-
chant troopship Moldavia, with Am
erican troops on board, has been tor
pedoed and sunk.
The text of the Admiralty state
ment follows:
"The armed mercantile cruiser Mol
davia was torpedoed and sunk Thurs
day morning.
"There we're no casualties among
the crew, but of the American troops
on board Sc have up to the present
not been accounted for. 1t is feared
they were killed in one compartment
by the explosion"
The Moldavia was torpedoed with
out warning. 1t was moonlight
night and although good lookout
was kept the attacking submarine was
not sighted before the torpedo struck.
Most of Men Caught In Hammocks'
Most of the men aboard were in
their hammocks when the explosion
occurred amidships. The sailors and
soldiers alike showed no panic, al
though many we're injured.
They fell calmly into line and await
ed orders. When it was seen that the
Moldavia was settling down, all on
board were taken off by the escort
ing ships.
The men lost all of their belong
ings, but were supplied with new
clothing at the different naval ports
where they were taken.
Overtaken by thrush of Water.
It is believed that the American sol
diers missing from the Moldavia were
sleeping on the bottom deck and
were overtaken by the great thrush
of water, after the explosion, when
they were trying to reach the main
deck. It also is presumed that some
of the ladders we're destroyed.
The vessel was struck below the
bridge. She steamed ahead for some
time after being struck and at first
it was hoped that the water-tight COM
partments would enable her to reach
port.
The Moldavia is of $500 tons gross
and owned by the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation company.
She was built at Greenock in 1903 and
is $40 feet long.
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o. S. ARMY TO BE DOUBLED
Forces in France Twice Present sizes
Bv Midsummer.

Paris, May 27.-The American
forces in France will be doubled by
midsummer, the number Secretary of
War N. D. Baker recently announced
as having been sent here and by the
end of 1918 they will be three times
larger, said Andre Tardieu, French
high commissioner, in statement
issued to the French people on his
arrival from the United States.
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A SIiqht Mistake.

"The doctor says Mr.. Jiggers is re-
operating"
"Oh, the poor mani And his fool Of
a wife told me he was getting SO much
better
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No News Is Good News.

"Heard anything from the boy late
ly?"
"Eot In couple of weeks"
aren't you terribly worried?"
s'Not at all. So long as he doesn't
write home for money I'm sure he
must be all right"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-05-30
Topped Them All.

The man who built the Washington
monument simply piled his stone high
er than his predecessors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-05-30

Sometimes we envy an old fellow
about everything he has except the
rheumatism in his knee joints.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-05-30

Love subdues everything except a
Swelled head.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-05-30
When Your Eyes Need Care
Try Murine Eye Remedy

No SmaTting - just Rye Comfort. so cents az
Druggists or mail. Write for Free Bye book
MURINE EYE REMEDY CO.. CHICAGO
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tg.l ssss sss~t-~
<S-S~N~ The Uniform.
Knicker-A bond is the khaki of
cash.
Bocker-And wears Liberty buttons
New York Sun.
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Heavy Imprint.

Heavy Imprint.
"Now have you got my instructions
imprinted on your mind?"
Embossed" her husband replied.
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PENNEY's CREEK.
-
-
=
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Penneys Creek, Sept. 14.-Mrs
o. L. Ellenburg has received a mes
sage from her husband, Private o. L.
Ellenburg stating his safe arrival
overseas. This will be good news to
his many friends.
Miss Lula Williams, who has been
employed at the ten cent store to1
sometime, is now working for the L.
W. White Co.
Mrs. J. F. Rogers and baby are
with Mrs. Rogers sister, Mrs. Will
Crawford, of Martins Mill this week.
Mrs. Pearl Tolbert and young son
of Greenwood, spent Tuesday the
guest of Mrs. ]. F. Ellenburg.
Mr.. Ross Price has received a
message from his brother, Sergeant
R. C. Price, of his safe arrival over
seas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ellis spent
Monday the guest of the latter's
brother, Mr.. Will Ferguson.
Little Anna Bell Ellenburg is with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
L. Williams, this week.
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MASTERS SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Abbe'-ille.
Court of Common Pleas.

By virtue of an order of the Court
of Common Pleas in the case o1
Frank B. Gary, Plaintiff, against
George S. Turner, Defendant, l will
sell to the highest bidder at public
auction, within the legal hours OF
sale, at Abbeville Court House or
Monday, the seventh day of October
1918, the following described pro.
perty to,wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
situate, lying and being in Abbeville
County, in the State aforesaid,> con,
tanning 33-100 acre, more or less
and bounded by land, of lots Nos s.
and 8, and by Marshall St., being
lot No. 7 of the Hesse A. Beechanl
land, being the house recently
(1904) occupied by Mrs. Marchant.
TERMS OS SALE-CASH. and
purchaser to pay for stamps and pa
pers.
THOS. P. THOMSON,
Master for Abbeville Co.
9-17-3t.