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CHAPTER VII-Continued.


 The beauty of that perfect day was upon her. ! remember that her dress was like the color of it's fireweed blos- soms and that the blue of it's sky was fin her eyes and the yellow of the sum- light in her hair and the red of it's clover in her cheeks. remember how the August breezeS played with her hair, flinging it's golden curving strands about her neck and shoulders so that 1t touched my face, now and then, as we walked Somehow the rustic of her dress started a strange vibration in my spirit. put my arm around her waist and she put her arm around mine as We ran along. A curious feel ing came over me. I stopped and loosed my arm.
 'It's very warm!' p said as picked a stalk of freweed.
 What was there about the girl which 50 thrilled me with happiness?
 She turned away and felt the rib bon by which her hair was gathered at the back of her head.
 After a moment of silence I ven- tured:
 'T guess you've never fallen in love-" 'Yes, I have"
 "Who with?'
 'I don't think I dare tell you," she answered, slowly, looking down as she walked.
 ''I'n tell you who love if you wish," said.
 "Whor'
 "You." I whispered the word and was afraid she would laugh at me, but she didn't.
 We stopped and listened to the song of bird-I do not remember what bird it was-and then she whispered :: "Will you love me always and for ever?"
 "Yes," I answered in the careless way of youth.
 She stopped and looked into my eyes and looked into hers.
 May I kiss your" I asked, and afraid, with cheeks burning.
 She turned away and answered: q guess you can If you want to-
 Now l seem to be in Aladdin's tower and to see her standing so red and graceful and innocent in the sunlight, and that strange fire kindled by our kisses warns my blood again.
 That night heard a whispered con- ference below after I had gone up- stairs. knew that something was coming and wondered what it might
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BOOK TWO
Which is the Story of the Prin-
 CipaI Witness.
In Which Meet Other Great Men.
CHAPTER VIII.

In Which Meet Other Great Men.
 It was a sunny day late in Septem- Der on which Aunt Deel and Uncle Pea body took me and my little pine chest with all my treasures in it to the viii lage where I was to go to school and live with the family of MT. Michael Racket, the schoolmaster.
 I remember the sad excitement of that ride to the village and all the words of advice and counsel spoken by my aunt.
 l remember looking in vain for Sally as we passed the Dunkelbergs'. I re- member my growing loneliness as the day wore on and how Aunt Deel stood silently buttoning my coat, with tears rolling down her cheeks while l leaned back upon the gate in front of the Racket house, on fishery lane, try ashamed of my poor success. Uncle Peabody stood surveying the sky in silence with his back toward us. He turned and nervously blew out his breath. His lips trembled a little as he said:
 q dunno but what it's goin' to rain."
 I watched them as they walked to the tavern sheds, both looking down at the ground and going rather un- steadily. Oh, the look of that beloved pair as they walked away from me -- the look of their leaning heads! Their silence and the sound of their foot steps are, somehow, a part of the pie ture which has hung all these years in my memory.
 Sally Dunkelberg and her mother came along and said that they were glad I had come to school. I could not talk to them, and seeing my trouble they went on, Sally waving her hand to me as they turned the corner below. felt ashamed of myself. Suddenly I heard the door open behind me and the voice of Mir. Racket:
 Bart" he called, ssPve a friend here who has something to say to you. Come in."
 l turned and went into the house.
 Away with sadness-laddie buck !'' he exclaimed as he took his violin from its case while I sat wiping my eyes. Away with sadnessl She often raps at my door, and while try not to be
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Went With Him While He Fed Hit
 Chickens and Two Small Shotes.

Went With Him While He Fed His
 Chickens and Two Small Shotes.
 yesterday. The sheriff said that he tried to run away when he saw 'en coming"
 What was the meaning of this. What had Amos Grimshaw been do ing? I trembled as I got back into bed-I cannot even now explain why but long ago l gave up trying to fathom the depths of the human spirit with an infinite sea beneath 1t crossed by subtle tides and currents. We see only the straws on the surface.
 was up at daylight and MT. Racket came to my door while was dressing. "A merry day to you!' he exclaimed. ''Tll await you below and introduce you to the humble herds and f1ocks of schoolmaster."
 I went with him while he fed his chickens and two small shotes. I milked the COW for him, and together we drove her back to the pasture. Then we split some wood and filled the boxes by the fireplace and the kitchen stove and raked up the leaves in the dooryard and wheeled them away.
 'Now you know the duties O your office," said the schoolmaster as we went in to breakfast.
 We sat down at the table with the family and I drew out my letter from the senator and gave it to MT. Racket to read.
 '"The senator! God prosper him! I heard that he came on the Plattsburg stage last night" he said as he began the reading-an announcement which caused me and the children to clap our hands with joy.
 | MT. Racket thoughtfully repeated the words from Job with most in- pressive intonation.
 He passed the letter back to me and said:
 "All true! have seen it sinking into the bones O the young and I have seen it lying down with the aged in the dust O their graves. It is big hook-the one we are now opening. God help us It has more pages than all the days O your life. Just think O your body. A brave and tender youthl It is like sponge. How it takes things in an holds 'em an feeds upon 'em! A part O every apple ye eat sinks down into yer blood an bones. Ye can't get it out. It's the same way with the books ye read an the thoughts ye enjoy. They go down into yer bones an ye-can't get lem out. That's why I like to think O Michael Henry. His food is good thoughts and his wine is laughter. I had a long visit with M. H. last night when ye were all in bed. His face was chunk O laughter. Oh. what a limb he isl I wish could tell ye all the good things he said"
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should. You remember Royin' Kate?" he asked by and by.
 "Yes," I answered.
 Some day when you're little older I'll tell ye her story an you'll see what happens when men an women break the law O God. Here's MT. Wright's letter. Aunt Deel asked me to give it to you to keep. You're old enough now an you'll be goin' away to school before long, I guess"
 1 took the letter and read again the superscription on it's envelope:
 gro Master Barton Baynes: Gro be opened when he leaves home
 to go to schooD."
 I put it away in the pine box with leather hinges on it's cover which Uncle Peabody had made for me and wondered again what it was all about, and again that night I broke camp and moved further into the world over the silent trails of knowledge.
 Uncle Peabody went away for a few days after the harvesting. He had gone afoot, I knew not where. He returned one afternoon in a buggy with the great Michael Racket of the Canton academy. Racket was a big, brawny, red-haired, kindly Irishman with merry heart and tongue, the latter having touch of the brogue of the green isle which he had never seen, for he had been born in Massachusetts and had got his education in Harvard. He was then man of forty.
 "You're coming to me this fall," he said as he put his hand on my arm and gave me little shake. Lad you've got pair of shoulders Ye shall live in my house an help with the chores if ye wish to-
 s'Thatll be grand" said Uncle Pea body, but, as to myself, just then, I knew not what to think of it.
 TEND OF BOOK ONE.]
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BARTON MAKES HIS FIRST FoRAY INTO THE WORLD AS
 A STUDENT IN MICHAEL JACKETS ACADEMY

live with his Peabody Baynes, his Raleroad nehbohood called cyp about the 1926 He meets Sally Dunkelberg about his but socially above the
  neghborhood Woman Amos Grimshaw of the richest the ship visitor fortunes predicting bright future in of Mir Grmsaw  his the office
 
  bends the stranger Barton o at tonce.
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be. Soon Uncle Peabody came up to our little room looking highly serious. l sat, half undressed and rather fear full looking into his face. AS I think of the immaculate soul of the boy, I feel touch of pathos in that scene. I think that he felt it, for remember that his whisper trembled a little as he began to tell me why men are strong and women are beautiful and given in marriage.
 You'll be falling in love one O these days" he said. Its natural ye
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Showing Up His Family.

A grammar school teacher having asked for short essay employing certain words ending with "tion," a pupil handed in this astonishing pro- duction:
 Fathers hair is recollection :; mothers is an acquisition; sisters is an aggregation; b-other's is a con- flagration, and ba5ys is mere premonition. -Bcston Evening Trans script
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That Gone. Too.

"Bill says the doctors at that highr priced hospital took his temperature every day."
 "No doubt; those fellows will take anything you've got"
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Barton and the Packets hear some news that startles them and sets Barton to worrying about a secret that he shares with no one. Don't miss the next lnstaIlment.
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''Yours truly,
 "SILAS WRIGHT. -JR.n T

read the words over and over again, but knew not their meaning. Sadly and slowly I got ready for bed. The noises of the village challenged my ear after I had put out my candle. There were many barking dogs Some saddle leather, followed by a wagon. Soon I heard running feet and eager voices. I rose and looked out of the open window. Men were hurrying down the street with lanterns.
 He's the son O Ben Grimshaw," I heard one of them saying "They caught him back in the south woods
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kAD, RIsoN, ARK.
kssited. There were in the room a

Hsited. There were in the room a
 la chair, a portrait of Napoleon
 Rnaparte and small table on which kere dictionary, Bible and num- Der of schoolbooks. ''These were Mary's books said Mir. Racket. q told your uncle that ye could use them an welcome"
 I sat down and opened the sealed envelope with trembling hands and found in it this brief note
 Dear Partner: I want you to ask the wisest man you know to explain these words to you. I suggest that you commit them to memory and think often of their meaning. They are from Job:
 "'His bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust
 q believe that they are the most impressive in all the literature I have read.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-03-14
Prince proves himself a real
canine hero and makes himself
"solid" with all the people at the
Corners. His exploit is described
in the next installment.

An order for 100000 pairs of knee
length rubber boots for the French
army has been placed with American
manufacturers.
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Income Tax Made Plain.

"My dear" suddenly said Mrs.
Whipple, Il wish you would explain
the income tax"
DO you mean to say that you don't
know about the income taxi"
We'll, of course, | know in a gem
eral way that it is tax upon incomes,
but | want to know the particulars
You, being an up-todate American
citizen, naturally are familiar with
the facts, Just put it as briefly and
lucidly as possible"
Mr.. Whipple blushed with apparent
joy. Delighted he replied. Listen
carefully. After finding out what
your income is for the fiscal year, you
deduct $1,000; but in case you are
married or divorced you add $500,
and then divide this by 10, subtract
5 and Multiply by 8, carefully adding
the senate bill No. 341,S93. From
this time forward you begin to add
surtaxes, in proportion to the amount
OF your excess taxes collected at the
source of the Nile, or vice versa You
| then figure up your dividends, and
the interest on your Liberty Bonds-if
you haven't sold them yet-you de-
| duct-provided that no retroactive
measure has passed congress mean.
while. To this you add the services
of two corporation lawyers, an uncle
and your business partner, and make
| a trial balance of the result. II II
agrees with the number of your fam.
lily, provided there has been no
| deaths, you then add the inheritance
tax and the combined ages of all the
sons you have fighting in the trenches
| Is that plain ?"
Wonderfully So" replied Mrs.
| Whipple. But then as an American
| business man you were always so
| lucid"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-03-14
BR EVITIES.

President Wilson March 4 signed
the wheat guarantee bill, carrying an
appropriation of $1,000,000,00O to
maintain the guaranteed price of 1925
a bushel. The cotton futures rider to
the guarantee wheat price bill be-
comes effective March 5. Under it
only 13 grades of cotton-from low
middling up-can be delivered on fu-
ture contracts and all cotton SO de-
livered must be classified by govern
ment graders.
The earnings of the Standard Oil
company of California for 1918, after
deducting all operating and market
ing expenses, were $44 ,276,521, accord
ing to an advance annual statement is
sued March by the company. From
this total, the statement read, there
was written off for depreciation 49,
S95,757, and for depletion $6,022,2 27.
Deductions for estimated income and
excess profits tax of $40, 405,074 leave
net profit carried to surplus of $14,
953074, or about 1913 per cent of the
capital and surplus.
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CHAPTER vi.
Prince Awakens The Corners,

Prince AWakens The Corners.
Camp-meeting time was over, and
the church at The Corners was to- open
for its regular Sunday services.
Both Satan and the parson have
had vacation" said Mr.. Stage, "and
now they can tackle each other again
and see which1l get the strange hold
'twixt now and revival time"
you should not say such things. es-
pecially before the child, Joseph
Stage" admonished Aunty Rose.
Carolyn May, however, seemed not
to have heard Uncle Joes pessimistic
remark; she was too greatly excited
by the prospect Of Sunday school. And
the very next weekday school would
begin!
BY this first week In September the
little girl was quite settled in her new
home at The Corners. Prince was still
doubtful addition to the family, both
Uncle Joe and Aunty Rose plainly hav-
ing misgivings about him. But in re-
gard to the little girl herself, the
hardware merchant and the house
keeper were Of one opinion, even
though they did not admit it to each
other.
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CHAPTER V-Continued,

D
The mole in question lived under
piece of rock wall near the garden
fence.
When Uncle Joe came home to din
ner on one particular Saturday he
walked down to the corner of the gar
den fence, and there saw the havoc
Prince had wrought. In following the
line of the mole's last tunnel he had
worked his way under the picket fence
and had torn up two currant bushes
and done some damage in the straw
berry patch.
"And the worst Of it is" grumbled
the hardware dealer, che never caught
the mole. That mongrel really isn't
worth bag of dornicks to sink him in
the brook. But that's what he's going
to get this very evening when l come
home. / won't stand for him day
longer"
Carolyn May positively turned pale
as she crouched beside the now
chained-up Prince, both arms about
his rough neck. He licked her cheek
Fortunately, he could not understand
everything that was said to him, there
fore the pronouncement of this terri
BILE sentence did not agitate him an
atom.
Carolyn May sat for long time I'M
der the tree beside the sleeping dog
and thought how different this life at
The Corners was from that she had
lived with her father and mother in
the city home.
If only that big ship, the Dunraven,
had not sailed away with her papa
and her mamma!
Carolyn May had been very brave on
that occasion. She had gone ashore
with Mrs. Price and Edna after her
mothers last clinging embrace and her
fathers husky "Good-by, daughter"
with scarcely tear.
OF course she had been brave! Nam
ma would return in few weeks, and
then, after time, papa would like
wise come back-and oh E! so rosy and
stout!
And then, in two weeks, came the
fatal news of the sinking of the Dun
raven and the loss of all but small
part of her crew and passengers.
Vaguely these facts had become
known to Carolyn May. She never
spoke of them. They did not seem real
to the little girl.
But now, sitting beside the con-
demned Prince-her companion and
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drownd-ed," Carolyn May sobbed. I'D
want to be drownd-ed myself, too
II know, dear. But do you really
believe your Uncle Joseph would 30
such a thing? Would he drown your
dOg?"
Il saw him putting the stones in
the bag sobbed Carolyn May. And
he said lie would
But he said it when he was angry,
dear. We often say things when we
are angry-mores the pity which
we do not mean, and for which we are
bitterly sorry afterwards. l am sure,
Carolyn May, that your Uncle Joe has
no intention of drowning your dog"
"Oh, Miss Amanda Are you pos'-
tiveF'
positive! I know Joseph Stage.
He was never yet cruel to any dumb
creature. Go ask him yourself, Caro-
Ign May. Whatever else he may be,
he is not Halter of helpless and dumb
animals
Miss Amanda" cried Carolyn May,
with clasped hands, "you-you are just
lifting an awful big lump off my heart !!
I'll run and ask him right away"
She raced with the barking Prince
back to the Stage premises. Mr.. Stage
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-03-14
1918 Crop Prices Hiuhest.

Slightly below average in prOduc-
ton of all crops per acre, nevertheless
the year 1918 was high in crop pro-
duction in the mass. Beginning with
1910, the bureau of crop estimates
United States department of agricul-
ture, has computed crop index num-
bers for each year, 100 being the aver
age, and interesting comparisons are
easily made. OF the nine years, 1915
was the most productive one in yield
per acre, with an index number of
10; the year 1912 was next below
with 109, 1914 and 1917 each had 104.
On the other hand, the notably poor
year 1911 stood at 80, 1913 was at So,
1916 at SO, and 1918 at SO.
In mass of crop production, however,
1918 is represented by the index num-
Der 107 on account of high acreage;
the high index number 116 represents
1915, 10 represents 1912, and los rep
resents 1917. The year 1916, low in
yield per acre, had mass production
representa- by the average 100. No
year since 1913 has been below aver
age in mass production.
Before the war, low crop-production
years usually had index numbers for
crop prices above the average, and
production years had ones below.
Every year of the war has sent the
rocket of prices higher and higher In
1914, the first year of the war, the
index of crop prices was 90, which was
below average on account of cotton
and paralysis of shipping and credit
In 1915 it had risen to 1902, after which
year the movement jumped to 155 in
1916, to 213 in 1917, and to 224 in
1918. AS far as is known, this is the
highest point ever reached or indicated
by composite crop price.
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only real comforter during these
weeks of her orphanhood-the little
girl felt bitterly her loneliness and
grief.
If Uncle Joe did as he had threat
ened, what should she do? There
seemed to be no place for her and
Prince to run away to.
I'm quite sure I don't want to
live" thought Carolyn May dismally.
IF papa and mamma and Prince are
all dead-why! there aren't enough
other folks left in the world to make
1T worth while living in, l don't be-
lieve. If Prince isn't going to be alive,
then don't want to be alive, either"
By and by Prince began to get very
uneasy 1t was long past his dinner
hour, and every time he heard the
screen door slam he jumped up and
gazed eagerly and with cooked ears
ard wagging tail in that direction.
you poor thing, YOU" said Carolyn
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-03-14
RHEIMS TO GET HOSPITAL.
First Great Memorial in Honor OF
United States Heroes.

s.-Overlooking the $4,000 roof
less houses of Rheims and overshad-
owed by its battered cathedral VIII
stand the first great memorial to the
American dead in France. This seems
Assured by the official advices that
have reached the Paris headquarters
of the American fund for French
wounded to the effect that the French
government will deed to the lund
ground in the environs of Rheims on
which a great American hospital Will
be erected. The sum of 100000 for
the purpose has already been guar
anteed by the American fund organi-
cation in the United States.
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had just finished filling in with the
stones the trench Prince had dug I'M
der the garden fence.
"There," he grunted. 'That drafted
dog won't dig this hole any bigger,
reckon. What's the matter with you,
Car'lyn?"
"Are-are you going to drown'd
Princey, Uncle Joe? If-if you do, it
just seems to me, II shall dien'
He looked up at her searchingly.
"Humph is that mongrel SO all-im-
portant to your happiness that you
want to die if he does?' demanded the
man.
Eyes, Uncle Joe
"Humph !" CALCULATED the hardware
dealer again. Il believe you think
more of that dog than you do of me-"
Eyes, Uncle joe
The frank answer hit Mr.. Stagg
harder than he would have cared to
acknowledge.
"Why?" he queried.
Because Prince never said a word
to hurt me in his life!' said Carolyn
May, sobbing.
The man was silenced. He felt in
his inmost heart that he had been
judged.
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Berlin Revolt Over,

Government troops have suppress
sed the armed revolt at Berlin.
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Utah Forbids Cigarettes.

The senate of the Utah legislature
has passed an anti-cigarette law
which, it is said, will absolutely
prohibit the manufacture and sale of
cigarettes or materials for their man.
ufacture in the state. The measure
now goes to the house for action.
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Germany Refuses.

ington.-Germanys refusal to
turn over her merchant ships for
shipment home of American troops
has aroused the widest speculation
and comment here.
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Wife Also Paws.

Washington, ID. C.-Blanks on which
corporations will report their 1918 in
come for war and excess profits and
income taxes will be ready for dis
tribution this week.
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CAROLYN CANNOT FACE PROSPECT OF LOSING HER ONLY
FRIEND AND COMPANION

SynopssEer father mother
which
May CameronIannahs Carolyns
the
her enthusiastic
of Uncle
when he learns lawyer friend of his
the
sweetheart Amanda Parlow
families.