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the crowd and walked slowly down
the street. Men stood aside to let her
pass, as if they felt the power of her
spirit and feared the touch IF her gar
ments.
Two or three men had run to the
house of the nearest doctor. The crowd
thickened As l sat looking down at
the dead face in my lap, lawyer who
had come out of the courtroom pressed
near me and bent over and looked at
the set eyes of Benjamin Grimshaw
and said:
"She fioOred him at last. I knew she
would. He tried not to see her, but
tell We that bony old finger of hers
burnt hole in him. He couldn't stand
It. l knew he'd blow up some day un-
der the strain. She got him at last.!'
"Who got him?" another asked.
"Rovin' Kate. She killed him point.
ing her finger at him-so."
"She's got an evil eye. Everybody's
afraid O. the crazy OF trollope."
Nonsense! She isn't half as crazy
as the most of u.s." said the lawyer.
I'm my opinion she had good reason
for pointing her finger at that man.
She came from the same town he did
over in Vermont. Ye don't know what
happened there"
The doctor arrived. The crowd
made way for him. He knelt beside
the still figure and made the tests. He
rose and shook his head, saying:
Its all over. Let one O. these boys
&C down and bring the undertaken"
Benjamin Grimshaw, the richest man
in the township, was dead, and l have
yet to hear of any mOurners.
Three days later l saw his body low
cred into its grave. The little, broken
spirited wife stood there with the
same sad smile on her face that had
noted when first saw her in the hills.
Royin' Kate was there in the clothes
she had worn Christmas day. She was
greatly changed. Her hair was neatly
ccmbed. The wild look had left her
eyes. She was like one whose back is
relieved Of heavy burden. Her lips
moved as she scattered little red
squares of paper into the grave. sup
pose they thought it a crazy whim Of
hershey who saw her do it. 1
thought that I understood the curious
bit of symbolism and so did the school
master, who stood beside me. Doubt
less the pieces of paper numbered her
curses.
1.-THE scarlet sins of his youth are
lying down with him in the dust"
Hacket whispered as we walked away
together.
sEND OF BOOK TWO.)
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CHAPTER KIN.
The Bolt Falls.

Three times that winter / had seen
Benjamin Grimshaw followed by the
Silent Woman clothed in rags and
pointing with her finger.
The trial of Amos came on. He had
had blood on his feet" as they used
to say, all the way from LickityspEit
to Lewis county in his fight, having
attacked and slightly wounded two
men with bowie knife who had tried
TO detain him at Rainy Lake. He had
also shot at an officer in the vicinity
OF LOwVille, where his arrest was eff
these men, and SO his character as a
desperate man had been established.
This in connection with the scar on his
face and the tracks, which the boots
of Amos fitted, and the broken gun
stock convinced the jury of his guilt.
remember well the look of the
venerable Judge Cady as he pro-
rounced the sentence of death upon
Amos Grimshaw. A ray of sunlight
slanting through a window in the late
afternoon fell upon his gracious coun-
tenance, shining Also with the softer
light of his spirit. Slowly, solemnly,
kindly, he spoke the words of doom.
1t was his way of saying them that
first made me feel the dignity and
majesty of the law. The kind and IA
therly tone of his voice put me in
mind of that SupremeSt court which
is above all question and which was
swiftly to enter judgment in this mat
ter and In others related to it.
Slowly the crowd moved out of the
courtroom. Benjamin Grimshaw rose
and calmly whispered to his lawyer.
He had not spoken to his son or
seemed to notice him since the trial
had begun, nor did he now. Many had
shed tears that day, but not he. Mr..
Grimshaw never showed but one emo
tion-that of anger. He was angry
now. His face was hard and stern. He
muttered as he walked out of the
courtroom, his cane briskly beating the
floor.
The Silent Woman-as ragged as
ever-was waiting on the steps Out
went her bony finger as he came down.
He turned and struck at her with his
cane and shouted in Shrill voice that
rang out like trumpet in his frenzy:
"Go way from me. Take her away,
somebody. | can't STAN it. She's KILN
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"They say your uncle found the
pocketbook that was lost and kept the
money. They say he was the first man
that went up the road after it was
lost"
Its a lie-my uncle never saw the
pocketbook. Some money was left to
him by a relative in Vermont. That's
how it happened that he bought farm
instead of going to the pOorhouse when
Grimshaw put the screws to him"
81 knew that your uncle didn't do
IT," she went on. Father and mother
couldn't tell you. So l had to-"
why couldn't your father and moth
er tell mel"
They didn't dare. Mr. Grimshaw
made them promise that they would
not speak to you Or to any of your
family heard them say that you and
your uncle did right. Father told
mother that he never knew a man so
honest as your Uncle Peabody"
Just then we came upon the Silent
Woman sitting among the dandelions
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CHAPTER XII.
The Thing and Other Thinos.

/ returned to Mr.. Jackets house
late in the afternoon of New Years
day. The schoolmaster was lying on
big lounge in a corner of their front
room with the children about him. The
dusk was falling
Welcome, my laddie buck! he ex-
claimed as l entered. Were telling
stories O. the old year an you're just
In time for the last O. them. Sit down,
had, and God give ye patience! It'll
soon be over"
After supper he got out his boxing
gloves and gave me lesson In the art
Of self-defense, in which, | was soon
80 learn, he was highly accomplished,
for we had a few rounds together
every day after that. He keenly en-
1oyed this form of exercise and l soon
Began to- My capacity for taking pun
sshment without tlinching grew apace
and before long l got the knuck of
eountering and that pleased him more
even than my work in school, l have
sometimes thought.
"God bless ye, boy!" he exclaimed
Une day after had landed heavily on
his cheek, "ye've a nice way o sneakin'
In with yer right. I've notion ye
may find 1t useful some day"
/ wondered a little why he should
say that, and while / was wondering
sse felled me with singing blow on
my nose.
"Ah, my lad-there's the best thing
Ii have seen We do-get up an come
back with no mad in-ye," he said as he
gave me his hand.
One day the schOolmaster called the
HlElzF boys to the front seats In his
COCKS and among them.
Nov. boys, Pm going to ask "
Rhat ye want to do in the world" hC
ssiG. Don't be afraid to tell me wha
ye may never have told before and III
&c what can to help ye."
For some months / had been study
ing a book just published. entitled
'Sienographic Sound-Hand," and haC
harmed its alphabet and practiced tn,
use of it. That evening l took dow
ahe remarks Of Mr.. Hacket in sound
hsnd.
The academy chapel was crowded
9Th the Older boys and girls and tn.
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another road. Just there, with Sally
waving her hand to me as / stood for
u moment in the edge of the woods,
the curtain falls on this highly roman
tic period of my life.
Uncle Peabody came for me that eve
ming 1t was about the middle of the
next week that | received this letter
from Sally:
Dear Bart: Mr. Latour gave up
and drove to Potsdam in the evening.
Said he had to meet Mr.. Parish. l
think that he had seen enough of me-
/ began TO hope he would stay-he
was so good looking, but mother is
very glad that he went, and so am /,
for our minister told us that he is one
OF the wickedest young men in the
state. He is very rich and very bad,
they say. I wonder if old Kate knew
about him. Her charm worked well
0nyway-didn't it? My nose was all
right in the morning. Sorry that
can't meet you Saturday. Mother and
/ are packing up to go away for the
summer. Don't forget me. shall be
thinking every day Of those lovely
things you said to me. / don't know
what they will try to do with me, and
/ don't care. / really think as you do,
Bart, that God has married us to each
other
Yours forever,
SALLY DUNKELBERG".
How often / read those words-so
like all the careless words of the
young!
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CHAPTER IV-Silas Wright evinces
much interest In Barton, and sends a box
~ books and magazines to the Baynes
home The election of Silas Wright to
the United States senate is announced.
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CHAPTER Wharton is asked to
sTiye load to mill, arrives safely, but
IN q snowstorm, unable to see the road
the horses get into the ditch and a
wheel of the wagon is broken. Uncle
Peabody manages to get together
enough to satisfy Grimshaw and obtain
an extension.
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TO
THE,
PUBLIC!

We do not believe it would be posi-
BILE for us to bottle and sell ONE HUN
DRIED AND FIFTY GALLONS of No.
101 Tonic per day if it was not an eff
fective treatment for influenza.
A man who works O. large force of
len came to our office several days ago
and told us he had twenty-five men
taken with this maIady in one day. He
Immediately distributed an ample sup
ply of No 101 Tonic among them and
there was not a fatality in the twenty
five.
The formula by which this Tonic is
made is given to the public, so it can
not be listed as a secret nostrum. 1t
contains Iron, which is for the blood;
Quinine, which is deadly to the intiu
enza germ and Magnesia, which thor
oughIy opens the bowels. Sold
throughout the South by wholesale and
retail druggists and drug dealers,
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tcwnfolk. The master never clipped
his words in school as he was wont to
do when talking Familiarity with the
children.
"Since the leaves fell our little viii
lage has occupied the center of the
stage before an audience of millions
ir the great theater Of congress. Our
leading citizen-the chief actor-has
been crowned with immortal fame. We
who watched the play were thrilled by
the query: VIII Uncle Sam yield to
temptation or cling to honor? He has
chosen the latter course and we may
still hear the applause In distant gal
leries beyond the sea. He has decided
that the public revenues must be paid
In honest money.
MY friend and classmate, George
Bancroft. the historian, has written
this letter to me out of full heart:
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We Came Upon the Silent Woman Sit
ting Among the DandeIions by the
Roadside.

by the roadside. She held a cup in
her hand with some honey on its bot
tom and covered with a piece of glass.
"She is hunting bees" I said as we
stopped beside her.
She rose and patted my shoulder
with smile and threw kiss to Sally.
Suddenly her face grew stern. She
pointed toward the village and then at
Sally.
'She means that there is some dan
ger ahead of you" l said
The Silent Woman picked q long
blade Of grass and tipped it's end in
the honey at the bottom of the cup.
She came close to Sally with the blade
Of grass between her thumb and finger.
"She is fixing a charm" l said.
She smiled and nodded as she Tut
drop of honey on SalIy's upper lip.
She held up her hands while her lips
moved as If she were blessing us.
81 suppose it will not save me if I
brush it off" said Sally.
We went on and in moment bee
lighted on the honey. Nervously she
struck at it and then cried out with
pain.
''The bee has stung YOU" l said
She covered her face with her hand
kerchief and made no answer.
''Wait a minute-PH get some clay"
] said as 1 ran to the river bank.
found some clay and moistened it
with the water and returned.
There, look at me'' she groaned.
"The bee hit my nose"
She uncovered her face, now de-
formed almost beyond recognition, her
nose having swollen to one of great
size ard redness.
''You look like Rodney Barnes"
said with laugh as l applied the clay
to her afflicted nose.
"And feel like the old boy. l think
my nose is trying to jump off and run
away"
We were nearing the village. She
wiped the mud from her prodigious
nose and | wet her handkerchief in
it. Soon we saw two men approaching
as in the road. In u moment | OBJ
served that one was Mr.. Horace Dun
kelberg; the other a stranger and re-
markably handsome young man he
was, about twenty-five years of age
and dressed in the height of fashion.
/ remember so well his tall, athletic
figure, his gray eyes, his small dark
mustache and his admirable manners.
Both were appalled, at the look of
Sally.
"Why, girl, what has happened to
| you?" her father asked.
Then saw what a playful soul was
Sally's. The girl was a born actress
Been riding in the country" said
she. rs this Mr.. Latour?"
This is Mr., Latour, Sally" said her
father.
They shook hands.
II am glad to see you," said the
stranger.
"They say l am worth SEEING" said
Sally. This Is my friend, Mr.. Baynes.
When you are tired of seeing me, look
az him."
| / shook the hand he offered me.
"Of course, we can't all be good
looking" Sally remarked with sigh,
as if her misfortune were permanent.
| Mr.. Horace Dunkelberg and
laughed heartily--for / had told him in
whisper what had happened to Sally
while Mr.. Latour looked little en-
! barrasSed.
"My face is not beautiful, but they
say that | have good heart" Sally
assured the stranger.
They started on. / excused myself
and took trail through the woods TO
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me. Take her away. Take her away.
Take her away"
His face turned purple and then
white. He reeled and fell headlong,
like tree severed from it's roots. and
lay still on the hard, stone pavement.
1t seemed as if snow were falling on
his FACET grew so white. The Silent
Woman stood as still as he, pointing
at him with her finger, her look I'M
changed. People came running toward
us. lifted the head of Mr.. Grimshaw
and laid it on my knee. 1t felt like the
head of the stranger In Rattleroad.
Old Kate bent over and looked at the
eyelids of the man which futtered
family and were still.
"Dead!" she muttered.
Then, as If her work were finished.
she turned and made her way through
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(TO BE CONTINUED
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic

restores vitality and energy by puri-
flying and enriching the blood You
can soon feel its Strengthening, In
Operating Effect, Price Soc.
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CHAPTER I-Barton Baynes orphan.
" taken to live with his uncle, Peabody
EBaynes. and his Aunt Deel on a farm on
Rattleroad in a neighborhood called Lick
Rysplit, about the year 1926. Barton meets
Sally Dunkelberg, about his own age, but
sociRlly of a class above the Bayneses,
and is fascinated by the pretty face
and fine clothes.
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CHAPTER IIT-Barton and his uncle
snd aunt visit Canton and hear Silas
Wright read a sermon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
Leading Citizens Make Comment on Existing
 Conditions in Juneau
 -Offer Suggestions

Here we are agalnt Of course it is raining, but we are happy anyhow! Rain never hurt Juneau or she would have died long ago. We have grown so used to little rain that we would drive out a missionary who would try to spring that old story about the forty days of rain flooding every thing!
 Business goes on just t!c same. In fact 1t is fairly skipping ahead, That reminds us of something we read the other day
 Children" said the teacher toward the close of the geogra ply lesson on Australia, there is one animal that no one has mentioned. It does not stand up on its legs al! of the time it cannot walk like other animals and people, and takes funny little skips Now, what is it?"
 Charlie Chaplin" yelled the row of movie fans on the front seat.
 Charlie Chaplin has made many people happy by little individual effort No matter how small the re- suit of your individual efforts may be. Juneau needs that contribution We have plenty ready to aim all right; we would like to see a few shoot! We must be effective and turn some of our thoughts for the common good into acts. A little more harmony. too, please. There are
 some of us who are not yet appre
 ciating how well off we are Don.
 be ready to join the discords They
 say in the great g'rden of human
 kind grow both flowers and weeds Which are you?
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
HUNS ARE EAGER TO BUY SUPPLIES FROM
 AMERICAN SOURCES

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN GERMANY. Aug. 15.-Old ma terial used by the Third Army on the Rhine is being disposed of in hurry. German civilians alone recently have been buying from twenty-five to forty carloads of sal vaged material each day. Germans assemble at Coblenz, or the other towns where the auction sales are held, by the hundreds, some coming from Cologne, from Mayence, and others as far as Frankfort-o on Main, Cassel and other parts of unoccu- pied Germany.
 At a recent sale in Coblenz with l German-speaking doughboy as auctioneer, 125, 5000 leather jerkins were sold to the Germans for D. 000,000 marks. (The recent army exchange on marks is 25O marks for one franc.) The same day 30,- 900 raincoats, many of them having been used by American soldiers turing the war, were sold for 250,- 900 marks.
 The Germans eagerly buy any thing offered by the Americans, particularly any articles containing leather or rubber. Ten thousand American made gas masks were sold a few days ago to civilians who planned to make use of the rubber for commercial purposes. More than one hundred tons of harness, some of 1t German made and aban- doned after the armistice, were dis posed of at recent auction sale near CoblenZ
 Forty thousand pairs of Ameri- can field shoes, many of which had been worn and torn in the march of the doughboys from Luxembourg to the Rhine in December, were sold in lots at a special sale.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
WILL VISIT HIS HOLDINGS ON
 THE P0RCUP|NE
A Prominent Washington Writer Passes Through Juneau Enroute to the
 PorCupine District

Mir. Robert Montgomery, owner and editor of the Puyallup Valley Tribune of Puyallup Wash, also postmaster at the same place. was a passenger on the steamer Jeffer- son last night enroute to Haines from which point he will visit some mining property in which he is interested in the Porcupine coun- try MT. Montgomery has long en- joyed the distinction of being one of the most able, fluent and versa tie writers in the West A fin ished scholar, a man of keen per ception and appreciation, it is ex- pected his visit to Alaska will re- suit in series of articles in his paper that will be very widely cop jed and extensively read. On his return from Porcupine Mr. Mont Gomery will spend a few days in Juneau with his long time friend E. J, White.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
BUILDING OF THE
 MEXICAN PYRAMIDS
 IS NOT YET SOLVED

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15.-Arch aelogical investigations by a Gov ernment commission to solve the mystery of who built the great pyramids at San Juan Teatihaua- can, 27 miles from Mexico City have brought to light two great granite heads of the ancient Mexi. can God of the air, Quetzalcoat, These heads are almost perfect specimens, bearing all the symbolic markings.
 The long disputed point as to who created the pyramids is, as yet, unsolved. These huge mounds one to the sun and the other to the moon, the former being 761 by 721 feet at the base and 216 feet high, are generally attributed to tribe that preceded the Toltecs, prob ably dating from about the sixth century.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
Expert Help Is Scarce.

We always find Billie Taylor in sweet surroundings. Today Billie remarked that business was too good for an old timer like himself T wish I didn't have so much trade it keeps me from going fishing, said he 'The local trade is very heavy I cannot get help and it is really all I can manage. Tourists pour in at all hours though. Gee! don't they wear you out with foo questions? One woman wanted to know {, if my dogs were glacier hounds, I told her they were, that they were used every season to catch glacier bears"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15

ally appreciate Juneau was so glad to get back to it myself"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
Business Better Than Ever.

oNS''SSS SSNASi Idii
 Clarence E. Carpenter of Messrs. Sinclair and Carpenter of the Union Machine Works, said We are very optimistic regarding Juneau's future, and are more than pleased with the amount of business handled during the past year. It totals somewhat more than 250 per cent over any pre- vious year; in fact, we have found it necessary to enlarge our shop, and. from time to time, add new equipment We partly account for the increase from the fact that the cannerymen and others have found that the Jul 'neau shops can do their work more cheaply than they can have it done in the States This is largely due to the lesser overhead expense car ried by the Juneau shops, and partly that the latter are in position to pay closer individual attention to every piece of work handled by them We think Juneau has just begun to grow"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
Shipping Needs Attention.


 M. Bovard of the California Gro cery says We find business very good. We like your idea of boosting Juneau. It is doing good. Good sug gestions have been made which 1T followed up by the cooperation ol the people and the council will re suit in a benefit to every one of us We should like to see the business section of the city better lighted and some action taken on the Ter. ritorial shipping. We deal largely in fresh fruits and vegetables and at the present time they are kept so long on the road there is a lot of waste for us and expense and we are not giving our customers what we want to give them.'
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
Want City Better Lighted.

l.. SalOum of the Bargain Store says: We are surprised at the good sales we are having daily. This is usually a dull period in our line of business. The stock is coming in cause the wholesalers can't make deliveries. This is due to labor con ditions and strikes outside. Strikes are bad things for the general pub
 lie. They cause delays and also increased prices. However, we should be glad that none exist here. I ap. preciate the patronage of the Ju- neau people and I am convinced Ju-
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
WILL VISIT AMERICA

TOKYO, Aug. 15.-Miss Miyorko Kobashi, proprietor and editor of the Fujin, the Woman's Weekly, will go to the United States this month for a three-year stay for the purpose of Investigating the courses in journalism in the leading Ameri- can Universities
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in ruins and largely deserted, stop
ping next at Grand Pre- on the edge
of the Argonne forest, on the line
where our troops emerged after put
ting behind them the strongest of the
German defences and where they
halted for time until beginning the
second phase of the Argonne- Mouse
battle of November LIST.
At Buzancy, perhaps 10 kilometers
to the north, which was taken on
November I'd, we stopped and ms
pccted the Chateau that until Octo-
Der was the headquarters of General
Won der Marwitz, who commanded
the German forces opposing the
Americans. He had provided himself
with an elaborate dugout with panel
ed walls and ceiling and was in /,
position to direct operations in
safety behind the lines.
We arrived at Dun-sur-M Mouse at
700 p. M, after making a wide circuit
through Nourat and Stenay. Our
train had in the meanwhile been NOV
ed to Dun and here we spent the
night. Starting out again the next
morning we stopped for time at
Staney, where all inspected the Cha
teau that for 80 months was the head
quarters of the Crown Prince. 1t is
all just as it was during his occupa,
ton of the place. Again we found
evidence of his apparent fear. Not
only did he have one ordinary dugout
but a sub-dugout below the first.
Both were fitted up for storing food
and all provisions made for the com
fort in case of the need for more
protracted stay.