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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-05
SAYS PACT AIDS JAPAN.
Peoples Party of China Denounces
Anglo-Japanes Alliance.

PHILADELPHIA. August 5-The
Anglo Japanese alliance, recently re-
newed for one year, was denounced
by speakers before the annual con-
vention of the peoples party of
China. in session here. Delegates de-
plored that Great Britain had fallen
into u snare" and declared the al
liance>was of no special benefit to
England. but provided protection to
Japan while she gains territory in
China
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-05

Norwegian whalers are planning to
make gloves from whale intestines,
which yield a thin leather that is soft,
pliabIe and durable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-05
Policy Invites Support.

Such a policy invites the cordial
support of all. irregardless of pre-
vious party affiliations. and especially
appeals to the instructive patriotism
of the young men and women
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04

ear for the music thai followed. The
hand of the listener at the window
stole up against the light and dragged
off his hat. The man %crouching in the
bushes could make out the crisp locks
that chung close to the barred head.
The song ended. The last soft har-
mony of the cello lost itself among
the listening trees. There came a muf-
fled shutting inside the cabin; a huge
shadow. as of two figures bulked to-
gether, crossed the curtain of the
window at the west side of the door.
The ~Pearlhunter knew what was hap
pening-the girl leading the stricken
man to his bed. But his eyes were
upon the still figure outside the win
dow.
One shadow came back, a slim,
trim shadow: there followed the
creaking of a chair; q head. hung
With loose hair, rocked back and forth
across the curtain-and the man who
crouched under the bushes knew the
girl was alone with her thoughts.
liz HILL dl lIc WilluON M1lclleU
the shadow. 1t seemed to rouse him
to recall fancies that the song had
caused to wander far. He glanced
about; pulled himself together; made
a haff petulant step toward the door.
The man in the underbrush stiff
fened: slowly rose, noiSeleSs as
smoke. The nan approaching the
door seemed to hesitate; stopped. The
other sank down again in the bushes.
The head of flowing hair rocked back
and forth across the curtains.
1t was a strained moment; a three
handed game in the dark an intense
three-angled drama of life-mayhap
of more than life, if the honor of a
woman is more than that.
The man hesitating before the door
had the next play. What held his
hand? The song? Perhaps his plans
were not yet ripened to the full. He
made another step toward the door;
stopped; jerked his shoulders up say
agely; glared about; brought his eyes
back to the rocking shadow; swore
softly; turned and stalked silently
away down the path toward Fallen
Rock.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04
o tomorrow"

WOODS tomorrow"
She shrank back into the rooma He
drew half a step nearer, laid his arm
easement, lost in thought.
"And yet I've that to do that must
have light" he unused, more to him
self than to her, raising his head after
a time and glancing toward the dim
outline inside the window. SIS there
q blind on your window that would
hide q canlle?"
"Why-yes-" she answered, puz-
zled and slow.
1t was = long time before he spoke
again. Had the light served, she might
have seen in his eyes the struggle he
vas going through. He rubbed his
drawn lips together to loosen them.
will You trust me in your room?"
The girl started. Her hands clutched
each other. She knew it was not to
have his wounds dressed that he
asked. Short as her acquaintance
with him had been, she knew it was
not that. 1t was no light reason that
had driven him to ask such q privi-
lege. IT gripped her, shook her, but
strangely enough did not brighten her.
"Tll trust you"
Not often in a mans life does he
hear such gracious words. Nature is
not lavish of such gifts. The Shout
ders of the P~earlhunter lifted. The
droop left his head.
MAY I come now? The night is go
ing. The moor will be up in another
two hours"
"Yes!"
She stood farther back in the gloom.
He slipped lightly in over the SILL.
please draw the blind before you
light the CANDLE" he directed.
de- saw her arm reach up along the
easement. The blind came down.
within touching distance of each other
they stood in pitch darkness: a man
ana q Observation-Disclosures in the
silent secrecy of the deep woods. He
heard her quick breath. His heart
beat up into his throat. /. T. gar
ments brushed against him. He heard
her slippered feet feeling their way
across the floor.
There came the guarded scrape of
q match. A suffering, tardy flame
was laid to the wick of a candle on a
small stand in the corner under a mir
ror. The wick caught; smo1dered
fared to full strength. The wonder
Of her hair and throat and arms
sprang out Of the night. She laid the
burnt match upon the candlestick and
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04

turned. A gasp broke from her at the
sight of him-tattered, hatless
bruised and bloody.
Forgive me that I come before you
like-this," he stammered.
An impulsive step brought her to
his side.
"Forgive mel" she repeated, her
voice still a-quiver; her face pity-ten-
dered. you must let me dress your
hurts"
He shaded the candle with his body
while she raised the curtain over the
door and slipped out to the kitchen.
She was back before he could have
believed it, carrying a basin of cold
water and some strips of muslin, all
of which she had managed to get to-
gether in the deep dark.
Drawing a chair near the candle,
she made him sit down-a quite obvi-
Il necessity, if she was to reach his
head. But she didn't stop with wash
ing the clots out of his hair and bind
ing up the scalp wound. The cuts and
bruises on his face and chest came in
for their share. When her ministra-
lions were over he was another man.
All unsuspecting, the girl did other
things for him that night besides
washing his wounds. Nothing can so
refine a man a. the ministry Of a good
woman's hands. 1t never leaves him
quite as it found him. He can never
again be quite the same. His life out
he will be a grain the finer for it. So
great is the grace Of nature that no
man Is denied that touch. Once to
every mar it comes-to %recreate; to
make him new; to call him up to his
higher self. 1t came that night to the
Pearlhunter.
The girl seemed to lose all fear of
him; to forget that he was in her bed
room in the secret night. She even
smiled a contented smile of satisfac-
ton as he rose and stretched himself.
He fumbled in his tattered blouse and
drew forth the draft.
Have you a pen and ink" he asked,
his voice, his manner, again the voice
and manner of the alert, keen woods
man.
Wondering, she opened the drawer
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04

stood looking long upon it. He laid it
to his lips, again and again, as if he
would drink up the beautiful face
from the card. He pressed the picture
to his bosom; held it again to the
candle and whispered to it in tones
that did not carry to the ear Of the
amazed listener. He strobe I'D and
down the room and there was on his
face a look that no man had probably
ever seen there before, and probably
would never see again.
After long moments he reused him
self, unbuttoned his vests and put the
picture carefully away in an inner
pocket. The watcher outside the wall
WINGED; his lips drew together in a
tense line. But there was much to be
seen just then. The man inside had
risen, crossed the floor, put the things
back in the trunk, closed the lid and
picked up his hat. Next moment the
candle was blown out. The Pearlhunt-
err barely had time to creep into the
fringe of weeds when the cabin door
opened and softly closed.
With a brisk step that indicated he
had flung Off the spell Of the past, the
notorious renegade walked around the
west end Of the cabin, past the spring,
and straight to the tiny pool under the
waterfall, where the P~earlhunter, who
had stolen along the north wall Of the
tcoaeinuea Next WssGA
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04
PAGE SEVEN

She went to the window and the
next moment the room was in dark
ness.
Two t%1uttering spots of white in the
gloom rolled up the blind, found the
strings that held it and whipped them
into q knot. Then the girl stepped
back. The man crawled through the
window-with extreme care not to
scar the ground outside.
1t is past all knowing how her hands
happened to get into his. He bent his
head and laid his face upon them;
suffered them to slip out of his fingers
at last; and turned away.
He was zone ON the instant-gone
as a shadow goes-nevpr knowing
that for long and long the dull window
framed a white face listening for
some sound OF him to come back out
of the night.
The woodcraft of the Pearlhunter
was profound. 1t was about all life
had taught him, but it had taught him
that. With the logical precision Of a
schoolnaSter passing from one step Of
q problem to another, it led him
straight to the trail of the man he had
been following a short time before
which, of course. took him in the d.
rection of Fallen Rock. The man he
followed had doubtless gone back to
the village by this time. This prob
ability he had already estimated and
set down in his reckoning at its
proper value. But he had another pur-
pose in turning his steps toward Fall
en- Rock. lie was deliberately going
back to the cabin.
With every caution to leave no trail,
he picked his way through the woods
to the edge of the bluffs, stole over
and down toward the cabin. The first
glance at the black bulk Of it, squat
ted in the deep gloom under the up
standing rocks. brought him to in
slant pause. There was a light with
In. He crOuched down in the bushes
to consider what this unexpected cir
cumstance meant before venturing an
other step.
No SOund came from the cabin. The
night was intensely still. Not an oar
stirred the river. The waterfall alone
fretted the silence. The Pearlhunter
fattened himself in the weeds and
bushes and foot by foot worked his
way until he was able at last to bring
his face level with the tiny opening.
With his eye close, the chink afforded
a tolerably clear view of the interior
OF the cabin. He barely restrained q
cry at what he saw.
STOPPED over the small, hair-covered
trunk, his hat off, stood the Red Mask.
He had pried open the lid and had
laid the contents of the trunk out
with seeming care in rather neat
heaps upon the floor. In his hand he
held the picture of the Iron-Gray-
Woman.
The P~earlhunter's gorge rose at see
ing his mothers picture in such hands,
and his breast burned to lash into the
cabin and settle his score with the
s~acrilegious wretch once and for all.
But it was not his to do as he pleased
that night. His activities for the mo-
ment We're limited to keeping his eye
fast to the chink.
The man by the trunk Strengthened,
carried the picture to the candle and
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04
By THE BobBS-rfERRJLL CoNPANT

GUS leeu MiSh. 10 lnc iuoD Una WIS
sure to gather he would be the Red
Mask. His escape, with lock and bolt
untouched, would nrystify both mob
and sheriff. They would ascribe it to
the dread powers with which popular
fancy had invested his name.
But in the rabble that would curse
and clamor about the old Jail there
would be one pair of eyes that the
loosened bar would not escape; a pair
of eyes that would find it as sure as
the morning came, and read the riddle
at a glance. And they would be Eyes
capable of finding a trail-and follow
ing it. Much as it went against him.
therefore. he turned his steps east in
the dumped underbrush that grew
along the top of the cliff.
Crossing the river road was the
problem. Choosing a place where the
grass came close to the track On each
side, a short distance above where the
path leaves it at the turn, he leaped
across, and using considerable care to
hide his trail, picked his way down
along the inside Of the brush-tangled
fence row.
That path! 1t led out of an old
world into q new. Peering through the
bushes he spared a hurried glance ~
ward the low place in the fence where
the path crossed. The stars peopled
the place with memories. A girl with
a basket; round, frank eyes; the sun
bonnet caught by an ~overhanging
limb; the curl that wouldn't behave
thew all came to life out Of the
shadows. So many things had hap
pened since he walked that path with
her that it seemed long, long ago; and
1t was only yesterday.
The picture dissolved. A breath be-
tween steps it had held him, and he
was off on the long. Ianky jog. The
memory had brought a half longing to
traverse the path again, but prudence
warned him to keep away. The sharp
est eyes in the Flatwoods would be
on that path at sunrise.
If the night did hold the menace he
feared-that in so many words had
threatened-it would undoubtedly de-
velOp in OF near the th%ree-gabled
cabin. AS he drew near the place his
mastery of WoOdcraft showed in his
approach. The bushes were no al
lowed to give up a sound.
A light shOne through the front win
dows Of the main room Of the cabin.
He wondered at this. It made him
uneasy, for the evening was gone and
the ripe night come. Not many can
dies were alight at that hour in the
FlatWOOds. He sank back under the
bushes and crawled nearer. The mus
lin curtains We're drawn, but no
shadows crossed them. The stiffness
was searching for a way to crawl a
little nearer, when the low tones of
the cello broke across the silence; and
he knew the girl was keeping her lone
ly vigil beside the stricken old man.
Then came the voice from a throat
the gods had kissed. Each tone found
a kindred sound in the cello and
coaXed it forth to tlutter out upon the
listening night in a lustrous witchery
that somehow brought to the fancy of
the listener under the bushes a pic
ture Of soft-winged swallows skim
ming Over Sun-kissed waters.
The figure Of a MAJ slid into the
candle glow that beat the night back
for d space outside the window
trim; compact; jaunty-the mar he
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04
CHAPTER TX.
Once to Every Man.

S'S ~ -SSlJ
For some distance down the branch
the %Pearlhunter followed the night
prowler. Within sound Of the water
fall he followed him, and then turned
back toward the cabin of the three
gables. He had come into the path
light went out in the windows. He
was sorry for that. He had hoped to
have speech with the girl. Tomorrow
would be too late. Tomorrow the law
would be on his trail-and a pair Of
eyes more terrible than the law.
Leaving the path, he stepped out
upon the fiat rock that jutted from
the bank into the pool. Once he
glanced at the cabin; then sprang to
the bank and went on up the path.
It was far the hardest thing he had
ever tried to do in his life to go round
open. His breast was pounding; his
ears humming. He forced himself up
to the window and brought his lips
close to the sash.
"Wild Rose!"
He heard her start, and spring up
"Wild Rose!"
The bed creaked. He heard her
soft feet moving about over the floor.
A muffled shadow came toward the
window-a shadow and a whisper:
"Pearlhunter!"
HI rnoobo6 hic hor1 ipci1o A 1uhtto
arm and slender fingers came out of
the gloom and found his palm. The
shadow on the outside and the shadow
On the inside drew closer, the M
searching what that word would be.
The man swallowed hard. 81 sold
the Blue Moon to Louie Solomon to-
day-fve thousand dollars"
He felt a thrill in the girls fingers.
"This afternoon Louie Solomon was
murdered, and the pearl stolen"
She shuddered, took her hand out of
his and fumbled the loose garment
about her shoulders, but made no an
swer. Her mind was unconsciously
prepared for terrible things.
"They accused me of the crime"
The girl gasped. Her hands tiut-
tered toward her throat.
"You!"
"Me," he answered, strained and
slow. give come to tell you, myself,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. trusted me.
The mob had the rope around my
throat. But the sheriff got me away,
and put me in jail. I broke out, and
came to tell you. I couldn't bear for
you to think
She stood perfectly still inside the
window. He mistook her silence. He
laid his hand On the window ledge and
tried to drive his eyes through the
gloom to her face.
"Please believe mel! he pleaded. He
couldn't have pleaded harder had he
faced judge and jury. instead of mere
ly a ragged girl of the Flatwoods. 81
didn't kill Louie Solomon. I didn't
take the Blue Moon"
The white arms reached out toward
him.
"No! No! do believe you"
Her face had come close to the win
dow. He could see her eyes-like star
spots in the dar5-big with startle-
ment, for they had caught sight Of his
tattered blouse; the dried blood on
him, and clothed in his hair. With a
cry, her hands went to his face.
"Why your head is bleeding! And
your facew
Scratches! Nothing but scratches y"
he hastily treasured in tones that eau
ton held low; panied at her distress;
pleased, too; his eyes alight.
But this one on your head! It's a
cut-deep-and still bleeding" Her
voice was steadier. "You must let me
bind up this one"
He glanced toward Fallen Rock.
1--WE da'sn't risk n light" he said.
"Ror your sake we da'sn't. The night
has syes And they'll comb these
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-11-04

had expected to find prowllng there.
The picture was gone. He had little
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-10-21
LOCAL coLORED BALL TEAM
LOSES A DoUBLE-HEADEF

The Caulifields, champion colored
team Of the South, came to Bogalusa
Sunday to play the crack Bogalusa
Paper Company team and left, cham
pions still, taking the first game of
the double header with a score of AZ
and the second at 81.
No discredit is thrown on the locals
for losing this contest, as the Cauli-
fields are to colored baseball what
Little Rock is to Southern league
pennant winners for this year. The
Paper Company boys thought they
could play a Fort Worth stunt and
grab the championship away from
them in a post-season game.
The grandstand at the Colored
Athletic Park was filled to capacity,
and almost as many spectators parked
on the sidelines. A rs. o. R." sign
was posted in the entrance half an
hour before the games opened and
large numbers of colored fans. were
forced to witness the contest through
a knot-hole in the fence.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-10-21

but ended up in a real ball game, the
South Side winning with score of
Sd. The North Siders appeared to
have everything their own way at
the start, and the boys across the
creek. playing Hilary Quinn, Fred LIE
Blanc and Pope, in shirtsleeves, in
the outfield, were at loss as to how
to keep from being slaughtered. They
bucked up in the latter part of the
game and came out vIctOrs.
The park will be used by the Bo-
galusa High School football club ur-
ing the football season.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-10-21

for both the longest throw and for
the fastest base running, rounding
the bases in IA seconds flat. Johnny
Sullivan won the prize for being the
most accurate hurler and Izzy Marx,
Arnold Simmons and Virgil Under
wood tied for making the most hits
in the game, getting three each, and
the ten-dollar prize was divided be-
tween them.
The game started out like farce,
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-10-21
INSTALLING SWITCHBOARD

A new switchboard is being in
stalled in the Great Southern ex-
change, to take the place of the old
board which has become inadequate.
The new switchboard is modern in
every respect and will greatly assist
in making tho work of the Great
Southern operators more efficient.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-10-21
BALL SEASON CLOSES;
UNDERWOOD IS THE STAR

The baseball season in Bogalusa
came to a close last Sunay at the
CITY Athletic Park when the players
of the North Side and those Of the
South Side competed against each
other in a track and field meet and
later played nine innings of baseball
70 the championship of the city.
Virgil Underwood won the prizes
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-10-21

Your home is just as likely to
burn as that of anyone else, and
there are hundreds of homes de-
stroyed each day. Many of those
who lose their homes, lose their saw
ings of years. The more thrifty
carry insurance, and if their home is
destroyed, they can soon have a new
one with little loss to them. The
risk is too great for an individual 60
carry.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-27
FRUIT and VEGETABLES

Beets. Sc bunch, 2 for 15c; leaf let
tuce, zoe h., onions, Sc Id: parsley, $50
bunch; green mangoes, 2 for Sc; gar
lie Csc h.; new cabbage, &c h.; sweet
potatoes, 10c h.; cucumbers, 15c; ripe
tomatoes. sc h.; green beans, 15c ID. !;
turnips, 10 cents per pound; carrots,
SC h.; 2 lbs, 15c; egg plant 15c,
for Csc; new potatoes, &c h.; SOC
peck: green corn, home grown, soc
dozen: cauliflower. soc H.; celery,
loo bunch.
FRUITS.
Bananas, 15c pound; lemons, zoe a
dozen; oranges, Coo dozen: cante.
loupes, 10-12c each; fresh peaches, 10c
h.. for Csc: California plums. 19c;
Maiden Blush apples, 10c h.: honey
dew melons, SOC each; Bartlett pears.
lbs. Tor csc; white grapes, 40c h.;
Tokay grapes, 40c b.; Nectarines, 30c
h.; grapefruit, zoe each.
PRODUCE BUYING
Country butter, zoe pound; eggs
64c dozen; old and young chickens,
zoe a pound.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-27
(RY Associated Pressl

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 27.-Receipts
Cattle. GOO; hogs, 4,500; sheep, $50.
Cattle-Market steady; butchers
steers, good to choice. $10.50@13.00;
fair to good. $7.O0@1050; common to
fair, $500@7.00; heifers, good to
choice, $7.50@10.00; fair to good, $3.50
@7.50; common to fair, $4.00@5:5O;
COWS, good to choice, $7.00@S.50; fair
to good, s5.00@700.
Cutters, $4@475: Gamers, $3@3.75;
stock sters, 5000: stock heifers, SAG
s: stock COWS, s3.50@4.50. Bulls
Steady; bologna, Sc; fat bulls. $500
7.75; mich cows, $40@135. Calves
Weak, slow; fair to good, SIG PIG.
Hogs-Steady; market, 25c higher;
beavies, $13.25.
Good to choice packers and butchers
$13.25; medium $13@13,25; stays, $50
So; common to choice heavy fat sows
ss611.5o; pigs, 10 pounds and less
$9@11.25.
Sheep - Steady: good to, choice
lights $45065; fair to good SO; lambs,
steady; god to choice $12.50@13; fair
to good $115O@l2.50; skips, $801O.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-27
FEDERATION MEMBERS
TO MEET SATURDAY

The farmers of the Wayne COUNT
federation will meet to elect officers
and to select two delegates to the
state federation convention at Indian
apolis, next Saturday evening. The
meeting will be held at the courthouse,
and will begin at 1880 sharp. Every
township chairman is expected to be
present, and to bring with him the
membership roll Ii unable to do this,
he is requested to send the number
of members enrolled by the secretary.
The idea is that one of these officials
will be present and be able to tell ex-
actly how many members there are in
the township, at the meeting
1t is expected that the majority of
the members will be present on Sat
urday night. The election of officers
and the selection of state convention
delegates are important. Some reports
on the results of the drives doubtless
will be given, although the work will
not be completed in every township
by that date. Meetings are being held
nightly this week as per the SEIZED
ule previously printed, and practically
everyone in attendance has so fax
signed up for the coming year, at the
new S. rate, against 50 for 1920
Canvassing committees also report
success in their work.
Center Postpones Meeting.
The meeting of Center township
farmers, set for Monday evening, has
been postponed for a few days, owing
to the fact that the hall will be in
use on election day, and that booths
are to be installed Monday. Center
proposes to have a grand rally when
they meet, to have a few good things
to eat, and an interesting program
Due announcement will be made in the
farm and farmer column, both as to
date and program.