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have sought to make clear, that no
outcome of the California movement
will be acceptable to the country at
large that does not accord with ex-
isting and applicable provisions of
law and what is equally important
with the national instinct of JUS
tice."
Warning to all Japanese newspa-
pers against printing anti-American
information received here today
through official channels. The fol-
lowing note was delivered by the po-
lice at all newspaper Offices:
"Recently there has been a tend
ency in the press in consideration of
the American question to indulge in
defiant utterances and to insert fab
rications. AS it is feared that these
have> undesirable results upon our
foreign relations you are requested
to be careful about Inserting such
items in the future"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

Kentucky has taken another step
toward the purchase of Federal Hill,
in Nelson county, where "My Old
Kentucky Home" was written. Gov.
Morrow has appointed commission
to obtain an option on the old home
of Stephen C. Foster, the author of
the famous song. The commission will
report to the next session of the Gen.
eral Assembly. Fosters old home is
near Bardstown.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03

Children are not allowed out in
the streets of Norway after dark.
1t is a serious offense to ride a
bicycle anywhere near the city of
Constantinople.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03
125 FLOUR MILLS TO REOPEN

Omaha, Oct. 30.-One hundred and
twenty-five flour mills in Nebraska
are to reopen Immediately due to the
action of the shipping board in re-
ducing the export rate on -four.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03

The fund raised in the United
States for the restoration of the IL
brary of the University of Louvain,
destroyed by the Germans, has reach
ed $150,20O.5s, it was announced
yesterday by the Executive rommit-
tee.
The library, work on which will be
gin soon, is planned as the gift of the
American people to the people of Bel
gium.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03

A private in the United States
army, with specialized knowledge,
can earn $50 a month.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03

The amount spent on "Mecca" be-
fore the curtain went up was S4O8,-
coo, which is a high record in cost of
stage entertainments, and the expense
of running the great spectacle is es-
timated at more than 100000 a
week..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03
REWARD-BY COURT
FOR LONG SERVICE

Petersburg, Ind.-Mrs. Hattie Bull
lock thought she ought to have some
thing for FL years of nursing and
keeping house for her brother-in-law,
R. H. Snyder, banker. The court
thought so, too, and she has just been
awarded $17,5O0 for her services.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-03

Within two set zones occur "a pei
cent. of the earth's earthquakes.
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Have you renewed your subscrip-
tion?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02

1ened with Reds profane instructions
to get herself out through the window
without more delay. She made a vain
attempt to obey, and had half sue
ceeded when a rattle Of shots sounded
and looking back, she saw the man
Ennis pitch forward on his knees
then fall prone. The policeman.
scrambllng up pistol in hand, received
the balance of the clip in Reds auto
matte, and sank slowly down upon his
side.
Screaming with horror, the girl fell
back from the window. Red shout
dered past her, climbed out, turned
and caught her by the arm and
dragged her after him, still screaming
like a .madwoman. She tripped, her
head struck heavily against the bot
tom of the window sash, and the lights
dimmed weirdly and burned out, .leav-
ing only darkness impenetrable, and Il
strange hush pierced by thin echoes
Of eldrtch shrieks
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02

If Aunt Esther only guessed how in
finitely more dreadful that other life
which Priscilla knew in dreams
But no one guessed. Instructive reti-
cence, jealousy of her privacy, reluc-
lance to be thought different, and fear
of having her sanity questioned as she
herself too often questioned it, had
guarded the girls secret and kept it
inviOlate.
She had long since made up her
mind she must never marry while this
dream life continued to exert it's &C.
cult influence upon her. To risk trans
hitting to her children a mental faint
or lesion was unthinkable.
Now of a sudden she remembered
the man Mario Cor was he merely
shadowO and in a poignant turn of
"reminiscences recalled his luminous and
compelling eyes, the potent magnetism
of his presence, and felt anew the pres
sure of his lips on hers.
On hers? Or LeOnOra's?
She cringed low in the corner of the
seat, as if fearful lest curious eyes de-
tect the waves of color that burned her
cheeks. For in the memory of that kiss
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
II. THE PORTRAIT

Beside the mirror, long pier glass,
stood a heavy studio easel holding
full-length canvas an unfinished por-
trait of herself in the Zingara dress
she had once worn at costume dance.
Begun long ago, on a day when a mod
ell failed her, and carried out incOn-
secutively, "when she felt in the
mood the painting now neared COM
pletion; a little more work on drap-
cries and background and it would be
ready for exhibition. Inspecting it
critically, with fault-finding eyes, she
saw that her work was good, almost
as good as her fathers. The figure on
the canvas lived it's striking pose was
instinct with almost insOlent vitality;
the face was aglow with zest in life,
the eyes seemed transiently arrested
in an instant of gay impudence alto
gether charming.
Her troubled gaze turned back to
the mirrors faithful presentment of a
slender, modishly gowned young
wording, the finished product of Il
fashionable upbringing, a little proud,
reserved, thoughtful, exquisite
Priscilla Maine.
But the girl on the canvas was Leo
nora. And in her self both lived. But
which was which? Which false, which
true? Was the life she knew, the life
of Park avenue and Fifth, of teas, din
nerS, theaters, danCes-reieved only by
these days in the studio, her happiest,
when she was painting-was this life
reality or illusion? And that dream
life of which she caught only fugitive
glimpses, fascinating, tantalizing, ter
rible, and related to nothing within
the scope Of her eXperienCe-was the
dream life perhaps the life of fact?
She shook head baflled bewildered
and faint with wondering.
The doorbell interrupted. She an
swered, finding as she had expected
that the chauffeur was waiting to es-
cOrt her to the town car which he was
obliged to leave at the mouth Of the
alley. She was glad of his company,
when she had put out the lights and
locked the studio door, for the alley
was indifferently illuminated and
seemed rather grimly desolate at that
hour She knew a moment of SYM
pathy with Aunt Esther's dstrustful
animosity toward that dreadful stu
dio life."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
Co srr'eht 1920 BY the Author.

and stampeded them toward the fire
escape. Primitively in their fright
men fought with women for first place
at the window. Stifled screams of
pain and anger mingled with muttered
blasphemies; but the noise of milling
feet alone would have been enough to
betray them. Not more than two had
managed to fight out to the iron plat
form before the police were clamoring
and hammering at the door. LeonOra,
thrust brutality to one side, saw the
futility of trying to escape before the
maddened men, and: resigned, stood
clear Of the crush, watching the panels
of the door tremble under a storm of
kicks and blows.
Fear was absent from her temper,
but she was shaken by impotent eX-
ASPIRATION and sad with regrets. This
meant an end to everything not
alone to these associations which
barely an hour since she herself had
planned to forsake, but to all her hope
of happiness with Mario. For she
had not the remOtest doubt but that
she, with at least majority of the
others, would be arrested Jailed and,
on the evidence of completely in past
exploits which the police spy, Harry
the Nut, would be able to lay before
the district attorney, sentenced to a
term of years in one or another of the
crota DnDitpOtiorinc
And long before she had served out
her term Mario would forget her: or,
even if he did not, would never, never
by any chance, make a woman with
criminal record his wife
And this was what came of indulg-
ing her keen delight in excitement and
adventure.
If only she had listened to Mario in
tlne
Seconds dragged like minutes, and
the door still held. She began to catch
at straws of hope: only three now re-
NAMED in the room, Charlie the Coke
already with one foot across the
sill, Whimpering and mOuthing curses
because of inability to crowd into the
press upon the fire escape-Red, and
herself.
The hammering on the door stopped
She wondered why. Charlie cOntrived
to jam his terror-racked body out
through the window. Red caught
Leonora by shoulder, roughly enough
if in Il rare impulse of chivalry, and
tried to thrust her out after Charlie.
But the crush on the platform was
still too dense. She heard a dull crash
and, swinging round, saw the door, it's
lock shattered by the impact of a
brawny shoulder, slam back against
the wall. The policeman who had
broken it in stumbled snd sprawled
full length upon the floor. The plain
clothes man. Ennis, leaped in over his
PROSTATE body. Her ears were deaf
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
III. PHILIP FOSDICK.

About three in the morning, finding
she could not sleep, she slipped into
dressing gown, and went to her desk,
where for two hours she wrote stead
lily, setting forth in minute detail, as
memory served, every item, incident
and circumstance of her dream. Thus
she found temporary distraction and
ease Of mind. Unaware Of WEAKNESS
till she had written the last word, i'm
mediately that was penned she found
herself heavy with drowsiness so
urgent it would hardly wait for her
head to find its pillow.
Toward noon she awoke and rang
for her maid. A pleasant languor
tempted to Incidence. She adored
breakfasting in bed, and did so today
with a relish somehow 'sharpened by
a misChievous sense of playing truant,
of cheating life's inordinate demands.
Recollection of the dream REQUIRED
tardily and sluggishly, like the images
that reluctantly take shape on an I'M
dereXpOsed Photographic film, and
when sharpest and most definite
seemed pale and unimportant in that
warm flood of sunlight which bathed
her bed chamber as little worthy of
consideration as a wrath of nightmare.
But it served to piQue her curiosity
and, when she had bathed she took
back to bed what she had written in
the night and read it with care and,
toward the close, something like re-
suscitation of those emotions which
she had known during the dream itself
as well as after waking up. In the
end she was aware of an imperative
need for enlightenment. The thing
had grown too serious, was figuring
too largely in her life; if its influence
was not to prove altogether ill, she
must have comprehension of it's nature
to give her heart courage.
In all the world she knew but one
person in whom she could conceive it
possible to repose such condolences :.
She took the telephone from the
bedside stand.
Merely to hear that low-pitched,
agreeable voice with its ineradicable
tinge of humor was comforting. Her
clouded countenance was lighted up by
a smile of gratitlde-and of affection,
too.
philip, dear! Do you know haven't
seen you for ages?"
That's brazen plague, Priscilla. It's
your own fault; you will insist on
drenching the springtime of your life
with turpentine and varnish, overlook
ing the most important things entire
ly."
"What do you consider the most i'm
portant thing in life? YourselfT'
mo; you. And next to you. letting
me make love to you"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
AS THEY CAME ON THE MENU
Little Willie Had His Own Idea as to
Dishes That Met With His
Particular Favor.

GOOseberry tart and currant pud-
ding reposed in all their luscious
temptngness on the table in front Of
h1m. Willie liked both. He was torn
with conflicting emotions.
(Which will you have, Willie" asked
his mother.
"GoOseberry tart" gGsped Willie,
after long and patient struggle.
Tart what?" asked Willies parent
wishing him to add please"
Willie didn't understand.
"Tart what?" she repeated sharply.
Then Willie had an idea which
seemed to solve his difficulties and
make the world bright once more.
Tart, first" he answered happily.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
Ii Was Potent,

"How about the bootleg goods in
this town." asked the stranger.
"In what particular" said the old
inhabitant.
rs it potent"
"'Potent is the word. A gentle
man of my acquaintance stepped out
of a theater one night during an in
Permission and purchased a few drinks
in a nearby alley. Then he returned
to the theater."
"Well, what is so remarkable about
that?"
"He didn't know, until the doorkeep-
err kindly told him, that it was the
next night Age Herald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
Something Similar.

An English tourist was on a visit to
Arran and decided to have a days
fishing. He made inquiries Of local ex-
perts, and being told that the cleg,
or horsehy, would suit his purpose fer
lure, he sought the highland servant
girl at his inn.
81 say, my girl, can you get me
some horseflies?" he asked.
The girl looked at him stupidity.
He repeated his question and added:
"Why, girl, did you never see
horsetly?"
INA, sir" replied the girl, shaking
her head, "but vance 1 saw a coo
jump over a cliff."-Chicago Daily
News.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02

she found a sweetness ineffably pre-
Cious. And in the knowledge that his
love was dedicated to that other Self,
Priscilla suffered the first bitter pangs
of that torment which spares not body,
mind or soul, and which is jealousy.
But how should she be jealous of
LeonOra, if LeOnora were herself?
Was it to be her fate to love one
shape of dream and hate another?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
CHAPTER TWO
The Antagonists.
I. PRISCILLA.

]. FhlSOILEHs
Rousing on an elbow, Priscilla
Maine found herself awake, with
racing heart, a throat swollen with a
strangled cry of horror, and a mind
through whose painted murk the re-
Election of woman's screams ran like
a thread of purple light.
Yet here was only darkness, with
silence absolute
With a low gasp of relief that was
half a sob of fright as well, she sprang
up from the divan, stumbled to the
wall, and after a moments cropping
flooded the studio with milky radiance
from an inverted dome. And in a pas
sion of gratitude she embraced the re-
assurance inherent in the atmosphere
of that richly furnished, spacious and
silent studio, her fathers workshop
till his death and ever since her own.
1t was true, then: she was safely
restored to her own intimate environ
ment, where nothing resembled even
remotely that frowsy room where
murders had been done. She had
merely dreamed a dream, one more of
those amazingly real dreams which
she had learned to accept without pro-
test as phenomena of slumber unavoid-
able. singularly harmless, and on, the
whole rather amusing.
SO at least they seemed till this
night when, for the first time stark
fro podU bod ctoI1yod ,Ipbid1an ond nm
heralded, rending with ruthless hands
the flimsy texture of illusion and rem
dering the dream more fact to her
than this awakening, more true, and
so much the more terrible
Pressing palms to temples that
throbbed and burned intOlerably with
their content of thoughts acrawl with
fright and horror, she made her way
to the bathroom and bathed her face
with cold water, then with cologne
TILL in the sensory reaction of stimu-
lated flesh and nebes, she began to
feel measurably more calm and self
possessed, more Priscilla Maine than
"LeOnOra"
IN +,,o studio Ronoi,,or +o oar che
s,id .eyoe9 Who is i+9y ond heard tho
ooito+od crios Of +bo oIdorlv l,inswor-
~ Whom, eho ooIlod amt and with
whom she had her home.
"priscfI,o, wboro bovo Won hoon
oil o,orinr9 T,-o hoon hoIf fron+io
WIN diane von Iot mo .,
..I b,von,t hoon orv,vbero door-
on1r osIoo, boro in tho studio please
don,+ ho cross Amt Esther. 7 didn't
90 to do If honest didn,t, Mrs
7rorov loft IN tl,o ,,,idd1o Of tbo oftar.
poonEebo bod q too on or sonothinq
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
Wouldn't Be Needed.

Janet was going to a neighbor's
party, a house where the child had
already caught tantaIizing glimpses of
quantities Of cake, fruit and many
good things in general. At the very
door her mother cruelty held her
back for final instructions touching
her conduct.
"Above ALL" mother said, remember
you must say Yes, please and No
thank you"
"Ohw responded Janet, 81 shall al,
ways say, Yes, please but l don't
think shall have to say No, thank
you"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
PRISCILLA.

Synopsis.-Vaguely conscious of a
double personality but without any
idea of it's meaning, the girl, Leo
nora, makes her accustomed way
into the Street Of Strange Faces.
Thoroughly at home in the under
world of New York, Leonora takes
her course to her appointed rendez-
vous. Mario joins her. Greatly in
love and seeing tie fine qualities
which the girl really possesses, Ma
rio seeks to turn her from the path
of inevitable destruction. She prom
ises to marry him, but quickly
leaves him. At Ristori's cafe, gath
ering place of criminals, Leonora
meets her partner Red Carne-
han, and his associates, and is ac-
cused of betraying a fellow crimi-
nal to the police. She savagely
defends herself. One of the gang
says he has seen her on Fifth ave-
nue., all dressed up.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
PoIiteness That Paws,

Two little girls were seated before
plate that contained two punches of
grapes-one a very large and tempt
ing and perfect bunch, and the other
small and hard and green bunch.
The youngsters regarded the two
punches for a space Of time during
which they said nothing. Finally, the
polite child asked:
"Are you greedy"
NO." said the other, I'm not bit
greedy"
"Then," said the first child, you
choose"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
". RISTORPS-Continued.


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with if witbout thn buIIs t,7mhIinoq
Who MANNED tho raid ON Efns+nfn's
hocI, shon9 Did any Of Won ont
nfnched for tbot2 Who fionred ont
bov to oet those bonds o,vov from, tho
Chemical TRUSTS mossanrorp yvos
onvhodv Ioroad for +bo+9 And
hnoorso T take +ba trorbIn NOT IN load
= coupla Guns right I'm 70 Won toniobt
and because the Nut saw somebody
that looked like me all dolled m on
Fifth avenue vpsterdav-or thinks he
did"
eft Voc Won all riobt" Harry of-
frmed coolIv
Tboir cIorcos mot ond o1osbod +bo
rrirl,s hot with cboI1nrro and roso,+.
mont tho MANS cold with notice I1or
tho e,.s+ +;,ro sbo rooorniz,d IN +1,ir
c,.oo+ rro IN onon,v Tbon how e,,,,or
avci+ad fntaIIipence oronn1ing with +bo
nroblon, of how to confrto bis ir,rIioi+
orcusatfon avnerienced q flash of
memory followed bv HobtninpIflya
stroke of intuition.
eff Won want TO know who sounalnd "
she sugrested deliberately "ybv don't
Won give Harry the office? Ask him
what he does with all his time whore
he GETS the coin for NIL his swell
clothes who he talks 70 when he's
buIginc nm to the hars If tbe hio no
tells. Ask him why the cons ALWAYS
Iool, the other way when tbev see him
coming, why he amt never ninched--"
With an oath Harry tbrust hack his
chair which ovartrrnnd with q crash
and iuirped m ruilt slammed upon
his countenance of sudden nollor
gIiptfng fearrulIv in his furtive little
eyes But in the same instant fine door
left negIfrantlv unlocked after the
entrance Of Leonora-wos hastily
opened and slammed. The first to
idontifr +bo man who bod sIf,,nod in
and now stood fumhIino with the kew.
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may. "Ioor, Tho comnonv turnad
simultaneously and with confused
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c,ia,4 a1 ,,,,.. ., h,,a,,.
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sc,i,,od a rost,,ro 81 e,,nnltodtion pod
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e+roo+ oar,ioa, o,,t 90 ponota,,
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mo Co,J,i, aat i+n To a,ae,
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Iko froro.nn oon, ouarn
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
philip, | have dreams. The
strangest dreams"


If you want to attract a woman's
attention to any particular thing just
nut il in front of mirror.
Evening star., 1920-02-01
Soldiers, Who Have Tuberculosis,
Suffer Through Inequity of Law

officers. whether suffering from
the national legislative committee
of the American Legion is max
ing a vigorous effort tc have the
procedure changed so that all Of
ficers will be on the same toot-
ing. John Thomas Taylor. resi-
dent member of the committee,
holds with his fellow members
approved May Is, 1917, which pro-
vided for raising the Army. re-
serve officers disabled in the serv-
ice are entitled to the same pay
after discharge as regular ofhcers.
Secretary Baker, however, holds
that no such Interpretation can be
given to the act. and, pending the
passage of a relief measure now
before Congress, the legion is con-
sidering carrying the matter into
the courts by instituting man
damus proceedings.
There called at the legion com
mittee headquarters in the Wood
ward building a few days ago a
man whose case illustrates the
unhappy situation in which man
may find himself after long serv-
ice to his country.
when the war DTOhe ou| thAS
man was a master mechanic in
the Regular Army, one of the high
est paid enlisted men in the Army.
His previous enlistment pay, al
lowances for light and quarters,
etc. enabled him to support his
wife and four children. His 'onS
experience resulted in a provl--
sional commission being offered
him, and when the armistice was
signed he was a captain.
Long hours and hard work.
however, had developed the latent
germs of tuberculosis, and he was
sent to a hospital for treatment.
His health improved, and he was
discharged as cured" Having
served twenty years in the Army,
he tried to re-enlist as private,
so that by serving an additional
ten years he might be retired, but
the recruiting service turned him
down on the ground that he was
tubercular.
He has been given a Is per cent
disability rating. so that now, with
his family to support. he is en-
titled to less than SIS a month
from the government. His twenty
years service counts for nothing.