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what air y'u calclatin' t do with
them wild roses here in tn tumbler in
The winder-keep 'em r chuck 'em
out? 1 cayn't find but one more
tumbler."
The voice of the old Boss half
startled the man on the doorstep. The
gruff old fellow had never left him,
night or day.
The Pearlhunter had forgotten him,
the rumpled house, the dishes, every
thing. He lifted his face from his
hands, rose, and entered the cabin.
The Boss was pointing to three wild
roses-a red, pink, a white--in a
tumbler Of water in the window.
The vision the Pearlhunter had seen
on the rock at the pool came again.
A vision-it had been just that, only
that: an exquisite picture flashed be-
fore his face and instantly snatched
away-a picture he would never see
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"YouR FATHER"

Synopsis.-Never having known
his father, and living with ms
mother on a houseboat on the wa
: bash river, Pearlhunter-the only
name he has-1earns from her
part of the story of her sad life.
The recital is interrupted by
fearful At Of coughing and he hur-
ries ashore to seek a root that al
lords relief. He meets young
girl whom he mentally christens
the Wild Rose. She eludes him be-
fore he can make her acQuaint-
ance. A vacant cabin on the shore
has attracted the attention of the
ailing woman, and they move into
it. Their first meal is interrupted
by q stranger who resents their
presence The youth drives the
man from their home. His pres
ence has strangely affected the
mother. That night the youth finds
within a russel the largest pearl
that has been found on the river,
the Blue Moon.
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CHAPTER III.
A Man Without >. Name.

The Pearlhunter sat on the door
stem of the cabin, his face bowed in
his hands 1t was June upon the
slope under the trees; June in Wolf
Run chuckling and chirking along on
IFS way from spring and waterfall to
the river: June in the heart of a car
dual rocking upon the top twig of
tall hickory; December in the heart
of the Pearlhunter.
Halfway down the slope, beyond
the tangled underbrush and in the
edge of the grass-covered open strip
that bordered the river shore, the
green was broken by mound of fresh
earth. He had trimmed It round with
shells brought up from the river !;
upon the head had planted cluster
OF orchids, the ladys-slipper of the
Flatwoods. They were like her, the
orchidsEa lonely flower; one to a
wide stretch Of solitude. Nobody but
he could have found so many, because
nobody knew the woods SO well.
As be looked back over the years,
he found himself bordering the con-.
tradictions Of his mothers life, In the
light of the story he had heard that
memorable afternoon-the refinement
in the midst of mean surroundings,
the stern pride that had held her so
long in exile because of word that
had. mayhap, been long repented. The
muck and CRIME of the river had
never smudged her. Through it all
she had kept as pure, as white, as y
flake of snow-and as cold.
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Primitive Baptist paper and decided to
try it. Ihave used Lydia 2. Pinkham,s
Vegetable Compound and Lydia z.
Pinkham's Liver Pills for about seven
months and now / am able to do my
work. shall never forget your medi-
cine and you may publish this it you
want to as it is true. Mrs. J. +.
HURsEY, Star, N. G.
Here is another woman who adds her
testimony to the many whose letters we
have already published, proving that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound often restores health to suffering
women even after they have gone so far
that an operation is deemed advisable.
Therefore it will surely pay any woman
whe suffers from ailments peculiar to
her sex to give this good old fashioned
remedy a fair trial.
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again. It seemed unreal as he looked
back upon it in the light of another
day. But no, there were the roses. He
bent his face down and caught the
aroma of their breath.
sLet them be-" he said. "They will
last another day."
The Boss made no reply. To him
they were merely faded roses. He was
sitting on the doorstep about to light
his pipe when the younger man called
him. With the freshly filed pipe In
one hand, the unlighted match in the
other, he rose and stepped back into
the cabin. The Pearlhunter was
standing before a small hair-covered
trunk, scarcely bigger than an ordl-
nary suitcase of the present day. 1t
stood open, with the lid thrown back,
exactly as it had stood two nights be-
fore when he came up from the river
and found his mother dying. Its con-
tents seemed to indicate that they had
been rummaged through by some one
whose haste had been great--doubt-
less by his mother. 1t hurt him to re-
call the cause Of that haste. The
bloodstained glove she had held in her
hand lay uppermost, probably tossed
there by one of the river men.
"It's time to know what's in this
trunk
A certain tenseness in his voice es-
capped the Boss.
"Don't y'u?"
"Tye never seen inside of it before"
The Boss was In the act of scraping
his match. He stopped; looked
around out of the tail Of his eye, but
whatever his thoughts, he made no
comment.
"First of all, here's this glove" the
Young man went on, lifting the glove
from the trunk sYou know where
we-saw it first"
The Boss threw away the stub of
bis match and felt che time-staicad
and widowed article.
sWest Point" he muttered- ''Hit's
tb, kind them sprigs wears officers,
I'd say, offIand."
The other stood considering it; laid
il aside; and lifted the next article
from the trunk. 1t proved to be
worsan's dress of rich brocade. Little
as the two men knew Of such matters,
1t suppressed even them as being of
the very finest material and of fin
ished workmanship. Under it lay
other articles of woman's wear, all
equally rich, though now yellow with
the stain of time. Down beneath
everything else lay small box which
the Boss, from an experience which
befell him as q soldier In the far
South, knew to be satinwood.
The young man stood with 1t in his
hand. afraid to raise the id-afraid
to put it to the test. SO far, the trunk
had given up nothing. He was still
nameless. Whar if this. too, should
prove a blank?
At last the Pearlhunter raised the
lid-some baby clothes, clean and
neatly folded; a plain gold ring
wrapped in a handkerchief of the
finest cambria; and, under all, a pic.
ture-what the Iron Gray-W
must have been In her girlhood. he
snatched it up, carried 1t to the light
of the door and looked long upon it.
After a time he came back to the
trunk. The satinwood box was the
last article in 1t, and 1t had told him
nothing. He laid the picture in ii. re-
placed the baby clothes and ring,
closed the box and put it back. He
even took a sort of melancholy salts
faction in replacing, with studied
neatness, the glove, the dress and
other articles, after which he closed
the lic, locked 1t, pocketed the key
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CHAPTER II-continued.

''That pearls intirely too valuable
to take chances on" he muttered, lay
ing his coat in the bow. with the shot
gun across it, giving the final shove to
the boat and leaping in. Il reckon
I'll jist stick around till y'u git it in
TIL bank t'morrow. That hell-hound,
tn Red Mask, stuck up tn Milford
stage down tn river last week. Your
Blue Moon would be nuts t him; an
we did make a right smart fuss when
y'u found It."
He shifted the six-shooter in his
pocket from between the edge OF the
seat and his hip, picked up the shot
gun and examined the caps on the
tubes.
"You en- all talk about these new
tangled six-guns that wan t. but they
cayn't nothin' come up with good oil
scatter-lock when things git tight"
= The young man at the oars made no
reply to these remarks. He was think
ing of that bit of flaming cloth behind
the chink at the cabin. For moment
the impulse came on him to tell the
Boss. but he decided to keep his own
counsel.
The moon had poked her round face
up over the hills by the time they
landed at Fallen Rock. The Pearl
hunter picked up the big bass and led
the way to the cabin up under the
cliff.
The candle was still shining out
through the one small south window,
the DINNER for the moonlight, little
square of luminous yellow set IN the
gray and ragged logs. Full of the big
news he bore. the young man hurried
I'D the slope. The pearl almost
seemed to become creature of sense
and sympathy; to feel warm against
him: the luster of it to shine through
his pocket.
When within a few feet of the door
he heard his mother cough-hissing;
whistling; choky. He dropped the fish
and darted in at the door.
She stood stopped in front of her
chair, clutching the table. Her hand
moved over the cloth as if trying to
write. Blood was pouring from her
mouth and falling to the floor. He
sprang at her. She clutched his arm;
hung to him. He would not have be
Iieved IT. possible she had such force
in her fingers. She struggled painful
" to choke back tic blood; then
strove pitifully to speak. NJ word
came-cnly that awful whistling hiss
ing gasp. He saw the luster die In
her eyes-the eyes that in their day
had been SO wonderful. They were
trying hard to tell him something
words her lips were not able to
frame. He strove to read their mes
sage. In vain! There came last
gasp; her body suddenly stiffened,
uuivered, relaxed-and he eased her
back into the chair. The Iron-Gray-
Woman was dead.
The Pearlhunter raised her hands
to cross them on her lap. Some OBJ
1ect fell from the lax fingers to the
floor. 1t was a soldiers glove, stiff
and widowed with age.
Turning to lay it upon the table, he
stood startled and staring. His cry
brought the old Boss to his side. Two
words, scrawled In blood on the cloth,
glared up at them:
"Your father"
There had been a further attempt
to write. but the effort had only re-
sulxed in scrawl, impossible to de-
cipher.
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Smart Gloves.

A Washington girl who bought a
pair of expensive chamois leather golf
gloves and decorated the long cuffs
with bands of black suede in gradu-
ated widths cut from wornout pair
OF gloves was successfully copying a
new way with gloves which concen-
trates decoration upon the gauntlets.
Thick white kid gloves are seen with
black 'inings to gauntlets, which are
worm turned back and various "cut-
out" designs in yandykes and lozenges
are applied with good effect. Con-
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Collars and vestees of open-work
embroidery Of the kind known as
"broderie Anglaise" are among the
newest neckwcar. The eyelet en-
broidery is worked on batiste, edged
with lace or embroidery. and dyed a
deep ecru. The wearing quality OF
these pieces is recommendation.
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ence. He turned his eyes slowly to-
ward the newcomer. His nerves were
as steady as the woods make them.
but they were not quite proof against
what he saw. 1t was the Man-in-the-
Fancy-Vest.
A look flashed between them. The
Pearlhunter fancied the other stiff
fened, and he was quite conscious Of
tightness creeping into his own
spine.
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A Feeling Of Security

You naturally feel secure when You
know chat the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful OF habit producing drugs.
Such medicine is DIR. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle Of Swamp Root.
1t is scientifically compounded ffom
vegetable herbs.
1t is not stimulant and is taken in
teaspoonful doses
1t is not recommended for everything.
It is natures great helper in relieving
and overcoming kidney, liver and blad-
der troubles.
A sworn statement of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root.
If you need a medicine, you should
have the best. On sale at all drug stores
in bottles of two sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation serd ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer G. Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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tnoy WOulu ldSC CWO
w e e ks. ] w a s
treated by two doc
tors without relief
and they both said
/ would have to have
an operation. had
my trouble fouryears
and was unfit to do
anything, and had
given up all hope of
ever gettin g any
better. / read about
your medicine in the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-20

spicuously unadorned, however, are the
fashionable white Ouckskins. which are
deprived even of the usual points
on the back OF the hands.
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= 49, -
Not Unanimous.

"Do you pay your servant well:"
II can't say. Everybody except the
servant seems to think So"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-20

Ii man is a millionaire he can say
all the fool things he wants to with
out impairing his reputation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-20
WOMAN AVOIDS
AN OPERATION
Hope Nearly Gone, but Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Saved Her

Star, N. C.--"My monthly spells
gave me so much trouble, sometimes
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-20

Too many people in this world are
not happy unless they are bubbling
over with unhappiness.
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Pearlhunter rescues Wild
Rose-and gets acquainted.
TIRE KNOWN BY MANY NAMES

(TO BE CoNTINUED)
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
RESULTS ARE ASKED
DRY BOSS HAYNES sEGS FOR Ac-
MON BY AGENTS.
Sends Appeal to State Directors in His
Fight to Enforce
the Law.

Washington, July 5.-The state pro-
hibition directors, under the reOrgan-
lied system, are urged in letter by
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes to
get up on their toes in enforcing the
dry law. The letter in part follows:
II wish to congratulate you upon
your appointment to the very respon-
sible position of federal prohibition
director of your state. In the per-
fecting of your state organization
nothing must guide you in the selec-
ton of the personnel except the deter
mination to develop the highest posi-
BILE degree of efficiency. In other
words, real results must be produced
or necessary changes will be made to
produce them.
your permit division will pass
upon permit applications for manu-
facture use and Withdrawals. The
Washington office win soon know the
degree of dependability to be attached
to the respective offices approval or
disapproval and will confidently expect
that little deviation will ever be nee
essary in our general policy of sup
porting the recommendations of our
state directors"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
FIGHTERS HAVE QUIET DAY
Jack Dempsey and Carpenter Spend
the Day in Rest and Tran
guilty.

New York, July 5.-It was a quiet
Fourth for Jack Dempsey and Georges
Carpenter. Both pugilists spent the
entire day in rest and tranquility.
Jack did nothing more strenuous
than motoring with friends. He ex-
poets to remain here until Wednesday,
when he will leave for the West to
visit his mother.
Carpenter visited his physician at
Glen Cove and was told by Doctor
Connolly that the injured hand was
rapidly healing. He motorcd over to
The cove in the morning and returned
before lunch. The rest Of the day, ex-
cept for a short swim in Long Island
sound, was spent loafng on the porch.
The slight cut under his eye is rapidly
healing. His nose was not broken.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
SENATOR SEEKS PROBE
KING OF UTAH CHARGES FiA5co
IN SUBMARINES.
SAYS U. S. Has Only 81 U-5oats In
Working Trim, and They
Are Small.

Washington, July 5.-Although con-
gress has authorized the construction
of 157 submarines altogether at a cost
Of $130,000000 the American navy has
only 81 submersible ships in working
order and ready for immediate service.
None of these is a fleet submarine
capable of cruising more than 1000
miles without replenishing fuel They
are of small types chiefly suitable for
coast defense.
These are the charges made by Sem
ator King of Utah in pressing for the
adoption of his resolution providing
for senate investigation of what he
prOnOunces the American submarine
building tiascO He will lay before the
senate this week the information he
has obtained concerning the alleged
defects in submarine construction, as
a result of which many of the under
water boats have proved unservice-
able and unsafe.
IAN analysis of the Navy depart
ment reports" Senator King said,
"shOws that out of total of l57 sub
marines authorized by congress we
actually had ready for service on April
l, 1921 nearly two and one-half years
after the armistice, only five first line
submarines of the S0O-ton type, 20
submarines of the 50O-ton type, and
y second-line submarines of the still
smaller types and no fleet submarines.
In other words, our submarine force at
this time, nearly three years after the
war, and after expanding about $13O,-
100000, is hardly equal to that of Ger
many when she started on the unre-
stricted submarine campaign with 30
seagoing submarines in the early
spring of 1917"
Senator King asserts that in the
construction of successful and effec-
tive submarines the United States is
far inferior to Great Britain, Ger
many and Japan.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
TAFT is NAMED CHIEF JUSTICE
Succeeds Edward D White Whom He
Named When He Was the
Nations Head

Washington July D. Appointment
of rormrr President William Howard
Taft ais chief Justice Of the United
States was formally announced at the
White House He viii succeed tito
hate Edward Douglas White whom
ho appointed to the Office In 1910 It
was indicated President Harding had
acted so fnr IN advance Of the win.
ter term because he felt that the new
chief justice should have ample
time 70 reUrgauizc the courts business
before il recunyeues October 1,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
WARNS AGAINST
|NS|O|OUS FOE
Conquering Diseased Minds
Present Duty of Americans.
KNOX FLAYS B0LSHEVISM
Senator Says People of U. S. Must
Not Be Deceived or LulIed Into
That False Security Which
Brings Destruction.

Philadelphia, July ga warning
that the American people must not be
deceived or lulled into that false Sc
curity which brings destruction" but
must be on the "alert against the in
sidious foes" of American institutions
within their gates, was uttered here
by Senator Knox at Independence
hall.
'Bolshcvism may be the heaven Of
the theorist crushed under the weight
of a cruel czarism" Knox said, but
it bears no relation to the incense
Quential defects of free government.
yet there are among us those who
deny the very basis of our social or
der, the very foundation of our whole
system.
"Our Great Theorem."
"They challenge the equality of
man, they repudiate the great the
orem of our system, that all men are
created equal that they have certain
inalienable rights which are life, lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness.
But they speak a strange tongue !;
they belabor an alien thought; they
are the children of despotism.
Mighty ferments are at work
amongst US, goyernmentally and so
cially.
There are coming to US peoples
from races untraditioned and unsea-
Soned in self-government, peoples I'M
familiar with and largely unapprecia-
tive Of its good and untutored to toler-
ate most of its evils.
Were their new theories tried had
they been effectively used by any
race, we might hope that adjustment
thereof of our environment might
make them tolerable.
Liberty and License.
Their strange doctrines come pri-
marily from races unskilled in self
government, uneducated in the basic
discord between liberty and licepse.
Theirs are radical remedies, some
times self-annihilating to those using
them,
Our fathers fought physical foes
and subdued them. We must do bat
tie with the foes of the mind and the
heart. We must combat the diseased
mind and conquer
THE enemy is alert active, cruel,
relentless. our welfare, our Liberties
are at stake.
Being thus alert against insidious
foes, | believe we can and are asslm-
Hating those who have sought refuge
here from oppression.
America is a continuing and an in
creaSingly emphatic protest against
the pessimism Of the unthnking, the
ungrateful, the envious and the I'M
just"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
JOHN FINDLAY WALLACE DIES
Wel-Known Civil Engineer, Prominent
in Construction of Panama Canal,
Passes Away.

Washington, July John FiGdlay
Wallace siXty-nine, of New York,
widely known civil engineer, Panama
canal builder, died suddenly at hotel
here.
Mr.. Wallace came to Washington
last week to appear before the senate
committee investigating the railway
situation.
lie was chairman of the Chicago
railway terminal commission, ana ac-
tive in lake front Improvement and
railway station development.
1t Is believed the extremely hot
weather may have contributed to his
sudden fatal Illness. Death was due
to artero-sclerosis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
BIG CHINESE BANK FAILURE
Branch of Banque IndustrieIe De
Chine, Capital 100000 Francs,
Is Closed

Picking, July 5.-The branch of the
Banque Industrielle de- Chine here was
closed. A communication issued by its
manager stated the directors were
making preparations for reorganiza-
ton.
1t is reported thai the Picking
municipality has demanded canceIa-
ton Of the tramways contract, amount
ing to 100000 taes, which the bank
Is financing
The capital stock Of the institution,
one of the largest French banks In the
Far East, IS 45,OO0,0Oo francs, one,
fourth Of which IS paid up.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
0LD-TIME FOURTH ON RHINE
Yanks Celebrate independence Day
Beneath Stars and Stripes Float
ing over Fortress.

Paris, July g. Beneath the Stars
and Stripes floating over the German
fortress Of Ehrenbreitston the dough
boys of the American army Of occupa-
rion on the Rhine neld an old-fash-
Toned Fourth Of July celebration.
There was an athletic all.day tour
nament, with baseball game for the
championship Of the American army
OF occupation and theatrIcals.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
U. S. HAS 10000 MILLIoNAIRES
Nearly 10000 of Them Have Incomes
Ranging From $4,000 to
$75o,ooo.

New York, July 5.-Anaysis of the
1919 income tax returns has proceed
ed far enough to permit the announce
ment that there are 10000 million.
aires in the United States, with a fam
lily population of 10000, or one to each
2,100 population.
Nearly 10000 of the 10000 con
fessed incomes ranging from $4,000
TO $4,000; 90 from that to a million
a year, and 162 had over a million in
come, where there were only III in
1917.
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Dou Went to Church.

An English correspondent writes
"My terrier was very fond of going
to church. lie would sit quietly with
his nose between his paws. For two
successive seasons he attended all the
confirmation classes told the bishop.
well, Tinker said the bishop, turn
Ing to him, I'm very sorry | can't con
firm you Tinker looked AT him very
grayely, and from that day never Mt
tended another class It may be add
cd that the story, as we'll as the dog
lackg confirmation.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
FIRST STEP FOR IRISH PEACE
De Valera and Griffith Confer Four
Hours With Ulster Men
in Dublin.

Dublin, July 5.-"Certain agree
ments have been arrived at
This highly reassuring statement
was issued after representatives of
Sim Fnin, Ireland and Ulster for four
hours exchanged views on an attempt
to reach agreement preliminary to a
conference with Premier Lloyd George
in London.
Indicative of the mighty interest in
the conference a great crowd sur
rounded the Mansion house and re-
cited prayers for the success of the
meeting.
At times the crowd sang the "Star-
SpangIed Banner" while large
American flag was waved.