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The Holbrook news., 1921-02-04
CHAPTER VT.
An Arm Aoross the Moon.
gray logs


 The cabin of Fallen Rock was very gloomy as the Pearlhunter came down the bluff. walked around to the front door and pushed 1t open. The fire had long since died in the stove. In the twilight the interior of the cabin was like night. He hastened to light the candle. The sight of his mothers chair, when the light brought it out of the gloom, oppressed him heavily.
 He stepped out of the cabin. think ing to sit upon the doorstep while.
 The moon was not due till midnight. but the sky was already spiked with stars; and so blue and deep that it appeared to have no bottom. A good eye seemed to be all that was needed to see clear through.
 The bottom grew again in the sky; the stars came back out of the deep azure. The mans eyes opened. It was the sound of oars that opened them. For the first moment he did not know that he had been asleep. A glance at the east, all a-flare with the close coming of the moon, convinced him that he had slept-for hours.
 Midnight What were oars doing on the Wabash at midnight? The creak- ing of them. accompanied by the dull clupp-clupp of the oar locks, drew nearer. Presently there came the gruff tones of men, surly, and short-spoken. When even with the house-bOat the rowing ceased, and he knew the boat was being allowed to drift.
 "HellO-O, up there"
 It was the hoarse, gruff voice of the Boss. A day and half a nightI The | finding of the Blue Moon had been eel ebrated most furiOusly.
 ''HellO-ol" he answered.
 He heard the Boss swear and say to |
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THE BLUE MOON A TALE OF THE FLATWOODS
 
By DAVID ANDERSON


ward him and laid her hand on his arm.
 You're wonderful I don't suppose anybody else in the world would do such a thing for folks like-us-fOr strangers. Forgive me that I didn't thank you. It was all so marvellous But I do, I do. over and overr
 The puzzled misgivings on the wind seasoned face of the man melted up into a slow smile.
 Its nothing" he said.
 That was the best he could do, the utmost syllable he could muster.
 Nothing! When Daddy is to be well, and the good days are coming back! How can ever thank your
 Its nothing" he repeated. 'I'd just as soon yOu"-he hesitated; finally added the word, "folks-had the mon- ey for while as to let it stand there in the bank idle"
 ''Yes, but how many would look at it that way? I'm sure the bank wouldn't {; nor the doctor; nor anybody-but you. Except Daddy" she added. "He wOuld-when he was well. He was like-you."
 Anyhow" he said, as if continuing some previous remark-some remark he had doubtless been turning over in
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l the others: "Therei What'd I tell y'u! I knOwed he wouldn't be asleep" l The hoarse voice, thickened a good | deal by the celebration, boOmed across the water again and bounded against the face of the cliff. . Louie Solomon struck town t'night He'll be down in tn mOrnin'."
 Let m come."
 Stick out fer tn five thousan'"
 The Pearlhunter did not answer.
 Be up t'morrow, sometime" the voice boOmed out again.
 Come ahead"
 The Boss tossed back no further word
 So Louie Solomon, the smoothest. trfckiest. shiftiest of them all. would be down in the mornin'" The eyes of the Pearlhunter narrowed. His jaws snapped together. He turned and re- entered the cabin. The candle had burned low. The draft that set in from the open door had guttered il deep. He blew it out, flung off his clothes and rolled into bed.
 Five thousand! :" he muttered, drop ping into the sleep that comes easy to the wOOdsman. Not even Louie Sol omOn can beat me if 1 stick right here. That's what I'll o-stick-right here. I'm not askin' more, and he shan't have 1t for@ess-"
 So long as the pulse of the woods beat normal the sleep of the Pearl hunter was sound. The hoOt of the owl; the whine of the wildcat; the howl of the wolves; never disturbed him. In cabin or hOuse-boat, or out under the trees, he could sleep through 1t all. But let false note creep into the wild medley and it instantly reached him. It was his training, and could be counted on.
 Some time away in the dead night the false note came-guarded footballs outside the cabin, and close to the wall. Without start or stir the Pearl hunters eyes came open, every sense at keeneSt pitch. It must have been near morning, for the moon stood al- most straight in the open door. He slid his hand down his side, felt for the revolver under the edge of his thigh. laid it across his chest, and covered both hand and revolver with q corner of the sheet.
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nan to him. Like the low tones of the cello. though it always made him sad to sing. Long ago, when was a child, he used to hold me in his arms and sing to me. He was wonderful cellist before-!"
 She bowed her head over the chair snd the Pearlhunter fancied he saw tears. But her face was soon up Again, brave and cheerful.
 You could sing"
 Mel" It was about the most start ling thing she could have said. The dry splinters of a grin pinched up the corners of his eyes. "Pd have the woods to myself if I tried"
 She looked at him. The tiniest sug- gestlon of a frown seemed to be trying to find a place on her face.
 q know what I am saying when l say that. You could sing. Your voice Is soft and low and strong-like Dad dy's. didn't notice 1t till little bit ago, but I think felt it all along. l guess that's why I trusted you-be- cause your voice is like Daddy's."
 The Pearlhunter was standing qc'fe close to her. His eyes drank in he plirIp white mystery of her throat;
 ht of ribbon rising and falling
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RussIana peenIx ReIluIous.

The Russian people, from the most remote time, have been deeply re- ligious by nature. In every public es- tablishment, in every office, railroad station, post office, bank, tavern. store. and almost in every dwelling. there Is an ikon (holy picture), placed in a corner. with an oil light before 1t, steadily burning. These ikons look like bas-relief; only the head and hands of the image are painted on the background; the rest of the pie ture is composed of engraved. gilded metal, very often of real gold and sIl- yer incrusted with diamonds and Oth- CT precious stones, according to Con stantin Fraboni, writing on religious customs in Russia In Current Ills tOry
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CHAPTER V-continued.

The girl caught the falling bow from his hand; drew the cello to her and deftly twisted the strings In tune.
 The Pearlhunter stood amazed at what followed. The tones of the eel To seemed to reach out into the quiet evening, purple with the close of day, and gather up the irowsy sounds of wood and stream, and bring them in and strew them down ilke falling rose leaves-the fall of distant oar; the lap of water upon cool rocks; the pulse of a current that rose and fell {; the crOOn of cOntented trees under q serene sunset. He did not know that what he heard was BeethOven's incom- parably wltching Moonlight Sonata.
 The old mans head had dropped for ward, his eyes were closed, his face untitled in his rumpIed beard upon his breast. Leaning the cello against the chair, the girl picked up a limp arm, laid it about her neck. and led him away, like a drowsy child, through the curtained entrance of the west room.
 With the departure of the girl the picture dissolved; the evening world became vast emptiness. an emptiness .he silence poured in to fill. It caught the Pearlhunter in It's flood; 1t held him; overwhelmed him found out lit- tie hooks and crannies of his nature that he never knew were there.
 The curtains parted. A soft step crossed the carpet. The world came back. A deep breath swelled the chest of the Pearlhunter-deep as if it had been the only breath he had taken since the song began.
 "Next to the thrush song. that was the most wonderful thing I ever heard !'
 The girl looked up from rearranging the cushions In the old mans chair.
 Daddy taught me. He said it was my gift. He had the deepest, soft voice." she went on. more to herself
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Five t'ousan'I HimmeII You pearlfshers iss all alike-aIl crazy"
CTo BE CONTINUED
FINE CITY TWICE DESTROYED
Antigua, Spanish Capital of Central America, the Victim of Flood, Fire
 and Earthquake.

Antigua, the glittering Spanish cap
 ital of all Central America, arose high on the central plateau Tn the beauti-
 ful valley of Almocongo. Its palaces and churches, Its monasteries and hos. pitals, Its sparkling fountains and av- enues were unsurpassed in any part of the new world, while above all tow cred the sweeping outlines of the great volcanoes known as the "Agua" and 'Fuego" ("Water" and "Fire'O which were destined to be her doom. For twice Antigua was destroyed, the first time in 1546 by a flood of water from the crater of the volcano which was then appropriately called Agua: and the second time in 1773 by fire and earthquake from Fuego. The Spaniards not being able to remOn- strate with the recalcitrant volcanoes In the same effective manner that was employed in dealing with the Indians, other means were resorted to, and these mountains were solemnly bap- tized "Agua" and "Fuego," and taken with due ceremony into the arms of the church in the hope that they would eSchew their heather deities and re- form their uncouth ways. Neverthe- less, as a matter of terrestrial precau- tiOn, the capital city was moved A miles distant to a safer location. where it is now situated. Strange to say, both Agua and Fuego seem to have lived up to their new responsibilities. with but a few haIf-hearted attempts at backsliding. until the recent great quakes that in 1917-1S again shattered the fair city of Guatemala.-And Horton Blackiston in the South Amer ican
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The Sight of His Mothers Chair
 Oppressed Him Heavily.

his mind. since he had let fall no word of it-"the first thing is to sell the pearl"
 He stepped toward the open door. She followed him. With the air of a man seeking some excuse to finger, he turned at the threshold.
 Sure you're not afraid?"
 Afraid! With Daddy?" A thought clouded her eyes. Her face fell. I'm only too safe," she continued in a low voice. Nobody in the Flatwoods would venture near this place. They think it's-it's-"
 She did not finish. The man guessed, and stood silent.
 But the future held too big a hope for her to stay long under a chance cloud. She raised her face after a moment and held out her hand. He grasped it i'll both his own.
 Don't feel bad" she said, "because you have no name but-Pearlhunter. haven't any either but-but-"
 'Wild Rose" he finished.
 He watched the dimples come back ; and the soft twilight in her eyes; and a shaft of bronze sunset doing straight magic with her hair: He felt her hand slipping out from between his-the cushions of her palm; her soft fingers and turned away.
 Down near the flat rock at the pool he looked back and found the cabin through the trees. She was still stand ing in the door. He waved his hand. Her white arm shot up in the twilight, outlined for brief instant against the gray logs.
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BOX 2s.


 Synopsis.-Never having known his father. and living with his mother on a houseboat on the Wa bash river. Pearlhunter-the only name he has-learns from her a part of the story of her sad life. The recital is interrupted by a fearful fit of coughing and he hur- rfes ashore to seek a root that af- fords relie: He meets a 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 the man-in-the-Fancy- Vest. Pearlhunter strikes him. Gunplay threatens. The mother dramati- cally drives the intruder away
 She says it is the "Other Man" whom she has not seen for 20 years. They find a red mask dropped by the Other Man. That night Pearlhunter finds the Blue Moon, a great freshwater pearl. His mother dies without revealing his fathers name PearIhunter and the Other Man meet in the village; a pistol fight Is narrowly averted. Pearlhunter believes him to be the Red Mask criminal Pearl hunter rescues Wild Rose from the Other Man and meets Wild Man, her father He is a man of cul- ture. crazed from concussion of the brain, the result of an attack by someone wearing a red mask.
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Aluminium in the Kitchen.

In a series of tests of aluminium cooking utensils to see how various foods affect them, Prof. John Glais- ter of Glasgow university, has found that the only substances which attack aluminium surface are oranges. lemons Brussels sprouts and tomatoes. But even ip these cases the quantity of aluminium dissolved was so slight that 1t could have no effect whatever on the flavor of the food.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-04

A woman is as old as she looks, but every woman imagines she Is the ex. ception to the rule.
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FOREIGN

Clown Frince Gustave of Stockholm saved a British sailor from drowning. The sailor fell overheard from dinghi near pier in the harbor Gustave climbed down the pier and rescued the sailor.
 The ex-kaiser is suffering from ex- aggerated absent mindedness at his home in DOorn and is often unable to recognize his visitors or to write with q pen, according to Berne dispatch to Paris.
 A loan of $30,OOO,OOO has been negO- tiated by the Belgian government with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, and the contract for it has been signed. The loan will be issued in the United States and will be at an inter- est rate of per cent.
 Thirty thousand refugees from Crimea in the Caucasus, among whom are twenty generals, seventy colonels and a nephew of the novelist, TolstOy, face starvation unless aid is sent by the allied governments, it is learned. Typhus and other diseases are rani- pant and scores of deatlis are being re. ported daily.
 Sunday passed without a recurrence of the food riots by former soldiers and the unemployed in Montreal. The three soldiers arrested as the alleged leaders of the raids on restaurants have been freed on bail or given sus- pended sentences. Groceries are being distributed among married men in cases of destitution.
 Europes debt to the United States will be increased to $20,OO0,O0O,O0O by 1924, George F. Warren, professor of economics at Cornell University, de clared at tariff revision hearings by the House ways and means committed This sum, he said, will include the $9,- 6O0,OOO,OO0 war time borrowings from the American treasury.
 There are about 100 motion picture theaters in Finland The average seat ing capacity in the largest city, Hels- ingfors, population 1S7,000, is about 300, The pictures most in favor are those of historical nature. Then, in the order named, the preference is so- ciety, comedy, detective, cowboy, car tOon, serial. The American picture is the favOrite
 The defeat of the Greek forces by the Turkish Nationalists in a pitched battle near Eskishehr, the junction of the Bagdad line with the railway at AngOra, is claimed by the Nationalist press at Angora, the Nationalist cap ital. The Greeks, who had made con siderable advances since the begin ming of their offensive some ten days ago, are now reported from Angora to be withdrawing along this entire front
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WESTERN
 Bert Lunceford, a mining man, well known in Arizona, was instantly killed near Victorville, Calif., when his automobile turned over on grade His wife and another passenger were uninjured
 State passenger fares in Iowa must be raised to the same level as those prevailing in interstate commerce, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled. It said present rates discrim- mated against the interstate rates.
 Roy Hawkins, a mechanic, 26 years old, shot and killed his wife, Annie, 21, at Kansas City, and then commit ted suicide, according to Mrs. Annie Hunt, at whose home the shooting Oc- cured The couple had been separ- ated.
 Chicago's canine population tops the 5000 mark, horses number 30,OO0, and the feline census equals both of them, although nobody wants cats" The facts cames out in the annual report of H. L. Roberts, secretary of the Anti Cruelty Society. a
 Brick making companies with head quarters at Ogden, Utah, announced a cut of from 15 to 25 per cent in the cost of brick, which they said brings the price virtually to pre-war levels. Common brick was quoted at S1250 a thousand at the yards.
 rr
 L. l.. Laughlin, farmer, was granted judgment of S6,O0O at Kirks vile, Mo, against Edward German, a neighbOr. who was alleged to have painted the word ''slackeF" on Laugh iin's barns and fences during the war LaughIin sued for $50,000 The Southern Pacific railroad will handle 10000 Mexicans going back to Mexico from the Salt River Valley of Arizona, according to R. c. DavisOn, an official of the road, who says the men are cotton pickers. The men are without work and short of food.
 BachelOrhOed in Kansas will be taxed if bill introduced in the Legis- Iature by Senator Charles H. Ridge way becomes a law The measure pro- vides that an annual tax of $10 be lev jed on all single males over 21 years. The proceeds would be used by the state treasurer in paying increased sal aries to women teachers in the public schools
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Repentance is often confounded with determination not to get caught again.
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WASHINGTON

Promotion of Maj. Gen. Hunter Liz gett to lieutenant general is proposed in a bill introduced in the House.
 Appropriation for $1O0,OOO,OOO for public roads during the next fiscal year is proposed in a bill reported by the House roads committee.
 The House agricultural committee voted to take up the Senate bill for regulation of the meat industry, and keep at it until disposed Of
 Legislation proposing a 50 per cent reduction in the retainer pay of mem bers of the naval reserve force when not on active duty would practically sound the death knell of the naval re- serve, the House naval committee was told by naval officials and officers of the reserve.
 The Supreme Court upheld the au- thOrity of the alien property custodian to seize securities deposited in this country by the German insurance com panies to protect American policy holders. The court said there could be no doubt that the trading with the enemy act authorized such seizure
 The opinion that the American peo- pie were "mulcted' of a billion and a half dollars last year by the men in the coal trade was expressed by Sen atOr Calder, Republican, New York, who was witness before the Senate committee considering his bill for fed eral regulation of the coal industry.
 One man in the United States had an income of more than S5,O00O0O ill 1918, according to statistics made pub lie by the commissioner of internal revenue The identity of this billion aire was not disclosed, the commissions CT explaining that the law requires that returns be held confidential. In 1917 there were four individuals in ti1e United Stctes who paid taxes on incomes in excess of $5,O0O,OOO Their combined net income was $57, 100000, abcI $14230,000 each, and the aver .,:sc amount If tax paid by each Gf these individuals was S4,937, ,731.
 An amendment to the constitution, providing that in apportioning repre- sentatives among the several states, according to their respective numbers, aliens shall not be counted, was pro- posed in the House by a joint resolu- ton introduced by Representative William H. Hill, Republican, of New York.
 A resolution directing the Senate naval affairs committee to report whether it is possible for the United States to suspend it's naval building program for six months was adopted hy the Senate
 Losses running into millions of dol l lars would be shown by the shipping board in the operation of it's vessels if | fixed charges were taken into account, | Col. E. H. Abadie informed the Walsh | Investigating committee. He is for mer general comptroller of the ship | ping board.
 Minority stockholders of the Alice Gold and Silver Mining Company won the fight in the United States Supreme Court to have annulIed the sale of that cOmpanys properties near Butte, Mont, to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. !
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NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
WESTERN

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-06
bologna bulls. $4.00@5O0: butcher
bulls, $5.00@5.50; bologna cows, $500
$500; calves, s7.OG09.00
Sheep-Market, steady; s2.00@3. 90.
Lambs-$500@
(By Associated press)
BY
McMAnUS


CHICAGO, Aug. 6--Cattle-Receipts
500; compared with a week ago. bet
ter grades beef steers stron, 25@50c
higher; in-between kinds, steady to
strong; common and grassy, 25@50c
lower; better grades fat she stock,
steady, others 50@70c lower: Gamers
and cutters. 25@50c lower; bulk veal
calves, 50@75c lower; stockers and
feeders, about steady.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; active and
uneven; opened strong to 15c higher
than yesterdays average; hold-over
moderate; top, s11.15, one load; bulk
light and light butchers. s10.50@11.10;
bulk packing sows, $4,000; pigs, %
Q50c lower; desirable higher, mostly
$9.25@975.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; compared
| with. a week ago. good fat native
lambs, 25Q50c higher; westerns, SO
075c up; fat sheep, mostly 25@75c
lower; some heavies and medium
| weights off more; little feeder trade
few lighter, 25@50c higher; breeding
ewes, about steady.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-06
REALTY TRANSFERS

Paul M. Fleming to Frank NJ. Price,
81: Pit N. E. 90, IS, 10.
Charles M Roberts to S. Porter
Pike, 81; PIT. S. E. 10, 16, IA.
Ersa Martin to Adolph L. Foster. 81 /;
lot 100 c. W. Stars addition, city.
Adolph L. Foster to Harry ]. Hanes
81; lot 274, E. Stars addition, city.
Charles H. Moore to Fred Petty and
Elizabeth, 81; lot Al H. A. Leeds add
ton city.
Leon A. Holiday to Josephine Nor
ell, 81; lot Is, Cincinnati and Fort
Wayne Railroad company addition
city.
Frank M. Black to Charles Black
$780, lot AZ, Green's Fork.
John w. Taylor to Clifford c. Fouts
$500; lots 10-11, block IS, Hagers
town
Sarah Jewett to Stephen o. Adams
and Mary, 81; lots, 2, 8, block II, Hag
erstown.
Frank H. RACER, guardian to Johr
c. RACER, $4,000; lot 297 o. Map, city
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-06
fRy Associated Pressl

CINCINNATI, Aug. 6-Receipts-
Cattle. $50; hogs, 1900; sheep, 1900
Cattle-Market steady, unchanged;
butcher steers. good to choice, $500
81 fair to good. S607.50; common to
fair, s4@5; heifers, good to choice, Sc
@S.50; fair to good, $500; common to
fair, $3.50@5; cows, good to choice,
s4.50@5.50; fair to good, s3.50@4.50;
common to fair, S2.50@3.50; cutters,
s2.50Q3.50; Gamers, 81 q 2; stock
steers, $685., stock heifers, s4@5.
Steady; bologna, s4.50@5.50;
fat bulls, S5G5.50. Mich Cows, $3.50
80 Calves-Steady, soc lower; extra,
! $1050@11; fair to good, $7@10.5o;
/ common and large, S406.
! Hogs = Steady; heavses, S10.25@
1918; good to choice packers and
butchers. $10.75@11; medium, $11.00;
! stays, s5@6.25; common TO choice
heavy fat sows. SOS; pigs, 100 lbs.
and less, $9@11.
Sheep-Strong; good to choice
lights, s5@5.5o; fair TO good, $500
5; common to fair, s1@2; bucks, 500
8; good to choice, s11.50@1l75; sec
onds, $6@7; fair to good, $500 11.5o;
skips, 1904.