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CHAPTER III.

Dan Failing was never more thank
full for his unerrlng sense Of direction.
He struck off at a forty-fve-degree
angle between their late course and a
direct road to the river, and he Kept
it as if by surveyors line. All the
old devices Of the wilderness-tne
ridge on ridge that looked just alike
inclines that to the casual eye looked
like downward slopes, streams that
vanished beneath the snow, and the
snow-mist blowing across the face OF
the landmarks-could not avail
against him.
A half dozen of the wolves followed
him at first. But perhaps their fierce
eyes marked his long stride and his
powerful body, and decided that .helr
better chance was with the helpless
man and the girl beside the Pickering
fire. They turned back, one by one
Dan kept straight on and in two hours
crossed Cranston's trail. He didn't
doubt but that he would find Gran
ston in his camp, if he found the camp
at all. The man had certainly re-
turned to it Immediately after setting
fire to the buildings, if for no Other
reason than for food. 1t isn't well
to be, abroad on the wintry mountains
without supply Of food; and Gran
ston would certainly know this fact
Dan didn't know when a rifle bullet
from some camp in the thickets woult
put an abrupt end to his advance. The
brush grew high by the river, the ele
vation was considerably lower. ant
there might be one hundred camps ou
of the sight of the casual wayfarer
If Cranston should see him, mushint
across the moonlit snow, it would give
him the most savage JOY to open firt
| upon him with his rifle.
Dams keen eyes searched the thick
| cts, and particularly they watched the
sky line for a faint glare that might
mean a camp fire. He tried to wall
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silently. 1t wasn't an easy thing to
do with awkward snowshoes; but the
river drowned the little noise that he
made. He tried to take advantage of
the shelter of the thickets and the
trees. Then, at the base of a little
ridge, he came to a sudden halt.
He had estimated just right. Not
two hundred yards distant, a camp
fire flickered and glowed in the shell
ter of great log. He saw it, by the
most astounding good fortune, through
little rift in the trees. Ten feet on
either side, and 1t was obscured.
He lost no time. He did not know
when the wolves about Snowbird's s
camp would lose the last of their
cowardice. Yet he knew he must keep
tight grip on his self-control and
not let the necessity of haste cost him
his victory. He crept forward, step
by step, placing his snowshoes with
consummate care. When he was one
hundred yards distant he saw that
Cranston's camp was situated beside
little stream that flowed into the
river and that-like the mountaineer
he was-he had built large lean-to
reinforced with snowbanks. The fire
burned at its opening. Cranston was
not in sight; either he was absent
from camp or asleep in his lean-to
The latter seemed the more likely.
Dan made a wide detour, coming in
about thirty yards behind the construc
ton. Still he moved with incredible
caution. Never in his life had he pos
sessed a greater mastery over his own
nerves. His heart leaped somewhat
fast n his own breast; but this was
the only wasted motion. It isn't easy
to advance through such thickets with
out ever a misstep, without the rustic
Of branch or the crack Of a twig.
Certain Of the wild creatures find II
easy; but men have forgotten how IL
too many centuries Of cities and farms
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Of his resolve to carry the issue
through to the end, to dim the star
that led him, to weaken him, by bend
ing now, for the test to come. be
didn't know why. It had its fount IN
the deep wells Of the spirit. Common
sense can't reveal how the holy man
keeps strong the spirit by denying the
flesh. 1t goes too deep for that. Dan
kept to his conservation.
He did, however, kiss her HANDS,
and he kissed the tears out OF her
eyes. Then he turned into the DARK
ness and broke through the ring OF
the wolves.
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Falls Excavate 30.MiIe Chasm,
The waters of the grand falls IT
Labrador have excavated a chasm 80
miles long.
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When Satan needs good man In
the business he picks out loafer.
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The Finest lanouaoe

Ine theSt CahQUdQe.
The finest language is chiefly made
up of unimposing words.-George
Eliot.
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"LEGI0NAIRE. NAME OF TOWN
Arkansas Doughboys Settle on Adjoin.
ing Tracts in Oklahoma and Form
2,500-Acre Colony.

They are beating their swords into
plowshares is the biblical way of say
ing that veterans of the World war are
going back to the farm
In Arkansas, on a 2,500-acre tract, q
colony of sixteen former service men
descended from Tulsa, Okla, and set
tied on adjoining quarter-sections Of
land. All of them were members Of
the Joe Carson post Of the American
Legion and they plan to establish a
trading center and town under the
name "Iegionafre'
The doughboy colony is in Scott
county. Most of the settlers will be
able to call the land their own in sew
en- months as the state allows two
years of war service to count on the
residence requirement.
Some of the men will spend the WIN
ter on their land, clearing timber,
building, hunting and trapping. 1t is
estimated that 100 service men of Tuf
sa ultimately will settle on government
land.
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half-heartedly accepted by historians.
The upper signature is given by DR..
81. NJ Dexter in "Congregationalism
as Seen in It's Literature" 1SS0) as
from a book in the British museum,
believed by the experts of that insti-
tuition to have belonged to him. This
book is a pamphlet, "a Persuasion to
the English Recusants," by John Dove,
d. d., printed in 1902. 1t is presum-
ably by the same hand as the lower
signature, which is upon the title
page of Sir Edwin Sandys' Relation
of the State of Religion" Uondon,
1909 which belonged to the late
Charles Deane of Cambridge. 1t was
supposed that John Robinson once
owned the treatise OF the new au-
thentic signature the London Graphic
SAYS:
"The Aeyden deed signed by John
Robinson, of whose autograph DR..
acknowledged by Robinson, Thomas
Brewer, and William Jepson-the lat
ter being also well-known members of
the Pilgrim community. Brewer pos
sessed money and position, and, jointly
with another, set up a printing press
in Leyden. Jepson is described as a
carpenter and merchant. They cove
nanted to pay seven hundred and forty
four guilders by certain date. A
later entry confirms the fact that the
debt was discharged before the period
mentioned. In the second document,
dated a week before the Pilgrim
fathers left Holland In the Speedwell,
William Bradford authorized two of
his friends who remained behind to
collect one hundred carolus guilders
which were owing to him as mort
gage by Leyden citizen.
"Dr. Eekhof's discovery also dis
closed the will of John Robinson's
widow. This was drawn up eighteen
years after the Pilgrim fathers
pastor had passed away. She re-
manned in the city. and at the time
of her death had four children, to
whom she devised her belongings. To
each and all she bestowed something
of value Her son Isaac had gone out
to New England with the Pilgrims,
had married and settled there To
his wife his mother bequeathed the
long cloak and skirt of black cloth of
appearer.' To the son, who was a
doctor in England, was given his
fathers Rhemish Testament.
'Dr. Plooij, of Leyden. and DR..
Rendel Harris, Ryland's library, Man
chester, have also elaborated in
other researches. They have issued a
fac-simile edition of those portions of
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safely landing her on the shore.
The hero was George A. Dunagin
who at the time was lieutenant in
the liaison service of the United States
army. For his bravery he was award
ed the French medal of honor and the
Congressional life saving medal.
Today, Dunagin is in charge of the
Shreveport (La.) sub-station of the
United States Veterans bureau in
Paris and London, and was assigned
by the American Legion to assist Gen.
eral Dawes in the investigation of the
needs Of disabled ex-service men.
,Dunagin was born at Laurel, Miss,
and was educated at the Mississippi
A. & M. College. His military SER
vice, which, after an injury sustained
in a machine gun accident, was in the
diplomatic corps, took him to seven
teen European countries.
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the official Betrothal Book at Leyden
which relate to the Pilgrim fathers.
These are of real historic value, be-
cause they supply legal particulars re-
Specting the betrothalS and marriages.
First there is the date of the betrothal
and later of the marriage itself and
the names of the officiating magis-
trates."
A document relating to William
Bradford was also found by the Ley
den professor, and these three created
sensation among those who had
gathered at Leyden this summer to
pay their tributes to the founders. In
the Boston Transcript George 81. Sar-
gent presents TRANSACTIONS of these
documents made by A. ]. F. Van Laer,
state archiyist of New York, and aui-
thority on Dutch notarial documents.
The task of translation was not easy,
as it is said:
'"The document which bears the
Robinson signature is an acknowleg-
ment of Indebtedness, given by Brewer,
Robinson, and Jepson in behalf of
Seigneur Jehan de Lalaing for the sum
of seven hundred and forty-four gull
derS, thirteen stiyers, and three pence
on account of several years accumu-
lated interest the last due on May
day, 1921. The three subscribers
promise to pay this on May day, 1921.
without further delay this agreement
being drawn up by the notary and
signed on January 2, 1921, at his Office
on the Breestraat, in the presence of
the notary's clerk, Jan Jacobsz. van
Tethrode and Willem Cornelisz. Ket,
a farm-or buryman' of the manor of
Rijinsburch. ;"
The late George Frisbie Hoar,
United States Senator from Massa-
chusettS and a descendant of Roger
Sherman, signer of the Declaration
of Independence, tells in his "Auto-
biography of Seventy Years" Q903)
how he recovered the history by Will
liam Bradford, the second governor,
containing the Mayfiower Compact
Just how it got to England nobody
knows. but for more than a century
| it had reposed in the library of the
bishop Of London at Fulham palace.
Senator Hoar armed himself with let
| tiers of introduction in 1896 and made
a respectful demand on DR.. Temple,
| then bishop of London.
DR.. Temple agreed that the precious
| manuscript ought to be restored to
American custody, but suggested that
the request should be referred to the
Archbishop of Canterbury and Queen
Victoria. So Senator Hoar returned to
America and inspired the drafting of
formal request for the return of the
manuscript in the name of the
antiquarian and historical societies.
DR.. Temple had in the meantime be-
come Archbishop Of Canterbury and
gave his assistance, with the result
that the precious manuscript now re-
poses in the library of the state house
of Massachusetts.
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HOW TO CURE UNEMPLOYMENT
Secretary OF, Labor, Writing in Legion
Weekly, Tells How Situation
May Be Relieved.

Writing in the American legion
Weekly on Seeking the Cure for I'm
employment" James j. Davis, secre-
tary of labor, sums up the cure in a
single paragraph as follows:
"Wage earners can help by giving
up unreasonable demands, so that en-
ployers can afford to start their mills
again, or so that buildings can be
built-houses, schools, f factories /,
stores. Merchants can help by giving
up unreasonable profits, so that more
people can afford to buy clothing,
furniture, food and general supplies.
The landlord can help by lowering I'M
reasonable rents, so that workmen can
afford to accept wage that shall be-
come a living wage as rents are
lowered"
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MAKES CITIZENS OF ALIENS
Americanization Committee of Montana
Post Successful in Preparing APP
pIicants for Naturalization.

Training aliens for citizenship has
Oeen successfully carried out by the
Americanization committee of the
Great Falls, (Mont) post of the Amer
lean Legion. A class of 81 aliens has
just finished preparation for natural
ization under direction of the
Legion committee, and, 81 of them
were admitted to citizenship. This
was an unusually high percentage, ac-
cording to the naturalization officer.
Another class of 100 foreigners is
now in training for the citizenship
test. They receive instructions from
the Legion committee twice week.
Following the course of instruction
they are subjected to preliminary ex-
aminations to determine their fitness
for citizenship.
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New Expanding Bullet.

A new form of expanding bullet
for big-game hunters has. been de.
signed. 1t is for rifles of .30-calibre
1t supersedes the old soft-nosed bull.
lets to which there were many objec.
lions. In a new bullet, the tip is
made of tinplated gliding metal. and
upon impact Is forced back into the
cover, expanding the point Of the
bullet, which Is slotted in such man
ner that it retains its pointed shape
until this impact occurs. This is I'M
Ike the old soft-nosed bullets which,
from their nature, were liable to be
deformed by handling before they were
loaded into rifle. The weight Of the
new bullet is $50 gr., which is general
ly considered about the best shooting.
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into being, DR.. VanDyke Immediately
became an active member. He was the
first vice commander of st. Paul Post
No. 8, which at the time was the larg-
est post in the United States. He has
served as chairman of the Ramsey
county welfare committee and was a
member of the legislative committee
instrumental in getting the soldiers
bonus bill before the legislature.
Doctor VanDyke was born in Alexan-
dria, Mimi, and was graduated in 1903
from the University of Chicago School
Of Medicine. He later completed
course in dentistry at University Of
Minnesota. During the war he enlisted
In the signal corps and because of pre-
vious training in artillery was sent to
the M. o. r. S. camp in New Jersey
as instructor.
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gionnaire, Mr.. Forbes has adopted a
policy of seeking out the disabled man,
instead of letting the disabled mans
claim find its way into pigeon hole
via the route of red tape.
The government put an end to di-
vided authority in its dealing with ex-
service men with the appointment Of
Mr.. Forbes as head Of the veterans
bureau. This bureau dispenses the
insurance, looks after hospital care and
the difficult task of restoring disabled
men to their former earning capacity,
or creating them anew through voca-
tional training.
Mr.. Forbes policy in dealing with
compensation claims of disabled men
and women gives the doubt to the
claimant. mo claim" says Mr..
Forbes, "shall be disallowed unless the
disallowance is imperative, and doubts
are to be decided in favor of the dis
abled man or woman"
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/ continued using 1T until had taken
eight bottles. Now am very well and
can do my own homework. can gladly
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham' s medicine
to suffering women. - Mrs. BERTHA
LERNG, R. F. D., Ravenswood, w. Va.
The ordinary day of most housewives
Is a ceaseless treadmill of washing,
cooking, cleaning, mending, sweeping,
busting and caring for little ones. How
much harder the tasks when some de-
rangement of the system causes head
aches, backaches, bearing-down pains
and nervousness. Every such woman
should profit by Mrs. Liering's expert
ence. Remember this, for over forty
years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been restoring health.
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a Great Liuht.

The skipper was examining an am
bilious COB who wanted to be a gun
ner's mate.
"How much does six-pound shell
weighY' he asked.
81 don't know" the COB confessed.
sWell, what time does the twelve
o'clock train leayef
Twelve o'clock
aAll right; then how much does a
six-pound shell weigh?"
aAh," said the youthful mariner, q
great light dawning on him. Twelve
pounds. American Legion Weekly.
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Many Graves are Unmarked.

Because of shortage Of government
grave-markers and the failure Of
congress to appropriate funds for
their purchase, the graves of thousands
of Americans killed overseas are I'M
marked in this country, according to
a report of the American Legion, filed
at Washington. The Legion's legisla-
tive committee will petition the
congress to set aside sufficient funds
to allow the purchase of marker for
each grave, as required by law.
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lndividualism.

You can give other people your adj
vice. but you can not give them your
experience. You can give them your
remedy, but you can by no means
give them it's effect upon yourself.
Perhaps this is just as well, since
each is to live his individual life and
make his own best achievement out
of it. The man with the ten talents
could probably have taken care of
those of his fellow-servants as we'll
then there would have been no loss,
but also there would have been no
use for the other servants.
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|Cuticura Talcum|
- Faseinatinsiy Fragrant -
Always Healthful|
Soap 25e. Ointment Is and Soc. Taleum Csc.
rnFnHl ssn POSITIVELY REMOVED by DR.. Berry,
kUAEIHN IN Freckle Ointment Your druggist or by
n Il ~ mail book. DIR. @. II. Berry
6ONS ~ Co. 1915 MICHIGAN Avenue. Chicago. III
Renders Skin Valuable.

Not only is the reindeer priced
highly for its flesh, but the skins are
valuable for glove-making. Tanned
with the hair on, they are very light,
and robes made from the soft tanned
skins with the hair on are for weight
probably by far the Warmest covering
known. These might become ex-
tremely useful as automobile robes for
winter in colder parts of the country.
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work as an en-
tertainer of the
Y. M. G. A. corps
In France. With
her own troupe
of young women
she spent a year
" h e e r. n g the
doughboys in the
overseas camps.
Her service, how
ever, did not end
with the w a r.
She has enlisted
to help the unem-
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this thin film of rust and becomes
first black and then red. In the 1000
years since man discovered how to
undo iron rust and get the metal out
OF 1t he has accomplished more than
In the millions of years before. To
save a pound of iron from corrosIon
today Is as much benefit to the world
as to produce another pound from the
one; In fact. a greater benefit. since
1t takes four pounds Of coal to pro-
duce one pound of steel, and so coal
beds will be exhausted before the beds
of iron ore.
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Worlds Greatest Tunnel

In the Simplon tunnel under the
Alps, which is by far the greatest tun-
mel In the world. the quantity of water
flowing out of the southern end, from
the many veins encountered In the
heart of the mountain, amounted to
1900 gallons minute, and fur
nished sufficient power to compress
the air by which the drills were
worked, and to refrigerate the tunnel
The necessity for refrigeration may
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Pleased With Begging letters.

When the old shah of Persia visited
England in 1873, some 5000 begging
letters were posted to him during his
sojourn. He was much pleased with
them and felt highly honored to re-
ceive SO many letters, each Of which
he treated as compliment. He had
all of them securely packed into a
trunk and dispatched to Persia, where
they were deposited in his museum.
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on the backs of camels from the shores
of. Syria to the Indus banks. Those
ships" must have been smaller craft
than now compete at Henley regatta,
and the fleets of both monarchs could
have been comfortably stored In the
hold of one of Great Britain's present.
day leviathan cargo boats. But the
little rude ships of those far-off ages
must not be despised. They were the
seeds of an industry destined to be one
Of the greatest factors In the prog
ress of civilization.-White Ga
zette.
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Resurrection Flower.

In Egypt is a plant called the res
direction flower. 1t Is seen as little
ball hanging on fragile stem, re-
sembling in color and shape shrunk-
en- poppyhead. Sleeping, but not
dead, the flowers are aroused by being
immersed in water, and then supported
in an upright position. Soon the fibers
began to stir. Slowly they unfold,
until, with petals thrown back, it be-
comes a beautiful starry flower, not
unlike an aster. ~
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Iron White at First.

1t is a good thing for our sense Of
sight that iron rust is red. not white.
like zinc and aluminium, metals much
like iron In chemical properties. Other
wise leaves and flowers would all be
white and men and women like walk
ing corpses. Yet iron in its pure state
Is soft. ductile and white like silver.
Few of us have ever seen it so. be-
cause as soon as 1t comes In contact
with the air 1t jhyly wells itself with
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DON'T FEAR ASPIRIN
IF 1T Is GENUINE

Look for Name "Bayer" on Tablets,
Then You Need Never
Worry.
To get genuine "Bayer Tablets of
Aspirin" you must look for the safety
Slayer Cross" on each package and on
each tablet.
The "Bayer Cross" means true. world
famous Aspirin, prescribed by rhysi-
clans for over twenty-one years, and
proved safe by millions for Colds, Head
ache, Earache, Toothache, Neuralgia,
Lumbago, Neuritis, and for Pain in
general. Proper and safe directions
are in each unbroken ''Bayer" package.
advertisement.
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ployed ex-service men in New York.
When 1.-THE Man Without a Coun-
try" the film-version of Edward Ever
EFT Hale's historical story, was shown
in New York under auspices of the
American Legion, Miss Wood volun-
teered her services, and at each per-
Torrance read the preamble to the con-
stitution of the Legion and gave pa
triotic reading. The proceeds from
the show were used in the welfare
work among jobless ex-service men.
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Warm Welcome for "Lesion" Steamer

After having clipped ten hours off
the record run between New York and
Rio de Janiero, the all-American-
manned steamer American Legion, has
returned to New York, following her
maiden voyage. The vessel, with the
majority of its crew members of the
Legion, was greeted in every South
American port it touched by Legion
posts. Along the Platte river from
Montevideo to Buenos Ayres, the cap
tain reported, launches put out from
shore and their owners cracked bot
ties of wine and champagne over the
bow plates of the ship as she slowly
made her way up the river. This, he
said, was the South American Legion
naires' way of expressing their well
come.
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of France was
forced over the
par ct of a
bridge, falling in
to a stream 70
feet below. Sever
al French officers
looked on in hor-
ror, but a young
American officer
without hesitation
leaped after the
submerged wom-
an, bringing her
to the surface and
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IN ADVANCE OF THEIR AGE

There are many tragic stories of
men who made great discoveries be-
fore their time. Their inventions
persisted, only to be rediscovered and
used In later ages. Archimedes, who
lived more than two thousand years
ago, designed and made a steam
engine which really worked. His idea
did not catch on, and the world had
to wait twenty centuries until steam.
raising the lid Of kettle, led James
Watt to rediscover an old invention.