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Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02
CTo BE coNTINUED.)
AMERICA WORLD IN ITSELF
EngIishman Writes EnVlousIy Of Our
Variety Of Climate and Other
Blessings.

Here in England we settle down in
a town and only a violent exertion of
will power can extricate US. In the
United States a man may try twenty
different towns and twenty different
states before he finds one that suits
him, Raymond Radcliffe writes in the
New Witness QOndon).
Here we have practically no choice
of climate Cor lack of climate). On the
other side you can get the bitter cold
of North Dakota or the almost tropi-
cal heat of Florida. You can be blown
to pieces on the prairies or lie snug
in a cleft of the hills looking over
the Pacific. You can spin cotton in
Connecticut or grow 1t in Georgia. You
have a world to yourself, and one Of
the most beautiful worlds that has
ever been discovered. You are not
crowded, there is plenty of room for
everybody. You can rough it any
where, but If you want luxury, Fifth
avenue has more wealth than any 9TH
er street in the world, not even except
ing Bond street.
That is why people go to the United
States, and why they stop there. They
get freedom. 1t is no mere catch-pen-
ny phrase, 1t is the basic fact Of life
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02


art Webster and welcome the chancel
Mother jerks held his body a little
while, gazing into the face no longer
rubicund; then gently she eased 1t to
the ground and for the first time was
aware that Dolores knelt in the dirt
opposite to her striving to lift the
body upon which Don Jaan had been
lying.
The strength Of Dolores was un-
equal to the task; so Mother jerks,
hardened, courageous, calm as her
sainted Emery at his inglorious finish,
rose and stepped around to her side
to help her. She could see this other
vas a white man. too; coolly she
stopped and wiped his CORY face with
the hem of her apron. And then she
recognized himi
Lift him upl Give him to mel"
Dolores sobbed. "Oh, Caliph, my poor
dear, big-hearted blundering boyl'
She got her arm under his head;
Mother Jenkins aided her and the limp
body was lifted to a sitting position; /;
then Dolores knelt on one knee, sup
porting him with the other and drew
his head over on her shoulder; with
her white cheek cuddled against his
she spoke into his deaf ears the lit
tie, tender, foolish words that moth
ers have for their children, that wom-
en- have for the stricken men Of their
love. She pleaded with him to open
his eyes, to speak to her and tell her
he still lived; so close was his face
to hers that she saw an old but very
faint white scar running diagonally
across his left eyebrow-and kissed
it.
Presently strong arms took him
from her; clinging to sOmebody-she
| knew not whom-she followed, moan
ing brOken-heartedly, while eight men,
| forming q rude litter with four rifles
passed under his body, bore Webster
to the shade of a tufted palm inside
the palace gate.
AS they laid Webster down for a
moment there Dolores saw a tall,
youthful man, of handsome features
and noble bearing, approach and look
at him. In his eyes there were tears,
a sob escaped him as with a little
impulsive, affectionate movement he
patted John Stuart Webster's cheek.
MY friend!" the fainting Dolores
heard him murmur. 'My great-heart'
ed, whimsical, lovable John Webster
You made it possible for me to meet
you here tonight-and this is the meet
ingl
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02
Mrs. Hicks Relieved
BYFOur EatOniCS

II have taken four Eatonlc tablets
and they relieved me Of sour stomach.
I recommend 1t to everybody" says
Mrs. G. P. Hicks.
If stomach Is not digestlng your
food; IL you have sourness, bloating,
food repeating, indigestion or acid
stomach, Hatonie will remove the
cause by taking up and carrying out
the acidity and gases, bringing quick
relief and healthy digestion. Why sui.
fer stomach trouble? Why not keep
your digestion normal and enjoy good
health2 An EatOnic taken after each
meal will prevent discomfort and pain.
Make the test today and see how
quickly this wonderful remedy acts.
It comes In handy tablet form. Garry
1t with you. A big box costs only q
trife with your druggists guarantee.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02

SO that am now able to do my work.
recommend your Vegetable Compound
to my friends who have troubles similar
to mine and you may use these facts
as testimonial. Mrs. CT. PHILLIPS,
Toomsboro, Ga.
Weak, nervous women make unhappy
homes, their condition irritates both
husband and children. It has been
said that nine-tenths of the nervous
prostration, nervous dependency, ''the
blues, irritability and bacSache arise
from some displacement or derangeo
ment of woman's system. Mrs. Phils
lips letter clearly shows that no other
remedy is so successful in overcoming
this condition as Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02

Benavides might have had, and
doubtless did have, his faults, but
cowardice was not one of them. And he
did have the ghost of a sense of hui
NOR. An evil smile fitted over his
olive features.
without taking into consideration
the bayonets at my back" he replied,
ut strikes me the odds are even now.
And yet you patronize me-"
Webster was nettled. 'Td rather
do that than kill you, Benavides," he
retorted. 'Don't be a fool. Run
along and sell your papers, and take
your pitiful little sandal-foOted bri-
gands with you. Scat!" 4
Benavides' hand, holding his pistol,
had been hanging loosely at his side.
With his furious glance meeting Web
ster's unfalteringly, with the merest
movement of his wrist and scarcely
without movement of his forearm, he
threw up his weapon and fred.
Scarcely a fifth of a second had
elapsed between the movement of his
wrist and the pressure of his finger
on the trigger; Webster, gazing stead
lily into the somber eyes, had noted
no hint of the mans intention, and
was caught actually off his guard.
The bullet tore through his biceps,
momentarily paralyzing him, and his
automatic dropped gathering to the
sidewalk; as he stopped and recovered
1t, Benavides fired again, creasing
the top of his left, shoulder. The
Sobrantean took aim for a third and
finishing shot, but when he pulled the
trigger the hammer fell on a defective
cartridge, which gave to John Stuart
Webster all the advantage he craved.
He planted bullet in Benavides' alb
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02

domen with his first shot, blew out
the duelist's brains with his second,
and whiried to meet the charge Of the
little sandal-footed soldados, who,
seeing their leader fallen, had with
out an instants hesitation and appar-
emily by mutual consent decided to
avenge him.
Webster backed dazedly townrd the
wall, firing as he did so, but he was
too dizzy to shoot effectively, and the
semicircle of bayonets closed in on his
front. He had wounded three men
without stopping them; a second
more, and their long, eighteen-inch
bayonets would have been in his
vitals, when into the midst Of the
melee, from the rear, dashed Don
Juan Cafetero, shrieking like a fiend
and swinging his rife, which he held
grasped by the barrel.
Webster saw bayonet lunging to-
ward him. He lifted his leg and
caught the point on his boot-heel while
with his last cartridge he killed the
man behind the bayonet, just as the
Iatter's next-rank man thrust straight
and true in under the Americans left
arm, while a third man jabbed at his
stomach and got the bayonet home in
his hin. These two thrusts, delivered
almost simultaneously, by their i'm
pact carried their victim backward
against the wall, against which his
head collided with smart thUd. He
fell forward on his face; before his
assailants could draw back for a fin.
ishing thrust, in case the gringo need
ed it, which they doubted, Don Juan
Cafetero had Drained them both.
Standing above the man ne loved,
with the latter's body between his
outspread legs, Don Juan Cafetero
stood for the final accounting, his hut
termilk eyes cleaning hatred and war
madness, his lips drawn back from
his snaggle teeth, his breast rising
and falling as they closed in around
him. For a few seconds he was visi-
BILE swinging his rifle like a fail,
magnificent, unterrified-and then a
bayonet slipped in under his guard,
1t was the end
With a final great effort that used
up the last strength in his drink
corroded muscles he hurled his rifle
into the midst of his four remaining
enemies, before lac swayed and top
pied full length on t:,p Of Webster
shielding with his poor body the man
who had famed to fame the dying
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02
''Ware'S Black Powder
Brings Sure Relief
from Stomach Trouble
So writes a Clinton, N. c., woman
who was relieved Of a bad case
Of Catarrh Of the Stomach.

''The doctors said I had catarrh Of the
stomach In a very bad stage. I suffered
greatly and lived on raw eggs and butter
milk for weeks, but it did not relieve me.
I heard of Wares Black Powder and CONF
menced taking it, and decided change for
the better commenced AZ once. Now eat
anything 1 want and suffer no pain from It.
consider Wares Black Powder a sure
cure for all stomach troubles"
Thus writes Mrs. Mary McMurray %
Clinton, N. c., on May l9, 1920; and her
experience is similar to that of hundreds
of others. Wares Black Powder is sold
ct all drug stores, for 60c and $l.20
the package. Contains no harmful drugs
Does not purge. Used for over 30 years.
THE WARE CHEMICAL CO., Dallas
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02
CHAPTER XVI.

While Ricardo. watched beside the
unconscious Webster one of his aides
galloped up the street, to return pres
emily with detachment with stretch
ers, into which Webster and Don Juan
Cafetero were laid and carried up the
palace driveway into the huge golden
reception hall where only the night
before Sarros had greeted the bellies
and beaux of his capital. In the mean
time Mother jerks had succeeded in
restoring Dolores to consciousness; /;
supported by the indomitable old
woman the girl slowly followed the
grim procession until, at the door of
the reception room, they found their
further progress barred by a sentry.
"The red-haired man is Dead" he
Informed them in response to their
eager queries. 'If you want his body"
he continued, hazarding a guess as to
their mission, II guess you can have
it, There he is" And the sentry
pointed to the stretcher which had
been set down along the wall of the
reception hall.
"'Ow about the other?" Mother
jerks demanded. Don Juan Cafetero
had, unfortunately, been so much of
a nuisance to her in life that she was
not minded to be troubled greatly
over him in death, although the Spar
tanlike manner of his exit had thrilled
the British bulldog blood in her.
"The big fellow isn't quite dead yet,
but I'm afraid he's a goner. The
surgeons have him in this room now.
Friend of yours, Miss?" he inquired
in tones freighted with neighborly
sympathy.
Dolores nodded.
"Sorry / can't let you in, Miss" he
continued, "but the General ordered
me to keep everybody out until the
doctors have finished looking him
over. If was you, I'd wait in that
room across the hall; then you can
get the first news when the doctors
come out"
Mother jerks accepted his advice
and steered her charge into the room
indicated. AS they waited, Ricardo
Ruey stood anxiously beside the table
on which John Stuart Webster's big,
limp body reposed, while Doctor Pach-
eco assisted by a Sobrantean con-
frere, went deftly over him with sur
| gical scissors and cut the blood-soaked
clothing from his body.
''He breathes very gently" the rebel
leader said, presently. SIS there any
hope"
The little doctor shrugged. 81 fear
not. That bayonet-thrust in the left
side missed his heart but not his
lung"
"But apparently he hasn't bled much
from that wound"
"The hemorrhage is probably In
ternal Even If that congestion OF
blood in the lungs does not prove fata
very shortly, he cannot, in his weak
ened state. survive the traumatiC
fever from all these wounds. 1t Is
bound-hello, how our poor friend still
lives with the bayonet broken off II
his body-for here is steel-hah ! No
a bayonet, but a pistol"
He unbuttoned the wounded man!
coat and found a strap running dag
onally up across his breast and ovel
the right shoulder. connecting Will
a holster under the left arm. Th'
doctor unbuckled this strap and re
moved the holster, which containe'
Webster's spare gun; Ricardo, glanc
ing disinterestedly at the sheathe'
weapon, noted small, new, triangu
lar hole in the leather holster. Il
picked it up, withdrew the pistol, an
! found a deep scratch, recently made
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02

was 90 weak ana ueS~
vous I didn't know
what to do, and could
notdomy work Ny
trouble was deficient
and irregular peri
DDS. / read IA the
papers what Lydia
z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound had
done for others and
decided to give it q
trial. / got good
resillta from its uea
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02
No Longer HIs.

81 thought you owned an automO-
bile"
II do, but I taught the wife to drive
1t and now I'm back to the ST. at
cars"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02
so WEAK
so NERVOUS
Flow Miserable This Woman Vas
Until She Took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Toomsboro, Cat suffered terribly
with baclrache and headache ell the tinles
Evening star., 1921-12-11
S.A.R. TO REFLECT HEADS
Nominating Committee to Recom-
mend It Tuesday Night.

Reelection Of all officers of the Sons
of the American Revolution in the Dis
trict of Columbia will be recommended
to the society by the nominating com
mittee at the annual meeting to be held
Tuesday night, December 13, 8 O'Clock.
in the Tleodorus Bailey Myers Mason
House, 1900 Goth street northwest. Nom
inees for three vacancies on the boarG
Of managers will be announced also.
The present officers, who thus comprise
the slate for election. are: Brig. Gen.
George Richards, L. s. NJ. c.. president
William v. Cox. vice president: Charles
p Light. secretary: Edward F. Riggs.
treasurer. Reeves T. Strickland. reg
istrar: William S. Parks. historian
Rev. William Tayloe Snyder. chaplain.
and J. Miller Kenyon, marshal. The
nominees for board OF governors are
Hampson Gary, Floyd p. Waggaman
and Maj. Russell B. Putnam, L. S. NJ {.
Members of the nominating coElmittec
who will present their report are Gail
lard Hunt, chairman: Albion K Paris
Francis P. B. Sands, Archibald Hopkins
Col. Henry May, Col. v. Reeves Russell
and William Stone Albert.
DR. Thomas Edward Green, president
cf the spes kers' bureau of the American
Red Cross, will address the meeting
Members Of the society have been re-
quested to wear their insignia. Supper
will be served following the business
Evening star., 1921-12-11
Reviews of New Books

| getting of information may be most
fascinating process.
THE CAREER OF DAVID NOBLE. BY
Frances Parkinson keyes. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany.
In "The Career Of David Noble
Mrs Keyes scores high in the person
ality and character of David himself.
| The story-rhe run of events-yieids
about fair plus. 1t is not distlnc-
lively original in design nor SO clever
in detail as it may have been 'ex-
pected to be. Still. it is an engaging
matter. 1t sums to study in amoi-
tion, as this will-to-success makes
early capture of the Vermont farmer
| boy. Ambition takes charge of David,
even as a lad, directing his daily
course. 1t soon dominates all his acts
and attitudes. gradually recasting his
nature to its own mold. 1t confines
him. ultimately. to the single track
of high professional achievement. In
! the course of time it stunts his sym.
pathies, dulls his comprehension OF
human motives and feelings. All this
in the interest of success. David is
great surgeon. Away back in his boy
hood. up in Vermont. appears the lit
tie rich girl. Jacqueline. who. through
out the story, proves to be. IN turn
the torment and the joy OF David.
The love story of these two runs
along beside that of Davids career.
1t is here that the level of the work
sinks a bit. So long as she is dealing
| with the New England setting and
with David himself. product of this
setting. Mrs Keyes is sincere and Sc
cure Here there is no fumbling. no
gesture calculated to cover failure of
insight or portrayal. All is clean-cut,
i true, positive With Jacqueline. who
is half French in blood. however. and
| with the brief stretch Of Paris BACK
ground. one feels the exotic overlay-
. ing of the authors effort. the half
intimacy. an artificial 'in-law" of kim
ship. quite other than the clear call
| of David in his native environment.
David is Puritan. The girl is hu-
! man being before she is ANYTHING else.
1 1t takes a miracle to bring these two
dissimilar natures together. So. Mrs.
Keyes works the miracle, as so many
! authors do. David is changed through
out as suddenly as was Saul on the
way to Damascus. Then they live
I stories permit poor mortals to do.
PHILIPPA's FORTUNE. BY Marga-
! rita Spalding Gerry. author of THE
| Toy Shop" etc. New York: Harper
! G. Bros.
This Christmas-ripe story serves to
! introduce Philippa Gale and her
friends to a host of other girls and
their friends. And. if the two sets
| hit it off together, as they are bound
| to do, the promise stands that there
win follow more of the adventures of
! lPhilippa. Now, as rule. when a
girl passes into a book the process so
ldenatures her that. once in, she turns
! out to be either a ninny or an angel.
neither of whom finds even scrap
| of a place in the working scheme of
live, wide-awake girls. Happily.
EPhilippa steps into this book with her
faults and her goodnesses full upon
her. Much more good than otherwise,
| she remains throughout, however.
Evening star., 1921-12-11

ing matter. The mystery which CEN
ters in Ell DiabIo. rocky and for
bidding island off the California coast,
turns out to be the business of opium
smuggling, an enterprise which in
wolves. to their ultimate disaster, the
chief of the enemies of Dickie Lang,
Bill Lang's daughter. and young Greg
ory, home from the war to take UP
the fishing business of his father. An
amazingly rich imagination lies back
of this tale. More than that, too. for
the author has been able to gather up
industry and to so interweave these
with trade. with the hazards of the
fishing itself, with the face of the
land, with well managed mystery.
and with the personality of each of
the chief people here as to make a
romance that 1t will be hard to reach.
and harder to surpass. Mr.. Norton's
deservings here are great.
TOPLEss TOWERS, A Romance Of
MorninK.ide Heights. BY Marga-
ret Ashmun. author Of stephens
Last Chance" etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
Set in New York. this is a romance
OF the apartment house. Except.
though. for its glorious view up the
Hudson and for the particular pitch
of the voice of the city below. this
d
house anywhere. Subordinate to the
story itself is running picture of
the isolation of the Individual apart
ment. surrounded by dozens of other
apartments. Frontier distances be-
tween neighbors are nothing COM
pared with this illimitable space.
People die and are carried out. chill
dren fall from windows. with no jar
to the consciousness of the people on
the other side of the dividing wall.
The story itself is founded on the
fact that it is terrible thi1g for two
gether. In this case it is the living
together of two young women, who.
rather more to cut down the cost of
living than by virtue Of genuine
J affinity of nature and interests, be-
come house mates at Mornineside
this relationship through the medium
of everyday affairs carries this ven
ture forward. 1t might have con-
ttnued. certainly longer than it did.
but for the advent of young man.
At once the drift turns toward disso-
luton of the partnership. 1t would.
Good realism supports this everyday
theme. Later really engaging ro-
nance materializes, with another man
as the hero, but not until the unfail-
ing human nature of the two girls
bent upon the one man, has had a
fair and full chance to reveal itself
all over again, as it does, without
fail. in just this situation. A plain
and unpretentious story of more than
usual substance and interest.
THE DAUGHTER OF HELEN KENT.
BY Sarah Comstock. author Of 'The
Valley of Vision,' etc. Frontis-
piece by John Alonzo Williams.
New York: Doubleday. Page & Co.
Man proposes"-so the old adage
begins. In this case a woman pro-
posed. out of the effects of her own
personal tragedy. to consecrate her
daughter to d life of business as
woman's sole expectation of real hap
piness. And the story runs along this
plan with a good deal of natural and
interesting activity on the part of
both mother and daughter. Enga ging
women. both of them. who are able
! to sprinkle the business adventures
Evening star., 1921-12-11

Little Tots by Permission Of Moth
er Goose; Also, a Few Happy jim
giles. BY John Martin. With pic
lures by Herman Drucklieb. New
York: John Martin and Dodd, Mead
& Co.
THE CHINESE FAIRY BOOK. Edited
by DR.. r. Wilhelm. Translated
after original sources by Frederick
II. Martens. With six Illustrations
in color by George w. Hood. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany.
THE SWEDISH FAIRY BOOK. Edited
by Clara Stroebe. Translated by
Frederick H. Martens. With eight
illustrations in color by George w.
Hood. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
THE KING OF IRELAND's son. By
Padriac Colum. Illustrations and
decorations by Willy Pogany. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
PEGGY IN HER BLUE FROCk. By
Eliza Orne White. illustrated by
Alice b. Preston. Boston: Hough-
ton Mifflin Company.
GRUNTY GRUNTS AND SMILEY
SMILE OUTDOORS. By Bertha z.
Feist. With illustrations by NJ. P.
Brater Philadelphia: Henry Alte-
mus Company.
THE OLDTIME STORY OF "THE
THREE BEARS" Rhymed and re-
told by Kenneth Graham Duff1eld.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Com
pany.
ALTEMCS' PETER RABBIT SERIES
PETER RABBITS BIRTHDAY.
By Linda Stevens Almund. With
illustrations by J. L. G. Philadel-
phia: Henry Altemus Company.
LITTLE PRAYERS FOR LITTLE
LIPS. BY Elizabeth Robinson SEQ
vii. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus
/" Company.
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF CIN-
DERELLA. Rhymed and retold by
Kenneth Graham Duffield. Phila-
delphia: Henry Altemus Company
ALTEMUS' LITTLE BUNNIE Bun
NIEKIN SERIES LIFT L +
LAMBIE LAMBKIN: A Tale for
Wee Folks. With numerous illus
trations in color from original
drawings. By NJ. c. H. Philadel-
phia: Henry Altemus Company.
ALTEMUS' LITTLE BUNNIE Bun
NIEkIN SERIES-LITTLE SOUR
RELIE QUIRRELIEkIN; A Tale
for Wee Folks. With numerous il
Illustrations in color from original
drawings. By NJ. c. II. Philadel-
phia: Henry Altemus Company.
Evening star., 1921-12-11
GIFT BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

GAMES FOR ALL SEA.
!. SONS. By Teresa M. Bruck. IL
\ lustrated by c. N. Burd and Violet
Moore Higgins. Chicago: Stanton
& Van Vliet Company.
GOODNIGHT STORIES. By. Laura
Rountree Smith. illustrated by
NJ. Burd and Violet Moore Higgins
Chicago: Stanton & Van Vliet Com
pany.
ORPHANT ANNIE STORY BOOK.
Text and illustrations by Johnny
Gruelle. Indianapolis: Bookseller
rill Company.
THE CHILDREN'S MUNCHAUsEN.
Retoid by John Martin. Illustrated
by Gordon Ross. Boston: Hough-
ton Miffiin Company.
CALEB COTTONTAIL; His Adventures
i'm Search Of the Cotton Plant. Mar
rated and illustrated by Harrison
Cady. Boston: Houghton Mifiiin
Company.
LITTLE JACK RABBIT BOOks-LIT-
TIE JACK RABBIT AND DANNY
FOX. BY David Cory. author of
Little Jack Rabbits Adventures.
etc. illustrated by II. S. Barbour
New York: Grosset G. Dunlap.
LITTLE JACK RABBIT BOOKSHELF
TIE JACK RABBITS ADvEN-
TCREs. By David Cory. Illus
'SiatCu OS H. bdl DOuI. new
York: Grosset &; Dunlap.
THE ROVER BOYS IN THE LAND OF
LUCK; Or, Stirring Adventures i'm
the Oil Fields. By Arthur NJ. VIM
field edward Stratemeyer). author
Of "The Rover Boys at School," etc.
Illustrated. New York: Grosset &
Dunlap.
MAKE BELIEVE sTORIES-THE:
STORY OF A NODDING DONKEY.
By Laura Lee Hope. author Of "The
Story of a Sawdust DOLL" etc. H.
lustrated by Harry L. Smith. New
York: Grosset & Dunlap.
sLUMBERToWN TALEs-THE TALE
OF OLD DOG SPOT. BY Arthur
Scott Bailey. author Of Sleepy
Time Tales" etc. illustrated by
Harry L. Smith. New York: Gros-
set & Dunlap.
LITTLE JACK RABBIT BOOkS-LIT-
TIE JACK RABBIT AND THE,
SQUIRREL BROTHERS. BY David
Cory. illustrated by H. S. Bar
bour. New York: Grosset & Dun
lap.
HOW AND WHY STORIES. Record
ed by John c. Branner. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
JOHN MARTINS READ-ALOUD
BOOK, Being Tales to Be Read to