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CHAPTER ~
The Imprint in the Snow

Mcdonald, the factor lay on his bed
in an upstairs room of the house
whose lower story was the trading
dow over the swamp beneath. 1t was
two weeks since Molly had found him
lying with closed eyes on the floor,
with the flushed face and heavy breath
ing of apoplexy.
For two and twenty years McDon-
aid had lived there, serving the COM
pany. Little had changed during that
time. The chief change had been in
himself and, since this was to be meas
ured rather by isolated happenings
than the steady progress Of time, Nc
Donald could have counted on the fin
gers of one hand the scale-marks of his
life.
The little finger was his arrival at
Toronto from Aberdeen, drawn to the
New World by stories of life in the
service Of the famous company. The
third finger was Mary.
He had met her in Toronto, soon
after his arrival In Canada, and she
had been born in his own town, though
he had not known her there. Molly
knew vaguely that he had championed
her in trouble that had come upon
her. for which she was not to blame.
There had been blackmailer, brawl,
a knife-thrust, a blow struck wildly
with some implement; dead man, a
white-faced girl clinging to him, and
then the silence Of the starlit streets
Donald Mcdonald still bore the scar
of ripping wound along his right
forearm.
That had been their courtship. The
next day Mcdonald had married her,
and brought her to the trading post.
Six months later he was In charge of
it. They had been happy during the
year that passed before he laid her
under the tamaracks, and after that
Donald Mcdonald had lost all wish to
return to Aberdeen or to pursue ad-
venture farther.
Mary had been the third finger on
the hand of McDonald's destiny, and
her death was the middle one. The
first was Molly. and it was about her
that his thoughts clustered eternally.
Two seasons at the mission school
at Moose Lake, a winter in Winnipeg
these comprised the girls experience
Of the outside world. She helped her
father In the store, and was capable
judge Of mink and muskrat. She
could bring down a moose at thou
sand yards, and guide canoe down
Horseshoe rapids.
She had gone to the Indian camp.
five miles away with medicine for a
sick papoose, at daybreak, leaving
her father in the care of Jules Half
head, the Muskegon, a deaf mute who
worked for the factor during intervals
Of wandering in the bush, trapping.
She did not like to leave him, for he
had become more inorose since his III
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of Joe Bostock's folly. That's what
Mr.. Bowyer called 1t when he was
here for the moose in October. Joe
Bostockll never cross Big Muskeg.
And if he could, where'd he get his
freight and passengers?
IF ever this country's opened up,
Tom Bowyer will put his own line
through. He was telling me So.
But there's naething here but the
moose and caribou and the Indians.
It's always been that way; It always
will be so.''
He caught her by the sleeve. "Yen
no see WIN Carruthers again!" he
shouted.
I'm not likely to, unless he comes
this way" she answered In q con-
strained voice. dreading the outbreak
of violence which she knew would fol.
low.
AYE. but he'll be here. I ken the
mon and his kind. The sight of a
pretty face Is meat and drink to him.
He'll be here, and me lying helpless
abed. tell you ken the mon. Mr..
Bowyer was telling me about him. His
names a by-word among decent folks" /"
well, Mr.. BOwyer's own reputation
isn't the BEST" she retorted,. nettled
that she was forced to champion VIII
ton. You know Mr.. Carruthers has
an interest in Joe Bostock's line. or
course, Tom Bowyer would try to set
you against them!"
The factors face grew purple with
rage; he choked for utterance.
i 4 ken the whole scheme weei ~ he
shouted. "When you went to Winni-
peg you got In thick with Kitty Bos-
took, and never mail comes in but
there's letter from her. She and
Joe are going to get you there, to leave
Inc here alone. Aye, read that letter
the woman wrote you, telling you that
your life was wasted here. ken what
the warld is; learned II one night
In Toronto, years ago. And, mark me.
I'd rather see We lying dead at my
feet than the plaything Of a man like
Will Carruthers!"
That had been the burden of his re-
pr0aches ever since Tom Bewyer's
visit the autumn before.
BOwyer had poisoned his mind
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CHAPTER l-Continued.

The portage was firm ice. although
1t offered no foundation for railroad
bed. 1t ran between two openings in
the low bluffs, and the store was WIS.,
ible from the farther shore.
The Icy blasts pierced Through Will
tons fur hood and mackinaw us If
they had been cotton. His feet seemed
like foreign bodies attached to his
legs, up which he could feel the numb
ness creeping by inches toward his
body. And when at last he reached
the portage he looked out with in
credulity toward the opposite shore,
seeing only Pickering line of
shadows through the slit between his
frozen eyelids.
Resolutely clasping the frozen form
with his right arm, he stepped out
upon the surface. The wind, which
blew through the gap with hurricane
violence at almost all times had
swept the Ice as broom might sweep
rink, in enormous circles, CLASSY and
firm, with whirling snOw-piles round
them. Wilton could progress only by
AANhN'7b hShliiS thC luil VI tHc
gale, and seeing the line of his route
only in fractions Of seconds.
He saw the bluffs in front of him,
and the opposite shore nearing And
he fought furlously against the creep
ing numbness, knowing that each Sec
ond counted for victory. 1t was per-
haps hundred feet farther. He
Annnad htc ;rc irb
seventy, perhaps; one last effort
to cross the portage.
Fifty feet! With all of will and
consciousness that remained Wilton
set his face resolutely toward his
landing place, and strobe on into the
bank of snow piled up by the wind be-
meath the shelter Of the bluffs. His
feet sank through the cracking sur
face, he struggled shoulder-deep to
win the last lap Of the way. And of
a sudden the ice broke under him and,
twenty-five feet from the shore, the
snare of Big Muskeg held him.
Instinctively he sought to gather
purchase from the sides of the sink
hole into which he had fallen. The
tourniquet-stick dragged through the
yielding snow, the elbow Of the arm
that held Joe's body rested upon the
ice. One instant he buoyed himself
by this means over the peaty slush
that sucked at him beneath. Then,
with last cry that sounded above the
roaring of the gale, he yielded. And,
clutching Joe's body to his own. Will
ton went down.
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is NOT AN EASY OCCUPATION

Of being drowned when he Is on his
way to the surface. After time, 1t
seems, the best Of diving dresses be-
comes leaky, and the water that finds
Its way through the seams settles
round the feet and the legs; divers
become accustomed to having their
dresses filled with water up to the
knees and even to the thighs. How
ever, when diver who has water In
the bottom of his suit Is being hauled
to the surface he may lnvoluntarily
or accidentally allow his body to be-
come horizontal. and If he does so
the water at once rushes into his
helmet, stands him on his head and
browns him.-Youth's Companion.
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Deep-Sea Diver May With Much Truth
BE Said nstantly to walk
With Death"

How does deep-sea diver feel
when he puts on his diving suit? Capt.
G. A. w. Monckton tells US in "Some
Experiences of New Guinea Resi-
dent Magistrate" that the feeling Is
by no means pleasant.
The moment the face glass Is
screwed tight, he says, and the air
pump begins to work, the diver feels
that he has a grievance. AS he de-
cends the feeling becomes more posi-
tive until he is in fury Of rage
against everyone in general and usual
ly against one person In particular.
At the bottom he spends much Of his
time wondering how soon the dress
can be taken off so that he can injure
the person against whom he has the
imaginary grievance. However. the
moment the face glass Is removed,
and the diver breathes the ordinary
air. the bad temper leaves him, and
he wonders what caused his anger.
The divers greatest danger Is that
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the girl succeeded In getting Wilton to
the shore. From that point, half
dragging and half carrying him over
the snow, she reached the store at
last.
She pried the stiff hand from Joe's
! body. That was the hardest of her
efforts. Molly left Joe's body upon the
threshold and got Wilton into her lit
tie room behind the store. She raised
him on the bed and laid him down, his
head upon her pillow.
Her teeth were chattering from the
deadly cold that grlpped her, and her
own hands were numb, but she man.
aged to strip off Wilton's socks, his
hood, mackinaw and sweater. His
face was not badly frozen, but his
hands and feet were marble white.
Suddenly the girl saw the blood that
discolored the sleeve Of Wilton's
shirt. She ripped the sleeve from the
shoulder. She saw that the arm was
broken and that a bullet, entering be-
hind, had passed oDliquely out, leav-
ing a small but not dangerous wound.
The blood had long since ceased to
flow and clotted the wound In a con-
gealed, frozen mass.
The danger from the frostbite was
the more immediate. Molly took snow
from the threshold and began to rub
| his face, his feet and his fingers. For
nearly an hour the girl persisted, never
ceasing her efforts, In spite Of her
WEAKNESS, and the thawing, dripping
clothes about her. And at last the
white skin began to be suffused with
an angry red.
Then she washed away the clotted
blood from the arm and nerved her.
self to the task that must be per-
formed. AT the Moose Lake mission
she had nursed an Indian with frac-
tured leg, set by the superintendent.
and this experience was all she had to
60 by. But the break was simple
one. She brought the edges Of the
bone together. made splints from
pieces of packlng-case and wound the
whole tightly with cloth smeared with
bears fat. Then she heated some
broth and poured it, drop by drop,
down Wilton's throat.
When she could do no more she took
her clothes out of the room and changed
in another, kept for travellers, separat-
ed by thin partition of pine planks.
She had just finished when she
heard her father shuffling down the
stairs. 1t was the first time he had
left his bed. The girl ran to the door
in faor
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"Bowyer got no further, for
Wilton's fist shot out and landed
fairly on his mouth"


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IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sl11nldaySchool q
' Lesson
(By REV. p. B. FITzwATER. D. D..
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
LESSON FOR JULY 2
EZEKIEL, THE WATcHMAN OF
ISRAEL

LESSON TEXT-Ezekiel 2:l-3:21.
GOLDEN TEXT-Seek ye the Lord
while He may be found; call ye upon Him
while He is near; let the wicked forsake
his way. and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; and let him return unto the
Lord. and He will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for He will abundantly
pardon.-Isa. 55:6-7.
REFERENCE MATERIAL - II Kings
1913. IA: lisa. GLIB: Jer. 1:l-l9: Matt. %:
31-39; Acts 20:lS-2l. rs. q. 29-31.
PRIMARY TOPIC-Tie Shepherd and
His Sheep.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Ezekiel Watches and
Warns Israel.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Facing Hard Task.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
The Duty Of Warning Others.
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A Little lmitator.

vile show was much impressed with
the ventriloquist. That evening while
saying her prayers she asked God to
look after her brothers and sisters and
to make her good girl-then after
brief pause she was heard to say.
sotto voce: "All right"
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Somsan and DeliIah.

And it came to pass afterward. that
ne loved woman in the valley Of
Sorek, whose name was Delilah, and
the lords of the Philistines came up
unto her, and said unto her. Entice
him. and see wherein his great strength
lieth, and by what means we may pre-
vail against him, that we may bind
him and afllict him: and we will give
thee every one of us eleven hundred
pieces of silver.--Judges 1871, 8.
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MOLLY SAVES WILTON.

SYNOPSIS. - Looking over Big
Muskeg. seemingly impossible
swamp in the path of the Missa-
tibi railroad. Joe Bostock, builder
Of the line, and Wilton Carruthers,
chief Of engineers. are considering
the dimculties. A rifle shot Instant
ly kills Bostock and breaks Car
ruthsrs' arm. Handicapped as he
Is. Carruthers determines to carry
the body to station of the Hud-
sons Bay company. where one Nc
Donald is the factor.
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| 200 FATS KILLED IN WEEK
Gruwn-ups rs Nell ~ children Are
SlnughtCring Rodents

More than q thousand rats were
laid low In the first weeks onslaught
ON the rodents conducted under the
auspices OF the Junior Chamber OF
Commerce. To be moro exact ap-
proNmntcly 1900 of the pests diiut
live to tell the tale. Their tails told g.
Not only arc youngsters ut thu city
taking 1n interest TN tho campaign
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A colluloid support that can be
Inserted iu tho sweat band has been
invented that holds hats erect and
prevents them losing their croasra
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24
COLES FIANCEE
ACCUSES PAGE
SAYS She Was Warned to
"Shake" Cole or Lose
Postoffice Job
COLE AN EX-C0NVICT
Page Secured His Release
From Federal Pen at
Leavenworth, Kansas

Miss Cora Beauchamp. finance Of
charles j.. Cole OF Sand Springs.
told a jury In District Judge Rcd
muud :. Coles court Saturday
morning OF Pages alleged persecu-
f.oa of Cole and his effort TO cause
the loss OF her position as clerk In
the sand Springs postoffice. unless
.so ceased keeping company with
cole
cole is suing Page for S25,OOO for
Slauder, alleging the Sand Springs
uFIsntropist became angercd and
discharged him over the handling
of "a carload OF pipe and has since
sxertcd what has been termed his
powerful influence In preventing
cole from obtaining another posi-
lou. Cole testified the carload OF
p.pe was handled by another OF
Pages employees, and that he was In
uu way connected with the transac-
ton
Miss Beauchamp said she knew
Cole was released from the federal
penitcntiary at Leavenworth, Kan,
through the efforts Ia his behalf cx-
crtod by Page, and that she was
aware cole had wife and three
children in Pennsylvania. She add
cd that Cole has not lived with his
wife for seven years and that they
are divorced
Told To "Shakc" Cole.
According to the young woman's
testimony she was admonished by
\. Schicfclbusch. former Sand
springs postmaster under whom
fhe first was employed as clerk,
that unless she SHOOK" Cole her
position was in jeopardy. Schie-
fclbusch she advised, was one OF
Pages close friends and obtained
his appointment through Pages in
Gucuce.
Miss Beauchamp is still IN the
postuffice under Postmaster Snow.
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The details Of the great SpayInaw
Wator project for this city and the
award Of contracts for tho COM
plction ot the plant which Will moan
so much Tor Tulsa when one OF his
friends expressed The fear that the
aoduCtivcncss OF tho san Antonio
climate might lure him aud his tam-
ily to that city Mccullough replied
That thcro was no possibility oC such
an event
Tulsa ~ nay permanent home
said he, "lvo spent too many years
here building up q business and
making lifelong iricuds to even con-
slider sryoring my business comcc-
toms or leaving such loyal friends.
Tulsa Ha 4 city suits me NV bank
ing interests have grown from
small beginning to their present
largo proportions under my daily at
tontion Tho business suits me ana
. am proud 0f the record made.
ann proud NJ my friends ana asso-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24
MCCULLOUGH IS
MUCH ENTHUSED
Returns From San Anto-
MO More Than Ever
Booster for Tulsa

Grant II Mccullough, president OF
tho First National bank of Tulsa, Is
home from cisit Co san Antonio
where a member OF his family under
went treatment at this tme.
Mccullough ia enthusiastic over
the rapid development and auhsl1u-
tiol progress Tulsa ia making. and
.u the future Bs ln the past, viii cone
tinue 10 do HE ru,I part iu building
here q great city.
lie IS especially well pleased with
tho continued growth of the First
National bank. OF which ho Us and
has bocn president Ot $50 many years
and TO which he gives his personal
attention. even ON the ocCatiouG OF his
b;iot absence from the city being I'm
daily touch with current banking at
fairs here by wire
As "A member Of the water board
MvCullough ia giving much timo 10
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varied 90 a Marguerite and only two
Marys. There are two or three
good old-tashioncd MArthas and the
name Of Ruth ~ found ON the class
roster moro than once.
Solidity and practicnhilitv are
what count in boys names. Tho two
most popular names, adjudged by
the frequency with which thcy recur
on the class roll are William and
Charles. There are five WUlams--
some OF these appear as "Bilp--and
five Charles. Tho Johns usually 80
dependable and numerous. are rather
In tho minority this time, There arc
three of them, thrcc Toms and three
JoCs.
But what's I'm q name, anyway? \
Mary by any other name would be
lust as sweet and "a BiU or Charles or
Tom he Just as assiduous ln telling
her so.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24
'SLAYERS OF LUNG
STILL AT LARGE
Posse Gives Up Searching
Creek and Oimulgee
for Gunmen

Special TO The World
OKMULGEE. Sept. s3.--Thc slay-
ers OF John Lung, \ex- deputy
sheriff on Friday september 10, who
escaped after shooting him but miss
ing chief OF Police Morley. OF Sapul-
pa, and who two days later attempt
ed 10 assassinate chief OF Police Joe
Hagan OF Slick, may never be cap-
tured.
This Ia tho belief OF officers Of
this city who Joined with those OF
Sapulpa, whore the Lung killing oc-
CURED, Slick, Muskogce and Tulsa,
In seeking out the murderers.
At first Il was believed that the
discovery OF stolen goods IN a house
here and at Tulsa. had given the Of
flcers clues 10 the Identity OF the
slayers, but this theory has been
given up.
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PAGES attorneys asked the wit
ness II Cole had not been frequent
~ behind the partition In the post
office, and II at that time there
were not shortages In the accounts
Of The postmaster.
Cole was behind the parti-
ton frequently" Miss Beauchamp
replied, Just as were many others.
As TO tho alleged shortages In the
pestoffiee. she postal department a;
Washington found there were none.
These so-called shortages, bound TO
be simply errors, continued during
the six months that Cole was
never inside the postofflce."
Didn't Schiefolbusch take your
Key 20 the postoffice away from
your"
Yes and he gave them 90 rel
atiye OF his who held no position in
the office and had no right TO en-
ter. This same relative was allowed
20 DO as he pleased around the Of
flee. He cashed his checks at the
money order drawer and had access
20 every other money continer"
Slandcr, Coles Charge.
Cole's attorneys are attempting 10
prove that Page slandered their cli-
ent by making false statements and
insinuatious 10 others, while Page $
council has stated 1t expects TO show
Page, through the goodness OF HE
heart, secured Coles release from
the penitentiary and gave him a
good position; that Cole betrayed
the trust rCposod IN him: that
Pages attempt to separate MIS-
Bcauchamp and Cole was actuated
by interest IN her welfare. and that
Coles charge ls not substantiated by
facts.
The hearing was recessed Satur-
day noon until o'clock Monday
morning.
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A BACK SEAT FOR MARY
More Dorothys, Margarcts and IIcI.
ems at High school, u ChcCk.up
HpNRuIg

"T love the name OF Mary" in
Vulnerable swains enamoured OF
the charms OF her who bore that
gentle cognomen have warbled wist-
fully In the past. Aud there were
lots OF these swalns because there
were lots and lots OF Marys But
now the name TX taking a back scat.
The senior class Of the high school
may be no criterion but the fact re-
mains that the Marys OF the class are
outnumbered by the Dorothys and
the Heleus and the Margarets.
There are ten Dorothys. six Helcns
and six MarEarets, with one OF them
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Sbopmcn Make Terms.

RICHMOND, Va, sept. 23.--Leav-
ing the striking clerks of tho Chesa-
peake g. Ohio railroad TO shift for
the Chesapeake & Ohio
and the shopcrafts have reached an
agreement. The striking shopmen
are TO go back TO work, possibly
many Of them returning today and
moro by Monday. w. J. Harahan,
president Of the road announced
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Morris Appolntmcnt Confirmed.

WASHINGTON. Sept, 23.--The
state department today confirmed
reports Of the appointment OF Rob-
ert c. Morris, New York lawyer, as
American agent of the mixed COM
mission. which viii adjust German
American war claims. The first
meeting OF the commission will be
held In Washington October 10.
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but grown-ups as well, especially
owners OF stores. cafes, etc. down
town. u was stated At Ju-lor Cham
hcr 40 Commerce headquarters yos-
toUdav Effort by the Junior cham.
hcr ,s being made 20 locate garbage
cons chat have no ilds and 10 urge
housewives everywhere to M their
cans with coverings as a preventative
against posts of p'l Hinds.
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The first soldier killed IN she
world war Corporal Jules Peugeot.
a F'rcnchman. was honored recently.
whom q monument was unveiled at
Jonchorry near Belfort. Alsace. lie
was 2t years old. uui In charge of -
squad 0f soldiers stationed six miles
from the German frontier.
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ciatcs here and expect to remain On
harness with the Firet National bank
land live ont my lIfc n Tulsa, which
to mo is tho ideal home city Of
America"
Morris tribune., 1922-08-11
IN STEP WITH PROGRESS
Ben Busch has Proven Value of Pure
Bred Hogs in County During
Past Five Years

Twelve years ago Ben Busch, liv-
ing five miles northwest of Morris,
decided to go into purebred hogs with
the result that today he stands
among the leaders in the pure bred
industry in Stevens county. He
started out with pure bred Duroc
Jersey SOW which he purchased from
r. E. Booth of Donnelly, who the
following year moved back to Iowa.
Since then Mr.. Busch has secured
his stock from Iowa, Nebraska and
big breeders throughout the country.
He was, for while, alone in the
county in the pure bred Duroc game.
Mr.. Busch came to the county in
1887 with his father and settled
near his present farm. He has been
farmer of the county since that
time and the past twelve years a
leader with Duroc Jerseys, having
held six sales in the past five years.
He now has IA sows and three herd
boars on his place and expects to hold
a sale of bred sows and gifts next
January again. His last sale was
January when he disposed of a good
ly number of fine animals. Like
most folks he had bad luck with his
spring pigs this year and only
brought thru about 20.
Pure bred hogs have not been Mr..
Busch's only interest in pure bred
stock. He now has II head of pure
bred Short Horns after having had a
sale last fall disposing of 20 and
having sold a number since then.
Mr.. Busch devotes his farming &C
tivities t raising feed for his stock
and this year, for the first time in IL
years, he put in wheat, having rs
acres. He has in the past raised
mostly corn and oats. This year he
has 35 acres of the former and IS
acres of the latter. He has so acres
of pasture and uses clover pasture
for his hogs.