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The Monroe journal., 1922-11-17
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING

To the Stockholders Of lcemorlee
Cotton Mills Company:
You are hereby advised that al a
meeting of the Directors OF said
above named corporation on he lst
day of November, 1922, the follow
ing resolution was unonmonSl!
adopted:
..Eesolved that in the Judgment of
he Board. il is advisable and most
for the benefit of the lccmcrlee ca
To, NJ lis Co. that the same sh1ail
be forwith dissolved. and ~ that end
il is ordered that meeting of the
Stockholders be held on tine Isl day
Of December, A. d.. 1922, at the of.
tice of the company IN :he town a.
West Monroe. \. c., to take acton
ulaa his resolution, agd further,
that the Secretary forthwith give
notice of said meeting and II ai1p-
ton of this resolution, within ten
daNs from his date bv Publishing
the sara resolution. with a NOTICE OF
It's adoption, in the Monroe Journal.
a newspaper published IN the city
of Monroe. n. c., for at least -four
weeks, once a week successively, ana
py mailing a written or printed copy
of the same to each and every stock
holder Of this company in the United
States.
And you are hereby notified that
the foregoing is true and correct
copy of said resolution, and you will
govern yourself accordingly;
This the lst day of November, i922.
RI. DOUGHERfl, See'y.
John C. Skies, Attorney.
The Monroe journal., 1922-11-17
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Having this day qualified as execn-
tors of the estate of A. Nj. Crowell,
late of the county of Union and state
Of North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons holding claims against said
estate TO present them to the under
signed executors on or before the lS,h
day of October, 1928, or this notice
will be plead in bar of their right OF
recovery. All persons indebted TO
said estate will please make prompt
settlement.
This 10th day of October, 1922.
W. C. CR0WELL,
T. L. CROWELL,
Executors Of the Estate Of A. NJ.
Crowell, deceased.
The Monroe journal., 1922-11-17

railroad. is why Mrs Chesire had nev,,
er seen a train. Saturday She and
her husband were in town shopping
and they went over to The station
between 10 and II o'clock 10 see the
several passenger trains 'sh.sh come
into Sta.esville during that time.
Mrs. Chesire Was very mcen lhier-
ested in what she saw. She went
inside n passenger coach and sald
she felt sure il would ride eas7, but
she refused to take a ride.
Williams news., 1922-12-01

For reasons unknown to him, the pine had come often into his dreams. He had thought that Its limbs rubbed to- gether and made words-but of the words themselves he had hardly caught the meaning. There was some high message in them, however; and the dream had left him with a vague curiosity, an unexplainable desire to see the forest monarch in the day. light.
 He found to his delight that the tree was even more impressive in the vivid morning light than 1t had been at night. He was constantly awed by the size of 1t. He guessed its cir conference as about twenty-five feet The great lower limbs were them selves like massive tree trunks. Its top surpassed by fifty feet any pine in the vicinity.
 He felt stilled and calmed. Such was its influence. And he turned with a start when he saw Linda in the door way.
 "Fve been talking to the pine-all the morning. he, told her.
 "But 1t won't talk to you," she an- swered. Tt talks only to the stars"
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BOOK TWO THE BLOOD INVOLVEMENT
CHAPTER xI

"Men own the day, but the night is ours" is an old saying among the wild folk that inhabit the forests of Trails End. The saying originated long and long ago when the world was quite young Before that time, likely enough, the beasts owned both the day and the night, and you can imag- inc them denying mans superiority just as long as possible.
 Of course the saying is ridiculous if applied to cities or perhaps even to the level, cleared lands of the Middle West. The reason is simply that the wild life is practically gone from these places. But few places remain in America where the reign of the wild creatures. during the night hours at least, Is still supreme. And Trails End Is one of them.
 Bruce dressed slowly. He wouldn't waken the two women that slept in the next room,g he thought He crept slowly out into the gray dawn. He made straight for the great pine that stood 2 short distance from the house.
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up the trail toward him.
 The steps drew nearer and the Killer recognized them. They were plainly the soft footfall of some mem Der of the deer tribe, yet they were too pronounced to be the step of any of the lesser deer. The bull elk had left his bed. The red eyes of the grizzly seemed to glow as he waited Great though the stag was, only one little blow of the massive forearm would be needed. The huge fangs' would have to close down but once.
 The bear did not move a single tell tale muscle. He scarcely breathed: The bull was almost within striking range now. The wicked red eyes could already discern the dimmest shadow of his outline through the thickets. But all at once he stopped, head lifting. The Killer knew that the elk had neither detected his odor nor heard him. and he had made no move ments that the sharp eyes could de tect Yet the bull was evidently alarmed He stood immobfle. one foot lifted, nostrils open, head raised. Then, the wind blowing true, the griz- zly understood.
 A pungent smell reached him from below-evfdently the smell of living
  the stream that flowed through the glen. He recognized 1t in an instant He had detected 1t many times, par ticularly when he went into the cleared lands to kill cattle. It: was man, an odor almost unknown in this. lonely glen. Dave Turner, brother of Simon, was walking down the stream toward Hudson's camn
 To the elk this smell was Fear it. self. He knew the ways of men only too well. Too many times he had seen members of his herd fall stricken at word from the glittering sticks they carried fin their hands. He ut tered far-ringing snort
 It was distinctive sound, begin ming rather high the scale as a loud whistle and descending into a deep bass bawl. And the Killer knew perfectly what that sound meant. It was a simple way of saying that the elk would progress no farther down that trail The bear leaped in wflde fury.
 The bull seemed to leap straight up. His muscles had been set at his first alarm from Turner's smell on thee | wind, and they drove forth the DOW erful limbs as If by a powder exp1e- sion. He was fulr in the air when the forepaws battered down where he hatsi been. Then he darted away into the coverts
 The grizzly knew better than to try, to overtGke him. Almost rabid with. wrath he turned back to his ambush
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1t stirred him more than all of Linda's words. In an instant all the tragedy of his babyhood was recalled-the hushed talk between his parents, the oaths, the flames in their eyes, and finally the body he had found lying so still beneath the pines. It was always the Turner's, the dread name that had filled his baby days with horror. He hadn't understood then. It had been blind hatred-hatred with out understanding or self-analysis.
 As she watched, his mountain blood mounted to the ascendency. A strange transformation came over him. The gentleness that he had acquired in his years of city life began to fall away from him. The mountains were claim ing him again.
 His voice was cold and hard when he spoke.
 .Then you and I are no relation whatever"
 "None"
 ''But we fight the same fight now"
 ''Yes. Until we both win-or both die"
 Before he could speak again, a strange answer came out of the dark ness. 'Not two of you" croaking old voice told him. It rose, shrill and cracked, from the shadows beyond the fire. They turned, and the moon light showed a bent old figure hob bling toward them.
 It was old Elmfra, her cane tapping along in front of her; and something that caught the moonlight lay in the hollow of her left arm. Her eyes still glowed under the grizzled brows.
 ''Not two, but three,' she corrected, in the hollow voice of uncounted years. In the magic of the moonlight 1t seemed quite fitting to both of them that she should have come. She was one of the triumvirate; they wondered why they had not missed her before. It was farther than she had walked in yeafs, but her spirit had kept her up.
 She put the glittering object that she carried into Bruce's hands. It was a rif1e-a repeating breech-loader of a famous make and a model of thirty years before. It was such a rifle as lives in legend, with sights as fine as a razor edge and an accuracy as great as light itself. Loving hands had polished 1t and kept 1t in perfect condition.
 Matthew Folger's rfie," the old woman explained, flor Matthew Fol gers son."
 And that is how Bruce Folger re turned to the land of his birth-as most men do, unless death cheats them first-and how he made a pact to pay old debts of death.
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CHAPTER XIV

Simon Turner had given Dave very definite instructions concerning hiss embassy to Hudson s"The first thing this Bruce will do" Simon had said3 "is to hunt up Hudson-the one living man that witnessed that agreements between Ross and old Folger. One reason is that he'll want to verify Ltnda'e story The next is to per- suade the old man to go down to the courts with him as his witness. And what you have to do is line him up for our side first"
 "You think" Dave's eyes wan dered about the room, ''you think, that's the best way?"
 "I wouldn't be tellin' you to do it: if didn't think so.' Simon laughed. a sudden, grim syllable. "Dave, you're a bloodthirsty devil. I see what you'reS thinking of-of a safer way to keep him from telling. But you know the word I sent out. Go easyr That's the wisest course to follow at present. The valley people pay more attention to such things than they used to; the fewer the killings, the wiser we will be If he'll keep quiet for the hun- dred let him have it in peace"
 Dave hadn't forgotten. But his fea-~ lures were sharper and more ratlike than ever when he came in sight of HuGson's camp, just after the fall of darkness of the second day out The trapper was cooking his simple neal a blue grouse frying in his skillet. coffee boiling, and f1apjack batteg ready for the moment the grouse was done. Dave's thoughts returned to, the hundred dollars in his pocket-a good sum in the hills. brass rife cartridge, such as he could fire in the thirty-thfrty that he carried in the hollow of his arm, cost only about sixs cents The net gain would be-the- figures flew quickly through his mind ninety-nine dollars and ninety four. csnt.; quite . rood piece of huetneey
 tCsnt7nued Noxt WeekJ
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Bruce recoiled as if from blow. "Turner? Did you say Turner?" he asked hoarsely.
 "Yes. That's the clans name. l thought you knew"
 Bruce understood now his unpro- voked attack on the little boy when he had been taken from the orphan age on trial. The boy had been named Turner, and the name had been enough to recall a great and terrible hatred that he had learned in earliest baby hood. The name now recalled it again {; the truth stood clear at last. It was the key to all the mystery of his life i;
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arms went about her, and he kissed her gently on the lips.
 But it was not at all as they expect ed. Because Linda had not known many kisses, this little caress beneath the pine went very straight home in deed to them both. They fell apart, both of them suddenly sobered. The girls eyes were tender and lustrous. but startled too.
 "Good-by, Linda,' he told her.
 "Good-by, Bwovaboo,' she answered. He turned up the trail past the pine.
 He did not know that she stood watching him long time, her hands clasped over her breast.
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CHARTER x

When the second hand of the watch in his pocket had made one more cir cult, both Bruce and Linda found themselves upon their feet. The ten sion had broken at last. Her emotion had been curbed too long. It broke from her in food
 She seized his hands, and he started at their touch 'Dop't you under stand?' she cried. ~You-you-you are Folger's son. You are the boy that crept out-under this very tree to find him dead. All my life Elmira and I have prayed for you to come. And what are you going to do?''
 Her face was drawn in the white light of the moon. For an instant he seemed dazed.
 'Do?'' he repeated. "I don't know what I'm going to do."
 You don't!'' she cried, in infinite scorn. Are you just clay? Aren't you a man? Haven't you got arms to strike with and eyes to see along a rifle barrel? Are you, a coward-and a weaklfng; one of your mothers blood, to run away? Haven't you any. thing to avenge? I thought you were a mountain man-that all your years in cities couldn't take that quality away from youi Haven't you any snswer?"
 He looked up, a strange light grow ing on his face. "You, mean-kill- ingT'
 What else7 To kill-never to stop kflling-one after another, until they are gone! Till Simon Turner and the whole Turner clan have paid the debts the- owe" = - -
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away-and for all T,Ie tune l m gong to be away now-I haven't done any thing more--well, more intimate than shake your hand.'
 Her answer was to bout out her lips in the most natural way in the world. Bruce was usually deliberate in his motions; but all at once his de1ibera- ton fell away from him. There seemed to be no interiude of time be tween one position and another His
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Co2yright by Little. Brown & Co.,

keep FOlger'S son in ignorance or the whole matter.
 .I hope I can make that clear. The deed from my father to Folger was on record, Folger was dead, and F'olger's son would have every right and op- portunity to contest the clans claim to the land. If he could get the matter into court, he would surely win.
 .'The second thing to do was to win me over. I was just a child, and 1t looked the easiest course of all. That's why I was stolen from the orphanage by one of Simon's brothers. The idea was simply that when the time came I would marry one of the clan and es- tablish their claim to the land forever.
 up to a few weeks ago it seemed to me that sooner or later I would win out Bruce, you can't dream what it meant! I thought sthat some time l could drive them out and make them pay, a little, for all they have done. But they've tricked me, after all. thought that I would get word to Fol gers son. who by inheritance would have a clear title to the land, and he, with the aid of the courts, could drive these usurpers out. But just recently I,ye feES4 out that even this chance is all but gone.
 s"Within a few more weeks they will have been in possession of the land for full twenty years. Through some legal twist I don't understand, if man pays taxes and has undis- puted possession of land for that length of time, his title is secure. They failed to win me over, but it looks as if they had won, anyway. The only way that they can be defeat ed now Is for that secret agreement between my father and Folger-to re- appear. And I've long ago given up all hope of that.
 There is no court session between now and October thirtieth-when their twenty years of undisputed pos session Is eliminated. There seems to be no chance to contest them-to make them bring that forged deed into the light before that time. We've lost, after all. And only one thing re mains
 He looked up to find her eyes full upon him. He had never seen such eyes. They seemed to have sunk so deep into the flesh about them that only 1urfd slits remained. It was not that her lids were partly down. Rather it was because the f1esh-sacks beneath them had become charged with her pounding blood. The fires glow was in them and cast a strange glamor upon her face. It only added to the strangeness of the picture that she sat almost limp, rather than leaning forward in appeal. Bruce looked al her in growing awe
 But as the seconds passed he seemed no longer able to see her plainly. His eyes were misted and blurred, bu, they were empty of tears as Linda's own. Rather the focal point of his brain had become scared by a mount ing flame within himself The glow of the fire had seemingly spread until 1t encompassed the whole wilderness world.
 What is the one thing that re mains?'' he asked her, whispering.
 She answered with a strange, ter rible coldness of tone. '"The blood atonement," she said between back drawn lips.
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was cross; and he didn't care who knew it. He was hungry too; but hunger is an emotion for the beasts of prey to keep carefully to them selves.
 The Killer moved quite softly. One would have marveled how silently his great feet fell upon the dry earth and with what slight sound his heavy form moved through the thfckets. He moved slowly, cautiously-all the time mounting farther up the little hill that rose from the banks of the stream He came to an opening in the thicket, a little brown pathway that vanished quickly into the shadows of the COW ertS.
 The Killer slipped. softly into the heavy brush just at its mouth. It was his ambush. Soon, he knew, some of the creatures that had bowers in the heart of the thicket would be coming along that trri1 onto the feeding grounds on the ridge. He had only : The night wind. rising somewhere in the region of the snow banks on the highest mountains, blew down into the Killers face and brought messages that no human being may ever receive Then his sharp ears heard the sound Of brush cracked softly as some one ee the Ic .sss -foze.t creatures came.
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hat for all the time I've been
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24
j. G.HOOPER
House Painter
and Grainer
no. BEL AIR, ND
Phone 8l5 F-5
THREE IN THIS FAMILY HELPED
Baltimore Woman. Her Mother And
Daughter-in.law Obtain Remark
able Results From Tanlac

"Tanlac has done so much for me
and my daughter-in-law that my moth
er who Is 80 years old is taking il on
my recommendation, and she has i'm
proved great deal" said Mrs. Min
ME Leach, M S. Decker ST., Balti-
more, Md.
"Tanlac completely relieved me Of
a terrible case Of stomach trouble and
rundown condition. had lost ten
pounds and got 80 weak and nervous
! could hardly do thing about the
house. II was almost impossible for
me TO get good nights sleep and I'd
get up in the morning completely worn
out and even the sight Of breakfast
would nauseate me. The little food |
managed to force down me caused me
fearful pains and gas bloated me up
SO ! thought I'D choke. Sharp pains
in my back kept me in misery, and my
head ached like II would split.
But I commenced to get better al
most as soon as started taking Tan
lac. | now have a wonderful appetite
and retain and digest all my food.
have plenty Of strength and energy
and my sleep is sound and refreshing.
l only hope my statement will help
others who suffer as | did"
Tanlac is sold by all good druggist.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24
BENEFICIAL EFFECT
OF SULPHUR SPRAYS
Quick Results From Field Demon.
stration In New Jersey.
Returns From Potato Crop In New
Jersey Had Been Greatly Re
duced on Account Of seab-
Crop Now Clean.

prepared by tn. United States Department,
OF Asr'eui'urs1 ~
good example oi qu,eA iee". ~
Ihe Improvement vi ~.
Following uei'ohs'ia.'on WIZ y. '
uhHed STATES pepar'ipe". y,
lure ana tue s'a'e was i'u"u 1919 -,
90 NeW 'erses po'"'D -. 49, ,aa,
the returns IRON, 'ne c.op ~ Wv I
"" years hau w" se"' -.
Oh 'ceouh' VI s.A'' u. 80.
hho ne s'h.e pun on u ',',''. ,Sa
On 'nis in,h '"'' ''"'
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24
SMALL BOYS PLAN WORKED
Whole Lot Better Than Keeping Con-
slant Watch for Maraudlng Band
Of Chickens.

One time when Frank Wallace. state
entomologist, was small boy, says
the indianapolis Star, his father as
signed him TO guard II garden from
marauding band " chickens from
neighbours coop. Frank did not Ike
the Idea OF wasting his precious boylsh
time on unprincipled chickens ana set
MS wits TO working,
He bored holes through grains OF
corn, tied notes TO the end Of thread
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24
TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN GIRLS
klpIlno at HE Best Wrote With Com.
pists Comprehension Of Their
Many Charms.

Thirty years ago. Rudysrd Kipllng
found the American girl above com.
pare. In American Notes" he said Of
her:
Sweet and comely az ilw maidens
OF Devonshire delicate and Of gracious
seeming those who live In the pleasant
places Of London; fascinating for all
their occurrences the damsels Of
France cllngIng closely TO their moth
ers, and with large eyes wondering at
the wicked world; excellent In her
own place and TO those who under
stand her Ia the Anglo-Indian spin in
her second season; but the girls Of
America are above and beyond them
all. They are clever; they can talk.
Yea. 10 Is said that they think. They
are instructed In the folly and vanity
OF the male mind, for they have asso-
ciated with the boys from boyhodai,
and can dlscerningly minister to both
vices, or pleasantly snub the pOssessor.
As certain Of their own poets have
said:
Man IN FIRE and woman 10 tow.
And the devil no comes and begins TO
blow.
TN America the tow IL soaked IN n
solution that makes II freproof. In alb.
solute liberty and large knowledge;
consequently accidents do not exceed
the regular percentage arranged by
the devil for each class and climate
under the skies"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24

GIVE BEES CARE IN AUTUMN
Aftsr Extracting taeasy eseksspsr
should Watch ciessiy and Re-
place Poor oussns

The beekeeper often loses interest
IN his apiary as soon ~ the honey
has been extracted In the fall. That's
often the time bees should be watched
carefully, for they frequently need q
new queen IN late summer and early
fan. Now Il the time 10 look after
the queens Poor queens are occasion.
any supplied during the active season.
and In such cases they must be re-
placed Immediately after the hensy
crop l. harvested.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24

Tourists who visit Mont Saint Michel,
on the eoast OF Normandy, win And
the Benedictine abbey which crowns
lie summit restored for worship. As
early as the Eighth century Mont
Standardized. possessed religious ms.
sociatlons, but the present buildlngs
only date from the Thirteenth to the
Sixteenth century. The height OF the
church exceeds the height OF the rock
upon which Il stands 1876 feet. and
the granite Of which II 10 built was
brought by boat from the Isles OF
shsrspy and hoisted up the steep side
OF the hill. Since 1874 the Mont has
been under the care Of architects ap.
pointed by the Ministry des Beaux.
Arts, and by their research and res.
toration the abbey fortress now ap-
pears In almost Its former grandeur.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-11-24
Toposraphy Of the Air.

Explorations Of the air have re-
yealed an astonishing dehnlteness OF
arrangement In Its layers. although.
Of course, the details are continually
changing. Ley. In England, has dI.
rected his studies of hsatlng balloons
60 a solution Of the question Of the
influence Of the topography Of the
earth's surface on the state OF the air
above II. He finds. among other things.
that the disturbances produced by hills
and valleys are transmitted to an un.
expectedly great elevation. affecting
the lower and middle strata through.
out. A general effect noticed Is that
the velocity ~ the wind. or Of n cur.
rent Of air, IL increased over a hill
and diminished over valley. II ID
thought that similar observations. gen.
orally distributed. would furnish us
with real topography Of the air.
Washington star.