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The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

dry-as Daddy testified it never did
and why the subtraction Of two six
inch streams at velocity sufficient t.
stir up veritable whirlpool at thu
suction intakes should make no i'm
preston upon it, that 1 began to no
tfee the queer actions of the pie-faceC
collie, Barney. First he would come
and stick his cold nose into my hand
then he'd trOt over to the cabin anC
back, and maybe loaf little way dowI
the road toward the bench level. Com
ing around to the shaft-house again
he'd sit beside Daddy Hiram, yawninl
ana painting as II ne were waiting I'm
patiently for US TO stop talking and
pay some attention to him.
Poor old Barney's homesick, and I
don't blame him." said. I'm feeling
good bit that way, myself, Daddy"
Then to the dog: Come here, old
boy I"
The collie came to lick my hand, and
while was petting him l found a
pretty bad cash just behind one of his
ears.
"See here, Daddy" 1 broke out /;
1.-The dogs hurt"
We examined the wound and decided
at once that it was not a bite. 1t was
bruised cut, looking as if it had been
made by some blunt instrument or
weapon. l had a bOt-flash vision Of
Fullerton kicking the dog with his
iron-shod heel in an attempt to drive
him back home, and it was so real that
I couldn't shake it off.
When it began to grow dusk in the
shaft-house we shut up shop and went
over to the cabin to cook our supper.
The dog went along, but evidently with
reluctance. While we were crossing
the dump head he turned back and
once more started off down the road
toward the bench below, but when he
found that we were not following him
be came to heel again. Still, neither
of US had dog sense enough to guess
what was the matter with him.
Daddy Hiram and /, being merely
stupid humans, were commenting upon
his queer actions, and laying them to
Jeanie's absence, when again the dog
started off down the road, looking
back and barking when he found that
we were still sitting on the doorstep.
At that, since even solid ivory can be
penetrated if the would-be driller of 1t
stays on the job long enough, we final
ly caught on.
Say, Stannie he's a-tryin' to tell
us to come onI" Daddy exclaimed,
starting to his feet. "Methuselah-to-
gracious did it have to take US hull
endurin' afternoon to fgger out that
much dOg-talkT
ut looks that way" l admitted ; but
now, having fingered" it out, we made
no delay. Daddy got his rifle and cart
ridge-belt, and told me to take Jeanie's
pistol for myself-which 1 did. And
thus equipped we took the trail, In
dian-filing down the mountain road In
the darkness, Daddy Hiram, with his
gun in the crook of his left arm, set
ting the pace, and the collie running
on ahead to point the way.
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/, beyond the damp sand patch that the
|. dim trail we had been following ended
abruptly at the abandoned mining
claim spoken of by Daddy Hiram-ths
Haversack The starlight was bright
enough to show US what there was to
be seen, which wasn't much; a couple
| of tuInble-down shacks, shed that
had probably been the prospeetors
blacksmith shop, and a tunnel mouth
that had once been securely boarded
up, but from which the bulkheadina
was now partly fallen away.
Once more Daddy hunted for a dead
pine branch and lighted a torch. The
shacks were empty, Of course, and
while we did not go into the tunnel,
we could see, through the broken bulk
heading, that 1t was half filed with
caved-in earth and broken stone. Un-
derfoot there was only the coarse
] gravel of the tunnel spoil, and full
troop of cavalry might have passed
over it without leaving any visible
trail. Worse than all, Barney, the pie
faced collie, appeared now to be CON-
pletely at fault He was running
around In circles with his nose to the
ground; pretty plain indication that
he had lost the trail.
'T'n be bat-clawed and owl-hooted
if l know what-all to do next" Daddy
puzzled
He hadn't any the best of me there,
and it was precisely at this point that
the split-faced dog took it into his
head to add another snarl to the knot
ted tangle. After galloping around all
over the place half a dozen times,
shifting at everything in sight, he had
| finally come to a stand with his nose
at crack In the tunnel boarding. The
next instant he had leaped through
the hole where the planks had fallen
away, and presently we heard him
whining and scratching behind the
bulkhead.
don't know about Daddy Hiram's
heart, but / do know that mine was
doing f1ip-fiaps and back somersaults
when we ran up to see what the dog
had found in the tunnel. For a half
second after Daddy thrust his torch
through the hole / was afraid to look
scared stiff at the thought of what 1
might see. When did look, saw the
dog digging frantically at the heap of
caved-in earth, and, Of course to my
disordered Imagination, the hole in
which he was burrowing transformed
itself at once into a newly made grave.
Good GOdl" I gasped; and then:
Look, Daddy-right under your
torch %
He looked and staggered back, and
would have dropped the blazing pine
branch if / hadn't caught it from his
hand. For what he saw, and what /
had seen, was the unmistakable print,
in the soft earth just inside of the
planking, Of one Of Jeanie's brown
leather riding-bOots.
In another half-secOnd we were both
in the tunnel and Daddy was heaving
the dog aside from the hole he was
paving out in the earth fall. Snatch
ing up a broken-handled shovel that
the former tunnel drivers had thrown
away, the old man flung himself mad
ly upon the dirt pile, and since there
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10
CHAPTER XII.
Around Robin Hoods Barn.

After we had covered possibly two
of the four miles between the CHINA
bar and the railroad station, the dog
branched off to the left along the
mountain on a road that was little
better than a bride path through the
forest, and which, for the time, kept
its level on the slope, neither ascend
ing nor descending.
How about ii, Daddy?" 1 asked.
Where does this trail go?"
Give it time enough, it comes out
at the old Haversack, on Greaser
mountain"
ENDS there, you mean"
You said it; far as l know, it ends
there"
"What is the Haversack?"
ut amt nothin', now. Used to be a
gold prospect eight r ten year ago.
Never got far enough along to be a
mine, they tell me"
1t was certainly singular that the
dog should be leading US to an aban-
doned mining project, but Barney
seemed to know perfectly well where
he was going.
In one of the gulch headings there
was a patch of wash sand in what was,
in wet weather, runway for water,
but which was now only a streamless
ravine with a few damp spots in 1t.
Here Daddy called a halt, and while
the dog sat down and yawned at us
&c
thence at the delay, the old man gath
cred a few pine-cOnes and twigs,
struck a match and lighted fire, eau
tiOning me meanwhile not to walk on
the damp sand patch.
l hadn't the slightest idea of what
he was driving at, and he didn't ex-
plain; but after the fire had blazed
up enough to light the surroundings a
bit, he went down upon his hands and
knees and began to give an imitation
of a man hunting for dropped piece
of money. cts sort o. queer. Jeanie's
been here, and the dogs been back and
across a couple O. times, as YOU can
see. But Fullerton hasn't crossed here.
There's only the one set O. tracks,"
We. made a wider search, with a
dead pine branch for a torch, but
found no other tracks in fact, the
gulch was quilted so deeply above and
below that there was no other prac-
ticable crossing-pla for a horse. If
jeanne had headed for the gulch-and
the hoof prints in the sand, and
Daddy's Identification of them seemed
to prove this past any question OF
doubt-she had headed it alone. But
why had she been riding alone into
the depths of this uninhabited noun
tain wilderness?
Calm and self-cOntained as he usual
ly was, / could see, or rather feel, that
Daddy Hiram was growing increasing
ly nervous as we pushed on. l didn't
blame him; so far from it, l was shar-
ing the nervousness in full measure.
What were we going to find at the
end of the trailI
1t must have been at least two miles
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Framed in the Square Of Daylight .
Could See Daddy Hanging over the
Mouth of the Pit.

overhead | could see Daddy hanging
over the mouth of the pit; saw him
and heard his shouted words: Freeze
to the ladder, bOy-Im a-cOInin' down
after yer"
l was freezing all right, in both
senses of the word, but | found breath
to warn him back, and presently man
aged to crawl up the ladder and roll
out upon the shafthOuse floor In
stantly the old man pOunced upon me,
buffeting, slapping and rubbing, maui
ing me worse than any Turkish-bath
pirate would have dared to. 1t was
keen torture, but it turned the trick,
and by the time was able to breathe
comfortably again, l had acquired a
beautiful spanked blush where l had
been blue-all but the great bruiSe
ring-shaped, where the suction pipe
had bit me.
OF course, Daddy was chOck full of
sympathy and concern, mixed up with
good bit Of curiosity.
zone of the suction pipes" l ex-
planned, beginning to crawl back into
my clothes. II was foolish enough to
get under it and it grabbed and held
me. If you hadn't stopped the pumps
I'd have been a gone goose. ! was Just
about all in, as it was.''
'Well, you found out the pumps are
suckin' all right anyhow" he re-
marked.
"They sure are; you'd think so if
you'd been where i was" Then / be-
gan to recall some of,those mixed and
mingled impressions 1 had gathered.
'What kind of soil is there under this
floor, Daddy?" I asked.
Huh !" he snorted what soil there
is on this here ledge you could mighty
near put In your eye, reckon. 'Tain't
nOthin' but rock, and blame hard rock,
at that"
'That was my notion. But if the
shaft is in rock, why did they box it
so strongly with timber? Surely there
wouldn't be any danger of a cave in
solid stone"
"Well, now, I'm dingedT' he re-
turned, musingly. Long as I've been
m0nkeyln round mines and such, 1t
never once come to me to wonder about
that !"
Speaking of the wooden bulkheading
renewed that other impression, or rath-
er two of them; one of having the feel
ing that l was shut in tight box at
the moment of the fiercest struggling,
and the other of fancying that 1 had
felt swirling thrush of the liquid Ice
as well as the sucking outrush. But
the recollection was so confused that
I attached no Importance to it, When
a man is fighting for his life ten or
twelve feet under water, pipe-dreams
are nothing to the things he can i'm
agine.
1t was while we were sitting at the
shaft-house door, hammering away at
the old puzzle of why the water level
never varied so much as a fraction Of
an inch in the shaft, in wet seasons or
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

upon which I was standing. That be-
ing the case, there was nothing for It
but to dive, feet foremost, and taking
deep breath, 1 let go Of the ladder
and began to swim downward. Almost
before realized it was fighting des-
perately for dear life. One of the big
suction pipes had taken hold Of foot
and leg, like a tentacle of an enOr-
nous octopus, and was unable to get
loose.
After all, it was Daddy Hiram who
saved my life. Suddenly the thunder
of the pumps, magnified a thousand
fold for me in that icy pit Of death,
stopped short and the mechanical
squid let go of my leg. With lungs
bursting 1 shot to the surface and
weakly clutched the ladder. Framed
| in the square of daylight dozen feet
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

was room for only one to work at a
time, 1 stood at his elbow and held the
torch. / don't know what he expected
to, find hidden under the slide, but /
do know what I was afraid he was
going to find.
After all, it was only flash in the
pan, so far as any dreadful discovery
was concerned. Inside Of five minutes,
Daddy, working like a man demented,
had dug the entire cave-in away, and
there was nothing to show for the
frantic shoveling-less than nothing.
Again, 1 don't know how Daddy felt,
but I'm sure l was able to breathe
better, the improvement dating from
the moment when it became apparent
that the earth heap had grown too
small under the shovel stabs to pos
sibly conceal human body.
The collie had followed US and
Daddy Hiram seOwled down at him.
eff that dog could only be like old
Gran'paw Balaam's donkey for a min
ute or So" he unused. "He saw her
go in there and saw her come out !;
likewise and the same, he must We
seen what she did after she come out.
Looks as if he wanted to talk and tell
us, don't he?"
Barney was certainly giving a good
imitation of that, or some other anx-
iety. He was frisking about and bark
ing, leaping up now and then to snap
at an imaginary fly in the air. Daddy
caught him by his lower jaw and held
CONTINUED on PAGES
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10
On 10 Mobile. Ala.

Louisville, KY, Jan. 7.-Or-
ganized Bible classes in the Bap-
fist Sunday Schools of Kentucky
are arranging to send a large
delegation to Mobile, Alabama,
February z. 8, 9, for the South
wide convention of Bible class
representatives ever held, it is
announced by the Baptists Head
quarters in this city. The rail-
roads have granted reduced
rates for the occasion, and Rev.
W. A. Gardiner, 2O5 E. Chest
nut, Louisville, State Sunday
School Secretary, has been man,
ed transportation manager for
Kentucky. Prof. ]. L. Hill,
Dean of Georgetown College,
Georgetown, and DR.. V. l. Mas.
tiers, editor of the Western Re-
corder, Louisville, are booked
for addresses at the convention.
The immediate aim of the con-
ventiod is to more fully enlist all
the Baptist forces of the South
in personal soul winning and all
other christian work in the local
churches. While there were
practically 25O,0OO baptisms
among Southern Baptists last
year this convention will seek to
arouse the local Bible classes in
the task of enrolling 100000
Baptists in winning at least one
soul to Christ during 1922.
At present there are thousands
of unenlisted Baptists in the
South, and there will be project
ed at the Convention a move
ment to conduct during the fall
a compile survey in every COM
munity in the South that will re-
veal this unchurched Baptists
and the possibilities for evangel-
ism among the unsaved, this sur
vey to be conducted by the mem
bers- of the organized Bible
classes.
The most experienced and sue
cessful Sunday School workers
Of the South have been engaged
to address the convention and
discuss class methods, while
some of the special speakers are
William Senninga Bryan, Roger
W. Babson, the noted statistician
and John D. Sage, president of
the Union Central Life Insur-
ance Company. Secretary of
Labor, John ]. Davis, has tenta-
lively accepted an invitation to
deliver an address.
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

1t is estimated that more than
S. per cent of all automobiles in
the United States are in towns
of less than 5000 population.
And that less than 9 per cent
are in cities with 100000 people,
and more.
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

Tax revenue from automobile
aud other motor vehicle registra-
ton for seven months in 1921 is
more than 100000 ahead of
the taxes paid in the whole of
1920.
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

The News $3.50 in Kentucky
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

CHAPTER I.-Under his grandfather
ytll, Stanford Broughton. society idler,
Ands his share of the estate, valued at
eomething like $4,000, lies in a safe re-
pository," latitude and longitude de-
scribed, and that is all. 1t may be identi-
NED by the presence nearby of a brown
haired blue-eyed girl, piebald horse,
eno dog with a split face, half black
and half white. Stanford at first regards
the beQuest as joke, but after considera-
non sets out to find his legacy.
The Adair County news., 1922-01-10

CHAPTER lion his way to Denver,
ne city nearest the meridian described
- his grandfather's will, Stanford hears
nom fellow traveller a story having to
DO with a flooded mine.
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CONTINUED on PAGE 8
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-13

Women's and misses lovely new
Velvet Hats in all colors including
black. trimmed with ribbons. coque
feathers and ornaments. Hand
some shapes are here for every
particular taste. On sale or
tomorrow. special at. 500. W.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-13
Correspondent Amazed at Dublin
Folk Who Parade Streets Despite
Warnings While Gun Fights Rage

crowds. Loitcrers gathered about
: the smoking gasflare of the newt
able faker. On a. street corner
group of musicians entertained a
crowd and the Gathering OF PEN
MES before them told of a free
hearted people.
Again in the distance there was
the cracking of rifles. No one
seemed to hear them except myself.
Another and yet another armored
car went shooting by.
On all sides there were signs OF
war and the noises Of war. but
Dublin seemed not to care.
Dublin Is blase to the terrors Of
war. For years there has been
spasmodic war in Dublin, and the
people are accustomed TO war. hence
they go about their business I'M
mindful of lurking death or danger.
Dublin is worn and tired OF war,
despite the apparent carefree air
of its people. No normal city can
Withstand years OF open and guer
rilla warfare without firing of II.
In the faces Of the people OF Dub
lin, beneath their smiles. are the
marks of a war-weary people. The
Irish people are a kind, soft-spoken
and gentle people. whose nature Is
in danger of being gradually warped
by continuous warfare.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-13

When winter comes you'll want to
be prepared with one or two suits
of these wool finish union suits with
mercerized stripe. band top. sleeve,
less, and knee length. Special
tome $1.49
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-13
BY EDNA HUBER CHURCH.

fsTAFF CORRESPONDENT l. N. sERvlcEl
DUBLIN, Oct.-'-The provisional
government expects attacks In va
rious parts Of the city and the pop
ulation is warned to keep off the
streets"
This Motive given the utmost pub
llcity caused d. thrill for me when
I landed in Dublin on a Saturday
night. 1t vas with the feeling Of
an adventurer that tImidly stepped
out Of my hotel after dinner.
expected TO find deserted streets, In
stead 1 found throngs. An armored
car, with rifles pointing and
bristling from all sides. swept up
the street. Somewhere in the dis
tance I heard the crack of a rifle
I felt an atmosphere OF war. The
citizens Of Dublin apparently felt
perfectly safe. for they went hap
PLY on their way.
Nenturing further into the heart
Of the city. found Dublin normal
city. with n normal Saturday night.
Young blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls
wandered aimlessly up and down
the streets. angling on the arms OF
b~awny Lo-harios. Housewives, bur-
dened with Saturday hight shopping,
pushed their way through the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-14
Undertaking
Community's Archives
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

"Can you tell NE the date the Bap.
list church burned-I mean. Of course,
the famous fire that all the Old inhub.
ltauts talk about?"
The librarian looked up from her
work, "No, can't tell YOU the OK.
act date, but | think can fud It for
you quickly, for we have the files of
the local paper since 1t was started.
Ny impression is that the Gre-the big
fire, as the. call twas about 1873.
and It won't be a very long Job to look
II up"
She went to the stacks In the rear
OF the library, pulled out a dusty
bound volume marked Herald, 1878"
and spread It open on the table. "Ah.
here II is she said, after minute
spent in turning over the yellow leaves.
The person who had inquired for
the date, member OF woman's
club OF the town, sat down and read
the article. This gives ne exactly
the Information l wanted" she sad.
II thought Il would" said the libra.
tian. "T fear most people do not an.
preciate how valuable Is the local
newspaper from. the viewpoint of To-
cal history. In fact, 1t seems to me
that 1t is about our only source. Only
when an event gets into print IS II
recorded and fled for refer
cree. Fllmsy as It Is, the printed
word Of today is the counterpart Of
the ancient stone inscriptions that give
us our records Of long.ago Yesterday.
consider the bound volumes Of our
local papers perhaps the most vain.
able possession OF this library"
There's at least one librarian who
Is giving Subscribe for Your Home
Town Paper Week." which win be oh.
served November 7.i2. the most hearty
Decking she can give.
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NORTH BENNINGTON


Miss Lillian laBau Is spending
the week end in Adams.
Mrs. Caroline Wellington is in
New York City for a few days.
Miss Evelyn Payne has returned
from spending several days in Troy.
I Miss Helen Walsh left Thursday
Tor Schenectady for few weeks
visit.
Mrs. Mary Cherboneau OF Manches
ter is caring for her sister, Mrs.
Charles Whitman
At Cole Hal, Monday. Jan. l6. Eva
Noyak in Wolves Of tho North. .
SERIAL DO or Die, and a comedy, .
Fred Warner has moved from so.
dom TO the Stone hbuse on Main
street vacation by Walter Whitman,
The Sophomore class Of the High
school and their friends, enjoyed
dance in Library hall Friday even.
.ns,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter WI tman
nave moved into the tenement over
tho Cash and Carry" store ON Main
street.
Archie Crawford I've baker. IS
having a vacation from his dut es
and is taking a trip to Bermuda. His
son Peter Crawford, manages the
bakery during his absence.
The Sunday services at the Meiho
DIST church Jan, IS, wi be at the
usual hours-Sunday sciool at 2 and
preaching service at 3 O'clock. The
pastor, Rev r. f. Benn will speak
on, The Gospel for All
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Con.
q egational church announce \ sup.
per in the church parlors, Tuesday
evening, Jan. II, at o'clock. An
Entertainment Is to follow the sup,
pet.
At tie Sunday morning service OF
the Congregat ona church at II
O'Clock, the pastor, Rev. w. r Ham.
M viii speak on The Perseverance
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Of the Saints" Sunday scohol at
ig'lo and Young Peoples meeting at
6, Topic, GOD in Our Lives"
Rev Waldo DeWolfe pastor Of the
Baptist church will speak on THE
Rise and Fall of Saul at the II
o'clock service Sunday, Jan. is. sun.
day school at Y. Young Poop els
meeting at o'clock. At the Z o'clock
praise service, the pastor viii preach
the first o. a series OF three sermons.
entitled when is a Man Lost9'
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] have young sister whom IL has
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