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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-13
U. S. Owes Millions to Citizens of Southern States Illegally Collected as Cotton Taxes Immediately After the Civil War
By HUGH w. ROBERTS
Washington Bureau, The Age Herald,
 800 Davidson Building,

800 Davidson Building
 Washington, January 12.-(Special) Again the south makes fight for return by the United states of ap- proximately $200. .OoO, 900 Illegally col- lected from cotton producers and other citizens, immediately after the Civil war, in violation of the consti- tuition of the United States.
 For taxes collected on raw cotton the United States owes money to citi- zens in the following states in the sums set out: Georgia, s11.s97.094,9s; Alabama. s10,SSs,072.f0; Louisiana, $10,09S,501: Mississippi ss.742995,93; ]; Tennessee, $7,s73, 460.71; Texas, $5, 5o2 40124; South Carolina, $4,172,- 42016; Arkansas. s2,555,63S,4S; North Carolina, $1.959.704.s7s Florida, s9lS,- 944.9S; Virginia, s65T,5sS.5S; New York, S867.942.68; Missouri. s69209s.S6; :; Kentucky, s55s.s27.45; Ohio. s447 127.1s; Illinois, $37s.i4442; Vermont, $16 26S.29; Indiana. s92.72722; Penn sylvania, $7s.535.06: Massachusetts. s66,s79.S1 Maryland, S51.S49.52: New Jersey, s3,656.42, and Rhode Island, $2424TS,
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Mobile. January 12-Attired only in his underclothing and walking out on the gangwaY leading up to his ship at s o'clock this morning, Cap tain R. l. Weldon, master of ths British barkeutine Whtson, shot and killed himself, his body topping into
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Restitution Expected

The present fight is based on the fact that some of these days the United States government will make restitution to the people illegally be- reft, in a period of sectional passion. Representative Scott of Tennessee. re- publican. has introduced a joint reso lution which would authorize the su- preme court to reopen the old case initiated in Memphis in 1887 by Will liam M. Harrington against Rolfe Saunders, at that time afcollector of internal revenue. By district judge the case was decided against the plaintiff. He took it to the supreme court and the verdict was against Harrington, the decision having di- vided the court equally. four and four Chief Justice Chase was absent on account of illness.
 The joint resolution of Scott sets ou the fact that the taxes were illegal and void because laid and collected in violation of the constitution of the United States in that they were direct taxes on the ownership of personal property without bethg apportioned among all states of the union on a basis of populationsR
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stay late at the Turkish yiIinge but Ria and Virginia plead that they must leave. Herb is exasperated af their departure. lilly Johnson escorts Gloria md Virginia home from tho party. On the way the conversation takes serious turn and the girls learn lilly Johnson is n college man with serious purpose in life. Gloria and Virginia hurry to "the lot' for Vfrginia's first jOb In the movies. The ansssing scenes grip Virgfnfa's atten- tion but Gloria leads her to the dress ing room to don their srease-paint for work. Someone calls Gloria.
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ON THE LOT

That was the assistant director, said Ria when she came back to where I was sitting helplessly wait ing her return. That looks better, she praised, scrutinizing my face with its covering of pale, yellow grease paint. Now pat your face gently so your makeup will stay on."
 Evidently this suited her. While instructing me she herself had been busy with her own makeup and l could not suppress an exclamation when found that she had been put ting a bluish-green tint over her eye lids.
 Here. Fix yours just like mine, she ordered and she handed me the greenish- tinted stick.
 Do you leave your cheeks like
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Many Former Flights

The present fight IS the successor of many that have preceded. All prior legislation has been lost not on &C.,
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the river. according to report filed at police headquarters No motive cles among friends of Captain Well don.
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sHIP CAPTATN sIIJCIDEs

i which showed that business had been
 entirely satisfactory throughout the past year.
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house.
He couldn't mistake 1t, wen at this
distance. And to Bruce.it had a singu-
lar effect Of unreality. The mountain
men did not ordinarily build homes Of
such dimensions. They were usually
merely log cabins of two or three low
er rooms and a garrett to be reached
with a ladder. The ancestral home OF
the ROsses, however, had fully a dozen
rooms, and it doomed to an incredible
size In the mystery Of the moonlight.
He saw quaint gabled roofs and far
spreading wings. And 1t seemed more
like q house Of enchantment, a Struc-
ture raised by the rubbing of a magic
lamp, than the work OF carpenters and
masons.
Probably its wild surroundings had
a great deal to do with this effect.
There were no roads leading to Trails
End. Material could not be carried
over it's winding trails except on pack
animals. He had a realization OF tre-
mendous difficulties that had been con-
Quered by t~ireless effort, of long
months of unending toll, OF exhaust
less patience, and at the end-a dream
come true. All Of It's lumber had to
be hewed from the forests about. It's
stone had been Quarrfed from the rock
cliffs and hauled with infinite b
over the steep trails.
He understood now why the Turn
ers had coveted 1t. 1t seemed the
acme of luxury to them. And more
clearly than ever he understood why
the Rosses had died, sooner than re-
linQuish 1t, and why It's NusurpatiOn by
the Turner's had left such q debt OF
hatred to Linda. All men knO that
the love of home is one OF the few
great impulses that has made toward
civilization, but by the same oxen 1t
has been the cause of many wars. Fer
haps the day is coming when this love
will die in the land, but with it Will
die the strength to repel the heather
from our walls, and the land Will not
be worth living In, anyway. But 1t
was not dead to the mountain people.
No really primitive emotion ever Is.
The Rosses had known this instinct
very well. As all men who are strong
thewed and OF real natural virtue, they
had known pride Of race and name.
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XIX

AS Bruce hurried up the hill toward
the Ross estates. he made a swift CAL
culation Of the rife shells in his peck
ct. The gun held six. He had perhaps
fifteen others In his pockets, and h,
hadn't stopped t o replenish them from
the supply Elmira had brought. He
hadn't brought Dawes rifle with him,
but had left 1t with the remainder OF
his pack. He knew that the lighter he
travelled the greater would be his
chance of success.
Obviously the girl had written when
the clan was closing about the house,
and finding her in the front room,
there had been no occasion to search
the other rooms and thus discover it.
The girl had kept her head even in
that mOment of crisis. A wave OF ad-
miration for her passed over him.
And the little action had set an ex-
ample for him. He knew that only
rigid ~self-contrOl and cOol-headed
strategy could achieve the thing he had
set out to do His impulse was to
storm the door, to pour his lead
through the lighted windows but such
things could never take Linda out OF
Simon's hands. Only stealth and eau
ton, not blind courage and frenzy,
could serve her now. Such blind
killing as his heart prompted had to
wait for another time.
He knew only the general direction
Of the Ross house where Simon lived.
Linda had told him 1t rested upon the
crest of a small hill. beyond a ridge
Of timber. The moonlight showed him
q weil-beaten trail. and he strobe
swiftly along it.
He had a vague sense Of familiarity
with this winding trail. Perhaps he
had tOddled down 1t as a baby, per-
haps his mother had carried him along
it on a neighborly visit to the ROsses.
He went over the hill and pushed his
way to the edge of the timber. All
at once the moon showed him the
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SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER L-At the death of HIS foster
father. Bruce Duncan, in an eastern city,
receives q mysterious message, sent. by,a
Mrs. Ross. summoning him peremptoriiy
to southern Oregon-to meet LINDA.
CHAPTER u.-Bruce has vivid but baf-
Sing recollections of his childhood in an
~orphanage, before his adoption by New
ton Duncan. with the girl Linda.
CHAPTER III.-At his destination,
Trails End, news that a message has
been sent to Bruce is received with
marked. displeasure by a man introduced
to the reader as Simon" :
CHAPTER IV.-Leaving the train,
Bruce is astonished at his apparent IA.
miliarity with the surroundings, though
to his knowledge he has never been there.
CHAPTER V.-Obedient to the message.
Bruce makes. his way to Martins cross
roads store, for direction as to reaching
Mrs. Ross cabin.
CHAPTER Won the way. ".simon"
sternly warns him to give up his quest
and return East. Bruce refuses.
CHAPTER VII.-Mrs. Ross. aged and
tnfirm, welcomes him with emotion. She
nastens him on his way-the end of Pine
Needle Trail"
CHAPTER VIII.-Through a country
AAAAAA
nnds his childhood playmate. Linda.
CHAPTER K.-The girl tells him of
wrongs committed by an enemy clan on
her family. the Rosses. Lands occupied
by the clan were stolen from the BOSSES.
and the family, with the exception OF
Aunt Elmira MRS. Ross and herseiI'
wiped out by assassination. Bruces "a
Their, Matthew Folger. was n or the
victims. His mother had fed with Bruce
and Linda. The girl. while small, had
brought to the mountains. Linda's father
had decided his lands to Matthew tolger,
but the agreement, which would con1ute
the enemy's claims to the property. has
been lost.
CHAPTER x.&Bruce's mountain. blood
responds to the call of the blood-feud,
CHAPTER XI.-A giant tree. the Sen
tinel Pine, in front OF Linda's cabin,
seems to Bruce's excited Imagination to
be e~ndeavorins to convey a message.
CHAPTER XU.-Bruce sets out in
search of a trapper named Hudson: a
witness TO the agreement betWeen Ldnoas
father and Matthew Folger.
CHAPTER xIII.-A gigantic grizzly,
known as the Killer, Is the terror OF the
vicinity, because of his size and ferocity.
CHAPTER XIv.-Dave Turner, sent by
Simon, brides Hudson to swear falseiy
concerning the agreement, II 0rought &c
light. he knowing it's whereabouts.
CHAPTER XV.-Hudson and Dave visit
the formers traps. A wolf, caught in one,
is discovered by the Killer. Disturbed al
his feast. the brute strikes down Hudson
Bruce. on his way to Hudson. shoots ano
wounds the Killer, driving him from MS
victim. Hudson, learning Bruce's iden-
tity. tries to tell him the hiding place OF
the agreement, but death summons MIN.
CHAPTER XVI.-Simon, believing Bruce
knows where the is concealed,
lays plans to trap him..
CHAPTER xvII.-Dave decoys Linda
and Aunt Elmira from their home. The
man insults Linda and is struck down
by the aged woman. Elmira.s son mas
mand, after securely binding the des-
perado, Linda leaves them alone.
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Continued from last week.

His belt. quick! the wOman cried.
No longer was her voice that of de-
crepit age. The girl struggled with
herself, wrenched back her Self-cOn-
troll, and leaped to obey her aunt. They
snatched the mans belt from about his
waist, and the women locked 1t swiftly
about his ankles. With strong, hard
hands they drew his wrists back OF
him and tied them tight with the long
bandanna handkerchief he wore about
his neck. They worked almost in ST.
lence, with incredible rapidity and
deftnesS.
The man was waking now, stirring
In his Inconsistencies, and swiftly the
old woman cut the buckskin thongs
from his tall logging boots. These also
she twisted about the wrists, knotting
them again and again, and pulling them
so tight they were almost buried In
the lean flesh. Then they turned him
face upward to the MOON.
The two women stood an instant.
breathing hard. "What now?" Linda
asked. And a SILVER of awe went over
her at the sight of the woman's face.
"Nothing more, Linda" she an
swered, In a distant voice Leave
Dave Turner to me-"
1t was a strange picture. Woman.
hoOd-the s~oftness and tenderness
which men have learned TO associate
with the name-seemed fallen away
from Linda and Elmira. They were
only avengers-like the she-bear that
fights for her cubs or the she-wOlf that
guards the lair. There was nc more
mercy In them than In the females OF
the lower species.
Dave awakened. They saw him stir.
They watched him try TO draw his
arms from behind aim. 1t was just a
faint, misunderstanding pull at first.
Then he wrenehed and tugged with all
his strength, Topping strangely In the
dirt. The effort increased until 1t was
some way suggestive of an animal In
the death struggle fur bearer dying
In the trap.
Terror was upon him. II was In his
wild eyes and his moonlit face 1t was
ia the desperation and frenzy of his
struggles. And the two wOmen saw
it and smiled into each others eyes
Slowly his efforts ceased. he lay
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AopuryqnT pY A1UtS SS~"pt
still in the pine needles. He turned
his head. first toward Linda, then to
the i~nscrutable, dark face of h OLD
woman. AS understanding came TO
him. the cold drops emerged upon his
swarthy skin.
"Good G-dw he asked. What are
you going to dO?"
sI'm going back" Linda answered.
"You had some other purpose in bring
ing me out here-or you wouldn't have
brought Elmira, too. Tn going back
to wait for Bruce"
"And you and / will linger here,
Elmira told him. I'VE have many
things to say to each other. We have
many things to do. About nay Abner
there are many things you'll want to
hear of him."
The last vestige Of the mans spirit
broke beneath the words. Abner had
been old Elmira's SOMA youth VINO
had laughed often, and the one hope
of he old woman's declining years.
And he had fallen before Dawes am
bush in a h~alf-forgotten fight of long
years before.
The man shivered In his bonds. Lin
da turned to go. The silence OF the
wilderness deepened about them. "oh,
Linda, Linda" the man called. Don't
leave me. Don't leave me here With
herl" he pleaded. s"Please-piease
don't leave me In this devils powers
Make her let me 60"
But Linda didn't seemed to hear.
The brush cracked and rustled; and
the two-this dark-hearted man and
the ayenger-were left together.
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and it had been a task worth while to
build this stately house on their far
lying acres. They had given their
fiber to 1t freely; no man who beheld
the structure could doubt that fact.
They had simply consecratedy their
lives to 1t; their one Work by which
they could show to all who came after
that by their w hands they had
earned their right to live.
Bruce saw the broad lands lying I'M
der the noon. There were hundreds
of acres OF alfalfa and clover to fur
nish hay for the winter feeding. There
We're wide, green pastures, ensilvered
by the moon, and fields Of corn laid
out In v rows. The old appeal of
the soil, an instinct that no person Of
Anglo-Saxon descent can ever COM
pletely escape, swept through him.
They were worth fighting for, those
fertile acres.
Not for nothing have a hundred gen.
eratiOns of AnglO-SaxOn people been
tlllers of the soil. They had left q
loYe of 1t TO Bruce. He knew what
1t would be like to feel the earth's
pulse through the handles Of a pillow, to
behold the first start Of green things
in the spring and the golden ripening
in fall to watch the flocks through the
breathless nights and the herds feed
Ing on the distant hills.
Bruce looked over the ground. He
knew enough not to continue the trail
farther. The space In front was bathed
In moonlight, and he would make the
best kind Of target to any riieman
watching from the windows Of the
house. He turned through the coverts,
seeking the shadow OF the forests at
n side.
BY going In a quartering direction
he was able to approach within two
hundred yards OF the house without
emerging into the moonlight. At that
point the real difficulty OF the stalk
began. He lowered In the shadows.
then slipped a hundred feet further
to the trunk Of q great oak tree.
He could see the house, much mora
plainly now. True. 1t had suffered neN-
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forms were the symbols. II he could
only see clearly But 1t seemed to him
that passion blinded his eyes. More
and more he realized that the pines.
like the stars, were living symbols or
great powers who lived above the
world, powers that wouldk speak to
men if they would but listen long and
patiently enough, and in whose creed
lay happiness.
The last afternoon he travelled hard.
He wanted to reach Linda's house be-
fore nightfall. But the trail was too
long for that. The twilight fell to
find him still a weary two miles dis
tant. And the way was quite dark
when he plunged into the south pas
ture Of the Ross estates.
Half an hour later he was beneath
the Sentinel Pine. He wondered why
Linda was not waiting beneath 1T; In
his fancy, he thought of 1t as being
the ordained place for her But per-
haps she had merely failed to hear his
footsteps. He called into the open
door.
Linda he said, "I've come back"
No answer reached him. The words
rams through the silent rooms and
echoed back to him.. He walked over
the threshold.
A chair In the front was turned
over. His heart leaped at the sight
of it. Linda h~eicalled In alarm,
"where are you? It's Bruce"
He stood an instant listening, Q
great fear creeping over him. he
| called once more. first to Linda ana
then to the old Then he
| leaped through the doorway.
The kitchen was similarly deserted.
| From there he went TO Linda's room.
Her coat and hat lay on the bed. bit
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CHAPTER XVIII

The homeward journey over the
ridges had meant only pleasure to
Bruce. The days. had been full OF
little n~erve-tingfing adventures, and
the nights full OF peace. And beyond
all these, there vas the hope OF seeing
Linda again at the end of the trail.
1t was strange how he remembered
her kiss. He had known other kisses
in his days-being a purely rational
| and healthy young man-but there had
been nothing of immortality about
| them. Their warmth had died quickly,
| and they had been forgotten. They
were just delights of moonlight nights
and nothing more. But he would wake
up from his dreams at night to feel
Linda's kiss upon his lips. To recall
it brought a strange tenderness a
softening of all the hard outlines Of
his picture of life.
But aside from his CONCENTRATIONS
of Linda, the long tramp had many de-
lights for him. He rejoiced in every
manifestation of the wild life about
him. whether it was a bu~shy-tailed old
gray squirrel, watching him from a
| tree limb, a magpie trying its best to
insult him, or the feeting glimpse of a
deer In the coyerts. But he didn't see
the Killer again. He didn't particularly
care to do SO.
Both days of the journey home he
wakened sharply at dawn. The cool,
morning hours were the best for travel.
He was of naturally strong physique,
and although the days fatigued him un-
| m%ercifully, he always Weakened re-
freshed i'm the dawn. At noon he would
stop to lunch, eating a few pieces OF
jerkey and frying a single f1apjack In
his skillet. And usually, during the
noon rest, he would practice with his
rifle.
He knew that if he were to fight the
Turner's. skill with a rifle was an alb.
solute necessity; such skill as would
have felled the grizzly with n shot
instead of administering merely a flesh
wound. accuracy to take off the head
Of a grouse at fifty yards and at the
same time, an ability to swing n
aim the weapon la the shortest posi-
Bile space of time. The only thing that
| retarded him was the realization that
he must not waste too many car
tridges. Elmira had brought him only
a small supply.
He would walk all afternoon-going
somewhat easier and resting more Of
ten than In the morning; and these
were the times that he appreciated a
fragment of jerked<yenisOn. He would
halt just before nightfall and make MS
camp.
! And the best hour of all was after
his meal, as he sat in the growing
shadows with his pipe. At this hour
he felt the spirit of the pines as
before. He knew their great, brood
ing sorrow, their infinite wisdom, their
inexpressible aloofness with which
they KEEP watch over the Wilderness.
The smoke would drift about him in
soothing clouds the glow of the Goals
was red and warm over him. He could
think then. Life revealed some of its
lesser mysteries to him. And ne be
gan to glimpse the distant CLEAN OF
even greater truths, and sometimes II
seemed TO him. that he could almost
catch and hold them. Always 1t was
some message that the pines were try
ing TO tell him-partly in words they
made when their limbs rubbed togeth-
er, partly In the nature of a great ale
CORY Of which their dark. impassiye
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There Was Nc Linda to Stretch Her
Arms to Him.
there was no Linda to stretch her arms
to him. He started to go out the way
he had come, but went instead to his
own room. A sheet Of note-paper lay
on the bed.
1t had been scrawled hurriedly; but
although he had ever received a writ
ten word from Linda he did not doubt
but that 1t was her hand:
''The Turner's are coming-I caught
q glimpse of them on the ridge. There
is no use of my trying to resist, so I'll
wait for them In the front room and
maybe they won't find this note. They
will take me to SimOn's house, and
l know from its structure that they
will lock me in an interior room In
the. east wing. Use the window on that
side nearest the north orner My one
hope is that you will come at once to
save me-"
Bruce's eyes leaped over the page;
then he thrust it into his pocket. He
slipped through the ear door Of the
house, into the shadows.
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CONTINUED on page y
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-07
MAXVELLCLOSED
CARSINDEMAND
Production Of Concern Being
Further Increased, Accord
ing to Local Dealer.

Further increases in the produc.
ton Of closed car bodies have re-
Gently been made by the Maxwell
Motor Corporation through added
manufacturing facilities recently
Installed in the company's large
body plant in Dayton. Ohio.
In the one year which these
closed cars have been on the mar.
ket the company has been con-
fronted with a demand never fully
satisfied, even though production
has been several times increased,
according 10 the statement of D.
l.. Cordray. local Maxwell dealer.
The recent addition to manufac.
turing equipment in the Dayton
plant now give the Maxwell or
ganization full opportunity to
carry out the closed car produc.
ton schedule to which It has aim
ed for several months.
"The preference for the good
Maxwell coupe and sedan has
steadily increased since these
cars were introduced ten months
ago." said Mr.. Cordray. At no
time has the factory been able u
keep pace with the lusistent de.
mand. Greater production was
several times achieved, but buy
ers multiplied at an ever increas.
ing rate.
at is not difficult to see why
the good Maxwell coupe and sedan
were met with an instantaneous
display Of approval. For the first
time a line Of closed cars Of mod
crate price offered all the utility
and all the luxury Of much more
costly vehicles-beautlful, per.
manent closed-car bodies Of steel
a quietness possibly only with
solid construction, broadcloth W.
holstery of highest grade, finish
ed Inside and out to de luxe clos.
ed car-standards.
elm shorf time motorists who
had first been impressed by the
beauty aud luxurious appoint,
ments Of the good Maxwell be.
came equally impressed by its re.
liable economical performance
and rugged dependability. Even
during the summer months there
was a steadily growing demand
gfor these cars, and the Maxwell
organization exceeded its fondest
expectation for sales.
THE unprecedented demand
and the attendant production In
creases brought about manufactur
ing economies. These savings,
made possible by the buying nc
ton Of an eager and discrIminat.
Ing public. were then passed on