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The Washington times., 1922-11-25

The Story of an Adveaturer, Who,
Finding Body in the Woods, Had
the Identity of the Dead Man
''Wished Upon" Him.

The girl gave a little cry Of
horror.
You're not going! You cant
go like that! You'll take your
death of cold. Oh. please! We
live quite ciose--you must come
in and get dry"
The Fortune Hunter laughed.
81 don't take cold easily" his
careless gaze wandered over the
girls concerned face. and, real z
ing it's attraction, he added more
graciously: You're very kind
at any rate l Will help you home
with your brother?"
Eyes. / am sure we can never
thank you. You saved his life.
Oh, Tommy. what should we have
done # nobody had come along?"
The boy laughed harshly.
II should have drowned. that's
ALL" He began to hoist himself
up from the grass with difficulty
and the Fortune Hunter put
strong arm round him and lifted
him to his feet.
Lean on me-" he said. II IAN
carry you II you like. but -
Thank YOU. I can walk" was
the ungracious response. But he
was glad of a helping hand be-
fore they. had gone very far, ard
presently, without a word, the
Fortune Hunter picked him up
bodily and carried him the re-
mainder Of the way, the water
running from both of them IN
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flung his jacket aside and piung'
ed into the river.
The girl saw him and stretched
agonized hands to him. "Oh.
save him-save him! He can't
swim-heS cripple"
The Fortune Hunter was
powerful swimmer. and the dis
lance was nothing to him. but
when he reached the boy-a lad
about seventeenth was not such
an easy matter to bring him to
shore.
But he managed II at last, and
clambered out with the weed In
his hair and water dripping from
him.
The girl had regained her self.
control and brought the punt %
the bank, but she was very pale,
and her voice shook as she knelt
down beside the exhausted boy.
"Oh, Tommy! Oh, are you ali
right? Oh. TOMMY was 80 ter
rified ."
She tried to put her arms
around the boys drenched figure,
but he repealed her almost
roughly.
Shut up" he choked. Leave
me alone. II was your fault; you
ought TO have balanced the
beastly boat better"
He looked miserable enough
object as he sat there in the long
grass. shivering and shaking,
and the Fortune Hunter felt a
wave Of contempt as he picked
up the coat he had flung aside
and calmly proceeded to put 1t on
over his wet shirt.
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4 uncomfortable little rivulets, leav-
ing a trail along the dusty road.

uncomfortable little rivulets, leav-
ing a trail along the dusty road.
The Girls Home.
The girl followed silently. From
time to time she kept looking at
the Fortune Hunter with queer,
halfscared glances, and when
they reached the house she ran
ahead and opened the gate, stani
ing aside to let him pass. 1t was
an old-fashioned house. with ivy
colored walls and a garden slop.
ng down to the river. Tubs
filled with ivy geraniums Dor
dered the terrace. and striped
sun blinds were drawn over the
windows of the house.
The Fortune Hunter cast a swift
glance around him and wondered
II this was the turn in his luck
for which he had been waiting.
He followed the girl into the
hall. 1t was cool and shady and
rose scented. and he put his bur.
den down gently.
You'd better have a hot bath
at once" he said casually. "A
ducking doesn't hurt me, I'm used
to roughing it, but you ."
The boy limped away toward the
stairs without answering. he was
an ungracious sort of youth. and
his thin, delicate face was fretful
and ill.tempered.
The girl looked up at the For.
tune Hunter as he moved to the
door.
Ito Be Continued Monday
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over uncertainty; then, with lit
tie shrug Of the shoulders. he
pulled off the band and glanced
through the contents.
There, were a lot OF pencil notes
that seemed to relate to nothing
in particular. and jottings Of
various sums OF money: a few
letters. all in the same writing:
an old photograph of a girl with
hair tumbling about her shoulders.
and on the flyleaf of the pocket
book name. evidently the name
Of the dead man. written in
sprawly hand:
John Smith"
The Fortune Hunter smiled grim.
ly. He had known many John
Smiths" in his wander .ngs, but
seldom had 1t been the rightful
name of the man who claimed II:
and IL was with the idea OF find
ing some further means OF iden-
tif.cation that he unfolded one of
the letters and glanced casuauy
through II.
1t was obviously written by a
woman, and bore a date four
months previous:
MY dear john know YOU
will think that I have been
long time answering your last
letter, but now you will soon be
home again 1 am beginning to be
afraid.
"Ten years is a long time-and
/ was only eighteen when you
went away. Surprising you don't
like me any more? Supposing I
don't like you? Oh, know there
has been nobody else for either of
us since, but / am afraid all the
same.' was a child when you
went away, and now am a
woman. except when I look back
on the days with you and realize
how FAR away they really are.
You must be patient with me,
won't you? Don't expect too great
things from me at first. although
in spite Of the fear I am longing
to see you, and somehow IN my
heart think--I feel sure-it will
be all right. l shan't
write again-you will be home be-
fore you could get another letter.
So it's just au revoir, dear.
ANNE"
The Fortune Hunter shrugged
his shoulders and glanced again
at the heading on the paper:
Cherry Lodge, Somerton-on-
Thames"
Not so very far. away then! He
had a vague idea that he had
seen a s!gnpost to Somerton as
he had tramped the last weary
mile. He thrust the letters and
shabby case into his pocket and
turned onto the main road.
Somehow in my heart I feel
sure 1t will be all right" The
words echoed through his mind
rather piteously.
Well, whoever Anne" was, the
/ dread meeting with John Smith
would never take place now, for
John Smith lay dead in the silent
wood, with the tall bracken bend
ing above him.
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4 Seeker of Thrills Finds Himself
Mistaken for Another and Thereby
3 Becomes Enmeshed in a Maze
of Love and Mystery.
RUBY M. AYREs

. tramped England, waiting for
something to turn up, for he was
a firm believer in his luck, and
this was the first time he had
allowed himself even to consider
the possibility that 1t might he
going to fail him after all these
years.
He Was Hungry.
To begin with, he was hungry.
and hunger makes a man a pessi.
mist more quickly than anything
on earth, but there was a sort of
unwillingness In his heart to
break into that last eight-and-
twenty shillings until he was abb
solutely forced to do so.
When things were at their
worst something always turned
up-or such at least. had always
been the case with him, and with
the sort of feeling that he must
get away from his thoughts and
shake off his growing depression,
the Fortune Hunter jumped down
from the gate and started walk.
ing up the road again.
He was a tall man, and he
looked like a gentleman in spite
of the fact that his clothes were
shabby and his boots wanted
heeling. Yet there was an unde-
niable air of breeding about him,
and he walked with a fine, atm
letic swing, despite his WEAKNESS.
His hair was short cropped and
showed touches Of gray here and
there, and his face was burnt
ny cApOSUEe " ouii dliA WSothcts
For a fortnight he HAD slept
In woods or barns, or out in the
hedges; anything served him for
a bed; he had roughed it in all
four corners of the world, and
never quarreled with the pillow
provided by circumstance.
A little further on the road
forked; one way. leading straight
along. was evidently the main
road, and the other, turning into
d narrower path. ultimately end
ing in a shady wood.
The Fortune Hunter hesitated,
then turned into the wood. where
neither heat nor dust had pene-
trated. and everything was cool
and fresh.
He took off his hat and let the
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lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound advertised so much ana II did
SO many people good that / began to
take IL myself. am feeling fine now
and every one tells me they never saw
me looking 80 we'll. I live on farm,
do all my work, and have three little
C;rls 10 take care of. ! am recon-
mending this medicine to my friends
and know 1t will help them II they
nse Il like / do. Mrs. HERBERT
LONG, r. r. 3, Box z, Larwill, Indiana.
Many women keep about their work
when It is q great effort. Ther are
always tired out and have no ambi-
tion. When you are in this condition
give il prompt attention.
Take Lydia E. Pinkham' syeketable
COMPOUND, for it is especially 9Aapt-
I'D to correct such troubles.
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Copyright, 1922, BY
The Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.

CHAPTER I.
"HE Fortune Hunter sat at
the top of five-barred
- gate, his hat at the back Of
his head, idly tapping his rather
shabby brown boots with a rough
stick which he had pulled from
a hedge.
It was his eight.and.twentieth
birthday and he had exactly
eight-and-twenty shillings in the
world. Perhaps 1t was this fact
that was responsible for the pre-
occupied look on his face and his
total oblivion to the fact that the
top Of the gate was bordered with
barbed wire to the exceeding
danger Of his already well-worn
suit.
1t was a warm evening in
early September. The trees all
around We're beginning to be
family tinged with autumn col.
oring from the bed Of the river
which flowed by the other side of
the field at his back.
Extraordinarily shillings. The
Fortune Hunter took the coins
from his pocket, looked at them.
laughed and jingled them back
again.
He had been in many tight
corners during the past ten years
Of his rowing life. and had always
managed to struggle out Of them,
but today somehow his usual op-
timism seemed to have failed him.
Perhaps It was the silence all
around that depressed him. for at
any rate he sighed-a most in
usual thing for the Fortune
Hunter to do-and passed "a hand
wearily across his eyes.
For a fortnight now he had
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soft air beat on his forehead,
walking mechanically along until
suddenly he tripped and almost
fell over an obstacle half hidden
in the thick bracken overhanging
the narrow tootpath.
The Fortune Hunter recovered
himself and swore good-naturedly.
glancing. down to see what had
tripped him: then his face changed
and he caught his breath on a
muttered ejaculation as he saw
the huddled form Of a man lying
face downward amongst the green
underground.
Drunk" was his first thought,
and he half moved aside to pass
on. Then some inexplicable i'm.
pulse restrained him. and. stoop-
ing down, he pulled the tall brack-
en- aside. peering more closely at
the PROSTATE figure.
Another second and he was on
his knees beside it. his def brown
hands feeling under the coat for
q heartbeat, his tanned face pale
with terror. For the man was
dead.
The Fortune Hunter had seen
death too many times to be mis-
taken, but 1t gave him an un-
usual shock to have come across
II here in the heart of a shady
English wood.
The Dead Youth.
Turning the dead man gently
over on his back. he looked into
his face. Quite a young face It
was and not unlike his own. he
thought vaguely, with It's clean
shaven lips and smooth skin, from
which even death had not been
able to obliterate the tan.
He wore a rough tweed suit
that looked rather Colonial In cut,
and a soft hat lay a little distance
off in the bracken.
The Fortune Hunter rose 10 his
feet and stood looking around him
with q feeling of helplessness.
What ought he to do. Inform the
police he supposed. He turned
his eyes again to the still form
at his feet.
Whatever the cause of death, 1t
had come peacefully enough, for
the face was quite calm and I'M
lined by pain, and the lips a little
parted as II In sleep.
II only some one would come
along! The Fortune Hunter had
no idea how far he was from the
nearest village. but he was turn
ing to retrace his steps to the
main road. when he caught sight
Of a bulky package lying almost
at his feet.
He stopped and picked II up.
1t was a shabby leather pocket
book, held together with an elias.
tic band and bullying with papers
or letters.
The Fortune Hunter turned II
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ADVERTISEMENT.
ALWAYS TIRED
NO AMBITION
Nervous and Dizzy, Every
thing Seemed toWorry Me.
How l Got Well
Larwill, Indiana. back was
% bad I could not do my washing. l

was always ureo
out and had no
ambition, washer
vous and dizzy
and thing
seemed to worry
me and I had aw-
full pains in my
right side. / felt
badly about four
years and could
not do my work as
lit should h ave
|hoon done I saw
The Washington times., 1922-11-25
The Ancient Origin of Beer

THE Egyptians have the credit Of being the first
inventors Of beer They called it the Pclusau
liquor because It first made at Potassium. city
the mouth of the Nile, about 1000 years before the
Christian
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
PEACE is MADE AT
COAL CONFERENCE
Operators and Heads of Min
ers' Union Reach Agreement
at Meeting in Cleveland

Cleveland.-The soft coal strike is
virtually broken and the signing of
an agreement between the United
Mine Workers and operators, con-
trolling an annual output of 5000 900
tons will take place Immediately.
The signing of the contract will actu-
ally end the strike in part.
All details of the agreement were
accepted in principle by both miners
and operators, and the actual draft
of the contract was left to a sub
committee.
AS result of the progress made by
operators and miners, Governor Har-
ry l.. Davis of Ohio announced he
would call off the conference OF gov
ernors of five coal-producing states,
that was to have met here to consider
the strike situation He also an
nounced that he would withdraw Ohio
militiamen, who were sent into the
coal fields recently.
The terms of the settlement mark a
breakdown in the systems of collec-
tive bargaining that has grown up in
the soft coal industry since 1884. 1t
means the abandonment, for the pres
ent, at least, of the central competi-
tive field, comprising Western Penn
sylvania, Ohio. Indiana and Illinois,
as the basis for fixing wages in fields
outside the four states. In the past,
wage contracts have been made for
the central field, and those of outly-
ing districts have been fixed on the
central field scale
The new plan of settlement is a
fundamental change in the policy of
the United Mine Workers of America,
and for that reason the union policy
committee of 128 members was called
to pass on it.
No exact estimate Of the number of
miners who will be put back to work
under the settlement was Obtainable.
but varied between 10000 and $4,000
men
The agreement, it was said, would
provide for re-establishment of the
wage scales that we're effective last
April 1, and the new contract would
run until next March 81.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
BOMBS ARE HURLED
AT CROWDED TRAIN
Women and Children Chiefly
Victims in Outrage on the
West Shore Line

New York. - Bombs believed to
nave been hurled at a West Shore
passenger train by rail strikers near
Little Ferry, N. j., injured at least a
score of persons, most of whom were
women and small children. The train
was travelling at high speed to make
up lost time and many of the pas
sengers considered it a miracle that
no lives were lost
Three separate bombs were believ-
ed to have been thrown at the speed.
ing train, which was filled to the last
inch of standing room with passen-
gers who were returning to the CITY
after day in the country, and panic
ran through the cars as the glass
from the shattered windows flew over
the passengers, cutting and tearing
women and children. Curiously, few
of the injured were men.
The passengers said that the first,
bomb struck the third car of the train
with binding glare and a detona-
ton that rocked the coach heavily on
its springs. This was followed by a
gashing avalanche of glass, a splinter
ing of wood and the sound of cries of
the injured
A second bomb struck the fourth
car of the train with a detonation and
less damage. BY this time the mem
bers. of the train crew had become
alarmed, and they pulled the emer-
gency signal cord, so that the train
was halted about 1000 feet from a
trestle.
While the train was slowing down
a third bomb exploded a few hundred
feet behind, and passengers and mem
bers Of the train crew in the seventh
and last car, which was the smoker,
said that this seemed to them to have
been the largest and f11ost powerful of
all.
Ambulances and police reserves
we're rushed from here to the scene.
Police learned that shortly before the
local was due at Granton an automo-
bile, said to have carried three men,
was seen standing by the railroad
right of way.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
TWELVE Die IN
CANADIAN FIRE
Ten Small Children Victims of
Fierce Blaze at Jewish
Home for Boys
FIREMEN PROVE POWERLESS
Lighting Plant is Oestroyed-Rescu-
ers Work In Darkness-Bodiss of
caretaker, His Wife and Tots
Recovered From Ruins.

Shawbridge, Quebec.-Ten children
and man and woman were burned
to death in a fire which totally de-
stroyed the Jewish Boys Home here.
Collapse of the building where the
victims were helplessly trapped threw
the vicinity into darkness by destroy
ing local lighting plant and added
to the horror as rescuers fought vain
ly to aid the children. Only the fact
that a majority of the orphans slept
out of doors prevented their perishing
in the holocaust.
Twelve bodies were recovered. but
some could not be identified,
Flames enveloped the Jewish or
phanage and the towns inadequate
hre-fghting force was powerless to
check the progress of the fire, which
rapidly razed the building.
Stairs were cut of by fire and
smoke and many children were saved
in thrilling rescues, being lowered
from the third floor by ropes made
from blankets and sheets knotted to-
gether. These ropes were hurriedly
improvised as the flames swept rapid
ly through the structure, putting with
ering blasts of heat and suffocating
smoke upon the children who huddled
around the windows.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
ATTEMPT MADE
TO WRECK. TRAIN
Spikes Drawn From Rails on
the Atlanta Division of the
St. Louis Railway
TIES ARE FOUND ON TRACKS
TWO Engine Wipers Arrested, charaed
With Setting Fire To Main Central
70 Roundhouse - Railroad, Bridge Is
Damaged BY Double Explosion.

Chattanooga. Tenn.-.-A report has
reached here that an attempt had
been made to wreck. train on the
Atlanta division. of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway at
Chickamauga, Tenn. IL miles south
of here, the spikes having been drawn
from the rails. Officers and blood
hounds have gone to the scene.
Portland. Me.-Two engine wipers
employed by the Maine Central Rail-
road were arrested charged with at
tempted arson, following an early
morning fire in a roundhouse where
rs locomotives were stored. Raymond
Clark, the first man arrested, is al
legged to have admitted that he set
fire to the structure and to have i'm
plicated Ernest l.. Dinsmore, who
then was arrested. Clark denied any
knowledge of the origin OF the fire
which damaged a score OF locomo-
tives recently. 49,
A blaze in the general office build
ing of the Maine Central was subdued
by clerks.
st. Louis. = Police were investigat-
ing double explosion under a Wa
bash Railroad bridge in the northwest
section of the city. The structure was
damaged slightly. The blasts occur
red shortly before. a passenger train
crossed the bridge.
Three railroad ties were found
across the AissourfKansas and Tex
as main tracks at ST.. Charles, Mo-,
by fisherman who removed them
shortly before the Katy Limited"
from the southwest, sped past the
point, it was said.
Sandusky O.-Shots were exchang-
ed between railroad guards and eth
er strikers or strike sympathizers in
the New York Central Railroad yards
here. One guard was shot in the
hand. No arrests have been made as
yet.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
Black Bear Bumped BY Auto.

Clarksburg, W. Wa party of Sa-
lem business men, headed by Ernest
Randolph, stock buyer and oil devel-
oper of that city. have just returned
from an automobile tour in Randolph
and Pocahontas counties and report
the odd experience of humping into a
big black bear in a lonely mountain
road at night, IL miles east of Hut
louisville. in. Randolph county. The
animal, dazed by the impact and the
glare of the headlights, turned and
scampered into the woods.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24

Washington, d. C.-President Hard
ing laid the whole story of the rail
and coal strikers before the Ameri-
can people with a pledge that, what
ever the cost, Government by law will
be sustained.
Summing up before joint session
of Senate and House his efforts to-
ward industrial peace, the President
asserted that neither employers nor
employees could escape responsibility
for the present situation, and that
no small minority" would be permit
ted by armed lawlessness," CON
spiracy," or "barbarity and butchery"
to override the paramount interests
Of the public.
We must reassert the doctrine
that in this Republic the first obliga-
tion and the first allegiance of every
citizen, high or low, is to his Govern
ment," said the President mo mat
ter what clouds may gather, no mat
ter what storms may ensue, no mat
ter what hardships may attend or
what sacrifice may be necessary,
Government by law must and will be
sustained"
Wherefore 1 am resolved to use
all the power of the Government to
maintain transportation and sustain
the right of men to work"
To strengthen the hand Of the Ad-
ministration in dealing with the pres
ent and future coal troubles, Mr..
Harding asked for authorization of a
national agency to purchase, sell and
distribute coal, and for creation of a
commission to inquire into "every
phase of coal production, sale and
distribution"
NO similar request was made for
emergency rail legislation, the Presi-
dent asserting that, although the rail
road labor board had Inadequate au-
thority, other agencies of the Gov
ernment were armed with statutes TO
prevent conspiracy against interstate
commerce and to insure safety in
railway operation.
1t is my purpose" he continued,
to invoke these laws, civil and Grim
lnal, against all offenders alike"
Discussing the coal strike specifi-
cally, Mr.. Harding warned Congress
that although the skies now appeared
TO be clearing, more trouble can be
expected when wage contracts are re-
newed next April unless the Executive
is provided with adequate authority.
He declared that except for coal from
non-union districts "the country is at
the mercy of the United Mine Work
ers," and detailed how settlement Of
the present strike had been delayed
for many weeks although evidences
had come to the White House that in
many localities the workmen we're
anxious to return to their jobs"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
Men Held Under 1874 Blue Law

New neutrality-suspicious. and oper-
ators of the Gorge route merry-eo-
round, Old Mill and Seaplane at Cas-
cade Park have again been charged
with violating the act of 1894 in oper.
ating their amusement concessions on
Sunday. The informations were made
in the office of Alderman Mantz by a
representative OF the laymen's Sab.
bath observance committee. The per
sons charged with the offense, it is
said, will pay their fines.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-24
Newest eexser Also Rinnest

Yellowstone Park. Wyo. - Yellow
stones newest and biggest geyser de-
veloped when, without preliminary
manifestations, quiet mud pool near
the head of Obsidian creek sent a
column of steaming hot mud and
rocks 300 feet into the air. The erup-
tion lasted several minutes and is re-
peated at irregular intervals, each
time sending up 3OO-foot column of
mud and water, which is higher than
any of the other geysers in the park.