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l--Centinued.

The portage was firm ice, although
It offered no foundation for a railroad
bed. Ii ran between two openings in
the low bluffs, and the store was Wis.
ibie from the farther shore.
The icy blasts pierced through Will
tens fur hood and mackinaw as If
they had been cotton. His feet seemed
like foreign bodies attached to his
legs up which he could feel the numb
ness creeping by inches toward his
body. And when at last he reached
the portage he looked out with in
credulity toward the opposite shore,
seeing only a pickering line Of
shadows through the slit between his
frozen eyelids
Resolutely ciasplng the frozen form
with his right arm. he stepped out
upon the surface. The wind, which
blew through the gap with hurricane
violence at almost all times, had
swept the ice as a broom might sweep
a rink, In enormous circles, CLASSY and
Arm, with whirling snow-piles round
them. Wilton could progress only by
inches, fighting the full blast Of the
gale, and seeing the line of his route
only In fractions OF seconds.
He saw the bluffs In front of him,
and the opposite shore nearing. And
he fought ~furiOusly against the creep
ing numbness, knowing that each sec
ond counted for victory. 1t was per-
haps a hundred feet farther. He
opened his eyes an instant. Eighty now
seventy, perhaps; n last effort
to cross the portage.
Fifty feetl With all of will and
consciousness that remained Wilton
set his face resolutely toward his
landing place, and strobe on into the
bank of snow piled up by the wind be-
meath the shelter of the bluffs. His
feet sank through the cracking sur
face, he struggled shoulder-deep TO
win the last lap Of the way. And Of
a sudden the ice broke under him and,
twenty-five feet from the shore, the
snare of Big Muskeg held him.
Instinctively he sought to gather
purchase from the sides of the sink
hole into which he had fallen. The
tourniquet-stick dragged through the
yielding snow, the elbow Of the arm
that held Joe's body rested upon the
ice. One instant he buoyed himself
by this means over the peaty slush
that sucked at him beneath. Then,
with a last cry that sounded above the
roaring of the gale, he yielded. And,
clutching Joe's body to his own. Will
ton wen down.
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The Big Muskeg
By
VICTOR ROUSSEAU
rrwna9TsSss nrAr

I these comprised the girls experience
Of the outside world. She helped her
father In the store, and was a capable
judge Of mink and muskrat. She
could bring down a moo at a thou
sand yards, and guide a canoe down
Horseshoe rapids.
She had gone to the Indian camp.
five miles away, with medicine for a
sick papOOse. at daybreak, leaving
her father In the care of Jules Half
head, the MuskegOn, a deaf mute who
worked for the factor during intervals
of wandering in the bush, trapping.
She did not like to leave him, for he
had become more moroSe since his Ill
ness, and his mind seemed affected.
When at last she entered the factors
room above the store, ~radiating youth
and health, she saw with consterna-
ton that he was lying weakly on the
pillow, and breathing as heavily as on
the day of his stroke.
You're feeling no worse, father?'
she asked, sitting down beside him
and taking his hand In hers.
LIN no WORST, Sdiu lne luClOT,
thickly. you took the letter."
ut will leave tonight. But l wish
you had let me write that you are i'll.
The company would bring you to Win
nipeg. They a do wonders at the
hospital there. and you'd soon recover
the use Of your limbs"
Ever since his stroke the factor had
dragged his right leg, and his right
arm hung by his side. He hardly ever
left his bed, and then only to sit,
wrapped In his caribou robe, staring
out through the window at the port
age.
"Tll no go to Winnipeg" said Nc
Donald. "Tll just stay here until I'm
better. Pm thinking the Dog Tooths
will be bringing in their peltries next
week. I'm thinking I'll no buy De-
cember skins this winter"
Il was thinking the same The fall
was too late; they won't be purcbas-
able till the middle of next month.
But the Dog Tooths will want debt"
They'll get no debt" said McDOn-
aid. See to II, Molly! But l suppose
the squaws will get on the soft side Of
ye, and 1t takes a man to handle them.
I'll have to get WELL" he continued,
speaking with feverish energy.
His mind, which had turned from
one Idea to another, running from its
fears, now leaped upon them. "What'll
We do, MollyF" he demanded roughly.
'There, my lass, | didna mean to put
1t to you like that. But whereW We
go If dinna?"
Don't let us think of that, father"
AYE, but We Gamma stay here. l
should have spoken before" In his
distress he fell into his native speech.
"Mony a NIGHT I've laid awake think
ing on 1t, before / had the stroke, In
the windy wacht here. l thocht I'd
brocht We up %unspotted frae the warld.
And moo"
She laid her other hand on his. "If
the worst should happen, l can take
care Of myself. Don't fear for me, IA
ther," she said.
IF We could have the store. That'd
be best. But the company wouldna
have a woman factor. The company's
conservative. And the old store'li
last out my days and yours, in spite
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p II
The Imprint In the Snow.

Mcdonald, the factor, lay OF his bed
IN an upstairs room of the house
whose lower story was the trading
store, and looked out through the win
dow over the swamp beneath. 1t was
two weeks since Molly had found him
lying with closed eyes on the floor,
with the flushed face and heavy breath
Ing of apoplexy.
For two and twenty years MELON
aid had lived there, serving the COM
pany. Little had changed during that
time. The chief change had been in
himself and, since this was to be meas
ured rather by isolated happenings
than the steady progress of time, Nc
Donald could have counted on the fin
gers OF m hand the scale-marks Of his
life.
The little finger was his arrival at
Toronto from Aberdeen. drawn to the
New World by stories of life In the
service of the famous company. The
third finger a Mary.
He had mel her In Toronto, soon
after his arrival in Canada. and she
had been born In his own town. though
he had not known her there. Molly
knew vaguely that he had championed
her In trouble that had come upon
her, for which she was not to blame.
There had been a blackmailer. a brawi.
a knife-thrust. a blow struck wildly
with some implement a dead man. a
white-faced girl clinging to him, and
then the silence of the starlif streets.
Donald Mcdonald still bore ths-scar
OF a ripping wound along his right
forearm.
That had been their courtship. The
next day Mcdonald had married her,
and brought her to the trading post.
Six months later he was In charge OF
It. They had been happy during the
year that passed before he laid her
under the tamaracks, and after that
Donald Mcdonald had lost all wish "a
return to Aberdeen or 10 pursue al
venture farther.
Mary had been the third finger vn
the hand Of McDonnld's destiny. and
her death wns the middle one. The
first was Molly. and II was about her
that his thoughts clustered rternaliy.
Two IS AZ the mission school
y Moose Lake. q winter In Winnipeg
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Of Joe Bostock's folly. That's whai
Mr.. Bowyer called II when he was
here for the moose In October. Joe
Bostockn never cross Big Muskeg.
And II he could, where'd he get his
freight and p~assengersf
III ever this country's opened up.
Tom Bowyer will put his own line
through. He was telling me so.
But there's naething here but the
moose and caribou and the Indians.
It's always been that way 1t always
will be so"
He caught her by the sleeve. .Yell
no sec viii Carruthers again!" he
shouted.
"Im not likely 10. unless he comes
this way" she answered In a con-
strained voice. dreading the outbreak
Of violence which she knew would fol
low.
AYE. but he'll be here. ken the
mon and his kind. The sight Of a
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Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
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1t was only the contraction OF the
frozen sinews of his fingers that gave
him his hold on Joe's body.
1t was then that, in her horror,
Molly recognized Wilton. She crept
toward the break, and lay down on the
Ice, cropping toward him with her
hands. She shouted TO him to hold fast
and, finding hat he was already I'M
conscious, crept cautiously nearer over
the cracking surface.
Then she saw what II was that Will
ton had been carrying, and she recog>
nized Joe. Stunned momentarily by
the shock, she nerved herself to the
task of rescuing the living. She still
crept forward until the upper part OF
her body extended across the break.
She placed her hands beneath Wllton's
shoulders and tried to lift him.
1t was a task beyond her powers.
AS she strained to 1t, suddenly the Ice
broke all about her, and in a moment
she was fioundering beside Wilton in
the water.
AT this place the underbed of the
portage was of peat mixed with sand,
covered with water rather than slime.
Molly's feet touched bottom. The wa
ter was only shOulder-deep. With
quick resource she managed to draw
her feet up from the swamp and to
drag Wilton forward a pace or two,
thus freeing him from the clutch Of
the muskeg. And now she felt firm
sand under her. She continued to
drag him toward the shore and, as
they moved, Joe's body, still clutched
In the set of Wilton's stlffened fingers,
slid grOtasquely over the surface Of
the ice beyond.
And somehow, breaking the rotten
ice In front Of her body as she moved,
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"6owyer got no further, for
Weton's fist shot out and landed
fairly on kis mouth"

cTo BE CONTINUED,
Not Becoming. Perhaps.
No woman Is so angelic as TO prefer
q hale tt q hat.--London Opinion.
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Moved, the Girl Succeeded in Get
ting Wilton to the Shore.
the girl succeeded in getting Wilton to
the shore. From that point. half
dragging and half carrying him over
the snow, she reached the store at
last.
She pried the stiff hand from Joe's
body. That was the hardest Of her
efforts. Molly left Joe's body upon the
threshold and got Wilton into her lit
tie o behind the store. She raised
him on the bed and laid him down, his
head upon her pillow.
Her teeth were chattering from the
deadly cold that gripped her, and her
own hands were numb, but she a
aged to strip off Wilton's socks, his
hood, mackinaw and sweater. His
face was not badly frozen, but his
hands and feet were marble white.
Suddenly the girl saw the blood that
discolored the sleeve of Wilton's
shirt. She ripped the sleeve from the
shoulder. She saw that the arm was
broken and-that a bullet, entering be-
hind, had passed obliquely out, leav-
ing a small but not dangerous wound.
The blood had long since ceased to
flow and ciotted the wound in a con-
gealed, frozen mass.
The danger from the frostbite was
the more immediate. Molly took snow
from the threshold and began TO rub
his face, his feet and his fingers. For
nearly an hour the girl persisted. never
ceasing her efforts, In spite of her
WEAKNESS, and the thawing, dripping
clothes about her. And at last the
white skin began to be suffused with
an angry red.
Then she washed away the clotted
blood from the arm and nerved her.
self to the task that must be per-
formed. At the Moose Lake mission
she had nursed an Indian with a frac-
tured leg, set by the superintendent,
and this experience was all she had to
go by. But the break was a simple
one. She brought the edges Of the
bone together. made splints from
pieces Of p~acking-case and wound the
whole tightly with cloth smeared with
bears fat. Then she heated some
broth and poured II, drop by drop,
down Wilton's throat.
When she could do no more she took
her clothes out of the room and changed
in another. kept for travellers. separat-
ed by a thin partition Of pine planks.
She had just finished when she
heard her father shuffling down the
stairs. II was the first time he had
left his bed. The girl ran to the door
In fear.
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Her Reason.

Mary Louise and her little friend
had had a falling out. Explanations
were hard to obtain, but the trouble
finally came out.
"What was the trouble between you
and Hazel?" Mary Louise's aunt asked
her.
Jaw, Hazel flrted with a boy In the
park" replied Mary Louise.
"Tll bet you Airted, too said the
aunt.
mo, / didn't either. Mamma was
along
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Art crushed TO Earth.

Stanislaw SZukalski, a New York
sculptor, marrles a Chicago girl and
makes her live on o pig farm.
"Sculpturing isn't very profitable"
he says "but those who raise pigs
make q lot Of money"
Thus, once more, Ia art crushed to
earth.-Washington Times.
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MOLLY v WILTON.

SYNOPSIS. - Looking over Big
Muskeg, a seemingly impossible
swamp in the path Of the Missa-
tibi railroad. Joe Bostock, builder
Of the line, and Wilton Cairuthers,
chief of engineers, are considering
the difficulties. A rife shot instant
ly kills Bostock and breaks Car
ruthers' arm. Handicapped as he
is, Carruthers determines to carry
the body to a station OF the Hud-
sons Bay company, where one Nc
Donald is the factor.
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cutleurs sooth.s Baby Rashes

That itch and burn, by hot baths
of Cuticura Soap followed by gentle
anointings of Cuticura Ointment.
Nothing better, purer, sweeter, espe-
ciaIly II a little Of the fragrant Cuti-
cura Talcum Is busted on at the hn.
ish. 25c each.-Advertisement.
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Mo one.slded Prosperity.

Lex him who expects n class Of so
ciety 70 prosper In the highest degree.
while the other 10 in distress, try
whether one side of his face can smile
while the other Is plnched.-Fuller.
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"Vhat q lot OF antique furniture the
Scadbys have "Not nearly so much
as they think they have"
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Get Rid of Ants.

II ants get In an Ice chest, put q
can under each leg nearly filled with
water move the chest away from wall
and no more ants will bother you.
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Reading without thought Is like
filling n leaky barrel.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-31
Ocala Ten Years Ago

Evening Star August 81, 1922
Mrs. Edward Holder left today for
visit to French Lick Springs.
Leroy Bridges, who has been in
South Carolina visiting relatives, has
returned home.
Mrs. Arthur Cobb and little daugh-
ter have returned from their outing
at Wall Springs.
Mrs. Mary Bogie and children,
Miss Ella and Master Frank, return
ed today from Inverness, where they
had very pleasant vaaction.
Mrs. Frank Huber, the wife of
Ocala's popular postmaster, is spend
ing some time in Gainesville with
Mrs. J. L. Emerson.
Messrs. Clifford Peabody and Will
V. Wheeler enjoyed motorcycle trip
to the lake today.
Mr.. Wallace o. Stovall of Tampa is
ir the city visiting his sister and
mother.
Mrs. w. j. Chambers and daughter,
Roberta, of Tampa, are spending a
few days in Ocala, guests of Mrs. W.
W. Clyatt.
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so Mr.. Gum takes another shot at it.
By his attorney he files petition for
a rehearing, alleging that the law is
so vague as to be unintelligible and
therefore uninforceable. As the law
was being enforced right along before
Mr.. Gum put in his first objection,
this shot from Mr.. Gum is blank
charge The gasoline tax is not OBJ
nexious to the people generally-the
money collected by it goes to build
roads, and they must either pay taxes
or go without roads The law puts
the bulk of the tax on the people who
need the roads most-owners of gasO-
line driven machines. Another thing
that is puzzling-why is Mr.. Gum
going to such a large expense in this
matter? He is not rich man and
the costs of the legal proceedings in
such a case are almost too heavy for
private citizen.
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OCALA TWENTY YEARS AGO
Evening Star, August 81, 1902

Evening Star, August 81, 1902
R. F. Lyman went to Tampa this
afternoon on business matters.
In the absence of Miss Byrd Wart-
mann, Miss Emily Ford ably presided
a. the organ at the Episcopal church
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stewart of
Anthony left yesterday for their olu
home in Illinois, which they have not
seen in seventeen years.
Rev. John Gray of Barlow filled the
pulpit of Grace Episcopal church yes
terday.
Mr.. J. NJ. Gates of the Teapot Groc-
cry, and family, went down to Lake
Weir yesterday.
Mr.. S. C. Collins and family have
returned from their summer outing
at Putnam, Ga, and are comfortably
located at the Montezuma
Miss Ruby Wallis of Gambler, who
has been staying at the home of Mrs.
J. W. Sylvester, has returned home.
Mrs. w. B. Fuller and family have
returned from their trip to Seabreeze.
Ben K. Thrower of Gainesville
spent today in Ocala in the interest
of the Baird Hardware Company of
that place.
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BURBANK

Burbank, Aug. 3O.-Mr. III. E. Alb
bott left the middle of the week on I.
business trip to Lakeland.
Mrs. " H. Turner and son, Mr..
Raymond Turner, left Saturday for
Georgia. They expect to visit rela-
tives in Smyrna and Macon and will
be gone for several weeks.
Mr.. M. D. S. Graham went to Jack
sonville Saturday, to undergo an
ocaration on his eyes.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. @. Tilghman and
sons and Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Bogue
Of Palatka spent the weekend here
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w
& Bogue.
Mrs. M d. L. Graham and Mrs
Eva L. Hitchcock visited Anthony to-
day.
Mr.. w C. Bogue was a business
caller in Ocala Wednesday.
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EIGHT YEARS AGO

Aug. 81, 1914.-Great battle raging
today between French and Germans
from Villiers to Montherme. Ger
man right under Won Kluck swinging
toward Amiens to outfank French
left British army retired to a new
Inc Of defense, reinforced and ready
to resume the struggle. British, driv-
er back from Mons and Charleroi,
left a long wake of dead, their own
and Germans behind them. Immense
number of Germans a surprise to the
British and French. At Cambria,
British under General French main
t2ined the battle against overwhelm-
ing force of Germans three days. On
the third day his troops were olsen
gagged by heroic charges of British
cavalry under General Allenby, near
ly four years later the eonqueror of
Palestine Fourth French army IN
der Gen. Langle de Gary held Ger
mans at Launois. Foch's plan to
draw Germans far from their bases
and into trap began to develop.
It was about this time that it was
reported that large numbers of Ger
man troops were withdrawn from the
western front to send eastward to
meet the Russian advance 1t Is
doubtful that this shifting of troops,
if it was done, had any effect on the
western campaign. The Germans had
at that time more troops in Belgium
and North France than they could
keep supplied with provisions and
ammunition and had not enough
transport service to remove their
wounded to the rear. They had SO
many men that the roads were over
crowded, and frequently lost fright
ful numbers from the French artil-
lery because they had not room to
deploy their columns into lines.
Great battle of Allenstein in East
Prussia began. This battle checked
the Russian advance with frightful
loss and made Hindenburg famous.
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OFFICERS AND ARMS

Ocala Star calls the Times-Union
and other newspapers which have re-
Gently deplored the uncalled for and
dangerous use of wes pons placed IN
the hands of peace officers "sissies,
and would like to see an officer who
would dare to GO unarmed. It's a
considerable trip. but by going to
London the Star editor could get a
glimpse of eleven thousand of them
and they go right after the crooks
and murderers, and get them, too
Times Union.
We did not include the Times
Union in the sissy class. We can't
put the T.-U. in any class-sometimes
it talks like a statesman and a phil
osopher-other times it talks like an
old hen.
And the Star didn't say it would
like to see an officer who would dare
to go unarmed." When the Times
Union with its big circulation goes
to work to annihilate a smaller con-
temporary, it owes it to that small.
contemp. to quote it correctly.
It's a safe invitation the T.-U.
makes to the Star to go to London.
The T.-U. knows the Star hasn't mon
ey enough to pay it's railroad fare to
Pablo Beach to see the bathing suit
parade. If the T.-U. will pay our
expenses, we will go to London and
take the police apart and see what
makes them tick. They might not
tick in T.-U. time We have the same
sources of information the T.-U. has
and we understood that previous to
the war the ordinary police, what we
call patrolmen. carried usually only
slaves. That was because they sell
dom had anything to deal with that
needed more than staff. # they had
there was always other men with
guns to call on. People who have kept
up with the news may remember that
whenever serious trouble has con-
fronted the London police they have
always been heeled to meet it. There
is no instance on record of theil
sending men armed only with sticks
after, men armed with guns. Back
Of the London police are always
troops. And when troops are needed
in London, they are called out al
once-not in several hours or days, as
in America.
But what is the need of going tc
London? Let the Times Union ask
the sheriff of Duval county if he i:
willing to hunt murderers and thieve:
with unarmed deputies, or the Jack
sonville chief of police if he will tr,
to keep the peace with unarmed pa
trolmen. We know the answer. w,
have different set of people from
the Londoners to deal with. No on,
knows it better than the Times
Union.
Let the Times-Union honestly an
swer this question: Is it willing TO
our sheriffs deputies, constables an,
policemen to turn IN their guns an,
try to control our criminal elemen
with sticks?
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The esteemed Tampa Times differs,
slightly, with the Herald on the prop
osition that the only way way South
Florida can secure complete and equi-
table political apportionment is by
the election of the state of South
Florida, setting it off from the pres
ent state of Florida. The Times says
that this would be ga cumbersome
process at best. involving a popular
vote and the consent of Congress,
which," it says, twill probably not be
given as long as the republicans are
in control. Miami Herald.
1t won't be given when the demo-
Gratis are in control, either. Only a
meager minority of the people of
Florida want their state divided.
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The Sanford Herald expresses our
sentiments when it says: eve do not
believe that the government intends
to take over either the coal mines or
the railroads. We do not believe that
the general public is in favor of this
except as a last resort All the fool
ishness of the railroad systems now
was instilled during government own
ership and we are paying for it. We
are in favor of the railroads being
under private ownership and running
their own business. Under govern
ment ownership it would only be a
political wrangle."
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The people of this state can't help
J wondering why S. j. Gum, represen-
-tatiye from Levy county. is so anx-
ious to knock out the gasoline tax.
He had at first what seemed a logical
Z reasonable president of the Senate
and the speaker of the House failed
70 sign the bill before the legislature
adjourned. The supreme court has
declared this reason to be no reason,