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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26

tS GyA overseas. Al any rate, DICK
Ormsby thought SO as he
stood on the dock surrounded by jos
ting baggage trucks with the words of
d poem he had read somewhere ring
ing in his ears. His war-his war
is out of date
Not that Dick wanted a band TO
meet him nor a parade down the Ave
nue.. He merely wished that in the
whole Of big New York there was a
man, woman, child, or even a dog
who was glad he had come home His
only relative, an aunt. had died dur
ing his absence His pals in the army
had long since returned and were
scattered to their homes and occupa-
lions. Between him and his associates
in the French hospital the ocean now
interviewed. Yes. he was singularly
alone in the world
He had said as much yesterday to
the assistant purser as they had stood
at the rail- The purser, friendly
young fellow going back with the
steamer, had recommended a boarding
place and had secretly pitied so good
looking a chap with no one to welcome
him.
Thanksgiving Dick drew a lugu-
brious sigh and stopped for his bag
AS he did so he felt light touch
on his arm and turned quickly There
stood a very slender slip Of a girl
whose yes-deep blue and remarkably
fruEfinO-Wpre lifted bnDpf,tIlv IN biS
She was no one he recalled seeing
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26
So Do We

He---Ds yea believe in the tran
migration Of souls?
1f--N~; ] bold with phAesfratss
that the element Of chance snters
int The Oedspns complex Yats
Hses4d
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26

The young lady across the way
says the United States. England and
japan are the three great naval
powers and we can hardly expect the
smaller nations. like Utopia. to have
sach influence.
20 by IoCisrs Newspaper synaieatap
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26

Don't try 10 raise disturbance -
lsss yes want 70 lever yeprsslf
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26

Va ssght to make ehe moments notes
y OF happy. glad thanksgiving:
The hours and days a silent prAsss
OF Musie ne are living
-E.ia wheeler Wilcox
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26
A WISE BIRD

Duck - Ora
cious but you're
thin.
GobbIer-Sure.
I've beer taking
anti-fat for the
last six months,
and the farmer
don't even no
tice me.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-11-26

thanksgiving is par
ticularly lonesome day for a
man to land in strange
city after several years
overseas. At any rate, Dick
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Two Explorers Final Dash Tempt the Savage Seas of Car

son as mighty seal and otter
hunter, as a mariner familiar with
every rock and little anchorage of
those waters--even to the fartheSt
Wollaston Islands, and of all men
the best fitted to get us somehow to
the Horn. He was at the same time
known to be absent hunting seal on
Staten Island a hundred miles to the
eastward; he was therefore dismissed
from our calculations. And 10! here,
as an angel of Providence, he was!
Christopherson was a huge, calm
man, a Swede. He was familiar with
Lundberg's boat and the operation of
the engine, and he enjoyed her own
er's unbounded confidence. To my
proposition that he go with us in that
boat to the Horn, both he and Lund-
berg consented at once, with the
proviso from Lundberg that she be
returned to him before the 18th, as
it was essential to his work of trans
porting logs for loading on the Rio
Negro.
X x
T UNDBERG'S boat was sloop-
- rugged; she was narrow and deep;
she sailed abominably. An old 20
horse power engine was her chief
reliance This engine had lain for
years under water; 1t was rusted
and cracked, 1T was bound together
with wire and plugged with putty and
soap.
The engine will never last to get
there" said Lundberg. He spoke
with gloomy conviction.
We loaded the boat with some bal
last, put a Spare anchor and a strong
lad
the farewells that were said were as
solemn as at a lifetime's parting.
With a favoring tide on the second
day, we made Ushuaia just as the
town was waking. Hastily I went
ashore to purchase provisions and to
comply with the formalities OF the
port; we were impatient to get of.
Get six cases of gasoline and put
them aboard" had been my parting
instruction to the mate. 1t did not
occur to me that any misunderstand-
ing could arise over SO simple an
order.
Ushuaia is not a busy place; for
lack of occupation people lie abed
So that, whereas by now the sun
stood high, folks still were lingering
over their morning coffee, and the
stores were shut. 1t was almost two
hours before 1 could procure my pur-
chases and get my dispatch from
the subprefect AT the end of that
time 1 hailed the mate to take me
back aboard.
"Oh," said the mate as stepped
into the skiff, about the gasoline;
they could only let me have five
cases"
We'll, that's aboard, isn't it?"
why, no; we thought we'd better
wait to see you about it,"
And There, by that stupidity that
meant half an hours more delay.
was sown the seed that would bear
bitter fruit
1t was still utterly calm when we
weighed anchor and calm as we
passed into the bay. At the point
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six white horses, at the head of
which marched two majestic indi-
viduals slowly waving white plumes,
heralding the rulers approach.
Washington's house in New York
was universally called the "Repub-
lican Court" Official functions were
marked by the ceremony and formal
ity OF court affairs in Europe. and
were called "levees."
John Adams was the first President
to occupy the White House in Wash
ington, so named from the Curtis old
colonial home in Virginia. Its stair
ways were not finished when the
family moved in on November II,
1900, and it's damp plaster made Mrs.
Adams apprehensive for the health
of her household. She complained
that there was no fence, yard or other
outdoor accommodations and used the
East Room, now famous for the his
toric events that have occurred
within it's walls, for hanging the
White House wash up to dry.
The night before Thomas Jefferson
went into the White House his
predecessor, John Adams, sat up until
the last minute making out nomina-
tions of appointees to office. Con-
gress stayed in session to enable the
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ne did not live to see either building
completed or occupied. He helped
Peter Charles LEnfant, the French
engineer, design the plan of city,
which has been preserved and fol-
lowed in great part until today, but
he had TO abandon his friend to his
fate when LEnfant marched a force
of men in the night to Duddington
Manor, the newly erected house of
Daniel Carroll, one of the commits
sioners appointed to build the Capt.
tai City, and razed it merely because
Carroll had built 1t in the middle of
what was, on paper, New Jersey
avenue, one of the broad, diagonal
streets existing then only in the
Frenchmans mind.
x x x x
WHEN the British burned the
w Capitol and the White House in
the War of 1872, Dolly Madison,
whose husband was then President,
hurriedly ordered an. attendant to
cut from it's frame the life-size, full
length portrait of Washington (stiil
in the White House) roll it up and
carry it, with the few personal effects
saved, into Virginia, where the fam
lily remained until the British de-
parted
After the White House had been
rebuilt, and during John Quincy
Adams administration, billiards had
become SO popular among the
sportive gentry (Which included all
gentlemen) that table was Installed
in the White House. This incensed
the people and contributed to Adams
defeat, despite the fact that "Old
Hickory" his victor, owned the
greatest race horse of the time, the
famous virginia thoroughbred, Trux-
ton, raced him at the popular tracks.
and entered his own gamecocks in
the innumerable mains Of that
sportive period.
On the day Andrew Jackson. be-
came President a crowd of 10000
backwoodsme trappers, hunters
and pioneers, wearing coonskin caps
and boots, stormed the White House
to see their President" While an
era of democracy, had been ushered
in with JEFFERSON in 1901, Il was a
democracy OF theory and principles
rather than of personnel. Jefferson
himself (and the officials he gathered
about him) were the aristocrats of
their time. jackson himself came
from the people" and brought a
great horde to washington with him.
The distinguished, daintily gowned
ladies of the little Country capital
had been accustomed to rule all on
cial functions, but on March 4, 1929,
they were swept aside and felt as If
their preserves were being overrun
by horde of barbarians. Pennsyl-
vania avenue was then a wide ex-
panse of mud. No attempt had been
| made to give 1t any sort of paving.
Through 1t the 10000 swarmed from
the Capitol to the White House, ell
bowling the grande DANES out of the
way and almost mohbing Jackson in
their enthusiasm.
At the White House the crowds
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Senate to confirm them, and John
Marshall, then Secretary of State, sat
up in his office making out commits
sions until Levi Lincoln, who was to
become Attorney General next day,
walked in with Jefferson's watch in
his hand and stopped the performance.
The Federalists were so incensed
at Jefferson's selection as President
and were so fearful that his 'repub-
lican" ideas would wreck the Govern
ment that every possible effort was
made to leave Important offices in
safe" hands
Before daylight Adams quit the
White House and drove out of town,
rather than bear the humiliation of
watching Jefferson's Inauguration.
which many men sincerely believed
might usher in such scenes as had
but lately occurred in France and
shocked the world.
4 X * X
JEFFERSON was the first President
selected by King Caucus" that
famous institution composed of the
members of Congress, which also
nominated Madison and Monroe, and
held out a program of presidential
succession" covering another quarter
of a century, only to be smashed by
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Andrew Jackson, the fiery Indian
campaigner, who fought IA duels,
carried the bullets of some of his an
tagonists to his grave, killed Charles
Dickinson on the field of honor,
Smashed the United States Bank,
made a pretty barmaid queen of his
cabinet and died with only one regret,
that he had not hanged John c. CAL
houn for treason.
Martin Van Buren, the Red Fox of
Undertook" became President of the
United States because he espoused the
cause of Peggy O'Neal when the So
ciety ladies of the Capital sought to
snub her. He gave the word that led
to a whole cabinet except one mem
ber being kicked out by Peggy's
dainty toe.
Lincoln's first inaugural address
was a grave disappointment to those
who heard it. After looking about
for a place to put his hat while he
read the address, he, finally, in en-
barrassment, handed it to the man
sitting nearest him, who happened to
be his ancient enemy, Stephen A.
Douglas, and who thereupon held the
hat on his lap while Lincoln read.
The new Presidents awkwardness,
his ungainly appearance and manner
of delivery caused people to. think
they must depend upon a rustic
weakling to handle the grave ques-
tions then rushing to crisis, the
date being March 4, 1861.
The fact that there is such a place
as the District of Columbia" was due
to fear that the Federal Government
would be controlled by the city or
State authorities Cor by the popu-
lace) If the seat of Government were
located in any existing town. The
0la of he CO
overthrown by the people was terri
flying. The decision to create a Fed
eral district was also Influenced by
the fact that angry Revolutionary
soldiers, demanding their pay, storm
ed the Continental Congress in Phila-
delphia, defied the local authorities
and ran the members out of town to
Princeton, where sessions were re-
sumed safe from the irate warriors.
The selection of the site which be-
came the District of Columbia was
the result of a deal between Ham
ilton and Jefferson, rival leaders of
the early history OF the republic, who
founded, respectively, what are now
the Republican and Democratic par
ties Hamilton wanted the new Fed
eral Government to assume the Revo-
lutionary War debts of the States
Jefferson headed the faction that op-
posed 1t. The latter agreed to line up
enough votes to carry assumption, "
as Hamilton's policy was called, pro-
vided Hamilton would agree to carry
| the seat of Government to the Poto-
| mac.
Washington personally supervised
| the laying out of the city, which was
named for him before his death ard
with his consent, and he presided al
| the laying Of the corner stones OF the
| Capitol and the White House tthe
| former ceremonies being in charge OF
his Masonic lodge OF Aiexandria3, but
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met us from the westward and broke
the mirrored landscape of the chan
mel The wind increased. Half an
hour from sailing we were in mid
channel 1t blew a gale and the
seas broke over us; we made no
headway. Coming about, we ran for
the shelter of a group of islands
off the peninsula and anchored in
their lee.
afternoon and evening. We were
held all night at that anchorage,
ana the lost half hour became IL.
At in the morning we awoke. 1t
was cloudy and dark and calm. Not
for an shour would the wretched en-
gine start; then, in the gray dawn
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hail and snow that Heaven can in
flict on desolation. No. one inhabits
them.
We were, therefore, startled when
on entering Victoria Channel, where
we intended lying for the night, we
saw smoke ascending from suppos-
edly uptenanted camp on Bailey Is
land that in years past had been
Christopherson's long, low shanty
built of boards and tin stood on the
shore with the luxuriant green bank
of thicket at it's back. A rod or two
away, partly concealed in a grove
of canelo trees, was tent-shaped
Indian wigwam
AS we approached, a rude skiff
manned by two men put out from
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lands and headed south. 1t began
to rain.
The passage between Navarin and
Hoste Islands is In places very mar
row; the shores are steep with many
jutting headlands. but not noun
tainous. They are clothed in forest.
1t was gloomy wilderness and dark
that early morning in the rain.
Leaving the southeast point of Du-
mas Peninsula, we entered upon the
crossing of Ponsonby Sound. There
was not a breath of wind and the
snow-topped mountains of Hoste Is
land that stood as islands above the
hanging banks of cloud were re-
fiected in the gray mirror of the sea.
In an hour we had crossed the sound
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drama, have walked beside the
Presidents of the United States, lodged
them in the discharge of their duties,
and abided with them in their presiden-
tial mansions. About them has centered
chief interest in the political, military,
social and commercial life of the
American people. Just as all eyes
are now turned on President Cool
idge (and the White House) to watch
him dedicate himself to the trust
which the people have placed in his
hands, SO have the eyes of the country
turned upon his predecessors each
four years for more than a century.
Ira gedy, comedy. self sacrifice,
greed, nobility, meanness, love, hate,
envy, revenge and all other forces
which influence human endeavor
have played their part in the White
House. If the walls Of that historic
old building could speak they would
relate tales of laughter and tears, of
the heights of exaltation and the
depths of despair for the lights and
shadows, the good hours and the bad,
of a young nation rushing onward
to its destiny have been revealed
there through the individuals charged
for the moment with it's direction.
The scene is sometimes a "Republi-
can court" presided over by the state
~ Lazy WhSnln GIOn; sometimes
Democratic dinner by Thomas Jeffer-
son. with precedence abolished and
guests sitting wherever they please
and conducting themselves in infor-
mai manner: and sometimes serious
breakfast" by Calvin Coolidge.
All roads lead to the White House
and any boy Cor girD born in the
country, of whatever race or creed,
may travel them. Conversely, all
roads lead away from the White
House. The things that have hap
pened along these routes, as well as
the things centering in the Presidents
mansion itself, constitute a thrilling
record of Americas first 135 years as
a republic.
Washington was treated as a
king, because ruler" was the only
sort of government head with which
the people of the time were familiar,
despite the theories of some of their
dem ocratic leaders and the fact that
they had fought the Revolutionary
War for freedom" At his second in
auguration, in Philadelphia, he wore
black velvet suit, with knee
breeches, black silk stockings, low
shoes with silver buckles and a
jeweled sword in a richly embossed
scabbard. He was drawn to the cere-
monies in a white coach, hauled by
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and were entering on a long, wind
ing passage that transepted the nose
of Pasteur Peninsula. We emerged
into Courselle Bay. near the south
ern extremity OF the peninsula.
+
THE Wollaston Islands are the last
group of the archipelago of far
southwestern South America, the last
peaks of the descending Cordillera to
emerge above the sea. The western
trade winds, checked and diverted
by the mountain ranges to the north,
sweep with accumulated violence
around their southern end and make
the Wollastons a region of prevail
ing storms. Their high peaks comb
the clouds for those last miseries of
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the store and pulled to meet us. They
were an umkempt, dirty looking pair, a
white man and an Indian. The white
man was young and, in spite of a
scraggly growth of silken whisk ers,
rakishly handsome, yet with the
meanly pitiless eyes that are often
the accompaniment of effeminate
beauty. Bringing scrutiny to some
conclusion, he greeted US, invited us
to come ashore, and then rowed back
Taking along two bottles Of fiery
cana and a quarter of mutton, we
landed and went up to the house.
We entered a dark and filthy inte-
rior that revealed it's furnishings only
when our eyes had become accus-
toned to the gloom. Here in this
squalid filth lived two families; we
were introduced.
VagqueZ-the man who had greeted d
US, a murderer-free after a term at
the Ushuaia Penitentiary; Genevieve
"a pleasant, pretty, brown-skinned
dark-eyed, s1atternly young Argen-
tine, his wife; Garcia, a male, aged
so, a creature in no definite way de-
formed, yet of as hideously forbidding
an aspect as one might ever meet
Garcia, ex-inspector at the prison
of Ushuaia; Margarita, his wife,
Yahgan Indian of perhaps twenty
pathetically gentle, sweet and servilt
and her child not more than
months old; and Berte, the Yahgar
he looked 40, said he was so, ant
proved it by accounting for IL years
at an English mission. He LIVED
alone in the wigwam.
These people were subjects of Ar
gentina, hunting otter on the soil o1
Chile; they were poachers living II
fear of detection and the law.
And now on one Of the most re
mote and desolate spots upon tht
earth we stand in this dark anC
squalid den, confronted by as vii
lainous a crew as ever fought fol
pirate treasure. We are unarmed
Night is descending.
The murderer is pouring out cana
he advances toward me bearing TIVE
cups, and hands me one.
"Senor," he says, they tell me tha
you are an artist I consider artists
writer's and musicians TO be the great
est people in the world. l drink Il
your prosperity: salud" And, will
the most candid, charming smile, HI
touches my cup with his, and W.
drink.
NEXT morning. the wind was blow
ing with the velocity OF a gale
making it difficult even in our com
parativeIy sheltered anchorage Il
row back to the boat from land
Wind bound, we spent the day ashore
The following day still holding u:
wind bound, 1 set out with the mat'
for the summit of the island, {
mountain 1,100 feet in altitude. Th'
way lay over inland fats of bog anC
marsh, and stony hillsides, anC
through thickets of matted brusl
and wind -dwarfed trees. The da!
was one of alternating sun and rain
After our first cold drenching W.
learned to watch the squalls approach
and seek in time the shelter of {
rock, or make a refuge OF bough
piled on the top OF a low-branchint
tree Under such shelters we would
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with priceless time lost in their
dash for Cape Horn through
brushes with disaster in various
forms. Mr.. Kent and his mate had
been forced to abandon their sloop-
rugged lifeboat, windbound at
Bahia Blanca, the southeast arm
of Parry Harbor. They struck
overland on foot and succeeded in
crossing TERRA del Fuego to its
southern coast through region
where no white man had ever trod
before them. Their destination
was Ushuaia, on Beagle Channel.
Here it was their Intention to OBJ
tain another boat and push on
with all speed before the weather
about the cape became impossible.
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BY OLIVER p. NEWMAN.

. ROM George Washington, whose
- birthday is celebrated today
from end to end of the country
a to Calvin Coolidge romance and
xuattraa hasida +ha
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Next Sunday Mr.. Newman will re-
cite the interesting differences be-
tween. early, stately inaugurals and
that OF President Coolidge.)
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-05-15
MOUNTAIN HOME REPUBLICAN, MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO
Description of land
or lot

Lot 21, blk 5, Lot 1. blk 6, Unity Town
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though her avowed motive was not
one to boast of, there was less guilt
in it. than fragrant bad taste. Stili,
Dagon could not get the conviction
out of his head that there was another
reason, apart from the one or two she
alleged, for Miss Gillett's presence at
Hidden Hall Court on the night of
Capt. Haste's wedding. If he were
right about this, he would never learn
the truth from the girl. He must find
1t out, If at all, in some less obvious
way.
Then there was that mother of hers,
the utterly unsuitable housekeeper at
the Court, The detective had no
photograph of her. but the white.
tragic features were printed on his
memory. He could see the frightened
eyes, the thin, pale face, the woman's s
quick, nervous glancess over her shoul-
ders as if she saw something which
no one else could see.
"If ] believed in ghosts, / should
say she was haunted" Dagon
Continued on Page Twenty-seven
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Who Stole the Bride? And Why!
The Night Of the Wedding
By c. ~ and A. NJ. WILLIAMSON
uthoo of The Conduto "andoh
o love '


for advantages to be gained by r.
WIS death?
This is the big question Dagon,
old thing, you've got to find the
answer. If you can find it, you may
also find Pandora Haste. Also Eve
Carroll. If she lives.
Acts of the Unknown taking for
granted that such a person exists:
Making the footprint in blood on
the floor of the tapestry boudoir. and
certainly using a boot of II. W's
for the purpose. which boot with its
fellow was burned later in the cellar
furnace. BY the way. the fact that
the Unknown knew about the secret
door under the tapestry and the fur
mace In the cellar. as we'll as the fire
kfndled by r. w. Tor on his orders),
proves intimate acquaintance with the
old house.
ITO get human blood isn't too easy
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by simple process. They are not,
therefore, to be taken as proof positive
I'm these days. without other evidence
in conjunction. What a blow to the
Unknown to. have his tor herr care
fully manufactured proofs against r..
w. destroyed in one fell swoop of a
girls hand, That Is, assuming the
innocence of p. IL. and her wish to
incriminate herself in order TO save
X. W.
Fanny Gillett, V. A. D."
Dagon wrote this name and gaZed
for a long time very thoughtfully at
the portrait of the young woman who
had confessed her love for Capt. Ken
nedy Haste.
SO far there wasn't a scrap of evil
dence to connect her with the dlsap-
pearance Of Hastes bride, except that
she had been caught paying a surrep-
titious visit to Mrs. HaSte'S bedroom.
That visit she had explained, and
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Probably the Unknown tapped his Tor
herr own. Which would explain why
there was so little; not drop to
waste! 1t wouldn't have done to take
enough to produce faintness or make
serious wound That would have
led to suspicion.
More acts of the Unknown:
Making the finger prints on the
wall Experiments have proved that
finger prints can be accurately copied
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Continued on Page Twenty-seven.