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CAPTAIN SALVATION

tumbled stiffly over the gunwales
to tread the stable land after four
dreary days of cramped restriction
in heavy cockleshells.
Rude shelters were made by
piling up broken brush and drift
wood against some rocks with the
boat sails over all to keep out the
rain. A fire was attempted, but
everything in the shape of wood
was sodden and the feeble flickers
caioled from WRITINGS struggled
sickly to blaze and then died. The
very atmosphere seemed to extin-
guish fire and the effort was
given up in despair.
mo fire in this climate
bloody tough go. I callate." was
the mates comment. That there
galley boy ez fetchin' up for his
last port Wen say pray
ers over him, soon." The boy, a
golden-haired English lad of Is, too
frail for such experiences, was, in
deed, succumbing. Inside the tent
he lay, sheltered by the provision
boxes from the cruel wind, and
Mary did her best to make him
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Now Go On With The Story

, toll. At first she had refused
to admit that Dearie's illness
would last-oh, long-though the
doctor told her so.
Now she gave way to panic.
That night, when she thought
Jackie was in bed and sleeping,
she sat in the living room with
her bills before her. She said
Silly: II can't make out! Oh,
Lord, what am 1 to do! The
tension of her long self-control
broke. She buried her head in
her arms and began to cry.
Desperate panic of tears.
She didn't hear the step. But
suddenly Jackie said: Gosh
what's the matter, Ron ?"
He saw the bills and picked
them up.
Averting her head quickly, she
tried to grab them.
EIe went fumbling in his pocket.
II was afraid to tell you. Ron.
Here"
lie spilled greenbacks on the
table before her. "Thatn help"
She fingered them blindly, be.
wilderdly: Where did you get
these, Jackie?' There was $3.50.
Working" said he simply.
1--WE been working"
'Where?" asked she, sick with
dread. You've quit SCHOOL,"
Just took a leave. Just since
the beginning of the term. can
go back in August. Gosh, Ron.
l had to-"
Without looking up, her hands
stole across to his. She said
nothing.
You're not angry, ROM"
She said, tear-choked: I'm
I'm-oh you angel
She was proud, almost broken
with the Joy of her pride in him.
Though the first dream was gone.
And the others. she now felt.
would also go. Even the dream
of her love-
CHAPTER %
A fog blowing through the
Golden Gate drifted over the
lagoon. 1t rose mistily to this
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} drew his hand away slowly and
reached out in the dark until he
felt her. Patting her kindly on
the back, he murmured: TOO
bad, Mary but come
away III fix you up a warmer
spot over here" And when he
had placed her in the lee of the
rock upon which the brushwood
of the shelter rested, he hurriedly
dragged the light body of the
dead boy outside and rearranged
the casse to provide a neck for
the woman.
Throughout, the hoisterous,
stormy night he lay with her in
his arms, budding close for
warmth. and through the heavy
coat that covered her he was SEN
sible of the sobs that bespoke her
experience of death. And for a
long time he remained awake,
thinking.
CHAPTER LV
Next morning they buried the
boy under piled-up brush and
stones. The mate asked Arson if
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her mothers cottage. He must
earn more. He could,
For herself she didn't mind the
waiting. But because he under
stood, because he bore it so gal.
lantly. there entered in her love
a worshipping gratitude-a secret
adoring fervor. The feeling that
now consumed her was greater
than love-greater than self
majestic and elemental. In these
seven and half years it had
grown TO this.
For both.
Michael wouldn't talk of his
brothers now. The thought of
them tore his mind with pain.
They were all gone TO the war
even Stephen. who was only a
year married and who had a lit
tie son. He was the nearest to
Michael in age and the dearest.
Whenever she thought of the
war she wished to draw nearer
Michael and comfort him. For he
grieVed bitterly
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ds X. Through trees to the edge
of the water. They sat on a
lonely bench.
Don't say anything. You can't
say anything, Roeny.' He hid
his face in his hands.
No one could say anything.
Nothing that he wished to hear.
Stephen was dead. He had lain
hours in a shell-riddled dugout
the half of his beautiful face
torn away. And there his brother
who was in the same company,
found him-still alive. In this
frightful torment.
For hours no one had come.
No one had done a thing. 1t was
past belief.
"And l here. In safety. Eat
ing-laughing-"
This, too, she had awaited.
Others flinging their fine Young
lives away. Others diving for a
glory. He--hanging baek--safe.
All the months he had grieved
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GCETNHE trees look good after moth
i ing but blank sea- said
Mary cheerfully. "Evergreens are
so warm and cozy-looking. We
shall have plenty of wood
Green, wet. and useless fer
fire, Mary remarked Arson.
Gwen the dead driftwood on the
beaches or in the woods is USE
less The rain is eternal"
Have you any idea where we
are?'
None whatever some
where between Cape Pillar and the
Gulf of Penas. With no chart. no
Directory, cannot tell, and this
coast is a veritable maze
At noon. they came abreast Of
q small indentation between the
mountains. A CLEAN of gravelly
beach invited a landing. wen
shoot in there" Arson hailed the
mate. LEAD the way. Mister. and
we'll beach the boats and camp
for while" And scudding past
a patch of kelp covered rocks, the
boat keels grounded on the gravel
while their human compliments
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ONE day the doctor said: I'VE
Oshould take your mother to the
hospital. Don't delay this"
The long devastating months
began. At o'clock each after
noon Roen pulled the black cover
over her typewriter. She stopped
at the flower stand at Kearny and
Market for a bunch of violets
or the Haunting marigolds Dearie
loved
And she went swiftly-always
quiet now-up the stone steps of
tho hospital where Dearie lay
In a room with two other women,
her bed partitioned off with white
curtains.
Dearie was wasting away. She
was in wracking pain, but she
denied this. She struggled brave
ly in the long siege of rheumatic
fever.
AS Roen left, she stopped at
the office of the hospital. The
attendant handed her an en-
Velope-her monthly bill. She
had arranged to pay in this way.
tICl6 was q DoldilCS Ii Jill TIC
past month. There was always
a balance from the past month.
She owed $500.
Regarding it quietly, Roen fold
cd the paper and put it in her
purse. In the purse was also
bill from the doctor-the first he
had sent, though it was six
months he had cared for Dearie.
She said to herself as she
climbed on the car: 81 owe $500.
Next week I'll owe $3.50 and the
next" She felt witheringly hot.
She bit her lips and refused to
think.
AS she went in the alley and
caught the smell of roast potatoes
she tossed back her head. Jackie
In her long apron getting their
dinner. Soon he would be talk
Ing with strained hilarity. Even
Jackie was not quite so infalliby
gay now. Tears catne to Rooms
eyes. She thought: I've for
gotten how to laugh"
The months had taken a bitter
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dark trees till they. watching
from the columned arch? felt
themselves closed in a sanctuary.
He, standing at her side,
seemed taller-quiet and unas-
sailable thoughts. All evening
they had scarcely spoken. They
had no need to speak.
An hour ago in the vanishing
twilight they went quietly down
colonnades of the Fine Arts
Palace. They paused before
sculptured figures, a man and
woman-lovers immortalized in an
attitude of haunting tenderness.
The beauty of this conception
filled her with yearning.
She wished to give: give with
out counting, boundlessly and
with primeval simplicity. OBJ
literate the world. Turn 10 him
He deserved this. But she had
no thought of rewarding. Her
emotion was untainted and SUI.
preme. A destined thing. too
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I'm cold oh, so cold.
mum I can 'ardly
Are you happy. Johnny"
Yes, mum, him Apply. Hi
hain't scared to die nah
. &. num- A pause. Num-"
YES, Johnny"
will you h'ask-
Captain to shake :. me
'and?"
Without waiting to he asked.
Arson quietly got up from where
he squatted. Strangely moved,
he leaned over the boy. Yes,
sonny :. - His voice was
oddly tender. Here l am. You
must buck up sailor
man. ~ know never say die"
He caught the youngsters cold
fingers in his warm grasp.
It's dark, Capting. HI
cawn't see yer, sir. :. A
long pause and then a weak
"S'longw Arson still held the
cold hand
Hes dead, Anson," came Sob
bingly from Mary. The other
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BY
Frederick William Wallace

The woman nodded. Then why
not let us try?" she urged firmly.
"Why not get into the boats again.
even though it is tempestuous, and
head for somewhere"
He favored her with a keen, all
embracing glance. Though ex-
posed to the same rigors as all the
others and sharing the same guam
tity of scanty rations, yet, never
theless, she seemed as strong as
any and stronger than most. True,
her features were pale and wan.
but she walked with vigor. assist
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for this. He had ached and
longed.
Sitting in the sheltered dark IN
the music stand they argued, per.
picked and sorrowing. The war
was wrong-wrong for all. And
they here, so far removed from
all the aching turmoil-why need
they feel guilty that the hills
marched in quiet joy against
the sky? The war was wrong.
Were they towards to stand
back from it?
But the suffering. Think OF
that. When Stephen wrote to
say he had enlisted, Michael
wept.
And now there was the vision
of wounded n1en-men with
young, handsome faces torn
away-lying in a bleeding agony
perhaps brother dying in
rain and mud
Continued Tomorrow
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long denied. Denied seven and a
half years. Her mind raced back
Brought images to her. 1t
came haltingly to the stricken
days of the previous spring and
summer And finally to the day
they brought Dearie home-a
wasted fragment haunted by the
pathos of former beauty.
He came that Saturday bring
ing flowers from his aunt's gar
den-acacia and snowy roses.
She had been afraid to meet his
eyes Afraid to raise her lips
for a farewell kiss. He did:
You can look at me, Roeny.
Don't be troubled. l won't ask
more than YOU can do" He said
this because he was then earn.
ing $3.50.
But he wouldn't ask her to
keep her promise because he saw
that she couldn't. And because
he. too. knew 1t would he
disaster ~ bring their love to
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Instinctively now her hand
sought his. Lost in her feeling.
she gazed across the Swallowed
pool to the shrine with its deli
cate figure kneeling in Worship
indistinct--a glimmer of white
ness and beauty loneliness
showing in the dark.
She took step toward it
drawing him with her. A sound
came from him-a protesting
sound.
She looked up. His eyes too
were fastened on the distance
on the kneeling figure.
Suddenly his face appeared to
her utterly pale-pale and suf-
fering. She gazed into it. She
gazed misunderstanding.
She heard the sound now
hoarse, muffled. sobbing. He
flung his arms about her, bury
ing his head against her shoulder.
''Rony- Stephen is killed"
They had been waiting for
this. They wandered in the
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ed in serving the food. and always
had a cheerful word for every
body. Arson was amazed at her
stamina.
"We1l make a move in the
morning and Head south" he de-
cided.
1t was very weak and miser-
able crowd that took their places
in the boats next day. but the
thought OF heading somewhere
gave them new outlook.
Continued Tomorrow
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= NEW Serial OF A W0N1NN5 SACRIFICE =
A Gripping Serial Of the Love of a Girl
and Her Great Sacrifice, by the
Author of ''Chickie."
Read This First !.

In first great love- Roen Ross appealing lovely Michael
SS01 gay hearted college lad pledge their % They spend
aei returns to Berkeley where he taking veyea
Burton of insurance firm Roen the support
invalid mother "Dear little brother Jackie
The night before he died five previous R0en father Bobby
girls hraVey
to keep her stricken looking
down the
Burton her begins Deaie ROen
win him. ROen sacrifice night
commencement he begS definite their
proposes outlines glowing
the things will Deare Jackie
but longing only
Michael deaenng
that he will fail her.
NOID On I'm With The HfOrU
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No Winding Necessary

THERE is a strange clock Polytechnic Institute at
Zurich Switzerland needs be wound but
motion every time the temperature changes
two degrees.
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Married to of influence and money, who is often away
business the promiscuous people
her like and beauty
and gift for leadership wrong direction.
Young married her and imagine they would like
to be like her and follow her lead!
They rush her when they have had quarrel with their hu
bands and her advice is always the worturgng them into
affairs divorce being importance
duty
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money takes ndish delight in breaking other homes that
might be happy if her sinister influence removed
Perhaps with these drunken
her ndiscretions
Whatever is like the rotten apple that spoil whole
barrel of good becomes that be
moved
Her husband often of blind and doting Sort the
his wfes and the believe
did.
Nothing be done about her!
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By Fay King

NE of the most dangerous and menang elements that
seep into neighborhood is safely married to
~ of business and social standing who utterly lacks
moras
In her exclusive surroundings immune from osracism and
contempt she influence the people into they
could learn only in the dregs of night life!
Thank goodness there such But alas there
and their vicious influence is wrecking many homes
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
Earl Vance Takes Shetland
Pony for Ride IN His Plane

Dodson. Aug. 90 Earl 7. Vance,
Montana aviator attending the Phil
lips county fair with his passenger
earring diane, Sunday made u new
record in the annals of aviation
when he took up what he believes
is the first equine that ever ascend
ed in an airplane. The pony. Happy
Day, belonging to McGilvra and
Stevens, is q shetland % inches
high and 33 inches long weighing
81 pounds with its kicking clothes
on.
Frosty, the sire and Holy Smoke,
the dam of Happy day were on ex-
hibition at the fair. They were
each first prize winners in their
classes at the Portland horse show
last winter. Happy was left at the
ranch but its parents erieved SO
over its absence that Mr.. McGilyra
hired Vance to bring Happy Day in
from the ranch to rejoin the dam.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
Miss GormIy Of Med. Lake
Is Princess Of County

After q spirited contest conducted
jointly by the Producers News and
The Medicine Lake Wave to deter
mine the princess for Sheridan
county, Miss Catherine Gormley OF
the Lake was declared winner. The
contest was closed Tuesday evening
after two counts by the judges.
On the face of the second returns
Miss Gormley Won over Eleanor
StamDauah of Plenrywood by $500
votes. Both young ladies waged a
spirited battle for their respective
papers and it really seems too bad
that both cannot 60 to the state
fair next week. However, Miss
Stambaugh was awarded liberal
cash prize for her efforts.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
College Opens Short
Courses In Agriculture

Bozeman, Aug. !. 30. Annual
short courses in agriculture will be
off red at Montana State college,
Bozeman. Jan z. to March %. &C.
c0rdine TO an announcement OF j.
O Tretsven, principal. The courses
are designed TO meet needs OF Mon
tana farmers who can not spend
four years in COLLEGE. Courses are
offered in agronomy, crops and ami
NAL husbandry. horticulture, soils,
dairy husbaDdry, dairy manufacture
ing and elevator operation and
management. Students also may
include some work in agricultural
education. veterinary science, agri.
cultural economics, agricultural en-
eineering or physical educaliod.
Students who have taken these
courses have gone into the follow
ing lines Of work: Butter and ice
cream making, COW testing dairy
farming, truck, fruit and stock
growing, ranch management or
foremanship. grain buying and
drodind daporo1 forupsnd d;tob
riding. farm mechanics, elevator
operation. cheese making, creamery
management, management of dairy
herds, breeding of pure bred stock.
stock feeding and fitting, market
gardening, nursery field work, grain
farming, pure seed growing. tractor
operation, irrigation farming or
stack buying and selling.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
COUNTY
SCHOOL NOTES

MIR. and Mrs. A. D. Dick of
Homestead, Montana were office
visitors Saturday. They expect to
open the two teacher school in
District No. 5 Monday, August 20.
This is their second year in this dis
trict. Mrs. Dick attended the SUM
mer session of the State Normal at
Dillon and Mr.. Dick, the summer
session at the State University at
MissOula.
Many of the rural schools will
open September 6 and the remain
der September IL. The greater
rumber of our teachers will be fully
certified at the opening of school. A
few exemptions have been made
with home teachers who have com
pleted all their certificated subjects
with one or two exemptions, during
summer sessions of approved nor
NAL work.
We hope to be able to visit our
schools early in the year and thus
be able to give aid to our teachers
regarding the use of our Course OF
Study and the making of workable
program to suit their particular
school.
There were 100 pupils who wrote
at the August examinations. The
returns from this examinations will
be ready to mail out at the close of
he week.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
Antelope News

Geo. Svarcan, who has been in charge
of the section here for the past fifteen
years, except for the time of his service
in the u. S. army during the world war,
left Wednesday for New York. From
there he will 60 to Paris for tho Legion
convention and will visit his mother in
Serbia before he returns.
Two of his brothers from Fortuna, N.
D., visited Sunday with Arvie johnson
WIN is employed as carpenter in making
repairs on the Rugby elevator here.
On Thursday p. IN. farewell party
was given in honor of the O. P. Waller
family who is leaving for Froid sometime
this week. The party was held in the
Congregational church, and large num-
ber Of friends were present. Lunch was
served by the ladies. We wish the
Walters success and happiness in their
new home.
Two local threshing rigs owned by Roy
Dahl and Ole Hoven started up this week.
A fine yield of good quality wheat is re-
ported.
Victor Ryden from the country east of
Medicine Lake was in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Olson has moved into one of
Jack Courtney's houses here in town.
She has been living at the Richardson
coal mine.
Walter Yeager and family visited rela-
tives at Medicine Lake last Sunday
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
Ono Auto Owned By1
Out Of 5 montanans


Helena, Aug. 27.- There is
approximately one automobile for
every five persons in Montana,
according to figures complied in
the Offices OF the state board 0i
equalization, today.
Up to August l8, the motor We.
hicle department at Deer Lodge had
registered l06, 466 vehicles OF which
89,2l4 were passenger automobiles,
1884 trucks, 1888 motorcycles,
459 dealers plates and 1880 cars
exempt of license fees.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
PostOffiC0 Insta|IS Modern
Automatic Cance||ing Machine

On Tuesday of this week. George
c. Norleie. travelling mechanic foI
the Postoffice Department, installed
a new International Model M Can.
ceiling machine in the local post
office.
This new machine, electrically
operated and of automatic design,
has cancellIne capacity of 400 let
ters of assorted sizes or 800 regular
sized post cards per minute.
The local postoffice has always
had very large amount of mail to
handle for a town the size of SEQ
bey. yet its efficiency 10 this mat.
ter has always been up to the stan
adrd, and the service rendered has
never left any room for complaint.
With the installation of this new
machine handling of all first class
mail will be further facilitated, es-
pecially large consignments which
is frequently mailed locally by the
Westland Oil compony and the var
ious banks of this city, when letters
reaching into the thousands must
be dispatched in a very brief space
of time.
The foresight and efforts of Post
master Bennett in securing this
added equipment meets with hearty
of all business men and
no doubt they will be still further
pleased to note that their mail in
the future will be more readily dis
tributed. They are not only inter-
ested in the efficiency of the post
office. but highly commend the
postmaster for his labor in behalf
Of good public service. - Scobey
Leader.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
Polytechnic Farm and
School Going Forward

Billings, Mont, Aug. 30.-Bil-
lines Polytechnic will experience
one of its greatest agricultural years
this season, according to Clarence
C. Holt, farm manager of the
school, who estimated that the crop
valuation of the POLYTECHNIC farm
this year will be more than S10n00.
CLOSE to two hundred acres are
under cultivation. The land is of
the most fertile in the Midland En-
pire, he SAYS. Employment on
the farm is limited to students of
the school, 19 boys working this
season. They are paid a monthly
salary and in addition they earn
their tuition for the fall and the
spring scoastic terms.
The Polytechnic farm is divided
into tracts and a variety of pure
seed is grown. The outlook for the
future is the most promising in
years. Only the best of pure seeds
are to be raised and this means
that Billings is and will be the CEN
ter of this new and great industry
which will fill the needs of the far
mers i'll the northwest.
The agricultural department is
but one of many industries spon-
sored by the school. Included in
his department are the dairy, api
iary and poultry industries. Ii is
the intention of the directors of the
institution to expand all these de
partments this year. This will be
possible with the recent acquisition
of two tracts of land valued at
more than $50, 900.
Other departments are the auto
motive-eDglneering, woodwork shop
and auto repairing" he concluded.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
The Roosevelt Trail

Wthin the next two years it viii
Be possible to Get in an automobile
at Havre and drive through Glacier
national park, if present progress in
building the two highways through
the park is maintained.
By that time the Roosevelt trail,
as ii crosses the state will have
been surfaced most of the distance.
Right now it has more surfaced
roadway than any other east and
west road in the state.
This highway is one of the great.
est assets of northern Montana.
Over it to Glacier National park
there should come steady stream
OF tourists, caravan which should
increase as the years advance. AL
ready the tourists travel on it is a
very important factor in the sum.
mer business in towns along the
trail.
Recently the suggestion was
made by a member of the state
highway commission that il might
be possible to forecast the revenues
from the easolige tax aud borrow to
build highways more rapidly. 1t is
to be hoped that if such a step is
taken the commission will see the
wisdom of completing the work Of
surtacine the Roosevelt trail across
the state.
The counties OF northern Montana
such as Hill, Blaine and TooIe.
where the highway was surfaced
before the passage of the law turn
ing the gasoline tax over to high
way commission, are entitled to
have the road completed just as
soon as possible in other counties
10 order that they may secure the
business which a completely sur
faced highway across the state as
sures them. -Havre News Promot-
er.