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CAPTAIN SALVATION :. By Fred ". Wallace

IN the beach, beneath an over.
~ hanging rock, awaiting the
tide. Arson and Mary were hud.
died, their arms about each other,
The strapping. verile young mas.
ter-mariner had become carica.
ture of his former self-a pitiful
trayesty upon his once dominant
manhood. Shaggy of hair and
beard. his thin. pallid face, deep.
lined with suffering, his eyes Deep
sunk in his head, he was maintain.
ing his hold upon life through
will-power alone.
You can't down me- ne cried.
moarsely. apostrophizing an un.
known prosecutor. Il die when
l Will it! am my all in all!
am the only onev'
Hush. Anson." came the WON.
ans voice, weak. but still holding
the quality Of calm gentleness in
the tones. Trust in Cod
SGod?" The man looked down
into her pale, attenuated features
the clear grey eyes, unr1aturallv
large, alone rejecting the fire of
life. "God?" he repeated. harshly.
There is no God. no nothing =
only Deathl" He subsided weakly.
his arms feebly drawing her to.
waId him.
Don't leave me. Mary dear.
don't leave met
Her cold fingers sought his with
2 reassuring pressure. 81 won't
leave you. Arson. If God wills It
we'n pass through the valley of
the shadow together. Anson.''
Yes. yes" he repeated. child.
ishly assured. We'll pass through
the valley . together" And
he snuggled in toward her, clutch.
ing her shoulders like a frightened
infant. feeling simple content in
her presence.
She had come to be part of him.
self. a woman who had buoyed
him up in his darkest moments,
whose simple. steadfast faith had
won mis- admiration and reverence.
Hope burned eternal in her breast;
she made him life in spite of him
self. In srits of his philosophy.
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again-insanely-run after the
coffin, hold 1t, wind her arms
about it. Win some reprieve.
This that she heard was grotesne
and monstrous. Michael not com.
ing; Michael, who had waited
these long eight years so gallant.
ly-Michael blotted up, blotted
away
She listened distracted. incredu.
louS-interrupting with that mad
~ pathetic: ''Oh, pardon me!
You're sure? 1t was he? The
same one?"
Michael was i'll with malaria
when he Joined their ship at Pan.
anna. He grew rapidly worse.
! He must have had the fever some
time without much care. In the
last week he guessed that he was
done. He asked the purser. who
had friendship for him, 10 make
sure that Roen Ross got his let
tiers. He said to him yesterday:
We're not going to be late
getting in, are we? God, can 1
stick 1t out another day? Long
enough to see her-oncel God,
Mitch. think Of meeting her
deadr'
Before daylight he sent for this
young Kirby Mitchell, The boy,
trying to tell OF Michael's last
conscious hour, bit his lips and
blinked and found no words.
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
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Life, Love and Adventure Are the Lot
of an Obscure Girl in
Hinh Cnc;ofv
High Society.

, dreaming of the wonderful things
that were going to happen some
day-SaIly Marsh lived like that.
Yet, when she soberIy looked at
herself, she defended her dream
ing quickly. She could be prac-
teal, too.
Who else but q practical person
could have invented the magni
ficent working schedule? Billie
Graham said It was an inspiration.
Florence Clark thought 1t was
wonderful.
Each week, each turning seven
days, they were to divide all the
house work One girl would clean
house, another cook, another
market, another wash dishes. And
-one girl should do nothing at
all. just live grandly. Then the
next week they would shift places
and someone else would pass the
week in idle luxury.
Who's going to have the first
week Off" Betty Graham de-
manded
me, of course~ Sally had an.
swered, Didn't / think Of the
idea"
But what really happened was
this: Ruth. Irving cleaned house
when she happened to think of
it. When she didn't, which was
mostly, Sally did it for her. Flor.
ence Clark cooked, but rather
badly, so Sally-well. Sally as
sisted her. Billie Graham or
dered and selected the food and
necessities whenever she remem-
bered. but to make quite sure
Sally did it first. And Betty Ora
ham certainly meant to wash the
dishes, for she always said: IF
you'll only leave them, I'll do
them later" and afterwards said
to Sally. of course: Darling, if
you had only left them, / would
have done them later"
So the idea was real success.
In spite of moments when things
went wrong in subtle, impossible
ways. For there were other mo-
ments, earnest discussions about
men and clothes, Billie Graham's
stories about the silly people who
came to the beauty shop, the time
Ruth Irving's serious beau APP
peared and was discovered to be
bald, a detail which Ruth had
not mentioned.
Better than living in a lonely
rooming house and getting
lonely meal and going to he'd
because there was nothing better
to do. Much better.
But there was something the
mo ftor in aYNffo nf fhaf
In the dark window pane,
picked out with CLEANS from the
street lamps, Sally could family
make out her face. Her hair was
dark, like a crows wing with q
sheen in it. She could see her
eyes looking back at her dimIy,
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SHHALsEY is sending me to San
IA Francisco on business. III be
there four or five weeks. Roen,
I'm not asking you to come back
with me unless everything is easy
and right for you. But I ask you
to give me this month. Marry
me then.
To-day / find it hard to work.
long for you. Don't wait to
write. For / am so dashed with
the cruelty that is loving. l am
so consumed with the yearning
that is now an adoring OF you. |
see your eyebrows brown and silky
and long. Your black sweet lashes.
When l had the chance. how is it
that l didn't devour those eyes of
yours and your dear, parted lips?
I'm a little wild today, ashore.
Gable me that you'll take me the
moment I come. In April or per.
haps in March.
Put nothing before this, Roen.
Please"
Put nothing before til No, In.
deed. She began to get ready. In
q thunder of suppressed excite
ment. In the evening she sewed
on filmy things-not many, but a
few. Dearie watched with anxious,
straining, eyes.
She said once, fearfully: Are
you going back with Michael?"
mo dearest"
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one who saw her once ever for
got-how strange they had seemed
together.
Three thousand dollars and an
immense fund of recklessness--
that had been her fathers in
heritance. And Sally had given
away two of the three thousand
to the dour aunt. But later the
aunt had attacked her father as a
child of sin, and Sally had fought
tooth and nail. Whereupon she
was called Jezebel and left the
house forever but without her two
thousand.
But there had Eeen enough left
over to keep alive while learning
stenography, until she landed a
job.
And that vast couldn't be,
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CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER /
1T was not often that she had the
A blues.
When she did she perched her.
salt on the window seat, Rugged
her knees, and for hours and hours
said nothing at all.
Then all at once something
would whirr in her, and she would
laugh, laugh at herself, wonder
what on earth made her take
things as seriously as all that.
And for hours and hours she
would talk. about anything. to
anyone.
You're always so cheerful,
Sally" remarked Florence Clark.
II don't see how you do it."
But this evening she was
perched upon the window seat.
This evening she was staring at
nothing at all, her knees drawn
up under her chin, her eyes dark,
brooding, unfathomable.
Something was wrong. In fact
everything was wrong. And the
worst of it was that Sally was not
quite sure what.
The apartment had proved an
immense success, so it couldn't be
that. 1t had been a magnificent
idea, and triumphantly she. had
carried it through, this plan Of
five lonely girls living together,
sharing expenses and experiences,
and Sometimes-clotheS
Six months ago, she had gone
to Florence Clark. Florence,
plump and languid and blonde,
who had worked once upon a time
In the same office as herself.
Florence had Immediately sug-
gested Billie and Betty Graham
who did something in beauty
shop. And Billie Graham had inn.
mediately suggested Ruth Irving
who was serious and silent and
nice, with straight hair and
glasses. And that made five.
Enough to try the idea out-five
girls whose people or friends lived
far, far away.
The apartment was quite nice.
Sally had done a war dance.
Grand to be where you can
make all the noise you liker'
Whereupon, without q moments
delay, someone had knocked on
the ceiling warningly from the
apartment below.
She made elaborate plans for
doing the apartment over.
But Sally, we'd have to be
millionaires to do all that" Ruth
Irving protested. "I know the
chintz you mean--it's frightfully
expensive, and as for parchment
lamp.shades-v'
Well, we can think about them,
can't we?" Sally pleaded.
Thinking about things that
couldn't happen, planning, hoping,
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and her mouth, tugged down at
the corners now.
What on earth did she want?
Was she just Disseminated and
unfair? Memories came winging,
faint, half-sad snatches of things;
the days at school in France,
where all the little French girls
had admired her for having such
a rich, prodigal American father;
the day when the cablegram came
and she learned that her charm
ing spendthrift- of a father had
finally spent life itself, trying to
save a child in street accident.
Then the rocky farm In Maine,
with her only relative, middle.
aged cousin whom she called
Aunt. The dour New England
woman and the girl with the quick
little foreign gestures which no
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marriage as il she had never
thought OF it before.
Marriage-of course! And to
sit patiently and wait for some
magnificent love-affair to come
along-well, girls who did that
usually ended by living all alone
with one black cat.
She felt she had discovered a
great but perfectly simple truth.
You looked around, picked out
somebody, and married him! In
the process you tell in love. So
everything was ali right.
Impulses, you Rad to pay for
them sometimes, but they made
life vivid. Anyway you couldn't
possibly help having them, not
with a father who had been reck-
less and a mother who had been
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but IT was-all of three years ago.
Three years and nothing really
to show for 1t. Not any good
times. or nice clothes, or big ad-
ventures. 1t was hateful to read
a fashion magazine and see pic
lures of quite plain girls wearing
lovely things, having marvellous
times, girls on yachts, girls with
horses. girls in long. slim road
sters.
Happiness-how did you get
that, anyway? Not by living in
an apartment with four friends,
though they were quite the
incest friends in the world.
You did things. you wanted
things someone was very inn
portant TO you, someone TO whom
you were very important.
Then suddenly Sally thought of
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resolution unchanged. She had
plunged down. down into the
blues and emerged triumphantly
with an idea.
No wonder things had seemed
so pointless; day after day Of get
ting up every morning, washing.
putting the percolator on, rushing
off in the crowd that was STAN
peding into the offices, sitting
down at her desk in the Pam
theon Finance Company, lifting
the typewriter compartment up.
beginning things again
Almost once a week Rob Saun-
ders came in. He had papers to
be signed by the Panthon's notary.
His office was just down the
corridor.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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and CROPPED in his coat pocket.
Into his hand came the butt of
the Colts revolver. The chill of
the steel ran up his arm to the
brain, clearing the haze from be-
fore his sight. until he saw her
lying beside him, her eyes closed
In sleep, breathing gently like a
child.
Wen enter the valley together,
dearest one he muttered Sob
bingly. mo more pain, dear girl,
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With her beside him. he would
hold grimly to existence.
Then in a mental transforma.
ton he saw her awake. sit up
and turn towards him. He viewed
a dull horror in her gaze. He
was dead, and she was left alone
the sole survivor, in the dismal
solitudes. The fancy caused him
to arouse with a start, choking,
gilled with desperate resolve.
He pushed himself to his knees
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} her arm. Then she said softly,
starkly: NO! Not he-Micl1aeI?
MOI"
She turned TO the purser, who
was frightened, whose young face
was very pale. She opened her
hands in gesture that unman-
ned him. She said with a plead.
ing gentleness: '"That wasn't
Michael Scott? He wasn't sick.
Michael isn't deadr'
He died in quarantine at dawn
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The men nodded. They pushed
on-blinking. She stumbled along.
twitched one by the sleeve, thrust
white. afflicted face to his.
Michael? Not Michaelr'
Someone took her arm. Some.
one leaned down and whispered:
Il have letters"
She did not listen. She stared
after the coffin. She took a dis
tracted step and would have been
running again. The hand held
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this morning. So we brought the
body"
Michael's body wheeled away in
a redwood box.
She stared at the deck, holding,
bereft, to an image - Michael
swinging down the gangway,
breeze in the soft black curls.
Michael's arms and his blue, wist.
ful eyes and his fresh, young
lips.
She stood before the man who
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She gave cry that struck q
desolation on the springtime. She
flung down the passage. raising
her arms and stopping the men
pushing the coffin.
They were terrified at this dis
traught figure. She pressed her.
two hands on the crude box and
would not let them move. She
said imploringly- wildly-''Let me
see! Michael? No, God
Mop
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only that there still good fish in the
caught but that of the best be back be caught
In fishing for husbands good deal depends the kind of
bait too.
nbble the matrimonial hook and
line ceverly disguised harmless and demue daisy while
others drawn into the by redpeppery personality
have known broken heart be successful bait.
In lady have mind actually landed husbands
sympathy unhappy
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French and sang and had had
temperament to the day of her
death.
"I'n get married. said Sally
with a laugh. 1t only remained
to pick out the man. Her thoughts
circIed and swooped. Ruth Irving
was desperately in love, and he
was quite dull. and blinked his
eyes, and was bald. 1t didn't
matter-R you were in love.
Sally smiled quickly and softly.
She was thinking of Rob Saun-
ders.
CHAPTER 2
I'm an adventures" said
Sally, I'm a cold. scheming wom-
an and ought to be in a movie"
For she had walked up with her
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Some be laughed danced into matmony Others led
sympathy and understanding Some refuse nbbe any
but a long fortune.
Some have actually talked against the mohotony
age thereby completely throwing the fish off his guard
landing him.
I've noticed bait their
love children have any!
Many line dropped into the postofce landed
reeled in a lakei
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By FAY King

VTyHE other day picture of with string of fish
he had caught He certainly proud and had broad cham
= pionship grin his face!
couldn't help thinking of certain ladies know who could also
have picture taken like that Only the fish they caught would be
husbands-pas present and future!
always fishing matrmony, while
catching husband others
throw them back into the So that be said
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-19
This Day in History

On the 18th july 1861 Mary proclaimed Queen of
" England She known Bloody Mary" because Of the
boodhed that occurred during rule The number Of herecs
and martyrs burned while she ruled reached 300.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-19
The knowledge Test for
Times Readers

Do you know:
On what day October land discovered by Columbus
Who the first United States Minister to Canada?
3. What is raeant by pyrotechnics?
4. Who wrote "The Rape of the Lock-?
5. What is murschaum chiefly used for?
s. What mountain is the highest in Alaska?
q What river flows past the City of Cologne?
Fill each blank:
g. Tides are caused by the attraction of the
g. Marthas Vineyard is in the State of -.
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When the Bees Sting

THE sngs wasps and bees quite different
require directly opposite treatment For wasp sting the
best cure acid such vinegar, while for that Of bee
monia other alkali should be used
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-19

IL. Sirloin is a cut of :
Match correctly:
10. David Jayne Hill
a. Percy MacKaye
Is. Joe Capablanca
16. Chick Evans
IL. Augustin DAILY
Is. Henry Raeburn
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10 Chlck Evans portrait painter
IL. Augustin DAILY diplomat
18. Henry Raeburn chess player
See tOmOrrOws paper to verify your results.
Answers to yesterdays test:
l. Ecuador 20 quires: B. Asia; monkey g. Thames; g.
George Bernard Shaw T. London England Bay Long
Island; Baron Tanaka TO- Med family; H. April H. 1775
~ Ceres 49, Madame Catherine Beshkovsky; Ia Stanford
White Is. Chukker 16. ST. Cecilia
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-11
NOTICE TO DESTROY WEEDS
IN ASKOV VILLAGE

In accordance with the act of the
Legislature, Chapter 31S, owners fpr
occupants of lots or land, or if the
land is unoccupied, the owner thereof
or his duly accredited resident agent,
are to cut down, eradicate, or other
wise destroy all noxious weeds stand
ing. being, or growing upon such land
and upon the adjacent one half of
every road Or highway Immediately
such land. ~
Such weeds shall be destroyed on
or before the Goth of August, 1927.
Sec. 2 provides that the local weed
shall cut or otherwise de-
stroy any, weeds in question if the
owner or agents fail to destroy them
as required. The cost of cutting or
destroying such weeds plus other ex-
penses connected Herewith are ap-
piled on the taxes of the succeeding
year and must be paid for by the
land owner. .'.-...
LOUIS OLSEN,
Attest: President of Council.
GEO. LINDEGAARD, Clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-11
ASKOV WINS OVER
GRONINGEN 10 TO 8
Interesting Game Played at
Askov: Sunday.-Ball Is Kept
81. In Motion.-Rayner Gets Two
Homers.-

u. Pheo baseball game between Gron-
ingen and Askov on the Askov dia-
mond was quite interesting in sever
al ways. There was, not as many
strike-outs as is sometimes the case
and both teams batted the ball in good
shape, each side being credited with
10 hits. Rayner, the Groningen
short stop and pitcher, carried off the
batting honors of the day, getting two
circuit clouts, two Dagger and a
single out of four times to bat. The
game had spectacular ending. The
score was 8 to 10 and Groningen had
two men on bases with two out.
Rayner was up to bat. He fouled
twice and then whitfield at one and the
contest was ended. 1t was the scene
of when Casey struck out" over
again. However four hits in one
game should be good enough for any
man. This was the first game Gron-
ingen played this year and they did
we'll for the little practice they have
had.
Here is the box score:
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ASKOV FREE MOVIES
"a MAKER OF MEN"
Aug. IL.

Another picture directed by James
K. Shields.
The dramatic story told in "a Max
err of Men" throws into sharp contrast
the man who lives for himself and
the man who lives for others.
The son of a miners widow in a
rough mining town, Bruce Douglas,
Is brought up in poverty, in the school
of hard knocks. Alexander Fairchild
is a rich mine-owner, living in pa
latial home. Bruce saves the lives
of the mine-owner and his daughter
and after his mothers death is taken
into the family as an adopted son.
The boy had his dreams of wealth.
but his mothers fond wish was that
he be preacher of the gospel. When
he reaches manhood, college gradu-
ate with high honors, he is driven
from the home of his foster father
because he refuses an offer which
would make him wealthy and insists
upon becoming a minister in accord
ance with his mothers wish. His
foster sister, who loves him dearly,
pleads for him in vain.
Fairchild continues to devote his
life to the piling up of riches. Bruce
takes up the battle for good against
evil, for the weak against the strong.
He cleans up a gang of outlaws and
transforms community. He braves
all dangers. He welcomes every adj
venture that will make it possible
for him to rescue fellow human be-
ing from danger or disgrace.
Years pass and the two men come
together at dramatic moment in the
lives of both. Fairchild has been a
maker of money; Bruce, a maker of
men. Fairchild is stricken with re-
morse over a life misspent in laying
up treasure that is useless to him
in his old age. Gloom is over his
household because of a prodigal who
cannot be found. Bruce enters with
the prodigal, and like a ray of light
dispels the gloom.
"You were right and / was wrong"
says the aged mine-owner. Yours has
been the life worth while"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-11
TWO WAY HOG MARKET
CATTLE ABOUT STEADY
Lights and Light Butcher Hogs
Steady, Heavies and Packing
SOws Weak to 25c Lower
Cattle Trade About Steady I'm
der Moderate Run.-Lambs I'm
changed.
(By U. S. Bureau, of Agricultural
Economics and Minnesota Depart
mont nf

(By U. S. Bureau, of Agricultural
Economics and Minnesota Depart
ment of Agricultural
South st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 8, 1927.
A two way market developed in the
hog house today, lights and light
butchers selling about steady while
heavies and packing sows ruled weak
to 25c lower. Bulk of the desirable
lights sold at $10.65, slightly better
than 200 pound weights $1,000 with
220 to 24O pound kinds mostly $3.50
to $1,000. Heavy butchers cleared
mainly at $S.25 to $500, the general
run of packing sows at 1925, with
smooth sorts to $40 to $3.50.
Mixed drylot yearlings reached
$11.75 in the cattle division, with less
desirable offerings from $1,000 to
SLIPS and grassers mostly at $500
to $500. She stock held to the $3.50
to $3.50 schedule, cutters around $4.25
to $4.75, while bulls on the weighty
order scored mostly at $3.50 to $6.75.
Vealers were boosted to a $3.50 top
on so to 75c rise. Stocker and
feeder price lists remained at Mon
days levels, we'll bred Dakotas reach
ing 1925 and $3.50, the bulk of the
crop scoring at $3.50 to $3.50.
Steady prices governed in the sheep
division, bulk of the fat lambs selling
at $12,25 to $13.25, with Gull buck
lambs mostly at $500. Fat ewes
sold at $500 to $3.50 according to
weight. .s.-"