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The Shadow of the Sheltering Pines
' A New Romance of the Storm Country
By GRACE MILLER WHITE
Cocm'ftit by th H. K. Fir Co.npnr
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OUR STATES
By JONATHAN BRACE
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"TONY, LITTLE TONY!"
Synopsis. Lonely and friendless,
Tonnitel Ltvon, living on a canal
boat with a brutal father and a
worn-out, discouraged mother, wan
ders Into a Salvation army hall at
Ithaca, N. Y. There urie meets a
young Salvation army captain,
I'hilip Mat'Cauley. Uriah levon,
Tony's father, announces he has
arranged for Tony to marry Regi
nald Brown, a worthless compan
ion. Mrs. Devon objects, and Uriah
beats her. Their quarrel reveals
that there is a secret between them
in which Tony is the central figure.
Tony refuses to marry Reginald
and escapes u beating by jumping
into tue lake. She tinds a baby's
picture with offer of reward for its
delivery to a Doctor Pendleliavtn.
With the I'enillehavens, a family
of wealth, live Mrs. Curtis, a cousin,
her daughter and son, Katherlne
Curtis and Reginald Brown. Kath
erine is deeply in love with Philip
MacCauIey. Tonnibel returns the
picture to Doc tor John, and learns
it belongs to his brother. Dr. I'aul
Pendleliaven. It is a portrait of
Doctor Paul's child, stolen in In
fancy. Doctor John goes with Tony
to the canal boat. Mrs. Devon is
deeply agitated and makes Tony
swear she will never tell of Dev
on's brutality. The older Devons
disappear and Tony again visits the
Pendlehaven's. She is taken into
the house as a companion to Doc
tor Paul. Philip tights with Regi
nald and saves Tony. Uriah appears.
CHAPTER
-Continued.
VIII-
" Where's mummy?" she demanded,
aud again came a sharper "Where's
my mother?" Roughly shoving her
aside, Uriah walked across the hoat
deck, his sunken eyes fixed on Mac
CauIey. "What you mussin' ahout my hoat
(or, mister?" lie demanded. "And
what happened to that young feller
crawlin' to the beacli there?"
"I slung him In the lake," , said
riiilip fiercely. "The pup was was "
lie made a gesture toward Tony as
Devon's Interruption belched forth :
"Was It any of your business what
happened to my girl?"
Uriah took another step toward the
young captain.
"That's your canoe, ain't it, roped to
my dock?" he demanded fiercely.
"Well, hop In and get away If you
don't want a broken skull !"
Philip sent a flashing glance to the
6ilent, white girl. There was such ter
ror marked on her face that his teeth
fame together tensely.
"He can't go till my mother comes,"
she broke out abruptly. "I won't stay
if he don't."
Uriah's hand went back to his hip.
"I guess he'll go If I tell 'im to," said
he. "Just hop into your boat, kid,
before I fill you up to your teeth with
little bits of hot lead."
Tonnibel had witnessed scenes like
this before. She knew but a tiny pres
sure of her father's finger on the gun
he held would kill her sweetheart.
"Go along," she managed to get out
between her chattering teeth. "It'll be
worse for both of us if you don't !"
Devon was forcing I'hilip backward
toward the end of the dock, 8.-d by
this time Reginald had crawled to the
shore and had lain down upon It.
"Don't lag, mister," cried Tony to
Philip. "Go along to Ithaca."
MacCauIey stepped Into his canoe,
and Devon sullenly unfastened the
rope and threw It into the bow of the
craft.
"Don't come hack here if you don't
wunt a taste of this," he snapped,
touching his gun. "Get out and stay
out, mister."
With the end of the , revolver he
gave the canoe a shove, and Tony saw
the paddle dip into the water and the
boy move away.
Uriah stood a moment and looked
off to the hills. Then locking Tony
In the cabin he went to where Reggie
lay on the shore and helped him back
to the bout.
where Keggie was seated on a bunk,
looking pale and sullen.
"Set down on the floor, brat." corn
mantled Uriah, nml Tonnibel dropped
down. "Now listen to me, Touy,"
went on Devon. "Ever since you've
been knee high to a grasshopper you
been as mean as the devil. You always
got In behind Ede when she was here,
but now there ain't no skirts to shove
me off. You hear?"
Every vestige of blood left the wan
young face.
"Where is mummy?" she said, lift
ing Imploring eyes to his.
"Dead," said Devon brutally, "as
dead as a door nail. Here, my lady,
if you holler I'll rap you one on the
gob."
"Dead!" cried Tonnibel. "Pop,
you're lying to me I know you are!"
"Have it your own way, kid," re
plied Uriah, with an insolent laugh,
"but one thing's sure Ede ain't here
to buck against me now. What I wuut
to get Into your thick noodle is you're
goin' to get married as soon as we
get to Auburn. See?"
The girl's eyes remained centered
on his face, horror deep seated in
their gray depths.
"Here's Reggie wantin' to marry
you," continued Devon, with a wide
wave at the limp young man. "And
when I say you've got to I mean it."
"I won't," fell from Tony's lips, but
the awful expression on her face didn't
change nor did she drop her eyes.
Devon took a quick step toward her,
with an upraised arm, and as he had
beaten his wife so he laid the blows
about the girl's head and shoulders.
The pig fell from Tony's- arms in her
desperate efforts to protect herself.
"Oh, daddy, don't, don't, any more!"
she screamed.
Reggie Brown was watching the
brutal scene dully as if it Interested
fa? Jfl m
Philip Caught at It Desperately.
CHAPTER IX.
The Face In the Window.
By ten o'clock a heavy rain and
Wind had settled over the Storm
Country with eueh force that the
waves were rolling southward like
Ivory-crested mountains. Once in a
while a heavy thud of thunder rever
berated over the lake from the north,
losing its roar back of the Cornell
buildings on the university campus.
Devon's canal boat was following
the little tug which was hugging the
western shore northward. Tonnibel,
In the little room back of the cabin,
was searching through the darkness
from the small window. But the only
thing she could see was the dark bank
along which they crept and which
once In a while was lit up by a vivid
streak of lightning.
Suddenly the engine stopped, and as
If she Imagined Gussle could help her
he gathered her Into her arms.
In a vivid streak of lightning she
saw they were anchored close to
Crowbar point, which protected them
Bomewhnt from the wind. She
crouched low when the little door
opened and Uriah called her name.
"Come out here, Tonnibel," he com
tnanded roughly, and Tony, with Gus
le In her arms, crept Into the cabin,
him but little. At the girl's fearful
plea Devon stepped back and glared
at her.
"Will you do what I bid you, miss?"
he demanded hoarsely. "I'd as soon
kill you as take a wink."
Tonnibel made no answer save to
weep more wildly, and, because she
did not make ready reply, Uriah
struck her again. Then suddenly
Reginald stood up. ,
"Don't hit 'er any more, Dev." he
drawled. "Shut 'er up a while and
keep 'er without grub, and she'll come
to time. Give 'er a night to think it
over. God, b'ut you've walloped her
black and blue as 'tis."
In answer to this Devon picked
Tony up and threw her Into the hack
cabin. Then he kicked Gussle over
the threshold, slammed the door and
locked It.
I'hilip MacCauIey had; paddled away
from the Dirty Mary with a dull,
sick fear for the girl he had had to
leave behind. To fight single-handed a
drunken man with a gun was fool
hardy and would do little Tony no
good.
When he reached the corner of the
lake he ran his craft ashore and sat
for a long time thinking. Suddenly
he saw through the dusk that the ca
nal boat had left its moorings and was
moving slowly northward In the teeth
of the rising wind. With an ejacula
tion he shoved off and was out in the
boiling surf. Wherever that boat went
he decided to go, too.
As he paddled carefully along, he
could see the shadows of two men in
the glimmer of the little light in the
small pilot house. Then Reggie was
there with Devon, but where was
Tony?
One small window in the canal boat
gave forth a dim light. He felt withlu
him that she was there where that
light was, alone and suffering. What
had she thought of his allowing him
self to be forced away from her when
she needed him most? His teeth came
together sharply. He was no coward,
this Philip MacCauIey, this captain of
the Salvation army.
Suddenly he caught sight of a pass
ing shadow In the cabin, and his heart
leapt up within him. 'Twas the shad
ow of a girl walking up and down.
Grimly his teeth set Into his under lip
and with one deep thrust of the pad
dle Into the water, he sent the canoe
headlong toward the canal boat. Then
It was that a girl's face came to the
window.
The canoe almost crashed against
the side of the bigger boat as It enme
sidewise of it, and Philip caught at It
desperately. Slowly lifting himself
up he thrust his face close to Tony's.
She was staring at him blankly as if
his ghost had suddenly risen out of
the storm-tossed lake.
"Don't do that, darling. he whis
pered as she drew back in terror. "I'm
going to take you away."
Then she realized who It was, id
reached out and clutched at hiin,
breathlessly.
"Climb through," undertoned Philip.
"Quick, climb through, and when I tell
you to drop, do It, but not before."
I'.y holding his body rigidly erect, he
managed to keep the canoe upright.
Then he waited, but not for long. Al
most immediately a girl's bare arm
shot through the window. Something
wriggled In her clutching fingers.
Philip almost lost his hold on the boat
as Gussie came against his face. He
snatched the pig and dropped it at his
feet. Then a pair of bare legs fol
lowed and Tony's body began to wrig
gle through the narrow aperture.
Once or twice Philip muttered an
ejaculation as a streak of lightning
crossed the sky only to die and leave
the water as dark as before. It was
taking the girl an interminable time to
squeeze herself through that opening.
Suddenly her shoulders were through,
and she was hanging on by her hands.
Jus-t at that moment the tug ahead
became silent, and Philip heard the
two men walking back along Its roof.
They were coming aboard" the canal
boat, and If He crushed the canoe
nenrer, lifted one hand and jerked the
hanging figure of the girl away from
the window. She flopped face down
ward into the bottom of the canoe,
and Philip left her there limp without
a word. Then he let go his hold of
the canal boat, and a great wave lift
ed his slender craft upon its crest and
they shot away toward the bank.
It took a shorter time than it takes
to tell It for the canoe to reach the
shore. Under the overhanging trees
where they were shielded from the
wind, Philip turned and looked back.
A man's face was thrust through the
window which had just yielded up the
quiet little figure at his feet. Then
two forms appeared upon the stern
deck. From the hand of one of the
men hung a lantern. Philip remained
very-stlll. He knew they could not
see him hidden away there In the darkness.
For a long time, through which Ton
nibel never moved, Philip waited. The
men on the canal boat seemed filled
with terror. They ran from one end
of It to the other. He heard them call
ing to and fro, and once in a while an
oath escaped from Devon as he
screamed his daughter's name loudly.
It was not until he saw one of them
climb upon the tug and heard the sud
den' clang of the engine that the boy
took up his paddle and moved slowly
along the shore southward, and, as he
was going with the wind, Philip made
rapid progress toward the head of the
lake.
In a little cove he drew the canoe to
the shore and, springing out, dragged
it its length from the water.
Then he called softly:
"Tony little Tony."
The girl stirred and lifted her head.
"Yep," she sighed. "I'm here."
"Come out," said Philip, leaning
over and taking noid or ner arm.
"There! Child, don't shake so. You're
safe here with me, and I suppose they
think you're drowned by this time.
Can't you step out, dear?"
She was trembling, so he had to pick
her up and lift her out in his arms.
Then he carried her under 8n over
hanging rock and placed her on th
sand.
Through many sobs and tetrs, she
told him all that had happened on the
eanat- boat, and that her father had
said her mother was dead. And so
touched was Philip MacCauIey, he felt
the tears rim his own lashes. For a
long time, in fact until the rain ceased
to beat upon the rocks and shore, they
stayed under cover. Most of the time
they were silent, most of the time Phil
ip held the curly head agalnnt' his
breast. When the dawn began to break
Tonnibel roused herself.
"I'm goin' away now," she said.
"I've got to go to my friends. And
I can't tell you just how much I'm
thankln' you."
But If I let you go," protested
Philip, "I'll never see you again. Oh,
don't do that. Tony, I couldn't stand
It now I"
"I couldn't, either," she said under
her breath. "I'll be comln' back her
to this hole some day."
W
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RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND
Is not really the
name of this state.
As can be seen
from the state seal,
the official name Ip
"State of Rhode
Island and Provi
dence Plantations." It originated from
two district settlements. The first was
made by Roger Williams In 1630. He
was the pastor of a church In Salem.
As he advocated radical reforms he
was ordered to return to England, but
fled to the Narragansett tribe of In
dians. From them he obtained a tract
of land and called the town which he
established Providence, in token of
God's mercy which had so far provid
ed for him.
About the same time Mrs. Anne
nutchinson and her followers were
expelled from Massachusetts on ac
count of a theological dispute. She
made her way to the Island of Aquid-
nock, which she purchased from the
Indians for 40 fathoms of white
wampum, 20 hoes and 10 coats. The
name of this island was changed to
the Isle of Rhodes, probably after the
famous Greek island in the Mediter
ranean. By common usage it became
known ns Rhode Island. In ICG:
Charles II gave Rhode Island a very
liberal charter, and this remained in
force until 1841, when a new state con
stitution was adopted by mass con
ventions, and two years later another
new constitution was legally voted,
The chance in constitutions caused
what was known as Dorr's rebellion.
The entrance of Rhode Island Into
the Union in 1790 completed the list
of the original thirteen states. Though
Rhode Island Is the smallest of all the
states, with only 1,248 square miles,
it Is very thickly populated and has
five presidential electors, which is
more than those of a number of states
of much larger territory.
Uncle Valte
FATHERS OF MEN
T HERE Is much truth In the old
X saying, 'As the twig Is bent, so
the tree Inclines, observed the re
tired merchant. "If a boy Inclined
to crookedness grew up to be a straight
and reliable man. It would be nothing
short of a miracle.
Therefore I trem
ble for the future
of Spoonab le's
boy, William Henry-
He seems to
be just naturally
vicious."
"You're full of
excelsor," said the
hotelkeeper polite
ly. "All those
chestnutty old say
ings are fakes.
The patriarchs
used to be always
saying that the
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VERMONT
THE derivation of
the name Ver
mont comes from
the French "verts
monts," or green
mountains, and it
was likewise the
French who were
probably the first white men to see
those lofty landmarks which so appro
priately give this state its name. This
Wfjs in July, 1609, when Champlain
nude his memorable voyage up the
lake now called after him.
Jrhe first permanent settlement was
fuadeMn 1724 afBfattleboro, where -the
Massachusetts colony established a
fort as a buffer against invasion from
the north. The territory used was
part of what was known as the
"Equivalent Lands," which were sold
at public auction In Hartford for
about a farthing an ncre, the proceeds
being donated to Yale college. Shortly
after this, settlers pushed eastward
from New Y'ork across Lake Cham
plain and westward from New Hamp
shire. This led to disputes between
these two colonies as to their bound
aries. Under the leadership of Ethan
Allen New York's claims were resisted
by a local military force, which
proudly called themselves "the Green
Mountain Boys." It was these same
men who played such a brilliant part
during the Revolution.
In 1777 a formal Constitution for
the state was adopted and Vermonters
are proud of the fact that theirs was
the first of the states to prohibit
slavery by constitutional provision
For a number of years Vermont re
mained as a separate republic, but in
1791 it was admitted to the Union as
the first addition to the original thir
teen states.
In size Vermont hns 9,0,4 square
miles, and its congressional delegation
numbers four. It thus casts four vote
for the president.
"I can't tell. PUaae don't
k me.'?
ITO HE CONTINUED.)
Appreciation.
'Has your wife a sense ot humor?"
"I think so," replied Mr. Meekton.
"The funnier a gown looks the ma
she Is willing to pay for It"
Tolstoy Tribute to Dickens.
Maxim Gorky published ' some Jot
tings from his notebook of talks with
Leo Tolstoy toward the end of the old
man's life, and among them there Is a
curious appreciation of Charles Dick
ens, according to the continental edi
tion of the London Mail. Tolstoy sal
of him : "Dickens has expressed a re
markable thought. He says life was
given to us to be valiantly defended to
the last breath. ... He was on
the whole a sentimental and loqua
cious writer of mediocre Intelligence.
But he knew better than anyone how
to put a novel together. He certainly
did ft better than Balzac. Both writers
have left a number of badly written
books, and yet Balzac had genius."
The talks cover a wide range of subjects.
MOTORTRUCK IS BIG FACTOR
Anything That Will Make Interurban
Transportation More Efficient Is
Advantageous.
Motortruck operation Is Just begin
nlng to make Itself felt as a factor In
lowering food prices, and everything
that will make truck operation more
efficient, especially for Interurban
transportation, will be of a decided
advantage to all of us who have to
eat.
boy Is the father of the man, but he
sn't; and he isn't grandmother to the
man, either. You can t study a boy
and predict what sort of a man he's
going to be, any more than the official
forecaster can examine his maps and
charts and tell us what the weather
will be like tomorrow.
"You observe that my larboard eye
Is somewhat discolored and I have a
contusion on my brow, and my nose
Is slightly out of alignment. Yester
day I was plrootlng along a back street
on a little errand, when I beheld a
big, husky teamster pounding the saw
dust out of a venerable horse that had
seen better days. I went up to him
and protested in the most courteous
way, and he said it would afford him
genuine pleasure to kick my spine up
through my hat, If I didn't go my way
and leave him alone. I Informed him
that if he hit that horse again I
would push his countenance out of
place, and he Immediately clubbed the
suffering animal harder than ever.
"I am glad to say that I succeeded
In kicking most of the rind off the
teamster's shins before he got me
down and sat on my head, but I sub
mit that a man who will take such
chances as I did must have the cause
of cruelty to animals much at heart.
There's nothing makes my blood boll
quicker than to see an animal abused.
"Well, when I was a boy I had a
wide reputation for cruelty. I used
to delight In tying tin cans to the
tails of dogs, and in drowning cats,
und In robbing birds' nests, and all
such sinful pastimes. The moralists
of that period agreed that I was en
titled to the mantle of Nero, and that
I would come to a bad end. Yet when
-1 -became -old enough to have some
sense, I made pets of all the dumb
critters within eight miles.
"If that old maxim about the twig
and the tree were any good, it ought
to work both ways, and the saintly boy
always would become a grand, good
man. But as a rule the truly good
boys don't amount to much In after
life. Nearly all our useful citizens
were hard citizens when they were
boys, and. the shiftless, no-account men
were simply angelic when they went
to school.
"A boy gets tired of being immacu
late after he has tried It a few years,
and he goes to the other extreme.
And the boy who has been a horrible
example ever since he left the cradle
gets sick of that sort of thing when he
has cut his wisdom teeth, and he be
comes so virtuous that there's no liv
ing In the same block with him.
"Most of the old sayings are fool
ish and trifling, and I am surprised
when a grown man goes around quot
ing them. Y'et a lot of fellows think
they have clinched an argument when
they drag in a bewhiskered maxim.
In order to show that Spoonable's boy
is foredoomed, you spring that old
wheeze about the twig and the tree.
You might just as well say that Mary
had a little lamb, and consider the ar
gument closed.
"I know you are suffering to remind
me that people who live In glasshouses
shouldn't throw stones, but I won't
stand for It"
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KNEW FEATHER WAS THERE
Young Lady Altogether Unnecessarily
Worried Over the Appearance of
Strange Old Gentleman.
One day while in a railroad station
In New York, I was sitting, waiting
fur 'the time to puss for my train.
There came in a well-dressed anil
rather old man who had a bright
burnt-orange feather in the ribbon of
his felt hat.
It beiiij; my first trip Last, and not
knowing it was the custom for men
to wear a bright -colored leather in
their hats, I walked up ami said:
"Pardon tue, sir. hut you have a feath
er in your hat." He was quite deaf,
so I found I had to spenk in a loud
voice in order to make him hear. I
repeated the statement three times un
til I saw everyone near me smiling.
The old man laughingly said: "Oh,
that is the style, miss."
I was so embarrassed that my train
did not come too quick for me Chi
cago Tribune.
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are not getting genuine Aspirin pre
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told In the Bayer
package for Colds, Headache, Neural
gia, Rheumatism,- Earache, Toothache,
Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of As
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sell larger packages. Aspirin Is the
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Adv.
Proof of Love.
"Why have you n:n1 Miss Gadthwaite
broken off your engagement?"
"Because she loves nie so."
"That's a queer reason."
"Xot at all. She believes in fortune
telling, nnd when she went to h'.ive her
fortune told not long ago she was in
formed that she would he married
three times. That settled my case, for
the time being, at Irast. she said she
was determined that I should not en
counter tht? danger of being first on
the list."
Cure for Flat Feet
Are you flat-footed? If you don't
know, the next time you take a bath,
observe the Impressions that your wet
feet make. If your feet are normal,
there will be a narrow line from heel
to toe on the outside; If they are flat
the entire bottom of the foot will
show.
How can you cure flat-footedness?
Buy a handful of marbles, place them
In two rows, and start picking them
up with your toes. To do this you
must curl up your toes; as a result
the muscles of the feet will be exer
cised and thereby strengthened. Fop
ular Science Monthly.
Vertical Work Only.
English charwomen demand twice
I lie money and double the food of pre
war days. no if them N reported
as saying lo lie.' employer: "Your
feeding, ma'am, Is satisfactory, but
owing to our bavin' to eat more to
keep goin' in these anxious times, us
charladies have decided to take no
stoopin' Jobs after dinner." Boston
Transcript.
And He Meant It, Too.
On Jimmie's return home from the
birthday party of a girl In the neigh
borhood, he was telling his mother
about her mother. When the children
were leaving she asked them all to
wish her little girl something nice.
Whereupon Jimmie's mother said to
him : "I trust that my little boy wished
the little girl something nice.
"(), yes," said Jlmtule, still seeing
visions of cake and Ice cream: "I
wished her that she'd soon have an
other blrfday."
Important to Mothers
Examine ccrefully every bottle of
CASTOBIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of (
In Use for Over 80 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
A Night Raider.
"Never ask your husband for mon
ey," counseled the Old Married
Woman.
"I never have to," retorted the
Young Bride proudly. "Charlie's such
n darling. He sleeps like a baby all
night long." The American Legion
Weekly.
Notoriety
not always.
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Relief
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Hot water
Sure Relief
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