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m K ItOCK ISLAND AKGUS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 13. 10U. ' t i t; : ill: THE ARGUS. , Published dally at Second r- 4 Rock Ialand. I1U (Enter at tha i )oetof9e aa second-class matter.) tv Krk IsUad XtuWr mt the Aaeeclatee ITf . BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. " TERMS Tan ent par weak by car rier. In Rock Island; f S per year by mall In advance. Complaints of delivery eervlca should be made to tha circulation department. .-"vMch should aUso be notified In every -'Instance where It Is desired to have paper discontinued, aa carriers have no authority in the premises. All communications of ara-umentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No euch artlclee wUl ba printed over fictitious signatures. Telephones In all departments. Cen tra Union. Rock Island 145. 1145 and 214S. Wednesday, May 13, 1914. The Kalamazoo celery crop Is said to have been washed out, but thank coodnees Michigan peaches are safe. The republican aspirant for the nom ination for sheriff who throws his hat Into the ring this year must ex pect to have it kicked around rather promiscuously, and all for nothing, too. The fact that no auto fatalities took place In Iowa in the month of Febru ary is being; pointed to as one of the advantages of having roads which are not generally suitable for motor vehi cle travel at least part of the year. The forcing out of business of Her man Weber's Union restaurant in Chi cago wi',1 be looked upon as confirming: t!:e popular belief that the serving of food has become a minor considera tion from the viewpoint of the modern restauranteur. A thousand barrels of vinegar are tied up in a law suit in Davenport, the manufacturer suing for its price from the purchaser and the latter trying to recover four times that figure on the -round that the consignment Is not jjp to the pure food standard. Some jickle. Rev. Washington G!adden's tribute , to the newspaper profession paid at Lawrence, Kan., yesterday indicates one of two things: .Either the rever end gentlemen knew what he was talk ing about or else he had a correct hunch as to the best method of get ting his own name into the headlines throughout this broad land. It required but half an hour yester day to find two negroes guilty of a , tenitentiary offense. This case, com ;,' Ing after others recently tried, tends V to confirm the conviction that the jjpeed with which the mills of Justice grinhiVp"eTIa'sJf120.nJh KrI" that's In the hopper than upon tiv!a"'tnft&L defense fund. Several members of the business men's party while inspecting Rock Is land arsenal yesterday afternoon sud denly lost their desire to go to the front In the event of active hostilities. They were being shown the new auto matic rifle used by the United States soldiers which pours a leaden rain ef fective for three miles at the rate of 400 shots a minute. "Guess we wouldn't do much to the Mexicans with those." observed one, "Yes," replied the officer, who was guiding the party, "but the Mexicans have them, too." The lienttic coal reserves of the Bonnineid region, Alaska, are esti mated by the United States geological survey to be nearly 10,000,000,0000 tons, which exceeds by nearly 3,000, i00,000 tons the estimate made a few years ago, on the information then available, of the total quantity or Jlgnitic coal in the territpry. The new estimates, which are very moderate. Indicate that the quantity of coal avail able in the Bonnineid region is greater than that of all the other surveyed Ceds of the territory. FLYING THE FLAG. Memorial day and flag day are Just ahead, and rules for the proper dis- tlay of flairs haTe been Issued. On .Vemorial day. from sunrise to noon the flag on a pole should float at half mast and from noon until sundown at full mast. The half mast in the morning is the flag of sorrow for the dead and the full mast afterwards is the rejoicing over the victory which those who died for the flag won for their country. No flag should ever be raised before sunrise, nor permitted to float after sundown. The govern ment always observes these rules. EMERGENCY RELIEF DRILLS We have fire drills in our schools 3d factories. Why not emergency re lief drill for cities and towns? Why not require every mayor, before enter ing upon the duties of his office, to think out his course of action in caee of disaster? A Mississippi river levee breaks. Railroads are overflowed, and trains stopped. People move upstairs or into the attic. The waters will remain for weeks and possibly months. Pesti lence and famine stare from out the rtiurky tides. How can relief be given to these peo ple? The first element In the an swer, says R. L. HImes In the Survey, U. do something. First appoint a re-1 itf mnar or executive officer. Who ' .hall appoint him? The community ppoa which the work devolve.. The J mayor may do It The mayor and J council may do it. A mass meeting ror the purpose may do it. Do it now. Do not select a man for the Job because ne "haa the time.-' The man you want is a man of executive ability who has a knowledge of men and affairs. Having chosen him. call upon your people to cooperate with him in any way he requests. He will at once call to hi aid a council of the best men in the community, one to be chief of each of the following offices; dispensation aurvev and information, commissary homes, treasury, sanitation, and medi cine. Emergency relief drills for com munities would be of two kinds. First, a drill In what we should do if our community were stricken. Under this point talk and plan plainly so that if the unlookedfor should happen, the organization will be ready in advance. Second, what we should do if an other community auffered. Using the same organization, take up a collec tion. Let every person give his mite A penny from each family in this na tion would make nearly a quarter oi a million dollars. HONOR ONLY IN FORBEAR ANCE. The socialists, in opposing war, are not taking new or unusual ground. President Wilson, Secretary Bryan and nearly everybody else outside of those with personal interests to ad vance or a hankering for glory are also opposed to war. Members of the army and navy naturally favor war, but they may be excused for desiring to show what they can do in their reg ular line of work. Others who would like to see an active campaign in Mexico Include manufacturers who deal in war munitions, those who han dle fat army pr navy contracts, a few civilians who like to see trouble at whatever cost, and such politicians and politically controlled newspapers as have no desire to see anything the present administration attempts suc ceed. The vast majority of the peo ple are ipeaceable enough. Politicians who are clamoring for war do so because President Wilson and his advisers are trying to settle the trouble in Mexico without resorts ing to further loss of life and destruc tion of .property. "Avenge the insult to Americans" is their cry. They would have the United States "teach the Mex icans a lesson," though they very well know that the only way te make any impression upon an unstable and irre sponsible people is with fire and sword to exterminate them or reduce them to direst want. It is to avoid teaching euch a "lesson" that the United States government is now bending its best efforts. We can make an example otfat the fruit is rubbed over a piece of Mexico If we wish. We would be tak ing no chances as a nation, and there would be no glory for us as a people to ha wnn In such a. Connuest. rhpro Is honor, however, in forbearance. Force of arms will no win the love of the Mexican or te respect of the balance of the wp;rid. Our work in Mexico Is constructive, not destruct ive. And let th.Jse whose voice is all for war be knr0wn for what they are. CLEANING UP PEORIA. K number of prominent citizens of 'peoria have undertaken a big job. They are trying to "clean up the city." Mayor Woodruff has issued an order for the elimination of the segregated vice district, which is to go into effect Aug. 1. An organization known as the Law Enforcement league is backing him end is endeavoring to make the reform a permanent one. At a meet ing Sunday night attended by 4.000 people the question was publicly dis cussed and the purposes of the league were explained. One of the speakers, Mrs. Julia -Proctor White, in telling what provision was to be made for the women of the district, said: "From one point of view such wo men are simply law-breakers and are entitled to no more consideration than any other law-breaker. But a deeper and more Just consideration of the case shows the following facts: They have obeyed a law within the law, or shall we say outside the law? a law laid down for them by our city officials. We must admit that the attitude of our city administration toward the prob lem and that of other administrations preceding it, has been a reflection of a large part of our citizens. "We are preparing to offer with i absolute sincerity to each one of these J women a chance to enter a different life. A committee of two or three of our women will visit each house in the district affected by the mayor's recent order and ask of the inmates the op portunity of speaking to all of the wo men living there. We shall also se cure a room in close proximity to the district where we may be found at certain hours every day from the time the room Js opened until Aug. 1, or possibly longer. "We feel that we have no right to force cur assistance even upon those who we would gladly help. The num ber of women who accept aid and the nature of the aid given will be fully reported by our committee, but we have no right to make capital of their misfortune, nor to make public a sen sational list of their names and his tory. We ask your cooperation and that of the newspapers in carrying out this Idea. "We are dealing with our fellow women and we wish to meet them sim ply s one woman to another, and to show them the same courtesy and con sideration that we believe that they will give us." Peoria s undertaking is not a new i one. The same question as been wrestled with by nearly every city of any size In the country, too often, un fortunately, without satisfactory re sults. Peoria reformers have many exceptionally difficult obstacle to over come. In Rock island, as elsewhere. where the conditions there are known. the result of the present effort will be w atched with interest Mexico a .Country of Contrasts "Perhaps nowhere else in the world is there a country so full of contrasts as Mexico." writes William Joseph Showalter to the National Geographic society, at Washington, D. C. "With a university established before John Harvard, Elihu Yale, or William and Mary were born, the masses of its peo ple are hopelessly ignorant. With a hospital founded before Jamestown was even dreamed of. it is one of the most backward regions of the earth in a medical way. With natural riches greater than those- of a thousand Midas s, its masses are Just as poor as the proverbial church mouse. With a constitution as perfect as any or ganic law in the civilized world, it is a nation whose rulers always have been a law unto themselves. "Here you will see a Mexican half breed, barefooted, wearing a dollar pair of trousers, a 50 cent shirt, and a $10 sombrero. There, at a single glance and within the length of a sin gle city block, you may see an Indian cargador, a donkey, an ox-cart, a car riage, a railroad train, a street ear, and an automobile almost every type of locomotion since Adam. You may tread the burning sands of a tropical desert with the wet of the perpetual snow of towering mountains still upon your shoes. You may take a single railway Journey of 36 hours in which the people you see at the railroad sta tion will be dressed in Tour different weights of clothing. Everywhere you turn there Is contrast, high lights and deep Bhadow-s. "Mexico probably has a greater range of remarkable vegetation than any other country in the world. The parrot fruit tree produces an odd shaped fruit, bearing a close re semblance to green parakeets. When the parakeet is frightened it makes a dash for the parrot tree, where it as sumes a position which makes it look like the fruit itself. So close is the resemblance that their enemies, the hawks, occasionally fly by a." tree on which a dozen or more of these birds are sitting, apparently unaware of their presence. Another remarkable tree is the 'Arbol de Dinlmite dyna mite tree whose fruit, if kept in a warm place, bursts with considerable force and a loud report, scattering its flat seeds to a surprising distance. One of the most Interesting fruits in Mex ico is known as the melon, zapote. or papaya. It contains considerable pep sin, which reacts fcainst both acid and alkaline conditions of the stomach, and it Is said -that a diet which in cludes papayp precludes dyspepsia. Both the fruit and the leaves possess the singular property of rendering tov.-gh meat tender. When the puip tough meat the Juice attacks fiber and softens it. the Tipping the Headsman. Ancient usage in England has a pe culiarly consecrating effect in the mat ter of tips and fees. Horace Walpole records the astonishment of George I. when told that he must give guineas, to the servant of the ranger of his park for bringing him a brace of carp out of his own pond. Apparently everybody in England is at some time or other Justified in demanding a fee unless it be the monarch. When Talt became archbishop of Canterbury and met the queen he breathed a sigh cf relief on at last encountering a person to whom he bad not to pay something. Accord ing to Bishop Burnet, a man used to have to give a tip in order to be decapi tated. He tells the story of Lord Rus sell when under sentence of death for high treason asking what be ought to give the executioner. "I told him 10 guineas, ne said, with a smile, it was a pretty thing to give a fee to have his bead cut off." Chess and War. The origin of chess Is shrouded in mystery. There is little doubt, how ever, that its birthplace was in India and that it Is an offspring of a game called chaturanga. which is mentioned Bed Time Tales By Clara Ingram Judson. 'The Woman F coure you know the story of the "Man-in-the-Moon who came down too soon." .but 0 have you ever noticed the old worn- an in the moon? If you have, you will want to Vnow the ancient Indian legend of who she is and how she came to be In the tnoon. Once vpon a time, in the tribe of 'Algonqnins, there lived a wise old medicine woman. - She knew everything about every herb that grew and people came from all about to be cured of their sicknesses. She knew all about every bird and beast and the animals all came to ber for advice. She knew everything about every tar in the heavens and people came to her to find what would happen in the future and she could tell them all. In fact, she was so wise that she knew everything there was to know, on the whole earth, except one thing she didn't know when the world would end! But the one thing she didn't know worried her more than all the things she did know, and she was continu ally asking the Great Spirit to tell her when the world would end. Vnw the Great Spirit grew tired of her questions and sent a Mam- .... . tou to tell her to stop. So the four winds blew her up to "Go tell the Great Spirit," an- the moon and there she sits still swered the old woman, "that when working on the headband that is this headband I am working on, is never finished. finished I will stop asking. For as fast as she works a few So the Manitoti carried the reply stitches the cat in the moon pulls and the Great Spirit said. "Tell the them out. Id woman I will tell her when she And every night when the moon is thru weaving her headband. And is full you can see her forever ask ..ii I,., .h. m.,t leave the earth be- ins. forever unanswered, for the I" re I tell her, tor it sne stays Tomorrow Fairltt "No other" country south of the Rio Grande Is so well supilled with rail roads. Prior to the Madero revolu tion It had 20.000 miles of up-to-date American railroad, which carried 11. nnn nnn naicnrara annually id handled about 11,000,000 tons of freight. Their total revenues amount ed to about $40,000,000. The govern ment owns a controlling interest in the major portion of the mileage of the railroads. "Mexico produces one-third of the world's silver, a considerable percent age of Its gold, one-ninth of Us leau ne-twentieth of its copper. The coun try's mineral production, exclusive of iron, coal and petroleum, amounted to $158,000,000 in 1910. -The famous Iron mountain at Duranga is estimated to contain 600,000,000 tons of Iron ore, which Is worth seven times the value of all -the gold and silver mined in Mexico In two centuries. The Santa Maria graphite mines are tie largest and most Important In the western world. .The region around the Gulf of Mexico is very rich in petroleum, one company at Poterl del Liang, struck a gusher which flowed 100.C00 barrels ot oil a day. "The drawn-work of t!;? Mexican In dian is Justly famed throughout the world, and deserves to rank with the finest of Spanish and Italian laces. The Indians make all sorts of small ob jects to attract the centavos of the tourist. The little dolls of Cuernavaca, a half-Inch tall and dressed in finely embroidered raiment, are the admira tion of every one who sees them. The small clay animals, perfectly fashion ed and ranging from the peaceful dog to the charging bull and the bucking mule, would do credit to the genius of many a sculptor whose name figures in the art publications of the world. But perhaps the most wonderful of all are the tiny dressed fleas, which may be bought in Mexico City. Another won derful work of the Indians is the mak ing of feather pictures from the plum age of humming birds, now almost a lost art. "The Indians of Mexico eat many curious foods. One of the most re markable of these is made of the eggs of a species of marsh fly. This fly de posits its eggs in incredible quantities upon flags and rushes. The eggs are gathered and made into cakes which are sold in the markets. The Indians call the eggs water-wheat. They re semble fine fish roe, and when mixed with corn meal and fowl eggs form a staple article of diet, particularly dur ing Lent. The insects themselves, which are about the sine of the house fly, are captured, pounded into a paste, boiled in corn husks in much the same .fashion as tamales, and In this form are eaten." In oriental literature as In use fully 200 years before the Christian era. From India chess spread into Persia and thence into Arabia, and ultimately the Arabs took it Into Spain and the test of western Europe. The game was in all probability invented for the purpose of illustrating the art of war. The Arab legend upon this point is that it was devised for the instruction of a young despot by his father, a learned Brahman, to teach him that. a king, notwithstanding his power, was de pendent for safety upon his subjects. The Greek historians credit the Inven tion of the game to Palamedes, who. they claim, devised It to beguile the tedium of the siege of Troy during the Trojan war. Olive Fremstad has not been re engaged at the Metropolitan opera house, "and at the conclusion of her last performance in "Lohengrin." there were 27 curtain calls. Madam Frem stad made a brief speech: "May we meet again where there is eternal peace and harmony. Good-bye." Mad am Fremstad seems to imply that there has been discord in New York's great temple of music. in the Moon among people she will be s'Jre to tell my most wonderful secret." The old woman smiled wisely when she heard the Great Spirit's answer, then she called the four. winds to her. "Blow me up to the moon," she said, "for soon I am to be wise above all people." v.-"r" -v-xw So the four winds blew her up to the moon. weaving is never uuuci and the Marble Rinj vmmmt z ...... Jr n. w m& uaootw HFMTT HOWLAND HOhWIUS Tfip BRIDGE Than out a p a k brava Horailus, Tha captain of tha ate: Halt! Bvary moth er's apn of you. . Both friends and. foemen wait!. Let not a blow be Ivan No matter what tha odds. For the aahaa of your atrs Or the tamplea of . your soda. Haw not tha brldg-e. air con sul. a Please put jronr ax away; 111 later call upon you To hew, bat mot today In yon atraJrht path a thousand May well be stopped ay three: There I will stand and kave command Not now, but presently." Then oat apeJce Spuriue Lartlua, A counterfeiter bold: "Lo. I will stand at thy ri-ht hand. With thee the bridge I'll hold!" And out spake youna; Hertnlnlua. A etrons"-arm arttat he: "I will abide by thy left side And keep, the bride; with the." s "Horatluu," quoth th consul, "Behold yon great array;. Why may I not begin to hew. Why counael thla delay T JVr Romans In Rome's quarrel Spare neither land nor gold. Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor Ufa-e At least, so I've been told." f "Fool." answered brave Horatlua, Hold on- till I say when: We must await In patience The moving; picture men! Aa soon aa they get ready. And not till then, cut loose We want this scrap recorded On films for future use.4' It Seemed Natural. "Well, well," said the man who had returned to the little old town, "I can hardly realize that it is twenty years since I left here." "I dunno why you should feel that way about It." replied the old Inhabi tant, "there's been a lot of change.. The Baptist church has been tore down and rebuilt since you went away; there's Lem Richardson', garage where the post office wae when you lived here; we've got three movln' picture shows that, we aidn't have when you left, and there's been lots of ether Improvements. I should think you'd notice 'em." "Oh, yes. I've noticed the improve ments, but I see that Bill Higgins 1. still running for constable, so I can hardly realize that there has been any change." Discouraging. -What's the matter?" "Oh, nothing." "No, no, don't tell me that. Some thing disagreeable or discouraging haa happened. Your look 6hows it," "Well, if you insist on knowing, I started out this morning feeling aa gay and chipper as a boy of twenty; but a little while ago I met a former sweetheart of mine and she told me that her second daughter had Juet graduated from high school. Say, are the wrinkles around my eyes very noticeable?" SHE NEVER FORGETS. "My father was the champion shot-putter of his class." "I" suppose he often boasts about it." "No, he never mentions it, but mother always does when he pays 75 cents to have the lawn mowed." Kind. "I shall never," he declared with tragic emphasis, "stand idly by and see you become the wife of another." "Very well." the snippy girl replied. Til invite you to be one of the ush ers. That'll keep you busy." The Benefit of the Doubt. "Before I can ask you to be my wife," said the walking delegate, "I zsuet "k you one thing. Is your cor set union made?" "1 I don't know I never looked." she replied, "but In cold weather I al ways wear union suits." With this assurance he took her. A Comforting Thought. "I suppose it is a great disappoint ment to you that your five children are all girls." "Well, yes, in a way; but I am al ways cheered by the thought that they will never have themselves photo graphed in track suits." The Old Habit. "She seems to have grown old rap Idly of late." -Yes. Since her grandchildren have begun to arrive she has returned to the old habit of having birthdays.'' She Never Was a Widow. Old Adam'a luek was not ao bad. Aa you'll aarea without a doubt; He never heard Eve boaat about Tha virtues her first husband had. "What do you think of the Jokes Bill brought over from England?". "I think they were pretty farfetch ed." frlnceton Tiger. Rise betimes and yon will see; labor dlllsently and you will have. Spanish rroverb. The Daily Story Magnet Mountain By Clarissa Mackie. Copy rltrh tad. r Associated Literary Bureau. Llna Ellison looked at hi. compas for a long time before be reached out and held it up to hi. companion', eyes. "What did I tell you, Baker?" be ask ed quietly. Baker rubbed bis red hair perplexed ly. "It certainly does act cantanker ous." be admitted. "If any one should ask me I'd say that there. w.. a rery powerful magnet close by; but, as for making me believe that Magnet moun tain is really and truly wngnetic, it can't be done." "What I. the matter with my com pass and your watch?" demanded Linn. "Don't bother me with batty Ques tions," answered Baker loftily. "Per mit me to pursue my study of the classics in peace." And he folded back the pages of his paper backed detectire story, propped his elbow, on the ground near the bright firelight and read ab sorbedly. Unn laughed and stretched his long limbs. "Surely McOIin must bare bad some authority for his statement that there existed in this vicinity a mountain with strong magnetic powers," he mused, turning over the page, of Dr. McOlin's "Wanderings In Ont of the Way Places." "Here he speak, of the peculiar behavior of bis delicate in struments and of his visit to the moun tain and how his suspicions were con firmed. He sends "Els book to his pub- I Ushers in Kew York and thenceforth drops out of sight entirely. No one knows what 'has become of Sandy Mc OIin. I wonder." Baker looked up and grinned. "Still wondering about the moun tain?" be gibed. "They call it 'Magnet mountain,' " contended Linn, 'scowling earnestly. "They named me Percy Rollo Baker, but do I look like it?" demanded the strong featured giant sarcastically. Linn stretched himself again, arose and sauntered out from the trees Into the moonlight "I'm going for a walk," he called back. "Don't get too near the mountain!" sang Baker, his nose deep in the book. Across the open patch of moonlight and -into the narrow trail that wound through the spruces on the hillside Linn Ellison found himself undergoing strange sensations. A new and pow erful vitality seemed to possess him as he mounted upward. At the top of the hill he paused for a moment, looking up at the majestic grandeur of the snow capped peak of Magnet moun tain. Bathed in .moonlight, the peak glistened like polished silver, and some where below, among the black pines that clothed the sides, there gleamed a yellow light. "I wonder!" muttered Linn again. Now he plunged down the trail and crossed a little valley, to climb steadily up the opposite slope toward the silver peak of Magnet mountain. He lost sight of the yellow light im mediately, and his way up the moun tain led through untracked forests of pine and fir and spruce. His feet slip ped on the fallen needles, and in his nostrils was the sweet pungency of balsamic odors. He was panting a lit tle when he paused to rest. Throwing himself down under the low spreading branches of a giant spruce, he gave himself up to the weariness that op pressed his eyelids. He slept. Linn Ellison awoke with a start te find that the moonlight bad iuvaded his resting place. He sat up and look ed dazedly at the apparition that flit ted across the space and hovered in the shadows. It was a girl clad In a short skirted khaki costume. Her little feet. In high tan boots, were plainly visible, while her face was in deep shadow, but Linn saw that she was slender, lithe and graceful and that her slim fingers were clasped about the barrel of n shotgun. There was a tantalizing uncertainty about the face that could not be seen. "Who is there?" be asked sharply. A quick little sigh answered him, fol lowed by a sweet, quavering voice: "Who are you? Oh, who are you?" she inquired. "Then you are alive after all? ex claimed Linn Joyously, for no reason that he could explain. "Upon my word. I thought you were a ghost T' "Who are you?" repeated the gill more steadily, as if reassured by the sound of his voice. . "Please tell me what you are doing here." "I am here for the shooting. Surely, this isn't private property?" "Oh, no! Only I needed help, and I wondered if you could be trusted." Phe came forward then, and the moon light revealed the secret of her face. Linn Ellison stared speechlessly ac her. "I need help," she repeated, with u quiver In her voice. "Forgive me." cried Linn. "I can K trusted, be assured of that. What can I do?" "My father Is ill. We have a littl. camp up yonder, and I need brandy and medicines for him. There Is no one to send, and I cannot go alone." "I have a small medicine case in my pocket." was Linn's prompt reply. "Take me to your father, and I will do what I can for him. After that tou may call upon me or my ' companion for any aid you need. Baker can ride back to Red Fork for anything you re quire." "Thank yon," she said briefly. "Fol low me, please." Boon the.ytuaerged iuto a small clear ed space, where the embers of a fire glowed sullenly in a stone faced bole before a small group of tuts. The girl tossed a pineknot on the fire and fastened back the flaps of one of the tents. She lighted a lantern aud bung it from the tent pole. "Come in, please," she said hurriedly to Linn. He bent bis tall bead and entered. It was sparsely furnished with a nar row cot, aoine empty boxes, covered with rugs; a folding camp table an? some leather traveling rases pi ltd u 4ne corner. On the cot was the gaunt form of on old man. His white hair framed a del icate, wrinkled face, whoso black ere stared piercingly at the stranger. "Joyce who la thnt liinuV he ! manded feebly. The girl laid her hand on his fore bead. "He 1. a friend I found in the for?, father," she soothed him. "He ba medicine cane, and I'm sum he fa, something that will d you prowl." Linn came forward, I'm! his Op aside and Mat down by the bod. "My name is Linn Ellison," he s frankly. "I'm here for the shootin. My guide and companion is down it my camp ncroa tbe valley. Tow daughter tells me you are 111 and la need of medicine. 1 will do what I ea . . - v... - - - - - - v ...i, hut: n . Red Fork for anything elae you iajS? i "You are very kind," said the old man tremulously. "It is all my fault this predicament. Not a word, Joyce, my dear. Let me tell Mr. Ellison how I decided to prolong my stay here anl how I persuaded you to spend the win ter here and how 1 hare been ill tvita fever and bow all my men have desert ed me and taken money and supplies with them, and" "Take some stimulant first and tell me the story afterward," urged Llnu, opening the medicine cane and taking out quinine and some compressed beef tablets. Joyce brought a cup of hot water from a small spirit stove, and presently the sick man was gratefully sipping the strong beef tea. When he had finished be said with a faint smile: "Mr. Ellison, if I told you that I was Alexander McOIin would you be any the wiser for that information?" "Dr. Sandy McOIin!" cried Linn In credulously. "Why. sir, your wonder ful book is my closest companion, tnd only this evening I was wonderinc over your disappearance. What good luck!" He clasped the thin band In both his own strong brown ones. Dr. McOIin struggled to sit op, and Linn placed an arm under the bowed shoulders. "The book!" repeated the doctor ex citedly. "Is the book really out? . I haven't seen it yet." "If you will compose yourself to sleep, sir, I will have my copy of your book here by daylight" When the regular breathing assured them that Dr. McOIin was indeed re ceiving the rest that he needed the girl and the man who had met only a brief hour ago passed out of the tent and stood before tbe campflre. In moment the girl spoke: "You are the first one who has hap pened this way for six months. I have bad to depend upon my gun for much of our food. My meeting you tonigbt was the most wonderful blessiug that could have happened. Many of tbe people hereabout are afraid to come t the mountain. There is a tradition that it is strongly magnetized, and of course father's investigations hare in a measure confirmed the story, only there is nothing alarming about tbe fact; it is merely interesting. But after father had sent the last pages of his book manuscript to New York he conceived the idea of remaining here for the winter and pursuing his inves tigations. The result is that we haw been here alone ever since the fir month, when the sir men who com posed the party robbed my father of money and provisions and deserted ov leaving us with few stores and not even one pack horse. You can lmagiw our plight." She smiled bravely Into Linn s eyes. "I am most happy that it is now over," said Linn, dizzy with the glance of her wonderful eyes. The pink dawn was breaking above the distant ranges when Baker, pale and anxious.' saw Linn Ellison come crashing through tbe thicket into their camp. "What in tbundation" he was beginning heatedly, when Linn held up a protesting hand. "Magnet mountain did It," said that happy young man as he threw himseir down before the fire. "Magnet mountain!" repeated Baker, staring at him. "Do you mean to T you've been up on the mountain?" "I've been there," returned the other. "And found the magnet, I suppose- "And discovered the greatest attrac tion in the world." said Linn dreamily. "Crazy as a loon!" muttered Baker "All on account of that ma?:uetui mountain. I do believe there's some thing In it after all." Aud when he heard the whole stop from Linn Ellison's lips and after had seen Joyce McOIin herself t skeptical Baker had to admit thatMj net mountain did possess a iH.tvernu attraction. "And I might hnve been the lnciT fellow instead of you if I'd only I' prowling up the mountain ami pored over the classics." he grurtib'eJ. tossing his dime novel into the "I always said that n taste for litera ture was a drawback sometimes." May 13 in American History. 177tt-"'i'he iiuji.nl of the Command. In Chief." Scorge Wasbiugton, or ganized in New York. Pursuant to Washington's dictum. "Put now but Americans on guard!" the con was composed of native born citi zens. ' , 17S3 Society of the Cincinnati forme at Flshkili. N. V.. in B:uon Stf ben's camp. 1SG4 Two Fcdral corps coustitutiM the Army of the James, command ed by Geii.ra! B. F. Butler. cP; tured Conf. "derate fortlflcations . Drury. Bli'JT. near IUchnaoud. .1 t