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Show r i :.,....,'' -.- TIIE BEAVER COUNTY. WEEKLY PRESS, BEARER. CTAI1 ' J r t 8 . 0 8 8 ATALB of the NORTHS COUNTRY In' the TIME of SILAS WRIGHT V ; . By IRVING BACHELLER ..... . , .,. .... .. Author of Eben I lotion, D'rl ud L Durel of the Blessed Isles, Keeping Up With Unit, Etc, Etc Copyright by Inrlnf BaoheUer CHAPTER XII Continued. '" IS-- Tour . fellow r-- townsman. Is now the Washington. We were Wright Ellas figure to worried by the largest til resolution of Henry Clay until tt began to crumble wider the Irresistible attack ef Mr. Wright On the 16th be sub- - sotted report upon It which for lucid and accurate statements presented In the most unpretending mnnner won niversai aami.unon.and swiue-j-e nerabered alike for Its intrinsic excel lence and for having achieved one of the most memorable victories ever gained In the United States senate. After a long debate Clay himself, compelled by tbe irresistible force of argu-- . Kent In the report of .Mr. Wright, was ' obliged to retire from his position, his resolution having been rejected by vote of 44 to t"! With what pride and Joy t heard of this .great thing that my friend had accomplished I Going out with the crowd that evening, I met Sally and Mr. and Mrs. Dunkelberg. The latter did not speak to me and when I asked Sally If I .. eculd walk borne with her . she an-- swered curtly, "No, thank yon." I have got a hit ahead of my history. Soon after the opening of the new yearT-te- n days or so later It may have been I had begun" to feel myself encompassed by a new and subtle force. It was a thing as Intangible as heat . but as real as fire and more terrible, tt to me, I felt It first In the at-tltude of my piny fellows. They denied me the confidence and intimacy which I had; enjoyed before. " They , whispered together in my presence. In , all this I had not failed to observe that Wills had taken a leading part. . r Henry Tbe Invisible, Inaudible, mysterious thing wrought a great change In me. It followed me through tbe day and lay - down with me at night I wondered what 1 had done.- -' I carefully surveyed ' my clothes. They looked all right to mt., My cfeMrWter was certainly nd ;. w&as than It had been. How It preyed npon my peace and rest and happiness . :t that mysterious:' hidden thing I ' One day Uncle Peabody came Sown - - to ee me and T walked through the village with him. We met Mr. Dunkelberg, who merely, nodded and hurried along. Mr. Bridges, "the merchant did not greet him warmly and at with him as he bad been wont to do. I saw that The Thingas I had come to , think of It was following him also. How It darkened his facet Even new 1 can feel the chlnf of the deep. Woodless wounds of that day. I could hear It better alone. We were trying to hide oar pain from each other when - we Bali good-by;- r How quickly my uncle turned away and walked toward the sheds 1 He came rarely to the vll- -' lege of Canton after that warw bright May had returned ' May. I had entered my seventeenth ' year and the work of the term was finished. A ; Having nothing to do one afternoon, walked out on the rood toward Og- -' 'deasbwg for a look at, the woods and fields. Soon I thought that I heard the .sound of galloping hoofs behind me. I looked back and I saw Sally round-- , tog the turn by the river and coming toward me at full speed, the mane of her. pony flying back to her face. She ."jutted on" beside ."me "Just a I had ' .' Imagined she would do, -""Bart -X hate somebody terribly," ' t ; said she. ... 7 . -'WbomTy "A nmn who la coming to our house . en the stage today. Granny Barnes is trying to get up a match between us. rather says he Ujich and hopes bo " Will want to marry me. I got mad about It He ts four years older than I am. Lint that awful? I am going to be jHt as mean and hateful te him as " ; t - . 1 can." ' I guess they're only fooling yon," 1 ' aid. "No, tbey mean It ' I have beard , them talking It ever. : lie cannot marry you." ; . ' - ., '- pocketbook. Some money was left to Itlm by a relative In Vermont That's hew It happened that be bought a farm Instead of going to the poorhouse when Grtmshaw put tbe screws to him," knew that. your nncle didn't do It" she .went on. "Father and mother couldnt tell yoo. $o I had to." Why couldn't your father and moth- v mer They didn't er tell dare. Mr. Grlmshnw made theiu promise, that they would not speak to you or to any of your family. I heard them say that yon and your uncle did right. Father told mother that he never knew a man so honest as your Uncle Peabody. . Just then we came Upon the Silent Woman sitting among the dandelions by the roadside. She held a cup in her hand with some honey on Its bottom and covered with a piece of glass. "She ts hunting bees," I said as we stopped beside her. She rose and patted my shoulder with a smile and threw a kiss to Sally. Suddenly her face grew stern. She pointed toward tbe village and then at Sally. .. "She means that there is some danger ahead of you," I said. The Silent Woman picked a long blade of grass and tipped Its end in the honey at the bottom of the cup.. She came close to Sally with the blade of grass between her thumb and finger. "She is fixing a charm,". I said. She smiled and nodded as she put a drop of honey on Sully's upper lip. She held up her hands while her llpw moved as If she were blessing us. "I suppose it will not" save me If I brush it off." said Sally. We went on and in a moment a bee lighted onjhe honey. Nervously she struck at it and then cried out with " V pain. "The bee has stung tou,M said, She covered her face With her hand kerchief and made no answer. . "Walt a minute HI get some clay." I said as I ran to the river bank. I found some clay and moistened It with the water and returned. "Thew took at mer she croaned. ::r .:: The bee hit my nose. She ' uncovered her face, now de formed almost beyond recognition, her nose having swollen to one of great ... . , . . else and redness. , "You look like Rodney Barnes," I said with a laugh as I applied the clay to her afflicted nose. "And I feel like the old boy. I think my nose la trying to Jump off and ran ' . ''rZ " . .'.- sway." r We were nearlng the village. . She wiped the mud from her prodigious nose and I wet her handkerchief la a pool of water and helped her to wash tt Soon we.saw two men approaching as la the road. In a moment I observed that one was Mr. Horace Dunkelberg; tha other a stranger and a re markably handsome young man he was, about twenty-twyears" of age - i 1 B W W IIS S. sum-sse- rr ." " -t- - , . . " l "People have been "saying such Sally. This Is my friend, Mr. Baynee. When yon are tired of seeing me, look ritle things." ' she. , v dnyf The Flavor ... CHAPTER XIII. ' . -- : . ' Lasts :' The Bolt Fatla." ' Three times that winter I had seen Benjamin Grtmshaw followed by the Silent Woman clothed la rags 'and ' pointing with her finger. ' The trial of Amos came on. He had had "blood on his feet" as they used to ay, all the way from Llckltyspllt to Lewis county in his flight, having attacked and allghtly .wounded two men with a bowle knife who had tried to detain hint at Rainy Lake. He had also shot-an officer In the vicinity of LowviUe, where his arrest was effected. He had been Identified by all these men, and so his character as a desperate man 'had been established. This la connection with the scar on his face and the tracks, which the boots of Amos fitted, and the broken gun stock convinced the Jury of his guUt I remember well the look of the venerable Judge Cady as "lie ' the sentence of death upon Amos Grtmshaw-- . A ray Of sunlight slanting through a window In the late afternoon fell upon his gracious countenance, shining also, with the softer light of his spirit Slowly, solemnly, kindly, he spoke the1 words of doom. It was his way of saying them that first. made me feel the dignity and majesty of the law. The kind and fatherly tone of. bis voice put" ma In , n , n waAsno Take Her Away." the still figure and made the tests. He v And Then Hf Quit ', rose end shook his head, saying; officer was trying to learn A French . "It's all over. Let one o' these boya Tbe following go down and bring the undertaker." . the English language. Benjamin Grtmshaw. the richest man la his version of out mother tongue; in the township, was dead, and I have "When I discovered. that I. was V gulck I was fast; that if I was tied yet to hear of any mourners. . Three days later X aaw his body low- I was fast and If I spent too. freely I ered Into its grave. The little, d was fast I was discouraged. ; But wife stood there with the w.hen I came across the sentence The same sad smile on her face that I had first shall be last and tbe last shall noted when I first aaw her In the hills, he flrsV I gave' it op." . Bovla' Kate was there In the clothes she had worn Christmas day. She was greatly changed. Her hair was neatly combed. ,The wild look had left her eyes, She was like one whose back la relieved of a heavy burden. Her lipa "YOUR moved xss she scattered little red squares of paper Into the grave, I supThere's nc use suffering from the pose they thought It a crazy whim of stony ef lame back. Don't wait hers they who aaw her do It I awful till it "passes off." It only comes beck. thought that J understood the cartons Find the cauto and stdp it Diseased conditions of .kidneys are usually indibit of symbolism and so did the schoolcated by stiff lam backs and other master, who stood beside me. Doubtpains, which arf feature's sigless the pieces of paper numbered her wrenching nals for helpl -- ' corses.' y-" - ' ' Here's the remedy. When yon feelthe first twinges of pain or ezperiThe scarlet sins of his youth are ence mind of that supremest court which any of those symptoms, get easy down him with in tbe dost Is above all question and which was lying at once.- - Go to your drugiist and get as we walked away a box of tho Mtra. 'eririml GOLD swiftly to enter Judgment In this mat- Hacket whispered " MEDAL Haarlem. OH Capsnlee.-l.... ... together. ter, and In others related to it portea xresa every tnoncn irom ue OF BOOK (END TWO.) in Tlaarlem,' HoIlaBd, kboratories the crowd moved out of the Slowly rieasant and easy to take, they iastant courtroom. Benjamin Grtmshaw rose ly attack the poisonous terms elorging and calmly whispered to his lawyer. ; V BOOK THREE- Tour STstem and brina euick rUe He had not spoken to his son or For over two hundred years. they. nave neea aeinuig ue sick, nay not seemed to notice him since the trial Which Is of the the Chosen Story try them! Bold everywhere by r had begun, nor did he now. Many had liiible dmrsists in sealed packates. V Ways. shed tears that day, but not he. Mr. Three sixes. Money back If they do not help yen. Ask for "GOLD Grtmshaw never showed but one emMEDAL and ' be sure the name ' CHAPTER XIV. otionthat of anger. He .was angry "GOLD MEDAL" Is on the box Adv. now. His face was hard and stern. He 'Unote Peaboda Way and Mine. muttered asx he walked out of the Toe Much of a Good Thing. It is a bad thing to be under a heavy' courtroom, his cane briskly beating the "I thought" said the hoy's mother, floor. obligation to one's Self of which; thank "that I told you X wanted you to stay The Silent Woman as ragged as God, I am now acquitted, I have where I could put my hand on you." ever was waiting on tbe steps. Out known men who were their own' worst "I know," he whimpered. went her bony finger as he came down. creditors. Everything they earned "that ye wsnted me to git across yer He turned and struck at her with his went swiftly to satisfy the demands knee an' stay there." cane and shouted in a shrill voice that of vanity or pride or appetite. I have rang hot like a trumpet In bis frenzy: seen them literally pat oat of boose Catarrh Cannot Be Cured "Go "way from me. Take her away, and bome thrown neck and crop Into by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as aa one or th.y tbe It street She's I were, Stan the klllln' cant oaonot It by roach tbo soil of tho dlMwi ranebody. other of these heartless creditor ber Take if. Take her away. away. ' 1 - : each a grasping usurer with on Just Take her away." ftAi4ii.fni;D,clI?,,s . .'.His face turned purple and then claims. . Blood on tho Burf.cW of I remember that Rodney' Barnes the white. He reeled and fell headlong, Byst.m. HALL'S CATARRH ME01CINB like a tree severed from Its roots, and called for my chest and me ihat fine ' compod ot torn, of tho bo,t koowii. eomMDod with oomo of tho biSt lay still on the hard, stone pavement morning In early June when I waa te blood purlfler. Tho porfwt eomblnatton It seemed as If snow were falling on go back to the bills, my year's work la bis face It grew so white.. The Silent school being ended. I elected to wslk, MEpiCINK la what producoa auch woa- Woman stood as still as be, pointing and the schoolmaster went with me Chonay t Co.. Propa.. Tolado. at him with-hefinger, her look un- five miles or more across the fiats to changed. - People came running toward the slope of the high country. v On Btlng CheerfuL us. X lifted the head of Mr. Grtmshaw "Soon the senator will he coming Tftu find yourself refre8hed by the and laid It on my knee., It felt like the be remarked, "I have a long letter of cheerful people? Why not head of. the stranger In Rattleroad. from him and be asks about yoo and presence make earnest effort to confer that Old Kate bent over and looked at the your aunt and uncle. I think that he's on others? Lydla pleasure Maria eyelids of the man which fluttered fond you, boy." ' Child. and were wish still. "I faintly yon would let me know when "Dead I" she muttered. ""V he cornea," I said. ' ' Important to Motriere ,t Then, as if her work were finished, i "I am sure he will let yoo know, c,r"111' Ter botfla oi o.ll1?!".. she turned and made ber way through and. by the way, I have heard from CA8T0RIA that famous old remedi the crowd and walked Slowly down another friend o yours, my Ind.- - le're " luiHircn, ana set m i the street Men stood sstde to let ber a lucky one to have so many friends Bears the pass, ss If they felt the power of her sure ye are. Here, HI show yo the Signature of spirit and feared ' the- touch of ber gar- letter. There's no reason why I In TTao tnr na- - a . ments. r shouldn't Ye will know Its write?, Children Cry for Fletcher1! Cantorii Two or three men had run to. the probably. I do not" house of tbe neatest doctor. The crowd .(TO BB COKTIKUEft) Storms Csn Brew, Anyhow. thickened. Aa I sat looking down at "I'a. where are those Difficult Men to Handle. . the dead face In my lap, a lawyer who bad coroe out of the courtroom pressed ' There la no class of men so difficult clouds going tor "To thunder, my near me and beat ever .and looked at to be managed In a state as thota son I" Cartoons Magnus, the set eyes of Benjamin Grtmshaw whose Intentions are honest bat A girl doesnt trouble whose consciences' are cwllchtdy . . ; and said: " herself much Go Way From Me. it . at f broken-spirite- . '' Sppreme Law. The children- in the neighborhood organized a dub and were enthusiastic sboutlt'-- ; V.4T- :c " "Tell me abbtaf'your laws and I said to one of the members. "Oh," he replied, "we only have one law, and that is to serve refreshments " ' at .every meeting," :. - v IPS NO SECRET v BACK LIKE A BOARD? IT'S KIDNEYS' " whsxeshsgot men, perhaps your neighbor, wia tell you that she got her wonderful color her vivacious spirits, her strength and health by at him." t ; ; , , I shook tbe hand he offered me. "They say your trade found the "Of course, we cant all be good ocketbook that was lost and kept tbe was man Orst he the looking," Sally remarked with a sigh. say aaonry. They that vent up the real after It was as If her misfortune were permanent Mr. Horace - Dunkelberg and ' I tort- .- " aaw ip-pthe unci Bcver laughed heartily for I had told him In iy T " . Mu.-ou- 'c" t" . a r a taking "temper anee". tonid, known as Dr. Pierce's Fav- orite Prea eriDtkm. . . I eolor. hr Many wo ;- - J . ' The price (s 5 cents.' " . me Whatr to teetfi. fcrcath. appetite and ' dlccstion, A BEr.EFIT -- Jt teemed to me that the time had fer me to speak, out and with burning cheeks I said: ."Because I think that God has mar--' We Came Upon the Silent Woman Sitrtod you to-already. Do you reting Among the Dandelions by the member when we kissed each other , Roadside.. , j . . by the wheat field one day last and dressed In the height of fashion. I remember so well his tan, athletic . "Tea."'-We had faced about and were walk-- figure, his gray eyes, his small dark tog back toward Canton, I close by the mustache and his admirable manners. -. ' pony's side, , Both were' appalled -- at the ---look- of " Sally. , "May I kiss yon again T "Why, girl, what has- - happened to She stopped the pony and leaned toward me and oar lips met In a kiss yonf her father asked. Then I saw what a playful soul was the thought of which makes me lay down my pen and bow my head a mo Sally's. The girt was a born actress. "Been riding In' the country," said ment while I think with reverence of that pore, sweet spring of memory la she. "Is this Mr. Latourr This la Mr. Latour, Sally," said her , whose waters t love to wash my fstber. spirit "I guess God has married as again," They shoot handa. '""1 declared, "I ana glad to see you," said the knew that yon were walking on stranger. this rood and X had to see you," said They say I am worth seeing." said -- ' . "v '; V : Ha-kne- . ' , f . ' come mm- n m a - g. eve-oln- -- . ; . lonfi-lasti- ns m: -- Whyr bar's . In each packase. The biggest value in retrcsnment you can pos -- rawsibly buy. pro-toonc- - ' I : ', o I whisper what had happened to Sally fwould. He tried not to see her, bat X wmie ir.,itour looked a little em-- 1 tell ye that bony old finger of hers bur ragged. burnt a bole in him. He couldnt stand "My face la not beautiful, hut they tt I knew he'd blow up some day unsay that I have a good heart," Sally der the strain. She got him at last" assured the stranger. ; "Who got himT" another asked. . v They started on. I excused myself . "Rovin' Kate. She killed him pointand took a trail through the woods to ing her finger at him so.". another road. Just there, with Sally "She's got an evil eye. Everybody waving ber hand to me as I stood for afraid o the crazy ol'i trollope," a moment In the edge of. the woods, r "Nonsense I JShe lsnf half jtsernsy th curtain fall on'thli highly 'roman- as the most of us, said the lawyer. tic period of my life. "In my opinion she had a good reason Uncle Peabody came forme that for pointing her finger at that man. It was about the middle of the She came from the same town he did next week that I received thlsletter over in Vermont Ye dont know what f .: from Sally: happened there." J v, - Dear Bart: .Mr." Latour gave up The doctor arrived. The crowd and drove to Potsdam In the evening. made, way for him. beside Said he had to meet Mr. Parish. I think that he had seen enoughs of me, 11 I It Yl I began to hope he would stayr-fa- e , l II in luin nu iff' was so good looking, but mother la very glad that he went and so am L for our minister told as that he la lane of the wickedest young men in the state. He Is very rich and very Bad. they. say. I wonder If old Kate knew about him. - Her charm worked wellt anvway-rdld- nt it? My nose was aH right In the morning. Sorry that X can't meet yon Saturday. Mother and I are packing up to go away for the summer. Don't forget me. I shall be those lovely thinking every things ypn said to me. I dont know what they will try to do with me. and I don't care. 1 reallv think as von do. Bart that God has married as to each other. Tours forever, "SALLY DUNKELBERG". How often I read those words so like an the careless words lot the . ; , , , young I ' Probably no man in America was ever better qualified to successfully treat the diseases peculiar to women than Ds. Pierce, of Buffalo, N, Y. The cases that come to him run Into many thousands, . .v.. rj v.mm axpenenos mat raray jixog comes to any one man. Dr. Pierce founds- nat, in nearly every ease there were . oertain vegetable growths which rarely failed to give prompt relief - in those feminine disorders so many women suffer; He combined these roots and herbs Into a tempersjooa medicina that be called Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pits, eription. This medians is sold In both liquid and tablet form by druggists every-wher- e. A weakly, sickly, backachy, bead-ach- y, nerYoua.Maipondcnt woman, with regular or irregular pains with feminine disorders that come In. youth or middle age- -is pretty sure to find in Dr. PierceV Favorite Prescription the exact remedy that her condition calls for. ' h from-whic- wnyuaia so Young kid iianoruii ana , Itchlna with ; Cutiaira Ointment Skaao Wita Cmlitw, SmA " " . " An Alibi. Leave It to the Irish to wiuirm out of tlKht situations. Thls'one was-be- fore Judge Richardson and along with olhelNentlmony lt was stnted that lie canea the arresting officer names. r "Shure, Judge, nn' I did noihln' o' tho kolnd," proti'sted Tat "All I sld was that wnn of cs should be In the soo." Los Angeles Times. ' s i dark-lookln- s "She floored ' hla at last I knew she about a man's futnro if ha Tea, Rose, every race Is a sure thlna. but the majority of girls bet the wrong y. WfccaYccr&csrkdCsra Try Kurlss Be Remedy Jf. git r.Utm .f a..a Wn f, M P.. Co.CuUkwJ ' ! I |