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Show THE WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS. ST. GEORGE. UTAH "Foremost Citizen of All the Ages ?NVY nj malice have atood rebuked in the presence of his towering form. There is no language of literature and culture which does not boast among ita adornments noble eulogies of the work and character of Washington. Although, ashistory reckons its periods, it is but a little erne since he passed from the stage of life, he has been claimed, wherever men struggle and aspire, as the possession of all humanity, tlie first citizen of all the eges. "So he must be a strangely bold and eulogist who would attempt to add anything to the total of affection, admiration and reverence which has been reared as the true memorial of Washington. It is impossible for us to add to or take from the estimate which has been fired by the generations of the world. From an address by President Coohdge at celebration marking the 1 50th anniversary of thedav George Washington took command of the Continental army. I1 17 "Can we run It?" he called, above white-wate- r, musthe thunder of the cles set In a crouch, nerves raw with suspense. "Down, flat! 5 with a fierce lunge of his blade, i David ewung the nose of the craft toward the beach as an Indian rose to his feet in the low scrub. In mockthe assassin ery of his victims laughed ns he deliberately raised his - rifle. But the Mannlicher with the 1 lone shell scat find and the surprised Ojibway crumpled where he stood. "Down! cried David. A rifle exploded on the shore, and the men in the boat ngain flattened, as a bullet the gunwale. Then, caught ' splintered in the pull of the first pitch, the eunoe slid sidewise, until straightened by the lunge of two paddles, and nosed down, out of range of the beach, into of the boiling Fry-- ' - the white half-milin? Fan. The thought of two women who the moth; would wait for his coming er at home and the girl far on the wait while two battered f Availing bodies lay stiff In the Ice somewhere along the Jack fish, flashed through tlien tlie battle was on. v Steeles brain, ' As the boat shot down the first flume, the stark despair which had Steele when they had been ' gripped sucked into the head of the rapid, gave way to desperate hope. Fee it was clear, from the insistence of - David on the poles being free in the ! boat, that he had foreseen the posi-- ' hility of being driven into the Frying ,Ian. lie believed the fight to get through worth making. On leaped the canoe, like a runaway horse, ever seeking the black water , channels, hanging momentarily on the lip of disaster, only to he lifted and swung off by the pole of the fighting ' l.ow-ma; burying its nose in the spume of broken water, to rise, shake free, and plunge on into the white riot , e Then followed silent hours of paddling In which the thoughts of David centered largely on the future consumption oi savory moose steaks at Nepigon House, while for Steeie, heart hunger and the neces-dtfor an early solution of the problem at Wailing River had served as anodyne to his craving for food. Anotner week and Steele was hurrying east on the Canadian Pacific. Arriving In New York and reporting at the museum, he readily obtained permission to follow up this most amazing example of the abnormal In the habits of Canadian mammals. Inextricably Involved with Indian superstition in so baffling n manner ns to defy any ordinary methods of solution. On the way west, Steele made frequent trips to the btigga?e car to talk to a long eared, wrinkle-facehound. If I had had you, old boy, last September, up on Big Feather lake, he often repented regretfully, rubbing the ears of the great black and tan beast, there would be one less Windigo In the Wailing River country. I don't know wliat you can do on the snow. You may freeze in that country, with your short hair, but youre surely going to have a chance to help us out when we lose a trail. The huskies haven't got your nose, anil won't hold to a trail ns you will. And when that hay of yours booms out over the hills, theres going to be a general scramble for cover among the beasts and devils that hear it. The bloodhound, trained In the Tennessee hills, had arrived In New York In response to. an urgent telegram from Steele to a friend who bred the s on his southern plantation. There was no doubt In Steeles d fog-hor- n man-hunter- n beyond. ns the rock walls of the Finally, ' gorge swept past in a gray blur to eyes which hunted the water traii ahead, Davids right hand shot up and circled in the air, then regripped his paddle. "Whirlpool ! gasped Steele, the hope which had grown with the passing moments, dying. A matter of seconds and they would take the big chute ahead ; beyond this, the suck of the whirling water. One in the grip of the eddy, the canoe would and go downline the maw of the vortex. From braced knees the bow-ma, with bowed leaning far lank, fought the nose of the boat in-- j fhore as it plunged and took the hute; then, as it shot with the cur-- " rent for the pool below, two madmen battled with their bladtW for the inches indies which meant victory or With a hap the canoe hit the pool; . wavered, caught in the lip of the i eddy; but held by the lunging blades, sheered off, was free, and shot on; then, charging through a stretch of broken water, rode the "boilers he-- , low the last pitch and out into the easy going of the open river. . "hh legs awash in the slop picked up In the rapids, panting, spent, the two men smiled into each others drawn faces. We licked em both, I.afiaimne and the Frying Fan! gasped Steele. "Good job, dat! grunted (he OJib-waproudly, hdweeu breaths. Dey A say we lie wen we tell deni at Nep!-goNow we cuin hack an' get tie Windigo! "And I.aflamme! We get heein anyway de Windigo, ' up-en- out-boar- - y, n. mebhe. pj 4 A X f rl$ i ' "Thought you said It couldn't be run? Wal, I look her ovair one tain, and I t ink eef you keep leF side ov dat eddy, you can mn eet. "He brat It, hut I thought It had us when we struck it. I heard but one shot from tlie shore when we smarted; do you suppo'as that there were only two there? "Onlee two, I cink. Dey wait for us to come pen. Wen I hit dat one, de odder get scare. He not know 'hovt dat shell. Dat ecs wy he miss. "That was good shooting, David! You tired so quickly, you couldn't have en the sights and our only simll. Hal, we drop down piece, get de water out, and patch her up. I go? two bad leaks under me. Suppose that Indian follows down the gorge, liell get a pot shot at us If we go ashore here. Davhl laughed loudly. Wen he see us haid for de in' Fan, lie say: Fry T.o-jo- ! Dere go two dead men! He weel not follow. CHAPTER XI For a week the two voyageurs had traveled on half rations eked out with n occasional pike or doie. which had sen lured with much patience from tneir winter lethargy, but each morn-D- " as they ruefully surveyed the fading food supply, Steele had reiterated. 'Yt-t-i can't starve two men who've run the Frying Pan! "Whirlpool!" Garped Steele, the Hops Which Had Grown With the Passing Moments Dyirg. mind that the riddle of the Windigo would have been solved In the autumn, had he had a bloodhound at Wailing But the ability of the southerndog to hold a trail on the strange medium of snow or Ice was a matter outside the experience of those lie had consulted. However, as there would he no crust until March, daylight tracking would he easy in the new snow. It was for night work when tlie nbsenee of shadows obliterates a snow trail, and when a trail ice, that Sieeie followed wind-swehad gambled on the sensitive nose of the bloodhound to aid them. In his wallet he carried a scaled letter of instruction from the Montreal headquarters of tlie Revillon Freres, addressed to Ltwcelles at Fort Albany, supplements? orders to he smt with tiie Christmas mail packet by the Ahbifih! route. But. us he was informed, "business was business, and the payment to the company of tlie value of the fur lost by St. Onge would not justify the management, against the advice of their inspector at Albany, in keepirg the post ojien. us it had never coae well. At Ottawa, Steele had been assured that a police canoe would b- - despatched to Ogoke In the early spring, but that all available men would he on duty elsewhere during the winter on more pressing matters. So, ns his train carried hiui west through the .white wilderness to Nepigon station, where David was to meet obtainable, him with the best tlie problem he faced continued unchanged by Ills trip east. It still remained for Michel. David and himself unaided, to run down the beast or which had sptead - terror beasts through the valley of the Wailing, and to hold the Indians on their traplines. There was yet the mysterious tragedy at the Devil's Mile to be solved before the taboo would be lifted from the lower river. sled, At Nepigon station a fiv driven by a half breed, waited in tlie snow for t"e passenger with bloodhound, and only the swift use of whip saved David's long, caribou-hidthe dazed Least from speedy annihila River. -bred dog-tea- n; e tion by the team of half-wilhuskies. "Hello, David! cried Steele, keeping his dog at a distance from .the yvhite fangs which threatened him. Are the trails open? "De Jaekfish bin close onlee few day. You cum hack queek, boss, answered the Ojibway, a wide grin furrowing his face. "Weve got plenty of planning to do at Nepigon house before we start. Guess how many shells Ive got for your Mannlicher., Wal, I need one for fren' ov yours, an 'noder for hear dat seeng lak de cat two ees all, I tink." Steele laughed. "Oh, Ive got a few more than that for you. You may need moose, or meet someone at the Frying Fan some time, so Ive brought you Hows the family? three hundred. Does your wife object to your going? "She say she tink 1 got girl down at Wailing Riviere." Three days of sledding over a good traif, for the snow was not deep, brought the team to Nepigon House at the head of the great Nepigon lake which was partly Iced over. There, while the bloodhound, wearing a tlanket, berame somewhat more acclimated to the cold, and the huskies were forcibly taught to respect him as a permanent member of the party, David and Steele made their plans for a campaign on the snow. Each white mile they put behind them, each camp they made at night, meant to the Impatient Steele, one mile, one day, nearer the girl who needed them. But, as he broke trail ahead of the team, when they cut bat k from the shore to circle rapids or quiek-vvateor rude In the easy going of the river ice, the task he had set for himself nnd his two friends appeared more nnd more difficult of accomplishment. Suppose tlie Windigo were not again to appear in the valley; or, they might not again cross its trail? What then? The harm had been done, and the Indians would continue to desert the Wailing as the rumors spread. In that case, It was a lost cause hopeless. Only In the event of the early reappearance of the beast at the. post when they could speedily take up the trail and stay on It until they came up with the owner of the voice, could a swift solution of the Tlie future mystery be possible. looked gray to Steele. However there was one ray of light in the gloom cf his fear of failure. Michel had definite suspicions, of some nature or other, which he hud promised to share on Steeles return to Wallin? River. And ns Steele nut David nightly sat under their shed tent before a fire in the heart of a spruce thicket, und talked over after-supppipes, the optimism of David was so marked that tlie American knew that the clue which had; for some reason, been kept from him deeply impressed the Indian. At last, through the early dusk which shut down on the valley one November afternoon, gleamed the yellow lights of Wailing River. Tlie pulse of Steele speeded as he made out the blurred shape of tlie house which Denise St. Onge ralleJ home, Tlie morning he went away she had come to him with mNt in her Would they shine a : tin, lie eyes. wondered, with that new light, now that he had come hack to light for her, or would she freeze into that other seif hold him at a distance because of her quixotic bargain with Liiscelles? Steeie opened the door of the trade-housfollowed by David. At their entrance, St. Onge turned in his chair behind the slab counter where lie sat In conversation with Ids head man. Good evening, gentlemen! The voice of Steels rang in tlie silent room. With eyes wide with amazement and surprise, St. Onge slowly rose to Ids feet, while the lean face of the Iroquois thrust forward, tense apprehensive, as if he feared a trick of vision. Bo-JMichel! Wat you t'ink And David you see, de Windigo? advanced with outstretched hand. "We have returned as vve prom- added Steele, apIsed, monsieur! proaching the counter behind which the startied men stood staring at the hooded apparitions. Then, with a yell and a hound, Michel cleared tlie counter and was hugging the liloeky Ojibway. d ts n 4 Ba Memorial law library which would have been complete, with all of the volumes of American decisions and all of the volumes of American statutes, lias recently been calculated to have contained one hundred years ago about ISO volumes cf decisions and 00 volumes of statutes, says the Nation's Business magazine. Today, It is said, a library which would he complete in the same sense w.rbl contain volumes of decisions and "i.rsiO volume of statutes. One hundred years in the future, if the increase during the las' cenrnry is maintained, suen n um,.., would have to contain I.N'iO.onti vi unies of decisions and .Vnot)t vuull- of statutes. Za IN 4 Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Headache Neuritis Lumbago Kemnore, the home of Col. Fielding Lewis and his wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Toothache Rheumatism Pain Neuralgia Washington, the only sister of George Into Washington, has been converted a national memorial h.v the Fredericksburg chapter of the Kemnore asocl-.ntioThe house Is In Fredericksburg, Vu and Is the only Washington home that is not In the care of a paAccept only Bayer package " triotic society. which contains proven directions. Washington himself spent many boxes of 12 tablets ITandy "Bayer days at Kemnore und revolved there Also Lotties of 21 nnd 100 Druggists. many guests who are now national figof Sailer Uoadil Anplrln U tli trade mark of Barer Mamifaotur of UonoacrUcaciduter ures. It also was at Kemnore that he Coolness may result from hot words. met Martha Iarke Custis, who was later to be Martha Washington. Cuticura for Sore Hand3. The house is a beautiful Colonial "i 1' (AT1 mansion, said to be the finest type of Sonk hands on retiring In the hot suds of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub In Cuarchitecture of that period, and WashRemove surplus ticura Ointment. ington had a large share in the dela This of with the for Ointment tissue It, paper. making plans signing many of Its exterior decorations which only one of the things Cuticura will do were executed for him by Hessian If Sonp, Ointment nnd Talcum nre used artists, war prisoners whom he as- for all toilet purposes. Advertisement. MOSSES signed to the task. Follow up advantages. Aicehoo Funds Raised by D. A. R, Napoleon. The leaders In the movement for Its Jit Jin Druists noVs fOLDCS ABCtlT'IaLrA?JS"0H RE&itST. preservation plan to make it a national DON'T RAY A O LEONAnn 1n. patriotic shrine, a lesser Mount VerDarken hair, your nmy nmduAlly, hit W YDhJt 70 S' AY and .11017 in imviuy of Vif non. Some time ago It was threatsurelyhome. L ko1 over , wmih by your r' millions ened with destruction, hut the mempimrauiet). ( HOtMiLK J? HU- M. bers of the Fredericksburg chapter of 1SAKUI.11 IOI.trt.KS Hair Color the Daughters of the American RevoLtMin barber trnt rutalmrue five JMplumna lution raised the funds for Us preser114 lucent St. ihuucti. Motor Jlnrbflr f Ui'U-jlis- t 75 At vtjut' vation. CHE MISTS, Dept. .V. MEMPHIS, TENN. The house Is of solid brick construcBelter borrow from a pawnbroker tion. Colonel Lewis, when he built it, and than from a friend. was a man of wealth and ta-tmade it one of the most notable resiFrom School Teacher dences of the Colonies. of good farm or ranch for pale. Imposing as Its exte rior Is, Its chief Eminence Great lo A. S. ACKERMAN glory Is within. Its decorations are A young man who was hroin.ht up on 617 Charles Bldg., Denver, Colo. a farm, qualified for tlKtrii t school teacher, then lii.ui- Any book you want ... tigod tosaveenough by mail, C. O. D. to him r. money put y',v") v Dcferet Book Co '4 thru medical Col 44 East So. Ttmple, Salt Lake City, Utah lette, Later, )h moved to Buffalo, N'. Y., BATHE YClhl EYES mid today (lie mime lr, ab'J. horn j'st hi ibycttuuir. 4 r yourtfnjtrgiJ of this man, Lr, UM Huy Hirer, iruy N.Y Hookuet. It. Y. Fierce, Is known throughout FARKLUS DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART -- (PxtS aFNESS f 0 J oU M-- It WC'OU.II Restorer HESSia-ElU- WANT TO HEAR FROM OWNER the world. 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A pleas-m35c and t0c sues August Flower Although built In 17r3, when ColAod erterrutUy, ue HSOS onel Lewis and Betty Washington for Constipation, Throat and Chest halve. Tkc and were married, Kemnore was not comIndigestion Torpid Liver pleted until long afterward. Like evRelieves that feeling ery beloved home, new additions nnd fixings were added ns the years went of having eaten unwisely. 30c and GALLSTONES ni BeltleJ lilt 90c bottles. AT ALL DRUGGISTS. hy and brought mnv necessities. Beautiful Grounds. Chronic Indication, Gaa on Stomach, In pit of fcHomach, Heartburn, plRlicRB Thus more than twenty years after Sour Stomach, BlIiouHncw, Dizzy Spella, It had been erected nnd already afHif'k Hcadaclhcs, Fain or Heaviness In Jiiaht Hide, Constipation, Colic, Vomitlnjf, forded hospitality to many famous Stomach Trouble In any Form. men nnd women, and had been wit" is ugly end annoying make your Relieved Without Operation vn Home In Your ness to many scenps destined to beskin soft, white, lovely, by using Write for I Ri;ii HOOh-LEcome historical, the famous decoraLORINO PARK CITNIO tions In stucco were made. 1400 HaitnoQ Place, Minneapolis. Minn. The grounds are no less charming than the building ltseif. Beautiful It takes a genius to compel himself lawns, fragrant walks overhung with .Most of the born leaders of men are to like tlie disagreeable tusks he lias make willows nnd magnificent oaks, women. to perform. the approaches to the house of excotIt is tl Behind charm. e quisite tage where Mary Washington, the mother of George nnd Betty, lived nnd died. The lawn stretches to within a few steps of the granite shaft which stands over her grave. After the death of Its founders, and of the famous men whorn It phe'tered, the house V'VVVVVVxVVVVv passed Inio a variety of hands. During the Civil war It had lis share of misfortunes which fell so heavily upon many of the historical homes of the South. After the conflict It was for a time the home of negroes, and was not restored to the traditions and the glory which It deserved until recent years. Unlike many of the noted Colonial WwVWWwwwW mansions, Kemnore is fay of access Fletchers MOTHER on the Dixie highway, between Wash Castoria is especially preIngton nnd Richmond. r DED.ROUGH SKIN gi o Growth cf Law Library ta Pa K 1 Rj Home National e, A fcs Betty Washington r, (TO BS CONTINUED fci j Ulildren CryJj - pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach ' and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Foot' giving natural sleep. Hurt by Careletsness Nothing pleases me (tetter than to see my farms In good order, and everything trim, I pndmme, and thriving about them ; nor nothing hurts me more than to find them otherwise, and the tools and Implements lying wherever they were Inst used, exposed to c. George Injuries from rain, sun, Washington. - .VvW,, j ; To avoid imitationt, always look for the signature of A W'1"t"y HarmHi-N- o Opiates. 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