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(Summary of Events.)
The Allies1 have not yet whipped
Gen. Von Kluck’s German army
in northwest France. It was be-
lieved they had him Cornered and
at the point of retreating into Bel-
gium about five days ago. He
rallied, however, after re-enforee-
ments came, and the Allies'were
driven back. Von Kluck is main-
" taming a vigorous defense all
along a battle line running from
Compiegne, at the confluence of
The Germans have begun active
operations against Antwerp, temporary
capital of Belgium. Their heavy ar-
tillery has attacked Lierre, a fortress
nine miles southeast of the city. The
^Belgians are reported, however, to
have re-occupied Malines. They have
been very active against the Germans
at every opportunity.
Shelling Antwe#) Forts.
London.$-With the German attack
on the outer fortifications of Antwerp,
Belgium again has become the scene
of serious operations. The invaders,
so far, have confined their attack to
the forts protecting the river cross-
ings between Malines and Antwerp.
A German report says that two forts
have been silenced, but the Belgians
deny this.
The scarcity of food in Brussels has
raised a grave problem, and 180,000
persons are applying for rations,
which the German administration is
finding it difficult to supply.
20,000 Germans Ambushed.
The Russians and Germans are pun-
ishing one another with frightful se-
verity in Russian Poland, where the
Germans have invaded a distance of
fifty miles, and in Austrian Galicia,
where Russian operations have been
strongest.
When the Germans attempted to
cross the Niemen river, just beyond
the East Prussia border ha Russia,
20.000 were wiped out in a Russian
trap. At another point a similar at-
tempt was repulsed with losses of
8.000 to the Germans. This is report-
ed by a London newspaper correspon-
dent. The Germans repulsed the
Russians and inflicted great losses
when the Slavs pierced the German
center at Auguslowoo, Russian Poland.
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the Oise and the Aisne rivers, di-
rectly northward for forty miles.
The battle front is once more
■ where it was whten the general en-
gagement along the Aisne river
began oiTSeptember 12. Military
observers say now there can be
no decision in this struggle until
one side simply crashes the other
with outnumbering forces. Just
now both armies are being stead-
ily an^ equally re-enforced, so it
appears there will be no decisive
result for an indefinite period.
Both 8ides Rally.
From September 28 to October 3
the Allies were having all the best of,
the fight against General Von Kluck.
apMftwr were battering hie army badly
and they had almost accomplished a
crashing flank, movement not far
south of Ostend, Belgium, when the
Germans rallied and pushed back the
Freneh-British left wing.
A similar operation took place in
the eastern field, except, however, the
positions of the opponents were re-
versed. The Germans had silenced
some of the important forts around
Verdun, a French army base, and were
beginning a serious penetration into
eastern France. The French rallied,
drove the Germans clear back into
Lorraine and penetrated German ter-
ritory through the Vosges mountain
passes. But they haven't gone much
beyond the mountains.
Watch Northwest Battle.
Severe artillery duelling haa been
almost constant In the general neigh-
borhood north of Rheims, where the
Germans hare entrenched infantry
along the Aisne river and have efn-
hattled siege guns and other heavy ar-
tillery in the foothills of the Ardennes
mountains.
Dispatches from newspaper corres-
pondents who have reached Rotter-
dam, Holland, from the south state
that preparations for the retreat of
the German right wing are well un-
der way. German troops are advanc-
ing from the north of France to Tour-
nal and Mons, Belgium, in order to
cover the main army in case of re-
treat.
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The Russians are not proceeding in
their campaign with speed. They
have poured an immense army upon
Galicia and Prussia but the Germans
and Austrians have hindered them
successfully.
Winter Germany's Ally.
While time is of the utmost value
to Germany in its French operations,
every week of delay forced upon the
Russians means a week nearer the
winter weather that will ally itself
with the German defense. For this
reason* Austria's desperate resistance
in Galicia is of great value to Ger-
many.
Dispatches from Lemberg, capital
of East Galicia, state that Russian
civil government has been formally
established in all cities and towns in
this territory, which has been an-
nexed by the czar since the occupa-
tion by Slav troops.
London.—The Russian armies con-
tinue to sweep through Galicia and,
according to * a report from Rome,
that province of the Atfstrian empire
is clear of Austrian troops. What is
meant is that the field armies of
Austria have either gone Into the
fortresses of Przemysl aDd Cracow,
or have retreated to the south and
west.
London.—A message from Mue-
stricht, according to a Central News
dispatch from Amsterdam, says that
5,000 Austrian troops have arrived at
Aix-la-Chappelle from France on the
way to the Aiistro-Russlan front. •
German-Austrtan Merge.
London.—It is officially announced
at Vienna, according to a Rome dis-
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company, that a junction has been ef-
fected between the new German army
and the remnants of the Austrian
army which fought in the Galician bat-
tle. The new combined army is tak-
ing up a position and already has been
in contact with the Russians along the
Carp&thian-T&rnow-Cracow front.
Big Army at Cracow.
London.—It is officially announced
at Vienna, according to a Rome dis-
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company, that the Austro-German
army concentrated at Cracow numbers
2^4 million.
Italy Slurs Austria.
Italy has taken what Is generally
accepted as the first stej? leading to
an outbreak with Austria. ^ The Italian
ambassador at Vienna haa been in-
structed to protest vigorously the
strewing of mines by Austria in the
Adriatic sea. Since these mines are
the only protection of the Austrian
fleet which remains near the forts of
Pola, it is not likely the Austrians
will remove the mines. It will be up
to Italy to enforce the protest with
army and navy.
Austria Offers Indemnity.
Rome.—The Austrian government
has replied to the Italian protest
against the floating mines in the Adri-
atic sea. Austria deplores the sinking
of Italian vessels and promises to
take measures to remove the menace
to shipping and to fully indemnify the
families of the victims. It is reported
that Italy demands an indemnity from
Austria of $1,000,000.
Dispatches from Rome state that
Italy will have 1,390,000 men equipped
and in the field by the middle of Oc-
tober, when the oldest classes of ac-
tive reserves (dating back to 1885)
will join the colors. Every able-
bodied man under 30 years old is now
under arms. The Austrians are throw-
ing up defense works all along the
Italian frontier, the report continues,
and the lines are being manned by
the landwehr, or oldest reserves. Fac-
tories making big guns are working
night and day to finish the supply of
modern cannon Which has been or
dered by the Italian army.
Rumania to Stay Neutral?
London.—The Rome correspondent
of the Exchange Telegraph Company
has sent the following dispatch: “A
message from Bucharest, Rumania,
announces that the president of the
council of the crown and conservative
and Democratic leaders have decided
to ask King Charles not to hold the
council meeting fixed for this week,
saying there is no need for Rumania
to change her policy of neutrality.”
Fighting Less Violent.
Paris.—An official announcement is-
sued by the French war office says
the struggle is in full swing in
the regiori of Arras, without any de-
cision having been reached as yet.
The action has been lqss violent be-
tween the upper valley of the Anore
and the Somme and between the
Somme and the Oise. We have made
progress in the region of Soissons,
where some of the enemy’s trenches
have been captured.
On almost all the remainder of the
front the lull, already noted, persists.
In the Woevre region we have made
some progress between Apremont and
the Meuse and on the Rupt de Mad.
In the Argonne we have driven the
enemy back toward the north.
Battle at Tsing Tau.
The Japanese are reported to have
reduced two of the forts guarding the
German colony and naval base at
Tsing Tao, in the Chinese leased
province of Kaio Chow.
Tokio.—A severe engagement has
been opened by the German warships,
which cannonaded the Japanese posi-
tions near Tsing Tan, east of the gov-
*»- ->ent of Kiao Chow, the German
.eased territory in China. Two offi-
cers were killed. German aeroplanes
assisted the warships.
The Japanese war office announces
that an artillery duel at Tsing Tau
continues. A German torpedo boat
destroyer sunk in the harbor Wednes-
day. Apparently this ship was not In
action. From other sources it is said
that the German destroyer was sunk
by Japanese siege guns.
Kaiser Warns Greece.
* London.—A dispatch tosthe Express
from Rome states that it is reported
there that Emperor William of Ger-
many has sent a telegram to the king
of Greece warning him that if Greece
enters Into a war against Turkey, Ger-
many will not guarantee the future
existence of Greece. King Constan-
tine replied, the dispatch declares,
that if ar’f r»f the stages to<->k
up arms on either side, Greece would
declare for the triple entente.
Kaiser and King Threaten.
London.—The mysterious prisoner
held by the Belgians, to whom the
other German prisoners pay extraor-
dinary respect, has been identified as
the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Two letters of surpassing interest
have passed recently between the
kaiser and King Albert of Belgium.
In the first letter the gaiser, in his
own handwriting, informed the Bel-
gian king that if a hair of the head ol
the captured Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin were hurt he (the kaiser)
would destroy Brussels.
The reply to this ultimatum was la-
conic, but to the point. King Albert,
also in his own handwriting, assured
the emperor that immediately th«
forces commenced their work of de-
struction, he (King Albert) would
shoot the Duke of Mecklenburg-Sch-
werin with his own hand.
Tells of a Germany Retreat.
Petrograd.—An official communlc*
tion from the general staff headquar
ters, says the battle of Augustowo
ended October 3, in a victory for the
Russian arms.®' The German defeat
is complete.
GERMANS NOT SERIOUS
IN ATTACK ON ANTWERP
London.—The Germans, who ore
supposed to have hod the assistance
of heavy Austrian guns, -apparently
have failed in their first attempt to
pierce the outer line of fortifications
at Antwerp- Official reports and
statements by correspondents say that
of the Belgian forts have been
damaged and thatAthe Ger-
man infantry attacks were repulsed
with heavy losses to the attackers.
The opinion prevails here that the
Germans do not intend, at present, to
make a serious attempt to besiege
Antwerp and that the attack they
have made is for the purpose of keep-
ing the Belgians within the fortress
and stopping sorties, which were dis-
concerting to the Germans occupying
the rest of the country and occasion-
ally disarranged their plans.
Again, reports are in 'circulation
that the Germans are making prepara-
tions to evacuate Belgium, or, at any
rate, that portion as far east as Bras*
sels. It is said that their force is Brus-
sels is packing up, but such state-
ments have been made so often that
not much reliance is placed In them.
Still another rumor has It that the
German staff headquarters has been
removed from Luxemburg to Mayence.
The German attack on the fort and
approaches of Koeiringshoyck, one of
the new forts on the outer line, was
repulsed. A violent attack on Ter*
monde was repulsed at 2 o’clock in the
morning, the Belgians blowing up the
bridge over the Scheldt.
Old Lady
Number
=31=
LOUISE FORSSLUND
Author of
** The Story of Sarah”
“The Ship of Dreama”
Etc.
Copyright by The Century Co.
SYNOPSIS.
Captain Abraham Roue and Angellne,
his wife, have loot their little home
through Abe’s unlucky purchase of Tena-
fly Gold mining stock. Their household
goods sold, the $100 auction money, all
they have left, will place Abe in the Old
Man’s home, or Angy In the Old Ladies’
home. Both are self-sacMficing but Abe
decides: “My dear this la the fust time
I’ve had a chance to take the wust of it.”
The old couple bid good-by to the little
house. Terror of “#hat folks will say”
sends them along by-paths to the gate of
the Old Ladies’ home. Miss Abigail, ma-
tron of the Old Ladles’ home, hears of
the 111 fortune of the old couple. She tells
the other old ladies, anA Blossy, who has
paid a double fee for the only double bed-
chamber, voices the unanimous verdict
that Abe must be taken in with his wife.
Abe awakens next morning to find that
he Is “Old Lady No. 31.” The old ladies
give him such a warm welcome that he
is made to feel at home at once. "Brother
Abe” expands under the warm reception
of the# Bisters, and a reign of peace begins
in the Old Ladles’ home.
CHAPTER VI—Continued.
It '‘plagued” the others, however, to
see that none of them could get ahead
of Blossy In their noble endeavors to
make Abraham feel himBelf a light and
welcome burden. She it was who dis-
covered that Abe’s eontentment coyld
not be absolute without griddlecakes
for breakfast three hundred and sixty-
five times a year; she it was who first
baked him little saucer Cakes and pies
because he was partial to edges; and
Blossy it was who made out a list of
“Don’ts” for the sisters to follow in
their treatment of this grown-up
young-old boy.
“Don’t scold him when he leaves
the doors open. Don’t tell him to wipe
his feet. Don’t ever mention gold
mines or shiftless husbands,” etc., etc.
All these triumphs* of Blossy’s in-
tuition served naturally to spur the
others on to do even more for Brother
Abe than they had already done, until
the old man began to worry for fear
that he should “git sp’ilt.” Whs a -he
lay down for his afternoon nap and
the house was dull and quiet without
his waking presence, the ladies wottld
gather in groups outside his door as if
in a king’s antechamber, waiting for
him to awaken, saying to one another
ever and again, “Sh, sh!” He pro-
fessed to scoff at the attentions he
received, would grunt and growl'
“Humbug!” yet nevertheless he
thrived in this latter-day sunlight. His
old bones took on flesh. His aged
kindly face, all seamed with care as
it had been, filled out, the wrinkles
turning into twinkles. Abraham had
grown young again. With the return
of his youth came the epirit of youth
to the Old Ladles' home. Verily, ver-
ily, as Blossy had avowed from the
first, they had been in sore need of
the masculine presence. The ancient
coat and hat, which had hung in the
hail so long, had perhaps served its
purpose In keeping the burglars away,
but this lifeless substitute had not
prevented the crabbed gnomes of lone-
liness and discontent from stealing in.
Spinster, wife and widow, they had
every one been warped by the testy
jest-so-ne*8s of the old maid.
Now, Instead of fretful discussions
of health and f^>od, recriminations and
wrangling, there came to be laughter
and good-humored chatter all the day
long, each sister striving with all her
strength to preserve the new-found
harmony of the home. There were
musical evenings, when Miss Abigail
opened the melodeon and played “Old
Hundred,” and Abraham was encour-
aged to pick out with one stiff fore-
finger “My Grandfather’s Clock.”
“Hymn tunes” were sung in chorue;
and then, in answer to Abe’s appeal
for something livelier, there came
time-tried ditties and old, old love
songs. And at last, one night, after
leaving the instrument silent, mute in
the corner or the parlor for many
yean, Aunt Nancy Smith dragged out
her harp, and, seating herself, reached
out her knotted, trembling hands and
brought forth what seemed the very
•cho, so faint and faltering It was. of
“Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True.”
There was a long silence after she
had finished, her head bowed on her
chest, her hands dropped to her sides.
Abraham spoke first, clearing his
throat before he could make the words
come.
I wish I could git a husband fer
•very one of yer,” said he.
And no one was angry, and no one
laughed; for they all knew that he
waa only seeking to express the mes-
sage conveyed by Nancy’s playing—
the message of love, love triumphant,
which cannot age, which over the
years and over death Itself always
hath the victory.
• CHAPTER VII.
Old Letters and New.
Blossy left the room without a
word, and went stealing up the stairs
to the little cupboard where sbe now
slept, and where was hung on the
wall. In a frame of yellow hollyhocks.
painted by her own hand, a photo-
graph of Capt, Samuel Darby, the man
who had remained obstinately devoted
to her since her days of pinafores.
The picture betrayed that Captain
Darby wore a wig designed for a
larger man, and that the visage be-
neath was gnarled and weather-beaten,
marked with the signs of a stubborn
and unreasonable will.
Even now the aged belle could hear
him saying: “Here I be, come eround
ter pop ag’in. Ready ter hitch?”
Samuel’s inelegant English had al-
ways been a source of distress to
Blossy; yet still she stared long at
the picture.
Six months had passed since his last
visit; tomorrow would be the date of
his winter advent.
Should she give the old unvarying
answer to his tireless formula?
She glanced around the tiny room.
Ashamed though she was to admit it
even to herself, she missed that ample
and cozy chamber which she had so
freely surrendered to Abraham and
his wife. She missed it, ae she felt
they must crave their very own fire-
side; and the thought that they missed
the ol^ homestead made her yearn for
the home that she might have had—
the home that she still might have.
Again she brought her eyes back to
the portrait; and now she saw, not the
characteristics which had always made
it seem impossible for her and Samuel
to jog together down life’s road, but
the great truth that the face was hon-
est and wholesome while the eyes
looked back into hers with the prom-
ise of an unswerving care and affec-
tion.
The next morning found Blossy
kneeling before a plump little leather-
boimd, time-worn trunk which she kept
under the eaves of the kitchen cham-
ber. The trunk was packed hard with
bundles of old letters. Some her
younger fingers had tied with violet
ribbon; some they had bound with
pink; others she had fastened togeth-
er with white silk cord, and there were
more and more bundles, both slim and
stout, which Blossy had distinguished
by some special hue of ribbon in the
long ago, each tint marking a different
suitor’s missives.
To her still sentimental eye the col-
ors remained unfaded, and each would
bring to her mind instantly the pic-
ture of the writer as he had been in
the golden days. But save to Bloesy’s
eye alone there were no longer any
rainbow tints in the little old trunk;
for every ribbon and every cord had
faded into that musty, yellow brown
which is dyed by the passing of many
years. ,
Abraham discovered her there, too
engrossed in the perusal of one of the
old letters to have heeded hiB creak-
ing steps upon the stairs.
“Didn’t see yer, till I ’most stumbled
on yer,” he began apologetically. “I
come fer the apple-picker. Thar's a
handful of russets in the orchard yit,
that’s calc’latin’ ter spend Christmas
up close ter heaven; but— Say,
Blossy,” he added more loudly, since
she did not raise her head, “yew seen
anythin' o’ that air picker?”
Blossy glanced up from her ragged-
edged, crackly billet-doux with a start,
and dropped the envelope to the floor.
For the moment, so deep in reminis-
cence was she, she thought Captain
Darby himself had surprised her;
then, recognizing Abe and recalling
that Samuel’s winter visits were inva-
riably paid in the afternoon, she broke
into a shamefaced laugh.
“Oh, is that you, Brother Abe?
Don’t tell the others what you found
me doing. These,’” with a wave pt
her delicate, blue-veined hands over
the trunk and its contents, “are all
old love letters of mine. Do you think
I'm a silly old goose to keep them
cluttering around so long?”
“Wa’al”—Abe with an equally dep-
recatory gesture indicated Angy’s
horsehair trunk in the far corner of
the loft—“yew ain’t no more foollsher,
I guess, over yer old trash ’n me an’
Angy be a-keepin’ that air minin’
stock of mine. One lot is wuth ’bout
as much as t'other."
Recovering the envelope that she had
dropped, he squinted at the superscrip-
tion. “Not meanin’ ter be inquisitive
or personal, Sister Blossy,” a teasing
twinkle appearing in his eye, “but this
looks dretful familiarity, this here
handwritin’ does. When I run the
beach—yew’ve heard me tell of the
time I was on the life-savin’ crew
over ter Bleak Hill fer a spell—my
cap'n he had a fist jest like that.
U8eter make out the spickest, span-
nest reports. Lemma see,” the twinkle
deepening, "didn’t the gals say yew
was a ’spectln’ somebody terday? Law,
I ain’t saw Cap’n Sam’l fer ten year
or more. I guess on these here pop-
pin’ trips o’ his’n he haln’t wastin’
time on no men-folks. But, Blossy,
yew better give me a chance ter talk
to him this arternoon, an’ mebbe I’ll
Bpeak a good word fer yer.”
Blossy, not always keen to eee a
joke, and with htr vanity now in the
ascendent, felt the color rise into her
withered cheek.
“Oh, you needn’t take the trouble
to speak a good word for me. Any
man who could ever write a letter like
this doesn’t need to be coaxed. Just
listen:
t4§ man you take for a mate Is th#
luckiest dog In the whole round world. I’d
rather be him than king of all the coun-
tries on earth. I’d rather be him than
strike a gold mine reaching from here to
China. I’d rather bo him than master of
the finest vessel that ever sailed blue wa-
ter. That's what I would. Why. the man
who couldn’t be happy with you would
■pill tears all over heaven.
BlosBy’s cheek was still flushed, but
no longer with pique. Her voice qua-
vered and broke; and finally there fell
upon the faded page of the letter two
sparkling tears.
Abraham shuffled uncomfortably
from one foot to the other: than mut
terlng something about the “peskfi K
apple hook,” went scuffing across that
floor in the direction of the chimney^
Blossy, however, called him back*
"I was crying, Brother Abe, because
the man I did take for a mate once :
was not happy, and—and neither waa
I. I was utterly wretched; so that
I’ve always felt I never cared to
marry again. - And—SamuerS wig is
always slipping down over one eye*
and I simply cannot endure that trick
he has of carrying hi« head to one
side, as if he had a left-handed spell
of the mumps. It nearly drives mo
frantic.
“Brother Abe, now tell me honestly:
do you think he would make a good
husband?”
Abe cleared his throat Blossy waa
in earnest. Blossy could not t>e
laughed at. She was his friend, and
Angy’e friend; and she had come to
him as to a brother for advice. He,
too, had known Samuel as man to
man, which was more thar any of-
the sisters could say.
Stroking his beard thoughtfully,
therefore, he seated himself upon a
convenient wooden chest while Blossy
slipped her old love letter in and outl
of the envelope, with that essentially
feminine manner of weighing and con-
sidering.
"Naow,” began Abe at length, “thia
ie somep’n that requires keerful de-
batin’. Fust off, haowsomever, yaw
must remember that wigs an' ways
never made a man yit Ez I rlccolao”
Sam’l, he was pooty good ez men go.
I should say he wouldn’t be any mow
of a risk tew yew than I was tew
Angy; mebbe less. He’s got quite *
leetle laid by, I understand, an’ n
tidy story-an’-a-half house, an’ front-
stoop, an’, by golly, “tan't be cookt:
He’s a splendid housekeeper.”
“Housewifery,” remarked Blossy
sagely, as she began to gather her mis*
slvee together, ‘‘is an accomplishment
to be scorned in a young husband, bat
not in an old one. They say them
hasn’t been a woman Inside Samuel'S
house since he built it, but lt’a at
clean a8 soap and sand can make it” ,
“I bet yer,” agreed Abe. "Haln’t
never been no fly inside it neither, 1
warrant yer. Fly can’t light arter
Sam’l’s cleanin’ up nohaow; he’* got
ter Bkate.”
“He says he built that little house
for me,” said the old lady, as she
closed down the lid of the trunk. There;
was a wistful note in Blossy’s voiee,
which made Abraham declare with a
burst of sympathy:
“ ’Tain’t no disgrace ter git married
at ho time of life. SamTs a good pe*-
vider; why don’t yew snap him up
terday? We’ll miss yew a lot; but—r
"Here’s the apple picker right over
your head,” interrupted. Blossy tartly,
’8nd Abe felt himself peremptorily dis-
missed. .
Scarcely had b« left the attie, how-
ever than she, too, hastened down tha
steep, narrow Btairs. She Spent tftt*
remaining hours before train time in
donning her beautiful lace gown, and
in making the woman within it pa
young and ravishing as possible. And
lovely, indeed, Bloeay looked this day,
with a natural flush of excitement oa
her cheek, a new sparkle In her bright,
dark eyes, and with her white hair ar-
ranged in a fashion which might have
excited a young girl’s envy.
The hour for the train came sad
went, and, lo! for the first time In the
history of twenty years Captain Darby
did not appear.
Blossy pretended to be relieved, pro-
testing that she was delighted to find .
that she would now have an vxtra •
hour in which to ponder the question.
But the second train came and went,
and still no Captain Darby.
All the afternoon long Blossy wore
her lace gown, thinking although there
were no more trains from the east-
ward that day, that Samuel would Still
find his way to her. He might drive*
as he usually did in June, or he might
even walk from his home at TWte
Coves, she said.
(TO BH CONTINUED.) ;7
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Found in a Glacier.
Sir Martin Conway has recently told
this story of finding a lost ax la tha
Alps: Zurbiggen, one of the cel*
brated mountain climbers of the
world, in scaling a peak of Lea Afi-
felaises, near Chamounlx, accidentally
let his ax fall near the summit of. the
peak. It fell some thousands of feet
In the normal course of things It was
buried In snow and swallowed up !g
the glacier, being covered deeper and
deeper each year, and at the same
time being carried slowly downward
as the Ice flowed on. Seven or eight
years afterward Hon. C. G. Brace and
Harkbir. a Sepoy chief. In descending
a peak of the Alps just as night wan
falling, and a great crevasse barred
the way. being unable to find the
bridge over It, cut a path down ta
t * bottom, where Harkbir stepped m
an ax which had M. Z. Zurbiggen’a Ini-
tials on the handle. There oould he
mistake as to the Identity of the
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ax. as Harkbir bad
it before.
seen it and
He Knew That Money Talks.
He couldn’t talk English, though per
haps he understood a little, but 1m
knew a thing or two. He waa riding
on a huckster’s wagon past a pubUt
school. His partner had gone Into §
house to sell some track, and he waa
learning the business. His clothes
were ragged and shabby, much libs
those of the stage tramp. The chib
dren started to jeer at him, w«M"|
remarks about his elotbee. He seemed
to understand that they were
fun of his clothes, so hs reached In
his pocket and pulled out the bromldle
"roll of bills that would choke a cow.”
These bills he waved at the ehiMisg
for apparently he believed that OoMf
would Insure respect, oven If he
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Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1914, newspaper, October 9, 1914; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542735/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.