The Honor PROLOGUE. Up in the "Big Snows," near the dome of the earth, lies the j scene of this story of real men and real women, who have all of the virtues of their hardening en vironment and few of the failings of their more civilized relatives. This is a tale for reading when one is tired of the artificialities of civilization or at any other time when a good story is appre ciated. You will find in it ro mance and adventure and mystery mixedin such skillful manner and in such proportion that no ingre dient interferes with another. Yet all go to make fine reading for women who like to hear of brave deeds and sacrifice for love's sake and for men with even a drop of the spirit of adventure in their veins. And one thing more the author has livedamong the people whose lives he de scribes, and he knows how to tell a story. CHAPTER VU Th Rod Torror. CUMMINS' word of the school at Churchill had put a new and thrilling thought Into Jan's head, and always with that thought be coupled visions of the growing Melissa This year the school would be at Churchill and the next at York factory, and after that it might be gone forever, so that when Melisse grew up there would be none nearer than what Jan looked upon as the oth er end of the world. Why could not he go to school for Melisse and store up treasures which in time he might turn over to ber? The scheme was a colossal one, by ail odd3 the largest that had ever entered into his dreams of what life held for him. It was not until the first cold ckills of approaching winter crept down from the north and east that he told Cummins of his intention. Once his mind was settled Jan lost no time In putting his plans Into ac tion. Mukee knew the trail to Church- Ill and agreed to leave with him on the third day, which gave Williams' wife time to make him a new coat of carl bou skin. On the second evening he played for the last time In the little cabin, and after Melisse bad fallen asleep be took her up gently lu his arms and held her there for a long time, while Cummins looked on Id silence. When he replaced her In the little bed against the wall Cummins put one of his long arras about the boy's shoulders and led him to the door, where they stood looking out upon tne grim desolation of the forest that rose black and silent against, the starlit background of the sky. "Boy, won't you tell me who you are and why you came that night?" "I will tell you now that I come from ee Great Bear," whispered Jan. "I am only Jan Thoreau, an' ze great God made me come that night jeeause" Ws heart throbbed with sudCen in spiration as ho looked up Into his com panion's face "because ze leetle Me lisse was here," he finished. For a time Cumnilus made no move or sound; then ho drew the boy back into the cabin, and from the little ging ham covered box iu the corner he took a buckskin bag. "You are going to Churchill for Me lisse and for her," he said In a voice pitched low that it might not awaken the baby. "Take this." Jan drew a step back. "No, I flu' work with ze compan-ee at Churchill. That Is ze gold for Me lisse when she grow up. Jan Thoreau . is no what you call heem?" Ills teeth glen mod In a smile, but It lasted only for an instant Cummins' face darkened, and ho caught him firmly, almost roughly, by the arm. "Then Jan Thoreau will never come back to Melisse," he exclaimed with finality. "You are going to Churchill to be at school and not to work with your hands. They are sending you. Do you understand, boy? They!" There was a fierce tremor in his voice. "Which will It be? Will you take the bag or will you never again come back to Lac Bain?" Dumbly Jan reached out and took the buckskin pouch. A dull flush burned in his chocks. Cummins look ed In wonder upon the strange look that came Into his eyes. "I pay back this gold to you and Me lisse a hundred tlmesl" he cried tense ly. "I swear It, an' I swear that Jan Thoreau mak' uo lie!" Unconsciously, with the buckskin bag Hutched in one hand, he had stretched ut his other arm to the violin hang ing against the wall. Cummins turned to look. When he faced him again tho boy's arm had fallen to his sldo and his cheeks were white. The next day Jan left It was a long winter for Cummins and Melisse. It was a longer one for Jan. He had taken with him a letter from tho factor at Lac Bain to tho fac tor at Churchill, and ho found quarters with tho chief clerk's assistant at tho Gpst a young, red faecal man named 0 K5 Copuriahl 1911, bu the Bobbs Merrill Co. t n MacDon&ld, who bad come over on the ship from England. Be was a cheer ful, good natured young fellow, and when he learned that his new associate had tramped all the way from the Bar ren Lands to attend the new public school, he at once Invested himself with the responsibilities of a private tutor. The school opened in November, and Jan found himself one of twenty or so gathered there from 40.000 square miles of wilderness. Two white youths and a half breed bad come from the Ktawney, the factor at Nel- 'I pay back thi gold to you and Ma list a hundrad time!" son Ilouse sent up his sou, and from the upper waters of the Little Church .11 there came three others. From the first Jan's music found him a premier place in the interest of the tutor sent over bv tho romnnnv He studied by night as well as bv day, and by the end of the second month his only competitor was the youth from Nelson Ilouse. Ills great est source of knowledge was not the teacher, but MacDonald. There was .n him no Inherent desire for the learn ing of the people to the south; that be was storing away, like a faithful ma chine, for the use of Melisse. But MacDonald gave him that for which his soul longed-a pl.ture of life as it existed in the wonderful world hi. yond the wilderness, to which som strange spirit within him, growing Btronger as the weeks and months passed, seemed projecting his hopes nd his ambitions. Between his thoughts of Melisse and Lac Balu be dreamed of that other world, and several times during the winter he took the little roll from the box of his violin and rend again and HKHin uie wnnen p:i -es mat It con tained "Some time 1 will go." he assured himself always-"some time when Melisse Is n llttlo older and can go too." To yonn," MacDonald the boy from Lac Bain was a "find." Tho Scottisi youth was filled with nn Immense longing for home, and us his home sickness grew he poured more and more into Jan's attentive ears his knowledge of tho world from which he had come. In the spring Jan went back to Lac Bain with the company's supplies. The next autumn ho followed the hool to lorK ractory, and the third year he Joined it at Notion Ilouse. Then the company's teacher died, and no one came to fill his place. In midwinter of this third year Jan rf "rA1'.11.. . hWl . n.a lis. n nd I hugging Bio Snows Alitor IT 66Tk the delighted Melisse close lb his arms, he told her that never again would he go away without her. Melisse, tight cuing her arms around his nerk. made his promise sucred by offering ber lit tle rosebud of a mouth for him to kiss. Latei the restless (spirit slumbering within tils breast urged him to speak to tv.niiuins "When Melisse Is a little older should we not go with her Into the south?" he said "She must not live forever in a place like t!:is." t'tnnmlnx looked nt him for an in stant as If tie did not understand, wt-eii .lan's meaning struck home bis ey;s hardened, ntul there was the vi brant rliiK of steel In his quiet voice. "Her mother will be out there under the old spnn-e until the end of time," he s.-iid slowly, "and wo will never leiive her unless, sonip day, Melisse goes alone " From tli.it hour Jan no longer looked Into the box of his violin. He strug gled against the desire that had grown with his years uutll he believed that he had crushed It and stamped it out of his existence, in his life there came to be but one rising and one setting of the sun. Melisse was his universe. She crowded his heart until beyond ber be began to lose visions of any other world. Each day tded to his Joy. He call ed her "my little sister." and with sweet gravity Melisse called him "brother Jan" and returned In full measure bis boundless love. lie mark ed the slow turning of her flaxen hair Into sunny gold and month by month watched Joyfully the deepening of that gold Into warm shades of brown. She was to be like her mother! Jan's soul rejoiced, and in bis silent way Cum mins offered up wordless prayers of thankfulness. So matters stood at Post Lac Bain in the beglun'ng of Melisse's ninth year, when up from the south there came a rumor. Humor grew Into rumor. From the east, the south and the west they mul tiplied, until on all sides the Paul Re veres of the wilderness carried news that the Red Terror was at their heels, and the chill of a great fear swept like a shivering wind from the edge of civ ilization to the bay. Nineteen years before these same ru mots bad come up from the south, and the Red Terror had followed. The hor ror of It still remained with the forest people, for a thousand unmarked craves, shunned like a pestilence and scattered from t he lower waters of .Innies hay to the lake country of the Athabasca, gave evldeuce of the toll It demanded From DuRrochet. on Reindeer lake, authentic word first came 'o Lac Hani .'arly 'n the winter Henderson was factor there, nnd he passed up the wurninu ihi't had come to him from Nelson House nnd the country to the southeast. There's smallpox on the Nelson." bis messenger Informed Williams, "and It has struck the Crees on Wollaston take. God only knows what it Is doing to tho bay Indlnns. but we hear that It Is wlp. Ing out the Chlpnewayans between the Albany and the Churchill." He left the same day with his winded dogs. "I'm off for the Frenchmen to the west, with the compliments of our company." be explained. Three days later word came from Churchill that all of the company's servants aud her majesty's subjects west of the bay should prepare them selves for the coming of the Red Terror. illianis' thick face went as white as the paper he held as he read the words of the Churchill factor. "It means dig graves," ho said innis tne oniy preparation we can make!" He read the paper aloud to the men at Lac Bain, and every available man was detailed to spread tho warning throughout the post's territory. There was a quick harnessing of dogs, and on each sledge that went out was a roll of red cotton cloth. Jan went over tho Churchill trail snd then swung southward along the uasuoain, wnere tne country was crisscrossed with trap lines of the halfbreeds and tho French, First he struck tho cnbln of Crolssct and his wife and left part of his cloth. Then ne turned westward, while Crolsset harnessed his dogs and hurried with a quarter of the roll to the south. Be tween tho Hasabaln and Klokol lake Jan found threo other cabins, nnd nt each he left a bit of tho red cotton. Forty miles to the south, somewhere on tho Porcupine, he found the cabin of nenry Langlols. the post's greatest fox hunter. Over it, hanging limply to a sapling oole, was the red signal of horror. With a terrified cry to tho dogs. Jan ran back, and the team turned about and followed him In a tangled mass. Then ho stopped. There was no smoke rising from tho clay chimney on the little cabin. Its one window was white with frost Again and again he shouted, but no sign of life responded to his cries. lie fired his rifle twlco nnd waited with his mlt- cenoa nand over his mouth and nos trils. There was no reply. Then. Rhandonlng hope, be turned back into the north aud gave his dogs no rest Until he had reached Lac Bain. His team came In half dead. Both 3ummlns and Williams rushed out to neet him as be drove up before the wmpany's store. "The red flag Is over Langlols cabin."' he cried. "I fired my rifle and shouted. There j no life! Langlols is dead!" "Great God!" groaned Williams. Ills red face changed to a sickly pallor, and be stood with bis thick hands clinched while Cummins took charge of the dogs and Jan went Into the store for something to eat Mukee and Per-ee returned to the post the next day. Young Williams followed close after them, filled with terror. He had found the plague among the Crees of the Waterfound. Each day added to the gloom at Lac Bain. Death leaped from cabin to rabiu In the wilderness to the west By the middle of the- month Lac I tn in was hemmed In by the plague u all sides but the north. The post's trap lines had been short tued; now they were abandoned en tirely, aud the great fight began. Wil liams assembled his men and told them how that same battle had beeu fought nearly two decades before. For sixty miles about the post every cabin and wigwam that floated a red flag must be visited and burned if the occupants were dead. In learning whether life or death existed in these places lay the peril for those who undertook the task. It was a dangerous mission. It meant facing a death from which those who listened to the old factor shrank with dread, yet when the call came they re sponded to a man. Cummins and Jan ate their last sup per together, with Melisse sitting be tween them and wondering at their si lence. When it was over the two went outside. "Mukee wasn't at the store," said Cummins in a thick, strained voice, halting Jan In the gloom behind the cabin. "Williams thought he was off to the south with his dogs. But he Isn't. I saw him drag himself into his shack like a sick dog an hour before dusk. There'll be a red flag over Lac Bain In the morning." Jan stifled the sharp cry on his lips. "Ah, there's a light!" cried Cum mins. "It's a pitch torch burning In front of bis door!" He gripped Jan's arm In a sudden spasm of horror. "The flag Is up now!" be whispered huskily. '.'Go back to Melisse. There Is food in the house for a month aud yon can bring the wood lu tonight. Bar the door. Open only the back window for air. Stay inside- with her until It Is all over. Go!" "To the red flags, that Is where I will go!" cried Jan fiercely, wrenching his arm free "It Is your place to stay with Melisse!" "My place is with the men." "And mine?" Jan drew himself up rigid. "One of us must shut himself up with her." pleaded Cummins. "It must be yon." Ills face gleamed white In the darkness. "You came that night because Melisse was here. Some ining sent you someuung-uon t you understand V And since then she bas never been near to death until now You must stay with Melisse with your violin!" - aieiisse nerseir shall choose, re plied Jan. "We will go into the cabin and the one lo whom she comes first goes among the red flags. The other shuts himself In the cabin until tho plague is gone." He turned swiftly back to the door. As he opened it he stepped aside to let Cummins enter first, and behind the other's broad back lie leaped quick ly to one side, his ryes glowing, his white teeth gleaming in a smile. Un seen by Cummin, lie stretched out his arms to Meiisse. who was playing with the strings of his violin on the table. He had done this a thousand times, and Melisse knew what It meant a kiss and a joyous toss halfway to the ceil ing. Mic jumped from her stool nnd ran to him. I am goiiii' down among the sick Crees In Cummins' place," said Jan to Williams half an hour later. "Now that the plague has come to Lac Bain, oe must stay with Melisse." (To He Continued.) BARGAINS IN BIG USED MOTORCYCLES We have 3 used motorcycles, in good running order, for sale cheap If sold at once. H. Steinhauer & Son, Plattsmouth, Neb. roresl Rose Flour guaranteed to bn as good as any flour on the market. Sold by all leading deal. ers. Try it. and FEED We are now handling a complete ino of coal. Call and let us quote you prices for your fall and winter coal. We handle wheat, oats, corn and chop of all kinds'. Ind. Telephone 297 Nelson Jean & Go, THE ATHLETIC EXHI BITION AT mm Small Crowd Present, but the Boys Went Through the Motions, to the Delight of All. From Saturday's Dally. i ... i . i..im ceiung mere was some athletic exhxibition given at the M. Y. A. hall in Mynard, which was attended by quite a number from this city. The hall was in poof .shape for the exhibition and it was with difficulty that the wrestling and boxing stunts were put on by the boys. mm, . ii .. . i i . , me imm eeni oi t no evenini .. .. . ii 1 1 - . . wa.s i ue wrestling maicii between A. V. Vallery and A. Ellis, the unknown champion. Vallerv was considerably heavier than Kllis and did not have much difficulty in securing the first two falls. The first fall was won on a head scis. sor Hold in six minutes and the second fall was secured on a half- eison ami crotch hold in two minutes. Kllis issued a challenge to Hen Speck of Mynard, a 135. pound boy, for a match at the next exhibition given in Louisville. The main event of the evening was the boxing match between "Terrible Dutch," the whirlwind fighter of this city, and "Kid" Myers, the deaf and dumb tighter, lhe boys started out slow and cautious, but in the second round 1 l'lll . , , got a little ginger in their work, iu uiu mum- 9. Tl, ,.! ii...i n , .1 x..r i. MieL .usLeu i.ve rounusanu me terror was unable to deal any effective blows on Myers and . e ,.Bt uS uec.areu a Uraw i.y participate in tho further profits, IllOlima .Toll ihn rnfiirno Tnnbl.i...., . . ' " " tei;omi ior 1 lie wniie nooert Ames w 1 - . . . I I'lTuimuMi u MimiKir service ior .. iii . OUOWIIlg me DOXing exlllllllion 1 II ,1 ,-.111.. . allery threw Sherlock, the chain- ,,u ,,,ms """'i. " iw .a,r,.i ,,, im- ium, 01 wiiu-ii mm.k .inn' iiunuies, wane me sec- ond fall required seven minutes, ...... . ... -.m ...... .M en in proper training lie would probably have given Vallery a hot contest, as he is some wrestler. Kidney Troubles Attack Ptatts mouth Men and Women, Old and Young. Kidney ills seize young and old, (men come wii.ii utile warning. Children suffer in their early years Can't control the kidney secre I ions. (.iris are languid, nervous, suf- fer pain. omen worry, can't do daily work. Men have lame and aching hacks. rr .. .. .. m .... ii jnu naeu ny mrm oi Kidney ills oii must reach the cause the kidneys. 1 1 i i i.-n woaii s nmney mis are lor weak kidneys The following testimony proves their worth: Wililam (iilniour, afrmer, four miles south of Plattsmouth, Neb., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have been used with the best of results in my family. The patient had been suffering intensely from lameness in the back and could get no lasting relief until she be. gan using 1 loan's Kidney Pills. 'IM. 1 1 1 , lnrj inn more to cnecK mese troubles than nnylhinar else that liad previously been taken." I-or sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Muffalo, New York, sole agents for the United Slates. Remember the name Doan's- aiiil lake no other. Farm for Sale. 135-acro farm, four miles from town, between 50 and CO acres under plow, 7 acres hay land, bal- anco pasture. Running water. Seven-room house and other im provements. -impure ai me oince or llawls I - 1 i I n.i & Robertson. 10-10-f f-wklv Dance November 23. I he members of the Holy Rosary church will irivc a Brand all on Saturday evening, Novem- er 23, at the K. S. hall. Admis. sion do cents, r irsi-ciass music. verybody invited to come and lave a good lime. 1 1-13-tfd. The boy's appetite is often tho source of amazement. If vou would have such an appetite take Chamberlain's Tablets. They not only create a healthv annetite. but Irenglhen the stomach and en able it to do its work nalurnllv. NOBODY SPARED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. Known All Men by These Pres ents, that we. Jno. A. Chopieska, Sam U. Smith. D. O. Dwyer, II. M. Soennichsen and John T. Lam bert, so associated ourselves to gether for the purpose of form ing and becoming a corporation in the State of Nebraska, for the transaction of the business here inafter described. 1. The name of the corpora tion shall be the Chopie Gasoline Engine Company (Limited). The principal place of transacting its business shall be in the city of Plattsmouth, County of Cass, and State of Nebraska. 2. The nature of the business to be transacted by said corpora lion shall be the manufacture and sale of gasoline engines, other engines, and machinery and the erection and maintenance of such buildings and structures as may be deemed necessary, and to pur chase real estate for a site thorn- fore, and to procure any and all necessary property, both real and personal, incidental to or re quired in the manufacture of gasoline engines. 3. The authorized capital stock of said corporation shall be Two Hundred Thousand Dnl- ars, divided into shares of ten dollars each, to bo subscribed and paid for as required by tho Board of Directors. One-half of said slock shall bo preferred, and which preferred stock shall draw seven per cent, to be paid out of U.o net earnings of tho company, ner nnm.m Th mh... hnt I .... v. ... , V VU1V4 HUH OlIUll ko common slock nn ,hh rtlVKlen.la ohr.ll rsnlA n Ik. ' " "3 IUO Hoard of Directors mieht do terminn. nniv ihA nun. i h. common stock shall bo entitled to eiecuon or oincers and manage- innr, nf ho P.nmnonv All nt ,'! stock sfmll hn nrnnoan00nhitt I uuouuiV) 4, The 1 .t I'ui unuii oiiuu uuililllt'UUU UU fhn Rill Hnv of Oefnhnr 09 anA I V VVl,VUTjt f vf Ullll continue during the period of twenty-five years 5. Xi,e i)U8,ness of 8aid cor noral.ion shall l. e,,nHnet h Hoard of Directors not to exceed nve in number, to bo elected hr the stockholders of tho common stock. Tho first election of directors shall lake place at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the day of October, 1012, and thereafter sudi election lo taka place at such time and bo con ducted in such manner as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of said corporation. (5. Tho officers of said cor poration shall be president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and a general manager, who shall be chosen by the Hoard of Direct ors, and shall hold their office for the period of one year and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. 7. Tho highest amount of in debtedness lo which said corpora- lion shall at any time subject it self shall not be more than two- thirds of its issued and paid up capital stork. 8. The manner of holding the meeting' of stockholders for the election of officers, and the method of conducting the busi ness of the corporation, shall be as provided in the bv.l.iwn adopted by the Hoard of Directors. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands this 5th day of October, 1912. Jno. A. Chopieska. Sam O. Smith. H. M. Soennichsen. D. O. Dwyer. John T. Lambert. In presence of Hessie Shea. STATU OF NI'T.HASKA, Cass County, ss. On this 2nd day of October, 111 1 2, before me, Hessie Shea, a notary public, in and for said county, personally appeared the above named Jno. A. Chopieska, Sam O. Smith, D. O. Dwyer, II. M. Soennichsen and John T. Lam bert, who are personally known to me to be the identical nersons w,u,sw """"'s are affixed to the above articles as parties thereto, ' and they severally acknowledged their instrument to be their voluntary act and deed. Witness my band and notarial seal at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this Sib day of October, 1912. (Seal) Bessie, Shea, Notary Public. My commission expires June 3rd, 1913. State of Nebraska, Secretary's Office. Received and filed for record October 7, 1912, and recorded in I,00k "- Miscellaneous Incor- 1 1? . 1 I'orauons, at, page Addison Wait, Secretary of Slate. By Ceo. W. Marsh, Deputy. CABBAGE FOR SALE by E. 0. or sale by F. O. Fricke & Co. Cole. ll-14-2wks-vk!v