v I t RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF cAp Iff ... II II wjaMiMMWItyM"Wwi"WW"il"'i'l''lw,,lIMI,,ww'Mw,M"'',lw''MMW A tne DIM ELOPES. Synopsis. Snmson nml Fnrnh Traylor, with their two chlMruti, Jnsluli and Uelty, trnvol by wiiiton from their homo In Vrneiinea, Vt., to tlio Went, the l.intl of plenty. Ttielr doMlnatlon In tlio Country of the Siin;;umon. In Illinois. At N'laR nra Kails they meet John McNeil, who nlno lc(l(lt' to ko to the Hun Kiunnii ooiiiitrv. Sarah's tnlnlnlni tlons nave the life of Harry Noodles ntid ho nrrouiMMiles tho Traylors. Thi-y reach New Halttn, IIIImoIh, and nro wch omoil by yonnn Ahe IJncoln, Jack Kvlso and his prcttv datiKhl'T Win and ntlicis Hamson nines his riihln. IJncoln thrnshes ArniHltmu;. Harry Httlkcn Hap Me Null Harry In nttnckod hy MeNotl and his K.mtf, nnd llhn drives off his u8s.ul.intM with a shot j;u'i. Me- " I uiurkpdly attentive to Ann nutlcdee. I.lnroln Is In love with Ann, hut has never had ctioimh urngn to toll her n llnrry loves ll.in. Traylor helps two nluvcs, who hnd run nwny from Ht. IxjuIs. I'llplmlct IllKKH, ownor of tho slaves. haH IiIh arm brn'ten hy Travlnr Mkps meets Dim and mikes lovo to hor. Abo announees that he In a enndldnte for tho legis lature. The Dlach Hawk war makes Aim a captain and ho and Harry ro to tho front. CHAPTER IX. 10 In Which Dim Kelso Makes History, While Abe and Harry nnd Other Good Cltlzeno of New Salem Are Making an Effort to That End In the Indian Var. In tho midst of springtime there came cheering new from the old home In Vermont n letter to Sarah from her hrollier, which contained the wel come promise that he was coming to visit them and expected to he In ltonrilMown about the fourth of May. Samson drove across country to meet the steamer, lie was at the lnndlng when the Star of the North arrived. II saw every passenger that cnine uuhore, and Kllphulet IJIggs, leading his lilg hay mare, was one of them, hut the expected visitor did not arrive. There would he no other steamer bringing pusscngers from tho Kust for n numher of days. .Samson went to n store nntl bought n new diess and sundry bits of finery Xfor Sarah. He returned to New Salem with n heavy heart. Sarah stood In the ojien door as he drove up. "Didn't come," he said mournfully. "Without n word, Sarah followed him to the barn, with the tin lantern In her hand, lie guve her n hup; as he got down from the wagon. He was little given to like displays of emotion. "Don't feel bad," he said. "I've given tliem up 1 don't believe we shnll ever ace them again," said t&irnh, as they were walking toward Yhe door. "I think I know how the dead feel who are so soon forgotten." "Ye can't blame 'em," said Samson. "They've probably heard about the Injun scare and would expect to be mussacrecd If they came." Indeed the scare, now abating, had Hproad through the bolder settlements and kept the people awake o' nights. Samson and other men, left In New Salem, had met to consider plans for n stockade. "And then there's the fever an' ogue," Samson added. "Sometimes I feel sorry I told 'em about It, because they'll think It worst than It Is. I'.ut we've got to tell the truth If It kills us." "Yes; we've got to tell the truth," Samson rejoined. "There'll bo a rail road coming through here one of these dnys and then wo can all get back and forth easy. If It comes It's going to make us rich. Abe says he expects It within three or four years." Sarah had a hot supper ready for him. As he stood warming himself by the fire she put her amis around blm and gave him n little hug. "You poor tired man!" she sold. "How pntleut and bow good you are I" There was a kind of npology for this moment of weakness In her look and manner. Her face seemed to say: "It's silly but 1 can't help It." "I've been happy nil the time, for 1 knew you was waiting for me," Sum fcon remarked. "I feel rich every time I think of you and the children. Say, look here." He, untied the bundle and put the dress and llnery In her lap. ' "Well, I want to knowl" she ex claimed, as sho held It up to the can dlelight. "That must have cost a pret ty penny." "I don't care what It cost It ain't linlf good enough not half," said Samson. As he sat down to his supper he Bald : "I saw that slnver, Wggs, get off the boat with his big bay mare. There was a darky following him with an other horse." "Good land!" snld Sarah. "I hope lie Isn't coming here. Mrs. Onstot told me today that Ulm Kelso has been get ting letters from him." "She's such ah odd llttlo critter and jibe's got a mind of her own any body could see that," Samson reflect ed. "She ought to bo looked after purty careful, nor parents are so tnken up with shooting nnd fishing and books they kind o' forget the girl. I wish you'd go down there tomorrow Man for Ages and see whut's up. Jack Is uway, you know." "I will," snld Snrnh. " It was nearly two o'clock when Snmsou, having fed and watered his horses, got Into bed. Yet he was up before daylight, next morning, nnd singing a hymn of praise as he kindled the (Ire and tilled the tea kettle and lighted his caudle lantern and went out to do his chores while Sarah, partly reconciled to her new disap pointment, dressed and began the work of another day. So they nnd Ahe and Harry and others like them, each under the urge of his own ambi tion, spent their great strength In the building and defense of the republic and grew prematurely old. Their work began and ended In darkness and often their days were doubled by the burdens of the night. So in the reckoning of their time each year was more than one. Sarah went down to the vlllngo In the afternoon of the next day. When Samson came In from the fields to his .supper she said: "Mr. lllggs Is stopping nt tho tavern. He brought a new silk dress and some beautiful linen for Mrs. Kelso. He tells her that 151m has made n new man of him. Claims he has quit drinking and gone to work. Ulm and her mother are terribly excited. Ho wants them to move to St. Louis and live on his big plantation In u house next to his rent free." Samson knew tlint Biggs was the type of man who weds Virtue for her dowry. "A man's Judgment Is needed there," said he. "It's a pity .Tack Is gone. Higgs will take that girl nwny with him sure as shooting If wo don't look out." "Oh, I don't believe he'd do thnt," snld Sarah. "I hope he has turned oer a new leaf and become a gentle man." "We'll see," said Samson. They saw and without much delny the background of his pretensions, for one dny within the week he nnd Ulm rode nwny and did not return. Soon n letter came from Him to her moth er, mulled at Ilcurdstown. It told of their marriage in thnt place and said that they would bo starting for St. Louis In a few hours on the Stnr of the North. She begged the forgive ness of her parents and declared that she wns very happy. "Too bud! Isn't Itr snld Snrah when Mrs. Waddell, who had come out with her husband one evening to bring this news, had finished the story. "Yes, It kind o' spyles the idace," said Samson. "I'm afraid for Jack Kelso 'frald It'll bust his llddle If It don't break Ids heart. Ills wife Is alone now. We must nsk her to come and sta; with us." "The Aliens have taken her In," said Mrs. Waddell. "That's good," said Sarah. "I'll go down there tomorrow und offer to do anything we can." When Mr. and Mrs. Waddell had gone Sarah said : "I can't help think ing of poor Harry. He was terribly in love with her." "Well, he'll have to get over It that's all," snld Samson. "He's young und the wound will heal." It was well for Harry that he was out of the way of all this, and entered upon adventures which absorbed his thought. As to what was passing with him wo have conclusive evidence In two letters, one from Col. Zuchary Taylor, In which he says: "Harry Needles Is also recommend ed for the most Intrepid conduct as a scout nnd for securing Information of great value. Compelled to abandon his wounded horse ho swam a river under (Ire and under the observation of three of our ollleors, through whose helit tio got buck to his command, bringing a bullet In his thigh." With no knowledge of military ser vice und n company of untrained men, Abe had no chuuee to win luurcls In the campaign. Ills command did not get In touch with the enemy. He had his hands full maintaining a decent re gard for discipline among thu raw frontiersmen of his company. When the dissatisfied volunteers were mustered out late In May, Kelso and McNeil, being sick with a stubborn fever, were declared unlit for service nnd sent back to New Salem as soon us they were able to ride. Abe and Harry Joined Captain lies' company of Independent Hungers and a month or so later Abe re-enlisted to serve with Captain Knrly, Harry being under a surgeon's care. Tho latter's wound was not serious und on July third he too Joined Kurly's command. This company wns chiefly occupied In the moving of supplies and tho bury ing of u few men who had been killed in small engagements with the enemy. It was a bund of rough-looking fellows In the costume of the frontier farm and workshop ragged, dirty and un shorn. Tho company wns disbanded July tenth nt Whitewater, Wisconsin, where, that night, tho horses of Harry and Abe were stolen. From thnt point ihey started on their long homeward tramp with a wounded sense of de cency and Justice. They felt that the Indians had beou wronged, thut the i4 Story of the Builders of Democracy IRVING greed of hind grabbers had brutally violated their rights. This feeling had been deereniJ by the massacre of the red wometi ami children nt Had Ax. A numr-er of mounted men w"nt with their iw( gave them a ride now and then. S?me of the travelers had little to ea, or the Journey. Hotli Abe and Harry sneered from hunger and sore feet litfcfe they reached I'eoiia, where they benight a canoe and In the morning of a hlght dny started down the Illinois ttvtr. They had a long dny of comfort In Its current wiM) good store of bread and butter nnd cMd meat and pic. The prospect of Kiin fifty miles nearer home before Mgrtfall lightened their hearts and they ilughed freely while Abe told of his td";n lures In the cam paign. To Mm 4t "vns all a wild com edy with tragic scenes dragged Into It and woefully ort cJ place. Indeed he thought It no mono 1ke wnr than a pig sticking und thuA w3u the kind of thing he hated. Harry hnd net Penrd from homo since ho left It. Ah had hnd n letter from Hutledgc whli guve blm the news of Mini's clnpenent. The letter suld : "I wns over to Re.fdstown the day Kelso and McNeil fcot ff the stenmer. I brought them hone ''Ith me. Kelso was bigger than Ms triable. Snld that the ways of youth wer a part of the great plan. 'Thorn's I Thorns !' he said. 'They are tho teachers of wisdom and who am I that I should think myself or my daughter too good for the like, since It Is written that Jesus Christ did not complnln of them?'" They Had a Long Day of Comfort in Its Current. "Hnvo you heard from home?" Abe asked us they paddled on. "Not a word," said Harry. "You're not expecting to meet Him Kelso?" "That's the best part of getting homo for me," said Harry, turning with a smile. "Let her drift for a minute," snld Abe. "I've got a letter from Jumes Hutledgo that I want to read to you. There's a big ltsson In It for both of us something to remember as long us we live." Abe read the letter. Harry sat mo tionless. Slowly his head bent for ward until his chin touched his breast. Abo said with a tender note lu his voice as he folded the letter: "This man Is well along In life. He hnsn't youth to help him as you have. Sre how be takes It and she's the Only child he litis. There are millions of pretty girls In the world for you to chooso from." "I know It, hut there's only one Dim Kelso lu the world," Hurry nnswered mournfully. "She wns the one I loved." "Yes, but you'll find another. It looks serlons, but It Isn't you'ie so young. Hold up your head and keep going. You'll be happy again soon." "Maybe, but I don't see how," said the boy. "There nro lots of things you enn't see from where you are at this present moment. There are a good many miles ahead o' you, I reckon, nijd one thing you'll bee plainly, hy and by thnt It's all for the best. I've suffered a lot my self but I can bee now It has been a help to me. There Isn't un hour of It I'd bo willing to give up." They puddled olong In silence for n time. "It wus my fault," sajd Harry pics- L ently. "I ilever could say the half I wanted to when sho wns with me. My tongue ts too slow. She gave me a chance nnd I wasn't man enough to take It. That's all I've got to say on that subject." Some time ufterwnrd In n letter to his father tho boy wrote: "I often think of that ride down tho river nnd tho way ho talked to me. It waa so gentle. Ho wns u big, power- I ful giant of n mu who weighed over By BACHELLER Copyright, Irvine; Bacheller two hundred pounds, nil of It hone nnd muscle. Hut under his great strength was a woman's gentleness; under tin dirty, ragged clothes and the rough, brown skin grimy with dust nnd perspiration, was one of the cleanest semis that ever came to this world. I don't mean that he wus like u minis ter. He could tell a story wnii pretty rough talk In It, but ulwuys for a pur pose. He hated dirt on the hands or on the tongue. He ioved llowecs like a woman. He loved to look nt the stars at night and the colors of the sunset and the morning dew on the meadows. 1 never saw a man so much lu love with fun and beauty." They reached Havana that evening and sold their cuuoe to a man who kept bouts to rent on the river shore. They ate a hot supper at the tavern and got a ride with a farmer who was going ten miles lu their direction, i'roui his cabin some two hoi'rs Inter they set out afoot In the darkness. "tiolng home Is the end of nil Jour neys," said Abe as they tramped along. "Did It ever occur to you timt every live creature has Its home? The flsh of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the Held and forest, the creepers In the grass, all go home. Most of them turn toward It when the day wanes. The call of home Is the one voice heard and respected nil the way down the line of life. And, ye know, the most wonderful und mysterious thing In na ture Is the power that fool animals have to go home through great dls tunces, like the turtle that swam from the Hay of Hiscay to his home oil Van Dlemnn's Land. Somehow, coming over lu a ship, he hnd blitzed a trail through the pathless deep more than ten thou sand miles long. It's the one miracu lous gift tho one cull thut's Irresist ible. Don't you hear It now? I never lie down In the darkness without thinking of home when I am away." "And It's hard to change your home when you're wonted to It," wild Hurry. "Yes, Its a little like dying when you pull up the roots nnd move. It's been hard on your folks." This remark brought them up to the greatest of mysteries. They tramped In silence for n moment. Abe broke In upon It with these words: "I reckon there must be nnother home somewhere to go to ufter we have broke the last camp here, nnd a kind of n bird's compass to help us Hnd It. I reckon we'll hear the call of It as we grow older." lie stopped and took off his lint and looked up nt the stnrs and added : "If It Isn't so I don't see why the long procession of life keeps hnrplng on this subject of home. I think I see the point of the whole thing. It Isn't the place or the furniture that makes It home, but the love und pence thut's In It. Hy und by our home Isn't here nny more. It hns moved. Our minds begin to bent about In the undiscov ered countries looking for It. Some how we got It located each man for himself." For unother space they hurried nlong without speaking. "I tell you, Hurry, whatever a large number of Intelligent folks have agreed upon for some generations la so If they have been allowed to do their own thinking," snld Ahe. "It's about the only wisdom there Is." He had sounded the keynote of the new Democracy. So, under Hie lights of heaven, espeuklng In the silence of tho night of Impenetrable mysteries, they Jour neyed on toward the land of plenty. "It's ns still as a graveyard," Hurrv whispered when they hnd climbed the bluff by, the mill long after midnight nnd were near the little village. "They're all burled In sleep," Rnld Abe. "We'll get Hutledgo out of bed. He'll give us a shakedown some where." His loud rap on the door of the tav ern signalized more than a desire for rest In the weary travelers, for Just 'then u cycle of their lives hud ended. Raiders try to burn out Traylor' "underground rail road station." CTO HE CONTINUED.) "Frankenstein." "Frankenstein" Is n rotnnnco by .Mrs. Shelley, wife of the distinguished poet, Percy Hyssche Shelley, The hero, Frankenstein, contrives to make and animate hy his Intimate control of the mysteries of nature, t monster In human form, who becomes the con stunt torment of Its creator's exist ence. The monster wns created with out n soul, yet not without tin Intense craving for human sympathy, and ho found existence on these terms such o terrible cuie that In the end he e'ew his maker. The story of "Frank-uiif-toln" Is said to lie consciously or unconsciously an allegorical portrayal of tho character of Shelley himself, who, In "Alustor," has pointed himself us nu Idealist Isolated from humun syi thy. iieien iwoore, in nor nro of Hhelley, bus u chapter on this mib-Uuet, MAKES NEW BED River Indus Changes Its Courso With Regularity. Inhabitants of Wazirlstan Face Per. petual Peril, as Water Constantly Moves In a New Direction. The frequently heard news that an eastern rher has changed Its course Willi danger to property and lite seems Incredible until one has actually seen un ucllvo river "getting busy" on n new course, writes u correspondent from Wnzhistiiu, India. Thus the Indus Is u perpetual proln lem, nnd for this reason: All provi sions must cross Its broad witters, as Wiizliisiiiu s on the west bunk und In desert country. Kvery October the river hibernates, and u bridge of boats temporarily .solves the problem. Hut each May It wakes up, shakes Itself out of Its sleep and probably out of Its original course. The bridge Is hurriedly dismantled, and there ensues anxious sirectiliiliou iiinnni! the engineers. Which way is the wnter coining? After observations and soiindlug.s tho new position of the port, quaintly called "Steamer Point," Is llxed. There follows a piocesslon of railway men,! provision expeits, coolies (lauorers) nnd camels. Lines are laid, "dumps" arise and within u week the erstwhile lonely river hank Is populated and be comes ii "going concern." Kven then a wary eye has to be kept on the encroaching water. Hoth the railway and the supply "dumps" have to be moved farther and further back. Sometimes even lu u single night the river will flow nwny Into a new und unexpected channel ; or, maybe. It will forsake a portion of Its bed. leaving a yellow sandbank In Its place. ' The bunk Itself becomes Jugged like n piece of bread Into which a child hu.s tiiiulo lnrge bites. The wnter swirls ever Inwnrd nnd cracks appear ten feet within thelmnk; the crncks deepen, und without warn ing another large lump of shore crumbles nwny. A motor car that stopped on such n piece disappeared Into the river und hns not been seen since. And some of these effects are curi ous. A cluster of three palm trees, which were well nwny from the wnter Inst week, were little Islands yesterdny. This morning they hnd disappeared I Probably they are miles down rho strenm for the current Is swift nnd gives no qunrter. You may Inmglne these quiet trees, torn from their native soil, turning feverishly round nnd round nt the mercy of the sweeping current. The flotsam nnd Jetsam of life and death go eddying past on the bosom of the strenm. Here n dend camel, there n bevy of Jam tins cntches the eye nnd fades nwny downstream. Yet with all the turmoil and trouble the Indus has n churm of Its own. nnd It Is most fuselnatlng to watch the work of elemental mi t tire. This evening, ns I saw tho bank col lnpdng bit by bit. I could not help thinking of the story of the engineer who bulli his bununlnw a comfortable mile from tne river. The next year the witter was lapping nt his garden gnte. And I wondered If In n year or two the river would Threaten our own little homesteads nwny buck In tho distance. Is President of Assyria. Just as George Washington in Amer ica became known to posterity as tho "Father or His Country," the first woman president of u nation may bo known ns tho "Mother of Assyria." Lady Surma, first executive of the new Assyrian republic, practically cre ated the nation when she obtained from England the grunt of 80,000 square miles of laud In the Kurdistan mountains, nnd this, it Is snld In Lon don, mny win her the unique title. Lady Surmn was ambassador to England from the Assyrians nnd In cidentally the first woman nmhassu dor In the world when she obtained the grunt of tho new territory from Britain. Hor brother, Mar Chlnon, hnd been pntrlarch of tho Assyrians, and following his murder n new form of government was outlined. When the now assembly of tho Assyrians was organized, tho nmbassador who won for the country Its new territory was nt once urged for Its ruler. Lady Surma was educated hy Brit ish tutors and Is an accomplished, linguist. Arabic Literature Recovering. ""Arable literature, writes a corre spondent to the London Morning Post, Is recovering from u period of depres sion Induced by the wnr. Of the books published during the last month or so one of the moot Interesting Is "Nawn dlr al-Harh," containing rnro and In teresting comments on the war rare In the sense that every fact Is narrated from the standpoint of tho Oriental philosopher. The little volume closes .with appropriate comments on the pow ers nnd their post-war conditions culled from the works of the classical Arabic poets. 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