The Santiam news., April 14, 1911, Image 5

• * STORY OF EARLY
PIONEER LIFE
Re^linq latitats Not Rtccrirt ii Oar
Histones. But Whcli Wiii Interest
Our Readers
(Continued from last week)
Colonel Whitley accompanied Bow­
man and * lark in their expedition
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against the Indiana. After hi» hsig and
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harard««u
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service
in fighting the
Indiana in Kentucky and Ohio, he w
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written to by Colonel Orr, of Tennaasee
that the settlement» there were suffer
mg greatly from the Cherokees, and
pleading for help. Whitley, »in hi» no­
bility and kindness of heart, without
pay. a» in th««e day», turned out im
mediately to recruit as many Kcntuek
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ian
a» he could, and was soon on hi
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way through a wtlderpe
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of two hun
dre I mile
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Meeting with Orr and the
Tenn« »»ee troops at or near where
Nashville now stands, their whole force
amounting to aliout »lx hundred men,
Whitley in full command, they ms ie a
rapid march to the Indians' principal
town, called Nickajack, and took it by
assault. Here Whitley recovered a
large amount of property that had been
stolen from Kentucky, several slaves
and a great rnanv scalps.
To relate all the particulars of th««
hardships cwountered in this expedition
would be to write a volume; but auffic««
it to say that this expedition of Whit­
ley’» secured a permanent peace with
all the Southern tribes and »topped all
further depredation in Tennessee and
Kentucky.
I have recently obtained the follow­
ing front a daughter of Colonel Whitley,
now living in Woodford county, '
recollection 1» t>erfectly fresh in regard
to what she both witnessed and heard
from her father and mother. She re­
lates that when her father returned to
Virginia, he brought his family and
mother back to the fort with him.
Her mother traveled cut on horsebace
with one child tied to her bark and the
other in her lap. The daughter *|>oken
of here 1» Mr». Harper, a sister-in-law
of John Harper, owner of Longfellow,
and mother of the present owner of the
celebrated race-horse Ten Broerk.
W hitley doubtless built the first brick
house ever built in Kentucky. It was
built before the Indian troubl«
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ceased.
It stands two miles west of Crab
Orchard on a rise a ongside of the rail­
road, and is pointed out and seen by all
imssengers on the railway. The win­
dows were built up »ome six feet above
the floor bi protect the family from the
shots of the lndinns, the glass being
packed out through Cumberland Gap.
When hi» brick were soft, lying in the
yard, a pack of wolves passed over, and
1 have one of the bricks in the museum
upon which a track was deeply imprint­
ed. In this building, Mrs. Harper
relates, she remembers to have seen a
number of Indian Chiefs collected, who
came to make a treat / of (>eace with the
whites. They were probably Chero­
kees. She now has several baskets in
good preservation, that were presented
U> her mother by some of the squaws
who were in the company.
When, in 1812, the war with Great
Britain was declared, Whitley, like an
old war horse when the bugle sounds a
charge, could not stand still. He
volunteered under Governor Shelby’s
command to fight the crowned and
haughty invader upon his own hook and
in his own way, without money and
without price, and, mounting his favor­
ite riding-horse, gun on shoulder, wa»
soon under way, and acted mostly as a
spy. When on the river Raisin, in
Canada, but a few minutes before the
celebrated battle of the Thames com­
menced. two Indians were espied upon
the opposite side of the nver, when
Whitley instantly plunged his horse in,
and swam over and pursued them, and
soon after returned with a scalp upon
the muxzle of his rifle—which act wa»
witnessed by the whole army, and of
which 1 have heard General Adair. Col.
Davktaon, since our Kentucky State
Tresurer, and others speak. In thia
battle Colonel Whitley, in his sixty-fifth
year, fell, after first killing the re­
nowned Chief Tecumseh, (as all those I
have heard »peak of it thought),
Tecumseh being shot through the breast
with two balls, and Whitley being the
only one who invariably loaded with
two balls, except a young man by the
name of King, whom he kept by his
side and trained to do the same Gen­
eral Adair, walking over the ground at
the »lose of the battle, saw Whitley on
his face and turned him over, and found
the youth. King, standing by him. who on the Tham«r». arwl ha» been preserved
»aid that an Indian Chief and Whitley by her. The horn is one of the moat
fired at each other at th«' same lime, remarkable I ever saw, beautifully
and he at the name moment also fired polished arwl engraved over the whole
at the Chief, who fell «lead, and he front with appropriate poetry. and
I
cmi M not tell which had killni him. but I holds some two pounds of powder.
there lay W hitley aui there lav the I have Kit Carson'» horn, ami one
Chief \)iw y cars after thi». When in [■resented to me by th«- grarxison of the
Canada, endeavoring U> recover a band . leader of the three- heoric McAfee
of colored nrasicmns which 1 owned, i brothers. They were among the first
who had run off to Canada, I was whites that ever landed in Ixiuisville
mobbed by some fifty enraged negroes, They went up the country to where
and at the moment mv life was in dan ' I rankfort now is, and encamtied fora
ger. I »aw a short, dark-skinned man. time; patented the land around there.
in full uniform, approaching the crowd, I and went up in the neighborhood of
the mob giving way t«ef«r«- him Com­ where Harrodsburg now is and built a
ing up he Very kindly asked me what fort on Salt river. Thi» McAfee horn
wa > the trouble
ordered the crowd to was deeply engraved with the date of
disperse, and. taking me by the arm, 1773, but is almost worn out by the
lei me into the f irt at Malden, an«l i friction of the arm upon it. The two
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onler«
the brass band «if thirty «si I latter horn», though rare, are not equal
instrument» to play a few of their in capacity and remarkable form to
national airs. lie «aid it was the finest that of the old pioneer W hitley's.
Let all who doubt realities come ami
a wl fullest band that belonged to the
English service. 1 rum this he took me see for themselves. 1 tv fine, though a
to the boarding house of a favorite okl pensioner of the war of 1HI2 myself, I
sergeant, who had been for yean in the was not in the battle of the Thames,
East India service, an«l »Ini, by a club but with Brown. Commander In-Chief
t h i l set up in a in Lower Canada.
bianling-house H remarked to ms—I
“Here you will lie safe " W«- took our ,
Report of the Conditl« n of
seats in a little r<- >m. when he asked I
IMli StlO STAT». BANK
the sergeant (then landlord) to bring
us in a couple of mugs of ale, at which At Scio, in the State of Oregon, at the
moment stepped in the well-known
close of business March 7. 1911
Judge Elliott, when a thud mug »1«
called for. an-1 when all were seated
arnind a little table a pompous n -ble- i
KEMOl'R« KM
man entered, richly dressed in fur«. >
.... 337,339.10
(for it was cold weather) and asking of ! Ioans and discounts
me whether I was the gentleman who Overdraft»,, secured and
had been mobb «d, h • went on to let m<-
unsecured
. ............... 1,025.09
know that I might l-e transported to Bonds, securities, etc
.. 1(1,322 15
Van Diaman's Land for kidnapping Banking house, furniture
At which mom«-nt. my newly-f«wm«-d
and fixtures
........... 5,000.00
friend rose up indignantly anil sanl to I Cash and due from approved
the suthoriative gentleman, “Sir, this
*-t>ank»
rc»erv«
4fi,fi0£3>
is an American citiren. and. being un­ Checks and other cash items
5&M.lib
der our law», he shall not be insulted in
my presence.”
Total ................. 1CG.H47.:«>
Then all grew silent and we socially
quaff--.I ."ii ik - M n I ...ft,
uauilitiks
two sons were well known. one tn th«-
t
'apital
stock
paid
in .......
310,000,0)
Perry battle U|e«n the lake and the
other at Dudley's Defeat, had left the Surplus fund ......................... 2,045.00
room, and my sallow friend for his Undivided profits, lessexjten-
scs sn«l taxes paid .........
490 77
camp, the stately Engltsnmari a»ke«j
Indivalual
deposits
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subj«
t
to
wh«i was that man who spoke to me in
check
..................... 83,421.1
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the manner h«- did, when I answered, Demand certificate» of
with swelling pride, chat it was General ,
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deposit................ ......... 10, HK
ironsides, of the British army. ' 1» it I.iabilitie» other than th«»«
possible?” »aid he; “I am pleased to
1.5»)
above stated ..................
have seen hint, fur I ha\< long heard of i
Total .. ...............
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his fame and valuable service»,” at.«! I
will here say that h«1 was as well known State of Oregon. «
Ml
in England as General Ja« kson was in .
<’«ninty of Linn '
the United states.
General Ironside«« w as a half broth« r • I, W. A. Ewing, cashier of the above
of Tecumseh, ami at that time had 5000 named bank, do solemnly swear that
Indiana in camp near Malden. This I the above statement is true to the best
waa just at the close of the Patriot w ar of my knowledge and lx-lief.
(no called) and the credit of it» check
W. A. E wino , Cashier.
wa» mainly due to Ironside». General
Subscribed and sworn to before me
Prince elected to Parliament while I this 15th day of March, 1911.
waa there) was the white commander-
J ah . A. B ilyku , Notary Public
in chief and. Old Hickory-like, hu«l IM
Americans shot ithe day before I cross
Business Locals
ed over,) who were f««und in the rank
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of the rebel»; and »uch wa» the excite­
Books, magazines ami Poat cards at
ment at th«- time and "prejudice against I C. G. iMit'GN.
AmericlVi». both by black and white,
Wesely A Cains clothing is now all in
that but for the timely aid of General
for
spring.
Ironsides 1 would, probably, have lost
Eor
Sale 40,000 shake«, 2 and 2| fret
my life. Ironside
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who him»eif was in
the battle of the Thames, gave me a i long. Impure of W E Burton, II F D 1.
I- jis ter sale on mens and boy» suits at
full and satisfactory account of his
brother'» death, which, without a tedi­ Wesely A- Cams commencing Saturday
ous detail, convinced m<- that the very I April a «-losing April 22.
gun I now have in the Library Museum
A full line of Lilly's guaranteed
»lew the great Tecumseh. I will here garden seeds, chick feed, bone, shell
justly »ay. to the credit of Col. Johnson, j ami grit at Weaely's Grocery.
our Kentucky hero, that it was by his
The Packard low shoes at Wesely A
wise conception and desperate charge ■ Cams in Tan Pat. Colt. Velour calf,
upon the battery and English forces, ’ Willow calf. Gun metall and Vici, made
that he captured the whole, and that it « in button, lace ami college ties.
is not reasonable to sup|»>»«- he could
Better than gold. Those little red
hold his prisoners an«I go back to fight
books
"When you were born” series,
Innians, besides which, his hone was
shot under him and hr was sup(M»ed to > only 10 cents. They tell you all about
i yourself. Just what you want, at
be mortally wounded. Thi
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frat of
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Colonel Johnson's, in rharging artillery 0. G ooih ' m .
Tycob. Router, Wizard, Chub, Nob,
with cavalry, was so new and bold, that
Fail
and Toflt are the latest style lasts
it was published all over the workl a* a
remarkable event, and something new ' in men’s and young men's low shoes,
in the art of war. Colonel Whitley, -ee the Packard line at Wesely A
after having fought seventeen battles Cams
In cases of rheumatism relief from
with the Indian», as all historian
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re­
cord. and rendered the services above pain makes sleep and rest possible.
mentioned, fell in the last named bat­ This may be obtained by applying
tle. greatly to the sorrow of every feel­ I Chamberlain’s Liniment For sale by
all dealers.
ing heart in Kentucky; for he wa
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adored by all who knew him, a* a hero,
Big Clothing Sale commence« Satur
a patriot ami philanthropist, his fort day April 8 at Wesely A Cain», all the
being the refuge of all who sought it, ' latest styles for spring ami summer
ami the standing order of his house be­ • wear, to be on display at this sale at a
ing to receive all who knocked. Colonel big reduction in price.
Whitley was one of th«- few old pioneer«
Now is the time to spray your fruit
who secured a large bmly of rich land, trees with lime and sulphur solution.
ami left all his children ami grandchild­ We handle the 10» per cent, pure
ren rich.
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granddaughter, Mr» quality. For sale in quart, gallon or
Judge Higgins, of Crab Orchard, a lady barrel quantities at Weaely’s Grocery.
of wraith ami noted for her moral firm­
320 suit for 317 50-318 suit for 315.75
ness and practical energy, gave me,
31fi suit for 313 H5 315 suit for 312.90
subject to her order, her grandfather's fit |<||( f.«r$lo r. $10 *mt L«r »-
gun. wampum and horn, which was atWcselvA Cains big clothing sale
brought to her from the fi--l«l of battle commencing Saturday, April H.
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SS»^S
I—I
Honorable
Senator»
Sagebrush
By
I RA«\CIS LYNDE
Copyright. 1910. by Street 41 Smith
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i v It wk tin- part of
I «1 «lu > to t«< -i- it,« I for»« he should
■ t hi- h it I to thi
* i«attl> uinr plow of
refortti U uld It not Is- bolter for
him to drop out quietly, leaving the
I tl’ iil h -u-«. !«• tuing for some uue
i«.> w««ui«i
t Ii.«,«« to pay su> ii a
»tly |irl for the leadership?
Ilin« tlo- two prompting» • lanured
Bit) n h«-n be r«'
*«-
t«> g-> another •■octi r r It
* Io arln.- But. after all. It
itrompttng an
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Ln Inc It
* way to the
■1«
iii'l the swift current of
front » prompting t-« throw lilmseif
‘ «- .« that d«- Idl'd for him uud
t - illy Into the * vie sctltnst graft an«!
t ri.'i uf
■ bl'.«tier« to redeem by wliat«-»-v«V a< tii'ti
I'..-f..r.- | ■ t t,| _-oto« te i steps toward
tn«- •■
* itdi
*«t
. ff.-r tie-
■ I • •!«! name
i.'intri'r
■ ’).•• ->tm«' «‘lie III tiie throng
tb.it hid t --11 »■ shacicfully drugged
f debarking ««verlnml imsoeugers «-all-
hi the mire
He did not know just bow It wa
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to «■ I ids u iu «' M li« ti lie turnod tie waa
*d
««Id gentleman
be tl««ue. but tie vveu'd Und a way. ' «•Illg a will- - luitr
That It would I*- full of th« rtis lie » It!» a «,« Iiol.irh fin e am) an Irascllile
could not d««ut>t *.n«-e every st -p III It twist to h:« tlilti ll|«s. a man »ml s
■
« rti lev ,-l «■»««««
would o|H-n and widen the breach tie
ami a face In
(Wren him and fils father Put. th ugh
v.'hl« h tlie Inherit«
it should lead him to the bar of justice
>d trait» were »of- •
a* that father s ncctl
*er.
he must walk
l<-ue«l Into Hoes of
hi It lie «.«Id to himself In a frv
*h
thoughtful firm-
a«
* >>f detei ruination tlint. 1!« ugb
in-»« uml «enmity.
he might have *•> blush for hi
* f..liter
"Why. bless my
Pr.trlcls «h ul«l n t be made ashnnx-d
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•out.
of all the
to.- her lot er
lu< ky t Ii I tigs !"
I |« ti I- «' I|1X the club he lie-ltntr I
• J i c u 1» i <- d tlo»
long emiugh ••» tlie «tr[w t«i rrmenit»-r
>•
utig man. who
■. ■
,
• '
i ■ •
but iiu Instant be­
- •
fore Itiol 1« «• U n
th -r To »t«»l«l the « tinin e be rr>«■ •■
*1
halting
between
the «tree! and. pa»slng through the
t w o <>|i|nloil». ‘\ou
cnf.ttol gretiud
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«tr»ille«l almbssly out
ilou't titi-an to tell
««no of the r.-->.«l«-uce atre«-t
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until lie
me that Hila Is tIm
can e t<> the o;««n country
west t«i which you
will, ....
m V
It was quit«' Into In the afternoon
»ut I « t Al I. 111 s«il«l
you were
W In n lie re eiitere«l the city by (mother
I I l Kl I HIM.»!"
«
«uiilitg.
I’atrlcls?"
*-t
*ti.
and tM«nrl««l a trolley car f«>r
“It I* ami you're to blame, young
I to- «!., « !«• n -liter I I-«- lour - f’er
.! tlo- father of Hie peer-
qiain tramp and the conclusion» It tm«l
test t. I1,1. "If you've Iw-etl telling lu«
! i f- 0
Cntitry t>< f- re Hie traffic manager t 1.» a!" ut tb <• iii.«gal<- aiirlilse which
slioillit have left bls oflh-e for th«- day j «ci mild ■ oilld be dug oil! of y< Ur »ag«o
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you'd pay <>ur fare bnck
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111
btisltie-« w ith the mllr<>u«l man tTUsh hill
|nnd?
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Sow *how
was purely personal
lie meant to holm- itg-.iln itnder
tn
to
the
t
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l»«
liotel
in
thi«
mushroom
•i«k Gantry a few |»>lnt«-d que«ilnn».
r«-«iulrinc »nch answers ns frlen«l«hlp ■It« of voitra. utul «to It «inlekly "
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i'i«
It - * «'hly three *qiiar«'« to
may demand
If Gantry's answers «he fii’« r Mountain. I««« < bartered the
n -re what he frared they would be hr I -t * h >klnt.
SUto iir could find In the
would s«-ek bl» father ami come at ha I. rani;, put id- « h «rg«-s Into It and
once to a plain understanding with
it with them to do tile lion« is at
him
th.« I.otel tl cieby uil
lng
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two things
The trolley car d: ■ t lH-d him within whl h might Imve bad un lni|»»ri«t.t
a square of the railway station, on the « .i i .- - n tii>- t«-iu|s«r.irlly foigotteu
*e<-ou>l fl«s>r of w hl« h Gantry had ills I'loblem
otfice. The shortest w-ay to ttie Sierra
If In lin<! .one dlr««'tly to the ufflea
■venue etui of the station building was >f the trutfi manager <>n tin- s«
* ««nd
through the gro.it train »he«!
l!o«>r of the latloii Imrdhig he <<>uld
Halfway nt« tin- t«lo« k long platform hardly l.av«« ml- ««I ni«
*rtlng
n tall, full
Biotint met Hi«- Incoming overland f ,-d man • ««tnlng out ««f Gantry's prl-
■teatulng In from the east. At the ' vnte room, and he might have ««ver-
Sierra avenue crossing th«- yard crew 1.« tir-l tlo- vl-ilor's t'liri :ig won) to
was cutting off a private car Blount Gantry "Oh. y«-» he fell for It all
saw the numtw'r on the mislalllon. right
If >ou'«l set-n Id» face when
"(»w." and n«>tcd hnlf absently th» l.nckncr ami I «nine away you'd have
rich window bangings and tlie |«oll»h sold tiicr«« were battle, murder ami
i suddeu death In It for sotuebudy
ed bra»» plat form railings.
"B it. ««•«■ here, Bradbury,
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Gnntry
A mr inspector in greasy overalls
* t Isltor to asy. "It wn
*uT
In
and juni|«er was tapping the wheels held hl
the gam«
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that you were to till him up
with Ids long liniidl«-<l bummer
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I won’t stand for
"Whose car 1» till»?'' usk«-d Blount. with a lot <«f lie
" TIs M<stber M<-Vickar'». »<>rr the t it. y ti know Hr 1» too g«H.«l a fol­
vice prlshllut av the ctMinipany.’* said low ntnl too good a friend of mine.“
It was at till« conjuncture that
the man
Rlotint. If Io- bu«l two-n pn-«t«nt and
Blount turned «way, »aylng «nine In,
1-iblc. wou «l list«- •<•«•■ n sour «tulle
thing which th
* linmmcr man mi»t«M>kz rlnkle ii|
*«n
tlie full face of the club
for a word of thanks Ko the vl«-e ' g»s«lp.
pre«l«lcnt ha«l coma, hastening upon
"It wasn't nee«"’« ry If lie or the
the wing of < h < ii »| oiis . It »«M-tni-d nn«l -ciiator want«d t«> sue us for llliel we
In the Ugtit of the overheard conversa •mild («rove «-very wortl flint wa« ««Id.
tlon In the club »m iking nx>m It was I Ami It g««t him got him right In the
only t«H> easy to guess Ills errand In «■•lar plexus If yovi don't »•■<• «»me
the Sagebrush capital. II«’ !*«l • ome flr>-w««rl»» within th«
* next fsw dsya I
to make such terms as he <*ul«1 with ml«s my gm
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m l lose tny ante ”
the man who was going to hold
tin the other hand. If F.inn had lln-
him up.
geri-d a few minutes longer on the ata-
-lon platform h«- would have marked
CHAPTER VII
Vl«e President M< Vh-kar crossing to
a n
rri.A or t ot ritAvcit.
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ihc carriage stand, followed by the
IXH'.XT bad Iw-on halting be private car porter bearing Imprdl-
twera two opinions Tin- fight­ ' nienta At th«- carriage rank the vl«-s
ing bloo«l In him prompted him president clliutssl heavily Into the
to stay and set up tlie stand w-tiator's r« dster. will« h «reined to
ard of liuste-ty and fair de:illng In the have l«r««u arrangid for In advance,
Blount name, to gather a few men of and was whirled »tormlly np to ths
like convictions around him and to en­ Inter ^fountain, whrrr lie traced hl«
ter the |H>lltl«-al conrth-t at Hie li«-n<! of Illegible name In the great gu«-«t t»w«k
a movement design»] at once nn«l for­ two minutes after Blount, »till anx­
ious for the comfort of l’rof«-»»or An-
ever to abolish machine «llctatoraliip rn-rs an«l the «eretir eye«! maid, had
In hla native state
gone up In the «levator with them to
But. on the other hand, the claims of »re that the rooms to wbl< h they had
Wood could not l>e altogether Ignore«! been assigned were all that they
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Th«
campalgu f««r |H«lltl< al < h-anllm»» should l«a.
would Inevitably Involve hla father—
Would, If su«-.es»ful, defeat and dis-
(Continued next week)