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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C, IMPROVED UNIFORM fflTEBAATIOKAft v V V v V V V 3 Red .urnac flames (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D.. Teacher of English Bible in th Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1813, Western Newspaper Union.) 4; LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 24 A Romance of the American Army Fighting on the Battlefields of France By VICTOR ROUSSEAU The pumpkins gleimlij N. The grua sitver j 3 b BRIBE m A 1FT1LIS ' ! - - of LESSON (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.); r rj, y ; . - ,.. 'j 1 iL: s ...... j WALLACE IS SURPRISED TO RECEIVE A STRANGE SUM MONS FROM MRS. KEN SON. Synopsis. Lieut. Mark Wallace, TT. S. A., is wounded at the battle f Santiago. While wandering alone in the jungle he comes across a ?ead man in a hut outside of which a little girl is playing. When he is rrsrued he takes the girl to the hospital and announces his intention of adopting her. His commanding officer. Major Howard, tell him that ibe dead man was Hampton, a traitor, who sold department secrets t,o aa international gang in Washington and was detected by himself and Kellerman. an officer in the same office. Howard pleads to bo allowed to send the child home to his wife and they agree that she shall never know her fathers shame. Several years later Wallace visits Eleanor at a young ladies' boarding school. She gives him a pleasant shock by declaring that when she is eighteen she intends to marry him. More rears pass and Wallace remains In the West. At the outbreak of the Enropean war Colonel Howard calls Wallace to a staff post, in Washing ton, lie finds Eleanor there, also Kellerman. in whom he discerns, an antagonist. For years a strange man has haunted Eleanor's footsteps, following but never accosting her. One night Wallace sees the man jbjm! follows him to a gambling house kept by a Mrs. Kenson. Here the strange man is attacked by Kellerman. Wallace rescues him and takes Mm to his own apartment. In the night the man, who gave his name as Hartley, disappears. The next day Wallace is called from his office and on his return finds important documents missing. His resignation is requested. CHAPTER IX. Can CHAPTER VIII Continued. 7 Ah, now I recognize you," said the ttmnge voice in a merry ripple of kBsftfpr. - "And you dou't know who I mY "If you will state your name " be fsji Mark patiently. ""Someone who knows that you are in Sronble and wants to help you. I'm sfraid you won't let me. You seemed to fce prejudiced against me when we irat before. Well, I am Ada Kenson." ?Jark ottered an angry exclamation, v&ch he instantly checked. This aifgtot prove the key that he was seek- 'CToaie to my house at nine o'clock Upright, unless you are afraid. You ta meet nobody but me." It Mil been in Mark's mind to loot lor Hartley in that neighborhood. '"BThat do you say. Captain Wal I can help you very much In-ifc-ni, and perhaps put things right for .ft. I am in a position to know a fd deal of what is happening behind Ita1 scenes. J$rk felt his brain grow as cool as k. TU come, Mrs. Kenson," he an ure crisply, and hung up the re- lie consoled himself with the. reflec ts that he had, at least, nothing to lie waited calmly for the ap jHtBrtment, and arrived outside the tasse promptly. There was no sign f Hartley in the neighborhood. St his ring Mrs. Kenson herself ?ea4 the- door, smiled, and showed stances," went on Mrs. Kenson. "1 suppose you know that the world 1ms changed a good deal during your fif teen years of exile? Well, this war, for example. Ifs a shocking rever sion to barbarism, the nations flying at each other's throats, when their dif ficulties could have been adjusted by a little frank dipkunacy.lt was a great blow to the financial interests that, are working to reconcile the nations 'and to develop the world's resources. They would do all possible to end it. I am working for them here. I am not tell ing you any secret, Captain Wallace, because everybody in Washington knows it. 1 represent the interna tional peace committee, and I have quite a good deal of influence among the senators and representatives principally the Western ones, Cap tain." The frankness and audacity of the disclosure astounded Mark. So this was one center of "they." as Colonel Howard had called the nucleus of Teu tonic spies and agents in America. "We are trying our hardest to pre vent America from being dragged into this maelstrom," continued Mrs. Ken sou. "You, Captain Wallace, were un fortunate enough to be working on the other side. And I'm sorry, but a little trap was laid for you :md Kellerraan. You walked right into it. Major Kel lerman, who is a very good friend of mine, acted in complete good faith. Don't blame him. Pon't blame your self. Don't Ida me that wretched fel low who came here the other night fcta into a well-furnished little parlor. ! to blackmail me. It was inevitable Sit down, Captain Wallace," she -uf, indicating a chair. "You'll wonder who I am and why I as$i! you to come here," said Mrs. "-Well, I happen to know afJe a good deal about you. Captain Taflace. All your history, in fact, wsa the time you entered West 3int. It is part of my business to &a these things." ' - XEaart feowed and waited, expecting octLing sensational. He was aston beyond his expectation, however, rlyMrs. Kenson's next words. "Tar long ami distasteful stay In flar West, Captain Wallace, was not wtoOy the fortune of the military Represent the International Committee." Peace Tsic," she said. "It was expedient Jfat'you should stay there, on account f T&ar .unfortunate mistake in adopt ive the late Charles Hampton's child." Mark rose in protest, collected hlm and sat down again. fact, dear Captain Wallace, you "e victim of circuiu- feav You see, when you adopted Hamptou's daughter you unconsciously put a sort of noose about your neck. There was the possibility of your coming Into con tact with Hampton's friends. The sys tem is widespread, you know, and quite twenty years old. So you had to go west. "Now, Captain Wallace, I'm a frank woman, and I'll put my proposition to you. You don't want to see Major Kellerman walk off with that pretty ward of yours, do you? And you can't marry her without a little money. Well, you could be very useful to us in many ways. Would you, without sacrificing your patriotism or revealing any secrets, become a salaried worker of our organization?" Mark stood up, trembling. "I don't quite understand," he said huskily; and the picture of Eleanor in Keller man's arms at the dance swam before his eyes. "What is It you want me to do?" "Use your influence and army knowl edge In our behalf. That little affair of today will soon be forgotten. And we'll help you to put Kellerman out of business." "You a- k me to become a German spy?" "Don't be absurd, my dear captain. Who ever suggested such a thing?" "lliats what it amounts to." "A little influence on behalf of hu manity." "No!" shouted Mark, quite beside himself. "You're 'infamous. You ought to be put out of the country!" He strode indignantly toward the door. The electric light in the passage had gone out. The room grew dark behind him. He groped his way toward the door. Suddenly a vivid light flashed before his eyes. He heard, though he felt no pain, the impact of a hard weapon upon the back of las head. He flttng out his hands and grappled with a man. In the uplifted hand he felt a heavy stick with a knobbed handle. i He believed his assailant to be Kel lerman, and, half unconscious as he was, he fought madly. Hut the man, Kellerman or not, was more than a match for him. For a few moments they wrestled furiously ; then the other got his arm free and brougltt down the stick upon Mark's .head again. And this time the light faded Into blackness. "Captain, Wallace I... Get upj you stand? , Come with me!" Mark opened his eyes hnd groaned. It was pitch 5 dark," and he could see nothing! but he knew, the voice for Hartley's - "Where am I? he muttered, trying to rise and sinking back again. "In the Kenson house. Be quick! There! Listen!" Outside there was the confused mur mur of voices, above which came the sound of a crisp command. Then some Implement fell heavily against the door of the house, splintering it. Again the cries broke out. "Try again!" muttered Hartley in desperation. "There's a door into the empty house next door, through the cellar. The police don't know of it. You must get away. You must get away !" Mark tried again, and this time man aged to rise. Hartley caught Mark by the arm and guided his unsteady footsteps to the door. They gained the passage, and Hartley, guided Mark toward the bead of the basement steps, which they reached just as the front door fell In under the hatchets of the raiders. They scuttled down the stairs as the hall became filled with the shouting po licemen. Before the first of the raiders set his foot upon the stone stairs Hartley had found a door in the darkness, opened it, and pushed Mark through, following immediately. He shut the door softly behind him. They were In the base ment of the adjoining house. "We're safe now," said Hartley In a whisper; "You'd better rest, Captain Wallace." "You're Hartley," muttered Mark, sitting down and trying In vain to dis cern something of the other's face through the gloom. "What happened, and bow did you come on the scene?" "Good God forgive me!" moaned Hartley, suddenly breaking Into hys terical sobbing; as on the former night. "I've ruined you. Captain Wallace. What else could I do?" "So .you were In that plot, eh?" asked Mark, wondering that he felt so little anger. "Well, It was clear enough, but it doesn't matter now." "It matters everything," answered Hartley, In a vehement whisper. "They tricked me Into it. I didn't know what their scheme was when I agreed to get you out of the room. But I found out later. And I had suspected. God, Cap tain Wallace, to think I found that door!" ' "Never mind," said Mark soothingly, listening to the stamping of the raiders in the next house overhead. "What more do you know?' "I knew that they wouldn't be satis fied with that, sir. They" "One moment. Who is 'ther,' Hart ley?" "They,"' repeated Hartley vin dictively. "Those devils that make pawns of men. They meant to clinch their dirty work one way or another. They meant to buy you. after ruining you, and fashion you to their dirty work. If they couldn't do that they were going to " "Murder me?" "No, sir. Discredit you 50 that noth ing you could say would be listened to. "That's what they meant to do. It was I who was told to give the tip to the police that there was gambling here. They thought the place was closed and it was. But they wanted the police to find you here, and arrest you, so that the story might .get lnte the newspapers, and finish you finish you with the war department, and with Miss' Howard." "And what did you expect to get out of It, Hartley?" asked Mark. He heard the nian catch at his breath. "She wasn't your wife. Hartley?" "No, Captain Wallace, no!" "But. die has a hold on you strong enough to compel you to do such work as she requires. And yet you have tries to save me dishonor If any more could come to me." "You saved me, Captain Wallace!" Mark made a sound of incredulity. "And I have been a gentleman. You don't know how a man falls, Captain Wallace." "Hartley, you haven't answered my question. Now here's another. Why were you watching Colonel Howard's house the. other night?" "You know that?" "I followed you here. Tell me the whole truth about this business, and I'll stand by you to the end." "I'll trust, you to the limit but I won't tell you. Captain WTallace. Some day, perhaps, but not now. I'll stand by you, and I'll fight at your side, sir. But I won't tell you. And that's the only condition on which I can agree to what you propose." "And if we succeed?" "Not if,' but 'when'," cried Hartley, with a sudden outburst of conviction. "I'll tell you then yes, Captain Wal lace. , And till then we'll fight together to pull down this nest of conspiracy and prove your innocence to the world." ' After a monfent he added, "I think we'd better be making a move out of tferer Captain Wallace !" He pushed open the cellar door and led Mark along the basement passage' until a gleam of moonlight appeared in front of them. They emerged into a little garden, a replica of the one next door. There, was no policeman on guard. In a moment they were in the street and in safety. Mark, who had already, recovered from the effects of his blow, save for a splitting headache, took a car with Hartley, and half an hour later the two were again in Mark's rooms. So you were packing?" asked Hart ley, looking about him. "What were you going to do?" "I don't know," answered Mark. "It's queer, being broken like this I've nothing, no prospects, - only a little money. I have to earn a living." "It'll be the army," said Hartley. "You'd be a sergeant In no time; you'd run through the ranks in about a couple of years. And then you've won. You've conquered fortune. And, you're In a position to do a little quiet working to straighten our your Led Mark Along the sage. tangle and run down the Kenson gang. And then I'll help you, for when the time comes I can tell what I know. At present I can't. I'm waiting " He burst into an expletive, and his face was twisted with, anguish. The man seemed under the stress of some overpowering emotion. "And how about your own part in this affair. Hartley?" The man winced as if Mark had struck him. Mark put out his hand, took Hartley's, and shook it warmly." "You're right. Hartley," he said quietly. "I'm ready to sink my name, then, and well go in together as com rades, and by Heaven we'll set the whole crooked business right V CHAPTER X. A "Weston ! Hey, there !" Mark, who was sitting at the en trance of the tent which he shared with five other privates of the Medical corps, looked up at the sound of the name to which he had grown accus tomed. At the sight of the corporal who had hailed him, he flung down the grooved strip of metal, known as the "soldier's friend," with the aid of which he had been polishing bis but tons, and hurried obediently forward. "The train's in from the base with the sisters and doctors to meet the convoy that we're expecting from the front. Every man's on duty until the job's finished. Report to the matron with Hartley." Mark nodded, and departed at a run toward the door of the base hospital, at which the matron, fidgeting impa tiently, was awaiting the assembling of the orderlies. It was war, and the echoes of the far distant guns were all about them daily, though war had never passed that way. Wallace, now Private vVeston of the medical service, encoun ters some old friends and ac quaintances unexpected and has an experience that opens "his eyes. How it all came about is told in the next Installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hughes Yuzovka. The first successful Iron and steel mill in southern Russia having been established forty years ago by a man named Hughes, one of the largest steel ' centers in Ukrainla bears the name Yuzovka In his honor. Gas Loic. Basement Pas- e JACOB AND ESAU RECONCILED. LESSON TEXT Genesis 33:1-11 GOLDEN TEXT A soft anawr turntth away wrath. Provrbs 15:1. DEVOTIONAL READING Psalms 4C. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Genesis 32: 5-23:28. From Bethel, Jacob went to Padan oram to his mother's people. Here he served Laban for twenty years four teen years for his wives and six years for certain wages. In his dealings with Laban be finds his match two schemers get together "diamond cuts diamond," I. Jacob Departs for Canaan (31 : 31-21). The time nad come for Jacob to po back to his kindred in the land of Canaan. The Lord instructed him so to do (v. TA). Though jrolng forward uuder the direction of God, his Jacob nature caused him to take clandestine leave of Laban. When Laban realized the situation he went in hot pursuit, but God appeared unto him in a dream and warned him against any act of vi olence toward Jacob. They formed a compact and Laban returned home. II. Jacob on the Way (chapter 32.) Laban's return freed Jacob from the enemy who was pursuing him from etind, but he faced a more formida ble one In the person of Esau. 1. Jacob meeting the angels (v. 1). T,wo camps of angels met him to give him the assurance that God would le with him according to his promise. Notwithstanding this, he continued to seheme. He sent a. deputation with a message of good cheer to Esau. 2. Jacob praying (vv. 9-12). Esau made no reply to Jacob's mes sage, but went forward with an army of men, four hundred strong, to meet Jacob. Jacob is in great distress, therefore he casts himself upon God !n prayer. This Is a fine specimen of effectual prayer. It Is short, direct, and earnest. (1) He reminds God of his command issued for his return, and also of the covenant promise (31:3). Surely God would not Issue a command and then leave him In such a strait. (2) Pleads God's promise as. to his personal safety (v. 9, cf. Genesis 28:13-15, 31-33). In our pray ing we should definitely pad God's promises In his word, on he ground nft covenant relationship ii Christ. f3) Confesses unworthlness (v. 10). In this he shows the proper spirit of humility. (4) Presents definite peti riw.is (v. 11). He lays before the Lord the definite request to be delivered from the wrath of Esau. 3. The angel of Jehovah wrestling vith Jacob (32:24-32). Tn God's school of discipline, Ja cob Is making some improvement, but till he is under the sway of self- wt!l and self-trust. Though he had Md the matter definitely before the Lord, he thought that his, scheming would render God some assistance. Accordingly, he sent presents ahead to appease the anger of Esau. While journeying along, a man met him and wrestled with him, but Jacob knew not trho he was.. Perhaps" he thought that Easu had pounced upon him In the ark. He exerted every ounce of strength In what he thought was the struggle for his very life. . The morn ing was approaching, and still the wrestlers continued, Jacob not know ing It was Jehovah manifest In hu man form. This is the second crisis in Jacob's life. He did not dare to enter the promised land under the con trol of his self-sufficiency: his selfish w'.U must be broken : his Jacob-nature must be changed. Cod humbled him by dislocating his thigh. When thus humbled, he quit wrestling and clung to God. He got the blessing when he, conscious of his weakness, laid hold oi God. 4. Jacob gets a new name (v. 28). He was no longer Jacob, the sup planter; but Israel, a prince of God. His new name was given him after he had a new nature. He came face to tace with God, and face to face with himself, and fought the battle tor a finish. We must have the new na ture before we cart enter the place of blessing. Jacob came to realize that he had been struggling with God, for h called the plaee "Penlel." which mnns 'face to face with God." III. Jacob Meets Esau (33:1-11). God had evidently wrought with Eau, for when Jacob approached him he sting of bitterness was gone. It was not Jacob's scheming that re moved Esau's anger, but the action of the Supernatural upon his heart. At Jabbok Jacob got right with God, so vhen he met Esau it was an easy matter to get right with him. Whsn we are right with God It Is an easy matter to get right with our brother. In This Life. We hear much of love to God. Christ spoke much of love to man. . We make a great deal of peace with heaven. Christ made much of peace on earth. Religion is not a strange or added thing, but the Inspiration of the secu lar life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world. Man and His Faith. Faith is the substratum of life; ao that a man will be as he believes, and will belleva as he llvesA-Wm. M. Tay to .how r,;- A j ,-.'"8 5Un'ight line, " And points the way f0r Wijh,of,enchJedN Anrt I c 1 l i &cls The world seems throbs. , And there I feel &v 7 S And thank hi, for j. -- - r .- - OBJECTED TO CUSTOl Observance of Thanksgiving for a Period Not Popular in Southern States. i N tl) South Tlunkiv practically unknown that until m V'ir :,.v..., t giiim M-iu a letter to the state 1otnn 111rii..r . tun. i '"minion of L l iiiui iie inn, issue ;i i .r,M-laination its observance ; hut ho was adns, that as most of tin- c-m.h ; siaie regarded n day ;1 re!i( Puritank- bigotry." ho ou-ht not urge it ohservain-e. m ... . . i years lau-r i loverrmr Wis? successor of Jones, without askins lamation. ntid the .fji... tnrowinj; aside their j,!vjiiylf served the day. T.. 1..-. . . ill Lin- lie.M e;n. f'Slt! 5f nors of southern states isued nr illations after the model of '.w land, calhnsr upon their people ob serve the last Thursday in m)t as a day for tlianks-ivin':. Rati Civil war was at h:mii. ami the Ifr "terness engendered in tho luiijiio versy over slavery caused many lent opponents of the Nort h tmpi the proclamation, hecause of the troduetion of a "Yankee custom." Undoubtedly our present Thanksj ins day has its prototype in the ity mouth thanksgiving festival of 1ST. It has been asserted repeatedly til the Plymouth festival was stilted the Pilgrims by the Jewish "I'm Ingathering." If the Plymouth festival has k liate kinship with similar events the past, it lias analogies with their A-est home of England. Th Pil?ri were familiar with the English bration. and many of tit'1, no had participated in it. The dnmiar mark of each was the joy over tin gathering harvest The chic difference hefweon the i was the want of ceremony at PlymMi that characterized the Knglili If val. In some parts of Englan'l merrymaking was around tne -w dingsheaf," or "kern baby." ' many places the hist load of the Iff vest was drawn to the barn in a J called the "hoch cart." In front pipe and tabor, and around ltgaJ Hie reapers, men and woiin-n. joyously as they proceeded. Atjj mouth there was no ceremony. J. was no harvest song so the fatherland : f Here's health to the barW no: Here's a health to the man Who very well ran Both harrow and plough and Time for Seff-Examination. . The Th'anksgivlag season w is anvtning in ou th nrr,rrpS of the nrtehbnri W,zy be that we are standinsf way of community progress iin: It may be that while we 1 are leaders we should he fJlo stead, or at least one who or others instead of in advance Society does not care whetne or whether our neichhor ,ea Society wants is progress "' be held responsible if we rlfice our own peculiar view sary for the welfare of the hcod. tin ' SOMETIMES Landlady (at ThanU, . . hi lhl We should oe mercies. maii tor Boarder (looking at We have to be. - 1' 4 t - c . r : tu t; ov. 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