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v, - THE CAEOUNA WATCHi AWtSALISBUEy,N. G. The Real Man By FRANCIS LYNDE Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS Copyright by Chas. Scrlbner's Sons CHAPTER V Continued. Smith "heard " him through, nodding anderstandingly when the tale was told. "It's the old story of the big fish swallowing the little one ; so old that there is no longer any saving touch of novelty in it," he commented. "I've been wondering if there wasn't some thing of that kind in your background. And you say you haven't any Belmonts or Morgans or Rockefellers in your company?" "We have a bunch of rather badly scared-up ranch owners and local people, with Colonel Baldwin in com mand, and that's all. The colonel is a fighting man, all right, and he can shoot as straight as anybody, when you have shown him what to shoot at. But he is outclassed, like all the rest of us, when it comes to a game of finan cial freeze-out. And that is what we are up against, I'm afraid." "There isn't the slightest doubt in the world about that," said the one who had been called in as an expert. "What I can't understand is why some of yop didn't size the situation up long ago bef ore it got into its pres ent desperate shape. You are at the beginning of the end now. They've caught you with an empty treasury, and these stock sales you speak of prove that they have already begun to swallow you by littles. Timanyoni common I suppose you haven't any preferred at thirty-nine is an excel lent gamble for any group' of men who ean see their way clear to buying the control. With an eager'market for the water and they can sell the water to you people, even if they don't put their own Escalante project through the stock can be pushed to par and beyond, as it will be after you folks are all safely frozen out. More than that, they can charge you enough, for the water you've got to have, to finance the Escalante scheme and pay all the bills ; and their investment, at the present market, will be only thirty nine cents in the dollar. It's a neat little play."- Williams was by this time far past remembering that his adviser was a man with a possible alias and presum ably a fugitive from justice. "Can't something be done, Smith? You've had experience in these things ; your talk shows it. . Have we got to stand still and.be shot to pieces?" "The necessity remains to be dem onstrated. -.But you will be shot to pieces, to a dead moral certainty, if Tou don't put somebody on deck with the necessary brains, and do it quick ly," said Smith with frank bluntness. ?Hold on," protested the engineer. "Every man to his trade. When I said that we had nobody but the neighbors and our friends in the company, I didn't mean to give the Impression that they were either dolts or chuckle heads. As a matter of fact, we have a pretty level-headed bunch of men in Timanyoni Ditch though I'll admit that some of them are nervous enough, . just now, to want to get out on almost any terms. What I meant to say was that they don't happen to be up in all -the crooks and turnings of the high finance buccaneers.". "I didn't mean to reflect upon -Colonel Baldwin and his friends," re joined the ex-cashier good-naturedly. '"It is nothing especially discrediting to them that they are not up in all the "Can't Something Be Done, Smith?" tricks of a trade which is not theirs. The financing of a scheme like this has come to be a business by itself, Mr. Williams, and it is hardly to be ex pected that a group of inexperienced men could do it successfully." The construction chief turned ab ruptly upon his cost-cutter. "Keeping in mind what you said a few minutes ago about, 'back numbers,' would it be climbing over the fence too far for me to ask if your experience has been such as would warrant you In tackling a job of this kind?" "That is a fair question, and I can Answer It straight," said the mm un JOHN SMITH HAS THE GOOD FORTUNE TO PLAY HERO TO A VERY PRETTY YOUNG LADY HE IS OFFERED THE JOB OF FIGHTING ENEMIES OF COL BLADWIN Synopsis. J. Montague Smith, cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank and Trust company, bachelor society leader engaged to marry Verda Richlander, heiress, is wrongfully accused of dishonesty by Watrous Dunham, his employer, and urged to be a scapegoat for the crooked accuser. Smith strikes Dunham, leaves him for dead and flees the state. lie turns up a tramp some time later at an irrigation dan con struction camp in the Rocky mountains and as John Smith gets a rough job. He soon attracts attention because of his secretive manner and his air of high class. The dam company is in financial straits, and Williams, superintendent, tells Smith his troubles. der fire. "I've had the experience." "I thought so. If the colonel should ask you to, would you consider as a possibility the taking of the doctor's job on this sick project of ours?" "No," was the brief rejoinder. "Why not?" Smith looked away out of the one square window in the shack at the busy scene on the dam stagings. "Because I'm not exactly a born sim pleton, Mr. Williams. There are a number of reasons which are purely personal to me, and at least one which cuts ice on your side of the pond. Your financial 'doctor,' as you call him, would have to be trusted absolutely iri the handling of the company's money and its negotiable securities. You could, and should, put him under a fairly heavy bond. I'll not go into it any deeper than to say that I can't give a bond." Williams took his defeat, if it could be caiiea a aeieat, wunout iunuer protest. "I thought' it might not be amiss to talk it over with you," he said. "You say it is impossible, and perhaps it is. But it won't do any harm for you to think it over, and if I were you, I shouldn't burn all the bridges behind- me. Smith went back to his work in the quarry with a troubled rnina. Tne little heart-to-heart talk with Williams had been sharply depressive. It had shown him, as nothing else could, how limited for all the remainder of his life his chances must be. That he would be pursued, that descriptions and pho tographs of the ex-cashier of the Law renceville Bank and Trust company were already circulating from hand to hand among the paid man-catchers, he did not doubt for a moment. While he could remain as a workman unit in an isolated construction camp, there was some little hope that he might be over looked. But to become the public, char acter of Williams' suggestion in a peopled city was to run to met his fate. ' It is said that the flow of a mighty river may owe its most radical change in direction to the chance thrusting of a twig into the current at some critical instant in the rise or fall of the flood. To the reincarnated Smith, charting his course upon the conviction that his best chance of immunity lay in isola tion and a careful avoidance of the peopled towns, came the diverting twig in this wise. On the second morning following the unofficial talk with Bartley Williams in the iron-sheeted headquarters office at the dam, a delayed consignment of cement, steel and commissary supplies was due at the sidetrack a mile below the camp. Perkins, the timekeeper, callod Smith from the quarry and gave him the invoices covering the ship ment. "I guess you'd better -go down to the aiding and check this stuff in, so that we'll know what we're getting," was his suggestion to the general util ity man. When the crookings of the tote-road let Smith get his first sight of the side track, he saw that the train, was al ready in. A few minutes sufficed for the checking. He sent the unloading gang back to camp with the teams, meaning to walk back himself after he should have seen the car of steel and the two cars of cement kicked in at the upper end of the sidetrack. While he was waiting for the train to pull up and make the shift, he was commenting idly upon the clumsy lay out of the temporary unloading yard, and wondering if Williams were re sponsible for it. The siding was on the outside of a curve and within a hundred yards of the river bank. There was scanty space for the unload ing of material, and a good bit of what there was was taken up by the curv ing spur which led off from the siding to cross the river on a trestle, and by the wagon road Itself, which came down a long hill on the south side of the railroad and made an abrupt turS to cross the main track and the siding fairly in the midst of things. As the long train pulled up to clear the road crossing, Smith stepped back and stood between the two tracks. A moment later the cut was made, and the forward section of the train went on to set the three loaded cars out at the upper switch, leaving the rear half standing on the main line. One of the men of the unloading gang, a leather-faced grade shoveler who had helped to build the Nevada Shore Line, had lagged behind the de parting wagons to fill and light his pipe. "Wouldn't that jar you up right good and hard T r a way to run a railroad,' he said to Smith, indicating the wholly deserted standing section of the freight 'with the burnt match-end. "Them fel lies 've all gone off up ahead, a-leavin' this yere hind end without a sign of a man r a flag to take keer of it." Smith was listening only with the outward ear to whab the pipe-lighter was saying. Somewhere In the west ward distances a thunderous murmur i was uruwug upuu uw wiuwcoo uit uj. I the June morning. A big pay auto mobile, with the cut-out open, was top ping the side-hill grade, and Smith ree ognized it at once. It was Colonel DeX-' tpr "Rnlrl win's roadster, and it held a single occupant-namely, the young k woman who was driving it. - l Tnminsr to look ud the track, he sawJLcaj, Pi tie started out early this -morn- set out. and' the forward section of the f tram was now DacKing to uraiie urevy" jv nUai juu io coupling with the standing halfi He, nefiiing?" hoDed that the trainmen had seen thel j the caboose. But in the same breath he guessed, and guessed rightly, tha they were too far around the curve to, be able to see the wagon-road, ap; prdach. Smith saw the young woman check the speed for the abrupt turn at tne bottom of the hill, saw the car take tha turn in a skidding slide, heard the re newed roar of the motor as the throttle was opened for a run, at the embank ment grade. Then the unexpecteq dropped its bomb. There was a Jan gling clash and the cars on the main -o nr wopo coi- in mnHon. The train- men nau ianea xo mu.K.e uien wunuoi r, A vinn t. Viol-P sf Vl a. fin i n Tffl C fill rC. Jw lUg UUWU upuu LUC (.1 uaoiu,,. j Smith's shout, or the sight of the on coming train, . one, of the two, or both; put the finishing touch on the young woman's nerve. There was still time k In which to clear tne tram, out at ine critical instant the yoimg woman api parently changed her mind and tried to stop the big car short of the. cross ing. The effort was unsuccessful When the stop was made, the fron wheels. of the roadster wej?e precisely in- the middle of the main track, -andi , . the motor was killed. ? By this time Smith had thr6wh his: coat away and was racing the backing train, with the ex-rade-laborer a poor second a'doze'n yards to the rear. Hav- ing ridden in the roadster, Smith'knew, that it had ho self-rtarter. "Jump!' he yelled. "Get out Of the car and then his heart came into hi? m5uth; when he saw' that jshf was struggling to free herself and couldn't ; that she was entangled in- some way behind the low-hung tiller wheel. Smith was running fairly abreast of the caboose when he made thts discov ery, and the hundred eet of .clearance had shrunk to fifty. In imagination he could already see the gray car over turned and crushed, under the wheela of the train. In a flying .spurt he; gained a few yards on the advancing; menace' and hurled himself against the front of the stopped roadster. He' did not attempt to crank the motor.. There was time only for a mlghly" heave and shove to se-id the car back-; ing down the slope of the crossing; approach ; for this atrd. for the quick spring aside to save himself ; and the thing was done. CHAPTER VI. A Notice to Quit. Once started and given its push, the gray roadster drifted backward from the railroad crossing and kept on until' it came to rest in the sag at the' turn, in the road. Running to overtake it, Smith found that the young woman was still trying ineffectually to free herself. In releasing the clutch her dress had been caught, and Smith was glad enough to let the extricating of the caught 'skirt and the cranking of the engine serve for a breath-catching. recovery. When he stepped bask to "tune" the spark the young woman had subsided into the mechanician's seat and was retying her veil with fingers that were automobile, and that they would not Ja tor disappointment, "I've simply attempt to make the coupling ."until iSio'i find Mr. Williams or some after the gray car had crossed behind boy) Do you happen to know any- any too steady. She was maU4 if! can't ! ' she protested ; "you wpii-Vnit- hpr hir 0n,.Jo alone And, besides, they not but well-knit: her hair was a golden brown and there was a good deal offrn the-other side of the river, and It; her eyes were set well apart, andftf anyw,hef with twnetfa4r- In the bright morning sunlight they were a slaty gray of the exact shade of the motor veil she was rearranging. Smith had a sudden conviction that he had seen the wide-set ryes before; also the straight little nose and. the half- boyish mouth and chin, though where he had seen them the conviction could give no present hint. "I sup-pup-suppose I ought to say something appropriate," she was . be ginning, half breathlessly, while Smith stood at the fender and grinnecff '"You don't have to say anything. It's been a long time since I've had a chance to make such a bully grand stand play as this." And then ; "You're Colonel Baldwin's "daughter, aren't you?" She nodded, saying: "How did you know?" "I know the car. And you have your father's eyes." She did not seem to take it amiss J that he was making her eyes a basis for comparisons. She was her father's only son, as well as his only daughter, and she divided her time pretty evenly in trying to live up to both sets of re-. quirements. "Yon have introduced me; wo-wont you . Introduce yourself?" she said, when a second crash of the shifting freight train spent Itself and gave an opening. s..u Smith," he told hi aiding: It" my real name." Itgr laugh iraS an instant easing offensions. yes; you're Mr. Williams' as- jsfsi-,nt. I've heard colonel-da my fpt-er, speak of you." X 'jjfd'"" he denied in blunt honesty, "tf hot Williams' assistant; at least, thay roll doesn't say so. Up at the Cjjb they call me 'tne Hobo.' " me young woman had apparently regained" whatever small fraction of selfcpbssession the narrow escape had shf ked aside. I' re. they never going to take that jinitrable train out of the, way?" she eejaimed. "I've got to see Mr. Wil- f liams and there isn't a minute to spce. Colonel-da 1 mean my father, na . gbhe up to Red Butte, and a little wle? ago they telephoned over to the ra tit from the Brewster office to say thy "there was going to be some more trouble at the dam. wont find Williams at th Tinthevond Little1 creek, and sniff Hp wouldn't be hack until some time to- cDhJ' she exclaimed, with a little I thi ?g; about the lawsuit troubles?' ' " know ail about them ; Williams h;ay?tpld me," . 9-rhen I'll tell you what Mr. Martin tel phoned. He said that three men we 5 1 going to pretend to jpime Only for a Mighty Heave. mh 3ng claim in the hills back of tfre somewhere near the upper eiti f3 the reservoir lake-that-is-to-b? Chre doing it so,, that they can get an injunction, or whatever you cait, and then we'll have to buy them ftr-y'as the others have been bought s &nith was by this time entirely fa- htj&r with the maps and profiles and otft jrr records of the ditch cocapany's lafjs and holdings. F; 11 the land within the limits of tho 41ol level has been bought and paid ggbfe-some of it more than once, hasn't r 'flh, yes; but that doesn't make any (jlftsrfhce. These men will claim that fh r location was made long ago, and hs4 they are just now getting ready tork it. It's often done in the case Offmhing claims.". , When is all this going to happen?" he; inquired. itis already happening," she broke u impatiently. "Mr. Martin said three men left town a little after tafeak and crossed on the Brewster ferCiire to go up on the other side of iJ'rimfinvoni " t Ijt-c young woman had taken her lAjL'tf' again behind the big tiller wheel aiSmith calmly motioned her out '.Aake the other seat and let me get iittrlere," he said; and when she had ifiagea over, ne swung in Denma tne flfl and put a foot on the clutch t hat are' you going to do?" she 1 j4lpi going to take you on up to the Carap, and then, if you'll lend me this PffarvpTll go and do what you hoped to ersiade Williams to dq run these rtiinJ&g-claim jokers into the tall tim- Ydn'ql have to go all the way back to Brtvster to get across the river!" ;lj:was just here that he stole av th& glance at the very-much-alive Tttt f? "face behind the motor veil; at thf'irm, round chin and the resolute rFta'-gray eyes. suppose I ought to take you to amp," he said. "But you may go g with me, if you want to and ot afraid." ,e laughed in his face. Smith shows his real character Colonel Baldwin's daughter (something of the fierce brute na--..tire that Is alive in him. There's :. a real fight described in the next f. installment. (TO BE CONTINUED. 1 F s- 5. . ... . . ft internal Heat or Planets. 5 3 je late Professor. Lowell's discov" ,eyrhat Saturn does not rotate as one pe-, but has "confocal layers, rotat IngjSfaster within," suggests that some of he other large planets may have theNsame structure. As pointed out by Vrof essor Very, the friction of la tessof different velocities would ger e-ra heat, and thus retard the cool lngjjdown of the planets. Sc"-:- relocate a ! tfieCC Lesson (BV REV. P. "R PTT7WATPD T Tk Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1917. Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 9 BENEFITS OF TOTAL ABSTI NENCE. LESSON TEXT Daniel L GOLDEN TEXT But Daniel purposed In his heart that he would not defile him eelf with tne portion of the king's meat; nor with the wine which he drank Daniel 1:3. The book of Daniel, with the great prophecies, fulfilled and unfulfilled, is one of the most interesting and Impor tant in the Bible. Without a grasp of the prophecies of this book it is abso lutely impossible for one to know the New Testament and the times in which we live. Daniel gives an outline of the entire period of time from the passing of supremacy to the Gentiles in Nebu chadnezzar to the final overthrow of the Gentile dominion, to the establish I ment of the millenial kingdom. The course, character and end of Gentile dominion are given. It is that period known in Scriptures as the "times of the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24). .The book of Daniel falls into two parts: Part I (chapters 1 to 6), In which the prophet appears as the di vinely chosen interpreter of dreams; part IL(chapters 7 to 12), in which the prophet appears as the mouthpiece of God, setting forth in visions, not dreams, the times of the Gentiles. The book is written in two languages, He brew and Aramaic chapter 1 jl-2.3 and chapters 8 to 12 (Hebrew) ; chapters 2:4-7:28 (Aramaic). The part which concerns the Hebrews was written in their own tongue and the part which concerns the empires of the world Is written in their tongue. I. Daniel's Home Leaving (w. 1-4). He was carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in the first siege of Je rusalem. This was a great trial for his own heart. He seems to have been about fourteen years of "age. 41. Daniel's Trials and Difficulties (vv. 5-13). It was the Custom for the best of the captives to be selected and trained for service in the land of cap tivity. They usually selected those of the royal house for such training. 1. Change of name. . Among the He brews? names were given to children, which were significant.. Paniel means "God is my judge." Thl significance of the name then was that all prob lems of life were submitted to God for decision. This was the secret of Dan iel's life. This purpose of his parents seems to have been instilled into his very life and' being. So thoroughly did he imbibe this spirit that in all things he made God arbiter of his plans and purposes. The object no doubt in the change of name was to obliterate his national and religious connection and identify him with the heathen people. The king of Babylon evidently liked Daniel's appearance and scholarship,; but was averse to his religion. It is the same today. Nations and individ uals are perfectly willing to recognize and utilize the scholarship, and efficien cy of Christian ministers and mission aries, but are not willing to embrace their religion. 2. His conscience tested (vv. 5-8). It was with reference tq the king's meat and the king's wines. It is ever to be borne in mind that conscience is the groundwork of human character. It is the law which must be followed. No doubt Daniel was taunted and laughed at for his fidelity, just as all men and women today who are loyal to their convictions must experience, for all who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 3. His religious life. This involved his refusal to eat meat and drink wine which was contrary to his teaching. Also it involved his praying three times a day. ill. His Success (vv. 14-21). L Phy sical health (v. 15). Godly and temperate living pays. The king's meat and wine would have been pleasant to the palate, but would have meant compromise of conscience. 2. dental growth (v. 20). He was ten times superior to his comrades. It is a-lways true that those who abstain from indulgence in the use of wine have clearer minds and are mentally better equipped for their work than those who indulge. 3. Social. Daniel stood before the king. No higher position of honor could have been given him. 4. Temporal. He became president of the College of Wise Men and prime minister of the nation. This position he continued to hold through several dynasties 5. Spiritual fv. 17). Because of Dan iel's loyalty to God, Nebuchadnezzar's dream was revealed to him and he was giving visions sketching the whole his tory of the world. IV. The Secret of His Success. The following -may be set down as the things which made Daniel successful: 1. He was conscientious. If we would succeed. In the world, let us see to it that in all things we live in good con science. 2. Loyalty to God. He made God the judge of everything that pertained to his life. No pleasure was indulged in or problem disposed of without Its sub-; mission to God. 3. Decision of character. With him that which had been submitted to God and was shown to be right before God, vu the law of bit Ufa. i i I W FOR THE LAND'S SAKE 1 KJ DEAiH IT WELL TO HAKE IT YIEIly -,- i KODAKS & SUPPLIES We also do highest class of finishing:. Prices and Catalogue upon request. S. Galetki Optical Ce.r Richmond, Ya. Proof. "That fellow wouldn't lend money to his best friend. He refused to buy one of Uncle Sam's Liberty bo'nds." . NEVER HAD A CHILL After Taking ELIXIR BABEK "My little daughter, 10 years old, suffered nearly a year with chills and fever, most or the time under the doctor's care. I was discour aged and a friend advised me to try llixlr Sabefc. I gave it to her and she has never had a chill since. 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"Why, that's perfectly simple," ex plained his fellow straphanger. "It means that It isn't right to annex any other country as spoite of victory." "Mean to say that if we licked some country we 'wouldn't have the right to take some of their possessions?" "Not the moral right. We couldn't annex an island, for instance, whose inhabitants do not speak our language, sympathize with our civilization or comprehend our institutions. Such an island would never become an Integral part of America, no matter what the geography said." "Nonsense look at Manhattan." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Liberty Still Lives. "What's meant by dis here food con trol?" asked Mr. Samuel Jackson. "Nigger," answered Mr. George Washington Jones, "dat means dat de man whut tries ter git more'n his share of victuals is goiR' ter run right slap bang inter de gov-ment." "Dey ain't nothin' In dem rules an' regulations ter keep a cullid man Tom stelin' a watermelon an' a chicken sometimes, is dey?" "Course dey ain't ! 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