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(Continued From Our Last Issue)
Again one of those agonizing
Wa'ts, racking to the two men whose
fulmr d -r>< mlf <1 largely upon the
happnihi atop the range. Far on
the <jther side, fighting slowly up
ward. was a freight train loaded with i
the necessary materials of a large '
sawmill. ~
“Guess it's all off, - ’ came at last
“The general superintendent in Den- J
. ver's on the wire. Says to back |
up everything to Tollifer, including >
the plows, and give up the ghost.” i
“Give it up?” Houston stared j
blankly at the telegrapher. “But
that’s not railroading.
“I know. I’ll call Denver.”
He turned to the key and ham
mered doggedly. Only soggy dead
ness answered. The line was gone!
CHAPTER XVI
“It’d take a guy with a diving suit (
to find some of them wires, I guess,”
the operator hazarded, as he finally
ceased his efforts and reached for his
coat and hat and snowshoes. “There
ain’t no use staying here. You fel
lows are going to sleep in town to- :
night, ain’t you?”
There was little else to do. They ■
fought their way to the rambling j
boarding house.
Morning brought no relief. The ;
storm was worse, and they faced
drifts waist high at the doorway.
Two hours later, the agent once
more, at his dead key, Ba'tiste turned
to Houston.
“Eet is no tike here,” he an- j
nounced. ‘We must get to camp ■
and assemble the men to help those I
who are not fortunate. There is
death in this storm.”
Again with their waist-belt guide
line, they started forth to bend I
against the storm in a struggle and I
at last to reach the squat, snowed-in
buildings of camp. There, Ba’tiste
assembled the workmen in the bunk
house.
"There are greater things than
this uow,” he announced. “Wc want
the strong men—who will go back
with us to Tabernacle, and who will
be willing to take the risk to help
the countryside. Eet is the danger
ahead. How many of yyu will go?”
One after another they reached for
their snowshoes, silent men who
acted, rather than spoke.
Guide lines were affixed. Huddled,
clumsy fi-nrs- ~f white, one follow
ing th-: other, made the gruelling trip
bark to Tabernacle. Already the ro
p>’’ts were beginning to conic; in,
brought by storm weakened, blizzard
battered men, of houses* where the ;
root ; gbnd crashed beneath the I
weight of snow, of lost ranchmen, of I
bawling, cattle, drifting before- the: '
storm to death. It was the begin
ning of a two-weeks* siege of a white
inferno.
Th'e wr. ole world was one great
thing of dreary white—a desert
in wl.ieh there was life only that
thus ifltght be death, where the bat
tle for existence continued only as'a ,
i rtl’f r-of instinct.
.■ And over this bl--ak desert went 1
t ie men ol the West Country, silent,
-burned men, their lips cracked'
from the cut of wind, their eyes
b-ood icd with inflammation, strug- j
.■ bag here and there with a pack of I
l'*od upon their backs that they I
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
(Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leave
11:55 pm Columbus-Clfgo 3:45 am
10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am
7:25 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
7:15 pm Columbus *7:30 am j
1 :55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:1 Ipm Macpn-Atlanta 1:55 pm
1:25 pm Columbus *3:30 pm
110:00 am Columbus 12:30 pm'
6:37 am Albany 7:25 pm
s:l4am Macon-Atlanta 10:35pm
3:45 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55pm
2:sßam Albany-Jaxville 12:37 am
12:37am Chgo, St. L. Atla 2:sßam
1 :35 am Xlinti’and Atlanta I:3sam
(* Daily; (!) Sunday.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrives Leaves
5:15 pm Riehland-Cols 10:00 am'
3:10 pm Cordele-Savh. 12:26 pm
12:31 pm Richland-Montg’y 3:10 pm ’
Fresh and Cured Meats
Our Refrigerator and Market '
Open to Inspection at All Times, i
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Barbecue Continuously Every
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Today.
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might reach some desolate home
where there were women and chil
dren; er stopping to pul! a” i tug al
a snow-troop ■ ! suer and main
effort, drag J ’l.t into a batten spot
where the sweep of the gale had
hept the preud fairly clear of snow.
A two-inch crust of snow fornled
over the main snowfall, permitting
small sleds to be pulled behind strug
gling men; the world beneath had
been frozen in, to give place to a new
one above. Anti with that:
“It’s open! It’s open!” The shout
came from the lips of the telegraph
er, waving his arms as he ran from
the tunnel that led to the station
house. “It's open! I’ve had Rawlins
on the wire!”
“Rawlins?” Houston had edged
forward. “There’s not a chance. Get
Denver on the wire. Then take this
message to every newspaper in the
city:
“Can’t you help us? Please try
to start campaign to force Crestline
Road to open the Pas;. Women and
children are starving here. We have
been cut eff from the rest of the
world for two weeks. We need food
—and coal. , Road will not be open
for four or five weeks more under
ordinary circumstances. This will
mean death to many of us here, the
wiping out of a great timber and
agricultural country, and a blot on
the history of Colorado. Help us —
and we will not forget it.
“ ‘THE CITIZENS OF THE WEST
COUNTRY.’ ”
“Sounds good.” The telegrapher
was busily putting it on the wire.
Then a wait of hours. Then the wire
clattered forth a message. He
jumped.
“It’s from the papers in Denver!”
he shouted. “A joint message.
They've taken up the fight!”
The snows still swirled, the i
storms still came and went. Dur
ing this period of uncertainty
Houston met Ba’tiste Renaud, re- 1 1
turning from the lake region, ty find
him raging.
“Is eet that the world is all un
just?” he roared. I am the mad
enough to tear them apart!”
"Who? What’s gone wrong?”
“Ah! I pass today the Blackburn
mill. They have the saw going—-
they keep at work, when there are\
the women and the babies who
starve, when there are the cattle who
are dying, when then- is the country
that is like a broken thing. They
know that wo do not get our ma
chinery! They have think they have
a chance—for the contract!”
It brought Houston to a sharp j
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Over Turpin’s Garage—East Lamar St.
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; knowledge of conditions. They had <
j given,, that the rest of the country
; might not suffer. Their enemies had
i worked on, fired with the new hope,
1 that the machinery necessary to
I carry out Houston's contract would
j not arrive in time.
A shout had come fr An the dis-
I lance. .Faintly through the’sifting
low they could see figures run-
I ning. Thea'the words came:
“They’re going to open the road!
They re going to open the Foad!”
A me age bearer came from the
• stai ion. “It's the M. P. & S. L. Ac
cording to the me -age, the papers
| hammered the sluffing out of the
i Cre- tiine road. The other road saw •
a great chance to step in.
:g the men and the rolling stock.
They're going to open another - fel
low’s road, for the publicity and the
good will that’s in it.”
Two pictures Hashed across Hous
: ton's brain; one of a snowy sawmill
: .with the force working day and
night, when all the surrounding
country cried for help; another ol
carload after carload of necessary
Machinery, snow-covered, ice-bound,
on a side-track at Tollifer, with the
«si®t
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He was looking into the drawn hag
gard features of an unconscious wo
man.
whole, horrible, snow-clutched fierce
ness of the Continental Divide be-
tween it and its goal.
In the night he awoke, again think
ing of it. Every possible hand that
could swing a pick or jam a crowbar
against grudging ice would be needed
up there. A mad desire began to
come over him; a strange impelling
scheme took hold of his brain. They
would need men—men who would
not be afraid, men who would be
willing to slave day and night if
necessary to the success of the ad
venture. Long before dawn he rose
and scribbled a note to Ba’tiste Re
naud :
“I’m going over the range. I can't
wait. They may need me. I’m writ
ing this, because you would try to
dissuade me if 1 told you personally.
Don’t be afraid for me-- I’ll make it
somehow. I’ve got to go. It’s,
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easier than standing by.
"HOUSTON.”
•Then, his snowshoes affixed, he
went out into the night. The storm
clouds were thick on the sky again,
the snow was dashing about him
once more, ell floundered aimless
once more. He floundered aimless
thc path from which the storm was
driving him.
Dawns found him at last, flounder
ing hopelessly in snow-screened
woods, going on toward he knew not
where.
A half-hour, then he stopped,
i Fifty feet away, almost covered by
| the changing snows, a small cabin
hewed faintly. His numbed hands
banged at the door, but there came
no answer. He shouted; still no
sound came from within.
The door yielded, and climbing
over the pile of snow at the step,
Houston guided his snowshoes
through the narrow door, blinking
in the half-light in an effort to see
about him. There was a stove, but
the fire was dead. At the one little
window, the curtain was drawn tight
and pinned at the sides of the sash.
There was a bed—and the form of
some one beneath the covers.
Houston called again, but still
there came no answer. He was look
ing into the drawn, haggard fea
tures of an unconscious woman, the
eyes half-open, yet unseeing, one
emaciated hand grasped about
something that was shielded by the
covers. Houston forced himself
even closer. He touched the hand.
He called:
“Agnes!”
The eyelids moved slightly; it was
the only evidence of life, save the
labored, irregular breathing. Then
the hand moved, clutchingly. Slow
ly, tremblingly, Houston turned back
an edge of the blankets—and stood
aghast.
On her breast was a baby—dead'
CHAPTER XVII
So n water was boiling. Hot
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chesses, blouses, and plenty i
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Slippers For Baby 1 EOpiCSLIS Zs ’ W
New shipment of Precious Ba- , . { ' ! . M
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New Poneee large assortment of styles and colors; x S _
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•cloths went to the woman’s head;!
, quietly, reverently, Barry had tak
en the still, small child from the |
, tightly clenched arm and covered it,
|on the table. And with the touch
lof the small, lifeless form, the re
i sentment which had smoldered in
: Houston’s heart for months seemed
to disappear.
“I’m sorry—Agnes. Don’t be
| afraid of me. 11l get help for you.”
| “Don’t.”
There was the dullness that comes
•when grief has reached the break
; ing point. “Dead. It died—yester-
Iday morning.”
SURE TO HELP
1 SICK WOMEN
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. Mrs. Baker, So Much Benefited by
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, Anxious to Help Others
Lebanon, Indiana.—“l wascomplete
ly run down from women’s troubles and
stomach trouble and
for a long time was
hardly able to do my
work. I had some
friends who had
taken Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable
Compound, and they
told me about it. I
know what it has
done for me and I
recommend it to
others, as I am sure
it will be a great
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help to all sick women. It is a wonder
ful medicine, and I give you permission
to uee my testimonial and my photo
graph.”—Mrs. Emma Baker, 310 S.
’ East St., Lebanon, Indiana.
These letters recommending Lydia E.
1 Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound ought
■ to convince women of the great worth
: of this medicine in the treatment of ail
ments to which they are eften subject.
Mrs. Baker callsit “a wonderfulrned
, icine.” If you are suffering from
troubles women often have, or feel all
run down, without any ambition or en
! ergy for your regular work, take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It
is a natural restorative and should help
you as it has Mrs. Baker and many,
many other women.
I Houston could say nothing in an- I
swer. Quietly he turned to the stove,
| red-hot row, and with snow water
began the making of gruel fro:.
{supplies o.i the shelf.
Forcing himself to the subject,
Houston asked a question:
‘Where’is he?"
“Who?” Sudden fright had come
into the woman's eyes.
“Your husband.”
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