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The Chronicle Telegraph (190101), 26 Sep 1912, p. 7

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2¢ -fluuwutm» eent. She waited until sun was about an hour high and then bade goodâ€"bye to the three and began the destent of the canon. Traveling light, for ube was going farâ€"farther, Indeed, than the knowâ€"she left her Winches ter at bome, but carrled the revolver with the fishing tackle and substantial luncheon. Cranpertih Now the riverâ€"a river by courtesy back: on th: pitched. Past f their home river ran due east for a fow feot, after. which it curyed sharply, doubled back and .“.‘m for several mijes before it #wung around to the east on its propâ€" er course again. k 1 S It had been hld‘lmb;# mcroks the hills and strike the where it turned eastward onte more, "%m. long _ detour.. back..... In faot, she had declared her intention uouumuw&v\,;-l‘pm given her careful. "Bo that whe should not get lost in the moun { htlamm.'fl time and no excuse reason for saving it, she never tired of the charm of the canon; therefore, Wistead of piiiging Airectly ‘m‘fia spur . of ?:;.mn. she folâ€" the famMiar and after she Imits of the camp"to i she decided, in nee &lfl t ut terly i thing, & 3’: will, that she would not go down t! eanon that day aftef all, but that she would cross back over the range and strike the river a few miles above the _ She had.been up in direction & few times, ‘but‘ only m short . disâ€" tance, as the ascent above the camp was very sharp, in fact for a little more than a mile the brook was only a succession of water fall; the best fishing was below the camp and the finest woods were:deeper in the canon. She suddenlyconcluded .. that. . she would like to see what was up in that unexplored section ofâ€"the â€"country and so, with scarcely a momtentary hestâ€" tation, she abandoned her former plan and began the ascent of the range. Upon decisfons so lightly taken what momentous:© consequences ‘deâ€" pend? Whether she should go up the stream or down the â€"stream, whether she should follow the rivulet to its source or gew €"It "to : was apparenUy‘a matter fim ment, yet her whole life turned abio lutely upon that decision. . ‘The. idie and unconsidered choice of the bour was frought with gravest possibilities, Had that election been made with any suspicion, with any foreknowledge, had it come snythe.result of careful réaâ€" soning or farâ€"seeing of probabilities, butâ€"an impulse, a whim, the vagrant idoa of an fdle ‘hour, the .careless chages of a moment, and behold! a ‘Hiie c On one side were "u.r nmu. freedom and ‘happimess,.a happy day, a good rest by the checrful fire at night; on the other, peri! of life, struggle, love, jeal , gelf sacrifice, devotion, sufferâ€" lu,%w Eve herself when sheâ€"stood apple in hand with igroranceâ€" and pleasure around her and enlightenment and sorrow before her, had greater choice to make. How fortunate we are that the fuâ€" #ure s"yvelled, that the psalmist‘s prayer that he might know his end and be certified how long he had to Hve is one that will not andâ€" eannot be granted; that it has been given to but One‘to foresee "his> own future, for no power apparently could enable us to #tand up against what might be, because we are only human beings not sufficiently alight with the spark divine.; We walit for the end because we must, but thank God we know it not until‘it comes. Nothing of this appeared to the girl that bright sunny morning. Fate hid in those mountains under the guise of u.b, Lighthearted, ¢arefree, fitted with buoyant jfoy over every fact of lHfte, she jleft the fowing water and scaled the cliff beyond which in the wilderness she was to find after all, . Jime : elose above :2“,&“‘0-%&-«- camp. canon 'DW‘“"‘“"“’"’ h tew yards of it in any di« rection. @he seanned. her ctroumâ€" sortbed limited borizon eagerly for the smoke fire that they mz the camp, but not a f Bhe was onng@- feet aboye the Act Well! givin td C# Sichk Headaches=â€"â€" river whense whe hadâ€" come. Hor oo ht n ho ite the uptossed peaks of the main range, bare, chaotic, snow crowned, lonely, * The awe of the everlasting hills is §greater than that of he Aeas. Save in the Tnfrecuent of caltt, the latter always© moves; ~the mounâ€" tains are the satie for all time. The ocean is quick, nolsy, living;â€" the mountains are Calm, stillâ€"â€"dead! Indian Root Pills _ The g:;n stood as it were on the root of ‘the world, 1 solitary human being, so far as she: knew, in the eye of God above her, Ab, m;'u. eyes divine look long and see far; things beyond the human ken arg_a_!l reâ€" believed, to observe that majestic. soll vealed. None of the party h#d ever come this far from the camp in this direction she knew, And she was glag to be the first, as she fatuously Surveying the great range she wonâ€" w the peak climbers might be. sighted though she was, she could not discover them. The crest: that they were attempting lay in anâ€" other direction hidden by a nearer spur. She was in the very heart of the mountains; peaks and ridgesâ€"rose. all about her, so much so that the genâ€" eral direction of the great range was lost. She was at the center ofÂ¥a far flung cocavity of crest and range. She marked one towering point to the right dof her that rose massively grand above all the others Tomorrow she would climb to that high point and froth its lofty elevations look upon the Heayâ€" ens above s&nd the earth beneath, aye and the waters under the earth far below, Tomorrow!â€"it is genâ€" eraily known that we do not usuaily ‘atteihpt the high points in life‘s range ‘atonce, content are we with lower alâ€" titudes today. 3 . ‘ ‘‘There was no sound above hor; the rushing water over the rocks tipon the nearer side she could hear faint ly; there was no wind about her to stir the longâ€"needies of the pines. It was very still, the kind of a stiliness of ‘body which is the outward and visible eomplement of that stillness of the soul in which men know God. There had ‘been no earthquake, no storm, the mountains had not heaved beneath her feet, the great and strong. wind had not passed by, the rocks had not been rent and broken;, yet Enid caught herself listening as if for a voice. The thrill of majesty, silence, loneliness was upon her. â€" She stoodâ€"one stamfds when there is a chance of meeting God on the way, one doés not kneel until he come:â€"with her raised hinds clasped, her head uplifted in exultaâ€" tion unspeakable, Godâ€"conquered . with her face to heaven upturned. are not caused by anything wrong in the hesd. but byr ronmipation, bil ErraEHE 9r inpaire Sany déaden. but cannot _cure them.~ Dr, Morse‘s Indian Root Pille do cure sick acbehthgmbh”m r the constipation of 6t which eiued them, . Dr. Morse‘s Indian â€" Root Pills are purely vegeâ€" se m man . wihea 2oo Ita dh e a When you f P cadacheComilig take ... * * .~ "I will lift up mine eyes to the hills whence cometh my salvation," her heart sang: voleele::I{. "We praise thee, oh, Gcd, we maghify thy ho‘y mame forever,"" floated through hct brain, in great appreciation of the marvelous work of the Almighty shap The Girl Stood as It Were on the Roof of the World. u-:mn hand. azst.:hnn were into the heav eaped to meet its m-tt..‘"lhltnlb find oun.vnumumm kissing Wl h How long sbe stayed ahe: did not realilte; she tool no note of time; it #id not occur to herveven to look at the watch on her wrist, she had awept mmm-:“o;:-ln:‘»m s‘! ‘cnmi®, when M'x:«fwwv’â€"qum est moments must have an endâ€"she Dr. Morsae‘s * i*“?k‘fl \‘ Her ‘ ablutions . in common,. with ‘those of‘th> rest of the cam| had. â€"‘been by plecemeal of lo-flgllm was an opportunity for a plunge in a natural bath tub.~ She was as certain that she would be under no observaâ€" of effort a giant cup had besh BOF lwflud.mm ‘ pool â€"~was perhaps four or feet deep, the rocky bottom worn « The clearing was upon the . side and the. banks . were wooded beyond the spur of $ made ready. to .try her . : but before she did so an idea catie to herâ€"daring, unconventional, dinary, begot of innocence inewe perience. Â¥ + o s Tt Thy MB Then rcurtomce Th har But â€" accustomed all: life to taking a bath at the temperature of the water at * geason, Ehe knew that the peoâ€" ple in that wilderness were the memâ€" bers of her own party, three of them were at the camp below;. the others were ascending a mountain miles away. The cenon was deep sunk, and she satisfied herself by carefulâ€"Obger vation . that ~the~pook ~was not over looked by any élevations far of near. tion as if she were I mey of hor own chmavern Fore agaie Impuigs determined. the end. . Im spite. of ‘her assurance thore was some little apâ€" prehension in the glance that she cast about her, but it soon vanished. There alone. <The pool and the chance the plunge had brought her ‘down to earth again; the thought of ‘the enâ€". Hyening exbilaration of the pure cold water dashisg ‘against her own sweet warm young body changed the curâ€" rent of ‘her thoughtsâ€"the anticipaâ€" tion of it rather. + Impulsively she dropped her rod upon the grass, unpinned her hat, threw the fishing basket from her shoulder. She was wearing a stout sweater; that, too, joined the rest. Nervous hands manipulated buttons and the fastevnings. In a few moments the sweet figure of youth, of beauty, of purity and of innocence brightened the sodâ€"and shed a white luster upon the green of the grass and moss and pines, refecting light to the gray brown rocks of the range.~ So Eve may have looked on some bright Eden . morning. A few steps forward and this nypiph of the woods, this naiad of the mountains, plunged into the clear, cold waters Of. the poolâ€"a water sprite‘ and her fountain! The Bear, the Man and the Flood. The water was deep enough to re ceive her dive and the pool was long enough to enable her to swim a fow strokes, ‘The first chill of the foy wa: ter was soon lost in the vigorous moâ€" tions in which sha ‘indulged, but no more human form, bowever hardy and Inured, could long endure that frigid bath. Reluctantly,â€"yet with the knowk edge that she must go, after one more sweeping dive and & fow magnificent strokes, she raised her head from the water lapping her white shoulders and shaking her face clear from the drops pf erystal, faced the shore. It was no .llouv:- untenanted, she was no longer one. What she saw startled and alarmed her beyondâ€" measure. â€" Planted on her. clothes, looking straight at her, hayâ€" ing come upon. her in‘ absolute st lence, nothing having given ber the least warning of his approach, and now gazing at her with red, hungry, evil, vicious eyes, the eyes of the covetous "Mlled with the cruel, lust ,Of desire and carnal possession, and yet with a glipt of surprise in them, too, as if he Aid not know quite what to make of the white loveliness of this unwonted ‘ apparition fiashing so sud denly at him out of the water, this strange invader. of : domain .of which he was sole and lord paramonnt,. stood a great, monstrous, frightful looking gritely bear. â€" Ursus Horribilis, indeed. shoule Th girl forgot the chill of the water. in the borror of that moment. Alons, naked, defenscless, lost in the mounâ€" tains, with the Mwl. sanâ€" guinary and ferocious t of the pontinont In fromt of her, she could nelther fght nor fiy; she could only walit his pleasre. He snuffed at her elothing a momect and stood with one fore foot advanced for a. second or two growling l‘-flv. evidently, she thought with ~almost superbuman kecnness of perception, preparing to WIntomDooltndullotmhd. * The rush of the current as it awirled ‘Mtkmfilchmw. ntharwite #tdod thotJonless and him. . It botpoke a little of the dom inance ‘of the buman, But she was too surprised, too unnerved, too: der cnaAPTeEA v. ty wis rock o4 ih »en bol« ite ht fecesve «Cruitâ€"a fives Qured Him but none of them suited my case. Nearly a year ago, 1 «Pruitaâ€" Wedlcise spat [mad -_‘h.‘b...'.{_.._.x‘:.u Te EL an Ciousness was focussed in the % Mlipse of her imagination. e noment or.two and..all. hought would be gone. The still â€"unsettied and uneasy before her iwful glagre, but not deterred by it, turnéd» 48 .head. sideways . & | Mt. ‘leâ€" to ‘W‘W‘M tmuo& stare broughthis sharp clawed foot down heavily and durched forward. : ~Bearcely had m minute .elapsed . 18 which. z11 this happened.; : That :t: threatentng. heaxve of the great; toward her. relieved the tension. She found â€"voleo Atâ€"last. > Although It : Fas absolutely futile, she ‘realizedâ€"as‘ khe: cried, ‘her released lips framed. the‘ loud. ‘n"‘L % # 3 . "Heip!. for God‘s sake." I ~ Althoush she, knew . sho eried :: to the bleak walls of,the canon, a drooping pines, the rushing river, the distant heayoen, the appeal went forth ‘Accompanies by the mightiest com Juration krown to man. mios 4A _ "For God‘s _ help?" ¢ ( t |‘How dare p::"suilwtn plead, the doubter cries, ‘What is it to God ppathe sumiie se s db mc CC /. t < 1Â¥ 3 !I,Dhlllfiz- x2 (shitm lté. MMM’ the ids M ::ln‘ Mâ€"?dei- the BA the waste matter that poitons the f enc Â¥ruitâ€"aâ€"tives L!-ltd,wfi'& 9 & i cens health® If one suffers, another bleeds, another dies? What answer could come out of that silent sky?. Sometimes the Lord speaks with the loud volce of men‘s oubled with Kflw J mgu‘ -.!3 differe» fashioning, instead of in that still whisper which is his own, and the sound of which we failâ€"to catch beâ€" cause of our own ignoble babble. â€"| .. The answer to ‘her prayer came with a roar in her nervous frightened ear like a clap of thunder.. Kre the first echo of it died away, it was sucâ€" ceeded by another and another and uothu,ochdl&mh reverberat. Ing among the rocks in ever diminishâ€" ing but long drawn out pesls. . _..On the instant the bear rose to his feet, swayed slightly and,struck as ‘at «5 Imawinary anemy with his well=~ Mrs. H. VON RODEN of .m%flfl. KY. l Piokhem‘s Vegetsbls Campoukd E. Pinkham‘s V ineatetmntrne tate nervousness and lgomulmm;w- dition of the system,â€"and am en reâ€" Neved of these troubles. I recommend ranmmaa o ied mo,pt T hi U Don Ronen, Lyndolpky. . ! When a woman like Mrs. Von Roden is generous enough to write such a tar as the above for publication, should at least be given credit for a cere desire to help other suffering women, hm-mm&mbnc&"* Canadian Woman‘s Experiencét Windsor, Ont child left me a g "pp) ho. ma qh\ an on "Help! For God‘s Sake!" er iwenty yoats mie Mc timed re a wreck with terrible we iess speiis bat 1 am‘g to tell you that Headaches. s Lydia E. Pink» six years old, and The birth of my first the upon tion oonte â€"de. LCIGD, ~ZOPN . I0 . NBHOT . MiL, voured, that was a small thing, but that she should be so outraged in her Mwu.:‘mm%fl‘e :Ml’ ‘ Em\ uD afinm‘vfimlm‘m to bide in 1t# crystal clarity real/ Ized ‘as she did how Mfit&“ she was. Yet, aithough. she frote where she was and perished ‘with cold the could not go out on the bank to dress, and 1t would avail her little, she saw swiftly, since the ‘Buge monâ€" ater‘ hadâ€"lalien a dead heap on her elothes. y e en seconds. _ sometimes. inâ€" elude hours, @Â¥en a lifeâ€"time, in their mm She _thought it "be just as well for her to sink down and dieâ€"in the water, when & sudden ‘splashing <below her caused her to look down the stream.~ ; > She was so agitated that #he could oake out little except that there was a man ‘crossing below her and making. directliy toward the body of the bear. He was a tall black bearded man, ; saw He carried a riffe, he looked neithâ€" er to tha right torâ€" to the‘ left, He did‘ arake w for his ap t o + J us she croucifé@â€"now neck deep in the benumbing cold.. ‘The man‘stepped on thebank, shook himself Ike‘a great dcg might. have: done ‘and marched over to"the bear. "He uprooted ‘a small nearby ‘pine,~with the easo of & Herâ€" eulesâ€"and she bad time to mark and â€"marvel at it in‘spite of everythingâ€" and then with that.as a lover ho un ‘ooneerudly and ~easily ~heaved the body of ‘theâ€"mionster . from off her clothing. â€" She was to learn later what .a feat of strength it was to move that inort . carcassâ€" weighing much more thanhalf a ton. hill ::'. vsg.md stepped out upon : th« Hter swenter. which the bear m.‘wm in its advance, lay m‘dfl:fiomdww&es‘ covered with blood. She threw it astde andâ€"with mervous, frantic energy, wet, cold, though she was, she jJerked on in : some fashion . enough : clothes to cover her nakedness and then with Â¥hore leisurely order and with neces sary care she gottho:ut?hornpâ€" parel in its accustomed p! npon he: W,.“}Mv&q‘l&mnl over she gAnk ‘down promeâ€"and _prostrate upon the grass by»the carcass of the now harmless mapster which had co ‘nearly caused ber undoing, and shivâ€" ered, criedâ€"and sobbed as if her heart would break. ‘Thereafter he dropped the pine tree by the side of ‘the dead grizzly and without.a backward look tramped swiftly and steadily up the canon through the trees, turning at the point of it and was instantly lost to sight. His gentle and generous purpose were dbvious even to the frightened, agtâ€" tated, excited girl ; i w a few .secondsâ€" longet. and theff #he hurled herself <throug‘ ‘ f@he was chilled to the bone by her motioniess sojourn, albelt it had been for scarcely more than a mirfute in that loy water, and .yet the blopd tushed to her brow and face, to every hidden part of her in waves as the thought, of it. . It was a good thing that she cried; she was not a weep Ing woman, her tears came slowly as a rule and then came hard. She rathâ€" er prided herselft upon her stoicismn, but in this instince the great depths of her natv:s hid been undermined and the four:tains thereot were fain lh braak forth (To b. Coutinue :~) { The woman watched him until ho Drs. KENNEDY & KENNEDY j uC C Q TMENT wil and & \ ooo in oo en n en Lina d sn & a ,~ .4_, s e snn ht memn dalage °C * " 4; Nervou s DEBILITY doctors. 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