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> THK PBOPLR. BARNWKLL. 8. C. Erskine Dale — Pioneer By John Fo^ Jr. Copyright by Chariot I (i m u \ CAN WAIT" STNOPSIS.-To the 'Kentncky ■wllderneBs outpost commanded , by Jerome Banders, In the time imme diately preceding the Revolutlo’n, comes a white boy .fleeing from a tribe of Shawnees by whom he had been captured and adopted as a son of the chief Kahtoo. He is given shelter and attracts the favorable attention of Dave Yandell, a leader among the settlers. The boy warns of the coming of a Shawnee war party. The fort Is attacked, and only saved by the timely appear- ance of a party of Virginians. The leader of these is fatally wounded, but in his dying moments recog nizes the fugitive youth as his son. At Red t>aks, plantation on the James river, Virginia, Colonel * Dale’s home, the boy appears with a message for the .colonel, who after reading it Introduces the bearer to his daughter Barbara as her cousin Erskine Dale. Erskine meets two other cousins, Harry Dale and Hugh Willoughby. Yan- dOl visits Red Oaks. At the coun ty fair at Williamsburg' Erskine meets a youth, Dane Grey, and there at once arises a bitter antag onism between them. Grey, In liqyor, insults Erskine, and the 1st- tet, for the moment all Indian, draws his knife. Yandell disarms him. Ashamed. Erskine leaves Red Oaks that night to return to the wilderness Yandell. with Harry and Hugh, who have been permit tee to \ toil take him boy had save the At Banders fort, over- the plantation the te In Dai I r- left a a properly. of Coloi l. Barbara 1 r*e gvawwere. who Erskine I w baas l l hits Arrow* that M which he is hia aa >• part f Is ■ettks dia. few- and beta* if— ready, and Crook*ed Lightning, too, bided his time. • e e s s s • Dressed ns an Indian, Erskine rode forth next morning with a wampum belt and n talk for the coyncil north where the British were to meet Shaw nee, Iroquois and Algonquin, and urge them to enter the great war that was just breaking forth. There was open and angry protest against sending, so young a lad on so great a mission, but tlie did chief haughtily brushed It aside: , “He is young but his feet are swift, his arm is strong, his heart good, and his head is old. Her speaks the tongue of the paleface. Besides, he is my son.” ' One question the boy asked as he made ready: • “The white woman must not .be burned while I am gone?” “>>'o,” promised the old chief. And so White Arrow’ fared forth. Four days he rode through the north woods, and on the fifth he strode through the streets of a town that was yet filled with great forest trees: a town at which he had spent three winters when the game was scarce and the tribe had moved north for good. He lodged with no chief, but slept hi the woods .with his feet to the fire. The next night he slipped to the house of .the old priest. Father Andre, who had taught him some religion ami a little French, and ttie old man welcomed him aa a aon. though he noted sadly hit In dian dress and was distressed when be heard the lad s mlsaloo. He was quick ly relieved "1 am no royalist," he said "Nor am I/* said Kraklne ~1 came hemnae Kahtoo^ who seemed nigh to death ha—ad ate to mm». I am «sdy That la Kahtool talk, hot tbia In mine" Who had driven tho Indian from tha great watera to the great wall? Tho British. Who were the Americans un til nowY British. Why were tho Americans .fighting mow? Because the British, their kinsmen, would not give them their rights. If the British would drive the Indian to the grant wall, would they not go on doing what they charged the Americans with doing now? If the Indians must fight, why fight with the British to beat the Americans, and then have to fight both a later day? If the" British would not treat their own kinsmen fairly, was It likely, that they would treat the Indian fairty? They had never done so yet. Would it not be better for the Indian to make the white man on his own land a friend rather than the white iniwi who lived more than p. moon away across the big seas? Qrily one gesture the lad made. He lifted his hand high and paused. Crooked Light ning had sprung to his feet with a hoarse cry. Already the white men had grown uneagy, for the chiefs had turned to the boy with startled inter est at ids first sentence and they could not know’ what he was saylfig. But they looked relieved when Crooked Lightning rose, for his was the only face in the assembly that was hostile to the boy.- With a gesture Pontiac bade Crooked Lightning speak. “The tongue of White | Arrow la forked. I have heard him say he would fight with the I^ong Knives against the ®The bmm mm (Copy for Thl» Department Supplied try tha American Leylon Newa Service.) FOUR MEDALS ON HIS BREAST LEGION MAH FOR GOVERNOR Carl M. Lange of Nebraska le That State's Most Decorated World War Veteran. 4 » ‘ M —| v fhP fm » a ' #*# * q < 4 I r m w \ =£1 >ar *(a * • ii - ” . . *. 1 . Four medals on his breast and the French cord on his arm make Carl M. - Lange of Hart- ington, Neb., that state’s most dec orated World war veteran. C o m- p a r a 11 vely few men who fought for or with France have had the coveted Me dal 11 e Mllltaire bestowed on them." This dec oration goes only . to enlisted men and to commnndera-ln-chief "f armies In the field. No officer in between fs eligible to • receive the medal. Yet Lange was awarded two. One Marshal Petaln pinned an his O. D. Several months after the armistice Lang* opened a registered package with a French stamp no It and found another If*. honor Nebraska World war hervie He was rh rr of the A Med Mlllt The hi Ire one ► Lang* •t of It) I • roeld • ml y th# B LP" James 0. Sc rug ham, Nevada Kxeeia tlva Committee Member, Candi date for High Office. The next governor of Nevada maj be James 0. Scrugham. member of th« national * exect> tlve committee ol the American Le gion from that state, who has tendered his res ignation from that position to Han ford MacNider, national comman der. Mr. Scrugham, who has for som« time been state engineer of Neva da and Nevada’s representative on the National Boulder canyon project, has been made a nominee for governor of the state. Under the national consti tution of the American Legion, candi dates for paid, elective public office cannot be officers of the Legion. Mr. Scrugham was formerly nation al vice commander of the Legion. He was commander of the service men’s organization In Nevada froiii May, 1910, until August - , lO’JO. He was chairman of a special committee that drew up the Legion four-fold plan for adjusted compensation, which was la- I tea embodied In the Fonlney MIL He was bom in Lexington, Ky.. Jan- > uary 19, 18M0. He was graduated from the State university of Kentucky In [ 1900 and received a degree In niechanl- • ml engineering In 1906. Mr. Scrug- ' ham was professor of mechanical en gineering from UNO to 1914 and dean since 1914 of the engineering college j of the University of Nevada. He was engineer In 1917. raaMnlaataned a major of Ilecemher. 1917. sad aa- lbs VVqr tners it Mothmh Writ* for 32- 7 Page Booklet “Mothers of the World" Pat. 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White Arn*w told them where K -•Tomsrrow,” Said th# Old Chiaf, “They Shall HW" * they ceohl find a Seer, a hear, n buf falo and an elk. and be Mowed eight ballets la the palm of hit band And he net ad new that the Indian girt wan always an intent ebeerver ef each csw tent, gad that tm ntwaya weat rwtfUy bark te bpr teal m ten Me- Seeds te Shr wksse we^sa nwhia TW* wan a f “bot | hofar SA«tr We t> ttrvry « fit drink and I ger. “When yon tried to i remeiulter whs* I aaldf ded r«>nlefii|it u»n*ly. “Well, I re|>CMt !t. Whatever the aide. I'll fight y<>« anywUere at uny time and In irn; way you plense.” “Why not now T* “This Is not the time for private quarrels and you know It." Erskine hohred slightly—an act that came oddly from an Indian head dress. • “I can wflt—and I shall not forget. The day will come.” The old priest touched Erskine’* shoulder tls the artgry youth rode away. - . “I canr.ot make It out," he said. “He claims to represent an English fur company. His talk is British, hut be told one man—last night when he was drunk—that he could have a commis sion in the American army." Ths — council tire was built, the crackled and the smoke rolled upward and swept through the leafless trees. * Three British agents sat on blankets, and around them tire chiefs -were ringed.—411 d<*y Hip powwow lasted. , Each agent spoke and the bur den of his talk varied very little. The American palefaces had driven the Indian over the great wall. They were killing his deer, buffalo and elk, jobbing him of his land and pushing him ever backward. They were many and they would become more. The British were the Indian’s friends— the Americans were his enemies and theirs; could thej chooae to fight with their enemies rather than with their friends? Each chief answered hi turn, and each cast forward bis wrampom until only Erskine, who had sat silelit. I remained, and Pontiac htqaaPlf turned “What aays the non of KahtooT* Kim no bn roan, the lad «<* creep- tag to tho eater ring hia eanaj Crook *d I tghtniac hat bo appeared not to ' ana. Tho ahttea toofead aarprioed *baa ’ hi* haft# igwe Hand Mrpi#t. aad I ihqp wa*w anaaand whan bn abdeaaaod ftp amkwn ip Ptuac^ apaffn M te ft HI • that - V* «-lf np. ami In a hall of bullets swept <»ut of stghL CHAPTER IX. 10 The Bound • t purstiP soon died away, but Erskine k*ept Firefly at hia beet, for he knew that Crooked Light ning would be quick and fast on his trull. He guessed, too, that (’rooked Lightning had already told the tribe what he had just told the council, and that be and the prophet had already made -all use of the boy’s threat to Kahtoo in tin*. Shawnee town. He knew even that it might cost him his life if lie went hack there, and once or twice he started to turn through the wilderness and go back to the fort. If was the thought of the white woman who was to be burned that kept him going ami sent him openly and fear lessly 4nto the town. He knew from the sullen looks that uiet him, from the fear in the faces of his foster- mother nnd the white woman who peered blindly from her lodge, nnd from the triumphant leer of the ptvipkid that Ins every suspicion waa trpe, but aB t^e more leisurely did he swing from his Jhorse, all tlie more haughtily stalk to Kahtoo’s tent. And the old chief looked very grnve..when the lad told the story of the^ council and all that he had said and done. ., 'The people are angry. They. say you are a traitor and a spy. They say you must die. And I cannot help you I am too old and the prophet is to< strong.’’ - “And the white woman T’ count r**r point*: marct of Inatruromt Mr. Hoehler la rf * the New Orb American Federal nerved a* a band Isb-Ainertcun nnd 1' liointH a former ana bran on of Mu: leader in World war* and 01 the Mexican border. * During the World war be wa* senior band tuns ter of the Thirty-first divlalon. “They thought you'd turned Injun agin," ha aaid, “but lt*a all right nnw.“ The Private’* Dilemma. I’d like to be a corpril and with the cor- prils stand, A chevron on my coat sleeve and a war rant in my hand, ♦ • But when 1 think it over all my hope |f> gloom descends. I’d like to be a corpril—but I’d rather have my friends. • The private marches dumbly—this way, that way, what’s the odds? * While the corpril Joins the shouting whew the order’s “RlglU by squads!” . • But when the drill is over then the qor- pril’s glory ends, Oh, I’d like to be a corpril—but I'd rather have my friends. The extra pay comes handy and the chev ron makes one proud. But lt’« W’flb *0 be a nonepm when your heart is with the crowd. To persecute your buddies with commands , the captain sends. Yes, I’d like to be a corpril^but I’d rather have my friends! —Gleason Peftse, tn American Legion Weekly. CTO UK OOiruXL'KD) Unci* theft. ■ 1fc*r atmt wo Mtriua Uf w»f tom ’ f«4A«* swig I nrte Kh—. ”1 roUoi 1 Hmrud f*inAJnf'n ubviub t* I nee m van ftMMT tin km m eM W md mm 4m b 9 a mmt m Mn mb Whaddya Mean, Hard Luck? The colonel had heard of two recent disasters In the family of his colored orderly and was surprised to find him apparently as cheerful M ever when he returned to duty after a brief fur lough home. “Well. 8am.’* sold the colonel gym- patbeticgll), T hear you have had | nome bard luck." “What, wo. Mil? Noaeoh, Ah ala j had no fcahd luck. - I . “Why, wasn’t that fomr heather wha l waa kitted w a rndrand wrark recet tg and wa atfT that ymm vtfn tint wan { bait w an M&BBaMe > nriBrn* f* •OB. MMsfe MtnMh—*hl 4otw To Memory of 1812 Warrior*. the heroes of 1S12 were decorated Hit Legion^} JLondon post held dedication ceremonies at Brookwood cemetery, 3C miles outside of London, where 45C American dead of the World war lie buried. * Xlarryinff On With the pfSjg-htj! i Tha Mao Claaad In. “Tour window exhibit of hathlac suit* worn by live models made a Mt. I hear." “It waa poor bn*lneaa, M replied th# merchant. gbH*roliy. “Our object wan to aell the suits to women. No wononW got within forty f«*t of thst window.** Birmingham Age-Hernld. ■ “ ■ Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION American Legion After spending two years in collect ing funds for a clubhouse the Ameri can Legion post at Mangutn, Okla., do elded the kiddles of the town needed a playground more than the formei service men did a clubhouse Tht post acquired an eight-year lease to a tract of land and will Improve It and provide the children with equipment, a a a The American Legion Auxiliary na Hons I headquarters in Indlanapoli! Is trying to locate tha greatest _jra» mother in Am«*r1« *-thalln, the mothei who had tha largest nansber af In anrutafc'v oaa fndUaa rommmatt) ban a ■iNhar who had seven naan Is the World war; an >*n >n« tha a nlhaij wma>s dsttausty whaM In AnssettB b ihn waanga aha haa tha bmbv el BftUf