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: : I Carolyn ; j of the : I Corners ! RUTH BELMORE END1COTT (Coprrlkfc 1911. fcr ro.w. Mm Contr, Ix ) CHAPTER XII. lomethlng Carolyn May Withes ta Know. Carolyn May's In-art wan filled with rouhle. TIiIh wan the result of her llrxt tolk rlth the old sailor. -Not from htm. nor rom anylMKly else, did Carolyn Mav n any direct Information thut th nllor had been uhoard the Dunraveu In her fatal voyage. But his story woke In the child's breast doubts nod icing", uncertainties and desires that ml lain dormant for many weeks. i i- Joe and Aunty Kose loved ii -r Ind were kind to her. But that fe - kg of "einptlneaa" that had at first so touMi-d Carolyn May was returning. Si began to droop. Keen-eyed Limit Hose discovered this physical hm.K- very quickly. "She's Just like a droopy chicken." clured the good woman, "and. good- knows, I have set-n enough of Bern. So, as a stimulant and a preventive iliiKiplness," Aunty Hose prescribed kneset ten, "plenty of It" Three times a day Carolyn May was heil lth boneset fen. How loug the ihl - stomach would have endured idir this treatment will never h knwn. Laroiyn May got no netter, lal wai Mire; but one day something Ippmed. winter had moved on in Its uxual pi-iv and snowy way. Carolyn May id kept up all her Interests after a I union. Benjamla Hardy had gone to Adams' liii to work. It seemed he could us. leery, or canthook, pretty well, lmv- : done xomethlng besides sailing la i Mny. Tim, the hackimm, worked at King In the winter months, too. Ms lull wen! past the StagK place with earn four times each day. riu-re was MMMtMOg Carolyn May Klii'l to ask Itenjamln Hardy, l-nt dlil not want iiiivUk'v alt ft l.now it H was not even UfstM .'m- 01 inly Hose, i nice in tne ihii nu.i ns the snow -itme she hail rlijih.n as is Adams' camp with Mr. I'nnow. bad ttnne there for some hickory ml. But. now, to ride on the empty sled Im.- In and on top of the load of logs Ing out of the forest, Carolyn May sure, would he much more exciting . mentioned ner uesire to uncie ju a I'rlday evening. "Well. now. If It's pleasant, I don't tnythlng to forbid. Io you. Aunty ee: Mr. tstagg returned. PI presume Tim will take the best of h- of her," the woman said. "Maybe, ting out more In the air will make look less peaked, Joseph Staff." Die exi-ttement of prepuring to go the camp the nest morning brought rosea Into Carolyn May's cheek made her eyes sparkle. When ki, the hackroan, went Into town fai til first load he was forewarned Aunty Hose that be would have bpuny going back. 't'l-her'ejf George Washington!" ex- led Tta. "The boys will near 'bout holiday." Vre was but ono woman In the Judy Mason. She lived in one Ihe log huta with her husband. He a sawyer, and Judy did the men's ihing. enjamln Hardy was pleased, in to see his little friend again. ou come with me, please," she ! i- l to the old seaman after din- "You can smoke. Ton haven't t go back to work yet, ami 11m nit lust loading his sieo. nj f in Ik." aye. little miss. What'll we nhoiit?" queried Henjamln cau- H for he remembered that lie to he very circumspect in bis con- mion with her. nnt you to tell me something, ' niii," she said. Inn ahead, mntev." he roMiM.nneu ipparent hearllneMM, flllliig his meanwhile. i hy, Iteii.lamln DU must know, know, for you've been to sen so llenjainlii. I want to know ir it much to be drownd !?" Inns much'" gasped the old sea- i sir. Do people that gel liMl-ed feel much niilnV Is It a sut w ny to die? I want to know, imlu, 'cause my pupa and uiuiiiimi that way," continued the child, i I a little. "It does seem lis I'd Just got to know." nye," muttered the limn. "I Au' I kin toll ye, Cur'lyu May, a anybody kin. I've I " honlu' myself Unit they tboUKhl i ilnnl when 1 was liuiileil Inlioinil in' buck from drowiilufl Is ' lot worse than iifin' drowi rdi lake ll from mo." I'll," sighed Cnrolyii Aln.v, l.now that. It's bothered ! to be dead, mayba that waa the nicest way for them to go." Blnce Joseph Btngg had listened to the rninlillnir i.,i.. ,.r ,... ., . -7 - minor rcgnra- Inf the sinking of the Dunravcn. he """ ,,rnp "e fnte of his sister and her husband much In mind. He had come no nearer to deciding what to do with the apartment In New York and Its furnishings. After listening to Renjamln Hardy's story, the hardware dealer felt less In clined titan before to cioae up the af fairs of Carolyn May'a email "estate.". Not that he for a, moment believed that there waa a possibility of Hannah and net husband being alive. Five months had passed. In these days of wireless telegraph and fast sea traffic such a thing could not be Possible. The linsa-l. nation of the practical hardware mcr-! chant could not visualise It. One day when Carolyn May was vis iting Mrs. Qormley diet burst In quite ; unexpectedly, for It WM not yet mid-1 afternoon. "Mr. Ktagg has let me off to take Carolyn May slldln'. The Ice nln't goln' to be safe In the cove for long now. Spring's In the air o'reudy. Both brooks ure runnln' full." Carolyn May waa dellsbtpd Al. though the sky was overctist and a Mom threatening when liiey got down, on the Ice, neither the boy nor the lit tle girl gave the weather n second thought. Nor had Mr. Stagg consid ered the weather when he had allowed Chet to leave the store thut ufternoon. diet strapped on his skates, and then settled the little girl firmly on ber aled, with I'rlnce riding behind. The boy harnessed himself with the long tow-rope and skuted nwuy from the shore, dragging the sled after him at a brisk pace. "Oh. my!" squealed Carolyn May, "there Isn't anybody else on the Ice." "We won't run Into nobody, then." laughed the boy. It was too misty outside the covo to ee the open water; but It win there, and Chet knew It as well us anybody. "I've Been So Near Drownln' Myself, That They Thought I Was Dead When I Was Hauled Inboard. He had no Intention of taking an;: risks especially with Carolyn May Ir bis charge. The wind 1-lrw out of tin cove, too Ai they drew nwuy from Hie shelter of the land they felt Its strength. Naturally, neither the l-o.y nor the little girl and surely not the dog -looked buck toward the land. Other wise, they would have seen the snow flurry that swept down over the tewt: and quickly bid it from the iovc. Chet vns skating his very swiftest. Carolyn .May wus screaming with de ileht. I'rlnce burked Joyfully. And. suddenly. In u sunt ling fnslilon, they einne to a fissure In the Ice! The I-o.v thirted tO one Mile, Iici led on his right skate, and stopped. Ib bad Jerked the sled aside, too, yelling to Carolyn May to "hold fust !" But I'rlnce was flung from It, and scram bled over the Ice, barking loudly. "Oh, deur me I" cried Carolyn May. "You stopped too quick, Chet Oorm ley. Goodness 1 There's a hole In the Ice I" "And I didn't see It till we was al most In It," acknowledged Chet. "It's more'n a' hole. Why! there's u great field of lee broke off und sullln' out Into Hie lake." "Oh, my!" gasped (he little girl. The hoy knew at once that he must be direful In making his way home with the little glil. Having s en one great fissure In the ice, he might conic upon another, it seemed to hlra us though the Ice under his feet was In motion. In the distance was the sound of i reverberating crash that could mean bill one thing. The Ice In the cove was breaking up! The wati rs of tin- two brooks ware pourtng down Into Ihe rove. Spring had really come, and the nniiiial freshet was likelv now t-i force the Ice entirely o-,.t oi the cove and open I In way for truffle in ii tow hour CHAPTER XIII. The Chapel Bell. If Joseph Bjuiu imd obeyed the pre (.pi of bis little niece on this tuirtl n-I;,,- ojterni on und bud ban "looking lip," Instead of having his hum- In IUO. big ledger, mnklng oul monthly state ments, In- mlghl have discovered Urn coining 1 1";'" l" ' :'-"" '" withdraw ,,N ppnuji ;"" '"' Uhel i" take '""' ln May oul on Lba Ice. )t ,., , ii-h enough In Iho II,, I,. , .,, i ,in. In winter for tile hiiid- wim, ,i nh i- to hnvi ii lamp burnlui . ; ' I,,. Hid m.t notice the snow flurri thtit lK,d t-ii.ui Bunrlse Cwo In Its inns until he chanced to waKc out to tne rront of the store for needed exercise. "I declare to man, It's snowing I" muttered Joseph Stagg. "Thought we'd got through with thut for this season." He opened the store door. There was a chill, dummy wind, and the snow was damp and packed quickly under foot "Hum I If that Chet Oorraley were here now, he might he of some use for once," thought Mr. Stagg. Suddenly he bethought him of the errand that had taken the boy away from the store. "Hey, Stagg!" shouted a shopkeeper from over the way, who had likewise come to the door, "did you hear that?" "Hear what 7" asked Joseph Stagg, puzrjed, "There she goes again I That's Ice, old iimn. She's breaking up. We'll have spring with us In no time now," The reverberating crash that had startled Chat Qormbjy had sturtled Jo seph Stngg as well. "My goodness !" gasped the hard ware denier, and he started Instantly uwny from the store, bareheaded as he was, without locking the door behind him something he had never done be fore, since he hud established himself In business on the main street of Sun rise Cove. Just why he rim he could scarcely have explained. Of course, the chil dren hud not gone out In this snow storm ! Mrs. Oormley little sense as Where's That Plagued Boy?" lie believed the seamstress possessed would not have allowed them to ven ture. Yet, why had Chet not returned? lie ipiii hem d Ills pace, He was rtin t.ing slipping and sliding over the we! nowwhen he turned into tin- street on which his store boy und bis wid owed mother lived. Mm, (loriuley saw- him coming from the Windows, of the tiny front room. Mr. Stagg plunged Into the little bouse, beail down, and belligerent. "Where's thut plagued boy?" he de iiiiiniled. "Don'l tell mi? he's taken Hannah's Cur'lvn out on the cove In this storm !" "But you told him lie could P trailed the widow. "What if 1 did? I didn't know 'tWBJ going to .--now like this, did I?" "But It wasn't snowlu' when they went," said Mrs. Oormley, plucking up noiue little spirit. "I'm sure It wiisn t betwood's fault. Oh, dear!" "Woman," gntnncd Joseph Stagg, "It dussp't matter whose fault It ls or If It's unybody's fault. The mischief's done. The Ice Is breaking up. It's drifting out of the Inlet." Just at this moment nn unexpected voice broke Into the dlscusstdti. "Are you positive they went out on the ve tO slide, Mrs. Oormley?" "Oh, yes, I be. Mainly," answered the seamstress. "Chet said be was goln' there, and whut Chet suys he'll do, he always does." "Then the Ice has broken nwuy and they have been carried out Into the lake," groaned Mr. Stagg. Mainly 1'nrlow came quickly to the little hall. "Perhaps not Joseph." she ssld, speaking directly to the hardware deal er. "It may be the storm. It snows so fast they would easily get turned around be unable to ..rid the shore." Another reverberating rash echoed from the cove. Mrs. Oormley wrung her bunds. "Oh, my (liel! Oh, my Chet I" she walled. "He'll be drowned I" "He won't be, If he's got any sense," napped Mr. Stagg. "I'M get some men and we'll go lifter Ihcin." "Call the dog, Joseph Stagg. Call the dog," advised Miss Amanda, "liehv Didn't Prince go with 'em 7" "Oh, yes, he did," walled Mrs. (iorui ley. "Call the dog, Just the same," re pented Aniiinda Parlow. "Prince will hcur you and bark." "(lod bless you! So he will," cried Mr. Stagg. You've got more sense limn any of ns. Mandy. " "Anil I'll have the chapel bell rung," she nild. "Kuii! whir's thut for?" The wind will carry the sound out across Iho cove. The boy, ciu-t, will rocognlM ihe sound of the pall and it will five him iiu Idea of uhcie home Is." "Ynu do heal nil!" exclaimed Joseph lltlil to leave the lioll-r. Find n cap i f Chefs, Mrs, Dorm- I, y," in I Ii !. "Don'l you boa mV. Si o no hut? He'll catch nil Id." i:y, i iii vet thouuhl '" lb- turned i . t peuh directly to Ml - Amanda, but ph I,! i i tit) I ueV Into II"- nioiji und 0 " was putting on her outer wraps. Mrs. Oormley, red-eyed and weeping, brought the cap. Mr. Stnpg plunged down the steps and kept on down the hill to the water front. There was nn entlng-plnce here where the waterside characters congre gated, and Mr. Stngg pat. his head in ut the door. "Some of you fellers come out with me on the Ice and look for a little flrl and a boy und a dog," sahl Mr. Stagg. "Like enough, they're lost In this storm. And the Ice Is going out." They all rushed otot of the eating bouse and down to the nearest dock. Even the cook went for he chanced to know Carolyn May. "And let me tell you, she's one rare little kid," he declared, out of Mr. Stage's hearlri:. "How she come to be related to that hard us nulls Joe Stagg is a pur.zler." The hardware dealer might deserve this title In ordinary times, but this was one occasion when he plainly dis played emotion. Hannah's Cnr'lyn, the little child he had learned to love, wus somewhere on the Ice In the driving storm. He would have rushed blindly out on the rotten Ice, hurehanded and alone, had the others nnt halted him. Joseph Stagg stood on the dock and shouted at the top of his veice: 'Trlncel Prince I Prince I" The wind must have carried his voice a long way out across the cove, but titer" was 30 reply (Te eoftiftttivdi DAIRY PROBLEMS ARE COMPLEX Consumers Are Counselled Not To Decrease Use of Milk Nor Complain of Prices. "Unless means are quickly found to remedy conditions existing In the dairy Industry as well as In other classes of llvcKtoek. serious menace to both industries -which are allied -may be forecast." This Is the hint- meat of Assistant Federal Food Administrator, W. K. Ml vvoll. "With the dairymen selling their businesses as fast as thoy arc able to dad purchasers.' said Mr. Newell. - ith an Increas: ig volume of sales of heavy calves, both male and female, anil with alnady a world's rhortago of heir, the outlook for future supplies Is not as rosy u-i t in: might wish. "It has in 1:1 charfod In some quarters that the price of milk and Otln r products of Ihe ilnlr.. have ln-ui all I ;!e.l to such au ex Mil at u!l Pacific northwest points thai the dairy Interests shoo! I bs maaini profit and wall satisfied with tlu-ir lot Taking only Uia rota I prtee as n basis that whnli most vitally alfects the consumer the pr.ee -f milk toduy in Portland i;t lie per quart. 'Kvcn with normal l.rlces milk Is gene-ally soil rOtS'.i at 10 cents a quart here, therefnre the advance is not nearly as marked an In many other lines of foodstuffs. "The duirman toilav is paying more than double the tragi -i of normal years fir hit hired help. Ha Is Paying more than double for bin reiiulrements of hay and a very considerable advance over the normal for h.s bran and ohorts. "The com of milk cans and other dairy uteutils is pra'lically double the normal. The cost of bottles has soared to such helghtn ns to make one dizy to think of It. The ci hi of producing milk i-.iluy Is therefore more than double that of normal p riods even without considering the fact that this has been a very abnormal season and the production of milk and cream per cow Is fur below the normal. "I,aws enacted during the last few years force the dairyman to add to his costs as a matter of cleanliness. The puii 1 1 c Is no longer willing to tolerate the quality of milk generally marketed a few years ago. All of this costs money and the dairyman has been paying It while the full charges have not been passed back to the consumer. "It has of times been said that a man very seldom quits a business where liberal profits are available. The fact that so many dairymen are quitting that they are not making adequate thut they are not making ailaquate profits if any at all. "The killing of dairy calves during the present season has broken all records simply becuuse the country producer could not afford to feed them to maturity. Suggestion bus been made in some quarters that the k 1 11 lnf of female calves be prohibited by l:v-. This would Indeed aolvo the prob lem providing some means were found to feed and keep the animals. "Dairy experts have for year. preached the gospel of 'getting rid of the stur boarder'--the cow that doss ut pay her expense, That Is the situation just novs . Few are paying their board and there Is no improve ini nt of the situation in prospect. "Similar conditions may he spoken nf In regard to the future of the beef supply, owing to tho shortage and ei tr me price of feed more light weight und unfinished cuttle have bet 11 marketed in the stuck) -mis of the eountry during the msl twp iai tli a 1 i mt before knnui. The country caum ' afford to feed its eaHM 81 n at the pn ienl price of bai I and thi in market Is therefore at 01 in ii.i t the got 1 mini n( has re i- mtly n qui sted I bat the publli pur hi u hi an'.m .Is 1 : : mil I b 1 ma) .. tod , 1 r-:. . . - .-: Aa cd animals that are today coming to market weighing around 600 to 1,000 pounds, would have showed a weight of at least a third more If allowed to fatten properly. This means an enormous loss in the meat supply for the future a loss that the country can ill afford to contemplate." "Why not have milkmaids now a days?" someone asks. There is a cry that the labor conditions art In a bad way as far as the dairies are concern ed'. The men hare gone to war or Into other work and the cows are being killed off because there is .no one to miTk them. "What Is going to become of the children of this oountry if that foes on?" is the question asked. Some of the girls who are not exactly fascinated by the thought of washing windows, running elevators and carry ing mall are looking toward the dairies. They won't wear the costumes seen In light opera but they'll bo quite sen sible In heavy hoots and coveralls and they'll save the day. Here's to the milkmaid of modern days. The 1918 food reserve is the only safe Insurance for 1919 food supplies. Conservation is the All-American Job an army of four million soldiarB must be fed from this year's crop. "There is no substitute for milk as a food for growth. Portland mothers should make a drive on father's purse to the ixtent of ope quart of milk per day for every child." Oregon League Dairyman. OUR WORK STICKS If you just want your car patched up. why most any tinker can satisfy you. If you want it REPAIRED, remade, built up to full auto efficiency, bring it to us. We Don't Have To Do Oar Work Twice -It Sticks When we give your car the once over and turn it out for service, you can bet your life it's "FIT" -in shape to give you satisfactory service. The longer our work sticks, the bigger adveatise ment it is for us. That's one reason wc take pains. And then, we like to do the square thing. We Solicit, Your Patronage Roy C. Moullen, Mgr.. Repair Department Hampshire's Garage The Brunswick at The WELCOME PHARMACY Cme in and see them and hear their beautiful violin like tone They play any Disc Record made The price is within the reach of all On display and being demonstrated at the WELCOME PHARMACY The Plumber Our Specialty Plumbing, Sheet Metal Work, Repairing Agents for Ihe I)e I aval Dairy Supplies Paint, Oil Limited Supply Ammunition Ecoromy Fruit Jars at Right Prices THE BURNS HARDWARE COMPANY In cur new building opposite Lampshire's garage ALL AND INSPECT kT BEEF AND BRAWN In the month of June, 1918. wn exported to France, Great. Britata. 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