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grabbers don't seem to reckon on, Now there's a good quarter, Jack. Thia coulee will give shelter for your stock In raw weather, an' there's a bench looks as though It was put there for your little house. There's light tim THE JOB AND THE MAN ber to the north, fit for fuel an' build F. A. Walker ing. within 13 miles, an' there'll be neighbors here before the summer's VERY man and woman should over, or I'm no prophet What do you have a budget. There should be say ?” "The quarter suits me." said Har a businesslike apportionment, of what Author of -M ris. "And the adjoining quarter Is jou eurn, to your needs and your The Cow’ RincherTta. good stuff, too. 1 can take pre-emp tastes. You will have to ns«ign so much to tion right on that. But there's Just Ill u ft ntli on j £ one thing Um In doubt about. How rent. It used to be I'm going to square It with you for the the ordinary income. Copyri^it. All Rigfib Reserved service you have given. My cash is more. » Building a little Eden In this wllder- getting low, and----- ” There will have to be nn allowance ness. I'll warrant. Tell them to put "Don't worry about that. for f<M»<i and clothing, for the doctor ALEC M’CRAE. another name in the pot, an’ a hungry ally size up my customer an' bill him and the dentist, for amusement and name at that, I haven't seen a white accordingly. If he has lots of money, pleasure, for necessary travel and for Synopsis.—Dlssat'sHed because of* the seemingly barren outlook of his ♦ woman’s meal I don't know w hen.” an’ seems likely to part with It fool unnecessary extravagances, for we all position as a school teacher in a ? The friends gathered about the old- ishly, I put as much of it as I can In have our extravagances. Canadian town. John Harris deter-1 timer, plying hlm with questions. safe keeping. But there Isn’t any All these things will be promptly mines to leave it, taks up land in * which he answered or discussed until money fee as far as you're concerned. listed und thoroughly looked after. Manitoba and become a “home- i etoa der.“ Mary, the girl whom he? the meal was over, holding his own Fact is, I kinda figure on trading this We shall pnd.aldy >>•* particularly lib declares she accompany J business quietly in the background. bill out with you. I expect to be rov eral with those items which menn the him. They ar« married and set out * But with supper ended, his pipe In his ing this country, east an' west, for least in the sum total of humitn hap- for the unknown country. Alec Me-♦ teeth and his feet resting comfortably some years to come, an' I've a little piness. Crae, pioneer settler and adviser ot ♦ newcomers, proves an Invaluable J in the oven, he broached his subject policy of establishing depots here an' The Inst thing that will bo thought friend. leaving his wife with the I “Heady for the road in the morn- there—places where I can drop in for about, nnd the most scanty allowance family of a fellow Mttler, Fred Ar-f in. Jack? Don't want to break up a square meal nn’ a sleep an' a bit of will be made for It, will be the «level- thurs. Harris and McCrae journey f your little honeymoon. y’ know, but western hospitality. Places, too. If iqnuent and betterment of our mind.«. over the prairie and select a home- T stead. Mary Insists on accompanying I the month Is wearing on. Nothing but you like, where there are men to say him when ho takes possession. • horseback for It now. an’ they do say a good won! for Aleck McCrae. How s How much money did you spend last the settlers are crowding up some that suit you?" year on worth while books—books you tiling wonderful. The best land's Harris took his friend's hand In a ■ re keeping to read a second time— CHAPTER II—Continued. lug fast. Most of them will hold up warm grip. He rightly guessed that books that add«*d to your wisdom or now, with the roads breaking, but by McCrae was not bartering his services Darkness was settling down—dark slipping out on our horses we can Io for hospitality, but was making It gave you something valuable to think ness of the seventh night tinea their eate an’ file before the real spring easy for Harris to accept them by ap- about ? How much time dl«J you spend In departure from Emerson—when, like rush opens. You should get some pearing to bargain for a service In re » mole on the face of the plain, a lit kind of shelter up before the frost is turn. So they shook hands together filling your mentnl storehouse with tle gray lump grew on the horizon. out of the ground, so's to lose no time on the side of the bank overlooking facts useful In dully life and valuable ¡Jllllllllllllllllllllllilllltllllllllllllllllllll In your dally work? Arthurs rose in his sleigh and waved from plowing once the spring opens." the little coulee, and as they looked Did you spend as much for Informa = THE GIRL ON THE JOB his fur cap in the air; Harris sent Harris needed no urging, and in the In each other's eyes Harris realized back an answering cheer. Slowly the early morning the two men. with blan for the first time that McCrae was tloo as you did for gasoline? If you were to add together all the * z How to Succeed—How to Get mole grew until in the gathering shad- kets and provisions, started out on still a young man. A sense of com IMe whan w« may. I want It Mid of »ws it took on indistinctly the shape horseback for the still farther west. radeship came over him—a feeling time you spent giiinlng knowledge. E Ahead—How to Make Good E ma. by thOM who knaw me bast, that of a building, and just as the rising Harris soon found that more Judgment that this man was more of a brother would it be half the time that you i By JESSIE ROBERTS I always plucked a thistle and planted a moon crested the ridge of the Pembi was required In the selection of a than a father. With admiring eyes spent dancing? dower whan 1 thought a Hower would niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiD na hills the travelers swung up at the prairie farm than he had supposed, he looked on McCrae’s fine face, his grow.-Lincoln, Do you consider that MONEY Is the door. Arthurs walked unerringly to a and he congratulated himself upon broad shoulders, his wonderful phy THE WOMAN ’ S CLUB nail on the wall and took down a lan having fallen in with so experienced a sique, and the question he asked only thing you spend? WHAT TO HAVE FOR DINNER. TIME Is your much greater asset. tern: Its dull flame drove the mist plainsman as McCrae. HE importance for the bunlneM sprang from his lips before he could You caa earn more money. slowly down the glass, and presently A foreign pie, which Is most savory, or professional woman of be “This is good enough for me,” said arrest It You cannot, with all the wealth of the light was beating back from the Harris at length, as their horses crest “Why don't you get married. Mac?” all the universe. In all the ages, buy longing to a club Is a real one. Wom Is one which will be often used after glistening frost which sparkled on ev ed a little elevation from which the “Who. me?" said McCrae, laughing; one minute of time nor bring back for en’s work both in buslne*«« and the the first trial; It Is ery log of the little room. French Meat Pia, prairie stretched away in all direc but Harris detected a tone In his another and a better use a wasted professions la still in a fluid condition. “Well, here we are in Hungry Hall,” tions. smooth as a table. “Isn’t it mag- voice that was not al! happiness, and Cut up fresh pork In small pieces Changes are in progress, new stand hour. said Arthurs. “Everything just as I and the same amount of veal, brown in the thought came to him that Mc Lord Brougham, a mnn who spent ards are being established, and the left it.” Then, turning to his wife. Crae’s craving for hospitality -might his time wisely and profitably, wrote ■ff“<t of tb«» vote Is being felt. T« a little hot fat and turn Into a lined “Come. Lil,” he said. “Jack, perhaps pastry shell. Cover ns for ordinary root deeper than he supposed. down this short sentence filled with get the benefit of these changes, a you have an engagement of your own.” “It's a long ride to the land office," good advice: "Read something of woman needs to know what is being pie with a top crust and bake slowly He took his wife in a passionate em continued McCrae, “an’ you can’t file a everything, and everything of some- lone In her special neighborhood and In a moderate oven. Of course the sea brace and planted a fervent kiss upon minute too soon. We’d better find a thing.” by her group of workers. There is no sonings are addict during the browning. her lips, while Harris followed his ex comer post an’ make sure of the num There Is no excuse for any man. better way of doing this than by Join ample. Then they sat down on the Roait Veal au Jut. ber of this section, an’ put ns much woman or child past twelve years ing a club, es|H*«'lally n club nfiillate«! boxes that served for chairs, amid a road behind us as we can tonight” Season a fillet of veal with salt, with the Federation of Business and spending less than half an hour a day happiness too deep for words. » • • pepper and put In a pan with a place After filing at the land office Harris with a good book. Professional Women's clubs. So the minutes passed, until Mr«. Ar- returned nt once to the Arthurs' home- It Is not only the direct contact of butter, a carrot, buy h»af and n Heading carefully nnd THOUGHT- thurs sprang to her feet “Why. stend. The news that the Harrises FULLY you will cover not less than 130 with other women working In your clove. Put Into n double roaster and Mary,” she exclaimed, “I do believe were to be neighbors within 40 miles words a minute. That Is 4.500 words own field that benefits you In such bnke In a moderate oven two nnd one- you’re crying,” while the moisture was received with enthusiasm by both a day. ONE MILLION SIX HUN 1 club, but the contact with women half houra. Remove the meat to ■ glistened on her own cheek. “Now, Fred nnd Lilian Arthurs. But Har- DRED AND FORTY TWO THOU- n other branches. With that comes u platter. Put a little water In the pan you men. clear out I I suppose you rls wns now consumed with a burning SAND WORDS A YEAH. How much widening of opportunity. The woninn and simmer for live minutes. Strain think the horses will stable them energy; he allowed himself only a wiser do you think you would be If lot happy In her work can often find and pour the gravy, unthickened. selves? Yes, I see you have the box precious half day at the home of the you did that for only one year? «nother opening through her club ac- nruund the meat. full of wood, Fred. That’s not so bad Arthurses, bade his wife nn affectlon- juaintances and club activities. She for a start. Leave some matches, and ate farewell, and, with a cheery good- Clnclnnatl Chicken, Knowledge is the freest, the most In s constantly aware of what Is going Bay, you might Just get our boxes in Split length wise, a (Mirk tenderloin, by to the warm friends on the home expensive thing In the world, and »n. mid she sees w bat Is being done here. Remember we’ve lived in these stead, he was away down the trail to think less of It than of anything else. iy other women. Together with theta leaving the halves Joined. Found the clothes for the best part of two Emerson. Stop making a pet of your stomach. «he can direct her effort to putting meat of each side until about one half weeks.” On arrival at Emerson one of the ■ through proposed schemes for better- Inch thick. Spread with the following Stop worrying about your clothes. The young men sprang to their task. first men he met was Tom Morrison. Bluffing: One cupful of bread ciumba, Give up some of the useless things ng the standing of women earners. and as soon as they were out of the The two pioneers shook hands warm upon which you spend and waste your one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, A good business club for women Is house the girls threw their arms about ly, nnd In a few words Harris told of time and your money. one-eighth of a tea«|>ooiiful of |>epj>er, in asset to any community. If there each other and wept like women to having selected his claim, waxing en Make up a budget of your earnings ! s no such club in your community, a slice of onion chopped, one tea spoon gether. It was only for a moment; a thusiastic over the locality in which and your hours that shall have In It ' <tart one. Get the other women to- ful each of chopped parsley, pickles, quick dash of the hand across the his lot was to be cast. a liberal allowance for your mind, for tefher, get In touch with the feder- capers nnd lemon Juice, nnd one ta- eyes, and both were busy removing “I must get out there myself,” said your intelligence, for your thinking itlon, and start your club. It will be blespoonful of minced olives. Mix In coats and wraps. The door opened, Morrison. in assistance to every business nnd to this one-fourth of n cupful of melted powers. and their “boxes,” as well as other “Do,” Harris urged, "There are butter and one beaten egg. Arrange professional woman In your town. What you have Inside your head equipment from the sleighs, were car- some other fine quarters In the nelgh- the stuffing so that It will keep the (Copyright ) L no robber can get, no Ponzi can trans tied in. and the men disappeared to —-------- o----------- borhood, and nothing would be better center nnd sew or tie the edges to fer to his pockets. Not even »Id age the little stable nt the back of the Isn’t It Magnificent! than to have you on one of them.” p gether so that it will resemble a plump can destroy It, nnd perhaps not even house. After several attempts the the Taking! The west-bound trip wns made In bird. Bake with careful busting, un girls succeeded in starting a fire in the FHE ROMANCE OF WORDS good time, although not without dlffi- death can take ft away from you. til well browned. Be generous with your mind. Feed rusted stove, and soon its grateful heat nlficent! And all free for the tak- culty at some points in the road, and It ts was radiating to every corner of the Ing !” “DUN." before the tenth of April Harris wns It. Nourish it. Fare Vo* »» Macaroon Pudding. It’s pretty to look at,' said Mc- room. back under the shelter of Arthurs’ the one part of you that really mat Soak one-dozen macaroons in one Crae, “ but I guess you didn't come ters, the one thing upon which you The house was built of poplar logs, IKE "boycott,” “Jazz,” “bun- roof. He was for pressing on alone In fourth of a cupful of currant Jelly hewed and dove-tailed at the corners west for scenery, did you?” and a number of the morning, but lie found that his should spend lavishly and continu and two tables|>oonfuls of lemon Juice; ously. “ Well, what ’ s the matter with it? with the skill of the Ontario woods- wife had made all her plans to ac other words which are now ac- set over hot water. Make u soft cus (Copyright ) man. It was about 12x16 feet In size, Look at that grass. If the soil wasn’t company him and would listen neither knowledged members of the tard of one pint of milk, one-fourth of all right it wouldn't grow native crops with collar-beams eight feet from the to persuasion nor reason. English family, “dun” had Ha a cupful of sugar, the beaten yolks of floor. The roof was of two thick- like that, would It?” origin in a man of that “But, Mary, there’s no house, and no Iwo eggs nnd one whole egg beaten. “The soil's all right,” answered Mc shelter, and no neighbors—nothing but nesses of elm boards, with tar paper certain John Dun, «Iio was con Flavor with almond extract. Add to between. The floor was of poplar Crae. “Nothing better anywhere, an’ sky and grass as far as you can see.' stable in Englund during the the custard four more macaroons, boards. The door was In the east you can plow 160 acres to every quar “All the more reason I should go,” early part of the lust century. heated in the oven until crisp, then Fide, near the southeast corner; the ter section. But this Is in the frost she answered. “If you have to rough, BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH Dun, as might be KUppos«*d, rolled into crumbs. Pour this mix stove stood about the center of the belt. Th< y get it every-August—some it in the open you at least deserve was a past master of his profes ture Into the serving dish, add the east wall. The only window was in times July. We’ve got to get further your meals cooked for you, and such sion, a Kiiccessful collector of macaroons nnd Jelly. Pile over them a the south ; six panes of 8x10 glass suf west yet. Into the higher land of the other help as a woman can give. I SUNRISE. debts. No Job was too hard for meringue, made from the two egg ficed for light. Through this window Turtle mountain slopes. I know there's really must be with you. I reqlly him to tackle, no debtors too whites and powdered sugar. Decorate another lantern shone back from the good stuff there that hasn't been tak- must, John, and you know—I'm go- OME folks run to sunsets, callous for him to prick their with cubes of jelly and brown In the en. ” darkness, and the flickering light from 1 Some folks run to noon, Ing.” oven. conscience or shame them Into And so they pressed on, until. In the stove danced in duplicate. A rough Some folks like the evenin' best, So at last he consented. The sup- payment In one way or another, the bright sunshine, the blue line of plies of provisions were Increased, and board table sat under the window; a With its »tars an' moon. One of the couktiible's pet Canned Apricots Frozen, box nailed in the southwest corner ev the Turtle mountain lay like a lake together they set out to wrestle their Sunsets may be purty. liemove the paper from a can of schemea was to call upon a on the western horizon. idently served as cupboard. No tools Noontime fair to see, fortunes from the wilderness. debtor twice, and on each of his choice apricots and pack the can In or movables of any value had been Many times in their explorations But the mornin’ I like most- On arrival at the homestead the Ice and salt, using equal mensures of first two visits he would wear left in the place, Arthurs having stored they passed over sections that Harris young wife Immediately gave evidence Sunrise time fer met his ordinary clothes. Then, if each. Let stand one half hour, then such effects with a neighbor, some would have accepted, but McCrae ob that she Intended to bear her full the debtor still refused to pay with a can opener cut round the top dozen miles away, lest they be stolen jected, finding always some flaw not share of the pioneer’s duties. A com Some folks like at twilight of the can one-half Inch below the and there was no doubt that ob from the cabin by some unscrupulous apparent to the untrained eye. At paratively dry spot was found among Jest to set an’ dream edge, take off the top and Invert the ligation should be met, Dun traveler during his absence. length they rode over a quarter where the little poplars, and here she built a Of the day thet’s dyln’ there can to remove the contents. Surround would adopt the st rut a gem of The days that followed were days McCrae turned his horse and rode tent with blankets and a bit of rag In the sunset gleam. with a pint of marshmallow cream. dressing In some outlandish cos of intense activity for both men and back again. Forward and back, for What's the use of cryin' carpet that came in most handy for I he nprlcots should not be frozen too tume—a scarlet clonk or a pair women. There was much to do. In ward and back, they rode the 160 acres, such purposes. Their stove was set Fer the day’s mistakes?— hard. of green tights - so as to make side and out. In the Interior of the until not a rood of it had escaped up, and although ft smoked stubborn Tm jewt lookin’ for the timo himself as conspicuous as pos little house an extraordinary change their scrutiny. On the southeast cor ly for lack of draught, it furnished When the sunrise breaks ! sible. Thus attired nnd ringing was wrought; simple draperies and ner a stream. In a ravine of some heat for cooking, and when Jack re a bell In order further to pro pictures relieved the bareness of the depth, cut off a triangle of a few (©. 1*21. W»»t«rn Newspaper Union.) An’, if all the mornin’s, turned from tethering the horses «he - ---------- o------------ claim the reason for his visit, he walls; shelves were built for the ac acres’ extent. Otherwise ft was prai All the days an' years, smell of frying ham and hot tea struck would return, and It was seldom commodation of many trinkets dear to rie sod, almost level, with yellow clay his nostrils. Bring me nothin’ thet I ask, that the debtor withstood more the feminine heart: a rag carpet cov lying at the badger holes. Down In Bring me only tears— “Well, that’s better than rustling for than one of these public an ered the center of the floor; plain but the ravine, where thfy had been shel myself, I will admit,” he said. When this life Is over, nouncements of his delinquency. appetizing dishes peeked enticingly tered from Are, were red willows. When my soul awakes, Because Constable Dun wns from behind the paper curtain that choke cherry hushes, and a few little I'll be lookin' to the east so successful in the collection now clothed the bare ribs of the cup poplars and birches; a winding pond Where the sunrise breaks! of money due It became common board : and a sense of homeliness per marked the course of the stream, (Copyright.) In such cases to say, “You'll vaded the atmosphere. which was running in considerable vol- have to send Dun for your mon A week had passed, and no sign of ume. Even as they stood on the bank 8wis* Blue Laws. life, other than that of the little party a great cracking’was heard, and huge ey” or “You'll have to Dun him It Is not only in New England that (TO BE CONTINUED.) Itself, had been seen about the Ar blocks of ice rose to the surface of to get it,” and the expression “blue laws” have prevailed. They thurs' homestead, when one day Har the pond. Some of these ns they rose persisted long after the con Holes in Plaster. were a part of the Calvanlst religion, ris' eyes already becoming keen to the turned partly on their edge, showing stable himself was dead and for Holes In painted or tinted walls can until even that religion was forced, prairie distances, espied a aark point two smooth sides. gotten. be filled with plaster of parls, but the in a measure, to compromise with the on the horizon. It grew slowly from (Copyright.) “Good !” exclaimed McCrae. “There’s contrast is often worse than the hole. times. In Geneva, In the Eighteenth a point to a spot, from a spot to an some depth of water there. That pond The coloring used in washing waists century, people had to rise at five Ó object, nnd at length was defined as hasn’t frozen solid, or the Ice wouldn’t can be used in mixing the plaster of o’clock In summer and six In winter, o a man on horseback. Presently Aleck come up like that. That means water parts until the wall color Is reached, under penalty of a fine; they were al The present year marks the four McCrae drew up at the door. all winter for stock, independent of and there will be no strong contrast lowed but two dlRhes at their tables; inndredth anniversary of the death of “Hello, farmers,” he cried, “how your well—a mighty important consid to call attention to the spot.—Mc and not more than one fire was Al Ponce de Leon, the discoverer of Flor- goes the battle? An' the good wives? eration, which a lot of these land- Call's. da. lowed In a house. HoiRL&sje a der [BokrtKftwl Something to Think About Rv E 1 THE WOODS
