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A B o o k , a U n n n o c k , a n ti a B a d . ) i m iii'in .I.,, tru lg h t t o I in' I " " . « I n i rim liil i l a l i . - n f li'k't mid j i i > i •••< I « n i l hi . i i " . f it arii I ii st tlit' « I i ' mci I linin' H illy I . i .iii i * lii'i'.i lf w ilt ' l l ' I'l l I ' l Ilk till* M l l l l i n f Hill i W IHIll w nil Ii 1 tut \ m l i'll Hu- M u ltlc entirely If llh ' 1 i i 11 1 1 i 1 1 1 11 I ii h I lii i ii hers She | >1111 • ' I ISI III • 'III I I'f III l\ n|| till' h llllllllllT w in 'll In' um h I i I I im I h im S lu ' K ru |iH l w ith In r tin i ' l l fu r t h r w * a uli'ii peg In t l i ' w a ll w lii'ii* th i' ii i li 11 1 * In ii 1 1> I lim m . fu li il In lim l It u m l an lu lil Hu* M n ld lc llnW Il m i i I i i - I till' logs lllli) i m rM -tl It w till th i' lilu lil. 1'1 •In t till Ii k n u r liiifn * III Iniiai*,*' a im illrm im l tin- m u ll shnrtlk " H im * w o n 't lig h t. u m l 1 th in k tin* n i n f tin* horse« a m In tin- o th e r | h i rt A m i coiuc on tu tlm lim iai'. It iili'ii * ,1 Im r a llt lln tn a m tlia t Im o lu 'k ia l Im r w ltlin u t 11 r«>1 t Im t aim Wus Im t n | • I i'll . i i lit l ilt all. nun, a m i aim h il up uml pule i * IT il n w ii th i' river. to tlm res o n lit It'll | recko n " 'I i l i 'i i tlm • lioroa a re n 't i lo t io , I a iip poao Itiliv I.u m ■■ w on t o v e r uml took ii la n lo r ii d o w n fro m I t m n u ll, tu r n in g op tin* kk Ir k an th .it aim untihl lig h t It w ltti ilio in m llo . "i lo up to tho lire a m i tlm tv out aim In v tto d Iho iin in . U o ll h a v e suppor in u fo w llllllllto a ." In a to iiil ho roii, lu il In iili in fro m Im r ils lig h te d It. " Y o u go s e lf.' ho a ulil " I ’ ll an I o ut m id took th e m » li ua atm luol to th e tiro y o u r­ do w h a t's noccs- nil I i|i|. "W hy y ” H illy Is n ils e , hor lingers still c lin g in g lo till* h ilito rn . looked up at litrai ll o wn.a s tillin g d o w n lit hor w ltli tlo il tn to lit look alio lim l ol.Joi lia l to m i tlm t ru ll, l.ut ho anw lila m o u th uml tin- l l l l lo Hiuilo Unit hid Just hack o f lila 11 |*a. Sim s m lli'il huuk without k n o w in g It " I'll have to ifo a lo n g , anyw ay T h u ro iiru uo tv a to milk, uml you i'i> i i liln' t t o r t w e ll liml th e cow Ntuhlo a h ,n o ." r A * 7 “ T h in k n o t? " T o g e th e r lim y w o n t out iic a lu In to tlm a tio in they Im«l lo ft ho e a g e rly . H illy l.o iiia o ahotvoil h^in w lm re w ua tho p ltu h fo rk a n d th e h ay m n l tlm n iliil tho m ilk in g w h ile ho pllud f u ll tlm m a n g e rs A f lo r Ih n l tlioy w o n t Pa get h e r m n l tu t n o il tho s h iv e rin g w o rk ImraoN In to tlm s ta b le fro m tho o o rra l w lio ro tlio y l i i i i l i t I . ru m p s to tho H toriii. m n l Ih o n im i liflu d a runt f o r k ­ fu ls o f lin y m id c a rrie d II In to th o ir a tu lls, w h ile H illy l.o iils o hold tho la n ­ te rn high o v e r hor hoinl lik e u w e s te rn l.lh o r ty . T h e y d id not lu lk m u u li, e l - uopt w h i n th u ro w a s need lo r speech, tint th e y tvuro b eg in n in g to fuel m l i t ­ tle g lo w o f i o in p iin in iis h lp hy th e tim e th e y w e re re n d y t " lig h t t l ie l r w a y iik'iilnst tlm lili'/./.»ril lo tho In nisi*. Hilly l.o iils o going lu f o r o wi t h th e Im ite rn . w h ile th e m in i fo llo w e d ulnae lie h lm l. c a r r y in g tlm tw o pulls o f m ilk H in t w iis u lr e a ily fre e z in g in lit t le c ry s ta ls to th e tin . " I did n't (julto c a t c h yo u r tiame, m is ­ t e r , " Mrs M n c lio n a ld suld a f t e r they liml la-gun t h e nii'iil. "H ill t a k e a n ­ o t h e r lilsuiili. a n y w a y . " " W u r r o n Is my n a m e , " roturnod th e m a n , with Hint hidden s m ile lieuaiise s h e liinl n e v e r Imforo giv en him miy opportunity to loll II " W n r i l Wurron 1'vo ( f t ii ul.'iim o v e r on Mill c r e e k . " Hilly Vl.oiilsu g a v e n little c u s p mnl d istracted ly poured t w o sp o o n fu ls o f alienr in lior le a , alth o u g h s h e hated ll BWeeteimd I ’ve got lo lull y o u why oven ut tlm p ric e o f d ig re ssion . Long ago. when Hilly l.o u lse w a s t w e l v e or so mid lived largely In a d re a m world o f her ow n, she hud one duy c h a n c e d upon u pa r a g r aph In u ju ij'c c . thaf. had com e the worila of tluil old trail s"i.g ran on tlielr noon «lop, and I had to carry it lu her memory, though she could uo out myaelf. And my lumbago has long t hour him singing Her mother bothered me ever «lime Just like It talked on about I'cte r und the storm was going to give me another «pell. uml this man who hull ridden straight You ca n ’t he here all the time. Hilly from the land of duy dreams to her LouUe leant way* you aln t - and door, hut the girl was not listening P eter”— "Now, s l u t you relieved yourself "Oh. good gracious, tuouunle' I told that he’s going to s t a y ? ’ you to hire the man If you want him Hilly I x u I hc . kneeling on the hearth Only Ward Warren Isn't" und sturing uhstructe<|ly Into the lire, Ward W arren pushed open the door j ' ame hack with a J«-ik lo reality The und looked from one to the other, his little smile that ha«l been in her eyes eyes two tjuestloii murks "Ja n t and on her lips Moil buck with the whut?" he asked and «hut the door | dreams that had brought It. She gave behind him with the air of oue who 1 h ; her aiiouldcra un Impatient t w lt'h and ready for anything | got up " I s n 't the kind of iiiuu who wants to "Oh, I guess h e’ll be more ngri eabU- Al re out to do chorea," Hilly Louis*- (o have uiouml than I'e le r," she ud- Mulshed and looked at him strulghr | mltted taciturnly, which was as close "A re you? Moimule wants lo hire to her real opinion of the mini as a you." mere mother might hope to come. “Ob well, I was Just about to ask • • • • • • • for the Job, anyway " l i e laughed, When spring «'Uinf ut luit und Ward and I lie distrust left hla eyea "A s a Warren r«sle regretfully buck to his mutter of fact, 1 wua going over to ; claim on Mill « reck he was not at all Jim Laraon'a to bang out for the rest from town wruppod uround a pm-kafr* the morose Ward Wurron who bad of i i i i i P lies It was all ubuiit Ward of the winter und got away from the | ridden down to the Wolverine thut loneaomeueaM of the hills Th e old Wurron T h e name iaui(ht hor funoy, | stormy night In January T he distrust and tho l o tt of tho paracruph seized T u rk 's a pretty g««al friend of mine I hud left Ids eyes uml that guurdi d re Hut It looks to me as If you twij need- upon Imr InifiKlnutlon Until u'hool i muteness wua gone from his manner. lllh'd her mind with other thlnifs she id something around that looks like a | He thought and he plunncd as other hud till lit adventures without end lu a i i i u u a heap more Ihun J i m does. I men thought uml planned and looke«! which Ward Wurron wua the central know P eter Howling Hog to a fare Into thi- future eagerly uml dr«'arned You'll he ull to the good If flcuro Hometlnieu, when «he rode In you w e l l dreams of his own, dreams that brought the hills. Ward tY nr run alslucted her he forgets to come hack. So If you'll I he hidden smile often to his lips and stake me to a meal now and then and ntul lo«l her Into a ;ruti|fo pla< oa. whera his eyes. a place to ale p I'll la- glad to ace you alio tried to shiver In lioneal dread m m , tue thing those dreum* were through the winter or until you get i'fto n mol often, however, Ward W ar­ some white man to take my place." built upon was yet loiU««! tight In his ren wua u fiiKltlve who ' ami* to her He took up the two water palls and heart, und not even Hilly Louise, whose f"i help 'I'licn alio would take hlui to Instinct wus so kci-n ami so sure in ull waited, glancing from one to the other ii « u vo uml hide him, perhaps, or aha things else, knew anything of them or with ttn^r re proa ,eeeu her de- at leaat It sounded rollicking the way i authority In his responsible position. v"led sluve afterw ard and never failed be w-hlatled It.” to appear ut tlm p ro Iso moment w hen " T h a t 's T h e Hid Chisholm T rail' h e’s stie was besot hy Indians or robbers whistling," Hilly Louise observed un­ or something and In dire need Th e der her breath, smiling reminiscently, blood he had shed In her b e h a lf! At "the very song I used to pretend he Th e kaisi-r was 59 years old Sunday that point Hilly l.oulse startled her- A new contingent of Portuguese self uml the others hy suddenly laugh­ troops has Just been lauded in France. ing out loud ut« tlm memory of oue Hoth France ami England have re time when W ant W arren had killed enough Indiana to till a deep Washout cently cut down the bread ration by so that lie might ' urry her acrusa to almost half. the other aide! T he Holshevtkl government, says an " I s there uiiy thing funny about Ja a e announcement from the semi-official Mctlkc dying, Hilly Louise?' her moth- ! news agency, decided to h riak diplo­ or askisl her In a perfectly shocked i matic relatio ns with Koumania when tone. temporary detention of the Roumanian "No. I was thinking of s«imethlng m inister failed to stop the Roumanian else." She glam ed at the man eying on. usive. her so distrustfully from across the ta- j Philipp Scheldemann. president ol hi«' mid gurgled again ll was terribly the Social Democratic party In Ger­ slllv, hut she simply could not hell) many, answering Chancellor von Hert- seeing W ant W nr roll calmly tilling that ling s speech in the main com mittee of washout with dcud Indiana so that he j might carry her acri'ss It In hla arms. the Reichstag, is reported to have bit­ T h e more she tried to forget that the j terly assailed the German Ju nkers and funnier ll lie ame. She ended hy leav- i m ilitarists. lug the table and rettrlDg precipitately Italy bus furnished a m ilitary su r­ to her own tiny ro«>ui In the lean to | prise by launching an atta ck of appar­ where alio hurled her face as deep a t i ently considerable force on her nFiun- it woiihl go lu s puffy pillow of wild ! tain front in mld-wlnter. The blow duck feathers. comes on the Asiago plateau, where tin- lie. poor devil, could not he expectad 1 Austro German invaders were halted to know Just whut had amused her i early In the winter in th e ir «ITort to s<>. l ie did know that It somehow con- \ push down to the Italian plains west corned himself, however. He took up of the Hrenta river. Ids position mentally behind the wall of aloofness which stood between him­ Foreign Minister Trotzky. address­ self and all unfriendly world, and when ing the congress of councils ot work­ Hilly I «'ll lac cam e out later to help The Whistling Broke and He Began men's and soldiers’ delegates on the with Iho dishes lie was sitting ab ­ question of peace, declared the Ger­ to Sing. sorbed In a I took. mans had masked their real intentions The next inomlng the blizzard raged, alw ay s sang when be cam e down the with fine words, but were in reality canyon to rescue me. Hut of course 1 so thal W arren stay oil as a m atter of demanding all they could get. "T h ey course. I ’eter Howling I >og had not , knew all the tim e he's a cowboy. It thought Russia needed peace at any said go”— returned, so W arren did the choree T h e whistling broke, and he began price,” Trotzky said. "T h e y were mis­ and would not let Hilly I.oulae help to alng at the top o f a clear, strong taken. We still insist on a dem ocratic with anything. lunged voice an old. old trail aong peace.” " I wish we could get him to a t y beloved of punchers the West over. Count Cxernln, the Austro-Hungar­ all winter Instead of that l’eter Howl­ "Y\ hat did you say, Hilly Louise; ian foreign mlnist«>r, It Is reported ing Hog," Mrs MacHonald said a n x ­ I'm sure It's a com fort to have him iously afte r he had gone out. "1 Just from Vienna on good authority, has here, and you see he was glad and know P eter's off drinking I don't announced to the Austrian delegations willing— ” think he's a sa fe man to have around. Hut Billy Louise was bolding the that the text of his speech on the Hilly Louise. I didn’t when you hired door open half an Inch, listening and Austrian war aims was forwarded to him. I haven't felt easy a minute President Wilson before Its delivery. with him on the place. 1 wish you'd slipping back Into the child world This has caused a great sensation, ac­ hire Mr. Warren. Hilly Louise. He's wherein Ward W arren came singing down the canyon to rescue her T cording to the Cologne Gazette, which llll i* and yuiet”— words cam e gustily from the creek Interprets It to mean that actual steps "A nd lie's got a ranch of hla own already had been taken to bring about lie iha'sn't strike me as a man who down the slope: wants a Job milking two eowa and "Nu ohapa, no sticker, and « pourin' down an exchange of views between the rain. carrying Hhip to the pigs, moimule.” western powers and R ussia and Ger­ "W ell, I'd feel a lot easier If we had And I swear by the Lord I’ll never night- many. herd again. him Instead of that breed Only we Coma to yl youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a. ain't even got the breed half the time. Coma to yl youpy. youpy-a! S e n a to rs Would Return Railways. This is the third time lie's disappeared "Feet tn the etlrrupa and aeat In the W ashington.— Tin* senate commerce in the tw o months we’ve bad him. 1 eaddle. really think you ought tu speak to Mr I hung and rattled with them long-horn committee, by a vote of 7 to ti. decided cattle. to amend the administratio n railw ay Warren. Hilly l.oulse.” Coma to yl"— "Speak t«i him yourself. Y cu ’re the bill to provide that the government one that wanta him." Hilly I.oulae a n ­ "H o abut the door, Billy Louisa! shall relinquish control over the rail- swered somewhat sharply. She adored W hat you want to stand there like roads w ithin one year a fte r the end of her mother, but If she had lo run the that for? And the wind freezing ev­ the war. ranch she did wish her m other would erything Inside! 1 can feel a terrible f not Interfere and give advice Just at d ra ft on my fe et and ankles, and you I f your wedding stationery is print­ the wrong time. know what that leads to! ' ed by The Sentinel, you are assured a ‘‘Well, you needn't lie cross about It. Bo Billy Louise d osed the door aud long and hnppy married life. ••• You know yourself th at P eter ca n ’t be laid another alder root on the coals In depended on a minute. There he weut the fireplace the while her mind was (let your girl- nml then get your an ­ off yesterday and never ^ed the gigs given over to dreamy speculations and nouncements from Tho Bentinei. *** SUPPLY HEAD FOR ARMY IS NAMED BRIEF WAR NEWS WAR SECRETARY SAYS COUNTRY PUT UNDER MISTAKES MAGNIFIED STRICTER FOOD RULE -r Answers Senator Chamber­ Dealers in Wheat Flour and lain's Accusations and E x ­ Bakers Limited to Percent­ plain* Circumstances. age of 1917 Reqnirements. -------------- I Washington.— S e c re ta ry B a k er Mon Washington.— President Wilson has day replied to S enator Cbamberlain'i 1 placed the country on stricter food ra ­ charges of Inefficiency In the war de tion*. in a proclam ation he limited whole­ partnient at a public hearing before the sen ate military committee. salers, Jobbers and retailers to 70 per He conceded freely that In so greal cent of their 1917 wheat flour require­ an enterprise it was impossible thal ments and bakers to 80 per cent. He called for observance of two there should not he "delays and short com ings." wheatless dayB, Monday and Wednes­ America, Secretary B ak er stated day, one wheatless and one meatlesi will have an arm y of 500,000 in Franc* meal dally, meatb-as Tuesday and pork- early this year, with 1,000,1*00 mor« less Ha'urday. Simultaneously the food ad m inistra­ trained and equipped ready to follow Its new "V ictory as quickly as ships van lo- provided U tion announced carry them and the outlook for ship* bread,” to contain 20 per cent of cereals other than wheat, a fter F ebru ary 24. is not unpromising. It also announced Tuesday would be While many things disclosed werf Impressive, the com mittee was frarikl) a porkl'-ss day in addition to Saturday. These drastic steps are necessary to amazed when told that the men of 3? national guard and national arm y dlv provide wheat for Europe, the food lalonal camps are ready to go at call adm inistration stated. T hirty per cent l i e spoke extemporaneously, begin of A m erica’s normal wheat consump­ ning the details of the mammoth task tion must be sent to our allies. Only of building an army of 1,500,000, an radical cuts In the Am«-rlcan bill of sweriiig such com plaints of Inefflcien fare will provide the 15.000.00«) bushels cy as were cited by Senator Chamber monthly which the allies require. Only part of the new food regula­ lain In his recent speech and declaring that such Instances were Isolated and tions will be compulsory under the powers possessed by the food adminis­ not general. tration. Dealers can be checked Number of Complaints Small. T h e s ecreta ry said when he heard through licensing, but the food admin­ of the two letters read by Senator ^ istration freely admitted that It would ch a m b e rla in concerning bad treatm ent depend on the patriotism of the Amer­ of sick soldiers he immediately asked ican housewife to force observance of the new war rations. Mr Chamberlain for all the details. " V ic to r y " war bread, the national " I want to follow those through to the very end," said he, "and find out loaf, is expected to provide the big who is responsible, In order th a t 1 saving In wheat consumption. Graham and whole wheat breads will can punish the guilty.” Although more than 1.000.000 are be classed as victory breads, but the under arm s in this country, Mr. Baker real war loaf will be that mixed by said, the number of com plaints re­ substituting 20 per cent of rice flour, ceived have been relativ ely small cornmeal, potato flour, oatmeal, buck- probably not more than 18. In each w heat flour, sweet potato flour, soya instance, he said, investigations have bean flour and other substitutes. Re­ tailers are ordered to sell wheat flour been made immediately. only with an equal amount of one of Major-General Wood, Mr. Baker said, recommended calling out a large these substitutes. Housewives need not mix these In army although the men could not be th e ir baking, though this Is urged. provided at once with rifles and cloth­ ing. Every soldier who needs a rifle has one. S e c re ta ry B a k er said, and of a b e t t e r type than If the British Enfield rifle had bean adopted. Pershing Against Lewis Guna. Defemling the lack of Lewis ma- 1 London.— YY'hat news has been per­ chine guns. S e c re ta ry B ak er r e ite r­ mitted to pass the German censor In­ ated that General Pershing does not ; dicates that a political hornet’s nest want Lewis guns for the ground forces, has again been stirred up in Germany. but only for aviation. Reports of disturbances in Germany Som e reports, the s ecreta ry said, again are current in Holland, and sev­ have not proved serious upon inquiry, ere outbreaks are said to have occurred while others had in which ca s e co r­ in the Rhenish industrial districts. rections followed. A dispatch from Zurich to the E x ­ In the case of the body of an of change Telegraph company quotes the ficer who died at an aviation training Berlin correspondent of the F r a n k f u r ­ school being shipped home in a sheet. ter Zeitung as saying that the Pan- S e c re ta ry B a k e r said, inquiry devel­ Germans are "k ic k in g up a tremendous oped that the camp was lu charg e of row,” and declaring that Field Marshal a British aviation officer who fol­ von Hindenburg and General von Lu- lowed the British method of sending deudorff, dissatisfied with Chancellor bodies home unclothed, the man's H e rtlin g ’s speech before the main com­ clothes being shipped in a separate mittee of the Reichstag, are again ta lk ­ parcel. An American officer was then ing of retiring. put in charge. Em peror William, himself, has not Generals Decided Adoption of Rifle. been spared, says the Deutsche Tages T ak ing up Se n a to r Cham berlain 's Zeitung. which styles him "th e present a tta c k on the ordnance bureau. Mr. representative” of the House of Hohen- B a k er said that men s minds differed zollem. probably desiring to show by a about the types of guns to be used parallel between the emperor and the and about the quantity. He then dls- crown prince that the annexationists elost*d that the decision to adopt the cherish the la tte r as the savior of Ger­ so-called rechambored Enfield rifle many at the last moment “from sin k ­ was reached late one night In his ing in the abyss dug by four men— office at a con feren ce attended by Dr. von Kuehlmann. German foreign General Pershing, who was preparing secretary ; Count von Hertling. im­ to go to F r a n c e ; General Scott, chief perial chancellor: Count Czernin. Aus­ of s t a f f ; General Bliss, ass is ta n t tro-H ungarian foreign minister, and ch ie f; General Crozier. ch ief of ord- 1 Count von Roed«'rn. German secretary nance, and General Kuhn, then head of the treasury .” of the war college, and several other s ta ff officers, "e x p erts in rifles." It S enator Borah Defends Wilson. was late In May or early In Ju ne. Baltim ore. Md.— S e n a to r William E. " T h a t decision made th at night.” 1 Borah, of Idaho, in an address to an Mr. B a k er added, re ferring to the con- j immense P atriotic Defense League fe re n ce held a t which it was decided i m eeting tn the academy of music vig­ to change the Am erican rifle, "had the orously defended President Wilson's unanimous c o n s e n t of every man at adm inistration and congress against the con feren ce ." what he term ed " t h e wild critic is m s " DISTURBANCES IN GERMANY REPORTED CHARLES W. FULTON DEAD Oregon State sm an P asse s Away at His Portland Home. Portland.—Charles W. Fulton, ex- Untted S ta te s sen ator from Oregon, prominent lawyer, and for many years an active figure in the politics of the state, died Sunday afternoon a t his home. (186 W'eUller street, in the 65th year of his ago. Mr. Fulton died as the result of Ill­ ness covering a period of several months. He was a distinguished law­ yer and practiced his profession here for several years, a fte r serving his term In the United State s senate. He was for many years a leading figure In the politics of the stale and served four term s In the legislature. Russians Control Finnish Capital Copenhagen. — Th e red guard has won complete control of Helsingfors, capital of Finland, a Stockholm dis­ patch reports. It Is not known wheth- er the F innish government officials es- capeil from the revolutionaries of some men who. he said, could not forget partisanship, but whose real in­ tention was to get at the bottom of some of the m ista k es that have been made In the preparations for war. R ussians B attle With Roumanians. Petrograd. — Serious fighting has tak e n place between Russians and Roum anians in the neighborhood of Ualatz, near the border, according to a report received from Austrian head­ q uarters at B rest-Litovsk. B ritain Must Have More W heat. W ashington.— An urgent appeal was made to the United S ta te s by G reat B rita in for more wheat. Without It. Lord Rhondda cabled to the food ad­ m inistratio n, the allies may not have food enough to win the war. Dry Act Ratified by North Dakota. ^ B ism a rck . N. D.— The senate with i | only two dissenting votes has con­ curred in the house resolution ratify ­ | ing th e federal prohibition amend­ | ment negatived by but 12 m em bers of the two houses.