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J ,1 - t I .. t -A EIGHT PAflsi THE inutrtnutwvB mnnrnii ZZTZZZTlinrZII 1 in. 1 PAQK eix &MW rUNlilLK i ;V A??? a fi, By Robert-.J.C.Stead Gufhorc tchener. and other poetm jQnAttioiu by lrin Mycr "HE'S A WONDERFUL BOY." Svtopsls Dave Elden, son of a drunken ranchman and almost a maverick of the foothills. Is break ing bottles with his pistol from his running cayuse when the flrat au tomobile he has ever seen arrives and tips over, breaking the leg of Doctor Hardy but not injuring his beautiful daughter Irene. Dave rescues the Injured man and starts for the nearest doctor, 40 miles away. CHAPTER I Continued. 2 She looked about the place some what hopelessly. Iler father read her perplexity. ' "It seems as though you would be i In charge here for a while, Reenie," he said, "so you will save time by ! getting acquainted at once with your ! equipment. Look the house over and see what you have to work with." "Well, I can commence here," she answered. "This is Dave's room. I Buppose I should say Mr. Elden's, but what was It he said about 'mis- I terlng? It would be splendid if It were cleaned up, she continued, with kindling enthusiasm. "These bare logs, bare floors, bare rafters we've got back to essentials, anyway. And that's his bed." She surveyed a , framework of spruce poles, on which lay an old straw mattress and some , very gray blankets. "I suppose he la very tired when he goes to bed. she said, drolly, as though that could be the only explanation of sleep amid ' such surroundings. In the south end of the larger room stood a '.fireplace, crudely made of slabs of native rock. The fires of many winters had crumbled the rock. so that it had fallen in in places and ; was no longer employed for its origl i nal purpose. A very rusty and greasy 6tove now occupied the space lmme ; diately in front of the fireplace, the i stovepipe leading into the ample but tottering chimney. Near the stove was a bench supporting a tin wash basin, a wooden pail and certain frag ments of soap evidently all the equip ment necessary for the simple ablu tions of the Elden household. The ; remnant of a grain-bag, with many evi dences of use and abuse, performed the functions of a towel, and a broken piece of looking-glass gave the faintest Intimation that a strain of fundamen tal relationship links the sexes. By the western wall was a table, with nu merous dishes, and to the wall Itself had been nailed wooden boxes salmon and tomato cases now containing an assortment of culinary supplies. A partially used sack of flour and an other of rolled oats leaned against the wall, and a trapdoor In the floor gave promise of further resources beneath. There was a window in the east and another In the west, both open and unscreened; myriads of flies gave the only touch of life to the dismal scene. ! Irene looked It all over, then leaned against the window sill and laughed. Her father had brought her west for holidays, with the promise of changed surroundings and new experiences, but ;he had promised her no such delight ,as this. With the Elden kitchen still photographed in her mind she called up the picture of her own city home the order; the precision; the fixedness; ;he thls-sits-here-and-that-stands-there-aess; the flatness and emptiness and formality of It all; and she turned (again to the Elden kitchen and laughed 'a soft, rippling, irrepressible laugh, is irrepressible as the laughter of the nountain stream amid the evergreens. ' Then she looked again from the open vlndow, this time with eyes that saw .he vista of valley and woodland and ,:oothlll that stretched down Into the ipening prairie. Suddenly she realized hat she was looking down upon a pic ,ure one of nature's obscure master pieces painte'd In brown and green .nd saffron against an opal canvas. It vas beautiful, not with the solemnity T tne great mountains, nor the sol mnity of the great plains, but with ;hat nearer, more intimate relationship hich is the peculiar property of the jOOthill country. The girl drew u ' reat breath of the pure air and was bout to dream a new daydream when he voice of her father brought her to arth. I. "Can't you find anything that will do ;or a bandage?" he asked. "Oh, you dear Daddykins!" she re lied, her voice tremulous with self jproach. "I had forgotten. There as a spell, or something ; it just came own upon mo In the window. The andage? Dear, no I The only cloth I e is the kitchen towel, and I can't jcommend it. But what a goose I n ! Our grips aro in the car, or un- ;r it, or somewhere. I'll be back in jiffy." And she was off at a sharp ot uown the trail along which she id so recently come in Dave Elden's agon. The grips were duly found, and Irene ngratulated herself that she and her ther were in the habit of traveling .th equipment for overnight. Arrived the house, she deftly wrapped a uuttge aDout ner father's injury and o wont at the preparation of sup Ttask not strange to her. na her M I mother considered it correct that her daughter should have a working knowl edge of kitchen affairs. Ouee during the evening she took a glance Into the other room. It wns even loss Inviting than Dave's, with walls bare of any adornment save dirty garments that hung from nails driven in the logs. On the rude bed lay an old man. She could see only n part of his face a gray mustache drooping over an open mouth, and n florid cheek turned to the glow of the setting sun On a chair beside the bed sat a bottle and the room reeked with the smell of breath charged with alcohol. She gently closed the door and busied her self through the long evening with re forms in the kitchen and with little ministrations desigued to relieve the sufferings of her father. The sun sank behind the Rockies and a darkness, soft and mystical and silent, stole up the valley, hushing even the noiseless day. The girl stood framed In the open window and the moonlight painted her face to the pur est ivory and toyed with the rich brown fastness of her hair nnd gleamed from a single ornament at her throat. She was under a spell. She was in a new world, where were manhood, and silence, and the realities of being, and moonlight, and great gulfs of shadow between the hills, and large, friendly stars, and soft breezes pushing this way and that without definite direc tion, and strange, quiet noises from out of the depths, and the Incense of the evergreens, and a young horseman galloping into the night. And conven tions had been "swept away, and it wa3 correct to live, and to live ! The first flush of dawn was mellow ing the eastern sky when the girl was awakened from uneasy sleep by sounds In the yard In front of the ranch bouse. The stars were still shining bright ly through the cold air. In the faint light she could distinguish a team and wagon and men unhitching. She ap proached and. In a voice that sounded strangely distant In the vastness of the calm night, called: "Is that you, Dave?" And in a moment she wondered how she had dared call him Dave. But she soon had other cause for wonder, for the boy replied from near beside her, MM1 1 I'M H The Girl Stood Framed in the Open Window, and the Moonlight Painted Her Face to the Purest Ivory. In that tone of friendly confidence which springs so spontaneously in the aarKness : "Xes, Reenie, and the doctor, too. vveu nave Mr. Hardy fixed up in no time, how did he stand the night?1 now dared he call her Reenie? A flush of resentment rose In her breast, oniy to be submerged in the sudden re membrance that she had first called him Dave. That surely cave him thp right to address her as he had done, Then she remembered she was In the ranch country, in the foothills, where tention to the kitchen, whero she found Dave, swentinsr In vicarious suf fering. He had helped to draw the limb into pi a co and It had been his first close contact with human pain. It was different from branding calves and he had slipped out of tho room n soon as possible, Tho morning sun was now pouring through tho window nnd the distraught look on the boy's face touched her even more than the frankness of tho words spoken In the darkness. She suddenly remembered that -he had boon up all night for her. She would not deceive herself with the thought that it was for her father's sake Dave had galloped to town, found a doctor, secured a fresh team and driven back along the little-used foot hill trails. No doubt Have would have done it all for hor father, had her fa ther been there alone, but as things were she had a deep conviction that he hud done it for her. And It was with a greater effort than seemed rea- j sonablc that she laid her fingers ou his arm and said ; "Thank you, Dave." "What for?" he asked, and she could not doubt the genuineness of his ques tion. "Why, for bringing the doctor, and all that. I am sure I can't father won't be nble to" "Oh, shucks I" he interrupted, with manner which, on the previous after noon, she would have called rudeness. "That's nothln'. But, say, I brought home some grub. The chuck here was pretty tame. Guess you found that out last night." He looked about the room and she knew that he was taking note of her house-clean Ing, but he made no remark on the subject. "Well, let's get breakfast," she said, after a moment's pause and for lack of other conversation. "You must be hungry." Dave's purchases had been liberal. They Included fresh meat and vegeta bles, canned goods, coffee, rice and raisins, lie laid the last three items on the table with a great dissembling of indifference, for he was Immensely proud of them. They were unwonted items on the Elden bill of fare; he had bought them especially for her. But she busied herself at the breakfast without a thought of the epoch-marking nature of these purchases. The doctor, who had been resting in the room with his patient, entered the kitchen. During the setting of the limb he had gradually become aware of the position of Irene In the household; but had that not been so, one glance at the boy and girl as they now stood in the bright morning sunshine, he with his big, wiry frame, his brown face, his dark eyes, his black hair, she, round and knit and smooth, with the pink shining through her fair skin and the light of youth dancing In her gray eyes and the light of day glancing on her brown hair, must have told him they had sprung from widely separat ed stock. For one perilous moment he was about to apologize for the mistake made in the darkness, but some wise instinct closed his lips. But he won dered why she had not corrected him. They were seated at brpakfast when the senior Elden made-his appearance. lie had slept off his debauch and was as sober as a man In the throes of al coholic appetite may be. Seeing the strangers, he hesitated In his lurch to ward the water pall, steadied him'self on wide-spread feet, very flat on the floor, and waved his right hand slowly in the air. Whether this was to be un derstood as a form of salutation or a gesture of defiance was a matter of In terpretation. "Vishltors," said the old man, at length. "Alwaysh welcome, 'in sure. Sh-scush me." lie made his uncertain way to the water-bench, took a great drink and set about washing his face and hands, while the breakfast pro ceeded in silence. As his preparations neared completion Irene st a place at the table. "Won't you sit down here, Mr. El den?" she said. There had been no introductions. Dave ate on In silence. "Thank you," said the old man, and there was something in his voice which may have been emotion or may have been the husklness of the heaw drink er's throat. The girl gave It the for mer explanation. As he took the prof fered chair she saw in this hi mn nmcu.i ui uignuy wnich the less refined eye or ms son had not distinguished Dromedaries Succeed Where Oilier Transports Fail in Manchurian Desert GRASSHOPPERS MAKE FINE POULTRY Ff Especially Re'ishcd by Turkt ana u Ulrica Fowls. 0 Fowl Coniume Million. 0f OuUm, lnacta During Court ,f yM . With Minimum Amount f Trouble to Firmi,,, (irnu'lMippurK nre hi-uttitiiii( (0 . IK ctmli illvldiMtiN In N..ki, i, llliMIKb tlllt IIUMlilllil of poultry J rlnlly In turkey unit kuIii. ,, hmln 'M!i-lini"nt tin m Iutii ih i n. fully j lit lll Mlttfl neileillluihl .1 mum-roil fiiniitr ha v t imUii tln . Photograph ihowi supplies being carried icrot th Manchurian dert bv meant of dromedarlet. Theia "ihlpa of the desert" succeeded where mo tor and other vehicles failed. Men Who Develop Into Murderers Pivc Feet, Seven Inches, Average Height Are you a murderer? If you are about ! fet-l. 7 Inches In stature, a little over thirty the years of ago hihI have a stiNiiiiriiial teiiiixTU ture, science may brand you u mur derer. At least, sui-h are t lie lih-nl specifications for a murderer, based on measurements of more than 1.5W con victed slayers at the Wiuipun (Wis.) state prison. Other Interesting data of the genua are that fretpjent heuduclieM, Insom nia and period of Intense depression are common. Teeth that have growu bad through neglect are evident In half of the cases. A third of the murderer never at tended school, while only 3 pvr cent completed high school. More than half were at work before they were twelve years old and 90 per cent be fore they were fifteen. Almost half of them were unable to retain the same Job or position a full year. Half of them, records show, murdered while under the Influence of liquor. "Hello" Purely American Expression, but Originated With French Wolf Hunters You should try to lenrn the old wolf hunter's call, beeause you know the wolf Is a scout, arid that should be the wiit rail, writes Kan Heard in Hoy's Mfe. This cnll wns used In Franre first and afterwards In Kngland, but there are no wolves In Kngland now nnd the bugl-! cull has been Cm-Rotten In bo'.li countries, therefore (. "pnlut It green and call it our nni," Kven though William Tell and liobln Hood bugled the same calls beff-e America wns dis covered, we can t rilie it American the tame as we have made the old French wolf hunters crv American. French was spoken In Foolish court circles, so the titled wolf hunters used the French nry "hnb le loup" or "a' lou loup, loup," being pronounced loo, (he cry being a a loo; the English put on the II ami made It halloo, and we made It hell-o, W II CM 18 an AllliTlellll ex liri.utili.ri nu all the telephone kMs know. So the old wolf hunter's bugle calls which came here with the Huguenots will also be American 'when blown through wooden flat-boalmen's trumpets. About 40,000,000 Tons of Anlhracite Coal Arc Mined Every Year by Wet Process Th river of Vnnylvniiln yield nl'iMit .V,iioo tmi of con) every year. About 40,000,1 m ton of nntltrnelte al are mined every year by tlm "wet irocen" In Lackawanna. I.u.enio, Car- lion, Schuvlklll nnd Northumberland countle. The prm-es require the uie of vast miiintllle of wliter, which when It I discharged carrie In xu pension tiilllb'ii of ton of culm or coal dust fine enough to pai tlinniKh the Kiunlleit screen In a dry proee breaker. Much of (he culm Ilml It way Into the river of the iihthrnclt district, tho I.nckitttitiuiu. tho .Susque hanna, the Schuylkill nnd lite Lehigh. They carry culm waste for many mlh downstream, to drop It at lnt In shallows nnd eddle behind dam and on valley bottom. Much of th coal thu si-uttered I recovered by dredging with suction dredge or with the more dredge, any inou nottorn Doni, numi that carry 12 to 14 (mi. The recov ered river coal brings from 70 to DO cent at the wharf. T ? . .r&$ i- Fatttntd Turktya Oting Market Drtvtfl Wherever ther art crpen (l there ro Krihoir and othrr It '(. (J. It. Ori'Mvr of ttie asrlrv turat rolU-Ke. who tiaa cundu'tiij elerliiietit, any: "It dcetn the liiexoreibln law of la ture (hat wherever there I aoinrthUt Kixid to eat there I amnet Jilnc k It. and man'a exlntrnca la a ci.nilma atruggl fur auprenmcy over tb rr? turv that re ilrteroilnrd to rohiUM tb food ha require.'" During iaat yeara In North Pukw, pralrlo rhtckena, ngm hem and grwrn held Ihe icraHnhopix-r In check, iM their pluinpne and the iMIdost quality of their meat attested to tU auperlorlly of their frMid. ore familiar bucket type of Pnonty or (heir rood. , y . The mnrhlnery. which I tisu- Now " I'ralrla chicken mjiMiSj f lountod on a stern wheel. Hat- T y of tha buffaln, it , I i boat, dump (he coal Into acowa Mr- freavr wa aaalgnil to (lad i FACTS AND FANCIES It take three men six month to make a cashmere shawl, which require ten gout' fleece. Tho akin of an elephant, when tanned, I very expensive, the tunning tnklnif about six months. Corsica produces the largest quantity of wax In all the conn trie In Kurope, If not In the world. When the average hum ex presses bis gratitude It Is mere ly an offhand way he has of ask ing for more. It Is the easiest thing In the world to stir up trouble. All you have to do Is to tell the truth at all times. 4 i luiuis. wuere n... r. ..... ra-.vu. the conventions the conventions she AU"Hvenis "tner was an affliction to hated-had not yet become rooted, and 1 y , ' "u UIJIUir ,0!t,J ,a"1 on a boy where the souls of men and women stood bare In the clear light of frank acceptance of the fact. It would be ldle-dangerous to trifle with this boy oy any attempt at concealment or d eeptlon. She could see his form now as he led the horses toward the corral. How straight he was, and how bravely his footsteps fell on the hard earth! "He's a wonderful boy," said the doc tor, of whoso presence she had been unconscious. "Cat's eyes. Full gallop through the dark; side-hills, mountain streams, up and down; breakneck. Well, here we are." The doctor breathed deeply, as though this last fact was one to occasion uone notrnng to deserve this punishment. The miseries associated wnn nis parentage had cone fair to make him sour and moody. Irene at ursc nau thought him rude and pir.nm. flashes of humor had modified that opinion, but she had not yet learned that his disposition was naturniiv i i .. ... - uuyuui one, weighed down by an en vironment which had made It srm and unresponsive. In years to .mo Mie was to know wimf imm,n..j depths of character were to be re vealed when that stole nature was cross-sectioned by the blade of a keen and defiant passion. Mr. Elden promptly cmraccd the rfc tor in conversation, and in a few mn. derment. "Your brother tells me you ""'" had 6leaned the main facts in i nave an injurea man here. Accident. Stranger, I believe? Well, shall we go in?" b Brother I But why should she explain? Dave hadn't bothered. Why hadn't he? He had told about the stranger. Why had he not told about both strangers? Why had he Ignored her altogether? This time came another flush, born of that keen womanly Intuition which un derstands. With a commonplace she led the doc tor Into the house and to the henMo of her father. When the operation was completed the girl turned her at- oonnection with the accident and the iauier anu daughter which It had brought so momentarily im,w ,ta roof. He was quite sober now and his speech, although slovenly, was riot in delicate. Ho was still able to pay to woman that respect which curbs the coarseness of a tongue for years sub jected to little discipline. Cooksu, Korean Delicacy and Great National Dish The great national dish of Korea Is cooksu, Sumner It. Vinton writes In Travel. To make It, you plunge a large lump of ice Into a bow partly filled with steaming vermicelli of the endless va riety. Over this you pour a portion of hot beef stew. The ice congeals (lie beef fat Into little Islands of grease, nnd you never know whether tho por tion dangling from the end of vonr chopsticks will be Icy cold or burning hot. The vermicelli, which H very touch, Is to be lifted to the mouth with the chopsticks. Keeping a firm hold on It with lips and teefb, you slip (he chopsticks down to lift again and take up tho slack by sucking. Irene takes the first of many rides with Dave. (TO BB CONTINUED.) Kilt, Highlander's Garb, of Scandinavian Origin The kilt Is part of the characteristic and ancient dress of the natives nt the Highlands of Scotland. The word means "that which Is girded or tucked up." It Is of Scandinavian orlcln. Thn Imnish word kllte, In use today, moans 'to tuck up." The kilt of the Highland er Is short but has a very full skirt, aelted In at the waist, and reaching to about the knees. The early kilt was not a separate garment, but mere ly the lower part of the plaid In which the Highlander wrapped himself, hanir- IQtr ftmvn In 1,1. 1 .. . . .. Vast Quantities of Coal Remain in the Mines in an Unminable Condition Mining Is still conducted with aerl ous loss of life nnd a waste of material amounting to $I,(MK),(XK a dnv. A gov ernment estimate shows tlm't of 0.OO0,. t)0,roo tons of conl rnliied In one year (10M-10l.r)), .1,000,000 wax left under ground In unmliinble condition, say Hoys' Life. It is believed (hat more than one-half of (his loss Is preventa ble; $.'0,000,000 worth of petroleum Is wasted annually and $7.",fHHi,ooo rl cf. Ing conl. In 1!)14, 2.4.71 persons were killed In coal mines. To study and remedy such conditions tne government established n 1!IH) a bureau of mines with head(iiarters at Washington, nn experiment station at Pittsburgh, nnd an office for (he study of smelter problems nt San FrnnctM,.,, This bureau investigates mine explo sions and safety conditions. ntn.li,. mining methods with a view to pre venting waste nnd Inefiiclencv. nnd i. Biructs miners in first-aid nml rescue worn. aubatltute that would keep dowa Q ; lnct pet with a minimum of tm J"" ble and expena to the farmer. Tat,! answer la turkey and guinea. I - Mr. Oreavea declare that florki 4 I turkeyi and guinea rtuinuin) mlllloa , L. of grasnhopper and other lnct i f", and naturally do thlr own fornglnt I Early In the aeaaoii the fxpvrltiwatt' j flock at th agricultural college hn J grown fat and atrons "ti tb roosi I Insect. Later In the season they have t f reived the abundant exercise nrretun for their proper tntirk ct ooiidltl!ii by rhaxlng the eluslw hopi.er. hin saved the field corp nnd provided I f new, big ! rce of Income, ;; "Three old tiitkeya kept through om winter." Mild Mr. (irenve. "pn.dticfd i a flin-k of young turkey (he folluwlni season which kept the field near their house e,.,,r of grasshopper, nnd ful filled their doNtlny by Krucliig Tbniikf I giving; (able." f BEST PRACTICE IN PLOWING England Eats Larger Part of Europe's Cheese Output Statisticians have figured out Ihnt England eats the larger part of Ku rope's output of cheese. Ku rope's out put amounts to 840,000,000 kilograms. Kngland alone consumes 1S0 0OO0O0 kilograms of this amount.' Next comes Holland, which takes r.O.OOO. OOO; Switzerland takes 4:t 000 000 Franco, 31,000,000, and Germany 20 1 000,000 kilograms. The only people on earth who cat no cheese are the Chinese. Chile's Claim to Distinction. Chile claims that the Island of Chllo off Its west coast, Is the original home of the potato and that It lias been cub ttvated there since early la the fif. According to Mlnneiota Expert It ll : Beat to Dapn Furrowi Gradu- 5 ally Each Year. The nature of thn aid! and the crop to be grown should determine I ho qui i mm oi wiicuier to plw deeply or more kIiiiIIiiw. A with most other farm I problem, the farm operator' Judf ? merit and experience must be called j Into play In determining which prafr ! tlce la best on any farm. Andrew llosa, vice director of th Minnesota experiment atntloa, hellevM that deep furrowa turned on edge, of "three-quartern over," furnish the hot j condition for pulverlalhjf nnd sweeten- Ing the soil. "It I not good practice," : he says, "to deepen tho plowing great- ly In any one year. It Is better to deep- ? en It by one half Inch or nn Inch each j year tint II a sufllclent depth ha been reached. Itaroly la it iiecensnry to plo deeper than seven or eight Inches, ex- cept for certain deep-rooted crops Uk : sugar beets, carrots, potatoes and Ilk j crops. . "Where It Is desirable to Incorporate j In the soil water-Jioldlng material, such as a green manure crop or n dressing of coarse barnyard manure, deep plow j Ing Is wise. Either n very sandy or J very heavy dense clay would be bene fited by such treatment periodically. i L FALLACIOUS IDEA OF SHEEP Anlmala Will Conaume Moro Weedi and Shrubi Than Other Anlmala, but Need Soma Feed. Many fnrniers who have failed with sheep have gone Into tho business with the fallacious Idea that sheep will cut anything, simply becnuse some misin formed person started the tale. Sheep will consume more weeds and shrubs than any o4her clasi of animals, but to turn them into the woodlot and expect them to thrive on sprouts and dry leaves Is asking too much of their di gestive systems. However, there i usually waste land on most farms on which the sheep may be kept Htcertwjn I r- Si I 8 r !-.-.
