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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1917)
W o lf* cull, while the big Dane luy wind. It may be a— thunderstorm I” steeping. lie laughed at hi* Joke, and burled Tonight It wn* colilcr thun usual, himself In a clump of stunted ban- nrul the keen tang of the wind thut sklans HO paces from the tent. Here come fresh from the went stirred him he rolled himself In hls blanket, aud strangely. It net hls hliMiil nflro with went to sleep what the Indian* cull the Front Hunger. It was a quiet sturllt night, and Lethargic summer was gone and the hour* afterward Kiir.au dropped bis days and night* of hunting were lit nose between Ills fnrepnws and lluvu you tried "fifty fifty biscuits” — hand, lie wanted to leap out Into free drowsed. It was the snap of a twig dom and run until he wa* exhausted, that roused him. The sound did not Uncle Ham's latent Idea for saving with Gray NVolf at hi* aide, lie knew awaken the sluggish Dane hut In wheat Hour In hot bread? You u*u two thut dray W olf wo* off there— where stantly Kazan's head was alert, hls cupful* of corniucal, soy bean* which the stars hung low In the clear *ky, keen nostrils shilling the air. What he cun ho home ground, finely cru*hed and that she was waiting. He ■train had smelled all day was heavy about peanut*, or rice Hour to two cupfuls of ed ut the end of hi* chain, and whined. him now. He lay still and quivering. white flour. Or you can u*o one cup All that night he wa* rest lea*—more Slowly, from out of the Imusklans be ful of common! and one cupful of restless than lie had been at any time hind the tent, there oame a figure. It ground soy bean* or cru*hed peanut* C H A P T E R X V I I . — Continued. ; mate. Gray Wolf, and the professor before. Once, In the far distance, he was not the little professor. It np- with the wheat product. — 17— 1 had asked him n thousand questions. You con make “ fifty fifty" mufllns heard n cry that be thought was the | pronchod cautiously, with lowered That night ehe slept again where Hut each day Kazan puzzled hltn ery o f Gray Wolf, ami hls answer head aud hutiehed shoulders, ami tho with one and one-half cupful* of cook Kuaan }iad Ialu, aud three times she more. No amount of kindness on hit roused McGill from deep sleep. It starlight revealed the murderous file« ed and mashed sweet or Irish potato, allcd to* him without answer. A part Could bring a resjumslve glen in In was dawn, and the little professor of Sandy MeTrlgger. Kazan crouched or cooked cereal, or ground *oy beans, •qVy flew feit. ana It drenched the Kam o's eyes. Not once did Kazan to an equal amount of Hour. Tln-n lost vestige of her mate's scent out rightfy a w illingness to become friends. dressed himself and came out of (he low. lie laid Ills head fiat between j there are "fifty fifty" recipes for wuf- jyf thg sand. Hut still through the •Vfld yet he did not suarl at McGill, or oubln. With satisfaction he noted the hi* forepaw*. ills long fangs gleamed. j exhilarating snap la the air. He wet I But he made no sound that betrayed I er* and for conuneul cookies. «day that followed, and the day that snap nt his hands when they came Howr to make ull these "fifty fifties" hls lingers and held them above hls j hi* concealment under it thick ban* followed that, blind Cray W olf clung within reach. Quite frequently Sandy head, chuckling when ho found tho sklan shrub. Step by step Sandy np- a* well n* home method* for entire to the narrow rim of whit* sand. Ou McTrigger came over to the little wind had swung I ut > the north. He pronehed, and nt last he reached tho l corn men I gem* and yeast bread* and The fourth day her hunger reached a I cabin where McGill was staying, and went to Kazan, and talked to him. flap o f the tent, lie did not curry « roll* made In part of finely crushed point where she gnawed the bark from three times Kazan leaped ut the end Among other things he said. “ This’ll club or a whip In Id* hand now. In peanuts, *weet or Irish potato, soy willow bushes. It was on this day l of his chuln to get at him, und his : put tin* black files to sleep, Kazan. A the plat....... either of those wa* tho bean meal which can he made at home that she made a discovery. She was whit# fangs gleamed as long an Sandy j day or two more of It nml we'll start.” glitter of steel. At the door to the ! by grinding soy bean* In a hamlmtll, drinking, when her sensitive nose was In sight. Alone with McGill he Five days later McGill led first the tent ho paused, ami peered In. lit* rice, comment, or cooked cereals, are touched something in the water’s edge became quiet. Something told hltu j described In detail In United Stute* de Dane, mid then Kazan, to a packed hack to Kazan. that was smooth, aud l ore a faint odor that McGill had come a* a friend that partment of agriculture circular No. A canoe. Snndy McTrigger saw them off, (T O U K C O N T I N U E D . ) o f flesh. It was one of the big north night when he and the big Dane stood i 91, “ I’artlal Substitute* for Wheat In and Kazan watched for a chance to ern river clams. She pawed It ashore, shoulder to shoulder In the cage that Bread Making." Here I* a sample re leap at him. Sandy kept hls distance, sniffi:.-- at the hard shell. Then she had been built for a slaughter pen. cipe— tin- one for “ fifty fifty" biscuit* und McGill watched the two with n crunched it between her teeth. She Away down In his brute heart lie held thought that set the blood running Wh»n Hls Creditors Paid Him W ith as worked out by Iluunah L. Wes*- had never tasted sweeter meat than McGill upart from other men. He Imd ling, specialist In homo demonstration swiftly behind the mask of hls care Cheap Money He Bought Cheap that which she found Inside, and she no desire to harm him. He tolerated w ork: less smile. They had slipped a tulle Land and Became Rich Man. begau hunting for other clam*. She hlnò but showed none of the growing down-stream when lie loaned over and T w o cupful* corn meal, ground soy found muny o f them, aud ate until she affection of the huge Dane. It win laid u fearless hand on .Kazan's head. bean* or finely ground peanut*, rtev An Interesting tab* o f the profitable was no longer hungry. For three days this fact that puzzled McGill. He had Something In the touch of that hand, use to which ragged confederate money flour, or other substitute. never before known a dog thut he more she remained on the bur. and In the professor's vole«» kept K a was once put by n Connecticut Yankee Tw o cupfuls white flour. And then, one nignt, me call came could not make love hltn. zan from n desire to snap at him. Ho was related to me a few days ago by Four tcnxpooiifuls baking powder. Today he placed the tallow and bran tolerated the friendship with expres to her. It set her quivering with a Two tcnspoonfuls salt. j Gen. Edward S. Godfrey. strange new- excitement—something before Kazan, and the smile In Ills sionless eyes and a motionless body. Four tahlespoonfuls shortening. In the Ku K ill* day* General God that may liave been a new hope, and fuce gave way to a look of perplexity, j “ I wus beginning to fear I wouldn't Liquid sufficient to mix to proper frey wa* sent to South Carolina and In the moonlight she trotted nervously Kazan's lips had drawn suddenly back, have much sleep, old hoy," chuckled consistency (1 to 1 >4 cupula). up and down the shining strip of suntl, j A fierce snarl rolled deep In his throat, McGill amhlguoiiHly, "hut I guess I wa* quartered In the home of the Yan Sift together the flour, lllenl, salt, kee, who had gono South two decades facing now the north, aud uow the j The hulr along Ids spine stood up. ills can take a iiup now and then with you before the war. The New Englander and huklng powder twice. Have the Instinctively the , along l" •onth. and then the east and the west 1 muscles twitched. j wa* a Democrat and had married a shortening u* cold as possible and cut Sandy McTrigger — her head tking up. listening, as If in professor turned. He made camp that night fifteen Southern woman, but South Caro It Into the mixture with a knife, finally I had come up quietly behind him. Ills 1 the soft wind o f the night she was mites up the lake shore. The big linian* didn’t fully rely upon hi* heart. rubbing It In with the hands. Mix trying to locate the whispering lure brutal face wore a grin as he looked Dune he fastened to a sapling 20 yard* When the Civil war enmo customers quickly with the cold liquid (milk, at Kazan. o f a wonderful voice. And whatever all over the state owed him money for skim milk, or w stcr), forming a fulrly “ It's a fool Job— trytn' to make It was that came to her came from carriages and wagons ho had sold to soft dough which can he rolled on the friends with him.” he said. Then he out of the south and east. Off there them. A* confederate money became hoard. Turn onto a floured hoard; roll —across tlie barren, far beyond the added, with n sudden Interested gleam extremely cheap, these old debta were Into a sheet not over one-half Inch In his eyes. “ When you startin'?” outer edge of the northern timber line thick; cut Into rounds; place these In paid off. "W ith first frost.” replied McGill. — was home. And off there. In her Whnt did he do with the money? Put lightly floured biscuit tins (or shallow Trute way. she reasoned that she must “ It ought to come soon. I’ m going to It nil In land, which was then a'so dirt pans), und make 10 to U minutes In a Join Sergeant Conroy and his party at t.nd Kazan. cheap, nml when Genonl Godfrey met i rather hot oven. If peanut* arc used, The call did not come from their Fond du I.ac by the 1st o f October.” him he owned about half the county the rousted and shelled nut* should bo “ And you’re £oing up t<5 Fond du old wiudfall home in the swamp. It finely crushed with a rolling (fin. and was a rich man. Lac— olone?” qfierted Sandy. “ Why came from beyond that, and in a flash In making the flour and peanut bis- In reality hi* heart was with tho ing vision there rose through her blind don’t you take a man?” cult* the flour und other dry Ingredi South. This Connecticut wagon but fil The little professor laughed softly. ness a picture of the towering Sun ent* should he sifted together twice er had armed and equipped nn entire “ Why?” he asked. “ I ’ve been Uock, of the winding trail that led company for I.ce's urmy.—Girard, in and then mixed thoroughly with tho to It, and the cabin oq the plain. It through the Athabasca waterways a crushed peanuts. Philadelphia Ledger. v. as there that blindness had come to ; dozen times, and know the trail as her. It was there thut day had ended, well ns I know Rroadway. Besides. I <r(rCrCrCrCrCr(rCr(i <rCrCt<r(r(rCr<r<:<rCr(rttt W illing to T ake Hls Word. und eternal night had begun. And like to be alone. And the work Isn’t An Irish contractor who had taken too hard, with the currents all flowing It was there that she had mothered on a new Job was addressing the gang her first-born. Nature had registered to the north and east.” of men he had employed. Sandy was looking at the Dane, with I'm settln’ out a row of these things so that they could never "Look here, boys.” he snld. “This P 0 9 T 3 to fence some pasture he wiped out of her memory, and when his back to McGill. An exultant gleam Job has got to he carried through quick land. Now, my Idee O F H O N O R the call came It was from the sunlit shot for nn Instant Into hls eyes. ly. There ha* got to he no slacking. “ You’re taking the dogs?” Is to set 'em *o they’ll world where she had last known light I am under a penalty o f five hundred “ Yes.” stand agin' the storm* of and life and had last seen the moon dollar* If I don't get the work finished Sandy lighted hls pipe, and spoke winter and the crowdin' of aud the stars In the blue night of the In a month. And look here I I can lick like one strangely curious. tho stock; for my oP boss skies. any man In this gang, and If I lmvo “ Must cost a heap to take these leaves thing* to me: ” My Ann to that call she responded, leav any trouble, you’ve got to look out I" trips o’ yourn, don’t It?” boy, you A R E n rock," ho ing the river and its food behind her— “ What did you say?” said a big “ My last cost about seven thousand I or me once, “ for E V E R M O R E straight out into the face of darkness Irishman, who had evidently had a them POSTS will stand, If and starvation, no longer fearing death j dollars. This will cost five,” said Mc glass too much. "Did you say that you Gill. I show you my sense O F confi or the emptiness of the world she j could lick uny man In tills gang? I f “ Scot !” breathed Sandy. “ An’ you Five Times He Fired at T w e n ty Paces. dence— no O A N O E R that you'll could aot see; for ahead of her, two you did. It's a lie! You can’t lick mol carry all that along with you! Ain’t try to make work easy for hundred miles away, she could see the ; You come down here and fr y !” from hls small silk tent, hut Knznn's yourself A N D free yourself Sun Rock, the winding trail, the nest you afraid—something might hup- The contractor answered, " I f I can’t chain he made fast to the butt o f a pen— ?” OF C A R E If yon Just feel It’s o f her first-born between the two big lick you, you had better go and get The little professor was looking the ' stunted birch that held down the tent- up to you, urn! that your boss rocks— and Kazan i your money, because I don’t mean to other way now. The carelessness In llap. Before he went Into the tent for ain’t there." Now this may have any man on this 'ere Job that I hls face and manner changed. Hls ' the night McGill pulled out hls auto sound like Mowin' my own C HA PTER X V III. enn’t lic k !"— London T1t-P.lt*. blue eyes grew a shade darker. A matic and examined It with care. horn, but, 'seems to me, that hard smile which Sandy did not see For three days tho Journey con this I* w hat Tim Tltcomb meant, The Last of McTrigger. Sugar Crop of H a w a ii, 1918. hovered about his lips for an Instant. tinued without a mishap along the und I think, honestly, that Sixty miles farther north Kazan Then he turned, laughing. Tho augur produetlun of Hawaii fur shore o f Lake Athabasca. On the this here war’s another proof lay at the end of his fine steel chain, the year ending September 30, lltltj, “ I ’m a very light sleeper,” he said. fourth night McGill pitched hls tent that wlmt he said wns right — watching little Professor McGill mix was about 592,783 tons, or 5 .’I,2.’I7 tons “ A footstep at night rouses me. Even in a clump of bn risk I an pine a hundred to hold Our Country’s honored ing a pall of tallow and brun. A a man's breathing awakes me, when I yurds back from the water. All that less than In the preceding year. The post both you and me must F ig h t! dozen yards from him lay the big i area harvested In 191(5, or 115,411) j make up ray mind that I must be on day the wind had come steadily from Robert Russell. Dane, his huge Jaws drooling in antici my guard. And, besides” — he drew behind them, and for nt least a half acres, was 2,219 more thun In 1915; ‘T o s t* o f honor arc evermore pation of the unusual feast which Mc hut In 1910 u lower yield o f cane per i from hls pocket a shining blue-steeled o f tho day the professor had been posts o f danger und o f care." Gill was preparing. He showed signs From tho acre and a smaller average yield of automatic— “ I know how to use this.” watching Knznn closely. o f pleasure when McGill approached KUgnr per ton o f cane made the sugar He pointed to a knot In the wall of west there had now and then come n (Cei«/rl*ht right, 1017 . hjr l i i l 'l i ’rraa Ituresu.) him with a quart of the mixture, and the cabin. “ Observe," he said. Five scent that stirred him uneasily. Since crop of 1910 less than that of the pre he gulped it between his huge Jaws. , times he fired at 20 paces, and when noon ho had sniffed that wind. Twice ceding year. The little man with the cold blue eyes i The total area In cane In 1910, or j Sandy went up to look at the knot he McGill had heard him growling deep and the gray-blond hair stroked his gave a gasp. There was one Jagged In hls throat, and once, when the 240,.’132 acres, wns an Increase o f 0,5:12 back without fear. His attitude was scent had come stronger than usual, acres over 1915. O f tho total cune • _ hole where the knot had been. • different when he turned to Kazan. “ Pretty good," he grinned. “ Most he had bared hls fungs, and the bris area, 115,419 acres, or 47 per cent, wns j His movements were filled with cau harvested, and the remainder, 180,1)111 j men couldn’t do better’n that with a tles stood up along hls spine. Be sure to cleun the dishes In which tion, and yet his eyes and his lips rifle.” For nn hour after striking camp the acres, was left for the next year's you give milk to fowls or chicks nt were smiling, and he gave the wolf- grinding. When Snndy left. McGill followed little professor did not build a fire, least once n duy and disinfect them by dog no evidence of his fear, If It could him with a suspicious glenm In hls but sat looking up the shore o f the' be called fear. scalding. Otherwise, disease germs Power of Humor. eyes, and a curious smile on hls lips. lake through I i I h hunting glnss. It find In theso dishes a very good pluco The little professor, who was up In Then he turned to Kazan. The following imeedoA- Illustrating was dusk when lie returned to where to multiply. the north country for the Smithsonian “ Guess you’ve got him figgered out he had put up hls tent and chained Henry Ward Beecher’s power of us It Is very essential to have the quar Institution, bad spent a thir l of his about right, old man,” he laughed soft the dogs. For n few moments ho ing humor for argument 1* related In life among dogs, n e loved them, and ly. " I don’t blame you very much for stood unobserved, looking nt the woH- tho Youth’* Companion: “ On ono oc ters In which you keep the chickens understood them. He had written a wanting to get him by the throat. Per dog. Kazan was still uneasy. He lay casion n nmn in the congregation sanitary, and nlso to feed sweet, clean food. number of magazine articles on dog haps— ” faring the west. McGill made note of asked, ’I f a man 1* a good father and Never give spoiled food to young or intellect that had attracted wide at- j He shoved hls hnnds deep In hls this, for tlie big Dane lay behind Ka a good husband, but never reads the tentlon among naturalists. It wns pockets, and went Into the cabin. K a zan— to the east. Under ordinary con Bible, where will lie go when he dies?’ old poultry, for it Is likely to polsdh largely because he loved dogs, and zan dropped hls head between hls ditions Knznn would have fnced him. 'I'm sure I don’t know,’ Beecher re them or nt least to cause dlgestlvo understood them more than most men, 1 forepaws, and lay still, with wide-open Ho wns sure now that there wns some plied, 'but wherever he goes he has my troubles. that be had bought Kazan and the big eyes. It was late afternoon, early In thing In the west wind. A little shiver best wishes.' ” In making n change in rations for little chicks it Is better to bo on tho Dane on the night when Sandy Mc- September, and each night brought ran up hls back ns ho thought o f whnt safe side anil feed smnll grain Instead Trigger find his partner had tried to now the first chill brenths o f autumn. It might be. Not 8o Fortunate. get thetri to fight to the death In the Kazan watched the last glow of the “ My wife Is like George Washington; of grains that are too Inrgc. Behind a rock he built n very small Red Gold City saloon. The refusal of sun as It faded out o f the southern fire, and prepnred supper. A fter this I don’t believe she could tell a lie to There Is nothing better for the grow the two splendid beasts to kill each skies. Darkness always followed he went Into the tent, and when he save her soul.” “ You're lucky I Mine ing chick than plenty of green feed. othey for tba pleasure o f the three swiftly after that, and with darkness came out he carried a blanket under can tell a lie the minute I get It out o f The large body llco on fowls aro hundred jnflft who had assembled to came more fiercely hls wild longing hls arm. He chuckled as he stood for my mouth." best destroyed by the use o f lice oint witnesi the fight delighted him. B# for freedom. Night after night he had a moment over Knzan. ment which Is applied to' n certain toad alrefldy planned a paper on tbs gnawed at hls steel chain. Night after - “ We're not going to sleep In there part of the hen, or by filling tho plum- Nor the Dreamless Kind. InddeOt Snndy had told him the story night he had watched the stars, and tonight, old hoy,” he said. " I don't Deep snoring la not always ■*§"«*- ago full of llcn-kllllng powder which -of Kuna‘s capture«, and pi hi* wild the moon, and had listened for Gray like what you’ ve found In tba west coat o f that brand of sleep. can be obtained from poultry supply dealers. “ F ifty -F ifty ” Biscuits E THRIFTY YANKEE FOUND WAY EPIGRHYMES: ; POULTRY POINTERS :