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
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THRIFTY YANKEE FOUND WAY
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