THE SCIO TRIBUNE
Paff» Six
Brought Up on a Farm
As a young man Dr. I’lerro prsr
II. «4 medicine tn a rural district and
was known far
and wide for
Ids great sucres*
In
alleviating
disease. He
early moved to
fluf/alu and put
Up In ready to
uae form, hie
Holden »Iodic*!
IHecuvcry. the
well known ton
ic for the bl.<od.
which la an eg-
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tract of
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ery" of
annoying
eruption«,
pimples
tends to keep Die complexion freali
and clear. Il corrects I he disorder«*!
conditions tn a sick stomach, aide di
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Robust Mother of Five
Healthy, Happy Chil
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Vaccination on Nota
Had It» Good Point»
Tlte aged Japanese stalMUi.au bad a
Hille, aaltcer shaped erar on the tip
of hie nose. "AH w« Japan eoe of tile
older generation have thia erar,' be
said. “It's our vaccinatum mark.'
"Mercy I"
"Tea. It's <>ur vaccination mark
In
Iba old days, when compulsory vacct-
nation first came I«», we vaccinated
everybody on the tip of the h<*se.
Whyf Well, tiecause It waa a good
place -no muveiiietit there, you er*, to
rub off the e ab. Also lie.auae a vac
cination mark on tha b«ee top was
easily Identified hy tl;« medical officer
—no need to take off half your cloth
ing In «rder to prove that you'd been
vaccinated.
"Yaa, t>»«otlp vaccination had Its
good (Klint a. but before the hanker
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aa kne* vaccination la going, here tn
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The Valley of Voices
By GEORGE MARSH
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»YNOFNIR — With David, half-
breed suide >ir*nt ■<«•!•. «f <»•
Am«rkau M •••uni ef Naiurel IHs-
lery. la travallna in nerthere
Cased*.
Hr a stream he bears
Dente*, dausblar et Cot Hllslr«
Mt Onge, factor al Wallins Hive«,
elay the violin euperbty
He In
troduces himself and accepts aa
invitation to moke the peat bl«
home durine bls stay
He find«
lb« factor worried and utyeitfied
The “lo* chateau” Is a real homo
CHAPTER I—Continued
"But they ml«wl you!" laughed the
Frenchman
“Yre!
Our Inst-ect-r.
M>-n<drur Lascelle* tn his desire to
get fur Ignores the conditions here en
tlroly*
At the mention of the name las
ceilee. Nteele sensed a swift change
In Cwnlee Nt Onge Hla curloua eyes
caught a faint color In the girl s tern
pl«-« a« she svold«-d bls glsnce
In s
moment she had control of beraeif
but he wondered If this then waa the
cause of her heartache.
"My ¡«altlon Is moat difficult, you
aer " continu«*d Nt. Ong* "Laflamme
controls the upper country with his
whisky. We get con«ld«-rsble Utile
Current snd Drowning River tra'te.
but Michel and I hove to meet them
with our goods over at Portage Lake
There are many who fear to come to
the Ilona* cf the Windigo, on the
Spirit rapids, as they call It."
"Strange your people at Albany fail
to reallte this I"
“They will realise It now—this
lumtiirr, for we have come to an Im
passe, as we say In French."
"How 1« that, air?”
“Why. my Indian«, evrept kllcbel.
who 1« a hard-headed Iroquoi« from
the Nlplsalng and laughs at thia devil
talk, will not now go Into the bush
alone
Ttey are always seeing and
hearing things
Our hunter, Tele-
Boule, refuses to leave the post Inc«
he found some prodigious tracks In
the muskeg and heard screaming at
night Monsieur, our people are panle
st rlcken " Nt. Onge gravely ebook h.
head. "And now. ae you «ay In Eng
llah. the cllmai Is capped."
Nteele leaned toward hla hoet. keen
Nt
ly curious of what waa coming,
tinge finished dramatically:
“Our fur can«*, which left here
early In July, with four men. never
reached—Albany I"
“Never reached—Albany?" repeated
the astonished listener. “They sent
you word, by canoe?”
“Tro, they sent a relief party up
river to find my men who were long
overdue
They feared they had lost
their boat In the Albany rapids and
were following the shore."
"And this search party found noth
ing r
Nt Cinge lifted ehoul-
“Nothing "
iters and hands In eloquent gesture
"Men. fur. canoe; gone, wiped ent.
aw si towed up!"
“But there must
thing washed up el«>ng«hore." vehe
mently protected Nteele. "the shell of
the can<«e—smsll stuff—and a paddle
always cornea ashore"
“Nothing-" repeated the factor
"They searched the Alt any end then
the lower Walling, for they had to
pole and track most of the way as
you know
Above the Devil's mile
they found the first camp of our peo
pie. but below, not a body, or paddle,
er scrap of canoe- nothing!"
To Nteele this was Incredible—this
mysterious tragedy of the fur rwnoe
He wished he had hn«wn what had
happened on the Walling but a few
weeks before, when he and David
fought day by day Its stiff current on
the way to the poet.
“It's simply unbelievable, colonel."
he vigorously objected
"A swamped
can««*, broken up In a hlg rapid. Is
bound to throw something on the
beach below.
We noticed nothing,
but we were not on the lookout."
That thawe wae more to thia story
Nteele waa convinced; tut what per
son a I bearing could It have ón I’enlaa
Nt. Onge?
"Tet those sre the facia. monst.-nr.
and our people are mad with fear
Thank Heaven I Michel had a had
ankle and waa not with the boat, He
tells the Indiana that the canoe and
bodies are held In the big eddy. bo
I doubt It."
Nteele stared at the factor, unable
to accept the sole Inference to be
drawn from his host's remark
Nt
Onge ran surely facetious.
"That leaves us the Windigo the
ory. colonel." he laughed, but to hla
surprise hla pleasantry waa met by so
grave a face that for an Instant Nteele
wae In doubt of the mental balance of
the Frenchman, harassed by the mis
fortunes of the summer.
The dark
eyes of Denise Nt Onge, filed on th«
window, were cryptic. Then the fac
tor smiled Inscrutably aa be raid:
"Monsieur. 1 am a furtrader on a
river iteHeved to be haunted, ft would
to a policy moat ruinous for me to ad
mit a belief in the «u|wmatur*l-~in
is it not so?
thie Indian tradition
But, and the s|<ea»e« glanced at his
daughter, "so. well believe It the
Windigo; what other solution Is leit?
Men and canoe disappear - like that I"
and be «napped bls fingers.
It waa dear that Nt. trag* was dis
sembllng for some reason be w s
'oath to give his guest the whole
story. But why? What waa there la
this tragedy of fear and death that a
stranger should not know? Why. «taro
Nt. trage had so frankly revealed the
■rials lie foc*d at Walling l< I ver—the
threaten*-
I«»«* of the trade and
abandonment of the post, due to the
superstition of the Indians—did he
withhold his own solution Of the rid
die? Certainly there was more, much
more. In Ibla strange situation which
Nteele had accidentally stumbled upon.
than the lo*a of the fur canoe The
furtive glan.-ea of fstbrr and de ugh
ter at Ntroles reference to Laflamme,
the freetrader; her evident embar
rassment al the mention of Lascetli-«.
Inspector at Albany; and above all.
her m«x»d of despair ut the rapid*,
voiced so poignantly by her vtolln;
these could bear uo relation to the
tragedy of the fur canoe- to the panic
of the Indians at the 111 starred poet.
“Were your mm trustworthy?” he
suddenly asked.
“Absolutely.
They could not de
sert and hope to dispose of the fur.
We and the Hudson's Bay people have
an agreement, lh> the Albany at that
time they would surely have run Into
t he Fort Hope York bouts and the
Martin's Falls and Henley House
brigade* Betides, two of them left
young wives liere "
"Nt 111, I'm sure »II rhe I la wrong
ah« ut the eddy," ventured Nt eeie.
hoping to draw mt the fartor. The
Illg 1‘ellcen whirlpool, below Lac Neul.
the worst I've ever seen, always
throws out the stuff sucked into It In
the course of a few hour*“
Nt. Onge lifted hla heavy eyebrows
In a nod of assent, “Oh. Michel Is in
doult about It also, but that la what
he tells the Indiana. A man of parta
Is Michel, monsieur He la more than
my right hand here
"Yea. he looks like a good man. IMil
you notice I »avid. colonel?" Bteele's
face lighted ae he mentioned bls
swarthy comrade.
"lie seemed most Intelligent.“ re
piled Nt. Onge, "and look a aa If he
could pack four hundred ver a port-
age. If he wished.
"He ran. colonel “ Then Nteele gam
bled with hla host's curiosity “What
Worries Hie Is bow to keep him from
wringing Uflimmr'i neck when we
reach Ogoke and. aside from getting
supplies, we wish to stop at Ogoke.
Colonel Nt Onge.“
The factor waa palpably Interested.
Illa narrowed eyes seemed to search
those of hla guest In an endeavor to
read hla thoughts Then, leaning for-
ward, elbows OR table, be asked
trnaely •
"WhyF
"I am sorry. but that la Parid'* as
cret “
“Oh. I see! It Is right, then, that
you do not tell
Hut I waa curions
monsieur, for today * hen he reached
berr, he asked at once how many
days' travel It wae to Ogoke lake "
That Nt. Onge should be vitally In
terested In th« man. who. by the u«e
of whisky, was winning the fur trade
of the whole headwater country of the
Walling, was natural, but the observ
ant Steele sensed more to the story
than mere trade rivalry. In the atti
tude of tha fartor However, be
dropped the subject and returned to
the loot canoe.
"It's by far the strange4 case 1 have
heard of- four men tn a loaded canoe,
wiped out without leaving a scrap of
birchbark or a silver of sprue* ae a
clue, and a wonderful opportunity for
the study of thia Windigo superstition
at first hand.”
"Eighteen thousand dollars In fur!"
sighed the factor, whose face waa
drawn and old aa they left the table.
CHAPTER II
"Will you come with me tn the
trade house. monsieur? For s time my
daughter will be busy with the dishes.
Then we shall have some music, lio
nise’“
"If you wish.“ and addressing Nteele
she added suggestively: “It will be
gay music tonight, monsieur, 1 prom
Ise you—In honor of your arrival at
the 'Houae of the Windigo.' "
"Hut 1 like your sad music, made-
molselle." be said, "and I am clever
at washing dlshea. If I could ba of
service."
There waa challenge In her Mart
eyes as al>e countered: "Ah. monsieur,
but yon are more clewr. 1 fear. at con
reeling your thought*"
Aa he walked wltR the factor to the
trade-house be w.mdrred precisely to
what she had alluded.
Nt. Onge was writing a lengthy re
port of the situation at Walling River
to hta chief at Albany, three hundred
miles downstrram. go Steel« Joined
I »avid end Michel seated bewld* the
poet canoe* on the beach, smoking af
ter supper pipe* In front of the In
dian shack* a group of shawled wom
en talked In hushed voice* Near the is.
three men. squatted on their beet*
huiian fashion, conversed, heads to
gether.
No shrill shouta broke the
quiet
Evm the play of th* d'taky
children seemed su|>prvue«i Truly,
thought Nteele. Nt. <>t,ge had not el-
aCE«-rat«*d. The a,r hung heavy with
f-ar. T? m * Indians were In a panic.
Dread of the fabled Windigo had
wrought Its spri! At thia rate It would
n<>t be long before the fuxe* would
bark la the clearing of the abandoned
l>oat-before padded fret would roam
st will In what was now a home And
the girl up tiiera-whal would becon»«
of her?
"Well. I »avid, has Michel told you
of the fur canoe?" demanded StMfo.
t»at Id's brood face wrinkled tn a
grin Taking his pt|«e from hie mouth,
he spat deliberately before he aa
swerrd with another question.
"How long we atop here?”
"I don't know. Why?" Steel* was
Interested.
"WM, Michel an' Dnveed lak to drop
down to de tueg strong water. We
•trike back In wvenelgbt sleep, may
tie."
'What's your Idea? It's not Just to
make another search on a mere
chance of finding something There's
something else cooking under that
black hat of your*”
But David was noncommittal. "We
tak a look at <1* las' camp fur canoe
made, an' shore below, for little piece."
Nteele was secretly delighted at tha
eicuse tills ei|>e<lltlon of I »avid's
would give him for prolonging Indefi
nitely his stay at Welling River. Aa
a student of Indian mythology and
worship of the au|>ernatural. the prob
ing of this mystery the study of Its
effect <>n the post Indian* demanded
hla !>«>•! effort* It wae a rare oppor
tunity for an ethnologist, a student of
folklore, to gather data at first hand.
But over and beyond that wae the rid
dle of this girl wh«>ae hands of an ar
tist were now busy with the dlshea up
there In the factor’s house.
"But w hat do you ex|>«»ct to find.
»Il.-hel? There have been two canoes
over the ground. The Windigo have
swallowed canoe, fur and men."
Tlie small eyes of the Indian
anapped “Daveed and Michel nevalre
see »f'sleu Windigo
We lak to hav*
look at heem. Tete-Boule." with a ges
ture toward the three men grouped In
front of the shack* "he bear Windigo
one. two. many tam. lie fin' track een
rnuakeg—ver" beeg. But he hav' fear
to tak Michel to de track Maybe down
on de beeg rapid* l»ave<M an* »llchel
shake han* wld de Windigo
Maybe
we fin' he la hongree den we feed
heem— some lead." And the smile
fad««d. while the swart features of the
Indian set stiff with hate.
"Ah. hat" thought Nteel* "Thea*
two old foxes have gut something in
their head*“
But knowing hla people, ha did not
press them for sn explanation. later,
alone with David, he would be told.
Ro he filled hla pipe and eat down.
“Michel." he naked, "why did th*
Itevlllnn Freree build thia plac* at the
head of these raplda InsteatFof up at
Ogoke lake where they could buck La-
fiamme. face to face, for the trade of
the whole country?"
For a space Michel smoke«!. Ignor
ing the question; then he grunted
through the stem of his pipe:
"Tou see M'sleu Lascelles at Al
ba new?"
"No. I stopped with the Iludeona
Ray people. Why?"
"Wai. eef you see M'slett Laacelle*
maybe you know why," waa the reply.
“Where were you l>efore y<'U rama
here?" asked Nteele.
"At Athene«”
"Tou know him. then Put he can't
be a g«w»d fur man to build here—In
the bad-lan«l* at these Spirit rapids
of the Ojibwe ye"
"D* man who build dees pos' die.
»le'sleu Lasrellee see no fool ; ho not
keep eel for fur—he keep eef-for
'noder reason " After which startling
statement »llchel became a sphlns to
Nteele'a further questioning
»Ines than ever mystified by what
he had heard, he left the men on th*
river shore, and rejoined hla boat.
tn the warm candle light of the foe-
tor'e quarters Nteele so->n l«wt himself
in the playing of Itenlee Nt. ong*.
There was no tree* of the troubled
eyee. of the reserve of the girl who
had rat mute through the evening
meal, listening to the talk of the men.
In the gay creature who now conjured
with her violin mad danroe of the Pol-
lah and Hungarian peasants, love
■onge of Italy. French and Gennaa
opera. Here waa rare temperament,
technique, training—all wasted la thia
wtldemcwi
It «a* monatroua- tnei-
pllcaLle! What could have brought
them her*?”
"It Is superb, mademoiselle—your
playing." ho cried Impulsively, "you
have
appeared
professionally.
of
morse. In France?”
The eulmlnation of thè miao-
log fur eaneo le eerloue for »t.
Ong«. What a mystery|
«To aa rownsi'B» •