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T ho I ne By R O B E R T J. C . ST E A D Homesteader Copyright, All Rights Reserved P- -© girl. In an instant her eye located the young man on the bank, and her lips molded as though to speak; but when she saw how unobserved she was “And we shall build our own she remained silent and upright as an home > and live our own lives, Indian while the canoe slipped gently and love each other — always, toward the shore. Presently it cush only—for ever and e v e r f she ioned its nose in the velvety sand. She rose silently from her seat, and breathed. stole on moccasined tip-toes along the “ For ever and ever,” he an stones until she could have touched swered. his hair with her fingers. But her eyes fell over his shoulder on the pa “Because it would seem like pers before him. trying to prove you are inno “ Always at your studies,” she cried, cent. And you don't need to as he sprang eagerly to his feet. “You prove anything to me. You must be seeking r. professorship.” She understand f You don't need stole the map from his fingers. “ I declare, if it isn’t Manitoba I” to prove anything to me.'' Seizing bis.cheeks between her hands And then, between the iron she turned his face to her. “ Answer rods across the open window me, John Harris. You are not think of the jail, his lips met hers. ing of going to Manitoba?” “Suppose I say I am?” In the fo re g o in g the first “ Then I am going, tool” love words are those o f John “ Mary I” Harris and M ary Allan when “John! Nothing unusual about a they plighted their troth and wife going with her husband, is resolved to homestead in Mani toba. In the next love scene there?” the second generation is mak “ No, of course, but you know—” ing its vows. It is Beulah H ar “Yes, I know” —glancing at the ring ris and Jim Travers who have on her finger. “ This still stands at sealed their pact with a kiss. par, doesn’t it?” A nd in betw een there is a like- “ Yes, dear,” he answered, raising real-life story o f the hom e the ring to his lips. “ You know It steading o f John and Mary does. But to venture into that wilder H arris, well told by R obert J. C. Stead, novelist, poet and Ca ness means—you see, it means so nadian official, author o f “ The much more to a woman than to a C owpunchers” and “ Kitchener man.” and Other Poem s.” “Not so much as staying at home— =0 alone. You didn’t really think I would ©= do that?” PRELUDE. “ No, not exactly that. Let us sit down and I will tell you what I Six little slates clattered Into place, and six little figures stood erect be tween their benches. “ Right 1 Turn I” said the master. “ March! School is dismissed;” and six pairs of bare little legs twinkled along the aisle, across the well-worn threshold, down the big stone step, and Into the dusty road, warm with summer sun. H OM E, S W E E T HOME. The master watched'them from the open window until they vanished be hind a ridge of beech trees that cut his vision from the concession. While they remained within sight a smile played upon the features of his strong, sun burned face, but as the last little ca lico dress was swallowed by the wood the smile died down, and for a mo ment he stood, a grave and thoughtful statue framed within the white pine casings of the sash. His brown study lasted only a mo m en t With a quick movement he walked to the blackboard, caught up a section of sheepskin, and began erhsing the symbols of the day’s in structions. “ Well, I suppose there’s reward in heaven,” 3 e said to himself, as he set the little schoolroom in order. “ There isn’t much here. The farmers will pay a man more to doctor their sick sheep than to teach their children. If others can take the chance I can take .it too. If it were not for her I would go tomorrow.” The last remark seemed to unlink a new chain of thought. The gray eyes lit up again. He. wielded the broom briskly for a minute, then toss ed it in a corner, fastened the win dows, slipped a little folder into his pocket, locked the door behind him and swung in a rapid stride down a by-path leading from the little school- house into the forest. Ten minutes’ quick walking in the woods, now glorious in all their au tumn splendor, brought him to a point where the sky stood up, pale blue, evasive, through the trees. The next moment he was at the water’s edge, and a limpid lake stretched away to where the forests o f the farther shore mingled hazily with sky and -water. He glanced about, as though expect ing someone; he whistled a line o f a ^popular song, but the only reply was from a saucy eavesdropper which, perched on a near-by limb, trilled back its own liquid notes in answer. “ I may as well improve the mo ments consulting my chart,” he re marked to his undulating Image in the water. “This thing of embarking on two new seas at once calls for skill ful piloting.” He seated himself on a stone, drew from his pocket the fold er, and spread a map before him. In a few moments he was so en grossed that he did not hear the al most noiseless motion of a canoe as It thrust its brown nose into the blue wedge before him. Kneeling near its stern, her paddle held aloft and drip ping, her brown arms and browner hair glistening in the mellow sun, her face bright with the light of Its own expectancy, was -a lithe and beautiful “Y o u Are N o t T h in k in g of Going to M anito b a ?” thought. Here, let me get the cush ion. . . . There, that Is better.” They sat for some minutes, gazing dreamily across the broad sheet of silver. “ And so yoii are going to Man itoba?” she said at length. “Yes. There are possibilities there. It’s a gamble, and that is why I didn’t want to share it with you—at first. I thought I would spend a year; locate a homestead; get some kind of a house built; perhaps break some land. Then I would come back.” “ And you weren’t going to give me a word in all those preparations for our future? You havfe a lot to learn yet, John. You won’t find it in that folder, either.” She had snatched his confession at an unguarded moment. He had not meant to tell her so much—so soon. As he thought over the wheels he had set in motion their possible course staggered him, and he found himself arguing against the step he contem plated. “ It’s a gamble,” he repeated. “The agricultural possibilities of the coun try have not been established. It may be adapted only to buffalo and Indi ans. We may be far back from civili zation, far from neighbors, or doctors, or churches, or any of those things which we take as a matter of course.” “Then you will need me with you, John, and I am going.” In a crimson glory the sun had sunk behind the black forest across the lake. The silver ^waters had draped in mist their fringe of inverted trees A u th o r o f “ Tho C o w P uncher.” Etc. along the shore and lay, passive and breathing, and very still, beneath the smooth-cutting canoe. “ And we shall build our, own home, and Uve our own lives, and lové each other—always—only, for ever and ever?” she breathed. “ For ever and ever,” he answered. The last white shimmer of daylight faded from the surface o f The lake. The lovers floated on, gently; joyously, into their ocean o f hope and happi ness. C H A P T E R I. T he Beck of Fortune. The last congratulations had been offered; the last good wishes, some what mixed with tears, had been ex pressed. The bride, glow&g in the happy consciousness of her own beau ty, and deified by the great tenderness that enveloped her new estate Lke.a golden mist, said her farewells with steady voice and undrooping eyes. It had been a busy winter for John Harris, and this, although the con summation of his great desire, was but the threshold to new activities and new outlets for his intense energies. Since the face and form of Mary Allan had first enraptured him In his little backwoods school district, a vast am bition had possessed his soul, and to day, which had seemed to be its end, he now knew to be but its beginning. The ready consent of his betrothed to share his life in the. unknown wilder ness between the Red river and the Rocky mountains had been a tide which, taken at its flood, might well lead him on to fortune. At the con clusion of his fall term he had re signed his position as teacher, and with his small savings had set about accumulating equipment essential to the homesteader. Because his effects were not enough to fill a car he had “ doubled up” with Tom Morrison, a fine farmer whose worldly success had been somewhat less than his deserts, and who bravely hotfetLto mend his broken fortunes wherp land might be had foF'thG taking!"' f So John Harris ana his'bride took the passenger train from her city home, while their goods and chattels, save for their personal baggage, rum bled on in a box-car or crowded stol idly into congested side-tracks as the exigencies of traffic required. At a junction point they .vere trans ferred from the regular passenger ser-, vice to an immigrant train. ,■ One or two of The passengers had already made the trip to Manitoba, and were now on the journey a second time, accompanied by their wives and families. These men were soon noted as individuals of some moment; they became the center of little knots of conversation, and their fellow-immi grants hung in reverent attention upon every word from their lips. “ Tell us about, the crops,” said one of the men passengers. “ What like wheat can ye grow?” “Like corn,” said the narrator, with great deliberation. “ Heads like ears o* corn. Wheat that grows so fast ye can hear it. Nothin’ uncommon to walk into wheat fields when they’s knee-high, an’ have to fight yer way out like a jungle.” “Is the Injuns werry big?” piped a little voice. “ My pa’s go’n’ to make me a bone-arrow so I can kill ’em all up.” “ That's a brave soldier,” said the man, drawing the child to -his knee. “But Ah know a better way to fight Indians than with bows an’ arrows. Ah fights ’em with flour an' blankets an’ badger-meat, an* it’s a long way better.” The child climbed up on the friend ly knee and interested himself in the great silver watch-chain that looped convenient to his fingers. “ Go on. wff your story, man,” he said. “ I’s listen in’.” And big Alecfk McCrae forgot the im migrants crowded around, forgot the lurch of the train and the window- glimpse of forests heavy-blanketed with snow, as he plowed his fertile imagination and spread a sudden har vest of wonderment before the little souL that clung to his great watch- chain. And so the journey wore on. As day succeeded day to the monotonous rum ble of the car wheels the immigrants became better acquainted and friend ships took root that in after years were to brave every storm of adver sity and bloom forth in the splendid community o f .spirit and sacrifice which particularly distinguished ,the pioneers. In the cold gray of a March morn ing, when the sun had not yet dis pelled the mists of night, and the fringing woods back from the Red river loomed white and spectral through the frost, they re-entered the empire, and In a few minutes were de training at Emerson, the boundary town and gateway to the prairies which for 1,000 miles stretched into the mysteries 6f the unknown. Emerson was the gateway of the great invasion. The “ farthest west” of rail communication, on the thresh old of the prairie country, it seemed the strategical point for the great -city which must arise with the settlement and development of the fertile king dom o f territory lyings between the Lake o f the Woods and the Rocky mountains, and between the forty- ninth parallel and the unknown north ern limit of agriculture. THE REFLECTIO N S O F A M A R R IE D W O M AN — are not pleasant if she is delicate, run down, or overworked. She feels |‘played out.” Her smile and good Jkv spirits ' £ a v e t a k e n • i* u* a f t worries her -u husband. This is the time to build up her strength and remedy those weak nesses or ailments which are the seat of her trouble. Dr. Pierced Favorite Prescription regulates and promotes the proper functions, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, melancholia, nervous ness and brings refreshing sleep. __ “ M olesophy.” “ Molesophy” is the delineation of character and reading of the past and future by means of moles on the hu man face and body. It is an even more ancient occult science than that of palmistry. For constipation use a natural remedy, Garfield Tea is composed of carefully selected herbs only. At all drug stores.—Adv. W hat, Indeed! Bobby’s mother asked him why he had not done what she had told him to do. He replied with a serious air: “ Well, mother, what are you going to do when your forgetter is bigger than your thinker?” ' Sign ifican ce of Diam onds. The diamond is generally chosen for engagement rings because the legend is that it strengthens the love o f a man for a woman. Inspiration to H om e Affection. “ When a man bet on a lame hoss,” (TO BE CONTINUED.) said Charcoal Eph, ruminatively, “ hit MAN’S FIRST DWELLING PLACE sure dp git inspirin’ how he yell fo* laigs t’ git on dat old crowbait fo* de Scientists C laim T h a t the Desert of sake o’ his wife an’ chillun.”—Rich mond Times-Dispateh. Gobi M u st fo r Natural Reasons Be :he Spot.. The desert of Gobi, which is the summit of the central steppe in Asia, is the most elevated region on the globe, and it is here, scientists claim, man first lived, arguing that this point o f ; garth must have been the first to emerge from the universal sea, and that as the subsiding waters gradually gave up lower regions of earth to man he was able to descend and spread himself progressively over new acquisitions. It is from this region that the great rivers of Asia also take th eir. rise and flow toward the four cardinal points. . On the declivities of these highlands are the plains of Tibet, lower than the frozen regions of Gobi. Here are found not only the vine, the olive, rice, the legumina, and other plants on which man has depended for sustenance, but also those animals which he has tamed and led with him over the earth, as the ox, the horse, the ass, the sheep, the goat, the camel, the hog, the dog, and even the rein deer, run wild upon these mountains. On the mountains of Cashmire, in Tibet, and in the north of China, grain has been found to be growing wild for years without ever being sown or tilled, and here also wild animals that have lived there while man has tamed others of the same species, are numer ous.—Exchange. N o Statue of Georgian. Good health cannot be maintained where there is a constipated" habit. Garfield Tea overcomes constipation. —Adv. W o m a n 's Rights. An Indiana court compelled a man to give back the false teeth he had taken away from his wife. Women’s rights still include the privilege of biting, it seems. —- Cleveland Plain Dealer. A m o n g the F irs t E d ition s! No man really knows a woman like a hook until he has tried to put her on the “ shelf!” —Cartoons Magazine. C uticu ra fo r Sore Hands. Soak hands on retiring in the hot suds of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Cu ticura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with tissue paper. This is only one of the things Cuticura will do if Soap, Ointment and Talcum are used Sor all toilet purposes.—Adv. T h a t’s the W a y It Is. Uncle Bill Bottletop says that too few people lay by anything for a rainy day and too many lay by something for a dry spell.—Washington Star. W hy? “ How to Live More Than One Hun dred Years” is the title of a recent book. But what, we desire to ask, would be tho object?—-Philadelphia Public Ledger. Tho secretary of the statuary hall in the eapitol says that there is no representative of Georgia in the Hall of Fame. Each state may contribute two statues of deceased citizens* o f the state, who “for historical renown Since it is worth while to be well, or for civil or military services” are take Garfield -Tea, nature’s medicine. considered by the .-state as worthy of —Adv. such -commemoration. Boon to Forgetfulness. ACCORDING TO FIXED DESIGN V ariety of Reasons Advanced fo r the Arrangem ent of P aint on the C heeks of Clown. All pantomime, clowns paint their cheeks and mostly they do so accord ing to certain designs handed down from generation to generation. But as to the why and the wherefore opin ions differ. According to one authority the scar let triangles, red fishtail and half moon, originated from dabs of Ver million placed here and there on the cheeks at haphazard to represent a naughty boy who had been at the jam pot. Another says that the pantomime clown’s reddened face is intended as a burlesque of the rouge-tinted cheeks of the pantomime Columbine; while yet a third has it that the crimson patches are a survival from the early mystery plays, when the clown was a demon, and rod all over. The theory has also been held that the modern clown in pantomime Is a direct descendant ot Momus, the god of mockery of the early mystery plays and masques, who was always repre sented with a huge gaping mouth. The red fishtail is merely the survival of that part of the medieval makeup which aimed at producing an appar ent enlargement of the mouth. These curious scarlet symbols are only found on the cheeks of panto mime clowns. The ordinary circus clown does not paint his cheeks. He paints only his nose, with a view to poking fun at the “boss,” the ring master, whose nasal organ, in regard to the old-time circuses at all events, was more often than not apt to be highly colored.—Pearson’s Weekly. To make people laugh is to make them forget. What a benefactor to humanity is he who can bestow for getfulness.—Victor Hugo. One Penalty of W ealth. “ After a man accumulates a big for tune,” said Jud Tunkins, “ he has to hire a lot of people to show him what to do with it.” Skin Troubles ■ Soothed------ With Cuticura Soap 25c, Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcum 25c. F irs t Enthusiasm Gone. Mariette was delighted when a small brother arrived at her home. How ever, after some weeks she began to think he was somewhat of a care, and one day when her mother told her to rock his cradle, she looked at him with disdain and remarked, “ Oh, you little bothering thing!” Âré Yftll SatUfipil? me I ou oausneu: BEHNKE.WALKER business college In the biggest, most perfectly equipped Business Training School In thé North» West. Fit yourself for a. higher position with more money. Permanent positions assured our Graduates. Write for catalog—Fourth and Vamhlll Portland P. N. U. No. 9, 1921