/ 1 TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, Prologue. If on« can Juot Ite close enough to the breast of the wlMernesa. he but be imbued with some t palmo therein.—From a f r . lriar> of mere was a bench beneatn Ute tree. If there had not been, the life of Den Falling would have been entirely dif­ ferent. If the squirrel had been on any other tree. If he hadn't been hungry. If any oce of a dozen other things hadn’t been as they were. Dan Falling would have never gone back to the land of bl* people, The Hale bushy-tailed fellow on the tree limb waa the squirrel of Destiny! Tears before, that he n«-eW glasses: and she had easily found an oculist that agreed with her. Now that he was alone on the path, the utter absence of color In his cheeks was startling. That meant the absence of red—that warm glow of the blood eager and alive in bls veins, perhaps an observer would have noticed lean bands, with big- knuckled fingers, a rather firm mouth, and closely cropped dark hair. He was twenty-nine years of age. but be looked somewhat older. He know now that he was never going to be any older. A doctor as sure of himself as the one he had just consulted couldn't pok'ibly be mistaken. He sat down on a park bench, just beneath the spreading tunb of a great tree. He would «It here, he thought, until he finally decided what he would do with bls remaining six months. He hadn't been able to go to war. The recruiting -Ulcer had been very kind but most determined. The boys had brought him great tales of France. It might be nice to go to France and live In some country Inn until he died. But be didn't have very long to think upon this vein. For at that Instant the squirrel came down to see If he bad a nut. It was the squirrel of Destiny. But Dan didn't know It then. Bushy-tall was not particularly afraid of the human beings that passed un and down the park, because he had learne«! by experience that they o«ual:v attempted no harm to him. But. nevertheless, be hnd bls Instin-us. He d n't entirely trust them. After «everal generation*, probably the •qulrrels of this perk would dlmh all rer its visitors and sniff In their ears •nd investigate the back of their necks. But this wasn't the way of Bushy-tall. He hnd come too recent­ ly from the wild p aces. And he wun- .“red. most int«- -ely. whether this rail, forked creature bad a pocket full of nuts. He swung down on the grass to see. "Why, you little devil!” Dan said whisper His -yes suddenly tn* wu«i rntng*. The squirrel «.-rep« slowly along th* bmeb. stopping to sniff, stopping to •rare with «me eye and suether. just devoore«! from bead to rail with curi­ osity, And then be leaped on Dan’« knew. He «as quite convinced, by now. that this warm perch on which be Stood was the tn««st singular 1 and In­ terestin >jec? of bls young life. It was trie that be as faintly worried by the «reel! that reached his nostrils, Bnt all It really did was furthi ¡er to In- die bls curiosity. He followed the ¡«•g up to the bip anti then perched on the elbow. And an Instant more he was poking a cold nose Into Dan’« neck. But If the squirrel was excited by all these developments. Its amazement was nothing compared to Dan's. It had been the most astounding Inci­ dent In the man's life. He sat still, tingling with delight. And In a single flash of Inspiration be knew be bad come among bls own people at last. He knew where be would spend bls last six months of life. His own grandfather bad been a hunter and trapper and frontiersman In a certain vast but little known Ore- gon forest, His son bad moved to the eastern cities, but in Dan's garret there used to be old mementoes and carlo« from these savage days—a few claws and teeth, and a fragment of an oid diary. Th«« '-all bad come to him at last. Tenderfoot though he was Dan would go back to th-se forests, to spend his last «fix months of life among the wtl«i creatures that made •hem tbelr horn’-. Long ago. wb«»tj the great city of Gttcheapolls was a rather small, un­ tidy hamlet in the middle of a plain. It used to be that a pool of water, possibly two hundred feet «quare. BOOK ONE gathered every spring Immediately back of the courthouse, The «now falls thick and heavy In GRebeapolls Repatriation. In winter; and the pond was nothing more than snow water that the r.- ffi- cient drainage system of the city did not quite absorb. Besides being the Dan F’ .- «t«-; •■**d out of tbe ele­ despair of the plumbers and the rity vator .-«lel Was at --oce a -orbed in CHAPTER II engineer, It was a severe stre n i on tlw eynwd thnt ever sum 1 up and the beauty-loving Instincts of •- « rry «tow n |:n*:«l street. He just on» The dinner hour fo«in«l Dan Failing Inhabitant In the town who had any »f the ..r«l-• i drop« of wat«r, not in the public library of G!teheepoli* such Instincts. It was muddy an«l rn n-te •■«■' ng «•’¡4- rate, physlral and asking the g;rl win«’«mt t-ehlm! th- murky and generally distasteful I'”“ ”uk-.l omh’nation to he «tudl«*! l«-k if he ml-h« look at maps of Ore- A little boy played at the e-’.-e of f »»*» the s’ide of a microscope. He g«’o. He rem-■ here«! tL.-t his grand the water, tills spring day of Ion.- .- «•„re fai v p-i«« t’le cloth#-«, neither foil er Lad lire «n st-utli-.-m Oregon Except for bls Interest In the j ‘ t I1 r!< h nor 'labby. He was a tall man. 'I-- <>. k.-«J nlo' e 'lie Lotto-! if h -mat would Lave been scarcely worth while £ gave oo impression of strength -•ti-1 dis«-,ter«- ! u whi le e-ipire. rung to go to the trout,le of explaining ■ -t SU«’- of the exce«*llng st-arene«» of •i • from glgi-u’ c sag • p - ns to th' ft contained no fish. Be. however , 111« frame. As long as he remained • t to «1-ns- forests a --ng the Fa bitterly regrett«*! the fact. In truth, in the crowd, he wasn’t Important ■ific o"et-n. Ee began to search f he sometime« like«! to believe that It enough to he studied. But soon he L’nl- Hie. did contain fish, very sleepy fish that turned off. through the park, an«] Time was when Linkville was on never made a ripple, and as he bad an straightway r found himself alone. of tlie*principal town« of Oregon. Dt-a uncommon Imagination he was some­ The nols nnd hustle of the crowd— remember«*] the place because some times able to convince himself that ■ -never loud or startling, but so contin- of the time-yellowed letters his gram!- this was so. Bnt he never took book uous that the senses are scarcely father 1«.id sent him h I been ma:!—’ and line and played at fishing. He more aware of them than of the beat­ at a town that bore 'his name. But wax too much afraid of the laughter Ing of one's own heart—suddenly and he couldn’t find Linkville or> the m»r> of hit boy friends. Ilfs mother prob­ utterly died almost at the very border ably wouldn’t object If he fished here, of the park, The noise from the he thought, particularly If he were Later he was to know the reason— street seemed wholly unable to pene­ careful not to g«C hl« shoes covered that the town, half-way between the trate the thick branches of the trees. with mud. But she wouldn’t let him «age plains and the mountains, had He could even h«-ar the leaves whisk­ go down to Gitcheapollx creek to fish prospered and changed its name.- He ing and flicking together, and when a with the other boys for mud cat. He remembered that it was located on man can discern this, he can hear the wax not very strong, she thought, and one of those great fresh-water lakes cushions of a mountain lion on a trail it was a rough sport anyway, and be­ of southern Oregon: so. giving up that at nlgbL Of course Dan Falling had side«—«he didn’t think he wanted to sea re a, tie began to took for lakes. Hr never heard a mountain lion. Except go very badly. As mothers are usual­ found them In plenty—vast, unmoas on the railroad tracks between, he ly particularly understanding, this had never really been away from was a curious thing. ured lakes that, seemed to be dls’rlb- cities In his life. uted without reason or sense over the The truth was that little Dan Fall­ At once his thought went back to whole southern end of the state. Near ing wanted to fish almost as much as the doctor’s words. They were still the Klamath lakes, seemingly the he wanted to live. He would dream repeating themselves over and over most Imposing of all the fr«c>h-water abont ft of nights. His blood would In his ears, and the doctor's face was lakes that the map revealed, he found glow with the thought of ft In the still before his eyes. It had been a a city named K!amath Falls. He put springtime. Women the world over kind face; the lips had even curled In the name down In his notebook. will have a hard time believing what a little smlh- of encouragement But The map showed a particularly an Intense, heart-devouring passion the doctor had heen perfectly frank, high, far-spn-aditg range of moun­ the love of the chase can be, whether entirely straightforward. There had tains due west of the city. Of «tourse It Is for fishing or hunting or merely been no evasion In his verdict knocking golf balls Into a little hole they were the Cascades: the map said 'Tve made every test," he said upon a green. Sometimes they don’t so very plainly. Then Dan knew tie remember that this Instinct Is Just ns “They're pretty well shot Of course was getting home. His grandfather ■much a part of most men. and thus you cun go to some sanitarium, L had lived an«] trapped and died in Why, You Little Devil!” Dan you ’ ve got the money. If you haven't most boys, as their hands or their these same wooded hills. Finally he in a Whisper. lips. It was acquired by just ns la­ —enjoy yourself all you can for about located and recorde«l the name of the •sparkled with delight. And he forgot largest city on the main railr«>ad Hue borious a process—the Ilves of un­ six months.” Dan's voice had been perfectly cool nil about the doctor’s words nn* h-e thnt was adjacent to the Cascade«. counted thousands of ancestors who and sure when he replied. He had own [«ro-pects m his bitter regret« fished and hunted for s living. The pn-paratlon for his departun It wns true thnt little Dan didn't smiled a little, too. He was still rath­ that he had not brought a -pocketful took many days. He read many books I ok the part. Even then ho showed er proud of that smile. “Six months? of nuts. on fl-'ra and f.i'tna. He bought si«ort- signs of physical frailty, Ills eyes Isn’t that rather short?” And then Dnn did a curious thing. fng equipmenL Knowing the usna! “Maybe a whole lot shorter. I think Even Inter, be didn’t know why he «11'1 ratio t-etween the respective pleasures looked rather large, and his cheeks were not the color of fresh sirloin, ax that's the limit.” it. or what gave him the Idea that he of anticipation and realization, he did There was the situation: Dan Fall­ eooid decoy th«- squirrel up to him by­ not hurry himself at all. And one they should have been. In fact, one would have ' -«d to look very hard to ing hnd but six months to live. He doing it. That was his only piirpox«»— midnight he boarded a west-bound xee any co . o them nt all. These began to wonder whether his mother just to see how close the squirrel train. facts are In -•••sting from the light had been entirely wise In her effort to would come to him. He thought he He sat for a long time In the vesti­ they throw upon the next glimpse of keep him from the “rough games” of would like to look Into the bright ey< - bule of the sleeping car, thinking In it.e hoys of bls own age. He realized at close range All he did was sud­ anticipation of this final adventure of Dnn, fully twenty years later. Except for the fact thnt It was the now that he hnd been an underweight denly to freexc into one position—In his life. He was rather tremulous and background for the <-nrll«-st picture of all hla life—that the frailty that had an Instant rendered as motlonle«« a« exultant as be sank down Into bis little Dnn, the pool hnrk of the conrt- thrust him to the edge of the grave the rather questionahl««-looklng stone berth. house has very little Importance In hnd begun In bls earliest boyhood. But stork that was perched on the foun­ He saw to It that at least a meas­ hln story. It did. however, afford an it wasn't that he was born with phy­ tain. ure of preparation was made for his Illustration to him of one of the real­ sical handicaps. He had weighed a The squirrel was very close to him. coming. That night a long wire went ly astonishing truths of life. He saw full ton pounds; and the doctor had and Dan «eennal to know by Instinct out to the Chamber of Commerce of a shallow In the water thst he pre­ told his father that a sturdier little that the movement of a single muscle one of the larger southern Oregon tended he thought might be a fish. He "hap was not to be found In any ma would give him away. So he sat a« If cities. In IL he told the date of bls lernlty bed In the whole city. But his ^e were p«>slng before a photogra- arrival and asked certain directions. threw a stone nt IL mother was convinced that the chib) The only thing thnt happened was nber's camera. The fact that he w II«- wanted to know the name of some n splash, and then a slowly widening was delicate anil must be sheltered. able to do It is fn Itself Important. It mountain rancher where ilossibly he ripple. The circumference of the rip­ Never In all the history of his family, Is considerably easier to exercise might find board and room for the re­ ple grew ever larger, extended and so far as Dan knew, hnd there heen a with dumb-bell» for^flve mlnut««« than mainder of the summer and the fall. widened, nnd finally die«l at the edge death from the malady that aflllcte«l to sit absolutely without motion for The further ba«’k from the paths of of the shore. It set little Dan to film. Yet his sentence was signed and the same lengrft lengtii of time, time. Hunters men, he wrote, the gr«-ater would be thinking. He wondered If. had the sealed. and naturalist« acqntre n«v|nlre the art with his pleasure, And he signed the wire But he harbored no resentment training. It urn therefore rather cu jiool heen larger, the ripple still wool«! with his full name: Dan Failing, wl 1th have spread; and If the pool had been against his mother. It was nil in the a Henry In the midille, and a "UI" at . rtous thnt Dan succeeded so «veil «•lernlty, whether the ripple would game. She hnebhle thrown feelings In the wasted man. It seemed both. Then be came ■nerce of th«- busy little Oregon city step« nearer. Into the snow-water pond: but Its ef- wn« not n«« ally exceptionally Inter A moment before he tind been cer fe«-t was to remove the life of Dnn esti-d In stray hunters that wanted a tain tiiut a living creature—in fact l«o-.r-ll!«g place for the summer. It.« Fulling, since grown up, fur out of one of the mo.-t terrible anil powerful btislnes« was finding country homes «• realms of the ordinary. living cr«iti»r«-s in th world—bin! for orcliardixts In the plensunt rivet An«1 thnt brings nil matters down been sitting on the pari lam ch. N«o« vnlle.'». But It happened that the re- to mm. In the Inst days of a particu­ his poor little brain w s completely rip.« nt of the win- was one of the old larly «le«-pv Mie ’iter. You would hard­ nddled. He was « entirely ready to lie- Mt residents, a frontiersman hlm««-ir ly know- Gltchenpoll« now. The busl- llevc that lil«- eye! had deceived him. am! it was one of th«’ tradition« of th«' ri«-«s district has Increased tenfold. 'east Iinslfl cours ing In now laid off In as green nn«l father bail heen a frontier <►1 till of a nut from a child's hand were be«-n a legeml In the ol«l trapping nn<’ irs l>e blasted. But he turned to look one« shooting days when this man pretty » city park a» one could wish first order, and all his a fore him—n rangy, hardy young. So It come about thnt wher |o nc<‘. w hose more, The figure stfll sat utterly In ert, And all nt once he forgot his . '"it and whelming furiosity. “Any relation to I tan Failing of th« a herd of deer are going t<> l»> Intre- He cum«’ somewhat nimrer nn«’ !»ench, turning qua divide, hut be couldn't doubt hut no-r of lltlU, a few small birds and He'd often Imagined that he world his head < h«- moved. He was nmi" that the sender of the wire refern-i! p 'ssihly half a dozen pair« of squire puzzlesl t an ever, but he was n«- to his grnndfnthi'r. He wired in the like io x«e the forests In winter. roll were the extent an«l limit of the In him you could »y<- a ret!« .lion of longer afraid, Hls curiosity hn«l be affirmative. The head of the Chamber wild creatures. And at the moment the boy that played beside the petal come so Intone«« that no room for fear of Commerce received the wire, rem I lltla story opens, one of these squir­ <»f mow water, twenty years before. was l«-fL Ant ifirryl was hungry. He wlslie«l that than they were. Bat It was a little the light In hl.s eyes. But the sqtur for one thing. Imn Fulling would Imve • it. It «qkes a tnitsmlsr probably stepped off th«- train nt hl« response to be visible to the eves of «le«tfnntloo «holly ty.’iera1d«*d nnd un glasses. Ills mother hnd ho«»n sms The one thing .bat change«! hi« reeev’ng s •» Cexemv • of “The Great «-erraln wMefy knoirn fraternal order the next night, th« Chamber nt Com- metre crossed trails with the Frontier In the person of ar.other •>!«] resident who had bls home tn ^-e farthest reaohe« of the Crr pqua divide. The latter asked the f-’rmer to come op for a few days’ shooting—the deer t>e- ftg fatter an-j more numerous thro ' About Real Tobacco** says the Good is that it tastes so good and a little chew lasts so much longer than the old kind. The good, rich tobacco taste stays right with this class of tobacco. ¿That's why it costs you less to chew it. i Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that Put up in two styles RIGHT-CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco « f ■^1 1 , e ■- . -*■ 1 U L>- / i • u II II en thí M p«c.«ous season since the days of the grizzliest. "Too busy, Tm afraid." the ct« m- t—r of Commers had rep' ed. "I • l.ennox—that reminds m D-« p remember old Dan Failing?" Lennox probed back In* the ve for a single 1n«tant. srra g! all the kink« of hfs me- fon cp- eiectiic i . -s; . cow« and laaclucc w bnt rry’nt fioors erd fovn ■’•ont. tank ini' t?nk, tvren+y k) Sh.-”mlex milker •c motor, ieet .• i rad b .n have nd Tillaaock g shed for milch *hed. ALL FARM MACHINERY including; t; actor end p'«’v, and oth-r equip­ ment. ♦ EIGHTEEN HEAL' COWS, tiree he fers and bull. Included are three pure b:*d guern» s and two pure b- «.- Hoistrins. Two of the . .«l sejs were lecent! imported tro>n (gland of Guernsey. A number o cov-ts are recently fteih, insuting a good income all winter. Hay and roots. One drivn or saddle horse. •FARM CONSISTS OF TWENTY-FIVE ACRES best Trask River botttnr., nearly tl! has be :n plowed or cm be plowed. About lour acres partial­ ly cleared. I PHiCE $23.000. $11.000 cash. terms on balance. be fully appreciated. Must be inspected to Ef'win Harrison