THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
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Thursday, November 18, iQ2n
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THE VOICE OF THE PACK
Help Furnished Free
By Edison T. Marshall, of Medford, Or.
PIONIER
EMPLOYK ENT CO.
To Employers of Labor
By tb“
A Story of Oregon by an Oregon Boy
The Oldest Offi> e in Oregon
HendquHrter» h r
Farm, Dairy, Mill, LoKginp
anti office help of all kinda7
Phone Hifo. 2272
14 X Second St. Portland,Or.
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Pigs for sale—E. Atkinson, Sand
looked’ rlgETnt hls'ow ri eyes. The skill
lint the wilderness pbouf him' was
till tomorrow, Dan." he replied,
around the eyes wns burned brown by
■ tlrrlng and pulsing with life. Some lake, Oregon.
will have supper soon, anyway,
the sun, and the flesh was so lean that
if the sound» were quite clear—an
PROLOGUE.
don’t want to overdo too much,
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the cheekbones showed plainly, The
•ccnslonai stir of a pebble or the crack
at first."
mouth
was
straight;
but
if
a
twig,
and
some,
like
the
faintest
yet
It
He
spoke
In the little town of Gltcheapolls sni ill
“But. good heavens! I’m not gOltlL
witching of leaves In the brush,not
Dun Failing dreams boyish dreams, tinc neither savage nor cruet It was sim-
esenee of
tured with melan.holy over hi* supposed ply determined.
eu feet distant, could only be guessed
Heavens. to try to spare myself while I’m here
physical weakness. There, years later,
Lennox cauie up with a light, silent
it.
It In toy it’s too late for that."
be nieets Destiny.
"Of course—but sit down now, any
“What Is making the sounds?" he
tread nnd extended his hand, “You're
lsii
I way. I’m sorry that Suuwbird
asked.
BOOK I—REPATRIATION.
Dan Failing’s grandson, aren’t you?"
; ;
here.”
He didn't know It. at the time, but
he asked. "I'm Silas Lennox, who
CHAPTER I.—War
‘Snowbird Is—“
i.ennox turned quickly toward him. It
used to know him when he lived on
that l>e has not mor.
CUI
’My daughter. My
wasn’t that the question had surprised
the Divide, You are coming to spend
Uve. Falling sits
m ke a biscuit! That’s
I
bench, wondering wl
the mountaineer. Rather It was the
the su mor and full ou my ranch.”
those six months,
of course, but we've always culled tier tone In which Dan had spoken. It wns
The 1111111 odiate result of these
practically decides t
that. She got tired of keeping house perfect ly cool, perfectly self-con-
words, . be- les relic 'f, was to set D:m
;ny
HU blood Is pioneer
and is working this summer. Poor i tallied.
wonde •ring biow the e old mountaineer
to end his days In tl
>y 1
Memories or his gra
Bill has to keep house for her, and
"The one right close Is a chipmunk
it
him had ri ÛCOgDlZ ed him. i. lie wondered if
love for nil Inin, o
no wonder lie’s eager to take the stock I I don’t know what the others are: no
he ha id un V physic: •al resemblance to
y
tho tru
lu reaching u de Isle
down to tl e lower levels, I only wish I one ever docs know. Perhaps ground
his gr ramlfat lier. lì iut this hope was
it w
ahsurt
lie hadn’t brought 'em up this spring i | squirrels, or rabbits, or birds, and
shot to earth at
Ilfs telegram
A ml he ■ would
he
“"It wns rather character:
tue
at all; I’ve lost dozens from the i ruaybe one of those harmless old black
li. •neos and w
had explained at
malady, and i
of
mountain men—that the g
r\f
IDA
coyotes.”
bears who is curious about the house,
•JI COUrSC fl ll.tr UiU
•r had picked
I. He told hl
Dan Falling couldn't po:
“But a coyote can’t kill cattle—" ■ And tell me—can you smell any-
lilin out imply
Í he bad ho
it
-I all >on gr<
board. But Steele kn >w t'
"It can If it lias hydrophobia, a com thing—”
mark of P lllsiM ise on. his face. As h
runted almost
cities and of men, and he c
The Faithful Nurse
mon thing In the varmints this time of
“G >d Lord. Lennox! I can smell all
he shook lands, he trie. <1 his best to
' he
u
t
year. But as I say. Bill will take the kind: of things."
<5
as well as the skilled phy
h ow I v
kt i\v m
plained,
Te won’t conn
!rn.
ni lnmtal
stock down next season, and then
“I'm glad, Some men can't. No one
hlpi at
“Anyway, have
sician knows the value of
> plain : au un
ft. I'm net
V€ :h
•can enjoy the woods if he can't smell
its tbh-
tlie end of Ills
pure, strong' eflicacious
nt mem
! S- owblrd’s work will be through, an
hi
e North
ing, un
and you’ve
of
1 I'art of the smells are of flowers, and
u ) was ithat evi en In
'
she
ii
come
back
here.
”
drills.
Of what avail aie
Ï»
ti
.wilsaud
fork. Moreover
ad
“Then he’s down in the valley?” ‘ part of balsam, and God onlj’ knows
k ftir-
miles back—”
medical
skill aud experi
to rhei
L -ennox had s 11
“Far from It, She’s a mountain I what the others are. They are just
nd. •But 1
“Only one h
you
ence
if
the
chi mist luils in
an cou
I
uie
wilderness
—
”
image of til
1
That cough girl If one ever lived. Perhaps y, i
know. Rut St.
«’e p H
Dan could not only perceive the
don
’
t
kuow
the
recent
policy
of
th
tell:
his
duty
by
the patii ni?
he’s the man hi
Becanise of (
un
Silas Lennox forest service to hire women when I smells and sounds, but he felt that
fore him—that all
Realizing
our
responsibili
•nnux could not
ou mean that they cun be obtained, It wns n policy they were leaving an imprint on tb-
lenient,
been since the firs
ty
we
are
careful
.
s ex l s ; but lu
very
fiber
of
his
soul.
He
knew
one
you re u—a gve .er? T
you’ve given started in war time: and kept up now
gon trail? If he
I
y wer* • at al!
| thing. He knew he could never for
economical
and
efficient,
because
it
Is
E.
E.
KOCH
up
hope
of
reci
off to him before lie steps off the
the el dor Fa
irl from college have a i get this first introduction to the nioun-
Tillamook,
Oregon
train.”
impie.-'
“That’s tlu Impression
I meant to She ami a girl
h the wildern
convey. I've got a little over four cabin not rive miles from here on old , tain night. The whole scene moved
The mountaineer's bronzed face w as
him in strange, deep ways in wltich
Raid
mountain,
nnd
they
’
re
doing
look
months—though I don't see that I’m
earnest anef intent in tho bright lights
he had never been stirred before; it
of tlie club. Steele thought he hud
weaker titan I was when tlie doe- jut duty."
left
him exultant aud. In deep wells of
Dan
wondered
intensely
what
look-
sald I had six months. Those
known his breed. Now he began to
four will take me all through the fall jut duty might be. “You see. Dan," his nature far below the usual cur
have doubts of his own knowledge.
and the early w inter. And I hope you Lennox said in exjdanation, "tlie gov rents of excitement, a little excited
“Ho won’t be ; don't count on it,” he
won't feel that you’ve been imposed ernment loses thousands of dollars tQO.
said humbly. “The Failings have done
Then both of them were startled
much for this region, and I’m glad
upon—to bgve a dying man ou your every year by forest fire. A fire can
Je stopped easily if it is seen soon out of their reflections by the clear,
enough to do a little to pay it back,
hands."
but don’t count much on this eastern
“It Isn’t that.” Silas I.ennox threw ifter it starts. But let it bum awhile, unmistakable sound of footsteps on
boy. lie's lived In cities ; besides, lie’s
i his car into gear and started up the n this dry season, aud it’s a terror—a the ridge. Both of them turned, and
n sick man. He said so in his wire.
long grade. And he drove clear to the ■'ail of flame that races through the I.ennox laughed softly In the dark
You ought to kuow It before you take
top of it and Into another glen before forests and can hardly be stopped. ness. “My daughter,” he said. ‘
him in.”
’poke again. Then he pointed to \nd maybe you dou’t realize how knew she wouldn’t be afraid to come.
Dan could see only Snowbird’s out
^The .bronzed face changed ; rosslblv
t looked to Dan like a brown mortnous this region is—literally hun-
«¿^Uutf^L^PPoTntinent cg«ie U}-
streak that melted into the thick ireds of miles across. We’re the last line at first, just her shadow against
,o
'eyes, t , a Linger, eh?”
brush, “That was a deer," he said jutpost—there are four cabins, if you the moonlit hillside. His glasses were
repeated *‘Te|—it's true thjit jf he’d
slowly, "Just a glimpse, but your .'ar. find them, in the first seventy none too good at long range. And
biles buck to town. So they have to possibly, when s'be came within range,
been like Hie otiier Fallings, îiè'd never
grandfather could have got him be I
nit lookouts on the high points, and
have been that. Why, Steele, you
tween the eyes. Most like as not, low they’re coming to the use of air the first thing that he noticed about
her was her stride. The girls he
though,
he
’
d
have
let
him
go.
He
couldn't have given that old man a
planes so they can keep even a better knew didn't walk In quite that free,
never killed except when he needed
cold If you'd tied him In the Rogue
vatch. Snowbird aud a girl friend
meat But' that—as you say—ain't 'rom college got jobs this summer as strong way. She took almost a man
river overnight. Of course you couldn’t
the impression I’m trying to convey." ookohts—all through the forest sejv- size step; and yet It was curious that
count on the line keeping up forever.
she did not seem ungraceful. Dan had
Xie seemed to be groping for words. i
But I'll take him, for the memory of
ce Jhey are hiring women for the a distinct impression that she was
bls grandfather.”
“WfcaX i? lt-
pennoxT’ Dun ,vork. They are more vigilant than floating down to bim oh the moonlight.
“You’re not afraid to?”
asked.
■nee. less inclined to take chances, She seemed to come with such unut
&^AU'lUd, h—1 ! He can’t Infect those
“Ipstead of being sorry. I’m mighty ind work cheaper. These two girls terable smoothness. And then he
ttfd stropping children of mine. Snow
glad you’ve come.” {.enpox told him. pave a cabin near a spring, and they heard her call lightly through the
i
bird weighs one hundred and twenty
•‘It’s not that I expect you to be like I .■ook their own food, and are making darkness,
pounds nnd Is bard as steel. Ngyçr
your grandfather. You bavejj't bad •v! ?t Is big wages in the mountains.
.JTljl? sound gave him a distinct sense
his chance. But it's always the way
jlS,k 'H1.'-1-11
And you
rathqr hoping «he'll drop oyer foj of surprise. Some way, he hadn’t as
kliMv Bill, oreourse.
of true men. the world over, to come 1 few minutes tonight."
sociated a voice like this with a moun
back to their awn
jwn kind to die. Ti;at
Thai
Yes, Steele knew Bill. Rill weighed
J LoftF-she travel over tain girl; he hud supposed that there
hui'lLT'd pqundSj nnd he would
we fgSt saw—he’s your people. I
would be so many harshening influ
So tjre all thes$ Fanchers that th- <e r.'"s tn the darkness?"
"ciioeaé tlie biggest ôf thé steers be
The mountaineer laughed—a de ences in this wild place. Yet the tone
drove down to the loweç IFfbTs'ln lhe , "Ÿôifre Dan Fal'lna's Grandson, Aren’t I grutJ their lives out of the forests— lighted sound thnt came somewhat was as clear and full as a trained
winter nnd, twisting its horns, would
they are your people, too. And you curiously from the bearded lip« of the singer’s. It was not a high voice; and
’ You 7“
make It lay over on its side. ResldeSj
couldn’t have pleased the old man's stem, dark man. “Dan. I’ll swear she’s yet it seemed simply brimming, as a
both of the men assumed that i>nn Of course he was tall, just as the fa old friend* any better, or done more afraid of nothing that walks the face cup brims with wine, with the rap
must be only In the first stages of his mous frontiersman had been, but for his memory, than to come back of the earth—nnd It isn't because she ture of life, It was a self-confident
while the elder weighed one hundred to his own land for your last days."
malndy.
hasn’t had experience either. She's a voice too. wholly unaffected and sin-
The words were strange, yet Dan dead shot with a pistol, for one thing. i cere, and wholly wlthout embarrass-
Anil even ns the men talked, the and ninety pounds, bone and muscle,
train that bore Dan Falling to the this man did not touch one hundred Intuitively understood. It was as if She’s physically strong, and every I meat,
home of his ancestors was entering and thirty. Evidently the years had a prodigal son had returned at last, muscle Is hard as nails. She used to
Then she came close, and Dan saw
for the first time tho dark forests of brought degeneracy to the Failing clan. arid although his birthright was have Shag, too—the best dog In al! the moonlight on her face. And so it
pine nnd fir thnt make the eternal Lennox was desolated by the thCught. squandered and he came only to die, these mountains. She’s a mountain came about, whether in dreams or
He helped Dan with tils bag to a lit the people of his home would give him girl, I tell you; whoever wins her has wakefulness, he could see nothing else
background of the Northwest. He was
wholly ungble to understand the tle wiry automobile that waited be kindness and forgiveness, even though got to be able to tame her!” The for many hours to come.
strange feeling of familiarity that he side the station. They got Into the they could not give him their respect mountaineer laughed again.
The girl who stood In the moonlight
hud with them, a sensation that In two front seats, and a moment later
The call to supper came then, and had health. She was simply vibrant
CHAPTER III.
bls dreams he had known them nl- were starting up the long, curved
got
his
first
sight
of
mountain
Dan
with health. It brought a light to her
wnys, and that he must never go out road that led to the Divide.
i
food. There were potatoes, newly eyes, and a color to her cheeks, and
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During the hour that they were
The Lennox home was a typical dug, mnnntnln vegetables that were life and shimmer to her moonlit hair.
of the range of them again.
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crossing over the foothills, oh the way mountain ranch-house—square, solid, crisp and cold, a steak of peculiar
It brought curves to her body, and
Dan didn’t see his host nt first. For to the big timber, Silas Lennox talked comforting in storm and wind, Bill shape, and a great bowl of purple ber strength and firmness to her limbs,
the first instant he was entirely en n great deni about the frontiersman was out to the gate when the car ries to be eaten with sugar and cream. and the grace of a deer to her car
grossed by a surging sense of disap that hud been Dan's grandfather. A drove up. He was a son of his fa- Dan’s appetite was not ns a rule par riage. Whether khe had regular fea
pointment—a feeling that he had teen mountain man does not use profuse ther, a strong man in body and per ticularly good. But evidently the long tures or not Dan would have been un
tricked and had only come to another i adjectives. He talks very simply and sonality. He too had heard of the ride had affected him. He simply able to state. He didn’t even notice.
city after all. He got down onto the very straight, nnd often there are long elder Failing, and be opened his eyes didn’t have the moral courage to re They weren’t Important when health
gravel of the station yard, and out on silences between his sentences. Yet I when he saw the slender youth that fuse when the elder Lennox heaped was present. Yet there was nothing
tlie gray street pavement he heard he conveys his Ideas with entire dear was his grandson. And he led the his plate.
of the coarse or bold or voluptuous
the clang of a trolley car. Many an- ness.
way into tlie white-walled living room.
•h ‘Good heavens. I can't eat all that.” I about her. She was just a slender
To get money there quickly and to the
tonioblles were parked Just beside .he
Dan realized at once that if he
“You must be chilly and worn out he said, as it was passed to him. But girl, perhaps tweS.v years of age. and
station, some of them foreign cars of could be, in Lennox’s eyes, one-fifth from the long ride,” Lennox suggest the others laughed and told him to ■ weighing even less than the figure oc
right n^on is often vital.
expensive makes, such as ho supposed of the man his grandfather had been, ed quietly. He spoke in the tone a take heart.
casionally to be re$d In the healfli
would be wholly unknown on the he would never have to fear again the I strong man Invariably uses toward
He took heart. It was a singular magazines for girls of her height And
frontier. A nun In golf clothes look of dis-appolntn>ent with which his an Invalid. Dan felt a curious re thing, but at that first bite his sudden she was fresh and cool beyond all
brushed his shoulder.
host had greeted him at tho station. sentment at the words.
confidence In his gustatory ability al words to tell.
Dan looked up to tlie hills, and he But Instead of reaching that high
“I'm not cold." he said. “It's hard most overwhelmed him. So t.e cut
And D: n Lad no delusions about
felt better. He couldn’t see them plain place, he had only—death. He knew ly dark yet I’d sooner go outdoors himself n bite of the tender steak— ! her attitude toward him. For a long
ly. The faint smoke of a distant for I what his destiny was In these quiet and look around.”
fully half as generous ns the bites that instant she turned her keen, young
est fire half obscured them. Yet he hills. And it was true that be begnn * The elder man regarded him curi Bill was consuming across the table. eyes to his white, thin face; and at
is the quickest, surest, safest means to
saw fold on fold of ridges of a rather to have secret regrets that he had ously, perhaps with the faintest glim And Its first flavor simply filled him once It became abundantly evident
peculiar bine In color, and even his come. But It wasn't that he was dis mer of admiration. "You’d better wait ' with delight
send money anywhere for any purpose.
that beyond a few girlish speculations
untrained eyes could see that they appointed In the land that wns open
‘What Is tb's meat?" he asked. she felt no Interest In him. After a
were clothed tn forests of evergreen. ing up before him. It fulfilled every
"I’ve certainly tasted If before."
single moment of rather strained, po
For the accommodation of ourcustomers
Over the heads of the green hills Dan promise, ills sole reason for regrets
'Til bet a few dollars that yon lite conversation with Dan—just
could see a few great peaks; Mc lay In the fact that now the whole
life
haven’t if you’ve lived all your
enough to satisfy her idea of the eon
and the public generally, we are hand
Laughlin, even and regular ns a paint mountain world would know of the
In the Middle West.” Lennox nn- ventions—she began a thrilling girl
ed mountain ; Wagner, with queer decay that had come upon his people.
ling Western Union Money Transfers.
swered. “Maybe yon’ve got what the hood tale to her father. And she was
white gashes where the snow still lay Perhaps It would have been better to
scientists call an Inherited memory of still telling It when they reached the
hi Its ravines, nnd to the southeast have left them to their traditions.
It. It’s the kind of meat your grand- house.
the misty range of snow-covered hills
He had never dreamed that the
father used to live on—venison.'
Dm held a chair for her In front of
thnt were tho Slckeyons. Ue felt de fame of his grandfather had spread
Soon after dinner Lennox led him the fireplace, and she took It with en-
cldedly better. And when he saw old so far. For the first ten miles Dan
out of the house for his first glimpse ’ire uattiraine’s. He was carefui to
Sila« Lennox wnltlng patiently beside listened to stories—legends of a cold
of the hills In the darkness.
p tit It where the firelight was at its
the station, he felt he had come to nerve thnt simply could not he shaken :
They walked together out fo the height.’ He wanted to see its effect on
the right place.
of a powerful, tireless physique; of
cate, across the first of the wide pas the flushed cheeks, the soft (lurk hair.
It would be interesting to explain moral nnd physical strength thnt was
tures where, at certain seasons. Leu- And then, standing In the shadows, he
Dan
at
once
recognized
the
older
why
seemingly without limit Then, as
nox kept his cattle; and at last they
man for the breed he was.. Silas Len- the foothills began to give way to the
rame out upon the free-covered ridge. simply watched her. With the eye of
nox wns not dressed In a v.iy that higher r'dges. nnd the shadow of the
The moon was just rising. They could an artist he delighted in her gestures.
would dlstlngui-h him, It was true deeper forests fell upon the narrow,
see It castinc a curious glint or -r the her rippling enthusiasm, her utter ir
thnt lie wore a flannel shirt, rld’i
brown rend, there began to be long
very t’P* of the pines But It couldn't repressible girlishness that all of time 0> =
o
trousers and rather heavy, lea then
gaps in the talk. And soon they rode
get down between them. They stood bad not years enough to kilL
boots. Rut sportsmen nil over the in utter silence, evidently both of
•oo close, too tall and thick for that.
Bill stood watching her, his hands
thee of the earth w car this costume at rbem nb« <rhed In their own thoughts,
And for a moment. Dan's only sensa deep in his pockets, evidently a com
unndry tlnns. Mei untalo men have a
in did not feel oppressed at all
tion wns one of silence.
panion of the best. Iler father gslzed
peculiar stride by which experiencetl
to I v se< me«i to full Into the
“Yon have to stand still a moment, at her with amused tolerance. And
ASK OUR CUSTOMERS.
persons cm ocra istotmlly recognise
of tho voott«. and no won!«
to really know anything." Lennox told Dan—he didn't know In Just wliat wtj
‘I
them: but Si ns I.»’ ■nnnx w-« stnndl'v.-
« I « Every mile wa» tut
he did look at her. And he didn't hav.
Money saved is money earned.
still when Dan got s flrat glimpse ot a
ifood
I
lit ’ him. Not even wln<
time to decide. In less than fiftee-
Make your Transfer Bills Thrift Bills.
him.
Ives itself Into a
: a brighter sparkli
hr
minutes, and wholly without warning
thing* that could to h
We help you do this when we serve you by doing
ahiipie matter of
. lie hr nd begun to exj
she sprang up from her chair and
*
be rend In I.ennov’s face.
me s JTt of excitement,
en
n bis shoulder. The flrat started toward the door.
it the economical way Therefore satisfied patrons.
Dan disbelieved wholly tn a book
at w IIS almost kin to
onsation that the silence
Long
or
short
hauls.
(Continued Next Week)
that told how to r<*nd character« at ultathm, over the constant stir
Ing around them. It wasn’t
I
Bight. Yet at the first glance of the movement of the f< »rest life. One
really trne. It was simply that he
lean, bronzed face his heart gave n they stopped the ear to refill the ra-
had become aware of the little con
Curious little bound. A pair of grnj diator fron» a mountain stronm. Len-
Apples laid down at Tillamook, per
tinuous sounds of wh'ch usually he
eyes met his—two fine blnclt points In nox looked at bho with sudden curl-
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was unconscious, and they tended to box loose pack, $1.75. Rome Beauty,
• rather hard gray Iris. They didn’t ratty. “You ar«» getting a thrill out
with Chester Holden’s Bell Phone.
accentuate
the
hush
of
the
night.
He
Spitzenberg
or
Yellow
Newton.
N.
L.
look post him. or at either side of him. of ’bl*, aren't you?" be asked wonder- "You’d Bettar Wait Till Tomorrow. knew, just as all mouranlnoera know, I Guy, Dallas, Oregon.
Il-llp4
Dan.
”
ar at hty rbin qt hjjj. forehead. They
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