THE TILLAMOOK HEA D LIG H T
THURSDAY. DECEMBER g ^.
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I ways under the skin tnat no man miry I natr stood etlll at nis anouiaera. uib Tnrther up the hill, ÉM ffnTF only to
—a emu at tne end or his wTTikftTis.
The little, breathless night sounds describe, as the far-off reports of a ' claws were bared; he was prepared stand still, and in an instant the man 1
In the brush around him seemed to rifle. Just today Blacktail had seen to fight to the death. He didn't nnder- would come in sight.
thicket«. '
madden him. They made a song to his doe fall bleeding when this same 1 stand. He only knew ti e worst single
He took one step Into the
him. a strange, wild melody that even sound, only louder, spoke from a terror of hls life. It was not a doe prepared to conceal himself If It be-
I such frontiersmen as Pan and Len covert from which Bert Cranston had that he had attacked In the darkness, came necessary. Then he waited. Soon
nox could not experience. A thousand poached her—and he left the lick tn It was not Urson the porcupine, or the man stepped out on the trail.
A NEW TRAIN
even Woof. It was that Imperial mas-
smells brushed down to him on the one bound.
Even at the distance of one hundred
to
Terrified though he was by the rifle ter of all things, man hlmself. Un- yards, Pan t.ad no difficulty whatever
wind, more potent than any wine or
i
But
knowing,
he
had
attacked
Landy
Hil
shot,
still
Whisperfoot
sprang,
He
began
to
tremble
all
over
tn
recognising
him.
He
could
not
lust,
with rapture and excitement. But un the distance was too far. His out- dreth, lying wounded from Cranston's mlstuke this tall, dark form, the soiled,
like Cranston’s trembling, no wilder- stretched paw hummed down four bullet beside the trail. Word of the slouchy clothes, the rough hair, the
“The Shasta” is an all standard sleeping
ness ear was keen enough to hear the feet behind Blacktali’s flank. Then arson ring would never reach the set- Intent dark features. It was a man
forgetting everything but his anger I tlements, after all.
about his own age. his own ’ height,
. cat came out yawning, as leaves rustling beneath him.
■car train without EXCESS FARE
And as for Whisperfoot—the terror
and disappointment, the great cougar
graceful a thing as treads upon the
Leaver Portland at 4:00 P. M.
that choked hls heart with blood be-
opened hfs mouth and howled.
earth. He was almost nine feet long
CHAPTER II.
Arrives San Francisco 10:00 P. M. following evening
j
gan
to
wear
off
in
a
little
while.
The
The
long
night
was
almost
done
from the tip of his nose to the end of
I man lay so still •n the thickets. Be-
his tall, and he weighed as much as
Shortlv after nine o’clock, Whisper- when he got sight of further game.
muuy a full-grown man. He stood and foot encountered hl» first herd of deer. Once a flock of grouse exploded with sides, there wns a strange, wild smell
yawned Insolently, for all the forest But they caught his scent and scat a roar of wings from a thicket; but In the air. Whisperfoot's stroke had
/
to
world to see. He rather hoped that tered before he could get up to them. they had been wakened by the first gone home so true there had not even
SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
the chipmunk, staring with heady eyes He met Woof, grunting through the whisper of dawn In the wind, and he been a fight. The darkness began to
from his doorway, did see him. He underbrush, and he punctiliously, but really had no chance at them. Soon lift around him, and a strange exulta
All Shasta Route trains handle through standard sleeping cars
tion, a rapture unknown before in all
would just as soon that Woof's little with wretched spirit, left the trail. A after this, the moon set.
Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland to San Francisco
son, the bear cub, should see him too. tight with Woof the bear wns one of
The larger creatures of the forest hls hunting, began to creep Into hls
Through standard sleeping car to Los Angeles
But he wasn’t so particular about the most unpleasant experiences that are almost as helpless in absolute wild blood. Then, ns a shadow steals,
Leaves Portland at 8:40 A. M
he
went
creeping
back
to
hls
dead.
Woof himself, or the wolf pack whose could bo Imagined. He had a pair of darkness as human belugs. It Is very •
Arrives Los Angeles 8:15 A. M. second morning
••••••••
song had just wakened hl ng And strong arms of which one embrace of well to tnlk of seeing In the dark, but
Dan Falling had been studying na
WINTER EXCURSION TICKETS
above all things, he wanted to keep a cougar's body meant death In one from the nature of things, even verti
long shriek of pain. Of course they cal pupils may only respond to light. ture on the high ridges; and he went
out of the sight of men.
are on sale to
For when all thlugs are said and didn't fight often. They had entirely No owl or bat can see In absolute home by a bnck trail that led to old
Southern
California
Bald
mountain.
The
trail
was
just
done, there were few bigger cowards opposite Interests. The bear was a darkness. It became Increasingly like
California’s bright ar.d warm sunsl.lne will help you take on a new
in the whole wilderness world than berry-enter and a honey-grubber, and ly that Whisperfoot would have to re 1» narrow serpent In the brush; and
lease of life. Spend the wintry days besides summery seas; on
Whisperfoot A good many people the cougar cared too much for his own tire to his lair without any meal It had not been made by gangs of
sporty golf courses or well kept tennis courts: motor over splendid
laborers, working with shovels and
think that Graycoat the coyote life and beauty to tackle Woof In a whatever.
highways; these and many other outdoor pleasuras await you in
But still he remained, hoping nicks. Possibly half a dozen white
could t; ke lessons from 1dm iu this hunting way.
Sunny
California.
men.
In
all.
had
ever
walked
along
It.
A fnwn lenped from the thicket In ngalnst hope. After a futile fifteen
respect. But others, knowing how a
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hnnter Is brought in occasionally with front of him, startled by hls sound In minutes of watching a trail, he heard It was just the path of the wild crea
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almost ail human resemblance gone the thicket. The truth was, Whisper a doe feeding on a hillside. Its foot- tures. worn down by hoof and paw
Inquire of local agent for fare.-', routes. sleeping car reservations
from him because a cougar charged In foot hud made a wholly unjustified •all was not so heavy as the sturdy and cushion since the young days of
and train service, or write
his death agony, think this is unfair misstep on a dry twig, just at the tramp of a buck, and besides, the the world.
It was a roundabout trail home,
to the lar-qr ajltmij. .And It Is t ,-ue
bucks would be higher on the ridges
crucial moment. Perhaps it wns the
this time of morning. He began a cau but yet it had Its advantages. It took
umi a iu -groou cougar wm >i»ur- fault of Woof, whose presence had
Idm within two miles of Snowbird's
tious ndvance toward It.
tlmes attm c horned cattle, something driven Whfsperfoot from the trail,
lookout station, and at this hour of
JOHN M. SCOTT.
For
the
first
fifty
yards
the
hunt
erican
animal
cares
to
do
that no Ai
and perhaps beentme old age and stiff
General Passenger Agerl, Portland, Oregon
was In his favor. He came’up wind. lay he had been particularly fortunate
unless he rants a good fight on ids ness was coming upon him. But
In finding her at a certain spring on
paws and f which the very thought nellher of these facts appeased his
It was rather a sin
I the mountain side.
would thro v Graycoat Into a spasm; anger. He could scarcely suppress a
gular coincidence. Along about four
and there have been even stranger
snarl of fury and disappointment.
he would usually find himself wander
stories. If one could quite believe
He continued along the ridge, still
ing tip that way. Strangely enough,
them, A <-ertafn measure of respect
stealing, still alert, but hfs anger In
at the same time. It was true that
must be t ¿tended to any animal thnt
Dan Saw His Purpose
she had an Irresistible impulse to go
will hunt tiih sm.t b'.'" e’k for tz> creasing with every moment. The fact
thnt
he
bad
to
leav.
the
trail
again
to
down
and
sit
In
the
green
ferns
beside
«■■■»•
.„ i - okc and get caugn: ««->
weighing full.v twenty pounds
permit still another animal to pass,
the same spring. They always seemed more, and the dark, narrow eyes could
neathT' e churning, lashing, slashing
and
a
particularly
insignificant
one
to be surprised to see one another. In belong to no one but Bert Cranston.
razor-edged front hoofs Is simply
reality, either of them would have He carried Ills rifle loosely in Ills arms.
death painful and without delay. But too. didn’t make him feel any better.
been considerably more surprised had
the difficulty lies In the fact that these This animal had a number of curious
He stopped at the forks in the trail
the other fulled to put In an appear and looked carefully In nil directions.
things are not done in the ordinary, stripes along his back, and usually dhl
nothing
more
desperate
than
steal
ance. And always they find long talks,
rational blood of hunting. What an
Pun had every reason to think that
as the afternoon drew to twilight.
animal does In its death agony, or to eggs and ent bird fledglings. Whisper
THE WISE FARMER CULTIVATES IES. BANKING
“But I don't think you ought to wait Cranston would see him at first glam e.
protect Its young, what great game it foot could have crushed him with one
bite,
I
at
this
was
one
thing
that
the
•idy
one
clump
of
Ihicket
sheltered
so
late
before
starting
home."
the
girl
CONNECTION
Cnllnws In the «t^rvljie.tlmey of v'tr-.
would always say.
“You’re not a lorn. But because Dan had learned
ter, can be put to neither Its debit great cut. as
Just as he sows his seed mjnth before he exp i ts a har
human hawk, and It Is easier to get .die lesson of standing still, because
nor Its credit. A coyote will charge never try to
way poll tel v
lost than you think.”
his olive-drab sporting clothes bleuded
vest,so should the farmer establish h s banking connection:’
When mad. A raccoon will put up a
still a quarter of :: wile away; which
And this solicitude. Dan rightly fig softly with the colored leaves, Crnns-
wicked fight when cornered. A hen
in udance of his needs for co-operation.
ured, was .■} good sign. There was ton did not detect him. lie turned
will peck at the hand that robs her was quite a compliment to the little
The First National bank is always ready to lend busin
animal's
ability
to
Introduce
himself.
only one objection to it. It resulted and strode on down rhe trail.
nest. When hunting was fairly good,
Stripe-back was far "'nrly known as
like support to legitimate endeavor.
in tin nnml-tnkble Inference that she
He didn't move- quite like a man
Whisperfoot avoided the elk and s ' i ,a
considered him
to take care with innocent purposes, □'here was
almost as punctiliously as be avo I ' a skunk.
I
DIRECTORS.
Shortly nfter ten. tl i > mountain lion
of hltnself -and
was the last something stealthy, something sinister
men. which Is saying very mncli it.1
C .1 El’« Alli’S .
had
>1
r<
e
chance
at
a
mrkabl.v
I
thing
on
earth
in his stride, and the way he .ept
e wanted hr
deed: and any kind of terrier conic
n,i. l .’. mi
buck.
T
■e
direction
.
the
wind,
the
to think.
He 1
ood Iter well such a sharp lookout in all directions.
W. J. KIKCHEKS,
usually drive him straight t . 11 tree
trees. the thickets mu’ the light were
enough to know
tier standard
Yet he never glanced to the trail for
But he did like to preti. I :•<
very great and terrible among the ali in ills favor. It v. a old Blacktail,
were the standards of the luoimtains. deer trucks, us he would have done
had he been hunting. Without even
smaller forest creatures. And he was wallowing in the salt lick; and Wills-
valuing strength am) self-reliance
waiting to meditate on the matter.
Fear Itself to the deer. A human perfoot’s hea rt bounded when he de
above all tilings. He didn't stop to
tected him. No human hunter could
Dan started to shadow him.
hunter who would kill two d" r >
question
why.
every
day.
he
trod
so
TILLAMOOK. ' OREGON
Before one hundred yards had been
week for fifty-two weeks would he have laid his plan.' with greater care,
many weary miles to be with her.
traversed, he could better understand
called a much uglier name than poach IIe had to cut up th; ide of the ridge.
She
was
as
natural
as
a
fawn;
ami
mindful of the wind, Then there was
the joy the cougar takes in his hunt
er; but yet this had been Whisper
many times she hm] quite tnki en aw< y
a long dense thicket In which ho
ing. It was the same process—a cau
foot’s record, on and off, ever since
his
breath
It
liter-
And
once
she
did
might approach within fifty feet of
A Full Twenty Yards Farther.
his second year. Many a great buck
ally. He didn’t think that so long in tious, silent advance in the trull of
| prey. He had to walk with the same
wore the scar of tne full stroke—aft the lick, still with the wind in his I
deatl h st tired him h” would ever l e
er which Wldsperf.’Ot had lost his face. Just beside the lick was .mother and the brush made a perfect cover able to on-get that experience, It was caution, he had to take advantage of
But the doe unfortunately was stand
the thickets. He began to feel a curi-
hold. Many a fawn had crouched deep thicket, from which he could
ing a full twenty yards farther, in tin her birthday and knowing of it n ; ous excitement.
make his leap.
panting with terror In the thickets at
time ■ hi’ liad nrrantr <’d for the delivery
open
glade.
Under
ordinary
circum
His body lowered. The tall
Cranston sedmed to be moving more
just a tnwny light on the gnarled limb
stances. Whisperfoot would not have of a certain package, dear to a girli-It carefully now. examining the brush
of a pine. Many n doe would grow hack and forth, and now It had begun
at
her
fat
iter
’
s
house.
!'
irt.
father's
In
the
made «an attack. A cougar can run
along the trail. Now and then he
grent-eyed ami terrified nt just his I to have a slight vertical motion that
tr.vstlng hour be I; I. >d
id co;;
come o trudging
frontiersmen have learned to watch swiftly, hut a.deer is Tight Itself. Th»
strange, pungent smell <> b the wind.
over the bills with It. and few expert- glanced up,at the tree tops. And all
at once he stopped and knelt in the
Fie yawned again, and his fangs for. lb- placed every paw with con big cat would have preferred to linger, < lie -
1
lit ' l.id ever yielded such
summate grace, and few sets of hu a motionless thing in the thickets,
dry shrubbery.
looked white and abnormally large In
unmitigated pleasure as the sight of
the moonlight Ills great, green eyes man nerves have sufficient control hoping some other member of the deer her. glowing white and red, as she took
At first all that Dan could see was
were stlli clouded and languorous over leg muscles to move with such herd to which the doe must have I’e- off Its wrapping paper. It was a jolly the glitter of a knife blade. Crans
from sleep. Thon lie began to steal I astonishing patience,
longed would come into his ambush. old gift, ho recollected—and when she ton seemed to he whittling a piece of
up the ridge toward bls hunting seemed to move nt all.
But the hunt was late, and Whisper had seen it. she fairly leaped at him. dead pine into fine shavings. Now
grounds. It was a curious thing that
But when scarcely ten feet re font was very. very angry. Too many
Her warm, round arms around his he was gathering pine needles and
he walked straight In the face of the mnlned to stalk, a sudden sound times this night
n'ght he
lie had missed his neck, and the softest, loveliest lips in small twigs, making a little pile of
soft wind that camo down from the pricked through the darkness. It came kill. In desperation. he leaped from t the world pressed his. But in those them. And then, just as Cranston
sn<w fields, and yet there wasn't a
from afar, but It was no less terrible. the thicket and charged the deer.
days he didn't have the strength that drew his match. Dan saw his purpose.
wc ithewo ■!. to be seen anywhere, And
It was renlly two sounds, so close to
Cranston was at his old trade
In spite of the preponderant odds he had now. He felt he could endure
neither had .the chipmunk seen him gether Hint they sounded as one. against him, the charge was almost a the same experience again with no ting a forest fire.
wet a paw and hold.lt up. after the
Neither Blncktnil nor Whisperfoot success. He went fully half the dls- embarrassment whatever. Ills first im
approved fashion of holding up it fin-
had any delusions about them. They tnnee between them before the deer
pression then, besides abounding. In
III1 had a hotter wav of knmclw re< oen:'od them
In strange perceived him. Then she leaped,
credible astonishment, was that she
There seemed to be no Interlude of had quite knocked out his breath. But
time between the Instant that she be let it be said for him that he recov
WilláM
held the dim. tnwny figure in the air ered with notable promptness. His
in
which
her
long
legs
pushed
and that
own arms had gone up and closed
out In a spring. But she didn't leap around her, and the girl had wriggled
straight ahead. She knew enough of free.
the cougars to know that the great
“But you mustn’t do that!” she told
cat would certainly alm for her betid him.
and neck In the siuA” way that a duck
“But, good Lord, girl! You did It
hunter l(4ids a fast-flying duck--hop to me! Is there no justice In women?"
ing to Intercept her leap. Even ns her
“But I did It to thank you for this
feet left the ground she seemed to lovely gift. For remembering me—
whirl in the air, and the deadly talons for being so good—and considerate.
And the best one of
whipped down In vain. Then, cutting You haven’t any cause to thank me.”
all, is the good old
hack In front, she raced down wind.
Ho had many serious difficulties In
Golden Pule. You’ll
It Is usually the most unmitigated thinking it out. And only one con
say after you’ve been
folly for a cougar to chase a deer clusion wns obtainable—thnt Snowbird
here that we know
against which lie has missed his kissed ns naturally as she did any
stroke; and It Is also quite fatal to bls thing else, and the kiss meant exactly
how to treat you and
dignity. And whoever doubts for a what she said ft did and no more.
your battery on
minute that the larger creatures have But the fact remained that ho would
Golden Rule basis.
no dignity, ami that It Is not very dear have walked a good many miles far
If you need a new
to them, simply knows nothing about ther if ho thought there was any pos
battery, be sure it has
the ways of animals. They cling to sibility of a repeat.
Threaded Rubber In
^CHESTER
It to the death. But tonight one dis
But all at once his fantasies* were
sulation, the kind
appointment after another had crum suddenly and rudely dispelled by the
selected by 136 man
bled. as the rains -rumble leaves, the Intrusion of realities. Dan bad been
ufacturers of cars and
last vestige of Whisperfoot's self-con walking silently himself In the pine
trol. Snarling In fury, he bounded noodles. As Lennox had wondered at I
trucks.
after the doe.
long ago ho knew how by Instinct;
She was lost to sight nt once In and Instinctively he practiced this at
the darkness, but for fully thirty yards tainment ns soon as he got out- Into
he raced In her pursuit. If he Imd the wild. The creature he had hen al
stopped to think. It would have been was fully one hundred yards distant,
one of the renlly great surprises of
yet Dun could hear him with entire
bls life to bear the sudden, unmis plainness, ^tnd for a while he couldn’t
takable stir ami movement of n large, <■' 1 guess what manner of thing it
living creature not fifteen feet distant might be.
In 1 be tldcket.
A cougar that made so much no’se
He didn’t stop to think nt all.’ Tle would bo Immediately expelled from
didn’t puzzle on the extreme unlikeli- the union. A wolf pnek, running by
hood of n doe halting In her tlictit from sight, might crack brush ns freely;
Wille rd
EEP a can of Winchester General Utility Oil
a cougar. It Is doubtful whether. In but a trnlf pack would also bay to
the thickets, In* had any perceptions w.iJ-e the dead. Of course It might bo
in that handy kitchen drawer. To lubricate,
of the creature other than Its move an elk or a steer, and still more likely,
clean, polish and prevent rust.
ments. He was running (’own wind, n boar. He stood still and listened.
Use it for the vacuum cleaner, sewing machine,
so It Is certain that he didn’t smell It. The sound grow nearer.
phonograph,
washing machine, children's roller
If he saw It nt all. It was just ns a
Soon It became evident thnt the crea
Tillamook Battery Station
shadow, sufficiently large to be thnt ture was either walking with two legs, i
skates and bicycles, lawn mower, door hinges, fire-
of a deer. It was moving, crawling ns or else was a four-footed animal put
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H arms, fishing reels, iurniture, etc.
Woof the boar sometimes crawled, ting two feet down at the same in
““
Ik»»
1.. office,
..I!;.... r farm
____ or factory. Come
For ♦!„.
the home,
seemingly to get out of bls path. And stant. Dan had learned tn waft. Ho
in
today
and
get
a
can.
Three
ounces, 30 cents.
Whisperfoot leaped straight nt It.
stood perfectly still. And gradually
It was a perfect shot. He landed ho came to the conclusion that ho
high on Its shoulders. His head lashed was listening to the footfall of an
down, and the white teeth closed. All other man.
the long life of bls rm o he had known
But It wns rather hard to Imagine
that put’gent essence that flowed forth. what a nan might be doing on this
the
store
Ills senses perceived It. a message lonely hill. Of course It might be a
shot nlong bls nerves to his brain. And d. or hunter; but few wore the valley
then he opened his mouth In a high, sportsmen who had penetrated to this
far-carrying squeal of utter, nbject fur land. The footfall was much to«»
terror.
hi iw for Snowbird. The steps wore
”1' sprang a full fifteen feet back evidently ofi another trail thnt Inter-
Into the thicket»; then crouched. Th« sected his own trail one hundred vards
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