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Show TIP? BRANDING Fmm) r YS .4 tvatnantic Newlin COPYRIGHT CHAPTER XIII BT KATHARINE Continued. 11 There were blistered spots above that pathetic, mistaken signature. The poor girl had meant to sign herself and somehow that "Respectfully," baif broke his heart. He drank the strong coffee Wen Ho brought for him, two great cups of It, nd he ate a piece of broiled elk meat. Then he went out again and walked rapidly down the trail. It was not yet dark; the world was In a soft glow of rose and violet, opalescent lights. The birds were singing In a hundred chantries. And there, through the flrs, a sight to stop his heart, Joan came walking toward him, graceful, free, a swinging figure, bareheaded, ber rags girded beautifully about her. And up and up to him she came soundlessly over the pine needles and through the wet looking at him steadfastly and tenderly, without a smile. She came and stood before him, still without dropping her sad, grave look. "Mr. GaeL" she said, "I hev come back. I got out yonder an' ' her breast heaved and a sort of terror came Into her eyes "an' the world was awful lonely. There ain't a crea ture out yonder to care fer me, fer tne to care fer. It seemed like as If It was all dead. I couldn't abear it." ' She put out her hand wistfully asking for pity, but he fell upon his knees and wrapped his hungry arms about her. "Joan," he sobbed, "Joan I Don't leave me. Don't I couldn't bear It I" He looked up at her, his worn face wet with tears. "Don't leave me, Joan I I want yon. Don't you understand - Her deep gray eyes filled slowly with light, she put a hand on either side of his face and bent her lips to his. "I never thought you'd be wantln' me," she said. snow-patche- r NE1VUN ened child, and wake, trembling, happy to find herself safe In his arms. . So they lived their spring. Wen Ho, the silent and Inscrutable, went out of the valley for provisions, and during his absence Joan queened It In the kitchen. She was learning to laugh, to see the absurd, delightful twists of dally living, to mock Prosper's oddities as he mocked hers. She was learning to be a comrade and she was learning better speech and more exquisite ways. It was Inevitable that she should learn. Prosper, In these days, spent his whole soul upon her, fed her with music and delight, and he trained her to sing her sagas so that every day her voice gained In She power and flexible sweetness. woHld sing, since he told her to, her voice beating Its wings against the walls of the house or ringing down the canyon In untrammeled flight. Prosper was lost In wonder of her, In a passionate admiration for his own handiwork. He was mnklng, here In this solitude, a thing of marvel; what he was making surely Justified the means. Joan's laughable simplicity ond directness were the same ; they were part of her presence ; no civilizing could confuse or disturb them; but she changed, her brain grew. It absorbed material. It attempted adventures. Nowadays Joan sometimes argued, and this filled Prosper with delight, so quaint and logical she was and so skillful. They were reading out under the firs by the green Hp of the lake, when Wen Ho led his packhorse up the trail. He had been gone a month, for Prosper had sent him out of the valley to a distant town for his supplies, ne didn't want the little frontier place to prick up Its ears. Wen Ho n . CHAPTER XIV - Concerning Marriage. And It was springtime; these prison- ers of frost were beautifully sensitive. They, too, with the lake and the aspens nd the earth, the seeds and the beasts, bad suffered the season of Interment. In such fashion Nature makes possible the fresh undertakings of last summer's reckless prodigals ; she drives them Into her mock tomb and freezes their hearts It Is a little rest of death so that they wake like turbulent bacchantes drunk with sleep and with Love, spring says. Is an eternal fact, welcome Its new manifestations. Remating bluebirds built their nests near Joan's window; they were not troubled by sad recollections of last year's nests nor the young birds that flew away. It was another life, a resurrection. If they remembered at all, they remembered only the Impulses of pleasure; they had somewhere before learned how to love, how to build ; the past summers had given practice to their singing little throats and to their rapid wings. No ghosts forbade d happiness and no God saying, because he knew the ugly human aftermaths, hard sayings of "Be f perfect." What counsel was theirs for Joan nd what had her human mentor taught fcer? He had taught her In one form or another the beauty of passion and Its eternal slnlossness, for that was his Incere belief. By music lie had taught tier, by musical speech, by the preaching of heathen snge and the wit of modern argners. lie had given her all the moral schooling she had ever hod and Its golden rule was, "He ye beautiful and generous." Joan was both beautiful and made for giving, "freehearted" as she might herself have aald, Friday's child as the old rhyme has It and to cry out to her with love, saying, "I want you, Joan," was Just, sooner or later, to see her turn find bend her head and hold out her arms. Prosper had the reward of pntlene; his wild leopardess was tamed to his liand and her sweetness made him tender and very merciful. Tlielr gay little house stood open all day while they explored the mountains and plunged Inio the lake, choosing the hot hour of noon. Joan made tierself mistress of the house and did her woman's work at Inst of tidying nd leautlfylng and decking comers With gorgeous branches of blossoms while Prosper worked at his desk. He was hnppy; the reality of John's presence had laid his ghost Just as the reality of his had laid hers. His work went on magically and added the glow of successful creation to the glow of satisfied desire. And his sin of deceit troubled hlra very little, for he had worked out that problem and had derided that Pierre, dead or alive, was unworthy of this mate. Hot sometime In her sleep Joan would start and moan, feeling the touch of the white hot Iron on her smoulder. Her hatred of Pierre's cm-Ither resolution to be done with film forever, must hava rlvldly renewed Itself In those dreams, for she woul4 cllxur te Prosper like fright "Something for you, leopardess," he' said he had told her his first Impression of ber. She took the box haughtily and walked with It over to her chair. But he came and kissed her, "Jealous of my mail? Tou foolish child. What a you are!. It doesn't matter, does It, how we train you or leave you untrained, you're all alike, you women, under your skins. Open your box and thunk me prettily, and leave matters you don't understand alone. That's the way to talk, Isn't It?" She flushed and smiled rather doubtfully, but, at sight of his gift, she forIt got everything else for a moment. was a collar of topaz and emerald set In heavy silver. She was awe struck by Its beauty, and went, after he had fastened It for her, to stand a long while before the glass looking at It. She wore her yellow dress cut Into a V at the neck and the Jewels rested beautifully at the base of her long, round throat, faintly brown like her face up to the brow. The yellow and the green brought out all the value of her grave scarlet Hps, the soft, even tints of her skln: the dark lights and shadows of hair and eyes "It's beautiful," she said. "It's wonderful. I love It." All the time very grave and still, she took It off, put it on Its box, and laid it on the mantel. Then she went out glrl-thln- of doors. Prosper hurried to the window and saw ber walk out to the garden they had made and begin her work. He was puzzled by her manner, but presently shrugged the problem of her mood away and went back to his mall. That night he finished his novel and got It ready for the publisher. Again Wen Ho, calm and uncomplaining, was sent out over the hill, and again the Idyll was renewed, and Joan wore the collar and was almort as happy as before. Only one night she startled Prosper. "I asked Pierre," she said slowly, after a silence, In her voice, "when he was taking me away home, I asked, 'Where are you going? and he said to me, 'Don't you savvy the answer to that question, Joan? And, Prosper, I didn't savvy, so he told me and he looked at me sort of to be hard and stern, 'We're married, Joan.' " Prosper and Joan were sitting before the fire, Joan on the bearskin at his feet, he lounging back, smoke-veile- d In one of the lacquered chairs. She had been fingering her collar and she kept on fingering It as she spoke and staring straight Into the flames, but, at the last, quoting Pierre's words and tone, her voice and face quivered and she looked at him with eyes of mysterious pain. In them a sort fit uncomprehended anguish. "Wh) wis that. Prosper r he asked; "I mean, "why did he say It that way? And what what does It stand for, marrying or not ?" Prosper Jerked a little In his chair. "Well, Joan, I'll go Into the subject with yon one of these days, when ths weather Isn't so beautiful. It's really a matter of law, property rights, and so forth. Come out end look at ths low-pitch- long-legge- moon." "Listen 1" They stood side by side at the door. "Some silly bird thinks that Is the dawn. Look at me, Joan I" She lifted obedient eyes. "There I That's better. Don't get that other look. I can't bear It I love you." A moment later they went out Into the sweet, silver silence down to the silver lake. man-voice- r, TIMBS-NKVV- Four months later the name of Prosper Gael began to be on everyone's Hps, and before everyone's eyes; the world, his world, began to clamor for him. Even Wen Ho grumbled at this going ont on tremendous Journeys after the mall for which Trosper grew more and more greedy and Impatient. His novel, "The Canyon." had been accepted, was enormously advertised, had made an extraordinary success. All this he explained to Joan, who tried to rejoice because she saw that It was exquisite delight to Prosper. He was by way cf thinking now that bis exile, his Wyoming adventure, was to thank for his success, but when a woman, even such a woman as Joan, begins to feel that she has been a useful emotional experience, there begins pain. For Joan pain began and dally It Increased, rt was suffering for her to watch Prosper reading his letters, forwarded to him from the western town where his friend and his secretary believed him to bo recovering from some nervous Illness; to watch hlra smoking and thinking of himself, his fame, his talents, his future; to watch him scribbling notes, planning another work, to hear his excited talk, now so Impersonal, so unrelated to her; to see how his eagerness over her education slackened, faltered, died ; to notice that he no longer wstched the changeful humors of her beauty nor cared If she wore bronze or blue or yellow ; snd worst of all, to find him staring at he- - someworried. Impatient look times with which scuttled out of sight like some creature when It ugly, met her own eyes painful, of course, yet nh sn old story. Joan, who bad never beard of snch exrrlence. did Inevitable end. and. not foresee tl In so much, she was spared. The extra pain of forfeiting ber dignity snd self respect did not touch her. for she msde none of those most pitiful, on vailing efforts to bold him. to cling did not even rretend Indifference. There Were Blistered Spots About the Pathetic, Mistaken Signature. had ridden by a secret trail back over the range; he had not passed even the ranger station on his way. He called out, and. In the midst of sentence Joan was reading. Prosper started tip. Joan looked at hlra smiling. "You're as easily turned away from learning as boy," she began, and faltered when she saw his face. It was turned eagerly toward the climbing horses, toward the pack, and It wns sharp and keen with detached Interest, an excitement that had nothing, nothing In the world to do with her. It was the great bundle of Prosper's mall that first brought home to..7"n the awareness of an outside world. She knew that Prosper was a traveled and widely experienced man, but she had not fancied him held to this Conworld by human nttnrhments. cerning the "tall child" she had not put question and she still believed her to have been Prosper's wife, lint when, leaving her plnce tinder the tree, she came Into the house snd found Prosper feverishly slitting open envelope after envelope, with a f He o( papers and magazines, ankle-hlch- . beside him on the floor, she stood a ghost. "What a lot of people must have been writing to you, Proper!" ne did not hear ber. He was greedy of eye and finger-tips- , searching written sheet after sh"t. He flushed cheek-bones snd a little pate along the about the Hps. Joan stood there, ber hands hanging, ber head bent, staring tip and nut at him from under her brows. She looked. In this attitude, rather dangerous. (TO B COXTmCED.) Prosper sped through Ms mall, made an odd gesture of desperation, sat still a moment staring, bis brilliant, green-rra- y Terrible er Ridiculous. If snger proceeds from a greet gone dull snd blank, then ys he gave himself a shnddery shake, cause. It turns to fury. If from a small pulled a small parcel from under the cause. It ta peevishness ; and so It la paper, and held It out to Joan, lie always either terrtbls er rldlrali smiled. Jeremy Tslom itisny-legge- n NEFHl. UTAH TO F.W. QALBRAITH'S KEMORY DAIRY to Late American Lec'on National Commander It Deciicsted at Cincinnati. Msanoorlal H legion. On the bills overlooking his horn rlty, Cinciunati, stands a memorial to Frederick W. Oalbraitli. deceased na- tional commander of the American Legion "killed In line of duty." This uieuiori.il takes the form of parapet tCtaprr Cm- Tfcla Dntftm-ii- l Supplied by th on xrliirh is bronze tablet Behind are the ashes of the former Legion SUCCESS'S OF DISABLED MEN head. It was erected by the veterans' organization and has become a naLandreth Harrison of Minneapolis, tional shrine for Legionnaires. Galbralth was 'Killed as be sped by American Legion Member, Is automobile from Indianapolis, One Prominent Example. city, to Chicago, with Milton J. Foreman, past national commander, Landreth Harrison, of Minneapolis, on their way to face a great problem MiniL, a member of the American Legion and rehabilitation student under for the veterans' organization. It was on such a mission fraught with good the care of the United States Vefor bis nation, that he met his end like terans' bureau. Is one of the outstandthe brave soldier he was. ing successes among the disabled The tomb was formally dedicated by men of the country, as he has National Commander John R. Quinn become known as a specialist In Interon the occasion of his first public apnational affairs. In his Harrison, a lieutenant in the One pearance after his election. Hundred and Fourth Aero squadron, address, he characterized the departed! leader as the "spirit of the American' was discharged from service, sufferLegion." Commander Quinn declared' ing shellshoek. As he had already finthat to Galbralth and to the myriad! ished bis college course, he was almembers of the Legion, the organiza-- ' lowed to complete his studies, specialtion means the flesh and blood of izing In foreign trade relations with a view to entering the consular service. America's fighting men, the soul ofj So excellent was his college work that those who sleep on Flanders' field and1 In the depths of the ocean, and the on graduation he was awarded a fellowship In International law from the voice of four million who rallied to! Carnegie endowment for international their country's flag when It was en peace. Only ten such fellowships are dangered. The Legion leader said that the stlni Lieutenant Uarrl given each year. olatlon of the principles of American ism, as sponsored by the beloved lead-- ' t er, Galbralth, could and would lead the organization to greater heights for the nation. "The spirit of Americanism takes. In beginning, the schools and the Legion plans patriotic education," declared Commander Quinn. "It takes its place in the home and the Legion hopes to carry an Inspirational message to every fireside in America that patriotism may be "better fostered there. The flaming light of Americanism Is to be seen in the pulpit. In the business world, end in the culmination of national life so the Legion Is ever ready to spread Its broad gospel of better homes, stronger love of nation and deeper regard for law Into the life of every inhabitant of America to make all American citizens not mere residents of a country." "With the leaders'i!p of such consecrated patriots as Frederick W. Galbralth, we have assigned ourselves as guard about this sacred (lame of civic spirit, we stand as sentinels about Its temples," Commander Quinn said. t Landreth Harrison. Seven foreign countries sent representatives to attend the ceremonies. stn s was granted with the that he continue his studies at the Including representatives of Italy, graduate school of the University of Japan, Great Britain, France, Sia:n, Greece and Brazil. The monument Minnesota, In connection with his post graduate was unveiled by Michael Aaronson. a who served unwork. Lieutenant Harrison has written former sergeant-major- , a thesis on the work of the interna- der Galbralth overseas, and who wus tional Joint commission between the blinded while In service. United States and Canada, which has been Investigating the Great Lukes-8- t TO .STRESS COMMUNITY LIFE Lawrence waterway project. Lieutenant Harrison will receive the degree of muster of arts on completing his Indiana Legion Department Commander Urges Posts to Undertake course. Movements for Upbuilding. j As a result of winning the Carnegie scholarship the second time. Lieutenant "The American Legion will occupy Harrison Is now in Paris, working for Its merited place In public esteem the degree of doctor of philosophy. Always active in Legion affairs in his when the veterans become members not for the primary purpose of finanhome, he has aflillated with und become an active member of the Paris cial gain," declured E. Arthur Ball, department commander of the Ameripost of the American can Legion in Indiana, "or for the PULLED OFF BIG CROW HUNT advancement and protection of their rights as veterans, but for the means of more performing their Wamego (Kan.) Post and Auxiliary duties as effectively citizens and the helpfulness Profit When Annual Stunt they can be to their comrades." Proves Grand Success. Mr. Ball's statement was made In Ono of the most novel of all the an address to Legionnaires of South unusual stunts resulting from the In- Bend, in dedicating the new Legion men has been home In that city. Head of a great genuity of business Institution In the state, .Mr. members Harold Johnof reported by son post No. 172, American Legion. Ball has given up his work to head In the Hoosler state for a Kan., who promoted and the Legion Wamego, and expects to strexs particularly put over the annual crow bunt. Shortly year after the witching hour on a moonlight the development of community life the agency of Legion posts. night. 120 townsmen and farmers, through headed by two captains chosen from In his address he saidIs that the found on the Ietlon post membership, started strength of the Legion from the town In automobiles for the every hand, but thnt the Influence of was still further fell the rookery some fifty miles away. The whenorganization undertook some worthposts service of the strategy while movement for the upbuilding of nn?n resulted In M4! casualties among life. community A a of cents ten the enemy. bounty head for the victims went to the post treasury. Another good sum OUT OF 'KEEP POLITICS" went to the post auxiliary, who sold refreshments to the tired hunters. Boston Editor Urges Legion Men to Fight for Disabled and to Bolshevist Propaganda. Scorn Politicians. Motion picture films, said to portray life In Russia tinder the soviet govDeclaring that the government bad ernment, have been attacked by s post only done things for disabled men ol of the American Legion In I'lnghain-ton- , the World war "under lafh of the LeN. Y., ss Holshevlft propaganda. Jami'S T. Willtiims. editor of gion." shows When the film ws booked for the Boston Transcript, told a gathering In that cly, the local post made Muss., ing of veterans In Worci-wer- , protest to the rommlsttloner of pub- that the greatest problem cf the Lelic safety that the film might not be gion was the care of the disabled permitted to' be run. The Legion coninpn. Is spontention Is that the production The speaker said thnt no group so sored by an organization known to sorely needed help of any organizarepresent certain radicals of this countion as do the disabled men. particutry, snd that such a spread of propalarly those suffering from tubercuon sn tack is govconstituted si ganda and advised his hearers to keep losis, ernment up work In relief of these men. He told the Legion men that It wos Legion Men Seek Bandit. p tw them to keep the organization are Toledo Ieg'oonnlre with their police In an attempt to free from politics as It has been ra the past. run down a bomb thrower who re"The two great parties sre rnrsed Four cently terrorized the city. with men who say thnt the Legion Is bombs Incendiary exploded, three fires snd en sftempt to derail s trsc-tte- n fslr prey," said Mr. Williams. "They down the state telling bow rsr sre attributed to the same go up and fire easily the Legion can be hsndled. man, who. It Is believed, stsrted last winter which cost the city several These statements are caused by rehundred thousand dollars, snd was sentment becauss they cannot get stopped onlv after Legion men formed tbHr contaminating claws ea the Legion sod control It," bs concluded. vnlnnteer police corps. bead-quarte- war-traine- d HINTS H Device to Prevent Cow It From Sucking Herself Is annoying to say the least when a cow contracts the habit of robbing her own dairy and how best to stop the vice Is a problem. In some instances where a cow shows a marked shrink In milk and Is not seen to suck herself we have found that the rob- bing was being done by a calf, or even a yearling, on pasture. The usual treatment In such a case is to put a spiked halter on the robber calf, says a writer in the Successful Farming. Such a contrivance is objectionable In that injuries to the udder may result The better plan is to prevent the thieving calf from getting at the cow. In another instance campers on the lake at the far sido of the farm were doing the robbing, so investigation Is necessary In all such cases. When a cow sucks herself there are various methods of prevention, each of which has Its advocates. We have often had good results from simply putting an old horse collar upside down on the cow's neck. A "necklace" of pointed lath or small pickets as shown in the illustration proves effective. It Is made as follows: Take six pieces of round, light wood about twelve inches long and one and one-haInches In diameter, or pieces of strong lath of similar length, and with small cord passed through holes bored lf "Necklace" Prevents Cow From Sucking Herself. In the round sticks, or tied around the laths, weave them to form an open fencelike necklace to be placed around the cow's neck and secured there by tying together the free ends of the cords. When the cOw turns to suck herself the sticks will prevent Another good plan is to place a strong halter on the neck and a surcingle around the body Just behind the elbows. Then put a snap-hoo- k In one end of a piece of fork or broom handle and a ring In the other. Now snap the hook into the hanging ring of the halter, pass the stick between the forelegs and attach the ring In Its end to the surcingle, or pass the rope or strap of the surcingle through the ring of the stick. This will stop but not prevent eating. A simpler plan Is to put a bull ring In the cow's nose and hang another ring from the first one. That usually works well. If not, then put a common straight bridle bit in the mouth and hold It loosely In place by means of a halter. One man suggests greasing the teats with lard and then sprinkling freely with red pepper. Thnt discourages the cow from sucking herself or being sucked by a calf. A somewhat cruel preventive measure Is to put some hog rings In the cow's Hps and the latest suggestion, which we do not care to recommend. Is to put the rings In the tip of the cow's tongue. The plan of splitting the cow's tongue for a distance of One Anrl one-hnto tvn Innhoa erm Its tin has of recent vears been 1m- nroverl linon hv trnlnotl votorinarlx self-suckl- lf i. to modern methods of surgery is! such a way as to prevent ferlng and Insure against Infection. Superior Formula Given to Treat Garget in Cow Garget often causes considerable loss When an animal Is found to be suffering from this trouble she should be milked after the remainder of the herd, as the disease may be carried on the hands. After milking, the hands should be washed with a good disinfectant Milk from the diseased quarters should not be milked (. the floor, but Into a pall and disposed of. cows suffering from It may be treated with the following mixture, recommended by the Purdue university dulry department. Mix eight ounces of vaseline, eight ounces of wool fat. two fluid ounces belladonna, two fluid ounces extract poke root; warm and mix. Massage udder thoroughly. Feed one of powdered poke root and one tablespoonful of s.iltpeter three feeds, stop three feeds and continue sesln If necessary. Iiiseased cows should be Isolated from the rest of ths herd. In the herd. table-spoonf- ul Cause of 8llmy Milk. or ropy milk Is caused by germs that get Info the milk after It has been drawn from the cow. it Is especially prevalent where cows have access to low, wet psstnre. also where cows have access to muddy water. Slimy Sngsr valuable mangels. of sugar nutrients Sugar Beets for Milk. beets sre somewhat mors for milk production than are That is, a hundred pounds beefs contain mors digestible thsa do 100 pounds of |