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Show MTm RIVER r ofSKULtS by George Marsh 0 PENN PUBLISHING CO. WNU SIKTICI War Unit TO Hold Giant Peace Meet Veterans of 91st Division, Celebrate 20th Year i pid Alan- b fnniavas threw ieir collars u Uaked off over ,.. K.avY load. Vl their dogs to ke w off." H tight-Si tight-Si iome day dey fellers." He nod-Lyes nod-Lyes and their HTthe heels of jct u toey still W brought from Led Cameron. ht of Heather's .from her father lot, more feesh dey starve. Be-J,gh Be-J,gh and de pup dere feet- Den irve dog on de irve dog. An" nore light from t we run run I weel eat up de keel dere dog wV dogs are better ted the broken Car to think- of rd like to take tavel night and her!" More we see de and Heather load will slow Ve'U soon start fan their dogs cb their c;.che watchine the day. wom'.er- rner L. Every day, ome fas wid She have de Jed Noel as the own the white barren hills, she see us." to the cache at ft but; as the Uan's mad deal de-al by abandon- pt to overtake 'ea stiU fought ent The hor-ormented hor-ormented him wring mm on the Hoksoak were lashing farther and she called to !.' He could I trail swung fj anticipated fards Chimo. ft East Coast lhat McQueen, carry to the fold no wit- ohn McCord. u, later on. t leave her s and the give the doss "opped to his dt lead-dog. 'U in his two e the dog's cloud from !1ing tongue, ub'i brown F-fot Heath- ay ahead P wear them ff o9 their ?'re going to Heather who dusk of a wind-break of spruce. When fed, the tired dogs at once dug sleep-holes in the snow and, curling up, noses in tails, defied the frost with their thick, double coats. At the gorge of the Naskapi ambush, am-bush, while it was still light, they reached McQueen's first camp, in the thick scrub of the river bottom below the rapids. "By gar, he drive dose dog all day and all night," said Noel, examining ex-amining the snow about the camp ground. "They must have Jumped our camp before daylight, then traveled fifty or sixty miles before they slept They must be that much ahead of us now," groaned Alan. "Sleep hole of seex dog, here," announced NoeL "Dey keel dose dog for sure!" "Yes, but we're two days behind them, Noell It's going to be days and days before we begin to gain on them with this load. I wish" "Ah-hahl Wat dis?" Noel held a scrap of inner bark which had been stripped from a dwarf birch. "Some- of the lake ice and, from his campsites, camp-sites, was still two days ahead. Desperate, Des-perate, he was gambling with starvation star-vation and the strength of his dogs to out-distance the inexorable fate that hung to his heels. As they approached the narrows, at the end of the second long day on the lake ice, following the tracks that did not swing in to the shore but still kept on until they faded into the distance, the disheartened Alan turned to his friend. "It's no use, Noel! They're more than two days ahead, tonight! They've gained on us coming up the lake. I thought we'd pick up on them, with our dogs traveling the way they have, but they've gained!" "Dey have whip dere dog hard on dis lak'." consoled Noel, "but aftair dis, eet ees up-hill, up-hill ovair de shore rapide aftair rapide. Dat ees w'ere our strong dog run dem down. Tired dog weel not pull up-hill." But Alan would not be comforted. McQueen was still gaining and, day after day. Heather was being taken farther and farther from him, to fore. Searching the brush and snow Alan and Noel looked everywhere for a message from Heather but found only her small moccasin prints in the snow. Later In the morning, Alan, who was ahead of the team watching for treacherous ice over quick-water, suddenly stopped, gazing intently upstream. The dogs moved up to him and lay down. "Hand m the glasses." he called to Noel at the rear of the sled. Taking the binoculars from where they lay beside three rifles in skin cases, lashed to the wrapping lines, Noel brought them to Alan. As he looked through the glasses, a nameless name-less fear sliced through Cameron like a knife thrust. "Something dark on the trail ahead." he faltered. .''Wolverines at something dark on the trail" Handing the glasses to his friend, Alan went to the sled for his rifle. "March, Rough!" he called In a strained voice. The team sprang to its feet and, breaking out the sled Salt Lake City A mammoth peace mi'vting" to eelebate the twentieth anniversary of the battle of Gesnes, j in which the 91st Division lost more than 1,000 nu-n, will be held Friday evening at 8:15, September 30th, in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Invitations have gone out to all members of this famous Western Wartime 'Division and more than l,0d0 Gold Star Mothers, whose sons j were killed in action, most of them j on September 29th, 1918, during the Battle of Gesnes. Smart Fall Styles That Are Flattermg LJERE are two charming fash-1 fash-1 ions with the crisp, slim-waisted, slim-waisted, very feminine look that proves they are new and smartl And you'll notice that the sleeves are proudly puffed up, not out they give height, not width, to the shoulders. These two simple designs, de-signs, each accompanied by a de- w III I I ! IBIIIWmijtit jipt,W,.nw,ji,,MiljW,i,i j!,!, rl. vVl "We're going to get Heather, Rough, Heather who always loved you." Pricked round, as if Fd of the j tth him in with emo-' emo-' calling F-calling to It s a jfcd load. P . every towards s hij deep on the h r uay with F Heather, P h's ears 'to.J.eP ," look looked in for an k talked to f"ld. "are i o help Vt and . -- 6 ill P1- you've 10 bring led. ainst Wan n. N to them tr. h in the t """ler the F deso- fP i the t'ing on dis, Alan!" cried the Indian, handing the sheet of bark to his friend. "Where'd you find it?" "In dis spruce, here!" Alan's mittened hand shook as he read the scrawled words burned with a charred stick on the bark. "Safe!" he read, huskily. "I love you! H." "Noel! Noell" cried the half-fran-tic Cameron. "SheJeft this for us! She left this messaj' She's safe-safe, safe-safe, but she's waitlrlg for us and we're just crawling with this load! Let's gamble. Noel! Take 300 pounds and race the dogs! We'll get them then get them in a few days! I can't stand it thinking of her watching the back trail watching watch-ing day after day!" The Indian seized his friend by the shoulders. "You are klskwew!" he said, sternly. "You know bet-tair! bet-tair! Wid free hunder. dat mean wid our odder stuff, less dan ten day grub and we starve on de headwater. head-water. For we weel run into beeg snow, mabee drifter mabee two. Dat might hold us up free-four day. You weesh Heather starve wid us, w'en we get her?" "Oh, I know you're right I know you're right, but the waiting is hard j nara! Alan knew that Noel was right but his anxiety to reach Heather i 'ashed him like a whip, tortured hm as the somber spruce of the : river shores moved slowly past I But that night as he crawled into his sleeping-bag. the scrap of birch , "'side his inner vest of faun skin. I he repeated again and again, "She i br.icves me nowl She knows I love ; l,(,r! She knows!" CHAPTER XV On went the dog team up the frozen Koksoak. Husbanding the strength of his beloved huskies; buttressing but-tressing their vitality with big meals but. as the sled slowly lightened, light-ened, traveling faster with longer hours- All held to the tracks On the nver iCe and over the shores around "pen rapids and gorges, as a fox hangs to a rabbit trail. They passed the mouth of the River of Death and passed on tp the long, lake where they had afcked up Napayo. Here, over the hard surface of the wind-Pj'unded wind-Pj'unded ice the Ungavas gave proof "' ,ne royal strain from which they Prang. Mile after mile, through " days, they took the still heavy 'ect at a trot Bu, McQueen nad od his dogs over the good going what a fate? Six dogs with a light load against four still pulling a heavy sled. By the time the sled was lightened so the team could begin to race. McQueen would be far in the network of lakes beyond the head of the river where any new fall of snow would wipe out his trail and Heather lost beyond reach lost forever. For McQueen would never bring her alive to the coast Through the early sunset that tinted tint-ed the white lake surface and the snow of the bleak hills to red, and into the bitter dusk, the tired team pushed on. At last, in the river above, they made camp, while over the lake to the north, the aurora gleamed and glowed and, above them, ribbons of mist ceaselessly coiled and uncoiled to coil again in snake-like writhings across star-studded star-studded heavens. It grew colder and through the night lake and river ice split with a dull booming, like muffled muf-fled gunfire, while the spruce snapped as it contracted under the increasing frost Starting in the withering cold of the dusk before dawn, they reached McQueen's camp of two nights be- where it had started to freeze in the snow, Alan pressed ahead on the run. As they approached, the yellowish-brown, long bodied beasts watched him for a space, then, leaving leav-ing the dark thing on the trail, set off on a lope for the shore. Raising Rais-ing the sights on his rifle, Alan knelt, took careful aim and Bred. One of the brutes fell, rose and fell again, to lie still, while the men and the excited team approached the shape on the ice. Freed from the" tension that had tightened his nerves. Alan shouted as he saw what it was: "One gone for Mr. McQueen! No more beatings for him! He's out of his misery now!" On the trail before them lay the torn carcass of one of McQueen's dogs which the excited Rough and his teammates endeavored to reach. Ordering the dogs to lie down, Alan eramined the body of the husky that had given his all for a pitiless master. "Worked to the bone, Noel! He's driving them to the limit!" (TO BE COSTIMED) 11 kf iA 'tl Jf . ... a t NV" .. I ? - V v. - i y? 1 General John J. Pershing has been invited to attend, but his acceptance will depend on the condition of his health. Word is now being awaited from Tucson, . Arizona, where General Gen-eral Pershing is recruperating from his serious illness of last spring. Utah's General, Frank T. llines, Veteran's Administrator, will be the principal speaker and will arrive from Washington, D. C, about September Sep-tember 28th. Music will be furnished by several outstanding Hiph School bands of the State and will be augmented by the 38th Infantry band from Fort DouRla?. The 91st Division was made up mainly of men from the Western States and most of the Governors of these states are expected to attend at-tend or send representatives to the meeting. . The general public has been invited in-vited but special effort is being made to secure the attendance of all relatives re-latives and friends of members of the Division. The Name Moira The name Moira is a form of the Celtic Moragh and means "the gTat.'' It is also used in Ireland as a variant of Mary. There is another an-other Moira which is of Greek origin and means "destiny." In classic legend It may refer to any one of the three fates. High Points in the U. S. The highest point in northeastern United States is Mount Washington, Coos county, New Hampshire, 6,288 feet. The highest elevation in Maine is Mount Katahdin, Piscataquis county, 6,268 feet, and in Vermont it Is Mount Mansfield, Lamoille county, 4,393 feet. When Purple Dye Was Scarce In the days of the Roman empire purple dye was so expensive that the emperor and the imperial family fam-ily were practically the only users of it, hence the phrase, "born to the purple." Call of Bittern, Like That of Loon, Strange, Uncanny During Nesting Time In early morning when the misty veils are slowly rising from the reed-grown shores of our inland lakes, the deep throated "boom boom" of the bittern rises out of the marsh to echo lazily across the water. A strange, weird call is this and often confused by those unfamiliar un-familiar with the bird, with the "Ker-plunk, ker-plunk" for his voice sounds "like the working of an old-fashioned old-fashioned wooden pump" when the water begins to rise. Two members of this interesting family are regular migratory visitors visi-tors to Michigan, the American bittern bit-tern and the least bittern, writes Albert Stoll. Jr., in the Detroit News. The latter is a miniature of his larger cousin and barely measures meas-ures 12 inches, while the former often attains a length of three feet. It is the call of the larger bird that interests lake dwellers as does the cry of the loon, for both are strange and uncanny. Like most of our birds, its call is most pronounced and vociferous during the nesting period. In summer it is almost silent si-lent and remains so until the migration mi-gration urge lays hold of it in early fall. Like the great blue heron, it is one of our most adroit and expert fishermen and will remain motionless motion-less for incredible periods while waiting for small fish, frogs or other marsh and water inhabitants to approach ap-proach within striking distance of its beak. Often it will be observed "treading", water as if in the act of squeezing out hidden shellfish or mollusks in' the muck below. It is one of our most timid ai d suspicious birds and knows how to keep itself concealed from the eyes of the marsh hunter. Yet if stalked cautiously and patiently it will reveal re-veal to the eye many Interesting characteristics of bird life. It is a bird friend well worth studying. Mapmaklng an Old Art Mnpmaking is centuries old. Even ancient Babylonians outlined their country in clay. And cartographers (mapmakers) of those days weren't any too particular about getting all the facts before they made their maps. There was (he Greek scholar, schol-ar, for example, who measured the distance between two town? and from that calculated the sue of the entire earth! Hats for Saints In many French churches the people cover the heads of saints' statues with little bonnes. These hats follow the style of those of the province in which the church is located, lo-cated, and are changed each year on the saint's day. Sheep Dogs Stop, Look, Listen Sheep dogs in northwestern England Eng-land are trained to keep a special lookout for trains wherever pastures run near railroads, and to keep the sheep away from the tracks when they hear an approaching locomotive. Nice Founded by Greeks Nice, France, is about 2,000 years old, having been founded by Greek colonists. The name is Greek for victory. The Three Graces In mythology, the three graces were the three daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome, or, according to others, of Bacchus and Venue. They belonged to . the retinue of Venus as servants and companions of the goddess. . 1 Wrote 'Old Virginny' Song "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" was written by the Negro slave, James Blend, and copyrighted in 1878. PHOTOGRAPHY tailed sew chart, make It very, very easy for you to have two leading, fashions of the coming season at very little cost. Two-Piecer With Jacket Blouse. This charming fashion is extremely ex-tremely good this fall. It'a tailored or dressy, according to the mate rials in which you make it up. The skirt is slim and plain. The jacket-blouse as youthful and becoming be-coming as it can be. For street, make it of wool crepe, flannel or faille. For afternoon, choose vel vet or broadcloth for the skirt: satin, velvet or silver cloth for the jHcket blouse. With Smart, Slenderizing Lines Notice that the front panel of the skirt is cut. in one with the midriff section that's a smart de tail that you see in expensive mod els, and it's excellent for large women. You can trust the suave, slick lines of this dress to make you look several pounds slimmer. It fits beautifully. Shoulder darts, and gathers above the waistline, ease it over the bust, without any hint of bulkiness. Make this of satin, silk crepe, velvet or sheer wool, and you'll like it better than any dress you've had for a long time. The Patterns. 1477 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires 2 yards of 39 inch material for the jacket-blouse; 2 yards for the skirt. 1585 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 5V yards of 39 inch mate riel for long-sleeved dress; 4 yards for short-sleeved. FaU and Winter Fashion Book. The new 32-page Fall and Winter Win-ter Pattern Book which shows photographs of the, dresses being worn is now out. (One pattern and the Fall and Winter Pattern Book-.25 cents.) You can order the book separately for 15 cents, Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Cam. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. C BeU Syndicate WNU Scrvict. Annie Oakley Annie Oakley, the great rifle shot, was born in Woodland, Ohio, in 1868. She began using a rifle at the age of 0 to help provide food for the family. At 15 she met Frank Butler, stage marksman, and subsequently married him, traveling about the country until she was discovered by Sitting Bull, who called her Little Sure Shot. (For many years she was with Buffalo Bill's wild west show, Known for her skill in breaking glass balls tossed in the air, at one time she fired 1,000 shots in a contest, breaking 943 balls. An automobile accident caused her death in 1926 ROLLS DEVELOPED S prtBU, I- tat Mtiaawd nUutraMBU, or ?om bolM of M p rtaw wlthoai mIiiiihii Sta cola. lUprtsu worn ii wot photo anrwca fara Ova. Ma Binta WBjBjBjajajBja;BjBjBjBywJJWwr Jlsk Me .Another O A General' Quiz The Questions 1. How many kinds of twins are there? 2. How many words are there la the Bible T 3. What is the deepest hole in the world? 4. Can the Panama canal ac commodate the largest ships afloat? 5. In French history what was a dauphin? 6. How many teams in the ma jor leagues have never won a pennant? 7. What is the difference be tween a majority and a plurality? 8. For whom is Newport News named? 9. What amusements and recreations recre-ations rank highest in popularity in the United States? 10. How largo is the Boeing B- 314? Hie Answers 1. Three identical, unlike and Siamese. 2. The Bible has 3,506,480 letters forming 773,748 words in 31,173 verses arranged in 1,189 chapters. 3. It is the Continental Oil company's com-pany's K. C. L. A-2, which is 15,004 feet deep, or nearly three miles. The well is four miles west of Wasco in the San Joaquin valley. 4. No. The S. S. Normandie and the S. S. Queen Mary are too long for the lock chambers. 5. The oldest son of the king of France. After the revolution of 1830 the title was abolished. 6. Only one, the St. Louis Browns. 7. A candidate receiving more votes than any ether receives a plurality; one receiving more ' votes than all the other contestants contest-ants combined more than half of all the votes cast receives a majority. ma-jority. 8. The National Geographic magazine says: "The city received re-ceived its odd name from two men, Capt. Christopher Newport (an associate of Capt. John Smith) and Sir William Newce, on whose advice the site for the settlement was chosen." 9. According to a Fortune survey, sur-vey, the favorite forms of amusement amuse-ment in the order of their popularity popu-larity are radio, movies, magazines maga-zines and books, hunting or fishing, fish-ing, - watching sporting events,' newspapers, playing outdoor games, playing cards and indoor games, legitimate theater. 10. The plane measures 152 feet from wing tip to wing tip and the over-all length of the fuselage is 109 feet. 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