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Show " vryi ' t ft A v - THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTiCH describe, as the far-of- reports of a f Just rifle. today Blacktail had seen his doe fall bleeding when this same ' sound, only louder, spoke from a covert from which Bert Cranstoif had lick poached her and he left .the one bound. - I In Terrified though he was by the rifl ifliot, still Whisperfoot sprang. B the distance, was too far." His outstretched paw hummed down four feet behind Blacktails flank1. Then forgetting everything but his anger and disappointment, (he great cougar opened his mouth and howled. " The long night was almost done when he got sight of further game. Once a flock of grouse exploded with a yoar of wings from a thicket; h,ut they had been wakenbd by the first whisper of dawn in the wind, and he refllly had no chance at them. Soon after this, the moon set. The larger creatures of the forest are almost as helpless in absolute darkness as human beings. It is very well to talk of seeing in the dark, but from the nature of things, even vertical pupils may only respond to light No owl .or bat can see in absolute darkness. It became increasingly likely that Whisperfoot would have to retire to his lair without any . meal whatever. But still he remained, hoping against hope.- - After a, futile fteen minutes of watching a trail, he heard a doe feeding on a hillside. Its footfall was not so heavy as the sturdy trampof a buck, and besides, the "bucks would be higher on the ridges this time of morning. He began a cautious advance toward it. ", For the first fifty yards the hunt was in his favor. Hecame iup wfnd, cover. and the brush made But the doe uhfortunately was standing a full twenty yards farther, in an open glade Under ordinary Whisperfoot would nob have made an attack. Al cougar can run swiftly, but a deer is light itself. The big cat would have preferred to linger, a motionless thing in the thickets, hoping some other membegof the deer herd "to which the doe must have belonged would come into his ambush. But the hunt was late,' and Whisper-fowas very, very ngry. Too many times, this night he had ipissed his kill. In desperation, ihe leaped from the thicket and charged the deer. odds , In spite of the preponderant against him, the charge was almost a success. He Went fully half the distance between them before the deer perceived him. Then she leaped. There- seemed to be no interlude of time between the instant that she beheld the dim, tawny figure in the air and that in which her long legs pushed out in a spring. But she didnt leap straight ahead. She knew enough of "the cougars to know that the great cat would certainly aim for her head and neck in the same way that a g duck hopleads a ing to intercept her leap. Even as her feet left the ground she seemed to whirl in the air, and the deadly talons whipped down in vain. Then, cutting back in front, she raced down wind. It Is usually the most unmitigated folly, for a cougar to chase, a deer against fvhieh he has missed his stroke ; and it Is also quite fatal to his dignity. And whoever doubts for a minute that the larger creatures have no dignity, and tBat it is not very dear to them, simply knows nothing about ,the ways of animals. They- - cling to it to the death. But tonight one disappointment after another had crumbled, as the rains crumble leaeS, the l. last vestige of Whisperfoots Snarling in fury, he bounded after the doe. She was lost to sight at once in the darkness, but for fully thirty yards he raced In her pursuit. If he had stopped to think, it avould have been one of the really great surprises of his life to hear the sudden, unmistakable stir and movement of a large, living creature not fifteen feet distant in the thicket He didnt stop to thiik at all. He didn't puzzle on the extreme unlikelihood of a doe halting in her flight from a cougar. It Is doubtful whether, in the thickets, he had ny perceptions of, the creature other than its He was running down wind, so It is certain that he didnt smell It If he saw it at all, it was just as a shadow, sufficiently large to be that of a deer. ' It was moving, crawling as Woof the bear sometimes crawled, seemingly 'to get out of his path. And Whisperfoot leaped straight at it. It was a perfect shot. He landed high on its shoulders. His head lashed down, and the whito teeth closed. All the long life of his rage he had kndwn that pungent essence that flowed forth. His senses perceived it, a message shot along his nerves to his brain. And then he opened his mouth In a high, squeal of utter, abject terror. He sprang a full fifteen feet back into the thickets; then crouched. The hair stood still at his shoulders, his claws were bared; he was prepared to fight to the death. He didnt understand. He only knew the worst single terror of his life. It was not a doe that he had attacked in the darkness. It was not Uvson the porcupine, or even Woof. It was that imperial mas-- , ter of all things, man himself. Unknowing,, he had attacked Landy Hildreth, lying wounded from Cranstons bullet beside the trail. Word of the arson ring would never reach the settlements, after all.. CHAPTER II. J . honey-grubbe- r, ot circun-stance- s, MILK PRODUCTION PROBLEMS Department of Agriculture Has Been Carrying On Interesting and In,'f structive Studies. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) 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However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer ft Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle.- - Wherf writing be sure and mention this paper. Adu. . nt Shortly after nine oclock, Whisperfoot encountered his first herd of deer. But they caught his scent and scat: tered before he could get up to them. He met Woof, grunting through the underbrush, and he punctiliously, but with wretched spfriti left the trail. A fight with Woof the bear was one of the most unpleasant experiences that could be imagined. He had a pair of of strong arms of which a cougar's body meant death in one long shriek of pain. Of course they didn't fight often. They had entirely opposite interests. The bear was a berry-eate- r and a and thft cougar cared too much for his own life and beauty to tackle Woof in a hunting way. A fawn leaped from the thicket in' front of him, startled by his sound in the thicket. The truth was, Whisper-fohad made a wholly unjustified misstep on a dry twig, just at the, crucial moment Perhaps it was the fault of Woof, whose presence had driven Whisperfoot from the trail, and perhaps because old age and stiffness was coming upon him. But neither of these "facts appeased his ' anger. He could scarcely suppress a snarl of fury and disappointment. He continued along the ridge, still stealing, still alert, but his anger increasing with every moment. The fact that he had to leave the trail again to CHAPTER I Continued. permit still another animal to pass, and a particularly insignificant one ' For when all thiugs are said and too.odidnt make him feel any better. done, there were few bigger cowards This animal had a number of curious in the whole wilderness world than stripes along his back, and usually did A good many people AVhisperfoot. more desperate than steal think that Graycoat the coyote nothing eggs and eat bird fledglings. Whisper-foo- t could take lessons from him in this could have crushed him with one respect. But others, knowing how a bite, but this was pne thing that the hunter is brought In occasionally with great cat, as1- - long as he lived, would What Part of Your Milk Check Repalmost all human resemblance gone resents Profit? from him because a cougar charged in his death agony, think this Is unfair required to pay production costs (feed, to the larger animal. And It Is true 1,810 founds of milk;, labor, 806 n that a cougar will somepounds of milk; and" other costs 570 times attack horned cattle, something pounds of milk) only 060 pounds of that no American animal cares to do milk remained for the profit and skill unless he w ants a good fight on his of the oyner. 'For the highrpro'duc-inpaws and, of which the very thought group, however, 3,074 pounds of would throw Graycoat into a spasm; milk remained after the following deand there have been even stranger ductions had been made: For feed, stories, If one could quite believe 2,302 pounds of milk ; labor, 806 them. A certain measure of respect pounds of milk, and .other costs 962 must be extended to any animal that pounds of milk. will hunt the great bull elk, for to Here, then, were cows in the same miss the stroke and get caught belocality, in some cases standing side by neath the chufoing, lashing, slashing, side, and all requiring about the same razor-edge- d front hoofs is simRly labor; yet some were producing thrte death, painful and without delay. But times as much profit is others, even the difficulty lies in the fact'that these though they were charged with greatthings are not done in the ordinary, er quahtities of feed and a large rational blood of hunting. What an amount of other costs. animal does in its death agony, or to. The" figures adduced are significant protect its young, what great game it also In that they, show that in milk winof follows in the starving times checks size is not always a true measter, can be put to neither its debit ure of real value; but that the per nor its credit. A coyote will charge cent of profit, as determined by the when mad. A raccoon will put up a cows that are kept, plays an imporwicked fight when cornered. A hen J tant part. will peck at the hand that robs her The figures upon which thjs comparnest. When hunting was "fairly good, ison is based were' actual records .of and" other Whisperfoot avoided the elk and steer feed, labor, production; almost as punctiliously as he avoided costs were obtained by monthly full .men, which is saying very much inday visits on each of the farms for a deed; and any kind of terrier could Careful recperiod of two "years. usually, drive him straight up a tree. ords were made on these visits of the But he did like to pretend to be daily milk production- of each cow, A Full Twenty Yards Farther. very great and terrible among the feed consumed, labor required, oversmall forest creatures. And he was head costs, etf. Using these data, to out He do. never of the got try ear Itself to the deer. A human the requirements for producing 100 k was hunter wjio would kill two deer a way politely when Stripe-bacpounds of milk were worked out. So weeks would be Still a quarter of a mile awqy; which week for fifty-tw- o far as possible the requirements were a to was little the compliment quite called a much uglier name than poachdetermined in terms of pounds of feed, aninial'fc to introduce himself. er; but yet this had been Whisper-foot- s Stripe-bac- k ability hours of labor, 'etc., so thataeonstantly was familiarly known as ef-- . record, on and off, ever since a skunk. prices would have no .fluctuating e Jte-his second year. Many a great buck of the figures. feet on the value Shortly after ten, the mountain lion wore the scar of the full stroke aftbe interpreted at any Vrae suits may had a remarkably fine chance at a ' ' er which Whisperfoot had lost his buck? ijy using prevailing prices. The direction of the wind, the hold. Many a fawn had crouched for profipcing 100 The requirements were trees, the thickets and the panting with terror in the thickets ad- all In his favor. Ifwasold light pounds of milk, based on 847 cows, Blacktail, limb on the a gnarled light tawny an average annual production of with just In the salt lick; and of a pine. Many a doe would grow wallowing 5,252 pounds of 3.9 per cent milk, were debounded when heart he and terrified at just his great-eye- d . follows: i as , tected .him. No human hunter could . Winter Summer strange, pungent smell on the ,wind. care. hove his laid with 87 331 greater plans Grain (pounds) He yawned again, and his fangs He had . of the ridge, cut the side other rough- and up tp dry Hay in and abnormally large looked white 129. , 18.7 (pounds) wind. Then there was age mindful of the the moonlight. His great, green eyes Silage and other succulent dense, thicket In which he were still clouded and languorous roughage (pounds) . . . . 1918 Within of feet approach fifty Hauling ynd .grinding 029 from sleep. Then he began to steal might 80 the lick, still with the wind in his concentrates up the ridge toward his 'hunting face. Just beside the lick was another (pounds) . Bedding grounds. It was a curious thing that deep thicket, from which he could Pasture (acres) Human labor (hours).... 2 78 he walked straight in the face of the make his leap. . Horse labor (hours) soft Wind that came down from the Overhead an other costs 80V02S Of 0 0098 of His body lowered. The tail lashed snow fields, and yet there wasnt a calves., for 'Credit Qtie calf ode calf weathercock to be seen anywhere. And back and forth, and now it had begun t W "motidh that a to have vertical slight him seen Credit for manure (lbs.) 382 the had chipmunk neither to have watch learned frontiersmen hold the it up, after wet a paw and for. He paw with conWATER. OF MUCH IMPORTANCE approved fashion of holding up a fin- summate' placed every and few sets of hugrace, of a better had He way knowing ger. man nerves have sufficient control a chill at the end of his whiskers. Cow Should Have 150 Pounds a Day The little, breathless night sounds over leg muscles to, move with such In 8ummer and About 10S Pounds He patience. scarcely In the brush around him seemed to astonishing s in Winter Season. ' , at all. madden him. They made a song to seemed to move ' reten when feet But even wild scarcely melody that him. a strange, A cow will drink 150 pounds of water such frontiersmen as Dan and Len- mained to stalk, a sudden" sountf a day at a temperature of 60 degrees, nox could not experience. A thousand pricked through the dprkness. It came she will if the water is ice cold but smells brushed down to him on the from afar, bqjt itwas no less terrible. drink all she needs,- Slle will, not totwo. so lose as sounds, really wind, mete potent than any wine or It however, be chtUed through and will lust. H began to tremble all over- gether that they sounded as one. eat more to get-- warm. She ought to Neither Blacktail npr "Whisperfoot with rapture and excitement. But unhave in summer time at least 150 had any delusions about them. They uve Cranston's trembling, no wilderof water a day and in whiter arc bluff .Umbrella great erg ; its g pounds ness ear was keen enough to hear the recognized them at once, in strange 400 pounds. about time up with tbeqt leaves rustling beneath him. vajs under the skin that no man may case of put nr . , - . Synopsis. Warned by his physl-rla- n that he has not more than six months to live,' Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he sho.tld spend those six months. Memories of his grandfather and deep love for all things of tfte wild help him in In a large a decision.. reaching southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. He makes his home'With Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennoxs son, "Bill,1 and daughter, Snowbird. Their abode is in the Umpqua divide, and there Failing plans to live out the short span of life which he has' been told is his. From the first Failings health shows a marked improvement, and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as if he had been born to it. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of nerve he saves Lennoxs life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he is a reincarnation of his 'grandfather, Dan Failing I, whose fame as a woodsman is a household word. 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