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Show t THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK, UTAH f report of el the Just today Blacktall had seen his doe fall bleeding when this same describe, far-of- mff. copypffjvr tzzo T CHAPTER II. WHISPEP.FOOT. Synopsis Warned by bln physician that ho has not more than nix months to live, Dun Falling lt despondently on a park bench, tvheie he ho lid spend tlioxe six month. Memories of hi grand father and a deep love .for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision, In a lurge aouthern Oregon city he meet people who had known and loved fronhi grandfather, a famou tier man. 'He make hi home with Silas Ixsnnux, a typical weaterner. The only other member of the houaehold are Lennox' eon, "Hill,'' Their and daughter, "Bndwbird. abode Is In the Umpqua divide, and there Falling plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told Is his. From the first health shows a marked Falling' Improvement, and In the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits Into the woods life a If he had been born to It. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of nerve" he eaves Lennoxs life and hla own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declare he le a reincarnation of hie grandfather' Fan Falling I, whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. Dan learns that an organised band o! outlaw, of which Bert Cranston I the leader, Is setting forest fires. Landry Illldreth, a former member of the gang, has been Induced to turn shite's evidence, Cranaton shoot Hildreth and leave him for dead. won-doin- g , CHAPTER j 1 . , ; I 8 Continued. , For when all thlugs are said and done, there were few bigger cowardk In the whole wilderness world than A good many ppople Whlsperfoot think that Graycoat the ' coyote could take lessons from him In this respect. But others, knowing how a hunter Is brought In occasionally with almost, all,' human resemblance gone from him because a cougar charged In his death agony, think this Is unfair to the larger animal. And it Is true that a cougar will sometimes attack horned cattle, something that no 'American animal cares to do unless he wants a good light on his paws and of which the very thought would throw Graycoat Into a spasm ; and there have been even stranger atorles, If one conld quite believe them. A certain measure of respect must be extended to any anlmul that will hunt .the great bull elk, for to miss the stroke and get caught the churning, lashing, slashing, razor-edge- d front hoofs Is simply death, painful and without delay. lht the difficulty lies In the fact that thede things are not done In the ordinary, rational blood of hunting.. What. an animal docs in Its death agony, or to protect Its young, what great game It follows In the starving times of winter, can be put to neither Its debit nor Its credit. A coyote will charge when mad.: A raccoon will put up ja wicked fight when cornered. A lujn will peck at the hand that robs her nest. When hunting was fairly good, Whlsperfoot avoided the elk and steer almost ns punctiliously as he avoided' men, which Is snylng very much Indeed; and any kind of terrier could usually drive him straight up a tree. But he did1 like to pretend to be very groat and terrible among tie smaller forest creatures. And he was Fear .Itself to the deer. A hutunn hunter who would kill two deer 'a weeks would be week for" fifty-twcalled a much uglier name than poacher; but yet tills, had been Whisper-foot- s re coni, on and off, ever since his second year. Many a great buck wore the scar of the full stroke after which Whlsperfoot hod lost his hold. Many a fawn had crouched panting with terror In the thickets at Just a tawny light on the gnarled tlnjb of a piue. Many a doe would grow and terrified at Just Ifis great-eyeBtrajige, pungent smell on the wind. He yawned again, and his funfrs looked white and abnormally large Jin the moonlight. ITIs great, green e.vrs were still clouded and languorous frnm sleep. Then he began to steal up the ridge toward his hunting grounds. It was a curious thing that lie wulked straight 111 the face of the soft wind that came down from the snow fields, and yet there wasn't a vealliereoek to be seen nnwliere. And neither had the chipmunk seen him wet a paw and hold It up, after the approved fashion of bolding up a finger. He hud a belter way of knowing a chill at the end of his whiskers. The little, breathless night sounds In the brush around him seemed do madden him. They made a song 'to him. a strange, wild melody that ctbn such frontiersmen ns Dun anil Lennox could not experience. A thousand smells brushed down to him on the wind, mete potent than any wltio 'or lust, lie began to tremble all over with rupture and ercllement. But unlike Cranston's trembling, no wilderness cur was keen rnough to hear the leaves rustling beneath lilin. Shortly after nine o'clock, Whlxpcr-ifoo- t encountered his first herd of deer. But they enught hla scent and scattered before lie could get up m them. Be met Woof, grunting through the underbrush, mid be punctiliously, but with wretched spirit, left the trull. A fight with Woof the bear wus one of the most unpleasant experiences that could he Imagined. lie. had a pair of strong arms of which one embrace of a cougar's body meant death In one long shriek of pain. Of course they didnt fight often. They had entirely opposite Interests. The bear was a berry-eate- r and and a the cougar cared too much for Ids 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-foo- t had 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 Whlsperfoot 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, stilt stealing, stUl alert, but bis anger Increasing with every moment. The fact that he had to leave the trail again to permit still another animal to pass, and a particularly Insignificant one too, didnt make him feel any better. This animal had a number of curious stripes along his back, and usually did nothing more desperate than' steal eggs and eat bird fledglings. Whisper-foo- t could have crushed him with one bite, but tills was one thing that the grea cat. as. long p s he lived, would honey-grubbe- r, o d . er fast-flyin- full-grow- n - sound, only louder, spoke from covert from which Bert Cranston had poached her and he left the lick In one bound. Terrified though he wn by the rifle shot, still JVhlsperfoot sprung. But the distance was too far. Ills paw hummed down four feet behind Hlacktall's flank, . Then forgetting everything but his ange? and disappointment, the 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 roar of wings from a thicket; hut they had been wakened by the first whisper of dawn In the wind, and he really Imd no chance at them. Soon after Oils, the moon set. The larger creutures of (he forest are almost ua 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 hat ran see In absolute darkness. It became Increasingly likely thut Whlsperfoot would have to retire to his lair without uuy meal whatever. But still he remained, hoping ngulnst hope. After a futile fifteen minutes of watching a trail, he heard a doe feeding on a hlllsldi. Its footfall was not so heavy as the sturdy tramp of a buck, and besides, the bucks would he higher on the ridges this time of morning. lie began a cautious advance toward It. For the first fifty yards the hunt was In his favor. lie came np wind, and the brush tmle a perfect cover. But the doe unfortunately was standing a full twenty yards farther,1 In an open glude. Under ordinary circumstances, Whlsperfoot would not have made an attack. A 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 member of the deer herd to which the doe must have belonged would come Into his ambush. But the hunt was late, and Whisper-foo- t was very, very angry. Too many times this night he had missed hla kill. In desperation, he leaped from the thicket and charged the deer. In spite of the preponderant odds against him, the charge was almost a success. He went fully half the distance between them before the deer perceived him. Then Bhe 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 duck-huntg duck hopleads a ven as her ing to Intercept her leap, 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 which he has missed hla stroke; and it is also quite fatal to his dignity. And whoever doubts for a minute that the larger creatures have no dignity, and that 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, ns the rains crumble leaves, the last vestige of Wlilsperfoot's Snarling In fury, he bounded after the doe. She was lost to sight at once In the darkness, hut for fully thirty yards lie raced In her pursuit. If he had stopped to think. It would ha" been one of the really greatvsnrprlses of his life to hear the sudden, unmistakable stir and movement of a large, living creature not fifteen feet distant in the thicket. He didn't stop to think at nil. Tie didn't puzzle on the extreme unlikelihood of a doe halting In her flight from a cougnr. It Is doubtful whether, in the thickets, he had g r.y perceptions of the creature other than Its move-me- n V- He was running down wind, so It Is cvrtaln that he didn't smell It. If he saw It at all, It was just ns a shadow, sufficiently large to he that of a deer. It was moving, crawling as Woof the hear sometimes crawled, Aeemlngly to get out of his pnth. And Whlsperfoot leaped straight at It. JR was a perfeet shot. Ho landed hlg-on Its shoulders. Ills head lashed fiowi. and the white teeth closed. All the ) ng life of Ms ray he had known that ingent ea tye that flowed forth. His pertvKd It, a shot along Ills nerves to Ills 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 hared; he was prepared to fight to the death. He didn't understand. He only knew the worst 'Ingle terror of his life. It was not a doe that he had attacked In the ilarkne-a- . It was not Urson the porcupine, (r even Woof. It was that Imperial master of all things, man hlntseir. un. knowing, he had attacked I.ntidv lying wounded from ('moron's bullet beside the trail. Word of she arson ring would never reach the settlements. afte- - all. A Full wenty Yards Farther. never try to do. He got out of the was way politely when Stripe-bacstill a quarter of a mile away; which was quite a compliment to the little animal's ability to Introduce himself. was familiarly known as Stripe-buca skunk. Shortly after ten. the mountain lion had a remarkably fine clmnee at a buck. The direction of the wind, th trees, the thickets and the IlgM were all In his favor. It was old H;ktall, wallowing In the salt lick ; and Wills perfoot's heart bounded when he detected him. No human hunter could have laid Ills plans with greater care, lie bad to cut vp the side of the ridge, mindful of the wind Then there was a long dense thlcget In which he might approach wlliln fifty feet of the lick, still with the wind In his face'. Just beside tin lick was another deep thicket, from which lie could make his leap, Ills body lowered. The tall lushed back and forth, and now It had begun to have n slight vertlcul motion thut frontiersmen have learned to watch for. Ho placed every paw with consummate grace, and few sets of human nerves have sufficient control over leg muscles to move with such astonishing patience. He scarcely seeded to move at all. But when scarcely ten feet remained to stalk, n sudden sound pricked through (he dnrkiiess. It came from afar, but It was no less terrible. It was really two sounds, so close together Unit they sounded as one. Neither Black lull nor Whlsperfoot hud any delusions about them. They recognized them at once, In strange trays under the akin that no man may k ses nte-sag- a h, Umbrellas are great blufferx; If a .nut up with them, case of put up FOR . SWAMP-ROO- T rifle. (U. S. Bureau of Markets) Washington, D. C. For week ended Jail. 28, 1821. Hey and Feed, Receipts and notices of hay shipment light In western markets Kuatern markets dull but prices fairly steady. Quote; No. 1 timothy. New York )82 CO, Chicago 1 22, Memphis "J. Minneapolis $20, Atlanta 833.60. No. 1 ult.tlla, 1Kansas City $84, Memphis No. 823 prairie, Kansua City 14, Chicago 818, Minneapolis 818. All wheutfecds reached new low level -- -- In Minneapolis market. General dull- ness prevailed In all markets, particular) v in southwest. Quoted; Jiran 825, mliMliiig Ijj, flour middlings 26.oUt Minneapolis1; No. 1 alfalfa meal $22, Kansas City; white hominy feed 824, 8l. Louis; 8ti per cent cottonseed meal 828 Ml, Memphis; linseed meal 838 Min lii'Upuits, 822 50, Buffalo; beet pulp 838, Philadelphia; brewers' grain 838, Milwaukee; gluten feed reduced 88 sine last week, now quoted 840, Chicago. Fruits nod Vegetables. Northern round white potaioos declined about 10c per 100 lbs., f. o. b reaching 83cVi 81.05. markets down Chicago car-lo- t lue at 81.104 t.20. Sacked round white about 20c lower f. o. It, New York shipping points, closing 81.08l.i8. Move-iin.- it continues very light. New York hi Id at 81.654(1.80 bulk. Bureau of shows total crop estimates release stinks on hand January first, 145,2X0,-lio- o Imshels, compared with 128,400,000 bushels Jan. 1, 1320; 174,373,000 bushels J.tn. I, 1313. Baldwin apples from cold storage closed slightly lower t. o. b., around 84 per hbl. Baldwins and Grednlugs steady, 83.504? mostly 84 4815; York Imperials .... KIDNEY AILMENTS There i only one medicine that really a a medicine for stands out curable ailment of the kidney, liver and bladder. Swamp-Roo- t stands tee Dr. Kilmer highest for the reaon that it ha proven to be just the remedy needed in thousand case. of distressing thousand upon makes friends quickjy bebwamp-Koo- t cause its mild and immediate effect is aoon realized ' in most cases. It is a gentle, ' healing vegetable compound, Start treatment at once. Sold at all drug stores in bottles of two size, medium slid Urge. However, if you wish first to test tbn great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y.( for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. Ad. i TOO t Gp LATE .S Death only a matter of abort tlma, Don't wait until pains and aches become incurable diseases. Avoid painful consequences by taking COLD MEDAL fjitnum worlds standard remedy forTfidney, lie liver, bladder artd uric add troublsa- th - National Remedy of Holland ainc 1690. Tbrae eixaa, all druggist. Guarantaad. Cold MUI Lk far thepadsue Imitation oecopt west bon Enjoys It. A conceited man will not talk about "Mn(e any New Years resolutions? "Sure. Its so much fun breaking em you behind your hack. He will talk about himself. afterwards. 4.50. bucked yellow onions slightly lower o. b., 86c4?81; mostly 85c per 100 lbs.; eastern markets down 1015c, Juu. 27, at 85c 91 50; mlddlewestern Sternly, 75c 81.40. New York cabbage steady f. o. b mostly 810 per ton bulk; eastern markets 82 lower at 812 to 818; Florida VVukeftelds f 1.75 per 1)3 mostly f. 81-6- hamper sales to Jobbers. bu tl rain- - Flour Jobbers state flour consumption shows decrease from year ago and still falling off. Corn trade small; mainly local, and affected by wheat; country offerings to arrive, light. In Chicago cash market number 2 red winter wheat 22 26c over March; No. 2 hard over; new No. 3 mixed corn 6c under May; yellow 54)5)40 under. Minneapolis reports fair flour trade; wheat demand good. Kansas City milling demand fair; export demand slow; cash No. 2 dark hard winter wheat 6c over Kansas City March. For the week Chicago March wheat advanced 14c, closing at May corn down half cent, at 6614. Minneapolis March wheat up half cent at 81.65)4; Kansas City March up )4o at Winnipeg May down 3)4c, at Chicago May wheat I.lve Stock and Meats. Compared with a week ago, cattle and sheep prices at Chicago declined. Hogs ranging 30 70c higher per 100 lba. Beef and butcher cattle down 2550c; feeder leers 25c. Veal calves advanced 50c 81 per 100 lbs. Fat lambs, feeding lambs and yearlings down 25c; fat ewes 25 50c. Jan. 28th Chicago price: Hogs, bulk of sales, I9.309.90; medium and good beef steers, 87.60 9.25; butcher cows and heifers 94. 608.50; feeder steers 86.258.50; light and medium weight veal calves 81113.50; 67c ' 81-5- fat lambs 38.5010.75; feeding lambs 38lO; 5.50. yearlings 97.259; fat ewes Eastern wholesale fresh meat markets almost invariably showed declines compared with a week ago. Aa a rule, better grades Buffered most. Lambs lost 924, pork loins 912, veal steady to 93 lower, beef steady to 91.50 lower, mutton steady at some markets, lower at ethers. January 28th prices good grade meats: Beef 91616, veal 820 23, lambs 81823, mutton 91116, light pork loins 82224, heavy loins 816 19. Dairy Products. Butter market for the most part weak and unsettled during the week. Business of the past few days Indicates tbit the tone Is somewhat firmer although on the 28th the New York market showed signs of further weakness. Recent heavy arrivals of Danish butter have been moving rather slowly at around 4950c. Todays prices 92 score domestic: New York 49)4c; Chicago, 46et Boston, 60ct Philadelphia, 48Qc, Cheese markets continued to' maintain firm tone throughout week, but during the past few days business has been dull. In Wisconsin the tone seems to be not quite ao firm as a week ago. Prices at Wisconsin primary markets lower: twine 24)4c; average Daisies 25c; Double Daisies 24)4c; Longhorns 27c; Young Americas 26)4c. 93 50 8t4l4c TRIVIALITIES CAUSE SUICIDES Life Taken for Most Trivial Reasone in Number of Cases. New York. More tliaa 0000 suicides n 1920, au Increase of over 1000 for t single year, were brought to the at- tention of the Save a Life league, to Its annual report, made ry HO. "Life was taken, the reports say, for the most trivial reason In a large lumber of cases. A man distressed beeau.se his new j slothes were unsatisfactory. "A woman peeved because her husband refused to eat the pie she had i made. "A nmn ' angry with his wife because the refused to vote the pemocratlc jkeL "A couple In dispute as to how far a window should be left open for air during the night. A woman because of trouble over i powder puff. the report continues, "In 1920, 3507 men and 2001 women committed suicide. Possibly the Increase In among women may be dtie to the fact that so muny have recently entered business and political life. Unhappy marriage relations unl present living conditions also contribute largely to the situation. The youngest suicide was 5 years old and the oldest 103. "Divorce figured prominently In last year, more than 100 persons killing themselves for this reason. The great number of farmers who have given way to despair has and also fanners' been noticeable wives. Possibly tho many splendid boys lost in the war may have been the cause." oece-ssar- y sul-eld- Some One Rubbered. "Thnt new stenographer of ours Is a resourceful girl." "How so? "This morning, tot being able to find her eraser, she was seen rubbing out a word with the tip of her overshoe."! toston Transcript The Difficulty. "One of the doctors says It Is wise to he In good humor "when esilng." "But you cant always he sure that the other fellow Is going to Insist on Buying the check." You must say Bayer Warning! Unless you see the name Bayer on tablet you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by .physicians for 21 years and proved safe by millions. Accept only an unbroken package of Bayer Aspirin," which cpntains proper directions for Colds, Pain, Toothache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Handy tin boxes of 12 tablet eoet but a few ctote Larger Aenlrla la the trad mark o t Barer Uaoutastor SPECIAL MEDAL FOR THIS DOG Tablets ol Headache, Lumbago. pad: age. t HonoacsUcactdester et EaUcrlloMtd. 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