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Show Plains of Abr aham By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD fcy Doran Co., Doubleday CHAPTER X WNTJ Ssrvice. at the head of the waiting lines Continued could not But this happier spirit Death endure long with the people. on them heavily. No word settled jad and his warhad come from Tiaoga that were whisperings There riors heen annihilated in battle they had Anxiety ud would never return. -- into fear, fear Into certainty. p-e- a tragedy darker The grimness of of the priest hovrobes sable the than Chenufsio. ered over ToiIn their happiness, Jeems and of undercurrent the feel not nette did them. Their abiding change about a home whose roots place became death could spread so securely that The cloud of them up. torn have not the tragedy through which they had soft and passed was a curtain vaguely distant behind them ; they thought of someIt they talked of It, and dreams comfind to Toinette awakened times fort in Jeems' arms. But did not wound so deeply. of Tonteur and of Jeems' its memories The spirits mother drew nearer to them each day, strengthening with Invisible chains the love which bound them. It was the Thrush who first made them see what was happening about them. As days and weeks passed without word from Tiaoga, the fear that Shindas was dead clutched her with an evil hand. She began to avoid Toinette and kept The hardness which had to herself. settled In the faces about her came She was a changed Into, her own. She was Opltchl the Mary Daghlen. Seneca. It was this change in the one she to regard as a sister which startled Toinette Into a realization of the situation which was gathering about her and Jeems, and she was now destined to witness In all of Its savagery that streak in Indian character which arouses hate and the desire for vengeance In the face of adversity at Jeems the hands of human enemies. marked Its rising symptoms. He was bo longer greeted with friendliness. Men were sullen and aloof, and women toiled without their usual chatter. Death and misfortune had ridden too hard, and human nerves were at the breaking point Chenufsio was like a handful of powder ready for the touch had come of fire. Then came the lightning flash. It was an afternoon late in May when Shindas appeared In Chenufsio. He was alone. His arms and shoulders were hacked and cut and some of the wounds were scarcely healed. A scar lay across his cheek. His moccasins were In tatters, and his eyes held the ferocious light of a wolf that had been hunted. He made no effort to soften the news of which he was the bearer. He had come from the border of the Cayuga country as a messenger from Tiaoga and was many hours ahead of his was returning with comrades. Tiaoga nine of his thirty warriors. The others were dead. This tragedy was a cataclysmic one tven fur a tribe of the most warlike of the Six Nations. Nothing had equaled it in Seneca history for generations. Twenty were dead out of thirty the flower of Chenufsio the very sinew of Tiaoga's people! Shindas waited until his words sunk like barbs of iron Into the hearts of the men and women about him. He waited until there seemed no relief from the despair which settled over ttem, and then slowly gave the names f those who had been slain by their enemies. A white man had killed three of the twenty warriors. He was t prisoner now with Tiaoga. They had pot out his eyes so that he could not see. They had built a Are around Mm in which It had been their Intention to see him die. But in the last foment when the flames were scorches him Tiaoga had pulled the biazing foal away with his own bands in order fiat the people of Chenufsio could witness his wrlthlngs at the Are take. After this one might have thought that mad men and women and not a people filled Chenufsio. For hours the lament of the women did not die out Still Toinette saw no tears. Her horror incrensed as she observed the preparations for the rigging of a hole and the Wtlng In it of a tall stake, all by women's hands; the gathering of pitchy by little children and their moth-th- e transformation of friends she known into fiends whose eyes j"'el with hatred when they looked at She tried to hide from these ""ngs in their home and to keep Jeenn with her. Shindas came to wem. iie had a cotnmail(j from J'Mga for Jeems. It was that Jeems f'ould go to the village of Kanestlo T!y miles distant and bear news war party from that town. Shindas Mve uln the message and saw . 41 "t he departed with it He was no brot,)er- - ne disclosed no I'm of pleasure when he learned that mnettt was Jeems' wife. Mary found h,m o grimly changed tul ien he frightened her. Toinette remained No one alone. ind'th ee her exopPt I'lgeon, afterroon following the day of V, snlndas- - arrival the child ran In " lde eyes to tell her that Tiaoga broaching. They were standing ven-teanc- e; Ji - . wi when Tiaoga and the remnant of his band came over the hill and across the fields. Shindas had said there was to be no physical demonstration the prisoner, who was to beagainst kept strong for torture at the stake. Toinette shivered. It was a different homecoming this time. The people were like tigers holding their passions In leash. There was something demoniac in the faces of the children. Even the eyes of those whose loved ones had escaped death held only the fire of hatred. Tiaoga came. His face was like a mask of rock as he passed so near that Toinette might have touched him. The prisoner followed. His clothes were torn from the upper part of his body. He was a powerfully built man with hands great and wide shoulders. On each side of him walked a warrior, for he was blind and needed guidance. His empty eye sockets, hidden by drooping lids, gave to his round red face the appearance of one walking in a ghastly sleep, ret he was not overcome by the enormity of the catastrophe which had befallen him, nor did he betray fear of what lay ahead. He sensed the presence of the people and held his head high as if trying to see them. It was a bald head. Toinette swayed backward and struggled in a moment of darkness to keep herself from falling. The prisoner was Hepslbah Adams. deep-seate- d CHAPTER XI No one but Wood Pigeon observed the falntness which came over Toinette. Some force had drawn a smothering curtain about her making It dif- ficult to see or breathe. When the shock passed, they were standing alone with the mob closing In behind Tiaoga and his single captive. Its pent-uemotion burst loose in a pandemonium, and amid the excitement Toinette went back to the cabin which Jeems had built near Tiaoga's tepee. At first she had regretted the absence of Jeems, but now she was glad he was gone, for the increasing tumult in the village, the chanting of death songs by the women, the screaming of children, and the yelling of savages who were working themselves Into a frenzy of rage about the fire which would soon receive its victim terrified her with the growing conviction that nothing could save his uncle. If Jeems had been there, she knew he would not have seen Hepsibah Adams put to death without a struggle fatal to himself. This thought, together with the reflection that it was a fortunate chance which had sent him away, 'strengthened her determination to help Hepslbah, and she watched with Wood Tlgeon until she saw the chief enter his tepee. Then she hurried to him, with Wood rigeon and Odd following her. Tiaoga's greeting held no promise. The Seneca folded his arms across his breast and regarded her calmly, revealing no gentle aspect as he spoke a few words In acknowledgment of her visit That his prisoner bore the same relationship to Jeems which he bore to Shindas and that the man about to die was loved by Silver Heels brought no surprise or hestlta-tio- n to his face. He waited patiently for her to finish, then shook his head and pointed through the door to the shadows gathering in the path of the setting sun. He stated coldly that the deprisoner must die. His people manded that the spirit of the white man who had slain three of his warriors be destroyed in flames. They would wait until it was dark, which was the tribal custom. Then the prisoner would be brought from the tepee In which he was lying bound, and the fire would be lighted. If it were her desire, she might talk with Jeems' uncle, Tiaoga said. He was looking Into the twilight when he made this concession. The Indian vilwomen at the farther end of the as more loudly lage were chanting on. came darkness Tiaoga spoke again. was growing She must hurry. It De Bah s late. The captive was In Ah p 3fiP.CK II Xnc, 20 FARM FEEDING CORN TO HOGS PROFITABLE I tepee, near the river, and the Tall Man and Shindas were guarding him. He watched her depart with Wood Pigeon and Odd. Then she might have seen a change in him, a change which came when he knew he was alone. Toinette was breathless when she came to Ah De Bah's home, which the hunter had set apart from the others. The Tall Man stood motionless before the door with a rifle In the crook of his arm, and Shindas sat on the ground near him. Both saw her coming. She paused a few paces from them with her mind struggling against a chaos of uncertainty and dread. What could she say to Hepslbah Adams? How could she help him when Tiaoga and Shindas and Ah De Bah were eager for his death? Shindas spoke a word to the Tall Man and advanced toward her. He seemed to have expected her, and pointed to the tepee. Ah De Bah did not look at her as she entered. Neither appeared to notice Wood Pigeon or the dog. She found Hepsibah stretched out like a dead man, and knelt on the earth at his side. He was scarcely conscious of her presence until she touched him. She felt the buckskin cords at his wrists; then her hand found his sightless face. Bending low over the doomed man she whispered: "Hepslbah Hepslbah Adams I am Toinette Tonteur." .',. Shindas waited with Ah De Bah as the gloom thickened about them. After a time, they saw Wood Pigeon going toward the circle of fires. Shindas stopped her, and in answer to his question she told him Toinette was weeping beside the white man and that the dog was with her. A fresn outcry told them that at last the time had come, and Ah Da Bah went to the tepee and held back the flap. He spoke to Toinette, calling her Soi Tan Makwun. There was no answer. He spoke again and entered. After a brief Interval, his voice rose In a demand for Shindas, and the young Seneca answered it Ah De Bah was hunting like an animal in the blackness. The tepee was empty. Toinette and Hepsibah Adams were gone. Shindas did not speak. There was no light to reveal his face as be went to the edge of the river and saw that a canoe was gone. He grunted his wonder when the Tall Man Joined him. The canoe had been launched within fifty paces of them, and they had not heard a sound. Words of fell from Ah De Bah's lips. Ha and Shindas were like two children, and every man and woman in Chenufsio would taunt them because of the ease with which the escape had been made. But the missing canoe could not be far distant. The fugitives, one of them blind, could not possibly succeed in their flight. The night would see the white man given to the stake, and now that Silver Heels had proved herself a serpent in the tribe and a traitor to Tiaoga, she would probably die with him. Ah De Bah made queer sounds in his chest as they ran to Tiaoga and the expectant people with him. He was not as calm as Shindas when they arrived. It was Shindas who announced the deception of the stranger whom they had accepted as the true spirit of Sol Tan Makwum. Tiaoga was coldly and terribly still nis face changed before their eyes. The furrows in it grew deeper, and it became as hard as stone in the fields. Then words came weighted with the decision of death, rising until they swelled in a passion that was like a fire consuming everything in its path, ne declared that his honor and the honor of his people lay la his hands. He called on Shindas and Ah De Bah to go with him to recapture the fugitives, for this was a duty imposed on him first of all Before the night was much older, the fire stake should have its triumph. He had forgotten the blind man, for a man without eyes was already dead. He would give to the flames the white girl who had betrayed them. (TO CONTINUED.) BBS Officers "on Edge" Tricky Criminals Keep Law the hair, Growing a beard, dyeing with hand, and face and staining the a mixture of butternut oil, nutgall,e are and permanganate of potash, been very often dodges that have with Stained man. hunted the to fhe above mixture, a fair skinned man Span ard or becomes as swarthy a. r on bur a made Italian; it once actually he so confident that lad 'the audacity to sell Ic, of Scotland within a stone's throw recent dodge most the Yard. Perhaps to give for criminals who are anxious s going the police to a wide berth authorities on the sick list. Hospital are mucn in London and the provinces and new deptorjWe perturbed by this of trickery. At one doctor, the suspicions of the the aroused by were Individ course of one. week of several old-tim- nals who, according to their own story, were in terrible pain, but whose aliments the medical men were quite The surprising unable to diagnose. speed with which these mysterious "patients" recovered at the end of a few days convinced the doctors that there was "something up." Inquiries were made, and it was learned that at least two of them were badly "wanted" in connection with a motor car theft London Times. Use of Telephone On Otcober 9, 1870, the first recip- First rocal conversation over a telephone was held over an outdoor line, two miles long, between Mns. Boston and On March rt, 10. 1870. Professor Bell bad made himself heard by Watson in another part of the same buildimr. Safest Investment and One Way of Making Money "The most profitable method of marketing corn for the next two years Is y feeding it to hogs and then marketing the hogs," W. W. Shay, swine extension specialist of the North Carolina State college, says, tn speaking of the tow price of com and the profit to be made in hogs at the present time. "Feeding corn to hogs is the safest farm Investment and the surest way to make a profit In farming this year." if the corn Is produced at a low cost per bushel, Mr. Shay says that It Is always profitable to feed- - corn to hogs. Even If the corn Is high in price per bushel or the yield per acre Is low, the feeding of corn to hogs will Increase Its bushel value. "When the farmer has a big loss In the cost of corn, due to low production per acre, this can be cut down by feeding to hogs, but not always eliminated." The person who cannot produce at least 30 bushels of corn or more to the acre had best stay out of the hog raising business. r demonstrations In the eastern part of the state this past year showed that corn will increase enormously in value if fed to hogs. One demonstration showed a profit of 485 per cent on corn by such feeding, despite the death of one bog during the demonstration. The hogs, In this case, ate 200 bushels of corn, which would have brought $188.10 If sold as corn. After paying all other charges, and deducting the value of the hog which died, $10.7."). the hogs still paid a profit of $28.f)4 for the corn and left plant food worth $49.35 on the farm, whereas $31.35 worth of plant food would have gone out with the corn, had it been sold. The other two demonstrations proved the same thing. In the demonstrations, the hogs were s half the time and put on then turned In on standing corn, supplemented with fish meal The raising of plenty of com and hogs will be a great boost for the " movement Mr. Shay believes. He wants many hog feeding demonstrations this year, with accurate records kept. Self-feede- self-feeder- "Llve-st-nome- Suggested Ration for Fattening Lamb Crop Lambs being fattened on a suitable grain mixture and good hay will not be expected to eat as much silage 88 breeding ewes. As the lambs get on full feed of grain the roughage Is naturally reduced. About two pounds of grain dally Is a full feed for lambs being fattened. Corn is of course the universal futtener among the grains-bar- ley is used a lot In western New Tork. A suggested ration to start with would be a half pound of grain, two pounds of clover hay, and one pound of silage dally. Lambs when on full feed should clean np their grain and eat the good or edible part of their hay. Some feeders feed a little wheat bran with the fattening concentrate which is a good practice as wheat bran has a beneficial effect on the system of the lamb. Proper Attention Will Prevent Much Pig Loss There is a considerable loss of pigs at the time of birth and within a very short time afterwards. Many pigs are born dead, and many more are so weak that they live only a short time. Much of this loss can be avoided by proper feeding of brood sows and by providing suitable quarters for farOf eonrse, attention at farrowing. rowing time will save many pigs, hut unless sows have been fed a ration that contains sufficient protein and mineral matter. It Is a foregone conclusion that there will be some dead pigs at birth, and many of those that are born alive will be too weak to live long. Supplementing Corn For supple entlng corn on alfalfa pasture one pound of tankage has proved to be as efficient for pigs as two pounds rf linseed meal soy beans, or soy bean meal. A mineral mixture composed of equal parts of ground limestone, superphosphate, and salt did not improve a ration of corn and soy beans on alfalfa pasture. In fact the feed required per 100 pounds of grain was higher when minerals were fed than without them. These are some of the results of last year's hog feeding tests. Names of Great Lakes Both Indian and French Gannett's "Origin of Place Names in the lulted States" says that pinions differ as to the origin of the name Huron. According to some it is a corruption of "Hure" given a tribe of Indians by the French. It means "the head of a wild boar." It is believed by some that it Is from the Indian words "onkwe honwe," meaning "true man." Still others believe It Is a corruption by French from the Indian "Irrl ronon," meaning "cat tribe." Erie is from "Erige," or "Erike," the name of a now extinct Indian tribe. The word signifies "cat" or "wildcat." Some authorities believe the word means "mad." Ontario in the Indian word meaning beautiful lake or "beautiful prospect of rocks, hills and water." Michigan is an Indian word said by some to mean "big luke" and by others "place for catching fish." Superior la a translation of the original French name, "Lac Superieur aux Ontaouncs," meaning "the upper lake of the Ottawas." 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