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Show THE BEAVER COUNTY WEEKLY: PRESS, BEAVER, UTAII influence upon hlnu The wild was calling to bun, wakeulng .instinct long smothered in cities, but sure and true as ever. It was the beginning of regeneration. Voices of the long past were speaking to him, and the Fallings once more bad begun to run true to , form. Inherited tendencies were In a moment changing this weak, diseased youth Into a frontiersman and wilderness Inhabitant such as his ancestors had leen before him. :. They were slipping along over the pine needles, their eyes intent on the trail ahead. And then Lennox saw a curious thing. He beheld Dan sud; denly stop .in the trail and turn his eyes toward a heavy thicket that lay perhaps one hundred yards to their rignt. f or an instant ne looked almost like a wild creature himself. Ills head. was lowered, as If he were lisHis . muscles were set and tening. -- j 1 copyvfjVT. r3 'zJitti.e, fveowAr aatj cowrr oinHl, and It might be thr.t Dan would want to procure oue of these creature. "But I'm not sure I want to hunt deer." Dan told him. "You speak of them- as bclnx so .beautiful-".- .;. They are' beautiful and your grandfather would never hunt them, either, except fiy meat. But maybe you'll change your mind when you see a buck. Besides, we might run Into a lynx or a panther. But not very likely, without dogs." x They trudged up, over the carpet of pine, needles. They fought their way through a thicket of buckbrush. Once thef saw the gray squirrels In the tree tops. And before Lennox had as much as supposed they were near the haunts of big game, a yearling doe sprang up from its bed In the thickets. For an Instant she stood motionless, presenting a perfect target Jt was evident that .she had heard the sound of the approaching hunters, but had not as yet located or identified them d with her eyes. Lennox whirled to find Dan standing very still, peering along the barrel of his rifle. But he didn't shoot. The deer, seeing Lennox move, leaped Into her terror-pacthat astounding run that Is one of the fastest gaits In the whole animal world. In the wink o! an eye she was out of sight "Why didn't you shoot?" Lennox de " manded. "Shoot ? It was a doe, wasn't It?" "Good Lord, of course it was a doe! But there are no game laws that go back this far. Besides you aimed at "Warned by hi physician that hi has not more than six months lo live, Dan Falling sits despondently on a park bench," wotiderlnfc where he should spend thoM six months. Memories .of bis grandfather snd a deep love for all things ot the wild help him In reaching a decision. In-- a large southern Oregon city he meets people" who had knows 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 Lennox's son, "Bill," and dauch- . tir. "Snowbird," Their abode Is In the, UmpQU divide, and there Falling plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told la his. From the first Felling's health shows a marked Improvement, and In the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits Into the woods life ss If he had been born to If. liy quick thinking and a remarkable display of "nerve" he savea Lennox's life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he Is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Falling I, whose fame as a woodsman Is a ..... . ' . household word.. e CHAPTER III Continued. Dan saw the door close behind him, and he had to instant's gtimpse of the ' long sweep of moonlit ridge that stretched beneath the window. Then, ill atonce, seemingly without warning, It simply blinked out. Not until the next morning did he really know why, Insomnia was an old acquaint- It" "I aimed Just to see If I could catch ance of Dan's, and he had expected to hare some trouble In getting to sleep. It through my sights. And I could. His only real trouble was waking tip My glasses sort of made It blur hut again when Lennox called him to breakfast - lie couldn't believe that the light at his window shade was really that of morning. "Good Heavens ! his host exploded. "You sleep the sleep of the Just," Dan was about to tell him that on the contrary he was a very nervous sleeper, but be thought better of It Something had surely happened to his Insomnia. The next Instant be even forgot to wonder about 1t to the real! tattoo that bis tired body had been wonderfully refreshed, II had no dread now of the long tramp tip the ridge that his host had planned, ' But first came target practice. In Dan's baggage be had a certain very plain but serviceable sporting rifle of about thirty-fort- y caliber a gun that the Information department of the r s 1 . Jl: large sporting-good- s store In Gltche-apoll- s had recommended for his purpose. Except for the few moments In the store. Dan had never held a rifle lo his hands. The first shot he bit the trunk of a five-fopine at thirty pace. "Dot I couldnt II. 41 ' ' very well have missed UP he replied to Lennox's cheer. "Too see, I aimed at the mid-- . die but I Just grased the edge." The second shot was not so good, And It missing the tree altogether. was a singular thing that he aimed longer and tried harder on this shot than on the first The third time he tried still harder, and made by far the worst shot of all. What's the matterr he demanded. "Ho getting worse all the time." Lennox didn't know for sure. But he made a long guess. "It might be beginner's lock." he said. Tint Tnt In rlined to Ihlnk you're trying too hard Take It easier depend more on your Instincts." ' Dan's reply was to lift the rifle 1 i --- . ""tightly to his shoulderrglnnce eulrkly elonjt the Mgger and fire. The huTTet struck within one Inch of the center . .... . of the Tor a long second gazed at astonishment. him hi ."My stars, boy P he cried at last. "Was I mistaken In thinking yon were a born tenderfoot after all? Can It he that a little of your old grandfather's skill has been pasted down to you? But yon can't do It again." But Dan did do It again. If any thlhg, the bullet was" a 111 tlenea ref" tr-center. , And thea he aimed at a more dlstanMree.' Dut th hammer snapped down In- effectively on the breech. He turned with a look of question. "Tonr gun only holds five shots." Reloadins. Dun Lennox explained. tried a more difficult target a trunk almost oue hundred yards dlstont Of course It would have been only child's llay to an experienced hunter: hut to a tenderfoot It was a difficult mark IndwITlce.puLpf four shots lan hit the tree trunk, and one of. his two hits was practically a bull's-eye'illl two inlaw were the result of, the same mistake he bad made before attempting to hold Ms aim too long. pine.--.--.....:- open-mouthe- d . . - Dan and Lennox started together long slope of the ridge. Dan alone armed; l.ennot went with him solely ii a guide. The deer season bad up the o Tj tjV 8 me thing Living Thicket" In That I think perhaps that I could have shot It But I'm not going to kill does. There must be some reason for the game laws, or they wouldn't exist." "TouYe a funny one. Come three thousand miles to hunt and thon pass up the first deer you see. Tou could almost have bece your grandfather, to have done that, tie thought killing as hod s deer nwdtessty-wrrilnio- st t are'ea-tntfua killing manr'They things, aren't they!" Dun answered hire with startling emphasis. But the look that he wort sub? duore than his words. . They trudged on. and lnnox grew thoughtful. He was recalling the picture that be hid seen when he had whirled to look at Dan, Immediately after the deer had leaped from It little. He had bed. It puxzled blm turned 10 find the younger man In perfect posture to shoot his feet placed In exactly the position that year of experience had taught ln- nox was correct; and withal, absolutely motionless. , What many hunter lake years to learn, Dan had seemed to know by Instinct. Could It be, after alt. that thin slender weakling, even now bowed down with a terrible Builudy.. Lad inherited the. true instincts of his ancestors! " The result of this thought was at least Jo hover In thenear vicinity of a certain conclusion. That conclusion was that at least a few of the characteristics of his grandfather - had been passed down to Dan. Tf meant that possibly, If time remained, he would not turn out such .a weakling, after all Of course ills courage,-hi- s nerve, had yet to be tested; but the fact remained that long generations of frontiersmen ancestors had left liU ' 's " f 3.,herf5...toOi...r,! ". ...:.T2,,:.,..: aA Stanley Brent was a young roan of enough wealth to enable him to Indulge his fancies; but he had concentrated all his energies and ambitions ijMjn a novel, which had finally been accepted by a New York publishing timi on condition that he would make certain changes la the plot, He found IdslTew apattnientll that could be desired in the way of stimulus. He whimsically attributed his success to the Chippendale desk, at which he did most of his work. Hanging directly over the Chippendale desk there was one picture which roused Brent's admiration and Imagination morehan all the rest It was a study of a young man, with features faultlessly Greek, who looked the epitome of youth and poetry and love. It net Brent to weaving a romance at a faster pace than his own pen could follow. "Yes, that's the man she loves, or did love when she painted It," he said to himself as he lighted his brier, and Kave himself up to the Joys of speculation. And Brent put down his brier, and started on Jt prolonged search for a note from Miss Kingston, who had invited him to dine with her and her w y l x: ' j . Ill: i The Genesee Pure Food Company, ;Le JK.oy.iN. x. I r wll " II - - rau iaai i IHI , Mil . --Hardly "Yes, this Is a Boston bull." "Well ered?" "Could anything from Boston be otherwise?" JJulte Sot, "The vnsus bureau employs som 4,000 clerks." "Quite a Job to take Uu census of the census." QUININE CASmM j 4 OMV C.H.. Cants Lt Grl'M Neglected Colds are Dangerous Take do chances, Keep this standard remedy handy foe the first aneesa, Relieves Breaks up a cold in 24 hours .Grippe In 3 days Excellent for Headache Quinine ta this form does not affect the head Casoara is beet Took Laxative Mo Opiate in Hill'a, - ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT note-pape- jolt for GENTLY sweeny "YANKS" GOT THEIR COFFEE , Frothingham Dodge, the Boston municipal reformer, In the course of an address to Harvard students, said : "Man wasn't made to loaf. The minute he begins to loaf he takes to drink or hypochondria I don't know which Is worse. "There's loafing. . hypochondriac pamed Sweeny who spends all his lime talking about his health. He's always ailing, and usually when you go to see him you find him In bed with a headache or rheumatism or dyspepsia or what not. "Sweeny was tottering feebly down the street one day when he fell In with a burly friend named George. "George," he said, Td give any thing to be as strong and healthy as you are. What do you live on? "'I live on fruit said .George. "'Fruit, eh? said Sweeny eagerly. That aounds good. Hi. have to try It What kind of fruit George? "The fruit of labor, George an swered significantly." If a man could . r In f England The British Tommies nearby staoi Ing rigidly at attention were petruV' by Guyon's reply: "Oh, pretty wtf king, but say, this, tea we have fr breakfast Is fierce can't you fix I up so we can have coffee?" The king laughed and address one of his aides said : "See to It tbf these men have coffee hereaft' And the Americans had coffee. - A College Lad. "Is he a raw youth T only see himself as bis neighbors see him, he could easily "Well, he wouldn't so consider hit self. Call him a rah-ra- h youth." . Graft Is something else we cannot eure only scold about A man may forget to wind k' watch, but the flight of time goes Just the same. see his finish. Look into it ! If tea or coffee drinking disturbs health or self-contr- Ip - There's a hig tfairx contoward r' health, with venience, economy; and no loss in satisfaction r .,:,''. GROCERS o, ILVEICaTWHl j SELtPOSTTOI 1 1. -- . ! Sergeant Guyon of "B" troop, AmfrJ lean forces In Germany, has the distinction of having his ration changed by direct orders from King George, f When the American army polo teat from Coblens was In England recent ly, Guyon had charge of the ponies if Aldershot. The king visited the fK and was attracted by the poote' blankets" bearing the betters "A. f 0." He approached to Inspect tber and addressed Guyon. f "Welt how are yorj .getting aW -- j -- Possibly There Are Others Who Sergeant's Personal "Kick to Kit Might Benefit by Reflecting on George Brought About the De- sired Change in Rations. George's Observation. Ten-nox- - ' Kill That Cold With chum. ing a ' in.. i SJ) packages "Here It Is," he said at last, spyr blue-graIn sheet of the far corner of a pigeonhole. He pulled it out and began to read. A puzzled expression came over his " deer face. He could not remember havBut then bis words chopped square ing received this strange letter: ly off In his throat The plodding ad "It is such a Joy to love you that I vance commenced again. And the as If I must tell you so. I fancy feel next. Instant a gray form revealed Itmost women don't tell a man that they self at the edge of the thicket. It was Graycoat the coyote, half- - love him. They allow him to do all blind with his madness, and defc that. Well, my heart, I am different that Is" all. . I sit here looking at your perate In bis agony. There was no more deadly thing in wonderful face tonight and it seems all the hills than he. Even the bite to me that you were born for love. Just as a Greek statue was born for of a rattlesnake would have been wel comed beside his. He stood a long Immortality. I cannot help adding my instant and all his Instincts and re- tribute of adoration, even while I feel that It will not touch you very deeply. flexes that would have , ordinarily made him flee in abject terror were Why should It? You must have wearied thwarted and twisted by the. fever of. before this of the countless oblations his madness. He stared a moment at offered on your altar. Nevertheless, the two figures, and his red eyes could because I love with a love which is as not Interpret them. They were simply fresh and pure as it is lasting, I dare foes, for It was true that when this to tell you so, und sign myself "Yours devotedly, racking agony was upon him, even "ALICE CASTLETON." lifeless tTseemed foes sometimes. He seemed .eerie and unreal as ha This, then, was the way some womgazed at them out of his burning eyes; en loved, 'Brent reflected, as he and the white foam gathered at his carefully replaced the tell-tal- e letter. He wished he had ever known that fangs. And then, wholly without sort of girl. He made up bis mind warning, he charged down at them, He came with unbelievable speed. then and there to meet Alice Cas The elder Lennox cried once In warn tleton, no matter what the pretext soon as he finished his novel. as and himself cursed for venture ing He did not have to wait long, bow-eve- r. Ing forth on the ridge without a gun. As he entered the bouse late In He was fully twenty feet distant from Dan; yet he saw In an Instant his the afternoon of the next day, he was only course. This was no time to met by the clerk with a smile and the trust their lives to the hiarksmnnshlp Information that Miss Castleman was In his rooms. of an amateur. He sprang toward Dan, intending to wrench the weupon Entering, he saw a plump, merry-face- d from his hand." girl In the act of Jumping from a high chair with the fatal picture In But he didn't nchleve his purpose. At the first step his fool caught In a her hands. "How do you do? she laughed. "1 projecting root, and he was shot to his face on the trail. But a long life suppose you are Mr. Brent Well, I am In the wilderness had developed 's I hope you won't Atlce Castleton. reflexes to an abnormal, decree ; mind my taking Narcissus, . many crises had taught him muscle , The loquacious gentleman at the and nerve. control; and only for a. desk tells me you are a literary man," fraction of an Instant, a period of she continued, still In a serio-comi-c time lhat few ..Instruments are fine way. "Why don't you put us into a enouKh to measure, did he He supinely ttory,7 Narcissus and myself?rve uponThe"gTOond. He"Toltetf 7m; Into" ev'n written him love letters In odd rTwtlon'-o- f "defense: Burtie knew lmoinentrTietlTffnmh1ng better to now be could not reach the younger .. dor, man before the mad coyote would be Finally he summoned up sufficient upon them. The matter was out of courage to tell her about the note lie his hands. Everything depended on had discovered, and his romantic deof the tender the aim and duction. Miss Castleton could not refoot. strain her mirth. "And now," she said, "which do you Mr. Brent the blighted violet prefer, Daa Failiag's trwe of fancy or the prosaic reality?" your proves that he Is not was silent for a moment Brent Ike weakling k U tappoteJ t "Might one be permitted to be glad ke several occasions ia that a Narcissus seems to be bis only tke aeat iastetlaaeat ef Tka be said finally. rival Voice ef tke Pack." . "But you forget," laughed Miss Castleton, "that Narcissus spells art, and (TO BB CONTINUED.) that art is long." be !, "May I not see you again Sailor Superstitions. , ' pleaded. . A seaman's superstition Is that a "Certainly," returned Miss Castle-topenknife stuck Into the mast of a "I was Just about to ask to la ..vessel to , Jupposed tailing bring come to tea' next Sunday af younew my wind. For' the same reason a stlior studio. Here la my card. I are send will whistle through his teeth. ing for the dek tomorrow, Oood-by- , Mr.-- Brent Until I see yon again,- - rePlaster for Mtndlno. am member! consoling .myself with Adhesive plaster la Just the thing l" - - Narcissus hot water for mending bags, raincoats. . Brent looked at the bit of pastegloves and rubber goods of all kinds. board she had left lo his band, kisaod It with reverence, and placed It In a Jud Tonkins, on-- her Chippen Tunklns be doesn't see conspicuous position says .... Jud dale desk. why anybody who wants to get a good "And there tre four beastly days," Jaas band should waste time Job In be slebed aloud, "until Sunday!" ' va bJusIc lessons, .. marks-maasV- ' (CopyrUtat.) "18,' sold Brentr answering the the deferentially questioning look-i- n eyes of the clerk, "I like these rooms very much. Did you say they are the only vacant epartment In the bouse?" ' polite clerk Tes," returnedf-t- he shouldn't , have promptly; "and we these to pCfT only that theyoung ludy who had thetn was 111, and obliged v to go home. "I will take the rooms," lie said. "But tell me: do all these pictures and this desk go with them, or do they beloug to the young lady?" -Well, it's this way " said the clerk ; "they are TcTstay here If you wish them, not unless. Yon see, the young ludy, Miss Castleton, Is an artist you have heard of her and these pictures She used" hih mostly her own work. thiS room as a studio. And the desk , "There's ' V j -- ' K I ltr near-sighte- f HER DESK, j readv. Lennox had prided himself that he had retained all the powers of his five senses, and that few men In the moun tains had keener ears than he. Tet It was truth that at first he only knew the silence, and the stir and pulse of his own blood. He assumed then that Ban was watching 'soiiietlilng that from his position, twenty feet behind, lie could not see. He tried to probe the thickets with his eyes. Then Dnn whispered. Ever so soft a sound, but yet distinct In (he si lence. There's something living In that thicket." Then Lennox hcard4tfiooJL they stood still, the sound' became ever clearer and more pronounced. Some living creature was advancing toward them; and jwlgs werecrackto neath Its feet. The sounds were rather subdued, and yet as the animal approached, both of them Instinctively knew that they were extremely loud for the usual footsteps of any of the wild creatures. "What is Inn asked quietly. Lennox was so Intrigued by - the sounds that he was not even observ ant of the' peculiar, subdued quality In Dcu's voice. Otherwise, he would have wondered at It. "I'm free to confess I don't know," he said, "It's booming right toward us, like most animals don't care to do. Of course It may be a human being. You must watch out for that." They waited. The sound ended. They stood straining for a long mo ment without speech. "That was the dumdest thing T Lennox went on. "Of course It might have been a beai you never know what they're going ( to do. It might have got sight of us and turned otr. But I can't believe that It was Just a Just ... SYNOPSIS. . 0 Ib fstum Cereal Company, he. A I! TPesTL'M HIVIBAOa. II IBIS |