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Show ' THE BINGHAM NEWS EGG BREAKAGE REDUCED BY ABSORBERS c-- , .v, , ; : " ri It si I' U J ' I : 'mrj J ; - Delivering Butter to a City Customer. . Men, women and children are not the only Iransportiihles profiting by "reluxed motoring" on properly con-trolled automotive springs, It Is dls-- ' covered. F. 11. Simon, the head of stuM-- . lator company of Los Angeles, enu-merates a long list, Including cookies, flowers, milk bottles, eggs and even mentions dogs and fowls as bene-ficiaries of slubllated easy riding. Lessens Bottle Breakage.. "Milk dealers operating light trucks," he declares, "(Ind that prop-erly controlled spring rebound lessens bottle breuknge and speeds up deliv-eries wonderfully. Bakers have told me a slinllur story. Pies, cakes and .breads, particularly, are perishable mtrchandl.se and can't stand much rough going and coming. Spoiling is negligible, however, If the cur springs are made to behave themselves. Then there are flowers. Florists say that an efficient recoil check reduces very materially the damage to posies and potted plants during delivery." Less Egg Breakage. "And I know a proprietor of a Lankershlm egg ranch," he adds, "who reduced his losses through egg break-age 75 per cent by having his Dodge truck equipped with stabilators. He used to figure his loss from broken hen fruit at about .$1,400 a year. Now, he says, It, is not more than $1 a day, or about '$3it0 a year." Dogs and Fowls. Some one asked Simon what about dogs, poultry and the like, and he confessed that ho didn't have any ac-tual testimony from dog owners or hen haulers. But he Insisted he was pretty sure the canines and chicken folks were all very appreciative of "relaxed motoring" wherever they had tried It, and would be glad to say so If they could talk. 11 BAREE, Son, of Kazan I By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD seecccoeoocxsogooooaoooooocooo ' ". ," : (, Doubladsr. Taia ft Ce. J c!m twitched fts the truth grew In him; and at last he rnlsed his head slowly until his black muzzle pointed to the white storm In the sliy, and out of his throat there went forth the (juaverlng, long-draw- howl of the husky who mourns outside the tepee of n muster who Is newly dead. Cm the trull, heading for Lac Bain, (tush McTuggart heard that cry and shivered. It wus the smell of smoke, thicken-ing In the air until it stung his nos-trils, that drewBuree at Inst away from the chasm and hack to the cabin. There was not much left when he came to the clearing. Where the cabin had been was a red-ho- smolder-ing mass. For a long time he sat watching it, still waiting and still listening. He no longer felt the ef-fect of the bullet that had stunned him, but his senses were undergoing another change now, as strange and unreal as their struggle against that darkness of near-deat-h in the cubin. In a space that had not covered more than an hour the world had twisted Itself grotesquely for Baree. That long ago the Willow was sitting be-fore her little mirror In the cabin, talking to him and laughing in her happiness, while he lay In vnst con-tentment on the floor. And now there wus no cabin, no Nepeese, no Pierrot. He did not go nearer to the smolder-ing mass of the cabin, but slinking low, made his way about the. circle of the open to the This took him under the tall spruce. For a full minute he paused here, snifflng at the freshly made mound under its white mantle of snow. . When he wenf on, he slunk still lower, and his ears were flat against his head. The dog-corr- was open and empty. MeTaggart had seen to that. Again Baree squatted back on his haundies and sent forth the death-howl- . This time It was for Pierrot. In It there wus a different note from that of the stores, and the store which Pierrot had Improvised out of scraps of iron and heavy tin. But Nepeese was not there. And. there was no sign of her outside. The snow was unbroken ex-ce-by his own trail.; It wus dark when be returned to the burned cabin. All that night he hung about the de-serted and all through the nlghi tlie'suow fell steadily, so that by dawn sank Into It to his shoul-ders when he moved out into the clearing. With day the sky had cleared. The sun came up, and the world was al-most too dazzling for the eyes. It warmed Baree's blood with new hope and expectation. His brain struggled even more eagerly than yesterday to comprehend. Surely the Willow would be returning soon I He would hear her voife. She would appear suddenly out of the forest. He would receive some signal from her. One of these things, or nil of them, must happen. He stopped sharply in tils tracks at every sound, and sniffed the air from every point of the wind. He was trav-eling ceaselessly. His body made deep trails In the snow around and over the huge white mound where the cabin hud stood; his tracks led from the corral to the tall spruce, and they were as numerous as the footprints of a wolf-pac- for half a mile up and down the chasm. On the afternoon of this day the second big Impulse came to hlin. It was not reason, and neither was It In-stinct alone. It was the struggle half-way between, the brute mind fighting at Its best with the mystery of an In-tangible thing something that could not be seen by the eye or heard by the ear. Neneese was not in the cabin, because there was no cabin. She was not at the tepee. He could find no trace of her in the chasm. She was not with Pierrot under the big spruce. Therefore, unreasoning but sure, he began to follow the old trap-lin- e Into the north and west. No man has ever looked clearly Into the mystery of death as It is Impinged upon the senses of the northern dog. It comes to him, sometimes, with the wind; most frequently it must come with the wind, and yet there nre ten thousand masters in the northlatvd who will swear that their dogs have given warning of death hours before it actually came; and there are nuitiy of these thousands who know from ex-perience that their teams will stop a quarter of a mile from a stranger cabin In which there Is unburied (lend. Yesterday Puree hud smelted death, and be knew without process of rea-soning thnt the dead whs Pierrot. How he knew this, and why he accepted the fact as Inevitable, is one of the mys-teries which at times seems to give the direct challenge to those who con-cede nothing more than Instinct to the brute mind. He knew that Pierrot was dead without exactly knowing what death was. But of one thing he was sure: he would never see Pierrot agnln; he would never hear his voice again; he would never hear nguln the of his snowsboes in the trail ahead, and so on the trap-lin- e he did not look for Pierrot. Pier-ro- t was gone forever. But Baree had not yet associated death with Nepeese. He believed that Nepeese was alive, and he was now just as sure that he would overtake her on the trap-lin- e as he was positive yesterday that he would find her at the birch-bar- k tepee. Since yesterday morning's breakfast with the Willow, Baree hnd gone with-out eating; to appease his hunger meant to hunt, and his mind was too filled with his quest of Nepeese for that. He would have gone hungry all that day, but ln the third mile from the cabin he came to a trap in which there was a big snowshoe rabbit. The rabbit was still alive, and he killed It and ate his fill. Until dark he did not miss a trap. In one of them there was a lynx; In another a fisher-ea- t ; out on the white surface of a lake he sniffed at a snowy mound under which lay the body of a red fox killed by one of Pierrot's poison baits. Both the lynx and the fisher-ca- t were alive, and the steel chains of their traps clunked sharply as they pre-pared to give Baree battle. But Baree was uninterested. He hurried on, his uneasiness growing as the clay dark-ened and he found no sign of the Wil-low. (TO BK CONTINUED.) mm WNU Service Chapter XII Continued 20 He mumbled thrt fact over and over again, stupidly, thickly, cs though his brain could grasp nothing beyond It. She was dead. And Pierrot was dead. And he. In a few minutes, had accom-plished It nil. He turned back toward the cabin not by the trail over which he had j pursued Nepeese, but straight through the thick bush. Great flakes of snow had begun to fall. He looked nt the sky, where banks of durk clouds were rolling up from the south and east. The sun went out. Soon there would be a storm a heuvy snowstorm. The big flakes falling on his naked hands "and face set his mind to work. It was lucky for him, tils storm. It would cover everything the fresh trails, even the grave lie would dig for Pier-rot. It does not take such a man ns the Factor long to recover from a moral concussion. By the time he came In sight of the cabin Ids mind was again at work on physical things on the necessities of the' situation. The ap-palling thing, after all, was not that both Pierrot and Nepeese were dead, but thut bis dream wus shattered. It was not that Nepeese wus dead, but that he had lost her. This was his vital disappointment. The other thing his crime It was easy to cover. It was not sentiment that made him dfg Pierrot's grave close to the prin-cess mother's under the tall spruce. It was not sentiment that made him dig ttie grave at all, but caution. He burled Pierrot ' decently. Then Ije poured Pierrot's stock of kerosene where It would be most effective nnd touched a match to It. He stood In the edge of the forest until the cabin was a mass of flames. The snow was falling thickly. The freshly made grave was a white mound, nnd the trails were filling. For the physical things lie hud done .there was no fear ln Btlsh MeTaggart's heart as he turned back toward Lac Buln. No one wouljl ever look Into the grave of Pierrot du Quesne. And there wns no one to betray 1dm If such a miracle happened. But of one thing his black soul would never he able to free It-self. Always lie would see the pule, triumphant face of the Willow us she stood facing him In that moment of her glory when, even ns she was choosing death rather than him, he hnd cried to himself: "Ah! Is she not wonderful I" i A Bush MeTaggart hnd forgotten P.aree. so Baree hud forgotten the Factor from Lnc Bain. When MeTag-gart hud run along the edge of the chasm. Puree had squatted himself In the plot of snow where Npkisp had last stood, his body stif-fened and ills forefeet braced as he looked dmvn. He had seen her take the leap. Many times that summer he hnd followed her In her (luring dives Into the deep, quiet water of the pool. But this was a tremendous dis-tance. She hud never dived into a place like that. He could see ttie black heads of the rocks, appearing and disappearing In the whirling foam like the heads of hamsters at play; ttie roar of the wa-ter tilled him with dread; his eyes caught the swift rush of crumbled Ice between the rock walls. And she had irone down there! He hud a great desire to follow her, to jump In, as he had always Jumped In after her. She was surely down there, even though he could not see her. Probably she was playing among the rocks and hiding herself In the white froth and wondering why he didn't come. But he hesitated hesi-tated with his head and neck over the abyss, and his forefeet giving way a little In the snow. With an effort he dragged himself hack and whined. He harked the short, sharp signal with which he always called her. There was no answer. Again and agirtn he burked, and ulways there was nothing but the roar cf the water that came back to him. The snow was fulling now, and Me- Taggart hud returned to the cabin. After a little Baree followed In the trail he had made along the edge of the chasm, and wherever MeTaggart ! had stopped to peer over, Baree j paused also. For a space his hatred of the man was burned up In his de-- ! sire to Join the Willow, and he con- - tinued along thn gorge until, a quar-- ' ter of a mile beyond where the Fac--! tor had last looked Into It, he came i to the nurrow trail down which he and Nepeese hud many times adventured in quest of rock violets. The twisting path that led down the face of the cliff was filled with snow now, but Baree cleared hts way through it un-til at last he stood at the edge of the unfrozen torrent. Nepeese was not here. He whined, and barked again, but this time there was in his signal to her an uneasy repression, a whim-pering note which told that he ild not expect a reply. For five minutes alter that he sat on his haunches In the snow, stolid as a rock. What it was that came down out of the durk mys-tery and tumult of the chasm to him, what spirlt-wfilsper- s of nature that cold him the truth. It is beyond the tower or reason to explain. But he listened, and he looU'd nnd his mils 6h Was Not at the Tepee. howl he hnd sent forth from the chasm: It was positive, certain. In the chasm his cry had been tempered with doubt a questioning hope, some-thing that was so almost human that MeTaggart had shivered on the trail. Put Baree knew what lay In that freshly dug snow-covere- grave. A scant three feet of earth could not hide its secret from him. There was death definite nnd unequivocal. But for Nepeese he was still hoping and seeking. , Until noon he did not go far from the cabin, but only once did he actu-ally approach and sniff about the black pile of steaming timbers. Again and again he circled the edge of the clear-ing, keeping Just within the bush and timber, sniffing the air and listening. Twice he went back to the chasm. Late In the afternoon there came to hlin a sudden impulse that carried him swiftly through the forest. He did not run openly n.iw; caution, suspicion and fear hud roused in hliu afresh the instincts of the wolf. With his ears flattened against the side of his head, his tail drooping until the tip of it drugged the snow and his back sag-ging in the curious, evasive gait of the wolf, he scarcely made himself dis-tinguishable from the shadows of the spruce and balsams. There was no faltering in the trail Baree made; It was straight as a rope might have been drawn through the forest, and It brought him, early in the dusk, to the open spot where Nepeese had fled with htm that day she had pushed MeTaggart over the edge of the precipice into the pool. In the place of the balsam shelter of that day there was now a water-tigh- t btreh-bar- k tepee which Pierrot had helped the Willow to make during the sum-mer. Bare went straight to it and thrust In his hea! with a low and exectant whine. There was no answer. It was dark and cold In the tepeo. He could make out Indistinctly the two blankets that were always in It. the row of big tin boxes In which Nepeese kept their Odd Slavery Condition There Is much corroborative testi-mony and numerous references to the facts that there were at the outbreak of the Civil war a very large number of free negroes and that these ne-groes In many cases owned property and slaves. These latter, however, were usually members of their fami-lies whom they hud redeemed and whom they held as slaves tectinlcally ou account of the laws of many states which prohibited the manumitted slaves from remaining In the state or territory. In many cases the slave-holder, while himself originally a slave, had received his freedom be-fore certain laws went into effect which were not retroactive. TWO WOMEN PRAISE SAME MEDICINE Both Helped by Taking Lydia EPinkham'f Vege-table Compound "After the birth of my little daughter I was very badly.run-down- . I could not , think of going to a hospital, but grew steadily worse, be-- . dLflt ln8 compelled to ' - stay ln bed tw0 or l f three days each Yg j week. A friend of 1 v my sister's told of the-goo- Lydla B. P-VMA- Plnkham's Vege--1 sp?' Vg taWeCompoundhad I w 1 ion ber- - an1 my 1 , I sister bought m FWWi ..Utwo bottles ot it. I had not taken all of one bottle when I was up and able to do some work. I am truly a booster for Lydia E. 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CuticuraVn Soothes and Heal p2ypT " Rashes sad Irritations Ey I Timber waste may be greater in the future than it Is now, because many trees springing up will be harvested at smaller diameters. 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m n' :: Automobile Industry " " ICIghty-tw- per cent of the world's motor vehicles are ' owned In the United States. Motors are now the third Item of our nation's exports. American automobiles to the number of r.'Sfl,7-l- l were shipped .. abroad during last year. In the truck and bit- - Held It is noted thut 11,000 m.f of bus " routes are operated by electric railway eouipiiulos. The automobile Industry gives " employment to per .. . sons. " ' ltailroads curried 3,010,000 carloads of automotive frulghf " 1 1 in VJ25. . The purchasing power of fac-- lory wages for automobiles bus Increased l."0 per cent since 1014. It required 1,482 bushels of I! wheat to buy the average motor ' cur In 11113, while only 5.T2 .. bushels are needed today. " More than 1,500,000 motor vehicles were scrapped lust I! year. .... A total of 14,011.000 motorists I! visited ttie national parks In .'. 1925, or i!0 per cent more than " " n the preceding yeur. Taxes paid by the motor " I ! vehicle aggregated $007,000,000 T-- I II I 1 I I i 1 1 1"H"H--M I 1 H TIRED DRIVERS COURTDANGERS Fatigue Plays Important Part in Causing Auto-mobile Accidents. Fatigue plays a fur more important part lu causing automobile accidents thun Is generally recognized. A motor truck owner wus driving to a distant city ut night to be there for a load early In the morning, lie had been . working hard all day and was fatigued. At a grude crossing he came into col-lision with a train and was killed. It Is quite likely this man went to Bleep at the wheel. In any case be was ordinarily a careful and cautious driver. He knew the roud well. He was famlllur with the crossing. There Is every indication that the accident was due solely to fatigue. A party of tourists started out to make a long motor trip. In order to . make It in ttie shortest possible time they decided to keep going night and day. One would drive while the others lept, or at least tried to sleep. The Jdurney ended In a fatal accident bi fore the goal was reached. Needs Recharging. The human system Is a good deal like a storage buttery. When the cur-rent In the battery is low, it fulls to turn the starting motor. Even the light may be dim. That battery will not work well again until it la Charged. The only way a fatigued man can become alert again Is to have his vitality recharged through complete rest. The Imperfect rest he gets while riding In a car is not rest enough. He needs good, sound sleep and plenty of It. A young person can usually regain his vitality more quickly thun one along in middle life or an old per- -' son. He sleeps sounder and he re-sponds more quickly to rest. Persons of all ages, however, are subject to fatigue. The only differ-ence between uges is the rute of re-covery. Reactions Slower. At the beginning of a long trip any driver Hi far less likely to meet with an accident than he is as he nears the end of a long, continuous drive. At the start, he is alert If there are careless and reckless drivers on the road he is able to avoid a collision. After 100 or more miles of driving lie Is far less alert. His reactions are slower. When he gets in a tight place he fails to re.si.wnd and the chances are greatly against him If an accident Is Imminent. This means that a person should ovoid driving when fatigued, when tired out because of having driven a great distance already or having done work that proved tiring. If he has not hud his usual amount of sleep he is also fatigued and should avoid driving. , The distance a person can drive without becoming fatigued will vary with different people. A person who Is driving every day and who Is driv-ing long distances can drive more miles a day without fatigue' than a person who drives only a few days a week and then but short distances. Door Operator Is Great Convenience for Garage The Scientific American illustrates and describes a door operator, the in-vention of L. L. Shockley of Columbia Mo as follows: The Invention provides a device es pecially adapted for barn and garage doors, wherein means Is provided for counterbalancing the door, to permh It to be moved vertically with a niln Door Operator. Imum of effort. With the doorhanger, there are no rollers or track for roll-ers to Jump from, and the door cannot stick as may the rolling door. Since the door Is counterbalanced it moves without effort. Knew Her Hubby "Why is your wife so suspicious of your stenographer?" . "She worked for me once." Tell Missing Cylinder To tell which cylinder Is missing explosions, short-circu- it the plug with a screwdriver. Touch the end to the cylinder and lean the blade against the head of plug. This will prevent that cylinder from firing. If it is a dead cylinder it will make no differ-ence in the sound of the exhaust. By noting the sound of the exhaust you can tell which cylinder is missing ex-plosions. In 1013 California raised 7,8l)0,uuu bushels of potatoes |