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Show ., I VIM: I h'lll f I IV 1111 ItM run rw - r at. 1 lUnder roze by GEORGE MARSH n Stars reel rnb. c. fWNO Rm-tIm) I I t HIT riWMIM1 vuininu inc. oiUKl lContinued i I nothing." pue y: a m see her canoe, mat ?lo5me nothing, sir." SKradisleft Renault 2a in LeBlond'8 ear. S i at your disposal" ! Sutft, "Will yon and 'if 5y ere tonIghtr ! o the speaker hardened Z on. 'The gentleman fS,egtoyou.and Ren-f Ren-f are welcome to sleep in I'ouse. ?ou can't cross the Bust th Wiuu. wrtat small but regular FlTim. darkened In a Of fa"11"" . thrust, but he con- ii, wblsperlng. Slowly a nerolexlty crept Irfieyes. but with a ge 'irritation he waved aside lent Paradis. Turning, he k idly h trench to his i who replied vehemently, Was black eyes flashing I as she faced her father. Wart, said the patently Ca LeBlond, ."yi--r in the afternoon?" I in flash Stuart sensed fas comlng-what Paradis d whispering. T00 let ns hunt the lake 8li Hours of daylight hunt "thinking she was drowned?" I spoke more in regret than didn't you send word?" add-jjdis add-jjdis with a sneer. feiT The blood rose to Augend's Au-gend's temples. "Are you If Do you know what you're I Is this your gratitude?" Jes of the girl flamed with -.on. "Mr. Stuart wanted to e home, but I wouldn't go. as only the small canoe ki l was afraid afraid of Xt. And this is your thanks a Oh. Tm ashamed of you m t nf win nil!" ' W Vt j - - enraged factor of Sunset ?sai near the end of his self- as be faced LeBloni "You t to quibble over my actions I've nothing to explain. You oat what the lake was out ?when yoo crossed with the n youf big canoa My large are bringing up my stuff, and wee with one vman. ' I don't fa Insinuations ! You can't om daughter back tonight, I offered you my quarters s tley are. But, as for this fling assistaa of yours, I ack my offer He can't stay 4 The speaker's voice snapped I brittle stick. "You under-nglish, under-nglish, don't you, Paradis?" I room was silent. In the I of the girl as she watched res blacken with anger, was foent and approval. . 4 a swift movement the en-iS'aradls en-iS'aradls Jerked his hand back belt; but the squat Renault's f gripped his arm. The work-stares work-stares of LeBlond reflected fsrring emotions. This man ad saved his daughter had Sagrantly affronted his friend, f space his sense of gratitude loyalty to Paradis strove f stery 13 he looked Into the m which challenged his. found his voice. have insulted us, here, in "a house!" he burst out "We 00 hospitality from yoo." - if ashamed, went on: "Oh, fatefuM know what I owe f we'll bid you good-night Uororel" "swer from the girl was congas con-gas laughter, "Oh, you men frannee so funneel" she 80 ridiculous I Because I m ocks down our Paul 3 and Paul fills your ears m idea of word not being . c miles against that wind you forget that I'd be tWth the Ash tonight if been for Omar and Mr. I 1 Yon men are all I I serious now, her scorn-lowing scorn-lowing her father's un- fVr what you did jT1 fron the accusing - Shter. "Come An- U 1 ve trader waed Jot? ' tte d SsfJ?" becaose 01 e Vrr pretty Paui. St.tree," 5 5 Le- that this Vi a'vPat" f-anotthe I 6in who now faced f te continue! From tit fur po.t, Sun.et Hou.e, . th, C.B.di.n north, Jira Stuart, trader la charge, iIght, overturned canoe in the lake Witk hi. headman Omar, he re.cue. the drifter, Aurora LeBlond daughter of h.. rival in the fur hu.,ne... Mad. comfortable at the po.t, Aor. prove, to h. a ch.rm.ng companion. LeBlond, with P.r.di., hi. half! breed heuten.nt, arr.ve. , .e.rch of the mi..ig ,5rL Before leaving, .he and Jim arrange to exchange note, on a certain i.I.nd "As for you, mon pere, you can stay and help Sarah, the cook, guard the sacred honor of your precious daughtei" or you can leave her to Sarah and go and sit by your fire. I stay here. Do you understand English, Eng-lish, Monsieur LeBlond?" In the end LeBlond and his daughter daugh-ter passed the night In the quarters quar-ters of Stuart while the indignant Sarah tossed through sleepless hours, outraged by the thought that the roof above her should shelter the enemy who had boasted that the wolves should soon bowl in the deserted clearing of Sunset House. CHAPTER II SEX years before, when the boat brigade of the North-West Trading Trad-ing company, in command of one of the partners, Louis LeBlond, bad passed through Lake Expanse on the trail to Mitawangagama, the Ojibwas, who were camped at Pell-can Pell-can portage on the way south to the spring trade with the Hudson's Bay company, had been greatly excited. ex-cited. Turning in to the camp, Le Blond's head voyageur, Black Jules "And This Is Your Thanks to Him! Oh, I'm Ashamed of You Ashamed of You Alll" Renault, had announced In their native na-tive tongue that a trading station was to be built on the great Lake of the Sand Beaches two hundred miles north. Never again need they take the long trail south to Lake Expanse, Ex-panse, but in the next long snows would find a warm welcome a New Year's feast and the best of trade goods ready for exchange for their fur at the new post In three years LeBlond had made serious Inroads into the trade of the old company. He no longer could be ignored. They must follow and fight him for the trade. But, on the word of hard-headed Andrew Christie, of Lake Expanse, inspector of a territory larger than an eastern state, the man who could now wrest a share of the trade from the firmly intrenched LeBlond would need a particularly long head, boundless nerve, and the tenacity of the beaver. beav-er. Such a man, Christie told his superiors, in conclave at Winnipeg, he believed was now in God's lake in western Kiwedln a young man with a fine war record and a local reputation for ability and judgment in dealing with the Indians. In two months a mail canoe brought Jim Stuart orders from Winnipeg to report to Christie at Lake Expanse. A month later, with Omar Boisvert and a gang of men, Stuart had cleared the forest and was peeling the logs for the building build-ing of Sunset House. The following follow-ing three years had been for Stuart a well-nigh hopeless struggle for a foothold in the trade, for his rival possessed the Frenchman's ancanny talent for handling the Indians, backed by the experience of thirty years. As he lay on his bunk in the trade-house, after leaving Aurore LeBlond and her father In possession posses-sion of his quarters, Jim Stuart's thoughts traversed the hours since mid-afternoon. To the man who, since the war, had been marooned in the forests of Klwedin OJibwa for "The Birthplace of the North Wind" the coming of this vivid creature, swept into his life by the swtrtpnt nf o-ind and sea. had been J like the burst of a shell on a black night But strong as was the appeal 01 this dark daughter of Louis LeBlond to the eyes and senses of the man who had not seen three comely white women in as many years, she was, he realized, only a spoiled child; vain, headstrong, the pampered pam-pered darling of a lonely- father. Then his thoughts shifted to Mary Christie, the loyal, capable girl at Lake Expanse, who ministered with head and hands to the well-being and comfort of his chief, Andrew Christie, and who, except for five years' schooling in Scotland, had spent her life, without complaint, Immured In the northern forests. He pictured her frank disdain of the dress and manners of the girl who slept over in his quarters her outraged sense of propriety at the direct thought and speech of this self-possessed daughter of the free trader. She wouldn't understand this girl would condemn ber on sight as over-bold, light, unwomanly. unwoman-ly. But no one who had seen Aurore Au-rore LeBlond erlmlv refnslnB tn ho swept from her grip on that canoe, as me seas ouried her, could doubt the mptfll nf hoi mnrouo Sha - .vuM, L V, had proved that Then he found mm8eif comparing the blond comeliness come-liness of the decorous daughter of Andrew Christie with the dark loveliness love-liness of Anrore LeBlond. The following morning Stuart walked with his cuest to the hpnrh where LeBlond had preceded them to nis waiting canoe. "I reallv think von about won Sarah over, when you patted her snouiaer and put that silk scarf around her neck," he said. "1 know Sarah pretty well, and the way that grin slowly widened across her face when you gave her the scarf and shook her hand makes me think she's forgiven you your glbodiegwa- son. Though, of course, she wouldn t admit it." "She thinks me Insane, probably." "She didn't know what to think." Then, as they approached the shore, she said hurriedly : "The split rock on the shore of the last of the islands look there in a few days: you might find something. Good-by, Mr. Jeem Stuart" She gave him her hand. ,"Good-by, Miss Glbodiegwason." When LeBlond stepped into his big freight canoe he said to Stuart: "I thank you again for what you have done. Your people have seen fit to send you here to take the trade from me. Between the North-West and the Hudson's Bay there can be no quarter. But to you, yourself, I owe much. Some day I may be able to repay." As the factor of Sunset House watched the departing peterboro nose an ever-widening ripple out across the still lake which now mirrored the hills for the wind had dropped In the night to a flat calm a voice at his side roused him from his thoughts. "We got a beeg Job ahead, dls summer." Stuart looked into the grave face of Omar. "We have, Omar, but I wish I knew where to begin. They heard at Lake Expanse that LeBlond Le-Blond got thirty thousand dollars worth of fur from Pipestone lake and the Sturgeon river country alone, this year. We didn't get a pelt not one hunter from that country I" "I hear, last night somet'lng about dat" "You did? How d'yuh mean-heard?" mean-heard?" "De men wld de cano' talk wile LeBlond go to de house for de girl. Dey talk about Jingwak." "Jingwak, the medicine man at Pipestone lake?" "Ah-hah, you know how he get all de hunter to trade wld LeBlond not one come to Sunset House?" "No, but I'd like to," said the Interested In-terested Stuart "Wal Jingwak tell all dem peopl' dat dis place ees full of devil. I find dis out, for one of dat crew had fear to stay on de beach." Slowly the blood filled the bronzed face of the man who listened. lis-tened. "So they are bribing the medicine medi-cine men, the conjurors, are they, to keep- the trade from Sunset House?" It was clever of LeBlond, for the Pipestone Ojibwas, who came two hundred miles south to trade, were a wild, superstitious lot easily Influenced In-fluenced by a medicine man a shaman. "Wat you t'ink of dat?" demanded demand-ed the half-breed. "I tell you we got good Job ahead, dis summer, w'en we get de trade stuff up from Lak Expanse." -Omar, we've got to get some of that Pipestone and Sturgeon river traae. We can't live on what we pet from the rest of the country. What're we going to do?" The swart Boisvert rose from his squatting position. He was not tall, but his Scotch and French blood had united with the CJibwa to create cre-ate a rare example of natures skill la the buHding of human thew CANCER RESEARCH BRINGING RESULTS and muscle; for In his compact one hundred and eighty pounds Omar carried power and stamina which had been a byword among the voy-ageure voy-ageure of western Kiwedln. Deliberately Delib-erately reaching to the rear, the half-breed drew his skinning knlft and, lifting a foot stropped the blade slowly on bis moccasin. "Dere ees one t'lng we can do wld M'sleu' Jingwak." be said significantly. signifi-cantly. "You old wolf," laughed Stuart, "I believe, if I said the word, you'd hunt him down this summer and stick that in him." Omar's small eyes met his chlef'i cryptically as be said: "Dere are manee way to kech a fox." "Yes, and we must find one to beat this Jingwak; but we can't hurt him, you know. There are laws in this country." "Law? UmDhl" grunted Omar. "We got do sometlng ver queekf vve have. Omar," admitted Stuart "If Tm licked here, I might as well look for a new job. The Company'U never forgive me, Christie knows what the job is here, but he's not satisfied with the small trade this year." With an lmnulslve movement Boisvert grasped the hand of the younger man. "We not tru yet I Dis summer we go to Pipestone lake." Two days later, with the freight boats from Lake Expanse which carried the , next year's supplies and trade goods for the little post and had been windbound at the bead of the lake, came Esau Otchig, whose shoulders had rounded and lean face creased with furrows In the service of the company old Esau, a full-blooded OJibwa, who had served thirty years with Stuart's father and now followed the fortunes of the son. To the Indian, when the supplies were unloaded un-loaded and the empty freighters had started back on the trail south, Omar related what he had over heard on the beach how the hunt ers from the Pipestone country had been kept from trading at Sunset House by the tabu of the shaman, Jingwak. "Ah-hah!" Esau muttered. "So dls Jingwak put de devil Into Sunset Sun-set House. WaL we put de devil into Jingwak." "Good!" agreed Stuart "but how?" Esau's beady eyes met tHe widening widen-ing grin of Omar as he answered: "Omar evair tell you w'at happen to Makwa, de beeg shaman at Wolf riviere, manee long snow back?" Stuart shook his head. "No, what happened?" "Dis Makwa, he t'ink he mak de beeg medicine. He come an say to de ole man at Wolf riviere, 'You geeve Makwa, de shaman, flour, tea. trade good, an you get all Mib- wa fur. You not geeve Makwa dis. an' free trader, he get de fur.'" "What did the Hudson's Bay man say to that?" The old Indian's eyes snapped with humor. "He don'splk noding; he sen' for Esau." "Wbat'd you do, Esau?" Esau puffed for a space, his eyes on his moccasin; then he said: "Makwa, de beeg shaman, mak' medecine no more." Stuart leaned forward curiously, "You chased him out of the country?" The old man shook his bead. Stuart turned to Omar, who chuck led: "Esau nevaire tell, but Mak wa come to Wolf riviere to trade next tam wldout hees ear. Ah-hah I He no good for shaman after he lose bets ear." -You mean they were cut off?" Omar nodded. "Wldout dem he was no good to mak' de medicine. Stuart glanced doubtfully at the snl.inxllke Esau. "Do you Intend to cut off Jlng- wak's enrs, Esaur ne laugneo. "That will be some Job I They're a wild lot up there in the Pipestone country; they might cut off yours nr worse." The lean face of the old Ojlbwa shaped a cryptic smile as he rose with a grunt and went out to visit tha rillnets below toe posu "Do you believe the old rascal ortnniiv cut off the medicine man'a ears?" Stuart demanded of tha nrinninff Omar. "No one know. Esau nevaire "But the shaman, you say, lost ht. marie with his ears? "Ah-hah ! All de 'Jibwa laugh at heem aftalr dat" "WelL IU say that's a great m anvway. But what do you sup pose Esau meant when he said he'd put the devil into Jingwak T The half-breed shrugged. "I dont know. De fader of Esau was a shaman, sha-man, a sorcerer. Esau, mebbe, got frien' among e (TO BB COSTtOTED.) Qainine Lou I U.ed Quinine was first Isolated from cinchona bark In 1820. but the bark was used In medicine hundreds of years before that Among the Items of good news for the American home Is a report of real progress toward the control of cancer, published by the Woman's Home Companion. "It has now been proved," says the report, "that as high as 00 per cent of those attacked by this disease can be saved if diagnosis Is made and treatment started soon enough. The problem has been to persuade people to go to the doctor or to the clinic and get the truth. Cancer is peculiarly peculi-arly a disease about which victims do not seem to want the troth. While researchers are striving to get at the basic cause of cancer, oth er devoted workers have been carrying carry-ing on a wide campaign to educate the public that sores which do not heal, and lumps, unusual discharges or persistent Indigestion ought to be taken as warning signals. In one city a special drive brought to the clinic a great many persons, all of whom confessed that they had been worrying about cancer. Seven ty-flve per cent of them did not have cancer at all and they went away convinced and relieved. Of those who did show symptoms, fully one- half were curable because they had found It out early. "Results like this," says the refort, "show the enormous value of pub llclty when directed to a construc tive end." Orators Must Bow to Sentiment for Brevity A shorthand expert says that Americans talk much faster than they did twenty years ago. Is the old noise and dignified deliberation weakening? Or is it the case, that If you don't talk fast, you don't get listened to? Do people regard it as an Imposition that you should think you are entitled to all tue time you like to make your utterance? Other neoDle want to tell their stories, too It Is Irking to a long-winded thouch Dithy person to have to whisk Into the conversation and whisk out again, ne wants time for his weighty observations to "sluk in." Whereas, If he takes up too much time, some of his auditors on the outer fringes are sure to slink out The learned and verbose are at a disadvantace. The world has only so much time to spare and few are allowed to claim more than their share. Make it brief, is the univer sal sentiment This being true, those who have' something to say would better bide their time and keep their powder dry. "Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes," and use your best bombshells. F. II. Collier In the St Louis Globe-Democrat TUESDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHTS You've seen him in the comic strips. Now he's oa the airt Jos Palooka the world's worst dumb-bell the world best loved character! Broadcast by Hdns Rice Flakes "One of the Varieties. COLUMBIA COAST-TO-COAST NETWORK SALT LAKE CITY Station KDYL 8:00 P.M. (M.8.T.) SPOKANE..... Station KEPY......7:0O P.M. (P.8.T.) Joe Palooka, Boxing Champ, Is Now Heard on the Air Joe Palooka, that lovable boob of the prize ring and comic strip created by Ham Fisher, now comes to radio. Palooka, his lights and troubles and mlxups, is being presented each Tuesday Tues-day and Thursday at 6:45 p. m., EST, over the Columbia system. The dumb, gentle but unbeatable boxing champ is portrayed by Ted Dergman, 200-pound Columbia actor who looks like prize-fighter, in the fifteen-minute hilarious sketches adapted by Georgia Backus. His bold and wise-cracking manager, Knobby Walsh, is played by Frank Readick, 130-pound Thespian. Ted Musing describes Joe's tremendous fight scenes and Harry von Zell announces an-nounces the program. MICROPHONICS Col Lemuel Q. Stoopnagie, prolific Inventor, announced during a recent broadcast that he has solved a problem prob-lem that has been a constant irrita tion to listeners since the Inception of radio. Through the use of his recently perfected "Yellbackograph" announcers, crooners and others will no longer be Immune from the maledictions male-dictions of their audiences. If a program is unsatisfactory, a flip of the new device's switch, a listener may communicate such thoughts as "Take him off," "Tou're terrible," etc., directly to the artists. Further Investigation reveals that the "Yellbackograph" "Yell-backograph" will operate at all times except when the Colonel and Budd are on the air. e rhlllips II. Lord, creator of the Seth Parker sketches, Is a native of Maine and actually learned about New England country characters frow association for more than 20 years. At We Should Deire ' Let us remember those that want necessaries as we ourselves should have desired to be remembered had It been our sad lot to subsist n other men's charity. Atterbury, , Inventor Has Idea of Houses by the Quart Buttons, collar studs, the backs of hairbrushes, and all kinds of things are nlready made Ivmn milk, and now comes an Inventor who proposes to turn the cow iuto a provider of building materials for houses. He claims that casein, or solidified milk, is an ideal substance for the purpose, since It Is easy to work and would make it possible to erect soundproof and draught-proof buildings. Ills villas are to be planned on novel lines. Instead of digging down for the foundations, lie la going to erect a large mast The house hangs from a framework erected round this and provided with ball bearings. The idea is that you cun turn it just ns you like In order to, bring any room at will into the sunshine or the shade. ' ; It is to be doubted, though, wheth er the new Idea will catch on, for few people desire dwellings in which they will be permanently "up the pole." London Tit Bits. To Men With Tender Skins Vet your face with hot or cold water. Scyuceze a small quantity of Cutlcura Shaving Cream on to your moistened brush. "Watch how quickly it works up into !. n i t 11 . ..1.,. j zD s- " B iiuc, creamy lauiii, aucii wave uuu aaron nuantia t'lJix t At your deaUsn or sent postpaid on receipt of S3C Addrtst: Cutlcura Laboratories, Maiden, M. Uncover Indians Bones Nenr Mountain View. Calif., where once the Fisher Indians burled their dead, a new highway cuts through, symbolic of the progress that drove the tribe from Its once vast hunting srround. Road crews working on the new Bayshore highway recently un covered the graves of five of the Indians, In-dians, together with beads, mortars, and other paraphernalia buried with them to insure their happiness ana comfort In the Happy Hunting Ground. The bones and other remnants rem-nants were reburled alongside the right-of-way. The villain Is always caught In the act nsually the last act- Qualities of Asbestos Known to Charlemagne The Emperor Charlemagne is said to have possessed a cloth of asbestos with which he often astonished his guests. After having partaken of a meal and imbibed freely of wine, his banqueting friends would be dulled to the proper degree of credulity. Then the emperor would grasp a corner cor-ner of the tablecloth and sweep it from the rough-hewn table Into the fire. Startled, the guests would gather around and In amazement watch the flames vainly lick about the coverlet. Then the emperor would thrust In his hand and pull the cloth clear of the blazing coals, which had Wenched It to whiteness, and return It to the table. A miracle, every one would exclaim, and it is said that even Charlemagne himself wondered. New York Times. Floating Breakwater Costly stonework to make a breakwater, break-water, behind which boats may seek shelter, Is obviated by the vise of a string of metal pontoons, width have the effect of quieting a boisterous sea as effectually as a bulkhead of stone or piles. The units consist of nietnl structural shapes of an open-Work open-Work character which are supported by air-tilled tanks and are chained together in strings of six or eight, each end of the string being secured to a substantial pier. The action of the waves dashing Is effectually checked by the open character of the metal work and their force broken so that the water behind the barrier Is quite still for the purpose of a safe harbor, , Long ago, when one's horses ran away, he had longer to think about It before he was smashed up than in today's automobile accidents. FELLO !M ant prople Joke about it, but the fact la that the "cave-man" type is now the most popular on the screen. 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