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Show THE JORDAN JOURNAL. MIDVALE. UTAH ~ -~--- J.;ICIIOC!!\.K:>~~..f.)""J'~J".JCe...~.r..rJ.r...«~.r...-~~......~~.h'"J:rJ.)""J.r~~.....~ · I! P.K. II . II of azan • (~.Doubleday, I cles twitchNI :ts the trnth g-rPw in him; nnrl at la.<t he r:.i.<<.'tl l!i~ lil':lol slowly until his blncl< muzzle pointed to the \YhitP ~tnrm in the sky, and out of his t!Jro:~t there went fo:·th · thP 1]\ln\·erin;::, loilg-drawn howl of t!H lrusky who rnourns outside the tepet of a mastPr who is m•wly rlearl. On thP trail, hPatling for Lac Dain H•Jsh ~1<-'fu;::gnrt hearcl that cry an<l ,;hi Yet'Pd. It W<IS the smell of smol;e, tltickpn ing in the air umil it stung his DOl'· tl"il~. that drew I:aree at last awa~ from the chaRm and lltlcl< to the cabin. 'l'her·e was not mur·h left when he came to the clearing. \\'here th<> cabin had been was a red-hot, smold~r ing mass. For a long- time he Silt watching It, still waiting and still listening. He no longer felt the effect of the bullet that had stunned him. hut his senses were unclergoin;: another change now, as strange antl unreal as their strug-gle against that darkness of near-death In the cabin . Tn 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 before her little mirror In the cahin, talking to him and laughing in ht>r har•pines:s, while he lay in vast con· t!'ntmpnt on the floor. And now there was no cab'n, no Xepeese, no Pierro! He did not go nearer to the smolrler ing mass of the cabin, but r:<linking low, macle his way about the circle of the open to the dog-cm·rnl. This tool; him under the tall sprucP. For a full minute he pnusetl hPre, snif!ing at tht> freshly made mound unrler its whltP mantle of ~now. Wlwn he went on, he slunk still lower, and his ears were flat against his head. The dog-corral w&s open and empty. ~IcTaggart had seen to that. Agnin Baree S<JUflttE'd back on his haunches ancl sent forth the t!Path-howl. 'rhis time It was for Pif'l·t·ot. In It there was a difl'erent note from that of the 1 .. nne! the sto·. <:> which l'ierrot !tar! ii!Ipi"OYised out of scraps of iron 'nt! hea,·y tin. But • "epeese \\"as not .hPre. ,\lid there was no sign of her nut~irlt•. The ''low wns unhroi(('ll except h_v his o\""11 trail. 11 w:\;t d:tr!{ wh .. n he !"Piurued to tlw hurnerl cahin, All !h:1l llit~lit lie IIIli ~ :tiHI<It tile (!esertc•t] rlo~-r·or;·:tl, nrvl all thmugh tl1e ni;.:;!t: I h' ~·ww fell stt•ndil_v, so tltat 1•.1" tln•,·r, I>• «nul; iuto It to his siloui· .Jprs wl!en he Ulo\·ed out into the stor·e~. She Was Not at the Tepee. howl he had sent forth from the chasrn: it was posith·e, certain. In ·the chasm his ct•y had been te1"peret1 with doubt-a !JUestioning hop!'. ~ome thing that was !'o nlmo~t hum:111 1h:tl :l!cTnggart had shh·ered or, the trail. But naree tmew what lay in that freshly dug HIOW·C'O\"ererl gran'. A scant three feet of eflrth r·onlrl not hitle its secret from him. There wa~ death definite and unequil"(){'fll. nut for :\epeese he wns still hoping ant! seeking. Until noon he dirt not :::•• f<1r· fro111 the cabin, but oul_v once llicl he nctu ally appt·oach and wi fl' about the black pile of gteanliug timbers. Again nnd again he circled the·erlg-e of the <'leal'· lug, keeping _ju!'t within the bush und tlmbet·, sniffing the nir anrl listening. Twice he wt>nt Lack to the chasm. Late In the afternoon there (•ame t<• him a sudden i rnpulse that carriNl him swiftly through the forest. He did nor run openly n )\V: caution. suspicion and fear hnd roused in him aft·e~h the lnstlnets of the wolf. With his eurs flattened against the f'ide of his head, his tail drooping until the tip of It dragged the snow and his buclc sagging in the curious, evasive gait or the wolf, he scarcely made himself distinguishable from the shadows of the spruce and balsams. There was no faltering In the trail Raree mnde; it was straight as a rope might ha,·e been drawn through the forest, and it brought him, early in the dusk, to the open spot where Nepeese had flpd with him that day she had pushed 1\f cTaggart over the edge of the precipice into the pool. In the place of the balsam shelter of that day there was now a water-tight birchbark tepee which Plerrot had helped the 'Villow to make during the sum· mer. Baree went straight to it and thrust In hls heal! with a low and expectant whine. There was no answer. It wa,; darlc and cold In the tepee. Tie could make out Indistinctly the two blankets that were always in lt. the row of big tin boxes in which Nepeese kept their People who are careful of their health and strength use Wrig!ey's Chewing Sweets. Because Wrigley's, besides being a delightful confection, clears the teeth of food particles and aids digestion! It removes odors of eating or smoking. Mouth cleanliness benefits young a~d old. c!PHl'irJg With rlny the sky bad clearer!. The snn eame up, and tl:e world wns almo~t too rln7.zling for the f'::es. It \Yarnwrl Rat·ee's !.Jiood with nPw hope ::nd expectation. His brain strn~g-led Pepper.mlnt even more eagerly than yesterday to Flavor t'OllllWehencl. Surely the \\'illow would Ire reinl"!lin!! soon! He would hear Iter voi<'e, ~he would appear sudclenly nut of the for·est. He wnuld receive some sig-nal ft•om her. One of the~e things, or all of them. mu~t happen. 1 He stopped sharply in his tracks at j proved by one application of ever~· fwnnd, and sn!ITed the air from eYery point of the wind. He was traveling cea~e.Iessly. . His JJ!Hly made deep trails In the snow around und oYer the huge white mound where the cahin lrnrl stood; his tracks led from the corral to the tall Fast Workers ~pruce, nnd they wt>re as numerous as According to the bureau of lal]t)r lire footprints of a wolf-pacl• for half statistics the output per man in the a mile up unrl clown the chasm. !Iron and >;tePI industry has increa~Pcl On the after~·10on of this day the 50 per cent sinre 1fl14, when most of second big impulse came to him. It thf' men were on u 12-honr day schedwas not rea~rm, and neither was It in· ule. 'l'hey now \York 8. EfficiC'nry in stinct alone. It wns the strug-gle half· boot and shoe making has incl'ensed 17 wn:v hPtwe<'n, the hrJte minrl fighting per cent in tlw same period. The rno<;t at Its hest with tlle mystery of an in- amazing augmentation of effort, !rowtangible thing-something that could I ever, Is found in the making of autonot he seen l•y the <'YP or hearcl by the ' mollile~. where the output per man Is ear. Neneese was not In the cubin, 1 now three times as great as It was hecause there ~·as no cahln. She was 112 years ago.--The Outlook. not at the tepee. lie could find no trace of· hPr ln 1he cl•asm. She was If thou sustain Injustice, console n()t with Piermt un lPr the big ,;pruce. thyself; the true unhappiness Is in Therefore, nnrc>asoning but sure, he 1 doing lt.-Democritus. ltegan to follow the old trap-line luto the north and west. fA9_~&~,~~l!f~!£~~ l I • fs . §I g Page&: Co.) !b:X~~co~..crJYJ:cv.r..r~Av..r.:o:r..t:~v.r..r..r.ev..r..r..r..v~-=-~~-.7.r..r..e.~~J>..v..rJCr..rJ".r.r~.....:""/...""~~ WNU Serv!ce He mumbled that fact over and over again, stupidly, thickly, r.~ though his brain could J:;ra:>p nothing lleyonrl it. She was dead. Anrl Pierrot was dPfHl And he, In a few minutes, liatl accomplished it all. He 1:urnPd back towarrt the cabinnot by the trail over· whirh he hrul pur~ued N"epeeSE', hut straight through the thick bush. Gr·eat flakes of !'now had heg-nn to fall. Fie looked at the sky, where banks of clark clouds wer·e rolling up from the south and east. <The sun went out. Soon there would be a stom1-a heavy snowstorm. The big flakes falling on l;tls naked hands and face set his I.'Jind to work. It was lucky for hlm, tMs storm. It would cover everythin~-the fresh trails, even the grave he would dig for Pierrot. It does not take Ruch a man as thP Factor long to r·ecover· from n moral concussion. By the time he came in sight of the cabin his mimi was again at work on physical tl,lngs-on the neces~ities of the situation. The appallin_g tblng, after all, was not that both Pierrot and Nepeese were dead. but that his dream was shattered.. It was not that !'\epees:?. was dead, but that hE" hall lost her. This was his ,-Hal disappointment. The other thing -his crime-It was e:1l'<:V to covet·. ~ It was not :->entiment that made him mg Pferrol's grave clo~e to the prin· cess mother's under the tall spruce It was not sentiment that mnrle him d'g the grave at all, bnt caution. He burled Pierrot decently. Then he pnuretl Plerrot's stock of kero~ene where It would he most effective and touched a mn tell to ft. ne ~tnod in the edge o! the fore~t until the cabill W!lS a mass of flames. The ;;now was falling thickly. The fre~hly marie grave wa~ a white mound, and the trails wet·e filling. For the phJ·sical things he hall clone there was no fear in Bush l\lcTa."gart's hE'm·t as he turned hac!' toward Lac Baln. l'\o one would ever look into tire .c:t·ave of l'ierrot du Qnesne. Anrl there was no one to h,etrn:v him if such a miracle happenerl. But of one tiling hi:;: black soul would nevE'!' be able to free It· 8Pif. Ahva,>~ he would see the pale, triumphant fo.ce of the Willow as ~he stood facing him In that moment of her glory wltPn, even as she was choosing death rather than him, he had cried to himself: "Ah! she not wonderful !" As Bush McTaggart had forgotten Raree, so Baree had forgotten the Factor from Lac Baln . 'Yhen :.rcTaggart had run along the edge of the chasm, Baree hnt! squatted himRelf in the foot-beaten plot of snow wher·e Nepeese had la~t ~toorl, his body stiffened and his fnrd"Pt braced as he looked clown 1!1' h·FI '~'PI! her take the leap. ~l:rn:r 111 ,p~ thnt summer he had follow"• ! l1t·r l11 L,•r daring diYes into th" rl '''i'· ·: Ji!'t water of the pool. But tlds wa" a tremendous distnnce. ~he had never dived into a place like that. He could see the i:.lack heads of the rocks, appearing and disappearing in the whirling foam like the heads of monsters at play; the roar of the wa· ter filled him with dread; his eyes caught the swift rush of crumbled Ice between the ro,~l; walls. Anrl she had gone down ther·e! I He llarl l\fg"l"Pat de~ire to follow her, to jump in. as he lntd al\\"ayq jumped In after lwr. Rhe was surely tlown there, e\·pn though he could not see her. Prohnbly ~he was playinr: atllon::: the rocks anrl hiding henwlf in the white froth fine! woncle•·i11" whr he • rlirln't come. But he hesirntPtl - lwsl· t ted with his hc<ld and nel'l; OYPr the nhyss, a!Hl his foreft>et giYing wn_y a little in the !'now. \Yith ar• effort he draggerl himself hack anti whined. He ' •barked-the ~hol·t, sharp signal with ' which he always called her. There was no al!SWPr. Again and ag-;~in he barked, and always there was nothing but the roar of the water that came back to him. The snow wtts falling now, and McTaggart had returned to the cahin. After a little Baree followed In the trail he had mncle along the edge of the chasm, and wherever McTag-gart had stopped to peer over, Baree paused also. E'or u space his hatred of the man was burned up in his desire to join the Willow, and he continued along th~ go~ge until, a quar· ter of a mile h<·rwrd where the Factor had last lool\t>rl into it, . he came to the narrow tr;t!l down which he and N~peese had many times adventured In quest of rock violets. The twisting path that led down the face of the cllfl' was filled with snow now, hut Baree cll''lred his way through it until at last he "tood at the edge of the unfrozen torrent. Nepeese was not here. He whined, and barked n.gain, but this time there was In his signal to her an uneasy repression, a whimpering note which told that he •lid not expect a reply. For five minutes after that he sat on his haunches In the snow, stolid as a rock. What It was that came down out of the dark mystery and tumult of the chasm to him. "hat spirlt-whl~pers of nature that 10ld him the truth. it Is beyond the ynwer or reason to eJ>:plaln. nut he b.etenert a11il he lookerl: nnrl hi.~ mns- American Flowers to Bloom at Stocllholm 1 Dy JAMC.S OLIVER CUR WOOD Chapter XII-Continued -20..:.. ellsk for the § Handy Pack 0 • I • • • • • I (TO BE CONTINUED.) Odd Slavery Conditions There is much corroborative testlmon;t and numerous t·eferences to the facts that there were at the outbreak of the Civil war a very large number of free negroes and that these negroes in many ca~es owned property and slaves. These latter, however, were usually members of their faml· lies whom they had redt•enwd and whom they held as slaves ter-hnicall_y on account of the laws of many states which prohibited the manumitted slaYes fr·om remaining In the state or territory. 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One Detail Lacking A New England !;irl boasts that she p:rr-kPcl ~0 dre;;,;es in one suitcasC'. ~he Ih'ldPcts to sny what >-he UHetl to tiui~h filling it.-~ioux Cit~· Trihune. Japanese Etiquette Accol'ding to true .Tapane~e eti· !JUCtte a fan must never be usC'd In the presence of cut flowers. Keep up with the world or It will step on your nt>ck.- DISTRIBUTOR 7.SOt!,UW 0 E N E A SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Chicks Knew the Call KEEP YOUR SCALP . . ;r'lle r~erplexmg pro~Jlem of tdentif~'lllg 1 '5 stolen ctuckens from a • " flock of 5,000 was solved by Mrs. Alfred Oaraud at Williamstown, N. J. When thl' pollee asked her to prove 'ownership, !\Irs. Garand stood In an adjacent liPid and began to whistle - ·"There's no place like home." One hy one the chickens hopped out or the floclc and came over to her until 13:) chickens, looking very mucll lil•e brothers an.d sisters, sto.od peep· ing nnd crowing at her feet. 'l'he • woman explained that every morning before feeding her flock she whistled that tune in tlte poultry house, a . ___ _ signal for straying ehicks to crowd W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 38--1926. around the cracked-corn hopper. ====-:-:-:.--===========:: r Clean and Healthy WITH CUTICURA More Lettuce Eaten Housewife's Friend a superior Reports show that the Amer can people are now eating six time>; as much lettuce as they were eat.ng be· forp tl1e World war. Lettuce valued at $~0,000,000 was sold in the United States la~t year. The greater part of this lettuee was eaten in salads. Some men Imagine they see a hero L'Yery time they look into a mirror. Prosperity, alas! is often but another name f H prllle.-;'llrs. Sigourney. The art of nwking nerdles was Introduced into tlrls country In 1566 hy E!iaq flrouse, a flPrman, who taught the art to the English. 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It comes to him, ,;omP1imes, with the winrl; most frPI)uently It must come with the wind, and yet there are ten thousand masters in the northland IYho will swpar that their dogs have given W!ll"nlng of dt>ath hours before it actually came: and there are many of these thousands who know from eJC· • pet·ipnce that their teams will stop a 1 quarter of a mile fr-om a stranger cahill in \Yhich there is un!Jurif•d dead., YestNtlny Baree had smelled death, and be knew withc,ut proceHs of reasoning that thP clear! was Pierro!. How he knew this. and why he accepted the fact as Inevitable, I:> one of the mrs- I teries which at ti r:Jes seems to glve : the dir·ed challenge to those who COli· cede 1101 hin g more than instinct I o the I lH·ute mind. He knew that Plerrot was dear! without exactly knowing what death was. gut of one thing he was sure: he woul<l nerer see Plenot : again: he would never hear his voice ' ag-ain: he wonlrl never hear again the ~wi~h-s,risl!-swish of hls snowshoes In the trail ahPnd, and so on the trapline l1e did not look for Pien-ot. Pit>r- , rot was gotH~ forP,·cr. But J:ar-ee had not yet us~nt.'iated death with :\'epePse. 1 ITe heli<'Ye<l tllat :"\epeese was alh·e, ' and he was nnw just ns sure filtH he would overtake hr'r on the trnp-line 1 as he wn<; pnsitlq• yPstercln.v th:tt Ire would finrl I>Pr nt the birC'h-harl; tPpee. I Since ye,·tprcla~· mominc:·s breakfnst with tire \\"illnw, BarN• had g-one with. ont eatin;:-: to appl·asP his IIlHI;.;!'t' I'll'lllll to lrnPt, un•l his min<! was too flllc•c1 \\'ith Iii:' fJIIPst of Xepee;:;e for that. liP woultl have gone hunp·y nil thflt rl:•~·. hnt in the third mile from tl1f' c·ahin he camr to a trap in whkh there was a big snow:-;hoe rabllit. The ralthit was still :liin!, ancl he killed it allll ate J.ls fill. Until clark !re rlirl not miss a rr-ap. !11 one ot t henJ there was a lrnx; i11 nnotlwr a ti>'<her-cat; out on the white surface of a lake he ~r.iffed at a snowy mound unrler which lay tlte hotly of :1 red fox ' ldlled by one of Pienot';; poison halts. I Both the lynx nncl the tishet·-cat were alive, 11nrl the steel chains of their traps tlanke<l shat"llly as they prepared to gi\·e naree battle. But Baree was uninterested. He hun·ied on, his uneasiness growing as the day rlm·kened and h" fourd no sign of the Wll· low. bu~hPI~ • Flowers from Yellowstonp park will soon hlos!'om In the royal garden~ of the Swerlish capital, aeconling to word reC('\Yed in \\'a,;hington by the united Rtates national park ~en·ice from Prof. II. S. Conmrl of Urinn"ll cotll<'g-e, qlrPdor of the ler·ture and u:t· • , ture guidl• Ren·if'e in tliP park. 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