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Show UTAH THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. tle twigs piece of white fabric, by frost. he shouted, triHandkerchief! umphantly, and In a corner found the embroidered letters, A. L. H." Her handkerchief ! lie was right! They Were on (lie Deer Lodge trail ahead stiffened til eh eg. e a of him. She had dropped It ns a sign to those she knew would follow. Courage, g.rl !" cried Jim. delirious with the Joy of the discovery, as he thrust ttie handkerchief Into bis . Stars Were "Courage, stout heart com. ng fust us dogs cun travel!" Leaping on his sled, lie cracked his whip with a hoarse, "Marche, Wolf! She's ahead of us, hoy I They've got a big lead but you'll wear 'em down you'll show those scrubs what real Jc By George March Oopyrlifht by (VTNV Fnn Pub. Srvlc dogs can do I" Co. Cp the Deer lodge, over the portage trail through ttie hills, to the Vermillion. arid on through the day slaved CHAPTER XIII 17 Back t lirouerh the thick night to Sun-Be- t Hou.se hurried the tired dot; and men. lu h half hour two Ku dos' teams, each loaded with food for three weeks, Bleeping roll es and shed tent, left the lighted trade house, and faded Into the murk. liefore dawn ttie dog drivers saw In the distance a fire on Hie stiore of the white thoroughfare of the Nipigon trail. Shortly they Joined I.eBInnd and Ids head man. "He's headed for the Albany; we followed the trail beyond here for mile," announced Heltlond. He may follow the Albany as far as Fort Hope," said Jim, but from there he'll strike north for the Sturgeon country where he's got friends. Hut we've got to cover the three trails north; you take the Albany. Well hit the other two." lies thirty or forty miles ahead of tis," groaned I.eltlond, nervously paring to and fro. "I'll wish you luck and say good hy." There, beside the fire, In the blackness before the dawn, the two men Slipped olT their mittens and gripped each olher's hands. If he's on the Albany, " said Jim, youll hear of them from Fort Hope Indians hound for the trade." Two great tears coursed down the hooded face of I.eliloml. "We must travel night and day, Stuart give his dogs no rest, wear him down, fast! She'll kill herself If we don't' get him Boon, I know her; Rhe's like She wont wait long!" that! r mulTled sob, LcBIoikI turned away and followed lteimult and the dogs out to the lee. Jim and Omar crossed the outlet to the mouth of the Deer Lodge river, hut as they searched In the dim light of Hip dawn they found that the falling snow had obliterated all traces of a sled turning In to the river on what R few hours before had been packed snow wind brushed Ice. Hes circled and struck north this wav or by the I'lpe, stone trail, Omar. He's too shrewd to take the Albany where he'd meet traveling hunters who would tiring the news. Hut I wanted LeBloml to takp the Albany, This Is our Job. Here's where we say 'ho' Jo, old friend. "Kef we don see bees track or bear finding pen seven sleep we meet at de Medicine Stone, on de Sturgeon. I breciig ole Jitiuw wld lish for de With dog. "At the Medicine Stone, or a message there, In seven days, unless theres u Mg Mow to hold us up." Then, losing ids self control, nervous hands gripped the heavy shoulders of his friend as his voice broke with Ills grief. If theyre ahead of you, Onmr, bring her back bring her hack to me!'' Omar, he find dom!" And thew figure of the turned away. A rawhide air. snapped In the There was a guttural, Marche I And Omar and his team faded Into the curtain of snow from the bitter eyes of the man who watched, Breaking trail on snowshoes, for his dogs, Jim pushed north up the white valley of the Deer Dodge. And each hour as he traveled In the fulling snow, his chances of finding traces of the passing sled of Paradis lessened, When dusk fell he turned his exhausted team Into the spruce of the shore and, scraping out a fire hole, made camp. But (he weary men, whose tortured thoughts had whipped him over forty miles of drifted trail since dawn, d! not sleep. The vision of the girl vanishing Into the wide north on the sled of the mad Paradis lived In the Humes of the hlrch logs. There, In the snow, somewhere north of him, she also lay with her despnir beside a fire. Already, she might have killed herself, aa LeBlomi said she would. P.ut she were behind her knew that knew theyd take the trails Into the heart of KIwedin on the heels of the fleeing dogs of Paradis. And the nerve that brought her through the seas which burled her that summer day as she clung to her canoe, would not falter now. Paradis was on the Pipestone or Doer Lodge trails In an attempt to lose himself In the wilderness of the Sturgeon or the Wiidsk, or even t lie Kkwan and the coast. P.ut behind him were two who would hunt him until their dogs dropped In their traces track him beyond the barrens of the Winlsk to the frozen hay. Jim Stuart was paying dearly for his triumph at the Medicine Stone paying in the anguish of despair. The dawn of a clear day broke blue and bitter. For an hour Jim had travof the eled In the half trot, half-walsnow-shoswing, when, as he passed close to the alders of the shore of the river, he suddenly fsist narrowing stopped. A mitten brushed the rime from his eyebrows as he stared at a clump of frozen pushes. Running to the shore, he reached above his head and tore from the brit Ji's half-bree- dog-whi- 1 dog-leni"- ; e dogs and man until the cold, strengthened with the dying wind and a freezing dusk fell on leg stiff team and driver, driving them Into the spruee. I!ut through ttie day, as the hurrying sled passed the cold hills Hnd the black spruce of the stiore, hour after hour devouring ttie white miles, thP snow yielded no further traces of the lost girt. Starting under frosted stars dimming before the dawn, hanging to the trail until stars ugaln glittered In ttieau rorulit heavens above him, Jim urged his team down the white Vermilion to ttie first of the Pipestone lakes. Through the Plpesfnnes and down the Sturgeon lake sped the dogs, pushed hy ttie Insistent appeals of a man half-mawill) grief and fear. With Ills powerful team driven to ttie last ounce of their siamlna, Jim wondered if he had overtaken and passed the man he hunted, concealed somewhere on the Pipestones? It was possible. Slowly Jim lost hope. Ami so, one pitiless gray day, when the dying sun hung smothered In haze above the Muck ridges which ringed the Sturgeon, six footsore, dogs, heads down, tails the Ice, crept within sight of the Island of the Medicine Stone. It Is he! said Omar to old Jlmtw, In Ojlbwa, as they waited beside a tire for the appearance of Jim at the He has come fust, for rendezvous. the trail Is long, hut he has seen nothd the night, heading north? Jim beard Omar ask lu Ojibwa. 1 es, our dugs heard them, and In the morning there was the fresh trad iu the young snow. "Would an Indian pass your cuuip In the night?" "No, tie would stop; it was a stran ger. onmr turned to meet ttie glittering I m eves or His chief. starting, now I We cun t take any chances we've got to cover both trails north!" Insisted Jim. "But the Wlnisk Is mine; you take the Sturgeon arid travel until you re sine lies not ut cud of you; and follow me down then the Winlsk with lish for the dogs, and some grub. We may need them!" "'t wo are better dan one, objected Omar. My dogs have good rest, yours Imck-iruc- are He Is mine, Omar!" Jim turned angiily from tightening tils sled lash"1 want to meet him alone. ings. Then he said, with muffled sob, "She may be starving, already starving!" Down the lake, purple under the starlight, Jims six dogs galloped Into the north. CHAPTER XIV Clear, before him, over the white of shell of the lake, led the ttie hunters from the Winlsk. Thirty miles thirty miles away she had been at dawn. While he bad slept she had been there, over the hills to the north culling to him, and he had not heard. Already she may have cheated the mad man who had hoped to disappear with her into the white heart of KIwedin chosen, in her desperation, the refuge of death. Crossing the portage to the Wlnisk, Jim traveled through thP night, holding a grip on his sanity hy running until exhausted behind the sled. Later, sled-track- s stiff-logge- Trail beaten dogs and driver limped the lake lee. Iu amazement Jinnw stared at the drawn face and tortured eyes of the factor of Sunset House, as they shook hands. To Jim's eager look Omar shook his hooded head. "No sign noding." (Iroplng under his ikln capote, Jim produced the pitiful square of white In from m muslin. Paradis!" That tdglit Jim lay like a dead man. There would be no start before dawn under the stars for him nnd tils dogs. Before daylight, six Inches of new snow covered the trails to the Winlsk and the lower Sturgeon. Until the hunters came In from the north Omar and JInaw Insisted thnt their chief rest with his dogs. To go on blindly was madness. I. ate In the afternoon Jim waked to the yelps of huskies. The first of the Wlnisk hunters were In to meet Jinnw, on their way to the trade. Throwing off his robes, Jim hurried to a knot of hooded Indians who stood beside their panting dogs, gesticulating excitedly as they tnlked to JInaw and Omar. "You say a sled passed your camp In A M.tten Brushed the Rime From His Eyebrows as He Stared at a Clump of Frozen Bushes. at the camp of the hunters, he found a single sled trail which led downstream in the young snow. Youve got a days start, Paradis." Jims hoarse voice broke on Hie silence, "hut you've lost ! Kvery hour you're coming closer I'm crawling up on you, until I reach you with my hands I" Four hundred miles to the north, the Winisk met the frozen coast of Hudson's hay four hundred miles of pitiless hills, of desolate forests, of muskeg nnd white barrens over which the withering winds of midwinter beat endlessly. But Iaradis should never see the bay ! The man, who tightened Ms belt as his haggard eyes followed the trail before him over the river Ice, was obsessed hy one thought. She'll not wait long. It s a mutter of (hys!" he muttered, as he started. "No rest no sleep while I see this trail !" Ruthless as a starved wolf on a caribou track, stopping only to eat, all thnt day down the winding Winlsk Jim held to the sled trail In the snow. At Inst the gallant dogs, who for twenty hours had driven their Iron thews to his call, faltered. "Marche, Wolf!" wearily protested the hoarse voice of the man who, to lighten the load for his spout dogs, for hours had swung head down, at ttie tail of the sled. At the call the gallant 23? T?725L'?.:7? 32 Y25ZS252! Expert on the Subject Explodes Snake f.lyths The way animals adapt themselves to environmental changes has always been one of tbo wonders of zoology. When shrews went to sea. they did not develop fins, but changed forelegs to flippers and became whales. In like manner, the reptiles that took to the trees changed scnles Into feathers and became birds. A great subject adaptation to changed environments. Doctor Mosnuor, "snake expert, lias taken away some of our favorite Illusions. There are no true lioop snakes, doesut he savs. The "black snake take Its tall in Its mouth and roll like a hoop across the prairies as the pioneer believed. Nor can you tell the age of a rattlesnake by Its rattles. It gets h new rattle every time It sheds Its skin, and it may shed oft oner than onee a year. Human beings, he says, shed their skin continuously, snakes Prized Food Fih Ttie pompnno belongs to the Jack family and Is one of the most prized of the world s foml The name Is taken from the SpanNIi pampano, meaning grape leaf, winch the outline of tho fish resotuMes, when viowed a length of from ttie side. It one foot and n half, a weight of two to three pounds. a"d has w!n;o flaky flosh. It Is a favorite in Creole ntt-iin- cookery. no use! Were nil at once. Snake eyelids are a part of their skin, the lids being fused to got her but quite transparent at first. As the skin thickens, a snake sees less and less clearly through Its eyelids. When ready to shed, the skin breaks around the Dps where skin and mucous membrane meet, then the skin slips backward, eyelids and all, as If pulled by Invisible strings. Los An- geles Times. fire-hol- r smother. they went while the wind strengthened, sweeping the snow before it in swirls which sucked their breath, blinding their eyes, heaping drifts high mi ttie river trail which Jim floundered tiirough. leading his team of wraiths by a thong. As tie fought his way yard hy yard, his numbing face and fingers warned him of the slowly increasing cold. Still he battled on; the pinpointed scourge of snow crystals stinging Ids cracked cheeks like shot, caking his stubble of a beard and eyebrows with ice. Often, breath whipped from their nostrils hy a white maelstrom, man and dogs lay down, backs to the toothed fury. Then, above the beat of the wind, the voice of Aurore would call, and wiping the Ice from the battered noses of his blinded huskies, Jim would again force them to their feet and plunge head down Into On snow-sheathe- the storm. So they went through the morning, hut at last, the tortured dogs refused longer to face the pitiless barrage which smeared their muzzles with frozen blood. Turning In their traces, they lay down, hacks to the knife-edgedrive of the wind, while the d snow Irifted over them. , Kneeling beside his gaunt Jim dropped his mittens and rubbed with his stiffening fingers the crimsoned snow from the hairy nose, freeing the slant eyes. "You've worked yourself to the I'll never forget !" tie bone, boy The inflamed eyes of the panted Under squinted painfully at the hooded face beside his, as his red tongue answered. lie was miles nearer his man. for In that storm tin; weakened dogs 0f Paradis would anchor him to tils camp, but Jim led tits team Into the windbreak of the timber with a heart sore with Ids failure. She was doomed to another night with the torture of Its doubt and fear before the galloping dogs of the man who loved her reached her. Deep In the of the timber, Jim scooped out a flrelmle In the snow with a shoe and made camp. A Hudson's bay Dorther often blew for three days, but in the morning he would start again battle Into the toothed wind that stung his face like a whip-lash- ; fight his way, while his logs lasted, to the girl who prayed, In the hands of a madman, for his lead-dog- wind-brea- Change of Heart Mary Ann had been anxiously looking forward to a visit from her grandmother nnd for the first few days after her arrival they were on most friendly terms. But when the mother went shopping and left Mary Ann In her grandmother's care, Mary Ann disobeyed and was made to sit In her rocking chair for half an hour to deliberate on her niNbehavior. She kept perfectly quiet for the first fifteen minutes and watched her grandmother Intently. Then In a consoling voice, In a half whisper, she said: "Well, I never did like to have outsiders visit tis, anyway." Difference in Heating A physician says that sing ng heats But It's folks wlio ildntj the t'lev c.iu slog Hint get us hot up Horen, e (Via) I iej'Uid. coming. In mid afternoon, night fell like a blanket, as the white drive of the bliz- zard roared past the drifted (amp In the spruce. But long before the bitter blackness preceding the oawn. the wind had whipped Itself out and the snow died. With the falling of the wind, the first fierce cold of December hard on the heels of the norther! grpped the valley- of the Winisk. to split the river ice with the boom of cannon wtiile the timber snapped Ilka rifle shots tn the vise of the frost. (TO BS CONTI. YU KD.J Sally Sc: through! who had driven himgroaned the man his strength, In his of end the to self ever calling Aurore of ears the voice snow. Mm on, on over the endless was close, night December swuft The behind him, and as the team crawled for a Jim staggered ahead, searching he foltrail the Shortly place to ramp. lowed swung In to the shore. Their camp!" of what the Spurred hy the thought mao snow would reveal, the excited followed the trail Into the timber. If In seconds he would know know a she lived! There might he messnge for sign that she still hoped, hoped the help that her eyes had strained for In vain. There tn the thick spruce ahead waa with the dead embers the the hen ten snow of the camp. With reached the spot pounding heart be a man' trampled by the dogs and moccasins. -She's alive! She's with him !" Before him in the snow were the Imprint of small feet. Frantically he searched the campsite for some evidence thaf she had not despaired some sign to the speeding dog teams on the trail of Baradls. And at last, in a small cedar he found a scrap of hlrch-bark- . On It was (raced with a charred I A. stick: Dogs gone! Come quick knows her behind we're She knows were coming. Wolf!" Jim shouted to the dogs who had brought the sled in Ills and lay panting on the snow. teams done for! Well get him tomorrow, you cripples! A big feed and Tomorrow we'll burn sleep tonight. up the trail !" Later, as the muffled body of Jim Stuart lay In the sleep hole beside the tin tiling birch logs, and uear him, noses n buried in thick tails, curled his team, deep in the sleep of utter exhauKiion, the spruces Hliove them fretted with the rising wind. And befrom fore dawn, ttie first the Icefields of the hay was shrieking up the valley of the Wlnisk. Ttie man who waked, and stirred hi stiffened legs to rise arid freshen the lire for his breakfast kettle, found the camp buried In drift as the slant of the blizzard flayed the rocking sprucea. For a space Jim lay In his blankets while tears of weakness and shattered hope slowly froze on his uncovered face. "I'd have readied them today! They're nut far uheml, ten fifteen he groaned. "But the dogs miles, wont face tills long. Fating his hreakfnst, he harnessed the dogs, reluctant to leave tlielr sleeping holes in the snow, secure from the drive of t lie wind which roared past, up the river. "Marche, Wolf! Jim snapped his whip beside the ears of ttie gaunt lender, and man and dogs plunged with lowered heads into the white north-weste- ing." wltn "It's trail-beate- brii'-h-In- I found this on the Deer Lodge nothing since. I never spotted a sled track; ttie snow wiped out everything. What d tlie Indians say 7 Omar gravely shook his head. I talk to two limiters oil de Pipestone, but dey see no trail and no sled headin nord." "In one-twsleep," said JInaw In his native tongue, there will he ninny teams from the Winlsk and the lower Sturgeon, They bring their fnr to the House of Sunset. If he passed here they have met him. "Can he keep alive find game In the winter on the Winlsk and the Sturgeon, Jinnw?" asked Jim. The old Indian shook his head. "He will not know whore to find the caribou up there. And the wind Is bitter In the Moon of the Spirit. They will starve." Starve!" muttered the man who Better to listened, with a shudder. starve, though, than live that long bead, lead dog lifted hi lolling but the the traces; in forward lurched making aud, were done, t(.am behind at a slow nrt response, hitched along QUALITY IN HENS MAKES FOR PROFIT Rigid Selection Matter of Much Moment. It Is possible to select and breed Leghorns to increase body weight, weight of eggs, und number of eggs produced, without sacrificing any of these increases to bring about any of the others, says the Cornell university experiment station In a bulletin recently published. While It is said to be a normal tendency for the weight of the egg and the weight of the hen to decrease with an Increase In the number of eggs, rigid selection, the station says, will overcome tills tendency. Not only that, but the tendency was also to period and to lengthen the diput off the time when minishes through the maturity of the egg-layin- Men work, egg-layin- whl T ro round... h PouoCd7 Kut. Or. "hub" of proma to. birds. The studies made a careful comparison between birds of capacity and those of low capacity. The high producers ate more than the low producers; but, nevertheless, It took about twice as much feed to get a dozen eggs from the low producers. When costs and Incomes are balanced, the evidence is all in favor of the pullets from a long line of ancestors seWhen the lected for egg production. annual feed cost, which Is about 50 per cent of the cost of producing eggs, Is deducted from the gross Income, there Is still an advantage of $2.91 per pullet, annually, In favor of the high-lin- e bird, the bulletin says. 1. th. dollar., we collar, FOR HOME IXDUSTHT. high-layin- BALSAM TROUT, STEAK, of Undridui Rooms by day, week, month; nrla ward SADDLE liORSFN DWrivf OPEN 12 MONTHS A YEAR Life is hut a song, sajs 1 i IIo, China-tow1 the sa-- of Alas, that so us should he but indifferent singers! Washington Star. man-- THIS WEEK'S PRIZE all the sunlight possible. The sunlight is an advantage in winter but in summer a large sunlight pattern on the floor tends to keep the house too For summer ventilation Professor Fairbanks advises having windows on two or more sides of the house. With the windows nnd ventilators open, the air movement does not keep the temperature of the house lower than but does remove dust, odors, and moisture and makes the house McGill, Nmifc STUDY AT rs Da- kota Agricultural college show that 03 poults that were placed on clean ground sustained no losses from blackhead; while 43 turkey poults hatehed from the same hens as the other group and allowed to run with the mother hen on ground previously used hy chickens sustained a loss of all but four with blackhead. Two of these four poults at the time of marketing showed characteristic blackhead lesions when killed, leaving only two of the original 43 to go scot-free- " from disease or parasites. The rotation of yards, preferably on alfalfa range, Is the simplest method to follow out the sanitation program for turkeys. Dakota Farmer. by Mail Enroll An lime, Profitable, Intmitiaf Minimum Cob; Write for Home Study Bulletin DIVISION EXTENSION id UNIVERSITY OF FT AH Salt Lake Cit. Utah Woman is prima.ily in uncoand not a conscious being, That is why her nature is so difficult to fathom, why every womb appears exceptional to Home Compannion. nscious I F.xperienced turkey breeders have found that strict sanitation, Including clean ground. Is essential as a means of controlling parasites and diseases in their flocks. ECHE University Instruction seem cooler. In hot, still, sultry weather an electric fan set four or five feet from the floor and faced to Mow across the pen or along the wall, hut not directly on the birds, gave some relief, he says. Turkey Losses Checked STORY Horn i what we make it. Let oi oib It better by slocking our pantne cellars with Intermountain Mnde Good. We are not only helping home mdartry, but are helping ourhes to the beat on the market. produr We know these iroods are best, why b satisfied with Uss? MRS. LYMAN J. SPEAKMAS, hot. d CHICKEN DINEEJ Regular dimer, all kmd. fouma.n supiilie. tob.cea. Awnings for the poultry house need not be placed In the same category as lace curtains nnd a radio for the dairy stable, since many flocks are confined to the house all summer, says Irof. F. L. Fairbanks of the New York State Windows In College of Agriculture. poultry houses are arranged to let In artificially-hatche- IriN-900- Q Ft! 30 Mi. From Salt Lake, at Bright Poultry House Windows in Summer and Winter Trials conducted at the North , Uj herself.-Wom- SUM Bermuda with its rocky southern islands is the last haven of the cahow or audubon shearwand ater, a bird like the heath-hethe cormorant, on the point of n ASK AN YOUR DRUGGIST FOB INTERMOUNT AIN PROPl'd , I- is evident that American had knowledge of surgeffi since trepanned skulls of abor.g ines are still in existence, It ndians probable that their surgeons performed amputations. aJ Clean Shell Important The clean shell of an egg indicates tluit It was produced under sanitary conditions. It costs no more to produce dean eggs after one is once prepared ami becomes accustomed to the charged proces.-e- s necessary. Many of these (ssetitials are necessary for the general health and productivity of ihe flock. They include dry housing conditions, sanitary precautions, corrected arrangements, and feeding practice. Successful Farming. .M0T0K OIL Sold with Cuarante a Money Back Are Yea to Pining Fail Tits Write to WESTMINSTER COI'HGE Sait Lake City, for catalogue and 3 2 years college and school all standard Large city campus, moj Ytnd ings, including dorY h facalffi gymnasium. Exponent environment. Christian 5 Poultry Hints Baby chicks double In size during the first two weeks of life. The period of Incuhution for duck eggs Is 2S days, except for the Muscovy, which is 33 to 35 days. year's work hiph school Crossing breeds or varieties of poultry is not recommended. The birds from the first cross may have the good qualities of both parents but further crossing will result In a degenerated mongrel flock. Fully matured pullets should have good width between the legs to allow the heart, lungs and egg organs to work satisfactorily. In fact, width of back and width between the legs are two essential points to be considered in a good layer. Heavy breeds of poultry, such as Rhode Island Reds, Ilymouth Rocks, and M yandottps, have been more prof- itable for ttie last three years than hava tin lighter breeds of chickens, according to the cost recotjs of some 2nd Ohio farmers. will $5.00 Err-s;- : Ur '"C'l'.noCu Col.""-- , I1, |