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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH "H"l BAREE, Son of Kazan (, Chapter II Continued 3 Earee was fully three quarters of a dll from the windfall when he came to a point where the creek split Itself Into two channels. He had but one choice to follow the stream that flowed a little south and east. This stream did not run swiftly. It was not filled with shimmering riffles, and cocks about which the water sang and foamed. It grew blnck, like the forest, ft was still and deep. Without know-tn- g it, Baree was burying himself deeper and deeper into Tusoos old trapping grounds. Since Tusoo had died, they had lain undisturbed except Cor the wolves, fqr Gray Wolf nnd Kazan had not hunted on this side of the waterway and the wolves themselves preferred the more open country for the chase. Suddenly Baree found himself at the edge of a deep, dark pool in which the water lay still as oil, and his heart nearly Jumped out of his body when a great, sleek, shining creature sprang nut from almost under his nbse and landed with a tremendous splash In the center of it. It was Nekik, the otter. The otter had not heard Baree, and hi another moment Napaneklk, his wife, came sailing out of a patch of gloom, and behind hel came' three ilttle otters, leaving behind them four g ihimmerlng. wakes in the Water. What happened after that made Baree forget for a few minutes that he was lost. Nekik had disappeared under the surface, and now he came up directly under his unsuspecting mate with a force that lifted her half out of the water. Instantly he was gone again, and Napaneklk took after him fiercely. To Baree it did mot look like play. Two of the baby otters had pitched on the third, which seemed to be fighting desperately. The chill and ache went out of Barees body. His blood ran excitedly; he forgot himself, and let out a bark. In a flash the otters disappeared. For several minutes the water in the pool continued to rock and heave and that was all. After a little, Earee drew ihhpself back Into the bushes and went ' on. It was about three oclock In the afternoon,, nnd the sun should still have been well up in the sky. But It was growing darker steadily, and the strangeness and fear of It all lent greater speed to Baree's legs, lie stopped every little while to listen, and at one of these intervals he heard a sound that drew from him a responsive and Joyous whine. It was a distant howl. a wolfs howl straight ahead of him. Baree was not thinking of wolves but of Kazan, and he ran through the gloom of the forest until he was winded. Then he stopped and l listened a long time. The did not come agaia Instead of it there rolled up from the west a deep and thunderous rumble. Through the treetops there flashed a vivid streak of wolf-how- moaning whisper of wind rode in advance of the storm ; the thunder seemed searching Baree out where he stood shivering under a canopy of great spruce. This was his second storm. The first had frightened him terribly, and he had crawled far back into the shelter of the windfall. The best he could find now was a hollow under a big root, and into this he slunk, crying softly. It was a babyish cry, cry for his mother, for home, for warmth, for something soft and protecting to nestle up to ; and as he cried, the storm burst over the lightning. forest. A Oliver Curwood Doubled, Page WNU Sorvio Co.) , The rain fell steadily. The hole In which he had taken shelter was soppy. He was drenched; his teeth chattered as he waited for the next thing to happen. It was a long wait. When the rain stopped, and the sky cleared, It was night. Through the tope of the trees Baree could have seen the stars If he had poked out his head and looked upward. But he clung to his hole. Hour after hour passed. Exhausted, half drowned, footsore, and hungry, he did not move. At last he fell into a troubled sleep, a sleep In which every now and then he cried softly and forlornly for his mother. When he ventured out from under the root it was morning, and the sun was shining. At first Baree could hardly stand. His legs were cramped ; every bone in his body seemed out of Joint; his ear was stilt where the blood had oozed out of It and hardened, an., when he tried to wrinkle his wounded nose, he gave a sharp yap of pain. If such a thing were possible, he looked even worse than he felt. His hair bad d dried in muddy patches; he was from end to end; nnd where yesterday he bad been plump and shiny, he was now as thin and wretched as misfortune could possibly make him. And he was hungry. He had never before known what it meant to be really hungry. When he went on, continuing in the direction he had been following yesterday, he slunk along In a disheartened sort of way. Ills head nnd ears were no longer alert, and bis curiosity was gone. He was not only stomach-hungr- y mother-hunge- r : rose above his physical yearning for something to eat. He wanted his mother as he had never wanted her before In his life. He wanted to snuggle his shivering little body close up to her and feel the warm caressing of her tongue and listen to the mothering whine of her voice. And he wanted Kazan, and the old windfall, and that big blue spot that was In the sky right over it. Wliile he followed again along the edge of the creek, he whimpered for them as a child might grieve. The forest grew more open after a time, and this cheered him up a little. Also the warmth of the sun was taking tli ache out of his body. He grew hungrier and hungrier. He had depended entirely on Kazan and Gray Wolf for food. Ills parents had, in some ways, made .a great baby of him. Gray Wolfs blindness accounted for this, for since his birth she had not taken up her hunting with Kazan, and it was quite natural that Baree should stick close to her, though more than once he had been filled with a great yearning to follow his father. Nature was hard at work trying to overcome its handicap now. It was struggling to impress on Baree that the time had now come when he must' seek his own food. The fact impinged itself upon him slowly but steadily, and he began to think of the three or four shellfish he had caught and devoured on the stony creek-Ua- r near the windfall. He also remembered the open clam shell he had found, and the luseiousness of the tender morsel inside It. A new excitement began to possess him. He became, all at once, a hunter. With the thinning out of the forest the creek grew more shallow. It ran over bars of sand and stones, and Baree began to nose along the edge of these. For a long time lie had no success. The few crayfish that he saw were exceedingly lively and elusive, were shut so and all the clam-shell- s tight that even Kazans powerful Jaws would have had difficulty in smashing them. It was almost noon when he caught his first crayfish, about as big as a mans forefinger. He devoured It ravenously. The taste of food gave ne caught two him fresh cou-ac- e. more crayfish during the afternoon. It was almost dusk when he stirred a young rabbit out from under a cover of grass. If he had been a month older, he could have caught it. He was still very hungry, for three cattered through the day had not done much to fill the emptiness that was growing steadily in him. With the approach of night Barees fears and great loneliness returned. Before the day had quite gone lie found himself a shelter under a big rock, where there was a warm, soft bed of sand. Since Ills fight with Iapayuchisew, he had traveled a long distance, and the rock under which he made his bed this night was at least eight or nine miles from the windfall. It was in th open of the creek bottom, with the dark forest of spruce and cedars close on either side; and when dirt-staine- Baree had never before heard so much noise, and he had never seen the lightning play in such sheets of fire as when this June deluge fell. It seemed at times as' though the whole world were aflame, and the earth seemed to shake and roll under the crashes of the thunder. He ceased his crying nnd made himself as small as he could under the root, which protected him partly from the terrific beat of the rain which came down through the treetops in a flood. It was now so black that except when the lighting ripped great holes in the s gloom he could not see the spruce-trunkTwice that feet away. twenty distance from Baree there was a huge dead stub that stood out like a ghost each time the fires swept the sky, as If defying the flaming hands up there to strike and strike, at last, one of them did! A bluish tongue of snapping flame ran down the old stub; and as It touched the earth, there 1 am convinced that. In their relacame a tremendous explosion above to men, women are the chivaltions shivthe treetops. The massive stub In fact, I cannot undersex. rous as If broke asunder it then and ered, cloven by a gigantic ax. It crashed stand how the reverse idea ever came down so close to Baree that earth and to he accepted. It must have been a sticks flew about him, and he let out superpowerful Crusader who first ena wild yelp of terror as he tried to forced it with his mace. How many times have 1 noticed crowd himself deeper Into the shallow how a woman, in the very cilmux of hole under the root. With the destruction of the old stub a quarrel, will not refrain from say;the thunder and lightning seemed to ing the one small, last thing of all have vented their malevolence. The that will cut nearest to the place man keeps his wince. And thunder p&ssea oa into the south and where I have heard rnen talk of ten of thousand the playing the east like rolling heavy cartjvhpels over the roofs of the rame. T!nIng the game. "Letting down forest, and the lightning went with It. i crayfish-s- WEB KILLS HERSELF TO MEET DEAD FRIEND Girl Lies on Track and Is Mangled by Train . Kansas City, Mo. Miss Norma Freeman, twenty-on- e years old, died at Olathe, Kan., with the hope she would join In death a friend whom she loved. It was with such a hope that she left her home to place herself on the Santa Fe trucks outside Olathe await death. Still conscious when taken from beneath the train, she reiterated her desire to die and Join the spirit of her music teacher. After hearing of the death of Miss Minnie Alferman of Ileasantview, Miss Freeman apparently made calm preparations to take her own life. She had taken piano lessons from Miss Alferiuun for five years. Upon heuring of Miss Alfermans death, Mr. Freeman telephoned his daughter at the Kansas City Railways company, whore she was employed. Later he telephoned to tell her of the funeral arrangements. Miss Freeman said she would buy some flowers nnd take them to the Alfer-mu- n o, home. She carried out her intentions, staying beside Miss Alfermans body about half an hour. Then she went home to Olathe. She found her parents preparing to go to the theater. Through the dinner she laughed and conversed In a normal manner. After the family had gone the girl sat at the piano and played compositions which Miss Alferman had taught her. At ten oclock she stopped and telephoned the Santa Fe railroad. What time does the night train come through? her sister heard her ask. The girl told her sister she war going out and left the house. At 30:35 the engineer of the Santa Fe stopped his train at Cemetery crossing, near Olathe, with the sensation that he had run over some one. The train crew found the girl beneath the wheels. She still was conscious. "I believed the train would kill me Instantly, she said. t. g , Bank Cashier Embezzled From Rich to Help Poor I Just couldnt reMuvane, Kan. fuse a loan, was the excuse J. L. Itosencrantz, cashier of the Farmers State bank, gave when he pleaded guilty of embezzlement of $317,091. He has begun serving a prison sentence of twelve to fifty years. The bank lias been forced to close. Rosenerantz played the part of a modern Robin Hood, admittedly stealing from the rich to help the poor. The farmers, laboring men, and foreigners, who were friends of Rosen-crant- z usually took their wives and children, many of them In rags, when they went to the bank to borrow money, according to Rosenerantz. The cashier said he saved the crops of many farmers by giving loans. He 6aid the men needed the money to buy feed for their cattle, to purchase farm implements, and to meet notes at banks. Bank and state officials admitted that Rosenerantz never benefited personally by a cent from the thousands he Is said to have stolen. According to examiners,' he loaned money from only the accounts of wealthy patrons. enslii-emust sufBut the fer, for the loans never were repaid to the bank. When Baree ventured forth from under his rock it the beginning of the next day, he was a much older puppy than when he met Papayuchisew, the young owl, In his path near the old windfall. If experience can be made to take the place of age, he lmd aged a great deal in the last forty-eigh- t hours. In fact, he had passed almost out of puppyhood. ne awoke with a new and much broader conception of the world. It was a big place. It was filled with many things, of which Kazan and Gray Wolf were not the most Important. The monsters he had seen on the moonlit plot of sand had roused In him a new kind of caution, and the one greatest Instinct of beasts the primal understanding that it is the strong that prey upon the weak was wakening swiftly in him. As yet he quite natumlly measured brute force and the menace of things by size alone. Thus the bear was more terrible than Kazan, and the moose was more terrible than the bear. soft-hearte- d Sheriff and Police Chief Are Held Up as Bandits Cedar Rapids, Iowa. police rion, Chief Wesley Benesch, Detective Krouiik and Sheriff Thomas Avery got into a car and rushed to the scene of the holdup. Suddenly from the roadside there came a roar hands The chief, the sheriff and the up. detective elevated their hands and out stepped the town marshal of Marion. Somebody also had told him a holdup there. The was being committed sheriff, police chief, and detective deny they were the bandits and the town is laughing. - Baree hat now discovered that big world with many adventures. And hes learning fast. Its a (TO BE CONTINUED.) Writers Tribute to Chivalry of Women Revolution ones side, It Isnt done." The good old code, phrased in schoolboy Jargon, that I have had to hear bo very often, too often, from the lips of a husband who Is, perhaps, nearer to the schoolboy than I always remember. G. B London. There's been a revolution. Men are leaving off their vests in hot weather. Time was when that simply vasnt done, dont you know. Perhaps British golfers, once shocked by Jess International J What Is known of the Mayas ir'jSl cates that they were the most A vanced of tne American Indlctu fuels The Mayas had a written language but as yet no key has been fount for It When here received a call that holdup men were working in the vicinity of Ma- Sweetsers shirt, short-sleev- e some day will leave off their coats. Killed by Train Okla. Davenport, Vera Mae Arterbury lost hpr life under the wheels of a passenger train after four men had vainly struggled to free her foot, caught securely in a cattle guaid on the railroad track. Seven-year-ol- d ASPIRIN PROVED SAFE eight-year-ol- n M ay as in High , Place lH I h St Louis, Mo. Although Wild liam Dodd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dodd, of Doniphan, Mo., was born without arms, he la far ahead of the other pupils in his class, and aspires to be an artist He Is learning to do everything a hoy with arms can do. At present he writes with his toes, plays marbles, throws stones, draws pictures, and does the chores around his home. the moon rose, and the stars filled the sky, Baree could look out and see the water of the stream shimmering in a glow almost as bright as day. Directly In front of him, running to the waters edge, was a broad carpet of white sand. Across this sand, half an hour later, came a huge black bear. Until Baree had seen th6 otters at play In the creek, his conceptions of the forests had not gone beyond his own kind, and such creatures as owts and rabbits and small feathered things. The otters had not frightened him, because he still measured things by size, and Nekik was not half as big as Kazan. But the bear was a monster beside which Kazan would have stood a mere pigmy. If nature was taking this way of introducing Baree to the fact that there were more Important creatures in the forests than dogs and wolves and owls and crayfish, she was driving the point home with a little more than necessary For Wakayoo, the bear, emphasis. weighed six hundred pounds If he weighed an ounce. He was fat and sleek from a month's feasting on fish. His shiny coat was like black velvet in the moonlight, and he wnlked with a curious rolling motion with his head hung low. The horror grew when he stopped broadside in the carpet of sand not more than ten feet from the rock under which Baree was shivering as If he had the ague. It was quite evident that Wakayoo had caught scent of him In the air. Baree could hear him sniff could hear his breathing caught the starlight eyes as flashing In his reddish-browthey swung suspiciously toward the If Baree could have big boulder. known then that he Ills Insignificant little self was making that monster actually nervous and uneasy, he would have given a yelp of Joy. For Waka-yoin spite of his size, was somewhat of a coward when it came to wolves. It And Baree carried the wolf-scengrew stronger In Wakayoos nose; and Just then, as If to Increase whatever nervousness was growing in him, there enme from out of the forest behind him a long walling howl. With an audible grunt, Wakayoo moved on. Wolves were pests, he argued. They wouldnt stand up and fight. Theyd snap and yap at ones heels for hours at a time, and were always out of the way quicker than a wink when one turned on them. What was the use of hanging around where there were wolves, on a beautiful night like this? He lumbered on decisively. Baree could liear him splashing heavily through the water of the creek. Not until then did the wolf-dodraw a full breath. It was almost a gasp. But the excitement was not over for the night Baree had chosen his bed at a place where the animals came down to drink, and where they crossed from one of the creek forests to the other. Not long after the bear had disappeared he heard a heavy crunching In the sand, nnd hoofs rattling against stones, and a bull moose with a huge sweep of antlers passed through the open space in the moonlight. Baree stared with popping eyes, for If Wakayoo had weighed six hundred pounds, this gigantic creature whose legs were so long that It seemed to be walking on stilts weighed at least twice ns much. A cow moose followed, and then a calf. The calf seemed all legs. It was too much for Baree, and he shoved himself farther and farther hack under the rock until he lay wedged In like a sardine In a box. And there he lay until morning. Stern, in Hearsts H- - 1H1-H-H-- H Born Without Arms , Plans to Be Artist - By James Mill 1920, Take without Fear as Told Western Newspaper Union.) make me worthy of Thy land. Which mine I call a little while; Thle meadow where the sunlight's smile Falls like a blessing from Thy hand. And where the river singing runs 'Neath wintry skies and summer suns. Richard Watson Glider. God, in Bayer Package DAINTY DISHES Sometime serve these little biscuits with a lettuce salad; they are good with any other. Cheese Biscuits. Prepare the usual hairing powder mixture, addcupful ing one-hal- f of grated cheese. Cut with a small cutter and bake in l hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes. Scrambled Eggs With Smoked Halibut. I.uy a small piece of smoked halibut in a shallow dish and cover with milk to remove any excess salt and soften the fish. Shred, und to f cupful of the fish prepare the Four beaten eggs with following: f cupful of milk, salt and pepper if needed. 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