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Show THE TIMES-NEWS- NEPHT. UTAH. . Whit Do Yon Know About CATTLE? NORTH (Copyright: Little, Brown CHAPTER XVIII & Continued. "I uin pleased to welcome you back to Cott's country, Mrs. Vugstuft," he Bald. "Und let we carry dot suld case alretty." They walked two blocks to the King's hotel, where Lauur's family was housed. lie was In for supplies, he told her, and, of course, his wife and children accompanied him. "Not dut G red (In ins afruld. She lss so goot a uuin as I on der ranch ven 1 am gone," he explained. "But for dein It lss a chance. Und I bring by der town a vulgonloat off bolmdoes. By cohIi, dem bobodoes lss sell high." It flushed luto Hazel's mind that here was a heaven-sen- t opportunity to reach the cabin without facing that hundred miles In the company of But she did . chance-hirestrangers. not broach the subject at once. she asked eagerly of Bill. told her that Bill had tarried a few duy nt the cabin, and then struck out alone for the mines. And he hud not said when be would be buck. MrR. I.uuer, unchanged from n year enrller, welcomed her with pleased friendliness. And Jake left the two of them and the chubby kiddles In the King's ofliee while he betook himself about his business. Hazel haled his wife nnd the children to her room as soon ns one was assigned to her. Ami there, almost before she knew It, she was murmuring brokenly her story Into on ear that listened with sympathy and understanding. Only a woman can grusp some of a woman's needs. Jrettn Lauer patted Hazel's shoulder with a motherly hand, and bado her cheer up. "Home's the place for you, dear," she said, smilingly. "You Junt come right along with lis. Your man will come quick enough when he gets word. And we'll toke good core of you In the meantime. La. I'm all excited over It. It's the finest thing could hap-l'- n for you both. Take It from me. dearie. I know. We've had our troubles, Jake and L And. seeing I'm only lx months short of being a graduate nurse, you needn't fear. Well, well !" "I'll need to have food hauled In," Hazel reflected. "And some things I brought with me. I wish BUI were here. I'm afraid I'll be a lot of bother. Won't you be heavily loaded, as It d lsrShe recalled swiftly the odd, makeon shift team that Lauer and solemn, "und the mule, dcjH-nde- d lop-eare- d lirctchen, dT cow." She had cash und drafts for over three thousand dollars on her person. She wondered If It would offend the sturdy Independence of these simple, kindly neighbors. If she offered to supply a team and wagon for their mutual use? But she hud leen forestalled there, she learned In the next breath. "Oh, bother nothing." Mrs. Laner "Why, we'd be ashamed If we couldn't help a little. And fnr's the load goes, you ought to see the four beautiful horses your husband let Jake have. You don't know how much Jake appreciates It, nor what a fine man he thinks your husband Is. We needed horse so bad. and didn't have the money to buy. So Mr. Wogslaft liiln't say a thing but got the team us, and Jake's paying for them In clearing nnd plowing and making improvements cm your land. Honest, they could pull twice the load we'll have. There's a good wagon rond most of the way now. Quite a lot of ft tiers, too. as much as fifty or slxfy miles out. And we've got the Cue"! garden you ever snw. Vegetable enough to fee-- four families all winter, dh, your old titles! 1 never wont to live in one agHln. Never a day have Hie kid lii'S been silk. Suppose it l a it cut f the world? You're all the more plcnscd wl.-somebody ebw bar In iil'ing. folks Is so different In a new country like tin. Th'-re'plenty fur everybody nnd eve Jlwwly helps, like f!'i!ilr ought to." I.nii'-- r rnme up after a time, nr.d Il.izcl found herself unequivocally In their hand. Wi'h the twitter f trims-I'ortinl!TTf and sopplirs thus ..lvn!. slip n t out to find r'elix Cotir-Vi"ur bo wouU Inow how to get voril (o I:;::. lie tni.!it come hirk to t'iM raliin in n month or so; b" tnlcM not come bn'k st alt unless hp beard from brr. She was smitten with a rresit fnr ti.rt be n.Ulit g'e her t;t I n s r Into Mm, arid plunge ! the i!il'-rr'In smne mood of rcet;-3Ar.d she wt,(.-- l b!m. loncd for biin. if or,) si that she cu,l I wake four-hors- (r s c i' !( hhf sure Yew. s c;iy found Cotirvolietir, a fsill fn i.' lmifin, pa1 hr could a e liter ;!'; see. mefis:e to I'.ill t. Wegsfaff; tbnt Is, be totiM send a man. Biil WsgstatT was In the Klap-psrange. "But if he should hnv Irft tlxreT Hazel suggested uneasily. " "K wecl leave eeth W'ite-- I res d word of w'ere 'e go." Courvo) ur her. "An' tny mnn, w'lih my hruwr law. with I rsn rocs' fully weel follow 'em. 8o IWI tms ; arrange. 'E " say w (srlep. rUlar 'f madarae e s reirrm or Weesh hef in to ffje for inessftge, e-ineeefc, t'jl. Long tsm Iv-eknow me. I sm for dj.'nd tiwttyn." r' stock tf kef)t a 1 ir n ress-smre- frrT w'f gt l s Co.) In a weather-beateold log house which sprawled a hundred feet buck from the street. Thirty years, he told her, he had kept that etore In Fort George- - She guessed that BUI hud selected him because he was a fixture. She sat down at his counter and wrote her message. Just a few terse lines. And when she had delivered It to Courvolseur she went buck to the hotel. There was nothing now to do but wait. And with the message under way sne found herself Impatient to reach the cabin, to spend the waiting days where she had first found happiness. She could set her house In order against her man's coming. And if the days dragged, and the great, lone lund seemed to close lu and press Inexorably upon her, she would have to be putlent. very patient. Jake was held up, waiting for Fort George suffered a sugar famine. Two days luter the belated freight arrived. He loaded bis wagon, a ton of goods for himself, a like weight of Hazel's supplies and belongings. A goodly load, but he drove out of Fort Georgo with four strapping buys arching their powerful necks, nnd champing on the bit. "Four days ve vlll make It by der ranch." Juke chuckled. "Mlt der mule und Gretchen, der cow, von veek It take me, nilt half der !out." Four altogether pleasant and satisfying days they were to Hazel. The worst of the tly pests were vanished for the wiison. A crisp touch of frost sharpened the night winds.- Indian summer hung Its mellow haze over the land. The c lean, pungent nlr that sifted through the forests seemed doubly sweet after the vitiated atmosphere of town. Fresh from a gridiron of !usty streets nnd stone pavements, and but stepped, ns one mllit Fay, from days of Imprisonment n the narrow confines of a railway conch, she drunk the wlney air In hungry gulps, and Joyed In the soft yielding of the turf beneath her feet, the fern and peuvlne carpet of the forest floor. It was her pleasure at night to sleep as she and Bill had slept, with her face bored to the stars. She would draw her bed a little oslde from the camp-fir- e and from the low seclusion of a thicket lie watrhlng the nimble flames at their merry dance, smiling lazily at the grotesque rhadowa cast by Jake and his frau as they moved about the blaze. And she would wake In the , alert, grateful morning for the I'leosont woodland smells arising wholesomely from the fecund bosom of the earth. Ijiuer pullecl up before his own cab-I- n at mid afternoon of the fourth dny, unloaded his own stuff, and drove to bis neigblKr's with the rest. "I'll walk bnck after a little," Haz-- I told him, when he hnd piled her goods In one corner of the kitchen. The rottle of the wagon died away. She waa alone at home. Her eyes filled aa she roved restlessly from kitchen to living room and on Info the bedroom at the end. Bill hnd un packed. The rues wpre down, the books stowed In familiar disarray up on their shelves. tb spread In vh"re bp hnd last slept and gone away without troutiiing to smooth It out In housewifely fashion. She came back to the llvlng-rooand seated herself In the big chair. She hod exjKTted to be lonely, very bmely. But she was not. Perhaps that would come Inter. For the present It seemed as If sficp hnd reached the end of something, as If she were very tired, and had gratefully come to n to carry hor through whutever black tin vi might come to her there alone. She would t'udly huve cooked her supper In the kitchen fireplace, and laid down to sleep under her own roof. It seemed the natural thing to do. But she had not expected to find the cabin livably arranged, and she hud prom ised the Louers to spend the night with them. So presently she closed the door and walked away through the woods. September and October trooped past, and as they mtirched the willow thickets and poplur groves grew yel low und brown, und carpeted the floor of the woods with fallen leuves. Shrub and tree bured gaunt limbs to every autumn wind. Only the spruce and pine stood forth In their year-roun-d habiliments of green. The days shortened steudlly. The nights grew long, nnd bitter with frost. Snow fell, blanket I nu softly the dead leaves. Old Winter cracked bis whip masterfully over all the North. Hay by day, between tusks, and often while she worked. Hazel's eyes would linger on the edges of the clearing. Often ut nlyht she would lift herself on elbow ut some unexpected sound, her heart leaping wild with ex pectation. And ahvajs she would lie down a gal ii, and sometimes press her clenched hand to her lips to keep buck tho despairing cry. Always she adjured herself to be patient, to wait doggedly ns Bill would have wulted, to make duo nllowiir.oe for Immensity of distance, for the manifold delays which might overtake a messenger furlug across those silent miles or a man hurrying to bis home. Many things might hold bliu hack. But he would come. It was Inconceivable that he might not come. Meantime, with only a dim consciousness of the fact, she underwent a marvelous schooling In adaptation, self restraint. She had work of a aort, tusks such us every housewife finds In her own home. She was seldom lonely. She marveled at that. It was unique In her experience. All her old dread of the profound silence, the pathless forests w hich Infolded like a prison wall, distances which seemed Impossible of sp:in, had vanished. In Its place had fallen over her an abiding sense of peace, of security. The lusty storm winds whistling about the cubln sang a retful lullaby. When the wolves lifted their weird, melancholy plaint to the Cold, skies, she listened without the old shudder. These things, which were wont to oppress her, to send her Imagination reeling along morbid ways, seemed but a natural aspect of life, of which she herself was a part. Often, sitting before her glowing fireplace, watching a flame kindled with her own hands with wood she herself carried from the pile outside, he pondered this. It defied her pow- rs of She could only hen pt It as a fact, and be ghuL Granville and all that Granville Mood for had withdrawn to a more or lesa reShe could look over mote backgroundforest and feel the tbnt she lacked nothing nothing save her mate. There was no Impression of transient abiding; no chafing to he clew here, to do otherwise. It was home, she reflected; perhaps that was why. A simple routine srved to 'fill her She kept her bouse shining, she dn;. cooked her food, carried In her fuel. F'-cp- t on dny if forthright storm !be put on her mownhoes, and with a little rifle in the crook cf her arm y r iT pro'- led at randi in through the woods it gave her pleasure to rr.nge Mtjritily afild. partly for the l,r.i p of evrtlon In the rrij nr. (:terf 's s'ie curled mrnfor'ribly before the firep'tirp and netved. or reiid potnething out of B'.ll'i catholic aa- sorti,ent of books. It wn given bef, also, to e?irn the true meaning of tietpbbnrllhe. that fctn!I!ne t e,f which Is sHflcd by . f i i ' i IS sfrees In the crowded places, nrrl ty lite stress ntu'd suirund-Inj- s ? s where life Is direct ) where and effect trend en eneh u i ,l U - , t o'iier's heels, fvery ?iy. If she failed fo Vop into lb. ir "i in. enme one of if all were well neighbors ff ft with br. Quite a a mat jer t course Jnke fot ber a kept steadily repleni-begret pile of firewood. Or thej would Cf.ioe. bj,i.!.,s nnd all. In furs of trapping. J'oi'irj up of n ( And ? behind the fri'yb buys,. 111 B'tlir-InWhile !h bars nninrhed would I;i;i ttagsi.fr stable, Wj'.ked Away Through tha Wood. cluster alwiiit Hie opn hearth r.pping a welcome resting place. She turned corn for the children, talking always her fPit" out the open door here h Hh cheerful nptlmlm. foreff fell away In vst nliilHn I vbl nd fjiuer's niild blue eys furk-e- d mountains to a rnnte of mind that burrowed verse to the t""t of things. H had lived purple In the autumn bszo. and a B:il had once quoted came hack and worked and fesd. and. tht pondering to her: It all. he had summed up a few of the verities. Ob. to the Wtn4 trnw h must tha tfsll I a s cViwa. "Life, It lss gifTea us, und I etrjid t Krn off It tnk der best ve can." he said wsjr town. An4 wisdom est t once to Hazel, fondling a few books fhe Minkecl. The town It scorned he had borrowed to read at home. fo heve grown remote, Ns g.t, yust det liffng of life. If fsntssy la whi'h he hnd plsyed a I'lpT-e- t f art on! g r"t astray af'W der vool-N- h But fhe wks boie isln. If only the ding und If der self 1. reservation Ki .f it ridured strong ettotih veari ut not out so dot ve sup-pile- s. - clenr-hcaded- star-Jewele- d semi-disord- n phicl v m yj'i stim-n'nti- d ... It s g tly snow-csppe- d tno-anf- ly fl ivr Uf ,:,.! HREE OF FIFTY--T IbuU got tb New Bo4ik, "CATTLE. BREEDS AND ORlOPf about U briMHU of eallis oq. earth II. DAVIS stnj! guunot enjoy being allfe. So many iss struggle und slave under terrible conditions. Und it lan largely because off ignorance. Ve know not vot ve can do und ve shrink vroui der unknowu. Here 18 acres by der dousaud vree to der man vot can off It uiuke use und dousunda vot Uffs und dies und neffer hnsa a home. Here Iss goot, glean air und In der shmoke und shmella und dirty streets lss a ravage of tuberculosis. Der balance lss not truo. Und In der own vay der rich Iss full off drouble drunk mlt eggclte-men- t, veury mlt blensures. Ach, der voods und mountains und streams, blenty off food, und a kindly neighbor lss not dot euougu? Only dor abnormal vants more as dot. Und I dink der drouble lss largely dot der modern, clflllzatlon makes for der abnormal, vedder a man lss a millionaire or vorks In der brewery, contentment lsa a stat'i oft der mind und If der mind vorks suit logic it vlll content find In der simple dings." It sounded like a pronouncement of Bill's. But Lauer did not often grow serious. Mostly he was Jovially cheerful, and hla wife likewise. The North hud emancipated them, and they were loyal to tne source of their deliverance. And Huzel understood, because she herself had found the wllfl land a benefactor, kindly In Its silence, restful In Ita forested pence, a cure for sickness of soul. Twice now It had rescued her from herself. November aud December went their appointed way and still no word of Bill. If now and then her pillow was wet she struggled mightily against depression. She was not lonely In the dire significance of the word but she And longed pusslonutely for him. she held fast to her fulth that he would come. The lust of the old year she went little abroad, ventured seldom beyond the clearing. And on New Year's eve Jake Lauer's wife came to the cubln to stay. hlgh-bressu- Hazel eat up, wide awake, on the stant. There was not the slightest sound. She bad been deep In sleep. Neverthelesa she felt, rather than knew, that some one was In the llvlng-rooPerhaps the sound of the door opening bad filtered through her slumber. She hesitated an instant, not through fear, because In the months of living alone fear had utterly forsaken her; but hope had leaped so often, only to fall slckeningly, that she was dream. half persuaded It must be Still the Impression strengthened. She slipped out of bed. The door of the bedroom stood slightly ajar. Bill stood before the fireplace, his shaggy fur cap pushed far back on his head, his gauntlets swinging from the cord about hla neck. She had left a great bed of conls on the hearth, and d the glow shone redly on his face. But the marks of bitter trail bucking, the murks of frostbite, the stubby beard, the tiny icicles that still clustered on his eyebrows; whlie these traces of hardship tugged at her heart they were forgotten when she saw the expression that overshadowed his face. Wonder and unbelief snd longing were nil mirrored there. She took a shy step forward to see what riveted his gaze. And despite the choking sensation In her thront tdi smiled for she had taken off her little, beaded moccasin and left thein lying on the ItearAIn before the fire, and he was staring dow n at them like a man from a dream, unbelieving and bewildered. With that she opened the door and ran to him. He started, as If she hud been a ghost. Then he ojh tied his arms and drew her close to biro. "Bill, Bill, what made you so long?" ho whis)K-red- . "I guess It served me riht. but It seemed a never-endinlime." "What made me so long?" he rehocd, bending bis rough check down against the warm smoothness of hers, "lyord. t didn't know you wanted me. I ain't no telepntbist, lion. You never peeM'd one little word since I left. How long you been here?"' "Since last Septem!-r.- " She smiled tip at him. "IMdn't t'ourvoisetir'a man deliver a message from me to the mine? IHdn't you come in answer to my note?" "Grist Caesar's ghost yince Sep tember alone! You little girl!" hp rnurniured. "No, if you sent word to inn ihro'lgh f'ourvotseur I never got It. Maybe aotnelhlng happened f,, ,; man. I b rt the Kioi f:. n with the first Went wking aimlessly over ?now. around the Finhty river with a couple of trappers. Couldn't settle down. Never beard a word from you. I'd given you up. I Just blew In this way by rbeer accident. Girl, girl, you don't know how good It Is to see- you again, to have this warm body of yours cud- dle up to me again. And you came rlcbt here and planted yourself to wait till t turneej up?" "Sure She laughed harMlr. "But I sent you word, evpn If you never got It. Oh. well. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters now. You're here, and I'm her, and Ob, Billy boy, I was an awful pig headed Idiot. Do you think you can fake another chance wl'b me?" "Say"" he held her off at arm's length admiringly 'do you sunt to know how strong I am for taking a chance with you? Well. I was on my way out to flag the next train Eust. Just to see Just to see If you still cared two pins; to see If you still thought your game was better than mine." "Well, you don't have to tuke any eastbouud train to find that out," she cried gaily. "I'm here to tell you I care a lot more thun any number of pins. Oh, I've learned a lot In the last six months, Bill. I had to hurt myself, and you, too, I bad to get a Jolt little to Jar me out of my orbit. I got It, and It did me good. And It's funny. I came bnck here because I thought I ought to, because It was our home, but ruther dreading It. And I've been quite contented and happy only hungry, oh, so dreadfully hungry, for you." Bill kissed her. "I didn't make any mistake In you, after nil," he said. "You're a real pnrtner. You're the right stuff. I love you more than ever. If you made a mistake you paid for It, like a dead-gam- e sport. Whut's a few mouths? We've all our life 'before us, and It's plain sailing now we've got our bearings ngnln." "Amen!" she whispered. "I but, say, man of mine, you've been on Hie trull, and I know what the trail Is. You must be hungry. I've got all kinds of goodies cooked In the kitchen. Tuke off your clothes, aud I'll get you something to eut." "I'll go you," he said. "I am hungry. Mado a long mush to get here for the night. I got six huskies running loose outside, so if you hear 'em scuffling frost-scabbe- fresh-wakene- d g - HEURIMRr ve CO. , s. 100. fAlHESHt, fli a N mm d Probably Keenly Sharpened, In olden times It was customary for an ofllcer to go around the towns and villages to see that the Inhabitants hail no weapons of war. On one of these tours an ofllcer called ut the house of a worlhy Scotch couple aud put the question to the old man : "Any weapons of war In this house?" After scratching his head Handy looked at his better half und snld: "'Deed, aye; pit oot your tongue, guldwtfe 1" to Motrters Important Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOUIA, thut famous old remedy for Infants aud children, and see thut It Bears the Signature In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castori KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING Boy Had Reasoned Shrewdly Before He Bought Those Particular Two Bara of Candy. In- r aOBERTS' ssy By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR goods- 16 Do Yoa Waat ta Know the CATTLE BUSINESS? us ft pent ralil ttidr an PropITUUB fNKOUMATIUM Ha Held Her Off at Arm's Length, Admiringly. around you'll know It's not the wolves. Suy, it was some welcome surprise to find a fire when I came In. Thought first aomebody traveling through hud put up. Then I saw those slippers lying there. That waa sure making me take notice when you stepped out." He chuckled at the recollection. Huzel lit the lump, and stirred up the fire, plying It with wood. Then she slipped a heavy bathrobe over her nightgown and went into the chilly kitchen, emerging therefrom presently w 1th a tray of food and a kettle of water to make coffee. This she set on the fire. Wherever she moved Bill's eyes followed her with a gleam of Joy, tinctured with smiling Incredulousness, When Ihe kettle waa safely bestowed on the coals, he drew her on his knee. There for a minute she perched In rich, content. Then she rose. "Come re ry quietly wl.li me, Bill," she whlsiiered, with a fine air of mystery. "I want to show you something." "Sure! What Is It?" he anked. "Come and see," she smiled, and took up the lamp. Bill followed obediently. Close up beside her bed stood a small, sqnnre crib. Huzel set the lamp on a table and, turning to the bundle of blankets which filled this new piece of furniture, drew back one corner, revealing a round, puckered up infant face. "For the love of Mike!" Bill mut tered. "Is It Is "It's our son," she whispered proud"Born Ihe tenth of January-thr- ee? ly. weeks ago today. Ikm't, don't you great bear you'll wake him." For Bill was bending clown to peer at the tiny morsel of humanity, with a t range, abashed smile on his face., hN big, clumsy fingprs touching th soft, pink cheeks. And when be stood up be drew a long breath, and luid one nrm cros her shoulder. "t's two and the kid." he snld whim-ideall"It should be the hardest combination In Ihe world to bust. Are you happy, little person?" She ixKhled, dinging to him, word lessly happy. And presently she cov- rel the baby a face, and they went bnck to sit before the great fireplace", where the kettle bubbled cheerfully Dnd the crackling blaze sent forth Its challenge to the bevy of frost sprites that held high revel outside. Anel, after a time, the blaze died ti a henp of glowing embers, and the forerunning wind of a northeast storm soughed end whlstld almut a bouse deep wrapped In contented slumber, s. house no longer divided against lUelf, (THE LNI1.) . And then there's the ofllce boy I heard about the other day. One of the employees bad to work after hours, and he got mighty hungry "Jimmy " he snld, calling the oince boy to his aid, "here are twelve cents. You go down to the lunchroom and buy me two of those nut chocolate bars that cost six cents aplec." , Jlinmle went on his way. Soon he returnee!. "Here you are I" said the employee, his mouth watering for chocolate bars as he reached for the candy. Instead of chocolate bars, the office boy placed two sugar-coate- d peanut bars In his hands. "I thought I told you chocolate bars." suld the employee, slightly peeved. "Tou did," returned the office boy. "But they didn't have any six-cebar." bars; they only had twelve-cen- t The ohler looked with pity at the hoy, who snld : "Don't you know tbnt one twelve-cebar would do Just aa well as two m nt six-ce- bars?" "I know," replied the boy, with a grin, "but I theiught you'd give me one." Oisrlcs 11 Tracewell, In Washington Star. Delight in Their Crouch. There are fieople from whom we never receive a word unless they have something to complain about. J 1 It" y. Daily Thought. Conversation Is tho vent of rbsrsc ss well aa of t bought. fctaeraoti. WarDemands Saving of Sugar, Saving of Fuel, Use of other Grains wHhYheat -- No Waste. GrapeSots onswers every demand. Its an ecoiTOTTucal.noxjT dell-tio- uj ishinjJ and build-proa food, mairrfQinrr of Vigor and Health. Try it. 'There's a Reason nd |
