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Show r BEAVER PRESS :"?y" jjfE i Black ii BY BEATRICE GPJMSHAW Copyright by Hughs Mas! II Co. WHU CURE FOR SHEEP IT PAYS TO FEED COWS IN SUMMER Illustrations by Irwin Myers ferrlo FALSE FOOT ROT Hoof of Animal Often Becomes Much Swollen. Overlook Big Mistake to Grain in Dairy Ration. CHAPTER XIII Continued 23 It's like them mountains that he called after you. Ever ao often, on the field, I'd used to look at ; them, at there the; was, the "1 know. sun-up- Pla Lauriers, high up and cold, with the light on them, and you'd see them for a little while, all gold, and then, when the aun was gettln' warm, and they looked sort of homelike, and not to far away, the mists would come up Ilk cloaks, nuns' white cloaks, hldln them, and they were gone." The tears were near I'la's eyes. "Why, you're a poet,' she said, lightly, to hide her emotion. "I'm not; I'm not even musical. . It's , what I said; you have so much that I haven't, and there are things he'll miss. But, Jinny, we've got to remember that we love him, and want to do the best for him, and he would Just hate It If we couldn't be friends." "You mean you'll be my friend-r- eal dlnkum no nonsense about doln' roe good and improvln' me and gettln' me Into 'a nice place where they'd be kind to meT "1 want to be your friend Just aa one girl to another. If I may." "If you may I" said Jinny, and flung her arms about the other's neck. Pla's kiss, given without reserve, was still on her lips, when Jinny, without warning, sprang awny, leaped to her feet, listened a moment, and then, In frantic hurry, began to put on her clothes. ' "What's the matter?" asked .Pla. "Matter? Hark at that I" "I hear nothing." "Nothing, h II That's rain." A sudden memory leaped Into Pla's mind "'What happens if rain comes?". "'Him say, altogether we die.'" She did not quite understand yet. But she ran out of the tent, and under the few faint drops that were beginning to fall, looked up and down the gorge. Camp had been made on a slope of barren sand and gravel at the bottom of a rock wall. There was driftwood there, and plenty of water, and, when they had halted, Just before dark. It had been Impossible to see any better place behind them or ahead, all the gorge, for miles, was steep-to- , with a bottom almost level, that made good going. In spite of boulders and moraines of loose stone. The thread of wnter that here represented the Romilly, had not seemed then of any Importance. But already that thread was making Its Import felt; already a small, growing voice was audible among the boulders; tinkle and tripping of water, that came from somewhere far away. Slmol had heard; already he was up, out of his tent, and running round among the other tent-fliewith a stick In one hand and a lantern In the other. "Get np, you 's.H they heard him shout ; he wielded his stick with a powerful aim. and many a carrier woke, shrieking, under his blows. He tumbled them out; he did not waste time on Pla aud Jinny, seeing them already up and dressed. Lanterns were hurriedly lit all over ramp. The rain was not yet heavy, but It was Increasing In the slow steady fashion that presages downpour. "Leavem altogether you load, get down along creek blanky quick," shouted the sergeant. "We go back." "What Is it?" asked Pla. as he came running up to her tent "Rain," answered the sergeant "He fullera lip this place quick time. You pet down along creek, you Sinabada, you run like hell." "Where to?" demanded Pla. coolly. "I show you. You go firs', llshtem torch." He was away again, driving the boys like cattle. Some of them wanted to collect their little belongtheir pipes, their ings, their betel-baps- , blankets. Slmol cracked them over the head, over the legs, hustled them without mercy. "You want to die here, you blanky black swine?" he houtcd. "Get on." The Tatatata boy had already vanished into the darkness behind the camp. He needed no one to tell him what was coming. Through a raffle of rocks, Pla and Jinny hurried, backward along the way by which they bad traveled earlier In the day. "He knows some place we can get up. It must be pretty near," gasped Jinny, as they pressed forward. Running was Impossible, walking not easy. One had to balance and scramble. Pia In the nodded, saving her breath. minds of both was the thought "It may not be near enouch." Slmol, according to his lights had acted wisely; he had pitched camp In the one place where there was driftwood for fires and standing ground for tents: be had left behind him a way out. In case of necessity. . . , Doubtless the proper place for ascending to the belghts above was on ahead, too far to reach In the dark. Doubtless one could have got back to the other way out, In the face of any ordinary But was this ordinary? In the minds of both women there was a fenr that It was nothing of the kind. Whore they were, the rain was now heavy, hissing on the stones, thrashing the bent shoulders of the two girls; the thread of water In the river h'd was rising so thnt they had s two-fello- .... rain-burs- t. to walk knee-dee- p In many places. But that was not all ; that was by no means all. Behind them, chasing, threatening, thundering, like some colossal "dragon of the prime." In search of prey came something Infinitely worse. They could hear it more distinctly with every minute. It was not like a dragon now; It was like a railway train running away; like three trains; ten trains, roaring through one tunnel all together. And they were like people trapped in a tunnel, who couldn't find the refuges In the walls. la truth, the walls of the Iiomllly canyon were as much a trap as any tunnel; and Jinny, at least, well knew that, between those walls, you, might be beaten and battered to fragments by the thing that was coming, Just as you might be battered under the furious wheels of a . train. The darkness and the rain were terrible. The torch was a mockery. "To be drowned In the dark 1" thought Pla. sliding over boulders, splashing In and out of pools that deepened with every minute. Then "Oh, swetheart, will you ever know?" Then, as she struggled through water nearlng her waist, staggered aalnst the clawing current, felt that the end of the fight was very near, cmiiib thoughts that she has never told to any ; broken and breathless pruyers that remain between Pla and her God. And still, in the roaring darkness, In the rising water, the tiny ray of the torch showed no sign of Sergeant , Slmol. . gust of wind came suddenly, sweeping the canyon; she did not need Jinny's clutching hand. Jinny's shout, to know that It was the outrider of the flood . . . the end. They flung themselves again the merciless rock wall. For the last time, Pia's torch swept up the dark. She saw they both saw a rope dangling down the wall. Through the shout of the coming flood pierced Sere from up above geant tilmol's A half-hear- d bull-voic- "Tafcero rope!"- - He had found some all but Impossible plaee of asi ent, torn a liana from one of the trees that clung to the slope above the rocky wall, and was flinging It down to the "two-felloSinabada." The wall sloped outwards. The rope, seen In the stream of torchlight, was very long. In a single tense Instant, both girls realised that onlv one could be saved, and each. In the same moment, determined that It should be the other. But Jinny. Jinny the gypsy, the dancer, unstuhle In all things, swift In all things, was In that last moment swift to seize and hold the glorious chance .of death. While Pla. more deliberate, cooler, was endeavoring to force the rope Into the other's hunds; while the wall of waler and tumbling rock.- before which no human thing could live, wus sweeping down upon the two. Jinny, crying, "Take hlra that!" kissed Pla, and flung herself Into the Hood. There wus but a second left. The rope swung Pla clear of the roaring Romilly, Just In tima Above Servant Slmol and the greater part of the carriers (some had been swept away, but some' had followed the Tatatata boy. and climbed safely out), pulled heartily, landing. In a few minutes, ouo white Sinabada. who, strange to say, wept and cried at being rescued. . . . - CHAPTER XIV The sun was climbing' high above the proclaimed goldfleld of Tatatata, now changed Indeed from the lonely busin that held all Its treasures untouched for so long. Light blazed from the Intolerable silver of tinned roofs clustered low down In the valley licensed magistrate's house; "hotel," store; small field hospital. Light danced on running water that was led from springs higher up, and fiumed Into the various claims, dotting the whole extent of the basin the basin that was gold bearing almost everywhere, but, nowhere, carried any. thing to touch the wealth accumulated In one prospecting claim' at the very bottom. On new clean tents, on old soiled tents, on "bush" huts made of sago and black palm, the sun struck fiercely, making every placa It touched whltehot; for It was growing now towards noon, and In the low latitude of Tatatata, midday found no coolness, almost no shadow, anywhere. Near the bottom of the pit, above the small flat that held the prospecting claim, were gathered the strangest group that perhaps had ever been seen In that country of strange happenings. Papua. It was far Inland, days and days from the sea; but here, on a big flat rock, as on the deck of a ship, stood together a number of men, watching with the utmost attention two who held chronometers and sextants, and were apparently waiting for twelve o'clock to take an observation of the sun. These were old sailors, of whom every goldfleld holds a few. They had held on to their "Instruments," as a mate or a master will, so long as he can keep himself and his goods away from the pawnbroker. The field had found them out, and urged by one Splccr and his mate Caxon, who held the ground nearest to the coveted prospecting claim at the bottom, had got them down here toward noon on the thirtieth day of Smlthson's ab sence from Tatatata. Nothing was to be done Illegally. As soon as the thirty days were up, and not one second before, the goldfleld at large would compete for the. possession oi, at the bottom; that treasure-bol- e would place Its pegs all over the coveted ground. Splcer and Caxon, It wus well known, would run the best chance. They had been careful to take up much less than their legal share, but to place their ground being almost first in the field all round the prospecting claim. On this account, they were sure to be the first who would strike In the pegs, since goidflelds custom forbids trespassing. "Give us our bite at It," Caxon had asked the others, "and we'll stand aside to let the rest of you tn right after." The miners had agreed ; there was nothing to be gained by rushing, for Caxon and Splcer, having no pro pector's claim, could take up only two full claims between them, though they might, and would, pick the best bits. Claims-wo- uld What was left twenty-ninbe well worth getting; worth fighting for, If fighting had to be done. The warden and magistrate had left his house and come down to the fiat; he wasn't very sure ubout that matter; Papuan goidflelds had always been conspicuously peaceful, but then, no field had ever shown so much gold in so small a place at Tatatata. and, on a field, the more gold, the more trouble. For the lust two hours, a party of natives had been visible, making their way down the sides of the basin. They seemed for natives to be In a tremendous hurry ; but no one troubled much about that, since nobody had come to Tatatata to study the habits of Papuans. If anyone thought about it at all, he put down the haste to the pig that the men were carrying, wrapped in leaves and slung from a pole a good pig, by its size, probably one of the tuskers that the Papuan holds "something better than his wife, a little dtfarer than his child." When there is a feast In prospect, and especially a feast with tusker pig In It, the Papuan, usuully slow, can call on .reserves of speed that astonish and exhaust the very best of active white men. Living creatures can be struck dead by sound waves too highly pitched for the human ear to hear them, writes T. C Bridges. These high frequency waves called super-sonlc- s have been tried on animals and produced Instant death. The sound appears to shatter the blood corpuscles, and death Is as cure and sudden as If the creatures had been struck by lightning. Sound can do many things which seem mysterious and almost miraculous. For Instance, fire can be extinguished by Some little time ago Mr. sound. Charles Kellogg of California gave a demonstration of the power of sound over flame, and by drawing a violin bow across a piece of aluminum extinguished a burning gas Jet at GO feet Sound vibrations can Dot only When sheep become very footsore affected with foot-rthey are not always When but one or two sheep are false severely lame, It may be that foot-ro- t foot-ro- t Is the cause; but true flock. quickly affects an entire Is the term applied to False foot-ro- t the thst diseased condition In which canal at the of the membrane lining secretes lubritop of the hoof, which between the friction cant to prevent so that pus Infected becomes toes, forms and burrows. The opening of the gland will be found In the hoof head, Just above the surrounded Juncture of the toes, and Is hairs. It someby stiff, upstanding times huppens that dirt works Into the canal and causes Irritation; then pus and the germs invade the affected part the undermine horny to pus proceeds wall and destroy the tissues. The hoof head in such cases becomes and Intensely swoolen, hot and painful foot. affected the carries the sheep When an examination Is made, one finds an abscess containing stinking pus which first fills the glandular much largpouch and then forms a ot not feed New York dairymen who do summer in cows milk grain to their overwhile they are on pasture are Increasing of method sure a looking their net Income, says F. B. Morrison, head of the animal husbandry department at Cornell university. It Is surhe says, that many men who prising, take much trouble In providing their cows with excellent rations during the debarn feeding period of the year, !n sumNature Dame on pend blindly - mer. Pasture alone was satisfactory for cows In early days, when even the best of them yielded an amount of milk we would now consider too low i'or profit. By skillful selection and hreedine. the modern dairy cow has been developed, with a capacity for producing milk so great that anv ordinary pasture will not fur nish her enough feed both for milk production and for body maintenance. The nroner feeding of milk cows on pasture is much simpler than during the winter, and. says Professor Morrison, doubtless this Is the reason why so many farmers, busy with their crops, fall to give their herd the necessary attention In summer. Often the cows are merely turned to par.ture after milking at night and morning, with no further thought as to the supply of feed actually available for them. It Is no wonder that when pasturage becomes scanty In midsummer, the cows run down In flesh- - and fall off decidedly in milk yield. Even If starts fed liberally when In the fall, quite commonly they cannot then be brought back to normal and usual production. It Is especially Important to feed grain liberally when pastures become short and parched. This is Important any year, and of particular Importance this summer, when every dairyman desires to do his share In providing sufficient milk In the New York milk shed during the shortage period next November. Under typical pasture conditions In the stale, he says, experience shows that it Is best to feed a grain mixture containing about IS per cent protein, at the rate of one pound of grain to three pounds of Jersey and Guernsey milk, and one pound of grain to four pounds of Holstein, Ayrshire, or Shorthorn milk. g er sac. If taken In' time, cleansing of the liberapart, free opening of the sac, 2 per a with and swabbing of tion pus cent solution of mercurochrome may soon be followed by healing and reunder-ru- n covery. All loose, rotten or horn must also be cut away. In severe cases amputation of a toe may be necessary. In ordinary cases, after treatment consists in keeping the wound well covered with a mixture of equal parts of powdered boric acid, oxid of zinc and subnltrate of bismuth, on sterilized cotton bound on the part with a clean, narrow bandage, and to lie renewed daily. Give a sheep Immediate treatment when lameness is noticed. barn-feedin- .; Buh-coc- condition which could be in flv. orten mtautes tire antl-acl- d like Phlllipsl! Magnesia soon restorea diXtw to normal,' Phillips does away with sourness and gas right after B2 It prevents the distress go occur two hours after eating Wh a pleasant preparation to taken! tj J? S how good it Is for the system like a burning dose of soda-- wto Is but temporary relief at Phillips Milk of Magnesia nfi: Izes many times Its volume Next time a hearty meal, or t hS least discomfort, try Phillips Milk of Magnesia Fortune TelUnK Chart your ui h.nd i, pio, cuinuioio. opvc.uiir vo.,jtfox postage paid. Yitti ua.sait Lakt Cltr.Ui i U.I RmuLhT.iI am! b&Qtif ul. alio com temiL Prtoell m FrftckleOlntmant removes freckiaa XM orer fort? youi. 11.26 tnd 0. Bw,. bo4UMrat(m.AjkroiircWrgiirii Tls better far to love and be poo; than to be rich with an empty beard Morris. frudan grass makes a very good emergency pasture for pigs provided one makes successive seedlngs of It about six weeks apart so that It may be grazed In prime condition. The cost of seeding sudan grass Is less than for some other crops. The chief objection to peruvinn alfalfa Is that It does not go through the winter satisfactorily when the temperature falls below 10 degrees below ero. It has some promise as an annual forage crop because of Its rapid growth. Sweet clover proved to be the poorest forage compared. The rate of gain was slower, and feed required for 100 pounds gain greater thnn for other forages except sudun grass. cow-testin- Save Young Pigs foed-mlll- Kill J Many young pigs would be saved each year if the mothers were given good care before farrowing, according to Dr. It. A. Tnilg, Purdue university. Open yards, colony houses and plenty of exercise with a good balanced ration will enable the sows to farrow good, Ktrong pigs thnt will live. It Is often noted that sows fol. lowing cnttle do not farrow strong pigs. Farmers should bear In mlml that much depends on the rare the "ow gets as to the kind of pigs she furrows. Ask Blood Test cathedral. states require the blood test breeding cattle entering them about fifteen In all. was the first. Now we ,, n flml , Georgia. Alabama. Arkansas. Missis-sipp- l. Oklahoma. Indiana. Iowa. Ohio Texas and West Virginia. Ohio , practically surrounded by states blood test on shipments of breeding animals. Minnesota. New Jersey. lVnns.vlv.mla. K,i;h Dakota and orrgon prohibit entrance of positive to the biood test on Nr, (,,; sal-ma- ls Feea-a-mi- is nt action the answer. Cleansing o! smaller doses effective because he you chew it. At your druggists-tsafe and scientific laxative. FOR CONSTIPATION DLY COULD I! DO HE Strengthened I1 by Lydia I Vegetable Co- Pinkham's mpound r:?,. H "T have used TV, deal of your medicine and , it gives wood'" : . help. i'"8 ' 1 ableth&tlbsdto lie down vertf; ten ar,d I trd,ykl ' in the " psp bin. Compound" women who -- in tho same concution bo it for myself. I am veryw now and I recomn:cr.u and will answer letters from inffaDOUt.ll. iuo. 1015 Miller Avenue, mus. u : wtcr - w- TVnl , "PARKER., a a CAM FLORESTON SHAMPOO eonn.ct.of with h.ir ft and fiuffr. gilta. Hicoi Cbtanic! WjtiJ.1 - Pigs Paralyzed Many i P me? Sudan Grass Useful as Emergency Pig Pasture ... Summing' It Jp There Is only one time that I Im portnnt Now. It Is the nioi important time because It Is the out time wheo w have any power thw i,. Wi Field Peai Found Quite Profitable In a series of feeding trials with field pens, experiment station workers of the North Dakota agricultural college have found that the peas make an excellent pasture for hogs and offer considerable opportunity for lowering the costs of producing pork. August 15. eight pigs weighing 113 three-acr- e pounds each were turned onto a field of Chang field peas sown In rows six Indies apart Bt a rate of two bushels per acre. In nddition to the peas each pig received a ration made up of one gallon of skim milk, one pound of ground barley and oats In equal parts, and free access to a green pasture of mixed tqme grasses. November 3, after the pigs had been on test three months, It was found that they had nmde a total gain of 1,085 pounds. This is an average gain of 1.5 pounds per pig per day. In the test 302 pounds of pork were produced from oae acre of pens, 240 pounds of ground feed, 210 gallons of skim milk and the grass pasture. After deducting the cost of the other feeds from the value of the pork, It was found that a return of $22.5)4 per acre had been made from the peas. ... News-Herald- Sours Lots of folks who think "Indleestion" h... Hogging-Of- f Increase Profitable Butterfat Production The following are essentials In profitable butterfat production, according to H. H. Klldee, formerly of the dairy husbandry division of the University of Minnesota, Unlversitv farm St. Paul. ' Proper shelter In a 'warm, light, well ventilated barn. The leeward side of a barbed wire fence Is an expensive . shelter for milk cows. A knowledge of the herd through the use of milk scales and the k test. Corn silage and clover or alfalfa hny as patriotic, profltoble. palatable feeds. A grain ration In proportion to milk and butterfat produced. Fall calving ns a means of Increasing production as well ns price at a time when more labor Is available. A bushel of grain fed before calving rather than two fed afterward. Prepare the cows for the milking period. "What's the time?" somewhut ImpaWater of moderate temperature. Ice tiently asked Caxon of the nearest water Is not conducive to greatest old salt. milk production. A milking machine In case Looking at a huge sllvei watch, the of labor sailor replied "Ten past eleven." shortage. "Aren't you slow?" with the neighbors tn "Me slow? My watch slow? That organizing asoclaiions watch hasn't lost, not two seconds. In and purchasing feeds In carload lots. ten years." "Then why can't we use It. ' and Grinding Roughage for hang this sextant business?" "Because," said a tall, fair man Cows Saves All Waste with a prettylsh face Splcer r"w. Three members of the Bedford want to be absolutely legal, and if herd Improvement (Pa.) dairy assotwo master mariners make It twelve ciation are grinding rouhiigo. Tester o'clock, on the day that's the thirtieth after Smithson went away at twelve Willianl Straw reports. "Tills practice o'clock nobody can say a word about does away with practically nil waste," xnjs he. Soy bean hay run through a any of our claims afterward." , plus a commercial dairy "It's a blanky long time to wait feed used In connection with silage "There's Bob Whitson ; he ll shorten ' and home-growI It for you If yon lend him a boy." grain, enabled "nri Armstrong's herd (Kendall county (TO Bl CONTINUED) Illinois) to place second In the testing association, with an average of 747 pounds of mirk In a month. George Smith (also of Kendall Can county), the following month, secured an 700 pounds by feeding a break a wine blass but can damage a 84 average of cent commercial per h,ry r,,,.,. building. It Is suspected that the along with ground ,Q and "ground deep, vibrating notes of organs can barley, clover hay nd silage. cause vibrations which may actually weaken the structure of a church or Long, Long Chance Our Idea of a smart muo Is one. If any, who has a wife who has a higher opinion of him after they are married than she had before. Hlilsboru . Til ?Jnan 'oorJ fur-sight- e Abundant Proofs That Sound Waves rTi! 5T0CK I Paralysis of hogs Is often caused y constipation, also from not receiving the right kind of food When corn ts fed alone. It Is advisable to give 10 tmnnrt nh t tankage, ground alfalfa, and oil meal wun Mcli 100 pounds of the corn. Also let them have access to charcoal, wood ashes, or slack coal. Give one tablespoon ful epsom salts dally ttitil (heir bowels are In a laxative condition, then often enough to keep them so. 1 1n yoor pel.. 9 It 1 r ui.i.i. 'k ST trans'""" . K24w..f-.b-- .f, W. N. U, Salt LkC: ... 1 |