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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Heart of the North by William Byron Mowery teeth flashing, bia dress gaudy and picturesque. There was "Lunnon Dick," a wiry stunted limey, with Battersea accent and quick Jerky ways. ' There was "Chink" Woolley, a inese, an olive-facesilent nondescript, with his right arm In sling from Bill Hardsock's bullet The fifth was a Dogrib nietl named man of Andre, a thin small weasel-lik- e fifty. He had just returned from a scouting trip down the Big Alooska. The six of them were talking, or listening rather to Jensen talk, of final plans to escape. Echoing the Identical line of reasoning which Alan Baker bad sketch In Haskell's cabin, Jensen went on: "Some of you wanta go back to the River and git outside II Ts fire you'd mebbe thataway. git ten miles afore the Yeller-stripe- s 'ud grab you off. Some of you wanta go north to the Arctic coast Whaffor? No ships to git away on, and the got patrols there to boot. You say, 'Head south.' Yeah and run into the nest of p'llce posts down there around Athabascy. We can't go south ner west ner north, but we kin go east " Lunnon Dick spoke up: "Clear hover t' 'Udson bay er Manitoba? Two thousand miles haway? That's a bloody long 'ard trot (WND Berries ) CopyrtcM by William Byroa Mowery. THE STORY quarter-Ch- Six bandits hold up the steamer. Midnight Sun, on the Mackenzie, kilt Jimmy Montgomery, and escape with (told dust and furs. At the Mounted Police post at Fort Kndurance, Sergt. Alan linker disputes with his Incompetent superior. Inspector Haskell, regarding plans (or the capture of the bandits. Baker starts out in the police launch with Ave men. At the MarMillan trading post, Joyce MacMillan is thrilled at the arrival of the police launch. She had expected to marry Baker, and had been stunned at the news that he was to marry Elizabeth Spaulding. Stolen furs are found on the MacMillan place and evidence points to Joyce's father. Alan leads his expedition up the big Alooska. Compelled by Haskell's foolish orders to divide the party, Alan fails to capture the bandits, and returns to Fort Endurance. Haskell blames him for the failure and Alan Is allowed to buy out of the Mounted on condition that he absolve Haskell from blame. Alan starts out of the country In a motor canoe. He meets "Bus-xarFeatherof. famous aviator,' and enlists him In the enterprise. Yeller-strlpes'- Slob-nice- CHAPTER VII Continued 16 Buzzard had put in some busy hours too. He had filled up on gas and oil; had attended to several repairs and replacements; had acquired a pack-chutnew propeller and half a dozen costly flying instruments. With a couple of mechanics whom he had awakened at an garage, he was busy putting on the new prop. Vaguely suspicious, Alan took him aside and asked quietly: "Say. Buzzard, how did you get all this equipment? You've got more than a thousand dollars' worth here, and you only had two hundred " "I borrowed that stuff temporarily. There's several government planes here, and they had extra equipment." "Borrowed it? Temporarily ?" "Well, stole It." "Stole It? Government property? Good Lord, man? That's a penitentiary offense. The authorities will dead sure catch on to who took it." "Yes, I expect they will. At least the night watchman'll know. I invested five dollars in liquor for him ; and he's sleeping It off over behind that hangar. .He'll put them nest to us." Buzzard's voice became serious. "But Alan, I couldn't get it any other way. We simply had to have it, or give up our trip." "Yes, we had to have it," Alan admitted reluctantly. "I guess you did right, Buzzard." But It staggered him to realize that he and his pnrtner were criminals now In the eyes of the law. Their motives would be no excuse. They faced a prison term if caught. And their, capture was inevitable: soon or late they would have to show tip somewhere. He could not bring himself to reproach Buzzard. He himself had stolen a machine gun, though he had covered his tracks pretty well; and Buzzard after all had done this for his sake. And he felt that this theft was Justified, if ever theft could be. With no chance of personal gain, at heavy cost of their own dollars and at risk of their very lives, he and Buzzard were flinging themselves against a pack of murderous crlminnls. He said: "We'd better be getting away from Edmonton forthwith. At daylight there'll be people here on the field. It'll be our finis If we're not gone." They donned their flying togs. Buzzard showed Alan how to put on his how to jump clear In case pack-chutof disaster and Jerk the They climbed In and snapped their safety belts. Revving up In short order, Buzzard flecked the throttle, jumped over the chocks, taxied down the field, and gave It the gun. Just as the first rosy fingers of dawn were reaching up into the eastern sky, they hopped off, left the sleeping city behind them, and roared away Into the North. e, all-nig- hard-earne- d e, rip-cor- CHAPTER VIII A "Slob-Ice- " Deadly Trap Jensen was glaring at the other five faces In round him the tent. "Some of you lubbers," he growled, "ain't got the sense you was horned with. You gimme a pain with your whining and growling and always wanting to argy about what I tell you. Now I'm gonna explain just what's ahead of us and what we gotta do." The six men were as motley a crew as ever the whaling fleets of Bering's sea and the Western Arctic could muster up. With one exception the six of them were deck hands wharf wolves of gutter speech and alley vices; strange men to be camped in the heart of a wilderness that even the Indians seldom penetrated. There was John SlebielskI, a square-race- d squat Alaskan, a descendant of the Cossack Promysulenikl who for generations, when Russia shores of ruled the northwestern America, had held brutal sway over the Aleuts and Knlosh in their lust for (fur-hunter- I'eltry. There ns Pote Consoles, a SandMs white wich isliiuOiT, brown-skinned ." Jensen turned on him with a fierce anger and withering sarcasm that silenced Lunnon for an hour. "Sure it's a h lish long hard trot, you runty bilge rat! Don't I know it? But I'd rather tramp ten thousand miles than do them twenty slow .short steps from a hoosegow to a scaffoV !" The others all nodded emphatically, fearful of Jensen's scorching anger. They were sitting there on a hundred and fifty thousand dollars which he The Others All Nodded Emphatically had got for tnem. They owed their very lives to his quick thinking aboard the steamer, when he had pulled their trick out of the fire. And they were leaning on him now to save them from the Mounted and get them out to the oblivion of a big city. He went on explaining the escape. "Now, here, ail of you look't here." He smoothed a place on the mud floor; and as the others leaned forward to watch, he drew a rude map with his long thumb nail. "We'll follow the Inconnu east a ways and then head south for Manitoby. We'll spend the rest of this summer and fall working down Into timber country. Then we'll find some good hiding place and build a couple shacks and lay In meat, and we'll wait there till the break-up- . Next spring we'll east on down and out to Winnipeg, and there we'll he with better'n a hundred and fifty thousand In hides and dust!" Ills own personal and private plans after they did get out to Winnipeg, Jensen did not see fit to disclose. He knew a parly there in the Queen City of the Wheat I'iains who would s of their buy the furs at auction value and say "nudding." The dust, being unstamped, could be sold anywhere. lie himself, both business manager and leader of this cruise, would naturally attend to those business matters. Once with the money in his pocket, would he split six ways with these lubbers? Or would he take a train and fade out of their lives and have that hundred and fifty thousand for his own sweet own? You bet your life he would! With his plans clear and the men completely under his sway. Jensen leaned back against a paqueton of furs and sat, smoking, thinking. He guessed that for once the police were altogether baffled. They must be pounding their heads to explain two-third- who he and his men were, whera they had come from, how they had got Into this country, unknown, unseen; and how they, complete strangers, knew the ins and outs of this northern wilderness as well as the police themselves. He thoqght of them as a pack of bounds circling frantically to pick up a scent It was pleasing to know he had them from start to finish. A man who could beat the Yellow-stripwould have no trouble at all dodging the provincial police and town cops. But this reflection was only on the surface of his thoughts. lie was thinking of the MacMillan trading post. 'Breed Andre had said that Dave MacMillan was not there Jensen shrewdly guessed where the trader was. From the MacMillan girl being alone at the post, except for that d old coot, Jensen guessed that Dave MacMillan had got Into trouble over that pack of otter furs in the storage shed. Through the tobacco haze Jensen looked back across six years and saw again all the details of a certain incident between himself and Joyce MacMillan. He had that Incident a thousand times since It happened. The memory of It. the memory of that laughing-eye- d girl, had come down across the years like the scent of fresh violets. Two weeks ago when his party passed the MacMillan trading post, the place had seemed deserted. But he had known she lived there; and drawn by some overpowering Impulse to see her, to be near her again, he had flung caution and hot haste to the winds, and stopped, and The picture of that gone shore. MacMillan girl asleep, an arm undei d violet In her her head, a es tomb discovered near Cairo, by Selim Hassan, containing a mummy adorned with a gold crown and a complete set of Jewelry, Is perhaps the only tomb In this area untouched by thlpves. The gold crown was 24 inches In circumference. It was kept in position by two gold lotus flowers, joined by a chalcedony. Each flower was topped by a bird with a long beak, named In hieroglyphics "Yakliu." In the middle of the crown In front was a disk studded with colored stones set in another Ictus flower. The large necklaca was composed of 50 pieces of gold In the shape of some Insects threaded on a gold Gold bracelets having the string. A ' Hens Found to Respond to Lengthened Day. Use artificial lights to give the hens about a thirteen or fourteen hour day, advises F. E. Andrews of the New If York state college of agriculture. the length Increase used to are lights of day to seventeen or eighteen hours, hens lose weight and egg production decreases. Lights are used in laying houses to winlengthen short days of fall and eat will enough ter so that the hens to maintain their weight and egg production. This is merely making a normal condition In aa abnormal time and Is not a forcing process. If used with reasonable Judgment Ordinarily, the poultryman should try to make in fall and winter the same length of day and night that the birds normally would have in the springtime. This is about a thirteen to fourteen hour night. day and a ten to eleven-hou- r The length of time of artificial lighting will vary according to the quality, age, and condition of the hens. Hens use lights more efficiently In the morning than at night. In the morning they are usually hungry after several hours on the roosts, but In the evening their appetite Is not so keen and many of the birds will go to the roosts and wait until the grain Is fed before they eat. Morning lights have another advantage over evening lights; no dimming device Is needed for the lights are turned off after daylight. In the evening it is necessary to dim the lights for ten or fifteen minutes before turning off, to send the hens to the roosts. Ordinarily the combination whereby a portion of the lights are given in the morning and balance in the evening is most satisfactory, both for convenience to the poultry-maand to the lighting system. white-whiskere- d great-spurre- hair that flesh-and-blo- reincarna- tion of her former memory had been a madness In his blood ever since. It had overshadowed his waking thoughts, had flitted across his dreams, had been present with him eveu during the hot battle with the three Mounties at the edge of Many Waters. The news which 'breed Andre had brought back that Joyce was practically alone at the trading post, scarcely two days travel away, that the trading had dwindled and few Indians or metis came new, that the officer commanding at Fort Endurance was giving her no protection whatsoever this news to Jensen was like a match to a barrel of powder. His deliberate brain saw danger In his scheme; but he had risked death for the furs and gold, and that hundred and fifty thousand was far less vivid, less tangible, less impassioning to him than the memory of that moment when he stood looking through Joyce's window. He had spent a year on a whaler without getting back to port ; a year of exile In Alaskan mountains, among prospectors. . . . There are hungers more powerful than the hunger for food or gold. . . . It would be ridiculously easy, he reasoned, to knock the old coot on the head and take the defenseless girl. They would land above the station and creep upon It through the bush. Two of his men would go in peacefully, as though to trade, and watch their chance to seize her. nis party could swoop, strike, and have the whole thing over In ten minutes. Knocking the ashes from his pipe, he leaned forward: "Men, I got an Idee. I Just showed you lubbers our one chance to 'scape. Now I'm gonna show you how we c'n make out getaway dead sure and certain. How we c'n tie them Yeller-stripup In a sack and throw away the key. Anybody objecting? Anybody wanting to kick over the traces?" Glaring around him, he saw emphatic denials. The men were hanging upon his words; he knew they would obey him without a whimper of protest. He went on, "We're going to make a little sachay down the Alooska to MacMillan's trading post. We're going to it tomorrow. We'll rap that old duffer on the head and take the girl. We'll throw them Yeller-stripe- s clear off the scent. While they're hunting for her, we'll he making tracks southeast to Manitoby. Y'mlnd how we saved our skins on the steam- er by taking that other skirt? We'll do it again: hut we'll carry this'n on nlong with us. No one'll over know what happened to her. . . ."' n Sorting the Flock broiler Is a young chicken of either sex weighing two pounds or d under. (2) A spring Is a young, bird of either sex that weighs over two pounds. (3) A fowl is a hen (female over one year old), or a pullet that shows too much harness in the breast bone (keel) to be classed as a spring. (4) Stags are cockerels that exhibit too much hardness of bone, development of spurs or comb to be classed as springs, but not enough to be classed as roosters. (5) Capons are cleanly castrated mule birds. (6) Slips are birds upon which the operation of castration has not been entirely successful. (7) Roosters are cocks (male birds over one year old). soft-bone- form of the hieroglyphic letter "N"; a number of silver bracelets it Is be- lieved that this is the first time silver bracelets have been discovered in a tomb of the fourth dynasty and two pure gold anklets also were found. Uses for Platinum The largest use of platinum Is for the manufacture of Jewelry. The metal Is also employed extensively In the electrical and chemical Industries, In dentistry and for a variety of miscellaneous purposes. In the early days it was used in Russia for coinage and subsequently from time to time It has been proposed by bimeialllsts as standard of value. Old Mine to Reopen Bees Carried to Work The in bees the the blooming topper Grazing heather to make up for the failure mine at Sjangeli in northernmost of the clover to blossom earlier in I.uplund, soon will be reopened. Lthe summer was the novel device re- ocated close to the Norwegian border sorted to this year by farmers on and far from the nearest railroad or the west coast of Sweden. The wet highway, the mine has been hirlierti and cold spring stunted the clover, inaccessible for economic explorabut the heather bloomed profuse- tion. Now the mining company hai npplied for government permission ly and at night the bees were transported in their hives to the ridges to gain access to the mine througl the Abisko national park. where it abounded. real "thief In the dark." is the common red mite of poultry. During the day mites stay hidden in the cracks and crevices around the perches and nests In the poultry house. At night they come out to feed on the fowls. Ued mites appear In all poultry houses as warm weather approaches. A good way to control them is to paint the woodwork in ttie poultry house with some strong, oily, penetrating material. CarboiiiiPtim ; creosote, crude carbolic acid and kerosene mixed In equal parts; whitewash; waste crank case oil; lime sulphur, and nicotine sulphate are all recommended. Reducing Tuberculosis one county of South Dakota where practically all the (locks In two townships were tuberculin tested, says a writer in the Southern Farmer, only per cent of the pullets reacted whereas per cent of the birds over two years old reacted. This would indicate that If a form flock Is infestel mid the practice Is followed of (lis posing of all birds at the end of the first year of egg production, that in itself would reduce very greatly the Idssps from this disease. day. The Judges Selected These- w ' j - MINI 1 IN THE h CONOCO $10,000 Hidden Quart Contest FIRST PRIZE. ..$5,000.00 HERBERT E. LAKE 20 Manufacturer! Exchange Building, Kansas City, Missouri SECOND PRIZE... $2,000.00 C S. 102 Dorchester THIRD PAVEY Court, Waukegan, Illinois PRIZE... $1,000.00 MRS. ETHEL B. 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Does not depress the heart 192T j U Cold Insurance Poultry flock records kept by North Dakota poultry raisers last year show that high producing flocks averaged several cents per dozen more for eggs than those of lower production. This higher return was brought about by much higher production of eggs during September, October, December, and January, last year, when egg prices are nearly twice as high as during the other months. Nearly all hens laid well during spring and summer, so it is evident that increases in production which come at periods of high egg prices are most important. e For a few days after Alan Baker bought out of service and left Fort F.nduranee, Inspector Haskell enjoyed more peace and security than he had felt In many months. But after the first satisfaction wore away, it grad- ually occurred to Haskell that maybe he ought to make snme move to cap- ture those six bandits. To let them escape without raising a hand against them would look bad, very bad, to Williamson on his Superintendent coming visit to the post. I & Winter Eggs Most Profitable es .pi? J J ) U A (1) Insignia of Royalty in Ancient Egyptian Tomb Prof. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT BRINGS MORE EGGS Orir orlg 31 PROCISSiD ftQ 'Bis f rt Pole |