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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- (2JE. OF IBB TCEDE &UZDJTsSW IAMlJ5ffAIJLa7 irm, ii . copy&(7t7. 7920 jsy Li7T7.E.J3J20VSsr, A7D coM-prrrunuirry n fwwyiy!wwy?;.wiwif;y;tiiiajfA.tgngtwcMmt.ai'w.i :Q SYNOPSIS. Warned by bis physician that he has not mere than six months to live, Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. A friendly squirrel practically decides the matter for him. Ills blood Is pioneer bloo, and he decides to end his days In the forests of Oregon. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision. , O: I among the wild creatures that made them their home. CHAPTER II. The dinner hour found Dan Failing the public library of Gitcheupolis, asking the girl who sat behind the desk if be might look at maps of Oregon. He remembered that his grandfather had lived In southern Oregon. In :0 CHAPTER ntmesr. Continued. 2 He looked along the bottom of his map and discovered a whole empire, ranging from gigantic sage plains to the east to dense forests along the Pacific ocean. He began to search for Lfnkville. Time was when Linkvllle was one of the principal towns of Oregon. Dan remembered the place because some of the letters his grandfather had sent him had been mailed at a town that bore this name. But he couldnt find Linkvllle on the map. Later he was to know the reason that the town, between the sage plains and the mountains, had prospered and changed its name. He remembered that It was located on one of those great fresh-watlakes of southern Oregon ; so. giving up that search, he began to look for lakes. He found them In plenty vast, unmeasured lakes that seemed to be distributed without reason or sense over the whole southern end of the state. Near the Klamath lakes, seemingly the most Imposing of all the fresh-watlakes that the map revealed, he found a city named Klamath Falls. He put the name down In his notebook. The map showed a particularly range of mounhigh, tains due west of the city. Of course they were the Cascades; the map said so very plainly. Then Dan knew he was getting home. His grandfather had lived and trapped and died In , The squirrel was very close to him, and Dan seemed to know by Instinct that the movement of a single mm-clwould give him away. So he sat a If he were posing before a phologrn-pher'camera. The fact that he was able to do It Is In Itself Important. It Is considerably easier to exercise with dumb-bell- s for five minutes than to sit absolutely without motion for the same length of time.. Hunters and naturalists acquire the art with training. It was therefore rather curious that Dan succeeded so well the first time he tried It. He had sense enough to relax first, before he froze. Thus he didnt put such a severe strain on his muscles. The squirrel, after ten seconds had elapsed, stood on his haunches to see better. First he looked a long time with his left eye. Then he turned his head and looked very carefully with his right. Then he backed off a short distance and tried to gel a focus with both. Then he came some steps nearer. A moment before he had been certain that a living creature in fact one of the most terrible and powerful living creatures in the world had been sitting on the park bench. Now his poor little brain was completely addled. He was entirely ready to believe that Ills eyes had deceived him. Bushy-tadrew off a little further, fully convinced at last that ills hopes of a nut from a childs hand were blasted. But he turned to look once more. The figure still sat utterly Inert And all at once he forgot his devouring hunger In the face of an overwhelming curiosity.' He came somewhat nearer and looked a long time. Then he made a e about the bench, turning his head as he moved. He was more puzzled than ever, but he was no longer afraid. His curiosity had bee s half-doze- n 4 time-yellowe- d half-wa- y er er I ing, d gray eyes. Listen, Steele, he said, I saw Dan Falling make a bet once. I was just a kid, but I wake up In my sleep to marvel at it. We had a full long glimpse of a black-tal- l bounding up a long slope. It was just a spike-bucand Dan Failing said he could take d the spike off with one shot from his old Sharpes. Three of us bet him the whole thing in less than two seconds. With (he next shot, hed get the deer. He won the bet, and now If I ever forget Dan Failing, I want to die. Youre Just the man Im oofelng for, then. Youre not going out till the day after tomorrow? k, j j i ; left-han- No. On the limited, hitting here tomorrow morning, theres a grandson of intense that no room for fear . half-close- d half-circl- come so HYRUM, UTAH The further hack from the paths Oj. men, he wrote, the greater would be his pleasure. And he signed the wire with his full name: Dan Falling, with a Henry In the middle, and a TH at the end. He usually didnt sign his name In quite this manner. The people of Gltcheapolls did not have particularly vivid memories of Dans grandfather. But it might be that a legend of the gray, straight frontiersman who was his ancestor hud still survived In these remote Oregon wilds. The use of the full name would do no harm. Instead of hurting, it was a positive Inspiration. The Chamber of Commerce of the busy little Oregon city was not usually exceptionally Interested In stray hunters that wanted a boarding place for tlie summer. Its business was finding country homes for orchardlsts In the pleasant river valleys. But it happened that the recipient of the wire was one of the oldest residents, a frontiersman himself, and It was one of the traditions of the Old West that friendships were not soon forgotten. Dan Failing I had been a legend In the old trapping nnd shooting days when . this man was So it came about that when young. Dans train stopped at Cheyenne, he found a telegram waiting him: Any relation to Dan Failing of the Umpqua divide? Dan had never heard of the Umpqua divide, but he couldnt doubt but that the sender of the wire referred to his grandfather. He wired in the affirmative. ,The head of the Chamber of Commerce received the wire, read it, thrust" It Into his desk, and In the face of a really Important piece of business proceeded tq forget all about It. Thus It came about that, except for one thing, Dan Falling would have probably stepped off the train at his destination wholly unheralded and unmet. The one thing that changed his destiny was that at a meeting of a certain widely known fraternal order the next night, the Chamber of Commerce crossed trails with the Frontier In the person of another old resident who had his home in the farthest reaches of the Umpqua divide. The latter asked the former to come up for a few days shooting the deer being fatter and more numerous than any previous season since the days of the grizzlies. Too busy. Tm afraid, the Chamber of Commerce had replied. But Lennox that reminds me. Do you . remember old Dan Falling? Lennox probed back Into the years for a single Instant, straightened out all the kinks of his rpemory in less time than the wind straightens out the folds of a flag, and turned a most Interested face. Remember him he I should say I do. The exclaimed. middle-ageman his pierc- ll was left. And then he sprang upon the park bench. Dan moved then. The movement consisted of a sudden heightening of the light In his eyes. But the squir rel didnt see It. It takes a muscular response to be visible to the eyes of the wild things. The squirrel crept slowly along the bench, stopping to sniff, stopping to stare with one eye and another, just devoured from head to tall with curiosity. And then he leaped on Dans knee. He was quite convinced, by now, that this warm perch on which he stood was the most singular nnd In teresting object of his young life. It was true that he was faintly worried by the smell that reached his nostrils, But all It really did was further to In cite his curiosity. He followed the leg. up to the hip and then perched on the elbow. And an Instant more he was poking a cold nose Into Dans neck. But If the squirrel was excited by all these developments, Its amazement was nothing compared to Dans. It had been the most astounding Incident In the mans life. He sat still tingling with delight. And In a single flash of Inspiration he knew he had ome among his own people at last. He knew where he would spend his last six months of life. His own grandfather had been n hunter and trapper and frontiersman in a certain vast but little known Oreson had moved lj the gon forest. His In Dans garret but cities, eastern old mementoes and be there used to these savage days a few from curios claws and teeth, and a fragment of an old diary. The call had come to him at last. ' Tenderfoot tothough he was, those forests, Dan would go hack to spend his last six months of life - Dan Failing. His name is Dan Failing, too, and he wants to go up to your place to hunt. Stay all summer and pay board. Lennoxs eyes said that he couldnt believe it was true. After a while his Good Lord," ho tongue spoke, too. said. I used to foller Dan around like old Shag, before he died, followed Snowbird. Of course he can. come. But he cant pay board. It was rather characteristic of the mountain men that the grandson of Dan Falling couldnt possibly pay board. But Steele knew the ways of cities and of men, and he only smiled. He wont come, then, he explained. Anyway, have that out with him at the end of his stay. He wants fishing, and youve got that in the North fork. Moreover, youre a thousand miles back Only one hundred, If you must know. But Steele do. you suppose hes the man his grandfather was before him that all the Fallings have been since the first days of the Oregon trail? If he is well, my hats off to him before he steps off the train. The mountaineers bronzed face was earnest and intent in the bright lights of the club. Steele thought he had known his breed. Now he began to have doubts of his own knowledge. He wont be; dont count on it," he said humbly. The Fallings have done much for this region, and Im glad enough to do a little to pay it bnck, but; dont count much on this eastern boy. Hes lived In cities ; besides, hes a sipk man. He . said so in his wire.' You; ought to know it before you take W wish oar thousands of friend. . Christmas and a Bright New Ycw we always be friends. BOYD PARK jewelers KWmvnKS, YD PARK BLOC NEWHOUSE HOTEL 400 BATHS MOST , 30 70 125 100 75 . 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Life to them Is ciation for having appointed him as a constant and If they fall in England at the handsome It is becauseopportunity agent have either been unthey to of and 2,000 ($10,000) salary or foolish. In either case make his bequest really va'uable with fortunate Is the fine challenge to redeem his great foresight, Franklin provided there time and more than surpass the in his will that this 1,000 should be the With them Its a matter-o- f pass past 5 ODe out cent Interest at for per put and Its a matter of the surpass. hundred years; , thnt at the end of head and it shows In the deeds of the 1 accumuof the fund that time . . hands. lated should again "be put out at Interest for another hundred years and Porpoise a Fast Swimmer. to then the fund be divided There Is another mammal that Is so s to the state. fast no one has ever been able to find Boston and bow show well that 1,000 out how fast he is. This Is the porLet us of Franklins has worked. At the end poise. The porpoise can do stunts in of the first hundred years it had front of the fastest boat that travels grown to $431,383.62. It was then di- the bounding wave and when he Is vided In accordance with the will; through after several hours of clown, $320,300.48 was set aside for "public lng he flirts his tall and nonchalantly work and $102,083.14 was started on speeds beyond the horizon. The porIts course of earning interest for an- poise will do his tricks under the bow other hundred years. That was lq of a nine-kncargo tramp or u 189L January 1, 1018, this sum had ocean greyhound. He la like the grown to $267,805.10 and at this rate antelope In that ha sets hla pace acof Increase the fond should amount cording to the speed ed th punier, ' He Couldnt Find Linkvllle on me ii a p. these same wooded hills. Finally he located and recorded the name of the largest city on the main railroad line that was adjacent to the Cascades. The preparation for his departure took many days. He read many books on 'flora and fauna, lie bought sporting equipment. Knowing the usual ratio between the respective pleasures of anticipation and realization, he did not hurry himself at all. And one midnight he hoarded a . vest-boan- d train. ' He sat for a long thnp In Jie vestibule of the sleeping car, thinking In anticipation of this final adventure of his life. He was rather tremulous and exultnnt as he sank down Into his berth. He saw to It that at least a measure of preparation was made for his coming. Thnt night a long wire went out to the Chamber of Commerce of one of the larger southern ' Oregon cities. ' In it, he told the date of his arrival and asked certain directions. He wanted to know the name of some mountain rancher where possibly he might find board and room for the remainder of th summer and the fall. , . 31-13- . one-four- th three-fourth- -- ot 22-kn- ot lrdTsTbusi ness college. branen School of Efficiency. All commercial Lake Catalog free. 60 N. Main St.. 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