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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH V.SON OF KAZAN by JAMES OLIVER CURWOOBv COPYRIGHT BY WNU sr( Brric NARROW ESCAPE Synopsis. Part wolf, part dog when two months old Baree has his first meeting with an enemy, Papayuchlsew (young owl). Fighting hard, the antagonists are suddenly plunged Into a swollen creek. Badly buffeted, and half drowned, Baree Is finally flung on the bank, but the water has destroyed hts sense of direction gnd he Is lost, lonely and hungry. For many days his life Is one of fear and distress. He meets various creatures of the wild and goes through a He Is learning thunderstorm. more and more. He strays Into the trapping grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese. Nepeese wounds Baree with a rifle, but he escapes. Baree recovers and learns nature's secrets rapidly. Nepeese Is determined to catch Baree and tame him and tries again. Chapter IV sun had set for all time, and her own life was filled with a vast loneliness. There had been three at the graveside that afternoon as the sun went down Pierrot, herself, and a dog, a great, powerful husky with a white star on his breast and a white-tippeear. He had been her dead mothers pet from puppyhood her bodyguard, with her always, even with his head resting on the side of her bed as she died. And that night, the night of the day they buried her, the dog had disappeared. He had gone as quietly and as completely as her spirit. No one ever saw him after that. It was strifnge, and to Pierrot it was a miracle. Deep in his heart he was filled with the wonderful conviction that the dog had gone with his beloved Wyola into heaven. But Nepeese had spent three winters at the Missioners school at Nelson house. She had learned a great deal about white people and the real God, and slie knew that rierrots thought was impossible. She believed that her mothers husky was either dead or had joined the wolves. Probably he had gone to the wolves. So was it not possible that this youngster she and her father had pursued was of the flesh and blood of her mother's pet? It was more than possible. The white star on his brenst, the white-tippe- d ear the fact that he had not bitten her when he might easily have buried his fangs In the soft flesh of her arms ! She was convinced. While Pierrot skinned the bear, she began hunting for Baree. Baree had not moved an inch from under his rock. He lay like a thing stunned, his eyes fixed steadily on the scene of the tragedy out in the meadow. He had seen something that he would never forget even as he would never quite forget his mother d Continued Baree darted to one side and ran for the open meadow. Wakayoo did not stir as Baree sped past him no more than if he had been a bird or a rabbit. Then came another breath of air, heavy with the scent of man. This, at last, put life into him. He turned and began lumbering after Baree into the meadow trap. Baree, looking back, saw him coming and thought it was pursuit. Nepeese and Pierrot came over the slope, and at the same Instant they saw Wakayoo and Baree. When they entered Into the grassy dip under the rock walls, Baree turned sharply to the right. Here was a great boulder, one end of it tilted up off the earth. It looked like a splendid hiding place, and Baree crawled under it. But Wakayoo kept straight ahead Into the meadow. From where he lay Baree .pould see what happened. Scarcely had he crawled under the rock when Nepeese and Pierrot appeared .through the break in the dip, and stopped. The fact that they stopped thrilled Baree. They were afraid of Wakayoo! The s of the way big bear was across the meadow. The sun fell on two-third- him, so his coat shone like black satin. Pierrot did not kill for the love of killing. Necessity made him a conservationist. But he saw that in spite of the lateness of the season, Waka-yoo- s coat was splendid and he raised his rifle. Baree saw this action. He saw, a moment later, something spit from the end of the gun, and then he heard that deafening crash that had come with bis own hurt, when the Willows bullet had burned through his flesh. He turned his eyes swiftly to Wakayoo. The big bear had stumbled; he was on his knees; and then he strug' gled up and lumbered on. The roar of the rifle came again, and a second time Wakayoo went down. Pierrot could not miss at that distance. Wakayoo made a splenddi It was slaughter; yet for mark. Pierrot and Nepeese it was business the business of life. Baree was shivering. It was more from excitement than fear, for he had lost his own fear in the tragedy of these moment. A low whine rose in his throat as he looked at Wakayoo, who had risen again and faced his enemies Ills Jaws gaping, his head swinging slowly, his legs weakening under him as the blood poured through his torn lungs. Baree whined because Wakayoo had fished for him, because he had come to look on him as a friend, and because he knew it was death that Wakayoo was facing now. There was a third shot the last. Wakay o sank down in his tracks. His big head dropped between his fore paws. A racking cough or two came to Baree. And then there was silence. It was slaughter but business. A minute later, standing over Wakayoo, Pierrot said to Nepeese: Mon Dleu, but It is a fine skin, Sakahet! It Is worth twenty dollars over at Lac Bain He drew forth his knife and began whetting it on a stone which he carried in his pocket In these minutes Baree might have crawled out from under his rock and escaped down the canyon ; for a space he was forgotten. Then Nepeese thought of him, and In that same strange, wondering voice she spoke again the word Baree. Pierrot, who was kneeling, looked up t her. Out, Sakahet. He was bom of the wild. And now he Is gone The Willow shook her head. Non, he is not gone." she said, and her dark eyes quested the sunlit meadow. As she quested the ragged edges of the little meadow for signs of the dog-puher thoughts flashed back swiftly. Two years ago they had buried her princess mother under the tall spruce near their cablA That day Fierrots 1 p, Nepeese, Ma Nepeese !" and Kazan and the old windfall. He .had witnessed the death of the creature he had thought Wakayoo, the big bear, had not even put up a fight. Pierrot and Nepeese had killed him without touching him ; now Pierrot was cutting him with a knife which shot silvery flashes in the sun; and Wakayoo made no movement. It made Baree shiver, and he drew himself an inch farther back under the rock, where he was already wedged as if he had been shoved there by a strong hand. He could see Nepeese. She came straight back to the break through which his flight had taken him, and stood at last not more than twenty feet from where he was hidden. Now that she stood where he could nol escape, she began weaving her shining hair into two thick braids. Baree had taken his eyes from Pierrot, and He was he watched her curiously. not afraid now. His nerves tingled. In him a strange and growing force was struggling to solve a great mystery the reason for his desire to creep out from under his rock and approach that wonderful creature with the shining eyes and the beautiful hair. Nepeese was looking about her. She was smiling. For a moment her face was turned toward him, and he saw the white shine of her teeth, and her benatiful eyes seemed glowing straight at him. And then, suddenly-- , she dropped on her knees and peered under the rock. Their eyes met. For at least half a minute there was not a sound. Nepeese did not move, and her breath came so softly that Baree could not hear it. Then she said, almost in a whisper: Baree! Baree! Upi Baree! It was the first time Baree had heard his name, and there was something so soft and assuring in the sound of It that in spite of himself the dog in him responded to it in a whimper that Just reached th WP. lows ears. Slowly she stretched hi an arm. It was bare and round and soft. He might have darted forward the length of his body and burled his fangs In It easily. But something held him back. He knew that it was not an enemy; he know that the dark eyes shining at him so wonderfully were not filled with the desire to harm and the voice that came to him softly was like a strange and thrilling music. Baree ! Baree ! Upi Baree ! Over and over again the Willow called to him like that, while on het face she tried to draw herself a few inches farther under the rock. She could not reach him. There was stll' a foot between her hand and Baree. and she could not wedge herself in an inch more. And then she saw where on the other side of the rock there was a hollow, shut in by a stone. If she had removed the stone, and come in that way She drew herself out and stood once more In the sunshine. Her heart thrilled. Pierrot was busy over his bear and she would not call him. She made an effort to move the stone which closed in the hollow under the big bowlder, but it was wedged In tightly. Then she began digging with a stick. If Pierrot had been there, his sharp eyes would have discovered the significance of that stone, which was not larger than a water pall. Possibly for centuries It had lain there, its support keeping the huge rock from toppling down, just as an ounce-weigmay swing the balance of a wheel that weighs a ton. Five minutes and Nepeese could move the stone. She tugged at it. Inch by inch she dragged it out until at last it lay nt her feet nnd the opening was ready for her body. She looked again toward Pierrot. He was still busy, and she laughed softly as she untied a big Bay handkerchief from about her shoulders. With this she would secure Baree. She dropped on her hands and knees and then lowered herself flat on the ground and began crawling into the hollow under the bowlder. Baree had moved. With the hack of his head flattened against the rock, he had heard something which Nepeeso had not heard; he had felt a slow and growing pressure, and from this pressure he had dragged himself slowly and the pressure still followed. The mass of rock was settling! Nepeese did not see or hear or understand. She was calling to him more and more pleadingly : Ba ree Ba ree Baree Her head and shoulders and both arms were under the rock now. The glow of her eyes was very close to Baree. He whined. The thrill of a great and impending danger stirred in his blood. And then In that moment Nepeese felt the pressure of the rock on her shoulder, and into the eyes that had been glowing softly at Baree there shot a sudden wild look of horror. And then there came from her lips a cry that was not like any other sound Baree had ever heard In the wilderness wild, piercing, filled with agonized fear. Pierrot did not hear that first cry. But he heard the second and the third and then scream after scream as the Willows tender body was slowly crushed under the settling mass. He ran toward it with the speed of the wind. The cries were weaker dying away. He saw Baree as he came out from under the rock and ran into the canyon, and In the same instant lie saw a part of the Willows dress and her moccasined feet. The rest of her was hidden under the death-traLike a madman Pierrot began digging. When a few moments later he drew Nepeese ou from under the bowlder she was white and deathly still. Her eyes were closed. His hand could not feel that she was living, and a great moan of anguish rose out of his soul. But he knew how to fight for a life. He tore open her dress and found that she was not crushed as he had feared. Then he ran for water. When lie returned, the Willows eyes were open and she was gasping for breath. The blessed saints be praised! sobbed Pierrot, falling on his knees at her side. Nepeese, ma Nepeese ! She smiled at him, with her two hands on her bare breast, and Pierrot hugged her up to him, forgetting the water he had run so hard to get. Still later, when lie got down on his knees and peered under the rock, his face turned white and he said: Mon Dieu, if it had not been for that little hollow in the earth, Nepeese He shuddered, and said no more. But Nepeese, happy in her salvation, made a movement witli her hand and said, smiling at him: I would have been like that. Ah. mon pere, I hope I shall never have a lover like that rook! Pierrots face darkened as he bent over her. Never!" Non! he said fiercely. He was thinking again of McTag-gart- , the factor at Lac Bain, and his hands clenched while his lips softly touched the Willows hair. THE KITCHEN CABINET (, 1(,notWestern for Newapeper Union ) precious chances assed away; Weep not for goldon ages on the wane; Each night I burn the records of the day; At sunrise every soul Is born again. 'Wall SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS The busy housewife with one pair of hands at command to do the daily tasks, must do without frills in cookery. how much she may enjoy them. However a few minutes spent In simple garnishing is well spent time. Carrot Pudding. Take one cupful of grated carrot. one cupful of grated f cupful of potato, one egg, cupful of shortening, sugar, one-hal- f one-hal- f cupful of raisins, one of soda and one cupful of flour. Steam one hour. Sour Msat. Tuke a nice piece of round steak, lay it in vinegar with one onion, a teaspoonful of whole allspice, salt and pepper mixed, one hay leaf, allow it to stand for three days. Brown the meat In a hot frying pan, pour over the vinegar and sufficient water in equal parts to cover the meat and simmer until tender. Strain ttie gravy, then thicken It and pour around the meat when serving. Chocolate Cookies. Cream cupful of shortening with one cupful of sugar, add one beaten egg. Add f one-hal- f cupful of sour milk with teaspoonful of soda, two squares of chocolate melted over hot water f and one and cupfuls of flour. Drop by spoonfuls on linking sheets and bake In a moderate oven. Top with Icing prepared from powdered sugar, butter and a little vanilla and cream. Take Drop Doughnuts. f cupful of cupful of sugar, f cupfuls of milk, one and flour with one teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt and ginger, a grating of lemon rind. Beat the egg white, add sugnr gradually, then the beaten yolk, flavoring, salt, milk and flour. Drop by teaspoonfuls Into hot Roll in fat and cook until brown. powdered sugar, then cool. Unusual Sponge Cake. Sepnrate the whites and yolks of four eggs and beat the whites very stiff. Add one cupful of sugar a little at a time, then add the yolks, one at a time, cutting and folding them in, not to mix, hut leave the white streaked with yellow. Fold In one cupful of flour sifted with of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and bake In a greased pan In a slow oven. Stewed Lettuce. Cook lettuce as greens In very little moisture, serve with melted butter, a dash of vinegar, pepper and salt. Onion Juice may be added for seasoning If liked. Pertinent Hints. As seasoning Is one of the fine arts and marks the ability of a cook, it Is wise to study the various combinations of seasonThe French cook ing. has the seasoning sense developed to a high deHer foods are gree. often of the most cornnd plainest kind, n,on el L h T ,T but the mixture of seasoning puts the dishes out of the ordinary class. A package of bay leaves will last two or three generations, as this is a seasoning like garlic which should be used In very small The little bit, however, is quanltles. needed to add that alluring flavor. A bottle of mushroom sauce, kitchen bouquet, Worcestershire and tabasco sauce, pepper sauce, curry, chill powder, celery salt, paprika, soy sauces of various kinds with the commonei seasonings and a dozen of the savory herbs should all he part of the kitchen. Scald a dish In which fish has been cooked with vinegar In the water, then wash with soda In the water. Old rubbers will he shined up by rubbing them with ammonia. A roomy market basket well padded makes a fine bed for a small baby when traveling. It Is easy to carry and will also hold the babys belongings. Being able to carry the baby without disturbing him or exposing him to the weather Is a great advantage. Grease the cork of the bottle of glue and it will be easy to remove when needed. Between the rows of the vegetables which will soon be pulled like onions, radishes and such vegetables, sow flower seed which will delight you after the vegetables are gone. A good way to clean gloves Is to moisten flour and wash them on the hands, by rubbing and cleaning off the dark spots. Renew the flour and clean again. Kitchen aprons of unbleached cotare much more desirable, as they ton Will Baree finally come under be boiled and kept white. may of the domination Nepeese? A piece of ice held In the mouth for a minute before medicine Is given will dull the sense of taste. (TO BE CONTINUED.) y A little send In a vase will add greatly to the comfort of usFinns Double Christmas ing it. sr centuries before the year 1772 A fresh blood stain will be compeople of Finland had four pletely removed If covered at once but a Swedish royal de-- i with powdered starch. Issued that year abolished the When setting dishes on ice use a d and fourth, as it was thought de can rubber under them ; this will keep ble to curtail the festival In the them from slipping. rest of work. But the Finns still p two Christmas holidays. Decern-2He-gwtl- G. and 26 (St Stephen's day) Omany one-hal- one-hal- one-hal- one-hal- one-liH- tf one-hal- one-hal- one-quart- well-equipp- bad-tastin- g top-heav- Christ-holiday- f s, HcLUt Three-Tub- e Receiver, Square Wound Toroid Colls, Two Stages of Radio 8eL , Frequency and Detector. Can Be En larged to Five-Tub- e , By CARLTON E. BUTLER (Msmbsr Amortcan Institute of Kloctrtoftl Engineers and Institute of Radio Engineers ) have Styles In radio receivers 25-oh- stats. 1 changed with the changing conditions of the broudoastlug field. A three-tub- e regenerative set with two stages of radio frequency amplification was capable of giving satisfactory reception a few years ngo, but today, with the worst congestion of the ether lanes ever experienced In the history of rudio, and the Increasing use of r broadcasting stations, selectivity requirements demand the use of amplifying circuits. A three-tubcircuit today should use some form of tuned amplification that successfully copes with 1026 conditions and furnishes an Inexpensive set that later e reon may be enlarged Into a ceiver by the addition of two stages of amplification. Leave Room on Panel. In the diagram shown here, however, Just the three-tubcircuit Is Illustrated as it makes a complete set in itself. Room should he left ou the panel nnd In the cabinet for the other stages at a later date. For tills reason a 24 or 20 inch, panel should be used, with a cabinet and baseboard large enough to allow for tills future set will expansion. The three-tub- e bring in Just as much distance and possess all of the desirable qualities sots on the of the market, excepting volume, which Is obtained when audio amplification is added. Little apparatus is needed to construct tills set, and with reasonable care an excellent receiver can be had for very little outlay of time and money. To construct the set you will need the following list of apparatus; 1 square wound toroid coll, type Tl. 2 square wound toroid colls, type T2, Indicated as T2 and T3. 8 straight-linfrequency variable condensers, .00035 mfd. capacity. Indicated as Cl, C2, and C3. hlgh-powe- radio-frequenc- radio-frequenc- y five-tub- audio-frequenc- y e high-price- five-tub- d tie .00025 mfd. fixed grid condenser nnd 2 megohm grid leuk rheo1 e e phone Jack. tube Rockets. Rinding posts, wire, screws, etc. The rheostats are to be used with UV 201 A or C 801-type of tubes. If the 100 type are to be used, then rheostats should be substituted. For the YI 11 or VD 12 type of tube, (iolmi rheostats throughout will he correct. Both tubes are operated from one rheostat if desired, hut It Is usually best to have a separate control for the detector tube. Use Double Circuit Jack. The detector tube Is using the sume y voltage of B battery as the tubes. This will only he possible as long us all three tubes are of the same type nnd not more than 45 volts are to be used. If a higher voltage of B battery is desired, then the detector Jaek should he supplied from the tap. If a soft tube Is to he used, reduce the voltage to 22 volts, or loss. A single-circui- t Jack Is shown in the detector stage. If nt a later date it Is practically certain that amplification Is to be added. It Is best to use a double-circuJack In this position to avoid t he need for changing the present circuit. Two antenna terminals are provided on t he first toroid coll. These are to adapt the set to a long or short It might be well to bring these two terminals out to binding posts on the rear of the cabinet so that the untenim can be quickly changed over from one to the other as conditions require more selective tuning, or greater volume Is desired. The position of the apparatus In laying out tlie receiver baseboard is not critical. The colls may be placed side by side without Intercoupling or causing the receiver to become unstable, due to their confined magnetic fields. 3 25-oh- 40-oh- radio-frequenc- y rudlo-frequene- 45-vo- lt it u. Amount of Power That How to Avoid Burning Your Aerial Picks Up Out Your Radio Tubes An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, applies nowhere more forcefully than In the burning out of radio tubes. A simple measure to eliminate, us far as practicable one of the wastes of radio is proposed by the manager of a prominent rudio manufacturing company. An ordinary lamp is all that is needed to conduct the operation, resulting often in saving of time and money, and at other times "making assurunce doubly 40-wa- tt sure. "Did you ever hear the story, Ive burned out five tubes? Mr. Manager asked in discussing the mutter with a Now there is no group of dealers. occasion for this happening. It, of course, may be possible because of nn Internal short tn one of the tubes between the grid or plate and the filament; or possibly through carelessness In installing the receiver and connecting the battery wires. The wise dealer, however, or the one Installing the set, always connects up every receiver and uses an ordilamp, for innary stance the kind you ordinarily have in the store or find In the home, In series with tlie plus 90 I? battery lead when the receiver is Installed for tlie first time. With this precaution, It is Impossible to burn out tubes, for even If there is a defect of any kind in eitller the receiver or connections, the tube filaments will only glow or light up lump convery dimly with the nected in the plus 90 IV battery leads, and then only when the filament control switch is still on Its off position. If the tubes do light with the switch in the ofT position, It Is a direct Indication of trouble, and the receiver should be Immediately disconnected and the fault found and eliminated. Always use that safety valve lamp In series with B battery for it assures absolute protection to the tubes. When the set Is completely hooked up and working properly, you can safely remove the lamp and still know that the set will function properly, and that there will be no possible chance of burning out tubes under normal operating conditions. t, 110-vo- lt It has been computed that the amount of power picked up by the ordinary receiving aerial Is about of a Think of It! If your receiver picked up as much power as that possessed by a fly, you would be receiving a billion times more energy than you are now receivIt seems almost Impossible to ing. comprehend this fact. Here is another Illustration that may help you to understand how very small is the power actually picked up by your antenna. If the power radiated by the average transmitting station were collected and used to beat an ordinary electric toaster it would not even glow at a dull red heat and certainly would not burn your bread. Yet this small amount of energy Is radiating In all directions and spreads over a circle with a diameter of 10,000 to 20,000 miles, for signals have been picked up hundreds of times at points 8,000 to 10,000 miles distant from the transmitting station. Just Imagine every foot of space lu In a circle with a rudlus of 10,000 miles being flooded with part of the was only energy that originally enough to heat an electric toaster, then you begin to get an Idea of the extremely small amount of energy that reaches your particular aerial. From this It will be realized that to detect the extremely faint signals from distant stations your receiver must be very sensitive and effieienL 40-wa- tt Uncle Sams Radio Job Has Grown Since 1911 Uncle Sams Job of supervising all the radio broadcasting outfits of the country has grown rapidly since 1911 when this service began. In that year there were but two men enforcing the radio laws. Today there are 19 In the headquarters office In Washington and 70 In the field watching over the 18,103 licensed amateur and commercial stations in this country and on United States ships. It is estimated that people have access to radio equipment with which to receive broadcast programs. Value of Colored Wire Colored battery connections are good vacuum tube Insurance. Obtain wire Battery Charging Rate A storage battery will not have r In several different colors or dip the long life If It Is charged at a rate ends In dye. When taking the wires greater than six amperes, and In the off the set merely note the position of case of small batteries three am- the various colors and wheu reconnecting place them the same. peres is enough. |