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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH 1 1 - House. "The v. of the Three - Ganders -- W.N.U SERVICE if I Irving Bachellei SYNOPSIS Exhausted, ragged, and starving, a boy of about sixteen is found in the woods by a camping party. He has fled from his brutal father, Bat Morry-so- n. Bat comes after him, but his new friends conceal him. CHAPTER I Continued 2 Without a word Bat strode off Into the darkness. He went not in the direction of High falls but back on the trail toward Dead Creek floe. He was like a wounded panther growling with rage a veritable child of the darkness in which he walked. He wont be coinin back here," Scott declared. Theres a lumber camp down by Grass pond. Hell head fer that. He aint goin to give up lookin fer the boy. Bat needs him. The boy could earn many a bottle o whisky for him this summer." Bat had not recognized his son. Sha went to bed that night with a dgep pity in his heart for the man who was his father, remembering as he did the good days past of which there were some like starlight in his dark Soon he slept, as only a memories. weary boy can sleep. He awoke refreshed in the morning. Im glad it aint yesterday no more," he said to Mr. Converse as he was I feel better more like a dressing. man. You look like a gentleman, and 1 want you to learn to eat as gentlemen do. Eat slowly and keep your knife away from your face. Use it only to cut your food, and eat with your fork. I wont forget your advice, said the boy. Id like to be a gentleman. They went to breakfast After the meal Mr. Converse turned to the lad saying: Ill send Uncle Phlde down the trail with you to my camp. Hell keep you happy till youre beyond the danger point. Uncle Phide, you take a gun with you and see that he gets there. When Scott and the boy were ready to set out, the latter in his new clothes and mustache. Mr. Converse said to him: Have you got your money? Yes, sir, Ive got it pinned in my all safe. When you get out of the woods, Vv make for St. Lawrence county. Its near Canada. You could jump Across the border if necessary and be safe. Take this letter to my friend Colonel Blake. He lives in Canton. Then Shad and the famous guide began their journey through that winding green aisle In the deep woods from Big Deer Pond to Mud lake. They had gone about a mile when, at a point where the trail sloped down a hillside, the guide stopped suddenly. Some one jest crossed the trail away down yender in the valley, he whispered. The guide stood still, looking intently at the point where a moving figure had attracted his attention. Its a man. Again he whispered : side o the on a the settin by log jHes us. Cotoe on. see He doesnt trail. If its yer father I may stop a minute, but you walk right on as if yed never seen him before. Within' five minutes they came upon Bat Morryson sitting at the trail-sidThe boy, walking ahead, had assumed a slight limp to disguise his gait. Hello, Bat greeted him saying: stranger. Shad, made no reply. He's deef and dumb, an ye might as well talk to that log yer sittin on, said Phide Scott as he stopped by the huge Cyclopean Bat. The boy passed on around a turn in the trail and in a moment, was beyond the reach of their vision. In a short time the guide overtook him. He mistrusts that youre back at Hes heard at my camp, said Scott. Grass Pond that Converse is over with me. Hes made up his mind that the millionaire will try to slip you across to his place at Bog lake. A mile or so farther on the two came to that big black pond known as Mud lake. They got into the only boat at the landing and rowed across. e stretch to Bog It was now a in walled lake by giant pines and spruces. Meanwhile the slow intellect of Bat Morryson, sitting on a log by the trail-sidhad begun to find its way. He had been thinking about the small stranger who had come down the trail . n e. two-mil- e, with Phide Scott. There was something familiar in the look of that chap. Suddenly he arose. By G dl Theyve fooled me, he said to himself. Theyve dressed the boy up an put a piece o fur on his lip an slipped him right under my nose. He hurried down the trail in pursuit of Scott and Shad, not half a mile behind them. He was losing a slave, and the slave was of considerable value. When he got to Mud lake and found no boat and saw the others landing a mile away on the far shore, he started to skirt the lake, with his mouth full of curses. CHAPTER II The Fugitive Resorts to Strategy. Soon after Shad arrived at the big log camp of Mr. Converse, he and his guide crossed Bog lake and set out for the railroad. A freight and accommo-- . dation train was waiting at a flag station. Shad got aboard and went on to Fulton Chain. He was advised to change there to the express train bound for Utica. This he did. It was the Fourth of July. There had been a celebration of the day in the forest village. Shad stood in the midst of a merry throng when the ex- - I Hope Hes as Fond of Ladies as He Is of Flapjacks. press train arrived. After the engine had passed he saw the head of his father protruding from a window of the smoking car. The man was looking intently at the crowded platform. The boy ducked downward as if looking for something he had dropped. He climbed aboard a car near him wondering w hether he had better take that train or wait for another. Perhaps his father would get off there. A happy lot of boys and girls sat around him, blowing tin horns, laughing, throwing jests and missiles at one another. He had never known that boys and girls could be so happy. A little after the train started Bat Morryson came through the car looking for his son. He went to the end of the train and back, his big red eye searching In vain for the boy slave. Shad got out with a large band of merrymakers at Remsen. Suddenly he discovered that his father was walking just ahead of him with a stranger. If I dont find the young devil here, Ill buy a bottle o whisky an put fer home," he was saying. Ive had enough o this. Shad left them at the next corner and went straight out into the country. After some hours of travel he came to a meadow by the roadside where dried hay was cocked or in windrows. He crossed the fence, tore open a cock of hay and made for himself a comfortable bed of the d grasses and lay down upon it and fell asleep. He was up at daylight. About midday he came to a little village where were a railroad station and a small hotel. At the latter he got his dinner. Late that afternoon he got a train going north and arrived at Canton about six in the morning. A bus driver told him how to reach the house of Colonel Blake two miles from town. He set out In the direction indicated and was soon beyond the village up toward the hills. He came to a little red house with flowers iii the dooryard and potted plants in the windows. A . new-mow- n sweet-odore- small, mounted brass cannon stood od one side of the lawn. In the road a man and his dog were driving some cattle. Im lookin for Colonel Blakes house, said the boy. I wouldnt wonder if you were also lookin for some breakfast, the man answered. I am kind o hungry." Well, hunger is like every other good thing. It can be carried too far. You can let go of it as soon as I have put out these cattle. Im hungry myself." Im awful hungry, said the boy. Ive got money to pay for what I eat. Look here, did you see that cannon in my yard? Yes, sir. Well, I shoot it at every man that offers me money for victuals after hes warned. If youve got more money than you want, you can throw some of it into my well. The cattle began streaming through an open barway into the pasture. When all were entered and the bars put up the man turned to the boy and said: Now follow me. Well tend to Colonel Blake later. The sun was up. A clear, beautiful summer day had begun. They washed with spap and cold water dipped from a rain barrel at a stand outside the door, and went into the house and sat down at the breakfast table. They ate in silence, the hired girl bringing their food from a stove. Look here, pard, said the man. Ill tell you my name if youll tell me yours. Names are not important, but in high society theyre a help. My name is Shad Morryson, said the boy. Its quite a mouthful. My name is Alson Blake. Be you Colonel Blake? Yes. . Thats what they call me."' Heres a letter for you. Shad drew the letter from his pocket and put it in the colonels hands. The latter opened and read it Converse He knows a good thing when he sees it, and I guess hed know a good boy. Blakes wife and daughter entered the room with a cheery greeting, and sat down at the table. Heres a boy come up the road this mornin, the colonel said to his wife. I hope hes as fond of ladles as he is of flapjacks." Mrs. Blake was a kindly comely woman about forty years of age. The blond, blue-eye- d girl was dressed for school. This girl Ruth is our Professor of 1 McrcolizedlVax DAIPV m FACT S Keeps Skin Young Get in ounee and nee as directed. Fine particles of aged skin peel off until all defects euch as pimples, liver pots, tan and freckles disappear. Skin is then soft and velvety. Your face looks years younger. Mereolised Wax brings out the hidden beauty of your skin. Tt remove wrinkles use one ounee Powdered Saxolite dissolved in one-ha- lf pint witch hasel. At drug stores. gB A farmer on a big load of hay in a city street still looks as grand as he ever did. CHOOSE HERD SIRE WITH EXTRA CARE Highly Important Factor in Milk Production. Milk production is what is known as a cumulative quality ; that is it depends on more than one hereditary character. For this reason it is more difficult to hold the quality of high production and at the same time get high quality (butterfat) than it Is to retain a single quality, like color. It is therefore very Important that heavy milk production should be a dominant character in both the dam and the sire. Strange as it may at first appear, the male line seems to have more influence in stamping high milk production on the progeny than does the female. This means that extra card should be exercised in selecting a sire The chlet to head a purebred herd. reason given by dairymen for changing sires once in five or six years is that most breeders do not care to use a bull to breed on his own daughters and, in the case of a small herd, two herd bulls are too expensive a proposition. This situation may be overcome by two breeders, keeping the same breed, agreeing to each buy a choice bull witlh the understanding that they shall exchange bulls, when the difficulty of too close breeding presents itself. While too much dependence is com monly placed on type yet care must be used to look for those external qualities that Indicate vigor of constituThese qualities are likewise intion. herited and the production qualities of a bull are of no great value unless the animal has a degree of constitutional vigor that will make him a good feeder with plenty of vim at all times. Charles S. Phelps, In Rural New-Yorker- hen TEETHING makes HIM FUSSY One of the most important things you can do to make a teething baby comfortable is to see that little bowels do their work of carrying off waste matter promptly and regularly. For this nothing is better than Castoria, a pure vegetable preparation specially made for babies and children. Castoria acts so gently you can give it to young infants to relieve colic. Yet it Is always effective, for older children, too. Remember, Castoria contains no harsh drugs, no narcotics is absolutely harmless. When your baby is fretful with teething or a food upset, give a cleansing dose of Castoria. Be sure you get genuine Castoria with the name: . CASTORIA Positively No Use for Poor Cow in Dairy Herd It makes no difference how you spell It, says C. G. Bradt, of the husbandry department at the New York State College of Agriculture, they have no place in the dairy herd, whether you know them as boarder Fun," said the man. If they are cows or border cows. Shad was blushing. He and the girl boarding at your expense you cant afhad taken a quick survey of each ford to keep them, or if they are on other and come to conclusions. The the border line between profit and loss young have a special gift for that. they ought to be pushed over the edge Shad thought that next to a spotted to make way for animals tbpt are sure fawn she was the most beautiful crea- to pay. ture he had ever seen. When he A sheet of paper properly looked at her it was to discover that used single to keep the New York may help she was looking at him. The same state on its feet. The dairy Industry was true of the girL Colonel Blake cow devised to help blank is appraisal saw it all and smiled. to weigh each cows merits dairymen In a moment he said to the boy: and to answer the question will it Well go down to the office. Ill give this cow? to keep pay you a letter to a friend of mine over This blank, which is available from at Amity Dam who told me that he the dairy department of the college of in his store. wanted a boy to work agriculture at Ithaca, has spaces to The colonel and the lad went list the age, date the cow was last imIt was the when she is due to freshen, her fresh, Blake Mrs. who made pressionable all this a part of our history. She production record in pounds of milk called to her husband. He returned' and her tekt, number of sound quarters, whether she Is a regular breedto the house. and lastly the question will It pay er, Who is that beautiful boy and to this cow? keep come from? the woman where did he asked. Hes a runaway a kind of a fugiBetter Bulls Build Fat tive slave. In seven years Joe Degenhardt, MonWhat a shame His smiling hand- roe county, Wisconsin, added 87 some face has won my heart. Lets to the average fat production pounds keep him here a day or two and give of his cows by using a purebred Holhim a chance to rest. stein bull on native cows. He had the Well ask him. I rather guess hed milk tested at the cheese factory In like it. the beginning. By weeding out the unSo it came about that the boy tar- desirable heifers and by substituting ried a day and a night at the red higher producing cows for low profarmhouse. A new experience had ducing cows in fhe herd he was able come to Shad. Women had been mostto build the average fat production ly hateful to him. They had been hard of his herd from less than 200 pounds to get along with. He had had a poor to 287 pounds. opinion of them. He felt something Now he has set 400 pounds of fat immeasurably grateful and wonderful as his goal. He established a purein the motherly, gentle manner of Mrs. bred foundation herd and eventually Blake and in the beauty and grace will have only purebreds in his herd. of her daughter. With a average he expects Ruth did not go to school that day. a good demand for surplus stock and She entertained the boy with the photopurebreds are more valuable than graph album and with croquet and grades. Cappers Farmer. throwing and catching a bal. They were pleased with all this, but their How Milks Compare joy came from a different source; perComparisons of Jersey and Holstein haps from looking into each others milk with goat milk showed that in eyes and from a singular emotion nutritive properties, including vitamin quite new to them. At last they sat down very tired in content, no one milk showed marked the swing under the big maple tree. superiority over the other two, accordWhere is Colonel Blake? the boy ing to the bureau of animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculasked. ture. Jersey milk was found to conHes a Oh, hes gone to town. more vitamin A and somewhat tain Hes the district attorney," lawyer. the girl answered proudly. He goes goat milk contained more of vitamins CL The vitamin C content of away every morning. Are you going B and all three milks, produced in both winwith him tomorrow? ter and summer, was found to be low. Yes, I must get to work." Men are so hateful. Theyre always The vitamin D content of all three milks was approximately the same. going to work. Goat and Holstein milk were found (TO BE CONTINUED.) to be somewhat similar in content of If yoii have knowledge, let1 other protein, fat and total nutrients, and light their candles at it. M. 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