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LLD DON threw another slice
of bacon into the frying-pan,
and cried. He was alone in
the cabin now, so it didn’t
matter. Johnny was gone; Big Red
was gone. Only a blood splotch on the
floor near the little stove, where it
had dried, showed signs of a terrible
struggle. But now it was over. John-
ny was in jail awaiting trial, while hi
victim lay fighting death in Lorene
Ag Old Don emptied the frying-pan
into a tin dish and sat at the rough
table, the terrible scene repeated itsel”
before his eyes.
He saw Big Red, snow-covered, eyes
bloodshot, appear in the doorway. Big
Red was not himself. and be had come
to tease Old Don. Everybody teased
Old Don—that is, everybody from
Prigly’s lumber camp, for Don's cabin
was situated just below Prigly’s hill,
four miles from the camp and five
miles from Lorene. Returning from
town on a Sunday night, the men
would stop at Old Don’s cabin and
laugh at him through the shuttered
windecws., Old Don was the only one
that prayed; that's why everybody
laughed at him. They laughed, those
sturdy men of the North, laughed at
the old pictures he had hanging about
the wall. They didn’t mean it, but it
made Old Don angry, because they
‘thought he was crazy. But Johnny
flooked a little surprised as he caught
Old Don once crying before a broken
crucifix. He didn’t understand, but
he always removed his cap when he
entered the cabin after the discovery.
Old Don didn’t like to be laughed
at, so he asked Big Red to go out. Red
laughed—his condition, of course—and
said he wanted to listen to Old Don
pray. That was the climax. Old Don
pushed Red toward the door, and the
brute struck him. And then Johnny
entered and stood motionless by the
door, with the soft, white snow fall
ing about him. He didn't say a word.
He watched, until Red made another
clubbing swing at Old Don. Quick as
a flash his left arm shot out and
caught the brute above the eye. Old
Don didn’t remember any more until
he saw the sheriff clamping handcuffs
on Johnny. On the floor against the
wall lay Big Red in a stream of blood
That wa: all. They freed Old Don
after a questioningz, but Johnny was
taken to jail to face a murder charge
if Big Red should die without recov-
ering consciousness. Of course. Don
had told them that Johnny struck the
brute who had fallen with his head
against the stove, but they wouldn't
believe him. Johnny had used a club
01d Don didn’t know what he said; he
was a funatic—a little “loony.”
Old Don raised his grizzled head to
the crucifix above the table and whis
pered as a tear skimmed down his
cheekbone and dropped, flavering his
untouched meal. He had given
physical hope; and this was his means
of saving the boy from death.
He knew they would bang Johnn;
i Red died. That was their code.
And the sheriff had come in only u
few moments before to tell Old Don
that Red wouldn't live. Red would
die unless an operation was performed
immediately. And Doctor Bromey.
Lorene’s only surgeon, could not oper-
ate, 2s he had broken an arm under a
crashing pine a week ago.
Johnny. the smiling youth from the
aig city, would hang, because the
Prigly crew said Old Don wus crazy
No man could knock out Big Red
with his fist, they testified. Johnny
would feel the twang of the noose, be
cause Old Don was crazy and couldn’
‘help.
And then, as it in answer to hi.
prayer, a sudden thought flashed
through Don's mind. Big Red dying —
Johny to hang—an operation! The
jumbled phrases burned sharply
against his brain.
Seven miles from Prigly camp livec
Deacon Lome. He had been a doctor
once—a famous surgeon. He had in
vested heavily in oil and lost, and
‘then had come North to forget. I
‘Don could only make it through the
SNOW. .
Five frozen miles along the gorge
.cross lake Mullet—five frozen miles
of snow and ice, the shortest way
And Old Don was past sixty. Yetshe
did not hesitate. He tied the snow
shoes to his feet—they seemed heavy
without the snow. One look at the
figure on the cross and he plunged in
to the white shurpeess.
It took his breath away. He reeled
and hesitated. then diagonally cut
across Prigly hill. There was no wind.
but the sharpness cut his lungs and
made him gasp for breath. He
plugged along. Half-way down the
gorge he labored, pufling heavily.
Suddenly it drew darker. A wind
rose above him and the crisp snow
cut his nose and cheeks..
Straight ahead. across Lake Mullet.
ne timber line grew dimmer and
spotted with red and burnished gold
The snowshoes were getting heavy—
unbearably heavy. Old Don wanted
to rest. But always to his mind were
the jumbled phrases—Big Red dying—
Johnny to hang—an operation! He
swerved to the right and onto the
frozen lake with the wind to his back
In the momentary relief he could dis
cern the faint light of the doctor's
cabin in the distance. Shoe after shoe
he hauled through the snow. His
weary legs trembled unsteadily. He
could have sat down for just a min:
ute bkut—Big Red dying! He must
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this they
who removed his cap when he entered
the cabin. ’
Only a hundred yards ahead was the
doctor's cabin. A miilion little stars
c¢ancec and sparkled before the light-
ed window as Don struggled. A few
more steps and the drooping figure
stumbled against the door, whicii
slowly opened against his weight, dis-
closing an aggressive woman just
forty.
“Well!” she challenged, eyeing Don
fearlessly
Old Don gasped for breath.
“The—deacon—" he forced out.
“Lorene, for grub,” she said curtly
2nd turned to piling the wood near
the stove.
Like the snap of a crushed human
back was the sound that escaped
Ion’s lips Lle staggered oul
His legs, tottering weakly under
him as he crawled up the stumpy
slope to Lorene, buckled under him.
He stumbled over a snow-covered
stump—and breathed a word of pray-
er. And then bright spots began to
dance before his eyes growing bright-
er with every step. He did not feel
the cold.
How long he struggled he could not
tell. Ie had lost trace of time and
place. His chin hidden in the soft-
ness of his collar, he bored ahead.
Somewhere in the distance was John-
ny—and death. And then, sudden as
the swoop of a falcon. the snow flared
before him and he dropped, burying
his face in the snow.
Faint were the voices that reached
Don’s ears as he awoke.
“Johnny!”
There was a sudden hush, and the
tobacco smell grew more pungent.
Presently the doctor reached Don's
side.
“It’s all right,
“How do you feel
Old Don felt his face.
and burning.
“But, Johnny, how—"
He turned his head from the pil
low to the grimy, smiling face of thr
men seated along the walls.
“Talking to Big Red in the other
room,” replied Doctor Bromey, ac’
justing the sling on his left arm.
And then the doctor left him, and
one of the men rose and put out hi
hand. Old Don took it.
“Big Red's comin’ through fine.
Johnny's talkin’ to ’'im in the othe:
room. The deacon fixed 'im up the
day before yesterday. But you sure
took a long time to come through
pardner.”
Old Don lay still for a minute, then
smiled.
“Who picked me up?’ he asked af’
er a pause.
“Deacon. Was goin’ back after Red
admits the kid laid him out with ais
fist.”
Old Don squirmed out from under
the covers and stood shakily on the
bare floor. There was silence in the
little room. The door squeaked as
the doctor and Johnny watched the
solemn act.
I'or, kneeling against the bed. Old
Don was whispering a prayer; while,
seated against the walls, the lumber-
jucks bowed their heads. They dig
not laugh.
Comets Chiefly Made
Up of Gaseous Matte:
While we have no reliable data as
to the precise mass of comets we are
pretty sure that the biggest and show
jest of the lot are no greater than
about 10 per cent of the earth's at
mosphere. 1f they came bigger than
would produce effects on
the planetary paths.
Whether they should be regardec
4s mainly gaseous matter or finely
divided solid matter is not just here
material, but we may, it we like. im
agine them as being equivalent to the
10 per cent of our air, water vapor
and so forth, and see just what musi
happen to it when it gets fairly ex:
tended as a comet.
The head of the comet would no.
«ake up so much of the atmosphere
of which we will imagine it is made.
for diameters exceeding 150,000 miles
are unusual, but when it comes to the
Don,” he soothed
9”
It was oily
tail there has to be some stretching.
Our atmosphere we may take as
afty or seventy-five or a hundred
wiles deep, bat the upper layers are
so thin that we might as well take
the H0-mile limit and let it g¢ at that.
But to make a comet's tail with only
a tenth of this air, the extension
staggers the imagination. Tails are
common with lengths of 50,000,000
miles and comets have been known
with tails longer than from here to
the sun, over 100,000.000 miles, with
a diameter at the big end of easily
1,000,000 miles.
To get at the extreme attenuatiow
dgures of speech are better than
those of arithmetic. There was an
Arabian tale of a man who never
went broke because each day he speni
only an exact half of whatever money
he had left. If this chap had started
with ten cents and kept up his sys
tem for a thousand years he would
nave been richer in money than a
comet’s tail is in matter, and it is
probable that to get a close compari
son we will have to imagine a single
oyster in a stew containing as much
milk as the Atlantic ocean holds
water.— Kansas City Star.
Ove~ the Phone
«Is that the secretary of the Oil
erg’ club?’ asked a hazy voice. “Can
vou tell me when the club opens
again?”
“It opens at six o'clock tomorrow
evening,” replied the secretary short-
ly. “But what on earth do you mean
bringing me out of bed at this time
of right to ask that?”
“Very sorry, old chap,” came the
apologetic voice, “but, you see, I've
save Red for Johnny—for Johnny, | just woke up in the lounge.”
Could Not Dispense
With Hat or Gloves
toosevelt’s fondness for long walks
in Rock Creek park during his Presi-
dency is well known. Nothing pleased
kin so much as te drop companions
along the road unable to keep up with
Ltm. If he thought anyone was too
well dressed for an outing he would
swim across a deep pool and every-
body was compelled to follow. He
was a great sport.
Walking one day with a party
among whom was M. Jusserand, French
ambassador, President Roosevelt pro-
posed that they all go bathing in Rock
creek, without bathing suits, aot far
off the public highway (says Genera!
Scott). Jusserand waded in without
any clothes except a pair of white kid
gloves and a high silk hat. Roose-
velt looked at him with astonishment
for some time, but finally curiosity be-
came too great and he had to ask the
reason for the ambassador's costume
“Oh, Mr. President,” Jusserand rve-
plied, “suppose some ladies should go
by I"—Kansas City Times.
Big Fire Loss Laid
to Careless Smokers
Every year $100,000,000 worth of
property goes up in flames in the
United States because matches burn
too long. That is the conclusion
drawn from recent experiments by the
United States bureau of standards.
The average time required to light a
pipe or cigarette was found to be ten
seconds. The stick of a match burn:
an additional twenty seconds.
A million matches, says
Science Monthly, are used in the
United States every minute. Many of
these start fires after they have been
thrown away. The experimenters
found that special matches, with wa-
ter-glass coating the sticks up to half
an inch of the head, burned only half
as long as ordinary ones. While prov:
ing as effective for lighting purposes.
they were generally consumed before
they could set fire to surrounding grass
or rubbish.
Popular
Knew One Word
Company from out of the city was
peing entertained in an last side
home. George, the visitors’ son, age
three, and Raymond, the hosts’ nephew,
age three, developed quite a friend-
ship. When at last the guests were
obliged to leave, the host asked the
name of the street in which they lived.
They replied as to the street and also
proceeded to spell it. George, desir-
ing to imitate his elders asked: “What
is your last name and how is it spelled,
Raymond?”
Ray was acquainted with the speli-
mg of just one word, so consequently
he was slightly baffled by George's
question. Soon, however, he smiled
and replied, “Why, my name is Ray-
mond Goodman, s-t-o-p.”—Indianapolis
News.
Dress Suit’s Origin
The Haberdusher says: ‘As far as
we know, the formal dress suit of to-
day is the natural evolution of the
dress coat of the Continental era aud
before. Black came in when fancy
colors went out, and found its place
in formal dress apparel as it did in
ordinary day wear. The dress coat,
from a designer's angle, has changed
but little from similar garments worn
150 years ago. Long trousers, as is
commonly known, were first introduced
by George Bryan Brummell and the
vest itself is only an evolution of the
waistcoat which previous generations
had favored.”
Had Use for It
Above them the waterfall thundered
down in a mighty rushing torrent.
“A pity to see all that going to
waste,” remarked one of the little
party of tourists to another who stood
watching.
The other cordially agreed,
added as ar afterthought:
“] suppose you're a civil engineer,
ike me?”
“Oh, no,” he replied blandly; “1 am
4 dairyman in rather a big way”
an
Kill Trees With Poison
The process of decay is hastened by
pvisoning the tree while it is still liv-
ing. Gashes are cut around ‘the trunk
of the tree into which a solution ot
arsenic is poured. The leaves all die
within a week or two and‘ decay sets
in soon and works rapidly in both tree
and roots. In four months worms will
be found working in the wood, in two
vears most of the branches fall, in four
vears the trunk is gone and the stump
can be easily removed in six years.
Year Ends on Same Day
No century can begin on Wednes-
day, Friday or Saturday. October al-
ways begins on the same day of the
week as January. February, March
and November all begin on the same
day of the week. But May, June and
August begin on different days. And
it may surprise you to know that the
yeur always finishes with the same
day of the week on which it begins.
The only exception? to this order oc-
cur in leap year.—Capper’s Weekly.
Using One’s Talents
Nature has given to each of us a
certain amount of ability. The Bible
tells us that to one man is given two
talents, to another five, to another
ten. This done, the rest ig left to us.
Our use of them determiner the re-
turns. —Grit.
|lustrating the essence of the
“A voluminous scarf of crepe |
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
THE HOUSEWIFE'S PART.
Oh, men, and oh, brothers, and all of you
others
I beg of you pause and listen a bit,
And T'11 tell you without altering of it,
The tale of the housewife’s part.
Mixing and fixing,
Brewing and stewing,
Basting and tasting,
Lifting and sifting.
Stoning and boning.
Toasting and roasting,
Kneading and seeding,
Straining and draining,
Poking and soaking,
Choosing and using,
Reasoning and seasoning,
Paring and sharing—
This is the housewife’s part.
Filling and spilling,
Pounding and sounding,
Creaming and steaming,
Skimming and trimming,
Mopping and chopping,
Coring and poring,
Shelling and smelling,
Grinding and mending,
Firing and tiring,
Carving and serving,
This is the housewife’s part.
Oiling and boiling and broiling,
Buying and trying and frying,
Burning and turning and churning,
Pricing and icing and spicing,
Hashing and mashing and splashing,
Scanning and planning and canning,
Greasing and squeezing and freezing-—
This is the housewife's part.
Aching and baking and making and
shaking,
Beating and heating and seating and
treating,
men, and oh, brothers,
of you others—
Do you envy the housewife’s part?
—Susan B. Best.
Oh, and all
In the new fur coats favored in
Paris there is less tendency to stray
away from the straight pencil sil-
houette than is seen in the winter's
cloth coats. The sleeves sometimes
follow more closely the vagaries of
fashion by widening below the elbow
into a pouched outline or into a point-
ed bell flare, but the coats remain
conservatively slender. The collars
are apt to be straight bands of fox,
so high they almost conceal the back
of the head, but whether they are of
fox or of some flatter fur they al-
ways strive to stand high about the
| head.
For sports or for traveling Paris
is still very fond of the fur-lined coat.
Thebaut shows a black broadcloth
coat lined and with a collar of dark
leopard. Lelong believes that a beige
basket weave cloth with lining of lap-
in and collar of beaver is more in
keeping with the aspirations of serv-
ice for the coat lined with fur.
In conforming to this tendency to
favor for sportswear the cloth coat
lined with fur, Paris chooses the
furs or skins most nearly approach-
ing the texture of cloth. Baby pony
skin is a favorite and is very smart in
Thebaut employs it in this color in a
narrow straight coat with a square
collar of beaver standing up behind
the head and a wide band of beaver
down the center of the front. A belt
across the back gives the proper
sports-like air.
Beware of the ensemble costume,
ladies ! If everything matches in
color, your taste at this is terribly
out of date.
This edict comes from the Parisian
fashion authority, Baron de Meyer,
who explains, in Harper's Bazar, why
matching of colors is the worst stvle
indiscretion that can be committed
this season. :
“The idea of matching the gown to
the coat as well as to the hat:nd
shoes became several years ago, a
new and luxurious habit, admits
Baron de Meyer. “It did away with
the prevailing bourgeois view that
anything looked well worn with any-
thing. But now this craze has disap-
peared... An ensemble is a costume in
which every article of clothing is re-
lated to the other, merely by the laws
of harmony and good taste.”
The harmonized ensemble demand-
ed by the mode is the acid test of a
woman’s taste, declares the fashion
expert. Nowadays any woman <zan
buy clothes of good quality. Success-
ful combination of a few pieces is at
present the real meaning of the art
of dressing.
“A typical modish ensemble that I
saw recently included a lavendar coat
of a tweed like mixture worn over a
mauve kasha skirt,” he explained, il-
1 style.
green and mauve was used. A hat
of plum colored satin completed the
costume.”
A very clever designer spent hours
trying out shades to express the col-
or harmonies she wished to trans-
pose into textures for this costume
says the Harper's Bazar writer.
“This delicate undertaking requives
not only supertaste, but superknowl-
edge as to the blending of shades and
supervision as well. In view of the
challenge offered by this mode, the
woman who chooses an ensemble in
which everything matches cannot
help but admit that she cannot trust
her taste.
The built-in garbage incinerator is
one of the present-day devices for
home labor saving which has an all-
year-around usefulness, but its worth
is more than ever demonstrated in
winter, when trips through the snow
and slush to the
freighted with real dangers to the
health of the housewife.
These outside trips to the insani-
tary, germ-laden garbage can are en-
tirely eliminated with the built-in
incinerator.
It banishes the garbage can nui-
sance for all time—eliminates rub-
bish heaps in the basement or other
part of the building—and saves count-
less daily steps due to these insani-
tary and inconvenient pests which
with the passing of such things as
the outdoor pump.
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FARM NOTES.
—Shall water provided for hogs be
heated? Answering this question |
livestock specalists at State College |
say that experiment station results
from severdl States indicate that!
there is not enough increase gained
to make the practice of heating wat-
er or cooking slops profitable. Water
should, however, be available at all
times as it is an essential part of the |
swine ration. |
—A home garden that is planted
on the spur of the moment after
warm weather appears in the spring |
is only half a garden. Now is the
time to plan your garden. Divide
your available space between the dif-
ferent vegetables desired. Plan ac-
cording to your family needs and
tastes. Draw your plan on paper, to
scale if necessary. Then work out
your seed order.
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——Although spring is the time to]
plant trees on waste land, not now
growing trees, right now is the time
to apply for the trees from the State.
Application blanks and assistance
may be obtained from your county
agent. The supply of the best kinds
are rapidly being exhausted by those
whe have already sent in their or- |
ers.
— Dairy calves should have warm, '
dry, well-bedded stalls, and they will |
grow more satisfactorily if each calf |
has a stall by itself. If this is not ;
possible then each calf should be tied
with a rope or fastened in stanchion
during feeding. Be sure they do not
suffer from thirst which often occurs
even when they have milk to drink.
—The 1929 seed catalogues are ar-
riving in the mails. Do not lay them
aside until spring, in which case you
will likely mistake them. Read them,
and send your order early. In this
way your order will be given more
careful attention, there will he less
chance for mistakes, and the best
seed will not be exhausted.
—During the winter months exer-
cise is as vital as the ration to the
stallion. A horse kept in a darkened
and unsanitary stall is subject to
many ills and will never have the
strength and vitality necessary to a
breeding animal. “Also he should
have plenty of clean fresh water.
Exercise, sunshine, and fresh water
2 the three cheapest things avail.
able.
—A moist mash, when fed regular-
ly furnishes a desirable means of
feeding cod liver oil to poultry. On=
fourth pint of cod liver oil may be
added to the moist mash daily for
each 100 birds. This plan of feeding
cod liver oil eliminates the mixing of
the oil with the dry mash and also
helps to prevent deterioration of the
oil after the mash is mixed. |
—In cold, stormy weather dairy |
cows should be out-doors only long |
enough to drink and if the stable is |
comfortable and water available they |
should not go out at all except in:
clear, warm days.
It pays to keep :
cows wagm, dry, and comfortable at ,
all times.
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—Good clean corn silage is one of
the best roughages that the flock-
master can use. The best shepherds |
use this grain mixture with corn sil-
age and clover hay; 300 pounds of
oats, 100 pounds shelled corn, 50
pounds of bran, and 25 pounds of oil |
meal.
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—Vinegar is not ncessarily made ,
from apples, although many of the |
late and windfall apples are utilized |
in this way. Vinegar can be made |
from any fruit, or, in fact, from any !
material which contains enough sug-
ar and is in no way objectionable, ac-
cording to the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Vinegar of good
quality can be made from oranges,
persimmons, pears, various berries,
honey, maple products, watermelon,
and grains. Large quantities of some
of the fruits mentioned are wasted
each year in the United States.
In England vinegar was first made
from malt liquors, a method of dis-
posing of ale and beer which had
soured. Malt vinegar is still the
standard in the British Isles. Here
apple juice is largely used for home-
vinegar is
considered the standard for house-
hold purposes. Whether it is done on
a small scale in the home, on a
larger scale on the farm, or on a still
larger scale in the factory, the pro- |
duction of vinegar is the result of
two distinct fermentation processes |
—an alcoholic fermentation folowed
by an acetic fermentation. Sugar is
the kase of vinegar production. Any
' watery solution of a fermentable sug-
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vinegars.
| commonly desired for table use, but |
garbage pail are |
‘rations, and every day that they go
'underfed means a day or more of egg
should have disappeared long ago,
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ar may be transformed into vinegar
under favorable conditions. Many
fruit juices are well suited to this
purpose, as they contain sugar in the
proper proportion and other neces-
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Distilled or spirit vinegar made |
from molasses or alcohol obtained by |
a by-product, notably compressed |
yeast, is nearly always colorless and |
lacks the aroma and flavor of fruit |
For this reason it is not |
is extensively used for pickling or
preserving. |
Directions for making any of the
above-named fruit and other vine-
gars will be furnished by the United |
States Department of Agriculture. |
—Poultrymen who buy pullets at |
this season should have facilities for
properly housing the birds and rang-
ing them separate from old hens. The |
pullets will be unfamiliar with their |
new location and possibly changed |
production lost during the winter. It |
may be possible to learn the ration
used by the former owner and make
changes gradually to the rations you
are using.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
the price of a
quart of milk
gives you good
kitchen light
for a week . .
WEST
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We specialize in placing such in-
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It will be to your interest to con-
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ance.
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