GRAIN CROPS Good Shape. will produce, there is every indication an excellent return. all <rop will give ports recelved from weather, a all growing stage of speak falrly of good advanced two years. Should conditions farm- re- Janadian debt, as a Western of that already free clude ers, ing high prices, expect from this sea- son's returns to be In a position that will place them away beyond any fear of the future. The acreage of Western Canada will be about the same as last year. Seed- ing was somewhat later than last year, but germination was quicker, The only possible drawback now would seem to be a scarcity of harvest hands, but It Is felt by the authorities that the situation will be pretty well cared for by that time. Land values are increasing, but there £3 room for a much greater Increase than in the past, owing to the returns that farmed land will give when com- pared with its cost. In some districts iand that could have been bought five years ago for $15 an acre {s changing hands at $60 an acre, the seller satis. fled that he Is giving the purchaser good value for his money. And why uot, when It Is known that In a great many cases during the past two years crops have been grown on this land that have produced a profit of forty and fifty dollars per acre, over and above cost of production. These cases, while not general, not excep tional. In addition to the lands that are offered for sale by rallway companies, land companies and private individ- uals, the homesteading areas offer great inducements for those who are willing to do a little ploneering for a year or two. By that time settlements would come into existence, and this means a condition similar to that en- Joyed by many of the older settlements of today—schools, churches, rallways. The land Is high-class quality, strong and vigorous, easlly worked, and capable of producing the very best of crops. were of The demand for all grains for some years will be great, and it will require all the of man, beast and soil to meet it. That the prices will be good goes without saying, but at the present time there Is something more appealing than the lucrative prices that prevail. That is, the desire to assist In winning the world war. The man at the plow Is doing his “bit,” and the spirit of patriotism that prevails will lead him into a broader sphere of action. No matter where he may be he will look about him that he may find fand to further develop the country's resources. It Is possible that his own state may furnish the land, In which case he will be quick to take advan- tage of the offer. If land in his own state Is not avallable, Canada {now our ally) will be glad to furnish it in unlimited quantity, as she Is vital- iy Interested in largely increasing the supply of foodstuff which Is now as urgently needed and Is as valuable as ammunition to the allied countries The appeal made by Mr. Hoc er, United States controller of foods. and also Hon. W. J. Hanna, Canadian <ontroller, emphasizes the need of the allies, urges economy and the preven- tion of the waste In food, and be speaks whole-hearted public co-opera- tion. Speaking of Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and thelr Eu- topean allies, they say: “For nearly three years thelr man power has been engaged In the direct work of war, and in some cases large areas of their most productive lands have been overrun by the enemy, Thelr food shortage and the food to supply the armies of Canada and the United States must be wholly provided from this side of the Atlantic. The supply must also be sufficient to cover losses at sea. Australia, New Zealand, the Argentine Republic and other coun- resources by the situation because of thelr remote- aess and the shortage of tonnage. “The crop of storeable foods grown in Canada nnd the United States suit- to be entirely Inadequate to meet the demand unless the whole people de termine by every means In their power to make up the shortage. Every Indi- wasist In rationing the allied forces. There must be national self-denial and national co-operation to provide the Qecessary Supplies =Advertisement, Not in the Calendar. Fond Mother--What's the va? Little Eva—I've heard of “Good Fri- matter, on earth Is “Nut Sunday.” Hard on Him. “Did the young couple just married take a fiat?" “The bride did.” A succosstul form of efficiency con. wists In inducing somebody else to do wour work, CHAPTER XV-—Continued. —12 Smith was jabbing his paper knife absently into the desk blotter. “And yet we go on calling this a civilized country!” he said meditatively. Then with a sudden change of front: “I'm in this fight to stay until I win out or die out, Billy; you know that, As | have said, Miss Verda ean kill me off if she chocses to; but she won't choose Now let's get to work. It's pretty to rout a justice of the out of bed to issue a warrant but we'll do it. Then we'll go Lanterby and make him turn evidence. Come on; let's get busy, to, late peace for us, after state's for a Smith's wiching c¢hair-righting handhold upon made no reply. Instead he snapped his lithe body out of the chalr and launched it in a tiger spring at the door. To Smith's aston ishment, the door, which have latched, came in at Starbuck's wrenching of the knob, bringing with it, hatless, and with the breath startled out of him, the new stenogra pher, Shaw, But Starbuck, re softly sudden should been Jerk i Said half “Ju “There's your state's evidence” Starbuck grimly, pushing the dazed door listener into a chair put Richard Shaw bad quarter had of an an hour when to force a confession out of him. Nev- knowing the ground upon which he stood, and shuffled and the charges and became appar bribery or physical torture the truth out of him. Smith iNing offer the thumbscrews Shaw was ertheless, he hed evaded prevaric under 11 ino qi 1estion 154.1 and since were to bribe, Hternl question of the corridor until mine what was te be “That the the out of locked one vacant rooms across could deter him. his captors done with is one time when the whole side of the 1 k admitted, when Shaw had been nissed barn. Starbne remanded to the makeshift cell across the hall, wy know that fellow is on Stanton's pay roll; and it's reasonably certain that he that he could keep cases on you. But we can’t prove anything that we say refuses to talk.” “I can dis about all that 0 long as he “No.” rege him, Smith agreed, h and that's can be done with him.” “He is a pretty smooth article,” Starbuck reflectively. in Maxwell's sald a clerk railroad office, and he « rook es what.” Smi tion. “Wait na minute, “There's no he's a spy?” wns the ness, I don't remember 41 # Jilly, and doubt then: in that “Sure mind he is” prompt re- joinder. “I was what enough has heard ~which is thinking-—he said hers ght pretty chance to outfigure our outfit again.” “Right you are.” “In which « hort of idiotic in us to just tont WAS to give Stanton a good be turn him loose, wonld little nse it “Are They Sure-Enough Chasing You John?" hold him, proof or no would we be apt to got to proof, Where “At home and in bed, I reckon.” “Cail him upon the phone and state Tell him if he has “You're getting the range now,” himself into the soundproof telephone closet, When he emerged a few minutes Inter he was grinning exultantly. “That wis sure a smooth one of yours, John. Dick gave me the facts, Shaw's a thief; but he has na sick sister on his hands-or sald he had--dnd the rail- road didn't prosecute, Dick says for us to jug him tonight and tomorrow morning he'll swear out the pecessary panera” (Copyright by Chas, Scribner's Sons) “Good. We'll do that first: and then we'll go after this fellow Lanterby. 1 want to get Stanton where 1 can pinch him, Billy; no, there's nothing personal about it; but when a great corporation like the Escalante Land company gets down to plain anarchy and dynamiting, it's time to make somebody sweat for it. Let's go and get Shaw.” Together they went across the corri- dor, and Smith unlocked the door of the disused room. The light switch was on the door-jamb and Starbuck found and pressed the button. The single Incandescent bulb hanging from the ceiling sprang alive—and showed the two men at the door an empty room and an open window. The bird had flown. Starbuck was grinning again went to look out of the window. The roof of the adjoining building was only a few feet below the sill level, ind there was a convenient fire escape | ladder leading to the ground. “It's us for that roadhouse Topaz trail before the around to Stanton and Lanterby, sald definitely; and they lost no when he i out on the news gets time in securing an auto for the dash, that, they reached Barton's the hill road, the and a card game was run in an upstairs room. Starbuck the necessary cross-questioning the dog-faced bartender, “You know me, Pug, and what I can do to you If I have to. We want Hank Lanterby. Pitch out and show us where" The barkeeper threw up one hand he were warding off a blow, “You ¢'d have him in a holy mi for all o' me, Billy; he protested. “But “On 17" snapped “That's straight i you, Billy. Tel jut { When «+ On {O0, bar was open as if nute. you sure could™ Rone.” Starbuck int le call eame from | town a little spell ago, and I got Hank bed t' answer it He borra’d Barton's mare an’ inside of a pair o' minutes.” “Which way?" tioner. | headin’ { here." he's the leve wonl epi hone outa faded demanded the ques the hills; leastways he ain't f'r town when he breaks from i smile. “Shaw heat us to fon us” he said. “We may as hike back, ‘phone Willlams to keep his eye on things up at the dam, and go to bed. There'll be nothing more do ing tonight.’ it and he scores well CHAPTER XVI. At Any Cost. High Line the battle | Timanyoni {of flascos, up to the night for the gr take a sudden ent Early the next day there were panicky rumors in the air, none of them traceable to any definite starting point. One of the stories was to the effect the Timanyoni dam had faulty | foundations and that the haste In added to its insecurity. court petitions from ranch owners be the dam site, setting forth the | flood dangers to which they were ex- | stop the work. That this was a new move on Stan- tons part, neither Smith nor Stillings questioned for a moment; but they no sooner got the nervous ranchmen paci- fled by giving an indemnity bond for any damage that might be done, than other rumors sprang up. For one day and yet snother Smith fought mechan- ically, developing the machinelike dog- gedness of the soldier who sees the battle going irresistibly against him and still smites on In sheer despera- tion. He saw the carefully built or ganization structure, reared by his own | efforts upon the foundation laid by | Colonel Baldwin and his ranchman as- sociates, falling to pieces. In spite of {all he conld do, there was a panic of stock-selling ; the city council, alarmed | by the persistent story of the unsafety of the dam, was threatening to cancel the lighting contract with Timanyoni High Line; and Kinzie, though he was doing nothing openly, had caused the word to be passed far and wide among the Timanyon! stockholders, disaster | could be averted now only by prompt | action and the swift effacement of their rule-or-ruin secretary and treasurer. “They're after you, John,” was the way the colonel put it at the close of the second day of back-slippings, “They say you're fiddlin’ while Rome's a- burnin’. Maybe you know what they mean by that; I don't.” Smith did know. During the two dnys of stress Miss Verda had been very exacting. There had been another night at the theater and much time killing after meals in the parlors of the Hophra house. Worse still, there had been a daylight auto trip about town and up to the dam. The victim was writhing miserably under the price paying, but there seemed to be no help for it. Since the night of Verda Rich. lander's arrival in Brewster, he had not seen Corona; he was telling himself that he had forfeited the right to see her, Out of the chaotic wreck of things but one driving motive had sur- vived, and it had grown to the stature of an obsession: the determination wring victory out of defeat for Timan- yoni High Line; to fall, if he must fall, fighting to the last ZO8D and with his face to the enemy. “1 know,” he said, replying reflective pause, to the charge passed by Colonel Dexter. friend of mine here from the East, I have been obliged to show attention, so they say I am neglecting my job. They are around that I am your ing that your only hope " on and nlso Jonah, and say- is to pitch me overboard. “That's Dave Misscurian., “He for you, way." he oomily. Kinzie” growled seems to have it sOme right,” Smith Then: “I am abou of my rope, warned you about and put trying “Nevertheless, returned gl ut the rope 1 was end colonel the when you me into the idle; and I'm desperately t When it when Timanyoni High stand fairly its own feet I'm gone.” not,” denied in generous on out home Cun on fight its own battles, “Oh, no, ranchman-president test. “You come you're pro fincas have to bring a derrick along | If they want to snatch you our of the Timanyon!. You go over yonder to the | Hophra Honse and tell that young wom- an that the bridie’'s off. and she can tulk all she wants to!" “No,” sald Smith shortly. *“[ know | what I am doing, I shall go on as { I have begun. It's the only way, Mat- ters are desperate enough with us now, and if 1 should drop out—" The telephone bell was ringing, and Jaldwin twisted his chair to bring him- self within reach of the desk set, The messpge was a brief one, and at its finish the ranchman-president was | frowning heavily. | “By Jupiter! it does seem as if the { bad luck all comes In a he | protested, “Williams rushing | things just a little too fast, and they've lost a whole section the dam by { stripping the forms before the con- | crete was set. That puts us back | other twenty-four hours, at least. | that beat the mischief?” | Smith reached for his hat he said; | strippers have and tor bunch! VER of an- Don't “It's six “and Williams’ form- furnished one more rea- | son why I shouldn't keep Miss Rich. { lander walting for her dinner.” And with that he cut the talk short and | went his way, With a blank Miss Richlander i tete dinner for what it her hold [Le demanding excitement, o'clock,” her tete-n evening before making the count | tigh iinble, would tened one mat Noth suggested an eve ith dutifully railroad rowed a runa borrowed rur the gl beside him did not Perhs , 100 thoughts of her own, upon } Teri ng. she drive, and Maxwell and bor the auto Sn the su- bout drove bout silence Orious the him talk. with sober in try to make busy beauty gent ips she was for a few minutes, It" of good ; you know it always does.” Smith shook his head reluctantly but firmly “Nev er again, colonel. a matter of a few days now, and going to pul you and daughter into the limelight if I can fie ip it Colonel Dexter got out of his chair id w office wine Wher vias to say: “Are they John ?~for Is that not and your wife iked to the ¢ back it sure-enough ow, chasing that you hi wing 11 trying to tell you, something ive done? what you're “That is it—and they are nearly here Now you know at of the res sons why I can’t go with you tonight.” “Tl be shot If 1 the Renerous one, I'd bring you.” “You must make my excuses to her; and to Corona yon may say that I am more carrying a gun. She will un- derstand.” “Which means, I take it, that you've telling Corry more than you's told the rest us. That brings on more talk, John, I haven't have IT mes east one do!” stormed Once heen of “No.” “Well, I'm going to say it now: got only just one daughter in the wide, wide world, John.” Smith stood up and put his hands behind him, facing the older man squarely. “Colonel, I'd give ten years of my this evening snd tell Co- rona what 1 have been wanting to tell her ever since 1 have to what her love might make of we. fact that I can't thing I have ever had to face, to face” Colonel Baldwin fell back into his swing-chair and thrust his hands into his pockets, “It beats to Hillcrest come the Dutch how things tals mented, then: that to Corry, “No “That was white, anyway. Aad now I suppose the other woman-—-this Miss Rich-something-or-other over at the ho- every little so-while,” he after a frowning pause. And have you? mixes and mingles too much. You never can telj—" “Hold on,” Smith interposed. “What: of a scoundrel. I don’t owe Miss Richlander aaything that I can't pay without doing injustice to the woman I love. But in another way I am a scoundrel, colonel. For the past two days I have been contemptible enough to play upon a woman's vanity merely for the sake of keeping her from talk- ing too much.” The grizzled old ranchman shook his head sorrowfully. “I didn't think that of you, John; I sure didn’t. Why, that's what you might call a low-down, tin-horn sort of a game” “It is just that, and I know It as well as you do. But it's the price 1 have to pay for my few days of grace. Miss Richiamder knows the Stantons; they've made it their business to get acquainted with her. One word from her to Crawford Stanton, and a wire from him to my home town in the mid- dle West would settle me” The older man straightened himself in his chair, and his steel-gray eyes blazed suddenly. “Break away from ‘em, John!" he urged. “Break it off short, and let ‘em all do their worst! Away along at the first, Williams and I both said you wasn't a crooked crook, and I'm bes Heving It yet. When it comes to the show-down, we'll all fight for you, and “There Is a Limit, Verda.” At when th had helped her out of the car at the entrance and had seen her as far as the she thanked him half ¢ his excuse, that he about to Mas 5 ing any furt all events, Smi hotel eleva- ind tor, ibsently took the run +3 xwell's gr out lay ! er command him. Just as he was turning away across from the clerk’ for Miss Richi: id no excuse for lingering | with the air thick tipping of the momentary stop-gap. the i boy came with a telegram Smith with threats he answer Miss Verda envel read the inclo- with a fine-lined little ing and golug between her eves, “It’s from Tucker Jibbey." she glancing up at Smith. “8 told him where lowing us. He the evening train. and tell him I've gone At the mention spoiled son of the to Josiah Richla in the i ings, and Lawrenceville's imita- | tion of a flaneur, Smith's first emotion { was one of relief at the thought that i Jibbey would at least divide time with him in the entertainment of the bored then he remembered that Jib- considered him a rival, sham “rounder’s” pres- would constitute a ng than all the boy pe open a nd frown com- SUre v hi ineane wu we are, and he says he'll be here Will you meet to bed?” of HHubey the money- is is fol- on hin nder credit rat. best { beauty; bey had and that ence in menace more threaten others put together, “I can’t meet Tucker,” he said blunt. ly. “You know very well I can't,” “That's 20.” was the quiet reply. “Of course you can't. What will you do when he comes ?—run away?” “No: I can’t do that, either, I shall keep out of his way, if I can. If he finds me and makes any bad breaks, | he'll get what's coming to him. If he's worth anything to you, you'll put him on the stage in the morning and send him up Into the mountains to join your father.” “The idea!” she langhed. “He's not coming out here to see father. Poor Tucker! If he could only know what he is in for!” Then: “It is beginning to look as if you might have to go still deeper in debt to me, Montague. There is one more thing I'd like to do before I leave Brewster, keep Tucker away from you, will you once the Brewster poe row afternoon? 1 want to see the colonel’s fine horses, and he has invited me, you know." Smith's eyes darkened. “There ig a limit, Verda, and you've reached it,” he said quickly. “If the because you didn't leave chance not to. bey,” and with that he handed her into the walting elevator and sald, “Good. night.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Anticipating a Slump. be so much concerned even if I am losing my hair? 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WAR All IS DECLARED ON MICE Household Pets Should Be Kept Away From Food, Says Govern. ment Experts, fany onic mouse ants, pests 2 abe and other properly that any itry is good keep ink ventilation, | rapidly make or spoil. make vegetables owers thelr quality. DOOT : ferment The Last of the Caribs the rep. red mao to ravel. He bus and in the West » Caribbean wired a long as geography shall needs it, because as 8 practically disap- The Carll n Il WAS first Colum is asst | Mas Caribs 1992 is They the worked them when iz doubtfu hundred pure- Practically all the British island of on a reservation set apart called Salybia. When friend by lending him a smali sum of money you get the best of the bargain f thousands of West Indies in natter of conjecture gan under to die out conqueror, w ho and shot Today It are a aribs alive. slaves, War. Here ive on you lose a NX for Tomorrow Many people seem able to drink coffee for a time without apparent harm, but when health disturbance, even though slight, I coffee’s use, it is wise to investigate, Thousands of homes, where coffee was found to ditagre have changed the Instant Postum With improved health, and it usually follows, change made becomes a permanent one. |t pays to prepare for the health of tomorrow. “There's a Reason”
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