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? The Barber—"Why,
sir. anyone is annoyed to find his busi.
pess falling off,”
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WAR
All
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Household Pets Should Be Kept
Away From Food, Says Govern.
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fany
onic
mouse
ants,
pests
2 abe
and other
properly
that any
itry is good
keep
ink
ventilation,
| rapidly make
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make vegetables
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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”