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WHEN NATURE FROWNS.
Nature is 1d dame,
nature writers an ts to the
contrary notwithstand Go at
her with a club and will give
ly. But she alwa) wat
a chance 10 get Heg of her
and she ig cruel as t! She
mistakes, and
she resents man's sion
wild places
not
hes for
even
Brave
always
into
pardor no
Big M
gtory of Cana
skew
So around
CHAPTER |,
1
en. | ee
A Belt From the Blue,
below ; fair
December in New Mar
forest, ough It ‘hill
midsumn shuts out
edge of the winds that mak
ries, farthe uth, an icy
Here the bush i
to stretch out |
bedraggled patch
crOnning
ropping
it be
rocks,
n once mo:
heart
and scoop
frozen soil,
drawn, |!
finge
These
he les
that
1
often sodden
were huge
sometimes filled with water,
they lnkes ;
formed
spon
etub
days wher i
companies ways for
the
were pegging out
Hnes tha Ww » to divert
north, Joe Bo ck line had been the
joke f
Those
br :
wheat
noiers
other
1ilt
he
*
Comj
And showly
sharehold
Ens
ties hat
keg.
of the
hed and
weather-
need
se
inquiry i
There was no
nt that
of each man
moment, bec
dwelt on the
*
The two meh had come east by dog.
sleigh) accompanied by two half-
breeds, Jean Passepartout and Papil-
lon, the one in charge of the dogs,
other the transit-compass,
They had camped seven miles back on
the preceding evening,
at daybreak to survey
lands from the ridge
lem which had suddenly
confront thon clamored
before construction
forward, and on its
the future of the Miseatibi,
With the physical
nor Carruthers
plish anything
tnspiration,
Theoretically he was endeavoring to
carrying
the swamp-
For the prob-
risen
for solution
could be carried
solut
eye
accom-
was seeking
could hope to
Wilton
might be coaxed above the unstable,
quaking surface with tresfling
erib-work, a crossing that combined
per cent of grade and four degrees of
unconscd fously he
eking to interpret the natural
had, In time hmmeasur
the
swamp seeping Into
Actually and wins
con
which
cloven ridge of the
the
ibly remote
and set
fissure,
waning of that
“the mind
tect, he could
If he could read the 1
understand
mood of the great Arc
irvoyantly,
and
as if cls where the
roots of
thinnest
the hills, where bhi would
\npear
appent
3
the soonest above the sucking
But he
Joe
read nothin
Bostock
could
thinking, Wil
ti tlone
day If the
y he
to de
erant
Thi t was the nearest speech
- incible ty}
spair tf Joe invinaoinie, exun
optimist that he was, had ever ma
Weeks,
sue, with work halted, and the Miss
resurvey must
tibl's precari
ne
21
111t
blune
rent
obbles of
Joe Bostock Laid His
Other Man's Shoulders.
Bowyer and
those HNKOUN
tons of rock
Wilton,
valles “We'll beat
We've made a bad blunder,
Crooked
though 1 can't Imagine why
gang should take the trouble fo hurt
us unless, of course, they guess—"
Joe Bostock shook his head.
haven't guessed that, Wilton”
“I'll stake my hat on
that, There ain't nobody except me
and you and Kitty knows. It's jest
bad luck, Wilton—"
Joe could never sense treachery nor
of
worl without doubt
and if that weakness had kept
him. in the main, a poor man, it had
“At the best it's gross negligence”
Wilton. “Those SUrveyors
I accepted their
go out with the
and follow them
all up to check their results. But 1
might have sounded Big Muskeg 1
His volce choked, “Joe, If
any sense, you'll fire me
reports, [1 couldn't
you have
Joe the
humm
ous smile eame on his face. “Well, |
not, Wilton,” he sald. “You
ain't to blame, You've done all that
mortal man could do. The Missatibl
Bostock lald his hands on
lh
eae er
S——
built at ail
Why,
dared
couldn't he been
Fire you?
if ]
ive with-
Kitty'd have
such a
out you,
Suggest
frowned
the
involuntarily at the
pretty young wile
whom Joe Bostock had married in
Winnipeg the before. Joe's f
marriage had unhapiy
mg ago, and W
been a sep
nee 1o
year
been
been 1
had
Wis
iHiton knew
aration. thougt
retice;
Kitty was
than Joe, a h
into fast friends!
n deen ie hetween
always
five
ger
vened
down, and, in the
of his loss and his
shouted curses
murder had beer
t y doubt
fired at
hare n
eds He suspected
following
} Ye: t
bullet
APS a
them
seeing the
and
ought that
was
this might he
the
one
explanation
Joe was dead,
only a fleeting
and his body must
be cared for, just as if he
back to the camp and
of the woods There wag no Pos.
sibility of leaving Joe's hody there.
Yet it seemed to him that could
not hope to reach the camp. And
now another idea came to him.
It was seven miles back to the eamp,
but only five to the portage
frozen swamp. Upon the other side
of the portage was a trail that came
out of the prairie southward and
wound Into the unknown north.
alive
thence
were
he
ter catches
MeDonald,
ny
to the trading-store of
the factor of the Hudson's
company.
of the great Muskeg, but it
menn two miles less,
possible to make the store, MeDon-
ald was a queer, tacliurn, sometimes
venomous old man, and had evinced a
strong dislike of Wilton on the occa.
gion of thelr last meeting. Yet Me.
Donald world shelter him and receive
Joe's body. And then there was Molly,
his daughter,
Wilton, having made his choice, act.
od on It at once, With a great effort
he raised Joe's stiffening form upon
a
wulder ; and doggedly hi
awful journey, bis right
Ing the dead 1» « HN
the tou rolquet- sti
began
arm grasp
hy 2lple 8%
DUESing ‘KK against
his side
He stumbléd over the ro gr
he reached the cleared road
the Here Sie wes
ound
trees,
“And somehow, breaking the
rotten ice in front of her body,
the girl succeeded in gelling
Wilton to the shore.”
SHUT OUT WATER AND DUST
Nature Has Provided for the Hermet
ical Closing of Nostrils of
Seal and Camel
vhert
al is, without dou
diver in the animal
a very ingen
Each
with museles which close It
And
when
drop of
, and
ontrive.
aovided
hermeticals
his nose is
ance indeed nostri
the shape
the
water
iy at the owner's will,
is such that
losed not a
of the nose
triis
can enter
With seals the closing of the nostrils
moment of diving bas become
This is wonderful enough,
can tee a still more remarkable appli
cation of the smne principle in an ani
mal as far removed from the
The animal.
seal is a water
an inhabitant of the dries:
deserts, Now, why
require such an apparatus? He is not
troubled with water, but he is trou.
bled with dust; not the dust that we
gee In this country, but the fierce,
blinding duststorms of the desert.
These are so violent “that tiny par.
ticles are driven into the works of
even the most finely made wateh, which
becomes at once clogged and useless
If the camel had not nostrils which
were perfectly dusttight he could
never endure the dreadful sand and
dust storms,
Helps
MAKE HOME A BEAUTY SPOT
Matter Is More One of Careful
Thought Than Mere Expenditure
of Actual Cash.
ghtening
the
HERE IS SPIRIT THA T WINS
“Boost” Is the
Everything to the
the Commun
The City Beautiful.
have too
00 many pretty
Progress
ng made annuall
interest among
unirs
iders a hot
nd
for shabbin
indglenc
use or a town whic
areiess occupants,
only for prin
one to attract the
energetic want to
erty is no excuse for shabhiness,
humblest dwelling does not need to
be shabby Shabbiness is careviess
ness, not flimsiness,. Many a flimsy
little cottage or cabin exhibits a qual-
ity that is far superior to shabbiness,
It Is the careless, untenanted, dilapl
dated, apathetic look to a man's home.
a man's town, or a man's clothing that
gives it shabbiness. One needn't be
shabby in overalls any more than in a
tallor-made suit.—Dallas (Tex) News.
Lion's Meal of Porcupine Fatal,
The victim of its own rapacity, a
dead mountain lion is on exhibition
in Stevensville, Mont. Two local hun.
ters “bagged” the beast with so little
trouble that they were puzzled, until
an examination of the lion's mouth
showed it had attempted to feast upon
a porcupine. ARghavating darts had
become imbedded In the membrane,
preventing the animal from partaking
of food. Spikes of the “quill pig” had
been known to kill beasts in a similar
manner. The lion on exhibition is of
unusual size.
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sort of peop
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Dyspepsia Entirely Overcome and She
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gaid Mrs. Celesta Fell,
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32 Prince street,
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