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“A MAN-DEVIL"
Synopsis. —Part wolf, part dog
-when two months old Bares
has his first meeting with an
enemy, FPapayuchisew (young
owl). Fighting hard, the antag-
oniets are suddenly plunged into
a swollen creek. Badly buffeted,
and half drowned, Baree is final-
ly flung on the bank, but the
water has destroyed his sense of
direction and he ts lost, lonely
and hungry. For many days his
life is one of fear and distress.
He meets various creatures of
the wild and goes through a
thunderstorm He Is learning
more and more He strays Into
the trapping grounds of Flerrot
and Nepeese Nepeese wounds
Bares with a rifle, but he es-
capes. Baree decovers and learns
nature's secrets rapidly. Nepeess
is determined to catch Baree and
tame him and tries again. Baree
is strongly drawn to the girl, but
still fears man Bares makes
friends with the beaver.
Chapter V-—Continued
ann J (Jon
It may be that Umisk saw him.
may be that very the
adventure wax known by
inhabitants of Beaver Town
when Baree came upon Umisk
his supper of alder bark that evening,
Umisk stood his ground the last
inch, and for the first
smelled noses. At Baree sniffed |
audibly, and pincky sal |
like a rolled-up sphinx was the
cementing of t
Baree's
It
of
the
For |
soon story
his nll
eating
to
time they
least
tittle 1
That
eir friendship
ahout |
mis)
misk
nal h
He
few moments,
liked him,
on part capered
extravagantly
ing Umlisk how much he
they'd chums. 1
talk.
he
Was 1 compunie
for all th
1 than he |
he left the old
That friendship
wardly
for a tell
and
Le Tmisk
He
resumed
that
didn’t
until
Rreat
didn't make a move
his supper
mahle looking |
low. at. and Baree was
aid heen sineg the
indfall
1 ord
it out
appeared to be quite ones ded
fortunate for Umisk,
the pond he al
even tho
vas decidedly
When Baree was al
ways kept as near to Umisk
sible, when he could find
day he was lying in a patch of grass,
half asleep, while Umisk busied him
elif in a clump of aldershoots a few |
yards away. It was warning
erack of a beaver tall that fully
roused Daree: and then another and
another, like pistol-shots. He jumped
up. Everywhere heavers were scurry-
ing for the pond.
Just then Umisk came out of the al
ders and hurried as fast as his short,
fut legs would carry
vater He had almost
mud when na
passed before in the
afternoon sun, and in another Instant
Napakasew-—the he-fox
liis sharp in
Baree heard his little
cry: he
flap of
pounded suddenly
excitement and rage.
As swiftly as the red fox Limseif,
Baree darted to the rescue He was
#8 big and as heavy as the fox, and
when he struck Napakusew, it was
with a ferocious snarl that Pierrot
might have heard on the farther side
of the pond, and bis teeth sank like |
knives into the shoulder of Umisk's |
assallant. The fox was of a breed of |
forest highwaymen which kills from
behind. He was not a fighter when it |
came fang-to-fang, uniess cornered
nnd so flerce and sudden was Baree's
ussault that Napakasew took to flight |
almost as quickly as he had begun his |
nitack on Umisk,
Baree did not follow him, but went
to Umisk, who lay haif in the mud
whimpering and snufling in a curious
sort of way. Gently Baree nosed him,
and after a moment or two Umisk got
up on his webbed feet, while fully
twenty or thirty beavers were making
a tremendous fuss in the water pear
the shore
After this the heaver pond seemed
wore than ever like home to Baree
a8 pos
him One
the
him toward the |
reached the
lightning flash of red
Baree's eyes
had fastened
fangs Umisk's throat
friend's agonized
tar
»fiap-
blood
of
a
heard the frenzied flag
many talls—and his
thrill
Chapter VI
While lovely Nepeese was shudder.
ing over her thrilling experience un-
der the rock—while Plerrot still of.
fered grateful thanks in his pravers
for her deliverance and Baree was be-
coming more and more a fixture at the
beaver-pond-—Bush McTaggart was
pérfecting a little scheme of his own
up at Post Lac Bain, about forty
miles north and west. McTaggart had
been Factor at Lac Bain for seven
years. In the Company's hooks down
in Winnipeg he was counted a remark
ably successful man. The expense of
Lis post was below the average, and
his semi-annual report of furs always
ranked among the first. After his |
name, kept on file In the main office,
was one notation which sald: “Gets
more out of 5 dollar than any other
man north of God's lake."
The Indians knew why this was 80,
They called him Napao Wetikoo-—the
man-devil, This utder their
breath—a name whispered sinisterly
in the glow of tepee fires, or spoken
softly where not even the winds might
carry It to the ears of Bush MceTag:
wart. They feared him; they hated
him. They died of starvation and
sickness, and the tighter Bush Me.
Tuggart clenched the fingers of his
fron rule, the more meekly, it seemed
to him, did they respond to his mas-
tery. His was a small soul, hidden In
the hulk of a brute, which rejoiced In
power. And herewith the raw
wilderness on four sides of him-—his
power knew no end. The Big Com-
vany was behind Lim. It had made
Was
By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
(@. Doubleday, Page & Co.)
WNU Service
him king of a domain in which there
was little law except his own, And
in return he gave back to the Com-
pany bales and bundles of furs beyond
thelr expectation, It was not for them
to have suspicions, They were =n
thousand or more miles away-—-and
dollars counted.
Gregson might have told, Gregson
was the investigating agent of that
district, who visited McTaggart once
each year. He might have reported
that the Indians called McTaggart
Napuo Wetikoo hecause he gave them
only half price for their furs: he
might have told the Company quite
plainly that he kept the people of the
trap-lines at the edge of starvation
through every month of winter,
that he had them on their knees with
lis hands at their throats—putting the
truth in a mild and pretty way and
that he always had a woman or a girl,
Indian halfbreed, living with him
the Post,
much
the
or
nt
visits too at Lac Bain, Always
pleasures: and in addition to that, his
womenfolk at
treasure of fur that
McTaggart
evening,
home wore a rich
came to them
from
One A week after
venture of Nepeese and Baree
the rock. MgTaggart sat
glow of an in
weeks there had
unrest I
Pierrot Lad brought
first visit to Lae Bain
rad Factor
his breath aw
ad-
under
the
under
“store.”
him
oil lamp his
For six heen in
a great was just
Nepeese
on her ®ince
McTaggart
Qi had ta
been there
ay Sines
nk of nat!
weeks
ken
heen abl
her Twi in that xix
down ta Plerrot's cabin
vag going again
on wir
al
tt aver In his
tten iinzen
ant
as a
slipped
he lind argo frist
had
was Nepeese now
others before Marie
of his memory, It
never seen ansthing
as Plerrot’'s gir!
hind guile
Audibly he cursed Plerrot
looked
ne
at su sheet of paper under his
on which for hour ar
he had been making notes out of worn
and dusty Company It
Plerrot who stood in his way
arcording to those notes
full-hinoded
Plerrot
an
more
ledgers
had
Frenchman
half
quarter
heen »
was
and Nepeess wasn French
there was not than
of Indian Clhippe
Ojibway, Dog Rib--any-
wonld no
in the mntter world
more
a drop or two
wayan, (‘ree
thing
trouble at
heen
He
wer
there have
ell
have hent then to Lis w and
come to his cabin
But
Nepeese would have
as Marie came six
errsed
miming ago
there was the a« French of
Plerrot and vepeese wore ((ifferent
He smiled grimly. and his hands
clenched tighter After all, was
power Wonld
nzainst
he would
from
not
sufficient? even
1?
drive him
trapping
Plerrot dare stand that?
Plerrot objected
from the country the
heritage from father and grandfather
and even before their day. He would
make of Plerrot a wanderer and an
outenst., as he had
and outcasts of a score of others whe
had lost his favor No other Post
to or buy from Plerrot if
Ie Bete—-the black cross was put
after his name That was his power
It was »
tremendous power for evil It had
brought him Marie, the silm,
eyed Cree girl, who hated him -and
In spite of her hatred “kept house for
him.” That was the polite way of
explaining her pressnce If explana.
tions were ever necessary.
McTaggart looked again at the notes
Plerrot’'s trapping country. his own
property according to the common law
of the wilderness, was very valuable
During the last seven years he had
received an average of & thousand dol-
lars a year for his furs, for McTag-
gart had been unable to cheat Pierrot
quite as completely as he had cheated
the Indians. A thousand dollars a
year! Plerrot would think twice he-
fore he gave that up. McTaggart
chuckied as he made his way through
the darkness to the door. Nepeese an
good as belonged to him, He
have her if it cost—Plerrot's life,
why not? It was all so easy
shot on a lonely trap-line, a single
knift-thrust —and who wonid know?
Who would guess where Plerrot had
gone? And it would all be Plerrot's
fanit. For the last time he had seen
Plerrot, he had made an honest propo-
sition: he would marry Nepeese. Yes,
even that. He had told Plerrot so. He
had told Plerrot that when the latter
was his father-in-law, he would pay
him double price for furs.
And Plerrot had stared —had stared
with that strange, stunned look in his
face, like a man dazed by a blow from
a club, And so If he did not get
Nepeese without trouble it would all
be Pierrot’'s fault. Tomorrow McTag-
gart would start again for the half.
breed's country. And the next
Pierrot would have an answer for him,
Trimming Worn on
New Sport Styles
Elaboration Introduced Ac-
cording to Use Garment
Is to Be Given.
With the exception of the practical
sports costume which Is worn for ten
pis or any other strenuous sport and
which continues to adhere to strictly
plain tailored lines and Is devold of
all adornment, practically sll sports
he went to hed
Until the next to the last day Pier
rot sald nothing te Nepeese about
what had passed bLetween him and
the Factor at Lac Bain. ‘Then he told
her,
"He
said,
is a
when
man-devil,” he
he had finished. “1 would
See you out with her
And he pointed the tall
spruce under which the princess moth
er lay.
henst na
there
dead.” to
Nepeese
fut
had sound
and
her
seen
when he
tuller to
quiie so
not uttered na
eyes had grown
and there was a
which had
She stood up
done, and she seemed
Never had she looked
her bigger
flush in
Pierrot never
had
were deep-shadowed
as
off
fenr and
her while
northwest
with
he watched
into
Bain
zed
Lac
the
She was wonderful, this slip of a
wird
He
Faggart's
woman, Her beauty troubled him
hind seen the look In Bush Me
He had
McTaggart's volee, He had
the of a beast in Me
It had frightened him
now fright
hands
In his heart there was
At
came and sat
his feet
eves heard the
desire
Taggart's face
at first But
He
he was not
ened wag uneasy, but his
a smoldering fire
t
inst Nepeese
turned an
down beside
im again, at
‘He is coniing tomorrow, ma cherie,’
“What shail I tell him?
The Willow's
But
her father.
Were
she did
Her
look up
HpR red
Hot
at
“Nothing, Nootawe
mre to say to Llm th
he must
except that you
at 1 am the one to
whom for what he
seekn”
Pierrot
smiling
come
hent
The
over and
sun went
her
His
caught
down
lke cold lead
» » » » * . »
From min to
Lac
ut
Vierrot's
ball »
miles from where
on =
within mile of the
beaver pond, a dozen
and
Creel
Plerrot lived : here
in whirh
for Baree, that
his for
fr 1 +}
tiles of the
ROR
twist of
had
the
caught fish
Hush
made the
int i
Binp
night Only twenty four
4 b
aey con
Mc
¢ made by canoe, and as
Inst
a simple
tight
pre
09
aggart was traveling the
h afoot, his tRmp was
affair-a few
blanket, =
out
1
small fire
balsas, =a
tefore hie
i" the Factor drew a
opper-wire snares from his
pack and spent half an hour In
setting them in rabbit runways. This
method of securing meat was far less
arduous than carrying & gun In hot
weather, and it was certain. Hall »
snares were good at least
three rabbits, and one of these three
sure be young and tender
enough for the frying-pan. After he
had placed his snares McTaggart set
a skillet of bacon over the coals and
belled his coffee
Of all the odors of a
supper
number of
small
for
fo
camp, the
forest It needs ne wind,
on its ewn wings. On a still aight a
fox will salff it a mile away—twice
that far If the alr ls moving ia the
right direction. It was this smell of
baron thet came te Bares where he
Since his experience in the canyon
and the death of Wakayoo, he had not
fared particularly well Caution had
held him near the pond and he had
lived aimost entirely on crawfish. This
new perfume that came with the night
wind roused his hunger. But it was
elusive: now he could smell
next instant it was gone. He left the
of it In the forest, until after a time
he lost it altogether, McTaggart had
finished frying his bacon and was eat.
Enter the villain, Bush Mec.
Taggart! How doee Bares ft
into the situation,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The doctor who used to feel his
patient's pulse or gaze Into a gaping
mouth to determine the cause of ill
ness nowadays takes a drop of blood
to analyze. The guilt for much of
human suffering has been traced to
the germs, tiny but deadly, which
force their entrance into the human
body, and which can only be detected
by such analysis,
“Blood tests provide us with clews
to an ever-growing number of all:
ments,” sald a doctor to the writer.
“It 1s being found, for Instance, that
eye complaints are often due to the
absorption of germs which have af.
fected other parts of the body, such
ns the tonsils, We can often detect
them by testing the blood.
something taken in from without-
usually microscopic germs. More and
more of these germs are becoming
known “to us every day. There Is
reason to believe that the origins of
other diseases which are still un-
known may be found in the same
cause"
But Wait a Few Years
Little Esther, who was draping near
to her third birthday, was taken by
her mother to be fitted for a new
hat, She protested, “What for do 1
want another hat? I'se got only one
head.” Her father tells this story
with great gusto. Boston Transcript
tor, says a fashion writer in the Cleve
land News,
Now that so many varieties of cos-
tumes are placed in the category of
elaboration is introduced
or informality of its character,
The handmade silk sports frock In-
variably Is diversified with drawn-
work (which, by the way, Is recelving
the Indorsement of many exclusive
houses), hand-tucking, and hemstitch-
ing
The yachting costume of jersey or
flannel relies piping, gilt braid,
contrasting hindings, and perhaps a
trim embroidered monogram-motift on
on
i
i
}
i
cored Shantung.
thie hreast poch
jumper,
The sports frock, which
at tea and Informal dan
represented in
fabrics, and employs an
of trimming,
colorful painting
effects In
is suitable
ing
iy pes
for wens
parties, is many
and
ted
unlim
choice chief
which
pry, novel
sionally lace
Brilliant effects are achieved with
nodernistie and plastic printing, Rus.
tian embroidery, and hand blocked de-
signs In some of the frocks which
are cut
isually are interpreted In heavy silk
are embroid
wool and occa
‘sed floral or fruit patterns are exe
ted In vivid purples. rose, greens
ind blues on the sleeve section slone,
the sieeve, when it Is permitted to
of the design.
Plaited frills are widely indorsed
Dress That Features
No wardrobe is quite complete this
stason without something plaid. Here
is shown an attractive dress of plaid
taffeta, with collar, cuffs and trim.
ming of solid color. The dress fea-
tures the tight.fitting waist and skirt
fulled over the hips, long sleeves and
medium high neck
Scarf Materials Range
From Silks to Chiffon
There arf for
and the
smartly attired sees
iE RR we every occasion,
won ishes to be
that
wihio Ww
o it
costume,
an
siie has
whether
ing tallleur, sports out
ensemble evening
sult and
scarf,
one ta go with each
it . be
ft
fit
the morn
afternoon
For t
there Is
or
dress he tallored top-
quite
in =
These
of col
woolen ms
is an
the
coat the giglio
long,
of the neck
narrow and
knot at
scarfs «
ors that
terials
not very tring
the side
ome in
A wide variety
blend well with
For
selection,
there
ranging
to squares made
printed silk Rilk scarfs
have designs
bright
looking
watering
sports wear
from
sheerest of
of
with wh
chiffons
hiravy
ite background
executed clear biunes and
Bre 80
ng to the
in
ey summery
that
and
arfs in
nnis golf
paste
rotught out in
ong
with intricate
wide
olors
designs. The small square
old
which are copied from
are folded in haif at
worn sc that the double
protect throat from
hiffon on account
of the sheerness of the material, are
more voluminous than those of silk.
Being both wide and long they drape
about the neck and shoulders,
and may be worn with equal impunity
with « afternoon frock or elab
orate eveuing dress. The selection
prints,
'
the
scarfs,
on
Chiffon scarfs with back-
in white and the pastel
catch the apirit of summer
skies and gardens when decorated
scheme
grounds
ers and woodland scenes. They sug
motion which characterizes this year's
in an oveasional skirt raffle, careful,
silhouette.
Crocheted wool in novel
i
i
i
1
i
i
collars.
both susde and glace,
panels and
Teather, in
and collar trimming or swagger moter
traveling coats, as well as in
tailored jumper
twill or flannel.
Smocking is. accented
embroidery In floral or
stitch effects also Is sponsored enthu-
siastically.
Handling of Taffeta
in Building New Gown
for all types has been so successful
that some are likely to dread the in.
expert handling of taffeta. With
and tucks taffeta is bound to be well
liked. But taffeta can make the fiat.
test gowns in the world, [Its surface
is fiat to begin with, and something
must be done in the handling of it to
give It depth and sheen. And espe.
cially must it be employed carefully
for the large woman; for, while she
is going to wear it because it is such
a “pleasant” material, she can cher.
ish no illusions about it not making
her look larger. It will do that very
thing unless the making of it Is per.
fect—and then If will increase size a
little.
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Last Year's Tendencies
fast year's tendencies. There is a
warm sentiment for plala colors,
though patterns of several types will
be worn. There are
in figured goods the
designs conventionalized In
but reproduced In natural
the modernistic tendency evi:
dent in cubist figures; aod the small
patterns called by their creators “con-
fettl” Tiny geometric patterns,
checks, and above all, polka dots are
in great demand and are exceedingly
among women who prefer
chic to display. There are many love
ly things In ombre silks and crepes,
some stripes, and there is an absolute
gowns for printed borders. These are
in the printed voiles and
the pattern being done In
beautiful colors on a tinted back:
ground.
New Mode From Paris
The blue cloth ensemble from
France has returned to the mannish
made, carried out In most punctilious
detail. The fulldength coat of navy
Under this a sleeveless frock is made
tends Into a narrow belt,
the line of the coat. An utterly mas.
culine shirt of gray striped silk, invis.
ible hip pockets and a skirt
which turns up for all the world like
a trouser enff, attain the nth degree
of virility In the feminine gender,
HOW TO KEEP
WELL
mma ean
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of “HEALTH”
®
RAISING ELKS FOR FOOD
i926, Westers Newspaper Union. )
RIMITIVE man planted no seeds
and reaped no crops. He got his
food from the trees, with no thought
posed to plant seed for future
vests was probably looked on as
spired, as well he might be.
For a still longer period, the human
race got its meat supply from wild
animals. Then the and
gentler animals, as camels
and
har-
in
commoner
cattle,
sheep, were tamed
Having once domesticated thiess ani
mals and becoming used to their meat
as food,
races, apparently pald
man and especially civilized
little attention
al
lands as they were
to any others
found
explored
Other forms of anin
1
in
new
were apparently neglected
When America was discovered and ex
no
new food «
plored attention was paid the
to
¢
ipplies found here nor was
atiempt made to hem
48 BR
SON
any develop t
y
I'he English were used to beef
Pi
meat supply and to cattle ax a
of milk.”
and
tered for their
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So the buffalo, elk, deer
other meat were sliaugh
and skirs
snd
Jools
without any cul
OQ Bave
tivate permanent
It is oniv throu)
III HCH ide
American
1%e
WHE
SOON
neal supply
+ Department of Agricul
lulletin 303 on Deer
Farming snd a number of farmers
took up this line
of breeding
In many ways elk farming is easier
and profitable than le rais
mg. Elk will thrive on less food than
any ot}
+
more cate
er member of the deer family,
) fit for nothing
else, they grow to large size, a mature
male weighing 700 to 1,000
pounds female from 600 to 800
pounds they are
an live on land
from
and a
They
hardy and
mature early,
unusually are free from
most afflict cattle
} elk
4 tal
this supply
could be de
of the disease that a
AEN
There are now in the
United
shout
and from
«at
——————
OUR INSECT ENEMIES
A. REASONER
States
of the
recent.y de.
New York be
manufacturers association
from an army officer, you
wmturally expect such an ad
iress to deal h the latest and im
proved methods of killing human be
ings and of new types of submarines,
airplanes apd long-range guns. But it
wasn't, Major Reasoner is an officer
in the medical corps and is consequent
in saving human
life than in destroying It
The enemies Major Reasoner talked
about sre not only enemies of this
country, but of the entire human race
They are pot other men, but Insects
Today the whole world is talking
about peace among men. This Is net
only sensible, but simost necessary.
It is wise and desirable that human
beings, the world over, should join
~} army
livered an address in
fore a
Coming
would
wit
tinue te fight and kill us as long as
life existn,
Instead of being Interested In Hie
destroying devices, Major Reasoner
is interested in lifesaving, and the
one invention which he says has saved
dipary fly screen,
It is Impossible, says Major Reason
er, to estimate the damage that In-
sects have done. Small as they are,
they have overthrown governments
and even blotted out whole countries,
Historians have long been unable te
explain why such powerful civiliza-
tions as those of Greece, Rome, Egypt,
Mesopotamia and Assyrian were de-
stroyed. In many cases this was due
to Insect-borne diseases which elther
wiped out the population or so
weakened the people that they were
easily conquered by some stronger
nation,
With us, the common house fly ig the
most frequent carrier of disease.
Typhold, cholera and dysentery are
spread by it, Mosquitoes carry malaria
and yellow fever, as well as two trop.
feal diseases, filariasis and dengue
Various kinds of flies carry other dis.
eases ag yaws and tularemia. Fleas
carry bubonic plagee and dJdum-dum
fever and relapsing fever. Ticks car.
ry Rocky mountain spotted fever,
For centuries no one suspected that
insects carried these diseases from
man to man. They were considered
their very
protection.
Now that
insignificance was their
know how dangerous
can be fought in the
open. Man's strength will protect him