m lg famil\| Pi The Yukon Uy William Mucl/ood Italne 4 (Continued) The tracks of the Selfridge party grew fainter after a night of rain. More rain fell, and they were ob iterated altogether. Gordon fished. He Villed fresh janie for his needs. Often lie came >n the tracks of moose and caribou. Sometimes, startled, they leaped in :o view quite close enough for a • hot, but he used his rifle only to neet his wants. The way led through valley and norass, across hills and mountains, t wandered in a short haphazaid ashion through a sun-bathed uni t rse washed clean of sordidness and neanness. . , it was the seventh night out that •Illiot suspected he was off the trail, lain sluiced down in torrents and lext dav continued to pour from a Inn slty. His own tracks were dotted out and he searched for the rail in vain. Before he knew it io was entangled in Fifty-Mile. His nap showed him morass stretched or fiftv miles to the south, but he :new that it had been charted hur-. iedly by a surveying party which iad made no extensive explorations, i good deal of this country was erra incognita. It ran vaguely into No Man's Land unknown to the irospector. The going was heavy. Gordon iad to pick his way through the nosv swamp, leading the pack orse" by the bridle. Sometimes he as ankle-deep in water ot a green Diphtheria A sore throat is a good breeding place ' or Diphtheria germs. Protect yonrchil ren by never neglecting a Sore Throat. ' *ou can wisely depend upon TONSI .INE. Give Tonsiline upon the first ap- ! learance of Sore Throat don't give ; Hphtheria a chance is that throat in its reakened condition. 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The young man staggered forward till dusk. Utterly exhausted, he camped for the night on a hillock of moss that rose like an island in the swamp. KUiot traveled next day by the compass. He had food for three days more, but he know that no liv ing man had the strength to travel for so long in such a morass. It was near midday when he lost his horse. | The animal had bogged down sev eral times and Gordon had wasted much time and spent a good deal of needed energy in dragging it to firmer footing. This time the pony refused to answer the whip. Its master unloaded pack and saddle. He tried coaxing; he tried the whip. "Come, Old-Timer. One plunge, and you'll make it yet," he urged. The pack-horse turned upon him dumb eyes of reproach, struggled to free its limbs from the mud, and sank down helplessly. It had trav eled its last yard on the long Alaska trails. After the sound of the shot bad died away, Gordon struggled with the pack to the nearest hummock. He cut holes in a gunny-sack to fit his shoulders and packed into it his blankets, a saucepan, the beans, the coffee, and the diminished handful) of flour. Into it went, too, the three j slices of bacon that were left. He hoisted the pack to his back j and slipped his arms through the j slitj he had made. Painfully he 1 labored forward over the quivering j peat. Sometimes he stumbled and j went down into the oozing mud, minded to stay there and be done! with the struggle. But the urge cf life drove him to his feet again. It j carried him for weary miles after j he despaired of ever covering an-! other hundred yards. With old, half-forgotten signals j from the football he spurred j his will. Perhaps his mind was al- 1 ready beginning to wander, though ; through it all he held steadily to the direction that alone could save i him. When at last he went down to stay it was in an exhaustion so complete that not even his indomitable will could lash him to his feet again. For an hour he lay in a stupor, never stirring even to fight the swarm cf mosquitoes that buzzed about him. Toward evening he sat up and undid the pack from his back. The matches, in a tin box wrapped care fully with oilskin, were still perfectly dry. Soon he had a fire going and coffee boiling in the frying-pan. From the tin cup he carried strung on his belt he drank the coffee.* It went through him like strong >lquor. Ho warmed some beans and fried himself a slice of bacon, sopping up the grease with a cold biscuit left over from the day before. Again he slept for a few hours. RARRJSBTTRG TET.EGRAPH He had wound his watch mechon- j ically and it showed him four j o'clock when he took up the trail j once more. In Seattle and San Fran- j cisco people were still asleep and j darkness was heavy over the land. | Here it had been day for a long! time, ever since the summer sun, i hidden for a while behind the low, distant hills, had come blazing forth | a sr. in in a saddle between two peaks. Gordon had reduced his pack by discarding a blanket, the fryrng pan and all the clothing he was not wearing. His rifle lay behind him in the swamp. He had cut to a minimum of safety what newts carrying, according to his judgment. But before long his last blanket was flung aside. He could not af ford to carry an extra pound, for he knew he was running a race, the stakes of which were life and death. Afternoon found him still stagger- i i/ig ward. The swamps were now behind him. He had won through at! last by the narrowest margin pes- ; sible. The ground was rising i sharply toward the mountains. Across the range somewhere lay Kamatlah. But he was all in. With hii: food almost gone, a water supply uncertain, reserve strength ex hausted, the chances of getting over the divide to safety were practically none. He had come, so far as he could see, to the end of the passage. (To be Continued) Daily Dot Puzzle 4 • 5 z 3 3o ~ IO ,19-Xv ? a i • • 26.—^ 25 24- • 12 * • 8 • *7 25 ' IZ ' 19 15 *2i 15 • 2o mV •lfc * l6 ) •'7 Just thirty lines and one will bring A man as tall as anything. Draw from one to two and so on to the end. CulimHealed Intenseltching j Of Pimples and Blackheads On ' Face. Scratched Causing Disfig ! uxement. Could not Sleep. Lasted 5 Weeks. Healed at Cost of $1.50. "My face was full of pimples and I blackheads. The pimples festered and | icaledover and the itching was so intense t that I scratched, thus causing disfigurement. Sometimes I could not sleep. This trouble lasted about five weeks and I used Cal cium Wafers but with out success. "Finally I saw a Cuticura Soap and Ointment advertisement and sent for a free sample. I bought more and I used two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and two cakes of Cuticura Soap when I was healed. "(Siened)Geo. I.Hain, Friedens burg, Pa., March 15, 1917. Keep your skin clear by daily use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. For Free Sample Each by Return Mail address post-card: "Cuticura, Dept. H, Boston." Sold everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25and 50c. Life's Problems Are Discussed By MRS. WILSON WOODKOW |There. little girl, don't cry. You have broken your doll, I know."| Five letters in one mail delivery! and each one of them a sob. There is really no differentiation in | troubles; whether your woe is in resi- | son or out of It, it is still a woe. There is no hard and fast Him! be tween the real and the imaginWy. If I you have the blues for no cause I under the sun, you still have the! blues; and they are just as hard to bear as if there were a definite ex cuse for them. But why should we multiply our bothers and griefs, and then study them under a magnify ing glass? Here is one of the letters: "I have always striven to show a! cheerful countenance. But often I have found it very hard; for if I was naturally cheerful there would be po need of an extra effort. "I didn't know I really looked cheerful until some time ago some one remarked. "I believe nothing would go wrong if you were around. You're a regular gloom-chaser.' "Now. Mrs. Woodrow, when I often feel very blue and discour aged, and still people think I am care-free, and when hot temper seems ready to burn me up and still I keep it -within me and try to be sweet, am I not deceiving? Am I not false to everyone and to my self? CONSCIOUS." Fudge! my dear "Conscious!" As j the family doctor, I prescribe a little i genuine sin for you. You are in danger of becoming too good. Stop always bottling up that hot temper. | Give it a day out now and then, and J let it burn someone else. Why , should you have all the scars? And i chase that New England conscience lof yours. It is beginning to tryan -1 nize over you terribly. A New Eng < land conscience is like a little know : ledge—a dangerous thing. You've got to keep it firmly in its place, or i it'll lend by bossing you and all of your affairs. And, please, if you would be loved and your companionship sought, do not be determinedly cheerful. Just be cheerful. A "determinedly cheer ful person is certain to bring out the worst traits in everyone about. I met one of them on the street the other day. I am very careful never to mept her anywhere else, al , though we have known each other for years. And there she was with the same neat, varnished smile on her lips, and the same hard, bright eyes which never smile. I am glad I never meet her at the | breakfast table: that is - no place ' for determinedly cheerful people. ; I am sure I would never be able to sit opposite her and decorously eat my eggs. I would have to hurl i them straight at that unvarying smile. And as to whether you a deceiv- | ing yourself and your friends by! appearing cheerful when you do not! feel so. I can't see that any moral j question is involved. No matter how| demanding and intrusive your friends! may be, they can hardly dictate to! you what face you shall show to the j world. , It's none of their business ifj you choose to wear the mask of l gaiety, even though your heart isj ballasted with lead. We are not liv-1 ing primarily to please our friends, but to be worth while to ourselves. You might just as well argue, "When I feel in a lazy, indifferent mood and do not take the least in terest in dressing my hair becom ingly or putting on my hat pt the right angle and getting out a fresh pair o( gloves; and yet do so be cause I am impelled by the force of habit and mv own self-respest, am I not deceiving myself and my friends?" In the last analvsis. and on a basis of strict fact, probably you are. But what of it? When some dear friend unsheathes her cat-claws j.nd scratches you an inch deep, and you feel like slanoine her face then and there, are you deceiving your friends by withholding your hand? Cer tainly not! You are merely obeying the unwritten laws of polite society. It's quite permissible to claw her in turn —two inches deep, if you can— with the iron word in the velvet phrafie; but a taboo is set on she bare hand. Your nails are sup posed to be manicured and orna mental, not sharpened for use. ! Therefore, let your scratching be verbal; and never that, unless j>ou are driven to it. The cat in woman is her most detestable asset. To give it prominence is not playing the game according to the Marquis of Queensbury rules. It is your duty, a debt you owe to the world, to show it your smil ing, pleasant, attractive side, and let your darker, sadder characteris tics die from atrophy and because you absolutely refuse to give them any attention. What right have you to cloud any one's else sunshine? A girl who has earned the title of "Gloom-Chaser" need not •wori-y much about whether she is a de ceiver or not. It is a very nice, commendable deception. If you are unhappy, yours is not the only heartbreak in the world; and our private heartbreaks are a matter oi no importance to any one but our selves. Our friends, our acquaintances, the world at large are deserving of the very best we have to give them, all the smiles, all the gayety, all the good cheer. Our moods ere matters of habit; and it's just as easy to have the habit of having nice moods as horrid ones. Don't get cynical about people because they do not always come up to your exalted expectations. People are all right. Every on has an interesting side, I don't care who it may be. And we can't judge very soundly from exteriors. I was once situated for a short time in a small community far away from the beaten tracks of the world. The weather was bad, and there was nothing to do all day long but to cook and play cards. I never heard so much gossip in my life. Every one whispered dark, suspi cions of every one else. But one woman in particular came in for the lion's share. She was suspected of being a spectacular adventuress in cognito, and I as the last comer was solemnly warned against her. And then occurred a succession of heavy snowfalls. No trains could make their way up the mountain and there was an alarming shortage of provisions. It was then discov ered that the suspected lady had a much better stocked larder than any of the rest of us. How sud denly public opinion veered? New The Umbrella Co. 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Everyone made it a point to say in loud, iirm tones, "I never believed one thing they said about her. My dear, she is perfectly sweet." And so she was. A lady who had tired of teaching school and had Sought the solitudes in order to write a book. And if I had not fol lowed my intense desire to meet a wicked adventuress incognita and hastily made her acquaintance, I should not have had the first whack at her best canned goods. So, as Kipling remarks, it doesn't always pay to look to good nor talk too wise. DEAF AND Dl Mil MAN KILLED Halifax. Pa,, Dec. lS.—Charles Da ney, agpd 43 years, was instantly killed Monday evening when a fast passenger train struck him when he attempted to cross the railroad be tween Millfcrsburg and Halifax. The accident was not discovered until several hours later. Mr. Doney was deaf and dumb and lived alone at Millersburg. 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