e EE FlASH THE LEAD DOG © By GEORGE MARSH 2 ITTTRUTULT CL TUTTE Tre ern Copyright by The Penn Publishing Company WNIT Service Zn es AH ILULLCLTTT SYNOPSIS Up the wild waters of the un- known Yellow-Leg, on a winter's hunt, journey Brock McCain and Gaspard Lecroix, his French-Cree comrade, with Flash, Brock's puppy and their dog team. Brock’s father had warned him of the danger of his trip. After several battles with the stormy waters they arrive at a fork in. the Yel- low-Leg. Brock is severely in- jured in making a portage and Flash leads Gaspard to the un- conscious youth. The trappers race desperately to reach their destination before winter sets in, Flash engages in a desperate fight with a wolf and kills him. CHAPTER IV—Continued a Before dawn, Brock left the disap- pointed Flash at the camp, fastened io a tree by a leg, for his wounded neck would bear no collar, while he started to look for caribou. As the eastern sky grayed then turned to a bitter blue, Brock, with his hood over his face, shivered in a clump of scrub spiuce on the edge of a muskeg that reached away into the shadow. Here, at dawn, the caribou, if there were any in the vicinity, would come to dig the snow with their round-toed hoofs from the white reindeer.moss which grows on the barrens of tha north. Starting slowly from the forest at his right, Brock’s eyes swept the bar- ren. In the dim light he could re but a few hundred yards into the" snowy plain, bu. caribou have poor eyes and if they were there, he knew he cous. boldly stalk them ap-wind, while later, after sunrise, it would be more difficult, Brock waited until the sun lifted to turn the expanse of snow before him into a shimmering plain of fire. It was no use; there were no deer within sight. After breakfast he would make a wide circle and follow the freshest tracks he could find, for Ne had resolved not to leave Flash and go back to the main camp’ for grub. When ne had heated and skinned out the fur which he had brought in the night before, he talked to his dog in a useless attempt to soothe him in his disappointment at being tied up In camp when Brock took the trail. He spent another day on the trail of the caribou, but, although he saw a band crossing the barren at a great distance and followed numerous fresh trails, he never came up with them. He was approaching his camp and wondering if Flash had broken loose by gnawing his wire leash, when he was surprised by a chorus of yelps. “Hello, there! Got worried, did you?” he called to his partner. The dogs of the team, wired to sep- arate trees, joined Flash in a vocifer- ous welcome, “Hello, Kona, Yellow-Eye, Slit-Eear, old socks! How're the pups?’ Then not seeing a fire in the hole in the snow and receiving no answer from Gaspard, he knew that his partner had arrived early and was off on a hunt of his own. Brock built up the fire and started a good supper with the beans and caribou steak which he found on Gaspard’s sled. As the early dusk filled the spruce with purple shadows, the sleeping dogs waked to the creak of snow-shoes on the dry November snow. “Well, you old villain!” cried Brock, #8 Gaspard appeared, doubled under .the tenderloin and haunches of a yearling caribou. “I hunted for two days and didn’t get a shot, and you go out and get one in an hour!” Gaspard tipped his heavy load Into the snow—later to be strung up out of the reach of the dogs. “Wal,” he said with a grin, “w’at you do to poor Flash?” Brock described the fight with the wolf, “So dat pup kill de old wolf, eh? Eet tak’ good dog to do dat. W’en you not come home one sleep back, I t'ink vou hurt, mebbe.” “lI knew you would show up look- ing for me,” replied Brock, his eyes lighting with affection for his part- ner, “but Flash was too sore to trav- el, and I was afraid of wolves find- ing him here or I would have come back for grub.” + Eating a hearty supper, the boys sat by the hot fire of birch while Gas- pard smoked a pipe of company nig: ger-head. After a silence, the half breed blew a cloud of smoke from his mouth and said: “I see ver’ strange t'ing one sleep back. I cross trail of two wolf.” “What was strange in that?” queried Brock. “One wolf had onlee tree toe on left hind foot.” . “Caugh. In trap, sometime, but whose trap?’ Brock was Interested. “Dat wolf was a dog,” announced the other, quietly, “A dog? What makes you think so, Gaspard?” “Because my fader had a dog who mak’ a track lak dat—wid her left bind foot” “Your father”—Brock gazed intent- ly into the somber features of his friend. “You say your father had a dog shy a toe? Gee. that’s strange! But how could she be traveling with a wolf? The wolves would kill her, of ourse,” he demurred. , “No, 1 have hear ov such ting.” “You mean she might have mated with a wolf?” “Ah-hah'” “And you're sure it was her track?’ “l would know eet anyw’ere.” Brock thrilled to the possibilities of the situation. A dog of the |%&t Pierre Lecroix——alive in the headwater ecun- try! “Then your father must have been right here—last winter?” he said, excitedly. Slowly the half-breed rose, and dropping his mitten on the thong which held it to the neck of his -cari- bou-skin capote, drew his skinning knife from his sash. Dramatically thrusting the hand gripping the knife above his head, he spoke, as if tak ing an oath, while the younger youth sat wide-eyed: A “Eef dese men are een dis countree, before de snow fade een April, I weel mak dem tell me how he died.” The fixed purpose, the bitter hatred, in the face of his friend, as the fire- light touched his knotted features, filled the youth who watched with awe. Brock knew that Gaspard Le- croix would never start on the trail home without easing his mind as to the fat> of his father. It certainly looked like an exciting winter if these people were north of the big | lake. It might be that Gaspard and Brock McCain, also, would leave their bones in the Yellow-Leg country. In- voluntarily, Brock shivered at the gloomy thought. “But how are you going to make them tell?” demanded Brock. For a long space Gaspard’s half- | shut eyes stared into the fire. Then | he said: “Eef I find one alone, on hees trap-line, dere are way to mak’ heem talk.” And he again drew his skinning knife, and suggestively ran a calloused thumb along its edge. A few days later, Gaspar ang Brock, leaving their dogs wired to trees at camp to avoid their yelping, started on a two days’ scout through the country to the north of the big lake. “bsessed by the discovery of the dog tracks in .he snow, the mem- ory of his father gave Gaspard no rest. And, moreover, for their own safety it was necessary to learn if the men who had made the tracks on the lake shores were still in the country. Circling the upper end of the lake ter miles to the west, for they had no intention of leaving a trail Across the white level which could be detect- ed from the ridges to the north, Gas- pard and Brock traveled through the back country. But that night as they dug a fire hole in the heart of a spruce swamp and roasted their carl- bou steak, they were in frank dis- agreement. “I don’t think there’s a soul within a hundred miles to the north of us, argued the skeptical Brock. “We must have made forty miles today and w- haven't seen a shoe track.” “Dey are on de lower lak’ or the riviere,” granted the stubborn Gas. pard. “We fin’ dem tomorrow.” Brock looked hard ‘at his friend. “You really) believe they are in the country ?” Gaspard nodded. “Why?” “From dat high ridge back dere, to- day, 1 see smoke.” “Oh, you mean that haze?” Brock McCain's heart beat faster. What he had laughed away that afternoon as the imagination of his friend, now, as they sat walled in by the gloom of the spruce, seemed more worthy of belief as something other than haze, “Of course, it could have been smoke, | but it looked like haze to me,” he com: promised. The small ‘eyes of Lecroix glittered. “Eet was smoke.” As he wound his plaited rabbit-skin | robes around him under the brush | roof they had built across the sleep. | hole to hold the heat of the fire, Brock wondered what the next day would bring forth. If Gaspard proved to be right and they met some of these hunters, what would happen? Would they attack them on sight or attempt to drive them from the country by threats? Or would they appear friend- ly, only to track them later to their camp and deal with them as they must have dealt with the missing Pierre Lecroix? | For the first time since leaving Hungry House, Brock felt a touch of home-sickness—a desire to see his fa. ther and mother and the children in the little fur post at the mouth of the Starving, two hundred lonely white miles to the south. Ang it any- thing should happen to him and Gas- pard, at the post they would never know until June, when the canoe they waited for failed to return. | (TO BE CONTINUED.) Pert m——— | Leave-Taking Customs f Among Various Races | People who live in different coun | tries and speak different languages have different ways of saying “Good by.” In the Philippines, for instance, a man rubs his friend's face with his | hand when he bids him farewell, When you leave a Hindu he falls! in the dust at your feet, while the Burmese, bend low and say, “Hip, hip.” —— South Sea islanders rattle each other’s | whalebone necklaces. The Othalheitol islander will twist | the end of the departing guest’s rope | and then solemnly shake his own hand | three times. The Japanese will take | his slipper off as you depart, and say, { with a smile, “You are going to leave my despicable house in your honor- | able journeyings—I regard thee.” | The Sioux and the Blackfeet will dig their spears in the earth as a sign of confidence, while Fiji islanders cross two red feathers, Giant Among Bells The great tenor bell in St. Paul's cathedral, London, weighs 62 hundred weight. | nois hen EARLIEST HATCHED CHICKS ARE BEST Experiment Shows the April Pullets Produce Good Eggs. Reports from poultrymen in Colo- rade show that the tendency to earlier hatching is gaining a foothold among successful breeders. Early-hatched chicks make better winter layers, they have found, and the rapid develop- ment in the early-hatched chick re- sults in more economical of broilers. The cold weather of this season of the year seems to give much greater development in a short period of time, while those that are hatched late and grow during the warm weather are slower in their development. Cold weather seems to retard the sexual development, thus holding back egg production until warmer weather, ac- cording to observations of Charles N. Keen of the poultry department at the Colorado Agricultural college. If pullets are raised from late- hatched eggs and pushed for produec- | tion, they attain a Sexual maturity before the body maturity is attained. Then the first eggs produced will be small and continue so until body ma- turity is completed. In the case of light breeds, such as Leghorns and Anconas, these small birds which have been forced break down under heavy production and go into a winter neck molt and often a full molt. With the larger breeds there may be less of this trouble with the late-hatehed birds, but they are harder to force into laying. It takes approximately five months to mature a Leghorn or Ancona pullet and ap- proximately seven months to mature Rhode Island Reds, Rocks, Wyan- dottes and other birds of the larger breeds. They should be laying not later than November 1 lier than September 1 for best results. Mash Essential Part of Ration for Layers | The mash is an essential part of the hen's diet, for she cannot make eggs economically from grains alone. In the mash should be included some of the common by-products such as wheat bran, middlings and gluten feed. These feeds are palatable and furnish relatively cheap vegetable protein. The hen must be supplied with enough animal protein either included | in- the mash or fed in addition to it. Some of the more common home sup- plies of animal protein may consist of skim milk, buttermilk or some form of waste meat and, in the summer, in- sects that the hen. can find on the range, Repeated tests at the Wisconsin and other experiment stations have shown that hens cannot find the necessary ! amount of animal protein on the range to make profitable egg production pos- sible. Even in the summer unless the hens have all the milk they ean drink it will pay to have some additional animal protein in the mash. winter the hen will not drink enough milk to supply her needs and some ad- dition should be made. Ventilation of Poultry House Is Big Problem The ventilation of the poultry house is a much discusstd problem and many times local conditions are responsible for troubles. Sometimes the location of the house is such as to interfere with the usual results. However, if the walls of the house became damp last year it is an indication of too little fresh air. There are two meth- ods- of ventilation which are quite common. One is the use of muslin frames which may be closed at night and opened during the day. In houses 14 to 16 feet deep one should have one square foot of cloth frames for every foot the house is long. Deeper houses require more while narrow houses require less. Even with muslin frames one must not be persuaded to close them too tightly as this may re- sult in too little ventilation at night. Their use requires discretion as does any other plan for ventilation, Feed Heavily and February January are the months when all flocks should be fed | heavily, says T. S. Townsley, exten- sion poultry specialist of the Missouri College of Agriculture, 3y January 1 most of the pullets ought to be ma- ture and ready to lay, while the ma- Jority of hens should be through the molt. Consequently with proper feed, egg production ought to pick up rap- idly during January and February and | reach its maximum during March or April. Give Hens Chance Poor housing of farm hens during the winter plays a big part in keep- ing the production of the average Illi- down to about 50 eggs a year. It takes contented hens to keep the winter egg basket full and poul- trymen who do not insure the con- | tentment of their fowls are apt to get high egg production only during the natural laying season in the spring. It will be profitable for chicken raisers to spend money in repairing the old hen houses. production and not ear- | In the | THE PATTON COURIER WINTER MENUS FOR | (Prepared by the 1 of Ag Chureh suppers ners are better ti | despite all the 1am we hear about | the “good old days” No one will ques- tion though the excellence of the pies, cakes, and other rich viands that were | brought to these old-time gatherings. |The trouble was, they were too good and too much of g kind. Calories were not reckoned with, hut overloaded di- gestive systems lad to be—the next day. Nowadays the committee of women in charge of the community meal meets beforehand. The menu is talked tates Department ) community din- they used to be, over and planned, keeping in mind cost and facilities for cooking, keeping foods hot or cold during serving, and handling the crowd quickly. Then each person is made responsible for certain dishes and serving arrange- ments. Plenty of everything—not an and a shortage ssured. The meal the nutrition ell-balanced and t the family table. { oversupply of pickles of bread—is thus a is a model, too, | standpoint and is as wholesome as any In winter there is sure to be a hot meat and vegetabhl fruit combina- tion, celery or slaw, if salad cannot be managed, plenty of milk for the chil- dren, rolls or some other attractive breadstuff, tart relishes, or jellies and just enough dessert to top off the meal. One committee intent on having everything up to a high standard not only planned the menu, but chose and distributed redipes for the main dishes. i when the foods were assembled from various house- COMMUNITY DINNERS Gathering at a Community Supper. nobody was disappointed. As a center for the menu at a com- munity meal, the bureau of home economics suggests the following : American: chop suey, made with finely shredded pork or chicken, com- bined with onions, celery, green pep- pers, and raw Jerusalem artichokes. This should be served with served ginger would be excellent for dessert, : Meat pies—large or individual, de- pending on the available crockery— made of chicken, pork, veal, lamb, or beef, with gravy and vegetables. Sausage turnovers served with hot or cole slaw. The turnovers are made by cooking small sausage-meat cakes until done, then folding them within rounds of pastry in semicircular shape and baking them. Sausage cakes on slices of fried pineapples sc¢rved with hot hominy grits. Meat loaf, either hot or cold, served In slices. It may be made of beef, fresh pork, or veal and should be ac- companied by a well-flavored sauce or relish. Hot hamburger or roast beef toast- ed sandwiches with vegetable salad. Fricassee of rabbit or chicken on hot biscuits. ing and sauerkraut. Fish, clam, or oyster chowder, con- taining potatoes and served with crackers. Stuffed boned shoulder of lamb or fresh pork with browned potatoes. WASHABLE DRESS FOR YOUNG GIRL | Children Soil School and Play Clothes Easily. (Prepared by the United States Department Agriculture.) Many mothers find it practical to keep their children in washable out- fits the year around, since children | soil their school and play clothes very | easily, and necessitate frequent laun- | dering of their little dresses and suits. Even in rather cold climates, with a § knitted union suit underneath and a | sweater for days when the house tem- | perature is below normal, a eotton bloomer dress is found quite satisfac- tory for indoors wear. Long sleeves and a more close-fit- ting neckline are the chief changes to pr esse—a————————— Winter Dress for Little Girl. be found in winter dresses for the lit- tle girl of 1 four to ten years of age. The dress in the illustra- tion is made of ga simple red-and-white cotton prin th white pique or linen collar, cull ind leg-bands on the bloomers, us designed by a spe- en's clothing in the bu- conomics. The epaulet hich the yoke is cut in sleeve, is used to give th across the chest. Ex- gathered on to the yoke lie sleeve. Another good for a growing child is which might have been ; case if. desired. While ficiently high for winter not tight-fitting. cialist tn ¢ reau of Lon | shoulder. in one with fli plenty of vw tra fullness extension of type of sles | the raglan, | used in ti the neck is weather it i CONVENIENCES FOR HOME EASILY MADE ity to Use Them Needed. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Various labor-saving conveniences small expense by anybody who has a use them, the time keeper or Most of these help save and energy of the add to her comfort, to the economical management of her household, or to its sanitation. Among the most useful of these homemade conveniences described in Farmers’ Bulletin 927-F, by Madge J. Reese, of the office of co-operative ex- tension work, are the kitchen cabinet, the fireless cooker, the dish drainer, the serving table or wheel tray, the folding ironing board, the iceless “yve- and the cook-stove drier or evapor- ator. These conveniences developed in the course of home dem- onstration work for farm women, in different parts of the country, and have been found successful. Atten- having the heights of working sur- faces suited to the worker, and a method of raising the height of a kitchen table by means of fitted blocks under the legs is suggested, Labor-saving equipment for butter- making and cheese-making is includea, and directions for installing a supply of clean running water in kitchen. A number of suggestions are made regarding cleaning which save time and make the work easier, such as having a bucket with an attached mop wringer, having a square board on rollers for moving this bucket about, using a many other accessories. The bulletin, which is a revision of an earlier publication, is free upon application to the United States De- D.C. Don’t Iron Lace. The careful and efficient housewife never attempts to iron lace, other than narrow edgings on garments, ete. The proper method of smoothing lace is to to a padded board in exactly that shape, pinning down each of the points carefully. When an iron is used, there is danger of tearing the lace, Sour Cream. Sour cream should be cherished. Dressing made from it is ideal for cucumber and other salads and, just | seasoned, it is tasty on lettuce, holds, they were all equally good and | flaky | boiled rice and perhaps fried noodles, | A fruit cup with ginger pears or pre- | Roast "spare ribs with apple dress- | Few Simple Tools and Abil- | for the farm home may be made at | few simple tools and the ability to | house- | frigerator,” the cold box, the fly trap, | have been | tion is called to the importance of | the farm | utensils | long-han- | dled dustpan, an oiled floor mop, and | partment of Agriculture, Washington, | stretch it to the original shape and pin | DETROIT POLICE MYSTIFIED BY WIDOW’S DEATH Found Murdered in Attitude of Prayer in Basement, of Home. Detroit.—Mrs. Jane Lantz, fifty-one, who lived alone in a two-room house furnished in what was the grand man- | ner of 30 or 40 years ago, was found murdered recently, and in her death the police are confronted with a mys- | | tery. She was the widow of Frank H. Lantz, who died about a year and a half ago. Before death he had retired to live on the income from a fortune amassed as a real estate broker and dealer in oriental rugs. Mrs. Lantz was found in the base- ment of the old-fashioned home at 600 West Grand boulevard. She was kneeling near the furnace, her body bent forward as if in prayer. In the back of her head was a large wound. Rear Door Open. A rear basement door leading to a | flower garden of frost:blackened blooms was open. A heavy iron fur- I nace shaker lay near the body. Po- | lice took it to headquarters for mi- | nute examination for blood stains or finger prints, Every room of the Victorian home | was searched. Detectives peered un- der four poster beds covered with old- fashioned patchwork quilts. They A Sv wy / = | She Was Kneeling Near the Furnace as if in Prayer. | poked among old trunks in the attic, filled with memories of years-old bits | of finery, old gowns and laces. There were many valuahye things in the but nothing had been disturbed. Robbery, police said, | they do not know what the motive | might have been. Every detective at- tached to the homicide squad is try- | ing to find out. Deputy Coroner George A. Berg | agreed that it was murder. There could be no other conclusion, he said. | Mrs. Lantz was last communicated with the day before her death by a | sister, Mrs. Alexander McFall. Neighbor Discovers Murder, “She told me,” Mrs. McFall said, “that the house was chilly and that she was going downstairs to fix the furnace fire. Then, she said, she was going to dress and go out. “I called later in the evening. didn’t answer. 1 called early morning and 1 kept on calling | finally a neighbor discovered had happened.” Mrs. McFall's final call was to Mrs. Priscilla Selmis, a next-door neighber of Mrs. Lantz. She explained she had telephoned time after time without receiving an answer. Mrs. Selmis then found the body. She was guided to it by a light in the She this until what | basement. There was no other light { in the house. | When killed, Mrs. Lantz was dressed In a sleeveless kimono and house slippers. One of the slippers had fallen from her foot. Prisoner Would Spend Rest of Life in Jail Columbia, S. C.—Henry Scrivens, Charleston negro, South Carolina's oldest prisoner in point of service, lives in fear that the law may force him to leave the penitentiary which | has been his home forty-three years. The negro was sentenced to life fmprisonment in 1885 for burglary and larceny. In 1924 Gov. Thomas G. 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