| 2d ; W. N. U. Service FLASH : The Lead Dog: pa GEORGE MARSH Copyright by The Penn Publishing Co. | 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 il 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. Gaspard tells Brock of his de- termination to find out who killed his father. Tracks are discovered and the two boys separate for scouting purposes. Brock is jumped by two Indians and a white man and knocked uncon- scious. He is held prisoner. Gas- pard rescues him while his cap- ) -tors sleep. CHAPTER V—Continued cl The lean features of Gaspard twist- ed with hate as he replied: “No, we feenish dem now!” “Wait!” Brock held the arm of his friend. “They didn’t shoot or knife me today, when they had the chance —they fought me with their hands. W: can’t do this—after that!” Lecroix scowled. His black eyes narrowed ..8 he met his friend's plead- Ing look. Then, with a nod, he agreed: “We go.” And, like the feather patrols of the forest night, the two drifted silently from the sleeping camp. As a bitter dawn slashed the east- ern horizon with blue and gray, and the stars faded, Gaspard and Brock crossed the ice of the outlet and built a fire in a cedar swamp, to boil their tea, eat, and rest. “Why do you think they tried to take me alive?” queried Brock when be had given Gaspard the full details ot the fight and capture. “By golly, .’m lucky not to be stiff in the snow this minute full of knife jabs.” “Ah-hah! FEet ees ver’ strange,” agreed his friend. “But you mak’ mis- take to st)p me last night. Four of dem—1I fix dem all wid de knife. Now dey hunt us tru de long snow.” “I'm oot so sure of that, From the way they opened their eyes when I told them that your uncle Etienne and Black Jack Desaulles were here, I'll bet you tLey leave the country—think they're being hunted themselves. They don’t want to meet that pair.” “Wal, der will be hunted,” said Gaspard, grimly. “One of dem will tell me wat he know about my fader —before de goose {ly nord.” “I'm with you, partner! The bumps on my old head vel. for revenge. I'm with you to the finish. I've told you once, and I tell you again, that I'll never forget what you did {or me last night. When I heard that old signal of ours, 1 thought my heart would jump clear out of my mouth. You're a sure enough partner, Before we leave this country we'll do some tall bunting on our own account, eh?” “You keep your eye open aftair is,” said Lecroix, soberly. “Eef dey shoot at you and miss, mak’ dem t'ink you are hit. Fall down and wait wid your gun cocked for dem to look for you.” “Oh, I've learned my lesson. To think of that Indian getting so close without my knowing it.” As the sun turned the white lake below them into a sheet of flame, the partners followed the rock outcrop pings of the long ridge which wiped out their trail and baffled any imme- diate pursuit. In the middle of the forenoon, four hungry and delighted huskies welcomed them home. “Now we've got some fur to trap, Gaspard,” said Brock as the partners took council for the future. “You and 1 are each in debt at Hungry House about four hundred dollars, and we've got our hearts set on owning a first. class outfit, haven't we?” Gaspard nodded as he smoked. “Well,” continued Brock, “my idea is to concentrate on fur until the Jan- wary blizzards, while it's prime. After that, if we've had good luck, and these people let us alone, we can start, when the sledding is better and the snow packed, looking for them. What do you say?” Gaspard’s black brows contracted in a frown. “Dey nevaire keep away so long tam. Dese people come and look for trail, for sure. Some day dey work sout’ ef de lak’ and walk into camp.” “Well, we can’t help that,” admitted Brock. “They're bound to cross our trap-line trails if they come far enough, and the snow holds off. If- they find the camp while we're away, they'l} shoot the dogs and wait for us. How can we avoid it?” “We mak’ new cache for half de grub, first t'ing—back een dat swamp on de head of dis brook, and keep away from it so de snow show no trail. Den We always travel wid a dog and sen’ heem ahead w'en we come back to camp. Dey got to shoot huskie or he smell dem an holler. Dat weel save us from ambush.” “That's a crackin’ idea, Gaspard!” cried Brock, then his eyes shifted to the great slate-gray puppy lying in the snow. “If they shoot that feller over there, though,” he nodded at his dog, “they've got to get me too, haven't they, pup?” The husky rose from his bed, his ob- lique eyes intently watching the speaker. “But how shall we leave the other dogs? Loose? They'd hunt, of course —wouldn’t be around, probably, so that wouldn't help any.” “No, we leave dem tied on weak raw-hide, Dat hold dem, but eet dey smell Cree dey go wild an’ break eet. We hide dem een de scrub spruce each side de camp.” “It's the best we can do—unless we quit the country.” Gaspard knocked out his pipe on a fire-log and rose. “You goin’ leeve dis of a smile curling his stiff lips. “By the great, horned owl and al! his descendants—no!” And sucking a long breath into his deep chest, Brock rose and clapped his friend on the back. “I'm goin’ to help you find out about your father, partner, you know that?” “Ah-hah! I t'ot so!” The eyes of Gaspard pictured his gratitude. 4 CHAPTER VI Last. tion, the boys lost no time in sledding half their meat and fish and all their fur and emergency outfit to the hid- den cache in the thick spruce swamp at the head of the stream. There it “By Golly, I'm Lucky Not to Be Stift in the Snow This Minute Full of Knife Jabs.” | had wiped out their trail. Then with Kona and Yellow-Eye hidden in scrub on either side of, and a hundred yards from, the camp, the trappers hitched the other dogs to their handsleds and | started south. Before dawn, when Brock rolled out | of his robes to start the tent stove, he | had stared in surprise at the empty | blankets of his partner. But by the time breakfast was ready, a dark face thrust through the double flaps of the tent. “Come an’ see how you lak’ some- t'ing out here,” said the half-breed with a grin, { “What you been up to?” Gaspard led his partner a short dis- | tance in the direction of the lake, then stopped beside a fresh trail. | “When did you make this?” demand- ed the perplexed boy. “This trail wasn't here yesterday.” “Ah-hah, dis trail run quite a piece | —I mak’ eet.” . | “Why, so they can walk into our! camp?” “Yes. Dat ees eet; so dey walk] right into... '. disting.” “Well, I'l be skinned—the bear trap! Gaspard, you're a genius!”| cried the delighted Brock. “Eef dey work dis far back de lak’ dey hit my trail and—find de camp | and’ de bear trap. Den he go click!” So, with a heavy sapling as a lever, the boys pried down the trap spring and set the terrible, toothed jaws agape, under a covering of light snow on which they left the webbed print of a shoe, and lightly swept it with a raven’s wing to make it appear natu | ral. The foot which stepped on that engine of steel was doomed to freeze stiff in a matter of minutes. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Coconut Sugar In the [East Indies a sugar known as jaggery is made from the sap of the coconut palm. The sap is ob- tained by cutting the flower spathe and the juice yields about 15 per cent of sugar. It is consumed locallz and is very impure. Chemically, much ot it is identical with cane and beet sugar. Land of Fine Flowers Brazil has given to the world many of the must beautiful flowering plants; its famous orchids adorn greenhouses all over the world. What is said to be the greatest water lily in the world. the “Victoria Regia,” is to be seen in a pond of the Rio Botanical gardens. | countree, Brock?” he asked, the wraith | He Laughs Best Who Laughs | As their traps needed their atten- | would ‘be safe, after the next snow | CHASTISE IT FOR ITS WICKEDNESS Puzzled Austrian Town Dis- covers Crazed War Vet- eran in Tower. ( — Vienna.—The ancient tower of the venerable parish church of Steyr, Aus- tria’s Detroit, is one of the architec- tural sights of this country, and the citizens of Steyr and visitors from out- side look up to it with pride and ad- miration. But lately too clese an approach be- came dangerous, for it happened now and again that a stone or a piece of the wooden joisting of the roof was detached and tumbled down on the church square. The tower was care- fully examined and, as no signs of dilapidation could be discovered, close- ly watched. Find Crazed Veteran. STONES CITY TO rial became suddenly apparent a few days ago, when at a busy hour, while there rushed down a hail of stones, by, and afterward a beam, which | smashed a motor car. | High up in the tower is the garret | of the keeper, a war®invalid, who served for years as fire watchman of | the city. For some time this man | Afterward a Beam, Which Smashed a Motor Car. had led the life of a recluse, hardly ever coming down from his lofty dwelling 200 feet above the ground. Only he could have hurled down the | Wife, Back After 30 Years, Finds Mate Wed New York.—The span of years | found Louis Engel, now grizzled and on in life, settledin a comfortable home at 1821 Fifty-third street, with a devoted wife and a collection of | grown children and a son-in-law gath- | ered around him, Then fate overtook him in the per- son of his first wife, from whom he had separated so many years ago that he hardly remembered her. i But she faced him the other day in equity term of the Supreme court, where she told Justice MacCrate that she must have a divorce because he had been living for years with “an unknown woman,” The first wife, Mrs. Feiga Engel, who came here from Radom, Poland, two years ago, said that she and Louis were married in 1896, and that they have a daughter who is married and has children of her own, Chestern Solez, counsel for Engel, had put in an answer, saying that in 1897, under the French laws, Louis had obtained a divorce. Then wo search was made for records or evi- dence to prove it. But 30 years seemed to have obliterated all trace of the decree that Engel claimed to have received, Under the circumstances, Sclez withdrew the answer and allowed the first Mrs. Engel to get divorce by de- fault. Justice MacCrate granted an Inter locutory decree, and when that is made final Louis Engel and the lit- tle woman he has called “mother” for the last 28 years, or more, will get | married over again. Robber Makes It Easy for Cops to Trail Him | Mount Carmel, Pa.—A burglar made it easy for police to trail him when he attempted a robbery at the home of Dr. R. B. Bast, in Kulpmont, near here. The robber got away with $105 in cash but he dorpped his key ring. On the ring police found the name | and address of the robber. He was taken into custody and the money re- | covered. The cause of the descents of mate | | many people were passing the church, | seriously injuring some of the passers- | THE PATTON COURIER | Present Christmas Customs, Pagan Survivals, Must Be Christianized By REV. CHARLES B. KETCHAM, Cleveland. ECAUSE the celebration of Christmas became general before any large body of custom and ritual had had time to grow up around the day, many of the old pagan obsérvances were taken over bodily by the Christians. Some of these symbols and cus- | toms were given a new meaning; some brought their old pagan associa- tions over with them ; some lost their old meaning without taking on any new significance. The use of the holly is an example of a pagan survival that has lost | its original meaning without gathering any clear-cut new significance. | To the early sun worshipers, the holly berries stood for the drops of blood | shed by a mythical hero who lost his life rescuing the sun from a great dragon that had seized it and was carrying it away, so that the earth ex- perienced shorter days and colder weather. To these survivals of paganism, the church, of course, added new cus- toms of her own as, for instance, the placing of a lighted candle in the window on Christmas eve to guide the Christ child. Christmas carols and legends of the Christ child soon began to gather about the day to | give it religious significance. | | I But even today there is more folklore and ancient custom in our ob- servance of Christmas than there is of Christian significance. The giv- || | ing and receiving of gifts bulks larger than religion with most people. Not a few even of our Sunday school entertainments feature Santa Claue | | more than they do the Christ. This condition of affairs is a challenge to the church. The Christmas | customs that we cannot thoroughly Christianize must be replaced by new | customs that will emphasize the meaning of the day. The elements that | | can be infused with the Christ spirit, must be; if they are to be preserved. | { Great Duty of Science Is to Give Vision to Man Beyond His Ordinary Abilities | | | By DEAN ROBERT R. WICKS, Princeton University. i | | - The job of the scientist is to find what can be put in place of con ventional religion. But the spirit of true religion has not vanished so | long as the spirit of unselfish devotion to our fellow man continues in the | { world. The vast majority’ of people find that our present conventional | | religion puts a strain on their imagination that almost breaks it down. We must think about religion in a natural, living way. To the average | man religion tends to become unreal and to deal with things out of his | | reach. But that is just where science comes in—it gives a vision to man beyond his ordinary abilities. i We think that the things we can feel and handle are more real than | the things of the spirit. But now we have learned that these material | | things are just made up of electrical energy, and we can think as readily | | of spiritual energy now, so that spiritual forces become just as true to | reality as objects and things. Young people try to find their own reality | for themselves. But sheer self-expression never got man anywhere. He | is made to express something more and greater than himself. If you | want to make more of your life, connect it and transmit its influence to | other people. Keep your life merely for yourself, and it becomes nc more than a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. Enlightened Business, and the Press, Has United the American People stones and the beam. And so it turned out, for when po- lice officers climbed up and questioned | him he declared quite serenely that | the world had become so wicked that he felt obliged to chastize it from time to time. But the citizens of Steyr | do not fancy having a monitor of their | sins immediately above their heads, so the man was removed to a lunatic asylum. | By CHARLES M.- SCHWAB, Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The unity of the American people is an outcome of the process of en lightened business. Through the investment of capital in the means of | transportation and communication, the American people throughout this | vast area have been breught into closer contact with one another, and to | each of our people has been made available the results of the effort of the people as a whole. You buy a newspaper for 2 cents. It brings to your table the re- sults of the efforts of news gatherers in all parts of the world. 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