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By GEORGE MARSH
Author of "Toilers of the TrelL'
The Whelps of the Wolf"
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CHAPTER X—Continued
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"Can we run ttT* he called, above
the thunder of the white-water, mus
cles set In a crouch, uervea raw with
suspense.
"Down, flat!"
With a fierce lunge of Ms blade,
David swung the nose of the craft
toward the beach as an Indian rose
to his feet in the low scrub. In mock
ery of his victims the assassin
laughed as he deliberately raised bis
rifle But tbe Mannlicher with the
lone shell spat first and the surprised
OJibway crumpled where be stood.
"Down!" cried David. A rifle ex
ploded on tbe shore, and the men In
the boat again flattened, as a bullet
splintered tbe gunwale. Then, caught
in the pull of the first pitch, the canoe
slid sidewise, until straightened by
the lunge of two paddles, and nosed
down, out of range of the beach. Into
tbe white half-mile of tbe boiling Fry
ing Pan.
The thought of two women who
would wait for his coming—the moth
er at home and the girl far on the
Walling—wait while two battered
bodies lay stiff In the Ice somewhere
along the Jackflsh, flashed through
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Steele's brain, then the battle was on.
As the boat shot down the Urst
flume, the stark despair which had
gripped Steele when they had been
sucked into the head of the rapid,
gave way to desperate hope. Fcr It
was clear, from the Insistence of
David on the poles being free in the
boat, that he had foreseen the possi
bility of being driven Into the Frying
Pan. He believed the tight to get
through worth making.
On leaped the canoe, like a runaway
horse, ever seeking the black water
channels, hanging momentarily on the
lip of disaster, only to be lifted and
swung off by the pole of the fighting
bow-man; burying its nose In the
spume of broken water, to rise, shake
free, and plupge on into the white riot
beyond.
Finally! as the rock walls of the
gorge swept past In a gray blur to
eyes which bunted the water trail
ahead, David's right" hand shot up and
circled In the nir, then regripped his
paddle.
"Whirlpool !"
hope which had grows with the pass
ing moments, dying. ,
A matter of seconds and they would
take the big chute ahead; beyond
this, the suck of the whirling water.
Once In the grip of the eddy, the
canoe would up-end and go down—
Into the maw of the vortex.
From braced knees the bow-man,
leaning far out-board, with bowed
back, fought the nose of the boat In
shore as It plunged and took the
chute: then, as It shot with the cur
rent for the pool }>e ,ovv < two mad
men battled with their blades for (he
inches—Inches which meant victory
g aaped Steele* the
or
With a leap the canoe hit the pool ;
wavered, caught In the Up of tbe
eddy; but held by the lunging blades,
eheered off, was free, and shot on:
then, charging through a stretch of
broken water, rode the "boilers" be
low the last pitch and oat Into tbe
easy going of the open river.
With legs awash In the slop picked
up in the rapids, panting, spent, the
two men smiled into each other's
drawn faces.
"We licked 'em both. Laflamme and
the Frying Pan !" gasped Steele.
"Good Job. dat !" grunted the OJlb
way, proudly, between breaths. "Dey
say we lie—w'en we tell dem —at Nepl
gon. Now we cum back—on' get de
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"And Laflamme !"
"We get beem anyway— de Wlndlgo,
mebbe."
"Thought you said It couldn't be
run?"
"Wal, I look her ovalr one tam. and
I t'lnk eef you keep" 1er side ov dat
eddy, yon can run eet"
"We beat it, but I thought it had ns
when we struck it. I heard but one
■hot from the shore when we started;
do you suppose that there were only
two there?"
"Onlee two, I t'lnk. Dey wait for
ns to come een. Wen I hit dat one,
de odder get scare. He not know
•boot dat shell. Dat ees w'y he miss."
"Thgt was good shooting, David !
You fired so quickly, you couldn't have
•n the sights—and onr only shell."
"Wal. we drop down piece, get de
water out, and patch her up. I got
two bad leaks under me"
"Suppose tbst Indian follows down
tbe gorge, he'll get ■ pot shot at us If
we go ashore here."
David laughed loudly. "W'en be
see ns bald for de Fryln* Pan. he say :
, *Bo-Jo ! Dere go two dead men !' He
weel not follow."
CHAPTER XI
For a week tbe two voyageurs had
traveled on half rations eked out with
an occasional pike or dore, which had
been luted with much patience from
their winter lethargy, but each roorn
teg as they ruefully surveyed the
fading food supply, Steele bad re»t
"You cant starve two
the Frying Pan T
seated:
.Wfeo'v*
- Theo followed silent boors of pad
dlin' In which the thoughts of David
centered largely on the future con
sumption or savory mhoss steaks at
Neplgon House, while for Steele, heart
hunger and the necessity for an early
solution of the problem at Wailing
River bad served as anodyne to hi*
craving for food.
Anotuer week and Steele was hurry
ing east on the Canadian Pacific. Ar
riving In New York and reporting at
the museum, he readily obtained per
mission to follow up this most amax
Ing example of the abnormal In the
habits of Canadian mammals, inex
tricably involved with Indian super
stition in so baffling a manner as to
defy any ordinary methods of solution.
On the way west. Steele made fre
quent trips to the baggage car to talk
to a long-eared, wrinkle-faced hound.
"If 1 had had you, old boy. last
September, up on Big Feather lake,"
he often repeated regretfully, rubbing
the ears of the great black and tan ■
beast, "there would be one leas Wln
dlgo in the Walling River country. I
don't know what you can do on the
snow. You may freeze In that coun
try, with your short hair. but you're
surely going to have a chance to help
ua out when we lose a trail.
huskies haven't got your nose, and
won't bold to a trail as you will. And
when that fog-horn bay of yours
booms out over the hills, there's go
ing to be a general scramble for cover
among the beasts and devils that
hear It . "_•__
The bloodhound, trained In the Ten
nessee hills, had arrived In New York
In response to an urgent telegram
from Steele to a friend who bred the
man-hunters on his southern planta
tion. There was no doubt In Steele's
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"Whirlpool !" Gasped Steele, the Hope
Which Had Grown With the Pasting
Moments Dying.
mind that the riddle of the Wlndlgo
would have been solved In the autumn,
had he had a bloodhound at Walling
River. But the ability of the south
ern-bred dog to hold a trail on the
strange medium of snow or ice was a
matter outside the experience of those
he had consulted. However, as there
would be no crust until March, day
light tracking would be easy In the
new snow. It was for night work
when the absence of shadows oblit
erates a snow trail, and when a trail
followed wind-swept Ice, that Steele
had gambled on the sensitive nose of
the bloodhound to aid them.
Is wallet he carried a sealed let
Instruction from the Montreal
headquarters of the Revlllon Freres.
addressed to Lascelles at Fort Al
bany, supplementing orders to be sent
with the Ghrlstinas mall packet by
the Abbitlbl route. But. as he was
Informed, "business was business,"
and the payment to the company of
the value of the fur lost by St. Onge
would not Justify the management,
against the advice of their Inspector
at Albany, In keeping the post open,
as It had never done well.
At Ottawa, Steele had been assured
tbst • police canoe would be des
pat died to Ogoke In tbe early spring,
but that all available men would be
on duty elsewhere during tbe winter
on more pressing matters.
So, as his train carried him west
through the white wilderness to Nepl
gon station, where David was to meet
him with the best dog-team obtainable,
tbe problem be faced continued un
changed by his trip east. It still re
mained for Michel. David and himself
unaided, to ran down tbe beast or
beasts which bad spread terror
through the valley of the Wailing, and
to bold tbe Indians on their traplines.
Then* war yet the mysterious tragedy
at the Devil's Mile to be solved before
tbe taboo would be lifted from tbe
lower river.
At Neplgon station a five-dog sled,
driven by a half-breed, waited In the
«tow for tbe passenger with the
bloodhound, and only tbe swift ose of
David's long, caribou-hide whip saved
ter
tlon by the team of half-wild huskies J
"Hello. David !" cried Steele, keep
Ing his dog at a distance from th*
While I MM«M"Whlttl tfelMstMÉMd nim I
"Are the trails open?"
"De Jackflsh bln close onlee few
day. You com back queek.'boss." a®
swered the OJibway, a wide grin fur
rowing his face. I
"We've got plenty of'planning to <k I
at Neplgon house before we start
Guess how many shells I've got fo* |
your Mannlicher."
"Wal, I need one for fr'en* ov yonra. j
an' 'noder for bear dat aeeng lak de
cat—two ees all. t'lnk."!
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Steele laughed. "Oh, I've got a few I
more than that for you. You may need
moose, or meet someone at the Frying
Pan aome time, so I've brought you |
three hundred.
How's the famllyl |
Does your wife object to your going?"
"She say she t'lnk I got girt down |
at Walling Riviere."
Three days of sledding over a good j
trail, for the snow was not deep
brought the team to Neplgon House
at the head of the great Neplgon lake
which was partly Iced over. Thera,
while the bloodhound, wearing a
tlanket, became somewhat more ae
climated to the cold, and the huskies
forcibly him
were respect
as a permanent member of the party,
David and Steele made their plans for
a campaign on the snow.
Each white mile they pat behind
them, each camp they made at night,
meant to the Impatient Steele, one
mile, one day, nearer the girl who
needed them. But, as be broke trail
ahead of the team, when they cut back
from tbe shore to circle rapids or
quick-water, or rode In the easy 'go-1
lug of the river ice, tbe task he bad
set for himself and bis two friends
appeared more and more difficult of
accomplishment. Suppose tbe Wln
dlgo were nut again to appear In the
valley ; or, they might not again cross
Its trail? What then? The harm bad
been done, and the Indians would con
tlnue to desert tbe Wailing as the
rumors spread.
In that case. It wap a lost can
hopeless. Only In the event of tfte
early reappearance of the beast at
tbe post when they could speedily
take up the trail and stay on It until
they came up with the owner of the
voice. could a swift solution of ths
The futur«
mystery be possible,
looked gray to Steele.
However there was one ray ot
light in the gloom of bis fear of full
are. Michel had definite suspicions,
of some nature or other, which he had
promised to share on Steele's return
to Walling River. And as Steele and
David nightly sat under their shed
tent before a fire in the heart of a
spruce thicket, and talked over after
supper pipes, the optimism of David
was so marked that the American
knew that the clue which had, for
some reason, been kept from him
deeply Impressed the Indian.
— At last, through tbe early dusk which
shut down on the valley one Novem
ber afternoon, gleamed the yellow
lights of Wailing River.
The pulse of Steele speeded as he
made out tbe blurred shape of the
house which Denise St. Onge called
home.
she had come to him with mist in her
of statut
century is maintained, such a library
would have to contain 1.850,000 voi
antes of dedsiOBs and 500.000
ot stetstes.
The morning he went away
Would they shine again, be
eyes.
wondered, with that new light, now
that he hud come back to fight for
her, or would she freeze into that
other self—bold him at a distance be
cause of her quixotic bargain with
Lascelles?
Steele opened tbe door of the trade
house, followed by David. At their
entrance, St. Onge turned In his chair
behind the slab counter where be sat
In conversation with his bead man.
"Good evening, gentlemen !" The
voice of Steele rang In tbe silent room.
With eyes wide with amazement
and surprise, St. Onge slowly rose to
his feet, while the lean face of the
Iroquois thrust forward, tense, ap
prehensive, as If be feared a trick of
vision.
"Bo'-Jo', Michel I W'at you t'lnk
you see, de Wlndlgo?" And David
advanced with outstretched hana.
"We have returned as we prom
ised, monsieur!" added Steele, ap
proaching the counter behind which
tbe startled men stood staring at the
hooded apparitions.
Then, with a yell and a bound, Mi
chel cleared the counter and was hug
ging tbe blocky OJibway.
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
Growth of Low Library
A law library which would have
been complete, with all of tbe volumes
of American decisions and all of the
volumes of American statutes, has re
cently been calculated to have con
tained one hundred years ago about
180 volumes of decisions and 60 vol
umes of statutes, says the Nation's
Business magasine Today, it Is said
s library which would he complete Is
tbe same sense would contain I&fiOf
decisions and 5,500 volume«
One hundred years In th«
Ä
volumes
fut««, if tbe Increase during the law
GREEN FEED IS OF
GREAT IMPORTANCE
Own feed Is fully as Important
as either scratch grain or dry mash,
and comparatively few farmers feed
green food a* It should be fed. A
truly successful poultryman regards
green feed as Important as mash,
scratch grains or w ate r, and sees to
it that his birds are supplied dally
with green feed In some succulent
form. Sprouted oats are most desir
able where It Is convenient to sprout
them. The oats should be soaked In
warm water for 24 hours, then spread
| n shallow trays, boxes, or pans, and
kept at a temperature of from 60 to
80 degrees until the stem sprout of
the oat Is between one-half and
three-quarters of an Inch In length,
At that stage, the oats carry the
greatest amount of food vaine and
succulence, n should be remembered
that the green feed Is fed for succu
lence and not necessarily for green
color.
If It Is not convenient to sprout
oats, any root crop may be substi
tuted. Mangels, sugar beets, or raw
potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, any
good root crop, fed raw. Is satis
factory green feed. When cooked,
however, they are still good feed,
but have lost their value as green
feeds. In feeding root crops, the
roots should be chopped and fed In
troughs or hoppers so that all the
birds have to
says a
writer In the Michigan Fanner. Where
j root crops are not obtainable, squash
! prove satisfactory. Alfalfa that has
been steamed or soaked. Is better
than nothing, but, at best a rather
poor substitute for a good succulent
green feed. The bird* should be fed
*1 least once per day all af the green
feed. In some form or other, that they
will clean up. . .... V ■ -1
or pumpkin chopped, or apples, may
Mark the Nonlayers to
Avoid Use as Breeders
I It Is very Important for the proper
development of the pullets that they
j be separated from the old birds. Par
tlcularty Is this true for late batched
| and Immature pullets.
Remember that much mash la need
ed for production, but that ample grain
I must be fed to give the birds protec
| tlon from the cold,
I offset the short days pays well when
used on these pullets. A gasollns in
tern niay be used If electric lights are
I not available. The evening lunch
method is the simplest where the lan
tern Is used. Feed the birds grain
as usual before they go to roost. Light
the lanterns at eight o'clock and feed
more grain, all they will clean up
again. Turn the lights off at nine
o'clock.
Some form of artificial lighting to
Late pullets which are not grown
by December might as well be used
for food and feed saved on them.
Folly grown pullets which are not lay
ing should molt late next year and
be used for breeders if they are not
marked.
If the pallets are not laying 40 per
cent or better now. there is something
wrong. See that there Is a good
mash, well protect«! house and plenty
of green feed.— O. C. Krum. Poultry
Extension Specialist Colorado Agricul
tural College.
Entertain All Visitors
Outside Poultry House
"Entertain your visitors outside of
the poultry house." Is the word sent
to farmers by the Ohio State univer
sity,
Chlckcnpox and other poultry dis
eases are often spread by people trav
eling from farm to farm, the nnlver
slty poultrymen explain. And with
eggs st present prices,- they add. It la
wise to avq|d all chance of letting
disease get a start In the flock. zi_T
"Chlckenpox, roup and canker are
appearing all over the state," the let
ter do poultrymen continues. "We
know very little about the control of
these troubles once a flock Is Infected,
but must rely on preventive meas
ares."
Among the preventive measures the
poultry specialists list these:
Sick birds should be marked and
excluded from the breeding pen. Pal
lets should be culled throughout the
growing season and the weaker birds
removed. Poultry houses must pro
vide ventilation In hot weather and
protection from draft and dampness
In cold weather.
Feed a complete ration, Including
minerals and vitamins and plenty of
green feed. Handle a few birds ev
ery night to see whether they are In
good condition. Remove birds from
the flock when they show the first
symptoms of sickness, for one sick
bird may contaminate tbe whole flock.
Health of Fowls
Tlw best way to keep in touch with
tbe health of (he birds and to detect
digestive disorders, etc., at the
earliest possible moment. Is to make
a practice of Inspecting the droppings
boards every morning. Simple loose
ness of (he (towels, indigestion doe
to too rich s ration, liver troubles,
excess animal food, etc., can all be
detected fey tbe condition to the
dropping*; and the general tendency
to Intestinal disorders thus shown
should receive Immediate attention.
GROUND SOY BEANS
SUPERIOR FOR COW
In Indiana experiment station Bulle
tin 289, L, H. Fairchild and J. W. Wil
bur report the results of three trials
in which spy bean oil meal and linseed
nil meal were compared as compo
nents to the grain mixture of dairy
cowa during lactation.
Three lots of cows were fed in two
of the trials, receiving old process soy
bean oil meal, with and without min
erals during different periods, and
linseed oil meal during a third period.
In one trial two lots of cows were
used, the feeding being for three
periods by the doable reversal meth
od. New process soy bean oil men!
was fed In this trial, and one of the
lots received minerals.
The results of the three experiments
were not entirely uniform, but In gen
eral old process soy bean oil meal was
superior to the product prepared by
the new process, and both were su
perior to linseed oil meal for milk pro
duction and In the grain requirements.
Old process soy bean oil meal pro
duced milk of a higher fat percentage
than Unseed oil meal, but ths reverse
occurred with the new process product
No definite effect was observed from
the feeding of minerals.
The second part of the bulletin
deals with the results of two experi
ments In which ground soy beans with
and without minerals were compared I
with linseed oil meat for milk produc
tion.
The combined results of the two
experiments Indicated that the soy
beans Increased the milk production
and maintained the fat percentage, as
compared with the linseed oil meal,
Leas grain hot more silage and hay
were required for milk production with
With the mineral
linseed oil meal,
supplements there was a decrease In
milk production.
The authors conclude from the five
experiments that soy bean oil meal
and linseed oil meal are practically
equal In value, while ground soy beans
are superior to either.
lye as Dairy Feed Not
Popular Among Dairymen
Rye, as a rule, does not enter largely
Into the feeding of dairy cows. In fact.
It Is not a very 4 popular feed among
dairymen. Rye la credited with caus
ing a bitter taste In dairy products
and owing to the fact that rye may
ofttlmes be affected with ergot is an
other consideration causing It to And
disfavor among dairymen. Ergot Is a
fungus disease that attacks the ma
turing head of the growing rye crop.
The affected kernels develop as pur
plish-black horns. These horns when
eaten cause a reaction in the animal's
body which Is Indicated by the slough
ing of the hair of the tall or the clews.
If the condition is not as advanced,
lameness msy be the principal result
Ergot also causes abortion, neverthe
less rye can be used as a feed for
dairy animals.
With the usual farm forage feeds,
feed as a grain ration equal parts by
weight of bran, oats and rye at the
rate of one pound for every four
pounds of milk produced.
Feeding Value of Skim
Milk of "Various Breeds
There Is very little, If any differ
ence in tbe feeding value of skim milk
of tbe different dairy breeds. Guern
sey milk does contain a higher per
centage of total solids, but the extra
amount of milk produced by the Hol
steins offsets the difference In com
position, so that It may be eald that a
been separated as a Guernsey cow. It
may also be said that the Guernsey
cow, with her lower production of
milk, produces as much feed value In
her skim milk as the Holstein.
It may be estimated that there Is
{ one pound additional solid, matter In
100 pounds of Guernsey milk In corn
parlson with tbat of Holsteins, which
Is so small that there Is very little
difference In * food value In the
amounts that would be fed dally.
Holstein cow produces as much feed
value In her milk after tbe cream has
Increasing Production
It la easy to increase production of
average cows when we use pore-bred
bulla of reasonably good breeding and
with ancestry of eatiefactory produc
tion, and when we
onr average cow up to 300 pounds ot
butterfat a year, other problems will
confront ns. But our need now is to
get cows that average 800 pounds or
more. In ■ study of more than 2,000
records of dams and daughters In cow
testing associations It was found that
tbe average bull did not Increase the
production of cows tbst produced 884
pounds of fat per year.
in getting
Soy Bean Hay and Straw
Soy-bean hay, which consists of tbe
entire soy-besn plant cut snd cured,
is higher In protein than clover bay
and It constitutes an excellent hay for
dairy Cows. It is hard to say whether
or not It will increase the flow of
milk, Tbat will depend on whether
or not the cows have been well fed
before starting them on the soy-bean
bay. U they have been getting timothy
bay and you suddenly change to soy
bean bay, thpre vrill be a marked in
areas# la milk production.
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