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_ B t i By GEORGE MARSH Author of "Toilers of the TrelL' The Whelps of the Wolf" > cw. ». o. (Copyrtsfct h r th. hn PabltaMn« Oo.l V, CHAPTER X—Continued —17— - "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 f ( 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 ~wfewp§* r* . , : . ---__ "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 i.i a» 1 K' V -jf 0 » 2 /r, % "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."! » 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. 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