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mr. weekly Tmnt-st asd caps. wttSTT ite&vtn. t1 r -;v The White A Cold and Mute Witness to Human Heroism, Devotion and Tragedy "C ARMEN wna't hist "tore t ihau u coupli. of days." j Mason spat out u chunk j of Ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her foot 1 in liis muuth and proceeded to b:t" I out the ire which clustered cruelly be- twcen the toes. -I never saw a dog with a bighfa- j hit in name that ever was worth ., j rap," he said as he concluded his tn.-:!. and shoved her aside. "They just fade swav and die under the responsibility. ')ifl r vpp spo one cro wrens with a Il iskv? No, sir! Take a look at Shoo-! i-.-n here, he's" s-ian! The lean brute flashed up. trjf white teeth jut missing Mason's' 11 -t. will. will ye?" A shrewd clour 1 the ear with the butt f the dog wii1.': 'tretehed the animal In th; snow. , v ,; -jg poftly, a yellow slaver drip- r Ttl 4t fittlfS Li.iis h. !,. He's sot the jmlrlt. Bet Te I I'd ?-a:tt another pi-oposlti'n against d -' (,!isi,nl l,,-d iK r l,,"r v, m;1''ls5 :h;-'." ! j::ed Malemute Kid. reversing, h- fr:-o bi"..ad placed b-fore the lire i "-''"I t:!t!' .v" sl1"' lU,tw a:i 'f i, rhd.v. -Tell eat Shookum before' "- "' -v " " ," t'-..','s :.f... . over. What d' ye say,!e:r.pty cup ia the air oy way ;.f wus- j ivati;:i and as hi- dcti.!y ca sight it cn-d: 4V'.' t...i .... ctin,i ,fpi "And biff, down y-u oh. great l-.; wiuaii rK uit'i t ui v. i f t iee. glar.ced from Male- tho I i,m,iH l till IIIM tlM i.kiu,ui, " i icgs, hut vouehsafed no reply. It was j ne-esarv. two nunurcu icnies r un . ! broken trail in prospect, with a scant six days' grub for themselves and none for the dogs, could admit no other al ternative. The two men and the wom an grouped about the fire arid oegnn tbelr meager meal. The- docs lay in tbeir harnesses, for it was a mioday hnlt, and watched each mouthful en viously. ' "No more lunches after today." said: Mnlemute Kid. -And we'v? got t keei a close eye on the Jos. They're j getting A-icious. They'd just snon j pull a fellow down as not if they got a j cha.jee." ! "And I was president of an Rpw.ri ; mitv and taught in the Sumlay s- lioo!." ' Having irrelevantly dcliv r.-d hirn-elf! h'--r. Mascn fell into a dreamy o?;-; ;; . -ion of his steaming nioecah;S. . i;. - ; - aroused by Rath tilling hi- T. auk God. we've got slathers! if ..'ve seen it growing dwn iu j 'lei .: What wouldn't T give fo; j n .,; i--at pone ji;:-t now! Novel . " i'T. -...I. 1 Oil WDil 1. Mliro- ill'..' ij r. l. v v.erir moccasins ckiici. .,.. .hrn off lw.r trtootn at 1 this and in her eves welled up a Kreat sore footed brutes!' he murmured aft b.ve" for her white lord, the first white cr several inefieotuai attempts to start man she had ever seen, the f.rst man the 1-ad. Rut his patience was at Avhom she had known to treat a worn-( last rewarded, and. ihonau wlumper :,n as something better than a mere mis with pain, they hastened to join their fellows. . ykMkX4. ' e-,es. and. I ending ovr the tog. our ,ll4.,.nal iniuries was large. An C-$k lAt JMfet;W ' 1hl' traces. No word was sp .kcu. Th- ,;,,..,, u,oau was Ws oniy sign of M'g$S$t3gr 2tW teams ware dvulde sianaed and the y h(,ve. Nothing to be done. TTl$iSSm!TW 'mf l1'?vS li!li.ti:iv overcome; the sleds were m:- pitiless niaht -crt slowly bv. lftffr?" -JW Mt''ih'l der way again, the dying dog dragging j ot tion the despairing stoicism of . . lMc, herself along in the rear. As long as- raoe. nd Malemute Kid adding ir ,t,'t ' .1 sUZS) W;.v2 IJtX J -eiW3? II VJTrffr A i The White Silence Silence -a j.nnntil or c-onnuou iimst u- ui.mr.i. l...r.- . . r 'Y-s, Ruth." continued her husbaiu;. i havh-g recourse to the macaronic jar- gon ia which it was a'ono. possible for us pi to understate! r:iu otner. 'wait till wc le;n up and puil for the Out- Mo. Well ta me , :ii:o man s ca- . anu - 1 .i It water, rer.iii v.aicr i.reai mountains ilaneo up U'vv;i a: ti:e t-iii.''. aiiu ; o )', so fa.-, iar way-y-n travel ;rn sleep, t'.vin'y sl-"op, forty sleep"' he gra'.ihiraMv .suuierate.! tl;p dujs u;i i!l t':c tirco w;i bad .ter. -lh:-:! you e..me to great vdiasrc, !'e'.:!v ivoide. iust the same in 'ni- t-ies next se.rimer. AVigwaniP, on, so ,'r tin, twenty pines. Ili-yu skoo- If mused iiupotrr.'.lv, cast an ap-jK-aikig e at Matrmuie Kid, ihen Liberiou -iy :J.ed thii twenty pines -nd 'ii nd by : i;:n hsu.vuage. Jiale iu;:te lid si"i;e-l with eheerv eyni- Ruth'iJ eyes were wine W'lii Wi udor u'i"1 wre. f r she half w .; ioI;i:ig. and s.i' h eiiit- , T nieu.mu men - i v - . . T -Ai' tie ' .ly-iv.t'Mii-.i.i- -'-il' i"1'1" '! t!," uni cal-h b lia Jin:-' n Ruth! u are ye' .AIH1 .. 'H ..I.-. is l.ii.i- tr - ...... j band'.'' And I say, -Yes.' And yon i t;iv. "o fan bake m-od bread; ;io nere s-Mtn.' Then I say: "Rook in raeho, uu- dT flour. Goodh Yi u I -ok a:el at(h plenty see; !' rr Yukon, rr.e i. All the time y-vt Arctic (lily. Hi-yu iiie.II' iao ll::tn!" Ruth sin. led so ingei'i.'.-u? fairy story that both men y :;r ice ;:r. 1 iat'' d gs c.it :hiiT. A row i.mop.g ui. short the we.i'ders i.f til-? Outside, an. I by tho lime the snarling combatants were sej-:i:;tted she had he-hod the sleds atid ali was ready for the trail. Mu.-h: Ral ly! Hi! Iush on'." Ma son worked his whip smartly ami as the olo.-s whim-d low in tin; tra-.'S broke out the sled with the gee pel;:. Ruth followed with tlte second team, leaving Malomvto Kid, who bad helped her start, to bring up the rear. Strong man. brute that he was. eapat le of felling an ox at. a blow, he e e.;Sd not, bear to beat the poor ani:r.:::. hu mored thi-i'i as a. dog driver rarely i nay, almost wel l witn them in their misery. "Come, mush on there, you p oor v. vy-.f 'i'V .'ifl 'V: . Ao'3 fej&3 'v-rW H trJt't5r rl " Seemed to Sneer. i i i No more conversation. The toil of j j the tril will md permit such extrav- 1 stance. And of all deadening labors i j that of the nortklaud trail is the worst, i t ilai!y is the man who can weather a 1 m.::y; navel at the price ol silence, I and that on a beaten track. And of all heart breaking labors that i f breaking trail is worst. At every i .step the great webbed shoe sinks till the snow is level with the knee. Then t.p, straight v.p, tho deviation of a frac tion of an inch being f. certain pre- j ursor of disaster, the snowsboe must ' be lifred till the surface is cleared: then forward, down, and the other foot is raised perpendicularly for the mat- ir of half a yard. He who tries this 4- .1.. .t. A? -r i , 1 T 1 . mi- me lsrsi. uuie, u impiy ue utu.uii i i.r:nrmg Ins shoes in dangerous pro- plnquiry and measures not his length n the treacherous footing, will give j r.p exhausted at tne end of a hundred yards. He wlto can keep out of the way of the dot:.s fr a whole day may wcil craw) inio his sleeping bag With 'a elear ons.-ieiiee and a pride whieh -asset h all understanding, and he who travels twenty sleeps on tho long trail is a man who;n the gdi may envy. T!ie a: t iiioon v,-ore on. and with the nv.c born of ike white silence the voiceless travelers hint to their work. X.umo has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his linity the ( . aseh-ss uv of the tides, the fury of the storm, the iixk of the earth quake, the long roll of heaven's anil-j .'ery but the mc.st tremendous, the iiiost siui fyiiiu of all, is the passive j hae o.' -he w':he sih-ie-e. All move ment censes: the sky chars; the heav ens are as brass. The slightest whi:--per soei::s sacrilege, and man becomes tlr.iid. ::ff righted at the sound of h's mV. :i yd e. :'o!e sj-eck of life journey- j ;:c: a- r ss tlie L-h'sly wastes of a dead worhl. he l:rr..! !es at his audacity, realizes that "ni is a maggot's life, nothing T..-ni. Sfrsngo thoughts arise unstinn;:' :ied, ate.l tiic mystery of all things strives for utterance. And th fear of death, -C ; i. of the universe, mi, 'os over him -the hope of the res it :-re: tio:i nnd me life, the yearning for ir.imortaliiy. the vain slrivins of the imtiris' d e: coce. It is then, if ever, man walks alone with On;!. .o Avore I he d.;v away. The river t'.-elc a great .-nd nd r-f.-ison headed his tca:n i r ih' ut-o'T a-ress lii' of m::d. But the dou i;;rrw u? i; !.:''te(i a! till !.;.:'.! ba;:k. Again av.d l. i.t- ,;! sho "! : Ruth .!. tb ::':!o ;v a; SI I d, the P-: e.l j i k. i"; -ii came j!:o eoie crieo eiiort. 'i'! r mise'.. !:!" ereritures. weak from h.niiier, e'-:i"d their last, strenmh. !';, tip. the sled poised "n the t' p the bank, bm the leader swi-r.-r '"'' string f d.-s behn.d him to the rigot. j ;oMl i:g Mas-.Mfs si:ovsho-s. 'lhe re- r ult was grievous. Jiasoi, was whip- I 1:;s ft,, t- ::t ,if ,!' -- fi!! in the tra (:-. a-i! the sled toppie-l i e.cic, d-.;gging everytJung to tne not- torn again. Slash! The whip fell aineig tha dogs savagely, ospeoirdiy upon the one v. liieli had fallen. "Don't. Mason," entreated Maloinutt? Kid. "The pcr te-vil'.-; on Its last, i :s. Wait and we'll pui my team on." .Mason deliberately withheld tho whip til the last word bad fallen, then out tin shod the long lash, completely curl hiirabout the otTei'd'.ng creature s body. '"armen tor it was t ar iu t!e snow, crietl piteoi ten coweres! iv. then roll ed over on tier side. It v.ns a tragic moment, a pitiful in cident it the trail a dying deg. tw c, mrades in anger. Ruth glaii'-ed so iieitously tixin m. n to man, but Male i :t:te Kid restrained himself, though there was a world of reproach m '''s a;t annual can travel it is nor. suor, and this last chant e is accorded it the crawling iin camp, if it can. in the hope of a mo .se being killed. Airrady ponlt.-ut. for his angry ac- lion. ;:it too lobe-.n to make amends. Mason teih-d on : the head of the :..! .it'e. little dreaming that danger h.v eied I i ihe air. 'i iie timber cius- 1 thi ! thf ; HI the .sheltered bottom. ::h this they threaded their v feet or more f;om the trail v4ay. 1'Ift to'.vc -ed a lofty pine. l r generations i! had siood there, and for generations oes'h-.y had had this one end in view. IVrhaps the murine had been decreed of .Vnsti. lie stooped to fasten the loosened thong of his inoceaslu. The sleds came t a hair, and the l -gs lay down in the -:;v.- without a whimp-.T. The still ness w;is v eird. Not a breath rustled i :.c rro.n em-ru-aoa torest j and siloa-v of ..;:ler sjni'-e i the li.?-;rt at d smote tin frost encru-dod forest. The cottl had chilled tho trembling V.'.tA of ::.-ih:;v. A sigh pulsed throng!! she ::;r. They did not oem to actually ht.tr it. bur. rather, feit. it. like tho ; pnrriojiiiion t moveuii nt m a motion- voi .'. .!un the great tree tu- i :e:-e.-l with its weight of years and i -; e. v. p'....e.l its lis;, part in the tra- ' ody of life. Mason hird the warning c r.;-li :h.i1 atteinj t-d to spring up. but. ahnc.-t ere; i, can-ht tho blow stpiafcly hi i'-.o s'l- itSi'ei-. Tin? snoot i (!.ii!g;-r, the quick death how often had Tdah-iuute Kid faced it! The p'ne ne-'dles were still quiv-erli-ir as he ?':-. his commands and sening into a-ir -ti. Nor did the Indian let or raise Ve in idle waibii, as mi ht nainv of h-r white stsictr. Ar h 's i itic r die threw her iV'-;:..t o:i end of a .pia-my e T.-' .- i.-c:i- porlzi .1 l;!tt.!; ike. easing the p cssur and listc-'.in-r to h -r hn'd-.:nrs groans, v.hile M:.i- t-mte Kid :ttacke!l ne tree with his ax. The steel rang merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each st r. '-:e beii: aeettmpri'rd by a f-Tccd. nnd:l-.!e r- siirathtn. the "Huh! Hah!" i of t'.it w ;a i. At last the K.d laid the pitiable I thing that v. as or: ; a man in the snow. 1 imiJ - jfT fe He Stooped to Fasten the Locwned Throng. ptl,t worse than his comrade's pain was ,e (luuib ani;uish in lhe woman's face, ,ll. j,ieUod look of hopeful, hopeles:" qKer Liulo Wllg Tbnse 0f tuo northland are earlv taught the futility (,f w,:rds ,,,ltl tbo !nestimable value of ...,,. -iritii n.n tpmtwrniiii'o at nr. oceu.J below zero a mau cannot lie many min utes in the snow and live. So the sled la-.hings wore cut and the sufferer, rolled in ftns, laid on a couch of boughs; Re fere him reared a fire, built of the very wood which wrought the mishap. Rehind and partially over him was stretched the primitive fly a piece of canvas which caught the radiating heat and threw it back and d-:wn upon him, a trick which men may know who study physics at the fount. I A ia! men who have shared their bed with death know when the call is s unded. Mason was terribly crushed. The most cursory examination reveal oih it. His right arm. leg and back weio broken, his limbs were paralyzed from the hips, and the likelihood of occa- life. Tin- Ruth's her new inies to his face of bronze, in laer. Mason suffered least of all. for he spent his time In eastern Tennessee, j ;;i me jreat Smoky mountains, living ! ,,v,.r the scenes of his childhood. And , n'.ost pathetic was the melody of his , i,.v,, forgotten southern vernacular as ; , raved of swimming holes and coon t iurttt ss and watermelon raids. It was as Greek to Ruth, but the Kid under stood and felt felt as only one can f ei who has been shut out for yean; from all that civilization meaus. Morning brought consciousness to the stricken man. and Malemute Kid Lent closer to catch his whispers. "You remember wheu we foregath ered on the Tanana. four yeara come next ice run? I didn't care ho much for her then. It was more like she was pretty, and there was a smack of excitement about it ' think. But, d' ye know, I've come to think a heap of her. She's been a good wife to me, always at my shoulder in the pinch. And when it comes to trading you kuow there isn't her equal. D ye rec ollect the time she shot the Moosehorn rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones, and the tit fsiaduc at Nuklukyeto, or raced the ice run to bring t Yes, she's been a good wL and the time of the when she the news? wife to me, K'tter'n that other one. Didn't kuow I'd been there? Never told yon, eh? Well, I tried it once down in the States. That's why I'm here. Been rabod together too. I came away to give her a chance for divorce. Sho g .t it. -Rut that's got nothing to do with. l nail tuougnr oi cleaning up j ami lulling for the Outside next year. i it. r rt 'il I hut. it. a too late. Don t sena her back to her people, Kid. It's beast ly hard for a woman to go baek. i'hink of it nearly four yrars on our bacin and beans and flour and dried fruit, and thou to go bt. k to her fish, and cariboo: Tfs not good for her to have trlvd our ways, to come to know ' tliey'ie bettcr'u her people's, and then return to tnem. iaive cure oi uer, . - rr . i j tr Why don't you but no; you always . Kie3f v . . vi'V It . 1 J 9 II ri . I iocght sby of tncty.. Ml yro nercr j ; told me why you came to this country. ; I R IrinH in bor and semi her back to - i - " mm me uvv.. uai-iiut se f j the States as soon as you can. Rut ion was piaTed oa: with ah the it , fix It so as she can come back. Liable lesin0!SS o:- its primeval tv:r : f-rt ttat hnnpstft vnii knOTT. i - , . I "And the youngster-it's drawn us 'closer, Kid. I only hope it is a bey. Think of R-Scsh of my flesh, Kid! ' He mustn't stop ia this country. And if it's a sirl, why, she can't. Fell my furs. They'll fetch at least five thou- sand. And I've got as much more with the company. Ar.d handle my in- terests with yours. I tlunk mat ocm-ii , .!ntm ...111 r-V.iM- air. t-lti I a good schooling, and. Kid, above, all. don't let him come back. This coua- I try was not made for white men. "I'm a gone man. Kid. Three or fiur sleeps at the best. You've got to go on. You must go on! Remember, its ! my wife, It's my boy-O God, I hope ix s a tor: iou ( an i stay Dy me, auu . . . . . .. .1 I charge you, a dying man, to pull on." "Give me three days," pleaded Male- mute Kid. "You may change for the better. Something may turn up." "No" "Just three days." "You rnunt pull on." 'Two days." "It's my wife and my boy, Kid. You would rot ask it." "One day." . "No, no! I charge" "Only one day. We can phave ft through on the grub, and I might knck over a moose." "No all right one day, but not a minute more. And. Kid. don't don't leave ma to face It alone. Just a shot, one pull en the trigger. Yon under stnnd. Think of !r! Taint of it! Flesh of iny flesh, end I'll never live to see blm! "Send Ruth here. I want to sty ; goodhy and tell her that she must ! think of the boy and not wait till I'm . dead. She misrbt refuse t- g with ' ycu If I didn't. Coedby. !tl mau. j "Kid, 1 soy a .sink a hole above the pnp, next to the slide. 1 panned out 40 cenrs on my shovel there. "And Ki.I" h? stooped lower to e-uch j the last faint words, the dying man's urrender of Ids pride "I'm sorry for ! you know Carmen." j Lf aving the jdrl crying softly over her man, Malt-mute Kid slipped into his parka and snow.-hoes. tucked his rifle under his arm ami crept away Into the forest, tie wes no tyro in , the stern 'screws of the northland. ; but never had he faced so still a prob- : lem as this. In the i-.bsirn t it was a ' plain, mathcmatieul ir.oiaou three possible -lives as aga-inrt one doomed ; one. But now he hesitated. I'or l'r.o ! years, phoulder to shoulder. -n the riv ers and trails, in the camps and mines, ; facing death by field and Hood and "amine, had they knitted the bends of ; their comradeship. So close was the i tie that he had often been conscious of a vague Jealousy of Ruth from tho j ilrst time she had come U-t wet n. And now it must be severed by his own ; hand. I Though he prayed lor a moose, just . ROUthern horizon, threw a surest : :i one moose, all game seemed to have j llf m-e.uiw;!ir the heavens :I. n qui- k deserted the land, and nightfall found j ,v drcw it j,aok. Ma! mu't' Kid r.u- d the exhausted man crawling into camp ; a"ml dragged blnr-oii to hi ; c mra.!-'-light handed, heavy hearted. An up-! si,1(l U(t t..,sf )ni a-.-e ab..ut lilm. roar from the dogs and shrill cries t Tbe wujto siienee se-i.iei io sneer, and trom uutn nasrenea mm. Bursting into the camp, he saw the girl in the midst t-t the snarling pak. laying about her with an ax. The de.ps had broken the iron rule of their mas- " - '" i ' 1 i'- ' ' 1 O' i sh'-ldtl lie ::-i.- ti : . e! j -,l' v ' I;: v:-' 11 i':'M1iV1-' j'-SV. I Vi-u'L-l S: nd. rs In..-. :. . . : .'. .! V&tiA . ? -'"' thai, -.vbile he .;:i.y sH ,- ...... Xj':)4-'-M )i I) I'ni in other direcii.m. i.io.:.-oiia:: : 6 -Kk lih yo.n, loan's job. Colonel San.i-- 0 V '':!i'r','f '-7 iS i v. ie. fought through the Boer war will r VlV xf 4' H '.-' j i ';:, su Calgary. Indeed, he returned I 1TTTn " ! I.-.t co-aniat-.d of famous "31-fm- AMi!&J VSh0lh riMj 1 i'icr the war. yf: YJlX fj "'r t"' -v' South Africa Growing Sugar Cane. J SsstA '' s,-iir I'"'lllo is making rap. Jfck?1 -i h,lve 7,vt v'lH" (jA Sr--;1 ; ! .ua. termiuuting .,. :-. : - 'VvW fe?J"fii : ? dL ",v" '"" uf :,'atal an '- Z;:i:ii":-1 -3- W '-;atly buitahle for t::e ,-i ovt, ..; UV 1h ' VZW fi&tiz ?-: ---'' i' their up-f.-:t.;:y fir.i' !l. i m it? i - jp tss . r - a. Jt b - 't i ?iii en i' . i-. :. ...- j?' NSr VU warn, ia sen::.,-. ,. the M C-p "oy v.-ork, the cuf.u-g :,! m.hia-'' C f, 1 4 mgMh cane. taUe. ,-,Vce iri ,h sf -S 5S5t 4L E . If mmsm. -, A ws ( ; Jl J Stretched the Animal in the Snow, Quiver!-;! Scftly. ...... - ' te Rd ere rusfcirg tic :-vo joil,e(1 issce Tl-;,h Lfs ri-, p,. ... . w , with moa.tenoas re-;:!... tithe bodies lla.-h;d with v.M ;y. e . ! eripputg fat.gi. oui u;:.r. : j i)cast fought for supreuacv tu the j torest conclusion. T!:on the V. a j hrmcs crept to tho edge oi x..t ; :gjlt j;eu;mr their A.ur.:I. vI . ' tii0;r misery to the stars. The w!:o!e sto el: . 'i been devoured, and r e:? a:s :.c of Hour remahied to ti t th; : i '200 miles of wilden:e-.. R-;ti: ;.: to her husland. wL ! M:::-.t ri'e ! , ;it up the warm Lody dogs, the skull of v.; -f o; h l.:ld c-rush.ed Ly the as. Lvery !::. carefully put a v.-ay, save the hi-: ... offal, which were eat to his it 0f the mouicirt before. j Morning brought froh trouble. ' : animals w.rf iitrnhig on oath oth i 'arm.--ii. v.'..., .-dill .I.i:;g to h.-r siv;.. j thread ct v:; - do v:ted ie. : ! j :( '... The iasii tell ati"! a i j heeded. TI: ' the blow. fae last wn H t l ed i :t !.:. L o v fy bones, hi; Maiemut.- bout hi: ;:o V, a- llstecing t- .:a--. in Tennessee. d-t. courses and vl d brethren of iln r . Taking adv;r:; pines, he wor'htd watched him iv:u:i those sometimes ; preserve their nn: incs and dogs. . .-d t .! to to i:tr:;c the W' he e i. fr; ed ! bent the top of ward each eihet- ground, muklnr tiient i'u.-t of moosihid--. Ruth had re fl.ei her h wishes and li.adc n girl! ih bad h an c i i: ol.'CdieU'-e we'.!, i'lei.: ; bowed and see:i all wonv... lords of creati'in. a::d h in the nature of things '. V.tl.l t. :c -o'l ::d :.l. i !....- t. : 1 not se t fiua'.i I: 111 resist. The Kid porr.sitic-l in :e t burst of gr'.cf as ihe ki -s-'d , JflntiLer own people hud m- st : tonijlon P(j her to the f.r.-nv ! anii iejpea her in'o h--r su. j r;n(iir, instineuvely sic- to t "h pole and whip.d -n:.. l td' oot on the tr.rl Then ll c i rd to Mason, who bad i";:!!;-;; ma. atid l"iig aftrr she w; vh.-l:t crouched by the f.re tiopiug. p;ayii-.r for his oia:. It. is r.ef 'b-'sa:it to be '.iniul hot;-l.:s In the v. hi Yhe f i'ete e gloom i.--- t u. a let .:Ct v;.rii- . to ' ' :ie V. iihfoudiiig one 'rear king a t! athies. liiit ti: I'-nr and o;d Wi th pr ? 1 viul't v i under s'.et -etic .. tlltt i.'on :i!rive pitlhss. An h'-.ir pa. -sod. two h-.-o man would not die. At hi;.! sun, without raising its riai a proat fear came tt;"-:i In;.i. 'i!ht.' ; n-as a si,arn report. Yr.:- .: : wu-ig iu ; rietial scul-hv. m;d .M il.-ui ee j;, iaiH-d th" dos into a . ibi gallop j us i,t. t;( a .v itss the sn-e.v. tmWM: F : - i-- e:e:.; , SWCRtf Home of Cult Was at VVenden, on th9 North Line of the German i Offensive in Russia. T:ie Nati nal Gooirraphic society Is ?rtes the feM"W!i;' war gefgraphy bul letin on Wendcn. on the Hue of thw G.r:r.:-!i otTensive in the direction of IVrr- grad: The town of V.'enden, one of the old est in he province of Livonia, is situ- :;t'-i! . - t ;Vo i:-v. wo- t !.!' a few mi !c is ::;I:f f.-.. Aa. T: !es by rail northeast of ietrrotiiic place, built a tiie left bank of the .e Aa I'.e.vs in a south- r.v o;rt v .eei jror.i m:s pouu i 'h.ii i.,trt of Russia known as I.ivci;a:t Swirz.erlaii'1. not on ac it i t ih- height of mountains the blue st hill is enlv 2t'.r. feet but b- of the charm of the landscape i:s v. !!-woded slopes bordering iver v:di..y. -ft r v i f Went'en coos- back sevi-,1 l.le s t tho tin:- m hen e I'reth J,v f. e '-ia- - i t! wer ,1 reeoitr Ill :;i V2 2. l::a. th.-ir headouartert; i.t tie- .:; ; . -i. i"t- i"i!g'::-;.tt'd by iltv:.: : !-:;.":-.: 'h! t; i.mity ai.i.Vt.- the : e d.:-.:s. A ':le was l here i.t !". and though it is :,. se:;r-.' ;.: tb.an a crunching ruin, as it v,: s i -ver restored after the destructive 'I -e of l. ;ioun,l it cluster maty r.R.ar.tic and fascinating stories. O ie of the most celebrated grand ::i-i-t rs of the I'.rethren of the Sword " a Walter von I let tent.org. who rose to power during the closing year-? of the fifteen th cetuury find was finally ... ri i rn::te(i :;si prrnee tt tne rmp-iro i Kmptror f'hari'-s V In I'd. ei.' r.r ai: o builr t!- . e:ts;!e if (1 ;;! HIM. vi... Ii b.; far, d b. : 'ban the Wct.de:; ireih.ld. ;' nsotl :is the seal of i he Ru- ii-.thorities (or rather, was ust 1 i! ' ttiiie of Riga's fail a few r oi it i- ii i tr.-i'tie cliapter In th-' '. - ;' Wen .!. n as naeted in l',77 ;i .!.. ::; ::s! -,-rs of the garrison of 'r ;?'- I osieged by the forces o In (.lace.:'!.' Ivar: tbt' Terrible, blcT i ivc up r.ither than fall into t! .if th e::ar. The castle v.:i-: : r-paiit however. :.nd a rhoft ib.-i-e r-'r was the residence of lit- Nideckt. appointed bishop of . : . i: 1."e :i by btephen Batliory. : i'.i..,id. hi: h the the ha: H;o Price Was Low. , .isliore in a ptrt of one of VI: ti e ;,: !e !- : ;. i republics in the Carib ii : a a ii'.m.l'er of lnitel States ma ii tes ;ii.c:nied a bull light that was gi;o I i the presence of his excel ! :: -.. ' .- pr. itloiit of the republic, s : - Saturday livening I'ost. Tie eecupied a box near t'o l'i . ''. i p;:r:.v and. to amuse theci waiting for the show So . . . . t iiies into a river that do i.'iy i :e nrena antl watched na uo ' ovs die for them. The word toi!.:.:,- pays, -d that sohlados Ameri- vt re pitching wealth into tlu i i-eidy waters ;:-id soon hundreds ol bla.-s j-hlisiiig fiioos were on the bank ;' the river ji.s! o'.nside ihe bull ring. The a -at :.a ; ci.joy.-d th-mselvt-.s huue !.v n.u. hi. g tin- lit tie fellows dive, but . v i our raise o' ;.i nines ami wore ihe limit to quarter- oo-ia'-.-. one ma fine, more :i tin- others, pitiiiod a Iar. ur.ile a store ol black i ; it. lie was just about e t i ioriu.iace Vtheii ail . near ;y plueueti iN .t ;vd hoarsely . se-.ior, youil ii-.iilg."' II. Sand rs. D. S. O U'.iadieu i'loticer R:;t ;:: iov hat rciiiarkaldt. ban forces, lb- I-'ir.-t t'anadiaii edict t kne.f.n to s;igg. - BRETHREN OF THE lort I lo : ' ! :i i i