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Lanfrnnc waved his hand at Ser- I
goant Mack, who had half started up.
' "Well, one day, when I cotne hack
from thp hunt, I bring a couple of pine
, hicks for her. When I get to the
cabin 1 An' a strange man there. He
w;is good to look at, yes! But I not
like his eyes. You can tell mos' things
from the eyes, if you know when to
look.
"lie had some great plan to get gold
from t-he brook, and I see the father al
ready had the lust for riches in his
face. They dig all the time by the
water. and the girl talk and laugh with
the stranger. 1 tell her one day what
I fink about him, but she laugh at me.
^ mi know how those t'lngs go ? she
l ink all men as good as herself. On^
has to have a little piece of h ? I in
him before he see the bad in the res'!
"Well, one time I feel like a change,
and I co on a long trip. I shoot much
.mil set* many strange t'lngs and live
? s h man should live. Rut at las', I feel
<omet'ing tell me to turn roun' and go
hack. So I start on the back trail. One
morning I see the smoke of a camp
tire, i?nd I fin' Great Bear and his tribe
hunting buffalo.
"(I rent Bear, he tell me somet'ln*
abo'ut South Wind that make me strike
him. But Great Bear know that I
strike not him. but the words, and he
give me two fresh horses, and tell me
when I have done what I have to do,
where I should fin' him, so that the
Mow might be wipe* out. Then we
shake hands like men and I ride on.
"In free day I ride what I would
ride In seven at other time. When I
reach the valley, I shoot one horse to
put him out of pain. It was not nice,
no ! and It add a little grain to the
devil that was In me.
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"You have broke the stem of a wild
flower? Well, It was all the same. I
t 'ink she was glad to see me, but she
was ver' weak. Her father was like
mad. and he tell me that he try to get
the priest from the new post, for th?
girl wish to have the blessing of the
church. But the priest he shrug his
shoulders and refuse to come.
"I take the two horses of Burton
and go to the post. The priest say 'No
again, but I say 'Yes!' and drop my
hand on his shoulder. The good priest
was fat like McGill, and not used to
ride, so I strap him on the big horse.
We come fas', and I t'lnk he was sore,
when we get to the valley, for he was
ver* sof ! But we were In time, and I
have no care but for that.
"The next day we bury her by the
brook she lof\ and I take my knife
and make a cut on the handle of my
gun. For what? I change t'ings about.
One time in a mining camp a man who
did not know me, show me his pistol
handle. It was all cut with notches.
He tell me he make a cut every time
he kill a man. I t'lnk he try to scare
me. I laugh, for I do not like to see
snoh men, and I say that the next cut
he make in the handle I would kill
him. For a minute he look as though
he would shoot. Then he laugh as
though I was mad. The next day he
kill a young boy at a game of cards.
I go to the place where he Is. and re
min* him of what T have said. Tbat
was the second time I have ever start
a fight. Last night was the third.
"So I change t'lngs nhout and make
a rut on my pistol handle to show that
I have not kill. For t'ree years I feel
thrct rut and swear pof to myself. I
rook many trails and I stay at many
places, hut the face I look for I did
not see.
"Well, las' night, the place was full
You know how it is ? much talk, much
drink. Soon the door open and a man
come in. He not see me? hut I have no
need of the white wine to make my
blood run fas'. He laugh an' wave his
hand at the crowd, and tell McGill to
fill up the glasses.
"Everybody ver' glad to drink with
the stranger, but I take my glass and
spill It on the floor before McGlll's
dog. He see what I do, and he turn
quick. *P ? n,' he say. 'for what you do
that?* I laugh and point where the
dog has torn awny. 'I think I had
rather drink with McGlll's do g than
with you,' I say, and I smile In his
face.
"Men say I am too quick to shoot
hut even las' night, I give him much
time. He had his gun out before I
draw. Then I draw quick, but I have
no fear, for It wa* my time. It was
fate. Then I cut the notch smooth on
my pistol handle. Seel It feel d ? n
good."
T.anfrnnc laid the pistol down on the
bench before the other man. 8er
eennt Mack's hand went out mechan
ically to the pistol and his fingers ran
caressingly along the smooth cut In
the wood.
Lanfranc's finger touched the back
of the sergeant's hand for a second.
"Shall we go. Mon Ami?" he asked
softly.
Sergeant' Mack straightened up as If
He were about to salute. "No, Lan
franc, d ? n It no I I am more a man
rhan this!" ? and he touched the stripe
on his sleeve.
I^anfranc's black eyes flashed with a .
brlUiant smile. "You have the great
heart, Mon Aral," he said simply. "I
ride north tonight to keep the word
with Great Bear."
Must Have More Space
with modern publications. **I think,"
taid the librarian, "there Is not an
author who has not been altered from
the first edition. Proofreaders or
somebody have thought they knew bet
ter than the author what be intended
to say and have altered his text ac
cordingly. Shakespeare has suffered
very badly in this way."
Good-Night!
"Strapless lingerie has taken a firm
hold here." says a London fashion
article.
Well, we'd say a firm hold Is what It
would need ? a mighty firm one, too,
in ract I
Even with the straps, It never im
pressed us as looking any too secure.
Be awful If. the hold ever should
weaken, wouldn't it?
The article adds it Is especially pop
ular with evening gowns, and here's
hoping, if the worst happens some gal
lant man will switcb the ligbtii off In ?
hurry.? Louisville Courier- Journal
.
Nasty Tumble for Girl Rider
Miss Lorraine Liggett, daughter of Louis K. Liggett of Brookline, Mass.,
photographed as she took a bad spill when her mount missed a hurdle. Ml&j
Liggett was thrown heavily but by good fortune missed serious Injury.
Potato Greatest
Food Vegetable
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Is One of America's Many
Valuable Gifts to Na
tions of World.
Washington. ? Ireland had a poor po
tato harvest last fall, and as a result
parts of the Island are reported to be
on the verge of famine.
"It takes such tragic occurrences as
Ireland's food shortage to bring home
to the average man the tremendous
Importance or the potato," says a bul
letin from the Washington headquar
ters of the National Geographic so
ciety. "Half a dozen other countries
of Europe would be In a similar plight
If their potato crops failed," continues
the bulletin, "although a few centuries
ago potatoes had not been heard of
Id any o! these lands.
One of America's Valuable Gifts.
"The potato is one of the many val
uable gLts of America to the world.
Most histories, busy chronicling wars
and elections and perhaps inventions,
fall to emphasize the introduction of
the potato from America to Europe,
or else mention it quite incidentally.
Economists and sociologists, bowever,
could mak# a good case for the potato
as the N#w World product which has
most deeply affected life in the Old
World.
"When Spanish and ' English ex
plorers and settlers found the potato
It was growa in a desultory sort of
way along the Atlantic coast of parta
of North America and the Pacflc coast
of South America. It had probably
spread to those regions from Peru, for
it is believed to have been developed
Into a domestic plant in the moun
tain valleyj of that land some thou
sands of years ago by pre-Incan
farmers. Ihe world did not take to
the potato at first, either in America
or Europe. Not until well after the
American Revolution did it become a
crop of major Importance in North
America ; and about the time of the
French Revolution a Parisian philan
thropist, Parmentler, found it up-hill
work to Induce the poor of the French
metropolis to eat the tubers in free
soup kitchens.
"The popularity of this 'apple of the
earth' grew with a rush when Its vir
tues once became known. Ireland was
converted early ? so much so that a
knowledge of Hie tuber spread from
that Island to other European lands,
and It thereby acquired the misnomer,
'Irish potato.' The potato created an
agricultural revolution In northern
Europe and soon became the dominant
crop. It even made possible an in
crease In population in a number of
European countries. Now it la to that
part of tte world what rice la to the
Orient. It Is more truly the Ptaff of
life in Ia.ge areas o? the West than
wheat itself. But for the potato Ger
many probably could not have re
mained In the World war more than a
year or so.
"Europe has made nnch greater nse
of the potato than the land of Its dis
cover.-. Approximately six billion
bushels are now grown In tbe world
| each year. If this production could
| be brought to one place It would fill a
gigantic bin 10 miles long, a mile
wide and 2b feet deep. If a partition
were placed across such s bin at the
nine-mile post the potatoes io the
larger compartment would represent
the production of Europe and Great
Britain. Seven-tenths of the potatoes
in the smaller division would represent
the contribution of the Onlted States
to the wtrlti crop, and the remaining
three-t-ntlis would represent those
produced in the rest of the world.
Germany. Kussia (it had a greater
Austria-Hungary, and France, each
produces more potatoes than the
United States.
"Ohe of the outstanding virtues of
the potato which has made It the lead
ing vegetable product In northern Eu
rope and northern United States Is
that It g cws to perfection In regions
too cooi and too moist for satisfactory
wheat culture. Another advantage Is
the tremendous amount of food mate
rial per acre contributed by pjtatoes.
A hundred bushels per acre is an
average ylelf' in the United States, but
In Germany the yield Is nearly twice
as great. The greatest yield In any
country Is Id the Netherlands, where
more than 250 bushels per acre are
produced. Under exceptionally favor
able conditions a single acre has been
known to produce 600 bushels.
Leads Both Rice and Wheat.
"As a world crop the potato, the
upstart vegetable from the New World,
has shouldered its way ahead of both
rice and wheat More pounds of po
tatoes are now produced than of any
other single domestic vegetable prod
uct Potatoes have won first place
In the world, too, In the matter of dif
fusion. They have become an impor
tant crop in the temperate and cool
portions of every continent ? from
France to Scandinavia, in Siberia, the
Americas, South Africa, Australia,
New Zealand.
"Potatoes t.re not alone a food \ege
table. They already fill an important
place in industry and undoubtedly wili
become more important In that field.
Child Suicide in Japan
Tokyo. ? A marked increase in child
suicide In Japan is revealed by the
psychological bureau of the depart
ment of education. In the last ten
jears 2,316 children have taken their
own lives end for the year just ended
there were 427.
Cross- Words Again
Los Angeles, Cal. ? As a result of
the abnormal popularity of diction
aries due to the cross-word puzzle'
craze, the Los Angeles Public library
has been compelled to set a time limit
of five minutes on the use of the dic
tionary by any one person at one time.
Seventy-nine American cities have
passed the 100,000 population mark.
Want Hunting Rights Restored
Frank Seelatse, Sls-Ellte-1'almer, Youkosh-Owllr and Louis Manu of the
Yakima tribe of Washington, who visited the Great White Father at the
White House where they presented their claims for renewal of the hunting
treaty giving them rights over certain Lands In the Northwest.
MIRA, THE SECOND LARGEST
KNOWN STAR, IS MEASURED
Through Observation* at Mt. Wilson
Scientist Finds Body Has Diam
eter of 250,000,000 Miles.
Washington. ? Measurements at the
Mount Wilson observatory of the Car
negie institution have established that
Mira, the remarkable variable star dis
covered by David Fabrlclus In 1596 in
the constellation Cetus, is the second
largest known star, thereby displacing
the noted Betelguese for that honor.
With an angular diameter of about
250,000,000 miles, It is exceeded only
by Antares, chief star of the constella
tion Scorpio, with a diameter of 400,
; 000,000 miles. It Is larger by about 25
per cent than Betelguese In tbe con
stellation Orion, which was measured
for the first time about four years ago.
Appearing but a speck In the sky to
tbe naked eye, the measurements of
Mlra were made by Dr. Francis E.
Pease with the 20-foot Mlchelsofl inter
Survives 72 Helpings
of Ehglish Meat Pudding
London. ? Francis Bourn has Just
completed a run of 72 annual helpings
of the famous but heavy meat pud
dings, tbe product ot the "Olde
Cheshire Cheese" of Fleet street
The pudding Is served free at the
hostelry to all customers at the open
ing of the season each year. Mr.
Bourn is ninety-two years old and still
healthy. He has been a constant cus
tomer at the Cheshire Cheese, he says,
since 1851.
The Inaugural ceremony Is usually
presided over by some noted figure,
such as the premier, a cabinet minis
ter or an ambassador, and a place of
honor Is always reserved for the per
son who can claim to be oldest cus
tomer of the Inn. Mr. Bourn has re
ceived the first helping In this seat of
honor for the last nineteen years and
has had his pudding served by tbe late
American ambassador, Walter Hlnes
Page, and Ambassadors Davis and
George Harvey.
The famous pudding is known to
contain romp steak, kidney, lark and
I
ferometer attached to the observatory*!
100-Inch telescope, the same with
which the first measurements of Betel
guese were obtained.
Announcement of the measurement
was made by the Carnegie Institution
on the basis of advices from Mount
Wilson. "The results Indicate." the
announcement says, "an angular diam
eter for MIra of about six one-hun
dredths of a second of arc, a value
about 25 per cent larger than Betel
guese. The most probable value of
the distance Is 165 light years. Assum
ing this distance, the diameter of the
star Is 250,000,000 miles.
"The star varies greatly In light
through a period of about eleven
months, Its brightness changing as
much as 200-fold In that Interval. The
measurements of the star's diameter
were made when the star was near
Its recent maximum.
"The name Mlra. or The Wonder
NEW BABY OF CONGRESS
t
Andrew L. Sumers, age twenty-eight,
representing the Sixth congressional
district of New York, was the young
ful,' was given to the star soon after
tbe discovery of Its remarkable varia
tions of light by Fabrlclus In 1596. It
Is the most noted example of a class
of variable stars of similar type, of
which there are about 150 known.
They are deep red in color and are
doubtless all stars of Immense size,
low temperature and exceedingly low
density.
MA* a class these stars are moving
very rapidly In the sky, some of them
having velocities of more than 100
miles a second toward or away from
the earth."
Four Cured of Leprosy
in Louisiana, U. S. Says
Washington.? Four men who entered
the national home for lepers at Carr
vllle. La., several years ago, have been
discharged from tbe institution as
cured. The United States public health
service announced that the men bave
been under close observation for a
year, and during the entire time the
leprosy baccllus had been absent from
their body tissues.
est member of the new congress when
he took bis seat In the house March 4.
Agrees, for Her Children,
to Forego "Gay Times"
Wolfeboro, N. H. ? Facing a sentence
of six ninths In tbe county jail at Os
slpee for deserting her two young
children, Mrs. Edwin Brown, twenty
years old, agreed to return to her hus
band and care for them and the sen
tence was suspended, when she was ar
raigned before Judge Trlckey.
Mrs. Brown was arrested by Chief
of Polite Thompson, following publica
tion In the local paper of the following
ad :
"Whereas, my wife, Doris Brown,
wishing for a gay time, has left me
and her two little ones, a boy fourteen
months old, and a girl four years old,
In July. At present my mother Is with 1
me, doing what she can, but is unable
to continue for long. I wish to get
someone to come and do my work and
care for the children, one whom I can
trust to give them good care. Anyone
who cares to answer this, address Ed
win M. Brown, Box 96, Wolfeboro,
N. H>
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DU. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of "HEALTH"
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| CANCER DUE TO PROS
PERITY
WHAT causes cancer? Nobody
knows. But we do know some
significant things about it. Ever since
the invention of the microscope and
the development of bacteriology, thou
. sands of investigators have been try
ing to find some minute germ which
I could he held responsible for this
1 awful disease. No one lias found it.
; But we do know that cancer is a dis
: ease of prosperity. The simpler and
j poorer the community, the fewer cases
of cancer. The richer anil more pros
perous the individual, the more elabo
rate, costly, and luxurious his diet,
clothing, house and way of living.
As Williams points out in his Natu
ral History of Cancer, it is seldom
found in bodies living in a state of
nature. Animals and plants may have
cancer but it is practically always the
cultivated varieties living under artl
| ticial conditions. Savages and wild
i animals very rarely have career. Eveo
monkeys, most nearly akin to man, are
, immune until they have been kept
I in captivity for several generations.
| Yet the dog, probably the first animal
| tamed by man and the one which hat
! livtft longest and in closest contact
| with man, is the most subject to tu
I mors of any animal.
| Travelers among savage people and
I especially explorers who come in con
tact for the first time with primitive
j people, are practically unanimous in
saying that cancer is very rare or
quite unknown among such races.
Medical officers, missionaries and offi
cials all say that cancer is very rare
among savages, but* that it Increases
I as civilized luxuries and ways, of liv
ing are adopted.
? On the other hand, vital statistics
show beyond question that caucer is
becoming Increasingly frequent in our
large cities, that it Is especially com
mon among the well-to-do and com
paratively rare among the poor and
that it is more apt to attack the over
fed and the indent than the under
nourished and hard-working indi
vidual.
The health authorities of North Da
kota, for Instance, found that the per
centage of canc# among retired
farmers who moved to town and quit
work was much higher than among
those who stuck to their farms and
kept active.
So we don't know what kind of
germ causes cancer or whether any
germ does. But we do know that the
simpler life you lead and the longer
you keep working, the less likely you
are to get it. ?
I ? ?' '
WHAT CAUSES COLDS?
I
THE gener:il belief is that "colds",
are caused by cold. Doctors, health
officers Had teachers say colds are
"catching" and ..re caused by germs.
Which is -right ? Both.
When a baby coraes into this wicked
and dirty world there are no germs in
its nose. But they appear twelve hours
after Dlrth and some kind of perms
are found in the nose from that time
on. The air breathed in through the
nose contains dust, soot, germs, all
kinds of tilings. The nose catches and
strains out these Impurities, so that
the air that goes down Into the lune3
is clean, provided we know enough to
keep our mouth shut and our nose
open. Many different kinds of germs
I are found In the nose in healthy per
sons. What particular germ is re*
sponsible for colds? We do not know.
But we do know they are in the air
and In oir throats and noses prac
tically all the time.
Then why don't we have colds all
the time? For the same reason that
we don't have any other disease all
the time. Germs alone can't cause
disease. They must get into the body
to do harm. You may and probably
often have tetanus germs on your skin
but you wdn't If&ve lockjaw unless
those germs find a break in the skin,
a scratch of a prick through which
they can enter.
Here's where cold gets In Its work.
Cold air, damp air, fog, rain, drafts
and winds lower tfte body tempera
ture. It's the business of the nose,
among other things, to help regulate
the body temperature. So 1' it's very
cold or damp or windy or what's
worse, if there are sudden and ex
treme changes in t?nperature or mois
ture, the nose has tc work overtime.
A reasonable amount of extrn work
it can stand but when it is overworked
it gets tired and congested. Then the
germs ? always on hand ? begin to
grow In the tired out and engorged
membrane, the congestion gets worse.
That's why sudden changes, raw
days, fog, dampness, drafts, chilling
and other conditions that disturb our
bodily temperature and our heat regu
lating apparatus? plus an ever-ready
germ ? result In this most common and
I aggravating affliction.
Would Interfere No More
"These 'ere floods,** said the oldest
inhabitant, "remind me of th* time
when th' old passon prayed for rain.
When th' rain did come It drowned
two of his best cows, an' washed th'
foundations from under th' vicarage.
After that he went about sayin' that
for th* future he'd keep quiet, an' Jest
let Providence run th' weather to suit
itself!*' ? London Tit-Bits.
About Norway Pine
Norway pine has proved itself to be
an excellent tree when planted on a
large scale for forest purposes, accord
ing to the federal foresters. The main
difficulty with raising the tree in the
nursery has been the high cost of the
seed, for the Norway pine bears cones
only at irregular intervals of several
years. A bushel of Norway pine cones
yields roughly a pound of seed. The
seeds are small and light, and run
from 05,000 to 70,000 to the pound,
?bout 85 per cent can be counted on to
germinate under normal conditions.
A BAD SHOT
"Yes," said the teacher, "we have
several plants and flowers named with
the prefix 'dog.' Of course, the 'dog
rose' and 'dog-violet' are well known
to you all. Can any of you, tell me
others?"
For some seconds the class re
mained dumb. Then a bright Idea
Illuminated the face of an urcMn,
and up went his hand.
"Collie flowers, miss !" ?
Some Cause for Distinction
"That is the Hon. John J. Wlndld
dy going by," said the landlord of fhe
I'etunia tavern. "He Is regarded as
one of our most distinguished citi
zens." '
"Ah, yes! And for what is he dis
tinguished?"
"Hanged If I know ! Probably for
the fact that the cat did not take his
breath when he was a baby."
THE GIRL, OF COURSE
Teacher ? Willie, what Is amiss with
the sentence, He waited, but she didn't
come?
Smart Kid ? The girl, of course. ,
The Blunt Truth
It Is a strange anomaly,
And yet the thought steals o'er me.
The jokes whose points I cannot see
Are just the ones that bore me.
? The Peacemaker
"Did you try to make peace between
those two men who are always quarrel
ing?"
"Yes."
"With what result?"
"Each seemed to regret that he
wasn't too busy with the other to turn
in and give me a fight on my own ac
count."
Another Luxury
"Young man," said the elderly mil
lionaire, "by daughter has had every
luxury."
"Every luxury but one, pehaps, and
that one I am in a position to supply,
plr."
"What do you mean?"
"A husband." ;<i k i
Judge Bacon
"Do you think Bqcon wrote the
Shakespeare plays?"
"How should I know?" rejoined
Miss Cayenne. "Some parts of them
are highly improper and I shall not
allow my literary research to Involve
me In an implied attack on the Ju
diciary."
Raiting Cane
"Did you go to the pictures alone?*
MYes, mother."
"Then how does It happen you left
here with an umbrella and come back
with a cane?" ? Bursts and DudH.
Potato ? What does the farmer <S?
with all the tomatoes he raises?
Tomato ? He eat* all he .can, and
cans all he can't I
Immunity
The actor's words are far from neat.
Yet he Is unmolested;
If we said such things on the street.
No doubt we'd get arrested.
Gotriper
Bill ? Fred says you kissed him the
other night
Jill ? Oh, I did not ! Besides, be
promised be wouldn't tell.
Quite the Contrary
'Tm afraid father was very angry
when you asked him for me, wasn't
he, Jack, dear?"
"Not at all. He asked me If I knew
any more respectable young men who
would be likely to marry your three
sisters?"
Evidence
"Does that young man who stays
so late mean business?"
"I guess so, pa ; he seems to be will
ing to wortf overtime."
He ? Can you sew, cook and keep
bouse?
She? Yes, Indeed.
He ? Well, If the worst comes to the
worst, you oughtn't to have any trou
ble finding a Job.
A Menial Flapjack
"Madge seems to look upon my pro
posal as a sort of flapjack."
"How *>r
"Says shell torn It over la bar
?ted."
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WELL, WELL
Qualified