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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA.
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KIDNEYS CLOG UP FROM
EATING TOO MUCH MEAT
Take Tablespoonful of Salts If Back
Hurts or Bladder Bothers Meat
Forms Urlo Aold.
Wo nro n nation of moat oatorB and
our blood is filled with uric acid, aaya
a well-known authority, who warns ua
to ho constantly on guard against kid
ney troublo,
Tho kldnoys do tholr utmost to froo
tho blood of this Irritating acid, but
bocomo weak from tho overwork;
they got Blugglsh; tho ollmlnatlvo tls
buob clog and thus tho wasto Is re
tained In tho blood to poison tho en
tiro system.
When your kidneys ncho and fool
like lumps of lead, and you havo sting
ing pains In the back or tho urlno la
cloudy, full of Bodlmont, or tho blad
dor Is lrrltablo, obliging you to seek
relief during tho night; when you have
novoro headaches, norvous and dizzy
Bpolls, lecplosstioos, acid stomach or
rheumatism In bod weather, got from
your pharmaclct about four ounces of
Jad Salts; take u. tablespoonful In a
glass of "water before broakfast each
morning and In a fow days your kld
noys will act fine. TIiIb famous salts
Is mado from tho acid of grapes and
lemon Julco, combined with Hthla, and
has, boon used for generations to flush
nnd stlmulato clogged kidneys, to neu
tralize tho acids In urlno 30 It is no
longer a sourco of Irritation, thus end
ing urinary and bladder disorders.
Jad Salts la lnoxponslvo and cannot
injuro; makes a delightful offorvos
cent llthia-watcr drink, and nobody
can mako a mistako by taking a llttlo
occasionally to keep tho kldnoys cloan
and active Adv.
THC HEART
NIGHT Wl
A STORY Of THE GR6AT NORTH WEST
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ILLUSTRATIONS 6y t&yMLTtzM
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m iK lfcy 1 ' n f l y
Only n truo Christian can pray for
rain' if his roof leaks.
T7e Murine nfter ICxponnro la Cold,
Cutting "Winds and Dust. It Restores,
TtofrcsliOB and Promotes Eyo Health.
Good for all Eycn that Need Caro.
Murine Eyo Romody Co., Chicago,
Sends Eyo Book on rcquent.
' London's telephono nnd telegraph
wires extend 73,500 miles overhead
nud' 021,000 miles underground.
For a really fine coffco at a mod
crato prlco, drink Donlson's Semlnolo
Brand, 35c tho lb In sehlcd cans.
Only ono merchant In oach town
Bolls Semlnolo. If your grocer isn't
tho ono, write tho Donison Coffoo Co.,
Chicago, for a oouvonlr and tho namo
of your Semlnolo dealer.
Buy tho 3 lb. Canister Can for ?1.00.
rAdv.
' "Will tho
doctor?"
-'"'"That doponrld
taiadum!" Puck.
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Careful,
vaccination
mark show,
'entirely on you,
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What She Needed.
Mistress What do wo nood for din-
(Servant Stiro, ma'am, and 1'vo
, tripped over tho rug au' wo need a
now Bet of dlshos.
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I ' Serves His Country Well.
, ' Corporal Charles Sarruguo, a votor-
nn of tho Franco-Prussian 'war, in
- which ho won tho Legion of Honor, Is
again serving hia country nt tho ago ot
' aovonty-Blx years, this tlmo as a sap
nor, and was recently awarded tho war
modal. Ho is rathor small, with snow
whlto bcqrd, and has tho nppoaranco
of a maa of forty. In prlvato Ufa ho
. is a civil engineer. For twolvo years
' boforo tho war ho was mt"or of his
native town of Auxorro. In 1870 Cor
poral Sarruguo had boon called to tho
colors as a civil onglnoor and given
tho rank of captain. Ho was twlco
. monttonod in dispatches. After tho
war ho occupied hlmsolf with munic
ipal affairs In hlo nntlvo town, and
Auxorro owes much to hLn for his ex
cellent administration. When tho pros
ont war broko out, ho offored hlL
services, passed tho examination, and
- after thrco months of training was
' 'sent to tho front.
MORE THAN EVER
increased Capacity for Work
Leaving Off Coffee.
Since
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Many formor coffoo drinkers who
"havo mental work to perform day at-
tor day, havo found a hotter capacity
' nnd Greater onduranco by using Pos-
turn instead of coffoo. An Illinois
iwomnn writes:
"I had drank coffoo for about twenty
years, and finally had what tho doctor
'called 'coffoti heart.' I waB nervous nnd
extremely despondent; had llttlo nion
tal or physical strength loft; had kid
ney troublo and constipation,
"Tho first notlcoablo benefit which
followed tho chnngo'from coffco to
Postum was tho Improved action of
tho kldnoys and bowols. In two wooks
my heart action was groatly Improved
nnd my norvou Btoadlor.
"Then I becamo less dospondont,
and tho dcslro to bo nctlvo again
ahowod proof of renewed physical and
montnl strength.
"I formerly did montnl work and had
to glvo It up on account of coffoo, bi!
ulnco using Postum I am doing hard
' mental labor with loss fatiguo." Namo
given by Postum Co., Battlo Crook,
Mich.
Postum comos in two forms:
Postum Cereal tho original form
must bo well bollod, 15c and 25c pack
' egos.
Instant Postum a BOlublo powder
dissolves quickly In a cup ot hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious boverago Instantly, 710c and
coo tins.
Both forms aro oqually dollclous and
cost about tho samo por cup.
CHAPTER XXVI.
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The Spirit of the East.
Company II, under Captain Donald
son, they trotted swiftly up with tho
quickstep of hard-trained Infantry
and stood in column of fours wJillo
tho officers sought tho head of af
fairs. Dally promptly sent for tho
young forest ranger, and In loss than
it takes In the tolling theso two keen
witted Westerners, tho woodsman
and tho soldier, wore ready to grap
ple with tho onomy. Llght-marchlng
kits woro dumped upon tho ground
nnd tho hard-muscled, men took to
tho hills and tho timber under quick,
dccislvo orders. Two hours later
wagons arrived with commissary sup
plies and tho smoky, blackened val
loy took on a military air.
It was a Titan Btrugglo, and it was
Indicatlvo of tho forco that has con
quered nature tho human atoms toll
ing In Bomidarkncss beneath tho
threatening forest, choked by tho
smoke, flayed by tho almost unboar
ablo heat, menaced by tho flames that
nt any moment might sweop horo or
thoro among tho rockn and decllvltlos
of tho uneven hills and cut off escape
That was tho groat danger thoy
guarded against tho possibility of
getting hommed in. Guards wero do
tallod to watch tho vanguards of tho
foo, to note tho speed of tho flames,
tho Ho of tho tlmbor, tho lines that
woro likely to go fastest, following tho
difforent growths, but In tho mysteri
ous dusk and tho sllenco of vast
mingled sounds thoy woro impotent
and each man had to tako caro of him-
BOlf.
Tho mighty boom of falling patri
archs of tho forest, hoary with a thou
sand years of aco. crashinc throuch
obstructing branches, shook tho earth
oach moment. With each such stu
pendous fall wealth and world-ocon-omy
and prudenco trembled at tho
sacrllogo. It was a carnival of wasto,
a sacrlfico ot tho gifts of God and
nmong all thoso who fought It with
heart and hand and brnin thero was
nono who knew its worldwldo import
so well, who lamonted It so keenly
as tho loan, brown forest rangorB
whoso special foo It was.
"And to think a dozen miles of gov
ernment trails would havo provonted
It I" cried tho leador with nn oath.
Out in tho valloys boyond, tho heavy
Bmoko had qbscurod tho sotting Bun
entirely. Over tho crest of tho Coast
Ilango It had spread up to tho heav
ons, drifted afar on tho changing wind
and all tho distant valloy ot tho Wll
lamotto know that tho forest fires
woro burning In tho hlllB.
Tho papors throughout tho otato
told of It that day, and It awakoned
no moro lntorcst than would havo at
tended the announcement ot a hcavior
run ot salmon than was usual in tho
Columbia.
Thoy woro too common, thoso fires
that sportod with tho national wealth
each year, too much a part of every
day Hfo, and thoy did not know that
this was to bo a marker of tlmo In
tho coast country.
Tlmo waB when thoy woro unknown,
thoso monHtors of destruction a long
paat tlmo It was, when thoso first for
est rangors, tho silent Red Mon of
tho hills, had burned out tho under
brush oach yoar so that a pony might
go anywhere unhindered.
Tho sllont rangorB had gono with
tho yoars passed to tho Hunting
Grounds and tho reservations, via civ
ilization, and now tho groat tlmbor
had shod its dry follago and its pitch,
tho llttlo growths had sprung up sea
son aftor Bcason, tho vines had crept
botwoon and a man might not pono
trato tho faBtneases without built
trallB.
So Dostlny took up tho land and
iplayod with It that hot, dry August.
All through tho early hours of tho
long night thoy labored, dirty, black
ened, tattered scarecrows ot mon, run
ning horo and thero, digging llko mad
In tho wtdo trench that was to stop
tho Burfaco flames, sawing uncoas
Ihgly at tho towering troes, while tho
guards brought twenty-minute tidings
ot tho approaching flro.
High agalnBt tho dun, smokc-Ilght-onod
oky tho dark canopy ot tho East
Bolt whlsporod and moaned us It in
fear, and from tlmo to tlmo Sandry, a
haggard, grim-lipped spoctor ot a man,
llftod hla bloodshot oyos toward It, It
was still his own, IiIb tuturo of tho
DUllngwortb, dosplto tho tanglo of
Hampdon'B threats, tho unrocordod
deed and tho unfinished trail ot tho
Yellow Plnoa at tho south, aud it
pulled at his hoart pathotlcally.
Thoro was still a stretch ot almost
Impenetrable timber near tho summit
ot tbo big ridgo which must bo cut
through boforo tho llamos reached it,
br all would bo loBt
, "Shall wo mako It, John?" asked
K' o owner desporately ot Dally, who
n by in tho smoko with wot rags to
tlo over tho mouths of tho men.
"Ought to it tho wind Btnya where
It IB."
It waB two o'clock and that hour In
tho eleoplng world outside when all
the elomcntB aro at an obb.
Then, all suddouly, Destiny laughed.
And Dostiny's laugh wob a whooping
tldo turned. Hell broko looso upon
tho land and heaven was not. Flro
encompassed tho world. Its incroasod
roar changed to tho thunder of tho
spheres. It appalled tho hearts of
men, stayed tholr hands In fright All
throughout tho darkness of rolling
smoko whoroin thoy worked botween
tho raging torrent and tho East Bolt
that mighty volco commanded cessa
tion. Instantaneously, without ordors, as
ono man whoro thero was no commu
nication savo bctwoon thoso a fow feet
apart, they dropped their spades, tholr
tattered blankets, tholr axes. Thoy
straightened from tholr labor, leaving
tho cross-cuts In tho trunks. Horo and
thoro, abovo tho solemn thunder
hoarse voices began to call. It was
tho tlmo to quit aud thoy realized it
Instinctively.
"Out! Out! Out!" thoy cried to
each other In tho dusk. "Got outl
Got outl"
Wnltor Sandry, working near tho
apex of tho pushing line, saw men bo
ginning to run past him back along tho
trench nnd tho cutting. Ho llftod des
pcrato oyes to tho ridge whoao dim
crest ho could seo between tho boles,
so near had thoy won to victory. Only
n fow moro big pines, a dozen saplings,
a scant fow yards of trench and It
would bo done tho long In,no of safety
stretched across tho neck of tho East
Belt!
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" ho cried with
a great volco tllat camo from tho very
depths ot hla lungs with borrowed
powor. "Stand by mo, mon! For God's
sako Btand by!"
Ho saw dim shapes falter, half turn
toward him and start on. Again ho
raised his Btcntorlan cry and flying
figures halted a moment, stopped
against their will by its compelling
power.
"I'm Johnny Eastern, all right, but
I'm going to Btay! Who'll stay with
mo?"
Out of tho donso obscurity camo Col
lins, a hugo, fantastic flguro, and stood
besldo him without a word. In tho ton
sion of tho tlmo Sandry reached out
u hand and gripped tho giant's shoulder.
"A dozon mon nnd wo'vo won!" ho
cried.
Ho saw tho halting shapes turn,
gather anothor and another, retrace
their stops and spring back Into tho
darkness. Evory man of thom waB
wostorn born and tho taunt had gono
homo. Ho loaped hlmsolf for tho
handlo of a saw sticking out from tho
bolo of a 150-foot sugar plno nnd tho
whining song of the cross-cuts tobo
again under tho dwarfing roar.
Fourteen mon had hoard and an
swered that call, and thoy woro alono
in tho purgatory of heat aud smoko.
All tho rest wero running for their
Uvea down tho cleared fall toward the
valloy boyond tho dip.
From tlmo to tlmo Sandry glanced
upward at tho increasing light. Tho
sugar plno foil with a ronding roar,
and with Harris, who, ho saw for tho
first time, had been pulling with him.
ho ran to tho noxt
Ho saw ns ho ran that ono of the
mon, working llko a fury to foil tho
saplings, was Murphy, who had greet
ed his pompous "DUllngwortb" with
such grinning Irony in tho old days.
Ho had a momont'B vnguo wondor at
this odd Btrlpo of humanity that could
hold auch prejudice, fight with Hamp
den's mon in Bavago onmlty, to Join
tholr ranks later with happy irrespon
sibility at tho call of gold, and was
ntlll willing to turn back to fight with
him on death's brink, bocauso ho had
roturned tholr taunt of East and West.
Ono by ono, in sllenco, in a tension
that drow tho skin tight on their facos,
thoy saw tho las. vamalnbig monarchs
fall, tho kindling saplings laid on
earth, tho trench, much narrower and
shallower, croop upward to tho ridgo.
Against tlmo, against heat that
scorched tholr baro arras and tortured
tholr Btnrtlng oyobnlls, agalnBt a sti
lling ntmo8phoro that drovo them
nearer nnd ncaror to tho earth Tor
breath, thoy drow tho last blado, sent
tho last big plno crashing toward tho
jiorth.
Tho ridgo was clear In tho Increas
ing glow.
"Now!" cried Sandry with tho tri
umph of n general on a victorious
Hold, "now for tho ridgo and over!"
But oven ns ho dropped hla saw and
ran, calling his mon, Collins' b)g voice
camo through tho rolling smoko with
tho calm of finality.
"Ain't no 'over.' It's a nlnoty-foot
drop on to hard rock boyond that
ridgo."
Sandry stopped In his tracks, hla
along tho fell and tho tronch. Long
streamers of flamo wero licking across
it. Tho half-looked-for had happoncd.
Tho llttlo bunch ot fighters woro
hommod in, ringed around by flro.
Death fncod them on ovcry sldo.
Then, as tho owner sent n searching
look to overy quartor, ho sprang for
ward. "Horo!" ho cried, "horo! Into Itl
Every man of you. In, I say!"
At tho croat ot tho sheer ridgo an
old, abandoned tunnol gaped in tho
gloom, a dim haven ot rofugo. Its
mouth was overhung by vlnoa, Its re
cess mysterious in tho blackness. San
dry sprang to Its edgo and turned back
for tho mon to pass. Thoy stood, a
small, silent bunch, gazing in wordless
consternation at tho red canopy.
"Now how in hell did it got across
tho fall?" said Collins hoarsoly.
But ono by ono thoy stooped and
entered tho small black hoo in tho
earth. It ran backward Into tho ridgo,
scarce tho height of a tall man, its
floor uneven with tho heaps of earth
fallen from tho roof Blnco sorno long
forgotten prospector had carved It
out.
Horo for a moment thoy breathed
moro easily, standing closo together,
a sweating, panting, waiting mass of
humanity. Sandry stood at tho mouth,
tho last to enter. Ho looked out in
hushed amazo at tho unchained mad
ness of tho burning world. Tho great
fire had reached ts zenith. It camo
booming and roaring to tho fall and
tho trench. Ito sound was indescrib
able. Tho heat grew until tho flesh on
Sandry's arms and faco roso in bits
torn. A sheet of flamo shot sheer
across tho tunnel's mouth. Smoko
rolled into It and hero and thero a
gasping breath ended in a moan.
Thero was no air to broatho. Llko
trapped animals tho men Jumped horo
and there, feeling for an opening, a
crovico to crawl into, away from tho
agony of heat and nuffocatlon. And
then thoy lost control of themselves.
"My God" cried Murphy shrilly, "I
can't stand ut! Let mo chat an' I'll
die an' got ut over!"
Ho camo groping to tho entrance,
facing tho increasing heat. His faco
was a madman's, his mouth open, his
fingers crooked like talons. But at tho
mouth, that was as tho gate of hell, ho
mot tho Easterner, a straight figure
against tho light boyond.
"No," said Sandry sternly, "go back
and Ho down."
"What?" ho shrieked, "what? You
damned Johnny! You tenderfoot!
I'll " And ho flung hlmsolf forward.
A smooth, black muzzle camo forth and
pushod its brazen monaco Into his
faco.
"I'll shoot tho first man that at
tempts to pass mo," Bald Sandry
hoarsoly.
Raving nnd cursing, ho backed away.
Moro than ono ot tho fourteen
bogged to bo allowed to pass, and ono
of tho lumberjacks from Sacramento
muttered deliriously of calling his
bluff. But tho awful moments dragged
by and Sandry stood at tho entrance.
Tho flamo3 passed all measurement ot
light and heat. Ho lost sight ot tho
figures at his feet. Ho felt hlmsolf go
ing out in tho darkness.
"S'letz," ho muttered, "little S'letz "
When ho camo to himself again, mon
woro crawling across him. Ho could
broatho hotter and tho light had les
sened. Ho sat up, wincing at tho mov
ing of his scorched skin over tho
muscles underneath, crawled out with
tho rest nnd ono by ono they roso to
their feot. Tho great timber of tho
East Bolt farther down stood serried
and green. Tho effort had not been in
vain. Tho holocaust was chocked, tho
Bolt was safe.
Back toward tho north str6tched a
forest of tall, blnck spikes, picked out
horo and thero by heavy spots of flro
ls It over, Collins?" ho netted,
steadying his volco.
"Over? Look yonder. Fool th' wind.
It's changln' again. Th' flro'B back
crawled toward tho Slletz basin throo
miles, I'll bot, whllo wo'vo bon savin'
this end. "'o'vo only begun to fight."
CHAPTER XXVII.
A
0- --ysr
Collins' Big Voice Came Through the
Rolling Smoke.
whoro fallen logs, dry and pitch-laden,
burned Bteadlly. Tho green canopy
was gono, ovory vino and bit of brush,
ovory sapling and fern. Only a thin
hoad cleared as if with a whltf of salt odgo still crackled and snapped with
MfTK ftMsv'n i TJ nnaAM aw T)Afltlim
sold by Grocora. I triad that roso as tho elemental obb-
nlr liv tlint rail.
Tho mon had closod In with tho In
stinct of tholr kind to bo together in
danger, as if bo tho dancer woro les
soned. But tho Easterner was undaunted.
"Then we'll tako to tho East Bolt,"
ho cried, "even though it is a crown
tiro and comtng fast, I think our trench
will hold It"
With nil conlldenco ho turned to tho
south. Instinctively tho men had
drawn In behind him. Tho neck ot tho
East Delt was a wavering wall of
flamo. Ho whirled and glanced back
stroamors of flamo along tho trench,
"Mr. Sandry," Bald Harris, tho Baw
filer, "If you'ro an Easterner 1 hope to
God tho brood fills up tho country!"
Ho oxtondod a hand which Sandry
graspod.
'An' mo," Bald Murphy, his grimy
features dlatorted In an expression of
mingled gratltudo and contrition, "I
tako it all back ovory damn word I
evor said against you, an' It's a long
list."
"Forgot It," Bald Sandry. Ho waB no
longer Johnny Eastern. Ho had won
1 hla right to llvo and fight among them.
The Shot In the Hills.
At camp thoy mot a party, headod
by tho foreman, Just starting out In
search ot them. Tholr absenco had
been discovered only when Dally, com
ing in from tho north, whoro his work
had bcon laid out, had asked for San
dry. At sight of him tho thrco women
standing together at tho foot-log gave
ovldenco, each In hor way, of thoso
emotions which tho suspicion of hla
fato had stirred.
On Ma's faco waa an unbounded
pride that ho had come through, a
man of parts, abundantly ablo to caro
for himself among n hardier crew. On
Miss Ordwny'a thero lay a vast relief,
whllo Slletz played with tho collar of
hor bluo shirt with trembling fingers
and moistened her dry lips.
Sandry turned and looked up at tho
darkened east with a profound Joy. Ho
swept his eyes north to whoro tho red
heaven flared nnd staggered to his
olllco.
"Throo hours, ma," ho croaked in a
voice ot warning, "only threo hours'
sleep for all of ua. If you givo ua
longer I'll novcr forglvo you."
It wns truo, as Collins said, that
thoy had only begun to fight
Through tho hours, days, nights that
followed tho saving of tho East Belt
thoy took no noto ot tlmo. Up along
tho blackened, devastated valley the
soldiers moved their camp. Ma Dally
shut tho cook-shack and suborned a
wagon to haul her big rango up and
deposit it alongside tho camp stoves
of Company H, whoro sho dispensed
coffee to her men and all others with
impartial zeal. Miss Ordway, her skirts
tucked up from tho contamination ot
tho burnod earth which roso in hot.
black puffs at every moving foot, was
compelled to help if sho would hold that
esplonago over Slletz from which sho
hoped to realize hor ambition. A bit
ter hatred sharpened her bluo eyes
upon tho girl, nnd sho ached to selzo
her and tear out of her blouse thpt
packet of proofs. She was angered
at herself that all her cleverness had
failed to recover them boforo this.
So tho hours passed with smoke and
heat and a sun like a copper shield.
Men camo and went In relays, sleeping
upon tho ground for Bhort shifts, rig
Idly apportioned and observed. Tho
flood of flame, runner after an arrant
wind, had piled its forces in leaping
billows in among tho northern hills, it
seemed a thing of irresistible might,
but tho tollworn men hung to its flank
with a dogged persistence, emboldened
and encouraged by the success on the
east ridge.
Sandry, limping painfully, and hag
gard as a ghost, stuck with tho van
guard dosplto Ma's commands and
Tillv'a ronrnlnpa At eneh frnah alrrVit
of his face the girl Siletz was wrung
with anguish. It scorned as if ho could
bear no moro and yet tho spirit In him
drovo him on.
Onco sho ventured a timid protest.
"What Is tho tlmbor worth it you
die?" she asked plaintively, and San
dry, still somewhat of a boy, parried
tho yearning question.
"Who would caro?" ho laughed
wryly, "would you, Little Squaw?"
The girl did not answer, but as sho
turned away the ready mist' sprang to
her eyes and ho reached a contrite
hand to hor shoulder.
"Forglvo me! I know you would!"
It seomed to Slletz as tho horror
swept north and tho men wero lost
for hours in tho dim fastnesses, that
somothlng was about to happen.
Sho felt a presclcnco of disaster
which Coosnah shared, and they two
stood apart for long spaces of time,
silent, listening, tho muscles of each
drawn taut. From tlmo to tlmo tho
great mohgrol' would squat upon his
haunches, lift his heavy muzzlo toward
the dun-smoko heavens and bay with
a long-drawn, silver noto that was tho
very nemo of melancholy.
And then camo a dawn when no ono
camo In for breakfast, when tho sun,
coming over tho ridgo to tho east,
was not vislblo. Only a palo light
turned tho heavy canopy to shadowed
pearl. Tho threo women waited In that
silence which over attends tho waiters
for 'men who faco dangor. Thoy wero
used to tho sllenco, for thoro was no
accord botweon thom. Ma Dally had
long ago shut this "bird o th' earth"
out of her good heart and Slletz hated
her with tho fury of tho woman whoso
mato Is threatened.
At last a solitary Indjan camo down
tho valley, running, his mouth full ot
oxcltcment and dolorous prediction.
Tho whole of tho Slletz would go. It
was tho wrath ot tho Great Spirit
turned looso upon a wicked world. It
was tho judgment Thero was nothing
llko it. He fell Into jargon and ro
vortod to tho anclont gods, nnd Slletz
chocked him stornly.
"What do you mean, Quanna?" sho
Bald, "have you forgotten tho Preacher
and tho Blblo? Thero Is only ono God
and ho holds us in tho hollow ot his
hand. It Is not tho destruction ot tho
world. It will stop. What moro has
happoncd, and whoro is Sandry ot the
camp?"
Everything had happoncd. Tho
wholo country was aflro. Not only a
ridge or two, a valloy In between, as
it had been hero, n day, two days back,
but ridgo after ridgo, valloy after val
leythe world, the earth, tho heavens.
Sandry wa8 aomowhere up behind tho
Hog Back.
For a moment tho girl looked out
banks. Then she turned troubled eyos
to tho general.
"Mother," sho said, "I know It now.
Tkoro's danger to Sandry, and I'm go
ing." "Child, you'ro wrong UiIb tlmo, San
dry's a man. Well as you know th
hlllB I can't lot you go. I forbid It"
They faced oach othor n moment
whllo Sllotz tossed back hor braids
and tightened her belt
"I'm going," aha said quietly. Ma
Dally, who had raised her, said no
moro; but aB shn turned to the Btovo
aimlessly as was her wont In evory
tlmo of trial, thero was a deeper lino
about hor tremulous old mouth.
Swltt as the wind tho girl ran down
tho valloy toward tho deserted camp.
Miss Ordway watched her and against
She Felt a Prescience of Disaster
Which Coosnah Shared.
hor will, drawn by somo subtle excite
ment, somo urging power, sho, too,
gathered her skirts and began to run
across tho pulling ashes. At the lean
to sho came upon tho other just lead
ing out Black Bolt, a shining beauty,
eager for the turf.
"I'm going too," panted Poppy,
reaching for a bridle that hung behind
tho bay.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
FIND BY-PRODUCT OF VALUE
Chemists Are Now Extracting Wax
From the Refuse From Process
of Sugar Refining.
Moro and moro of tho residues of in
dustrial processes that used to bo
thrown away aro- being found to con
tain somo useful substance. In somo
cases tho valuo of what was originally
considered a "by-product" has como to
exceed that of tho primary product it
self. Tho residues of sugar refining
havo been discovered to contain a valu
able waxy substance in sufficient quan
tities to warrant Its extraction on a
commercial scale.
When a section of sugar cano is ex
amined under tho microscopo it is soon
that from tho epidermis exudo llttlo
protuberance's, straight or curved
and disposed perpendicularly to the
surface Theso aro made of wax, which,
with othor waxy substances contained'
In other parts of the plant, passes Into
the julco in tho process of its extrac
tion. Tho limo used in almost all refineries
carries them away in the. refuse of tho
precipitation process, from which, tho
Idea of rescuing them was not long
ago broached.
For this purpose tho slimy residue
is placed In a receptacle, where it un
dergoes a fermentation which destroys
the fatty mattors without attacking
tho wax. Tho substance is then dried
in the sun and afterward in a current
of warm air or in u furnace. Tho dry
product is crushed and treated with
benzlno or carbon disulphld. Tho wax
thus obtained is then rellned by being
extracted anew with petroleum es
sence, and then by filtration through
clay or animal black. Tho rcslduo ot
this extraction may bo utilized as a
lubricant or treated to obtain tho sugar
which it still contains.
Cano wax thus obtained is whlto or
palo yellow. It much resembles in ap
pearance Carnauba wax, as also in its
hardness nnd high melting point Tho
dried slimy residue contains ten tc
twolvo per cent of it a sufncfrontly
largo proportion to justify tho imlu
trial treatment ot theso residues,
inuuHf
English Lawns as War Maps. -Kd
It Is often difficult to comprehend
from a small map tho significance ot
different movements and the strategic
valuo of certain positions in tho pres
ent European war, becnuso of tho vast
territory involved. Seeking to get
around this difficulty, several English
lawns havo beon experimentally con
verted Into largo scolo, opon air maps.
On theso hugo plats ono can actually
stroll up and down tho "firing lino,"
obscrvo how closo one's position is to
that ot tho enemy, and, in general,
gain a comprehonslvo idea of progress
in warring operations. Small national
flags mark tho positions each country's
armies occupy and tho towns aro indi
cated by small posts, also appropriate
ly flagged. Colored tape, staked down
at Intervals, shows tho location of riv
ers, and small stones sot In tho sod
spell out names of tho various dis
tricts. Popular Mechanics Magazine.
His Part.
Officer "Your horso seems very
familiar to mo, IHgglns." Private-
"I don't wonder, sir, seeing tho time
ho brouRht you from tho club. Whv.
across tho slough, lying like a dirty you've kissed 'im before you weal un
Kruy una wutea 5 ma Heps."
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