SYNOPSIS
THE STORY SO FAR: Brace Har
eoort Alaska enetneer on a rare visit
to New York lo confer with heads of
his company, finds a lady's slipper, black
satin, buckled with brilliants, In the mid
dle of Fifth avenue. He is leaving the
next night for the North. He tries to find
n secretary for the camp but none of
the men interviewed wanted to go to
Alaska. He answers an ad asking for
the return of the slipper. To his amaze
ment, the girl who lost it is Janice Trent,
sister of a college chum whom he knew
ns a kid. Janice is to be married to Ned
Paxton, rich, bat a bit too gay with the
ladies. Janice and Ned quarreled in an
anto and she was about to leave hot
changed her mind. The slipper, however,
had dropped off. Bruce impnlsivcly asks
her to break off the marriage. But she
leads him on to talk of Alaska.
Now continue with the story.
CHAPTER II
What had Janice meant by that?
But Bruce kept blithely on. "T
referred to the breaking up of the
winter ice. We’ve been building a
bridge. It spans a river which flows
between living glaciers.”
“It makes my teeth chatter. It
sounds horribly cold!”
"Cold! I’ll say it was cold. Snow
storms were continuous. But it isn’t
always like that in winter. There
are days when the banks of streams
are vague and misty with young
green and you can smell spring in
the air. The summers are glorious.
Sunshiny days. Birds singing. Long
twilights. Ferns and brilliant flow
ers, fruits and vegetables, double
the size of those grown here.”
"Do you live in a tent when—
when on location?”
“By ‘on location’ do you mean
when I’m at headquarters? A tent!
I’m a house-owner. Three years
ago a young architect joined the
outfit as a draftsman. Someone had
fooled him into thinking that the ex
perience in the frozen North would
lengthen his life. He came with an
outfit suitable for winter sports and
a pair of pearl-handled revolvers.
To keep him cheerful and occupied I
suggested that he dra.v plans for a
log house for me, he was not physi
cally fit for anything else.”
“What is it like? I’m all excited.”
“He called it an H house. It is
built of logs chinked with moss.
There is a long room in the middle
with the length of the rooms at ei
ther end going the other way.” With
a pencil he drew the letter on a
card. “Like that. Stone chimneys
at each end of the living-room pro
vide fireplaces for the other two
looms. We use those in summer; in
winter good old Yukon stoves are the
only things which will keep us
warm. Having gone so far in our
plans, we lost our heads, went
cuckoo and added a model kitchen
ette and a bath for each bedroom.
Sent for oodles of price-lists and
catalogues of fittings. The boy ar
chitect and I had the time of our
lives selecting them. I spent money
like a drunken sailor.”
“Did the boy architect get well?”
“No. ’Twas a tough break for him.
He was the nephew of the Samp
sisters.
"Your H house sounds marvel
ous.”
“I wouldn't have believed it could
mean so much to me. When I mush
into heaoquarters behind my dog
team, I can see, perhaps through
falling snow, smoke curling upward
♦•■om the chimney. The glow from
lighted windows sets the icicles
which fringe the eaves agleam.
Snow piled almost to the roof spar
kles like an old-fashioned Christmas
card. Although I know that only
my husky, Tong, and my house-boy,
Pasca, are waiting for me, a sense
of home-coming warms me to the
marrow.”
Into the silence which followed
boomed the voice of a tower clock.
She rose quickly.
“I’ve kept you here talking and
talking. If yo^ don’t hurry you will
miss your train—I wish—I wish I
dared make you miss it.”
He caught the glint of tears in her
eyes as he laid the costly wrap
across her shoulders. A tide of pas
sionate desire to pick her up in his
arms and run away with her pos
sessed him.
At her door he said unsteadily:
“You’ve given me a wonderful
memory to carry back to Alaska.”
The quick, almost frightened
clutch of her fingers touched his
blood with flame.
“Don’t marry him, Jan. Don’t—”
She twisted one hand free to press
it against his lips. “Don’t say it.
Then you’ll never be sorry. Good
night.”
He kissed the slim fingers fervent
ly. “Good-by,” he whispered.
• • •
From a spur on an Alaskan moun
tainside, Bruce Harcourt regarded
the recently completed bridge which
straddled the river. The breakup
was due any hour, any minute.
“It won’t be long now before we
know how good we are,” he told
himself. He turned at a hail. A
man, almost as broad as long in his
Eskimo parka, which hung down to
meet the tops of his skin boots, was
hurrying toward him.
“Tubby! Back so soon? Boy, but
I’m glad to see you!”
Theodore Grant Junior’s green
eyes responded to the affection in
the greeting. His face was rough
from lack of a shave, but his teeth
showed beautifully white as he
grinned.
Your H house sounds marvelous.
“I’ve got him, ba-gosh!”
“Got who?”
“Got who? Has your memory fro
zen up? The secretary. An assist
ant for myself, Theodore Grant Jun
ior, accountant extraordinary for
this branch of the Alaskan Expedi
tionary Force to crack a way
through the great Northwest.”
“How did you get him?”
“From an agency in Seattle. They
sent him on the first boat. I’ll bet
the old tub had to plow and crush
its way through ice. And keep your
shirt on, Bruce. I brought the Samp
girls.”
“The Samp girls! Tubby! Have
you gone plumb crazy?”
“Now listen!”
"Listen! Look here, does Hale
know?”
“Hale! What’s he got to say about
it?”
“Considering that he’s chief of
this outfit, considerable.”
“Chief! Who’s had to take his
place most of the time this winter?
You. He opened up high, wide and
handsome while you were away. He
got the Indians on their ears, driv
ing them like slaves when he was
sober and chucking their squaws un
der the chin when he was plastered."
“Just the same why the dickens
did those two women leave the Waf
fle Shop at headquarters, which is
remote enough, to come out here to
this wilderness of snow and ice?”
“That’s what I asked them. Mar
tha inveigled me into the shop to
talk it over. Heaped my plate with
the hottest, crispest waffles, drip
ping with melting brown sugar and
butter, Bruce—butter; filled my cup
with honest-to-goodness coffee and
reminded:
" ‘Mary and I can’t do missionary
work with books, but we can with
food. One of the biggest forces
which prods men on to deviltry is
the trash they put into their stom
achs. That bridge you're building
is a big thing for the country. I’ve
been talking with the men who
worked on it They claim that ’twill
stand or fall in the spring break
up.* ”
"She’s right.”
“She argued that we wouldn’t be
here long, that she and Mary would
like to see the interior, and on and
on ad lib., ad infinitum. That she
wanted to keep our courage up with
good food. She has the missionary
spirit, all right.”
Waffles and brown sugar! Real
coffee! Harcourt’s opposition oozed.
‘‘Now that they are here, they will
have to stay. I can't spare a man
to take them out. Got your secre
tary located?”
“The Samp girls have taken him
under their wings. He’s no cave
man. Even in his parka and muk
luks he’s as slim as a fishing-rod.
He's got a little mustache like the
down on a yellow chicken’s back,
black curly hair—big crimson spots
on his cheeks.”
“I get you. T.B. That’s why he
was willing to leave the land of
lights and movies.”
A workman came running toward
them.
“Chester,” he said, “sent me to
tell you the false works has sudden
ly moved!”
Harcourt’s face whitened. The
false works! The two thousand piles
which had been driven forty feet into
the bottom of the river!
“How much! Quick!”
“Fifteen inches! Sudden as the
crack of doom!"
“Where’s Hale?”
"Gone back to headquarters with
his dog-team. Said everything was
O.K. Didn’t need him; he’d take
the boat out to Seattle to get Mrs.
Hale. Said you'd had your leave,
he’d take his.”
“Gone! Without letting me know!
Get every man out. Tubby!” Har
court started on a run.
In the prolonged nightmare which
followed, Bruce Harcourt felt as
though he were his own double look
ing at a great motion picture. Steam
from every available engine was
turned into every available feed
pipe. Men chopped seven-foot thick
ice away from the piles. A stinging
needle-pointed Arctic night settled
down. The river rose. The forest
quiet was broken by the chop, chop
of picks. The piles must be kept
free. Hundreds of cross pieces were
unbolted. The shifting into place
began. No man relaxed his vigi
lance until another stood ready to
go on with his job.
If he thought of anything but the
bringing back of the bridge into
place, Harcourt thanked God for the
Samp sisters. They were indefat
igable. They made the men stop for
hot coffee and waffles put together
sandwich fashion with succulent
brown sugar. Once he glimpsed a
boy hovering in the background. The
new secretary?
Melting. Chopping. Coaxing. Melt
ing. Chopping. Coaxing. The hours
dragged on.
Inch by slow inch the span settled
back on its concrete bed. Haggard,
exhausted, with a two days’ growth
of beard on their faces the engi
neers watched the last bolt driven
in. From the distance came a faint
rumble. It increased in volume.
Grant clutched Harcourt’s arm.
“It’s coming!” he whispered
through stiff lips.
The rumble increased to a roar.
The river had broken loose. Carry
ing ice and timber before it, it swept
along on its mad rush to the sea.
Rigid, tense, the two men watched
the wreckage and ice sweep by. The
bridge stood immovable against the
onslaught. Grant’s eyes were un
ashamedly full of tears.
“You’ve done the trick, Bruce.
This day will mark a crisis in your
life and Hale’s.”
* • •
“What’s the name of that secre
tary of yours. Tubby?”
“Jimmy Delevan.”
“Delevan? Did he help during the
late excitement?”
“Sure he did. He was everywhere.
Perhaps not so helpful in some spots
as in others. One of the men found
him freeing a snowshoe rabbit which
had been snared. When he explained
that the rabbits were the chief
source of feed for the dog-teams,
Jimmy Delevan went quite white,
walked off without answering, but
with the rabbit clutched tight in his
arms like a baby.”
• • •
Three shrieks of a small steam
er’s titanic siren echoed and re
echoed among the snow-tipped
mountain tops.
"B-o-a-t! B-o-a-t!”
The cry set in motion Eskimos
and Indian^, countless uncanny ech
oes. Dogs responded with wolfish
wails.
"I never watch that boat come in
but I wonder what turn old Fortune
will give her wheel.” observed Grant
at his elbow.
“Its arrival is packed with signifi
cance, Tubby. So many on this last
frontier have pasts.”
“I’ll bet the wheel turns for Hale
this time. He and the Mrs. are com
ing in on this boat. It’s six weeks
since we fought to save that bridge.
He went off to Seattle before he
knew that it would stand the break
up. I’m mighty sorry for his wife,
but—our reports went by air, must
have reached the authorities weeks
ago.”
"I made mine as charitable as
possible, considering the fact that a
flaw in construction imperils hun
dreds of lives and wastes thousands
of dollars.”
“I’ll bet you put on the soft pedal,
Bruce. In the interest of cool and
impartial accuracy, Jimmy Chester
—ba-gosh, how he hates Joe Hale, if
he is his brother-in-law—and I didn’t.
In my capacity as accountant for
the outfit I reported unvarnished
facts. Here come the mail-bags and
Stephen Mallory. It’s good to see
the Dominie again. I’m glad we’re
back on the coast, even if we are
hundreds of miles from civilization.
I wonder how long we’ll have to stay
in this raw place?”
“Until we have developed a rail
road terminal. The authorities have
decided not only to extend the tracks
north but to connect the Alaskan
system with Seattle, San Francis
co and Los Angeles. That’s what
I've been doing these last six weeks.
Even got a piece of track laid as an
object lesson. Left Jimmy Chester
in charge. He’s a human dynamo,
in spite of the fact that he looks like
a stage Romeo. Part of this outfit
is to scout by plane and report
bridge possibilities. That means that
next winter we'll begin pier-setting
again. How’s the new secretary
working out?”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
w Farm
Topics |
HOG PRODUCTION
AND FARM PLAN
—
Plenty of Grain Is Seen
Necessary for Success.
By E. M. Regenbrecht
(Swtae Husbandman. Texas A. A M.
Collett)
Hog production, a basic item in |
the Food for Victory program, eas-.
ily can be made successful if prop
erly fitted into a profitable farming'
plan.
Especially suited as a small en-!
terprise. hog production primarily
is dependent for success upon the
availability of an abundance of
grain feed. Hogs always pay more
for com, barley, or grain sorghums
than does the grain market About
four pounds of feed produces a
pound of pork, but the feed must be
properly balanced. Feeds used to
balance the farm grain usually are
higher in price than the latter but:
the quantity is smalL
Farmers who keep from one to
three sows almost always make a
success, Regenbrecht says. Hogs do
not do well when run in large groups
because sanitation and disease pre
vention become serious problems
with large herds. The principal
item of expense in hog production
is the grain feed, but if this is grown
on the farm, or obtainable locally
at reasonable prices, the enterprise
easily can be established on a profit
able basis.
While a sandy, well-drained soil
is the most suitable, hogs can be
successfully raised on a heavy
black soil, but in such case concrete
feeding floors are almost a neces
sity. Hog pastures are necessary,
with small grain for winter, and Su
dan for summer the best Native
grasses such as bermuda are good
for a short time in Hie spring, but
soon get hard and tough, and be
come of little value. A good pas
ture will furnish 50 per cent of the
needed protein and otherwise reduce
the cost of production.
Suitable equipment — a movable
hog house, a few troughs and a self
feeder—can be built at small cost.
A concrete wallow can be classed as
almost a necessity. If hogs are kept
comfortable they make rapid and
economical gains and losses from
overeating are avoided. It is like
wise true that hogs which do not
have a dry, warm place in which to
bed during the winter will not make
I as much profit as those properly
sheltered.
Save Money by Making
Own ‘Homemade’ Soap
With the fats and oil situation giv
ing this country considerable worry,
rural families with cooking fats
available can save by making home
made soap.
Enameled or granite ware is suit
able for small batches of soap, but
for larger batches an iron kettle is
recommended. A large granite or
wooden spoon is best for stirring.
The four ingredients of soap are
lye, water, fat and perfume. Lye
j should be pure and uniform, and if
possible soft water should be used
since it will improve the quality of
soap.
Fat used should be clean and
light-colored and it should be clari
fied as it accumulates. Clear) tin
t cans, well covered, are best for stor
ing the fat until a sufficient amount
has been collected for soap making.
Both fats and oils must be washed
j free from salt. Rancid greases may
J be purified by boiling with a solution
of one part of vinegar and five parts
of water.
Scents such as oil of citronella,
bergamot, oil of lavender, geranium
or sassafras may be added to per
fume the soap. This will help de
stroy the odor of the fat.
Killing Cattle Lice
A dairy herd infested with lice
causing severe cow discomfort
cannot provide top milk produc
tion. Powdered sabadilla dusted
on the infested parts is a popular
louse killer It may be used alone
or mixed with equal quantities of
powdered tobacco and flowers of
sulphur. Work the powder well
into the hide during dusting
Blankettheanimal for a few hours
after treatment and thoroughly
brush the skin, preferably out of ,
doors.
It is well to repeat this treat
ment in 15 days in order to get
lice that hatch from the nits. Use
care when applying the sabadilla
powder not to get it up the nose
and mouth. A handkerchief or
doubled cheesecloth placed over
the nose and mouth will prevent
irritation.
What Next??
A writer with a flair for “looking
I up” information tells that honey
isn’t merely a jar of liquid amber
to give zest to the breakfast toast
and flapjacks. During the past few
years packing firms have bought
honey in large lots for curing hams,
and many carloads of it have been
bought by brewers. Hydromel
(honey and water) is one of the old
est drinks known in Europe, and
honey brandy and honey champagne
still are considered delicacies.
Latest Silhouette Combines
Box Pleats With Long Torso
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
IN DISCUSSING and planning tor
* a program of timely dress for
women during the war period, it has
been definitely conceded by every
one concerned in fashion industries
and design that in order to render
the highest service women must see
to it that they are an inspiration in
appearance as well as in deed.
This sentiment is reflected in the
charming costumes illustrated
above. These models, selected from
a galaxy designed and displayed by
the style creators of Chicago in
their spring showings, are just the
sort that women will love to wear
and soldiers will take delight in see
ing.
Gay in color and young in feeling
is the ensemble shown to the left in
the foreground of the above illustra
tion. Here a navy coat in spun
rayon and wool mixture is worn
over a red and white printed crepe
frock. The self-fabric ties, tipped
with little plastic dice, repeat the
print motif of the dress, thus mak
ing a new-looking closing for the
coat. White saddle switching trims
pockets, sleeves and the red leather
applique on the coat front.
To the right in the foreground a
novelty striped print in white and
red on green ground is paired with
a bright red spun rayon and wool
jacket. Self fabric ruching trims the
dress collar which is worn outside
the cardigan jacket. The skirt has
all-around box pleats below a deep
hip yoke.
The costume shown to the right
in the above illustration con
veys the most welcome and highly
important style news, that the bo
lero costume has returned in all its
glory to the fashion picture. You
will see boleros played up through
out the style program this season.
In this case self-color eyelet em
broidery elaborates the bolero jack
et of a two-piece navy sheer cos
tume. The bodice, softly draped at
the top, is pink.
To the left above in the picture is
shown a two-piece dress that uses
a shantung weave, combining white,
orange and brown in daring con
trast. The separate skirt features
box pleats from a hip yoke. Box
pleats are really newer than side
pleating. Eminently correct for a
wartime “suit wedding” is the
creamy beige sheer ensemble at the
top right in the above illustration.
The full-length coat looks like a
dress but is really a wude pleated
skirt seamed to a jacket top, with
self-covered buttons down the front
from neck to hemline. Finely pleat
ed bowknots trim the four slot pock
ets that adorn jacket and skirt. The
dress worn under this coat repeats
the pleated skirt of the coat, while
gathered bodice fullness developes
from a deep yoke.
Generally speaking, the favorite
silhouette is the long torso effect
with some sort of pleated skirt. Also,
there is much interest in slim wrap
around skirts and those which have
slenderizing harem drapes.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
New Flounce
This dress has two very important
style messages to convey. The one
is the coming vogue for allover em
broidery on wool, or rayons and cot
tons that look like wool. The other
is the news that simple wool frocks
will be finished off at the hemline
with a flounce. Flounces are among
the ways designers are contriving
to add a prettily feminine note to
simple daytime frocks. In the smart
1 est dress collections you will see
flounces conspicuously featured. The
gown pictured in the above illustra
tion is of soft beige wool with bright
green embroidered diamond dots. It
has a softly molded waistline, set-in
belt and, of course, the flounce!
Style Show Reflects
Lowly Fabrics’ Use
A preview of spring and summer
styles held in Chicago recently
showed the 18,000 buyers from 17
states that they were going to carry
home an array of chambrays, cali
cos and denims in women’s and chil
dren’s fashions. For these lowly
fabrics have come into their own
because of the influence of war.
Style and practicability are still
the theme in these fashions, for the
designers have kept their eye on
both national defense needs, and the
desires of millions of women pur
chasers in stores throughout the na
tion. Dresses, garden costumes,
play clothes and work uniforms—all
have been styled by the designers
lo reflect the signs of the times
Until manufacturers run out of
twills and such fabrics which are
fashioned into foundation garments,
girdles are here to stay, despite the
rubber shortage.
Priorities on tin and other defense
needs have caused tie fastenings
instead of hooks and eyes, zippers,
buttons and clasps to be substituted.
Everything in garments has taken
on the practical atmosphere. Every
thing except the hostess coat which
still remains silken and luxurious.
—
Now They Trim Your Hat
To Match Your Blouse!
There is going to be a riot of
frilly, frothy neckwear, and mil
liners are giving us something new
in the way of hats that repeat the
snowy lingerie accents. For in
stance, a wide brimmed straw or
felt hat may be outlined with an
organdy frill that repeats the frill
used in the showy jabot. The jabot
is one of the most important neck
wear items featured this season.
Serve and Adorn
Besides serving industry, women
will also adorn it. Trousered uni-!
forms, made from denim and cham
bray, without trim or buttons, and j
with tight cuffs as accident preven
tives were noticed in a recent spring
and summer style show.
Sailor Discovers That
Appearances Deceive
The naval recruit was getting on
very well with the blue-eyed and
sweetly fragile damsel at the
dance. Naturally he suggested
having a bite to eat. She readily
accepted, and they strolled into
the dining room.
Presently, the sailor noticed that
one waiter was staring at his part
ner rather too intently. At last
he tackled the man.
“Don’t you know it's very rude
to stare at ladies?” he snapped.
“Sorry, sir," was the meek re
ply, “but it ain’t rudeness—it’s ad
miration, sir. This is the sixth
time she’s been down to supper to
night!”
Do You Bake at Home?
If you do, send for a grand cook
book—crammed with recipes for
all kinds of yeast-raised breads
and cakes. It's absolutely free.
Just drop a postcard with your
name and address to Standard
Brands Inc., 691 Washington St.,
New York City.—Adv.
cQ)hat's
c7 h is ?
It’s 36 feet of I '
intestines,—6 or /
6 times the (
length of your M
body, thru which v^,
everything you
eat must pass.
Nature usually
needs no help, but the wrong food, or
too much of it, can cause temporary
blockage (constipation) with aggra
vating gas, headaches, listlessness or
bad breath. ADLEREKA, with its
6 carminative and 3 laxative ingre
dients, relieves gas auiekly and gets
bowel action surprisingly fast. Ask
your druggist for ADLERIKA.
Alien Needles
The ordinary steel sewing nee
dle, used in every American home
for generations, has never yet
been manufactured in the United
States.
DIG DEEP FOR VICTORY
Dig Into Your Pocket and
Buy U. S. Defense Bonds
RAZOR BLADES
• ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THE 9
OUTSTANDING BLADE VALUE
II
iDoToV?5l BLADES
“TAKING THE COUNTRY BY STORM”
KNOWN FROM COAST TO COAST
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Best Occupation
Agriculture for an honorable and
high-minded man, is the best of all
occupations or arts by which men
procure the means of living.—Xen
ophon.
May Warn of Disordered
Kidney Action
! Modern life with it* hurry and worry,
irregular habit*, improper rating and
drinking—it* riak of exposure and Injec
tion—throw* heavy (train on the wark
of th* kidney*. They are apt to become
over-taxed and fail to filter excea* acid
and other impuritira from the life-giving
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
headache, dizziness, getting up nights,
leg paint, swelling—feel constantly
| tired, nervoua, all worn out. Other signs
of kidney or bladder disorder are some
times burning, scanty or too frequent
urination.
Try Doan'» Pills. Doan's help th*
kidney* to paa* off harmful excess body
waaie. They have had more than half a
century of public approval. Are recom
mended by grateful uaera everywhere.
Ask your neighbor!
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