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Thursday, April 1, 1937. THE WESTERN NEWS. LIBBY, MONTANA Pajre Seven “How about me? I saw the story in a Winnipeg paper and took a plane for Jasper Park. Then caught Household ® the train up here.” Harmonizing With Spring POOR MAN’S GOLD “Yeh, and I came from Prince • Questions George,” cut in another member of COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER* the crowd. "I thought we’d go in A thin syrup of sugar and water ing world, the happiness it would e Courtney Kyley Cooper. bring, the accomplishments. There from Alaska—around Wrangell.” 1252 flavored with almond essence is "Look here,” asked Olson, "you WNU Service. had been no thought of the greed, good to sweeten fruit cup. didn’t try to throw us off the trail, the suffering, the jealousies and hat­ V red which must inevitably follow. getting off here, at Prince Rupert?” Xf you store eggs with the small CHAPTER I Hammond spread his hands in a —1— \ He passed A1 Monson’s trading •nds down they will keep better. store and Ben Deacon’s. Both were gesture of disgust, and for a mo­ • • • Jack Hammond reflected, as he ment silenced them. jammed with purchasers; many Your doughnuts will have tkat walked up from the wharf, that "How in the world could I try to .V rain was Prince Rupert’s most had the white faces of persons who different flavor if one half stick of knew nothing o* wind or pelting ice throw you off, when I didn’t even bark of cinnamon and four whole bountiful crop. know you were on my trail? None He made the climb from the wa­ particles, the whip of a blizzard or cloves are added to the fat used in the blaze of sun on ice. Hammond of you came near me on the boat.” I frying them. ter front and cut across the little "Yah," laughed Olson, "how terraced park, where totem poles tried to tell himself that it was none of his business. He entered the ho- could we? You were in your cabin stood gleaming with moisture and When the frying pan becomes tel. most of the time. Getting over grotesquely lonely. Everything that head you must have had when slightly burnt, drop a raw peeled "Joe here?" he asked the clerk. % dripped in Prince Rupert this morn­ potato into the pan for a tew “McKenzie Joe? No, he pulled out you got aboard down at Seattle. ing, even the discolored, stuffed Ka­ minutes. Then remove it, and all yesterday morning, all in a rush.” Some time you had down there, l diak bear in front of A1 Monson’s traces of burning will have dis­ “Down North?” yah?” appeared. trading store. At last Hammond “Didn’t say. Must have. Got out Hammond straightened. He halted abruptly, looking over the » on a work train. Left a note for raised a work-thickened hand and, If sirup for hotcakes is heated wooden fence of a back yard. you though, Mr. Hammond.” removing his hat, allowed the cool­ Howls and whines had centered his before serving it brings out Hie Jack unfolded the scrawled let­ ing rain to fall for a moment on flavor of the sirup and does not attention. ter that had been left by his bearded his dark, tousled hair. He regarded chill the hotcakes. “What are you trying to do with partner. It was brusque and jerkily the crowd which hemmed him in that dog?” he asked. A man halted frank. with a look almost of pity in his Date Kisses — Thirty stoned in his efforts to kick a harnessed dark eyes. mongrel into progress along a "Well, 1 figured you might play the fool If "Listen, fellows,” he began, “you dates, one cup almonds, white one you ever got to Seattle end met that girl, egg, one cup powdered sugar. muddy space before a makeshift but I never thought you'd spill the beans don’t know what you’re getting into sleigh, weighted with stones. like you did. Why didn't you wait until you by trying to beat that country." Chop dates; blanch almonds and hit the bush again before you got drunk? cut into long strips. Beat egg very "Going to make a sled dog out "But the map shows that it's just / of him.” There'll be a thousand fools up in the Stikine back of Wrangell," Olson insisted. stiff, add sugar, dates and al­ a country before break-up. I'm hitting out of monds. Drop in buttered tins with That bozo? He hasn’t got the here with short suppUes to get In there and "To hell with the map!" Ham­ protect our Interests before the rush starts. mond broke forth angrily. “Cer­ teaspoon and bake in quick oven. weight for it.” “Oh, he's pretty strong." The See our lawyer snd be sure our claims and tainly it’s back of Wrangell. Maybe • • • leases are in good shape. Then come on I To keep the crease in men’s man grinned. "Say, they’ll be buy­ with supplies ss quick as you can.” seventy-five miles, a hundred, I ing anything where this dog’s go­ don’t know." trousers, turn them inside out and Hammond turned to the waiting ing!” "Just below the Stikine river, soap down Hie crease with a piece “Where’s that?” boy beside him and ordered his against the Alaskan border," sup­ of dry soap, then turn back te the bags taken to his room. Then he The pseudo - trainer jerked his plemented the red-faced man from right sid« and press, using a damp * head toward the white pinnacles of headed for the door; again on the Winnipeg. "The newspaper said cloth. The crease wül remain for street, he started toward a three- distant mountains. so," _____________ 1909 a long time. story building a few blocks away. if “Over the hills there in B. C.,” “I suppose that makes it a fact, % His course was a broken one. Hammond answered sarcastically. If a hot cinder falls on your the man said, “up the Caribou riv­ Townspeople he knew halted him “Then why don’t you go on to HIS week’s crop of fashions carpet and damages it; repair it er, somewhere around the valley of to question the accuracy of news- the Stikine. Haven’t you heard Wrangell by boat and up the Stikine T seem fully as sweet and gay with wool. Buy skeins of wool to river?” match the colors in your carpet. about it?" nc and long-awaited as lovely Spring “You can’t go up the Stikine this —with which they’re meant to Fill in the damaged part with Hammond’s features had become time of year,” an outsider argued. harmonize. Mary, Sue and Emily, loops of the various wools, follow­ strangely grim. “Might as well try to walk on ici­ three charming standees, know 1233 ing the pattern as nearly as pos­ “What’s going on?” “Where’ve you been that you 1 cles.” how to have day in day out chic sible. The loops should be tightly haven’t read the papers?” "Will you let me explain the set­ without forfeiting that pretty packed together and made slight­ P05T up?" Hammond insisted. “If you "On the Aleutian, coming up from silver lining in their new Spring Pattern 1233 is for sizes 34 to 52. ly higher than the pile of your go in by way of the Stikine, you’ve Vancouver,” purses. Size 36 requires 5% yards of 39 carpet. got to make nearly 200 miles and The dog trainer stared. I Hints From Mary’s Boudoir. inch material plus % yard con­ “The ship that got in this morn­ double back. You can’t turn off — “I’m especially fussy about the Stockings can become a very trasting. ing?” he asked. “And you didn’t that river runs through canyons al­ slip I wear, perhaps that’s why I expensive item for the mother of New Pattern Book. know about it? Then you must have most to Telegraph creek—’way past always sew-my-own! I never miss school-children—who are always Send for the Barbara Bell Spring been deaf, dumb and blind. There the discovery. It’s next to impossi­ the few hours it takes, and I can falling down and tearing big holes ble to cover the Stikine route on and Summer Pattern Book. Make were plenty of others who came > i spend the difference for a finer, In the knees. Try this way of re­ the ice—” yourself attractive, practical and on that boat—just because of it.” better-wearing fabric. A slip pairing an outsize hole: Take a “Boats make that river in the becoming clothes, selecting de­ that’s well-behaved is a joy to piece of strong net to match the “Because of what?" Jack Ham­ signs from the Barbara Bell well- summer time,” someone insisted. yourself—others as well—and just stocking and place over the hole mond’s hands, where they gripped “Certainly; paddle wheelers. But planned, easy-to-make patterns. as easy to have. r So take a tip on the inside of the stocking. TTien the fence, were strangely discol­ this isn’t summer. The spring Interesting and exclusive fashions from one who knows: choose this dam the hole with wool that exact­ ored. break-up in that country isn’t due for little children and the difficult model and a good fabric and you’ll ly matches the stocking on the “Well, if you ain’t kidding—the for months.

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