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 —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 , 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 —’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. Think that over." junior age; slenderizing, well-cut have no further slip troubles.” right side of the stocking through gold rush. Two fellows found placer Then Jack Hammond stood silent, patterns for the mature figure; the net. The repair, you will find, gold up there. A couple of guys listening to the jangle of words A Lift for M’Lady. afternoon dresses for the most “A new frock means more to will be scarcely visible. named McKenzie Joe Britten and about him. Men were arguing about particular young women and ma­ * • • his partner, Jack Hammond." whether or not the newspaper was me than a new fabric and a trons and other patterns for spe­ "Oh, I see,’- said Hammond jerk- change of color—it means a lift', Fillmg for a sponge cake Is correct, as if any inaccuracy were cial occasions are all to be found a new lease on life!” So rays made by creaming three ounces uy. a personal affront. All in an instant, in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. •Yeh. The volunteer trainer Miss Sue, a snappy sophomore of fresh butter and six ounces of the thought of gold had tom reason Send 15 cents today for your copy. rubbed casually at the loose fur of who sews. “I decided 1252 had the sifted icing sugar, adding two to shreds. Then Olson caught him Send your order to The Sewing his dog. “Guess they’d figured to kind of newness I want: the clever ounces of chopped pineapple and by the arm and shot the question: Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, keep it quiet, all for themselves, you “Yah! If you can’t go in by way cut of the waistcoat bodice first 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill. a little pint syrup. know. But this Hammond goes down Ice. of Wrangell, how do you go in?” caught my fancy, and the saucy Price of patterns, 15 cents (in to Seattle to see some old girl he’d "By Fourcross, if you want to be swing skirt made me sign on the coins) each. Like Most Such Vows been stuck on ever since he was a a fool and try it.” dotted line. I go for simple neck­ © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service, kid. Then he got on a big bust and “What’s so tough about that?” lines, and I like lots of buttons U You Didn’t Try to Throw Us The historian is excused when spilled everything. It’s been in all “The weather,” Jack insisted. too. You should see my version in Off the Trail?” he smiles at coming across Hie the papers, I guess. Quite a ro­ "You don’t get any warm winds royal blue silk crepe—really, it’s A FARMER BOY mance.” notation that in May of th« year paper stories which Jack Hammond from the Japanese current, ,,once something to be proud of.” ONE of (ha bo* known 1790 the representatives of the "Yes, quite," said Hammond thin­ Designers Win Praise. medial men In the had not seen. His evasiveness only you’re over the Coastal range. It’s it Ü. S. wu Ow late Dr. JL people in France of the revolu­ ly. "So everybody’s figuring on go­ nettled them. 35 and 40 below, all the Way to the Smart Matron your granny,” V. fierté W Buffalo, N. retorts Emily to an intended bit Y., who wu born on e tion passed amidst enthusiastic ing up there, eh?” "What if you haven’t seen the Stikine.” firm In Pa. Dr. Pierce1» “Everybody and his brother. “Ï know that,” said Olson lacon- of flattery regarding her new wel- ___ Ftrorlte Procriptlon hu applause a pacific resolution newspapers?” they asked. "You BBa Ic nearly IS year» been which was to be inscribed in the That’s why I thought I’d train this made the discovery. The Vancou­ ically. come-to-sp -ing frock. ‘ If I look helping women who hare charter of their new constitution: dog." ver papers have been full of it. You "But why fight the bush for 200 a„ young as I feel I’ll be mistaken HwRff headache and backache u for a Laf-a-Lot! But honestly, this aoclated with functional “The French nation will never un­ “That dog can’t make the grade know all about it—what’s the use miles with dog team when in a disturbance*, and older women who experi­ dertake a war of conquest." Na­ in the Stikine country. Zero’s a hot of trying to keep it a secret?” few months, there’ll be airplanes, or new dress gives me a more ence heat flashes, By Increasing the appétit# dressed-up feeling than any I can thia tonic help* to upbuild the body. Buy of poleon, you remember, came im­ day around there this time of year. Soon a crowd had gathered about easy travel along the river and your druggist New site, tabu., 50c. liquid tl. mediately after. No chest. Thin legs. A light coat him. Hammond fenced frantically, mountain trails—” remember in Springs gone by. I think Sew-Your-Own designers are from being around this coast coun­ A big man, with a faint break of “Yah,” said Olson, "and find all Personality Pins smart to give us ‘40’s’ some of Keep your body free of accumulat­ try. No hair on his feet—he’d last accent in his voice, poked a hard- the claims gone.” The very best “personality” is that swing the youngsters rave ed waste, take Dr. Pierce's Pleas­ about two days on the trail.” skinned, hewed-out face close to "Or you’ve gobbled up the whole to be sincere. ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Adv. “That ain’t my worry. Let the to that of Hammond. country through a set of dummies,” about. Do you suppose they sym­ fellow who buys him lose sleep over “My name's Olson,” he an­ the red-faced man added. pathize with the poor young men The Correct Thing that.” He gave the dog a kick, nounced. “I’ve got a map here—• "You can figure that out for your­ who are urged nowadays to Copying those who are well- shouting: “Mush! Mush on, there!” suppose you point out the place to self,” Hammond answered abrupt­ ‘Swing, Swing dear Mother-in- UNDERWEIGHT behaved is never a mistake. The dog’s howls remained in us.” ly, and shouldering through the law’?” Often Caused By Round-Worms The Patterns. Jack Hammond’s ears as he walked Hammond pulled at his breath. crowd, again moved up the street, Not only lost of weight. bot patones*. j^owly up the street. So this was a “Maybe I’d better,” he agreed. leaving the throng muttering behind Pattern 1909 is for sizes 14 to poor appetite, ttomneb dl«cotiifort. irreg­ 20 (32 to 48 bust). Size 16 requires ular boRfls, nausea, broken »Jeep auJ ' gold rush — this an echo of the Then, as Olson poked the map be­ him. But again, a block farther on, bed wetting ma.» he traced to Worm In­ broken laughter and excited jabber- fore him, "Didn’t I see you on the his progress was halted. This time 2% yards of 39 inch material. fection. Try Jajnc'a Vermifuge, used 105 Pattern 1252 is for sizes 12 to 20 years for children and adult*. Big hottl* ings of himself and McKenzie Joe boat from Vancouver?” it was a woman. •—Jo million sold. SEE THIS CROSS Britten, one day last autumn, up “Yah, you saw me," said Olson. "Well, Prospector,” she asked. (32 to 38 bust). Size 14 requires 3% there in the far-away Stikine coun­ "And a lot of others.” "Can’t you say hello?” yards of 39 inch material plus ^4 IT'S FOR Y00R PROTECTION Jayhes Vermifuge. try. Then their discovery of placer “Why didn’t you come to me Hammond looked up into the fea­ yard contrasting. or nugget gold, poor man’s gold, then? I could have explained all tures of a wrinkled person, valiant­ 15c for n as it is so often called, had brought this to you—maybe you wouldn’t ly battling her age with thick foun­ LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 2 FULL DOZEN great visions. Here was new mon­ have been so anxious about get­ dation cream, high rouge, mascar- BEHÄND «H ey, waiting to be washed from the ting off here.” aed eyes and a heavily lip-sticked & gravel of a river, and of value the "You got off, didn’t you?” asked mouth. Yet it was a sprightly face, a? 0 AND GET 9, 0 minute it was found; no need for the man with the pack on his back; blue eyes set in crows’-feet of hu­ 0 GENUINE great shafts and expensive machin­ “That was enough for me,” came mor and experience: lips which life 0 ✓ ery to extract this wealth. another voice. Then a short man, had hardened without leaving them 0 s There had been big talk that day red-faced, and with an excitable grim. 0 BAYER ASPIRIN 0 0 —of what new gold meant to a wait- manner, edged forward. (TO BE CONTINUED) 0 0 0 s’ s 0 0 , STAGE DOOR y % ^0 tumblin' a 0 GOLD!!! TIMBERS 0 m i & (V 0 0 Men go hungry . . . men die . . . men surrender happiness to y