Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWD _ . MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1922 B e e ,g"t’-‘: ather of 7Y, __{Continues from lasy issue) Gale found difficulty In curbing his impatience. The approach of the sheep was slow. The big ram led on RT GOLD ZANE GREY Riders of the Purple Sage. with regular persistence, and in half | an hour’s time he was In the bottom of the great gulf, and soon he was facing up, the slope. Gale knew then that the alluring scarf had fascinated him. The animals disappeared behind another . ridge. Gale kept watching, sure they would come out farther on. A tense period of waiting passed. then a sudden electrifying pressure of Yaqui's hand made Gale tremble with excitement. Very cautiously he shifted his po- sitlon, There, not fifty feet distant. upon a high mound of lava, stood the leader of the sheep. As Gale watched, the second ram leaped lightly upon the mound, and presently the three others did likewise. The splendid leader stepped closer, his' round, protruding amber eyes, which Gale could now plainly see, in- tent upon that fatal red flag. Like automatons the other four crowded Into his tracks. A few little slow steps, then. the leader halted. At this instant Gale's absorbed at- tention was directed by Yaqui to the rifle, and so to the purpose of the climb. He reached for the .405, and as he threw the shell into the chamber the slight metallic click made the sheep jump, Then he rose quickly to his feet, The noble ram and his band simply stared at Gale. They had never seen a'man. They showcd not the slightest indication of Instinctive fear. Gale imagined that they were going to step still closer. He did not choose to walt to see if thls were true. Cer- talnly it already took a grim resolu- tion-to raise the heavy .405. " His shot killed the big leader. The othérs bounded away with remark- able: nimbleness. Gale used up fhe reémaining four shells to drop the sec- ond ram, and by the time he had re- loaded ‘the ‘others were out of range. The Yaqui's method of hunting was suré. and deadly and saving in energy, but Gale never would try it again. He chose to stalk the game. After being hunted a few times and shot at, the sheep became exceedingly difficult to approach. He failed often. The stalk called forth all that was In him of endurance, cunning, speed. And like a shadow the faithful Yaqui tried ever to keep at his heels. One morning Yaqul spied a flock of sheep -far under the curved, broken rim-of the main crater. Then began the 'stalk. Hliding, slipping, creeping, - crawling, Gale closed in upon his quarry until the lorg rifle grew like stone In his grip, and the whipping “spang” ripped the silence, and the strange echo boomed deep in the cra- ter, and rolled around, as if in hollow mockery at the hopelessness of Tio wenited heside bic au breathed deep, and' swept the lon slopes with searching eves of When Yaqul came up they sct o « the hardest task of all, to pa best of that heavy sheep down 1. of steep, ragged, choya-covered lavi The torrid summier heat cante in perceptibly, or it could never have been borne by white men. It chanzed the lives of the fugitives, making them partly nocturnal fn habit. The nights had the balmy coolness of #pring, and would have been delight- ful for sleep, but that would have made the blazing days unendurable. As Ladd had said,” one of their greatest problems was the passing of time. The nights were Interminably long, but they had to be passed In work or play or dream—anything ex- cept sleep. That was Ladd's most in- flexible command. He gave no rea- son.. But not Improbably the ranger thought that the terrific heat of the day, spent in slumber lessened a wear and strain, if not a real danger of madness. Accordingly, at first the occupations of this little group were many and varjous. They worked If they had something to do, or could invent a prefest. They told and retold s untfl all were wearisome. The: songs. Mercedes tanght Théy played evéry game th They invented :others that w trivinl’ children would searcely. havé been Inter and these they: played serjous! In ‘a2 word, with Intell! gence and passion, with all that was clvilized and human, they fought the ever-Infringing loncliness, the savage solitude of their environment. Gale Delieved himself the keenest | of the party, the one who thought most, and he watched the effect of the desert upon his companions, For hours, It scemed, Ladd would bend over his checkerhboard and never make a move. It mattered not now wiether or not he had a partner. Jim Lash. the calmest, coolest. most non- chalant, best-humored iwesterner Gale had ever met, had by degrees | WitdFire, Ete, 1ost that cheerful character wWhich | would have been of such infinite good to his companions, and always he sat brooding, silently brooding. Jim had no tles, few memories, and the desert was clalming him. Thorne and Mercedes, however, were living, wonderful proof that spir- it, mind, and heart were free—free to soar in scorn of tie colossal batten- ness and silence and space of that terrible hedging prison of lava. . They were young; they loved; -they were together; and the Oasis was almost a paradise. Thorne and Mercedes had forgotten the outside world. If they had been existing on the burned-out desolate moon they could hardly have been In a harsher, grimmer, loneller spot than this red-wallea arroya. Although shadow, Gale reached a polnt when he seeemed to wander alone at twi- light, In the night, at dawn. At night he had formed a habit of climbing up the lava slope as far as the smooth trail extended, and there on a promon- tory he paced to and fro, and watched the stars, and sat stone-still for hours He Came at Length to Realize That the Desert Was a Teacher. looking down at the vast vold with.its moving, changing shadows., He came at length to realize that the desert was a teacher. He did not realize all that he had learned, but he was a different man. And when he decided upon that, he was not thinking of the slow, sure call to the primal instincts of man; he was thinking that the desert, as much as he had experienced and no more, would absolutely over- turn the whole scale of a man's val- ues, break old habits, form new ones, remake him. More of desert experi- ence, Gale belleved, would bie too much for iptellect. The desert did.not breed civilized man. Thus the nights passed, endlessly long, with Galefighting for his old or- der of thought, fighting the fascina- tion of that infinite sky, and the gloomy insulating whirl: of the wide shadows, fighting for belief, hope, prayer, fighting against the terrible ever-recurring idea of being lost, lost, lost in the desert, fighting harder than any other thing the insidious, pene- trating, tranquil, -unfeeling self that was coming between him and his mem- ory. He felt he was losing the battle. losing his hold on tangible things, los: ing his power to stand up under this ponderous, merclless welght 6f desert space and silence. i At the moment he was alone, on the promontory. The night was far spent. (Coutinued In Next Iasue) This proven remedy checks colds before they de- velop into serious ailments. It soothes tired, scratchy throats, loosens disagreeable phlegm and soon breaks up the cold. Now—don't let your cold linger on—ask your druggist for DR KINGS ¥vere ~asyrup for coughs&colds the Yaqul was as his DOINGS OF THE DUFFS ] . __ It Smacks of Mystery is behind the wholesale smuggling. of JAJANESE FLAPPERS LIKE liquor from Mexico into- the Ux;ited AMERICAN JAZZ MUSIC | States. l < By Allman ’ Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9 (United i B e LT sy Many ingenious ruses are reported ( - » D HE FOR . : ¥ ol ] YOUR TARY SeLueen bwor Tl v was < ) YeoneaLe, o by pmopgieid 10" shn st SN i 1S HERE ! | HAVE A COUPLE OF HE MORE AGREEABLE OLIVIA= HE l trols. 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ANY WAY AND SEE \J:;E'S THERE i Ask your doctor about the economy and value of plenty of goocd milk for growirg children. KOORS BROTHERS CO. Phone 175 OR W. C. HARDING; PHONE 389 CLEMENCEAU IS SAID stead of declaring at. Washington highway in the Rio Grande Valley. thot Frandé cowd mot'disarm and The wheels had become stuck in ‘the 'l‘o BE “UR'"NG CAUS telling why, had spoken along the sand when the driver attempted to following ljnes: . turn around. It was surmisedi that 1 ‘“!Frante-does- not want another the driver of the truck, warned of the (Continued from page 1) "Government, where thc help is most- - the Germans. That is why we must We have a full line of hard coal, nut and stove large and small brick- etts, soft coal splint'and range. Coke and smith- - ing cecal. LET US SUPPLY YOU ES, LIME, CEMENT . PLASTER BEMIDJI LUMBER & FUEL CO. B, W. LAKIN, President E. R- EVANS, Manager C. L. ISTED, Secretary-Treasurer “Main Street” or Broadway— b Buick Authorized Service Maintains Buick Dependable Performance | German invasion. We do not trust approach of @ mounted patrol, had met with' misrortune. ly needed, keep a Lig army. But we are now A few weeks ago a smuggler, well Lhe actitude of the American Gov- sitting down among our friends, our ynown'to border officials, was fotlxi ‘ernment on the situation in Europe allies of the World War. So now, if t, pe carrying an elaborate map of i« gesr the root of the trouble in the our friends here think we can get a- the vicinity showing the stations, pa- ‘Old World ig the German repara- long in safety with less, France is trols, and lookout points o1 va.ious wons questioa, and tual France hclds reaay to make the necessary conces- government operatives on border the key to that troubic. France holds sions.” duty. the key, because if she would give “Why,” said this American, “the Recently a new dry agent, return- up her policy of maintainitg an roof would have been raised from ing to a bootleg joint where he had army of 800,000 men—the greatest the confetence. building. France reviously bought liquor for evidence standing military establishment to- would have commanded an ovation. {o gather additional evidence w. . v ‘day in Europe—would stop her im- France would have gained a com- n3 beatén into unconscious- possible but nevertheless systematic manding prestize in this country and uponba ired Shmgicof tha band who |ettempts to crusn Germany and. the world. But Briard could not “essby oed %;to his identity, would change in her foreign policy see that, and, I am afraid, neither ‘h"% _e:; %‘égf off‘cials e unit{ng i'tha* vetoes everyching that is not|will Clemenceau:* ity - i:e:chl : bo?ner e ‘in line with the attitude towards| all nlo:ig(h $Ran of opuciiet Germany; then much could ‘be done RALPH B‘INGIMMWM moAbx‘e up _organi . |that is impossitle now to bring about 1\ Jhiyal = recovery in 'Europe. 5 that he is in thig country entirely on (Continued from page 1) his own without any mission from and never does he revert to low- anyone, have been given the cred- grade humor to draw a iaugh from | ence that Clemenceaw’s word de- his audience. mands. But although he may have Besides being.one of the fore- on, it is believed here that most of platformshumorists, he is a the old French staiesman'Violinist and pianist of no mean is giving a most accurate and com- 2bility and.offers tonight a mixed prehensive exposition of the view of program which is-sure to make a big the French government. (hit. p The very last wish of the Ameri- It is expected that his engagement can Government is to appear to be here will be hear‘nly we.lcomed and siding with Germany agzinst France. that the churqh will be filled to cap- But it is wished here that France &city when Bingham takes:the plat- 4 relen; sowme in her present form. He is not a lecturer, the pub- policies, and observers feel sure that 1°c can rest assured of thet, although in this way France could secure prac- at times he gives a real_ heart_«to- . vte ame ends for hersclf and heart talk which for the time wipes at the same time not be held up as the smile of the faces of his hearers. obstacle to general world recovery. He leaves a good taste in the mouth When Clemenceau arrived in New of those who listen to him and every- York and just two days before he bod){ present when he talks listens made his famoug speech in the Met® to him. . ropolitan Opera House, this- writer Those whn? can see }helr ‘way clear with a most distinguished to attend this entertainment number American, an old friend of the Ti-.are urged to do so, asured that.a ger's who had had a long talk with first-class program o_f real ‘merit is . s.-vea -0 o Frenchman that day. in store for them this evening, “I am afraid that Clemenceau is NS zoing to make the same mistake that Wrance made during the Washington BOOZE RUNNERS BHNG Disarmement Conférence,” he said | It seems impossible for France to PRoTEm BY SPIES look at things in the same way that (Continued from page 1) we do. Now, for instance, suppose Rio Grande declare they are shadow- Briand (the then French Premier ed while they watch the berder. 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