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A SON OFCOIRAGE BY ARCHIE P. McKISHNIE Copyrighted by Thomas Allen. Synopsis of Preceding Chanter*. Billj Wilson, wro lives with hU father ^nd stepmother and her son Anson, is the leader among the boys of Scotia, a nioneer settlement neat Lake Krie. Cfobin Keeler, one of the trustees, tells the new teacher, Mr. Johnston, about his predecessor, Frank Sta:ihopo, .'he was blindcJ while trying to iavj horses from a burning stable. A will made by a wealthy hermit, Scroggie, in /Stan hope's favor, could not be Scroggie's namesake and a, heir takes possession. Twin store is robbed. Harry O'Dule finds the stolen goods in old Scrogpie's cabin, known as the haunted houfo. Hinter, middle-aged and well-to-do, goes wooing Krie Landon, loyal sweet- heart of Stanhope, and daughter of the invalid li.,hthousf; keeper. T-. o trar.girs make a fruitless search of O'Hule's hut. Hilly meets Heir Scrog- gie and Hinter with the drivers of wagon loads of timbers and pipes. Hilly falls in love with Lou Scroggie. The new teacher is unpopular. Billy <iuc-tk>ns his brother about Hink-r's I < l li:-g outfit. t HAi'TKi: \i\. iivr.t'd.) lie turm-1 una- more to the door but Anson juir-i^'d up and caught him "so's I kin trail off an" find that Croaker. Any crow that kin pick up gold pieces that way is worth watehin'. Kin I go look fer him, Ma?" Mrs. Wilson at this particular mo- ment, was in the mood to grant almost any request. "Why Willium," she said eagerly, "go seek him and bring him back homo. Never ag'in will I wish him dead, poor little feller. But," she added as though realizing that her softened mood had carried her a little too far, "you see you get back here in time fer supper er I'm liable to tan Billy waited for no more. He was jup and away like a shot. Mrs. Wilson, j clutching her gold piece in one hand ,and brushing back her deranged hair with the olher, went back into the house. Anson, striving to keep his head above a shiny collar, about which was twisted a flaming red tie, was just issuing from the sair. His mother opened her hand to display her gold piece, then closed it again. "You go right back upstairs and take off Wil- lium's collar and tie," she commanded. "It's my own collar an' tie." Anson 'declared, "Bill give it to me." Humph! That's jest like him, but I'll tell you nil I know about i win/ re runr.in' the r:,r. I been fer the tol-dr<-ssrr after s.-h a quarter a night. I've heard lot (.' tn'l i>-n' fellers. Blamed , . if I coul.l . .-1 er tail of most Su . ay ' ^,.'"' of it but the-; ! a felli-r by J,? 8 ' am t you KITH name of .Jac<.':>s an' they seem , I'll l>e 'lung shortly; don't y<m wait "I kin toll by u-h. t ihcj ^ night I h^rd'th, big f.: 1 > r ,-nam,, d to obey Ss&&^C&**si * One of these days Jacobs ;.- gom to hear you blattin'; then you r ;:.>in to take a trip sooner than y> i expect- ed.' " Billy stood frowning. "Say. mavhe i. the feller tha- firr/the boil- er, that runs the wind**." he hazl to me." she said, proudly ' A "' n ' > droppe<l i "" 1 hc 'earfully wa>. il ' Ma , ! " h " *"''' ""' ' aina/.ement. "Have you gonj stark "Nope, that man's name's Sander- f". 1 " "Y ,,,: u , n. He don't have anvlhin' to do with " ml ravin c-ra/y. Anson .' she asked e drillers. Nope. Bill. Jacobs hain't "'> "" *' l* ^. r - r^lTo/the' outfit" dMd <Ure he>S * ' Anson promptly midS bis : SxTrlSt An You kin learn a 1 """!' bul f , h < ^ 'IV""" TT ' t more by k.-pin' your ear, an' eve, '<' "V j"*"; 1 W>M ^\'\^ ^J""^" ISvetotelTme !'"'" *" ""' ****''' """'' "t J 'with that 'gold, Ma. If Ar'on nod'l, I ' " ' > *'" f K?''"'' f \ ",'" '"' r "All hunky. Now, I'll Jeil peel off. 1 " 1 '?- ''' K'.' 1 claw *2 V' '' v, em> -1.1,1s, an' gel inter my own. Mr^ WHson sank down on a ehair. a.:,,. , "Willium s right," he sighed. An- l he gettin uneasy. . , ,...K..I iwto his pocket and the crow stood at attention. Then as the hand came empty hc emitted an angry crxMuk and wobbled further along the ridge- board. "Come, nice old Croaker, tell me whore you found the gold," coaxed Billy. <>< inker turned his back and mur- mured a whole string of "coro-corrs," which to Billy meant just as plain as words could say it that he hadn't the slightest intention of telling anything. "All right then. Croaker, I'll call Ringdo, an' feed him your dinner." Now, for the swamp-coon, Croaker had all the jealousy and hatred a crowt is capable of feeling wid as a last re- 1 sort, whenever he was olnlurate and | disobedient as he ws now, his mas- ter could nearly always brinjc him to! submission 'by the mere mention of i RiiiKdo's ruime. At Billy's threat 1 Croaker raised his head and poured forth such a jargon of heart-broken lamentation that the listening owls inside crouched low in terror, their nmber eyes questioning the meaning I of the awful sound. Billy bent and patted an imaginary something on the ground. "Good ol* Ringdo." he said. "Nice ol' Ringdo." That was the last straw. With a croak of anguish Croaker swooped down and lit on his master's shoulder. Promptly five fingers gripped his feet. "Now, you black beggar, I've got I you," exulted Billy. This /act did not, seem to worry Croaker in the least. | His beady eyes were busy searching for signs of his enemy. Rincdo being nowhere visible, his neck feathers' gradually lowered and his heavy beak closed. He snuggled close against Billy's face and told him in throaty! murmurs how much he loved him. Billy laughed, and seating him- 1 self on a log, placed the crow on his knees. "Croaker," he addressed the bird, : "you mus'a found ol' Scroggie's gold. ] He had the only gold money this ' country ever saw, so you must have found it some way. I don't s'pose it'll do Teacher Stanhope any good, 'cause it'll go to .Tim ScroggipV father, but, Croaker, it's up to us to get that mor,,-y an 1 turn it over; hear me?" Croaker blinked and seemed to b. ' thinking liar. I. "You see," Billy went on. "maybe llu will '11 bo where the gold is. You Ix' a real good feller an' show me where you found the gold-piece." "Sure I will," agree:! Croaker. He hopped down and sUU'ted pigeon-toe- ing across the glade, peering back to see if Billy were coming. Billy followed slowly, hoping, fear- ing, trustir.tr that Crcaker's intentions were of 'the> best. The crow w::s car- rying on a murmured conversation with himself, flapping his wings, nod- ding his head sagely and in other ways manifesting bis eagerness to ac- commodate his master. When he grew tired of walking he flew and Hilly had to run to kee'i him in sight. Stiaight through the grove, across the gieen valley and through the stumpy fallow- went the crow, Billy panting and per- spiring behind. Straight on to the pine hedg- en t k and still on, until the lonely pine glove of the haunted house came into view. ( To be continue.!. I Ma'II lie gelt in' uMcanv. But when H.IIv dresred in his own ' 8on mind ls * cttm a anced. cautiously out, it was to find the room deserted. Mr. Wilson's voice bigh- th "' 1 ttle unbal- I'll have to put him on diet him slippery-elm hark and alloways." and exnted. came fr.m ihe . Sighing do!,.fu!ly she aro.se placed ha -k van! I her treasured gold piece in the clock Wflliuml oh Wiliinm!" -he was! f< - -afe k-eping and tying on her ra ]i; n ,l bonnet, left the house. She walked With a bound he wa< outside and hurriedly down the .path, over beside her. She sat on the block j Perhaps she might be late for beneath the hoi-vine, her face in her , npen.rjr h.Mnn. As she was abou hop apron. She was n,rkin- to and fro it to tin- gate, a slender, sprightly and "obbine ! old Kf'itleinan, dressed in long frock "Ma," cri,-d H.llv. "whab-vpr i. the >? stepped out from the trees bord- matter?" enng the road, and gravely lifting his "Oh Willium." she cried, U breakin'. Ob to think 1 ledeel him!" permit me. Billy's eyes open,- 1 wide. "Misjed K .-l "Harry O'Dule," she gasped, as he him?" he repeated. | swun j? lhe *"' e wide - "' " lv "^ I "my heart shiny hat, bowed low, and said: "Your Vow I min- pardon, ma'am, I'm a^ciii; but if yc'll permit me." "Misjedgcd: "Harry O'Dule," she ( "Oh the poor little dear! the poor ' you?" little dear!" she waiie I. "Me hatin' , ." ''*'/'' '"'I who else, him like I did. and bin. doin' all he p.ied Harry. Ihe ouh ould 1 HI mid has fer me. Oh. Willimn, I do feel fo new fathers is ut Faith uL'.s manny '.ham-d, an' mean; I do so!" ^ *'";* f.^W * <ll " i? , <>are - Billy Htaied at hi nv.thi-r in amaze- fu!| V by th.nkin Id be wearm em ment. "Jest what has Anw ever did ""'fr K '? until i day whin Id not fer you, Ma?" he asked won-leringly. '"' known, ut But, Mistress Wi son, "Anse!" she snorted. "Who's talkin' ma am, tit's oth*T thoughts have been , about Araie? It's Croaker I mean. ''" s "^ p ! .lu't the dhr.nk. I I ape , Ixwk hrro what that darlin' c ro w <<-' '"'' llllt .v is iver clearer \ vl d ,-enr- bmught me jest a few minutes ago." *'' underrtandin and so ut is. Some Trees. In the I;,IM|< n of Kden, ]il.iiile<l by Hod. Then- were goodly trees in the spring- time sod Tree* of In ml . ami height .m,l grace. To siand in splendor before His face. i Apple and hickory, ash and pear, On It and beci h and the tulip rare. Tin 1 iri'iubliiiK UMICD, the noble pine, The sweeping elm by the river line; Trees for th! birds to build In and sing, And Ihe lilac tree for a Joy In spring, i Tr^e; to turn ai the frosty call And carpet the ground for their Lord's footfall; Wood for the bow. (be tpear and the Hull. i The keel and tin- mast and me during nail ; lie mado them of c.very graiu and girth For the use of man In the Ciardeu of She open.-! her h.imi. In it lay s (|! '.V afore I die 'II glimpse me own hining twenty-dollar gold pjo^.. skie^ Hiid smell the burnin iieat and Billy's mouth ffll pen in asrtonisli ' f tllllt " to l>o mine thin must I live p,,,,^ me life clane here and do me duty "Croaker brought you that?" be lil<( ' " n Irishman av birth. So, ma'am,; rasped. "Well, Ml be ahot!" Billy "'* llff ' m ,, to visit * ' "*"" stood up and gazed about him. al ,[ >a ' m j' '.''' "Where's Croaker now?" he asked. Mr. Wilion held out her hand. "I dnnno. He jest laughel an' saiUl "Harry O Dul,;, she said, her voice WV aif'm. I don't know where IIP uniteady, "1 always knowe.l you had, got it liut I do know good gold when the makvn's of a man in you. 1 m I lee it, Willium. Twenty dollarj! gladder than I km say. Ain't it iplendid?" Harry bowed low. Mrs. Wilton pas- "It sure i- but I can't help won- *' through the gate, beaming com- 1 derin' wheie Croaker found il. Maybe mendatton on him from misty eyes, you wouldn't mind lettin 1 me oft* Sun- He closed the K*le slowly his clean day School to-.lay. Ma," he suggested, shaven, Wrinkled face working. Hei - ,,.,..- jtood and watched her until the bend, |in the roail liid her. Then, placing hisj it-all hat. jauntily on bis (friz/led lix-ks, } he turned and walked smartly in tho| [oppotite direction. Karth Then, lest the soul should not lift lier nyes From Ihe gift in the Qiver of PuraJIse ' On tho crown of a hll.. for all to see. ' Clod planted a scarlet maplo tree. Bliss ('UIIIKIU. Minard'i Liniment for (target In Cow*. Holland's Many Wheels. Two million bicycles are ridden in Holland, u country with a population f 6 OOii.OOO persons. IS "i.'F Me. ^0- ( IIAI'TKR XX. Hilly Meets n Lovely (ill. . Hilly found Croaker juut wl ? lie 1 thr.iight he would le clinging > the latch of the innnagerie door anu |>eer- , ing with one black eye through the chink above it at the owls, the while he hurled guttural insults at them. "Croaker." (Mmmnnded hi~ master, "girt away from th< i ro!" Crnnker hslnccd himself by flop- pin< one Mlvrrt wing and ln.ijrln 1 I at Ihe nir-ws of Ihe tijrdvt owls. He tu/ppe I from his perch to the peak of the Hin.y as Billy reaclie,! for him and thire In at, demurely turning , his lioad from or* side fm the other and miit',-' . low in bin throl. 1"('rnak''V come down here, I want'ii -k jru somcthin'." B'illy'K hand went Ib. for Wool That'g what you pay for It u buy a suit 'What <U> yxm you pound for It whnyou tell th wool? Catuimn wool ns lobe nfout of Canada to bo prnpsrad for tn* ? planer. A younl of wool bought rom \t\f farmer is sold from one commission mnrchant to another. Stored. Bhlpped by train and boat, stored In KiiKiumi. sold and rs ship- pert until evntually U (etc back to the mills In Panada at many tlniaa the \ir\ct you jot for It. There It no pltra In Canada to prpHr wool for the wors'ert spinner Isn't It a shams" A mill ti uow undtr oonitdaratlon, In Toronto, to convert raw woo] for th iplnnr. When wool can b snt direct to the mill for combing aud lold dlrct to tha tpluner. thn tha farmer will cot tha fnll prlct. If this ( of lntreil to you. Mr Wool Grower, writ* Dominion De- velopment (.'orporatlon, limited, 709 Continental Llf* Bldg . Toronto, and get the tan plan. Perfectly Baked Bread. Few housekeepers seem to under- stand the role which temperature plays in bread-making. In importance J it ranks with good flour and yeast, i Although many housewives experience | difficulty in having dough rise well , on a cold, windy day and note the ! rapidity with which it grows light in ( summer, they fail to grasp the full i significance of such observations. ' Success or failure seems dependent j upon the weather and they do not realize that they themselves may con- trol the matter of temperature. The yeast used in making light , bread is a microscopic, one-celled plant requiring for its growth air, moisture, food and a favorable tem- 1 perature. It acts upon sugar present . in the dough, forming carbon dioxide ' gas which, in attempting to rise to j the surface of the mass, is caught and i held by the elastic gluten of the flour. | As more gas is formed within the sponge or dough, the gluten stretches and the entire mass expands and be- comes "light." Like most plants, yeast thrives best : at a certain temperature. Although it is quite active between 75 deg. and 95 deg. F., it produces best results at from 80 deg. to 85 deg. F. As the temperature is lowered, the activity ; of the yeast becomes less until growth ceases at about 50 deg. F. Although | inactive below that point, it begins ; to grow again when a favorable tern-: perature is restored. Above 95 deg. | the action of the yeast is lessened by , the activity of other organisms pres- j ent in the dough or by the products of same. At somewhat higher tem- peratures the yeast is actually killed. A favorable temperature, therefore, will have much to do with active and healthy fermentation. Furthermore, by regulating the temperature one may control the rising of the dough, hastening or retarding it almost at will. In general, however, doughs should be kept as nearly as possible at the same temperature throughout the process and not subjected alter- j nately to heating and chilling. But how may the housewife control j the ttrnperature of the dough? The simplest way is to provide herself with a "sponge boy." which is a simple box or cabinet, capable of holding the dough, and which can be warmed by means of hot water, a hot stone, a small lamp or an electric light bulb. On an extremely hot day the cabinet mas' likewise be cooled by means of cold water or ice. The thermometer, by means of whiih the temperature is regulated, is one of the mo?t import- ant things in connection \vith the sponge box. In place of the sponge box a tire-' less cooker may be used. The prin- ciple underlying its construction i that of maintaining the temperature of articles placed within it. If, there- fore, a sponge or dough be mixed so that its temperature is correct, then placed inside the cooker, thi-> temper- ature will be maintained. On a cold day it is well to have not. only the liquid but also the flour slightly warmed. The- radiator or soapstone of the tireless may likewise be warmed until just comfortable to the touch. In warm weather, especially if the dough is to stand a considerable length of time, neither the flour nor the liquid should be warmed, and certain- ly the radiator should not. Again a thermometer should be used, for how can one guess accurately by "feel", when the liquid is hike warm? Dif - 1 ferent indivi hials vary greatly in : their sensitiveness to heat and guess- 1 work may cause great error in gauging ; the temperature of liquid or radiator.' Two general methods for making, bread are practiced largely in this country, the "sponge" and the "straight dough." Kach of these may be divided into the short or quick and! the long or overnight process, depend- ing upon the amount of yeast used as well as upon the temperature main- tained. Besides using less yeast in their preparation over night, sponges or doughs are generally kept at a lower temperature than those made by the snorter daytime process. In very warm weather especially the dough is likely to become sour over night unless it can be kept sufficiently cool. In order to learn definitely what time is required we will consider some of the recipes for making bread. A popular formula calls for one-half cake of compressed yeast and one cup of liquid for each "standard" sized loaf of bread, with the requisite am- oufits of flour, salt, sugar and so forth. If a temperature of 85 deg. F. t maintained throughout the process, this dough should be light the first time in 1% hours, the second time in Itt hours. It should then be molded, and after rising in the pans one hour will be ready for baking. Allowing 10 minutes for handling the dough between risings and about % of an hour for baking, the bread should be! out of the oven within 5 hours from the first mixing. In practice, there- j fore, a housewife will find that by ( beginning at 7 a.m., the dough should be ready for the oven at 11.15, pro-' vided it has been kept at 85 deg.! throughout the process. At 12 o'clock,, when the noon meal is ready, herj bread will be out of the oven and nO: extra fuel or time in the kitchen re- quited for its baking. Should the; dinner hour be at 1 o'clock, the dough might be started at 8 a.m. At 80 deg. F. the time for the first rising would be 2 hours, for the second IVi hours and for the rising in the pans about; IV* hours, making a total of 1 hourj more than with the higher temper- ature. Hence if the dough be mixed j at 7 a.m. and kept at 80 deg. F., it should be out of the oven at 1 o'clock, j With the overnight straight-dough,; less yeast and a lower temperature should be employed than with the quick method. Using 1 cake of com-, pressed yeast for six loaves, and keeping the dough at 70 deg. over- night, it should bo quite light in the morning. It should then be kneaded down and molded for the pans and placed where it may be gradually brought up to 85 deg. In IVi hours at this temperature the loaves should be light and ready for baking. When dry yeast is used the sponge process is the one most commonly employed. Ordinarily such a sponge will be light .n 10 to 12 hours. This time, however, is also dependent upon the temperature, which should be be- tween To deg. and 80 deg. F. If the temperature of the sponge has been only 70 deg. F.. however, fully 13 hours will be required for the mass to become thoroughly light, while at 00 deg. F. 1CU hours will be necessary. The housewife may, therefore, plan to have her baking operations fit in wilh her other duties in the home. Mixing, kneading, molding and baking may be so adjusted that they will not conflict with other matters, and the baking especially may be arranged to come dining the time that her pres-j ence in the kitchen is required for other reasons as well. Nor need she' spend the entire morning in the kit- 1 chrn mainly to "watch the dough.", Knowing the temperature of the dough and the time required for ris-, ing, the housewife may calculate just when her dough will need attention.! Dark, close streaks in the crumb of' bread are often due to unpvenr.esa in! temperature during rising. Particular- i ly when a dough ha? been chilleu* and' fails to rise properly the housewife is : tempted to place it where it will be-! come warm rapidly, either at tiie bad; ' of the range or in a pan of warm' water. Without the aid of a ther- mometer it is difficult to srauge tho. temperature, and there is d:mger '.hat the yeast cells in that portion of dough mo?l expo.-ed to the heat may be killed. Although blended !a f er with the rest of the dough no e\uansion | of this port'O!'. takes place, an 1 close! s'treaks in the linished crur.i'i are the result. Could the housewife but rei'.ize thi>! importance of knowing the temper-' atuie of the dough she would not bc-i grudge the investment of ,i dollar or, two in a simple dairy or chuniical' theiniome'er. Through its i;.i guess work is eliminated, the opeiationa of bt tad-making may be adjtis'ed xo suit the convenience of the housekeeper, an i bread or hot rolls may be provided fifsh for any meal. 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