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--BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE CHAPTER II WILD ROSE TAKES THE DUST. t-ild Rose on Wild I'ire," shouted 'the announcer through a megaphone trained on the grand stand. ; Kirby Lane, who was leaning 'against the fence chatting with a friend, turned round and took notice. Most people did when Wild Rose held the centre of the stage. | Through the gateway of the en-| closure came a girl hardly out of her teens. She was bareheaded, a cowboy | hat in her hand. The sun, already slanting from the west, kissed her crisp, ruddy gold hair and set it sparkling. er skin was shell pink, amber clear. She walked as might a young Greek dess in the dawn of the world, with the free movement of one who foyes the open sky and the wind-swept plain. WRIGLEYS Have a packet in your pocket for ever-ready refreshment. Rids digestion. -. - Allays thirst. Soothes the throat. For Quality, Flavor and the Sealed Package, _.& a 13 \) Nie FLAVOR LASTS aX it with ) Rid your house of filth. carrying, disease-breed- / ing files. Be free from buzz mosquitoes that make your 8 ng hours miserable, Das de to ants, roaches and Fo axterminates all these pests, NON-POISONOUS and HARMLESS o handy Sapho Bulb Sprayer puffy the powder into the air killing all files and Mitoes In five to twenty minutes. Your apho Bulb Sprayer at $1.00, Sapho Powder in 25 and 50 and $1.26 cans, Try the ready-to-use Bapho Puffer, 16 cents, and be convinced. Liquid d in closets clothes, Prnitare and i kills moths, prevents 0 and even keeps ---- (Copyright, Thomas Allen.) Fro t's up, Kirby?" asked A storm of hand-clapping swept the grand stand. Wild Rose acknowledg- ed it with a happy little laugh. These dear people loved her. She knew it. And not only because she was a cham- Jick. They made over her because of er slimness, her beauty, the aura of daintiness that surrounded her, the little touches of shy youth that still clung to her manner. Other riders of her sex might be rough, hovdenlehy or masculine. Wild Rose had the charm of her name. Yet the muscles that rippled beneath her velvet skin i hand. . Not so] any one could notice it. Hop out, sir." 1a rose, smiling Tugtolly. "You cer. "T'd say you need bossin, start to act so foolish," flushi : i "See you later," he called to her by way of good-bye. 8 the ambulance drove away she waved cheerfully at him a gauntleted when you e retorted; The cowpuncher turned back to the arena. The megaphone man was an- nouncing that the contest for the world's rough-riding championship would now be resu: CHA R IIL FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. The less expert riders had been weeded out in the pe two days, Only the champions of; r respective sec- tions were still in the running. One after another these lean, brown men, chap-clad and bow-legged, came for- ward dragging their saddles and clamped themselves to the backs of were hard as nails, No broncho alive could unseat her without the fight of its life. Meanwhile the outlaw horse Wild Fire was claiming its share of atten- Every year it made the circuit of the stuck to the saddle without pullin leather, cornered. Half a dozen wranglers in chaps were trying to get it ready for the saddle. From the red-hot eyes of the brute a devil of fury glared at teeth bared. The animal flung itself skyward and came down on the boot an involuntary howl of pain, but he wicked head. adjusted and saddle slipped on. If the saddle turned it might cost her life, and she preferred to take no un- necessary chances. She was dressed in green satin rid- ing clothes. A beaded bolero jacket fitted over a white silk blouse. Her boots were of buckskin, silver-spurred. With her hat on, at a distance, one might have taken her for a slim, beau- tiful boy. Wild Rose swung to the saddle and adjusted her feet in the stirrups. The juuay sack was whipped from the orse's head. There was a wild scuf- fle of escaping wranglers, For a moment Wild Fire stood quiv- ering, The girl's hat swept through the air in front of its eyes. The horse woke to galvanized action. The back 'humped. It shot into the air with a writhing twist of the body. All four feet struck the ground together, straight and stiff as fence posts. The girl's head jerked forward as though it were on a hinge. The out- law went sunfishing, its forefeet al- most straight up. e was in the sad- dle when it came to all fours again. A series of jarring bucks, each endin with the force of a pile-driver as Wil | Fire's hoofs struck earth, varied the rogramme. The rider came down imp, half in the saddle, half beh righting herself as the horse settle for the next leap. But not once did her hands reach for the pommel of the saddle to steady her. Pitching and bucking, the animal humped forward to the fence. "Look out!" a judge yelled. It was too late, The rider could not deflect her mount. Into the fence went Wild Fire blindly and furiously. e girl threw up her leg to keep Ti from being jammed. Up went the broncho again before Wild Rose could find the stirrup. She knew she was ne, felt herself shooting forward. he struck the und close to the horse's hoofs. ild Fire lunged at her. A bolt of pain like a red-hot iron gested hough her. Nindd Jhroug! e air a rope whined. It ettled over the head of the outlaw and instantly was jerked tight. Wild Fire, coming down hard for 2 second un at the green crumple ea eet; was dragged sharply side- ways, Another lariat snaked forward and fell true. "Here, Cole!" The first roper thrust the taut line into the hands of a uncher who had run forward. He imself dived for the still girl beneath the hoofs of the rearing horse. Catch- her by the arms, he dragged her out of danger. She was i The cowboy picked her up and car- "her to waiting ambulance: n them. Wild "You a spill." "Took the ue, did 1?" He sensed disappol nt in her voice. He j ned young 'tion. The broncho was a noted bucker,| usual luck of the day. rodeos and only twice had a rider| | still grinni Now it had been roped and oan the men trying to thrust a gunny| as small apples in a box, watched sack over its head. The four legs every rider and snatched at its thrills were wide apart, the ears cocked,! of a puncher savagely. The man gave! {watched each rider no less closely. It clung to the rope snubbed round the!'chanced that he came last on the pro- | gram for the day: The gunny sack was pushed and was in the saddle pulled over the eyes, Wild Fire sub-| comment. sided, trembling, while the bridle was| The, of the world," he announced. girl attended to the cinching herself. | "Not onless. you've {the moment when he stepped out of | hurricane outlaws which pitched, bucked, crashed into fences, and top- pled over backward in their frenzied efforts to dislodge the human clothes- pins fastened to them, The broncho busters endured the Two were thrown and picked themselves out of the dust, chagrined and damaged, but £ One drew a tame e driven into resistance either by fanning or scratching. Most of the riders emerged from the ordeal victorious. Meanwhile the spectators in the big grand stand, packed close horse not to just as such crowds have done from the time of Caligula, Kirby Lane, from his seat on the fence among a group of cowpunchers, When Cole Sanborn he made an audible "I'm looking at the next champion got a lookin'- glass with you, old alkali," a small berry-brown youth in yellow-wool chaps retorted. Sanborn was astride a noted outlaw known as Jazz. The horse was a sor- rel, and it knew all the tricks of its kind. It went sunfishing, tried weav- ing and fence-rowing, at last toppled over backward after a frantic leap upward. The rider, long-bodied and; lithe, rode like a centaur. Except for| the saddle as the outlaw fell on its back, he stuck to his seat as though he were glued to it. "He's a right limber young fellow, an' he sure can ride. I'll say that," admitted one old cattleman. "They don't grow no better busters," another man spoke up, He was a neighbor of Sanborn and had his local pride. "From where I come from we'll put our last nickel on Cole, you betula. He's top hand with a rope, "Hmp! Kirby here. can make him look like thirty cents, top of a brone or with a lariat either one" the yel- low-chapped vaquero flung out bluntly. Lane looked at his champion, a trifle annoyed. "What's the use o' talkin' foolish- ness, Kent? I never saw the day I had anything on Cole." "Beat him at Pendleton, didn't y "Luck. I drew the best horses." To Sanborn, who had finished his job and was straddling wide- toward the group, Kirby threw up a hand of eeting. "Good work, old-timer, ou're sure hellamile on a bronc." (To be continued.) am------} m---- Santiago, Chili, has a radio broad- casting station. A mysterious "army" of white ants has caused considerable damage in the South of France, and colonies of these insects have now been discovered in Paris. rn. ammed you into Children up to 12 years of age have been photographed standing on the | giant leaves, six to eight feet wide, of 'the Victoria Regia water-lily plants {in Kew Gardens, London. Telegraphs in Uganda are not al- ways reliable, as the natives covet and ! often cut down the copper wire for making into bracelets, necklaces, and leg-bands. Pn To sée. 'the cloth so white | An' Epon he ot just right! Was such an appetizin' sight To wait we weren't hardly able; But 'fore wed get a bite or sup An' "fore she'd lay a plate or cup She'd have to'go an' gather up A bowl o' sunshine for the table. Some pansies from-the middle bed, Nasturtium yellow flecked with red, Or golden blow with heavy head,-- Just flowers,--an' yet it seemed so funny, Black clouds might come:to spoil your view, You might be feelin' mad clean through, But when them blossoms smiled at ~, you The whole wide world grew fale an' sunny. There ain't a silken shaded light In any cabaret to-night Can lure a failin' appetite h Like my Ma's golden flowers; They seemed to lay your meanness bare, An' like that sundial over there They spread their message every- where,-- Let's only count the SUNNY hours! --Josephine A. Dempsey. RINSE COTTAGE CHEESY. Here is my way of making cottage cheese. Sour the milk long enough tc have the whey show arcund the edves and on top of milk when press- ing on it. Put on the stove in a jlat- bottomed kettle (I use an aluminum dish pan) and heat gradually and stir occasionally until it is uncomfortably hot for your hand down under the curd. Don't break curds more than | can be helped. Remove from stove and pour through a colander apd shake gently to remove all whey. Put the cheese back in a dish pan and cover with fresh cold water, stir-! ring in quickly a scant teaspoon of soda. Pour through the colander again and rinse cheese once more in fresh water, being careful to get the soda washed out. Drain and mix with salt, pepper and cream to suit individual tastes. We like sugar in our cheese: I can make my cheese in time for dinner after I put the potatoes on to boil. Have sold this excellent cheese for a good price when I had the spare milk. A ropy cheese, I believe, comes from milk not sour enough or not stir- ring a8-it-is heating--Mrs. W. G. B. DOING IT THE EASIEST WAY. warm or not, things have to keep moving. When the "dog days" come 1 plan my work to do it as easily as possible. Why churn cream and then reduce it to a liquid for cooking? I substitute cream for butter in every yA EDDY'S MATCHES PITTI TIO ~always sali. Save time, trouble and Coney, to contents i i aon i J "Boil for a min- Down on the farm, whether it is| y . A STYLISH COAT DRESS. 4867. Figured crepe and crepe satin are here combined. This is a 'model good for twill, linen, or taffeta. It is also nice for the new figured silks. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 84, 86, 88, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. 'A 38-inch size requires 6% yards of 82-inch material. The width at the foot is 214 yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 1bc in silver or stamps, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West Adelaide St, Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. possible recipe. I use cream when baking beans, and believe a real farm- er's cook book should use cream in- stead of butter, For myselfsand little girls I have one-piece dresses as they iron so much easier. These are made with kimona sleeves and simply but prettily trim- med. . I never iron towels, sheets or pillow cases in the summer, and fold down as many clothes as possible without ironing. Corn cobs and chips were put in old: ganny and grain sacks last spring and stored for summer use. They make a hot fire quickly, and are very handy on het days. A new ice box saves me many trips to the cellar, but. I believe the hest short-cut in all my work is a running water system: * Tre Red Cross nurse taught nia to UFEBUDY HeALTH SOAP. use fectangular instead of trianzul foid fcr baby diapers. several at a time and roll them - | ready to unroll and Ce A GRRRNAT Re RR Minard's Liniment for Dandruff. The use of his free hours makes or} mars a man, : A new invention is a powerful elec- tric light attached to the life-boats of a steamship, which is automatically switched on as the boat touches the water. KELSEY Healthy Fresh air and --or, as the Report of the Ministry of Health of Great Britain said: *'a sanitary environment and sound nutrition "= are the great safeguards of Health. L 1 usualiy ld} pl: would visit the safe he proposed to tack. On the first night he would remove the dial and place behind it a circle of white paper. On the second night he would remove the paper. and study the ridges and made in it by the action of the me- chanism on the opening of the safe. This would give him the combination he required, and the third night would see the completion of the project Mr. Goodwin has some interesting stories to tell of the methods of hotel thieves, ] Having marked down a prospective victim, the crook.obtains some en- velopes of a distinctive color, which he cannot fail to recognze at a reason- able distance, He then posts one con- taining some harmless circular, and ° hangs about the hotel reception office. When the letter arrives, he watches the hotel clerk place it in the pigeon- hote allotted to the room occupied by the man to whom it i> add sod. and so discovers fhe number of the room he fs planning to burgle. ~~ «wo His next step is to ask for-the room above, opposite, or next to the pled by his wWlotim. ~~. AF If he obtains the room above, a rope to his own window or v smeared with gum, cuts a hole ir the window. The paper is placed on the window so that when a section of value shows a decrease, however, | $439,206 in comparison with the fi three months' period of. 1920 'and $399,402 with the same period in 1921. In the consideration of the lower prices for products at the present time je exhibited is encouraging