COW PUNCHER

By Rob*ri J C.Siead

Clutter^ •md tdhmr

put with a klM and ■

_ BtM. D«r»'« father dlu

u town to M«k KU

w4j>a. Dev* he* « ea

SHArrCR IV—Centinued.

Tartanat* fmie, or whateror good mute* It to that aometlmaa drop, ra

i, da^gnM- ikj&

farora, droned U»*| jNmn* the following dag tMIver

tl at tho Stooi. of 'Ur. V.lrln DonV Ur. Dgncan. tall, 401.1 asd forty- \ tra* at *rork In bto garden aa to faraed the in ilanane and _ J>5 them np to.’foar oarfow drire coaaeetUif with tb« family coal cbnte. Aa the kMry wagon moved atralgbt toe ton objective Ur. Duncan looked on with approval that heightened Into admiration. Dave .hoveled bto load

t as be ataod for

"Koe handle a team like jt« ware hera to U.“ he eald. -Where did you

“WaU. I came op on a ranch," said tkaea. *Tva Uved with horae* ever

ataee I could remember."

-Too’re a rancher, ehr Queried the alder man. “Wall, there 1 * nothing like the range and the open country. If I «oold handle horses ilka you there •■n't anything would hold me In town." •"Oto. I don't know," Dave snawerad.

Tou aright gat sick of H.” “D*d you gut Mck « ftr

Kldea shot a keen glance at him. The conversation wa* becoming per aoaal. Yet there was In Ur. Duncaa'a ■Banner a certain kindliness, a certain —I cf ainceia paraonallty. that dlo-

“Taa. I got alck «f H.* 1 be aald. “I on that ranch eighteen yt*» and newer was inside Bchbol or church. ~>uldnt that make you alck I . 11 haul U for town." -And I suppose you are attending fcarcb regularly now, and night Utooot. toor Dave’s Quick temper fired up In reeve tment. hot again the kindliness of •he man e manner disarmed him. He was silent for a moment, and then he

mIC:

“Ho. I ain’t. That’s what makes me Ucu now. I came la here Intendin’ to get aa education, an’ I've never got •vm a atari at It. escep’ for some •blogs perhaps wasn’t worth the snoaey. There always seems to he somethin’ else—In ahead." “There always will he." aald Ur. Duncan, “until you start." “But how’s It *o Iw doner Dave with returning Inlerau. n’ books -ost money, an’ 1 •ever save a dollar." “And never will." said Mr. Duncan, -until you start. But 1 think I see a r-an that might help, and If It appeals «o you It will also he a great cooveo-Is-oe* to me. My wife likes to go driving Sundaya, and aomeUtnos on a weekday evening, but I 'i*ve m> many things on hand 1 find It hard to got out with her. My daughter used to drive, but these new-fangled automobiles are turnlvg the world upside down—and many a buggy with U. Wcdl -as 1 aaw you driving In here I os Id to myaelf. There’a the man for •hat Job of mine, if I can get him;’ tori I'm not rich and I couldn't pay you regular wages. But If 1 cuulo •JUSre the account hy helping with your studies a couple of nights a week—I used to teach school and toavew’t altogether forgotten — why. Chat would be just what 1 want What do r«a aayr "I never anw anything on four f-et t couldn't drive." aald Dave, “su tf you’re willing to take a chain e 1 am. Hlaa do we start T’ "Tlrat lesson tonight. Second leswoo Thursday night. Klrst drive Sunday " Mr. Ihincan did not exp :.ia that hr uaiited to know the boy beti- r Ytore tlie drives commenced, and hY that two nights inf ether would *-Isfy him whether he had found the Jht man. ^aar itorrlcd back to the coalyafd i.ak I’Haaplsted the day's work In high ■pli'ts. It seemed lie was at last ■tortid aa a road that might lead •jowwber.- After eupper be surVriard his fellow laborer-* by dunging

bar coachman. Dave

fcpd never been In a home like this, and hia eyes, unaccustomed to com'fortable furnish,ags. appraised them as lucury. He soon found himself talk1 D S with Mr*. Duncan about horses, triah.tben about his old life on the and then about coming to town. AlmMt before he knew n he had told her about Beenle Hardy, but he had checked himself In time. And Mrs. Duucaa had noticed it. without ment, and realised that her guest wa*

nat a boy but a man.

Then Mr. Duncan talked about gardening. and from that to Dave's skill In backing hi* taam to the cool chut*, and from tbit to coal Itself. Dure bad shoveled coal all winter, but be Bsd not thought about coal except us something to he shoveled and shoveled. And aa Mr. Duncan explained to him the wonderful provisions of nature—how she had stored awuy la the undlscovarcd lands billions of tons of coq^ holding them In raaervt until the wotWu supply hf timber for fuel should be nearfcg exhaustion, sod as he told of the Immeasurable wealth of t new land In coal rasourcea. and of how the wheals of the world, traffic sad Industry «nd eclenee, oven, war* dependent upon ewri and the i who handled the coot Dave fait breast rising with a sense of the dignity of tda calling. H* had had to do With this wonderful substance aU win tor. and not until tonight had U fired the divine spark of bto tial|Uia tioo. The time ticked on. sad although, he was eager to be at work he almout dregded :Jje moment when Mr. Dun car should mention hta leasoo. 1 fora that moment cane there ripple of laughter at the door, and a girt la tennis Costume and a" «toMi Uttto older Mian Dave « “EdUh." aald Mrs. Duncan. Dave arose and shook hands. Then Mr. Allan Poruyth was Introduced. Mr. Forsyth shook bands heartily, but Ds*e was conscious of hfilng caught In om quick glance which embraced trim from head to bed. And the glance

D AfcddT

a glance as Dave might gtvu a homa wher. he would say. “A good hen*; hut I can Ivan die him." It ms tur. And having no fear he could af-

ford to bp firtondly..

Dtvo had no distinct remembrance of what happened Just after that, hut b« Was conscious of an overwhelming desire to beer Mias Duncan sing. How

As soon as Dave had learnod to read

a mil# Mr. Duncan took him one day to the public library, and the young roan groped in amazement up and down the groat rows of boo**. Prveently a strange sense of |padeQuat»ness came over him. "1 can never of those book* her half of Hirtu," he aald. “I suppose out must read them i B order to ho-Wl In-

formed."

Mr. Duncan appeared to change the subject.' “Ton llke fnxttr be asked. "Ye*, of course. Why—" "When you go Into a fruit store do you stand and say. 'I can never sat all of that fruit crates and crate* of It. and carloads more In the warwOf coume yoo dotil. You the good of you" system and 1st It go at that. Now Just apply the same sense to your railing. Bead as much aa you caa think about, and no more. The trouble with meay of our people to that they do not rad to think but to anvo thauuMre* the trouble of thinking. The mind.' left to Itsolf, lastota upoo-nedvltr. So they chloroform It." Dan's talks with Mr. Du seas bo-

or *b#n they met downtown, as froqoeutly happened. And the boy was not alow to roollx* the brood nature of the task to which Mr. Duncan had sat himself. His edacatiMi was to he built of every knowledge •oee thet could go Into the rounding of a well-developed Ufa. Tha climax teemed to when Mr. Duncan Invited Dav* to company him to a dinner at which a

T* irai Be evening dreaa." aald Mr. Duncan. “I suppose you ore hardly

fitted out that wayf"

“I guee* not" said Dav*. amlllag broadly. H* recalled the half-humor-ous sarcasm with which thi Metford gong ruferreo to any who might bo ran abroad in their “Hereford front*." He had a sadden vision of hlmsaif running the gantlet of tholr

But Mr. Duncan w “I think I can fix you up," b* aald. "W# mwt be pretty nearly of a ala*, and I have a spare suit." And re he knew It It wa* arranged ,t ~’ Davs should stood too dinner. was sa eventful ulght for him. skynaM eooo wore off. fur daring * ■aonths ha had been learning to

Hew Like Reenie the Weal

like Beenle she vast And Just as he was beglnring to think Mr. Duncai: must surely have forgotten his lesson be beerd her asking him If she should sing. And then he ssw Forsyth at the piano—why couldn’t he leave her to do It herself, the butt-lnl—and then he heard her fine, slivory voice rising In the notee of that song about the land where the sun should never go down. ... And suddenly he knew bow lonely, how terribly, terribly lonely be was. And he sat with head bowed, that they might not know. . . . Am) then there were other songs, sud at last Mrs. Duncan, who had slipped away unnoticed, returned with a silver toopot and cups of delicate china, and sandwiches and cake, and they sat about and ate and drank and

miked and laughed. And when

And aa he sat amonv tola company of the beat min os of toe town he felt thet a new world was opening before him. His good ciotha* seemed to work up In some way through his subconsciousness and give him a sens* of capability. Ha was in toe mantel atmosphere of men who did thing, and hy conforming to their customs bo had brought his mind into harmony with theirs, so that It could receive suggestion*, uad—who knows!—return suggestion*.

CHAFTER V. The summer was not far gone w hen Dave, through an InyoducUou furnished by Mr..Duncan got a new job. ’* *- toe warehouse of a wholetry, trurdllng cases and sacks of merchant'ise. It was deeser than handling «el, and toe surroundings war* tr.ore congenial and the wages we-.e bettor—fifty dollars a month tj begin. “Tbo first thing to to get out of the deadline," said Mr. Duncan. “I am not hoping that you will have found destiny In a wholesale warehouse, but you must get out uf the deadline. As long as you shovel co*i you will above! coal. And you »•» hot Capable o: anything bet - «n 11 you thinv you

are."

"But I’ve liked it pretty well." aald Dave. "Aa long as I was Just working for my wages It was dull gotng hut It was different after I got to sev that even shoveling roe I was wort!, while. I suppose It to toe same with groceries, or whatever one does. Aa soon aa you begin to atudy what you handle, the work loses Its drudgery. It Isn’t a man’s Job that makes him sick of hto job; it’s what be thinks

of bto Job."

A light of satisfaction was la hto

teacher’s eye* e* Dav* made this answer. Mr. Duncan had realised that he was starting late with this pupil,

and if there were any ehort

•Wnto* to wrltra by toe na torturer* of cblMruo** clothe*, mo far

•toter bn* Just begun, and have ready In J nuary dresses, made at cotton mutrilab. because the new cotton fabric* lira put on display at that time. January bring* a demand for styles a* Well *• materials, and for reedy-made ehOdren'a clothe*. Forvrighted motbprefer to gat to* children's spring ag out of the way early and the i two months In the year find them engaged wltt. children * clothes tznderanullna—events which the __ ■ * u over the country prepare for. Therefore the Uttto cost for c kinderFUieoer and toe woolen dress for a Uttla school girt, presented here, na! * their bow and then their exit, toe last to Join a boat of winter com panlona Their places a.e soon to be

the picture. It fc meats of Its Uttie pretls ceUar of beaver plush anfi tm- ‘ «u and pocket Rape to match An* « some thing to true af toe h« uf Lator clipped beuvar. won srtto t Serge, tricot* o* or any good wm material to used frr arrest, like tea at the right of toe picture. It baa Plaited skirt Joined to a body the opens at the top front, end fasun with loops over round buttons covwrw with the doth. A soft belt of tor me tarlal baa diagonal silts <n It at to front that open Into —wti aqnar

* pockets art hound with a fancy allk braid, and the aeme braid appear* band on the sleeves and in a

af gingham, chambmy and the Ilka. A heavy, double-weave doth, plain i one side and plaid on the other, to the sort of material to cbooe* for a

dreaa beipeek* careful attesittoe oa the per. of an expert designer and very clever management of toe pockets to enough to make any girl determine to wear It every day— or until something else equally uauaoal and pretty fill* her soul with *at-

RIBBONS FORECAST CHRISTMAS TIME

looked at hi* watch It was clerrn I education he trust find them. So he

'dock!

'I cue** we didn’t ret any le«aon tonight." he said ai he »h->oic hands with Mr. Duncan at the sldewal*. "I am not so auie." replied his tutor. "The first thing for you to learn Is list all learning does not come from ’-■■•.kii. A good listener con learn as n ' -• as a g->od reader—If he listers to the right kind of people.’' And as Dai< uaiked home the thought deepened i•* him that It rally had been a tom on. -hd that Mr. Duncan had In tended It that way. And he wondered whet nput>ri.ai le fortune hud been bis. The air ve.v 'nil of the perfume of

•ought to land th* I

set out deliberately to Instil the Idee that education Is not a metier of scb.K)l* and college#, or courses of reading, or formula* or any hind, but • matter at the five senses applied to every experience of life. Ant he knew that nothing was coarse or cutnmou that passed through Dave's hands.

“Like

women have begun to swarm about the ribbon counters In the Mg stores, where .here are so many beautiful drees aeceueortou on display. Christmas time to harvest time for the ribbon department and already the sti are showing enticing articles made of ribbons in order to point the way to using them. Riesv are whole flocks of gay ribbon hair bows for the younger generation, and there are dance cans and breakfast top- for young and old. corsage flowers and bouquets. Innumerable hags for all s- rta of purposes and

lovely girdles and i-i.sbea.

hat crowns au*g**t uses for the rich-

est brocaded ribbons and mat ping bags are mo t.- of these.

UiblMms for Ung'-ri* have a story of their own which it to Important to know at Cb 4*na>. time as they furnish the m<,.t acceptable and least costly of ribbon gift*. And there t»i« the pretty neckwear fancle* end the house-furnishing piece* ell merittug attention of the Christmas shopper. But It is not possible to dewrihe all of these ribbon an .lea at one tlm*. In the group of dress accessories shown her* there apperr three corsage ortiameuls. a ounce cap and n party bag.

lers stand for distinctive j «*< -f them ■ gift that say wonti .If the *,my. Blue 'e for In ' “ R w,u cnJoJ- or «be corsage orouyrilow. for cavalry; rt-i. for '"rot. one to • ro*,. made of dark red

for Murin.1T i "»«ln ribbon; toe ..aer res# to .if v#P

signal raps; ! r * rtW>oc ‘0

ry; red ond ; MlnN-a sd

n. mriheal corps. Idack end red. uc* corps: kuff. quartcrmasti-r . gold and black, caa. in sal need

of llttto roes In aeversi light

; colors from* m Uttie bouquet that will > find a place ter Itself in many toilettes.

' Zhe tora cap -« net difficult

Millinery wire and the edvice of th- milliner are needed for It and are usually forthcoming when the materials are bought Narrow satin .« taffeta ribbon, gathered with acunt fullness along one edge, to sewed In rowa to form the crown. Taffeta has stiffness enough to stand up well enough, hut satin may need a supporting crown of crinoline. The brim—* scant frill of gold or allver lace—ami the crown are sewed to a silk-cover*..' iionnet wire that encircles the hiaul. and a very fine allkwovared wire to run tn the lace frill near Its edge. A stuiK •pray of ribbon or millinery flowers and a little cape of the lace falling at the back complete this fascinating dance cap. Klbhona. wide and narrow, wlfh lac* nod net are used for brcekfmi cap# and they need, ordinarily, no wire support. Small chiffon or ribbon flowers, rosette*, bows and ends erotxdlub them. To make ribbon rose* one .nuat haw henry wire for tho sterna and mOIlnery foliage. The petals of ribbon are wound to the Hem# with tie-wire and the ntems finally wound with narrow green ribbon.

Drooping fiheuldera for Spring. Drooping shoulders ere sponsored by It^oj I ranch couturier** for spnot

_ w—v- - - oo# i of curry powder with oee r Tn i ful of flour and a pinch ot «.». UltO the butter. AddMoSy^, jBl Of hot water, stirring betel When the sauce to thick add cm* . M « lUtal -taihj ™ the whole to thoroughly hot fielt F.rii Haah^-Ca* as It, hewing or codfish Mf, troa *^ 1U, “ qaantuy^lf , mariied pouio and wann is <hu fr P«» with a Uni* butter, eddlng a ^ grmied vuiou f w ****£? fish and poteto may be made isu tokaa a.>o frt«l brown in buttarw haab may ba hak^ in ammmTm two-thirds full ana an raTwoH. **** dtoh. Bake la a hoc m « ■ •he egg to M. * •raadad Teegua^ttu, rid mm, teegue very thin; <Hp (b# b * , | tra *«* then In bread er^ai cook In deep f, t . .jm, , sauce. 1 ***w of Oyatera ms r-^. r , •orte a teaap.sa.fu> of p_, «wi» ruiifuls .»» bolilng water cupfuto .* milk. . t*i,tosp^r butter, halt, pepper et ,a ng- Add a cupful of fisri, jy and aimmer antll th, trader. Add a ,-upfui uf boUe.1 In their on liqm*. cupful of cracker muuU. uni” boll and wnv at raro

ter, rrs-rvlng the Ml wLEa" drained from th. flsj, J" of water, a U-aspountei J - * ceetetohlre. made murtaJTL? , gar. with shit smj ' Arrange the fl.1, ^ will bear the hrot .if (h_ bake. When tie add a beatra egg yMk a thick. IW the ssurv 1 ■od serve nt mat*. •n,. grow* olot'-t evert I d “h1. Wl lent presertsH,,, . . "to •» fruit and < vet, •-•king f. In fern )-_-««», ‘ toteey p„r •pringiltiii- *( ** *•> tug la the wtet*. !