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Show PAGE TWO THE 1 I CHAPTER VII Continued 14 While the foremost bandits halted Wade and Barker came hurrying op. Wade's head was bound up and he sat In his saddle with very apparent Go Ahead would have difficulty. Judged from his appearance that Diego's bullet had done some execution. Parker showed no sign of but be was a Httls behind Wade in reaching the crest because he had halted at the very last moment to get a better shot at Go Ahead. Had Barker preceded Wade by even moment Go Ahead's story would probably have ended then and there, for Barker would have paused to inBut Wade, burning with vestigate. eve.- and maddened by pain, stopped for nothing. His eye caught sight of Stella's horse, which was still running northward, and with a yell he raced after it, blindly certain that Go Ahead and Stella had reached the end of the valley or had turned off Into some intermediate gap that was invisible from where be stood. His men followed him, and when Barker reached the crest he supposed that Wade had gone as he had for some good reason. So he followed. And for some moments the crest seemed deserted. Not for long, however. Scarcely bad the mass of the bandits reached the bottom of the draw when one of the laggers that Inevitably adhere to any group of riders, and indeed to any group of men, came up the slope, crossed the crest and started downhill with every manifestation of hurry except speed. Ills eyes, fixed on his companions below, whose eyes in turn were fixed ahead, watching for traces of the fugitives, passed entirely over the ground close to his horse's hoofs and took no note whatever of a particular clump of tall g ass a few-fewide that grew half a dozen paces to his left. Ue did not even look at it when bis horse suddenly shied away from it "Git up," he rasped, ihaklng his reins. "Dang you, git upl" The horse obeyed, and the instant be did so the bunch of grass flew to one side, revealing Go Ahead's face, and the sand stretching from it erupted a Go Ahead sprang from it, ran a few feet forward and vaulted to the horse's scruppers, behind his rider. The first thing the man knew was when, coincident with the shock, be felt pistol Jabbej Into bis ribs and beard Go Ahead's order, calm but with deadly emphasis, "Get back across the crest quick, If yon want to live." The man lid want to live, and be obeyed instantly. . Few men would have hesitated to do so under the circumstances, tils horse, roweled deep and hard, swung round and almost vaulted over the crest In half a dozen convulsive bounds, stopping only when he squarely struck the horse of a second laggard who was tolling up the slope, and sent Its rider flying from the saddle. Before Go Ahead's bandit could recover from the shock be felt himself tossed to the ground to Join his fallen companion. An Instant late? both men, struggling upward, found them ilvet. staring Into Go Ahead's revolver. "Hands up, boys," said Go Ahead, blandly. The two men obeyed promptly; there was nothing else that they could do. At they lifted their bands Go moment later Ahead whistled and Stella came flying over the crest, gun In band. When she saw the two prisoners she whistled, too, then put up her pistol, an begun to dust the penetrating sand out of her clothes. "Well, for the love of Mike," she demanded, "were you born lucky or did yoo learn it to a correspondence school T" Go Abend grinned. "Both. I guess." be answered. "I thought I brd one horse, but I didn't really hope for two. Just collect these chaps' Runs, will - you, BobT" Stella obeyed, willingly enough. She bad seen the men' eyes quicken wltb recognition, and she wanted above things to prevent their saying anything that would betray who she was As she approached, she. frowned at the two and shook her bead slightly then, an Instant later as she took their guns, she muttered both a plea and command: "Keep your mouths shut. Stone Roada in Italy Practically all htghwa) In Italy are stone that Is crushed by hand. All duy long the peasan. laborers sit In the shelter A their sun shades and make "little ones out of big ones." Although the method of rosd building Is very primitive, the highways ere excellent when completed. built of Victory in Work Work Is victory. Wherever work Is well done victory Is obtained. and Til belp you." Then she went over and caught the still trembling horse that had been ridden by the second bandit Meanwhile Go Ahead was gesturing to the men. "lilt the trail you came by, boys," he ordered. "Go straight I'll be right behind you In a minute." The men faced about and started for the rear. As soon as they turned Go Ahead rose cautiously to the crest, mounting It till he could Just see over It and scan the expanse of the valley. Then be came back. "Tour horse all right. Bob?" be asked. Stella nodded. "Reckon so," she said. "He's shaken, but he can travel, I guess. See anything of the boys when you looked?" "Not a thing. They've clean disappeared ; turned off at the north end of the valley, probably. Let's go while the going Is good." A few bounds of the horses brought them close to the backs of the two who were prisoners, Industriously plodding away. "Now, boys," said Go Ahead, "we've got a long walk before us, but I'll be as easy on you as I can. And the quicker you walk the sooner It'll be over and done with. See? Now get a move on. quick I" The last word came like a pistol shot The men "got a move on" Instantly. They were riders, not foot travelers, but under Go Ahead's urge they hit and maintained a speed of which they would never have thought themselves capable. They knew that their fate lay In bis hands. Cp the slope and over the crest that Go Ahead Indicated they hurried with scarcely a pause until they were well down on the other side. Then Go Ahead shouted to slow them down, when they were reasonably out of earshot In order' to rest them and the horses, on which at any moment his and Bob's lives might once more depend, and also that be might talk to the boy at his side. Long before be had become convinced that Bob had been a member of the bandit gang, but he was also convinced that the boy bad definite ly broken with It and would probably be wilting to talk about it more or less freely. Go Ahead bad no inten tion of breaking the pact that he had made with Fair through Jack Green, either In letter or In spirit but he did want to know bow things had gone at Robbers' Boost since Green had left a month or more before, and particularly he wanted Information about his Cousin Stella. So be began. "Bob," be asked, rather 8tartllngly, "you know Fair's foster daughter, don't you?" Stella Jumped, far more noticeably thai she had when the bullets bad begun to whit past her. "Ton mean Stella?" she gasped. Ton must know "Yes. of course. her." Stella gasped again, but not because of Go Ahead's assumption that she was familiar with the affairs of the Robber' Boost gang. In fact It never occurred to her that be was supposed not to know. It was merely the abruptness of the question that took ber aback. But she answered promptly; It oever took Stella long to recover herself. "Tea. I knn i,er," she admitted "But I didn't know you did." "1 don't But I'm Interested In ber all the same. Tve heard a good deal about ber, first and last and I'd like to bear more. What sort of a girl If she?" Stella shrugged her Scornfully shoulders. "Never thought of ber as a girl," she sniffed. "She dresses like a boy and acts like a boy and swears like a boy. And she's a lot tougher than roost boys." Out of the corner of ber eyes Stella watched the effect of her woids." They were not wbal she had expect ed. Go Ahead did not look al all sur prised or taken aback, "Poor child, be murmured. "Poor child." Suddenly Stella found herself furilittle tigress she ously angTi. Like turned on Go Ahead. "You'd better not let ber bear you call ber that" she grated. "She's a darned lot better than your Eastern girls that csn't do anything but flirt and polls! their flogernalls." . (TO BE CONTINUED.) Big American Laket The geological survey says that the largert fresh water lakes In the United States rank as follows. Lnke Michigan. 22.4.'i0 square miles; Lake Okeechobee, Fin., 7.T) square miles; Lake Pontchartraln. Ls, C25 square miles; Red Lakes, MIno 411 square miles. Make and Break Ills clothes make the rniin. hut here teod to break htm. Wall Street Joer dsJU TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S. News Notes It' a tn I PrioiUam to Lie in Utah VERNAL The Uintah basin wljl edd to the wealth of west when rail transportation comes to handle the rare minerals found nowhere else In the country., r LEHI Sugar beet production In Utah for 1928 ls forecast at 572.000 tons., according to the renort of the .United States department of agriculture, reissued Tuesday by Frank Andrews at the local office. t BOUNTIFUL Onn of thn fln flu-Tored fruits that ls making Utah fa mous In world markets is the Elberta peach. The state's crop in 1927 was valued at $673,000. Exports totaled 793 carloads. HEBER CITT Utah's wheat crop la 1927 was valued at $5,792,000. Winter wheat, 85 per cent of which was grown on dry land farms, averaged 19 bushels to the acre. Spring wheat, 80 per cent grown on Irrigated land, averaged 31 bushels to the acre. 8 GUNNISON Damage possibly running Into the thousands of dollars, although a accurate estimate is not yet obtainable, was caused by a cloudburst accompanied by hail, which swept over Gunnison Wednesday afternoon. The heavy downpour lasted three hours. SALT LAKE Fourteen fmleral highway projects, costing a total of approximately $1,500,000. are now tin der course of construction In Utah, It ls shown by a statement prepared In the offices of the state road commission. Some of those projects are now nearlrig completion and the majority of them will be finished before the close of the present year, it was stated. OGDEN Friday, August 24, 1928 Prediction of a g onion crop for Utah is made by Frank Andrews, agricultural statisrecord-breakin- tician, in his August bulletin. The bulletin says that Indications August 1, 1928, are for a probable onion crop for Utah of 403,000 bushels In Aug., 1927. The acreage this year ls estimated at 970, as compared with 900 last year. For the United State as a whole, the total late crop of onions, Including the Utah crop, ls forecast at 15,178,000, as compared with 17,773,000 in 1927, showing a considerable reduction. KANAB Ranges throughout southern Utah from Panguitch and Cedar City southward have received a refreshing and much needed rain during the last few days and the skies are still heavily overcast This summer has been one of the dryest for some time, and the ranges are burning up, and in some places barren. Tha for. est and park officials In Zion National park and the Kaibab National forest and Grand Canyon National park have been especially alert and have. In the case of Zion Park, forbidden promiscuous smoking, allowing it only In certain areas, due to the extremely high re hazard. GUNNISON Sanpete county ls receiving a great deal of recognition from the state on the highways througout the county. On the federal aid project for cement highway to be built In the northern part of the county, at Falrrlew, ML Pleasant and Spring City, A. G. Youns Construction company of Richfield was let the contract, being the lowest bidder. The amount, $95,967.03, was within $21 of the estimated cost of the construction es made by the state department engineers. The second low figure was made by the Sevier Construction company at $97,651.17. LEHI Sugar beets, grains and hay In some parts of Utah are suffering from the excessively dry weather, according to the weekly crop report of J. Cecil Alter, government meteorologist, issued Wednesday. The report follows: "The weather has continued dry, excepting for scattered showers over the southern portion of the state. Temperatures were also abnormally high, conditions being rather unfavorable for alfalfa seed, irrigated crops not abundantly supplied with water and the grazing ranges generally. Grain cutting Is nearly finished and spring grain threshing rapidly. SALT LAKE Registration of fresh-mestudents at the University of Utah will take place Thursday, Sep. tember 27, and former students will register Monday, October 1. Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, will be given over to special Instruction periods for the new students. All freshmen will be required to attend. Regular classroom Instruction will begin Tuesday, October 2. High school graduates who are entering the University for the first time should send a copy of their high school credits to the Recorder's office at hmxt one month prior to registration. Last year 1181 freshmen, the largest number In the history of the institution, entered the University. It is estimated that this fall enrollment of first year students will be even larger. New classes more faculty members, and other added facilities have been provided for the large number of students expected. TROVO II. V. 8wenson, Utah coun-t- y agricultural Inspector, has been faking orchard samples of pears snd peaches for chemical analysis to determine whether or not they are within the spray residue regulations. Many of the big orchards of the county are beginning to pick for shipment Same of the fruit will be loaded this week. The fruli is better In size and freer from codling moth worms than it his been for number of years, according to Mr. Swenson, and the growers ol the section are looking forward to as exceptionally good year. n Monday In September should be sec apart as "a laborers' national By ELMO SCOTT WATSON SEPTEMBER 3 will be observed the forty-sixt- h anniversary of a holiday which originated In America but which, in less than half a century, has become International In its scope. For that Is the date of the annual celebration of Labor day and Its advent recalls the little group of workers In New York citv who on May 8, 1SS2, heard the suggestion wnicn eventually resulted In the addition of this holiday to our national calendar. The man to whom the Idea of Labor day Is usually credited was P. J. McGulre, for many vears secre tary of the United Brotherhood of carpenters and Joiners of America, a vice president of the American Fed eration of Labor and one of the best- known labor leaders of his dav. McGuIre's thought was that one dav In the year should be set aside as a general holiday for the men and women who toIL In its Initial form he contemplates a festival day for onlv those who work with hands and mus cle, a day to be devoted to parades, picnics and speeches. McGulre presented his Idea at a session of the newly formed Central Labor union in New York city in May, 183 His choice for such a holiday was the first Monday In September as a strategic date midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. He felt that this was the most suitable day of the entire year for a new holiday and especially for the workers, for It offered a respite In their labors after the hot weather of July and August The choice of the day of the week was a happy one, too, for It really meant a two-darespite from work Sunday and Monday. How wise his choice was Is shown by the fact that In recent years there has been a tendency toward a triple holiday, the laborer laying down bis tools Friday evening and not taking them up again until Tuesday morning. In fact no other holiday of the year, year In and year out offers a similar advantage to that of Labor day. McGuIre's suggestion was readily accepted by the members of the Central Labor union and the first celebration took place In New York on September 0. 1882, Although, as previously stated, McGulre Is usually credited with having originated this holiday, there la another man who had some part In It That man Is Theodore F. Cuno and his part In the origin of Labor day Is told In the following story which appeared In the Kansas City Star under the headline of "The Aristocrat Who Plnnned the First Labor Day": wM' wVj' I 1 N (0) y From his Utopian colony shuck In uplands of Vernon pariah, Louisiana, Theodore P. Cuno, International Socialist who set American labor to marching thirty-fiv- e years sco. will mark with satisfaction Monday's parade of labor all over ths United States. Cuno, an aristocrat by birth, breed-In- n and 'ncllnstlon, despite his lone life of socialism and vlsm." will do no marching Monday. Every day Is labor's day In ths colony that s ths lata Job Harrlman, Los lawyer, established first In the Mnjave desert and later two miles south of this parish seat. Every day of the 166 Is a demonstration of ths theories that Thtodors F. Cuno was beginning to glimpse In 1882, when, durlnir ths Powderly fight In the Knights of I.abor, he wrote the ftrat American Labor day proclamation. Uriah Stevens' secret society of U6 had evolved greatly from Its original form when Cuno, then editor of ths Brewer's Journal In New Tork, wrote ths simple call to labor, which bs still the stump-dotte- d "co-opr- Ana-ele- When Labor Began The "History of Labor" In the United States, by John R. Commons snd associates, generally recognized as the lending authority on the subject says: "We place the beginning of the Amcr Iran labor movement In the year 1827 at Philadelphia. In tiiat yenr an1 place American wsge earnnrs for the first time Joined together as rlnss rrgnrdlrss of trade lines. In a contest wltb employers." The content re 'I jfMf 'it bas In his scrapbook at the Llano colony shack. Since the first general assembly , of the Knights of Labor at Reading-- Fa., the organization had begun to assume the form which It was fo maintain until the American Federation of Labor displaced it as the most powerful factor In American labor affairs. In 1881 the society had dropped all secret furbelows with which Stevens had endowed It. In 1882, while the commotion over the Powderly leadership was threatening: to split the Knights asunder, a group of ths lead- ers, including Cuno, met In New York and made plans for the first Labor day demonstration to prove the solidarity of labor. Having written the proclamation calling for the parade, Cuno marched at the head of tjie procession carrying a banner on which were Inscribed the words: "PAY NO RENT" now, thirty-fiv- e years later, he realizing in fact the doctrine that he preached on his banner in that first parade of labor. For as a colonist of New Llano, Theodore Cuno pays no rent. either does n pay board, nor Is he bothered by tailor bills, shoe bills or light bills. As a member of the colony he Is entitled to all those things, and therefore contributes his share of the colony labor. That Is the way they do things at Llano colony. Cuno believes that despite the legal difficulties through which the colony has passed under the administration of the much discussed George T. Pickett, the Llano experiment will succeed. Faith, says Cuno, ls "believing something that you know isn't so," but be has faith In the colony of which he la the dean and for which he has been a financial angel. Noting the progressiva strides of American labor in the thirty-fiv- e years that have passed since the first Labor day parade in New York, the scholarly, philosophic old man of seven languages and a background of liberal European education holds to the opinion mat never In the history of man has the laborer been so oomfortable as Is the American laborer In this day. When he wrote his proclamation as the Jefferson of the American toilers the place of labor tn the American scheme was Indefinite: Its future nebulous. Collective bargaining was not generally recognized: the courts had not passed on labor's rights and limitations. Now all that ls changed. And Cuno believes that labor truly dominates In a partnership to which It Is as Indispensable And Is as capital. Largely aloof from the world about him, surrounded by his excellent library, his numerous scrapbooks and his memories, Cuno bas a detached view of the problems of the world In which be was once greatly embroiled as a Socialist of International repute, ills grandfather was a Belgian baron, and wealthy. Theoretically Cuno bas his Interest tn nothing mors than wears He the simple Llano colony. overall uniform of the colony and the rough colony shoes, yet be smokes excellent cigars; and with those and the classics he Is content "I would rather have a glass of water and a crust of bread In peace than to live comfortably In unbappiness," Is his way of putting It. After the New Tork celebration of Labor day In 1882 the popularity of the holiday grew with great swiftness until It bad extended to every part of the country. It became not only a holiday for the man who worked with his hands but for the man who worked with hU brain also. In the years that have Intervened It has become a festival of relaxation and recuperation for all strata of our soclnl structure, for millionaires and mill workers alike, so that It Is doubtful If there Is any of our holidays that has such universal popularity. action toward Formal making Labor dny a national holiday was taken by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, the predecessor of the American Federation of Labor, at Its annual convention In Chicago In 1S84. There the delegates adopted resolution stating that the first ferred to was a strike of building r trades workers for the dny and other Improvements In their conten-hou- First Labor Injunction In a memorandum on "Equity Power and Its Abuse," Andrew Furnseth, president of the Internstional Seamen's union, gives facts to show that the origin of the Injunction was In the power to forbid conferred upon the Roman tribute of the Roman republic. tcrnatlonal Allied Printing Trades sociation. Allied Printing Trade International TyiMigrnplilrnl the International Printing I'resimon and Assistants' union, the International P.rntherhood of Book binders, the International Pterootypers and ElfH'trotypfrs union and the In ternntlonnl Photo Engravers' union, are the unions represented on the In union, as- Periscope Spying dition. The holi- day" and recommended Its observance "by all wage workers, Irrespective of sex, calling or nationality." Although popular response to this resolution was spontaneous, It took untiring work on the' part of organized labor to secure legal sanction for such an congress nouaayj , Aunougn state legislatures received constant requests for the enactment of federal and state laws recognizing the day as a national holiday. It was ten years before the passage of an act by congress, establishing the first Monday In September as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and the territories. Oregon was the first state to act upon the matter and It legalized Labor day as a holiday in 1S93. Other states eventually followed Oregon's lead until It Is now a legal holiday throughout the United States and extends to Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In most states It is established by statutory provision, but In Wisconsin and Wyoming Labor day Is established by the governor's proclamation. From a strictly American holiday to one of world-wid- e observance has been the history of Labor day since Its establishment forty years ago. In continental Europe, however, It ls observed on the first of May Instead of the first Monday in September, but this adoption of the American Idea came about In connection with the eight-hou- r movement Inaugurated by the American Federation of Labor In 1SS9. In that year a meeting of the International Labor congress was held in Paris and Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sent a message to the congress urging the International body to cooperate In the move for the eight-hou- r day and appealing for demonstrations in all European countries on May 1 of the following year. Gomper's suggestion found favor with the International, organization and plans were mode for such a demonstration the following year. So the start, made In 1S90, caught the fancy of European workers and May 1 became the recognized Labor day In Europe. However, European countries have been slower than this ona In granting a legal status to the day. probably because the May day demonstrations were at first made the occasion for radical activities and disturbances which brought the workers Into conflict with the authorities. In Inte years, however, the scenes of violence have largely disappeared and now five European countries Austria, Czechoslovakia, Esthonla, Finland and Madeira recognize May 1 as a legal holiday. In South America the same thing ls true In Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay and In Latin America May day Is a legal holiday In Haiti and Panama. Incidentally, one of the possessions of the United States, the Philippines, follows the European custom In celebrating Labor day In May Instead of In September. The labor holiday la celebrated variously In the British possessions throughout the world. Canada Joins with her sister on the south by celebrating it on the first Monday In September and Newfoundland observes It on September 2. Queensland and Western Australia follow the European custom by observing May 1, but Victoria, Australia, observes "Eight-Hou- r day" on April 21, New South Wales on October 6 and South Australia on Octobe. 14. All of these celebrations In foreign countries, however, go back to the basic idea which was presented to the Central Labor union In New York city In 1382, so that Is why It can be said that Labor day, whatever the date of It may be, is the one American national holiday which has become en International holiday and It ls one Important contribution which America has made to the social history of the world. Most house fronts In Brussels are at the sidewalk line. Many householders, who wlh to observe life passing the street without showing themselves at the windows, mount arrangements of mirrors, like periscopes, that permit them to sit In their living rooms away from before the windows, and to see everything Utf goes on to the street In |