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Show r THE LEHI SUN. LEIIT. UTAH ,.-Mir r in cracks In a stove; that sulphur u Chfo;,r?: t,mt a iai: urencn will relieve colic Kay ,n the s,,rinSf the year when she was sixteen years old SI saw Will Ferrln for th. J e and that day she ceased to be a child and was thnri . heart without herself wholly under standing the choose, a woman. Wi 1 " l"e luue just past twenty-one twenty-one yean old; and he had lived aU e on on father's farm sprawled up the slope of the rlde above the brook, on the east side of the Valley. The farm L , one, even thorn it .. wucu seres ere contracted since the ni a. hen Enoch, great-erandfarhp 1, young Win, and his three ,0 "' ii wen. SYNOPSIS . ,... of cronies In the Mrty. Maine. Jim Sals, !"".. the history oi in. lT. Hostile Valley u i"" MK11""1 ?,, niperb Ashing streams, ttEii11' ,il the mysterious, en-vA. en-vA. ,M",. wife of Will Ferrin. AiKdflvee to the Valley jJt(fi B hlng though admit- W w;,.Plf hie chief desire is tedly glamorous bui- CHAPTER -HE pot which boiled over that Tto in Hostile Valley had been iTfcwirlnc: two years, or twen-Jlrtogto twen-Jlrtogto the point of Hew. L. Ferrin nay have been Its Jilredlcnt; but Jenny Pierce Jjitt iMjor part In what en- "ij ever 1,ved for lons l,Mjetuer world than this deep I it was almost twenty years L tor father died; and her VM M thelr farm ,n Llberty pi caw, with Jenny In her arms, lodge here with old Harm Pierte, rto was Jenny's grand- otte. Barn Pierce, before their coming, com-ing, dwelt alone In one half of what iai tea i farmhouse of some size, to old Haven place. The house melfM built by her father long m When he died, her brother fU, who had a wandering foot, uirtoiad never spent more time lm la the Valley than he must, ilsiied to sell; but Marm Pierce fOlld DOt 1 m born In this house and fa i mind to die here." she told UiMtlf, "Half of It's mine, and tairsyourj. Ion go on and sell your W II job want; but I aim to go a living In mine. Bui obviously It was Impossible It sil half a house; and Win Ira raged at her obstinacy. She mM unshaken and the result Me of those quarrels which be-ok be-ok more bitter with years, which grow and thrive on their own acrid Wee. The house and the farm they Med half and half, by a straight lue drawa through the very middle B house itself; and since then, Ira, Pierce kept rigidly to her W-and her brother maliciously faed his side of the house to solder and decay. He made no re ft gave the rotting boards no serving touch of paint; and he ttfised to permit his sister to rem-taj rem-taj to own neglect She boarded her side of the house; walled off to Ml of the cellar; nailed np the tweeting doors. ' : : as she grew older, for a 'We mi to imagine dreadful m lurking In the other glde-m glde-m Pierce called It the Win-side Jtw strange house divided; wbe !ndows fell out and " Wd on their hinges, she mes crept secretly into the rooms to peer into shadowed JJ and start and run at the W finiouse. Till one morn-Kh morn-Kh i venturing, she found Win laself h, a drunken sleep "e Boor, tnd na i -...v. Si8 frI to her Ktn tnM k you, Marm K?b,"Sharp,y- "Yon keep in m VlD'8ide of the Let h,m there and own dirt If he's a mind." '"tarter, Jennv ahev m. i Jjjtalar fear of win Haven. tmlZft S man' "PPearing t22? " ,0DS '"vals! fea Ior months, some- to thle eB,Py oms so h if ? which their own HL"Ted nd old Marm Bi V w encountered rb. J "M already an nM In hi!d.9r; yet tne m.J0 ana RroM ta.J'.'tte life he lPrt- ioo,. ihelri111 n "PPreciatlve imM111 A man with ii. "J1 OWD Mk nf k aan.rorth sake of annov- 53,, --'ciea. l th in- - 22."" the roof to but even the Valley road itself was little traveled. As long ago as Jen ny's childhood, the Valley was al ready a solitary place, with only scattered families here and there. The farm was hidden within a belt of woodland, halfway between the Valley road and the brook. Some meadow ; land Marm Pierce tended year by, year, hiring neighbors to cut back the encroaching underbrush, under-brush, and to harvest the hay; and she ana Jenny made a garden sutfl. dent for their needs. The mead ows that were part of Win's half of the farm were long since gone back to birch and popple and young hackmatack; a youthful wil derness. In this remote spot Jenny grew from a baby Into childhood. She never vividly remembered her mother, who died soon after they came to Granny Pierce's farm to live. Thereafter the old woman and the little girl dwelt here alone; and Jenny grew older. Marm Pierce was not a solitary, however; she had some skill with roots and herbs, and a certain healing power in her, and since there was no doctor nearer than Liberty village, folk hereabout were apt to turn to her to tend their les ser Ills. So visitors came not in frequently to seek Marm Pierce's ministrations, or to cut and mow her hay, or plow her garden, or merely for the sake of passing by, The old woman's sharp tongue was kindly, too; her wit pleased more than It hurt And either from friendliness, or from a desire to keep her good opinion, neighbors did her a favor when they could, If a man were going to Liberty vil lage for supplies, he was apt to stop by to ask whether there were any errand he might do. If a man had more apples than he could well market, he brought her a barrel The bins In her cellar were well filled with potatoes and other roots, every fall; and when her cow calved, there were helpers ready If the need arose. Jenny, as she grew older, wore none of the shyness natural to farm children. She saw a surprisin number of people, and met them in friendly fashion, so that even when a stranger came into her life, she could greet the newcomer unafraid, Also, as she grew older, she took to herself the liberty of the fields, and the deep woods; and she knew every foot of the brawling stream that from Carey's bridge came in swirls and cascades through a nar rowing gorge, to relax In wide slug gish pools as It entered the cedar boa a little below. Sometimes Marm Pierce went with her; or ratner, sometimes when the old woman went search ing here and there for the herbs ch ron nlred She took the Child along, and taught Jenny to recog. nlze all those plants wnicn com' CTtfor- i u Wa remote . Ved off toe road " ""JilowB the Valley; Ml MX o VhJt Lcr IJfl I She Watched Him for a Moment nrised her simple pharmacopoeia. Later, as she found It not so easy to get about she sent Jenny herb- gathering alone, ft, Hrl learned from her grand mother some of that infinite lore .v.,u ,- Alitor woman had WUltU l"C through the years acquired. Before Jenny was fifteen, she knew that If you wanted pullets, you must choose blunt-pointed eggs for the hatching; that a piece of red flannel wet twice a day with strong camphor will cure bumblefoot; that ground to-baeco to-baeco atems will keep lice out of the hens nests; that castile soap and tobacco ashes make the best dentifrice; that borax, or the yos of an egg mixed with soda, will cure dandruff; that fmcoof heavy paper will kefrp cut worms awafrom young pW. tt wood Will, when he could k , from the farm work, sometimes f .uD t0 m tlle 8tream; and u iuus come on this day when Jenny first saw him. Will .u ,. V wougn tney had lived for a dozen years within a mile or an r "uc auotner, Had never met at all. ... came to fish a few of the deep holes in the gorge; and Jenny wandered through the woods to the rtreamslde, eeeking here and there the springing herbs which Marm Pierce liked to gather in the flood de of June. Jenny by old habit moved thrnnoh the forest silently, flndins r.ie. ure in surprising the birds at their pleasant occupations, in catching quick fleeting glimpses of small crearares unawares. She was no more a disturbing element In the forest than the creatures which lived there, and Will, his ears filled with the rushing song of the water wa-ter as he fished, heard nothing of uer coming. He had crossed to the west side of the stream for his fishing, so mat nis back was toward her when sne nrst discovered him. She saw a tall, strong figure in blue over alls and blue shirt and a battered old hat, the overalls tucked into rubber boots that ended Just below be-low his knee. She saw him, and she paused, a little way off, stand. Ing utterly still, leaning with one hand against a tree, motionless and yet not rigid, beautifully at her ease, She watched him for a moment and he lifted a fine trout out of the stream. It fell flopping by his side, and he dropped the rod to pin It with his hands. So doing, he turned sidewise to her, so that she saw his face, and the shock of straw-colored hair under the hat, and his de lighted grin. But as he pinned the fish, he nt tered an exclamation of pain, and snatched one hand away and looked at it; and Jenny, with the quick sympathy which all women have, came toward him. She was six paces off when he heard or felt her presence there, and turned and looked up at her; and his eyes widened in quick surprise, and tnen he said something, laughing. And he got np, the trout In one hand, his rod In the other, and held the fish for her to admire. "Handsome, ain't he?" She asked: "Did he stick the hook Into you?" Will was puzzled. "No!" "I could see you hurt your hand, when you grabbed him." "Oh," he remembered ; and he extended the hand which held the fish, turned It so that she could see an Inflamed and swollen finger joint "Got a felon," he said. "It's sore as timer She took his hand in her two hands, gently, looking at the felon. "Granny can cure that" she said. If you'd come on home with me." "So!" he ejaculated, in pieaseu surprise. "Can she now? Tve heard tell that Marm Pierce Is a mighty hand at curing Ills; but I tnougm a felon you Just had to take and stand It-She It-She frowned In thought, with an amusing affectation of maturity. "I've Just forgot what it Is you do, she confessed. "But Granny, she'll know." And she urged: "It ain't only a little ways through the n,nni tn nnt nlace." Will said heartily: "Why, let's go along, then. Like trout does she! ?.l Mnnle here. louH have to i ' u ma tTl WAV. She nodded; and he fetched his fish from a moss bed where he had laid them under ferns ; and he two young people went together through he woods back toward Marm Pierce's farm. There was no path, F.1!.. wnid be. by and by. tneTdsonly . little tracing and retracing of the same Sd where no foot has trod, to Save TSmi of trail along the Sound! And-Jenny wonld come o ten by this way. in the years that were to follow; would come thus to the brook and wait here on lh! rhance that Will might find the orcnara 1( sf hftL gnmv trebles. Rnt now we Rut she made no explanation ' only nodded; yet It seemed to her Incredible that he could have been, a'l her life, so near without her snowing. There was already In her wt such certainty, and poignant bliss at being near him now. lien they emerged into the hack Pasture behind Marm Pierce's barn. ne came to walk beside her. Jenny, for no reason, smiled. Her head ws high and proud; she brought him home to old Marm Pierce like trophy, like a prize. They found the old woman in ti kitchen. "Granny." said the piri This here is Will Ferrin. and he's got a felon on his finger. I told aim you could cure It for hlra." Marm Pierce, brisk, black-evpd. white-haired, with a quick-thrusting tongue, said sharply: "Take it In time and I could. Howdy. Will. Let's see it If you'd had any sense, oua nave come before now!" Jenny cried softly: "You already knowed him? You never told me, Granny!" Marm Pierce looked at the tlrl with swift probing eyes. "Told you ?" she echoed. "Why should . , She checked the question unasked, reaoing ner answer In the girl's warm color and soft tones; and she spoke briskly to Will again. "It's a bad one," she said. "I dunno as I can do it a mite of good, but you t aown and we'll seer Will obeyed her, and the old wom an, with another wise glance at Jenny, turned to the cupboard above the sink where many of her stores were kept and rummaged there. Jenny said: "I couldn't remem ber what it Is you do, Granny," Take a piece of wild turnip," Marm Pierce explained. "There's some here somewheres." She found DIETARY HABITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CHILD .ii 'id rs-. Nothing is quite so Important to icalth as food. The wellbclng of i child depends on It and his future fu-ture stamina will reflect nutritive llscrepancles In babyhood. The mother who thinks that there a time enough ahead for corrective diet is laboring under a traditional leluglon that up until two years of age and sometimes longer, milk is rhe. sum total of everything. Milk is the warp and the woof of what It takes to get through life, and especially at its beginning. But it needs supplementing, becauso Its chemistry is low in a few needed essentials es-sentials and the child, set In his ail-milk ail-milk diet, resists other foods. Doctors Prescribe Varied Foods. Doctors long ago recognized the value of adding other foods to the diet of milk, early In babyhood. In order to offset future finicky apie tites. , Thus the infant of six weeks gets his cod-liver oil and orange ulce or tomato juice; a llttlo later a spoonful or two of prepared vegetable vege-table Juice or even the strained veg etable itself. At a period that In the past would have been considered consid-ered mnrderous he gets his bit of cereal, part of the yolk of an egg, a snack of baked potato and mashed stewed fruit Whatever today's baby Is given, should, of course, be absolutely under un-der the doctor's direction. There is a difference in babies. But the great truth that many mothers do not know Is that chll dren with touchy appetites at six or eight or ten years of age, are the results of fixed preference in babyhood. Caution Must Be Exercised. Another thing that should be re membered Is that ss milk must be the alpha and omega of his meat, therefore the amounts of other food given must not be so great that the willingness to take milk is decreased. The doctor will give you lists and schedules for feeding. My sugges tions here are only for one pnrnoan. That Is to show "why" and "how" aversions to needed foods are start ed. Food habits, which mean flavor habits, have to be cultivated early. Cat Likes to Travel Tommy, a cat ; which makes his headquarters in the rwstaurnnt of the station In Carlisle, England, likes to travel on trains. STRIKE UP THE BAND JW) ? THE FLAVOR'S GLOR-I-OUS y ' i""1" 1 1 '' 1 " AND GIVS IT A HAND 41 Uzd JOIN IN THE CHOR-I-OUS M IT'S GOT EVERYTHING r . ' r I : IT'S THE CEREAL KING l ! Tutrix V t"'-rvl' t mm OnCE you taste Grape-Nuts Flakes, youH cheer tool And it not only has a delicious flavor, but it's nourishing. One dishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied nourishment nourish-ment than many a hearty meal. Try it your grocer has it I Product of General Foods. and WIU followed, said: wsej-.-- S-sented; and . with . glance over her BU V. -Nor I never see yon. SheUFen.-heexPUined . though in ur- gne .uw - d h!m. nriw-: she turned, ana . nd her eyes were w.- dCWlll Ferrin? To. H-e right UP .. v Khe DOimeu. mere . . ber arorprlje. "I'll Give You Some Salve to Put on It Tomorrow." It "I'll grate It up. and mix It with turpentine, and put H on lhat finger of yours, Will. It'll kill the pain right away; and if it works the way it's s'posed to, it'll eat the felon out, too. Be a hole there to morrow morning, dear in to the bone," She was busy with the grater at the sink, her shoulders moving as she worked energetically. Til give you some salve to put on it tomorrow," she said. "That'll beal It right up, like as not If it don't you let me know . . What followed, Jenny watched without speaking; or rather she watched Wilt and his eyes that were so deeply blue, and his straw-colored straw-colored hair rough and unkempt across his brow, and the youthful lines of his mouth and chin. Marm pierce gave the girl a sidelong scrutiny, while she affected to be busv with her ministrations; till presently the thing was done, and Will offered them the trout by way of payment and departed, and Jenny though even then her feet wished to follow him, to follow him anywhere, forever, wherever he should go stayed in me uoor 10 watch him disappear through the barn. . . She turned then to ner grandmother grand-mother with shining eyes. -He looked back and waved, Granny!" she cried. "Sh'd think he would," Marm Pierce assented crisply. "Ungrate-ft "Ungrate-ft vnune imp &e didn't You get .1,0 arba I sent yoa for, Jenny T ionv colored in distress. I for- got" she said. The old woman made a sound like mirth "?"o matter," she decided. -Time enough for them, another diSbe did not then ask any question ques-tion or offer sny least Instruction, finding a deep pleasure In watching S nUn? of the girt Into the nman- In watching the birth In jenny of that teeming ardor, frank and tender and unashamed, which . Li learns by ind by to conceal !nd to control, but which may be affirst as apparent as the blush on In? during the next two years, while Jenny came stream rnshes to the sea, Marm Pierce still held silent; bot she was blind. She knew that the girl .tinned away on every occasion on !e cha'c of ing Wilt Jenny lav. the yoirng man that deep and onndles. sffection of which only a ... and Marm Pierre 2 chid ler eiderly. ready wh Labf and comfort which. ! Pe'-. would he iM&Es EsiaKss aiTSSM wmm u t etlArM e I At "ft If? no: nji wii & nui nit CLUS I VYAMTf tlSTEfv-GO tlSTEfv-GO BACK TO Tri CKJB woao'5 WORST CAPPV! 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