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Show r 01 Til CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH stranger j J WITHIN THE GATES I U000-00000000- 0 3 br D. J. Walsh. I looked down at her with their ELIZABETH ot. the thumb and forefinger and tried to keep back the tears. Thirty years! years! , having laid eyes on the stranger before. . Some twenty-odyears ago," the stranger continued, I went to a missionary meeting, dragged there by my I mother. I wasnt a church-goer- ; wasnt bad at all but I certainly could never be held up as any example. This evening of which I speak these two people talked to the church folk of their mission work this, he Indicated the small room with its shabI wasnt used to church by fittings. appeals; 1 hadnt been to church enough. When they passed pledge cards out I was fired with desire, desire to help these people In their work out here. I pledged, ladies and gen-- . tlemen, $15 a month, to be paid the first of every month for a year. There was a little gasp. No one ever pledged anything approximating that sum out here I That, the stranger continued smilwas that night. The next ingly, morning I 1 wasnt glad Id made the pledge. I I 1 must confess that 1 was not only sorry but 1 was en raged I felt that Id been unduly pressed to make that pledge. I had not, you understand, not at all. But I wasnt used to saving a cent; I hadnt even an Insurance policy that would have given me the habit of thrift and saving. 1 resented that promise. Ba I kept it I found, that it wasn't half as hard as Id thought it was going to be to get together $15 a month. During the first few months I was so afraid that I couldnt make it (and that would have hurt my mother, ladies and gentlemen) that I would take the whole $15 out of my first weeks money. Little by little 1 began saving just because 1 was used to It. And those savings invested and piled up have brought me wealth. He looked around him silently for a moment. Ive never forgotten these people to whom I owed my start and when I was in the city where the church was having some sort of conference or other I talked to a few men, and your pastor and his wife are to have a new charge a place where they will find the comforts of life and comparative ease No! 'The voice rang out sharply In the quiet room. You shall not take them from us! You who admit you have everything why should you attempt to take from us the little we have? The sharp, high voice stopped and the young woman who had spoken reddened from her unwonted bold ness. "Im not taking them. I shant be I only wanted to see them there. comfortable after their years of hardships here in this forsaken prairie, sai(f the stranger. They had tried, she and John, to make the special service as near like that first one they had held as possible. Every evening for the thirty years they Lad written painstakingly In the diary the events and happenings of the day, on church days listing the hymns sung and the topic of the day. She oticed tonight how much more competently John was handling the talk. And then again her eyes roved about the tiny mission room with its handful as they had had that first night; maybe a few more. There was Hannah with her husband, who had both been there on that first night, but the others were all new faces. In this farming country people came and went with the passing of the years, and when they learned of the mission they came to it because as they themselves frequently said in their tactless fashion, there was nothing else to amuse them. John was talking to them earnestly In his vibrant, low tones. They on their part listened but not with any intentness. The women appeared to be reviewing In thgir minds the tasks of the morrow which must be done and the tasks of today which had been left over. The men were evi- dentiy sitting without any thinking at all, tired with the arduous work of the day and wondering idlv now and again when the parson would finish this. As for the handful of young people their thoughts were not here at all. Useless I Thirty years gone! What did these people care for them or for the word of God? The mission In this forsaken country was only a meeting place, a recreation. They had given up their lives, she and John, for what ? Nothing ! Hot tears filled her eyes, scalding them and threatening to run down her cheeks. She fumbled unsuccessfully for a handkerchief, pulling off her gloves to search the better. The thirty years had made a difference in d her hands, tool werent the hands of they thirty years ago, not at alii If only some one cared about the mission and the work, if they could have for once No, No an revival meeting such We must have them here they as the big evangelists had! But, no. part of us. theyre there sat the people, complacent and them a decent house Well nonchalant Who was profiting by all built wellgeteven fix a nice cellar for of this? them. Certainly she and John had not; They must stay with us they to not had but, then, they expected to stay, dont you parson?" want profit Not at all. The people had Elizabeth heard it all with mingled not profited, not very much. Old Cal feelings of elation and astonishment. Myers was just as sharp in a deal She had risen now and was standing now as he had ever been, every one beside John looking down Into the not had And the church surely said. flock. and faces of their little profited, for the collections You dont want to go? demand to were keep ed the scarcely enough pledges stranger. No, their open the tiny mission. Not not if they want us here, lives had been given In vain I Her said Elizabeth softly. youth and Johns were gone now The stranger- looked at his watch after thirty years of it and it was Then at least youll let me swiftly. I over now to too late start again a car for you two, you undonate And little Elizabtfh, who had now He took a check book derstand. taken, her mothers place at the piano from his inner pocket and wrote rapand played so competently for the This will attend to the license idly. for life had too, her gone, Lymns and running expenses for a w l.ile. nothing. and well, most folks like a car. Ive Elizabeth had never been a woman run it 1,400 miles so Its well broken in been had to cry. Her life spent in. Im taking the train in eight minthe comforting of others. Her Bible folks. And many so good-by- , utes was as familiar to her as the market thanks report to the broker In stocks and The door openoi' and closed and bonds. When old Jed Carruthers had the stranger was gone. He had not turned out his daughter that January even given his name, but that they night at ten oclock, when little Billy no Means was left an orphan, Elizabeth found on the check. There was no room darkin the now, dullness had not stopped alone at Bible ness. Chattering filled the air and phrases, although she had used those, was several minutes before they it too. Instead she bad taken in the Carruthers girl and had found a good thought of. opening the door to look But with at the car. home for Billy Means. There it stood in all of its gleaming Elizabeth these had been only side newness ready to take them where the have would She Issues helped Carruthers girl and Billy Means they chose. Wasnt he wonderful, murmured whether John had been a minister, a to give us a missionary or the cashier of some little Elizabeth softly, car! bank. But big Elizabeth and hei Joh.i John had called for hymn No. 142, and as little Elizabeth started the looked at the car through misty eyes. not. been wastplaying the door opened and there The thirty years had entered a stranger. It was seldom ed. Nor had they been passed i vain enough that a stranger entered the Their people wanted them and need gate, unless John or Elizabeth, or both ed them. Again Elizabeth 'ould imagof them, had first coaxed and pleaded. ine the babble of voices demanding But this stranger I Elizabeth put up that they he left with them. And the love for them was but a one hand to get that mistiness from her eyes. Why, he.was not a man of reflection of their love for the misthis rural community; he was a man sion and Its work I d and of the cities. His well-cu- t clothes did not fit In with Taught Chinese Lacemaking the garments in the room, nor did The art of lacemaking was first the heavy gloves he carried in one taught to the Chinese of the Chefoo hand remind one of the gloves worn district by foreign missionaries about by the farmers. Little Elizabeth twenty-fiv- e years ago. They believed at the click of the door, and that by teaching lacemaking the in her amazement paused in the playwomen and girls would find profitable ing. employment within their own homes, Just a moment," said the stranger and the subsequent spread of the InI Im not to be here long. If you dustry has fully justified their efforts. will let me have the floor for a mo a Although first taught in Chefoo, ment?" He asked the last of John, Hsien was the first district in hut the asking seemed to be a matwhich lace was extensively made. ter of formula, for before John could agree or refuse, the stranger had Turks and Alcohol stepped beside John and was talking. Im not a church man, folks, he Though the laws of Mohammed forBut I'm whats known bid their consumption, alcoholic said curtly. Ive made a lot drinks are not unpopular among the as a square-shooteof money and friends because of that. -- Turkish working classes. They have And all my success I owe to these long been In favor with the upper two people." classes, even In the days when proHere the stranger paused and hibition laws were so strong In Turpointed dramatically toward Elizabeth key that the grand vizer tried to stop and John. Elizabeth started; she foreign diplomats from Importing wine could not recall in all of her life ever for their own use. , Large-knuckle- dry-skinn- 1 Yanks Cant Win Without Luck know the Tanks have got the best ball club In the country, but l(TI that doesnt mean it Is any cinch we are going to win. And n Sisler Joins Braves . hole. Whitey Oberc, formerly of Pittfield of the Eastern league, has been released and is playing independent ball In the outfield for Pottstown, Pa. Complaint is heard In American Association circles that the games played take up too much time, and there is a demand for speeding them up. .One critic sums it op in a few words for the Pirates when he asked what fun they would have if they only had to face their own pitching staff. Charley Hall, who helped to pitch the St. Paul club to four American Association pennants, has played professional baseball for twenty-fou- r years. The photograph shows a closeup of Sisler, formerly of the Washingtons, as he appeared in his new uniform of the Boston Braves after he had joined his team. At one time Sisler was called the greatest first baseman in the big leagues. George fporfffofas At golf one plays for the short as . well as the long green. . A new sports arena to seat 20,000 people is planned in Cleveland, Ohio. We see where a writer In Harpers Magazine says amateur tennis is a racket y stroll Charley Pyle's may be endet but we'll bet the bunions linger on. cross-countr- The Kentucky derby purse originally amounted to but $2,850. Now it amounts to more than $50,000. Victorio Compolo, rising young boxin the East, is a heavyweight from South America. er now exhibiting The first game of hockey of which there is any record in North America was played in the City of Kingston, Ontario, in 1888. In 1910 by the Baseball Clubs more than two minor league Outfielder Art Weiss and Pitcher Bill Ludolph are recent additions to the Little Rock Travelers, having been obtained from the Missions of the Coast league. Leo Casey, tired of sitting on the bench with Newark, asked for a transfer. He was then released to New Haven in the Eastern league, subject to recall at any time. , Toledo cut down on the rookie crop when it sent Guy Jones, LeRoy Parmallee and Jack Mundy to Stuffy Mclnnis Salem club of the New England league on option. Baltimores pitching staff was -- . , Joe Demoss, former Wisconsin State champion, was matched with.. Warren K. Wood at' Green .Lake, Wis., when his drive from the eighteenth down, on top of a flat awning near the clubhouse. Demoss mounted the awning and, teetering precariously, slapped a beautiful brassie shot for the hole, ending a short chip-shaway. Aubrey Boomer was as surprised as his gallery at the play that took him into the Freak Shot club. The English star was playing a Lancashire tournament, when his drive landed In front of a two-fobank over which he had to play. Using his spoon, he gave the ball a vicious cut But. instead of arching through the air the ball disappeared completely. After a mystified search,! Boomer ihcrdulously drew the ball from his pocket It had struck the soft earth at the top of the bank, rebounded and; hidden itself while he still had his arms extended in completing the swing. And-whdo the rules say about that one? In the 1926 Canadian Open at Montreal, Leo Diegel, then the titleholder, found himself looking hopelessly on the long eleventh hole in the practice rounds, says the American Golfer article. His one hope to escape the jinx, he concluded, was to drive toward the twelfth fairway, which ran parallel on the right, and let er hook. Twice he did it in the regular play, and both times the hooks described a perfect semicircle but landed 350 yards away and in the center of the eleventh fairway. tee-cam- Brooklyn has two of the greatest pitchers in the major leagues in Jess Petty and Dazzy Vance. A resolution adopted National Association of prohibits the playing of games in one day by teams. e, : elect Chl-Hsi- r. hole-in-on- The great Lon Meyers set a worlds Pitcher Jim Robinson, from Macon mark of 1 minute 55 seconds In the in the Sally league, has joined the half in 1885 and that stood for just ten years. On September 21, 1895, in Brooklyn Robins at Cincinnati. a dual meet between the New York A. Visiting American league teams may C. and Oxford and Cambridge In New the nights in New York, but the enjoy a Union York, Charles H. Kilpatrick, are said to be terrible. afternoons College star, covered the distance in 1 minute 53 seconds. Jimmy Reese, Oakland star who Is It was almost fourteen years later, owned by the Yankees, was once i, Lung-hErailie that 1909, 15, September as hailed the worst Infielder in the an Italian runner touring America, old Appalachian league. seccut the record to 1 minute 52 onds at Montreal. Then, at the 1912 William Dickey, tall young catcher Olympics, came. Ted Merediths great 1 minute 52 seconds dash and four of the New York Yankees, has been seconds released on option to the Buffalo club years later his 1 minute 52 of the International league. a in Pennsylvania-Cor-nell performance dual meet Ten years and two Pitcher Charles Barnabe and Outmonths afterward, In London, Dr. Otto Peltzer, on July 3, 1926, set the fielder Randy Moore of the White Sox have been released on option to the present outdoor figure 1 minute 51 seconds. Now comes Hahn to join the Waco club of the Texas league. 1 half-turne- d holes-ln-one- VDIAMONDV 1885. t to Live in Utah " have been Now that course In the made on every year-ol- d land, the journalistic gentlemen - who' follow the game are digging up jell-, gibles for a more exclusive mythical fraternity, The Freak Shot club. All you need to become a' member are the proper circumstances and a ton of luck. If you happen to play your ball from Its lie in a birds nest plop into the hole, or if your hopeless hook ricochets from a tree and becomes a youre in.. Aod you are in good company, as witness this list of eligibles presented in the v--American golfer. Willie MacFarlane got In through' a", barn door two barn doors, in fact He was playing against Harry Hampton at the Aberdeen (Scotland) club. They were fighting hole for hole when Willie sliced a drive terrifically... It... pulled up near a barn, far off the fair- way. But Willie, opening the barn door, found a second door exactly opposite and the hole on a line 200 yards away. He had to hit a hard, drive, measured in inches to get through both .doors. But he did it stopping his ball within six feet of the Record Held by Six Different Men A view of Lloyd Hahns record it APICK-UFS- In Is Interesting to note that only five men before him have held the acknowlrecord since edged worlds half-mil- e It's a Privilege in American Golfer. baseball fans, baseball luck and, specifically, the Yanks chances during the coming season in an Interview with Bozeman Bulger, the veteran sports writer, published in The Farm JoumnL The trouble with baseball fans, observes Mr. Ruth, is that they get so steamed up over an easy win that they forget that 50 per cent of baseball Is luck. If something goes wrong the next year they start right off talking about internal dissension, and this and that player being hard to get along with, and so on. They never figure that the luck simply broke the other way. There have been a lot of great ball clubs that have pulled up in the ruck of a major league race, far behind inferior feams, simply because they didnt get that 50 per cent break of luck, if you want Mr. Ruths opinion. To cop the old flag, says the $70,000 beauty quaintly, a ball club has not only got to be the best, but its got to get the breaks at the right time, too. Did you ever think what might have happened to us last season If we hadnt got off to that runaway start and then had another long winning streak soon afterward? Just throw out those two streaks, or balance them ip with average luck, and see where we would have been. Now it doesn't figure out that we are going to have such a streak again, even with the same ball players. I know the Yanks have got the best ball club In the country, but suppose somebody breaks a leg or one of our best pitchers goes wrong. What then? Incidentally, Bulgers Farm Journal article throws an interesting light on Ruths determination to make himself better and positively not bigger during the season, a characteristic that has grown year by year since his comeback of three years ago. .. - Half-Mil- e News Notes j i List of Eligibles Presented A that, fellow fans. Is what the games biggest figure. Babe Ruth, thinks about the Impending American league pennant race. The Babe bares his innermost thoughts about baseball generally, - well-presse- FREAK SHOT CLUB IS NOW REIGNING , d ot Olympic Coach Schulte Never on Cinder Path Track Coach Henry F. (Indian) Schulte of the University of Nebraska,-selecteas one of the mentons of the 1928 United States Olympic team, never performed on the cinder path. To his coaching credit, however, are many past Olympic performers and 1928 potential representatives. There was the great Robert Simp, son, who revolutionized .hurdling and set world marks which only recently have been bettered. Jackson Scholz, speed marvel for more than a decade and still among the select, learned the art of sprinting under Schultes direction. And now there are Roland Locke, holder of the worlds furlong record of 20.5 seconds, and Fait Elkins, American decathlon champion and record holder. x Badger Coach Organizes Amateur Baseball Teams Promoting amateur baseball In Wisconsin Is the latest Job assigned to Coach Leonard B. Allison, assistant athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, who has been appointed state athletic officer for the American Legion. Allison was recommended for the post by Maj. John Griffith, commissioner of the western conference, who knew of his work in a similar position while at South Dakota State univerStub as the Badger coach Is sity. better known, is making preliminary plans for a Wisconsin state baseball league. BRIGHAM CITY Utah potatoes are grown principally in the counties of Salt. Lake, Weber, Utah, Cache, r, Davis and Sanpete. PROVO High quality, exceptional flavor, color and size of fruits and vegetables have made Utah agricultural products famous throughout the United States. Fishermen angling in the Uintah mountain streams report only fair success, due to somewhat muddy condition of the water. Recent rains in the mountains have caused no abrupt raise in the creeks, but the prVERNAL ecipitation did cause a roiled condition. AIRPORT Several Salt Lake planes will go to Ogden June 30 to be used there in the celebration marking the dedication of the Junction Citys new municipal airport. The Ogden is putting on an aerial program and Salt Lakers will compete for prizes. LOGAN Forty farmers from Rich county conducted a dairy tour of the city and Cache county recently, according to Robert L. Wrigley, county agricultural agent, who accompanied the party. The purpose of the excursion, Agent Wrigley stated, was to gain additional information on cow testing, breeding and also sweet clover pae sture. Wasatch county was a killing frost recently, mercury dropping to 26 degrees. HEBER vithe sited by corn and flowers were destroyed, even where the gardens had been covered with heavy guilts. It was cold enough to freeze ice a quarter of an inch thick. Damage to peas and grain was slight, only the peas that were in bloom and the the grain which was in head being damaged. GUNNISON Fifty-tw- o full grown pheasants have been received and liberated in this section by Sidney Baxter and Ernest Baxter, members of the local fish and game commission. The birds were shipped from the state game farm at Springville. The birds were liberated about two miles east of here. The Gunnison commission is also expecting a shipment of trout from the game farm with which to stock the streams near here. Ogden B. J. Finch, district engineer for the United States bureau of public roads, anounced that bids would be opened, June 28, in his office in this city, on three contracts for gravel sustretch rfacing, as follows: Seven-mil- e west of Fruitland on the Victory highway; nine miles from North Fork to Gibsonville on the Salmon, Idaho, to s Montana line road, and two and miles on the Alpine scenic road iu Utah county. OGDEN Seventy - five pairs of pheasants, furnished by D. H. Madsen, commissioner of the state fish and game department, have been planted west of Ogden by officers of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. Sixty-fiv- e pheasants eggs under incubation at the farm of H. H. Hodge, east of Ogden, will be hatched this week. The birds will be turned on the wilds when hatched, which gives promise of an open pheasants season for Ogden hunters. HEBER The Heber tourist camp, owned by the county and improved during the past few years by the joint efforts of the Wasatch chamber of comerce, Heber City, Wasatch county and the Wasatch stake of the L. D. S. church, will receive additional improvements soon. A fund has been accumulated by charging campers, and this fund is to be spent for the painting of the present structures and the installation of shower baths and other conveniences. SALT LAKE! The low temperature and light frost which touched Salt Lake and other portions of the intermountain district Sunday night of last week did not result in any damage to crops, acording to the United States weather bureau and Harden Bennion, state agricultural commissioner. The temperature in the Salt. Lake valley dropped as low as 40 degrees. Records of the weather bureau show that this drop in the temperature was not particularly unusual for Salt Lake, inasmuch as nearly every June on record has shown a cold spell on or about the middle of the month, the mercury dropping in some cases as low as 32 degrees. In- HEBER Utahs winter wheat crop is estimated by the bureau of agricultural economics of the United States department of agriculture at 3,164,000 bushels this year, as compared with in2,888,000 bushels last year. This Ernie Nevers, the great football the in crease of close to 10 per cent star, has been sent to the minors by Utah crop is in the face of a decrease the St Louis Browns. It seems that of about 9 per cent in the nation the big leagues werent in the need of wheat crop, the bureau's fiwinter touchdowns Just now. gures show. The nation crop estimate for 1928 is 512,252,000 bushels, while In his earliest baseball days, Willast years figures were 552,384,00 bert Robinson, manager of the Brookbushels. lyn National League Baseball club, the ZION NATIONAL PARK For had quite a reputation as a wrestler Per season to date, a total of 10,089 as well as a ball player. states, sons, representing thirty-on- e District of Columbia, Hawaii, three Five major league clubs are Interan ested In the eighteen-year-olprovinces of Canada, Sweden, tb shortthrough South Africa, have passed stop, Stevens, with New Haven in the wa gates of Zion National park, it sEastern league. His work has fea- park T. E. announced by Scoyen, tuitt for New Haven this season, Hughey Critz (shown In the photo uperintendent, here. This figure is P graph) has been hitting timely and, fically double last years total for tb Max Carey, Brooklyn outfielder, who fielding brilliantly for the Cincinnati lame period of .5399 Private mote has been tearing around the s Reds this season. The Cincinnati sec- ;ravel, as usual, makes up the greats for 20 years, has led the Naond baseman is one of the best in the part of the total with 9499 persons tional league in base thefts ten times Had he been going as well 8840 autos. The remainder, or in the past fourteen years and has league. last summer the race might have end same by stage from the end of the rai been second the other four times. ed differently. it Cedar City. creased when Dallas of the Texas league returned Pitcher Cliff Jackson, taken from the Birds just before the start of spring training. Critz Hits Timely d Donald Carrick, husky amateur golf champion of Canada, has decided to abandon his sticks until after he has qualified for the Olympic boxing team. David A. Wood, of Toronto, onetime running star, is still active on his feet at the age of seventy-siand retains a keen interest in the racers "f today: x base-path- ) I |