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Show I THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, .RANDOLPH, UTAH m. mu WWW f tfflae IPadrli TO ?dDic . IMPORTANCE OF GOOD ROADS Dy EDISON MARSHALL Most - i Copyright by Little, Brown Sc Co. the mountain men are not saved by their women without incurring obligaShe attempted no barren detion. nials. She made no effort to pretend he had not incurred a tremendous debt when she had come with her pistol. It was an unavoidable fact A life for a life is the code of the mountains. I Two things I must do before I can ever dare to die, he told her soberly. One of them is to pay you ; the other Is to pay Cranston for the thing he said. Maybe the chance will never come for the first of the two ; only Ill pray that it will. Maybe it would be kinder to you to pray that it wouldnt; yet I pray that It will! Maybe I can pay that debt only by being always ready, always watching for a chance to save you from any danger, always trying to protect you. You didnt come in time to see the fight I made. Besides I lost, and little else matters. And that debt to you cant be paid until sometime I fight again for He gasped from his you and win. weakness, but went on bravely. Til never be able to feel at peace, Snowbird, until Im tested In the fire before your ejes! I want to show you the things Cranston seld of me are not true that my comhge will stand the 1920, CHAPTER III Continued. ished. li- lt Is extremely doubtful If a plainsman would have possessed this knowl- But a plainsman has not the edge. knowledge of life itself that the mountaineer has, simply because he does aot see it in the raw. And he has not half the intimate knowledge of death, absolute requisite of The mountaineer knows life tn its simple phases with little tradition or convention to blur the vision. Death Is a very intimate acquaintance that may be met in any snowdrift, on ny rocky trail; and these conditions are very deadly to any delusions that he has in regard to himself. He( an ability to see just where he stands, and of course that means This quality had something to do with the remarkable record that the mountain men, such as that magnificent warrior from Tennessee, made in the late war. Cranston knew exactly what Snowbird would do. Although of a higher order, she was a mountain creature, even as himself. She meant exactly what she said, if he hadn't climbed from Dans prone body, she would have shot quickly and very straight. If he tried to attack either of them now, her finger would press back before he could blink .an eye, and she wouldnt weep any hysterical tears over his dead body. If he kept his distance, she wouldnt shoot at all. He meant to keep his distance. But he did know that he could insult her without danger to himself. And by now his lips had acquired their old curl of scorn. Ill go. Snowbird, he said. Ill leave you with your sissy. But I guess you saw w,liat I did to him in two minutes. I saw. But you must remember he's Sck. Now go. If hes sick, let him stay in bed and have a wet nurse. Maybe you can be that. The lids drooped halfway over her gray eyes, and the slim, finger curled more tightly about the trigger. Oh, I wish I could shoot you, Bert! she sfiicl. She didnt whisper it, or hiss it, or hurl it, or do any of the things most people are supposed to do in moments of violent emotion. She simply said It, and her meaning was all the clearer, But you cant. And Ill pound that milk-soof yours to a jelly every time I see him. Id think, Snowbird, that youd want a man. He started up the trail; and then she did a strange thing. Hes more of a man than you are, right now, Bert, Hell prove it some she, told him. Then her arm went about Dans day. neck and lifted his head upon her brqpst; and in Cranstons plain sight, she bent and kissed him, softly, on the lips. Cranstons answer was an oath. It dripped from his lips, more poisonous, more malicious than the venom of a snake. His features seemed to tighten, the dark lips drew away from his teeth. No words could have made him such an effective answer as this little action of hers. And as he turned p the trail, he called down to her a name that most dreadful epithet that foul tongues have always used to women held in greatest scorn. The Dan struggled in her arms. kiss on his lips, the instant before, had not called him out of his halfconsciousness. It had scarcely seemed real, rather just aii incident in a blissful dream. But the word called down the trail shot out clear and vivid from the Silence, just as a physicians face will often leap from the darkness after the anesthesia. Something infinite- -' ly warm and tender was holding him, pressing him back against a holy place that throbbed and gave him life an strength ; but he knew that this word had to be answered. And only actions, not other words, could be its payment. All the voices of his body called to him to lie still, but the voices of the spirit, those higher, nobler promptings which no man, to the glory of the breed from which he sprung, can mrer quite escape, were stronger yet. He tugged upward, straining. But he didnt even have the strength to break the hold that the soft arm had about his neck. Oh, if I could only pull the trigIf I could ger I she was crying. only kill him Give me Let me, he pleaded. tn him. Their utter darkness startled , He sat up straight, and her arm that had been about his neck felt at her side. He took her hand firmly in his, and their eyes met. We must go home, Snowbird, he told her simply. Im not so badly hurt but that I can make it. She nodded; but otherwise sArcely seemed to hear. Her eyes still flowed with darkness. And then, before his own eyes, their dark pupils began to contract. The hand he held filled and throbbed with life, and the fingers closed around his. She leaned toward him'. Listen, Dan, she , said quickly. You heard didnt you the last thing that he said? I couldnt help but hear, Snowbird. Her other hand sought for his. Then If you heard payment must be made. You see what I mean, Dan. Maybe you can't see, knowing the girls that live on the plains. You were the cause of his saying it, and you must answer It seemer to Dan that some stern code of the hills, unwritten except In the hearts of their children, inexorable as night, was speaking through her lips. This was no personal thing. In some dim, way, it went back to the basic code of life. People must fight their own fights, The laws up here, she told him. of the courts that the plains people can appeal to are all too far away. Theres no one that can do it, except you. Not my fathqr. My father cant fight your battles here, if your honor Is going to stand. Its up to you, Dan. You cant pretend that you didnt hear bira. Such as you are, weak and sick ft-o- pistol- - Til kill him And he would. There was no flinching in the gray eyes that looked up to her. She leaned forward, as If to put the weapon in his hands, but at nee drew It back. And then a single oh caught at her throat. An Instant ,fhe later tlpy heard Cranstons laughter s he vanished around the turn of the Iran. For long minutes the two of them were still. The girl still held the mans bead upon her breast. The pistol had fallen In the pine needles, and her nervous hand plucked strangely at the leaves of a mountain flower. To Dans yes, there was something trancelike, a hint of paralysis and insensibility 'abent her posture. He had never seen ... nice this. The light that he c iichpld in thnm 1 n L van Recognize Imperative Highways to Secure Farm Trade. test. It wouldn't be the same, perhaps, with an Eastern girl. Other things matter in the valleys. But I see how It is here; that there is only one standard for men and by that standard they rise or fall. Things In the mountains' are down to the essentials. He paused and struggled for And I know strength to continue. what you said to him, he went on. as I .was, I remember every word. Each word just seems to burn into me, Snowbird, and Ill make every one of them good. You said I am a better man than he, and sometime it would be proved and its the truth! Maybe in a month, maybe in a year. Im not going to die from this malady of mine now, Snowbird. Ive got too much to live' for too many debts to pay. In the end, Ill prove your words to him. His eyes grew earnest, and the hard-i- -. fire went out of them. "Its alipost as if you were a queen, a real queen of he told her, some great kingdom, tremulous with a great awe that was stealing over him, as a mist steals over And because I had kissed water. your fingers, for ever and ever I, was your subject, living only to fight your fights maybe with a dream In the end to kiss your fingers again. When you bent and kissed me on that hillside for him to see It was the same : that I was sworn to you, and nothing mattered in my life except the service and love I could give you. And its more than you ever Jream, Snowbird. Its all yours, for your battles and your happiness. The great pines were silent above them, shadowed and dark. Perhaps they were listening to an age-olstory, those vows of service and worth by which the race has struggled upward from the darkness. But I kissed you once before, she reminded him. The voice was just a whisper, hardly louder than the stir of the leaves In the wind. But that kiss didnt count, he told It wasnt at all the same. I her. loved you then, I think, but It didnt mean w'hat it did today." she leaned toward And what him, her eyes full on his, does It The country town that has poor roads radiating from It is badly handicapped, just as the farmer is who has to haul his products over such roads. Most towns recognize this and try to get their share of trade by making the mafn thoroughfares navigable at all times with tolerable loads. The .town that does not see the importance of good roads and thp imperative need of making them passable to ordinary traffic has need of the jolt that is nol generally long delayed. We sometimes hear the expression, "a poor trading place, and instantly we know the meaning of it. We t' once know It refers to a town that has fallen into a Kip Van Winkle sleep and we are safe in assuming that such a town lacks wideawake merchants and the other necessary adjunct good roads. When a ''farmer sells anything, whether it be his weekly batch of produce or a load of hogs or one of wheat or corn he naturally considers the difficulties of the haul. Other things being equal, he chooses the road with least hills; and If the road of least resistance has well graded and dragged highways, the town that is handicapped with steep pulls and poorly graded highways always Is a loser. It cannot be otherwise. 'A cornbelt town exists, primarily, by reason of the farm trade. When this reaches a volume that lines the streets with farm teams any good day the expt we can be busiest times of the year, reasonably certain that the merchants and roads are both attractive. And the opposite can be inferred when the streets are btre of farm teams aifd ears. Most towns recognize the value of Somegood roads astrade getters. times the topography of the country makes good roads and gentle grades difficult. When this rhe case, more money is expended to get results And 1 Then it is Genuine , Warning! Unless you see the name Bayer on tablets, ' you ' are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for 21 years and proved safe by millions. Accept only an unbroken package of Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, which contains proper directions for Colds, Headache, Pain, Toothache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Neuritis. Lumbago. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a fear cents Larger package! Aaslrin la tbs tala mark of Baror Manufacture of Monoaeetlcacldeater Before and After. Flintrazor (the barber) Just trim the ends, 1 spose? I remember you said your bride liked to toy with your crisp curl! Bonescraper (the brldegroom)-r-Th- at was before we were married. Clip it close to the scalp so she cant get q grip on it. Houston Post d I Did to Him." , to be beaten to a pulp In two minutes, you alone will have to make him answer for it. I came to your aid and now you must come to mine. Her fingers no longer clasped his. Strength had come back to him, and his fingers closed down until the blood went out of hers, but she was wholly unconscious of the pain. In reality, she was conscious of nothing except the growing flame In his face. It held her eyes in passionate fascination. His pupils were contracting to little bright dots in the gray irises. The Jaw was setting, as she had never seen It beI I Guess You Saw What- fore. Do you think, Snowbird, that youd even have to ask me? be demanded. Dont you think I understand? And it wont be In your defense only my ' own duty. But he Is so strong and you are so weak I wont be so weak forever. I never really cared much about living before. Ill try now, and youll see oh. Snowbird, wait and trust me: I understand everything. Its my own fight when you kissed me, arid he cried down that word in anger and Jealousy, It put the whole thing on me. No one else can make him answer ; no one else has the right. Its my honor, no one else! that sta'bds or falls. He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed it again and again. And for the first time he saw the tears gathering in her dark eyes. But you fought here, didnt you, Dan? she asked with painful slowness. You didnt put1 up your arms or try 'to mean now? All thats worth while In life, all that matters when everything Is said that can be said, and all is done that can be done. And It means, please God, when the debts are paid, that I mpy have such a kiss again. she told him, Not until then, whispering. Until then, I make oath that I wont even ask It, or receive It If you should give It. It goes too deep, dearest and It means too much. This was their pact. Not until the debts were paid and her word made good would those lips be his again. There was no need for further words. Both of them knew- In the skies, the gray clouds were gathering nwiftly, as always in' the mountain! The raindrops were falling one and one, over the forest. The summer was done, and fall had come In (TO BE CONTINUED.) Ancient History. Ancient history begins with the first recorded history and extends to the fall of the Roman empire, 476 f . D., Including all the historical events included in the Bible. The prehistoric period Is the period about which nothing Is known, either from the Bible or other sources. It has no limits, and scientists, historians and archaeologists give varying opinions as to Its run away? I didnt come till he had She looked you done, so I didnt see. at him as If her whole Joy of life hung on his answer. Fought! I would have fought till I died ! But that Isnt enough, Snowbird. It Isnt enough Just to fight, in a case like this. A mans got to win ! I would have died if you hadnt come. And thats another debt that I have to pav only that debt I owe to you. She nodded slowly. The lives of L earnest. probable extent. ' Has 14,000,000 Readers. . The British museum library has more than 14,000,000 recorded readers annually and Is the largest reference library In the world. 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' A few days ago a warden entered a cell to find the inmate preparing to hang himself. He was standing on his stool and trying to throw the end of a strip of tom blanket around one of the cell bars. The other end was around his neck. Youre making a mess of It, said the weary warden. Let me help you. In a trice 'the blanket rope was about the bar and the noose properly down just now? No, replied the1 mother. Well, said the child, it fell down and broke three flower pots. I told daddy youd be cross. said mother, Oh, dear! I hope your daddy hasnt hurt himself." I dont think he has yet, said little hes still clinging to the win- Muriel ; dow sill. - Animal Prophet! Few beliefs are older or more widespread than that animals, and especially wild animals, have foreknowledge of what the weather is to be, and something that amounts to such foreknowledge many of thetn doubtless do possess, but there Is no reason, and only poor excuses, for assuming that there Is a source of information accurate enough and of application remote e"hough to give any appreciable extension to the weather bureaus prognostications. the cornbelt farmer Is just as discriminating now- that the automobile Is common on the farm. In fact he is more so. The matter of a few miles fixed. extra travel lnot of great moment. The warden gave a tug. He tugged As the car comes to be piore and and tugged until the man was raised more the medium of that dally comfrom the stool until he was standing merce between the farm and town, the on air. There he was held until his importance of good roads comes to be eyes and hands made eloquent appeal more clearly seen. The town has rec . - . for release. ognized it. In order to hold this inThats the way, said the warden, Now try it yourself. creasing but vital trade the town must releasing him. bid in terms of fair bargains and good But the prisoner has not tried it He roads and not least In smooth, allur- had decided to live. , ing highways where few obstructions Nothing New. to a fair sped are encountered. Russia has abolished Knicker Directed. Where the farmer buys his dally or Professor, what is the logical way money. weekly supplies he generally buys his of reaching a conclusion? Bocker Thats nothing; my wife larger items of machinery and farm Take a train of thought, my boy. abolishes mine. It is upto the town that equipment. desires to live to recognize the problem of the good road. To Ignore It is to destroy the town. The farmer does not travel the bad road except under ' compulsion. BUILDERS FAVOR NEW ROADS Largest and Most Stupendous Plan for Highway Improvement Ever Projected in World. 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