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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH MISTAKEN IDENTITY B By VIC YARDMAN Associated Newspapers. WNU Service. LDY ((T")S Arode into MONTGOMERY Devil's Gap with but a single purpose la Blind: To satisfy tiie craving of six months for excitement in large For six and frequent quantities. long months be had nursed cows In a lonely range camp on the land of the Double 0 Bar cattle outfit. Six months of storing up a surplus of desire and craving for the best excitement that Devil's Gap could offer. Baldy was new In the country, but brother cow waddles of the Double O Bar had advised him that Devil's Gap could satisfy any mans longing for diversion from the monotonous task of nursing cows and steers. lienee the youth's spirits soared as the outlying buildings of the squat little town reared themselves on the horizon. With something like smug satisfaction on his features, he patted the bulge in his overalls pocket, a bulge which represented a little more than $200 In nice, crisp greenbacks. Six months wages! And six months of stored-nenergy with which to spend it Baldy clucked to his tired mount and waved in 'friendly fashion as he passed the first dwelling and beheld an aged native sucking contentedly on his pipe before the door stoop. Minutes later he was passing down the towns main street, with business houses on either hand. His eye caught a sign, suggesting that behind a pair of green, swinging doors liquid refreshments could be had for the asking. Eagerly he turned his mount In that direction. At his approach, a few loungers on the veranda of the saloon leaped suddenly to their feet and peered at him in excited fashion. Abruptly, one of them jerked out his deliberately aimed It somand fired. Raldys brero left his head and went soaring down the street, revealing the cerebellum from which the cowboy derived his sobriquet. Its him yelled one of the It's him 1" loungers. The erv was repeated and relayed Inside the saloon. More men appeared on the veranda. A fusillade long-horne- false-fronte- n egg-lik- e silent ODe end of the rope was thrown over a limb of the cottonwood. Baldy was placed atop his own mount, and the rope drawn tight. Baldy Simmons, said the spokesman of the group, if you know how to pray, start now. You've led a mean life. In hanging you till youre dead, we're doing a service to humanity that can never be repaid. Boys, pull the rope!" Baldy opened his mouth for one last frantic appeal. But at that moment, from the other end of the street, a hoarse shout was heard. Horsemen, riding guns drawn threateningly, were bearing down on the lynching party. The man who held the rope dropped it and set up a shout. Its Baldys henchmen! Come to rescue him ! Get to cover, everyone! There was a mad scramble. Baldy suddenly found himself alone, with a ferocious looking bunch of horsemen riding like mad in his general direction. As the horsemen drew near, the concealed lynching party The riders returned opened fire. bullet for bullet. I.eaden slugs for the second time began to whistle and hum about Baldys ears. Then, suddenly he felt the rope about his neck grow slack. The thongs that bound bis wrists dropped away. The sorrel leaped forward. Hardly aware of what was taking place, Baldy grasped the reins and guided his mount behind the protecting shelter of a group of buildings. The sorrel seemed to appreciate the seriousness of Ills task, and stretched out In a dead run, pointing his nose toward the Double 0 Bar and the lonely range camp. Behind him Baldy heard the continued fighting of the lynching party and the raiders. The firing grew fainter and fainter, eventually fading into nothingness. At length Baldy drew the racing sorrel to a halt, rubbed his chafed wrists, heaved a great and vast sigh of relief and rolled himself a brown paper cigarette. Ill be Well," he soliloquized, d d ! He turned once to stare back In the general direction of Devils Gap, and shook his head. Giddap," he said, speaking to the sorreh Ive had my six desire for exmonths of pent-ucitement satisfied in six short minutes. Were going home and get the craving all over again. The sorrel whinnied understandand, despite It3 fatigue, set ing off at a rapid trot. Both horse and rider seemed eager to reach once more the peace and quiet of the Double 0 Bar range. p Patagonia Brought to U. S. Museum of an extinct animal related to the kangaroo hut much bigger than a grizzly bear, fossil frogs, remains of a totally new kind of fossil browsing animal five feet high, are among the scientific trophies brought back from South America to the American Museum of Natural History here, by Dr. George Gaylord Simpson, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology, says the Kansas City Star's Science Service. Doctor Simpson and his associates made actual a "place of bones" deep in the Interior of Argentinas Wild South," Patagonia, as the result of a chance sight of a fossil jawbone in a bank in Buenos Aires. They went through adventures of an almost Marco Polo type, including a brief sojourn at the ranch of a veritable ogre of a killer known as the Terrible Turk, and passage through a land where the natives valued money at nothing, but would sell you anything you wanted for an empty tin can. Finally, after much disappointing searching In the region to which they had been directed, they found, in a fissure-sidehill, a tremendous deposit of bones, believed to be one of the richest fossil mines ever discovered. The deposit appears to be the silted-ubottom of an ancient lake that formed In the crater of an extinct volcano. Apparently animals coming down to drink were overcome and killed by poisonous fumes from cracks in the earth, which were the dying gasps of the old volcano itself. The bones were so thick, where they had been weathered out in the course of ages, that they cluttered the ground, and the explorers stumbled over them. The big, hitherto unknown herbivorous animal they found has been named Searrittia, in compliment to H. S. Scarritt, sponsor of tb expedition. Bones of shots began to hum and whiz about Baldys ears. Baldy's first reaction was that the thing was a joke, that this was the Devil's Gap manner of greeting him. But when one of the bullets nipped a button off his shirt front, he changed his mind. These hombres were in dead earnest, no mistake. ' Without pausing to give the matter immediate thought, Baldy leaped from the back of his sorrel and sprinted for the safety of a rubbish pile across the way. Bullets kicked up little dust clouds at his feet. Once ensconced In temporary safety behind the boxes and barrels, Baldy produced his own and began to take pot shots at whatever parts of human anatomy were visible on the saloon veranda. The odds, however, were very much against him. He knew hed have to get out of there, and get out of there fast. If he desired to retain a whole hide, which he very much wished to do. For just an instant Baldy thought of the peace and quiet of the Double 0 Bar range, and wished he were back there. Then his eye glimpsed an alley-wabeyond the rubbish pile, and lie decided to make a break in that direction. After weighing his chances, briefly, he decided that the present was as good a time as any. His first leap carried him almost to the alley entrance. Ilis next leap completed the journey. And, then, abruptly, he stopped. A half dozen men, guns ready, were crouched In the y alley-wa- At sight of him they let up a shout and leaped forward. Baldy didut have a chance. He was disarm and bound before he could repeat his name twice. From across the street an angry mob of men swarmed from the saloon. They set up joyous shouts of glee at sight of the helpless victim, and laid ungentle hands upon him. Baldy found himself being led down the main street of the town toward a cottonwood, with a rope around his neck. The purpose of the mob was plain. And It was plain also that they had mistaken him for some one else, a fact which they didnt, for one moment, seem to take Into consideration. Baldy made one desperate attempt to ex flesh-eatin- g By MARIA LEONARD Cl Water Supply Yorks water supply come largely from mountain streams. Reservoirs In the Catskill moun-tain- s give a steady supply to the huge city. i Western Newspaper Union. THE AMERICAN SPEAKING VOICE THE American speaking voice Is In fact that So much so unlovely. when one hears an exceptionally well modulated speaking voice. It attracts attention at once. To my mind it Is one phase of the human person- ality that broadcasts ones culture almost more than any other evident thing. One u;ay be well groomed, and may have the manners of a Chesterfield, but when his speaking voice Is heard he unconsciously 1 Men of the One Hundred and Eighth Infantry going over the top In a bayonet charge during the army brings to the fore all the cultural maneuvers at Pine camp, N. Y. 2 Members of the house of representatives leaving the Capitol In Washheritage from his family tree. I am sure It Is not because I ington for their homes immediately after the adjournment of congress. 3 View of Port Said and the Sue war threat. used to sing that makes me sensicanal, object of solicitude on the part of Great Britain because of the tive to speuklng voices, for 1 have conversed with singers of unusual merit whose singing voices were soft and smooth as velvet, but whose speaking voices, strange to say, were as rasping and coarse grained as their singing voices were lovely. I have heard high Brig. Gen. Sir Alexander an Englishman, is to suc- lyric sopranos with low, heavy and unlovely speaking voices until I wondered they did not offend themselves when speaking. It Is a singing masters duty to cultivate both the singing and the speaking voice. This, however, is not always done. If some of our singers and teachers or public speech suffer from the American speaking voice, what can be expected of the laity? When traveling in foreign countries the contrast Is evident, for the occidental voice carries In Its every speech the tension and high strungness of American life and manners. We are as a nation high keyed and hurried and our life Is rcllected In our speech. Our modis not conducive ern hurry-scurrto placidity of mind or body, so how could our speaking voice, the outward Index, respond differently? It Is said that the little mountain rollers, the exquisite muffled tiny canary singers of the Hartz mountains, are trained in a room far away from noise of any kind. Twice a widower after marriages which lasted 28 and 88 years Artist violinists, slippered in heavy ceed Sir Isaac Alfred as governor bead of the congressional hour felt, play with general of the commonwealth of respectively, David L. Selke, music after hour for these little songsters Australia. The appointment was Information bureau, was wed to Sally Mason, made by King George on the recom- teacher of California and Washington. Mr. Selke said he had so many to Imitate the quality of their notes. mendation of Joseph Lyons, prime children that he had stopped counting them. The bride aud groom are After several weeks, the reward comes for one can hear the velvety shown above. minister of Australia. notes of these little birds trilling and warbling sotto voce," like the hushed exquisite notes of a violin with Its mute. If birds can be so trained, what could we do with our own speaking voices and those of our children? Australia Gets He Finds Romance Again at 90 New Governor y mute-violi- ninety-year-ol- Howard Hughes Tests New Pursuit Plane WISHBONE VS. BACKBONE you ever hear of a person a wishbone where his backbone ought to be? It Is not evident physically, but this Is often the case. A little lad once said, "Id give a hundred dollars to be a and as the years millionaire, passed by, he kept wondering through life why It had not come to pass. In Paris there once lived a young violinist, on the top floor of a cheap pension. As a student he practiced hour after hour. His landlady had been Instructed never to knock on h!s door, when she heard him playing. Many a time coming up the long flights with his lunch she found the first tray still untouched, and placing them side by side, she stole away softly, still hearing his playing, playing, playHe became one of earths ing. great artists but It was bought with sacrifice. Do we not often say we wish we could play like an Helfitz? And yet how unwilling are we to pay the price above $100 to be a millionaire! Effort is the price of everything. Oftentimes with effort comes sacrifice, which Is the basic rock of appreciation and achievement In life. We appreciate and achieve only as we are willing to sacrifice. A university student at examination time prepared his room for study. He chose the lounging chair with pillows and soft shaded lighting. On a tilted stand he laid his book at the angle easiest for him to read and turned the radio on. He started to study. Started, to be sure, but got no farther, for he fell asleep. Love of ehse had conquered him. His backbone grew soft and he soon fonnd himself wishing he could pass his finals like some other men of his class. He became a mental Invalid as far as study was concerned. The world Is turning a slow curve, but It Is turning. The time has passed when one rich mans son may nonchalantly spend three millions on his own pleasure yacht for his own selfish soul. Our children shall live to see the time when young men living on unearned money will not hold the center of the stage, to be envied, as scions of wealth, whether It comes by or Inheritance. Honor must come through their own effort and achievement. Onr country needs men and woman of backbone, vrtio as yet, are far outnumbered by those of wishbone. So Is the start to GOAL. DID Surprising a huge crowd of pilots and airplane manufacturers, Howard Hughes, wealthy sportsman and film producer, permitted his new mystery racing ship to he photographed at Municipal airport, Los Angeles. The iow-wintwin row Wasp engine, has an expected top speed of 3C5 monoplane, powered by a miles per hour with a cruising speed of 3o0 miles per hour. Built over a period of two years, the plane Is estimated to have cost more than $100,000. It Is equipped with retractable landing gear and a tail skid, and has wing flaps and air brakes. Going Down? Then Holler for Elsie! Star of Finland Led the Parade Elsie Fisehl of New York city has the distinction of being the only woman life guard In New York Old Maid Home an Arsenal Residents of the peaceful Paris suburb of Montrouge were perturbed over rumors that a house in the district occupied by two aged spinsters was a veritable arsenal. Finally the police were prevailed on to investigate. In the house they found 17 military rifles, dating back to 1870, modern rides, revolvers, rounds of ammunition aud even hand grenades. New York By CIIERIE NICHOLAS Dean of Women, University of Illinois d New Fur Coat and Woolen Ensemble a y p Little Lights on LIVING hell-ben- Fossils From Baldy Opened His hfouth for One Last Frantic Appeal. Scenes and Persons in the Current News plain wh6 he was, and received a belt across his mouth that rattled his teeth. Thereafter he remained If not the entire country. Miss Fisehl, who is twenty years old. has 1(1 rescues to her credit, and is a member of I he staff of t he Washington Baths li Coney island. state, As part of the annual Harbor day celebration at San Francisco th hist of the old square rigged vessels oa the bay, the Star of Finland, was decked out In flags and bunting aDd towed by a tug at the head of the gigantic marine parade. The Star of Finland Is the old sailer which It la planned to buy and anchor at the waterfront for use as an old time sea museum. Here the square rigger passing under the catwalks of the San Franciseo-OaklanIs one bay bridge. The sight of a square-rigge- r that may be passing entirely from oar ken before long. 1 d 'T'lS THRILLING events which are casting their shadows before via an entirely new type of ensemble which works dress and lining of smart woolen In conjunction with coats of handsome fur Into the nth degree of swank. Watch the excitement when once the college girl glimpses this sort of costume which Is entirely new in the I field. Its this way, the woolens for fall are absolutely Irresistible. Yielding to the lure of the perfectly fascinating new wool weaves and sensing untold possibilities In their use manufacturers of fur coats are playing up the Idea of lining their garments with gay plaids and cheeks or a novelty woolen of some sort or other. To be explicit, the new costume scheme, which Is taking the world of fashion by Btorm, lines a chic fur coat with the same stunning woolen as makes the dress or skirt, with matching gilet that completes the ensemble. As soon as the first chilly autumn winds blow you will see this type of costume crowding the landscape for daytime wear In town. In country, on campus, In the grandstand or for travel whether you go by train, boat, auto or airplane. The coats may be hip length, or fingertip length or three-quarte- r seven eighth, Just so It Is always somewhat shorter than the accompanying woolen skirt, so that some fraction of the skirt shows below, the ensemble when the coat Is bnttoned tight and only a scarf, the collar lining or the gilet top shows above the fur. The coats of these costumes are versatile, although generally speaking they are fashioned on swagger lines. A dashing figure they cut, when left unfastened to fly out "accidentally on purpose when In motion so as to artfully show off thus even SMART BLACK By CHERIE NICHOLAS their smart gay linings. Furs ol most Intriguing type are employed so as to dramatize the picture Favored pelts Include snowflake Dutrla, sheared panther, gray or beige kldskln and various spectacular spotted furs. The Illustration presents the new ensemble Idea In two versions selected from any number of equally as fascinating models, as worked by designers. For football weather the costume, as pictured to the left, Is sure to satisfy the style aspirations of any sophisticated as ever she may be. This swagger coat of sheared panther Is lined with green plaid woolen which Is firm of texture yet light In weight It Is Identical to that used for the sports tallleur that completes the ensemble. Blown back by the wind, tbs charm of the costume Is enhanced when the coat lining flashes Its note of color. The neckline of tha tailored suit jacket of wool weave Is mannish In line with Its notched lapels. The sports hat of smart type Is of felt in a dark green to harmonize with the wool plaid of the salt The girl standing to the right II ready to step Into her open car and drive to the football game, serene In the knowledge that she will be comfortable, plus modish, all day and all evening during the drive home, no matter how suddenly the temperature may drop. For this beautifully styled outfit of supis worked on dressple maker lines together with a checked rabbit woolen black and maize for skirt and also as the it appears In the lining of the wide flaring collar on the Eton jacket top and as It Is glimpsed at the wristline of the bell sleeves. Her cap Is of kldskln with a sporty pointed visor down over the forehead at the right side. r hlgh-styl- e co-e- two-piec- e off-fa- kld-skl- n wrap-aroun- d Q Western Newspaper Union. AUTUMN BERETS IN UNFAMILIAR FORMS It being customary to rush headlong into a new season, It will ba the fall hats that make their first appearance, and among them art the familiar berets In unfamiliar forms and drapes. In current displays many French milliners ars represented as designers of beret. Among the variations of this sib houette. Mile. Marthe Introduces a model with a close back and kettla edge lifted front section, of brown felt, supplemented by a shallow crown part of sectioned belting. Include tha Other silhouettes small and the large, shallow Breton, and several versions of tha brimmed sports hat of classic type In addition, there Is a pillbox with side bow and veil from Patou. Other models not of the beret movement have a tendency to crowns that are deeper hack than front, and to buckles and other metal ornaments. d women sentiAmong ment Is Increasing for smart, refined, classy black for daytime wear. Just now, for midseason days, quality-kinsheers that are exquisitely fashioned are first choice. The very Dewest models have belts of gilt leather with neckwear styled of matchlug gold kidskin. If not gilt leather collar and cuffs, then gold clips or other Items of gold JewelIn the above picry are worn. Jean Tennyson, beautiful grand opera songstress, expresses favor for black in that she Is wearing a dress of handsome black wool crepe with Jabot of colorful silk print to provide the desired color accent. The perky Breton sailor hat, slippers and envelope bag are black patent leather. ture, blond Frock Is Newest Note in Fashion! The newest fashion contribution of this stream-lineage is the air conditioned frock. You've seen It In summer aporta things the porous mesh fabrics tested for air resistance. Now tha same term Is applied to a group of fall frocks presented la an ad vance showing. The air conditioning" consists of light weight, lacy woolen fabrics and openwork devices in waists sad sleeves. A sheer woolen fabric Hke georgette is a favorite for fall sporta clothes, tailoring beautifully and having the Becessary warmth without bulk, for tbs first days ef fall d |