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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES, NEPHI, UTAH THE HEART .OP A STORY Of THE GQCAT NOfiTH WEST 6y t&rmLTzfvh ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER XXVI. tide turned. Hell broke loose upon I the land and heaven was not Fir encompassed the world. Its lncreaaed rour changed to tha thunder of th sphere. It appalled th hearts or men, stayed their hands In fright All throughout tha darkness of rolling smoka wherein they worked between the raging torrent and the Eaat Belt that mighty voice commanded cessation. Instantaneously, without orders, as one man where there was no communication save between those a few feet apart, tbey dropped their spades, their tattered blankets, their axea. They straightened from their labor, leaving In the trunks. Here and the cross-cutthere, above the solemn thunder hoarse voices began to call. It was the time to quit and they realized It Instinctively. "Out! Out! Out!" they cried to each other In tba dusk. "Get outl Get out!" Walter Sandry, working near the apex of the pushing line, saw men beginning to run past him back along the trench and the cutting. He lifted desperate eyes to the ridge whose dim crest he could see between the boles, so near had they won to victory. Only a few more big pinea, a dozen saplings, a scant few yards of trench and It would be done the long lane of safety stretched across the neck of tba East Belt! "Stop! Stop! Stop!" he cried with a great voice that came from tba very depths of his lungs with borrowed power. "Stand by me, men! For God s sake atand by!" He aaw dim shapes falter, balf turn toward him and start on. Again be raised his stentorian cry and flying figures baited a moment, stopped against their will by Its compelling I 13 The Spirit of the Eaat Company H, under Captain Donaldson, they trotted swiftly up with tba quickstep of infantry and atood In column of foura while officer! head the of afsought the fairs. . Dally promptly aent for the youna; forest ranger, and In less than It takes In the telling these two keen wttted Westerner, the woodsman and the soldier, were ready to grapple with the enemy. iklts were dumped upon the ground and the hard muscled men took to the bills and the timber under quick, decisive ordera. Two hours later wagons arrived with commissary supplies and the smoky, blackened valley took on a military air. (t was a Titan struggle, and It was Indicative of the force that baa conquered nature the human atoms tolling In aemtdarkness beneath the threatening forest, choked by the moke, flayed by the almost unbearable heat, menaced by the flames that at any moment might sweep here or there among the rocks and declivities of the uneven hills and cut off escape. That waa the great danger they guarded against the possibility of getting hemmed In. Guards were detailed to watch the vanguarda of tha foe. to note the speed of the fiamea. tba lla of tha timber, tha linea that were likely to go fastest, following the aiirerent growths, but In the mysterious dusk and the alienee of vast mingled sounda they were impotent and each man bad to take care of himself. The mighty boom of falling patrl-arcbof the forest hoary with a thou sand years of age, crashing through obstructing branches, shook the earth each moment. With each soch stu pendous fall wealth and and prudence trembled at the sacrilege. It was a carnival of waste. sacrifice of the gifts of God and among all those who fought It wltn heart and hand and brain there waa none who knew Us worldwide Import o welt who lamented It so keenly as the lean, brown forest rangers whose special foe It was. "And to think a dozen miles of government trails would have prevented It!" cried the leader with an oath. Out In tbs valleys beyond, the heavy moke bad obscured the setting sun entirely. Over the crest of tha Coast 'Range It had spread up to the heavens, drifted afar on the changing wind and all the distant valley of the knew that the forest Ores were burning In the bills. The papers throughout the state told of It that day. and It awakened no mora Interest than would have attended the announcement of a heavier run of salmon than waa usual la lb Columbia. Tbey were too common, those fires that aported with the actional wealth each year, too much a part of everyday life, and they did aot know that thla was to be a marker of time In the coast country. Time waa when tbey were unknown, these monsters of destruction a long-pas- t time It waa. when those first forest rangers, the silent Red Men of the hills, had burned out tba under- brush each year so that a pony might 'go anywhere unhindered Tha ailent rangers had gone with the years passed to tba Hunting Grounds and tha reservations, via civilization, and now the great timber had shed Its dry foliage and Its pitch, be little growths had sprung op aea-oafter season, tba vines had crept between and a man might not penetrate tha fastnesses without built . hard-traine- Light-marchin- e world-econom- y Wll-lame- - n trails Ho Destiny took up the land and played wltn It that hot, dry August. AH through tba early hours of the long eight they labored, dirty, blackened, tattered scarecrowa of men, running bera and there, digging Ilka mad In tha wlda trench that was to atop tba surface flames, sawing caress- ingly at th lowering trees, while tba guards brought twenty minute tidings of tba approaching Ore. High against the dun. smokellgbt-eneeky the dark tenor? of tba East d and moaned as If In fear, and from time to time Kan dry. a haggard, grim lipped specter f a man. lifted bis bloodshot eyes toward ft It eras still his own. his future f t0, f tMlllngworth, despite the tangle Hampden's threats, the unrecorded deed and the unfinished trait of the! Tallow f'lnea at tha south, and it' his heart pathetically. ,plled atwas still a stretch of almost There Impenetrable timber near the summit1 of the big ridge which mast be cut through before tha flame reached It. or all would be lost. asked "Shall we make H. Jobs tha owner desperately of Daily, who raa hy la the amok a with wet rags to tie over the mouth of tba me. "Oaght to If the wtnd stay wkers tt la." tt waa two o'clock and that hour In tha sleeping world outside when all the elements sra at an eh. Then, all suddenly. Desttay laughed, and Destiny's laugh waa a whoopingwind thai roe as la elemental eboHe It whispered r s power. "I'm Johnny Eastern, all right but I'm going to stay! Who'll atay with me?" ' Out of th dense obscurity came Collins, a buge, fantastic figure, and stood beside him without a word. In tha tension of the time Sandry reached out a hand and gripped tba giant' shoulder. "A dozen men and we've won!" be cried. Ha saw tba halting shapes turn, gather another and another, retrace their atepa and aprlng back Into th darkness. Every man of them was western born and the taunt had gone bom. H leaped himself for the handle of a aaw Sticking out from the t bole of a sugar pine and th rose whining song of th cross-cu- t sgaln under the dwarfing roar. Fourteen men had hear and answered that call, and tbey were alone In the purgatory of heat and amok. All th rest were running for their Uvea down th cleared fall toward th valley beyond the dip. From time to time Sandry glanced upward at the Increasing light Th augar pin fell with a rending roar, and with Han-la- . who, ba aaw for th first time, bad been pulling with bint, he ran to the next He aaw aa ba ran that one of the men. working Ilka a fury to fell th saplings, waa Murphy, who bad greeted hie pompous "DilMngwortb" with such grinning Irony In the old days. He had a moment's vagu wonder at thla odd atrip of humanity that could hold such prejudice, fight with Hampden's men In savage enmity, to join their ranks Ister with hsppy Irresponsibility at th call of gold, and waa still willing to turn back to fight with him on death's brink, because h bad returned their taunt of East and West One by one. In alienee. In a tensloo that drew tha akin tight on their faces tbey saw th Uet remaining monarchs kindling saplings laid on fall, th earth, the trench, mjcb narrower and shallower, creep upward to tha ridg. Against time, against beat that scorched their bar arms and tortured their starting eyeballs, sgalnst a stithem fling atmosphere that drov nearer and nearer to th earth for breath. lhy drew th last blade, aent the last big pin crashing toward th north. The ridg waa clear la th Increasing glow. "Now!" cried Sandry with th triumph of a general oa a victorious field, "now for the ridge snd over!" But even as be dropped bis saw and ran. calling his men, Collins' big vote ram through th rolling amok with th calm of finality. It's a ninety foot "Ain't no 'over. drop on to hard rock beyond that ridge." Sandry stopped In his track a. his besd cleared as if with a biff of salt air by that rait Tha men had closed In with tha Instinct of their kind to be together In danger, aa if so th danger wer lessened. But the Easterner was undaunted. "Then well take to th East Belt" he cried, "even though tt I a crowa Br and coming fast I think aar trench win bold It" With all confidence be turned to the south. Instinctively th mej bad drawn In behind htm. Th aecH of th Eaat Belt was a wavering wall of 9a me He whirled and glanced back ISO-foo- along the fall and th trench. Long streamers of flame were licking serosa it The half, looked for had happened The' little bunch of fighters 'war hemmed In, ringed around by fire, Death faced them on every aide. Then, as the owner sent a searching look to every quarter, he sprang for ward. "Here!" he cried, ."here! Into It! Every man of you. in, I say!" At the crest of the sheer ridge an old, abandoned tunnel gaped In th gloom, a dim haven of refuge. Its mouth was overhung by vines. Its re cess mysterious In the blackness. San dry sprang to Its edge and turned back for th men to pass. Tbey stood, a small, silent bunch, gazing In wordless consternation at the red canopy. "Now how In hell did it get acroaa tba fall?" said Collins boaraely. But on by one they stooped and entered the small black hole in the earth. It ran backward Into the ridge, scare the height of a tall man, Ita floor uneven with the heaps of earth fallen from the roof since some prospector bad carved it out. Here for a moment they breathed more easily, standing close together, a sweating, panting, waiting mass of humanity. Sandry stood at the mouth, the last to enter.. He looked out in hushed amaze at the unchained madness of the burning world. The great fir had reached Its zenith. It came booming and roaring to the fall and the trench. Its sound was Indescribable. The beat grew until the flesh on Sandry's arms and face rose in blisters. A sheet of flam shot sheer across the tunnel's mouth. Smoke rolled Into It and her and tber a gasping breath ended In a moan. There was no air to breathe. Like trapped animals th men Jumped her and there, feeling for an opening, a crevice to crawl into, away from tha agony or beat and suffocation. And then they lost control of themselves. "My God" cried Murphy shrilly. "I can't atand ut! Let me out an' I'll die an' get ut over!" He cam groping to th entrance, facing the Increasing heat His face waa a madman's, his mouth open, hta Angers crooked like talons. But at th mouth, that was as tba gat of hell, h met th Easterner, a atralgbt flgur agalnat th light beyond. "No," said Sandry sternly, "go back and lie down." "WbatT" h shrieked, "what? Tou You tenderfoot! damned Johnny! I'll " And he flung himself forward. A smooth, black muzzle came forth and pushed Its brazen menace Into his face. , "111 shoot the first man that attempts to pasa me," said Sandry hoarsely. Raving and cursing, ha backed away. Mora than one of th fourteen begged to be allowed to pass, and one of the lumberjacks from Sacramento muttered deliriously of calling bis bluff. But the awful moments dragged by and Sandry atood at th entrance. Tha flame passed all measurement of light and heat He lost sight of th figures at his feet He felt himself going out In the darkness. "S'lets," h muttered, "little Sletz " When be cam to himself again, men were crawling acrosa him. He could breathe better and tba light had lessened. He sat up, wincing at tha moving of his scorched skin, over the muscles underneath, crawled out with the rest and on by on they rose to their feet The great timber of th East Belt farther down stood serried and green. The effort bad not been in vain. The holocaust waa checked, th Belt was safe. Back toward th north stretched a forest of tall, black spikes, picked out here and there by heavy spots of Or n r "Is It over. Collins he asked, steadying his voice. "OverT Look yorder. Keel th' wind. It's changln" again. Th' fire's toward the Slleti basin three miles, I'll bet, while we've ben savin' this end. We've only begun to fight" back-crawle- d CHAPTER XXVII. Tha 8hot In th Hills. At camp they met a party, headed by the foreman, Just starting out in search of them. Their absence had been discovered only when Daily, coming in from the north, where his work bad been laid out had asked for Sandry. At eight of him the three women standing together at the foot-logave evidence, each In her way, of thoae emotions which tha suspicion of bis fate had stirred. On Ma's face was an unbounded pride that he bad com through, a man of parts, abundantly able to caro for himself among a hardier crew. On Miss Ordway's there lay a vast relief, wbli Silets played with the collar of her blue shirt with trembling fingers and moistened her dry Hps. Sandry turned and looked up at the darkened east with a profound Joy. He swept his eyes north to where the red heaves flared and staggered to his g "Three hours, ma." he croaked In a voice of warning, "only threa hours sleep for11 all of us. If you give us longer 1 never forgive you." It was true, as Collins said, that they had only begun to fight Through the hours, days, nights that followed the saving of tba East Belt they took no note of time. Up along the blackened, devastated valley the soldiers moved their camp. Ma Dally shut the and suborned a wagon to haul her big range up and deposit It alongside th camp stoves of Company H. where she dispensed coffee to her men and all others with Impartial zeaL Miss Ordway, ber skirts tucked up from the contamination of the burned earth which rose in hot black puffs at every moving foot was compelled to help if she would bold that espionage over Silets from which she hoped to realize her ambition. A bit ter hatred sharpened her blue eyea upon the girl, and ahe ached to aelze her and tear out of ber blouse that packet of proofs. She was angered at herself that all her cleverness had failed .to recover tuem before this. So the hours passed with smoke and heat and a sun like a copper shield. Men came and went In relays, sleeping upon the ground for short shifts, rigidly apportioned and observed. The flood of flame, runner after an arrant wind, had piled ita forcea In leaping billows In among the northern hills. It seemed a tbing of irresistible might but the tollworn men hung to its flank with a dogged persistence, emboldened and encouraged by the success on the east ridge. Sandry. limping painfully, and haggard as a ghost stuck with the vanguard despite Ma's commands and Daily's warning. At each fresh sight of his face the girl Silets was wrung with anguish, it seemed as if he could bear no more and yet the spirit In him drove him on. Once ahe ventured a timid protest "What Is the timber worth if you die?" she asked plaintively, and Sandry, still somewhat of a boy, parried the yearning question. "Who would care?" he laughed wryly, "would you. Little Squaw V The girl did not answer, but as she turned awey the ready mist sprang to her eyea and be reached a contrite hand to ber shoulder. "Forgive me! 1 know you would!" It seemed to Slletz as the horror swept north and the men were lost for hours In the dim fastnesses, that something wss about to happen. She felt a prescience of dlssster which Coosnah ahared, and tbey two atood apart for long apaces of time, ailent listening, the muscles of each drawn taut From time to time tbs great mongrel would squat upon his haunches, lilt his heavy muzzle toward tba heavens and bay with a silver note that was the very acme of melancholy. And then came a dawn when no one cam In for breakfast when th sun, coming over th ridg to lb east waa not visible. Only a pale light turned the heavy canopy to shadowed pearl. The three women waited la that alienee which ever attends the waiters for men who face danger. They were used to the alienee, for there was no accord between them. Ma Dally bad long ago shut this "bird o' th' earth" out of ber good heart and Silets bated her with the fury of the woman whoa mat Is threatened. At last a solitary Indian cam down th valley, running, his mouth full of excitement and dolorous prediction. Th whole of th 8ilett would go. It waa th wrath of th Great Spirit turned loos upon a wicked world. It was the Judgment There was nothing Ilk It It fell Into Jargon and reverted to the ancient gods, and Silets checked him sternly. "What do yon mean. Quanna?" sb said, "hav yon forgotten th Preacher and th Blblaf There Is only en God and b holds us In the hollow of his hand. It Is not the destruction of th world. It will stop. What more ba happened, and where I Sandry of th camp?" Th Everything bad happened. whole country was a fir. Not only a ridg or two, a valley la between, as It bad been her, a day, two days back, but ridg after ridg. valley after va- Vole Cam Through th Rolling arnoke. where fallen logs, dry and pitch laden, burned steadily. Th green canopy waa gone, every vine and bit of brush, every eapllog and fern. Only a thla edge stilt crackled and snapped with streamers of fiatn along th trench. "Mr. Sandry." aald Harris, th saw-flie"If you rs an Easterner t bop to God th breed fills up th country!" H extended a band which Sandry grasped. "An' ma." said Murphy, hi grimy featare distorted la an expression of mingled gratitude and contrition. " take It all back every damu word I lleythe world, the earth, tba beavena ever aald against you. an' It's a long Sandry was somewhere up behind th list" Hoc Back. For a moment the gtii looked out "Forget It" said Sandry. II was so longer Johaay Eastern, Ha bad waa arrows th sloughy lying Ilk a dirty hi light to Uv and fight among them. ribboa betwea Its gray and wilted OFFIClAt DIRECTORY. swswasBawaBi District. Judge, Firth Judicial District Joshua Greenwood. Attorney E. 11. Ryan. W. L. Cook. Stenographer State Senator J R. EdRbiell. State Representative Lawrence Blacken. U. S. Expert in Charge Experiment Station Mr. Jones. County. County Commissioners P. J. Fen nell J. W. Whltmore, Perry B. Fuller, Clerk Patrick J. Bonner. Recorder Will L Jloyt. , Treasurer T. G. H- Parke. . Assessor Ray Newton. ! Attorney J. 11. McKnlght " ' r Surveyor V. E." Ekloff. f Sheriff Angus R. McDonnell, Judge of Juvenile Court T. H. Bup" ton. wte Probation officer Tames E. Mem-mo- ... - tt Superintendent County Vlckers. County Physicians Steele Bailey, .Jr. EA8T Infirmary-Tho- mas Drs. Rees, Dr, COUNTY MUNICIPAL FICERS. OF- NEPHI CITY OFFICERS. cook-shac- dun-smok- e 9g - office. long-draw- Collins' banks Then she turned troubled eyes to the general. "Mother." ahe aald. "1 know It now, There's danger to Sandry, and I'm go ing." "Child, you're wrong this time. Sandry's a man. Well as you know th' hills I can't let you go. I forbid It" They faced each other a moment while Silets tossed back her braids and tightened her belt "I'm going," ahe said quietly. Ma Dally, who bad raised her, said no more; but as she turned to the stov aimlessly as waa ber wont In avery time of trial, there was a deeper line about ber tremulous old mouth. Swift as the wind the girl ran down the valley toward the deserted camp. Miss Ordway watched her and against 8h Fait a Prssoleno Which Coosnsh Mayor Alma Hague. A. H. Councilman Belliston, Thomas Bailey, James Garrett Jr., Mark Bigler, George O. Ostler. Recorder A. V. Gadd. Treasurer J. H. Latimer. Attorney T. H. Burton. Marshal Samuel Linton. Jr. Justice of the Peace Win. Stout Street Supervisor Jas. B. Riches. Quarantine Physician Dr. T. D. Rees. Building Inspector I. II. Grace. Chief of Fire Department N. A. Keilson. Superintendent of Water Works A, J. Cowers. Members of Bosrd of Health Dr. T. D. Rees, Alonzo Ingram, Win. G. Orme. Sexton C. E. Bigler. of Dlssstsr 8hard. LEVAN TOWN. her will, drawn by some subtle excitement some urging power, she, too, President Board of Trustees Alma gathered her skirts and began to run across the puffing aabea. At tha lean-t- Dalby. Trustees M. W. Mangelson. 8. P. she came upon the other Just leadAlex Peterson. George Neilson. Taylor; ing out Black Bolt shining beauty, Marshal Neils Mortenson. eager for the turf. Justice of the Peace Neils Schow. o "I'm going too." panted Poppy, reaching for a bridle that hung behind the bay. (TO BE CONTINUED.) FIND OF VALUE Chemists Ar Now Extracting Wax From th Refuse From Process of Sugar Refining. More and more of the residues of Industrial processes that used to be thrown away are being found to contain some useful substance. In some cases the value of what was originally considered a has come to exceed that of the primary product lt The reaiduea of sugar refining have been discovered to contain a valuable waxy substance In sufficient quantities to warrant its extraction on a commercial scale. When a section of sugar cane Is examined under the microscope tt Is seen that from the epidermis exude little protuberances, atralgbt or curved and disposed perpendicularly to the surface. These are made of wax, which, with other waxy substances contained in other parts of the plant passes Into the Juice In the process of Its extraction. The lime used In almost all refineries carries them away In the refus of th precipitation process, from which tbs Idea of rescuing them was not long ago broached. For this purpose th slimy residue Is placed in a receptacle, where It undergoes a fermentation which destroys the fatty matters without sttacklng the wax. Tbs substance Is then dried In the sun and afterward In a current of warm air or In a furnace. The dry product la crushed and treated with benzine or carbon dlaulphld. The wax thua obtained Is then refined by being extracted anew with petroleum essence, and then by nitration through clay or animal black. Tha realdue of thla extraction may be utilized aal a lubricant or treated to obtain the sugsr which It still contain. Cane was thus obtained la white or pale yellow. It much resemble In appears see Caroauba wax. as also in It hardness and high melting point Tbs dried slimy residue contains tea tc twelve per cent of It a sufficiently large proportion to Justify tba Industrial treatment of toes residue. Health Officer T. Kay. EAST Part, th step." la OFFI-CER- Mom. Nephl. Justice J. 8 Cooper. Constable H. T. Knowlea. Health Officer Dr. T. D. Rees. Levan. Justice E. W. Peterson. Constable Ricbard I verso n. Modern Woodmen of America No, meets every Tuesdsy evening t Woodman ball. Visiting Woodmen welcomed. CHARLES STEPHENSON. Consul. J. IL LATIMER, Clerk. 10,700, I. O. O. F. No. 16 meets every Sat. urday evening In I. O. O. F. halt Via. itlng brothers cordially Invltnd to attend. HERBERT ROBERTS. N. O. JOHN 8. COOPER. Secretary. 8AINT8' MEETINGS. Sunday School. 10:30. South ward LATTER-DA- at High School building; Nephl ward at Tabernacle; North ward at meet ing house. M. I. A. Sunday. 7 p. m. South Ward High School building; Nephl ward at Tabernacle; North ward at meeting house. Primary South ward every Tuesday at Tabernacle; Nephl every Friday at Tabernacle; North ward al meeting tons every Friday. Priesthood meeting every Monday evening at the Tabernacle and Nortk ward meeting house. Relief Society South ward first an 4 third Thursday In each month, at I p. m.l Nephl ward first and third Wednesday In each month. Nortk ward first and third Thursday In rafe month, at respective meeting bouwa PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sunday school at 10:30. Thos. H. Burton Attorney at Law Public coo-verte- HI PRECINCT D. O. Young. Health Officer N. W. Ellertsoa. It seems very Officer "Tour bora familiar to me. Hlgglns." Private "1 don't wonder, sir, seeing the times be brought yon from the dab. Why, before yon wet p you've kissed COUNTY Justice " English Lawn as War Maps. la often difficult to comprehend from a small map th sign in cane of different movements and th strategic value of certain positions In th present European war, because of the vest territory Involved. Seeking to get around this difficulty, several English d lawn have been experimentally Into large scale, open air maps. On these huge plats one cao actually stroll up and down th "fifing tine," observe how close one's position is to that of the enemy, and. In general, gain a comprehensive Idea of progress In warrtng operation. Small national flags mark the positions each cos n try's armies occupy and the towns are Indicated by small posts, also appropriate-l- y nagged. Colored tape, staked dowa at intervals, shows tb location of rivers, and small stone set In the sod spell out name of tb various districts. Popular Mechanic Magatla. Henry Hendrlckson. Juab District Board of Education I. H. Grace, TTesldent: J. 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