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Show I 1 i f KHI KRKK PRESS. LKHI. mmmmmmm'mmmHmmmmmmmimmmimmimm I Warm FATTIEWS Cupyfijht by th Bobbs-Merrll- Continued After a Ions: ,lme' th'y reaclie,J deept-- :l Mie yielded , the corner trees areu t." Julia was riding up Wolfpen. They tatcbed the Finemare pace the Lons; Bottom and disappear into the orchard. That will give us a start," Reuben "We'll get course and distance Mid. It's a big Job on this line tomorrow. have on our hands." They went on to the head of Rarn nniinvr. and then made their way down the cool seclusion of its tiny The sound branch toward the house. bell went ap Wolfpen, nf the dinner portions of itself splitting off at each hollow and dying away among the leaves of the underbrush. have timed "I don't reckon we coul it any better than that," Sparrel said. JulSparrel introduced Reuben, and ia spoke kindly to him. i'm rigid sorry I was gone Just I don't very often when you came. leave the place." She helped Cynthia with the dinner Jasper went to get the surveying, and Jesse and libra! went to the fields. Reuben studied the deeds again, making notes in ;liis brown book. Cynthia brought red scraps of cloth to tie into the mark- ling pins so they could be easily seen u? the chainmen, and a large red "I Square to fasten on the flagpole. rlnn't reckon I ought to tell hiru I we them myself." 'Have yon any idea how long it will lake to run off this place?" Sparrel the afternoon, fasted. take a long time. Most of the Hammer. At least I hone so," Reu ben added and laughed. "It'll soon slipped into a quietly Inciting routine, pushed forward by the lictlvlty of morning and evening and i!ie pleasant talk of the men about the details of their work. It was aimost ns if the old and customary ad- istment of life on Wolfpen were up-The days ,f(' not by ation of a destruction but by the cre new quality of enlargement. knew that the Joyous tension under which she carried the increasing burden of the housework had come from the presence of Reuben. their few words were outwardly the commonplace greetings at the wash wk before the meals, or a phrase at 'iie table, or a polite word as he sat town before the drawing table nr- ?ed for him in one corner of the wtchen. But deen within eaeh nf Where IhP lifo nf n irirH hotrlnc we it is wrapped and delivered in 80flnd, Were beini? formed thnso mva. terlous the soul of rearrangements . adjust two people to the recog-- n li y of love. Each evening after supper Reuben '""id sit for a time on the porch with Wei, watching the first evening stars form ahovn tha tmiin n- ho walk to the barn with the boys. interval, Cynthia would finish 5lII lld the ilnoo hn i ! Mr. is SheHeiibercer." uke Mullens, who manages the woods for me." "You are right welcome," Julia said. Mullens looked out from under his deep black eyebrows and did not say naturally win, "S in. t, m, !., IV her thougiit r her will and she exalted by this and eeret :irhe in the eternal iijvsi,. ri-- ,.f , I,.. . .i . ....... u. .ue uiimirried ami tirpeie- - s stars above Wolfpen t. "It's a soft v ,.., f,.,. tllP live wind e.in.e f,eMi mt f the w,m.!s and run softly hut y..ur face and del s and around icately uinler jimr A ii, body. ti,,. , "U are n.it tired ami mun and you seem inure uine man you ever were Net to tie.of the way the chickens eiow in ftie moriiin- -. tike they thought it was tune for Pe d;.y and Cod had f..rg..t lo liiu tlfl Sllu an,j set it over Cratienest. ami then tliey wait a litile while in quiet to uive Ilitii a chance to reineinher beiore they break out ajaiti; and Mnhlenly when they do the dark begins to run down from the i'iiniaele. slow. L,, andliien faster until fbo im o,o .... wi auu .i.,... iaie5 the valley and all the chickens a third time bigger than ever as though they had done the miracle-n- ext to that in this place is the quiet at the end of May and the way it goes Inside of you and makes something happen to you and you tremble with it. The way It is now. It is not the tremble of seeing a snake swallowing a toad in the afternoon. Jts the tremble of being born or released instead of devoured. It feels like the night were trying to sav something to you and you can hear it speak. I know- what It means even without the words. I reckon Rehekah heard it saying wordless tilings to her when she listened under the stars In the Holy Land and thought of Isaac in a far country: that she is a woman and that love can reach over a long way and touch her and take her even to another place; and that the life in her will go on In a new place far from her father's land. It begins the way the corn comes up, the fragile blades curled tight into a green gimlet boring its way through the ground. You can't see how such a tiny blade can move away the dirt and climb out of the place where it was buried without breaking. If you just so much as touch it it goes to green water and scum on your lingers. Rut almost overnight the blades unwind in arched pairs from the stalk and when you hold the two points together they make the figure of a heart. "Does Reuben fop! the living thing in the woods when he is all day among the timber, and do the sweet damp smells of the hollow and the intervals of silence in the midst of hill sounds show things inside of him he hadn't found there before? The way he looks up at me and the shine conies into his eves, like he had been away and had Just got back and was happy oyer it. Reuben's face keeps changing tike he took each thing and placed it high er or lower than something else. lie looks at me over the head of the others when they don't take up all there is in something he or Daddy says, and he smiles at me to say, 'You see all the colors in a rainbow, not Just the red.' I don't, though. Things have been hap I cant pening so fast and so strange 1 Just sit out and all them straight get them by the possessed here in night and wondering what's goin to hapI could nearly wish It pen next. But it might stay Just the way it is. doesn't ever stay the way it is. The from night Itself goes on. I reckon the movement of the stars I ought to ho hack at the house. If you could of an eve just gather up an armful uo im ning like this the way you to feel it away and put honeysuckles and look at after the moment is gone I anything. "Just sit down on the porch. The menfolk? are still surveying. They ought to be in any minute now," Julia said. Julia arranged the chairs a little closer together on each side and added two plates for the strangers. extra menfolks makes the work heavier," Cynthia said. "It's nothing for womenfolk to excite themselves over," Julia said. But t he work was greater and harder, and its demands and the coming of the heat, the extra washing and Ironand the ing, cooking and unusual excitement were tiring to Julia and Cynthia, and Julia was finding it hard to get time and strength to keep her garden neat. Neither were the fields so frequently and carefully worked this spring. Never had a Wolf pen bottom gone without adequate cultivation. Rut the survey must come first, and one of the boys working each day could keep ahead of the weeds. Julia saw these things and Sparrel saw them. Rut they had guests and they were selling land. There was much talk among the menfolk in the yard after supper. "How is t he survey getting on?" Shellenherger asked. "All right," Reuben said. "Some days we run a great deal when it's level, or not too grown up and the marks can he found. Other times we spend most g 'a! ttl In Qo. "Oh, No. Me fT 'LAJ& Lfe&J M rQ I ii 1 f JvaM1 R M tomorrow. Are those men go"Yes, I reckon. ing to stay here, too?" "I guess Mother Is fixing up another bed in your room for them. I don't reckon you mind them being there." "Not at all. Only, I'm afraid we're with making too much work for you, all these extra people to cook for and look after. We don't want to overdo CHAPTER IX red-haire- S - , ,m, -- HI Pattern Uisa snug, warm :; will h and proud In cap, scarf, and of plain crochet, with hand-crochet- muff-a- ct " Pattern trim. picot-stitc- h 1097 contains directions for making the set in S through 12 year size (all given in one pattern); illustrations of it and of all stitches used; material requirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle NeedJecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly your name, address and pattern number. Gild Their Teeth The ladies in old Japan and also of today, to some extent, gild their teeth, and those of the Indies paint them red. In Greenland tho women color their faces with bluo and yellow. However fresh tho complexion of the Muscovite may be, she would think herself ugly if she was not plastered over with paint. The Chinese used to have their feet as diminutive as those of the she goats. In ancient Persia an aquiline nose was often thought worthy of the crown. Chicago Tribune. - ax-me- nM 1097 Five-to-Twel- vt Keep your body free of accumulated waste, take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Ad. v Flowers for the Living Don't leave too many of your fervent thoughts about your good friends until after they are dead. only MJDE&TS MENTHOL COUGH DROPS will do these 3 things... and all for . . . Q Q Clear your head Soothe your throat Q Help build up your ALKALINE 5 RESERVE WHEN A COLO) 'STRIKES I ARE YOU ONLY A THREE-QUARTE- WIFE? R am certain thing baa to put in witk aas THE b a good iport. , Mm, because they &r men, can never undcrvtand a Uiree-qur-tr wife & wife who li all 1oy aad Idndnen threo woeln In a ainoth and a hell oat the rest of the Una No matur how rout back aches no matter how londly your nerve acream don't taka It out on your husband. Far three goneraUooB one womaa haa told another bow to go "mtU-In- g B. Ptek-hai-n't through" with Vegetable Compound. It help K attire tone up the qrateau thin lessening the discomforts froaa the functional disorders which women must endure la the three ordeals or life: 1. Tumlag treea girlhood to womanhood. 3. Preparing for motherhood. S. Approaching "middle age." wuX Don't be a take LTDIA E. PINK HAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go "Smiling Through." (TO HE CONTINUED) Giant Sloth Unable to Walk Over Mile in Month ' , , ' was Isolated from South other continents for long periods of geologic time, according to scientists. Therefore it developed animals unlike any others in the world, says a writer In the Washington Post. One of these was the giant sloth. Armed with long, scimitar-likclaws, MORNING DISTRESS tulip patterned quit Julia had spread this great beast was so clumsy It with care over the bed. He saw that couldn't travel much more than a is due to acid, upset stomach. Milnesis wafers (the origthere was only one sheet on t he bed mile In a month. Today's sluggish "And I want another sheet, please, inal) quickly reEere acid of South America is one of stomach and girt necessary to sleet) under and a single small pildescendants. its elimination. Each wafer low if you have one." Another fantastic animal was called but equal 4 teaipoonfula of milk at him. stood looking Sparrel thomashuxleyn. It was so named by of aaagnetia. 20c, 35c & 60c Julia had heard him speak, and with- a South American scientist In honor to her out revealing any of the hur of the great Nineteenth century Kng-lis7 WNU W pride, she got them quietly from the anatomist, Thomas Huxley. Its linen closet and gave them to Spnrrei. fossilized skeleton was found In PataIteuben, lying on the bed and looking gonia and reconstructed by the Ameriup at Sparrel. could fe, him restrain can Museum of Natural History In outnse of ing speech before his New York City. raged hospitality. Affectionately known as "Tommy" to "That's much better," Shellenherger the museum staff, this creature Is said Be Sur They Properly said, apparently unaware of the thing to resemble notiiing else that ever Cleanse the Blood He lay down, drawing lived. he had done. shoulthe cedar scented sheet over him. the two at feet high It stood ere eontntly filter. YOUR kldneyi "flood night," he said. mtttfcf from the. blood der and was about five feet long. It itrcsm. But kidneys toiaciimet leg In Rut Spnrrei did not answei until he had a head, large for the size of Its nature In. their work do not act had reached the door; then he said body, ahd walked about on short but tended fell to remove Impurities that without warmth, "Cood night." And very powerful legs ending In splayed poiton the tyttem when retained. as if remembering Iteuben and Jesse. feet. bi dewffer Then America three-quart- s r,,. r In the morning Mullens came np to the wash rock bruhhing the (straw from his hair and trousers. "Where have you been? Abral asked. "The barn," he said, with a squint about his eyes. Sparrel only said, "Morning." When breakfast wag over, Shellenherger spoke to him for the first time. "We'll go with the party this roomt Then we'll ing and see the go on across to Gannon and figure on an opening." There was always a magic about Wolfpen ln the first hour after breakfast when the cool mist began to rise from the valley, and the hills and treea took form In the Increasing light The men went up Wolfpen to the fifth hollow on the left, turned Into It and climbed along the thin channel of Turkey creek to Its source, and then up the steep final slopes o the ridge where the line had ended the night be fore In a mass of underbrush. There Reuben set up the eompars near the last corner tree, and established a course for the new departure. Ezra and Spur plunged Into the thick brush, hacking it down with the ax and corn knife. Abral went along behind them to keep them on the line, Rpafrel went ahead to hunt the marked trees, and Jasper, grown skilful as head chainman, followed with the measuring chain. Sparrel would find the next corner tree, Reuben would take the the bearing of the line nnd would move Into corner, the the brush on the new course, and rod by rod they advanced with the survey. All morning they toiled, crawling over fallen logs, through clumps of berry vines nnd greenbriers that bit through C( rduroy, out suddenly onto rock cliffs covered with moss and edged with pine trees where they must delay ttie line and find a way around, down into sharp sleep gullies unseen since Saul Pattern tramped over them, up again on the other side, always holding to the line which Reuben set with the compass nnd Sparrel verified by the trees. At noon they were on a ledge of rock at the very head of Wolfpen. Sparrel pointed over the expanse of virgin timber with his right 'hand. "I reckon that will he the section you get, Mr. Shellenherger." "It looks like we could get a few poplars out of It," Shellenherger said. ".Mullens and I will Just go hack through this section this afternoon." "We had better eat here," Reuben said. They all went down under the deep overhanging rock cliff. It was covered witti heavy moss and bordered at its base with ferns and laurel and pine trees. It was cool and picturesque. "This is Wildcat Cave," Sparrel said, and he told some of his hunting stories while they ate from the baskets Julia and Cynthia had prepared for them. They rested and talked, and then Reuben said it was time to go. "That ridge over there leads around to the Pinnacle above the mill," Sparrel said to Shellenherger. "Yon get all that north slope and beyond. Rear that in mind and you won't loss your way." "We'll see you at the house this evening," Shellenhprger said. . j 'C ,r -- lay-ou- 'Sl''Sure,''' Shellenherger agreed. "But a tiling can t Just stay one way, you know. We have to go on with progress." Julia came quietly lo the porch, saving. "The beds are ready, and I've fixed one for the two men In with Jessp and Reuben." "I'm ready to turn in." Shellenherger said. York Burney and Spur Marten w"ir up with Jasper and Abral. Rn!.en and Jesse slipped quietly Tto bed. Mullens ( stood tnthe middle of the floor reglancing at Shellenherger, but not sat clothes. his Shellenherger moving on the edge of the bed unlacing his R p, rflme t0 the door to formn, iiry f)f h,s !r()osts flmJ He Doesn't Sleep With Sleep by Myself." s A i hadn't" n I and It could not be gathered up, be cared to men other the were there was well for now that the surveying tanle very the made wav. They under York Rurncy whom m large. There was trained ns Reuben had accepted am! was Spur Par-tethere and chainman. man. And who had come as ax and toothless voijr hospitality." was there she murmured mm.), iiior-iiiti Pencil. "i n.,. Fzra Ferguson from above Ilorsepen. when he was gone but she ,,mn! ihen, And be would it how She knew wainut tree, anu 4'her or out to the men: "He's the politest did not dream of complaining she man that ever I saw in my life In his thought, inhospitable an Brst bl PP'ar. and down phrasing I I'liat Rut that hard black man, a on the hill above he words. t0 the bl stone ,n the creek c d hoar his Reuben iflttt rtl' I'm he glad and him. don't like orchard clearing a sight through not Just Sh Hneererf compass, and then Warren is one of the men, and ,,, Reuben's for trees room wicu me man who . ci.iioni.pr.'er his ., Abral and to vn a l HS 8ne i niu he voice of Reuben calling relt manners 'f'otild li to his left. doesn't sav anytmng. iSat ! ?W: Thtfn 8,,e "eft them and to move the rod a little and less tired because of the gentle words the corn and the sheep Ule orchard In the guess She fef, night. Mother's popples cat, Reuben. 'Ninrt 8"ent tuni,,,t of aI1 things SowPlums and this sprin, without me of and today we went over this ferment right w'th lPle trln growth. The looking see after crossed farther north ran nod ridge which you after them, wiUl plu,1,p much we ought to reach ra tr ,if , lnRn'"ng and without Himself there, about on their navels things by and turn .eaves the tomorrow lie y, blastoff, but watershed the wunore(1 blossoms. Ev- - belli from anyb-dK" th orni, to .be women-folkand parallel Cannon creek beds, ' the northwest and hen l!mb was turbulent il!h , ,.",a do them, ilu, into the territory you want to buy." and If they don't an(l hs thin fH lnnl 11 K Pnf,r-In the last vis rvnthia could see him KS were now 8tron don't get done." ',I"1Mlnh with his pencil pointing twilight, hie end of tUth. A" n,0"s ,,1P valley, up- Then Shellenherger came again near while Sparrel held the other nrUnd tner' and Shellenherger paper brown he n om . .n,R Was shooting recklessman looked on. ,.nd the dark Sh pr"K,,nnt Kr,,,lnd- felt creeks I have sketched the are These . m ,. "",e Pnw-ehad spent his stirring who , Indicating how they forty roughly ,f ln just Into Wolfpen." boss or radiate ) "'ft m "Tueif thatnd came op from field manager and lay beyond and sylvanla M I J Jr -- lay-ou- j no'e-boo- . Brlc rode Into the bottom. . . . Only . . . Reuben is a gentleman as much as Shellenherger but he sees Oner Into people's ways and feelings . . . and he wouldn't come here If that mail ... nt , y- As Reuben pointed and explained, Shellenherger twirled his cigar and I see." said. "I see "lxwiks g,Kd to 'tie, Mr. Pattern," he said. "I'd like to go over the ground with my field man here and begin to t get the planned a bit so we can get to work as soon as possible. I suppose you can put us up for a few days until we can see where we are? Of course I'll pay you for lodging." People had come und gone in Wolf-peBottoms through the century. They had eaten at the Pattern house, they had slept in Pattern beds, and their mules had been stabled ln the Pattern barn. But no man, not even a ped dler or a drover, had ever paid for a lodging, or given coin ln exchange for a meal. Without hesitation, Sparrel spoke the only custom he knew for men to meet by. "Stay here and welcome, but there isn't any charge when a man comes to house." "Then suppose we Just give the money to the women," Shellenherger said. Cynthia heard from the kitchen where she was hanging up the pan. The thought of pay for cooking for menfolk had never occurred to her before. Rut when Shellenherger mentioned It, the thought grew less strange and remote, and as It stayed with her there in the kitchen, the thought of having money of her own for her work became attractive. "It's only because It's no fun to mix bread and say to yourself, 'This is for that Shellenherger and his black-eyehelper,' so If they want to give money for it maybe they ought to give it. Only you don't think about it when you make the bed or dip a spoonful of honey for Reuben. Money for cooking for a man? I Just reckon this spring everything Is all twisted around till a body can't recognize the way things are." ". . . for we'll be extra trouble, and I'd feel more like asking for what I want if I was paying for it," Shellenherger was saying. Sparrel dropped it there. They sat on the porch listening while Shelien- berger told of his return to Pittsburgh and of the business and the bustle of the er,,at worH bT,ml .,hp hllls- "Were on the edge or great tilings in the Ohio valley," Shellenherger said. "I reckon H all depends on Just what a man wants ln this world. Saul and Rarton and Tlvis Pattern found building a place like this a great thing. And it's been a ;;ood place to M'e" of a day trying to get one straight line up and down a bill to a corner we can be certain of. But it gets on as well to as common." "Where's this man to sleep?" Sliel- "When will you get around it? ,pnhp "I couldn't say about that. These, S,arr(1 cnn glppp vm yo deeds give no course and only an apan1 nnturally as custom, gjmplv t e (1opsn-- R(.0)1 w i tli me. proximate distance, so we have to fee! oh no our way along. Maybe two or three ( by mysclf months, more or less." Then he came SpnrrP, narI nPVOr known a man to was where Cynthia into the kitchen, mring a bed In another ob)pft t0 washing dishes, to get his map to show mar),g nmS(, jle ifced at Shellenber Shellenherger. ger, and then at Mullens and then at It was the first time since he came Reuben. "I guess the beds are abmt to Wolfpen that he had been alone all full now but yours," Sparrel said. with her. Cynthia was acutely aware "He can sleep Just anywhere." Shelof his presence. lenherger said. "Give htm a blanket "I guess I can show him better than or something. Rut the black man had got out of I can tell him," Reuben said. lifting his of blade thumb-tackthe with n,e room and did not answer Span-el'the call. Shellenherger went on with his knife. "I guess you'll have plenty of help undressing. He turned back the bright cov- plot-I- u survtyeu on mat he wou,d come ln wlth the ther the . ... recording . .... "ioiirnnt, M, ""uuKri me unuerorusn, hollows ancl over the hills. , L ' ' Hna the boys would crowd him to watch the curious proc-C- ! 'ei'r,Klllf'ing in miniature on a Drown puppr the boundaries i they had ? mere, Rpnhen eniri surveyed. ' rnl ntlnfr tit If h be fj, hrt. V.. "lb'vvilv, "Ibis - SMp for the table neatly materials for U , 'i night-soundin- g stable. nuu neuoen s again.'' wav. ... ..." crow-agai- 1 i li - "I hope nn.1 "shed lam,, on '., i.. u u-- r dre-you- re all gone i'W di8hes is.j, !:f.. tiim ! 't In '"""-'- 't t sunk his ax. our -I guess we'll have to make you said. Reuben Abral," Kconnoiterer, "ft'hafs that?" demanded Abral. "The chap Reuben smiled at him. to bo goes ahead of the detachment out the enemy and get shot first."' : he lumber camps. Shellenherger had b:m in to supervise tht whole proc, ,s of getting out the timber, t'.o,,.) evening. Mrs. Pattern. Rack i ; bad once now." ;n .n,i n t:.f ji;,-y- . (,w u :':-i'.u- nothing at all Bu the Keuhen said. "Which .boat a furk." 'or A,,d the Fat,erns t do because no one had were embarrassed in years. They tried many w there There was the big rock he left fork. small clump of great walnut ,nd Lfg. There were no marks, but Abrai seized an ax la gure that he into the tree, bark the ,ad cut through Barton where scar black a exposing 1 guess the Indians w ow-- I,t-- deJ sas kj tliun Ui, r the uiu;.',t air rriic geutiy en.. 'Hi dfn vilh iij i all tiiH i.als uie secret and t!.f Set I " CHAPTER VIII and' Three-Piec- e iNfT, J$SsW HARLAN HATCHER By Co l WLFpE tf WNU Vi-- I Crochet Tot Snug I I t ITAH er '' e $8 tree-slot- 1 - Rest to you. boys." Cynthia, in tier room next door, lyblot out ing still and bearing the night the voices: "I reckon I'll be right glad when It's done and we live again like we always have, without a man like Shellenherger wanting to pay for his a thing like that. keep and then doing Ilefore he came we were weaving and planting and making garden and It was like the other springs. F.verytlilng ha been In a whirl from the minute be you tney Churchei Had "Devil's Door" Afii-mnny churches Iinrt a "levirs Door" through which the devil could miike n hnaty exit, dur- iik a baptism, when the sponsor "re-nounrcd him nnd all hlg works" in thp name of the child. 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