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Show .December 1, 1927 flu PAGE SEVEN 'HE LEHI SITN. LEHI. UTAH SmMBIRMvim um i : PTf I I The Recluse of - WWW 1 ' CHAPTER Vlll continued -Not exactly, but he's a sneering ,wine Told Bradney and me only this morning that men-servants were merely mere-ly parasitic growths. Said that only timidity drove husky men like Alf and Into domestic service. I hope ere-g a time when he'U think differ- . "Milman wants you to familiarize yourself with Raxon's private rooms. Troin an interview in a New York pa-' pa-' per It appears be lives in a tower." "He does. Since I've been here, not ' even his wife has ventured Into 'It. I go In regularly to carry cedar logs for his open Are. The doors are fitted with special locks. I've taken an Im-, Im-, presslon of the keys. Alf goes to town tomorrow. He'll fetch them. I'm not worrying. Nlta ' and Peter I ' never noticed those names rhymed beforeare be-foreare running this show. Raxon expects a great deal from you. lie says you are the only expert he ever got for nothing." . : ' Mrs. McKimber, whose fortune had enabled her husband to become one of the wealthiest men In a wealthy state, enjoyed staying in new houses and meeting new sets of people. She saw in this invitation to Great Rock the opportunity of discussing reduction to music, fruit diet, and the gospel of calories. On each, of these points Mrs. McKimber had her experiences to relate. Her son Robin, a good-looking man of flve-and-twenty, did not welcome new friends unless he knew all about them and that knowledge proved sat- lsfactory. On the drive from the hotel ho-tel In New York where the McKImbers always stayed he kept questioning his father about the Raxons. Why should Ms father waste a week here when he could be touring the state and strengthening his political position? Robin desired to be a senator's son and taste Washington life uijder the happiest conditions. . Although Raxon had planned that McKImber should visit him, the manufacturer man-ufacturer had no idea of It. McKimber McKim-ber on" his way to Great Rock felt humiliated with the knowledge that he had virtually asked for an invitation invita-tion here. A few months before such a thing would have seemed Impossible. McKImber had learned suddenly that Paul Raxon was working to gain primary nomination for the exalted position McKimber believed was already al-ready In. his own grasp. At first he toughed the Idea to scorn. But his campaign manager had showed him innumerable clippings filled with Interviews In-terviews in which Paul Raxon had spo. ken enthusiastically about beautifying beautify-ing American cities so that the Old world sent her tourists to see them. Raxon had spoken before a federation of women's clubs and had been very well received. He was described as a ready and eloquent .speaker. "He's got a peach of a press agent," said McKImber's campaign manager gloomily, "and his line Is absolutely new. It's making a great hit with the influential women." "He can't win on that stuff," Mc Kimber growled. He was one of thos old-time politicians who distrust women wom-en and underestimate their power. "Maybe not, but he can split the party vote, can't he? His platform Is winner. He promises the building trades plenty of work and he has been their man for twenty years. As I've aid, the women will vote for him, and so will the intellectuals. I tell you. John, he's got to be stopped. If lie "us, our party loses out That's sure." yhat sort of a fellow Is he?" "Nobody seems to know. You've Et to get under his skin. No good eoing to his office. In another man's office the cards are stacked against you. Try the social end of It lie's Jnst bought Belllngton's place and Is fng to entertain. I've got it I know Herman Loddon pretty well. HI ork u so he aslcs yon of a weej. ent How about It?" to the end McKImber agreed this was tne best p.an Eventually he. Mrs. McKimber and their son were "sked for a week. McKimber did not 'ook forward to his task. But he did not doubt his success. He had been "sea to dealing with men. and he -uia have little trouble with a earner with complex. better architecture Robin refused to be one of the party. e agreed to drive his parents to reat Rock, where they would mak3 1:13 excuses. . m U SUre yon Would enJy yourself." w his mother. "I can't think why re so particular. Do stay with 0s- Robin." . The McKimber car described a sud- - alarming lurch. 01 " yon've accepted, I suppose I , got t stay," eaid Robin. "Gee, what oeautyi" think" it?" Dis motner &rM,d-"'ng &rM,d-"'ng he had obtained some new w of the big house they were approaching. ap-proaching. . . hn' u " not a Tiew of Great Rorfc influenced him. Just for a tew M he heavy car swung "U1 a urv Robin McKImber had venue ti - - ' looked Into the amethyst eyes of a gin. ue had lookej into many eyes, but these were different, baffling, alluring, Inviting, repelling He had barely time to see she was tali and slim and golden-haired "I hear," said his mother's placid voice, "that the oldest Raxon girl is good-looking." "Good-looking," he said Indignantly "She Is a peach!" "When did you see her?" Mrs. McKimber Mc-Kimber looked at him curiously. "I mean I've heard she is a peach," he explained. "They lived in Paris for some years," Mrs. McKImber added. "I imagine they are chic." !'You bet," said Robin heartily. McKImber sighed and spoke for the first time for some miles. "You nearly ran us off the road a while ago," he said. "There was a drop of thirty feet at that point. 1 want to go to Washington. I don't want to end up here." "I must have the wheel tightened," Robin answered. He hoped he was not flushing, ne had thought himself to be above such displays of emotion. But then he had never seen such a girl before. Until now he had believed that writers who described heroines' eyes as violet or amethyst were merely mere-ly lying. He knew now he had mis-Judged mis-Judged them. They too must have seen the eldest Raxon girl It took Robin's utmost composure to keep his face becomingly wreathed In smiles when he was Introduced to the Misses Raxon. They were nothing noth-ing ; usual types, overdressed and badly made up. When they suggested he might like to see the estate he agreed readily, so readily that the eldest eld-est girl dismissed her sisters wtth a gesture. As the eldest she wag to have the first chance. Robin saw the golden girl as he crossed the golf links. "One of your house guests?" he asked, as he hoped, without apparent Interest "That's Miss Brown," said the Raxon Rax-on girl. "No, she isn't a guest." "A neighbor, perhaps?" The eldest Miss Raxon laughed maliciously. ma-liciously. "She's a sort of housekeeper-secretary. Mother and we girls haven't time to' think about ordering' meals or firing servants, so we hired her." Miss Brown had a mashie and was practicing short approaches. "Of all the nerve," said Gertrude Raxon. "I'll see mother stops that She can't learn how to play goff here." Robin watched Miss Brown swing. The ball cleared three pine trees and nestled within putting distance of the hole. As pretty a stroke as he, a scratch man, could ever hope to make. "I Imagine she has learnt a good bit of golf somewhere else," he said dryly. Gertrude Raxon became more and more distasteful to him. She was au empty-headed little flirt and could not interest him. As soon as he could he went back to his room. His reward came at dinner. Miss Brown was there, quite well dressed. They were not Introduced, and she sat some distance from blm. Robin determined deter-mined to get an Introduction after dinner. ; After dinner came a dance, and the evasion of the two elder Raxon girls was not easy. Robin looked sourly sour-ly at an animated and gesticulating Frenchman a viscount, as he recalled It who carried on a long conversation in his native tongue with Miss Brown. Only once Robin stared Into the violet vio-let eyes. They seemed to look through him. But he was sure Miss Brown remembered that moment when there was a reasonably good chance of the extinction of the McKImber family. He wished he could dance with her. He detested very small clinging girls like Gertrude Raxon. And since he was himself dark, he preferred the blonde type. Of course the Raxon girls were Jealous. And well they might be. Probably Miss Brown had a hard time to placate the furies her charms and beauty aroused in her employer's daughters. Finally poor Robin had to introduce himself. He did it very well. It cam-In cam-In the nature of an apology. Robin xx Hard to Trace Origin The origin of "Auld Lane Syne. Invariably sung as the New ear comes in wherever two or three Brit ns are gathered together. Is rather obscure. If Robert Burns can be tru-t ed and the song really did belong to tn. "f..lk" of Scotland. Burns' own account ot the mutter, in . If.jr J 1795, was 'One song more and I have rtone-'Auld Lang Syne.'" -Th ir Is hut medim-re. but tn- hirh has never prin; nor even in MS. until . t J. down from an old man's singing. t enough to recommend any air. ac-cording ac-cording o one Scottish however, the beautiful air to whi. h he oUS is now InvHrial.ly ung is not to-original to-original one which Burns pronounced To t mediocre but one d..ed from an old lowlano melody. This wa. entitled. "I Fee d a Lw at WYNDHAM Copyright In ths Unite WNIJStmn " "" ' TO was so good-looking that most girls forgave him minor breac'tes of etiquette. eti-quette. "My name is Robin McKImber," he began. "And as I know you are Miss Brown, we are introduced, aren't we?" "And this is your idea of an Introduction?" Intro-duction?" Miss Brown spoke without enthusiasm. He was a little staggered. stag-gered. Ills smile was what people usually termed infectious. "I had to introduce myself," he returned, re-turned, "because nobody else would." "Exactly what was the necessity?" she demanded. "I wanted to apologize for nearly running you down on the drive this afternoon." She was not making It easy. "I'm afraid you exaggerate," she said calmly. i was standing on a rock fully two feet above the road level when you turned the corner so recklessly." Ills face fell. She could not help smiling a little. "But, of course, If you really do want to apologize apolo-gize for being so careless" "I do," he said earnestly. "Then you must apologize to your parents. They were in real danger and I was not." "I'm a most careful driver," he said. "Ask my mother. What happened today to-day never happened to me before." "What was that?" There was a trace of a smile which passed over her face and was gone. "I saw that eyes could really be violet," vio-let," he answered. He looked into them admiringly. "I forgot everything." every-thing." "You should lose your license," she said severely. But there was no doubt that she smiled as she turned away with a slight bow. She was more used to verbal fencing fenc-ing than he had imagined. On the whole, he decided he had behaved very stupidly. This was no browbeaten brow-beaten dependent thirsting for kind words. Robin's evening was spoiled. John McKimber was puzzled Concerning Con-cerning Paul Raxon. He had known of Raxon for years, but he had never met him nor believed very much In his influence. McKimber had thought of him as a younger man who would look up to him as one having long ago won his spurs. McKImber had come Hera sure that victory would be his In ht struggle. " - v He was uneasily aware that Raxon was not easy to impress. The younger man's knowledge of politics and politicians poli-ticians seemed uncanny. He was without reverence for the dead or respect re-spect for the living. Once or twice McKimber believed his host was laughing laugh-ing at him. It would not be advisable to start any serious discussions until the two were on more friendly terms. Raxon's would not be the first political polit-ical aspirations that McKImber had nipped in the bud. That was the duty of all sound machine politicians or popular government might creep In and destroy the machinery. Raxon would see he was wrong to Imperil hit party because of his new-born ambitions. ambi-tions. For almost a generation now John McKImber had been the mainstay main-stay of his party In his own section of the state. If honors were to be awarded it was to hlra they should come Raxon would probably see It In that light If he did not there would be summoned the big men who must be obeyed. Raxon had two big rooms for himself him-self in a tower from which an uninterrupted unin-terrupted view of the sound could b enjoyed. One of the rooms was n library, deep-penned and splendid The other was his bedroom and bath. To this retreat none came but the servants. Here he dreamed of power and planned the new life. None could overhear what he would say to McKImber Mc-KImber when the hour came to which he had long looked forward. There would be no tinkling telephones to Interrupt He chuckled as he thought of McKimber. He knew the manufacturer manu-facturer for an honest if stubborn man, who had long been regarded as a valued party prop. Well, the McKImber Mc-KImber who would come to this talk would not be the man who went down the towel1 stairs. (TO BE CONTINUED.) of "Auld Lang Syne" Michaelmas." and In Gow's eollectloni of reels It appears as "Sir Alexandei Don's Strathspey." As to the words adds our authorliy. the probability U that verses two and throe with Ihelt note of more tender sensibility wer added by the poet to the older set-Cleveland set-Cleveland Plain Denier. Mental- Gymnas'ica "So far, no modern Iiuss invented an . intelligence test to equal iiiurrim -nj. rt-niiirks the Aus-Jn American No. a questionnaire to equal the childrer'a .odd we. Boston Transcript. Relatlfty ProbnUj if Wi" r"wr I pretty M.r toMHUS tKn' gpooo Uurritur le.rz---i. What's the Answer Questions No. 19 1 What contemporary novelist was banished from Spain for opposition to the government? 2 Who Is light heavyweight champion cham-pion pugilist? 8 Whom did Pocahontas, the fa tnous Indian girl, marry? 4 What general In the Revolution was known as the "Hair Buyer Genet Gen-et al" and in which army did he serve? 6 Who Invented the reaper? ft What two Interrelated famillea are conspicuous for the number of Ana artists and artistes they have contributed con-tributed to the American stage? 7 What Is the most striking physical phys-ical characteristic of Colombia? 8 What are water voles and where are they found? 9 What Is the distinction between "immigrant" and "emigrant"? 10 What Is Ascension day or Holy Thursday? 11 What Is now the only living representation rep-resentation of dog tribe of carnivores In Britain? 12 Who has been called "The Spanish Shakespeare"? 13 Who defeated William T. TU-len TU-len for the tennis championship? 14 At what battle was the great Indian Tecumseh killed and when? 15 At what battle was "Remember the Alamo !" the soldiers' war cry and when? - 16 Who Invented the machine gun? 17 What Norwegian composer took as a basis for an orchestral suite that has become famous, a drama by Ibsen? Ib-sen? 18 What la the second largest river tn Africa? 19 What Is the 'matter -wltb the phrase: "From whence come you?"? 20 What is Whitsunday? . Answer No. 18 1 Constellation against the V In-surgente, In-surgente, In 1799. 2 Gen. Francis Marlon. . 3 Ell Whitney. 4 April 30, 1922. 6 Edwin Bjoth. 6 Edinburgh. 7 Carlyle'a "French Revolution." 8 Wild .horses and asses. 9 No; It should read "more slow-ly"the slow-ly"the adverb instead of the adjective.. adjec-tive.. " 10 The (spiritual Idea of love; self Immolation; Innocence and purity; sacrifice. 11 Severe criticism of his "Hours Df Idleness" In the Edinburgh Review. 12 Gen. John Stark. 13 Lord Dunmore. 14 Thomas A. Edison. . 15 Cecil Leltch. 16 Claude Monet , 17 Josef Hofmann. 18 The Yang-tse-klang. 19 To the Pacific const of North America, between British Colurabii and northern California. 20 It should read "that Bort," since "sort" Is singular. Ideas About Heaven Are Many and Varied Where Is heaven? What Is heaven? The question may not have been settled, set-tled, but It has at least been answered. an-swered. The ideas contributed are many and various. Here are a few of them : . A circus lot at the end of Main street ' A very high spot in the human imagination. im-agination. A beautiful mirage which lures deluded de-luded travelers Into the barren desert of credulity. The abode of certain portions of the Deity. A spiritual land of peace, plenty and equality, situate, lying, and being In the uppermost region above the clouds, conjured up by religion to assist as-sist In the maintenance of law, order and good will among God's children while In the bodily state on earth. The most sublime, the most pitiful, the most pathetic delusion of ail the ages. Heaven Is that which lies about us In our infancy. Heaven is that about which we were lied to In our infancy. The Ideal, the limit of human ambitions ambi-tions and aspirations, the ever-flying perfect A place to which every on U anxious anx-ious to go, but no one seems to be In any hurry to get there. The Forum. Concerning the Kltt A Greek peasant kissed the hand or knee of a superior when he bowed btfore him. Kissing the feet of the jgods was also a form of Greek worship. wor-ship. The Greeks had made the rule: To kiss cn the tips Is to adcre the living breath of the person saluted; to kiss the feet Is to humbie one's self Jn adoration. Our custom of kir lng our hands to people at a distance from us comes from the ancient habit of Kissing the hands to a god h's statue was too tail to b reached. Demand tv-SLi The whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for pain. But it's just as important to know tliat there is only one genuine Bayer Aspirin. The name Bayer is on every tablet, and on the box. If it says Bayer, it's genuine; and if it doesn't, it is not ! Headaches are dispelled by Bayer Aspirin. So are colds, and the pain that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and rheumatism promptly relieved. Get Bayer at any drugstore with proven directions. . ' Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart ltBlria la th into mirk of Btyer Vuufaotnr of MoooaeeUctcldeiter of 8aIierlleclS Duck Just "Dropped tn" A wounded teal duck provided John D. Relchardt of Iowa City, Iowa, wtth a toothsome meal. Relchardt who Is a confectioner, was working In the rear of his place when he saw a duck hovering over him. Suddenly it made for the open kitchen door and when he came to look for it he found the bird had come to rest on the gas range, just a few feet from a sizzling frying pan. The duck occupied that pan later. If the fellow says, "I can prove If it Is usually something disagreeable. flnafi Handball Played in River In accordance wltb an old custom the annual handball game between hundreds of young peopje representing represent-ing the "Uppies" and "Doonles," was strenuously played through the streets and lanes of Jedburg, Scotland, and even Into the River Jed recently. The contest started at noon and lasted for several hours, the players finally working their way Into the river. Just at the moment when the "Uppies" were apparently losing the battle In a spell of river play, George Balfour, an Argentine farmer at present visiting his native town, beaded a counter move, and despite a strong rejolner by the "Doonles the -Uppies" reached the Abbey Cauld. There. In deep water the ball was cut and the game declared won by the "Uppies." ' Not the Man "How about having old Blovlator for one of our campaign speakersr "No; he's always so busy rounding off his sentences he never has time to make a point" Boston Transcript. ' Cups and saucers So we've put t dainty blue and white china cup and saucer in every Carnation Oats are prccocked to improve the 'flavor. . m jk. -aT ii J ft a km 1 & MM l f' , ft r-wn v .V,V.v,V.v,-. fi. . 'WkA.. v.v W . fAww,':-" ... . 1 . . -. ft.' :4Vv MM v , try For women, who need ffactlv douch powder, pow-der, una Wo-NeM aatringent, (ootblnn, unfa. Bend for circular. II bx., C. O. l. Wo-Nm Labor., Bx. 108, Sta. "C Loa AnnetoB, Catlf. For Old Sores Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh All acatan an intWiui la ntmi ?aar aaacr lar ft lint Inula il aai aaital. Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stump a roan more sharply as Ill-bred. Charles Buxton. , No Disfiguring Blemishes to Hide If Cuticura Soap Is used daily, assisted by Cuticura Ointment when necessary. They do much to prevent blackheads, pimples pim-ples and other unsightly eruptions, and to promote permanent skin healtlu h. Ointment SS and 60ft. Tataan SKe. Sold whir. Saraola aiu-h frm. Addraui "Oastara laaara. terlM Dpt. B J. kulata,MM. ipa" Cuticura Sharing Stick 2Se. Treasures in Wilderness Lost In the Caucasian wilderness in the village of Zugdldl, a palace of the former Dadiana princess, one of the oldest and wealthiest Georgian families and related to Napoleon and Alexander t, stands today practically as tt rtood 100 years ago In the hey dey of those powerful rulers. In addition addi-tion to much rich furniture of the period, some of which Is said to have open presented by the French emperor, there Is a collection of stone and bronze arms, Greek statuettes, ancient Greek coins, a number of ekulls of primitive man, and a Chinese vase ot un'otd value. The contents of the palace have been converted hy Can-caslan Can-caslan authorities Into a museum, but owing to the Inaccessibility of the mountain village few except Georgian peasantry ever visit it. Rough Diet A charmingly frank restaurant ia Newark, N. J., announces In Its window win-dow a "coarce dinner, S5 eta." Farm and Fireside. are the first to break! 7 vmmm Prepared tie Albersway for quick |