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Show TOELEHI SUN. LEIIl. UTAn J l""'"LL 1,1 ' I McCann looked nn. vrnm v- I . .. ... ! 'HJHWr rC5ii:rlll-l3tAJlii BEGINNING THE STORY .. j.rt signal of distress, Wilson McCann, young U M tM- flndi n old friend, Jim Yerby, with a broken u uncbman- n of Matthew Stark, inveterate enemy of wi Bta "uAr.ng first aid. Taking a message from Julia IcCanaa, f' ,. flred on but is unhurt Pursuing his assail. , father, WU" ' McCann finds be is Jasper. Julia's brother. til Star d'.beiiet of Wilson's account of the shooting. gr, express" Uc t0 her bome( wUh McCann, Julia H T ,r.,f. .nd dlsmissea him In anger, the old feud rank-identity rank-identity J.nnGifford, sheep rancher, and on that account VfiUos cu ;".7tienien, to tell her of Yerby'e accident "Night iuWKB hin and shoot a McCann ranch hand. Peter Me-! Me-! nam a fS.r offer a reward for the diaclosure of their wilion's ttner' " hi- - Ipter ni-coe-w. . .... eforv hrothers f had back or u d"r.7bthe car- ? ffLn,hiiv. His physical pes .nf be. t f M not convincing nn.. .Annrrar mf.il il force Juww ! Afferent type. PU1 was ieen, Dot be bad been i bad no vacations. Stone tt be would go through Id call came. 8at Edge was the usual re-ihe re-ihe Stark faction as the Leader Le-ader was of the other side. ff gave information to Jas-ie Jas-ie set out glasses and hot's hot-'s - McCanns wass in town to-jadj to-jadj yet." i flopped, glass poised, t many of 'em?" se Old Peter, Tapscott, andt tie boys." ! What they doln' here?" sshrogged his shoulders and ft nalms of bis bands. He i ill he knew. t oat, eh? Musta known we Mb' this way," Jasper i - i laughed, softly, Ironically, I do yon get that line of Su? Ever bear of old Pete i rjvln' the middle of the linjbodyj He's there both Sen the ace, if yon ask ma" 1 show him how much he's !ore we're through." f drawled the Texan, lazily lently. tell Mm so, right off the !m or any of his outfit Boon set op with 'em," the young ragged. m irritated at Stone. Was was ob the Stark side of the He was taking old Matt's t Well, then, why did he talk tit ten 'em klnda low, bo's m hear, Jas. A few of 'em 1 wolves. Leastwise they've it rep." 3 scared of 'em, Daver ; was alarmed at his own HU eyes fell before the feady regard of the little man. a moment the Texan spoke. lessened the tension. l '4.oy Ui-gun will have to talk i who the time comes, Jas." some time of rapid refresh- me tar the Circle Cross edont again to the main to little town, stone had "Wed temporarily to buy Gitner and Phil Stark had f the blacksmith shop. strolled across to Bas- or the mui. inside, he glimpse of the little Texan food- counter. opinion, represented by ;ell, ad others. 8tm at on JJwtebea Jasper Stark now m d0 abut the ?i ft watched J"eTan had read Woale tece and snapped his fingers contemptuously at the poster. "Say he knew. What then? What then?" Els back was toward the man coming down the road. If be had been observant he might have seen an odd change in the gray eyes of Qulnn, a flicker of subdued and wary excitement. "I'll show Peter McCann where he gets off," Stark went on, vanity overriding caution. "I'll sure learn that hombre to run on the rope." He took two swift strides forward and with one sweeping gesture ripped the reward placard from the wall. Tearing the paper Into' fragments, frag-ments, he flung them down and ground them under his heeL At the same Instant a rider pulled up in front of the store and swung from the saddle. Stark turned, the anger he had worked up burning in him. On the lower step a man was standing, his quirt dangling by the loop from his wrist. Under his ribs the heart of Jasper Jas-per Stark died within him. For the man looking at him was Wilson McCann.: Mc-Cann.: He bad a feeling as though the ground were falling from his feet, a shocked certainty that he had been delivered Into the hand of his enemy. His arm made a motion mo-tion toward the revolver at his side, a hesitant and indefinite gesture. "Don't you I" warned McCann. Stark dropped his hand. In his eyes was the look of the trapped rat His brother and Gitner were nearly half a mile away, but Stone was here, not twenty yards from him. The Texan would pump lead into McCann If he got gay. With the thought came a resurgence of courage. He had nothing to fear. His voice was loud, to attract tbe attention of his companion. "You'll pull ydre freight, Wils McCann, If you know what's good for yon. Get me. Poco tlempo." McCann came up the steps toward to-ward him, evenly and without haste. There was that In his face at which Jasper took alarm. "Keep back. Hear me? Keep back, or 111 " Jasper retreated to the door, his voice rising to a shriek. "Don't you dass lay a hand on me." His enemy plucked him from the shelter of the store as though be had been a child. The quirt In the hand of McCann rose and fell, rose and fell again. Jasper cursea, threatened, wept He called to Stone for help, tried to break away from that Iron grip and escape, did SS Swells ... to bin. YTDU "eam- :akin..K ue COu'd not "age. comment. a t. " lways trvln to fill ?hkl "ot the ark conr- 0rmatIon fik. thnsand dol-3oi dol-3oi .?!'lm t0 dc. with his heavy, his At.. wee The cam!! he turne1 to H Bh Tir0 uld ot look :tioiid;;Tuu,ess eyes bbo . UU8t rar oown toviH nler was can- ten good me. Jas. as mine,' r niit, - 7'w- e c ui du was full ,ft).'Rrned, mov- " loe Porch as be of beans. The Tortured Man Howled In Agony and Begged Shamelessly for Mercy. afl he could to save himself except stand op and fight The swinging lash burned like a rope of fire. The tortured man howled In agony and begged shamelessly for mercy. He flung himself to the floor and McCann released him. The man with the quirt was panting from his exertions. He looked down scornfully at the quivering mass or wheals at his feet. "TonTl learn to let my father's placards alone. Understand? An not to shoot at me from the brush, . . . -" urn Z7 ,'t.r ue door- from both sides of him the eyes of silent men were focused upon him and Stark. Against the Jamb of the door Stone was leaning, muscles at Indolent ease, only his cold eyes warily intent in-tent At the first glance McCann knew that the Texan had elected noi t0tek OP Jasper's quarrel To Medford, the store clerk, WI1-son WI1-son spoke, "Father forgot the mall. Left It In the store. Git It for me." Presently the clerk appeared with a package) of letters and newspapers. "Much obliged." The Flying VY man turned. 31m-Dandy 31m-Dandy was standing near the porch, parallel to It With one quick leap McCann was In the saddle. His feet found the stirrups and the pony went pounding down the road at a gallop. Presently Simp eased himself out of his chair and waddled across to the braggart huddled on the floor. "Better get up, Jas. He's gone," Simp said. lent a hand to get the other to his feet Jasper looked around, furtive-eyed, and knew he had been weighed and found wanting. "If 1 hadn't slipped-" be began, and stopped. His breath was still ragged with dry 6ohs. "He took advantage with his quirt." "Yes, You only had a gun," Stone answered contemptuously. "A gun an' yore fists." "Tell you he took advantage. I slipped," whined Jasper. "You sure done so when von picked on this Wils McCann to raise a rookos with," Stone agreed. Jasper limped painfully Into tbe store and sank down Into a chair. "I'm sick," he whimpered. Medford brought him water, After a time he was helped to the hotel He was not able to ride home and In any event he had not j the nerve to face Matt Stark with even a doctored story of his humiliation. The old man would be In a blaze of fury at him. Matthew Stark was game to the marrow and Inordinately proud. That a Stark could show the white feather to a McCann, that he should be whipped like a peon without of fering fight filled him with a bitter despair he could not endure. If Jasper had gone to his death with guns blazing he would have sorrowed sor-rowed for him and been proud of him. But this degradation was unspeakably un-speakably horrible to him. He ordered Phil to saddle his horse and rode to town alone. He craved action drastic and swift. First a settlement with the weak ling who had dishonored him, then battle with his enemies to revenge himself upon them. He would have Wilson McCann's blood. Nothing less would satisfy him. The old man strode through the hall of the Mesa house and Into the room that served as an office. "What room Is Jas In?" he demanded de-manded of the proprietor. "Why, he's In the front room upstairs, up-stairs, Mr. Stark. Doc Sanders has been lookln' after him." Stark was already taking the stairs. The man lying on the bed heard a heavy tread. The door burst open and his father stood before him, the fires of eruptive wrath blazing In his eyes. Jasper knew his day of Judgment had come. Matt Stark stood, feet well apart, leathery Jaw clamped tight and innlrcd at his nn worthy son. "Well?" he asked harshly at last "I slipped. He got me down," Jasper whined. Don't He to " me. Tve seen Stone." "I was klnda dazed. He hit me first off with the loaded end -of his quirt an' I didn't know what I was doing. He 'most killed me." "I wish he had," the father retorted re-torted bitterly. "If anyone had told me Td raise a coward for a son" He broke off, to deny his own claim. "But I knew it I've known It for years, only I wouldn't let myself believe It You were always a puling pul-ing quitter. No sand In yore craw. Never was. The first Stark I ever knew without guts. Td rather you'd died-a hundred times rather. But I'm through with you. No son of mine can stand up an' take a thrashin' without flghtin' like a wildcat" , . "I was sick anyhow, an' I wasnt notlcln' when he knocked me klnda senseless," Jasper whimpered. "You're lying. An' what If he did? Pack a gun, dont your After he'd taken the hide off. yon still had yore forty-five, didn't yon? Tii.i, Phii wnnld have let him get away with it an' not pumped lend? Not for a minute. But yo-JJ ? gunshy. All you can do Is drink an' brag. Why, you flabby weak-line weak-line they'll laugh at me all over S'counfy. The McCanns never oult grinnln about It By l a J couldn't a-belleved It-even about 7rm through with rou-absolute- I'm eoina ny dealing with yoo myself. DonV you ever cross my track or I II make yoil think thls.WHs McCann was only playln' at quirting von." Matthew Stark left th the hotel He walked down the1 street to Fletcher's office and found mo sawyer was at rhoenix and would not be back for sovomt tnv The owner of the Circle Cross hes- NEW YORK HISTORY FROM EARLY DAYS Museum Groups Vividly Recall the Past Among the tattered letters, odd Soma types of exhibit may prove difficult to acquire; New York's growth, for example, has been so swift and so destructive as to leave few of the old shop fronts, - old signs and utensils, pieces of furniture furni-ture and paneling which are Important Impor-tant Items In the London collection. Bnt the beginning Is snch a fine one,' ltated. He was half fa id t Amon werea letters, oaa orrenng so many possiouiues, uiai go to Tnpunn nnfl , ,,, mBp" RDa PHUts, timeMinrKenea por i money ana support ror expansion - " a UCW Will I trait a mrA .Ik.. . new Museum of the City of New York there runs the series of model groups In which Dwight Franklin and Ned J. Burns have recaptured the long past of the greatest city of the world. They are delicate lit tle panoramas, beautifully con structed and finely modeled and breathing a sudden life and vitality Into the dead relics about them as they repeat the veritable scenes amid which those old letters passed X? -bTlla" wVcrilnVrhrwauorte . v.v usiii. iJUL it n iiHfi rflnsnna for not wanting to leave tbe valley just now. -rue new will would have to wait till Fletcher returned. Across the street be could see the editor of the Mesa Round-Up sitting sit-ting at his desk. Stark strode across through the dust and entered en-tered the little frame building. He brushed aside the greetings of the newspaper man and ordered brusquely what he wanted. Within tlio hnnr i.ln .... had been tacked Tup In Teach oi ! E rftb0! dresses were worn, ply like something In a museum un til near it one sees the governor himself, fully as vivid as life (if only about one-tenth as large), storming over Colonel Cartwrlght's demand for surrender, while the Seventeenth century sunshine lies placidly upon the ramparts of Nleuw Amsterdam fort outside the door. WelL the fort has lain burled for many years somewhere beneath the foundations of lower Broadway; Peter Stuyvesant Is as dead as a doornail and so Is the pleasant bucolic life of the little outpost of Dutch empire which once occupied what was once the tip of Manhattan. In the model those times are as alive as last night's supper club. So are the pleasant blue waters and wood ed slopes of the East river (so much pleasanter than today) as they are seen through the windows of the Beekman mansion, while General nowe, Interrupted with wineglass In hand and a mot upon his Hps, tosses the Irritated glance of authority over his snoulder to see what the guards have brought in. It's an In fernal young rebel suspected of es pionage name of Nathan uaie. One almost hears the voices and one suddenly understands a lot about the American Revolution. Alive, too, are the waterfront crowds under the long Jibbooms on South street or the Indians, three centuries earlier, In their encampment encamp-ment at Inwood. These models are an essential and fascinating part of the new exhibit, something which distinguishes It from those of other museums. They give an Incomparably Incom-parably better idea of the times they portray than do, for example, the models ot old London In the exeat London museum; and they suggest how wonderful will be tne record which this museum will con tain when time has enriched Us col lections and broadened their scope to cover the countless fields of New York's life and activities down to the present time. As yet, of course, there are many lacunae. The con temporary scene Is hardly touched. must surely be forthcoming. One hopes that good slice of It will be spent on further work from Mr. Franklin and Mr. Burns. New York Herald Tribune. HercDlizedflax Keeps Skin Young dam ud mm mm iHrMtaJ. Vta mxMm and kia pm! el ulil all oWM JM piipio. I"" pota. aa aad InxkUt duxwaar. kla ia taaa aaf and raWr. Voor faaa look. aan ysunttr. Mwaaliimi a brlo ai ha akldaai baautrol roar alia. laam arlnaJaa naa eoa aaaaa Pawoaraa Saaslil toaatvadianai h I) mat wtiak kaaaL A ar aom. Reads Like Page From "Old Farmer Almanac The spirit of the 'Old Farmer's Almanac" brought up to date In the Commonweal (New York) by Rob ert P. Tristram Coffin : Build your house noon a rls. Mak friends with your arms and thighs. Dig your spring below a pins, PUnt a snornlng-slory vine, Hv your bedroom fan the lwa, Have wlsdows with no curtains on Though fields lie ready cleared a score, Cut thickets down and make one mors. Sleep an hour In the sun, Talk to your cewi when mllkinrs done. By all that's rood, be much alone. Use no man's plow-horse but your own. Mow before the crickets cheep. Never hope to rise In life Until you have brought home your wife. Never trust your corn to grow Before you have a son or so. There Is no rain to match a mother, Sons and seeds help on each Other. Literary Digest . nt.Ve enfitv omce w tuou6. cent not a cent Fletcher's XOU U"l . . . ril crlY An-yougetoutoiAn--- - week to seme ---- yore freight an wt, you a Vonll pull vore rreigm " Jore name. From now on you're no Stark. Cnderstandr re cot to sell my stoc. Jn 1 ve B"i a Already be was the old roan's wrath. Ja" i Ht She could do anything Within the Hour Printed Posters Had Been Tacked Up In Each of the Saloons, and on the Wall of the Post Office, saloons, on the wall of the post of fice Inside and out on the door of the false-front town ball and at a dozen other conspicuous places. They bore this simple legend In blackface type: This Is To 8erv NOTICE That I will kill Wilson McCann on sight MATTHEW STARK This attended to, Stark mounted and rode out of town. From his fa vorite chair on the porch of Bas- ford's store Simp Shell watched him go, a grim and menacing fig ure of wrath. To Basford and an other crony Simp offered the opin ion that hell was liable to pop mighty soon. It was agreed that Matthew Stark and either Wilson or Peter McCann would clash at their first meeting and that from It one or both would be carried away dead or mortally wounded. CHAPTER IV Red Tragedy. XI7ILSON drew no among the VV gcrub pines on the side of the hogback across from Yerby's cabin. These days he followed roundabout round-about trails and moved with ex treme caution. For bis life had been oosted by a man who never made vain threats. It was the sight of a white-faced bay standing In front of the house that brought him op short now. With the trained eye of a cow- puncher he recognlred the horse Instantly. In-stantly. He had last seen It on a certain moonlit night and Julia Stark bad been In the saddle. But be had no certainty that she was using it today. Some one else might be waiting for him in Jim's cabin boi Jasner Stark or his father or that Texas killer, Gitner. He de cided to play safe. From Its place beside the saddle be drew a rifle and tested Its mechanism. This done, he crept on all fours through the greasewood and yucca till be had put a long hundred yards between him and JIm-Dandy. Behind a clump of cholla be squatted and watched the house patiently. For nearly half an hnnr he did not stir. Except bis eves he was motionies as a statue. Julia Stark might not be alone with Yerby, though the fact that he could see only one saddled horse minted ta that conciaslon. With the greatest care, be worked toward eyes he was motionless as a statue. When at last he reached the window win-dow Wilson raised his bead slowly and looked inside. Julia had seated seat-ed herself and was evidently Just about to read aloud from a book. Jim was sitting In a chair with his leg propped up in another chair In front of binv wnon- went back to his norse. rode across the arroyo, and shout ed. "Hello the house r WIrs stark came to the door. She stood, erect and uncompromisingly hostile, watching him as he dismounted. dis-mounted. Her dark look was like a flashlns sword. He nodded good morning without response. How's Jlmr he asked. She stood aside to let him pass Into tbe house, gathering her skirts olnaa an that h WOUld UOt DrUSO sealnst ber as he went by. Notn ins conld have expressed more pos itively her detestation of hia than that disdalnrnl gesture. ITO E COKTIXTID.) Unfortunate Click At Altoona, Ta., two bantam chicks starved to death because they were unable to eat as a pigeon does from the mouth of the mother, The bantam eggs were hatched by a pigeon along with a number of pigeon eggs. The mother pigeon accorded her mixed brood the same treatment feeding all with her bill The pigeons thrived, but the chicks, unable to take food from tbe bird's mouth, died. Wanted "Preferred Position" Rev. Moses IJow, pastor of the Middle Street Baptist church, New Bedford, Mass., for fourteen years and of the Seaman's Bethel there for fifteen years, In his diary tells of burying Elder Daniel Hix of Dart mouth, who requested that he he hurled as near tbe gate of the ceme tery as possible so that he could be first out at the resurrection. He was burled next the gate on March 24, 1838. Salt Lake City's fewest Hotel HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Radio connection ia every room. RATES FROM (130 Ju tppitl Norma Tbmack ERNEST C ROSSITER, fgr. Cavern to Be State Park An old cavern, not yet fully ex plored, but used by the Indians for many years as a hiding place, la to be made a state park northwest of San Antonio, Texas. It is beneath 600 acres of Burnet county land near Highway 60. Hundreds of arrowheads ar-rowheads have been found In the cavern. Personal Proof AdamMost of the girls that come here don't want to marry. Eve How do you know? Adam I've asked em. Chicken Yield's Gold A chicken killed by Walter Fults of Albermarle, N. C had five gold nuggets la Its gizzard. Perfectly Suited Lopher llow does Sniggiefrlts like his new typist? Lazier She's Just his type. Try lydle E. Plnkhem's Vagatable Compound Creator of Habit New Prisoner Oh, by the way, warder, I always sleep with my door open. sVr" She's Up Li the Air Again Those she loves are lint to surfer sur-fer when monthly paint shatter ber nerves. Lydia E. PinLhwn'i Vegetable Compound would ease that awful agony. Notwithstanding the fact that the moon always presents the same face to os, It is found that she rolls a little In her orbit, sometimes showing a little of her right side, while at other times she shows a little more of her left side. Arnold's Lameness Benedict Arnold was lame. Serious Seri-ous thigh wonnds received at Quebec Que-bec and at Saratoga occasioned bis having a shortened left leg. He referred to himself as having "become "be-come a cripple In the service of my country." Quaker Havea Shelter island, Long Island, N. T, was bought In 1C51 for 1,000 a - - . . pounds 01 aiuscuvuuu sugar vj vuo Sylvester family. On It was established estab-lished a shelter and refuge for persecuted Quakers from New England. Columbus Knew Rubber One of the earliest. If not the earliest discoverer of the resilient properties of robber was Christopher Christo-pher Columbus, who observed tbe natives of Haiti playing with a resilient bouncing ball Wonderful Crystal The largest and most perfect crystal Is In the National museum at Washington. It was brought from China in 1924. It Is 12.83 Inches In diameter and weighs 100.75 pounds. Stem Blue Laws A statute passed In New Tork, 1C57, prohibited rides for pleasure In boats, carts, and wagons, and all other amusements, fishing, running, and roving in search of nuts and strawberries, and too unrestrained and excessive playing. The first offense was punishable by fine of six guilders, with a double sum for the second offense. For a third transgression, the culprit was to be summarily punished and corrected cor-rected on the body. Rub ia Your Food A Vienna specialist has discovered a new kind of food paste which, rubbed into the skin, Is capable of supporting life Indefinitely without oral feeding. . Vira telling Then there is the fellow who writes to the Literary Digest every week asking how to pronounce Lake Suitable) Deaifnation The Delmarva peninsula Is so named because within its confines are the state of Delaware, part of Maryland and two counties of Virginia. World's Population The total population of the world Is about two billion and It la estimated esti-mated that women slightly outnumber outnum-ber the men. There are no exact statistics. Yellpw Fever's Ravages Until recent time yellow fever has been one of the most dreaded and frequent disease epidemics. It appeared ap-peared 112 times between 1702 and 1878. Happy Childhood The season of childhood, when the soul, on the rainbow bridge of fancy, glides along, dry-shod over the walls and ditches of the lower earth. Rlchter. Of Pagaa Origin JImmlny, in the expression, "By Jlmmlny" refers to the heavenly twins of the sodlac, the Gemini, patrons pa-trons of ancient Home. Better Than Forgetfalaesa "Tain so Important to fob git yob tronbles," said Uncle Eben, "as ft Is to 'zamin Into 'em sa' Sod oat bow to cure em.' Washington Star. Well-Watered State The mainland of Massachusetts has a water front of CO miles. The Island frontage of the commonwealth common-wealth is 200 mfles. Sunk Without Trace When that bride out our way cast her bread upon the water. It went right to tbe bottom. Buffalo Evening Eve-ning Kews. Anemoscopes Highly Sensitive Most of the weather vanes more commonly called wind vanes or anemoscopes employed by meteorologists mete-orologists have the general shape of an arrow, but vary widely In some of their details. Such vanes are planned, on the one hand, to be highly sensitive to shifts of the wind, even at moderate velocities, and, on the other, to be free from oscillations other than those of the wind Itself. . . I -c Clock's Period of Fault ' Big Ben, the famous English clock. Is wrong twice In every hour. At a quarter past the hour. It Is firs seconds fast; at a quarter to the hour, It Is five seconds slow. This is because the minute hand is so heavy that even the Intricate machinery cannot stop the slight gain and loss at the points where the weight Is most felt Time's Change Centuries ago, boys were named after their fathers by adding the word "son," which was the origination origina-tion of such names as Johnson and Williamson, Today fathers In tbe Borneo jungle name themselves after their eons and become known as Johnsfatber or Wllliamgfather. -Collier's Weekly. When Idol Is Harmlese 1 respect an Idol at the temple door," said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, Chi-natown, "who being never called upon to hear, see or speak, may at least be depended on to do no wrong. It Is only when overturned that be Is likely to be found In the way." Washington Star. Land of Freih Water More than one-half of the freshwater fresh-water area of the world lies within the boundaries of Canada. Sincere Self-Exanuaatioa There Is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity of self-examination. self-examination. Menclns. MIdalgLt Begins Day Astronomers formerly began the day at noon, bat recently it was decided advisable for tbe sake of uniformity to use the same day In astronomical work as is used In civil life and, commencing with 1925, all the national almanacs began be-gan the day at midnight Before Gunpowder The crossbow was used chiefly In the Twelfth, century, but was not I unknown In the Tenth and Elev- entb centuries. One Point of View Be that can have patience can have what he will Progretsi-e Coloeitte An attempt to manufacture Iron was made by the Virginia colony, near Jamestown, as early as tbe year 162a -excited man I yon d d Jayhawker. |