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Show THE LEW SUN. LEHI, UTAH SYNOPSIS i v with bli four-yew-1 Dr wl " . blizzard .V operator. KThM fobbed. Flyn for-L for-L Br ,.. Drak an- r.V tb. W. until T-,;,ie on tn. ( -- ,,u. stev bw M v Flynn, his benerac- V "c i by Old Jim. mcaii-l,lSl mcaii-l,lSl .J accident In which Llwb."Cu temporarily ' ? k. harg. of tn. com- 1 nin of PoIar" iHtd hoping to do ome-1 ome-1 niHiin Steve hasten! to !Brt. headquarter!. He EE coundrel1 P'ttlnK J S Flynn interesta, CHAPTER II Continued . .. v. dv Franz short with jon his arm, spinning him Bid Wing, 88 ne oriweu uin ack to the floor: ma I got here about In that thousht was wtau - naost la his mind after those , waiting to do someming lor rwre too to horn In?" . reter mind me! I don't mat-Sotting mat-Sotting matters except what iid to say about Old Jim. Are going to swallow em now or those words driven back Into So the b I Desio.es you ajbenotodyt Besides I'm doit do-it talking now and I'm asking ire ma eoinz to tell these jdj were ff on the wrong foot Jim now or are you go- ta was not a weakling nor a sial cowari ; neither was he a I thinker. He knew the fighc- ;&tfhen he saw it surge Into tiii eyes- "ne tnmg oniy was for him to do: strike first is knuckles caught Steve on the ; of the ch n, drove his head kfird, rent his arms flinging ; be reeled and lurched and. It from the shock, did what his M wits told him to do ; sagged 4 ciaspug the other tightly t kii arms. ?ib tried to break that clinch. sited Mom on Steve's head. Iseled it ).is ribs and back but m were hampered and he a put no great drive behind his i Steve's mind was clearing tben Franx swore thickly In fc it Mi helplessness he let go voluntarily, comine to a Jsre stance and striking savagely J tm staggered away from him. I nan was going away, yes, Aeblow, full on the lips, caught 1 H arm's length, a stinging sk and his legs wilted and p, letting him slowly down. w stood over him. fopf wirta 4 elbows crooked, hrcpth i,i p toat Eicept for that sound m was very still and thn the group reflected the mat here Indeed was a - He lad withstood ih. . - - wis ucuu- Trans had at command, one of his own had floored werearj. it aimni. that Frani nM . j P "the 8ght u C'S'7 Kid. "did I drive 3 nil? Those filthJ words f W Jim Flynn r lweAng Up, and looked np. t ttat look was hatred, cha-f cha-f . threat; but It &?stb,brn,ook'Rnd Itrl k, lh,8beIt and turned 0 Ms hat, well gat,sfled 1, he confronted Mc-I" Mc-I" oo stood on the Inner edge ife circle of men. He UCL es new Pack-sack Llednpwhen the lttrtL . hadbeen staring htte JJJ? man ho had j Buaache twitched and Nsj ble re,ief 1 I Iff j- SV J au. - w J lr??tochof Place as .apwtasathan- -5J3JB rtynnl e,taken for '' thr. . S:j?'v8 the word V Jt Dot ait. l - e jo "ua O'er- tSiL'J!1. to T m said about le. !r, i n,jgbt i "HI By HAROLD TITUS Steve looked from the eager Mc-Nally, Mc-Nally, whose eyes and voice and gestures attested to relief after long strain, to those others. Moments ago they had been truculent, rebellious. rebel-lious. But now, thinking that one with authority to meet their demands de-mands had come, thinking that he had on his very entrance Into their lives established himself as outstanding, out-standing, they had changed. A hot stinging impulse welled up within him. A voice seemed to float to him, his father's voice, coming down through the years in memory : "If ever we get the chance, Stevle He put out his hand to take that of McNally. "And I wasn't," he began, "any more than In time, was I Mac?" Well, well!" murmured Wartln, who had been spokesman for the discontented men, Impelled to such mild expletive, probably, by shock. "Well, well!" He spat and grinned amiably. "This, now, makes everything every-thing look a little different, don't it boys? Mebbe we can get an answer an-swer to the question we come to ask, now." Drake let his eyes run from one to the other and grinned again. He was breathing easier, but he needed time, much time. He had, perhaps, per-haps, helped Old Jim for the interval; inter-val; If he was to carry through, to make that assistance more than an affair of the moment, he must trade on the admiration he had set up in the hearts of the crew for a brief time, at least. "Does everything happen that fast up here?' he asked, and his grin provoked sudden grins In the others. "Why, I step into camp and before I get a chance to Introduce myself I get knocked out from under un-der my hat and cuffed and slapped and h 1-rose with! Then, before I get my hair slicked down and my ears pinned back you come at me for an answer to a matter I never heard about until I stepped through that doorl I ask you, lads, Is that the way you treat anybody who happens hap-pens to come dropping in on this headquarters?" A rumble of laughter greeted this. "Well, likely It is a little fast," admitted Wartin. "As for you gettin' knocked from under your hat ... Well' we seen how far Franz got with that, good as we know he is. I guess you can take care of yourself, Mr. Flynn. But you're here now, and, I s'pose," serious again "we can bank on youv ll&tenin' to us in, say, a day or two." . "I'm about the best listener you ever told your troubles to 1" Wartln snapped his suspenders and nodded. 'That's reasonable. I guess we can't ask for any more tonight." A half-hour later, when the men had all started their drift back to the wood camp ready for at least a few days more work. McNally escorted es-corted Steve from the store toward his dwelling where, he said, the room occupied by Old Jim when he made his Infrequent visits to Good-Bye was waiting and ready. CHAPTER III NEXT morning Steve Tose, a bit stiff from his encounter with Franz, and dressed slowly. He Inventoried the room as he clothed himself. .A desk stood In one corner, maps hung on the wall, A fireplace was In one end with a bearskin, before it; and there was a photograph of a girl. Ee took the print from its place on the mantel and walked to the window. Holding it to the light a tingle ran through his body. She wore high pacs and riding breeches; a shirt was open at a slender throat. Light, short hair crowned a face that he thought was the most lovely he had ever looked upon. She was smiling, showing small, even teeth. His pulses speeded speed-ed up a trifle and he turned sharply, sharp-ly, almost guiltily, as the door opened and McNally stepped in. "Mornln' 1" he cried. "Up a'ready V "Morning," replied Steve, swallowing. swal-lowing. He was fairly caught now. McNally had seen. "Oh, you found Katy's picture, eh? Our niece took that two years ago when she was up with your dad. Ton sure got a fine lookin' sister, sis-ter, loung Jim r "T-yes. . . . Tea, you're right She's not bad looking." He swallowed swal-lowed again, certain that his confusion confu-sion would betray him and he did not know how far McNally might be trusted with the secret that he was only a pretender. "I sure hope her eyes are goin to turn out all right 1" Steve recalled, then, what Young Jim's guide had told him yesterday. yester-day. "We're all hoping that!" he replied re-plied fervently. "And LaFane got In after yon went to bed. He brought the mail. There's a letter from Katy to me, tellin me to open the letters that's piled up here for you If yon dont ID3 IT iWJMIi show up soon. She's worried, not having heard from you since you left Chicago." Now here, thought Steve, was something else again. To sit down deliberately and open and read mall addressed to another brought up a point that for a moment baffled him. McNally, however, helped with the solution. Td figured If you didn't get here in a day or two I'd open that stack of letters myself, on my own hook. With the Job In such a bad way and things comin' up for a show-down, with our right-of-way blocked and the wood camp ready to go on strike, danged If I wouldn't ve opened Katy's letters, Jim, to see If I couldn't do something for your daddy. You know," be added, somewhat some-what embarrassed, "there've been stories." About Yo About me, you mean?" "Ynp. No use beatin' around th' bush. Nobody up here's even seen you and likely most of the rumors are lies. But it's got around that the old man's had to keep you close tied for a long time account of one thing or another. So when you didn't show up we all got to thlnkln that mebby . . . well . . . You know how It Is." Steve, lacing his pacs, considered the problem of the true Young Jim Flynn's proximity. Suppose some drunken whim should send him In here today or tomorrow? What would men he talked with last night Drake Stood Over Him, Feet Wide Apart, Elbows Crooked, Breath Loud In His Throat think of the whisky-sodden wreck he had seen yesterday? Could Young Jim, in his condition, persuade men to work on? And if the one with true authority should appear and take charge ... He Bhrugged that contingency off and went out to breakfast He learned things at the meal: that the McNallys had been here at Good-Bye for five years, simply watching the property; that a man who walked along the beach, a half dozen setters playing about him, was LaFane, the mail carrier. . . . And the way McNally spoke of La-Fane La-Fane marked him as of particular Interest Immediately after the meal Drake returned to his room, shut himself In, and began ripping open the letters let-ters addressed to James Flynn, Jr, at Shoestring. They were typewritten, typewrit-ten, lie observed from the head-Insr head-Insr that he was posing as vice pres ident of the Polaris Forest Products Co., that Katharine Flynn was secretary sec-retary and treasurer and that Old Jim was president of the concern. The first letter he had arranged them by dates was signed in typewritten type-written characters by the single word Kate. "Dear Duffer," it began. "Now you're on your way, the last hope of the family I I'm betting on you this time. We've both got to stand behind Dad and push him out of this awful hole. You and I could stand going broke but he can't because be-cause he's too old to start at the bottom again. If the booze reaches out after you, Just remember that the old Dad is flat on bis back In a hospital bed, with months more of it ahead of him. I'm behind you in every effort you make. I'm only half a helper now, of course, being as blind as the celebrated bat The doctor insists that I keep the light from my eyes for weeks yet No use sobbing. Grin! "I moved the office yesterday and let the girls go. That was hard to do, but we must save every penny now. Praise be, I can type blindfolded blind-folded and have a cheap little girl read to me. The minute you are on the Job write me fully. I shan't feel easy as long as Franz Is In the country, as Thorpe said in his last letter that he was. "Keep McNally driving the railroad rail-road through. It seems to be our last chance. And remember: now Is the time for all good men to come to the aid of roiarisT A cheerful, brave letter! Ht Al Will WNU Service looked again at the photograph and experienced another thrill The next was more subdued. Problems, Prob-lems, complicated and grave, were before them. To keep pulp going down the river In sufficient quantities quanti-ties for the regular call of the barge which came up Lake Superior to load was of first Importance. If that stopped, a contract would be broken; with the breaking of that contract, creditors would shut down Immediately. Money was short; there was scarcely enough to keep the crews going and continue construction con-struction of the railroad. The building build-ing of that, It developed, was a race against time, A final grant of credit had been extended by the banks grudgingly; to save this remnant of Polaris holdings, and on which sound expansion might be based, a mill must be up, receiving and sawing saw-ing logs by November. Steve frowned. Hadn't McNally and Smoky, the guide, both said the right-of-way had been blocked? In later letters a note of pleading appeared. Kate was desperately worried at not hearing from Jim at Good-Bye. "Please, please write to me," she begged. "Every day I have to lie to the old Dad and say you are there. If he knew what I know, It might kill him, Duffer!" After he had gone through all the mall he searched for one particular letter and re-read a paragraph: "If only we could get a binding option on the MacDonald tract the Old National would come across with enough to let us draw a deep breath. Not only would they finance that purchase but they wouldn't drive us so hard to commence operating the Good-Bye stuff. If the Laird weren't such a hard-boiled old rascal! ras-cal! Still, there's al way 8 a chance. Vou're at bat ; keep your eye on the ball 1" He stared through the window which gave a view of the lake. The man, LaFane, was sitting In the sand before a small log house. Three children were playing about him and he was tossing the smallest small-est In his arms. McNally came out of the store and Steve through the window hailed him. "Now, Mac, I've been through the mall," he began, "and the situation, with all that's happened In Chicago since Yo since I left doesn't seem so good. Still, we're alive, and while there's life there's hope. You've been here a long time, you know the country better than any of us. I wish you'd tell me Just what your slant on this job Is, and tell it from the beginning, just as If I were hearing the whole thing for the first time." The older man scratched his head and hitched his chair before a wall map. "Weil, likely you know more V I do about the bank end of it That's bad enough, I guess. But seeing as you've never been here before be-fore ... "Now, here we are. Here's the Polaris stumpage, Inside this red line. This block south of us, cuttln' across the river below our line, is MacDonald's timber. It takes in Twenty Mile rapid, you see. To the west of It country breaks off Into pine barrens and that's where we aimed to come with the grade. I've got it fifteen miles out from the main line, right up to here. That's where we went on three days ago and found No Trespass signs up." "Blocked, eh?" "Tighter than a drum! I thought when I mentioned It at breakfast you took it awful danged calm i" "I'd heard rumors on the way In." Well, this is a body blow!" the old man declared grimly. "That stuff Just ahead of our grade, Fran claims, Is his. Well, I know dam' well he don't own an acre anywhere. He's Just actin for the Bensons. Could they squeeze us out and buy our timber from the banks, they'd have this whole country except the Laird's stuff. "Of course, MacDonald won't sell. We can't build to the east of him because she's so rough that a grade would bust us. So we picked out this cheap and easy route. An old feller down below Shoestring owned these three sections and he give Thorpe his word we could cross. Where Thorpe made his mistake was In not gettin' an easement from him; somebody found out about that and let us get the work done right up to that line, bought the land op and blocked ns tight Frans was cool as a cucumber about It said be bad somethin' we wanted bad and that be was ready to let the courts decide the value. That means, of course, that we're cooked. If it s Eenson behind Frans they'll hold us up Just as long as the Laird would." He sat back and s!srhL (TO BE CONTINUED.) Horabill'i Beak Hollow Hornbills, birds with huge beaks which are nearly boilow and weigh practically nothing, have beeo found la Africa Tifcnfy'SccoM of February DALE b the February aby, And arid th nldday'i turovf hour Tka wimbwept (otmi amis to alia Far the iwmI tima af iaavaa and Bewara. Yt nu ae month a prewler dr. Not tvm chea the aummar brooda O'or meadowe In thtlr freta array, Or autuma tint the llowtfif woods. , For thla chin eaaioa mow at ala Brfaifa, la ita annual round, the atom When, graateat of toe aoni of men, Our a loriou Waahuurtoa arai kera. La. where beneath aa icy ehleld. Calmly the mighty Hudtoa flowe! By anowclad foil and from Add, Broadening, the lordly river foea. The wildest storm thai aweepe through space And rande the oak with euddeo force. Can raise bo ripple an hie face. Or alacaea his majestle course. Thus, 'mid tha wrack el threnee shall Ave Unmarred, undimmed, our haro's fame. And years auocaading years shall gtva Increase ef honor to his nam. William Cullea Bryant. WASHINGTON MONUMENT ri.T-i-ii itnaiU'rM Wo-HW m LOFTY and grand, the wonderful shaft erected In Washington, D. C, by a grateful nation in recognition rec-ognition of the services of Gen. George Washington, attracts thou sands of visitors who annually throng the Nation's Capital The monument is of white marble, 555 feet 5'4 Inches in height, and 55 feet 1 Inches square at the base, The cornerstone was laid July 4, 1843. The United States government, under an act of congress, took over the monument In 1876. An elevator accommodates 85 passengers. Washington, Adams Both Late for Inauguration I THEN Washington was Inaugu- v rated the old Federal hall was the Capitol of the United States. At that time New York and Phila delphia were rivals for the honor of being the Capital of the nation, notes the Washington Star. The first President was Inducted into office on April 30, rather than March 4, not by design, but because of the procrastination of the congress con-gress and the difficulties of travel In that day. Congress had set the first Wednesday in March, which fell on the fourth of the month, as the date for "commencing the proceedings pro-ceedings under the said Constitutor" Constitu-tor" but when March 4 came neither nei-ther the senate nor the house could muster a quorum and so could not organize. Only 13 members of the house answered to their names. Two summons were sent out to members, but It was not until April 1 that the bouse finally managed to count a quorum. The senate obtained ob-tained a quorum April 6, more than a month after the appointed day. On the same day a Joint session of the two houses was held In the senate chamber. When the electoral votes were opened and counted. It was found Washington was elected President and John Adams vice president Washington and Adams were formally for-mally notified and this, together with their Journey to New York, delayed the Inauguration until the thirtieth. Washington Headquarters Flag Graces Valley Forge TIE historic headquarters flag of Geiu George Washington has ben created and unfurled again, after 15 years of research. Henceforth Hence-forth on every clear day Washington's Washing-ton's headquarters flag will fly from a staff on the historic Valley Forge battleground as it did during the winter of 1777-78. Albert Cook Myers, chairman of the historical committee of the Valley Forge park commission, had the flag recreated through the co-operation of the historic his-toric committee of the American Institute of Architects, and others. It Is six by six snd one-half feet of standard nary blue bunting with fifteen stars arranged la a circle. EXPERTS AT ODDS ON PULLETS, HENS Tests Show Older Birds Are the Best Breeder. There Is a vast variety and differ ence of opinion as to the use of the more mature pullets as breeders or the use of bens for this purpose. Ohio's experiment station seems to have found a difference In the mortality of pullets from pullet matlngs and pullets from hen mat-Ings mat-Ings greatly In favor of the latter. These Ohio findings of excessive mortality, running as high as CO per cent with pullets from pullets, pul let breeders and selected or culled, promiscuous breeding flock, would Dot, In the majority of cases, agree with the practices of poultrytuen In general However, this test did not attempt to prove that there are not flocks throughout the country which have and will produce layers from pullet bred pullets, which layers In the first year will show a much lower mortality mor-tality and will produce eggs In profitable quautitles. Many poultrymcn hold to the be lief that pullets In perfect health and full egg-lay are far more de slrable as breeders than bens that are run down from heavy yields and, therefore, more susceptible to disease. On the other hand, some poultrymen believe that hena that have successfully passed a year of heavy yielding are more desirable for reproduction purposes. Breeding pens will soon be ar ranged for spring reproduction pur poses and some of these pens will become the tests for proof of . suc cess or failure both as to the use of young or old birds. Depreciation, Labor and Mortality, Cost of Eggs The three big items In the cost of producing the $12,000,000 worth or more of eggs that Illinois farm era sell every year are feed, depre ciation, which Includes mortality. and labor, according to records which twenty poultrymen kept dur Ing the past year In co-operation with the extension service of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Any flock owner who cuts down on these Items therefore will be go ing a long way toward getting a wider margin of net return out of the cash that he receives for his eggs, it Is pointed out by II. IL Alp, poultry extension specialist of the college. "Probably the best opportunity to reduce feed cost is to Improve the average egg production of each hen In the flock, as the good layers eat but little more feed than the medl ocre layers. Too many flocks carry about 20 per cent defaulters hens that start laying and then quit and It is tills class of birds which runs up the feed cost of a dozen eggs." Cod-Liver Oil Beneficial The use of a good grade of cod liver oil is most beneficial for chick raising and for adult birds, hut unless the best grades of oil are used the beneficial effects are missing, says the Los Angeles Times. For leg weakness, a table-spoonful, table-spoonful, well mixed in mash for thirsty chicks, will work wonders, while a teaspoonful given to a leg-weak leg-weak cock or ben will generally remedy matters. Breeding hens and male birds are always Invigorated by the use of cod liver oil. When Hen Goes Broody Broodlness usually follows a short period of Intensive laying. At the time the hen goes broody her ovary contains a number of well-developed egg yolks nearly ready to be detached and surrounded with albumen al-bumen and shell If bnidlness Is allowed to take Its natural course, these yolks will be re-absorbed, a process which definitely delays the time when egg laying can start again. The feeding of the broody hen should be planned to prevent Uiis re-abaorptlon. Chicken Farmers Few The average urbanlte, when allowing allow-ing his thoughts to dwell on the Idea of taking up farming, usually considers con-siders first the ides of poultry farming. farm-ing. The poultry farmer, however, is comparatively rare among agriculturists. agri-culturists. A census taken by the Department of Agriculture discloses that out of the 6,000,000 farms In the United States only about 22,000 have flo ks of 1,000 or more chickens. chick-ens. About 5.000,000 farms have less than 200 chickens. Like "First-Cross" Chicks Within the past few years there has developed a considerable demand de-mand amo;:g soutLern California egg farmers for "first cross" chicks, produced by mating Anstralop males with White Leghorn females, pedl greed stock being used on both sides. Itecognlzed authorities are of the opinion that a "first-cross" between standard bred parents can be made an Important factor in Increasing In-creasing constitutional vigor In the progeny. Los Angeles Times. Traveler' A!I Work The first nonscctarlan committee, organized to do travelers' aid work grew out of the plans for the St. Louis exposition In 1004. A member mem-ber of the Young Women's Christian Chris-tian association saw a need for placing the unco-ordinated work In New York city on such a eo-opera-tlve and nonsectarlan basis, and Id' 1005 she brought about the formation forma-tion of a committee of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish women, to make a survey of the work In that city. The resulting nonsectarlan, noncommercial Travelers' Aid society so-ciety of the city of New York thus became the first independently organized or-ganized agency for the protection and assistance of travelers. Teaching Deaf to Speak - Deaf children long have been taught to speak, but to teach them to speak In a voice that sounds normal nor-mal has been a cause for discouragement discour-agement among instructors, because the children have no idea of sound. The problem has been In teaching them correct accents and Inflections. Inflec-tions. Many of the deaf children speak In a curiously dull monotone, without proper expression. With the aid of electrical amplification the pupils learn better bow the normal nor-mal voice sounds, and are quick to Imitate the Inflections snd expressions expres-sions of the normal voice. 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