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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- I Sylvia of the Minute Dodd. Uni and It near give pneumonia yet! Yes, anyhow!" The stranger made a sound expressive of his sympathy. For a while they drove In silence. "Funny thing happened In the bank today," Mr. Schwenckton resumed con"When I went In to versationally. get a check cashed " He stopped short In consternation how tactless to mention having cashed a check ! "What was It?" asked his companIn my chest STORY FROM THE START and fastidious Handsome, wealthy young St. Croix Creigh-flo- n awaits his sweetheart at their trysting place. She Is late, this ordinary little Pennsylvania Dutch girl, Meely Schwenckton. Despite her seeming; Innocence and Ignorance, she succeeds In keeping him at a distance, to his chagrin. Meely, In the Schwenckton home, where she Is boarding, Is altogether unlike the girl who meets St. Croix clandestinely. She is the teacher In the neighborhood school, of Marvin which Crelghton, St. Croix' brother, is superintendent. Marvin was to learns that Meely have married his cousin, a titled English lady, but, believing she was attracted by the Creighton wealth, had refused the alliance. It Is the rumor that St. Croix is to take Marvin's place and marry the English girl. St. Croix' Jealousy Is aroused by Meely's report of an aged suitor for her hand. The girl cleverly decoys him into admitting he has no Intention of Marvin visits marrying her. school In his official capacity as and discovers superintendent little Meely how shockingly knows about school teaching. CHAPTER IV Continued 10 "No," she decided, "for he Is really fastidious and Nettie's a hopelessly common little thing. And yet. If he can stand me and the dope I hand out to him" She did not know, however, that St. Croix, to his own wonder, never felt that she was "common" or vulgar; not even when she manifested the Intelligence of a sheep or twisted the English language until his nerves were rasped ; not even when she sat sprawling ungracefully with her feet far apart, nor when, after tasting an apple, she drew the back of her hand across her mouth. She was a good actress, but there was that something inherent that nothing could disguise ion. "Not much a dollar or so. I spent It," said Mr. Schwenckton pointedly. "I mean what was the funny thing that happened?" ' "Oh, that! Well, a lady standin' In the bank she handme of alongside ed in a check and the banker he said to her, 'What denomination?' and she says sort of snappy, 'Well,' she says. 'I'm a Presbyterian, but I don't see what business It Is of yourn,' she says." The laugh In which they Joined over this yarn seemed to establish between them more confidence. Mr. Schwenckwas sorry ton, always warm-heartehe had been feeling so suspicious of a fellow man and tried to atone by being as friendly as possible. "Was you ever to New York, Mis- ter?" "Yes." "That's a place I never seen. . But my brother he wits always set on seein' this here New York oncet, that you can read so much about in the papers. So at last his missus she says to him, she says, 'Pop,' she says, you're gettin' on In life and If you don't go soon to this here New York, you'll be too old to go.' So, then, he said he'd go oncet. So she helped him get ready and start off. 'Now, mind you, write,' she says to him, 'and tell me how you like it.' So after a couple of days she got such a pitcher post card from him and he'd wrote on it. 'Mom, Yi, yi, yl, yl ! Pop.' " Again their joint laughter seemed to bring them sympathetically close. Since leaving the lighted town, the had been very dark, for the road It was Just when, relieved of Aunt night was cloudy and starless. Ttosy's espionage, Meely was begin"Where do you want out, stranger?" ning to feel, in spite of ttie dangerous Mr. Schwenckton presently inquired. more Marvin of Crelghton, proximity As he spoke, he took his hand from at her ease, less Insecure in her equivon ocal position, that, that very eve- the steering wheel to have a glance at his watch and as he did so, the ning when she sit in the warm, bright kitchen, peacefully writing letters, she man beside him gave an uneasy start. With a shock of some horror, Mr. was to find the complexity and Schwenckton's fingers found an empty of her situation greatly increased by the .outcome of an episode pocket where his watch should have which was, at that same hour, in Its been! Instantly he stopped his jerked out his revolver. "Now. Inciplency on a Sunbury street corner, you hand out that there watch then, miles distant. eight and then you run for your life!" he Mr. Sam Schwenckton. having finshouted. ished the business which had taken The man Mm to town, was about to enter his obeyed with nlacrity. car parked on the edge of the town, thrusting the watch into the farmer's outstretched hand, leaping from the and start for home, when a man standcar and disappearing in the blackness ing on the corner, apparently waiting of the road. for a trolley car, approached him. Mr. Schwenckton, greatly shaken "Pardon me how often do thee cars run?" the man Inquired in a tone by so narrowly escaping being man of extreme Irritation. 'Tve been waithandled by a ttiug. his soul heavy with sadness at the desperate wickedness ing here twenty minutes!" "It don't run no cars on this line of man, went on his solitary way. after seven o'clock. Mister. This here musing on his own folly In having let his kindness of heart get the better trolley line ain't doln' much business of his prudence. anyhow, so it stops till seven a'ready. You must be a stranger here ain't? "It ain't safe to take up strangers or you'd o' knowed that." these days that It ain't! And me, "No but I seldom use the trolley. was always too trusting that way! Today, however, I had to leave my auWell, this, here's certainly a lesson to tomobile at the repair shop. Are you, me ! lie kind to your by any chance, driving out this road?" yes up to the danger point. That's "Yes, eight mile out." all the further a fellah darst be a "Will you. then, for a consideration, Christian these days !" let me go with you?" His despair over the perfidy of our Now as the night was raw and wet. human nature deepened as he reflectMr. be Schwenckton felt, It would, ed upon the "gentility" of the thief: only a Christian act to offer this his "nice" voice, his "educated" stranger a seat In his car. Also, he speech, his "polite manners" what liked company, some one to talk to with his "lU'g pardon," "Thank you drive. Hut the newson an eight-milvery much " papers were so full of holdup stories "A slick one, he was! I can't never and he was carrying a good ileal of trust no one's appearances again!" wouldn't he be taking money thought Mr. Schwenckton with a sorchances? "That's the rowful 8linkfr.fjJUMend. The man looked so decent, however worst liari tjoes he spreads dimhim seen in be of could the (what made in the abroad a ness) and Mr. Schwenckton had, as Image of Oawdr"" always when he traveled at night, Fifteen minutes later Mr. Schwenckbrought his revolver with him ton, usually the most placid of men, He felt In his pocket and surrepconfronted his family In the kitchen. titiously moved his pistol from his right-hanpocket to his left. x "I wouldn't want no slch a 'consideration,' Mister. Just so's you ain't one of these here thugs you can rend about In the papers " correspondent's The mun laughed. "You're twice iu answering n query, "What relation are the my size. If I can trust you not to hold of first rowdns to each othert roe up, I guess you're safe I" All What relation to me Is my first cou"Yes, I guess that's so too. sin's child?" the Pathfinder Magazine right. Come on, then." says : Mr. Schwenckton felt rather cheated when he found that the stranger, "Ileckonlng cousin relationships Is simple If you start out right. A couthough sociable and agreeable enough, sin Is one collaterally related by dewas not going to repay his hospitality by satisfying his curiosity as to who scent from a common ancestor, but not a brother or sister. Children of brothAll the leading questions he was. ers and sisters are first cousins to with which the farmer plied him reone another: sometimes they are ceived evasive answers. This seemed own cousins, or called couslns-cermnn- , to Mr. Schwenckton so suspicious that he frequently felt In his left hand full cousins. The children of first cousins ore 'second cousins' to one anpocket to be ready In case of need. other; children of second cousins are However, he tried to put his ar?1" henslons aside and to beguile the ride third cousins to one another, and so on. The child of one's first cousin Is with friendly talk. a first cousin once removed; the "?o your car had to go to the shop, grandchild of one's first cousin Is a hebr first cousin twice removed, and so on. "Yes, worse luck !" "When I first got rry car I drove Confusion sometimes arlss from the till I got the cold custom of some people who speak of hr and drove preca-riousne- fellah-creature- e H"iiiian i - looking so white and agitated that Meely and Nettle sprang up greatly startled, and even Susie looked at him inquiringly. "I was held up and robbed!" be announced. "Not two mile up the road yet!" "Ach! Was you hurt?" cried Nettle in a fright, running to him. "No, I ain't hurt. And I ain't lost nothin' neither! I held the crook up and got back what was stole off of me! That's what I done!" "Ach, Pop!" Nettle gasped In mingled terror and admiration. "Good thing I took my rewolwer with ! It ain't safe, these rough times, to travel at night without a gun along!" He told them, then, as he removed his hat, coat and gloves. Just what happened giving his story a dramatic climax. " 'Now, then,' I says to him, 'you hand out that there watch and then you run for your life!' I says. And he did! With that there rewolwer of mine in his face, he done what I tol' him and pretty quick about it too! Yes, and I guess he's runnin' yet !" "Yes, well, but," Susie stolidly spoke to him over her shoulder, "you didn't take your watch along. You let It at home. You forgot It. There It lays." She thrust her thumb backward toward a small shelf which held a convenient comb and brush for family use. Her husband stared at her Incredulously as she calmly rocked her sleep- ing infant then, desperately hoping to prove her words false, he fearfully drew from his pocket the watch he demanded from the stranger, and slowly, reluctantly, he let his eyes fall upon It It was not his ! Such a watch It was as he could never hope, nor even wish, to own. Gold, jeweled, initialed. In a stride he stood before the shelf and beheld his own accusing watch. "I was sayin' to Nettie," said Susie, "that you'd be awful put out at goin' without your watch along." "And I never oncet missed it!" the wretched man murmured. "I?ut why, my lands!" faltered Nettie, "this here's got an awful look! like as if you'd held that there man up and stole his watch. Pop!" "And I don't know who' It Is to give It back !" Mr. Schwenckton's voice was agonized. "If I never find him. It'll make me feel awful conscientious to keep his watch ! YI, yi, yl !" he shook his head and began agitatedly to pace the length of the kitchen. "Oh, you'll have no trouble finding him, Mr. Schwenckton," said Meely encouragingly. "He'li of course report to the police and they'll easily trace you up." "Yes, and arrest me for a thief yeti" exclaimed Mr. Schwenckton. "I'll tellyou!" cried Meely. "You report to the police, Mr. Schwenckton, and tell them of your mistake and that you want them to find the man. That will si mr you.". Mr. Schwenckton stopped In his agitated walking to and fro, and looked "You're got at Meely admiringly. I didn't the head on you, Meely! think that far myself. Education's a a grand help to a body In this here life! That's what I'll do this self- same minute!" He went to the telephone, but found the line "busy." "I)elay may be fatal '" said Meeley anxiously. "You must report It before he does. He has had a good deal of time already all the time you've been home unloading your car and putting It In the garage and the time you've been In the house " "Yes, well, but I don't think he'll be reportin' It wery soon I started him on a good run and I guess lie' still runnin'!" It was at this Instant that they were all startled by a rap on the kitchen door, and before anyone could answer It, the door oiened and a wet, beyoung draggled and very man almost staggered Into the room, closing the door behind him and leaning against It heavily." (TO BI CONTINUED tired-lookin- xxx xi:xxi xx frxxxx'ixxx'XixTx - - - Rules That Govern Kinship of Cousins chil-drv- ar I PANGUITCH 1'resent prospects fori abundant crops next summer are no promising, according to careful check; of precipitation to date. Although the section received as much early snow as usual, many midwinter storms of other parts f the state have been missed by Panguitch., This fact, linked with the reality that this section has had light snowfall for three winters past, makes the adequacy of next summer's water supply doubtful. A promising feature ot the outlook Is that heavy fall raius left the ground well saturated and has Insured good spring working conditions. Early range Is also very promising, due to the heavy fall rains and the snowfall to date. COALVILLE The annua,! financial statement of John E. Wright, county clerk of Summit county, has been filed with the county commissioners. The report shows a balance on hand In the the county treasurer's hands on December 31, 192V, ot $295,000, with the net resources ot the county amounting to $190,000. During the past year disbursements were made from the var ious funds as follows; General, $35,000 road, $20,000; widowed mothers' fund, $6000; poor fund, $6500; and fair fund, $500. In addition to the above disbursements $50,000 was expended from state road funds, principally n federal aid e work and at the first of the year a of $44,000 was left in this account. MYTON Under the direction of F. W. J. Meyer, supervisor of the Mid-vieand Arcadia districts of Duchesne county, work is In progress on the Lake Fork bridge. Mr. Meyer has a force of men making the necessary! Improvements as rapidly as possibleJ The foundation on the east side of; the bridge was washed out by the flood caused by the breaking of t'ue dam In the upper country a few weeks ago. The bridge will be raised and a cement foundation put In. The road has been graded from the Upalco flour mill west for several miles and a bridge constructed over a bad draw. OGDEN Weber county dairy farmers are planning to take a trip to Cache county early this month, under the direction of the Weber County Farm bureau. Equipment and arrangement of Cache county dairy barns will be studied, and in addition the matter of feed for dairy cows as carried out by Cache dairymen will be looked Into. The Weber county bureau also has decided to organize cow testing associations to test herds over definite periods to increase butterfat production. A survey of all cows In the county also is to be made. CITY BRIGHAM Goose Creek mountains, in the northwest part of Boxelder county, boast a lake that Isn't a lake. The summit of the range Is covered in summer for miles with lilies. The wind, blowing them, gives the Illusion of a huge lake. Ogden Value ot Utah livestock Increased during 1927 about $6,000,000, or 11 per cent, over the preceding year, according to the annual livestock report Issued Tuesda. by George A. Scott, statistician for the United States department of agriculture. The rise In values Is due largely to a sharp Increase In the per head value of cattle,' the report says. MYTON One of the Industries that is rapidly Increasing In the Uintah basin Is the cream and dairy business: One creamery company has receiving stations established at Vernal, Bonita, Altonah, Mt. Emmons, Roosevelt and Several of the farmers are Myton. Increasing tholr herds of milch cows, while others are beginning to engage In dairying. MOAR Approval of a continuation of the three-yea- r contract on the price to be paid for sugar beets drring 1924 was made Wednesday a' a meeting of the special committee of the Utah Sugar Beet Cooperative association and representatives ot six of the largest beet sugar concerns operating In this territory at a session held in Farm Bureau headquarters In the Dooley building. BRIGHAM City With a flow of more than 2000 gallons per minute, the test well recently sunk by tho First National bank of this city on the former J. C. Knudsen farm south of this city has proven more successful than was expected by the company, and will probably be the means of solving the problem of Increased Irrigation water for the drylots In and around Brlgham City. SAN of a high way between Big Wash and refers hill. In San Juan county, will not bs undertaken at the present time because of lack of funds, It was announced by the highway commission. The proposed road Is seventeen miles long. The estimated cost of the work Taste and Invention For generations past architecture has been so overladen with extraneous matter that many authorities actually preach that In this branch ot art It Is In bad taste to Invent. Correct architecture, they say, consists In reassembling borrowed merely All of which Is palpably ah forms. surd. If the Greeks bad thought so there never would have been any Greek art. On the contrary, architecture, now as ever, consists In solving problems of n'.lllty as economically and appropriately as may be, New York bun. Hi V oal-anc- re-re- nt sky-blu- e JUAN-Construc- the children and grandchildren of their first cousins as second and third cousins, respectively, but the practice Is only local. The correct and almost universal rule for reckoning cousins Is as we have given If," From Washington Family Bible I WNU BcrrtM ft Co. f Utah HELEN R. MARTIN ty News Notes It'a a Privilege to Live in 1 By OopyrlrM Friday, February 10, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH S, HEBEK Tho county flnancla' report of for the year ending December 31, as published by Alfred Sharp, county clerk, shows the county and the various funds in a healthy condition, with no bonded Indebtedness. The report follows: Fixed assets. $24,300; to erelit of various funds, $8.o5.64; dun county from state. $150; half salaries and other sources, $712; total resources, $9.4,218.-34- ; total liabilities, 115,747 95. The total receipts for the jear were $395.. 998. 2'j and the total disbursements, $327,941.66. with his firmly but considerately countrymen. He was slowly, whether he fully realized It or not, paving the sure way for the establishment of a republic in which no Dictator can have a place. Put Aside Crown. Was Virtually Dictator of Five years later General WashingNation as Commander ton proved his real greatness when he of Armed Forces. put aside the suggestion that he be crowned as the first ruler of the new One hundred and fifty years ago nation. The virus of military and dicthis nation had Its first and only Dic- tatorial power was not In his blood. tator. In the fateful winter of 1777 Nor should It be forgotten that he rethe outlook for the American colonists fused to accept compensation for his was dark and forbidding. Desponservices and went his way back to dency was general throughout the private life and his Virginia estates. young nation. It was then that conModern biographers have tried to gress, sitting at Philadelphia and show that he was a "man of flesh and realizing that something drastic must blood." Their methods, however, have be done, turned to a virtual dictatordone little more than emphasize the ship. essential greatness of a great AmeriIt established a Dictator, who was can. Nothing that has been written the first and las-- t in the annals of the about Washington will change the country. George Washington, the one characterizations of him by such men hundredth ninety-sixtanniversary of as John Richard Green and Sir Archiwhose birth Is celebrated this year, bald Alison. was then In the forty-fiftyear of liis Green declared: "No nobler figure life. To his hands, as commander in ever stood In the forefront of a nachief of the American forces, was intion's life." Alison wrote: "Modern trusted this vart authority. history has not a more spotles-- charFor six months the man who came acter to commemorate." to be the Father of Ilia Country was There was nothing of the Mussolini In Washington. Aristocrat given unlimited powers. He was authat he thorized to get whatever he needed was In many ways, he kept his faith for the use of his army. On this In democracy. lie was a general he might fix his own price. He was of the first rank and a statesman invested with powers of life and death with commanding qualities. WhatIn carrying out his orders. ever his faults, he had the wisdom to Never Abused Power. surrender the powers of a dictator-chiat the first opportunity and to Until that time the American army had met with many difficulties In renounce a kingship In favor of what dealing with the tories. Even from has become the greatest democracy In those supporting the Revolution It the long annals of the world. had been given little help. The dictatorship was expected to end thes? Washington's Stepchildren difficulties. To a very great degree As Mrs. Daniel Parke Custls, MarIt did. tha Washington was the mother of Washington. Dictator In fact as well four children, two of whom died In Inus in name, did not abuse his great fancy. The other two, John and powers. Ills conservatism, patience Martha, accompanied their mother to and wisdom carried the young nation Mount Vernon when she mnrrled through this darkest period of AmerGeorge Washington. Martha died at ican history. the age of seventeen and John died The unlimited confidence placed In at the close of the Revolution. Ills him by the Continental congress was two youngest children, Elennor and more than Justified. Not long after Washington Parke Custls, George he assumed this authority lie made were adopted by General and Mrs. his famous crossing of the Delaware Washington. and fonpht and won the bnttle of Trenton and smote the British again at Princeton. Perseverance and spirit have He WB not, for nil that he was dona wonders in all ages. America's Dictator, thinking In terms of a dictatorship. Whether In defeat George Washington. or In victory, he went along dealing Washington Given Unlimited Powers h s p Decried Bad Language in Army lton Is $81,000. Wasatch George Washington was born on February 11, and not on February 22, despite the fact that most histories agree on that date, according to Mrs. Harry Lee Rust of Washington, descendant of Washington, and president of the Wakefield Association for the Preservation of the Birthplace of Washington. In proof of her statement Mrs. Rust has produced a page from the Washington family Bible In which it Is stated that Washington was born "on the 11th day of February about 10 in the morning . . ." GENERAL ORDER S.sued by General Ccorgeshlnton fa "New York, ftfy 177 The General is sorry to be informed that' the Foolish and wicked practice of profane and swearing, a vice heretofore 'lutle known incursing an American amryris growing Into fashion. He hopes the officers will. by example as well as Influence, endeavor to check It. and that both they and the men will Teflecr. that we can have little hopv of the blessing of Heaven on our arms. If we insult H by our Impiety and folly. Added fo this. It is a vice so mean and low. without any temthat every man of sense and character detests ptation, a It. m inH A mc-r m Copy of general order on f.1. In the War department shows that the of the Cor.tin.nUl army was deeply oppc.d to promiscuous lit of bad Unguaps members of his command. U.d.r |