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Show THE PAGE TWO he bad made no provision for the future by biding or Investing bis booty and graft elsewhere. And bis doom bad come npon him so suddenly that he bad bad no time to remove It Only that morning be bad been a king, ruler over this domain, with none to dispute bis power. And then, In the space of a score of hours, Go Ahead had swept the gronnd from under bis feet and brought him face to face with utter ruin. Half a day longer, If Go Ahead lived, would complete bis destruction and, even If Go Ahead did not live, the web about blm bad become so close that the most lhat be could hope lo do was to save something from the wreck. Backward and forward, from office to arroyo, he wandered, straining his eyes and bis ears for anything that would betoken the coming of the band. And when at last It came be was there to meet it "Wade!" be called. "That you? . . . Bully The sun'U be up in half an hour. You ain't got a minute to lose." "Everything all right?" "Yes. All right If you move quick. They're at Bridget's, fast asleep. The soldiers are at the Move, quiet other end of the town, but you don't want to wake them." Wade shook bis bridle reins. "Vou goin' wltb us?" be questioned. mustn't be seen. I'll be at "No, the office to look out for things In case of trouble. Hurry I" Five minutes later Bridget's was surrounded, and Wade, with half a dozen helpers, was raging through the rooms, holding up the sleeping men, questing the place for Go Ahead and Stella and not finding them. At last be found Bridget And she laughed at blm. "Faith I" she said. "It's too late entirely you are. I'm thlnkin' that It's too late you always are In dealin' with Go Ahead an' Bob. It's balf a dozen hours since they went away." Bridget shrugged her shoulders. She could make allowance for Wade's condition and for his disappointment. "Search for yourself." she Invited. "But you won't And them. It's the truth I'm tellin' you." "Where did they go?" "Sure, they didn't tell me." The words were literally true. They bad not told her; she bad told them. "Wade's pistol went up. "Tell me quick I" he ordered. "Tell or " didn't tell mel "Thej Sure, wouldn't tbey be the foolish ones to tell me when they knew you were coin-Ito ask?" "They didn't know it" "Then why did they go away with the soldiers, leavln' two doughboys to ratisfy whoever might be watchln' about the house? Oh I You needD't be lookin' for thlm soldier boys; tbey went away an hour or two later. . . . It's beaten you are, an' If you'll take an old woman's advice the quicker you get away from here an' out of the country the better It'll be for you. An' that's the God's truth." A man one of Barker's men-b- urst Into the room. "Barker's here looking for you, Captain," be cried. Just 'phoned from the "Somebody's ranch that the man an' Boh are there." TIMES-NEW- Friday, October 19, 1928 NEPHI. UTAH S, placed ; and Cthe Ward Of A Robbers1 Roost CCtTTCVDEN MARRIOTT C W. O. Ohapman. WNU Service CHAPTER XI Continued 22 I I AAA Two-third- 1 d Real Womanhood Admired I know a woman who Is naturally thoroughly feminine, and has many of those gentle qualities which make men marvel. Suffrage bas changed her somewhat: she bss heard about tier believes she bas wrongs until some. In addition, she Is a spinster, and somehow tioids the men responsible for that Still, she has frequent Cashes of beautiful natural womanhood, snd the men love to hang around and admire her. There la nothing the men admire to morti as 1 ... CHAPTER XII While Wade and bis men were riding to Lobovllle, Go Ahead and Stella were riding eastward, wltb Caesar at their heels. Stella bad been mad to get away from the town. The terror that had poized her while she waited wltb the soldiers outside Barker's office had not left her. Barker had been beaten again beaten by herself this time; and Go Ahead believed tbat he was done for. But Stella bad heard too many tales of the sheriffs methods to credit this; In the old days she hud enjoyed these stories, hut now the memory of them terrified her. That Barker would never again attack Go Ahead directly this the believed; but that he would try to assassinate him she did not doubt Uow he would set about It she could not guess; If she could have guessed she would have been less troubled. That he had already summoned Wade lo do the work for hlin he of course did not know, any more than she knew that the hotel was to be attacked before dawn. She knew only that Go Ahead was In desperate danger so long as be stayed In Lobovllle, and she was determined to get hlin out of It And when she succeeded a load was lifted off her mind. All the rent of the night they rode anmolested, tvneath the glinting deevrt moon, mil iL. close on to dawn, Luna dropped beoentb the horizon, leaving stars to mitigate only the the darkness. Later came the actual dawn with the grotesque shapes of vegetation silhouetted against the roty flush of the eastern horizon. And beyond these rose the low building! of Barker's ranch. (TO EE CONTINUED.) low-hon- Skin of Hippopotamus The average thickness of (he skin of a hippopotamus Is two Inches. real womanhood much dl.-lik-e K. W. ; as the nothing they so new Dapper type. Howe's Monthly. International Fishery The catch of cod on the North American Atlantic coast has avert aged 1 .103,000,000 pounds yearly for the Inst 30 years. It Is estimated. The fish Is International, Newfoundland tsklng 40 per cent of the catch, Canada, 20 per cent; France, IT per cent; United States, 13 per cent, and rorta-fal- , 2 per cent a Privihg to Livs in Utah ahfc j CEDAR CITY Iron county ranks third in production of eheep and wool. The county has 180,000 sheep, worth $2,016,000. The wool clip in 1927 totaled 1,584,000 pounds, valued at . $526,400. MOAB Juab county ranks first In production of silver, second in copper, third In gold and third in total value of minerala mined. With, twenty-eigh- t producing mines operating in 1927, the total production of gold, silver, copper, 658,852.25. MORGAN Morgan county produced 10,000 tons of alfalfa hay, valued at $92,000, in 1927. It also produced bushels of barley, 60,000 bushels of potatoes, 49,000 bushels of spring wheat and 30,000 bushels of winter wheat, besides good crops' of other grains and vegetables.. MYTON Horace W. Shelby of My-towater commissioner for TJintah basin, reports that the" present duty of 1 Wade's passion still was high. "Bob's sold ds out," be raved. "Barker sends word tbat she has, an Green has just owned up to It. Barker says we've got Just one chance. He says be knows that Bob has told this Go Ahead most everything; but he's not sure she's told him bow to find the Roost yet or that he's passed It on to the soldiers. Lie and she are stay in' at Bridget's tonight, an' If we can get there before daylight we can catch 'era asleep and end things for good and all. Then the doughboys can go plumb to; they ain't never found the Roost an' they never will till somebody shows, 'era the way. Who'll go with Die to get" 'em?" s of the men shouted acclaim ; the rest were hesitant. On the outskirts of the crowd the wailing of the women sounded. Wade guessed Uiat some were hold; Ing bock. "Uow ninny won't go?" he yelled. "Dow many sneaks and cowards have we got here? Speak up now Show your colors." No one spoke. To speak out alone was to face Instant death, every one knew It. And to speak out with others would probably be to provoke a battle whose result no mad could guess. Wade's lips curled back from .his teeth. "Nobody, eb?" he cried. "All want to go? All right, we'll all go. Get your guns and horses and all the cartridges you can pack. Be back In five minutes. Any man that tries to hide and sneak out of going will be dragged out and hanged. Understand that, all of you. Now go, quick I" Like a covey of quail flushed by the dogs the men scattered. And in less than five minutes they were back Wade, ;6galn, mounted and ready. who was a born leader whatever else be may have been, rasped his orders. "Omaha Kit, Broncho Smith, Two-Gu- n Neal and Toady Pete will stay here to man the machine gun ami Black Ames will bold the entrance. come along as my lieutenant. Where's Ames?" "Here." "All right Start your men. Get 'em outside the valley. I'll follow as quick as I see tbat nobody's skulkln'." Probably nobody skulked, though Wade made no attempt to search the camp to see. lie believed that bis words would be sufficient warning, and In any event he bad no time to spare. Close behind the last man be rode out beneath the waterfall. To the top of the column be raced. "Straight ahead, Ames," he ordered. Ton know the way. I'll hang behind an' see tbat no white-liverepup slips away. Get to the North Arroyo before dawn. Stop there while I see Barker. Go I" It bad taken Ave hours for Barker's messengers to reach the Boost; and It took all of five more for Wade's cavalcade to get to Lobovllle, Through the long ride Wade hung behind, now on one flank and now on the other, shepherding bis men with sadden death lurking In bis eyes. If any of the riders bad thought to slip away they noted bis vigilant figure and thought better of It probably hoping for a safer chance later. The band reached the arroyo as strong as when It left the Uoost Long before it arrived, Barker, almost as mad as Wade with anxiety, and denied the relief that Wade bad obtained from vigorous exercise and Imperative watchfulness, had quit bis office and hurried to the rendervous and back, not once but many times. Barker had. In fact, more to lose than Wade or any other member of the bandit troop. Few of the latter were generally known and few of them had any Important possessions to lose. If the worst came to the worst they could scatter lo the four winds, leaving little behind The Mexican border, close at hand, offered easy passage to safety. Some of them, perhaps had become attached to their homes and women and children at the Roost and would regret Inning (hem; but these were few and practically all of them would soon get over tbelr regret. Barker, on the other hand, bad everything to lose Tears of success bad made him overconfident he had thonght that be could never be. dis News Notes '" ill 62,-00- 0 M- - . n, to 220 acres, water, one second-foo- t will continue until October 15. Thereafter Indian land will be entitled to one second foot to 1000 acres, and the balance of the water will be divided, according to acreage, among irrigation companies. OGDEN Weber county beet raisers with the are immensely pleased weather conditions which have prevailed for about two days. The rain which began falling has been continuous and a heavy snowfall is reported from Huntsville. The greater part of the snow that has fallen in Ogden has melted almost as it fell, but the moisture remains and is appreciated. SALT LAKE Approximately 2000 carloads of sugar beets will be moved to the various sugar factories over the Salt Lake & Utah railroad, A. J. Anderson traffic manager announced. This will be an increase over last year of about 200 or more carloads, he said. Besides sugar beets, apples and green tomatoes are being moved east and west Mr. Anderson said the apples are going to California. HEBER. CITY The report states that the crop in the state is now estimated at 6,892,000 bushels, as compared with 5,678,000 of wheat for 1927. Hay production is estimated at 1,612,-00- 0 tons. Records show the estimate in October, 1927, was 1.547,000 tons. Mr. Andrews' report Indicated that the potato crop has reached 3,260,000 bushels. The potato estimate last year was 2,970,000. CENTERVILLE Among the win-rr- s from Davis county at the Utah state fair agriculture exhibit are Thomas Thurgood of Clearfield, first place on wheat and barley; William Potter of Farmington, first place on corn; C. R. Egbert of Centervllle, first place on walnuts and almonds; William L. Rigby of Centerville, first place on melons, sheaf grasses, Elberta peaches and bumper crop oats. RICHFIELD The beet harvest has Just started in Sevier valley. According to S. R. Boswell, county agricultural agent, the favorable growing season of the past few weeks has materially helped the crop to mature. It Is anticipated the sugar beet factory, near Elsinore, will commence operations by October 10, the usual date for opening the bins for beet storage. Cutting and sugar refining will start at a later date. PROVO The outlook for this season's crop production In Utah based upon Information available up to October 1, is for larger production than that of a year ago, Frank Andrews agricultural statistician for tha United States department of agriculture, announced. "The wheat crop of the state is now estimated at 6.892.000 bushels, compared with 6,678,000 in 1927. All hay Is estimated at 1,612,000 tons, as compared with the final crop of tons for last year. OGDEN District Forester R. H. Rutlcdge and his assistant. Raymond E. Grey, have returned to Ogden from a visit to the Kaibab forest In northern Arizona, where they made an Inspection of the summer and winter ranges. The officials report that the ranges are In poor condition and that docs and fawns are In correspondingly bad shape because of lack of forage. The forest also Is said to be overcrowded with deer, which prevents the young trees from getting a start. On tha opening day of the hunting season about forty bucks were killed, according to the officials. The hunters numbered about 130 and 60 per cent of them were from California. . IIAILEY The sheep Industry has more to do In lilaine county with the farmers getting out of debt, buying automobiles and educating their children than anything else, according to II. H. Neal, cashier of the First National bank, of llatley. BUHL October 1 Is the date wben turkeys are started on the fattening process, which lasts about three weeks, providing birds for the market from three to four weeks ahead of the time William Hazzard of HuhL desired. first of the Idaho Turkey growers association, has had a flock ranging In the grain fields on his ranch In Snake River canyon northwest of here for several weeks and has Just put them on fattening foed In order that the first choice birds may be ready for the Thanksgiving market . vice-preside- (Copyright. W. N. U.) Thus the still cling to Halloween. of bonfires serves the double lighting Halloween purpose of keeping away devils, 'TPlS the night wben small folk walk bewitches and other mischief-makin4fc Happy in disguise ings, In accordance with the belief of Tie the night when wan ghosts stalk the early Christians, and It also perWith their glowing eyest From the fence, the black cats scream petuated the druidical custom of lightIn the moon's pale light. ing fires in honor of the sun god in It is like a fairy dream j thankfulness for the harvest. The HaUoween tonight t use of apples and nuts In our present Pumpkins, yellower than gold; Halloween celebrations Is a survival on the pane; Devils dashing thither, bold; of the druid ceremonies In which Maidens in their train these edibles represented the winter Bells and whistles ring and roar store of fruits for which the sun god On the still night air. f was, thanked. They were also used Of such fun, could Saints of Yore, In the divinations and consulting of Then have been aware ? omens which gradually became a part t Much confetti whirled like snow What mimic wart of the celebration of this festival yelling, on they go, J Dancing, which was so tinged with superstition On, parading morel Indeed, In by the early Christians. and painted to the ears; J Masked some countries, Halloween js also Blackened, daring eyesl Halloween can bold no fears known as "Nutcrack Night" because If you are in disguise. of the custom of using nuts as a in Miskimin Seldon Poetry. George 0 means of discovering tbe course love affairs will take. In regard to tbe use of nuts In the Halloween festival an early writer belief that these spirits of darkness, driven from their old haunts, had observes: "The first of November taken refuge In caves and caverns seems to retain the celebration of a where they held ghostly revelry all festival to Pomona, when it Is sup- -' the year 'round, but on Halloween posed the summer stores are opened they came out to practice their magic on the approach of winter. Divinations and consulting of omens attendand do harm to men. Good people were always In great ed all these ceremonies In the prac-- ; dread of these evil spirits, and there tlce of the heathen. Hence, .In the. was much awed whispering as Hal- rural sacrifice of nuts, propitious loween approached. Some came forth omens are sought touching matrimony:' as copper-colorebirds to kill farm If the nuts tie still and burn together, animals. Some stole babies, leaving It prognosticates a happy marriage or in their place changelings, goblins a hopeful love; If, on the contrary,! who were old In wickedness while still they bounce and fly asunder, tbe sign Is nnpropltlous. I do not doubt but! In the cradle. Sometimes they would steal a bride to take her to their the Scotch fires kindled on this dayj dark lair, wlille the bridegroom be- anciently burnt for this rural sacrifice." moaned her disappearance. If one wished to escape the lurking Apples are used In various ways n devils on this day he must not permit the divination ceremonies. It was be-- j To lleved that if a maiden ate an apple himself to be caught unaware. give a stranger milk or fire, to bring before a mirror, brushing her hair the home a fiery thorn, to listen to ghostly while, the face of her future husband music might deliver one Into their could be seen In the mirror peeping hands. And If one went to the spirit over her shoulder. Among the Irish realm, he would rind upon his return there were certain conditions attached that hundreds of years had elapsed, to this ceremony. The girl must steal, and that he himself had become aged, an aprde for use in the ceremony and also steal a knife with which to pare decrepit and blind. No wonder, then, that the good It Then, standing before the mlrror people took every precaution to drive at midnight she would repeat "With away the powers of evil. Torches, this stolen knife, I pnre this stolen' when carried from west to east apple and as I cast the paring overj would send them scurrying away my life shoulder I command that the through the air. In Scotland the vil- face of my lover appear." It was also lage youths were wont to go from believed that If man or maiden at Halhouse to house on Halloween crying: loween time should throw the paring "Ge's a peat t' burn the witches." To over the shoulder upon falling to the tie red thread around the throat to ground It would forta the letter of) sew a slip of witch elm In the doublet, the name of the future husband or! to hold up a wand made from the wife. rowan tree, nil served to protect one In Scotland was observed the cere--' from magic. mony of pulling kale stocks, or stalks! It wns a terrible thing to be born of colewort Voting people were led In Ireland the story Is hand In band, blindfolded, Into the on Halloween. still told of the fate of Red Mike, kaleyard, or garden, and each pulled who "was a queer one from his birth, the Crxt stalk he met with ; they then an' no wonder, for he first saw the returned to the fireside to Inspect IlKlit atween dusk on' dark o' a Haltheir prize As the stalk was big or At a party a tet little, straight or crooked, to should loween eve." proved Mike's soul to be nil black be the future wife or husband; the and foul. In anger be cried, "I've the quantity of jlrd (earth) clinging to gift o night. I have, an' on this day the root Indicuted the tocher (wealth), I or dowry; tbe taste of tbe my curse can Mnst whatever pith or choose." At that the priest showed a custock Indhated the temper. Then cruclfl and he rnn swn howling, to the runts, or stalks, were placed over dlsnppenr through a bog Into the the dw,r, and the Christian names ground. of the first to enter thereafter were The pagan origin of the festival Is those of the Individuals whom the reseen In many of the traditions which spective parties were to marry. jfc.jfrjjcjfrjft By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Drawing by M. G. Kettner. HE history of Halloween bears a curious resem blance to that of some of the other red letter days on our calendar, notably St Valentine's Easter day, day and Christmas day, in that it was originally a pagan festival which was taken over and Incorporated Into Christian religious observances and later changed so much that a great deal of its religious significance was lost. As a result. Its traditions are a mixture of the pagan and the Christian, considerably modified In recent years by modern commercialism. Halloween had Its origin In the respect and homage paid by ancient cations to the sun. The pagans of those days, whether Egyptian, Greek or Roman, assigned a place of great Importance In their pantheon to the Bun god, the giver of light and heat and life. The sun marked out for them the time of work and the time of rest; it divided the year Into seasons ; It made possible bounteous crops of grain and fruits and under its warming rays flourished all that was beautiful and splendid on this earth. So It was only natural that the early pagan should set aside a day of grief for the ending of summer when his beauty and splendor declined under the frosts and winds of the coming winter, when the earth fell under the spell of the evil powers and was not to be free from them again until the corolng'of spring. But mingled with this grief over the passing of summer was the Joy which he felt as he beheld the golden harvest of the autumn and In his heart he felt a song of thanksgiving for the ripened grain and fruit The deity to whom the Romans were accustomed to render their thanks for these gifts was the goddess, Pomona, and they were accustomed to set apart October 31 or November 1 In her honor as a festival day In which nuts and apples, representing the winter tore of fruits, figured prominently. The nnclent drulds also held their autumn festival on or about November 1 and lighted fires In honor of their sun god In thankfulness for the harvest They believed that on the eve of this festival, Suman, lord of death, called together the wicked souls who had been condemned within the past year to Inhabit the bodies of animals. Thut the mnln celebration of Halloween In some countries Is derived straight from these druid ceremonies Is shown by the fact that In parts of Ireland October 31 Is still called "Oidhche Slinmlina" or the In general, though, Vigil of Sliamnn. Halloween represents a Mending of the druid autumn festival and the Roman festival In honor of Pomona. With the coming of Christianity this feast day, as were many other pngiin festivals, wns appropriated by the early Christian lenders and All Snlnts or Ail Souls' day. These leaders could not easily deny the exigence of the pngiin gods and convince new converts to the faith, but they explained them ns Hie children of evil, their power thai of black rootle. So It enmc to be the universal e Tree Planting Nine of the thirty-fou- r slates co operating wltb the federal govern men! 'n the distribution of forest planting stock under thi reforesting law. provslons of the Clatke-McNardistributed 90 per cent of the total. For the year 1927 the totnl distribution w I Wl,020,rcn trees leaders In re forest rat Ion sre Pennsylvania and Ntw Vork, which distributed 65 per cent of the total number of trees fr 3ft 3fc 3fr jfc 3fr JOfr )M g i Spool-tac- 3 d distributed by the cooperating states New York's totnl being 2.1,.1t'J,fKK) and Pennsylvania 14.':no,XK). The thl largest dlstrlhu ion was made bv Massachusetts with 8.5ir,0.17; the fourth by Ohio wltb 272.0f)0 ; the fifth by Vermont with 2.0S.S.OU0; the sixth by New Hampshire with l.fWl.fXX; the seventh by Wisconsin with 1,004.000; the eighth If Connecticut with 1,34 V ninth l New Jersey wltb 000, snd Censut Shows U. S. Growth In good oculist the first census In I70C tbe popo-latlo- n was only a.frifiH. In 1920 the ennmeratloo showed there were Inhabitants In tbe Unlled Stales. In 1010 the total was 61.972,-2f!making an Incersse for the decade from 1010 to 1920 of 1.1,7384. If, as hss been estimated, the total for tbe continental United States dnrlne tbe coming census the I20 0oo,nnr mark, tbe Increase for n.ta rWri wilt he slightly grester-Wsshln- aton Star. 0, pe l,ir.2"rfX). Experience Is V I J .A-- |