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Show THE PAGE TWO X I 1 is Upost GriHcnden Marriott. CHAPTER XIII Continued Ahead's side out of the valley; not be pleasant. But he But It was very truth not tried bard to be, and neither the the Bob that he hod traveled with and groups of bandits who scowled at the (ought with and lived with for ages party as it passed nor the machine gun sentinels by the waterfall pastn the thirty hours that had elapsed since he bad first met her tn the liv- sage questioned his friendliness, and ing room at the JB ranch. Gone was none of them were quite ready to try to stop tilm from going. the rough clothing, the After he and the other three had Bombrero, the high boots, the belt and revolver; gone In fuct was everything passed out of sight some of the men that had distinguished the Bob whom began to mutter that he was walking be bad known, everything except the off with the girl to obtain whom he had brought them into all this trouble, smooth sun burned cheeks, the appealBy some and was leaving them to hold the bag. ing eyes, the curly hair. magic the slim short boy had become But they were not sure of their a slim, tall girl. ground, no Immediate peril seemed to But Go Ahead knew her. Not tor threaten them, and they bad nc leadan Instant did he bother over strange ers; as a result, the suggestion that e they go after him and bring bim and resemblances and all such foolishness. He knew her be- his companions back fell to tire neath a hundred disguises be would ground. Go A mile south of the waterfall have known her. "Bob!" be cried flinging off his hat. And again "Bob!" Ahead halted. He had noticed sundry dust trails rising along the horizon. And with the going of his hat Stel"Go Ahead ! la knew him. she "Barker" he said, "I'll keep my gasped. Then abruptly her color fadpromise. It's entirely safe to set you ed and she crumpled down. .. free now, so I'll do it Beat it t" Go Ahead dropped bis gun and And Barker beat It, promptly, withcaught her as she fell. De, forgot all out an Instant's hesitation. about Barker. But Barker did not The three stood looking after him forget him. De sprang to his feet, with curious expressions, no two alike, and put his hands on the table to Jump en their faces. And at last Stella v over it , spoke. But he did not Jump; Caesar had "Are are you quite sure you arc Jumped, too, and bad snatched up Go right In letting him go, she Ahead's pistol as It fell. asked, hesitatingly. ' "Hoi on there, white man I" he "Quite. . . . Not that I think he'll gasped, ''Hoi' on there. You Jes' stay go very far. See those dust trails where you is till Mr. George gits there and there and there?" He ready to receive congratulations. You pointed. "That's Uncle Sara's cavalry. hear me?" men spotted Bobbers' Roost The And Barker stayed. Stella opened from flying an airplane day before yesterher eyes, and Go Ahead looked op. day, and the troops are closing In alt "Pretty near. Barker," he commented around. Barker may get out of the "Pretty near. But not quite. Just ring, but I don't think he will. He'll about two Jumps behind, as usual." probably be forced back to the Roost; Then Go Ahead looked at Caesar. and from what I heard the men say "Thank you, old man," he said. "You after I traded places with Antonio It's doggoned old skeesleks, you I" dollars to doughnuts that they'!! hang "You's welcome, Mr. George, suh. him the minute they know they're You's welcome. I Jes' natuly bad to trapped." butt In, stih. Couldn't no ornery white "And If he gets out?" trash pusson disturb yo' love makln'. "He won't get very far even then. suh." He's too well known. No, it's good by "Good enough I" Go Ahead reached to Sheriff Barker." out and took the revolver from Stella's eyes clouded. "It it was "Caesar's uncertain Angers. "Now you t for poor dad, too," she sit down, Caesar, and get all the rest breathed. "He's dead. Did you know "you can," he ordered. "You'll need It. it?" We're going to get out of here. . . "Yes. Wade shot him last night. Bob, dear, will you see bow many 1 men saying so. They the heard horses are outside?" wanted him back when It was too lute. Go Ahead knew perfectly well how But, believe me. Bob, dear. It has all many horses were there, but he wantturned out as be would have chosen. to ed give Stella something to do. She He would have taken death rather was still shaking from head to foot. than the alternatives." But his request brought her to her Several hours later, as the tired feet Instantly. To the door she horses plodded Into Mustin, Co Ahead " she said. turned to Stella. "Boh, dear," be "Five, stepped. "One of them has man tied to It. asked, "what time does the train for Oh, 1 thought It was you!" the East go through?" "It was once," Go Ahead grinned. I "Why. In In about an hour. "But that little knife of yours did the I told you." thought trick. It made a bully spur to bring "You did. And I was Just thinking on a fit of buckjumplog, and It cut the an hour was Just about long that ropes enough for the bronc to throw married. You know I me oft; and It finished the Job on the enough to get love you. Bob?" ropes before unsuspicious Tony came "And I love you, too. Go Ahead. back to put them up and then took I've But but I'm a a criminal. we had after traded place mj rob" clothes." "Forget It Bob, dear." Stella did not speak, but her eyes "Oh, don't I want to forget It! were adoring. Go Ahead blushed beneath them. Don't I want to forget It! And I want to marry you, but but I won't un"Oh, yes. the horses!" be muttered. "Well, we won't need but four. Tulnk lessunless you take all that money you can bang on to one of them. that I Inherited and that Barker wanted to marry me to get You will take Caesar? It won't you, " "Yessuhl Sure can." Go Ahead smiled. "I'll do whatever Go Ahead shifted his gnze to Barker. "Now, Barker," he said, "you're you want me to do. Bob." he said. "But well, there's the county clerk's going to escort us out of this valley, ofllce lu the courthouse where we can past the machine guns and all. And get a license; and there's the church " It without to do you're going -Waltl" Stella broke In. "Make him and parsonage alongside it ; and tf we want to catch that train we've got no do it pleasantly, she begged. "He threatened to kill ynu if I didn't time to spare. So" But as they got cn the train mnrry him In your presence, pleasantof nn hour later. Go Ahead somewas Intonation Stella's ly." was wondering uneasily how he whs what vixenish. "You're going to do It pleasantly, ever going to tell Bob that It was anBarket," amended Go Ahead. "In re- other girl altogether who had Inherturn I'll sot yon free as soon as It's ited that fortune and that ahe herselt "She shall never know entirely safe to do It; and I won't re- had nothing. It If I cno prevent It." he decided at port on your er activities, ontll last well, ftay until I find somebody to reI THE ENP1 port them to. Now I Let's go. And heaven help you if you make any trouElephant's Locomotion An elephant's pace, when exceeding ble on the way out." Barker made no trouble. The prom-I- s a walk, Is neither a trot nor a gallop, of freedom, however qualified, but a sort of shuffle, the speed of which Is Increased or diminished withplucked him out of the pit of despair. He was not pleasant as he rode by out change of gait Go he could 26 Stella In broad-brimme- d stock-in-trad- Go-ey- good-nigh- . Go-ey,- Go-ey?- Go-ey,- " three-quarter- Great Actress' Prank Farah Bernhardt, generally credited with never having laughed or Joked while on the stage, Is said to have played a prank on an actress, presumably Mrs. Patrick Campbell, In retaliation for a Joke the latter bad played on her. There was a acene wherein she had to grasp the hands of lira. Campbell, to help ber over the rock. Tbe astonished Mre. Campbell tfifrsvered that the "Divine raw egg and left Sarah" carded U crashed tn airs. Campbell's bands s W TIMES-NEW- (3fe X . News Notes i ' to a PriviUge Friday, November NEPI1X UTAH S. Liom in Utah COALVILLE North Summit high school, by its 13 to 0 victory over Wasatch county high recently, won the right to contest the winners of the western half of the division for the state tournament berth. BOISE Idaho shipped to Los Angeled last year 894,750 pounds of dressed poultry. Utah sent the southern California city 326,845 pounds. The two states together provide Los Angeles with 20 per cent of the dressed poultry consumed. SALT LAKE Utah shipped to Los Angeles last year 326,845 pounds of dressed poultry. Idaho sent the southern California city 894,750 pounds. The two states together provide Los Angeles with SO per cent of the dress. ed poultry consumed VERNAL About 250,009 sheep are being moved from the summer ranges in Colorado to the winter ranges in Utah, it was announced recently by Thomas Redmond, chief state sheep inspector, who has Just returned from the border. PROVO "If we had one more pheasant we would have our limit," remarked Bob Bullock to Wit Hoover as they were hunting in the vicinity of Spanish Fork recently. They had three and were returnalready ing to the marshes of Utah lake, ear Provo. PAYSON The annual stockholders'' meeting of tho Strawberry Water Users' asociation was held recently at the Nebo stake tabernacle, with President Lee R. Taylor in charge. A levy was made of 30 cents per acre-foo10 cents for operation and maintenance and 20 cents for a reserve, fund. 16, 1928 Year He's . reiiTnr J t, BRIGHAM CITY sistant chief engineer K. C. Wright asof the state road commission, who returned from tha Curlew valley during the week, said recently that the eight and one-hal- t miles of federal aid highway, designated as project 109-E- , running from the Utah-Idahline to the Curlew valley Junction, Is now completed. WASHINGTON Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of the Utah senator, died Tuesday at 7 a. m., after a long illness. She was 65 years old. Mrs. Smoot was the daughter of Horace F. Eldredge, Salt Lake pioneer, and Chloe A. Red-fielEldredge. She was born In Salt Lake sixty-twyears ago and was reared here, receiving her education at the University of Deseret MANTI A total of 170 deer have been killed by hunters in the Manti forest this year, according to word received by the state fish and game This is an increase of department. about 35 per cent over the same period last year. Forest rangers In the region anticipate that at least 225 deer will be killed before the season is over. SALT LAKE Moderately coo weather and showers of the last week have improved the grain outlook in Utah and germination of most sowings this fall Is now expected, according to the weekly crop report of J. Cecil Alter, government meteorologist Winter range forage has improved and large numbers of sheep have been moved to winter range. RICHFIELD R. Scott Zimmermann In charge of rodent control In Utah, Is vlstlng Sevier county In a campaign for control of porcupines In national forest areas. It Is claimed that this rodent Is very destructive of tree life and forage, once it becomes numer ous. Reports from forest rangers Indicate that the poteupine family has materially Increased this year in tbe Fish lake Corest CEDAR CITY Final arrangemema have been made for the program for Branch Agricultural college Founders' day, November IS. The two outstanding features of the program will be the add res i by Charles R. Mabey and the dedicatory ceremonies by Dean Milton Bennlon. Mr. Mabey and Mr. Bennlon served as members of the Branch Agricultural college faculty in the days when the school was a branch of the University of Utah. LOGAN Proclamation restoring to entry the waters of the Logan river was Issued recently by George M. Bacon, state engineer. Waters of this stream were withdfawn from ailing on November 21, 1923, to protect them agrmlat possible appropriations which might Interfere with the proposed Cache valley reclamation projects. The proclamation restoring the stream to entry becomes effective as soon as notice of It has been published three successive weeks. o d o LAYTON As set forth in the weekly vegetable review published by the Kansas office of the United States bnt went on with the scene as If ooth bureau City situation, prevails In unique Ing bad happened. the onion market this year, Domns-tl- o of late main-croproduction Famous Englith Region onions Is about lighter than The Lake district in England Is last season, with eastern crops parpicturesque region of mountain, lake, ticularly short Shipments were quite wood and valley In the counties ol heavy earlier In the fill, but have now It begun to Blacken. Cumberland and Westmoreland. Trices are rw has been Immortalized by the Ink latlvely high two or three t!mee school of poets and Is visited annuallj those of last autumn and are at such by thousands of tourists. a Wei as to attract a large volume 4 onions from foreign countries. Divorce la an epitaph frequently carved upon love'a tombstone. onc-thlr- I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON LIE eagle may be the national bird of America for 364 days In the year, but there's one f day when he Isn't. That day Is the last Thursday in November, and on that occasion the "king of birds" Is temporarily dethroned and his place is taken by another. Americans" is the name by which he is known to ornithologists, but the average American, who is Interested in him for gastronomical ruth er than ornithological reasons, knows him simply as "the turkey." And on Thanksgiving day he Is "King Turkey." The turkey is a true "native American" and therefore it Is appropriate that he should be one of the principal symbols of this typically American festival day. When the first whites arrived on this continent they found wild turkeys in great profusion. That he was one of the "first Americans" Is proved by the fact that bis bones In fossil deposits show that he is of prehistoric origin. The Indians had partially domesticated the turkey, and what appears to have been roosting places for domestic turkeys have been found attached to pueblos and cliff dwellings in excavated ruins of untold centuries of age. The turkey's association with the Thanksgiving dinner dates from the very first celebration of that event. Of that first Thanksgiving, day, held In 1G21 In "Plymouth, the land of the Pilgrims," Edward Winslow, who participated In the three-dacelebration of thanksgiving proclaimed by Gov. William Bradford, wrote back to England as follows: "Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a more special! manner rejoyce together, after we bad gathered In tbe fruit of our labours; they foure In one day killed as much fowle, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest King MassnBoyt with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on or r Governor, and upon the and others." Cnptalne (Stnndlsh) There Is no doubt that chief among the "fowle" at this feast was the native wild turkey. However, according to Mary Austin, writing In the New York Evening Post "Our elevation of the turkey to the place of honor on the Thanksgiving dinner table Is not entirely owing to fta traditional Importance to the first American Thanks giving dny ; It Is a tribute to the Instinct of the Puritan women who made the turkey brood a part of that association of men and their wild brethren which Is Inseparable from tbe human Idea of home. The Indians domesticated the turkey chiefly bis feathers, which they prized. But I have no doubt that the English housewife, arriving chUkcnless. got her flrt feeling of being at home from the "Me-Icagr- is y home-maklu- fr The Sacred Pumpkin "The pumpkin, or pomplon," we read In Peters' "General History of Connecticut," published In 1781, "Is one of the greatest blesslne. and held sacred In New England. Of Its meat are made beer, bread, custurds, sauce, molasses, vinegar and, on thanksgiving days, pies, as a substitute what the blue laws brand aa antl Christian fr minced plea. The same euthoi explains why New brooding cluck of the turkey hen about her door." It is a curious paradox that tula native American bird should come to our Thanksgiving tables bearing a foreign name which gives the erroneous suggestion that he came from the European-Asiati- c country of Turkey. Yet such is the case and here is bow It came about The Spaniards, who conquered Mexico, found turkeys, both wild and domesticated, In that country as early as 1519. They began sending the strange birds from the New World back to Spain and the Jewish merchants, who were the leading dealers in such commodities at that time, called them "American Tukkis," meaning "American peacocks," from their habit of strutting. From "tukkl" the word was corrupted to "turkey" and It became a common domesticated fowl in Europe. It Is probable that not one turkey in a thousand which will grace the Thanksgiving table this year will be a native wild turkey. For the original New England wild turkey (Meleagres Americana) is ail but extinct In the part of the country where he first made bis appearance on that festal board. The wild turkey of today (Meleagres gallapavo silvestris), according to ornithologists, Is found In greatly reduced numbers only from Pennsylvania and Ohio south to the Gulf states and west to Arkansas. There Is a smaller variety, the Florida wild turkey. In that state; In southern Texas Is another, the Rio Grande turkey and In the Rocky Mountain region, another, Merrlam's turkey. All modern domesticated turkeys are derived from the Mexican wild turkey (Meleagres Mexicans) of tbe earliest days. From Mm comes the exquisite penciling of the modern domesticated bronzed turkeys. Other varieties, bred up from "sports" of this wild progenitor are the Nnrragansett tbe Buff, the Black, tbe Slate, the Bour bon Red and the White Holland. But whatever the variety of the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving, the tru'h of the matter Is that he Is an Immigrant so far as ancestry Is concerned, 'or be traces back to the Mexican turkey which was carried to Spain, spread through other European countries and then came back across the water to a new home farther north. In the range of the allied but distinct wild speclea which the Pilgrim and Puritan fathers hunted through the woods of Plymouth and Massachusetts ho perhaps It Is approBay colonies, priate that a state which borders on Mexico, rather than a New England state, should now be the "turkey state of America." And that Is what the h state of Texas Is. It produces of all the turkeys raised In the 48 states of the Union. Down In the "Heart of Texas" district, comprising 17 counties, the farmers have found thnt It Is more profitable to raise turkeys than It Is to raise hog. So they have gone Into the turkey buslpeasi on a large and scale. One year they shipped 200 cars of dressed turkey 4.()tKMK) pounds of drumsticks and wishbones and irizzords tt nl I These are shipped nil over the t'nllod Slntes and It Is a curious one-tent- I'.nshind!ra were called pumpkin heads. As every mnle was required to have his hair cut round by a cup, "when cups were not to be had, they substituted the hard shell of a pumpkin, which, being put on the bend every Saturday, the hair Is cut by the shell all around the head." Gaa Logic. Thanksgiving in Canada The people of lower Canada began observing days of thanksgiving aa proposition that some Texas turkeys are to be found on Thanksgiving dinner tables In New England. It was in Texas, too, that there originated a unique event the annual "Texas turkey trot" Cuero, Texas, which is said to be the largest shipping point for turkeys in the world, is generally credited with being the birthplace of this unique ceremony. before Thanksgiving a turkey day is set aside. All who have turkeys to sell drive them to the central market, sometimes for 20 to 30 miles, the flocks consisting of as many as 8,000 to 10,000 fowl. Thirty men drove 8,000 turkeys 13 miles In two days. In a drive of this kind, a wagon la driven Just In front of the turkeys and a little corn Is scattered to the leaders to keep them moving. Those that become lame or tired are placed In the wagon and hauled to town. At nightfall, provision Is made to stop under a grove of trees where the tur- Just roost the harvest festival rolls around, this Texas community pays homage to its most famous and profkeys may When itable crop and celebrates the end of the season with appropriate ceremonies. The turkey reigns as uncrowned king of the festival, and a parade Is held. A similar ceremony Is held at Brady, Texas, another Important shipping point A writer In the New York Times described Inst year's "turkey trot" at Brady as follows : Th hour for th fourth annual, parade of turkey has arrived In Brady, Texas. Mini Carmen Anderson, tha turkey queen, selected by a secret committee, nits smilingly on her float. The (riant paper turkey on the chamber of commerce float seems about to com to life and the other eighteen floats are ready to swing Jnto line. Fifteen hundred live turkeys waddle, strut and gobble along the pavement to die that the nation may live Joyfully on Thanks-givin- g day. In tha Una of inarch are turkeys for President Coolldg, Viva President Dawea. Speaker tongworth and Governor Moody. And the pa rn fieri do not represent sll the tiwkeye In the heart of Texas. Five thousand ere In buyers' yard, not far away and 10,090 birds already have been shipped to northern markets. Only the plump are selected for the Thanksgiving sale. Many are atlll on ths farms, being fattened for Christmas, when the prices will be higher than at present Th big birds recelvs mors consideration than those that tnnk part In tha Texas turkey trots before th World war. Then Tom and Jack drove their little herds to market, and buyers, assisted by four or flv boys, drove a herd of 1,000 ten miles In a dny. Recently the turkeys have been brought to town In trucks. However they travel, they art not In a good humor for their triumphal exit from life. For ar given nothing to est for turkeys fifteen hours befor th execution, although they can have an abundance of water. Th band blare. Floats move, old gobblers, young gobblers, old hens and In loos formation. pullets advan Most of them ar th hronz variety. Her and there la a Whit Holland. Occasionally on sees a black bird with haitel eyes. A few ar buff or slat In rolor. They gobble gobble. Even th sight of th yawning doors of four slaughter houses does not silence them. They march Innlcle and tbe doors close. In ten minutes they ar dressed meat In s refrigeration plant, frr shipment to New Tork, rndy Milwaukee or lJalln. early as 1700. After the Dominion of Can (Mi was formed In isi;7 It was customary to have at least one dny of Thanksgiving every year, although there were some Irregularities In that respect Usually Thanksgiving day In Canada was on a Thursday In October or November. Since 1021. however, Thanksgiving dny la nrt by parliamentary statute for the Monday of the week containing Armistice day, Korember 11. The Pathfinder. Vim acta are quicker 'haothcogctsi tV |