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Show r. S - - AT. ' ' . Afl. tV- IV Y & t; t- ig ILV..J THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Invited him, as his own office was too small. Now that his battle was over OW$S3$$333$S$SaCSSSi3g$S$g3SSSSfcr ( IMPROVED ROADS he wanted his reward. A Feminine Victory Well, my boy, I dont see any ob- jection If Phsllis doesnt, said the coloneL You won your victory and you deserve her. To tell you the truth, I didnt think youd do it, for the Ninth seemed dead against us. I couldnt stir to help you. Td stive By FREDERICK HART. something to know what swung It your way. McClure Syndicate. 1021, Newspaper by (), halo the room there burst Fhyllis What do . you think of your a laughing a happy Phyllis. chances? Qh, daddy, I was listening again. Well, Mr. Cutler. I hsrdly know. s glad jrac want Chart as much as I dw And Fa su feappyl AbaS If I can carry the Ninth HU fee Esswa.She t&e-- the two ntsm right. tw heat ..Charlie, thats a big pooiswitr I caariei the NSath The man addressed as OfcaiSe WlsaS sjyseCS. WTfcasT CmY'itcS Cushflr Jbasd- gloomily at the fire. He was a swan? man who would, at first gtaascf. 5 5y NSpw Mis easst Yes. 1'tgJL Yc meas wese. help-tes- s passed as rather ordinary and ; but there was socskShSi I knew tha.3 Sett i f.Tget 5r.fi a-about his manner that comyeiSed a that we wvereia have ar-second glances and that second giscee eoce every girt fca tie Nixah 5s f mire? Sertal showed that his quiet manner really a peasecal SrioJ Indicated repressed power. His clean-c- perttsoQ dees help, suawchases. I talked mouth and chin belonged to no to itciii ilsaJ Ow-- .ncv'! thers that weak character. Ilis companion was Charlie was the man. and they vwed a man many years his senior; a for him and made their men friends man of fifty, with a white vote for him. Thats all. Oh! Colonel Cutlet's Toiee was mustache and imperial. And what arguments did continued Mr. . Cutler amazed. Charlie, thoughtfully, I've set my heart on you use? Did you tell them what a having you elected district attorney. wonderful thing it would be for the Its a post that needs just such a man town and all that sort of thing? . I did as you are to fill It; but the people not ! I told them I told Elections only two them that Charlie and I couldnt get arent awake. weeks off, and they still cling to their married unless he was elected and old traditions. Particularly in the that settled it ! Ninth. It looks bad. Charles Livingston nodded gloomily. ONE OF. EARTHS OLD STORIES His whole ambition centered around his election to the coveted post which Almost All Peoples Have Had Some he sought ; and not only his ambition the Man Legend Concerning but his heart's desire was Involved. in the Moon. For Fhyllis Cutler, the daughter 9f the man who was now speaking in tones The story of the man In the moon ' of discouragement, filled his heart as is very old. Nearly everyone the world mind. He liis political ambition did his over knows of the old loved her, and was aware that she who watches from afar by returned the sentiment ; but there was gentleman to see that all goes well on this no use speaking to her stern father night In the moon is globe. unless he could point to a strong posi- to he -- seen many apictures with broad, smiling face tion honorably won. ' He must win that looking down on earth. election ! And yet without the The presence of the man in the Ninth ward the social center moon was accounted for by the Chalof the city he was helpless. deans. Egyptians, Greeks and Romans And he had no social position. He with different stories. All the stories, had come from the country five years however, agreed in that the man was before and by superhuman struggles banished to moon for unbecoming had made a success of law; In. his conduct on the earth. But he evidently practice he had become acquainted didnt object-tthe change in abode. with Col. Hubert Cutler, and through On the contrary, his smile would seem him hat met Phyllis met her and lost to indicate that he was highly pleased his heart to her, all on the same evehis new surroundings. And hes with ning. And now he was candidate for still The moon must be a smiling. district attorney In opposition to the to live on. But maybe the machine It was an honor ; but what good place smiles because of what a disgrace if he lost! And he needed old gentleman sees. ' Who wouldnt? the Ninth to win. Colonel Cutler had he The most modern story, though It Is already confessed his inability to swing hundreds of years old, is that of the that deciding ward. man who went to a forest to colThe two men sat In silence. Then old lect wood for his lire. It was Sunday, Livingston rose and bade the colonel but still he needed warmth. An angel As he was passing out met him returning with his bundle on through the entrance hall he heard a his shoulders, and asked him If he had light step behind him and a voice that it was Sunday, when all men forgotten knew he and loved called softly; should rest The weary old man reCharlie ! He allowed some of plied that Sunday and Monday were Yes, Phyl?" his discouragement to creep Into his alike to him, as he had to work every day to feed and warm himself. The voice. said that as he could not observe Charlie, I heard all that you and angel - on earth he should observe SundayIt so said. Is daddy Important to carry In heaven forever. So now Moonday the Ninth ward? man in the moon is still seen on Its vital, dear, and If it isnt done the I wont be elected, and I cant ask your a clear night, with the fagot of wood father for the thing I want so much. on his shoulder. The girl in the dim hallway kissed United States Embassies. him. Dont be discouraged, dear. - If A glance at the names of the few daddy wont have you unless youre district attorney, why well Just have countries where the United States to make you district attorney, thats minister Is appropriately Installed in his official mansion betrays a rather all. eccentric choice. Instead of London, f ! In he But, Phyl smiled, spite of Paris, Rome, we find diplomatic resihis discouragement, at her impulsivedences in Bangkok, Pekin and Morocness I cant get any Influence in the co. The legation at Pekin Is particuNinth. The machine has prevented creditable, being of substantial larly your father the only one I know in in a spactou3 comand that ward from using his Influence. masonry That placed so worthy a reservation Hes helpless, and so am I. I must pound. should hpve been acquired In the heart make the best fight that I know how of Pekin might strike the traveler cuthats all anyone can do. riously When did congress become be Charlie, dear, dont discouraged. so well disposed toward Itll all come right just you wait! our generously In China? The rather diplomat And with these words and a parting shame-face- d answer Is that we never kiss she was gone. bought It. In the boxer rebellion of But as election time approached 1900, United States marines occupied Charles Livingston was forced to con- that particular piece of territory, and. fess to himself that all was coming far In a sense, they have occupied It ever from right. His standing and person since. Terressa Long In Worlds ality assured him an even break Work. throughout the city except In the fatal Ninth ward. There there would be Just The Millennium. enough against him to swing the elecMillennium is a term applied In went his to He tion opponent. through to the thousand .years durthe work preceding the momentous day theology ing which Satan will be bound and mechanically, and when election day the martyred suin'ts live and reign itself came round he set himself to with 202-3- . Revelations Christ watch the returns with stoical resig- This long triumph is to be preceded nation. by the decisive victory of Christ over He was in his office at 9 that night, the adversary, and followed by a having eaten nothing since breakfast. general resurrection and the temporHis faithful secretary and a few friends ary release of Satan : then comes the were with him. Most of the returns last judgment and the new heaven were in. and the results showed what and new ' earth Revelations 29:21. everybody knew that the Ninth would Attempts to fix the date of the adswing the balance one way or the vent, the second coming, the dawn of other. His secretary turned to answer the millennium have been proved by the telephone. lapse of time to have been failures. he Some of the dates that have been Here comes the Ninth, chief cried in a shaking voice. fixed for the beginning of the millenAnd here goes our chance, replied nium have been 1785, by a man named Livingston. But even as the words Stilling; 1836, by Bengel; 1843, by were on his lips, the secretary uttered Miller; 1866, 1867 and 1868, by Dr. Chief! Chief! Cumming. a cry of triumph. You carried the Ninth by 1,8001 We . Two Resemblances. win ! We win ! : The shock of the unexpected words She Did you ever see the two threw Livingston off his mental bal- Jacksons? He Yes. ance for an instant When he recovDont you think the boy is a perfect ered himself he heard wild footsteps on the stairs and a great shouting in photograph of his father?" Yes; and I think the girl Is the the streets. The city was celebrating , his election and his friends were rush- phonograph of her mother. ing to congratulate him. He had won ! Well Named. Very late that night, when the last had retired and the last Professor (endeavoring to impress rocket had sputtered and died, Living- on class the definition of cynic) ston went Into the room where he had Yonng man, what would you call a before consulted with Colonel Cutler. man who pretends to know everyHe had come to the Cutler house to re- thing? Senior A professor! Lehigh Bart; ceive his friends, as the colonel had PATROL SYSTEM I Pointed Out by Department of Agrfe culture at Illustration of Eco- - i I Maintenance. . nomleal United States Department Prepared by the ot Agriculture.) The read patrol system used In Brant county, Wash., Is pointed out by the United States Department of rj ij' Agriculture as an illustration of ho highways can be maintained most successfully and economically. ' Other counties In the state use the. gang system, assigning to each gang a long section, upon which they make repairs at Intervals, seldom reaching all the aas-sumi- vis 3 necesshry points. In Grant county the plan Is to prevent a road from getting Into bad condition rather than to make repairs. There are 13 patrol sections, each rom six to ten miles long, In the 87.83 miles of county highways. Each section is In charge of a patrolman, who works constantly on his piece of road, ut fine-looki- good-nature- d o ! good-nigh- t. . . I, well-wish- er IS FAVORED HE Worid war & ot yet over 5a the sense that the . deMag f the historian is ever bringing out details new and interesting. Oanately, of course, fall justice will be done to all phases of the great conflict ; at present we are too dose - - to it for clear perspec 7 tive. One of the outstanding features of the World war was the part played by the American Indian. From one point of view there was no particular reason why the Indi&n should be eager to fight for. the American government. On the other hand, the American Indian, by nature and trainThe pursuits ing is a fighting man. e of the Indian were war and the chase; the squaws did the work. And the white American, in his march across the fjutlnent, found In the American Indian the best natural fighter the world has ever known. Anyway, the Indian volunteered with enthusiasm for the World war. The tribes sent over 17,000 braves to fight for the Stars and Stripes. They made good soldiers, more than 150 were decorated for acts of conspicuous valor in action. l, It now appears that Joseph Patrolman la Responsible for Condition of His Section of Highway. old-tim- ' . Okla-homb- twenty-si- x, a full-blood- Choc- taw who lives near Wright City in McCurtain county, Oklahoma, Is a war hero second only to Sergeant Alvin York of Tennessee. He was a private In .Company D, One Hundred and Forty-firInfantry, Thirty-sixt- h division, A. E. F. So far, however, his valor has not been recognized by the United States government Oklahombi was awarded recognition by General Petaln of the French army. He wears the French Croix de Guerre. His citation says: Under a violent barrage he dashed to the attack of the enemy position, covering 200 yards, through barbed wire entanglements. He rushed on machine gun nests, capturing 171 prisoners. He ' stormed a strongly held position containing a number of trench mortars, turned the captured guns on the enemy, and held said position for four days In spite of a constant barrage of large projectiles and gas shells. He crossed land many times to get information concerning his wounded comrades. It Is said that several futile attempts to secure a photograph of Oklahombi In uniform have been made by the War department through Gabe E. Parker, commissioner of the Five Civilized tribes. Then Czarina C. Con-la- n of Oklahoma City, with all the pride and admiration another Indian has for a tribesman who has done daring deeds, decided that his portrait and some of his history should be preserved for Oklahomas records. She says of her trip: Going to Idabel I found the secretary of the chamber of commerce getting out a pamphlet on the resources Of McCurtain county, 'its InI told teresting people and places. him by all means he should give some All this soundspace to Oklahombi. ed very well to him, but he could not speak the Choctaw language, and besides Oklahombis home was '35 miles away over rough roads and across two streams. I told him I would get an interpreter, and the photographer. When we were ready to be off, the four men, including the driver, said they wanted me to know what to expect, for the roads were the worst in that part of the country. They were right. . We had to go over almost impass- st No-Ma- He married a Choctaw girl before he enlisted in the army. When he went over seas he left his able places. When we forded one of wife and a baby girl a few months the streams the water ran Into the en- old. of we At car. Little the River gine After he was mustered out it Is no had to be ' ferried across in an wonder he chose, to go back to the ferryboat. The hill was so beautiful old Indian settlement where on the the shore that steep opposite men had to get out and push the car he was wont to hunt and fish when a A little cottage has been built up the muddy embankment. After boy. on a small tract of land which he found 35 the miles we that traveling owns and is cultivating. Near the Oklahombi was not at home. He was, mortar. door stands the back however, only a mile away at his And now that the strife and turuncles farm, where he was helping to moil is over, writes Czarina Conlan, plant grain. Sol Joel, the Interpreter, volunteered It Is natural that he should want to to walk through the woods to the return to the heart of nature, where can look out In the cool of the evefarm, get Oklahombi, and return with he and see the lengthening shadows ning him to his home. After a time they came up smiling.' The object of our of the olcToak trees trees that were old before his ancestors made the trip had been explained and Oklahombi was willing for me to take his trail of tears when they came to the In 1832. ' picture In his uniform, and one of his Indian territory Perhaps Oklahombi will get full home. And he was willing that his Croix de Guerre, his trench hat, and some of recognition' for his exploits in The his other cherished relics should be History of the American Indian In the Is being written placed in the State Historical mu- World War, which seum. by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, the leader of the Rodman Wanamaker historical Oklahombi (said to mean expeditions to the North American Inis twenty-si- x old. He years is a tall, brawny fellow, typical of his dians, In the course of which he visrace. He returned, as he went to ited every reservation In the country. the armya perfect specimen of man- He Is the author of The Vanishing Nahood, having most miraculously es- Race, and the secretary of the tional American Indian Memorial ascaped shot and shelL , He speaks English, but not very sociation. Between February, 1919, well. What he' did over there is one and February, 1920, he visited sysof the last things he wants to talk tematically all the camps and military about When questioned about his hospitals on the Atlantic seaboard, inexperiences, his, replies are invariably terviewing officers and privates, studying, Interrogating and photographing in as short sentences as possible. His idea of settling the war was Indian soldiers who had returned, to annihilate the Germans as soon as either sound or wounded, from overseas. possible. And now, as his final act of preparaWhep asked what he thought about the army he said: Too much salute, tion for his historical work. Doctor Dixon has returned from an Intimate . not nough shoot. When Urged to tell something of four ipontbs study of the entire westhis encounter with the Germans, the ern battlefTonts of Belgium and France, In which he covered more than reply was I sure give em hell : Oklahombia comrades grew to ex- 3,500 miles of travel and took more Before he pect him to kill every foeman In than 1,100 photographs. sight. One day he brought a very started he had been, supplied by Genlarge prisoner Into camp. Being asked eral Pershing with a large map, which how It happened he said : Well, I can showed that American Indians had take him back and kill him, This fought in every one of the twenty-eigh- t was told to the Interpreter In his own main battle sectors from the North V language, and was the only Incident sea to the Alps. that was gof out, of him. Oklahombi, it Is reported, will be He was raised In the mountainous featured by Doctor Dixon In his book. part of the state, which is conceded Another of his Indian war heroes Is to be the most beautiful section of Corporal Walter S. Sevalla,' a ChipOklahoma. Here in his youth the clear pewa Indian of the Seventh engineers, streams that flowed through the Fifth division, upon whose breast MarKiamitin mountains were well filled shal Petaln himself pinned the Croix ' Sevalla swam the Meuse, with .fish, and wild game roamed de Guerre. thfiough the forests. carrying a cable for a pontoon, under Such an environment was more ap- heavy machine gun fire. Later In the pealing to him than the school room day he was severely wounded while consequently he lias a very limited ed- repeating the same feat in the swimucation. The only training he has ming of the broad and swiftly flowing was acquired yt short intervals In did Est canal, which parallels the Meflse, near Breuilles. , Armstrong academy near Caddo. full-blood- . . Man-Kllle- r) , , . 1 PERFECT FLASHLESS POWDER barely visible to observers United States Army Invention Will Permit of Night Firing Without Illumination. Flashless gunpowder, making possible night firing without illumination, will be denlbnstrated shortly at the annual meeting of the Army Ordnance association at the Aberdeen proving grounds. Night firing with guns as large as five inches, in which the muzzle was 50 feet Although the gun weighs nearly away," have been conducted with no 806 tons, It can be rotated 360 demore than a momentary dull red glow, grees and elevated or depressed 30 and no Illumination whatever. degrees by another. It is operative Other features of the program at the rate of one shot per minute. ' Include the firing of the "heaviest single unit of ordnance In the world, the recently perfected gun mounted on a disappearing carriage. The gun measures 69 feet. In length weighs 240.000 pounds, and requires 850 pounds of smokeless powd der to propel Us projectile approximately 22 miles. 15-ln- new' and enlarged Browning A Intended gun of for use against aircraft and tanirn will be demonstrated. The ammunition used Is twice as large as that used in the World war and the rate of firing has been greatly increased. rapid-fir- e 2,400-poun- When right, ' be firm. feeling that he alone Is responsible for Its condition. While these men work under the direction of the county engineer, the details are left largely to their judgment. A specially constructed light road machine, called locally a road fixer, Is used. It has a long wheel base and two cutting blades rigidly connected with the carrying frame of the machine. The rear wheels are on separate axle?, controlled by separate levers. The patrolman carries the necessary small tools for clearing weeds, trimming shoulders, cleaning ditches, and for handling surfacing materlaL He makes his own repairs In the county repair shop under the direction of a skilled mechanic. The annual cost of this' system,, states the bureau of public roads, averages $223 a mile, which Is less than other counties pay where roads receive attention only when they need It Grant county has graveled roads second to none In the state, and its people are enthusiastic supporters of the patrol system. TONNAGE ON COUNTRY ROADS Report of Bureau of Markete Show Extent to Which Highways Are Being Used. ' The necessity of keeping country roads In good condition is shown by a report recently compiled by the bureau of markets and crop estl- -' mates, United States Department of Agriculture, showing the extent to which they are used in hauling farm products to market According to the report, which shows the toonage of 11 products hauled on country roads, giving the yearly average for the period from 1915 to 1919, there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled for every 100 acres of land.. The average tonnage of the 11 crops hauled on country roads each year for the period mentioned amounted to 86,560,000 tons. The 11 crops referred to in the report are com, wheat oats, barley, rye, rice, flaxseed, cotton (Including seed), tobacco, potatoes, and cultivated hay.- . , - ' BUILD IN FALL AND WINTER According to Engineers Money Spent In Constructing Roads In 8prlng, Is Wasted. The building of roads in the spring Is opposed by good engineers, who insist that money spent qt that season Is largely wasted. They hold that work should be done In the fall and winter, when the ground is In better condition and when foundations can be laid with greater permanence. They also criticize the skimpy manner In which foundations are laid, pointing out that subsequent repair bills make the whole cost much greater than the cost of solldly-bulroads. lt Big Work In Ohio. f, The great highway system of Ohlq for this year Includes the construction of 500 miles of heavy duty roads, representing an outlay of $11,000,000. , Right of Way In France. In France at crossroads the automobile coming from the right has : the right of way. Cash Value of Good Road. The actual cash value of a good road Is something that Is hard to to, . termlne.. 1 |