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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH I The Kidnaped gj , - Peasant Girl By R. RAY BAKER ). l'J82, by McClure Newspaper 1 Syndicate. It was all very well, this being kidnaped, until the masked man at the wheel of the auto tried to kiss her. Then the girl let out a scream that the valley walls hurled back and forth through the pine woods. The kidnaper had drawn up beside the road, ; id without a word had placed his arm around the girl, implanting a smacking kiss full on her red lips. Until now it had seemed lilff a grand lark, but after that well, she really was frightened now. The man was in garments evidently .Intended to proclaim him as a knight, but it was rather inconsistent attire. He wore army.leggins oer bfue trousers, and a striped blouse of red and yellow. A sword with a dented scabbard hung from his waist, and a pink domino with a red hood surmounting all. The face was and the part that showed was not at all repulsive. The girl appeared to be a peasant of central Europe. Her face well, the red lips and dimples were all that could be seen, because she was masked, too, with a thin strip of white. When the girl screamed the man released her and appeared taken aback. Why, whats the matter? he asked, astonishment in the voice, which decidedly was not gruff.. Matter? she exclaimed indignantly. Dont you think you are carrying this escapade a little too far? -- clean-shave- Too far? he echoed. n You dont mean to say that a man hasnt, the right to kiss the girl he is eloping with, do you? She laughed scornfully. Eloping? IJeems youre taking a lot for granted. Perhaps youre Insane. Yes, I think thats it. No man in his right mind would talk and act like you. Garvin Haskell really was puzzled by the girls behavior. What was the matter with Maxine? Hadnt she agreed to elope from the costume ball with him Had she changed her mind after all the carefully: arranged plans? Well, he knew she was fickle, but it did not seem reasonable that she would back out now. There was no good reason, for an elopement, anyhow. Maxines parents were dead,, and Garvins folks never had displayed an inclination to meddle In his affairs of the heart. He had r enough money in his own right to care for a wife', and in fact his father and mother were rather anxious for him to settle down. But Maxine had insisted on eloping, in order to have a taste, of romance. She wanted to surprise her aunt, with whom she was staying while visiting in Sarendac, for one tiling, and she wanted some excitement when she took the marriage vows. Garvin had been trying ever since . he became acquainted with her two months ago to induce her to have him. She had put him off, laughing until the time came for the masked ' ball. . Yes, Ill marry you, Garve, she said, but its got to be an eiope-men- t. You dress as a knight and Ill be a peasant girL ' After the fifth dance Ill meet you under the big oak tree on the lawn and well elope. The arrangements for a minister, of course, are up to you. And Ill call when? inquired the elated Garvin. You wont call at all," she said. Til go to the dance with some of the girls,, and you go alone. Thatll make It more romantic." Garvin made the necessary arrangements, which Included marriage by a minister in the neighboring town of Charlotte. He dressed as a knight to the best of his ability and went to the dance alone. And there was his beloved, dressed in the. peasant costume, exactly fitting the description Maxine had given him. Yes, she had met him under the oak at the appointed time, and he had carried her off in the auto. And when he pulled up beside the road to claim a kiss as his just due she screamed. They sat In silence for a few moments after the conversation that followed the scream, and it began to dawn on Garvin that there must be a mistake somewhere. Would you mind removing your . mask?" he asked the girl. Not if you will do the same, she answered. For reply he removed the domino . and at once the girl lifted the cambric. Yes, it was Maxine. In the pale moonlight her countenance showed up as lovely as ever, except that it seemed a trifle older,, but, no doubt, that wTas due to the shock of being almost kissed. That was not quite consistent either, for Garvin never had supposed Maxine to be that unsophisticated. He scrutinized her closely. And she returned the stare. Yes, it was Maxines eyes, and the nose and hair were hers. But why the change in her at-- titude? he began, clearing his Maxine, throat, I dont Im not Maxine! she exclaimed. What made you thtok I Maxine. was? The moons rays became brighter now, - due to the shifting of some clouds, and the girls face showed plainer. Yes, there was a difference. . : She was older, that was certain, although not much older. Well, how what he stammered. Thats what I aay, she exclaimed. How what . Its got me beat, he declared. Do you happen to know Maxine Brooks?" ;.I certainly do. Shes my younger sister. But she' left town yesterday ' shortly after I arrived to visit Aunt Sarah. Garvins heart sank. So this was the outcome of the -- carefully laid elopement plans. He stepped on the starter and turned the car out in the road, heading it for Sarendac. F5r some time as they rode along no words passed between them. So Maxine had gone back on him! Well, he didnt understand it, but he wasnt going to play the fool by asking questions. But the car took a hand In the game. A rear tire went flat and Garvin had to mend a puncture because the extra was at a vulcanizing station undergoing repairs.- It was fully an hour before the car was ready, and then, after going' the distance of a block, it stopped and could not be induced to move. With a flashlight Garvin explored In the hood, but was unable to remedy matters. The girl tried to help and got dabbed with grease, but she didnt seem to mind. ' , Im just a peasant, anyway, she said, smiling. She was No, she was not Maxine. too willing to help and too patient Maxine would have fretted and fumed and made no effort to help matters. Garvin was beginning to like the girl. Well, I cant fix it, he finally admitted as he walked away, from the hood and tripped for the fourth time on the dangling scabbard. While she laughed merrily he detached the sword and threw it on the car floor. Were miles from any habitation, and this is an unfrequented road. Its more romantic than the main thoroughfares, thats why Maxine wanted why I chose It. - Then theres nothing to but do spend the night here, said the girl. It isnt very' proper, but circumstances dont recognize proprieties. She curled up on the seat, whil Garvin tried to make himself com. fortable on the running board. Yes, Maxines sister was extremely likeable. Why hadnt he met her first? - They stayed awake by conversing on various subjects, which became more and more personal as the hours passed. Please tell me how it happened my kidnaping you instead of your sister," Garvin finally urged. Before I left home, said the girl, I had a talk with Maxines former fiance, with whom she quarreled some time ago. He gave me a message and when Maxine received it she went back to marry him. She asked me to substitute for her at the ball and said she would arrange for me to meet a very nice man under the oak tree, I didnt know about the elopement plan, of course, - and I thought it would be Just a lark. And it seems I thought right. They became better acquainted, while the frogs warbled in the nearby marsh and Luna sank beneath the western horizon. When dawn crept up from the east the girl yawned and had an idea. . Did you look at the battery ' wire? Garvin had not, but be did, and found it loose. Remedying the trouble, he stepped on the starter, then paused to remark: Love at first sight is wonderful, isnt It? Shall we do it now?" Her answer was inaudible, but when the machine rolled along the road it carried two elopers toward Charlotte. MEN NO LONGER PAINT FACE Newspaper Makes Cruel Assertion That Custom Is Now Exclusively Confined to Women. Relics of Indian art are shown in profuse, quantities at the Field museum in the form of stone or clay saucers like the nests in which painters mix their water colors. One of the many uses to which these bits of stone or clay were put was to hold the figments with which the original residents of Chicago bedaubed their faces. Although there - frequently ran through all the color designs applied to mens faces and breasts certain lines characteristic of a tribe, there was a wide latitude for individual choice. If Chicagoans of the pale' and pasty-face- d variety now wear evening clothes or frock or cutaway coats on formal occasions, the original male leaders of local society wore vivid dashes of paint on their faces to distinguish important scheduled moments of either peace or war. In the whirligig of time this aboriginal masculine custom has been appropriated by the women of today as their exclusive practice and the men are well satisfied with the radical change in fashion. Chicago Journal. . Big Irrigation Project. ' The Greater Wenatchee Irrigation association is planning to spend close to $5,000,000 in Irrigating a tract of of 46,000 acres in the neighborhood Lake Wenatchee, Wash. It is expected that work on the canals and ditches will be started" next year. The land that Is to be irrigated is now worth from $10 to $50 per acre, while adjoining property that is irrigated and under cultivation Is worth $2,000. The cost of irrigation is estimated at $100 per acre. Much of the land will be planted in apple orchards but large sections will be used for general agri. culture. Elements Gan Be Transmuted Dream of Scientists for a Thousand Years. Achieved by : FAR Dr.' Rutherford. - REACHING POSSIBILITIES Remarkable Result of Bombarding Nb trogen Gas With the Alpha Rays of Radium May Supply . Unlimited Power. , New York. The transmutation of elements, the' dream of both charlatans and scientists for nearly a thousand years, has actually been accomplished by the recent work ' of S.ir Ernest Rutherford, and his results are generally accepted by scientists and physicists, according to Dr. James Kendall, associate professor of chemistry at Columbia, who said, on the other hand, that there was not the slightest reason to believe that the Germans .had accomplished 'their reported feat of making synthetic gold. Nitrogen, sodium, aluminum, chlorine, oxygen and carbon have been transmuted, or broken up by Rutherford into hydrogen and helium, ac' Kendall. cording to This was first, accomplished, according to the elatiris of Rutherford, by bombarding nitrogen gas with the alpha rays of radium. These rays are helium atoms which are flung out of the exploding radium atom with an energy Incomparably greater than any projectile produced artificially. The velocity of this atom would take It around the world in slightly less than a second, and the power of the exploding atom, in proportion to size, is something like a million times greater than that of trinitrotoluol, Result of a Chemical Collision. The radium . was placed so as to drive the alpha particles into nitrogen gas. When the alpha particle had a head-o- n collision with a nitrogen atom It tore it to pieces, so It Is asserted. The atom supposedly has a structure somewhat resembling the solar system. Its center is a nucleus of positive electricity, resembling the sun of the solar system, and this Is surrounded by electrons, or charges of negative electricity, presumably whirling about the nucleus, as the planets whirl about the sun. The alpha particle Is believed to produce such a disruption in the atom as .might occur, for instance, if another star of the dimensions of the sun tore through our system, bit the sun. directly and drove it off into space, causing the planets to shoot off ' in all directions. 'i --This occurs 6n a scale in the heigd borhood of the billionth part of a billionth of an inch, but it can be partly measured. The alpha particles thrown off by radium produce scintillations when they strike a screen of zinc sulphide within a certain distance. When they were used to bombard nitrogen scintillations took place at greater distances from the radium than the alpha particle could alone produce. By his study of these scintillations Dr. Rutherford was able to prove to the satisfaction of men of science generally that new products were developed by the shattering of the nitrogen atoms and that these products were hydrogen and helium atoms. His experiments have all been in the way of disorganizing the more complex atoms into simpler ones. The transmutation of atoms with simple structures Into those with more complex ones has not been achieved. Dr. Kendall on Rutherford. Rutherford has reduced nitrogen, aluminum, chlorine and sodium to hysaid Dr. Kendrogen and helium, dall. He has also produced helium atoms by tearing oxygen and carbon to pieces, but hydrogen has not re-- r. , . " UALK'2 WAKM SPECIAL RUSH SERVICE secured if yo mention this paper when vritinc Arms btltw suited, I believe, from the disruption of these atoms. This is certainly the transmutation of elements, but It is done on an infinitely small scale, and is important at present only to the scientific man. It does not promise that elements can be changed from one type to another, except on the smallest laboratory scale. It does not suggest that the transmutation of metals may be developed from it. The possible results of Rutherfords discovery were discussed as follows by Professor O. W. Richardson in his recent presidential address to the Section o,f Mathematics and Physics of the British association : Rutherford has taken the direct method of bombarding the nuclei of the different atoms with the equally minute helium nuclei (alpha particles) given off by radioactive substances, and examining the Mrs. John A. Drake of New York, tracks of any other particles which a letter from Pope' may be generated as a result of the recently received Benedict XV In which his holiness impact. The amounts of energy which have bestowed upon her his apostolic blessbeen thus far released by artificial ing for the work which she has dona as head of the American Free Milk' disintegration of the nuclei are themInc. She Is wearselves small, but they are enormous in and Relief for Italy, medals bestowed upon the many ing comparison with the minute amount her in Italy. of matter affected. If these effects can be sufficiently intensified there appears to be two tensified and controlled, then we shall possibilities. Either they will prove bave at our disposal an almost Illimuncontrollable, which would presum- itable supply of power which will enanything hitherto ably spell the end of all things, or tirely transcend they will not. If they can be both in- - known. high-veloci- ty Learns Secret of Arrow Heads Illinois Man Gets Credit as Only spoon). They found that the deeper the break at the top of the Man Who Knows How stone the longer would be the break In the stone, but it would be to Make Them. correspondingly wide. They wished, however, a long, narrow piece as more suitable for an arrow head. CHIEFS LOSE TRICK INDIAN They then found that by breaking the stone at a corner they could pro-- ! duce such a flake (raw arrow head) Many of Them Confess Their Igno- one, two, or even five times Its width, rance of Just How to Make Arrow according to the skill of the artisan. Heads Are Identified by Such an arrow head always has a Tribal Marks. ridge on one side and the other side smooth. The ridge is the corner of Making of Indian ar- the stone from which the flake was Springfield. row heads has been reduced to its broken. first principles here by Herbert Wells Next, the Indian found that In finmonu-.men- t, ishing the arrow head. If the stone Fay, custodian of the Lincoln who has gained the distinction, breaks easier from one direction on which it is said tin til how has been the top, It would break just as easily undisputed, of being the only white from the other on the bottom. This man to make real arrow heads. gave rise to the belief that arrow Indians are among the foremost In heads were made to revolve. Such was crediting Mr. Fay with this ability. not the Intention of arrow makers, as Drawn to the last resting place of the same natural peculiarity appears In spear heads, which are too heavy Abraham Lincoln, various present-da- y Indian chiefs have openly confessed to revolve, as spears were seldom extheir ignorance of just how to make pected to go more than a few times arrow heads, and then have voiced their length. , These principles being true of all their surprise at the excellent workstone used by the Indians, It is an evimanship of the white man. Finding that his arrows have been dent Impossibility for any collector to t.aken for the work of real Indians, tell what tribe made certain arrow or Mr. Fay no longer makes arrows of spear heads. The width, depth and flint, but to prevent fraud uses only thickness, determined by the depth of the fracture of the stone, determine glass. the shape and appearance of the finWorked Near Dekalb. His study of arrow heads was ished product." Chert Center in Illinois. gained largely near his former home Most of the arrow heads of the at Dekalb, in which vicinity, he said, north Mississippi valley, Mr. Fay said, there had been seven Indian camps. Mr.' Fay takes issue with other au- were made of chert, a chalky flint, thorities who say arrow heads may be taken from the quarries in Union Identified by their shape as the work county, Illinois, near Cairo. The bluffs of a particular tribe. Years of study at that place along the Mississippi and the actual making of arrows prove river show outcroppings of this chert otherwise, Mr. Fay declares. and prolific evidences of the activity His conclusions as to arrow-makin- g of Indians, who went there from all are outlined as follows: Indians first parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and tried stones that break with a Wisconsin, he added. fracture (like the Inside of a Less than 1 per cent of the arrow heads found in this wide territory, Mr. Fay continued, seem to have been made from local stone. The Union county quarries have been determined as the principal source because arrows found throughout that region corresponded exactly to the quality of the Union county stone. It Is not known whether expert flake makers held the quarries in Union county and distributed material to tribes ns they came down, or whether each tribe had its flake makers and visited the quarries periodically. 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Should lie refuse, his chances of obtaining another bride are remote, as usually the Himlan maidens shun him as a punishment. corre-spoiw- What Your View? A Paris newspaper inquired of its readers what attributes a Frenchmen regards as most desirable in his wife. The 29,000 replies Indicated that health was regarded as the most desirable quality. Then came courage, frankness, wit, fidelity and cleverness in turn. The majority put wealth about halfway down (the Sislt jand, more surprising still, beauty was placed last of all. Indianapolis New Adams Apple Adams apple Is the prominence made by the thyroid cantilage on the front of the human throat. It is natural on both men and women, but is larger in men. Adams apple, or Adami, got it name from the notion that when Adam tried to swal. low the forbidden fruit it stuck in his throat. 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Helen followed' suit At the will be built entirely critical stage, In the eight iRning, on one side of the railroad. the batter got to first and then In the three years ending with 1920, scooted for Chicagoans who reside in the suburbs may soon find their trains equipped second, which lie managed with the wireless telephone so that they can talk with their homes while going according to records available to the to reach just in time by a perfect to or coming from the city, and can even enjoy grand opera in the evening. bureau, 3,636 lives were lost and slide. Helen was quite distressed and The system v as tried out recently, and the photograph shows a passenger using 10,644 persons were injured at grade turing to har mother she said: Oh, crossings in the United States. . ; the radio phone on a car, mama, what a pity I The poor man. Boston Transcript slipped grades,-hereafte- r |