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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH By Peter B. Kysie , ' by Peter B. Kyne. WNU Service , e t to Bom ' r CHAPTER VI , THE STORY ' HiranT Butterworth, miser, decides to leave his fortune to a nephew, Elmer Clarke. Butter-wort- h tells his lawyer, Absolom McPeake, of having swindled a man out of $40,000 forty years before, and arranges for pay- ment with interest. Butterworth dies suddenly. The town of Pilar-citoincluding Elmers sweetheart, Nellie Cathcart, learns of his inheritance before Elmer does. Colorado Charley, crook, and his partner, Mae, plan to pluck El-Nellie wants Elmer to see more of the world before they marry. Unknown to Elmer, Nellie Is heiress of the man Butterworth swindled. s, r. CHAPTER V Meanwhile Elmer Clarkes final period of service at the Smoke Shoppe was drawing to a close. During that two weeks one incident alone upthrust itself in Elmers consciousness as a pleasant variation from the orderly procession of morning, noon and night. On the third day following the great news, the editor of the Clarion fathered a thought truly bucolic. Remorse for the light manner in which he had once offended Elmer Clarke in his local brevities column now overtook him. ,What if Elmer should take a notion to back some smart metropolitan 'journalist In a new Pilarcitos paper and run the Clarion out of business Horrible ! A vacancy occurring on the board of trustees of the Union high school at this time, the Clarion came out with an editorial blast in bold brevier with a head, suggesting the election to the board of that sterling and distinguished citizen, Elmer Butterworth Clarke. The proponents of another candidate to the ! Continued three-colum- n 11 Oh Joy, oh joy, spring is here and How lovely to find somebody who can laugh, not to say I am so glad. sneer, at the Washingtonian wolves of finance! No charge for this advice. After all, I have some sporting blood and to prove it I shall even refrain from sending this telegram collect. Mac. Isnt Absolom McPeake Nellie soliloquized. a perfect He has dear? told me everything I want to know without telling Old Lady Bray anything." She sat down at her typewriter and rattled oif a letter of thanks to McPeake. Incidentally she Informed him that her mother had been dead five years and seven months and that her estate had never been probated, for two very sufficient reasons. One, because she had nothing to probate, and two, because she had taken the precaution some two years before her demise from a lingering illness formally to give, assign, transfer and set over unto her daughter, Nellie Catheron Cathcart, all of the right, .title and interest which she had inherited from her father in and to that certain mortgage and deficiency judgment, et cetera. Nellie opined that the statute of limitations in her case was in perfect working order and that even the wolves at Washington could not, by any possible interpretation of In, the federal Income tax or federal heritance tax laws,- - construe ' a gift as an inheritance under a will. Nellie now figured the Interest' at 8 per cent annually, compounded on $40,000 from 10, 1882, to August 10," 1924. Having completed her computations, she was aware that ii forty-twyears her mothers &ift had grown to be worth oh,, masterpiece of manipulation exactly $1,078,000. The author of this tale has figured his sum twice, so he knows the figures are correct. Nellie knew that her fig- -' ures were not the product of a disor-- , dered imagination ; she knew that 4f Hiram Butterworths estate could afford to pay her that sum, it tvould, under the definite terms of the will, have to pay her. There was room for neither legal quibble nor compromise. Upon completing her computation Nellie went into the vault, ostensibly to put heicash away, but in reality to shed a few briny tears of sympathy for Elmer Butterwouth Clarke. Presently the bucked , up and her practical-mind leaped to the problem of ascertaining approximately the sum that a rapacious and predatory government would bite out of Elmers share of the estate. When she had made a fairly accurate If rough estimate of this, she wept again. Upon recovering her emotions she deducted a further sum which might reasonably include the funeral expenses of Uncle Hiram, the probate fees, the appraisers fees and executors fee, the specific bequest of ten thousand dollars, state and county taxes and ordinary debts of the estate. She was still further appalled at this total and wept a third time. To she sobbed. Poor Elmer! think that he was shot twice and gassed once fighting for his country, and now look what his country does to him! Oh, darling, darling, your poor dear head is going to be all bloody, but if youll only keep it unbowed, how much more your sweetheart is going to love Ab-solo- m semi-annuall- y, Au-g- , " o ! , you , ! Before she emerged from the vault she remembered the joke which fate, in her case, had played on the wolves of Washington. She at least was going to get $1,078,000 out of the wreck and the howls of the wolves would be sweet music to her ears. They couldnt touch her with' a buggy whip as Elmer would have expressed it. Let fate do Its worst to Elmer Clarke ! What did Nellie Cathcart care? When the tumult and the shouting died, when the smoke of battle drifted from the scene, it would reveal Little Faithful, smiling, happy and confident, tlie possessor of Elmer Clarke and a bank roll that a greyhound couldnt jump over. . Raising Pop Corn May Be Overdone As a Result of Attractive Prices Interest Is Gaining Momentum. by the United States Department (Prepared of Agriculture.! WNU Service. Indications now point to the possi- bility that pop corn growing may he overdone in 1931, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Pop corn prices, they point out, are very sensitive to supply, and price depressions due to overproduction have occurred in the past. After a few years of fairly normal production, if a short crop occurs as the result of unfavorable weather or other causes, the price rises to a figure attractive to growers. Immediately many new producers appear who flood the market with disastrous effects to the old growers as well as. to themselves. Relatively high current prices for pop corn and low prices for field corn have combined to make pop corn appear a desirable crop, says specialist? of the bureau of plant industry. Judging from current correspondence, they say, many old growers are expanding their acreage and others, attracted by stories of their neighbors profits, are planning to substitute pop corn for part of their field corn acreage. Interest Gains Momentum. The present interest in pop corn has been gaining momentum for more than a year as .he result of attractive prices. Ordinarily the unbalanced situation would have correcttc itself before now, but the weather of 1930 conspired to reduce the yields of pop corn as well as of field corn and so put off the day of price rectification. Stocks of old pop corn were pretty well cleaned up during the winter of 1929-3and prices rose considerably. In response to this stimulus, acreage was expanded in 1930 but the effect was offset by the unfavorable weather. Prices of pop corn have declined somewhat lately, partly at least in sympathy with general price levels, but they are still relatively high as compared with field corn, the specialists point out. What is happening may be illustrated by the situation in Iowa, they say, which is the leading state in the production of commercial pop corn. In 1930 Iowa increased her pop corn acreage to nearly twice that of 1929 and nearly three times that of 1927. If, instead of the heat and drought of last summer, the weather had been favorable for corn, enough pop corn would have been produced to glut the market, and overproduction such as that of 1925 would have occurred. . 0 Oh, Masterpiece of Manipulation! Exactly $1,078,000. which was without salary, office, promptly pointed out the inadvisability of shattering an ancient and custom of electing to the school board only those men and women who had demonstrated their fitness to superintend the education of the young by providing the community with young to educate. In an indefinite and roundabout way Elmer sensed a covert slam in this. At any rate it aroused all of his newborn antagonism to provincialism.. Egged on by his friends, he decided to demonstrate to Pilarcitos that a young, unmarried man should, and would, function on that board or know the reason why. Immediately he announced himself as a candidate for the office. Nellie was delighted, because this evidenced on Elmers part a subconscious decision to continue to live in Pilarcitos and grow up with the town. She advised him to conduct a furious campaign against the mossbacks of the community, to prove that he had its interests at heart as truly as did his opponent, Henry Tichenor, who was the father of twelve children. Indeed, in the midst of her subtle blandishments she suddenly conceived the idea 'of making Elmer the leading citizen of the county, if not of the state. , In one illuminating instant she caught a vision that caused her to tremble. As the sole proprietor of Elmers place, she knew her man couldnt be elected town dog catcher, but as president of the Pilarcitos Commercial Trust and Savings bank she could elect him mayor at the primary election. From mayor to the state legislature, from the state legislature to lieutenant governor, from that to governor, to congressman, to United States senator, to the Vice Presidency to the White House! Its a big, dream, she reflected, but only those who have the ability to dream big dreams ever amount to anything. Just as easy to dream big dreams as little ones and Ansel P. Moody has battened on this community long enough. Elmer is right. Hes a pawnbroker, not a banker, and a banker should be the big man in any community. He should know better than any other man its needs, its aspirations and his duty toward It When the time comes Ill tell Ansel P. Moody where he gets off. Hell sell his controlling interest in that bank to me at a fair price, or Ill start a new bank and run him and his competitor out of business in ten years. , , (TO BE CONTINUED ) ei Roadside Tests Friendship traffic what it is, With present-da- y its not so easy to live in a house by the side of the road and still be a friend to man. Fort Wayne Pop Corn Acreage. The pop corn acreage of the United of 1 States is only about corn total the cent of acreage, per the department workers comment. Although the commecial growing of pop corn is concentrated in certain districts to a considerable extent, much of the best land in the heart of the corn belt is suitable for growing pop corn. It can be appreciated, therefore, they say. that the acreage of this crop can .asily be overexpanded. Tlie unusjally high prices of a year ago, together with the relatively high prices at present, as compared to other grains, may easily lead to the production of too much pop corn in 1931 If the season is favorable. It may be well for those who are planning to increase uneontraeted acreage, and especially for those planning to grow pop corn for the first time, to consider the situation carefully before plunging too deeply, the bureau warns. one-tent- h Bacterial Blight Most Important Bean Disease Development of bean varieties resistant to bacterial blight appears to be the most promising control for the disease, reports Dr. W.'J. Zaumeyer, assistant pathologist in the United States Department of Agriculture, who conducting investigations on this disease. The results of his findings have been published by the de, partment as Technical Bulletin the Bacterial Blight of Beans Caused by Bacterium Phaseoli. Next to anthracnose, says Doctor Zaumeyer, bacterial bligbLis the most important disease of beans with the annual loss from the disease approximately a quarter, million bushels. Lossetf in very bad seasons have run as high as 75 per cent of the crop' and in isolated instances and in particularly bad years, complete destruction of a field is not uncommon. .In field tests no variety showed complete resistance, the author says, although four varieties of the Refugee type showed a very low degree of All other varieties susceptibility. tested showed moderate or very slight resistance. Copies of bulletin 186-may . be obtained free from the Office of Information, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. 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