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Show .rJyv. j T1IE SM1THFIELD SENTINEL, SMITH FIELD, UTAH Party Prize Frock for a Little Girl "QUOTES" PATTERN COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY assa NATIONAL CHARACTERS Copyright by Bca Aon WQlluUL bij Ben Ames llm Liams AMERICAN WNUSirvIe DEMOCRACY By REV. DR. DANIEL POLINQ Gait Oranai (N. J.) CUrsyman. MAY fairly ask, where g than in a under in nations lands, or WE PROLOGUE Will BIsseHs (tore In Fraternity Tillage la not only a (tore; but also It la a (octal center and a clearing house for news of the countryside. After anpper, a dozen or a (core of men are likely to drop In there for the mail, for a few dry groceries, or for nothing at all except the chance to llstep and to apeak In turn. Jim Saladlne came down the bill from hla farm on the Ridge one aprlng evening and found Cbct HcAualund there before him, and Gay Ilunt, and Luke Illlls, and others, too. Chet, abort and atralght and vigor-on- a despite his seventy years, was apeaklng when Saladlne came In; speaking, aa he waa apt to In the spring, of flah and Ashing. He greeted Jim with a nod, and finished what he had been saying. "Ton hear many a tale of big trout from out there," he confessed, grudgingly enough. Out I'd rather eat a amall trout anyway ; and I can catch a good mesa in the meadow brooks, along toward dark any time. Gay Hunt retorted with a derisive chuckle: "Just the same, theres something funny about It that you never went out there, liking to fish the way you do." So Saladlne asked curiously: "Out where, Gay I" He was a famous hunt- er of the deer and of partridge and he liked trout aa well as any man. Careys brook, out In Hostile Tal- ley," Gay explained. He pronounced the word to rhyme with smile," with long vowel In the second syllable. Bart Carey waa In here a while ago; claimed that a man staying at hla one (dace caught three afternoon last week." d Now a trout Is, for the streams about Fraternity, unusual; and to catch three such monsters In a single day waa without precedent Saladlne was Interested, yet not Immediately credulous Tve heard such tales," he admit ted. But I dunno. This Carey, he act like a man to tell the truth! Know him, dont you!" Gay protested. Lives right there at Careys bridge. His pa used to take boarders, folks that come for the fishing. After the old man died, Bart and hla brother had a row and hla brother pulled out Barfs sister killed herself here a year ago." 1 dont know as 1 ever see him Saladlne confessed. 1 never got out to Hostile Valley." He chuckled faint ly. Matter of fact, I always kind of dodged the place. Didnt like the name inf It, I guess." The others nodded understand! ngly. This Hostile Valley had In fact an 111 leputei Hidden away In the hills somewhat north and west of Fraternity, It was a deep gorge between two ridges, and the slopes were bold and black with spruce timber, and they bad a trick of catching low clouds and squeezing them of moisture, so that rain fell often there and farms did not greatly prosper. The very aspect of the place waa somehow gloomy and forbidding. ; Chet HcAusland said now: I went In there once. It's an awful hole. Hoads are bad and theres a tangle of down timber along the brook enough to drive you crazy and the mosquitoes and black files are awful. Once was enough for me." Gay Hunt assented: Me, I never liked the sound of It." There was In fact a harsh asperity In the very name, conjuring a picture of a countryside Inhabited by dour and silent folk who looked askance at a stranger. How come It to be called that In the ra two-poun- the one lives out there now. Name's Will, too. lies an able man. Gay asked quickly: Aint his wife the one . . . diet nodded. She'd the one," be agreed, In a heavy tone. There was a moment's hushed pause; the same thought In all their minds Uuldy Ferrln's fame, It was clear, extended far. The men here In the store exchanged sidelong glances; and then Luke Hills said In a hushed tone: I've see her 1" ne was It appeared, alone In this distinction; and though no one spoke, there were questions In their eyes Luke was a large, simple man, not used to hold the center of the stage; yet somewhat of a braggart, too. But he spoke now with a cautious restraint. I was working In Seth Humphreys steam mill out there," he explained. The time Will Ferrln killed Seth for chasing around after her. Nobody blamed WllL I guess 8eth started It Anyhow, he shot Will's leg off; but Will had a hold of his throat by that time and hung on. I helped lug Will up to Marm Pierce's after. The truck Seth was driving, Its still Jammed In the shed, where It skidded when he put the brakes on. The mill never run a day, after." This Mis Ferrln," some one prompted ; and Luke aald guardedly: Well, I never see a woman like her. Just looking at her would make a man kind of lift his comb and strut like a fighting cock. Saladlne commented slowly: Tve heard tell that Will Ferrln la a good man." A nod, here and there, answered him, assenting. I sever heard much about this Bart Carey, though," Saladlne added. Will Bluell, from behind the candy counter, remarked: Bart, he stops In here once In a white, oa hla way to East Harbor. He's kind of tall and looks to be able and he speaks right np to you. Id say hes aD right" plained. He added honestly: It full of big trout, though. In the deep holes and down through the bog. If a man could get at them. Say we try It some day, Saladlne proposed. "Sho," Chet protested, what's the sense In going so far when you can get plenty nearer home? The roads Is awfuL Jim chuckled. This old car la used to bad roads, Chet Im a mind to go. I'd like to have a look at that brook. Tou come along I But Chet would not; and Saladlne'a curiosity was stimulated by the other's attitude. Chet was not a fearful man. nor given to Imaginings; yet It was obvious that he had a lively distaste for this hidden valley with the harsh name. When the two men said good night, and Jim drove on up the MU. his Intent was by Chet's very reluctance crystallzed. And two or three days later, when rain and the promise of more rain made farm work a tedious business of which clods turning water-soake- d weighed heavily upon the plow, he took the opportunity thus afforded. Ill be back by dark or a little xfter, he told Mrs. Saladlne when he set out I dont aim to do much only look over the brook and try a few boles. But It would be long after dark before he came home, and many things would happen In the Intervening hours The past la a book which any man may read, but It Is Impossible to look ahead with certainty through thirty seconds span. It may be as well that this Is so; foreknowledge might so often daunt and dismay the stoutest man, and futile dread of the Inescapable paralyze the energies of human kind. Saladlne often afterward asked himself; if he had known what a sequence of events hla entrance Into the Valley waa to set In motion, he would have gone there that day; and he could find no certain answer. But he set out wlth.no misgivings. It had rained the day before, and In the night; a sharp torrential downpour. The roal from bte farm to the village waa rutted and washed away along the borders, and mud splashed merrily nnder his wheels. Chains, Jim decided, might be useful; and be stopped at the garage In North Fraternity to buy a pair. Lon Pride; the garage man, had news to relate. "Hear about the nrrder out at Liberty?" he asked, with auction. Jim had not heard, and Lon said : Old Man May hew lived on the road to Macs corner, they found Mm dead this morning with his head beat In. They're sent for the sheriff. Jim knew Sheriff Sohler, but not Old Man Mayhew. Nevertheless he was tempted to turn that way. In the end, he put this temptation aside, but he would be glad to know where the sheriff could be found, before this day Luke Hills supplemented this. We used to go up to hla place, from the mill, of an evening sometimes," he said. Bart hed always hare hard cider In the cellar and maybe some rum. He dont farm much. He takee folks to board that want to come and flab the brook. Likes a good time." And he added: Hla sister, this one that killed herself, Amy her name was, she hep house for him. She waa a woman, too. How come she killed herself?" Saladlne asked gravely. Luke shook hla head. I dunno. That was after I come back here." But Chet said strongly: Well, If you ask me. It's enough to make any woman kill herself, to live out there. That's a miserable place. Its a wonder this Mis' Ferrln would stay there, Jim suggested. From what you hear about her. What was dona makes her stay, Luke? The chains adjusted, he went on; Luke put a guard upon his tongue. was a prickling excitement, and to talk about a thing that a there I dont go sense deep adventure; In him as aint none of my- business," he pro- he drove. Onofthe surface; he went tested. I see Will when he got hold fish and nothing more; yet this waa to man Teach Seth. with a of mite any good fishing day. The brooks of sense to keep his mouth shut, that not abank-deep were with roily water; the would. Tbelr talk turned presently Into an sky was overcast, and surly clouds other channel; but when by and by went scurrying as though op sinister Will began to turn out the lights as errands; The roads he followed were and rocky and rutted, and deep a suggestion that It was time to go narrow woods a while pressed close on after went out to home, Saladlne and Chet sometimes the Jims car together and In the ear either hand, so that started up the MIL Chet's farm was dripping branches met above the car. He had no dear and certain notion on the shoulder of the Bldgs, where two roads forked; and Jim stopped to of the proper route, knew only hi a let the other man down. general fashion where the Valley lay, You say you never fished Carey's and steered as It were by compass brook only that once? he asked thea now. He meant to come to Carey's Once was plenty, Chet replied. bridge; at the upper end of the ValChet knew the answer to this quesDo anything?" ley, and fish downstream; so at crossChet shook hla head. A few amall roads or at forks, be took what seemed tion, as he was apt to know all the ancient lore of these hills. It goes ones. Its a chancy brook, he ex the most promising turn, and once or back to the sixties," he said. They had a kind of a war of their own out there. They fit the draft and there want ever a man from Hostile Valley drafted at all." Half-forgottFor the South, was they!" Gay in Maine hills was nice-lookin- g en It wa'nt that, so much," Chet declared. It was more that the folks out there, you cant ever drhtf em. Old Enoch Ferrln riled them, got their backs np." Enoch was the And he continued: boss coon around there then. I've heard my father tell It He had a farm on the ridge this side, and he had four sons and one of 'em had gone to South Carolina and married down them When the war started, Enoch wrote him to come home and this son hla name was Will wouldnt do It So Enoch made his other three sons list and told 'em to go bunt up this brother of theirs and kill him for a rebel; and Enoch, he tried to organise a company, out there In the Valley-- But he was kind of bulldos-In- g about It ao folks got their back np and wouldn't go for blm nor anybody. So they had a rough time of It for a while." Saladlne asked gravely: Did they kill wmr Chet shook his head. The other three sons all got killed their own selves," he explained. It was like It was a Judgment on Enoch. After the war his head went queer from thinking about It and he'd have died on the town, but this Will, be come home and took gentle care of the old man till be He added: Will's grandson la died. Its men were strange and sullen . Its women were silent, fearful What was its secret ? Jim Saladine Invaded this sinister Eden, found the most beautiful woman he had ever seen and murderl Saladlne glanced toward the felled Looks like I might have trouble getting past that there, he sug- ties gested. The farmer grinned. There's worse places than that, ha said. There's erties and opportunities Immeasurable, beyond those achieved under any other ayatem. DANGER OF HASTE By CARL W. ACKERMAN Dean ot Columbia Journalism School. the NRA is now historical, the example of what could be accomplished WHILE by the mobilization of emotion, f hys- teria, fear, hatred and revenge faces us still today. Taking advantage of the overwhelming sentiment of the American people for better social conditions, those whose object Is a new soda order based on governmental control tell us that we mast make haste or all will be lost That la not true. All will be loat If we make haste. Haste precipitated the World war. Haste made communism, fascism and nazlsm possible In Russia, Italy and Germany. It makes every emergency acute because It choke opinion, reason. Justice and faith. 9259 TAMMANY PROTEST By MARTIN J. KENNEDY U. & RepraienUtlv from New York. HAVE voted for President Roosevelts propositions and have walked down the corridor of I Well, If You Ask Me, Itfs Enough to Make Any Woman Kill Herself." despair and defeat with him on hit death sentence for the utility bolding companies. I see undeserving satelout that something lites who have deserted him receive gullied places scandalous What do you want to go rewards and his loyal friends go unIn there for, anyway?" rewarded. Jim said: Fishing. Something must be wrong. 1 think The other nodded with a mild mirth the President needs another rest. Ha In Ms dry eye. 8o they all say, he went to the West Indies once and then commented In a sardonic tone. But to Hawaii to get In touch with the I guess full as many stop at Ferrln's common people. 1 suggest he let conas go on to Careys" go home as soon ns we wind np gress Saladlne understood the allusion. He all essential business and take a trip had heard tales enough of this woman to Alaska on n battleship; who was wife to Will Ferrln. Leg-ai- d painted ha as a figure at once glamorous and sinister, seductive and UNCONSTITUTIONALITI ES heartless enticing and without scruple. By JOUETT 8HOUSE mllea across Ha repute had spread for President, American Liberty Laagua. the countryside; and ha thought this present administration is mans present Incredulity not surpristhe form of the some was of frank conscious ing. Ha curiosity on hla own account to see American government, and' either such a woman ; wondered whether It must stop Itself or it must bs It has fostered legislation their paths would cross today. stopped. But Just now he listened to the oth- that Is utterly unconstitutional and ever mans directions und drove os The ery lawyer In America knows that It road was miserable. The car, laboring la unconstitutional The Presidential in low gear, ascended steadily, til) compulsion aa to new legislation is through a gap In the woods on the wrong. The President should advise right Saladlne saw low lands and congress and leave It to congress to knew that he was well np on the slope accept or reject The legislative branch of the barrier rldgs So he came at of the government la betyg destroyed. last to Its crest, and followed that The legislators are to blame with tha high tend for n space, and In a sort President ter this usurpation of legisof saddle In the ridge he found an- lative power. other road turning to the left. In the direction In which he wished to go. THE RECKONING This was a road by all the signs By LEWIS W. DOUGLAS not much used, with ruts unmarked Former Director of tho Budget. by the tread of any recent tire, and that day arrives, last years grass dead between the of what the interruts and bowlders that had been heaved upward by the frost. Yet It ventions may be, whether an apwas beyond doubt the proper road, parent recovery a alow process ot and Saladlne turned Into It without disintegration, tha terrific Impetus of the economic forces created by an Inhesitation. After a tew rods however, ha solvent Federal Reserve system, a checked the ear; for the road emerged bankrupt banking system, a destroyed upon a naked ledge, beyond which It middle class and no credit with which dipped steeply downward. From this the unemployed may be relieved. It la ledge It was possible to see a sweep difficult to conceive the method by which we may escape from the desof the Valley, far below. Saladlne quietly appraised this out- potism of a dictatorship. look; but there was not much to see. Directly across from him, two miles THE TAX PROGRAM or so away, another ridge rose like a WILLIAM B. BORAH By waQ. To hla right, the Valley seemed U. & Senator from Idaho. to narrow, pinched between convergFT IS absurd to call the Presi- ing ranges of hills To the left It dents tax program a opened out In some degree; yet there was nothing to see saw the blanket of program. It is, in fact, nothing more than t forest, hardwood and evergreen. Above him, the clouds scurried low program. It Is not only and menacing; and they were like n sound economically but la sound In sodden blanket across the Valley. He morals to taka care of our vast excould discover no least sign of habi- penditures to a larger degree through tation anywhere; nothing save this heavier taxes, if the taxes are wisely sweeping forest carpet, the evergreens laid, such a program will bo more consodden from test night's rain, the ducive to recovery than the reckless hardwoods still half naked, thinly clad voting of bonds and tha Increase of the Interest burden. la tbelr Just springing leaves WHEN a share-the-wcal- has written In "HOSTILE VALLEY" a story you will never be able to forget. Follow it from week to week as it appears serially In this newspaper. THIS IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT! v ivrtiw nxaiiv h Ingratitude In ths Horso Man's ingratitude to the bores his age-olservant and companion, recorded In number of cases In which whalers explorers and other expeditionary parties have deserted their, animate on barren Islands In 1024 a whaling ship, stopping at n small, uninhabited Island off New Zealand, found a friendly old bona that had pent ten lonely years there by him aeir, having been left behind by hla friends" when they sailed for home lost before the war. Collier's Weekly. A BUSINESS CONSPIRACY By FRANCIS J. GORMAN Labor Loader. d t q t 1 a BREVITY Ton hart to learn a great many Initiate." Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. And Initials save time; In a moment of great excitement a big; big TP may be made to com the entire alphabet" Wild Onto at Hla Age! Insurance Doctor How old was your father when he died? Applicant (determined to passions hundred and four. Insurance Doctor What did ha die of? Applicant Strained his heart playing tootbalL i Son adieu a Prospective Lodger Thera factory close by. Wont tha room he a noisy? Landlady Oh, no, air, that la a felt dipper factory. No Lawyer Needed He If I should kiss yon, would It ha peat larceny?" She No, I think It would be grand." th (TO BE CONTINUED) BEN AMES WILLIAMS They all liked my new frock I this little girl will be certain to say when she returns from the party a triumphant little miss. For this dress la different It boasts a double yoke. The second yoke la ent all la one with tha pleats. And puffed sleeves are a deliciously youthful fashion. Moreover, young mothers will find this pattern no trouble at an to follow theyll probably make It up In several cotton prints. Tha coat will be nominal. Wa suggest a sprig print or possibly a small polka dot pattern In gay colon I Bloomen are Included In the pattern. Pattern 9250 may be ordered only In sizes 2, 4, 8 and 8. Size 4 requires fabric. 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If In the last decade I have visited the to come to want 'Course, Carey's you nations of the great new experiments. this here Is the hardest way. Bart I am witness to the fact that under don't ever come out this way. Will no other aoclal or political plan than Ferrln, be does though. It's handiest ours are there fewer abuses than we for him." confront, while with us there are lib- reports assure us OUR daily hours are being increased and wages reduced. The employ-o- s are only walling for congress to adjourn to get In their dirty work. One of the greatest conspiracies In the alstory of the country Is under way. Big business la urging congress to get through In Washington because of the host Thnt's not the reason. I 1 |