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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH a 5 4 01 Milfoil I SYNOPSIS ! Harold Titus. W.M.U ten vi cl . E1" rr nto the lumbering ,Wi.2 bringing along an td TJ.CTtuart. who had been tfS Elliott de- Tin a log-birllng con-iu con-iu Brandon, the town a ' present. Stuarfs pres-itt pres-itt force him to leave PIllrtt. resenting the act. til . E'iiott arrest- ,lrlend In Judge Able let : pTJ--Continued L fiat makes you think." El-Cm El-Cm that I've got a chance l itter when other men have I did not hesitate. Lm joo have youth and a for tough nuts! You've had lemeli timber operations and i afraid of Nick Brandon, and. jffl(t important of all. you tt lincnp bunting trouble. St- netting a hand on bis fejf-Td taKe Bnugers wuru U quicker than I'd take the fin; man. He says you can f too will I'm asking you, fu an old man with his back wall, will you help me on I Eliott did not reply at once, las mrlDg at the floor as one Jirtia debating with himself '"preparing for argument with fer. He twisted his head grave-il grave-il snilei Then he looked Into h face. fen So we start?" he asked. Justice swallowed. Umij bow? Without know-i:j know-i:j more about it?" r know enough. It's good timing tim-ing It'a Brandon who's messing le detail... Let's go, Judge 1" i s hi Just before whistle time Earning at the Hoot Owl mill. ISil th joung feller with t the trlmmerman asked the fa boss." hi" The trlmmerman spat toned farther forward for a look it Ben Elliott as he I talking to the sawyer in the of early day. "Say .... 1 ke the lad that ducked th' fi took a poke at Brandon?" S' tame." U ril be d-d! Only a kid. -T be a good hand on a birlin' U won't Nick Brandon find -weet plckin'l He likes 'em Kick does . . . and 'special-er 'special-er this one took such pains to I himself unpopular with Mis- ;P. He'll be duck soup for pa H right 1" oand of the millwright's ipwoached the hour. The f Wiled the signal cord. The waft commenced t0 tur and fwchlne to machine went Bui-I Bui-I 7 Able and Ben watched, f g beltln?, grease cups, see-I see-I 11 Ue rollers ran steadily f The pulleys turned slowly slow-ly Ml five minutes and then j tracked whistle atop the boll- tackled its message that working day had begun, the iLZT forward and tb Its way into a good litlrredon h! w , 1 mill should start, any. w that bP!Hnn!nn SfS'thalf dozen ,ogs h jl ttu the point of Vml P"tlcu-LJf P"tlcu-LJf 88 soon as he U lZ his lumber the was mediocre, lia jZ op even ST.?' not happy- lost lED!,er' then'f m atche(j each dj logs b"?ofTinf ,n now- b f-H -g, tanHng," Buller " n xe Inaple and Mfc,.."'-somof It He have to offer the Pcular X 5 With o? the edj supply of logs from camp to mill would be cut off. Snow was falling fall-ing lightly, now, but sleighing might be days distant To log the mill by trucks was Impractical, he declared, and unless the railroad equipment could be put in working condition they might be forced to shut down. Fortunately a reserve log supply of a sort was on hand, decked high beside be-side the pond. "We'll have to break out this one deck now," Buller said. "Pond's about empty." He whistled and waved to the ! pond man. Picking up a peavey be led the way toward that high bank of maple, beech and birch logs. Ben followed. "Try the big birch first," Buller said to the pond man. They engaged the hooks of their peaveys; they heaved. The log rolled away easily and lumbered down the Incline to the water. Another An-other . . . and still another, each coming aay separately and starting no movement of others above them. Buller spat 'That d n beech butt's In tight," he said, tapping the log with his peavey pick. "Try her, Jim; now be careful. When she comes, the whole deck'll move In a hurry." They heaved to no result. With a sharp "Now!" they heaved again, but the beech, nestling in the face of the deck at the height of a man's hip, refused to budge. "Hold on! Give you a hand." Ben picked up a peavey and approached. "Here,, take this end, Elliott,'' the foreman said, moving in toward the center which was under the towering tower-ing facade of the deck. "No, go on back. I'll do the risk-taking risk-taking for this lay-out for a while." Buller made no reply but grinned. The pond man looked at Ben approvingly ap-provingly and spat on his bands. Peavey hooks bit the log's ends again; a peavey point, with all Ben Elliott's strength bearing on It, pried beneath the center of the reluctant re-luctant beech. . . . "Now, ... Together!" To-gether!" He lifted his weight from the ground. His peavey handle bent "Look out !" Buller's voice was shrill on the warning as movement sent Ben Elliott swinging to the right The key stick popped out, all but upon Ben. The logs above settled with a heavy mutter and then Lwith that thunderous, ringing, boom ing sound of hardwood in motion, they rolled upon him. Elliott had dropped his peavey, leaped nimbly over the beech as It struck the ground and bounced on Its way to the water, He hopped to the first log and spurned It with his one foot landed on the following follow-ing with both, hesitated a split Instant In-stant and stepped to yet another. Arms spread, balancing carefully, watching those logs as a boxer watches his opponent's blows, he went up that rooming, booming avalanche as It came down. He danced to the left as the end of one stick swung out to clout blm to a pulp. He ran rapidly over three that lumbered down beneath nim and paused. Two came riding together, one atop the other, a moving barrier as high as his waist Buller opened his Hps In a cry of warning but thrusting out one hand, touching the topmost of the pair ever so lightly. Ben vaulted over, landing on another that rolled and grumbled grum-bled behind the two. Crevasses between be-tween logs opened and closed be fore him. Sticks pepped out of the tremendous pressure and rolled down slantwise. Imperiling him. He did not run rapidly. At times he seemed to move with painful, with dangerous deliberation. But be was watching the lops and his chances and did not make a move nntil he was certain of where he was go ing. Slowly the deck settled. Half of what had been piled logs new bobbed and swayed and rolled In the pond. The rest, reduced from the height to which It bad towered a few seconds before, came to rest And Ben Elliott on its lowered crest stood still a moment until certain the movement was ended and then came slowly down, look Ing not at the men who gaped at him bat at the logs over which he walked with a critical, appraising eye. "Atta boy!" an unidentified tolce yelled above the roar of the carriage car-riage exhaust but If Elliott beard this he gave no Indication. "New, If Buller can't ret that locomotive lo-comotive going by noon," he said to the pale and visibly shaken Able, "we'll telegraph for a new spider. No use taking more chances. Come on, Buller. let's look at the stuff yoo'we got piled." Blinking, the millwright followed oim. I G dT muttered the pond man. Sllck shod, he went over that face! Slick shod! I G d !" In the crepe rubber soles of his pacs, Ben Elliott had done what would have been a feat for an agile veteran In calked river boots. . . . And Immediately gone on about another an-other phase of his Job as though such spectacular activity were all In a day's work. An hour later the mill stood 6l-lent 6l-lent for five minutes while a broken brok-en conveyor chain was repaired. In that Interval every man on the Job had heard the story. When they started the head sawyer was grinning and It seemed as though the saw stayed in the log more constantly than it had before, be-fore, as If the mill functioned with greater smoothness, as If something In the nature of enthusiasm went Into the labor along with brawn and experience. CHAPTER 111 JOT so In the camp where men and horses tolled to mnke decks of logs by night out of what at dawn had been standing trees. Nearly half the crew were Finns, stolid. uncommunicative fellows, good enough workmen but difficult to speed up. "Aren't there any good men left loose around here?" Ben asked Able on his first trip to town. "Few." The Justice shook his head. "Good workers, lots of 'era. But Brandon keeps hold of them. He treats them well; he's nobody's fool But If a good man crosses him . . . out of the region he goes! "Old Tim Jeffers Is the only man who's stood out against Nick and he's the best logger these woods have ever seen but he doesn't like Brandon, can't work for him and is so disgusted that he's quit the timber tim-ber and settled down on a farm. He hasn't 6et foot In a camp for three years and swears he never will again. Neither will he be run out of the country." Ben thoughtfully watched the snow, which had been falling steadily stead-ily for three days. "We ought to have a new boss for camp. That crew needs riding If they're going to produce. Rup-pert Rup-pert means well but he doesn't know how." Ruppert was the camp foreman. "That's part of the hard shell of this nut Ben; lack of good men who've got the sand to stick here and work for anybody but Brandon." Bran-don." The next morning Sunday Ben sat over a table in his tiny office working with paper and pencil when Bird-Eye Blaine burst In. "The Bull's here!" the little Irsh- The Bull Gave Up Trying to Close. man exclaimed In a whisper, closing the door behind him hastily. "Th' Bull's here . . . 'nd wearin' his river boots!" Ben shoved back his chair. "What's this?" "Ah, It's Brandon thut's slnt him! He's Misther Brandon's pet bull 'nd he'll clane this camp av men loike he's done many a time before I He's wearin river boots 'nd swlllin' whisky!" "Where?" Elliott got to his feet "In th men's camp." gesticulating gesticulat-ing with bis thumb. "He's Just now come In 'nd they're commencln' to sift out, th' dommed yellow bellies 1" Without stopping even fcr his cap Ben stepped out and crossed to the men's camp. He did not burst Into the place, but opened the door casually cas-ually and slipiied Inside. In the center of the room, close by the heating stove above which seeks hung from drying racks, stood Bull UuvaL His cap was tilted on his head, he leaned backward from bis hips. In bis uplifted right band was a quart whisky bottle nearly full and his voice bellowed the words of a woods classic In the far end of the room a half dozen men were huddled. From several upier bunks concerned faces watched the BulL The men were clearly afraid, certain that this hilarity hi-larity was only a prelude to a melee In which beads would be broken and bodies bruised. The swaying of Duval's body, as he moved to the measure of the ballad, brought him facing the doorway. door-way. Ben Elliott stepped forward two or three paces and stood watching him His paz was steady, and In his eyes danced warning flame. The Bull broke short his song. "Good day. Mister Elliott!" be said heavily. In mock respect "1 beerd yon was th' new boss at Boot Owl and likely you're lookln' fer good men. Ilere's one, Elliott Here's th' best man you'll get a chanct to blre until th' next blue snow ! Ben, heedless of the Increased tension which showed on the faces of the onlookers, crossed the floor slow ly. "You want to work for roe, Du val?" he aiked. "Think I come over to spark you?" the other countered Insolently. Inso-lently. "Have a drink !" He extended the bottle, holding It In his great hand, grinning at Ben. "In the first place, I don't want to hire you," Elliott said, "In the second, there's no hooch allowed In this camp." He snatched the bottle, swung and sent It crashing against the 12 1 ArA roll m Vflet MAmnnr tVta Kloo of Its contents against scorching metal had the place while trie Bull s head thrust slowly forward and his small eyes grew red with rage. His Hp drew back, exposing yellow teeth. "Will you walk out Duval r Ben asked. "Or do you want me to throw you through the door?" "Throw me out?" Duval cried thickly. "Throw me out? Why. kid, th' best day you ever seen you couldn't" He got Just that far In his boast His hands had knotted Into great fists, his body swayed, but before he could strike that first blow or fall Into that Initial clinch or carry out whatever plan of attack had formed In his truculent mind, knuckles bashed Into his Hps, driving the words back Into bis teeth. It was a hard blow, with every-thing every-thing Ben Elliott had from knuckles knuck-les to ankle put behind Its drive. The savagery with which he struck threw Ben off his own balance, but hard as he had hit quick as he had been, the blow was not enough to put Duval down. He closed with a roar, one gTeat arm clamped about Elliott's waist, the other hand smearing across Elliott's Elli-ott's face, shoving Ben's bead backward back-ward as the fingers sought the eyes. Ben twisted away from that menace men-ace of gouging, strained against that crushing embrace and struck hastily with both hands. But the Bull's chin was safe against his own shoulder, shoul-der, his forehead burrowing Into Elliott's chest for protection and not until Ben lifted his knee with a drive like that of a piston did Duval let go. He reeled backward then, cursing curs-ing Inarticulately, panting and heav-Ing heav-Ing forward again from his spiked stance on the rough floor as he struck with all his might His blow went home, a stinging, crushing Impact Im-pact on Ben's cheek bone and Duval's Du-val's great weight followed, bearing the other to the floor, fiat on his back. The Bull spread arms and legs In a smothering sprawl as he went down but before he could pin Ben close and helpless he was wrig gling, threshing over, eluding a band which clawed for his throat grasping Duval's leg, lifting, straining, strain-ing, finally throwing him off, lurching lurch-ing to his knees and then got to his feet pitching forward off balance as be ran, and coming to a bait against the bunks. He faced about sharply to see Duval standing, blood on his mouth, bent forward, arms hooked and extended, ex-tended, like some great Jungle creature crea-ture stirred tc killing fury. Elliott did not try to elude him. With a grunt he charged, head down, one arm before his face, the other drawn back, and when be struck the sound was like that of a club on a quarter of beef. The blow spun Duval half about and the next rocked hira. He grappled for Ben, but Ben sidestepped and struck Duval as be lurched past The Bull gave up trying to close. He struck out now, with renewed savagery as they stood toe-to-to for a moment He dodged a brace of drives which, it seemed, would have felled a horse, so great was the effort behind them, and then, feinting, sent in a slashing upper cut The great fist landed squarely on the point jf Ben's Jaw, lifted him from bis feet and sent him reeling, clawing the air, over on his back again. Elliott was dazed by that blow. Bells clanged thunderously In bis ears apd lights flashed and flickered before his eyes but as he crashed down to the floor. Bird Eye's voice, shrill and frantic, cut through the fog that had folded over him: "Th boots! . . . Th boots!" Boots, yes. Fuji Duval did not fling himself on his prostrate ad versary, this time. Erect, he strode forward two measured paces . . . three, and on the fourth be bent hackward from the hips, lifted hie right foot and raked It out before hlrn; raked those many spikes In the sole straight at the face of his fallen adversary. But bis river boot only swung across the place where a face had been One lone spike ripped thf skin over the cheek bone; a com panion left a bright red trace, Beo had Jerked bis bead sideways moved it that quarter Incb which left bis face still a face and not a mass of raw flesh ribbons. DutbI teetered on his left foot hopping for balance and cursing be cause he bad missed, as Ben, reel Ing to bis feet shouted: "Keep out! My fight V He tt mn, as he came erect Bird Ey Blaine leap for the wood box an eraFp the heavy iron poker. "Mj fight P he repeated and bis hoar voice was commandlnc. fTO Bl OONTIXCED. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Nice Lump Sum The President at Work Free Tombstone Button-Pushing Days Congress will give President Roosevelt a lump sum, a consider able lump of four thousand million dollsrs, to let him change from the system of doles and Imitation Jobs, "picking up leaves and pieces of paper," pa-per," to real Jobs and useful work. In his new Whlje House offices, President Roosevelt Is at work on a "social security program," which will include unemployment Insurance Insur-ance and old age pensions. The Idea Is to let pay rolls contribute to the cost of Insurance and pensions. This might work well with normal pay rolls. You hope that the President, In his wisdom, will Include In any "security" "se-curity" program security for the nation, na-tion, In. addition to security for Individuals, In-dividuals, old or out of a Job. Unemployment Insurance and old age pensions would do little good If a few thousand planes came flying from Europe or Asia to bomb our cities and spray them with poison gas. If they came now, they could do exactly as they pleased. We have no way of Interfering with them. AARDVARK EASILY OUTCLASSES MAN AS FAST DIGGER Bruno Uauptmann's musings on fate's vagaries were Interrupted the other day by a strange offer from Mr. Standlsh Hartmun, who owns the old Flemington stone works, manufacturing tombstones, Just opposite op-posite the Hauptmann Jail Hauptmann was told, "If you are sent to the electric chair I will let you pick out your own tombstone, free, and help you write the epitaph. I will make It a work of art that people will go a long way to see, one that any man would be proud to have." It should take genius to devise a tombstone that "any man would be proud to have" If he got It after being executed for murder. A day Is coming when no man will do any work harder than pressing press-ing a button, and science, Incidentally, Incident-ally, will make crime obsolete. ' For Instance, the Jollet (I1L) Jailer Jail-er sent a fat "trusty" outdoors for a cigar, and the automatic "electric "elec-tric eye" at the gate saw him, flashed a light and the Innocent fat "trusty" was searched. A small metal shoehorn was found in his big loose shoe. The electric eye flashes when anybody passing the gate has any sort of metal In bis possession. No prisoner's friend hereafter can take In a pistol, file or steel saw. If you buy alcoholic drinks, buy from dealers In whom you have confidence. The federal government has seized one million one hundred thousand empty whisky, wine and liquor bottles to prevent bootleggers bootleg-gers refilling them with bootleg supplies. An empty whisky bottle, bought for two cents, filled with eight cents' worth of bootleg whisky, may mean profit for the bootlegger and mean poison for the consumer. To comfort those appropriating and spending large sums of public money fighting the depression It can be said, quite reasonably, that there would be no danger In spend ing $100,000,000,000 more, consider ing that the normal Income of the United States, in really good times, Is close to $100,000,000,000. If a man spent one or even two years' Income to settle all his troubles you'd think the price reasonable. It would be a silly mistake, of course, to issue the $100,000,000,000 In bonds and pay out another $100,-000,000,000 $100,-000,000,000 for Interest, nnneces-sarily. nnneces-sarily. That needs to be said and will be said quite often. The aardvark whose name conies from the Dutch and means "earth nle." Is one of the strangest of living mammals extraordinary in appearance, appear-ance, in structure, and In habits, says the Chicago Field Museum News. Aardvarks are common through out southeastern Africa, states Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, curator of jsoology at the museum. They are about the size of a large fat hog, weigh up to 150 pounds, and have a plg-llke snout, which accounts for the name given them by the early Dutch colonists In South Africa. That they are so abundant over so wide a range of territory, can grow to such larce size as Individuals on a diet of ants exclusively, Is elo quent evidence of the prevalence or ants In Africa, and (he problem they present to settlers. Kelne nocturnal In habits and liv ing In burrows, aardvarks are rarely seen, says Doctor Osgood. They cannot, therefore, be hunted like most animals, but Instead by the un usual method of seeking their bur rows and digging them out. However, How-ever, this presents difficulties because be-cause an aardvark can dig faster than six men with shovels, and thus escape farther Into the earth. The members of the White-Coats expedi tion, instead of digging directly after the aardvarks. pushed the earth down behind them. This interfered with further digging by the anlma s, and the men then dug In front or them and shot them through the ground as their movement in the earth became risible. The teeth of the aardvark have a necullar tubular structure, most closely resembling those of certain fishes. This would seem to Indicate To read that Harry MacCrack-en, MacCrack-en, seventy-five-year old retired cattle cat-tle puncher, Jumped up when a bandit ban-dit told him to sit still, and "drilled" the bandit through the shoulder, is mildly interesting. It Is more In-i In-i terestlng to read that it happened j In a "suburban liquor store" of Col- orado, where MacCracken spend9 his time sitting by the stove, "whit tling." To sit whittling by a liquor store stove seems a strange occupation occu-pation for one seventy-five years old, who knows that time is whittling whit-tling away his few remaining days. The AAA asks congress for complete com-plete authority ovef all crops, all farm activities, and for $10,000,000 , to $00,000,000 to move farmers from poor farms to better farms. It is all benevolently planned, but many a farmer would prefer to J stamp his foot and clap his hands in tiie oia independent way. The end of prohibition has not yielded all that was promised, and hoped for. In reform and In cash. Two-thirds of all the whisky sold Is still bootleg whisky. That cheats Uncle Sam and poisons many with bad whleky. In big New Tork city, many went to hospitals after a "gay" New Tear's eve. It Is little consolation to know that the number of alcoholism alco-holism cases was somewhat smaller than during prohibition years. . i .nacfr for these a very aui-jc-m animals, which are probably the lu I . - -1 irtlth fill remnant or an omur " other species are now extinct, avers Doctor usgooa. Pleaaant Thoaghta iii mon nrA dud to hove pleasant memories, but not all are providing ,o mntnrini for such memories. If you would look back by and by to something that you will be gmd you said or did, now Is the time to do or say something which will give you food for gladness. Henry Clay Trumbull. , our EYES A Few Drops Every Night and Morning Will Promote a Clean, Healthy Condition! At All Drug Stores WriuMwiM Co..bpt.W.ChiooorFrtBook V It Seldom Doea The restless don't want love to run too smoothly. Help Kidneys If poorly foneUoninir Kidnera ana Waddor make you autter lnm Gottin tip NihU. Narvotwnew, KheumaU Palna. 8U!fn9. Burning-, Bmarttnr. Jtehin. or Acidity try th. ipmnintiwj Doctor a PrwriptlntiCyttx(Sui-ux . .JZ w -Mat fix jmi up or moo Cy'SteX tack. OaUiy at drusKuta The "Bron The Bronx Is the northernmost borough of New York City. It takes its name from Jonas Bronck, sometimes written Bronk and Brunk, who was the first white owner of land there. He was a Dane or Swede who migrated to New Netherland from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1G39. Two years later he purchased 500 acres of land between be-tween the Harlem and Aquahung rivers. This latter stream soon lost Its Indian name and became known as Bronk's river. The name Bronk's was also applied to the valley of. the river, and later, Bronx, a natural nat-ural derivative, to the political division di-vision delimited for purposes of government All Have Thr.a Natures Every human being is accredited with three natures, the mental, the moral and the physical. He owes a debt to each one of these. If It Is a sin to wreck the mind or to destroy the soul, It is also a sin to defile the body. Moreover, if It Is a duty to cultivate the mental faculties, it is likewise a duty to give heed and honor to the physical nature, Dr. Hubert A. Royster says In "Physical Morality," in Uygela, the health magazine. Streamlining Streamlining is based on the law of aerodynamics, discovery of which reversed preconceived Ideas of air resistance to solids. Formerly It was believed that a sharp-pointed object would pass more rapidly through air. Aerodynamics has demonstrated that a blunt-nosed object with a sharp end pointing backward creates less air reslst-snce. reslst-snce. When a sharp Joint cleaves the air, air currents are thrnst out and immediately return to drag at the moving objects from behind. A blunt nose shoves the air aside gently gen-tly and allows it to stream along the sides of the moving object and resume Us course at the rear with out any drag. 7 Pcromicaa Pemmlcan consisted originally of lean meat cut In thin slices, dried In the sun, pounded fine, mixed with melted fat, and packed. It was much used in that form by North American Indians as a convenient con-venient food to be carried. The term Is applied to a similar preparation prep-aration to which dried fruit is sometimes added and which Is compressed com-pressed Into cakes. It is much used by explorers. Women of Oberatnroergao The women of Oberammergan wear long, full, red, black or multicolored multi-colored skirts and bodices, with kerchiefs or embroidered scarfs around their necks, crossed In front On their heads are round, wide-brimmed, wide-brimmed, shallow-crowned hats. The men wear short Jackets, knee breeches and footless stockings with hob-nailed shoes. Both men' and women wear the "Gemseplnsel" perched on their hats. "Gemseplnsel" "Gemsepln-sel" Is the tuft from the breast of a chamois buck that Inhabits the nearby mountains. Most DeaoTate Island Navarlno Is perhaps the most southern permanent abode of man. This desolate Island and a number of others, such as Hoste, Yendegala, Canakus and Lennox, all near Capo Horn, form the political district f Navarlno, Chile's outpost of civilisation. civili-sation. North of these Islands flows Beagle channel, made famous by Darwin's studies and the voyage of the British ship Beagle, imiiwbto mm mm ... -TTsrTrw i.,-- -rr -J(SJ'T,--'r"?)r - g jvh "Vt,rT t'.i.ti'.Yt '-... -i lQ'.liA.H.rX.T. TIIE WEWJHHJSE MTEIL A Distinctive Residence An Abode. ..renowned Throughout the West Salt Lake's Most Hospitable HOTEL Invites You lira. J. H. Waters, President RATES SINGLE $2.00 to $4.00 DOUBLE tZS0to$4.50 40O Booms 400 Betas THE Hotel Iewlioiise V. E. SUTTON, General Manager OIAUNCEY W. VEST Asrittm Gen. 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