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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII, UTAH 2 vtal mt. I indent iM.t IS OL tnikni rork. i HOOL Lib CM ;ndldsl I pec? a 00 i w at - -ir i i rAnli r . MS I p! They've a fleeting, scorch- SYNOPSIS . from "Yonder" S" B"01 rTlnto the lumbering r-W,n"7 brWlnK along an fs(ri haa be,en l'i Tincup. Nicholas tt nresence, trying to Stv. town and Elliott, lWted but finds a friend 8tttt,,H. Armltage. The Judge ' i run the lumJber w v J Owl that Brandon ?.?-2T Id Partner, who has I with a murder cnsnso Lpetfrf ""jbead. Brandon Pl!,t lr DuvaVto beat up F"e wore" him In a fist kSSnn him out of camp. iilirt dies, leaving a let- fH. .... fh letter at this rJtlnV can win the fight h kIle: ..,.. Fire breaks out When the flame, are KgJ I .n.1 rati B oner vi L,n Dawn HcManua, win ti ll not a child, as he had p" L... . hAautiful young fposeu, CHAPTER Vl-Continued -9 Holbroolt taped "t and Bran- . -frnA tnr a tfmo nn his L Nest, lie opened a lower U. gnd drew out a bottle of iskj. Only one drink remained 0 trnmnoA A VPflr fi 'CI he h UC iivtimvw. tf ci- W procured that liquor; for near- twelve uiuuiua u u i- ovuiw touched. But since the night Alii nnn Rhinrt dipii Its pon- l-.it w w :ti bad been drawn upon fre- Mj, His hands shook a bit as 5 111-1 IV. Ll.i1. A- Utn 1ln n AIt It after drinking new strength be- . . ... . , fia to targe mrouga nis dou; buu milled. He looked at his watch f'M Hma anft than nnt IntA tho pet After i time he rose and .M to the wall telephone. "G!n me Miss Coburn's house, t ji jmr ne assea me operator, "lellol Miss Co- Ah, Dawn! ft Uncle Nick talking. Want to 1 to the movie tonight?" I Sib teemed to hesitate and he lad sii head sharply, lips parted. M her voice came. I "It't alee of you to think of me, Sr. Brandon. But I don't think I Irt It go with yon tonight" "Oli; sorry," he said genially pogibut hU brows gathered. "An- per toe, then." - perhaps." Per recelrer clicked op and he pe4 away from the Instrument wiling thoughtfully. Ulster Brandon, ehl" he said Wr. "And , . . No excuse. . . . B last word was spoken with "u though a chapter was mi Se laced the floor slowly. He "Coding, planning, and by the Wface It was evident that Itael good for no man . . . j-g Possibly Nicholas Brandon. W" the S?,"1 to confront Ben i"Zm fenty-fonr hours. Ur Mttecrewcame In to sup- Uy . n p fr" Hoot .long the steel had aMwith an added thrill Pnce Ben dlrect- Lthi,fr' were rbelK". " an expression M ki iH Tarent lndWer- Jammer tcfeuJ88 into place .u With Ron I- wlth Een in the toWm7 trundled dwn It VonV 2 Deer an! fi- tfua 'or delivery of hTvS8- Wttotake iat would be tough ?1 othn S ahantT untO It ,opened sali ,Ze ttIne Id, Utl,WTs, there, stoke their own boilers 1" Ben replied lightly. "Sure you can make It?" "As sure as a man can be." "I sure hope so, Ben. Guess you know by now that I'm pulling for you !n this scrap. But I've got to hold you to your contract To the hour and letter of it. Your friend Brandon has wired Into the house, It seems, offering any quantity of veneer stuff up to seventy thousand at ten dollars less than your contract con-tract calls for. Here's a wire" shaking a telegram "ordering me to hold you to your agreement and If you're late or 6hort on scale to have Brandon load tomorrow. It's out of my hands, you see." Ben's mouth tightened. "Well, it happens, we've ducked from under our genial friend Brandon Bran-don again. Yeah. We'll whip-saw Mr. Nick Brandon!" Blackmore grinned and unbuttoned unbut-toned his coat He chuckled. He was glad. He was on Ben's side for certain, and as he lit his pipe and commenced to talk, with an easing in his manner, a triumphant sort of peace descended on the shanty. But even as they visited, a slender slen-der figure, moving through the darkness dark-ness with a Blight limp, followed the Hoot Owl steel tip the long grade that climbed from the siding. On the trestle this figure stood still In the cold quiet Then he dropped down the bank of the stream to where the crib work of the trestle stood, stoutly footed be neath the muck and water. For many minutes he was there, grunting grunt-ing occasionally, and when he climbed the bank again he trailed something carefully behind. . . . across the bridge, now, he went, after more listening, and down again beneath the north end of the trestle. More grunting; pawlngs in the snow, hard prodding with a short steel bar. ... And up again, trailing something carefully once more. Next, the man lighted a cigarette, shielded the flame of the match in cupped hands and after the tobacco tobac-co was burning applied the fire to a pair of other objects held tightly between thumb and forefinger. . . . He let them go and a pair of green Ish sputters began crawling across the trestle . . . and the man was limping swiftly up the hill, over the crest while the green sputters drew apart, one crossing the trestle to ward its northerly end, the other moving In the opposite direction. .It was twenty minutes later. Ben Elliott was pulling on his macklnaw, preparatory to going out with the first three cars of logs, when he stopped suddenly, one arm in its sleeve, as a jolt shook the building, rattling dishes and causing the door of the range oven to drop open with a hang. None In the place spoke; they looked at each other, faces set in puzzlement Again came a heavy jolt; a loud detonation, detona-tion, and a pan fell from Its ahelf with a . crazy clatter. No word, stllL Without speaking they leaped for the doorway and emerged to see the crew spilling from the men's shanty to look and listen. "It's dlnnymlter Bird-Eye Blaine croaked hoarsely as he ran out "Dinnymite fer sure! Where, Benny Ben-ny b'y?" looking earnestly into Elliott's face. "That's for us to find out" Ben answered grimly and they followed him as he ran with long strides toward to-ward the direction from which the sound had come. Minutes later they came up to him, the fastest of them, as he stood motionless on the bank of the Hoot Owl, looking at the mass of twisted railroad steel and of ties that dangled from the swinging rails In ragged fringe; at the scat tered remnants of crib work, at the piling standing splintered and awry and useless In the stream bed. Ben Elliott's bridge was gone. His way to the siding with his veneer logs, on the delivery of which hun the fate of the operation was blocked. No time remained to team them out there was no other way to get them out except by steeL And his steel was broken, twisted, useless. He turned to face them as they .rowded up, swearing and exclaim ing In excited voices. "You, Houston I" he .snapped to the camp's boss. "Get those stand ards otT the main line. Bird-Eye, start a fire here. You men you three there get a fire going on the other bank. Yon teamsters, back to camp and dress your donkeys. Bring axes, peaveys, skidding equipment. Lively, now, everybody I A Job of work coming up! Blackmore, whose wind was ahort. elbowed through the crowd, pant- png heavily. Elliott: scotched you!" Ben gave him lng glance. Scotched, h-1! They've oni got me good and mad !" And now began a scene the Ilk of which had never been recorded In the TIncup country. Men were there in numbers where huge bonfires, constantly tended that the light should be steady, flared on the banks of the Hoot Owl Sawyers, cant-hook men, teamsters, toiled to reduce the wreckage of the trestle, snaking it out of the way, working hastily. noisily, excitement evident In their movements and shouts. Others cut brush until the sloping river banks showed bare and dark. Back in the woods oil flares burned as the steam loader puffed and snorted and rattled, swung Its boom, lifted logs from their banks, tossed them through the air and dropped them Into place on a flat car. Once loaded, the car of logs and the Jammer were trundled down the mile of track to the stream. Slow and slower the car moved un til the boom of the loader overhung over-hung the gap where a trestle had been. Then blocks went Into place to secure the wheels, Elliott gave the signal, the boom swung a half circle, hook men adjusted their tackle to a log on the single car; up it went around and out over the river bank and then down. Elliott was below there with his cant-hook men. They grabbed the first stick, wrestled it Into place parallel with the current and others, oth-ers, with mauls and stakes, gave It a firm resting place on the bank Another log . . . another and still more, until a crude foundation for trestle abutment had been made. Ben encouraged, he flattered, he cajoled and he drove those men as they never had been driven before. They moved on a run when going from place to place; they seemed to try to outdo one another when strength became essential. They were infected with Elliott's lire. Standing on the bank within the circle of firelight Dawn McManus seemed to snuggle close to Able Armltage, face pallid even under the ruddy glow of flames. Her eyes followed just one figure; that of TIncup who had heard of the work going on. .They left their slel;-: and looked at the emergency tresde and then stared at one another and shook their heads In amazement. Things like that Just didn't hupn, they seemed to be thinking. Then came a battered cutter, with old Tim Jeffers driving alone, to see what was to be seen. "Heard the shots In town last night" he told Able. "Come morn-In' morn-In' I drove this way." The old Justice nodded grimly, "You guessed, then." Tim spit angrily. "The lad was gettin' too close to his mark to suit some folks, It seems." Seven o'clock, and men staggered up the embankment bearing a rail. Five minutes later It rang and sang as the spike went home, and another, anoth-er, the last was brought up. The gap was bridged, the last spikes were going In; the particular particu-lar Job was done, but tension screwed up and up, as a fiddle string is tightened. . , . It was seven-thirty, and far off a locomotive screamed. "The local!" Blackmore gasped. "She's at Dixon. ... In a half hour, now. H 1, the boy's licked 1" A half hour! A half hour In which to move six standard cars laden with a heavy scale of saw logs over that grade 1 Two trips, Ben Elliott had estimated It would take. Two trips for the leaking old locomotive to drag them the three miles to the siding and puff its way back and trundle the other three over the hill and down the slope. It was a half mile climb from river to summit with a better than four per cent grade. A good locomotive of even small tonnage might take them over at once ; but not the old ruin that stood sending its plume of smoke Into the morning air up the track yonder. And. tf those logs were not put down for the train even now screaming its way toward the siding, Ben Elliott was beaten. He straightened, flinging away his maul, saw the last nut tightened on the final fish plate and then, holding up both hands, face fixed toward the locomotive with its string of cars waiting around the bend and up the hill to the north ward, he began to run. Holding them there? When the trestle was ready? Men wondered why, audibly, excitedly, stirred from their weariness by . this strange move. Instead of high-balling them on, Elliott was holding them back! Her Eyes Followed Just One Fig ure; That of Ben Elliott Ben Elliott Commanding, resource ful, a human dynamo, he was. Shortly after midnight the sup ply team drove up from camp, the cook drew back blankets which- had covered Its burden, commenced put ting generous pieces of steaming steak between slices of bread and the cook poured coffee from huge pots for the men who swarmeu around the sleigh. Back to the decks In the woods went the locomotive ; down It came again, bearing more logs. These were let down to a pile which rose almost to the track level. When It was three feet higher nearly half the work would be finished. Workers staggered through the snow bearing a steel rail. It went Into nlace: fish plates clatterea wrenches set nuts and spikes put the rail secure on ties. So when the locomotive, leaking steam from its old Joints, lumbered flown with its next burden, tne load er was set out on this length of new track and began the task of fliiins In the far side of the ravine, leaving a sluiceway through which the waters of the stream gurgled nnrt surzed. Blackmore Joined Able and Dawn on the bank where the firelight struck tonaz lights from tne snow, The old Justice turned an Inquiring gaze on him and the buyer shrugged. Two o'clock," he muttered, "ne's got less than six hours left to turn the trick," "It doesn't seem humanly pos- tMo." Able said slowly. tv. hAsrinnlnz to think," Black mr rpnlled. "that the man Isn'i human. This thing would've stopped most men I know witnout a iry. But not Elliott!" Daybreak found them throwing the last load of logs Into place and the pallid light of the ear!y day revealed re-vealed Elliott's face, drawn and gaunt and colorless ; his eyes burned brightly, strangely dark. "His only chance Is that tue local'H be late." Blackmore moaned to Able. Six o dork, and broad axes shaped the logs on which the ties would rest and op from the siding came a team at a trot and behind It another. These were men from -CHAPTER VII End Codling Moth by Spraying Trees Heavier Pruning Necessary During the Early Winter, Entomologist Says. By ?-.X...9handle'' Altnt Kntomolo- 1st. Illlnoia etMe Natural Hlatory Survay. WNU Barvlca. Ith the codling moth as bad as it Is In apple orchards, growers may have to start pruning their trees heavier this winter In order to do a more thorough Job of spraying in the spring. This may mean fewer apples, but it will mean higher quality fruit As It is, one out of every ten apples ap-ples grown In Illinois In 1934 was Infested with codling moth worms. Too many growers still think only of producing the maximum number of bushels rather than harvesting quality fruit It usually Is not necessary, nec-essary, however, to reduce the total crop to get worm-free apples. If the grower can answer all six of the following questions In the affirmative, he can feel that he Is pruning heavily enough for effective effec-tive spraying against the codling moth. Has the tree been thinned out enough so that the man on the tow-er tow-er of a spray can drive the spray material through the tree? Are there enough openings in the tree so that the ground man can get into the center and spray the Inside? With large, fairly dense trees, some growers leave three or four such openings. After the operator gets to the Inside, In-side, has the tree been thinned sufficiently suf-ficiently so that be can do a thorough thor-ough job of spraying? Have too many low-hanging branches been left on the " tree? Trees twenty-five years old may nave a spread of 30 feet If the branches touch the ground or come within a foot of It. the side of the apple facing the trunk will not be hit by the spray. Has the heluht of the tree been lowered as much as practicable? The top of the tree Is the playground play-ground of the codling moth and Infestations In-festations are usually worse there. Have all hibernating places about the tree, such as punky, decayed wood, old knot holes, split branches and pruning tubs he removed? These are favorite "hideouts" of the moth. TOO MUCH FOOD They had not seen each other for 18 months. Bill, the shorter of the two, asked "How's the world treating you these days?" "Rotten," was the reply. "People are becoming too distrustful I have not had a penny In my pocket for a week. I go up to a fellow who looks likely, and ask him if he could give me the price of a meal What does he do? Instead of slipping a coin Into me hand, he takes me round to a cafe and watches me eat the meal" "What are you growling about, then?" asked Bill "If you get meals, you can't complain." "Cant IP replied the other. Tre had nine meals today I" Smith's Weekly. Oa the Down Grade Too much contentment leads to laziness. ALWAYS PAYING Jerry They certainly didn't wear much at the seashore last summer. Rufus The fact represents no economy. My wife's coat of sunburn cost me over $300. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are beat for liver, bowel and stomach. One little Pellet for t laxative three for a cathartic Adv. Their RelationiUp Old Lady Backbite Is the devil' aunt Old Saying. Houses With Copper Wall Bungalows with copper walls are constructed In Germany, because copper Is rust-proof and requires no protective coat of paint Abbreviation for Pennsylvania "Fa." Is the abbreviation approved by the United States Post Office department, de-partment, but both of the other forms are recognized. THE cars of veneer logs were rnnnlprl thplr n!r hnsoa ilnn- gllng, because the Hoot Owl never boasted air brakes for its trains. The locomotive panted asthmatl- cally and leaking steam trailed off Into the forest Mclver, the engi neer, stood beside his car, wiping his hands slowly on a ball of waste and his fireman hung out the gangway gang-way as Ben came running np. "You'll have to take 'em . . . all over at once," Kinott panted. "LocalU be there In . . . fifteen minutes! If they're not at the siding sid-ing In time for the local, we lose I You've got to run for It Mac, and pick up enough speed going down to carry you over." Mclver rolled the waste and eyed his employer. Then he shook bis head slowly. "Tough luck for you!" he said. "But with that rotten steel on a cold mornln, and no telling what that trestle'll do when weight hits it . . ." He shook his head again and looked Elliott in the eye. "I got kids," he said simply. "So's the fireman." Some of the irate glare which had been In Ben's face dwindled. He, too, stared briefly down the track. "Kids, yes," he said softly. "I can't ask a man with kids to try It, Mac. No hard feelings. Ill take a shot myself." Teams clinked up, then, horses frost covered. Ben surveyed the crowd that pressed about the engine en-gine and swung up to the step. Tm going to take her over myself," my-self," he said. "If I get across that hump, with this load pushing me, IH need a brakeman. Pm not going go-ing to ask anyone of you to ride. Maybe we'll pile up. But if we do get to the top, I can't stop her alone at the mill. Without air, with frost on the steel well go Into the pond. There's fifty dollars in It for the man who'll ride with me!" They looked hard at him, and then, almost in unison, their faces turned down the track. To watch was to know what was In their minds: the dangers of that cnrve, with rusty steel so cold, the problematical prob-lematical strength of the trestle they had built through the night "Fifty dollars . . - against a broken neck," Ben said and his voice trembled a bit He drew his watch. "We've got eleven or twelve minutes to catch the local . . . Ill urge no man. - . Fifty dollars and a long chance. Any takers?" No man moved for moment Then, quite simply, without a word, Tim Jeffers peeled his heavy sheepskin sheep-skin coat took a peavey from a man beside him and advanced. "Never mind the fifty, Elliott . . . ft' m neck" in .mlled. then. It seemed as thnavh he were to weary from f. fort and strain that he must have .vif end cried had be not smiled, ne said no word. He swung up to the cab as the safety valve porped and steam commenced blowing off. .,T,, CTO EE CONTI-VCSD-l Korean Lespedeza Will Supply Emergency Crop Midwest farmers who need an emergency hay crop In 1935 may find that Korean lespedeza will fill the bills, says Dr. A. J. Pleters of the United States Department of Agriculture. Doctor Pleters advises seeding on winnter wheat or with oats next sprin. For a hay crop, a seeding of 25 pounds to the acre Is recommended. This authority says the crop may also be seeded alone on land that is not weedy, ne recommends Inoculating In-oculating the seed where the crop has not been grown before, ne reports re-ports a good supply of seed available. Doctor Pleters says that where Korean lespedeza was grown In 1934 a good volunteer stand is probable, prob-able, and he says that small grain may be disked In the old lespedeza and a crop of grain hay and one of lespedeza raised on the same land. Lowest Cost Aluminum Plan! The world's lowest cost aluminum producing plant Is In Canada, it Is operated by Aluminum Co. of Canada, Can-ada, Ltd. Adobe Houses la Andes Houses In the Indian villages of the Andes mountains are made of adobe and usually thatched with grass. Fishing Is Good Three billion tons of fish are taken annually from the waters of the United States and Alaska. Always Many Sick It Is estimated that there are always al-ways 8,000,000 persons In the United States on the "sick list" Beavers and Muskrats Beavers and muskrats will live quit peaceably In the sams areas. First Mail Carrier Plan Under the postmastershlp la Cleveland of Edwin Oowles, appointed ap-pointed In 1831, the first system of mail delivery by carrier was pet fected, which system spread rap. Idly to other larger cities. j - j British Import Skeletons Britain has to Import all skeletons) nsed by Its medical students. Brit lsh law says that when a man dies) he must be burled and when under the ground he must stay there. Priest Wore Glove In ancient times priests wora gloves at mass In order to offer th holy sacrifice with clean and port) hands. Rubber Content of Goldenred The rubber content of goldenro3 Is entirely In Its leaves, it has been found, after analysing 24 species. Pronunciation of "ColV The correct pronunciation of Oobh, In Ireland, also known sua Queenstown, la "Cove." Who Tamed the Animals? The story of how prehistoric men first domesticated animals Is not known, Most Sparsely Settled State Nevada Is the most sparsely settled set-tled state In the Union. Seeds Stimulated by Rays Seeds that refuse to sprout when Dlanted can be roused from dor mancy by soaking and then exposing expos-ing them to the proper colored light for a short time. Only the longer wavelengths of light have this stimulating stim-ulating power. Dr. I H. Flint of the United States Department of Agriculture has found. Seeds exposed ex-posed to light at the blue-vlolet end of the spectrum refused to germinate. germi-nate. Even seeds that had been given the stimulating treatment with the longer wavelengths at the red end of the spectrum and then were exposed to blue or green light would not sprout The treated seeds need not be germinated Immediately. Im-mediately. They can be dried out and planted later. Popular Mechanics Me-chanics Magazine. Seize Poisoned Food The careful Inspectors of the fed eral food and drug administration pontlnue to find shipments of fruit nd vecetabies which have on the surface an excess of poisonous Knrn v residue beyond what is con sldered a safe limit Among the shipments seized were 137 of apples, ap-ples, three of pears and 14 of cauliflower. cauli-flower. Five consignments of pick-were pick-were confiscated because they were found to have been sweetened with saccharin Instead of sugar, and sine ahinment of Imported sardines was destroyed because of the pres ence of lead In the fooa. Baby Cross and Fretful With Eczema Relieved by Cutlcura "Our babr had eczema on her forehead and on the back of her head. It started from a blister and keDt snreadlnr over her face. Her skin was Irritated and red. and sht kept it Irritated from scratching so much. 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