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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEI II. UTAH i i f i 1 II it 11 f II r HELEN TOPPING MILLER D. i f3 S310 CHAPTER XVII-Conunueo 16 r'n have to scour the windshield." "1 cau i - that cut ineir iawco he opened the aoor. iu !, of old Tom-the thin, torn he had worn in the jail, his through the freezing wind cutting through merci- '1-hurry!" she whispered. . . unther. what if he didn't Sal ,,, me this way . .omo this way i. trail across the ridge, Ik the river on that swinging He took the and fere's a light," said Branford rJis . J 1U . v! The gate is Deyono. uiav uig ucc. 1 u,irniiM hpftpr fi steep w;" - change gears.' . Has be naa ume left before dark. A boy saw jjU go. aluu " " Bpperume- "If only they naa rocKea me a Marian mourned. f e may be in time." Virgie was iopefuL He house that sprang oui oi a ...ua darkness of old annle-trees (JJIKU - - jjj hieak and somber and some-bow some-bow desolate. He door's open" breathed Marian. Virgie gave a little groan. TO go," she said. "You wait here." "Not alone, Mother." "No-not alone," Wills sprang out after her. Marian hurried after them, slip-mi slip-mi and panting, in the wan beam i their headlights. But somehow to knew it was too late. She had town it when the dreary old house toped out of the darkness, out of te solitude and silence which for a year it had known. "Don't let her come," Virgie tamed sharply. "Bat I'm coming," Marian an-jwered, an-jwered, setting the chin she had from David Morgan. ' "Take my hand," Wills said. "I can walk alone." But she took fte hand. Held it tight, clutched by the dread of that sinister, opened door. i that door a lamp fluttered a the draft Beyond it was a deserted de-serted room, where coals glowed in i base burner and Wallace Withers' elastic-sided shoes sat warmine on tie floor. Shoes he would never wear any more. "Don't come closer," Virgie called sharply. But Wills went on and Marian muld not let go his hand, though flesh was icy and her hair lifted a little on her head, at what lay face upward in front of that open door. Wallace Withers had been shot cleanly through the head. This time Tom's gun had not jammed. 'Don't touch anything." Wills warned. "Is there a telpnhnne in lis house?" . Virgie, a little sick hpranso she could not hate W man Who hnH urnncrort h - " VUU UM, look her head. - "Not even a well," she said. "But We'Vf tfnt in fin1 Tkyys I fc " t-V UUU A win. Marian began sobbing wildly. "Take care nf hpr " Viral. eoM to Wills wearily. "I'll get a sheet. I tow where they are. I can't leave lying there like that" "he had henrH HToi- l:ti- . tuanau a liLue I cry, "Oh. Bran Rran Me had SPon Will. U1J:- i i . u l.. .... nulling uer m j uuai seijr m arms. Suddpni ev, 014c vv eta viu APPLlTON-ttNTURY CO. W.N.U.5crvice and lonely, and this was death lv. lng face up to the hostile sky and out of the aloof hills a winter wind howled in desolatioa Suddenly she was sorry for Wallace Withers. He had been lonely, too! They found Tom Pruitt at dawn. Men with lanterns and dogs had crashed and slid through the icy night, cursing the storm and the darkness. And all night Virgie had sat by the stove in Wallace With-ers' With-ers' house, looking straight ahead of her, musing on the tangled tragedy of life and the way greed snarled the twisting strands, wove traps and nooses and webs for hopes and high ambitions to be choked in. Wills and Marian had gone for help and met a posse on the road. But light was under the hemlocks along the river bluff when they found Tom. Virgie saw them coming, slowly, up, the frozen lane, and knew what they had found. , "He went over them rocks down there where the river runs under the cliff," a deputy said. "He was heading back toward your place I reckon, Mis' Morgan, and he missed his footing in the dark. I wouldn't take on. Mis Morgan I reckon it's Just as well." "Yes," said Virgie, tonelessly, "it's just as welL" Somehow she got home. Riding in somebody's rackety car, cold and weary and aching from head to foot with a sorrow that was rigid and steely like bonds around her heart and throat The mountains and the woods were frigidly incased in a coating of icy glass. The streams were hidden and from the stack of the mill a wan steam drifted. The fires were banked and tomorrow tomor-row the barkers would whirl again, gnashing. their steel teeth into un resisting wood, grinding and spew ing and sucking away the life-blood of a green tree so that missals could be printed for praying nuns and letters let-ters written to old mothers. The mill would go on. The mill would go on and Tom would not be there. David would not be there. A sudden, stark, awful loneliness got Virgie Morgan by the throat as she walked into her own house, and sank into the chair that had the print of David Morgan's thin shoulder-blades. She couldn't go on she couldn't alone! And then suddenly she was not alone. Youth was there, with lights and hot coffee and gentle hands. Marian and Branford Wills. "We've stopped fighting. Mother we found out we were - terribly in love with each other. Do you mind, Mother? Take off her shoes. Bran, and rub her feet I'll get her slippers." slip-pers." Branford Wills knelt at her feet, Tean and brown, with his deep voice and gentle eyes. "I can't go on without her," he said. "I know what a presumptuous fool I am" "I'm glad,' said Virgie numbly. She would have liked a son like this lad, she was thinking. Lucy was there and Stanley Daniels, Dan-iels, looking sheepish and relieved and eager to help. They were scrambling scram-bling eggs, they announced. "We thought you'd need us, Mrs. Morgan," Lucy said, brightly, little red coins shining in her cheeks. . Suddenly Virgie began to sob. They were so brave and so reck' less and so gallant Their eyes were so clear. They were youth going on! 'Yes, I need you!" THE END she said lip !,-?, - . rs.-r-A-- f&MW&y AT -- ' " ' - -c.. "'.-I 'Know Your Money and You'll Not Be . Losing It to Counterfeiters,' Says Chief of the United States Secret Service FEDERAL RESERVE SERL AND LETTER n5 SKRIE4 Ot SERIES Of 1 TYPE OF NOTE SHOWN HERB. ?7 P E OK R A1- RfcS B R Vfe BOQ0OO0O0A SERIAL NUMBER SERIES J serial ! I treasury i NUMBER j SEAU w mm 'in w m m y.if i i A 133 CHECK J I LETTER I PORTRAIT FACE PLATE NUMBER. Study the above diagram it shows you the position of important features of United States paper money. If you get a suspected bill, compare it with a genuine bill and observe carefully the following features : ground you will see tiny perfectly square spaces between horizontal and vertical lines, which are also very clear. Around the border of the bill, face and back, are intricate intri-cate white lines resembling a net. These are known as the geometrical geometri-cal lathework, and each line is unbroken un-broken from beginning to end. Look at the colored treasury seal on the face of the bill. Around its outer edge are many sharp points which look like the teeth of a circular cir-cular saw. "The counterfeiter has a hard time to imitate a bill and most counterfeits are crude, but sometimes some-times he makes one above the average. av-erage. Whether a counterfeit is a good or poor reproduction, you should be able to detect it by comparison com-parison with a note of the same denomination which is known to be genuine. A comparison of this kind will readily disclose defects in the portrait, the seal and the lathework border, and is definitely definite-ly the best method of counterfeit detection. If the suspected bill is By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 4 WHEN your friends say to you, "Well, don't take any wooden nickels!" you laugh heartily for you recognize recog-nize it as a good joke. Of course, you wouldn't take any wooden nickels! But there's always a chance that you'll do something worse take a paper bill that looks as though it's worth $1 or $5 or $10. , But it's just as worthless as a wooden nickel because it's a counterfeit. In fact, during a recent five-year five-year period Americans were swindled to the tune of $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 a year by counterfeiters counterfeit-ers and these crooks got by with it mainly because of the indifference and ignorance of their victims. How about YOU? Do you ever do more than just glance casually at the paper bills that are handed you in making change especially when they're handed you by a stranger? Do you know whose portrait is on a one-dollar bill, or a five, or a ten? Do you know what pictures are on the backs of those -bills? If you do, you have made a good beginning towards protecting your pocketbook from the counterfeiter. counterfeit-er. If you don't know the . outstanding out-standing features of your money, you have only yourself to blame if you become the victim of the counterfeiter and his vicious racket. "Yes," you say, "but how can I learn about money? I know what it looks like, but I don't know what to look for." Well, the United States Secret Service has undertaken to show you what to look for. A trial educational edu-cational campaign indicated that this loss was largely due to your lack of knowledge about money. But the campaign also showed that enlightenment of the people would protect them. Therefore, the campaign of education against crime was intensified, under the slogan "Know Your Money." For the calendar year of 1940 the public pub-lic losses through acceptance of counterfeit notes were reduced to about $100,000. The Secret Service Serv-ice believes this 90 per cent reduction re-duction is the dividend of its "Know Your Money" campaign. Newspaper stories, magazine articles and educational pamphlets pam-phlets carry the message into homes, schools and the business world. A 32-page illustrated booklet, book-let, just off the press, entitled "Know Your Money," published by the Secret Service, tells how to detect counterfeit notes and coins, and how you may protect yourself against the forger of government checks. The booklet may be obtained ob-tained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, for 10 cents the copy. A sound motion picture, also entitled "Know Your Money," entirely made by the Secret Service, and with Lowell Thomas as commentator, is being shown in high schools in the 48 states and to business groups of 100 persons or more. "There is no secret formula for detecting a counterfeit note," says Frank J. Wilson, chief of the United Unit-ed States Secret Service. "Years of experience have proven that the human eye is the best counterfeit coun-terfeit detector in existence. But it must be properly trained. Genuine Gen-uine paper money is printed on distinctive paper containing tiny red and blue silk threads. The printing is done from steel-engraved plates made by a corps of the most expert engravers in the world. "Do you have a bill in your pocket or purse? Take it out now and look closely at the portrait of Washington, Lincoln, or another of the great Americans shown on the various denominations. You will see that the facial characteristics character-istics are shaded by small dots and dashes, each of which is clear and distinct In the portrait back- FRANK J. WILSON counterfeit, its portrait will be dull, smudgy 'or scratchy in appearance. ap-pearance. The points on the counterfeit coun-terfeit treasury seal will be uneven un-even or blunt, instead of sharp and regular. The white net lines in the border will be broken in many places, and generally the texture of the paper and the color cf the ink will be quite different than the genuine." , It is often said that if the ink or color can be rubbed off a bill, the bill is counterfeit. Nothing could be more wrong, according to Mr. Wilson. The ink or color can be rubbed from both genuine and counterfeit notes, and such a test proves nothing. Counterfeit coins are also a source of trouble. Genuine silver coins have a clear, bell-like ring. Counterfeits sound dull. Ring silver sil-ver coins on hard surface and beware be-ware of those which sound like stone. In extremely rare instances, in-stances, genuine silver coins may have an invisible crack or air bubble bub-ble which would make them sound dulL However, these are so few that your chances of receiving one are very slight indeed. The corrugated outer edge of silver coins is known as the "reeding." "reed-ing." It is this feature which should be closely examined on suspected sus-pected coins. Likewise, this reeding reed-ing should be compared with that on a coin of the same denomination denomina-tion known to be genuine. On most counterfeits the reeding is noticeably notice-ably imperfect, but on genuine coins the corrugations are regular regu-lar and distinct. In some cases, of course, the reeding is completely complete-ly worn away on genuine coins which have circulated for a long time. PORTRAIT On genuine bills, the portrait is lifelike, stands out from the oval background which is a fine screen of regular lines. Notice particularly the eyes. On a counterfeit the portrait is dull, smudgy or unnaturally white; scratchy; the background is dark with irregular and broken lines. The portraits of II great Americans Ameri-cans appear on United States money. It Is important for your protection that you know on which bills these portraits appear. Regardless Re-gardless of the type of bill, all bills of the same denomination bear the same portrait, as follows: Washington Jefferson Lincoln Hamilton Jackson Grant Franklin McKinley Cleveland Madison Chase on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all 1 2 5 10 26 50 100 500 1,000 5,000 $10,000 bills bills bills bills bills bills bills bills bills bills bills 2. SEAL On the genuine bill, the sawtooth points around the rim are identical and sharp. On the counterfeit these points are usually different, uneven, broken off. 3. SERIAL NUMBERS On the genuine bill, they are distinctive in style, firmly and evenly printed in the same color as the seal. On the counterfeit the style is different, differ-ent, poorly printed, badly spaced, uneven in appearance. 4. PAPER Genuine bills are printed on distinctive paper containing con-taining very small red and blue silk threads. The following information about paper currency will also be helpful: help-ful: SIGNATURES The signature of the secretary of the treasury appears at the lower right side on the front of all United States paper pa-per money. The signature of the treasurer of the United States appears ap-pears on the lower left side. TYPES OF CURRENCY Our government now prints three types of currency or paper money: federal fed-eral reserve notes, silver certificates, certifi-cates, and United States notes. Every note or bill is distinguished distin-guished by words telling which type it is, printed at the top of the bill on its face or front. The type of each bill is also shown by the color of its treasury seal and seri al numbers. The treasury seal and serial numbers are GREEN on federal reserve notes, RED on United States notes, and BLUE on silver certificates. FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES Federal reserve notes are placed in circulation by the federal :e-serve :e-serve banks, each bank placing its ewn notes in circulation through the banks located in its district There are 12 federal reserve dis tricts. t,ach district has a number num-ber and a corresponding letter of the alphabet for its symboL SYMBOL DISTRICT LETTER NUMBER CHy Boston .A New York B Philadelphia C Cleveland D Richmond E Atlanta F Chieag G St. Louis ..II Minneapolis .......I 9 Kansas City J 10 D 3. 11 is K XI San Francises L 12 The letter "A" in the regional bank seal on a federal reserve note shows that it was issued by the Boston Federal Reserve bank in the First district. The letter "B" in the regional bank seal and the figure "2" shows that a bill was issued from the Federal Reserve Re-serve Bank of New York, and so on through the list of the 12 banks to San Francisco, whose symbol letter is "L" and district number is "12." The regional bank seal and the district number on federal fed-eral reserve notes are alwayt BLACK. D-TQ. ir Ruth Wyeth Spears 3J 5 FIBER BOARD SEAT TO REPAIR 11 MS M I I SEAT . SUCOyERTl 1 11 BACK L . , WITH I III COVER TP A CHAIR is all legs, angles and curves in the wrong places, a slip cover may do as much for it as a becoming frock will do for an awkward girl. The right color, a dash of style, fabric cut to bring out graceful lines and cover defects, and presto a new personality for the ugly duckling I That was the treatment given a set of old chairs like the one shown here. A two-piece frock was planned to repeat tones in the wall paper of the room in which the chairs were to be used. The bold stripes of the putty tan, green and wine red material gave just the right contrast with the flowered pattern on the wall. Narrow green fringe was used for edging and the sketch shows how the two pieces of the slip cover were made. 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