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Show THE TIMES-NEW- S, NEPHI, UTAH the door of her motor drawn np bY the curb. She saw him Instantly andj from the first their eyes met It was a horrible moment for Joan. What It was for him she could tell by the tense Vie gflA, Katharine Thc pallor of ills keen, bronzed face. The! eyes she had not seen for such an agony of years, the strange, deep, lrls-- j colored eyes, there they were nowj searching her. She stopped her heart In Us beating, she stopped her breath,' stopped her brain. She became foij those few seconds Just one thought T hava novAl " T Viona notrAi- - ti nun .v,, seen you." She passed so closo to him that her fur coat touched his hand,1 , nrt .ho wire t,i. fa wtth . cool, glitter of a smllej "Step aside, please,' she said; 'I must get In." Her voice was unnativ! rally high and quite unnaturally pre-- j else. Pierre said one word, a hopeless word "Joan." It was a prayer. It should have been, "Be Joan." Then he stepped back and he stumbled Into shelter. At the same Instant another man a man In evening dress hastily prevented her man from closing the door. "Miss West, may I see you home? Before she could speak, could do more than look. Prosper Gael had jumped in, the door slammed, the car began its whirr, and they were gliding through the crowded, brilliant streets. Joan had bent forward and was rocking to and fro. He called me 'Joan'," she gasped over and over. "He called me 'Joan,' " That was Pierre?" Prosper had been forewarned by Jasper and had planned his part. I must go away. If I see him again I shall die. I could never do that another time. O God! His hand touched me. He called me 'Joan' must go . . ." Prosper did not touch her, but his voice, very friendly, very calm, had an Instantaneous effect. "I will take you away." She laughed shakily. "Again?" she, asked, and shamed him Into silence. But after a while he began very1 reasonably, very patiently: "I can take you away so that you need not be put through this unneees-sary pain. I can arrange it with Mo-- i rena. If .Pierre sees you often enough he will be sure to recognize you. Joan,1 did not deserve that 'again' and you know It I am a changed man. If you don't know that now I have the heart of of devotion, of service toward youj you are Indeed a blind and stupid woman. But you do know It. You must." She sat silent beside him, the long and slender hand between her face, ul COPVKIOUT CHAPTER X 23 BY Continued, He found her done up In an apron dust-ca- p cleaning bouse with astonishing spirit. She and the Bridget, 'who had recently been substituted for iMathllde, were merry. Bridget was sitting on the sill, her upper half shut iout, her round, face through the pane she was lathing poshing. Jane was up a ladder, dustland a brick-colore- ing M.WU BCBI. later he said doubtfully, "Then youll carry through your purpose of not'let-tin- g Pierre know you?" "Yes. I've made up my mind to that. That's what I've got to do. He mustn't find me. We can't meet here in this life. That's certain. There are things that come between, things like bars." She made a strange gesture as of a prisoner running his fingers across the barred window of a cell. "Thank you for warning me. Thank you for telling me what to do." She smiled faintly. "I think he will know me, anyway," she said, "but I won't know him. Never, never!" That night the theater was late In emptying itself. Jnne West had acted with especial brilliance and she was called out again and again. When she came to her dressing-rooshe wac flushed and breathless. She did not change her costume, but drew her fur coat on over the green evening dress she had worn In the last scene. Then she stood before her mirror, looking herself over carefully, critically. Now that the paint was washed off, and the flush of excitement faded, she looked haggard and white. Her face was very thin, its beautiful bones long sweep of law, wide brow, straight, short nose sharply accentuated. The round throat rising against the fur collar looked unnaturally white and long. She sat down before her dressing-tabl- e and deliberately painted her cheeks and Hps. She even altered the outlines of her mouth, giving It a expression, so that pursed and doll-lik- e her eyes appeared enormous and her nose a little pinched. Then she drew a lock of waved hair down across the middle of her forehead, pressed another at each side close to the corners of her This took from the unusual eyes. breadth of brow and gave her a much more ordinary look. A coat of powder, heavily applied, more nearly produced the effect of a y glassy-eye- d for which she was trying. Afterwards sne turned and smiled doubtfully at the astonished dresser. "Good gracious. Miss West I You don't look like yourself at alii" KATHAB1NK books. She came down to greet Morena, and he saw regretfully the sad change jln her face and bearing which hla arrival caused. Bridget was sent to the kitchen. Jane made apologies, and sitting on the ladder step she looked up iat him with the look of some one who expects a blow. "What Is it now, Mr. Morena? Have the lawyers begun He had purposely kept her In the dark, purposely neglected her, left her to loneliness In the hope of furthering the purposes of Prosper Gael. "I haven't come to discuss that, Jane. Soon I hope to have good news (tor you. But today Tve come to give you a hint a warning, in fact to (prepare you for what I am sure will be a shock." Tes?" She was flushed and breathing fast. Her fingers were busy with on her knee and her the feather-duste- r eyes were still waiting. "I had a visitor this morning Pierre Landls of Wyoming." She rose, came to him and clutched She "Pierre? Pierre?" bis arm. looked around her, wild as a captured fcird. "Oh, I must go! I must go!" "Jane, my child" he put his arm About her, held her two hands In his "you must do nothing of the kind. If you don't want this Pierre to find you. If you don't want him to come into your life, there's an easy, a very simple way to put an end to his pursuit. Don't you know that?" She stared up at him, quivering In lis arm. "No. What Is It? How can I? Oh, he mustn't see me! Never, never, never! I made that promise to myself." "Jane, you say yourself that you are changed, that you are not the girl he wants to find." She shook her head desolately enough. "Oh, no, I'm not." "He Isn't sure that Jane West Is the woman he's looking for. He's following the faintest, the most doubtful of trails. He heard of you from Tarnall; the description of you and your sudden flight made him fairly sure that It must be you " Jasper laughed. "I'm talking quite at random tn a sense, because I haven't a notion, my dear, who you are nor what this Pierre has been In your life. If you could tell me She shook her head. "No," she said ; -no." "Very well. Then 111 have to go on talking at random. Jane at the Lazy-ranch was a woman who had deliberate ly disguised herself. Jane West in New York Is a different woman altogether; but. unless I'm very wrong, she Is even more completely disguised from Pierre Landls. If you can convince Pierre that you are Jane West, not any other woman, certainly not the woman he once knew, aren't you pretty safely rid of liltn for always?' She stood still now. He felt that iier fingers were cold. "Tea. For al ways. I suppose so. Hut how can I do that, Mr. Morena?" "Nothing easier. You're an actress, aren't you? I advised Pierre Landls to stand near the stage exit tonight and watch you get Into your motor." Again she clutched at him. "Oh, do, Don't don't let lilin do that!" "Now, If you will make tin effort, look him In the eyes, refuse to show m single quiver of recognition, speak to someone In the most nrtlliclal tone you can ltmiElne. pass him by, and drive awn, why. wouldn't that ron vlnre him you aren't his qimrry eh?" f She thought! then slowly drew awny and Mood, her head bent, her brows drawn sharply together. I think I can I suppose so. "Yes. lo It. That Is the hest plan." She looked at him wildly again. "Then It will he over for always, won't It? He'll go away?" "Yes, my poor child, lie will go sway. He told me so. Then, will you try to forget him, to live your life for Its own beautiful sake? I'd like to aee you happy, Jane." "Would yotiT" Hie smiled like a pitying mother. "Why, I've given tip even dreaming of that. That Isn't what keeps me going." "What Is It. Jnne?" "Oh, a queer notion." She laughed 1 sadly. "A kind of kid's notion, .guess, that If you live along, some way, some time, you'll be able to make tip for things you've done, and thate perhaps there'll be another meetlng-placa kind of a round up where you'll be at to forgive those you love and to be forgiven by them." He wss Jasper walked about 4acb4 aad troubled. Some minutes to" ... J INCREASED INCOME DERIVED FROM COW mber of dairy cows and the Increased WS lnterf 'n greatly during the past few years. Thls h" bee due,l the fater come to be from dairy cows during the period of depression. The question of overproduction has been brought up In view of this dairy Interest. It Is not the problem of overproduction which should concern us, but rather the problem of encouraging real dairymen to take up dairying and how to keep them In business permanently after they are once established. Periods of depression have come before and many have taken up the dajry cow. The fact to be regretted Is that as soon as grain or cattle or any other agricultural pursuit became profitable again, a large' number divorced the cow and gave up the business. Will this occur again, and If so, how can it be prevented? No man should undertake dairying unless he really likes cows, and no man should begin before first making the firm determination to 'stay with the Industry. Nothing Is more disturbing to agricultural economics than the lack of permanency, consistency, and stability. The farmer who is constantly changing his agricultural business is usually "out" In times of high prices for that industry and "in" during the times of low prices. Since 1S50 the ratio between our population and our dairy cattle has remained practically constant From 1900 to 19110 our population Increased 39 per cent. If this increases at the same rate In the future, our population will need more cows to maintain the ratio. During recent years our consumption of milk has increased, and it will continue to increase as the value of milk as a food Is realized.- B. W. Fairbanks, Colorado' Agricultural College. The 4 f Balanced Ration Is Best for Producing More Milk Twenty good cows were recently placed in an experiment at the Illinois agricultural experiment station, and the results are very definitely In ani blm. favor of a balanced ration. The 20 "I can take you away," he went on cows were divided into two lots, and presently, "and keep you from Pierre during a preliminary period, toth reuntil he has given op his search and ceived a balanced ration, which conhas gone west again. And I can take sists of 30 pounds of corn silage, 8 yon at once in a day or two. Your pounds of clover hay, 4 pounds of understudy can fill the part This en- gluten feed, 3 3 pounds of ground gagement Is almost at an end. I can corn. The nutritive ratio of the ramake It up to Morena. After all, If tion Is 1:6. After the first period, "Good t" we go, we shall be doing Betty and, one of the lots was taken off of a balShe said goodnight and went rapidly him a service." anced ration, and given the following down the drafty passages and the con- Joan flung out her hands recklessly. Instead : Thirty pounds of corn si"Oh," she cried, "what does It matter?, lage, 5 pounds of timothy hay, 3 Of course 111 go. I'd run Into the sea pounds of clover hay, 8 pounds of to escape Pierre She leaned back ground corn ; nutritive ratio of 1 :1L At the end of 131 days, lot 1, which against the cushioned seat rolled her head a little from side to side like a had a balanced ration, had gained person In pain. "Take me away," she from l.T to 10.65 pounds of milk per repeated. "I believe that If I stay I day. The lot which was changed to shall go mad. I'll go anywhere with an unbalanced ration gained from .09 anyone. Only take me away. to .305. In other words, even though the second lot was getting what many CHAPTER XI dairymen might call at a glance a good variety of feeds, It was falling to gain along with the balanced ration The Leopardess, very Pierre stood before the cheap bn by a long ways. This Illustratesbefore: rean of his ngly hotel bedroom turn well the point we have made Even though you may be feeding ing a red slip of cardboard about In are not getThe gas-je- t his fingers. sputtering roughage and a grain you above bis head threw heavy shadows ting all the milk you could from the down on his face. It was the face of same cows unless you know that the e. doll-bab- -- her-sel- i DAIRY 'mm "But Today I've Come to Give You Hint a Warning." crete stairs. Jasper was standing In side the outer door and applauded her. "Well done. If 1 weren't for your pose and walk, my dear, I should hardly have known yon myself." Joan stood beside him, holding her furs close, breathing fast through the parted, painted lips. "Is he here, do you know?" He's been waiting. 1 told "Yes. him you mlclit be late. ow, keep your head. Kverj thing depends upon that. C'nn jou do It?' "Oh, yes. Is the car there? I won't have to stop?" "Not n Instant. P.nt give him so that he'll be sure, good looklng-ove- r and tl'in't rhanae the expression of your eyes. Feel, make yourself fuel Inside, that he's a straneer. You know what I mean. Goodnight, my dear. Good luck. Ill rail you up as soon as you get home thnt Is. after .I've seen your pursuer safely bark to his rooms." But this last sentence was addressed to himself. Jonn opened the door and stepped out Into the chill dampness of the April night. The white arc of electric light beat down upon her as she came forward and It fell as glaringly upon the figure of Pierre. He bad pushed forward from the little crowd of non stage descrlpts alwsys waiting at exit, and stood, bareheaded. Just at 2-- 3 1-- hopeless, heartsick youth, the muscles sagging, the eyes dull, the Hps tight and pale. Since last night when the contemptuous glitter of Joan's smile had fallen upon him, he bad neither slept nor eaten. Jasper had Joined, him at the theater exit had walked home with him, and, while he was with the manager. Pierre's pride and reserve had held him up. Afterward he had ranged the city like a prairie wolf, ranged It as thodgh It had been an unpeopled desert, free to his stride. He had fixed bis eyes above and beyond and walked alone In pain. Dawn found blm again In his room. What hope had sustained him, what memory of Joan, what purpose of tenderness toward hei these hopes and memories and pdrposes. now choked and twisted him. He might have found her, his "gel," his Joan, with her dumb, loving gaze; he might have told her the story of his sorrow In such a way that she, who forgave so easily, would have forgiven even him, and be might have oomforted her, holding hot so and so, showing her utterly the true, unchanged, greatly changed love ' of his rhastened heart. This girl, this love of his, whom. In his drunken, Jeal-- ! oils madness, he had branded and driven away, he would have brought her back and tended her and made it tip to her in a thousand. In ten tli on- sand, ways. Pierre knelt by his bed,1 bis Mack head buried In the corer. hi bent shove It his hands clenched. Out there he had never lost hope of finding her, but here. In this peopled loneliness, with a memory of that woman's heartless smile, he did at lenst despair. In a strange, torturing way she had been like Joan. His heart had Jumped to his mouth at first sight of her. And Just there, to his shoulder where her head reached, hid Joan's dear Mack head reached, too. Pierre groaned aloud. The picture of her wit so rlvid. Not In moattts had the reaV Ity of his "gel" come so close to hit Imagination. He con 11 feel her feel her I O Ood I j j ' TO noammtaDi Vanderlip Sued by Marion Star Owners Frank A. Vanderlip, newspaper banker and man, treasury otllciul, re- tired banker, has been much In the The "oil public eye of late years. scandal" has brought him directly un. der the spotlight. Boy D. Moore and i', Louis II. Brush, joint owners of the ' ! 1 Marion (O.) star, have filed suit In federal court at New York against him A i s 4j3ik. for $000,000 damages, alleging slander and libel as the result of the banker's purported utterances In the now famous Ossining address. Three separate causes of action, H r t( asking $200,000 damages each, were VanIn Mr. on cited the papers served derlip. The action was taken, according to the papers, on account of Mr. In Vandeiiip's alleged statements, which he "implicated the sale of the Marlon Star In the oil scandal." The first cause sets forth that Mr. t " 4 J Vanderlip "wickedly and maliciously charged Brush and Moore with bribing Warren G. Harding, then president of the United States, to fail to perform certain of his official duties as president, and that bribe consisted In the pay ment to former President Harding of $550,000 in the purchase of the Marion Star, 'which was more than twice Its fair value.' " The defendant's statements, it was further charged, accused the plaintiffs of ''being financially Irresponsible and Insolvent and not able to meet their financial obligations, and not entitled to credit." Publication of the speech, it was stated, was the basis of the libel charges, wlille the address Itself was said to be slanderous. Vv U A M. B. Madden, "Watchdog of Treasury" "Martin B. Madden, Kepubllcan, of Chicago, was elected to the Fifty-nint- h and each succeeding congress." That's all the autobiography there is in the Congressional Directory of the congress concerning the who represents the "Loop" of Chicago, one of the most Important districts In the United States. Moreover, Madden Is now the reigning Sixty-eight- h mail 1 . "X a M fifteen words quoted seem hardly ade-,- s Madden, as chairman of the committee of appropriations of the house, Is hnrdboiled, in the opinion of most congressmen. It's lucky for him that he Is ; otherwise he couldn't function. He bad good training for the Job eight years or so as chairman of the finance council of the Chicago city council where they play the game In the same way only with white Instead of yellow chips. Madden is hardboiled also because he Is a successful business man who worked his way up from waterboy In a stone quarry, notwithstanding the handicap of the loss of a leg In an accident He was born In England In 1855, and was brought to Illinois when he was not much more than a baby. He made himself president of the Western Stone company, a bank director, president of the Quarry Owners Association of the United States, president of the Illinois Manufacturers' association, vice president of the Builders and Traders' Exchange of Chicago, and so on. In 1897 Madden was caucus nominee of his party for United States senand defeated his enemies by electing William E. ator. He was double-crosse- d Mason. Now his enemies are out of It and he's the "Treasury watchdog." Harding to Control Hungary's Finances W. P. G. Harding, former governor of the United States federal reserve board, has been unofllclally selected as high commissioner of the League of Nations to Hungary for control of finances under the league's loan plan. He has Informed the league that he will accept If officially designated. It was said In league circles that the selection of Mr. Harding had been apfeeds are balanced. proved by all the interested parties. Harding recently returned from Cuba, where he went at the special Producing Quality First request of President Harding to adIs Aim of Good Dairyman vise the Island government in reorganThe dairyman has no izing Its finances along federal reserve of the system lines. V trouble In realizing that one became a member of the biggest factors In his business Is to Harding e market a product During federal reserve board when It was the past few years, attention has been organized In August, 1914. He was more forcibly paid to dairy products governor from Aug. 10, 191(5, until his as an essential human food. Through term expired a few months ago. In the efforts of rhe National Dairy coun- 1918 he was managing director of the cil, the great army of physicians, War Finance corporation. nurses, state and federal Institutions, Harding Is descended from a long line of New England ancestors, whoiu the consumption of dairy products has he can trace hack to Plymouth colony. He himself, however, was born in been slightly Increased per capita. Alabama In 104. He was the youngest full graduate of the University of This Increase per capita can he Alabama, receiving his A. B. degree when he was sixteen years old, and his advanced tremendously when each M. A. the following year. and every train who milks cows realizes that he Is like every one else In business namely, that when he produces quality first, volume always far-sight- A first-grad- Gen. Miles Asks for Custer Monument follows. The best buttermaker on earth cane butter from second-grade orentn. Tills summer let us all renew our efforts to market a product of which we can be proud. Get out the milk cooler, keep the barn and surroundings clean and sweet, wash the separator nfter every time It Is nsed, wash the cow's udders and brush them off a little nftener; the details count, and attention to de- 1. It. Lnsceiles, tullsi pays rieniman tar the Colorado State Dairy C'ommls-srm- s not make 1 ''"" Solve Problem of Feeding F.nsllnge when fed along with alfalfa hay or even native liny solves the greatest problem of feeding cows to keep them In milk flow. When a farmer has ensilage, alfalfa flay and some orher good bay, the amount of grain necessary l greatly reduced. Need Good Winter Feed Dairy rattle need good winter feed. They oo not carry as much flesh at beef cuttle and therefore need more protection. 1ms sent a A. Mile congress, urging that It promoney to erect a suitable me- Oen. Nelson first-grad- letter to vide morial nt the battlefield In Montana where flenernl Custer nnd his command were massacred bj Indians In 1S70. Ills Interest In a suitable monument for Ms Nohll- -r friend of Indian fighting days was awakened recently by a visit to Washington of Mrs. Cus ter, widow of the general. At that time he promised her "he woul 1 see whnt be could do." He siuruested that a monument costing at least JlO.ooo be erected. "It Is a shame nothing has been done In the way of putting up a memorial there before this time," General Miles said. "Not a train across the western states but what stops 1 there, I am told, and surely some lasting; memorial should be put on mjmsuch a spot. "It has been suggested that congress set aside say such a paltry sunt as $15,00t, but that Is not enough. Why, not a day passes but what we hear of a monument to this or that cause not half as Important ss what Custer did for us. Bven the Indians admired Coster's bravery. ' Surely we can do ne leas than to see that his memory Is kept sacred In fitting manner," .rt, .,s(. I , .drifts |