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Show rAGE SIX THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. Friday, May 7, 1926 AREE, Son of Kazan HoweAbou- t- COUNTY TO GET FEDERAL HELP 4. By James HOMESICK Pf (. Doubledajr, WNU Service BAREE Pynopets. Part wolf, part iog when two months old Baree has his first meeting: with an enemy, Papayuchlsew (young owl). Fleming: hard, the tagonists are suddenly plunged Into a swollen creek. Badly buffeted, and half drowned, Baree is finally flung on the bank, but the water has destroyed his sense of direction and he Is lost, lonely and hungry. an- Chapter II Oliver Curvvood Continued 3 Bnrc-was fully three quarters of n mile from the windfall when he came to n point where the creek split Itself Into two channels. lie had but one choice to follow the stream that (lowed a little south and east. This stream did not run swiftly. It was not filled with shimmering rilllos, and rocks about which the water sang and foamed. It grew black, like the forest. It was still and deep. Without knowing It, Baree was burying himself deeper and deeper into Tusoo's old trapping grounds. Since Tusoo had died, they had lain undisturbed except for the wolves, fQr Gray Wolf and Kazan had not hunted on this side of the waterway and the wolves themselves preferred the more open country for the chase. Suddenly Baree found himself at the edge of a deep, dark pool in which the water lay still as oil, and his heart nearly Jumped out of his body when a great, sleek, shining creature sprang out from almost tinder his nose and landed with a tremendous splash in the center of It. It was Nekik, the Ptter. The otter had not heard Baree, and In another moment Napanekik, his wife, came sailing out of a patch of doom, and behind bet came three tiltle otters, leaving behind them four shimmering wakes In the water. What happened after that made Baree forget for a few minutes that lie was lost. Nekik had disappeared under the surface, and now he came up directly under his unsuspecting mate with a force that lifted her half out of the water. Instantly he was gone again, and Napanekik took after him fiercely. To Baree it did not look like play. Two of the baby otters had pitched on the third, which seemed to be fighting desperately. The chill and ache went out of Baree's body. His blood ran excitedly; lie far- got inmseir, and let out a bark. In a Jln"V ,U'a otters disappeared. For sev eral minutes the water in the pool continued to rock and heave and that was all. After a little, Baree drew himself buck Into the bushes and went on. It was about three o'clock In the afternoon, and the sun should still have been well up in the sky. But it was growing darker steadily, and the strangeness and fear of It all lent preater speed to Baree's legs. He stopped every little while to listen, and at one of these intervals he heard a sound that drew from him a responsive ami joyous whine. It was a distant howl a wolf's howl straight ill sea d of him. Baree was riot thinking of wolves but of Kazan, and he ran through the gloom of the forest until lie was winded. Then he stopped and listened a long time. The l did not come again. Instead of It there rolled up from the west a deep and thunderous rumble. Through the treetops there Hashed a vivid streak of lightning. A moaning whisper of wind rode in advance of the storm; the thunder seemed searching Baree out where be stood shivering urder a canopy of gient spruce. This was his second storm. The first had frightened him brrihly, nnl he hud crawled far back Into the shelter of the windfall. The be t lie could find now was a hollow miller a big root, and Into this he slunk, crying softly. It was a babyish cry, cry for his mother, for 1 oiiie. f..r warmth, for something soft find protecting to nestle up to; and as he cried, the storm burst over the forest. had never before beard so iiiiiih noise, and lie had never wen !.o play In suh sheets of (Ire us when this June deluge fell. It Seemed :it times as though the whole world wore aflame, and the earth seemed to shake and roll under the iTiisheu of the thunder. lie ceased bis crying and made himself ns small as he could iimler the root, which protected him partly from the terrific heat of the rnin which came down through the rectops In a flood. It was now black that except when the lightning ripped great holes In the irloom he could not see the spruce-trunk- s twenty feet n way. Twice that distance from Baree there was a huge d";id stub that stood out like a ghost each time the fires swept (he sky, as if di fylng the flaming hands up there to strike-n- d strike, at hist, one of them did! A b'nNli tongue of snapping f'amn ran down the old stub; and us It touched the earth, there o::nic a tremendous explosion above the treetops. The massive stub shivered, mid then It broke asunder as If cloven by fl gigantic ax. It crashed down so close to Baree that earth and nicks flew about h'rn, and he let out a wild yi lp of terror as he tried to rrowd himself deeper Into the shallow hole under the root. With the destruction of the old stub the thunder and lightning seemed to have vented their malevolence. The thunder pnse-- i on 1010 the south and east like the rolling of ten thousand hwtvy cartwheel over the roofs of the foifst, and the lightning went with It e g wolf-how- & Co.) The rain fell steadily. The hole In which he had taken shelter was soppy. He was drenched ; his teeth chattered as he waited for the next thing to happen. It was a long wait. When the rain stopped, and the sky cleared, it was night. Through the tops of the trees Baree could have seen the stars If he had poked out his head and looked upward. But he clung to bis hole. Hour after hour passed. Exhausted, half drowned, footsore, and hungry, he did not move. At last he fell Into a troubled sleep, a sleep In which every now and then he cried softly and forlornly for his mother. When he ventured out from under the root It was morning, and the sun was shining. At first Baree could hardly stand. His legs were cramped; every bone in his body seemed out of Joint; his ear was stiff where the blood had oozed out of It and hardened, an , when he tried to wrinkle his wounded nose, he gave a sharp yap of pain. If such a thing were possible, he looked even worse than he felt. Ills hair had dried In muddy patches; he was from end to end; and where yesterday he had been plump and shiny, he was now as thin and wretched as misfortune could possibly make him. And he was hungry. He had never before known what it meant to be really hungry. When he went on, continuing In the direction he had been following yesterday, he slunk along In a disheartened sort of way. Ills head and ears were no longer alert, and hla curiosity was gone. He was not only stomach-hungry- : mother-hunge- r rose above his physical yearning for something to eat. lie wanted his mother as he had never wanted her before In his life. He wanted to snuggle his shivering little body close up to her and feel the warm caressing of her tongue and listen to the mothering whine of her voice. And he wanted Kazan, and the old windfall, and that big blue spot that was In the sky right over it. While he followed again along the edge of the creek, he whimpered for them as a child might grieve. The forest grew more open after a time, and this cheered him up a little. Also the warmth of the sun was taking the ache out of his body. He grew hungrier and hungrier. He hnd depended entirely on Kazan and Gray Wolf for food. Ills parents had, in some wa-s- , made a great baby of him. Cray Wolfs blindness accounted for this, for since his birth she had not taken up her bunting with Kazan, and it was quite natural that Baree should stick close to her, though more than once he had been filled with a great yearning to follow his father. Nature was hard at work trying to overcome its handicap now. It was struggling to impress on Baree that the time had now come when he must seek his own food. The fact Impinged Itself upon him slowly hut steadily, and he began to think of the three or four shellfish he had caught and devoured on the stony creek-ba- r near the windfall. He also remembered the open clam shell he had found, and the Insclousness of the tender morse Inside it. A new excitement began to possess him. He became, all at once, a hunter. With the thinning out of the forest the creek grew more shallow. It ran over bars of sand and stones, and Baree began to nose along the edge of these. Tor a long time he had no success. The few crayfish that he saw were exceedingly lively and elusive, and all the clam-shell- s were shut so tight that even Kazan's powerful Jaws would have had difficulty in smashing It was almost noon when he them. caught his first crayfish, about as big as a man's forefinger. He devoured It ravenously. The taste of food gave li in fresh cournge. He caught two more crayfish during the afternoon. It was almost dusk when he stirred a young rabbit out from under a cover of grass. If he had born a month older, he could have caught It. He was still very hungry, for three crayfishscattered through the day had not done much to fill the emptiness that was growing steadily In him. With the approach of night Baree's fears and great loneliness returned. Before the day hud quite gone he found himself a shelter tinder a big rock, where there wus a warm, soft bed of sand. Since his fight with I'Mpuyuchisew, he had traveled a long distance, and the rock under which lie made his bed this night was at least eight or nine miles from the windfall. It was in the open of the creek bottom, with the dark forest of spruce and cedars close on either side; and when dirt-stain- the moon rose, and the sfprs filled tha sky, Baree could look out and see the water of the stream shimmering In a Diglow almost as bright as day. rectly in front of him, running to the water's edge, was a broad carpet of white sand. Across this sand, half an hour later, came a huge black bear. Until Baree had seen the otters at play in the creek, his conceptions of the forests had not gone beyond his own kind, and such creatures as owls and rabbits and email feathered things. The otters had not frightened him, because he still measured things by size, and Nekik was not half as big as Kazan. But the bear was a monster beside wldch Kazan would have stood a mere pigmy. If nature was taking this way of introducing Baree to the fact that there were more Important creatures In the forests than dogs and wolves and owls and crayfish, she was driving the point home with a little more than necessary emphasis. For Wakayoo, the bear, weighed six hundred pounds If .he weighed an ounce. He was fat and sleek from a month's feasting on fish. His shiny coat was like black velvet in the moonlight, and he walked with a curious rolling motion with his head hung low. The horror grew when he stopped broadside In the carpet of sand not more than ten feet from tht rock under which Baree was shivering as If lie had the ague-I- t was quite evident that Wakayoo had caught scent of him in the air. Baree could hear him sniff could hear his breathing caught the starlight eyes as flashing In his reddish-browthey swung suspiciously toward the big boulder. If Baree could have known then that he his Insignificant little self was making that monster nctuully nervous and uneasy, he would have given a yelp of joy. For Wakayoo, in spite of his size, was somewhat of a coward when it came to wolves. And Baree carried the It grew stronger In Wakayoo's nose; and just thou, as If to Increase whatever nervousness was growing In him, there came from out of the forest behind him a long wailing howl. With an audible grunt, Wakayoo moved on. Wolves were pests, he argued. They wouldn't stand up and fight. They'd snap and yap at one's heels for hours' at a time, and were always out of the way quicker than a wink when one turned on them. What was the use of hanging around where there were wolves, on a beautiful night like this? He lumbered on decisively. Baree could hear him splashing heavily through the water of the creek. Not until then did the wolf-dodraw a full breath. It was nimost a gasp. But the excitement was not over for the night. Baree had chosen his bed at a place where the animals came down to drink, and where they crossed from one of the creek forests to the other. Not long after the bear had disappeared he heard a heavy crunching In the sand, and hoofs rattling against stones, and a bull moose with a huge sweep of antlers passed through the open space in the moonlight. Briree stared with popping eyes, for if hnd weighed six hundred pounds, this gigantic creature whose s were so long that it seemed to be walking on stilts weighed at least twice ns much. A cow moose followed, and then n calf. The calf seemed all le;;s. It was too much for Baree, and be shoved hlmstlf farther and farther bark under the rock until he lay wedged In like a sardine In a box. And there he lay unt J morning. g the one small, last thing of all that will cut nearest to the place where a man keeps his "wince." Arid I have lieurd men talk of "playing the gllIM." "Playing the game,' "Letting down L (Copyright HOWE J wolf-scen- There Is a great amount of useful education In the world. Acquire It and you may live more comfortably, usefully, easily, more successfully. Why not, therefore, aim to acquire this useful education from month to month, year to year, day to day, as you find time for education? Why neglect It when yiM have spare time? Why engage In foolish, annoying arguments or missions? I know a woman who must be in She never could sing and could not be taught, but has "kept up her music" until the present and shows no signs of quitting. . . . That's the trouble with art: it has so many enthusiastic lady followers who have no real appreciation of art, no judgment, no ability. And they talk as though they were old Missus Art herself. . . . If a man of similar ability should keep up his 6lnging to sixty and beyond, the other men would make violent fun of him: usually they save him long before he is sixty. But It's different wltt a woman. I heard the editor of a local paper say that he was compelled to write a "good notice" for the singing of old Missus Art and that the prospect sickened him. the neighborhood of sixty. An Indiana doctor writes me he does not believe Henry Ford can read and think as the average m.'.n does. Henry Ford is the Intimate friend of Thomas A. Edison. These two men take vacations together, sleep In the same tent, sit around the same camp fire and exchange views. Tou may depend upon It, Mr. Edison would not spend bis Idle time with a man who cannot read and think. The smartest man I ever knew might have made the "break" Henry Ford is accused of making on the witness stand. I have forgotten the details; he didn't know what "sic" or "ibid" meant something like that. All the same, he Is an old fox for smartness. t. g j j Wal-ayo- le-:- Baree ventured forth from under his rock 1 1 the beginning of the next day. be was a much older puppy than when he met rapayuohlsew, the young owl, in his pnth near the old windfall. If experience can be made to take the place of age, he had aged a great deal In the last forty-eigh- t hours. In fnct, he had passed almost out of puppyhood. He tiwoke with a new and much broader cnc?pthin of the world. It was a big place. It was filled with many things, of which Kazan and Orny Wolf were not the most Important. The monsters he had seen on the moonlit plot of sand had routed In him a new kind of million, and the one grentest Instinct of beasts the primal understanding that It Is the strong that prey upon the weak was wakening swiftly In him. As yet he quite naturally measured brute force and the menace of things by !z alone. Thus the bear was more terrible than Kazan, and the moose was more terrible than the bear. When Bare has now discovered that It's a big world with many adventures. And he's learning fast. (TO UK CONTINUED.) one's side- ,- "It Isn't done." The good old code, phrased In schoolhoy Jargon, that I have hnd to bear so ery often, loo often, from the lips of a liuslmnd who Is. perhaps, hearer to the school boy Hum I always remember. . B. Stern, In Hearst's International Cos inopolltun. Mayat in High Place What I known of the Mayas Ufil were the most mS cafes that vsnced of ttio American Indian race The Mayas had written langunavi but n yet no key has been tovut for It. thr Whatever is earned In a community should be reinvested in It. . . . Say a certain farming community produces corn, wheat, live stock, hay, etc. The profits from the sale of these products should be turned back Into that community in better schools, better farm machinery, better fertilizers, better homes for the workers, better bins for the grain, better housing for the farm If the citizens of a animals. county in Iowa make money from the soil and strip it by using surplus earn-- j ings In buying town lots in California at great prices, they are guilty of a mistake surprising In the jieople of Iowa, who are generally Intelligent. A community Is as much entitled to a fair deal as a man. ... j j ROAD COMMISSIONERS SIGN SEVERAL AGREEMENTS FOR PURE-BRE- DAIRY D SIRES HELP MILK BUILDING HIGHWAYS by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) n Writer's Tribute to Chivalry of Women I am convinced that. In their relations to men, women are tlm IiIvhI rous sex. In fact. I cannot understand how the reverse Idea ever exine to be accept d. It niut I,ve been a iitTpowerfiil Crusiider who first enforced It with bis miice. How rnttny times have 1 noticed liow a woman. In the very climax f a quarrel, will not refrain from sity-lu- Sr ED The man who makes a failure of life can explain it perfectly, but the people regard him as they do a drunk-- J ard or gambler. . . . People abuse the successful man, but they do not mean It. As evidence that they do not, note the greedy manner In which they "run after" him. The abuse a man gets for being successful is easier to bear than abuse for being a failure. Several years ago I was In a steamship room and very miserable. The steward recommended a certain remedy and said he had never known It to fall. I had been taking it for several days. . . . It's that way with me In everything; good advice frequently des not apply to my case. ... We once traveled to Florida by automobile, and had as driver a gentleman of such dignity and talent that we didn't call him "Walter," but Mr. Bell. He hnd long been a country town hero In his line: old ladies felt safe when be was at the wheel, and all the men wanted bin advice about automobiles. . . , But be bad always been accustomed to bad roads, and when be came to a perfect pavement of a kind he had never seen, he was cautions; he seemed to think that maybe It was trnp, drove very cure-fulland was plainly nervous. As soon as he struck the old bad road again, lie was perfectly at home, and I am a little his old self. thai way. When conditions are perfect I am a little frightened, having been accustomed all my life to bad conditions. When I am with perfectly behaved people I am a little nervous; I am used to rough ways. y, ... news Item lately caused me to It related that In some of the rxcatatlons now going on, tablets were found twenty-eigh- t hundred years older than the Christian era. The writing on the tablets being deciphered by learned men. It was discovered to be a protest against the extravagance and folly ot the time In which the writer lived. The young people were not controllable; the timber s apply was being wasted so wanton!, that the writer predicted that within n few years there would be no more trees: the poor were growing porrer. and the rich, richer; the politician were ruining the conn fry; the eoplp were extravagant, and saving nothing; the law was everywhere disregarded, and general rioting and destruction InIt was precisely tha evitable. line of talk I have been Indulging la sod railing It new. A blush. ... dairy-hireThe value of using pure-breIs Indicated by the high records made by some grade cows. One of the) highest testing cows ever developed In the Cow Testing Association of America was Aggie, a Holsteln grade cow owned by D. W. Huenink of Cedar Grove, Wis., who had developed his herd through cow testing association work and by the use of purebred Holsteln sires, selecting his herd carefully on the basis of production This cow produced la and profits. 12 months some 20,932 pounds of milk and 817.4 pounds of fat, equal to 1,022 pounds of butter. The reader may ask what profit such a cow would make over the orAccording to the exdinary cow. tension service of the Holsteln-Frlesia- n association the owner of Aggie received $2,180.49 for her milk In five years sold at butterfat prices. Her feed cost during that time was $952 and her average profit above feed cost was s d Road Conditions Are Generally Good In the District Visited, The Engineer Reported, and Plans Made For Improvements Salt Lake City. A agreement providing for the construction of a strip of road between Bridal Veil Falls and Olmstead, In Utah county, as a federal aid project, was signed by the state road commission and the commissioners of Utah county. The road is estimated to cost $12S, 000, of which $94,720 will be furnished by the federal government and the balance, by the county. Agreements were signed, also, by the commission and the federal bureau of public roads for the construcforest tion of the road, route No. 4, and for the survey construction and maintenance of the Heber-Fruitlan- Escalante-Widtso- e d No. C section of forest highway. The commission also entered into an agreement with the Oregon Short Line railroad for the construction of a wooden box culvert under the tracks of the railroad's Evonla branch on the Ogden-IIoope- r road. The state is to build this culvert and bear the expense of keeping it up. Ira H. Browning, chief engineer of the state road commission, and E. C. Knowlton, maintenance engineer, returned from an inspection trip thru Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne, Piute, Garfield and Kane counties. They were accompanied on that trip by J. E. Garn, district engineer in that section. Road conditions are generally good in the district visited, the engineer reported, and plans were made for improving them in places. It is expected that work of improvement will be agreed upon soon on the Gunnison-Leva- n road, and Sanpete county was reported anxious to obtain federal aid on the Mt. Pleasant-Cheste- r road. The engineers discussed with the county commissioners of Sevier county the improvement of the road south of Joseph in that county, and it was decided to make a survey over the road from Elsinore, so that any improvements undertaken would be on the final location of the road. Junction-Escalant- e S. L. RESERVOIR FLOODS HOMES Six Million Gallons Rush Down East Bench; Depositing Much Debris Salt Lake City. As water seeped around the outlet pipes, eating into the secsand embankment, a thirty-foo- t tion of the concrete shell of Sunny-sidreservoir gave way Wednesday morning, releasing G,600,0O0 gallons of water that rushed down the - east bench and flooded more than a square mile of south and east Salt Lake City. Although no houses were washed away, lawns and gardens innumerable were coated with deep layers of mountain wash and cellars were flooded. People living in basement apartments lost practically all their belongings. The damage, when finally totalled will run into thousands of dollars. The break came without warning. Inspection Tuesday night disclosed no untoward happening. to According Superintendent of Water Works H. K. Burton, the first warning that anything was wrong came from a slight stream of muddy water flowing away from the base of the dam about 8 o'clock. Within a few minutes, apparently, a great subterranean caveran had been eaten out between the concrete lining of the dam and the outer bank. Suddenly, with a Tush and roar, the d;im broke, and a great wall of water a quarter of a mile wide and several feet deep swept down the east bench carrying great sections of concrete conduit for hundreds of yards, from this junction of regulating the flow the city has constructed a series of small distributing reservoirs, the latst of which Is the Sunnyside, located just south of the entrance to Emigration canyon at the farthest north point of the Parlcy's-BiCottonwood conduit. e Cache Dairy Show Is Held Richmond. Cache valley, brightest star In the dairy firmament of Utah, took a day off and looked over the best animals coming from twenty years of steady development. The eleventh annual "Black and White" day, the annual show of the breeder nnd dairymen who have chosen the blade and white Holstein-Krleslabre d of dairy entile, drew more and better cattle and a bicgor crowd than tho tenth aim ml, hold last April. Cherry Prices Being Fixed In Utah Burnt If ul. Ut.th. K. L. Hanson, president of the Davis County Fruit end Vegetable association, and C. A. Lloyd, director of tho association, announce that they have met with Richard Rtrlns'iam of the. Woods Cross Canning company and agreed upon a pric of fl cents per pound for all good marketable cherries. The County Fruit and Vegetable asosciation is sending a letter out to Its members advising them of this agreement and at the same time doing everything possible $245.85. The high cow for milk production the Johnstown (Colo.) testing association is Clarla III, owned by C W. Henry, a grade Holsteln with a record of 20,331 pounds of milk and C31.8 pounds of butterfat The high covr for butterfat In the Fort Lupton association is a Guernsey grade and the high milk producer Is a grade Holsteln. Many of the most profitable herds in the state are grade herds, but are all headed by pure-bresires. Charles L. Bray, Colorado Agricultural College. In d High-Testi- ng Fat Milk From Cows in Experiment There is a growing demand on the part of consumers for a milk. This, says the dairy department of the New Jersey College of Agriculture, makes of Interest to dairymen some recent experiments which seem to prove that it Is possible to Increase a cow's fat or "cream" production. A series of tests at the University of Missouri shows that cows In fat condition at calving time will produce milk testing higher In butterfat during the year. Seven Jersey cows beginning their lactation In this condition gave milk averaging 5.5 per cent butterfat. Another group of Jerseys, beginning lactation In a thin condition, averaged 5.2 per cent butterfat. The same relation held true with Holstelns and Ayrshires. Three-tenth- s of one per cent does not seem very much, comments the college, but with a herd producing from 50 to 100,000 pounds of milk a year the Increase In butterfat Is an appreciable to the opinion of some, the butterfat content of a cow's milk cannot be raised by feeding certain products. Numerous tests at several experiment stations have established this. The conclusion Is made that giving cows a good rest nnd fitting them for the following lactation Is a saving proposition. high-testin- g Item-Contra- Cooling Very Essential for All Dairy Products Cooling Is essential In either winter or summer. Too many dairymen follow the practice of leaving cans of milk In the barn during the winter months. Such milk will accumulate odors from the barn and the animal heat In the milk will allow the bacteria to grow so that the milk will not meet the high standard of milk which Is given proper attention. The man who is producing cream should also give attention to cooling. Practically every producer should be able to sell sweet cream during the winter months If he gives his product reasonable attention. The mere fact that cream Is better In the winter than summer Is proof of the fact that cooling Is one of the greatest essentials In the proper handling of dairy products. Dairy Hints fTlHHMfTll Alfulfa hay and corn allage together; suiH'ly ideal roughage. la of When bran Is f20 per ton, ollmeal worth about $07 per ton as a sourc protein. Systematic feeding results In higher' at the same tiun milk production and cuts the feed bill. A cow cannot eat enough hny and silage to produce her maximum of milk, hence the Deeesslty of feeding concentrates. To get the best out of a herd of capable cows requires careful feeding management. The milk of average cows tests bo tween 4 arid 5 per rent butterfat, that of Holstelns from 3 to 4 per cent, und that of Guernseys and Jerseys from 5 to 0 per cent. A businesslike dairyman Is one who first sees that the rows which he la milking are of the high producing type. Th poor producers niuut b. weeded wit |