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Show PACK TWO THE TIMES-NEW- Friday, July 16; 1928 NEPIII, UTAH S, BAREE, Son of Kazan Chapter VII "Baree Bead in ! the whispered, taking ber hands. "Baree!" pa (. DoubUday. WNU Sarvlo his thrilled him. It sent through his body, tremulous quivering which she could feel and which deepened the glow In her eyes. Gently her hand stroked his head and hie back. It seemed to Nepeese that he did not breathe, tinder the caress of her hand his eyes elused. In another moment she was talking to h'ra, and at the sound of her roice his eyes shot open. "He will come here that beast and he will kill us," she was saying. "He , wlU klU you because you bit him, Baree. Ugh, I wish you were bigger.'ahd stronger, so that you could take flff- Ills head tot me She was untying the bablche from about the table-leand under her breath she laughed. She was not frightened. It was a tremendous adventure and she throbbed with exultation at the thought of having In her own way. beaten the man-beaShe could see him In the pool struggling and beating about like a great fish. He was Just about crawling out of the chasm now and she laughed a pi In as he caught Baree up under her arm. oopl-na' "Oh but you are heavy !" she gasped. "And yet I must carry you because I am going to run !" She hurried outside. Pierrot had not come, and she darted swiftly Into the balsams back of the cabin, with Baree hung In the crook of her arm, .y like" a sack filled at both ends and tied in the middle. He felt like that, too. ' But he still had no Inclination to wriggle ' himself free. Nepeese ran with him until her arm ached. Then she stopped and put hlra down on his feet, holding to the end of the caribou-skin thong that was tied about his neck. And then the Willow spoke to him softly. "You are not going to run away, Baree. Non, you are going to stay with me, and we will kill that man-beaif he dares do to me again what he did back there." She flung back the loose hair from about her flushed face, and for a moment she forgot Baree as she thought of that half minute at the edge of the chasm. He was looking straight up at her when her glance fell on him again. "Non, you are not" going to run away you are going to follow me," she whispered. "Come." The bablche string tightened about Baree's neck as she urged him to follow. It was like another rabbit-snare- , and bared i and he braced his fore-fee- t his fangs Just a little. The Willow did not pull. Fearlessly she put her hand on his head again. From the direction of the cabin came a shout, and at the sound of It she took Baree up under her arm once more. "Bete noir bete nolr!" she called back tauntingly, hut only loud enough to be heard a few yards away. "Go back to Lac Bain owases you wild beast !" Nepeese began to make her way swiftly through the forest. It grew deeper and darker, and there were no trails. They came at last Into an open. It was a tiny meadow in the heart of the forest, not more than three or four times as big as the cabin ; underfoot the grass was soft and green, and thick with flowers. Straight through the heart of this little oasis trickled a streamlet across which the Willow Jumped with Baree under her arm, and on the edge of the rill was a small wigwam made of freshly cut spruce and balsam boughs. Into her, diminutive mekewap the Willow thrust her head to see that things were as she had left them yesterday. Then, with a long breath of relief, she d burden and put down her fastened the end of the bablche to one of the cut spruce limbs. Baree burrowed himself back into the wall of the wigwam, and with head alert and eyes wide open watched attentively what happened movement of the after this. Not Willow escaped him. She was radiant and hHppy. Her laugh, sweet and wild as a bird's trill, w( Baree's heart throbbing with a desire to Jump about with her among the flowers. For a time Nepeese seemed to for-re- t Baree. Her wild blood raced with the y of her triumph over the .Lac Bain. She saw hlra g4iH. fiotuiderlng about In the pool pictured lilm nt the cabin now, snaked and Bngry, demanding of mon pere where she had gone. And mon pere, with a shrug of his shoulders, was telling him that he didn't know that pnthahly ihe had run Into the forest. It did not enter into her head that In frWkini Bush McTaggart In that way she hud j'lfl.ved with dynamite. She did not, foresee the peril that In nn Instant would have stamped the wild fluMi from her face and curdled the blond In her veins did not guess that M'TiicKiirt had become for her a 'deadlier menace thnn ever. After a little Nepeese returned to Baree. She brought him water and rve htm n plere of raw flfh. For hour they were alone, jnd with each bmr there grew stronger In Ilnree the desire to follow the girl In every movement she made, to crawl Hoe to her when ""lie snt down, to feel t lie tmich nf ln'r dri"i. of her hand and bear her voice, lint he did not show thls d '!re. lie wa slill !i little f. four footed b.ir of the fori I Brian horn half of n wolf nnd half t;n. With of a rtnc; sitid he lay i "m: k he ttnttM have played. With OnhoT.iiew he would have foiig'if At B'l-- h McTucifsrt he would have eared hi (;ir.z. and buried the'ii I'.ut the When the cl.unre came. Her touch little throbs -- - Oliver Curwood By james Continued 13 g, o Ca.) was different. Like the Kazan of old, he had begun to worship. If the Willow had freed Baree, he would not have run away. His eyes were never away from her. He watched her build a small fire and cook a piece of the fish. He watched her eat her dinner. It was quite late In the afternoon when she came and sat down close to him, wltb her lap full of flowers which she twined In the long, shining braids of her hair. Then, playfully, she began beating Baree with the end of one of these braids. He shrank un der the soft blows, and with that low, birdlike laughter In her throat, Nepeese drew his head into her lap, where the scatter of flowers lay. She talked to him. Her hand stroked his bead. He breathed In the flower-sceste- d perfume of It and lay as if dead. It was a glorious moment. Nepeese, looking down on him, could not c see that he was breathing. There came an interruption. It was the snapping of a dry stick. Through the forest Pierrot had come with the stealth of a cat, and when they looked up, he stood at the edge of the open.; Baree knew that it was not Bush McIn- ! Taggart. But It was a four-legge- REFUGEES face toward him after that For a long time' she stood looking in the direction which Pierrot bad taken. And when, after a time, she turned and came back to Baree, she did not look like the Nepeese who had been twining flowers in her hair. The laughter was gone from her face and eyes. She knelt down beside him and with sudden fierceness she cried: "It is pechlpoo, Baree ! ' It was you you who put the poison in his bl6od. And I hope he dies For I am afraid afraid !" She shivered. Perhaps it was In this moment that the Great Spirit of things, meant Baree to understand that at last it was given him to comprehend that his day had dawned, that the rising and the setting of his sun no longer existed In the sky, but in, this girl whose hand rested on his head. He whined softly, and Inch by Inch he dragged himself nearer to her until again his head rested in the hollow of her lap. For a long time after Pierrot left them the Willow did not move from where she had seated herself beside Baree. It was at last the deepening shadows and a near rumble In the sky that roused her from the fear of the things Pierrot had told her. When she looked up, black clouds were massing slowly over the open space above the spruce-tops- . Darkness was falling. In the whisper of the wind and the dead stillness of the thickening gloom there was the sullen brewing of storm. Nepeese shivered and rose to her feet. For the first time Baree got up, and he stood close at her side. Above them a lightning-flascut the clouds like a knife of fire, followed In an Instant by a terrific crash of thunder. Baree shrank back as if struck by a blow. He would have slunk Into the shelter of the brush wall of the wigwam, but there was something about-thWillow as he looked at her whicli The thunder gave him confidence. crashed again. But he retreated no farther. His eyes were fixed on Nepeese. She stood straight and slim in that gathering gloom riven by the lightning, her beautiful head thrown back, her lips parted, and her eyes glowing with an almost eager anticipation a sculptured goddess welcoming with bated breath the onrusliing forces of the heavens. Perhaps It was because she was born on a night of storm. Marfy times Pierrot and the dead princess mother had told her that how on the night she had come Into the world the crash of thunder and the flare of lightning had made the hours an inferno, how the streams had burst over their banks and the stems of ten ' thousand forest 'trees had snapped in Its fury and the beat of the deluge on their cabin roof had drowned the sound of her mother's pain, and of her own first babyish cries. On that night. It may be, the Spirit of Storm was born in Nepeese. She loved to face It, as she was facing It now. It made her forget all things but the splendid might of nature; her half-wilsoul thrilled to the crash and fire of it ; often she had reached up her bare arms and laughed with Joy as the deluge burst about her. Kven now she might have stood there in the little open until the rain fell, if a whine from Baree had' not turned her. As the first big drops struck with the dujl thud of leaden bullets about them, she. went with him into the balsam shelter.,, It seemed an interminable time before the thunder rolled far to the east, and the lightning died away into distant and intermittent flashings. Even after that the rain fell for another hour. Then It stopped as suddenly as it had begun. With a laughing gasp Nepeese rose to her feet. The water gurgled In her moccasins as she walked out Into the open. She paid no attention to Baree and he followed her. Across the open In the treetops the last of the storm-cloudwere drifting away. Nepeese looked down and saw Baree. He was standing clear and unleashed, with freedom on all sides of him. Yet he did not run. , He was with his waiting, wet as a water-fat- , Nepeeae eyes on her expectantly. made a movement toward him, and FIRST ' man-beast- - . - ' OFFICIAL WORD SAYING ZONE IS SAFE IS GIVEN OUT ARSENAL Go Back Knowing That Only Wrecks Of Homes May Offer Them Cheer; Refugees Are All Eager Many Dover, N. shell-shattere- 7 ..HT-7- Her Half Wild Soul Thrilled to the Crash and Fire of It. stantly his . Finance Minister Caillaux may proceed with the restoration of the French franc, and Belgium Is going them "one better by suggesting that the soverign be Installed with far more than usual power. African Tribesmen Lose 100 Killed Benghazi. North Africa. One hundred rebel tribesmen have been killed wounded In heavy and seventy-fivfighting near Tillmus, south of this Sen-uss- l city. Italian forces attacked the tribesmen during the clearing operations on the central plateau. In fighting at Nadl Gereiba. Major Ferrari. Italian officer, was slain by Ten rebels were killed tribesmen. and six taken captive In the latter en: ' gagement. e ' Until within the last century Insane j persons were treated with terrible j cruelty In nearly all "civilized countries, and as late as 1770 lunatics were exhibited at public fairs In England, and as late as 1H15 there were exposures of terrible cruelties In the Bethlehem hospital In England, and this led to gradual Improvements and the Introduction of enlightened and scientific methods In the care of the mentally afflicted. One of the mildest of the old forms of treatment of mud people, and long In voirue at Strnthfillan, In Perthshire, Seothind. was rormected with the of St. Flllan. of the a Seottih mi int. ltiane people were dipped In the "holy pool." where St. Fillnn had hath"d In the Seventh century. Many eeretnoriies were ennnerted ou.'ilnt After the lnl with this "duekiliS?" nervion the lnHalies were herded tn St. I Mian's hapd. nnd utrapped to left ail night. he floor, to fej-tlv- Those who managed to free their bonds and escape were considered cured. Experience did not bear out this pious belief, bnwever, and the custom graduully declined r) rj Live on Camels The Tuareg, found over a Inrge area In northern Africa, are nomads who live principally by means of, and nn. camels. Tuareg women are as free as women In Britain. They go about unveiled, while the men are always veiled. The women chof.se their own husbands, nnd te.vh the children to rem and wri!t. They run o n nl .; . ; erty, even after marrl n'rol .e have no husband and miMiorii v me u,l j: i through the ino'l, iL-- i tf i t'C ronti ;i I In- f ' ' Vernal. Wm. Preece, Uintah county game warden, is directing trapping of beaver in Brush creek at a point near where the stream enters the Green river, fifteen miles east of VernaL The captured furbearers will be transported to Trout creek, a stream of the Ashley national forest,- - with the consent of the forest officials, and if a sufficient number is trapped some will be taken to what is known as the Davenport beaver dams in the Diamond mountain region. Roosevelt. For more than a week showers have been gratefully received over the Uintah basin, and on July 8 and 9 the showers became more general until the entire basin received a good soaking. Nearly all of the alfalfa seed needed a little moisture, although some of the lands did not need it. However, in most; cases, the, rain has been of very great value to all crops, seeds included. ,r ,( , ,, the dry Salt ' Lake season, the potato, peach and corn crops of Utah are expected to show a considerable increase over the production of last year, while most of the other crops will show a decrease, according to a report issued recently by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician for Utah. Myton. The Dry Gulch Irrigation company has begun to release the City.-Despit- storage waters of the Uintah river reservoirs. The company began with Crescent lake, followed by Lake and Chain lakes. Salt Lake City. The 1926 sugar beet acreage in Utah is about the same as last year, but in Idaho there is a reduction of approximately 10,000 acres, it is noted in the sugar beet forecast issued recently by Frank Andrews, Utah statistician with the de The Utah partment of agriculture. acreage this year is calculated at acres, the area harvested last fall. 0 Idaho's 1926 crop will come from acres, whereas the 1925 acreage was 38,000 acres. Salt Lake City. Plans to do betterment work amounting to about J5000 to cover the expense of the work was received and the work will begin at once. It is planned to widen" the The acroad in 'Boxelder canyon.; counting department also received a check for $2565 from Boxelder county to cover its portion of the cost of constructing the bridge on the project. Myton. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association of Myton will be held Tuesday, July 13 at 2 p. m. The election of officers and other business of, importaince will come up. Over 100 seed growers are members of this organization, and for the year 1925 about 2.000,000 pounds of seed was handled in this plant. William Gentry of Ioka is president ind William Zowe is. secAt-wo- 71,-00- 29,-00- . LIKE WAR FRONT ARSENAL GROUNDS DISCLOSE INFERNO OF SMOULDERING WRECKAGE Damage Done By A. Blast Put At $100, 000,000 By U, 8. Experts; Cas- ualty List Shows Tan Are Dead ' Dover; 'N." discovered- - Sundry " werei an "bodies J.--- Sev the area davasr tated by, the explosion, of the naval ammunition depot at Laka Denmark., The bodies were not brought out of the guarded area due to the continuing in- - 1 danger from 'bursting" shells'. 'IiTaddi-tio- nrtf to "the" seven 'bodies1 'thVee "btber-persons'a- i'knownjJ " tribe' aea'd'and1 upward of twenty arVmIsslnr.1:'u ' Damage to the naval, arsenal' an'A' adjoining Picatinny 'arseiM' tf thV armj reservation HfraV f$8,ftinaiea "by4" army ''ana1 "naval'' otfteeVs ;Qt' ' app'rSxf-matel-y ' iiotyboO.Odb. " StoTes'lbf munitions at the1 'naval depot' were Valued at $87,000,000 and Secretary of War ' Davifi, after an inspection of th9 army reservation, said that a conservative estimate ' of the damage there 1 - '' ' ' " ' u ' Refugees from villages surroundin the arsenals are gathered in towns outside the area of destruction; wbere they are being cared for by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other reAt Morristown lief organizations. fourteen persons still are in hospitals and between four hundred and five hundred refugees are being sheltered. Another large contingentof those driven from their homes by the explosions is at New Foundland. Most; of the" injured marines were removed to the Brooklyn naval hospital, among them Captain O. C. Dowling, commanding officer of the naval depot. Captain Dowling' was ' blinded while fighting the fire fol- lowing the first explosion. An opera-tion was performed in an' effort to save his sight, ' ' - - ' "' Regular G. O. P. Not Disturbed Garfield. A cloudburst at the summit of the O'liiiriii range west of this town shortly before midnight Wednesday nipht caused a torrent to rurh cfiwn gullies on the hillsides nnd over the state hichway leading from Salt Luke ;n Tooele county and the west. A nhort from th" end of thn IHVMnetit at the Halt Iike-Tooelloutity line mud covered the pavement t i a fl r pt h of eighteen ln b"s or mere, h was mixed with boulders said to be as l,r.'J as two feet In diameter nnn became Impassable for automobiles. Bri-an- d Horrible Methods of Treating the Insane Notes News It' a Privilege to Live in 1 Utah PB 1 Nonstop Flight Put Off Washington. The navy's non-stotliEh'. attempt with seaplane Pll-from Seattle to S,in Plepn has been indefinite ly postponed, the department .. ;,s lid vised Thursday, nwlna to fiil-ir- : lit th-- oiJ'nn system for th plane irjtrlni'i whleh for'! a lnridin at I'll-- i itThe phine was point, Washington. 'rimed into Port Anpete f.nd I' Is that two weeks will be rcquir-- I The destroyer for repairs. t.ilioticd alone (he coast to safecuard he fount I f" he! n released Belgium thus Joins the three European powers who are considering proposals to concentrate unlimited powers iq one person. Italy is discussing whether. Premier Mussolini and his cabinet should be made responsible to the king and not to the legislature; France will vote on Thursday on a government proposal to grant the cabinet full powers. In order that man-beast- 's ; IS Former Kaiser Sues Republic Capetown. The former kaiser ot Crrmnoy will be the plaintiff in a test case coming op In the town of Win-doc- k soon, involving large sums of money Invested by the kaiser In farms end hnslness In the town, which Is a tart of the German Southwest Africa. The money was forfeited under the terms of the peace treaty, but the ex-- : kaiser now asserts thnt the property belonged to the Hohenzollern family, and not to the crown of Germany. that the bill will be voted. s J AREA BLASTED Washington, D. .C Information collected, from the west by Washington on the one phase of politics thf t is most acute, is to the effect that the t administration and the regular Republican party has no occasion for grava apprehension. These reports say that the backers of the Haugen farm relief bill are, as a whole, in a state of indecision about what to do now; and t'aat as to some of the most important individuals in the group, they are in u! state, of ; outright dissent from all suggestions for continuing the fight. Meantime, the other "'farm' leaders, who haye always favored jthe perfection of cooperative marketing as tne best form of farm relief, are taking energetic steps to strengthen existing associations." organize new ones,' and retary. bring all into unity. This work'Ms 'salt Lake City. Ranges in Utah being 'stimulated "from Washingtbn. hive for the most part declined In con- where' 'a hew tlivislon' of cooperative marketing has been Bet tip in the de-dition since June 1 and lack of moisof agriculture." In a wider ture and stock water is reaching a partment ' ' serious stage in places, it Is indicated sense,' the crystalized-- ' policy 'of the that all' administration is' in the July range end livestock conof farm' dition report of G. A. Scott, regional the debate about other forms' ' relief is over and done.- livestock statistician with the depart: ' ii ment of agriculture. The condition of In U. S. 93 To as Parade Protest Vetr this in report ranges Is given per cent normal, compared with 99 Paris. War veterans "propelling' " per cent June 1 and 96 per cent July last year, and 72 per cent the themselves In Invalid chairs, with hands on the shoulders' 'of theft"11 same date two years ago. wives and children for guidance, 'and " esti'salt Lake City. The revised the wrttmds of battle show- - ' mate of commercial onion acreage tn othera with led the protest parade- - of ' plainly, lng 800 as acres, is compared Utah given 12,000 men;Sunday against the'Wash-'- i in 1925. truck the with 500 acres in debt The procea-'1-si- on settlement. Ington crop news bulletin of tne department moved the up Champs Elyseei-- ' of agriculture. Yields were exceptionaround the Arc de Trlomphe and down 1925 and the in onions for ally high Diena. A wreath was decarlot movement amounted to 569 the Avenue mounment cars. It is expected that between 700 posited at the Alan Seegar Eta'ts.ITnisi I in .the. Place des and 800 cars will be needed to move erected 'another klth irfieytMdfi Ml&i U and season. this the Utah onion crop of George Washington, Inscrlbef, "Ti, uua hopai. Logan. Reports of production rec Washington ords for June have been made by was placed a stone plaque expressing three of the four cow testing associa- the wish that the Franco-America-n tions In Cache Valley. In the debt settlement be revised. Thous490 ands stood bareheaded along the line . Ward association rws were on test with 20 dry. The of march and, the procession moying , Central Cache association reported at the rate of 20Q a minute , took exthere were 578 cows on test and 44 not actly, an hour to pass the Washington milking, while the Hyrum Paradise statue, after wh(ch It disbanded. association had 372 cowa on test and 27 dry. Troops. To portray Battle of Spokane . Washington. The war, department Salt Lake. Coming at a time when parched crops thirsted for moisture, has approved, a request from William a' vigorous shower, believed to have S. Lewis of, Spokane for participation been general In its scope, followed by Jroops and army bands jn the, exer- - , closely upon the heels of local storms c.les ,fo be held in Spokane July. 29 , in commemoration of the battle of , that were accompanied by considerValue accruing from Spokane. The, commanding general of , able damage. the storm, however, more than offset the Ninth corps area, San Francisco, the damage that had been wrought. has 'been Instructed to "'take such acpVrt iraHld har-rangin- g Wherever rain fell, farmers rejoiced, tion air Tnay ' the army's representation In excepting those whose hay was not In the commemoration. stack. 'Brussels. Belgium, staggered by the recent precipitous fall of the Belgian franc, is verging on the appointment of King Albert as a virtual die tator within his kingdom in the government's effort to save the exchange from further collapse. jThe Belgian cabinet introduced a bill in the chamber of deputies granting King Albert unlimited powers to issue decrees for drastic defense of the franc, and there are indications d 1 J. All roads in Jersey's area led back to the Belgium Looks With Favor on Plan Brussels, Belgium. The chamber of deputies adopted on first reading the iill introduced by the cabinet which, would grant King Albert unlimited powers to issue decrees for defense of the franc. The bill is expected to become law by the end of the week. body stiffened under the Willow's hand. He drew back slowly and cautiously from her lap, and as Pierrot advanced, Baree snarled. The next Instant Nepeese had risen and had run to Pierrot. The look In her father's face alarmed her. "Whut has happened, mon pere?" she cried. Pierrot shrugged his shoulders. "Nothing, ma Nepeese except that you have roused a thousand devils In the heart of the Factor from Lac Bain and that" He stopped as he saw Baree, and pointed at him. "Last night when M'sleu the Factor caught him in a snare, be bit M'sleu's hand. M'sleu's hand Is swollen twice Its slse, and I can see his blood turning black. It Is pechlpoo." "Pechlpoo !" gasped Nepeese. She looked Into Pierrot's eyes. They were dark, and filled with a sinister gleam a flash of exultation, she thought. " said "Yes, It is the Pierrot. A gleam of cunning shot Into his eyes as he looked over his shoulder, and nodded. "I have hidden the medicine and told him there Is no time to lose In getting back to Lac Bain. And he Is afraid that devil He Is waiting. With that blackening hand, be is afraid to start back alone and s I go with him. And listen, ma Nepeese. We will be away by sundown, and there Is something you must know before I go." Baree saw them there, close together In the shadows thrown by the tall spruce trees. He heard the low murmur of their voices chiefly of hesitated., . Pierrot's, and at last he saw Nepeese "No, you will not run away, Baree. T Will put her two arms up around the leave you free. And now we neck, and then Pierrot wvnt must hove a Are! Let us hunt for the away again Into the forest. He thought wuskwl, Baree." that the Willow would never turn her (TO HI CONTINL'Kb.l blood-poison,- d abandoned homes of Mount Hope, Picatinny and the smaller communities nestled along the narrow hillside roads and every vehicle carried wornoutefugees returning. In fire, trucks, under the canvas covers of the motor transport service, in private cars and in chartered busses whola families, bewildered by thiee days of dazed exile, found themselves going back to their broken little flight homes, abandoned in head-lonfrom the terrors let loose by Saturday's arsenal explosion. They knew' that in nearly every case all windows in their homes had been shattered with the first warning blast. Many knew the walls of their homes had caved in, that sheds had collapsed and floors dropped into cellars. A few had made exploraotry visits in search of possessions and realized the ruin to which they were returning. But like the peasant population of the great war, the destruction of their homes was not enough to keep them away and with the coming of General Drum's official declaration that it was now safe to permit the passage of civilians into the patrolled sections a 'few miles around the arsenal, in every case the refugees asked anxiously to be taken, home. All afternoon the Red Cross workers' relief headquarters in Morristown, at the United States hotel, were kept busy loading their three days' boarders into the odd and varied conveyances that carried them home. From temporary shelter in the rectory of the Redeemer church, from the American Legion rooms, from the Market street mission and from the Woman's Community club, loads of women, children, boys', babies, went out. The task at Dover was completed earlier in the day. h - HOME 1 st . CARAVANS TAKE ' " -' " lof lltUitii Wells-vllle-Colle- . . i : . tr ' Probs Of Recent Mergers 6ought Washington. A request by twenty-thre- e senators for a federal trade invest iirarion of the Important' corporation mergers of the pant four years was made public- by lite People's KrciuiKtructloq' leanun. The request HSkod that the Invent Uinticn be tiiulct Uln at the t 'iwlient hrwstrdo d;ite. The letter tvihl that the WjiImIi resolution directing the commiKMlori to make such an Investigation had failed of enactment In the press nf legislation at the close nf coiicrcws. mm-miesio- n - |