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Show Thursday, January 23, 1930 BLACK SHEEP'S GOLD by Beatrice Grimshaw Irwia UluatraUo criM Uul Mjra by Hughe Co. WNU Service. WHAT WENT BEFORE On liner la pleasure trip on made possible by astern a lurky wtttri, turn of fortune's wheal, tbe narrator, Philip Amorjr. but well-bor- n young Ene lixhman, World war veteran, now a trailer at laru, on the Island ot Papua, New Guinea, plunges over board to aave the life of a young musical eomrdy artreae known on board as Hailed as a hero by his fellow passengers. Anorr Is chiefly conscious of the warm regard of a girl In the assemblage, whom, on the Instant their eyes meet, he feels Is the "only girl." He learns she Is Pla Iaurler, nyjtag of a weallhy New 8outb, 'Wales tnmlly. He tells her something of his life In of his knowledge of a Papua-Jtn- d ronderful gold field on the Is Impe-eunlo- "Gln-Sllng- ." land. CHAPTER II Continued 3 She whirled, one of lier dancer "Come on. whirls, and left me. girls," 1 hear her crying, down Ihe deck. "(let the gramophone golni; Benin. 'Nother dunce drink hearty, we'll noon be dead." So little did I understand what she meimt. that ! wag conscious, at first, only of relief. She had let tne go; I could hunt up IMa Laurier. who had not been visible all afternoon. Part of my coinage of golden houra was still nnspent ; I must husband It, use It wisely. Pla Jinny I was hurrying toward the music room, an excellent staiteglc point for1 viewing the main compnnion and the decks when the full meaning of Jinny's remarks, and of her fierce "Smoke that !" broke on me. Princess Mary had fancied a y V w ' square emerald for an engagement ring. Princess Mary had made square emerald engagement rings popular " with the set to which Pia Laurier belonged. Pia wore a square emerald ring I remembered fatally I remembered now on her third left finger. Three times, then by my poverty, by her position, and by the significance of that ring Pia was not for me. I believed what Jinny had said; I was very sure she was no liar. It was merely a determination to leave no stone unturned, that made me decide I would see Pla once more only once before I left the ship, and ask her to her face If what I heard was true. Once, across the saloon that night 1 saw the clear profile, the beautifully shaped black head. Once, on deck, the perfume that Pia Laurier used, came floating across a little space of dark, and I saw a pale dress pass hesitate go on again. I did not move: I said no word. If I am angry, I am angry. That night, I had liefer taken the velvet neck of Pia In my hands, and twisted It back till It gave way, cracking. In my hands, (as I have twisted the neck of a German, rolling together In trench mud) than held her and kissed her as I had not yet done; as, I knew now, I never should. It was very early when the engines fame to rest next morning, and the ship, her way stopped, lay still upr-- the eeladon-hltie- waters that surround Goode Island. " Here the tender from Thursday was to meet us, and here my false splendors were to end. Phil Amory, hit of 'war wastage, trader from the back end of nowhere, was "to be taken to the place from whence he came." And If, once arrived there, he chose to hnng himself by the neck till he was dead. It would be nobody's business but his own. $ My suitcases were on deck, my steward' tipped, the tender rising and. falling below the ladder, on which I was just about to set foot, when the sound of my name, clearly and almost precisely spoken, made me look round. Pla was there, at the head of the accommodation ladder, holding out her hand, the hand that did not bear the emerald ring. I could not refuse to take It I felt her cool fingers In mine, for one everlasting moment; and It was ns If they came, In that moment, home, where they had always I don't know which of us first let go. I know that In one moment, with the tender dancing below and the luggage gone, and the passengers who were to Join coming up the ladder, I realized that I had been an Incredible fool, and that it was too late to do anything at all about It. If she was engaged If she wasn't she liked me. Me. She had not been flirtHer eyes were dark with ing. sleeplessness, and the shadow thut comes of love denied. She looked at me, and made the little movement with her lips that means . . . .von know. And I would have given five years of my life for the chance Impossible now of taking her in my arms and kissing ber very breath away. s All round us there were scrubbing, stewards carrying things, the fourth officer was posted at the head of the ladder, a In white stewardess, armored starch God knows what she wanted there was gaping In the nenr-es- t doorway. Passengers, new arrivals, began to shove past Pla nnd myself, coming between us. "Sir," said some cursed person, "If you want to go ashore, you'd better not keep the tender; captain's anxious to get away." I don't know what I'd have done missed my passage, maybe, and trusted to luck to see me back from the East when I had spent deck-hand- I HE every coin I owned, getting the If. at that minute, very tall, thin man had not come up the ladder, pushed determinedly between Pla and myself, and tuken Iter by both hands. II kept pumping her wrist up and down, and staring at her as If he could never have enough of It. lie was extremely handsome (Aarp regular feature, somewhat uiarrtd by brief Ueorge V beard, chestnut hulr clipped close to keep It from waving, large, brown, hard eyes, figure of an athlete. I could have cheerfully split his skull with an as. I knew who he was without asking; but" If confirmation was needed, I had It when an obsequious steward rushed forward, trending on my toes ns he went, nnd bleated "What cabin. Kir Itlrh-ard- ? Shall I take your luggage. Sir Ukhardr Instantly the whole weight of the social system by and In which Ihe clan of I.auriers lived, seemed to press dwn upon me like a giant hand, pushing, relentlessly, Pla and myself apart. I saw In one thousand facetted vision, the world my people had owned and lost ; Its myriad reserves, defences, shibs boleths. Its tierce prides and scorns: Its solid pedestal of property, lifting all who belonged lo It fur, very far above the mud and dust Id which we others must go. The tense moment passed. Sir Richard had let go Pin's hand; was busying himself with the traveler's eternal preoccupation of baggage. I had seen what I hnd seen, nnd 1 knew, as well as If I had hnd an hour to think It all out. Instead of a couple of seconds, that what was for Pla was best. I could wreck her engagement If I chose of this I was sure but I was equally sure that If I could, I would not. 1 would drop out of her world as I had dropped In. The male Cindreiln's pumpkin coach was ready; his hour had struck; back to the ashes! and let the fairy princess stay In her palace, undisturbed. If I was sick at heart, as I went down that endless stairs, I was doubtless no worse than many millions elsewhere who were sick at heart that day. and of the same disease. So I tried to tell myself, when the tender was reached, and I had found a scat on the roof of the cabin, and the engine was be ginning to turn over with loud and drumming noises. So spatting I tried to believe, when I saw the face of Pia looking down at me from the rail, a long, long way above, and felt her eyes fall on me like the light of a star, strange, I. who was sad. remotely fair. merry enough by nature, had no left In me that day, else laughter I think I must have been amused at the sudden sight of Mrs. I.aurler. arrived too late, shooting her celebrated death-raat me "with Intent," as she stood, kimono-clad- . In the alleyway door. Or at the other, fairer vision on the ship's sacred bridge I knew at once that pill-lei'- y could thus profane the holding an Imaginary glass to its lips, waving an arm at me, and shouting what 1 gnessed at, but could not hear "Drink " hearty, we'll soon be dead!" Then the tender champed and f'jsseci away, and the ship receded only high Jinny altar tester nnd faster, and that vhipter of my life was done, CHAPTER III I CAME Papua, back to Daru, off western on a brimming tide, that s masker1 the with acres of reflected island, miles of bright mirrored sky. The dream that I had dreamed on the great liner clung about me still, but only as the aftermath of an opium carouse may cling about a man who has left behind him, days and miles away, the place where he drauk, and mud-fiat- dreamed. 1 reached the Dam roadstead, anchored, slung my dinghy out (for I had made the . run across from Australia, alone) got pratique from the thin, official.. who young government, rowed out to meet me. and changed with, him the news of the islands, f By nnd by I slung my gear together, looked to the cable of the cutter, rowed myself ashore and stones. pulled the dinghy upon-thI walked up the endless stretch of Dam jetty. The tide, now, was running fast away to sea, and the coming sunset wus reflected in sheets of muddy flame upon the I had slipped flats left bare. through the magic door, got myself Into the Fourth Dimensional world that lies beyond the world that most men know. If the thought of Pla I.aurler came back to me. In my trading store, behind the beach of Daru, I think It came as a chime of hells comes, from some distant clock tower, sounding often, scarcely heard ; part of one's life, yet scarcely remembered, unless, for any reason, Us music Is withdrawn. I would have told anyone Possibly who asked, that I did not think of her. She had gone through my life It seemed as a sudden gust of wind goes through a house, scattering the common things of hourly use, breaking the mirrors, slamming windows and doors, and making the place look as If nothing would ever be the same again. But winds pass by, and household goods are gathered and set up once more. The wind that was Pla had blown, and passed I thought. One trace It had left. I could not keep from thinking of Sir Illchard He troubled me. Not Fanshaw. so much because he was going to marry Pla, though that was a spot of raw pain, never unnecessarily to be touched but because of a certain, odd, floating resemblance In his face to something, some one undetermined, that had struck me, In those few moments upon the ladder of the ship. It worried me as a name, half forgotten, worries; and that Is like a loose tooth In the month. It troubled me at the oddest moments. My store I think I have hundred-and-twenty-mil- e ; e : not told yon was almost en the beach. It stood perched upon hluh piles, with a flight of rough steps leading up and In. The interior was one large duxky cave, with light that fell from doors set at each end. At first, you didn't see much; In a minute or two, the shining clusters of tin blllycuns and pannikins In the roof, and the piled strata of cut tons, red, yellow, pink and green, and the loin cloths and the TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHI. UTAH large joints of meat enclosed In a rather email meat safe, were sitting within the transparent hesslim wulls. I had expected three, but I Who else, besides Norsaw four. thanger nnd Purchase, I wondered, wus "In"! "Hello. sometmuy here's Black Sheep," and my host began said; introducing. . "Northanger, Purchase, you know the Black Sheep. Mr. Sptcer, Mr. knives, and the strlnws of beads, like strunge little fruits, and the plain and the lanterns and the sucks of rice and the towers of tinned meats and fish, became dimly visible, each to Us yard-lon- Amory. Pag Seven FAUM CK MINERAL MIXTURE NEEDED BY SWINE The newcomer he wus a fatilHli man with extremely flat feet and a tsieeked head of fairish hair; young, Grain and Forage Rations good looking In disgusting son of Be Must excess Supplemented. way, and dowered with an of the manner sometimes miscalled me fixed cool a with "Oxford" That the ordinary grain and forstare, and demanded of the II. M. age rations Used for feeding our "Why do you call him Ulurk hogs ninst he supplemented with a mjlcT I 'jji itiPSTORtf... The upsets of 1 Ay;MM;,!j jy? ,,., ,if ,n CmsSjsmmm; "' .1 place. There was always a wind blowing through, from door to door, and there was a mossy and fishy smell from the reef. Dot unpleasant, and IRQ mineral mixture Is a fad upon a warm whiff of franglpnnnl flow- Sheep?" because bis eyes are which all investigators agree. A "Mostly for Dam Is full of these. . . . black, and hit hair, ami ers; be' V typical statement relating to this isssm!22J Daru, Daru by the western bound- - cause he's a decent sort partly of chap." subject wus recently made by A. exat of Dakota (he Severson North the replied Bassett, staring buck, fattish mnn. periment station, as follows: a Mr. Splcer Immediately dropped "The ordinary grain ration does me out of notice, took a watch not contain the variety nor a from bis pocket, and yawned. proer amount of mineral matter AH children are tub eel to little Bassett rang the bell for d'iiner. required to rapidly develop lurge upsets. They come at unexpected "Who Is be?" I asked. In a whis- frame for early maturing hogs. times. They seem twice as serious colic, or diarrhea, yields t thsj per, of Northanger, as we went In- One can expect a considerable in the dead of night But there's soothing influence of Castoria. to the dining room, a clean, polof weak, undersized or one form of comfort on which a Keep Castoria in mind, and keep ished, rather prisonlike apartment unthrifty plys when no mineral mother can always rely; good old a bottle in the house always. that shouted In every foot of Its mixture Is used. Without mineral barren expanse. Its owner's bache- matter sows are apt to gu down In Give a few drops to any child Castoria. This pure vegetable lor condition. the back, become weak In their can't harm the tiniest whose tongue is coated, or whose preparation "Fellow who's come across to pasterns and ninny times become breath is bad. Continue with infant. Yet mild as it is. it soothes make arrangements for some min- so weak they cannot get up when Castoria until the child is grown I like nothing fretful a restless, baby eral prospecting crowd," answered nursing a large litter of pigs. The else. Its quick relief soon sees the drugstore has Castoria ; the Every milk drains heavily on the skeleNorthanger, a little wearily. youngster comtortabte once more. genuine has Cha. II. Fletcher' We filed in. "Why did you ask ton of the sow to supply the propback to sleep. Even an attack of signature on the wrapper. him?" I found time to demand of er amount of mineral to the milk. Bassett. And Bassett. looking at The constant addition of mineral I How a man does admire a witty Make enemies If you have to, but a me with lurge sad eyes, answered matter to the sow's ration will otnan If siie applies ber wit to a I man who makes unnecessary onea la simply "I never did; he wished avoid this ailment Hogs are more I foolish. an he dislikes i himself onto tbe party," and took apt to suffer from mineral deficienhis seat. cy than are other classes of live Through the turtle soup we are stock." Such products as tankage and usually sick of turtle soup In Daru through the fish (we are almost skim milk are rich In mineral matalways tired of fish, because we get ter, but under average farm condiIt plentifully, and free) through the tions they are seldom. If ever, fed roast of dugong, and the Inevitable In large enough quantities to sup custard pudding and tinned pears, ply the amount needed. Those who Mr. Spicer talked, with Just so have been carrying their pigs on a many pauses as would allow of bis light grain ration with perhaps a the whole story. He fa JOB DEMTNO of Col It rather skimpy pasture should not eating an excellent dinner. a claims that gate, right in believing that seemed that he had acquaintances overlook the feeding of a liberal sensible method of Nujol contains no drugs, My Store I Think I Have Not Told among most of the titled families' supply ot minerals. Some conceno medicines of any health has really made You Was Almost on the Beach. of England; that they all valued ntrates rich In protein must be fed in kind. It is tasteless and life a pleasure for him. with him connection nnd ration. been that he had the grain colorless as pure water. Mr. Deming writes that ary of Papua, where civilization chosenhighly, come ahead and "orto It is simply harmless inat first he could not bestops, ships come seldom, and time ganize" the expedition, by a is marked by rise and set of sun Herds Maintained ternal lubrication, which lieve this simple thing Beef and dukes of marquises, Daru, an island, filled with the earls. was the cause of his your body needs as During Severe Weather spirit of the Islands, holds in its much as any other he did not forget to tell buoyant spirits. Finally, best main herds be Beef heart, though it is Western Pacific, us,'This," may machine. Regularly as however, he had to adEmpiah stuff. Nothing co- tained during the winter with a . the secret of the true South Seas. lonial"Isabout of the clock work, Nujol cleans mit that it was Nujol it on Liberal in ration. the hay All very well, and I felt It, as I British Empiah, Development which the sun legume which was keeping him out of your body those use of alfalfa hay, according to moved about among my cottons and never sets. besides giving him, well, a poisons which we all Insure feeders, helps ' tins, bargaining with wild fellows "Our chief, Sir Richard Fan- practical calf he times and which make as "five says, have, crop. Experimentally a canoe the from healthy load of shaw I Fly for us low in our minds, the vitality." the fact has been proven, that steers coconuts, selling tinned meat for At slack attention this point, my carried through the winter on al tired, headachy, and turtlesliell. rice for a catch of tro-ca'"Believe me," he saya "Your what?" I rapped. falfa hay make faster gains than below par. I felt it, and liked it, for I lightened. and free "having regular "Who did you say?" For I thought fed steers the follow had tasted the honey of the South The way for you to being bored half asleep that my ing year on pasture. An experi bodily elimination Sea world, nnd its flavor was pleas- ears makes all the difference So me were false. find out how much playing trial comparing prairie hay mental ant to recall, though In truth the often had that name hummed in my in the world to a diver better Nujol will make alfalfa showed that the K" strong liquor of the Western Islands head, between sleeping and waking, with V as well as to any other y f you feel is to try it for suited me best. But why why was that I could not bellwis I was hear- prairie hay gains were but athlete. I can't afford to as large as the gains made by feed a few days. You can get the store, nnd the blaze of green ing it some one spoken by be nervous, sluggish, or a bottle in a sealed ing alfalfa. bush and dazzle of seawater, seen else. actually depressed while diving. package at any drug through its open doorway, and the Robert O. Deming "Sir Pilchard Fanshaw. K. C. V. donel I smell of reef and shell and frangl-pann- l isn't store. It costs only a It fsocrdirer onCol tte Unijust March Farrowed Pigs O. Celebrated airman in the War. versity SirimmiDg Tssia. flower ay, and the very would like to urge any few cents, but it makes Marketed in Winter winds that blew unendingly from Extremely successful manager of whether think one, they you feel like a million devoted to the extension January, February, and early door to door why was all this con- companies are in good health or not, to dollars. Do you know how many j they In Interests. of this Chief Empiah nected In my mind with Richard March farrowed pigs are probably give Nujol a try-ou-t. It certainly thousands of people keep themselves j matter, if any one is chief but my- 50 cent marketed, but due to Fanshaw, airman, company pro- self. can't do any harm, and I'll bet it well and happy just by using Nujol? j him I to follow very cornper expect are In moter, wealthy man and future custhere being high price would make them feel a hundred per shortly, via Port Moresby." Why shouldn't you feel well all the ) todian of Pia Lander's life? pigs lacking the finishing cent better. It's worth tryingl". I don't know what it was maybe many time? You canl Get yourself a bottl i 1 could not tell. touches. Often I did not the new interest, the fresh channel Mr. Deming has Just about told of Nujol today! Corn and tankage are rather high think of It. I was reasonably busy of and up, opened by Spicer but the redeeming feature as a trader, and my beat, up and his feeling the mention, from priced, of the situation is that hogs are down the coast In a cutter, was a an talk ; maybe A man never realizes how fond he i If a scientist thinks bis science Over Fanof unexpected quarter, If the pigs are Is of brunettes until he marries a I throws religion, he doesn't care to priced. long one; the crucial peak of sol- shaw's name but something, at also fairfree and from worms, lice, had been I vency reached, and that moment, sot off a fuse beneath thrifty, just blond. discuss tbe matter. passed and I was beginning to send the long dormant part of my mem mange, and are fed a well balanced is but no doubt there that to ration Port bank. money up Moresby -exploded it into action, I they will make a .good return on , -- ;'". .7.. i& ;i Not much, heaven knows but still, ory, andwith certainty, where and the feed consumed. it was prosperity, or the dawn of knew, how I had seen Sir Richard Faa that pleasant condition ; and It shaw before my G d, I knew I promised, in due time, the fulfillLIVE STOCK NOTES In the glass that hung opposite ment of my dream of exploration. I saw my face turn to the table, in to world do the with Nothing a piece of white Good breeding and good feeding Sir Kichard Fanshaw, far above something like with black blots for go hand in hand. Success depends me and my little affairs, as Pia blotting paper, I didn t brows. know nnd that eyes upon combination- of the two. Laurier was above us both. I saw It ; I remembered that after. Where was the connection? I At the moment, I was con Intelligent treatment of animals would have given much to know. cerned with getting outonly of the Just ns much. If not more But weeks passed, and 1 was no house. Spicer, t'.ie R. M.. Northanger requiresthan does the Intelligent nearer recalling the vfcgue, three-part-s nnd Purchase, might all have study, treatment of people. forgotten thing that linked been taken out nnd drowned Sir Richard Fanshaw ta Daru and gether in a bag, for what I cared. All breeding ewes that are being and wlnly doorways, There was nothing Hint I cared carried its over the winter should be and my little trading store. about, nothing that I knew, save drenched for parasites at least And now I have to relate when, that mad Instinct to boll off the once. Do not delay In this imand In what manner, enlightenment course and get away. portant operation. . , came. . . , we nan aone ainner, and were I had gone up to the Residency, That age and health of the animoving back Into the miscalled just on an afternoon whin there was mosquito room. I touched my host mal affect both the weight and something doing more than usual ; on the shoulder. strength of the fleece, as well as the R. M. (resident magistrate) was Is a fact careI lied, "but I've got a mutton production. "Sorry," back from a wild patrol beyond the considered by the wool growi u or fully nave touch to go lever; utmost rim of civilization or knowlThat cold may lead to something serious, if neglected.' er in culling his Hock. home. s edge; an A. U. M.an-- (assistant resiThe time to do something for is now. Don't wait most look "You do a sick, ofawfully dent magistrate) patrol Cattle that seem to have a cravuntil ficer happened to be "In" at the Black Sheep. Better get to bed; it develops into bronchitis. Take two or three something that they do not same time, and this was an occur- you might be going down with ing for tablets of Bayer Aspirin as soon as you feel a cold i get In their feed, may be helped rence so unusual ai to warrant, black water." the addition of a reliable min"Nijrht I" 1 said, and slipped by coming on. Or as soon as possible after fairly, a dinner party. Davit Bas-8etstarts. where they can eat what they the U. M.. a very good friend away. As I descended the veranda eral will at head off it or relieve of time. want Bayer the Aspirin any and ; aching had a voice sent the high of Spicer of mine, loud, prisoner to my steps, feverish feeling will stop the headache.. And if your was still holding forth. store with a note "Where Pigs do much better when on you have failed," he was telling "Dear Amory : throat is affected, dissolve two or three tablets m a "Come around to dinner if you Northanger and Purchase, who had pasture than In the dry lot. Hog ul to should quarter-glassfof warm water, and gargle. This pasraisers provide new to plan out enough country can. Northanger unu Purchase are mapped ture for hogs during the late fall soothes back. No particular food, but a deserve a dozen It. G. S. medals a sore throat and reduces inflammation quickly all of you given and early spring months as well as good deal of yarnlrg. Have yon "Where you have and infection. summer. Read nnd the was not In a man proven directions for neuralgia. ; spring the during way" (there an egg? If so, seird or bring It, room but had performed feats of for rheumatism and other aches and pains. Genuine under careful escort surprise, attack, capture among the Pigs cannot be farrowed to good Y)urs, Bayer Aspirin is harmless to the heart. wild cannibals of the interior, advantage every month In the year, V", "D. Bassett," In furnish to cau to a more dozen be farrowed but enough plots they I sent him all th eggs I could "I shall succeed; I and months than they usually are and muster. In Papua, jou must know, "movies") my chief. We shall plant the flag we can market them advantageouseggs are the test of popularity, the of the British Empiah where never ly In every month of the year. medium by which friendship, sers flag has waved before. We are orvility, hope, esteem, a'l find expres- ganized; prepared, for Failure to dock ewes tends to anything sion. You borrow rggs from pru- that may happen. What we expect prevent successful mating. Dockdent people; beg them from any ." ing may he done at once, with red-ho- t one who you think may be fool to find. . . BE Asniria is th trmds mark ot Bayer Usautsctor ot MoaomcsttcsdJssesr of 8alfcrUojda" CONTINUED) (TO It Is. of doclrfng pincers. enough to give; buy wbere yon can' to lambs besl dock when course, ' (but that is seldoCJ), present to but two or three weeks old. Key to Life your sweetheart, yonr chum, your CLEANSING s We know the that In secret of the friend hospital ; bring, with a world Is Acknowledged SOOTHING but exerthe who winter or months what servile grin, to th aian In high profound, During ANTISEPTIC position, the man wto has lent you shall be our interpreter, we know cise is as vital as the rutlon to the protection money, or can get you promotion. not A mountain rumble, a new stallion. A horse kept In a darkKggs. In Papua, are jhe true social style of face, a new person, may ened nnd unsanitary stall Is subject bad eggs, and put the key into our hands. Em- to many' Ills and will never have barometer. . . the strength and vitality necessary always gave Bassett some when he erson. to a breeding animal. asked for them. Bassett was R. M., nnd could be nseful to me; besides "Foreigner!" in Polynesia Hog cholera 'auses the greatest which, I liked him ; furthermore, on The Polynesians Imagine that the this occasion, I was going to he sky descends nt the horizon and loss among hogs of any of the conasked to eat the eggs, or help to do encloses the earth. tagious diseases. Probably 00 per Hence they cent of the hogs that die after they so. call foreigners "papnlangl," or " as having broken are full grown, die from this disFollowing my eggs, I went tip to Chmmimml Prin2Se. tHmwn Pattar Dtmm ease. It may be prevented by Several men. like In from another worldutslde. the Resldeucy. CmpmmWo. M.M.O. tUm . 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