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Show THE PAGE SIX USELESS COWBOY Le MAY talan WNU StflVlCt - THE STORY THUS FAR: Melody Jones and hii side-ride- r George Fury, in crossing the plains near tbe border took the wrong trail and ended In Paynevllle, A cow town, where the wagon route west from Diamond Forks to California crossed the river. Fury hit the first bar, while Melody wandered down the street, his eyes on the first white woman he had seen for ages. Two men were standing In front of the general store, one whistled at the girl. In a flare of temper Melody knocked the whistler down. Melody was more surprised than the stranger, and helping the man up asked him "How come, your foot slip?" Melody then entered the general store to buy food. for. He decided that they were. At worst, the cooking at the jail ought to compare favorably to George Fury's. "One can peaches," Melody went on, "one can pork beans, one can pears, one can plum pudding, and another can tomaters." "Yes, sir!" Peter Abajian moved with alacrity now, but kept his hands fluttering in view. "All in a nice gunny seek, maybe?" "Eat 'em here." Sitting on the counter, eating his cool wet canned goods, Melody Jones tried to fit himself into a world that was like a dream. A slouching cowboy with a saddened, sandy mustache came in and CHAPTER II pawed around In a box of harness He kept In the brief seconds while he had buckles near the door. the fellow out of action, he was able sneaking glances at Melody over his to snatch a glance at the shorter shoulder. Then he realized that Melman. This other one had jumped ody was staring at him. He turned away from the wall, to be out of the suddenly confused, and pottered out line of fire. He was talking now, of there. "What the hell goes on here?" quick and low, through a tight throat, with lips that hardly moved. Melody said aloud. The storekeeper's hands started "Don't, Ira asy, Ira look out, up again, but he stopped them. He Ira" But while he talked to Ira he was smiled at Melody in a sickly way, looking at Melody Jones; and the without meeting his eye. It was time to face the issue. astounded fixity of his eyes was nothing like anybody had favored Melody supposed he ought to glare at the storekeeper, but he couldn't Jones with before. make it. He studied the side of his to the back Melody's eyes snapped man he was holding on to for the boot as he said. "How much?" The love of life, and they looked into words came out in a thin squeak, so each other's faces at a distance of that he had to try again; but he five inches and a half. At this range managed to get a good harsh growl Melody noticed for the first time that the second time. "Nothing!" The little storekeeper the man was crosseyed. "I didn't say nothing, or do noth- said instantly, even eagerly. "It's a pleasure. Nothing at all." ing," Ira said now. without any ex"Whut?" pression. "It's free," Peter Abajian said Suddenly Melody Jones realized he had hold of a man who was in fear quickly. "All free to a nice gentleman like you." of his life. Then Melody saw the girl again. Melody eased back, relaxing slowShe walked along the gallery of ly. Before he let go altogether he let his right hand fall on the butt of the store from the steps at the end. In the forward She passed the door very slowly, his own forty-fivin as she passed. There was pocket of his chaps, as If Just to looking rest his hfend. A fast man could till have got him handily, but probably wouldn't try. Looking steadily at each other the two edged apart with casual, furtive shufflings, circling a little, Ira toward the gallery steps. As the Inches between them increased, the man called Ira no longer appeared cross-eyehe looked competent again. "I'll stand a drink," he said. Slow thinking saved Melody, then. In a moment be would have said, "Whut? Whut did you say?" But as the seconds ticked away, and still nothing In Melody's head found Its way into words, time and tension were too much for the other man. "No offense," he said, with the dust heavy In his throat "Any time. Any time at all . . ." Melody surprised himself again. "Keep the slack out o' your rope, from here In," he said, his voice flat. "And don't whistle no tunes at other men's girls." Anger Jumped into the stranger's eyes, like a flash of gunpowder, scaring the living daylights out of Melody again. For one short moment he thought that the incredible miracle which had saved his life was about to run out. Over the door he saw the crude board sign that had been there long before slow prosperity built the wooden awning above it: Payne ville Melody jerked his bead around, Gen'l Store and the hands flew up again. Peter Abajiaa "So that's where I am . . ." He something both tense and lazy, very walked into the cool shadows within. proud, in her straight-kneestep. His shoulders rose stiffly as he Impossible to forget. He could see a vest cowhide down straw-dulhis were that flnger-curlthere l pulled vest with more than twenty cattle loose and carelessly kept, brands burned on it, showing where-a- ll down the sides of her face. But be had been. white blaze against the Deep back in the dim interior the of the street her face was in shadlittle proprietor put up his hands. ow. He couldn't see it at all. Peter Abajian was behind a counter, After putting Melody out of his and flanked by hangings of blue mind. George Fury rolled stiffly, Into the First Chance jeans, stable forks, dried stock-fish- , sheepskin coats, and Navajo saddle Bar. blankets. His round cheeks, always Inside the door he came to a stop apparently blown full of wind, shone with a waspish dignity, and gave the buffalo-horlike billiard balls. His conventional hitch to his breeches, mustache quivered, and his eyes while his eyes accustomed themwere like agates. selves to the shade. What be saw Melody looked at him curiously. was the usual barroom, with a He had never seen people act like stuffed squirrel at one end of the these people acted. His eyes left back bar and a stuffed owl at the the storekeeper to run along the other end: and the bar itself so batcanned-good- s shelves. He hadn't told tered and scraped down that it had the man to put his hands down, but a look. The oak foot-raafter a moment the corner of his was worn half through. eye caupht their wary motion as "Where am I?" George asked. two cowmen The looked they descended. Melody Jerked his at head around, and the hands few up George Fury; then, with considerable deliberation, they looked at again. He tried this several times more, each other, their faces unreadable experimentally making sure that he as sourdough bricks. Presently both was the one who controlled this looked at the bartender, who washed thing. He stole a Inok at the street, glasses In a bucket and minded his and saw that it was empty, And finally own business. they "One can tomaters." Melody said. turned to George again. Peter Ahajian set it out. and stood "This yere's Payneville." said watching Melody unhappily. Melody the man addressed, with constraint. was thinking. He knew he didn't George Fury took a deep breath, have any money. What blistered and his Adam's apple jumped. he snapped. Melody was that he had saved his "Painful," "What's money for nearly three years, planpainful?" "This yere Is." the other ssld. ning one macniflcent bust some day, and he had built up nearly seventy-SiGeorge looker! both men over with dollars. And then he had lost it anijry care. The guns they wore not In a card game, not in any looked their holsters . and He was achparticular way Just plainly lost it. out of his pocket or something, some ing for trouble, made irritable by place. He sr.d George Fury had ar- the dust in his throat and the gued many a mile over who had strangeness here. Hut George Fury seen It last, and what hap!ned to it. had a poor opinion of his gur.play. All they knew about It was that It Rheumatism In his (iiigers had made was gone. it as inept as Melody's own. month ef bean diet. Now, after So he only walkeo past them now. Melody was asking himself if canned but slowly, stiff - Irgaed, like a he said half goods wera worth getting in trouble bristling dog. d s, hoop-legge- sway-backe- d il x well-oile- well-soape- d well-used- " Thursday, June 7, 1915 NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- Bishop Learns Swearing And Pumping Has Meaning Kathleen Norris Says: llli , In the old days of sailing ships a bishop was crossing to America The vocabulary of sailors has al ways been a lurid one, and the swearing habits of the crew hurt the good bishop deeply, writes W. J. Brown in "So Far . . ." One night at his prayers, he was interrupted by a burst of profanity of The Other Woman's Child Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. STAGED SCREEN; RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE to himself, but in a tone of sarcastic insult. "Painful, is it?" "Right Payneville! " George Fury snorted like a jumped buck, but he knew he had said He took up a stand well enough. down the bar. "Forty-rod,- " he told the bartender. "From the bar'l with the snake-hai- d in it." The bartender set out bottle and glass with the relaxed impersonality of practice. "How long," he spoke to George Fury courteously, "how long you been in Payne?" George choked explosively in the middle of his first gulp. He slapped his glass down on the bar with such a ringing crack that the whisky jumped clean clear of the rim, then sloshed back in again. When George lost his temper his dialect changed, slipping back to the far hills of his youth. "Naow, yew his look yare!" he spluttered, voice up an octave. "If yew fellers cain't answer a civilus question yew anyways daon't need to git new! I don't aim to stand fer it!" The bartender looked at him tired-ly- . e He was used to men with nerves, drunken at that. He shrugged and went back to his glasses. A pale, heavy man, six feet tall in Comanche moccasins, had come forward from a back table. He stood looking at George with small eyes without eyebrows, from a distance of about a foot. And now as he stood there George Fury became aware that some new public affliction was building itself. Men were trickling into the First Chance by twos and threes. A dozen had wandered In; the bar was well filled. These men were cowmen, passing through or on the loaf, with townsa sprinkling of plains-bre- d men who looked about the same. And all these newcomers were interested in George Fury. informations ran along the bar, to everyone but George. Men looked him over, studying him with a strange candor he had never seen. Somebody slapped him hard on the shoulder, and a voice said, "Howdy, Roscoe!" George Fury turned his head slowly, his eyes alive with death; but the other had moved on. Another newcomer edged toward George along the bar. "Did you ever find out," he asked George confidentially, "just where the hell you are?" Once more George Fury choked on his drink, and rang the glass upon He whirled upon the the bar. stranger. d "I'll tell yew one thing, my friend!" he lashed out. "I T SEEMS unfortunate that so lovely a title as "Hold Autumn in Your Hand" had to be changed to "The South- more than ordinary color and intensity, and was moved to complain to the captain. The captain replied: " Bishop, you may not know it, but this ship has sprung a leak. Those men you can hear swearing are at the pumps. While they're pumping and swearing you can reckon you're all right! But if they stop pumping and start praying you can reckon it's all up!" erner," but perhaps that's a better title for this very realistic picture. Directed by Jan Renoir, it is beautifully phoScott tographed. Zachary excellent per- and Betty Field give formances as the young farmer and bis wife who are willing to endure terrific difficulties in order to live In the country and work for themselves. In fact, the whole cast is CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT Persons now engaged in essential industry will not apply without state' ment ot availability from their local Service. United States Employment civ-ilu- AUTOS , TRUCKS & ACC ESS. FDR sun-sor- Low-tone- "Austin will gradually be restored to normality if all causes of friction are removed from the domestic scene." By KATHLEEN NORRIS M In d "I was my husband's at the time A grumble of laughter, rising to a roar, swept the barroom. George Fury looked astounded. He had realized he had a keen wit, of course, very funny, but not this funny. As the laughter held up his anger died. He stuck his tongue in his cheek, winking largely, and the laughter increased. He spoke to them once more, when the laughter finally ebbed. "What air yew poop-head- s fled. He could not believe what he saw then. Outside, where his pony should have stood, was empty hitch-rail- . Men properly hang for laying hands on another man's horse. Now at last George Fury's gun whipped out. The door of the First Chance was full of people watching him. George let out the rebel long yell, and fired on them point blank. They ducked back, laughing still, without counteraction or resentment. George Fury's bullets went no place, as far as he could tell. No window broke, and no wood splintered. He might as well have fired straight up. Perhaps he would have gone in after them then. Perhaps he would have killed three or four of them while his lead lasted, and got himself shot down, and later hanged If he lived. But now Melody Jones was coming along the walk at his canter the only man in the West who could spring at an easy Stroll. Jones was hollering at him. George Fury pulled himself together and waited for reinforcements. "Tch. tch," said Melody Jones. "Drunk so soon. This here's dis- of his first wife's death, good-nature- long-legge- d graceful." "Them devils stole my eayuse," George Fury said. "I aim to clar the town, and give 'er fresh start, an' she needs It!" old "Nobody stole your moth-e- t hide." Melody told him. "I taken and stuck him In the livery corral. Time, too. The old goat ain't seen hay for so long, ha spooked at ft. Some night you're going to ask him to balance you out of this dump on his top. I want to see your face when you find him so empty he's flat In the road like a sack. In town, you gotta keep stuffin' a hoss. Or he comes unstuffed," Melody 1 A a f "He ouiwiu kit Hoc hart end sm. . . ." 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Austin will gradually be restored to normality if all causes of friction are removed from the domestic scene, and the easiest and quickest way to remove them is to surrender to his father full responsibility for David. Reduce yourself to an amiable onlooker. If David won't eat and won't go to school, don't even report it to Austin; let your husband see it for himself. Let the child sit up as late as he likes, always being amiable and kind, and wait for the first corrections to come from the man of the house. Let him play hookey until the teacher comes to complain. Ignore his affection of not having any appetite at meals, and reduce your relationship with him to amusing and affectionate companionship. Several other cases of exactly this type have come to my notice In the past few years; the prevalence of divorce of course has created many of them. In every case which I have known, this aloof, friendly, unconcerned attitude taken by the stepmother happily solved the problem for all concerned. In most cases the right school was found for the difficult child. "He's your son, Austin. I only want him to love me," is the unanswerable argument. side Manner," be Introduce two sew discoveries Claudia Drake, who made her picture debut when the was one, and ha done a few pictures since, and Rcnee Godfrey. beautiful model. The picture stars Both Hussey and John Carroll, Europe Needs Our Old Clothes Millions of people in areas are In urgent need not only of food but of clothing. Until factories can be set up in these nations, we in this one country thai has not suffered devastation must give of our surplus. Infants' garments, particularly knit goods are urgently needed, as well as serviceable blankets and quilts. It Is suggested that pieces of matching cloth and spool of thread be Included with garments whenever possible. 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Unstrung, he rang a silver dollar on the bar and got out of there, while that Insane, unaccountable laughter still rang, beating him about the ears as he said. came and we had discovered a deep affection for each other. This was, however, kept completely under control I am telling you the exact truth when I say that, after the one first talk when we admitted our feelings, not one word or look passed between us that could be criticized. His wife was a delicate and nervous woman, and whether she actually took an overdose of sleeping tablets, or whether a normal dose was too much for a weak heart, never was ascertained. The coroner called it death from accidental causes. A few months later Austin and I were married, little David accepting his new mother very placidly. "Then Austin went off to war and Deirdre was born a lovely, d little girl and I lived very quietly during the first war years, I managing to do part-tim- e work, and to clear the mortgage from our little home and Austin's mother living with us and managing house and children. She has now gone to live with a daughter. Unmanageable David. "There was the usual rejoicing when Austin returned, and he was fortunately able to assume his old work at an even higher salary, so that we could be quite comfortable if it were not for David, now nearly seven. He Is a strange, unmanageable little boy, with something uncanny In his instinct for annoying and outwitting his teachers and myself. I seem to be eternally correcting him, or complaining of him, a position In which I hate to. find myself. I've always liked children, and for our two I've always tried to plan intelligently, forgiving much, not hearing impudence, not forcing Issues, substituting the pleasant positive for the disagreeable negative when I could. "Austin criticizes my attitude toward David. Austin has come back In a nervous, irritable mood hard to endure, but it Is mostly where David Is concerned that the trouble arises. David will not eat his dinner, do his homework, go to bed. take his bath when I ask him to. I try d coaxing, give him five more minutes, remind that he can float his submarine in the bath, cook what he likes. He will never cooperate, and Austin blames me, and sides with the child. To make It worse, my husband reverts to the past, thinks that perhaps Elsie did kill herself, perhaps she discovered the affection between us, perhaps he was the real cause of her death. "All this has turned our home into a place of discomfort, petty quarrels, carping, nerves. I want to do my duty by all three, but when I see Austin spoiled and good little Deirdre Ignored, when I hear noth- - pain!" whistle-britche- d HUSBAND back from air service in England three months ago," writes Margaret Jones from Canada. "He was four years in active duty and eleven months in a hospital. His injury was cranial, and is entirely cured. When he left, his son by a previous marriage, David, was two years old, and I was expecting my first baby. owl-nose- ain't BETTY FIELD ' RUBBER and PAPER ECONOMICAL! Cinder Block fo fire-pro- termite . proof, perm ivrol. loiil for ho hi cooM, dairy honm, ete. j. Available. d any quantity, Tl)bU-a4:U.H!- Dinah Shore and Joan Edwards are all set to embark on concert tours, thanks to their radio popular- ity. Dinah will have Raymond Ecott's orchestra, and cover five cities; Joan, who'll play piano solos as well as sing, visits eight between "Hit Parade" programs. 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