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Show 1 LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHl UTAH ui r th Copma-- over porch between like down at SYNOPSIS la 1?85 Saul Pattern of Virginia cam la to tba beautiful virgin country of the Big Handr valley In Kentucky. Chief f the perlla were tbe Shawoeea, who ought to hold tbeir lands from the whites. From a huge pinnacle Saul gased upon tbe fat bot-In toms and tba endless acres of forest Ita primeval quietude at the mouth of the Wolfpen, and felt an eagerness to possess It, declaring it a place Bt for a auan to LIVK in! Five yeara later be d returned with Barton, bis aon, and built a rude cabin. In Baul'a absence the Indiana attacked Barton and wounded him o badly Haul waa forced to return with him to Virginia. In ITS, when It waa reasonably are, Saul returned with his family and patent for 4.000 acrea, thia time to tay. Be added to the cabin, planted cropa and fattened his stock on the rich meadow. Boon other settlera arrived. A century later. In the spring of 185, we find Cynthia Pattern, of the fifth on generation following Haul, perched tba pinnacle from which her great-greviewed grandfather had first Wolfpen Bottoms. The valleys, heretofore untouched by the wavea of change weeping the Republic, are at last beginning to feel that restless surge. Her ad, fiparrel, and ber brothers. Jesse, d Jasper and Abral, convert the old mill to steam power. Cynthia feels that something out of the past has been burled with Saul. Cynthia Is pretty and Imaginative miss In her Baul late teens, who often and her other forbears, and fancied them still living. Sparrel proudly brings home the first meal out of tha team mill, and Julia, his wife, Is Generation after generation pleaaed. has added comforts and conveniences to Saul's homestead, and Sparrel has not blrked. Tha family goea easily Into the work of tha new season, due to the simplicity of Ufa designed long ago on tha Wolfpen. Joy la abundant Jesse plana to study law. A stranger, Shellenberger by name, comes to Wolfpen, Intent on buying timber land. Sparrel refuses his offer. Shellenberger tells of progress In tha outside world. With tha advent of Shellenberger some Intangible disturbing alteration seema to affect the atmosphera of Wolfpen. Sparrel decides to sell timber land to Jesse arranges to study law with Tandy Morgan. flfteen-jrear-el- at water-wheele- r. ! 1 1 "I've seen a plenty, and a whole lot score than anybody can see alt at one time. But I'll look at It some more when I'm busy around the house. A body lias to look In as well as out to ee things." Doug looked out at her In the Incomprehension he so often regarded her with, and then shifted bis eyes to the mule, patting her neck. "I just didn't allow to see you down ' here," he said. "Well, anyway 1 ought to be getting back. I didn't think about It being so far along Into the evening.- - Daddy and will be getting in about dark." She arose from the roots and stepped out Into the path where the sun caught the pink In her cheeks and the luster in her black hair, and Doug's eyes were frankly upon her. "Is Sparrel over at town?" "Yes, early this morning." "I wanted to see him. Ma's got tier pains around her heart again, she says, and she's right poorly, again this evening. She needs some of Sparrel's medicine." "I don't know whether he's got any or not, but Mother knows, and Daddy ptiE-ale- d the-boy- s Mi 4 "I guess your mother'!! like that." "I reckon she will, but I wasn't just thluklng of ber by herself," and he waa full of surprise at bearing himself say a thing he didn't know be was going to say. Doug was twenty. He had lived all bis years on tbe Mason place Joining Sparrel Pattern on one aide of Cannon. Cynthia saw tbe flush on bis face without turning to look toward nlm. She made no answer but to continue to walk easily by his side on tbe edge of Long Bottom. "I've got something nobody knows about, and I've a mind to tell you what It Is." "I won't have any talk on It, Doug, if you want to tell me." "I got a big 'seng patch set out and they're coming up, hundreds of them. I went out and gathered up seeds out of the berries last fall and planted them in that open spot at the head of Buzzard. I ought to hare a sight of money out of them If the price stays up till the drover comes. "I'm proud you thought of raising It instead of going all over tbe hills hunting for it." Doug threw the bridle reins over a paling, and then walked on through the barn-lo- t by Cynthia's side. They went through the gate by the well into the yard. Julia was coming around the house wearing her great calmness which seemed to partake of the timeless alteration of evening and morning In this valley surrounded and protected by thick acres of trees. She greeted Doug with a soft kindness and inquired of his mother. "I'll Just aec If I can't find some of Sparrel's medicine for ber," she said. room behind In the small pantry-likthe kitchen where Sparrel kept some of his pharmacy, she found a bottle of brown medicine smelling pungently of sassafras and foxglove and marked In Sparrel's neat penmanship, "Dropsy thia spring," Cynthia said. Jesse was startled at tbe sound of her voice and almost dropped the Blackstone. "I was Just reading a page or two of law. The Flnemare's dled for you." I saw. Much obliged to you, Jesse, for doing It. You looked like It was right hard reading." "It Is awful bard some places, and I got to hunt up lots of words In Dad's dictionary. See here now : This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, la of course superior In obligation to any other.' What is 'coeval'? Do you know?" "Not If It don't mean as evil as man kind." "No, It couldn't be that That would make the law be evil, don't you see? And then It aays In order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each Individual.' Wonder what an Individual's 'exigencies' are?" "I don't know, Jesse. That's hard. But lawyers have to know lots of big : She Was Moved by the Eagerness in His Eyes and the Pleading in His Voice. words about simple things. You'll have to ask Tandy Morgan. But it Is nice you're reading about It Do you know when the surveyors are coming?" "Just any time now." Jesse laid the book on the shelf above the saddle rack and went with Cynthia to the shed to unhitch the Flnemare. Cynthia arranged herself on side-the red and green carpet-coveresaddle, her right knee In the leather rest, and her full blue homespun skirt spread carefully over her feet. Jesse handed her the basket and opened the gate. "Are you going to see Sarah Mason or Doug?" Jesse asked, lifting his eyebrows. "I'm taking medicine to Sarah, and I reckon he'll be out In a hollow plowing like a body ought to be on a day like this." Cynthia said, riding off. She rode smoothly in rhythm with the movement of the Flnemare, down Wolfpen and Into Uannon Creek at the ford, listening to the liquid sounds of the horse hoofs against the boultlers under the water, feeling the uiare stretch out her neck and nose to gain freedom from the bridle to drink at leisure under the shadow of the Pinnacle. The Mason place wms Just off the road behfnd a weathered paling fence. Cynthia left the Flnemare under the elm tree by the gate. The yard was full of chickens. She found Sarah on the back porch which connected the old house wltb the summer kitchen. The floor was laid but the roof was .. unfinished.' ,f "Oh. for land's sukes. It's you, Cynthia." Sarah began, painfully drawing her bare and swollen ankles under her faded dress. She wus a heavy woman, and her flabby face was lined With work and suffering. Her agitation and distress .at,. the mere sight of a kind neighbor bearing gifts of medicine and. fresh wheat bread sent a twist through stomach and she suffered with her. "Law, Cynthia, I'm that glad to gee you I have to cry.. Why, It's been months since I saw you, hain't It and I can't get out any more and Hes- sie naa to go over to help out at a spell and Doug's head over heels In, work and everybody's' tuny with the plantlngand I can't get around to, dd. anything W see Anybody. and I get scr lonesome some days. And I get to thinking about Urier dropping dead In the oats patch It's five year come July and wondering why the good Lord wllled lt that way. It's been hard alKce'ilit-- "with, vote down aniTall, but' lyntnia went oown to the barn. The Doug took right a hold Just like he Flnemar tWy brushed and curried was a man and not a fifteen-year-olwas alreadyMdiliod and, waiting under boy aid he's done fine. He'll go for hed stile block. She gt tJulia1i wheat bread ; we don't have r,ti on tha step and went Into none In the house'. How's Julia and 'theipasket the barn to look for Jesse. She found all the folks and how's her flowers this him In the harness-rooastride a sad- year? It's been an early spring and dle on a wooden frame by the open not much danger of mSre frost la window bending, over hla 'law book there?" Sarah paused to wipe tbe Inst of her frepped against' the pommel of the saddle. tears. Cynthia put from ber mind the "This Is the way we farm on Wolf- - thought of deformity and pain, and d d 1. 7 n .AV-- I-- -- i Wa 0 life I ;.f v.. I ;' ' "Thera Ain't Nobody Tha re Mer Rlcht Now." f a ? ' i. will be along rood. Come on np to the house and wait and ent with as." "'don't reckon I can dot thai. lU haveto be getting back. There ain't noboly there wltb her right now." They walked op the path together, leading his animal. "l'ou folks abttut got all your crop lot" Doug asked. "They're about all In now, I guess. How are your, crops r f tie lower part of BuMardio.! 'tRot put In yet and some late melons, down, by the barn there by the creek." They went through the gate Into the lower orchard and Doug closed It "I'm getting things up and In. pretty good shape again around the plow." Doug said. "I'm figuring on a new kitchen back of the bouse and a corered- i 'I V i 1 A W 1th - " Hoover Service W.V'U 1 - jr- JT Sarah looked into the lonely heart of quesof the one selected Mason, flie "Her compassion, with said and tions, How this year. fine looks just garden now?" is Klley gelling along of But 'die did not bear the story Bt.'umeb trouble since the last was gazing across baby was born. She own reflection. her following the yard, -and bending is awful long The grass over and needs a sickle In it Sarah Mason asked about Mother's flowers she's not able to plant any. The garden looks bare. The meadow is pretty the way it goes past mr and down to the creek. The Mason place always smells musty, somehow, like it wasn't happy In Its life. It's not Just because Grier Mason nor Doug never built a mill or a brick kiln or a loom dyeing vat or a smooth linlshed one for their women. "It's Just the way place differs from another the way people do. Maybe Grier Mason dropping dead cradling oats and Sarah full of misery and Elley's trouble and Doug bard working got settled In down here and won't leave. I don't think I could ever marry Doug and come to this place to live. Maybe if I actually loved him. He'll make a tine place, but It seems like It squeezes some good part clean out of a body, even just sitting I must be listening to here In the Sarah when she's talking to me." "A body has to bear what's put upon them. He knows what's best for us. Doug's been making this porch hi the evenings. He's such a good boy." She dabbed her eyes. "Did the medicine help you any?" Cynthia asked. "It helps a sight. I don't know what we'd do on this creek if we didn't have Sparrel to look after us." "Mother said tell you If there was anything she could do." She got up and put the empty basket over her arm. "Much obliged. You're not going back a'ready, Cynthia, so soon?" T ought to get back now." "Doug," he'll be put out to hear you've been here and him not see you. He thinks a sight of you. Cynthia, and that's plain." "I just rode down a minute to see hoV you were and bring the medicine." Cynthia listened politely for a time to the urgings of Sarah Mason, and when she could she said a final good by. The soft thump of the horse's hoofs In the moist earth soon established a new rhythm In her soul and she emerged from the feeling of oppression which had engulfed her before the pained and weeping face of Sarah Mason. Doug was watering' his mules In a little pool In the branch at the mouth of Buzzard Hollow. In a flush of Joy he called out to Cynthia. His voice took form slowly and waited an instant before she could recognize it as something outside of her own thought. "Why, howdy, "Doug." "Where you been down our way?" "To your house to lake some things to your mother." "You don't need to be rushing right back so soon." "I guess I'll have to be getting back ihus ... d "I all sad- pains.4, "You better stay and eat with us," Julia said. "Sparrel and the boys'll be along soon now, and Abral's out milk. ing." "I don't guess I can tonight. I ought to be getting back now." "Well, you be sure and let us know how your mother gets along, and I'll tell Sparrel when he conies." "I'm sure much obliged to you all," Doug said. Lingering at the gate, Cynthia watched the evening absorb him as the morning had effaced Sparrel and taken away Jesse, and she felt that the day had been long and disturbingly strange. She watered the sheep, tasting the difference In the atmosphere of the place as the restlessness of evening surged over all things with the portent of night with its quiet and Its restoration. Then she went back to the kitchen to help with the supper. When Cynthia heard through the dusk the steps of Abral as he went Into thev spring house with the milk, and then the sound of Sparrel and the boys on the porch, she began to feel that the balance was almost restored as before. But as she Iny that night thinking over the day and its moods, and of the brief account of Sparrel's meeting with Shellenberger and their plans for surveying the place, she knew that all was not quite as before. And as she fell asleep she heard the restless voice of the disturbed tlmberland sighing over the leaves of the forests and running down Into the roots and hiding there and the twisted between the sand. The days that followed Sparrel's Journey to town were tense, and the peace and quiet of the familiar routine were Interrupted by an unfamiliar consciousness of suspense. Cynthia felt It acutely as she with a shuttle sat In the weaving-rooof thread In her lap going over the brief account Sparrel and the boys had given of their day In IMkevllle. "It has made a dlerence In everybody, seems like. Daddy tries to be Just the same but you can see It on his mind. Jasper is thinking about Jane Burden all right, but he won't ever say anything to anybody. Abral Is nervous and wants the strange men to hurry and come In here. Jesse Is all wrapped up In his law book and puzzling all the time over the . hard words. Mother In her garden tapping spends-hour- s the earth with her hoe and not showing that anything Is any different, but that ,1s .her way and she makes everything seem all right as It is. I'll be right glad when Daddy gets his herbs mixed op for me to take down to Masons' and feel the Flnemare move under my legs." 4u'l frtaevd two loaVes of hei tri& 'ly'trhketf wheat bremVIa thAWmftd basket and Sparrel put In a large bottle of hla compound. "And tell her If she needs anvthlna leaf-mol- j a pt-- e Ueart CHAPTER VI Continued I L&ul LTli By HARLAN HATCHER C. Iwbba-kUm-J WIL ? n r'.'j!i fv Spoon Bread cupful of cornmeal si white or yellow 1 cupful of sweet milk 2 cupfuls boiling water 1 or 2 eggs Butter size of a walnut 1 teaspoonful of salt the meal in a" c,,ULCPa Put " . W luiu uuuuig waier on it, u," the salt and butter while cotfo Cook this for five minuteTS stir constantly. Remove fcJ stove and add, stirring the iS ture, the milk and the eggs (whiJ should have been well beatel Bake in moderate oven for Zrl utes. Use shallow pans. The ait tion of rice about two tablespo& fuls will greatly improve & 1 the pale olive plumules springout of their forked roots vigorously ing a and crowding passage into the opper pos-- d did you "They're fine plants. When make it';" -Lat fall. It's too wet and shady Idea for corn anyway, so I just got the a to plant seng berry seeds. I'll make off of this patch." be of money sight said with confidence. Jr' Cynthia's eyes wandered over the lovely spot and then turned upon Doug leg-restanding with his hand on the of l.er saddle. "I hoe you do. It's getting right scarce in the hills." "If I can make me some ready money I want to ask you something. Cynthia." "It's a good bed. I must be getting back uow. I hope your mother gets all right." "It ain't that so much. You don't know bw It is with all your folks up on Volfen to work all by yourself all the time. It's nice to see you and have you look at my patch and not anybody else know about it. it's fine and I won't make any men . fceanT bread. Copyright. WNU Servics. Foreign Words and Phrases Ad libitum. (L.) At willmuch as one pleases. Bambino. (It. A little w more especially the Christ ch& tion of It." Cela va sans dire. (F.) Ths She turned awav and they went back goes without saying; it is obvious. down the hollow. She mounted the sadDesunt caetera. (L.) The rests dle from a fallen willow. Doug handed the citation is wanting; her the basket, and she smoothed her - . skirt over her legs, adjusting her knee in the rest, thinking: "He looks up at me nearly as sad eyed as Sarah, but 1 dont feel anything only sorry and I wish I was already gone now for there isn't anything o say to him staring up like that." "I must go. You coirr when you Salus populi suprema est lei (L.) The welfare of the people i the supreme law. (Motto of Mi souri.) Laudator temporis actl (L! One who praises bygone times. Naivete. (F.) Native simplicity Rara avis. (L.) A rare bird, t can." will. You come back." The Finemare stepped Impatiently off in a running walk which carried Cynthia quickly and without Jostle up Uannon toward Wolfpen while Doug followed after her with bis eyes, seeing the blue dress vibrating over her arched knee long after she was gone. "1 Philippine Government On November 14. 1935, a pnx-- l lamation certifying the freedom! of the Philippine Islands and election of officials chosen by bat; lot in the islands on September 17 was signed by President Roost velt a few minutes after noon. CHAPTER VII Manila occurred the inaugural ceremonies for President Manuel The days passed but everybody conQuezon on the steps of the Legs I tinued to be restless. Julia had caught lature building. The island with the f A: gor-- her garden now, and even she CllllllCllb In ....v. w. jta 4inl 13 11U W 111 lia Llioi rn"'i traw. wa.. affected beneath her outward calm. with a president and a republics: j At the supper table she said casually: form of government. "I've a mind to go over to Jenny's tomorrow and stay all night The men will be coming In soon and we'll be tied down a right smart while they're here." "That's so, Julia," Sparrel said. "Somebody ought to go over there." In the early morning Sparrel handed her into the saddle, and the boys opened the gate, watching herride. Cynthia waved farewell from the yard. "It seems the- - natural way of things for menfolk to be going away somewhere. But when Mother ever goes off by herself, Daddy and the MENTHOL COUGH DROPS 5 boys look HELP BALANCE YOUR glum all day. I'd like to ride as straight and easy on a as Mother ALKALINE RESERVE can. She doe- everything quiet and WHEN YOU HAVE A COlO! easy but I get hot and hurried." Julia's absences from the place were so infreiiuent that the house, the yard. up LUDE rrs side-saddl- e this time." Doug had left his mules to drink and had come down to the road. Cynthia observed that his face was older than years, and already heavily lie was barefoot He rubbed the nose of the Flnemare. "She's a beautybe said. "How you getting on with your plowing?" Cynthia asked. "I got all the low bottoms done now." He was captivated by her as she sat above him on the side of the Fineniare, her knee pushing out the blue twill of her skirt which spread neatly to the tip of her shoe in the stirrup, the round basket 66 her left arm, her dark hair lustrous under the straw hat, her pink skin glowing under; her eyes. "You're about the purtiest thing I ever saw on a horse. Cynthia," he said twenty tanned, you suffer burning, scanty frequent urination; bacMOKi headache, dimness, loss ot vmii rjultintti l. pallia, ,u,.ll:nn r: smelling under the eyes? Are you tired, ncri ous fee! all unstrung end know what is wrong? ' Then give some thought to kidneys. Be sure they function prop ly for functional kidney mils excess waste to slay in the blow, and to poison and upset the ' ' . system. Use Doan'i Pills. Doan'i are faJJ kidneys only. They are recommen the world over. You can t the jjw Doan's A any wi d uine, ? " store. DO aJ ly V disfPj - time-teste- Very simply. "Why, Doug, yon mustn't say any such a thing." "I want to show you that 'seng bed I told you about.. It's just a little step. You don't even have to get down. It's right. around the. bend." . Slie wajs moved by the eagerness In his eyes and the pleading in his voice "Well, Just for a minute. I must be getting buck." She slid lightly from the saddle The mules had finished drinking. Doug slapped one of them on the rump, urgt ing it out of the path. Doug led Cynthia and the Flnemare up Buzzard to his seng bed. "There It Is," be said with It lay like a still poo! hMh'epride. head of th( hollow, a flat place abrupt at the feet of Ihevsteep. hills .which dosed in upon It In the shape of a Horseshoe. A thread of yvnter dripped over a green rock cliff from ,the. upper reaches of the gully. It trlcklea around th. Uie of, 'seng patch Jnt branch and the hollow. nun reeK. tiazel bushes, laurel nd spicewood shrubs were tmYk r..., . JtS - eil.'CS. Thn .i.l. v""" moKgy ioam y n.,u balsam and ground pine on the mountains were tossed slopes of by a light wind in the bowl of together the hollow and lay heavy on the air. Cynthia gave a little cry of surprise. a "It's purty place. Doug." "They're sprouting fine. Look " He raked away the leaves and ex- - WNU SALT . Julia Had Caught .the. , Up With Her Gar. den Now. , jiurden all nrpSlrl' n- H if - w HOSTELM LAKE'S-NEWE- Our lobby U delightfully cooled during tbe summer monuv Radio for Every Room , 200 Rooma200 Bath Theduy was hot and sultry. 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