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Show Murray Eale. Murray. Utah They're There CIMARRON By Edna Ferber CbpyrijrM by Sda b It JI his question. As though by magU the group dispersed, faded, van lshed. Yancer Cravat, Just returned Yancey strolled out Into the glarom ihe newly opened Indian terIn ing sunshine of I'awhuska avenue. 'tfltory where he participated Hie Bun over the border, relates Indians, Mexicans, cowboys, solid adventures to a fathering la ofa citizens lounged In whatever ot Yancey family. Venable Jia Xlmlnal lawyer, editor of the shade could be found In the hot, dry, dusty street. On the corner of 'Wichita Wigwam, and husbandRun stood Fete Pltchlyn talking to the libra Cravat. When the Spaniard, Estevan Miro. They were Yancey raced hia pony Started, the thoroughbred mount the gossips of the town, these two. This Yancey knew. News not only mi a girl. The thoroughbred broke of the town, but of the Territory .v,0 legs and when Yancey stopped d shoot It, the girl grabbed bis not alone of the Territory but ot Sony and beat him to the land he the whole brilliant burning Southanted. Yancey, with his wife and west, from Texas through New son, Cimarron, start Mexico Into 'lor Arizona, - sieved the Oklahoma country. They '' arrive at Osage, where Yancey through this pair. Miro not only to start a newspaper. knew; he sold his knowledge. The JTtends he can handle a gun. Spaniard was very quiet, and his the for publication leparatlons movements appeared slow because the Wigwam are completed. of their feline grace. Eternally he rolled cigarettes In the cowboy I CHAPTER III Continued fashion, with exquisite deftness. -7- Pete Pitchlyn, famous Indian see.' J one dreadful sickening scout of a bygone day, had grown Iron ded something closed with now that and (i;iers around Sabra Cravat's the Indians wereflabby, rotting on their fttiirt and squeezed It, and It ceased reservations and there was no more White faced, her dark work bent. for him to do. He was a vast ewes searched her husband's face. fellow, his height of six feet three Wichita whispers. Kansas slander. now Late by his bulk. all was exaltation, In bis balanced f But that face a scout career as hazardous and Jke the face of an evangelist, on the plains Pitchlyn bad been i pure. His eyes were glowing. shot In the left heel by a poisoned relaxed. Iron fingers ; flie Indian arrow. It was thought he j "But Pegler. The men who killed would surely die. This fulling, It so much are tbey fegier. " Why was then thought he would lose I worse that leg. But a combination of un hired by limited t "Skunks. Dirty Jackals whisky, a constitution made ? politicians." of chilled steel, and a determina i "But why? Why?" tion varmints should that those ) "Because Pegler had the same never kill him, somehow caused i Idea I have that here's a chance him not only to live but to keep f to start clean, right from scratch, the leg clinging to t Live and let live. Clean politics his carcass. Stubbornly be had I all Instead of the skulduggery to have It amputated, and t ground; a new way of living and refused a miracle It bad failed to send by a J ef thinking, because we've had Its through the rest of that chnnce to see how rotten and nar- iron poison frame. But the leg bad withrow and bigoted the other way has ered and shrunk until now It was Aeen. Here everything's fresh. It's twelve Inches shorter than nil to do, and we can do It There's fully the sound limb. He refused to use In It cance a the like been "sever crutches or the clumsy mechanical Iworld. We can make a model era- Fir? out of this Oklahoma country, with nil the mistakes of the other pioneers to profit by, New Eng- - THE STORY 'jour-year-o- ld "f d 5 ft ' F Sjrhlte-livere- d f l Sad in i poison-ravage- d - F i I f 1 I ' ' r 1 lurid, and California, and the set;tlers of the Middle West It got 'janay from them, and they fell Into 'the rut. Ugly politics. ugly towns, lie ucly buildings, ugly minds.' was off again. Sabra, ail Impatience, ' stooped lilm. "But I'egler. What's that got to lo with I'egler?" She hated the jianie. She hnted the dead man who was stalking their new life - tnat one copy of his paI per. He called It the New Day poor devil. And In It he named jtiames, and he outlined a policy land a belief something like well nlotiR the lines I've tried to explain to you. lie accused the government of robbing the Indians. He accused the settlers of cheating them." Oh, my heavens, Yancey! Indians You and your miserable dirty Indians! You're always going on about them as If they mattered ! The sooner they're all dead I j the better. What good are they? "Well, Boys, What Do you Know?" inny, mieving, lazy things. i.ncy won't work. You've said so your- devices of the day, and got about self. They Just squat there, rot- with astonishing speed and agility ting.' When he stood on the sound leg lie "I've tried to explain to yon. was, with his magnificent breadth Yancey began, gently, "White men of shoulders, a giant of six feet can't do those things to a hel- three But occasionally the sound pless" leg tired, and be would rest It by "And so they killed him I" Sabra slumping for a moment on the cried. Irrelevantly. "And they'll other. He then became a runt ot kill you. too. Oh, Yancey please Ove feet high. please I don't want to be a These two specimens of the I thought I did. Southwest It was that Yancey now pioneer woman. but I don't t can't make things bis step a saunter, bis different I liked them as they approached, manner carefree, even bland. Al were. Comfortable and safe, 11 most Imperceptibly the two seemed them alone. 1 don't want to live to stiffen, as though bracing them J In a model empire. Darling! Dart-In- s selves for action. In the old scout I Just mnke It a town It evidenced In bis sudden like Wichita . . . wltb trees . . . emergence from lounging cripple to not and people being sociable stutuesque giant In the Spaniard killing each other all the time y ou sensed, rather than saw, only a 1 chnrrb on a school for curiously rippling motion of the Sunday i Clm. . . muscles beneath the amooth tawny The face she adored was a mask. skin, like a snake that glides be The ocean gray eyes were elate-Rni- fore It really moves to go. now. with the look she had Tbey stood, the three, wary, siand dreaded cold, deter lent Yancey balanced Bayly from mined, relentless. shining boot toe to blgtt heel and "All right oo back there. Go back again. hflcU to your trees and your Yancry put tha eternal qnestlon churches and your sidewalks and of the Inquiring reporter. "Well, J'otir Sunday roast beet and your boys, what do you know?" lint not 'mug. dead alive family, The two were braced for a query '"el Me, I'm staying here. And less airy. Their faces relaxed In "hen I find the man who kilted an expression resembling disapPegler I'll face him with It, and pointment It was as when gunIII publish nls name, and If he's fire falls to explode. The Spaniard alive by then I'll bring him to Jus his shoulders, a protean tle and I'll see him strung op on shrugged gesture Intended oo this occasion fee. If don't It'll be because to convey to the beholder the utI'm not alive myself." ter Innocence and onevent fulness "Oh. 0 dT whimpered Sabra. of the daily existence led by Esml sank, a limp bundle of misery, tevan Miro. Peter Pltchlyn'a eyes, 'mo his arms. But those arms In that ravaged face, were coals In 're. suddenly, no haven, no shel an asb heap. It was not for him t'T. He put ner from him. gently to be seen talking on the street hut with Iron firmness, and walked corner wltb the man who was askut ot the house, through the news ing a fatal quesllon fatal not only paper office, down the broad and to the asker but to the one who mister red road. should be foolhardy enough to answer It He knew Yancey, admired CHAPTER IV him, wished him well. Yet there was little be dared any now before VANCE the reptilian Miro. Yancey conttn his question wher pnt 1 ever tie came upon a tittle ued. conversationally: "I understand there's an element P'oup of three or four lounging on saloon or store porch or street rarln' around town bracking that the corner. "How did I'egler com to they're olng to make die?" The frtect of the question terror of the Southwest like Abiold inys was the same, tine minute lene and IMcf City In the I'm In they were standing sociably, gng dny; snd the i'lmarnm. conK'ping, rolling cigarettes; cltlmts tervlelng cltlrrns of note," ' ense In their shirt sleeves, tan tinued Yancey, blandly, "on wtieth-ethey think this town otiEht tt fey w.mlc, stroll lip wltb his light, rrnrehii step, his while sombrero he run oo Ihnt principle or on a with the two bullet holes In Its Socmtic one that the more modern He lifted In mind." "wn. nls Prime Albert, his fine element hasbead and turnrd his boots. He would ssk his great t saw D te tor vet Tt-r- k by ire Its-el- f the M-t- f m of he ... ... w-'- itb rd rW 0ge r rare gaze full on the little Span-larHis gray eyes, quizzical, mocking, met the black eyes, and the darker ones shifted. "Are you at all familiar with the works of Socrates 'Socrates . . . whom well lnsplr'd the oracle pronounced wisest of men'?" Again Estevan Miro shrugged. Thia time the gesture was exquisitely complicated In Its meaning, even for a low-clas- Spaniard. s Slight embarrassment was In it some bewilderment and a grain the merest tleck of something as nearly approaching contempt as was possible In him for a man whom he feared. "Yancey." said Pete Pitchlyn, deliberately, "stick to your lawy'n'." "Why?" citizens, three In number, de rlgueur In sombreros and called on Yancey with the amazing request that he conduct divine service the following Sun- day morning. Osage was over a month old. The women folks, they said, In effect thought It high time that some contact be established between the little town sprawled on the prairie and the Power supposedly gazing down upon it from beyond the brilliant steel-bludome suspended over It Beneath the calico and sunbonnets despised of Sabra on that first day of her coming to Osage there apparently glowed the same urge for convention, discipline, and the old order that so tired her to revolt She warmed toward them. She made up her mind that, once the paper had gone to press, she would don the black silk and the hat with the plumes and go calling on such of the wooden shacks as she knew had fostered this meeting. Then she recollected her mother's training and the stern commands of fashion. The sunbonnets had been residents of Osage before she had arrived. d have to call first. She got out a plaid silk tie for Clm. "Church meeting I" she exclaimed. Joyously. Here, at last was something familiar; something on which she could get a firm foothold In this quagmire. Yancey temporarily abandoned bis Journalistic mission tn order to make proper arrangements for Sunday's meeting. Born entrepreneur, he took hold with the enthusiasm that he always displayed in the first spurt of a new enterprise. Already news of the prospective meeting had spread by the mysterious means common to Isolated settlements. Nesters. homesteaders, rangers, cowboys for miles around somehow got wind of It Snddleswere polished, harnesses shlned, calicoes wnshed and Ironed, faces scrubbed. Church meeting. Yancey turned quite naturally to the one shelter tn the town adequate to the size of the crowd exIt was the gambling tent pected. that stood at the north end of Pawhuska avenue, flags waving gayly from Its top In the brisk Oklahoma wind. For the men It was the social center of Osage. Faro, stud poker, chuckaluck diverted, "Anybody's got the gift of gab like you have Is wastln' their time doin' anything else," "Oh, I wouldn't say that" Yan"Runcey replied, all modesty. ning a newspaper keeps me in touch with folks. I like It Besides, the law Isn't very remunerative in these parts. Running a newspaper's my way of earning a living. Of course," be continued brightly, as an afterthought "there have been times when running a newspaper has saved the editor the trouble of ever again having to earn a living." The faces of the two were blunk as a sponged slate. Suddenly "Come on, boys. Who killed Pegler?" Pete Pitchlyn vanished. Yancey and the Spaniard were left alone on the sunny street corner. The face of Miro now became strangeThe eyes were inky ly pinched. slits. He was summoning all bis little bravado, pulling It out of bis Inmost depths. "I know something. I have that to tell you," he said In Spanish, bis lips barely moving. Yancey replied In the Bame tongue, "Out With It" The Spaniard did not speak. The slits looked at Yancey. Yancey knew that already be must have been well paid by some one to show such temerity when his very vitals were gripped with fear. "You know something, b'm? Well, Miro, mas vale saber que haber." With which bit of philosophy he showed Miro what a westerner can do In the way of a shrug; and their minds from the stern busisauntered off. ness of citizenship anil saved them Miro leaped after hlra In one the trouble of counting their rendy noiseless bound, like a cat He cash on Saturday night. Sunday seemed now to be more afraid of was, of course, the great day In the not revealing that which he had gambling tent It was a question been paid to say than of saying It. whether the owner and dealer He spoke rapidly, In Spanish. "I would be willing to sacrifice any say only that which wus told to portion of Sunday's brisk trade for me. The words are not mine. the furtherance of the Lord's busiThey say, "Are you a friend of ness, even though the good will of I say, 'Yes.' the Yancey CravatT" townspeople was to be gained They sny then, "Tell your friend thereby. After all, he might arYancey Cravat that wisdom Is bet- gue, it was not this element that ter than wealth. If he does not kept a faro game going. keep bis d n moutb shut he will Yancey, because of his profesdie," The words are not mine." sional position and his well known "Thanks." replied Yancey, power to charm, was delegated to thoughtfully, speaking In English confer with that citizen du monde. now. Then with one One white Mr. Grat Gotch. better known as hand he reached out swiftly and Arkansas Grat proprietor and gave MIro's scarlet neckerchief a dealer of the gambling tent A litquick strong Jerk and twist The tle plump man. Grat with a round gesture was at once an Insult and and smiling countenance, strangely a threat "Tell them" Suddenunllned. He looked like an old ly Yancey stopped. He opened his baby. Issued and there from It a mouth, Yancey ordered his drink and In sound so dreadful, so unearthly as tiled Gotch to have one with him. to frrere the blood of any within Over the whisky Yancey put bis It was a sound between case, benrlng. the gobble of an angry turkey "Listen, Grat The women folks cock and the howl of a coyote. have got It Into their heruls that Throughout .he Southwest It was there ought to be a church service known that this terrible sound, Sunday, now that Osage Is over a fumed as the gobble, was Cherokee a In origin and death cry among It was the Territory Indians. known, too, that whrn an Indian gobbled It meant sudden destruction to any or all In bis path. The Spaniard's face went a curious dough gray. With a whimper be ran. a streak of purple and scarlet and brown, round the corner of the nearest shack, and vanished. Unfortunately, Yancey could not They-woul- resist the temptation of dilating to Snbra on this dramatic triumph. The story was. furthermore, told In the presence ot Clm and Isaiah, and Illustrated before Sabra could prevent It with a magnificent rengobdering of the ble. They were aented at nooday dinner. Sabra fork, balfwsy to her mouth, fell clattering on her Her plute. Her face blanched. appetite as gone. It was all like a nightmarish game, ane thought The shooting, the carousing, the brawls and high alienations; the sounds of laugh-te- r and ribaldry and drinking and Song that Issued from the flimsy cardboard false front sharks that lined the preposterous street Steadfastly She refused to believe that this was to be the accepted order of their existence. Yancey was always talking of a new code, a new day; live and let live. Rubra refused to believe thai this bustnese of the Prgicr shoot Ing was as serious ss Yancey made It out to be. It was Jut one of bis whim. He would, she told herself, publish something or other about It In the first edition of the Oklahoma Yancey stoutly matn Wlgwsm. tslocd it was due on the press on Thursday. Privately, Sabra thought that this would hate to be accomplished by a mlrarie. This was Friday. A fortnight bsd r"ne by Nothing bad hem done. Perhaps he wa Haccerslliig the dancer as well as the Import h roe of all this peeler buboes. Something else would come tip to ftitract bis Inter blood-curdlin- est aroue i Nakhichevan, Founded by Noah, Scene of Violent Earthquakes. Washington, D. C Nakhichevan, the Trans Caucasian city recently shaken by earthquakes, doea not sound very familiar, but maybe It should! Nearby Is Mount Ararat, where Noah Is reputed to have grounded the Ark. Tradition has It that the prophet founded Nakhichevan the nnme meaning "he descended here" as soon as the waters receded. Citizens of Nakhichevan therefore claim that theirs is "the oldest city lu the world." "In the present-daworld Nakhichevan Is the somewhat drab, y dusty little sunbaked capital of a tiny Soviet republic, of Ihe same name, strung along the Persian border near the common "corner of Soviet ItuMa. Persia and Turkey," says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. Part of Azerbaijan. "The republic of Nakhichevan Is geographically the southernmost of Soviet republics west of the Cas- I brush-covere- "Noah's grave near Nakhichevan's city limits. Is shown to visitors, and It stands In high veneration both with the Armenians and Tatars, neither of whom seem to be aware that a similarly honored burial place also exists In the Holy Land, where It Is regarded as a to trembled earthquakes shocks In Nakhichevan has known the beat of hosts of ninrshlng men through the ages. The mighty armies of Cyrus. Darius, Xerxes, Alexander the Great, and Hannibal followed the. banks of the River Aras on their cam palgns of conquest and subjection. Trans-Caucasia- national Traffic for the world's children, but In the "Althoiitrh the main occupations building of large fast liners for of the lO.rO0 Tatars and Arme- the world's travelers. Passenger trafiie figures show nian peasants of the republic are that the modern German luxury Nakfarming and cattle breeding. hichevan Is best known throughout ships at sea, notably on the Atlantravelthe Soviet world as a producer of tic, pull the international Salt. Twelve miles from the cap- ers like magnets, and obtain most ital are the rich I.cti!n salt mines, of the business. While the chief shipping producing a grade of rnrk salt noted of the other three leading for Its purity. The salt Is brought to the city of Nakhlchevun by mo- maritime countries Britain, United tor truek, and shipped by railroad States and Japan have passedIn north Into other Russian states, and their dividends for the first time history, the two German concerns, outh Into Persia. Norddeutscher Lloyd and "Nakhichevan Is one of the new- American line, announce divier political divisions of the Soviet t'nlon. Along with the rest of dends of 8 and 0 per cent, respecTrans Caucasia It seceded from tively. Has Newest Fltet. RtiMla and became part of three At the end of 1!KW Germany had, entirety Independent republics In 1917. Constant strife and armed In a surprising way, regained her conflict followed until April, I'.cu place as fourth shipping nation of when conquering Soviet forces pro- the world, with a fleet newer than claimed Aerhal1:m a part of the any other. . Soviet t'nlon. The other parts of Her defeat In the war bad comsoon Trnn Caucasia followed pelled her to bund over her old Nakhlrbevan was almost destroyed ships to her enemies, who found during fighting between the Ar them mostly "white elephants," com-pani- Hamburg-- or out CLOUD REVEALS CHASING 8ocltty Ltarns Ways to Fathom Wtithtr Stcrtti From Air. Washington. Why, H (, Yes, building tn town big enough to bold the crowd. WIibI I want to know la. can we have the loan of your tnnt here for almt an Iwtir Sunday morning for the purpose of divine worship?" Arkansas Grat set down his made a sleeping gesture with hia right hand that Included all that the tent contained. "Divine worship! Why. n I, yea, Yancry," he replied, gia. ll'l PR grcoir, t oiMIMHI To be happy we must live mnra within ourselves and wholly with la eur Income, Forties Magazine. This highroad Into Persia has been the scene of untold slaughter ond misery, and more than forty great battles have been fought In the vicinity of Nakhichevan by forces seeking to control If GERMANY WINS TRAVEL OF OCEAN pian sea. Governmentally It Is at the bottom of a kind of 'liouse that Ivan built.' Almost surrounded by the Soviet republic of Armenia, It Goes in for Small Luxury Is, nevertheless, a part of the AzerLiners to Regain Interbaijan S. S. It, which In turn Is a Socialunit of (he ist Federation of Republics, which as a milted entity forms part of P.erlln. The secret of Germany's the Union of Soviet Socialist Repost-wa- r recovery Is not lu the publics. Nakhichevan nevertheless bears the proud title of 'nutono-niotis- .' making of cheap clockwork toys Meteorology Yancty." month old. with ten thnusaai Inhabitants, and probably the metropolis of the great Snuihwest In another ton years. They want the thing done right I'm chosen to conduct the meeting. There's no nnl-mu- 17.X0 feet high. A AIRPLANE "Divine Wofthipl o Twin Peaks of Mount Ararat. "Today Nakhlchevun Is a city of about 12,000, built along the rocky slopes of the River Aras. Stone houses with wide roofs climb from the river to the foot of hills In the background. Along the sky line rise the noble twin peaks of Mount Ararat, the taller holy spot by Moslems. "The ground which Chasing clouds In an airplane to learn how fast they grow and to obtain other Intimate to earthbnund serreia barred weather men Is the be kind of meteorology that was described before the meeting of the American Meteorological aiM'iety here by Ir. J. It. Andemon, of the naval air station at A oncost In, l. C Doctor Anderson wanted to learn about the birth and something growth of clouds In the more or less prrmnnctit layer that hangs over the Pacific roast of the United Wale, lie was specially curious to find out the rate st which thry piled themselves bp Into the air. lie found that to keep his plane even with the fop of one cloud be was studying be had to cllmh two or three hundred feet minute. How to get other wenthpr data from the in prr air without the of going up after It In an airplane was df scribed by lr. J. Psttrpo'O, of the Canadian tnrte- irt!-- 4 Tiirnliln Ha hn ir,ilr!f-a- l devised an apparatus that will ? i Pets Are Welcomed to Church Services London. As the attend-ancof pet animals at recent fashionable church weddings had aroused great controversy, the Rev. Basel Bourchler of Saint Anne's, Soho, a high church priest together with a neighboring Roman Cathodeclared lic priest openly that dogs would be welcomed to services as long as the behaved themselves. The Reverend Bourchler would rather hnve dogs at his services than snoring parishioners. The Roman Catholic priest la proud of the fact that bis St. Bernard dog attends church every day and lies at Ihe foot of the altar throughout the service. menians and the Tatars In 1018 and g his Indignation, bis ffc'hue of JuMire. .she wnt overJ)H when, that same ihj, s solemn deputation of ra WORLD'S OLDEST CITY IS ROCKED RATE OE GROWTH flah back signals of temperature and pressure from an ascending small balloon as long as the observers can keep It In sight through telescope. Hitherto similar nppnrtus has been carried up ai ranged to record Hs experiences with a pen on a slowly moving strip of paper, P.ut to get ttie story the weather man would tune to wait until the balloon came down again and then depend on the chance of the apparatus being found and sent back by aome farmer or woodsman. The new device Is equipped with red and white electric lights fed by a flashlight battery. The mechanism Is arranged In such a way that Ihe order of flushing on and off of the lights will tell the nbscrver on Ihe whether the balloon Is ground pnsslng from warm air to cold, or vice versa. Similarly, another lietit signals by Its flashings how much the barometric pressure Is changing as the balloon rises. PoetPatterson pointed out that this device should be especially Useful to meteorologists In polar regions or other unpopulated parts of lhi world, where the ordinary registering Instruments are useless through the Impossibility of getting them back again. - while she, combining and rationalizing shipbuilding on an Intensive scale, produced a brand new fleet. Since then Germany has passed Japan and Is now one of the big three maritime powers. The average size of British ships launched In VXtO was 3,074 tons gross. In 11CS the German aver-r;- e size had risen to 4,047 tons gross. This Included the two fastest liners In the world, the Bremen nnd Kuropa ( Ifl.OoO tons each), the liners which won the Atlantic blue ribbon again from Britain, and the ships that carried the record number of passengers last year. Has Beit Motor Ships. Germany has become the third motorship owner In the world, with 4,'U ships (British empire, 8"0; lulled States, 400), and boasts the best motor liners from Southampton to the British West indies. There Is no British line competing with her on this service. The German companies lost no time In coming to grips with the worst depression the shipping Industry has suffered, by reorganisation of the administrative side, and the profitable combine between the two great concerns, Hamburg-Americ- a lino and Norddeutscher Lloyd. Hard work has Infused Into the shipping combines of Germany a new progressive force, and II has been done by the men at the top. The Germans have been quick to realize that giant flouting hotels are not profitable today, and they are concentrating on the building of smaller luxury lines. Tuberculosis in Cattle Cut by Federal Efforts A marked decline tuberculosis among cattle and swine slaughtered In federal Inspected plants has been reported by the Agriculture department since systematic efforts to eradicate the disease were begun, There has been a great deal of talk, the report from the department said, about the manner In which cattle react to the tuberculin lefts, but records show that only 3 per cent of the cattle which react to the do not have tuberculosis. The other W.$ pet cent which react to the test bars proved to be tainted with tuber- Washington. In tt culosis. Fire Destroys Hoboes' Paradise in Phoenix nnt Phoenlt. Arl, From coast, where drifters gather, regret Is Voiced because "Hoboes' Paradise" pf Phocnli Is no more. The t room located on place, a stilts In the renter of ilu. yards here, was used by hohm-- as a longing pinco ror years, out recently It was destroyed by a Prw t- ten-foo- trb |