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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE WOLFIPEN Harlem Hatcher ration is St OJrjfci'vMyVra-- . . W ed 0- - of lis re av of io- - lin T-- :nt ity ter its - iS- - rs-- ii r-i- PRELUDE j lllM t l r- from the valleys "f Cumthe line the of jugged 'limn, berland mountains is a prodigious row of black dominoes toppled over on one another by the finger of God brushing about in the blue. This great wall purple and green is neither inviting nor forbidding; it is just inescapably mnd beuutijully there, removed from the ambitions and worries of men. In the morning the notched shadows crawl obliquely up its northern slope; they linger at noon on the faulted uplifts; mnd then hurry obliquely down the darkening south slopes in the early of ice, len uit. in :nd, by ray ;her mi l'his to lant evening. A hundred miles to the north lies fly. Use Ohio valley, flat and fertile bebe tween Us borders of lower hills. The river sweeps in a long r ved curve around the southernleisurely y of most tip of Ohio, receives the waters the of the Itig Sandy at the corner of West that Virginia and Kentucky, and then bends new languidly on toward the Mississippi. ntcd . i both inviting and forbidding; tscaiHibly and beuutifully there in the Zhief midst of the ambitions and worries of men. The spring ruins swell it to the limits of its ample banks, and send it sides muddy and churning toward the west. i!)ov The summer droughts relax it into a nt a somnolent stream of limpid green tranAfter quility. lined. Between the river and the mountain railed range lies the Big Sandy valley. Its x'ned hills rise shndy from the squat bluQ .vard- - on the Ohio to the blue peaks of the its vulleys widen progresvision Cumbettunds; sively from the precipitous canyons of the Breaks on the south to the sweepictior. ing flatluniLs on the Ohio to the north. . 4 And the Big Sandy river with its forks iti on mnd its tributary creeks veins the whole Side- - region like the ribs in a pawpaw leaf. inllllg Cuaided on the south by the Cum-No. berland ridge, protected on the north scwef by the lure of the great river and its bottoms, fenced in on the west wari. level mnd on the east by row. upon row of the Uig Canity valley M anc rugged ii.7j, pocket preserved its isolation until the Hoard willow-fringe- d : i or .arl i' What 1" ul. et SsftW ijj the , piaet Llvt s fop , Mjn ,0 Inl- erritary uas conquered and Traveling through ftt'i! .v5" fithtrenih century, the immigrants 1 ! rc.i' ', tared at the great barrier of the Cum- ;i! l,k ttrlmdt, end continued lh easier 'oad doun the C.limh riier into TenC.tl trssee, Iraiing the mvifrnmit beyond for D' the desperate Indians, struggling s,(;t ('.'tainst dispmsetsion. fuddling doun Ohio, the pioneers peered up the )fi viiU k'ff""' "I ttlr HitSand, bend H' tliai:'r'V continued unn,Mn' (!'Mi'! mcircling , ' 'OIP r"'rf fm"' '""""i ,," r""' bUiett.1 country, Irming the C egend hmntrd (xxkel i (,, f,,f,, r nrd mid game fleeing tttwrlwn. nfs Hl.'1'f But m priuertion lint perm nu Hi toUdhml.ing Hall o the CS 'umbeian,U ptoted Hot to be lift vitl. token uhrit Bsvitilird by few dir-imen ithn uere determined In it. On by one they tpird out h"r gnieuau to th nntth: the Uater gnpt at the hends of r f Mi;'"''" and thy fork; ih ihoii- fn'S in the V.rrknl Sands J ill i,Vt'4-bWar t I twenty f hundred f n mnd-vrrs,'p n Vme mimntam, lorh til-to h an Indian Uad (torn Mr W'',-or- d nn"" vlfc l.i south: e turn pikecreeh nh,th nl 1 r mi - lion, with a moaj on the north over which they could strike at the whiles on the Ohio and posterns on the south through which they could raid the rich settlements in Virginia. They held on until 1793, while the immigrants filled up the outside fluls and encamped against the walls surrounding it. Then the Indians were trapped and defeated, and the valley was taken up. It filled up quickly with uhite settlers. Rifjraf squatters washed in near the mouth of the river and occupied the lowlands; inhospiluhle, lazy people who allowed cockleburs to overrun the patches of corn and entangle and destroy the fleece of their few sheep. But at the Cumberland end of the Big Sandy and its forks, hardy, industrious settlers from Virginia toiled through the gaps and took possession of the fertile bottoms. A few brave souls had already looked at the land and established claims. Saul Pattern had explored the country in the late spring of l7Rri, crossing the mountains from Tazewell county, Virginia, and following the Indian trail through the Breuks to the mouth of Cannon Fork, as it was afterumd named. There he uas halted by fresh signs of war and scalping putties littering the trail, lie hud to retreat, lie left the Big Sandy and returned southward by way of Cannon Fork uhich bends to the southeast, and then parallels the Big Sandy. Thirty miles ahme its mouth, he saw a great bare pinnacle of yelloic sandstone protruding from the trees alutie the creek, and overlooking the valley. He toiled upward through the underbrush, and there, standing on e jutting ledge, he had his first comprehensive view of the finest district in the entire country. Cannon creek, nearly as large as the Big Sandy river, came in sweeping curves through the rich valley uhich held the chain of hills from file hun dred feet to m fifth of a mile apart. It lay there virginal and undisturbed in its primeval quietude, surrounded by endless acres of forest. At the foot of the Pinnacle began W olfpen Hollow, making with Cannon creek a Y in the hills. It was only e little more concentrated than the valley of the Cannon Fork. Rising in a rock spring near the hilltop m few miles up the hollow, the little stream. only ten feel wide in repose, fingered its channel taunt d the great Pinnacle and merged uith the utters of Can non. The tito t alley made e uide flat place among the lulls for a man to rest on and take root. Saul Pattern not giien to emo tion. But at he stood there on the rock looking up and dm n Cannon creek and nt the fnt bottoms up V nilpen, he fell a glow of pride and an ilh some eagerness to fxmrn U. four thousand square miln of mi'iin tain wilderness In choose from, he selected these bottoms al the mnuih of U olfpen, cning aloud 10 the deer and the wild liif kev: "Cod 4lmithi u lint a place for a man to I.IVF, in!" Five years later he came bmk uith and son his fijteenyeur-ilbuilt a rude cabin up the Imlli-- on the Vidfiien Fmk of the V. Hie cnun try seemed quirt una rrmln fee a pioneer. But n ruing loiiard the close of the summer of I7'ln, jul n the d'irk began to tumble win If Saul came bark to the cabin with a tuikey he hud shot unite out survey ing the land I he cabin ui,s deterted. and Barton Has not in sight. found him on the bank al th mouth of ihe crerh uhrre the Indians had uith his throat rut Lit him for but hit head unseatprd. Sunt pulled the mound logeihit and hound if with delirious J.tM.in f.iv in guncntlon. leier for long dnst in the rlnn hotet, ing prceirinul beturen hi and di'nlh, h be fin slnitly 1 hen, miinrtiloiid. he irimi f.( to mend, and i the s aide to trairl h'ltk In l iretma Sml rnlletn hot ln'l impatience the nrtt file rnf Ii (off- the Indians tier bring nt rtmnfi fircf At f.il II the sitting rf If1"! ! hrn life uas fru Inn k to tne nfi'rM sale, he mm tnx.n spot mih hit wle and tluldirn oil-pen- , Wit.! 'it r S-- frt - and m Virginia patent for four thousand acres of land as surveyed by himself in 1790. This time he did not return, lie planted the bottoms with corn and beans, fattened his slock on the Wolfpen meadows, built m great room in front of the old cabin which uas still standing, and became the first And all settler on Cannon creek. through the upper region of the Big Sandy valley through that year and those that followed, came strong men and fertile women to plant themselves on the flat pockets between the hills, and to build cabins on the sheltered rpots in the wide mouths of numberless hollows. It was a moment unique in the history of man: a clean slate before them, m virgin district at their feet; uhat would they not make of this new land! "Great Cod, what a place for a man to Hie in!" wood was gone, and the skillfull; carved stones were moved to tin water-mill- ; but the weathered cen tral axis, the two thick wooden wheels which rolled on the ground and the ckannel worn by the mule as it tramped endlessly round and round were right where her great grandfather had put them In 1810 The dimensions of the rude contraption made more real for Cynthia the legends of Grandfather Ilarton's giant strength. He emerged from oblivion a.id took form for Cynthia In all his two hundred and thirty pounds when she looked at his millstones, and heard her father, Spar-relexplain the mechanism of his That mill, which she was looking down upon from the rock, was built by her owu Grandfather Tlvls in lS-It seemed to Cynthia a natural part of the landscape of the CHAPTER I valley. Wolfpen Creek came down the hollow through the bottom to the foot of the Pinnacle, and then AN AFTERNOON at the be of the spring of 1SS.", broke Into a rapids ns It fell over Cjtitlila 1'uttern sat on the Pinna- a smooth rock channel Into Gannon cle of gutitlstone, sluililej with stra- creek. At the head of the rapids. ta of white pebbles, and looked Tlvls Pattern felled willows across down upon the fourth and fifth gen the creek, piled stones against them eraiions of Pattern men still niuk and filled in with a layer of clay. Then he wove a mat of cane stalks Ing something of the new hind. on tile upstream side, plastered It A century of life, of making things with clay, and formed the of these bottoms In the Kentucky years the dam had not mountains, separated Cynthia from In fifty-livor leaked washed her Great away In the spring Saul who first strode through the wilder floods. And still before Cynthia was born, ness on his long legs spying out the land. During that century, wave her futher Sparrel had Improved the o. lf flw th t ? ," l"'1 " t broad highum l and then into th Ohm. K r '"-'- '" Hkhntn to the is city, di Riit.rf into th thin Hnt 'h Tug aid heroes mo , f V The mtilrrmiii porkrt thf t f'c ,r1 "I both ends to thnt t,t, jlll t ti'k its penis. t till ,trt Al' Ik perils mrnnring. Jh Shut 'set , ,f,a ft,, s ill tmjlln Ulcll 'lrr mhet hnntini tronndt stvt . . .I . t Amu 1)9 J 1. mem. ii urn ontn mnd rhry kj me rooi.4 forufica in - liin, after wave of change and reform, sweeping over the Republic and hearing It on Into tlu Westland, had broken against the mountain walls. leaving the valleys within almost untouched. The way of life which Cynthia Pattern from the brown Pinnacle saw In the valley below her was the Indigenous fruit of an unbroken tradition of family life developed without benefit of the world beyond the wide horizon of the P.lg Sandy hills. If there were surviving anywhere In Amerlra In 1 SS." anything resembling a native cul ture, It was represented by Ihe life of Ihe Patlerni now In their fifth on their six thousand acres of hills and valleys surroundPut n new ing Wolfpen P.ottoms. - .:. 'f would not he Indigenous. l Cynthia had slipped away from the weaving room of the big and gone around the palings of Julia's garden, and tinder Ihe grape arbor, and through Ihe peach orchard, across the creek and up Ihe steep path which led her through the yellow girdle of Ihe poplar forest, through Ihe dark belt of pine- trees. Into the clump of rhododen dron where the rock pushed out of to look at the the black valleys and the undulating expanse of untouched timber-land- . Sitting at the loom she had thought: "Imddy and the boys have been down at the mill all morning and this evening they'll start the new engine. I'd like to see him start It but womenfolk can't hard ly ever go anywheres like that when all the nienfolks on the creek gang about and Mother wouldn't ev en think about going down there. Put If I w as on the Pinnacle I could look rlL'ht down on the mill and wntch Just like I was one of the r a hnwk or a crow and buzzard see tlu-iwithout them taking anv notice of tne." Cynthiit s.it on the b'tUe watching Sparri-- l Pattern while he to modern fleam power the old w liter w heeled mill her grand father had built. The mill gathered up for her the romance of a fum ily tradition and beeauie the s iti bol of progression for the geueiu-(ionof her men. She had sal on Ihe Pinnacle wulchlng the nic o! Ihe great wheel loaded with water spin without elTort In the sun, revolving to the muted rumble of the stones within the log mill. It turned her thoughts lido the past where In imagination she recreated the lives of her grandfathers. They were no dead and forgotten; they had buill themselves Into the place and looked out at her fiom the ham. the house, the bottoms, the old mill. The life span of one man does not permit the fashioning of culture from raw wilderness; his vision must be m nd bis curried on by his grandsons, C.rHndfathrr Saul w sorely pressed during Ihe first bard years In the mountains; be bad to he content with the temporary make-shif- t of n band mill. The wooden hem-I- t on whirh It was mounted was decayed, but ti e two little stones no larger II, an a tni'ik cit k were pre served In t'tie i oiner of the ptevnt farm-hous- leaf-moul- 9 SstWFM&sy Of Course the Old Mill of Stons and Wood Was Wearing Out. mill by widening the conduits from the dam and enlarging the size of the wheel to speed production. "Such gang of menfolk," looking down at the crowd moving about on the creek bank and In the "as a hotly wouldn't see near-e- r mill-yar- than the public square at Pike-vill- e on a court day. It's a wonder they're not swapping mules, only they're so taken up by Paddy's boiler and saying It won't work." She could see where many of them came from merely by turning her head. The old families were branching out, tilling up the boitou". A few new people were still coming in wherever they could find enough fiat land to build a cabin on. She had beard her father talk almut the growth of the mountains and wondering what would happen when there was no more land, wondering where It was ail leading to. It seemed to him that It led first of ail lo a sleam-mil- l that would run all the year round and grind their corn a little faster. "The w jy Dad's been the last year Is the way I about a steam-enginguess it was with Grandfather Par-tomaking a horse mill and Grandfather Tlvls making a water-millOnly they made theirs ami Daddy bad to buy most of his. They never let well enough alone. Mother's loom and churns and cok-stovnnd thlngi are Just like they always were, but the menfolk always keep changing from one thing to another." Of course the old mil) of stone and wood was wearing out and needed repairs badly, and since people came to It nil (he year round now but could not be served If (he season was loo dry, he ought to Improve t. When the good davs of February came round, be look the Flnemare and rode down to Greenup to vKIt his sMor nnd to sen a vteiim drlven mill arinally at work, lie was S'i taken with the median-l-mill. and the quick trickle of yellow little (lie great They nieiil pouring Into Ihe snrks. that he stotiei grandfather I'm .n h:l I forthwith to have one for for the hori inl'l he had huil! cmi-verte- d n f.ldt-lulle- !n on Ihe JeU'l Sjlot belo-.i;irn The (up framework of rough hewn hlint-elf- (TO nr.COM'IM I P) rf rcovci? d I'll ' rfwn i 1 i a START READING THIS REMARKABLE SERIAL NOW t im im if I where is the the gay wearer. 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Favor! te Trescrlptlon Is a Tattern 1989 is the polite young Dr. Tierce's which has been helping women model caught with its back this tonic AdT. of all ages for nearly 70 years. way, perhaps the better to show off the beautiful shoulder3 and Thinking Ahead chicest - of - chic descending lines. A careful thought at the right You'll run-uthis frock in short order but you'll wear it endlessly time saves a hundred sorrowful and with that happy confidence thoughts when thinking is too late. which only a style with distinc Looking ahead in money matters tion can give. Make it of rasp 13 wise, but there is no belter sav bank than thinking ahead. berry wool crepe and trim the ings hem with collar, cuffs and royal blue. Tattern 19SD comes in sizes 14, 16. 13 and 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 3 yards of 51 inch material with 5 yards cf braid for trimming. Tattern 1206 is a most attractive newcomer to the blouse 'n' skirt CAS PRESSURE MKT CAUSE DISCOMFORT. RIGHT SIDE BEST. category. An alliance of this sort If you ton In bd and can't tttco en brings glamour and romance to Adlcrika. tide, WHERE, gent-ratlo- steam-mil- c ...fill I d t'H4 Pit ' mill-pond- : hundred years the ramparts cf the Cumhcrland range of advancing proved invulnerable to the closer. the But world The march of was moving civilization. destruction threatened now to the timber, demanding industry, the beautiful of mountain Wolfpen valley peace century-olwhere lived the Patterns. You'll thrill to each new chapter as it unfolds the hcroicstruggleof this fine American family to preserve the complete happiness of their jealously-guardeway of life. FOR X' e tlsjr Tvrfsj f t it'tr Triifs fistic rftT JLJLy Ul 11 IV, lVV.illl.Jr I'lUUllllUliJ u Fllf r 01 cg!ns a Stirring and Vital Todcty Simple, Practical Frocks horse-mill- . et-lor- e W.T-tiir-r- , I oh ke ns p Don't Sleep on Left Side, Crowds Heart right doi Just ONE try relievti itomach OAS prtMlng tlco soundly. 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