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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Late Onions Need Careful Culture Long Growing Season Before Hot Weather Found Big Advantage. Copyrifhl, DooMMar, Dflraa A Co., By VINGIE E. ROE In. SYNOPSIS Seeking death to escape dishonor at the bands of a drunken desperado, Sonya Savarln allows herself to be saved by her repentant attacker. The girl Is a physician to the Navajo Indians, living on an Arizona sheep ranch with her brother Serge, his wife, and their small daughter, 1,11a, Border anyone who counted knew me, Id not have done It Theres that much decency left In me. But no one knows, and Im like a dying man begging for water. I come back to look at you again and again. I'd crawl on my knees around the world to change my leopard spots," he finished bitterly, to look In your eyes with a clear conscience," Suddenly the fire and the fear and the ecstasy which had warred In Sonya all night seemed to rise above her like a tide of sorrow and disaster. She felt as If she sank Habs. She Is engaged to Rodney Blake, wealthy New Yorker, but her heart is with the friendless Navaand she evades a wedding. jo Sonya pulls Little Moon, wife of Two Fingers, a Navajo, through the crisis of an Illness. Two Fingers Is deeply grateful. Sonya again In swirling waters, drowned In tears. meets the man who had Insulted Her throat closed with an aching her. He tells her he bitterly regrets his action and has never had pain and one hard sob escaped her. a minutes peace since that day. Instantly the man looked down, Sonya Is affected, but unforgiving. holding her from him. bana Border of rumors She hears he said, "what what My G d dit, "El Capltan Diablo," and vaguely connects him with her attacker. Why, my Q d On Lone Mesa, she again comes Then he drew her to him close upon the strange young man, but and hard, and the trembling of his she no longer fears him. When he reiterates his sorrow over his mis- arms Intensified. The face above conduct she Indicates forgiveness her small black head bad gone hagand assures him a man can always gard as an old mans. change for the better. The last soft strains of the tender 1 1 CHAPTER V Continued Some one claimed her, and Sonya went back to the maze of moving figures, but everywhere she went she was conscious of the brilliant eyes of this man. lie stood agnlnst the wall a little beyond the main door, and he seemed to be alone. He did not dance again, even though there was another Paul Jones, but watched her In a grave stillness, and Sonya could not gather her faculties for her usual light banter. What was the matter with her? Why did her heart hammer In her breast with long slow beats, her blood flow through her veins like molten gold drenched In perfume? W'hnt was happening to her? To her life itself? To her destiny and her hopes? Tears came to her eyes, and she did not hear what her chance partner was saying. Fear was In her heart, and a certain terrible fire that mounted and grew. Time passed, and she was not conscious of It. Finally, late In the night, the fiddles struck up Home, Sweet Home, and the dance was over. This was the last number. A cowboy from the K Bar Z with whom she always liked to dance was asking her for It. She had Just held out her hand when some one reached forward from the side and took It Next moment she was gone out along the floor In the dreamy rhythm of the old sweet tune, and this time she was held so close that she could feel the beating of his heart, a thundering reverberation like tides on the shore. Desperately she raised her eyes and' looked at him. "Tell me, she whispered thickly, "what are you? Who are you?" he said bitterly, "to "Nothing, you. Nothing ever and Id give half my life to kiss one curl on your head w 1th a decent mans right. The words came through his set teeth, and even in the tensity of the moment she noticed that he did not slur his words at the ends. "Then be decent! she cried passionately. "Be decent "Too late. Im only looking In windows from the outside and I built the wall between, myself." "Tell me your name, she said, "tell me." 1 "No. Yes. Tell me new I cant. I havent a name more. any You have. Your own name. Not wlmt you you go by where where you answer roll call." "Answer roll call I Thats good. What do you know about me? What have you heard? Im guessing, fitting "Nothing. things In place," she said swiftly, "and theres somebody across the Border who crucifies " "Hush I For Gods sake, dont sjicak of that again, ever, anywhere! Where did you hear of such? "No matter. There Is and some It cuts me way youre connected like a knife you've got to tell me. Who are you? "If I tell you my name, will you keep It like you would your oath? "Yes. You know I will. "Of course I know. Im Starr Stone to my mother, who thinks I'm dead and buried. In this country I go by something different. Now are you satisfied? "No. I've got to know the rest. I will know It. "Why? Heaven knows, you have little to thank me for little to think of mo for. I've blackened your first memory of me beyond all hope. "Why do you speak carelessly sometimes and now correctly?'' been two men. I am two "Ie men." "W hat kind of men? Wh.it does It matter? I'm a dead man dead and damned find rotten! Dont troulde your darling head shout me. I'm running true to form rmht now lu being bore, in holding yon in my firms, In looking In your If anyone tills side of the laeo tune were dying. The feet of the dancers slowed. And suddenly from nowhere, out of the very night beyond the doors, It seemed, a hand fell on his shoulder, a powerful grasp whirled him about, Sonya with him. A stranger stood there, a stranger so fierce and terrible In aspect that one knew him at once for a man of violence, of cruelty and death. It was In his small black eyes above his olive cheeks black with shaven beard, in his hawkbill nose, In his mouth merciless as a panthers. He stood six feet two In his spurred boots, and he wore the wide sombrero of the Mexican hidalgo, fine of material and ornamented with silver. A studded belt circled his narrow waist; a braided velvet jacket showed the muscled strength of his wide shoulders. He was a Mexican, and a bad one, if ever one of that brand lived. He spoke and the man before him stood rooted to the spot, his arm still around the girl "Honihre," he said, In Spanish, CHAPTER VI Shadows of Death. TF SONYA SAVAUIN had been trou-- I hied before, had searched her soul with fearful and bewildered eyes, that summer night plunged her Into chaos. Shame was In her, and a breathless flume of ecstasy, and a fear that mounted hourly. And knowledge. Knowledge, terrible, complete, devastating. Destiny had reached and taken her, body and soul. All that her life had meant was gone her plans, her future, everything. Bod Blake, New York, safety and assurance, the 6ane and ordered things of everyday, they were all swept Into the discard like so much trash. And In their place stood Starr Stone her blood leaped at her first conscious use of his name renegade, myslery, what she did not know and with him danger, wrong, disaster. He had touched her with his mysterious power, and she had turned and followed him. In her soul stie had turned and followed. Like a bird charmed to Its death, she had bent ber eyes on bis, and she was lost. There was nothing In this world but Starr Stone's face, the blue light of his eves, the curve of his lips, the grace of his lean body. Bod Id ike was a dream, a fan11s face was a stranger's tasy. face, Ids voice a far oT echo. 'Ihere was nothing real ti Don t him, had never been to her, she knew now. There was nothing res but tills S.rrle, man, this renegade, this outlaw who mal mind? What did It portend? followed where a master led, and And who was the master? Who but left behind him a great flare of light that one from across the Border that glowed with shadows In her whom the mad Servant called Beelzebub? The terrible prince of banheart Fire and flame and darkness, Joy dits who crucified those who double-crossehim. Sonya shivered In the and ecstasy and sorrow, fear and a vast strength, these were her por- coming day. Wbat had he said to Starr Stone? tion, new given to her. "Hombre, you disobey Lets go." Presently she pushed her hair d 1 back from her forehead, went to the pool In the dark corner and, kneeling, washed her face with her hands. It was a strange baptism of abnegation, of acceptance. Whatever was to happen In the new future she was committed to It body and soul. Whatever happened to Starr Stone would happen to her; that she knew beyond all questioning. Next morning she met Lila with a grave face, and the smart little woman looked at her and set down the cup she held. You may as well come clean, Sonya darling," she said gent,y. Not to, will only prolong the agony." "I know," Sonya said soberly. Come out In the patio. Theres still time before we have to begin supper." And there, with the sun going down the western sky and the shadows lengthening about them Sonya told the story of the Man of Lone Mesa, and Lila listened with inlield breath. At Its close they looked silent at each other. You will understand, but Serge thin-lippe- d you disobey I Lets go." And turning, he walked swiftly to the door. The arm slid from Sonyas shoulders, and without a backward look the Man of Lone Mesa followed. Alone, her feet like lead, her head whirling with a strange dizziness, her throat aching, Sonya crossed the almost empty floor and picked up her coat from where Lila was waking Babs. Serge Joined them, and they went out Into the night among the roaring cars of the departing crowd. Just ns they passed out of the circle of light from the open doors a fantastic figure loomed for a moment beside them, Its shabby garments and long white hair dim In the blending shadows. said the soft voice "Beelzebub, of the Servant, leaves hell to work evil hereabouts. Beware, Innocent .one." "What In thunder " said Serge. "Who was that? "Only a strange old man I met at Myra's. You know the old mad preacher who rides the Reservation on his donkeys. Youve heard of him. "Oh, the Servant of the Lord? Yes, I have. Never saw him before, though. Well, lets get going, girls. Babs, lazybones, sit up while daddy fixes the robe for you. That's the girl. VTSV By Piof. J. E. Knott, New York State College of Agriculture. WNU Service. New York state leads In the pro- Where bad they gone? What would he do to him? And why had he disobeyed, In what? With deep Intuition she knew the disobedience had to do with her, with his arm about her in the public place. It was a small thing. Not a double-crosYet the very thought of the sinister werds chilled her to the bone. Come," she told herself, snap out of it. There Is something dark and terrible here, but Starr Stone again she thrilled at the mental will take care sound of his name of himself. Hell come back to talk again." At Blue Water she found what she had expected, and a great deal Two Navajos, an old man more. and a young one, lay In the hogan hot with fever. From the shelter of a skeleton brush canopy over an outdoor cooking fire Yellow Buck, the medicine man whom she had seen at Two Fingers, watched her with flaming eyes In his wrinkled face. Critically the girl studied the two sick men. With stethoscope on the hot brown breasts she knew her course. The old man was beyond help, his lungs already stiff with congestion, sunk In coma. The young one not so bad. "Bad business, she told herself. "Spanish flu summer flu or Im This one, very much mistaken. she said to the women, pointing to the old sire, Is about to go on the Long Journey, I come too late. This one well try to hold. Get me hot water In the cooking baskets and cold water from the hole. Also a warm stone wrapped In cloth." In two hours the ancient one was gone on that long Journey and she helped the women carry him out and lay him decently under some blankets in the canopys shade. All day she worked in almost utter silence. The sick man could still speak, and once he asked after Two Fingers wife, and again directed the women to cook and feed the Blue South Sonya Told the Story of the Man of Lone Mesa, and Lila Listened With Inheld Breath. never will, said Sonya, "so well not tell him until we have to." Lila laid her hand on Sonya's arm. "Rod!" she said. "We have forgotten him!" No," said the other, "not I. Rod will be one of the things I'll have to face one of the dangers. I shall write to him tonight and tell him. What? The word was In Italics. Oh, not about Starr Stone or any of the other tragic things Ive told you. Only that I cannot marry lilm. "And you'll have him here as quick as the air lines can bring him," said Lila quietly. Youre right," said Sonya after a moment's thought. "Ill not toll him yet. Serge came home from hts days riding dusty and tired, weary for As be was washing at the Bleep. bench beyond the door he called in to them. "Sis," he said, "I think there's going to be work for you ahead. I saw old Ilosteen Tso today from up Long Ruins way, and he told me there are two sick Indians over there. "Did lie say just where they were?" "Yes. Iu a hogan by Blue Water bole. Said there was a rug for you if youd come. The medicine nine's been making sings for them, but theyre no bettor. "H'm. Darn these medicine men !" said the girl, her brows drawing together. "They kill more patients than 1 can ever save. I'll start early In the morning. "If you take my aihlce youd better keep a sharp eye out for that the medicine man. very thing Dont eat anj tiling around where he Is, and watch your trails for Woman. Here It was again, her sweet and mysterious name among them. The day wore on, and night came cool and sweet, and still she stayed by the bed on the sand floor, making her mustard compresses for the laboring chest, using hot water and cold alternately, giving her drops to reduce the ghastly- - fever, and at two of the night by the watch on her wrist the sick man sighed and went to sleep, his temperature down to a hundred. "Glory ! said Sonya to herself. "Its a great life If you dont weaken I" She slept a bit herself, and dawn found things better In the hogan. Noon found them better still, and late In the afternoon she went away, leaving strict Instructions to her patient to stay In bed until she came If he got up he would die, again. she told them all flatly, and that was that. At home she told Lila and Serge of what shed found and disinfected herself from head to heel before stretching her tired body for sleep. I told you thered be work for "I you," Serge told her soberly. heard of another ense today." "My heaven!" said the girl, sitting up suddenly on her bed In the room beyond. "Where? Is It going to be epidemic? "Up In Bad Canyon. a long ride. Ill need the car for It Well, heaven help them, Ive got to sleep now, or Ill be no good later." With the visit to Bad Canyon r.ext morning Sonya Savarln knew she faced the coming of ordeal. Not one but three cases met her there, and she heard of five more In a nameless wash beyond. The days that followed began to take on the semblance of a nightmare. The sickness which had descended on the Reservation grew and spread like some noxious growth. The girl traveled night and day, bumping on long drives In the "Thats ancient car, threading the Inaccessible canyons on Darkness, stooping In the dark hogans to alleviate suffering, covering dead faces, trying to reason the living out of their sutraps.. perstitious custom of abandoning "I wiil," said Sonya. their dwellings where death bad True to her plan, the girl was entered. out on the desert next day before Sonya sighed nnd her heart ached the sun was up. The thoughts which more than usual. hnd moiled In her mind for hours (TO BID CONTI NT rn ) now bOM't her again. Where was (his mao w!io was her man? Where Nrgroet In Portugal dnl lie follow that iiionvfrous musPortugal was engaged In the slave ter a, id why? What was the power trade for r.enr'y four centuries. Durwlildi had turned 1dm from her ing that period many thousands of w.thout a t'lukward look? Was It African ami Brnzlii.in negroes ffear, or some strange lojnlty be- inally settled in the provinces of Ah yond the comprchcn don, of a nor- - grave and Eatrcmaduri. duction of late onions crop each year that 2,500,000 to 3,500,000 this crop la often with a total ranges from bushels, and worth about $5,000,000. Science Has Made This Age of Super Miracl When the first steam engine dragged a single car along a track at four or five miles an hour, and the Clermont chugged her labored way up the Hudson, nnd the first telegraph tediously ticked cut the rues sage, "What hath God wrought! men and women sensitive to these developments said: "We live in an ige of miracles." And the phrase Inis been repeated until it has lost much of its original meaning, lias become a mere bromide of conversation. A now denomination appears to be needed. For example, a man flies from California to New York In less than twelve hours as little as a doz en years ago such a feat could have been tmagiued only by a professional novelist or a professional lunatic ; no ane seriously believed that any such thing could be done. And even more Incredible was tlie notion that residents of opposite ends of the earth might talk with each other. Yet, recently, Dr. Anton Lang, Jr., Georgetown university, exchanged Four major muck sections produce s more than of the crop. of the crop The remaining comes from smaller areas scattered throughout ten counties. One of the most Important points to remember In the production of onions Is that the larger the plant grows before It begins to form a bulb at the base, the larger will be the yield. The first thing that Is to be considered Is the time of planting. The earlier the onions are started, the longer time they have to grow before warm temperature and a long daylight period combine to start bulbing In early summer. Fall plowing helps to get an early greetings with his family at Oberatn-uiergastart Germany, while an undeterOther suggestions to Increase the mined million listened In." Also, by a marvelous technique of yield of onions on muck are; avoid the use of nitrogen on newly cleared reproduction, a thousand movie thewoody muck, and plant enough seed aters Just now are showing In colors to get a good stand, but do not as rich as life itself a pageant of the crowd the plants; supply available Court of St. James In 1815 the nitrogen to onions, when four to screen blossoms Into glory beyond five inches high, on muck in use the dreams of any genius of the ten years or more; give shallow past; what would Benvenuto Cellini cultivation often enough to keep the or Richard Wagner have said of such weeds under control; and control a medium of enfranchised art! Scientists meanwhile climb the Insects and diseases as much as possible. stratosphere and plumb the deepest depths of the restless sea, look out Into the boundless heavens and Asparagus Harvest Time watch storms passing over planets Shown by Actual Tests of which the ancients never guessed, into mountains and drag from Asparagus, which ranks as one dig of the leading truck crops of Illi- hiding elements which their immedinois with a total value of more ate predecessors could not foretell, victhan half a million dollars In 1030, snatch from the grasp of death should not be cut severely until the tims of accidents and ailments which as Immutable second year after the plantation Is once were accepted whims an of unkind Providence. set, and In some cas'es not until the third year, according to a seven-yea- r Each hour that runs Its course provides news of unexampled victory experiment conducted by the over circumstance. College of Agriculture, University of e And so it happens that a Illinois, Is achieved mass of reaction InSevere cutting of asparagus is a psychological laissez faire on the jurious both to yield and market of the public. Young folk, es- part The Injury Increases In quality. proportion to the severity of the cutting. A prolonged cutting season lessens the growing period of UNKNOWN GENIUS the tops and thereby restricts the GAVE AMERICAN food supply that Is manufactured BUGGY TO WORLD In the tops and stored In the fleshy food a roots. With limited supply there Is a reduction In the yield the Many of our land transportation following season. methods are of European origin, but Comparing the yields of the the old family buggy is distinctly plots, the plot cut heav- American. No one knows just who ily the first year returned only 820.09 did build the first one, according to pounds of asparagus during the Carl W. Mitman, of the Smithsonian seven-yea- r period, while the plot cut Institution, who spent a lot of time lightly the first season gave a total looking the matter up, but it was yield of 431.51 pounds. used in this ountry first of all. Starting the harvest the second American roads were extremely year proved advantageous with a to- bad following tlie Revolution (some tal yield of 434.21 pounds for the still are) nnd the only conveyances seven years from the plot harvested were the heavy wagons drawn by rather severely, but the maximum horses or oxen. This was a very yield of 531.53 pounds was gained slow method of transportation. About from the bed cut only lightly the tlie best way to get any place. was to second year and medium the third cut across the hills nnd walk. Of season. The plot on which har- course, If you were and vest was not begun until the third owned a horse and saddle, that was year gave a total of 4G7.86 pounds. faster, too. If an asparagus plantation has Yankee ingenuity wouldnt be made a poor growth during the first even then, aud about 1820 some and second years after setting, It is smart fellow built the first light wagsuggested that the first cutting be on and equipped it with springs. delayed until the third year, or Thus we had our first at most tiiat the cutting be very Thus we lmd our first spring-wagolight the second year. Ordinarily, from which our buggy was developed. however, there Is no need for de- Then, about 1810, somebody else laying at least a partial harvest wanted to go still faster, and built until the third season. the first "one-hos- s shay and the gig (the same thing In a different form) witii two wheels In which the sports Fattening Lambs went rattling about at a great rate Many feeders claim that lambs of speed. Of course, tlie railroad can be more economically finished came about that time, but you along than for the market by didnt have to tracks for a buggy, This claim Is based and it held itslayown by throughout the principally upon the fact that when Nineteenth century, until the auto selfIambs are of numbers fed, large finally just about put it out of busifeeding saves man labor, and that ness. The depression made a lot of Is no doubt true. However, when folks get out their old buggies, howonly one or two carloads of lambs ever, so we still see a few of them are fed, the saving of labor Is not around even in the Nati nml Capiquite so evident. If, Indeed, there Is tal. Rath ti niler Mn gazine. also any saving at all. There are several other factors which must be taken Into consideration In mnklng SVBgHVWUW 0 XS5IJ O a choice between the two methods of feeding, that sometimes have a greater effect upon the costs of production than the factor of labor. nine-tenth- one-tent- h super-miracl- well-to-d- IS' mae high peeially, are so accustomed magic of the century that It it for granted. 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