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Show PAROWAN TIMES. PAROWAN. UTAH FIRST AID cKqJ. CHAPTER XXVI AILING HOUSE "Weve carried this thing a little too far. Weve got to make friend of those people out there " 1 wont moke friends with Ives. Sig growled, speaking with difficulty. "Look at my mouth, my face. Look at the back of my head. You ahouldnt have cussed the man. Sure, I know you got hurt, but it your own fault. Now, look here. We can swing those people our They dont have anything against way with a little sweet talk and you, I guess, Big said. I aiting on the back. We can make "Well, I don't know. You're the 'em eat out of our hands You know only neighbor whos been around us how many votes are out in that secsince the flood. He watched Big' tion, homesteaders and farmers?" face narrowly. Flanagan shook his head and "Everybody' been pretty busy, frowned with the pain of the motion. reckon. Big said vaguely. "I'te g to get along home now. Ill feel "No Idea. "Well, all told, there are between around and see what the people six hundred and eight hundred, think of organizing. You do that, said Andy. "And Maybe there are more, counting th ir friends and connections in thanks for coming over. Granny thought it was odd that other parts of the county. That Big hadnt come in. "Hes been a good slug of votes, S.g, We'll need 'em. "A man can't hit me like Ivea did and get by with it, Flanagan n "Looks like it works, all right! Mr. Flipp said mournfully. Jerry had gone when Andy and Dave returned to the house. Kate took Andy aside. He asked Hope to go back to town with him, she said, puzzled. "Said that Barbara Bird wanted to meet her, and that the three of them would have supper together in town. But Hope thought it might cause talk, so she refused. Whos Barbara Bird? Andy told her. I think she and Jerry like each other, he added. "I thought Jerry liked Hope. "He does. Anybody ought to like Hope. Say, he scolded, "you women are always jumping at notions!" Big Halleck came while they were at supper. He had heard the news. It's all around, he told Andy. Things spread fast m these woods. Anything I can do? "You can come in and eat with us, Andy told him. "1 want to talk to you about something. But Big was in a hurry to get back home before dark. His mother was there alone. "What's on your mind? he asked. Andy told him about the Idea of organizing the homesteader. "Well, it founds mighty good to Big told him. nodding slowly "Im with as he conxidered the plan. I you. For years we've felt l.ke outsiders, and I think it time we took a part in things. Why, there are enough votes in this swamp to swing a close election. "One of us out here will have to head it, Andy aaid. "Jerry snd Mr Bird think Its fine, but the leader should be one of us. I think youre the man. Big. The people know you and like you. Hope and Kate atarted to meet them. Cranny (aid dryly, 'Well, at least he has a lawyer who can take It liKhth!" Andy!" Kate said. "Oh. Im 10 glad youre back homel Mr. Eliot was in such a hurry to get away that I couldn't get much out of him What happened?" He told her briefly, omitting the ax handle angle, which Mr. Eliot had also neglected In hla report "There wont be much to It" he assured her. "Ill likely have to pay a small fine for disturbing the peace. The trial's set for next Wednesday." Hope bit her lip, tried to smile, then burst Into tears. This was dreadful her father In town fighting! Things had been bad enough without this! "Hey there!" Jerry called, going toward her. "It nothing to cry about. What if Flanagan had licked him? It's not who licked whom, Hope said, sobbing. "Its Its that he was in Jail! Thats the awful part. "Suppose he were still in jail and couldnt get out, Jerry argued. "And, anyway, some of our best citizens get in and out of JaiL Look at well, look at John Bunyan, for instance. "You had to look a long way back for an Instance, Granny said. "Why didn't you make It really impressive and use the Apostle Paul?( Dave and Mr. Flipp had chased the hogs away with the noisy cooperation of Bugler and Jessie Bell. Each of the dogs, in their woods roamings, had picked up the technique of persuading a hog to change locations. Under the enthusiastic of Dave and Mr. Flipp sickings-o'Well, 1 guess 1 can wait six or they had turned out a very neat job. months to fix him up, said eight When Andy reached the field, since its so imporSig Flanagan, Dave and Mr. Flipp had already set tant to get his vote. the posts. Mr. Flipp eyed Andy admiringly from the vantage point of later than this in getting home, the stump on which he sat, and she said. said: Kate was firm against carrying "Danged If you aint the one, nowl out their plan to attend church the Coin to town an whuppin Sig next morning. It was not, she Flanagan! vowed, that she was ashamed to I had some luck, Andy said face the people; it was, rather, that modestly. Hes a better man than she feared being obvious. I am. We haven't gone to hear Brother I bet he don't think so now! Cowann yet," she said, and Im I wish I could have seen that! certainly not going on the very day Dave exclaimed proudly. "Did you after Andy gets in jail! get the handle? like were disgraced, "You talk "Yes, Andy replied, but I left it a little. Well, In town. Lets get this fence up. I Andy said, bristling not. wre know how they work. Used to sell "I dont mean It like that, either. em for Mr. Jaynes." When they had finished the fence, It would just look as if we were tryMr. Flipp looked at it doubtfully. ing to prove we re good people. No, You mean that one little ol strand were not going. of wirell keep hawgs out'n them "Well, I guess youre right, Granny agreed. "It seems that a lot pertaters? "Its the current that does It, of people are against us now. No Andy told him. Its just the right need to give them a chance for height for a hog to have to squeeze more gossip. Sister Birdie would under it. but as soon as he makes have a lot to say about how we were contact he gets a shock that knocks repenting! And I'd be so much on him back. It'll do the job. the defensive that I'm afraid At that moment a fearful roar Brother Cowann might say somefrom Bugler cleft the air. They thing with a general meaning that wheeled to see what was wrong, and 'd take personally. Wed be better were quick enough to catch the off at home this Sunday. rangy young hound in the last stage Hope was not disappointed. Nor of a backward somesault. He had was Dave. The prospect of seeing touched the lone wire. When he had Oieen again was unpleasant. regained his feet, he let out a puzOn Monday morning Bigelow Halzled, pained "Ooohhhurp! and leck rode through the swamp, from streaked for the house. His thin tail farm to farm, talking with those he was tucked, and his long ears were had not seen after church service flopping. about the organization of the homesteaders. And they were listening. It Martin Meets Stiff Opposition B&vfffafjj - CW.T. PERSON win tidth-bonH'ildrrnres, eriumrnt fever sit Hoods end malerl v lb family! Andy, Kite, llope, Dave and Granny, Bben they moved to a homesteading area In eoulhrrn Arkamae. Ho pa la Involved In as Innocent etluatioa Uial nevertbeleii cautei mallrloua gossip la ba epread about her and Itaa Belihbora who Brora once friendly toon atop aeetnf tha Ivea. ytba bore porrhaeed by Big Klanayan yet Into Andye poUtaet, lha Utter (oee ta town to complain. Flanagan becomes obstreperous and Andy atrlkee him, lie I immediately arretted lor attacking A man bIUi a lethal weapon even Uioufh Uta ax ha had In hit fraa band did not enter Into tha flibt. h to the Eighteen-Inc- sounded good. On Monday morning Mr. Burke announced that he would be out for the sheriffs office. It was the most astounding political development in years. Mr. Burke, a worth-whil- e businessman, a man everybody knew and respected, a man who liked the farm people, who had even made a little talk to the homesteaders in the refugee camp, would be the first opposition the Martin ring had known in twelve years! Martin and Flanagan dear Some Bad Neics growled. "Well, he is getting by with it. Look here, we've both got enough on each other to put us behind bars for life. If I lose In this, you lose Wingless Chickens Cause Speculation Impact on Industry Studied by Growers and consumers Poultrymen throughout the United States are still speculating on the degree impact on the poultry industry of the development of wingless chickens. Peter Baumann, Des Moines, Iowa, a veterinary-su- f sales- ply man, has raised a flock of 400 such chickens and has proclaimed loud ly that they are the nearest thing alive to famed cartoonist A1 Capp s "shmoos. Baumann said he had spent 10 years developing the wingless flock, and that he expects the breed to set a new trend in chicken raising. He pointed out that the wingless chicken has a thick layer of white meat where ordinary chickens have wings. Baumann said he bad kept bis and wed both better get out of the country. I've got to be elected to save our skms. "Sam has, you mean. You know what I mean. Weve been pretty highhanded, and we'll Look, well If we beat Burke. We can fill the woods with hogs. We can turn on the pressure and make those peckerwoods glad to move out of the swamp. You can do what you please to Ives after the race is over, if we win. "Well, I guess I can wait six or eight months to fix him up, said since its so imporSig Flanagan, tant to get his vote. Tve sent after the hogs, said Sheriff Martin. "Ive sent Sam Bragg out to the swamp to see people, just to visit with them and be sociable. Sig Flanagan laughed. Youre a slick duck! "You ought to know, Sheriff Martin said, clipping the end of a cigar. He rolled it against hi tongue, tasting it "And I sent the ax handle back to Ives with the word that there wont be any triaL "You did! "I typed him a nice note, so hed know it was no trick, and told him that witnesses had come forward absolving him of blame in the matter, and that the county was not He disposed to press the case. should feel very mellow toward me for that little favor. A few nice gestures like this, the sheriff went on, and the homesteaders will begin to think I'm their friend. What about the city angle? Sig asked. "He disturbed the citys peace, didnt he? I asked Mayor Winslow to send Ives a note similar to mine, the sheriff informed him. I leave nothing unturned, Sig, when I set out to get elected. A moment later, Warden Bragg returned with news of grave import. It made Sheriff Martin curse roundly, and he promptly suspected that he had locked the barn after the horses were stolen. "Theyre talkin of organizin out there! Bragg reported. "Every man I saw didnt mention it, but two or three did; an they was so cocky that I couldnt pay a very friendly visit. A lot of those people out there are pretty sore at us. QUESTION: Our wallpaper is coming loose above our radiator. We papered three years ago this spring. We took all the old paper off and then gave the walls a good coat of glue sizing. Could you sug gest something we could use that will not loosen the paper? (We have vapor heat.) Use Simple !n Build;, ANSWER: As you say the paper loosened above the radiator, but evidently did not loosen anywhere else, I make the guess that the heat was in the radiator at the time of papering, and the heat dried out the glue size too quickly so that the paper did not make a good bond. If you are planning to repaper, make sure that the radiator is cold at the time you paper that part of the room. Our dining-roofurniture has white spots on the legs, probably caused by striking the legs with shoes. Is there some way I can touch them up? I do not want to refinish the entire piece unless I have to. QUESTION Ti AND ewitVs Lr j : ANSWER; I suppose the pieces are made of a white wood, such as maple, and the varnish has been scuffed off. I believe you will find it more satisfactory to do a good job rather than touch up the pieces with preparations for hiding the damage. However, perhaps you would rather do it this way. If so, ask your hardware dealer for one or two of the new products made for concealing scratches and other QUESTION: Pan, Pattern s 5 For those who dislike chicken wings, Teter II. Baumann, of Des Moines, Iowa, has come op with wingless chickens. He Is shown here comparing the wingless chicken (right) with an ordinary chicken (left). Eases Farm Chores required. Frothy Feature Pattern is a eerie address a, w FROTHY, beruffled doily fea name andDrawer Service, Eeci.v favorite the pineapple turing motif. Measuring 18 inches in diameter, the doily is large enough for a dining table centerpiece or occasional table. Nice holiday gift idea. 10, Pattern No. 5007 consists of complete crocheting InstrucUons, material require- - There Is a corner preparation for fixing cracks, but after a severe winter the cracks show up again. Is there any other material besides paper that would be pretty and not crack down at the corners? Our room is finished in calcimine. Would that have to be removed if covered ' with other material? ' rh y 4 somewhat different treatment from a crack in the straight wall. The plaster should be removed down to the lath on each side of the corner for a distance of 4 to 6 inches. Then a metal corner lath is nailed in place and that part of the wall then is replastered. If you cannot get corner lath, you may be able to get metal lath in strips 8 to 12 inches wide. Bend the strips at right angles to fit the corner and fasten in place. It would be advisable to have a plasterer do the job for you. The ceiling crack can be undercut to make it wider at the lath than at the surface. The plaster crumbs should be cleaned out and the groove wet with water. It then can be filled with patching plaster almost to the top and allowed to dry. It will shrink a trifle in drying. It then should be filled to the surface and smoothed level with the surrounding plaster surface. Hide Signs of Wealth In every Bantu language there is a word to describe the action of a man who, owning a considerable herd of cattle, plants them out among his poorer relatives and neighbors so that he will not appear too prosperous. Everybody knows that they are his, and just how many he has, but he must avoid any appearance of ostentation. Similarly, it is not considered advisable to own too good a house or lands that are too well cultivated. Fear of exciting the envy of the chief is one of the motives that govern this attitude of mind, which always has been a powerful brake to the progress of Bantu agriculture in South Africa. 70 Sta-fu- longer avaragejfe. Battery Saves Time and l The amazing new Auto-L- it Sta-f- Money" Battery has greater ordinary batteries needs water only 3 times a year. Batteries have mate for longer bottery lit. Battery belter battery. See your neighborhood Auto-lit- e Fibre-gla- Toledo I ss AUTO-II- BATTIR Y CORPORATION U tfSP Wagon unloaders are among the latest electrical devices to be developed for farm chore use. Most types are still in the experimental stage, but many sections of the country already are using them to a large extent. In Wisconsin, for example, 50 per cent of the farmers who have forage harvesters also have electric wagon unloaders. Under ordinary circumload can be stances, a three-to- n handled with an electric unload-e- r by one man in five minutes. Cost of operation is low, with power provided by a i horsepower portable motor which can be used on other farm machines when not connected to the unloader. Narrow Poultry Houses Give Way to New Style D. D. Moyer, extension poultry specialist at Ohio State university, says the narrow type poultry house 15 to 20 feet deep is giving away to houses 30 to 40 feet in depth, built long enough to house 500 and more birds. Moyer cites a number of advant ages in the new style housing Wall space is cut down, heat loss reduced, cleaning is easier and it is less trouble to move equ.pment JiA: g;veis ANSWER: A corner crack needs chicken breed a secret because he wanted to be sure it was a success. He studied animal husbandry at Iowa State college and asserts his wingless chickens are not a "freak. A freak does not reproduce, he argued. The ancestors of this new breed of chicken, Baumann said, came from Texas. He was traveling through that state in the 30s when he acquired a light Brahma rooster and a white Minorca hen. Each bird had only stubs for wings. He bred them, he said, and was astounded when the hen hatched wingless chickens. He then began experimenting and breeding. Baumann reported that at first he got only three or four wingless birds out of 100 eggs. Now, he said, about 95 of every 100 chicks have no wings at all. Some of the others, he said, have stubs or a stub on one side and a wing on the other. iJ direction for rr.ak.-- f cffee table, end u tables, a telephone r other useful tables and stock sues' crick in our bedroom wall and the ceiing has cracks. We have used Well, said the high sheriff, biting his cigar with quick, angry snaps of his jaws, Til swear! The It was a move that had odd and apparently unrelated repercussions. Sheriff Martin, who had planned to run Sam Bragg for sheriff this time, began to look about for a better tool. On Monday afternoon two big trucks carrying saddled horses, riders, and a pack of trained hog dogs came into the swamp and parked at the far end of the bayou bridge. Riders and dogs began scouring the woods for the live property of Sig Flanagan and his silent partners. It was a swift move, for Sheriff Martin was a man of action under What? proper threat to his welfare. Thata right; you don't know I dont care how you feel about he said to Sig Flanagan, about that part of it And ba exIves, who be had summoned to the plained that complication. courthouse early that Aernoon. (TO BE CONTINUED) Roger C. Whitman blemishes on furniture or ask at a furniture store. Andy Gets Notes From Mayor, Sheriff homesteaders are organizing! Whos behind it? You find out? "That Halleck boy had been ridin about, talkin it up. I heard that Ives is in with him on it too. You see! Sig Flanagan broke in. "Hes a troublemaker! Head off the notes an that ax handle. Lets put him in jail for a while. Maybe it'll stop this thing. "Dont be a fool, Sig! I cant head off the notes 1 sent an hour Besides, let em organize. ago. Maybe we can work on the whole crowd better that way, anyhow. And if Ives did get in jail, some-body-d make a big thing out of it for Burkes race. No, we've got to play this thing slick and easy." Andys suspicions were aroused by the prompt move to get the hogs out of the swamp. They were heightened by the very unexpected messages from Sheriff Martin and Mayor Winslow. He studied the sheriffs message, and then the mayors. Its a trick! he said to Dave when the boy caught up with him on the nd they were plowing "There something crooked here. Id better see Jerry about it." He handed Dave the papers. An the sheriff -- t my ax handle too. Your ax handle? Dave inquired. fcy 3 times as many prefer FLEISCiii -- f flj jID |