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Show 3 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH Our Watch Experts The Man Nobody Know what makes the, wheels go 'round. They can make a poor watch go and a good one keep accurate time. Send your .watch by registered mail. BOYD PARK FOUNDED 1002 (Copyright by Dodd. Mead ft Co., Inc.) LET EM MAKE ME LOOK LIKE THAT! Everyone knows about the Legion Etrangere the famous Foreign Legion of the French army. Well, Richard Morgan of Syracuse, N. Y., enlisted in the Foreign Legion in the great war under the name of Henry Hilliard. So you can guess that the hero was not in love with himself or with life. The Hun sent him to the hospital with a wounded knee and arm and a face pretty much shot away with shrapnel. The surgeons fixed up his knee and his arm. When they proposed to restore his features, he lied and said he had no photograph of himself. And in his rage against life he caught up a picture postcard bearing the radiant face of Christ and cried: Let 'em make me look like that! Or anything else, either I dont give a d n! The French surgeons were interested and did a good job. And presently The Man Nobody Knew is back in Syracuse, telling of the death of Dick Morgan and selling mining stock and falling deeper in love with Carol Durant, the only girl of his old life who had refused to marry Dick Morgan, the failure. Well, rather especially when the Complications! stock mining apparently turns out to be worthless and the in world who knows Hilliards secret dies pf man the only hero finds out that the heroine did love the apoplexy and Dick Morgan. And Holworthy Hall handles these complications and these real, human characters and this American community in the masterly way that makes him read from one end of the country to the other these days. Good reading! ... CHAPTER I. In the beginning of things, he was merely a number; but even that was creditable, because his number was low enough to signify that he had responded pretty- promptly to the rallying call. After that, and with the cataclysmic suddenness which marked all Changes of military status on the western front, he became, one frosty morning, a Case, find got himself roughly classified (and tenderly handled) as a Stretcher Case, a Grand Blesse, and. In consequence, a proper temporary inmate of a field hospital on the Belgian plains. There, he was unofficially known as Joyeaux, or Joyous One; not because he displayed a very buoyant disposition far from it I but because he belonged to the Foreign legion; and in the course of another day or two he as an Evacue, was routine-ticketeand provided with a lukewarm bottle and a couple of cigarettes to console him on the road to the base hospital at Neu-lll- y 4 i , d hot-wat- er y. ' At Neullly he became, for the first time since his enlistment, an Individual, and at the very outset be was distinguished by certain qualities which had passed unnoticed in the frying pan and fire of the trenches. For one thing, he was obviously immune to kindness; and for another, he was apparently immune to hope. He was a man f inveterate silence; not the grim silence of fortitude in suffering (which Is altogether too common a virtue ha base hospitals to earn any especial merit), bat rather the dogged reticence of black moods and chronic bitterness. To be snre, speech was physically difficult to him, but other men with similar misfortunes spoke blesBings with their eyes, and gave back gratitude In voiceless murmurs. Hot as the Joyous One. From the day of his arrival he demanded nothing, desired nothing, bnt to brood sullenly aloof; and so, when he became an Individual, he also became a mystery to the nursing staff. It was rumored that be was an Implacable woman hater, and there seemed to be something in It Regardless of the care of the American nurses .(all hoverlngly attentive to one of their own nation who had fought for France), his spirit remained abysmal and clouded in gloom. Only twice, in the initial month of his confinement did he betray the weakness of an ordinary emotion ; on each occad sion a general had come to salute, in the name of the republic, one Of the Individuals neighbors, and to deliver a bit of bronze which dangled from a ribbon striped red and green. It was said (and doubted by those who hadnt seen it) that at these ales the Individual had grown feverish, and let tears come to his eyes, but subsequently he had relapsed into still greater depths of stoicism than was lnno- before; his own Of cross or medal, and his depres-wa- a apparent, and aente. The nurses, arguing that perhaps his pride WPS wounded as seriously as his flesh, ffered quick. condolence and got themselves rebuffed with shrugs of the Individual's shoulders, and inarticulate sounds which bad all the earmarks of suppressed profanity. He didnt even soften when Pierre DutouL a hard-hi- t territorial in the next bed, squandered a days supply of energy to lean across snd whisper sympathetically to him: Old roan . . . VJeux espece de choux--erouI know how it is . . . nd I haven't got any friends either. gold-lace- bed-jack- et ... te MAKERS OF JEWELRY By HOLWORTHY HALL he burst out: Well, theres nothing to prevent . . . Then they could make me not look like it, If they wanted to ! , Isnt that so? She regarded him In vast perplexity, and thought of summoning a. surgeon, for the man had begud to quiver as though from shell 'shock which he hadnt undergone. Why, I dont understand what you she said soothingly. But if mean, ' youll just be calm and The Individual gestured with fierce , impatience. If they can do what you say, and make me look like any old thing they choose to, then what In the devil are they asking for a photograph for? Why, to go by, she said helplessly. You want to look like your old self, dont you? No, I dont! The nurse gasped. His tone had been churlish, but the echo of it vaguely His suggested triumph and relief symptoms had subsided . . . could it be that he actually was relieved? Dumfounded, she made another effort to convince hiqi. But you want to look just as nearly like Dont you suppose I know what I want? he interrupted rudely. But havent you a photograph, anyway, that I can , 1 No, I havent! he snapped. havent. It was a lie; the passport photograph was in the lining of a certain wallet, and he Jiad hid It there for reasons of his own. But now that one great danger was definitely past, and a still further bulwark of protection offered, if the nurse spoke tfuth, the Individual could afford to come out from ambush. And I dont wapt I want you to take my Croix de to look the way I did before, and whats more I never did ! But If your Guerre. . . . When I go nowhere. Even when speech returned to the doctors are half as smart as they Individual he was a man of curt re- think they are let em make me look like that! Or anything else either sponses and stinging monosyllables nI a problem to the surgeons, a problem I dont give a d Shocked and horrified, she was gazto the nurses and (If the expression in his eyes meant anything), an over- ing at a picture postcard he had whelming problem to himself. It ap- snatched from under his pillow and peared that, after all. It wasnt simply thrust upon her. It was a reproducwomen that he hated It was the uni- tion of a religious painting by Bembrandt. It was the radiant face of the verse. i f 4 ' , His military book implied that he Christ. had no parents, no close relations, no CHAPTER II. friends to notify, no Jixed abode. He received no visitors, no letters, no Nine oclock on a night In June not packages freighted with magical de- a June heavy-starre- d on velto But who those light pitied him in vet,, butevening, with a June furious night, all his loneliness he was utterly conStygian blackness looping overhead, temptuous; he even went so far as to and Stygian water battering and boilfillip sidelong to the floor a religious the hull plates. The ship ing against post card tendered him by a devout was dark as the night itself; blind and sentimental passer-by- , and he did dark, without a single ray to play the it in her presence, unashamed. Later, traitor. On deck a solitary venturer when a smiling orderly picked up that the rail, and apathetically post card and tucked it under his pil- hugged low he was no less contemptuous in watched the waves tear past. Out of 'the warmth and cheer and permitting it to remain. But the one the vitiated atmosphere of the smokstupendous fact which, more than all room came Martin Harmon, big, else combined, made him an object of ing A heaving lift of bewildered curiosity was this that of florid, exuberant sent the deck him lurching sidewise; the scores and scores of men with who were reborn at Neu-ill- y he saved his balance by struggling that spring and summer, he was the only one who had never asked for a mirror. . This, of itself, wouldnt have been astonishing as long as he delayed in the preliminary stages of recovery, for now and then a man with e ; but in proves to be the second stage it was remarkable, and in the third stage it was nnlque. The staff held it to be extraordinary from a social as well as from a pathological viewpoint, that a man so terribly disfigured should have no interest not even a morbid interest in his own appearance. And it wasnt that the Individual was simply indifferent to the mirror; on the contrary, his aversion to It was active and energetic; he flinched, and motioned It frantically away as though the mere conception of seeing himself as others saw him was too repellant. and too unthinkable to endure. There came a day In April when a photograph was requested of him. Surely he knew where there was a likeness of himself, didnt he? His old passport photograph, which had mysteriously disappeared, or The Individual glanced up from his present task; the wound in his arm Let Them Make Me Look Like That was still annoying and he was abwrite with his toward the rail, when suddenly the sorbed In learning-t- o left hand. slope was reversed, and he slipped and slid to the barrier of safety, What for?" he muttered. Why, said thd nurse, cheerfully, clutched it, and found himself at arms "for a model. To help the surgeons. length from the lonely watcher, who Theyll take your picture for a guide hadn't stirred, or even turned his and make you look almost exactly the head. Hello!" said Harmon, his surprise way you did before. The Individual from America sat up tinctured with easy familiarity. Some ! straight, so that the nurse was startled night It Is. was The tone of the reYes, which his animation, without, by sponse was eurt, so curt that Harmon a parallel in his local history. a What! he said. instinctively leaned forward to discover in nurse what expression of countenance The spoke Certainly! the tone one uses to an ailing child. went with It. The night was so black that he might as well have tried to Youve known that, havent you? The Individuals voice was queerly penetrate a curtain of solid fabric. You Seen any yet? he asked unmanageable and strained. mean to say theyre going to make me humorously. Not yeb The taciturn one moved look the way . . . Could they do that? d a trifle away ; a man less Could they? Even now? Why, of course, she assured him. and less dined and wined than HarYou never told me that! he said, mon would probably have taken the passionately. Why didnt yon? Why hint and removed himself, but Harcouldnt yon have told met And here mons was an inquisitive disposition, He put his hands to and he never attempted to curb It Ive been his bandaged face and seemed to he was the sort of traveling companshrink within himself. Then all at once ion who makes Christians reflect ; head-woun- head-woun- $uper-sensltlv- ts thin-skinne- ..." MO MAIN STREET Thats the last thing in the world Id have . . . but, say I You must have been a whirlwind! Why, a man with a presence like years would hardly have to open his mouth Youve got a sort of . . . Ill be hanged if I know what to call it . . . but a kind of feeling, if you know what I mean. Salesman! Why, all you need is an introduction and a dotted liner v The young man laughed rather forcomprehension. lornly and sipped his vichy. Just at present I havent either. Oh, I see! You mean the war! Harmons gaze was unfaltering, and And youve been right on the spot where the fighting is? Pretty lively his interest and admiration bounded up there, Isnt it? Something stirring higher. Mechanically, in accordance - ' most all the time? with his habits, he was striving to disThe other mans cover how this new acquaintance I Imagine so. Was accent was amazingly diffident, and might be put to practical use. Hannon peered at him, incredulous. Good Lord, dont you know? Not a great deal. I happened to get hit the first day I was in the trenches. . But yon got in It again afterward, I suppose? Ill bet you did! on the definition of justifiable homicide. What is your line? he inquired after a pause. The other man laughed queerly. The 'first . . ' . if it makes so much difference to you. Beg pardon? I dont quite get you. i You said ' I said the first line. I meant the first-lin- e trenches. Ive been In It." Harmon jerked his head upward In Good Lord! SALT LAKE CITY WALKERS BEAUTY PARLORS ) Salt Lake City, Utah. Order your Hair Goods by mail through us. Switches $5 and up. Transformations, $10 and up. Order your ear muffs and curls at $5 a set. The best of human hair furnished. Cut sample of hair from - crown of your head and we will matehit perfect. 1 ... ' If you want big wages learn WANTED fc barber trade- - Many email towns need barbers: good opportuneaes open for men over draftage. Barbers m army have- rood as officers comm'SRlonftpt prepared n few weeks. Cal) or write. Moler Barber College, 43 8. West Temple St.. Salt Luke City. urip French. thats some record! said That t cerHarmon appreciatively. tainly is some record! Not to say tough luck the toughest kind. Going back home, I take It? Looks that way,. doesnt It? Hnrmon ignored the sarcasm. Back to work, eh? What did you say your line Is? I didnt say. I havent any Just Well, ' Thanks for the compliment . ' "Oh, Its no compliment! Anybody can make money these days. Its a plain statement of fact . . . Say, lets go In and have something. Come In and be sociable. What you wants a drink. Am I right or am I wrong? 1 Well And , thats what the doctor or- . on me. s dered! Come The other man hesitated, and at last succumbed, out o& sheer unconcern, to a companionship he realized in advance would be distasteful. All right, he consented briefly; and together, arm in arm. they stumbled and tacked across the treacherous deck, and presently crossed the threshold into the hazy light of the smoking room. Harmon, smiling broadly, wiped the brine from his smarting eyes. "Now, then, he said, "what particuAnd lar brand of poison do you broke off short and stared, fascinated, at the extraordinary young man in front of him. He was anywhere from twenty-fiv- e to forty, this American from the distant trenches, and his age was as hard to gness as a clever womans; there was something about him peculiar to youth, and yet when his face was in repose, he might easily have claimed two score of years and gone undisputed. It was a face which suggested both the fire of immaturity and the drain of experience ; there was breathtaking gravity' about! 1L a hint of the dignity of marble, of ageless permanence. It was a slightly thin 'face, scarred by a heavy line or two, and Indelibly stamped with, the evidence of intense thought and inward suffering; but it lacked the hollows which, at the first glance, should have supported the evidence. It was a thin and oval face, with a mouth of large and sympathetic sweetness, a forehead whtie and high, a prominent, delicate nose, and irises of clear, luminous gray. If wasnt altogether an Anglo-Saxo- n type of countenance, nor was it definitely European ; It seemed rather to have taken all the better qualities from, several races. It was a face to inspire immediate trust and confidence and respect, and Harmon, despite his lack of practice in all three of these reactions, was evidently aton!-It- tracted by It. for. me, said the man indifferently. "Ill . . . I guess Ill have vichy If it too, said Harmon, relaxing. wasnt for something I cant just describe Td say . . . well, never mind. Er , . . what business have you been in, by the way? The younger mans reply was tardy and not particularly gracious. Why, the longest time I ever put in at any one business was selling insurance. The last thing I did was to sell bonds. Why? A salesman i Harmon stiffened. Vichy-Celesti- old-you- for-thei- r 1,000-pound- s Woods halfpence were destined to bring upon Ireland. The government became alarmed. A report to the-pricouncil made In July. 1724. defended the patent to Wood, bnt recommended that the amount to be tolned now. the bat! CamDe- was-neve- What! You never got back at all? one day, and youre through? Yes. After I was discharged from hospital I was discharged from the army too. Permanently unfit. "English army? 1 CIRCULATION e Wood's halfpence, which was been placed for use In Ireland by Great Britain about V100 years ago, circulated in Erin, as a result of the efforts of Jonathan Swift,, at the time (lean of St. Patricks in Dublin, where be was in "exile. and whir-hafor ten years previously been attacking the attitude of the British toward Ireland. Swifts fight a'gainst the circulation of the coin came when Great Britain decided to farm out the contract manufacture to a certain William Wood, on condition .that he should pay , the government a year for 14 years. In his famous Drapier letters' Swift gradually built up a picture of the ruin which Just Harmon pondered a second. Oh! Gentleman of leisure?' Soldier of fortune, eh? Well, I wouldnt worry if I were you. Youre disappointed ; thats natural . . . but the world hasnt come to an end yet. Of course it Is something of a come-dow- n to leave the army and get Into harness again, but after all theres plenty of excitement right In the United States. Big money Big work to be done, son make. And it helps the war along, too. I tell yiiu there never was a bigger opportunity to make money than there Is right this minute. The hard job isnt to find the scheme ; Its to find the men to rnn 1L Dont you worry . . . youll land something right off ' IN Dean Swift's Notable Victory In paign Againat Unpopular Coin signed for Ireland. No. No PUT NEVER should be reduced. In the end Lord Carteret was sent to Ireland as lord lieutenant to endeavor to settle the matter on the Lord Carbasis of this compromise. teret offered a reward of 300 pounds for the discovery of the author of the Drapier letters, and ordered a prosecution against the printer upon his ar-- ' rival. Swift boldly reproached him with his tyranny. ' then looked calmly .on while the grancj! jury threw out the-bil- l Meaning What7" I right, or was I wrong? Playing in hard luck dont strengthen a mans courage much, even If he tries to bluff himself into thinking it does. Cut out the regret stuff ; thats my advice, and you can take It or 'leave iL Forget all that tough luck you had over here, agqlnst,the printer In spite of all and get busy figuring out how you're efforts of the chief Justice to sethe on all your experigoing to cash in cure Its return. The next grand ence. Americas full of chances halfpence as a nuiyoull land something big in no time. sance whichWoods the end of It all, marked It if you 'try.. Salesman Cant help the coin never circulating In Ireland. Son, youre carrying your best recommendation right on top of your own PREYS ON HARMFUL RODENTS shoulders! The young man gave him back a wry smile and finished his vichy. According to This Writer, the Owl la I only hope It comes true, he said. Really a Good Friend of the Harmon looked at him Steadily, and Agriculturist - r falling under the spell of those radiant features stared and stared until he still Superstition dings to the owl. came to himself and all at once due largely to Ignorance and lack of brought his fist down on the table, bo discrimination. When twilight falls the owl comes that the glasses rang again. forth from some remote recess where Well, why shouldnt It? As a matIt has spent the day in sleep, and utter of facL why shouldnt It? The younger mans expression hadn't tering a peevish cry, hurries out upon Its foraging expedition. As the tired changed. Meaning what? fanner Is lost In refreshing sleep, this Meaning, said Harmon deliberately, that the first thing Ive got to do bird, against which the hand of maa es when I get home is to hunt up a couple has been raised for centuries,' Are ' you Its beneficial work which only of good salesmen myself. ceases . when the first rays of the hunting for a good Job, or arent you? Arent you a little hasty? The morning sun coma slanting over the young mans Intonation was sardonic. hilltops, blinding its eyes and sending It quickly to' cover. Ive cleaned up most of my money, The great orbs of the owl are resaid Harmon very slowly to the cellI markably developed and are keenest by making quick decisions. ing, make up my mind pretty fast. If you In the early hours of the night and can Interest me on short notice you morning, when many harmful rodents can Interest other people. Mind you, are most active. Marvelous, indeed. Is were just discussing this sort of the sight that enables it to strike the thinking out loud. No obligation on tiny moose In the darkness. either side. Doesnt do any harm to Owls are the natural check upon talk about iL does it? this multitude, and thus are of InesThen suppose, said the young man timable value to agriculture. From placidly, you define your Idea of a an economic standpoint. It would be good job. Im rather particular." hard to find a more useful bird. Los But you admit youre out of luck, Angeles Times, and r But you admit I'm a whirlwind." Early United 8tates Coins. The young man smiled with faint The office of the director of the mint amusemenL says that the earliest eolns were auI said you ought to be with train-inthorized by act of congress of April 2, 171$. This act authorized the manuThe young mans mouth turned up- facture of the ten dollar gold eagle, ward at the corners. half eagle, quarter eagle, and the silGo ahead and describe the Job. ver dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar, Well, my Idea of a pretty sweet Job dime and half dime. It would be Imfor a man of your age Is to start, of possible to state which were minted course about twenty a week and first, as they were all coined about the commissions. same time. Yes? What per cent commission?" Use the Fleeting Moments. Oh, eight to ten per cenb If a genius like Gladstone carried The young man glanced at Hannon and laughed quietly. through life a book In his pocket, lest Youre a broker, of course, but that an unexpected spare moment slip from doesn't sound much like conservative his grasp, what should we of common Investment securities to me. What abilities not resort to, to save the precious moments from oblivion? ExIs It industrials? change. Harmon grimaced. Yes, Im a broker." He aet down Milch Goats in America. his glass and fumbled for a card. Six thousand goats are listed in the There! But I was thinking more about stocks than bonds. Some new ; American milch goat registry. Three The Toggen-burg- s Montana properties copper and zinc. breeds are recognized. were originally Imported from , Metals are the big noise these days. I guess you realize that, dont you? the valley of that name In Switzerland. ' They are distinguished by exact brown Munition work. , and white markings, especially about the head. Saanen goats hall from the Saanen valley, Switzerland, and are Ill show em whether n pure white. The goats I can make good or not! are a cross between the common English goat and the Nubians ef Africa. (TO BE CONTINUED They an a spotted variety and vary la ' com-menc- - g. I Anglo-Nuhla- |