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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH The MARDI GRAS MYSTERY by i (f RBedford --Jones Illusirations btj Irwin Mtjers v TAKES Copyright by Doubledag . Pag? and Company NO CHANCES blazing star sapphires. Beside It the diamonds that bejeweled Mrs. Maillards ample front looked cold and ON MASQUER. lifeless. Synopsis During tha height of tile New Orleans carnival season Jarhin Fell, wealthy though somewhat mysterious citizen, and Dr Anslev, are discussing a series of robberies by an Individual known as the Midnight Masquer, who, Invariably attired as an aviator, has long defied the police. Joseph Mall-larwealthy banker, is giving a ball that night, at which the Masquer has threatened to appear and rob the guests. Fell and Ansley, on their way to the affair, meet a girl dressed as Columbine, seemingly known to Fell. d. CHAPTER I i2 Continued. 'And Halliard would do the paying." Fells dry chuckle held a note of bitterness. Let him. Who cares? Look at his house, there, blazing with lights. Why pays for those lights? The people his financial tentacles have closed their sucker-ltk- e grip upon. His wifes Jewels have been purchased with the coin of oppression and injustice. His sons life is one of roguery and drunken wildness " i Man, are you road? Ansley indicated the Columbine between them. Were not alone here you must not talk that way Jachin Fell only chuckled again. Columbines laugh broke in with renewed t gaiety : We Nonsense, my dear Galen masquers may admit among ourselves that Bob Malllard Is "Is not the man we would have our daughters marry, provided we had daughters," said Fell. They had come to a file of limousines and cars, and approached the gateway of the Malllard home. They turned into the gate. Jachln Fell touched the arm of Ansley and indicated an inconspicuous figure to one side of the entrance steps. An outer guardian, he murmured. "Our host, it seems. Is neglecting no I feel sorry for the precaution! Masquer, If he appears here. They caipe to the doorway. Columbine produced an invitation, duly numbered, and the three entered the bouse together. 1 That? queried Lucie, Innocently, producing a scrap of chamois and dabbing at her nose. Oh, thats very Ine teresting ! It was made for Queen so was this scarf that keeps my ragged hair from lopping out! They were a present only this morning. Girl The ladys voice was harsh. A present? From whom, If you please? Oh, I promised not to tell; hes a particular friend of mine. Aren't the stones pretty? Mrs. Maillard was speechless. She compressed her firm lips and watched Lucie replace the sapphire collar without a word to offer. Silently she extended a corsage bouquet from the pile beside her; then, in a trembling voice, forced herself to explain about the favor Inside. Slipping her mask Into place Lucie was gone, not without relief. She knew very well that within half an hour Bob Malllard would be Informed that she had accepted gifts of Jewels from other men, with all the accompanying implications and additions that Imagination could furnish. For, although Bob Malllard wanted very much Indeed to marry her, his mother had no intention of sanctioning such a Hor-tenp- 1 union. "Neither has Uncle Joseph, she re- flected, smiling to herself, and neither have II So were all agreed, except Bob. Columbine ! A hand fell upon her wrist. Columbine I Turn and confess thy sins! She had come to the foot of the wide, stairway that led to the floors above, and beside her had CHAPTER II. Masquers. Joseph Malllard might have hopefully considered the note from the Midnight Masquer to be a hoax perpetrated by some of his friends, but he took no chances. Two detectives w ere posted In the grounds outside the house; inside, two others, masked and costumed, were keeping a quietly efficient eye on all that transpired. Each guest upon entering was conducted directly to the presence of Joseph Maillard himself, or of his wife; was bidden to unmask in this private audience, ard was then presented with a favor and sent .forth masked anew to the festivities. These favors were concealed, In the case of the Judies, in corsage bouquets; In that of the men, inside faise cigars. There was to be a general opening of the faiors at midnight, the time set for unmasking. All tills ceremony was regarded by the guests as a delightful innovation, and by Joseph Maillard as a delightful way of assuring himself that only invited guests entered his house. Invitations might be forged faces, never!, Lucie Ledanois entered the presence of her stately relative, and after unmasking, dutifully exchanged kisses with Airs. Maillard. Until some months previously, 'fffttH she had come into the management of her own property or what was left of It Lucie had been the ward of the Maillards. Mercy, child, how marvelous you exclaimed Mrs. Maillook ton'glit! lard. holding her off and examining her high color with obvious suspicion. Thank you, maam, and Lucie made Do you like little a mock courtesy. Columbine? Very much. Heres Aunt Sally; take Miss Lucies cloak, SaHy. An old colored servant bobbed her head In greeting to Lucie, who removed her cloak. As she did so, she saw that Mrs. Maillards eyes were fastened In utter amazement upon her throat. she asked, Isnt tmllir.gly. The stem My goodness gracious! Where where on eyes hardened. earth did you obtain such a thing? Why Why-- , Columbines features flinched. She was a poor relation, of course, so the look In the older womans eyes and the Implication of the words formed little less than sn Insult. Quietly she put one hand to her throat and removed the collar, dropping It into the hand of Mrs. Malllard. ft thing to make any woman's yer widen a Collar of exquisitely wrought gold studded with ten great It - pretty, auntie? Frighten Me, Holy Man!" She Cried, Gayly. Confess to You, Indeed! Not 1," You suddenly appeared a Franciscan monk, cowled and gowned In sober brown from head to foot. You frightened me, holy man! she Confess to you, Indeed I cried, gaily. Not I. j Never a better chance, butterfly of the world. Haste not to the dance, fair sister tarry a while and Invite the soul in speech of Import! Having passed the dragon at the gate, tarfy a moment with this man of vows Shrive me quickly, then, she said, laughing. Now, without confession? Would you have me read your thoughts and give penance? If you can do that, holy man, I may confess ; so prove it quickly ! The Franciscan leaned forward. Ills and voice came low, distinct, clear-cu- t, he spok in the French which Lucie understood as anotl er mother-tonguas do most of the older families of New Orleans. See how I read them, mademoiselle! One thought Is of uneasy suspicion; It is typified by a grasping man. One thought is of i regret ; It Is typified by a darsly welling stream of oil. One thought Suddenly Lucie And shrunk away Who who are you? she from him. breathed, with a gasp that was almost of fear. Who are you, monsieur? "A humble brother of minor orders, Shall I not continue and he hawed. with my reading? The third, mademoiselle, Is one of hope; it Is typified by a small man who Is dressed all In gray Lncle turned away from him quickly. think that you have madfe some grave error, monsieur, she said. Her voice was cold, charged with dismissal e, hard-lippe- "I and offended dignity. I pray you, excuse me. Not waiting any response, she has tlly ran up the stairs. After her, for a moment, gazed the Franciscan, then shrugged his wide shoulders and plunged Into the crowd. -While she danced, while' she chattered and laughed and entered into the mad gaiety of the evening, Lucie Le-thominous Franciscan. How could danois could not banish from her mind be have known? How could he have guessed what , only she and one other barely suspected? There was no proof, of course; the very breath of suspicion seemed a calumny against an upright man! Joseph Malllard had sold that Terrebonne land six months before any gas or oil had been discovered there, and eight months before Lucie had come Into the management of her own affairs. He had not known about the minerals, of course ; it was a case only of bad judgment. Yet, Indubitably, he was now a shareholder and officer In the Bayou Dll company the concern which had bought that strip of land. ' Lucie strove angrily to banish the dark thoughts from her mind.. Why, Maillard was a rich man, a banket an honorable gentleman To doubt his honor, although he was a harsh and a stern man, was Impossible. Lucie knew him better than most, and could not believe May I crave pardon for my error? came a voice at her elbow. She turned, to see the Franciscan again beside her. With a thousand apologies for Ifnperllnence, mademoiselle; I am very Will not that sorry for my faults. admission obtain for me one little dance, one hint of forgiveness from BEST PLAN TO RAISE CALVES Minnesota Idea la to Give Youngstsra Good 8tart and Then Feed . Hay and Grain. 1 fair Columbine? 1 5 the Midnight Maequer. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Tell-Tal- e (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) Rivaling in Inaccessibility our cliff dwellings in the Southwest, but guarded by tropical verdure rather than by desert sands, France has, tucked away In thj dense forests of Indo-Chln- Something In his voice spelt sincerity. Lucie, smiling, held out her hand. You are pardoned, holy man. If you can dance in that friars robe, . then try It I Could he dance. Indeed Who conld not dance with Columbine for partner? So saying, the monk proved his word by the deed and proved It well. Nor did he again hint that he had recognized her; until, as they parted, he once more left her astonished and perturbed. As he bowed he murmured : Beware, sweet Columbine 1 Beware of the gay Aramls! Beware of his proposals ! He was gone upon the word. Aramls? Why, that must be the Musketeer, of eourse Bob Maillard! The name, with its implications, was a clever hit. But who was this brown monk, who seemed to know so much, who danced so divinely, whose French was like music? A vague suspicion was la the girls mind, but she had no f proof. Half an hour after this Bob Malllard Came to her, and with impatient words made a path through the circle which surrounded her. I know you now, Lucie ! he murmured. I must see you at once in the conservatory. She was minded to refuse, but assented briefly. The words of the monk Intrigued her; what had the man guessed? If Bob were Indeed about to propose, she would this time cut off his hopes for good. But was it that sort of a proposal? As she managed to rid herself of her admirers, and descended to the conservatory, she was highly vexed with herself and the Franciscan, and so came to her appointment In no equable flame of mind. She found Maillard waiting In the conservatory; he had unmasked, and was puffing a cigarette. By gad. Lucie, youre beautiful tonight. Where did you get that collar of jewels? Indeed! The girl proudly drew herself up. What business is Vmt of yours, sir? Arent you ooe of the family? D n It Lucie! Dont you know that 1 want to marry you My dear Robert, I certainly do not want to marry any man who swears to uiy face you least of all ! she 1 have coldly Intervened. already refused you three times ; let this be the fourth and last. Now, kindly inform me why you wished me to meet you here. I have a chance to make some money for you in a hurry, he said. Your father left you a good deal of land up Bayou Terrebonne way Your father sold some of It, she put in, Idly. His eyes flickered to the thrust. Yes; but youve plenty left, near Paradis. Its away from the gas field, hut Im interested in an oil company. Weve plenty of money, and were going to go strong after the liquid gold. That land of yours is good for nothing else, and If you want to make some money out of It Ill swing the company into leasing at a good figure and drilling there. You think theres oil on the land? No. He made a swift, energetic To be frank, 1 gesture of dissent. dont. But Td like to throw a bit of luck your way, Lucie. That fellow Gramont the prince, you know him hes an engineer and a geologist, and hes in the swim. Next week Stairway of the Central lower, Angkor Wat. Trait. You cannot rightly judge people what others say about them, but yol can by what they sa 1 about others. Boston Transcript -- Perhaps the easiest way to have good time Is to go ahead and have It some of the most extensive and most magnificent ruins in the world. They are the great temples and other buildings of the Khmers, a race about which little is now known, though inscriptions abound and await the work of some clever decipherer. Outside of the Siamese and Cambodians, very few people have heard of Angkor, or know that such a nation as the Khmers ever lived, conquered, worked, and perished from the face of the earth. In America even now It Is doubtful if there are many who have heard of Angkor Tom and Angkor Wat, so completely have these splendid ruins been hidden In the Cambodian jungle and kept from civilization by natural barriers. Up to recent years not many travelers ever visited Angkor, and some of those who did never returned to tell the story, for the country has been from time lmmegiorial inhospitable to strangers. It Is said that the Romans sent an envoy in the time of its greatest activity.' Hie Chinese have from time to time sent envoys and made treaties, and have left the earliest descriptions so far discovered and deciphered. Mnrco Polo mentioned the place, but did not see It. Journey Up the Mekong. a One visiting naturally goes first to Saigon, capital and chief port, and It is from there that the d ruins Journey to the will begin. A railroad Journey of 44 miles takes the traveler to the end of the line at Mytho. From this pgint the journey is up the broad Mekong river by steamboat for the next 24 hours; and you are not sorry when it is ended, either, for the accommodations are anything but luxurious. The Mekong is one of the worlds greatest streams; It is the one great river of the peninsula of A sheet of yellow water a mile or so wide, fringed with coconut and arlca palms; some banyans, bananas, and a tangle of liana vines; an occasional bird, or two, a native sampan, a Chinese' junk ; patches of rice and acres of swamp land; no hills In sight to relieve the monotony such is the vista of the first days Journey which lands you at Pnom Penh, the modem capital of Cambodia. An attractive little place Is Pnom d streets It takes Penh, with the French to make roads and keep them good a. gentle monsoon to cool the air; a few characteristic buildings of the Cambodian royalty, suggesting a general flavor of mild decay; a floor and pagoda with a silver-platean absent-minde- d looking Buddha made out of glass, attended by a priestess clad in gold and glittering with diamonds; a "library without a book in It ; a procession of Buddhist priests in bright yellow robes; natives in bright-colore- d silks and cottons and, above Pnom itself, a structure all, the erected as a monument and possessing some lines of beauty that more than atone for its grotesque features.' At Pnom Penh one may go by water np a tributary of the Mekong, or he may roll by motor over a good French-bui- lt road to Kompong Chang on the shores of the queer lake,' Tonle Sap. This body of wnter Is a natural overIn the flow basin for the Mekong. rainy season It becomes 60 feet deep In some places, but during the dry period it is little more than a sea of Indo-Chln- forest-inclose- Indo-Chln- a. well-pave- -- d mud. launch takes one acres the lake, though this modern craft cannot come close to shore and must be boarded and left by sampan. .One transfers to his sampan apparently far wit in the lake, a distant line of trees marking what he supposes is the shore. Eut the discovery is made before long that the line of trees Is not fhe shore but the edge of a submerged forest. Grandeur of the Ruins. first The glimpse one gets of the ruins Is when a rounded tower appears through the trees a mile or so distant, Inst a moment, and then no more till you are there. It Is Angkor Wat, the most recent, the best preserved, the most classic and ornate of them all, though not the largest. There are A many others scattered about this wide plain, including Angkor Tom, only a mile away; but these are all ruins. Indeed, while the wat might still be called a building. Standing in front of the temple grounds (the word wat means a temple), you see a moat some 80 rods wide surrounding the premises like a medieval castle, and crossed by a stone causeway leading to the main entrance. This entrance Is Itself a massive tower, flanked by two others only a little smaller, set In the inclosing wall. The whole lnclosure Is 800 by 1,000 meters, and ItiT area Is therefore 176 acres. Passing through the entrance, you see the elevated stone causeway, flanked by several temples, leading up to the wat In the distance. At a distance you get the effect of lateral magnitude only, for the entire structure or group of structures Is sitting flat on a level plain, unaspiring and almost uninspiring. It Is not a little surprising to look at the central tower and hear that it Is actually 65 meters (213 feet) from its summit to the level of the plain. It is not till one enters the galleries and begins to measure distances relatively therefrom that the grandeur and Impressiveness of the conception begin to make themselves felt. Those same rounded towers now spring aloft, and the inner temple Is raised above a surrounding gallery, which is in turn terraced above an outer and surrounding gallery, till the roof of the latter is on a level with the base of the former. These two encompassing galleries and the cruciform temple building proper within thim are the main details In the grow d plan of the wat. The material ui ed throughout In the construction Is a grayish sandstone which the French call gres. It much resembles marble In closeness and fineness of grain, i .nd It stands weathWhere portions of ering admirably. the decorative detail had been affectionately caressed and stroked by admiring hands, the stone is as smooth as polished marble. The effect of the color is certainly as somber as could be conceived, and to see It in ruins Is painfully suggestive of the grayness of death. Covered With Carvings. And all of these tons upon tons of stone were brought from Pnom Coulen, nearly 19 miles away. How, overland? impossible. If that submerged forest could tell Its own history we should probably hear of a time when both Pnom Coulen and Angkor were situated upon the margin of Tonle Sap and the stone barges went to and fro between them. But that triumphant forest, having driven back the sea, has made a malarial marsh near the ruins which Is simply one of its weapons offensive. If the mass of the structure Is im- pressive, the amount of decorative work ddne upon it, to speak only quantitatively, is still more so. Inslds and outside, from top to bottom, it is a mass of carving in stone. A few blank spaces are to be found about the building, and these are generally la the main temple, reserved for the work of the greater artists "who never came. Both the encircling galleries consist of a row of square columns on the outer side, an arch en corbeille above, and an inner Wall with an entablature for the whole colonnade. And everything is decorated the four flat faces of the columns, the walls, the entablature, and the wooden ceiling which formerly rested upon 4t, concealing the arch which is unornamented. Who built these ruins, and when did they build them? The Khmers built them; but who they were, where they came from, when and why they built, and finally, why they disappeared, nobody la yet able to answer with certainty. Tradition in the person of an alleged Chinese historian says that a' powerful ruler once emigrated from India with all his followers to escape a still more powerful ruler; that he subjugated the people he found here and put them to work erecting these enormous edifices of stone. At present the safest guess as to the date of building is as follows The milk of 45 out of every 100 cows kept in the United States Is sold as whole milk. Owners of the herds where milk Is marketed In this way have a serious problem in raising the necessary number of calves to maintain their herds. If no calves are raised and the farmer depends upon buying what he needs there Is constant danger of disease and his herd seldom improves from year to year. When raising calves under these conditions some milk must be used, as there Is no substitute for It Experiments In progress at the Minnesota experiment station show that the best plan so far worked out Is to give the calves a good start with milk and then get them on grain and hay as soon as possible. The plan suggested Is to feed milk in the usual way to the age of about fifty days, then If the calf Is strong and vigorous gradually reduce the amount until none is fed after the calf Is sixty to sixty-fiv- e days old. Alfalfa or clover hay and a grain mixture of commeal four parts, bran one part and oilmeal one part is kept before the calves. They will begin eating grain and hay when about a month old and will gradually Increase the amount until at the time ihe milk feeding ceases at sixty to sixty-fiv- e days of age they are able to get along very nicely without milk. Calves handled in this manner will be somewhat checked In growth for a Short rime after the milk Is taken from the ration, but will be In as good condition as the calf raised on skim Teaching a Calf to Drink Skim Milk. milk by the time they are six months of age. The total milk used need not exceed 400 pounds. The grain mixture mentioned serves the purpose Just as well as more expensive commercial calf meals. G. H. Eckles, chief of the dairy division. University of Minnesota. MISSOURI DAIRY COW FEEDS Recommended That Animal Be Fed All Alfalfa or Clover Hay She Will Consume. In making np a ration for dairy the Missouri College of Agriculture recommends that cows be fed all the alfalfa or clover hay they, will readily consume, and to feed com silage when available. To this should he added a grain mixture if good results are to follow. A grain mixture often recommended Is four parts, by weight, of com chops, two parts wheat bran and one part either cottonseed or linseed meal. This mixture is to be fed according to the quantity of milk produced. One pound of the mixture Is sufficient for every four pounds of milk produced by a Holstein cow or for every three pounds produced by a Jercows sey. It is not a bad plan. In the above ra- to mix the cottonseed and linseed tlon, meal half and half, Instead of using one alone. LET CALVES RUN ON PASTURE Aa Grass Contains Large Amount of Water, Something Additional Must Be Given. Calves dropped In the fall and early winter should be allowed to run on pasture during the summer. Pasture, however, should not be depended upon altogether, as It contains too large an amount of water In proportion to the food nutrients to Insure the calves a satisfactory ration. Feeding Cows Properly. Feeding cows so they can exist U one thing, and feeding them so they can produce milk la still another. Freshen Cewa In Pall. who make It a point to freshen their cows in the fall of the year know how to make money. , The farmers : For Angkor Tom, the Ninth century A. D, or during tlw reign of Alfred the Great In England. For Angkor Wat, the Twelfth century, or 166 years after the Norman conquest -- Unsatisfactory Method. Primitive methods of dairying wlU not bring satisfactory results under modem condition of production and marketing. . |