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Show 6 the weekly reflex, kaysyille, utati irthday ftti uwfm T? Mm Mark the milestones o I life, the occasion memorable with a gif from our store. A piece of a watch or a diamond afford constant and tasting pleasure. qu reasonable price ease the way. By' PETER B. KYNE ills BOYD .. JEWELERS Author of Cappy Ridu . Coprrtffct W MODERN LIFE AMONG THE OLD, OLD REDWOODS by an able author about people in an unique environment, Peter B. Kyne is as indigenous as the redwoods of which he writes with loving appreciation. Nevertheless, he has sailed the Pacific, been a soldier in the Philippines, and has served as a captain in France with the A. E. F. And the sheer merit of his literary workmanship has given this clerk In a California popularity as a short-stor- y country store deserved nation-wid- e writer and novelist. The characters in "The Valley of the Giants are people Americans the sort we know our kind: John Cardigan, pioneer lumberman among the redwoods, a strong man with a great heart, the soul of a dreamer and the unshaken faith of the frontiersman; he loves his redwoods even while he cuts his way to fortune through them. Colonel Pennington, the modern captain of industry, with no more conscience than a circular saw, no bowels of compassion, and. contempt for the law except as a means of camouflage. American of the right kind, Bryce Cardigan, present-generatio- n who takes up the fight when his father falls' In the fray and successfully battles against odds to save his heritage, even while his heart is divided between his blind sire and his dearest enemy. Shirley Sumner, niece of Colonel Pennington, a first-clas- s American girl, with a mind of her own, a heart, red, blood and good sportsmanship. And the story is as timely as its environment is unique. There is only one redwood country, and when the California redwoods are gone the redwoods are gone from the earth. John Cardigan and his like have laid most of them low, and threaten those that remain. So it is that a great cry has gone up from the people to save for future generations some, of those forest giants that were when Christ was born with their cousins the sequoias they are the oldest and biggest living things of earth. So it is that the "Save the Redwoods league has sprung into existence. So it is that congress is investigating the conditions preparatory to legislation for the establishment of a Redwoods national park. The American of the future will be able to see the Big Trees (Sequoia gigantea) in all their glory; Yosemite, Sequoia and GencraLGrant national parks assure that. But unless money is provided for the purchase of a great grove of redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) by congress, California or public subscription the redwoods are doomed to the ax and sav, with the exception of a few smalLand inadequate preserves. And among these same redwoods lies The Valley of the Giants Heres good reading red-blood- a stirring tale 1 , od present Thus did John Cardigan dream, and as he dreamed be worked. The city of Sequoia was born with the Argomansion of rough rednauts wood boards and a dozen three-roocabins with lean-tkitchens; and the came when John CardI? tradespeople gan, with something of the largeness of his own redwood trees, gave them ground and lumber In order to encourage the building of their enterprises. Also the dream of the school-nous- e and the church came true, as did the steam tugboat and the schooner with three masts, At forty John Cardigan was youDger than most men at thirty, albeit he worked fourteen hours a day, slept eight, and consumed the remaining two at his meals.1 But through all those fruitful years of toll he had still found time to dream, and the spell of the redwoods had lost none of Its potency. At forty-twCardigan was the first he At forty-fou- r mayor of Sequoia. was standing on his dock one day, watching his tug kick Into her berth the first square-rigge- d ship that had ever come to Humboldt bay to load a cargo of clear redwood for foreign She was a big Bath-bui- lt delivery. and her master a lusty clipper, a widower with one daughtet who had come with him around th Horn. John Cardigan saw this girt and come up on the quarter-decIn het stand by with a heavlng-llnhand; calmly she fixed her glance upon him, and as the ship was shunted in closer to the dock, she made the cast to Cardigan. He caught the hanled In the light heavlng-llne- , to which heavy Manila atern-lln- e It was attached, and slipped the loop over the dolphin of the mooring-cabl- e at the end of the dock. "Some men wanted aft here to take on the np the alack .of the stern-lin- e windlass, sir, he shouted to the skipper, who was walking around On That girl cant top of the house. haul her In alone. " the Cant. Im Jump aboard and skipper replied. help her." Cardigan made a long leap from thq dock to the ship's rail, balanced there lightly a moment, and sprang to the in deck. He Inserted a belaylng-plthe windlass, paused and looked at the girl. "Raise a chantey," he suggested. Instantly she lifted a sweet contralto in that rollicking old ballad of the aea Blow the Men Down." Round the windlass Cardigan walked, steadily and easily, and the girl's eyes widened in wonder as he did the work of three powerful men. When the ship had been warped In and the alack of the line made fast' on' tfiw bltts,. she said: Please run forid and help my Youre father with the bowlines. worth three foremast hands. Indeed, I didnt expect to see a satlor on this six-roo- kelp-fleld- s. m k ' -- o - . '' d ox-dra- d split-redwoo- d whlpsawed. It was a tiny milt. Judged typresent-dastandards, for In a fourteen-hou- r working day John Cardigan and h!s men mild not cut more than twenty thousand feet Of lumber. Nevertheless, when Cardigan looked at his mtU, his great heart would swell with pride. Here. said John Cardigan to himself exulting! jr when a wall told him his circular saw biting Into the first redwood log to be y long-draw- n short-handed,- n dock." T had' to come" around "the Horn to get here, Miss," he explained, and when a man hasn't money to pay for his passage, he needs must work It" Tm the second mate," she explained. We had a succession of gales from the Falk lands to the Evangelistas, and there the mate got her tn Irons and she took three big ones over the taffratl and eost ns eight men. we Working couldnt get any canvas on her to speak of long voyage, you know, and the rest of the crew got scurvy." Youre a brave girl." he told her. ' An you're a s A.' B.,- - she If for a berth, replied. youre looking my father will be glad to ship you. Sorry, but I cant go," he called as he turned toward the companion lad-dTm Cardigan," and r own this sawmill and must star here and look after It." There was a light, exultant feeling In his middle-ageheart as he scampered along the deck.'The glrThafl wonderful dark auburn hair and brown e skin that sun eyes, with a and wind had sought In vain to blemish. And for all her girlhood she was a wo"n bred from a race (his own to whom danger and despair short-hande- J d, first-clas- c. d , milk-whit- OYDJtuxl loaiumVrttn she" "Aye," murmured t McTavlsh huskily. I ken. Ye wouldna gie her a common or a public spot In which to wait for ye. An yell be.shuttln down the s an layln ofT the mill an a bit? honor In for hands her Until after the funeral, McTavlsh. And tell your men they'll be paid for the lost time. That will be alb lad." When McTavlsh was gone, John Cardigan sat down on a small sugar-pin- e windfall, his head held slightly to one side while he listened to that which In the redwoods Is not sound but rather the absence of It. And as he listened, he absorbed a subtle comfort from those huge brown trees, so emblematic of Immortality; tn the thought he grew close to his Maker, and presently found that peace which he sought Love such as theirs could never die. The tears came at loggtn-camp- last ... walked home bearrhododendrons and which he arranged she lay. Then he sought the nurse who had attended At sundown he ing an armfnl of dogwood blossoms, In the room where her. Why Throw Your Old Radiators Away? When they can be repaired like new by our special patented process at a saving of 50 of the present market price of uny repairs, redipped, recreanod and - recored Jobs. With even job goes an absolute guarantee. We have the most mte achinery you 24 and equipment to give hours service on an job received. Also we have an exTd like to hold my son, he said change where we can furnish May I? gently. you any radiator for any make She brought him the baby and ' of cor. A set price on mery Job. No guess work. We have placed It In his great arms that an exceptional proposition for trembled so; he sat down and gazed garages. Write us. long and earnestly at this flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood. rYoull Standard Radiator Co. of Utah, Inc. have her hair and Bkln and eyes," he chopping. shall Edison Street, Salt lake Gly My son, my son, I .Come with me, McTavlsh, he said murmured. to his wooda-bosThey passed love you so, for now I must love for through a narrow gap between two two. ' Sorrow I shall keep from you, low hills and emerged In a long nar- please God, and happiness and worldly row valley where the redwoods grew comfort shall I leave you when I go ANNAPOLIS FOUNDED IN 1604 thickly and where the smallest tree to her." He nuzzled his ' grizzled was not less than fifteen feet tn diam' cheek against the babys face. "Just Nova Scotia Earliest Colonized Land in North America, With Excepeter and two hundred and fifty feet you and my trees, hw whispered, tion of SL Augustine. me McTavlsh followed at his tall. Just you and my trees to help finish." masters heels as they penetrated this to hang on to a plucky Nova Scotia may lay claim to be For love and paternity had come to grove, making-thei- r way with diffithe earliest colonized land in Nor) lug. so first had his In him and the underbrush until late life, culty through An. great sorrow; wherefore, since he was --America, with the exception of St. the where SpnnUh Fla., gnstlne, of not accustomed to these heritages all flesh, he would have to adjust him- tablishment was made as early it self to the change. Bnt his son and 5505. Port Royal, now the little tnwi of Annapolis, was founded tn 15H his trees ah, yes they would help. And he would gather more redwoods three years before the English settled at Jamestown. The brave Frend now I f found It pecessarv to pioneers bat three their for colony jeiirs, pend CHAPTER II. 52 s. o down-Easte- r, Ktm 228-246-2- f d, - h o thousands of acres of virgin timber that had already attained a vigorous growth when Christ was crucified. In sizes ranging from five to twenty feet in diameter, the brown trunks rise perpendicularly to a height of from ninety to a hundred and ' fifty feet before putting forth a single limb, which frequently Is more massive than the growth which men call a tree In the forests of Michigan. Scattered between the giants, like subjects around their king, one finds noble fir, spruce, or pines, with some Valparaiso live oak, black oak, pepper-woomadrone, yew, and cedar. John Cardigan settled In Humboldt county, where the sequoia sempervirens attains the pinnacle of Its glory, and with the lust for conquest hot in his blood, he filed upon a quarter-sectio- n of the timber almost on the shore of Humboldt' hay land upon which a city subsequently was to be built. With hts double-bitteaxe and crosscut saw John Cardigan brought the first of the redwood giants crashing to the earth above which It had towered for twenty centuries, and In the form of split posts, railroad ties, pickets, and shakes, the fallen giant was hanled to tidewater In wagons and shipped to San Francisco In -- the - little coasting schooners of the period, nere, by the abominable magic of barter and trade, the dismembered tree was transmuted Into dollars and rents and returned to Humboldt county to assist John Cardigan in his task of hewing an empire out of a wilderness. Time passed. John Cardigan no longer swung an axe or dragged a cross-cu- t saw through a fallen redwood. He was an employer of labor now, well known In San Francisco as a manufacturer ofproducts, the purchasers sending their own schooners for the cargo. And . John Cardigan mortgaged presently all of his timber holdings with a San Francisco bank, made a heap of his winnings, and like a true adventurer staked his all on a tew venture the first sawmill In numboldt county. The tlmbers for It were hewed out by hand; the hoards and planks were two-maste- attend to It" He rose and left the house, walking with bowed head out of Sequoia, np the abandoned and decaying skid-roa- d red' through the second-growtwoods to the dark green blur that marked the old timber, up the skid-roa- d recently swamped from the landing to the down timber where the crosscut men and barkpeelers were at work, on Into the green timber where the woods-hos- s and his men were m e In the summer of 1850 a topsail schooner slipped Into the cove under Trinidad head and dropped anchor at Fifteen the edge of the minutes later her small-boa- t deposited On the beach a man armed with long squirrel rifle and an axe, and carrying food and clothing in a brown canvas pack. From the beach he watched She boat return and saw the schooner weigh anchor and stand out to aea When before the northwest trades. she had disappeared from his ken, he swung his pack to his broad and powerful back and strode resolutely Into the timber at the mouth of the river. The man was John Cardigan; In that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This Is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader In the gigantic task of hewing a Tmth was to know the bliss of woman's love and of parenthood, and the sorrow that comes of the loss of a perfect mate; he was to know the tremendons and worldly Joy of accomplishment success after infinite labor; and !n the sunset of life he was to know the dull despair of failure and ruin. Because' of these things there is a tale to be told, the tale of Cardigan's son,' who, when his sire fell in the fray, took up the fight to save his heritage a tale of life with Its love and bate, its battle, vlctory, defeat, labor, Joy, and sorrow, a tale of that unconquerable spirit of youth which spurred Bryce Cardigan to lead a forlorn hope for the sake not of wealth bat of an Ideal. Hark, then, to this tale of Cardigan's redwoods: Along the coast of California, through the secret valleys and over Uie tumbled foothills of the Coast range, extends a belt of timber of an average width of thirty miles. In approaching It from the Oregon line the first tree looms suddenly against the horizon an outpost, as it were, of ' the host of giants whose ' column stretches south nearly four hundred miles to where the last of the rearon guard maintains eternal sentry-gthe crest of the mountains overlooking Monterey bay. - Far in the Interior of ' the state, beyond the fertile San Joaquin valley, the filtles of this vast army hold a small sector on the west lope of the Sierras. These are the redwood forests of California, the only trees of their kind In the world and indigenous only to these two areas within the state. Notwithstanding sixty years of attrition there remain In this section of ' tl belt thousands upon new-mad- er long-lengt- h . y h e. full-gro- CHAPTER I. dark-foreste- B. her, and Tm thinking ni have to come here often for the same. She was like this sunbeam, McTavlsh. She . They were married before the ship was loaded, and on a knoll of the logged-ove- r lands back of the town and commanding a view of the bay, d hills tn back with the redwoods and the little second-growtflourishing In the front yard, he built her the finest home In Sequoia. Here his son Bryce was born, and here, two e mother made days later, the the supreme sacrifice of maternity. For half a day following the destruction of his Eden John Cardigan sat dumbly beside his wife, his great, hard band caressing the, auburn head whose every thought for three years had been his happiness and comfort Then the doctor came to him and men tloned the matter of Tuneral arrangements. Cardigan looked up at him blankly. "Funeral arrangements?" He passed his gnarled hand over his leonine head. Ah, yes, I suppose so. I shall tent-house- ed flesh-and-blo- merely furnished a tonic for their courage. What a mate for a man And she looked at him prldefully.' milled since the world began, "I shall build a city and call It Sequoia. By I shall hare cut sufficient timber to make a start First I shall build for my employees better homes s than the rude shacks and they now occupy; then I shall build myself a fine residence with six rooms, and the room that faces the bay shall be the parlor. When I can afford It 1 shall build more houses. I shall encourage tradesmen to set up in business In Sequoia and to my city I shall present a cbnrcb and a school-housWe shall have a volunteer fire department, and If God Is . good. I shall, at a later date, get out some and build a schooner to freight ,my lumber to market. And she shall have three masts Instead of two, and carry half a million feet of lumber Instead of two hundred thousand. First, however, I must build a steam tugboat to tow my schooner In and out over Humboldt bar. And after that eh, That Is sufficient for the well! Mm j t the settlement was 1610 by a group of Acadians, The Acadians were in almost f stant conflict with the EngINh. TU colony fell into the hands of the Enf A young Digger woman who had suffered the loss of the latest of her numerous progeny two days I prior to Mrs. Cardigans death, was llfh twice, and was each time return installed in the house as nurse to John to the French before the English Cardigans son, whom he called Bryce, ly captured it In 1710. The Acodtanj ff the family neme of his mothers peo- remained steadfast In their hopes that ple. A Mrs.. Tully, widow of Card- french rule would some day retonv igans first engineer In the mill, was but their hope was destined never engaged as housekeeper and cook ; and be realized. They, however, persist with his domestic establishment re- lu their Identity maintaining organized along these simple lines, ' Insistence that J the English against John Cardigan turned with added abandon thetr allegiance to the I eagerness to his business affairs, hop- they J mother country. ing between them and his boy to Of the Acadtam The descendants j salvage as roach as possible from to be found h what seemed to him, In the first pangs numbering 300,000, are the Carolina 1j Virginia, of hts loneliness and desolation, the Maryland, When the j C eorgla , and - Louisiana. wreckage of his life. Acadians were expelled from the Bast j While Bryce was In swaddling of re Monas, Grand Pre, when they clothes he was known only to those fused tfc to j to take the oath of fealty d females of Sequoia to whom his tn 1755, many Of the j English sovereign foster mother proudly exhibited They Came at Length to a Little Am- him when escaped to the wilderness and taking him abroad for an drifted back to their former home ocj phitheater. airing In his perambnlator. With his to find them occupied by new settlers j came at to a little amphi- advent Into rompers, however, and the from New England states. length they I theater, a clearing perhaps a hundred assumption of his American prerogad feet In diameter, and tive of free speech, his father develop-e-d Alpine Wonderland. the habit of bringing the child surrounded by a wall of redwoods of IW f The Orisons, Switzerland such dimensions that even McTavlsh, down to the mill office, to which he canton, may si i described be readily who was no stranger to these natural added a playroom that connected with broken W Is wonderland. It his private office. Hence, prior to his Alpine marvels, was struck with wonder. no fewer than 150 valleys, viryW n f "McTavlsh," Cardigan said, she second birthday, Bryce divined that greatly In size, traversed by wild died this morning." htt father was closer to him than Ing antaand streams torrents and d Tm sore distressed for you, sir," motherly Mrs. Tally or the ed by roaring waterfalls and trsosp woods-bosthe answered. "Wed a girl. Moreover, his father took him on ent mountain lakes. Dark greet 4 whisper in the camp yesterday that the wonderful Journeys which no other woods and velvety pastures covet t , member of the household had even lass was like to be In a bad way slope and form the transition , Cardigan scuffed with his foot a suggested. the region of the hills to the real clear space In the brown litter. j the high Alps. And la this "Take two men from the section-ganof. vales and mountain! paradise McTavlsh," he ordered, and have j stands on almost every height a Drought, cloudburst and i them dig her grave here; then swamp an emblem of of worship, place blindness threaten to bring a trail throngb the underbrush, and and. good wRl, sending, greeting1 to naught "John Cardigans out to the donkey-landinso we can I and wide. carry her In. The funeral will be fifty, years of endeavor. New Zealand.private." McTavlsh nodded. "Any further the Island of of Discovery (TO BE CONTINUED.) land is attributed to Tasman In orders, sir?" bnt exploration did not take pla Yes. When you come to that little Scottish Center of Industry. til the time of Cspt James CoA gap in the hills, cease your logging Dundee ranks as one of the leading and bear off yonder. years later, while . colontzatloa He waved his i hand. "Im not go mg to cut the tim- industrial and commercial centers la delayed until 20 years before ttl northeastern and central Scotland. lean Civil war. Colonization rubber In this valley. Yon see, McTavlsh, The district of Dundee Is the center ied the settlement of the what It is.. The trees here ah,. man, Industry In the United lean colonies In that settlement! I havent the heart to destroy God s of the Jute and practically all the raw made la half a dozen Kingdom places most wonderful handiwork. Besides, Jute Imported Into the country, which being promoted from a central she loved this spot, McTavlsh, and she 1.200,000 bales annually. Is to the usual British , called the valley her Valley of the averages consumed there. It is the staple in- according Giants. I I gave It to her for a wedWhen. Swallows Fly Low. dustry of Dundee. and 'employs nording present because she had a bit of mally about 35,000 workers. Is a sign of rain when s It a dream that some day the town I ,Cy low. . When the atmosphere E started would grow up to yonder gap, On the Other Side. surcharged with moisture all and whe that time came and we could Little Philip bad cried all nfghtwlth make for shelter and come afford It, Twas In her mind to give toothache and a nickel As the swallow hawks for upon her Valley of the Giants to Sequoia the next morning he receiving went as usual to the wing it naturally files Id19 ; for a city park, all hidden away here get candy again. His on com- of its prey. j auntie, and unsuspected. ing home, and finding he had bought "She loved It. McTavlsh. twas onr Added Percentages candy with her nickel, asked him: playhouse. McTavlsh. and I who am no "Why, Philip, I thought you werent A 50 per cent incress tor longer young I who never played ojt-t- il ever going to eat candy , make It would vosts that ft To again?" has J met her 1 Im a bit fodTTdi. I which he thRt But article the for replied: "Well, auntie. 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