Show and he f roar EDWARD WNU EMERINE Pmturss A mm 5 I m Jtk?' r K N A 3 r vi "V-v- D 5t!l V A 1 “ wood Dick Calamity Jane and othwere leen Wild West notables on the streets of this mining center A pageant descriptive of the Red Man’s history of creation is held each year at Custer and called "Gold Discovery Days” Settlement of South Dakota came slowly although the Verendrye brothers Frenchmen from Canada visited the region in 1743 In 1804 and 1806 the Lewis and Clarke expedition followed the Missouri river throughout the area Fort Teton was established in 1817 on the site of Fort Pierre and in 1831 the American Fur company pushed a steamer into the territory Both and mountain plainsmen men helped build South Dakota and That bring to light its treasures there might always be intelligent appreciation of the state seven institutions of higher learning ail were founded They are the University of South Dakota Vermillion South Dakota 3tate college School of Mines Rapid Brookings City and four normal schools There are five junior colleges in the state thriving and rich South Young Dakota does not hoard its wealth Its treas-- ’ nor does It allow'wa'ste ures are open to all — for the reserves are ample er x A 4 Ac- 'ViV - v' — t vi V i1maM A-1 it '9'’ k n' ' V' V iBnAf- - At Lead the world as of gold ever discovered rw 1 be Big Badlands tTvr HOMESTAKE MINE S D known all over the greatest producer 'Vfv ' HefM the with errant small farm at th edge of pleasant Grove Their Brins Is made from chickens and a lew cows lor MacTartsb has keea a (or yeare lata Pleasant Grove tame a womaa who called herself Alicia aad haring Inherited the old Brigham place ebe la bow a neighbor of Mogaa’a Alicia la a womaa o( about forty yoare old well dressed and A stranger some of a mystery la tha MacTerlth place to buy mHk and hatter and eggs and announces himself FnUon the new high school prinaa Tom cipal now Bring In the Westbrook place Bo states that his wife la aa Invalid TREASURE" iter’s dictionary able (tore accumulation a collection supply Web- says “la a valuor reserve of precious Is a And South Dakota things” s of those treasures storehouse vast accumulation of nature’s blessings with a reserve supply to last man forever the precious things of Among South Dakota is the glorious sun self shining from its blue heaven almost every day in the year And precious too is the clean pure air of its plains and mountains In its rich topsoil is the accumulation of that produce vast fields Ingredients The of wheat and corn and fruits lush grass of its ranges where fat cattle and sheep feed is a valuable store of wealth and contentment Beneath the surface is a reserve supply of minerals gold and silver ligfeldspar and lithium nite and bentonite As though that were not enough trout South Dakota has mountains streams cabins in the pines lakes colorful the waterfalls canyons The'’ of pine and spruce fragrance days are cheerfully warm In South stretch 125 mllet and are approxiDakota with the night cool and mately 50 miles wide There is CusHills ter state park with 128000 acres of And the Black refreshing and lakes hsvc no mosquitoes to take away the mountains gorges streams and 90000 acres under pleasure of being out of doors The famed Black Hills! Harney fence with buffalo elk deer bighorn Peak rises 7242 feet above sea levsheep Rocky mountain goats anteel the highest point in the- United lope and other animals roaming Mount unmolested President Coolidge had States east of the Rockies Ruihmore has an altitude of 0200 his summer White House there In "I’m and left reluctantly feet and on it are sculptured the 1927 LinJefferson heads of Washington coming back” he promised The coln Roosevelt and Theodore of Ancient Skeletons Beasts The Big Badlands covering a millargest monument ever conceived the Mount or executed by man lion acres lie east of the Black Hills was and is one of the most important Memorial National Ruihmore life of prehistoric sculptured In heroic proportions by fossil deposits Gutzon Borglum the late Fossils of alligators rhinoceroses artist and Is called the hippopotamuses "Shrine of Democracy” A horses and other gers visitors come to the monument animals are found here each year and it is one of the most and displayed in most of the imporall scenes of times tant photographed museums The figures on the solid granite face East and northeast of the Badare carved In proportion to men 450 lands South Dakota is mostly rollfeet tall! ing prairie falling to lowest levels North and south the Black Hills in the northeastern part of the state Big Stone Lake is the lowest point 967 feet above sea level The great Missouri river drams most of the state cutting South Dakota into two it flows almost parts as equal through it The agricultural treasure house of with com cine America wheat oats barley flax and fruits from South Dakota The vast plains area has a big dairy industry and beef cattle are grown in all parts of the state of liveThe production stock is the main feature of the state's extensive agricultural Hot Is the headdustry Springs and is quarters of also known for its medicinal ters At the annual Black Hills Round-Ureal at Belle Fourche cowboys from the surrounding cattle ranges compete In riding and roping of South The mineral resources Dakota include more than 60 basic minerals Including gold silver tin zinc and others Many of these deposits are not of economic importance at the moment but will At M Q SHARPE come important in the future Governor of South Dakota any rate they remain in South DKan a reserve Januakota's Treasure House Born In Marysville 1888 Governor ary 11 Sharpe supply whenever the nation needs school At Lead is the largest profor two years them taught served four years In the U S gold mine in the United ducing been has and a surveyor States The "Days of76” celebranavy tion at Deadwood newspaper man lawyer soldier in many of the events of the historic World War and has had varied gold ether business Interests rush days when Wild Bill Dead- - FAR: THUS her lather Uve sa a aad By Peggy Derm 1 w release Poor man! and— poor womfeel that she eyes would — well a Uttle and hurPut in an an! She shivered should bs locked awayl as though to run of the ried as she went Institution—” The pain that bit toe from thoughts thought silenced his words for a sway f deeply moment and after he had got One of Pleasant Grove’s favorite he control under somewhat when the harautumn diversions managed a smile at her that was vest was In and the winter greene little more than a grimace and said was still too What are you bad been planted and it “So now you' know was quilt warm for going to do?” and ing look parties the from Megan flinched Through the scant leisure time ol from the words She looked at him of Pleasant Grove’s most winter with wide distressed eyes of "scrap ’What’s it got to do with me? women pieced quilts out bags” and carefully hoarded bits ol I mean why should I do anything?’ she protested swiftly “I’m terribly material and then when the quill finished and been bad Into pieced top sorry— I didn’t mean to pry the owner notified her friends that your affairs—” CHAPTER II “I know” Tom brushed the words she was “putting up” a quilt and away with a gesture of the hand they were invited to come and help "But I think her quilt it Megan and Tom sat quietly on that held his pipe the big flat rocks saying little their somehow I wanted you to know A few days after her talk with yes following the antics of the dogs After all you are my nearest neigh Tom on the Ridge Megan went and cats galloping around In circles bor We see each other often — Mrs Stuart’s where there was I n the Ridge She thought she had It’s Inevitable you should wonder There were greetings a quilting never seen the pines look so —I hope you won’t feel It necessary a breezy exchange of pleasantries to—” while Megan settled herself brought Ha asked for permission to fill his Megan’s face flamed with hurt her thimble out of her pocket plp and light it and tentatively ofand set to her needle threaded fered her a cigarette work “Thanks no” Megan answered There were perhaps a dpzen womlightly “It’s a habit I’ve avoided — en about the big frame which was I don’t think I’d care much for It opened to its fullest width the width and It Is expensive and length of a double bed Megan Tom understood the Obviously talked lightly and carelessly to her logic of that and for a moment they the pretty Uttle Whitaker neighbor were both silent until he got his had Just been girl whose sweetheart well going pipe reported Injured In acUon In Italy and who was grateful for the chance Megan said after a moment when the silence threatened to become to talk about him awkward "How is Mrs FallonT Suddenly Megan heard the name Does the climate seem to agree " ’fessor Fallon” and looked up with her as you’d hoped?” Alicia Stevenson was watching her Tom’s brown hand a little knowing look In tightened shrewdly about the bowl of his pipe until the her email dark eyes that made Meknuckles stood up In littls white gan oddly and absurdly uneasy mounds He tore his eyes from the Mre Burns who was president of landscape end gave her a look that of association the was hard and cold and bitter so the local school was saying ”1 think much so that she was startled by we're lucky to get a man like Prothe sudden inexplicable hostility The school fessor Fallon here “Mrs Fallon is — doing ss well as board says his qualifications are excould be expected under the circumcellent and his references are exHis voice stances” he told her tremely good!” was harsh and the very sound of Mrs Stuart bit ofT a thread and the Words told her that he had repatted her last stitches into place peated these words until they had before threading the needle afresh ceased to have any meaning yet "Sort of makes me wonder how be had never ceased to resent the come we could get a man like ‘lesnecessity for them sor Tom in a little bitty place like “I’m sorry if I seemed— Inquisthis” she said as ehe moistened the itive or rude” Megan told him tip of the thread and squinted at frankly her face hot with color her the eye of the needle trying to inhead up "I had no such intention sert one through the other "I don't You have made no secret of the reckin it's anything ag'n the man fact that your wife la an Invalid bough If he wans to Uve in a little Naturally in a small town like this country town—” people are interested and anxious Megan could tell ut more "Mayb He looked down at her gravely to be of service If they may—" about that” said AUcia silkily “The only service anyone can do his hand still on her arm restrainwhat?” "About asked Megan ss she would have walked my wife —or myself — is to leavt my ing her not to undercravenly pretending away wife alone” stated Tom and Mestand gan’s eyes blazed at his tone “You may be quite sure that I “Why a man like Tom Fallon She was on her feet now and she shall reveal your secret to no satisfied would be in a little hick hy said swiftly her voice shaking with Grove” said should I? What right— or ne- town like Pleasant “You anger may be quite sure cessity— would I have?” she told Alicia smiling “After all you that in the future I at least ahall him sharply know him so much better than any be happy to do so! Tom smiled at her a white faint of the rest of us — ” She turned blindly to walk back "I sell him milk and butter and smile that was somehow very through the pines but before she eggs yes” Megan told her curtly had gone half a dozen steps Tom tragic "I’d hardly say that made us old know wouldn’t Forgive was on his feet laying a hand on me“I I'm you and stupid but friends though ” clumsy her arm in swift abject apology “But I thought during some of not intentionally or wilfully so For“Please wait — please forgive those long hours you've spent tome— for everything?” give he ‘That me” apologized humbly Megan melted beneath the look in gether on the Ridge he might have was unforgivable of met It’s just told you something of himself” that —well the subject is— an ex- his ryes and put her hand In his her and let him draw her back to the suggested Alicia limpid-eyetremely painful one — stone where she sat down once voice soft as satin “I’m sincerely sorry that I men- flat And as though the revelationed it” she told him stiffly her more There was a startled gasp about secret tion of his cleared had tragic face still hot the air between them as though the quilting frame perhaps not so He looked down at her gravely a gasp as a sense of movethey were friends now they spoke much his hand still on her arm restrainment that made Megan know they other things of as she have walked would ing her were all staring at her startled was keen His mind and alert away waiting “You see Miss MacTavish’’ no Megan read a great deal and used wondering— Megan drew a long breath "Just her mind to think with and it was what said at last his voice raw with pain do you mean by that?” she for both of them a pleasant expert asked Alicia illness la— chiefly mesharply ence to be able to talk of things that ntal” Alicia's eyes were wide with surHe set hit teeth hard when he had had nothing to do with Pleasant but there was a trace of Grove Megan liked her friends and prise spoken the last two words and Memalice in their depths also her neighbors but there were many gan looked up at him puzzled "But darling” she protested her times when she hungered for im- voice You mean she merely “Mental? artificially gay and sweet matters far afield Imagines she is H1? That she is a personal talk ofGrove 'what could I possibly mean except and she enhypochondriac?” she asked in ail from Pleasant I've seen that the you and gallant Innocence joyed this contact with a stimulatprofessor on the Ridge — ” Tom’s face was white and rigid ing mind "Once quite by accident when I now but his eyes were alive with was out a — for walk to with her He walked Megan bethe barbed pain “No” be said huskily "I mean wire fence when she saw that she gan but Alicia interrupted her with that my wife is — mentally ill— that must go because the evening was pretty concern and an apology that he laughed a little and was worse than the most open accushe has the mind of a young child — ending sation obligingly held up the lower strand that she is not—not normal!” “Of course I’m terribly sorry” It was obvious that be bad tried of barbed wire so she could crawl 'Alicia interrupted “Please don’t to say "insane” and had not been under It without snagging her skirt able to get the word past bis stiff “There really should be a gate eay any more I never dreamed — here" she told him getting to her I mean I wouldn’t have mentioned lips for It the world—” She was pretfeet on the other side of the fence confused and Megan could feel Megan was conscious of a molaughing across the four strands of tily ment of stunned shocked horror barbed wire at him “But I’m like the hint of tension of curiosity that This man— chained to an insane the man who was going to fix the crept about the room The women who had been her wife This man whom everybody leak In his roof only he couldn’t liked with his fine mind and his work while It was raining and friends and neighbor all her life keen sense of responsibility and s when It wasn't raining the roof looked at her and then quickly away very carefully not meeting woman who bad the mind of e didn’t need mending I somehow her eyes trying not to meet each young child! never get around to it!” other’s eyes elaborately pretending “Oh!” was all she could say her The two dogs came She whistled to be very casual tone shocked and rich with sympabounding to her and the four cats "This is ridiculous I” said Megan thy and touched with keen embarstepped daintily out of a great thick“You’re trying to make peohotly rassment that she must witness his et of honeysuckle vines that believe that I’ve been— sneakple of naked moment burning revelasprawled at the corner of the fence off to meet Mr Fallon—" tion "I’m— terribly sorry—” And as she walked back down the ing "Why darling! protested Alicia Tom brushed aside the choked meadow path to the brook she hurt though secretly enwords and said with a looked over her shoulder and lifted Inadequate sort of forced quiet "So you ses her band to him In a gay little ges- joying as she always did this by no unusual means result of her maliwhy It has been necessary for us ture as she saw him standing there to— deny the well callntentioned He lifted his hat to her and bowed cious dropping of bits of informa"I didn’t say ers — " in a gay burlesque of a sweeping tion here end there of the kind All I said was anything told him un“Of course" gesture and she went on her heart a little lighter for him that it was obvious that you knew steadily sick with pi tv for him man better the than any of the rest “She Is— entirely harmless" he She was terribly sorry for him but of us end that you should therefore the gallantry with she admired told her and his face was wrenched know better than we why he wee which he carried his burdens And with the pain and the shame of havto hide—I mean to bury willing looking across the fields toward the ing to put that thought into words In e little hick town like Pleasdrab Uttle “She is never left for a moment frame house that was the Westbrook place and ant Grove” alone and she never leaves her bed Mrs Stuart eyed Alicia belligerBut if people here knew about her— that now held this pathetic woman mental enndiUnn — weU undoubtedly his wife she felt the tears In her ently (TO BE CONTINUED) THH Annla they |