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Show i HE PAYSON CHRONICLE. IWSON. I'TMI ? Aleck McCalls Mad Jealousy By CHARLES SLOAN 1 M )(. N' Dangerous days In MinwaNTER you n J your children need reserves of sturdy resistance to ward off those nasty colds. Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil will help you gain this resistance. Its Vitamin A promotes growth and fortifies against the common cold. And then theres s wealth of Vitamin D that helps build strong bores and teeth. Doctors well tell you how good it n is for adults as well as growing children. And the pleasant flavor of Scott's Emulsion makes it easy to take, kott & llowne, Bloomfield, N. J Sales Representatives, Harold F. Ritchie A Co., Inc., New York. FmnUion' "Hermans ef ih Soa ovary Son da at Lnrmi to ttrrtland KHiCSaM Angit, kOlK ftup m vt Statun hHJ LoK. VI laoama and KbtY Spoken fracsco,hOL REID 0 K e ) M Jt r ij.fr H E A D A ) 1 K Mi CALL as swinging n!"iU-- tin mount uin trail by long strM. s. His ri,1o lly ncrilSS ),is tiir, anil In his huml he earned a braie t.f pheasants. Aleik was happy, w is a new little cabin Jut half a mne ahead to which Alei k had carried I'olly (loodiron leas than a month lliere Mure, a bride. man (loodiron, his wife and two daughters had moed In on the Cul-lobee range five years before, from somewhere over in Transylvania. Polly was the elder of the two girls; and some had hinted that she had left CHd mTEZ HOT ft Q? ACHAY M P & a sweetheart In the county from which she came, this being the reason she had put off Aleck McCall for so long, for Mc('all was the outstanding young mountaineer on the range. Aleck's stride was almost a dance step, ns he hurried towards home. Tolly, Polly, Polly, the puniest gal in the world," he kept singing In his thoughts. Around the head of a little ravine, across the nme of a ridge, then along the crest of it he hurried until he had reached a spot where a huge boulder marked the fork In the trail. Here McCall paused to contemplate In silent joy the sight of the little home. the young mountaineer Suddenly grounded the butt of his rifle, and the brace of pheasants slipped from his hand. In the twilight now gathered about the cabin door were to he seen a man and a woman. The woman was Polly, but the man was a total stranger, lie was dressed like a Aleck thought, for he wore one of those broad brim, heavy white hats which he had seen worn a few times h.v men returned from the West. P.ut the part that filled his soul with horror was the bight of Polly in the stranger's arms. The embrace had lasted for cdI.v an instant; but In that Instant all of the joy had gone out of Aleck soul, lie lowered his gaze to the rocks at his feet, and his fingers gripped his rifle barrel with a clutch that might have crushed anything but steel, lie stood there thus for some moments, then slowly the gun stock came to his shoulder, as once more his eyes turned towards the cabin lot. Polly and the stranger were standing only a little way apart now. Slowly, slowly, the rifle barrel came toward a level. Presently It steadied, with the barrel pressed against the boulder, and the muzzle of It trained upon (he cabin lot. The side of Alecks face sank toward the firelock, and his finger clutched the trigger. Now his eye drew the head of the rifle along t he top of the barrel. A moment later a sharp (Tack rang out over the ravine below. Before the cabin door, a hundred yards away, the staggered backward and stranger went to the ground on his hark, his A screnni Dig hat living before him. went up from Pollys throat; and A leek McCall set his teeth down hard upon his lower lip. Turning aside from the rock he retraced Ids way buck along the mountain trail. "God, thnr ain't nothin more for me he exto stay around here for, claimed, after a long silence. Presently his shoulders began to sway from side to side, and hot tears stole from his eyes. "But I got to have one more look of her, afore I git out I -- I jes' got to!" lie cried, no more than half aloud. When he arose from the log, the darkness of night had gathered. Once more he set out for the cabin. When McCall strode down into the Hearing about the ealdn, with a queer smile he noted the gleam of firelight from beneath the cabin door. He crept forward to tbe doorstep, never once turning his gaze toward the spot where the stranger had fallen at t ho i rack of his rifle. He heard voices inside of the house. "Polly, what yuh reckon's a kcepln Aleck? I shore am anxious to see what yuh got when yuh got mar- NEXT DANCE . VO0 PLEASE USJMASK! to ee so clumsy UOILL SAKE, DANCE on for heavens VO OR OUJN Maronites Largest of recognized the pope, although they have a patriarch of their own. There Lebanons Many Cults are only 5,421 Protestants In the L. Biblical Lebanon, Asia's only Clirlstlan state and the smallest one In the world, has seven different confessions among Its S'Jfi.fllS Inhabitants, according to the last census. Despite mass emigration among people of their fnith, Christians again maintain their majority. The largest group Is the Maronites with 214,313 adherents. In addition there are emigrants of this faith In the I'nited States who still pay taxes to the homeland. They form one of the oldest Christian churches. Its history goes hark ns far ns the Fourth century, retaining Aramaic as the church language. Since t he Middle ages, the Maronites have hanese repuhllc.The ancient churches such as the Syrian Jacobite and the claim the majority of 11,000 churchgoers classed among the minorities. Next to the Maroe-lte- s In strength are the Sunnite Moslems with 130,040 and the Shiites with 113,530, Assyro-Chaldea- n 20,-44- 8 Teacher Are Human got n nice mark In deportment, this month. Buddy. Young Hopeful Yes, Dnd, I told her I liked that new hat she bought Father You Every man has an Idea that other think him Important. i r, Mc-Cul- ls THE m ftnmmmi a omm am a JM a a se drifting You vowed to keep in touch with this friend and that. But you didn't. Time slips by. You're drifting farther with apart each day. Renew those friendships this year a Christmas card. Now while stocks are complete and you have the leisure select your cards and remind those friends that out of sight is not out of mind! il B urgoyu e CHRISTMAS CARDS ! jnNNEY OF Making Things Worse THE FORCE IT SOMETIMES- MAKES A THOUGH jflSTO NE WALLS'. DO NOT NUT-HOUS- E, SISTER f fjDUlSOhJ YOUR LOCAL DEALERS CARRY THEM and was returned to Dclmur Von (lalin, Yosemite council Boy Scout executive, who returned It to the Jewlines being built through Turkey. A1 eler that originally sold It to his fathough only n little over 500 miles ther. The Jeweler cleaned the watch, long, the two lines penetrate difficult replaced a few parts and now It country, necessitating the building of keeps good time. about 2,(HXJ bridges, large arid small, Stoke by Push Button and many tunnels. In Angora an One man, by merely pressing push average of 8,000 blasts of dynamite n day are used to dislodge t he rocky biiltoiis, stokes all the coal burning More than 18.0(H) peasants boilers In a 47 story New Yoik howastes. and shepherds are employed on the tel. The boilers burn pulverized coal, work besides thousands of peasant and when a button Is pushed exactly women vv ho labor ns stone breakers. the right amount of coal to keep the An oriental toueh is given to the pic- fire at proper heat Is automatically ture by thousands of camels used to released from the hunkers of the fire transport supplies as the building box. progresses. Confident 1 want you to sell this Watch Run property B. H. Yon Gl.'iliii houl t a watHi for what it will bring." I ran get a better bid than that? Of a Stoektori (Calif.) jevveli r In 1S7S and lost it in a plowed held. Last A woman scorned bunts up some spring the watch was found where It had been buried In tin field 13 years, oilier man and proceeds to get evea Camel and Locomotive One of the biggest concrete bridges In the world is along the new railway Long-Burie- d RELIEVES HEAD CHEST and BACK COLDS; Y 1 ried. It was a mans voice speaking. The arose to Aleck McCalls temples. Seizing the latch string In the cabin door he gave it a Jerk. The door swung Inward. Then, as his big form stood framed In the doorway, Polly suddenly threw herself upon ids breast, her arms around his nock. "Brother Bill's come home Aleck!" she cried, at tin; same time squeezing ills neck so hard he hardly could breathe. The stranger came forward f nd thrust out his hand, "yeah," he said, "1 had a hard time a findin the old f'ks an' these kids. Aleck's eyes stared unsceingly for a moment. What yuh mean, Polly l.o asked. Why, Aleck; yuh see, I never told yuh aliout Bill, cnse he had to run away six years ago. But tbit scrape's been settled, so Bills cine bark. "An some galoot took a crack at me out o the woods Jes time I got Must bore tonight," laughed Bill. ha took me for a hotin'." ril I' , VLUCy S,'?ME THATS IN . wit' screechjn' MAKE HER PIPE down!!! ' li gfoNE VVAU DOfjOT- - risonmkb I Stainless " Rub In'', and inhalant unsurpassed in preventing and relieving cold congestions QUALITY SINCI 1833 McKesson&Robbins Place for the Amateur There is a i:nnt tendency fostered, 1 rean t to sav, by tunny of our hv or wr tors to m off at the amateur and the dilettante." This Is eii attitude with vv lilt h I have very little symrttby. We might as "c'l take our food by sniffing at nnntliei persons pi itc ns to confine our inu sc al activities to an admission fee at am.' body else's performance. 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