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Show UTAH TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, Frauds Lynda Ilustratloni by SYNOPSIS youn !ne'i?wr, In tm lml town of trlha;e, Has d vt.wperi an fOraoidir nry Lis whuh la stolen train a safe m W u y i ilxu iHH hanrtis jitory, M'uktum, h!s rhum, th only p th he'jhltj himself, knowing on. Filiation of ?Jim af, is i5tty Owdo ' ? i I wt collme son, d.i'jMar with whom th iavmtor of a v lov e. CHAPTER II i Is in Continued 2 .N'.itu rally, Markham agreed, rut tier too readily. adding, As you say, Hetty probably forgot the figures as t as you called them off to tier. So fur as that Roes, there Is now anil then an expert who can open a simple lock like this by putting an ear against the door and listening for the sound of the tumblers ns they come around Into place. The question Is, who did It In this particular Instance." "There Is one thing certain, Wally, Whoever opened the safe knew what was In It. I'm convinced of that. Which means that the thing I feared most has come to pass. The thief knows what the black box will do, nnd It will ho used to swell the sum total of crime In this crime-riddeday Markham straightened up, and as he did so he found himself facing the window directly over the laboratory bench. Dont you shut that window at night?" he asked. It Is left shut all the time, excepting on hot days, and It Is always fastened at n'ght, ns you see It now." Yes, I scp the fastening; but look here pointing "see this crack between the two RashpR? That Is where your spy has been listening In. Suppose we go outside and see If he left a clew of any sort." The clew or a clew was there a deep footprint In the soft soil under the window. Most unmistakably It had been made by a woman's shoe. "I say, Owen, this thickens things up a bit, doesn't It?" said Markham. I saw a magnifying glass on yotir bench Just now; go get It, will you?" Landis was back In a few seconds wltli the glass, and Markham studied the footprint. When he looked up It was to say, "You've got pretty nearly everything In this Junk shop of yours, Owen; does the list Include a hnndfud or so of plaster of parls? Why, yes; I use It sometimes for making small casting molds." "Right. Wet up a pound or so and bring It here." I.andls obeyed, and when the plaster came, Markham poured It Into the footprint and left It to set. So much for a small preliminary, be said, as he got upon his feet. When that plaster sets, well have a cast of the ladys foot or shoe. "I cant see what you hope to do with that plaster cast," I.andls demurred, after they had returned to the A woman's shoe any laboratory. shoe, for that matter would have thousands of duplicates." The footprint Is a clew, a slender one, I'll admit, but still a clew. The plaster cast will preserve It. for whatever It may be worth which may be Just nothing at all. loot's dig out a few more details, tf we can. Was the door locked when you came here this morning?" It was; hut that proves nothing. It has only an ordinary lock which anybody could pick with a bit of bent wire." "Sure. Getting Into a building any building Is the easiest part of a burfa--- ! glars Job." "You think the woman who made the footprint was the burglar, as well as the spy?" "As to that. Its all guesswork, of course," Markham asserted, "but one of my guesses Is that the woman whose footprint we are embalming wasn't the spy. what ever else she may have b ten." "Wlmt makes yon think that?" The position of the print, for one thing. It was made by the left foot, and If Is parallel with the house wall and not at right angles to It, ns It would have been If the owner of the foot had boon facing the window. Apart from til's, It was made by a person walking not standing still; or I'm guessing It was. It Is deeper af the heel than at the hall of the foot." "What have you been doing, Wally, reading Sherlock Holmes?" Not quite that. Markham denied with a grin. "Just one of my little sideshows. That footprint was made by somebody coming from the alley through the rassage between this shack nnd the fence; walking, and not stopping under the window. Ls there a gate In the alley fence?" "There Is; yes. Lets go nnd have a look at It. Together they went around to the alley gate. It was properly hooked. Still, as Markham pointed out, this meant nothiig, since the hook owd for Its be reached from the out-id- e Upon opening the exta replacement. and stepping Into the alley they erne upon more footprints. In whleh a mans were Interwoven with those of the woman, and the track of an automobile. "IIow about these?" Maikham asked. Who uses the alley for a driveway?" "Nobody, that I know of. All the bouses In both streets have driveways from the front, both for their own autos ar. for coal deliveries nnd the like." "All right; then we may venture another guess. Your tldef or rather, thieves, for we know now there were et least two of them, a man and a 1 to work the combination of the laboratory h ife, the mere fact that the mag nifv ii g ghvs had shown a fumt 11ns ri.iif in fl ns tin ball of the foot In C. Irwin Myers soil imprint under Lambs' wouldnt have suggested the tieiuhr of connecting Hetty with the won,:, a i.vie here In a ear, got out, il'snppe'ir, ii.ee of the black box. Hut pa--- , thioivh the gale, and went the tcl'rale mark, added to I.andls adge on ttuir way to lib, on serined to leave little room throudi the for doubt, though ever, with the the slop door. Any ohJe lions?" e thus all hut eimcUisive, the thing "Nom; at all, that I can see. Lut Id ill! IV ini reddde. was W.il'y? of two were there tlem. why As he let the blue roadster amide Why wouM a crook dotiM his k by feti Mug a woman along? along toward the college suburb, Mark-l- a tea-- 't m tr'ed to convince himself of the at or Is the mystery, tint of the circumstantial evi-- d one of them. Or, wait; maybe the ni e conclusion. Hirst, it Involved the women went in alone. Let's see uhout that. assumption that, Instead of going A lome after the play, Hetty had careful examination proved that the man and the woman had gone In delated her return for at least an hour, since It was nearly midnight betogether, and that the man ti.nl walked on the woman's right and In the fore the black box had been locked up In the laboratory safe. Again, the weeds, which accounted for the fact automobile track and the double set that Ids tracks were Indistinct. of footprints In the alley proved that Ly this time the plaster cast had two persons were concerned, and If hardened sufficiently to permit Its removal and handling, and they took It Hetty were the woman, Canby must huve been the man, since he was her Into the laboratory and dried It slowly In the glow of the electric stove. Wheti escort for the evening. the cast was quite dry and hard MarkLeaching this point, Markham told ham made a close examination of the himself that the thing was blankly unbelievable. sole of the plaster copied shoe. Hetty might play a trh k on Owen; but that she would "What are you looking for?" Lanmake a man her accomplice was dis wanted to know. See that faint line across the ball rid.culously Incredible. Also, there was the matter of the of the foot?" Wes; I can see It without the shoe. Would Hetty have worn a pair of golf shoes to the theater? Markglass." Now all we have to do Is ham weighted the probabilities for flood. woman whose left shoe ls and ngaiast, and the "againsts" had It by an overwhelming majority. He parked his car In front of the Lawson house and ran up the steps with the box under his arm. When the maid came to answer his ring he was told that Miss Hetty had gone across the campus on an errand for her father and would be hack in a few minutes. Would he come In and wait? lie would nnd did; and after the maid had shown him Into the parlor and had gone back to her work, a masterful temptation assailed ' him. With Hetty, who was her fathers housekeeper, out of the way, and the professor busy with his classes In the near-bcollege buildings, he knew he was alone In the house, save for the maid, lie knew which one of the At the upper rooms was Hetty's. prompting of an Impulse quite as lawless as the one Hettys or anothers that had led to the burglarizing of I.andls safe, he ran rapidly up the stairs to the floor above. He hoped he might find the door "Yours a Dear, Wally; Always a of Hettys chamber standing open, and Dearl" It wus. Feeling more like a sneak-thimarked In the same way, and we have than anything else, he went In. at least one of your two housebreakThere was a pair of shoes standing ers. beside the dressing chair. Were they Troubled as he was, Landis had to the shoes she had worn to and from smile. the theater changing, of course, Of course," he snld; "Just as easy when she costumed for her part on as that There are only some twenty the stage? lie was afraid they were, or twenty-fivthousand people In nnd he wished she had put them Carthnge, and only a due proportion ; hidden them so that he couldnt of that number of women. Do we away find them. swear out sear'.k warrants and make Since she hadnt he picked up the every woman In town produce her left shoe and examined the sole. It shoes?" not only bore the telltale crease across "Well," Markham returned the ball of the foot; to the concaved "We shall see what we shall front of the low heel adhered a vissee. Meanwhile, we'll preserve tills ible trace of the black soli of the bit of circumstantial evidence" putLandis bnck yard. Not to leave the Into enst the his pocket. ting plaster smallest chance of uncertainty, ha took "You havent notified the police of the plas'er cast from his pocket and have loss, you? your It with the shoe sola. Che No; the only thing Ive done was compared were Identical. marks While he to call you up." was he that wishing heartily "Thats sensible; let It continue to could discredit the evidence of his be the only tiling for the present If own eyes, he happened to glance out you should pull the police In, youd of the window, nnd saw the owner have to toll them what was stolen; deof the accusing shoe tripping across scribe the black box and give It a the campus toward the house. In name. If you should do that, youd frantic haste he replaced the shoe he set down as a lunatic or a liar. The beside Its mate, pocketed the cast and In to ls to do t?ie boat sit tight thing dashed down the stairs and into the and wait Something may turn up If parlor a breathless moment before he we dont roll the water too hastily. heard Hetty fitting hor key Into the Dont you agree with me?" latch of the lmll door. I guess so," said Landis, with the "If I need an excuse for this early ! nlr of one who still finding It diffbrash, here It Is, he said, givmorning icult to bring calm Judgment to hear. her the congratulatory box. "I "I'll do as you advise, but the waiting ing wanted to he first In the field." ls going to be desperately hard. Youll Oh, how perfectly gorgeous!" she In wont touch, keep you?" when the box was opened. cried, Surest thing you know !" Markham "You're a dear. Wnlly; always a dear! returned heartily; nnd with that, he Why doesnt some nice girl find it out started his motor nnd drove nwnv. and make away with you?" "Exactly wlmt I've asked myself CHAPTER III dozens of tinios," he laughed. "Lut while there's life, there's hope. IIovv are you feeling after t nights sirug-glc?- " Lawson Detty ' (W !y (Ou; W SO Servks) Oarard Chapman the I .Soil and Seed Beds Need of dairy ltock is advanced QUALITY .soft window ;r, I L.s pa-a- evl-de- ri-- d ef 1 e of the dairy breeds Is the Increased amount of Mr production that has taken ilir-the past year. For place IIoKtem-Ir.es- . u report issued by the .m Association of America shows that there was a 14 per cent Increase 1931 in long time reeord testing during ns compared with the previous year. ten A total of 3.869 records In the months and yearly divisions of the Advanced Itegistry were repurted, which Is the largest number In any one when year with the exception of 1924, the high mark of 4,184 was reached. reThis ls considered all the more that fact of the In view markable there were serious drought conditions In many of the leading dairy states and business conditions were none too be-de- learning In the Mnlde West. lie hadn't been entirety frank with I.andls corbln't be. In tbo circumstances and the reason for the unfrankne's dated back to a game of golf at the Country dub; a round plaved with F.e'ry Lawson on a drizdy day when they had both finished with damp clothes end wet feet. After the game he had urged Hetty to lot him drive hoe home quickly for a change, but she had refused to be hurried. There wax a cheerful open tire In the club lounge and they had sat fer a t me before this, toasting their feet at the Maze. He remembered that Hetty had rested her feet on the hot fender, nnd he ha told hor she vvotil burn tlm soVs of her shoes. She lmd burned one of them the left one; he had seen the mirk when she lifted her foot to feel If the shoe were getting too hot. This small circumstance was a sufficient reason for the drive out to the college campus, if i ir i; niJ nof ftlp mltted that he had shown Hetty bow 1 1 was It a struggle? Did It look that way to you? What made you and Owen take a stage box? Did jou think you might be able to rattle me and make me forget my lines?" "Sheer devotion," he explained In Wo wanted to be mock tenderness. as near you as possible. Your work was splend'd. Not fooling any aftereffects at all?" She dropped into a chair nnd passed her hand over her forehead. "Sit down for a few minutes, wont you say? Ill adyou? After-effecta hit of a struggle, last mit It ntphr. I had stage fright horribly, at first" and she went on tolling him Just how the fright complex had attacked her. Sitting opposite, Markham listened, and as she talked the testimony of the circumstantial evidence became still more unholievnhle. Surely If she had taken the leading part in a burglary an hour nfter the play, she couldn't sit there chatting with him apparently without a single trace of seif consciousness. Yet there was tlie arousing footprint under I.rindls' workshop window and the confirmatory shoe In the room overhead. "Weren't you pretty tired when the thing wax over? he asked. "Oil i s I TO 11B CONTINUED ., It,. i i A.i ir-,- s I,., tr-ri- g good. 1 he purpose of officially teeing cows ls to measure their producing capacity and select breeding stock from the best. All Holstein cows and heifers tested In the tea months division during 1931 averaged to produce 15, M 15 pounds of milk containing 470.5 pounds fat. In the yearly division for the same period, the average yield of all tested cows and heifers was pounds milk and 577.3 pounds fat. Since the time official testing was started and up to December 31, 1931, there have been 30,374 yearly tests made averaging 10,707.7 pounds milk and 509 0 pounds of fat. In addition there have been reported 10,334 ten 14,041.9 months tests averaging pounds oil Ik and 474.6 pounds fat. These average production figures for either milk or fat are claimed to bs much higher than for any other breed. How Dairy Profits May Be Kept at High Point At All Times: Use dairy cows. Keep cows comfortable and contented. Treat cows gently and avoid exciting them. Follow a regular schedule of daily work. Weigh the milk of each cow at each milking time. Regulate the amount of feed by the milk records and the Individuality of the cow. Allow free access to salt daily. Supply an abundance of pure fresh water never colder than that of a deep well. Use rations made from a variety of feeds. Give cows six to eight weeks of rest between lactation periods. Follow the practice of the most sucwel-bre- cessful dairymen. Join a association and other organizations that help one to methods of manpractice aging a dairy herd. American Agrcow-testin- iculturist. Three-Tim- e Milking How much, on the average, does mllk'.:g three times a day Increase production over twice a day milking? Does three times a day milking usually pay?" Whre this Is done for a short time only the Increase ls likely to he In the neighborhood of 10 per cent nnd where It Is carried on for the full lactation period the Increase Is likely to be about 20 per cent. The question as to whether or not It will pay depends on many things. Some fool that It pays where milk Is sold at retail or at fluid milk prices hut not where It Is sold to be manufactured Into butter or eheees. Milking three times a day Increases the length of the working day or at least makes It difficult for the man caring for the dairy to get away for very long at a time. Some dairymen who have tried it believe that It pays. Ameri- can Agriculturist. Yessing the Cow ln-- Upon leaving the Landis place Markham drove to a tlorlsts shop and cot the box of congratulatory roses for which he had telephoned that morning. With the box on the seat beside him bis car for the grounds of he one of the oldest Inductions for higher of Cattle Realize Importance. If anyth ng w.i make a cow crazy, It ls a bite of limli green grax In spring. It will make her forget the choicest alfalfa hay. the finest mixture of grain and balancing feed. Uraz.v ns the cow is for this first grass, it Is anything but a complete ration. The dairyman who says Yes" to the cows craving for early crass, and quits feed;ng grain, will get "No" for an answer when he asks the cow for a profit. Grass will keep the milk coming for a little while, boemme it Is a tonic. Hut when the effect of the tonic ls gone, It will take no end of good feeding to build up the milk flow again. Farm Journal. Proper and Timely Preparation. i By n Extension Ilortlcularolina Stutu college. MORROW. ( WNU - . permit the gardener to have a supply of vegetables for the late fall garden. In starting plants which need to he transplanted, it ls better to seed them in partaily shaded seed beds rather tlmn uenipt to plant In the open field. A lattice work of small slats makes an excellent covering for such a bed, but If slats are not available, pine brush or other material may be used. However, this covering should he placed high enough above the ground to permit free circulation of tiie air and to give room for waterIf the soil Is dry ing and weeding. when the seeding Is made, water it thoroughly and then cover with old sacks to retain the moisture. the sacks as soon as the seedlings begin to push through the earth. In planting garden seeds directly in rows, get tiie seed down in the moist earth. Few Instances, beans and corn need to he planted In rather deep furrows. Cover more deeply then when spring planting Is done, especially with the large seeded How at ,!1 ,,,ul,i "TZifYam mq tll 4m - .5 IX JUSt s,tti4 here ?tie to the oinema.-- Lu , J . w C ' hte Kol Zeitung. Salt Lake City fewest Hotel Ite-mo- crops. Small seeded crops will require considerable attention when planted in the open field, lliis means a carefully pulverized seed bed and possibly boards or old sacks laid over tiie row. When boards are used, raise them as soon as the seedlings pusli through and place each end on a rock or brick. Harden to the sun gradually by removing the boards in the early morning and late afternoon for the first few days. hotel TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 200 Tile Bath Radio connection in every won, RATES FROM 1,50 Just opposite Mom on Tabmtdt ERNEST C. ROSSITER, His First Skirmish Dick When I proposed to Grace she asked nie If I was a recruit Don What did she mean? Dick She wanted to know if Huj ever participated in an engagement before. Disagree Over Merits of Yellow Star Thistle ENJOY A TRIP SALT Whats to he done with the yellow star thistle? The farmers say Its a weed pest that crowds out their grain. bee men say it provides their charges with nectar that makes the finest of honey. The state department of agriculture has been called upon to solve this difficult question and so far it hasnt been able to figure any way out. It has been suggested that there are lands where this thistle will thrive, hut where no other piaDt of economic value can he grown. However, cultivating it solely for its nectar is hardly possible and thistles have a habit of refusing to stay put." If no way can be found to keep this weed from damaging our cereal crops the rule of the greatest good to the greatest number will probably govern and the thistle will be subjected to organized assault maybe eradicated. The grain growers argue that there are other less noxious sources of nectar and that star thistle honey Is made at too high a price. Los Angeles Times. Up. LAKE 10 AMD MOUSE The Tpezv-r;- MBS. J. H. WATERS. Pm. W. E. SUTTON. Mp. 400 Baths $2.00 to $4.00 Family Room ff C 400 Rooms TWO $2 so Boom son commonly employed. In using the poison the main runway of the rodent should be located and the bait dropped Into the run. The entrance to the runway should then he closed with a ball of damp earth or wad of grass. Halts need to be placed only at two points in each separate system of ten to thirty mounds, which is usually the home of a single gopher. As new mounds are thrown up, they can be easily seen, and these live runs poisoned again. Wallaces Farmer. Nip ealf at that point. OatAide with Bath 8 ALT LAKE CITY. Equality, after all. nnd definite end, hut to an end. $25! UTAH Is not a fiiei only a mean! The Best Treatment for Falling Hair Rail Dandruff and itching scalp. with CuticW your scalp lightly Ointment; after a time shampoo Tk'I with Cutieura Soap. minor tend to free the scalp from establish a permanent and eruptions condition of hair health. Protect the Navel Cord One of the first steps after the calf is dropped Is to disinfect the navel cord with tincture of iodine, using a small brush or a piece of cheesecloth. In case Iodine Is not available, use a 5 per cent solution of a coal-ta- r disinfectant. Hold a cupful of this solution up under the calf so that the raw, exposed part of the navel cord is submerged. Repeat the treatment daily until tiie cord becomes dry. Proper disinfection of the navel prevents dis-- i ease germs from entering the body of PERSONS-Cho- ice THE HOTEL Poison the Gophers Pocket gophers may be controlled by poisoning with either vegetable or grain halts. Strychnine is the poi- f3 4 or 5 Persons 25 awl Soap 25c. Ointment , Sample 50a ckfc icurq not collect souvenirs. a cleanup dny you will have rhrow them all away. Letter So n re ' Exchange. Season Posts Before Setting In a test In Iowa, catalpa posts lusted IS years without nny chemical treatment. Those treated with creosote lasted 28 years. These posts were not put In until they had a year to dry after being cut. It always pays to let the post season If possible. Cut them, if you can, In the fall so they will dry out enough to prevent the wood borers from attacking them while they are th would seem that mpof only the is divorce ma The reason does not It factor, green. Lyons Ormsby Ava, a pure bred Holstein cow owned by Femco Farms, Minnesota, Is the one hundred and six- ty third Mack and white cow to pro duee In excess of l.oivt pounds butter- fat In a year. In 365 davs she pro- dared 26,912 poun Is mills remaining 1.01.9 pounds l.ntter'af or enough to supply all of the diiry needs of 270 persons for one o,,r She began hei year weighing 1.75' pounds nnd ch.sed It with a weight of 1,729 pounds. HoDtein-rriesia- H tu. 1st Nuilh usCarefully preparing the soil and will beds seed shaded ing purtally Splendid Holstein Record The H AH Clear Lady Association. hair balsaj Leaves Filter Water In Oklahoma an experiment was ade to find how much water the leafy covering In wooded land holds. i Measurements showed the amount held on the land was much more than tiie leaves could hold. The investigators found that the leaves filter the water, keep It clear and let it soak Into the soil through cracks and holes, M here there is no leafy covering to iter the water, silt fills those pores ml more water then runs off the 9"1 carrying eroded soil. connect :on with Yby hair ec.ft and ChemicaDloraar cox is ii Cuts, iTci i |