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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH THE KICti COUNTY REAPES Bate red as second-clamatter Fet 8. 1929. at the past office Kandotah Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop ss 11.80 TTCws SUBSCRIPTION Per Tear la Advance Seed for Pasture, Hay, Is Available Supply Believed Sufficient for Planting More Than mm LAWiMC Copyright by Kathleen Norris 30,000,000 Acres. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WNU Service CHAPTER I of the little girl with the rope of roses. living, Philip and Abigail had serious- days lived to see the end of the cenSome day they would get home again, ly discussed going home.. tury, and the end of his own prosper the and died, leaving what remained' what and and Then old she, Senora Philip, lty, Castellazo baby, had died, in The Lawrence family, although Pasture and hay crop prospects for In a story they would have to tell I . hands even less capable than his' sons and her had wished to of dispose 1935 are brightened by reports received the best sense of the word pioneers, , own. . , miles of Santa , . , , southeast the Clara Meanwhile, hun. , hacienda. Four fifty by the United States Department of had not come to the Golden West by For Yerba acres dred found for Patterson had nine Buena, they hundred dollars. Lawrence was a poet,' means of covered wagons, they had foggy Agriculture. who lived merely to gather worthless on a rancno. It was managed Philip had considered it a wise InEstimates indicate sufficient seed, left their Boston moorings, like the refuge Senora Castellazo, who vestment. There was fruit some fruit old books about him, to ditam over the by a widow,-onespecially of legumes, to plant more gentlefolk of means and leisure that lived farther south in another hacienthere already, there were sheep and painstaking penning of Insignificant than 30,000,000 acres to grass and hay they were, In the year of our Lord rent to one was to and this cattle Included In the sale price. If essays, which were rarely printed and da, willing 1849, and had sailed elegantly for Rio, crops If the ground is properly prethe strangers. It had contained no figs and grapes would grow there, why for which he was never paid. Horn. for the Buenos around and Aires, pared and seed used sparingly. ApAt forty he married a pcets daugh- -' furnishings whatsoever when the Law not Other fruits peaches and pears? proximately 29,000,000 acres normally They had loitered In Valparaiso and In rences had moved in. He who had been precariously exist would take his ter, wife and Lima some for daugb weeks, taking things are sown. This extra 1,000,000 acres New England, he promised, Ing for all her sixteen years upon ter But to back Baldto In the had erosionmany and in a Abby trips to easily, leisurely day, emergency planted win had pretty well transformed the on the first suitable ship; It would be bread, water, and the Sonnets from -resisting crops will make use of due time come up the stormy coast of dismal In anchor place. and had Philip, breathlessly a long hard trip for a woman with a the Portuguese, In a shanty on Rincon dropped part of the land once planted to corn, California, that with the aid of baby, but the Journey across the plains hilL Editba. before her early death. the somehow, grateful of harbor con peaceful and other opalescent wheat, cotton, tobacco, Mormon a doctor Benicia from and the would be worse, and there was no furVerba Buena. tracted crops. This extra acreage Mexican ther hope of the Abby Baldwin. For San Francisco had been still care of two stolid, wall-eye- d should also accumulate hay and forage No, upon consideration it had seemed Abigail had actually brought reserves used up In recent months. familiarly known as Yerba Buena, women, first-born forth a daughter, had made to Philip that this sunshiny sheltered Figures from the entire United then, and the blue waters of the bay no complaints. He bad bad carted flat region, well inland, was the comStates indicate enough seed on hand had lapped the strand at Montgomery street The globe trotters, magnificent down wagon loads of chairs, carpets, ing district, and that by .holding onto to Increase normal plantings as follows : Sweet clover, 250,000 acres alPhilip Lawrence and his frail. Indian-shawled- china, bed linen, books all the per- this property ten years, fifteen years, red-top- , and acres ; 500,000 pretty wife, had remained sonal possessions of himself and his he and Abigail could not fall to be falfa, lespedeza among the prosperous pioneers of the each 1,000,000 acres; and soy on the ship for a few days, for the set- bride. A I bride Poor comon tlement had Is acres. small shore Abigail It laughed new world. Philip was one of the men beans, at least 5,000,000 promised forlornly on the first anniversary of who had shot dead the gold craze with believed there Is enough seed on hand fort for tourists. her wedding day. It bad found her an epigram: "a flash In the pan. of Kentucky bluegrass and orchard week, how, Early in their second weak and weary, stretched on a mat Meanwhile Fanny Lucy had been seed to make normal been the ever, they had grass spring obliged to seek the floor of one of the cool born. ing. lodging ashore. This was for two rea- tress on Look here, young lady, arent there The greatest shortages exist in seed sons, one Important one ridiculous. rooms,- with a burning August day at the level hammering The of away reason was any boys where yon came from? an spread that supplies timothy, forage sorghums, Important millet, Sudan grass, and red and alsike heir to the Lawrences was about to acres of the rancho outside. Beside Philip had said, half serious, half teasclover. There Is enongh timothy to be born. The absurd reason was that her had been Annie Sarah. ing, as he held his second daughter In seed about half the normal acreage. some preposterous person had discovThey bad brought her In hot dusky his arms. Abigail had looked at him There is enough red clover to seed ered gold, or had pretended to, at a grapes, and hot dusty figs, and warm anxiously. But he had not been really about 85 per cent of the normal acre- place called Sutter Creek, and that wine, and finally goat's milk, to solace angry. . Only it had been rather trying that age. There Is enough sorgo seed on everyone In Yerba Buena had promptly her In her ordeal. Except for that, a fine ship had left for South America neither Mexican woman had volunhand to take care of only one-thir-d of lost his senses. the acreage usually sown. Current supPhilip and Abigail Lawrence nat- teered anything. They bad watched and eastern ports on the very next plies of millet and sudan grass seed urally did not lose their senses. They the frightened, doubtful, breathless day. She bad delayed so long In San will sow only about one-hal- f the usual were rich anyway; they were above struggle apathetically, until their oily Francisco harbor that Philip and Abiacreage. It is reported, however, that this undignified scramble - for lucre. brown hands had actually grasped gail had really hoped to be able to Importations are rapidly augmenting Philip bad an income of three thousand Annie Sarah. After that they had sail on ber. But Fanny Lucy had delayed, too, and bad unconsciously a year, and Abigail's father owned five seemed capable enough. supplies of these seeds. affected her parents destinies thereby. It been had Although shortages in adapted varieAnyway, this sailing vessels, including gotten over, very Hs Had Rowed Them and Their For letters had gone to Boston on ties of oats, barley, wheat and rye for Abby Baldwin In which they hqd made somehow, and Abigail had been free to that Carpet Bags AshoreT and four months ship, letters, a in of exist their wonderful of room cry her many parts little, thinking grain purposes at honeymoon trip. somehow had overlater, struggled the drouth area, there Is probably an But the sailors, and Indeed the off- home in an orderly, shaded Massabrought to the House of Lawrence two icials of the Abby Baldwin, had felt chusetts village, with Mas lavender-scente- d land In answer. The respective famample supply adapted for use as passons and three daughters. Sixteen ilies of Abigail and Philip had been when she tures and for grain hays. linen on the smooth bed, roses In differently. They were not above acten years later, married, at their perfectly venture, when Ariel was quiring fortunes, and they bad Instant- a green glass vase on the bureau, and and wrote delighted born, she quietly, hapthat they were certainly enthe lace curtains blowing softly In deserted the and made for the ly Cause Is ship of pily expired, to music, as it were. Overfeeding vious of In a the dwellers and out of the opened upstairs wincountry gold region. The rumor of gold, spreadFor Patterson had been reading Scours in Young Calves ing like prairie fire between breakfast dows. Lilacs, trembling grass, and where there was no snow, no thunderto her, the four' older children, poetry no poverty. Overfeeding young calves during the and the noon dinner, had found the Grandpas grave In the graveyard, and storms, and some miracle, quiet and occupied by Abigail wrote glowing accounts of first two weeks Is likely to cause ship emptied by sunset Philip and doughnuts and currant Jelly oh, dear her new life to the family at home. down by the creek, and Ariel In her soon As as Is the scours, something that baby and the mother very difficult Abigail had signaled a Chinese crab She and Philip were going to build a mothers arms taking a fourth-da- y to control, says Dr. W. L. Boyd, procatcher, and In his little shallop with were well upon the road to normal view of life, when death came. really nice frame house, with bay winfessor of veterinary medicine, Universtained brown sails be had rowed them "She looks as If she were listening, dows, a bathroom, and a cupola. Everyand their carpet bags ashore. sity farm, St Paul. When young anI Pat Shes to be a great poet, touched thing they imals are overfed, the milk does not prospered; people and make going They had gone to the Frenchwomall our fortunes! Editha called them the Lawrences." Lucky entirely digest and often forms hard ans, a quaint-lookln- g adobe house oo And Abigail had eight daughters and had said. And one minute later she leather-lik- e bunches which lie in the a hill, with an upper balcony and shuthad slipped away, leaving the prophecy one son, and the girls all married, durfourth compartment of the stomach, ters. There were no windows, but to gild little Ariels childhood. ing the late Sixties and early Seventhere were tents of mosquito netting causing Irritation that results in diTO. BB CONTINUED. In a land ties, in which women were arrhea or scours. over the bed, and the bare floors were still rare and prized. When a calf begins to scour, Its feed clean.' Downstairs was merely a level San Francisco grew like a mushroom, Trumpet Was Important should be cut In half, and if this fails of dim arcades, earthen-floore- d and -Even in the Trojan War and to help, all milk should be withheld for smelling of spilled ' wlnei where men Philip might hare opened a thousand The doors to 24 to 48 hours. In place of milk, bar trumpet was widely known in great wealth, had he lounged on benches, and where the been a man to see. But he closed one ancient times, playing Its part In the ley gruel, made by boiling barley ker- Frenchwoman herself tended the bar. after the other with his own tand, and fall of Jericho, and even In the Trojan nels until they split open, may be used. But the upstairs room had been comwent blindly on In an Infatuation of war. Trumpets were martial and royal A tablespoonful of common baking fortable enough and Abigail bad eaten satisfaction with bis rolling acres, his Instruments through the Middle ages, coda, dissolved In a little milk or water, a shore meal of fish stew, dumplings, miles of fruit trees, the growing famand the trumpeters guild became Imgiven once or twice a day, usually fresh soft black figs, sour bread, and ily over which be ruled supreme. portant and Influential. helps calves with scours. This should thin wine, with some appetite. Some of the girls went east when The trumpet Is a cylindrical tube be given slowly through the mouth, so This would do for the present,' she as not to choke the calf. they married, some lived In San Fran- about 8 feet long doubled back on it had said. But one could not live qnlte cisco or Stockton, some died. It was self for ease In handling. The trumpet White scours are caused by germs like a savage, after all, and immedinot a salubrious day for pioneer wom- has three valves or pistons, the use rather than by overfeeding. In case ately after breakfast tomorrow Philip en, with one ont of every seven dying of which enables the player to produce of any outbreaks of this nature, the must find a really nice place, and a By In childbirth. Some were poor, local veterinarian would be the best nurse. If not, then they would have to open all the tones in the chromatic scale -- Loved lng boarding houses, scrimping in lone- within the compass of the instrument; authority. go back to the ship. ly crossroad villages. The trumpet, like the horn. Is pro So mnch for Philips benefit But Novelists But no one of them ever forgot that vided with a mute, a pear-shape-d when he had gone out after supper afWay Stop Erosion she was a Lucky Lawrence, and be- fair that can be held In the bell in had felt very inAbigail Uncle Sam' has originated a unique longed to a distinguished New England the place of the performer's fist deed. They had been eleven months cultivator which digs 10,000 holes as so far, and the baby was dne The cornet, sometimes mistaken for family. They talked Incessantly of the getting large as a big straw hat per acre in in a few weeks time. Perhaps It significant fact that the Lawrences had the trumpet, notes a writer in the the surface of tillable fields subject to would be weeks before not come to California as pioneers they could get Washington Post, is a tapering brass eroslonal losses. These holes act as a crew on the oh, dear nol Mother Lawrence had tube a little over 4 feet In length. Its Baldwin, Abby rain-watwhich hold pockets as It come to San Francisct harbor on her natural key Is Philip had returned flushed, distressed, though crooks falls until It can he absorbed by the and from bis search the next annoyed wedding trip, on one of Grandfather may be used to set it in A, at or G. soiL Fifty thousand gallons of water Baldwin's own trading ships. morning; he had returned flushed, disThe cornetist can give rapid passages, per acre Is thus stored In the soil as tressed, and increasingly annoyed from The one son, Patterson Lawrence, trills, and other embellishments with essential moisture Instead of racing the searches of the following daya duly married, too, and lived In the great ease, but the tone-colo- r of the away as the efficient agency of erosion. The Frenchwoman's was not only the house with which his parents had re- cornet Is below that of the trumpet On fields tilled with this new cultivabest It appeared to be the only poswhich has a bold, martial tone that placed the old adobe hacienda. h losses have been reduced tor, sible place for Abigail to and to Supplied by the United States Department of Agriculture. WNU Service. , e g, , 1 ' ' A Love Tale FULL OF SURPRISES One of Americas Best Woman to low-spirite- d' Kathleen Norris er B-fl- A-fl- soil-was- to about 1 per cent, as compared with the average loss of 34 per cent which occurred before the new system of cultivation was begun. American farmers and farming will save $2,000,000,000 annually the tribute now paid to erosion If the defense is permanently successful. Philadelphia Inquirer. Around the Farm France will discourage any increase In wheat acreage. One of the .most easily digested of all foods is honey.' In Holland a special brand of late bar has one-four- th soybean choco- stay, contemplate a confinement there, with the noise and drinking and the smell of wine below stairs, and with nobody but whiskered old Madame Bouvler to attend her, was madness. Desperate, Philip had rented a spanking team and a buggy and bad begun to drive about the adjoining country looking for shelter. For it bad become obvious now that the crew was not going to retnrn to the Ab)y Baldwin. The ship swung rotting at her anchor, in a dismal company of other deserted vessels, and the sun beat down upon their empty decks week in and week out, while the hides, coffee, and rope packed beneath slowly decayed. Abigail had covered passionate pages with the story of their adventures, and had put the letters into the canvas flap of her trunk, under the pasted picture loose-wheele- d -- Read this first installment of The Lucky Abigail, and after her her in their fervor to encourage shade in that hot, dry country, planted everything opon which they could put their hands, close to' the house. They did not foresee that the pampas grass and the verbena trees, the peppers and roses and evergreens, would grow closer, thicker, darker every year. Eventually the pretentions old .frame building, with Its scallops of mill work and Its 'bay windows. Its cnpola and balnstraded roof, was canght tightly In dusty heavy leafage, and the ga filled with mossy, slippery patches where even in summer no light crept in on the sickly grass, . For thirty years the House of Lawrence had been in eclipse, and the garden showed It Acre by acre old Philip Lawrence and his son Patterson had , watched r their fortunes decline; the old pioneer of the Yerba Buena daugh-ter-ln-la- n and follow the story as it appears in this paper can be heard through the entire or chestra. In v the classical period of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the trumpet was not very prominent. Wagner em ployed It extensively in some of his operas, and he used muted trumpets to Imitate the tiny trumpets of the toymakers guild in The Mastersing, ers. Old Prison, Family Horn In Madrid the small building use as the prison for its Inquisition sti stands on the narrow street named ft Queen Isabella. This building, clot by the university (which Itself occi pies the confiscated buildings of a Jei uit monastery), was stormed by tb revolutionists of 1820; It was late used as a soldiers barracks and no owned by a private family. It ha about it still the air of a prison. |