May 14, 1934 (8 pages)

710 apMil} Se pe Sn STR ST a rr Vi . planning. ne eee as a re SS 3 ae THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE WNU Service. OUTLAWS of EDEN Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. ® SYNOPSIS on At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, with his bride, rode into northeastern California. Here he found an ideal valley for cattle raising. They christened it Eden Valley. Below Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Kershaw’s wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There {s bad blood over fences and water for irrigation. Kershaw kills Hensley and the blood-feud is on. By 1917, Rance Kershaw, his son Owen, and Gaughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor ts the sole survivor on the Hensley side. He goes to help Lorry in her car and finds her father has died of heart disease. Silas Babson, banker, schemes to control the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilities of Eden Valley. Nate tells Lorry he and Owen Kershaw, Lorry’s brother, met in France just before Owen was killed. They became buddies, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen he would look after Lorry as a’ brother might do. Babson, determined to secure Lorry’s lake-site and Nate’s damsite, makes’ legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Forlorn Valley irrigation district, which he organizes. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in love with Lorry. Babson discovers Nate is behind a power project which threatens to ruin the banker's schemes. CHAPTER VIII—Continued piaiar » ick He was possessed of a warm feeling of elation ag he motored up to the Circle K and in a field below the ranch house found Lorry with her cowboys working in the branding corral, She wore the traditional boots, overalls, shirt, and hat of a cowman, She carried a four-strand thirty-foot calf ‘rope of braided rawhide and bestrode a buckskin horse that knew his business, Tichenor climbed up on the fence and watched her work; he thrilled with professional pride as her small loop went under. the belly of each victim ‘and curled up and over the legs of the calf as the little animal went forward; he observed how gently she laid him down,'saving undue strain on her riata, and dragged him through the soft loose dirt to the fire. Rube Tenhey, working a calf along the fence below Nate, said out of the corner of his mouth as he passed: “Ninety-two calves so far today and she hasn’t missed her cast yet.” It was long since he had sat on the top rail of a corral fence, comfortable in his shirt-sleeves, and looked at good stock! Long since he had done any shooting and fishing, long since his knees had gripped anything save an academy-trained horse, He resolved definitely not to give it up. When the world wearied him he could always come back to Eden Valley and enjoy the society of people who had mastered the great art of silent companionship. Lorry had waved her riata at him as he took his seat on the fence; thereafter she paid no attention to him. She was busy. So he sat on the fence for an hour, dreaming, remembering, Finally he saw a_ horse standing, with drooping head, outside the corral. A riata was colled on the saddle, “My horse, Lorry?” he called to the girl. “Whenever you get your job of dreaming done with,” she called back. He climbed down, cinched the saddle tighter, and swung aboard. “Ride him, cowboy,” Lorry cried joyously, and as if this was a signal, the horse went into action. Tichenor stayed with him for six jumps, then sailed off into space and lit on his hands and knees in the soft dirt; whereupon everybody laughed long and joyously at his discomfiture, A dozen feet away the horse was standing, gazing curiously at him. Lorry rode up to the fence and looked at him. “What happened?” she asked sympathetically. He picked himself up, furious with embarrassment and glared at her. “I've been away a long time. I’m soft. I can’t grip ‘em like I used to,” he mumbled, and caught up the horse. The brute tried to throw him again, but this time Tichenor stuck, and the horse, deciding he had had the worst of the argument, jogged sedately away to the corral gate, swung into it for Nate to slip the wooden latch, pushed it open with his shoulder, pushed it shut again and sidled humbly up to the latch for his rider to slide it. home again. ~Tichenor shook out his loop, found an unbranded calf and roped it neatly around the hind legs, smiled her approval and before her smile his anger and embarrassment melted and he smiled back, “Nate, I bet Rube a hundred dbdllars you'd ride him straight up and stay with him. You rode him straight up but you didn't stay with him—so you lost a hundred dollars for me.” “Why didn’t you bet Rube another hundred I’d miss my first calf,” “I did,” she confessed sadly, out two hundred on you.” “Go bet him two hundred more 1! can rope ten straight.” She called her bet to Rube Tenney. “Taken,” the superintendent yelled back, “And another hundred-he misses one calf in the first five.” “Take it," Tichenor urged. Lorry took it and he won both bets for her, “l'm Lorry , ‘¥irst time I ever knew a man to lay off ropin’ nine years an’ come back with his old-time skill,” Rube Tenney complained, “Once a year, for six years past, I've roped daily for a week in the rodeo held at Madison Square garden,” Tichenor confessed. “The first time I tried it was on a private bet. I was in a box with a lot of society wasters and there was a rich smart Aleck there I didn’t like. So I honeyed him into a bet of ten thousand dollars . could rope and hog-tie a calf in twenty seconds.” 4 “Why, that’s slow. Lorry ehallenged. “Not on a borrowed horse, with a borrowed rope and an educated calf, Lorry. The crowd thought . was part of the show when I rode out in a top hat and dress clothes and tied the critter in fourteen seconds." “Did you collect the ten thousand?” the practical Mr. Tenney queried. “T did.” “T'll bet you ten thousarid . can beat your time. We're about finished. with this bunch so we'll let all but four out of the corral and haze the others with their mothers down the field about a hundred yards. Then Rube shall open the gate and we'll start a calf from the other end of the corral straight for his mother. The gate shall be the dead line, and the second the calf is through it he’s yours to rope and tle. I noticed the other day you carry a stop-watch. How about it, neighbor?” Lorry asked. “Give me a tie rope,” was all he said, and handed his stop-watch to Rube Tenney. The calf, a husky youngster about two months old, then went out the gate for all he was worth. 4 "ly I can beat-that,” Tichenor Stayed With Him for Six Jumps. Forty feet beyond the gate Tichenor's rope settled over his head and stopped him; even as he stopped, the man waa going out of the saddle; crawling up along the rope, he flopped the calf, tied him and rolled him over; then Rube Tenney inspected the tie and pronounced it perfect. “Fifteen and a fifth,” he announced. “Good fast work; Nate.” They rode back into the corral and watched Lorry haze her calf out, Ags his tail cleared the gate post she snagged him; like Nate she lit running, flanked the calf expertly and tied him. Tichenor came down and rolled the little animal over twice. “Nothing wrong with that tie,” he announced. “By crikey, you're strong.” “Give the lady ten thousand dollars,” Rube Tenney ordered. “Fourteen flat. An’ you've traveled a long-way for a lickin', mister,” Nate Tichenor, using the flat of his saddle for a desk, wrote out the check, “Thanks,” the girl said casually, and waved the check to dry the ink. “Kasy buried. come, easy go. I have no qualms at nicking you, Nate. I competed with the best men in the country at the Pendleton round-up last year and took second money. Came away from that show with’eleven hundred dollars and met the September payroll.” “You're a man’s woman,” he told her feelingly. “I’ve never had more fun losing ten thousand dollars.” “And I’ve never had more fun winning it. You’re a true blue sport, Nate, and a true blue sport never knows a regret.” And she latghed and tore up the check. “He_had no -reply to make to—this. Half angry and half prideful, he sat his horse, looking down at her with a queer, Intense light in his eyes, seeing which Rube Tenney gathered his cowboys together and rode off with them toward headquarters, When they were out of hearing Nate Tichenor spoke: “Lorry Kershaw, I’ve never loved a woman before, but I love you.” Tichenor knew the ghost of old Rance Kershaw was coming between him and his desire, “T understand, Lorry,’ he said, finally. “Well, I’m good at waiting, but I certainly do crave the job of taking care of you.” She smiled up at him. “Well, I have resented your valet,” she admitted, slyly. ‘“‘What does a valet know about taking care of a man?” ; He dismounted, squatted on his heels in the shadow of the corral and motioned her to sit beside him. “Tell me anything except how much money you have,” she suggested presently. “I’m not interested in that.” “Lorry, I’m the proprietor of a big dream. As a half-owner in a bond and brokerage house in New York I’ve made money enough to retire on now. But I’m too young to rust out, so I’m going to put over one hig deal before I quit. Lorry, I’m the Mountain Valley Power company.” She stood up, gazing down at him reproachfully. “So you were the Santa Claus that gave me twice what my land was worth, were you?” Her tone was cold. “That was your nice little method of conferring charity, was it?” “Well, it was a good price, Lorry, but the land was worth that to me. Had anybody but you owned it I would have haggled and. made a couple of hundred thousand dollars. But it wasn’t charity. I wasn’t in love with you when we closed that deal. That’s happened since and . don’t know why, I only know I'm glad it’s happened, even if nothing should ever come of it. Sit down please. You can't pick a fight with me merely because I declined to take advantage of your ignorance of the value of what you held, plus your acute financial: embarrassment.” She sat down. “You and . are not popular in our little world,” he went on. “I don't know how you feel about it, but that knowledge has always hurt me. My heart is here, where. my people lie I've wanted to do something big and constructive, accumulate a lot of money and employ it wisely—in this country, I—I want neighbors, I want to be thought well of.” He waved his hand toward the east, in that country and I don’t like it, I want to live here and you might as well know it now.” “Go on. I'm listening, Nate.” “You're going to marry me, sooner or later, and I want to know if you'd have any objection to living here six months of the year?” ‘ “A little bit shorter than I care to consider, but I can stand it.” “Lorry, you're a darling. Well, I’ve found a way to popularize both clans. When the Mountain Valley Power company's dam is in, I’m going to sell water cheap to Forlorn Valley. They're irrigating from deep wells over there,” “Those people are a miserable lot, Nate. I was blackballed out of the women’s club in Valley Center.” (SAAD AAASASASAAAASS AS Sod (SSAASAASASSAAAAASASASAASA AS AS SAAD SASS =< a ———————————— Colors of Male Birds and Lizards Serve to Frighten Off Their Rivals It’s long been a popular idea that In the animal world the gay coloring of the male is bestowed upon him to attract a mate, This Isn't really so, suys Dr. G. Kingsley Nobel, curator of experimental biology at the American Museum of Natural History, for the brilliance of his dress serves rather to frighten away rivals than to attract the lady of his choice. These conclusions reached through laboratory research, differed so widely from the views of Darwin and the majority of scientists that Doctor Noble deemed it desirable to re-study the problem under natural conditions. The United Clay Mines corporation, through tts vice president, C. W. Hall, generously offered to help his fleld studies by placing at Doctor Noble's disposa! a* house in the New Jersey pine barrens, where the fence Ifzard, Sceloporous undulatus, was abundant, The male of this species bears on either side of his body a handsome stripe of blue which is nearly continuous with a-spot of the same color on the throat as distinguished from the female which has little coloration. “The males, as the season progresses,” writes Doctor Noble in Natural History Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History, “‘becomes extremely pugnacious and establishes himself in a definite territory. If another male-is dropped into that territory, the first tenant either gves into a full display, compressing his sides until his gorgeous blue Stripe stands out in shimmering brilNancy, or else he dashes forward in most violent attack. If the trespasser is a female the male never displays. This difference in behavior observed at frequent intervals shows that the bright colors of the male fence lizard are employed to bluff possible rivals Into withdrawing from a fight. The adornment of the male Is not wedding finery but a gladiator’s vestment.” _ Lueky Reptiles The teeth of serpents and crocodil lans as a rule are ‘perpetually renewed, new ones growing out to replace the old as fast as they are worn out and disappear. This is believed to be largely responsible for the re markable longevity of some of these creatures, “T don't belong: “So was my mother.” “T’ve never been invited to a party or a picnic or a dance or a barbecue, even by the people who come°up here to picnic and fish and hunt on our ranch. I want no credit from those people, Nate.” A break in her voice caused him to glance’ sharply at her. Tears were rolling silently down her-cheeks, He gazed moodily down Eden Valley and watched the last rays of the sun gilding the crowns of the scattered pines, Yes, the people of Forlorn Valley had always been free to use Eden Valley for a playground, “They can’t come to Eden Valley any more," he decided aloud. “I'll put a sign up on the. gate that leads from the open country to the Bar H.” The mountaineer was speaking now, “I wouldn't have truck with your enemies, Lorry.” She leaned over, put her arm arouna his neck, drew his. face down and kissed him. “I do love you, Nate. And we're sufficient unto ourselves, aren't we?” He held her so close to him she could hear his heart thumping with the fierce joy. that possessed him, He was happy at last; the thought came to him that never again would he be lonely. Nevertheless, he had dreamed a big dream and he recoiled from the prospect of abandoning it. “We needn't be friendly with them, darling,” he resumed, “but we can sell them water, make a lot of money out of them and save them a. lot of money. And it's not altogether their fault that we've been ostracized. You've got to admit we weren't a wholesome crew.” “We'll ruin them,” she cried, passionately, “and when they’ve been ruined we'll run cattle over their farms, Nate.” She was still recalcitrant, for she had been wounded deeply, and women do not forget their wounds as readily as men do. “I’m not interested, Nate, I am not my brother's keeper.” “I rather thought you might urge me to be nice to them,” he complained a little sadly. And he went on to sketch the situation as he had concelved it, the girl*listening alertly and forbearing to interrupt him. At the conclusion of his statement she said: “Very well, Nate. I'll get religion and love mine enemies; they've struck me on one cheek, but for your sake I'll turn the other. But I'll not forgive Silas Bahson. Nate, he killed my father just as surely as any Hensley ever killed a Kershaw or any Kershaw ever killed a Hensley. You said a moment ago you wouldn’t have truck with my enemies, Well, that Babson is my enemy. Are you going to have truck with him?” “I do not see how I can very well avoid that, Lorry. Forlorn Valley will have to form an irrigation district to get the water and you know Babson’s their bellwether. He'll run the show.” “He mustn’t run it with you. You'll run that show. I'll not have you playing second fiddle to a man that isn't fit to shine your boots, That's. final.” “Well, how are you going to prevent it, spitfire?” “If you do I'll not marry you.” “Threatening me, eh? Don’t yon realize none of my clan has ever been driven?” She dodged that terse thrust. “I’l) compromise with you. Be nice to the Forlorn Valleyites, if you. wish, but smash Babson. I want him smashed,” she added with quiet vehemence. “But if I humor you, little wildcat, I'll have to smash the Bank of Valley Center, and when the bank's smashed all the. depositors will be smashed with it.” “You don't truly love me,” she chided him, petulantly. “I can give up my love. I’ve lived twenty-nine years without it and I can live some more.” Again she put her arms around him and drew his face down to hers, “Why, we're feuding again, sweetheart,” she murmured softly. “Have {t your own way. I'd rather have you than the scalp of Silas Babson"—and she sealed that pronouncement with kisses, “You win, Lorry. You can lead a mule to water but you can’t make him drink, I'll smash Babson for: you. And I have an ancient grudge against that rat Henry Rookby, too, so I'll knock him out of the best salaried position in Valley Center.” “What's wrong with Henry Rookby?” “Once, when [ was about .sixteen years old, I walked around the block in Valley Center to avoid coming face to face with your brother Owen. Rookby saw me do it, so he followed me Implied Tf Then he went and twitted me about it: was afraid of Owen. back and talked with Owen and I saw the pair of them smiling in my direction. So I didn't avoid the meeting after that. Rookby would have liked to see a killing, I imagine, just. to vary the routine of his dull life, my gun over his right shoulder—up between the shoulder and the neck—and knocked him flat on his back. And T said to him: ‘Rookby, If you want a killing, say so and [ll kil] you. I'm not looking for Kershaw—-yet,’ ” “And what did Owen say?” TO BE CONTINUED. 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This 36 per cent, Doctor Howe said, was the first money interest and arose naturally out of the former Lydian system of doing business, ‘Trade had been primarily in cattle. When cows were sold on credit it was assumed they would have calves, So the seller demanded the price of a calf as additional payment. This was calculated at about one-third the value of a cow. When you pay interest to the bank today you ure paying, genetically considered, the price of the calf of the cow you borrowed. Other notes on gold from Doctor Howe's studies: All the gold on earth is worth about $11,000,000,000, It could be stored in a room of 380 cubic feet. The workers of the United States could earn-it all by working 60 days at $5 a day. They could earn all the gold in their own country in 20 days. The total of gold in the United States has about the same intrinsic value as to total of diamonds.—Washington Star. 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710 apMil} Se pe Sn STR ST a rr Vi . planning. ne eee as a re SS 3 ae THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE WNU Service. OUTLAWS of EDEN Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. ® SYNOPSIS on At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, with his bride, rode into northeastern California. Here he found an ideal valley for cattle raising. They christened it Eden Valley. Below Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Kershaw’s wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There {s bad blood over fences and water for irrigation. Kershaw kills Hensley and the blood-feud is on. By 1917, Rance Kershaw, his son Owen, and Gaughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor ts the sole survivor on the Hensley side. He goes to help Lorry in her car and finds her father has died of heart disease. Silas Babson, banker, schemes to control the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilities of Eden Valley. Nate tells Lorry he and Owen Kershaw, Lorry’s brother, met in France just before Owen was killed. They became buddies, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen he would look after Lorry as a’ brother might do. Babson, determined to secure Lorry’s lake-site and Nate’s damsite, makes’ legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Forlorn Valley irrigation district, which he organizes. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in love with Lorry.. Babson discovers Nate is behind a power project which threatens to ruin the banker's schemes. CHAPTER VIII—Continued piaiar » ick He was possessed of a warm feeling of elation ag he motored up to the Circle K and in a field below the ranch house found Lorry with her cowboys working in the branding corral, She wore the traditional boots, overalls, shirt, and hat of a cowman, She carried a four-strand thirty-foot calf ‘rope of braided rawhide and bestrode a buckskin horse that knew his business, Tichenor climbed up on the fence and watched her work; he thrilled with professional pride as her small loop went under. the belly of each victim ‘and curled up and over the legs of the calf as the little animal went forward; he observed how gently she laid him down,'saving undue strain on her riata, and dragged him through the soft loose dirt to the fire. Rube Tenhey, working a calf along the fence below Nate, said out of the corner of his mouth as he passed: “Ninety-two calves so far today and she hasn’t missed her cast yet.” It was long since he had sat on the top rail of a corral fence, comfortable in his shirt-sleeves, and looked at good stock! Long since he had done any shooting and fishing, long since his knees had gripped anything save an academy-trained horse, He resolved definitely not to give it up. When the world wearied him he could always come back to Eden Valley and enjoy the society of people who had mastered the great art of silent companionship. Lorry had waved her riata at him as he took his seat on the fence; thereafter she paid no attention to him. She was busy. So he sat on the fence for an hour, dreaming, remembering, Finally he saw a_ horse standing, with drooping head, outside the corral. A riata was colled on the saddle, “My horse, Lorry?” he called to the girl. “Whenever you get your job of dreaming done with,” she called back. He climbed down, cinched the saddle tighter, and swung aboard. “Ride him, cowboy,” Lorry cried joyously, and as if this was a signal, the horse went into action. Tichenor stayed with him for six jumps, then sailed off into space and lit on his hands and knees in the soft dirt; whereupon everybody laughed long and joyously at his discomfiture, A dozen feet away the horse was standing, gazing curiously at him. Lorry rode up to the fence and looked at him. “What happened?” she asked sympathetically. He picked himself up, furious with embarrassment and glared at her. “I've been away a long time. I’m soft. I can’t grip ‘em like I used to,” he mumbled, and caught up the horse. The brute tried to throw him again, but this time Tichenor stuck, and the horse, deciding he had had the worst of the argument, jogged sedately away to the corral gate, swung into it for Nate to slip the wooden latch, pushed it open with his shoulder, pushed it shut again and sidled humbly up to the latch for his rider to slide it. home again. ~Tichenor shook out his loop, found an unbranded calf and roped it neatly around the hind legs, smiled her approval and before her smile his anger and embarrassment melted and he smiled back, “Nate, I bet Rube a hundred dbdllars you'd ride him straight up and stay with him. You rode him straight up but you didn't stay with him—so you lost a hundred dollars for me.” “Why didn’t you bet Rube another hundred I’d miss my first calf,” “I did,” she confessed sadly, out two hundred on you.” “Go bet him two hundred more 1! can rope ten straight.” She called her bet to Rube Tenney. “Taken,” the superintendent yelled back, “And another hundred-he misses one calf in the first five.” “Take it," Tichenor urged. Lorry took it and he won both bets for her, “l'm Lorry , ‘¥irst time I ever knew a man to lay off ropin’ nine years an’ come back with his old-time skill,” Rube Tenney complained, “Once a year, for six years past, I've roped daily for a week in the rodeo held at Madison Square garden,” Tichenor confessed. “The first time I tried it was on a private bet. I was in a box with a lot of society wasters and there was a rich smart Aleck there I didn’t like. So I honeyed him into a bet of ten thousand dollars . could rope and hog-tie a calf in twenty seconds.” 4 “Why, that’s slow. Lorry ehallenged. “Not on a borrowed horse, with a borrowed rope and an educated calf, Lorry. The crowd thought . was part of the show when I rode out in a top hat and dress clothes and tied the critter in fourteen seconds." “Did you collect the ten thousand?” the practical Mr. Tenney queried. “T did.” “T'll bet you ten thousarid . can beat your time. We're about finished. with this bunch so we'll let all but four out of the corral and haze the others with their mothers down the field about a hundred yards. Then Rube shall open the gate and we'll start a calf from the other end of the corral straight for his mother. The gate shall be the dead line, and the second the calf is through it he’s yours to rope and tle. I noticed the other day you carry a stop-watch. How about it, neighbor?” Lorry asked. “Give me a tie rope,” was all he said, and handed his stop-watch to Rube Tenney. The calf, a husky youngster about two months old, then went out the gate for all he was worth. 4 "ly I can beat-that,” Tichenor Stayed With Him for Six Jumps. Forty feet beyond the gate Tichenor's rope settled over his head and stopped him; even as he stopped, the man waa going out of the saddle; crawling up along the rope, he flopped the calf, tied him and rolled him over; then Rube Tenney inspected the tie and pronounced it perfect. “Fifteen and a fifth,” he announced. “Good fast work; Nate.” They rode back into the corral and watched Lorry haze her calf out, Ags his tail cleared the gate post she snagged him; like Nate she lit running, flanked the calf expertly and tied him. Tichenor came down and rolled the little animal over twice. “Nothing wrong with that tie,” he announced. “By crikey, you're strong.” “Give the lady ten thousand dollars,” Rube Tenney ordered. “Fourteen flat. An’ you've traveled a long-way for a lickin', mister,” Nate Tichenor, using the flat of his saddle for a desk, wrote out the check, “Thanks,” the girl said casually, and waved the check to dry the ink. “Kasy buried. come, easy go. I have no qualms at nicking you, Nate. I competed with the best men in the country at the Pendleton round-up last year and took second money. Came away from that show with’eleven hundred dollars and met the September payroll.” “You're a man’s woman,” he told her feelingly. “I’ve never had more fun losing ten thousand dollars.” “And I’ve never had more fun winning it. You’re a true blue sport, Nate, and a true blue sport never knows a regret.” And she latghed and tore up the check. “He_had no -reply to make to—this. Half angry and half prideful, he sat his horse, looking down at her with a queer, Intense light in his eyes, seeing which Rube Tenney gathered his cowboys together and rode off with them toward headquarters, When they were out of hearing Nate Tichenor spoke: “Lorry Kershaw, I’ve never loved a woman before, but I love you.” Tichenor knew the ghost of old Rance Kershaw was coming between him and his desire, “T understand, Lorry,’ he said, finally. “Well, I’m good at waiting, but I certainly do crave the job of taking care of you.” She smiled up at him. “Well, I have resented your valet,” she admitted, slyly. ‘“‘What does a valet know about taking care of a man?” ; He dismounted, squatted on his heels in the shadow of the corral and motioned her to sit beside him. “Tell me anything except how much money you have,” she suggested presently. “I’m not interested in that.” “Lorry, I’m the proprietor of a big dream. As a half-owner in a bond and brokerage house in New York I’ve made money enough to retire on now. But I’m too young to rust out, so I’m going to put over one hig deal before I quit. Lorry, I’m the Mountain Valley Power company.” She stood up, gazing down at him reproachfully. “So you were the Santa Claus that gave me twice what my land was worth, were you?” Her tone was cold. “That was your nice little method of conferring charity, was it?” “Well, it was a good price, Lorry, but the land was worth that to me. Had anybody but you owned it I would have haggled and. made a couple of hundred thousand dollars. But it wasn’t charity. I wasn’t in love with you when we closed that deal. That’s happened since and . don’t know why, I only know I'm glad it’s happened, even if nothing should ever come of it. Sit down please. You can't pick a fight with me merely because I declined to take advantage of your ignorance of the value of what you held, plus your acute financial: embarrassment.” She sat down. “You and . are not popular in our little world,” he went on. “I don't know how you feel about it, but that knowledge has always hurt me. My heart is here, where. my people lie I've wanted to do something big and constructive, accumulate a lot of money and employ it wisely—in this country, I—I want neighbors, I want to be thought well of.” He waved his hand toward the east, in that country and I don’t like it, I want to live here and you might as well know it now.” “Go on. I'm listening, Nate.” “You're going to marry me, sooner or later, and I want to know if you'd have any objection to living here six months of the year?” ‘ “A little bit shorter than I care to consider, but I can stand it.” “Lorry, you're a darling. Well, I’ve found a way to popularize both clans. When the Mountain Valley Power company's dam is in, I’m going to sell water cheap to Forlorn Valley. They're irrigating from deep wells over there,” “Those people are a miserable lot, Nate. I was blackballed out of the women’s club in Valley Center.” (SAAD AAASASASAAAASS AS Sod (SSAASAASASSAAAAASASASAASA AS AS SAAD SASS =< a ———————————— Colors of Male Birds and Lizards Serve to Frighten Off Their Rivals It’s long been a popular idea that In the animal world the gay coloring of the male is bestowed upon him to attract a mate, This Isn't really so, suys Dr. G. Kingsley Nobel, curator of experimental biology at the American Museum of Natural History, for the brilliance of his dress serves rather to frighten away rivals than to attract the lady of his choice. These conclusions reached through laboratory research, differed so widely from the views of Darwin and the majority of scientists that Doctor Noble deemed it desirable to re-study the

problem under natural conditions. The United Clay Mines corporation, through tts vice president, C. W. Hall, generously offered to help his fleld studies by placing at Doctor Noble's disposa! a* house in the New Jersey pine barrens, where the fence Ifzard, Sceloporous undulatus, was abundant, The male of this species bears on either side of his body a handsome stripe of blue which is nearly continuous with a-spot of the same color on the throat as distinguished from the female which has little coloration. “The males, as the season progresses,” writes Doctor Noble in Natural History Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History, “‘becomes extremely pugnacious and establishes himself in a definite territory. If another male-is dropped into that territory, the first tenant either gves into a full display, compressing his sides until his gorgeous blue Stripe stands out in shimmering brilNancy, or else he dashes forward in most violent attack. If the trespasser is a female the male never displays. This difference in behavior observed at frequent intervals shows that the bright colors of the male fence lizard are employed to bluff possible rivals Into withdrawing from a fight. The adornment of the male Is not wedding finery but a gladiator’s vestment.” _ Lueky Reptiles The teeth of serpents and crocodil lans as a rule are ‘perpetually renewed, new ones growing out to replace the old as fast as they are worn out and disappear. This is believed to be largely responsible for the re markable longevity of some of these creatures, “T don't belong: “So was my mother.” “T’ve never been invited to a party or a picnic or a dance or a barbecue, even by the people who come°up here to picnic and fish and hunt on our ranch. I want no credit from those people, Nate.” A break in her voice caused him to glance’ sharply at her. Tears were rolling silently down her-cheeks, He gazed moodily down Eden Valley and watched the last rays of the sun gilding the crowns of the scattered pines, Yes, the people of Forlorn Valley had always been free to use Eden Valley for a playground, “They can’t come to Eden Valley any more," he decided aloud. “I'll put a sign up on the. gate that leads from the open country to the Bar H.” The mountaineer was speaking now, “I wouldn't have truck with your enemies, Lorry.” She leaned over, put her arm arouna his neck, drew his. face down and kissed him. “I do love you, Nate. And we're sufficient unto ourselves, aren't we?” He held her so close to him she could hear his heart thumping with the fierce joy. that possessed him, He was happy at last; the thought came to him that never again would he be lonely. Nevertheless, he had dreamed a big dream and he recoiled from the prospect of abandoning it. “We needn't be friendly with them, darling,” he resumed, “but we can sell them water, make a lot of money out of them and save them a. lot of money. And it's not altogether their fault that we've been ostracized. You've got to admit we weren't a wholesome crew.” “We'll ruin them,” she cried, passionately, “and when they’ve been ruined we'll run cattle over their farms, Nate.” She was still recalcitrant, for she had been wounded deeply, and women do not forget their wounds as readily as men do. “I’m not interested, Nate, I am not my brother's keeper.” “I rather thought you might urge me to be nice to them,” he complained a little sadly. And he went on to sketch the situation as he had concelved it, the girl*listening alertly and forbearing to interrupt him. At the conclusion of his statement she said: “Very well, Nate. I'll get religion and love mine enemies; they've struck me on one cheek, but for your sake I'll turn the other. But I'll not forgive Silas Bahson. Nate, he killed my father just as surely as any Hensley ever killed a Kershaw or any Kershaw ever killed a Hensley. You said a moment ago you wouldn’t have truck with my enemies, Well, that Babson is my enemy. Are you going to have truck with him?” “I do not see how I can very well avoid that, Lorry. Forlorn Valley will have to form an irrigation district to get the water and you know Babson’s their bellwether. He'll run the show.” “He mustn’t run it with you. You'll run that show. I'll not have you playing second fiddle to a man that isn't fit to shine your boots, That's. final.” “Well, how are you going to prevent it, spitfire?” “If you do I'll not marry you.” “Threatening me, eh? Don’t yon realize none of my clan has ever been driven?” She dodged that terse thrust. “I’l) compromise with you. Be nice to the Forlorn Valleyites, if you. wish, but smash Babson. I want him smashed,” she added with quiet vehemence. “But if I humor you, little wildcat, I'll have to smash the Bank of Valley Center, and when the bank's smashed all the. depositors will be smashed with it.” “You don't truly love me,” she chided him, petulantly. “I can give up my love. I’ve lived twenty-nine years without it and I can live some more.” Again she put her arms around him and drew his face down to hers, “Why, we're feuding again, sweetheart,” she murmured softly. “Have {t your own way. I'd rather have you than the scalp of Silas Babson"—and she sealed that pronouncement with kisses, “You win, Lorry. You can lead a mule to water but you can’t make him drink, I'll smash Babson for: you. And I have an ancient grudge against that rat Henry Rookby, too, so I'll knock him out of the best salaried position in Valley Center.” “What's wrong with Henry Rookby?” “Once, when [ was about .sixteen years old, I walked around the block in Valley Center to avoid coming face to face with your brother Owen. Rookby saw me do it, so he followed me Implied Tf Then he went and twitted me about it: was afraid of Owen. back and talked with Owen and I saw the pair of them smiling in my direction. So I didn't avoid the meeting after that. Rookby would have liked to see a killing, I imagine, just. to vary the routine of his dull life, my gun over his right shoulder—up between the shoulder and the neck—and knocked him flat on his back. And T said to him: ‘Rookby, If you want a killing, say so and [ll kil] you. I'm not looking for Kershaw—-yet,’ ” “And what did Owen say?” TO BE CONTINUED. So I bent SOME NEW FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF GOLD MONEY It 1s quite a comedown for gold to be used for money or the basis for currency. It would require a combination of historian, philosopher, banker, polltician and mystic to write the history of the precious metal, Dr, Frederick G. Howe, consumers’ ‘counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment administration, told the Cosmos club the other night. Among che‘ancient Hindus it was revered as sacerdotal. “He who-tampers with it,” said the law, “dies on a dunghill and rots in hell to the end of time.” Only princes could so much as touch it. ~»Gold was first demoted to the profane status of “money,” Doctor Howe said, by the Lydians, who put—the king’s stamp upon it and used it as a medium of exchange. Interest imme diately srose to 36 per cent, farmers lost their land and sold themselves and their families into slavery in order to live. This 36 per cent, Doctor Howe said, was the first money interest and arose naturally out of the former Lydian system of doing business, ‘Trade had been primarily in cattle. When cows were sold on credit it was assumed they would have calves, So the seller demanded the price of a calf as additional payment. This was calculated at about one-third the value of a cow. When you pay interest to the bank today you ure paying, genetically considered, the price of the calf of the cow you borrowed. Other notes on gold from Doctor Howe's studies: All the gold on earth is worth about $11,000,000,000, It could be stored in a room of 380 cubic feet. The workers of the United States could earn-it all by working 60 days at $5 a day. They could earn all the gold in their own country in 20 days. The total of gold in the United States has about the same intrinsic value as to total of diamonds.—Washington Star. 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Red, green, or blue striped suits—with fitted waistline and a catch-all pocket which is perfectly indispensable for precious stones gathered along the beach, will be worn this year wherever two to eight-year-olds are gathered for a quiet game of leap frog.—Carolyn T. Radnor Lewis in Child Life Magazine. Comprehensive Map After nine years of labor by expert topographers, about’ one-third of a huge map of the United States has been completed at Wellesley, Mass. When finished, this map will be 63 feet long, 46 feet wide and will show every mountain and valley in the country reproduced exactly to scale in height and size. Eventually, it. will contain 900 blocks, When the map is completed, it 1s expected to be of invaluable service to rail and airline engineers in mapping new routes, ~Itis constructed on a curved surface representing the exact curvature of the earth.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. THEEASY WAY TO IRON! 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