May 7, 1934 (8 pages)

Ss ak _ THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE Women Begin to Figure in Role of Stowaways up a ship’s ladder unobserved, and hid in the hold until she knew the vessel was safely at sea, and she couldn’t hold on without food and water any longer. Then she walked up on deck, declared herself, and was signed on as cabin-boy. Throughout the voyage round the Horn she took her full share of the work. Only last year, another girl, the daughter of a former president of San Salvador, also disguised herself as a boy, and was stowed away, first When the ship’s captain asks the stowaway, ‘‘What’s the big idea?” he usually gets a story in reply. Women, as well as men, are some times found as stowaways. One of the strangest and most romantic cases came to-light when the famous windjammer, the Herzogin Cecilie, under Captain DeCloux, won a 14,000 miles sailing match against the Beatrice from Australia to England. A young Adelaide music teacher. PETER B. KYNE Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne, > a a > a a > > , 5 i” > > > 5 5 > > 5 with him—and we might be able to buy the company with all its assets. He'll have to do some tall financing SYNOPSIS public interest in the proposed irrigation district—not at all a difficult task, since the Valley Center Register was the only newspaper in the valley and its editor, Joe Brainerd, had financed “I thiak so, too. No sense crowding her, in that event, She’s a capable girl and will make good if given.a chance, So I’m going to give her that chance.” At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, ‘with his bride, rode just the same. His executor {n northeastern California. Here he might not be capable of ‘the financing ry “lorn Valley. found an idea} valley for cattle raising. They christened {t Eden Valley. Below Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Ketshaw's wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There . is 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 daughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor {a 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 contro! the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilitles 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 indebted. ness to Babson, CHAPTER VII—Continued i “Why do you have to go away, Nate?’ “Got a couple of deals on and . can’t handle them from here.” “If you're coming back in the fall,” “she suggested, “you should have the Bar H place put in order. It’s fallen into decay; it smells neglected. It isn't a nice place for you to live, even with capable servants to care for you.” “T had thought of that. Indeed, It's one of the reasons I have to leave his venture largely on money borrowed from the Bank of Valley Center. Brainerd would see his duty and. do it nobly. He must attack the power com. pany and pay the coinmunity’s respects, In no uncertain terms to those two Eden Valley outlaws who. had be trayed them or at least sought to betray them, Suddenly, as* he drove home across Forlorn Valley, a thought occurred to him with such force that he Jammed on his brakes and stopped in the middle of the highway so suddenly that a ear coming behind him, sinote his car in the rear and skidded it off the right of way Into a ditch. Babson emerzed from the wreckage unharmed, but frightened and exceedingly angry, just in time to come face to face with a young man emerging from a limousine driven by a liveried chauffeur, “What's the matter with you?" he erled furiously, “Can't you stay on your own side of the road?" “I'll answer your question with another, sir. denly, without giving the legal warning by thrusting your hand out? My chauffeur is not a mind-reader.” “You've wrecked my ‘car, d—p you, and you'll) pay for it.” “l’'m not wishful to argue that point.” The young man’s tones were crisp and unafraid. “I got out solely to see what damage has been done to my car, Very little. 1 observe. Bumper thrust back on the frame and twisted a little, that’s all." Then to the’ chauffeur: “We'll stop In at a garage tn Valley Why did you stop se sud. “By the way, I hear you've sold your dam site to the Mountain Valley Power company,” sald Babson, _“Yes, they made me an _ offer—a_ see any profit in rejecting it. . . mighty fine offer, in fact, and I couldn't News reaches you very promptly,” he added, : “A new company, I believe. Know anything about this outfit—who’s back of it and why?” “It is a Delaware corporation capl-talized for two million dollars with a license to do business tn California. The corporation plans to erect a dam, {mpound the flood waters of Eden Valley creek after they-have passed over the Circle K and the Bar H ranches _ and use the water for the production of power.” Babson now remembered the dazzling thought that had operated to wreck his automobile, “You may have noticed the large number of gasoline ‘driven pumping plants, Nate,” “I did, and guessed the reason. The water tables are receding and the lift is increasing; hence more power is required to pump. I hear the power com: pany’s rates are pretty high, so I suppose the farmers are trying out a cheaper method of pumping, although since gasoline is not cheaper than electricity, . surmise the gasoline farmers must have had their power cut off be. cause they didn't or couldn’t pay their bills to the power company.” “You've gone straight to the milk in the coconut, Nate. I wonder {f it wouldn't be a good idea for the farmSG —damnation, what am I thinking of? But he may ruin me, . . . We've got to have that water . . got to have The phrase beat like a hammer: in his brain, CHAPTER VIII Nate Tichenor’s action in admitting to. Silas Babson that he was the sole owner of the Mountain Valley Power company had not been predicated on a desire to shock the banker. Tichenor was merely in a position where he could not afford to promise Babson. to enter into negotiations to sell Forlorn Valley water for irrigation. Before deciding to cquire Lorry Kershaw’s . @ site and proceed. to the vast expense of building his dam and power station he had found it necessary to make certain of a market for the power he purposed generating, for the Mountain Valley Power company was not in position to enter the field {n competition with the P. G. & E., the company that already controlled the market in northern Callfornia, with a dozen large plants scattered through the mountains, In order to consolidate his position, therefore, he had already had the Mountain Valley Power company enter into negotiations for a contract with the P. G. & E., whereby that company was to purchase all the power Tichenor’s company could deliver. While this contract did not restrain his company ‘plete boy’s outfit. "Then one evening Miss Jeanne Day, wanted to sail on the Herzogin. Cecilie. She had her hair cut short like a boy's and bought, one piece at a time, a comon board a small fishing boat which took her from England to France, gnd then on a ship bound for Lisbon. she went for a swim from a lonely beach, and came back dressed as a}! boy. But she was turned back when she tried to board the windjammer at the wharf. So she waited till it was towed out and anchored, ready to sail, in the bay. Then she hid herself under some nhets tn a fishing boat, and lay low until night, when she rolled out, pretending to he drunk, and saying thickly “Herzogin Cecilie.” The fishing boat was then out fn the bay, not far from the sailing ship, and the fisherman, completely deceived, rowed her over. She climbed All Needed Vitamins It was only a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay that forced her to eave her hiding place and so led to her discovery. Laugh Tells Character Better watch'that laugh from now on or people may read your character from it just the same as chirographers read {t from. your handwriting or astrologers read it from the stars. Dr. George C. Williams, former president of Ithaca college, says the horse laugh with a broad “a” denotes an eccentric and sometimes vicious temperament. A long “e” is feminine sound and a short “e” reveals sarcasm, A normal and healthy person laughs with the Italian sound of the “a” clearly perceptible.—Pathfinder Magazine, in This List of Foods Vitamin A—Found in whole milk, products (dairy), egg yolk, green leaf vegetables, carrots, sweet potatoes, liver and cod liver oil. Helps (a) to make us grow; (b) to resist disease, especially infections of the eyes, nose and throat; (c) in reproduction. Vitamin B—Found in root and leaf vegetables, whole grains, dried seeds, fruits, nuts and milk. Helps to (a) make us grow; (b) gives us an appetite; (c) resist disease, especially a disease of the nerves called beriA Few Drops Every Night and Morning " ; beri Eden Valley. Got to engage an arcbiCenter and have’ it repaired. Lucky . ers of Forlorn Valley to organize an . from selling water for irrigation, and is ° Pro tea ean tect in stds nlane for peg house, . YOu had most of the speed off the irrigation district and make a contract . Tichenor had hoped to sell water for Vitamin C—Found in fresh fruits, Will mote a Cl ’ new barns, four-car garage, ponncle. car or we'd have knocked this peculiar . with the Mountain Valley Power com. that purpose, he dared not consider . eSpecially citrus fruits, tomatoes, Healthy Condition! ; Es ee a the proposition until quite certain he . raw cabbage and turnips, Helps to _ and such, Got to engage a smart gardener to put in.a nice lawn around the new house and plant flowers. Got to grade a new graveled road from the main Eden Valley highway to the ranch house and plant a border of trees. And I wish you'd sort of superintend the job while I’m away. And when the house 1s finished’ I’d be obliged to you if you’d run down to San Francisco and buy the furnishings for it.” cone “Oh, I’ll be so glad to. Nate, you’re giving me an interest in life. A woman’s interest. I'm kept pretty busy operating the Circle K, but it isn’t my job and—” She sighed ecstatically. So he was coming back, after all. He needed her and he hadn’t scrupled to tell her so. That night, when he departed for the Bar H, the girl walked with him to the gate. A full moon rode the sky above them, and Eden Valley was filled with the silvery light. It was a night for love, and Nate Tichenor, who had never felt his heart beat high in any woman's presence, was _ suddenly thrilled to the core of his being at sight of Lorry Kershaw leaning over the gate. He had a sudden mad impulse to place his hand under her adorable chin, tilt her face upward and kiss her on the lips, ap of directors and the lands it has re} ll. as b dern scientific appraisal. Sold by all or the strangest of all reasons he _ ee eae cently acquired, If this wretch I am ee an ee nese are sass. . in “ap convenient sines. . tha aha is out ee reirained. . He had been reared in riding with should die suddenly, the Z © The 5.5.8. Co. trouble Iden Valley; he was old-fashioned, the Lorry dear. I've had a delightful eveperson over into that alfalfa field.” “This peculiar person. wants your name and your license number,” Babson shrilled, “rll give you my card, sir; help yourself to the license number. You will furnish me with your name and Tichenor and I, too, am a responsible pany to sell it water for surface irrigation?” “A good idea for the farmers but a bad idea for the company. Of course in years of unusually heavy freshet it might be glad to divert its excess water to Forlorn Valley, but {n subnormal years, such as we have been expertencing the pust three winters, the demands of Forlorn Valley might lower the water in the reservoir to a point below the power company’s ditch and operate to close down its power plant.” “You seem pretty sure of your premise, Nate. How do you know that?” Tichenor smiled a prescient little smile, “Because I’m the president of the Mountain Valley Power company. In fact I’m the entire company.” For the remainder of the trip-into Valley Center, Babson was glum and silent to such a‘ degree that Nate Tichenor noticed his preoccupation, saw that Babson’s hands were trembling. “For some reason or other,” Tichenor decided “that was a direct hit. I'll have to figure this out.” On: his part Babson was thinking confusedly. “As yet the Mountain. Valley Power company exists on paper only. It has its charter from the state of Delaware, its permit to do business in California, a dummy board Mountain Valley Power company might of the Mountain Valley Power comcould do so without threat to his production of power, Instinetively cautious, he declined to commit himself even to a half-way promise to Babson. Hie had discerned that his refusal to enter into negotiations had shocked Babson, but he had no idea as to the extent of the shock, Other than the knowledge that Babson had organized a raid to ruin Lorry Kershaw, Tichenor had no cause to dislike the man, indeed, the knowledge that he, Tichenor, had always been in position to frustrate that raid, had operated to dull the edge of his resentment, He knew the world was. quite filled with Silas Babsons; indeed, dur“ing his busy years in New York he had met more than one of them, had crossed financial swords with them, had de feated them and been defeated by them. Such men were all in the day’s work for him, and such Irritation as he had felt against Babson was solely out of sympathy for Lorry Kershaw. If the impending disaster appeared to affect Babson only, he would have dismissed all thought of him. Certainly he would not have wasted any sympathy on him. But, without water, eventually hundreds of people in Forlorn Valley would be reduced to poverty. And with the collapse of the and completed. succor. But his resentment faded now (a) prevent scurvy, a disease affecting the blood vessels, skin, gums and teeth; (b) prevent defective teeth. At All Drug Stores Write Murine Co.,Dpt.W, Chicago, for Free Book Vitamin D—Found in cod liver oil, liver, egg yolk and dairy foods. Helps (a) to prevent rickets,.a common children’s disease, affecting the bones and all parts of the body; (b) probably, to prevent the decay of teeth. —Kansas City Times. Dependent Wife Judge—Mose, 1s your wife dependent upon you? Mose—She sho is, jedge. If I didn’t go out and get de washin’s she’d starve plum to death. calied a low percentage of hemo-glo-bin “It didn’t take S.S.S. very long to returned my skin cleared up.” of. the blood. es economical, “Two things . wanted“.and it was all so simple when I found out my trouble. My physician said I had no organic disease, but I did have what is so commonly and truthfull “The reasonableness of one of the S.S.S. ads caused me to think that S.S.S, Tonic was just what I needed for my let-down feeling, pimply skin and low resistance. J wanted more strength and a clear skin. back up to normal—and as my strength and energy If your condition suggests a tonic of this kind, try §8.S.S. It is not just a so-called tonic but a tonic specially designed to stimulate gastric secretions, and also having the mineral elements so very, very necessary in rebuilding the oxygen-carrying hemo-glo-bin as S.S.S. value has been proven by generations of use, in the bloo my blood I found 4 a : Nate Tichenor, ostracized as he had z e victim of an iron code of’ morals and address, ofcourse.” die with him—” been by the people of Forlorn Valley : . Social procedure. Her father hadn't “My name is Babson, and [’m a re “Do you mean to tell me, Nate, that in his boyhood—ostracized as all of his been dead long enough! So he comsponsible and reputable citizen.” you are alone in this power enterie had been—had ‘not dural : promised and said, with an effort pa“Ah, Mr. Silas Bubson. 1 didn’t . prise?” Spore aera Rute Co : Pp d ternally patronizing: “Good night, . recognize you. My name is. Nathan “I own all of the issued capital stock Saas people who looked to nies for When in asadend . stop at Hing.” but, alas, disreputable citizen—at least pany, and I intend to keep It. It'll be realization of th a Gut his burning eyes betrayed him. . in these parts.” valuable.” no ek a e tragedy GREEN HOTEL The girl smiled up at him wistfully. “I beg your pardon, Nate. I didn't “Guess {t will, Nate.” And again His Soart welled with pity for them “Thanks to you, I’m happy for the first time since Owen went away,” she said, At his gate he stood for a Uttle while, gazing over the hills toward For“Coyotes! he growled, “Not one of you, except Doc Donaldson, would come to her father's funeral —and Doe couldn't. And not ‘one of you came to my mother's funeral, know. who you were.” “Your excuse is a sound one and your apology is accepted. Sorry we couldn't avoid hitting you, Mr. Babson, However, since we've set you afoot some six miles from Valley Center we'll not desert you, Hop in and (I take you home. You will have to send a wrecking car back for that mess,” Babson’s wild thoughts took possession of him. “This fellow ts liable to ruin me. He’s no mean enemy. He may have more money than we have. He'll fight as the power company and he’ll fight us privately as a riparian owner. But if he should die, who are his heirs? He's the last of his line, so far as I know. His executors would not be Hable to carry through his plans “T'll have to do something about this,” he decided. ‘I'll defer signing the con. tract the P. G. & E.’s counsel is preparing; I'll defer building the hydroelectric plant until after [’ve experimented with the water. Perhaps Ill not build the power plant. T’ll show those Forlorn Valley cattle that the despised Hensley clan managed to Famous for Comfort CENTRALLY LOCATED at corner of Green and Raymond Streets Points of travel and nterest are generally more accessible from Hotel Green, particularly by auto, Minimum Rates “Thanks,” Babson stepped in. “Well, e either, She was an angel and Rance well,” he began unctuously, “you've . for the Mountain Valley Power compra innate a + Ouue than from the metropolitan city of SINGLE— DOUBLE— 3 wasn't less than @ man, if he did . changed, Nate. { should never have . pany. . The scheme would die TO BE CONTINUED. Los Angelés which Pasadena ad$450 $330 pump Uncle Taylor off. . . Well, one recognized you. Back in Eden Valley joins. Distance is often shorter and Bath Detached day you'll come asking me for a favor, . to stay? trafle eanceslions are okviahd $4950 $350 and when you do, by gad, I'l) remem“Perhaps. How are things with you, ' : a 9 : Private Bath ber and charge accordingly. Coyotes!" . Mr. Babson?" Only Few Stone Age Men Lived In Caves, a Silas Babson rose next morning, sans “Fair, fair! Forlorn Valley, lke headache, and with a very definite realization that he had many busy days before him. He drove over to Gold Run first, to interrogate the county recorder, from whom he ascertained that a deed to a quarter-section in the rest of the country, is recuperating gradually. The bank's had to carry this doggoned valley since the post: war depression struck us.” “Well,” Nate soothed, “you'll ‘soon begin to get your loans in. ° Beet?s According to Analysis of Numerous Sites Stone age man was not necessarily & cuve man, says the Providence Jourhal, Doubt is cast on the prevalent conception that all our hairy, clubwielding grandsires and great-uncles years ago, the presence of man is evidenced only by crude stone artifacts, and out of 94 places where these have been found only two are caves. Then comes the Acheulian, dating approx"STOP the pain of (HEMORRHOIDS) DON’T STRAIN! Forcing only aggravates the condition. ee alee heb) ae enema te relearn Olea enreee? ongtend had alk-ups" {in caverns, by Dr imately from 150.000 to 100,000 B C. scenes pas end eae the Mountain Valley Power compan tainly taken a bad licking,’ but those ad “walk: foes . mY), fi U, ee and another deed fa four Scheme who ava held their breeding stock . Ales Hrdlicka of the United States NaOnly 10 out of 46 identified sites are in ss Teas Wits ete tae acres, from lorraine Kershaw to the . Intact will make a clean-up within . tonal museum, who has made an an. caves, : ave See mansion same company, had just been sent over . three years. 1 was saying as much to . alysis of 360 sites in Europe and Asia With the coming of the Neanderthaler FRE E} sary. ‘Also relieves the Rates $1.50 to $3.00 » by the First National bank to be re. Lorry Kershaw recently. Old: Rance’s . Where human remains or stone imduring the next s@ip of pre-history— SAMPLE rere eerste ga a corded. estate is in a bad way and Miss Ker. plements of Old Stone age data have . the Mousterian---the practice of caveWrite to: sufferers of hemorrhoids GARAGE and COFFEE SHOP Well, he had been thwarted by this . shaw was feeling a bit deownheurted." . been discovered, dwelling became considerably more Garfield Tea Co. Gar GAMER Tee: aie Cor gig sie “Well, she’s light-heurted today.” The earliest evidence of human . widespread, but man still elung to the Scere, MY: your Store. m : interloping power comporation, just as he had feared would be the case, Well, no matter, The Mountain Valley Power company could not thwart him in his plan to secure from the Department of the Interior permission to erect a diversion dam in the. Handle and dig a canal frum Eden Valley Babson was ‘pleased that his host had opened this subject of conversation and little dreamed that Tichenor had purposely done so. “She's sold four thousand acres of. worthless land her father gave her to the Mountain Valley Power company. Must have got at hole she’s in.” activity, Doctor Hrdlicka finds, were found predominantly. in’ open ‘sites, away from caves. As time went on. and the climate grew colder with the coming of the last great advance of Ice glaciers, man took’ more and mere to the caves, finally emerging Chelleanof approximately 200,000 open, Sixty-six-per cent of the known Mousterian sites which have been investiguted are caves. From that point on there ts a steady Increase in the number of eave or rock shelter sites, until Azilian and Tardenotsian erus, about in the open. during the ROY G. MITCHELL, Manager GARFIELD TEA [If used when retiring, relieves smarting scald™. ing sticky eyes by STAMP COLLECTORS: Get artistic from foreign countries through your own correspondence, Full RIGAL, 326 ie OLD AGE PENSION INFORMATION creek down beyond the western but. least three hundred thousand dollars . into the open again, this time as a . 10,000 years ago and just at the tae tress of Forlorn Valley, They might . for it. Cleaned up the mortgage and . house builder, with the coming of the . edge of the Old Stone age, man ROMAN JUDGE Lenn’ 2*Pqumbolat, Kan. have influence, but not with the con. pald old Rance's. notes."* ‘He glinced . New Stone age, i Seems to have been chletly a cave EYE 34 A LSAM : : « A gressman and senator whose constitu. slyly at Tichenor. “Unless you close in Thus, during the’ remotest and} dweller. Only 10 per cent of the sites chats Tin Cans Make Wenderfal ¢ Boe ; ency tneluded Forlorn Valley, on her I reckon she'll work out of the . crudest of human culture periods, the . found belonging to these periods ure wy, City, toy, fore aay ieatt’*, weekly. : je Well, his first step wus to create aR RIBAS 50c'a jar at druggis' Wrights Pill Co., 100 Gold St.,

Ss ak _ THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE Women Begin to Figure in Role of Stowaways up a ship’s ladder unobserved, and hid in the hold until she knew the vessel was safely at sea, and she couldn’t hold on without food and water any longer. Then she walked up on deck, declared herself, and was signed on as cabin-boy. Throughout the voyage round the Horn she took her full share of the work. Only last year, another girl, the daughter of a former president of San Salvador, also disguised herself as a boy, and was stowed away, first When the ship’s captain asks the stowaway, ‘‘What’s the big idea?” he usually gets a story in reply. Women, as well as men, are some times found as stowaways. One of the strangest and most romantic cases came to-light when the famous windjammer, the Herzogin Cecilie, under Captain DeCloux, won a 14,000 miles sailing match against the Beatrice from Australia to England. A young Adelaide music teacher. PETER B. KYNE Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne, > a a > a a > > , 5 i” > > > 5 5 > > 5 with him—and we might be able to buy the company with all its assets. He'll have to do some tall financing SYNOPSIS public interest in the proposed irrigation district—not at all a difficult task, since the Valley Center Register was the only newspaper in the valley and its editor, Joe Brainerd, had financed “I thiak so, too. No sense crowding her, in that event, She’s a capable girl and will make good if given.a chance, So I’m going to give her that chance.” At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, ‘with his bride, rode just the same. His executor {n northeastern California. Here he might not be capable of ‘the financing ry “lorn Valley. found an idea} valley for cattle raising. They christened {t Eden Valley. Below Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Ketshaw's wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There . is 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 daughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor {a 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 contro! the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilitles 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 indebted. ness to Babson, CHAPTER VII—Continued i “Why do you have to go away, Nate?’ “Got a couple of deals on and . can’t handle them from here.” “If you're coming back in the fall,” “she suggested, “you should have the Bar H place put in order. It’s fallen into decay; it smells neglected. It isn't a nice place for you to live, even with capable servants to care for you.” “T had thought of that. Indeed, It's one of the reasons I have to leave his venture largely on money borrowed from the Bank of Valley Center. Brainerd would see his duty and. do it nobly. He must attack the power com. pany and pay the coinmunity’s respects, In no uncertain terms to those two Eden Valley outlaws who. had be trayed them or at least sought to betray them, Suddenly, as* he drove home across Forlorn Valley, a thought occurred to him with such force that he Jammed on his brakes and stopped in the middle of the highway so suddenly that a ear coming behind him, sinote his car in the rear and skidded it off the right of way Into a ditch. Babson emerzed from the wreckage unharmed, but frightened and exceedingly angry, just in time to come face to face with a young man emerging from a limousine driven by a liveried chauffeur, “What's the matter with you?" he erled furiously, “Can't you stay on your own side of the road?" “I'll answer your question with another, sir. denly, without giving the legal warning by thrusting your hand out? My chauffeur is not a mind-reader.” “You've wrecked my ‘car, d—p you, and you'll) pay for it.” “l’'m not wishful to argue that point.” The young man’s tones were crisp and unafraid. “I got out solely to see what damage has been done to my car, Very little. 1 observe. Bumper thrust back on the frame and twisted a little, that’s all." Then to the’ chauffeur: “We'll stop In at a garage tn Valley Why did you stop se sud. “By the way, I hear you've sold your dam site to the Mountain Valley Power company,” sald Babson, _“Yes, they made me an _ offer—a_ see any profit in rejecting it. . . mighty fine offer, in fact, and I couldn't News reaches you very promptly,” he added, : “A new company, I believe. Know anything about this outfit—who’s back of it and why?” “It is a Delaware corporation capl-talized for two million dollars with a license to do business tn California. The corporation plans to erect a dam, {mpound the flood waters of Eden Valley creek after they-have passed over the Circle K and the Bar H ranches _ and use the water for the production of power.” Babson now remembered the dazzling thought that had operated to wreck his automobile, “You may have noticed the large number of gasoline ‘driven pumping plants, Nate,” “I did, and guessed the reason. The water tables are receding and the lift is increasing; hence more power is required to pump. I hear the power com: pany’s rates are pretty high, so I suppose the farmers are trying out a cheaper method of pumping, although since gasoline is not cheaper than electricity, . surmise the gasoline farmers must have had their power cut off be. cause they didn't or couldn’t pay their bills to the power company.” “You've gone straight to the milk in the coconut, Nate. I wonder {f it wouldn't be a good idea for the farmSG —damnation, what am I thinking of? But he may ruin me, . . . We've got to have that water . . got to have The phrase beat like a hammer: in his brain, CHAPTER VIII Nate Tichenor’s action in admitting to. Silas Babson that he was the sole owner of the Mountain Valley Power company had not been predicated on a desire to shock the banker. Tichenor was merely in a position where he could not afford to promise Babson. to enter into negotiations to sell Forlorn Valley water for irrigation. Before deciding to cquire Lorry Kershaw’s . @ site and proceed. to the vast expense of building his dam and power station he had found it necessary to make certain of a market for the power he purposed generating, for the Mountain Valley Power company was not in position to enter the field {n competition with the P. G. & E., the company that already controlled the market in northern Callfornia, with a dozen large plants scattered through the mountains, In order to consolidate his position, therefore, he had already had the Mountain Valley Power company enter into negotiations for a contract with the P. G. & E., whereby that company was to purchase all the power Tichenor’s company could deliver. While this contract did not restrain his company ‘plete boy’s outfit. "Then one evening Miss Jeanne Day, wanted to sail on the Herzogin. Cecilie. She had her hair cut short like a boy's and bought, one piece at a time, a comon board a small fishing boat which took her from England to France, gnd then on a ship bound for Lisbon. she went for a swim from a lonely beach, and came back dressed as a}! boy. But she was turned back when she tried to board the windjammer at the wharf. So she waited till it was towed out and anchored, ready to sail, in the bay. Then she hid herself under some nhets tn a fishing boat, and lay low until night, when she rolled out, pretending to he drunk, and saying thickly “Herzogin Cecilie.” The fishing boat was then out fn the bay, not far from the sailing ship, and the fisherman, completely deceived, rowed her over. She climbed All Needed Vitamins It was only a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay that forced her to eave her hiding place and so led to her discovery. Laugh Tells Character Better watch'that laugh from now on or people may read your character from it just the same as chirographers read {t from. your handwriting or astrologers read it from the stars. Dr. George C. Williams, former president of Ithaca college, says the horse laugh with a broad “a” denotes an eccentric and sometimes vicious temperament. A long “e” is feminine sound and a short “e” reveals sarcasm, A normal and healthy person laughs with the Italian sound of the “a” clearly perceptible.—Pathfinder Magazine, in This List of Foods Vitamin A—Found in whole milk, products (dairy), egg yolk, green leaf vegetables, carrots, sweet potatoes, liver and cod liver oil. Helps (a) to make us grow; (b) to resist disease, especially infections of the eyes, nose and throat; (c) in reproduction. Vitamin B—Found in root and leaf vegetables, whole grains, dried seeds, fruits, nuts and milk. Helps to (a) make us grow; (b) gives us an appetite; (c) resist disease, especially a disease of the nerves called beriA Few Drops Every Night and Morning " ; beri Eden Valley. Got to engage an arcbiCenter and have’ it repaired. Lucky . ers of Forlorn Valley to organize an . from selling water for irrigation, and is ° Pro tea ean tect in stds nlane for peg house, . YOu had most of the speed off the irrigation district and make a contract . Tichenor had hoped to sell water for Vitamin C—Found in fresh fruits, Will mote a Cl ’ new barns, four-car garage, ponncle. car or we'd have knocked this peculiar . with the Mountain Valley Power com. that purpose, he dared not consider . eSpecially citrus fruits, tomatoes, Healthy Condition! ; Es ee a the proposition until quite certain he . raw cabbage and turnips, Helps to _ and such, Got to engage a smart gardener to put in.a nice lawn around the new house and plant flowers. Got to grade a new graveled road from the main Eden Valley highway to the ranch house and plant a border of

trees. And I wish you'd sort of superintend the job while I’m away. And when the house 1s finished’ I’d be obliged to you if you’d run down to San Francisco and buy the furnishings for it.” cone “Oh, I’ll be so glad to. Nate, you’re giving me an interest in life. A woman’s interest. I'm kept pretty busy operating the Circle K, but it isn’t my job and—” She sighed ecstatically. So he was coming back, after all. He needed her and he hadn’t scrupled to tell her so. That night, when he departed for the Bar H, the girl walked with him to the gate. A full moon rode the sky above them, and Eden Valley was filled with the silvery light. It was a night for love, and Nate Tichenor, who had never felt his heart beat high in any woman's presence, was _ suddenly thrilled to the core of his being at sight of Lorry Kershaw leaning over the gate. He had a sudden mad impulse to place his hand under her adorable chin, tilt her face upward and kiss her on the lips, ap of directors and the lands it has re} ll. as b dern scientific appraisal. Sold by all or the strangest of all reasons he _ ee eae cently acquired, If this wretch I am ee an ee nese are sass. . in “ap convenient sines. . tha aha is out ee reirained. . He had been reared in riding with should die suddenly, the Z © The 5.5.8. Co. trouble Iden Valley; he was old-fashioned, the Lorry dear. I've had a delightful eveperson over into that alfalfa field.” “This peculiar person. wants your name and your license number,” Babson shrilled, “rll give you my card, sir; help yourself to the license number. You will furnish me with your name and Tichenor and I, too, am a responsible pany to sell it water for surface irrigation?” “A good idea for the farmers but a bad idea for the company. Of course in years of unusually heavy freshet it might be glad to divert its excess water to Forlorn Valley, but {n subnormal years, such as we have been expertencing the pust three winters, the demands of Forlorn Valley might lower the water in the reservoir to a point below the power company’s ditch and operate to close down its power plant.” “You seem pretty sure of your premise, Nate. How do you know that?” Tichenor smiled a prescient little smile, “Because I’m the president of the Mountain Valley Power company. In fact I’m the entire company.” For the remainder of the trip-into Valley Center, Babson was glum and silent to such a‘ degree that Nate Tichenor noticed his preoccupation, saw that Babson’s hands were trembling. “For some reason or other,” Tichenor decided “that was a direct hit. I'll have to figure this out.” On: his part Babson was thinking confusedly. “As yet the Mountain. Valley Power company exists on paper only. It has its charter from the state of Delaware, its permit to do business in California, a dummy board Mountain Valley Power company might of the Mountain Valley Power comcould do so without threat to his production of power, Instinetively cautious, he declined to commit himself even to a half-way promise to Babson. Hie had discerned that his refusal to enter into negotiations had shocked Babson, but he had no idea as to the extent of the shock, Other than the knowledge that Babson had organized a raid to ruin Lorry Kershaw, Tichenor had no cause to dislike the man, indeed, the knowledge that he, Tichenor, had always been in position to frustrate that raid, had operated to dull the edge of his resentment, He knew the world was. quite filled with Silas Babsons; indeed, dur“ing his busy years in New York he had met more than one of them, had crossed financial swords with them, had de feated them and been defeated by them. Such men were all in the day’s work for him, and such Irritation as he had felt against Babson was solely out of sympathy for Lorry Kershaw. If the impending disaster appeared to affect Babson only, he would have dismissed all thought of him. Certainly he would not have wasted any sympathy on him. But, without water, eventually hundreds of people in Forlorn Valley would be reduced to poverty. And with the collapse of the and completed. succor. But his resentment faded now (a) prevent scurvy, a disease affecting the blood vessels, skin, gums and teeth; (b) prevent defective teeth. At All Drug Stores Write Murine Co.,Dpt.W, Chicago, for Free Book Vitamin D—Found in cod liver oil, liver, egg yolk and dairy foods. Helps (a) to prevent rickets,.a common children’s disease, affecting the bones and all parts of the body; (b) probably, to prevent the decay of teeth. —Kansas City Times. Dependent Wife Judge—Mose, 1s your wife dependent upon you? Mose—She sho is, jedge. If I didn’t go out and get de washin’s she’d starve plum to death. calied a low percentage of hemo-glo-bin “It didn’t take S.S.S. very long to returned my skin cleared up.” of. the blood. es economical, “Two things . wanted“..and it was all so simple when I found out my trouble. My physician said I had no organic disease, but I did have what is so commonly and truthfull “The reasonableness of one of the S.S.S. ads caused me to think that S.S.S, Tonic was just what I needed for my let-down feeling, pimply skin and low resistance. J wanted more strength and a clear skin. back up to normal—and as my strength and energy If your condition suggests a tonic of this kind, try §8.S.S. It is not just a so-called tonic but a tonic specially designed to stimulate gastric secretions, and also having the mineral elements so very, very necessary in rebuilding the oxygen-carrying hemo-glo-bin as S.S.S. value has been proven by generations of use, in the bloo my blood I found 4 a : Nate Tichenor, ostracized as he had z e victim of an iron code of’ morals and address, ofcourse.” die with him—” been by the people of Forlorn Valley : . Social procedure. Her father hadn't “My name is Babson, and [’m a re “Do you mean to tell me, Nate, that in his boyhood—ostracized as all of his been dead long enough! So he comsponsible and reputable citizen.” you are alone in this power enterie had been—had ‘not dural : promised and said, with an effort pa“Ah, Mr. Silas Bubson. 1 didn’t . prise?” Spore aera Rute Co : Pp d ternally patronizing: “Good night, . recognize you. My name is. Nathan “I own all of the issued capital stock Saas people who looked to nies for When in asadend . stop at Hing.” but, alas, disreputable citizen—at least pany, and I intend to keep It. It'll be realization of th a Gut his burning eyes betrayed him. . in these parts.” valuable.” no ek a e tragedy GREEN HOTEL The girl smiled up at him wistfully. “I beg your pardon, Nate. I didn't “Guess {t will, Nate.” And again His Soart welled with pity for them “Thanks to you, I’m happy for the first time since Owen went away,” she said, At his gate he stood for a Uttle while, gazing over the hills toward For“Coyotes! he growled, “Not one of you, except Doc Donaldson, would come to her father's funeral —and Doe couldn't. And not ‘one of you came to my mother's funeral, know. who you were.” “Your excuse is a sound one and your apology is accepted. Sorry we couldn't avoid hitting you, Mr. Babson, However, since we've set you afoot some six miles from Valley Center we'll not desert you, Hop in and (I take you home. You will have to send a wrecking car back for that mess,” Babson’s wild thoughts took possession of him. “This fellow ts liable to ruin me. He’s no mean enemy. He may have more money than we have. He'll fight as the power company and he’ll fight us privately as a riparian owner. But if he should die, who are his heirs? He's the last of his line, so far as I know. His executors would not be Hable to carry through his plans “T'll have to do something about this,” he decided. ‘I'll defer signing the con. tract the P. G. & E.’s counsel is preparing; I'll defer building the hydroelectric plant until after [’ve experimented with the water. Perhaps Ill not build the power plant. T’ll show those Forlorn Valley cattle that the despised Hensley clan managed to Famous for Comfort CENTRALLY LOCATED at corner of Green and Raymond Streets Points of travel and nterest are generally more accessible from Hotel Green, particularly by auto, Minimum Rates “Thanks,” Babson stepped in. “Well, e either, She was an angel and Rance well,” he began unctuously, “you've . for the Mountain Valley Power compra innate a + Ouue than from the metropolitan city of SINGLE— DOUBLE— 3 wasn't less than @ man, if he did . changed, Nate. { should never have . pany. . The scheme would die TO BE CONTINUED. Los Angelés which Pasadena ad$450 $330 pump Uncle Taylor off. . . Well, one recognized you. Back in Eden Valley joins. Distance is often shorter and Bath Detached day you'll come asking me for a favor, . to stay? trafle eanceslions are okviahd $4950 $350 and when you do, by gad, I'l) remem“Perhaps. How are things with you, ' : a 9 : Private Bath ber and charge accordingly. Coyotes!" . Mr. Babson?" Only Few Stone Age Men Lived In Caves, a Silas Babson rose next morning, sans “Fair, fair! Forlorn Valley, lke headache, and with a very definite realization that he had many busy days before him. He drove over to Gold Run first, to interrogate the county recorder, from whom he ascertained that a deed to a quarter-section in the rest of the country, is recuperating gradually. The bank's had to carry this doggoned valley since the post: war depression struck us.” “Well,” Nate soothed, “you'll ‘soon begin to get your loans in. ° Beet?s According to Analysis of Numerous Sites Stone age man was not necessarily & cuve man, says the Providence Jourhal, Doubt is cast on the prevalent conception that all our hairy, clubwielding grandsires and great-uncles years ago, the presence of man is evidenced only by crude stone artifacts, and out of 94 places where these have been found only two are caves. Then comes the Acheulian, dating approx"STOP the pain of (HEMORRHOIDS) DON’T STRAIN! Forcing only aggravates the condition. ee alee heb) ae enema te relearn Olea enreee? ongtend had alk-ups" {in caverns, by Dr imately from 150.000 to 100,000 B C. scenes pas end eae the Mountain Valley Power compan tainly taken a bad licking,’ but those ad “walk: foes . mY), fi U, ee and another deed fa four Scheme who ava held their breeding stock . Ales Hrdlicka of the United States NaOnly 10 out of 46 identified sites are in ss Teas Wits ete tae acres, from lorraine Kershaw to the . Intact will make a clean-up within . tonal museum, who has made an an. caves, : ave See mansion same company, had just been sent over . three years. 1 was saying as much to . alysis of 360 sites in Europe and Asia With the coming of the Neanderthaler FRE E} sary. ‘Also relieves the Rates $1.50 to $3.00 » by the First National bank to be re. Lorry Kershaw recently. Old: Rance’s . Where human remains or stone imduring the next s@ip of pre-history— SAMPLE rere eerste ga a corded. estate is in a bad way and Miss Ker. plements of Old Stone age data have . the Mousterian---the practice of caveWrite to: sufferers of hemorrhoids GARAGE and COFFEE SHOP Well, he had been thwarted by this . shaw was feeling a bit deownheurted." . been discovered, dwelling became considerably more Garfield Tea Co. Gar GAMER Tee: aie Cor gig sie “Well, she’s light-heurted today.” The earliest evidence of human . widespread, but man still elung to the Scere, MY: your Store. m : interloping power comporation, just as he had feared would be the case, Well, no matter, The Mountain Valley Power company could not thwart him in his plan to secure from the Department of the Interior permission to erect a diversion dam in the. Handle and dig a canal frum Eden Valley Babson was ‘pleased that his host had opened this subject of conversation and little dreamed that Tichenor had purposely done so. “She's sold four thousand acres of. worthless land her father gave her to the Mountain Valley Power company. Must have got at hole she’s in.” activity, Doctor Hrdlicka finds, were found predominantly. in’ open ‘sites, away from caves. As time went on. and the climate grew colder with the coming of the last great advance of Ice glaciers, man took’ more and mere to the caves, finally emerging Chelleanof approximately 200,000 open, Sixty-six-per cent of the known Mousterian sites which have been investiguted are caves. From that point on there ts a steady Increase in the number of eave or rock shelter sites, until Azilian and Tardenotsian erus, about in the open. during the ROY G. MITCHELL, Manager GARFIELD TEA [If used when retiring, relieves smarting scald™. ing sticky eyes by STAMP COLLECTORS: Get artistic from foreign countries through your own correspondence, Full RIGAL, 326 ie OLD AGE PENSION INFORMATION creek down beyond the western but. least three hundred thousand dollars . into the open again, this time as a . 10,000 years ago and just at the tae tress of Forlorn Valley, They might . for it. Cleaned up the mortgage and . house builder, with the coming of the . edge of the Old Stone age, man ROMAN JUDGE Lenn’ 2*Pqumbolat, Kan. have influence, but not with the con. pald old Rance's. notes."* ‘He glinced . New Stone age, i Seems to have been chletly a cave EYE 34 A LSAM : : « A gressman and senator whose constitu. slyly at Tichenor. “Unless you close in Thus, during the’ remotest and} dweller. Only 10 per cent of the sites chats Tin Cans Make Wenderfal ¢ Boe ; ency tneluded Forlorn Valley, on her I reckon she'll work out of the . crudest of human culture periods, the . found belonging to these periods ure wy, City, toy, fore aay ieatt’*, weekly. : je Well, his first step wus to create aR RIBAS 50c'a jar at druggis' Wrights Pill Co., 100 Gold St.,