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CHAPTER I. One afternoon in the sprirg of 1877 a solitary horseman rode down the long, ghastly desert slant in the direction of the ford at Green River. He was a yoLng man in years, but he had the hard face and eagle eye of one matured in experience of that wild country, He ¢strode a superb bay horse, dusty and travel-worn and a little lame." The rider was no light burden, judging from his height and wide shoulders; moreover, the saddle carried a canteen, a rifle and a pack. At length he rode into a trail and soon came in sight of the wide band of green cottonwood, willow and ar- row-weed, and the shining, muddy river. On the far side, up on the level, stood a green patch and a clus- ter of kouses. This v-as the town of Green River, Utch. The rider needed to reach that town before dark. His food supply had run out two days ago. But un- less there was a boat in which he could row across he would most like- ly not make it. His horse was too lame to risk in tho eddies of that travy, swirling, sand-laden river. He rode on down the trail to enter the rone of green. In the thick dust he noted fresh horse tracks. Under a cottonwood, some distance ahead, the rider espied a saddled horse, head down, cropping the grass. He proceeded more slowly,shis sharp eyes vigilant, and wos certain that he caw a man on the river bank. Presently he rode out into an open- ing from which he could see a place vhere a ferry touched. Moored te the opposite bank was the ferryboat. The rider sat his horse, aware that the man he had observed had stepped behind some willows. Such a move might have been casual. Then the man moved out into plain sight. "Howdy," he said, laconically. "Howdy," replied the rider. He be- came aware of a penetrating scrut- iny which no doubt resembled his own. The rider saw a striking figure of man, gray with dust, booted and spurred, armed to the teeth. His wide sombrero shadowed a sharp, bold face. "Aimin' to cross?" he queried. "Yes. I see a ferryboat over there." But on the moment the rider was watching his questioned. Then he - swept a long leg over the pommel and slid to the ground, without swerving in the slightest from a direct front. "Lucky for me if I can cross on it. My horse is all in." "Noticed thet. Fine hoss. Wal, I've been aangin' around for an hour, waitin' to go over. Reckon he'll be along soon." "Towr. of Green River, isn't it?" "Thet's the handle. You're a hereabouts ?" "I am that." "Where you hail from?" "I suppose I might as well say Wyoming as any place," returned the rider, casually. The other man relaxed with a laugh. "Shore. One place is good as another. Same as a name. Mine is Hank Hays," He spoke as il he ex- pected to be recognized, but it brought Lo reaction from his listened. "You know this country?" queried the rider, and he too relaxed. "Tolerable." "Maybe you can tell me whether 1 ought to stop or keep on travelling?" "Haw! Haw! 1 shore can, But thet depends," he said, pushing back his sombrero. "Depends on whet?" the rider asked. "Wal, on you. Have you got any money?" "Abou ten dollars," "Huh. You can't go in the ranch business with thet. Not regular ranchin'. Lots of cattle between here an' the brakes of the Dirty Devil Henry Mountaing, too. Some outfit over there. Air you a cattleman?" "No," replied the rider, thought- fully. "Wal, thet's straight talk from a stranger," replied Hays, who evi- dently took the blunt denial as some- thing significant, "Hullo, another rider . . . Shore the desert is full of strangers today." NEIGHBORS TALK "I am employed in a theatre and it is a problem to make ends meet, as +i support my mother and sisters. eo to drewd well but Haven't very much to spend on clothes. To give the appearance of variety to my slender 'wardrobe I change the color of a dress ckings as soon as the things be- o faded. I always uso Diamond] ganas sino them an dyes by ZANE GREY heavy man astride a horse and lead- ing two pack animals. "I saw him a while back. And hers SSNS ONE ferryman. Looks like a hid s L "Huh. You haven't them eyes for nothin'. Wal, we'll get across now." The rider, after another glance at the approaching man with the horses, took note of the ferry. Boat and third traveler arrived at the bank about|- the same time. Hays, after a sharp look at the man wth the three horses, led his animal aboard. "How much is the fare?" queried the newcomer. "Two bits." "For man or beast?" "Well, sir, the regular fare is two bits for each man an' horse." Whereupon the stout man threw the packs off his horses and carried them upon boat. "Wal, now, what is this fussy old geezer about?' queried Hays much interested. It was soon marvifest. He tied the halter of his lead pack horse to the tail of his saddle horse. The second pack animal was similarly attached to the first. Then, bridle in hand, he stepped aboard. "All right, boy. Go ahead." "But, sir, ain't you fetchin' your hosses on, too?" "Yes, but I'll swim them over be- hind the boat. Get a move on now." The ferryboy pushed off with his pole, and dropping that for the big oar he worked the boat on into the current, which caught it, and moved it across quite readily into the slack water on that side, "Didu't like that, did you, Bay?" the rider said, as he led the animal ashore, Hays slapped his mount, driving him off the ferry, while he watched the stout man had his three horses alcng the gunwale of te boat, until they could *touch bottom. Heaving and splashing they waded out, and their owner followed, carrying one pack, "Fetch my other pack, boy," called. "Johnny, dva't do nothin' of the kiad," observed Hays. "I reckon I didn't intend to," said the boy, resentfully. Puffing hard, the stout man carried his second pack ashore. "You're not very--obliging," he said, gruffly, as he felt in his pocket for loose change. The ferryboat came ashore, followed by Hays. Presently the stout man, grumbling, and evidently annoyel at the necessity of producing a fat pocketbook, took out a one-dollar bill, The rider, amused and interested from his stand on the bank, saw something that made him start. Hays whipped out a gun. "Throw up your hards!" suddenly yelled Hays. "What's this? stout man gulped. Hays reached for the man's wallet. Then he stepped back, but still with gun extended. "Get out of here now," he ordered. And apparently he paid no more heed to his frightened victim. "Pretty well heeled, for an old bird," observed the robber, squeezing the fat wallet, "You'll hear from me, you glib- tongued robber," replied the other, furiously, as he rode away. Hays sheathed his gun. He did not need to turn to face the rider, for singularly enough he had not done anything else. "How'd that strike you, stranger?" "Pretty neat. It amused me," re- plied the rider. "Is thet all?" "I guess so. The stingy old skin- flint deserved to be touched. Wasn't that a slick way to beat the boy here out of six bits?" "It shore was. An' thet's what riled me. Recken, though, if he hadn't flashed the wallet I'd been a little more circumspect." "Is there a sheriff at Green River?" "I never seen him if there is. - Wal, I'll be ridin' along. Air you comin' with me, stranger?' "Might as well," he R-robbers!" ~ the returned the other. "Stranger, what'd you say your name was?" "Call me Wall, Jim Wall," rejoin- ed the rider. Hays' nonchalance reassured Wall as to the status of Green River. nef dance hall in this burg?" ask- Wall, "Nary dance hall, worse luck, Any weakness for such?" "Can't sey it's a weakness, but the last two I bumped into. Take me wit 'Back up the trail appéared a short; 2 i Jackie Coogan, who - made a fortune as juvenile movie star, is now Jarom, the leper bay, in Santa Clara university's passion play. plied the robber, halting before a red stone building. A red-whiskered man appeared in the. doorway that led into a saloon and lodigng house. "Howdy, Red." "Howdy, Hank." "See anythin' of a fat party, sort of puffy in the face? He was ridin' a roan an' leadin' two packs. "Oh, him. Sure. He rode through town yellin' he'd been robbed," re- turned the man called Red, grinning. The devil he did! Who was he, Red?" "I dunno. Happy was standin' out here, an' when the feller stopped bel- lerin' thet he wanted the sheriff 'cause he'd been robbed, why Happy up an' says, "Hey, my friend, did ke leave anythin' on you? Then the fel- ler up an' rode off." It was this speech of Red's that decided several things for Jim Wall. "I want to look after my horse," was all he said. "Take him round back to the barn. I'm dog-tired. Send thet lazy Jake after my hoss." (To be continued.) ------------ True Service (Written in the album of a child) Small service is true service while it lasts; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. » --Wordsworth, in "Yarrow Revisited." fp mm-- . Gems from Life's Scrap-book Thought "A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most perfect prayer."-- Lessing. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it go0.'--Shake- speare. "Whatever guides thought spiritually benefits mind and body."--Mary Baker Eddy. "Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom."--Emerson. "The value of a thought cannot be told."-- ey. "Growing thought makes growing revelation."--George Elliott. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.'-- Marcus Antoninus, Welsh Bards Help In Teaching Jobless Holyhead, Wales. -- Welsh bards, who are honored for achievements in the arts at the annual Eisteddfodau, are rallying to instruct and entertain the jobless here. Glasses and lectures |. in both the Welsh-and English lang. uage are drawing numbers of eager listeners, Lectures Include "The World Crisis," "The Ideals of Education," Humor in English Literature" "The History of Civilization." FRECHE) BN RI pl Autos Less Used in Belgium 'and | Kingdoms of ancient Egypt--lost "Poetry," "Some of the Elements of |: Brussels. --Motor cars, probably no} are being kept in i, private oar e last Summer in Upper Egypt which has just now, after further investiga- tion, resulted in the identification of a diorite quarry of the Old and Mi years--the location of which had pees hitherto unknown to Egyptologi geologists, although diligently id in recent times: It was last June that a car patrol of the Egyptian Army, accompanied by El-Farik Sir Charlton Spinks Pas- ha, commander of the Egyptian Amry, while passing through an unsurveyed part of the Western Deseft about forty miles northwest of Abou Simbel, no- ticed two cairns on a ridge. They ap- peared to be much larger than the usual desert landmarks of that type. Closer investigation revealed two most interesting inscribed stone blocks at the foot of one of the cairns. These were sent to the Cairo Museum for further examination. One bore the name of the little-known King Dadefre of the fourth dynasty, no monument of whom had been known hitherto south of Sakkara, The other block, made of almost jet black dio- rite, and very badly weathered, was a record of an expedtion sent out under King Amenemhet II of the twelfth dynasty to bring mentat stone from the desert. Mentat is the ancient Egy- ptian'name for the dark granite of As- suan. Long-Sought Diorite Quarry After careful study, it was pointed out by Mr. Engelbach, director of the Cairo Museum, that it is not very like- ly that the ancient Egyptions would have sent an expedition far into the desert for something that could be ob- tained more easily in the Nile Valley. It is believed that the term mentat might have been used to designate all '| the dark hard rocks of the south, and that, therefore, this might be the site of the diorite quarry of the Old and Middle Kingdoms which has been so eagerly sought by Egyptologists and geologists, Several weeks ago Mr. Engelback himself visited the site and almost im- mediately became convinced that the lost quarries had indeed been found-- outcrops of magnificent stone showing in the afternoon light as a deep blue against the red granite boulders. Every variety of diorite is to be found there, from the dark green and black stone used for the Old Kingdom Royal statues to the white stone, speckled with black, so often used for bowls and vases. Cut Boulders in Quantity It seems that there was no main quarry, but from the chips and other indications it appears that the Egyp- tians dug out boulders until they ob- tained one of the required size free from flaws, Here and there on the desert large blocks were observed showing traces of rough dressing, but all appear to have been abandoned be- cause of flaws. A ramp was also found, made of the same stone, about ten yards long and a yard and a half high at the end, by which blocks could have been rolled up to lodd them on to a sled or wagon. Near the cairns and here and there among the outcrops were the remains of the huts used by the workmen, in which were potsherds, all of the Mid- dle Kingdom. The only other docu- ment discovered here was a block bearing the name of King Isesi (Assa) of the fifth dynasty. My Star All that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now. a dart of red, Now a dart of blue: Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue. 4 Then it stops like a bird; flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it, 'What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its sotl to me: therefore I love it. ~--Robert Browning, "Poems." like a ol Writers who have failed to realize the importance of this visit of Wren to Paris at the impressionable age of thirty three, when his faculties for ab- sorption were never higher--and most of them have failed to realize it--have Jost the real key to Wren's greatness. 1 doubt if it has been realized to the full, even yet, how important this short visit of sx months was to Wren and how greatly it affected his after life. As soon as he set foot on French soil he seems to have been caught by the sight of a few French domes and to have been filled with creative ideas. There was plenty of Flamboyant Gothic for his admiration if he chose to lavish it; he seems to have passed it by. » The fame of St. Peter's had begun to affect Parisian architects and build- ers; the church of St. Paul and St. Louis, close to the Place des Vosges, for example, attracted Wren's eye probably no less than Ste, Marie des Feulllantnes; that he was deeply im- pressed with the domes of the Sor- Bonne and the Val-de-Grace is quite certain, The facade of the Sorbonne | fired ir he set foot) ce re om ho art hou Bn se 0 r | was admiring; there was Gothe, too, but he had seen enough and had never |: the first hour 'may have been at first, the desire to specialize was qul 'paramount, This was Renaissance architecture he wished to concern himself with it. Now he had seen a style of building that appealed to-him as being a form in which he could express | himself, his whole outlevk on art instantly under- went a change. That is what I feel so many writers have missed. They have not realized that, without any preconceived ideas worth calling such, Christopher Wren suddenly found himself face to face with something that made an architect of him in # second of time. The sight of a few domes--not very wonderful domes, but domes--brought about a "climax in his artistic career. -- From "Sir Chistopher Wren, His Life and Times," by C. Whitaker-Wilson. (New York: McBride). , -- iain Air Freedom Urged By British Expert London,--A greater degree of in- ternational freedom of passage for cial aircraft is essential to gave Wren something to der over, and there is little doubt that he made a mental note of the saucer-domes of the interior, for those with which he subsequently decorated his vaulting at St. Paul's are very similar in appear ance. 1 point again to Oxford. His sur- roundings there surely should have set up in him' a desire-to express himself architectually, fof no city in England] has more to offer hm, He hid never seen a dome worth calling a dome un- til he visited France; spires he had seen in plenty. So that his English surroundings in the most English of all English cities had not captured his spirit. He lived in a city of spires, but he devoted his time to the study of the heavens, ! Then we find him taking a short holiday in France, and we also find him ining his classic thoughts with what France had to show him of classical nature. His imagination was the progress of civic aviation, Mr. G. E. Woods Humphrey, managing direc- tor of Imperial Airways, told a gath- Transport here recently, % There could be only two possible reasons for obstructing freedom of international flight, he said -- first, fear of the misuse of civil aircraft for military purposes, and, second, material gain might result from hold- ing an International line up to some sort of ransom. de Women In Majority * Swedish Census Shows Stockholm. -- There are now 1029 women to every 1000 men in Sweden, according to latest figures. The pro- portion in Stockholm is 1240 women to 1000 men, That is a lack of one man for every fifth woman, EDWARDSBURG | CROWN and delicious table syrup { 7 It acts before you can éffect at all from the Aspirin brings you immediate i safficient at quantity to get dome plete 'relief. You could take Aspirin every day inthe year ering of members of the Institute of | _| when the pioneer poultry breeders of was thirty-five. Lubricating oils have stot devel to meet not alone present motol requirements but an immense amount of research is going on to anticipate lubrication needs of the future, when more than double the speeds of those. ; now in use are attained. High-speed operation of "automo biles, airplanes, and speedboats, Dr. fection of new extreme-pressure lubri- meet the demand. He goes on: day.hav thrown a burden upon the oft industry to provide lubricants which will keep the moving mechanisms apart.» Few realize the vast difference in lubrication requirements between '| an engine driven at sixty-five miles an hour and one driven at thirty- "five. Up to thirty-five lubrication affords few problems, but at sixty-five and for 400 miles an hour the punishment of lubri- cating oil is most severe. Gasolines have been definitely im- proved during the past year so as to give better motorcar performance, speedier pick-up, faster getaway, more power output, more miles per gallon, and a smoother operating motor. The volatility of gasoline is now con- trolled so as to meet the temperature conditions of the four seasons of thee year. During wintér months gasoline is more volatile, vaporizes and ignites more readily than the gasoline pro- volatility makes the motor snap into action quickly, and prevents any chances of vapor locking the motor so that it can not operdte. F The anti-knock properties of motor fuels have been markedly Improved during the past year. Much of the research continuously conducted in the oil industry, declares Dr. BEgloft, is directed toward improving the anti-knock qualities of gasoline, One of the outstanding developments of this study, he adds, has been the adoption by motor manufacturers of higher compression ratios for their mo- tors. He points out: It is significant that nine years ago only 4 per cent, of all the cars manu- factured had a compression pressure of five to one and over, whereas in 1933 more than 93 per cent. of the cars have a compression pressure of five to one and' over. This improve. ment in compression, or greater power output, of moto-cars, could not have taken place without the growth and development of the "cracking" process which produces high anti-knock gaso- lines. ened ian Brown Vs. White Eggs The color of an egg-shell is no guidé to the quality of its contents. Further. more, &clence has not yet revealed why nature has given the power to some breeds of poultry to color egg. shells brown, while in others the na. tural white calcium is retained. A par- tial explanation is that thé majority of the poultry left on the farms of Canada divide naturally into two groups. One group, comprising a num ber of breeds, had its origin in the poultry breedng activities 'in ancient times in the countries bordering the Mediterranean. They bear the names of these sections of Italy and Spain from which they sprang -- Leghorns, Andalusia, and Minorca. The hens of these breeds lay white eggs. The breeds making up the other group have their origin in the early days of North American Agriculture, this continent, working with miscel- laneous 'imported stock, developed their own distinctive breeds. They, too," bear names indicative of their | origin--~Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Wyandottes. The hens of these. breeds lay brown-shelled eggs: In ad- dition to those major groups, Mr. T, A. Benson, Dominion Stock Branch, there are some breeds of Eng- Egloft finds, have resulted in the per. cants and synthetic lubricating oils to These mighty speeds of the present duced during the summer, Controlled » --