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3 River Crossing he meets Hank ho has empluyed a small army I 'was tellin' you about, others are plevang to steal their em-| Hays, elibly. "Jim Wall, late of Wy- an argument with a gambler led omin', ., . Jim, meet the. boss.' over a poker game. Wall saves 's life. ® ith Ha d t th Tustiers, Happy' Jack and Iincoin, Jim | tarned Herrick. "I understand you've Wall starts out for Herrick's ranch. The| had wide experience on ranches?" four en travel on through rugged count! and finally reach the Herrick ranch. Jim is iatroduced to Smoky Slo- | ranges since I was a boy," replied Jim. cum. CHAPTER V. "Most obligin' an' kind of you, Wall," remarked Smoky, satisfied eyes. "If you was so all- fired certain thet you could beat Stud to the dvaw, why'd you tip him off?" | posed Hays. "I never shoot a man just because the chance offers," rejoined Jim, cold-|on Herrick, "a foreman handles the ly. riders. Now as this ranching game There was a subtle intimation in is strange to me I'm glad to have a this, probably not lost upon Slocum. | foreman of experience. My idea was The greatest of gunmen were quiet,|to hire some gunmen along with the soft-spoken, sober individuals who|cowboys. Hays' name was given me never sought quarrels, Jim knew that|at Grand Junction as the hardest nut in eastern Utah. It got noized about, » I presume, for other men with repu- on sight. Respect could scarcely be|tations calculated to intimidate|, felt by men like Slocum. Like a wea-| thieves applied to me. I took on his reply would make gn enemy, even if Slocum were not instinctively one sel he sniffed around Jim. "You don't, ch?" he queried, "Wal, you strike me unfavorable." "Thanks for being honest, if not complimentary," returned Jim. Hays swore at his lieutenant: "Un- favorable, huh? Now why do you have to pop up with a dislike for him?" "I didn't say it was dislike. Just unfavorable. No offense mean." "Smoky," said Hays, "I won't have no grudges in this outfit. I've got the biggest deal on I ever wnrked out. There's got to be harmony among us. But Smoky bobbin' up again my new man--thet's serious. Now let's lay the cards on the table. ... Jim, do you want to declare yourself?" "I'm willing to answer questions-- tnless they get nasty," replied Jim frankly. "You got run out of Wyomin'?" "No. But if I'd stayed on I'd prob- ably stretched hemp." "Hold up a stage or somebody?" "No. Once I helped hold up a bank. That was years ago." "Bank robler! You're out of our class, Jim." "Hardly that. It was my first and only crack at a bank. Two of us got away. Then we held up a train ~--blew open the safe in the express car." "Smoky, I call it square of Wall," spoke up Hays. "He shore didn't 1eed to come clean as that." "It's all right," agreed Slocum, as if forced to fair judgment. Hays plumped off the porch rail, "Now, fellers, we can get to work. Herrick puts a lot of things up to me, an' I 'ain't no cattleman. Jim, do you know the cattle game?" "From A to Z," smiled Wall. "Say, but I'm in luck. We'll run the ranch now." What'll I d», Hank?" asked Jim. ' Wall, you ico¥ the whole diggin'e over." Jim lost no time in complying with his first order, from the superintend- en of the Star Ranch. What a mon- strous and incredible hoax was being perpetrated upon some foreigner! Evidently there had been ranchers here in this valley before Herrick. Old Jog cabins and corrals adjoining the new ones attested to this. Jim passed cowboys with only a word or a nod. He talked ith an old man who said he had owned a home- stead across the valley, one of those Herrick had gathered in. Jim gleaned information from thie rancher. Herrick had bought out all the cattlemen in the valley, and on round the foothiil lire to Limestone Springs, where the big X Bar outfit began. Riders for these small ranches had gone to work for Herrick. He was told that Heeseman, with ten men, was out on the range. Presently Jim encountered Hays, accompanied by a tall, floridly blond ma, garbed as no Westerner had Send for V7 G ever hen, This, of course, must be J Wi nglishman. young, hard. 3) quite industry. Rs new fod o jhe Boul thirty, bdend in a Yi Y fleslly way. ™ he Aichi Wan Mr. Re his foreman." moky, with sar-|other men. It will be part of your casm, as he looked Jim over with un-! guties to keep my books." to the expense--and risk, I might add ever--what do you mean by risk?" pect that Heeseman is a rustler." "Mr. Herrick, this is my new hand "How do you do, Mr, Wall," re "Yes, sir. I've been riding the "That is satisfactory to me." "You are better educated than these "I've tackled that job before." "So I was tellin' the boss," inter- "As I understand ranching," went Heeseman and kis friends." "But you really did not need to go ~--of hiring IHeeseman's outiit," "Expense is no object. Risk, how- "Between ourselves, I strongly sus- "By jove! You don't say? This is ripping. Heeseman said the identical thing alout Hays." "Wal, Mr. Herrick, don't you worry none," interposed Hays, suavely. "Shore I don't take kind to what Heeseman called me to your face, but I can overlook it for the present, You see, if Heeseman is workin' for you he can't rustle as many cattle as if he wasn't. Anythin' come of that deal you had on with thet Grand Junction outfit?" "Yee. I received their reply the other day," rejoined Herrick. "By jove, that reminds me. I had word from my sister, Helen. It came from St. Louis. She is coming through Denver and~ will arrive at Grand Junction about the fifteenth." "Young girl--if I may ask?" added Jim. "Young woman. Helen is twenty- two." "Comin' for a little visit?' asked Hays. > "By jove, it bids fair to be a life- long one," declared Herrick, as if pleased. "She wants to make Star Ranch her home. We are devoted to each other. If she can stick it out in this bush I'll be jolly glad. Can you drive from Grand Junction in one day?" "Shore. Easy with a buckboard an' a good team," replied Hays. Herrick resumed his walk with Hays, leaving Jim to his own devices. Jim strolled around the corrals, the shedg, down the lane between the pas- tures, out to the open range. This Englishman's - sister--this Helen Herrick--she would be coming to a remote, wild and beautiful val- ley. What would the girl be like? Twenty-two years old, strong, ¢ horse- woman, and handsome--very likely blond, as was her brother! And Jim made a mental calculation of the ruf- fians in Herricks employ. Eighteen! CHAPTER VIL After supper Hays leaned back and surveyed the company. "Fellers, we've @ pow-wow on hand. Clear the table. Fetch another lamp. We'll lay out the cards an' some coin, so we can pretend to be settin' in a little game if anybody happens along. But the game we're really settin' in is the biggest ever dealt in Utah. "rulk low, everybody," instructed Hays. "An' one of you step out on P the porch now an' then. Heeseman might be slick enough to send a scout over here. 'Cause we're goin' to do thet little thing to him. . . . Happy, dig up thet box of cigars I've been jeered Brad Lincoln, . "Nothin' to drink, fellers," Yeturn- ed Hays. "We're a sober outfit. No anguin' or fightin'. . . ..Any of you who _ doesn't like thet can walk out| now." y y They were impressed by his ¢ool force. Jim Wall had a flash of divination " 'announced | the ranch. thet outfit some of us will get killed "Hays has suggested making youlan' others crippled. Then we couldn't pull the deal. A better idee is for one of us to kill Heeseman." the outfit." Smoky, of course, or Brad." head. "With all thet's die Smoky an' Brad I Wwouldn't choose either. Jim, here, is the man for thet job." This, oh, heart, is the place, And silence is a grace Rabbit and bird and deer, Will stand in the half-light, here, Take it out of your breast On the floor of the pool it will rest For sorrow turns like the leaf So. strange a tking is grief And afterward, rabbit and bird Will listen to no sound heard But cock their heads in their drinking, Being strangers to grief, but thinking ~--David Morton, in The N.Y. Herald- as_to this sudden right-about-face, | erick veckoris there are upwards |. "Let's clean out his bunch." So Hays shook his head. : "Fellers, if we pick a fight with "Reckon it would-be. Thet'd bust "Who'd you pick to do thet, Hank?" Jeff Bridges boomed out: "Why, "Nope," said Hays, shaking his (To be continued.) rms fae sm: ~ Forest Pool (From Harper's Magazine.) For this is dark and lonely, Upon this spot, and only The shy, the comely ones, At the rise and set of suns. And bury it Lere, and go." . . And age and alter and glow; When a year and a day are told, That alters from green to gold. And deer, in their going by, Aas evening pales in the sky, To gaze at a leaf in the pool, It golden and beautiful. Tribune. eee Care of Pictures Planned Paris.--Experts recently meeting in Paris under the auspices of the In- ternational Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, have drawn up a pro- gram of experiments to enable great- er conservation of paintings and art works. The committee dealt especially with ".. question of*Lygiere in picture gal- leries, their heating and ventilation as_affecting the preservation of the art works. Experiments will be car- ried out.by the International Mu- seum's office in collaboration with the International Institute of Refrigera- tion with a view to determining the degree of atmospheric moisture most favorable to the conservation of paint- ings in museums. The committee will also draw up a handbook on conservation of pictures which will be published by the insti- tute. When Meteors Sm Life on Mars -| "His wors marks sn epoch fn me-| '| teor astronomy," says : there ig" need of just the study that Dr. Millman has made. » We know what nieteors are made of, thanks to cheinical avalysis, but we know none too much about the physical processes that make a meteor visible. It is na inert thing that falls to the earth, if it is not consumed in the atmosphere. Dr. Millman is inter- ested in the dynimic thing, the fierce- ly glowing mass which is trying to tell us something of the conditions in our atmosphere at heights of twenty to a hundred miles. » Up to 1980 just eight meteoric spectra had been recorded. Most of these had been photographed accident- ally at Harvard, Moscow, Hamburg and Mount Wilson. That is, while the prism and telescope were directed at a given star in order to obtain a record of the diferent kinds of light (wave-lengths) that it emi's, - bright meteor happened to flash across the field. When he secured two more spectra in, a deliberate hunt for me- teors in "N ber and D b 1931, Dr. Millman began his study at Harvard under a fellowship from the Loyal Society of Canada. LINES OF IRON FOUND. As night be deduced from the an- alyses that have been made of me- teorites that have fallen to the earth, Dr. Millman found the bright lines of iron in rine photographs that he se- lected, He also found--what the an- alysis of a fallen meteorite can never show--that the iron glows with a temperature of 2,600 to 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit. This is rather low-- about the temperature, in fact, of a furnace. Calcium, magnesium, alum- irum, manganese, chromium rnd sili- con were also detected, though not in all the spectra, Sodium is fairly com- mon. Many observers of meteors speak of the green color of the light that streaks across the .ky. Dr. Millman explains it readily by the presence of magnesium. The element was the strongest feature in the meteorite, LIFE ON MARS. Mars as a subject of controversy will ever die. Is it alive or is it dead? Thanks to the work of such physicists as Dr, Coblentz, the case for life on that planet is better than it ever was. Oxygen and water Va- por have been discovered in the Mar- tian atmosphere--both essentials in the maintenance of life. The surface temperature has been measured and of the earth. During the Martian winter a white only to melt away with the approach agreeing with Dr. Coblentz that vege- tation thrives, dies and is reborn with the Martian seasons. - Healthy and Practical -. Harlow] : "whose |. founder of the vat in Arizona, did much to popularize the view that Mars is a living world. Al though many of his deductions were "The late Profecscr Percival Lowell, the questi . much aleohol is intoxicating? Last by Dr. Haven Emerson, which bore fects of Alcohol on Man in Health and the practical Norwegians. A man may found to compare favorably with that deposit accumulates around the poles, of summer--deposils now generally assumed to be hoar frost and snow. As the melting proceeds, vast areas, ochrous red in color, change to green. Ard so we now find many astronomers hallenged in his lifetime, there can be no doubt that they have gained in| g J strength with the years. One to municipal statistics just most aggressive opponents was E. M/ Antottiadi of the observatory of Meu-) don in France. The notion that Mars may be the abode of life is to him so repugnant that he has written a whole book, "The Tllusion of the Canals," to challenge the conclusicns ard his sup- porters. : ed in of his BLOOD REVEALS INEBRIETY. When the Volstead Act was passed and just before it was repealed dozens of physicians and psychologists ap- peared before Congressional it _ The number of theatres, i legitimate stages, concert | : tion picture houses, circuses and riety shows, increased from 509 in 1930 to 641 in 1932. During that period |. 23 new moving pioture houses were opened in Paris and seven in the fm-| mediate suburban : Twelve street fairs were the year in Paris and 156 in the_ sub: urban district. Ten new gambling halls were opened. Permits for radio concerts musical performances and' issued to cafe and tees to angy : How year there appeared a volume, edited the title "Alcohol and Man: The Ei- in Disease."~Jt cannot be said that the testimony or the book gave any definite answer, not because neither could be trusted but because aleohcl affects no two persons alike. The Norwegians seem to have solv- ed this problem in the sensible and therefore in the scientific way. In other words, a man charged with in- toxication is tested--or rather his blood is. ! : It is the motor car that has areused reel along on his feet, a harmless ob- ject, but when he reels on pneumatiz tires behind the steering whel. of a high-speed car he is a public menace. When, therefore, a drunken Norweg- ian driver is taken into custody there is not much argument at the police station. 'A surgeon steps up to the accused, pricks the. lobe of his ear and takes a sample of blood, which is immediately dispatched to the Phar- macological Institute of Oslo. There tests are made in accordance with a technical method familiar to pharma- cologists but much simplified by Dr. Klaus Hansen of the University of Oslo. Little rubber stopperéd tubes of charge. It has been found that when the concentration of alcohol in the blood lies somewhere betwzen 2.61 and b per thousand, drunkenness is indicated. But what of cases when the concen- {ration is much less than 2.61 and the policeman who n.ade the arrest insists been drunk? Dr. Hansen saved one driver whose blood concentration was as low as 0.03 per thousand by prov- ing that he had lost self-control through sheer nervousness.' em {emai Camera Takes 2500 : Pictures a Second New York.--Twenty-five hundred pictures a second can be taken ifror- dinary light by a super-rapid motion- picture camera shown here April 18 for the first time, * Its pictures showed the seemingly instantaneous flare of a photogra- pher's flashlight bulb lasting in "slow motion" for a full minute. More ex- traordinary, it showed one of these bulbs beating another to the flash, although both were wired on the same circuit, controlled by a single switch, and ignited by the selfsame electrical impulse, » previously made by taking its pic- tures in ordinary light, either day- light or artificial. Lights flashing hundreds of thousands of times a sec- 'ond have been heretofore the only means of taking such pictures. But they could not show the action of a self-illuminating object, like the pho- tographer's flash. 'Mr, Fordyce Tuttle of the Eastman Kodak Company laboratories in Ro-: chester develcped the camera. It was shown here by the Elétrical Research Products, Incorporated, to demon- strate its first practical application, ~ One hundred feet of film which. | through this carac:.. in 2 1-2 A New Ruse nse in Bermondsey and proprietors for Special en: ts number 2,088, and near. ly 6,000 other permits were given for dances and evening entertainments to which admission was charged. Two hundred and thirty-seven open air concerts were held in the Paris region, and there were thirty-five sep- erate and distinct expositions held either at the Grand 'Palais or at the Parc des Expositions, nin iii 91,000 Britons Past 85 Years England has more than 91,000 per- sons over eighty-five years of age, and of these the women outnumber the men by nearly twe to onu. Harley-Davidson Distributors Write at orice for our bargalo list ot used motorcycles, Terns Arrarged, BA for collecting blood are supplied free |} that his prisoner drove as if he were} . drunk and charges him with having} "The camera differs from anything HEUMAT dothis t some tablets of Aspirin and take 'you are entirely « | the recording of a timing clock on the | edge of each "frume" of film. them freely until - runs. in four minutes, speeds seconds. "| 'The camera has no shutter and the| "| film rurs continuously instead of be- ing stopped for each "frame." g--A young man walk-| international institute of Horny shells. tipping our fingers makes possible a diagnosis of many diseases. wphe normal nafl, indicative of & Harmonious state and of good health, 'ought to be supple, neither flabby nor brittle. neither too long mor too short, neither very broad mor very narrow. "It should occupy nalf the length of the distance to the first finger- joint calculating from the finger-iip "Its sides--the lateral extremities --ought to be parallel. "Its true color is slightly rosy, it is softly smooth in its normal state; curved gently and unspotted, with no hollows, Do excrescences, no Sur "{ face projections or points, «It it departs markedly from this description jt may show. or rather it always shows, an organic diffculty, a marked tendency to some phyeical ill, "It the nal be too long, there is ' likely to be a predisposition 'te maladies caused by lack of energy oi by lassitude. - "It the nall be top short, especial: Iv when flattened and almost, square, there ia a definite tendency to heart trouble as well as to nervous pros. tration. z «Jt the nail he quite foreshorten- "| ed and very broad, the indication is frritability and meurasthenia, "Should nails of thig sort be found with spatulated phalanges, showing. abnormal enlargement, they point to maniacal. tendencies, to fury and violence. "roo triangular nails' indicate that cerebro-spinal accidents and paraly gis are to be feared, wrrapezoidal nails point to mor bidity of imagination «Narrow nails indicate health not at all robust, equilibrium being maintained through the nervous forces. "Almond-stiaped nails or nut-kernel nails show that the arterial system is not capable of much resistance." Glancing now at the profiles of the finger-nails, we are told: _"When all the nails are convex, that is to say bulging up from the root to the tip, the: indication is to- ward troubles of the respiratory assages. : vSuch convexity, it marked, is of ten a sign of liver complaint. «Looked -at from the finger-ends, the nails are. normally in the form of an arch. If this curvature ends in a very abrupt drop of the sides, imitating in a way 'thé slope of a roof, the indication is arteriosclerosis, often indeed cancer. "If the nail of the index finger be 'very convex, talon-like, or rather like a rounded dome, it suggests a malady of the lungs, J "If the arch of the fingernail be vaulted to the extent of a half circle in aspect, the indication is intoxica- tion as a result of kidney complica- tions. The evidence is the more alarme ing if all the nails present the same deformity. "it too flat, the nails indicate & 1 hatic organic passivity. Toit abby, there is a lack of physi. cal strength. "It hard and brittle, the nails indi cate 'anemid, ; «1f friable, easily crumbled and reduced to powder, the nails point to gland troubles involving 'the imter- nal secretions. v ; Forgotten Umbrellas Bring Revenue to British Railroad : "London. -- The Southern Rail 5 has hit' Spo a novel idea 5