Devil's River News. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 1712, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 22, 1923 Page: 4 of 4
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The
Branding
Iron
By Katharine
Newlin Burt
j«*|x-r flustli-l. People with But lit
tin- liithll «f waking Ulux t reference
to Id* 01111111111 Illy, uiol, being uu
Israelite wlm Iiml fully rut himself
off with dislike from lil* own people
utid cultivated the society of Gentile*,
“a tiiuu wltliout 11 country," h* wui
•cutely sensitive.
••’Ilie Wuudi ring Jew? Vc«. Where
did you ever hour of I1I01?"
“I reiul hi* ■tory," she nn*wered nb-
(i-utly; "an uwful long one, hut In-
teresting. about lot* of j.coi.te, by Eu-
genu Sue."
Junior'* lip* fell npnrt nnd he
Ntnrcd. She hail *pokeii unwittingly
utnl he could l(-e that she wa* not
thinking of him, thut *he ivm fur uway,
(taring heyond her home's head Into
the broad, sunset-brightened west.
•‘Where were you schooled?" he
naked her.
lie had brought her back and her
fuel* Stiffened. She gave him a
startled. almost ungry look, dug her
heels Into her horse ami broke Into u
gallop; nor could he win frotu her un-
other word.
A few duys before he left, he took
Ynrnull Into hi* confidence. At first
smiled, "did I'.vc eut the apple? AM
I these you <-*o have If you will let u*
■ tuke you Hast. Of course. If 1 find
! you cannot take this part, 1 will hold
j myself accountable for you. I will not
I let you he u loser In any way by the
I experiment. With your beauty"—Ynr-
I nail fell hack In Ids chair und gaped
from tin- eseltisl spinkcr to Ihe silent
I listener—“und your extraordinary
I voice, mid your magnetism, you must
I he especially fitted for a career of
! some kind, I promise to find you
your career."
livery drop of blood had fallen from
I June's face and the rough hands 011
! her knee were locked together.
“Whut part," she asked in a quick.
' low voice, "Is this that you think I
could learn to do?"
Jasper changed Ills position, lie
came nonrer and spoke more rapidly.
“It Is the story of a girl, a suvuge
girl, whom a man lakes up und trulns.
lie trulns her as u professional might
train a lioness. It Is a passion with
him to bri nk spirits and shape them
I to Ids will, lie truth* her with coax-
ing nnd lashing—not nctuul lushing.
1 though I believe In one place lie does
t cull t tuiU f o more. sue »eia,
after a moment, and she- stood up aud
run out of the room.
‘Til he d-d!” swore Yurnnll.
lint Jasper stood, his fuce pale,
smiting one bund Into the other.
"I feel thut I, ut least, deserve to
be," be said.
CS1T.0. nn 01 • ‘ .. r sa.w. ft rider, hut a
mun who hud. In some -ease. arrived
He had the Inimitable stump of
achievement. lie had been liurd driv-
en—the look of thut. too, was there;
lie had been driven to more thun or-
dinary efTort. One of the men, see-
ing him. walked o\er nnd (poke re-
spectfully.
“You want to see Xtr. Yurnnll?"
"Ye*. *1 r." The linin'* eye* were
(curdling the ranch-house wistfully
again. "I would like to see him If I
cun. I have 101110 question* to ask
him."
“lie'* round the house, gi'tttn’ rid
of a bunch of dude*. Koine Job. faith
the rancher would do nothing hut 1 come near to heat In.; her—and he gets
Okentght br Xitbulu N. Burt
CHAPTER II
Jan*.
After that night, there bognn a sort
of persecution, skillfully conducted by
Jasper und Hetty, against the ferocity
of June. It wui a persecution linpoa-
alhle to Imagine In any other Hi-ttlng,
even the social simplicity of I.nzy-Y
found Itself a trifle amused. For Jas-
per, the stately Jewish figure, would
curry pulls of water for Jam* from the
well to the kitchen, would help Imr In
the vegetable garden, nnd to strulghtcn (
out her recalcitrant stove-pipe; Hetty ,
Would put on tin npron a tulle too
large, to wash dli-hi** and shell pirns, j
Fhe would sit on the kitchen table
swinging her long, childlike tegs and
chatter amiably. Jasper talked, too, I
f« the virago, talked delightfully,
about horses and dogs—he hud 11
charming gift of humorous observa- '
tlon—talked about hunting nnd big-
game shooting, about trapping, nhout
travel,,and, tit Inst, nhout ptnys. I'll- ,
ibfiibtMly June listened. Kometltnes
she laughed. Once In n while she
ejaculated, musically, “Weill" Occa-
sionally she swore.
One afternoon he met her riding
home from an errtind to a neighboring
ranch, nnd, turning Ills horse, rode
with her. In worn corduroy skirt, flan-
nel shlrf, ami gray sombrero, she
looked like a handsome, haggard hoy,
and. Unit afternoon, there was a cer-
tain unusual wtsff’llnos* In her eyes,
and her nioiitti had relaxed a little
from Its bitterness, l'crlmps It wus
the heuuty of 11 clear, keen summer
day; without doubt, also, she was
touched by the courteous pleasure of
Ms greeting nnd by his giving up Ills
ride In order lo accompany her. She
even unla-nt from her silence ami. for
the first time, really talked to Mm.
And she s|K>ke, too. In n new manner, 1
Using her beautiful voice with beauti-
ful carefulness. It wuh Itku a master-
■«*tiil»» «W, sttw • long Illness,
takes up. Ids beloved Instrument and
tentatively tests his shaken powers.
Jasper had much ado to keep Ids sur-
prise to himself, for the rough rnnch
girl could speuk pure enough English
If she would. |
“You und your wife nre leaving
•non?" she naked him, nnd, when he
nodded, she gave u sigh. “I'll he miss-
ing yon,” she said, throwing away her
iferasquerte Uke n rag with which she
vnt* dona "You’ve been company for
me. You’ve made use of lots of
patience und courage, but t have real-
ly liked It. I've not got the wuyg of
being sociable und I don’t know that
I want ever to get them. I am not
•coking for friend*. There Isn’t an-
other person on the ranch that would
dure talk to me a* you mid Mrs. Mo-
n-mi have "talked. They don't know
.anything about me here and I don't
mean that they should know,” She
paused, then gave way to an Impulse
of confidence, “tine of the hoy* naked
me to marry him. lie came and shout-
ed It through the window and !
caught hltn with a pan of water." She
sighed. “I don't know rightly If he
mount It for n Joke or not, but the
laugh wasn't on me.”
Jasper controlled tils luiigliter, then
saw the dry humor of her eyes and
lips nnd let out his mirth. I
“Why, sir,” »nhl Jhiio. "you'd he
surprised at the foolishness of men.
Roiiiotliuo* It seem* that, Just for pure
contrariness, they want to marry her
that least wants them nhout. The day
1 culm* tramping Into this valley, 1
stopped for f<sid at the ranch of an
old bachelor flown yonder at the font.
And he Invltet) me to lie his wife while
1 wus drinking a glass of water from
Ida .well, lie told me how much money
be had and said he'd start my stove
for me winter mornings. There'* a
good husband! And he was sure kind
fn me oven when 1 told him ‘no.’ Twin
that tame evening that the hoy from
J.uzy-Y rode In nnd claimed me for u
cook. Mr. Yurnnll Is a trusting man.
lie took ire and didn't ask any ques-
tions. | told him I wait 'Jane.' nnd
that I wasn't planning to let hint
know more. He hasn't asked me nil-
other question *'nee. lie's a gentle-
man. I figure It. and lie's kind of quiet
lilitiM-lf nhout what he wan before he
came to this country. He’s a man of
fifty and he has hits hack of hint,
only lie's taken s fresh start." Nlie
sighed. “Folks Ilk * you and Hetty socm
awfully open hear,od. It's living In
cltli-n, I suppose, where every one
knows every one else so well."
This astonishing phlure of the enn-
dhl simplicity of New York * social
life absorbed Jasper's ultcnflon for
■6nie time.
"Wouldn't y»n like to live In a city,
Jam*?''
She laughed her short, boyish
"Hoi.:" "It Isn't Whftt 1 would like,
Mr. Morenn,". she sntd. "Why. I'd III.*
to see the world. 1 would like to be
that fellow who was condemned fc
wonder nil over the esrth und never
to die. lie wa* a Jew, t<*o, wasn't
laugh, "Jane on Ihe hoard*! Vhut‘»
11 notion!” followed by explosion after
explosion of mirth. The Jew waited,
patient, pliant, smiling, and then
enumerated his reasons. He talked to |
Yurnnll for an hour, at the end of j
which lime, Yurnnll, Id* eyes still
tw Inkling, Isi-nt fur Time.
The two men sat In n log-walled
room, known u* the office. YarimH's
big desk crowded a stove. There was
no other furniture except shelve*
arid 11 hoi seat beneath a window. Jas-
per sat on the end of the desk,
(Winging Ids slim, well hoofed leg;
Tumuli, stocky, gr.ty, shabby, weather-
beaten, leaned hack In his wicker
chair. The door which Jasper faced
was directly behind Ynrnull. When
June opened It, he turned.
The girl looked grim und 11 little
pal*. She was evidently frightened.
pi
ggS
.1
Tha Girl
Look*d Grim
Little Pal*.
her broken so that she llev" at Id*
feet und cals out of his hand. Alt this,
you under ituud, while lie's an exile
from Ids own world. Then. In the sec-
ond act—that Is the second part of
the play lie takes Ids tamed lioness
buck to civilization. They go to Lon-
don and there the woman does Ills
training Infinite credit. She Is extraor-
dinarily beautiful; she Is civilized, suc-
cessful. court i-d. Her eccentricities
only add to her charm. So It goes on
very prettily for u while. Then he
makes a mistake. He blunder* very
badly. He gives Ids Hones* cause for
Jealousy and—to come to the point—
she filet! lit Id* throat. You see, he
hadn't really tuiiied her. She was un-
der the skin, a lioness, u tivnsf, at
heart."
Jasper had been absorbed In the
plot and had not noticed Jane, hut
Ynrnull for several minutes hud been
leaning forward, his hands tightened
on the arms of Ids eliatr. The instant
Jasper stopped lie held up Ills hand.
"Quiet, June," he said softly us u
man might speuk to a plunging horse.
"Steady!"
Jane got to her feet. She wag very
white. She put up her bund and
pressed the bnek of It against her
forehem! 11ml from under this hand
she linked at the two men with eyes
of such astonished pnln anil heuuty as
they eould never forget.
“Yes." she snhl presently; "that's
something I eould do.”
At onee Jasper hastened to retrieve
lit* error. "Oh, I'm so sorry. I’ve been
* clumsy. Do forgive me. Do let me
explain. I didn’t mean that you were
a wild—"
She let the hand full utid held It up
to Ntop Ills speech. "I'm not taking
offense. Mr. Morenn," she said. “You
say you arrange plays and that you
have been seeking for some one to
play that girl, llmt lioness-girl who
wasn’t rightly tamed, though the man
hnd done his worst to break her?"
Jasper nodded with it puzzled,
anxious air. For all his skill uiul su!>-
tlcty, ho could not Merpret her tone.
“And you think I'm beautiful?"
"My dear child, I know you ure,"
said he. "You try to disguise It. And
I know that In many other ways you
gsSikSS
CHAPTER III
Flight.
There wa* a girl named Joan who
followed I’lerre l.andl* la-muse he laid
his hand upon her wrist, and there
was another Joan who fled up the
mountain side at sight of him, ns
though the fire that had onee touched,
her shoulder had burnt It* way Into
her heart. Then there wus a third
loan, a .loan astray. It was this Joan
that had conu* to l.uzy-Y Hunch und
had rooked for and bullied “the outfit"
—a Joan of set face and hitter tongue,
whoso two years' lonely buttle with
life had twisted her youth out of Its
first comely straight ties*. In Joan’s
brief code of timrul law there was
one sin—the dealings of 11 married
woman with another man. When
Pierre's living and seeking fm-e looked
up toward her where she stood on
the mountain-side nbnve Prosper1!
enldn. slit- felt for the first time that
she hail sinned, and so, fi^ the first
time, she was a sinner, and the In-
evitable agony of soul began.
She fled and hid till dark, then
prowled about till *he knew that Wen
Ho was alone In the house. She mine
like ti spirit from hell and questioned
him.
"What did the men ask? What did
you tell them?"
The men luul usked for n lady. He
had told them, ns Prosper had onee
Instructed him, that no lady was liv-
ing there, that the ninu hnd Just gone.
They hud been satisfied anil had left.
Hut Joan was still lit terror. Pierre
must never find her now. She had
accepted the lie of n stranger, had
left her huslmnd for dead, had made
no effort to ascertain the truth, nnd
had "dealings with another man.”
Joan snt In Judgmen| and condemned
herself to loneliness. She turned her-
self out from all her old life ms though
slit- hnd been Cain, and, following
Wen Mo’s trail over the mountains,
had gone Into strange hinds to work j Ji.Vr get uvvav. lie'll get round to mo.
for her bread. She railed herself, M 'lt won't mean unytlilng
"June" and her ferocity was the nr- j f(, hUn—j ,.,,.re i.m,dls."
mor for In-r heuuty. Always she j II(, ,|()t the house, and
worked In fear of Pierre's arrival, ( yrntill. being very busy and perturbed
f„r Mime time afier the departure of
Ills guests, did not get round to him
LADY GOT SO WEAK “'-"l
COULD SCARCELY STAND
After Suffering From Many Female Troubles This Lady Hoard of
Cardtd and Took It, She Sans, "Until I Was WA" j
*‘OOME TIME A00," uyi Mr*. j took r. Ladles Birthday Aimtnae and
O Buena McFarland, of R. P. D. 2,. read cl a caw *omething Uke mint. I
Boslic, N. C-, ”1 (uttered a great! told my hu*band to get it and I would
deal with weakneu common to women.
I had bearing-dawn pain*, my tides and
back hurt, and my limbs drew. I would
get to weak in my knee* I could scarcely
•Und.
”1 was very nervous, and could not
rest. 1 didn’t led Like eating. I grew
try IL
“1 taw a great Improvement after tha
the first bottle (Oi Cardui). so I kept It up
until I was well. Now 1 am U)S picture
of health.’*
Thousands of other women have writ-
ten, to tell of the benriicis! results ob»
thin, and did not lave ambition lor any- Uined by Uking Cardui, and to recom-
thing.
“1 had been trying other remedies ..
but did not get any better.
"Some one told us ol Cardui, and
what it was recommended lor. I also
mend It to others.
Cardui has stood the test of extensive
*isc, for more than forty years, in tha
treatment oi troubles common to women.
Tty It. ,
Tha Sirang*r Dropped to HI* Heel*,
Squatted, and Rolled a Cigarette.
blind* lied up. WUI you go round
or wait?"
The stranger dropped to hi* heels,
*qulifted, nnd rolled u cigarette.
"PH wait," he murmured. “You cun
let him know when the dudes make
But—I wont her hnek. I vni I wns
—that was three year* ngo; I oro more
like n mnn now. You'll give rue the
people's name, their address? . . •
Pierre laid hi* hand on tlie older
mini's wrist nnd gave It a queer ur-
gent und beseeching shake.
After a moment of searching scru-
tiny. Yit)nail bent his hond.
"Very well," said he shortly; “come
In." •
Till* summon* from Yarnull suggested
dismissal or reproof, she came around
to fuel- him and stood there, looking
fierce and graceful, her head lowered,
staring gloofidly at him from under
her brows. To Jnxper she guve not *o
much 11* u glume.
"Well, Jape, I fancy I shall have to
let you go," Hu Id Ynrnull. He was not
ahovo tormenting the wildcat. Female
ferocity always excite* the teasing
hoy In 11 man. "You're getting too
ambitious for u*. You sec, opee thrso
rteh New Yorker* tuke you up, you're
no inoro u*o to a pluln ruitelimun like
me."
"What are you drivtu* at?” asked
June.
“Ihi let me explnln It to her, Yar-
nail!" Jasper snapped Ids elastic
fingers, color had risen to Ida face,
and lie looked annoyed. "Miss Jane,
won't jou sit down?"
Jane turned her deep, Indignant
eyes upon him. "Are you und your
wife the rich New Yorkers ho say*
are tukln' me up?”
“No, no. lie's joking. This is n Seri-
ous business. IPs of vital Importance
to mu und It ought to bo of vital Im-
portance to you. Please do sit down I”
Jane tool: a long slop hack and sal
down on the settlo under the long,
horizontnl window. Site folded her
luinds on her knee nnd looked up at
Morenn. She laid transferred her at-
tention completely to him. Ynrnull
wutehed them, lie was an English-
man of much experience and this pic-
ture of the skillful, cultivated, hand-
some Jew angling deftly for the gaunt,
young savage diverted him hugely. He
screwed up hi* eye* to gel a picture
of It.
• 1,at n pronoccr ami uianiiger 01
plays," said Jnxpei, “which means thut
I take a pluy written by a more gifted
■nun mid arrange It for Ihe stage.
Have you ever seen * play?"
"No, sir."
"Hut you Iihvp some hh-11 what they
nre?"
“Ve*. I have read them. Shakes-
peare wrote quite a lot of that kind
of talking pieces, didn't lie?"
JiihImt was less surprised than Yar-
nail. "At present 1 have a play on
my In: ml* which Is n very brilliant
nnd promising piece of work, hut
which I have been unable to produce
for lack of 11 heroine. There Isn’t Hit
actress on my list that can lake the
part and do it Justice. Now, Mlsa
Jane, 1 believe Hint with some train-
ing you could take lt to perfection.
My wife and I would like to take yon
to New York, paving all your ox-
petiM-*, of course, mid put you Into
training lit onee. It would take a
ycni's hard work to get you fitted for
tlu* pact. Then next fall we conld
bring out the play nnd I think I cun
premise you ■ucee s aud fame and
wealth la tio siinill men Mice. I don't
know you very well; I don't know
Whether or not you are ambitious; hut
J do know that every woman mud
love heuuty and entv nnd knowledge
arul e.M'crh n>-e Fm w hat else," he
^,LUi,4'*Nsvv>^ __
“I’ll 3« D—dl" Swor* Yarnatl.
disguise yourself. I think you make a
great mistake. Your work Is hard
and rough--"
She smiled. "P111 not complaining of
my work," she said. "It’s rough mid
*0 am 1. Oh, yes. I’m real, true rough.
I wa* horn lo roughness and raised to
It. I'm. pot ary tlilim 1 don't seeip, Mr.
Morelia. I've hud rough travel all my
days, only—only—" She sat down
again, twisting her hand* painfully In
her apron anil bending her fuee down
from tl.c sight of the two men. The
line of her long, bent neck was a
beautiful Thing to see. She spoke low
and rapidly, holding down her emo-
tion, though she eould not control nil
the exquisite modulations of her
voice. "There's only olio part of my
trnvil that I want to forget and that's
the one smooth hit. And It's hateful
to mo and you've been reminding me
of It. I must tell you now Hint I'd
rather lie burnt by a white-hot Iron”—
here di • gave him a w ide and horri-
fied hsik like a child who speaks of
some dreadful remembered punish-
ment—"than do that thing you've
asked of lue. 1 Imle everything you've
been telling nu- uhout. I don't want
to he beautiful. 1 don't want uny one
to he telling me sueli things. I don't
want to he any different from what I
am now. This Is my real self. It is. I
hate Ih-uuI>. I hate II. I'm lint good
enough to love It. Heuuty and learn-
ing nnd- and music—'”
Her head had been beading lower
anil lower, her voice rocking under
It* weight of restrained unguish. On
ti e word "min ie" she dropped her
head to her knee* and was silent
and, ns sisui as she hud saved money
enough .for further traveling, she
moved on. She worked by preference
on lonely ranchos us cook or harves-
ter, and It was after two years of such
life that slip had drifted Into YnrnaM's
kitchen. She was then greatly changed,
as 11 woman who works to the full
stretch of her strength, who suffers
privation nnd hardship, who gives no
thought to her own youth nnd beauty,
and who, moreover, suffers under a
sronrge of self-scorn and fear. Is
hound to change. Of alt the |s-ople
that had seen her lifter month* of
such living, .Tastier Morenn was the
only one to find her bountiful. Hut
with Ids sensitive observation lie had
seen through the shell to the sweet-
ness underneath; for surely Joan wan
sweet. 11 Friday's c’lild. It was good
Hint Jasper had lorn the skin from
her wound, good Hint lie bad broken
up the hardness of her heart. She
left ldiu end Ynrnntt Hint afternoon
and went away to her cabin In the
frees nnd lay face down on the bare
’■nurds of Hie floor nnd was young
again. Waves of longing for love
and bentlty and adventure flooded her.
For a while she had been very beau-
tiful and hud been very passionately
loved; for 11 while she bud been sur-
rounded by beauty and taught Its
moaning*. She bad fled from It all.
Rhe baled lt, yes. but she longed for
It with every fiber of her being. The
Inst two veurs were scalded away.
She was Joan, who hnd loved Pierre;
Joan, whom Prosper find bad loved.
Toward morning, dawn feeling with
white fingers through the pine hough*
Into her uncurtained window, Joan
stopped her weeping nnd stood up.
She was very tired nnd felt ns though
nil the hardness nnd strength had
been beaten from her heart. She
opened her door and looked at pale
stars and 11 still, slowly brightening
world. In a hollow below the pines
a stream ran and poured Its hoarse,
hurrying voice lain the silence. Joan
bent under the branches, undressed
and bullied. The ley water slmeki-d
life hack Into her spirit. She In-gan
to tingle and to glow. In spite of her-
self sh» felt happier. She had been
stony for so long, nelllipr sorrowful
nor glnd ; now, after the night of sharp
t>nln. she wa* aware of Uie gladness
of morning. She came nn from her
plunge, glowing nnd beautiful, with
loose, wet hair.
In the corral the men were watering
their teams; above them op the edge
of a mesa, against the rosy sky, the
other ponies, out nil night on the range,
were trooping, driven by n cowboy
who darted here nnd there nn Ills
nimble pony, giving shrill erle*. In
the clear ulr every syllable was slinrp
to the enr, every tint and line sharp
to the eye. lt was beautiful, very
beai-ilful, und It was near and deut
to nor, native to her—this lovellnesi njlt (o n(>tia.0
of quick action, of Inarticulate calling
to dumb ben-;*, of work, of simple,
often repeated beginnings. She wal
glad thut she was working with her
hands. She* twisted up her hair nnd
went over to the ranch-house where
she began soberly uud thankfully to
light her kltchcll tiro.
lt wa* uftor breakfast, two or thro*
morning* Inter, when 11 stranger on a
chestnut pony rode Into Yurnnll'*
ranch, tied his pony to a tree, nnd,
*triding ucros* the cobbled square,
cume to knock ut the office door. At
the moment, Yaniall, on the other sld*
of the house, wa* saying farewell to
Ida guests, anil helping the men pile
the baggage Into the two-soated wag-
on, so this other visitor, getting no
answer to Ids knock, turned and looked
about the court, tie did not. It win
evident, mind waiting. It was to be
surmised from the look of him that
lie w as used to It; patient nnd not to
he discouraged by delay. He wu* ft
very brown young man of quite
astounding 1 cuuty and Ids face laid
been schooled to keenness and re-
straint. lie was well-dressed, very
till nearly noon. By thut time ho
was sitting on the step, his back
against the wall, still smoking nnd
still wistfully observant of lit* Sur-
roundings.
lie stood up when Yamnll entne.
"Sorry," said Hie lntter; "that fool
hoy didn’t tell 1110 you wore here till
ten minutes ago. Come In. You'll
SOME SPARROW
Recently Francis, tho four-yenr-
oll son of Mr. and Mrs. It. 0. Van-
Deventer of Spencer, fell from a
step-ladder while trying to get soma
cherries and broke his right arm.
On being a3kcd just how it hap-
pened, ho said that a sparrow flew
into the cherry tree and 6ltook it ao
hard that the tree hit him off the
ladder and broke his arm.—Indian-
apolis News.
YEAR’S OIL PRODUCTION
GREATER DEMAND FOR MEAT
If Inst year’s production of oil in
the United States were put into oil
stop for dinner—If we get any today." . barrels and these placed lengthwise,
“Thank you,” said I'lor re. | touching each other, they would
He came In nnd talked and *tnyort | ^ from tho earth lhe mo6n,
for dinner. Yurnnll was uxod to tlio ,
western fashion of doing business. He j and there would be enough left over
knew Hint It would he a long time, to go one and a half times around
before the young man would come to ' cajth. i —
Ids i-oint. Hut the F.ngHshman was'
In no hurry, for he liked his visitor
and found Ids full: diverting enough.
1 .mulls hurt been In Alaska—n lumber
oHinp. He had risen to he foreman
anil now he wa* off for a vacation,
hut hnd to go hark soon. He had
been everywhere. It seemed to Yar*
nnll that the stranger hnd visited ev-
ftp*, ench Y*r- *’•»• tno»«v«e *n h
After dinner, strolling beside Ids
host toward his horse, I’lerre spoke,
and before Yurnnll had heard n word
he knew Hint the long delay had been
caused by suppressed emotion. I'lorre,
when he did nsk his question, wns
white to the lips.
"I've tukin a lot of your time," he
snld slowly. "I ciiii’o to ask you nhout
some one. I heard that you had a
woman on your ranch, n woman who
came In and dl In't give you any his-
tory. I want to aue her If I muy."
He was actually fighting au uneven-
ness of breath, nnd Yurnnll, unemo-
tional a* he was, wns gripped with
sympathetic suspense. "I want," stam-
mered the young man, “to know her
name."
Yurnnll swore. “Her pnme. ns she
gave It." said he, "1* June. Hut, my
hoy, .von can't see her. She left till*
morning."
I'lorre njsed a white, tense face.
“Left?" He turned ns if lie would
run nfter her.
“Yes. sir. These people I’ve hnd
here took her away with them. Thut
Is, they've been urging her to go. but
she'd refused. Then, suddenly, tht?
Countries of th* Far East, Especially
Japan, Turning From Traditional ;
Olat of Rica.
The Far East, especially Japan, (•
eating more meat than in former
years, according to D. A. Cameron
and H. E. Powell, representatives of
the Austrian meat council of Syd-
ney, who have gone to the Philip-
pines to make an investigation with
a view to increasing incut slupments
to the archipelago.
“There is a growing demand for
meat in the Fur East,” said Mr.
Cameron. “The Far Eust countries
cannot supply this demand and we
believe Australia is the logical
source of supply. Wo can furnish
approximately 50,000 tons of meat
yearly.
“lionn meats are sent from Aus-
tralia to the warmer countries, tho
fatter meats going to the colder
ones. Not all countries want to buy
the frozen meats. Java, for instance,
likes to do her own killing, aud
western Australia docs a small trade
with that country in live bullocks.”
GO SWIMMING BUT KEEP DRY
GROWTH OF THE ELEMENTS
Ph*nom*non of Radluin Haa Given
N*w Weight to Theory Which
Wa* Advanced Years Ago.
It Is nn old question. "Are the
seventy-odd eliomleal elements really
elementary, or arc they compounded
of something still more elementary?"
In tho light of the discoveries of the
Inst few years nhout radium one au-
thority recurs to a theory, advocated
by him many years ago. that ns tho
plnnet* were evolved out of the origi-
nal nebula which gave lilrth to the
solar system the eliomleal elements
themselves were also evolved out of
something far less complex than thom-
solves. The fact Hint existing nebulae
are very simple In composition, while
stars In various stuges of development
exhibit mure and more complexity, un-
til In solidified bodies like the eurth, a
great number of chuuficnl elements
with a myriad of compounds ure found.
Is regarded as strongly supporting this
theory. The phenomenon of radium
Fair Ocern Mermaid* Wear Rubber
Bathing Suit* That Shed
tha Water.
New York's beaches are a wavs
crowded with bathers that never get
wet, as they never go near the water.
But this season at tho Rockawaya
has revealed the novel spectacle of
fair bathers keeping dry and still
going in the surf for a swim, no-
cording to the New York Sun and
Gobe. They wear rubber bathing
suits.
Made up in os wide * color va-
riety ns silk, the rubber suits also
ere particularly adupted to decora-
tion. On most of them arc imprint-
ed pictures of flowers. Olliers have
designs of seaweed, coral, fish and
other things emblematic of tha ocean.
One great advantage of the rub-
ber bathing suits, say their wearers,
is that the ocean water does not seem
SO"told and coming out on the
sands after a plunge in the surf,
loads to the additional suggestion that
as In the development of Ihe heavenly ( t]lCro nro no ' >fV> c]jnging
bodies we seem to see the growth of ! . . , 1 ,1 .
the elements, so in radioactivity «V meliU to tlllli the bather'
witness their decay.—New York Her-
ald.
Plan of National Capital.
A national commission of which
George Washington was a member laid
morning, "just as they wore i.uttlng »«* n'?1.DI*,,ri_ct1,of C®1_U"^la.,,.°.
the trunks In, up came June. whliA “ " ‘ -.......
ns chalk, asking them to tuke her
With them, said she must go. Well,
Mr, they rigged her up with some truv-
olln! clothes nnd drove away with
her. That wu* six hours ngo. By
r.ow they're In llie tralu, bound for
New York."
as 11 silo for the enpltnl city, which
wns named for George Washington In
spite of Ills protests. He always re-
ENGLISH MEDICAL WOMEN j
It was a notable occasion in tha
annals of tho London School of
Medicine for Women when Princess
Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, recent-
ly presented the scholarship* and
prizes won by the students during
tho past year. In giving this recog-
nition to the work of the school, her
ferred to lt ns the "Federal City.” The
city plan of Washington Is very pe-
culiar, ninny diagonal avenues cross- , , . , . . . . . ..
ing the checkerboard formed by the ; royal highness is maintaining tho
to urn Intersecting north nnd south and east, traditions of her house, for Queen
YnrnaH’s guest looked at him with-' Hn<1 wn,t *‘rp«"b th"" inning numer- j Victoria, intensely conservative aa
out speaking, nnd Ynrnu’l nervously ou® clrcn,:lr i»u**kR. This plan enuhie* , gj)0 wns regarding many of the new-
went on, “She's been with cv about, ««' ^It0'' «r movements for women, re«>gnized
six months. Landis, and I don't know I 1?^“« biding, hy a^core of th„ vn1ll|> „f from thoir ?px
anything about her. She was tall,
gray eyes, black hair, slow speaking,
nnd with tho kind of voice you’d tie
yen, I sue slie’a
I
street* and avenue*.—New York Her-
ald.
tho value of help from thoir own sex
for tho women of India; Queca
Alexandra has taken part in cere-
monial occasions in connection with
the development of the school; and
Look to New Plant for Oil.
tho girl you've been looking for. II A plant that belong* to the lettuce' ....... „ ____ _______,____
can give you the New York people’* family and that I* now cultivated In J Queen Mary has not only visited it
".rrvxis.'sin?£r. «*»»«>■>
think
a lot of June—I'll have to know • new source of edible oil. The »eed Free Hospital for Women wards in
-whut she la
uliut you want with hei
to you."
I'lorre'* pupil* widened till they *11
hut swulhnved tho smoke-colored trl*.
"Bhe Is my wife." ho enld.
Again Ynrnull swore. But he lit a
rlgnri tte nnd took his time nhout an-
swering. "Well, sir." he wild, "you
must excuse me. but—It wa* because
she saw you, I take It. that Jane cut
off this morning. Thai's clear. Now.
I don't know wlint would make a girl
run off from her hu ibnn.l. She might
have any number of reasons, had and
good, but It seem* to me thut It would
be a pretty strong one that would
make a girl run oiT. with n look «urh - , . ,
as she were, frnm a men like you. Did ( "Maybe they re around just Ilia
you t -out her well. Land!:;?*' mine, but not noticed. The summer
It hnd the effect of 11 Inrh tn.hen beai'h costumes are calculated to
by 11 prclle.'it. li t- man shrunk a
little, widened, endured. "I on n't fell
yield* under pressure from S7 to 38 which women students follow their
per cent of oil nnd certuln specimen* gaudies.—London Times,
of fresh seed from the Sudiin, which
contained lc*s than 4 per cent of wa-
ter. yielded more thnn 44 per cent. Tha
oil I* odorless, of a light yellow color
and without n disagreeable taste. The
seed I* so small that It eannot he
handled with ordinary equipment, hut
the oil product I* so valuable that new
machinery will no doubt tie built to
do tha work.
UNNOTED
“There are never uny more sea
gerpout* sighted from the shore.’’
THE EXCEPTION
fc
“When wrong, you should admit It,”
declared the earnest young man; "hut
when right, you should be able to
n.r.Int 11111 your position against every-
one—"
"Lxcept your wife," quietly put la
you he-.v I treated l ev." bo snhl In a
dm -on* \,i' e: 'll loidt near tollin'
let'll |>e>ple from looking beyond his father, who hnd Just retired from
the first line of breaker*.”—Wash- "" "r«'"n"m with the bend of tha
., ■ bouse,
inul.m Mnr.
fee
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