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°tate historical labrary, HisropfcAt_ aor”0,61-1., OF AfiLi'e .4V141, HE LENA. • 4 FRIDAY, MARCH 6, t925. THE HARDIN TRIBUNE -HERALD I Delightful Tale of the West Judith of Blue Lake Ranch By JACKSON GREGORY This is a western story with some new touches. The scene is one of those great modern ranches where not cattle alone, but all kinds of live stock are produced and diversified agriculture is practiced. Synopsis CHAPTER I.—Bud Lee, horse fore- man of th• Blue Lak• ranch, coa- l: aced Sayn• Trevors, manager, is de- orately wrecking the property owned by Judith Sanford, a young woman, her cousin. Hollook Hampton. and Timothy Gray, decides to throw up kis Job. Judith arrives and announces she ham bought Gray's share In the tench and will run It. She discharges Trevors. CHAPTER II.—The men on the ranch dislike taking orders from a girl. but by subduing a vicious horse 1 and proving her thorough knowledge ranch lif.., Judith wins the best of them Over. Le• decides to stay. CHAPTER ILL—Convinced her vet- erinarian. Bill Crowdy, is treacherous., ',Alta discharges him, re-engaging an old friend of her fathers, Doe. Tripp CHAPTER IV—Pollock Hampton. with a party of friends, comes to the ranch to stay permanently. Trevor./ incepts Hampton's invitation to visit the ranch. Judith's messenger is held up and robbed of the monthly pay roll. CHAPTER V.—Bud Lee goes to the No for more money, getting back eafely with it, though hie horse is killed under him. Both he and Judith see Trevors' hand In the crime. Hog raistlers„, hard to account for, Ines*. out. Oa the ranch. Judith and Lee, investi- gating trit seene or the hoiaup. c mountain, where the robber must tare hidden. • • CHAPTER VI.—A cabin In a flower - planted clearing excite* Judith's admi- ration. It is Lee's. though he doe. not say so. They are fired on from am- bush. and Lee wounded. Answering she Are, they meke for the cabin. Hero+ they find Bill Crowdy wounded. Drag- ' rin g him into the building they find be he• the money taken from Judith's messenger. Besieged in the cabin, they are compelled to stay all night. CHAPTER VII.— Hampton. at tht ranch, becomes uneasy at Judith's I\ g absence. With Tommy Burkitt he to seek her, arriving in time to 1 ive th• attackers off, and capturing one seen. known as \Shorty.\ CHAPTER VIII.—\Shorty' escapes from imprisonment in the grb'nhouse on the ranch, to the disgust ty Carson. sow foreman. who had him in charge. Lee begins to feel a foodness for Ju- llth, though he realisee she is not hie womanly ideal. Marei.$ Langworthy, one of Hampton's pal ty. .typical city girl. is more to his te,te. CHAPTER IX. ---The discovery is made that pigeons, with hog cholera Z erm• on their, f- tt, have been liber- ted on the ranch. Lee captures a stranger. Dick Donley, red-handed. with an aceoteelice, a cowboy known as \Poker Eller.' Donley has' brought te.re oiscolc. in rho, ranch. CHAPTER X.—At a dance Judith gives In honor of Hampton's frlend• Lee appears at evening dress. He is recognized by one of th• party as an old acquaintance, Dave Lee, once wealthy but ruined by trusting false friends. Judith, in her womanly finery, makes such an appeal to Lee that, alone with her, he forcibly kisses her, receiving the rebuke deserved. CHAPTER XL—Word Is sent to Lee that Quinnion has been casting slurs -aus-Judith s name because of the night she and Lee were together in the cabin. With Carson. be• tInds Quinnion, worsts him in a fight and makes him eonfess publicly he is a liar, and agree to leave the vicinity. CHAPTER XII.—After the kissing Incident Judith Ignores I_Are. who wouid go away, hut finds himself unable. Ju- dith sees a letter to Pollock Hampton, from a firm with which TreNors his been eonneeted. offering to buy a large consignment of cattle and horses at a ridiculouely low figure. Hampton is add ti as \g$nerai mansger\ of the Blue Lake outfit. Judith is vaguely un- easy. In her absence Hampton decides to aecept tie offer. Lee protests strongly. He learns from Marcia Lang - worthy that Judith is supposed to have gone to see her lawyers at Hen Fran- cisco. A telegram from her orders Hampton to sell the stock at the pr.e$ , offered Lee refuses' to a-eept the mes- sage as coming from Judith, the con- viction forcing Itself upon him that Trevors has kidnaped her and is hold - Inc her prisoner. CHAPTER NIT—Lee tette Carson and Hampton of his suspicions. Ramp - ton Jeers at the idea. In Judith's room they find a note from Doc., Tripp ask. lag geedith to aPtott-him,--am-b• *as been, shot and cannot come to the ranch They learn from Tripp he has not been hurt and did not and any message. ConvinCed rrOW - Of . JudIth's - imminent 'danger Lee sets out to find her, CHAPTER XIV.—Judith finds herself in a cave where she has 1) ,, en conveyed after being kidnaped. She knows her abductors are Trevors and Qttinnion. Trevors gives her in charge of a de- mented woman known as - Mad Ruth,\ reputed to be Quinnion's mother. Catching Quinnion off his guat Ju- dith escapes from the cave, She is forced to descend the mountain, Quin - Ilion pursuing and calling to Mad Ruth to intercept her at the bottom of the CHAPTER XV Alone in the Wilderness And Quinnion was coming on. She was trepped. caught bet ween the two of them. She heard Quinnion laugh again; he, tee. 111411 hoer(' Ruth. \Oh God help tne!\ . widapered Ju- dith. \God help me now!\ There was no time to healtate. If she stood here. Quinnion wens, in s moment %%rap his arms about her; If • eh, drepped . ebsw . ‘i_ehe ..... wpuld /se tn the frenzied clutch of Mad - A second she (Toothed, ,..,wering „ down into the gloom below her. seAc- Ing to make out the form of the Infid woman. Then she did not . merely drop, hut jumped, landing fair upon the waiting firma. striking wit/Oher wnter's price. Louder and louder grew its shouting voice in her ears, little by little drowning out\the sounds of Ruth anti Qtlinnten bktind her. Now, In all the glorious night, there was no sound to reach her but the sound of running water and her own benting feet. She was free. But still she ran, summoning all Of the reserve of strength and will -power which was hers to command. The sky was brightening to the climbing moon. She must round many a sweeping curve of the river. pass under many a sheltering, shadowing tree before she dared slow her steps. When she felt nett she was over- taxing herself, she dropped from the wild pace she had set herself Into a little joegiog trot. When bee whole body cried out at the effort deninnded of it, she slowed down to a brisk walk. She rens allot through with pain, her threat Heile$1, She Wits grow- ing dizzy. But on elle went glib- . bornly„ ..1t.wen A.:CO . ( haw hit* the last sound of pursuit had died Out after her that she none herself down at the water's edge to drink anti bathe' her 111'111H and faee In the' cold stream. Anti, even then, she chose a spot where the shadow of a great 1 • I I. 1 two fefT together. Ruth clutched as Ore trent down end a hand closed over the girl's ankle. Judith rolled, struck again with the free boot, twisted sharply and felt the grip torn loose from her ankle. She wait free. She jumped up and ran and knew that Ruth was running Just behind her, screaming terribly. Judith fell, and her heart grew sick within her. But again she was up just as Ruth's hand clutched at her skirt, clutched and was torn away as Judith ran on. Quinnion curs, I from above as she had not yet heard him curse. Ruth reviled both her and Quinnion for hav- ing Jet her go. Judith was running swiftly and felt that she could get the better of the heavier, elder wimien in a race of this sort. she smuttily(' find fell, and fear again slapped her; it seemed so before she t•enhi rise and clamber over a fu ''ii snd raee on. But 'the darkness which tricked her pro- tected her at the same time, playing no favorites now. Ruth, too, bud fallen; Ruth, too, %vas frenzied at the brief delay. Stumbling, falling, rising, stagger- ing back from a tree into which she had run full tilt, bruised and torn, the girl ran on. At every free step hope shot upward In her heart; at evecy fall she grew sick with dread. The canon broadened rapidly, the ground underfoot grew less broken and -littered with boulders anti logs. 'Through tangles of brush she went blindly, throwing herself forward, falling, rising, failing, rising again. It was a nightmare of a race, with Ruth PAOIC NIN1 widened and made her way slowly up- ward along a timbered ridge to the west. Of Quinnion and Mad Ruth she now had no tear. Their chance of The League of Nations, al- words, there should be a vol- coming upon her was less than neg- ligible. She could creep into a clump ways a. miller of greater or less untary arbitration., which Has of thick -standing yoeng trees and, interest to Americans, has again been match more -successful. even if they should come, could watch hecOme 'a news factor of impOr- 9 . The Protocol reeeptly adop- ted affirms an arbitrary power IS LEAGUE A MENACE? crest, she s.tood looking f•tit over th1 world. Mile effer iii lie of mountain and canyon and cliff fell away or every side. She sought eagerly foi a landmark: to see yonder in the dis- tance Old Reidy or Copper mountain or Three Fools' peak, any one of the mountains or' ridges known to ner. And in the end she could only shake her head. and -sigh wearily and slip down where she was to tau saleep. thanking God that 'she was free, ask- ing God to . _lead _lier_aright In the morning. The stars watched over her, B pale. - wornout - girl steeping atone in the heart of the wilderness; the night breezes sang through the century -old tree -tops; and Judith, having striven to the uttermost, slept in heavy drea I essn ess. aVith the cool dawn she awoke shivering anti hungry. Iler hair had tumbled about her face, and sitting up she braided it with numb, sore fingers. She looked at her hands; they were stained with blood' from many cuts Her skirt was torn and soited; her stockings were in .strips; her knees were bruised, But as she rose to her feet and once more searched the riddle of R crag -broken world, her heart was' light with thankfulness. Last night the one friend she had with _h_er---was--the-North- .Today Jumped, Striking With Her Boots, on Mad Ruth's Ample Should,.rs. e -- tvrmttt - seetr - to push on ewer(' tile west. In thot direction she believed the Blue Lake ranch lay. though , best It was . a guess. But going west- ward she could follow the course of the bigger streams, and soon or late, if her streoath held she weuldssome to some open valley where men ran stock. Now, she would go down into the little meadow lying a mile away yonder and seek to find something to Pat. If she could but dig a few wild onions!. Nvild potatoes, they would keep her alive. West she would go, If for no other reason than because thus she' would be setting he hack squarely upon the cavern where Quinnion and Ruth were. The sun rolled Into a clear sky and warmed her. She made her way down the lung think of the mountain and into the tiny meadow. For up- ward of two !Hairs she remained there, always just there, almost at her heels, nibbling tit 'ands which she dug up She turned as far away from the with a broken stick, seeking edible stream as she could, keeping under growths which she knew, finding lit - the cifffa - *Vete maw VR4 - leas finish -ne. but enough - to - keep - the lifein her, the heart warm In her . breast. Then she went on. over a rWge again, Sown into Canyon and along the strenm which rose here and: flowed_westwnrd. 437 noon she wan faint and sick and had to , stop often to rest, her legs shaking under her. Again she made m a scant meal. She had stumbled on H tiny field of wild pOtatoes and ate , what she could of them, thinking long - where the way was more open, where the shadows were' thickest., She was outdistancing Med Ruth. m Ruth's weird voice came from a great- er distance; the woman was ten, May- be twenty, feet behind her. The moon at just rose pale gold above the eastern ridge. And now Judith could thank God, for it. For the canyon Intl widened., more and he more, t banks of the river were fire. The match studded with big trees, there were which Ruth had dropped she still bad, wide open spaces between them through which she shot like a fright- ened deer, turning thia way and that, darting about a clump of little firs, plunging into the shadous under great sky -seeking ceiliirs, running as she bnd never ruin hi-fort'tritt as she knew Mad Ruth could not run. Free! She was free.. -The triumph of it danced In her blood. On she ran and now Quinnion's voice and Ruth's were confnaed with the roar of the river. On she ran and on and on, and but faintly there came to lu.r the sound of brenking lunisli somewhere behind her. Never had her blood Rung within her as it sang now; never had the dim, moonlit solitudes of the mountains opened their sheltering , arms to one more grateful to slip Into them, like a woutnied child into the, sTbiliffirtiffilffrfo, Now twin she turned So that her rising slowIy to the 'peak to whh ic flying steps brought her close to the ..she had climbed, seeping Into her sour Neaiihiid the passing or the day seemed to her so majestic a thing. truly filled with awe. Never un• tit now had the solitudes seemed so, vast, so utterly, stupendously Never until now, as she lay staring up Into the limitless sky, having given up the world about her as unknown. had she drunk to the lees of the cup of loneliness. So great was the weariness of her tired body that as she lay still, watch- ing the stars come out one by eno, she was half -resigned to Ile so told let death come to find her. It seemed to her that here in the rude arms of Mother Earth a human life was a matter of no venter consequence than the down upon a moth's wing. But eh* rested a little and this maid, foreign to her Intrepid heart, pamaed. and she sat up. again resolute. again ready to Make her fight as long as life beat through her blood. At iron she took the one match from her pocket. She ugreely dared hreathe when. -irtttt sfk-grarsis -mid-twigs -Pied ast4 . +lust a roek, her cifegH shielding them from the wind, she rubbed the match softly against her boot. A sputteritig flAtne, making the blue light of burning ant- phur, died down, creating pant' In her breast, thee flared, crackled, licked hut she carefully reserved it new. thinking how te.rhaps a trout, caught In a pool, might- save her life. In her already half-starved condi- tion awl with the dentnntls constantly put on her strength, she would grOw --weaker and --wealcer if 1144-41141uot soon come. But she was still tilled 'with the glory of freedetit. It was a heart -weary. trembling .1 . dith who late that afternoon Made i `way upward along another rid • seeking anxiously to find from th , - lookout some landmark which she ii,I sought in vain last night.. In her •bionse w d were the few roots she ha brought with her from the field (1 -q - covered at noon. Lying in a little patch of dry grans, resting. Rho watched the day go down anti rho night drift Into the mountain,. tilling theta go past. But as they had lance through the agreements dropped ont of her world, another • reecently concluded among mem- of intervention that constitutes to regard it as a crime and to matter had entered it. The mountains hers with respect to ibs so-called a potential threat to the United treat the agressor nation as a had befriended her: they had opened their arms to liar nod that was all „ peace plan, which has been States. , h This counbry might be criminal. The Protocol regulb- that she ad naked if them. They had violently praised and as vio- willing to submit disputes to a ing from the deliberations was mothered her, drawing her into hiding lently condemned in this coun- general world court of arbitra- unanimously accepted by the 'against their lesson'. Put it was a try. • Lion, but not to the more limited Assembly, in which all nations ,barren, barren breast. And already , Lengil,, advocates ordinarily League court. In trying to have a vioce, and this unani- law an, hungry, daring to eat but fOOk iii ii that organizatiod as subject all .nations to its opera_ mous adoption indicates clearly 1 elm ri nely of her handful of !wend and • Worlds shier hope for ending lions, the League is promoting that the many countries in the 1 niea' r t :i ' n F t this ridge, finding nit open.. war. till the other hand there war as well as peace. !League, large and, small, be- have been numerous critics, 3. There I S d i s crimination live -thab the plan- is likely to conspicuous among bhem the against nonmembers of the prove beneficial. Hearst -.papers, who have pro . - League WiliPli can only serve -. The purpose that dominated fessed ta see in the Leagoe a to' ' create. natural resentMent. the discussion was, according to is t menace to American Tile seeds of - antagonism and the general report presented to s d oie -til e i i i ltitglity, and, in -the protocol intrigue are present in the struc- the Assembly, to \facilitate the of arbitration and security, as Lure of the League tis\it exists. re'doction and limitation of arm - it is styled, a .peril to American 4. The State Department of anientao • • • by guaranteeing the safely. this country evidently feels that su'eu ii'itY of slates through the As everyone knows, the idea the Protocol constitutes a veiled development of' methods for tbe of a League : Of Nations has been threat: for Secretary ,. n ug h ei t s pacific settlement of alt inter- discuss_ed _bor -- many statesmen understood to .have _referred . n to ahional disputes and effective and. others, probably since the it in his Cincinnat: speech condemnation Of . agtesSive ages of antiquity but the_ League_when __he___declared that the p e ().,_4 war. as it now exists was, primarily pie of the United States \would --:1-: *I'lle signatory states agree sponsorial by Woodrow Wilson, never tolerate the submissioniin no ease to resort to war• • • • and only for the violent oppo- to any power or group of powers except in case of resistance to sition of the ,so-talled \bitter— of the determination of any of acts of egression or when act - enders . ' in the United States our.. _domestic questions. If we,ing in agreement with the Colin - Senate. it would probably have are to co-operate, we must be!eil or Assembly al the - League been accepted by this country. permitted to co-operate without of Nations.\ This is the gift Our own experiences With Eu- the sacrifice of our right, to de- of Article If of the recently r o p e a ti diplomacy, however, bermine- our own policies.\ i adopted _Protocol. t I. The essential aim of the tended to convince the country 5. Our experience with—Euro- that the opposition of the \bitter •o Pean diplomacy has not beenl'eafille, as is brought out in enders.\ was in 'the national in- such as to inspire much e 6 nft _oartiele IV, is to brino - about a terest, and the League has more denee - in - an organization con -1 friendly agreement in the ,event trolled almost entirely by Euro- that disputes occur. If a dis- or less lost caste since that time lr , soa as we are concerned. neaiis. There is no 'question' pute does not come within the 'Flare were many Americans whatsoever about the . preemini- compulsory jurisdiction of the whu felt from bite first nent econ i • i 1. \ • Permanent Court of I ril ter - DR lona aor a a as as inef'eTY X go5111)Ing , . ii - T - 11 - of the victors in the World War i today, and Europe is' eager 10 -parties concerned have not been their get as much as possible in re- t able -to agree upon some other Checks provided in the League's of the League is instructe u d i ci to l turn. In spite of the ,numerous l'in-11 al i ' - i II, , spoils. They drew parallels be - t tween the League and the Holy Alliance, created after the Na- t constitutift, we should probably ,' seek - a recilnciliation. poreonic . wars, and pro essed tol tilt UM getve - s. before long carry-; I 5. T•le e real menace to the see in both much the same hy- ing more than our share of the} American people, is not the 1 !burden and receiving few bene-iLeague so nitwit as self-seeking pocrilical high pretvosion and ' fit.s therefrOm. t and predatory militarists and mercenary intent. international financiers in our 6. So long as the governments Unquestionably a real League l of France and Great Britain are l°' country, who are the most of NtItions that would. function pacific the League inight be ti , bitter and active opponents, not only useful instrument; but there is , I of the League, but of any the likelihood that i.t any!nther enterprise that. might lead moment militarists may get con -1 !to yoett ee and international se- trol of either or of both govern-,curity. b. The Protocol proposes a edly be an effect on League'general conference on reduction policies as a result. land limitation of armaments. to 7. Japan's effort to induce the be held on June 15, 1925, to League- to interfere in our do- (Continued on Page Ten) -tic policies is an indiCabiOil ill the possibilities for intrigue that M: in the super -state plan. NO 1. The %%hole purpose of the recent League discussion was the outlaory of agressive war n by a international agreement efficiently in preventing wars would be welcomed by the peo- ple of the entire world, with the possible exception of mill- tarta is ansi munition makers, -11141111- 1 - and there -would undoubt-1 but the great question in con- nection with the present League is .whether or not it is the type of League that ran reasonably be expected to accomplish that purpose. I\ ES 1. It constitutes at limination of national sovereignty 'to those nations that enter it and pre- vents freedom of action. seeks to - persuade member states to accept the principle of com- pulsory arbitration of all dis- putes. Compulsory - arbitration hoe - s mot - wrack out in other hu- man - relationships—it has been notoriously ineffective in dis- p it t e s between capital and labor—and should be replaced by generous provision for the e st.t a blishment o f arbitration tribunals...that could be set up by the -parties in dispute—in other her that her - fire was safe - , Site rots - swiftly and went In search of the tree she meant to horn. She found a giant pine, pitch-oozink - standing in a rocky open.space where there -was little danger of • the fire spreading. Fagged out and eager as she was, she had not come to the point of forget- ting what a great forest fire Meant. .She went back to her burning log, for s biasing dry branch which she carried swiftly to the tree. Then she tett jfrflM as hea47 as she could carry, bits of brush. The flames licked at the tree, ran up it. seemed tofall away, sprang at It again. hungering. Now and then a long tongue of tire went crackling high up along the side of the tree. Judith 'went' mod, to a spot Where, in ring of houldors. there wits nnother grassy plet, threw lieraelf dawn and lay staring lit the totienes of tire i whict mere climbing higher anti high- er. Some one would see ner beacon. A forest nutter, perhapa, whose duty it was to ride fast anti far to battle with the first spark threatening the wooded solitudes; perhaps some crew in a logging -camp, than whom none knew better the danger of spreading fires; perhaps some cowboy, even one hr her own men—perhaps Quinnion and Ruth? She then would hide Anions the 'reeks until they had come anti gone. Even now, agnittat the sleep falling upon her, she drew further hack through (lie tumbled tiotililer11. Perhaps, Mid I ee She went to sleep heeonti ihe circle - -- b Mgr' t - tett tmnitry' anti striving against a returning hopeless- ness, her young hotly curled up In the nest she uiil found, a (heck cuddled agaltiat her arm. Wondering vaguely it some one would see her lire and 1•1 •• P 11 • - •• '1 • here are the Old I riends? only to to see •••/:1,• new frter..!, but k•ep the oil; he'. IMP silver, t‘Ie‘e are gold —Van Dyke OW MANY old friends do you remember with whom you have lost touch? How many whose regard you oho' jailed — for, years them slip out of sight and out of mind, because of a lack of contact? There is a way to after they have passed out of the circle of your home community. By the Long Dis- tance telephone. Yoe can gather up the loosened threads Of these old comrade- ships and bind them' to you again. A friend- ly call to some of these old chums will give them .pleasure and bring joy to your own heart. Remember, your voice is you. k I ' keep old friends even It is our obligation to make every effort to furnish servii - e to all w . ho apply. hi doing We_ constantly add to tlic val..,- of • our service to old subscribe: c tending their range of comma/I/ration. •C h ts gh t l er er l ii s or. ani:Ji ithe post lo that each new telephone installed now increases the ates erase cost of fee whole telcpbone sys- tem. I -Station -to -Station Calls1 are Quicker and Cost Lessi AIN Peleer One Systole Ilisiversal Serra,* 0 . • ...IN- •.•' IA* %e.g.* *KA, Bell S -P ie .\ 1 - ., • aold aff tow D arif free•oir Donor Serves* • H
