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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
THOSE "LAsr WORDS"

There used to be a silly fad of at
tributing to every notable man on
his deathbed some phrase which
was supposed to epitomize his career.
The stone cutters chisel on the en-
tablature of the public building is a
bit by way of being similar senti-
mentality-the attempt to provide
an age with "last words" So con-
ceived, how would this age Of ours
come off?
A bevy of reporters were holding
what Is technically known as
"death watch" on famous man who
was thought to be dying.
"What are his last words going to
be-" asked one.
"He isn't going to have any," re-
piled confrere tartly. "Your city
editor and mine can't get together
on them"
But this story has a happy end
ing. The man got well.-"Uncle Dud-
ley," in the Boston Sunday Globe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

as he's in, duck out Of the saddle and
get down"
Lee Bishop half drew up his horse
as if he would stop. "What's got into
you, Kentucky?"
"Come on, you foolw
"See something's"
"Tm not dead sure I did. But, Lee.
I'm not going to bet your life l didn't
see."
Lee Bishop brought his horse along
reluctantly. 'Then what the devil was
it?' he demanded irritably.
"Don't look back" said Kentucky.
"I'm not right sure, Lee, but what saw
tied horse up there; and if it is
a horse, he's got his head snaked low
to the ground, such as will stop the
average horse from whinnying when
another one comes along"
Lee Bishop swung In his saddle to
stare back at the canyon wall three
hundred yards away. Kentucky snarled
at him, Don't turn, you"
Suddenly Bishop gave queer gag
ging cry and snatched at his saddle
scabbard. A rifle had spoken from
the upper rocks.
The gun above spoke second time,
and a third; Bishops horse started
abruptly. The rider, his gun clutched
across his breast with both hands,
toppled sidewise and pitched headlong
into the snow.
Kentucky Jones dropped out Of the
saddle, lifted Lee Bishop, and got the
foreman over his shoulders. Running
diagonally to keep the pony between
himself and the ambushed rifle, he
tried for the lip of the coulee.
A fourth time the rifle In the rocks
spoke, and this time Kentueky's horse
plunged, jerking free the reins, and
went to it's knees. Bishops rifle fell to
the snow and Kentucky turned back
two PAGES to snatch it up. The edge
of the coulee was ten PAGES beyond.
AS he ran, chest to the ground, the rife
chopped at them once more from the
lodges of the notch, and Kentucky
felt Lee Bishops body jerk. Then he
lowered Bishop over the edge by the
arms, and leaped in after him.
Lee! Lee, where are you hit?"
Lee Bishops eyes were squinted shut,
and he groaned through set teeth as
Kentucky tried to straighten him out
upon the bottom of the arroyo. "They
got me, Kentucky" he managed to get
out at last.
1.-THE hi they have! You going to
please that bunch by making a der
But when he had examined Lee
Bishop he did not know. The first shot
Lee Bishop had received had been an
angling one. in the back; he could not
tell whether the bullet had lodged at
the bottom of the lung or some place
else.
Catching up Bishops rifle, Kentucky
threw a shot into the general vicinity
of the ambush, and instantly drew fire
in return. Apparently their attackers
were not attempting to close.
Kentucky Immediately set about the
improvisation of bandages. Twice a
minute he interrupted his work to
sight across the valley floor for sign Of
approach.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
CHAPTER x

sit must have been nearly midnight
when the wounded mans mind cleared.
Kentucky" he said.
"Right here, Lee"
II don't know but what I've got my
comeuppance, Kentuck. I got some
thing I got to tell you"
"You better wait until"
"Shut up! I ought to have told some
body this before; I don't know as it'll
do you much good, telling you now.
But you ought to know it."
Bishops voice was very faint, but
he seemed to speak with little effort,
as long as he did not try to raise his
tone.
"Lee," said Kentucky. II don't
want to encourage you to talk, but If
you can tell me why Bill McCord wants
to kill you, it sure might help in what's
going to come after this"
Kentucky, I amt got any more
| idea than you," Lee said. II don't
know as care whole darn. What
I'm worrying about is the way you're
getting dragged into this killing Of
Mason. What time did you leave the
Bar Hook the day Mason was killed."
Il can prove 1 was in Waterman by
half past .one."
"Then," said Bishop, "you couldn't
possibly have killed John Mason"
II never claimed did, Lee"
"There's others will claim you did,"
Bishop mumbled. "You couldn't have
killed Mason" he repeated, because
Mason was still alive when you got
back to Waterman. / know he was
alive because / saw him alive. He
was sitting his horse just below knob,
about a quarter mile from the Bar
Hook ranch house. I saw him plain"
'But when you found him." Ken
lucky pointed out, "there was no snow
under him; proving he was killed be-
fore the snow began to fall"
II can't account for that. Maybe
the snow under him melted, or some
thing"
This seemed unlikely to Kentucky,
but he did not interrupt.
II was a couple furlongs away"
Bishop admitted, continuing. "But
don't you tell me made mistake.
mind how John Mason used to sit, kind
of half crooked in the saddle; and
mind the round Of his shoulders as he
sat his horse. and the tilt of his hat.
I'd know him any distance, out Of a
thousand men,"
| There was something peculiarly ia.
miliar about Lee Bishops claim or
recognition. Suddenly Kentucky knew
why. He had heard Joe st. Marie use
almost the same words in explaining
to Jean Ragland, the night they found
lack Sanders, that he had seen a
ghost.
1T isn't hardly likely" Kentucky
offered speculatively, shat you'd mis-
take that pinto horse Mason rode that
day."
"They was wrong about that" Bishop
said promptly. Mason wasn't riding no
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
WINTER RANGE

Still keeping constant lookout, he
prepared for the night. Bishop ap-
peared to be too seriously hurt to be
moved without aid.
Already the light was uncertain; the
molten gold Of the last sun still
touched the upper peaks Of the MARI
copas, but the wide reaches Of Trap
canyon were pooled in blue dark.
Dragging Bishops rifle with him, Ken
lucky Jones went out to his dead
horse and got his saddle blanket, and
the saddle itself to prop Lees head.
He shucked off his sheepskin coat and
used it with the blanket to make
Bishop a bed In snow-drifted angle.
Working along the lip Of the coulee
he collected greasewood and broken
drift, and with this built tiny fire to
warm the wounded mans feet, and
another fire at Bishops side.
Lee Bishop opened his eyes long
enough to say family, "That'll only be
a mark for gunfire, Kentuck."
"T'll take care Of that, Lee. It's
near dark enough to fire at the flash OF
the guns"
When these things were done there
Vas nothing more to do but wait, keep
watch, and maintain their store of
fuel. He built a third fire-a signal
fire on the edge Of the coulee, a hun
bred yards from their forlorn bivouac.
When Campo Ragland and Harry Will
son returned to the Bar Hook it was
reasonable to suppose that they would
make some effort to find Bishop, who
had gone out looking for trouble with
every probability Of finding it. If they
came to look, the signal fire would be
visible a long way off. If they did
not come to look, Kentucky Jones had
long wait ahead, wait perhaps
equal to the remainder of Lee Bishops
life.
Slowly the hours passed, cold with
piercing cold, and marked only
by the imperceptible turn Of the stars.
After an hour or two Lee Bishop be-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Weeds Are an Obstacle
to Better Grade of Hay

Weeds are one of the greatest OBJ
stacles in producing high grade hay
for the market, says w. H. Hosterman,
hay specialist in the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. He reports
that farmers who are planning to
profit from a national hay shortage
a shortage that certainly cannot be
overcome in less than two or three
years-will make every effort to have
their hay free from weeds.
To grade as U. S. No. l not more
than 10 per cent of foreign ma
terial-which is usually made up OF
weeds-may be present in hay. For
Nos. 2 and the tolerance is Is and
20 per cent. respectively, except for al
falfa where the allowance is 5, 10, and
Is per cent. Alfalfa, says Mr.. Hoster-
man, usually Is "very clean," which ac-
counts for the difference in grade re-
quirements.
Weeds are particularly bothersome
in the annual hays such as soy beans,
Sudan grass, and lespedeza.
The most bothersome weed reported
in soy bean hay is the prickly spurge
nettle (bull nettle). With the slightest
dampness-even the breath of animals
eating it-an offensive odor arises.
Seed of the nettle also Is Objectionable
when soy beans are harvested as a
seed crop.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
By ALAN LIE MAY
Copyright by Alan LeMay
WNU Service.

up to the upper end, where that little
drift Of timber is"
Kentucky, I've been to the upper
end, and they're not up there, nor
any place between. And if they'd gone
up them side trails I'd have seen them.
You can see rider two miles as he
goes up them long slants."
Seems kind of peculiar" said Ken
lucky.
You're d-n tootin' it's peculiar, "
said Lee Bishop. "rm plumb con.
fused. And likewise I'm disguised,
and likewise I'm sore. Let's get home"
He kicked his horse ahead.
"Wait a minute!" said Kentucky. He
held his voice low. "In G-ds name,
Lee-stop your horse"
whats the matter?
do what I say" said Kentucky
without raising his voice, "and don't
ask why. Turn your horse and come
back to me-" Kentucky Jones turned
his own horse so that it was headed
back the way Lee Bishop had come.
'Now bring your horse alongside Of
mine, easy" he said. "Walk your
horse slow alongside Of me-"
where the devil we going?" Lee
Bishop demanded.
you see that coulee up ahead Of US
there, about fifty yards? Lee, how
deep is that coulee?"
The drainage feature which Ken.
lucky indicated was a shallow twisting
cut that wound its way across the floor
Of the mile-wide canyon, a creek dur
ing the rains, dry wash in time Of
drouth.
Maybe five or six foot Deep" said
Bishop. "Why?"
walk with me slow and easy until
we get to the edge of that coulee,"
Kentucky said. "Then slap hooks to
your horse and jump him into it. Soon
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Quick, Pleasant
Successful Elimination

Let's be frank-there's only one
way for your body to rid itself of
the waste material that causes acid
ity, gas, headaches, bloated feelings
and a dozen other discomforts.
Your intestines must function and
the way to make them move quick
ly, pleasantly, successfully, without
gripping or harsh irritants is to chew
a Milnesia Wafer thoroughly, in ac-
cordance with directions on the bot
tie or tin, then swallow.
Milnesia Waters, pure milk of
magnesia in tablet form, each equiv
alent to a tablespoon of liquid milk
of magnesia, correct acidity, bad
breath, flatulence, at their source,
and enable you to have the quick,
pleasant, successful elimination SO
necessary to abundant health.
Milnesia Waters come in bottles
at Soc and Coo or in convenient tins
at zoe. Recommended by thousands
Of physicians. All good druggists
carry them. Start using these pleas
ant tasting effective waters today.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

together, 'what's all this? You gone
crazy, MANI"
II dunno, Kentucky" said Lee Bishop
YEARLY. Sometimes / think l am.
I'm plumb mystified, that's sure"
"You d-n fool, you think you can"
A queer look In the others face
stopped him. whats the matter, Lee?
What happened?"
"Well, nothing much; only it's dog
gone fanny!"
"What's funny?"
Lee Bishop pulled up his horse and
turned in the saddle to look back.
''You see this canyon, Kentucky? It's
called Trap canyon, because you can't
get out the upper end. Over there
and there-and there" he pointed
you can get out all right. But the
upper end you can't ger out. saw
two riders come in here. I'm pretty
sure one of 'em was Bill McCOrd,
though / couldn't swear. l followed
'em in. And, by Cd, Kentucky
they disappeared into thin air!"
Maybe" offered Kentucky, "they
dropped into one Of these little cou-
lees. That way they could have worked
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Insect Cannibals
Lower Crop Loss
Earworm Has Habit of Eat
ing It's Fellows; Hats
Greater Damage.

Supplied by the United States Department
of Agriculture.-WNU Service.
The corn earworm's unfriendly habit
of eating its fellows saves a great deal
of corn that would be destroyed by
these insect pests If they lived more
amicably together. Out of several ear
worm larvae-sometimes as many as
20-entering the same ear of corn,
only one may live to become an adult
moth, according to recent studies by
entomologists Of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The sole sur
vivor of the 20 does not make away
with all the others. Perhaps it kills
only one or two. Its victims, however,
may have accounted for one or two
more, and so on. Corn earworm can
nibalism is progressive.
Corn with long, tight-ftting husks Is
more conducive to cannibalism among
earworms than corn with short, loose
fitting husks. The hungry larvae that
hatch from eggs laid on corn silk out
inside to the new silk and the kernels
When their only passageway Is re-
stricted-as it is when the husk covers
the whole ear and extends we'll beyond
the tip-one frequently runs upon an
other. No larva feeding by itself goes
out of its way to pick fight But
when 1t meets a fellow feeder it i'm
mediately lunges for a soft vulnerable
spot of that fellow-feeder, sinks in its
powerful little jaws, and voraciously
devours its victim, down to the hard
head capsule. In close quarters, where
there is no room for a counter attack,
the larva that strikes first is almost
certain to win.
In open spaces, the entomologists
say, all these tiny larvae lack to COM
plete the picture of furious combat is
the ability to growl, snarl, or hiss.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Pine-Fed Pigs

In the Middle ages millions of pork
ers picked up precarious living in
the great forests. grubbing for acorns
and roots. Today they are RECALLED on
qu1ck-fattening oil cake, which makes
better bacon. But such fare is dear,
and Germans have been enjoined to
observe economy in pig-feedlng. Now,
says the Tit-Bit Magazine, German
chemist has come to their aid with an
extract from pinewood, of which COM
modify Germany has millions of acres.
1t is claimed that this extract Is
capable of fattening pigs rapidly and
satisfactorily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Avoided Word "cireus''

The first American clrcuses were
wiser than our early theaters in over
coming the old religious prejudice
against them as form Of entertain
ment. They avoided the words "cir-
Gus" and ''show" by using such name
as "Great Moral and Educational Ex-
hibltion." Realizing, TOO, that a pious
atmosphere would help to silence their
enemies, they forced their troupes to
attend church, made their bankers
quote the Scriptures and painted their
wagons with Biblical pictureS-Col-
uer'g Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Along the Windows

Ten tons of soil an acre pass through
earthworms each year.
Honey is used to manufacture one
brand of golf ball now on the market.
Nearly 21,2700OO acres Of land in
England is devoted to grazing this
year.
There are still 10000 horses in New
York city, requiring 600 stables to
house them.
Seven farms have automobiles for
every one that has electricity, in the
Mississippi valley.
Official statistics shows corn is
North Cardinals biggest crop, the nor
NAL yearly yield being about 100000
bushels.
Two-thirds of the meat animals
that are slaughtered in this country
are slaughtered unuer government IN
spection.
Corn imported into the United States
in 1894 amounted to 2,959,256 bushels.
More than 23,OOO,OOO acres in Rus
sia have been sown to grain this year.
=
Prospects for an apple crop in north
east Kansas are above the tive-year
average, a survey by the state hOrti-
cultural society indicated
g
When apple trees receive proper fer
tilizer and cultural care they will pro-
duce every year under favorable wealth
er conditions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
THE STORY FROM THE OPENING CHAPTER

Of
astounded Raglands
Elots Bishop
father He and her MIN z
slsh him
with of
but
light
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

gan to humble from the depths Of 8
delirious stupor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
CHAPTER IX-Continued

But though he crossed many a horse
track, he accepted none Of them as the
trail of the horse he sought. All after
noon he worked through the long lone
Illnesses, covering many weary mile.
Twenty riders besides himself might
be working the West Cuts for all Ken
lucky knew; the West Cuts could have
hidden a thousand more. Their illimit-
able emptinesses made a man on
horse seem to crawl like an ant, de-
scending deep hour-long declivities,
only to climb again eternally.
He was a long way from home by
the time that he decided he must have
overshot. Once he had seen two rid
ers, whom he recognized as 50 men,
working SS stock; but Bill McCord
was neither one of them. Lee Bishop
continued to elude him, lost In the
maze.
The sun was setting; above Wolf
Bench the wrinkled peaks of the Mari
copas seemed to float detached from
the earth, vast delicate traceries of
pale blue shadow, set off with crooked
red-gold tracings where the westering
sun poured golden light upon the
snow. Across Wolf Bench, already in
the shadow, dark bitter-cold breeze
began to blow, smelling Of frost and
blown snow. Kentucky Jones sat his
horse upon high point, and wondered
II Lee Bishop were dead.
The frozen wind, forecasting the
night, always brought to his mind the
things to which range rider has a
right to look forward at that hour:
the CLEAN Of little golden light at
a cook-house window, far across the
snowy reaches, winking and almost
lost in the twilight purple; and the
things that the light, seen far off,
meant to the rider coming in on his
tired horse-the warmth of stove heat,
friendly yellow lamp light, the crowd
ing in Of red-faced hungry riders, very
merry over being done with work; the
smell of frying meat and hot fresh
bread, and the steam of coffee; and
afterward an hour. or two of drowsy
1oafing in the warmth, wise-cracking
the days work, spinning lies-maybe
q game Of seven-up, and somebody
making music for a little while with
banjo, mouth organ, or jews harp.
And at the Bar Hook the cold long
twilight, which always made the sim
pie realities of food and snug warmth
seem so good, and so we'll worth liv-
ing-at the Bar Hook these things
should also have meant seeing Jean
Ragland again, this girl who, even in
adversely, was like no other girl. AS
Kentucky Jones sat his horse, letting
it blow little from long climb be-
fore putting it upon the long round
about trail home, he was thinking that
this range could have been great
range for cattle, and a great range for
men, and that maybe having ridden
It he never would have wanted to ride
another, had things broken as they
should. 1t was a hidden malignance,
working under-handedly in the dark,
that spoiled this range.
He put the zebra dun into a can
yon and out again, and to the rim of
another; and there, long after he had
let all hope slide, he sighted Bishop
at last. He put his pony down into the
canyon, then upward through the can
yon's notch; and a furlong into the
widening valley hailed Lee Bishop
across the snow.
"Lee," he demanded as they came
Mr. D
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Ten tons of soil an acre pass through
earthworms each year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Prospects for an apple crop in north
east Kansas are above the five-yea
average, a survey by the state hort
cultural society indicated.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF LIBERTY

The State Council will hold an ex.
cusion at Marshall Hall next Saturday
Hope Council will have q benefit
moonlight exclusion on the steamer
Potomac August % and a weekend
party at the cottage of Mrs. v. Bess-
man, North Beach Park, Md, August
"a and IS.
Justice Council installed the follow
ing officers. Councillor, Mrs. Effie
Schickler; associate councillor, Mrs
Emma Schippel; vice councillor. Mrs
Catherine Turner; guide, Mrs. vir-
ginia Sundblsd; outside guard, Mr.
Arthur l.. Lenz, and l8 months trus-
tee, Mrs. Minnie Stewart. The offi-
GERS were installed by the deputy State
councillor, Mrs. Mary Payne, assisted
by the national committeewoman, Mrs
Emma Barnes, and the State guide,
Mrs. Mae Etchison. On August Is q
card party will be held for the benefit
of the council.
Columbia Council has changed
its meeting to the first and third
Tuesdays at Naval Lodge Hall. The
first meeting will be August 6. Bingo
will follow the meeting.
Potomac Council will meet Wednes-
day at 9S5 G place. A social night Is
planned.
At the last meeting of Washington
Council Councillor Ira Gibson was in
stalled. Bingo was held after the
meeting.
True Blue Council viii meet Thurs-
day at z Fourth street northeast,
Evening star., 1935-08-04
WOMEN OF THE MOOSE

Columbia Chapter was called to
order by the senior regent, Mrs. Fran
ces Mitchell, Friday evening at Moose
Hall, l414 street. Committees max
ing reports were: Mrs. Marie Clark,
chairman of membership: Miss Louise
Nichols, chairman Of library; Mrs. M.
Deegan, chairman Of Moosehaven, and
Mrs. Susie Sorenson for the Ritualistic
Committee.
Mrs. Mary Hooper, deputy grand
regent, Of Baltimore, gave final in
structions for the conclave in Hanover.
Pa.
Miss Ida Anderson, grand publicity
chairman, held a meeting Of all COM
mittee chairmen In her ONCE in the
Vermont Building last Tuesday eve
ming.
Chairman Of the Library Commit
tee, Miss Louise Nichols, will have q
luncheon st her home, SITS Kansas
avenue, August a.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

A drill platoon made up of two COM
panies, of 20 boys each, who are sons
of members of Washington Post, No.
1854, District of Columbia Depart
ment, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has
recently been organized.
Walter P. Boehm, commander OF
the post, stated the purpose Of the
drill teams is to foster character build
ing and teach personal hygiene and
discipline, together with q thorough
course in drilling under arms. Capt
Roy w. Keesee. q former overseas
captain of Infantry, Is leader Of the
platoon.
The boys drill every Wednesday
night In the stadium Of Roosevelt
High School. They range in ages
from q to 16. They left yesterday
for two weeks encampment at Camp
Hollingsworth on the Potomac River,
near Gunston Manor. Va. The camp
is named in honor Of Past Department
Comdr. Oscar @. Hollingsworth. They
will remain at camp until August IT,
However, they will be brought here
next Thursday to participate that
night in the parade, opening the
American Legion Convention.
The post recently agreed to allow
sons Of veterans Of other posts Of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars to join the
platoon. The officers are Capt. Roy
w. Keesee. commanding, and Edward
F. Clark, secretary.