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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES, NEPHI, UTAH K The Heart Of Wind Night A STORY OF THE -- 3 Hllts of Pslly't lumber rimp directs io iim camp, waller euniirv iruiiKr hlnix. tutrodui-t-lf Id John Dully. an "the I 'iIIIiikwut Ih Lumlmr Co.. fora-ma- ii, or mom of It." He inn km aiiuiiliilani-with Die CHiup and (lis work he haa eiinio from the fcluM to auprrlnlenil ami muko n wril.-- to hla rutlier Hint aiict'eai.riii. h to l handful of th weullli in tha uncut timber of tha rrijlun. a Inta-nil- K'-- CHAPTER Continued. V Illustrations loo. "And you've spent all these years In ell mate?" he smiled, "How In the world did you do it and keep your cheerfulness?" "Son." said Ma Pally kindly, "you ran knock the country to me, but don't you go dolo" It where tho mcn'll the midst or tlila wet-blank- hear you. t's are used to the rain, but we don't like to hear the ICuslerners talk about It. It's a chip web-fee- t on every Oregonian's shoulder. Vou don't want to queer yourself." There was a note of genuine Rood advice In the words and tone, and Sundry got a sudden Insight Into several little happenings that had puzrled him for Instance, tho emphasized wearing of blue shirts In a rain that had soaked bis overcoat, and a few remarks about the fact that Oregon rain didn't wet through. "Thank you. Mrs. Dally." he said earnestly with a sudden feeling of friendship between him and this shrewd, klnlly' old general of men. He turned presently to the girl busy In tho lamplight, her black bead shining, a sladow over her eyes. Tly the wy." he said. "If you care to you may de Hlack Holt whenever you wish." She nodded quietly, without a flicker of the pleased excitement he had expected in the light of her seeming passionate love of the animal, but a slow, dull flush spread upward In ber dark face and her lingers trembled a bit. be fancied, on the reeds. They trembled In alt surety the next morning, when, with a bridle of colored and woven horsehair over ber arm, she entered the lean to. Hlack Iiolt was a gentleman born. Though he was wild as the girl for the free air, the green slopes and the yielding sod under bis feet, he stood still while she came up lightly, as a cat springs, with a little sort alighting, and they were gone, dawn over the smooth slope pf the valley toward the lower roll way There were two Interested spectators to that splendid Right Ma Daily from tho cook shark porrh. who wiped her eyes a bit and said aloud: "Bless Hut Its natthe child! Wild-wil- d! ural.' and Waiter Sandry standing at the south window of the office. "Did you like II? Sandry asked her amusedly that evening as be passed through the eating room. with ber belying "Yes." said Sik-quietness. "I believe I've found a study." be said to himself as be went on, "a worthy study In human nature" And Silelx bad round a new besven and a new earth Something wild within her that bad ever Moved restlessly tiroke forth, a glorious flower of ecstasy. Dav by day thereafter she I wined Mark Holt and sped Into f)e:ds of Elysium, lost to earth. Intoxicate mad wltb the rush or wind and rain. Always when she came bark there was the dusky flush In her rare, the sleepy look of Intoxication In her eyes. Thus winter closed In on the lonely camp In the mountains, blue black and gray with mist and rain and vivid green with the t, grass or the roast country. CHAPTER VI. Troub'e With the Vtf!e tat Wa'ter the slough s rdee Sfit'-H- in Pines. li 1ce si rh p and ar t llepr. Two months fcal something had lifted from trm In the two month, a weight had light hail tfpti a huge ds md. vvh-rgust. almost tiilol'iahie In Its in for this rslti s'lsked isnd. tfx-rtetiity, I. ad fept n an Insidious admiration. tft"n now he looked down ih gren l.ttie valley sharply defined between Its binding tills and felt the subtle tharm of the Intimate shadows, the white Juk and the great trees nd-- r wh.iie drooping leathery bong n a th"re lay silence and a sense of ref uge. there fame to bira a c'tu or of voices, oaths and the throaty tones of strong mn in anger l"p from the lower rollway s group of loggers rime stalking in their spiked bos Behind them Murphy rocked excitedly alorg In the tiny locomotive Fandry shut bis ledger and stepped outdoors. "Wbats the matter. Collins?" he asked ot a huge man In the lead a of the great perfect type of the sun browned, hard mas Northwest, c4ed, wiry of f g'jre and wi.h the endurance and pisef f a b:i elephant '.Villft enough. Them damned Veils I'll, es s 6e piles In th !(.. an lore up two lengths of rU' vou and found a state of things suttlclent to raise the Ire of any riverman or ttmborjack. Where the track approached the It had boon torn up bodily, the ties and rails thrown Into the narrow slough, as evidenced by a few pro Jectlng ends, and the rollway Itself, a slanting floor of logs some two feet thick supported on a group or graduated plies, sagged In the center whore . two piles had been cut and pried The lower edge also drooped for the same reaBon. It had been the work of pure malice, that he saw at a glance. "Collins." he said as tho men came up In a sullen group, "get to work and see If you can raise those sawed supports and pry them back on their bases." The gang went slowly down the sharp hunk of tho tldowater slough "Johnny Eastern." said one softly, ! "all right, all right! Prize up a My Aunt Maria!" Sandry stood near, realizing hla limitations and raging helplessly, watch lng them lazily testing and pushing here and tliera. "Hadn't we better Just spike 'era on to the jldcs?" asked Collins, with a droll upward glance. Sandry wns about to reply when John Dally slipped down from the track beside him under tho lee of the dam aged rollway. "Collins." he aald sternly, "you get back to camp and bring tools peavles. hooks, a couple of chains and some picks, tiring a couple or axes, too What do you mean by such business?" "Orders." said Collins with a grin. "You see, Mr Sandry," said Dally apologetically, "there's no fixln' such timbers as them, not when they've got to carry such weight. They'll have to be taken out entirely an' new ones roll-wa- tS'-a- f'd r! s'KJrl :it 6he' 1 roll-way- set." "I didn't know." returned frankly; "won't they bold Sandry back the work?" "A day or so, tnebbe. We can take the rallers out an' put them on with Collins an' the res(U There's enough down to keep the buckers busy a day or two. anyway. We won't lose much" "Do you think this Is the work or the Yellow Tines people. Dally?" "Sure," said Dally with certainty, "they've done worse than this before now. Cut our best cable two years ago and twice they've run the dinkey off the track Into the slough. They re bad actors." "Hut what's the use? What do they gain?" "They want to run us out or the hills, ticcn at It for ten years. They're Just glvln' you a bint as the new owner." The repairing or the damaged roll- way was another revelation to the easterner. New timbers were brought down and the slanting floor was thickly underpinned. Then with pick and hi ijt:--: down lbs track J MX M nil in ? i i J The foreman looked at him Inqulr Ingly. low tide and dig It through, turning the water Into the Held yonder? That would leave the slough empty here tor the time between blgh tides Could you get the timbers out In a few hours?" Daily's experienced eye had already taken In every detail or the possibilities as Sundry talked. "That's a good scheme. Mr. Sandry," be said slowly. "I beliove it'll work." So It was that the first practical suggestion or the new owner was set into action. The whole crew or the camp was brought out or the bills and set to work and the damaged rollway was r paired as good as new, the break In tho west bunk filled, the slough running full again and nothing to show for the trouble but the Hooded Held or tules. I'nder Walter Sandry's cool demeanor there was a small glow of satisfaction, a sense of having in a way redeemed himself. At supper time Siletz, moving be tween the tables, laughed to herself. softly, and ber dark eyes under the little shadow of ber parted hair held a Bparkllng gleam as If she bad seen that conflict and enjoyed It, In "Slletz," said the owner,-coming- . suddenly from the east porch after the men had tramped heavily away to the bunkhouse. "whom do you know out side this camp?" She was alone in the big spotless kitchen, her sleeves rolled up from ber arms, slim and brown with a smooth color that was or the sun's giving. "Outside the camp?" she asked, turning to him for a moment, stopped in some task of the aftermath of the meal, "why nobody." "Don't you ever go down to Toledo?" Sundry was leaning in the doorway, his bright blue eyes upon her. "Sometimes." "Have you no friends there? No girl friends?" She shook ber head and be noticed the clean profile, the shape of the small pointed chin, the good rorehead conflicting wltb a vague suggestion of fleeting wild things In the velvety eyes "Is there no one with whom you associate outside the camp? Think." Suddenly there passed over her features a quick change. He could liken It to nothing but a wind on the surface of water. Just a breath or change. "Only the Preacher," alio said with a swift slurring of aoftnet In her voice. "The Preacher?" "You don't know him. He only comes He was here Just before sometimes you came" "Who is he?" asked Sandry curious- ly. "I don't know. Nobody knows. Hut I love him." "The Preacher," be said to himself a little later In the bare south room un der the dripping eavea, "H'm! The Hlble of course." Wltb a new Interest he picked np the quaint old book or Holy Writ and let It fall open In bis hands as It bad a way or doing Out rrom tbat marvelous song or an Inspired soul, the Psalms, there looked his answer, as he was to know In another day. the truet answer that could have been given to his question: vVho aarrnit Into the hill of the U.i.l' i r ! Ft. nil unrvl In t in holy fluc-f- ' lie Ihnt hath clean hanrta atwl a h hath mt !f.l up hla ivorn dfCHtlol!?. With an odd feeling of truth struck from the page he closed the book and laid it gitUly down on the while cloth. . 'V r --T7 y , 111 i CHAPTER VII. Night Wind. from that time fortti Sandry began to take a keener Interest In Silet For one thing, he noticed that everyone railed her SHctr, wit; t soft slurring " Don't Just Know." shovel the men went St the work of digging out the damaH timbers The wolk was heavier, more dangerous and atr. disagreeable by reason of the four feet deep at low'titfp, eight at high, which lappe-- tbeif bases Dally put tbem at the digging rrom the slope side at low tide; but on the sierond day he stood long rsnnlng bis blunt fingers through his hair, as wss his custom when perplexed Sandry bad coma down from the office and now stood on the trsck above the rollway lonkirg over the wet country below. At the rollway a foot the sluggish ribbon of tidewater, sullen snd discolored, wound up from the south. To tbe north the valley lifted gently towsrd the camp and the wildmes beyopd Suddenly. "lai!y," he said, "what are you goi"g lo do about Itf" "I don't Just know. The men ran t work In the water, arid them piles have got to come out. !ut there s a way or rtoin' It. or co'ifsm." "tlf, rotirse." id the easterner, "asd why 'sot go at It from a Love T" - h "That left bank of the slough up there Is In the form or a ridge. Don't you think we could set a crew at it at itul unto vanity, nor tai e Ray Walters by JJlowpuy TJ' JJ side-wise- Sundry was enjoying her succinct precision of knowledge and enures i ft GREAT NORTHWEST ir7Jr Z&jt&i?K7& l4pyimuv by lAxla. MuU SYNOPSIS. ByVingieE.Roe dles and surrounded with ferns, when he caught the sound of voices They came from the dense wall of the woods at bis right and unconsciously be lis tened, tipping his head sud straining his ears Presently a look or blank ness spread upon his face. One of the voices was familiar, soft and sliding with minors, the voice of the girt Slletz, and she was speaking Jargon. tCven as this amazing knowledge was borne In upon htm- the tangle parted and she stepped out before him. A Slletz Bquaw followed ber, a short brown creature or comely reatures, clad In brilliant flannel, a towering pyramid of baskets slung to one shoulder. Nosing eagerly at the girl's stepped Black Bolt, while Coos-nabrought up the rear. They perceived him Instantly and the Indian woman turned aay with a few gutturals which Slletz answered gently. Hut in the moment that she had confronted him, Sandry had seen her race and received a shock. tlegliining Just under the lower Hp and running downward to the base or the chin there stood out three blue bars, each composed of minutely tat tooed designs. I'nconsciousty his star tled eyes flew to the dark face of the of the first syllable, and he found him f using the name which he thought It was the particularly beautiful name of the reservation to Hie north and cX a small part ot the odds and ends ot tribes thrown In there by a beneficent givemmenl. What was her othrr name? He had always thought of ber as Va Iiaily's daughter; snd yet. now that he came to think of W. he had neyer seemed skin to the easygoing, open minded foreman who was so like the old woman. She was alien to both with her silences, her whimsical speech snd ber look of hidden firs One day In the late fall, when the white mist and the evergreen or the forest had got on bis nerves onbear ably, Sandry left the office and went to the shd for Black Dolt, only to find him pone. He had meant to ride off the f t of blues. Palling that, be derld ed to walk It off. and strnck up the wet grfen va'ley to the r.orth. Almost Immediately the tumbling bills closed In upon him and he found himself In a wilderness of towering firs, or dripping vine maples and mysterious paths lost In the crowding forni He was standing at rest In a small (lade carpeted with pine nee -- ber. Coosnah, following with a lithe rolling of all bis huge muscles, cast a lowering glance backward at after the man. The Incident bad taken all the helpfulness out of the day and the wilderness, and Sandry wonded his way slowly back to camp, arriving Just In time for supper. Slletz tended the table in ber usual silence, but when she reached him she was constrainedly aloof, as If fearing to break a spell by a word or touch. Once he looked up at her. striving for recognition, but she avoided his eyes and to save his life he could not repress tbe wild thrill that bad betrayed blm In the hills, though he was conscious of anger flushing hot upon It He suffered a very real humiliation In that he bad so far forgotten his training, bis sense of the fitness of things, as to kiss this wild mountain creature. His ances tral blood rose up in condemnation. Tbe next few days were crowded full to overflowing with work and be laid aside all personal perplexities The first raft of logs, a great cigar-shapemonster, laced together In all Its length and breadth with giant chains, lay In the backwater at Toledo ready for its voyage Into tbe world beyond. A crew of river drivers was picked from among the men and all was in readiness save for a draft of directions which was to be given, along with the raft, into the custody of Captain Graf tz ot tbe long steamer that would stand In across the bur at Newport on tbe twenty-sixth- . eu! BEFORE BREAKFAST Says yoii really feel clean, sweet and fresh inside, and are seldom ill. ' d d Watched Her Turn anal Ride Down One of the Mysterious Paths. glrL There, on her lighter skin, telltale In its truth or outline, was the beginning or the same mark, broken In Its Inception by some mysterious hand. For a moment Sandry's head whirled and a sort ot nausea came over him. Then he became conscious of ber dark eyes, level snd calm, upon bis race and a thrill that sent the blood pounding In bis veins shot through him The mighty trees around them, the eternal majesty or the bills under the Intimate gray sky, the girl in her trim, sensible attire or blue shirt, short skirt and boots, with tbat sudden revelation of the wild about ber, combined to suggest the unreal, the mysterious, the lawless; In a flash he understood ber silences, ber calm, ber occasional stilted modes of speech, and ber whimsicalities. be stammered, "Why why-81rollowlng out the train of his illumined thought, "what are you? Who are you? A star in the dusk! The night wind in the pines!" In the flush of the pregnant moment he laid his hand on ber bare arm under tbe rolled op sleeve her soft arm. wet wltb the mist closing bis fingers strongly upon It Por the encbsnted present she was romance and mystery, and Sandry was beneath Its spell Uut Slletf looked from bis face down to the hand upon ber arm. Tbe blood rose slowly In her dusky cheeks, and when she raised her eyes again they were dim with the same look of Intoxication as bsd come wltb the mad ness of the rushing wind on Hlack Holt s back. "Yes." she said dreamily, "I am the Night Wind. That's what they call me Hut bow my friends the Indiana. did you know?" I "1 didn't just beard the words In my heart They are right," He did not remove his hand, and alienee fell between them while they stood gazing Into each other's eyes Sandry saw the heavy look In hers, tbe dull fire that bespoke a very drunkenness of emotion, and In another moment be bad lost bis head. Without thought, as simply as the first runner of those forests took what be wanted, ho leaned forward and kissed ber. softly, lightly, on her smooth cbeek Her eyes darkened perceptibly and she covered her lace with her hands. In a sudden great embarrssament Sandry stood silent beside her, his heart pounding and Ms manhood already upbraiding him. He searched bis rlearing brain for some word of apnirgy, some contrite expression, but round none, and tbe next moment conld not In any esse have spoken It; tor Slletx lifted her rare and It was glorified. The Intoxication had drifted away from her features, leaving them bare In the utter simplicity of the primeval woman, and there was in tbem a white fire of self surrender. Without a word and Sandry knew Instinctively that she conld not speak she turned to flack Holt, threw the reins over his head, cronrbed beside him on a little lift of moss and leaped upward He watched her land on the horse's blanketed back with that In Imltable grace of the wild, turn and ride swiftly down on of the mysterious paths who nodding ferns closed DRINK HOT WATER Sandry thrilled with contemplation of the great, reddish-browfloor, slightly raised In tbe center, sloping gently to the sides. Its building had been a thing of wonder to blm. It would In all probability scatter to tbe ends of the earth, and Its worth ran well Into five figures. He watched Its departure, an impressive matter of sluggish rising with the tide, or almost imperceptible motion and then of majestic Bpeed that carried it westTlu-be ward toward the ocean. turned back to his logging camp with a heightened Joy in tbe new life. Tbat night he wrote to the white-hairegentleman who was then going to bed under silken covers with the aid of tbe faithful Higgins; and hla letter was long and brilliant touched with that cheer and hope, that l'ght ot awakening strength and ability which was beginning to stir his heart to its foundation, "Ah!" said Mr. Wilton Sandry when be got that letter, looking down on tbe pageant of Riverside drive In its winter livery, "wbat a boy be Is! What a son! The metal Is beginning to ring." (TO BE CONTINUED.! FOR CARING THE UNKNOWN If you are accustomed to vnV nn with a coated tongue, foul breath or dull, dizzy headache; or, if your meals sour and turn into gas anJL acids, you have a real surprise awaiting you. Tomorrow morning, immediately up. on arising, drink a glass ot hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate In it. This is Intended to first neutralize and then wash out of your stomach, liver, kidneys and thirty feet of intestines all the indigestible waste, poisons, sour bile and toxins, thua cleansing, sweetening and purifying me entire alimentary canal. Those subject to sick headaches. backache, bilious attacks, constipation or any form ot stomach trouble, are urged to get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from your drueelat or at the store and begin enjoying this It la said that morning Inside-bath- . men and women who trv thla beeoma enthusiastic and keep It up dally. It Is a splendid health measure for It la more important to keep clean and pure on the Inside than on the outside, because the skin pores do not absorb Impurities into the blood, causina- - dis ease, while the bowel pores do. The principle of bathlnc Inside la Dot new, as millions of neonle nractica It Just as hot water and soap cleanse. purify and freshen the skin, so hot water and a teaspoonful of limestone Phosphate act on the stomach, liver. kidneys and bowels. Limestone phosphate Is an Inexpensive white powder and almost tasteless. Adv. Harrlaburg, Pa., has an official chi ropodist for its police force. Dr. Pierre's relict are heat for liver. bowrla and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative three fur a cathartic Adv. King Nicholas of Montenegro haa fortune estimated at 120.000.000. la a II. O. Wells, tbe well known author, the son of a professional cricketer. His Dad Knew. Earlle Say. pa. what Is "ready money"? His Dsd All of it Is ready, my son. Earlle All ot It ready? His Dad Yes; ready to get away. Wise Constituent. received almost congressman dally letters from a constituent asking for garden seed, with emphssls on The demand for peas got so A correspondent of the Companion peas. was In Germany writes or a touching thing heavy that tho congressman tbat the lonely women or tbe nation moved to write this letter: "I am sending you a half dozen mora have done women who have no sons, no husband, no brother, no rather In packages of yeas'ss requested. Say, the war; who are perhaps too old or what are yo4 trying to do down there, too reeble to nurse or to be otherwise plant the whole state In peas?" The reply came a few days later. active. No one knows where the Idea started, but some women of tbat sort It read: "No, I'm not planting them, but tbey made Inquiries of the regiments remake bully soup. Send along soma no father had who soldiers garding or mother; they bogged to be put In more." Kansss City Star. communication with those soldier. Tbe names of soldiers were sent tu Wrong Way Around. these women, this strange name and Things are not always wbat they that, tha names of men whom tbey seem nor so old, either. did not know and bsd never seen! "Is this a genuine antique?" asked Each woman chose one or two sol- tbe customer suspiciously. diers to be ber especial care. The "Certs inly." replied tbe dealer, la childless mothers sent gifts, and an offended voice. "It Is more than sewed and knit for the motherless sol- sli hundred years old," diers. Now and then came, in return, "That's remarkable." commented a grateful post card from the field the customer, dryly. "It Is dated from the adopted son. Once I read III!." one of the cards. Hut the antique dealer wss not to be raoght napping. "Many thanks, dear friend." It res "for the varkage of warm things. "Let me he esld. "Why, so It Imag'ne my surprise! The mall ar- Is! That's the fsutt of my assistant. rived! I expected nothing, but I was He's put the figure on wrongly. It tbe only one to receive a package ought to be 1211." Pittsburgh I alone, the orphan! Prom you I re Ch ron Ir to Telegra ph . reived the only package I ever got In my life!" THE FIRST TASTE Eight days later the orphsn soldier Learned to Drink Coffee When a Bey. hoy tell; a comrsde brought the news, and a gentle, lonely soul wept for htm. If parents realized the fart tbat cof whom she had never known, lie had fee contain a drug raffeine which a been the means of forming strong Is especially harmrul to children, they tle'ihnt bound In Imagination a worn would doubtless hesitate before giving an's silent life with the mighty rte them coffeo to drink, of her country. She who had never When I wa a my mothers rn a motht-- r had become a volun- arms and first childloIn nibble bgan thing teer mother. Youth's Companion. at the table, mothrr Used lo give mi And so t contracted sip of coffee. The LI J en Ml Lassen. the coiTe habit early, Tbe government geologlral survey "I continued to use coffee until I wst sends out the somewhrt reassuring 27, and when I got Into off r work I report that old Vulcan has rlappod began to have nervous Espethe lid down on peak. The cially after breakfast I wss so nervseems have to May Jn great eruption ous I could scarcely attend to my spent the energy of tbe volcano, snd the genwral Indications sre that It will rause no more disturbance this for"At night, I after having had cof?e could hardly sleep, and supper, season. Though tie mountain may on rising In the morning would feel continue to be an active volcano, the weak and nervous. report savs that It Is -believed that It "A friend persuaded me to try Tob-tuLita not will "develop devastating fury, after the manner of Vesuvius "I can now get good sleep, am free or some of the 'askan volcanoes or other well known foreign volcanoes" from nervousnea and headache, f recommend Postnm to all cofTe drinkWhile lessen In a rage mskes qnit a spectacle of lis If, tnd while a vol- ers" Nsm given by Postern Co, Bsttl cano In eruption adds variety to tbe attractions that "se America first" Creek, Mich. Postum come In two forms: offers, yet we rotild get slong quite Pestum Cereal th orlginsl form-m- ust well If Vulrsn keeps the lid screwed be well boiled, lie and 2S pack- down, snd a Jft t!rhtr. too. than it Sge Is In a grea'. many trnnlripslltle. a oltih! powder-diss- olve Instant Parental Cruelty. quickly In a enp f hot water, and, with ream and sigsr. makes "What's worrying yosf "Fsther says be s going in cnt my a delicious beverage Instantly. J0c and c tins. allowance down to a point where won t ssy tbat I have more money Both formt sre equally delicious and eot ahotit tha ssme than brains" tip. U "Thers a IWsoo" for poafatn yon 11 starve to thst-does sold by Orocer, Patriotic Work Undertaken by German Women That Is of Real Service to the Fatherland. A I- sii:. Pjtn i;e, i " pr |