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Show serialI ISTORY and ho slnrt-re- . o trident, to amend bin uisli nuke that my heart armed to blm. lie made run dearribe in detail alt the incident of tny alay at the house, Hatching with boyish delight to my adventure. Hler mjr oul!" lie exclaimed over and otcr again. And a I brought my two fnend into the Ktory hi ideaxure knew no bound, and he kept chuck-linto himself, half a down time baking hand with Larry and Stoddard. a ho were, he declared, hi friend a well a mine. The prisoner In the potato cellar ved our due attention; and my By MEREDITH NICHOLSON grandfather' Joy in the fart that an HAIR CHARCE." ZELM agent of the flrlMxh government was lute it THE SAMERUH," tic. held captive in Gleuarni House wa cheering to ee. liut the man' deIUWAM MO r ! Smw KM. tention wa a grave matter, a we all realized, and made luiieraiive the ImCHAPTER XXI V Continued. fuThat waa orlglually a trench for mediate consideration of tarry's natural gas piie. There was once a ture; T must go and go at once! delarge pumping station on the site of clared tarry. this bouse, with a big trunk main runMr. Donovan. I should feel honored ning off across country to supply the towns west of here. The gas was ex- to have you remain, said iny grandand hausted, and the pipes were taken up 1father. "1 hope to hold Jack here, with house would ahare the wlali you before I began to build. I should never have thought of that tunnel In u, "The sheriff and those fellow won't the world if the trench hadn't suggested It I merely deepened and widened squeal very hrd about their performIt a little and plastered it with cheap ance here. said Stoddard. And they cement as far as the chapel; and that won't try to rescue the prisoner, even little Ring there where 1 put Picker- tor a reward, front a house where the ing's notea had onee been the rellar dead come bark to life. of a house built for the superintendNo; hut you mn't hold a Hritlsh ent of the gas plant. I never had any prisoner In an American private hnue idea that I should use that passage as forever. Tim many people know he a means of getting Into my own house, haa been in this part of the country; but Marian met me at the station, told and you may he litre that the fight me that there was trouble here, and here and the return of Mr. Glenarm came with me through the chapel Into will not fall of large advertisement. the cellar, and through the hidden All 1 ran ask of you, Mr. Glenarm, Is stairway that winds around the chim- that you detain the fellow a few hours ney from that room where we keep the after I leave, to give me a start candle-stickAfter a late luncheon, for whlrh Hut who waa the ghost? I demand the amazing Hates produced chain-pagn- e the others left us Stoddard to ed, If you were really alive and in nua a THE HOUSE OF THOUSAND A CANDLES re-c- s. hat I forgot that my grandfather wa patiently waiting for an answer. T should like to do anything ns ask; I should iike to stay here always but I can't. Don't misunderstand me-have no Intention of going hark t my old way. I squandered enoiii$ money In my wanderings, and 1 l;vd my Joy of that kind of thing. I hsO find employment somewhere and f to work. ' Hut, Jack," he bent toward w kindly, "Jack, you mustn't he led away by any mere Quixotism into laying the foundation of your own for tune. What I have is yours, hoy. What U in the box In the chimney to your now I wish you wouldnt ! You were 1 way too kind, and I deserve nothing absolutely nothing." I'm not trying to pay you. Jack. J want to ease my own conscience, that all. Ilut money can do nothing fur mine, 1 replied, trying to smile. aTve been a rerkles spendthrift all my days, and now I'm going to work. If you were Infirm and needed me, 1 should not hesitate, but the world will have its eyes on me now. Jack, that will of mine did you a great wrung; It put a mark upon you. and thats what hurts me; that's what 1 want to make amends for! Don't you see? Now don't punish me, hoy. Come! Let us be friends! He rose and put out his hands. I didnt mean that! I don't care about that! It was nothing more than I deserved. These months here have changed me. Haven't you heard me say I was going to work? And I tried to laugh away furthei discussion of my future. It will be more cheerful here In the spring, he said, as though seek Ing an Inducement for me to remain. When the resort colony down here comes to life the lake la. really gay." .1 shook iny head. The lake, tbui to-da- Kgyptr Hates laughed now. I went Oh, I was the ghost! through there occasionally to stimulate your curiosity about the house. And you nearly caught me once! One thing more. If we're not wear Ing you out I'd like to know whether Ulster Theresa owes you any money. My grandfather turned umiu Picker Ing with biasing eyps. You scoundrel, you Infernal scoundrel, Sister Theresa never borrowed a cent of me In her life! And you have made war on that woman His rage choked him. He told Hates to close the tloor of the steel chest, and then turned to me. Where are those notes of Picker lag's? he deuiuuded; and 1 brought the packet. Gentlemen, Mr. Pickering has gone to ugly lengths In this affair. How many murders have you geutlemen committed?" - We were about to begin actual killing when you arrived, replied tarry, grinning. The sheriff got all his men off the premises more or less alive, air, said Hates. That la good. It was all a great mistake, a very great mistake; I had no Idea such things could liapMn, and my grandfather turned to Picker CHAPTER XXV. Changes and Chances. John Marshall Gleuarm had probably never been so happy In his life as on that day of hta amazing He laughed at us and he laughed with us. and as he went alKiut the house explaining his plans for Its completion, he chaffed ns all with Ids shrewd humor that had been the terror of my boyhood. Ah, if you had had the plana of course you would have been saved a lot of trouble; but that little sketch of the Door of Hewiidertuent was the only thing I left. and you found It, these good Jack, you really ux-n-lawks of mine. He sent us nil away to remove the marks of buttle, and we gave Hates a hand in droning up the wreckage, Hates, the keeper of secrets. Hates, the Inscrutable and mysterious, Hates, the real hero of the affair at Glenarm. My grand fat her led us through (he narrow stairway by which he had entered. which had bvn built betweeu false walls, and we played ghost for one another, to show Just liow (lie tread of a human being around the chimney sounded. There was much to explain, and my grandfather's contrition for having placid me In so hazard home-comin- A woman baa been Indicted on the charge of unlawfully enclosing 2,000 acre of government land in Wyoming. Franklin M. Barnes la charged with having unlawfully taken 1,000,000 feet of timber from government fer-ereserves In San Miguel county, Colorado. It ia officially atated that 95,240.20 represents the loss to the Great Northern Express company In the robbery of the company's strong box by two bandits, near Seattle. The house committee on public lands has reported favorably a bill allotting In the state of Wyoming, under the Carey act, 1,000,000 acres oi land to be subject to reclamation. Meager details have been received of the killing at Muaaellahell, Mont, of a woman named Mrs. Wesson. The tragedy occurred in a naloon and two men are being held pending en investigation. The federal grand jury Bitting nt Denver haa reported sixty Indictments, for unlawful twenty-si- x Including fencing of public lands, thirteen for perjury in obtaining land, and one for timber trespass. McCruden, The body of William who known aa the Catholic Kid, was lost In the mountains near Balt-es-e, Mont., early In December, waa found last week by a party of search-erIncluding Robert McCruden, a brother. Twenty houses on the east aide of the main street of Tonopah, Nevada, wore destroyed by a fire which originated in a lodging bouse. A high wind was blowing and the entire city The losa la estimawaa endangered. a, ted at 9150.000. W. J. Arkell, well known in Reno and onre a prominent stock broker at Ills Manhattan, Nev., la a bankrupt. liabilities are 9279,040.66 and assets of some worthless mining stocks and about 9200 in money. Arkell'e liking for fast horses, it la said, la the cause of his downfall. A case Involving mining property in the Silver Peak district valued at approximately 910,000,000, and which has been In litigation In the Nevada courts for the past twelve years, was completed in the district court at Reno, Nev., last week, and will be submitted to Judge Pike In briefs. It Is announced that the Madison fiber Pover company haa secured op-- t ons cn ail the electric power plants oast of Hillings, Mont, Including those at Columbia Falla, Forsythe, Dig Timber and Livingston, and will run a power system from the Dakota line to Billings from one central station Glen Holbrook was found not guilty ut Antonlto, Colo., on the charge ol murdering M. W. Lowther, whom he shot and killed at Alamosa, Fedru-ar80 last. Holbrook, who was tn Mrs. Lowthera apartments when her husband unexpectedly returned, claimed that he shot Lowther In y self-defens- From his cell In the Alameda, Cal., jail, where he awalta sentence for the murder of Mrs. Vernle Carmln, for raerly of Springfield, Mo., Mark a Wilkins has sent out word that the woman who had lived at Elmhurst as his wife, and whose body he buried in a shed behind their home, was not Mrs. Carmln. Federal Judge Hunt of Helena haa Ing. Pickering, what a contemptible scoundrel you are! I lent you that 1300,000 to buy securities to give you lietter standing In your railroad enter prises, and the last time I saw you, you got me to release the collateral so you could raise money to buy more shares. Then, after I died1' he you thought you'd find and (fhuckled 'destroy the notes and that would end the transaction; and If you had been smart enough to Anil them you might have had them and welcome. Hut as It Is, they go to Jack. If he shows any mercy on you In collecting them he's not the hoy 1 think he Is. Pickering rose, seized his hat and backed away toward the shattered library door. He paused for a moment, his face livid with rage, You old fool! he screamed at tny grandfather. Yon old lunatic. I wish to God 1 had never seen yon! No wonder you came back to life! You're a tricky old devil and too mean to die! He turned toward me with aonie similar complaint ready at his tongue's end; but 8toddard caught him by the suhulders and thrust him out upon the terrace. A moment later we saw him cross the meadow and hurry toward 8L Agatha's. SOUTHWEST NOTES UTAH STATE NEWS I Wish to God I Had Never Soen You." tarry get hla things together and my grandfather and I talked for an hour. You will stay on here. you will help me to finish the house? the old gentleman asked with unmistakable eagerness of look and tone. It seemed harsh and ungenerous to tell him that I wished to go; that the groat world lay lieyoud the eonflnea of Glenarm for me to conquer; that I had lost as well aa gained by those few months at Glenarm House, and wished to go away. It waa not the mystery, now fathomed, nor the struggle, now ended, that waa uppermost In my mind and heart, but memories of a girl who had mocked me with delicious girlish laughter, who bad lured me away from the Indiana woodlands that I might see her transformed into another, more charming, being, only to shatter my faith at the end. It was a comfort to know that Pickering, trapped and defeated, was not to benefit by the bold trick she had helped him play upon me. Hia loss was here as well and I waa glad In my bitterness that I had found her In the passage seeking for plunder at the behest of the same master whom Morgan. Ferguson and the rest of them served. I did not mention her to my grandfather; I resolved never to think or siieak of her again. The fight was over and there was nothing more for me to do in the house by the lake. After a week or so I should go forth and try to win a place for myself. I had my profession; I was an engineer, and I did not question that I should be able to find emAs for my grandfather. ployment. Hates would rare for him, and I should visit him often. 1 was resolved not to give him any further cause for anxiety on account of my adventurous and roving ways. He knew well enough that hi old hope of making an architect of me waa lost forever; and now 1 wished to depart In peace and seek some part of the world where the trail were new and there were tracks to lay and bridges to build. These thoughts so filled mv mind help pretty cupful of water, the dip and glide of a maroon canoe, the remembrance of a red merging afar off In an October sunset! my purpose to leave the place strengthened as I thought of these things. My nerves were keyed to a breaking pitch and, losing control of myself. I turned upon him stormily. So Miss Devereux was the other person who shared your confidence! Do you understand, do you appreciate the fact that she was lickerings r ally?" I certainly do not. he replied I'm aurprlscd to hear yon coldly. speak ao of a woman whom you can scarcely know Yes, I know her! My fiod. I have reason to know her! Hut even when I found her ont 1 did not dream that the plot was as deep as It is. She knew that it was a scheme to test me and she played me Into 1ickerlng'i hands. I caught her down there ir the tunnel acting as hi spy, looking for the lost notes, that she might gain grace In hla eyes by turning their over to him. You know how I always hated Pickering, he was too smooth too smug, and you and everybody else were forever praising him to me. He waa always held up to me a a model; and the first time I saw Marian Dever eux she was with him it was at Sherry's the- - night before I came here I suppose she reached St. Agatha's only a few hours ahead of me." Yea. Sister Theresa was her guar dlan. Her father waa a dear friend and I knew her from her early child hood. You are mistaken. Jack. Hei knowing Pickering mean nothing, -they both lived in New York ant moved In the same cire'ic." "Hut It doesn't explain her effort! to help him, does It?" t'i.ueg, .j4 wished to marry her, S; ter Thereat told me that. and I j miserably to keep mv her I ran away to follow her!" 1 (TO US CONTINVLD.) A new broom and make a clean sweep. a taicht granted an Injunction restraining Butte and Anaconda Typographical unions from Interfering with the transactions of the business of the Butterick Publishing company of New York. It was alleged that a boycott had been placed on the concern b these unions. Helena has been visited by two distinct earthquake shocks, one Tuesday and the other Thursday night of last week. The last shock was severe enough to throw one West side woman Into convulsions, and It made severiti other people quite ill. Houses rocked violently and dishes rattled and pictures became askew. A Chicago man has patented n process that will convert the sagebrush of the west Into millions of money by utilising it In a scientific manner. Potash Is derived from the ashes, which contain 61 per cent, while ordinary wood ashes contain only 21 per cent A dramatic and unexpected feature of the Washington Republican state convention, held at Spokane, was the adoption of a local option plank, by a vote of 606 to 258. The convention adopted unanimously a resolution far vorlng the candidacy of Secretary Taft Rene, Nevada, merchants hare filed a petition with the Nevada railroad commission, asking for an adjustment of freight rates that will enable them to compete with Salt take City, Los Angeles end San Francisco dealers. The commission will Investigate their automobile road race will be one of tbe features of the Decoration day celebration at Ogden. Tbe dwelling house of James Hicks, located on a farm near Mount Pleasant, waa totally destroyed by fire last week. son cf William Tbe Crltchlow, of Pleasant View, was kicked by a horse one day last week and fatally Injured. The Mantl local telephone company haa made an agreement with the Bell Telephone company whereby they are to be consolidated. A Springvllle man convicted of selling liquor In violation of tire city ordinance baa been sentenced to thirty-fiv- e days In jalL Fifty doctora from various cities in Utah attended the fourteenth annual meeting of the Utah State Medical association In Salt Lake City last week. Landon 1 Downing; a well known Balt Lake wool buyer, dropped dead aa the result of an attack of heart failure at hla borne on Saturday last. John Hacking of Cedar Fort waa knocked down by a fractious horn, hia cheat being crushed In, hla injuries being such that death may ensue. Martha G. Wells, the mother of former Governor Heber M. Welle, died in Salt Lake City on May 12. She came to Utah In one of tbe ox trains In 1848. Frank Blodgett has been sentenced to fifteen daye In jail for tbe larceny of a number of cherry trees from the orchards of some of his neighbors In North Ogden. Preliminary steps were taken by the directors of the Weber club of Ogden, last week, looking to the bolding of a Chautauqua In Ogden, probably the latter part of July. Of the 6,000,000 pounds of wool already sent out of the state, about one-hal- f has been sent to St. Louis. The remainder of the wool haa been sent to Boston and other eastern poltna. The people of Park City celebrated the opening of the Ontario drain tunnel on Wednesday of last week, the day being observed as a holiday and an elaborate program carried out The eight cases of smallpox In different portions of Ogden can be traced to one esse which was not reported to the health department, according to the sanitary inspector. An appeal Is to be taken to the supreme court by Jim Donaldson, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for hla connection In tbe notorious bunco case, at Salt Lake. The ectlon taken by tbe State Federation of Labor In admitting ministers aa members of the association waa heartily approved at a meeting of tbe Ministerial association of Ogden. Ah Sun, an erstwhile prosperous gardener of Ogden, la at the Weber county jail awaiting deportatlou to the Orient, because he violated the immigration laws of the United Slatea. Andrew Johnson of Leamington was kicked In tbe head by a horse, the calk of the horse's forefoot being driven Into his skull. He Is In a Salt take hospital In a precarious condition. Arrangements are to be moue for the transfer of the exhibits at the fair at Ogden to the ktate fair in Salt Lake. The Inter mountain fair will be held before the state fair. William Lux, aged 22, whose, uome Is In Seattle, while passing between two cars at Thistle Junction, Mis knocked down and run over, one foot being caught under the car wheel, severing two toes, breaking another and lacerating the bottom of the loot. J. H. Cassidy, a tunnel worker for the Western Pacific, In alighting from an incoming train in Salt Lake City, was thrown against a switch and literally scalped. His skull was laid bare for several lnchea in four differ ent places. He will recover, however. Joe Garcia, the Mexican believed to be implicated with Joe Sullivan in the murder of Policeman Ford in Salt Lake City, died at Seattle, where he waa shot by officers while resisting arrest, without making a statement admitting hla guilt of tbe crime of murder. After suffering terrible agony for fifteen boura from the effecta of Caking a bichloride of mercury tablet, son of James A. the of Salt Lake, is dead. The tablets were on a table, the little one getting hold of them unknown to its A twenty-mil- e three-year-ol- Kiln-kenbear- parents. While Jackaon Hunt, a fanner living near Hooper, waa walking in a pasture near hia home, an Infuriated bull attacked him, breaking six riba But for the assistance of neighbors who drove the maddened beast away. It la probable that be would have been killed. L. W. Hawley, expert) on wood disEfforts are being made by those In tillation for the forest service, lea charge of the fifth annual celebration Washington last week for an extended of the U. C. T. association, which will visit to Oregon. Washington, Montana be held In Salt Lake City, June 18, 19 and Idaho, to Investigate the possibil- and 20, to secure rates over all roads ity of a future turpentine Industry in In the state. Present indications are the northwestern portion of the Unit- they will be given a rate of one fare for the round trip. ed States, Frank C. Boyer, one of Springvllle'a George Rock, who, with three other convicts, made a desperate attempt to most prominent citizens, died on May escape from the state penitentiary at 12 of la grippe and Its attending comDeer Lodge. Mont, during which they plications. after an Illness of thirteen killed Chief Guard John A. Robinson weeks. 51 r. Boyer was horn in Union and desperately wounded Frank Con- county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and ley. haa been sentenced to be hanged ?anie to Utah In 1853, settling at on June 16. Springvllle In 1856. Robert 'Lockhart, a mining man of talyd Iy bad bis nose broken ss Rhyolite, Nevada, reports having vis- the rsult of a fall from a broncho ited at Mesquite Springs, the camp ot which he waa riding at Ephraim. The Walter Scott, who told him shout the horse became frightened while comdiscovery of the remains of two men ing down 2Ialn street, and In tbe to control It Ivy was thrown to fifteen miles northeast of the ramp. There was nothing by which the mes the ground, and waa found uncon-clou- s sonld be Identified. shortly afterward. . v request nlitsM by tbs JuSiciMi mbs ml imwmlm sersnMt. Wi have beautiful Jewels mf all sleds, frem iiwipnuw, tasty little ths very uptHtiw Sitewi things p All reaseeable ia is tar lustsr puss. pries. d fra-ttlou- s two-year-o- THE BEAUTY OF ANY WOMAN SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. CHILD, COLE CO. BROKERS SOLICIT YODR PATRONAGE Our facilities for handling your account unexcelled. Wo make liberal advances on all Utah Stocks. 100 Atlas Black, Salt take City. '' - GRATEFUL COMFORT In Every Box of Hills Foot Powder Sprinkle it In your shoes te relieve that burning in soreness ef the feet. Mailed anywhere far cents. tl F. J.The Never HILL DRUG CO. SiibetitutereM Salt Lake City YALE MEN TAKE TO THE LAW. The Bar Still Attracts University's Graduates. One-Thir- d of the statisticians at Yale nave a table to show wbat occupations the graduates of the Institution have choaen In the last century. From the table It appears that the ministry haa fallen off greatly aa an attraction. When the century opened about 39 per cent of Yale graduates were ministers. Beginning with 1860 this number took a great fall Since 1865 has been six per cent Tbe averages for law and medicine have remained about the same. As a rule ten per cent of Yale's graduates are doctors. In law the figures have been ateadlly about 33 per ceiit In teaching and science the figures have Increased very gradually from about two per cent to 11 per cent The strongest upward tendency baa been that of business. ..The farmers have fallen off ever since the southern-planterceased to enter Yale. d Business now attracts about of the men, and the law about The other third la divided between the ministry, science, teaching, forestry and a few other branches. Panoramic View Showing Eaat Side of Tintic Camp. The brokerage firm of Child, Cole ft Co. has a happy knack of getting ont maps and other Interesting data about Interest centers of Utah mining. Following the issuance of Tin-ti- c maps comes the company with a panoramic .view of the east side of the Tintic camp, showing the positions and workings of the mines in that part of the district The view given one an idea of the active mines of Tintic and their rlealive positions never before appreciated without a personal inspection of the territory Id The drawn up e one-thir- one-thir- question. A mining map of Park City is also being prepared, which will be the first map that haa ever been diatrlb uted free. This enterprising firm Is enjoying a splendid business from a large and satisfactory clientage, which speaks well for its ability and Integrity. TROUBLE WITH MODERN CHILD. Too Early Mads Acquainted with the Pomp of tho World. Miss L. E. Stearns, In her lecture on the Thankless Child, in Milwaukee, pleaded for children to have time to be children. I know of a Milwaukee mother who waa surprised lately to find that at a birthday party which her daughter (a child of eight) had attended two liveried pages stood at the door to receive the gifts the chit- dren brought Tbe aame Utile girl who waa hostess at the party, when In a formal mood, is apt to go to cal) upon some child of her own age In her mother's carriage, accompanied by a footman and driver, and when she arrives, presents her visiting card before seeing her friend. bliss 8tearns compared this complicated existence with that of the great John Ruskln, who had but four toys during his entire childhood, bnt who spent many enraptured hours with these, and he attributed bis taste for architecture to the fact of bis blocks, one of the toys, having Interested him in building at so early an age. Keep This In Mind. It must not be forgotten that tbe man who takes advantage of others will take advantage of you If he eves finds It conveniently profltablo to do o, no matter how consistently be may pretend to be your friend. Scientific Leafing. "Chess, checkers and whist are marvelous Inventions," says tbe philosopher of folly. "They enable n man to waste his time and still have the feeling that he Is accomplishing something Intellectual. , |