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Show THE NEPHI. UTAH S, ment, suiniiing In Its attitude of un rest. Lulu cniue In with another lamp. "Do you Heed this?" she asked. ntfed It, there wns. In They did fact, no place to set It, and this Lulu must have known. But Dwighnound other, or the minister or magistrate a place, lie swept Nininn's photois speaking of lovers. It should never of the be transitive when predicated of par- graph from the marble shelf when Lulu hud placed the and mirror, ents or any other third party. Hut it photo-grapis. Inn was quite agitated by its lamp there, Dwight thrust the into her bands. transltlveness as she took to bcr hus"You take care of that." he said, band her Incredible responsibility. with a droop of lid discernible only to "You know, Herbert," said Ina, "if who presumably loved him. this Mr. Cornish comes here very those His old attitude toward Lulu had much, whnt we may expect." shown n terrible sharpening in these "What may we expect?" demanded ten days since her return. Dwight Herbert, crisply. She stood uncertainly. In the thin Inu always played his games, an hlack and white gown which NInlan swered what be expected her to. an- had for her, and held Nlnian's bought swer, pretended to be Intuitive when and looked helplessly photograph she was not so, said "I know" when about. She was moving toward the she didn't know nt all. Dwight Her door when Cornish called : bert, on the other hand, did not even "See here! Aren't you going to when he her knew per sing?" games play fectly what she meant, but pretended "Whnt?" Dwight used the falsetto. not to understand, made her repeat, "Lulu sing? Lulu?-- ' made her explain. It was as If Ina She stood awkwardly. ' She had a hud to please him for, say, a living ; recrudescence of her old but as for that dentist, be hnd to piteous agony at being spoken to In the presIn conversations the please nobody. ence of others. But Dl had opened of Dwight and Ina you saw the his- the "Album of Old which torical home forming In clots in the Cornish had elected Favorites," to bring, and now fluid wash of the community. she struck the opening chords of "He'll fall In love with Dl," said "Bonny Eloise." Lulu stood still, na. at Cornish. And what of that? Little daughter looking rather piteously his arm, absurdly offered Dwight man will have many a fall In love crooked. The Blows and Ina and Dl with her, I should say." Lulu moved forward, began to 'Yes, but, Dwight, what do you and stood sing. a little away from them, think of him?" sang, too. She was still holding 'What do I think of him? My and Nlnian's Dwight did not sing. dear Ina, I have other things to think He lifted picture. his shoulders and bis eye of." brows and watched Lulu. "But we don't know anything about When they had finished, "Lulu the him, Dwight a stranger so." bird I" Dwight cried. He 'On the other hand," said Dwight mocking " said with dignity, "I know a good deal Fine!" cried Cornish. "Why, Miss ubout him." Lulu, you have a good voice!" With a great air of having done the Miss Lulu Bett, the mocking MISS LULU By ZONA GALE CupTrighl by D. Appieton & Company VI TIMES-NEW- Continued. 12 "Oh, by the music houses. You go by the Bales." For the first time It occurred to Cornish that ttiis was ridiculous. "You know, I'm reully studying law," he said, shyly and proudly. Law I How very Interesting, from Inn. Oh, but won't he bring up some songs Borne evening, for tliem to try over? Her and Dl? At this Dl laughed and 6ald that she was out of practice and lifted her glass of water. In the presence of adults Dl made one weep, she was so slender, so young, so without defenses, so Intolerably sensitive to every contact, so in agony lest slle be found wanting. It was amazing bow unlike was this Dl to the Dl who had ensnared Bobby Larkin. What was one to think? Cornish paid very little attention to her. To Lulu he said kindly, "Don't you play, Miss ?" He had not caught her name no stranger ever did catch It. But Dwight now supplied It : "Miss Lulu Bett," be explained, with loud emphasis, and Lulu burued her slow red. This question Lulu had usually answered by telling how a felon had Interrupted her lessons and she bad stopped "taking" a participle sacred to music. In Warbleton. This vignette had been a kind of epitome of Lulu's biography. But now Lulu was heard to say, serenely: "Ho, but I'm quite fond of It I went to a lovely concert two weeks ago." They all listened. Strange, Indeed, to think of Lulu as having had experiences of which they did not know. "Yes," she said. "It was in Savannah, Georgia." She flushed, and lifted her eyes in a manner of faint defiance. "Of course," she said, "I don't know the names of all the different instruments they played, but there were a good many." She laughed pleasantly as a part of her sentence. "They had some lovely tunes," she said. She knew that the subject was not exhausted and she hurried on. "The hall was real large," she superadded, "and there were quite a good many people there. And it was too warm." "I see," said Cornish, and said what he had been watting to say: That he, too, had been in Savannah, Georgia. Lulu lit with pleasure. "Well!" she said. And her mind worked and she caught at the moment before It had escaped. "Isn't It a retty city?' she asked. And Cornish assented with the Intense heartiness of the provincial, He, too. It seemed, had a conversa tional appearance to maintain by Its own effort. He said that he hnd being In that town and that he was there for two hours. "I was there for a. week." Lulu's superiority was really pretty. "Have good weather?" Cornish se lected next. "Oli, yes. And they saw all the dif ferent buildings but at her "we" she flushed and was silenced. She was coloring and breathing quickly. This was the first bit of conversation of this sort In Lulu's life. After supper Ina Inevitably pro- nosed croouet. Dwicht pretended to try to escape and, with his lrropressi ble mien, talked about Ina, elaborate In his insistence on the third person "She loves it. we have to humor her, you Know how Jt Is. Or no ! You don't know! But you will" and more of the same sort, everybody laughing heartily, save Lulu, who looked un comfortable and wished that Dwight wouldn't, and Mrs. Bett, who paid no attention to anybody that night, not because she had not been Introduced an omission which she had not even noticed, but merely at another form of "tantrlm" a They emerged for croquet. And there on the porch sat Jenny Plow and Bobby, waiting for Dl to keep nn old engagement, which Dl pretended to have forgotten, arrt to be fright fully annoyed to have to keep. She met the objections of hrr parents with nil the batteries of her coquetry, set for both Bobby and Cornish and. bob: In the presence of "company, nt lasi went laughing away. And In the ml nuto areas of her consciousness she said to herself that Bobby would be more In love with her thnn ever be cause she hnd risked nil to go with him; and that Cornish ought to be distinctly attracted! to her because she had not stayed. She was as pritni tlve as pollen. Ina was vexed. She said so, pour Ins In a fashion whhh she should have outgrown with white muslin am bine ribbons, and she had outgrown none of these things. "That lust spoils mwiet." "be said "rin vexed. Now we can't have renl came." From the side door, where she must have lingering anong the water proofs, Lola stepped forth. "Ill play a game." she said. iM-e-n When Cornish actuslly proposed to bring some mnsle to the Deacons', Inn turned toward Dwight Herbert all the facets of her responstt'lllty. And Inn aense of responsibility toward Dl was enormous, oppressive, primitive. amounting. In fact, toward this dnngh ter of Dwight Herberts late wife, t an ability to compress the offices o stepmotherhood Into the functions o the lecture pisiform, tint was a fotin loin of admonition. Her lde of dnngnrer, step or not, whs that of manufactured product, strictly, which you constantly pinehrd and n.oldol. She thought that a fSnrnl preceptor had the right t serre'e precepts, t ( them all. pint df Course the crew nt Ins TPfwm1h!lifT wos to Dl Thlf rem Sboull he transitu ttni? when loer are sneaking nf rue ro-r- rv ETT nt h "ba-ird.- fatherly and found out about this stranger before bringing him into the home, Dwight now related a number of stray circumstances dropped by Cornish in their chance talks. "He has a little Inheritance coming to him shortly," Dwight wound up. 'An Inheritance reully? How much, Dwight?" "Xow Isn't that like a woman. Isn't it?" "I thought he was from a good family," said Ina. "My mercenary little pussy!" "Well," she said with a sigh, "'I shouldn't be surprised If Dl did really MM !" Dwight insisted. Lulu was excited, and in some ac cession of faint power. She turned to him now, quietly, and with a look of appraisal. Lulu the dove," she then surpris ingly said, 'to put up with you." It was her first bit of conscious repartee to her brother-in-laCornish was bending over Dl "What next do you say?" he asked. She lifted her eyes, met his own, held them. "There's such a lovely, lovely sacred song here," she suggested, nnd looked down. "You like sacred music?" She turned to hint her pure profile. her eyelids fluttering np, and said: "I love it." That's it. So do I. Nothing like a nice sacred piece," Cornish declared. Bobby Larkin, at the end of the piano, looked directly Into DI's face. Give me ragtime," he said now. with the effect of bursting out of somewhere.' "Don't you like ragtime?" he put it to her directly. Di's eyes danced into his, they sparkled for him, her smile was a smile for him alone, nil their store of common memories wns in their look. "Let's try 'My Rock. My Refuge,'" Cornish suggested. "Thnt's got up ba-ir- d real attractive." DI's profile again, and her pleasei voice saying that this was the very one she bad beeu hoping to hear him sing. The Stability cf Dairying By Cto. B. Ciine, Tiof. o? Tha Ddrjini U. A. Ba-lrd- l Dwight Insisted. accept hint. A young girl Is awfully older flattered when a man pays her attention. Haven't you noilced.thnt?" Dwight Informed her. with nn air of Immense abstraction, that he left all such matters to her. Being married to Dwight was like a perpetual rehearsal, with Dwlght's for audience. A few evenings luter. Cornisi brought up the music. There wt "omelhing overpowering In this brown-hairechnp against the background of his negligible little shop, bis whole cnpltnl In bis few pianos. For he looked hopefully ahead, woke wltl pipna, regarded the children In the strew as If. conceivably, children might fii within the confines of Mm life ns h Imuglned It. A preposlcr oils hftle m.m. And n preposterous store, empty, echoing, bnre of wnll the three planus lour the front, the remainder of the floor atrctch'n: away like the corridors of the lost. He wrs going to get a dark cui.tin, be ex plained, and furnish the bin.; part of the store as his own room. What dlpti'ty in phrasing, nut how iccan Mint little room would look cnt be.i wnxhhowl and pitcher, and little mlr ror almost, certainly a mirror with u wnvy surfnee, almost certainly that "And then, you know." he always added, "I'm rending Inw." The Mows hnd been nked In that evening. Bobby whs there. They were, Dwight Herbert snld, going to have a sing. in whs to piny. Ami Pi was now embarked on the most difficult font o her emotional l'fe. the tent of remtiin lug to Bobby Lnrkln the hire, the beloved lure, the while fo Cnmi-- h she Instinctively played the role of votn nnly Utile girl. tp In" lie festive lump, every 1m1 I" Dwight Ileihrrt cried. At they gi.iiiere.il nliont tl, tipri.-li- t piano. Hint startled. Imiulitlbh Ir r. ru good-lookin- t he Minister and the "Vamp" 1 pstst two years have afforded splendid opimrtunlty fur the fanners of the, country to see what plsases of production are tho most profitable and When ono stops to con Biihstnnti:;l. sider the demand and price of all the and lie: farm "yields tlio Dairy Co producU stand far above them all. One of the list examples of the sta bility of diary farming wns shown in the Salt River alley la Ari.ona. Th war made such a demand on cotton crops that the people of the valley who already had a'fulfa fields and produc ed cotton. With the end of the wai oame the end of the high prices fo' this crop. Tha people have the cotton on their hands and in most cases are unable to pay tho cost of producing the crop. As a result of thl3 eodltlon the banks and business men of tha community are giving financial support and urging the fanners to go back Into the dairy business, knowing that they will surely pay their bills If they have some good dairy cows to eat up the feed and market their crops at home. Anmther good example of showing the value of Dairy Cows and products Is found in comparing the deposits in banks of dairy sections with those in communities are Mount Vernon, Washington; Nahipa, Idaho; Lichfield, Darrel, Cokato, and Grove City, Minnesota. The towns around which fruit, grain, sugar beets, and potatoes were grown are Kamas, Washington; Rexburg and Malad, Idaho; Moore, head, Tracy, and Marshall, Minnesota, The deposits are as follows: Per Capita Deposits Dnvlry Towns i?t7,3'.i",140 $1,S8.78 478.1)0 Grain ect Towns 10,300,280 This large per capita deposit is mads possible due to the regular monthly allowance provided by the salee of milk, cream, or butter. iSome of the men engaged In dairy ing at the present time seem to think that they are being badly treated due to seemingly low prices, in butter fat. Careful observation shows that the dairymen hold an enviable position in the fanning operation during re-a- d justment periods Trices for the fin ished products such as Butter, Cheese, and Condensed Milk have had a set back the last year thru de creasing the price of butter fat to ths The farmers cost of proproducer duction Is lowered enough this year compared with last year so that his margin Is greater and more substan tial. We cannot ride along on the peak of prices for any length of time and keep in proper ndjustment. Most of our common dairy feed stuffs have decreased f0 per cent or more while the prices of butter fat has only decreased about 42 per cent. The dairy cow Is the most economl cal producer of nil farm animals, her product is tho most essential of all luman food s!h) gives marketable re turns tomorrow for what she eots today ; aha leaves on the farm, elements that make soil more productive she has been there, she Is the great home and farm builder. By Mry Grhin Uncle Samta Claus jj $ By Christopher G. Hazard Bonner lui. IIS), ll. MOW the minister was youn; and and enirer. He loved is work, he loved the parish. He loved the people. They were a bit too talk ative at times. They did enjoy telling him Just how he should preach and act nnd thluk nnd do. But It was all so well meaning that It failed to annoy him. Sometimes when he might have been annoyed he became amused instead. It was so much the better way. The minister was extremely attrac tive. Every woman in the parish knew that. Every man admired the minister, too. His was a most engaging .MitliiwiMstic personality.- - But things became a trifle awkward when it appeared ns though the minister could not talk to any one of the opposite sex for more than ten minutes without arousing observations. And bow weary he did get of being told he mustn't take the lust piece of cake In a dish. It was so tiresome a witticism. bit of He realized that It might be difficult for a minister to be permitted to choose a wife for himself, lie somehow hnd a new admiration for ministers who appeared to have done their own matrimonial choosing. He feared that one might even tnke almost anyone to dodge the constant comments and chntter on matrimony which an unmarried man seemed to encounter. And then the minister fell In love! Oh, madly nnd rapturously in love. whom And with a girl from people said was not the type for a minister's wife, at all, at all. And the minister hnd said he hndu't looked for a type, be had picked out the one he had cared for. He even heard people whispering the word "vamp." "A vamp who had n Western NeWKaiiiT TELL us a story. t'ul-in.- Uncle Peter," said the children, as they climbed over their kindlv relative on Christmas eve. "A story!" repeated Uncle Peter, affecting surprise, but willing to draw upon his inexhaustible stock ; "well, bnve you ever heard of Uncle Samta Cluus?" "Oh, you mean Uncle Santa Claus !" exclaimed Jack. "No, I don't," said Uncle Beter; "I mean the old man with tho plug hat, the blue swallowtail cont, the striped breeches; the old man with eyes like stars nnd a smile that never comes off excepting when somebody Is treading on somebody else; the old man with the striped flag, whosn headquarters Is up In Alaska ; the biggest Santa Claus there Is." "All right, then," answered the children, "tell us about him." "Well," said Uncle refer, "he has his hands full Just now and Is doing all he can to fill the hands of others. The air Is so noisy with wireless cries and clamors, there are so many hands reaching out over the seas, that be is almost distracted. Ever since he got back from the great war he has been repairing Its damage and renewing the prosperity that it spoiled. And long before that he was In the Christmas business. He surprised China by refusing to nccept the great sum of the Boxer Indemnity. He let the Cubans have Cuba when he had made them free, nnd many thought that he hnd a right to take that fair Island for himself. He is working hard at his task of making America truly Amerlcnn, a sober, Industrious, enlightened, presperous, happy, Chrlst-raas-y nation." 'Tin glad I'm one of his American children," said Agnes, when Uncle Beter bad concluded ; with which sen-- , tlment all the rest agreed. A little cloud of doubt had arisen on the Christmas sky, however, as ed iwiLl J ; wFtW'4 be-cau-se They gathered for "My Rock, My Refuge." "Oh," cried Ina, nt the conrluslon of this number, "I'm having such a perfectly beautiful time. Isn't everyBy .T. E. Greaves, l'rofessor of Bac body?" everybody's hostess put It. teriology and Miyslologlcal Chemis "Lulu is." said Dwight, and added try, Utah Agricultural Collage to softly to Lulu: "She don't have hear herself sine." It ii nnlte generally believed that It was incredible. He was like a od health is favorably tha acco: a frog. bad boy with About that not of rural lire. Do w piiniment a Ninhin he found of photograph find in the country district the rosy, atdozen wuys to torture her, called tention to it, showed It to Cornish, cheeked urchins who seem to be bill set It on the piano facing them all. bling ovor with life and whose play Everybody must have understood ex- grounds nnd workshlps are the field cepting the Blows. These two gentle and the forests? They the In homes souls sang placidly through the Alquite Isolated and they have nn ahiin bum of Old Favorites, and at tie danee of freh nir nnd sunshine. The! 'uclodies smiled happily upon each nod oonsis's of the fresh fruits, vcgi. other with nn air from another world. tildes, und n liberal supply of new iv.Hk which has been produced on t' Always It wan ns If the Plows wnlked mic fair, Interpenetrating rhine, farm and hence hns nut had to run th from which they looked out as do gauntlet of pf't;on ns does the city other things not quile of enrth, say, milk. The vigorous exercise In th flowers and lire nnd music. open air Is conducve to goi-- health Strolling home that night, the we often bear It slated thut do Mows were overtaken by some one Od Toe population of the city must b who run badly, nnd as If she were unrwrnlted from the rmntry every accustomed to miming. fourth or fifth generation". Such nrs "MI.V Plow, Ml a Mow!" this one the ordinary beliefs, but whnt are the culled, nnd Lulu stood beside them. facts? know "Do of snld. she you "Say!" la the fare of all these nntnral aduny Job that I co'ilii gel me? ! iiituo that I'd know how to do? A Job for vantages roeent surveys made In number of citioi nnd rural districts I moan n Job. . . money. disclose tha fact that premature, preS!ir burst into passionate crying. ventable deaths nra more numerous In They drew her borne with them. tin" country than In the city. Thai midnwnte typhoid, sometime d.vsentary, an.l other Intestiafter Lying night, Lnl" beard tae telephone ring. nal d: iasc are the (lungers of th Ths Mie beard Dwlght's concerned "Is country and not of the city. Hint so?" And his cheerful "Be right smoldering embers of our emmun-loililthere." diseases which at times are fan-noGrandma flutes wits Sick, she heard lnt i real epidemics exist In ths Mm tell Inn. In a tew moments be country to a extent than !n ths gretr thut rnn dwn the stairs. Next day they city. Tuberculosis, disease which told how I 'wight bad snt for hours Is curable by fresh air, sunshine, and hat night, holding Grandma ntes so n nourishing diet, tixlsts in some conn th.it her back would rest easily snd y district to a Teater extent than she .'ou'd flht for her faint breath. It does In tlie city Tlw ki.M fellow hnd only about two Why this difference? The laws of hours uf t'epp the whole flight long. sanitation, whli h when npplied to 1tJ i.U CUNTI.VUCri.) I'liniui bnve transformed It from "The white man's grve" to one of tha Vegctib't Glow Worms. In A scientist unmet? nhrinnti seul. tir ist heilthful spots on enrth, are en. forced In the city but neglected in the enthusiastic l.'rms oi "vegetable its be calls thro.-- which he on country. The city 1ms Its speclnlists It that th milk and water served gie.'niiiit ki the allr sm In who ee the crevices of fwcdlsh mini t. In are not polluted. There are laws cover now the enves nie 'it the construction of houses, ces Phi'iibmied ibis lnie.ttili t,nd sewers. Onrbnge must be ire's. nm ; rrd, according l f'h',in, jr-t)- r pri ilsjscd of. nrxl canes of con 1 nf'.ele; ? lil't h.i mp;i rtiiltlcl in ni::t !iiii g?t mi. t be qiuiriu-l'n.I .line from th's soiir'U nii'l tin : they are rif a dasgsr to ii er to rat ertiinnr in cni'i'e .i mm.inlty. ft '' Rural Sanitation "Miss Lulu Bett, the Mocking i i nt ... ptnw-woni- , i . rrj-j-li-- t!i-e- , : V.- "A ft, J' I TJ JtiZ-VM- Cams Into the Chapel and Told of His Engagement. ensnared hi in," someone snld. He in quired the vurious definitions of the word "vamp." He almost failed to be amused; he became so angry. And this wns the Joyeus Christmas season when love and good will should have been In the hearts of his people! A man told him a "vamp" was a dan gerous delight A woman told him a vamp was a woman without principle. A young boy told hlni a "vamp was a misunderstood, innocent lady with sense enough to appreciate that "men" of seventeen were not children. An oculist told him that a "vamp" wus nn adept at the possible uses of the eye muscles. An old man Mild a "vamp" was a HO fear little girl. And a mother told blm a "vamp" was a dangerous creature from whom every nioiher should keep a son ai from a deadly poison. girl told him f!ii envied a "Tiimji" aud wished she could be called one. And a father told hint that a "vamp" was one from whom It Is best t keep away the son, hut whose society It all right for an older man to en loy. He sought the dictionary's version and found "Vamp" described as dealing with such things as feet, short bone, parts of boots and shoes, music, and various other things. They were making the Christmas decorations for the chunh when ths hibdntcr enme into the chnpel and teld them all of Ids engagement. The wedding is it be on ChrlMmns eve." be snld. Everyone stopied winding ground pine and looked emnxed. They jnut tered congratulation, and then tha future wife Appeared and workiil with them. And then they nK legatt to feel better. For while tliey had been gossiping and quarreling jwttily as they hnd worked, the future wife of the minister hronght with her the spirit of th (TirlMioas winon. 1'erhiips she wnsli't n typlenl wife for a minister they concluded, but she wns an Meal wife for minister. I'cr she lived nid breathed good wfl! fnd i beer nnl ter gaiety fresh of th pine etied the very atmip!,-rfT'd gae 'bun Th nlid;er III-- li-.- v bicefitlve. of n e Meirj fth'lAtn.es her bis "vnmpf Ifflnitli-A In rial ft.'el" "I'm Glad I'm One," Said Acnes. Uncle Beter had spoken of Uncle Snmta's lavlsbness In far countries. Edith voiced It when she wanted tq know if It would be of any use for them to expect anything that Christinas, whether or not they were to bang np their stockings. "You'll put your foot in it if you do," snld George. "No, she won't," said Uncle I'eter; "I have had a special delivery letter from Uncle Samtn, saying that be has had bis eye on this house for the lust twelvemonth, and that this will be one of his stopping places because from It so much of service for others bus been going out. He says that you are bis gardeners, and that you have planted so ninny seeds of kindness that a lot of beautiful things will he sure to come up. Tbnt Is always the way, he says; In fact, it Is the way In which lie got rich himself." Tlds wns a very pleasant assurance for the children. It made them think of a happy mistake that one of them bad made when they were having war gardens all over the town: A certain Mr. Rose hnd been appointed by the mayor ns inspector of gardens for the whole place, and one day Betty pointed him out to u friend with whom she was walking. "There goes Mr. Hose," she said; "he's an ex peeler of gardens !" When the children had been reminded of Mr. Rose they also remembered whnt Betty bad done nt their last Christmas pnrty; stalking heavily nnd pompously down the room, she bad snld: "I'm Mr. Atlas, who holds up the world." So one of them stood on tiptoe, threw back her bend and threw out her arms snd snld: "I'm Uncle Snnita Clnus, who holds up the world." "Well done!" died Unci Beter; "that's Just it !" There wnsn't any disappointment In the house the next morninj. "Did you get all that you wanted?" aeked Uncle I'eter. "Yes," snld Mary. "Were yon at all disappointed?" "No." snld Mary. When Mary Raid "Goodns," her mother said. "You say "goodness," Mary." "(Jrn clous" said Mnry. But Mary wns toe excited to bnve a care for her expression. In describing the fcltiiatlon she raid: "I was In a perfect stupor of exeltcinent." Uncle Brier had a present, too. After nil the rest bad made happy Aimes brought out a parcel, and when Unci I'eter opened It there were too b'g books that fid over again the story of nil tbnt America had stood for nnd accomplished. This tnnde blm very glad indeed, and he nsked th,m lo write his tinin on the fly lenf nid to say (hat It wns from Then the bis Toting Americans. Chr!tri!'s pnity coded with n verse cf cur nations! anthem, beortily sung nnd followed by nil the other verses, lth a hurrah for Uncle Sam In.teait of nn ntnen aftci-waril- s bn |